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ROCKEFELLER HALL FROM THE MIDDLE CAMPUS 

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VOL. XXXI 



PROVIDENCE, R. I, JULY, 1930 



No. 2 



On the Hill 



A Fine Commencement Week 



Mr. Rockefeller's Gift 
\ NOTABLE feature of Com- 
mencement week at Brown this 
year vv-as the announcement that John 
D. Rockefeller, Jr., of the class of '97 
had given the sum of $600,000 to 
Brown for the enlargement and main- 
tenance of Rockefeller Hall, with 
the proviso that the name of the build- 
ing should be changed to Faunce Hall 
or Faunce House, as the corporation 
should decide, the enlarged sturcture 
to be a memorial to the late President 
Faunce. 

This generous benefaction will 
make possible a long-needed expan- 
sion of the facilities for the social and 
religious life of the university. It is 
understood to be the intention of those 
in authority to e.xtend the building 
eastward along Waterman Street, 
thus utilizing the site now occupied by 
the so-called Royal C. Taft house, 
which is at present the residence of 
William A. Viall and has long been 
owned by the university, as well as the 
site of the next house at the east, also 
university property. 

To Mr. Rockefeller for his splen- 
did gift the sincere thanks and appre- 
ciation of every graduate and friend 
of Brown are due. We do not know 
the purposes of the corporation, but 
we trust that among the betterments 
to result from the gift will be more 
modern accommodations for the dra- 
matic presentations of the Sock and 
Buskin Society. 

A further intended plan is to bridge 
Brown Street with an archway run- 
ning eastM-ard from the present build- 
ing to the addition on the sites of the 
two properties mentioned. 



The University Survey 
Although no official word has 
been forthcoming as to the survey 
made of the university by the special 



this material to start with, the survey- 
ors were greatly facilitated in their 
labors. They had at their disposal 
comprehensive statements by the vari- 
ous departments as to existing condi- 
tions together with their hopes and 
desires for the coming years. Never 
before, we think, were the members 




PART OF THE COMMENCEMENT PROCESSION 
Ex-Secretary Kellogg in the Center 



committee invited to undertake the 
work some months ago, we believ^e 
that there is no violation of confidence 
in saying that the relations between 
the surveyors and the university au- 
thorities have been most cordial and 
that the feeling on the hill is optimis- 
tic regarding the outcome. We un- 
derstand that an unusual situation was 
found at Brown by the visitors, in that 
the university had already made a 
survey of its own which included vo- 
luminous reports covering every 
branch of the institution's work. With 

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of the teaching force invited to con- 
tribute so frankly and freely their 
own ideas to the discussion of the uni- 
versity's present and future. As we 
have said before in the Monthly, this 
generous and sensible policy on the 
part of the administration and cor- 
poration has made for good feeling 
among the faculty, while a new spirit 
of mutual comprehension and coop- 
eration has been aroused. The sur- 
veyors, together with university rep- 
resentatives, are planning to get to- 
gether in August to prepare the final 



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statement which is to be presented o 
the corporation at its October meet- 
ing. The entire Brown constituency 
will be eager to learn the character 
and details of this statement, and of 
the action to be taken by the corpora- 
tion regarding it. 

To anyone who is familiar with 
the present situation it must be ap- 
parent that we are at the parting of 
the ways at Brown. An honorable past 
stretches behind us. Two paths lie 
ahead — one calling us to a continua- 
tion of our bygone modest aims, the 
other urging us to a new and broad- 
er academic and cultural development, 
in harmony with the expansion and 
needs of the great community in which 
the university has its home. 



Honorary Degrees 

The recipients of honorary degrees 
at Commencement were as follows: 

Willard Brooks Tanner, former 
Presiding Justice of the Rhode Is- 
land Superior Court, Doctor of Laws. 

Frank Billings Kellogg, Secretary 
of State under President Coolidge and 
former American Ambassador to 
Great Britain, Doctor of Laws. 

Professor Bliss Perry of the Eng- 
lish department of Harvard Univer- 
sity, Doctor of Literature. 

Rev. Clarence Edward Chaney, 
missionary to Burma since 1909, Doc- 
tor of Divinity. 

Rev. William James Batt, minis- 
ter, author and oldest living graduate 
of Brown, Doctor of Divinity. 

Charles Carpenter Till.'nghast, 
principal of the Horace Mann School 
for Boys, New York, and professor of 
education at Teachers College, Co- 
lumbia University, Doctor of Educa- 
tion. 

Professor Will Samuel Taylor, 
Brown University, assistant profes- 
sor of art, curator of art collections 
and famous mural painter. Master of 
Arts. 



Degrees in Course 

Of the degrees in course, 246 went 
to men, and of these 71 were Bachel- 
ors of Arts, 131 Bachelors of Philoso- 
phy, 39 Bachelors of Science in Engi- 



neering and five Bachelors of Science 
in Chemistry. Women of Pembroke 
received 1 1 1 degrees, 86 Bachelors of 
Arts, 18 Bachelors of Philosophy and 
seven Bachelors of Education. 



Advanced Degrees 

At the convocation for the confer- 
ing of advanced degrees on Saturda\', 
June 14, at Sayles Hall, President 
Barbour conferred 73 such degress, 
eleven being Ph. Ds. The address of 
the occasion was given by Dr. Edwin 
Grant Conklin of Princeton Univer- 
sity', a distinguished biologist, who 
spoke on "Science and the Future of 
Man." 



Alumni Trustees 

At the Sayles Hall exercises on 
Commencement afternoon the follow- 
ing announcement of the elections of 
Alumni Trustees was made : 

Zechariah Chafee, Jr., '07, of Cam- 
bridge, to the Episcopal vacancy. 

Howard Aldridge Coffin, '01, of 
Detroit, Mich., to the first Baptist 
vacancy. 

Hunter Sylvester Marston, '08, of 
New York, to the second Baptist va- 
cancy. 

James Monroe Pendleton, '85, of 
Westerly, to the third Baptist va- 
cancy. 

Dr. Nat H. Gifford, '99, of Prov- 
idence, was elected alumni member of 
the athletic council. 



Gifis to the University 

"From John D. Rockefeller, Jr.," 
President Barbour read in announc- 
ing the gift at the alumni meeting in 
Sayles Hall (referred to on the pre- 
ceding page) "in appreciation of his 
friendship for Dr. Faunce and to per- 
petuate Dr. Faunce's memory in some 
such way as to serve a real and per- 
manent need of Brown, the sum of 
$600,000 for the building and endow- 
ment of the enlargement of Rocke- 
feller Hall with the condition that the 
name be changed to Faunce House 
or Faunce Hall, as the corporation 
may decide." 

In his letter announcing the gift, 
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Mr. Rockefeller paid tribute to Pres- 
ident Barbour and said he was very 
much pleased to be able to make this 
gift so early in President Barbour's 
administration. 

More than $77,000 in other gifts 
were announced at the same time. 

Fred H. Williams, '77, in the past 
a generous donor of scholarships, gave 
$2,000 to establish a scholarship for 
boys who are graduates of the high 
school of Millis, Mass., to be desig- 
nated as the Fred Homer Williams 
high school scholarship. 

The Carnegie Corporation gave 
$5,000 a year for the next five years 
for the purchase of books to strength- 
en those departments of undergrad- 
uate study which are in need of help 
in that respect. 

The Miss Abbott's School Alumnae 
Fellowship gave $30,000 from the 
alumnae to Pembroke College, to pro- 
vide a fellowship for study at Brown 
or elsewhere. 

From the Brown Alumni Loyalty 
Fund came $20,000 for the general 
purposes of the university. 

"Generous gifts" from John Nich- 
olas Brown to the John Carter Brown 
Library were announced, and also a 
gift from "a friend" which has made 
possible the purchase of the long lost 
Chappel painting of the "Last Day of 
Lincoln," to be added to the collec- 
tion of Lincolniana in the John Hay 
Library. 

* » * 
A Long Procession 

The size of the Commencement 
procession from year to year is a mat- 
ter of real interest. It varies, accord- 
ing to weather, special program attrac- 
tions and other factors. This year the 
number in line was among the great- 
est on record. An actual count re- 
vealed 1050 marchers on the parade to 
the church. This, as we understand 
it, did not include the two bands. 

Plainly with so many participants 
in the parade, and with so many non- 
graduate friends of the university and 
of the graduating class desiring seats 
in the meeting house, that venerable 
structure cannot accommodate all. An 
improvement has been wrought in re- 
cent years by establishing a degree- 



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conferring convocation at Sayles Hall 
earlier in Commencement week for 
the benefit of candidates for higher 
degrees, but even so the problem of 
how to give everyone a seat on Com- 
mencement Day who desires to be 
present at the main graduation exer- 
cises is a continuing problem. 

As usual Colonel Henry B. Rose, 
'8 1, was in command of the Com- 
mencement program this year. He 
has had an extraordinary record as 
adjutant and chief marshal, having 
begun his service as long ago as 1890. 
And may we long continue to see his 
soldierly figure at the head of the line ! 

Alumnae Day 

The Pembroke College Alumnae 
Association voted at Commencement 
time to abolish regular dues and sub- 
stitute individual subscriptions of no 
definite amounts. 

The annual meeting brought out 
a record-breaking number of gradu- 
ates, and the class dinners were at- 
tended by a total of more than 300. 
The "Dix plan" of reunions, by which 
classes that were in college at the 
same time hold reunions in the same 
year, worked well. 

Dean Morriss announced a gift of 
$500 from the class of 1920, which 
will be used toward the furnishing of 
the student government room in 
Alumnae Hall; $300 from 1930, and 
a gift for a coffee service from 1925. 

Officers were chosen as follows: 
Fire Vice President, Alice Manchest- 
er Chase, 1905; recording secretary, 
Pauline Barrows Hughes, 1920; 
treasurer, Mattie Case Arnold, 1907; 
alumnae representative on the Execu- 
tive Committee, Martha W. Watt, 
1900; members of the advisory board, 
Alice Blessing, Anna Buffington and 
Ruth Cooke Peterson. 

Seven members of 1895 returned 
for their 35th reunion, 21 of 1900, 12 
of 1901, 19 of 1902, 13 of 1903 and 
23 of 1905. 

Phi Beta Kappa 

The Rhode Island Alpha of Phi 
Beta Kappa held its annual meeting 




PEMBROKE COLLEGE PROCESSION 
Dean Morriss and President Baibour head the Alumnae Line 



on Saturday, June 14. In anticipa- 
tion of the celebration, on September 
27 next, of the looth anniversary of 
the founding of Alpha Chapter, an 
unusually large list of persons was 
elected to honorary membership. The 
list is as follows: 

Dr. George Alder Blumer, former 
superintendent of Butler Hospital, 
Providence. 

Joseph Henry Gainer, ex-mayor. 
Providence. 

Bertrand Kelton Hart, literary edi- 
tor of the Providence Journal, Fall 
River, Mass. 

Charles August Kraus, research 
professor of chemistry at Brown, 
Providence. 

Louis Landre, associate professor of 
French at Brown, Providence. 

John Edgar Park, president of 
Wheaton College, Norton, Mass. 

Jacob David Tamarkin, professor 
of mathematics at Brown, Providence. 

James Cross Collins, attorney. 
Providence. 

Joseph Chandler Robbins, clergy- 
man. New York City. 

Charles Peck Sisson, assistant At- 
torney General of the United States, 
Washington, D. C. 
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Of these ten, Messrs. Collins, Rob- 
bins and Sisson are graduates of 
Brown. Dr. Blumer received the de- 
gree of M. D. from the University of 
Pennsylvania. Mr. Gainer is an 
alumnus of Holy Cross College. Mr. 
Hart studied at the Fall River High 
School and has lectured on literature 
in the Brown extension courses. Dr. 
Kraus is a graduate of the University 
of Kansas. Professor Landre was 
educated at the University of Paris 
and President Park was a student at 
Edinburgh, Dublin and Princeton. 
Professor Tamarkin was a medalist at 
Leningrad University, Russia. 

The committee named last year to 
consider changes in the election of 
undergraduates to Phi Beta Kappa 
reported two amendments which were 
adopted at the meeting. 

The first provides that the require- 
ment of a certain percentage of work 
in the "humanities" shall be dropped 
and the second calls for scrutinization 
of the entire records of the lower 
third of the Seniors considered for an- 
nual election. Faculty opinion on the 
eligibility of this lower third for elec- 
tion will be invited. 

The committee on nev,' chapters 



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favored the application of Wheaton 
College for a charter, and the recom- 
mendation was approved. 

Eighteen members of the chapter 
died during the past year. 

One social meeting was held during 
the year, at which President Barbour 
spoke. 

* * * 

Faunce Memorial Addresses 
The addresses at the Memorial 
Services to Dr. Faunce, on Visiting 
Day, February 22, together with Dr. 
Barbour's tribute over the radio, have 
been issued as a pamphlet by the uni- 
versity and a copy may be obtained by 
any alumnus who applies for it to the 
librarian of the universitv. 



dence. Coach McLaughry will be 
on hand for his fifth year of active 
management of the squad, and with 
him will be associated an able band 
of assistant coaches. 

At this writing (July 9) no scho- 
lastic casualties have been reported 
among the candidates for the varsity 
team. This, it need hardly be said, is 
as it should be. Academic failures have 
wrought too much athletic havoc at 
Brown in the last few years. 

The team will be materially re- 
enforced from the Freshman eleven 
of last year, which had a fair record. 
By the way, the class ( 1933) was ath- 
letically the best in years at Brown. 



Retirement 

No more papers to write. 

No more speeches to make, 
No committees at night. 

No new plans when we wake. 
Our only prospect in view. 

To sit and twiddle our thumbs. 
Wait t!ll our pension is due. 

And cash the check when it comes. 
If that's the notion you've got 

Of what retirement will be, 
Just watch, and you'll learn a lot 

From Randall and Everett and me. 

Harry Lyman Koopman. 



Dr. Faunce's Estate 

The will of the late Dr. W. H. 
P. FauncCi recently probated by 
Judge Ellis L. Yatman in the Prov- 
idence Probate Court. The personal 
estate was estimated at $100,000 an3 
the bond was placed at $125,000. 

Under the will the estate is to be 
held in trust by the Rhode Island 
Hospital Trust Company as trustee 
ioi the benefit of his wife, Mrs. 
Sarah Edson Faunce, during her life 
time. At her death, the three broth- 
ers of Dr. Faunce, George P., Al- 
bert B. and E. Howard Faunce, are 
to receive from the trust $10,000 
each. The remainder of the trust 
fund is to be left to Brown Univer- 
sity as a permanent fund, the income 
only to be used. 

The Rhode Island Trust Company 
is named as executor of the will and 
Dr. Albert D. Mead, vice president 
of the University, as appraiser. The 
will is dated May 28, 1924. 

* * * 

Football Prospects 

As we go to press the prospects are 
good for a creditable football team 
next fall. The call has been issued 
for the initial assembly at Aldrich 
Field on September 3, and it is ex- 
pected that the good results of city 
practice as compared with that at 
Quonset Point will again be in evi- 



Alumni Association 
Board of Directors 



On June 27th, President Schwartz 
of the Associated Alumni called a 
special meeting of the old Executive 
Committee and the Regional Plan 
Committee to discuss appointments to 
the Board of Directors of the new 
Alumni Association. President Bar- 
bour attended and concurred in the 
\iew that was unanimously arrived at 
that all members of the old Executive 
Committee, who were entitled by vir- 
tue of their former election or ap- 
pointment to one or more years of 
further service on that committee, 
should be appointed for at least one 
year on the new Board of Directors. 

In furtherance of this. President 
Barbour appointed Clinton C. White, 
James ]\I. Pendleton, (both of the 
old Executive Committee) and Wil- 
liam Allan Dyer as the three Alumni 
Trustee members of the new Board 
of Directors. He also appointed 
Robert F. Chambers as Faculty mem- 
ber for two years. 

President Schwartz appointed 
Henry S. Chafee for the two year 
term, and George L. Miner for the 
one year term to represent the Asso- 
ciation of Class Secretaries. As 
Alumni Monthly representative, he 
appointed Henry R. Palmer for two 
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years. For the six members at large, 
the president appointed four members 
of the old Executive Committee as fol- 
lows: Henry G. Marsh, Charles H. 
Pinkham, Homer M. Sweet for one 
year terms; James S. Allen for two 
years; and for the remaining two 
members appointed Dennis F. 
O'Brien of New York, and Lester L. 
Falk of Chicago, each for two years. 

It was decided to draft a letter to 
be sent to the principal Brown Club 
in each region to have that organiza- 
tion take the responsibility of getting 
a vice president and two directors ap- 
pointed for their region. President 
Schwartz stated that if any of his 
appointees were selected as regional 
vice presidents or directors, and would 
rather serve as such, he would be glad 
to revise his appointments accordingly. 

It is the present plan to have the 
first meeting of the new Board of 
Directors held in New York City 
early in the fall to get organized, and 
elect an Executive Committee. All 
Brown Clubs are urged to co-operate 
in their regions to facilitate the selec- 
tions this summer of vice president 
and directors so that the new Board 
may function at full strength in Sep- 
tember. 



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Anent "Them of 
Old Time" 

Editor Brown Alumni Monthly: 

Your article on memories in the 
last number of the Alumni Monthly 
is a very suggestive one. Few of us 
realize haw far back we can go if only 
we give our memory full play. When 
I was growing up as a boy in Bristol 
there were a dozen or so old graduates 
of Brown walking daily about the 
streets of the ancient town. Perhaps 
the most conspicuous was the Rever- 
end Thomas Shepard, D. D., pastor 
of the Congregational Church, and a 
graduate of the class of 1813. These 
men had all been graduated in the 
first quarter of the last century. I 
cannot say that I was on intimate 
terms with many of them but at least 
I knew them all by sight. 

With respect to a still older grad- 
uate, Nathaniel Bullock of the class 
of 1798, the case was far otherwise. 
We had a common interest, notwith- 
standing the discrepancy in our ages. 
He lived within a stone's throw of 
my father's house, and the subject 
that interested us both was a sling. 
We discussed that implement from 
different points of view. It troubles 
me even now to recall the fact that my 
father deemed my opponent's argu- 
ments better grounded than my own. 
Perhaps the fact that my antagonist 
was a lawyer, who had been Lieuten- 
ant Governor of the State, may have 
swayed my father's judgment. Mem- 
ories of the past are not always pleas- 
ant. I was not quite ten years old 
at the time. 

Speaking of Bristol, the Reverend 
William J. Batt, who wears so hap- 
pily the mantle of the "Oldest Grad- 
uate," comes from Bristol stock. We 
had the same grandfather. And to 
Bristol belongs another distinction. 
The oldest non-graduate of Brown 
was born in that town. He is James 
Brown Herreshoff of the class of 
1857 and his birthday was March 18, 
1834, almost six months before my 
cousin saw the light. 

Wilfred H. Munro, Class of 1870 

Providence, May 25, 1930. 




JOHN S. COLLIER, '29, WINS AT ISTAMBOUL 
This picture shows Collier, former Brown star, who was presented with 
a medal and showered with flowers for his record mark in the 400 meter 
dash and his breaking of all previous marks in the no meter high hurdles 
at the Stamboul Track and Field Championship Meet which was held at 
Robert College, Istamboul, Turkey recently. The meet was arranged by 
the Turkish Athletic Federation and was open to all amateurs. 

From Wide World Photos. 



Professor C 
Text 



urrier's New 
Book 



The alumni who are friends of 
Professor Currier, and this includes 
many college generations of former 
students, will doubtless be interested 
in learning that during the present 
academic year the Mathematics De- 
partment of Brown University has 
been using a Freshman textbook en- 
titled Currier and Watson, "General 
Mathematics." The co-author, E. E. 
Watson, is a professor in Iowa State 
Teachers College. The traditional 
Freshman course in mathematics for- 
merly consisted of short courses de- 
voted respectively to such subjects as 
college algebra, trigonometry, analyti- 
cal geometry, and sometimes a little 
calculus. These courses were usually 
carried along in much the same stvle 
as that to which the students had 
been accustomed in preparatory 
school. There has been a growing 
tendency, as all educators know, to 
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vary preparatory school courses in 
order to make them more attractive 
and to fit them more effectively to the 
special interests of the pupil. What- 
ever one may think of the motive or 
worth of this procedure, there is no 
question that the preparation of stu- 
dents entering the Freshman year va- 
ries more widely than in the past ,and 
the students as a whole expect each 
course to be of interest and obvious 
value, to an extent unheard of in 
former years. Mathematics for the 
sake of discipline is being attacked on 
all sides. 

To write a Freshman text-book 
which will give sufficient drill to pre- 
pare the students for further work in 
scientific lines and which will at 
the same time present a pleasing con- 
trast to high school courses and which 
also will be adapted to the entire 
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varying previous training, this is a 
task which would be impossible for 
one who has not learned to under- 
stand thoroughly the Freshman point 
of view and to realize what must be 
kept and what can be effectively elim- 
inated from the course. The book 
starts in with a chapter on functions 
and graphs, which accords with the 
prevailing pronouncement that the 
function concept should be made the 
central feature in a Freshman mathe- 
matics course. There are chapters on 
trigonometry and analytical geometry, 
but these are interspersed with graded 
lessons on the calculus so that the stu- 
dent is started upon this important 



and interesting subject nearly a year 
earlier than was formerly possible. 
While the book covers some of the 
essential features of so-called advanced 
algebra, the sequence is so arranged 
that a student who has forgotten his 
high school formulas is reintroduced 
to them gradually and is not elimin- 
ated from the start. Even the subject 
of statistics, which is being taught to 
more and larger classes every year 
throughout the country ,in depart- 
ments of economics, biolog)', social 
science, physics, and mathematics, has 
its first principles laid out in an order- 
ly fashion in this text. 

Teachers of mathematics necessar- 



Reunions at Commencement 
Attract Many Alumni 



The "50-Plus" Reunion 

At Carr's on Saturday evening, 
June 14, occurred a meeting of "50- 
Plus" alumni, graduates out of college 
more than 50 years. The senior of the 
group was Rev. Wm. J. Batt, '55, of 
West Concord, Mass., the oldest liv- 
ing graduate of Brown, upon whom 
on Commencement Day it bestowed 
the honorary degree of D. D. Others 
at the meeting were: Prof. Wilfred 
H. Munro, catcher of the famous 
baseball team of 1870; William T. 
Peck, '70, principal of the Classical 
high school in Providence ; Charles E. 
Sheppard, '70, Bridgeton, N. J., law- 
yer and historian ; Dr. George B. 
Peck, '64, of WoodviUe; John E. 
Bowen, '67, still active as an assistant 
engineer in Providence City Hall, 
and Rev. Dryden W. Phelps, '77, son 
of S. Dryden Phelps, a Brown alum- 
nus, and brother of William Lyon 
Phelps of Yale. 

President Barbour addressed the 
gathering and Principal Peck gave an 
illustration of his extraordinary mem- 
ory by reciting the full names of all 
the 53 members of his class. One 
member of the group said: "I want to 
live to see how prohibition makes 
out," and another remarked: "My 
grandfather lived to be 97, and I don't 



see why I can't." We hope he will 
round out a century at least. 

Dr. Batt proved himself much in- 
terested in current affairs, and from 
his experience as a prison chaplain, 
offered the observation that existing 
methods of prison administration are 
largely "cruel and un-Christian." 

There are only five members of the 
class of '70 now living — the three 
mentioned above, Rev. William Ash- 
more of California, and John B. F. 
Herreshoff, famous chemist and mem- 
ber of the great boat-building fam- 
ily. 

* » * 

With the Various Classes 

1880 
Out of 30 graduates of the class of 
1880, 25 were present at the 50th 
year reunion, together with two non- 
graduates. A shadow was cast over 
the reunion by the absence of Dr. 
Faunce, who passed away in Janu- 
ary. One member came from Japan 
and another from Porto Rico, while 
others were present from as far away 
as Utah, Missouri, South Dakota, 
Virginia and Ohio. Lunch was served 
on Saturday at the Rhode Island 
Country Club and later the class en- 
joyed the hospitality of Mr. and Mrs. 
Henry D. Sharpe at Nayatt, after 
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ily develop a critical attitude and it 
would be extravagant to hope that 
everyone in a large department would 
be whole-heartedly enthusiastic about 
any one conceivable text. It should, 
however, be gratifying to the stu- 
dents to realize that despite the usual 
tendency for marks to drop when the 
instructors are making use of a book 
for the first time, yet this year the 
proportion of Freshman students re- 
ceiving high grades appears to be 
larger than experienced for a decade, 
and there has been a correspondingly 
diminished mortality in the college 
populat:on. 

Albert A. Bennett. 



which cars were taken to the Lane- 
way Club and subsequently to the 
Segregansett Club. On Sunday lunch 
was served at the Laneway Club, af- 
ter which the class attended the bac- 
calaureate service. At 6 p. m., dinner 
was served at the home of Harry J. 
Boyce, a member of the class, and on 
Monday evening the final dinner of 
the reunion occurred at the Turks 
Head Club. President Walter F. 
Angell and Secretary Zechariah Cha- 
fee were reelected. 

1885 

C. Prescott Knight entertained the 

class of 1885 at his Quidnesset farm. 

There were 21 members present and 

President Frank H. Brown presided. 

1890 
The class of 1890 lunched at the 
University Club, Monday noon with 
25 members present. Henry R. Pal- 
mer, who presided, was reelected pres- 
ident for five years, and Edward C. 
Stiness was again chosen secretary. It 
was voted to have a reunion next year, 
and sentiment appeared unanimous for 
annual reunions henceforth in place 
of the five-year meetings. The mem- 
ber of the class who came the long- 
est distance was Dr. James Quayle 
Dealey, who has lately been made 
editor in chief of the Dallas, Texas, 
News. Among the letters from ab- 
sent members, read at the reunion, 
was one from Frederic M. Sackett, 
Ambassador to Germany. Other 
members who wrote were Edwin C. 
Frost, from Rome, and Rev. James 
McLaughlin, from Evanston, Wyom- 
ing. 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



1 891 
At the Dunes Club, Narragansett, 
occurred a pleasant gathering of the 
Class of 1891, 16 members being pres- 
ent. Golf was indulged in and a din- 
ner served. The long-distance attend- 
ants were Chester A. Cook and 
Abram Mendenhall, from Chicago. 

1895 
The 35th year reunion of the class 
was held at the Rhode Island Coun- 
try Club with 27 present Golf was 
one of the attractions and dinner was 
served at 7 p. m. Movies of the class 
were taken. 

1897 
An informal reunion brought to- 
gether 19 members at the Agawam 
Hunt. 

1900 

Some fift)' members of the class of 
1900 met at the Plimpton House in 
Watch Hill for their 30th annual re- 
union. 

The first informal dinner was 
served Friday night. On Sunday 
morning the members enjoyed golf 
and tennis at Misquamicut. Roscoe 
M. Dexter, the class president, enter- 
tained a group at Oak Knoll Lodge 
in Exeter, where he and Mrs. Dexter 
have entertained the class on several 
reunions. Golf and swimming were 
enjoyed. 

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Perry en- 
tertained a number of the members 
at the Perry cottage in the Weeka- 
paug Dunes during the afternoon. 

The class dinner was held Satur- 
day night, after which the annual 
meeting was held. 

The treasurer's report showed a 
satisfactory balance. A 30th reunion 
book was distributed, the dedication 
being to Dr. Faunce. 

Lunch was served at the Misquam- 
icut Golf Club on Sunday and in 
the afternoon the class had a sail. 
Following this came a dinner at The 
Plimpton, after which adjournment 
was taken to the Biltmore at Provi- 
dence. Breakfast on Monday morning 
was served at the University Club. 

1902 
Golf and dinner at the Agawam 
Hunt were enjoyed by members of 
the class of 1902, the number present 
being 23. 



1905 
The 25-year class had one of the 
biggest quarter-century reunions in 
the history of Brown. The headquar- 
ters was at the Carlton, Narragansett, 
and among the pleasant features of 
the occasion was the distribution of a 
class book. Nearly a hundred mem- 
bers were present and all sorts of at- 
tractions were offered by the ener- 
getic committee in charge of the af- 
fair. The formal dinner was presid- 
ed over by President Charles King- 
man of Ottawa, 111., as toastmaster. 

1906 
The Wannamoisett Club was the 
scene of 1906's dinner, with 18 mem- 
bers present. 

1909 
At Allen's Harbor, North Kings- 
town, a clambake was enjoyed by 18 
members of the class. 

1914 
Jim Smith's Inn was the scene of 
1914's 16-year dinner. A dozen or so 
members enjoyed the affair and it 
was voted to hold annual reunions 
hereafter. 

1917 
Ten members of 1917 had dinner 
at the Agawam Hunt. 

1920 
The best reunion in the history of 
the class — that's how everybody felt 
about the Tenth, which was held at 
Happyland, the American Legion 
Camp at Quonset down the bay near 
Wickford. A good sprinkling of 191 8 
men also participated, thereby keep- 
ing up the precedent established two 
years ago when the class took part in 
the Tenth Reunion of '18. The 
weather was ideal; the committee's 
arrangements were "top hole;" and 
there wasn't a thing to complain about 
except, perhaps, that some of the old 
familiar faces were missing. Banty 
Coulter's, for instance (Banty's plans 
miscued at the last minute, we under- 
stand) ; and Marshall Fulton's, Rats 
Albright's, and several others that we 
might mention. Jim Dealey won the 
prize for coming the longest distance 
— his railroad ticket read Cleveland, 
O., to Providence; and A. D. Hill 
carried off the trophy for being the 
shortest time married and having the 
most children (three for A. D. ). 
Many of the boys not able to be pres- 

33 



ent sent their best to the rest of the 
crowd through Bill Dewart ; and there 
is no reason why the next big reunion 
— the Fifteenth — should not be even 
more successful than the Tenth. 

The committee. Bill Dewart, chair- 
man, C. N. Lovenberg, Herbert B. 
Barlow and Thomas F. Vance, Jr., 
will become a permanent one to take 
care of all class activities. And the 
class officers remain the same: Presi- 
dent, Bruce N. Coulter; vice presi- 
dents, L. B. Howell and James Sin- 
clair ; secretary, James Q. Dealey, Jr. ; 
treasurer, George W. Grimm, Jr. 

The Tenth Reunion roster con- 
tained the following names: Dr. Le- 
roy W. Black, Robert A. Bogle, Wal- 
ter M. Burse, F. D. Brigham, R. E. 
Claflin, Stanley M. Dore, Dr. V. T. 
Dimitroff, J. Q. Dealey, Jr., R. K. 
Dewey, R. W. Greene, L. B. Howell, 
Allen D. Hill, A. N. MacDougall, 
Evariste Orteig, Tracy Ames, Laur- 
ence R. Smith, Harold L. Hood, 
George H. Rhodes, Lloyd P. Zellers, 
George W. Grimm, Jr., Rodney E. 
Cook, Willis B. Downey, Ernest A. 
Jenckes, Dr. H. A. Lawson, John A. 
McGhee, Jr., H. E. Marr, Professor 
H. A. Phelps, F. H. Paulson, Dr. Jos- 
eph Smith, Ogden R. Lindsley, F. E. 
Schoeneweiss, E. H. Tucker, W. L. 
Dewart, Myles Standish, C. N. Lov- 
enberg, H. B. Barlow, J. W. De- 
Wolf, Jr., Stanlev P. Whipple, H. A. 
Whipple, Seth B. Gifford, C. H. 
Lawton, Jr., Louis A. R. Fieri, 
Henry Aylesworth, Thomas F. 
Vance,, Jr., H. A. Campbell, and E. 
W. Smith. 

Michael DeFilippis couldn't come 
to the reunion because he was on his 
way to Europe as Italian-American 
Fellow, University of California, for 
1930-31. But he sent his good wishes 
just the same. , 

1925 
The Class of 1925 met at the 
Gardner Inn at Jamestown, with some 
two score in attendance. Various 
sporting and athletic pastimes en- 
livened the reunion. 



Note : other reunions are reported 
briefly in "Brunonians Far and Near" 
and a few are omitted until the next 
issue of the Monthly. 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Winslow Upton as a Librettist 50 Years Ago 



During their meetings in Cam- 
bridge last winter, members of the 
American Astronomical Society heard 
an echo from Harvard's past at a 
point where it touches that of Brown. 
On New Year's Eve they were di- 
verted by a performance of "The 
Harvard Observatory Pinafore," 
given in spirited fashion by the ttaff 
under the direction of Dr. Harlow 
Shapley. This piece has a history. In 
192 1 there was brought to light at 
the Observatory a manuscript which 
was plainly a parody on the Gilbert 
and Sullivan classic. For dramatis 
personae it gave sets of initials which 
proved to represent the names of the 
staff of the year 1879. Among these 
was that of Winslow Upton, then 
"Assistant Observer on Photometer 
P," later Professor of Astronomy at 
Brown University. It seems certain 
that he was the sole or principal au- 
thor of the skit, according to the 
testimony of his family, and also of 
the son of a contemporary friend in 
Boston. Although this copy is not in 
his hand, internal evidence supports 
this testimony, for the words have a 
characteristic cleverness without 
sting and are adapted to the music 
with a sense of rhythm as well as of 
humor. Moreover, one of the songs 
appears later, signed "W. U.," in an- 
other "operetta" of which he was 
joint librettist: 

"I'm called an astronomer, skil- 
ful astronomer. 

Though I could never tell why." 

The innocent impertinence of 
dramatizing his superiors, from "E. 
C. P.," the director, down, was prob- 
ably one reason why "The Harvard 
Observatory Pinafore" was never 
produced until its fiftieth anniver- 
sary. Though some of the allusions 
are now historically obscure, the audi- 
ence showed mirthful appreciation of 
the technical "hits," both at this per- 
formance and at a later one before 
the Bond Astronomical Club. 

From the opening chorus of com- 



puters (feminized as of 1929), the 
piece is set in a "scientific" key: 
"We work from morn till night, 

Computing is our duty; 
We're faithful and polite. 

And our record book's a beauty." 
The plot centers about the attempt 
of "Dr. L. W.," astronomer from 
Providence, to entice into his employ 
the Harvard Observatory's circle- 
reader, one "Josephine" (actually 
Joseph). "L. W." appears, escorted 
by three gentlemen of ill-assorted 
sizes, dressed in derby hats, frock 
coats and wing collars — citizens of 
Providence: 
"L. W.: 
I reside in places three, 
Cambridge, Brookline and Little 

Rhodee ; 
But the last of these I say is 'per- 
fectly immense' 
And so say the influential men of 
Providence. 
Citizens: 
And so say the influential men of 

Providence : 
Professors, lawyers, ministers, the 
wise and wealthy men of 
Providence!" 
The thought of losing Josephine is 
so devastating to her chief "Prof. 
W. A. R." that he plans with her to 
foil the scheme. They decide they 
can win over the director by having 
the faulty prisms of his new photo- 
meter corrected, but while 
"A horse-car waits all ready 
To carry us to Alvan Clark," 
there is a crash — 

"All: He's dropped, he's dropped 



a prism 



E. C. P. Oh, dear! My precious 



prism 



However, in spite of the machina- 
tions of "W. U." in the role of 
"heavy villain" (another proof of his 
authorship), a timely confession is 
made by "A. S." that the lovers can 
construct another photometer, for he 
has secretly given them lessons on the 
instrument. 

34 



"I taught them all I knew, and 
not a creature knew it." 

This impresses the director so fa- 
vorably and "L. W." so unfavorably 
that the heroine is left to Harvard 
and all ends with a burst of Pina- 
forean absurdity. 

On the stage this New Year's Eve 
was the original meridian circle; in 
the next room was ticking the time- 
piece referred to in the song sung by 
"W. U.": 

"I turned the dome with so grand 
a shock 

That I broke two windows and 
the Elliott clock;" 
in the sky outside shone the object of 
"E. C. P.'s" serenade: 

"Pole Star, to thee I sing. 
Bright Pivot of the heavens; 

Oh why are all our magnitudes 
Either at sixes or at sevens?" 
but what has now become of the new 
Photometer, that piece of apparatus 
which 

". . . might have been a telescope, 

Or a double-barrelled microscope. 

Or perhaps a barometer; 

But in spite of all inducements 

To belong to other instruments. 

It remains a photometer. 

It remains a photo-o-o-o-meterl" 
Whether or not it still so remains, to 
a young apprentice of Science it was 
once the inspiration of a merry, kind- 
ly bit of humor that twinkles as 
brightly now as fifty years ago. 



Professor Charles A. Kraus of the 
Department of Chemistry gave the 
Edgar Fahs Smith Birthday Lecture 
at the University of Pennsylvania on 
May 23, 1930. The lectureship was 
established in memory of the late Ed- 
gar Fahs Smith, former Provost of 
Pennsylvania and a famous research 
chemist. 

Professor William Adams Brown, 
Jr., of the Department of Economics 
and Professor C. J. Ducasse of the 
Department of Philosophy have been 
elected members of the Sphinx Club 
at Brown. 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



"Unafraid" 



Unafraid, a Life of Anne Hutch- 
inson (Houghton Mifflin Co., Bos- 
ton, $3.50, by Winnifred B. King 
Rugg, Brown, '99), was published 
recently, and reviewed favorably 
as for example: 

"Mrs. Rugg writes with sympathet- 
ic insight and balanced judgment, 
with the retrospect of a thoughtful 
woman of toda_\- and the vividness of 
a romantic narrator .... the au- 
thor's keen wit produces ironic epi- 
grams of unusual pithiness." — Boston 
Herald. 

"With admirable insight Mrs. 
Rugg has marshalled her facts and 
circumstances. She not only gives a 
broad and comprehensive account of 
the controversy, but she is an artist 
in detail. Few scenes in serious bi- 
ographv are more affecting than when 
Anne Hutchinson walks alone down 
the aisle of the crude meetinghouse, 
outcast, to be comforted only by Mary 
Dyer, destined in after years to hang 
as a Quaker on Boston Com- 
mon. . . . Here is a book with a 
grasp of the great facts of this wom- 
an's life, an understanding not only 
of what she did but of what she stood 
for, and these facts are reinforced by 
a keen relish of the times. It is a 
model piece of colonial history. Such 
books are none too common." — Bos- 
ton Transcript. 

"Anne Hutchinson's story is told 
simply, without embellishment, in 
this admirable book." — New York 
World. 

Mrs. Rugg's biography is a stir- 
ring and an intensely interesting 
book." — Hartford Courant. 

Anne Hutchinson belongs to Rhode 
Island as well as to Massachusetts, 
because she fled for refuge to Ports- 
mouth, in this State, and was instru- 
mental in formulating the liberal pol- 
icies of the infant colony on Aquid- 
neck. 



Brown Football 



Our valuable contemporary 
"Brunotes" gives us some interesting 
facts about the history of Brown foot- 
ball. 

The first game, 51 years ago, was 
won by Amherst, 23 to o. However, 
Brown football has had a continuous 
record only since i88g, 41 years ago. 

In the 42 years that a Bruin Var- 
sity has played out its schedule, says 
Brunotes, Brown has played 400 
games, winning 231, losing 148, and 
tying 21. Brown has scored 9,083 
points to opponents' 3,408. 



The only team ever to run through 
a season without a defeat was the 
1926 team coached by D. O. Mc- 
Laughry, while the 1916 and 1928 
teams had the same record of eight 
victories and one defeat each. The 
191 7 and 1 910 probably have the 
next best records, considering only 
the number of games won and lost, 
and making no allowance for other 
factors such as nature of competition, 
material, etc. The 1894 team, with 
10 victories in 15 games, deserves 
mention in any summary. 

There have been nine head coaches 
in Brown football, the list of men 
and the number of years they worked 
being as follows : Lindsay, 3 ; How- 



The 

Brown 
Plate 




— a tvorthwhile souvenir 
— an attractive gift 

Made exclusively for us by Copeland-Spode, 
England, from an unusually interesting 
sketch of the beloved Van Wickle gates. 

On sale in the Gifts Department, 
Second Floor. Telephone and Mail 
Orders promptly filled. $2 each 



Tilden -Thurber 

Westminster Street, at Mathewson — Providence 



Summer Shop 
Watch Hill, R.I. 



Foreign 
Connections 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



land, I ; Odlin, i ; Norton, i ; Moyle, 
3; Robinson, 24; Gammons, 3; 
Fultz, 1 ; and McLaughry, 4. 

The highest score run up against 
any opponent was 70-0 in the Colby 
game in 1905. In 1916 (which had 
a total score of 254-37) Brown beat 
Amherst 69 to o, and last year Nor- 
wich was defeated 66 to 6. 

The highest scores made against 
Brown were by Williams, 0-58, in 
1891, and by Harvard, also 0-58, in 
1893. 



Elections to Sigma Xi 

Seniors — Robert B. Booth, Kenni- 
son T. Bosquet, Harold I. Brown, 
Horace E. Darling, Donald S. Flynn, 
David Freedman, Samuel Lerner, 
Allan F. Nickerson, John A. Pur- 
inton, Jr., Norman E. Searle, Robert 
R. Sproul, Samuel Vigo. 

Juniors — Donald L. Fowler, Jr., 
Milton Korb, Philip B. Kraus, Gil- 
bert Mignacca, Charles Potter, John 
O. Prouty, Douglas M. Stewart, 
William S. Wilson. 

Full members — William R. Len- 
ford, Dr. Andrew C. Berry, Paul R. 
Bien, James D. Coronios, John M. 
Driscoll, Ernest R. Kline, Dr. 
Charles A. McDonald, Dr. Herman 
C. Pitts, Ralph F. Prescott, Alonzo 
W. Quinn, Frederic C. Schmidt, 
Clarence S. Sherman, Joseph E. 
Smith, Charles E. Trueblood, New- 
ton Underwood, Raymond A. Vin- 
gee, Henry Welch, Morgan L. Wil- 
liams. 

Associate Members — Gradute Stu- 
dents: James S. Reach, McDonald 
Fulton, Silvert N. Glarum, Carlton 
B. Green, Osborne C. Bacon, 
Owen N. Hillman, Oilman S. Hoop- 
er, David Moskovitz, Herbert R. 
Mottshaw, Robert M. Pike, Hend- 
rik Romeyn, Bernhard A. Rose, John 
F. Ryan, Duncan Stewart, Frank E. 
Toonder, John F. M. White, Jane 
L. Chidsey, Sarah W. Eyre, Louise 
W. Gates, Marjorie L. Heckel, 
Frances D. McKinnon, Maurita E. 
Mt^hexalon, Blythe G. Richmond, 
Elinor V. Smith, Gertrude E. Stith, 
Dorothy J. Thayer. 



Brown University Freshman Week 

Following is a financial statement of Freshman Week last year : 

A. Expenditures 

(i) Thursday evening Mixer . . . J 27.00 

(2) Friday evening supper (400 guests @ 35c) 140.00 

(3) Friday evening Ballyhoo 

Music and Refreshments - - 36.15 

(4) Camp 



Busses ----- 

Camp rental - . . . 

Food ----- 

Labor ------ 

Trucking food and cooking equipment 
Trucking cots - . - - 

Blankets ----- 



-$ 



(5) 



(6) 



(7) 
(8) 

(9) 
(10) 



Y. M. C. A. IntercoUegian 
Dinner for ministers and laymen who called 
on Freshmen - . . . - 

Printing and mailing 400 Freshman letters 
Other Printing 

400 Freshmen rules - - - - - 

100 Letters Multi. . . - - 

400 Programs - Freshman Week - - - 

500 Information Sheets - - - - 

500 Report Sheets 
500 Supper Tickets 
500 Freshman Week Programs - 



Total Expenditure 



72.00 
67.50 
118.23 
46.75 
5.00 
23.00 
11.26 



Reception 




Invitations - - - - - 


60.80 


Catering ----- 


- 118.00 


Decorations - . . - 


137-50 


Information and other service 




Labor — typing ----- 


14.15 


Supplies of Inf. Bureau - - - 


14.36 


400 Tags ----- 


5.00 


400 Information Bureau Cards 


n.oo 


Tally — Belcher & Loomis 


3-50 


Five Signs ----- 


9-50 



4-25 
4.00 

3-75 
9-30 



13.00 



B. Receipts: 

Brown Union 

Freshmen for Transportation 

B. C. A. 

University - - - - 

Total Receipts 
36 



$ 343-74 



$316.30 



57-51 
24.00 

18.70 
47-38 



$ 34-30 

$1,045.08 


-$ 375-30 

100.00 

- 219.78 
350.00 



$1,045.08 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Bygone Days at Brown 



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LTniversity Grammar School 
(Which stood on the present site of the Administration Building) 





Professor Francis G. Allinson 

(From a photograph of nearly JO 

years ago) 




Professor William Whitman 

Bailey 

(Former head of the Department of 

Botany) 



Brown's Girl Graduates in igoo 

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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Faculty Changes at Brown 



Faculty changes have been an- 
nounced as follows : 

Biblical Literature, Dudley Tyng, 
acting assistant professor; Biology, 
George D. Snell, instructor; Vera 
Irene Smith, R. C. McCardle, Claude 

D. Williams, Frederick Crescitelli, 
Henry J. Cooper and Roy P. Ash, as- 
sistants; Chemistry, Richard N. 
Meinert, instructor; V. F. Hnizda, 
Claus J. Bushouse and Charles T. 
Oswald, assistants; Sivert N. Glarum, 
research assistant; Economics, James 
H. Shoemaker, assistant professor; 
Nathanael T. Engle, assistant profes- 
sor; W. Harrison Carter, Jr., instruc- 
tor; Alden J. Plumley, George W. 
Brooks, Harry C. Banzhof and Harry 
Price Bell, graduate assistants. 

English, Joseph D. F'sler, Wil- 
liam E. Wilson, Ralph L. Blanchard 
and Harrison J. Piatt, instructors; 
Dora M. Anstey and Charles E. 
Noyes, assistants. Geology, Constance 

E. Candee and Frederick M. Chase, 
assistant. Engineering, Horace E. 
Darling, assistant in electrical engi- 
neering. Greek and Latin, Herbert 
N. Couch, assistant professor; Abbott 
Eraser and Theodore Theodorides, in- 
structors. German, Walter Kien, in- 
structor; J. Robert Bergh, assistant. 
History, Sinclair W. Armstrong, 
Bruce N. Bigelow and Jarvis Means 
Morse, instructors; John H. Reynolds 
assistant; James B. Hedges, lecturer. 

Mathematics, Cletus O.Oakley and 
Charles Hugh Smiley, assistant pro- 
fessors; David Moskovitz, Paul Eber- 
hart and Herbert Karnow, half-time 
instructors; Herman B. Thiessen and 
Edward L. Waters, assistants; Mar- 
garet Gurney, non-teaching assistant; 
Philosophy, Ralph M. Blake, profes- 
sor; Lucius Garvin, assistant; Physics, 
Robert B.Lindsay, associate professor ; 
Hugh L. Donley, Frederick E. 
White, Maurice K. Laufer and Ker- 
mit R. Page, assistants; Psychology, 
Arthur H. Ruggles, lecturer. 

Romance Languages, Robert H. 
Williams, instructor; Arthur Perry 
and Valentine G. M. Leotard, assis- 
tants; Arthur L. Washburn, lecturer 
in Italian ; Social and Political 



Science, Chester B. Beard, instructor; 
John Hay Library, Mahlon K. 
Schnacke, assistant librarian. 

Promotions 1930-31 

Biolog)', Arthur M. Banta to full 
professor ; Charles S. Stuart to asso- 
ciate professor; Ivon R. Taylor to as- 
sistant professor; Magel C. Wilder to 
assistant professor. Botany, H. R. 
Mottshaw to instructor (half-time). 
Chemistry, Charles B. Wooster to 
assistant professor; Laurence S. Fos- 
ter to assistant professor; E. Allison 
Flood to instructor. Economics, 
Harry E. Miller to full professor; A. 
Ford Hinrichs to associate professor; 
Paul T. David to instructor (half- 
time). 

English, S. Foster Damon to as- 
sociate professor; George K. Ander- 
son to associate professor ; Leicester 
Bradner to assistant professor. Greek 
and Latin Classics, B. C. Clough to 
full professor. History, J. Barrett 
Batsford to associate professor. Phys- 
ics, Howard L. Andrews to instruc- 
tor. Psychology, Harold Schlosberg 
to assistant professor; James D. Cor- 
onios to instructor. Philosophy, C. A. 
Baylis to assistant professor; C. H. 
Beardsley to instructor. Administra- 
tion, Samuel T. Arnold to full pro- 
fessor. John Hay Library, Henry B. 
Van Hoesen to librarian and profes- 
sor of bibliography. 

Resignations 1930-31 

Biolog\-, Sarah W. Eyre and Mrs. 
William A. Castle, assistants; F. D. 
Fulton, H. B. Steinbach, W. S. Pres- 
ton, L. T. Bennett, R. M. Pike, Jan- 
et Johnson, F. A. Simeone and Mar- 
jory M. Kent, demonstrators; Chem- 
istry, E. K. Bacon, instructor; F. D. 
Smith, assistant; Economics, F. R. 
Erismen, assistant; J. D. Phinney, in- 
structor, (half time) ; M. H. Conn 
and A. K. MacRae, assistants; Engi- 
neering, H. D. Blomstedt, instructor; 
English, R. B. Macdougall and R. 
W. Higgins, instructors; H. K. Hal- 

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pert and Louis Miller, assistants; 
German, W. H. Root, instructor; 
Greek and Latin Classics, John W. 
Spaeth, associate professor; John J. 
Savage, instructor; Geology, Brad- 
ford Willard, assistant professor; 
Duncan Stewart, Althea Page and 
B. R. Millington, assistants. 

History, Clifford K. Shipton, in- 
structor; Verner W. Crane, profes- 
sor; E. C. Kirkland, assistant profes- 
sor; Mathematics, Henry P. Man- 
ning, associate professor; F. H. S. 
Jonah and H. L. Krall, instructors 
(half-time) ; H. S. Thurston, instruc- 
tor; K. G. Fuller, instructor, (half- 
time) ; W. S. Litterick, H. A. How- 
ard and David Colbert, instructors; 
Philosophy, H. R. Chidsey, associate 
professor ; E. W. Parkhurst, assistant ; 
Physics, Norbert Weiner, visiting pro- 
fessor; M. V. Goerke, C. B. Green, 
Newton Underwood, Morgan L. 
Williams and B. A. Rose, assistants; 
Romance Languages, Homera Ar- 
jona, instructor; George L. Trager 
and Napoleon Tremblay, assistants ; 
Ambrozio Donini, instructor (half- 
time) ; Social Science, Kendall Cabot 
and Philip Keller, assistants. 

Leaves of Absence, Professor Mil- 
lar Burrows, Professor Carl W. Mil- 
ler, Professor H. B. Killough, C. A. 
Lynch and Professor John F. Greene. 

Retirements, Philosophy, Dr. Wal- 
ter G. Everett; John Hay Library, 
Dr. H. L. Koopman ; Administration, 
Dean Otis E. Randall. 



Late Sports Notes 

Broivn I, Yale 

Although the Brown baseball sea- 
son of 1930 was far from the success 
we could have wished for it, it showed 
flashes of genuine power by the team 
and included victories over Harvard 
and Yale. To the two wins against 
the Crimson there was added on June 
II at Providence a i-o triumph over 
Yale in our only meeting of the year 
with the New Haveners. Bowie, the 
Brown pitcher held the Yale players 
to five hits and no runs, and the 
Brown team made no errors. Brown 
made six hits and Yale had a single 
error scored against it. 



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Brown 4, Dartmouth 2 

Following its defeat of Yale, 
Brown beat Dartmouth at Aldrich 
Field, 4-2, on Friday, June 13 — a 
hoodoo day for the visitors, as it 
turned out. Sondheim, pitching for 
Brown, allowed 10 hits, but five of 
these came in the first two innings, 
after which he settled down. It was 
only in these two innings that Dart- 
mouth was able to score. 

Brown got seven hits off Thomp- 
son, the Dartmouth pitcher, in the 
1st, 4th and Sth innings and scored 
all its runs in those three frames. 
Brown made two errors and Dart- 
mouth three. 

* « * 

Brown 0, 4; N. H. 4, 2. 

In the final baseball games of the 
season. Brown was beaten 0-4 by the 
University of New Hampshire at 
Durham, June 14, with Bowie pitch- 
ing, but reversed results in the re- 
turn game at Providence on Com- 
mencement Day, June 16, 4-2, Sond- 
heim being in the box for the home 
team. After the game George Ed- 



ward Crane, '31, of Providence was 
elected captain for next season and 
Coach Kelleher's re-engagement was 
announced. The team has won 1 1 
games, tied one and lost 9. The high 
spots of the season were the victories 
over Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth. 

* * * 
Athletic Letters Awarded 

'Varsity lacrosse — Capt. Dan Pol- 
sky, '30; Carl Caspar, '31; W. S. 
Davidson, '31; Ken Fisher, '31; Ben 
Greenfield, '31; Mel Lundstedt, '31; 
Joe Micucci, '31; Bob Morey, '31; 
Art Schweikart, '31; G. W. Jensen, 
'32; Paul Mackesey, '32; Bill Mc- 
Soley, '32; George Sharp, '32; Bob 
Stafford, '32 ; Jim White, '32 ; and 
Manager Bob Moat, '30. 

'Varsity track — Capt. Reb Russell, 
'30; Robert Dimond, '30; Ben Buon- 
anno, '31 ; Wes Huse, '31 ; Sal D'lor- 
io, '31; M. B. McCatherine, '31; 
George Troy, '31; Ken White, '31; 
Minor Patton, '32 ; Joe Sawyer, '32 ; 
and Manager Otto Kerner, '30. 

'Varsity tennis — Capt. Gerson 
Weiss, '30; Dave Scott, '32; Ken 
Butler, '32; Bob Rutan, '31; Bill 



Hardy, '31; Joe Baruch, '31; and 
Manager Newley P. Jones, '30. 

'Varsity golf — George Appel, '31; 
Bob Hutton, '32 ; Capt. Ken Bosquet, 
'30; Fred Bailey, '32; and W. Sulli- 
van, '30. 

Freshman track — Capt. Roland 
Brown, Al Dixon, George Dickey, 
Dwight Fanning, Tom Gilbane, 
Walter Matthews, Paul Mitchell, 
Ned Parish, Paul Rowan, J. S. Rigby, 
D. M. Straight and Stewart Wood- 
ward. 

Freshman baseball — Capt. Steve 
Sweeney, Ed Gilmartin, Art Hunt, 
Bill Bilbane, Bill James, Art Kroe- 
ger, Max Lebida, Al Lewitt, Fred 
Munroe, Ollie Neidlinger and Ed 
Taylor. 

Freshman lacrosse — Capt. Bob El- 
ton, S. Turner Blanchard, Joe Cro- 
nan, Jim Heap, V. P. Jorjorian, Jack 
Murphy, B. C. Read, C. S. Schneider, 
Sault Shuman, R. L. Swatzburg, Joe 
Thompson, N. H. Watson and R. B. 
Winslow. 

Freshman tennis — Capt. Bill Stew- 
art, A. E. Duram, Bill Stockbridge, 
Arnold Tulp and E. Schoen. 



The Brown Clubs Report 



With the Brown Clubs 

WJ ITH the election of Dennis F. 
O'Brien, '98, as president, suc- 
ceeding Hugh W. MacNair, '17, the 
Brown University Club in New York 
has begun another year. The new 
leader has been one of the club's ac- 
tive workers and is a Brown man 
with vision and energy. He has the 
good wishes of everybody in the met- 
ropolitan district as he steps into the 
place ably filled by Hugh MacNair in 
the past year. 

The other officers are: Vice Presi- 
dents, Alexander Graham, '06, Wal- 
ter R. Bullock, '02, Thomas B. Apple- 
get, 17; secretary, Philip Lukin, '24; 
treasurer, Lee H. White, '07. 

D. O. (Tuss) McLaughry was 
the guest of the club at the annual 
meeting, which took place May 15. 
He discussed football prospects at the 



University, as well as commented 
upon the work of the eleven last fall, 
and answered many questions. 

On May 5, over Station WEAF, 
Ripley, the cartoonist, told the story 
of Brown, its traditions, its famous 
graduates and all that — and we thank 
Mr. Ripley for the advertisement. 

Under the guidance of Jerry 
Holmes, '02, a Mt. Hermon group 
meets at the club every Wednesday 
for lunch. The club has been re- 
sponsible in recent weeks for helping 
several undergraduates find summer 
work. Among the visitors lately have 
been E. I. Leeds, '26, J. J. Connors, 
'27, Frank C. Fowler, '26, Kent God- 
frey, '26, T. W. Dennison, '29, A. B. 
Capron, '28, Fred H. Hovey, '90, De- 
Witt C. Eggleston, '05, A. L. Laud- 
ati, '24, John C. Hennessy, '10, C. C. 
Parsons, '29, Sam H. Walsh, Jr., '24, 

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special, R. W. Guild, '28, E. L. Bap- 
tiste, Jr., '25, E. P. Frazee, '28, Rev. 
Oscar Maddaus, '07, W. Bruce 
Loomis, '26, C. F. Savage, '04, and 
E. A. C. Murphy, '13. 

Rochester 

At the final luncheon of the 1929- 
30 season, held at the Chamber of 
Commerce June 4, 1930, the follow- 
ing officers were elected for 1930-31 : 

President, George E. Hebner, '15; 
vice president. Dr. David H. At- 
water, '99 ; secretary, E. W. Holmes, 
'03 ; treasurer, Lawrence Gardner, 
'11; executive committee. Dr. Earle 
B. Cross, '05, and Malcom C. 
Brown, '20. 

Following his brief review of the 
club's activities during the past year, 
retiring President Cristy passed ci- 
gars, President-elect Hebner spoke, 
and there was exchange of the every- 



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day pleasantries. Adjournment was 
taken until October. 

New Haven 
The Brown Club of New Haven 
was the guest of the Waterbury 
alumni at a meeting at the Waterbury 
Y. M. C. A., on May i6. Louis F. 
Horvath, honorary member of the 
club, showed two reels of motion pic- 
tures taken on a visit to Europe last 
year, and there was other entertain- 
ment to make the evening a lively one. 
Harry A. Soper, Jr., '25, and Web- 
ster O'Neill, '28, were the committee 
in charge of the meeting. 

Buffalo 

On the occasion of the recent visit 
of President Barbour to Buffalo, 
Lloyd W. Josselyn, '07, president of 
the Brown Club of Western New 
York, met and entertained him until 
the time for the dinner at the Buffalo 
Athletic Club. Josselyn, who has 
proved himself an efficient leader, in- 
troduced everybody at the dinner to 
President Barbour, making mention of 
the vocation in which each individual 
is engaged. And this is the way the 
list went : 

Mrs. Charles J. Fish, scientist; 
Mrs. Lloyd Josselyn, librarian; May- 
or Irving L. Price of East Aurora; 
Dr. Harry W. Rockwell, president. 
State Teachers College; Mrs. Irving 
Price, author; District Attorney 
Glenn W. Woodin of Dunkirk; Mrs. 
Eric N. Barbour, the president's 
daughter-in-law; Eric N. Barbour, in- 
vestments; Dr. Louis A. Squires, den- 
tist; Lloyd W. Josselyn, librarian; 
Stanley P. Marsh, insurance counsel; 
W. M. Murch, chemist; Judge Carl 
E. Tucker of Niagara Falls; William 
M. Fay, attorney; Mrs. William M. 
Fay, Bill's partner; Dr. Byron L. 
West, chemist; Russell C. Wonder- 
lie, Boy Scout e.xecutive; Mrs. W. M. 
Murch, homemaker. 

President Barbour, in his opening 
remarks, said that Josselyn had made 
possible an ingenious and satisfactory 
introduction — so satisfactory, he add- 
ed, that he felt that he knew each and 
every one personally. Then he told 
the story of his first year at Brown, 
a long year in some respects, he said, 
and all too short in others. 



He emphasized especially the moral 
and religious aspect of college life at 
Brown, and unfolded a word picture 
of the earnest effort to solve the 
chapel problem and the series of well- 
ordered services which were conduct- 
ed at the First Baptist Meeting House 
and the Central Congregational 
Church. 

"We were genuinely interested in 
the President's attitude toward ath- 
letics," added Stanley Marsh in a let- 
ter about the dinner. "We noted 
with interest the fact that 'the supreme 
thought of victory alone is on the 
wane.' We enjoyed very much his 
report that he had frequently attended 
football practice, had eaten with the 
men at the training table and had 
gone with them on all out-of-town 
trips. We listened with interest to 
his description of the assets of Brown 
and to his comment on the survey 
then in progress at the University. 

"Indeed, we were all deeply im- 
pressed with the enthusiasm and sin- 
cerity of Dr. Barbour, and we feel 
richly indebted to him for his thought- 
fulness in coming to Buffalo." 



With the Faculty 

Professor R. C. Archibald of the 
Mathematics Department has been 
elected a Foreign Fellow of the Mas- 
arykova Akademie Prace, at Prague, 
Czecho-Slovakia. Professor Archibald 
visited various scientists at Prague in 
1926, when he purchased there many 
volumes for completing sets in the 
John Hay Library. 

Professor Millar Burrows of the 
Department of Biblical Literature 
and his family have sailed for Eng- 
land, where they will visit before go- 
ing to France for the rest of the sum- 
mer. From France they will pro- 
cesed to Beirut, Syria, where Dr. 
Burrows is to be Visiting Professor in 
the American University during the 
coming year. 

Professor Henry T. Fowler, also 
of the Department of Biblical Liter- 
ature, was toastmaster at the 40th Re- 
union of his class at Yale at the re- 
union dinner in New Haven on June 

17- 

40 



Professor Samuel J. Berard of the 
Division of Engineering spoke on the 
subject, "The Content of a Descrip- 
tive Geometry Course," at the sum- 
mer session of the Society for the Pro- 
motion of Engineering Education held 
at the Carnegie Institute of Tech- 
nology, Pittsburgh, June 12-21. 
With Mrs. Berard, he also attended 
the annual meeting of the society at 
Montreal, June 26-28. 

Professor Walter H. Snell of the 
Botany Department was at the Uni- 
versity of Wisconsin during early 
June, attending a meeting of the spe- 
cial committee of the American Wood 
Preservers' Association working upon 
the pressure treatment of poles, tele- 
phone or light or power. While he 
was in Madison he visited the Forest 
Products Laboratory maintained by 
the United States Forest Service to 
look into new developments in the 
preservative treatment of wood. Pro- 
fessor Snell received his Ph. D. from 
Wisconsin. 

Professor C. W. Miller and H. L. 
Andrews (Coffin Research Fellow) 
of the Department of Physics pub- 
lished in the May issue of the Review 
of Scientific Instruments an article on 
"A Constant Frequency Oscillator." 
Professor A. deF. Palmer, chairman 
of the department, attended the inau- 
guration of Dr. K. T. Compton as 
president of Massachusetts Institute 
of Technology as the representative of 
the Johns Hopkins University. 

Professor Harold S. Bucklin of the 
Department of Social and Political 
Science gave the address and awarded 
the certificates to the graduating class 
at the School of Home Training, 
Nickerson House, Providence, on 
June 4. 

Professor W. H. Kenerson of the 
Division of Engineering represented 
the American Society of Mechanical 
Engineers, of which he is an honorary 
vice president, at the inauguration of 
K. T. Compton as president of Mas- 
sachusetts Institute of Technology 
last month. Professor Kenerson also 
was a delegate named by the Ameri- 
can Engineering Council to attend 
the Third Conference on Street and 
Highway Safety, held in Washington 
on May 28 and 29. 



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Brunonians Far and Near 



1870 

Dr. William T. Peck, who is now 
in Europe, received the honorary de- 
gree of Doctor of Education from 
Rhode Island State College in June. 
He was cited as an "exponent of lit- 
erary culture in an age of stark re- 
alism" and hailed as one who for half 
a century has held aloft "the torch 
of learning and scholarship." 

1876 
Eleven members out of 19 surviv- 
ing met at the home of Dr. Henr)- A. 
Whitmarsh on Prospect Street, Prov- 
idence. Dr. Barbour was among the 
guests. 

1877 

Fred H. Williams was host to the 
class at his home in MiUis, Mass., 
Those present included Phelps, El- 
der, Kelley, Finch, Capron and 
Rueckert. 

Dr. Arthur George Griffin died 
suddenly in Rangeley, Me., on June 
7, 1930. Shortly before he left for 
Rangeley, where he expected to do 
some fishing, he wrote that he would 
attend the class reunion at Fred H. 
Williams's farm in Millis, Mass. He 
was born in Litchfield, N. H., Oct. 
30, 1853, the son of George and 
Clarissa (White) Griffin. He came 
to Brown from Colby Academy and, 
after leaving Brown in his Senior 
year, studied at the Harvard Medical 
School, from which he received his 
M. D. degree in 1882. He was as- 
sistant port physician at Deer Island 
in Boston Harbor, 1882-83, and port 
physician, 1883-87. He resigned to 
commence practice in Maiden, where 
he was city physician from 1888 to 
1892. In the spring of 1923 he hft 
Maiden to go to Shawsheen Village, 
Mass., to continue practice and also 
to act as personal physician to the late 
William M. Wood, president of the 
American Woolen Company. He was 
a member of the Maldtn Medical So- 
ciety, the Massachusetts Medical So- 
ciety, the American Medical Society, 
and Delta Phi. He was married Oct. 
12, 1887, to Mary V. Shirley of 
Goffstown, N. H., who survives him, 
together with a daughter, Mrs. Mil- 
ton C. Lightner, and three grandchil- 
dren. 



1879 
R. Clinton Fuller was host to 1879, 
which class has an annual reunion. 
After lunch at the University Club, 
15 of the 22 surviv-ing members went 
to Mr. Fuller's house, where dinner 
was served at 6 p. m. 

1880 

Samuel Watson Smith, Jr., 
former Judge of the Circuit Court for 
the First Judicial Circuit of Ohio and 
for many years previous to his serv- 
ice on the bench active in Republican 
politics in Ohio, died at his home in 
Cincinnati on May 2, 1930. He was 
born in Cincinnati Aug. 24, 1859, the 
son of Samuel Watson and Mary 
Caroline (Woolley) Smith. He 
came to Brown from the Chickering 
Institute, Cincinnati, and after grad- 
uation entered the Cincinnati Law 
School, from which he received his 
LL. B. in 1882. After admission to 
the bar he joined the firm of Ste- 
phens, Lincoln and Smith. As a 
young lawyer he became interested in 
politics and "soon won his political 
spurs in the then rising Republican 
organization." He was a member of 
the Cincinnati Board of Legislation, 
1891-92, Judge of the Common Pleas 
Court, 1896-1902, and Judge of the 
Circuit Court, 1907-13. Following 
his retirement from the bench he 
found occupation in reading, research 
work at his home and in traveling. 
The months spent at his summer 
home in Somesville, Mt. Desert Is- 
land, were among the happiest por- 
tions of the year, and his warm friend- 
ships with all the members of the vil- 
lage community are indicative of his 
character. No summer resident was 
more thoroughly known or more uni- 
versally beloved. Smith was married 
Oct. 29, 1 89 1, to Olive Douglas Per- 
kins, who died Feb. I this year. He 
is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Eliza- 
beth Baldwin Wilson, and a son, S. 
\Vatson Smith, '19. Watson Smith 
was in Athens, Greece, where he was 
about to engage in archaeological 
work when the news of his father's 
serious illness reached him. Smith 
was a past master of Walnut Hills 
Lodge of iMasons, a member of the 
New York Scottish Rite, Knights of 

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Pythias, the Queen City and Cincin- 
nati Country Clubs and Alpha Delta 
Phi. 

1881 

Chief Justice Hughes, Mrs. 
Hughes and their daughter are at 
present in Europe. The Chief Jus- 
tice plans to return in August to at- 
tend the meeting of the American Bar 
Association in Chicago. On Sept. 27 
he will come back to Brown to give 
the historical address at the looth 
anniversary of the founding of Rhode 
Island Alpha, Phi Beta Kappa, of 
which he is president. 

1883 
Dean William E. Simonds has re- 
tired from office at Knox College, but 
his resignation \\\\\ not take effect- un- 
til next September. He went to Knox 
in 1889. 'Trom that date," said The 
Knox Alumnus for June, 1930, "the 
progress of growth (of Knox) has 
been continuous, and Dean Simonds 
more than anyone now connected 
with the college has been part and par- 
cel, factor and result of this upward 
trend." Dean Simonds gave the Com- 
mencement address at Knox on June 
II. When he went to Knox he was 
the only member of the English De- 
partment. Now there are seven 
teachers of English. Dean Knox's 
"own courses and his wise guidance 
and stimulation have contributed 
greatly to this growth." Dean Knox 
will be succeeded by Dr. Charles M. 
Poor. '93. of whom there is com- 
ment elsewhere in this issue. 

1889 
The American House in the Cite 
Universitaire, an interational center 
of learning in Paris, was opened last 
month, with United States Ambas- 
sador Walter E. Edge making one of 
the principal addresses. The new 
building, perhaps the finest of its kind 
in Europe, has a Brown room, which 
was endowed through the gift of 
George E. Warren. It will be re- 
called that Warren made this gift two 
years ago, announcement of it coming 
from the late President Emeritus 
Faunce. The house is of six stories, 
five of which will be used for stu- 



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dents' quarters and the lower floor 
for lounging rooms and salons. It is 
really an extension of the University 
of Paris. 

1890 

Dr. James Quayle Dealey of the 
editorial department of the Dallas, 
Tex., News, received the honorary 
degree of Litt. D. from Baylor Uni- 
versity last month. An address by 
Dealey, "The Policy of the United 
States in the Pacific," has been re- 
printed from The Southwestern Polit- 
ical and Social Science Quarterly, De- 
cember, 1929. 

1892 

One of the pleasing features of the 
Bates College Commencement Bulle- 
tin was a greeting, partly in German, 
from Professor A. N. Leonard — 
"Dutchy," as he is affectionately 
known at Bates — to returning Bates 
alumni. In the greeting he admitted 
that it would be thirty years in June 
since he saw, for the first time, a 
Senior class graduated from Bates. 
We have heard that Leonard was seri- 
ously ill last fall, but that he is now 
getting back his strength. 

1893 
Dean Charles M. Poor of Lom- 
bard College has been appointed to 
succeed Dean William E.' Simonds, 
'83, at Knox College. He has been 
at Lombard (which is to merge with 
Knox this year) since 1915. Dean 
Simonds, writing in The Knox Alum- 
nus, says of him: "He is a scholar and 
a teacher, ripened by experience in a 
position corresponding to that which 
he has now been chosen to fill. . . . 
As we are graduates of the same col- 
lege, I trust that I may venture — • 
without disparagement to those of 
other institutions — to express a pleas- 
ant satisfaction in welcoming a sec- 
ond Brown man as a successor to this 
office." 

1894 
Harold C. Field has been elected a 
director of the Puritan Life Insurance 
Company, Providence. 

1895 
Rev. John F. Watts, pastor of the 
First Baptist Church, Lawrence, 
Kan., and his church were the subject 
of a paragraph in a recent issue of the 
Watchman - Examiner. "Fourteen 



new members were received on April 
13, seven by letter and statement, and 
seven by baptism," the paragraph said. 
"All the additions by baptism were 
from Haskell Institute, our Govern- 
ment Indian School located at Law- 
rence." Watts is doing his 'work 
quietly and effectively, and we wish 
him well. 

1896 

Justice Elmer J. Rathbun of the 
Rhode Island Supreme Court re- 
ceived the honorary degree of Doctor 
of Laws at the 57th annual Com- 
mencement exercises of Boston Uni- 
versity last month. President Marsh 
characterized him as a "faithful serv- 
ant of civic trust." 

William C. Bliss, chairman of the 
Rhode Island Public Utilities Com- 
mission, has been elected to the execu- 
tive committee of the New England 
Association of Public Utility Com- 
missions. 

Rev. Dr. Clarence M. Gallup, pas- 
tor of the Central Baptist Church, 
Providence, is the new recording sec- 
retary of the Northern Baptist Con- 
vention. In this position he will have 
charge of preparing, editing and pub- 
lishing the Convention's annual re- 
port, a huge task in itself. 

1897 

Arthur M. McCrillis was elected 
vice president general of the Societj' of 
the Sons of the American Revolution 
at the national convention of the so- 
ciety in Asbury Park, N. J., last 
month. McCrillis stirred the con- 
vention in an address in which he 
urged his fellow members "to stop 
talking about what our ancestors did 
and do something to make posterity 
proud of us." He also paid his re- 
spects to certain pacifistic groups and 
to the real and the pseudo Commu- 
nists. 

John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has been 
nominated by the American Institute 
of Architects for honorary member- 
ship in the organization because of his 
interest in the fine arts. 

1898 

Charles E. Osborne reports that 
his home address is Hotel Fairbairn, 
Detroit, Mich. Osborne is a member 
of the sales staff of the F. A. Owen 
Publishing Company, publishers of 
school books. 

George H. Tracy has become man- 
ager for the Fidelity Mutual Life In- 

42 



surance of Philadelphia in the Eastern 
Massachusetts field. Tracy has been 
president of the Boston Life Under- 
writers' Association during the past 
year. 

Dennis F. O'Brien sent his regrets 
at not being able to be present at 
Commencement. He had planned to 
be on hand, as always, but business 
called him to California. 

Dr. Charles Carroll, Rhode Island 
State Director of Vocational Educa- 
tion, was the Commencement speak- 
er at the exercises of the Rhode Island 
College of Pharmacy and Allied 
Sciences in Providence on June 12. 

Rev. Stacy R. Warburton has re- 
ceived the honorary degree of Doctor 
of Divinity from the Berkeley Divin- 
ity School, Berkeley, Cal., where he is 
Professor of Christian Missions. 

1899 

Wallace R. Lane, senior member 
of the law firm of Parkinson & Lane, 
Chicago, and an alumni trustee of the 
University, was recently elected a 
trustee of Williston Academy, East- 
hampton, Mass. He gave the Com- 
mencement address at Williston on 
June 12. 

The New York Herald-Tribune 
late in May carried a story of how 
Howard C. Barber had saved George 
Appo, "a figure in the New York 
underworld in the 90's and important 
witness before the Lexow Commit- 
tee," from a pauper's grave. "He had 
all the elements of a fine character," 
Barber said of him, "but all went 
wrong with him in the beginning." 
The Society for the Prevention of 
Crime, of which Barber is superin- 
tendent, had been interested in Appo 
for many years. 

1900 

E. S. Tuttle has returned to Provi- 
dence to be manager of the Providence 
office of the Prudential Life Insur- 
ance Company, 519 Hospital Trust 
Bldg. Tuttle came to Providence 
from Cambridge, Mass., where he has 
been head of the Prudential agency 
for several years. 

Joseph W. Downs is in the invest- 
ment banking business in the Third 
National Bank Bldg., Springfield, and 
is living at 8 Pleasant View Avenue, 
Longmeadow, Mass. 

Leonard M. Patton, master of the 
Rogers Intermediate School, Boston, 
is the author of a chapter in the ninth 



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year book of the Elementary School 
Principals, entitled, "Studying Differ- 
ences Among Children." 

The class was proud of the way in 
which Clifford S. Anderson presided 
at the alumni exercises in Sayles Hall 
on Commencement afternoon. He 
was brief pointed, witt>' — what more 
can one ask for in a presiding officer? 

1 901 
Dr. Arthur I. Andrews's correct 
address, he writes, is 19A Forest St., 
Cambridge, Mass. 

1902 
Rev. Dr. Thomas Burgess, secre- 
tary of the Foreign Born Division of 
the National Department of Mis- 
sions of the Episcopal Church, has 
accepted the call to All Hallows 
Church, Wyncote, Pa. He will take 
official charge of the parish next Sep- 
tember. 

Philip Caswell was recently elected 
president of the Newport, R. L, 
Chamber of Commerce and national 
councilor of the same. He attended 
the last annual meeting of the United 
States Chamber of Commerce in 
Washington, where A. Dean Dudley 
was also present as delegate from 
the Syracuse, N. Y., Chamber of 
Commerce. 

Arthur S. Gaylord, Mrs. Gaylord 
and their daughter sailed on June 21 
to spend the summer abroad. 

Theodore F. Pevear was one of 
the judges who selected the lilac queen 
and her maid of honor at the annual 
Lilac Day, held in Highland Park, 
Rochester, N. Y., in May. The day 
has become one of the biggest of the 
year in Rochester. 

1903 
John Hutchins Cady has been elect- 
ed chairman of the City Plan Com- 
mission of Providence, succeeding the 
late Henry A. Barker, '93. Cady has 
served on the commission since 1915. 

1904 
Dr. Harry W. Hastings of the 
State Teachers College, Albany, N. 
Y., and his family are now living at 
42 South Main Ave., Albany. 

1905 
George B. Bullock is manager of 
the new Providence office of Bond & 
Goodwin, Inc., Investment bankers, 
412 New Industrial Trust Building. 
Since 1912 Bullock has been a mem- 



ber of the firm of A. H. Chase & 
Co., cotton brokers, Boston. 

Leonard W. Cronkhlte has been 
elected a trustee of the World Peace 
Foundation, Boston, of which the 
late President Emeritus Faunce was 
president for many years. Cronkhlte 
has also become a director of the 
League of Nations Association of 
Massachusetts and chairman of the 
Anglo-American Fellowships, an ed- 
ucational plan of interchange be- 
tween English and American uni- 
versities. 

1906 

Henry R. Hobson is president of 
the Canadian Stucco Products, Ltd., 
In Vancouver, B. C, where he lives 
at 2970 Oak Street. 

1907 

Ernest S. Reynolds is Associate 
Professor of Botany in the Henry 
Shaw School of Botany, Washington 
University, St. Louis, Mo. The 
school carries on its courses in co-op- 
eration with the Missouri Botanical 
Garden. 

H. E. Hallborg had a paper, "The 
Radio Plant of R. C. A. Communi- 
cations, Inc.," in the Proceedings of 
the Institute of Radio Engineers, 
March, 1930. 

The class dinner at the Agawam 
Hunt Club, Saturday evening, June 
14, drew the smallest number in years. 
What's the answer? We do not know 
but we are Investigating. Present (In 
addition to the Class Cup) were Hur- 
ley, Jones, Schwartz, W. P. Burn- 
ham, Snow, Cummings, Dorrance, Af- 
fleck, H. E. Miller, Little, Curran, 
Eddy, Gurney and A. E. Munro, 
'02, the class baby. This reporter Is 
still trying to learn the results of the 
golf match in which Schwartz, Burn- 
ham, Snow and Little were the par- 
ticipants, with Frank Cummings as 
chief rooter and odds-maker. 

Charles R. Stark, 3rd, who has 
just finished his Junior year at Get- 
tysburg College, Gettysburg, Pa., was 
announced on Commencement Day as 
the winner of the Scabbard and Blade 
prize, a saber, for ranking man In the 
advanced R. O. T. C. course. This 
follows his winning of the Sophomore 
prize as high man in the basic course. 
Young Stark has also been elected to 
Scabbard and Blade, the honorary 
Senior military fraternity. During 
the past year he was First Sergeant of 
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Company B, which won the competi- 
tive drill at the college in May. 

1908 

Dr. Harold W. Lyall, formerly 
bacteriologist in charge of the ap- 
proved clinical laboratories at the J. 
N. Adam Memorial Hospital, Per- 
rysburg, N. Y., has joined the staff 
of the Division of Laboratories and 
Research, New York State Depart- 
ment of Health, and is living at 16 
Norwood Ave., Albany. 

Governor Norman S. Case re- 
ceived the honorary degree of Doctor 
of Laws at the Commencement exer- 
cises of Manhattan College, New 
York, on July lo. He was cited as 
"a man of correct judgment and 
earnest Intention, one who enjoys the 
confidence of a large clientele in a 
small but noteworthy commonwealth 
in these United States." 

1909 

Charles E. Hughes, Jr., has been 
elected president of the Phi Beta 
Kappa Alumni In New York for the 
current year. Charlie has been abroad 
on his vacation, and when he returns 
to work he will rejoin the law firm 
of Hughes, Schurman & Dwight, 
New York. 

William M. Connell is the pres- 
ent Exalted Ruler of Pawtucket 
Lodge of Elks. 

Members of the class went down to 
George Huxford's place at Allen's 
Harbor, below East Greenwich, for 
a clambake Saturday afternoon, June 
14. Those who were at the bake or 
in the Commencement procession 
were: Wheeler, Tanner, Wilmot, 
Nash, Henderson, Seabury, Wells, 
Tinkham, Hollen, R. E. Smith, Wil- 
lemln, Sherwood, Leach, Chafee, 
Church, Bugbee, Havens, Turner, 
Huxford, Budlong, Sykes, Jackson, 
Chace, Buffum and Kirley. 

Captain Joe Church, U. S. A., has 
returned to Tiverton on leave of ab- 
sence after finishing a tour of duty 
In Hawaii. He has now been as- 
signed to the Cleveland District as 
inspector of infantry In the Ohio Na- 
tional Guard. 

The Secretary has been notified of 
the following changes of addresses of 
'09 men: William H. Trausneck, R. 
F. D., Box A-61, Richmond, Va.; 
Henry A. Weil, 3287 Beechwood 
Avenue, Cleveland, O. ; Walter E. 



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Goodwin, care Russell, Baldwin & 
Co., 30 Federal Street, Boston; and 
George A. Densmore, 67 Virginia 
Road, Quincy, Mass. 

Donald Jackson's song, "Ever 
True to Brown," maintains ils popu- 
larity. It was sung at the Commence- 
ment exercises thh year and '09 men 
are pleased to set it graduate from 
the football fields to the academic 
halls. 

Sidney Wilmot received the en- 
thusiastic best wishes of all '09, men 
in his candidacy for the Corporation 
of Brown. Although he was not elect 
ed, all of us realize that it is an honor 
to be nominated for the position. 

Bob Whitmarsh has been elected 
president of the Eastern Homeopathic 
Medical Association. He gave a pa- 
per before the convention of the 
American Homeopathic Medical As- 
sociation last month. 

Fred Boyce has completed twenty- 
one years of teaching at Phillips An- 
dover Academy. He is head of the 
Physics Department at the Academy 
and examiner for the College En- 
trance Board in physics. 

1910 
John C. Hennessy is a member of 
the invitation committee of the Am- 
erican University Club of New York, 
which is now being organized. 

1911 
Charles P. Sisson, Assistant At- 
torney General of the United States, 
came home from Washington for 
Commencement and while in Prov- 
idence gave the address at the Com- 
mencement exercises of the School of 
Law, Northeastern University, where 
he taught at one time. 

1913 

A card recently from C. H. Ab- 
bott in Redlands, Cal, was of aid in 
helping the Alumni Office find trace 
of S. V. Hay^vard, '15, and the of- 
fice hereby than,:ks AT>hott for hiis 
thoughtfulness. 

Rabbi Louis I. Newman, who is 
at Stanford University this summer, 
will settle in New York in Septem- 
ber, his address in that city being in 
care of the Congregation Rodeph 
Sholon, 7 West 83rd Street. 

1914 
F. H. Marvin, who was a mem- 
ber of the class part of the time we 



spent on College Hill and who has 
been missing for several years, ac- 
cording to the Alumni Office, has 
turned up as Director of Welfare, 
Louisville, Ky. Marvin studied at 
Springfield Training College af- 
ter leaving Brown. 

Edward T. Brackett is now as- 
sociated with Phillips & ZoUer, in- 
vestment counsel and management, 
80 Federal Street, Boston. 

1917 

William B. Farnsworth has been 
re-elected president of The Players 
of Providence, with which he has 
been associated since he left college 
and in which he has long been a 
leading spirit. 

John Joseph Conway was killed in 
a motor car accident in Singapore on 
June 17, 1930, the- Providence Eve- 
ning Bulletin reported. At the time of 
his death he was agent of the Ameri- 
can Express Company in Singapore, 
He was born in Hinsdale, N. H., 
April 14, 1891, the son of John J. 
and Matilda M. (Lynch) Conway. 
He came to Brown by way of the 
Winchester, N. H., High School and 
Rhode Island State College, where he 
studied one year. He also taught eve- 
ning classes at the Bryant & Stratton 
Business College and served as princi- 
pal of a grammar school in Lonsdale, 
R. I. At the entrance of the United 
States into the World War, he en- 
listed in the United States Navy and 
went to the school for ensigns at Pel- 
ham Bay, N. Y. In October, 1917, 
he was assigned to duty in the Medi- 
terranean on an ammunition ship. Af- 
ter his discharge from the Navy, he 
enlisted in the merchant marine and 
in 1923 had risen to the rank of first 
officer. He resigned from the serv- 
ice about six years ago to join the 
American Express Company as agent 
in Singapore. He is survived by his 
mother, two brothers and three sis- 
ters. His fraternity was Phi Gamma 
Delta. The sympathy of his class- 
mates is given his mother and the rest 
of his family. 

1918 

The town of Bingham, Me., where 
Robert C. Moore is a resident, was 
the scene of a serious fire about two 
months ago. Moore is a member of 
the town fire department and we un- 
derstand that he felt the effects of 
the intense smoke for some days. 

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Gurney Edwards and Mrs. Ed- 
wards, together with their young son, 
are now living at 21 Arlington Ave., 
Providence. 

Dr. Herman A. Winkler is oc- 
cupying his new office at 224 Thayer 
Street, Providence. 

Chauncey T. Langdon, according 
to the Providence Journal of June 13, 
has proved his eligibility "for ap- 
pointment by the Department of 
Commerce as an assistant trade com- 
missioner" and has had offered him 
the choice of Buenos Aires, Argen- 
tine, or Bogota, Colombia, as his first 
post. 

Tom Taylor is the new secretary of 
the class, and Johnny Kilton is the 
new treasurer. If you have any news, 
or troubles, or such, you can reach 
Tom by addressing him as Thomas 
W. Taylor, Athletic Office, Brown 
University, Providence, R. I. 

W. E. Jackson, collaborating with 
F. G. Kear, had a paper in the Pro- 
ceedings of the Institute of Radio En- 
gineers, December, 1929, entitled 
"Applying the Radio Range to the 
Airways." Bill is a radio engineer 
with the Airways Division, Depart- 
ment of Commerce, Washington. 

1919 

Dr. George C. Ames is practicing 
medicine in Hollis, N. Y., where he 
has his office at 184-02 89th Avenue. 
Ames received his M. D., at Belle- 
vue Medical College in 1924. 

Malcolm C. Brown is a certified 
public accountant with Naramore & 
Niles, Lincoln-Alliance Bank Build- 
ing, Rochester, N. Y., and lives at 79 
Hazelwood Terrace, Rochester. 

1920 

George W. Grim, Jr., had to find 
a substitute to run the Police Court 
in East Orange, N. J., while he was 
at the Tenth Reunion. George is 
also a member of the Abell Commis- 
sion, which is investigating the New 
Jersey State Government. 

Dutee J. Hall, formerly with the 
Postal Telegraph-Cable Company, is 
a resident manager of Henderson & 
Co., Inc., correspondents of Shaw, 
Loomis & Sayles, investments, of Bos- 
ton and New York, with his offices 
at 44 Vernon Street, Springfield, 
Mass. He and his family are liv- 
ing on Windsor Place, Longmeadow, 
Mass. 



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Frank T. Meyer and Arnold E. 
Lindstrom are managing the new 
amusement pavilion at Bemus Point, 
N. Y. The building, one of the finest 
in New York State, we are told, will 
eventually be turned over to the vil- 
lage of Bemus Point. Meantime the 
present managers are arranging spe- 
cial programs and signing nationally 
known orchestras for the current sea- 
son. 

R. B. Lindsay, who is coming to 
Brown next fall as Associate Profes- 
sor of Physics, will live at 71 Vassar 
Avenue, he reports. 

1921 

George P. Macready is a member 
of Jessie Bonstelle's stock company in 
Detroit, Mich., and is doing excel- 
lent work in character parts. 

H. E. Switzgable writes that his 
new address is in care of the Union 
Metal Co., Inc., P. O. Box 127, Lin- 
den, N. J. 

Dr. Maurice M. Pike is associated 
with Drs. Paul P. Swett and S. H. 
McPherson at 179 Allyn Street, 
Hartford, Conn., in the practice of 
orthopedic surgery. Pike's engage- 
ment is announced in another column. 

1922 

Walter M. Daniels has shifted 
from Boston to New York, where 
he is a copy reader on the foreign 
desk in the editorial rooms of the 
New York Times. 

Lawrence Whitcomb has received 
his Ph. D. in geology at Princeton 
and next fall will be a member of 
the Department of Geology at Le- 
high University, Bethlehem, Pa. 

R. B. Macdougall reports his new 
address as 29 Dover Road, Wellesley, 
Mass. He has resigned from the 
English Department at Brown and 
we, for one, are mighty sorry to see 
him go. 

George E. Shattuck will be acting 
principal of the Darien, Conn., High 
School for the school year 1930-31. 
Shattuck has been assistant principal 
for the last two years. 

1923 

Don Rubel has joined the staff of 
the Philadelphia National Company, 
investments, 1416 Chestnut Street, 
Philadelphia. Don says he likes his 
new associations very much. 

Harold L. Summerfield is a law- 



yer in the offices of Maloney, Woos- 
ter & Whiteside, i LaSalle Street 
Building, Chicago. 

W. C. Worthington, editor of the 
special literary page of the Provi- 
dence Journal and also the motion 
picture reviewer for the same news- 
paper, is in Europe for the summer. 
He sailed on June 21 with Profes- 
sor and Mrs. B. C. Clough. 

1924 

G. W. Bennett was graduated cum 
laude from the Law Department of 
Denver University on June 4. He 
expects to begin practice in Colorado 
Springs, Colo., ne.vt September. 

George M. Cravener confirms the 
report that he is practicing law in 
Youngstown, O. His office in that 
city is at 1106 Realty Building, and 
he lives at 850 Fifth Avenue. 

Miles (Micky) Webb bobs up af- 
ter a long period of silence with the 
announcement that he is still in the 
dairy business as a partner of his 
father at West Brookfield, Mass., 
and that he was married June 25, 
1927, to Gertrude L. Higgins. 

Bob Soellner, who is with the Con- 
necticut ' General Life Insurance 
Company, in Detroit, was in town at 
Commencement time and was a vis- 
itor at the Alumni Office. He was 
feeling as fine, he admitted, as he 
looked, and he wanted to hear all the 
latest news of Brown. 

1925 

Henry Welch received his Ph. D. 
in hygiene and bacteriolog>' from 
Western Reserve University, Cleve- 
land, O., on June 12. 

Evan Fellman was all set to come 
to the Fifth Reunion when he had 
orders to pack his bag for a business 
trip to Panama. "I certainly regret 
not being on hand to see all of the 
old boys again," he said in a letter 
telling of his change in plans. Evan 
is with the E. L. Bruce Co., Mem- 
phis, Tenn. 

Harry Hoffman, bright and smil- 
ing, looked in at the Alumni Office 
during his visit to the Hill at Com- 
mencement. Harry has taken off 
weight, but he says that he is keep- 
ing in shape by playing ball and 
working hard and cheerfully at the 
Society for Savings, Cleveland. Pat 
Sayward was also a visitor, and we 
are sorry that we missed seeing him. 

45 



W. E. Chalmers, who has been 
teaching economics at the University 
of Pittsburgh, has resigned and will 
return to the University of Wiscon- 
sin. 

Henry H. Macintosh is manager of 
the East Side Branch of the Rhode 
Island Hospital Trust Company, 
Providence. He has been connected 
with the branch at the corner of An- 
gell and Thayer Streets, since its 
opening in 1927. 

1926 

Ed Howarth asks us please to note 
that his new address is 311 Ashby 
Road, Upper Darby, Pa. 

Percy F. Smith, who has been at 
St. Paul's School, Garden Cit>', N. 
Y., for the past year, will teach next 
fall in the Buckley School, 120-122 
East 74th Street, New York. During 
the past spring he coached the track 
team at St. Paul's. His engagement 
is reported in another column. 

Edwin O. Halpert has opened an 
office for the practice of law in as- 
sociation with Frank H. Bellin, 924 
Hospital Trust Bldg., Providence. 

James M. Hunter, member of the 
class in our Freshman year, is in 
charge of the leasing department of 
the Childs Company, restaurants and 
real estate. New York. His office is 
at 421 Seventh Avenue. 

Frank C. Fowler, Assistant Pro- 
fessor of Dramatics at the University 
of Kentucky, represented Brown at 
the 150th anniversary celebration of 
Transyhania College, Lexington, 
Ky., June I to 4. 

George Howe's new address is 1347 
Highland Avenue, Columbus, O. 

Wendell A. Kaufer has won his de- 
gree in journalism at the Boston Uni- 
versity School of Journalism and ex- 
pects to go into active newspaper 
work. He has been a member of the 
staff of the Boston University News 
for two years. 

1927 

George Fessenden is on the sales 
staff of the Petroleum Heat & Power 
Co., 32 Franklin Street, Providence. 

John B. Pastore, who is studying 
medicine at the Johns Hopkins Med- 
ical School, is a clinical assistant this 
summer at the Rhode Island State 
Hospital for Mental Diseases. 

E. W. Blanchard received his Ph. 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



D. from Princeton in June and next 
fall will be Assistant Professor of 
Physiolog}' at the University of Mary- 
land. 

F. B. (Fritz) Wiener, Paul 
O'Brien, E. T. (Ed) Richards, Isa^ 
dore Korn and Edmund Wexler were 
among the members of the class to 
win their LL. B.'s at Harvard last 
month. Wiener continued the brilliant 
record he made at Brown by gradu- 
ating near the head of the class and 
being a member of the board of the 
Harvard Law Review. He gave one 
of the Commencement orations. 

W. C. Chandler is an engineering 
assistant with the New York Tele- 
phone Company in the Long Island 
area. He writes that his new house 
address is 31 Pierrepont Street, 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 

George E. Parker is in the Group 
Department, Equitable Life Assur- 
ance Society, at 393 Seventh Avenue, 
New York. 

Jimmy Graham is working for F. 
B. Keech & Company, brokers, at 10 



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SURPLUS 2,500,000 

Main Office — 20 Westminster St. 
Branch — Comer Empire and Washington Sts. 



Moses J. Barber, Chairman of the Board 
Thomas L. Pierce, President 
Earl G. Batty, Vice President and Cashier 
Frank L. Sawyer, Assistant Cashier 
George A. Freeman, Assistant Cashier 
Charles L. Eddy, Assistant Cashier 
Henry H. Eddy, Assistant Cashier 



Directors 



Charles H. Newell 
William B. McBee 
Richard S. Aldrich 
William Gammell, Jr. 
John B. Lewis 
Moses J. Barber 
Paul C. DeWolf 
Frank E. Richmond 
Frederick T. Moses 



Edward P. Jastram 
Earl G. Batty 
A. Livingston Kelley 
Wilson G. Wing 
John Nicholas Brown 
Thomas L. Pierce 
Lauriston H. Hazard 
William L. Sweet 



Weybosset Street, Providence, and is 
living at 4 Belmont Street, Paw- 
tucket. 

1928 

Roy, alias Red, Randall, for the 
past two years assistant football coach 
at the University of Virginia, will be- 
come director of all first year athletics 
at Virginia next fall. Red's big job 
will be to bring as many students as 
possible into competition. 

Frank E. Strong will teach math- 
ematics in the Plainville, Conn., 
schools next September. 

H. Gordon Minnigerode is a Vice 
Consul of the United States at pres- 
ent assigned to duty at the Consulate 
General, Montreal, Canada. 

Samuel H. Bryant, former mem- 
ber of the class, was graduated last 
month from the Designers Art School 
in Boston. Bryant, the son of Charles 
E. Bryant, '01, has already done some 
promising work in marine painting, 
both in oil and water color. 

W. S. Litterick, who received his 
master's degree at Brown last month, 
will teach mathematics at the Peddie 
School, Hightstown, N. J., in the fall. 

1929 

Ted Giddings is carrying out his 
pronounced ambition to be a newspa- 
per man by working as a reporter on 
the Berkshire Evening Eagle, Pitts- 
field, Mass. 

They tell us at the Alumni Office 
that Eric Wendelin was the first 
member of the class to send in his 
contribution to the Loj'alty Fund. 
Now then, a little more of Eric's 
spirit and speed, and we'll soon make 
a good showing in the Fund, the idea 
of which is a fine one, as most of us 
will agree. 

Russell T. Swanson's death in Fall 
River, Mass., on May 20, 1930, fol- 
lowed an operation for acute appen- 
dicitis. Russell came to Brown from 
the Peck High School, Barrington, 
and took the pre-medical course with 
the intention of entering the College 
of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia 
University. But funds were lacking, 
and he decided to work for a year or 
two before trying to fulfill his ambi- 
tions to be a doctor. He was in the 
employ of the Brown & Sharpe Mfg. 
Co., Providence, at the time of his 
death. James H. Hurley and James 

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Fisk represented the class at the fu- 
neral. Our sympathy is extended to 
Russ's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver 
Swanson, and to his brother Dr. T. 
O. Swanson. 

George Schlegel, who left College 
in February and who got his degree 
with the class last month, wrote not 
long ago that he was with the Inter- 
national Telephone & Telegraph Cor- 
poration, 67 Broad Street, New York. 

W. C. Foster, Jr., who has been 
doing graduate work at the Univer- 
sity the past year, will become an in- 
structor in biology at Morehouse Col- 
lege, Atlanta, Ga., next September. 

Johnny Dreasen wrote that he 
wanted to come back for Commence- 
ment but that business prevented. He 
is director of the Camp Division of 
the Children's Aid; Society, which 
operates the Bowdoin Memorial Farm 
at New Hamburg, N. Y. 

C. C. Greene, Jr., won his A. M. 
in the classics at Princeton last month. 

The following men of the class 
were with the Bell System on Oct. I, 
1929, according to a list furnished 
us through the courtesy of Wayne E. 
Keith, director of college relations for 
the New England Telephone and 
Telegraph Company : Carlton, 
Church, Crawford, W. C. Fisher, 
Haggerty, Horn, Mahoney, Najar, 
R. B. Perkins, Pomeroy, Thompson 
and H. D. Wilson, Jr. 

W. C. Foster, Jr., who has been 
doing advanced work in biology at 
Brown the past year, will teach that 
subject at Morehouse College, At- 
lanta, Ga., next fall. 



Engagements 

Miss Pearle White Cramer, daugh- 
ter of Mrs. Lillie B. Cramer of New 
Britain, Conn., to Dr. Maurice M. 
Pike, '21, of Hartford, Conn. 

Miss Marjorie Soule, daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. Howard W. Soule of 
Passaic, N. J., to William B. Wid- 
nall, '26, of Hackensack, N. J. 

Miss Alice C. Hill of Brookline, 
Mass., to Percy F. Smith, '26, of 
Garden City, N. Y. Miss Hill is a 
graduate of Wellesley College. 

Miss Helen Hammond, daughter 
of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar H. Ham- 
mond of Providence, to Willoughby 




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Whe:^ you order a telephone, you want it put in 
promptly. During the last five years the average length 
of time needed to have a telephone installed has been 
cut nearly in half. 

You want quick and accurate service, free from 
trouble. Good as the service was five years ago, today 
there are a third less troubles per telephone. During 
this same period there have been marked increases in 
the already high percentage of perfectly transmitted 
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When you make a toll call, you want a prompt, clear 
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son remained at the telephone. Today all but a 
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improved serv^ice. Several thousand persons in the 
Bell Laboratories are engaged in research that im- 
proves the material means of telephony. The Western 
Electric Company, with plants at Chicago, Kearny,N. J., 
and Baltimore, specializes in the manufacture of pre- 
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Itl. Cady, '27, of Middletown, Conn. 
Miss Marguerite Harriet Tracy, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John B. 
Tracy of Taunton, Mass., to John 
M. McGregor, '27, of Providence. 
Miss Tracy was graduated from Bos- 
ton University Law School last 
month. 



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Miss Martha Wysard, daughter of 
Mrs. Elizabeth S. Wysard of Yon- 
kers, N. Y., to Francis D. Campbell, 
'27, of Cortland, N. Y. 

Miss Helen Woods, daughter of 
Professor and Mrs. Frederick S. 
Woods of Newton Centre, ]\Liss., to 
Charles J. Brown, '27n, of Newton 
Highlands. 

Miss Barbara Cook, daughter of 
Raymond C. Cook, '95, and Mrs. 
Cook of Evanston, 111., to Adin B. 
Capron, '28, son of John M. Capron 
'00, and Mrs. Capron of Mount Ver- 
non, O. 

Miss Doris Mae Singleton, daugh- 
ter of Harry E. Singleton, to Charles 
H. Arnold, '28, of Rehoboth, Mass. 

Miss Louisa Glen Partington. 
Pembroke, '28, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Abel C. Partington of Pawtuck- 
et, to James J. Fanale, '28, of Lodi, 
New Jersey. 

Miss Evelyn Beveridge, daughter 
of Mr. and Mrs. Frank S. Beveridge 
of Hartford, Conn., to Philip Cas- 
well, '28, of Newport, R. I. 

Miss Jean Stedham, daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Stedham of San 
Antonio, Te.x., to Paul Waterman, 
'29, of Providence. 

Miss Miria Frances Whitten, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George B. 
Whitten of West Newton, Mass., to 
John S. Collier, '29, of Providencf 
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1890 — Rev. Albert E. Kingsley 
and Mrs. Annie Cobb Smith were 
married in Saco, Me., on May 11, 
1930. They are at home at 68 Deer- 
ing Street, Portland, Me. 

1897 — Arthur M. Allen and Miss 
Martha Baird of New York and Lon- 
don were married in New York on 
May 20, 1930, Everett Colby, '97, 
was best man. Mr. and Mrs. Allen 
are at home at 184 Upton Avenue, 
Providence. 

1913 — Leonard W. Smith and 
Miss Phebe Elizabeth Holmes, daugh- 
ter of Mrs. Stephen E. Holmes of 
Glastonbury, Conn., were married in 
Hadlyme, Conn., on June 21, 1930. 
They are living in Bridgeport. Conn. 

1920 — John A. McGhee, Jr., and 
Miss Helen Glines, daughter of 
Brigadier General and Mrs. Charles 
T. Glines, were married in Provi- 
dence on May 28, 1930. Alan N. 
MacDougall, '20, was best man. 

1922 — Harold W. Pearce and 
Miss Dorothea Chase, daughter of Ju- 
lian D. Chase of Edgewood, R. I., 
were married in Providence on June 
3, 1929. Julian D. Chase, Jr., '29n, 
and Alfred Mochau, '21, were ushers. 
Mr. and Mrs. Pearce will occupy 
their new house at Nayatt Point, R. I. 
in the fall. 

1922 — Horace B. Pray and Miss 
Hope Rawson, '24, advanced, were 
married in Providence on June 14. 
1930. Mrs. Pray is the daughter of 
the late Henry G. H. Rawson and 
Mrs. Rawson, of Providence. The 
Prays are now at home at 439 Geddes 
Street, Wilmington, Del. 

1923 — Elmer Roy Joslyn and Miss 
Mollie Adams, daughter of Charles 
R. Adams, '80, and Mrs. Adams, 
were married in Chestnut Hill, Mass., 
on June 7, 1930. Robert P. Adams, 
'23, brother of the bride, was best 
man. Mr. and Mrs. Joslyn are at 
home at 6239 Rosebury Street, St. 
Louis, Mo. 

1923 — Edward H. Hewitson and 
Miss Ellen M. Shaw, daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. Walter R. Shaw, were 
married in Rochester, N. Y., on June 
14, 1930. They will make their home 
in Rochester. 

1924 — Hilton St. John Barry and 
Miss Alice Gregory Taylor, daugh- 



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ter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Worth- 
ington Taylor, were married in New- 
ark, N. J., on May lo, 1930. After 
July 15 they will be at home at 
Woods End Road, West Orange, 
N.J. 

I924n — Robert E. FitzGibbon and 
Miss Katherine D. Conville, daugh- 
ter of Mr. and Mrs. William T. Con- 
ville, were married in New York on 
June 3, 1930. They will make their 
home at 12 12 Fifth Avenue, New 
York. 

1925 — John E. Femberton and 
Miss Evelyn Manton Angell, daugh- 
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond D. 
Angell, were married in Riverside, R. 
L, on May 10, 1930. They are living 
at 27 Hawes Street, Pawtucket. 

1925 — Raymond B. Anthony and 
Miss Kathleen Mason Haff, daugh- 
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Willard Haff, 
were married in Newton Highlands, 
Mass., on June 21, 1930. They will 
be at home after Oct. i at 40 Colum- 
bus Street, Newton Highlands. 

1926 — Robert C. Knox and Miss 
Barbara A. Powers, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. James C. Powers, were 
married in Providence on June 14. 
1930. Ernest S. Brown, '27, was best 
man. After Oct. i, Mr. and Mrs. 
Knox will live at 158 University Ave- 
nue, Providence. 

1926 — Calef M. Burbank and 
Miss Miriam E. Dean, daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. Mortimer B. Dean, 
were married in Taunton, Mass., on 
June 16, 1930. The ceremony was 
performed by the Rev. W. Douglas 
Swaf field, '06. Mr. and Mrs. Bur- 
bank will live at 291 Auburn Street, 
Auburn, R. L 

1926 — Edward Kip Chace and 
Miss Evangeline Avery Tucker, Pem- 
broke, '29n, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Avery Tucker of Harrisburg 
Pa., were married on May 10, 1930 
They are living at 27 North Main 
Street, Northfield, Vt., where Chace 
is an instructor in English in charge 
of the courses in journalism at Nor- 
wich University. 

1927 — The marriage has been an- 
nounced of Jasper S. Costa to Miss 
Clarice jXIapes Brown, niece of Mr. 
and Mrs. Daniel Colfax Brown, on 
June 10, 1930. 

1928 — Robert A. Evans and Miss 
Eleanor Rich, daughter of Mr. and 



Mrs. Herman Samuel Rich, were 
married in Providence on June 14, 
1930. The ushers included Nelson B. 
Jones, '28, John G. Getz, Jr., '28, 
Thomas F. Peterson, Jr., '28, J. Rob- 
ert Andrews '28, F. Eugene Cheese- 
man, Jr., '28, and Allen L. Simmons, 
'29. 

1928 — John Richard Campbell and 
Miss Dorothy Ingalls Sumner, daugh- 
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard E. 
Sumner, were married in Worcester, 
Mass., on June 14, 1930. Jack Drys- 
dale, '28, was best man. Mrs. Camp- 
bell's father is a graduate in the class 
of 1894. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell 
will live in Providence. 

1928 — Miss Kate Morgan Brook- 
field, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Frank Brookfield, and Watson Wyck- 
off, '28, son of the late Walter C. 
Wyckoff, '95, and Mrs. Wyckoff. 
were married in New York on June 5, 
1930. James U. Fogle, Jr., '27, was 
best man and Ralph W. Guild, '27, 
and Adin M. Capron, '28, were ush- 
ers. Mr. and Mrs. Wyckoff will live 
in New York. 

1928 — Loring P. Litchfield and 
Miss Helen Quirk, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Fred Quirk, were mar- 
ried in Providence on June 9, 1930. 
E. Leo Barry, the Brown swimming 
coach, was best man. Mr. and Mrs. 
Litchfield will live at 550 Maple Ave. 
Woodbridge, N. J. 

i928n — Donald B. Hart and Miss 
Ann Wentworth Avers, daughter of 
Professor and Mrs. Harry Morgari 
Ayers, were married in Westport, 
Conn., on May 31, 1930. E. Edger- 
ton Hart, '28, was best man. 

I929n — Lawrence W. Prior and 
Miss Mazie Evangeline Blair, daugh- 
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Blair, 
were married in Providence on June 
9, 1930. John C. Prior, '26, was best 
man. Mr. and Mrs. Prior are living 
at 51 Vassar Avenue, Providence. 

Births 

1913 — To Professor and Mrs. An- 
drew H. MacPhail of Providence, a 
daughter, Nancy Jean, on IV Lay 27, 
1930. 

191 5— To Mr. and Mrs. Ralph B. 
Graham of Belmont, Mass., a son, 
David, on June 7, 1930. 

1915 — To Mr. and Mrs. John S. 
Roney of Cleveland, O., a daughter, 
Catharine Hoyt, on June 5, 1930. 
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191 7n — To Mr. and Mrs. Maur- 
ice W. Holton of Edgewood, R. L, 
a son, Maurice Asa, on June 12, 1930. 

1918— To Mr. and Mrs. Harleigh 
V. S. Tingley of Bristol, R. L, a son 
on April 17, 1930. 

1921 — To Mr. and Mrs. Marshall 
H. Cannell of Providence, a son, 
Marshall Hopewell Cannell, Jr., on 
June 2, 1930. 



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192 in — -To Mr. and Mrs. Ernest 
D. Dawson of Philadelphia, Pa., a 
daughter, Joan MacLeod, on April 
19, 1930. 

1922 — To Mr. and Mrs. Edward 
W. Day of Auburn, R. L, a son, Ed- 
ward W. Day, Jr., on May 2, 1930. 

1924 — To Dr. and Mrs. Robert 
A. Goodell of Hartford, Conn., a son, 
Robert Alvan Goodell, 2nd, on May 
7, 1930. 

1924— To Dr. and Mrs. A. V. 
Migliaccio of Providence, a daughter, 
Loretta Agnes, on Feb. 27, 1930. 

1925— To Mr. and Mrs. Alfred 
Elson, Jr., of Pawtucket, R. L, a son. 
Frederic Converse, on May 27, I930' 

1926 — To Mr. and Mrs. Clarence 
F. Andrews of North Haven, Conn., 
a son, Graham Davenport, on April 
28, 1930. 

1926 — To Mr. and Mrs. Emery 
/S. Danzell. Jr., of Providence, a son, 
Emery B. Danzell, 3d, on May 21, 
1930. 

1927 — To Mr. and Mrs. W. Ken- 
yon Glor of Cleveland, O., a son, 
Harvey Kenyon, on May 18, 1930. 

I928n— To Mr. and Mrs. Wil- 
liam R. Powers, 2nd, of Providence, 
a daughter, Meredith Russell, on 
May 12, 1930. 



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Alumnae Clubs 

The Brown Alumnae Club of Bos- 
ton held its annual meeting at the 
home of Emma McKenna Cronin at 
Watertown. Miss Marjorie W. 
Shaw, the secretary, writes: "A de- 
lightful lunch preceded the meeting 
and an equally delightful concert, fur- 
nished by friends of Mrs. Cronin, fol- 
lowed it. The following officers 
were chosen for next year : President, 
Mildred Bishop Galloway, '12; vice 
president, Beatrice Rayment Tetlow, 
'18; secretary-treasurer, Marjorie W. 
Shaw; corresponding secretary, Eliz- 
abeth L. Mayo, '09; executive board, 
Lydia Fletcher, '25, and Lucy Burn- 
ham Seward, '27; and chairman of 
activities, Sylvia Berkman, '28. Not 
content to merely enjoy life, the as- 
sociation gave a bridge in May and 
made $88 for the purpose of starting 
a student fund." 

The Brown Alumnae Club of 
Cleveland closed its season with a 
luncheon ineeting at the home of 
Helen MacNaught Metzger, '23. 
Although the club has been greatly 
handicapped this year because so many 
of its members have moved to other 
cities, it has held very delightful in- 
formal meetings, and hopes to aug- 
ment its numbers next year. The 
corresponding secretary of the club 
would be glad to hear from any 
Brown alumnae who are to be in or 
near Cleveland. Kindly address your 
communications to Mrs. Kern Metz- 
ger, 2109 Stillman Road, Cleveland 
Heights, Ohio. 

The spring meeting of the Brown 
Alumnae Club of Connecticut Valley 
was held at the home of Mrs. Linda 
Richardson Stoughton, '97, who en- 
tertained her guests at luncheon on 
^Lay 24th. At the business meeting 
which followed, the officers elected 
for the coming year are : President, 
Mrs. Stoughton ; vice president, Han- 
nah Nicholson Benson, '11; secretary- 
treasurer, Dorothy Bundy Healey, 
'24; members of the executive com- 
50 



mittee, Grace C. Cary, '96 and Eliz- 
abeth de W. Root, '17; chairman of 
social committee, Elizabeth Ross Nel- 
son, '19, and chairman of membership 
committee, Mary Adams Hall, '07. 

The Brown Alumnae Club of New 
York held its annual meeting at the 
Hotel Wentworth in New ^'ork in 
May and elected the following offi- 
cers: President, Dorothy Stafford 
Huss, '26; vice president, ALabel 
Middleton Davis, '18; recording sec- 
retary and treasurer, Margery Adams, 
'28 ; corresponding secretary, Virginia 
Wright, '28 ; corresponding secretary 
for New Jersey, Kathryn Verlenden, 
'27 ; alumnae representative, Marie 
Goulett, '20. 

On May loth Hannah Benson Al- 
len, '99, ■entertained the Brown Alum- 
nae Club of Pennsylvania at her 
home "Robinwood" in Moorestown, 
N. J. A luncheon was served and the 
club later explored the beautiful 
grounds of her estate instead of hold- 
ing the usual business meeting. The 
officers for this year will serve next 
5'ear as well. 

Josephine Sackett Johansson, '09, 
entertained the members of the Brown 
Alumnae Club of Pittsburgh at her 
home in Edgewood, Pa., on May 
9th. Miss Mary McDonough, the 
secretary, writes: "This meeting, if 
possible, surpassed even the first in en- 
thusiasm." The followingof ficerswere 
elected : President, Josephine Sackett 
Johansson, '09 ; vice president, Rebec- 
ca Snow Tourtellot, '16; correspond- 
ing secretary. Miss Dorothea Brooks, 
'24; recording secretary and treasurer, 
Miss Mary McDonough, '29; execu- 
tive board, Helen Smith Bender, '25, 
Ruth Vinton Chaliuers, '24, and Lois 
Wilbur, '21. 

The Brown Alumnae Club of 
Providence held its annual meeting 
in Alumnae Hall on June 2nd. It 
was preceded by a dinner which taxed 
the capacity of the Dean's dining 
room and of the Early American 
room. Mrs. Ethel Robinson Heck- 
man, who was elected president last 
year, will serve another year. The 



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officers elected at the annual meeting 
are: Vice president, Alice Duck- 
worth, 'i4n; Irma Gyllenburg Cull, 
'09 ; two members at large, Helen 
Thayer Paxton, '22, and Karoline L. 
Thayer, '28. This year the club has 
had 106 members. 

The Brown Alumnae of South- 
ern New England, including Taun- 
ton, Fall River and New Bedford, 
were entertained by Irene Nelson 
Marvel, '11, at a tea at her home on 
May 24th. Emma B. Stanton, '96, 
and Gertrude Allen McConnell, '10, 
brought news of the College and of 
the Alumnae Association. The group 
expects to take definite steps toward 
organization at an outing which is to 
be held at the home of Mabel L. Pot- 
ter, '97, in Fairhaven on July loth. 
All Southern New England Alumnae 
are invited. For details write to the 
Alumnae Office. 

The Brown Alumnae Club of 
Washington was entertained at the 
home of Doris Heaton at a tea given 
in honor of Miss Morriss on June ist. 



Faculty 



Dean Margaret S. Morriss repre- 
sented Pembroke College at the recent 
inauguration of Dr. Katharine Blunt 
as President of the Connecticut Col- 
lege for Women. 

Miss Eva A. Mooar, Director of 
Admissions and Personnel, recently 
spoke on "The College Behind the 
Freshman" to an audience composed 
largely of the juniors and seniors of 
the Gilbert and Torrington high 
schools in Winsted, Conn. The occa- 
sion was sponsored by the Litchfield 
County College Women's Club. On 
May 28th Miss Mooar sailed to 
spend two months in England, 



Engagements 

1921 — Sarah Ann Hill to Vincent 
A. D'Atri, Boston University Law 
School, '22. 

1 92 1— Mary G. O'Neil to Dr. 
Charles Henry Casey, University of 
Maryland, '13. 

1924 — Lois Elizabeth Munroe to 



Merle D. Chamberlain, Northwest- 
ern University. 

1927 — Miriam Ware to M. C. 
Hoffmann, University of Kansas, '26. 



Weddings 



1921 — Sarah Ann Hill was mar- 
ried to Vincent A. D'Atri, B. U. Law- 
School, '22, on July 2nd in Provi- 
dence, R. I. 

1921 — Mary G. O'Neil was mar- 
ried to Dr. Charles Henry Casey, U. 
of Maryland, '13, on June 2ist. Mr. 
and Mrs. Casey are living at 21 Lo- 
tus Place, Providence, R. I. 

1927 — Sadiean Gladding is mar- 
ried to A. A. Gaucher. Mr. and 
Mrs. Gaucher are living at 338 Pleas- 
ant Street, New Bedford, Mass. 

1927 — Anna Wunsch is married to 
Morris Cohen. Her new address is 
264 Fourth Street, Providence, R. I. 

I928n — Theodate Booker Mos- 
grove was married to Elmer G. Eric- 
son, '25, on March 27th in New Ha- 
ven, Conn. Mr. and Mrs. Ericson 
are living at 230 Meriden Road, 
Waterbury, Conn. 

1928 — -Ruth Paine was married to 
Walter N. Carlson on January 30, 
1930. They are living at 85 Eleventh 
Street, Providence, R. I. 



1929 — Dorothy I. Sumner was 
married to John Richard Campbell, 
'28, at All Saints Church in Worces- 
ter on June 14th, by Bishop Henry 
W. Hobson. Mrs. Campbell was at- 
tended by Virginia M. Paine, '30. 
For the next few months, Mr. and 
Mrs. Campbell are making their 
home at 30 Irving Street, Cambridge, 
Mass. 

1929 — ^Dorothea B. Taudvin is 
married to Douglas H. Borden. Their 
home is at 77 Tenth Street, Provi- 
dence, R. I. 

Births 

191 1 — To Mr. and Mrs. Harold 
S. Bird (Lida Bassett), a daughter, 
Nancy, on June I, 1930. 

1922 — To Mr. and Mrs. Dutee 
J. Hall (Leota Lyon), a daughter, 
Nancy Tomlinson, on April 4, 1930. 

Deaths 

1918 — Lillian Catherine Dow 
Botsford, wife of Professor Jay Bar- 
rett Botsford, died on May 8, 1930, 
in Los Angeles, Calif., where she had 
gone for special treatment. Mrs. 
Botsford was the daughter of Robert 
Dow and Marion (Boyd) Dow and 




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was a graduate of the Pawtucket 
High School and received both her 
A. B. and A. M. degrees at Brown. 
Before her marriage she was an assist- 
ant in the history department at 
Brown, was a volunteer worker for 
the food administration, and was 

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tucket Y. W. C. A. At the loth anni- 
versary of her class in 1928 she was 
elected president to serve for five 
years. Mrs. Botsford is survived by 
her parents, by her husband, and by 
two children, a son, Robert Malcolm, 
and a daughter, Marjorie Elizabeth. 
1928 — Elsie Sherrington Sowter, 
wife of Charles W. Sowter, died sud- 
denly in Fall River, Mass., on June 
I, 1930, after the birth of her son, 
Miles Sherrington Sowter. Mrs. 
Sowter was the daughter of Miles 
Sherrington and Mary (Bradbury) 
Sherrington, and was born in Fall 
River, Mass. She prepared for col- 
lege at the B. M. C. Durfee High 
School. Mrs. Sowter was prominent 
in athletics, in Komians, and was a 
member of Phi Beta Kappa. Upon 
graduation from college she taught 
for a year in North Craftbury, Ver- 
mont. She was married to Mr. Sow- 
ter on July 19, 1929, and they made 
their home in Fall River. 

Notes 

1908 — Nell Evans Lounsbury 
(Mrs. Walter F.) is visiting in 
Wales. 

1909 — Dr. May Hall James, in 
addition to teaching in the Sarah 
Lawrence Junior College at Bronx- 
ville, N. Y., has been lecturing in var- 
ious cities. Addresses have recently 
been given on "Post-War Germany's 
Plan of Education for a Democracy" 
and "Adolescence and Progressive 
Education." 

1910 — Mary Suffa represented 
Brown University at the recent cele- 
bration of Elmira College's seventy- 
fifth anniversary. 

19 II — Lila Crape has just accepted 
the position of sportswear buyer 
for John Wanamaker's in Philadel- 
phia. Her address there is The Col- 
lege Club, 1300 Spruce Street. 

1914 — Hermione Dealey Dvorak 
(Mrs. August) besides being the 
mother of two children, has been do- 
ing extension lecturing throughout the 
year for the University of Washing- 
ton. Last year she and her husband, 
in connection with the summer school 
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at the University of Washington, 
started the first Nursery School in 
the State of Washington, with an at- 
tendance of 60 children between the 
ages of two and six. This summer, 
as last, she will teach full time, giv- 
ing two courses in the School of Edu- 
cation, namely "The Life and 
Growth of the Preschool Child" and 
"Exceptional Children." Her two 
daughters, aged five and six, attending 
the University Nursery School, are 
getting an early start in university 
education. 

19 1 8 — Dorothy Allan wrote a 
Christmas play which was presented 
at Hope Street High School and is be- 
ing published by Walter Baker and 
Company. 

1 92 1 — Fannie Smith Bawley 
(Mrs. Lazare) is in Telavio, Pales- 
tine. 

1921 — Margaret Ross Gill (Mrs. 
Lake S.) has moved to 550 Forest 
Avenue, Palo Alto, Calif. 

1922 — Leota Lyon Hall (Mrs. 
Dutee J.) has moved from Merion, 
Pa., to 43 Richardson Street, Bridge- 
port, Conn. 

1925 — Hannah Pickets Carson 
(Mrs. Harold J.) has moved from 
Hartford to 2401 Soniat Street, New 
Orleans, La. 

1927 — Hope Kane received her 
Ph. D. from Brown this year. 

1927 — Marjorie Sidelinger re- 
ceived her A. M. in history at Brown 
this year. She has accepted a position 
to teach history in the Murdock High 
School in Winchendon, Mass. 

1928 — Althea Page received her 
A. M. from Brown and is to be an 
assistant in the Geology Department 
at the University of Vermont. 

1930 — Constance Candee is to be 
an assistant in geology at Brown next 
year and will do graduate work. 

1930 — Verna Follett is to do grad- 
uate work in psychology at Brown. 

1930 — Honor McCusker is to do 
graduate work at Bryn Mawr. 

1930 — Mildred Starkweather ex- 
pects to attend the Yale School of 
Dramatics. 

1930 — Alice Walter is to do grad- 
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