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LOOK TO THE "BALLAST ^ND SAILS" 

IN YOUR INVESTMENTS 



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/IKE a sailboat, an investment ac- 
count, if it is to weather the buffeting winds 
and squalls of economic changes, should be 
properly equipped with both ballast and 
sails. Ballast— enough high-grade bonds 
which, "blow high, blow low," can be 
counted upon for their income. Sails — a 
proper proportion of stocks to take ad- 
vantage of any inflationary winds that may 
be blowing. Proper trim of your financial 
boat was never more essential than today. 

In Agency Accounts — the service under 
which the Trust Company handles the in- 
vestments of individuals — ballast and sail 
are given careful consideration. If ballast 
is light — the account top hea\>' with sail — 



recommendations to bring it into balance 
are made to the owner for his appro\al. 
Reviews, aimed to keep the account proper- 
ly balanced and diversified, are made at 
regular intervals — changes suggested as 
needed. 

In addition, all routine details such as 
the collection of income and the keeping of 
proper records, so important to the prepara- 
tion of income tax returns, are caretl for 
under Agency .Service. 

If you feel that such service might be 
helpful to you, one of our officers will be 
glad to discuss the matter with \-ou. 



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BROWN 

ALUMNI MONTHLY 



PROVIDE^CE, RHODE ISLAND 

MARCH. 1938 
VOL. XXXVni NUMBER 8 



► ► A Program for Alumni of Brown 



President W risloii's Messaiie fur the 
Advisory Counril 

► ► Brown University is an educational organi-ation, 
and it can never be anything else. That is its sole duty: that 
is Its whole duty. All its energies, all its activities, all its 
relationships should look m that direction and in no other. 

When one has thus defined the position of the institution, 
the function of the Associated Alumni falls into perspective. 
The alumni are the University abroad, just as the students 
and the faculty are the University at home. It is the function 
of the alumnus, it is his reasonable service, to exemplify the 
intellectual and social, the emotional and aesthetic, and the 
spiritual qualities for which the institution stands. It can- 
not hope to continue his education for him; whatever educa- 
tion he acquires must come of his own motion, by his own 
efforts. The University owes to him loyalty to its own ideals 
and to the fundamental purposes for which it was organized. 
It is responsible to him for the faithfulness with which it 
discharges its duties to succeeding generations of under- 
graduates. 

This discussion of the function of the University and the 
function of its alumni, in like manner, shows us the nature 
of the duties of an association of alumni. Its central func- 
tion is to keep the alumni abreast of the University and of its 
program. In seeking to achieve ancient ideals it is not possi- 
ble to limit ourselves to ancient procedures. As knowledge 
has grown, so has the program of the institution been forced 
to grow; as research into the nature of learning has ad- 
vanced, it is essential that we should keep step with that 
progress just as we must keep step with scientific progress in 
other fields. If the alumni association is a mere crystaliza- 
tion of nostalgia, it has a tendency to impede the functions 
of the University because by laying its emphasis upon what 
is past and gone, and by glorifying the past at the expense 
of the present, it creates a public sentiment v,'hich is an 
obstacle to inevitable change. 

► Th.at can become peculiarly important in an institution 
with long traditions such as Brown. Those traditions give a 
background, a solidity, a substance to our program w'hich 
nothing else can supply, but those assets can be turned 
rapidly into liabilities if its position in the past becomes a 
drag upon the institution in meeting present obligations. 

The plain fact is thai today we cannot have the kind of 
student we used to have in background, in training, in tastes, 
in interests or in outlet. Likewise we cannot teach the sub- 
jects we used to teach and those only, because the growth 
of knowledge itself has been so rapid and so overwhelming 
that we face a new problem in synthesis which Vv-e cannot 
escape even if we would. Shakespeare said : "What's past is 
prologue"; without the prologue the meaning of the present 
would not be so clear. But one cannot have the entire play a 
prologue. One must proceed from act to act and from scene 
to scene, else there is no development. 



There have been many instances in American education 
where the alumni have operated to prevent their institution 
from performing its full duty. Their pressures have been 
restraint ; they have held the institution back from progress. 
Therefore, I say, it is the first duty of the alumni organiza- 
tion to mediate between the Brown that is today and the 
Brown that used to be and to re-create in the men who knew 
the Brown of yesterday the loyalties which must cluster 
around the Brown of today. This is to be achieved by simul- 
taneously recalling the glory and the pleasures and the 
achievements of bygone days and at the same time renewing 
faith in the achievements of the new day. 

► One oi the most important aspects of such mediation is 
the maintenance of perspective. It is all too easy for the at- 
tention of the alumni to become fixed upon those aspects of 
college life which are dramatic, which occupy space in the 
newspaj~iers, which are discussed on the street corner and in 
public print, and to neglect the things which lie much closer 
to the center of the University, to fail in the realization that 
those colorful and dramatic aspects of college life are often 
far more superficial than other phases of University activity 
which do not so readily lend themselves to public apprecia- 
tion. 

These matters, difficult of understanding, ought to lend 
themselves to the appreciation of the alumni, for they are a 
peculiar and separate section of public opinion; if they do 
not hold the educational enterprise in its right perspective, 
then something is lost which no other body can supply. But 
if that one central function be performed eifectively, then 
all the other things which we desire will readily come to 
pass. If the alumni understand the educational program of 
the institution and believe in it with all their hearts, if they 
believe that the liberal spirit is essential in the v,-orld today 
and that the liberal spirit is cultivated m a particular and 
peculiar way in this University, they will support and see 
that others support the institution. 

The public has a passionate interest in what the student is 
told, making the assumption, which is contrary to fact, that 
what leaves the professor is what enters the boy. We ought, 
as a matter of practical fact, to have a much larger interest 
in what the student does. Does he work? Does he work effi- 
ciently? Does he work to his full power? Does he read? Does 
he read good things and master them? In short, has he fol- 
lowed the advice which Abraham Lincoln gave to a young 
man who wrote to him about entering the law, which reads 
as follows: 

"My dear Sir: I have just reached home and found your 
letter of the 2.'^rd ult. I am from home too much of my time 
for a young man to read law with me ;idvantageously. If 
you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, 
the thing is more than half over already. It is but a small 
matter whether you read with any lawyer or not. I did not 
read with any one. Get the books, and read and study them 



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till you understand them in their prineipal features; that i- 
the main thing. It is of no consequence to be in a large town 
while you are reading. I read at New Salem, which never 
had three hundred people living in it. The books, and your 
capacity for understanding them, are just the same in .dl 
places. . . . 

"Always bear m mind that your own resolution to suc- 
ceed is more important than any other one thing." 

► Alonc; with his reading, does the student go to hear good 
music? Has he an interest in fine pictures? Or to take a dif- 
ferent line of questioning, "Does he pay his bills?" One of 
the extraordinary things in America is the demand for 
courses in business administration. Boys will be taking 
courses in business administration and cost accounting, in all 
kinds of fancy "economics," presumably at a "practical" 
level, and at the same time not be paying their own bills, 
thereby forming the worst possible business habits. 

What the student is told in the classroom, therefore, is of 
vastly less importance than the atmosphere in which he lives 
and the habits which he forms. An interesting illustration of 
that occurred when a test given in an engineering college 
which has an unusually liberal atmosphere showed that the 
boys who attended that institution did very much better in 
literature and the fine arts and in other subjects which are 
usu.illy known as cultural than most graduates of the so- 
called liberal colleges. Therefore, we must make everything 
we can of environment; we should be much more concerned 
that the students follow a mode of life and a pattern of work 
than that they hear carefully modulated doctrines which will 
not disturb or excite anyone. 

► We hear a good deal about having too many students 
go to college, but we hear altogether too little about the boys 
who ought to go to college and do not. In the great Penn- 
sylvania study, which was directed by a distinguished grad- 
uate of Brown, and which over a period of years subjected 
the educational organization of that state to intensive study, 
it was discovered that 2 ^ per cent of the students who did 
not go to college had high scores on the intelligence tests, 
whereas over half the students who went to college had 
lower scores than that 25 per cent of the non-college group. 
When they were given a test in English, a quarter of the 
non-college group scored above half of the college-going 
group, and even in mathematics the same fact was revealed. 
"Taken as a group the high school pupils who go to college 
exhibit a superior average, but that fact takes no account of 
the able and often brilliant young men that are left behind 
because they cannot pay college bills." 

The situation revealed in Pennsylvania is not unique. A 
study in Massachusetts some years ago upon a different basis 
showed essentially the same results, and a study in Wiscon- 
sin conducted within the last ten years indicated that as 
many students out of the lowest 10 per cent sought to enter 
college as from the highest 10 per cent. That is to say that 
among the very brilliant students no more sought to enter 
college than among the very poorest. 

In his recent book on "Scholarship and Democracy," 
Dean Johnston points out that over a four year period, 42 
per cent of the students from well-to-do-homes were succe.=s- 
tul in the arts college at the University of Minnesota, while 
6.5 per cent secured honor standing. At the same time 5S per 
cent of the children of the poor became successful students 
and 15 per cent secured honor standing. Honor grades were 
made by twice as many students who contributed to their 
own support ;is were made by those whose expenses were 




PRFSIl)E\T W RISTOy: "We hear 
too little tthoiit the bors who ought 
to go to college." 

paid by their families. Fraternity figures at Brown show the 
same trend. 

If this idea regarding boys with great ability but little 
money can be firmly grasped, we may see what a large field 
there is for the colleges of America. They have an obligation 
similar to that which produced the missionary movement of 
the nineteenth century with its great energies and its far- 
tlung .ictivities. The first-ckiss colleges of the United States 
must seek out industriously the fine minds and the fine 
characters among high school students. Then ways and 
means must be found to draw those students into institutions 
such as Brown. That calls, of course, for a more active 
admissions policy, a policy which does not merely wait for 
the student to ask admission but which finds the good stu- 
dent; and it calls, likewise, for enormous increases in our 
scholarship funds. They cannot be too large, if they are 
wisely administered. 

► It is difficult for alumni to understand the particular 
problems which arise with reference to admission. In order 
to get a clear picture of this problem, it is necessary to re- 
member that, in general, secondary schools no longer em- 
phasize, and some do not offer, a college preparatory course. 
The enormous growth in the enrollment of the high school 
has been accompanied by an inevitable broadening m the 
offerings of that institution, because many of those now at- 
tending high school have neither the intellectual capacity nor 
the intellectual interest to engage in the ancient disciplines 
which previously formed the foundation of secondary edu- 
cation. It may well be that in their effort to be modern, high 
schools have both under-estimated the capacity of the stu- 
dent for those disciplines and the vakie of such disciplines, 
but neither of these possibilities affect the current situation. 
There is a third factor which has also had an important 
influence; namely, the crowding of students in high school 
which has led the schools to force through to graduation 
many who would otherwise be held back. A study of this 
matter by Dean Johnston shows that there has been a notable 
decline in the meaningfulness of graduation from high 
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division of the class, such as the upper third, or the upper 
half. 

While the high school curriculum has been disintegrating 
and the sharpness of the picture of the entering student has 
become blurred, due to the fact that no two students arrive 
with the same preparation, institutions have entered into 
competition for students. 

The tone of that competition varies with different institu- 
tions and in different places. Sometimes it is a high kind of 
competition which seeks to lind the type of student who is 
suited for the offerings of a given institution, a real effort to 
sort out the prospective students and send each one to the 
kind of institution where he will be best served. In other 
instances it is simply an effort to get students — good stu- 
dents, bad students, any kind of student, — who will fill up 
the college and make it possible to appeal to the legislature 
to do something tor "the thronging hosts of eager youth 
crowding our halls," or who will pay fees and help balance 
the budget. 

► All these factors have created a situation where the 
effort of an institution effectively to serve the student lays 
upon the admissions office a primary and fundamental re- 
sponsibility : to discover among the mass of applicants those 
who can be served and who are capable of taking our offer- 
ings. Thus it happens that though our Freshman class does 
not grow in size, we nonetheless need many more applicants 
for admission than ever before. So far as I can see, the 
process should continue for some time to come. We have no 
desire to admit more students to the Freshman class than 
we now do, but in order to have a class the size of our present 
class, in order to have a class of the quality necessary for 
our type of education, we need more and more applicants. 

The question arises: What can the alumni do about this 
whole matter? I suggest that one thing most of them cannot 
do very effectively is to interview high school students. 
There are some alumni who can do so, and I hope they con- 
tinue if they already do, or that they take up the practice if 
they have not yet engaged upon it. E.xcellent as a program 
for some, that is really out of the question for most alumni. 

The problems of admission are sufficiently technical so 
that one who is not dealing with them continuously may 
easily disappoint a student or himself be disappointed if the 
University does not follow the policy which he anticipates 
in an individual case. Moreover, so far as personal inter- 
views are concerned, there is another serious difficulty — 
namely, the gap in age. No matter how youthful we may 
feel, the average alumnus, even one thirty years of age, does 
not look youthful to the high school senior, and unless there 
is some special connection between the boy and his inter- 
viewer, the result may not be all that we would wish. 

However, there is a natural relationship which can be 
exploited with entire propriety by very many more alumni, 
and that is the relationship with the boy's father. He is likely 
to be more nearly the age of the alumnus, he speaks his 
language, and if the alumnus consistently and insistently, in 
season and out of season, on all occasions and on all subjects 
speaks well of the University from which he was graduated, 
it will h.ive a marked effect on our application statistics. At 
his home, m his club, at church, at the lodge, wherever men 
gather, if the aluinnus is consistently proud of his own insti- 
tution and sings its praises, however critical his letters to the 
president of the institution may be, it means that there will 
grow up in the country' at large a marked feehng that the 
men of Brown believe in their University and its program 



and that they want to see it serve the children of their 
friends. 

Of course, I do not need to add that if the alumni will 
send their own sons to Brown, it will give them a partic- 
ularly strong argument with the parents of others. •< < < 



► World Premiere 



"The Trojan Horse" 

► ► The world dramatic premiere of Christopher Mor- 
Icy's current best seller, "The Trojan Horse" was given in 
Faunce House Theatre when Sock and Buskin presented an 
original adaptation by Brenton Greene Meader "39. It 
opened on March 23, for a four-night run. 

Hope Carey Branch, wife of Claude R. Branch "07 and 
formerly an actress with George Arliss, Peggy Wood and 
Walter Hampton, returned to the spotlight once more to 
play the lead as "Cressida."" David A. Burchinal '38 played 
the male lead "Troilus."" 

Mr. Morley himself planned to attend at least one of the 
rehearsals, and but for a western lecture engagement, he 
would have been present for the eventful "Opening Night." 
Mr. Morley has been in constant touch with Meader, and 
after a dinner-conference with the young dramatist in New 
York last month, he gave his enthusiastic approval to Sock 
and Buskin's ambitious attempt. 

To Prof. Ben W, Brown fell the difficult task of produc- 
ing and directing a "world premiere." 

The idea for the dramatization developed last fall when 
Sock and Buskin decided to replace, "She Loves Me Not," 
with a play of slightly different character. Meader, im- 
pressed with the possibilities of dramatizing "The Trojan 
Horse," challenged the E.xecutive Committee to attempt 
the work. They in turn challenged him to dramatize it. 

In the novel, Mr. Morley applies a new "novelistic tech- 
nique" which makes the book readily suitable to stage 
adaptation. It is gay and fast-moving. 

The problems of scenic design and stagecraft fell to 
Halsted James, Jr., of Brtxiklyn, N. Y., who has been the 
mainstay of Sock and Buskin in that department for four 
years. He planned to use a simple stage. 

As for the dramatist himself, Meader's interest in the 
theatre began in Cranston high school, where he played 
small parts. More recently he has been prominent in 
theatricals at Andover and Brown. Besides taking major 
roles in plays with Sock and Buskin and the Komians, he 
has written one-act plays on the side. 

The cast included: Pnam— Walter H. Covell '38, of 
Barrington, R. I.; Hector — Walter L. Boughton "38, Shaker 
Heights, Ohio; Paris — Ronald Bennett "38, Pautucket; 
Deiphobus — Edward C. Martin "40, of West Haven, Conn.; 
Antener — Richard L. Wilbur '41, of Easton, Pa.; Aeneas — 
E. Melson Webster '40, of St. Louis, Mo.; Trolius — David 
A. Burchinal '38, of Washington, Pa.; Fuscus — Lester 
Bachrach '39, of New York; Llium — Brenton Greene 
Meader "39, of Edgewood; Pandarus — Halsted James, Jr. 
"38, of Brooklyn, N' Y.; Dares — Wyman Pendleton, Jr. '58, 
of Providence; Sarpedoni — G. Wescott McAlpine '41, of 
Hillsgrove; Agamemnon — William Paterson '41, of Buffalo, 
N. Y.; Menefaus— Wilbur E. Hogg, Jr. '38, of Plainfield, 
N. J.; Achilles — Benjamin Bradford '40, of Providence; 



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Ulysses — Edward J. Gilmore, Jr. '40, of Montclair, N. J.; 
Diomedes — Philip H. Reisman, Jr. "40, of New Rochelle; 
Greek Sentry — John H. Leavitt "39, of Washington, D. C; 
Max — Stephen G. Stone, Jr. "41, of Pleasantville, N. Y.; 
Cleon — Gilbert E. Cain "39, of New York: Brass Hats — 
Dudley Onderdonk, Jr. "38, of Montclair, N. J.; John Cross 
Edgren "38, of Providence; Frederick D. Brown "40, of 
Upper Montclair, N. J. 

Guests: Hecuba — Helen Hodnett "38, of Providence: 
Helen — Ruth Hassell "37, of Providence: Cressida — Hope 
Carey Branch, of Providence: Antigone — Rena Wagner, of 
The Players: Cassandra — Roberta Curley '38, of Bidde- 
ford, Me.; Andromache — Margaret A. Gainer "39, of 
Providence: Creusa — Elsie Lightbown '38, of Central Falls; 
Chr^'seis — Caroline Bradshaw '41, of New Brighton, Pa. 

Director — Prof. Ben W. Brown; Director of Routine 
Rehearsals — Wyman Pendleton, Jr.; A.ssistant Director — • 
Edward C. Martin; Staff: Stage — Halsted James, Jr.; Frank 
M. Adams, Jr.; of Providence; Albert P. Bedell '40, of 
Albany, N. Y.; Harry M. Sadler, Jr., of Pittsburgh, Pa.; 
Props — Edward C. Martin, and Edward Denmead '39, of 
Albany, N. Y.; Lights — Arthur H. Cooper '40, of Boston, 
and Richard K. Cox '41, of East Roxbury, Mass.; Effects — 
John W. lames, Jr. '41, of Brooklyn. N. Y. 



Cornerstone < 

► ► Brown University's new chemical research labora- 
tory on the old "back campus" passed another construction 
milestone on March 3 as walls for the first story were com- 
pleted, just a month after the cornerstone was laid by the 
building's donor, former United States Senator Jesse H. 
Metcalf. 

With the approach of warmer weather, contractors and 
builders for the laboratory expressed confidence that the 
work, then running exactly on schedule m spite of belated 
snow and freezing temperature, would be finished on the 
date set — August 1. 

By March 20 the v.'alls of the second story was to have 
been raised, and by the first of April, the third story will be 
nearly finished. Early in May the contractors hope to have 
the roof in place and slated, so that from the outside at 
least the laboratory will have a finished appearance. 

By commencement time, alumni returning for the fes- 
tivities of their reunions and graduation will be able to 
"get a good idea" of what the laboratory will be like, the 
contractors said. Scientific equipment for the laboratories 
and books for the combined mathematics, physics and chem- 
istry library on the third floor will be installed later, how- 
ever. 

A crew of between 41 ,ind I'O masons, carpenters, steel- 
workers, electricians and plumbers is now at work on the 
building. They will concentrate on basic construction until 
after the roof has been built. Workmen have been "holing 
through" the underground connecting tunnel between the 
new laboratory and the Jesse Metcalf laboratory. 

► Although the laboratory specifications call for numer- 
ous construction details to adapt the building for scientific 
research, especially in the fields of photochemistry and elec- 
trochemistry, the contractors expect no difiiculties. 

One of the unique features of the equipment will be a 
spectroscopic absorption tube more than 100 feet long, run- 
ning the entire length of the basement, which will be the 



longest tube of its kind. Special holes are being cut in base- 
ment partitions to allow the tube to be placed in position. 
It will be used by Prof. W. Albert Noyes, Jr., in his research. 

Preliminary arrangements are also being made for the 
installation of de-humidifying equipment. An elevator will 
be installed in the west end of the building so that bulky 
chemicals can be brought to each of the three floors easily. 

Virtually no wood will be used in the laboratory. The 
contractors point out that all material will be fireproof with 
the exception of window frames and doors, thereby reducing 
to a minimum any danger from combustible chemicals. 

Containing a total of 61 rooms, most of them small re- 
search laboratories, the new building will provide accom- 
modations for between 30 and 40 graduate students, and for 
about 30 undergraduates in physical chemistry. Brown will 
have double the facilities for advanced research than are 
in use now. 

Architecturally, the building will harmonize with the 
early Georgian design of other buildings on the back 
campus. It is being constructed with a brick exterior, will 
have a slate roof, and is to be trimmed in white. < < < 

ISumber One Bird-Lover 

► Robert Cushman Murphy, Brown 1911, has been 
elected president of the National Association of Audubon 
Societies. This, says an editorial writer in the Providence 
journal, may be accepted by his associates as an appro- 
priate recognition of his ten years' service as curator of 
oceanic birds in the American Museum of Natural History. 
As a matter of record, in that institution or m the Brooklyn 
Museum he has been department curator or the head of 
various oceanic expeditions ever since his graduation from 
Brown. 

Even in college his enthusiasm for natural history pre- 
figured his career. He has made himself a favorite lecturer, 
and his numerous writings furnish a more permanent 
record of his scientific achievements and his ability to 
impart his knowledge. His articles cover a wide range. His 
btwks are "Bird Islands of Peru," 1925, and "Oceanic Birds 
of South America, " in two volumes, 1936. He is also a 
collaborator in "Wandering Among Forgotten Isles," 1927, 
and "Problems of Polar research," 1928. 

Dr. Murphy is one of the comparatively few North 
Americans who have honorary degrees from South Ameri- 
can universities, the University of San Marcos in Lima, 
Peru, having conferred upon him in 1925 the degree of 
D.Sc, honons causa. < i 

Dr. Burgess Succeeds a Clttssmnle 

► Dr. Alex.ander M. Burgess '06 was elected President 
of the Rhode Island Medical Society at its January meeting, 
succeeding his classmate. Dr. Peter Pineo Chase, in that 
office. Dr. Burgess has been chairman of the Division of 
University Health on the campus since 1924. Dr. Herman 
A. Lawson '20, also a member of the Division of University 
Health at Brown, was re-elected secretary of the Medical 
Society. i 

Four Rare Tapestries 

► Four rare tapestries graced the walls of the Faunce 
House Art Gallery this month, through the courtesy of R. 
Foster Reynolds of Providence, whose son is an under- 
graduate at Brown. The loan collection included three 
made at Beauvais in the 18th century and one of the so- 
called Blenheim tapestries, of which only 12 are known. i 



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► ► Profit in the Advisory Council 



► ► MdRE than 80 momK:rs of the Advisory' Council, 
representing Brown Cluhs far and near, returned from the 
University campus last month with the distinct feeling that 
their annual week-end of deliberation on the state of their 
Alma Mater had been uncommonly worth-while in the 
exchange of common problems and possible remedies and as 
a source of understanding and inspiration. 

Few such assemblies of this congress of the Associated 
Alumni had been attended by such a large, representative 
group of delegates. Few had been more provocative of 
thought and profit, personally and collectively, for those in 
the loyal service of their University in scattered communi- 
ties. And these busy men, leaders in those communities, 
went home with renewed confidence in the destiny of Brown 
and with heartened eagerness to aid in that destiny. 

As the clubs sent some of their best men to represent 
them, so did the University depute its leaders to deliberate 
with them. President Henry M. Wriston, taking alumni 
loyalty at its face value, answered their request by enunciat- 
ing his idea of a program for alumni as an integral part of 
the University program. It was his first detailed pronounce- 
ment along those lines, coming on the first anniversary of his 
introduction to the Advisory Council and prompted by his 
year's experience with alumni from the Administration 
point of view. 

SECRETARY S MAIDEN SPEECH 

► The new Secretary of the University Corporation, 
Albert L. Scott 00, in his maiden address in public since 
taking office, affirmed his faith in a liberal Brov^'n at the 
dinner which opened the two-day sessions in Faunce House. 
Vice-President James P. Adams took the alumni on a realis- 
tic word-tour oi the physical campus which gave many their 
bearings in an altered atmosphere. Dean Samuel T. Arnold, 
speaking as chairman of the Athletic Council, confided the 
problems of that department frankly and purposefully. The 
presiding ofiicer, who also contributed a valuable survey 
statement of alumni activities during the year past, was 
Sidney Clifford 'H, President of the Associated Alumni. 

The liberal college had a stalwart champion in Mr. Scott, 
who assured the alumni that the liberal tradition at Brown 
was secure. As far as the Corporation was concerned, he 
said, the University would never sell her birthright as a 
liberal institution "for a mess of pottage merely to attract 
students. " 

As a correlative part of this tradition, he added, Bnnvn 
needs students of a selected type "to fulfill its destiny" and 
urged the alumni to help their Alma Mater by turning 
toward her students who "know what a liberal college ought 
to be and are determined to matriculate only in such a 
college." He granted that such students are not easy to find : 
"There does not seem to be enough of this type of student 
to go around. In the fierce competition with trade schools, 
colleges of business, football colleges, and short-cut institu- 
tions of various kinds, the liberal college needs understand- 
ing and valiant supporters." 

► Discussing the position of the alumni m relation to the 
University, Mr. Scott said that "our view at Brown is that 
the alumni form a great stabilizing and energizing force in 
.m educational institution, and eventually, I believe, a 
college will very largely become what its alumni desire it 
to be." 



"Brown," he declared, "in all its aspects, is a liberal college 
by tradition and by convictions. Alumni on their home- 
comings should realize the importance of that fact and not 
try to mold the college into an institution where football 
teams generally win, or where only their specialty is em- 
phasized. A liberal college must see life as a whole. A 
liberal education provides a broad base for living, and the 
broader base a man has in experience and training the 
less likely is he to be overturned by the vicissitudes of the 
years. The country today needs more liberally trained men 
in business. We are afflicted with too many business men 
who are narrow m aim and purpose, unimaginative and 
unresponsive to the clamoring needs of society. 

"We hope the alumni will, with each succeeding year, 
have a clearer idea of the type of education for which 
Brown stands, and will recognize its value for persons in 
varying walks of life. Brown will do her part if there should 
flow to the University through the years as a result of the 
faith and hope of the alumni, adequate financial resources 
and students of the proper type." 

Automobiles were w.uting outside Faunce House to take 
the alumni to the Rhode Island Auditorium where the 
Brown Varsity hockey team was seeking revenge for a 
defeat the previous year at the hands of Colby. It was the 
first time many alumni had seen a Brown hockey team in 
action, and it did not seem a very promising introduction 
when Colby led 4-1 at the end of the second period. But, 
with the alumni delightedly cheering them on, the Brunon- 
ians staged a four-goal rally, scoring the winning goal with 
'iO seconds to play. Alumni also saw a Brown swimming 
victory Saturday. Other alumni took advantage of the 
opportunity to see a French play in Faunce House Theatre, 
presented by the Brown French Club and the Alliance 
Franijaise, and a regular Faunce House Saturday night 
movie show. 

A PRESIDENTIAL CHALLENGE 

► The alumni had heard their "keynote" speech. They 
were now to be offered a background of information on 
University policy and reports of current alumni activities 
before proceeding to discussion of problems unabated. Re- 
convened early Saturday morning, the Advisory Council 
listened with enthusiasm to a challenging message from the 
President of the University. This program for alumni, as 
Dr. Wriston envisioned it, appears elsewhere in this maga- 
zine, and the President elaborated upon it in inspiring 
fashion in response to leading questions. 

He was followed by Mr. Clifford, and the Alumni 
President reviewed the work of the Associated Alumni 
during the year in three general fields: material aid to the 
University, alumni effort in relation to admissions and 
students, and the cultivation of alumni and public good will. 

Mr. Clifford's report will be printed at considerable 
length in the next issue of the ALUMNiMoNTHLY,butsalient 
points were these: A record number of individual alumni 
contributed to a record total in the Alumni Fund last year. 
Alumni contributed more than $10,000 towards the under- 
graduate yachting program. A new committee has been 
organized to co-ordinate Commencement activities of the 
reunion classes and others. Alumni have co-operated with 
the work of the admissions office and raised more than $.i,000 
in scholarships. Alumni are assisting the University in its 
program to revitalize the fraternities. The circulation of 
the Brown Alumni Monthly has increased 10 per cent. 



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more than 500 sets of Brown plates have been purchased. 
Brown gatherings have been more frequent and better 
attended, and the annual Alumni Day has proved a valuable 
source of good will promotion, he reported. As a basis for 
further alumni participation in the work of the University, 
he asked that Brown take broader measures to "make known 
to the alumni its aims, purposes, and objectives." 

► De.aling more directly with the expanding work of the 
Alumni Office and the activities of the local Brown Clubs in 
various parts of the country, A. H. Gurney, Secretary of the 
Associated Alumni, had an encouraging report to read. It 
was his 16th such annual report; it will be printed in this 
magazine next month. 

Attributing some of the good news in his report to the 
impetus received by Brown men at last year's splendid 
Commencement, Mr. Gurney told of the various alumni and 
University agencies "drawing more closely together for a 
clearer realization of Brown's aims and hopes." Telling of 
widespread activities in the individual clubs, he urged the 
necessity of cultivating the younger alumni and acquainting 
them of their opportunities. 

There had been talk, some of it abstract with regard to 
principles, some of it knotty with regard to problems. It 
remained for Vice-President Adams to answer the interest 
of the alumni with a graphic picture of the physical changes 
on the campus. He called it "The March of Time at Brown," 
and it had a warm reception from the delegates as he brought 
them up to date with regard to favorite scenes and centres 
of sentimental memories. For many, it bridged sympatheti- 
cally the gap of the years, showing the new University in the 
old setting. It is our hope to reproduce much of Dr. Adams' 
talk next month. 

BRIGHTKR ATHLETIC HOPES 

► De.an Arnold in his opening remarks said that Profes- 
sor Marvel had been sick for three weeks and that a word of 
cheer from the Council would assuredly be helpful. 

He said that the financial problem facing the Athletic 
Council was a serious one, although the situation at the 
present time looked brighter than it did a year ago. He men- 
tioned the football critics, Messrs. Gulian, Farber and others 
who had written for the newspapers during and after the 
19.^7 season and expressed the opinion that President 
Wriston had effectively answered them at the Broomhead 
football dinner. 

He posed several questions: Should major games on the 
schedule be limited to four? Should the whole sports pro- 
gram be curtailed? If so, what sports should be dropped? 
It was easy, he said, to take on a sport, but hard to get rid 
of it. He went into the difficult and complex question of 
making schedules three, lour and five years ahead, and 
added emphatically that Brown should enter the Ivy League 
if such a league was ever formed. He noted that track, with 
a new coach, was definitely on the upgrade, praised the 
swimming and soccer and hockey teams, and said that there 
was better attitude toward training than had been evident 
in several years. He assured the Council that President 
Wriston had a real interest in sports and real interest for 
undergraduates in all sports. 

His final question was : What shall we do to balance the 
budget and establish a long range athletic policy particu- 
larly with regard to football? During the discussion he took 
his stand against Brown teams participating in sports pro- 
grams in professional arenas like Madison Square Garden — 
programs designed to exploit undergraduate players chiefly 
for the benefit of the followers of professional sport. 



A hope that alumni might be permitted slightly more par- 
ticipation in the guidance of Brown athletics and that its 
participants might serve more usefully was behind a resolu- 
tion which the Advisory Council adopted. It recommended 
to the University Corporation that the number of alumni 
representatives on the Athletic Council be increased from 
two to three and that their terms be lengthened from two 
years to three. The problems of the athletic phase of Uni- 
versity life are so specialized that it was felt that alumni 
advice would be worth more coming from men kept longer 
in contact with athletics. The Executive Committee of the 
Associated Alumni was authorized to make such further 
recommendations as are necessary to put this proposal into 
effect, in the event of favorable action by the Corporation 

FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY 

► Carleton D. Morse "1 .^, speaking for the Friends of the 
John Hay Librar}', outlined the history of the project and 
the spirit animating it. He described the Friends as a group 
of alumni who are lovers of books and who like the John Hay 
Library. He told of similar groups at Princeton, which now 
has 900 alumni enrolled in its society, Chicago, Harvard, 
Knox, Yale, where the undergraduates are active, and 
Columbia. He gave the special aims of each group. At 
Brown, he said, two meetings had already been held and 
that Frederick S. Peck had recently given a splendid collec- 
tion of 600 volumes on the Northwest. He noted another 
gift by W. C. Worthington '23 and said that the Friends 
would appreciate help from all Brown centres. 

Z. Chafee '80 of the John Hay Library Committee made 
a stirring plea for increasing Brown's library facilities and 
emphasized the importance of better protection for the 
valuable departmental libraries on the campus. He said that 
Brown needed space as well as money for btxsks and that the 
University was losing its rank in the number of dollars spent 
annually for new books. He stressed the great value of the 
mathematical library gathered by Professor Raymond C. 
Archibald. He reviewed the history of the George L. Little- 
field bequests to Brown — bequests that resulted from the 
admirable work of Richard B. Comstock and others who 
"talked Brown at all opportune times and who talked it 
until they won." He smilingly said that the moral of his 
review was undoubtedly plain to all alert alumni. 

Wayne M. Faunce '2 1 said that the question of making 
better alumni was important and that the Seniors might well 
have a course to acquaint them with the educational and 
financial set-up and aims of Brown. He believed it to be 
essential to avoid the lapse of interest apparent in young 
alumni after they graduate. 

President Clifford said that a move was being made m 
this direction. He mentioned the Senior-Corporation smoker, 
now an annual affair, as an example and added that the 
subject was on the Executive Committee's agenda. 

Messrs. Richards and Matteson took part in the discussion 
on Brown Club Scholarships. Mr. Richards gave details as to 
payments after a recipient has matriculated at Brown and 
urged the Clubs to check more carefully and more fre- 
quently on their prize students. Mr. Matteson thought it 
would be preferable for a Club to send a good man to Brown 
once in three years and take care of him during that time to 
the full amount of the scholarship. 

President Clifford announced that the balloting for the 
Athletic Council vacancy had resulted in the following 
nominations for the two-year term ending in June, 1940: 
W. Easton Louttit, Jr. '25; Edward H. Weeks "9.1; Orland 
F. Smith, M.D. '27. 



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THE BROWN PLATES 

► Mr. Worth INGTON, for the Committee on Brown 
Plates, said that the plates were gradually being distnbuted. 
He pointed out that they were being sent to Brown men and 
women in all parts of the country and that more than 500 
dozen of the first edition had been ordered. He added that 
the plates were tangible evidence in the hands of hundreds 
of Brown alumni and alumnae and that the question had 
arisen : Should the original price of $1 5 a dozen be increased 
in succeeding editions? 



President Clifford said that the plates were unquestion- 
ably as instrument of good will among the alumni. He dis- 
cussed briefly the idea of using the plates as a means of 
raising money for some desired University project. Mr. 
Appleget questioned the advisability of raising the price. 
"You want good will," he said. "That is the chief considera- 
tion." It was the opinion that the matter of a price increase 
should be more carefully studied before coming to a con- 
clusion. 

((Jcjjifi)iiuJ on fiage 224) 



► ► 



Brunonian Headliners 



His Figures, Food for Thought 

► ► Leon S. Gay '06 of Gay Brothers, woolen manufac- 
turers. Cavendish, Vt., is giving full play to his hobby of 
Vermont State finances. As a result of his study, he recently 
made and published, in conjunction with the Vermont State 
Chamber of Commerce, two tables that the Rutland Herald 
editorially characterized as "the simplest and clearest picture 
of Vermont finances for the past 1 1 years that has ever, 
within our knowledge, been prepared. ... In striking con- 
trast to the hopelessly unreadable and confusing figures pro- 
vided by the State itself, these tables will tell the average 
taxpayer a lot of things he never knew or was never able 
to discover." 

After pointing out that the balanced budget and pay-as- 
you-go policy, supposed to be so certain in Vermont, is 
more fancy than fact" and that temporary loans have a 
regrettable way of becoming permanent and part of the 
State debt, the Herald said that Gay's "few simple figures 
contain more food for thought than any other State docu- 




B.4CK TO HIS ALMA MATER: 
Dr. Leonard Curinirhnel. former 
head of the Psychology Department 
at Brown, has been called to the 
Presidency of Tufts College. 



ment of recent years. . . . Mr. Gay, his associates, and the 
State Chamber have done a very important job." 

While he has been working on these figures. Gay has 
become a member of the Vermont Farm Chemurgic Com- 
mittee, the objects of which are to find means through 
chemical research to tie up waste materials and products of 
the farm through sale to industry so that both farmers and 
industry may profit. He is also serving on the Social Service 
Commission of the Northern Baptist Convention which 
held Its first meeting in Chicago, Dec. 9. 4 < 

Recognition to a Mining Engineer 

► How.ARD H. Utley '97 of Baxter Springs, Kansas, has 
been elected chairman of the Tri-State Section, American 
Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers for 1938, 
and last month came East to the national convention of the 
Institute in New York asTri-State delegate. Mr. Utley, who 
IS general superintendent of the St. Louis Smelting and 
Refining Company, thus represented three important min- 
ing States, Colorado, Kansas, and Missouri. 

After his graduation from Brown, Mr. Utley took his 
mining degree, an M.E., at the Colorado State School of 
Mines in 1900, and he has been manager of the River Smelt- 
ing and Refining Company, Florence, Colorado, and the 
Sutton Steel Mining and Implement Company of Denver. 
He is new member of the board of the Tri-State Section, 
A.I.M.M.E. i 

Sworn Foe of Rust 

► ► The rust-fighter portrayed in a thumbnail sketch in a 
recent issue of the Columbia LIniversity Alumni News is 
none other than the loyal Brunonian Ralph M. Palmer '10, 
whom Columbia also claims because he took graduate work 
there in chemical engineering that led to an advanced degree 
m 1926. 

"Professionally," said his biographer, "Ralph Mallory 
Palmer is a corrosion engineer, which, in cold technical 
terms, would put him down as a human enemy of the oxida- 
tion of metals, an enemy of rust. By a charming suitability 
this professional description carries over as a figure of 
speech in portraying Palmer in all his activities. He is an 
opponent of metallic rust, human rust, educational rust, and 
of all forms of corrosion. 

"A graduate of Brown University (Ph.B. 1910) , he is an 
alumni trustee of that institution. A Columbia chemical 
engineering degree-holder, he was vice-president of the 
Alumni Association of Graduate Schools in \9?<6-}<7, and 
is president of the association this year. 

"In engineering pursuits he had seven years' experience in 
design, construction and chemical process work with the 
General Chemical Co., four years of the same type of work 



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with du Pont, and for eleven years has been associated with 
the Ferro-Nil Corp., of which concern he is now president. 

"Pahner is a member of The American Society for Testing 
Materials, The American Water Works Association, The 
New England Water Works Association, The American 
Chemical Society, The Association for the Advancement of 
Science, the Army Ordnance Association, The American 
Society of Chemical Engineers, the Chemists Club, The 
Brown University Club and the American Public Health 
Association. 

"Besides being an engineer Palmer may be put down as an 
inventor and a polo enthusiast." i 

Explaining Mann 

► HoR.ACE M.'VNN, Brown 1S19, phrenologist. Congressman 
and educator, is described from a psychological viewpoint in 
an article by Paul Bi.xler in the winter issue of The Awie7'icaii 
Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa quarterly. Bixler is the librarian of 
Antioch College, of which Mann was the first president. 

"The Hawthornes, father and son" — Mann and Na- 
thaniel Hawthorne, the writer, had married two sisters and 
there was little love lost between the brothers-in-law, accord- 
ing to contemporary records :"looked on Mann simply as a 
reformer who had married into the family," Bixler writes. 
"Mann disapproved of liquor, profanity and tobacco, in 
ascending order of emphasis. 

"But if we measure the individual by his reforms we get 
a confused portrait and only a part of the truth," Bixler 
insists. He explains that when Mann was twelve his older 
brother died by drowning, and that the subsequent effect 
upon the young child of the minister's laments over that 
"unconverted death" resulted in the boy's repudiation of a 
God who "gloried in punishment." Mann's later work in 
the field of education was underlaid by a deep conviction 
"that children were born (not m sin!) in ignorance," as 
Bixler declares. Mann startled his hearers by the belief that 
"education was salvation." i 

Beds for Fair-Goers 

► T. Elliott Tolson '06, recently re-elected president of 
the Hotel Association of New York City, is chairman of the 
Hotel Advisory Committee of the New York World's Fair. 
His committee is making a complete survey of hotel accom- 
modations which will be available for the Fair visitors in 
1939, specifying price range, location, and other necessary 
information. During the Exposition period it will cooperate 
with the Fair's hotel and housing information service, and 
It also is expected to prove of great assistance in publicising 
the Fair. 

The committee's members, among whom are representa- 
tives of every major hotel in the metropolitan area and at 
nearby shore resorts, will care for millions of Fair visitors in 
1939, and "it will be primarily their job to let it be known 
that New York can be a fair and gracious host." 

W. W. Wyckoff '99 of the Knott Hotels Corporation 
has again been chosen secretary of the Hotel Association of 
New York City. i 

ISained as a Dewey Aide 

► Ch.^rles C. Tillingh.^st, Jr., "32, is an assistant to 
Thomas E. Dewey, dynamic District Attorney of New York 
who came into office last November and who before that 
time had won nation-wide notice as special prosecutor of 
New York's racketeers. 

Charlie's appointment is an indication of his high ability, 
as Dewey had hundreds of young lawyers from whom to 
choose his staff. Since graduation from Columbia Law 
School in 1935, Charlie, son of Charles C. TiUinghast '06 



and centre on the Brown football team in his undergraduate 
days, has been in the office of Hughes (Charles E. Hughes, 
Jr. '09), Schurman £f Dwight m New York. i 

From Ottawa to Beirut 

► ► Ely Eliot P.^lmer '08, consul general and counsellor 
of the American Legation, Ottowa, Canada, for the past 
two and a half years, is going back to his old love — the Near 
East. The Department of State has announced his transfer 
to be consul general at Beirut, Syria, and he and Mrs. 
Palmer were to leave Ottawa on March 1 for the new post. 

Officer in the diplomatic service since 1909, Palmer has 
done noteworthy work at home and abroad. He had his 
preparation at the Faculte de Droit, the Sorbonne, Paris, 
and at George Washington University, where he received 
the degree of Master of Diplomacy. He began in the State 
Department at Washington, went from there to Mexico 
City, and then back to the State Department for another 
tour of duty. For two years he was vice and deputy consul 
general at Pans and at Brussels. He spent five years in 
Madrid during the World War and after, and eight years 
in Bucharest, during v^/hich he won several promotions 
in rank. 

After four years in Vancouver, he went to Jerusalem and 
carried on ably there during some of the trying years of 
trouble among the Jews and the Arabs. He took up his work 
at Ottawa in August, 1935. In recent months he has been on 
leave of absence. 4 

Resignation in Philadelphia 

► Dr. Edwin C. Broome '97, superintendent of schools in 
Philadelphia for nearly 17 years, has resigned, and will 
retire at the end of a six months' leave of absence which 
began Jan. 1 . His resignation was offered at the advice of his 
doctor, and the Board of Education accepted it, the papers 
said, "with reluctance." Broome, who has been having 
trouble with his eyes, is a year older than the voluntary 
retirement age now in effect in Philadelphia schools. 

One of his many achievements as superintendent has been 
the building up of the junior high school system. i 

Surprise Appointment I'li Providence 

► Appointment of Francis J. O'Brien '16, lawyer, to the 
Providence Bureau of Police and Fire has had the hearty 
approval of citizens of different political faiths. Mayor 
James E. Dunne sprang a surprise in January by dropping 
an original appointee (and chairman) and naming O'Brien 
to fill the place for the next three years. 

O'Brien, native of Providence and sterling student at 
Brown, has for years been allied with a minority group in 
his ward determined to clean up the ward politics. In 1922 
he was unsuccessful candidate for nomination as Represen- 
tative to the Rhode Island House. In 1930 he lost in a caucus 
fight for nomination for the City Council, and two years 
later he made vigorous but futile effort to defeat the boss 
of his ward for Alderman. In 1934 he had no better luck 
as candidate for school committee. 

But he has continued to work consistently for law and 
order. As a member of the Rhode Island bar he has honor- 
able standing. During the past year he has been member 
and secretary of Governor Robert E. Quinn's special com- 
mission to study the State taxation system. He is a leader in 
the Knights of Columbus, and he still thinks that Latin is 
a fine and helpful study. Reading it is one of his hobbies. He 
brings to his new work a lively and inquiring mind, an 
understanding of Providence's law enforcement problems, 
and a reputation for fair and intelligent dealing. < i 



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► ► 



Playing the Game 



► ► Bv r'ai-irig in «" t^ut t*'" of the ten 
finals in the New England Intercollegiate 
Swimming Meet, tlic Brown varsity won tlic 
championship for the sixth consecutive year 
on March 1 2, the outstanding success of any 
Brunonian sports team in the closing stages 
of the winter campaign. Conspicuous in 
other sports were the performances of two 
Freshman teams, which overshadowed those 
of their corresponding varsities, basketball 
and hockey, each of which had more than 
respectable seasons. 

In the Amherst championships. Brown 
piled up 38 points, with Williams second 
with 28, Springfield, Amherst, and Bowdoin 
tied for third with 13, and Massachusetts 
States, Wesleyan, and Connecticut State 
trailing. Star of the Bruins was Sophomore 
Matt Soltysiak, who won the 300-yard in- 
dividual medley, the 200-yard breast-stroke, 
and aided the winning 300-yard medley 
relay trio in setting a new record for the 
meet at 3:05.8. Another record-breaking 
feat was Wilco.x's in taking the 150-yard 
back-stroke event in 1:44.3. Dean captured 
another first place for Brown by leading the 
divers with 100.01 points. 

Other Brown finalists and their places 
were: Backstroke — Walker, fourth; breast- 
stroke — McCuUough, sixth: 220 freestyle 
— Forbes, second, Porritt, fourth; 50-yard 
freestyle — Green, fourth; 100 — Green, 
sixth; 440 — Forbes, third. Baker, fifth, 
Doherty, sixth; medley — Wilcox, second, 
McCullough, sixth; Dives — Wilson, fourth; 
440-yard relay — sixth. 

Reserving some of its strength for the 
national intcrcollegiates the following week, 
some of the specialists gave Brown a place 
in the scoring in the Ea.stern intercollegiate 
meet at Harvard. When Princeton's medley 
relay team swam to a new American record, 
Brown was fourth behind Harvard and 
Columbia but ahead of Yale. A backstroke 
event swum in record time saw Wilcox of 
Brown a strong fourth. 

► When New England Intercollegiate rec- 
ords were accepted in mid-March, two were 
entered in Browns name: Vv'ilcox's time of 
1:41.6 for the 150-yard backstroke and the 
300-yard medley relays time of 3:3.4, both 
marks set in long pools. 

When Coach Barry took stock at the 
beginning, he was aware that he no longer 
had men who accounted for 192 of his teams 
332 points last year. He was weakened in 
the spunts, although he had some of the 
most promising specialty swimmers in recent 
years coming up from his previous Freshman 
team. As it turned out, several of the meets 
were lost in the relay events. Still the ledger 
showed a 50-50 record after nine dual meets. 
The Varsity lost to the top-ranking Harvard 
team, to Dartmouth, Yale, and Rutgers; 
it beat Syracuse, Army, Springfield, and 
Wesleyan, tying Williams. 

His Freshmen lost only to Harvard and 
St. George's School, and a win over Dart- 
mouth was outstanding among their better 
efforts. Three men in particular stood out. 
all undeleated through the season. First 
was Bob Schaper, former national junior 
A. A. U. champion, who swam the 50 and 
100 impressively. In the breaststroke 
Drcnnan was unbeatable, as was the gritty 
little distance entry Gibbons. With such 



powerful swimmers as Soltysiak, X^'alker, 
McCullough, Porritt, Green, Baker, Do- 
herty, Wilson, and Wilcox back next year. 
Coach Barry has the makings of a well- 
balanced team in prospect. 

► M.'KTCHED with the Brown Freshmen late 
in February and thrown off stride by a 
defeat, the Varsity basketball team never did 
get back in winning form again, although it 
missed by heart-breaking margins in several 
of its last games. The high calibre of the play 
and the individual brilliance of its stars kept 
large crowds coming right till the end, and a 
record-breaking season by the Freshmen 
was another factor in a good year on the 
court. 

In his first Varsity year Sophomore Harry 
Piatt revealed an extraordinary passing 
game and an eye for the basket that netted 




HARRY PL ATT: His rec- 
ord contribuird to a record. 



him 404 points, the highest total that statis- 
ticians have been able to find in the Brown 
record books. His average of 21.2 points 
during the 19 games was the highest of any 
player in New England, and his total was 
exceeded only by Jaworski of Rhode Island, 
who scored 441 points in 21 games. Piatt's 
aggregate was made up of 172 goals and 60 
points from fouls. It was against North- 
eastern that Piatt scored 48 points, only two 
shy of the national record. Eighth among 
all New England scoring players was 
Brown's Campbell, who played only 18 
games but had 218 points to his credit. Ill- 
ness in the last week of the season kept him 
from a probable sixth place in the mythical 
standing. 

Having won eight of its first 14 games, 
the Varsity fell into a slump in the second 
Tufts game that was the first of five straight 
defeats. Three times in a row — against 
Rhode Island, Dartmouth, and Yale — the 
Brunonians were tied with their opponents 
at half-time, only to lose in the final minutes. 
Providence College overhauled a hopeful 
Brown team in the late seconds and won 



57-5 5, to send Coach Kahler away to a new 
contract at Dickinson College convinced of 
a jinx. 

► His team, however, had defeated Colgate, 
Clark, Tufts, Northeastern, Lowell, Trinity, 
M. I. T., and the alumni. It had scored an 
all-time high of 84 points in beating Colgate. 
It had proved a worthy match for such 
league teams as Harvard, Dartmouth, and 
Yale, even in defeat. And a succession of 
heart-breaking reverses in the final games 
did not check its courage. 

And they were heart-breaking. Take, for 
instance, the last four games. Three thou- 
sand people jammed into the Brown Gym 
for the return engagement with Rhode 
Island. Although State had previously 
trounced the Bear 80-49, it was before Piatt 
had got his stride, and the prospect of a duel 
between the two New England high scorers 
was an added attraction. The score was 
3 5-3 5 at the end of the first half, but Brown 
had lost Its hard-working guard, Captain 
Sharkey on fouls. Piatt, though outscoring 
Jaworski 28-27, was off form, and .so was his 
running-mate Campbell, and the final was 
73-61 in State's favor. 

Again the gym was jammed when Dart- 
mouth brought its league-leading team to 
Providence. Again at half-time the teams 
were deadlocked, 21-21, in a superb defen- 
sive game. Little by little Brown had 
whittled down an early lead of the Green's, 
and Sharkey was strong on defense. Late 
in the game the Brunonians held a small 
lead, only to have their forwards lose then- 
eye while Dartmouth mi,ssed no opportunity. 
The scoreboard read: Dartmouth 45, Brown 
40. 

► In New Haven Piatt had scored 20 points 
in the first half, a record for the court this 
year, and his 28-point total was also a record 
there. But Campbell was not in uniform 
because of illness, and at the interval Yale 
shifted its defense. Tied 26-26 at the re- 
sumption of play the Eli five held Brown 
scoreless while running up 14 points. The 
visitors countered, pulhng up to within six 
points, only to lose finally, 56-46. 

The Providence College game was to be 
Kahlcr's last as a Brown coach, and his team 
was established as favorite to beat the 
Dominicans for the first time in a decade. 
In the first half, the prediction seemed to be 
borne out, for the Bruin led 29-22. Two 
minutes before the end the lead was still 
hers, but P. C. won in the last three seconds 
57-55. The Friars had made good on 17 
foul shots, while Brown sank only seven 
free throws. It was the last game for Cap- 
tain Adolph Sharkey, a fine leader and stout 
defensive player. Other Seniors are Arthur 
A. Staff, William E. Chichester, and 
William I. Sadowsky, who shared Varsity 
rating with Sophomore Bill Kelly and other 
forwards and centres. Regulars who will be 
available for next year's boom year arc: 
Glatfeltcr and Truman, guards; Mullen, 
Piatt, Campbell, Kelly, Bob Staff, and other 
offensive players. 

But optimism for next season lies more in 
the replacements who will come from the 
well-drilled 1941 squad, whose clever team- 
work and precision were a delight to see. 
The Freshman victory over the Varsity on 
the Brown Club Night was no fluke, and in 
their own class the youngsters had dropped 
only one game of 12 played. Although 
Connecticut State trimmed the first-year 
men 50-32, it was before three or four stellar 
players were available, and no other oppo- 
nents even came near beating them. The 



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winning scores were; Harvard Freshmen 
51-28; Rhode Island Freshmen 56-47 and 
66-48; Tufts Freshmen 59-21 and 57-24; 
Bryant College 39-27; Northeastern 63-20; 
Worcester Academy 48-24; M. I. T. Fresh- 
men 54-35; St. George's 37-14; Providence 
College Freshmen 59-39. Coach Ek Allen 
is to be complimented on his product, 

y Little was expected of the hockey team 
this winter, because of the graduation of 
last year's mainstays, but the ice-men showed 
plenty of fight and improved as they gained 
e.\perience under Coach Taylor. They sur- 
prised the prophets by winning seven of 16 
games, three defeats coming from Dart- 
mouth, the leading Eastern team, which 
Brown met in a home-and-home series and 
also in the intercollegiate tournament at Rye. 
Colgate, Boston College, Northeastern, 
Massachusetts State, Colby, and Columbi.i 
were the victims, while Brown dropped 
games to M. I. T., Yale, Boston University, 
Harvard, and Boston College. High-scoring 
Brunonians were Pete Davis and Danny 
Hicks, both Juniors. Of the team. Captain 
Don Eccleston, Paul Welch, Munroe Fagan, 
Bill White, Jack Hawley, among others will 
be graduated, but optimism for next year is 
based on the record of an undefeated Fresh- 
man team that is deeper in talent and num- 
bers than any in recent seasons. The yearb 
ings beat Worcester North High, Boston 
University Freshmen, and a number of 
Greater Providence Schools, and nine or ten 
of their players should tit in well with ten 
veteran hold-overs from the present Varsity. 

► Dick Cole's wrestlers completed their 
season with a fine record of five victories in 
eight meets, against topnotch competition. 
Of the three defeats, by Yale, Harvard, and 
Michigan State, two of them were by the 
narrowest of margins. Beaten teams were 
Rutgers, M. I. T., Tufts, Springfield, and 
Wesleyan, and the Brunonians were dis 
appointed when the cancellation of the New 
England meet prevented them Irom defend 
ing their championship laurels. 

Sorriest perhaps was Jim Lathrop, New 
York senior, whose undergraduate wrestling 
career was thus terminated after his best 
season. A superman for four years, he fin- 
ished the past schedule undefeated, scoring 
six falls and two decisions in eight matches, 
a total of 36 points out of a possible 40. Of 
3 7 bouts in his college career, he lost only 
three, running up a total of MAYi points 
for an average of 3 1 a year. Joe Nutter '24, 
sports chronicler, recalls only one record 
that beats Lathrop's, that of Tommy Dustin 
'23, who was not defeated in four under- 
graduate years. 

Next to Lathrop this year was Fred Nast, 
also undefeated and with four falls to his 
credit. Captain Senecal lost only one bout, 
that by decision, and Borden Chase and 
George Keller lost only two. One blow to 
the coach's hopes for the year was the injury 
of Jim Keegan, undefeated in his Freshman 
year with eight consecutive falls for 40 
points, and defeated only once as a Sopho- 
more. A touch football injury cost his place 
in the 126-pound division, where his pres- 
ence might well have upset the llYi-lAYi 
defeat by Michigan State and the 15-13 
defeat by Harvard. The showing of the 
Freshmen again reminds one what Coach 
Cole does in developing good varsities from 
inexperienced material. 

► Varsity track returned to the winter 
sports calendar on February 27th when 
Brown outsped a visiting Northeastern team 
on the new board track behind the Brown 



Gym. By collecting all hut four points in 
the 45-yard dash and 40-yard hurdles, the 
Bruins jumped into an early lead. Bern- 
stein and Chafee finished one-two in the 
sprint, the winner having taken his trial 
heat in 4.5. Singsen's winning time over the 
harriers was 6 flat, with Clark in third posi- 
tion. When the Huskies swept the 1000, the 
home team's advantage was levelled oil, 
and the remaining races were thrillers. In 
the 300 Chet Constable came from fourth 
to edge out his rival at the tape. Again in 
the 600 Brown runners came irom behind 
to take first and third, the scorers being Klie 
and Constable respectively. Winterrowd 
was lelt alone with three Huskies in the late 
stages of the mile, passing all three in the 
last lap. Captain Ben Horowitz and Maw 
hinney assured the Brown victory with the 
two best heaves in the shot put, and the 
final tally was 39-3 3. The Freshmen were 
swamped, 581/2 to U'/z- 

Entered in three of the big indoor meets, 
the \'arsity mile relay quartet accounted for 
Its collegiate rivals in each instance. 

The outdoor board track, referred to 
above, is the first such oval in a decade. Mai 
Williams, the new coach, had it installed in 
the corner of Aldrich Field near the gym 
nasium, a 10-lap afl^air 10 feet wide, with 



railroad turns at each end. An additional six- 
foot runway beside one of the straight-aways 
give a 16-foot runway for sprinters and 
hurdlers. The last board track was erected 
on the old back campus, where the new 
chemical laboratory is being built. 

In the National Intercollegiates, Horowitz 
was shut out of the scoring for the first time 
in his career, taking only a sixth in the shot. 
Chafee and Bernstein took third in then 
sprint trials, but Singsen was the only point 
winner with a place in the broad jump. 
Ken Clapp did not compete again after 
pulling a tendon in staying almost even with 
the Columbian champion, Ben Johnson, in 
his first race of the winter. 

Self-coached, like all Brown fencers since 
the inception of the sport on the Hill, the 
Varsity ended its season in mid-March with 
a fine record. In the first annual tournament 
of the New England Intercollegiate Fencing 
Association, Brown was runner-up with 3 2 
points to Dartmouth's winning 38. In third 
place was Boston College with 13. Brown 
had taken a lead in the foils division, only 
to lose ground with the cpee and sabre. 
Point winners for the home team were; Cap- 
tains Meyer and Steele, Thurlow, WoHe. 
Ebclke, Amidon, Springer, Lewis, and 
Foster. < < < 



The Advisory Council 



(Contniucd from page 220) 



AMONC; THOSE PRESENT 

► All past presidents of the Associated 
Alumni since the reorganization in 1919 
were present except Henry G. Clark '07. 
They were Paul C. DeWolf '05, Edward H. 
Weeks '93, Archibald C. Matte.son '93, 
Wiley H. Marble '12, Victor A. Schwartz 
"07, James S. Allen '98, Henry S. Chafee 
'09, Royal W. Lcith '12. 

Representatives of the Brown Clubs were 
Furber Marshall '19, Albany, Schenectady, 
Troy; William N. Ormsby '17, Boston; Dr. 
George B. Corcoran "06 and Stuart G. 
Waite '3 2, Connecticut Valley; Guilford 
C. Hathaway '99 and Arthur C. Durfee '22, 
Fall River; Frank O. Jones '97, Hartford; 
Frank E. Marble '05, Lynn; James S. East- 
ham '19, Merrimack \'alley; Roland H. Ford 
"28, New Hampshire; Arthur K. Litchfield 
'22 and Robert B, Dugan '33, New Haven; 
Harold W. Lord '20, Northern New Jersey: 
Everett Colby '97 and Ralph M. Palmer '10, 
New York; William P. Sheffield '15. New- 
port; Alexander T. Hindmarsh '19 and Fred 

A. Otis '03, Providence; Dr. David H. At- 
water "99, Rochester; George S. Ellis '94, 
Western Maine; Reginald M. Pease '21, 
Brown Engineering Association; Charles S. 
Barton '24, George E. Marble '00, 
Worcester; Woodworth L. Carpenter '29, 
'^oonsocket; Dr. Arthur Dcenn Call '96, 
Washington, D. C. The Alumni Secretary 
held the proxies of the Brown Clubs of Los 
Angeles, Alta California, and the Northwest 
(Seattle). 

The Alumni Trustees and other members 
of the Corporation included Frank E. 
Winsor '91, Donald B. Snyder, Claude R. 
Branch '07, Harold B. Tanner '09, James 
M. Pendleton '85, Z. Chafee '80, Thomas 

B. Appleget '17, Ralph M. Palmer '10, 
Albert L. Scott '00, Harold C. Field '94. 



Officers and directors of the Associated 
Alumni were Sidney Clifford 15, president; 
Alton C. Chick '19, treasurer; Arthur L. 
Philbrick '03, vice-president Rhode Island 
Region; James S. Eastham '19, Dr. Adolph 
W. Eckstein '25, Wayne M. Faunce '21, 
Henry C. Hart '01 (also Alumni Trustee), 
W. Easton Louttit, Jr. '25, George L. Miner 
'97, Nelson B. Jones '28, W. C. Worthing- 
ton "23, Theodore R. Jetfers '23. 

Guest members of the Council were Pres- 
ident Henry M. Wriston, Vice-President 
James P. Adams, Dean Samuel T. Arnold, 
Dean Edgar J. Lanpher, Dr. Charles H. 
Hare '85, Dr. Harlan P. Abbott '85, Robert 
Cushman '93, Herbert C. Low "01, Rev. 
Albert C. Thomas, D.D, '08, George S. 
Burgess '12, Edward T. Richards '27, J. 
Richmond Fales '10, Henry Salomon '02, 
Karl D. Gardner '13, Carleton D. Morse 
'13, A. Chester Snow '07. Earl M. Pearce 
'17, Joseph C. Hartwell '99, D. O. 
McLaughry, Stanton P. Nickerson '31. 

COMPLIMENTS AND LAMENTS 
► The Council unanimously adopted reso- 
lutions praising two of its alumni Trustees. 
They read as follows: 

"Few persons have been on more intimate 
terms with Brown University over the last 
half-century than Henry Robinson Palmer 
of the class of 1890. As editor of the 
Brox^'n Ali;mni Monthly for three dec- 
ades he was her staunch advocate and inter- 
preter. He knew her problems and helped 
solve some of them. He felt her traditions 
and was confident of her future, so often 
expressing that faith in poetry and song that 
he became the unofficial Poet Laureate of 
Brown. For six years he has contributed his 
loyalty and experience to the deliberations 
of the University Corporation, and upon his 
approaching retirement as an Alumni Trus- 



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THE CHEMICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY : As entisioned by the 
itrvhitt'ct. Its cornerstone wns laid early this month. 



tee, the Advisory Council of the Associated 
Alumni offer him their congratulations and 
their thanks." 

■'The Associated Alumni congratulate the 
Board of Fellows on the addition to their 
membership of Dr. W. Randolph Burgess 
of the class of 1912. He has contributed 
much to his Alma Mater by the direct appli- 
cation of his great abilities to its problems 
and to its prestige everywhere by his 
achievements in the affairs of the nation's 
banking system." 

The passing ot several loyal members of 
the University family was also memorialised 
by the resolutions committee, three mem- 
bers of the Faculty being: Dr. Harry Lyman 
Koopman, librarian emeritus; Dr. Harry E. 
Miller, Professor of Economics; and Dr 
Walter Goodnow Everett '85, Professor 
Emeritus. Another resolution lamented the 
death of Dr. George Coleman Gow '84, 
author of "On the Chapel Steps." The 
Resolutions Committee was made up of 
Arthur L. Philbrick '03, George L. Miner 
'97, and Wayne M. Faunce "21, who also 
bespoke the delegates' thanks to the Provi- 
dence Brown Club for its tender of hospital- 
ity to the visitors. 

The other resolutions follow ; 

► Dr. Harry Lyman Koopman. librarian 
emeritus, made books the companions and 
dehght of men who came to Brown over a 
long period of years. He inspired them b/ 
his great industry and by his capacity for 
friendship. His great joy in the exploration 
of such diverse fields as poetry, journalism, 
and astronomy fostered enthusiasm in 
others. The splendid library which he de- 
veloped was his achievement for Brown. A 
host of Brown alumni will cherish his mem- 
ory as long as life lasts. 

"Walter Goodnow Everett "85, instructor 
and Professor at Brown for 40 years and 
acting President a year; — On all of us who 
took his courses in ethics and philosophy he 
left strong imprint and in his quiet, con- 
siderate way taught us the value of good 
manners and sharpened our appreciation of 
the .standards of life that he himself so 
happily personified. 



"Dr. Harry Edward Miller, Eastman Pro- 
fessor of Political Economy, was for 1 3 years 
a member of the Brown Faculty, popular as 
a teacher, prominent as a lecturer and re- 
spected for his research and writing in eco- 
nomics. He loved teaching, he took a lively 
interest in his students; he was a fine exam- 
ple of a man striving earnestly and intelli- 
gently to do his best and to give his best in 
all things. 

"Dr. George Coleman Gow, 1884, who 
began his work here at Brown by writing 
the music for 'On the Chapel Steps,' most 
genuine ot college songs, completed his 
career with high honor as Professor of Music 
at Vassar College. No monument to an 
alumnus could be more enduring than the 
beautiful notes of this song of Brown which. 
'The braided branches of the elms 
In silence bend to hear 
.•\nd hoary walls and ancient halls 
Ring biick its tones of cheer.' " ^ ^ 

l\etv Directors at Large 

> A MTETlNt; of the Board of Directors of 
the Associated Alumni preceded the sessions 
of the Advisory Council. Among other acts 
of business, it approved formally the actions 
of the Executive Committee during the year 
past. It recommended to the Council the 
election of three directors-at-large, these 
recommendations being approved later and 
naming the following; Paul D. O'Brien '27, 
New York; John B. Applegate '23, Hobo- 
ken, N. J.; and Stanley M. Dore '20, Boston 

4 

Tiro Honorary Metnbers 

► The Board of Directors elected President 
Henry M. Wriston and Vice-President 
James P. Adams honorary members of the 
Associated Alumni under the by-laws which 
say that the Directors may "by a two-thirds 
vote confer honorary membership in the 
association upon any person who never 
having been a student in the University has 
received an honorary degree from the Uni- 
versity or has been a benefactor of the Uni- 
versity or of the Associated Alumni." The 
vote in each case was unanimous. i 



Sabbatic Adventures 

► ► Their sabbatic leaves for the first 
seme.ster ended. Prof. Charles W. Brown, 
chairman of the Department of Geology at 
Brown University, and Prof. Jacob D. 
Tamarkin of the Department of Mathe- 
matics returned to their classrooms and 
offices as the second semester began. 

Prof. James B. Hedges of the Depart- 
ment of History began his second semester 
sabbatic leave. Members of the faculty who 
are away for the entire year are Prof. Arthur 
E. Murphy of the Department of Philoso- 
phy, Prof. Albert E. Rand of the Depart- 
ment of Romance Languages and Litera- 
tures, Prof. Howard B. Grose and Prof. 
Leicester Bradner of the Department of 
English. 

Travelling more than 8,000 miles through 
the South, Prof. Brown spent the first 
semester making a survey of the economic 
geography of the southern mountain and 
coastal states. He visited TVA power plants 
in the Tennessee Valley, inspected mines, 
quarries, and mineralogical regions, and 
studied the coastal formations of Florida 
and Its keys. He brought back scores of 
specimens for laboratory purposes. 

Prof. Tamarkin spent most of the first 
semester at work m the mathematics library 
at Brown. He is writing a new book, to be 
published in Germany late this year, on the 
moment problem. Prof. Tamarkin was also 
busy with his work for the American Mathe- 
matical Society, He is chairman of the 
colloquium publications committee. 

Prof. Hedges plans to spend most of his 
sabbatic leave this semester in research with 
the manuscripts in the John Carter Brown 
Library at the university. He also expects to 
spend some time in Washington and in 
England to continue research on the com- 
mercial relations of the North American 
colonies with England during the Colonial 
period. i i 

Gale ISoyes Returns 

► A NEW member of the Department of 
English at Brown University, Prof. Robert 
Gale Noyes, took up his work as associate 
professor yesterday as the second semester 
began. He is the sixth new member of the 
faculty of professorial rank at Brown this 
year. 

His courses this semester are the freshman 
survey course in English literature, another 
on the 19th century novel, an honors group 
in the 18th century drama, and a seminar 
on Ben Jc)nson. 

A graduate of Brown in the class of 1921, 
Prof. Noyes comes from Harvard, where he 
has been since 1925, the year he was ap- 
pointed instructor in English and tutor. He 
was made senior tutor at Dunster House in 
19311 and was appointed assistant professor 
III English at Harvard last year. 

Prof. Noyes is a specialist in the restora- 
tion and ISth century drama. He is the 
;tuthor of numerous articles and of one book, 
"Ben Jonson on the English Stage, 1660- 
f 776." He IS now editing the manuscript 
plays of John Howard Payne, author of 
"Home, Sweet Home." He is a member of 
the Modern Language Association of 
America. i 

Poetry in the Afternoon 

> A PLEASANT custom was revived last 
month when the Department of English gave 
a series of public readings of lyrical and 
dramatic poetry in Faunce House Art Gal- 
lery on Sunday afternoons at 4 o"clock. 
First on the program was Professor Sharon 



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Brown who read the poetry of Robert Frost. 
Professor Thomas Crosby, Jr., dehghted his 
audience with an old favorite, "Romeo and 
Juhet," and Professor Benjamin W. Brown 
gave the modern viewpoint with Maxwell 
Anderson's "Winterset." On the first Sun- 
day in March, Theodore Morrison of Harv- 
ard, director of Bread Loaf Writers" Con- 
ference and author of "The Serpent in the 
Cloud" and "Notes of Death and Life" 
appeared in a reading of his own poems, i 

Racketeera in Labor 

> Harold Seidman "34, working for his 
Ph.D. in government at Yale, has written 
"Labor Czars," a history of labor racketeer- 
ing that Liveright will publish at the end 
of this month. Seidman is a former manag- 
ing editor of the Brown Daily Herald. He 
has also been on the staff of Tlie AJutum and 
has made first hand study ol labor rackets 
and racketeering. ^ 

SerenesI in Europe 

► The serenest country in Europe today is 
Luxembourg. Such, at least, is the nomina- 
tion of Marc T. Greene "03, the noted rover 
and writer. He makes out a convincing case 
for his thesis in describing the Duchy in the 
March issue of Travel Mu.gainic. i 



Renown and "'Renown" 

y y Into its second printing even before 
the publication date, went "Renown"" by 
Frank O. Hough "24, a novelised version 
of one of the most spectacular careers in all 
history —- that of Benedict Arnold. "This 
IS a novel of first importance, both for its 
historical content and its magnificent story,'" 
says one writer, of the book. 

Mr. Hough, a leader in Brown Club ac- 
tivities in Chicago and the Middle West, 
had a reason for turning to fiction in writ- 
ing about Arnold. He believes that no satis- 
factory biography of the general is likely to 
be written because the sources are "polluted 
by prejudice and hearsay."" The only valid 
interpretation, he feels, must come through 
the wider latitude that fiction permits. 

His book follows recorded history in 
essential detail and deviates only to contorm 
to the accepted standards of the novel. The 
result is a very different interpretation ol 
the man from that commonly held. 

The novelist spent years studying lus 
leading character and shows in an exciting 
narrative how the hero of Saratoga, called 
by many the most important American vic- 
tory during the war, came to betray his 
country. Something of this was shown m 



Kenneth Roberts" "Rabble in Arms,'" but 
Mr. Hough fulfills the possibilities shown 
only briefly with regard to Arnold in the 
other fine work. 

Nor does "Renown"" stop with the be- 
trayal. Arnold"s later career, in England, 
the West Indies, and the raw frontier town 
of St. John, New Brunswick, gets attention 
here which it has always merited but never 
received. And there is the touching love 
story of his romance with Peggy Shippcn. 

"Arnold was a man pursued always by a 
strange malevolence, now hidden, now open, 
and It took his superb abilities as a soldier 
to keep above the dark tide that finally en- 
gulfed even his hardy spirit — but only at 
the end. Almost to the last, even though an 
outcast from his native land, overwhelmed 
with debts and sinking into obscurity, he 
could hear the drums and bugles that would 
recall him to his high destiny — renown. 
Yet there remains to mark his stormy passage 
only a few historical sign posts, the empty 
niche in the battle monument at Saratoga 
and a place in the hearts of his countrymen 
on the right hand of Judas Iscariot." ( Pub- 
lished March 14 by Carrick 6? Evans. Pp. 
497. $2.50.) i i 



The Associated Alumni of Brown < < 



Providence 

► ► Members of the Providence Brown 
Club saw the Brown Gymnasium from top 
to bottom on the occasion of the club"s an- 
nual meeting and cheered a lively program 
of athletics arranged to demonstrate some oi 
the winter activities there. Climax of the 
show on February 23rd was a basketball 
thriller in which the smart, confident Fresh- 
man quintet refused to be awed by the 
Varsity and beat it. 

Fred A. Otis "03 was elected President of 
the club for the coming year, other choices 
being: Vice-President and Chairman of the 
Executive Committee — Edward T. Richards 
"27; Secretary — Nelson J. Conlong "28; 
Treasurer — T. Robley Louttit "31; Execu- 
tive Committee — Edward H. Weeks "93, 
Joseph C. Hartwell "99, Donald LeStagc '01, 
Henry C. Hart '01, Henry Salomon "02, 
J. Richmond Fales '10, Herbert E. Easton 
'11, Brenton G. Smith '11, Walter Adler 
'18, Alexander T. Hindmarsh '19, Frederick 
Schoeneweiss '20, William Stanley Barrett 
'21, Robert H. Goff '24, W. E. Louttit, Jr. 
'25 Mason B. Merchant '25, Nelson B. 
Jones '28, William J. Gilbane '33, and 
Albert Frederick Haas, Jr. 34. 

Publication of a club news bulletin at fre- 
quent intervals was forecast in a subcom- 
mittee report, while Mr. Conlong told ol 
efforts made to give members the use of the 
Lyman Gym and the Colgate-Hoyt pool one 
night a week. Under an arrangement being 
completed Ross Browning would be on hand 
to direct general calisthenics, while there 
would also be basketball, volleyball, bad- 
minton, track, and other informal sports, 
possibly organized in league competition in 
some instances. A golf tournament is an 
event scheduled for the late spring. 

President Wriston brought the greetings 
of the University in brief, vigorous fashion 
during the business meeting. (He, Vice- 



President Adams, and Dean Arnold showed 
that they could still shoot a basket hiter 
in the evening, too.) A report that sliowed 
how active the club had been during the past 
year was read lor President Hindmarsh by 
lormer President Earl M. Pearce 17. 

Coach Dick Cole and four ol his well- 
matched wrestlers demonstrated the science 
of their sport before putting on two in- 
decisive matches. Two boxing bouts were 
sponsored by Coach McLaughry and rcter- 
eed by Bill Gilbane, while four ol the var- 
sity fencers demonstrated the epee, saber, 
and foil in matches between the halves of 
the spectacular basketball game. Before the 
latter event Coach Kahler described the rule 
changes. 



250 Years on the Pennypack 

y Does the name of the Pennypack 
Church at Bustletown, Pa., mean 
anything to you? It should, par- 
ticularly since it was 250 years old 
in January. 

It was founded in 1688 by a dozen 
men and women, who gave it its first 
name of Lower Dublin Baptist 
Church. The graves of many 
friendly Indians may be found in its 
"God's Acre" on the banks ol the 
lovely Pennypack River. 

"From the influence of the mem- 
bers of this church sprang Brown 
University and Bucknell University, 
and to a large extent was the Baptist 
faith brought to New Jersey, Dela- 
ware, and Maryland,"" says the 
Moorestown, N. J. Chronicle. The 
formal celebration of the sesqui- 
centennial will not be held ur.til 
June. ^ 



The Brown Club of Providence has un- 
dertaken a membership drive under the 
leadership of Brent Smith. Ed Richards has 
been named editor of the first issue of the 
Brown Club News, with Robley Louttit and 
Walter G. Ensign "29 assisting him. 

Cranston High School won the Brown 
Club Trophy by taking the Rhode Island 
High School championship honors in foot- 
ball last fall. The cup was presented at a 
celebration dinner, it was announced at the 
February meeting, and will be held perma- 
nently by the school which first wins it three 
times. \ 

!Sew York 

y y An excellent program all-Brown in its 
makeup and more substance than shadow in 
the speeches combined to give the 70th 
annual dinner of Brown alumni in New 
York a strong and quickening appeal. The 
scene was the Hotel Roosevelt, the date was 
Wednesday, Feb. 16, and more than 200 
alumni were present to hear President Wris- 
ton, Dr. John H. Williams "12 of Harvard 
and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York 
and Surrogate Charles D. Millard "97 ot 
Westchester County. 

Charles Evans Hughes, Jr. "09 was toast- 
master, and Ralph M. Palmer "10, vice pres- 
ident of the Brown University Club in New 
York presided in the enforced absence of 
Everett Colby "97, president. At the head 
table in addition to the program headliners 
were William R. Dorman "92, Edwin Farn- 
ham Greene "01, Albert L. Scott "00, Harold 
B. Tanner "09 and Hugh W. MacNair "17 
of the Corporation; Dean Samuel T. Arnold 
"13 and A. H. Gurney '07, Alumni Sec- 
retary. 

Dr. Williams, one of the world's monetary 
authorities, told the story of the present 
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the hackgniund resulting from the World 
War and after and then sketching in clear 
and effective fashion the economic down- 
swing and upswing in this country from 
192y to the present. In four months, from 
October, 1937, to February, 1938, he said, 
it would appear that most of the ground 
gained in the three pervious years had been 
lost. The speed of the setback had most 
economists gasping, and it was somewhat 
difficult to account lor it in any logical way. 
As a practical economist he made no proph- 
ecies. Nor did he indulge in any optimistic 
generalities. Your correspondent, like others 
at the dinner, found pleasure in Dr. Wil- 
liams" quiet, matter-of-fact method of pre- 
sentation and in his knowledge of his 
subject. 

President Wriston, a hard man tor any 
reporter to follow because the reporter finds 
listening so much more interesting than 
taking notes, began with the positive state- 
ment that it was time that Americans 
stopped lighting rear guard actions and took 
the offensive. He told of the changes at 
Brown, the new chemical research labora- 
tory, the plan for the infirmary to be called 
Andrews House, the gift of $100,000 
toward the restoration of University Hall, 
the new Faculty Club, the gift of the Ames 
house as a place of residence of bachelor 
Faculty members. He praised the Brown 
Club in New York for its work in helping 
select applicants for admission and described 
the comprehensive tests to measure what 
Seniors "know today, rather than what they 
have known — what they have retained and 
have available as current resources," and 
said that Brown would be the first college 
to give these tests to undergraduates. He 
cited Brown as a pioneer in intelligence test- 
ing and in other categories and again em- 
phasized Brown's place and policy as a 
liberal college trying to give the best educa- 
tion possible to the best students available. 

Surrogate Millard, one of Brown's speedy 
halfbacks 40 years ago, recalled those days 
when football players wore their hair long 
and made the flying wedge a fearsome thing. 
He gave a graphic picture of Lincoln Field 
in Its football and baseball heyday and re- 
counted some of his experiences there. He 
mentioned, too, his years in public life at 
home and in Congress and wittily touched 
upon his new career as Surrogate. A delight- 
ful talk, amiably done. 

Surprise of the evening was when Ralph 
Palmer called Joseph A. O'Neil "31 to the 
head table and gave him, on behalf of the 
Brown Club, a gold wrist watch and a 
cheque in appreciation of his six years as 
executive secretary of the Club. Palmer's 
.story of Joe"s work was dramatically told 
and .loe was all blushes as he went back tu 
his table to the applause of his fellow alumni. 
The Princeton Club has also shown its ap- 
preciation of Joe"s fine service. i 

Albany-Troy 

^ Sixteen alumni, taking advantage of Dr. 
Bruce M. Bigelow's visit to Albany the last 
day of January, entertained him at dinner 
at the University Club and enjoyed a sjii 
itcd hour and more of round table discussion 
regarding various phases of life on the Hil'. 
Furber Marshall "19, president of the Brown 
Club of Albany. Schenectady and Troy, 
and Robert Forster '03 made arrangements. 
During the day Dr. Bigelow visited 
Albany High School and Albany Academy. 
At luncheon he was guest of Charles S. 
Stedman "96, member of the University 
Corporation, at the Fort Orange Club. 



At dinner were Messrs. C. S. Aldrich "94, 
C. S. Stedman "96, Robert Forster "03, Dr. 
Harry W. Hastings "04, Dr. Harold W. 
Lyall "08, H. E. Pratt "11, Dr. R. Stanley 
Thomson '12, W. J. Ross '19, President 
Marshall, E. B. Stringham '20, D. A. Midg- 
ley '23, W. S. Stedman '27, R. S. Walter 
'31, H. S. Butler "32, S, Vint Van Derzee 
'3 2, J. S. Redmond "3 2. All the alumni were 
from Albany or Troy. Where was Schenec- 
tady? < 




DR. BIGELOW: 

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vorth 



Alia California 

► Two records were established at the 
annual dinner meeting of the Brown Club 
of Alta California held at the University 
Club, San Francisco, on Lincoln's Birthday. 
The first was the presence of 20 alumni, 
the largest gathering in the history of the 
Club. The second was the receipt of 26 
replies following the sending of announce- 
ments to 36 alumni. This is a national 
record. 

We welcomed with joy the presence of 
our oldest member, George F. Weston '78, 
who was unable to be with us last year 
on account of illness, but returned this 
year in the best of health and spirits. He 
spoke to us most charmingly. An interest- 
ing account of the athletic situation at 
Brown was given by Col. LeRoy Bartlett 
'02. Dr. Stacy R. Warburton '98 reviewed 
his biography of Adoniram Judson, Brown 
1807, which the Brown Ah-mni 
Monthly has highly praised, and Dr. 
Cardinal Goodwin '05 of Mills College 
discu.ssed his recent book on General John 
C. Fremont, soldier and explorer. The last 
speaker was Dr. Alexander Meiklcjohn '93 
whose candid and provocative discussion 
of the American scene held most of us for 
an additional hour of question and answer. 

Our President, Nathaniel Blaisdell '83. 
presided in his usual urbane and effective 
manner, and received the thanks of the 
Club for providing the delightful table 
ornaments and liquid refreshments of vari- 
ous sorts. He was unanimously re-elected 
president for this year and George C. 
Channing '11 was chosen secretary-treas- 
urer to succeed T. Harper Goodspeed "09. 
During the dinner a telegram of greetings 



from Brown to the Brown Club of Alta 
California was read and a toast was drunk 
to President Wriston, Vice President 
Adams, the Alumni Secretary and other 
members of the Brown family on College 
Hill. 

The following alumni were present: 
Austin K. Allen '04, Colonel Bartlett, Mr. 
Blaisdell, David L. Bruce '08, George C. 
Channing '11, Haven A. Cobb '08, Harvey 
G. Denham '15, Dr. T. Harper Good- 
speed 09, Dr. Goodwin, Clare S. Johns- 
ton 'II, F. Marshall Jencks '11, Dr. 
Meiklejohn, Samuel Lyman Mitchell '12, 
Fremont E. Roper 'II, Dr. Warburton, 
George F. Weston '78, Stewart D. Weston 
08, Trueman D. Woodbury '03, John J. 
Rock '24, Edward F. Estberg '34. 

T. H. S. < 
Syracuse 
> Dr. Brlce M. Bigelow, Director of 
Admissions, put in a full day at Syracuse 
im February first when he spoke at Central 
High School, Pebble Hill School and Man- 
lius School and then sat down to dinner 
at the University Club with the Brown 
Club of Syracuse and told the Club of the 
story of Brown today. 

After dinner H. Duanc Bruce '07 took 
the chair and in turn called upon Rev. 
Benjamin L. Herr '82, dean of alumni in 
the Syracuse sector, A. Dean Dudley "02, 
president of the Syracuse Lighting Com- 
pany, and Dr. Bigelow. Mr. Herr spoke 
graciously of the Brown he knew and of 
Brown men he had known through the 
years. Dean Dudleys topic was the Brown 
Alumni Fund, and Dudley later organised a 
committee to make contacts with Brown 
men in the Central New York area. In- 
deed, each man at the dinner agreed to 
canvass either in person or by mail five 
or six other Brunonians. 

Dr. Bigelow brought everybody to date 
on news from the Hill, telling in particular 
of President Wriston"s work of which the 
alumni, our correspondent wrote, "were 
plenty eager to hear." The hope was that 
President Wriston would visit Syracuse 
as soon as he could conveniently arrange 
to do so. Our correspondent concluded: 
"We are always glad to see Bruce and 
judge from his activity here that he is 
doing a wonderful job." 

Present in addition to the men named 
above were H. C. Newton '95, R. D. Cady 
'05 and Arthur J. Zaia '34, Oswego; 
George Campbell 07, Albany; W. Cornell 
Blanding '02, William Allan Dyer "86, 
William A. Dyer, Jr., "24, Barnaby Mc- 
Auslan "22, Richard D. Greene '22, Philip 
C. Ciciarelli '35 and Earle C. Drake '24. 

i 
Buffalo 
y "On Thursd.\y evening. Feb. 3, we had 
the distinct pleasure of meeting and hear- 
ing Dr. Bruce M. Bigelow "24 again,"" wrote 
Corwin Y. Matlock "3 3, secretary of the 
Brown Club ot Buffalo. ""It is always a 
treat to have him with us and always a 
visit worth waiting for. 

"This year President William M. Fay '18 
and Mrs. Fay invited the Club to meet at 
their house, 714 Parkside Avenue. The 
invitation was a thoughtful one, and our 
hosts know how greatly we appreciate 
their hospitality. The gathering had the 
right Brown tempo and Bruce was at his 
best." 

In the party were Dr. Harry W. Rock- 
well '03, president of New- Y'ork State 
Teachers College at Buffalo, Dr. Ernest M. 
Watson '07, Stanley P. Marsh '12 and 



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Mrs. Marsh, Stanley G. Warner '20 and 
Mrs. Warner, C. Carlton Parker "13 and 
Mrs. Parker. Elton M. Adye '92 of Nichols 
School. R. R. (Bob) Chase '33, David C. 
Moore 3rd "34. Karl E. Righter '36. Eliza- 
beth L. Saunders '28. Pembroke College, 
Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Hunt and Mr. and Mrs. 
Karl G. Kaffenberger, whose sons arc now 
at Brown. 

The Club re-elected Fay president and 
Matlock secretary. i 

All-Conneclicul 

► ► For the first time in the history of 
the Associated Alumni an all-Connecticut 
Brown meeting will be held in New Haven. 
Thursday. March 24. with President Henry 
M. Wriston as guest of honor. President 
Arthur K. Litchlield '22 and Secretary 
Robert B. Dugan '3 3 of the Brown Club 
of New Haven and President Allton 



Greene 1 1 and Secretary Milton H. Glover 
"22 of the Brown Club of Hartford are 
working together to make the meeting the 
largest in Brown annals in the Nutmeg 
State. 

The Alumni Office will co-operate to the 
extent of trying to make contact with every 
Brown man m Connecticut, and the hope 
IS that there will he representatives con- 
verging on New Haven from every place 
in the State where Brown men live. 

President Wriston. well known in Con- 
necticut because of his years of teaching at 
Wesleyan. will at this meeting in New 
Haven make his first speech in Connecticut 
since he became head of Brown. The occa- 
sion will therefore be an hi.storic one. And 
the Brown Club committees arc doing 
everything possible to bring all Brown men 
in the State together for a memorable 
rally. i 



Brunonians Far and Near 



BY A. H GURNEY 



188.3 

> ► Nathanial Blaisdkll has been re- 
elected president of the Brown Club of 
Alta California, which takes in all of upper 
Calitornia with San Francisco, Oakland, 
Berkeley as the best known cities. 

1891 

The Class continued its notable custom 
of holding a mid-winter reunion as well 
as one at Commencement time each year 
by meeting in Providence at the Hope 
Club on the evening of February 14th, 
Plans for tlie June gathering of the Class 
were seen f) be in competent hands. 

From classmates unable to be present 
came cordial greetings, and one of many 
pleasant leatures of the evening was the 
receipt nl valentines from Jo.seph N, Ash- 
ton ol .'\ndover. who was absent through 
illness. The Reverend C. A. Meader pre- 
sided, while grace was offered by the 
Reverend Leo B. Thomas of Cambridge. 
Other class officers present were Secre- 
tary Frank L. Hinckley and Treasurer 
Edw:n A. Barrows, and the following 
other members of '91: Dr. James L. 
Wheaton of Pawtucket, Dr. Arthur L. 
Beals of Brockton, George J. Holden. 
Charles M. Perry. Arthur H. Colby. 
William Howard Paine. Samuel A. Everett, 
and Frank E. Winsor of Boston. 

1892 

Charles H. Merriman has been elected 
p:c,'ident of Butler Hospital Corporation to 
'uccecd the late Lauri.ston H. Flazard "89. 

The sympathy of the class is gA'en in 
full measure to the family of our classmate. 
Horatio E. Bellows, who died in Provi- 
dence. Feb. 19. 1938. An account of his 
career will appear in the April issue of the 
Brown Alumni Monthly. 

1894 

Chancellor Henry D. Sharpe has been 
re elected chairman of the board of direc- 
tors of the Providence Community Fund 
of which he was a founder. 

The Parent Teacher Association of 
School No. 26 in Indianapolis. Ind., in- 
tends to petition the Indianapolis School 
Board to name the school after the late 
John Hope, president of Atlanta Univer- 





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sity and one of the great Negro educators 
of the past 50 years. 

George S. Ellis finds plenty to do to keep 
him busy in h s retirement. He was the 
dean of Beta Theta Pi men at a recent 
anniversary dinner of the fraternity in 
Portland, Me., and last month he returned 
to the campus as representative of the 
Brown Club of Western Maine to the Ad- 
visory Council of the Associated Alumni. 
His camera and his dark room occupy 
many of his hours. 

The Alumni Office has received news of 
the death of Henry A. Monroe, former 
member of the Class, in Sunnyside, L. I., 
Ian. 7, 1938. Monroe, member of Theta 
Delta Chi, was a native of Providence and 
was broker and manufacturing jeweler 
after leaving college. In recent years efforts 
of classmates and the Alumni Office to 
make contact with him had been un- 
successful. 

1895 

William T, O'Donnell has been reap- 
pointed by Governor Robert E. Qninn '15 
■IS Justice of the Fifth Judicial Court of 
Rhode Island for the term ending in Fcb- 
luary. 1941. The Fifth District includes 
all ot Bristol County. 

Henry E. Cooper and Mrs. Cooper of 
New York have been spending the winter 
sea.son at the Hotel Ponce de Leon. 
St. Augustine, Fla. 



1897 

Dr. H. W. N. Bennett has begun his 
fifth term as a member of the Manchester. 
N. H.. School Board. During the past two 
years he has served on the finance commit- 
tee and as chairman of the athletic coun 
cil of Manchester Central High School. 

John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and Mrs. Rock- 
efeller have moved from their graystonc 
house at 10 West 54th Street to 740 Park 
Avenue at 7 1st Street, New York City. 
Thus, as the 'H.ew Tori; Herald Tribune 
said, for the first time in 54 years there is 
now no Rockefeller residence on the 54th 
Street block between Fifth and Sixth Ave- 
nues. The house at 10 West 54th was built 
in 1912, next to the house of John D. 
Rockefeller, Sr., who moved to the street 
in 1884. On its site will be the garden of 
the new Museum of Modern Art. 

H. H. Utley of Baxter Springs, Kansas, 
is the new chairman ot the Tn-State Sec- 
tion, American Institute of Mining and 
Metallurgical Engineers. The section takes 
in Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma. Utley, who 
IS general superintendent of St. Louis 
Smelting and llefining Company, was del- 
egate from the section to the national 
meeting of the institute in New York last 
month. 

Dr. Arthur Hollingworth has changed 
his address from Providence to North 
Scituate. 

Your Secretary, through the Alumni 
Office, has received report of the death of 
Thomas J. Brady, former member of the 
Class and well known as a baseball player, 
in Oak Bluffs, Ma.ss., Feb. 10, 1938. Brady, 
whose mail address had been lacking for 
several years, had removed to Oak Bluffs 
Irom his old home city of New Bedford. 

Dr. William S. Learned of the Carnegie 
Foundation lor the Advancement of Teach- 
ing spent a busy week end on the Brown 
campus last month discussing \\'ith members 
ol the Faculty the question of examina- 
tions. He spoke in Faunce House Theatre 
on the subject, talked with administrative 
heads at lunch and also carried on conver- 
sations after lunch. His work in the field 
of examinations is nationally known and 
admired. 

James H. Arthur and Mrs. Arthur left 
Providence late last month for a motor 
trip, with Sea Island, Ga., as their stop 
farthest south. 

1898 
► The first notice of the 40th Reunion 
next June, the handiwork of Frederick W. 
Arnold in his happy vein, has gone out, 
and replies are coming in. The dates will 
be June 17, 18, 19, 20. from Friday eve- 
ning through Monday. Dwight K. Bartlett 
is chairman of the Reunion Committee; 
Judge Henry D. C. Dubois is treasurer; 
and other members are Richard R. Hunter. 
William R. Morse. Dennis F. O'Brien, 
James S. .Mien, William A, .Slade, David 



"Rare Gentlemen'' 

► "I HAD a pleasant luncheon with 
George M. Cohan and his friend 
Dennis O'Brien (Brown 1898)," 
writes Charles B. Driscoll in his page 
of personalia called "If I Dare Say 
So" in the February issue of The 
Judge. 

He described them as "both rare 
gentlemen who win friends and in- 
fluence people without any formulae 
or hokum." i 



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L. Fult;, Dr. Albert A. Barrows, Howard 
B. Gnrhani and Fred Arnold. 

Dr. Edward S. Gushec ha.'i become a 
member of the vestry of St. Paul's Epis- 
copal Church, Wallingford, Conn. Dr. 
Gushec's father, the late Rev. Edward M. 
Gushec *58. was a former rector and was 
designer of the present stately Gothic edi- 
fice of St. Paul's. 

Luke J Kavanaugh is Deputy Attorney 
General for the State of Colorado. His 
present mail address is 643 Gaylord Street, 
Denver. 

Professor C. H. Currier and Mrs. Currier 
are living at 90 Savoy Street, Providence. 

1899 

Dr. Hiram Kellogg Johnson, only son of 
Severance Johnson, of the staff of Rockland 
State Hospital, Orangeburg, N. Y., became 
on Jan. 25, 1938, the father of a second 
son, who has been named James Brainard 
Johnson. His first son is Severance Kellogg 
Johnson, named for our classmate who lives 
at 154-70 Seventh Avenue, Whitcstone, 
N. Y., and whose career as writer and 
editor with the ?^ew Tori; Herald Tribinic 
and T^ew Tor^ American covers many 
years. 

Oscar A. Card has changed his address 
from Providence to 22 Elm Road, Scars- 
dale, N. Y. 



Foi>th(iirs Serraiit 

► David L. Fl'ltz '98 is a member 
o) the committee of the Touchdown 
Club, New York, that, beginning 
next fall, will make an annual award 
"to the individual who has rendered 
an unusual service or made an out- 
standing contribution of permanent 
value to the game ot football. The 
Touchdown Club's principle of pro- 
moting the best interests of the game 
of football shall serve as a guiding 
influence" i 



1900 

Frank W. Campbell has removed his law 
office from 27 State Street to 215 Barristers 
Hall, Boston. 

1901 

Rev. Irving J. Enslin, after a long pastor- 
ate in Derry, N. H., has become minister 
of the Baptist Church in Litchfield, Conn., 
where he lives at 91 West Street. 

Halley T. Waller's new mail address is 
1 23 North Portage Path, Akron, O. Waller 
is still on duty with Northwestern Mutual 
Life Insurance Company. 

Dr. Warren B. .Sanborn, lormer super- 
intendent of Rhode Island State Home and 
School, is living at 81 County Road, Bar- 
rington. 

Joseph F. J. McCarthy, special student 
with the Class in Freshman year, died in 
Providence Jan. 27, 193 8. He was a mem- 
ber of the firm of D. F. McCarthy 6? Son, 
undertakers. 

1902 

S. Foster Hunt has been elected to the 
hoard of directors of the Providence Com- 
munity Fund- 
Seen at the Brown dinner in New York 
Feb. 16 were Dr. William A. Hill, Samuel 
Cohen, S. A. Moffat and J. Cunliffe Bullock, 
who was in the city at the time attending 
a bankers' meeting. 

190,3 

► Rhooe Island Country Club will be 



Approprinte Winner 

► A Florida golf tournament named 
for one Brunonian was appropriately 
won by another on March 2nd when 
John A. Gammons '98, former 
Rhode Island State amateur cham- 
pion, won the W. W. Wyckoff 
Trophy at Sebring. Daff used only 
24 putts on the 18 holes, according 
to the newspaper account. Wyckon, 
a member of the class of '99, was a 
college contemporary of the winner. 



the scene of the 3 5th Reunion, June 17, 1 8, 
19, and responses to the first letter sent out 
by your Class Secretary indicate that the re- 
union will be a big one. The program, 
mailed late in February, is a masterpiece 
that other reunion committees might look 
at and imitate. There will be more about 
this in later issues of the Brown All'MNi 
Monthly. 

Lester E. Dodge, J. Edward Quinn and 
Edward N. White got together at the 
Brown dinner in New York on Feb. 16 to 
talk about the June reunion. 

William R. Lawton, architect, reports a 
change of address from Hingham to 83 
Merriam Street, Lexington, Mass. 
1906 

Charles A. Lundell has been fulfilling 
one of his old ambitions to spend a winter 
in Maine. He went to Thomaston several 
months ago, settled on a 40-acre farm about 
two miles from town, and began to live the 
contemplative life, as he has dreamed of it. 
Of course he couldn't get along without a 
piano. And in a letter to Arthur F. Driscoll 
he confessed that he had picked up an 
accordion and learned to play it in his 
leisure moments. 

Rev. Walter E. Woodbury, secretary of 
evangelism of the American Baptist Home 
Mission Society, was in Minneapolis last 
month for a two-day conference with 
Minnesota ministers. 

George G. Shor of the editorial staff ol 
Tile American Wee/(ly. Henry G. Carpen- 
ter, Arthur F. Driscoll and A. Fabian 
Swanson were the '06 representatives at 
the Brown dinner in New York Feb. 16. 
Alexander Graham, in Florida for the win- 
ter, Charles C. Tillingha,st, T. W. Prcstwich 
and several other regulars sent their best 
wishes, regretting that they couldn't be 
there. 

Lanning Myers has begun a five-year 
term as superintendent of schools of Wild- 
wood, N. J. He is a former principal ol 
Wildwood High School and since Septem- 
ber. 1936, has been teacher of English and 
commercial law. For nearly 1 5 years he has 
also served as editor ol the WiMtcood 
Tribime-JoitrTidl and has been prominent in 
CIVIC and social work. As president of the 
Cape May County Chamber of Commerce 
he was in.strumental in establishing the 
Cape May County Library and was a mem- 
ber of the first library commission. His 
wife and his three children are all graduates 
of the Wildwood schools; and his father 
was supervising principal in Wildwood for 
nine years. 

Frank D. O'Reilly's son, Frank D. 
O'Reilly, Jr., and Miss Margaret Harman 
were married in Lock Haven, Pa., Nov. 25, 
1937. O'Reilly, Jr., is a.ssociated with his 
father, publisher of the Loc/; Hai'eri Express. 
1907 

Alfred William Dickinson, son of the late 



A. W. Dickinson and Mrs. Dickinson of 
Newton, Mass., and Willard R. Thurlow, 
son of Harry H. Thurlow and Mrs. Thurlow 
of East Providence, have been elected to 
Phi Beta Kappa at Brown. Dickinson is 
a Senior and is well known as a soccer 
player. Thurlow, a Junior, has al.so been 
named to Sigma Xi, and is the only Junior 
on the Hill to win membership in the two 
honorary societies. 

H. B. Keen, Lee H. White, Rev. Oscar 
Maddaus, William P. Burnham and A. H. 
Gurney met at the Brown dinner in New 
York Feb. 16 for reunion. Burnham was in 
the city on business and Gurney was present 
as Alumni Secretary. 

Frederick W. Lane is resident manager 
of the Pioneer Mill of the American Woolen 
Company in Pittsfield, Me. 

Thomas L. Heffcrnan, seriously injured 
late in January when he was hit by a motor 
car in Jackson, Miss., is recovering, accord- 
ing to word received as this was written. 
Jack Curran said that Tom was taken to 
Baptist Hospital in Jackson and that pneu- 
monia set in shortly after the accident. For 
a time Tom's life was in the balance. 

Henry G. Clark, general chairman of the 
1937 Providence Community Fund cam- 
paign, has become a member of the Fund's 
board of directors. At the annual meeting 
last month Shan received a framed key to 
Needville as a souvenir of his campaign 
and as a token from his colleagues for his 
effective work. 

1908 

Lt. Col. S. S. Wmslow, Q.M.C., U. S. A., 
is now with Headquarters, Hawaiian De- 
partment, Fort Shafter, Honolulu. He went 
there last month from Langley Field, Va. 

The Manchester. N. H., Leader recently 
ran an illustrated news story showing the 
new gauging station of the Manchester 
Water Department, of which Percy A. 
Shaw is superintendent, and the stone and 
concrete dam which replaces a wooden dam 
built 150 years ago. Station and dam are 
located on property at Auburn village for- 
merly belonging to the Griffin family which 
has owned land in the neighborhood since 
1815, according to records that Shaw found 
in looking up titles. 

Anybody in the Class read as yet Harlan 
T. Stetson's interesting book, "Sun Spots 
and Their Effects. From the Human Point 
of View," which Whittlesey House brought 
out late in December? The reviewers have 
spoken highly of it, citing Stetson as a 
scientist ot repute, careful and sane in his 
opinions and conclusions and frank to admit 
that he still has a lot to learn about the 
science ol sunspots. As Lewis Gannett said 
in the ^iew TorJj Hera\d Tnhune, if Stet- 
son's "estimates, based on the observed sun- 
spot cycles ot almost two centuries ago, are 
right, 1938 is likely to be the biggest sun- 
spot year since 1870." 

Hill Griffith came down from Sugar Hill, 
N. H., last month with Mrs. Griffith who 
underwent a major operation at Homeo- 
pathic Hospital with Dr. Robert H. Whit- 
marsh '09 as surgeon in charge. During 
his stay Griff had lunch with Professor 
Leslie E. Swain and A. H. Gurney '07 at 
the Faculty Club and called on other col- 
lege friends in Providence. We are happy 
to report that Mrs. Griffith is back at home 
in Sugar Hill rapidly recovering and that 
Griff hopes to be here for the 30th Reunion 
in June. 

Professor Leslie E. Swain was a member 
of the organizing committee for the forma- 
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"Punch Drunk" Collegians 

► College boxing "often leads to 
student 'punch drunkenness," " it 
was charged in March by Dr. David 
C. Hall '01, director of the University 
of Washington health service. His 
statement advocating that college 
boxing be abolished was widely car- 
ried by the Associated Press under a 
Seattle date-line and attracted 
marked attention. 

The Washington campus physi- 
cian, identified in the news stories as 
a former middleweight boxing and 
wrestling champion at Brown Uni- 
versity, said : 

"Any sport, the object of which is 
to render an opponent unconscious 
is fundamentally wrong and should 
be dropped. The more acute the in- 
tellect, the more susceptible is the 
brain to injury. Blows to the head 
cause small hemorrhages of the 
brain. Continued concussions . . . 
finally result in 'punch drunken- 
ness.' " ^ 



Union and served on the nominating com- 
mittee which presented the first slate ol 
officers for the society. 

1909 

We have received the following address 
changes which we suggest each classmate 
record in his class list of addresses: Eddie 
Mayer, Room 1825, One LaSalle Street, 
Chicago; Hank Weil, 7115 Rich Hill Road, 
Baltimore, Md.: Clarence M. Whipple, 
2929 Connecticut Avenue, Washington, 
D. C. 

On Armistice Day, 19J7, the American 
Legion at Rockland, Me., dedicated a 
square in the city in the name of our 
classmate, Walter H. Butler. At the cere- 
mony there were speeches by the Com- 
mander of the American Legion Post and 
the Mayor of Rockland. Mrs. Butler and 
her son Walter were presented with Amer- 
ican flags. 

On exhibition at the Providence Plan- 
tations Club during the month of February 
was a series of etchings by Johnny Wells, 
who has taken up painting and etching 
purely as an avocation to his duties as vice 
president of Rhode Island Hospital Trust 
Company and Rhode Lsland National Bank. 
It is also rumored that John still knows 
what is the current world's record for the 
mile run. 

Manton Chace had an interesting inter- 
view in the Providence Evenmn BuUetm 
not long ago describing his efforts to 
referee a basketball game between Rogers 
High School of Newport and East Green- 
wich Academy at East Greenwich some 
years ago, with rowdy spectators making 
life miserable. Pick escaped intact, feeling 
all the sensations of the big league umpire 
who has made an unpopular decision and 
who sticks to it while the mob howls 
around him and at him. 

Don Clark is now a playwright, his two- 
act comedy, "The Country Store, 1938 
Edition," having been produced by the 
Men's Bible Class of the Fourth Baptist 
Church, Providence, Feb. 22 and 23. Don 
is teacher of the class, one of the largest 
in southern New England. His comedy, the 
setting of which Don took from his boy- 



hood days in Maine, is a satire on the 
political situation in the city, State and 
nation and well known political figures are 
the leading characters. 

1910 

W. W. Greene, vice president and secre- 
tary of General Reinsurance Corporation, 
was chairman of the committee that put on 
the successful annual dinner of the Brown 
alumni in New York at the Hotel Roose- 
velt Feb. 16. Among the '10 men present 
to cheer him on were Max Barus, John C. 
Hennessy and Ralph M. Palmer, vice presi- 
dent of the Brown University Club in 
New York. 

Rev. Clifton H. Walcott will soon begin 
his 13th year as minister of the First Bap- 
tist Church, Lincoln, Neb., which has a 
large student group from the University ot 
Nebraska and which is one of the influen- 
tial Baptist churches in the Middle West. 
Walcott's son, David, is nearly of college 
age. 

John C. Hennessy, chief engineer for 
MacArthur Concrete Pile Corporation, has 
his office at 9 Rockefeller Plaza, New York 
City. Jack and Harold A. Swaffield con- 
tinue to be the most active Brown men 
now serving as football officials. Swaffield 
IS also prominent as a basketball referee. 

Dr. Richard D. Allen, assistant super- 
intendent of schools. Providence, was a 
principal speaker at the forum discussing 
youth problems at the 68th annual conven- 
tion of the American Association of School 
Administrators in Atlantic City early this 
month. 

1912 

Willard F. (Bill) Gordon is now in his 
tenth years as Justice ol the Peace ol 
Rankin County, Mississippi. Bill's planta- 
tion IS at Florence, where he has been 
living since 1916. 

D. Robert Mahoncy's new address, Henry 
G, Marsh tells us, is Tomball, Harris 
County, Tex. 



Andrew D. White, special student with 
the Class, has sold several articles and 
earned points toward a degree as a result 
of a course m short story writing taken at 
Columbia. Andy suffered a serious injury 
in 1936 to his right leg and ankle and 
while recuperating he took up study of 
short story technique. 

Wiley H. Marble, who came back to the 
campus last month to sit in at the meetings 
of the Advisory Council as a past presi- 
dent of the Associated Alumni, is with the 
Ben)amin W. Ayres Agency of the State 
Mutual Life Assurance Company at 820 
State Mutual Building, Worcester, Mass. 

1913 

Dean Samuel T. Arnold, who sat at the 
head table, Karl D. Gardner, Jeffrey S. 
Granger, W. Arnold White, Rabbi Louis 
I. Newman, Dr. Frederick H. Wilke and 
Herbert M. Ross represented the Class at 
the annual Brown dinner in New York 
Feb. 16. 

Howard B. Baker, teacher of mathe- 
matics at Lincoln High School, Jersey City, 
IS living at 'i^ Grove Street, Montclair 
N. J. 

George T. Metcalf and Preston F. Ar- 
nold are newly elected trustees of the 
Brown Alumni Fund. 

Carleton D. Morse was a guest at the 
annual meeting ot the Advisory Council 
of the Associated Alumni last month and 
spoke for the Friends of the John Hay 
Library, of which he is a founder. Karl 
Gardner and Dean Arnold al.so attended 
the meeting. 

1914 

Earl M. Medbery is now an associate 
with E. R, Davenport & Co., investments, 
1 5 Westminster Street, Providence. He is 
in charge of the institutional department. 

Dr. Edward A. McLaughlin, director ol 
the Rhode Island State Division of Health, 













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DOORWAY OF THE FACULTY CLUB, which will next year 
become Andrews House, the University Infirmary. From a 
drawing hy Helen Mason Grose, 



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Hh Treasure Prolographed 

> EvERi TT A. Greene "09 faced the 
news cameras the other day after 
going to the safe and getting out 
something particularly valuable. The 
treasure was 50 milligrams of radium, 
worth about $1250, and Mr. Greene 
shared the spotlight with it. It was 
part of the hospital's supply of more 
than 500 milligrams, insured for 
$26,000. Normally it is kept in a 
heavy lead cylinder, which effectively 
"shuts off" Its rays, and kept in the 
safe until needed. Mr. Greene has 
been the hospital's comptroller since 
1934. < 



has been re-elected medical examiner of the 
Providence Police Association. 
1915 

Cecil M. P. Cross, on duty as disbursing 
officer in the United States Embassy, Pans, 
since 1935, has gone up step higher in his 
diplomatic career, now being a foreign 
service officer of Class 3. The promotion 
means a sizeable increase in salary. Cross 
was nominated for advancement by Presi- 
dent Roosevelt late in January. 

William P. Sheffield has been re-elected 
president and treasurer of Newport Electric 
Corporation. He is also one of the all- 
Newport board of directors. 

Joseph H. Stannard, principal of Hope 
Street High School since November, 1936, 
has received a transfer in the nature of a 
merited promotion to the principalship of 
the new Mount Pleasant high school, latest 
and most expensive addition to the Provi- 
dence school system. 

1917 

William N. Ormsby, representing the 
Brown Club of Boston, Earl M. Pearce ol 
the Brown Club of Providence and Thomas 
B. Appleget of the University Corporation 
took part in the sessions of the Advisory 
Council of the Associated Alumni on the 
Hill Feb. 11 and 12. Ralph A. Armstrong, 
also a member of the Council, could not 
be present because ot a business engage- 
ment. 

Eric A. Monroe, whose address has been 
lacking at the Alumni Office for several 
years, reports that he is vice president ol 
the Royal Agency, Inc., at 581 Metropol- 
itan Bank Building, Minneapolis, and that 
his mail address is 4844 Ewing Avenue, 
South, in that city. 

1918 

The 20th Reunion Committee, led by 
Harold F. C. Wilcox, met at the Old 
France in France Feb. 25 to formulate more 
definite plans for the get-together in June. 
More later (advt). 

Lawrence G. Flick, in charge of sales 
for International Business Machines Cor- 
poration for a considerable portion of 
Southern New England, has been giving a 
talk on "Business Costs" before groups ot 
business men in his area. 

Ray West, right hand man for the Tide 
Water Oil Company in Sherburne, N. Y., 
and the sweet singer of our college days, 
has become quite famous in Sherburne and 
neighborhood for his singing, a corre- 
spondent writes. At an entertainment in 
Hamilton, where Colgate is the town, a 
short time ago Ray sang several songs in 
a way that had his audience asking for 
more. He still retains his amateur standing. 

1919 

H. George Harris is an instructor in the 



School of Marketing. Advertising and Sell- 
ing, Pace Institute, New York City, and is 
also carrying on his own business as mar- 
keting and sales promotion counsel. He 
reports his preferred mail address to be 
9302 Ridge Boulevard, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

A. C. (Al) Chick, treasurer of the Asso- 
ciated Alumni, received promotion at the 
January meeting of the directors of the 
Manufacturers Mutual group of insurance 
companies. He was named assistant vice 
president and engineer for the six com- 
panies in the group, with his office on the 
8th floor ol the Grosvenor Building, Provi- 
dence. Al has also been appointed by 
President Harvey N. Davis '01 of the 
American Society of Mechanical Engineers 
to the five-year committee of the society 
concerned with relations with the universi- 
ties and colleges of the country. 
1920 

Willard L. Beaulac, first secretary of the 
United States Embassy, Havana, Cuba, has 
been confirmed as a foreign service officer 
Class 3 following his nomination by Presi- 
dent Roosevelt for advancement. His pro- 
motion includes a welcome increase in 
salary. 

Russell E. Larkin, manager of the New 
York office of Connecticut General Life 
Insurance Company at 225 Broadway, is 
living on Overlook Drive, Milbrook, Green- 
wich, Conn. 

Seven members of the Class were on hand 
for the Brown dinner in New York Feb. 16 
— Evariste Orteig, Del Fuller, Dutee Hall. 
Roland Beck, Harold Lord, Larry Howell 
and Howard Sweet. Lord, who is general 
traffic supervisor, traffic department, of the 
New Jersey Bell Telephone Company, New- 
ark, represented the Brown Club ot North- 
ern New Jersey at the Advisory Council 
meeting on the campus last month. 

Edward B. Stringham, new assistant man- 
ager of the Albany office of the Connecticut 
General Life Insurance Company, is living 
at 26 Parkwood Boulevard, Poughkeepsie, 
N. Y. 

Charles H. Lawton, Jr., has the sympathy 
of the Class in the loss of his fatlier, well 
known real estate man, who died in Paw- 
tucket Feb. 6 in his 82nd year. 
1921 

William T. Brightman, Jr., has become 
assistant vice president and engineer for the 
What Cheer and Hope Mutual Fire Insur- 
ance Companies, with headquarters in the 
Grosvenor Building, Providence. 

Daniel B. Murphy is an underwriter for 
Connecticut General Life Insurance Com- 
pany at 75 State Street, Albany, and his 
mail address is 160 Maple Avenue, Alta- 
mont, N. Y. 

Under the heading, "Twenty Years Ago 
Today," the J'^ew Tor^ Herald Tribune of 
Feb. 21 said: "Captain Mayer of the Yale 
swimming team was forced last night to 
equal the intercollegiate record of 25 1-5 
seconds to win the 50-yard event from his 
old rival, Mike Prendergast, of Brown Uni- 
versity." Mike is now a lawyer at 172 State 
Street, Boston, and we wonder if he goes 
through his law books as last as he used to 
splash through the water under the late 
Charlie Huggins' eagle eye. 

Your Secretary records with regret the 
death of Edward G. O'Connor in Provi- 
dence Feb. 24, 1938. and extends the sym- 
pathy of the Class to Ed's family. 
1922 

G. Ellsworth Gale, Jr., research manager 
ol Bostitch, Inc., East Greenwich, is living 
on Love Lane in that town. 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Brown Alumni Monthly 

Pub/isht-d at Brown VuiiieTSity by the 
Aiiociatcd Alumni 



CHESLEY WORTHINGTON '23 
MunagiTig Editor 

ARTHUR BRAITSCH '2 3 
Business Manager 

HENRY S. CHAFEE 09 

ALFRED H. GURNEY '07 

SeCTetary 

GERTRUDE ALLEN McCONNELL '10 
Pembrol(e Correspondent 

Subscriptions, $2 a year. Single copies, 25 cents. 
There is no issue during August or September. 

Entered at the Providence Post Office 
as second-class matter. 



Vol xxxvm 



MARCH, ly-i.H 



Walter H. Hibbard has left the Central 
High School, Providence, to do advanced 
work in education at Columbia, where he 
IS now registered at Teachers College. 

S. Watson Remington has recently moved 
from Riverside to 39 Summit Street, East 
Providence. 

1923 
► PRbSiDENT Bill McCormick has some 
formidable plans already for the 1 5th re- 
union this June. He told about them at a 
general meeting of some of the committees 
held in Providence at the Old France Res- 
taurant on the stormy night of February 
20th. The outlines sounded good to those 
present, and all promised to lend a hand in 
making the anniversary week-end a big 
success. About 50 have already written to 
say they intend to come back. 

The dates to reserve are those from 
Friday, June l7th, through Monday, the 
20th. And the class's own reunion, at Nar- 
ragansett Pier, have been devised so that 
the events there fit in well with the fea- 
ture attractions of Commencement on the 
campus. 

Sixteen were present at the February 
meeting in spite of the heavy tall of snow 
that day. Roger Johnson was up from Mil- 
ford, Conn., also to attend the Theta Delt 
initiation the night before. Dwight Bartlett 
came down from Southbridge, Mass.. just 
for the meeting. And the big surprise of all 
was the welcome appearance of Jock Joslin, 
up from New York for his first sight of 
Providence since graduation. Others on 
hand were Dr. Murphy. Lundin, JefTers. 
Ed Bennett, Paasche. Ronald Smith. Morse, 
Soderback. Worthington, Chase. Jed Jones, 
and Ken Sheldon. 

Although Johnny Lownes was in the hos- 
pital at the moment with appendix trouble, 
he sent word to confirm an invitation to the 
class, originally extended four years ago. 
He will be host at his summer place in 
Narragansett at a Sunday clambake. 

Ted Jeffers asks that all who have not yet 
returned their class questionnaires do so as 
soon as possible. 

Bob Williams, on from the Coast in 
January, only had a few minutes in Provi- 
dence one Sunday, but he climbed the Hill 
to have a look at the campus. He looked up 
his old friend Carleton Bliss '24. He had 
hoped to return for the reunion in June, 
but fears the winter trip will preclude his 
making another one so soon. Bob is special 
agent and adjuster for the Aetna Insurance 



Company, with headquarters in the Cali- 
fornia State Life Building in Sacramento, 
Cal. 

W. C. (Bill) Roux, formerly in charge of 
publication promotion for National Broad- 
casting Company, has joined International 
Radio Sales, division of Hearst Radio, as 
director of promotion and publicity. His 
office is at 20 East 57th Street, New York 
City. Before going with NBC in 1932 as 
local sales promotion manager for managed 
and operated NBC stations. Bill had his 
own advertising agency in Newark, N. J. 

William C. Munroe is assistant resident 
manager of Fruit Dispatch Company in 
Pittsburgh, with his office at 2034 Penn 
Avenue and his house at 2 58 North Balph 
Avenue. Bellevue, Pa. 

F. E. Fahlquist, back in Providence and 
living at 71 Massasoit Avenue, Edgewood, 
IS geologist for the New England Flood 
Control project under the direction of the 
United States Army Engineers. 

Harold M. Keele is a partner in the law 
firm of Levinson, Becker, Peebles fe? Swain 
at One LaSalle Street, Chicago. 

Robert B. Coons, buyer for R. H. Macy 
6? Company, New York, has recently 
changed his house address to 504 Summit 
Avenue. Maplewood, N. J. 



Found II Turf Picking 

► A NEWSPAPtR gave Quentin Rey- 
nolds "24 a very temporary job as 
racing handicapper last month. Hav- 
ing written his graphic story on the 
Haitian massacres for Colliers, he had 
returned to this country and was rest- 
ing in Florida for a bit when he had 
his fling as tipster. All he had to do 
was to name a few horses which 
seemed likely to win their races. He 
didn't pick a single winner all week, 
according to highly amused Walter 
Winchell. < 



Artcher E. Griffin is in the Philadelphia 
office of American Cyanamid Company and 
lives at 12 Bedford Court. Wilmington, 
Del. 

Clarence R. Day, for the past nine years 
an engineer on the Metropolitan Water 
Supply project (Boston) under Frank E. 
Wmsor '91, is finding his new work at the 
State Industrial School for Boys in Shirley. 
Mass., varied and absorbing. 

Stephen A. McClellan is with Aero- 
Exporters at Beth Page, N. Y., but he tells 
us that he is still living at 137 North Chats- 
worth Avenue, Larchinont, N. Y., where 
Mrs. McClellan indulges her hobby of 
growing and exhibiting flowers. 
1924 

Harold C. Loring, formerly testing en- 
gineer with the New Hampshire State 
Highway Department, is with Alpha Port- 
land Cement Company at 15 South Third 
Street, Easton, Pa. 

Wesby R. Parker is assistant sales man- 
ager of the Pillsbury Best Department. Pills- 
bury Flour Company, with his office at 
headquarters in Minneapolis. Minn. He is 
traveling a great deal and often stops over 
in Chicago for dinner with his parents. 
His father. Fred C. '\\'. Parker '00 is secre- 
tary of Kiwanis International. 

Jarvis C. Worden, resigned as supervisor 
of the Rhode Island State Bureau for the 
Blind, where he has been doing a notable 
work, has become director for the Rhode 



Island Association for the Blind. His resig- 
nation gave State Director of Education 
James F. Rockett a chance to deplore it 
and Worden to say in a public statement 
that the action of the Association for the 
Blind in voting to assume responsibility for 
the work done by the State Bureau "was 
not to cause a conflict, but was merely to 
permit the association to carry on under its 
own auspices a work for which the State 
has been glad to take credit." 

Wyndham Haywardwas author of "Flow- 
ering Bulbs for Florida Home Gardens," an 
Illustrated story in the Florida Grou'er for 
January. Hayward, a grower in bulbs at his 
Lakemont Gardens, Winter Park, Fla.. said 
that gladiolus, hyacinths, amaryllis. ornith- 
ogalmus, Amaion and other lilies were 
adaptable to the State for every month of 
the year. 

1925 

John B. Lord, on the sales staff^ of the 
DuPont Company, has recently changed his 
house address to 39 Lincoln Avenue, Attle- 
boro, Mass. 

Rev. Paul J. Braisted is general secretary 
of the Student Volunteer Movement at 254 
Fourth Avenue, New York City. He is living 
at 1 1 Thompson Street, Crestwood, Tuck- 
ahoe. N. Y. 

Richard H. Anthony of the sports staff 
of the Boston Transcript reports his correct 
mail address to be 44 Concord Avenue, 
Cambridge, Mass. 

Wilton Brown is teaching economics at 
Hope Street High School. Providence. 

Mason B. Merchant and W. Easton 
Louttit, Jr., have been re-elected to the 
executive committee of the Brown Club ol 
Providence. 

1926 

Arthur S. Hassell. First Lieutenant, 68th 
Field Artillery Brigade, has been appointed 
by Adjutant General Herbert R. Dean of 
Rhode Island to attend the spring course for 
National Guard officers at the Field Artil- 
lery School, Fort Sill, Okla., for three 
months ending May 28. 

Charles B. Dixon and his family have 
taken a house at 414 Fairfield Avenue, Hart- 
lord, Conn., where Charlie is now in charge 
ol the district properties ol Shell Oil Cor- 
poration. 

1927 

Arnold K. Brown, back in Providence 
with Brown 6? Sharpe Mfg. Company, is 
living on Brentwood Avenue, Barrington, 
R. I. 

Dr. Orland F. Smith is a candidate tor 
election to the Brown University Athletic 
Council to succeed Edward T. Richards 
whose two-year term will expire in June. 

Robert W. Buckley is an advertising 
account executive with Columbia Broad- 
casting System, Inc.. at 485 Madison .'\ve- 
nue. New York City. 



The Man Responsible 

► Casey Stengel, new leader of the 
Boston Bees, was in Providence last 
month to attend a dinner in honor ot 
Providence College athletic directors. 
Telling of some of the more colorful 
incidents of his baseball career as 
player and manager, Stengel said that 
Eddie Eayrs '16, former Brown Uni- 
versity star, was "the man responsible 
for whatever success I have had in 
baseball." < 



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TEST-TUBE BABIES 



FROM the test tubes of industrx' have come 
many of the jobs that keep America busy. 
Fifteen million American men and women are 
at work today in jobs that did not exist in 1900. 
These jobs do exist today because, through re- 
search, industry has been able to develop hun- 
dreds of new products. And it has been able to 
make them so inexpensive that millions of 
people have been able to buy them. 

These jobs are "test-tube babies," created in 
the modern research laborator.ies of industry. As 
a result, millions of people are employed today 
in welding, in making and selling radios, elec- 
tric refrigerators, lamp bulbs, automobiles, and 



hundreds of other manufactured products in- 
vented within the memory of many now living. 

General Electric engineers and research scien- 
tists have contributed greatly to this progress. 
From the G-E Research Laboratory, in Sche- 
nectady, has come the modern electric lamp, 
which uses less electricity and gives more light, 
thereby saving the public $5,000,000 a night. 
From it have come the modern x-ray tube which 
is helping the physician save lives, and conquer 
disease and suffering; the high-vacuum tube 
which makes radiobroadcasting possible; and 
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G-E research and etigiueerhig httve Sttt-eJ the public from ten to one hundred dollars 
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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



"Pul More Feeling Into the Part!" 

► ► Herbert Butterfield "18, member of the radio production staff of Lord if 
Thomas, Chicago, and an actor of many parts since he left College Hill, is the 
hero of this news story which has been going the rounds of the newspapers and 
which several of his classmates have read and sent to the Alumni Office: 

" 'Put more feeling into the part — the man is a genius; he"s as nutty as a fruit 
cake, as gifted as Shakespeare, as restless as static. You can't do him the ordinary 
way; you've got to put some life into the role. Like this.' 

"Herbert Butterfield, director of 'Margot of Castlewood,' serial heard Mon- 
days through Fridays at 10 a.m., E. S. T. over the NBC-Bluc network, was the 
speaker. The Hstener was a young actor being auditioned for the role of Blaine 
Witherspoon, Hollywood writer-producer, who recently entered the script of the 
show. 

"As Butterfield went over and over the dialogue with the actor, Basil Loughrane, 
in charge of both 'Aunt Jemima's Cabin at the Crossroads' and 'Margot of Castle- 
wood,' listened carefully. Finally he stopped the rehearsal. 

" 'That's enough. Herb. You're doing the role yourself just like we want it,' " 
Loughrane said, " 'We'll cast you as Witherspoon and I'll direct.' " 

"Thus Butterfield, long-time actor and experienced man of the theater, once 
more turned to the field in which he labored for years before leaving his post 
as director of the Civic Theater at Fort Wayne, Ind., to join the radio pro- 
duction .staff of a Chicago advertising agency." i i 



William B. Maudsley is with Prudential 
Insurance Company in Dorchester and is 
living at 3 20 Eliot Street, Milton, Mass. 

Sanford T. Bidle is director of sales 
research, LInited Business Service, at 210 
Newbury Street, Boston, and is living at 
12 Boylston Road, Newton Highlands, 
Mass. 

1928 

Kenneth A. O'Brien, co-chairman of the 
Tenth Reunion Committee, has gone into 
the bottling business — but soft drinks only. 
He is running the Pepsi-Cola Bottling 
Company of Bridgeport, Inc., with his office 
and plant at 202 Old Post Road, Fairfield, 
Conn. In a recent letter he said that he 
was "trying to get the people to swallow 
their money's worth (advt)," that he had 
seen Dr. Dick Spellman at the Brown- 
Colgate basketball game in White Plains last 
month and that Dick reported White Plains 
a good spot for medicine. He also said Burt 
Liese was now a Fairfield resident and that 
Dick Gurney wasn't so far away at Hotch- 
kiss School in Lakeville. 

Lyman B. Avery is with McCann-Erick- 
son. Inc., advertising, at 285 Madison Ave- 
nue, New York City. 

Roland H. Ford was delegate from the 
Brown Club of New Hampshire to the Ad- 
visory Council of the Associated Alumni 
and looked up old friends while he was on 
the campus last month. He is with Chevrolet 
Sales in Concord, N. H., and he says that 
his two boys are already showing signs of 
interest in baseball. 

Robert S. Asbury is with Ethyl GasoHnc 
Corporation at 723 East Milwaukee Ave- 
nue, Detroit, where he lives at 18209 
Stoepel Street. 

William M. Jackson is teaching at Hope 
Street High School and lives at 17 Wood- 
man Street, Providence. 

Robert R. Ballantyne is agent for North- 
Vv-estern Mutual Life Insurance Company at 
1204 Carew Tower, Cincinnati, O. Bob 
started with '28, dropped back a year, and 
is officially listed with '29. But he says that 
he prefers to be cla.sscd with '28, and so he 
will he, the Alumni Office reports. 

Mandeville C. Frost, agent in the United 
States Secret Service, Treasury Department, 
brought his nephew B. R. Frost, Jr., '41, 
back to college early last month and visited 
Nelson B. Jones, Jr., and other friends on 



the campus and at the Delta Upsilon House 
before heading for his destination. Mandy's 
son, whose birth is reported in another col- 
umn, had the honor of being the first baby 
born in Dutchess County, New York, in this 
year 1938. Mandy, Jr., arrived at 12;40 
a. m.. January 1. 

Fred M. Knight, back on the sports staff 
of the Bost07i Traveler after a siege of the 
grippe, wrote last month that he was 
grieved to hear of Johnny Borden's death, 
Johnny having been a good friend of him 
and Mrs. Knight. "Johnny was a loyal 
Brown man even though he was at Brown 
only two years," Fred went on, "and was 
the perennial sophomore when he came 
back for the Brown-Princeton game a few- 
years ago. We'll miss him at reunion in 
June." 

William S. Littcrick, head of the Mathe- 
matics Department, the Peddie School, was 
elected a faculty member of the Peddie 
Chapter of the Cum Laude Society at the 
Founders Day exercises on Feb. 13 in ob- 
servance of the 72nd anniversary of Peddie's 
beginnings. 

1929 

Kenneth D. Demarest is in the Dallas, 
Tex., office of the Griscom Russell Company 
at 504 Power Petroleum Building. 

Edward Sulzberger, engaged in property 
management and real estate at 20 West 
43rd Street, New York City, is living at 
21 East 87th Street. Ed keeps in close touch 
with Brown activities through the Brown 
University Club in New York and Brown 
Alumni Monthly of which he is a con- 
sistent and admiring reader. 

F. Winthrop Snow, Jr., is on the sales 
staff of Anaconda Wire and Cable Com- 
pany at 430 Colyton Street, Los Angeles. 
He reports his preferred mail address to he 
7660 1-2 Hollywood Boulevard, Holly- 
wood, Calif. 

1930 

Don Jordan, who is in the antique busi- 
ness in Attlehoro for himself, was an ex- 
hibitor in Providence early this month at 
the Rhode Island Antiques Show. 

Robert B. Booth is research chemist with 
American Cyanamid Company at 1937 
West Main Street, Stamford, Conn. He 
reports his mail address to be 61 Sterling 
Place, Springdale, Conn. 

John H. Channing, on the sales staff of 



Colonial Beacon Oil Company, Albany, 
writes that he is now living on Menand 
Road, Loudonville, N. Y. 

Rev. Charles D. Kean of St. George's 
Church, New York, was advanced to the 
Episcopal priesthood by Rt, Rev. James 
DeWolf Perry '12, honorary. Bishop of 
Rhode Island, in the Cathedral of St. John, 
Providence, February 2. He became a dea- 
con in April, 1937. 

Herbert T. .Smith, formerly with the 
Department of Business and Engineering 
Administraton, Massachusetts In.stitutc of 
Technology, is now with Ernst ef Ernst, 
accountants, at One Federal Street, Boston. 
His house address continues to be 196 Gar- 
den Street, Auburn, R. I. 

Dr. Munroe Dashoff is practising den- 
tistry at 13 78 Pleasant Street, Fall River. 
Mass. 

Roger W. Shattuck is with Liberty 
Mutual Insurance Company at 222 Union 
Street, New Bedford, and lives on Water 
Street, Mattapoisett, Mass. 

1931 

Edward J. C. Connor, southern sales 
agent for the Foster Machine Company of 
Wcstfield, Mass., and Mrs. Connor are 
living at the Hotel Selwyn, Charlotte, N. C. 

Joseph Cadden is with the World Youth 
Congress at 8 West 40th Street, New York 
City. 

Ralph C. Wescott is teaching in the 
Parker Preparatory School, Providence, 
where he lives at 9 Crescent Street. It's 
a temporary job, he tells us. 

William H. T. Giardino is with the Home 
Carpet Cleansing Co., Inc., 167 Pemberton 
Street, Cambridge, Mass. In a recent letter 
Bill said that he had a protege, a good stu- 
dent and a football player, whom he was 
trying to steer toward Brown. 

Dr. Mortimer D. Burger is a practising 
physician at 151 Park Avenue, Mount 
Vernon, N. Y. 

Dr. Ralph D Rchardson is on the staff of 
Massachusetts Memorial Hospital, Boston. 

1932 

Robert E. Johnson recently gave a lecture 
before the student body of the University 



On the Air iit Last 

y It was probably Andrew Law's first 
time on the air. You see the members 
of the Brown Class of 1775 weren't 
very familiar with radio, and the 
people of today had sort of forgotten 
about the music of Andrew Law, 
famous though it was in his own time. 

But a choral concert program last 
month from Station WOR in Newark 
included "The American Hero" or 
"The Battle of Bunker Hill," an early 
American Revolutionary War song 
by Law. 

The song has been made available 
again through the publication last 
year of outstanding early American 
songs from the Harris Collection at 
Brown University, edited by Profes- 
sor S. Foster Damon. The Collection 
is one of the most complete yet made 
in the field of early native folk music 
in this country. 

Two of the songs were used by 
Virgil Thomson in his score for "The 
River," the Government documen- 
tary film which has been recently dis- 
tributed by Paramount. i 



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of Louisville Law School, Louisville, Ky., 
on "Federal Regulation ot Motor Carriers." 
Bob, who has been admitted to practice in 
New York State and before the Interstate 
Commerce Commission, has his office at 
230 Park Avenue, New York City. 

James C. White, trust estates manager 
with the Northern Trust Company, reports 
that he and his family are living at 10717 
South Park Avenue, Chicago. 

Herbert K. Astmann's new address is 
104 Niagara Frontier Food Terminal, Clin- 
ton Street near Bailey Avenue, Buffalo, 
N. Y. We suspect that Herb can tell us 
a lot about ice jams, collapsing bridges and 
other excitement along the Niagara Falls 
front line during the winter. 

Drs. Henry A. Campbell, Nathan Chaset 
and Irving A. Beck have passed the Rhode 
Island examinations to practice medicine in 
the State. Chaset is specializing at Massa- 
chusetts Memorial Hospital, Boston, Beck 
is on the staff of Mt. Sinai Hospital, New 
York City, and Campbell is interne at 
Rhode Island Hospital until next December. 

A. R. (Dick) Peirce, Jr., is doing gradu- 
ate work in education at Harvard. 

George W. Little, chemist with United 
States Finishing Company, has removed to 
Norwich, Conn., where the Company's 
laboratory is at present located. 

1933 

C. Lennart Carlson is instructor in Eng- 
lish at Colby College, WaterviUe, Me. Be- 
sides his bachelor's degree, Carlson now 
has his A.M. and his Ph.D. from Brown. 

Corwin Y. Matlock, re-elected secretary 
of the Brown Club of Buffalo, is with his 
brother in Peter Young, Inc., clothing and 
hats for men and boys, at 582-584 Genesee 
Street, Buffalo. The business was founded 
by his grandfather. During the past summer 
the Matlocks opened a branch store and 
Corwin says that "so far things have been 
going quite well." 

Penn Hargrove and his growing family 
are living at 759 Forest Avenue. Larc'i- 
mont, N. Y. Penn is with Western Union 
at 60 Hudson Street, New York. 

Leonard S. Taber sets himself down as 
engineer at 370 Essex Street, Lawrence, 
Mass., where his house address is 80 Berke- 
ley Street. 

Dr. Alexander M. Burgess, Jr., is home 
from Vienna, where he has been studying 
medicine since graduation from Harvard 
Medical School last June. 

Ed Gilmartin, with General Motors Ac- 
ceptance Corporation at 808 Turks Head 
Building, Providence, is living at 43 Edison 
Street, Hoxsie, which Ed admits is tar 
enough out in the country so that there is 
no mail delivery. 

1934 

John M. Sayward, with Calco Chemicil 
Company, was at the Brown dinner in New 
York and told us that he had recently 
moved to 563 Mountain Avenue, Bound 
Brook, N. J. 

J. Philip Magill, whose engagement to 
Miss Eunice L. Levy was recently an- 
nounced, IS in the City Attorney's office at 
95 5 Main Street, Bridgeport, Conn. Phil 
received his LL.B. from Harvard last June. 

Alfred H. Halberstadt, with Phoenix Fire 
Insurance Company of Hartford, Conn., 
has temporarily left New England for Penn- 
sylvania, where his new address is 1504 
Mahantongo Street, Pottsville. 

Walter H. Porter reports a change ul 
mail address to 3-100 Emerson Street. 
N. W., Wa.shington, D. C. 



Bert Humphries, senior divinity student 
at Columbia and member of the St. Louis 
Cards baseball chain, is helping Andy 
Coakley coach the Columbia Lions this 
spring. 

Rockwell Gray is a field representative 
for General Motors Acceptance Corpora- 
tion, Providence. He and Mrs. Gray are 
living on Mathewson Road, Barnngton. 

Clyde B. Gordon, married in Pottsville, 
Pa., in January, as we report in another 
column, with several of his classmates tak- 
ing part in the ceremony, is in the claims 
department of the Monarch Life Insurance 
Company, Springfield, Mass. 

1935 

Jim Saunders is selling real estate and 
insurance for Wheeler 6? Taylor, Inc., 
Great Barrington. Mass. 

Jerry Ferry and Mrs. Ferry arc now at 



home at Grandview Avenue and Cottage 
Road, Wyckoff, N. J. but their mail address 
is RFD, Midland Park, N. J. Jerry is a 
commuter to New York, where he is with 
International Business Machines Corpora- 
tion at 590 Madison Avenue. 

Ed Read, married last September and 
now settled at 3172 North Hudson Avenue, 
Chicago, is with the Book House for Chil- 
dren at 360 North Michigan Avenue in 
that city, Ed left Hornblower and Weeks, 
investments, to go with the Book House 
last October. "With the market as it is, 
the change certainly is lucky. Besides, the 
new work is very interesting," he told Al 
Joslin in a recent letter. Ed also reported 
having met Jack Cuthbert in Chicago. 

Frank S. (Jeff) Read, in hospital for a 
couple of weeks in February after a minor 
operation, is recuperating at his home in 
Lake Forest, 111. Jeff is with the FDIC, 




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Craziest Golf Shot 

► A DOZEN shiny new golf balls came 
to N. Vaughn Ballou '25 of Norton, 
Mass., last month. He received them 
from Alec Duncan of The Judge, 
who had offered such an award to a 
description of "the craziest golf shot 
of the month" by an amateur. Ballou's 
story was published in the February 
i.ssue : 

"Have you ever made a Birdie and 
a Par on the same hole, with only one 
ball and only once over the fairway?" 
he asked, adding, "1 have." 

This contradiction was accom- 
plished on the first hole, 386 yards, at 
the Salconnet Golf Club at Little 
Compton, R. I. "My drive," he 
wrote, "hit a robin in flight about 75 
yards from the tee. Ball and robin 
dropped to the turf, giving me my 
birdie. Brassie about 200 yards, a 
three iron to the green, and a six-foot 
putt made a total of four, giving iiic 
my par." ^ 



Howard D. Segool, doing advanced work 
in chemistry at Yale, has been elected to 
membership in the Yale Chapter of Sigma 
Xi. 

1936 

E. R. (Phil) Baker, Jr., reported missing 
in the Brown Alumni Monthly last 
month, has turned up safe and sound with 
W. A. Fine 6? Co., brokers. One Wall 
Street, New York City. His house address 
is 425 Riverside Drive. 

Sam Bojar is studying medicine at the 
Johns Hopkins Medical School. Sam re- 
ceived his A.M. last June from University 
of Rochester, where he served as an assist- 
ant in the Laboratory of Psychology under 
Professor Leonard Carmichael, president- 
elect of Tufts College. 

Frank Costello is with the Co-ordinated 
Transport of the Public Service Corpora- 
tion of New Jersey in Newark. He was one 
of two chosen out of more than 150 appli- 
cants, mostly college graduates, for the 
cadet training school. After three years of 
practical training in the various depart- 
ments Frank will be in line for a junior 
executive position in the corporation. 

Gordon W. Smithson, with Potter and 
Johnston Machine Company, is living at 
149 Whittier Road, Pawtucket. 

Jack Hanson is teaching English and 
history at Moses Brown School. During 
the summer Jack is co-director of Camp 
Tohkomcupog for Boys at East Madison, 
N H. 

Gardner Randall, with Bombing Squad- 
ron 6, Naval Air Station, Norfolk, Va., 
was back on the campus for a quick visit 
not long ago after making his first landing 
at the State Airport, Hillsgrove. He looked 
to be in great physical shape and he said 
that he was really learning a lot as an 
air pilot. 

1937 

Deane Fox admits that he is "a sort of 
junior executive" with M. Ewing Fox Co., 
Inc., manufacturers of calcimines and water 
paints at 136th Street and Rider Avenue, 
New York City. Deanc and his lamily live 
on Knolls Lane, Flower Hill, Plandome, L. I. 

Paul Ambrette is on the sales staff of 
Consolidated Macaroni Machine Company 
at 156 Sixth Street, Brooklyn, N. Y., where 
he lives at 1022 85th Street. 



Charlie Steinsieck, research chemist with 
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, Columbia 
Chemical Division, Barberton, O., has 
changed his house address to 63 Castle 
Boulevard, Akron, O. 

Linton A. Fluck, Jr., is chemist with 
Cranston Print Works and is living at 
58 Princess Avenue, Cranston. 

Basil Gilbert is a student in architecture 
at the School of Fine Arts, Yale University. 
Charlie Hughes is taking a similar course 
at Harvard. The report that Charlie had 
entered Harvard Law School is wrong. 

Fred GofF is working at the Annmary 
Brown Memorial Library, Providence, as 
assistant to the editor of the Second Census 
of 15th Century Books Owned in America. 

Herb Harrington is an engineer with 
Goods Roads Machinery Company in Ken- 
nett Square, Pa. 

Bruce Gordon is a section manager with 
R. H. Macy (^ Co., Inc., department store. 
New York City. 

Tristan Hearst is doing post graduate 
work in economics at the University of 
Chicago. 

Louis Heinold, Jr., is a salesman with 
Kelly 6? Picerne, real estate and insurance, 
at 726 Reservoir Avenue, Cranston. 

Bill Hickey is an assistant national bank 
examiner tor the United States Treasury, 
working out of the officer of the Comp- 
troller of Currency. Bill was in the New 
England area not long ago and stopped off 
in Providence long enough to come up the 
Hill to say hello. 

Russ Smith, alter a summer's work with 
National Carbon Company, put aside mate- 
rial things to register at Western Reserve 
University, where he is now a candidate 
for A.M. 

Mart Tarpy is salesman for Bateman and 
Tarpy, wholesale beef and provisions, at 
71 Dexter Street, Pawtucket. 



.4 Fainting of Simon Hease 

► No one has thought much about 
Simon Pease for a good many years, 
and It was somewhat of a surprise to 
come upon his picture on the first 
page of the February American 
Collector. Pease, who was born in 
Newport, R. 1., in 1695 and died 
there alter a busy and profitable lile 
as a merchant and ship owner, was 
one of the original incorporators and 
trustees of Brown University. He was 
disappointed in his hope that the col- 
lege might be located in Newport, 
however. 

We are interested in him all of a 
sudden because ol the discovery of a 
portrait ol him by the outstanding 
colonial painter, Robert Feke. Painted 
during the two-year period, 1744-5, 
when the artist is known to have had 
a studio in Newport, the canvas shows 
Simon Pease "in the full vigor of his 
middle lite and leaves no question but 
that the subject was an important 
man of affairs accustomed to making 
decisions and having his commands 
respected." 

The picture, which had not been 
out of the family since is was painted, 
had strangely remained unknown to 
students of Feke's art. It was acquired 
last fall by Myron C. Taylor, a direct 
descendant of the original sitter, < 



Milton (Mickey) Levy, on the sales staff 
of Joseph E. Koppelman, Inc., commission 
florists and growers, says that his territory 
ranges from the wilds of Worcester to the 
nooks of Newport. In Connecticut he makes 
New London his headquarters and branches 
out from there. But he is back in Provi- 
dence nearly every night and is in close 
touch with what is going on at Brown. 

W. E. (Hook) San Filippo is a member 
of the promotional squad of L. Bamberger 
Co., merchandising, Newark, N. J., where 
Hook's mail address is 772 Clifton Avenue. 

Harry Rodin is doing graduate work at 
Brown under a University scholarship in 
mathematics. 

Al Rachlin is a research graduate assist- 
ant in the Department of Chemistry, Georgia 
School of Technology, Atlanta. 

Jay Mann is a first-year student at Albany 
Medical College and lives at 1084 Madison 
Avenue, Albany, N. Y. 

Ladd McConnell is on the sales staff ol 
Gamwell 6? Ingraham, insurance and real 
estate, 1612 Industrial Trust Building, 
Providence. 

Fred Leighty is a graduate student in 
retailing at Northwestern University and 
at the same time puts in a required number 
of hours each week at one of the Chicago 
department stores. Fred says that he will 
have more to report when he gets his 
MBA. degree, finds a permanent job and 
marries. i i 

Engagements 

> ► Miss Harriet Elizabeth Bolton, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William W. 
Bolton of North Andover, Mass., to E. Kent 
Allen '3 1 of West Newton and Graniteville, 
Mass. 

Miss Alice Blazier, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Frank Blazier of East Orange, N. J., to 
Paul R. Wicks '31 of Pawtucket. 

Miss Lucia Alfreda Atkinson, daughter 
of Mrs. Lorena B. Atkinson of Judson, 
Mass., to Clifford F. Counihan '31 of Hart- 
ford, Conn. 

Miss Gertrude Calkins, daughter of Dr. 
and Mrs. George H. Calkins of Buffalo, 
N. Y., to Douglas Whiteside '36 ot Bronx- 
ville, N. Y. 

Miss Winifred Maude Walker, daughter 
of Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Walker of 
Providence, to Paul F. Clements '37 ol 
Washington, D. C. 

Miss Vivian L. Watkins, daughter ol 
Mrs. Maria Watkins of Blakely, Pa., to 
Dr. James M. Darlington '33, advanced, ol 
the Department of Biology, Franklin and 
Marshall College, and former member ol the 
Brown Faculty. 

Miss Jean Frances White, daughter of Dr. 
and Mrs. George F. White of Cranston, 
to Dr. Arthur O. Williams '37, advanced, 
of East Providence. Dr. Williams is now 
teaching and doing research in physics at 
the University of Maine. ^ 

Wedflings 

> 1928 — Rev. Duncan Eraser and Miss 
Dorothy Sollers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Joseph P. Sollers of Newport and Baltimore, 
were married in Baltimore Feb. 23, 1938. 
After April 19 they will be at home at 1500 
44th Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. 

1931 — Cory Snow and Miss Constance 
Culver, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph 
F. Culver, were married in Providence Feb. 
19,1938, A. Dexter Johnson '30 was best 
man and J. Kenrick Butler '32 was an usher. 
Mr, and Mrs, Snow are at home at 4 Craw- 
ford Street, Cambridge, Mass. 



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1931 — Leon P. Cohen and Miss Fannyc 
Scharfman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Jacob 
Scharfman, were married m Brooklyn, N. Y., 
Jan. 18, 1938. They are at home at 14 Hick- 
ory Street, New Rochelle, N. Y. 

1934 — Clyde B. Gordon and Miss Jane 
McBride Bazley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
James R. Ba:ley, were married in Pottsville, 
Pa., Jan. 15, 1938. Harold M, Sauers "34 
was best man: Harry R. Jackson '34 and 
Alfred H. Halbcrstadt '34 were ushers. Mr. 
and Mrs. Gordon are at home at 133 Sum- 
mer Avenue, Springfield, Mass. 

1936 — Edwin S. Soforcnko and Miss 
Miriam Silverman were married in Provi- 
dence Dec. 4, 1937. They are living at 
50 Blackstone Boulevard. ^ 

Births 
► 1923— To Mr, and Mrs. Harold K.. Lar- 
son ot Pawtuckct a son, Peter Grant, Feb. 
15, 1938. 

1925— To Dr. and Mrs. John R. Hans- 
hrough of New Haven, Conn., a daughter, 
Patricia Rae, Feb. 5, 1938. 

1925 — To Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth H, 



Colvin of Worcester, Mass., a daughter, 
Janice Lindley, on Feb. 15, 1938. 

1928— To Mr. and Mrs. Mandcville C. 
Frost of Rhinebeck, N. Y., a son, Mande- 
viUe C. Frost, Jr., Jan. 1, 1938. 

1928— To Mr. and Mrs. William S. Lit- 
terick of Hightstown, N. J. a son, William 
Spencer Litterick, Jr.. Dec. 28, 1938. 

1931— To Mr. and Mrs. S. Abbott Hut- 
chinson ot Marblehead, Mass., a second 
daughter, Hazel Chickering, Feb. 17, 1938, 
Mrs. Hutchinson was Hazel Ives '3 2, Pem- 
broke College. 

193 2 — To Mr. and Mrs. George F. Law- 
ton, Jr., of New Bedford, Mass,, a son, 
Thomas Hunt, Feb. 15, 1938. Mrs. Lawton 
was Beatrice V. Hunt '3 2, Pembroke 
College. 

193 3 — To Mr. and Mrs. William F. 
Hutchinson of Swampscott, Mass., a son, 
William F. Hutchinson, Jr., Feb. 6, 1928. 

1934 — To Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Buo- 
nanno of North Providence, a son, Joseph 
Eddy Buonanno, Jr., Jan. 27, 1938. < < 



Those We Mourn 



Dr. Harry Lyman Kooptnan 

> ► Dr. H.\rry Lyman Koopman, Emer- 
itus Librarian and Emeritus Professor of 
Bibliography, was one of the builders of the 
new Brown. He was a vigorous and compel- 
ling figure in the development of Brown 
from a small college to a modern university, 
and when his work ended on December 28, 
1937, he completed a record of service which 
leaves Brown clearly in his debt. 

He was a librarian first of all. But he was 
a scholar, too, a poet, an author and news- 
paper writer and an astronomer ol more 
than local reputation. He had energy and 
a great enthusiasm for things of the mind 
and the spirit. His information was unusu- 
ally wide in its scope. It touched, as one ol 
his fellow editorial writers on the Prot'i- 
dence Journal said, "the remotest annals ot 
earthly life and embraced the latest scientific 
discoveries." He knew the history of print- 
ing. He was a student of archeology, a lover 
of nature, an observer of all things that are 
good and intellectually interesting. "The 
stars in their courses held for him the double 
lure of significance and beauty," 

Native of Freeport, Me,, where he was 
horn July 1, 1860. and graduate of Colby 
in 1880, he worked in the libraries of 
Cornell, Columbia, Rutgers and the Uni- 
versity of Vermont before his friend. Presi- 
dent E. Benjamin Andrews '70, invited him 
to come to Brown in the summer of 1893. 
For 37 years, during which he had a signi- 
ficant share in the great growth of the 
library's possessions and facilities, he was 
the Brown librarian in name and in deed. 
He said that it was the business ot a library 
to supply information about anything thai 
anybody needed to know, and he set the 
example to his co-workers in organizing and 
constantly improving that business until the 
John Hay Library and its adjuncts became 
the equal of any in the United States. 

► He was seldom idle. In his time apart 
from his library work he developed and 
carried out the idea of the Brou'ii Unii'ersity 
Historical Catalo,mic. He set up the system 
of graduate records now in use at the 
Alumni Office. He wrote prose and poetry. 



was a regular contributor to the Brown 
Alumni Monthly, and edited various 
volumes of letters and poems. He was asso- 
ciate editor of the Monthly. 1906-17, was 
a former president of the Rhode Island 
Library Association and of the American 
Library Association. He helped organize 
the Skyscrapers, Inc., led the Review Club 
and gave lectures and readings before many 
groups. 

Before he retired as librarian in 1930 he 
had written editorials for the Proi-ideiice 
JourTial. When he retired he moved from 
the John Hay Library to the ]ourna\ edi- 
torial room, where he remained until his last 
illness. He did, indeed, live "a rounded lile 
and a happy one." 

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Helene Luise 
(Mayser) Koopman, a daughter, Mrs. 
Clarence H. Philbrick, a son, Karl H, Koop- 
man '13, and a brother and a sister. 

"It is hard to express clearly just how we 
thought of him," said a member of the John 
Hay Library staff in a letter to the Provi- 
dence Journal. "It does not compass our 
meaning to say that we regarded him as a 
wise and generous superior, as an under- 
standing, friendly comrade in our work, as 
a seemingly inexhaustible source of knowl- 
edge in fields so varied that the years never 
staled our wonder that the learning he wore 
so lightly could be so profound. 

"Though he left us seven years ago be- 
cause he had reached the age of retirement, 
none sensed better than we that his eager, 
questing spirit could never be halted by the 
milestones of a career. And still he held 
himself ready to serve us, to solve problems 
with which his long association with the 
library made him uniquely competent to 
deal. He still came back from time to time 
to draw on the storehouse for whose diver- 
sity he himself had largely provided. For 
those who worked with him here he wili 
always come back. He is to us as essentially 
a part of this great library as its crowded 
stacks, its rare collections, its busy work- 
rooms. A hook, a phrase, a question will not 
so much summon him again as make us 
aware that he is here. 

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"Generations of students yet to come will 
all unwittingly be indebted to Dr. Koopman 
for the character and scope of his service. 
We, who were his associates, are more to be 
envied than they. A fire in a room, even 
when its bright light passes leaves its benef- 
icence of warmth to cheer all who enter that 
place. But to have held one's hands to the 
glowing flame, that is to me more fortunate." 

< < < 

1880 

► ► Walter Sidney Meader, former gov- 
ernor of boys at what is now Moses Brown 
School, died at his home in Dover, N. H., 
Feb. 3, 1938. He had been a resident of 
Dover for the pa.st 20 years. 

Born in Rochester, N. H., March 11, 
1857, the son of Levi and Amanda (East- 
man) Meader, he prepared at Friends 
(Moses Brown) School and at Brown was 
excellent student and star baseball player. 
He won election to Phi Beta Kappa: he 
played on the championship ba.seball teams 
of 1879 and 1880. From Brown he returned 
to Friends School as governor of boys, a 
place he held until he gave up administrative 
duties in 1887 to become teacher of mathe- 
matics. 

Resigning m 1904, he removed to Gonic, 
near Rochester, and went into the lumber 
business as a member of the firm of Meader 
and Babb. In 1916 he retired to a small 
farm in Dover and his chief recreation since 
then had been gardening. In the 80s, while 
he was at Friends School, he studied law 
under a private tutor and when he began 
teaching mathematics he did considerable 
work in astronomy at Ladd Observatory. He 
was a prominent figure among the Friends, 
or Quakers, was clerk at the Maine Yearly 
Meeting for some years, and was author of 
several pamphlets on religious subjects. 

He was married July 2. 1890. to Miss 
Lucy J. Hawkes, who survives, with two 
sons, Stephen W. Meader of Philadelphia, 
Walter S. Meader. Jr.. oi New York, two 
daughters. Miss Helen Meader and Mrs. 
George Miles, and six grandchildren. The 
funeral services, held in the Friends Meet- 
ing House at Gonic, were conducted by his 
nephew. Rev. Charles A. Meader '91 of 
East Greenwich. His fraternity was Beta 
Thcta Pi. "In Meader." an officer of the 
class has written, "wc knew a good man. a 
righteous man. a capable man. who wa'^ 
thoughtful, wise and dependable. He had a 
quiet sturdiness, a sense of humor, and an 
untailing kindness. Sanctified by a con- 
sciousness of the presence of the Spirit, he 
had the affection and unqualified respect of 
all who knew him." < 



1887 

► Dr. George Wilton Field, consulting 
biologist and authority on the conservation 
of game and fishes, died in Takoma Park, 
Md., Jan. 19, 1938, after a long illness. 
Formerly Associate Professor of Cellular 
Biology at Brown, he had also taught at the 
Johns Hopkins University. Rhode Island 
State College and Massachusetts Institute 
of Technology. 

While he was abroad about five years ago 
on v.ork for the State Department he was 
hit by a motor car in Paris. The resultant 
shock was serious. But after a period in the 
American Hospital, Neuilly. he went to 
Geneva, carried out his assignment, returned 
to Washington, made excellent report and 
collapsed in the State Department. He had 
been in a sanitarium at Takoma Park most 
of the time since his collapse. 

From 1904 to 1916 Dr. Field was chair- 
man of the Massachusetts Commission on 
Fisheries and Game. His great achievement 
in this office was the experimental biological 
station at Sharon where many of the water 
conservation principles now in use were 
developed. Before going to Massachusetts 
he spent three years at Brown and five years 
at Rhode Island State College, where he 
taught zoology and was biologist at the 
experimental farm. He was a former presi- 
dent of the American Fisheries Society and 
of the National Association of Conservation 
Commissioners, honorary member of several 
societies for the protection and development 
of fisheries, birds and game, and member nl 
the American Society of Naturalists. Amer- 
ican Society of Morphologists. the Campfire 
Club of America. Cosmos Club of Washing- 
ton, Phi Beta Kappa. Sigma Xi and Delta 
Phi. He was author ol "General Principles 
of Zoology" and of many reports and 
pamphlets dealing with biological surveys 
and investigations. It is said that he had 
studied possibilities of biological systems of 
sewage disposal in every State in this coun- 
try except three. After the World War he 
served for two years as adviser to the Gov- 
ernment of Brazil on organizing and devel- 
oping national fisheries. 

Dr. Field was born in North Bridgewater. 
Mass., Sept. 29. 1863. the .son of Charles C. 
and Lucy C. (Cross) Field He was married 
June 9, 1892. to Mary Bell Bacon, who sur- 
vives, with two sons and three daughters. 
He held the degrees ot A.B. and A.M. from 
Brown and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins, 
where he shone in graduate work. i 

1889 

y Horace Lincoln Day. retired chocolate 
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in Greenwich. Conn., Feb. 3. 1938. He was 
founder of Valumet Chocolate Company of 
Elmsford. N. Y., and a veteran of the Sev- 
enth Regiment, New York National Guard. 

Born in St. John, N. B.. Aug. 12. 1867. 
the son of Rev. George E. Day. D.D., and 
Albina S. (Hoben) Day, he prepared at 
Yarmouth, N. S., Academy, received the 
A.B. degree from Acadia L'niversity in 1888 
and a similar degree from Brown in 1889. 
His fraternity was Phi Delta Theta. 

Intending to study medicine, he entered 
the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 
Columbia University, but withdrew after 
two years to go into business, first as sales- 
man for William R. Warner 6? Co., Phila- 
delphia and then as department manager for 
Thomas Lceming of Co.. New York. Then 
he formed the Horace L. Day Co., phar- 
maceutical distnbut<irs. and was successively 
Its treasurer, secretary, president and gen- 
eral manager. The name of the company 
later became Allen-Day and finally Valumet 
Chocolate Co., Inc., chocolates and cocoa, 
with the factory in Elmsford and the office 
in New York City. 

For many years Mr. Day was treasurer ol 
the First Baptist Church of New York. Dur- 
ing the World War he was with the 
National Service Section ot the L'nited 
States Shipping Board and Emergency Fleet 
Corporation. He was married Dec. 2T. 1892. 
to Miss Alma Von Buhl, who survives, with 
his daughter. Mrs, Edgar, and a son. Kcn- 
nard P. Day of Metuchcn. N. J. i 

1892 

► Rev. Albert Edward Hylan. retired 
Baptist minister and lather of two Brown 
graduates, died in Marlboro. Mass.. Hos- 
pital Jan. 23, 1938. For 38 years he was 
active in the ministry with pastorates in 
Massachusetts and Connecticut. 

Born in Freemont. N. H.. June 11. 1865. 
the son of Ira and Susan (Page) Hylan. he 
prepared at Colby Academy and at Brown 
won election to Phi Beta Kappa in Junior 
year. He followed his ambition to become 
a minister by going from Brown to Newton 
Theological Institution from which he grad- 
uated in 1895. Ordained as a Baptist minis- 
ter in that year he held pastorates in Wcst- 
boro. Vineyard Haven. W'akeheld. Spring- 
field. Mass., and Poquonnock Bridge, Conn. 

While he was pastor ot Chase Memorial 
Church in Springfield. 1919-26, he was 
president of the Springfield Baptist Mission- 
ary Union. His great hobby was the study 
of birds and as active member of the Allen 
Bird Club he found it both enjoyable and 
inspirational. He also took a lively interest 
in the welfare of his fellow man and was a 
positive influence in the communities where 
he worked as minister. When he resigned as 
pastor of the church in Poquonnock Bridge 
in September, 1933. he went to live in 
Hudson. Mass. 

He was married June 4. 1895, to Miss 
Lilian E. Rice, sister of Herbert H Rice '92, 
and the two sons by this marriage are Pro- 
fessor Malcolm C. Hylan '18 of the Uni- 
versity of Colorado and Donald R. Hylan 
'20 of Springfield. Also surviving is his 
second wife, who was Nellie M. Jewett of 
Lunenberg, Mass., and a sister, Mrs. Mari- 
etta Clark of Exeter. N. H. Mr. Hylan's 
fraternity was Delta Upsilon. i 

1895 

► The Alumni Office has confirmed 
news of the death of Charles Harold Wall- 
ing at his home in Nantucket, Mass., Aug. 9. 
1937. Since 1916 he had been resident 



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agent of the New Bedford, Martha's Vine- 
yard and Nantucket Steamship Line. 

Born in Providence, Feb. 16, 1874, the 
son of Charles and Nancy (AngeM) Wall- 
ing, he prepared at Providence High School, 
English Department, and received his Bach- 
elor of Philosophy degree from Brown in 
1895. For 20 years after leaving the Hill he 
was consulting medical examiner of the 
claim department of the New Haven Rail- 
road, with his headquarters in Providence. 
In May, 1916. he became agent of the 
steamship company serving Nantucket, 
where he lived at 19 Brant Point Road and 
where he made the acquaintance of many 
well known visitors to the island during his 
long service. 

He was a member of Union Lodge of 
Masons; Isle of the Sea, Royal Arch Chap- 
ter: Sherburne Chapter, Order ot the East- 
ern Star, and Theta Delta Chi. He was mar- 
ried Dec. 14, 1905, to Georgie Lillian Smith 
'00, who survives, with a daughter, Mrs. 
Albert R. Sims of Greenville, and a son, 
Ensign John F. Walling, U. S. N. < 

1897 

► Marion McAllister Clarke, former 
member of the Consolidated Stock Ex- 
change, business executive and in recent 
years farmer and breeder of registered 
Guernsey cattle, died m Goffstown, N. H., 
Jan. 1, 1938. He had always wanted to be 
a farmer and ten years ago he settled per- 
manently in Readfield. Me., to enjoy his 
hobby. 

Born in Newport, Nov. 23, 1876, the son 
of James H. and Sarah Ann (Wyman) 
Clarke, he prepared at Rogers High School. 
As a member of the Consolidated Stock 
Exchange in New York he was a partner 
in several firms and also organized and 
managed his own firm. Shortly before the 
World War in 1914 he retired to a farm 
in Winthrop, Me. During the war he left 
the farm to serve as treasurer of the Gry- 
phon Rubber Company, and after the war 
he was manager of the Ord Ice Company, 
which operated plants in several Southern 
California cities. In 1927 he returned to 
farming and cattle breeding. 

He became well known in Maine as cattle 
breeder, as active member of the Demo- 
cratic party and as secretary of the Ken- 
nebec County Fair. "He was a valued mem- 
ber ot the Augusta Kiwanis Club," said a 
writer in the Kennebec Joitrntil. "and to 
the Club he gave liberally of his musical and 
literary talents. ... It was through his 
musical talent and leadership and devotion 
to his church and his community that his 
host of friends grew to love him. Because 
of "Mac," the Readfield Players Club was 
organized and through his direction and 
encouragement the members ot the club and 
the community at large were taught a bet- 
ter appreciation of good music. A fine 
scholar, a splendid singer, he gave unspar- 
ingly of his talents that all might seek with 
him the better things of life." 

Another hobby was bridge. He organized 
several bridge clubs and while he lived in 
New York he used to play duplicate with 
Work, Whitehead and other leading ex- 
ponents. He belonged to Lafayette Lodge 
of Masons, Readfield Grange, Union Brick 
Church at Readfield Corner and Psi Upsi- 
Ion. Surviving are his wife, who was Eliza- 
beth Thomas, and two sons by a former 
marriage, Murray McAllister Clarke '31 of 
Chicago and John Alden Clarke. At the 
funeral services his own quartet sang. i 



1912 

► Eastwood Howard Boardman. former 
manufacturer and for the pa.st five years 
farmer in North Scituate, R. I., died in 
North Scituate, Jan. 27, 1938. His failure 
to return home the night of his death 
started a search, resulting in the discovery 
of his body next morning about half a mile 
from his house. 

Born Oct. 5, 1889, the son of William 
H. and Maud (Eastwood) Boardman of 
Central Falls, he came to Brown from Moses 
Brown School. He withdrew in Senior year 
without taking his degree. From 1912 to 
193 2, except for the period of the World 
War, he worked for the R. Plews Manu- 
facturing Company, Central Falls, makers 
ot tin spindles and other articles for thread 
mills, and became president in 1922. Resign- 
ing m 193 2, he removed to his North 
Scituate farm, where his chief recreation 
was hunting. 

In May. 1917. shortly after this country 
entered the World War, he enlisted and in 
January, 1918, became First Lieutenant, 
Construction Division, Q, M. C. After the 
war he was active in the American Legion, 
serving in 1919 as commander of James 
Stanton Post. No. 5. While at Brown he 
belonged to Chi Phi, now Sigma Chi. 

He was married April 30, 1912, to Miss 
Cora May Lees, who survives, with a 
daughter, Mrs. Edward M. Fish, Jr., "3 5, 
Pembroke College, and a son, Eastwood H. 
Boardman, Jr. IQIR 

> Harvey Scott Hincks, Professor of 
English and Director of Dramatics at State 
Teachers College, Memphis, Tenn.. died 
at Methodist Hospital in Memphis Jan. 29, 
1938, as a result of accidental burns. He 
had specialized in speech work and was 
making a name for himself in the South. 
When he suffered the accident causing his 
death he was in line for appointment to a 
place of prominence in his field. 

Born in Worcester, Mass., Dec. 20, 1893, 
the son of Dr. William S. and Elizabeth N. 
(Robinson) Hincks, he came to Brown from 
Providence English High School, won his 
Ph.B. with his class and his A.M. in 1919, 
with art as his major subject. He was 
assistant in art and a contributor on art 
subjects to the Bulletin of the Rhode Island 
School of Design. He enrolled for the 
Ph.D., traveled abroad to study museums 
and methods of exhibiting, but gave up 
his art concentration to go to the University 
of Kentucky as instructor in English. He 
was Assistant Professor of English at Grove 
City College and head of the English De- 
partment, Pennington School for Boys, be- 
fore joining the Faculty of State Teachers 
College in 1929. 

At the college he founded the Sock and 
Buskin Players, developed the undergradu- 
ate debating societies and became well 
known as a lecturer. He wrote numerous 
articles on the theatre and was active in 
the Little Theatre of Memphis. He also 
belonged to the Amelia Club, the Tennessee 
Educational Association, the College .^rt 
Association, the Christian Church and Phi 
Delta Theta. His influence was widespread, 
and he had been frequently asked to speak 
at national conventions, as well as before 
civic clubs, and other organizations. 

He was married Dec. 26, 1929, to Miss 
Marguerite VanderVoort, who survives, 
with a son, Harvey V. Hincks, a daughter, 
Ruth E. Hincks, his parents, a brother, 
Edward W. Hincks, "15, headmaster of 
Kents Hill School in Maine, and two sisters. 

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1920 

► Dr. Louis Edwin Jones, medical direc- 
tor of St. Croi.xdale Sanitarium, Prescott, 
Wis., died suddenly in Prescott, Dec. 28, 
1937. He collapsed as he was walking 
down stairs at the sanitarium after having 
visited some of his patients. 

"The city, the community, his hospital, 
his patients and his many friends have lost 
a loyal friend, a good doctor and a con- 
genial neighbor. . . . He will not be for- 
gotten," said the Prescott Journal. 

"Dr. Jones came to Prescott 13 years 
ago," the Journal reported, "and soon con- 
ceived the idea of building a hospital for 
Prescott. This idea was soon realized, and 
since then the hospital has grown to one 
of the largest in this part of the State." 
Dr. Jones was also interested in farming, 
and his fine herds of cattle were "a pleasure 
to see." 

Dr. Jones was born in Norwood, O., 
July 14, 1897, the son of Edwin E. and 
Carrie (Weil) Jones. He came to Brown 
from Franklin School, Cincinnati, and on 
the Hill won a reputation as a practical 
joker. "A more amiable man could not be 
found," Liber Brunensis said, "but he cer- 
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On graduation he studied for a short 
time at the Medical School, University of 
Cincinnati, and then went to University 
of Minnesota, from which he received in 
turn the degrees of B.S., M.B., and M.D., 
the last in 1924. After interning at Uni- 
versity Hospital, Minneapolis, for a year, 
he commenced practice in Prescott. He later 
established a small private hospital out of 
which St. Croixdale has grown and become 
well known as a place for treatment of 
nervous diseases. 

Dr. Jones was a member of Sigma Chi, 
Nu Sigma Nu (Cincinnati), the Sons of 
the American Revolution, and a 3-2nd 
degree Mason. Surviving are his mother 
and a sister. Miss Freda Jones, of Norwood, 

o. •< 

1928 

► John Finlay Borden, lawyer and civic 
leader, died at his home in Bradley Beach, 
N. J., Jan. 16, 1938, after a long illness. 
"He had already progressed rapidly in his 
profession," said an editorial in the Ashury 
Par\ Evening Press, "and had shown an 
aptitude for leadership in civic, religious 
and political affairs. His active interest in 
the many organizations with which he was 
identified and the personal qualities that 
had earned him so many friends were indi- 
cation of a life of usefulne.ss and service 
to the community." 

He was president of the Young Men's 
Republican Club of Bradley Beach, where 
his father is Mayor, tru.stee of the First 
Methodist Episcopal Church, director of 
the First National Bank, for which he was 
also counsel, an honorary member of the 
Patrolmen's Benevolent Association and 
counsel for Monmouth County P. B. A. 
From 1930 to 1936 he was an associate of 
the law firm of Quinn, Parsons 6? Doremus. 
When he died he was a member of Parsons, 
Lebrecque ^ Borden of Red Bank. 

Born in Metuchen, N. J., Oct. 28, 1902, 
the son of Frank C. and Ina (Finlay) 
Borden, he prepared at Blair Academy, 
where he was a member of the champion 
basketball team and an all-State guard. At 
Brown he played first base on his Freshman 
baseball team and left field on the varsity in 
Sophomore year. He left Brown in 1926 
to register at New York Law School, from 
which he received the LL.B. degree in 1930. 
He belonged to Delta Kappa Epsilon, Phi 
Delta Phi, and the Monmouth County Bar 
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at Brown and intended to come hack for his 
reunion in June. 

He was married June 15, 1931, to Miss 
Margaret Berry Crane of Arlington, N. J., 
who survives, with two children, Jane and 
John F. Borden, Jr., his parents, and a 
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Pembroke 
Chronicle A 

By GERTRUDE ALLEN McCONNELL 

Secretary of the Alumnae Association 

Alumnae Club Briefs 

► ► The Boston Club scheduled a dinner 
meeting for March 4th at the College Club 
at which Dean Morriss and Anna Canada 
Swain, Chairman of the Semi-Centennial 
Alumnae Gift Fund, were the speakers. 
President: Marjorie W. Shaw '04, 31 Edge- 
mere Road, Quincy. 

The Providence alumnae were enthusi- 
astic about the program presented by the 
Pembroke Glee Club and its soloists at the 
February meeting. The Club is planning 
to have a mixed bridge on April 27th for 
the benefit of the Semi-Centennial Gift. 
President: Mildred Bosworth Brown '13, 
105 Butler Avenue. 

The Newport Club held a bridge in Jan- 
uary at the Viking Hotel with 70 tables 
in play and raised over $100 for the Semi- 
Centennial Gift. The Club was organized 
last year and is to be heartily congratulated 
on the fine showing it has made. President: 
Mrs. William MacLeod, 78 Washington 
Street. 

The Worcester Club arranged a luncheon 
meeting on March 5th at the Bancroft Hotel 
at which the guests of honor were Miss 
Eva A. Mooar, Director of Admissions, 
Miss Ellen Fernon, Social Director, Anna 
Canada Swain '11 and Jessie Monroe 
Williams '12, President of the Alumnae 
Association. President: Mrs. Leland L. 
.Atwood '17, 319 June Street, Worcester. 

The Fall River alumnae were enter- 
tained at tea at the home of Carrie T. 
Foulkes at 89 Hanover Street on February 
2nd. Anna Canada Swain and Gertrude 
Allen McConnell brought news of the alum- 
nae project. Plans were made to have a 
luncheon meeting for the Southeastern 
Massachusetts Club at the Pembroke Field 
House on March 12th. The Club comprises 
alumnae from Fall River, New Bedford, and 
Taunton, and the president is Grace A. 
Hopkins '24, 1 25 Whitehill Street, Taunton. 

The Hartford Club held a meeting on 
March 8th at the home of Marjorie Knopp 
Schor '27. Miss Mooar spoke and motion 
pictures of the College were shown. Twenty- 
one sub-freshmen from Hartford and vicin- 
ity attended. On March 19th the Club will 
have Its annual luncheon with Dean Morriss, 
Anna Canada Swain, and Jessie Monroe 
Williams as the guests. President: Mary 
W. Cushman '21, 839 Farmington Avenue, 
West Hartford. 

The New Haven alumnae had a supper 
meeting at the Y. W. C. A, on February 
13th. Dr. May Hall James, the Club's 
delegate to the Alumnae Council, gave an 
interesting report of the Council. Plans 
were made for a dinner at the Faculty Club 
on March 18th at which Dean Morriss, 



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Jessie Monroe Williams, and Anna Canada 
Swain will be the guests: and for a bridge 
to he held at the Faculty Club on April 
27th. President: Mrs. H. H. BuchoU '27, 
52 Pendleton Street, New Haven. 

The New York alumnae were entertained 
at the home of Helen Hcrj Schleifer "3 3 on 
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Semi-Centennial plans. President: Virginia 
Wright '28, 669 68th Street, Brooklyn. 

The Philadelphia alumnae had a Wash- 
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University Club with Dean Morriss as the 
guest of honor. President: Mrs. Harlan 
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delphia. 

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► ► Notes of the Ahiiiiiiae Classes 



Class ISoles 

> ► 1900— Mabel Le Valley Chapman is 
now located at Fort Bayard. New Mexico. 

1902 — Millicent Lecte Snow has the sym- 
pathy ot the alumnae in the loss oi her 
mother. 

1902 — Marguerite Reid Wctmore enter- 
tained the class at a fireside supper at her 
home in Pawtucket on February 26th. 

1905 — Mane L. Laviolette is occupying 
her new home at 398 Gaskill Street. Woon- 
socket. 

1905 — The class is planning to have a 
supper at the Pembroke Field House on 
March 19th. 

1912— Dorothy C. Walter and Elizabeth 
Walter Nelson '15 have the sympathy of 
the alumnae in the loss of their mother. 

1913— Ruth Rythcr Purdy's "Five 
Wives" is published in the March number 
of American Mercury. 

1913n — Mabel Ellinwood Stone is living 
on South View Drive, Oswego, Oregon. 
Her two sons are in college in the West. 

1915 — Marion Horton Brett visited the 



Scandinavian countries to make a study of 
the co-operative system there. She edits the 
AJortlifiort Journal at Northport, Long 
Island. 

1915 — Eluabeth Angell Colwell's be- 
loved old homestead in Scituate recently 
burned to the ground. 

1915 — L. Louise Cooper has purchased 
a summer home at Seaconnet. 

1915 — Marion Harley and Emelia Hem- 
pel had a "glorious reunion" in California 
with Edna Solinger Lyons and Blanche 
Schiller Hook and their families. They also 
visited Florence Southwick Simonds in 
Salem, Oregon. 

1915 — Ruth Thayer Hitchcock of Bris- 
tol, Conn., was one of the delegates to 
Alumnae Council. 

1915 — Ruth E. Norris has made another 
trip abroad and found that a iellow pas- 
senger on her ship was Marion Horton 
Brett. 

1915 — Irene Mathewson Richardson's 
son, Bruce, received the Harvard Club's 
scholarship for the freshman year at Harv- 
ard He prepared at Moses Brown. 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



1916 — Mary E- Longley has an office in 
the Bank Building. Room 5, Highland 
Park, 111. 

1919 — Ruth Huntington has resigned 
her teaching position in Stow, Mass., to 
keep house for her father at 441 Broad- 
way, Newport, R. I. She is very happy in 
her work and is enjoying the Pembroke 
Club there. 

1922 — Lucilc Rogers has changed her 



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offers VOCATIONAL GUID- 
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EXECUTIVES who have charge of 
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Graduates lor their Organuations. 



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155 Wcslniinsler St. 6 Wa.vland Square 



headquarters from Schenectady to 403 
Lloyd Avenue, Providence. Camp Che- 
quesset on Cape Cod, which she operates 
lor girls from 7 to 17, will open in .luly 
for its 25th season. 

1923 — Ruth Lothrop Thompson and 
family are located at 106 Croft Street, 
Greenville, S. C. 

1924 — Jane Luce Hobart is now living at 

13 24 Inverness Street, Pittsburgh, Penn. 

1924 — Grace A. Hopkins has moved into 

her new home at 2 5 Whitehall Street, 

Taunton. 

1924 — Charlotte Ferguson Roads ar- 
ranged an interesting visit for Miss Eva A. 
Mooar, Director of Admissions, to the high 
schools in and near the North Shore sec- 
tion. Charlotte is living at 7 Beach Street, 
Marblehead, Mass. 

1924 — Phyllis Stanley is president of the 
New York chapter of Sigma Delta Upsilon, 
national honorary scientific fraternity for 
women. 

1926 — Eunice Sharp has the sympathy 
of the alumnae in the death of her father. 
She is living at 367 Broadway, Chicopee 
Falls, Mass. 

1927 — Venetia Mott Rountree and her 
husband, Lieut. John Rountree, are sta- 
tioned in Alaska. They are living at 444 
Front Street, Ketchikan. 

1928 — Sylvia Berkiiian is doing graduate 
work at Radcliffe again thi.s year. 

1928 — Dr. Sarah Mazick is doing psy- 
cl-iatric work at the Massachusetts General 
Hospital. She is living at 40 Irving Street, 
Boston. 

1930 — Gertrude Carmichael is teaching 
in Winchester, Mass. She was a recent 
visitor at the Alumnae Office. 

1931 — Susan E. Demery is cataloging 
Roman law books in the Yale Law School 
Library and is enjoying the work immensely. 

193 3 — Dorothy Hanson Hughes reports 
that her three-year-old son has already 
learned to sing "We are ever true to 
Brown" and it won't be long before the 
baby is lisping it. She is living at 5 Crown 
Court, Mamaroneck, N. Y. 

1933 — Helen Her: Schleifer visited the 
.Mumnae Office last month. 

1934 — Cecelia Baker Dixon and her 
husband have moved from Schenectady to 
1828 Lampson Road, Cleveland. 

1934 — Marguerite Melville of Upper 
Montclair, N. J., stopped in at the Alumnae 
Office on her recent visit to Providence as 
did also Ruth Hobby Young of New 
Haven. 

193 5 — Kuo Ping CIiou is teaching at 
Yen Ching University. 

1936 — Ruth Adams is a copywriter in 
the fashion division of the Hecht Company 
in Washington, D. C. 

1937 — Dorothy Bliss is an assistant in 
the Natural Hi.story Museum in Boston. 

i i 
Births 

y 1921 — To Mr. and Mrs. Otto William 
Will (Elizabeth Pettibone), a second 
daughter and third child, Cynthia Petti- 
bone, on February 18, 1938. They are 
living at 51 Bounty Street, Metuchen, 
N.J. 

1927— To Mr. and Mrs. Leroy C. Milli- 
l;en (Marion B'een). a daughter, Anne, in 
November, 1937. The Millikens are living 
at Thornycroft Apartment, Garth Road, 
Scarsdale, N. Y. 



1927— To Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Nash 
(Doris Heaton), a second son and third 
child, Arthur Heaton. They are living at 
3 3 24 Newark Street. N. W., Washington 
D. C. 

1929— To Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. 
Wetherald (Avcrill Houghton), a son, 
Houghton, on February 3, 1938. The 
Wetheralds are living at 1 1 John Street, 
Providence. 

1930n — To Mr. and Mrs. Stevenson M. 
Gossage (Edith Chatfield), a son, Jonathan 
Frederick, on September 29, 1937. They 
are living at 38 Admiral Road, Toronto, 
Canada. 

1930— To Mr. and Mrs. John W. 
Spaeth, Jr. (Verna Follett), a second 
daughter, Jane Paula, on February 7, 
1938. The Spaeths are living at 36 Lawn 
Avenue, Middletown, Conn. 

1932— To Mr. and Mrs. H. Hamlin 
Hodges (Harriet Lawton), a son, David 
Lawton, on November 21, 1937. They are 
at 34 Oak Place. Bethesda, (Maryland), a 
suburb of Washington, D. C. 

193 2— To Mr. and Mrs. S. Abbott 
Hutchinson (Hazel Ives), a second daugh- 
ter. Hazel Chickering, on February 17, 
1938. The Hutchinsons are living at 13 
Humphrey Street, Marblehead, Ma.ss. 

1934 — To Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J. 
Russo (Josephine Tomasi), a son, Paul 
Anthony, on November 13, 1937. They arc 
living at 76 Laura Street. Providence. < 

Good W ishes from the Alumni 

y A mkssa(;e of encouragement to workers 
in the Semi-Centennial drive came last 
month from Brown men meeting in the 
annual session of the Advisory Council of 
the Associated Alumni. A resolution trans- 
mitted the tolhjwing good wishes: 

"Pembroke College, that part of the Uni- 
versity which has an enthusiasm and loyalty 
for old Brown no less fervid and abiding 
than our own, has inaugurated a campaign 
for much-needed funds, as a part of its semi- 
centennial. We say to these women, our 
sisters in this happy family: 'Your courage 
fortifies us all. May you succeed beyond 
your most sanguine expectations." " i 

The Semi-Cententtinl Gift 

► The Semi-Centennial Gift Committee 
reports that the results so far obtained are 
most encouraging. Gift committees in the 
various large cities are being organized. The 
New York Committee, of which Hilda M. 
Hoffman "24 is chairman, was particularly 
fortunate in having at the February meeting 
President and Mrs. Wriston. On this occa- 
sion Isabelle Scott Bollard "09 entertained 
the group at dinner at her home in Mont- 
clair. The committee consists of 30 members 
from New York and New Jersey. < 

Regional Scholarship Committee 

► The work for the Regional Scholarships 
this year is in charge of the following 
chairmen: 

Massachusetts and Northern New Eng- 
land — Marian Sweet "16, 11 Taplow 
Road, Boston 

Rhode Island— M. Grace Frost, "09, 5 5 
Dartmouth Avenue, Providence 

Connecticut, New York, and New 
Jersey— Dr. May Hall James "09, 70 
Howe Street, New Haven 

Pennsylvania and the South — Blanche 
M. Crapo "07, 1741 P Street, N. W., 
Washington, D. C. 

Middle and Far West — Mrs. Roy V. 
Coffey "09 (Hazel Buckey), 5626 
Chamberlain Avenue, St. Louis ^ 



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School & Camp 

DIRECTORY 

NEW ENGLAND — BOYS 
HEBRON ACADEMY 

Thorough collef;e preparatimi fur hovs al modrrals 
cost. 75 Hebron hovs freshiiirii in €ulle(;e ihis year. 
For '^Lifp at Hebron" address Ralph L. Hunt* 
Box C, Heobon, Mb. 

WILLISTON ACADEMY 

Unusual educational opportunities al modest cost. 
Over ISO graduates in 40 cullf^es. NVw recrea* 
lional center, gym, pool. Separate Junior School. 
A. V. GALBnAiTii, Ro\. 3, Eastiiamiton, Mass. 

MOSES BROWN SCHOOL 

Help and iiiEpir;iliun fur e.icli but a century-old 
tradition, Lxcelleiit college record. Secluded l!S-acrs 
campus. Tool. Lower School, Moderate tuition, 
L. R. Thomas, 293 Hope St., Providence, R. 1. 

MIDDLE ATLANTIC — BOYS 
GEORGE SCHOOL 

A Friends' Coeducational H... inline Srhuul. Modern 
curriculum, 85 graduates entered -11 colleges in 1937. 
Endowment. C. A. U ALTON, A.M., I'ldNciPAL, Box 
267, Ceorce School, Pa. 

FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL 
ACADEMY 

A widely reco^ni^ed, moderately priced preparatory 
school. Junior dept. £. M, Haiitman, I'a.D., Box 
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BLAIR ACADEMY 

Excellent preparation for coil(-t;e. Small classes. 
Culliviition of initiative and s^lt-relianre. (iS miles 
from N«w York, Chahles H. Bheed, Box 20, 
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MIDDLE WEST — BC5yS 
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Single rooms. Stron| faculty. Individual attention. 
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REACHING 
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