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" Maiia'iemcnl, produclioii, sales problems — llicse 
alone are evoiis^li lo keep »ie eoiislaiilly oit Ihe 
jump. Add Ihe Irips I have lo lake — al least eiJlil 
or leii a year — and you can see I simply haven't 
lime lo think about my securities, let alone i^ive 
them the careful study they demand. That's why 
I've turned them over lo the Trust Company." 

i HIS man's situation is typical of many busi- 
ness men today. In care of tlie Trust Company 
under so-called Agency Service, his securities are 
given continuous supervision . . . income is col- 
lected and credited to his account . . . called 
bonds are presented for payment when due, and 
all such routine matters promptly cared for. 



In addition each security is analyzed and the 
account as a whole is studied to see that it is 
properly balanced as between stocks and bonds. 
When changes seem advisable he receives recom- 
mendations botli as to sales and purchases. 

In fact, he has nothing more to do than to pass 
on these recommendations which are only carried 
out upon his written approval. He keeps full 
control and may, at any time, take out any or all 
of his securities. 

If you wish to be relieved of the burden of 
caring for your investments, we suggest that you 
discuss our Agency Service with one of our 
officers. 



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BROWN 

ALUMNI MONTHLY 



PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND 

APRIL, 1938 
VOL. XXXVIII NUMBER 9 



► ► The March of Tune at Brown 

by JAMES P. ADAMS 

One of the high spots of the annual meeting of the Advisory Council of the Associated 
Alumni was Vice President Adams' presentation of "The March of Time at Brown." 
Although Dr. Adams was not spea\ing from a manuscript, he has assisted the preparation 
of the following free paraphase of his tal\. There have been many requests for its publica- 
tion, for it gives a swift survey of the filivsical changes u'hich the Brown campus has 
seen in recent years. 



► ► This title, "The March of Time 
at Brown," was selected for me without 
regard for trespasses on copyright, hut 
it has a dramatic connotation, a high 
standard to live up to, and I have been 
cast in the role of impresario. It sounded 
so good, in fact, that one of the local 
radio stations applied for broadcasting 
rights. But if there is anything dramatic 
in what I have to say, it will not be be- 
cause of my intentions. 

I have been asked to take you on ,i 
brief tour of the campus as it is today, 
so that each of you may note some of the 
changes which have taken place since 
you left College Hill. 

It is only natural for me to start from 
the Administration Building — to which, 
however, I assure you we shall return. 
We pass through the Van Wickle Gates, 
and before us is the fairest jewel in our 
collection, — University Hall. Built m 
1770 and thus 168 years old, it is the 
heart of our campus and the expression 
of our tradition. For 52 years it was the only building at 
Brown, housing all of its young but varied life and activity. 
It underwent renovation in 1835, returned to something 
like its original Colonial exterior in 1905, and now is 
promised a proper restoration throughout through the gift 
of $100,000 from an anonymous friend of Brown and 
admirer of old U. H. In it now are certain administrative 
offices, departmental and faculty offices, and residential 
quarters for a few. 

To the north stands Hope College, its junior by only a 
half-century, which now houses 96 students. It is in need 
of the same kind of restoration that is assured for Uni- 
versity Hall. 

Between these two buildings is the Greek Temple of 
18.i4. Manning Hall, which, symboluing in its style the in- 
terest of Brown m learning and religion, was given the place 
of honor between the two utilitarian structures then stand- 
ing. In the minds of the men of 1834, this trio of buildings 
was to be the campus for all time. Johnny Green used to 
refer irreverently to its "Greco-Baptist" architecture, but he 




The f ice President 



was fond of it, as we all are. It affords 
lecture rooms today, where the Univer- 
sity chapel and library once were located, 
and we took out this year the last rem- 
nants of cathedral iixtures and set plain 
glass in the windows. 

To the south of University Hall we 
come to Slater Hall, a "Congregational- 
Victorian" structure. Today it houses 
32 students. Its fraternities have long 
since left it. 

► The Quaker gray edifice at the south 
end of the Front Campus shows very 
little change since the time when you 
were in College. I mean that we haven't 
done anything to Rhode Island Hall 
except wash the windows. It houses the 
Departments of Geology and Philoso- 
phy, not a bad combination. It helps 
the geologists keep their heads in the air, 
and helps the philosophers keep their feet 
on the ground. Its name is appropriate 
because it had an important part in the 
founding of Rhode Island State College. 
The agricultural course, which brought Brown the Federal 
grant, was attached to this building, until agriculture went 
to Kingston. 

At the north end of the Middle Campus we iind Faunce 
House, a bee-hive of activity. It is in constant daily use, 
and I wish I could take time to tell you what goes on in 
that building on an average day. In the Art Galler>', you 
might find — as today — pictures from the student lending 
library of reproductions of old and new masters, the Poland 
Memorial Collection, from which the undergraduate may 
borrow facsimiles of the best in art for his dormitory walls. 
In Faunce House Theatre Sock and Buskin has finished 
giving "The School for Scandal," a classic revival, and 
will soon present a world premiere of Christopher Morley's 
"The Trojan Horse," dramatized by an undergraduate. 
The French Club play some of you saw last night, and 
tonight the regular Saturday night movie show is free to 
all students. 

We have striven to provide ,[ better atmosphere this 
year in the Faunce House Dinmg Rooms, and the new 



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Pine Room especially is a fine influence, for the student 
may sit there for a leisurely, civilized meal with good china, 
good silver, and good linen to supplement good food. The 
Alumni Office you know, and the student activities in this 
building you can imagine. 

► The next building we encounter is Rogers Hall, soon 
to be vacated by the Department of Chemistry. The oldest 
building in continual service for the study of chemistry in 
this country, it was the first laboratory on the campus. I 
cannot yet answer the question, "What are you going to 
do with it now?" But 16 uses have been advanced for 
Rogers Hall already, and plans for rehabilitation inside 
and out are in progress. 

In Sayles Hall, the auditorium is still used twice each 
week for Chapel Services. The Sophomores and Freshmen 
attend on Tuesday and the Seniors and Juniors on Thursday. 
The services are held at noon. These assemblies ofl^er us an 
opportunity to bring together, in two sessions, the entire 
undergraduate body. In the Chapel Exercises themselves 
we try to give expression to two great traditions at Brown 
— a respect for and an appreciation of the influence of 
religion and of religious ideals upon the lives of men down 
through the ages and today and a second tradition which we 
share as a spiritual heritage from Roger Williams — free- 
dom of conscience within a civil state which found its ex- 
pression in our own Charter in the memorable words, "all 
the Members hereof shall forever enjoy full free absolute 
and uninterrupted Liberty of Conscience." 

Two new portraits on the walls of Sayles — one of Pro- 
fessor William Carey Poland and the other of Professor 
Walter Goodnow Everett, who has been taken from us in 
the interval since his portrait was unveiled at the last 
Commencement. 

An old friend in Sayles Hall is showing signs of infirmity 
and age. It is the organ, which still has excellent tonal qual- 
ities, but needs a new console and reconstruction. 

► Just outside we encounter a group of young men around 
a table. It is the campus network, the Brown Broadcasting 
System, in action conducting sidewalk interviews. After 
the man at the microphone has finished the program called 
"Man on the Campus," we will have news flashes direct 
from the editorial rooms of the Brown Daily Herald, music, 
lectures, dramatic sketches, almost anything. 

Wilson Hall, nearby, houses the Departments of Physics 
and Mathematics, another appropriate combination. There 
was a time when Physics represented a descriptive study of 
certain phenomena which are related in some way to the 
physical universe. Now the explanation of these phenomena 
in the language of modern Physics looks like the offspring of 
the Greek alphabet and a logarithm table. 

At the John Carter Brown, we are reminded of the 
inscription written over a similar entrance: "This is not 
the library; the library is within." This is one of the choicest 
material possessions of the University. I wonder if you 
know that the catalogue of Harvard University has this 
notation with regard to Cambridge: "Only 40 miles from 
the John Carter Brown Library." Scholars from all over 
the world are constantly passing through its door to the 
treasures within. 

Maxcy Hall, which houses the Botany Department, has 
been taken from the undergraduates, and 35 graduate 
students have accommodations there. But I always think 
of the remark attributed to Dr. Mead, replying when some 
colleague asked about the fire apparatus he had seen on the 



campus. "Oh," said the Vice Precidcnt, "it was M.ixcy H.dl, 
and I sent them home." 

> At Littlefield Hall, named in memory of George L. Little- 
field and housing 76 students, we are reminded that all 
dormitory rooms on the campus are now furnished, and the 
furniture stays there. The pieces are uniform and are 
based on furniture designed for M. I. T., some of it said to 
be "indestructible in four positions." This is only one way 
m which we have attempted to add quality to residential 
life at Brown. 

The Lyman Gymnasium, which we next approach, will 
be thrown open soon so that the alumni hereabout may have 
the use of the equipment, including the pool, one night a 
week. And that reminds me — if any of you alumni attend 
auctions and encounter a square end for a swimming pool 
anywhere, please buy it and give it to us. 

Near the Metcalf Chemical Laboratory, the new build- 
ing for the Chemical Research Laboratory makes amazing 
progress. It is the gift of Mr. Jesse H. Metcalf, donor of 
the other building, and its dedication is planned for Decem- 
ber 28, 1938, when notables in the field will be on the Brown 
campus for the Symposium of Physical Chemists to be held 
here. 

We haven't time to explore the Engineering Building, 
the Engineering Laboratory, or the Highway Engineering 
Laboratory. These buildings bristle with the activity of 
preparing young engineers for the world outside. As we 
pass Marston Hall, down on Manning Street, — the centre 
of the Romance Languages and Germanic Languages, we 
remark that here at Brown we have the headquarters for the 
Linguistic Atlas of the LInited States and Canada, which is 
investigating language origins and patterns. 

Three dormitories are next on our itinerary — Hegeman 
Hall, our finest dormitory; Brunonia, which houses 32 stu- 
dents as compared with Hegeman's 86; and Caswell, home 
of 72 undergraduates. For Caswell Hall, too, reconstruction 
is planned, and here, as in some of the other dormitories, we 
hope to provide lounges and commons rooms somehow or 
other. 

► The Arnold Laboratory, which seemed so commodious 
once, is already too small. A frame building next to it, 
formerly a residence, has been converted into an annex of 
the biological laboratory. Three other old houses in the 
same group accommodate the Psychological Laboratory and 
its Annex, and the Education Building. You will appre- 
ciate the importance of the Psychology Department today 
Vv^hen I tell you that there were 700 elections in the depart- 
ment this year, as compared with only 75 a little more than 
a decade ago. 

I can envision a new building to replace these antiquated 
converted dwellings, a building designed from the start for 
its educational function. I can see the Waterman Street 
frontage of the campus completed with the extension of the 
memorial fence and a fine stretch of lawn. In the mean- 
time, we make ingenious use of our makeshifts. For instance, 
we converted a former coal bin into a dark room. In that 
vjay we saved paint — but it increases our water bills. 

You would be surprised at our Brown Zoo, made up of 
animals used in biological and psychological research. Did 
you know that the Brown campus is the rabbit centre of the 
world for the study of genetics? It is, and noted for the 
finest strain of rabbits anywhere, pure blooded now for 25 
years. The rabbit population is so large, in fact, that some 
of the animals have to be given room and board out in East 
Providence. The University Greenhouse is not an adjunct. 



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VNiyERSITY HALL: 
"The heart of our cainput 
and the expression of our 
traditions." 




Farther from the campus is the Ladd Observatory, centre 
of a great deal of student and community interest in astron- 
omy. Members of the Providence Skyscrapers, an amateur 
group, designed and produced a Schmidt camera which 
Professor Smiley used with satisfaction in Peru during the 
last important solar eclipse. The Art Building, the Art 
Studio, and the Mural Studio make another centre of 
inspiration under the guidance of a professor who is also an 
artist of first rank. The students can not only have his 
guidance in appreciation but also see him at work on im- 
portant commissions. 

► Of the plans to convert the present Faculty Club into the 
University infirmary, to be known as Andrews House, you 
have doubtless read. The benefactor who has made this 
possible (Dr. Charles H. Hare '85) is with us here today. 
To afford new quarters for the Faculty Club, the University 
has purchased the Zachariah Allen House as you know, and 
in a few days we shall announce publicly the receipt of a 
gift of the John Ormsbee Ames House at Power and Brook 
Streets, which will provide residential quarters for bachelor 
members of the Faculty. 

We found ourselves suddenly in need of new dormitory 
accommodations this past fall. The Music Department and 
the Department of University Extension had been pre- 
viously moved to the residence between the Delta Phi fra- 
ternity house and the Administration Building so that Pros- 
pect House could take care of dormitory needs of 29 
students. The former Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity house 
at 57 Waterman Street is now a University dormitory, 
housing 1 7 students. And we had to buy another house on 
George Street, and today George House houses JO students 
and a lot of noise, as one would expect from Freshmen. 

To the Brown Gymnasium, the Outing Reservation, and 
the remodeled Boat House on the Seekonk, shortly to be 
finished, we can pay only passing attention at the moment. 
And we return, past the John Hay Library. It is pretty 
close to the heart of the Administration right now because 
of the facilities needed there so badly. Every time we look 
across from the Administration Building, we expect to see 
books oozing out of the John Hay. We have improved the 
lighting, and reading rooms, and it is used more today than 
ever before. We have had to put some books in storage 



elsewhere, but there are plans which we must put into 
effect in the immediate future, one of them because of a 
conditional gift. 

► And so we come back at last, as we promised we should, 
to the Administration Building. 

Come right inside. It will be a very great pleasure for us 
to talk with you about some of your memories of College 
Days — to share with you our own pride in the history and 
traditions of this old University and in her achievements 
during those 174 years — to tell you of some of our dreams 
of a future which will be worthy of her past — to talk with 
you concerning her plans and policies, her hopes and aspira- 
tions — to discuss with you some of her problems, some of 
her needs, and to point out to you ways and means by 
which you can continue to be of service to the University — 
to that which Dr. Faunce had in mind when he said, "The 
University is a collective memory and a collective hope." 

When Mr. Chafee (Zechariah Chafee, member of the 
Board of Fellows who was present) was graduated in 1 880, 
Brown University was an undergraduate college for men, 
then 116 years old. The campus consisted of University 
Hall, Hope College, Manning Hall, Rhode Island Hall, 
Rogers Hall, the Old Library Building, and Slater Hall. The 
Faculty of the University consisted of the President, 13 
Professors, 2 Assistant Professors, and 6 Instructors and 
others. The student body numbered 58 Seniors, 50 Juniors, 
65 Sophomores, 71 Freshman, — a total of 244. 

Today Brown University consists of three co-ordinate 
subdivisions: The College, Pembroke College, and the Grad- 
uate School. University Hall, which was the original Col- 
lege Edifice, is now but the premier of 43 buildings devoted 
to educational purposes, not including 10 buildings devoted 
to educational purposes at Pembroke College. The Faculty 
consists of 38 Professors, 42 Associate Professors, 41 Assist- 
ant Professors, 42 Instructors, 74 Assistants, and 32 other 
officers of administration and instruction, — a total of 269. 
The enrollment is: The College, 1,331; Pembroke College 
468; The Graduate School 330; making a total of 2,129. 

The endowment of the University is $11,000,000. The 
income of the University is $1,760,000. 

At Brown University, too,— TIME MARCHES ON! 



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Concerning "Curriculi Curricula" 



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BY A "BROWNBROKER" 

► ► In past years the diary of Brown University has been 
spattered with events that were both dark and bright. The 
fortune of the University has been discussed pro and con, 
and the bright spots have illuminated the discussions. How- 
ever, one shining hght has not received its just due. 

In February, 193 >, a meeting was held in the Pembroke 
Cafeteria to plan a show for the Komian's carnival. A girl, 
Carolyn Troy '35, met two boys, Burt Shevelove '37 and 
Wally Goets "36. Each had conceived the idea of a musical 
show and each had written music in high hopes. Carolyn 
had written the popular "Patch Up My Heart," and her 
co-conspirators had concocted "Poor Me." Starting with 
their idea and the addition of Billie Holdsvvorth, Pembroke 
'36, Jackie Gage, Pembroke '35, Bob McLeod and Charley 
Moss '35, and Gino Di Marco '36, the adventurers held 
volcanic executive meetings until permission for the show 
was granted by the Dean. 

A production was more or less thrown together under the 
direction of the committee and Professor Botsford, the 
Faculty Brownbroker. Of course, there was trouble and 
discouragement; there has been ever since, but on May 10, 
1935, the original Brownbrokers went on the boards, and 
was received as a success. Its title, "Somethin' Bruin," was 
more significant than at first thought, for somethin' certainly 
was brewin'. 

At the same time of year in 1936, the Junior Prom week- 
end, the second Brownbroker show was given to an expect- 
ant audience, and the success of the year-old organization 
assured. The experience of 1935 proved invaluable, for 
application of law and order to rehearsals and meetings 
aided the directors to present "The Road to Bruin," remem- 
bered for the song "The Moon Hangs High," and for such 
numbers as "Boy Gets Girl," "Hangover," "Let's Begin 
Again," and "I Played Football for the Browns." 

Like Glenn Cunningham, the Brownbrokers do better 
at regular intervals. 1937 rolled around in short order to 
see the new show, "Man About Brown" with Burt Sheve- 
love and Harold Greenspan responsible for all that hap- 
pened and with Charlie Farrell doing wonders along the 
musical side. Cleverness was the keynote offset by new 
dance steps and truly topical songs by the campus experts. 
Among the best skits and numbers were "Is There a Doctor 
in the House?", "Swing Into Spring," "When Do We 
Start?", and "Gay Young Blades" with the Bengal Lancers. 
Its popularity is vouched for by the great number of tryouts 
for this year's show. 

► Now, Harvard has its Hasty Pudding Club, Princeton its 
Triangle Club, and Brown its Brownbrokers, all of which 
produce annual shows that are successes. The main point 
is that the first two receive not only the support of the 
undergraduate body, but also of many of their alumni. 
Brownbrokers wants to add its contribution to the work of 
making Brown known to everyone. The interest of the 
alumni is essential for this, and in our proposition such 
interest would he profitable. 

We suggest that Brownbrokers be put on the road under 
the auspices of the Brown Clubs. By bringing the produc- 
tion to your city, renting a theatre or an auditorium, and 
by advertising among the public, you will be aiding Brown 
University — and, incidentally, your Club will keep the 




!>HUn ll\ THE J\I.4Kl!\a: Three of the Brown- 
brokers study the final draft of ''Curriculi Curricula." 

profits. The funds should be welcome aid in your com- 
mendable work of setting up scholarships, and the Brown- 
brokers organi:;ation is more than willing to be of such 
service. 

Can't we pass this amusing collection of collegiate tom- 
foolery around and make it a little more than a campus 
activity? Let us know how you feel about the idea, and if 
you doubt the success of the show, make a reservation at 
the Faunce House Theatre for May 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7 to see 
the current production, "Curriculi — Curricula." Mean- 
while, please keep our suggestion in mind. We really mean 
It. i i 

An Assislfint Director of Admissions 

► WiLLi.AM KiRKPATRiCK Selden, formerly assistant to 
the dean of the faculty and to the dean of the college at 
Princeton, took office on April 1 as assistant director of 
admissions at Brown University. 

Dr. Bruce M. Bigelow, director of admissions, will con- 
tinue to be in charge of the admissions office and will con- 
tinue as chairman of the faculty Committee on Admissions, 
Dean Samuel T. Arnold said when the appointment was 
first announced. 

A graduate of Princeton in the class of 1934, Mr. Selden 
prepared for college at the Gilman Country Day School 
in Baltimore. At Princeton Mr. Selden received honors in 
the Department of Political Sciences and in the School of 
Public and International Affairs. He was business manager 
of the Daily Pnncetonian. 

From 1934 until last year, Mr. Selden was on the staff 
at Princeton as assistant to the dean of the faculty and to 
the dean of the college. i 

The Tenth in Line 

► When Charles C. Tillinghast 3rd, son of Charles C. 
Tillinghast Jr. '32 and grandson of Dr. Charles C. Til- 
linghast '06, grows up and joins a Baptist church he will 
be the tenth generation in a direct Baptist descent. Missions 
for March is authority for this statement. It also said in a 
paragraph under a picture of young Mr. Tillinghast, who 
will be two years old next November: 

"Three Baptist ministers are in the direct ancestral line 
and many in the family branch lines. One of the direct 



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ancestors was a close friend of Roger Williams and helped 
the apostle of religious liberty erect the first meeting house 
of the historic First Baptist Church in Providence, Rhode 
Island. Among the more than a million Northern Baptists, 
there is probably no person, infant, child, boy, girl, youth, 
maid, man or woman who can point to so long and dis- 
tinguished a Baptist ancestry. This Tillinghast baby will 
have to do some fast mental arithmetic whenever he tries 
to say that his great-great-great-great-great-great-great- 
grandfather was a Baptist." . . . Dr. Tillinghast, the grand- 
father, is chairman of the Administrative Committee of the 
Council on Finance and Promotion of the Northern Baptist 
Convention, headmaster of the Horace Mann School for 
Boys and an Alumni Trustee of Brown. The father is now 
an assistant to Thomas E. Dewey in the District Attorney's 
Office, New York City. i 



► Fun, Money or Marbles 

The Librtiry's Officinl Friends 

► ► Previously it had been a reasonable hypothesis that 
the library of Brown University had friends in the com- 
munity and among the alumni. Now it has some officially 
and avowedly. Before long it will have many more, for 
they have organized their friendship and announced some 
plans which sound very attractive, both from the stand- 
point of the individuals and the library'. 

The new organization had been feeling its way along 
for several weeks and after the first meeting on March 23 rd 
is inviting others to join with it. Its prospectus says, "This 
is a society of persons who are lovers of books, interested 
in the Library of Brown University and its growing useful- 
ness." It has an advisory committee of 27 men, besides seven 
officers, and the list includes some Vijho are not college men, 
as well as alumni of Williams, Amherst, Penn, Haverford, 
Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and Dartmouth. While Brown 
men predominate, their geographical distribution is wide. 

Twenty-one members of the Friends of the Library were 
present at the first meeting, held at the home of Henry D. 
Sharpe '94, Chancellor of the University. They participated 
in discussion of many topics which indicated the breadth 
of interest among the Friends and heard from Carleton D. 
Morse 'l,^ of Boston, the chairman, of accomplishments by 
similar groups centred in other university libraries. 

► While he said that the Friends could not be considered 
as having an official connection with the University, Vice 
President James P. Adams nevertheless congratulated the 
members and welcomed the formation of the society. He 
hoped that the prime purpose of the Friends would be to 
get abundant personal pleasure from such an affiliation, 
and he predicted that each man would discover, if he did 
not already know, what he most enjoys. A wide, useful 
influence would thus indirectly strengthen the Library 
itself. 

He was glad, he said, that the organization was the result 
of spontaneous interest from outside the official family 
of the University. He added, "Another pleasing aspect of 
the plan which you have evolved is that membership is not 
confined to Brown men. The Friends of the Library offers 
an opportunity to manifest a friendly interest in the library 
resources of the community to many friends of the Uni- 
versity whose primary academic interests lie elsewhere." 

The guiding spirit, he hoped, would be "to enlarge the 
usefulness of the Library of Brown University by ways 



and means which will appeal to the individual interest and 
the personal taste of each Friend." It seemed to Dr. Adams 
that "the success of this organization will be assured if 
each member can find in it an opportunity to serve the 
interests of the Library in a way which represents his own 
intellectual interests and gives him the maximum amount 
of personal pleasure." 

► A SIMILAR idea seemed to be in the mind of Librarian 
H. B. Van Hoesen, whom the Friends named as their 
honorary chairman. Responding, he said : 

"The Friends of the Library game may be played for fun, 
money or marbles. The fun should be in talking, reading, 
and collecting for the Library according to your individual 
interests and pleasures. The money and marbles go to the 
Library which, like the rest of the University, exists and has 
developed by the generosity of friends. About 40% of our 
acquisitions for the past forty years have been gifts of books, 
and in the early days, in 1772, the 250 books in the Library 
were such as our friends could best spare. 

"Being invited to look over a housecleaning job of piles 
of books variously destined for the John Hay Library, the 
Historical Society, the Public Library, etc. and the waste- 
basket, I chose the waste-basket first and found Lord Tim- 
othy Dexter's Pic^ie for the Knowing Ones. Among other 
interesting items brought in to try out our suggestion that 
the Library liked books from the attic was an early New 
Hampshire imprint (1795) which did not appear in the 
catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library', the American 
Antiquarian Society, or our depository catalogue of the 
Library of Congress. The Huntington Library, in San 
Marino, California, was able to supply the missing pages 
by photostats from their copy. In the recent gift from 
Madeleine Ames and Frank Mauran more than thirty 
quaint juveniles used by Sullivan Dorr, father of Thomas 
W. Dorr, and many of them had an additional special inter- 
est as items of early American poetry. 

► "No, we do not keep everything. Many volumes of 
American poetry turn out to he duplicates of books already 
in our Harris Collection (now over 100,000 items) and, 
valuable as old text books are when collected in sufficient 
numbers to illustrate the history of methods of teaching, 
there are times when enough is as good as a feast, and a 
complete series of 'stereotype' editions seems more than a 
feast. 

"Still, surprisingly little goes to the waste-basket. We 
return our discards to the donors in the occasional instances 
when this is desired, we sell at nominal prices to individual 
scholars — our income from this source last year was nearly 
$275.00 — and we exchange with other libraries in various 
parts of the United States and abroad. The exchange system 
may be actually a piece-for-piece exchange, or may be only 
nominally so. From several institutions we have got more 
that we gave, from several we have got merely thanks and 
the assurance that we had materially assisted a struggling 
institution. In any case, our efforts to find a home for dis- 
carded books are neither profitless nor vain." 

Dr. Van Hoesen cited tv^-o methods of building a library : 
one of building to weakness, of plugging gaps so that it can 
perform a general service ; the other of building to strength, 
to give certain specialties a national eminence. He read an 
interesting circular of the Library's needs, issued in 1843, 
showing even then a building of its preeminence in 
Americana. 

(Continued on pa:ic 2?9.J 



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Playing the Game < 

Spring Sports Attractions 

► ► Sixty-six contests, arranged for Brown spring sports 
teams, were announced last month, promising good compe- 
tition in baseball, track, tennis, and golf. Missing this year 
is the sport of lacrosse, which was dropped by the Athletic 
Council as an economy measure, although undergraduates 
were still attempting to find a way of overcoming the finan- 
cial difficulties in their way of fielding a team. 

Baseball got the earliest start, despite the fact that its 
first listed game — with Lowell Textile — was rained out. 
An April 13 meeting with Rhode Island at Kingston saw 
the Brown team shut out, 6-0, but there will be few teams 
as good as State College on the rest of the schedule, which 
includes: April 16, Boston College at Providence. April 19 
— Holy Cross at Worcester. April 23 — Amherst at Am- 
herst. April 27 — Yale at New Haven. April 30— Holy 
Cross at Providence. May 4 — Dartmouth at Hanover. 
May 7 — Providence College at Aldrich Field. May 11 — 
Yale at Providence. May 14 — Providence College at 
Hendricken Field. May 18 — Harvard at Cambridge. May 
21 — Rhode Island at Providence. May 25 — Tufts at Med- 
ford. May 28 — Long Island at Providence. May 30 — 
Harvard at Providence. June 4 — Tufts at Providence. 
June 14 — University of Virginia. 

Other schedules were announced at follows: Freshman 
Baseball: April 27, Andover at Andover; 30, Worcester 
Academy; May 2, Harvard Fresh.; 11, Providence College 
Fr. at Hendricken Field; 14, Rhode Island Fr.; 18, Provi- 
dence College at Aldrich Field; 20, Holy Cross Fr.; 2>, 
Rhode Island Fr. at Kingston. 

Varsity Track: April 16, Rhode Island; 23, H>ly Cross; 
30, New Hampshire at Durham; May 7, Amherst; 14, 
M. I. T. at Cambridge; 20 and 21, New England Inter- 
collegiates; June 3 and 4, I. C. A. A. A. A. at Randall's Island, 
New York. Freshman Track: April 22, Rhode Island Fr. ; 
29, Holy Cross Fr.; May 7, Amherst Fr; 14, M. I. T. Fr. 
at Cambridge; 18, New Hampshire Fr.; 20 and 21, New 
England Intercollegiates. 

Varsity Tennis: April 22, Colby; 23, Vermont; 26, 
Bates; 30, Providence College; May 4. Harvard at Cam- 
bridge; 6, Colgate; 9, 10 and 11, New England Intercol- 
legiates at Hartford; 12, Tufts at Medford; 14, Amherst 
at Amherst; 16, M. I. T.; 24, Rhodt- Island; 28, Wesleyan. 
Freshman Tennis: April 30, Worcester Academy; May 7, 
M. I. T. Fr.; 14, Tufts Fr.; 23, Cranston high school. 

Varsity golf: April 22, Colby; 25, Tufts; May 7. Dart- 
mouth and Harvard, Boston: May 13, Williams, Willinm=i- 
town; May 14, Yale and Holy Cross, Williamstown. May 
16, M. I. T.; May 20, 21, N. E. Golf Association. Water- 
town; May 23, Worcester Poly; May 27, Wesleyan; 
Amherst, pending. i i 

Future Football Schedules 

► ► H.^RVARD, Columbia, Dartmouth, and Lafayette, 
booked to meet Brown in the 1938 football season, do not 
appear on the 1939 schedule, which was announced in 
mid-April by the University Athletic Council. In their 
stead Princeton, Amherst, Colgate, and Rutgers are down 
for games. Announcement was also made that Brown and 
Wesleyan will meet in 1940 and 1941 in a home and home 
exchange. 



The 1938 schedule, previously announced, is as follows: 
Sept. 24 — Connecticut State at Providence. Oct. 1 — Har- 
vard at Cambridge. Oct. 8 — Lafayette at Providence. 
Oct. 15 — Dartmouth at Hanover. Oct. 22 — Rhode Island 
at Providence. Oct. 29 — Tufts at Providence. Nov. 5 — 
Yale at New Haven. Nov. 11 — Holy Cross at Worcester. 
Nov. 24 — Columbia at Providence. 

While the majority of those foes will encounter the 
Brunonians the following year, several of them appear at 
new spots on the schedule, which is as follows: Sept. 30 — 
Rhode Island at Providence. Oct. 7 — Amherst at Provi- 
dence. Oct. 14 — Colgate at Hamilton. Oct. 21 — Holy 
Cross at Providence. Oct. 28 — Princeton at Princeton. 
Nov. 4 — Tufts at Providence. Nov. 11 — Yale at New 
Haven. Nov. 18 — Connecticut at Providence. Nov. 30 — 
Rutgers at Providence. 

The break in Harvard-Brown games, beginning in 1939, 
is not the first since the teams began their long relationship. 
They have, however, met every season since 1893, with the 
exception of 1905, 1928, 1929, 1930, and 1931. 

Brown, which has not met Wesleyan on the gridiron 
since 1914, had previous to that year played 11 games of 
football with each other, the Bear winning 10 of the 12. 
Wesleyan won in 1890, the initial year, 34 to 6 and in 
1912, 7 to 6. The 1940 game will be in Middletown on 
Sept. 26, the 1941 exchange in Providence on Sept. 27, 
both games opening the Brown schedules. 

Sixty-nine candidates had been invited to participate in 
Brown's spring football practice sessions, starting April 6. 

4 i 

Host to Champions 

► ► A hundred crack schoolboy athletes and several 
thousand supporters from the six New England States set 
a number of records at the Brown Gymnasium on March 
17, 18, and 19 when the University was host, on behalf 
of the State of Rhode Island, to the 14th annual New 
England basketball championship tournament. With hun- 
dreds each night unable to gain entrance to the gym, record 
crowds of 4000 watched the keenly contested games, from 
which Manchester High of Connecticut emerged the 
winner. 

While 1500 partisans who had traveled 65 miles with 
them cheered them on, the Connecticut champions nosed 
out the Pawtucket High five in the final 28-26 after making 
up a six-point deficit in the last thrilling minutes. Previ- 
ously Manchester had defeated Naugatuck of Connecticut. 
38-33, and Portsmouth of New Hampshire 47-36, while 
Pawtucket's victims had been Westfield, Mass., 43-29, and 
Chelsea, Mass., 36-25. Other entries, which had gained 
the championship flight in local eliminations, were Spauld- 
ing of Barre, Vt., and Winslow, Me. Prominent in the 
conduct of the tournament was the former Brown celebrity, 
E. B. Danzell, Jr. '26, chief referee. 

Opportunities for entertainment were not too many, for 
the boys were at Brown on a serious errand, all of them. 
Still the University extended a hospitable welcome that 
made a fine impression. Chief event was the fellowship 
luncheon in Faunce House on Friday, at which Vice Presi- 
dent James P. Adams extended the greetings of Brown and 
Director of Admissions Bruce M. Bigelow was the princi- 
pal speaker. A tour of the campus followed, with an im- 
portant stop at the engineering laboratory' of Professor 
Frederick N. Tompkins, who put some electrons to work 
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But one of the principal attractions was unscheduled. 
The boys discovered that one of the undergraduate waiters 
at Faunce House was none other than Harry Piatt, Brown's 
Sophomore basketball star, and they kept him busy for a 
full hour signing his autograph for them. Piatt, whose 
average of 21.26 points a game during the recent 19-game 
season was high for New England, had the second highest 
average in the country, trailing only Francella of Wooster 
but leading such notables at Jaworski of Rhode Island, 
Chuckovits of Toledo, and Luisetti of Stanford, the only 
players in the country to average better than 15 points 
a game. < < 

A Distinction from France 

► ► Prof. Harcourt Brown, chairman of the Depart- 
ment of Romance Languages and Literatures at Brown 
University, has been granted the Pnx Moulin, honorary 
award for distinctive scholarly research, by the Academie 
des Sciences, Arts et Belles Lettres at Caen, France. The 
award, seldom made to an American, includes a stipend of 
2,000 francs, and a corresponding membership in the 
Academy. 

In a letter from Abbe L. Tolmen, president of the French 
academy. Prof. Brown was told that he has been selected 
for the award this year for hts paper on the life and times 
of Andre Graindorge, French physician and secretary of 
the academy from 1666 until 1672. The institution is one 
of the oldest in France. 

Prof. Brown came to write as he did after discovering an 
unknown collection of Dr. Graindorge's letters, which 
identified the physician as the secretary of the academy. At 
the time Prof. Brown was spending four months in research 
in Florence during the winter of 19.i4-.i5, being a traveling 
Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies. 

The letters revealed little known facts of French medical 
practices of the times, comment on the political history of 
the surrounding country, and other information concerning 
the intellectual, social and cultural life of the academy. 

Prof. Brown's prize-winning paper was written during 



his first months at Brown this year, following his appoint- 
ment as chairman of the Department of Romance Languages 
and Literatures. He was assisted by Dr. Franc P. G. 
Thenaud, instructor, and by Albert J. George of Lexington, 
Mass., graduate student and Morgan Edwards Fellow. 

The development of learning in the 17th century is Prof. 
Brown's particular field. He has made extensive studies of 
the impact of scientific thought on 17th century France, 
and has published numerous articles on this trend. He has 
travelled extensively throughout Europe. 4 i 

Progress in Prisons 

► ► The first annual report of James V. Bennett "18 as 
Director of the Bureau of Prisons, Department of Justice, 
recently arrived from Washington bearing the imprint of 
the Federal Prison Industries, Inc., Press, Fort Leavenworth, 
Kansas. It has a silver and black pictorial cover and carries 
pictures, graphs and tables of interest to the lay reader as 
well as to the penologist. Putting all the personnel of the 
bureau on a career basis has been one of the accomplish- 
ments of the year in which Bennett, advocate of civil service 
and promotion within the ranks, finds satisfaction. He also 
tells of the inauguration of the program of in-service train- 
ing and "promotion founded on merit and accomplishment." 

He recommends construction of institutions to take care 
of women offenders and short-term Federal offenders, 
increase in the minimum salary of custodial officers, im- 
provement of the medical service through enlarging the staff 
of Public Health Service officers and increase in the number 
of probation officers "to keep step with the increasing use 
of probation by Federal judges." < i 

For a Consults Birthday 

► John J. Muccio "21 received a birthday present March 
19 in the form of assignment by the State Department to 
San Jose, Costa Rica, as consul and second secretary of the 
American Legation. He came home from La Paz, Bolivia, 
in December, spent the holidays with relatives in Providence 
and then returned to Washington to study for the consulate. 

i 




HEAVENS AND 
EARTH: 

They hare this go-be- 
tween, the Ladd Ob- 
servatory. Brown is 
recognizing the in- 
creased irn portance of 
astronomy on the hill 
by giving it depart- 
mental status. See the 
story on page 260, 



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The President to the Council: < < 



BY SID1\EY CLIFFORD '15 
President of the Associated Alumni 

> ► This is the eighth meeting of the 
Advisory Council since the reorganization 
of Brown Alumni in 1930. During the 
intervening period there has been a steady 
purpose to make alumni effort more effi- 
cient and to define more clearly alumni 
objectives. As a result certain definite 
trends are discernible, which will without 
doubt be of material assistance to us in 
plotting our future course. 

An alumni program involves alumni re- 
sponsibility of providing for Brown material 
resources, students and good-will. 
MATERIAL RESOURCES 

At Commencement in 1937 the Trustees 
of the Alumni Fund reported total pay- 
ments of $33,178.61, the largest Alumni 
Fund in the history of the University, 
which in turn was contributed by the largest 
number of donors. Twenty-eight per cent 
of approximately 10,000 living alumni con- 
tributed gifts which averaged $11.33 each. 

The figures are indeed encouraging and 
the Trustees of the Fund believe that with 
a more efficient and intensive organization 
they will be able to present far more impres- 
sive figures at the coming Commencement. 
Their announced goal is $43,731 to be con- 
tributed by not less than 419;: of alumni 
prospects. Returns to date indicate a sub- 
stantial increase over the returns for the 
corresponding date of a year ago. and it is 
not at all improbable that the desired ob- 
jective will be reached. 

The actual work is being done by a large 
corps of class agents under the direction of 
a board of fifteen Alumni Fund Trustees, 
but I would indeed be remiss, did I not 
acknowledge the inspiring leadership of 
the chairman, W. Granville Meader 'OT and 
the able assistance of Theodore R. Jetfers 
'23 as executive secretary. The work of this 
group is an outstanding example of what 
can be done through proper organization of 
alumni cooperating with a sympathetic ad- 
ministration. 

► The yachting program sponsored orig- 
inally by the alumni and given the official 
sanction of this body two years ago is now 
a definite reality. Through the generosity 
ot some twenty individual alumni and the 
class of 1931, a fleet of nine dinghies has 
been acquired. Also through a gift of the 
class of 1907 and that of an anonymous 
donor the boat house formally owned by 
the Narragansett Boat Club on the Seekonk 
River has become University property and 
is now undergoing extensive alterations for 
the purpose of providing adequate head- 
quarters for this colorful undergraduate ac- 
tivity. 

For the further development of this pro- 
gram, the corporation has appointed a 
Nautical Advisory Board of eight persons, 
four of whom are representatives of the 
alumni, with A. Chester Snow '07 as chair- 
man. 

Thus a program sponsored by a small 
group of interested alumni and promoted 
without encouragement by the administra- 
tion has added to the physical resources of 
the University and bids fair to become one 
of the most attractive features of under- 




SIDISFA CLIFFORD: The Alumni 
President wanted a trend explored. 

graduate life. Furthermore, the program is 
an illustration of what can he done by 
alumni interested in a definite project in 
iurthering the best interests of the Uni- 
versity. 

Another development of the year has 
been the organization of a Reunion Com- 
mittee made up of representatives of the 
so-called five-year classes who will hold re- 
unions in June, 1938. This group was orig- 
inally called together at the suggestion of 
Vice-President Adams, for the purpose of 
stimulating interest m providing gifts in 
addition to that of Dr. Charles H. Hare for 
the erection and equipment of a University 
Infirmary. 

Since then it has been decided to house 
the Infirmary in a remodelled Faculty Club, 
and the Reunion Committee, so-called, is 
now working upon a proposal to obtain 
from their respective classes particular gifts 
in connection with the equipment of the 
Infirmary. 

Perhaps the most significant development 
due to the organization of this committee 
has been the coordination of the reunion 
plans of the various classes, and it is hoped 
that as a result the Commencement pro- 
gram will be more effective in assisting 
alumni to renew old associations and to be- 
come better acquainted with the Brown 
of today. Here we have an illustration of 
initial initiative being taken by the admin- 
istration for the purpose of adding to the 
material resources of Brown, but which 
promises much in stimulating alumni good- 
will. 

STUDENTS 
y The Alumni Cooperative Admissions 
Program, usually referred to as the ACAP, 
has during the past year been deprived of 
the services of its able chairman, Charles J. 
Hill '16, but has functioned through con- 
ferences by your President, the Alumni 
Secretary and the Director of Admissions. 

The general plan being followed is similar 
to that developed by the New York Club, 



where a selected group of sub-freshmen are 
invited to meet a selected group of alumni, 
whose standing in the community is such as 
to inspire respect and confidence. Such 
gatherings are being arranged through the 
cooperation of local clubs and the Director 
of Admissions in Chicago, Cleveland, Bos- 
ton and New Haven, and it is hoped that 
others will be arranged during the early 
spring. 

The Alumni Prize Scholarship Commit- 
tee is also active. During the present year 
scholarships totalling $3,050 will be given 
by various clubs. This sum included four 
$500 scholarships by the clubs of Chicago, 
New York, Boston and Providence, one 
$300, one $200 and four $100 scholarships 
by the Providence Club and a $150 scholar- 
ship by the Akron Club. I cannot over- 
emphasize this means of stimulating interest 
on the part of local alumni. 

In connection with students and their 
relation to the alumni, I would call your 
attention to the appointment on October 
1, 1937, at the request of President Wris- 
ton, of an alumni committee to make a 
study of the fraternity situation at Brown. 
The committee consists of Henry C. Hart 
"01, Chairman, Herbert M. Sherwood 09, 
and Harvey S. Reynolds, '23, who have 
given much study to the situation in an 
effort to develop a plan which will revitalize 
the fraternities, improve the management 
of their properties and affairs, and raise 
the standard of scholarship of their 
members. 

ALUMNI GOOD-WILL 
► The problem of maintaining alumni ap- 
proval of the educational program of the 
University is a continuing one and particu- 
larly vital, since without continued alumni 
good-will, the University will fail to receive 
from the alumni adequate material support 
and a supply of desirable students. On the 
other hand, the University is interested in 
keeping informed of alumni opinion. With 
some 10,000 alumni scattered throughout 
the country, both objectives require much 
ingenuity and the complete cooperation of 
the representatives of both the alumni and 
the University. 

An important stimulus of alumni interest 
is the Alumni Monthly, which at the 
present time has a circulation of approx- 
imately 3,000, representing an increase of 
lO'/c over last year. Also the physical ap- 
pearance of the magazine has been greatly 
improved by changes in typography, layout 
and the increasing us of photographs, and 
mailing facilities have been improved by the 
installation of addressograph stencils. It 
is interesting to note that the circulation 
of the magazine is approximately the same 
as the number of subscribers to the Alumni 
Fund. Whether the alumni support of both 
is identical, we do not know, but it is rea- 
sonable to presume that a subscriber to the 
magazine will eventually be stimulated to 
subscribe to the Alumni Fund and to take 
a part in other alumni activities. The 
columns of the Monthly are also open to 
expressions of alumni opinion, and the 
editors will welcome constructive comment 
on alumni affairs. 

Another instrument of good-will is the 
present distribution of the so-called Brown 
dinner plates produced by the famous Eng- 



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lish House of Wedgwood. Five hundred 
sets of such plates have been ordered and 
their quality and beauty have been the sub- 
ject of much favorable comment. The sale 
of these plates has been quite experimental, 
but the painstaking development of the 
various designs has produced a plate which 
is admittedly superior to any college plate 
now available. It is obvious that their 
presence in any home will be a constant 
reminder of Brown and its traditions. 

ORGANIZATION 
► As I stated at the beginning of this 
address, the Associated Alumni are today 
functioning under the bylaws and consti- 
tution adopted in 1930, under which it is 
designed that alumni activities should be 
promoted in five geographical regional dis- 
tricts under the leadership of a vice-pres- 
ident with a Central Executive Committee 
meeting in Providence monthly. 

To date the regional organization has 
not been developed to the extent indicated 
by the by-laws, and I would urge immediate 
attention to this phase of our organization. 
In this connection I have urged the vice- 
presidents of the New England, Atlantic 
Midland and Central Districts to attempt 
the organization of an Executive Commit- 
tee for their respective districts, to function 
within the district in much the same man- 
ner as the Central Executive Committee in 
Providence. If such committees can be or- 
ganized and can meet regularly, I feel con- 
fident that the work of the alumni outside 
of Rhode Island will become increasingly 
efTective and bring about increasing coop- 
eration between the University and the 
alumni in furthering the best interests of 
the University. 



Scandalous Play 

► The police censor in Providence 
didn't like the sound of the play 
Sock and Buskin planned for its 
third production this year, and he 
wasn't dispesed to issue a license 
for the performances when Dudley 
A. Onderdonk applied for it. 

"We don't let plays of that kind 
in Providence," said the police offi- 
cial. In vain did the manager of the 
dramatic society at Brown protest 
that the play was a classic. The cen- 
sor persisted in saying that the name 
of the play indicated that it wasn't 
fit for decent folk to see. 

The license was forthcoming the 
next day, because one of the censor's 
superiors knew that the "School for 
Scandal" wasn't as naughty as it 
sounded. i 



Generally speaking, the organization of 
the various local clubs is becoming more 
efficient and there is an increasing desire to 
be of service to the University. In this con- 
nection, the outstanding need appears to be 
a definite program suited to the capabil- 
ities of the particular club or group and 
objectives which will compel effective organ- 
ization of alumni in a particular area, be it 
large or small. 

To provide an adequate alumni program 
and suitable objectives for particular groups 
will require the best thought of both the 
alumni and the administration. 
► In the last analysis we must not forget 
that the University is primarily an educa- 



tional institution and that it is the primary 
function of the admini,stration to direct its 
operation as such. However, it is obvious 
that the alumni cannot take intelligent 
action to give the support desired and 
required, unless the University makes 
known to the alumni its aims, purposes and 
objectives. Furthermore, even if the Uni- 
versity is successful in making its message 
known to the alumni, it by no means 
follows that the alumni in and of themselves 
will at once respond with the desired sup- 
port for their accomplishment. 

To realize the maximum of alumni sup- 
port will require patient and thorough or- 
ganization and that painstaking attention 
to detail which is not easily secured by 
those rendering volunteer service. Volun- 
teers can make intelligent proposals and 
give their best judgment on matters of pol- 
icy, but to make such proposals and policies 
realities requires the full time of competent 
executives who can direct the efl^orts of 
volunteers in particular tasks. Volunteer 
alumni groups must look more and more 
to administrative executives for assistance 
in directing the work of committees and of 
individuals. 

Such procedure does not mean that the 
administration will be telling the alumni in 
what particular fields they should labor, but 
It does mean that administrative direction 
will be able to capitalize to the maximum 
alumni effort in a field of their own choos- 
ing. As a matter of fact, as this brief review 
of present alumni activity discloses, such is 
the present trend of our organization. I 
believe that this trend should be recognized 
and thoroughly explored, so that its possi- 
bilities may be fully developed to the ad- 
vantage of the University. ^ ^ 




Lake Ridge Dictator, Baritone 

► When Col. G. A. Taylor '01 wrote to Lawrence Tibbett the 
other day, he knew he ran the risk of being adjudged "the world's 
champion liar." But he had a story to tell about Lake Ridge 
Dictator, his English setter stud at Norwottock Kennels, and he 
stuck to it. 

"Bird" Taylor, who has been a chorister and soloist in numerous 
vested choirs, has trained Lake Ridge Dictator to join him in 
duets to his accompaniment at the piano. "Rusty" mounts an 
ottoman and does his stuff like a star of the Metropolitan, says a 
writer in the Amherst Record. He does not merely howl but really 
takes tones. But more can be gathered from a letter which Col. 
Taylor recently sent to Tibbett, who had been a guest some years 
ago at the Taylor ancestral home m Old Hadley, Mass. 

"Let me tell you," he said, "how Lake Ridge Dictator reacts to 
your genius. It is only necessary to say 'Lawrence Tibbett' and he 
heads at once for the radio on the second floor. Right now he is 
enjoying Otello. This is not mere imagination, for the only other 
voice that he condescends to listen to is that of Lily Pons. 

"You see he is a baritone himself. He and I do 'The Two 
Grenadiers' in German He never starts to sing during the intro- 
duction. At the end when I say, 'Fine. Mr. Tibbett,' he rolls over 
on his hack, as you do in The Emperor Jones and extends his paw 
to be shaken. At the conclusion of one of your Chesterfields, he 
heard the applause and insisted on my shaking his paw. However, 
when you put that final frill on "Mandalay,' he looked at me as 
much as to say, "Is it written that way?' and gravely walked out 
of the room. However, he forgave you later." 

Lawrence Tibbett acknowledged the "amusing and flattering 
letter" with the wish that he could watch the musical setter during 
a broadcast. Lake Ridge Dictator, incidentally, won't give any 
time at all to a crooner. 



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► > I HAVE the honor to submit my 16th 
annual report as Alumni Secretary. 

Basic changes have characterized the 
year. A new president of the University, 
inspiring in his confidence and capacities, 
has begun work. A new president of the 
Associated Alumni has taken hold with en- 
thusiasm and with a knowledge of alumni 
activities gained by experience. Various 
alumni and university agencies are drawing 
more closely together for a clearer realiza- 
tion of Brown's aims and hopes. 

The all-Brown Commencement in June, 
the happy thought of Vice President James 
P. Adams, left a good deposit of satisfac- 
tion. There were names on the program to 
conjure with — names of Brown men all. 
The whole alumni part of tiie exercises had 
about it a dignity and a vigorous spirit that 
gave every Brown man cause to be proud. 

In arranging this Commencement the 
Alumni Office was involved. It made the 
first contact with the Class Secretaries. It 
revised class lists. It helped prepare pub- 
licity for the Brown Alumni Monthly. 
It asked every class to have reunion of 
some kind during Commencement week 
end. It did not quite succeed in this 
request, yet more classes met in June, 1937, 
than has been the fact in many years. 

^ This subject of reunion is important. 
Many Brown men, as the prophet Micah 
puts it, "dwell solitarily in the wood."" 
They have lost touch with Brown. Or 
should it be said that Brown has lost touch 
with them? Class secretaries and members 
of class reunion committees find it difficult 
to get responses from these men and to 
draw them back to the campus. Every 
class has its quota of indifferent or uninter- 
ested members. 

The all-Brown Commencement has been 
an incentive to look forward as well as to 
talk about with pleasure now that it is past. 
It opens an approach to a stronger and 
more deeply pervading class unity. It offers 
a fresh start to increase the number of 
Brown alumni who should become more 
fully aware of what is going on at the 
University and be alive to continuing 
alumni interests. 

So the younger alumni enter the scene. 
Are we making good young alumni? Are 
we giving them as undergraduates enough 
of the background, the traditions, the ideals 
of Brown? I have heard these questions 
discussed many times, and have frequently 
come out by the same door wherein I went. 
But it is an essential task to acquaint young 
alumni with college problems as well as 
college needs and to engage them early. 

► "I WISH Faculty members gave more help," 
C. E. Lovejoy, alumni secretary at Colum- 
bia, said at the 1937 meeting of the Ameri- 
can Alumni Council. "They have students 
m front of them in their class rooms for 
four years. These are formative years and 
students who come to the campus casual 
and even indifferent ought to be graduated 
as interested and informed alumni. If only 
professors would take time off now and 
then to talk of the university"s background, 
tradition and ideals!"" 

Most of us know that individual mem- 
bers of the Brown Faculty are doing com- 
mendable work to make undergraduates 
feel at home at Brown and to give them 
an attitude toward Brown that will be 
lasting after they go forth as alumni. But 
I am confident that the Administration 
would like to see more of this kind of 



work, knowing how effective it can be in 
arousing latent talents and developing good 
will for the University. 

Out of the 1937 Commencement has also 
come a general class reunions committee 
which is already at work co-ordinating 
reunion activities. While the classes will be 
as independent as ever in making their 
plans, they will be asked to co-operate in 
creating alumni interest in Class Night, 
taking part in the Commencement proces- 
sion and encouraging all classes to have 
informal meetings each year. The Alumni 
Office has prepared an outline of reunion 
helps which has been distributed among 
the classes having major reunions in June. 

The Association of Class Secretaries, 
now dormant, might perk up at this time 
and join in the effort to strengthen class 
unity and revivify class spirit. Many class 
secretaries could contribute more news than 
they do to the Brown Alumni Monthly. 
And I am still of the opinion that the 
younger classes could arouse greater class 
interest by adopting a plan of class sub- 
scriptions to the Monthly and making the 
magazine a major medium of class news. 

> The Class or 1938 is to be congratu- 
lated on dropping the scheme of class mar- 
shals and electing a president, vice presi- 
dent, secretary and treasurer. You will 
recall that some years ago the old offices 
were discarded for two so-called marshal- 
ships. It has always been a question which 
class marshal should act as secretary and 
the Alumni Office has been arbitrarily 
obliged to nominate one of the marshals 
as secretary and so to list him. Such a 
secretary has no actual responsibility. His 
good nature alone impels him to do what 
he is asked to do. 

One of the long-desired aids to class 
secretaries and the Brown Alumni Fund is 
the new set of class stencils now available. 
Until this year the one set of stencils for 
alumni mailing was of necessity arranged 
geographically. It was of little use to any 
class secretary, class agent, class reunion 
committee. The new stencils, which can be 
tabbed for particular purposes, are already 
being used to send out special news letters 
and questionnaires for reunion data and 
for notes and news stories in the Brown 
Alumni Monthly. 



Inertia is the most irritating vice with 
which we have to contend. The work of 
keeping the Alumni Office files to date is 
never done. It is a growing custom to move 
and tell nobody, not even the postman. An 
American resident in Paris, returning to 
this country a few months ago to search 
out survivors and families of the men of the 
Lafayette Escadrille, wrote that she met 
with great difficulty. "I found that people 
over your way change their place of abode 
more frequently than we do here and the 
indifference as to forwarding addresses is 
amazing."" 

She told the sad truth. The American 
way of life is showing the trailer influence. 
To keep the files as clean as possible is 
a game in which we get plenty of exercise 
and daily test our patience. Since July 
we have made approximately 800 address 
changes and added the cards for the Class 
of 1937. For tracing wanderers we use a 
double postcard that is effective and inex- 
pensive. We have also introduced a post- 
card to thank the alumnus who voluntarily 
reports a change of address. 
► A RULE of the Alumni Oflice is to 
ansv^er by letter or postcard any comment, 
any phrase of praise or blame, and every 
question that may be asked. Often there is 
an opportunity to give a bit of news about 
the college or about someone whom the 
alumnus knew at Brown. These contacts, 
slight as they may seem, are of benefit in 
catching and quickening the interest in 
Brown of the one who has written. 

An objective toward which we are aiming 
more directly under stimulus by Mr. Clif- 
ford is fuller use of our resources in bring- 
ing the University and the Brown Clubs 
more regularly together. This has long been 
one of the pet projects of Vice President 
Adams who may recall the question that 
he has asked as follows: 

"Can we not develop a program of visi- 
tation to the Brown Clubs which will be 
comprehensive and timely? The President 
desires to visit each year a certain number 
of Brown Clubs. Of course, his own sched- 
ule of activities is a factor of importance 
in arranging these visits. Dr. Bigelow visits 
a number of Clubs each year while he is 
on his trips to the schools. His visits to 
Brown Clubs are worked out with primary 
regard to the school visitation program. 
But even these visits could be incorporated 



The Jousting of the Oyster Champions 

► ► Senator Theodore Francis Green "87 may go down in history as the man 
who made the oyster famous. At least, he did his share in publicizing the Rhode 
Island variety when he ordered barrels of fresh Narragansett Bay oysters rushed 
to Washington so that he might serve them one day last month to his colleagues 
in the United States Senate. While news photographers flashpopped their pictures, 
the Brown University Fellow and Vice President Garner demonstrated their delight 
in the shellfish and different techniques for eating the same, and newspapers the 
country over the next day printed the result. 

A little perturbed at the advertising the Rhode Island oyster was getting, the 
Senators from Maryland and New Jersey protested that their States were not to 
be despised as oyster producers. Senator Smathers of New Jersey went so far as 
to hold a counter-festival, offering the Senators not merely New Jersey oysters but 
also New Jersey champagne "to demonstrate their beneficial effects when taken 
internally and in collusion."" 

But Senator Green was equal to the occasion, as you can see for yourself if you 
will hut read the Congressional Record. Said he: "Just as a storekeeper sometimes 
offers a bottle of hair restorer to a purchaser of a half dozen bars of soap, so the 
Senator from New Jersey offers New Jersey champagne to those who will eat 
New Jersey oysters. I did not feel obliged to offer any inducement to my fellow 
Senators to eat the oysters from Rhode Island."" i i 



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in a general program il plans were made 
in advance. 

"Moreover, if such a program was devel- 
oped, It would be possible to make use of 
other administrative officers, members of 
the Faculty, members of the Corporation 
and local alumni who have fixed engage- 
ments in other parts of the country at 
various times during the year. Such a pro- 
gram would probably increase the number 
of meetings of many Brown Clubs, would 
increase the attendance at such meetings, 
and would increase the number of contacts 
with the campus." 

The successful type of meeting is a sub- 
ject that brings varying answers. To find 
the best answer is a topic to which all of 
us may pertinently contribute. 

► During the year I have met with the 
Brown Clubs of New Haven, Boston, Hart- 
ford, Connecticut Valley, Woonsocket, Mer- 
rimack Valley, Albany, Schenectady and 
Troy, Western Maine, Providence, New 
York, New Hampshire and the North Shore. 
The meeting in Albany last spring under 
the able and lively guidance of Furber Mar- 
shall, Robert Forster and others was in 
arrangement, enthusiasm and spirit one ot 
the most enjoyable that I have attended as 
alumni secretary. I commend, too, the 
excellent educational program of the Merri- 
mack Valley Brown Club carried out by 
Joseph N. Ashton and his co-workers and 
the always well-arranged informal gather- 
ings of the Brown Clubs of Hartford, New 
Haven, Western Maine and Connecticut 
Valley. 

There should also be honorable mention 
of the carefully planned meetings of the 
Brown Engineering Association which con- 
tinues to be one of our most active units 
and which has a continuing program that 
other Brown Clubs might study and imitate. 

In April I attended the annual conven- 
tion of the American Alumni Council at 
West Point, where I ended my three-year 
term as a director. The Council, observing 
its 25th anniversary, will meet this year in 
Columbus, Ohio, where it was formed in 
1913. I hope to go to this meeting and 
visit Brown Clubs along the way. In 1939 
the Council may come to New England for 
the first time in ten years. If it does. Brown 
should be one of the hosts. 

► Owing to extraordinary demands upon 
his time. Vice President Adams was unable 
to participate through the year in as many 
alumni meetings as he desired. But his 
interest, his counsel and his aid are as 
invigorating and responsive as ever. Presi- 
dent Wriston has already spoken before 
the Brown Club of Chicago and has en- 
gagement in New York this month. On 
April 29 he will go to Boston and will, it 
possible, visit one or more Brown Clubs 
in this section before the end of the 
academic year. 

Dean Arnold, Professors C. A. Robin- 
son, Jr., Kenny, Smiley, Bigge, Kenerson, 
Bliss, Dr. Bigelow and Messrs. Jeffers and 
McLaughry have generously given of their 
time to attend Brown Club meetings. Dr. 
Bigelow is at present on a trip to the 
Middle West which includes talks before 
the Brown Clubs of Albany, Syracuse, 
Rochester, Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit. 
When he goes out again later in the year 
he will visit several other Clubs. 

The Brown Club of New Hampshire is 
being reorganized by a committee of which 
Percy A. Shaw "08 is chairman. Allyn L. 
Brown, Jr., "37, Mr. Jeffers and the Alumni 



Our ISeiv Cover 

► The coveron the Brown Alumni 
Monthly this month represents a 
considerable departu'e from the 
lormer style, while retaining the pho- 
tographic virtue that has brought 
commendation in the past. We hope 
you consider the change to color an 
improvement, as we do. 

The initial expense involved has 
been met through the generosity of 
an anonymous friend, to whom the 
Monthly is grateful. The budget of 
the magazine, you see, has no margin 
to provide for extras, for a number of 
improvements we would like to make. 
The Monthly, in fact, has to tailor 
itself according to its income. 

The prompt receipt of money due 
from subscribers is therefore an im- 
portant factor governing the quality 
of your magazine. 



Secretary are working together to start 
again the Brown Club of Eastern Connecti- 
cut. The Brown Club of Alta California 
which, like all Brown groups west of the 
Mississippi, deserves visitation direct from 
the University, will meet tonight at the 
University Club, San Francisco. Greetings 
and good wishes have been sent to these 
Brown men. But the spoken word about 
Brown is what they want to hear on the 
Pacific Coast. 

Programs of the larger Clubs follow fairly 
well-defined lines. New York and Chicago 
m particular are aiding in admissions work 
and creating good will among the fathers 
of undergraduates. The Brown Club of 
Boston, working out a more unified annual 
program, is increasing interest by a series 
of monthly luncheons at which the speakers 
are usually from the University. Moreover, 
It is enlisting in its work some of the 
younger alumni — a healthy sign. The 
Brown Club of Washington, under sound 
leadership, is living up to its well-written 
Constitution and is going consistently 
lorward. 

► Again I say that the Brown Club of 
Providence is doing more vaulable and 
more varied work for the University than 
the majority of Brown men in the city 
and the state realize. It does not use the 
columns of the Brown Alumni Monthly 
as fully as it should to let alumni know of 
its activities. It needs more publicity in the 
Monthly and in the Providence news- 
papers. Among its members it has men 
qualified to write and place publicity where 
benefit will legitimately accrue. 

Resignation of Joseph A. O'Neil "31 as 
executive secretary of the Brown Univer- 
sity Club in New York after six years of 
splendid service has temporarily taken a 
good Brown workman out of the alumni 
field. His energy, his patience, his inherent 
friendliness and discernment in his contacts 
were a source of inspiration and comtort 
to us who have worked with him. 

To Henry S. Chaffee "09, Charles J. 
Hill "16, and more distant co-workers like 
Dr. Samuel R. Damon '16 and Dr. Justin 
Andrews "23 ol Baltimore who have ended 
their present tours of duty, I make grate- 
ful salute and assure them of a place in 
my memories when I grow old enough to 
recall happy-, far-off days. The figure of 
Mr. Worthington asking for copy each 
month still haunts me; nevertheless the 
development of the Brown Alumni 



Monthly under his editorship spurs effort 
and bolsters the belief that the number of 
Monthly readers will steadily increase. 

y Two changes in the Alumni Office have 
taken place. After 16 years of faithful 
service. Miss Elizabeth Himes resigned in 
June as Keeper of the Graduate Records. 
Succeeding her is Miss Marjorie F. Hoar 
Ironi the staff of the John Hay Library. 
Part of the Alumni Office space has been 
allotted to Mr. Jeffers for carrying on the 
work of the Brown Alumni Fund and the 
Brown University Council. Thus, after a 
lapse of years, the Alumni Fund and the 
Alumni Office are together again and Mr. 
Jeffers is a welcome and helpful neighbor. 
His co-operation makes the common task 
lighter and stimulates exchange of irrforma- 
tion, ideas and opinions on many phases 
of alumni work. 

Somewhere it is written that "there is 
no grander sight than that of a man hon- 
estly doing his utmost." At least this was 
true once upon a time and may become 
true again. If every Brown man worth his 
salt were honestly doing his utmost for 
Brown, there would be no doubt of 
Brown's forward progress under President 
Wnston. i < 

Respectfully submitted, 

A. H. GURNEY "07, 

Alutnni Secretary 

Crane on Partnership 

► Professor Judson A. Crane '05, who 
teaches law from the high eminence of the 
14th floor of the Cathedral of Learning, 
University of Pittsburgh, has recently com- 
pleted Cra»ie on Partnership, published by 
West Publishing Company. Judge Allyn L. 
Brown of the Connecticut Supreme Court 
and Judge John C. Mahoney of the United 
States District Court for Rhode Island 
have already received autographed copies. 
Crane uses most of his spare time serving 
as president of the Baptist Orphanage and 
Home Society of Western Pennsylvania, 
trustee of the First Baptist Church of Pitts- 
burgh, editor on the board of the Penn- 
sylvania Bar Association i^iiarterly and 
member of the bar association committee on 
American Law Institute. ^ 

Gentlemen of the Faculty 

> > Professor William T. Hastings is 
back at his desk in the English Department 
after recovering from an operation for ap- 
pendicitis at the Jane Brown Hospital early 
in March. 

A suite of "Crazy Theatre Music by 
Professor S. Foster Damon of the Brown 
English faculty has been played several 
times in public this year in Providence. A 
Rhode Island Concert Orchestra program 
also featured a waltz of his and a song, 
"Taxi,"" written to words by Amy Lowell. 
The latter was orchestrated by David L. 
Stackhouse "26. 

Professor Arlan R. Coolidge was a recent 
radio speaker at Station WEAN, appearing 
on the program of the Providence Sym- 
phony Orchestra. 

Professor Alphonse de Salvio of the De- 
partment of Romance Languages and Liter- 
atures presided at the meeting of the Mod- 
ern Language Teachers' Association of 
Rhode Island in Marston Hall last month. 

Professor Ben W. Brown of the Depart- 
ment of English spoke on "The Plays of 
Maxwell Anderson" at a meeting of the 
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Association of the Teachers of English. 
Professor George K. Anderson of Brown 
presided. 

School scientists who attended the meet- 
ing of the New England Association of 
Chemistry Teachers last month heard Pro- 
fessor Charles H. Smiley of the Department 
of Mathematics lecture on Stellar Spectra 
and saw a demonstration on electrolytes hy 
Professor Norris W. Rakestraw. 

"Mathematics as a Language and a 
Science" was the topic of Professor Robert 
B. Lindsays talk before the Rhode Island 
Mathematics Teachers Association held at 
Brown last month. 

Professor Benjamin C. Clough led a 
roundtable on examinations when the 
Rhode Island Branch of the New England 
Classical Association met at Pembroke on 
March 19. ^ < 



Seekers at Van 

► ► A JOINT expedition to excavate the site 
of the ancient city of Van, flourishing trade 
center of Asia Minor 25 centuries ago, will 
be undertaken this summer by Brown Uni- 
versity and University of Pennsylvania 
archealogists. 

Sponsors of the venture are confident that 
many secrets of mankind's cultural develop- 
ment, especially in architecture, language 
and religion, lie hidden beneath the great 
dust heaps which now cover the ruins of the 
once proud metropolis. It was destroyed by 
conquering Scythian armies about 600 B.C. 

They also hope to shed new light on the 
international relations of the Asia Minor ol 
antiquity. Van was the capital city of the 
Kingdom of Van. Caravan trade routes 
linked it with the known world. Buried 
records, it is believed, will reveal how the 
kingdom dealt with its neighbors as power 
and wealth came to the city's 30,000 people. 

Prof. Robert P. Casey, chairman of the 
Department of Biblical Literature at Brown 
and one of the leaders of the expedition, 
says that he and his associates look for "dis- 
coveries as important as any in Asia Minor 
to date, including those at the recent Hittitc 
digs." Funds for the expedition are being 
raised by private subscription. 

With Prof. Casey will be one of his 
former teachers. Prof. Kirsopp Lake, retired 
professor of church history and Biblical 
literature at Harvard; and one of his former 
graduate students at Brown, Mrs. Kirsopp 
Lake, who is now on the staff of the Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania Museum. 

They all have travelled and studied ex- 
tensively on earlier expeditions to Greece 
and Macedonia. Prof. Casey's particular 
field IS Byzantine manuscripts and other 
early writings. Prof, and Mrs. Lake recently 
returned from excavating in Serabeit and 
Samaria. 

Dr. Horace Jayne, director of the Univer- 
sity of Pennsylvania Museum, is assisting 
the expedition as a director. Fifteen archeol- 
ogists, historians and antiquarians from 
other universities will be invited to go. 
Among the student assistants will be two 
from Brown. 

► In March, Prof, and Mrs. Lake will sail 
for Europe and then go to Angora, capital 
of Turkey, in Asia Minor, where they will 
lay the groundwork for actual excavation 
this summer. They will consult with co- 
operating Turkish archeologists. Prof. Casey 
and his associates will join the expedition in 
June. 



The ruins of ancient Van are JO miles 
northeast of Angora, three miles outside the 
modern commercial city of Van. Mounds 
under which the once heavily fortified city 
lie extend along the eastern shore of Lake 
Van on a fertile, wind-swept plateau 6,000 
feet above sea-level. Snow-capped moun- 
tains surround the lake. 

Only fragments of the history and culture 
of Van are known, Prof. Casey says. Earlier 
exploration and surface excavations and 
discoveries of inscriptions on caves, how- 
ever, have revealed that the people of Van 
had reached a high level of cultural develop- 
ment between 900 and 600 B.C. 

The epedition will look for such evidences 
of the architectural contributions of the 
kingdom as support of the theory that arti- 
sans of Van invented the method of cutting, 
polishing and fitting stone usually credited 
to the Assyrians. Temples, tombs, and the 
ruins of palaces of forgotten kings are ex- 
pected to contain priceless examples of Van 
craftsmanship. 

The scant number of cuneiform tablets 
and cave writings found at Van to date 
have given archeologists and historians only 



a slight knowledge of the language of the 
city. The language can be deciphered but 
there are many doubtful points. Prof. Casey 
says. He believes it to be the ancestor of 
modern Georgian and a possible clue to the 
history of Caucasian languages, 

"If a sufficient number of cuneiform in- 
scriptions can be found, translations may be 
possible which would give the history of the 
kingdom and reveal the now sketchy story of 
international jealousy, conflict and conquest 
that marked the opening centuries of the 
first millenium," he said. 

Further knowledge of the language might 
also shed light on the historical background 
of the Book of Genesis and the Book of 
Kings, Prof. Casey states. Source material 
found at Van, he said, "might well have the 
same importance as Assyrian and Baby- 
lonian tablets in relation to Old Testament 
history." 

Prof. Casey this Fall will do research on 
Armenian manuscripts in Europe and Asia. 
He will come back to the United States in 
February, 1939, and then return to Van the 
following summer. 



The Chapters at Brown 



Delta Phi, Centennial Host 

> > Tnh Beta Chapter of Delta Phi fra- 
ternity, 100 years at Brown this year, will 
observe its centenary by being host to the 
national convention of the fraternity on 
May 6 and 7. The chapter house at 2 Pros- 
pect Street, where all the common rooms 
and halls were entirely redecorated during 
the Easter vacation, will be the scene ol 
many convention features. 

Charles Bates Dana, Brown 1899, will 
preside over the convention sessions as na- 
tional president of Delta Phi, and a prom- 
ising program has been drawn up by the 
Brown committee, working with W. Tracy 
Scudder, Jr., national secretary ol the fra- 
ternity. Sidney Clifford '15 and Fred 
Wilcox "38 are co-chairmen for the Beta 
Chapter group on arrangements. 

After registration on May 6 at 9:30 
a.m., the undergraduate officers' conference 
will be held, concerning itself with house 
management, rushing, and other internal 
problems. A buffet luncheon for the under- 
graduates will follow at the chapter house. 
The first session of the convention proper 
will start at 2 p.m., followed by an informal 
dinner in Faunce House Art Gallery for 
about 120 alumni and undergraduates. A 
smoker is planned for the evening, at the 
Delta Phi house. 

With the second session of the conven- 
tion scheduled for Saturday morning, the 
rest of the day will turn more to enter- 
tainment. After lunch in Faunce House, the 
Brown University sports program will be 
recommended to the visitors, especially the 
intercollegiate dinghy regatta to he held that 
afternoon at the Brown Yacht Club head- 
quarters on the Seekonk river. Certain 
Junior Week events may appeal to the 
younger delegates, and there will also be 
golf and Softball at the Rhode Island Coun- 
try Club. 

The club will also be the scene of the 
annual convention dinner, a special shore 
dinner. Speakers will include: Toastmaster 
Harvey N. Davis, Brown 1901, president 
of Stevens Tech; Ellery Anderson, Colum- 
bia alumnus, member of the New York bar. 



and former president of Delta Phi; Pres- 
ident Henry M. Wriston of Brown; and 
President Dana. i i 

Theta Belt's Banquet 

► To honor the 15 men pledged to the 
1941 delegation, the Zeta Charge of Theta 
Delta Chi Fraternity celebrated its 78th 
initiation with a banquet at the Wanna- 
moisett Country Club. One committeeman 
estimated that 120 alumni and under- 
graduates were present, including alumni 
from other colleges now resident in Rhode 
Island and an undergraduate delegation 
from Tufts College. 

William P. Burnham '07, of Boston 
proved a versatile Toastmaster, introducing 
John Montgomery '38, President of the 
Charge; Leroy J. Walton '41, of the Fresh- 
man class delegation; Rev. Robert W. 
Little '31 and Guy C. Pierce of the class of 
1896 at Tufts College, who came from 
Philadelphia to speak in his capacity of 
President of the 66th Grand Lodge of 
Theta Delta Chi Fraternity. 

The Committee that arranged the Ban- 
quet consisted of: Percy Shires '06, Chair- 
man; William H. Hull '01, H. Stanford 
McLeod '16, James C. Scott '19, and from 
the active Charge, David V. Hull "39 and 
John Montgomery '38. 

Among Brown alumni present were: Dr. 
M. H. Merchant '97. H. D. C. Dubois '98, 
C. A. Hull '99, W. H. Hull '01, M. C. Fish 
'02, Percy Shires '06, W. P. Burnham '07, 
M. S. Curtis '07, J. R. Fales '10, P. C. 
Curtis '11, A. E. Staff "11, W. J. Reed '13, 
W. H. Snell '13, H. C. Kinne '15, E. J. 
Staff '15, H. H. Burton '16 H. S. McLeod 
'16, S. T. McNeill '16, D. T. Colley '18, 
R. H. Parker '18, B. H. Slade '18, H. P. 
Wright '18, G. R. Burgess "19, J. C. Scott 
'19, S. L. Luce '20, W. S. Barrett '21, W. T. 
Brightman, Jr. '21, R. H. Greene '21, 
O. G. H, Oden '21, H. S. Smith '21, A. G. 
Durfee '22, C. S.Gray '22, J. B. Harvie '22, 
C. R. Johnson '23, Philip Saunders '24. 
Alfred Elson "25, J. L. Hood, Jr. "25, A. L. 
Parks "26, J. G. Merchant "28, R. B. Mills 
"28, J. B. Child "29. J. K. Davis "29, D. 0. 



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OBSERf lyC ITS CEI\TE!\I\I.4L: !\ol iho automobile out front. 
ns you might think, hut the Beta Chapter of Delta Phi fraternity is 
100 years old this year. It will be host to the national convention 
the first iveek in May. 



Anthony, Jr. "30, M. C. Soule "30 W. H. 
Fish "31, Rev. R. B. Little "31, T. D. Clark 
'3 2, W. O. J. Roberts "3 2, O. P. Hammer 
"34, ^'. A Robbins "34. N. R. Singleton 
"34, R. B. Hull "S'!, W. E. Easton "36, J. H. 
Morrison, Jr. "36, Joseph Olney, Jr. "36, 
W, D. Reynolds "36. < 

Fraternity Banquets 

> Chakncey E. Wheeler "09 was prin- 
cipal speaker at the 1938 initiation banquet 
of Kappa Sigma when 50 alumni and under- 
graduates met to welcome the six initiates. 
Toastmaster ol the evening was James V. 
Bennett '18, Director ot Federal Prisons, 
who came on from Washington for the 
occasion. 

Sigma Nus assembled at the Plantations 
Club for their initiation observance, with 
Raymond H. Segur, divisional inspector of 
the fraternity, as toastmaster. Speakers in- 
cluded: Dr. Moses L. Crossley "09, past 
president of the American Chemical So- 
ciety; Thomas H. Roberts "13, Dane F. 
Hahn '41, and Charles E. Thomas, editor 
of the Delia. 

Senator Fred C. Broomhead "Of was 
toastmaster at the Beta Theta Pi banquet 
at Laura Carr's, following the initiation ol 
1 2 pledges. William Gentry, Dartmouth 
"31, was the chief speaker, while other 
Beta notables present were H. Sheridan 
Baketel, national representative, and Rich- 
ard Steele, district chief. 

Delta Us dined at the Turks Head last 
month after their initiation, with more than 
100 undergraduates and alumni present. 
At the speaker"s table were: Clifford S. 
Anderson "00, toastmaster: W. Randolph 
Burgess "12, W. Chesley Worthington "23, 
Robert Brush "38, and Robert Schaper "41. 
Fred B. Perkins "19 delivered the initiation 
charge at the chapter house, 80 Waterman 
Street. 

Clarence Philbrick '13, Dr. Joseph M. 
Hunt of the Nebraska chapter, and Dr. 



Charles H. Holt '02 were the speakers at 
the 37th annual initiation dinner of the 
Rhode Island Alpha of Phi Kappa Psi. 
Roger B. Francis, chairman, presided. Rob- 
ert R. Person and William L. Chipman 
represented initiates and chapter respec- 
tively. ^ 



Library's Friends 

{Continued from page 2JI ) 

"What's in your attic?" the librarian 
asked. "What do you do with your old 
books? Do you know the delights of scout- 
ing for old manuscripts, letters and books? 
Did you ever watch a 'collection' grow in a 
big library?" He assured the men that 
they would get real pleasure from being 
friendly to a library. 

William G. Roelker, a Harvard alumnus, 
confirmed this statement about scouting 
and reminded the Friends of the benefit of 
the enthusiasm of lady members. Dr. G. 
Alder Blumer, a Pennsylvania alumnus, 
offered the gift of a score or more of vol- 
umes, including Reports privately printed 
hy the S<)Ciety of Antiquaries of Newcastle- 
upon-Tyne in England, a gift which Dr. 
Van Hoesen promptly and gratefully ac- 
cepted. Mr. Morse spoke with appreciation 
of a gift in the formative days of the 
Friends, more than 600 volumes on the 
American Northwest which filled a need in 
the field of history. The donor of that 
valuable collection was Frederick S. Peck 
of Barrington, one of the Friends' vice 
chairmen. 

Others who made brief remarks approv- 
ing the aims of the Friends were: George 
Hurley 07, Clarence H. Philbrick "13, and 
Homer N. Sweet '07 of Boston. Clarence 
E. Sherman of the Providence Public Li- 
brary also congratulated the society, as did 



Zechariah Chafee, of the University Library 
Committee. 

> In addition to Mr. Morse and Dr. Van 
Hoesen, the other officers are as follows: 
Secretary and Treasurer — George L. Miner 
'97; Vice Chairman: Frederick S. Peck, 
Barrington: Albert H. Poland '09, Prov- 
idence; W. Easton Louttit, Jr., '25, Prov- 
idence; John T. Winterich, '12, New York. 
The Advisory Committee of 1938 includes: 
John B. Archer, G. Alder Blumer, Clarence 
S. Brigham '99, Francis H. Chafee '27, John 
C. Cosseboom, Robert Cushman '93, Wal- 
ter A. Edwards, Royal B. Farnum, John A. 
French "25, Clarence L. Hay, George Hurley 
"07, Clinton P. Knight, Jr., Albert E. 
Lownes "20, George T. Marsh, Frank 
Mauran, Jr., Edwin B. Mayer "09, Jesse H. 
Metcalf, William Davis Miller "09. 'John S. 
Murdock "96. Louis I. Newman "13, Paul C. 
Nicholson, Clarence H. Philbrick "13, Wil- 
liam G. Roelker, Arthur H. Ruggles, 
Charles F. Stearns. Homer N. Sweet "07, 
and W. Chesley Worthington '23. 

Headquarters for the Friends of the 
Library have been provided at the John 
Hay Library, where alumni or others inter- 
ested in joining the society may communi- 
cate with the secretary. No dues for mem- 
bership arc planned, although a voluntary 
initial membership /fee (of "any small 
amount — not more than $10," as the pros- 
pectus says) is suggested as an evidence of 
interest. A modest bulletin is planned, 
under the editorship of Mr. Lownes. and 
sketches for a bookplate are at hand. Meet- 
ings will be held from time to time, at 
points of special interest to the booklovers 
and with occasional speakers. Invitations 
have been received to meet at the John Hay 
Library in May, in the fall at Belton Court, 
Barrington, the home of Mr. Peck, and later 
at the home of Mr. Knight and the John 
Carter Brown Library. 

^ "Men of attainment like to help an 
already successful institution to make it 
more successful," Mr. Morse told the group 
at Mr. Sharpe's house, pointing out how 
good the libraries at Brown already were. 

"In size our library ranks 14th among 
American universities. In the quality and 
distinctitm of its collections only a few out- 
rank it. All Brown men know that the 
John Carter Brown Library of Americana 
is not even closely approached in other 
universities of the world. Our Harris Col- 
lection of American Poetry, with over 
110.000 items and constantly growing, is 
the largest and most complete in the world. 
No university owns so fine a Lincoln Col- 
lection, and the Wheaton Collection of In- 
ternational Law, the Church Collection on 
South America, and the Napoleonic Collec- 
tion are notable. Great credit is due Pro- 
fe.ssor Archibald for the upbuilding of the 
Mathematical Library, making that depart- 
ment one of the five or six strongest in 
the country. 

"These arc attainments of which Brown 
men are proud. But there are fields where 
Brown is strong but not strong enough, and 
there are a few departments where we are 
admittedly weak. There the Friends of the 
Library can help." 

Stressing the fun from pursuing one's 
own hobby, Mr. Morse cited opportunities 
for service at the same time. He reminded 
the Frends that Sir Thomas Bodley, for 
whom the famous Bodleian Library at 
Oxford is named, was the first of the great 
book scouts. Of fields where he said the 
Brown University Library needed strength- 



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ening by gifts or scouting, he specified 
these: maps, the Civil War — apart from its 
Lincoln aspects, the World War period, 
marine, art, archaeology, astronomy, medie- 
val history. Colonial newspapers. 
► Anticipating the question, "Have other 
university libraries their groups of Friends 
and what have they accomplished?" Mr_ 
Morse said there were a number, most of 
them functioning with great success. 

One of the first, he said, was the Friends 
of the Bodleian Library at Oxford, founded 
in 192T, whose chief object has been the 
provision of a permanent income for the 
purchase of rare books and manuscripts 
which would be beyond the means of the 
Bodleian if it had to pay for them out of 
ordinary funds. 

Princeton's group, founded in 1930. 
today includes 900 members. There are no 
dues, expenses being paid by about 30 men 
and women of the Council and by voluntary 
dues. A subscription dinner is held an- 
nually in New York at which the guests of 
honor have been such personages as John 
Galesworthy, the Librarian of Congress, 
and certain Pulitzer Priie-winners. Special 
interests are recognized in smaller commit- 
tees, such as on Books on Printing, Book 
Collecting among Undergraduates, Books 
on Engineering, Books of American and 
English Literature, Library Needs, Music, 
Naval History, New Jersey State History, 
Princetoniana, and Undergraduate Use of 
the Library. 

The Friends of the Harvard Library were 
directed originally from New York but now 
have headquarters in the Widencr Library. 
Most of its Friends give annually toward 
needed but otherwise unavailable books. 
Leaflets are issued from time to time for the 
membership. 

Although founded as recently as 193 4, 
the Friends of the Library of the University 
of Chicago have been instrumental in the 
acquisition of some strong collections, 
among them: Barton's Lincolniana, History 
of the Northwest, American Drama, Music, 
Fine Arts. Its rare book collection is grow- 
ing, and Its Medical Library has been greatly 
aided. Chicago's Friends publish The 
Courier several times a year. The Friends 
at Columbia have been instrumental in the 
gifts of at least four important special 
libraries recently. 

^ Few groups have been more active than 
the Yale Library Associates, whose member- 
ship is open to any contributor of books or 
funds for the benefit of the Library. All 
members receive the Tale Library Gazette 
several times a year. The Undergraduate 
Library Associates organized to carry this 
enthusiasm into the student ranks, and 
last year this undergraduate group pre- 
sented Yale with a H61 edition of Chaucer. 
It was the Associates who influenced the gift 
of a collection of Joseph Conrad material 
which is the most complete in the world, 
containing every English and American 
first edition of a Conrad book, the period- 
icals in which his stories and articles ap- 
peared, and all of the volumes and pam- 
phlets written about him. Anoth'er endeavor 
has been to build up for Yale a collection 
of manuscripts of famous modern books, 
such as "It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclair 
Lewis '07, "Women of Andros" by Thorn- 
ton Wilder "20, and the Pulitzer Prize 
poem "Conquistador" by Archibald Mac- 
Lcish '15. Recent gifts of letters and docu- 
ments from the late Col. House further 
enrich Yale's World War collection. 



Briefly mentioning the activities of the 
Friends of libraries at Rutgers, Pennsyl- 
vania. M. I. T., Duke, Buckncll, North- 
western. Johns Hopkins (with 270 mem- 
bers). N. Y. U., We.sleyan, Wellesley, and 
elsewhere, Mr. Morse said it would be a 
real omission not to compliment the Friends 
of the Knox College Library on their work. 
Credit here belongs to John H. Finley, 
editor of the l^ew York Time,'^, and to 
Edward Caldwell, New York publisher, 
who founded the group in 1931. Their 
activity centres m New York, 1000 miles 
away from the Knox campus, yet they have 
300 members, many of them without other 
connection with the little college. Twice a 
year a periodical of 20 or 30 pages goes 
to the members and interested non-members. 
Gifts are reported in a way that makes the 
donor feel his gift was appreciated, library 
activities are recounted, and suggestions of 
library needs are made. Extraordinary 
gifts have followed the formation of the 
Knox group. 

"Gentlemen," said Mr. Morse, "our own 
ship is now launched and will soon be out- 
fitted for many successful voyages. We 
believe that our new endeavor will yield 
goodly satisfaction and enjoyment to our- 
.selves and that the Friends of the Library 
of Brown University will become one of her 
most loyal group of benefactors. 



The New Department 

► ► A Dlp.\rtment of Astronomy has 
been established at Brown University, efl'ec- 
tive with the beginning of the academic 
year 1938-39, President Wriston announced 
on March 30. Prof. Charles H. Smiley has 
been made chairman of the department and 
director of Brown's Ladd Observatory. 

The new department will offer courses 
in descriptive and practical astronomy, and 
.selected topics in the field. Instruction will 
include demonstrations and the use of astro- 
nomical equipment at the observatory. All 
this work in astronomy has been conducted 
by the Department of Mathematics since 
1914. 

Brown will continue, the announcement 
said, to provide opportunities for the public, 
and especially those interested in astronomy, 
to visit the ob.servatory and use the tele- 
scope. Prof. Smiley will continue to work 
with the Skyscrapers Club, a local group 
with an amateur interest in astronomy. 

The observatory has been opened fre- 
quently to the public since Prof. Smiley 
came to Brown in 1930. Last year more 
than 1,200 visited the observatory and 
looked through the telescope. Special ar- 
rangements have been made for classes 
from public and private schools. 

Astronomy, one of the first sciences to 
be introduced into the curriculum in 
Brown's earliest years, dates back to 1786, 
when Dr. Benjamin West was appointed 
professor of mathematics and "astronom- 
ical studies." 

There was a separate department of as- 
tronomy at Brown from 1883 until 1914, 
when the late Prof. Winslow Upton was in 
charge. The Ladd Observatory was built 
while he was at Brown and was completed 
and dedicated in 1891. 

The observatory is equipped with a re- 
fracting equatorial telescope of 12 inches 
aperture, and is supplied with a filar mi- 



crometer, spectroscope and other attach 
ments. There are three four-inch telescopes 
and a variety of other kinds of apparatus, 
including chronometers, transit instruments 
and recording meteorological equipment. 
The observatory supplies time signals for 
official and industrial purposes. 

Prof. Smiley came to Brown seven years 
ago. He is a graduate of the University of 
California, with A.B., A.M., and Ph.D. 
degrees. He was a teaching fellow at the 
University of California from 1924 until 
1927, and then went to the University of 
Illinois as an instructor in mathematics. In 
1929-30 he held a Guggenheim Foundation 
fellowship. 

Last spring the Skyscrapers cooperated 
in building a Schmidt astronomical camera 
for Prof. Smiley to use on his eclipse expe- 
dition to Peru last June. It was the first 
camera of its kind to be used to photograph 
a total eclipse of the sun. ^ ^ 

Essence of Worlil Problems 

► Brown University played an impor- 
tant part when Rhode Island held its first 
World Affairs Week last month. The pur- 
pose of the program was to "promote by an 
intensive period of public education a wide- 
spread understanding among our citizens 
of major world problems facing the United 
States. President Henry M. Wriston was 
honorary chairman and Herbert M. Sher- 
wood '09 was chairman. 

Brown was host for an Institute on 
World Problems for two days, the feature 
of the week. Three sessions were held in 
this concentrated chapter of the whole pro- 
gram, the first on reciprocal trade, the sec- 
ond on the Americas, the third on the Far 
East. 

Vice President James P. Adams opened 
the first meeting, in which other speakers 
were A. Manuel Fox, a member of the 
United States Tariff Commission, Governor 
Robert E. Quinn '15, and Director of Labor 
Thomas F. McMahon. At other meetings 
the speakers included: Ellis O. Briggs, of 
the Department of State: Ricardo J. Alfaro, 
former president of Panama: Nathaniel 
Peffer, New York author: Prof. Anton J. 
de Haas of Harvard: Leonard W. Cronkhite 
'05, of the World Peace Foundation; Wil- 
liam R. Castle, former Ambassador to 
Japan: Sir Robert Erskine Holland, British 
Colonial advisor: James G. McDonald, hon- 
orary chairman of the Foreign Policy Asso- 
ciation: and Miss Alice W. Hunt, Rhode 
Island lecturer. ^ 

The Air Mail Anniversary 

> President Henry M. Wriston of 
Brown University is a member of the hon- 
orary committee in connection with Rhode 
Island's observance of National Air Mail 
Week, May 15-21. Honorary chairman for 
the State will be Governor Robert E. Quinn 
'15. while other Brown alumni are assuming 
important roles in the week's program. 
Elmer S. Horton '10 is State chairman on 
publicity. Dr. Clarence W. Bosworth '09 
on education, Philip A. Feiner '16 and 
J. Harold Williams '18 on civic committees. 
It was 20 years ago, on May 15, 1918, 
that the air mail service was inaugurated in 
an expenmental way by the Post Office 
Department. The nationwide celebration of 
that event is intended to call attention to 
the progress made by the air mail in the 
two intervening decades. 



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The Associated Aluuini < 



lliitiini Fund Aides 

y Four trustees of the Brown Alumni Fund 
have been elected by the Executive Com- 
mittee of the Associated Alumni and ap- 
proved by the Advisory Council for terms 
beginning July 1, next. They are Preston F. 
Arnold "13, Trust Officer, Rhode Island 
Hospital Trust Company; George T- Metcalf 
"13, advertising; George A. Ashbey"21, who 
has done conspicuous advertising work for 
the Fund; and Albert L. Parks "26, success- 
ful Class Agent who will represent on the 
board of trustees the classes from 1924 to 
1932, Ashbey will serve at least a year as 
advertising adviser. Henry S. Chafee "09 
will leave the board after having been ac- 
tively identified with the reorganization and 
advancement of the Fund for the past five 
years. 

The board of trustees of the Alumni 
Fund is made up of the president and treas- 
urer of the Associated Alumni (Sidney 
Clifford "15 and Alton C. Chick "19 until 
July, 1939) and not more than 1 'i others, 
two of whom are members of the Brown 
Corporation. William G. Meader "115 is 
chairman of the board. ^ ^ 

Chicago 

► Despite a freezing rain and glassy streets, 
3 5 Chicago Brown men gathered at the 
University Club Friday evening, March 4, 
to greet I)r. Bruce M. Bigelow "24, Director 
of Admissions, and incidentally to partake 
of a delicious hutfet supper served at 10 
o"clock. It was a wholly informal affair, with 
no speaking whatsoever. Left to their own 
devices and interests the Brown men present 
had a general talkfest for an hour or so. 
Then supper, and steins on the tables, and 
the questions about Brown began to fly at 
Bruce. Our correspondent writes; 

■'For more than two hours the discussion 
raged, going from football to curriculums 
and new buildings, and back again. In his 
inimitable way, Bruce managed to give a 
complete picture of the activities and pres- 
ent state of the University. More and more 
It is evident that the vitality ol the new Pres- 
ident is spreading Irom the campus through 
the ranks ot all Brown men, and that alumni 
interest is more intense than at any other 
time in recent years. 

"All those fortunate enough to have 
braved the perils of the weather to attend 
the meeting agreed that it was a fine idea 
not to have any formal speeches, because 
everyone got a chance to talk as much as he 
wanted to. 

"The Chicago Brown Club sends greet- 
ings to all Brown men, and hopes to have a 
large representation in Providence for Com- 
mencement Week festivities in June."" 

Detroit 

► ► The Brown Club of Detroit under its 
new president, Melville C. Mason "14, was 
host to Dean Samuel T. Arnold '13 at a 
dinner at the University Club, Detroit, 
Thursday, March 10. Attending the dinner 
were 48 Brown men and their guests, includ- 
ing fathers of most of the Detroit and neigh- 
borhood undergraduates now at Brown. 

Ariungements began Feb. 16 when the 
Brown Club held a dinner in the Aztec 



Tower ot the Union Guardian Building lor 
the purpose ot electing officers for 1938-39 
and also to make plans for the meeting 
with Dean Arnold. At this meeting Mr. 
Mason succeeded Dr. Augustus P. Reccord 
'92 as president. Dr. Meryvn St. Clair 
Shaw '06 was chosen vice-president and 
Professor Edwin C. Walmsley '22 of Wayne 
University was elected secretary and treas- 
urer. 

By March 10 final plans were made for 
the dinner at the University Club through 




DE.4!\ tl{\<n.l>: CIcreland and 
Detroit welcomed him. 

the kindness of John C. Gorenflo '28. The 
program committee was Arthur S. Bush '31, 
Dean F. Coffin "33. W. Freeman Crawford 
"21 and the officers. 

After dinner Herbert H. Rice "92, former 
Alumni Trustee, spoke briefly on the Uni- 
versity program, "In Trust for Youth." and 
Henry B. Sellcck '09 got his campaign for 
the Brown Alumni Fund under way. Then, 
with several Brown songs to cheer him on, 
came Dean Arnold who gave a highly inter- 
esting talk on the scholastic, financial, ath- 
letic and other phases of the University's 
activities. There followed a session of ques- 
tions from the floor and answers by the 
Dean and finally the showing of two reels of 
the Brown-Rutgers game at Brown Stadium 
on Thanksgiving Day. 

President Ma.son acted as Dean Arnolds 
host on Thursday and again on Friday. 

iVpiii York 
► James Frederick Green of the Foreign 
Policy Association discussed "Britain's Role 
in the European Crisis" at the monthly din- 
ner of the Brown University Club in New- 
York at the clubhouse. Park Avenue and 
39th Street, Wednesday evening, March 23. 
President Everett Colby "97 introduced Mr. 
Green, whose talk was of deep interest to 
the Club members. 



Challenge to the golfers of the Brown 
Club to take more interest in the College 
Club Golf League has been issued in plain 
terms by Joseph F. Halloran '16. As Hal- 
loran points out in a letter sent to the mem- 
bers, the group includes all colleges that 
are Brown's rivals in intercollegiate sports, 
so it is fitting that the Brown golfers should 
help maintain the rivalry by active partici- 
patirin in the Golf League. 

The annual meeting of the Club will be 
held some time in May. 

Northeastern Pennsylvania 

► The annual dinner meeting of the Brown 
Club of Northeastern Pennsylvania was 
held at the Scranton Club, Scranton, Friday 
evening, Feb. 26, with almost perfect at- 
tendance. One of the smallest active Brown 
Clubs of the Associated Alumni, this Penn- 
sylvania group is enthusiastic and energetic. 

Headed by President Allyn J. Crooker 
'28. eleven gathered informally to dine and 
to hear Theodore R. Jeffers '23, executive 
secretary of the Council, who was the repre- 
sentative of the University, As usual, honor 
was paid the oldest alumnus present, and 
Harry W. Mumford '01, who has often 
achieved this distinction, gracefully relin- 
quished his claim to Irving 0. Hunt '99. 

The others present were Byron S. Hol- 
linshead '28, secretary, Henry W, Peterson 
"21, Franklin B, Geldcr '26. Paul M, Hil- 
burt '31, Marcus A, Tinker '23, William E, 
Bright '07, William E, Bright, Jr, '36, and 
Frank G, Handy '36, Following the usual 
procedure, the president presented each 
member and each responded briefly with a 
few reminiscences of life on the campus and 
hopes for Brown of tomorrow. 

It fell to the lot of the guest speaker, Mr. 
Jeffers, to answer many questions raised and 
to describe briefly the progress and changes 
at Brown, Particularly did he stress the 
alert leadership of President Wriston 
and the physical improvements, discussing 
briefly the new chemical research laboratory, 
the new infirmary, and the restoration of 
University Hall. 

Cleveland 

► Albert E. Dillingham '18 was elected 
president of the Brow^n Club of Cleveland 
to succeed Carl H. Brown, Jr., '29 at the 
annual dinner and meeting at the Univer- 
sity Club, Wednesday evening, March 9. 
Working with the new president will be 
Harold L. Madison, Jr., vice president; 
Owen F. Walker '3 3, secretary; and Roy H. 
Smith, Jr., '34 treasurer. 

Dean Samuel T. Arnold '13 told the story 
of Brown and Brown activities and the 
alumni greatly enjoyed the recital. Dean 
Arnold reported on his return to the campus 
that he had an unusually pleasant time in 
Cleveland, as well as in Detroit, where he 
went next day. Thirty-seven Brown men and 
fathers of undergraduates were at the Cleve- 
land gathering. In the group were several 
from the Brown Club of Akron and Canton. 

Neiv Hampshire 

► Percy A. Shaw "OS of Manchester has 
been nominated for president of the Brown 
Club of New Hampshire, recently reor- 
ganized by a special committee. Vice Pres- 
ident will be Roland H. Ford '30 of Con- 
cord and J. O. Staniels '3 5 of Manchester 
will serve as secretary-treasurer. On the 
Board of Governors will be Dr. H. W. N. 
Bennett '97, Richard P. Smart '3 3 of Tilton. 
Everett H. Swett '06 of Nashua, Professor 
Donald L. Stone '09 of Hanover, William 



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E. Price "96 of Lisbon. Raymond E. Claflin 
"20 of Lebanon, and J. C. Peaslee "00 of 
Plymouth. 

The Club has written its own Constitu- 
tion based on the model given it by the 
Alumni Office and will hold its first regular 
meeting late in May or early in June. 
Brotvn Engineers 

► The Brown Engineering Association, 
holder of a block of tickets, held its spring 
meeting in Radio Theatre No. 2, New York 
City, March 9, listening to the broadcast 
"Cavalcade of America."" The broadcast was 
supplemented by a program for the special 
benefit of the Brunonian visitors. President 
Joseph H. Farnham "14 led the delegation. 

Boston 

► Walter M. Burse "20, chairman, and 
his committee are completing plans for the 
annual Brown dinner at the Hotel Statler, 
Friday evening, April 29, with President 
Wriston as principal speaker. On the com- 
mittee with Burse arc Ernest T. Clough "20, 
treasurer, James S. Allen "98, former pres- 
ident of the Associated Alumni, Herbert L. 
Barrett "09, Claude R. Branch '07, Robert 
B. Chapm "35, William F. Hulbert, Jr., "37. 
E. Stuart Macmillan "21, H. C. Neubauer 
'25, and Edward R. Place '24, president of 
the Brown Club of Boston. 



Frank H. Conant, director of the Massa- 
chusetts Institute of Technology photo- 
graphic service, was guest and speaker at 
the March luncheon at the Chamber of 
Commerce. 

Brunoniana 
► President Wriston. Dean Leroy A, 
Howland of Wesleyan and Dr. Edgar Allen 
"H of the Yale Medical School were the 
speakers at the all-Connecticut Brown din- 
ner under the auspices of the Brown Clubs 
of New Haven and Hartford at the Hotel 
Taft, New Haven, March 24. Harry R. 
Westcott "1 1 was toastmaster. . . . Professor 
James H. Shoemaker of the Department of 
Economics and John B. Rae "3 2, assistant to 
President Wriston, were guests of the 
Brown Club of Washington at the annual 
dinner at the Hay Adams House, Wash- 
ington, March 2?. United States Senator 
Theodore Francis Green "87, toastmaster, 
had on hand a barrel of fresh Rhode Island 
oysters for the delectation of his fellow 
Brunonians. . . . T. R. Jeffers "23 of the 
University Council and A. H. Gurncy "07, 
,^lumni Secretary met with the Brown Club 
of Pittsburgh Tuesday evening, March 29, 
while on their way to the 25th anniversary 
meeting of the American Alumni Council 
at Ohio State University, Columbus. i i 



Brunonians Far and Near < 



Bv A H GURNEY 



1886 

► ► Norman M. Isham finally gave his 
annual museum talk at the Rhode Island 
School of Design last month. Originally 
scheduled to speak earlier in the winter, he 
had to stay home on the first date when a 
blizzard made travel too difficult for both 
him and his audience. But he had his 
usual full house when the postponed lecture 
was finally given. 

1892 

Dr. George N. Richmond of Philadelphia 
is a member of the 50-year class at Worces- 
ter Academy which is preparing for a re- 
union at the Academy on May 14, annual 
Alumni Day. 

1893 

Your Secretary and Walter S. Reynolds 
have been revising the Class list at the 
Alumni Office and your Committee is get- 
ting ready for the 45th Reunion in June. 
Remember the dates, June 18, 19, 20. 

J. D. E. Jones is a member of the 50-year 
class at Worcester Academy which will have 
a reunion at the Academy May 14, Alumni 
Day. The "boys"" of '88 are scattered from 
Portland, Me., to Dallas, Tex., and Flag- 
staff, Ariz. 

A comparatively recent issue of the 
Times. Canisteo, N. Y., carried a story on 
Dr. Frank Grant Lewis who, with Mrs. 
Lewis, is now a permanent resident of 
Canisteo. The news story said that our 
classmate was "unquestionably the most 
eminent scholar and best posted man in the 
. community" and gave account of his career 
and his membership in various national 
learned societies. 

1895 

Frederick E. Thompson"s correct mail 
address is Hotel Wyndham, 42 West 58th 
Street, New York City. Report is that 
although Thompson has formally retired 



from business he has his time well occupied 
by creative inteiests. 

1896 

William P. Otis has changed his resi- 
dence from Providence to Derman Street, 
Rumford, R. I. 

1897 

Arthur M. Allen ot the law firm of 
Hinckley, Allen, Tillinghast 6? Wheeler, 
Providence, representing eight Rhode 
Island and Connecticut business groups, op- 
posed the Borah-0"Mahoney bill for Fed- 
eral licensing of corporations having assets 
of $100,000 or more at a hearing before a 
Senate judiciary sub-committee in Washing- 
ton last month. In his brief he gave five 
general objections, chief of which was that 
the act would mean "a regimentation of 
industry and an increase of bureaucratic 
government that would be intolerable."" He 
also said that the bureaucracy so created 
"would have to possess truly dictatorial and 
fascist powers,"" and that the legislation 
directed against the corporations would 
really and seriously affect the stockholders 
and the wages of employes. 

Wilbur A. Scott was re-elected and in- 
stalled as Grand Secretary of the Grand 
Chapter of Royal Arch Masons in Rhode 
Island at the 141st convocation in Prov- 
idence on March 9. 

Allen H. Chase's new house address is 
450 Belvedere Street, La Jolla, Calif. 
1898 

When Charles E. Paine went into his 
office at Classical High School, Providence, 
Tuesday morning, March 15, he found on 
his desk a bouquet of flowers, gift of mem- 
bers ot his staff to remind him of 3 5 years of 
service with the school. Paine began at 
Classical as instructor in Latin and history, 
served five years as vice principal and in 
1931 succeeded Dr. William T. Peck '70 as 



principal. In the course of his career, going 
back to March 15, 1903, he has been absent 
only one day because of sickness. 
1899 

Judge Charles A. Walsh of the Rhode 
Island Superior Court told an audience at 
Temple Emanu-El, Providence, last month 
that while the Constitution lives, "America 
need not fear the dictator or the mob.'" He 
spoke on the program with Professor Jarvis 
M. Morse of the Department of History at 
Brown and Rabbi Israel M. Goldman, the 
occasion being an observance of the 150th 
anniversary of the signing of the Constitu- 
tion. 

Herbert H. Kennedy, in Southern Cali- 
fornia during the winter months, writes 
that his address after the first of May will 
be P. O. Box 1312, East Hampton, N. Y. 
Kennedy recently retired as an engineer 
executive with the New York Telephone 
Company. 

Thomas J. Griffin, winter resident of 
Sarasota, Fla., will return this month to his 
home in Plymouth, Mass. 

Howard C Barber has the sympathy of 
the Class in the loss of his father, Leonard 
M. Barber '72, one of Brown's oldest grad- 
uates and former superintendent of the 
Wood River Railroad and the Sea View 
Railway. 

Joseph C. Hartwell is a director of the 
Audubon Society of Rhode Island and is 
also on the executive committee of the 
Brown Club of Providence. 
1900 

Cliflford S. Anderson was toastmaster at 
the 78th annual initiation banquet of the 
Brown Chapter of Delta Upsilon at the 
Turks Head Club, Providence, March 18. 

Albert L. Scott and Mrs. Scott have re- 
turned to their New York City home after 
a month's vacation in Florida. 

Myron D. Lapham's new house address is 
820 Euclid Avenue, Berkeley, Calif. 

Your Secretary reports with regret the 
death of Dr. Charles K. Stilfman in Mystic, 
Conn., March 22, 1938. An account of his 
life and career will appear in a later issue 
of the Brown Alumni Monthly. 
1901 

Dr. Eben Gould, who left Melbourne, 
Australia, in January for Bombay, is spend- 
ing several months on the Seychelle Islands, 
a British colony northeast of Madagascar. 

Edwin Farnham Greene reports a change 
of mail address to 5 1 Madison Avenue, New 
York City, 

Henry C- Hart has been re-elected presi- 
dent of the Legal Aid Society of Rhode 
Island. 

1902 

Charles B. Coppen, representing the 
Ninth Ward in the Providence Common 
Council, introduced last month a resolution 
creating a special committee to study the 



The Throne of Tammany 

► Congressman John J. O'Con- 
nor "08 said not long ago in Wash- 
ington that he had no ambition to 
become leader of Tammany Hall, a 
place for which he was said to be 
first choice. "My duties in Wash- 
ington,"" he told newspapermen, 
"require all my time so that I could 
not now serve in the suggested ca- 
pacity, and, further. I have abso- 
lutely no ambition in that direction."' 



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possible effect of the proposed State income 
tax on Providence taxpayers, but the Coun- 
cil tabled it. 

State Senator Alfred G. Chaffee was 
prominently mentioned as a candidate when 
a bill increasing the number of Rhode Island 
Supreme Court Justices from five to seven 
was introduced in the General Assembly 
last month. 

1903 
► The Class IS still a going concern if re- 
sponses with regard to the ?^th Reunion at 
Rhode Island Country Club, June 18-19, 
are any indication. The first broadside. 
Good y^ews, had its appeal. It told the story 
fully and attractively. The Reunion Com- 
mittee did a grand job and deserves the fine 
response it is receiving from the men of the 
Class. Further information about the Re- 
union is being prepared. Meanwhile write 
Fred A. Otis (if you have not already done 
so) telling him that you will be there. 

Rev. Isaac Fleming, last reported in 
Southern California, has sent in a change 
of address to Upper Musquodoboit, Nova 
Scotia. 

Ernest A. Saunders, long a resident of 
New York City, is now living at 5000 Ox- 
ford Avenue, Frankford, Pa. 

1904 

Rev. Albert H. Stanton, superintendent 
of evangelism of the New Jersey State Bap- 
tist Convention, is the new president of the 
Baptist Ministers" Conference of New York 
City and vicinity. 

Foster B. Davis, senior member of the 
firm of Davis 6? Davis, Providence brokers, 
escaped with only a bruise on his head when 
his motor car went into a spin on Wam- 
panoag Trail, East Providence, a slippery 
morning last month, left the highway, 
turned over and stopped against a telegraph 
pole. After looking at the damage, Davis 
got into another car and counted his lucky 
stars all the way to his office. 

William Y. Easterbrooks reports a change 
of house address from Providence to 5 1 
Bond Road, East Providence. 

Arthur E. Cameron has the sympathy of 
the Class in the loss of his wife, who died at 
her home in Westfield, N. J,, March 12, 
1938. Mrs. Cameron, graduate of Simmons 
College, was supervisor of the Canadian 
Military Hospitals Commission with the 
rank of captain during the World War. 
She also leaves a daughter, Jean L. Cam- 
eron. 

Oscar L. Heltzen is chairman of the 
Rhode Island New Sweden Tercentenary 
Committee which will have a part next June 
and July celebrating the founding of New 
Sweden in the Delaware River Valley in 
1638. 

1905 

Leonard W. Cronkhite, tru.stee of the 
World Peace Foundation, speaking before 
the Town Criers of Providence last month, 
said that "it is unthinkable that the voice of 
the United States is to be feeble and ignored 
in a world which needs insurance against 
war." He held that the United States could 
not maintain a complete isolation policy 
without recording economic losses and 
sketched the different groups of peace ad- 
vocates active in this country today. Cronk- 
hite's talk was part of Rhode Island World 
Affairs Week in which the Town Criers 
co-operated. 

Frederick E. Hawkins is the new presi- 
dent of the Brown University Teachers As- 
sociation, succeeding Professor Benjamin C. 



"They Never W ere" 

> Mrs. Carl Velbincer's dinner 
party for eight guests at her apart- 
ment in Elizabeth, N. J., early in 
March woudn't have attracted even 
passing mention in the home news- 
papers except for the fact that John 
D. Rockefeller, Jr., "97, Mrs. Rocke- 
feller and their son Winthrop were 
present. As the editorial writer on 
the staff of the ?iew Yurk_ Herald 
Tribune so amiably and succinctly 
put It: 

"When the news finally leaked 
out that Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rocke- 
feller, Jr. and their son Winthrop 
were guests at dinner (lamb chops, 
ice cream and coffee) the other eve- 
ning in the three-room apartment of 
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Velbinger at Elisa- 
beth, N. J., there was a good deal of 
excitement m the neighborhood, and 
the matter was even taken up by the 
nation's press as if such an occur- 
rence were remarkable — a kind of 
Haroun-al-Raschid situation. There 
need have been no such surprise. 

"Mr, Velbinger is a tinsmith em- 
ployed in the Bayway plant of the 
Standard Oil Company of New Jer- 
sey. He IS also a man of considerable 
distinction, being president of the 
Bayway Federation, an organization 
consisting of 4,000 employees. But 
even if he had no such standing, the 
event was one which the Rocketellers 
could have taken in their stride. 
Surely it isn't news any more that 
the Rockefellers are not high-hat. 
They never were." i 



Cluugh. Hawkins, now assistant principal 
of Gilbert Stuart Junior High School, will 
move up next September as assistant prin- 
cipal of the new Hope Street High School. 

Ellery L. Wilson, three times president 
of Wannamoisett Country Club, Rumford, 
IS the second oldest member of the Club, it 
was said at the 40th annual meeting last 
month. Wilson was born in the house which, 
remodelled, has served as the clubhouse 
since the club was organized in 1898. 

David Davidson and the Class Insurance 
Fund Committee have sent out a compre- 
hensive circular letter soliciting the current 
year's payments. If the spirit should move 
any '05 man, who has received the letter 
and who reads this paragraph, to chip in — 
well, don't be bashful. You know best what 
you can give. Just put it in an envelope with 
your name and address and mail it to David 
Davidson, 57 Whitmarsh Street, Provi- 
dence. 

John Nicholas Brown, honorary member 
of the Class, has done a splendid work as 
chairman of the Rhode Island State Plan- 
ning Board from which he has recently re- 
signed. 

1906 

Henry R. Hobson is in charge of eleven 
Western States for the Federal Surplus 
Commodities Corporation, with his head- 
quarters at 112 Market Street, San Fran- 
cisco. In Los Angeles recently he and 
Houghton Metcalf '04 had lunch together 
and Houghton reports that Henry keeps on 
the jump. "It was less difficult to make 
Henry talk about his two children. The old- 
er, Mary, graduated from Mills College in 
1937 and at Commencement received the 



award of the 'Diamond M' for character, 
scholarship and sportsmanship. These hon- 
ors are usually divided among three girls, 
but Mary won the whole business. Bill Hob- 
son, the son, is in his last year at Lakeside 
Boys' Preparatory School near Seattle. 
Henry and I agreed that Brown is the best 
damn college on the map." 

Dr. Prescott T. Hill has recently been 
elected president of the Staff Association of 
the Charles V. Chapin Hospital, Provi- 
dence. 

Eliot G. Parkhurst's daughter. Miss Mar- 
tha Parkhurst, will be editor-in-chief of the 
Wcllesley College T^ews for the academic 
year 1938-39. 

1907 

Leonard S. Little, former president of 
United States Finishing Company, has be- 
come treasurer of the newly formed Amal- 
gamated Dyestutf a Chemical Works, Inc., 
with offices in New York City and plant at 
Plum Point, N. J. Little will have charge of 
research and production at the plant in ad- 
dition to his work as treasurer. 

Herbert B. Keen, with Hayden, Stone 6? 
Company, investments, is the new vice presi- 
dent of the New York Alumni Association 
of Peddie School. 

WiHiam K. White and Mrs. White came 
down from Carleton Place, Ont., last month 
to see their son. Bud White '38, play hockey 
against Columbia and to visit friends in 
Providence and neighborhood. Bill saw My- 
ron Curtis, Al Gurney and other '07 men 
and asked to be remembered to everybody 
else in the Class. 

Lloyd W. Josselyn, who spent the sum- 
mer in France, where his smile and his hands 
made up for his lack of knowledge of 
French (so he says) wrote in a recent letter 
from the Library, Purdue University, La- 
fayette, Ind., that it would be good to see 
some one direct from Brown. "We do not 
have enough visiting from the home folks," 
he went on. "If you do not think we can 
entertain in the 'highbrow' arts then come 
and see us play basketball. There are no 
folks on this earth our superiors in playing 
the game, watching the game, and talking 
about the game." 

1908 
► The Rhode Island Country Club at Nay- 
att instead of the Hotel Carlton at Narra- 
ansett Pier will be the scene of the 3 5th 
Reunion in June. The Club is nearer the 
campus than the Carlton and has all the 
facilities necessary for reunion. All mem- 
bers of the Class will please note the change 
and prepare to be there for the week-end of 
June 18-20. 

Ely Eliot Palmer, Mrs. Palmer and their 
son, George Eliot Palmer, will arrive this 
month in Beirut, Syria, where Palmer will 
begin his duties as American Consul Gen- 
eral. The Palmers sailed from New York the 
middle of March on the steamship Excam- 
hion. 

Dr. Harlan T. Stetson of the Massachu- 
setts Institute of Technology gave the John 
Arthur Lecture at the National Museum, 
Washington, D. C, in February. His sub- 
ject was "The Sun and the Atmosphere." 

1909 

Herbert M. Sherwood was chairman of 
the Rhode Island World Affairs Week held 
on the Brown campus last month. 

Don Clark, president of the Providence 
Y.M.C.A., was a Brown chapel speaker 
early in March. 

Albert H. Poland is a member of the 
Rhode Island Republican Finance Commit- 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Brown Alumni Monthly 

Publiifu'd at hiown L/mt'trsitv bv the 
Assoc\ated Alumni 



CHESLEY WORTHINGTON '2 3 

Miiiidging Editor 

ARTHUR BRAITSCH '23 

Busnitii MdTiageT 

HENRY S. CHAFEE 09 

ALFRED H. GURNEY '07 
Secretary 

GERTRUDE ALLEN McCONNELL '10 

PcmbroJfc CoTTcsponde«t 

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 XXXVIII APRIL, \^if. NO, 4 



tee recently named tu raise funds tur party 
purposes, according to the Proi'idenct Bul- 
letin. The money will he allocated to the 
Republican National Committee, the Rhode 
Island State Republican Committee and to 
city and town committees throughout 
Rhode Island. 

1910 

H. H. Haskins is on the sales staff ol 
Plymouth County Light ii Power Company, 
Wareham, Mass., where he lives at 118 
Gibbs Avenue. 

"There's Always a Breeze," the comedy 
in which William H. Lynn returned to 
Broadway early in March wasn't sturdy 
enough to survive in spite of the excellent 
work of Billy as "a shy and ineffectual little 
man who is laughed at when he announces 
that he has committed a murder," Cecilia 
Loftus, Blanche Sweet, famous in the days 
of silent moving pictures, and other first-rate 
players. While Billy was trying out the play 
in Boston members of the Brown Chapter 
ol Theta Delta Chi attended in a body to 
cheer him on. 

The engagement of John Richmond Fales, 
son of J. Richmond Fales and Mrs. Fales, to 
Miss Barbara Bolster, daughter of Dr. and 
Mrs. William W. Bolster of Lewiston, Me., 
has been announced. Fales, Jr., will graduate 
in June from Babson Institute, Wellesley, 
Mass. 

Attorney General John P. Hartigan is 
honorary president of the Young Men's 
Democratic League of Rhode Island. 

Joseph B. Keenan, Assistant Attorney 
General of the United States, gave the ad- 
dress at the 201st annual St. Patrick's Day 
dinner of the Charitable Irish Society in 
Boston last month. Washington columnists 
report that Joe is rapidly becoming one of 
President Roosevelt's right-hand men. 

Warren C. Johnson and his family are 
now living at 300 Morris Avenue. Provi- 
dence, within a hop, step and jump of 
Brown Stadium. 

1911 

Philip C. Curtis, head technician of 
Sayles Finishing Plant, Inc., Saylesville, for 
25 years, will resign his post at the end of 
this month. Several other officials of long 
standing will also step down with him, the 
newspapers say. 

S. Merritt Skelding is now associated 
with Stewart, Hencken 6? Will, Inc., insur- 
ance, at 80 Maiden Lane, New York City. 

George C. Channing is the new secretary 
of the Brown Club of Alta, California (San 
Francisco). Channing's daughter, Miss 



Carol Channing, was champion of the 1937 
public speaking contest held by the Cali- 
fornia Crusaders for high school students of 
Northern California. With the award went 
a vacation trip to Honolulu for her and her 
mother. 

John V. Keily, chief of the Rhode Island 
State Division of Roads and Bridges, is 
president of the Rhode Island Society of 
Professional Engineers for 1938-39. 

1912 

Richard B. Wilson and Knowles Wyatt 
have formed a partnership for the general 
practice of law under the name of Wilson ii 
Wyatt at 303-5 Dollar Bank Building, 
Youngstown, O. 

Kenly S. Bell is with Hudson Air Condi- 
tioning Corporation in Washington and 
has recently changed his house address to 
37 St. Paul Street, Kensington, Md. 

Rodney W. Hewitt is teaching mathe- 
matics at the Windham High School, Willi- 
mantic. Conn., where he is now living at 
127 Jack.son Street. 

Ernest I. Kilcup, president of Davol Rub- 
ber Company, told members of the Rhode 
Island Rubber Club at their March meeting 
in Providence that "the 4 per cent, social 
security tax on employers is encouraging the 
adoption of labor-saving devices with a re- 
sultant increase in unemployment." He said 
that he was in favor of social security, but 
held that administration of the law was 
stifling industry with a real tax burden, the 
direct result of the tremendous increase in 
the public debt. 

Dr. W. Randolph Burgess, vice president 
of the Federal Reserve Bank in New York, 
was back on the campus last month as 
speaker lor the national fraternity at the 
78th annual initiation banquet of the Brown 
Chapter of Delta Upsilon. 

Richard Jay Adams, member of Delta 
Kappa Epsilon while he was at Brown with 
the Class, is reported to have died in the 
South. The Alumni Office, trying to trace 
the report, would appreciate information 
that any classmate may be able to give 
about Adams. 

1913 

George T. Metcalf has taken a new and 
larger office for his advertising business at 
68 South Main Street, Providence. He has 
been specializing m the textile industry. 
1914 

Frederick R. (Frits) Hazard will again 
serve as president of the Washington Coun- 
ty Agricultural Society, which is respon- 
sible for the annual Rhode Island State fair 
at Kingston. Fritz's re-election followed a 
stormy meeting in which a former treasurer 
led the opposition. 

Nathan M. Wright, Jr., is a member of 
the new Board of Governors of the Wan- 
namoisett Country Club, Rumford. 

David C. Adelman has the sympathy of 
the Class in the loss of his wife, who was 
Miss Emma M. Ferguson and who died in 
Providence March 2. Mrs. Adelman, active 
in civic and social work since she became a 
resident of Providence 16 years ago, also 
leaves a daughter. Rosalie. 

Melville C. Mason, partner in the law 
firm of Beaumont, Smith 6? Harris, 2900 
Union Guardian Building, Detroit, is presi- 
dent of the Brown Club of Detroit for 
1938-39. 

1915 

New addresses recently reported by the 
Alumni Office are John H. Bower, 5 Lafay- 
ette Avenue, Hempstead, N. Y., and Silas 
W. Foss, 4 Miami Court, Cos Cob, Conn. 



Dr. George W. Waterman is a member 
of the special committee studying the need 
of a cancer hospital at the Rhode Island 
State institutions at Howard. Dr. Edward 
A. McLaughlin '14, State Director of Public 
Health, is also on the committee which was 
sworn in last month by Lieutenant Governor 
Raymond E. Jordan '17. 

John E. Kelly is an accountant with 
Sears. Roebuck ii Company at 92? South 
Homan Avenue, Chicago. 

Minot J. (Cap) Crowell's twin sons, Joe 
and Minot, Jr., made their first public ap- 
pearance m athletics during the past winter 
as players on one of the teams in the Church 
Basketball League in Central Falls. They 
will be 13 years old next December, so it 
will be some time before they try out fur 
the Brown Freshman five. 

Warren P. Norton is finishing his tenth 
year as superintendent of schools in Mead- 
ville. Pa. He is a trustee of the First Bap- 
tist Church of Meadville and chairman and 
director of the Meadville Associated Char- 
ities. He has sent several good students to 
Brown in recent years. 

1916 

Joseph F. Halloran represents the Brown 
University Club in New York on the com- 
mittee in charge of the College Club Golf 
League which includes Yale, Harvard, 
Princeton, Cornell, Columbia, Dartmouth 
and Pennsylvania. Joe is now trying to get 
the Brown golfers together and warm them 
up before the annual tournament to be held 
in June 

Steward T. McNeill has joined the sales 
staff of Hornblower dt" Weeks, investments, 
110 Grosvenor Building, Providence. 

William S. O'Gorman is president of the 
Y.M.C.A. Dormitory Club of Manchester, 
N. H. 

The first warm days of spring brought 
Earl F. Wood back to the campus from his 
farm in Danielson, Conn. Asked about his 
spring ploughing, he admitted that the 
ground was still too wet and frosty. Life in 
the country, as well as his teaching at Pom- 
Iret School, agrees with him. 

1917 

Dale Wylie, sales promotion manager of 
Iron Fireman Mfg. Company, was one ol 
the committee in charge of the two-day con- 
vention held by the company in New York 
last month. Two new Iron Fireman products 
introduced at the convention are an oil 
burner and a line of automatic coal burners. 

Ken Sprague, teacher and coach at Mont- 
clair, N. J., High School, spends his sum- 
mer vacations taking boys on unusual trips. 
One of the boys who went with him to 
Northern Ontario and Newfoundland last 
year was Wallace Wade, Jr., son of our own 
Wally at Duke University. 



I'ins and I'rnnifx 

y Walter H. Bl:rnh.\m's article, 
"After Hours," which Printers' Itil^ 
published in its issue of March 3, has 
been reprinted for private distribu- 
tion. It's a contemplative essay about 
the man who spends real money to 
sell the pins he manufactures, but 
never a few pennies to advertise his 
company. Burnham '08, vice pres- 
ident of Doremus &? Company and a 
familiar figure in public relations 
work for years, knows whereof he 
writes so casually. ^ 



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.4 Threat Against "The I'eople's Court" 

► When Judge Kenneth D. Johnson "19 resigned this winter after seven years 
as special justice of the East Norfolk District Court at Quincy, Mass., he strongly 
scored the district court system as "fundamentally wrong" and asserted that "it is 
constantly threatened with incompetent persons as special justices." 

"The present system . . . demands a change," he said, "if we are to maintain 
the integrity of our judiciary and provide our citizens with proper protection." 

After reciting the history of the development of the court, he said that it was 
no longer an inferior covirt, hut had been transformed "into a popular, important 
and busy tribunal." Not only is it utilized by the largest number of persons 
annually of any court in the commonwealth but also it is the court where the 
simplest and yet most important problems are adjudicated. It is truly the people's 
court, and must have their respect, their approval and their support. 

"My association with the district court has been most pleasant. I dislike breaking 
away from it. The work with juveniles and their related problems has been of 
peculiar interest to me. This court is now particularly well equipped to handle 
these cases so that aid, encouragement and guidance can be given to the children 
who come before the court." 

Judge Johnson is widely regarded for his social welfare work, especially with 
juveniles. He has written a series of articles embodying his views, and has often 
spoken before welfare societies and other agencies on "the family court." He will 
now give his whole time to the practice of law in Boston. He lives in Milton, 
where he has served as selectman, on the town's financial advisory board, and on 
other major town committees. In the work of the Brown Club of Boston he has 
been a helpful and forceful factor. i 



John R. W. Hall, out of CCC in which 
he was an officer, is an agent for the New 
York Lite Insurance Company in Water- 
bury, Vt., where his address is 48 South 
Majn Street. 

Bertrand E. Tremblay, special student 
with the Class, is regional examiner for 
WPA, with his office at 12 South 12th 
Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Richard H. Van Horn, whose marriage 
is reported in another column, is manager 
of the United Illuminating Company at 
1115 Broad Street, Bridgeport, Conn. How 
many bachelors are there left in the Class? 

1918 

► The first call for the 20th Reunion at the 
Ocean House, Watch Hill, June 17-19, has 
gone out and if you haven't received one 
write Walter Adler at 3 3 Stadium Road, 
Providence, and ask him why. 

"This IS not to be a luxury reunion," 
your Committee says, "but vve arc going to 
be sure that every arrangement is first class." 
You can bank on that statement. So save 
your pennies, mark the dates, and come 
back to renew old friendships and join in 
the Commencement activities on the Hill. 
We'll never have another 20th." 

Albert E. Dillingham is the new presi- 
dent of the Brown Club of Cleveland, where 
Al is district manager of the mill sales di- 
vision of Chase Brass d Copper Company. 

We'll miss Harvey Hincks at reunion. 
Harvey was just beginning to be recognized 
for his work in dramatics and in speech 
development when he died. His capacity 
for work was great. As Professor of English 
and Director of Speech and Dramatics at 
State Teachers College, Memphis, Tcnn., 
he conducted several courses. He directed 
radio plays and the productions of the Writ- 
ers' Group, 19th Century Club and Emelie 
Club. He was an associate editor of the 
Tennessee Speech Journal and a contribu- 
tor to various magazines. He wrote plays 
and he read plays before audiences as 
Professor Crosfjy has done for years. He 
encouraged his students to play well 
their parts on the stage and off. 'Two of 
them, now at the Pasadena Playhouse and 
School of the Theatre, have written that 
"Professor Hincks was both instructor and 
friend to us. . . . Had it not been for him, 
neither of us would be here. The stimulus he 



gave us, the philosophy, the experience — 
these things will live with us so long as we 
live." Harvey's influence, like his presence, 
will be missed. 

John R. Leeming. Jr., is glove buyer for 
the Frank R. JellefF department .store at 
1 2 1 4-20 F Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. 

1919 

Louis A. R. Pieri received a full measure 
of local publicity last month when he 
boarded the German liner Europa in New 
York with a contract for Evelyn Chandler, 
professional skater, to appear at the Rhode 
Island Auditorium in the Skating Club of 
Boston ice show. Lou, who is manager of 
the auditorium, got Miss Chandler's signa- 
ture in more or less full view of the news 
cameras as if such goings on were an every- 
day affair in his life. 

Edward B. Ryder, Jr., member of the 
Board of Governors of Potowomut Golf 
Club, was a signer of the telegram sent to 
John A. Gammons '98, clubmate, urging 
him to "fight hard, Daff," in the seniors' 
tournament in which Gammons competed 
in Florida during the winter. 

1920 

William L. Dewart has recently become 
sales agent for Joseph Bancroft 6? Sons 
Company, textiles, at the New York office, 
40 Worth Street. Bill was formerly with 
United States Finishing Company at the 
same address. 

Linden L. Perrine is director of Town 
Tours at 3H West 57th Street, New York 
City. His idea of tourists and touring led 
the American Magazine to give him an illus- 
trated write-up in its February issue. 

Walter M. Burse is chairman and Ernest 
T. Clough is treasurer of the committee in 
charge of the annual dinner of the Brown 
Club of Boston on Friday, April 29. 

1921 

Dr. Eske Windsberg and Dr. Robert R. 
Baldridge, both of Providence, were ad- 
mitted to fellowship in the American Col- 
lege of Surgeons at the October Congress. 

Stuart Forstall and his brother, Clark 
Forstall '22, have the sympathy of all of us 
Brown men of post war days in the loss of 
their brother. Alfred E. Forstall, Jr., who 
died suddenly at his home in Montclair. 
N. J., March 5. Al started at Lehigh with 



the Class of 1919, left to go to war, and 
returned to finish his work in 1921 while 
Stuart and Clark were studying at Brown. 
Vincent M. Mescrve, engineer with the 
Bell Telephone Laboratories, New York 
City, reports his new house address to be 
964 Virgil Avenue, Ridgefield, N. J. 

1922 

Perhaps we have noted it before, but 
there is no harm in reporting again that 
the Class officers are Theodore L. Sweet, 
president: E. John Lownes, treasurer: and 
Joseph E. Beagan, secretary. If you have 
any Class news, send it to Beagan at 140 
Cypress Street, Providence. 

Paul M. Chalmers is an organization man- 
ager with Curtis Publishing Company at 
1416 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, 
Mass. Paul's mail address is 64 Clearway 
Street, Boston. 

John B. Dick is manager of Plant B of 
the Pond Lily Finishing Company, 1475 
Whalley Avenue, New Haven, Conn., 
where he lives at 1971 Chapel Street. 

Jack Fawcett and Clark Forstall met re- 
cently in Amsterdam, N. Y., where Clark 
lives and works. Jack is eastern sales man- 
ager for Lima Locomotive. He and his fam- 
ily — he has two sons and a daughter — live 
at 270 North Fullerton Avenue, Montclair, 
N.J. 

Professor Edwin C. Walmsley of the De- 
partment of Economics, Wayne Univer- 
sity, Detroit, with accounting as his sub- 
ject, is the new secretary of the Brown Club 
of Detroit. ^^23 

► An executive reunion committee, headed 
by Bill McCormick, class president, pushed 
reunion plans to a further conclusion at its 
meeting March 22. The Breakers, a com- 
fortable hotel directly on the water front at 
Narragansett Pier, is to be headquarters for 
the 15th reunion, Friday, June 17, to Sun- 
day, June 19. 

In addition to innumerable reasons why 
the Breakers and the Pier make an ideal 
spot for the class gathering, an important 
consideration was the fact that it's but a 
stone's throw to classmate Johnny Lownes' 
estate where out-of-town reunioning will be 
climaxed by a clambake Sunday afternoon 
— with Johnny as our genial and generous 
host. The class will wend its way back to 
the campus for the President's reception 
Sunday night, and will be on hand Monday 
for a class breakfast, the Commencement 
procession, luncheon, and the Alumni 
Meeting. 

On Friday, the class will be given the 
choice between going to the Pier for golf, 
dinner and the evening or attending the 
Class Night festivities on the campus. (One 
could still get to the Pier that night after 
a few hours on the campus.) Explicit pro- 
gram details — program, costs, arrange- 
ments, etc., were to be in the mail about the 
middle of April. A news letter will follow 
in May. Preliminary data gathered from re- 
turning questionnaires indicate unusual in- 
terest, and It looks as if the 1 5th were going 
to be a record breaker in variety, enthu- 
siasm and attendance. 

Committee appointments are as follows; 
Publicity — Lanpher, Braitsch, Thorndike. 
Information — Jeffers, Worthington, Jack 
O'Neil. Arrangements — Jed Jones, Paasche, 
Morse, Lownes, Sheldon, Junie Allen. Hal 
Larson. Clambake — Lownes, Beedc, Chase. 
Transportation — Ed Bennett, Ronald 
Smith, Harvey Reynolds. Finance — Morse, 
McCormick. First Aid — Gregory, Trop- 
poli, John Murphy, Lisbon. 



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Art Braitsch has moved. His office is now 
two floors higher in the Hospital Trust 
Building, Providence, and he spent the first 
week in April getting used to the changed 
altitude. 

Jack Applegate, called to Washington to 
adjust some taxes for a client after he had 
written to say he was coming up to the 
Delta U. initiation last month, sent a tele- 
gram to say that he was setting aside five 
days for reunion and a Providence visit. 

Chet Worthington, editor of the Provi- 
dence Journal's Sunday magazine, intro- 
duced Mrs. Martin Johnson before the audi- 
ence which heard her lecture at the Metro- 
politan Theatre. 

Al Legris is busy these days as an ac- 
counting executive in connection with 
Rhode Island social security machinery. 

Ralph Hughes recently became assistant 
manager of the Hotel Touraine, Boston. 

Jock went back to school early this 
month. Elmer R. Joslyn, who lives at 28 
Hajleton Drive, White Plains, N. Y., is as- 
sistant advertising manager of Shell Union 
Oil Corporation and was selected as one of 
the 49 key executives in the Shell organ- 
ization to attend the special training school 
being conducted at the Congressional Coun- 
try Club in Washington, D. C. A bit of 
publicity matter from the Baltimore office 
stated that "Mr. Joslyn's selection as one 
of the key men to attend the Washington 
School is evidence of the respect he com- 
mands within the Shell organization." Be- 
cause the scene was a country club, don't 
be fooled, for Jock's classes started at 8:30 
and lasted until 5:30 each day, with study 
periods of five or six hours every evening 
and examination all day Saturday. He has 
been with the Shell people for six years. 

1924 

Frank O. Hough's first novel, "Renown," 
the story of Benedict Arnold from a new 
viewpoint, is already in its second edition. It 
is also on the recommended list of the Book 
of the Month Club, which considered it for 
two months before deciding not to make it 
first selection. You have the word of several 
Brown men on and off the campus that it's 
a highly readable story, vividly told. 

Carl R. Filmer reports that he is general 
superintendent for Gibson 6? Robinson, 
Donalsonville, Ga., but he doesn't tell us 
what his firm does. 

Francis L. Nichols is assistant to the gen- 
eral manager of the Cooley Finishing Com- 
pany in Pawtucket. He lives on Lewis Road, 
Adamsdale, Mass., but admits there's a 
catch in it as his proper mail address is Box 
283, RFD 2, Valley Falls, R. I. 

Arthur E. Marley, superintendent of 
Sockanosset School for Boys, has been in- 
vited to speak on "Recreational Activities 
in Delinquent Schools" at the convention 
of the National Association of Social Work- 
ers in Seattle, Wash., next June. 

1925 

William M. Browne is buyer of women's 
coats and suits for J, L. Hudson Company's 
basement store, Detroit, Mich., following 
several years of similar work for a depart- 
ment store in Buffalo, N. Y. Bill and his 
family — Mrs. Browne, Bill, Jr., and Sally — 
live at 1338 Yorkshire Road, Grosse Pointe, 
not far from Jack Foley and his family. 

"No need to say that I was tickled pink 
to have Bill move out here," Jack wrote. 
"I hadn't seen him but once since we got 
through Harvard Business School in '27. 
. . . Bill and I see Len VoUbracht and Gersh 



Brown al Piltsfield 

> University Night at the Stanley 
Club, Pittsfield, Ma,ss., on March 14 
brought together nearly 200 mem- 
bers and guests representing 49 col- 
leges and schools. In the party were 
eight Brown men whose undergrad- 
uate careers on College Hill covered 
a span of 45 years, from 1892 
through 1937. 

The Brown men were Irving H. 
Gamwell '96. lawyer and clerk of 
courts of Berkshire County: Adcl- 
bert Phinney '97, superintendent of 
apprentices. General Electric Com- 
pany; Thomas H. Stephens, Jr., '28, 
agent for Massachusetts Accident 
Company; Theodore Giddmgs '29, 
staff writer on the Berkshire Daily 
Eagle: Everett L. Angell '33, engi- 
neer on power transformer test with 
GE: George T. English '36, engineer 
on same test; Francis T. Eddy '37. 
metallurgist in the GE foundry; and 
Thomas F. Davis '37, analytical 
chemist in the GE laboratory. 

The Brown delegation gave a good 
account of itself in its contribution 
to the college music of the evening. 
It sang "We Are Ever True to 
Brown," one of the best college songs 
in the country, and "Bye Low. My 
Baby." Frank Eddy made a four- 
part arrangement for the first-named 
song. From the Brown standpoint 
the night was especially successful in 
that previously none of the young 
alumni had met the men who pre- 
ceded them on the Hill. i 



Owens '28 quite often and we are all going 
to the meeting of the Brown Club of De- 
troit, where we hope to see Martin Rice and 
maybe other '25 men." Arrival of Jack's 
second son (his older boy, Robert, is nearly 
four years old) is reported in another col- 
umn. The Foleys live at 901 Washington 
Road, Grosse Pointe. 

E. L. Nevens is manager of Enterprise 
Stores, Inc., Maiden, Mass., where he and 
his family live at 19 Kenilworth Street. 

Richard L. Wheelock is consultant with 
the Pennsylvania Economic League in Phil- 
adelphia and is living, he writes, at 417 
Tregaron Road, Cynwyd, Pa. 

Gordon A. Smith, with the East River 
Savings Bank at 26 Cortlandt Street, New 
York City, reports his correct house address 
to be 601 West 184th Street. 

1926 

W. John McCollum is teaching in one 
of the Brooklyn public schools and living at 
11 Roosevelt Street. Garden City. N. Y. 

Edward L. Keene, with the United States 
Forestry Service, is now on duty m Russell- 
ville. Ark., to which he transferred from 
Montgomery, Ala. 

Ralph R. Crosby and his family are liv- 
ing in their new house at 75 White Park- 
way, North Smithfield, R. I. They moved 
last month from Woonsocket, where Ralph 
is manager of the Old Colony Co-operative 
Bank. 

James M. Barry is now the only Brown 
man in ScottsblufT, Neb., where he is an 
executive with Western Public Service Cor- 
poration. Jim, leaving Rhode Island last 
month, told us that he looked forward to 



his adventure into the Middle West with a 
lot of interest. It is his first trip beyond the 
Mississippi, and he hopes to see more of 
the western country before he heads back 
toward New England. Jim found himself 
footloose at the end of 1937 when Way- 
poyset Mfg. Company, for which he worked 
seven years and became purchasing agent 
for office and mill supplies exclusive of yarn 
and machinery, went out of business. 

Paul J. Mahoney is on the sales staff of 
Salomon Bros. 6? Hutzler, investments, 60 
Wall Street, New York City. His mail ad- 
dress is 22 Prospect Street, Westwood, N. J. 

Leslie A. Jones, inactive for nearly a 
year because of illness, was a campus visitor 
one day last month and it was good to hear 
him say that after another operation the 
doctors were confident that he would be 
able to go to work again within a reasonable 
time. 

William E. Meuse, with the Baltimore 6? 
Ohio Railroad, has recently been trans- 
ferred to Pittsburgh, Pa., where his office is 
in the Union Trust Building. 

New addresses for you to jot down if you 
write to any of the following: J. Winford 
Nagle, Jr., 1 1 Chapin Road. Barrington, 
R. I.; Elmer R. Smith, 75 Homer Street, 
Providence; Wesley H. Webb, 23 Cartier 
Street, Meshanticut Park, R. I.; Gordon 
Dewart, 10 Tremont Street, Boston, Mass. 

1927 

Dr. Dean H. Echols is head of the Neuro- 
surgery Department, Tulane University, 
and lives at 1567 Exposition Boulevard, 
New Orleans, La., according to a letter 
from John Emil Brennan '28 of Milwaukee, 
Dean's home town. Dean was instructor in 
neurology for several years at the Medical 
School, University of Michigan, where he 
took his medical degree. 

Arthur L. Lawrence is teaching at Green 
Vale School, Roslyn, L. I., New York. 

Alexander Maley is vice president of 
Sterne 6? Maley Company at 3604 South 
Morgan Street, Chicago. Alex reports his 
house address to be 1716 Crilly Court in 
that city. 

James A. Graham, manager of the Provi- 
dence office of Thomson 6? McKinnon, 
members of the New York Stock Exchange, 
is back at work again after a long lay-off as 
a result of a severe attack of lobar pneu- 



A Bear on Desserts 

> Alfred J. Maryott '08. Princi- 
pal of Pawtucket Senior High School 
admits that there is no dessert quite 
like apple pie and ice cream. As 
chairman of the committee in charge 
of the New England Interscholastic 
Basketball Tournament held at 
Brown last month he spoke up for 
apple pie and ice cream as the des- 
sert for the luncheon given by the 
University in Faunce House Art 
Gallery for the visiting teams. 
Coaches of course demurred, but 
Maryott pleaded. The University 
hosts got around the division by serv- 
ing the boys the kind of desserts that 
athletes should have and by setting 
before Maryott a whole apple pie 
neatly decorated with an ice cream 
Brown bear. The picture of himself 
contemplating his pie a la mode will 
occupy a prominent place in his 
album. i 



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monia. A month in Bermuda put Jim on his 
feet and gave him a fine tan. His doctor, 
Orland Smith, has also recovered from a 
similar attack. 

Harry G. Remington is now associated 
with Fidelity Life Insurance Company of 
New York, with his office in Fidelity Phila- 
delphia Trust Building, 123 North Broad 
Street, Philadelphia. 

Edward T. Richards, new chairman of 
the Executive Committee of the Brown Club 
of Providence, was editor of the first issue 
of ProDidence Brown Club 'M.ews which 
came out last month. 

1928 

Earl D. McKenzie is instructor in mod- 
ern languages at Bethany College, Bethany, 
W. Va. 

John Emil Brennan writes that he hopes 
to come back for the Tenth Reunion, but it's 
a long way from Milwaukee and he isn't 
sure as yet. He adds that he is not so well 
posted on campus and fraternity (Delta U) 
as he was before John Mackie '37 returned 
to Wisconsin. 

Charles W. Battle, industrial engineer 
with McKinsey, Wellington 6? Co., 2 Wall 
Street, reports his new house address to be 
3 East 10th Street, New York City. 

James J. Fanale is laboratory assistant 
with Sandoi Chemical Works in New York 
City and is living at 42 Linden Street, 
Lodi, N. J. 

Edward W. Lawrence is now working in 
the Providence office of Northwestern Mu- 
tual Life Insurance Company and living at 
129 Main Street, Pawtuxet. 

Albert G. Gardiner, Jr., is on the sales 
staff of Providence Draft Control and En- 
gineering Company. His house address is 
93 Freedom Road, Providence. 

Irving Harris, in a recent letter, said that 
he had come across a pile of Victor records 
that the Brown Band recorded while he was 
leader. He'd like to get rid of them, and it's 
your chance if you want one or more at the 
price Irving will quote if you write him at 
395 Broadway, Room 1406, New York 
City. They were good recordings, you'll 
remember. 

1929 

Donald C. Marschner, with Shell Union 
Oil Corporation in Baltimore, has recently 
changed his house address to Woodhrook, 
Govans Post Office, Baltimore, Md. 

Dr. Edward B. Medoff, having served his 
interneship at Providence Lying-In Hos- 
pital, has opened an office for the practice 
of medicine in the Hospital Trust Building, 
Woonsocket. 

Alan B. Sinauer, assistant sales manager 
for Permutit Company, 3 30 West 42nd 
Street, New York City, writes that his pres- 
ent house address is Carrigan Avenue, 
White Plains, N. Y. 

Edward Sulzberger, whose specialty is 
real estate, property management and insur- 
ance, is occupying his new office at 712 
Madison Avenue (63rd Street), New York 
City. 

William C. Foster, Jr., is a research as- 
sistant in biology at University of Minne- 
sota, Minneapolis. He lives at 3 20 West 
Central Avenue, St. Paul. 

Walter G. Ensign is an associate editor 
of Providence Brown Club ^ews, new pub- 
lication of the Brown Club of Providence. 
1930 

E. L. (Ed) Sittler, Jr., with Mutual Life 
Insurance Company of New York at 302 
Fayette T. 6? T. Building, Uniontown, Pa., 
said in a recent letter that he found the 



insurance business just about as fine as he 
could imagine any business to be and that 
he still hopes to be able to send to Brown a 
delegation from Fayette County. 

Rev. Everett A. Sherwood is the new 
minister of Central Baptist Church, South- 
bridge, Mass., where he lives at 179 Ham- 
ilton Street. 

C. F. (Freddie) Brace is working for his 
A.M. in physical education at Springfield 
Training College. During the past season 
he was coach of the varsity divers and of the 
Freshman swimming team. He hopes to get 
his degree in June, 1939. 

Charles S. Towle, former member of the 
Class, is captain of the hose company of the 
Larchmont, N. Y., Fire Department of 
which his father, the late George S. Towle, 
was chief. Captain Towle will be married 
the 16th of this month to Miss Letitia Davi- 
son, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Davison 



of Mamaroneck. His brother, John A. 
Towle, who also entered Brown with "30, 
will be an usher. 

Arthur W. Nevens reports a change of 
house address to 84-38 120th Street, Rich- 
mond Hill, N. Y. Art is still on the legal 
staff of Chemical Bank y Trust Company. 
1931 

Rev. Raymond S. Hall has become rector 
of St. John's Episcopal Church. Lowell, 
Mass., where his address is now 1 14 Stevens 
Street. Ray wrote a few weeks ago that he 
likes his new work immensely. He also said 
that he and Ken Butler '32 have been play- 
ing badminton together at the Lowell Y. M. 
C. A. and that "so far" they seem to be the 
champions in their class. 

Seeley H. Powley, with Colonial Beacon 
Oil Co., Inc., in Pelham Manor, N. Y., 
reports that he is now living at Fairways, 
Wynnewood Road, Pelham Manor. 




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A Chairman Stales His Qualifications 

► Clifford P. Ladd "18 never showed the slightest sign of being guilty of con- 
tumacy (see FDR and Noah Webster) when the managing editor of The Shield 
of Theta Delta Chi asked him a short time ago for some inside information about 
his life and achievements. The reason for asking was that Ladd was to be chairman 
of the formal dinner arranged by the New York Graduate Association of the 
fraternity to take place March 24 and the managing editor wanted to get Ladd's 
story of how he came into fame. He got it. The Shield for March said, like this: 

"Was a wartime profiteer on Washington and Brooklyn Army Supply Base 
Fronts. 

"Approved of everything but the Versailles Treaty, but they signed it anyway. 

"Started West and travelled so far I got out East. 

"Drank Chinese tea in Hongkong and Scotch whiskey with a dash of soda any- 
where on the China coast from Manila, P. I., to Shanghai, China, when I could 
find anybody who was in a buying mood. Business on the side was banking. 

"Stopped otf in Europe on my way to South America via New York. 

"Bought a Swiss watch that didn't run and an English tailored suit that didn't 
fit, — so was a typical tourist, as the saying goes. 

"Frolicked up and down the East and Vk'est coasts of South America selling 
all sorts of useless articles from pins to windmills to all sorts of natives for all sorts 
of prices, but not much profit. 

"I am now back in New York to attend the first dinner of a Graduate Asso- 
ciation of Theta Delta Chi held in this metropolis since 1924. 

"To recommend me as Chairman of the venture let it be said that I go to my 
dentist twice a year and report to the probation officer once a week. 1 am 
married and have one canary bird who sings like hell — and so du 1 " i i 



Richard S. Walter is production manager 
for A. A. Walter 6? Co., food manufactur- 
ers, at 13 South Lansing Street, Albany, 
N. Y. Dick IS a commuter, living in New 
Lebanon Centre, out beyond the Albany 
city line. 

Dr. William D. McCarthy is resident sur- 
geon at Memorial Hospital, West 106th 
Street, New York City. 

Vaughn Bailey, we hear, is carrying on 
in style his lumber business in Uniontown. 
Pa., and is also constantly improving his 
golt game. 

Charles B. Brown is secretary and treas- 
urer of Charles Henry Brown if Son, Inc., 
shoe patents, 47 West 24th Street, New 
York City. Charlie and his family live at 
40-10 216th Street, Bayside, N. Y. 

S. Abbott Hutchinson's mother, Mrs. Ma- 
bel Hutchinson, died in Lynn, Mass., early 
in March. The sympathy of the Class is 
given to Abbott, his father, Samuel C. 
Hutchinson, well known Lynn banker, and 
to William F. Hutchinson '3 3. 

1932 

John ]. Walsh is assistant secretary with 
the M. W. A. K. Company, Mason City, 
Wash., builder of the Grand Coulee dam. 

A. N. (Jack) Foster, Jr., is still on duty 
with his father in the Campbell-Hathaway 
Company, retail shoes, in the old home city 
of Uniontown, Pa. 

James R. Westman is doing advanced 
work in joology at the Graduate School, 
Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. Jim went 
to Cornell from the University of Roches- 
ter. 

Harold Summer is teaching and coaching 
at the Kohut School, Harrison, N. Y. He 
and Mrs. Summer and their two children 
live on Glen Oaks Drive, Rye, N. Y. 

George Mullervy, teacher at Central Jun- 
ior High School, East Providence, has been 
re-elected secretary-treasurer of the Rhode 
Island Board of Approved Basketball Offi- 
cials. George will be one of the board's 
delegates to the annual rules meeting in 
New York this month, 

Norman B. Fitzgerald is treasurer of 
Hubbard 6? Palmer Company, grain dealers. 



with his house at 205 Medical Building, 
Mankato, Minn. 

John J. McNulty has been re-elected 
Mayor of Lake Success, N. Y., on the Tax- 
payers' ticket. 

David H. Scott wrote in a recent letter: 
"I'm still to be found within the brick walls 
of the House of Harper. When anyone asks 
me what my position is I simply relate my 
duties and let it go at that: Advertising 
and promoting the sale of religious books 
and Bibles, reading novels, writing jacket 
blurbs and selling New York City ac- 
counts." Dave and his growing family live 
at 6796 Exeter Street, Forest Hills, N. Y. 

1933 

y With the Fifth Reunion only two months 
away, it may be appropriate at this time to 
wonder what members of the Class are do- 
ing and if they followed the vocational in- 
terests and life career plans (the phrase is 
not ours) set down in June, 1933. Then the 
statistics show a prospective lineup as fol- 
lows: Law, 33: medicine, 28; ministry, 15; 
teaching, 30; general business, 71; engineer- 
ing, 14; chemistry, 12; journalism and pub- 
lishing, 17; banking, 8; art, 2; music, 4: 
and statistics, actuarial work, personnel 
work, diplomatic service, aeronautics, one 
each. Twenty-five men had business or 
other positions; 84 were looking for imme- 
diate jobs, and eight had not made up their 
minds. Twenty-two did not make report, 
according to the figures before us. What's 
the lineup in this year of 1938? 

George C. Whitney is the youngest mem- 
ber of the Board of Trustees of the Five 
Cents Savings Bank in his home city of 
Worcester, Mass. 

Edward Schoen, Jr., is practising law at 
11 Commerce Street, Newark, and lives at 
209 Prospect Street, East Orange, N. J. 

Owen F. Walker, lawyer in Cleveland, 
is the new secretary of the Brown Club of 
Cleveland. 

Bob West is working in the Scenario 
Department, MGM Studio, Culver City, 
and lives at 20977 Puente Road, Canoga 
Park, Calif. 

Dr. Robert R. Chace is now on duty as 



interne at the Rhode Island Hospital, Provi- 
dence. 

Dan Costello, Jr., is down in Crichton, 
Ala., we hear, making a survey for a tung 
oil company. 

1934 

Dave Moore is a director of the 100 Per 
Cent Club, International Business Machines 
Corporation. Dave and Bob Chase '33 are 
now working out of the Buffalo office of 
the corporation. 

Henry Stanton, inspector for the Factory 
Insurance Association at 40 Broad Street, 
Boston, confirms his house address to be 
21 Chauncy Street, Cambridge, Mass. 

Irving Pascal is with Carlson Engineer- 
ing Company at 60 Hudson Street, New 
York City, and commutes from West Cald- 
well, N. J., where he lives at 18 Crane 
Avenue. 

Ed Schermerhorn, secretary-treasurer of 
Schermcrhorn Oil Corporation, now has his 
office at 73 5 Kennedy Building, Tulsa, 
Okla. 

Clyde B. Gordon and Mrs. Gordon, mar- 
ried in January, are settled in their new 
house at 133 Sumner Avenue, Springfield, 
Mass., where Clyde is with Monarch Life 
Insurance Company. 

Al Baldwin is methods engineer working 
on planning and schedules lor Talon, Inc., 
makers of zippers, at Meadvillc, Pa,, where 
his house address is 766 Chestnut Street. 
Al was chief calculator with Builders Iron 
Foundry three years and time study engi- 
neer for a few months with R.C.A. Mig. 
Company before joining the Talon com- 
pany. 

John Quattrocchi has commenced the 
practice of law in Providence. On the eve 
of his adventure he was guest at a testi- 
monial dinner given by 300 of his friends 
and acquaintances at the Narragansett 
Hotel. 

Harold Seidman, whose book "Labor 
Czars," the story of labor racketeering in 
the United States, was published early this 
month by Liveright, Inc., New York, will 
finish most of his work for the Ph.D. in 
government at Yale in June. As soon as his 
oral exams are over he says that he intends 
to visit the campus to see for himself the 
progress Brown is making under President 
Wriston. 

Charlie Fenno, Jr.'s, new house address 
is 50 Park Avenue, New York City. Charlie 
is with Hemphill Noyes 6? Company, in- 
vestments, at 15 Broad Street. 

Phil Slocum, Jr., is teaching at Phenix 
School, Hampton, Va., but still claims New- 
port as his home city. 

1935 

Lee LaBonne is assistant manager for 
New England Equity Corporation, with his 
headquarters at Room 409, Industrial Trust 
Building, Providence. 

Howard Richmond is plant manager for 
the Crompton-Shenandoah Co., textiles. 



Phi Psis Invited 

► When Phi Kappa Psi fraternity 
holds Its national convention in Chi- 
cago the last week in June, the 
Brown Club of Chicago looks for- 
ward to welcoming and entertaining 
members of the Rhode Island Alpha 
who attend. 

A message from the club ends 
cordially, "Come on out. Phi Psis." 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Waynesboro, Va., and is living in Char- 
lottesville. We report arrival of his daugh- 
ter, Elizabeth, in another column of this 
issue. 

Bob Chapin, Jr., is a member of the com- 
mittee of the Brown Club of Boston which 
has charge of arranging the Club's annual 
dinner on April 29. 

George Caswell, Jr., is with Burroughs 
Adding Machine Corporation and is living 
at 293 Indiana Avenue, Providence. 

Ross DeMatteo had a character part in 
"The Gay Nineties," the 1938 show of the 
Providence Junior League. 

Jim Staniels has been nominated for sec- 
retary-treasurer of the Brown Club of New 
Hampshire. Jim is with the New Hampshire 
Fire Insurance Company in Manchester. 

1936 

Earl Easton, salesman for the Grinnell 
Company, Inc., fire extinguishing equip- 
ment, is now getting his mail at 360 Ken- 
wood Avenue, Delmar, N. Y. 

Jim Smith is studying medicine at the 
College of Medicine, University of Iowa, 
Iowa City, where until June his address is 
317 South Capitol Street. 

Joe Small, Jr., claims adjuster for Liberty 
Mutual Insurance Company, is working out 
of the Springfield, Mass., office and living 
at 99 School Street in that city. 

Jack Armstrong, whose address in Sanne- 
terre, Quebec, Canada, had us puzzled for 
some time, is geologist for Hollinger Gold 
Mines — which explains the address. 

Dave Slattery is on the sales staff of Inter- 
national Business Machines Corporation, 
151 Broad Street, Providence, but is still 
living at his old home, 14 Cambridge Street, 
Attleboro. 

Wallace Capron, who left college at the 
end of Sophomore year and spent the next 
two years at Nichols Junior College taking 
business courses, is a yacht broker with 
Ford 6? Payne. 41 East 42nd Street, New 
York City. Wally is in Providence about 
once a month, he writes, and gets the news 
at Phi Kappa Psi house. He belongs to the 
Larchmont Yacht Club and the Brown Uni- 
versity Club in New York. 

Bill Hill, Jr., is with National City Bank 
at 55 Wall Street, New York City, and is 
living at One Trinity Place, New Rochelle, 
N. Y. 

1937 

Palmer App, secretary of the Brown Uni- 
versity Club of Chicago, is editor of the 
Brown Derby, the Club magazine which is 
"perpetrated at odd intervals," and which 
always makes good reading for Brown men. 

Thurlow Bearse is in charge of the hard- 
ware department of the Montgomery Ward 
6? Company store on Main Street, Nashua, 
N. H., but he says that his preferred mail 
address continues to be 310 Ocean Street, 
Hyannis, Mass. 

Dick Scott, on the last lap of his first year 
at the American College in Sofia, Bulgaria, 
has signed on until June, 1939, but we hear 
that if all goes well he may not return to this 
country for several years after that date. 
His fiancee has received appointment to the 
American College and will sail for Paris 
this summer. Present plans are for a wed- 
ding in Paris, a trip together through 
Southern Europe and a return to Sofia in 
September. 

Vernon Beaubien is working temporarily 
in Washington, D. C, and hopes to find a 
permanent place with the thought of con- 



tinuing study for a Master's degree at How- 
ard University. 

Charlie Kenyon is an assistant in the 
English Department on the Hill. 

Otto Knutsen, Jr., is doing graduate 
work in economics at Tuck School, Dart- 
mouth College, Hanover, N. H. 

Harlan Latham is a first-year student in 
dentistry at the Dental School, Tufts Col- 
lege. 

Herman Lippman is a student engineer 
with Narragansett Electric Company, 
Providence 

Van Williams is on duty at Palmer Lab- 
oratory, Princeton, where he is doing ad- 
vanced work in physics. 

Stuart Thompson, Jr., is assistant man- 
ager in the Research Business office of Calco 
Chemical Company, Bound Brook, N. J. 

Norton Atlass is learning the business of 
making shirts with Manhattan Shirt Com- 
pany in Paterson, N. J. 

Jim Kavanagh is in the Comptroller's 
Office at General Fire Extinguisher Com- 
pany, Providence. 

George Lewis has been working in the 
men's furnishings department at the Shep- 
ard Company store. Providence, and teach- 
ing psychology at the Adult Education In- 
stitute, Taunton, Mass. 

Al Edgell IS working as a chemist in the 
Rhode Island Division of Public Health at 
335 State Office Building, Providence i i 

Engagements 

> ► Miss Anna Hardeman Meade. 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hardeman S. 
Meade of Birmingham, Ala., and graduate 
of Agnes Scott College, to Holdsworth Gor- 
don Minnigerode '28 of Washington, D. C. 

Miss Regina Beaudreau, daughter ot 
Judge and Mrs. Raoul H. Beaudreau of 
Belmont, Mass., to John S. Flynn "3 2 of 
Providence. Miss Beaudreau attended Trin- 
ity College, Washington, D. C. and the 
Chamberlayne School, Boston. 

Miss Lucille Louise Brion, daughter ot 
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Brion of Roslyn. N. Y., 
to William J. Broadhurst '34 of New York. 

Weddings 

► 1917— Richard H. Van Horn and Miss 
Jessie Elizabeth Henry, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. James Henry, were married in 
Bridgeport, Conn., Feb. 18, 1938. They are 
at home at 225 Golden Hill Street, Bridge- 
port. 

1928 — Harvey J. Ollsen and Miss Gladys 
Worth, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward 
F. Worth, were married in Passaic, N. J., 
March 12, 1938. They are at home at Buck- 
ingham Apartments, 3901 Fifth Street, 
North, Arlington, Va. 

1931 — Kenneth S. Fisher and Miss Nan- 
cy Hawley, daughter of Mrs. George D. 
Hawley, were married in Lowell, Mass., 
Jan. 15, 1938. Walter C. Fisher "29 wa'i 
best man for his brother. Mr. and Mrs. 
Fisher are at home at 82 Elm Street, 
Nashua, N. H., where Mr. Fisher is with 
General Motors Acceptance Corporation. 

193 3 — Dr. Alexander M. Burgess, Jr., 
son of Dr. Alexander M. Burgess '06 and 
Mrs. Burgess, and Miss Helen Ballard, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Clark 
Ballard, were married m Lexington, Mass., 
March 19, 1938. Warren P. Leonard '30 
and Samuel B. Burgess and Robert C. Bur- 
gess, both of 1939, were ushers. Mrs. Bur- 
gess IS a graduate of Bradford Junior Col- 
lege. 

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1934 — Paul B. Chancy and Miss Elsie 
Travis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John I. 
Travis, were married in New York City 
March 18, 1938. After April 18 they will 
be at home at Holland House, Forest Hills, 
N. Y. 

1934 — Herschel E. Fowler and Miss Mar- 
ion Balkcom Brooks, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Gilbert F. Brooks, were married in 
Pawtucket Feb. 26, 1938. Malcolm C. Lang 
'34 was best man, and ushers included Ray- 
mond A. Balkcom "29, Dr. Richard F. Davis 
'34 and Edward D. Wass "36. Mr. and Mrs. 
Fowler are at home at 23 2 Warren Street, 
Allston, Mass. 

Births 

k 1920— To Mr. and Mrs. Elton H. Tuck- 
er of Providence a son, Jerome Williams, 
Feb. 28, 1938. 

1921— To Mr. and Mrs. O. G. H. (Cur- 
ly) Oden of Providence a son, Bruce Con- 
rad, March 19, 1938. 

1922— To Mr. and Mrs. Kenilworth H. 
Mathus of West Hartford, Conn., a second 
son, Gregory, March 1, 1938. 

1924— To Dr. and Mrs. Robert A. Good- 



ell of Hartford, Conn., a daughter, Judith, 
March 16, 1938. 

1925— To Mr. and Mrs. John W Foley 
of Grosse Pointe, Mich., a second son, Wal- 
ter Andreas, Jan. 29, 1938. 

1928— To Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Caslowit: 
of Woonsocket a second son, Joel Gordon, 
Feb. 6, 1938. 

1929— To Mr. and Mrs. Alston C. Drew 
of Cedar Tree Point, R. I., a son, Edwin 
Thompson. Feb. 7, 1938. 

1929— To Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. 
Lawrence of Oak Lawn, Cranston, a daugh- 
ter, Anne, Feb. 26, 1938. 

1930 — To Mr. and Mrs. Dexter Johnson 
of Rochester. N. Y., a son, Robert Dexter, 
March 14, 1938. 

1931— To Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. 
Fletcher of Brockton, Mass., a son, Jerome 
Herbert, Feb. 4, 1938. 

1933 — To Mr. and Mrs. Norman Pierce 
of Western Springs, III., twins, Joseph Nor- 
man Pierce, 2nd, and Penelope Susan 
Pierce, March 11, 1938. 

1935— To Mr. and Mrs. Howard Rich- 
mond of Charlottesville, Va., a daughter, 
Elizabeth Carolyn, March 1, 1938. 



Those We Mourn 



1872 

► ► Leander Milton Barber, former rail- 
road man who retired 20 years ago to a farm 
not far from Arcadia in Rhode Islands 
South County, died in Westerly Hospital 
Feb. 25, 1938, after a short illness. His 
death leaves William Vail Kellen and Ed- 
ward Bowen Hamlin the only surviving 
members of the Class of 1872. 

For 26 years Mr. Barber was superin- 
tendent of the Wood River Railroad. He 
also held similar place with the Sea View 
Railway, which once connected Narragan- 
sett Pier with the rest of the State. As a 
farmer he worked "according to his wish 
and strength" and to the end he retained 
his lively interest in nature, the schools and 
public affairs. He planted or grafted many 
trees, raised bees and took pride in the 
fruits he produced on the farm. 

Born in Arcadia, Jan. 1, 1850, the son of 
Clark and Almira (Andrew) Barber, he 
prepared at Mowry 6f Goff's English and 
Classical School and at Brown rowed in his 
Class crew. He was of powerful physique 
and was always eager to work and exercise 
his muscles. He also belonged to a group of 



undergraduates known secretly as M. H., 
but dubbed publicly as "Midnight Howlers" 
and "Mighty Hungry." 

He served the Wood River Railroad from 
1876 to 1903. Then he went to the Sea 
View Railway and from that company to 
Brown & Sharpe Mfg. Company in Provi- 
dence, where Mrs. Barber, who was Miss 
Cassie Coburn, died in 1916. Surviving is 
his son, Howard Clark Barber '99 of New 
York City, prominent in the University 
Glee Club of New York and widely known 
in social work. He also leaves two sisters, 
Mrs. Susan E. Andrews and Mrs. Hannah 
A. B. Smith, and a niece. Miss Mabel C. 
Cooke of Providence. 

1878 

► Charles Howard Winslow, retired 
lawyer, died at his home in Rosedale, L. I., 
N. Y., Feb. 5, 1938. Illness caused him to 
give up his law practice about four years 
ago. 

He was born in Bay Ridge (Brooklyn), 
Feb. 28, 1854, and was a student at Brown 
for one year, 1874-75. From Brown he went 
to Columbia Law School, received the LL.B. 



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degree in 1877 and had since practised in 
Brooklyn. His wife, Mrs. Ebba M. Wins- 
low, elected to the New York City Board 
of Aldermen in 1929, was the first woman 
to sit as a member of the Board. She is now 
on the Republican State Committee for 
New York. 

Other survivors are a daughter, Mrs. 
Dorothy W. Kiefer, and a brother, George 
Winslow of Valley Stream, N. Y. 

1892 

► Horatio Eliphalet Bellows, patent 
attorney, died at his home in Providence, 
Feb. 19, 1938. Since 1896 he had practised 
in Providence and was widely known as a 
specialist in patent, trade mark and copy- 
right law. 

Born in Phenix, R. I., Sept. 16, 1868, 
the son of John J. and Elisabeth A. Bellows, 
he came to Brown from Providence High 
School and was president of the Class in 
Freshman year and an editor of the Brown 
Magazine in 1891-92. On graduation he 
entered New York Law School and had 
his first practical experience in the office of 
C. H. Duell, who later become United 
States Commissioner of Patents. Returning 
to Providence 1896 he was admitted to the 
Rhode Island Bar and in the following year 
to practice before the United States Circuit 
Court. He had also appeared before the 
Supreme Court. 

He belonged to the American and Rhode 
Island Bar Associations, the Rhode Island 
Historical Society, Providence Engineering 
Society, What Cheer Lodge of Masons, 
First Congregational Church (Unitarian) 
and Chi Phi, now Sigma Chi. He was at 
one time on the board of trustees of the 
fraternity. 

He was married May 17, 1899, to Miss 
Mae Estelle Smith of Oakland. Calif., who 
survives, with a son, J. Fenton Bellows, and 
a granddaughter. Mr. Bellows was one of 
the few remaining Americans who wear a 
goatee and moustaches. He was therefore an 
attracting figure in any gathering or on the 
street and many citizens knew him by sight 
if not by name. 

1897 

► Lefferts Mason Dashiell, treasurer of 
the Rockefeller Foundation, died of a heart 
attack at his home in Fair Haven, N. J., Feb. 
28, 1938. As head of the treasurer's depart- 
ment of the Foundation and other Rockefel- 
ler interests he signed checks aggregating 
many millions of dollars. He went to the 
Foundation in 1914 and had been treasurer 
since 193 2. 

Born in Minneapolis, Minn., July 15, 
1874, the son of John L. M. Dashiell, a 
newspaper man, and Mary C. (Robinson) 
Dashiell, he prepared at Lakewood Heights 
School and entered Brown as a classmate of 
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. He began his career 
in a real estate and insurance office in Lake- 
wood, N. J., joined the banking house of 
F. D. Freeman 6? Co., New York City, in 
1898 and was with the stock brokerage firm 
of Simmons ii Slade when he was named 
assistant treasurer of the Rockefeller Foun- 
dation in 1914. 

He also served as treasurer of the Gen- 
eral Education Board, the Rockefeller In- 
stitute for Medical Research, the China 
Medical Board, the Spelman Fund of New 
York, the Davison Fund and the New York 
State Colonization Society. The last-named 
society, one of the oldest philanthropies in 
New York, was founded to send freed Ne- 
groes to Liberia. Mr. Dashiell likewise was 
president of the Tilden Iron Mining Com- 



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pany, once a Rockefeller interest in the 
Northwest. 

He was a former member of the Rumson 
Country Club and belonged to the Brown 
University Club in New York, the Sea- 
bright Beach Club and Alpha Delta Phi. 
He was married June 4. 1925, to Miss Mar- 
garet Deyo of New York, who survives. 
A delegation from the Foundation, led by 
Mr. Rockefeller, attended the funeral at the 
Dashiell home in Fair Haven. 

1897 

► Thomas Jefferson Brady, who died at 
his home in Oak Bluffs, Mass., Feb. 10, 1938, 
was one of Brown's baseball pitchers during 
his undergraduate days and a professional 
player and coach for ten years after he left 
College Hill. 

Born in Somerville, Mass., April 12, 
1874, he prepared at New Bedford High 
School, where he helped the school nine 
win two successive championships. Theo- 
dore B. Baylies '95, then active as an inde- 
pendent baseball manager, took him on his 
team made up of all college players, includ- 
ing Frank J. Sexton '93, Fred Tenney '94, 
E. H. Weeks "93, J. D. E. Jones '93, and 
Brady naturally came to Brown. He did 
well as a college pitcher in the days when 
Brown was strong in baseball. He left col- 
lege in 1897 without receiving his degree. 

After giving up baseball he went into the 
real estate business in New Bedford. During 
the prohibition era he was Deputy United 
States Marshal, hut resigned in June, 1925, 
after failing in his request for a salary in- 
stead of being paid through fees. A short 
time later he removed to Oak Bluffs. His 
wife and three sisters in New Bedford sur- 
vive. His fraternity was Phi Kappa. 

1900 

► George Edward Schilling, principal of 
the Bradford, Pa., Senior High School for 
18 years, died at the Bradford Hospital Jan. 
27, 1938, after a long illness. At Bucknell, 
to which college he went after leaving 
Brown, he was both student and athlete and 
Bucknell graduates recall him as catcher for 
the late Christy Mathewson, one of pro- 
fessional baseball's great pitchers. 

A native of Cumberland, Md., where he 
was born June 20, 1871, Mr. Schilling pre- 
pared at Mount Pleasant Institute and was 
a student at Brown for a part of Freshman 
year, 1896-97. He left, Mellinger E. Henry 
'99, his room mate, has told us, because of 
illness. Then he registered at Bucknell, 
made up his back work, played baseball, 
was a member of the track team and won his 
bachelor's degree in 1900. 

On graduation, it is said, he turned down 
several offers to play professional baseball 
to go into the printing business with his 
father. But teaching attracted him and he 
joined the staff of Franklin, Pa., High 
School. He also gave extension courses at 
Bucknell and became a leader in secondary 
school education in his section of Pennsyl- 
vania. He served as a director of scholastic 
sports in the State, was deacon of the First 
Baptist Church of Bradford, teacher of the 
Bible class in the Sunday School, and be- 
longed to the Royal Arcanum and the Odd 
Fellows. 

He was married Sept. 18, 1901, to Miss 
Daisy Stauffer, who survives, with a son, 
two daughters, two granddaughters, and a 
brother. In 1898, while he was undergrad- 
uate at Bucknell, he came back to Brown to 
help install the Brown Chapter of Kappa 
Sigma. 



1901 

► Joseph Francis John McCarthy, who 
died in Providence Jan. 27, 1938, was a spe- 
cial student at Brown for two years, 1897-99, 
taking courses in connection with his work 
as a registered pharmacist. Born in Willi- 
mantic, Conn., April 14, 1871, the son of 
Dennis J. and Elizabeth G. (Cantwell) 
McCarthy, he came to Providence as a boy, 
went to the public schools and after appren- 
ticeship in a drug store became a registered 
pharmacist in 1893. He studied under a 
tutor before coming to Brown. 

He continued as a pharmacist until 1914 
when he succeeded to the undertaking busi- 
ness of his father which he had since carried 
on under the name of D. F. McCarthy ii 
Son. He was a former member of the Mount 
Hope Bridge Commission and a member of 
Finnegan Council, Knights of Columbus, 
and of the Modern Woodmen of America. 
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Mary J. Mc- 
Carthy, two daughters, a brother and a 
sister. 

1904 

> Colonel Noble Brandon Judah. law- 
yer, soldier, diplomat and a life Trustee of 
Brown, died at his home in Chicago, Feb. 
26, 1938. A piece of German shrapnel 
which hit him in the head during the Allied 
offensive on the Marne in July, 1918, 
caused a bone injury which in turn brought 
about a head tumor. Removal of his right 
eye in January failed to alleviafe this con- 
dition. 

"He was a loyal friend, a true patriot, a 
good citizen and a brilliant and honorable 
lawyer," said Federal Judge James H. Wil- 
kerson. "He never ceased serving his coun- 
try. He loved Chicago." 

Born in a brownstone house on Prairie 
Avenue, Chicago, April 23, 1884, the son 
of Noble B. Judah '72 and Kate (Hutchin- 
son) Judah, he prepared at Chicago Man- 
ual Training School and as undergraduate 
at Brown was on the staff of the hyown 
Daily Herald, manager of the Brown track 
team, chairman of the Class Day Committee 
and member of the Cammarian Club. He 
played hockey, was on the Junior Prom 
Committee and belonged to Pi Kappa, 
Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Delta Theta. "Sid" 
was his nickname on the Hill. 

From Brown he entered the Law School, 
Northwestern University, received his 
LL.B. degree in 1907 and joined the law 
firm of Judah, Willard, Wolf 6? Reichman, 
the oldest in Chicago. In 1911 and 1912 he 
had his first experience in politics as Rep- 
resentative in the Illinois House. At the 
same time he joined the Illinois National 
Guard and was Captain, Battery C, Field 
Artillery, when the Guard was mobilized in 

1916 for duty on the Mexican border. In 

1917 the battery became a part of the 1 49th 
Field Artillery and went overseas with the 
42nd Division. 

After the fighting northwest of Chateau 
Thierry in the summer of 1918, Major Ju- 
dah, now Assistant Chief of Staff of the Di- 
vision, became Lieutenant Colonel. In No- 
vember, 1918, shortly after the armistice, 
he was promoted to Assistant Chief of Staff, 
First Army Corps, a post he held until his 
honorable discharge in January, 1919. He 
received three decorations, the Distin- 
guished Service Medal, the Legion of Hon- 
or, the Croix de Guerre with palm. Back 
in Chicago, he resumed his law practice. 
From 1927 to 1929 he was American Am- 
bassador to Cuba, a post that he filled with 
great credit. He spoke Spanish fluently, 
amazing even the Cubans. In April, 1921, 



he made the address at the dedication of 
the memorial arch to Brown's war dead. 
He became a Trustee of the University in 
1926 and in 1929 received the honorary 
degree of Doctor of Laws. 

In Chicago he fought Mayor Thompson 
and other grasping politicians. He was a 
leader in civic and charitable work, a sin- 
cere advocate of preparedness for war, a 
past president of the Reserve Officers' 
Association of Chicago, a vice president of 
the national association, a director of the 
Chicago Title 6? Trust Company, and a 
member of the Chicago, University, Rac- 
quet, Casino, Attic, and Midday Clubs. He 
had also been president of the Brown Uni- 
versity Club of Chicago. Surviving are twin 
daughters, Ann and Katharine Judah. 

1906 

► Vincent Charles Hoye, captain of the 
Brown baseball team in 1904 and again in 
1906, died in Boston, Feb. 23, 1938, shortly 
after he collapsed in a store near his home 
in Brookline, Mass. He had practised law in 
Taunton and Boston since leaving Harvard 
Law School in 1909. 

Born in Taunton, April 14, 1884, the son 
of Michael J. and Jennie Hoye, he came to 
Brown from Taunton High School, played 
on his Freshman baseball nine and was a 
candidate for the varsity in 1904 when the 
storm broke over the question of playing 
summer baseball for money. Led by the late 
Capt. Michael Ji. Lynch '04, the whole squad 
of regulars resigned and Hoye, third base- 
man, one of three Sophomores eligible, be- 
came captain under the late Dr. Frank J. 
Sexton '93, coach. He was the only Soph- 
omore to lead a Brown baseball team. 

In 1906 he again received the honor, and 
in 1907 the team of which he had been an 



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Ida M. Fryer, Assistant Cashier 
Benjamin H. Cate, Assistant Cashier 
Charles M. Smith. III. Trust Officer 
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aggressive member went on to win the east- 
ern college baseball championship under 
Capt. Harold W. Paine '07. He was also a 
star bowler and was president of the Brown 
Bowling Association, active in class affairs 
and a member of Zeta Psi. 

While he was studying law he played 
summer baseball and coached several high 
school teams. After he moved from Taunton 
to Boston he was associated in the practice 
of law with James T. Connolly. In recent 
years he had his own office. During the 
World War he was a candidate for the 
Field Artillery at the Officers' Training 
School, Camp Taylor, Ky. 

He was a member of the Brown Club of 
Boston. At the Touchdown Smoker in Feb- 
ruary he was the centre of a group of for- 
mer college contemporaries with baseball 
and "Doc" Sexton as the topics of conver- 
sation. 

1921 
► Edward Gerard O'Connor, lawyer, 
died suddenly at his home in East Provi- 
dence, Feb. 24, 1938. He was associated in 
practice with his father, Edward De V. 
O'Connor '92, in Providence. 

Born in Providence, Dec. 2, 1899, the 
son of Edward De V. and Susan T. (Cot- 
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Academy, spent his Freshman year at Holy 
Cross and went to the Plattsburg Training 
Camp, where he received commission as 
Second Lieutenant of infantry and assign- 
ment to Rhode Island State College as rifle 
instructor. 

Following his honorable discharge at the 
end of the World War he entered Brown in 
February, 1919, and in June, 1922, won his 
A.B. degree with the Class of 1921. He 
taught at LaSalle Academy for two years 
before enrolling at Boston University Law 
School, where he was on the Law Review 
and a member of Woolsack. When he was 
admitted to the Rhode Island bar in De- 



cember, 1927, he was chosen by his fellow 
applicants to make the address to the Su- 
preme Court. 

He was a member of the Rhode Island 
Bar Association, Roger Williams Post, 
American Legion, and Phi Kappa. He was 
married Sept. 3, 1930, to Miss Elisabeth G. 
Manning, who survives, with a son, Edward 
De V. O'Connor, 2nd, and his father. An 
uncle is Charles J. O'Connor '95. Liber 
Bruneniis of 1922 characterized Ed O'Con- 
nor as a scholar, who could teach and study 
at the same time. Edward W. Day '21 and 
Owen P. Reid '27, friends and fellow law- 
yers, were bearers at the funeral. i ^ 



News of the Alumnae < 



By GERTRUDE ALLEN McCONNELL '10 
Executive Secretary of the Alumnae Association 



ALUMNAE CLUBS 

► ► The Providence Club heard an inter- 
esting talk at its March meeting on "Hos- 
teling in the United States and Europe" 
which was given by William Nelson, Re- 
gional Director of American Youth Hos- 
tels. A smorgasbord followed the meeting. 
On April 27th the Club will hold its annual 
mi.xed bridge in Alumnae Hall for the bene- 
fit of the Semi-Centennial Fund. President: 
Mrs. W. G. Brown '13, 105 Butler Avenue, 
Providence. 

The Newport Club had a dinner meet- 
ing on March 16th at the Viking Hotel at 
which Dean Morriss, Anna Canada Swain 
and Jessie Monroe Williams were the guests. 
President: Mrs. William MacLeod '26n, 78 
Washington Street. 

The Southeastern Massachusetts Club, 
comprising Fall River, New Bedford, and 
Taunton, held a delightful luncheon at the 
Pembroke Field House on March 12th. The 
luncheon was prepared by the Fall River 
alumnae under the direction of Carrie T. 
Foulkes '15. Dean Morriss, Anna Canada 
Swain, and Jessie Monroe Williams were 
the speakers at the meeting which followed. 
Carrie T. Foulkes was elected the new presi- 
dent. Her address is 89 Hanover Street, 
Fall River. 

The Hartford Club held a meeting for 
alumnae and subfreshmen on March 8th 
with Marjoric Knopp Schor '27 as hostess 
at her home in West Hartford. There were 
44 at the meeting. Miss Eva A. Mooar 



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talked about a typical day at Pembroke and 
showed motion pictures of the College. On 
March 19th the Club held its annual lunch- 
eon with Dean Morriss, Anna Canada 
Swain, and Jessie Monroe Williams as 
guest speakers. President: Mary W. Cush- 
man '21, 839 Farmington Avenue, West 
Hartford. 

The New York Club had a dinner meet- 
ing at the Women's City Club in Rockefel- 
ler Center on April 6th. Dean Morriss and 
Jessie Monroe Williams were the speakers. 
President: Virginia Wright '28, 669 68th 
Street, Brooklyn. 

The New Haven Club had a dinner meet- 
ing at the Faculty Club on March 18th 
with Shirley Bowman as chairman, assisted 
by Hannah Nicholson Benson '1 1, Elizabeth 
Hastings '34 and Miriam R. Hahn '37. 
Dean Morriss, Anna Canada Swain, and 
Jessie Monroe Williams were the speakers. 
President: Mrs. H. H. BuchoU '27, 52 Pen- 
dleton Street, New Haven. 

The Washington alumnae were enter- 
tained by Mary LaDame '06, assistant to 
Frances Perkins, on March 7th at her home, 
1507 33rd Street, N.W. At the dinner 
meeting on April 4th the special guests 
were Dean Morriss, Prof, and Mrs. Bigge, 
and Senator Green. President: Jessica Barr 
'13, 1703 New York Avenue, N. W., 
Washington, D. C. 

The Cleveland Club has elected Helen 
MacCarthy '36 as President and Alice Lar- 
kin '29 as Secretary. The President lives at 
1892 S. Compton Road, Cleveland Heights, 
Ohio. i 

John Nicholas Brown Spoke 

► ► Each year it is customary for the 
Alumnae Association's Academic Commit- 
tee to arrange the chapel exercises when the 
Anne Crosby Emery Fellowship, the gift of 
the Alumnae Association, is awarded. This 
year the committee was deemed particularly 
fortunate in securing Mr. John Nicholas 
Brown, a member of the Board of Fellows 
of Brown University, as the speaker. The 
e.xercises were held at noon on Tuesday, 
April 12th. 

The Committee which made the award 
has for its chairman Dean R. C. D. Richard- 
son, of the Graduate School. The other 
members are Dean Morriss, Professor Curt 
Ducasse, Jessie Monroe Williams '12, Presi- 
dent of the Alumnae Association, and Jean- 
nette Moffitt Bunn '11, Chairman of the 
Alumnae Academic Committee. < 



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Wonipn Without Jobs 

► ► Ollif. a. Randall '12, welfare lead- 
er, was featured m a special interview in the 
l^ew York, Times for Sunday, February 
20th. Across the top of the entire page were 
the words: "Challenge issued to remedy 
plight of jobless women over 3 5." The ar- 
ticle stated in part that after eight years of 
pleading the cause of the unemployed mid- 
dle-aged woman. Miss Randall finds some 
encouragement in the increasing awareness 
on the part of the public of the acuteness of 
the problem. When the depression of 1930 
threw the working woman up against her 
first great economic crisis. Miss Randall, as 
head ot the women's division of the Emer- 
gency Work Bureau, was among the first to 
cry the necessity for some plan to be adopted 
to meet her urgent needs. 

Today as a second major displacement 
forces thousands more to join the original 
body of unemployed, she is still reiterating 
her challenge. One difference is that the 
definition of "middle-aged" has changed, 
according to Miss Randall, who is Assist- 
ant Director of the Family Welfare Depart- 
ment of the Association for Improving the 
Condition of the Poor. Not many years ago 
40 was a hazardous age for a woman to 
seek re-employment. Employers have low- 
ered this standard now to an age limit of 3 5 
years. In some classes of work, such as sec- 
retarial jobs, 28 year* is the absolute top with 
the personnel directors. Since scientists are 
doing everything in their power to stretch 
the life span of humankind. Miss Randall 
deplores the inaction of community agen- 
cies in making plans to enable the middle- 
aged worker to support herself for even a 
third of that span. 

Miss Randall says there are signs of a 
slowly stirring public interest in the situa- 
tion. Unless business itself, however, can be 
enlisted in attempts to prevent the abnormal 
increase of middle-aged unemployed, the 
only other recourse lies with a governmen- 
tal agency. i i 

Kotnintt Alumnae Ploy 

► The Komian alumnae gave an excellent 
presentation of "Kind Lady, ' a mystery 
melodrama by Edward Chodorov, on March 
•tth and 'th. The alumnae in the cast were 
Ethel Robinson Hcckman '07, Sarah Min- 
chin Barker '13s, Esther Brintsenhoff '19, 
Helen Moffitt "32, Edna Sunderland '33, 
Ruth L. Hassell "36 and Evelyn M. Smith 
'36. Several Brown alumni were in the cast. 
On the production staff were Mary T. Mc- 
Carthy '34, Stage Manager; Dorothy Pou- 
liot '37, Properties; Amy Stecre '22, Sarah 
E. Maclntyrc '28, Edith Hall '36 and Ellen 
Geary "3 5n, Assistants; Myrtis Millikm 
Clayton "02 and Leila Tuchcr Hall "10, 
Busines.s Managers: and Mary Lyon Chase 
"28, House Manager. i 

Delegate to Madras 

► Anna Canada Swain '11, Chairman of 
the Semi-Centcnnial Alumnae Gift Com- 
mittee, has held many offices in the Alum- 
nae Association. It was her work as chair- 
man of the Brown Alumnae Fund Com- 
mittee which led her, with the officers of 
the Association, to feel the necessity of pre- 
senting to the College a gift worthy of our 
50th anniversary in 1942. 

In addition to her offices in the Alumnae 
Association Mrs. Swain has held other im- 
portant positi(jns. She served as President 
of the R. I. Branch of the American Asso- 
ciation of University Women. As admin- 



istrative vice-president of the Woman's 
American Baptist Foreign Mission Society 
and as an active member of the Foreign 
Missions Conference of North America, she 
has had a deep interest in world affairs. She 
has written several books, the last of which 
was "Youth Unafraid." 

Next September Mrs. Swain will sail for 
a trip around the world, visiting Japan, the 
Philippines, and India. In December she 
will be one of the forty delegates from 
North America to the decennial meeting of 
the International Missionary Council to be 
held in Madras, India. 

We hope to have our entire Semi-Cen- 
tennial Gift of $125,000 pledged before 
Mrs. Swain leaves for the Orient. During 
her absence Marion S. Cole, Vice-Chairman 
of the Committee, will serve as Chairman. 

Her 21st Play 

y Dorothy C. Allan '18 has published 
her 2 1st play, "Personality Plus." A record 
of 21 plays, all of which have been success- 
fully produced, would represent a life's 
work for most of us, but she made this en- 
viable record in the past 10 years in addi- 
tion to her main work, which is teaching 
English in Hope Street High School. 

She began her playwriting in 1928, when 
the high school was in need of a suitable 
play to produce. Since that time she has 
found that writing plays is both enjoyable 



and easy and her plays are not only pro- 
duced in Providence, but in various cities 
throughout the country. They are published 
by the Walter Baker Company and help to 
fill the great demand for plays which are 
appropriate for school production. She has 
made a specialty of Christmas plays. 

She has also written poetry for college 
and teachers' magazines and for the Eve- 
ning Bulletin and Proi;ide?icc Journal. As 
the artist who has made the Brownies for 
our Alumnae Fund literature during the 
past eight years, her work has brought 
smiles to our alumnae body and gifts to our 
Fund. 

Nor is she 1918"s only successful writer: 
Anne Terry White's book, "Heroes of 
the Five Books," was published by Harper's 
last fall. Next Autumn the same company 
will publish her book on "Shakespeare for 
Children."" She is now working on a book on 
archaeology. i 

Dessert Parties 

► In order to reach as large a group of 
alumnae as possible with first hand infor- 
mation about the Semi-Centennial Alumnae 
Gift, the Rhode Island alumnae in several 
of the classes have been invited to attend 
dessert parties at the new Field House. 
Dean Mornss and Mrs. Swain have led the 
discu.ssion, assisted by representatives in the 
classes attending. i 



► Notes of the Pembroke Classes 



Class Notes 

> ► 1894— Dr. Mary E. Woolley"s sched- 
ule of speaking engagements rivals Mrs. 
RooseveIt"s, and she seems to be just as 
tireless. 

1895— Martha Clarke Williams has been 
spending the winter in Florida. She has 
given up her home in Cambridge and her 
permanent address is South Harpswell, 
Maine. 

1896 — Emma B. Stanton has been the 
guest of Grace Cleveland Gary for a few 
weeks at her home in Hartford. 

1896 — Edith H. Williston"s attractive 
home was recently pictured in the roto- 
gravure section of the Proridence Sunday 
Journal. 

1897 — Ruth Devereux Eddy is about to 
equal her record of last year as Class Agent, 
when 20 out of 21 members contributed to 
the Brown Alumnae Fund. 

1897 — Mabel L. Potter is just back from 
a cruise to Bermuda, Nassau, and Jamaica. 

1899 — Mary B. Leonard and her sister, 
Grace F. Leonard "03, have the sympathy of 
the alumnae in the death of their father, 
Dr. C. H. Leonard. During 5 5 years in the 
Health Department he had rendered notable 
service, and had vaccinated 175,000 people. 

1899 — Dr. Maud Slye was one of the 
special group of honor guests of outstand- 
ing interest at the annual stunt party dinner 
given by the Women"s National Press Club 
in Washington on March 5th. 

1904 — Flora Cotton"s niece, Dorcas Dela- 
barrc, a Pembroke senior, has been elected 
to .Sigma Xi. 

1904 — The class held a meeting at the 
riiiihroke Field House on April 2nd. 

I 9(t5 -The class had a dinner meeting at 
the Field House on March 19th. 



1905 — Bessie Leahy Crowley's daughter, 
Betty, IS chairman of the Junior Prom Com- 
mittee and Anne is president of the Fresh- 
man Class. 

1907 — Ethel Rowand Thurlow's son, 
William, was the only member of the Junior 
Class to be elected to both Phi Beta Kappa 
and Sigma Xi. 

1909 — Isabelle Scott Bollard is away on 
a southern cruise. 

1909 — Elise McCausland Crossley and 
her husband will leave at the end of the 
month to spend a few months in Europe. 

I9()9--Irma Gyllenberg Cull and her 
husband are going abroad in June. 

1909 — Nettie Butler Rice has the sym- 
pathy of the alumnae in the death of her 
husband, Vernon Rice. Her daughter, Dor- 
othy, who IS a junior at Pembroke, was 
recently elected to Phi Beta Kappa. 

1910— Mabel Bushell Donle of Durham, 
N. H., was the guest of Annie Burnside 
Thornley for a week in April. 

1914 — Marguerite Appleton, Dean of 
Women at Grove City College, in Pennsyl- 
vania, delivered an admirable address of 
acceptance at the dedication of the beauti- 
ful new dormitory which has become part 
ot the college campus. 

1914 — Mildred Cutler Kinne entertained 
the class at her home in Pawtucket in Feb- 
ruary, Anna Flaherty was the March hostess 
at a supper meeting at the Pembroke Field 
House, and Elena Lovell Maymon is to be 
the April hostess. 

1915— Ethel Sack Campbell and her 
daughters called on Edna Solinger Lyons 
and Blanche Schiller Hook when in Culver 
City, Calif. 

1915 Ruth Henderson Cross is living at 
95 1 Goodman Street, Rochester. When her 
two children, Robert and Jean, complete 



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their high school course in June the family 
will join Mr. Cross at the American Con- 
sulate in Paris. 

1918 — The class is to have a silver mu- 
sicale and tea on April 30th at 3 P. M. at 
the home of Rose Presel, 167 Prospect 
Street, Providence. Rose and her sister, 
Charlotte, will give a two-piano recital and 
the proceeds will go towards the Semi- 
centennial Gift Fund. 



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1924 — Amelia Harris Kimhall has moved 
to 16 Fifth Avenue, Port Washington, Long 
Island, N. Y. 

1925 — Ruth Thomson has a unique way 
of raising her money lor the Semi-Centen- 
nial Gift. She will read a person's hand- 
writing for 25c. Ruth is head of the labora- 
tory at the Memorial Hospital in Pawtucket. 

1925 — Amy Spencer Cappelh was host- 
ess to her class at tea in March. 

1927 — Lucy Burnham Seward has moved 
to 723 West Foster Avenue, State College, 
Penn. 

I92S — Ruth Paine Carlson has our sym- 
pathy in the loss of her father. 

1928 — The class lias planned a series of 
monthly meetings which have proved to be 
lively affairs. .Julia Oldham Sanderson was 
hostess in February, Ruth Paine Carlson m 
March, and Alice Merchant Mason in April, 
Grace McAuslan is to be the hostess in May 
and Virginia Piggott Verney will entertain 
the class for its 10th reunion in June. 

1929 — Mary Whelan is now living at 5 
East 3 3rd Street, Baltimore. 

1931 — Virginia M. Hogan's painting, 
"Opinions per Quart," won the $200 prize 
(the highest offered) at the annual exhibi- 
tion of the Springfield Art League at the 
Springfield Museum of Fine Arts. One of 
her paintings was awarded honorable men- 
tion in the exhibition of the Hartford So- 
ciety of Women Painters held at the Mor- 
gan Memorial. 

193 2 — Rowena S. Bellows is thoroughly 
enjoying her work with Dr. Bigge in Wash- 
ington. She is living at 1718 N Street, N.W. 

1933 — Catherine E. Goffin has an inter- 
esting position as departmental technician 
doing histological and cytological work in her 
own private laboratory in the Department 
of Zoology at Duke L'nivcrsity. She wrote 
that Duke is rapidly becoming one of the 
big universities and 50% of its .students 
come from the North. She spoke of meeting 
Betty Palmer Spelt "34, whose husband is 
working for his degree in psychology at the 
University of North Carolina at Chapel 
Hill. 

193 3 — Marjorie Patt is working in the 
Biophysics Department at Columbia. 



I934n — Betty Allsop Leslie and her hus- 
band are living at 915 East Mable Street, 
Tucson, Arizona. 

1935 — Esme Mclntyre is doing graduate 
work in foods and nutrition at Columbia, 
and is enjoying it immensely. She is living 
at 628 West 114th Street, New York City. 

1936 — Ruth Adams is enthusiastic about 
her work as writer of copy for the fashion 
division of the Hecht Company in Wash- 
ington. 

1936 — Betty Thurlow is doing psychi- 
atric work at the Hartford Retreat in Hart- 
ford, Conn. 

1937 — Lenora Grozen is doing graduate 
work in mathematics at Brown. 

1937 — Marjorie Hanson and Betty Rice 
gave a shower recently for Ruth Godfrey, 
who is to be married soon. 

Engagements 

► 1926 — Alice R Humphrey to William 
Clarke Custer, Tufts 1926. 

1936 — Catherine E. Sullivan to Thomas 
V. Largay. Mr. Largay is a graduate of 
Georgetown University and is in business 
in Waterbury. 

Weddings 

1921 — Ida Frant was married to Freder- 
ick Kavolsky, Harvard 1913, Harvard Law 
School 1916, on March 6, 1938, at Nor- 
wich, Conn. They will live in Fall River. 

1931 — Marion Ruth Soforenko was mar- 
ried to Paul B. Heymann on February 5, 
1938. They are living at Clark-Lane Apt. 
IN, 52 Clark Street. Brooklyn, N. Y. 

193 3 — Irva M. Grigware is married to 
Stillman Bushnell and is living at 140 
Green Street, Fairhaven, Mass. 

1936 — Thelma Cohen was married to 
Herbert Melvel Woolf on March 20, 1937, 
in Brookline, Mass. They are living at 321 
Hope Street, Providence. 

Birth 

1934— To Mr, and Mrs, Harold 1. Boyn- 
ton (Ruth Cary), a daughter, Nancy Gary, 
on February 27, 1938. They are living at 
130 Wayland Avenue, Meshanticut Park, 
R. I. * 



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y ► An old English masque, written by 
Clara Schwab, 1940, of Newton, Ma.ssachu- 
setts, will be presented by the Sophomore 
class on May Day. Frances Taft, of Provi- 
dence, heads this year's Masque Committee. 

Members of the senior class and of the 
Rhode Island Society for Collegiate Educa- 
tion of Women attended the costume din- 
ner given last month by Mrs. Henry Mer- 
ntt Wriston. Prizes were awarded for the 
funniest, prettiest and cleverest costumes. 

Representing Turkey, six delegates from 
Pembroke attended the New England Mod- 
el Assembly of the League of Nations held 
recently at Massachusetts State College in 
Amherst, Massachusetts. Spain, the Far 
East, Palestine, and the Au.strian situation 
were the main topics of discussion. 

Miss Beth Grouse was violin soloist at the 
recent musical tea sponsored by the Pem- 
broke Musical Clubs. 

Plans for an interclass debating tourna- 
ment are being made by the Debating So- 



ciety which IS headed by Alice C. Harring- 
ton, of Fall River. Members of the organ- 
ization recently attended the Model Con- 
gress held at Rhode Island State College. 
A humorous topic is being selected for the 
debate with Brown which will round up the 
debating season. 

The Dance Group presented a recital for 
members of the Eastern Association of Di- 
rectors of Physical Education for College 
Women, who met for a conference at Pem- 
broke on April 12. 

Art Shaw and his swing band will play at 
the Junior Promenade which will take place 
in .Alumnae Hall at the end of this month. 
Betty Crowley, of Pawtucket, is chairman 
of the prom committee. 

The Freshman class won the Brownie 
Stunt cup last month. The award is given 
each year to the class which gives the best 
burlesque of college life. Originality of the 
stunt and simplicity of costume were con- 
sidered by the judges in awarding the prize. 



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