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Copper brazing and atomic-hydrogen welding join metal parts into a useflil whole- X-rays, from tubes developed in the G-E Research Laboratory, in Schenectady, N. Y., probe the inner secrets of metals and point the way to improvements in material and design. Such advances in manufatturing, made possible, in part, by G-E research, come home to you in better quality and lower cost in the machine-made products that are part of your daily life. Not only the electrical industry but every field of endeavor benefits by G-E research — research that has saved the public from ten to one hundred dollars for every dollar it has earned for General Electric. GENERAL S ELECTRIC BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY He Achieved Test Tube Living KIDNEYS from rabbits are being kept alive arti- iicially outside the ani- maFs body today so that Brown University biologists can look further into the life- sustaining processes common to all kinds of life, including human. Prof. J. Walter Wilson of Brown's Department of Bio- logy has perfected after eight years a perfusion apparatus which circulates synthetic blood through rabbit kidneys. This "blood" is made to flow by mechanical heart-beats un- der normal temperature and pressure. By controlling the chem- istry of the synthetic blood, which consists of a simple salt solution, red corpuscles from beef blood, and oxygen. Prof. Wilson is able to control the rate of oxidation, or "breath- ing" of kidney cells. He has found that cell oxidation, so essential to life, is apparently governed by tiny parts within the cell, and not by the cell as a unit. "Our preliminary results show that there seems to be evidence for a theory that at least some of the interior structures of cells, minute liquid-crystal rods known as mitocondria, play a part in some types of cell oxidation," Prof. Wilson said. "We are also reasonably sure that other parts are involved in 'cell breathing,' particularly the nucleus. A U££K OF PREPARATIOX. 15 M/,\UT£S OF LIFE: But ihM j7ti/ici^ C. Hart "01, Charles J. Hill '16, Nelson B. Jones '28, W. Easton Louttit, Jr. '25, George L. Miner '97, Earl M. Pearce '17, Edward T. Richards '27, W. C. Worthington '23, Joseph A. O'Neil '31. Also attending were W. S.^Richardson '94, Byron S. Watson '97, Rev. W. D. Swaffield '06, Brenton G. Smith '11, F. E. Whitaker '88, Stanton P. Nickerson '31, publicity, and the Alumni Secretary. 199 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY SAIL HO! Progress Toward a Program UNDERGRADUATE yachtsmen at Brown University are now looking forward towards expansion of Brown's yachting program as a result of a special campaign for funds which will be launched by the Executive Com- mittee of the Associated Alumni. This campaign was enthu- siastically endorsed by the Advisory Council of the Asso- ciated Alumni at its annual meeting, after Prof. Zenas R. Bliss '18 of the Division of Engineering, navigator on the America's Cup Defender "Rainbow," and Deane K. Fox '37 of Orient, N. Y., commodore of the Brown Yacht Club, spoke on boating at Brown. Royal W. Leith '12 of Boston, president of the Asso- ciated Alumni and chairman of the Executive Committee, reports that preliminary steps for the campaign, in which it is expected that a minimum of $2,000 can be raised, will be taken soon. Dr. Harvey N. Davis '01 of New York, presi- dent of Stevens Institute of Technology, v«'ill support the drive in the New York area. The class of 193 1 will vote on making a contribution at its fifth reunion in June. With the anticipated funds, at least six frost-bite dinghys could be added to Brown's student fleet, according to Prof. Bliss. There are now six boats owned by undergraduates, four of them purchased this Fall. Every week, until ice locked Narragansett Bay, the Brown fleet, augmented by borrowed boats, raced off Bristol, R. I., where most of the America's cup defenders are built. IN recent months Prof. Bliss, in co-operation with yacht club officers, has been studying the best sailing water near Providence, looking for suitable storage and repair yards, and planning for instruction in sailing. This semester he is offering a new course, "Navigation," for undergraduate sailors. A special committee to weigh Brown's yachting problems will be appointed by the University. HEADQUARTERS IH THE 70's: Seekonk River clubliotise of the old University Boflt Chtb. "The co-operative effort of the alumni and administra- tion in making the expansion of yachting at Brown possible is most encouraging," Prof. Bliss said after the meeting. "It is a safe, sane and healthy form of recreation, promoting good sportsmanship and competition, and should prove even more popular with students than in the past two years, when interest has been particularly keen." Commodore Fox expects that the intercollegiate dinghy regatta which the Brown Yacht Club is sponsoring on May 2 will be a further stimulus to the sport. Nine collegiate yacht clubs have been invited, including Harvard, Yale, M. I. T., Cornell and Princeton. The Brown yachtsmen have already defeated Yale and M. I. T. Other plans for the Spring include a week-end cruise on Narragansett Bay. The history of boating at Brown goes back nearly 100 years to 1848, when 12 students bought a rowboat and formed a club. The next organi»tion, the University Boat Club, was organi:;ed in June, 1857. Interest in crew racing reached its height in the 1870's, with colorful regattas on the Seekonk River. AT the Advisory Council meeting Prof. Bliss and Com- , modore Fox successfully pleaded the case for a yacht- ing program at Brown. Prof. Bliss said the idea was not a new one, that everybody thought it a good one, but that nothing really definite had been done about it. He referred to the fun he had writing his article on yachting for under- graduates for the January issue of the Brown Alumni Monthly, and told of his growing interest in throwing light on a rather misunderstood subject. "Sailing," he went on, "is no longer a summer sport. There has lately sprung up a particularly hardy type of sailor who does not seem to mind sailing unless the ice is more than six inches thick. We have this type at Brown today. Sailing is a good healthy kind of sport for students to indulge in if properly run. And it will attract students. "But first you must get the boats. Then you must arrange for storage and care. And, third, you must find a place to sail the boats." He covered each point in detail, coming at length to the question : "Is it worth while to go out and raise the necessary money to start a yachting program?" He said that racing dinghys could be bought for $200 each in lots of six or more, but emphasised that there must be enough money available to take care of the boats. He felt that $700 or $800 would be needed to "run on for the first two or three years." He told of what Deane Fox was doing among the undergraduates, and described the elaborate pro- gram which Massachusetts Institute of Technology has started. He said the M. I. T. had ordered 40 boats to start, and that about 800 students had favorably replied to a questionnaire on yachting as a sport. "It is significant," he went on, "that three-quarters of the men interested at M. I. T have had no experience what- soever in sailing a boat." In conclusion he suggested a ques- tionnaire for Brown undergraduates, raised the question of instruction for beginners, and lauded the publicity value of yachting as a Brown pastime. 200 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY DEANE Fox, amateur sailor, informed the Council that at present at Brown there are six privately-owned boats, four of which were bought this year. There are at least four junior sailing champions in college, and increasing enthu' siasm is evident. "We've had two regattas, one with M. L T. and one with Yale," he explained, "and we won both. We have already sent out invitations to Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Cornell, Williams, M. 1. T., and other colleges regarding a spring regatta. We believe that there is a real publicity value in yachting at Brown. The sport will attract first-class boys from the Middle West." William H. Shupert '22, former captain of the Brown football eleven, also stressed the excellent publicity phase of the subject. He felt that yachting v^'ould bring desirable boys to Brown. And he was emphatic in his attitude that Brown should be the leader in taking up yachting as a sport of real merit. Edward R. Place '24 said that from the stand- point of publicity, the yachting program would be "a natural." Dr. Harvey N. Davis '01, Sidney Chtford '15, Wardwell C. Leonard '18, Dr. C. C. Tillinghast '06, James S. Allen '98, and Henry D. Wilson, Jr. '29 gave interesting views on the matter, and J. A. O'Neil '3 1 said he was confident that he could persuade his class at its Fifth Reunion in June to give some of the money in its treasury to back the yachting program. Then the Council voted to authorise the E.xecu- tive Committee to take action. The goal is $2,000, coincid- ing with Professor Bliss's estimates for six boats and their care and upkeep. Alternation Replaces Staggering A New class schedule at Brown University, effective with the beginning of the academic year 1936-37, has been approved by the Faculty. The new sched- ule, applicable to courses which meet regularly three times each week, is based upon the principle of alternation and takes the place of the so-called staggered schedule which has been in effect during the past seven or eight years. Under the new arrangement, the meetings of a class will be scheduled for the same hour on alternate days, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, or Tuesday, Thursday, and Satur- day. Certain advanced courses and graduate seminars which meet once or twice each week for more than the usual one hour period will be provided for in afternoon hours out- side of the regular class schedule. The new arrangement will make possible the scheduling of more laboratory classes in the morning and in the early afternoon hours. Under the new schedule, chapel will be held at 12 noon on Tuesday, for Sophomores and Freshmen, and on Thurs- day for Seniors and Juniors. Chapel is now at 9 o'clock on Tuesday and Thursday. A new schedule of hours for required physical education for Freshmen has also been arranged. Frederick T. Guild, Registrar of the University, in explaining the purpose of the new schedule, said : "It is hoped that the new class schedule will prove more satisfactory for students in a number of different ways — it will make it possible for a student to arrange a more uniform schedule of classes which will provide more consecutive hours for study and recreation. It will also make possible the arrangement of laboratory schedules at hours which are deemed most desirable for laboratory work. It is hoped also that the new schedule will be more convenient for students who work to defray a portion of their living expenses." Holmes, i 796, Bwlt Handsomely THE colorful career of one of Brown University's first graduates is recalled in the announcement that the Holmes Mansion of Alfred, Maine, is to be measured, photographed, and recorded as one of the historic buildings of that state. The beautiful house, erected in 1802, is in the Southern Colonial style, and of particular interest is the fact that the great two-story veranda around three sides of the house is capped by a railing decorated with wrought iron bows and arrows with the heads down. This unusual orna- ment is said to have been ordered by John Holmes, Brown 1796, to denote his friendly feeling toward the Indians. Indeed, it is said that Mr. Holmes had Indian blood in him. Four years after his graduation from Brown, Mr. Holmes was chosen a representative to the General Court of Maine where he made a speech on the State Constitution that attracted wide attention and awakened in him a strong desire to enter politics. In 1816 President Madison ap- pointed him a commissioner to draw the eastern boundary' line between the United States and New Brunswick, through the islands of Passamaquoddy Bay, which are now much in the public eye. In 1816, too, Mr. Holmes was elected to Congress for the first time. During the 1818 movement to make Maine a separate state from Massachusetts, Mr. Holmes was very active in its support and at the first session of the Maine Legislature was chosen Senator in Congress, a position he held for more than a decade. Historians record that the Senator's home- comings to Alfred were the occasions of great festivities, and all important matters in the town and county hinged on his approval or disapproval. The recording of the architectural beauties of the Holmes house are part of the national project under the PWA and the National Parks service, which will place in the national archives ample details of this and similar architectural monuments. The Alumni Monthly is indebted to George C. Wing, Jr. '00 of Auburn, Maine, for information con- tained in this item. :{::(: ^ ^ :is An English Honor for Larigdon THE historical work of the American Telephone fe? Tele- graph Company has received recognition from the New- comen Society of England in the election of William Chauncy Langdon '92, Historical Librarian, to its mem- bership. The Newcomen Society, devoted to the study of the his- tory of engineering and technology, includes eminent engi- neers, educators, and industrial executives among its Amer- ican members. Langdon has done much valuable historical research for the telephone company during the past ten years. His work m the writing and producing of pageants has also had national recognition. He was president of the American Pageant Association in 1913 and again in 1921. The Former German Chancellor DR. Heinrich Breuning, former Chancellor of the German Reich, spent his 51st birthday on the Brown campus where he had come to speak to a special group of faculty and students on the German Constitution since the War. Avoiding political discussion in public interviews, Dr. Breuning gave a frank, informative talk before his Brown audience. While in Providence he was the guest of his old friend, Prof. Robert H. George of the History Department. 201 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY The Hoax of the Mythical Sergeant SERGEANT EvAEL O. W. Tnesba could have collected $100 from the State of Rhode Island as a bonus for his wartime services, if only he had bothered to exist. Somebody invented him, but who that creator was had not yet been established when the Alumni Monthly went to the printer, although the wrath of some Rhode Island Sena- tors had been acute. The trouble was that some of the Rhode Island Senators had been made to appear very silly. Fred C. Broomhead '05, Senator from Barrington, known to hundreds of Brown athletes as the donor of the annual "win-losC'Or-draw" dinners, was the introducer of a resolu' tion which sought the bonus for the mythical Sergeant. Following its newly adopted policy of passing such bills, the Senate passed the resolution without inquiry as to who the soldier was, where he came from, or whether he actually served in the World War. And then the Senate realized that the Sergeant's name was merely the spelling, in reverse, of "Absent W. O. Leave." Senator Broomhead explained: "I just wanted to see how fast a bill of this type could get by the Senate." Despite the urging of party leaders to forget the incident, senatorial pride had been touched, and the gullible solons demanded an investigation. But the country roared with laughter as commentators and dramatists of press and radio seized delightedly on the incident as fair game. A Kic\ for Father Coughlin John J. O'Connor '08, chairman of the judiciary com- mittee of the national House of Representatives, sat before his radio one Sunday afternoon last month listen- ing to the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin. The longer he listened, the madder he grew, because Father Coughlin was making statements about him that O'Connor knew were without basis in fact. Finally he jumped up, shut off the radio with a hang (which is the privilege of every American citi-en) , dic- tated a flashing public statement in which he called Father Coughlin "a disgrace to my church," and sent a telegram to Royal Oak, Mich., challenging the radio priest to come to Washington and repeat his charges to O'Connor's face. "If he does," O'Connor said, "I'll guarantee to kick him from the Capitol to the White House." But Father Coughlin, in spite of statements by his Con- gressional supporters to the contrary, did not go to Wash- ington, and two days after uttering his threat, O'Connor rose from his seat to make manly apology for what he had said about Father Coughlin's "clerical garb" in his state- ment to the press. He did not, however, take back anything that he said about Father Coughlin the man. As his fellow members stood and cheered him for his apology, he ended with the characteristic fiery statement : "I propose to meet any challenge as to my reputation even though that challenge is hurled at me by a man of God!" PRESENT WITH ABSENT BACKWARDS FtitJ C. BTOomhead '05. whose "Sergeant Tueiha" amused the nation. For Better Student Posture CORRECTIVE gymnasium classes at Brown University have improved the postures and general health of more than 80 per cent of all students in this group during the past five years, the Department of Physical Education reported as this year's corrective program was started this winter. Freshmen in need of posture correction are assigned to gymnasium classes, which continue through the winter for three periods weekly under the direction of Prof. Leslie E. Swain. With the development of special methods at Brown for a comprehensive posture correction program, the percentage of improvement is expected to continue its upward trend. Prof. Swain said. "It seems clear to me that if we are to serve to students fully, we must continue to stress posture correction." Prof. Swain said. "There have been numerous instances in which undergraduates have expressed their gratification over im- proved posture and better health as a result of our corrective classes. Posture correction has helped many students be- come more proficient in such sports as boxing, wrestling, basketball, fencing and others where flexibility is especially necessary." With the Committee on Educational Advice and Direc- tion having determined by a detailed study that health of students is one of the five major factors bearing upon aca- demic standing. Prof. Swain is now at work to see whether improved posture means improved grades. An Honor for Dr. Tillinghast Dr. Charles C. Tillinghast, '06 principal of Horace Mann School for Boys, has been elected president of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, which includes approximately 120 colleges and 700 high schools. TVA Advocate Thomas G. Corcoran '21, who helped the Roosevelt administration argue the TVA case before the Supreme Court, shared in the Government pleasure over this victory. 202 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Brunonia Plays the Game WINNING spurts that included a few upsets carried Brown athletic fortunes higher in the indoor sea' son as the new semester gathered momentum last month. Outstanding were the basketball victory over Yale, the first over the Elis in 26 years, a deserved hockey victory over a Boston College sextet that had just tied Princeton, and a whitewash of M. L T. on the wrestling mat. Brown beat Yale in the first two basketball games sched- uled between the two, but since 1910 the Brunonians have had to yield supremacy in 10 straight meetings. This year, after an unimpressive start, the Eli five has found itself and gone places. Accordingly, the visitors to Providence were obvious favorites on Feb. 29, although Coach Kahler de- clined to be pessimistic. How well justified he was, it was the pleasure of 1,500 cheering supporters to observe. Notorious as a slow starter throughout the whole cam- paign this year, Brown trailed Yale throughout the first half and seemed outclassed when the interval score read 28-17. But, without the Blue slacking off any from its excel- lent form, the Brunonians reduced the lead to four points after three minutes of second period play. A roar filled the Brown gym when the score was tied at 30-all, and the Bears were drawing away at the finish. Brilliant in his play was the Brown high-scoring center. Ken Kennedy, whose point total for the evening was 25, one of the largest ever amassed by a Brunonian. But "Red" Armstrong, substitute guard, Van Aken, Morcom and Captain Noonan also starred, the latter dropping long toms at opportune moments. The Freshmen bowed to Worcester Academy 55-37 in the prelim. AGAINST M. L T. varsity and Freshmen won a double t victory, the former five taking 1 minutes to find itself before breaking a 14-14 deadlock, leading 25-17 halfway, sending in subs with the score 40-25, and winning 50-34. Kennedy, Morcom, and Van Aken scored in double figures. Reserve strength told against M. L T. in the yearling con- test, which the Bears won 41-31, Larkowich tallying 15 points. Despite a strong rally at the end of the game, the Brunonian varsity met defeat at Amherst 38-34, in a game lost on the foul line. After its month's lay-off it seemed to take the varsity basketball five some time to find itself against Boston Uni- versity in the first game of the semester, and the visitors from the Hub ran up nine straight points before the crowd had a chance to cheer a Brown basket. Once the Bear attack started to function, however, there was little doubt of the outcome of the game. It was not the high spot of the season, and the team seemed to miss Armstrong and Akstin, ineli- gible, but the result was satisfactory. Again Kennedy was the high scorer, accounting for 18 of Brown's total, while Morcom and Noonan played aggressive basketball at for- ward and Van Aken and Sharkey were the starting guards. The Brunonians, who tied the score at 12-all at the 12- minute mark, led at half-time 22-15 and won 38-32. If the snowstorm had not delayed the arrival of the Bos- ton University bus, with the consequent halving of the play- ing time, the Brown Freshmen might well have overtaken their rivals. Suffering from the month's idleness, they let the B. U. five run away with the first half 11-27. In the second session, however, the Cubs outscored Boston 20-7 and were going strong when the gun ended play with them still short 31-34. Campbell scored 14 points for the Freshmen. CURIOUS twists of the luck conspired to make Brown's task difficult as the hockey team returned to the wars, but Colby was defeated by a score of 3 to 2 which did not tell the full story of Brown supremacy. To begin with, three Brunonians found their skates missing when they reported at the Rhode Island Auditorium for the game, and one of them never did get on the ice as the result, while the others borrowed pairs after some delay. The other freak came at the end of the play when Brown scored its fourth goal of the evening — this time for Colby. Players of both teams were fighting for the puck in front of the Brown goal, when the disc caromed off a Brunonian into his own cage. Brown turned in a good account of itself considering the fact that it hadn't played in a month's time. It had the necessary punch in the last period when Colby tied the score. Butler waited until two seconds before the close of the first period before taking a pass from Dye to start the scoring, and there were no further markers until the third session of play. Then Lemieux, Colby star, tallied imme- diately after the first face-off, but Newman and Darling replied with a brace that won. Skillings as usual played well in goal, while Kerins at centre was back in the lineup for the first time since before Christmas. Yale showed its superiority over the Brunonian sextet in a 9-2 game at New Haven that saw the Eli leading most of the way. Welch did tie the score for Brown midway in the first period, but Kerins's goal in the third period was the only other Brown tally. Skillings made some fine saves before the Bear's cage. WHEN the team took the ice against B. U. in a return game at Providence, Brown was remembering a 7-3 defeat in a Boston rink last semester. They had been with- out the services of Goalie Skillings on the previous occasion, but in Providence the defense stood firm against rugged storming. After B. U. scored in the first period, Brown took the lead 2-1 in the second and won 4-2. The team turned in a smart, all-around game with the attack clicking and the defense holding the fort against desperate assaults in the final minutes. Dye, Newman, Darling, and Smithson each found the cage. B. U. Freshmen repeated their earlier triumph over the Cubs in a close 2-1 meeting in which the visitors had superior manpower for substitution. The Freshmen shut out the good East Providence High sextet, however, with Davis and White each scoring once. Having tied the Princeton Tiger in the previous game, Boston College was expected to outskate the Brunonians, but Brown played smart, cautious hockey, content with emphasising the defense after taking the lead. In waiting for the breaks, the Bruins found one when B. C. was send- ing five men up the ice in an effort to overcome a 2-1 advan- tage gained in the second period. Smithson, who caught the visitors all deep in Brown territory, found the netting for the goal that eventually won 3-2. Newman and Shep- herd also scored. 203 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY THE tank team introduced a new star when Springfield came to Providence with a strong squad that included Captain Holland, an Olympic prospect. In his first meet at Brown, Sophomore Fred Forbes lost to Holland only by inches in the 220 free-style and pushed him to a new New England Intercollegiate record, 2 :21%. Forbes also excelled the old New England record of Brunonian Fred Lee (2 :22%) and established a new Brown mark. Facing Holland again in the 440, Forbes outswam the star to get revenge and chalk up a new New England time of 5:11%. Brown won the meet 5'2'25, with the disqualification of the Springfield 200-yard relay giving unneeded points to the home team. Levy and Dean were one-two in the dives, Hemmerdinger took the 50, Everall the breast stroke and Hayes, Everall, and Bob Love the medley relay. Judd tied for first in the 100 and second in the 50. A year ago a thrilling victory in the relay enabled the Brown swimmers to defeat Dartmouth. This year Brown again took this profitable event, but the deficit on the meet total was too great to overcome, and the Hanoverians won 38-33. Brunonian Beaven, who took the 100 and 220, was the only double winner of the day and the only individual winner for Brown. A strong Harvard swimming team easily defeated Brown 56-15, with the loss of but one first place, that to Hemmer- dinger in the 50-yard dash. Levy took a second in the dives, while Hemmerdinger's second in the 100 was the only other scoring ahead of third. The Crimson freshmen took their meet with the Cubs 43-28, yielding firsts to George in the 50 and 100, and to the relay foursome. Cronin in the backstroke and Ipsen in the breaststroke lost two close races to Harvard foes. In another meet the Freshmen outswam their neighbors from Moses Brown 47-28, taking first-place points by George's 100, Ipsen's breaststroke, Brown's 200, Wilson's dives, and in the relay. DESPITE defeats in the last two classes, Brown wrestlers had piled up sufficient margin over Springfield to win the first meet of the new semester 19-13. Zooloomian, who took a fall, Cunningham, Lathrop, Hall, and Pease were the other Brown winners. The balance of the team showed impressively against M. I. T., completing a shutout at 36-0. Cunningham, Zooloomian, Senccal, and Saklad threw their opponents for extra points, and the Freshmen completed the good day by scoring 23 against the Tech Freshmen's 1 1. Hanna, Ten Haagen, and Nast registered falls, while Wood also beat his rival. Against a team picked from the best in Providence High Schools, Wood was the only winner, and the Cubs lost 24-3. Paced by Captain Bojar, the fencers defeated Boston College 13-4, the winners being Bojar 5, Mayer 3, Steele 3, and Williams 2. Against Harvard in a fuller program, how- ever, the Brunonians lost 21-6, Bojar taking the only two points in the foils matches, Steele the single sabre victory, and Williams two epee bouts and Steele one. The Fresh- men yielded to the Crimson lower-classmen 11-7, although they had a 5-4 margin with the epee, Thurlow, Zeigler, and Ehelke sharing the individual honors. Although Thur- low won three bouts, the Freshmen lost to Hope High fencers 5-4. Brown freshmen led 5-4 when the foils events had been completed at Andover, but the schoolboys took three of the four epee matches to win the meet 7-6. Thurlow of the Bruin Cubs was the individual star, winning four of Brown's points, while Zeigler and Rowe took the others. Ready for League Golf WITH a strong varsity team in prospect for 1936, Brown University has rejoined the Eastern Intercollegiate Golf Association and will participate in the matches leading up to the championship playoff. The 12 colleges comprising the association are divided into two sections, with the win- ner in each to meet in the title match at Greenwich, Conn., on May 16. One section includes Dartmouth, Williams, Holy Cross, Harvard, Yale and Brown, while the other includes Prince- ton, Pennsylvania, Georgetown, Cornell, Penn State, and Pittsburgh, the last three being new members just admitted to the Association. Preliminary play will be confined to two week-ends, with Brown meeting Harvard and Holy Cross on May 1 and 2 at Providence, and Dartmouth, Williams, and Yale on May 8 and 9 at Boston. •T" -T^ *!• *> »P Diamond Harbinger WHILE the worst weather of the winter hung around Providence, Coach Kelleher called out his battery- men for their first work-out of the year on Feb. 17. Six pitchers and two catchers put on uniforms, while other aspirants dropped into the cage to greet the coach. Of the six twirlers four arc left-handers, including the veteran Ambrose Murray, Murray Ehmke, Kirschberg, and Phelps, the right-handers being Glatfelter and Devaney. Ehmke, a junior from California, is a nephew of the great Howard Ehmke of the Athletics and the son of Frank H. Ehmke '03. He and Phelps were both ineligible last year. Catchers were the Sophomore pair Hinckley and Brush. Air-Minded Brunonian HENRY R. P.-\LMER, Jr., '36, who is president of the Nev.' England Intercollegiate Flyers Club, has offered a trophy on behalf of the Club to the college which wins the annual Spring Meet. The Brunonian attended the club conference at Amherst last month which prepared plans for the event. The Harvard Came in 1938 THE Harvard Athletic Association hastened to deny a report last month that Brown and the Crimson would not meet in football in 1938. The Harvard undergraduate newspaper had printed a rumor that Cornell would replace the Brunonians because the latter had drawn only 15,000 the last two years at Cambridge. Canvass on Peace RESOLVING to put their peace ideals into practical use, some students at Brown University have been making a survey of public opinion on problems of foreign policy, the results of which were placed before the Rhode Island Council for Peace Action and state representatives in Wash- ington. A committee of 31 students canvassed a typical section of Providence, the second district of the first ward, to ask the 500 voters their neutrality views and similar opinions. After finding that a majority of people in the neighbor- hood of their campuses favor steps to insure a peaceful foreign policy on the part of the United States, the can- vassers announced that they would push their inquiry into other parts of Providence. 204 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Gentlemen of the Faculty Research in Archeology PROF. Charles A. Robinson, Jr., of the Department of Greek and Latin classics of Brown University, has been appointed to the Committee on Research of the Archcological Institute of America. The committee will direct important exploration and excavation to be launched at the sites of ancient cities in Asia Minor, Spain and Arabia. One of the first excavation projects will be at Tarsus, in Asia Minor, which will be sponsored by the Archeological Insti- tute, the Fogg Museum of Art at Harvard, and Bryn Mawr. Preliminary work has already started. The appointment of Prof. Robinson to the archeological committee, of which he has been made secretary, follows a year's teaching and excavation while he was at the American School for Classical Studies in Athens. Prof. Robinson is now a mem- ber of the school's managing committee and is the third Brown faculty member to be associated with the school. Prof. Robinson, in discussing his work on the committee, points out that little is known of ancient civilizations in Spain. Anticipated discoveries after excavations have been made are expected to shed con- siderable light on the culture of early Euro- pean people. He also says that there are still numerous sites in the Near East where little excavation has been done. Part of the work to be undertaken will include the making of "squeezes" of ancient inscriptions on stone. Heavy blotting paper is moistened, pressed over the inscriptions, and then dried. A library of these "squeezes" will give archeologists a collec- tion of facsimiles of numerous important records of ancient happenings. Prominently associated with numerous classical and archeological societies. Prof. Robinson is president of the Providence Society of the Archeological Institute of America; a Fellow of the American Acad- emy in Rome, a member of the Numismatic Society of America, the American Classical League, the Mediterranean Research Asso- ciation of Florence, Italy, and many others, including societies in England and France. Among the other leading archeologists who are Prof. Robinson's colleagues in his new work is Prof. Benjamin D. Meritt of the Institute for Advanced Study, for- merly of Brown. Fdcuhy 7\Jotes THE beginning of professionalism in Greek athletics came in the degenerate period when prizes of oil or some- thing equally valuable were given to the win- ning competitors. So declared Dr. Rozelle P. Johnson of Brown when the University was host to the Rhode Island Branch of the Classical Association of New England last month. Some 30 classical scholars heard Prof. C. Arthur Lynch and Prof. Leicester Bradner of the Brown Faculty, too. Prof. Russell M. Geer was elected secretary- treasurer of the Association. Prof. Chatles A. Stuart of the Brown Biology Department gave a lecture on "Immunity" in the series of public talks sponsored by the Rhode Island Medical Society. Prof. Edmund B. Delabarre has new evi- dence to support his contention that Miguel Cortereal, the Portuguese navigator, was the first European to enter Narragansett Bay. The professor announced some time CEHTEHARIATi: Alpha DflM Plii, /ir.!t 0/ /ratcTnities to be founded at Brown University, has been celebrating its lOOth anniversary. ago that carvings on Dighton Rock, Massa- chusetts, were by the navigator in 1511. Now, in reports of Verrazano, dating from 15 24, he finds evidence that another Euro- pean had preceded this Verrazano who had been acknowledged the first. For his re- search on this subject. Prof. Delabarre has been decorated by the government of Portugal. Prof. Robert P. Casey of the Department of Biblical Literature was to give two lec- tures this month at the School of Religion at Grace Church, Providence. His topic was announced as "The Development of the Idea of God. " The fame of Dr. Hans Kurath and his Linguistic Atlas survey has travelled far indeed. Here is an item from what "Senator Soapcr Says" in the Chicago Daily Tslews: "Dr. Hans Kurath says New England is shedding its accent and idiom. The New Deal may be to blame. Even the hardened Bostonian can't broaden AAA." Dr. Alonzo W. Quinn of the Department of Geology has received a special grant from the Geological Society of America to study and make chemical analyses of rocks found at Red Hill, N. H. Proiessor Leslie E. Swain of the Depart- ment of Physical Education was the guest speaker at the annual mid-winter Father and Sons' Night at Dighton, Mass., High School, his topic being "It All Depends." The din- ner was in honor of the school's first foot- ball eleven, which scored two touchdowns last fall — and Professor Swain said that this fact made him feel "quite at home." Professor C. J. Ducasse of the Depart- ment of Philosophy discussed "Play, Work and Art" at a recent after-luncheon gather- ing in the studio of the Providence Planta- tions Club. Professor Charles A. Baylis of the De- partment of Philosophy spoke on "Plato's Republic and Contemporary Social Prob- lems" in Metcalf Auditorium, Feb. 12, under the auspices of the Rhode Island Philosophical Society. Prof. Howard B. Grose of the Depart- ment of English, who has been on sabbatic leave during the first semester, is returning to the campus to take up his work in the department. He has been preparing a book on the friendship between Emerson and Thoreau during his absence from Brown. Other books which he has already written include "College Composition," "Speci- mens of English Composition" and "Every- day Writing." A study of international trade policies will be undertaken by Prof. Killough for his forthcoming volume on international trade. He will tap European sources as yet untouched by American writers, such as government records and statistics from the League of Nations archives. The book, to be published in 1937, will be written more from the viewpoint of national policy than from the viewpoint of business procedure. The manuscript for a new book on the poetry and drama related to mathematicians will be written by Prof. Archibald, who will be in Europe looking for unknown material. He is also planning to attend the Inter- national Congress of Mathematicians next summer. 205 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY For a Brown Man's Bookshelf American Significances IT "is as near a confession of faith as I shall ever make and contains everything I have ever really thought about it," Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn '93 writes in "What Does America Mean?", recently published in New York City by W. W. Norton and Company. The book is there- fore of interest to all the author's friends and acquaintances who have followed his career. Joseph M. Smith, reviewing the book in New York Herald Tribune Boo\s for Sun- day, Feb. 2, said that "in expounding his theories of liberty and justice. Professor Meiklejohn draws a sharp distinction be- tween external and 'inner' values. ... To him 'the one important thing' is that so far as is possible, every man and woman in the country should become a 'person of taste, of eager powerful intelligence'." The reviewer goes on: "Perhaps the most outstanding feature of Professor Meikle- john's argument is a devastating attack on the philosophy of laissez-faire as it mani- fests itself in the United States today. Laissez-faire, he tells us, is the destroyer of freedom and the bulwark of oppression. . . . Economically, his greatest fear is that laissez-faire 'may produce wealth so richly and distribute it so widely that we shall be satisfied with it and keep it as our sole mode of hfe'." Water and Oil WHEN You Go Cruising, Go" is the ad- monitory title of a leading article in Motor Boating's big February issue, timed for the New York Boat Show. The author of the story is George C. Hull '18, who based his observations on a power boat trip last summer from Narragansett Bay to the waters of Maine and back. The readable article is illustrated with photographs by the author. I. R. Sheldon '11 is writing a series of monthly articles for The Petroleum Reporter on oil conditions in Southwest Texas. Sheldon, formerly with Texhoma and other major oil companies, knows his field thoroughly. Speaker's Aid WILLIAM G. Hoffman's new book, "The Public Speaker's Scrapbook," is being advertised by Whittlesey House, its publisher, as "a usable source book of stim- ulating ideas on a thousand interesting top- ics, classified and indexed for instant use." The publisher also says that it "explains the psychology and technique of speaking in public and over the radio." Hoffman's class is 1904. Fundamental Physics 'T^OUNDATIONS of Physics" are expounded Jr in a new book so entitled by Prof. Rob- ert B. Lindsay of Brown and Prof. Henry Margenau of Yale, now on the lists of John Wily and Sons. "The book differs from the ordinary in that it approaches the subject philosophically rather than in the rigorous manner of theoretical text," ac- cording to the Brown physicist. On the other hand, it does not emulate the popular discussions. "Rather," says a reviewer, "it is a midway between the two extremes, an idea which has never before been tried in this field by a writer in English. The empha- sis has been laid on the methods of descrip- tion and the construction of theories not on special and elaborate applications." An Estimate of Williams PROF. Howard B. Grose was the author of a fine estimate of Roger Williams which appeared in the Christian Century. This "star actor in the colonial drama of America" founded Providence 300 years ago, in 1636, and the anniversary made a new appraisal particularly appropriate. Prof. Grose saw Williams as the prophet and stalwart defender of religious liberty in a new land. In the Letter Box Unions and "Unions" February 21, 1936. To the Editor: A SITUATION inimical to the welfare and development of "Student Unions" as centers of undergraduate life on American college campuses has recently developed, about which the Association of College Unions wishes to inform alumni in order to prevent misunderstandings. At Columbus, Ohio, this past December, two liberal student organizations met, merged and adopted the name "American Student Union." These two organizations, the Student League for Industrial Democ- racy, a socialist group, and the National Student League, an avowedly communist group, under their new name represent an action group concerned with the abolition of the R.O.T.C. and the preservation of peace, the preservation of freedom of speech and action in colleges, of equality of races, to mention a few planks of their platform. As an association, we do not challenge their aims and purposes, nor do we challenge the right of students to further these ends, but we do strongly protest the adoption of the phrase "Student Union" as part of their new name. Our officers met the secretaries of the two organizations in New York and called their attention to the fact that the phrase, "Student Union," colloquially used, has had a very definite connotation in our col- leges for two decades. On the floor of their Convention at Columbus, we again called their attention to the already accepted meaning of the phrase and urged the adop- tion of a name that would avoid misunder- standing and ambiguity, but without success. We now urge alumni to keep in mind that there is no relationship whatsoever between the Student Unions of our colleges and the "American Student Union." Houston Hall of Pennsylvania, Willard Straight Hall of Cornell, the Memorial Union of Wisconsin, to mention but three Unions out of nearly one hundred, collo- quially referred to regularly as Student Unions, fly no political banners today. They remain student centers with facilities for non-classroom and non-athletic life; where students may lounge, eat, play, chat, dance, assemble; student centers fostering social development, open forums, music, art, hob- bies, to mention but a few of their program events. By charter they remain non-political and non-sectarian, their membership open to all matriculating students. The press and liberal magazines have already carried stories about this new organ- ization and its program. Further headlines and space will be accorded them as they present resolutions and petitions; organize rallies and strikes, and resort to other action. Our Association of College Unions will continue to work for a change of name, but in the meantime hopes that alumni as well as undergraduates will carefully differen- tiate these two organizations. Carl Lauterbach, President, Association of College Unions * * * Laird y Company, 39 Broadway, New York City, February 19, 1936. Dear Sir: I RECEIVED the Alumni Monthly this morning and understand that the Uni- versity is interested in getting a new mascot, '^ou can count me in for a $5 bill if there are any expenses incurred in secur- ing the animal. I well remember the speech I gave before the chapel in the fall of 1922 when we pur- chased the last Brown bear. We held a collection after the services and got around sixty or seventy dollars. I immediately went out to the outskirts of East Providence to a Catholic priest's house where we bought the bear for $40. With the new gym and football field, conditions will be much more suitable to keep the bear than when I was in college. In those days we used to keep him in a wooden crate in the basement of one of the fraternity houses or in one of the buildings on the campus. Let's get the animal. Sincerely yours, Andy Macfarlane '23 P. S. Collection sixty or seventy dollars. Cost of bear forty. Sounds as though I pock- eted the rest of the money. Actually it went toward the celebration when Brown beat Harvard 3-0. Tinker, Addoms, Lundin, and myself were on the celebration committee. * * * Jan. 27. Dear Sir: For some time I have thought the Brown Alumni Monthly a very drab affair and not calculated to interest Brown Alumni in their college or inspire in them a pride in its affairs or history. w. Chicago, Jan. 3L Gentlemen: The Alumni Monthly is worth read- ing and, therefore, is well worth paying for, since it brings me news each month that I could obtain in no other way. I think, too, that you are doing an excellent job of pre- senting your material. Very truly yours, Dana M. Hubbard '15 206 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Brown Club Activities Aha Cahfornia THE best attended annual meeting in many years of the Brown Club of Alta California took place at the University Club, San Francisco, Saturday evening, Feb. 8, with Nathaniel Blaisdell '83 as pre- siding officer. Seventeen alumni were present: George F. Weston "78, Stewart D. Weston '08, Rev. Stacy R. Warburton '98, Austin K. Allen '04, John J. Rock "24, George C. Channing '11, Ralph W. Chandler '04, Fremont E. Roper '11, Samuel L. Mitchell '12, Roland J. Morgan '13, David G. God- dard '24, Harvey G, Dcnham '1'), John W. Odin '27, Dr. T. Harper Goodspeed "09, Lt. Col. LeRoy Bartlctt '02, David L. Bruce '08, and Mr. Blaisdell. As first speaker. Mr. Blaisdell introduced the oldest alumnus in the Club, George F. Weston "78. former principal of Technical High School, Providence, who presented a vivid picture of life at Brown and of the city of Providence in the days of President Robinson. Col. Bartlett told of his under- graduate days and contrasted football as he played it with the modern version. George Channing and Samuel Mitchell, in com- menting upon their recent visits to the campus, emphasised the unique position of Brown University in the intellectual life of this country. Dr. Goodspeed gave a brief resume of his experiences during a recent plant collecting expedition in the Andes. After listening to reports of committees, the Club unanimously elected Nathaniel Blaisdell '83 president for the coming year. The members again affirmed their desire to get in touch with Brown men who are passing through the San Francisco Bay region. Advance notice of such visits com- municated to the Secretary, T. H. Good- speed, Botany Department, University of California, Berkeley, will insure a hearty welcome. y^ew Yor\ AN unusual demand for tickets in ad- vance made necessary the last-minute ■ transfer of the scene of the 68th annual Brown dinner in New York from the Brown Club to the Hotel Biltmore, Monday evening, Feb. 17. The attendance was the best of recent years; the speakers, Dr George E. Vincent, former president of the Rockefeller Foundation, and Dr. A. D Mead, vice president of the University, were the most appealing choices that any dinner committee could have offered. Dr. Vincent's topic, "The Unpopularity of Brains," had a meaning all its own. Dr. Vincent handled it with deftness, vigor, and humor. He is a rapid-fire speaker. He has a winning personality; he has, one may surmise, seldom thought about being any- thing but young and vigorous in his out- look, in his attitude toward the life and the times of which he is a part. He caught the attention of the alumni with his opening sentence, and closely held it until he ended. Dr. Mead, quiet, easy-going in his way of speaking and thus an excellent partner for Dr. Vincent, touched upon some of the important things that concern Brown today, and neatly sketched the years of his connec- tion with Brown to show the changes that have taken place since he arrived on the campus. He outlined Brown's place in the academic scheme, and told how Brown as an educational institution is growing in pres- tige and esteem among her sister colleges and universities. After he gave encouraging report of President Barbour's condition, the alumni voted to send good wishes to the President, then at Jane Brown Hospital. President Harvey N. Davis' 01 of Stevens Institute of Technology and the Brown University Club in New York, did all the introducing. He is, as the attractive pro- gram said, "the kind of toastmaster a good toastmaster should be." Ralph M. Palmer '10 was chairman of the entertainment com- mittee which arranged the dinner, and J. A. O'Neil '31, executive secretary, handled all details smoothly and with good humor. Royal W. Leith '12, president of the Asso- ciated Alumni, and A. H. Gurney '07, Alumni Secretary, were among the guests, together with a number of fathers of present undergraduates on the Hill. A volunteer quartet led the singing, and it is your correspondent's regret that he did not get their names to include in this report. * * * Boston THE Brown Club of Boston swung into action for the 1936 season at the Cham- ber of Commerce Feb. 4, where it held a noon luncheon with Dr. Leonard Car- michael of the Department of Psychology at the University as speaker. Forty were present, and Judge Kenneth D. Johnson '19, who presided, took delight in calling to the attention of the loyal friends of Brown that there were at the luncheon six past presi- dents of the Brown Club of Boston. They are Henry K. Metcalf '02; Clarence H. Lingham '97; George S. Burgess '12; James S. Allen '98; Frank E. Winsor '91; and Claude R. Branch '07. Also present were Royal W. Leith '12, president of the Associated Alumni, and W. W. Mac- Dougal, Jr., '38, holder of the Boston Club prize scholarship. Although a graduate of Tufts and Har- vard, Dr. Carmichael "indicated a loyalty and enthusiasm for Brown which could not BRO\\'\ TEAMS dcqmtted themselves weU in squash competition this winter. be exceeded by one of Brown's own grad- uates. He spoke to us in a very interesting way about the advantages of doing graduate study at Brown. His was a delightful as well as pointed talk, and we recommend Dr. Carmichael to other Brown Clubs in- terested to hear about present activities on the Hill." The annual dinner of the Boston alumni will take place some time next month. * * * T^ewport WILLIAM P. Sheffield "H succeeded Dr. Clarence A. Carr "87 as president of the Brown Club of Newport at the annual meeting and dinner held at La Forge Cottage, Feb. 24. Other officers for 1936-37 are: Vice President — Fred M. Hammett '80; Secretary-Treasurer — John H. Greene, Jr., '15; Executive Committee — Dr. Carr, Francis L Greene '06, Philip H. Slocum, Jr., '34, and Powel H. Kazanjian '22, and the officers. Dr. Carr, who has given faithful and constructive service to the Club over a period of years, presided at the dinner and introduced Dr. A. D. Mead, who spoke for President Barbour; Dr. Herbert W. Lull, Harvard '74: Edward J. Corcoran '15; and the Alumni Secretary. Dr. Lull and Mr. Corcoran contrasted in a thoroughly indi- vidual way memories of their undergrad- uate days, and made apt comment on certain courses of study in the light of present day conditions. Dr. Mead told the story of Brown today. The Alumni Secretary re- viewed the Advisory Council meetings, touched upon the outlook for baseball and other sports, and urged all the alumni to cast their ballots in the coming election for Alumni Trustees. * * * Providence STANDING committees of the Brown Club of Providence to serve during 1936 have been announced by W. Easton Louttit, Jr., '25, newly elected vice president of the Club. The new committee members, most of them members of the Brown Club's execu- tive staff, are as follows: On Sub-Fre.'i/iinan: Edward T. Richards "27; Parker E. Monroe '15; Alexander T. Hindmarsh '19; J. Richmond Fales '10; Ray W. Greene '20; and H. Eddy Easton 'II. On Meynbership: T. Robley Louttit "32; Walter Adler "18; William J. Gilbane "33; Charles Wass, father of Edward D. Wass "36; and Brenton G. Smith "11. On Finance: Henry C. Hart "01; Fred A. Otis "03; and Frederick E. Schoeneweiss '20. On Athletics Matthew W. Goring '26; H. Eddy Easton '1 1;_ Nelson J. Conlong'28: and Raymond Buss '09, On 7v(on-AtliIetic Actit'ities: Nelson B. .Jones '28; Clarence H. Philbrick "13; and Mason B. Merchant "25. On Pubhcitv, Earl M. Pearce "17; Stan- ton P. Nickerson "31; and Lawrence Lan- pher "23. >;: >;: * Ahtmni Fund Trustees THE following resolution and vote were passed at the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Associated Alumni at its meeting on February 21: Resolved: That the Board of Directors of the Associated Alumni of Brown Uni- versity recommend to the members of the Associated Alumni for action at the next 207 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Annual Meeting that Article IX of the Con- stitution of the Associated Alumni be amended to read as follows: "ARTICLE IX "Alumni Fund — The President and Treasurer of the Associated Alumni, together with not less than six nor more than fifteen others, two of whom shall be members of the Corporation of the University, shall constitute the Board of Trustees of the Alumni Fund. The Executive Committee shall deter- mine from time to time the number of such Trustees within the limits here specified, shall choose the Trustees and determine for what term they shall serve. The Board of Trustees of the Alumni Fund shall make an annual report to the Advisory Council and to the Associated Alumni." Voted: That until further ordered by the Executive Committee or the Board of Directors, the following constitute a com- mittee on the Alumni Fund to co-operate with and assist the Board of Trustees of the Alumni Fund: Henry S. Chafee 1909, Rob- ert Goff 1924, George R. Ashbey 1921, and George Hurley 1907. A Maine Woods Dinner FIVE Brown men had a share in the "Maine woods dinner," which was one of the highlights of the 1936 New England Sportsmen's and Boat Show in Boston in February. Governor Louis J. Brannof Maine was the guest of honor, and every article of food served, with the exception of the salt, pepper, and coffee, came from the State of Maine. The moose meat, venison, lobsters, corn on the cob, potatoes, cider, cranberry sauce, cream, butter, were brought from Maine and prepared by the chefs at the Hotel Lenox with the assistance of Maine guides. Edward R. Place "24, who directs pub- licity for Maine through the office of N. W. Ayer & Son, had charge of arrangements. Linus Travers '27, with the Yankee Net- work, was master of ceremonies for a broad- cast in which Governor Brann, ex-Governor Tudor Gardiner and others took part. Oliver H. P. Rodman '26 represented T/ie ?{ationa} Sport.sman and hunting and fish- ing magaiines; Earl Lofquist '26, writer on fishing and hunting for the Providence Etiening Bulletin, and Richard H. Place '26 of the Providence T'iewS'Tribune were also present. David S. Barry DAVID S. Barry, former editor of the Providence Journal and sergeant-at- arms of the United States Senate for 14 years, was the father of two sons who took special courses at Brown before entering United States Naval Academy. Coinitiander James R. Barry, U.S.N., who will become executive officer at the Newport Naval Training Station next month, was at Brown in 1904-0?; and Major David S. Barry, Jr., Marine Corps, did his preliminary work in 1908-09. Mr. Barry, Sr., long a familiar figure in Washington as newspaper man, publicity director, and Senate officer, died suddenly in his sleep at his Washington home, Feb. 10. Brunonians Far and Near BY A. H. GURNEY 1875 DR. Samuel L. Caldwell sailed from Los Angeles for Honolulu on Feb. 29 to spend two months in the Hawaiian Islands. This is his fourth trip to what he calls "the earthly paradise." 1876 Mrs. Sarah L. (Walker) Barney, widow of Walter Hammond Barney, died in Provi- dence in January. The Barneys were among the best whist players in the country a gen- eration ago: their reputation was national. A son, W. Howard Barney '05, survives. 1881 George Bickford Brigham reports his permanent address until further notice to be 1190 North EI Molino Avenue, Pasa- dena, Calif. "I am 79 years old but in ex- cellent health," he wrote a few weeks ago. 1883 Dean William E. Simonds and Mrs. Simonds have been in Winter Park, Fla., during the winter. Dr. Francis W. Shepardson, president of the national fraternity of Beta Theta Pi, spent a busy day at New York University while he was in New York recently to attend the National Interfraternity confer- ence. "At noon," said Beta Theta Pi, the fraternity magasine in its January number, "Dr. Shepardson addressed the sophomore class at its regular chapel, giving them in- sight into the latest fraternity aims as a result of the National Interfraternity con- ference just concluded in New York. His subject was, 'To Be a Success — Why Was I Chosen?' Following the chapel. Dr. Shep- ardson was the guest of honor at a luncheon arranged for him at the Faculty club by Beta members of the University Heights Faculty. The remainder of the afternoon was spent in touring the campus, inspecting the engineering school facilities, observing classroom work and the like." In the even- ing he climaxed his day by speaking at an interfraternity pledge dinner. Rev. Dr. Martin W. Twing's new house address is 168 Bradley Street, Saco, Me. Nathaniel Blaisdell has again been chosen president of the Brown Club of Alta Cali- fornia (San Francisco and neighborhood). 1884 Dr. H. C. Bumpus, chairman of the committee on museums in the National Park Service, has been appointed by Secretary Ickes to the advisory board which will help to select historical buildings and monu- ments for preservation as national shrines. 1885 The baseball career of the late Dr. Henry Johns Rhett of Newport is recalled in a recent article in the T^ewport Herald about the famous battery of Rhett and Charles H. Sullivan. The latter was the first curve ball pitcher in Newport, but he did not go on to star in college as did Rhett. Rogers High School, Newport, wishes a boyhood photo- graph of Sullivan to accompany that of his battery-mate on the school's walls. Never, says the newspaper writer, did the school have as successful a battery as that of 1879 and 1880. 1886 Norman M. Isham, the Colonial author- ity, was among the visitors of note when the Stephen Hopkins house in Providence boasted a fine loan exhibition of old furni- ture last month in connection with the city's Tercentenary. Isham was the architect who restored the famous house. 1887 Isaac H. Gilhuly, who has been in West Palm Beach, Fla., since November, expects to return North at the end of this month or early in April. 1891 George J. Holden was toastmaster of the 84th annual initiation dinner which the Epsilon Chapter of Zeta Psi held at the University Club, Providence, Feb. 14. Martin S. Fanning has been re-elected vice president of the Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. He is also a member of the executive committee. 1892 James C. Collins, in an interview in the Erenmg Bulletin, Providence, last month, said that the time chosen for the proposed State Constitutional convention (this month) "could hardly have been worse," in view of the political campaigns now be- ginning, and that "the method of choosing the delegates is indefensible." He strongly advised Rhode Island citizens to vote against the holding of a convention at the present time. 1893 Former Dean Charles M. Poor of Knox College and Mrs. Poor have been in Cler- mont, Fla., during the winter. They will go to their summer home in Onekama, Mich., in May. 1894 Jacob Hayman reports his present address to be Box 404, West Palm Beach, Fla. He intends to spend the spring and summer in Asheville, N. C. George S. Ellis was the representative of the Brown Club of Western Maine to the Advisory Council meetings at Brown, Feb. 21 and 22. Ellis has been active in the Western Maine unit as member and officer for many years. 1896 Judge Charles R. Easton told the story of how East Providence became part of Rhode Island and Fall River went to Massachusetts in the boundary settlement of 1862 at the annual dinner of the Riverside Business Southpaw Catcher IN answer to a recent letter in the Tvjew TorJ; Ti7ne,'; about left- left-handed catchers in baseball, the editor, mentioning Babe Ruth and others, concluded: "Fred Tenney came up to the Boston National Club from Brown University as a left- handed catcher, but he was such a valuable batsman that he was sent to the outfield, and after that played at first base. He succeeded the late Dan McGann as first baseman of the Giants, and was in turn succeeded by Fred Merkle." Tenney's class is '94. 208 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Men's Association late in January, He de- scribed how citizens of both States felt toward their commissioners, and gave a fine sketch of East Providence and River- side in the days of their early development. Rev. Frederick W, Jones said farewell to his parishioners in St. Thomas' Episcopal Church, Providence, Sunday, Feb. 23, and left later for his plantation in Raymond, Miss., where he will begin again as a planter. Mrs. Jones's health makes it neces- sary for the family to live in the South. 1897 Charles D. Millard, now serving his third term in Congress, has announced that he is a candidate for Surrogate of Westchester County, N. Y., on the Republican ticket. He has been endorsed as "a practising attor- ney in the County of Westchester since 1899, thoroughly experienced in all matters pertaining to Surrogate's practice." He has served two terms as president of the West- chester County Bar Association, and is active in social and business circles of the county. Russell Grinnell, former State Senator, has the unusual record of being endorsed by both Republican and Democrats in Exeter as candidate for delegate to the proposed constitutional convention in Rhode Island this month. Grinnell was Republican leader in the State Senate at the time he gave up public office in 1928. He made earnest effort to reorganize the departments of State gov- ernment, but his own party balked him. Frank O. Jones of Hartford and George L. Miner were members of the Advisory Council of the Associated Alumni which met at Brown last month. Miner was a member of the resolutions committee. 1898 Dr. Edward S. Gushee's new address is 187 North Main Street, Wallingford, Conn. After many years of successful practice in New York he has retired to the quiet pre- cincts of Wallingford and the Connecticut hills. Warren E. Greene continues to get his mail at Washington, Conn., where he is convalescing from a serious illness. Smith L. Multer, William E. Winchester, Dennis F. O'Brien, Dr. George H. Sher- wood, P. A. Boyd, and David L. Fultz got together for a mid-winter reunion at the annual dinner of the Brown alumni in New York last month. James S. Allen, former president of the Associated Alumni, attended the 1936 ses- sions of the Advisory Council on the Hill last month as a guest of the Council. A recent note from Dean F. H. Sibley of the College of Engineering, University of Nevada, included his best regards to mem- bers of the Class and other friends of col- lege days. Richard R. Hunter, vice president of the Chase National Bank of New York City, has been elected treasurer of the Trust Companies Association of the State of New York. 1900 Dr. Waldo G. Leland, general secretary of the American Council of Learned Soci- eties, is one of the 1 1 historians named last month by Secretary Ickes in Washington to act as an advisory board to aid in select- ing historical buildings and monuments for preservation as national shrines. Dr. Frederick Lent, president of the In- ternational Baptist Seminary, East Orange, N. J., which is exclusively for foreign candi- dates for the Baptist ministry, now has The Perfect President ONE New York alumnus used a story to express his reactions to the Alumni committee's report on qualifications desired in the next President of Brown University. A School Committee, he said, had the job of picking a new Superin- tendent, and it reported to the City Council the qualifications sought in such a man. The man reporting stated that the committee realized it was "looking for a perfect man but would be satisfied with somewhat Roumanian, Czechoslovakian, Ukranian, Hungarian, Russian, and Italian students at the seminary. There is also one Dane. Prof. Herbert Richard Cross's mother, Mrs. Emeline (Mathewson) Cross, died Feb. 1 at her home in Wickford, R. I., where she had been active in community work. She was in her 84th year. Harry A. Clapp is in the lumber busi- ness, with his office at 33 West 42nd Street, New York City. 1901 Charles E. Ewing is continuing his effec- tive work as supervisor of preparole work at the State Agricultural and Industrial School, Industry, N. Y. He is also president of the Brown Club of Rochester. C. Sherman Hoyt reports his correct mail address to be 37 West 44 Street, New York City. Dr. and Mrs. Charles S. Turner have the sympathy of the Class in the loss of their son, Charles S. Turner, Jr., member of the Junior classs of Classical High School, Providence, and organist of Westminster Unitarian Church. He was in his 16th year. Daniel A. Clarke is a vice president of the Rhode Island Agricultural Conference for 1936-37. 1902 Dr. James W. Leech discussed the treat- ment of glaucoma, medical, surgical, and social, before the Rhode Island unit of the American Association of Medical Social Workers in Providence last month. 1903 Richard W. Blanding is a member of the legislative committee of the Rhode Island Pharmaceutical Association. Percy W. Gardner has been elected vice president of the Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Elmer E. Butler writes that his preferred mail address is in care of the Boston Traveler, Boston, Mass. He is a member of the editorial staff of the Traveler. Thomas A. Barry, executive secretary of the Rhode Island branch of the National Metal Trades Association, has been an out- spoken critic of the proposal to make Colum- bus Day and New Year's Day mandatory holidays in Rhode Island. He believes that the State has enough holidays as it is for the good of all concerned, especially work- ers who need every day's pay that they can get. 1904 H. N. Otis, with Anaconda Wire y Cable Company, has changed the scene of his activities from New York to Chicago, where his mail address is 20 North Wacker Drive. Arthur Upham Pope, director of the American Institute for Persian Art and Archeology, recently lectured at the Metro- politan Museum, New York, on "Some Little Known Monuments of Persian Architecture." A. Lloyd Briggs has the sympathy of the Class in the loss of his wife, Mildred Gim- lich Briggs, who died suddenly at the Briggs home in Ashaway, R. I., Jan. 30. 1905 Professor Roy Towne has so far recov- ered from an attack of tuberculosis that he has returned to Norton, Kan., from the sanatorium at Norwich, Conn., and hopes to he able to resume his work as Assistant Professor of Romance Languages, Univer- sity of Kansas, in full next fall. Judge Allyn L. Brown has taken his place on the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors, succeeding Judge Frank D. Haines. The Chief Justice of the Court is William M. Maltbie. Warren A. Whitney, president of the Board of Trustees, Worcester Academy, was a speaker at the annual dinner of the Worcester alumni in New York, Feb. 24. A portrait of the late Frank A. Tibbetts, special student with the Class, has been hung in the William L. Dickinson High School, Jersey City, N. J., of which Tib- betts was principal from 1923 to his death in August, 1933. "Amid the changing view- point of education, he never lost sight of youth, its desires, its pleasures, its hopes," said a written tribute paid at the unveiling of the portrait. He taught in the Hope Street High School while he took special work at Brown. 1906 J. Morton Ferrier, president of the Ferrier Land Co., is occupying his new offices at 430 Industrial Trust Building, Providence. Leonard A. Prouty, Registrar of The Citadel, well known military school in Charleston, S. C, now holds the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the OfEcers' Reserve. Richard D. Tucker and Dr. Charles C. Tillinghast attended the meetings of the Advisory Council of the Associated Alumni on the Hill last month, Tucker as president of the Connecticut Valley Brown Club, and Tillinghast as Alumni Trustee. Howard W. Congdon's father, Joseph Cole Congdon, business man prominent in fraternal societies and deacon of Calvary Baptist Church, died in Providence, Feb. 2, in his 83rd year. Lieut. Col. Leeson O. Tarleton, Medical Corps, U.S.A., is at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. The Class Reunion Committee in charge of the 30th Reunion next June is at work and has begun to shape up the program for the big week-end before Commencement. Is there any need to urge every member of the Class to reserve that week-end — and Commencement Day — and. as the Dean's office used to say, "let nothing interfere"? Alexander Graham was the shepherd of the "06 delegation at the Brown alumni din- ner at the Hotel Biltmore, New York, last month. Henry G. Carpenter, R. W. Berth- old, Dr. C. C. Tillinghast. Arthur F. Dris- coll, C. A. Lundell, and Howard M. Tracy were on hand to keep Graham company. 1907 Dr. Leon E. Truesdell, chief statistician for population of the United States Bureau of Census, spent several days in Providence last month going over with L. Metcalfe Walling "30, State director of labor, some 209 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Integrating Bear IT will be a matter of much regret to the student body" if the Athletic Council cannot find it possible to accept the offer of a bear cub as a mascot made recently on behalf of the Brown Club of Boston. Such, at least, was the statement of the undergraduate newspaper, the Dailv Herald. "Students should take every op- portunity," says an editorial, "to make their opinion on this matter understood by the Athletic Council so that when next fall rolls around Brown will once again have a mascot to add another dash of color to the football season." The editorial writer adds: "A mas- cot, to strut his stuff between the halves of a football game, offers an element of integration which would aid materially in improving under- graduate enthusiasm." An element of integration, eh? of the details connected with the recent Rhode Island census. During his visit he came back to the campus, saw Al Gurncy, Professors L. T. Damon, H. S. Bucklin, and other old friends, and told of pre- liminary work on the United States census in 1940. Lee H. White, Rev. Eugene C. Carder (who sat at the head table"), H. B. Keen, and A. H. Gurney represented the Class at the annual Brown dinner in New York, Feb. 17. We missed Rev. Oscar Maddaus, Dr. WiUiam M. Higgins, H. E. Hallborg, and other "07 men who come more or less regularly to the dinner. Professor Z. Chafee, Jr., speaking at the Providence Community Forum last month, characterized the Sedition Bill, before Con- gress, and the current teachers" oath laws as "dangerous laws which may seriously curtail our civil liberties." He told his audi- ence that he took the Massachusetts oath for teachers "as a matter of course but I did not feel so proud of Massachusetts after I took it. . . . If we have such laws as the teachers" oath law and the Sedition Bill, our nation will surely be turned into a nation of snoopers and so-called patriots who will attempt to jail minority members of radical groups and anyone else holding an honest conviction."" Carl Stone Crummett continues to give all his time to his work as advertising man- ager of American Mutual Liability Insur- ance Company and its allied units in Bos- ton. One of Crummett"s sons is working for American Mutual, and another is with E. R. Place "24 in the Boston office of N. W. Ayer 6? Son, advertising. 1908 William A. Smith, teacher in the James- town, N. Y., public schools, writes that his new address is 11 Potter Ave., Jamestown, 1909 Frank C. Taylor is still with the Roches- ter Gas £^ Electric Corporation, Rochester, N. Y. He has recently written Al Leach expressing his hope to be back in Provi- dence at an early class reunion. Johnny Mayhew writes that in January he moved from Saigon back to Hong Kong, where his address will be, as usual, in care of Socony-Vacuum. Ivory Littlefield, re-elected president of the Title Guarantee Company of Rhode Island, told stockholders at the annual meet- ing in Providence last month that real estate activity increased in the city and suburbs during 193 5. Moses L. Crossley, chief chemist of Caico Chemical Company, was back on the cam- pus last month to speak before the joint meeting of the American Chemical Society and the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists in Metcalf audi- torium on "The Relation Between Chemical Constitution and Color."" Clarence W. Bosworth, superintendent of schools of Cranston, has changed his house address to 18 Shirley Boulevard, Cranston, R. I. T. Harper Goodspeed, Professor of Bot- any and director of the Botanical Garden, University of California, has returned from four months of plant hunting in the Andes. "I can report a very pleasant and successful trip,"" he writes. "We traveled over 14,000 miles, 5,000 of those miles by air."" Dr. Robert H. Whitmarsh was toast- master at the banquet which followed the 46th annual initiation of Phi Delta Theta Fraternity at Brown. Other speakers in- cluded Earl M. Pearce "17 and William R. Harvey '01, while Rev. Earl H. Tomlin "18 gave the invocation. Warren R. Campbell "19 was chairman of the committee in charge, with help from Thomas R. Gardner "29 and the undergraduates. 1910 Richard D. Allen is giving a course on "Common Problems in School Discipline"" in the Brown University extension series this semester. Frank L. Mansur, superintendent of schools of Swampscott, Mass., has recently changed his house address to 88 Banks Rd., Swampscott. Max Barus, John C. Hennessy, W. C. Oakes, Ralph M. Palmer, and W. W. Greene had a mid-winter reunion of their own at the annual Brown alumni dinner at the Hotel Biltmore, New York City, last month. Palmer was chairman of the Brown Club committee in charge of the dinner. Harold T. Phinney has been advanced to secretary of the Providence Washington Insurance Company and elected secretary of the Anchor Insurance Company. Howard A. Taber"s father, Alfred H. Taber, retired business man, died in Provi- dence, Jan. 30, 1936, in his 80th year. Another son is Norman S. Taber "13. 1911 Charles P. Sisson and Governor Theodore Francis Green "87 got considerable local publicity last month on the occasion of their debate at a luncheon meeting of the "/ Esp. You £,sp, He Esps" REV. Charles Francis Potter "08, minister of the First Humanist Society of New York, in a recent talk before his congregation pro- posed a new verb, "to esp,"" which means "to perceive with the sixth sense, commonly called mental telep- athy or clairvoyance."" The Jsiew TorJ; Herald Tribune said that the verb was "derived from the initial letters in the phrase, 'extra sensory perception," sometimes referred to by psychologists as 'E.S.P'."" Town Criers of Providence on the proposed State constitutional convention. Sisson attacked the convention: Governor Green defended it. Philip A. Feiner "16 led the committee that put on the debate. Later in the month Sisson matched arguments with Lieut. Governor Robert E. Quinn "15. 1912 Capt. Wiley H. Marble of Charles H. Smith Camp, CCC, and his family are liv- ing at the Waterbury Inn, Waterbury, Vt., and hope to remain there until June. In the recent fire at the camp in which three officers were fatally burned. Marble lost about all that he owned. Harold P. Salisbury of the law firm of Hinckley, Allen, Tillinghast 6? Wheeler was elected a director of the H. W. Clark Biscuit Company, North Adams, Mass., at the last annual meeting. Gerald Donovan, W. E. Sprackling, W. Randolph Burgess, Royal W. Leith, president of the Associated Alumni, F. W. Seagrave, John F. Von Der Leith, and John T. Winterich made up the "12 delegation at the annual Brown dinner at the Hotel Biltmore, New York City, Feb. 17. Did any Class have a larger group at the dinner? Professosr Clarence E. Ayres of the De- partment of Economics, University of Texas, where he has been since 1930, has become director of the Consumers" Division of the Department of Labor at Washington as successor to Professor Walton Hamilton of Yale. Ayres helped Professor Hamilton organize the division and then returned to the University of Texas. Professor Hamil- ton, according to Bustne,ss Week, which had an article on and a picture of Ayres in its February 1 5 issue, "has praised his col- league's knowledge of consumer problems and is reported to have stated that his suc- cessor has a friendly attitude toward business." Richard B. Wilson is a senior partner of the law firm of Henderson, Wilson, Mason &? Wyatt, with his offices at 600 City Bank Building, Youngstown, O. W. Randolph Burgess and John H. Williams have become vice presidents of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in accord with the provisions of the Banking Act of 1935. Williams is also Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy at Harvard. He is at the bank in New York part of each week. 1915 William P. Sheffield has been re-elected president and treasurer of the Newport Electric Corporation. William C. Crolius, Jr., has received the Silver Beaver award of the Boy Scouts of America for distinguished service in scout work. Crolius is president of the Orange, N. J,, District Council and vice president of the Orange and Maplewood Area Coun- cil of the Boy Scouts. Herbert J. Lawson is the new superin- tendent of streets of Leominster, Mass., having been appointed by Mayor Harold W. Burdett. Before he took over the work Lawson had been in charge of street work in Clinton, Mass., from 1928 to 193 3 and had also served as supervisor of a State project at Lake Waushacum. Dana M. Hubbard is editor of The Canner. the national technical and market journal of the canning, glass packing, and condiment industries. His editorial offices are at 140 North Dearborn Street, Chicago. George H. A. La Roe reports his mail address to be 823 Park Avenue, New York City. 210 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Dr. M. J. Lossow has been elected treas- urer of the Bronx Gynecological and Ob- stetrical Society for the current year. Lossow's office is at 2134 Vyse Avenue, corner East 181st Street, the Bronx, N. Y. 1916 W. L. R. McBee, treasurer and general manager of the Gardiner Hall, Jr., Co., South Willington, Conn., is an advisory counselor of the Scottish Plan Associates, a voluntary mutual investment association recently formed in Connecticut. Professor Bancroft H. Brown, chairman of the Department of Mathematics and Astronomy at Dartmouth this academic year, is also chairman of the Division of Sciences, one of the three divisions of the Faculty in a new organization which "will play an important role in the future educa- tional policy of the College." Philip A. Feiner is a member of the sub- committee of the Charter Revision Com- mittee now at work in Providence on a survey and study of city departments for the purpose of reorganisation. Wilbur E. Saunders, headmaster of Ped- dle School, conducted the Founders" Day exercises at the school, Hightstown, N. J., Feb. 9, with alumni and friends joining with the students in the commemoration. W. N. (Bill) Ormsby, end coach at Bos- ton College for eight years, will have the famous Gil Dobie as his superior next fall, following the Gloomy One's transfer from Cornell to Boston. Dobie, we hear, is happy to retain the capable Bill on the B. C. coach- ing staff. Charles J. Hill was elected vice president of the Title Guarantee Company of Rhode Island at the last annual meeting. George F. (Johnny) Johnston has written that he will come from Wichita, Kan., for the 20th Reunion in June, and that he hopes to bring his two sons with him. Frederick A. Ballou, Jr., has been chosen president of the Manufacturing Jewelers' Board of Trade, succeeding the late Alfred K. Potter '02. 1917 Kenneth N. Atwater has come back to Providence as an executive with the Gorham Company, silversmiths. 1918 Herbert Butterlield, managing director of the Fort Wayne, Ind., Civic Theatre and lecturer on speech at the University of In- diana, has joined the radio department of Lord 6? Taylor, advertising agency, Chicago, and will assist in production work on the agency's programs. Your Class Secretary hears that Herb will be connected with sev- eral nationally-known broadcasts, one of which is Amos 'n Andy. Clifton I. Munroe recently received a commission as Captain in the Judge Advo- cate General Department, Reserves. Walter Adler (your Secretary) is a new member of the Executive Committee of the Brown Club of Providence. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Republican Club of Rhode Island. A direc- tor of the Narragansett Council, Boy Scouts of America, he is chairman of the committee arranging for the annual meeting of Region One, Boy Scouts of America, in Providence next month. Carroll B. Larrabee, president of the New York Alumni Association of Peddie School, arranged something unusual for the annual dinner of the club at the Hotel McAlpin on February 28. Peddie was moved, figur- atively, to the banquet room, where pictures A 24-HOUR stir on the campus or at least in the Brown Faculty Club was occasioned by a Brown Daily Herald headline: THELMA TODD DEATH SHOCK TO FACULTY The late film star was identified as a Prom queen who set aflutter the hearts at Brown dances in the early twenties. "Younger faculty members and alumni mourned her death," an un- dergraduate reporter stated, asserting that she was "a reigning beauty" at the Junior Prom of 1921 and other college parties. The Herald did not discover the names of her escorts on these occasions, but an unidentified faculty member was quoted as de- scribing her as a "big, voluptuous blonde of 15." Reputed denials of all the pur- ported assertions were gathered by an alleged Herald reporter who claimed to have visited the Faculty Club after the appearance of the first story. and persons revealed the progress made at the school since the 70's. Headmaster Wil- bour E. Sanders '16 was the principal speaker. Gurney Edwards has again been chosen president of the Travelers Aid Society of Providence. . Burton Harrington, who left college to go to war in 1917, died suddenly at his home on Long Island, Feb. 13, 1936, your Secre- tary has been informed. The story of his active career in advertising will be told in a later issue of the Brown Alumni Monthly. 1919 Webb W. Wilder of the firm of Pieper & Wilder, general insurance agents, is occupy- ing his new offices at 325-27 Swarts Build- ing, Providence. Percy Gordon Cliff writes that his present house address is 95 Simonds Road, Lexing- ton, Mass. He is an insurance man, with his office at 40 Broad Street, Boston. Charles H. Huggins, Jr., Lawrence F. Hurley, Maurice Green, and Thomas C. Watson, Jr., made up the '19 delegation at the annual Brown dinner in New York City, Feb. 17. Judge Kenneth D. Johnson and Ernest E. Nelson, both officers of the Brown Club of Boston, are members of the committee in charge of the annual dinner of Boston alumni which will take place next month. Fred B. Perkins, Secretary of the Rhode Island Bar Association, was one of the active campaigners against the proposed Constitutional Convention in the State, an issue which went before the people in a referendum, March 10. 1920 Evariste Orteig's father, Raymond Or- teig, had his 66th birthday observed at the Hotel Lafayette in New York City last month by a testimonial dinner given by his friends in aviation. A map with the routes of various trans-Atlantic flights drawn on it was presented to him on behalf of the Comite France-Amcrique in recognition of his gift of $25,000 to the first person to make a non-stop flight between New York and Paris. Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh was the winner. Charles Smith, father of Deputy Superin- tendent of Health Joseph Smith of Provi- dence, died in Tel Avis, Palestine, Feb. 6. Mr. Smith, Sr., business man in Providence, had gone to Palestine for a rest. Donald C. Bowersock has a new posi- tion, marine secretary of both the Prov- idence Washington and Anchor Insurance Companies. He became marine underwriter in 1929, and since then has served on major committees of the Inland Marine Under- writers' Association. Stanford L. Luce, who is in the contract- ing business, has recently changed his bus- iness address to 21 Congress Street, Boston. Albert E. Lownes is the new vice pres- ident of Narragansett Council, Boy Scouts of America. 1921 Paul A. Gipfel, instructor in English at Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, N. Y., is oc- cupying his new apartment at 517 West 113th Street, New York, Everett L. Sweet's new address is Alden Road, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Lloyd Clute Ely is at present in Lima, Peru, as cotton textile expert for the South American interests of W. R. Grace &? Com- pany. He went with the Grace Company after he had been called into government service as a cotton expert on the so-called Textile Work Assignment Board. In the work of installing efficiency methods in cotton mills he is said to be one of the best men in the United States. 1922 H. Alton Chaffee is in charge of sales with the Hooper-Holmes Bureau, Inc., in- surance investigators, 102 Maiden Lane, New York City. F. C. Sutherland, traffic manager with the United States Finishing Company, has changed his house address to 63 Potter Street, Pawtucket. Fergus E. McOsker, who left college at the end of Sophomore year, to study law at Georgetown, where he received his LL.B. in 1925, is claim examiner with the Fidelity and Casualty Company of New York, with his office at 300 Main Street, Stamford, Conn. He and Mrs. McOsker and their two children, Mary Alice and Fergus, live at 16 Greenwood Hill, Stam- ford. His brother Tom is a member of the Freshman Class at Brown. Chapin S. Newhard made a flying visit to the campus late in February, saw Dr. Bruce M. Bigelow '24, Director of Admis- sions, for a few minutes, and then hurried down the Hill again to catch a train for St. Louis. The speed of his arrival and de- parture indicates that Chape isn't slowing down to any appreciable extent. 1923 Robert H. Spellman, attorney, has his office at 70 Pine Street, and is living at the Hotel Sutton, New York City. Willard Simon is New England sales manager for Republic Steel Corporation, with his office at 250 Stuart Street, Boston. Professor Herbert M. Hofford of the English Department, Rhode Island State College, has been named editor of all ex- periment station publications at Kingston. Clarence R. Day's new address is Indus- trial School for Boys, Shirley, Mass., but Clarence doesn't tell us what he is doing at the school. Robert C. Litchfield, with Graybar Elec- tric Company, is at present getting his mail in care of the company in Atlanta, Ga. 211 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY A(o Dying There ONE doesn't die for Dear Old Sorbonne. So writes Douglas W. Alden, Morgan Edwards Fellow who re- ceived his A.M. from Brown in 1934 and is this year studying in France. (His address is 58, rue Madame, Paris VI.) At the solemn convocation which inaugurates the academic year the Republican guards stood with sabres at salute, the maces were followed by university dignitaries in ermine, among them the Minister of Educa- tion, and at last came the color of Faculty academic robes and bonnets. But when the Rector referred to "his" students, he could not have meant the aged who comprised the audience. Everyone of the 30,000 students of the University of Paris must have been out on the Bou!' Mic/r taking his daily aperitif. Mr. Alden has not yet encountered col- lege spirit in his French sojourn. One does not die for Dear Old Sorbonne. But one does work, fiend- ishly hard, withal, as French are ac- customed to work. And Mr. Alden is not convinced that many American undergraduates can adapt themselves to study in Paris, unless they are affiliated with some scheme like the Delaware plan. For the regimen of these great study factories is still severe, in spite of efforts to human- ise and liberalize them. Your Secretary has received with regret news of the death of Theodore C. Harris last November. An account of his career will appear in a later issue of the Brown Alumni Monthly. 1924 John Spellman had his chance last month at the world's heavyweight wrestling cham- pionship, meeting the so-called title holder, Danno O'Mahoney in Lawrence, Mass. He lost in straight falls after a hard match. Rev. Clarence A. Burrcll is pastor of Mt. Ararat Baptist Church, East Liberty, Pitts- burgh, Pa. S. Everett Wilkins was toastmaster at the annual initiation banquet of the Pi Rho Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta Fra- ternity at the Providence Biltmore Hotel last month. Other speakers included E. J. Lownes "24 and Donald G. Clark "09. 1925 Harry B. Abramson is rounding out an- other year as supervising principal of Cen- ter Moriches High School, Center Moriches, N. Y. He was good enough to call our attention to a recent error in the Alumni Monthly when the editor let the name of John Kieran, erudite sports columnist of the 7\ew York Times, appear as Kiernan. H. C. (Hal) Neubauer has written an interesting letter to the Alumni Monthly apropos of the "Alumni Hopes for Brown's Next President,'" the report of the Alumni Committee which was published two months ago. Hal said he read the report with much interest and, "although the qualifications sought for in the man to head Brown upon the retirement of President Barbour are exacting," he believes she will find someone richly endowed with those qualifications. In fact, he made a specific recommendation, which has been referred to the Corporation Committee. Dr. Lancess McKnight is serving as cor- oner's physician in Media, Pa., where he lives at 25 West Fourth Street. It is the first time in the history of the office that a Negro has filled the position. Dr. McKnight studied at Howard University Medical School, was interne at Mercy Hospital, Philadelphia, and in 1931 became chief resident physician of the hospital. He also has charge of the pathological laboratory. Everett T. Marten, who is doing public relations work with the American Petroleum Institute, is living at 43 West 10th Street, New York City. Alfred A. Picchione was photographed by the Associated Press in Washington last month while being finger printed there as one of the first applicants for a bonus in the office of the Veterans' Administration at the Capitol. Norman Ballou and Mrs. Ballou are back home again after a visit to Nassau, where they were guests of Captain Sir Bede E. H. Clifford, Governor of the Bahamas. Captain Charles H. Morhouse of the United States Army Medical Corps has been ordered to Randolph Field, Texas, for a course as flight surgeon at the School of Aviation Medicine there. This transferred Ti from Plattsburgh, N. Y., where he had been on the staff of the post hospital. When his course is over in Texas, he expects to be sent to Mitchell Field, N. Y. 1926 John M. Hurley, whose first novel "Mon- signor" was published last month by Long- mans, Green y Company, has 154 East 56th Street, New York City, as his present ad- dress. The by-line he uses is Doran Hurley. Emery B. Dansell, one of Rhode Island's foremost basketball referees, was referee-in- chief of the annual New England Inter- scholastic Basketball Tournament held early this month at Burlington, Vt. Danzell has been coach at St. Raphael Academy, Woon- socket, during the present basketball season. Earl Lofquist, in his Fish and Game col- umn in the Providence Evening Bulletin, telling of the "Maine woods dinner" given at the Hotel Lenox, Boston, last month in connection with the New England Sports- men's and Boat Show, said that among those present was Ollie Rodman, "who used to shoot ducks down Wickford way." Another '26 man at the dinner was Richard H. Place, manager of the Woonsocket office of the Providence T^ews-Tribune. Myron Sulzberger, Jr., is a partner of the recently organized law firm of Schechter, Cutler, Sulzberger (i McMahon, with offices at 500 Fifth Avenue, New York City, and Dagger Fears A Brown D.mly Herald statisti- cian fears that the University is becoming co-educational. He bases his thought on an examination of the catalogue where, he says, 67 per cent of the courses this year are "dagger courses" — that is, marked with a dag- ger as available to women. An undergraduate cartoon identi- fied Pembroke College as a baby kangaroo peeking from its mama's pouch. a branch office at 1416 F Street, N. W., Washington. Leslie A. Jones is giving a course in the new series of extension lectures at Brown on "Stagecraft: Scenic Design and Modern Buildings." Jones, Sock and Buskin alum- nus, speaks more and more with authority on this subject, and his new book for ama- teurs and professionals is in wide demand. Plans for the Tenth Reunion of the Class were discussed at a dinner meeting at the University Club, Providence, on Feb. 11. Present were H. Cushman Anthony, Ormond B. Cook, Charles B. Dixon, Noel M. Field, R. Ralph Fitzpatrick, Godfrey Goff, Matthew W. Goring, W. Roland Har- rall, Walter S. Jones, Wendell A. Kaufer, Albert L. Parks, Jr., Donald Ross, Paul J. Spencer, and Jacob S. Temkin. Dr. J. Mark Jacobson of the Faculty of the School of Law, Newark, N. J., was the author of "Landlords" Claims Under Section 77B of the Bankruptcy Act," one of the leading articles in the Tale Law Journal for January. 1927 Kenneth Bailey has left Youngstown, O., for East Liberty, Pittsburgh, Pa., where he is manager of the W. T. Grant Company department store. John A. Taylor, who has been moving about the country during the past two years, has settled in Newark, N. J., and is living at 3 20 Mt. Prospect Avenue. His business address is 20 Washington Place, but he didn't tell us what business he is in at present. 1928 Dr. Joseph L. Kostecki is a practising physician at 50 Meserole Avenue, Brook- lyn, N. Y. He received his M.D. degree at New York University, was an interne at St. John's Hospital, Brooklyn, for two years, and then began his active career. Mrs. Kos- tecki, who was Miss Helena Klass, is a former member of the Elmsford College Faculty, Elmsford, N. Y. Paul R. Mclntyre of the law firm of Greenough, Lyman &? Cross is convalescing after a successful operation for appendicitis which temporarily put him out of commis- sion at Jane Brown Hospital, Providence. He is active in the work of the Alumni Co-operative Admissions Program of the Associated Alumni, but he had to miss the February meeting of the Program com- mittee. Robert F. Marschner reports his new mail address to be 7750 Kingston Avenue, Chicago, 111. Harold C. Soellner, who is engaged in municipal finance work for the Municipal Advisory Council of Michigan, has his office at 1202 National Bank Building, Detroit. Frank Singiser, Steve Hall and W. S. Litterick, from Peddie School, were on hand for the annual Brown dinner in New York City last month. Singiser is begin- ning to feel at home in his new office at 115 Broadway, where he handles trading accounts in Wall Street. Dr. Frank A. Spellman, still serving his interneship, writes that his house address is 123 South First Avenue, Mt. Vernon, N. Y. 1929 "What becomes of 'era?" asks Eddie Briets, Associated Press writer, and then proceeds to give an answer: "Well, Harry Cornsweet, one of Brown's star athletes is coaching track at East Tech, Cleveland. 212 THE NATION'S THE telephone directory is the nation's calling list. IMillions of people refer to it daily — in homes and offices and in pub- lic pay stations. It is the busiest book — it plays a part in covintless activities. For the names in the telephone book are more than names. They are friendships and homes and families. They are bridge parties and golf games — business successes — buyers and sellers of wheat or pins or skyscrapers. More than 12,000,000 names are listed in the directories of the operatmg companies of the Bell System. You can go straight to any one of these millions of people — easily, quicldy and economically — by telephone. The classified directory is an important feature of your tele- phone book. It is a handy, reliable buying guide — a quick, easy way to find "ll/iere To Buy It." BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY . . . The 1926 Brown team was one of the best ever turned out in the East. ... It was undefeated for the season. . . . But was tied hy Colgate in the last game. . . . The team went through most major games with- out making a substitution." Archie Smith has associated with Conrad K. Strauss in the general practice of law at 428 Industrial Trust Building, Prov- idence. Frank B. Money, we hear, has sold his farm in Greene, R. I., and is at present in New York City. He was in newspaper work for several years after graduation. Victor Smith is reported to be doing radio publicity in connection with station WNYC in New York City. Dr. E. B. Medoff, who has been an in- terne at Charles V. Chapin Hospital, will join the staff of the Providence Lying-in Hospital next month. Brad Woolley, having received a num- ber of Passamaquoddy contracts, has been spending several weeks in Maine on the project and has been learning considerable about the severity of Maine winters. 1930 Dr. Malcolm A. Winkler is an interne at St. Joseph's Hospital, Providence. He re- ceived his M.D. degree from Tufts last June. Rohley D. E. MacLean is with the claim compensation department of the American Mutual Liability Insurance Company in Boston. Alvah Winslow sets down his present occupation as photography, and tells us that he is living and working at 309 Ohio Avenue, Providence. "Insurance Careers for College Graduates" This booklet, published by The Penn Mutual Life Insur- ance Company, explains the advantages life underwriting offers to the college gradiiale at the present time. It covers these topics: FINANCIAL OPPORTUNITIES THE COMPANY'S FIXED COMPENSATION PLAN QUALIFICATIONS You may obtain the booklet with no obligation from: NATIONAL COLLEGIATE PERSONNEL BUREAU THE FENN MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY Independence Square, Philadelphia 1931 E. G. Hapgood, Jr., newly appointed na- tional secretary of Zeta Psi, is visiting chap- ters of the fraternity in the Far West. He will return to his New York City head- quarters some time next month. Lloyd G. Briggs is manager of the Zeta Psi Club, 31 East 39th Street, New York City. Charles B. Brown is New England and New York State representative for Excel- sior Shoes, Inc., Portsmouth, O., and is living at 26 Chauncy Street, Cambridge, Mass. William M. Siesel, member of the Class in Freshman year, is assistant engineer with the Westchester County, N. Y., Sanitary Sewer Commission. He and Mrs. Siesel and their two daughters, Joan and Diane, live on Purchase Street, Rye, N. Y. Paul E, Monahan, accountant and audi- tor with General Electric, has been working in Connecticut and New York City for the past month after having spent several months in the Middle West. He had lunch with Ralph Briggs in Cleveland not long ago, has seen Joe O'Neil and Lloyd Briggs in New York, and met up with Bill Fiene- mann "33 and Dick Morse "34 in Hartford, where he has made his headquarters. Clinton L. White was a campus visitor late last month, coming down from Conway, N. H., where he is teaching biology and physical geography at Kennett High School. He brought one of his students to look Brown over. Roy W. Howard, headmaster of St. Dun- stan"s School, Providence, attended the secondary education board conference held Feb. 14 and 15 at the Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, N. J. Ernest Hawkinson, with the American Express Company in Miami, Fla., as inter- preter, is coming back to Providence in May, we hear, to go to work for E. Pulver Cook, Inc., household refrigeration. Al Gell, with the Babcock ^ Wilcox Company, is back at his home in Somerset, Mass., after having spent 18 months on work connected with Boulder Dam con- tracts. Before he headed East he went to the Pacific Coast and also traveled in the Southwest. Virgil W. Cazel is supervisor of family selection for the Resettlement Administra- tion and is working in the district which takes in the Atlantic States from Maine to Maryland. His headquarters are at 393 Chapel Street. New Haven, and he is liv- ing on Mt. Carmel Avenue, Mt. Carmel, Conn. Richard H. Howland is beginning his third year in Greece, where he is now on the staff of the American Excavation in the Agora, the ancient market place of Athens. He was in this country for a short time last fall, but spent most of his days at Har- vard, taking Ph.D. examinations, and so did not have much opportunity to see friends and acquaintances at Brown. "I expect to be out here in Greece a year or two more," he said in a recent letter, "with visits home in between seasons. My permanent address here is in care of the American School of Classical Studies, Athens." 1932 Miner Patton, member of the staff of the new Junior High School, East Milton, Mass., is teaching algebra and directing physical education. David H. Scott is now with Harper ^ Bros., publishers, 49 East 33rd Street, New TanX Mascot BOB Love of the varsity swimming team has been trying hard to get a baby alligator adopted as mascot of the Brunonians. He brought it back from Florida, shipping it through the cold wave and thoroughly freezing the little fellow en route. In warm water, however, the baby alligator thawed out again and put in an appearance in the Colgate Hoyt pool on Feb. 17. Appreciatively, it treated itself to a good workout. Coach Barry says it works an ille- gal breast stroke and isn't too good on the turns, but otherwise shows promise. York City. The arrival of his new daughter, Judith, is reported elsewhere in this issue. John N. Cooper and David M. Berenson have recently become members of the New York Bar. Cooper, who is with Davis, Auer- bach & Cornell, One Wall Street, New York, received his LL.B. from Yale, while Berenson, who is living at 285 Coleridge Street, Brooklyn, is a Harvard law school graduate. T. Dexter Clarke argued his first case in Superior Court, Providence, not long ago, and won it. He is with the law firm of Greenough, Lyman 6? Cross. Stuart G. Waite is practising law in the office of James Edward Davis, 115 State Street, Springfield, Mass. John A. Segur, with the Lonsdale Com- pany at 50 South Main Street, Providence, has changed his house address to Highland Avenue, Cowessett, R. I. A. A. Lubchansky, with his LL.B. from Harvard, is practising law in the Garde Building, Suite 304, New London, Conn. Herbert K. Astmann"s new business ad- dress is in care of Wille Dahl, 920 Gerans Building, Buffalo, N. Y. Charles B. Krebs reports a change of mail address from Chicago to 259 Benefit Street, Providence. Paul F. Mackesy is the new manager of the WPA office in Salem, Mass. He is also president of the Democratic Crusaders of Lynn, as well as a practising lawyer. 1933 Warren A. Miller is running a retail variety store under the name of H. T. Miller Co. in Fort Edward, N. Y. After the death of his father he left Troy, his home city, and started business on his own hook. He wrote that he made a New Year's resolution to come back to Brown at least once this year. His mail address at present is 20 Mechanic Street, Hudson Falls, N. Y. W. H. (Bill) Quigley, Jr., is with Quigley 6? Hill, yacht designers and constructors, Lake Forest, 111. The last issue of the Mt. Hermon Sl,uar- terly published at Mt. Hermon School, car- ried an excellent picture of Cyril G. Sar- gent with the caption: Teacher of Mathe- matics. Maxwell Hoberman is a section manager with G. Fox y Company, department store, Hartford, Conn. He said in a letter that he liked the work very much, though it was a far cry from journalism. "I'd be delighted to have any of the members of the class and other college friends look me up when they are in Hartford,"" he added. 214 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Jack Runyon is working for the Conti- nental Baking Company, 285 Madison Avenue, New York City. Dr. Edmond B. Sinclair, who received his M.D. from Yale last June, is an interne at Rhode Island Hospital. He served several months as physician in a CCC camp before coming back to Providence. 1934 Bob Jones is an investigator and adjuster with the Liberty Mutual Insurance Com- pany, Newark, and is living at 3 3 Bailey Avenue, Hillside, N. J. He also reports that he is still a bachelor. Lewis M. Glassford was recently ap- pointed membership secretary of the Youngstown, O., Chamber of Commerce. Lew is a Youngstowner, and a graduate of South High School. Ed Thomas is now in the contract de- partment of the Indianapolis Power 6? Light Company, 17 North Meridian Street, Indianapolis, Ind. He has his ofSce on the main floor of the company building which, he tells us, is one of the truly modern struc- tures in lighting and display in the country. Bert Humphries has finished a semester at Union Theological Seminary, New York City, and hopes to continue his studies there next fall. He has a contract with the Binghamton, N. Y., baseball club and will pitch for that team this season. Phil Slocum is teaching French at Miss Collings" private school in Newport, R. I. Gordon Carr, whose engagement to Miss Evelyn Erikson of Quincy, Mass., was an- nounced in January, is a memorial salesman in Quincy, where he lives at 151 Monroe Road. John A. Hammond, member of the Class for two years, is working for the Wirthmore Stores at 177 Milk Street, Boston. We re- port his marriage in another column. 1935 J. Otis Staniels is with the New Hamp- shire Fire Insurance Company, Manchester, N. H. He was a delegate from the Brown Club of New Hampshire to the 1936 meet- ing of the Advisory Council of the Asso- ciated Alumni. Jacob Miller is with the merchandise department of the Cable Raincoat Mfg. Company, Boston, learning the business from the bottom up. Louis Virgadamo is a first-year student at the Law School, Boston University. Paul Paulsen is with the General Elec- tric Company and is living at 845 Emmett Street, Schenectady, N. Y. Fred Rea is with the LaSalle 6? Koch Company, Photo Reflex Studio, a New York concern. He has recently been working in and near Toledo, O., and he says that he is moving about so much that he wonders sometimes if he really has a home. Unexcited Germany '""pHE political excitement is over," 1 writes Alfred E. Kessler '3 5 in a recent letter from Germany to K. Brooke Anderson, executive sec- retary of the B. C. A. Kessler is a medical student at Tubingen and has gathered a favorable impression of the Teutons. "Germany at present," he says, "is the closest thing to Plato's 'Republic' that I can think of. The people are contented. Every- body works, no idlers! " EKGACEMEHTS MISS Genevieve Susan Dennett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harlan I. Dennett of Holyoke, Mass., to Harold B. Master '27 of Washington, D. C . and Cleveland, O. Miss Dennett, two of whose uncles, Winfield H. Dennett and the late Ralph N. Dennett, were Brown grad- uates, is a graduate of Wellesley. Miss Margaret Arnold, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George F. Arnold of Wickford, R. I., to Andrew Kauppi '3 3 of Midland, Mich. Miss Eudine R. Biren, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Biren of Philadelphia, to William Laurans '24 of New Bedford, Mass. Miss Eleanor Louise Colony, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Colony of Newton Highlands, Mass., to George W. Eldridge '3 2 of New York City and Providence. Miss Janice Van Raalte, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Van Raalte of New York City, to Edgar Danneberg "3 3, also of New York. Miss Rose Kershner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. Kershner of New Bedford, Mass., to A. A. Lubchansky '32 of New London, Conn. Miss Alice Peabody, daughter of Mrs. Helen Peabody of Middletown, R. L, to Curtis L. Cushman '31 of East Providence. Miss Rachel Howard De Wolf, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard K. De Wolf of Warren, R. I., to Lieut. Oscar P. Hersig, U. S. A., Reserve Corps, who was in the Class of 1931. Miss Lillian Ingalls MacLean, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm F. MacLean of Swampscott, Mass., to Kenneth T. White '31 of Sanford, Me. WEDDIJSJGS 1899— Edward A. Stockwell and Miss Helen M. Capron of Stillwater, R. I., were married in New York City, Feb. 11, 1936. They are living at 160 Power Street, Prov- idence. 1912 — Edward A. Adams and Miss Mar- garet Hampton, daughter of Mrs. A. W. Hampton of Los Angeles and a graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles, were married in Phoenix, Arij., Jan. 29, 1936. They will shortly be at home in Los Angeles. 1931 — Rev. Kenneth L. Palmer and Miss Olive Mae Giles, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John T. Giles, were married in Worcester, Mass., Feb. 4, 1936. Present were Stuart G. Waite '32, Herbert H. Pickard '33, and Marion T. Flint '32, Pembroke. Mr. and Mrs. Palmer are living in West Boylston, Mass., where Mr. Palmer is pastor of the First Baptist Church. 1934^Leander F. Pease, 2nd, and Miss Gertrude M. Carlson '34, Pembroke, were married in Providence, Feb. 1, 1936. They are living at 22 Arnold Street. 1934~^W. Edwin Stanley, Jr., and Miss Edith Margaret Behr, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin L. Behr, were married in Chicago, Jan. 11, 1936. They are living in Chicago. 1934 — Alan K. DeWitt and Miss Jeanne Birdsall Huntoon, daughter of Mrs. Har- rison B. Huntoon, were married in Prov- idence, Feb. 22, 1936. The ushers included Charles King Campbell '34, J. Merrill Wright, Jr., '34, Gordon McMillen '35, and Bernard E. Pollak, Jr., '35. Mr. and Mrs. DeWitt will live in Boston. 1934 — John A. Hammond and Miss Jane Dow Cady, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. NEWS-WEEK T/lf: ILLLSTKATLD Ai II S-U IC \XI.\i: KEEPS YOU THOROUGHLY INFORMED ACCURATE . UNBIASED THE PERFECT BALANCE OF WORD & PICTURE NEWS-WEEK 1270 Sixth Avenue New York, N. PVBLICIZIHG BROWH: Stanton P. T^ickcrson '51. Administjdiion aide in the University ?iews Bureau. 215 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Brown Alumni Monthly Publijhcd at Brown UmvCTUty b> the Associated Alumni CHESLEY WORTHINGTON '23 Mdndgitig Editor ARTHUR BRAITSCH 23 Business Manager HENRY S. CHAFEE '09 ALFRED H. GURNEY 07 SccreldTy GERTRUDE ALLEN McCONNELL PembToJte Correspondent Subscriptioni. $2 a year. Single copies. 21 cenu. There ia no iasue during August or September. Entered at the Providence Post O&ce as second'class matter. Vol. XXXVI MARCH, 1936 No. 8 Edwin T. Cady, were married in Wahan, Mass., Nov. 1, 1936. They are at home at 12 Vincent Street, West Newton, Mass. !l: ii: * BIRTHS 1919 — To Mr. and Mrs. Hartley F. Roberts of Providence, a daughter, Eleanor Raybold, Jan. 22, 1936. 1920— To Mr, and Mrs. Charles H. Lawton, Jr., of Pawtucket, a son, David Mayoh, Jan. 24, 1936. 1923 — To Rev. and Mrs. Robert O. Meader of North Providence, a son, Charles Robert, Feb. 10, 1936. 1925 — To President and Mrs. Gordon K. Chalmers of Rockford College, Rock- ford, 111., a son, Geoffrey Tealc, Dec. 30, 1935. 1927— To Rev. and Mrs. Clifford Chad- wick of Hamilton, O., a daughter, Corinne, Feb. 24, 1936. 1927— To Mr. and Mrs. Nelson T. Wright of Woonsocket, a son on Jan. 20, 1936. 1928 — To Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Thomas Scott of Winchester, Mass., a son, David Byrd, Feb. 24, 1936. 1931 — To Mr. and Mrs. George F. Troy, Jr., of Narragansett, R. I., a son, David Christian, Feb. 17, 1936. 193 2 — To Mr. and Mrs. David H. Scott of New York City, a daughter, Judith Barrett, Feb. 8, 1936. Those We Mourn 1876 DR. George Carroll Smith, one of New England's oldest doctors, died at his home in Brookline, Mass., Feb. 8, 1936. In 1930 he gave $200,000 to Bates College for a dormitory for men. Under his will, the newspapers report, one-fourth of the income of a trust fund is to be given to Brown, the income of which is to be loaned to worthy students. He was horn on a farm in West Gardiner, Me., May 21, 1852, the son of George L. and Abigail B. Smith. He went first to Horseshoe Pond Academy, where his prin- cipal was the late Judge John Day Smith '72. Then he attended Monmouth Academy and entered Bates as a Freshman in 1872. At the end of his Sophomore year at Bates he transferred to Brown and took his degree with the Class of 1876. He worked his way through college by teaching in the winter terms of country schools and working on the farm and in hotels in summer. After teaching school for two years, he began the study of medicine at New York University, won his M.D. degree in 1881, and commenced practice in South Natick, Mass. In 1884 he removed to Natick, prac- tised there for nine years, and then went abroad to study at Vienna, Berlin, and Paris for three years. On his return to Boston in 1896 he opened an office in that city, grad- ually limiting himself, as he said some years ago, to the treatment of chronic diseases and general consultations. He wrote a book, "What to Eat and Why," and carried on the study of dietetics throughout his life. "Quietly, unobtrusively, he helped in many ways struggling boys and girls to get an education." He was, indeed, a friend to many men and women, and he kept his friendships in good order. He was married July 8, 1878, to Alice McKeen Purinton, who studied art at New York University while her husband was engaged in his medical studies. Mrs. Smith survives. Dr. Smith was a member of the American and Massachusetts Medical Socie- ties, the Masons, the Boston City Club, the University Club of Boston, and Sigma Phi. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Bates in 1930. 1883 Ho\v.\Rn Willis Preston, historian, buokseIler,and friend of many Brown men, died at his home in Providence, Feb. 1, 1936, after a long siege of sickness. For 24 years he was one of the most active mem- bers of the Rhode Island Historical Society. Born in Providence, July 29, 1859, the son of Augustus Henry and Abby A. (Howard) Preston, he prepared at Mowry y Goff's English and Classical School and was a Phi Beta Kappa student at Brown. He received his A.B. with his Class, and his A.M. in 1886. While in college he was an editor of the Brunonia7i. His firm, Preston S' Rounds, booksellers and stationers, of which he was a founder and president and treasurer, was one of the best known in Providence and Rhode Island. He retired Dec. 31, 1928, but the business still goes on under the old name. He was the first director of the Bureau of State Information in Rhode Island, serv- ing from June, 1927, to December, 1933, when he was dismissed by the new Secretary of State. Last January he ended 24 years con- tinuous service with the Rhode Island His- torical Society by resigning as secretary. He was chairman of the lecture committee of the society in 1912; secretary, 1914-20; president, 1920-26; and secretary again until this year. "Such long and faithful and useful service in the official life of the so- ciety," a resolution read, "evokes at this time our grateful appreciation. For his scholarship and wide knowledge on which Mr. Preston has drawn so freely for the benefit of the society, we express our sin- cere thanks." As a historian of Rhode Island he was conspicuous. He knew his facts. He wrote clearly and gracefully. Among his books and pamphlets are "Lafayette's Visits to Rhode Island"; "The Old County House in Providence"; "The Battle of Rhode Island"; "Washington's Visits to Rhode Island"; "Rhode Island and the Sea"; "Rochambeau and the French Troops in Rhode Island." He was secretary of the Society of Colo- nial Wars, registrar of the Society of Founders and Patriots, and a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, the Massachusetts and Rhode Island Horticul- tural Societies, the Newport Historical Soci- ety, Phi Beta Kappa, and Delta Upsilon. He was married Feb. 14, 1884, to Miss Florence M. Spencer, who survives, with a son, Robert S. Preston '28; two daughters. Miss Dorothy Preston '20, Pembroke Col- lege, and Mrs. Walter Mills Saunders, Jr., '23, Pembroke. Mr. Preston was secretary of the Class of 1883 at the time of his death. 1889 HENRY Fenno Parker, attorney, died suddenly at his home in Brockton, Mass., Jan. 5, 1936. "Death came as a great shock to his family and many friends throughout the city as apparently he was in good health the night before and inter- viewed a client in the evening about 10 o'clock. "Mr. Parker was a man of fine character and was highly respected," the Brockton Enterprise-Times continued. "He was the son of the late Edward Parker, beloved principal for many years of the Brockton High School." He was born in Biddeford, Me., Feb. 21, 1868. His father at that time had begun his long teaching career. His mother was Elisabeth Shaw Gowan. Young Parker pre- pared under his father at Brockton High School, and was an honor student at Brown, being elected to Phi Beta Kappa in Senior year. After graduation from Brown he worked for three years in the office of Thomas White 6? Co., shoe manufacturers in Brockton, and then entered Harvard Law School, from which he received the LL B. degree, cum laude, in 1895. He had been admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1894. He commenced practice in Brockton in the office of the late Judge Read. For many years he was senior member of the la^^' firm of Parker i!^ Fortier, which was dis- solved in 1929, as Parker decided to retire temporarily in order to go to Asheville, N. C, for the benefit of Mrs. Parker's health. He resumed practice in 1931. As a young lawyer he went into politics, serving in the Brockton City Council, 1902-03, and as an Alderman in 1904. From 1901 to the beginning of the World War he lec- tured on medical jurisprudence at the Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons, Boston. He was a member of Paul Revere Lodge of Masons, and had formerly been active in various Masonic groups. His fraternity was Delta Phi. He was married June 23, 1906, to Hope Williams Gay, who survives, with a son, Edward Parker, 2nd. 1894 President John Hope of Atlanta Uni- versity, who had the unusual distinction of having received two honorary degrees from Brown University and who was the leader of Negro education in the United 216 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY States, died in Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 20, 1936, after having been in hospital less than a week with pneumonia. "Patient, sane, unruffled, keeping his bal- ance and his vision in a confused and con- fusing time . . . wise and sane counselor to the leaders of both races and trusted by them all, fine scholar and genial personality," President Barbour characterised him last June in giving him the honorary degree of LL.D. In 1907 President Faunce, confer- ring an honorary Master of Arts upon him, said: "Teacher and leader of his people, who with patience, sanity, and sea! is help- ing in the slow solution of one of the great problems of our time." John Hope was born in Augusta, Ga., June 2, 1868, the son of James and Mary Frances Hope. He prepared at Worcester Academy, where he was editor-in-chief of the student monthly, class historian, and a Commencement speaker. At Brown he worked and studied hard, enjoyed the re- spect and interest of all members of his class, and at Commencement time was class orator. On graduation he went to Roger Williams University, Nashville, Tenn., to teach in the department of natural sciences. In 1898 he transferred to what later be- came Morehouse College, and in 1906 had the honor of taking office as the first Negro president of that College. In 1929 he was the unanimous choice of the Board of Trustees for president of the reorganised Atlanta University, of which Morehouse is a part. He retired from the presidency of Morehouse in 1931 to give his whole time to Atlanta. While at More- house he increased the student body, the endowment, and, most significant of all, raised the standards so that the college now has Class A rating with the Southern Asso- ciation of Colleges and Secondary Schools, and the American Medical Association. He attracted gifts from many sources; today Morehouse has an endowment of nearly a million dollars. Five years ago he succinctly set forth the aim of the larger Atlanta University: "The aim of Atlanta University is essen- tially the training of leaders of the colored people." Under his leadership Atlanta has devel- oped graduate courses leading to the Mas- ter's degree in ten departments. Moreover, the affiliation with Morehouse and Spelman Colleges is working out effectively, thanks to his guidance, tact, and co-operative spirit. This has been an achievement greater, per- haps, than the carrying out of a new build- ing program and the addition of $2,000,000 to endowment. It is a fact that, because of John Hope's work and vision, "the most vigorous development in the field of Negro education going on anywhere at the present time is the development in Atlanta centering around Atlanta University." Dr. Hope was president of the Associa- tion for the Study of Negro Life and His- tory, holder of the William E. Harmon Award in Education, member of the Ad- visory Board of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, director of the National Urban League, and member of Phi Beta Kappa. During the World War he served as a special secretary of the Y. M. C. A. among the Negro sol- diers in the A. E. F. Besides his honorary degrees from Brown, he held similar degrees from Howard, Bucknell, McMaster University (Canada), and Bates. He was married Dec. 29, 1897, to Lugenia D. Burns, who survives, with two sons, Edward S. Hope and John Hope, 2nd, who won his A.M. degree at Brown in 1932; and a brother, Thomas Hope '00. 1896 REV. Sumner Redway Vinton, who died at his home in Roselle, N. J., Nov. 27, 193 5, was widely known as a Baptist clergyman and missionary, and also as a lecturer on religious and nature subjects. Nature photography was his best-loved study. His collection of pictures of wild flowers, grasses, and the like is one of the finest of its kind. He was born in Rangoon, Burma, Oct. 31, 1874, the son of the Rev. Justus B. and Julia (HaswelH Vinton. His family, it is said, sent 26 of its members into Bap- tist mission work for a total of more than 700 years of service. He prepared at Col- gate Academy, was at Colgate for two years, and then came to Brown in 1894. After graduation he studied at Newton Theological Institution for two years, was traveling secretary of the Student Volunteer Movement 1898-99, and then went to Burma as missionary to the Karens. He returned to the United States in 1905 be- cause of illness, took his degree of B.D. at Newton in 1906, and shortly afterward went back to Burma. In 1908 illness in the family again forced him to leave the mis- sion field for home. During his last stay in Burma he made still photographs of Burmese life and mis- Why Make Mountains Out of Molehills? ► Some people make such a job of doing even little things. They have a knack of making chaos out of order. ► Others have a passion for simplification and standardi- zation. They reduce everything to the simplest form. ► Here at Old Colony you find no complicated system. Simply come in and make your desires known to the nearest employee, and you will be taken care of promptly. ► Everything possible is done to make it easy for you to get a mortgage on your home, to finance a new one, or to start any one of several systematic savings plans. Old Colony Co-operative Bank 58 Vt'EYBOSSET ST.. PROVIDENCE VtTODNSOCKET-WEST WARWICK - CREYSTONE -PAWTUCKET MEMBER, FEDERAL HOME LOAN BANK SYSTEM A Savings- &-Loan Assn. Founded 1895 111 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY sion work. From 1908 to 1913 he gave J«lV illustrated lectures all over the country un- . der the name of Vinton's "Pagoda Land Lectures." He was director of the Lantern Slide and Lecture Bureau, Methodist Cen- tenary, 1913-19, and director of a similar bureau for the Interchurch World Move- ment, 1919-20. After two years of lecturing for the Baptist Board of Promotion he he- came director of visual puMicity for the Near East Relief and, in 1929, for the Golden Rule Foundation. Since 1932 he had been giving interpretive lectures under the title, "The Vintons: Father and Son." His son, S. Brainerd Vinton, is a pianist and composer. He played the incidental music for his father's talks. Mrs. Vinton colored many of the lantern slides for her husband. Vinton, a quiet, studious undergraduate, according to his fraternity mates in Delta Upsilon, was married June 6, 1899, to Nellie Eastman Bunker, who survives, with the son and a daughter, Mrs. Ruth L. Vin- ton Chalmers, wife of William E. Chalmers '25 of Geneva, Switzerland. Mrs. Chalmers received her degree from Brown (Pem- broke) in 1924. 1896 THEODORE Clyde Foster, president and treasurer of Theodore W. Foster and Brother Company, jewelers and silversmiths, died at Jane Brown Memorial Hospital, Providence, Feb. 1, 1936, after an attack of double pneumonia. Born in Providence, Sept. 24, 1873, the son of Theodore W. and Mary (Murdock) Foster, he prepared at Mowry S" Golf's Eng- lish and Classical School and at University School. After graduation from Brown he immediately went into business with his father, began at the bottom, and in 1901, when Theodore W. Foster (i Brother Com- pany was incorporated, became vice presi- dent and director. He moved up to general manager in 1914 and to president and treas- urer in 1928, following the death of his father. His other business interests were with the Universal Optical Corporation, of which he was president, and the New England Jewelers' and Silversmiths' Association, of which he was a director. In the Spanish- American War he served as a private in Company H, Second Rhode Island Volun- teers. He belonged to the Hope and Aga- wam Hunt Clubs, and Psi Upsilon, and was a member of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church. He had a summer home at Poppa- squash Point, Bristol. He was married Jan. 17, 1912, to Mrs. Frances Golsen Denslow. Surviving are a daughter. Miss Frances S. Foster; three sis- ters; and a brother. 1896 ELMER Ellsworth Arnold, former in- spector in mathematics. Education De- partment, New York State, and well known in secondary school work, died in Schenec- tady, N. Y., Jan. 13, 1936. He retired in 1933 because of illness. Born in Edmeston, Otsego County, N. Y., June 6, 1872, the son of Truman S. and Ida (Curry) Arnold, he prepared at Oneonta, N. Y., Normal School, and was an under- graduate at Brown in Freshman year, 1892- 93. There is no record of what he did after he left Brown until he received his A.B. degree from Colgate in 1902. He taught mathematics in Shamokin, Pa., High School, 1902-03; was a mining engi- neer with the Susquehanna Coal Company, 1903-06: and principal of the Shamokin High School, 1906-09. He resigned to be- come head of the mathematics department of New Palt; Normal School, where he remained until 1911. Then he went to Albany as inspector in mathematics for the State Education Department. Shortly after the World War he went to Pelham, N. Y., as superintendent of schools and served for nine years. He spent three years in Schenectady schools before illness forced retirement. He was co-author of a textbook on geometry, and was a member of the New York State Board of Regents. He was married in 1902 to Miss Florence M. Bcebe, who survives, with a daughter. Miss Julia Beebc Arnold, teacher in Sche- nectady. He belonged to the Phi Beta Kappa Chapter at Colgate. 1898 Dr. Charles Carroll, State Supervisor of Vocational Education for Rhode Island, member of the Corporation of Prov- idence College, and vice president of the National Education Association, died at St. Joseph's Hospital, Providence, Feb. 4, Spring is ^ere! Lancrock's complete selection of fine cloth- ing is now ready for your leisurely selection. Drop in at the Brown Shop now to choose from our wide range of newly imported woolens for careful custom tailoring, or our finely tailored ready-to-wear offerings. THc BROWN -'"<>■= TMAYCRyT. AT BENEVOLENT ^PONyORED BY LangrocK PROVIDENCE, R.I. AT BROWN CAMPUy 1936, after an operation. In education and in religious work he held high place in his native Rhode Island. He was born in Providence. June 8,1876, the son of William and Mary E. (Sheehan) Carroll. He prepared at Providence High School in the classical section, and was a fine scholar and active undergraduate at Brown. He won the Hartshorn Premium for excellence in mathematics, and membership in Phi Beta Kappa in Junior year. He was managing editor of the Brown Daily Herald, a leader in intercollegiate debating, and president of the Brown Press Club. From Brown he went to Harvard Law School, where he received the LL.B. degree in 1901. Admitted to the Rhode Island bar, he practised law for about 15 years. In 1912 he came back to Brown to take ad- vanced work in political and social science and education, received his A.M. in 1913, and his Ph.D. in 1915. The following year he joined the Faculty of what is now Rhode Island College of Education and instituted courses in school law and in the history of education in Rhode Island. He became Pro- fessor of School Law in 1918 and continued with that title until 1930. In 1918, also, he was named State Direc- tor of Vocational Education, an office which he held until the reorganization of the State Government in 1935. Then he became chief of the division of promotion and supervision of public education — a new title with the old duties. He was likewise a visiting pro- fessor at Rhode Island State Colege, presi- dent of the Rhode Island Institute of Instruction, and editor of the Quarterly Re- view of the Institute. As legi.slative counsel for the old State Board of Education he drew and had passed by the General Assem- bly about 50 bills which had to do with public education. He was the author of numerous books on law, education, and government. Among them were "School Law of Rhode Island"; "Public Education in Rhode Island"; "Out- lines of History of Rhode Island"; "True Story of the Flag"; "Rhode Island — Three Centuries of Democracy" (four volumes); and "Rhode Island and the Constitution of the United States." He wrote "Rhode Island," the song of the State, and con- tributed articles to educational journals and the newspapers. In 1931 Providence Col- lege conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws "for his career in the attainment of those academic distinc- tions acquired only by the industry of an eminent mind." In addition to Phi Beta Kappa, he belonged to the Barnard Club, the Catholic Club, and Phi Kappa. He was secretary of his class at Brown. Dr. Carroll was married Oct. 2, 1902, to Miss Gertrude V. Gariepy, who survives, with two sons, Charles and William Car- roll, both members of the Dominican House of Studies; two brothers, John P. Carroll "03 and Frank C. Carroll '07; and two sisters. Misses Mary and Alice Carroll. "A kindly man, his mind well disposed and his nature deeply spiritual," a fellow worker has said of him. 1900 JOSEPH Thomas Cashman, lawyer and fighting opponent of radical activities in this country, died in New York City, Feb. 5, 1936. His death followed a heart attack that had kept him at home since last summer. Born in Providence, Dec. 20, 1875, the son of John and Mary A. (Kane) Cashman, 218 he entered Brown from the Providence High School, and was catcher on the Fresh- man nine of 1897. He was also interested in other sports. He left Brown in 1899 to go to Georgetown Law School, from which he received the LL.B. degree in 1902. After serving three years as managing clerk in the law offices of Phelps 6? East, New York City, he commenced practice for himself in June, 1905. Introduced to political economy and political science by Professors Henry B. Gardner and James Quayle Dealcy, he took up serious study of those subjects and de- veloped into a nationally known lecturer. Under the auspices of the National Security League and other patriotic groups he spoke against socialism and all forms of radicalism in all parts of the United States. He ap- peared before civic and business groups, on college campuses, and in public forums. He was an ardent defender of the Constitution and the outspoken foe of all elements which he considered dangerous to the well being of the United States. A prolific writer, he was the author of "America Asleep," "Give the Constitution a Chance," "Socialism and the 20th Amend- ment," "What Socialism Is Doing in the United States," "The Meaning of Citizen- ship," and other works. During the World War he toured the South with Professor McElroy of Princeton, and the Middle West with Dr. George E. Vincent, former presi- dent of the University of Minnesota and the Rockefeller Foundation. Several years ago while he was active in the National Security League he was the central figure of a near riot at a meeting of alleged radicals in the Community Forum, New York. He was married in 1906 to Mable Chase Christy, who survives, with a son, Joseph T. Cashman, Jr., and two brothers, Charles W. Cashman and John F. Cashman, of Providence. At the funeral in Philadelphia, Nathan A. Tufts represented the class of 1900. 1902 ALFRED Knight Potter, vice president - of the Gorham Manufacturing Com- pany and one of the best known business men in Rhode Island, died suddenly at his home in Providence, Feb. 19, 1936, as a result of a heart attack. While he was a Senior at Brown his father died, and he at once took over his father's business — E. A. Potter 6? Co., manufacturing jewelers — and continued to run it until he became treasurer of the Gorham Company in 1918. He was treas- urer and director, as well as vice president, of the Gorham Company, and the Alvin Company, affiliates of the parent Gorham corporation; and a director of Gorham, Inc.; Gomanco, Inc.; Black, Starr and Frost- Gorham, Inc., New York; and Spaulding- Gorham, Chicago. He was also a director of the Rhode Island Hospital Trust Company, the Rhode Island Hospital National Bank, Hope Webbing Company, and B. B. 6? R. Knight Corporation. He was acting president of the Manufacturing Jewelers" Board of Trade; and a member of the committee for the Rhode Island Foundation. A leader in civic work, he was vice president and on the finance committee of the Home for Aged Men and Aged Couples, president of the Board of Trustees, Providence Country Day School, and a trustee of the Providence Y. W. C. A. He belonged to Adelphoi 100K at the map Leiow and see ■* now easy it is to visit fascinat- ing Normandy ... if you travel via French Line to Le Havre . . . And it s not expensive, as your travel agent can show you! A trip through the old province of Normandy is lilce turning the pages of a history of France . . . Rouen, rich with memories of the Plantagenets. of Joan of Arc, of FlauLert . . . Lisieux and Ste. Therese . . . Bayeux and the tapestry of the Nor- man conquest . . . everywhere the past comes to vivid life before your eyes The Nomian school of cooking deserves your seri- ous consideration also. Try a Filet de Sole a la Normande and a bottle of sparlcling cider in one of the ancient inns you'll discover for yourself. It s all very easy to do if you travel via French Line. \ouIl land in Le Ha\Te . . . Rouen is on your wa)' to Paris . . . only 40 minutes by train or an hour by car. Let your Travel Agent make all the arrangements for you. His expert services cost you nothing. MONT ST. MICHEL .^^^,s*-^ ■ -N _ 610 FIFTH AUE. (ROCKEFELLER CENTER), NEW tORK To England and France direct and thus to all Europe: Normandie, April 22 • lie de France, March 14 Paris, March 21 • Champlain, March 27 • Lafayette, April 18 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Lodge of Masons, the First Congregational Church (Unitarian), the Hope Club, the Turks Head Club, the University Club of New York, and Zeta Psi. Born in Providence, July 27, 1880, the son of Edward A. and Helen (Knight) Potter, he entered Brown from the Uni- versity School, and was a leader of his class, serving as an editor of the Brown Daily Herald, manager of the Brown Musical Clubs, and on the Cammarian Club. His interest in college affairs was deep through- out his life. He served on the building com- mittee for the Brown Gymnasium, was a member of the governing board of the Brown Union, and was a candidate for Alumni Trustee in 1932. He was married May 16, 1911, to Miss Alice Marjorie Ray, sister of Charles A. R. Ray "02, who survives, with three children, Helen Ray, Edward Sheldon, and William Ray Potter, and an aunt, Mrs. Arthur P. Sumner. PRESCRIPTIONS ...exactly as written When a doctor's prescription comes to us for compounding we consider it as a means toward someone's good health. Accordingly we prac- tice utmost accuracy in compound- mg, using the finest quality ingre- dients the world affords. Bring YOUR prescriptions here. Pembroke Chronicle BY MARY LOUISE HINCKLEY '37 BLANDING'S 155 Westminster St. 6 Wayland Square As grinding for exams drew to a close last month, several students, armed ■ with skiis and skates and fortified with gaily colored scarfs and sweaters, left for Northfield, Mass., accompanied by staff members of the "gym" department to enjoy a week-end of winter sports. This is the first time that such a trip has been planned and sponsored by the "gym" department. On Feb. 1 1 classes were resumed for the second semester. At the opening chapel service Rt. Rev. E. L. Strider, Bishop Coad- jutor of West Virginia, addressed the stu- dent body. A Valentine party and tea dance was held at Bowen House Saturday afternoon, Feb. 15. That same evening the cafeteria of Alumnae Hall was converted into a tavern for the second annual Komians Karnival. Pre-vues of songs to be sung in this year's Brownbrokers show were heard. "Open House" at Sayles Gym, a recent innovation in the week-end social life of the college, gives both dorm and city girls an excellent opportunity to entertain their guests from the "Hill" at informal sports. Ping-pong, badminton, shuffleboard, and bowling, as well as table games are offered on Saturday and Sunday evenings. Pem- broke staff members act as hostesses. Alfredo Casella, internationally famous composer, pianist, and conductor, brought his Trio Italiano to Providence on Feb. 20 in the second in the annual series of chamber music concerts sponsored by Pem- broke College and the Department of Music in Brown University. In preparation for Pembroke's attend- ance at the Model League of Nations at Williams College, the International Rela- tions Club devoted its first meeting of the second semester to the discussion of the Italo-Ethiopian question — the main subject of this year's meeting. Pembroke delegates were to represent Sweden. Twelve seniors and four juniors made Phi Beta Kappa this year. Dorothy Trum- bull of Worcester, Mass., was elected presi- dent of the sophomore class to take the place of the former president who did not return to college. Barbara Fisher, Provi- dence, was elected chairman of the Spring Day committee; Ruth Adams, Washington, D. C, chairman of the Ivy Night commit- tee; Dorothy Baron, North Providence, chairman of the Ivy Day committee; and Isabel Jeffrey, Pawtucket, mascot committee chairman. Two delegates from the Christian Asso- ciation represented Pembroke at the annual regional conference of the New England Student Christian Association held Feb- ruary 14, 15, and 16 at Northfield, Mass. "Christian Church as a World Force" was the subject of this year's conference. A Leap Year dance, sponsored by the staff of "Brun Mael," was held in Alumnae Hall on February 21. Pembrokers were in- vited and encouraged to come stag. The second semester sport schedule for varsity and intramural teams were an- nounced by the "gym" department. Varsity basketball contests are scheduled with Wheaton, Jackson, R. I. State and Rad- cliffe. The swimming campaign started March 3rd against Wheaton, followed by meets with Jackson and Radcliffe. March 16 is the date set for the quadrangular meet, with Pembroke, Wheaton, Radcliffe, and Jackson competing. Commercial Banking Trust Department CaplUl $500,000 Surplus and Undivided Proflta (over) .... $950,000 BLACKSTONE CANAL NATIONAL BANK BilabUihed IS3I 20 MARKET SQUARE Providbncb, R. I. Alumnae of Brown BY GERTRUDE ALLEN McCONNELL '10 Executive Secretary of the Alumnae Association CLASS HOTES 1894 — Dr. Mary E. Woolley, President of Mt. Holyoke College, and President Ellen F. Pendleton of Wellesley, were the guests of the College Club of Boston at a dinner given in their honor. 1897 — Mary A. Brownell is spending a few weeks in Tryon, N. C. 1900 — Lydia G. Chace is living at 15 Park Circle, Arlington, Mass. 1901 — Alida Orswell Peterson's daugh- ter, Natalie, was recently married to Sam- uel Huntington Morgan of Michigan. 1902 — Ella McCaffrey Winn and her husband are spending a few months at the Plaza Hotel in Houston, Texas, and will go from there to Pasadena. 1905 — Marion Midgley is spending two months in Miami. 1906 — Ethelwyn Phillips Stillman has a granddaughter, which we believe is the first 1906 grandchild. If there are others, please notify the Alumnae Office. 1907 — Ethel Robinson Heckman has been spending a month in Nassau. 1910 — Stella Clemence recently spent an interesting month in Mexico. 1910 — Ruth Cosgrove has been giving book reviews over the radio. 1911 — Florence Bushell Bloomer has the sympathy of her friends in the recent death of her husband. 191 1 — Beth Hughes Brown has moved to 333 Cooke Street, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. 220 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 1911 — Emma H. Dahlgren has our sym- pathy in the loss of her father. 1911 — Anna Canada Swain spent the month of January in Chicago, where she taught her textbook, "Youth Unafraid," spoke at the chapel exercises at two theo- logical schools, and addressed various groups. 1912 — Alice Hubbard is now located at 314 South 7th Street, East, Salt Lake City. Utah. 1914 — Elena Maymon entertained the members of her class at her home on Feb. 2 1 . 1915 — Marion P. Harley entertained the members of the class at her home on Feb. 8. Edna Southwick Potter of Braintree was the guest of honor. 1915 — Maybclle Kingsley Hobson has sympathy of the class in the loss of her father. 1916 — Elsie Pickles Hoag has the sym- pathy of her friends in the death of her husband. Dr. Lynne A. Hoag. 1917 — Drusilla Flather Riley is spending the year in England and on the continent. Her address is c/o Padley £^ Venablcs, Ltd., Hill St., Sheffield, England. 1919 — Miriam Nuzum Hoisington is now living at 169 N. Cuyler Avenue, Jackson, Michigan. 1920 — Hope Gushing Goodwin (Mrs. William L) is living at 3826 McKinley St., N. W., Washington, D. G. 1920 — Margaret Pressey Moore has our sympathy in the loss of her mother, Mrs. Katherine Bcnfield Pressey, wife of the Rev. William Pressey, who served for forty-one years as the rector of St. John's Episcopal Chapel in Ashton, R. L Mrs. Pressey did pioneering work among the women and girls of the parish and kept open house for all clerical and lay wayfarers. Her Sunday night suppers attained state-wide fame. She introduced and developed the King's Daughters, the Girls' Friendly Soci- ety and the Altar Guild. 1920 — Dorothy Preston and Ruth Pres- ton Saunders '23 have the sympathy of their friends in the loss of their father, Howard Preston, historian, former Director of the Bureau of Information of Rhode Island, founder of the firm of booksellers, Preston 6? Rounds, and actively affiliated for 24 years with the Rhode Island Historical Soci- ety. Among the books and pamphlets which he wrote are "Washington's Visit to Rhode Island," "Lafayette's Visit to Rhode Island," "Rochambeau and the French Troops in Rhode Island," "Rhode Island and the Sea," "The Battle of Rhode Island, " and "Key to New England Trees." 1921 — Elisabeth Nightingale Collins dropped in at the Alumnae Office last month. She and her family have moved from Ohio to 171 Broad Street, New Lon- don, Conn. 1921 — Frances M. Money is now located at 914 Essex Street, S. E., Minneapolis. 1921 — Pauline Barrows Hughes and her husband have returned from a cruise to the West Indies and South America. 1922 — Edith McEwen Davis and family are living in Las Vegas, New Mexico. 1922 — Isabel R. Abbott has a leave of absence from Rockford College this semes- ter and is studying at Bryn Mawr and living at 14 Elliott Avenue. 1923 — Ruth M. White is working for the Merrymount Press and is living at 51 Joy Street, Boston. 1923 — Josephine Maguire Johnson has the sympathy of her classmates in the death of her mother. 1924 — Malvina Grieves is teaching sci- ence at the Allegheny Hospital in Pitts- burgh, Pcnn. 1924 — Helen Fenner Walter and family are occupying their new home at 21751 54th Avenue, Bayside, N. Y. 1925 — Hope Dorman Hewitt is now liv- ing at 122 N. Wisner Street, Jackson, Mich. 1926 — Marion Broadbent is teaching Latin and German in the Glens Falls High School. Her address is 244 Glen Street, Glens Falls, N. Y. 1927 — Doris Browne Reed has resigned her position, with the Government and is enjoying country life at Apshawa Lodge, Butler, N. J. 1928 — Virginia Piggott Verney and her husband have returned from a cruise to Nassau. 1928 — Ida Noble Marschner and her liusband have moved to 7750 Kingston Avenue, Chicago. Ida deserves a special medal because she actually sent us her new address before she moved. 1929 — Lulu Vorleck and her husband are both teaching math at the University of Oregon, and thoroughly enjoying it. We'll expect their young son to rival Einstein. 1930 — Mildred Starkweather is a mem- ber of Walter Hampden's Company which is producing Cyrano de Bergerac. 1931 — Mary Ellen Metcalf is buyer for the "Young Colony Shop" at Altman's in White Plains, N. Y. Working hand in hand with your editors, we have maintained, over a period of years, the high printing standards which Brown Alumni expect in their magazine. I his old Rhode Island concern with complete modern facilities is ideally equipped to produce privately printed editions, pamphlets, periodicals and commercial printing of every sort. E. A. Johnson Company "The Roger Williams Press" Est. 1870 71 PECK STREET T PROVIDENCE, R. 1931 — Ruth Kerns Lane has moved to 129 Kedzie Street, Evanston, 111. Her hus- band is in the law office of his father, Wallace R. Lane, a Brown trustee. 193 2 — Barbara Shawcross Foster has been seeing a great deal of the world since she joined the Navy. She and her husband and small son are now located at Balboa, Canal Zone. 1933 — Mary J. Irish is doing statistical work for the Research Bureau at 100 North Main Street, Providence. 1933 — Winifred Mayock is teaching English, French, and commercial subjects in the commercial high school department in Esmond. 1933 — Katherine Hazard is a student teacher in mathematics at Cranston High School. 193 3 — Bessie Troutman is teaching mathematics in the Wilson High School at \^'cst Lawn, Penn. 1934 — Isabel Andrews is thoroughly en- joying her work with the General Accept- ance Corporation in the Turks Head Bldg. 1934 — Ruth Clem is studying at Columbia. 1934 — Dorothea Carr is an assistant in the natural science department at Teachers' College, Columbia. She is living at 606 W. 122nd Street. 1934 — Ruth Gary is laboratory techni- cian at Bradley Memorial Hospital. 1934 — Evelyn Freydberg is a dress de- signer for Mary Jane Frocks, 13 33 Broad- way, New York Gity. 1934 — Mary Hoey is at 43 East Vermont Avenue, Southern Pines, N. C. 1934 — Helen Howard is an assistant at the Yale Clinic for Child Development. 193 5 — Janet Eldredge is teaching in a private school near Taunton. Providence National Bank EST.^BLISHED 1791 100 Westminster Street CAPITAL SURPLUS ^1,500,000 ^2,000,000 OFFICERS Moses J. Barber, Chairman of the Board Thomas L. Pierce, President Earl G. Batty, Vice President and Cashier Charles L. Eddy, Assistant Cashier Henry H. Eddy. Assistant Cashier Charles E. Munyan, Assistant Cashier Ida M. Fryer, Assistant Cashier Charles M. Smith. III. Trust Officer T. I. Hare Powel, Investment Counsel Directors William Gammell. Jr. Wilson G. Wing Moses J. Barber John Nicholas Brown Paul C. DeWolf Thomas L. Pierce Frank E. Richmond Lauriston H. Hazard Richard S. Aldrich William L. Sweet Edward P. Jastram Frederick T. Moses Earl G. Batty John B. Lewis A. Livingston Kelley Charles C. Marshall Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 221 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY BROWN DIRECTORY ARTHUR H. BLANCHARD, C. E . 99 Consulting Engineer Highway Traffic Control Highway Transport Airport Runways and Landing Fields Highway Engineering Contract and Patent Lawsuits Box C. Edgewood Station, Providence PERRY. SAUNDERS &l CHENEY Counsellors at Law 185 Devonshire Street, Boston, Mass. Joseph Earle Perry, Williams Albert L. Saunders, Brown, 1902 Edwin A. Cheney, Boston Uni., 1917 HARRIS and GIFFORD Certified Public Accountants al 840 HOSPITAL TRUST BUILDING PROVIDENCE, R 1. GAipee 7272 Audita - - Systems Taxes Business Research and Surveys Winship Teachers* Agency SEND FOR BLANK 6 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass. Alvin F. Pease Brown Graduate, A. B. & A. M. 1935 — Mary Fullerton is teaching at the Narraganfctt School in East Greenwich. 193') — Esme Mclntyre is thoroughly en- joying her position as Assistant Manager, Dietitian, and Housekeeper for the Hay System, BriarcliiT Manor, N. Y. She is thoroughly convinced that the Hay Way is the only way to live. 193 5 — Margaret S. Rich is with her fam- ily at the Wardman Park Hotel in Wash- ington, D. C. As a Congressman's daughter si'.c is thoroughly enjoying the winter there. 1935 — Jane Sanford Stone and her hus- band are living at 1907 N Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. 193 5 — Harriet D. Walker has a secre- tarial position with J. P. Morgan 6? Co. Eni^dgements 1931 — Mary M. Andrew to Dr. Robert Bryan Hillsman of Teaneck, N. J., a de- scendant of Governor Spottswood, one of the Colonial governors of Virginia. 1932 — Margaret Arnold to Andrew Kaiippi, Brown "3 3, of Midland, Michigan. Vi^eddings 1926 — Yvette Frank is married to Herman M. Markensohn and is living at 10 Osborne Terrace, Newark, N. J. 1926 — Eluabeth Longstreet Stillwell was married to Benjamin Rilton of Gloversville, N. Y., on February 22, 1936, at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin in New York City. Dorothy Vanderhurg Waterman "27 was matron of honor. 1928 — Martha Whitman was married to Charles Wesley Young, Jr., of Bristol and Washington, D. C on February 22, 1936, in Warren. Mr. and Mrs. Young will make their home at 348 Euclid Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. 1934 — Gertrude M. Carlson was married to Leander F. Pease, 2nd, "34 on February 1, 1936. They are living at 22 Arnold Street, Providence. 193 5 — Beatrice Wattman was married to Meyer S. Miller on February 2, 1936. Mr. and Mrs. Miller are living at 142 Cole Avenue, Providence. Bin /is 1923 — To Mr. and Mrs. Judson S. Brad- ley (Eleanore Parmelce), a son, Arthur Stanley, on December 26, 1935. The Brad- leys are living at 41 1 Birch Ave., Westficld, N.J. 1925— To Mr. and Mrs. Ray W. Greene (Marjorie Walker), a daughter, Judith, on qdvertisers fenqravinq companq 1 26 DORRANCE ST. PROVIDENCE. R. I. telephone OASPEE 7094 cPicturiz'e liour ^Product " February 9, 1936. They are living at 124 Alfred Downe Rd., West Barrington, R. I. 1927— To Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Cooney (Agnes Duffy), a daughter, Carol Frances, on Feb. 11, 1936. The Cooneys live at 349 Morris Avenue, Providence. 1931— To Mr. and Mrs. David H. Scott (Katherine Gorton), a daughter, Judith Barrett, on February 8, 1936. They are living at 825 West 187th Street, New York City. 193 2— To Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Col- more (Ifabclle Braitsch), a daughter, Emily Grace, on February 20, 1936. They live at the Kent Scliool, Kent, Conn. 193 3 — To Mr. and Mrs. George F. Troy, Jr. (Weslene Dolloff). a son, David Chris- tian, on February 17, 1936. They are living in Wakefield, R. I. DEATHS WINMFRED M.^NATT Bacon "97, wife of Herbert M. Bacon and daughter of tlic late Professor J. Irving Manatt and Arietta Clark Manatt, died in Berke- ley, Calif., on August 5, 1935. Her father was American Consul at Athens, Greece, for a number of years, and for 23 years was connected with the Greek Department at Brown. Mrs. Bacon was educated in both Europe and the United States. She attended schools in Germany, Greece, and Italy, and the Lincoln, Nebraska, High School. She en- tered Brown with the Class of 1897 and upon her graduation taught in both public and private schools in Denver, Colorado. She then returned to Europe, where she studied at the University of Heidelberg. She taught for a while at Smith College and again returned to Europe to study art, his- tory and German at the University of Berlin. She next taught at Olivet College in Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Bacon were married in 1906 and for the past 25 years the family has made its home in Berkeley. Mrs. Bacon still felt the urge to teach and for a number of years was a member of the faculty at the William Institute. The Class of 1897 mourns the death of a gifted and talented member. Those who were in the college in the late 90"s will remember with pleasure the hospitality of the Manatt home — Professor Manatt was then the head of the Greek Department and a close friend of Dr. E. Benjamin Andrews, founder of our College. The sincere sym- pathy of the alumnae is extended to Mrs. Bacon's husband, her sisters, and her children. F.\NNiE Whittlesey Shore Burd "08, wife of Professor John Sedgwick Burd, died on December 12, 193 5, at her home in Berkeley, California, after a short illness. Mrs. Burd was the daughter of Alfred Shore and Mary Whittlesey Shore and was born in Boston. She came to Brown from the Pawtucket High School. Upon graduating from college she taught in Princeton and Concord, Mass., and at the University School for Girls in Chicago. She was married on December 18, 1915. Since that time Professor and Mrs. Burd have been living in Berkeley where Pro- fessor Burd is a member of the faculty of the University of California. In addition to her husband, Mrs. Burd is survived by three sons. The sincere sympathy of the alumnae is extended to the family. 222 MASTER DE LUXE SPORT SEDAN . . . across this page and then across town in the NEW 1936 CHEVROLET NO DRAFT VENTILATION Take a ride in the new Chevrolet for 1936. Notice, first of all, the greater beauty, hixury and more healthful comfort of its Turret Top Body uith Fisher No Draft Ventilation. It's the smarter, safer body and, of course, it's exclusive to Chevrolet in its price range. KNEE-ACTION RIDE* Give particular attention to the unmatched smoothness of the gliding Knee-Action Ride*. The safest, steadiest, most com- fortable ride ever developed. It's obtain- able only iiith Knee-Action, and Knee- Action is also exclusive to the Master De Luxe Chevrolet in its field. 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