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BROWN 

ALUMNI 
MONTHLY 



JANUARY, 1936 
Vol. XXXVI No. 6 



In This Issue 

Page 
Alumni Hopes for Brown's Next President . . . .135 

Setting Up the University Council 137 

"Ten Nights in a Bar Room" 133 

Yachting: Practical Proposition or Forlorn Hope . .140 

Sports Indoors: the Season Starts 143 

Greek Haul: Fraternities and Pledges 145 

News of Brunonians Far and Near 149 



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Vol. XXXVI 



PROVIDENCE, R. I., JANUARY, 1936 



No. 6 



Alumni Hopes for Brown^s Next President 



WHAT qualifications are desirable for the presidency 
of Brown University? What sort of a man is best 
fitted for this responsible post in the critical years 
that lie ahead? Should he be young? Should he be a "money- 
getter"? Should he be an alumnus? What should be his 
background, his philosophy, his personality? 

It was a large order given last June when a committee of 
alumni was appointed by the Executive Committee of the 
Associated Alumni to state the qualifications desired in the 
next President of Brown University. 

But its statement is complete after a series of meetings and 
much correspondence, and all members of the committee are 
signatory to the document as presented to the Executive 
Committee last month by Ivory Littlefield '09, chairman of 
the "Qualifications Committee". Accepted by the Executive 
Committee, the report has been sent to the Secretary of the 
Brown University Corporation, with copies put in the hands 
of each member of the Committee of the Corporation on 
nominations for President. 

Friends of Brown will find the report rich in interest, and 
the Alumni Monthly is grateful for the opportunity to 
print it in full : 



To the Executive Committee of the Associated Alumni: — 

LOOKING ahead to his retirement, Dr. Barbour, as early as 
last February, expressed the hope that the University 
would choose his successor far enough in advance so that the 
action might be "free from opportunism." The Corpora- 
tion has named a committee from its membership to nom- 
inate the future President of Brown. That committee has 
invited the Alumni to suggest to it the names of any persons 
who qualify for that high responsibility. 

The Executive Committee of the Associated Alumni in 
June, 19 J5, instructed its President to appoint a committee 
which should state the ideas of the Alumni upon the quali- 
fications for the next President of Brown. This step was in 
part a recognition of the fact that it was before an Alumni 
group, the Advisory Council, that Dr. Barbour had first 
publicly called attention to his impending retirement, but 
primarily such action was deemed proper because of the 
natural, loyal concern of the Alumni for the University's 
destiny. 

From the start, the Alumni Committee has been aware 
that it has no license to think in terms of individual men with 
regard to the Presidency of Brown University. It has care- 
fully avoided the mention of any names, feeling that its 
assigned duty v^fas to formulate and state a theoretical defini- 
tion of an ideal person for the office. Other opportunity has 
been afforded the Alumni in general to recommend individ- 
uals to the attention of the Corporation Committee. This 



PRESIDENT 

BARBOUR. 

AflcT him, 

who^ 




Committee of Alumni therefore directs attention only 
towards the qualifications most desirable in such a man. It 
dares hope that Brown may find a man endowed with these 
qualifications, exacting though they are. 

WE take it as a fundamental premise that the Univer- 
sity's primary reason for existence and its most im- 
portant function is the educational and social influence on 
the succession of students within its gates. In this regard, 
the next President of Brown should possess qualities of 
leadership of youth so that he may stimulate their apprecia- 
tion of culture and their zest for intellectual accomplish- 
ment, inspire scholarship, and instill the principles of in- 
tegrity and unselfishness, to the end that Brown may con- 
tinue to send forth to their respective committees a 
"succession of men duly qualified for discharging the offices 
ofhfe." ^ - 

The new incumbent should be prepared to give at least 
twenty years of active service to the University, so that he 
will have time to work a program through, to give a con- 
tinuity and direction to the University policies. The next 
President, therefore, should be a "young" man, certainly 
not more than fifty years of age, — better, still younger, 
between the ages of thirty-five and forty-five, at the time of 
his inauguration. A young man can best understand young 
men, and his youth prevents the barrier which age some- 
times erects. The next President of Brown should possess 
good health and an energetic personality, and stand ready 



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to give generously of that vigor to the University he will 
serve. 

Every institution, particularly one which is of that small 
company which was founded during Colonial times, acquires 
worthy traditions. The committee feels, in consequence, 
that Brown can best he guided by a man who has come under 
the influence of her traditions. The next President may well 
be an Alumnus of Brown or an adopted son who, through 
service to Brown or familiarity with her past and present, 
shares the loyal Brown man's devotion to her future welh 
being. The Committee, however, would welcome a stranger 
who fulfills the major qualifications, if no Alumnus or 
adopted son is conspicuously available. 

SINCE the broad and liberal education of the student-body 
is the basic function of our University, our new Presi- 
dent does not require commercial business experience to fit 
him for his post. Particularly if the present division and 
delegation of the University's business administration is to 
be continued, the President will come in contact but little 
with the "business side" of University management. Even 
executive training is not an essential, but the next President 
should have some familiarity with the administrative tech- 
nique of academic institutions, as well as with other prob- 
lems and processes of academic life. 

Colleges require financial support from friends as well as 
from their student and Alumni bodies, and the financial 
responsibilities of Brown are great. Nevertheless, the Com- 
mittee emphatically would deplore the choice of a President 
on the basis of his supposed ability as a "money-getter" or 
"promoter" of the financial well-being of the University. 
By virtue of his leadership, the University will hold a posi- 
tion of eminence in the world of education. This pre- 
eminence will induce benefactions of more value than will 
a policy of "money-raising." The ability to attract financial 
and other support for the University will be assured, the 
committee feels, as the result of purpose and achievement 
along the true path of Brown's educational ideals. Included 
in the category of desired benefactions is the further im- 
provement in number and quality of applicants for admis- 
sion to the University. 

Brown's next President should be a liberal; not liberal in 
the sense of radical, but open-minded and with wide 
horizons in his outlook upon life and education. The loca- 
tion of Brown, in the State of Rhode Island founded by 
Roger Williams on the broad creed of tolerance, and 
Brown's own tradition of Academic Freedom, virtually de- 
mand such a qualification. Regardless of such powerful 
associations, however, the receptiveness of youth, whose 
ideals are bright and whose purposes are high, can best be 
served by a liberal leader whose own mind has the habit of 
inquiry and tolerant appraisal. 

Although it is unnecessary to choose from the ranks of 
the Clergy, a President of Brown should be a man of reli- 
gious and spiritual convictions. He should be a cultivated 
gentleman, personally attractive, with capacities for human 
contacts. He must possess a dignity and a forcefulness of 
character genuinely impressive within and without the 
academic world. 

Finally, "there is no substitute for brains"; the new Pres- 
ident should be a man of recognised scholarly attainment, 
appreciating the experiences of teaching and of research; 
no stranger to the ideals and struggles, the ambitions and 
achievements of his Faculty. Upon him will be the responsi- 
bility of selecting new men who will even surpass the present 



high standard of the Brown faculty; and his success as a 
leader of a company of scholars will determine the renown 
of the University as an educational institution, as well as 
its ability both to attract desirable students and to develop 
their intellectual and cultural possibilities. No other qual- 
ification can take the place of the requirement that the new 
President be a scholar, who commands in his own right the 
respect and allegiance of his colleagues. Possessed of such 
scholarly leadership, with some of our other qualifications, 
the new President will assure Brown her place in the highest 
rank of American colleges. 

Respectfully submitted. 

Ivory Littlefield, '09, Wayne M. Faunce, '21 

Chairman A. H. Gurney, '07 

Royal W. Leith, '12 Edwin B. Mayer, '09 

Thom.as B. Appleget. '17 Prof. J. H. Willi.ams, '12 

Ralph A. Armstrong, '17 W. C. Worthington, '23 

Sidney Clifford, 'H H. S. Chafee, '09, Secretary 
William H. Edwards, '19 



Another Rhodes Scholar 

Again a Brunonian will represent New England at 
Oxford University under the Rhodes foundation. Com- 
peting with candidates from all parts of New England, C. 
Bernard Lewis '35, now an instructor at Johns Hopkins, was 
one of four successful aspirants. 

Lewis, who entered Brown from Hope Street High 
School, Providence, was a member of Sigma Xi and the 
Cammarian Club while at Brown, won the class of 1907 
scholarship for all around achievement, was track captain 
in his Senior year, and was college wrestling champion 
in the 155-pound division. At Oxford he will continue 
study in zoology. 




C B. lewis '35 



J CADEN '31 



When College Editors Met 

Joseph Cadden '31, secretary of the National Student 
Federation of America, presided at a three-day conference 
of college newspaper editors in New York City last month 
at which the editors voted to form a press service for under- 
graduate newspapers. 



The Lownes Memorial Recital 
Norman Coke-Jephcott, organist of the Cathedral of St. 
John the Divine, and Vera FonarofF, violinist, were the art- 
ists in the 1935 Edgar J. Lownes Memorial Recital in Sayles 
Hall on Dec. 2. 



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Setting Up the University Council 



A PLAN for increasing the financial resources of Brown 
through a continuous cultivation of interest among 
alumni and friends has been announced by the 
University. The plan calls for the establishment of an 
organisation with a central committee in Providence and 
local committees in all important alumni centers. General 
officers have been appointed with Mr. Henry D. Sharpe, 
the Chancellor of the University, acting as General Chair- 
man. Local committees have already been established in 
several cities and it is expected that by Commencement 
time such committees will be at work in all important cen- 
ters of Brown influence. 

The organization has been designated the Brown Uni- 
versity Council. When it is complete the Council will con- 
sist of two or three hundred alumni and friends who are 
actively engaged in one way or another in promoting the 
material welfare of the University. In devising this plan 
and in setting up the organization the officers of the Uni- 
versity have had the counsel and advice and the cooperation 
of the officers of the Associated Alumni and of the Brown 
Clubs in all parts of the country. In each case the per- 
sonnel of the local committee and the method of local pro- 
cedure has been determined by the officers of the Brown 
Club itself. 

WHILE the organisation is not yet complete, the general 
lines of activity have been laid out. Special com- 
mittees of the Council will be set up to cover each of several 
phases of the program : the encouragement of large gifts 
and bequests by alumni and friends of the University and 
by friends of education in general; appeals to educational 
foundations; cooperation with the Alumni Fund Trustees 
in the promotion of the Alumni Fund; cooperation with the 
Committee in charge of the Alumni Cooperative Admis- 
sions Program; and cultivation of interest among non- 
alumni. A committee will be designated to promote the 
special interests of Pembroke College. Wherever the pro- 
gram of the Council relates to an activity already carried 
on under the auspices of the Associated Alumni the Council 
will attempt to cooperate with and support in every way 
the work of the Alumni agencies concerned. 

The need for effort in the directions indicated and the 
desirability of the plan here outlined are stated in a memo- 
randum recently prepared by Vice-President Adams: 

"During the past four of five years," says Professor 
Adams, "the University has made a very real effort to meet 
the requirements of the changing financial situation by re- 
ductions in expenditures. As a result of these efforts, in- 
volving reductions amounting to more than $200,000, the 
University operated virtually without a deficit for the two 
years, 1932-33 and 1933-34. Balancing the budget during 
these two years was recognized as a virtual necessity which 
superseded all other considerations. 

"Inevitably the major burden of these retrenchments 
fell upon the Faculty and the facilities with which they 
work. Department appropriations for supplies and equip- 
ment were decreased. The staffs of departments of instruc- 
tion were reduced. Reductions were made in appropriations 
for books and periodicals. Only imperative repairs and 
maintenance items were provided for in the buildings and 



grounds budget. Finally, the salaries of all members of the 
administrative and teaching staffs were reduced by 10%. 
Normal advancements in rank and salary have been re- 
tarded. 

THIS balancing of the budget was not realized without 
cost. It was recognized that these retrenchments could 
be made, for the time being at least, without jeopardizing 
the structure of the University or impairing the quality of 
the educational performance. That this was possible was 
due in large part to the splendid spirit and morale which 
had been developed in the personnel of the faculty during 
the preceding years. But the administration is already 
beginning to feel the pressure of cumulative deficiencies in 
equipment and supplies and the strains of retarded academic 
recognition in the faculty personnel. Morever, it is already 
noticing competitive interest on the part of other institu- 
tions in some of the important members of the staff. 

"The present problems of the University come to a focus 
in financial need. Additional income is essential if the Uni- 
versity is to proceed in accordance with the expectations of 
its alumni and friends. In view of the decline in the rate 
of return from first class investments, a general money 
market factor over which the University has no control, 
there is little reason to believe that any substantial addi- 
tions to present income will be available from the present 
endowment. The major portion of the increased income 
which is needed must come from increased endowment or 
increased gifts to income. The program which the Uni- 
versity is now undertaking is designed to meet this situation. 

THE program is not a financial campaign of the usual 
type — such as many institutions embarked upon during 
the 20's. It is planned as a long time continuous adminis- 
trative effort to keep the University, the work which it is 
doing, its financial needs, and the ways and means by which 
they may be met, in the minds of alumni and friends and 
to bring them to the attention of others who may be inter- 
ested in a worthwhile educational project. It is hoped, of 
course, that there may be some immediate results which 
will help to meet the imperative needs of the next two or 
three years. 

"A large portion of the funds which have been received 
during the years for the support of educational institutions 
in this country has come to them in the form of gifts or 
bequests independent of financial campaigns. And this is 
true of Brown. These funds represent the continuing inter- 
est of alumni and friends who have been kept informed 
concerning the work and welfare of the University. They 
are the result of understanding and appreciation and of 
confidence in the future of the University and its work. 
We feel sure that the continous effort in this direction 
which is contemplated in the organization of the Council 
will be of great value in securing the increased financial 
resources which are necessary for the restoration of some 
of the expenditures which have been curtailed and for the 
continued development of plans for the future." 

General officers of the Council have been appointed as 
follows: General Chairman, Henry D. Sharpe '94; Vice- 
Chairmen: Stephen O. Metcalf '78 of Providence; Wallace 



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R. Lane '99 of Chicago; Claude R. Branch '07 of Boston; 
Charles E. Hughes, Jr., '09 of New York; and Edward A. 
Adams '12 of Los Angeles. 

The general administration of the activities of the 
Council is under the direction of a Central Committee of 
which Mr. Sharpe is Chairman and 'Vice-President James 
P. Adams is Vice Chairman. The other members are: Pres' 
ident Clarence A. Barbour; Vice-President Albert D. 
Mead; Harold C. Field '94, Treasurer of the University; 
Edwin A. Burlingame, Comptroller of the University; 
Harold B. Tanner ''09; Clinton C. '^hite '00; 'William H. 
Edwards "19; Ivory Littleiield '09; the President of the 
Associated Alumni, and the Vice-Chairman of the Council, 
ex ojficio. 

THE Council plan calls for the organi-ation of local 
central committees which will be responsible for the 
coordination and direction of local interest and activity 
related to each of the several phases of the program. Meet- 
ings have been held in several cities at which Vice-President 
Adams has laid the Council plan before alumni groups. 
On November 13th a dinner meeting with over fifty in 
attendance took place at the Brown Club in New York 
City, with Harvey N. Davis '01, President of the Club, 
presiding, and Vice-President Adams, William H. Edwards 
'19, and Chancellor Henr)' D. Sharpe speaking about the 
Council plan. On November 18th Cleveland alumni 
gathered at the University Club to hear Vice-President 
Adams speak on the program. Dr. Richard E. Barnes '27, 
President of the Cleveland Club, presided at the meeting. 
On November 19th over half the Detroit alumni were 
present at a dinner meeting held at the Wardcll Hotel for 
the same purpose. Howard A. Coffin '01 presided at this 
meeting. On the following night, November 20th, Mr. 
Adams and Wallace R. Lane '99 addressed a meeting of 
alumni held at the Interfraternity Club, Chicago. On De- 
cember 16th, explanation of the Council plan was made 



a part of the regular meeting of the Brown Club of Wash- 
ington, D. C, with Vice-President Mead reporting on the 
state of the University. Harold B. Mistr '27 presided at this 
gathering which was held at the University Club. 

As a result of these meetings and of other conferences, 
local central committees of the Council have been set up as 
follows : 

New Yor\: Ralph M. Palmer "10, Chairman; W. R. Dorman 
"92; W. R. Burwell '15: Joseph F. Halloran '16. 

Cleveland: Dr. Richard E. Barnes '27, Chairman; Harold L. 
Madison "01: Harry L. Hoffman '25; and Paul L. Stannard "29. 

Detroit; H. H. Rice "92, Chairman; Howard A. Coffin '01; 
Henry B. Selleck "09: and Dean F. Coffin "33. 

Spnmj/ield: Ralph A. Armstrong '17, Chairman; Harry L. 
Oldlield '10; WiHiam C. Giles '11; William C. Hill '94; Dr. Louis 
E. Hathaway '24; Wesley E. Monk '96: Richard D. Tucker "06. 
The Springfield Committee will have representatives in neigh- 
boring towns as follows; Agawam and Feeding Hills — Clifford M. 
Granger '04; Amherst — Basil B. Wood '05; Chicopee and Chicopee 
Falls — Paul C. Richards '17: Easthampton — Herbert D. Casey '94; 
Greenfield — Francis L. Jones '23: Holyoke — Dwight K. Bartlett, 
Jr. '23: Northampton — William E. Bailey '13; Palmer — Clifton 
H. Hobson '04; Pittsfield — Irving H. Gamwcll '96; Shelhurne 
Falls— Dr. H. B. Marble '17: South Hadley— Dr. Herbert B. Lang 
'96; Ware— Leonard B. Campbell '15; Wcstfield— Philip Caswell, 
Jr. '23: West Springfield — Dr. George B. Corcoran '06; Williams- 
town — Dr. Edwin A. Locke "96. 

Ralph M. Brown '25 was appointed chairman of the Chi- 
cago Committee and is organizing a local central committee. 
In Washington the Council program was put in the hands 
of the officers and governors of the Brown Club who in- 
clude: Harold B. Mistr "27, President; Thomas Shotton, 
Jr. '30, Vice-President; Ernest R. Cleaveland "14, Treas- 
urer; John A. French '25, Secretary; Elijah Anthony, 2nd 
'18; J. V. Bennett '18; W. R. Boger '26n; A. C. Eastburn 
'12; John R. Lapham '09; Dr. Harris E. Starr '97; Frederick 
B. ■\Viener '27; Waldo G. Leland '00. 

Plans are under way for the organisation of similar com- 
mittees in Providence; Boston; Philadelphia; Worcester; 
Akron, Canton, and Youngstown. Arrangements will be 
made to reach other alumni centers in the near future. 



Sock and Buskin Alumni Revival 



"TEN NIGHTS IN A BAR ROOM." 

Performances on Evenings of January 28, 29, 30, 31 

and February 1. 

BY ROBERT B. JONES '07 

THE Sock C;? Buskin Alumni group will undoubtedly add 
greatly to its established reputation for masterly revivals 
of interesting old plays when, on January 28, 1936 (Tues- 
day evening) it presents the first of five performances of 
"Ten Nights in a Bar Room," the old-time temperance 
propaganda "drayma"' written in 1857 by William N. Pratt. 
It is a dramati::ation of a book authored by Timothy Shay 
Arthur in Boston, 1854. 

"Ten Nights," in its time, was the "Uncle Tom's Cabin"" 
of the prohibition cause, and has probably been played in 
every hamlet, village and farm neighborhood of the nation. 
Artistically it is not much, though it has its moments of very 
good "theatre."" The Sock & Buskin will, however, play it 
in the serious {very serious) manner in which it was per- 
formed away back there when it was one of the chief instru- 



ments for the flagellation of the Demon Rum. In spite of 
the earnest message of the old thriller, the likelihood seems 
strongest that rather sophisticated audiences vjiU find cause 
for mild, or not so mild, amusement — not at the expense of 
the general principle the play purports to further, but at the 
manner in which the actors and actresses of an earlier day 
handled their lines and stage business. 

The production is for the benefit of the Brown Club of 
Providence, and profits derived will be applied to those 
projects (Rhode Island Scholarships and the like) for which 
the club has become so favorably known. 

The Tickets will be $1.00 each, and applications by mail 
reaching the Sock £;? Buskin, in Faunce House, Brown Uni- 
versity, not later than January 24, 1936 will be filled by mail. 
On applications later received, tickets will be held in the 
applicant"s name at the Box Office of the Faunce House 
Theatre. Checks accompanying applications should be made 
payable to Sock & Buskin, Inc. 

A particularly able cast and executive staff has been 
gathered together, consisting in the main of former Sock 



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6? Buskin players, but enriched and made more versatile by 
the inclusion of one or two undergraduates and some charm- 
ing and able "guest artists" in women's roles. 

"TEN NIGHTS IN A BAR ROOM" 

Cast 

Romaine Wyman Pendleton, Jr. 

Joe Morgan, a drunkard Theodore L. Sweet 

Sample Swichel, A Yankee tippler Rufus C. Fuller, Jr. 

Simon Slade — Proprietor of the Sickle ii Sheath 

J. Lamson Eddy, Jr. 

Willie Hammond Evan Crossley 

Harvey Green Alfred C. Licata 

Frank Slade David Burchinal 

Mehitable Cartwright Mrs. Walter C. Atkinson 

Mrs. Morgan Mrs. ZenasR. Bliss 

Mary Morgan Barbara Ann Arnold 

Mrs. Slade Miss Florence Bray 

Production Committee 

Leslie T. Chase, Ben W. Brown, Rufus C. Fuller, Jr. 

with the following Staff: 

Director George Wetherald 

Technical Director Kenneth M. Harlow 

Scenic Artist Leslie Allen Jones 

Property Manager Walter Brownsword 

Costumes Mistress Mrs. R. C. Fuller, Jr. 

assisted by 

Robert Hollingworth, Alfred Higgins, Ed. Austin, 

Francis Armington 

Professor Chester Snow at the Piano. 

Brunonians in ]93y's Science 

THE work of Dr. W. J. V. Osterhout "93 in tracing the 
irritability of protoplasm to a substance of unknown 
composition called "R" was cited by Science Service 
as one of 1935's outstanding achievements in biology. Dr. 
Osterhout worked with Dr. S. E. Hill, also of the Rocke- 
feller Institute for Medical Research. 

Also cited was Prof. Harlan T. Stetson '08 for his proof 
that lunar tides in the solid earth exist and alter the distance 
between Europe and America by as much as 63 feet in a 
year. The astronomer, working in the Tuxedo private 
laboratory of Dr. A. L. Loomis, physicist, had the latter as 
collaborator. 

Study of electrical impulses generated by brain activity 
and known popularly as "brain waves" shows that brain 
activity, like heart activity, is constant but, unlike heart ac- 
tivity, proceeds at different rates during sleeping, waking, 
and mental processes. This study, listed as an outstanding 
achievement in medical science in 1935, promises much 
information about mental processes in health and disease. 
Drs. H. H. Jasper and Leonard Carmichael of Brown are 
among a dozen American scientists contributing to this 
research. 

In the field of psychology, Science Service recognized two 
important projects at Brown : 1, that by Dr. Carmichael and 
Dr. C. S. Bridgman, who established that, at least in cer- 
tain mammalian fetuses, the first responses are reflex in 
character and do not involve general behavior, as previously 
supposed; 2, that by Dr. K. U. Smith, who demonstrated 
that cats that have lost the entire visual cortex can discrim- 
inate brightness differences normally under general dark- 
adapted conditions but not under general light-adapted 
differences. 




AU7H0Rny ox "R" 

Dr. Osterhout's 7£&earch was singled out jor notice as 
one of J935'5 outstanding scientific contributions. 



The year's rewards and recognitions included the award 
to Dr. Charles A. Kraus of the Willard Gibbs Medal of the 
Chicago Section, American Chemical Society, for his re- 
search on the theory of solutions; and the $1000 award by 
the American Chemical Society for research conducted by 
chemists under 3 1 years old, which went to Dr. Raymond 
M. Fuoss, also of Brown. 



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Ser 



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S.AWING wood is the best exercise in the world, Martin S. 
Smith '67 told a newspaper interviewer on Dec. 21, 
his 91st birthday. On the Scituate farm where he was 
born he talked vigorously of agriculture, politics, and edu- 
cation and recalled his student days at Brown. Entering 
with the class of 1861, he found that his preparatory work 
in the classics had already covered the required collegiate 
field, but he confessed that he told no one about it at the 
time. 

"There are too many folderols in education these days," 
he said. "In college in my time we could concentrate on a 
few studies and really master them." 

Mr. Smith, who is Commander of the Rhode Island State 
Department of the Grand Army of the Republic, is well 
known to his fellow alumni, for he has attended every col- 
lege reunion except those in '68, '69, and '70 when he was 
keeping store, placer mining, and teaching school in Black- 
foot, Montana. He continues active today, helping with the 
milking and covering a daily route in the city to sell his farm 
products. 

Honoring Banished Roger 

FORMER Governor Norm.'\n S. Case of the Federal 
Communications Commission gave the address at the 
exercises held in Washington recently to mark the 300th 
anniversary of the banishment of Roger Williams from the 
Massachusetts Colony to what is now Rhode Island. Case's 
ancestor, Thomas Harris, joined with Williams in founding 
Providence Plantations. 



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Yachting for Brown University 

Fractical Proposition or Forlorn Hope? 



Hopes for a yachting program for Brown undergraduates 
are discussed in the following provocative article written for 
the BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY by the alumnus per- 
haps best qualified to spea\ on the subject: Professor Zenas 
R. Bliss '18 of the Division of Engineering. Professor Bliss 
was navigator on Rainbow, the successful America's Cup 
Defender in 1934. 

Many alumni and students have been campaigning for a 
program that would ma\e use of the natural advantages of 
Jslarragansett Bay as a distinctive, attractive phase of college 
activity at Brown. How practical this proposition is, you 
will judge from Professor Bliss's discussion of it. 

BY ZENAS R. BLISS 

FOR a long time many Brown Alumni, the writer in- 
cluded, have felt that the University has failed to take 
full advantage of its natural resources in that yachting 
has had only a theoretical place among its student activities. 
With Brown located upon the shores of a hay which affords 
facilities second to none, it has often been suggested that a 
fine opportunity to develop a worth while activity which 
would be an attraction to prospective students has not been 
exploited and that serious efforts should be exerted towards 
making Brown known as a yachting college. 

This feeling has been experiencing one of its more or less 
periodic rejuvenations within the last two years, and it 
seems appropriate that the situation should be reviewed to 
see if the idea is fundamentally practical and if so to deter- 
mine what steps are necessary to put it into effect. 

It has been the writer's experience that all alumni with 
whom the matter has been discussed are in favor of it as a 
theoretical proposition, but that few of them appreciate the 
practical factors involved, the result often being a somewhat 
critical attitude at the University's apparent lack of initiative 
in the matter. 

It is hoped that this brief discussion may serve to show 
that the question is by no means a dead issue, that it has 
received a certain amount of serious consideration, and that 
the course of future action is fairly clear if it seems desirable 
to follow it. Whether or not anything is to be done about 
it depends largely upon alumni support. 

In the first place it must be realised that yachting is 
primarily a warm weather sport most actively participated 
in during the summer months when the colleges are not in 
session. It is probably due to this fact that past efforts to 
stimulate sailing interest at Brown have proved unsuccessful, 
and it is still a serious disadvantage, as on that basis sailing 
could be active only during a small part of the college year. 

However, the development of dinghy sailing and so-called 
Frostbite racing on the Eastern coast has brought into exist- 
ence a new enthusiasm which may save the situation. In 
many of our Eastern Yachting centers, Narragansett Bay 
included, this type of racing has been carried on throughout 
the winter season with great success and it is now spreading 
through the colleges. In spite of the efforts of some of our 
students, Brown cannot at present be considered as one of 
the leaders in this movement, and unless she joins the pro- 



cession fairly soon she will be one of the tail-enders in a 
sport which has long been considered as one in which she 
should be prominent. 

B.^SICALLY the problem is one of finances. In order to sail 
or race, the students must own their boats, must borrow 
the boats, or the University must furnish them. Although 
a few boats are at present owned by students, the number of 
Brown students who can afford to buy and maintain a sailing 
dinghy will probably always be much too small to create the 
amount of activity desired, hence one of the other methods 
must be depended upon for real results. 

Borrowing anything is liable to be unsatisfactory, and 
when one realizes the feeling a boat owner has for his boat, 
it is not surprising that attempts at borrowing boats to be 
used by college students for sailing or racing have not been 
particularly successful. The Intercollegiate regattas held 
annually on Long Island Sound are restricted to a small num- 
ber of colleges primarily because of the difficulty in securing 
even the few boats now required. It is doubtful if this 
particular event will grow beyond the colleges already in- 
cluded and it is in the field of dinghy sailing that we must 
lay our plans. 

It is the writer's considered opinion that any plans based 
upon the borrowing of boats are fore-doomed to failure, and 
that our possibilities lie wholly within the third alternative 
of University owned boats. 

In considering the aspects of the third alternative it must 
be remembered that getting the boats is only part of the 
problem. Even small dinghies require care and the number 
of practical questions which arise in connection with upkeep, 
storage, responsibility for safety of both boats and students, 
etc., will astonish the alumnus who has not given the matter 
serious thought. 

AT a meeting of a few interested alumni in Providence 
. recently the whole matter was discussed with a view to 
determining the minimum requirements for making a start. 
Ten-foot Class D dinghys appear to be the type which will 
be more or less standardized in Intercollegiate racing and the 
following estimates are based upon the use of this class of 
boat. While it is believed that the question of sailing at 
Brown should be considered primarily from the standpoint 
of its being a desirable student activity with a large student 
participation, the possibility of Intercollegiate racing should 
not be lost sight of, even though of secondary importance. 
A type of boat adopted for use in other colleges is therefore 
desirable, other things being equal. 

Excellent Class D dinghies can be purchased by the Uni- 
versity for two hundred dollars if ordered in lots of six or 
more at the present time, this being a twenty per cent dis- 
count based on prices for single boats. A fleet of six boats 
was therefore taken as the minimum number, representing 
an initial outlay of twelve hundred dollars for the boats 
themselves. Three hundred dollars per year is a conservative 
figure to allow for storage, fire insurance, depreciation of 
sails, necessary varnishing and painting, etc. for the six 
boats. 

While it is hoped that the activity may eventually become 
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students of reasonable fees for the use of the boats, it would 
be wise to have sufficient funds on hand to maintain the 
original six boats for at least three years. In round numbers, 
therefore, approximately two thousand dollars will be 
needed to establish the sport and insure its continuance for 
a period of three years without outside help. 

It is realized that under the present conditions with the 
many commitments in already established sports, no help 
can be expected from University funds, an added reason for 
the three year endowment idea. However, if the sport of 
sailing is to be permanently established on a workable basis, 
some assistance from the University will eventually be 
necessary. Also, given the fleet of boats, it still remains to 
work out the details of such problems as supervision, method 
by which students are to pay for the use of the boats, sailing 
instruction for those desiring it, etc. 

DINGHY sailing is already making great headway at 
Harvard, Cornell, M. I. T. and many other leading 
Universities and it is time that Brown should either join the 
sport in an active way or give up the idea of becoming 
known as a sailing college. 

Results recently achieved at a neighboring institution 
with a student body of about 2500 may be of interest to 
those who question the nature of student response. At this 
institution about SCO students attended a mass meeting, 448 
were in favor of starting the sport, 376 desired instruction, 
and over 450 stated that they would devote at least two 
hours a week to sailing practice. This institution already 
has been promised eighteen boats from interested alumni 
and others and expects to have thirty by the time the spring 
sailing season begins. About 250 students are now attending 
courses in the various branches of sailing, navigation, racing 
tactics, etc., all without college credit and therefore due only 
to their own interest in the sport. A significant fact is that a 
large number of the interested students have had no previous 
experience in sailing or racing. 

We already have at Brown a small but enthusiastic group 
of students who are doing all that is possible without help 
from either the University or the Alumni, and it seems safe 



to assume that there are many more who would enter into 
the sport if it were brought within their financial reach. 

If it could be definitely presented to prospective students 
that they will have the opportunity to join an active student 
yacht club, that boats will be available for their use at small 
cost, that they can learn something about the sport if they 
are inexperienced, and that they can look forward to local 
and intercollegiate racing when qualified, it seems certain 
that many desirable men would thereby be attracted to 
Brown. 

To bring this situation into being will require money from 
some source and it is up to interested Alumni to decide 
whether or not the experiment is worth the price. If the 
money is forthcoming, Brown Alumni may be assured that 
there is sufficient interest at the University to see that it is 
well used. 

Brown Victories on the Water 

VIGOROUSLY pressing to establish small-boat racing as a 
feature of undergraduate life at Brown University, the 
Brown Yacht Club scheduled intercollegiate team races 
early this winter and carried ofi^ the honors in each. The 
boats sailed were "frost-bite" dinghies, and the two oppo- 
nents were M. I. T. and Yale. The former sent a team to 
Rhode Island waters, while Brown journcd to Essex, Conn., 
to defeat Yale in a close series. 

Dean K. Fox '37 is Commodore of the Brown Yacht Club 
and seeks to develop this extra-curricular activity as a 
distinctive phase of college life, making use of the natural 
advantages afforded by Narragansett Bay. 

Henry S. Chafee "09, visiting a recent meeting of the 
Yacht Club, told of the interest of the alumni and adminis- 
tration in the program of the club and reiterated the desire of 
the alumni that the University have some boats of its own for 
undergraduate use under proper supervision At present the 
dinghies used are the personal property of individual stu- 
dents. Recognition of the Yacht Club's work was taken in a 
commendatory' resolution passed at the December meeting of 
the Executive Committee of the Associated Alumni. 



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A Prize Win7xing Fisher 

WiLLi.^M E. Lincoln '68 has another fishing trophy 
to add to his fine collection. The Atlantic Tuna 
Club at its annual meeting in November awarded 
to him the first prize, a silver loving cup, for catching off 
Block Island last August the largest marlin of the year. 

Lincoln's marlin was not a large one, as marlins go. But 
it was large enough to win the season's honors. It weighed 
sixty-nine pounds, was seven feet, four and a half inches 
long, and took 65 minutes to bring to gaff. The marlin has 
a bill a foot or so long, something like the sword of a sword- 
fish, but shorter and much weaker. It is said that the bill is 
used for tapping small fish, somewhat as Freshmen may be 
tapped by their fraternity brothers, and taken in. The icthy- 
ologic name of the marlin is altogether too long to be en- 
graved on any cup smaller than a water pail. 

While at Block Island, Lincoln had an adventure so 
unusual that the news reporters refused to tell their papers 
about it lest they be called mendacious. He was fishing for 
tuna with Capt. Harr>' Smith, who had a strike and who, 
with his usual courtesy, swapped rods so Lincoln could have 
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a small one, but after a hundred feet of line had been reeled 
in the fish grew very heavy and hard pumping could hardly 
stir it. 

Shortly, however, it was brought to gaff and landed in the 
boat. Then, much to Lincoln's amazement, he was told by 
Captain Smith to pull in his fish. He saw that his line was 
still outside the boat. He reeled in, and there was another 
tuna — the original fish that had struck first. This tuna had 
managed to wind the line around the second tuna's gills and 
tail so that the second tuna came up partly broadside and 
partly tail first. 

A more recent adventure of Lincoln's was hooking a 

manta in the Gulf of Mexico near the Lincoln winter home 

at Sarasota. Lincoln was trolling for bonito with a six-ounce 

tip and an 18-thread line when the manta, or devil-fish ray, 

took hold and ran out nearly 400 feet of line before the full 

power of the reel drag could be adjusted. By good luck the 

line was strong enough to pull the hook out without damage 

to the tackle. The manta, they say, has a habit of grabbing 

anchors with its two handlike front fins and towing yachts 

to sea. 

***** 

T£RA for Long, Island 

HENRY T. Samson, '19, executive secretary of ERB, 
Buffalo, N. Y., and organizer of the relief distribution 
system for that city, has become district director on Long 
Island for the New York State TERA. His headquarters are 
at Mineola. Samson went to Buffalo in May, 19J4, and car- 
ried out the work of remodeling the relief setup, establishing 
district sub-offices throughout the city, and bringing all 
social agencies into one harmonious working group. 

"It is always pleasant to see a man of outstanding ability 
receive the recognition implied in a call to greater respon- 
sibility," the Buffalo Times said editorially when the news of 
Samson's promotion to a larger field had been made known. 
"At the same time, Mr. Samson is going to be sorely missed 

in Buffalo." 

***** 

School Committee Head 

FRANCIS J. Br.ady, '16 was re-elected chairman at the 
organization meeting of the Providence School Com- 
mittee in December. He will serve for the next two years. 
Naming him, the Providence Bidletin said in an editorial, 
and keeping the same personnel among the membership, 
"may be taken to mean that the city's school system will 
continue to be conducted without change in policy. This 
body of seven men and women devotes a tremendous amount 
of time and thought to the municipal educational system, 
and without reward other than the satisfaction of a public 
duty well performed." 

:{:**** 

More Graduate Fellowships 

TWENTY-THREE additional fellowships and scholarships 
have been awarded in the Graduate School of Brown 
University for 1935-36, Dean Roland G. D. Richard- 
son has announced. This brings the total number of Fellows 
and Scholars in Brown's Graduate School to 56 for this 
year. 

The fellowship stipends range in value from $500 to 
$1,200 in addition to tuition of $300. Scholarships usually 
cover tuition in the Graduate School. Those now receiving 
fellowships and scholarships this year are graduates of 45 
different universities in the United States, Canada and 
Europe. 



One of the most distinctive of the 23 new awards is the 
Corinna Borden Keen Research Fellowship, granted to Dr. 
Charles Hopkins of Chepachet, R. I., for advanced study 
and research in mathematics. Hopkins is a graduate of 
Brown in the class of 1922, receiving his A.M. and Ph.D. 
from the University of Illinois. The fellowship is made 
possible by a gift from the late Dr. William Williams Keen 
'59, distinguished Philadelphia surgeon. 

Other distinctive awards include five fellowships under 
a grant to Brown University from the Committe-e for the 
Investigation of Problems of Sex, National Research Coun- 
cil. The work at Brown is on problems in ovarian dynamics, 
and is being carried on under the direction of Professor 
William C. Young in the Department of Biology. 

The list of the 23 newly selected fellowship and scholar- 
ship winners is as follows: 

E. L. Marston Fellowship in Mathematics and Physics — Robert 
Ewing Greenwood, Navasota, Te.xas; University of Texas, 1933. 

Arnold Biological Fellowship — Edward Wlieeier Dempsey, 
Belprc, Ohio: Marietta College. 193 2. 

University Biological Fellou'slnp — Miss Elinor Van Dorn Smith, 
Hadley, Mass.: Brown University, 1925. 

University junior Fellowship in Biology — Miss Joy Bell, Decatur, 
Texas: Baylor University, 193 3. 

University Junior Fellowship in Economics — Mrs. Vera Rachel 
Reynolds Kilduff, Saskatoon, Sask., Canada: University of Sas- 
katchewan, 1934. 

Honorary Fellou'.'iliips in Cliemistry — Hans Jaffc, Ph.D.. Uni- 
versity of Gottingen, and C. Christoph SchmeUer, Ph.D.. Uni- 
versity of Jena. 

Research Fellow under the J^ational Research Council Grant — 
Roy Hertj, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin; Department of 
Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Howard University. 











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COACHES HOHORED HIM 
Tn55 McLaughry is the new president 
of the American Association oj Football 

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Fellows under the Tvjationai Research Council Grant — Edward 
Wheeler Dempsey. Richard JuHus Blandau, Puyallup, Wash.; 
Linfield College, 1935. John Landrum Boling, Portland, Oregon, 
Linfield College, 193 5. Carl Waldemar Hagquist, Brown Univer- 
sity, 1934. 

SCHOLARSHIPS 

University Graduate Scholarship in Biblical Literature — Mrs. 
Silva Tipple Lake, Cambridge, Mass.; University of Vermont, 1924. 

University Graduate Scholarship in Biology — Russell Perry 
Hager, Providence; Bates College, 1934. 

University Graduate Scholarships in Chemistry — William Vaille 
Loebenstein, Pawtucket; Brown University, 193 5. Maurice Eugene 



Marks, Providence; Brown University, 1934. Kenneth Leroy 
Godfrey, Providence; Brown University, 1934. 

University Graduate Scholarship in P/iilosophy — Miss Susan 
Breul, Bridgeport, Conn.; Vassar College, 1935. 

Uniuersity Graduate Scholarship in Physics — Charles Robert 
Wilks, Woonsocket; Brown University, 1934. 

University Graduate Scholarship in Psvchology — Theophile 
Stanley Krawiec, Central Falls; Colby College, 1935. 

The 1935 Scholarship in English — John Hazard Wildman, 
Mobile, Ala.; Brown University, 1933. 

Special Scholarship in Mathematics — Miss Dorothy L. Bern- 
stein, Milwaukee, Wis.; University of Wisconsin, 1934. 



Brunonia Plays the Game 



Ostergard a Popular Choice 

WITHOUT a counter-nomination, Warren Ostergard 
was chosen by football letter-men to lead the 1936 
eleven in its campaign of redemption. The captain- 
elect, who came to Brown from Canton, Ohio, is a popular 
choice, as the unusual honor of a unanimous ballot testifies. 
Coming from the same high school that sent Hal Broda '27 
to Brown, Ostergard played centre as a freshman, and then 
played two years in halfback and fullback positions. Next 
fall may see him back as a centre to fill the hole left by 
Emery's graduation. 

The football season came to its culinary close in Decem- 
ber with one of Fred Broomhead's famous "Win, Lose or 
Draw" Dinners at Carr's. Don Emery received ont of the 
greatest ovations ever given a retiring captain, while 




WIK LOSE. OR DRAW 

Fied C. Bioomhcad '05 sUcsscs spoils' 

mtinship at his annual dinner to the 

fall athletes 



speakers also lauded the spirit of a team which never stopped 
trying in spite of the lowly role allotted it. "I've never 
admired any football team as I did this Brown team," said 
Vice President Mead. "It held its morale to the end." Other 
speakers struck a similar note; among them : Earl M. Pearce, 
president of the Brown Club of Providence; Dean Samuel 
T. Arnold, Dr. Bruce M. Bigelow, Director of Admissions; 
Dean- Emeritus Otis E. Randall; and President Barbour. 

"You Sophomores will live to play on a great team at 
Brown," was the assurance given by Coach McLaughry. 

Sports Indoors 

DESPITE a high percentage of losses among its captains. 
Brown looked hopefully toward the 1935-36 indoor 
season in athletics. Basketball, hockey, and wrest- 
ling, which started their campaign before the Christmas 
holidays suspended activity, each had experienced a measure 
of success before that interval. 

Twelve seconds after the first whistle of the year. Brown 
had scored its first hockey goal, a feat which invited inter- 
pretation as an omen. It was one of seven goals piled up 
against M. I. T. while Coach Taylor was experimenting 
with various combinations and using 18 players in all. The 
final result was 7-3 in the Bruin's favor. 

One would consider tennis the least perilous of sports, 
but it was a tennis injury last summer which will keep 
Captain Harrie Hart on the sidelines during the hockey 
season. The starting line-up listed Gordon Smithson, left 
wing; Bill Kerins, centre; Bill Benton, right wing; Don 
Eccleston, left defense; Charlie Butler, right defense; and 
Jackson Skillings, goal. Darling, Dye, and Newman have 
been making up the second shift of forwards, while Hawley, 
Shepherd, Welsh, and Dunn have also seen much use. 
Simpson, Appleyard and Olney are reserve defense men. 

Skillings, who was recently named Louttit Scholar for the 
year, began where he left off last year as a brilliant performer 
in front of the Brown goal. A smashing attack by the top- 
ranking Harvard team gave him every opportunity to show 
him at his best on Dec. 20. The Crimson had scored 24 goals 
in its two previous games, against M. I. T. and B. U., but 
Skillings and the defense men held it in check. At the end of 
the contest the Harvard squad descended on the goalie to 
congratulate him on his fine work. He had made 39 stops, 
many of them miraculous, and limited the victorious Crim- 
son to one goal a period. Brown gave the rival goalie 14 
stops, some of them difiicult, but could not score. 



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WRESTLING also lost its captain, Ken Beaulieu, through 
an injury before the season, in touch football. He had 
been a reliable point-winner in the 118-pound class, and 
will be missed, though Golner and Cunningham are fighting 
for his berth. Keegan, undefeated in dual competition as a 
Freshman last year, will wrestle in the 126-pound division. 
Zooloomian, 135-pounder, is a veteran, while Lathrop in 
the next class was undefeated as a Freshman last year and 
title-holder in the New England Intercollegiates. Another 
Sophomore, Hall, is the 15^-pound representative, with 
Pease, football player, in as 16^. In the heavyweight division 
Saklad can be counted on to acquit himself well, having 
twice been New England champion. Senecal had the edge 
over Turcone in the 175 -class. 

This predominantly Sophomore line-up outpointed 
Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in the inaugural meet in 
Providence. Cunningham was the only Brunonian to lose 
his bout, and that after two close overtime periods. Lathrop 
and Hall (the nephew of Tom Hall 'IS) won by falls to 
increase the Brown total to 22 points. Five of Brooklyn's 
eight points came by default when Coach Cole decided not 
to risk Saklad's injured wrist, although he was ready to 
wrestle if points had been needed. The team looks stronger 
than in several years. 

THE basketball quintet has not fully hit its stride as yet 
nor realized its possibilities partly due to lack of con- 
dition. Weakness on foul shots has cost it some critical 
points, but the season's promise is good. In its opening 
game, the team met defeat at the hands of a surprisingly 
capable Alumni outfit. For the grads Howard Floren and 
Henry Malkowski paired up as forwards, with Samdperil 
at centre and Oscar Hammer and Bill Karaban as guards. 
This proved the best offensive combination, while in the 
second half Abe, Sam and Hyme Heller, Bradshaw, Schein, 
and TTioresen put up a defense stout enough to hold its 
slender margin of 35-34 at the gun. 

After this game Arthur Akstin was promoted to the 
varsity to team with Captain Ray Noonan at the forward 
posts. Kenneth Kennedy, high scorer for New England last 
season, is again at centre, while the guards are Adolph 
Sharkey and Harrison Van Aken. The first intercollegiate 
engagement was with a Clark five that used no substitutes 
and held Brown to a 43-36 score, contesting the issue 
throughout. Akstin was high scorer with 13 points. A 
second Brown victory was added at the expense of Tufts, 
traditionally a hard team to heat at home. With 10 minutes 
to go, the Brunonians were nine points behind, but the 
reserves, including Morcum, Biggs, and Petrone tied the 
score and forged ahead to win by 45 to 34. Kennedy was the 
top scorer with 9 points. 

A road trip just before the holidays proved none too 
happy, Wesleyan winning the first game by a one-pointer 
that broke a 34-34 tie in the last few seconds. At the half 
Brown had led 17-13 only to have the home team cage 14 
points in succession at the resumption of play. Behind 
27-17, the Bears rallied to tie the score at 34. The story 
was told at the foul-line where Wesleyan made good 1 3 
shots against Brown's four. Kennedy's 12 points made him 
top man. Akstin was out of the line-up, ill, when the team 
met Trinity the follov^ing night, when the Hartford men 
achieved a 5 5-33 upset. Brown appeared the better team, 
but was not quite clicking. She had taken the lead early in 
the second half, and play was close for 28 minutes. Kennedy 
scored 14 points. 




m THE AIR: Kin Kennedy 



h\gh scorer jor y-lew Eng}and last season, jumps 
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Burhan\ AJext Soccer Capta.n 

WALTER W. BuRBANK of Larchmont, N. Y., will be 
captain of varsity soccer next fall. Burbank, who 
entered Brown from Westminster School, was one of the 
leading goal scorers in the New England Intercollegiate 
League last year, finishing in a tie for third. 

Brown, with a record of three victories in five league 
games, finished sixth among the 12 members. 



Florida for tJie Swimmers 

NINE members of the Brown varsity and freshmen swim- 
ming teams and Coach E. Leo Barry spent the Christ- 
mas holiday period at Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The squad 
left Providence on Saturday, Dec. 21st, arriving in Florida 
on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24th, to spend nine days swimming 
and vacationing in company with swimmers from other col- 
leges in the East and Middle West. Four of the Moses 
Brown School swimmers and their coach accompanied the 
Brown contingent. Brown made the trip for the first time 
last year. 

During the nine days, the routine established a year ago 
was followed. The men went through their laps in the 
morning in the pool, then spent a portion of the afternoon 
swimming in the ocean and resting on the beach. 

During the time the swimmers were at Fort Lauderdale, 
an aquatic clinic, school or forum for coaches and swim- 
mers was held. 

A Committee of swimming coaches headed by Sam 



Ingram of Colgate, and including the following coaches 
made the plans for the gathering of swimmers at Florida this 
year; Bill Merrian, Pennsylvania; "Tug" Kennedy of Am- 
herst; Robert Kiphuth of Yale, Ed Kennedy of Columbia 
and E. L. Barry of Brown. 



The Return of Wally Wade 

W.\LL.\CE Wade '17, coach of the Duke University 
football squad, was one of the most interested spec- 
tators at the Brown-Colgate game at Brown Field Thanks- 
giving Day. There was a reason. His Duke eleven, known 
in the South as the Blue Devils, will open the 1936 cam- 
paign with Colgate at Durham. So Wade came back to 
Brown to do a little advance scouting. 

"Colgate is a real good team," he told Everett B. Morris 
of the J^lew Tor\ Herald Tribune and Joe Nutter '24 of the 
Providence Bulletin. "Those boys would give any one I've 
seen this year a real ball game. We're opening with Colgate 
next year at Durham and we're going to try to make a big 
day of it." 

Wade's eleven caused one of the big upsets of the 1935 
season by defeating North Carolina, the most ardent rival 
of Duke, by a big score and so wrecking North Carolina's 
aspirations to be invited to the Rose Bowl. Wade is said to 
be the only man who ever went to the Rose Bowl as a 
player (with Brown in 1916) and then as a coach. He led 
three Alabama teams to Pasadena in 1926, 1927, and 1931. 
These teams won two games and tied one. 



Greek Haul: A Record Pledging 



THE largest number of Brown University Freshmen to 
be pledged in the last decade was reached last month, 
as 227 Freshmen designated their intentions to join 
one of the 19 national societies. 

This number is 59 per cent, of the Freshman class. Sigma 
Chi led the group with 19 pledges, while Alpha Delta Phi 
and Phi Delta Theta were next with 18 apiece. 

The number taken by each house: Alpha Delta Phi 18, 
Alpha Tau Omega 13, Beta Theta Pi 7, Delta Kappa Epsi- 
lon 14, Delta Ph"i 5, Delta Tau Delta 9, Delta Upsilon 16, 
Kappa Sigma 3, Lambda Chi Alpha 10, Phi Delta Theta IS, 
Phi Gamma Delta 16, Phi Kappa Psi 7, Phi Sigma Kappa 8, 
Pi Lambda Phi 16, Psi Upsilon 12, Sigma Chi 19, Sigma Nu 
12, Theta Delta Chi 9, Zeta Psi 15. 

The fraternity pledge list is as follows: 

Alpha Delta Phi 
Cad W. Arrendell, Jr., Ponca City, Okla.; Lawrence P. Boyce, 
Baltimore, Md.; Arthur L. Brown. Providence; Edward D. Brown, 
Cleveland, O.: William W. Creasey, Ea.st Orange, N. J.: Donald C. 
Crosby, Oconomowoc, Wis.: Ralph L. Fletcher, Jr., Providence; 
Frederick H. Greene, Jr., Belmont, Mass.; Charles E. Gross, 2nd. 
Providence; Daniel Rowland, East Greenwich; Harold N. Ipsen, 
Rockford, 111.; Windsor Lewis, White Plains, N. Y.; John K. 
Mclntyre, Milwaukee, Wis.; Charles E. Mercer, East Orange. N. J.. 
Robert S. Rowe, Duluth, Minn.; Howard A. Shaw, Jr., Lakewood, 
O.; Emery R. Walker, Jr., Oak Park, 111., and Gordon C. 
Williams, Amesbury, Mass. 

Alpha Tiiu Oynega 
Richard H. Bell, Danielson, Conn.; Thomas J. Carey, Springfield, 
Mass.; Thomas N. Farrell, Jr., Worcester, Mass.; James C. Giddings, 
New Haven, Conn.; Edward A. Krug, Jr., Chicago; Bruce H. 



Macklin, Los Angeles; Donald A. Mann. Milford, Mass.; Gregory 
Murin, Yonkers, N. Y.; George W. Naden, Edgewood; William 
J. O'Brien, Fall River; Dwight D. Patch, Windsor, Vt., Thomas J. 
Quinn, Jr., Providence, and Karl F. Weygand, Taunton, Mass. 

Beta Theta Pi 

Grant B. Bursley, Providence; F. Carter Childs, Boonton, N. J.; 

Robert A. Cranston, Providence; David S. Delack, Schenectady, 

N. Y.; Paul R. Miller, Allentown, Pa.; William W. Parker, 

Windsor, Conn., and John M. Volkhardt, Hasbrouck Heights, N. J. 

Delta Kappa Epsilon 

William Bacon, Providence; William P. H. Battles, Hyde Park, 
Mass.; Alfred S. Bloomingdale, New York City; Gilbert E. Cain, 
New York City; William M. Canby, Wilmington, Del.; Arthur A. 
Cole, Adamsville; Eugene J. Cronin, Jr., Forest Hills, N. Y.; George 
G. Going, Stamford, Conn.; Irving A. Hall, Jr.; Brockton; Gordon 
A. Kiernan, Detroit; R. Arnold Matteson, West Warwick; William 
H. Russell, Arlington, Mass.; Walter S. Goodwillie, Jr., Chicago, 
and George J. Schaefer, Jr., New Rochelle, N. Y. 
Delta Phi 

Henry K. Jaburg, Jr., New York City: David F. Kenyon, 
Providence; John H. Mason, 2nd, Providence; Richmond P. White, 
Cranston, and E. Butler Moulton, Cranston. 
Delta Tau Delta 

Lindsey H. Caldwell, Winchester, Mass.; Fred C. Eckel, Syra- 
cuse, N. Y.: Richard S. Gates, Denver, CoL: John S. Huerth, 
Wollaston. Mass.; Henri W. Lange, Jr., Harrison, N. Y.; Robert 
L. McCracken, Evanston, 111.; James M. McNamara, Jr., Fitchburg, 
Mass.; Albert S. Pouliot, Pawtucket, and George E. Witherell, 
Swampscott, Mass. 

Delta Upsilon 

George G. Allison, 2nd, Langhorn, Pa.; Herbert C. Beasley, Jr., 
Baltimore, Md.; Ralph L. Blake, Quincy, Mass.; Laurence B. 
Burwell, New Haven, Conn.; William L. Carter, Portsmouth, 
N. H.; Robert B. Clark, Providence; Albert S. George, Oak Park, 
111.: Arthur S. Gurney, Hartford; Norman L. Guy, Jr., Providence; 
Lawrence P. Hastings, New Haven, Conn.; Edward M. Horton, 



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Harrington; Howard A. Lane, Jr., Dorchester, Mass.; Alfred H. 
Macgillivray, Providence; Norris L. McComb, Bloomfield, N. J.; 
Gustav G. Steneck, Wechawken, N. J.; and Gale G. Wisbach, 
Newton, Mass. 

Kappa Sigma 

Ronald A. Norton, Chiguagante, Chile; Andrew B. Porter, 
Providence, and Herbert E. Rose, Jr., Providence. 
Lambda Chi Alpha 

Charles J. Carignan, Providence; David G. Essex, Attleboro; 
Norman D. Fulton, Jr., Wilmington, Del.; Chester H. Golding, Jr., 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.; William H. Harrison, Jr., Youngstown, O.; 
Alvin D. Johnson, Lynn, Mass.; Warren S. Landers, North Fal- 
mouth, Mass.; H. Stirling Mclntyre, Avon, Conn.; Roger L. Savery, 
Woods Hole, Mass., and Homer Tolivaisa, Bridgewater, Mass. 
Phi Delta Theta 

Thomas F. Bradshaw, Queens College, N. Y.; Charles D. K. 
Brown, Scranton, Pa.; Hugh G. Bushell, Hampden, Conn.; 
Nicholas Carifio, Haverhill, Mass.; Theodore L. Dodge, Phila- 
delphia; James E. Fraser, St. Louis, Mo.; Harold O. Hawvermale, 
New York City; William W. Hay, Jr., New York City; Richard B. 
Hutton, Southington, Conn.; George Larkowich, Providence; 
Edmund H. Longfellow, Providence; Leslie A. Lovett, Nyack, 
N. Y.; John L. McKenna, New York City; Edward F. O'Connor, 
Holyoke, Mass.; Robert L. Pitocchelli, Haverhill, Mass.; Nordon B. 
Schloss, Providence; Richard W. Wamsley, Brighton, Mass., and 
Robert L. Zellner, Baldwin, N. Y. 

Phi Gamma Delta 

Lawrence M. Bairstow, Winchester, Mass.; Edward Denmead, 
Albany, N. Y.; Frank A. Healy, Jr., Bridgeport, Conn.; William 
Huke, Jr., Waldon, Mass.; Thomas J. Keating, Milton, Mass.; 
Willard A. Lees, Westport, Conn.; Thomas L. Mahoney, Jr., 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.; Robert C. Moore, West Roxbury, Mass.; 
William S. Reisman, New Rochelle, N. Y.: Frederick A. Smith, Jr., 
Peekskill, N. Y.; Joseph A. Tomasello, Jr., Jamaica Plain, Mass.; 
Leonard D. LeValley, New Bedford; David B. Wilmot, Yonkers, 
N. Y.; Thomas B. Wood, Yonkers. N. Y.; Robert B. Winslow, 
Greenfield, Mass., and Frederick R. Zulch of White Plains, N. Y. 
Phi Kappa Psi 

John T. Barrett, Providence: Frank P. Comstock, 2nd, Button- 
woods; Richard W. Goodby, Providence; Donald C. Howarth, 
Providence; Frank McEvoy, South Barre, Mass.; R. Foster 
Reynolds, Jr., Providence, and Clinton T. Taylor, Jr., Mount 
Vernon, N. Y. 

Phi Sigma Kappa 

Ernest E. Alderman, Unionville, Conn.; Robert C. Bogle, Fall 
River; Albert B. Coop, Jr., Providence; Daniel M. Hicks, 2nd, 
Brooklyn, N. Y.; Edward F. Rcnfree, Fall River; Robert L. Scow- 
croft, Providence; James F. Trickett, Jr., Lawrence, Mass., and 
Walter H. VanCott, Elmhurst, N. Y. 

Pi Lambda Phi 

Maurice P. Beck, Providence; Howard G. Brown. Edgcwood; 
Richard O. Fleischer, New York City; Lyman G. Friedman, 
Brooklyn, N. Y.; Herbert W. Glickman, Providence; Stuart S. 



Goldenberg, Brookline, Mass.; Hubert H. Goldberger, Providence; 
Rudolph Goodman, Haverhill, Mass.; Herbert Lobsenz, Paterson, 
N. J.; Arthur M. Oppenheimer, Hyland Park, 111.; Jack L Podret, 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.; Harold J. Rosenberg. Everett, Mass.; Daniel 
Schwartz, Boston; James H. Sherman, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Leonard 

D. Steiner, Far Rockaway, N. Y., and Samuel Ungerleider, Jr., 
New York City. 

Psi Upsilon 
Thomas S. Barrett, Chicago; George V. C. Carter, New York 
City; James C. Constable, Baltimore, Md.; Foster B. Davis, Provi- 
dence; A. Standish Francis, South Dartmouth, Mass.; P. Arthur 
Hartley, 2nd, Fall River; Daniel F. Larkin, Jr., Westerly; John F. 
Martin, New Rochelle, N. Y.; William C. McLaughlin, Jr., Provi- 
dence; Robert D. O'Brien. Yonkers, N, Y.; Peter Prindiville, 
New York City; and John H. Vocke, Napoleon, O. 

Sigma Chi 

Edwin J. Blease, Swampscott, Mass.; Kenneth L. W. Brown, 
Lancaster, Pa.; Leonard M. Campbell, Woodridge, N. J.; Francis 
P. Carr. Jr., Newport; Arthur H. Crosbie, Newton Center, Mass.; 
William L. Chipman, Weston, Mass.; John S. Davison, Holderness, 
N. H.; Ralph W. Edwards, Jr., Vermillion, O.; J. Cresson Given, 
Jr., New York City; Oliver H. Green, Jamaica Plain, Mass.; 
William G. Meader, Jr., Providence; Raymond J. Lee, Rockport, 
N. J.; Theodore Lemeshka, Webster, Mass.; Earl H. Metzger, Provi- 
dence; Lewis W. Minford, Jr., AUenhurst, N. J.; Cris D. Norton, 
Chicago; Floyd M. Shumway, Jr.; Riverdale-on-Hudson, N. Y.; 
Roy E. Stephenson, Jr., Ponca City, Okla., and Robert L. White- 
head, New York City. 

Sigma 7\Ji( 

Benjamin P. Ambrosini, East Orange, N. J.; Frank M. Adams, 
Jr., Providence; Robert A. Bishop, Pawtuxet; George E. Blood, 
Stoneham, Mass.; Chester T. Clayton. Jr., Providence; William N. 
Donaldson, Jr., Pawtucket; William H. Hogan, Jr., Lynn, Mass.; 
John H. Leavitt, Chevy Chase, Md,: Carl J. Letsch, Brooklyn, 
N. Y.; Frank O'Shanick, Sharon, Pa.; Philip H. Reisman, Jr., 
New Rochelle, N. Y., and Thomas C. Roberts, Edgewood. 

Theta Delta Chi 
Willard H. Baldwin, Boston; Joseph C. Blessing, Ridgewood, 
N. J.: J. Norton Goeller, New York City; David V, Hull, Ridge- 
wood, N. J.; Millard A. Lovejoy, Holyoke, Mass.; Gordon H. 
Madge, Providence: Charles A. Reynolds, Providence; Stuart C. 
Sherman, Providence; G. Holmes Wilson, Providence. 

Zeta Psi 
Malcolm P. Decker, Jr., Providence; Kenneth L. Frank, Milwau- 
kee, Wis.; Calvin M. Gordon, Providence; Gardner S. Gould, Jr., 
Cranston: John M. Hooher, Jr., Lancaster, Pa.; Walter N. Jackson, 
New Bedford: Karl G. Kaffenberger, Jr., East Aurora, N. Y.; 

E. Sheldon Knowlcs, Pawtuxet: John C. Leland, Buffalo, N. Y.; 
Bernard Luce, Jr., New York City: Frederick J. Maxted, Jr., River- 
side, Conn.: Joseph R. Morrow, Jr., Ridgewood, N. J.; Frederick 
Nast, Jr., Milwaukee, Wis.; Roy Ten-Haagen, New York City, 
and Russell S. Wood, Easton, Pa. 



For the Brown Man's Bookshelf 



The Real "Amy Lowell" 

AFTER many years Professor S. Foster 
Damon, of the Department of English, 
■ has completed, and Houghton Mitflin 
has published his 800-page, definitive biog- 
raphy, "Amy Lowell: A Chronicle." Aside 
perhaps from his two books of verse, this is 
his most personal book to date. For, while 
two of Mr. Damon's earlier ventures were 
in critical-biographical fields — his "William 
Blake" and "Thomas Holley Chivers" — he 
was himself a friend of Miss Lowell during 
the last ten years of her life when, as the 
world still remembers, she fought so pic- 
turesquely for the freedom of verse. 

Reviewers on all sides seem to agree that 
the biographer has reproduced the unique 
personality of his subject. The voluminous 
quantity of Mr. Damon's evidence has re- 
ceived criticism, but no critic has ques- 



tioned the clarity and authenticity of his 
portrait and chronicle. 

Peter Monro Jack, writing in the T^ew 
Tor\ Times Bool; Review, remarked that 
"Mr. Damon has kept himself in the back- 
ground and has let Miss Lowell speak for 
herself, vigorously, voluminously, sensibly 
or savagely, informatively or repetitiously. 
He has accepted her complete importance. 
As far as posssible this is Amy Lowell's 
book." . . . And May Lamberton Becker, 
in the New York Herald Tribune Boo\s. 
said of the biographer and his subject: 
"Her personality has so taken possession of 
his memory, he writes as if she were in the 
room listening to all he says. This is the 
book's distinction; it puts her into the room 
with the reader." 

B. K. H., Literary Editor of the Provi- 
dence Journal, summed it up: "Extremely 



thorough and illuminating study ... a 
work greatly conceived and greatly exe- 
cuted. It will not need to he done again." 

Boo\ Collecting 

JOHN T. Winterich's "Primer of Book 
Collecting" has recently been put out 
in an enlarged and revised edition by 
Greenberg, the New York publisher of 
Winterich's several books about books and 
book collecting. The first edition of the 
"Primer" came out in 1927, and there was 
an English edition in 1928. "In its present 
more mature form," said Leonard L. Mackall 
in New York Herald Tribune Boo^s, "this 
elementary but wise little guide is the re- 
sult of prolonged and varied personal expe- 
rience; and it is very well written and easy 
to read, and tells the beginner just what he 
will necessarily want to know at first and in 



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the early succeeding stages of his collect- 
ing; and various concrete and sensible sug- 
gestions are offered as to new fields or sub- 
jcrts which might prove interesting and 
worth while." Vvintcrich's class is 1912. 



Arthur Deerin Call "96, secretary and 
editor of the American Peace Society, was 
the author of the leading article, "Can 
Parliamentary Government Survive?" in 
World Ajjairs for December. 



Gentlemen of the Faculty 




DEAN RICHARDSOH 



President for Brown 

DEAN Roland G. D. Richardson of 
the Brown University Graduate 
School has been appointed official 
representative of Brown as president of the 
Association of American Universities, Pres- 
ident Clarence A. Barbour announced 
last month. 

In representing the University, Dean 
Richardson will direct the proceedings of 
the Association during the coming year in 
"considering matters of common interest 
related to graduate study and research." 
Members of the Association are 3 2 colleges 
and universities in the United States and 
Canada especially recognized for their ad- 
vanced work. 

The 1936 meeting is to be held at the 
University of Texas, where Dean Richard- 
son will preside, and the 1937 meeting at 
Brown. At the last meeting at Cornell on 
Nov. 9, Brown was named "president" for 
1935-36, having been "vice-president" dur- 
ing the preceding year. Institutions rather 
than individuals hold office. Stanford Uni- 
versity is now "vice-president" and Yale 
"secretary." 

Dean Richardson is also a member of the 
Association's committee in charge of classi- 
fying universities and colleges where under- 
graduate work is being provided which will 
qualify as a basis for graduate work in good 
graduate schools. Approximately 250 insti- 



tutions, including Brown, are on the ap- 
proved list. 

Institutions in the Association of Amer- 
ican Universities, in addition to Brown as 
"president," are California Institute of 
Technology, the University of California, 
Catholic University of America, the Uni- 
versity of Chicago, Clark University, Colum- 
bia University, Cornell University, Harvard 
University, the University of Illinois, 
Indiana University, State University of 
Iowa, Johns Hopkins University, the 
University of Kansas, McGill University. 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 
the University of Michigan, the University 
of Minnesota, the University of Missouri, 
the University of Nebraska, the University 
of North Carolina, Northwestern Univer- 
sity, Ohio State University, the University 
of Pennsylvania, Princeton University. 
Stanford University, the University of 
Texas, the University of Toronto, the Uni- 
versity of Virginia, the University of Wis- 
consin, and Yale University. 



Eulogizing Dr. Bdrus 

' At Brown University Carl Barus and 
£'\^ Alpheus Packard are undoubtedly 
the most eminent scientists who ever 
occupied faculty chairs. Professor Barus 
was a hero-worshipper, and in his home was 
a genius corner from which pictured faces 
of great scientists looked down upon him. 
He rejoiced in contacts with youth and had 
the great gift, in association and writing, 
of capturing the love of children. 

"The breadth of his interests and achieve- 
ments was extraordinary — recall his read- 
ing of Greek tragedies in the original, his 
knowledge of French and Italian litera- 
tures, and the proficiency he attained in 
playing the violin, flute, clarinet, oboe, 
cornet, trumpet and trombone, in addition 
to the piano and organ. The brilliancy of 
his intellect, the modesty of his bearing, the 
beauty of his personality, and the kindliness 
of his spirit have left most precious and 
inspiring memories with students and col- 
leagues of forty years." 

So concludes a minute spread upon the 
Faculty Records of Brown University and 
printed in a recent issue of the magazine 
Science. The writers were Professor R. C. 
Archibald and R. B. Lindsay. 

It is an eloquent tribute that they paid 
to "a brilliant scholar and investigator, long 
internationally famous, and a beloved col- 
league who for 40 years had ever been 
among us a source of inspiration. Although 
he had attained to nearly fourscore years he 
walked in our last Commencement proces- 
sion." 

They recall the musical atmosphere of his 



boyhood home, his first contacts with 
science, his early experiments in a home 
chemical laboratory, his collection of a 
thousand plants in an herbarium, his 
studies in this country and under Kohl- 
rausch at Wurjburg. His many associations 
are noted: the physical research section of 
the U. S. Geological Survey, his work in 
metereology, his aid to Langley in experi- 
ments with flying machines at the Smith- 
sonian. Just before coming to Brown at the 
age of 39 he had published the paper on 
colloid silver that marked him as one of the 
founders of colloidal chemistry. His labors 
and his high honors had only begun with his 
connection with Brown University. His 
published output of some 3 50 articles and 
monographs in 3 5 years "can only be re- 
garded as tremendous." 

In 1903 the physicists of America rated 
Professor Barus as second only to Michel- 
son among all physicists of the country. 



A Berlin Post 

DR. Albert P. Martin, assistant pro- 
fessor of Germanic languages and lit- 
eratures at Brown University, has 
been granted leave of absence, in order 
that he and Mrs. Martin may leave Prov- 
idence the first of February, to spend two 
years in charge of the international centre 
maintained by the Religious Society of 
Friends, in Berlin, Germany. 

Located a block from Unter Den Linden, 
in a part of the former imperial palace 
and adjacent to the University of Berlin, the 
Centre is a meeting place for students who 
come there for discussions and social gather- 
ings. Professor and Mrs. Martin both will 
study at the University. 

The Berlin Centre is similar to others 
maintained by the Quakers in Paris, Geneva 
and Vienna. They are thought of as Quaker 
embassies and through them as many classes 
of people as possible are brought together 
in an effort to keep open channels of under- 
standing between all nations. 



Otlier Faculty 7\Jotes 

PRESIDENT Clarence A. Barbour gave 
the benediction at exercises in Prov- 
idence which inaugurated the program for 
the year 1936, the city's Tercentenary. 

Professor Jacob D. Tamarkin, of the De- 
partment of Mathematics, has just accepted 
an invitation to lecture at the University 
of California, Berkeley, throughout the 
summer quarter of 1936. The jubilee volume 
of the periodical Fundamenta Mathemati- 
cae, just published in Poland, contains a 
contribution from Professor Tamarkin's 
pen. 

Word has been just received that at its 
meeting held last month in Warsaw Pro- 
fessor Tamarkin had been elected a regular 
member of the class of mathematical and 
physical sciences of the Warsaw Society of 
Sciences. This is a high honor which has 
been conferred outside of Poland on only 
three other mathematicians among the thirty 
members in the class. 

Professor Charles A. Robinson is the 
president of the recently re-established 
Providence Society of the Archeological 
Institute of America, which has 30 members. 
Professor George E. Downing is secretary 
of the group. 



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The Letter Box 



VICE PRESIDENT'S OFFICE 

Brown University 

Providence, Rhode Island 

December 13, 1935. 

Editor Alumni Monthly: — 

On page I of the November issue of the 
Alumni Monthly the following sentence 
appears: 

"The principal committee, the ad- 
visory and executive committee of the 
Corporation, will be composed of Zech- 
ariah Chafee, Harold B. Tanner. Wil- 
liam R. Dorman, and Harold C. Field." 
My attention has been called to the fact 
that possibly this gives the wrong impres- 
sion of the size of the Advisory and Execu- 
tive Committees of the Corporation. The 
persons mentioned were the persons ap- 
pointed to fill vacancies in the Advisory and 
Executive Committee. The Committee con- 
sists of the following members; The Pres- 
ident, Vice-President Mead, both ex-officio; 
Messrs. Bumpus. Z. Chafee, Sharpe. Dor- 
man, Taber, Tanner, Pendleton, Anderson, 
White, and H. C. Field; Vice-President 
Adams (Secretary). 

The member of the Corporation who 
called this to my attention suggested that it 
might be desirable to correct this impression 
in the next issue of the Monthly. Na- 
turally, I leave this to your discretion. 
Sincerely yours, 

James P. Adams. 



American Petroleum Institute 

American Petroleum Industries 

Committee 

50 West 50th Street 

New York, N. Y. 

December 4, 193 5 
The Editor 

Brown Allimni Monthly 
Providence, R. I. 
Dear Sir: 

Please accept my congratulations on 
your November issue of the Brown 
Alumni Monthly. It is by far the most 
interesting issue of that magazine I have 
read in the past ten years. 

Among the articles that appealed to me 
particularly were "Meet the Freshmen," 
"Football; 'Down From the Heights'" 
(because of the way it was written). "A 
Memorable Maiden Speech" and "Hous- 
ing the Young Idea." 

I am sorry to say the geographical dis- 
tribution of students in the freshman class 
does not meet my ideas of a national uni- 
versity, but the article was at least interest- 
ing. The idea of more tastefully furnished 
rooms at the University also is appealing, 
provided students are permitted to exercise 
some individuality of taste in their decora- 
tions. 

The formula for Coach McLaughry 
might he a greater number of sub-freshmen 
luncheons, such as the Cleveland, Detroit 
and Chicago clubs used to hold annually 
at Christmas time. There is material for a 
good Alumni Monthly article. Get one 



of the alumni or perhaps one of the under- 
graduates who first became interested in 
Brown through such a luncheon to describe 
how it was conducted and his impressions. 
I hope these rambling impressions will be 
of some help to you. I was so astonished 
to discover a really fascinating copy of the 
Alumni Monthly that it was impossible 
to repress the desire to write and tell you 
about it. 

Very truly yours, 
Everett T. Marten '25. 



Institut Feller, Grand Eigne 
Province of Quebec, Canada 
Dear Sir; 

The November issue of the Brown 

Alumni Monthly was very interesting. 

It revives cherished memories and inspires 

pride in the present status of "Old Brown." 

Leonard A. Therrien '93, 

Principal. 



14 Elston Road 
Upper Montclair, N. J. 
Dear Sir: 

I've been interested in the comments of 
some of the football writers in regard to the 
Brown team this past fall. The most serious 
situation seemed to me to be the increasing 
number of afternoon classes. Brown cer- 
tainly will find itself in the same class, ath- 
letically, as M. I. T. if the afternoon classes 
are continued to the extent indicated in 
the November Alumni Monthly. 

H. W. Paine '07. 

Hadley, Mass. 
Dec. 4, 1935. 
Dear Sir: 

"Permit me to congratulate the Alumni 
Monthly on a very frank statement of the 
athletic situation. I had expected a lot of 
the nauseous drip we have had the past two 
or three years." 

Col. C. a. Taylor '01. 



The Associated Alumni 



The Executive Committee 

THE Admissions Office of the Univer- 
sity will shortly send out to all alumni 
a pamphlet with pictures and suitable 
text to interest the alumni in admissions 
work, it was announced at the December 
meeting of the Executive Committee of the 
Associated Alumni. Charles J. Hill '16, 
chairman of the Alumni Co-operative Ad- 
missions Program, speaking of work in prog- 
ress, named three points stressed at present; 
1 — Formulation of a program of procedure 
for the sub-freshmen committee (Ralph A. 
Armstrong '17 of Springfield, Mass.; 
Joseph A. O'Ncil '31 of New York; and 
Royal W. Leith '12 of Bo.ston). 2— Rela- 
tions with the University, with special 
reference to a list of objectives to be given 
by Dr. Bigelow. 3 — Relations between the 
University and the ACAP, including Dr. 
Bigelow's contacts with local committees. 

Chauncey E. Wheeler "09 has accepted 
appointment to the Commencement Com- 
mittee. Lawrence Lanpher '23 has asked to 
be relieved of his post as chairman of the 
Class Reunions Committee. 

Henry S. Chafee '09 and A. H. Gurney 
"07 will serve as a program committee for 
the Advisory Council meeting in February. 

Henry C. Hart '01 has phrased a pro- 
posed amendment to the by-laws of the 
Associated Alumni to enable an increase in 
the number of Alumni Fund Trustees, as 
requested by the latter group. This amend- 
ment will be presented to the Board of 
Directors in February. It was voted that 
until further ordered by the Executive Com- 
mittee or the Board of Directors, the fol- 
lowing constitute a committee on the 
Alumni Fund to co-operate and assist the 
Board of Trustees of the Alumni Fund: 
Henry S. Chafee "09, Robert H. GofI "24, 
George R. Ashbey "21, and George Hurley 
"07. 

Dean Arnold as Chairman of the Athletic 
Council, Byron S. Watson '97 and George 
S. Burgess '12, alumni members of the 
Council, and Professor J. P. Adams and 
C. C. White '00 have been invited to at- 
tend the next meeting of the Executive 
Committee of the Associated Alumni. 



Washington 

CHIEF Justice Charles Evans 
Hughes '81 was elected chairman of 
the Advisory Council of the Brown 
Club of Washington at the annual meeting 
at the University Club in Washington, Dec. 
16. Harold B. Mistr '27 was again named 
president, and John A. French '25 secre- 
tary. 

Other officers presented by the nominat- 
ing committee and chosen by the Club are: 
Vice President — Thomas Shotton, Jr. '30; 
Treasurer — E. R. Cleveland "14; Board of 
Governors — Dr. Waldo G. Leland '00, 
William R. Boger '26. Besides Chief Jus- 
tice Hughes, the new members of the Ad- 
visory Council are Dr. William Allen Wil- 
bur '88, Dr. Edwin Grant Dexter '91, Dr. 
Arthur D. Call '96, and Dr. Leland. 

Dr. A. D. Mead, vice president, took 
the place of Professor J. P. Adams as the 
speaker from the University because Pro- 
fessor Adams had been called to his home 
in Michigan by the death of his sister. Dr. 
Mead told the story of Brown's situation 
today, and urged full alumni support of the 
Brown Alumni Fund. The Club has already 
laid the groundwork for the purpose of 
getting every Brown man in the Washing- 
ton district to contribute to the Alumni 
Fund. 

Dr. Mead was the guest of the Board of 
Governors at dinner at the University Club 
before the meeting. Milbourne Christopher 
provided the entertainment by sleight-of- 
hand tricks which mystified even the young 
alumni. 



7'^ew Yor\ 

WITH the arrival of the New Year, 
plans are under way for the Jan- 
uary monthly dinner to be followed 
by the 68th annual dinner in February. The 
entertainment committee under the leader- 
ship of Ralph M. Palmer '10 is working out 
details, an account of which will appear in 
the next issue of the Brown Alumni 
Monthly. 

David H. Scott "32 defeated John M. 
Curtis '30 in the finals of the Club's Class 



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C squash tournament. Play in the Metro- 
politan Class C League has begun, and the 
members of the Brown Club team facing 
the opposition are Scott, Curtis, Paul D. 
O'Brien "27, W. Thomas Hoyt '28, and 
George R. Coughlin, Jr., '31. To date the 
Brown playerp have beaten Bard Hall 
(Columbia) and the Columbia Club, and 
lost to the Downtown Athletic Club. They 
have four matches this month, their op- 
ponents being Cornell, Williams, Seventh 
Regiment, and Dartmouth. 

Under the active leadership of W. R. 
Burwell '15, the Club membership commit- 
tee has been responsible for keeping the ad- 
missions committee busy in recent months. 
Since October, 16 resident and 18 non- 
resident members have been approved. 
Among the new members are W. Kenneth 
Anderson '27, R. H. Blake '29, S. T. 
Blanchard '3 3, A. A. Denico '04, Judge 
James A. Dunne '98, H. M. Flemming 
'20, J. C. Gillies '31, J. A. Kingston '34, 
W. K. Macfarlane '23, Stephen A. Mc- 
Clellan '23, Gordon McMillen '35, Perci- 
val Miller '15, J. G. Moriarty '18, J. O. 
Saunders '35, A. A. Slade '12, and E. R. 
Whitehead '3 5. Also E. Leo Barry, Robert 



R. Chase '3 3, H. C. Damon '10, Harold C. 
Field '94. E. P. Oilman '3 5, Dr. R. G. 
Harris '18, Henry C. Hart '01, Royal W. 
Leith '12, S. P. Metsger, Jr., '25, A. R. 
Pearsall '32, T. M. Phetteplace '33, Donald 
V. Reed '3 5, F. W. Seagrave '12, Carlton 
S. Stallard '27, Edward C. Stokes '83, H. N. 
Sweet '07, Chauncey E. Wheeler '09, E. W. 
Wise, Jr., '3 5. 



Rochester 

THE Brown Club of Rochester at its 
monthly luncheon Dec. 4 heard and dis- 
cussed a letter from the Alumni Secretary, 
giving news of events and personalities on 
College Hill. Said the Secretary, Malcolm 
C. Brown '19: 

"We had twelve alumni out for the 
luncheon, and have averaged about that for 
the last three meetings. Thus out of a pos- 
sible 50 in this vicinity we realised an at- 
tendance of roughly 25 per cent. I dare say 
that Cornell and the University of Roches- 
ter, which have the largest alumni bodies in 
the city, do not maintain a relative perform- 
ance. This is so despite the fact that the 
large number of alumni of these institutions 



enjoy permits the procurement of able 
speakers. 

"The Brown Club of Rochester welcomes 
Brown men as speakers, but when those 
luminaries who are occasionally deflected 
from their orbits over College Hil! are not 
available, the members of our local Club 
glitter and glimmer in their stead. . . . Our 
club, no doubt, is no different from other 
Brown Clubs, but one may take pride in the 
fact that it is only the exceptional college 
in America today that can produce grad- 
uates of varied interests who, without other 
inter-social contacts, can meet once a month 
for two hours and be in perfect intellectual 
rapport." 

* * * 

Cleveland 

THE Brown Club of Cleveland has ap- 
pointed a committee to work with the 
Trustees of the Brown Alumni Fund and 
the University in financial matters. Harry 
L. Hoffman '25 is chairman, and his fellow 
members are Dr. Richard E. Barnes '27, 
Harold L. Madison '01, A. E. Dillingham 
'18, Paul L. Stannard "29 and Carl H. 
Brown, Jr., '29. 



Brunonians Far and Near 



BY A. H. GURNEY 



On Municipal Government 

BROWN University was well represented 
when the National Municipal League 
held its 1935 meetings in Providence. 
Among speakers were: Governor Theodore 
Francis Green '87; Ivory Littlefield '09, a 
member of the Providence City Council; 
Norman S. Taber '13; Charles F. Towne 
'16; Professor Matthew C. Mitchell; Dr. 
Henry B. Van Hoesen, librarian of Brown 
University; and Henry D. Sharpe '94, 
president of the Providence Governmental 
Research Bureau, who presided over the 
annual banquet. 

1889 

Judge Nathan M. Wright, secretary of 
the Republican State Central Committee, 
has changed his residence from Providence 
to Glen Avenue, West Barrington, R. L 
1890 

Dr. James Quayle Dealey, editor of the 
Dallas J^ews, returned to Providence last 
month with Mrs. Dealey to spend the holi- 
days with their son-in-law and daughter, 
Gurney Edwards '18 and Mrs. Edwards. 
Dr. Dealey lunched at the University Club 
with H. R. Palmer and Dr. Harry L. Grant 
and other Brown men, and was as enthusi- 
astic about Texas as ever. He is hopeful that 
many Brown men and their families will 
visit Texas this year when the Texas Cen- 
tennial will be observed. 

J. Benton Porter and Mrs. Porter, who 
spent the summer at Barberry Hill, Wick- 
ford, are living at 209 Williams Street, 
Providence, this winter. 
1891 

Martin S. Fanning, secretary of the 
Turks Head Club, Providence, since the 
founding of the club in 1913, became pres- 
ident at the 23rd annual meeting held last 
month. Percy W. Gardner '03, A. Chester 




Snow '07, and Duncan Langdon '13 were 
on the nominating committee. 

1892 
Rev. Albert E. Hylan is spending the 
winter in Manatee, Fla., where his address 
is Paradise Court. 

1893 
The Secretary records with regret the 
death of Dr. William Burdick in Baltimore, 
Md., Dec. 21, 1935. An account of his 
career will appear in the next issue. 

1896 
Rev. Frederick W. Jones, rector of St. 
Thomas" Episcopal Church, Wanskuck 
(Providence), will resign from the parish 
soon after Easter to return again to Missis- 
sippi, where he will devote himself to his 
cotton plantation at Rosehill, near Jackson. 
He told his parishioners that the health of 
Mrs. Jones made it imperative that the 
family live in the South. 



1897 

Everett Colby has been serving as chair- 
man of the New Jersey division of the Will 
Rogers Memorial Fund Committee. A con- 
tribution to the fund is "an investment in 
optimism," he told his auditors in a talk 
over WOR, Newark, last month. 

The Virginians, at their annual dinner 
in New York on Dec. 5, gave to John D. 
Rockefeller, Jr., a medal in appreciation 
of Rockefeller's restoration of Williams- 
burg, the colonial capital of Virginia. 

George L. Miner is the new chairman of 
the Governor's Committee on Street and 
Highway Safety in Rhode Island. He repre- 
sented Rhode Island at the State Accident 
Prevention Conference held in Washington 
last month under the direction of Daniel C. 
Roper, Secretary of Commerce. 

Horace G. Bissell has opened an office 
for the general practice of law at 49 West- 
minster Street, Providence. 

Professor of Philosophy at Long Island 
University, Gregory D. Walcott gave a 
lecture on "Philosophy and Common 
Sense" before a large audience at David- 
son College, Davidson, N. C, the evening 
of November 1, and another lecture on 
"The Nature of Science" the following 
morning before a group of about seventy- 
five students especially interested in philoso- 
phy and science. Later in the forenoon he 
addressed a class in psychology for about 
twenty minutes. 

1899 

Frederick A. Vose, for the past 26 years 
an associate of John A. Gammons, Inc., is 
now with Gamwell 6? Ingraham, insurance 
and real estate, on the 16th floor of the In- 
dustrial Trust Building, Providence. Friends 
and acquaintances "just dropped in"" Mon- 
day and Tuesday, Dec. 9 and 10, to say 
hello to him in his new surroundings. 



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V^estchester Water 

FRANK E. WiNSOR '91, chief engi- 
neer of the MetropoHtan Water 
Supply, Boston, spoke at a mass 
meeting in the Little Theatre, White 
Plains, N. Y., last month on the pos- 
sibility of adapting to Westchester 
County a water system similar to the 
Boston one. Winsor is no stranger in 
White Plains, as he lived there be- 
tween 1906 and 191 T, while he was 
engaged in building Kcnsico Dam, 
the Catskill Aqueduct and other 
units for the New York City water 
system. 



1900 

George C. Wing, Jr., was defeated for 
re-election as Mayor of Auburn, Me., at the 
annual election Dec. 11. Ernest E. Estes, 
56-year-old crossing tender in the employ 
of the Maine Central Railroad and a boy- 
hood friend of Wing, carried the day by 61 
votes. Wing's defeat, the newspapers said, 
was a real upset, but the Mayor-elect was 
less concerned with this fact than he was 
with the fact that he intended to keep his 
job as crossing tender. A mayor's salary of 
$450 isn't worth giving up a lifetime place 
for, he told interviewers. Elections in Au- 
burn are on a non-partisan basis, as the city 
has a council-manager form of government. 

Clinton C. White's wife, Musetta Frances 
(Budlong) White, died in Providence, Dec. 
18, 1935, after a short illness. Mrs. White 
was a member of the Class of 1902 at Pem- 
broke College. The sincere sympathy of our 
class is given to White. 

1901 

Dr. Arthur Irving Andrews was a recent 
speaker before the Community Forum, 
Fitchburg, Mass., on "Nationalism and 
European Minorities." 

Louis C. Parsons, special student with 
the class for two years, has retired from 
business and is living in Norwich, N. Y. 

C. Sherman Hoyt was elected a member 
of the model committee of the New York 
Yacht Club at the annual meeting last 
month. 

1903 

Louis F. Baker's son. Ensign George T. 
Baker, who graduated from the Naval Acad- 
emy, Annapolis, last June is attached to the 
U.S. 8. Lexington, airplane carrier, at San 
Diego, Calif. 

Percy W. Gardner is a director of the 
American Peace Society. 

John Hutchins Cady, chairman of the 
State Planning Board, has collaborated in 
the design and drawing of an official his- 
torical map of Rhode Island and Providence 
Plantations for the State's tercentenary 
(1636-1936) this year. The map, now on 
public sale, will be of interest to Brown men 
everywhere. 

1905 

Colgate Hoyt is a member of the mem- 
bership committee of the New York Yacht 
Club for 1936. 

Dr. Charles A. Hobhs reports that his 
"two young hopefuls, Donald and Priscilla, 
are in their third year at the University of 
Minnesota," and that he enjoyed meeting 
Dr. Mead, Professor J. P. Adams and Pro- 
fessor Horatio Smith during the visit of the 



Faculty members to Minneapolis in Novem- 
ber. Hobbs's office is at the corner of Ni- 
collet Avenue and 26th Street, Minne- 
apolis. 

1906 

Wayne L. Randall's son, Gardner D. 
Randall, former member of the Class of 
1936 on the Hill, will go on duty at the 
Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Fla., Jan. 15, 
to receive instruction in naval aviation. He 
did his preliminary work at Floyd Bennett 
Field, near New York, and stood number 
four in a class of 15. 

Percy Shires has an important publicity 
post in connection with the Rhode Island 
observances of its Tercentenary, 1936. 

T. Elliott Tolson, president of the Hotel 
Bristol, New York, says business has im- 
proved materially and the future looks 
brighter than it has for many years. Dur- 
ing the last summer he conducted a survey 
of reasons why guests stop at the Hotel 
Bristol while in New York. More than half 
said they came because of previous visits or 
were sent by former guests. 

1907 

R. W. McPhee and his family are now 
occupying the old Hermitage Fraternity 
house at 1808 Hermitage Road, Ann Arbor, 
Mich. "It's a big house," McPhee said in a 
letter to Al Gurney, "so if you ever get out 
this way you may have your choice of 
North, East, South, or West exposure, 
and two bathrooms for your own personal 
and private use, with a couple of acres to 
roam around in — woods, greensward, or 
flower garden." His two daughters are at the 
University of Michigan, where one is major- 
ing in history and the other in romance 
languages, and his son is in high school, 
with ambition to be somebody in the 
business of aviation. McPhee, whose bus- 
iness continues to be real estate, asked to be 
remembered to "any and all who care to 
know" and said that he would try to be at 
reunion in 1937. 

H. W. Paine's older son, Rolf, is a Junior 
at Princeton, having dropped back a class 
as a result of a football injury. While he was 
out of college he went to South America 
for the year to do mineral prospecting. 

Rev. John H. McLean, minister of the 
Old Cambridge Baptist Church, Cambridge, 
Mass., since 1925, has recently become 
minister of the First Baptist Church, New 
Haven, Conn., and is living at 195 Living- 
ston Street, New Haven. 

A. Chester Snow's daughter. Miss Martha 
Sackett Snow, was presented to society at 
the Agawam Hunt Club, Dec. 20. 

George E. Burnham, in Manila the day 
the China Clipper of the Pan American Air- 



Camera Comment 

DR. George H, Sherwood '98, 
educational curator of the 
American Museum of Natural His- 
tory, New York City, spoke at the 
preview of the Metropolitan Salon of 
Photography at the Museum last 
month. The salon was the first of its 
kind to be shown in New York, and 
the 3 25 photographs in it were the 
work of both amateurs and profes- 
sionals in a prescribed area. 



ways arrived on its first trip, sent a letter to 
Al Gurney by return mail. The letter was 
postmarked: Manila, Dec. 2; San Francisco, 
Dec. 6; Providence, Dec. 9. "It took five 
days to come out," George wrote, "but they 
expect to do it in three days as soon as they 
start regular operation. Makes you feel a 
little nearer home. Three years from now 
when I hope to take my next leave maybe 
I'll travel airplane." George commented 
confidentially on the new Commonwealth 
of the Philippines, and said he had recently 
seen Henry Corp, "who still holds his job 
(railroad) and bids fair to stick for a while 
yet along with a few other experts in various 
lines." 

1908 

Hunter S. Marston and Mrs. Marston 
have announced the engagement of their 
daughter. Miss Eliiabeth J. Marston, to 
Robert Marvel of Wilmington, Del., a 
Senior at Yale. 

Dr. Harlan T. Stetson was the author of 
"What Was the Star of Bethlehem?" in 
This V^ee\ for Dec. 22. He gave astro- 
nomical data for readers to consider and 
choose among, and ended: "But why worry 
about the reality of the Star of Bethlehem, 
when each Christmas brings the bright star 
Sinus, the brightest of all stars in the 
sky, clearly into view above the eastern 
horizon? . . . Isn't it sufficiently satisfying 
to bring to mind each season the signifi- 
cance of the events which we commemorate 
in Christmas?" 

1909 

Clarence M. Whipple is New York State 
Compensation Officer with WPA, and lives 
at 110 Melrose Avenue, Albany, N. Y. 

1910 

Rev. Stephen D. Pyle, minister of the 
Peking Union Church, Peiping, China, 
and Mrs. Pyle are in this country on fur- 
lough, and their address is in care of Harvey 
O. Dobson, 189 Montague Street, Brooklyn, 
N. Y. It is Pyle's first visit home since 
March, 1929. "After an existence of rick- 
shas and coolie-service and chopsticks," 
he said in a letter, "I have a strong suspicion 
that the over-powering contrast of West 
and East will render me for once a bit 
humble, and unsteady, and that I shall need 
to be led around rather gently." 

William H. (Billy) Lynn is still going 
strong as the leading man of "Three Men 
on a Horse" in New York City. The run of 
this comedy hit of 1934-35 (it's a year old 
now) shows no signs of slowing down. 

Ralph M. Palmer was recently elected 
president of Ferro-Nil Corporation, of 
which he has been vice president and gen- 
eral manager since 1927. 

1911 

Miss Dorothy W. Smith, daughter of 
Brenton G. Smith and Mrs. Smith, was 
presented to society at the Agawam Hunt 
Club, East Providence, Dec. 20. 

Major Harold B. Bliss, C.A.C., U. S. A., 
is at present on duty at Fort Sill, Okla. 

Katherine L. G. Breckenridge, wife of 
Andrew L. Breckenridge of New Haven, 
Conn., is the author of "Salt Air," a sea- 
side story, which the Alliance Press has 
published. The book is Mrs. Breckenridge's 
first. 

P. Douglas McPhee is still raising apples 
and engaging in real estate in his spare 
time at 913 Highland Drive, Wenatchee, 
Wash. 



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It is easy to telephone, but there is nothing easy 
about giving you good telephone service. It 
lakes many thousands of trained employees to 
do that. 

A considerable part of this work is handled by 
the Central Office men. Their job is to safeguard 
service — to prevent trouble from getting a start. 

They are constantly testing lines, circuits, s-witch- 
boards and other equipment — working with out- 
side repair men — performing the thousand and 
one tasks that keep things running right and prevent 



Skilled maintenance men guard your telephone service day 
and night. As a result of their vigilance, both local and long 
distance calls go through more quickly and accurately. 

their going -wrong. This work goes on twenty-four 
hours a day — every day in the year. 

The "trouble shooters" of the Bell System work 
quirMy. effectively because of careful training and 
lo- ^- experience. Their loyalty, skill and resource- 
fulness are a priceless tradition of the telephone 
business. 

It is no accident that your telephone goes along 
for so many months without trouble of any kind. 
The Bell System gives this country the most efficient, 
reliable telephone service in the world. 



ffed Tilepfune Sif^Sun 




BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Brown Alumni Monthly 

Pubi\shed at Brown University by the 
Associated Alumni 



CHESLEY VVORTHINGTON 2] 

Mjjidgitig Editor 

ARTHUR BRAITSCH '23 
Business Manager 

HENRY S CHAFEE Oq 
Managing Director 

ALFRED H GURNEY 07 

Secietdry 

GERTRUDE ALLEN McCONNELL ' 
Pembrotie Correspondent 



Subscnptiona. $2 a year. Single copieB. 2T centf 
There i« no issue g uring August or September. 

Entered at the Providence Post Office 
as arcnnd-rtas« marter 



Vol. XXXVI 



JANUARY. 1936 



No. 6 



Talk about the 2')tli Reunion next June 
is beginning to crystallize. If you have any 
idca,s or .';iiggcstions, send them right along 
to your Cla.ss Secretary. Charles P. Sisson, 
1408 Turks Head Building, Providence. 

1912 

Dr. W. Randolph Burgess of the Federal 
Reserve Bank of New York has been re- 
elected treasurer of Phi Beta Kappa Foun- 
dation. 

Harry G. Seidel, vice president and di- 
rector of the Standard Oil Company of 
New Jersey, with his headquarters in Lon- 
don, came home with Mrs. Seidel for the 
holidays, and divided their time between 
Providence and New York City. 

Samson Nathanson, former president of 
the Touro Fraternal Association, has be- 
come a member of the board of directors of 
the association for three years. 

1915 

Warren P. Norton, superintendent of 
schools of Meadvillc, Pa., in a recent letter 
to the Alumni Secretary said: "I am still 
hoping to be able to get back to Providence 
some day. My six-year-old son is very 
anxious to see the college that produced 
his dad. He says that he expects to attend 
Brown." 

Maurice J. Sievers, secretary of the United 
Jewish Social Agencies of Cincinnati and 
executive secretary of the Cincinnati Jew- 
ish Welfare Fund Campaign, spoke on 
"The Problem of Social Security" at the 
last annual meeting of the Institute for 
Volunteer Workers of the United Jewish 
Social Agencies. 

Lieut. Governor Robert E. Quinn has 
come out strongly in favor of the view that 
Rhode Island cities should adopt a single 
Council system with a small number of 
Councilmen elected at large "to secure a 
better government through election of a 
higher type of individual to public office." 

John A. W. Pcarce is principal of the 
Saugus, Mass., High School and lives at 
1 5 Myrtle Street, Saugus. 

1916 

THE Class Executive Committee, meeting 
recently at the University Club, made 
preliminary plans for the 20th Reunion in 
June. Jack Dunn of New Bedford; Ike 
White and Joe Halloran of New York; 
Everett Perkins ot Boston and Newbury- 
port; and Jack Moore, Paul Lyall and Phil 
Feiner of Providence were added to the 



committee as a Reunion Committee. Men 
were assigned to handle the difJerent parts 
of the program, and soon full announce- 
ment will be made of the high spots of the 
Reunion, which no "16 man within reach- 
ing distance of Providence and the campus 
can afford to miss. So mark the days June 
12, 13, 14, 15 on your new calendar, give 
your wife or boss, or both, due notice, and 
come back for one of the best times of 
your life. 

Major J. Lindley Gammell's address is 
the 105th Field Artillery Armory, 171 Cler- 
mont Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y., where he 
is instructor on duty with the New York 
National Guard. 

Alderman John J. Cashman of the Fifth 
Ward, Providence, is an examiner in the 
division of banking and insurance. State of 
Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. 
He was appointed last month by M. Joseph 
Cummings '18, chief of the division. 

1917 

James S. Powers is the new manager of 
RKO Proctor's Theatre in New Rochelle, 
N. Y. For the past three years he has been 
manager of the theatre belonging to the 
same chain on 58th Street, New York City. 

Wayland W. Rice has become secretary 
of the Turks Head Club, Providence, suc- 
ceeding Martin S. Fanning '91. 

1918 

One of the column writers of the T^ew 
Tor/^ Daily AJews wrote toward the close of 
the 193 5 football season: 

"Brown has the worst team, but the best 
scholastic standing in the East. Jimmy 
Jcmail, now the Inquiring Photog, was a 
star halfback at Brown. 'All I had to do to 
earn my way was wash dishes, wait on train- 
ing table and peel a standard sack of spuds 
daily; tend the Phi Gamma Delt frat fur- 
nace and share a room. Although I played 
in the Rose Bowl game with Fritz Pollard,' 
says Jim, "I was shy tuition money after 
receiving a small scholarship. The Brown 
Club of Providence loaned me $85. Two 
years out of school the club presented the 
note, demanded, and received payment. 
Now do you understand why no one will 
ever accuse Brown of being a football 
factory?' " 

Harold Williams was again a leading 
figure in the annual Christmas show staged 
by the men of the Providence Art Club, 
writing the play and taking the central 
character of "the last Republican post- 
master." 

1919 

Marvin W. Ray is with the Publicity 
Department, P. F. Collier 6? Sons, in Bos- 
ton, and lives at 21 Harvard Avenue, 
Brooklinc, Mass. 

Donald G. Millar's yacht Nancy received 
third pri:e for the season and first prize in 
the fall series of the Interclub Class at the 
annual meeting and dinner at the Yale 
Club, New York City, last month. 

Malcolm C. Brown, accountant with the 
Department of Finance, City Hall, Roches- 
ter, N. Y., recently changed his residence to 
341 South Goodman Street, Rochester. He 
IS secretary of the Brown Club of Rochester. 

Roger T. Clapp gave a talk on Mark 
Twain before the British Empire Club in 
Providence last month in recognition of the 
Twain anniversary. 

1920 

F. William Zelcer, former aviation com- 



missioner of New York City, is vice presi- 
dent in charge of traffic of Marine Air- 
lines, recently organized to operate a high 
speed service between Boston .and New 
York. Service will begin next summer, and 
"the 190-mile flight itself will require but 
an hour and a quarter." 
1921 

Nathan W. Edson has joined Bliss 
Fabyan (i Co., Inc., and has charge of 
candlewick and blanket distribution in the 
New England territory. He is working out 
of the Boston ofTice at 140 Federal Street. 
1922 

Bertrand M. Lewis is in Los Angeles, 
where he intends to establish himself in the 
dry ice business. 

Raymond T. Rich, director of the World 
Peace Foundation, has his name in the new 
edition of the international "Who's Who." 
He has been li.sted in "Who's Who in 
America" since 1932. 

Harold M. Edwards is getting some relax- 
ation from his law practice this winter by 
appearing with the community players in 
their productions in Bronxville. 
1923 

Robert T. Williams, special agent and 
adjuster with the Aetna Insurance Com- 
pany, now has his offices in the California 
State Life Building, Sacramento, Calif. 
"It's God's country," he wrote last month, 
"after five years in Salt Lake City. . . . My 
home is at 718 21st Street. Ran into my old 
friend Dave Goddard '24 at the big game 
(California-Stanford) at Palo Alto." 

Robert J. Russell, Jr., special representa- 
tive of the General Reinsurance Corpora- 
tion at 90 John Street, New York City, 
reports his new house address to be 47-31 
157th Street, Flushing, N. Y. 

S. Key Dickinson is Assistant State 
Director of the National Youth Adminis- 
tration for West Virginia. His office is at 
308 Smallridge Building, Charleston. In a 
note at the end of his postal card he said 
that Robert F. Cahill had moved to Coral 
Gables, Fla. 

Donald C. Rubel has been admitted to 
partnership in the New York Stock Ex- 
change firm of Parrish 6? Co. 
1924 

Earle Vincent Johnson, executive with 
the Republic Realty Mortgage Corporation, 



Michigan Tribute 

THE Michigan Technic for Novem- 
ber carried a character sketch of 
Albert Easton White '07, Professor 
of Metallurgical Engineering and 
Director of Engineering Research at 
the University of Michigan, in recog- 
nition of his recent election as vice 
president of the American Society 
for Testing Materials. "While an 
undergraduate at Brown University," 
said Tec/i7itc, "Bert White was 
known as a quiet boy who did his 
work well and left fame and pub- 
licity to those who were more desir- 
ous of it than he. ... In his sopho- 
more year he played centre on his 
class football team which did not 
have a point scored against it in two 
years of competition. His deep loyalty 
to Brown has shown itself in his ac- 
tive participation in alumni affairs." 



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Chicago, has changed his house address to 
S20 South Crescent, Park Ridge, 111. 

Harold Hassell is working for Price, 
Watcrhouse ^ Co., auditors and account- 
ants, in New York City. 

1925 

Newell A. Norton, with a new son in his 
family, is still on duty at the U. S. Forest 
Products Laboratory, Madison, Wis., with 
his special work in the section of silvi- 
cultural relations of which Arthur Koehlcr, 
wood expert in the Lindbergh kidnapping 
case, is in charge. The Nortons are living 
at 2OO7J/2 University Avenue, Madison. 

Garrett D. Byrnes, motion picture editor 
of the Providence Evening BuJlctni. had an 
assignment recently that would make any- 
one envious. He was sent out to Hollywood 
for three weeks. Since his return he has 
been writing a series of intimate stories 
about the inside of the film industry that 
is the best thing of its kind we have seen. 

Richard H. Anthony is handling pub- 
licity for the Rhode Island Auditorium in 
addition to his magazine and photographic 
work. 

1926 

William A. Knipe, 2nd, auditor with the 
Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, has 
deserted New England for the time being, 
he says, and is living at 4615 North Hamil- 
ton Street, Chicago. He is working out of 
the Chicago office of his company. 

Melchior Gurjian is registrar of the 
Emergency Program of Collegiate Studies 
carried on at the Providence Y. M. C. A. 
for the benefit of high school graduates 
who could not afford to enter college this 
academic year. 

Jacob S. Temkin was installed this month 
as president of the Touro Fraternal Associa- 
tion of Rhode Island, succeeding Samonson 
Nathanson '12. 

1927 

Dr. Richard E. Barnes, we hear, has 
become one of Cleveland's rising young 
yachtsmen. Dick "each year buys a sail- 
boat a little longer or a little better than 
the one he had, and continues to take a full 
share of the prizes in the summer regattas 
on Lake Erie." 

President Byron S. Hollinshead of 
ScrantonKeystone Junior College, wrote 
the leading article for the ?^ew Tor/j Herald 
Tribune's educational page Sunday, Decem- 
ber 22, on the place the junior college may 
well play in fitting for technical vocations 
those students who will not continue their 
education beyond the junior college. 

Selig Greenberg's column, "Sense and 
Nonsense of the Week," in the Providence 
fvcTimg Bulletni, is one of the best weekly 
features of that newspaper. Greenberg has 
been a member of the city staff of the 
fvennis Bulletin since graduation. 

Harold B. Mistr has been re-elected presi- 
dent of the Brown Club of Washington. 

Paul D. O'Brien, with the law firm of 
O'Brien, Driscoll and Raftery, keeps in 
good physical shape by playing squash, and 
has developed a game good enough to win 
him a place on the Brown Club of New 
York squash team. 

Dr. Walter P. Gage reports his new 
address to be 667 Madison Ave., New York 
City. 

Anybody in the Class ever see or hear 
from George B. Cole? The Alumni Office 
would like to get correct information con- 
cerning Coles present whereabouts. 



1928 

Harold K. Halpert, after teaching at 
Duxbury Academy, Duxbury, Mass., for 
the past five years, has deserted the school 
room for business and at present is with 
the Mill End Shop and is living at 520 
Northeast 26th Street, Miami, Fla. 

Dr. Frederick Behrendt is practising den- 
tistry with his offices in Suite 1808, 11 Wall 
Street, New York City. 

G. Richmond Carpenter of the city staff 
of the Proi-'idence Evening Bulletin is living 
at 78 Third Street, Providence. 

The Alumni Office would like to get the 
present address of Thomas L. Jones, once of 
Kentucky and later of Binghamton, N. Y. 
Anybody know anything about Tom? 



San S. Friedman is an executive with the 
Hecht Company, Washington, D. C. 
1929 

Willis H. Gerry, setting himself down 
as free lance writer, reports his present 
address to be iV/z "Vicente Terrace, Santa 
Monica, Calif. 

Lester F. Shaal and his family have 
changed their house address to 39 Norwood 
Avenue, Edgewood, R. I. Les is still active 
as a research engineer. 

Donald C. Marschner is assistant adver- 
tising manager of Shell Eastern Petroleum 
Products, Inc. Here's a chance for some 
enterprising Brown man to go to work on 
Don to persuade him to change the colors 
of the Shell service stations from yellow 




Do You Talk to Yourself ? 

An old saying states that people who talk to 
themselves have "money in the bank." We don't 
know whether any of Old Colony's shareholders 
have this habit. But . . if the saying is true . . there 
are over 35,000 Rhode Islanders who have an 
excuse for murmuring to themselves any time at all. 

Over the last forty years Old Colony has pro- 
vided thousands of people writh a safe, profitable 
and convenient place for their savings. With its 
variety of savings plans, suitable for any purse or 
purpose. Old Colony has helped thrifty people to 
get the most out of their spare funds. 

Talk yourself into opening an account here 
when next you have idle funds. You can start 
with as little as 50c a week or a month. 

Old Colony 

Co-operative Bank 

58 "WEYBOSSET ST., PROVIDENCE 

WODNSOCKET-WEST VtARWICK -CREVSTONE -PAWTUCKET 
MEMBER, FEDERAL HOME LOAN B.'VNK SYSTEM 



A Savings- &'Loan Assn, Founded 1895 




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and red to brown and white. Don has been 
with the Shell firm since graduation. 

Fred Bentley, lawyer in Cleveland, is a 
member of the First Cleveland Cavalry 
polo team, and an observer tells us that 
Fred is developing into a fine player. 

Win Dodge came to the campus recently 
to get some Brown football films to show at 
a football banquet in New Bedford. The 
teams he has coached at the high school 
there have lost only si.x games in four years. 
One year, the season in which he succeeded 
the late "Jimmy" Murphy, the eleven went 
undefeated. The next it lost one game, the 
following season two games, and this year 
three, in a neat if not pleasing progression. 
1930 

Milton J. Landman is a department man- 
ager with L. Bamberger &? Co., department 
store, Newark, and is living with his fam- 
ily (his boy Neil is going on two years old) 
at 293 South Centre Street, Orange, N. J. 

Dr. Munroe Dashoff has opened an office 
for the general practice of dentistry at 
7 Broadway, Newport, R. L 

Maurice W. Hendel is the new vice presi- 
dent of the Touro Fraternal Association 
of Rhode Island. 

Ralph Anderton is again serving as 
coach of the East Providence High School 
wrestling squad. 

1931 

THE Fifth Reunion of the Class will be 
held at Watch Hill in June. There's a 
fact for every member of the Class to make 
note of right away. Joe O'Neil as chairman 
of the reunion committee has already called 
two meetings of various New York mem- 
bers of the Class to get things started. A 
questionnaire has been mailed to all mem- 
bers asking for data on what they are doing, 
marriage, children, and the like. This infor- 
mation will be used to compile a "Who's 
Who," which will be multigraphed and 
mailed late in February. 

The reunion will start officially at lunch- 
eon at a Watch Hill hotel at noon Saturday, 
June 13. The afternoon will be for swim- 
ming, golf, and tennis; a business meeting 
will precede the informal dinner, which, 
with entertainment, is expected to last 
through the evening. Joe Micucci and Bill 
Kernan have been giving thought to the 
type of entertainment to be presented — 
and that is a guarantee in itself that every- 
thing will be tops. Sunday will be to do 
with as you will, and the reunion will come 
to a close with breakfast at the University 
Club and the march down the Hill in 
the Commencement procession Monday 
morning. 

The New York group which has started 
the ball rolling is composed of Joe O'Neil, 
Lee Marshall, Ben Leonard, Happy Hap- 
good, Joe Micucci, Bill Kernan, and George 
Coughlan. It is planned to enlarge the 
group very shortly so as to have a diversi- 
fied committee representing all sections of 
the country and to get as many new ideas 
and as much co-operation as possible. Any 
member of the class who has any sugges- 
tions will please send them promptly to 
Joe O'Neil at the Brown Club, 39 East 39th 
Street, New York City. 

Wesley F. Huse is with the United Fruit 
Company, we hear, at Armnelles, Panama. 

Richard J. Walsh is selling artists' mate- 
rials, with his headquarters at 10 East 43rd 
Street, New York City. He is getting his 
mail at Richards Avenue, R. F. D. 37, 
South Norwalk, Conn. 




VICTORIOUS GRAD 
Oscar Hammer, one-lime captain of 
Brown baslietball, who returned to aid 
an alumni quintet defeat the present 
undergraduate varsity. 



Kenneth A. Hcnn, whose marriage is 
reported in another column, is working for 
Warner ty Swascy Company, 5701 Carnegie 
Avenue. Cleveland, O. He says that he is 
an "embryo salesman," if you must give 
him a title. Anyway, he is going through an 
extensive training course and next fall will 
start out on the road. Red McDonough and 
Walter Wentworth took part in the wed- 
ding ceremony, and Kenn wrote: "It was 
the first time that the three of us had been 
together since graduation, and we had so 
much fun reminiscing that we almost forgot 
to get me married!" He also said that Bud 
Robertson was married, had a baby daugh- 
ter, and was doing well with a Cleveland 
printing company. 

John M. Moler, with a series of special 
business courses behind him, is now get- 
ting practical experience in the offices of 
the Rock Island Railroad at 500 Fifth Ave., 
New York City. John's new house address 
is 43 Pennsylvania Ave., Crestwood, N. Y. 

Richard H. Howland is on his way back 
to Greece, having sailed on the Majestic 
last month from New York after spending 
the summer and fall in this country. Dick 
holds the Agora Fellowship of the Ameri- 
can School of Classical Studies at Athens, 
and will study and do archaeological work 
in Greece during the next three years. 

Dr. Mortimer D. Burger is an interne at 
St. Joseph's Hospital, Yonkers, N. Y. At 
the College of Medicine, University of 
Vermont, where he took his M.D., he was 
a member of Phi Delta Epsilon. 

C. L. Jones, editor of the Maplewood 
'Hews and South Orange Home T^ews in 
New Jersey, is also manager of the Subur- 
ban Newspaper Exchange, which supplies 
a growing list of smaller newspapers with 
syndicate features. Frank Merchant '31 is 
literary editor for the Exchange. 

Robert M. Rutan, with James F. White 
y Co., Inc., importers of burlaps and linens 
at 54 Worth Street, New York City, wrote 
last month: "I am looking forward to our 
fifth reunion, and hope to see a lot of the 
boys back." 



1933 

Bob West writes that he has been work- 
ing for MGM at the company's motion pic- 
ture studios for the past nine months and 
that Mrs. West and he are living at 8260 
Norton Street, Hollywood, Calif. "My sole 
ambition in life now," he wrote, "is to see 
Brown play in the Rose Bowl sometime 
before I have to take to a wheel chair or 
crutches. Say they win one more game each 
year than they did the year before and they 
should play here approximately in 1944. 
This past season was pretty grim . . . but I 
am glad to see that they are not gunning 
for Tuss's scalp." 

Gene Hart is with the F. H. Devitt 
Agency of the Equitable Life Assurance 
Society at Room 826, 60 East 42nd Street, 
New York City. 

Joe Sugarman is practising law, with his 
office at 18 Tremont Street, Boston. 

Russ Dolan is beginning his third year in 
the Commercial Department, New England 
Telephone 6? Telegraph Company. He's 
been on duty in Taunton, Mass., for the 
past two years. 

Al Griffiths and Art Skeel are back in the 
old home town of Cleveland, and are doing 
well in insurance and real estate respec- 
tively. Al has a wife and a baby boy, and 
Art is making enough in real estate to travel 
to out-of-the-way places whenever the incli- 
nation strikes him. Art's new address is 
2636 North Moreland Boulevard, Cleve- 
land Heights, O. 

1934 

Hugh Welshman, Jr., is a student sales 
engineer in the heating, power and indus- 
trial piping division of the Grinnell Com- 
pany, Providence. Hugh and Mrs. Welsh- 
man are now happily settled in their new 
apartment at 229 Camp Street. 

Herb Phillips has joined the sales staff 
of the New England Mutual Life Insurance 
Company, 1228 Industrial Trust Building, 
Providence. 

Norm Singleton, we hear, is trying his 
hand at writing advertising copy for the 
Gorham Mfg. Company, silversmiths, and 
is also learning the details of retail sales, 
and such. During the holidays and for 
three weeks preceding them, he worked in 
the Maiden Lane store of the company in 
New York City. 

Bob Knapp, member of the Class in 
Freshman year, is playing polo with the 
First Cleveland Cavalry team and is be- 
coming an outstanding player in his section 
of the Middle West. 

1935 

Walter Bopp is in the statistical depart- 
ment of Reynolds & Co., investment securi- 
ties, at 120 Broadway, New York City. 

Walter S. Peck, Jr., is a first-year student 
at Colgate Rochester Divinity School, 
Rochester, N. Y. 

Ross de Matteo is with the Collyer Insu- 
lated Wire Company, Pawtucket, to learn 
the business from the ground up. 

Tilden B. Mason is doing graduate work 
in economics at the University of Michigan. 

Frank S. (Jeff) Read is working for the 
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation at 
the Chicago office. Room 625 Federal Re- 
serve Building, 164 West Jackson Blvd. 

Ed Read is learning something about the 
brokerage business with Hornblower (i 
Weeks, 39 South La Salle Street, Chicago. 



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EXGAGEMEHTS 

MISS Helen Louise Breed, daughter 
of Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Breed of 
Swampscott, Mass., to Robert E. 
Arnold '29 of Central Falls, R. I. 

Miss Dorothy T. Clark, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Lester V. Clark of Ridgewood, 
N. J., to Harold L Smith "30 of Verona, 
New Jersey. 

Miss Elizabeth Webb Bucklin, daughter 
of Mrs. Daniel Dailey Bucklin of Provi- 
dence, to John E. Flemming, Jr., "33 of 
Brooklyn, N. Y. Miss Bucklin is Pem- 
broke '34. 

Miss Florence Louise Spear, daughter 
of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse G. Spear of 
Auburn, to Leonard S. Tabcr "33, also of 
Auburn, R. L 

Miss Marion Teller, daughter of Mrs. 
Marion E. Teller and a graduate of Mills 
College, to "William F. KroU "3'), Piedmont, 
Calif. KroU studied at Brown before trans- 
ferring to the University of California. 

WEDDINGS 

1925 — Herbert W. Spink and Miss Alice 
G Hathaway "25, Pembroke, were married 
in Providence, Aug. 12, 193 5. They live at 
104 Ontario Street, Providence. 

1925 — Alfred L. Simon and Miss Mar- 
guerite Manscll, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Paul Mansell, were married in Mamaroneck, 
N. Y., Nov. 17, 1935. They are living in 
Ballston Spa, N. Y. 

1927 — Edward Goldberger and Miss 
Marjorie Alice Lowenstcin, daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Lincoln Lowen- 
stcin, were married in New York City, 
Dec. 19, 193 5. Dr. Milton Goldberger "24 
was best man. Mr. and Mrs. Goldberger are 
living in Providence. 

1931 — Kenneth A. Henn and Miss 
Margaret Tolan were married in Cleveland 
Heights, O., Oct. 5, 1935. Joseph M. 
McDonough, Jr., "31 was best man, and 
Walter W. Wentworth, 2nd, was an usher. 
Mr. and Mrs. Henn are at home at 1871 
Roxford Road, Cleveland, O. 

1931 — Walter H. Tavcrner, Jr., and 
Miss Elisabeth Mae Ackerman, daughter 
of Mr and Mrs. Charles Ackerman, were 
married in Westfield, N. J., Nov. 27, 1935. 
They live at Carleton Towers, Carleton 
Rd., Westfield. 

193 2 — John R. Dolan and Miss Marjorie 
Peck were married Thanksgiving Day, 
Nov. 28, 193 5, it has been announced. 
They are living at 13 Lewis St., Providence. 

1933— Lieut. Harrell G. Hall, U. S. R., 
and Miss Mary Bigger Walthall, daughter 
of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Walthall, were mar- 
ried in San Antonio, Tex., Dec. 5, 1935. 
They are living in Lubbock, Tex. 
* * * 

BIRTHS 

1917 — To Mr. and Mrs. William M. 
Cleare of Fall River, Mass., a daughter, 
Maureene, Dec. 4, 193 5. Mrs. Cleare was 
Mary A. Lomax "25, Pembroke. 

1919 — To Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Whitman 
of Montevideo, Uruguay, a son, Ralph 
Eugene, Oct. 12, 1935. 

1919 — To Mr. and Mrs. William E. 
Boyle of Providence, a daughter, Margaret 
Ann, Nov. 24, 1935. 

1920 — To Mr. and Mrs. Seth B. Gilford 
of Cranston, R. L, a daughter, Constance 
Irene, on Oct. 24, 1935. 

1922 — To Mr. and Mrs. John W. Faw- 
cett of Montclair, N. J., a son, Edward 
Carrington, Nov. 22, 193 5. 



1923 — To Dr. and Mrs. Daniel V. 
Troppoli of Providence, a daughter, Jane 
Webster, Nov. 24, 193 5. 

1923 — To Mr. and Mrs. Arvid N. Larson 
of Pawtuxet, R. L, a son, Arthur Donald, 
Nov. 28, 1935. 

1924 — To Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Goff 
of Providence, a son, Robert H. Gotf. Jr., 
Nov. 17, 1935. 

192-1 — To Mr. and Mrs. Carl J. Lalumia 
of Hamden, Conn., a daughter, Priscilla 
Rose, on November 28, 1935. 

1925 — To Mr. and Mrs. Newell A. 
Norton of Madison, Wis., a son, Richard 
Shekell, Aug. 4, 1935. 



1926 — To Dr. and Mrs. Percy Laurance 
Bailey, Jr., of Riverdale, N. Y., a son, 
Richard Holmes, Nov. 8, 193 5. Mrs. Bailey 
was Gladys Holmes '26, Pembroke. 

1926 — To Mr. and Mrs. A. Ormond 
Saart of Providence, a second son, Richard 
Joslin, Dec. 2, 1935. 

1926 — To Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Knox 
of Providence, a daughter, Judith Ellison, 
Nov. 18, 1935. 

1928 — To Mr. and Mrs. Leslie T. Chase 
of Providence, a daughter, Jacqueline 
Thurber, Nov. 27, 1935. 

1932 — To Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. 
Letoile of Riverside, R. L, a daughter, 
Diane Meredith, Nov. 30, 1935. 



Those We Mourn 



1876 

RICHARD HOADLEY TiNGLEY, civil engi- 
neer, author, and crossword puzzle 
" expert, died at his home in Port Ches- 
ter, N. Y., Dec. 13, 1935, after a short 
illness. He made thousands of crossword 
puzzles for newspaper and magazine syndi- 
cates, was for years a regular contributor to 
The Annalist, The Hew ror\ World. The 
Wall Street Journal, The OutJoo/^ and other 
publications. 

Born in Windham, Conn., July 4, 1856, 
the son of George Curtis and Georgianna 
(Sage) Tingley, he prepared at Providence 
High School. At Brown he took all engi- 
neering courses then available and on grad- 
uation went to work on the construction of 
the West Shore Railroad along the Hudson 
River. Then he migrated West and joined 
the engineering staff building the Northern 
Pacific Railroad in the Yosemite Valley. He 
worked through the scene ot the Custer 
Massacre the year after the battle. 

After his return East he was a civil engi- 
neer in Providence and New York, being 
president and chief engineer of the R. H. 
Tingley Company. After 1913 he devoted 



most of his time to literary, scientific and 
economic research, and the writing of spe- 
cial articles. Among his books were "Trade 
Acceptances," 1916; and "Banka Tin," 
which the Government of the Dutch East 
Indies published in 1922. During the 
World War he served with the War Indus- 
tries Board, with transportation economics 
as his field. He made and sold at least 2,000 
crossword puzzles, and wrote a popular 
syndicate series under the title of "What 
Do You Know?"" 

He belonged to the Puzzlers League, the 
Blizzard Men of 1888, the Forty-Forty 
Club, the University Club of Port Chester, 
the Episcopal Church, and Psi Upsilon. 

He was married April 13, 1887, to Bertha 
Franklin Tingley, who survives, with a son, 
Maurice Tingley, and two daughters, Mrs. 
Charles W. Anderson of Morristown, N. J., 
and Miss Pauline C. Tingley of Port Chester. 

1878 

BENNETT ROLLIN Wheeler, dean of 
Kansas lawyers, died at his home in 
Topeka, Nov. 26, 193 5. He had been ill 
with pneumonia for about ten days, the 



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80th birthday last October 23. 

He was born in Providence in 1855, the 
son of Bennett W. and Betsy J. (Monroe) 
Wheeler. Several of his forebears were 
newspapermen and were prominent in the 
early history of Rhode Island. He came to 
Brown from Mowry (i Goff's English (i 
Classical School, and, after winning his 
bachelor's degree, entered Boston Univer- 
sity Law School, from which he received 
theLL.B. in 1880. 

Admitted to the Rhode Island bar in 
that year, he started West after his mar- 
riage to Grace Dyer Manton in 1881, and 
in May, 1881, settled in Topeka, where he 
commenced the practice of law. He soon 
established a reputation as a thorough law- 
yer, and "came to be regarded as one of the 
best real estate lawyers in this part of the 
nation." In 1889 he formed the law part- 
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senior member of the law firm of Wheeler, 
Brewster S' Hunt at the time of his death. 

He was one of the first teachers and 
lecturers at Washburn College Law School, 
which he helped to organize and in which 
he took particular interest. He was a past 
president and member of the Kansas State 
Bar Association: chairman of the board of 
the Capitol Building and Loan Association; 
charter member and president of the Foster 
Humane Society; a founder of the Topeka 
Country Club and of the Topeka Club, now 
the University Club, and a member of 
several patriotic societies and Delta Upsilon. 
He also belonged to Grace Cathedral. 

Surviving are his widow, two daughters, 
Mrs. Marjorie Wheeler Bubb and Mrs. 
A. H. Meyer, three grandchildren, and one 
great grandchild. 

"Mr. Wheeler above all else was a kindly 
man," said the Tope/^a Journal. "He was 
active in civic affairs and did his part 
simply and quietly and exercised great influ- 
ence in the life and growth of Topeka. . . . 
Many now prominent attorneys of Kansas 
received their knowledge of real estate 
law from Bennett Wheeler." 

1882 

HARRY Wild Jones, architect, and organ- 
iser of the Department of Architecture 
at the University of Minnesota, died at his 
home in Minneapolis, Sept. 26, 193 5. His 
funeral was held in Lakewood Chapel, 
which he himself designed. 

As a church architect he was nationally 
known. A student of every phase of church 
and Sunday school house planning, he de- 
signed church buildings in nearly all parts 
of the country. Some of them include Mt. 
Vernon Baptist Church, New York City; 
First Presbyterian Church, Albany, Ga.; 
West Park Baptist Church, St. Louis; First 
Methodist Episcopal Church, Ottawa, Kan.; 
Congregational Church, Dickinson, N. D.; 
Judson Memorial Baptist Church, Minne- 
apolis; and the Baptist Church at Granville, 
Ohio. He was consulting architect for the 
First Baptist Churches of San Francisco, 
Pittsburgh, and Battle Creek, Mich.; and 
the architect of the Shanghai College 
Chapel. He also designed many commercial 
buildings. 

He was born in Schoolcraft, Mich., 
Jan. 9, 1859, the son of Rev. Howard 
Malcolm Jones '5 3 and Mary White (Smith) 
Jones, whose father was the author of 
"America." (The original manuscript of 
the song is now in possession of Harvard.) 
Harry Jones prepared at the University 
Grammar School, studied two years at 
Brown, and then went to Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology, where he received 
the B.S. degree in 1882. In 1903 the Cor- 
poration gave him his A.B. degree by 
special vote, an award which greatly pleased 
him. 

After studying architecture in the office 
of H. H. Richardson in Boston, he removed 
to Minneapolis in 1883, set up for himself, 
and soon became successful. In 1892 he 
organized the Department of Architecture 
at the University of Minnesota and served 
two years as Professor of Architecture with- 
out giving up his practice. He also lectured 
at the University of Chicago and at several 
theological schools on church architecture. 
He was the first director of the Minnesota 
State Art Society, and one of the most 
active members of the Minneapolis Board 
of Park Commissioners for twelve years. 



He was a director of the Minnesota Society 
of Fine Arts, a founder of Calvary Baptist 
Church, and a member of the Minneapolis 
and Six O'Clock Clubs, and Chi Phi, now 
Sigma Chi. Near the end of the World War 
he accepted appointment as vocational offi- 
cer to organize District No. 10 in the States 
of Minnesota, South and North Dakotas, 
and Montana, to provide for the rehabilita- 
tion and training of disabled soldiers. He 
was also a speaker for the Laymen's Mis- 
sionary Movement after his return from a 
world's tour in 1907. One of his friends 
was the late President William H. Taft. 

He was married in 1883 to Miss Bertha J. 
Tucker; in 1933 he and Mrs. Jones cele- 
brated their golden wedding anniversary. 
Mrs. Jones survives, with two sons, Malcolm 
and Arthur L. Jones of Minneapolis, and a 
daughter, Mary White Jones of Aurora, 111. 

1884 

WILL Clarence Ingalls, former teach' 
er and insurance man, died in New 
York City, Dec. 3, 193 5, a few days after 
he and his wife had settled in a new apart- 
ment. He had been a successful school offi- 
cial for nearly 20 years when he resigned 
to enter life insurance work. 

He was born in Bradford, N. H., Sept. 
19, 1858, the son of Moses C. and Lucy A. 
(Ayer) Ingalls. He prepared at Vermont 
Academy, organized a debating society as 
an undergraduate at Brown, resigned from 
a national fraternity in protest over selec- 
tion of initiates, and after receiving his 
degree began his teaching career as assist- 
ant in the English and scientific department 
of the Providence High School. From 1890- 
92 he was principal of Wasco Academy and 
Normal School, The Dalles, Ore., and after 
a year of business in New Britain, Conn., 
assistant superintendent and then super- 
intendent of schools. Flushing, N. Y. 

From Flushing he went to Rutherford, 
N. J., as supervising principal of the public 
schools, and from Rutherford to Bridgeton, 
N. J., where he was principal of the South 
Jersey Institute, 1900-02. He gave up school 
work for business in New York City, and 
in 1905 joined the staff of the Northwestern 
Life Insurance Company as agent. He con- 
tinued with this company until his death. 

He was at one time secretary of the 
Barnard Club of Rhode Island, secretary 
and president of the Arlington, N. J., 
Board of Trade, corresponding secretary 
and member of the executive committee of 
the New York City Agents' Association of 
the Northwestern Company, and a member 
of Phi Beta Kappa. 

Ingalls was married April 3, 1884, to 
Ellen Frances Hayden of Northfield, Vt., 
who died Jan. 13, 1911, leaving three chil- 
dren. Will C. Ingalls, Jr., '09, and Mar- 
guerite and Leoren Daboll Ingalls. His 
second marriage took place March 9, 1914, 
to Mrs. Katherine E. Workum of Cincin- 
nati, O. Mrs. Ingalls survives, as does 
Mrs. Lucy Ayer Ingalls, the mother, of 
Putney, Vt. 

1895 

THE Alumni Office has confirmed the 
report of the death of Amasa Randolph 
Tourtellot Truex in Los Angeles. Dec. 10, 
1934. He had been a member of the Cali- 
fornia bar since July, 1909. Previously he 
had been a minister of the Episcopal Church 
and a newspaper reporter. 



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Born in Carbondale, Pa., Dec. 19, 1871, 
the son of Duane P. and Carnelia (Tour- 
tellot) True.x, he won his A.B. degree at 
Brown in 1895, spent two years at the 
Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, 
Mass., and took deacon's orders in the 
Episcopal Church in June, 1897. From 
that time to October, 1898, he was in 
charge of the Episcopal Chapel, Pittsburgh. 

After a year of travel he left the ministry 
in January, 1900, to take up newspaper 
work. Until his admission to the bar in 
1909 he covered the courts in Los Angeles 
for the Times and so became interested in 
the law. He was associated with the office of 
Hubert T. Morrow from 1909 to his death. 
A bachelor, his only survivors are a sister. 
Miss Ava J. Truex of Binghamton, and a 
brother, Duane P. Truex, Jr., of Auburn, 
New York. 

"Mr. Truex had many admirable traits," 
wrote one who knew him in Los Angeles. 
"He was unselfishly devoted to his legal 
associates and friends, particularly to Mr. 
Morrow. He had an analytical mind and 
was an inveterate reader. He was a man of 
the highest integrity, of unquestioned loyalty 
to his few friends, was a scholarly lawyer, 
and exceedingly thorough and competent in 
everything that he undertook. ... He was 
the author of poems and prose pieces, but 
steadfastly refused to publicize his versatile 
talents." 

1898 

REV. George Leonard Drowne died at 
Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, 
Dec. 5, 1935, after an operation. He had 
been teacher, newspaperman, and a priest 
of the Episcopal Church. In his leisure time 
in recent years he had done much to fill 
gaps in and bring up to date the necrology 
and other records of the Class of '98. 

He was born in Providence, April 26, 
1874, the son of Edward I. and Anna L. 
(Brown) Drowne. His grandfather was 
Solomon Drowne, Professor of Botany at 
Brown, surgeon in the Revolution, and 
developer of the Rhode Island Greening 
apple. He prepared at University School, 
and, after graduation from Brown, entered 
Andover Theological Seminary with the 
intention of preparing for the Congrega- 
tional ministry. He transferred from 
Andover to Harvard Divinity School, but 
gave up study to go into newspaper work 
in Worcester, Mass. While engaged in this 
work he enrolled at Clark University, from 
which he received the A.M. degree in 
1908. and where he was instructor in 
Enghsh. 

In 1913 he removed to Montclair, N. J., 
to become news manager of the d<l,ewar\ 
Evening AJews. The following year he was 
ordained a minister of the Congregational 
Church. During 1914 and 1915 he 
preached and worked in Hampton, Conn., 
and was minister of the Congregational 
Church, Rye, N. H., 1915-17. In 1918 he 
became a deacon in the Episcopal Church, 
being ordained by Bishop Lawrence of 
Massachusetts. During 1918 and 1919, in 
which year he was made a priest of the 
church, he was associate rector of Trinity 
Church, Stoughton, Mass. He also served at 
New Bedford, Fitchhurg, and at St. Paul's 
Church, Plainfield, Conn., where he was 
rector from 1925 to 1930. He was put upon 
the retired list at his own request in 1930. 
For a number of years he gave public lec- 
tures on poetry and fiction, and always 
maintained a real zest for literature. 



A bachelor, he left no near relatives. His 
fraternity was Zeta Psi. 

1910 

JOHN Danielson Howard, theatre man- 
ager, died at his home in Glendale, Ariz., 
Nov. 25, 1935, following a paralytic stroke. 
He had been in ill health for some time. 

Born in Warwick, R. I., July 18, 1886, 
the son of Elisha Harris and Edith L. 
(Danielson) Howard, he prepared at Hope 
Street High School and was a student at 
Brown from September, 1906, to January, 
1908. After leaving Brown he studied for 
a while at Amherst, and then went with 
R. G. Dun 6? Co. as manager of the collec- 
tion department in the Seattle, Wash., 
office. During part of 19! 1 he was engaged 
in the lumber business in Seattle. He be- 
came assistant credit manager for the West- 
ern Dry Goods Co. in August, 1911, and 
continued with that company until the 
World War, when he resigned to enter the 
service. 

After the war he joined the Famous 
Players-Lasky Corporation in San Fran- 
cisco, and managed theatres in Council 
Bluffs, la., Mobile, Ala., and Calexico (Fox 
West Coast Theatres), Calif. He took over 
the Glendale Theatre two years ago. He 
was a member of the Lions Club of Glendale, 
first commande r of the Glendale Post, 
American Legion, and a member of Psi 
Upsilon. 

Surviving are his second wife, Mrs. 
Thclma Howard, three young daughters, 
his mother, a .brother, E. H. Howard, Jr., 
and a sister. 

1918 

FRANKLIN CooLlDGE Brooks, newspaper- 
man, died in Presbyterian Medical 
Centre, New York City, Nov. 26, 193 5, 
after an illness of two months. Two weeks 
before his death he underwent an operation 
for a kidney ailment. 

He was born in Colorado Springs, Colo., 
Nov. 16, 1897, the son of Franklin E. 
Brooks '83, former member of Congress 
and Trustee of the University, 1906 to his 
death in 1916, and Sarah (Coolidge) 
Brooks. He came to Brown from Cutler 
Academy, Colorado Springs; left college in 
May, 1918, to enlist in the United States 
Army; went to the Fort Still School of 
Fire, from which he graduated, and re- 
ceived his honorable discharge as First 
Lieutenant in January, 1919. 

His newspaper career began on the Ddilv 
Ohjahoman. Oklahoma City, Okla. From 
that paper he transferred to the 0}{lahoma 
City Times, of which he was city editor for 
five years before he resigned to return 
East as assignment editor of the T^ew Bed- 
ford Standard. He went to the TSieiv Tor/5 
Daily T^ews in 1925, and in recent years 
had been an executive in the editorial art 
department. He held a commission as Major 
in the Officers' Reserve Corps. 

He was married June 16, 1920, to Miss 
Sarah Dorothea Torr of Providence, who 
survives, with a son, Franklin C. Brooks, 
Jr., his mother, and two brothers, Edward 
C. Brooks '24 of Chicago, and Philip 
Brooks, and a sister, Miss Catherine Brooks. 
His fraternity was Delta Phi. 

1933 

RICHARD Borden Winslow died at the 
Newton Hospital, Newton Centre, 
Mass., Nov. 21, 1935, after an illness of 



three days. An attack of appendicitis was 
the cause of death. 

Born in Washington, D. C, June 29, 
1912, the son of Howard O. Winslow '01 
and Helen (Almy) Winslow, he prepared 
at Newton High School. As undergraduate 
at Brown he played lacrosse, was a cheer 
leader for two years, and head cheer leader 
in Senior year. He had a winning personal- 
ity, and was popular with his classmates and 
in his fraternity. Delta Tau Delta. His 
major study was English. 

After graduation he became a clerk in the 
offices of the United Shoe Machinery Co., 
with which his father is patent attorney, 
and was making real progress in learning 
the details of executive work when he was 
stricken. He was to have been married next 
April. At his funeral J. Stewart Rigby, a 
classmate, was a bearer, and Francis S. 
Wilson '34 was an usher. Other members 
of the Class were present. 

Dick is survived by his parents; his grand- 
father, Isaac O. Winslow '78; an uncle, 
Arthur M. Winslow '03, Professor of 
Mechanical Engineering at the University 
of Washington; and a cousin, W. T. 
Littlehales '28. 

1935 

GEORGE Washington Olvany, Jr., 
died at the Neurological Hospital, 
New York City, Dec. 18, 193 5, eight days 
after he was found with two bullet wounds 
in the head at Saranac Lake, where he had 
been undergoing treatment for a lung in- 
fection and a general rundown condition. 
The news was a shocking surprise to class- 
mates and other college friends. 

He was born in New York City, April 5, 
1913, the son of George W. and Agnes S. 



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(Halpin) Olvany. His father, former 
Judge of General Sessions, was leader of 
Tammany Hall from 1924 to 1929. George, 
Jr., prepared at Columbia Grammar School, 
and at Brown was active m fencing and 
flying. He obtained an air pilot's license in 
193 I and had been a member of the Brown 
Flying Club since his Freshman year. His 
major subject was English. 

His health became poor last spring, and 
for a time there was a question about his 
being able to receive his degree with the 



class. But he won out, and soon after Com- 
mencement went to Saranac Lake for treat' 
ment and rest. After he was wounded, he 
seemed to hold his own, and his parents 
brought him to New York, where he under- 
went a third operation. He rallied and then 
began to decline. 

He was the only son; and the sympathy 
of the Class is given to Judge and Mrs. 
Olvany in full measure. George, Jr.'s frater- 
nity was Zeta Psi. 



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BY GERTRUDE ALLEN McCONNELL MO 

ExecMwe Secretary of the Alumnae Association 



Engagements 

1934— Elisabeth Webb Bucklin to John 
Ellsworth Flemming, Jr., '33 of Summit, 
N. J., son of Rev. and Mrs. John E. 
Flemming of New York. Mr. Flemming is a 
member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. He 
received his A.M. degree from New York 
University. 

1936 — Charlotte Katz to Arthur L. 

Goldman, Harvard '30 and Harvard Law 

School '33. 

* * * 

Weddings 

1925 — Ruth Davidson was married to 
Jonathan Evans, a graduate of Pennsylvania 
State College, on June 22, 1935, at Man- 
hasset. Long Island. Mr. and Mrs. Evans 
are living at 337 East 30th St., New York 
City. 

1929 — Vera N. Matteson was married to 
Dr. A. B. Sundquist on May 5, 1934. Dr. 
Sundquist is a graduate of Tufts, where he 
received his B.S. and M.D. degrees in 1933. 
For two years he served a "eneral interne- 
ship at the Rhode Island Hospital and has 
now opened an office at 843 Main St., Man- 
chester, Conn. 

1930 — Lucy I. Fogarty was married to 
Dr. Arthur Lincoln Quirk of Providence 
College on November 27th, 193 5, at St. 
Mary's Church in Providence. The cer- 
emony was performed by Rev. Lorenzo C. 
McCarthy, President of Providence Col- 
lege. A reception followed at the Biltmore 
Hotel. Dr. and Mrs. Quirk are living at 
388 River Ave., Providence. 

1930 — Alice Shepard was married to 
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Births 

1923 — To Mr. and Mrs. Harold M. 
Knowles (Dorothy Mowry), a son, Ralph 
Everett, on September 19, 1935. Barbara 
Dorothy is now four. Mr. and Mrs. Knowles 
have moved to 14 Channing St., Wollaston, 
Mass. 

1923 — To Mr. and Mrs. Alvah Peterson 
(Helen Hoff), a son, Jon Alvah, on Sep- 
tember 21, 1935. The Petersons are living 
at 2039 Collingswood Road, Columbus, 
Ohio. 

1925 — To Mr. and Mrs. William T. M. 
Cleare (Mary Lomax), a daughter, Mau- 
reen, on December 4, 1935. They are living 
at 145 5 President Ave., Fall River. 

1926 — To Dr. and Mrs. Percy L. Bailey, 
Jr. (Gladys Holmes), a son, Richard 
Holmes, on November 8, 1935. They are 
living at 3804 Greystone Ave., Riverdale, 
N. Y. 

1928 — To Mr. and Mrs. Leslie T. Chase 
(Mary Lyon), a daughter, Jacqueline Thur- 
ber, on November 27, 1935. Winsor is now 
four. The Chases are living at 109 Halsey 
St., Providence. 

1929 — To Mr. and Mrs. Arvid N. Lar- 
son (Elinor Chace), a son, Arthur Donald, 
on November 28, 1935. Mr. and Mrs. 
Larson are living at 4 Mars Avenue, Paw- 
tu.xet, R. I. 

1929 — To Mr. and Mrs. Robert Way- 
land-Smith (Prudence Skinner), a second 
son, Francis Giles, on September 25, 1935. 
They are living at Kenwood Station, Onei- 
da, N. Y. 

193 3 — To Mr. and Mrs. Penn Hargrove 
(Eleanor Gilbert), a daughter Evagene 
Gilbert, on July 23, 1935. The Hargroves 
are living at 12 Monro Ave., Mamaroneck, 
N. Y. 

Class Notes 

1897 — Ruth Roundy Allen is house- 
mother at the Phi Zeta Sorority house at 
the Massachusetts State College of Agricul- 
ture, Amherst, Mass. 

1899 — Myra H. Butler is now living in 
White River Junction, Vermont. 

1899 — Agnes E. Clark is spending the 
winter in Tryon, N. C. 

1902 — Myrtis Millikin Clayton enter- 
tained her class at a buffet supper at her 



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home on Wayland Avenue on Sunday, 
Dec. 8. Sixteen members attended. After 
the supper her son, Donald, told some of 
his experiences during his automobile trip 
through Europe last summer. He is now 
teaching economics and commercial law at 
Hope Street High School. 

1902 — Lillian Gamwell Moulton's .son, 
William, graduated from Princeton last June 
and was awarded a fellowship by the Insti- 
tute of International Education to study 
abroad. He is spending the year at the 
University of Berlin. At the end of his 
sophomore year he was given a foreign 
scholarship by Princeton University and 
spent the summer at the University of 
Nancy. 

1905 — Sally Cady Patten and family 
have moved to 1908 Princess St., Wilming- 
ton, North Carolina. 

1909 — Irma Gyllenberg Cull entertained 
the members of her class at her home on 
Blackstone Boulevard on December 19. 

1910 — Alma Brown Whipple (Mrs. 
C. M.) has moved from New Jersey to 
110 Melrose Avenue, Albany, N. Y. 

1911 — Anna Canada Swain entertained 
the members of her class at her home on 
Barberry Hill on December 20. 

1912 — Dorothy C. Walter has the sym- 
pathy of the alumnae in the loss of her 
father. 

1913 — Mildred Bosworth Brown enter- 
tained the members of her class last month. 

1913 — Mary F. Clarke is back in Boston 
and IS living at 223 Newbury Street. 

1913 — Marion Bailey Lee and family 
have moved to 72 Maynard St., Pawtuckct. 

1914 — The Class had a supper at Alum- 
nae Hall on December 28. 

1915 — Katherine Canada Wright has 
moved to Washington, R. I., where her 
husband is the Episcopal rector. 

1916 — Elizabeth Little Brown was the 
speaker at the class supper in Alumnae Hall. 

1917 — Lena Lopiansky's new address is 
3 3 Washington Square West. 

1918 — The class supper and meeting in 
Alumnae Hall was a great success. 

1919— Madrid Collette Cleary (Mrs. 
Robert v.) has moved to Mishawaka. 
Indiana, where her husband is connected 
with the U. S. Rubber Co. 

1919 — Miriam Nu:um Hoisington has 
moved to Oak Park, Illinois, which is eight 
miles from Chicago. Can someone furnish 
the street address? 

1920 — Nettie Wilsker Hannum is living 
at 23 56 20th Street, Washington, D. C. 

1921 — Dorothy Maxwell Klots's address 
is wanted by the Alumnae OfKce. 

1921 — Elizabeth Nightingale Collins has 
moved to 2017 Grant Ave., Cuyahoga 
Falls, Ohio. 

1922 — Mary C. McCarthy is living at 
45 Scherer Avenue, Newark, N. J. 

1923— Sister Mary Barbara, C. S. J. B. 
(Mary Shroder) is living in Mendham, 
N. J., where she teaches in the Episcopal 
school connected with St. John the Baptist 
Convent. 

1923 — Elisabeth Ewart has taken an 
apartment at 25 Tobey Street, Providence, 
and drops in occasionally at the Alumnae 
Office. 

1924 — Can someone supply addresses 
for Katherine Leach and Mary Weaver 
Pinder? 

1925 — Katherine Mayor is living at 135 
East 50th Street, New York City. 

1926 — Virginia Knerr Delany is another 



girl whose mail came back without a for- 
warding address. 

1927 — Marjorie Sidelinger is teaching in 
the Northbridge Senior High School. Her 
address is 39 Pleasant Street, Whitinsville, 
Mass. 

1928 — Sylvia Berkman has moved to 
108 Fuller Street, Brookline, Mass. 

1930 — Rosina Martella has been called 
by the National Board of the Y. W. C. A. 
to assist in conference with several branches 
in New York and New Jersey. Miss Martella 
has been secretary at the Providence 
Y. W. C. A. International Institute for the 
past six years. At college she specialised in 
romance languages and speaks four lan- 
guages fluently. 

1931 — Carolyn Bell and Susan Demery 



are attending the Library School at 
Simmons. 

1931 — Josephine Mclntire is now 
connected with the Boston City Hospital. 

1933 — Frances B. Barnes is working for 
B. B. 6? R. Knight Corporation and is 
living at 9 Aldrich Terrace, Providence. 

1933 — Mildred L. Campbell received her 
Master's degree from Mt. Holyoke last 
June and is now working as a biochemist 
in the research laboratories of the Burroughs 
Wellcome Company in Tuckahoe. Her 
address is 82 Chippewa Road, Tuckahoe, 
New York. 

1934 — Ruth Clem is studying at Colum- 
bia and living at 430 West 119th Street, 
Apt. 52, New York City. 



Pembroke Chronicle 



BY MARY LOUISE HINCKLEY '37 



KOMIANS presented their first major pro- 
duction of the year on Dec. 6 and 7. 
"Moor Born" by Dan Totheroh, a 
story depicting the lives of the Bronte sis- 
ters, was directed by Mrs. Sarah Minchin 
Barker, who 16 vears ago this month di- 
rected her first play for Komians. 

The Pembroke Varsity Debating team 
won over Rhode Island State on the subject 
"Resolved: That the Several States Should 
Enact Legislation Providing for a System of 
Complete Medical Service Available to All 
Citisens at Public Expense." 

The Vocational Guidance Club used a 
novel means to raise money for its reserve 
fund. They sponsored a bridge and tea 
which was a great success. 

The first in the annual series of chamber 
music concerts presented under the auspices 
of Pembroke College and the Department of 
Music in Brown University was given on 
the evening of Dec. 12. The Manhattan 
String Quartet presented its first major con- 
cert since its return from a European con- 
cert tour. Lee Pattison, distinguished pianist 
and composer, was assisting artist. 

Awards for work done during the fall 
term were made at a recent assembly by the 
Athletic Association. Statistics from the de- 
partment of hygiene and physical education 
show that fistball, with 200 enrolled, was 
the most popular tall activity. Tennis with 



150 was second and field hockey with 100, 
the same exact number for the third con- 
secutive year, was third. 

The annual Christmas assembly was de- 
voted to a Christmas Vesper service with 
solos and group singing by the Pembroke 
choir. The dormitories held their annual 
Christmas parties Sunday, Dec. 1 5, and had 
Santa Claus as their special guest. The 
German Club of Brown and Pembroke pre- 
sented a Christmas nativity play, "Die 
Heilige Nacht," on Dec. 18. An angel 
choir placed on a platform high above the 
actors after the mode of the 13th and 14th 
centuries was one of the features of the 
presentation. Three dances held Friday, 
Dec. 20, closed the Christmas festivities at 
the College. Metcalf and Miller had their 
parties while Brownies sponsored a dance 
in the Crystal Room for the city girls. 

The annual fall riding meet was held in 
the middle of the month. The newly formed 
Riding Club, composed of advanced riders, 
featured in the meet. 

Zelda Fisher '36, president of the S. G. A., 
represented the college at a convention of 
the National Student Federation of Amer- 
ica in Kansas City Dec. 27-31. Katherine 
Faulkner '36, president of the Christian 
Association, represented the college at a 
convention of the Students' Volunteer 
Movement in Indianapolis Dec. 28-Jan. 1. 



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