L I B R.ARY OF THE U N IVER.S ITY or ILLI N015 V. 40-4I y ALUMNI MONTHLY lARCH, 1941 If You Own Securities ASK YOURSELF THESE QUESTIONS . . When you are out of town can you make changes in your securities if necessary: . . When you change your address, do your dividend checks follow your . . Do you cut your coupons promptly: . . Are your called bonds presented for payment on timer . . Are the proceeds invested at once: . . Do you have difficulty in deciding how the proceeds shall he invested: . . Have you experienced losses because of lack of information concerning rights, exchange offers, redemptions: . . Do you have difficulty with ownership certificates: . . Do you postpone sales because it is inconvenient to go to your safe deposit box: . . Could you use more profitably the time you now consume in caring for your securities: If the handling of your own securities has been a diffi- cult or troublesome problem in any way, we suggest that you discuss with us the advisability of placing them in our care under an Agency Account. rA', H^>1 Rhode Island Hospital Trust Companv| Pawtucket Providence Woonsocket Published monthly, January, August and September excepted, by the BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY, Inc., at Brown University, Providence, R. I. Entered at the Post Office, at Providence, R. I., as second class matter, under the law of March 3, 1879. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY PROVIDENCE. RHODE ISLAND MARCH, 1941 VOL. XLI NUMBER 7 ► ► The Advisory Council Response ► ► Ways and means of improving understanding and hence co-operation between Alumni and the other com- ponents of Brown University were on the agenda for the 1941 sessions of the Advisory Council, held on the campus Feb. 2 1 and 22. From start to finish, the gathering of nearly 200 representative Brunonians devoted itself to learning of today's problems on College Hill and the alumni oppor- tunity to help cope with them. Frank statements and frank discussion lent uncommon profit to a program that had attracted the largest response yet given any Advisory Council meetings. Friday evening's dinner gave the weekend an inspiring start as the delegates gathered in Faunce House Art Gallery as guests of the University. President Wriston, in one of his most challenging talks, set the keynote by examining "The Difference between a Good College and a Pocjr College." Often, it's a very slight difference, and may even be the result of timing. Usually, however, he said, the ditference is a matter of "a little more alertness, being a little faster on your feet, being a little more aware of what is going on, a little more insight into the realities of the educational system, a little more pride in following out your ideas." He urged keep- ing closer to the students and their state of mind, especially in critical times like today's when so many of the under- graduates are affected by the defense program. "The good university," he added, "needs a little more cold blood in research, a little more passion in teaching. And it is only proper to demand a condition where ever>' student will be treated the same, regardless of his financial condition or his parentage or where he came from." He left no doubts in the minds of his hearers that Brown under his leadership is a good university. ► J.MviES S. E.^STM.AN '19, Vice-President of the New England Region, did an apt job as toastmaster. He pre- sented Samuel T. Arnold as a "peripatetic Dean," returned from a survey of college art work as far away as the Pacific Coast. While the Dean spoke of his experiences, he told, too, much that was illuminating about his own campus. Nearly three-quarters of the Senior Class at Brown reg- istered for the draft on Oct. 16, he reminded his hearers, and about a quarter of the entire student body is involved. The result has been that students are giving a lot of thought to the future, he showed, so that it is natural they wonder whether they will be back next year or not. Many are tempted to enter military service immediately. The Faculty is therefore faced with a problem of keeping student morale high and of keeping education in its decent and rightful perspective in their lives. If there is to be another registra- tion, he suggested, the students should know as soon as possible so that they may plan their immediate lives accordingly. ► C.^PT. Chester H. J. Keppler, U. S. N., commander of the Brown University Naval R. O. T. C. unit told the alumni what the program is undertaking. The following day they had a chance to see the unit at first-hand when the Associated Alumni presented colors to the student officers. Following dinner, two members of the University Faculty provided a sort of "academic vaudeville." Prof. Norris W. Rakestraw conducted some chemical experiments that made him appear as a laboratory magician. Dr. Henry Lee Smith, in charge of the public speaking work at Brown, showed the alumni what he does on his popular radio program, "Where Are You From?" With the co-operation of such men as Gardner C. Hudson '27 from Louisville, Ky., George S. Ellis '94 from Portland, Me., Edwin B. Mayer '09 from Chicago, and others, Dr. Smith spotted their geo- graphical background in uncanny fashion by the way they pronounced certain linguistic key words. The proceedings, broadcast by the Brown campus net- work, were barely under way when a student cheer from outside the window announced, "OK, Doc, we give up — where are YOU from?" It brought a good laugh and brought a reference to a cartoon on Dr. Smith in the pre- vious day's J{ew Yorker. The drawing showed the radio speech detective, baffled by a robot from Mars and giving up in the words above, which the undergraduates bor- rowed for their salute. The student gag couldn't have been timed better if it had been arranged by Dr. Smith himself. ► W.AiYNE M. F.'KUNCE '21, Vice-President of the Middle Atlantic Region, was the morning keynoter on Saturday, with proposals for stimulating "opportunities for co-op- eration of Brown alumni with the University Administra- tion and undergraduates." The Advisory Council, he felt, served a useful purpose in permitting the exchange of views between representative alumni and the Administration in the interests of better understanding of mutual problems. He had noted a constant improvement in that relationship since Dr. Wriston's advent, and he praised the "progressive policies" of Walter Hoving, alumni president, and Vice- President Adams's "tireless devotion." Further progress would follow, he said, when the Uni- versity became fully alive "to the beneficial potentialities of the out-of-town alumnus and to the importance of cul- tivating him and his oft-time dormant interest." This alumnus, "who does not have close contacts with the Uni- versity," constituted a special problem, he said. "Independence of thought and action on the part of the alumni organization in constructive examination and criti- cism of the University policies should be guaranteed," he said, "but none of us will gainsay the absolute need of strong and sympathetic liaison with the Administration." He had compliments for James H. Case, Jr., James L. Whitcomb, James W. Gurll, Chesley Worthington, and Stanton P. Nickerson for their services in public and alumni relations. He urged the widest support of Alumni Fund programs and the Alumni Monthly. "I cannot emphasize too sharply the importance of sys- tematic, reasonably aggressive cultivation of more Brown alumni and other Brown friends for the sake of broadening the University's base of support." One means of doing BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY that would be through the strengthening of all Brown Clubs, particularly vital with the national and individual futures so undetermined. He urged greater employment of Faculty members and alumni officers in contacts with alumni groups more distant from the campus. He asked a study of younger alumni and of means to hold their loyalty — perhaps Brown could give these men "something they need for the fuller development of their lives in the first years out of college." More cultivation could be undertaken, too, be- fore men have left college. "Brown's position of leadership among the most respected colleges of our country" is assured, he said, through "cour- ageous action in bold, strong strokes, soundly directed by President Wriston." "Brown, " he said, "is in the ascendancy. Let all of us alumni get in step with President Wriston and his fellov." workers. Let us appreciate his broad-gauge, scholarly char- acter, his great vision, his enormous educational and admin- istrative capacity and his extraordinary devotion to Brown." ► A YE.^R ago James H. Case, Jr., was presented to the Advisory Council as the new Secretary of the Uni- versity. This year he spoke before them, with a stimulating and practical message. To reach more alumni and discuss common problems with them, he urged an extension of the Advisory Council idea — a series of smaller alumni dis- cussion meetings to be held in different parts of the country where opinion would be representative and exchange of in- formation frank and constructive. He suggested a series of buffet suppers for the alumni and members of the Admin- istration, for informal weighing of projects, questions and answers. Alumni trustees could meet with other alumni. Administration spokesmen could interpret new policies to Brown Club gathenngs less formal than annual dinners. Mr. Case explained the ramifications of his work as "the administrative officer ... in closest touch with the Alumni program, the Alumni Fund campaign, the Alumni pub- lication and entrusted with supervision over the News Bureau and whatever may interest generous people who give their money to Brown University." He believed, he said, in a "genuine organic relationship" between all the parts of the University toward the educational objective of the University. That participation must, he added, be based fundamentally on understanding. Toward that pro- gram of understanding he presented his suggestions about increasing contacts betweea the Alumni and Administration for the exchange of information and thoughts. Conriniteci on p. 196 Carnegie and Leon Payne ► Leon F. P.wne '07, Alumni Trustee, is once more back with his old love, Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation. The directors in December elected him treasurer, thus bringing him again to Pittsburgh after 1 1 years in Dallas, Tex. He began as a salesman for Carnegie, moved up to credit man- ager, and resigned in 1929 to become vice president and treasurer of Oil Well Supply Co., then an independent concern. But shortly U. S. Steel bought Oil Well Supply; so Payne was once again working for his original employer. He liked it. and U. S. Steel liked him and his work, as his elevation to his present high position attests. i A Blush for the John Hay ► Albert Fenton reports in the Providence Sunday Journal library column that the Circulation Department of the John Hay is faced with the problem of collecting a fine of 60 cents from "Jane Austen" of the Class of 1942. The New Coach < ► ► J. Neil St.^hley, until recently first officer to Dick Harlow at Harvard, planned to be in Providence by March 24 to inaugurate Brown spring football practice at that time. With the new Brown Varsity coach will be his principal aides, Harold Kopp, former head coach at North- eastern, and Don Hensley, recently on the University of Pittsburgh staff. The date for initiating spring drills is two weeks earlier than usual, for the new coaching staff wishes additional time to become acquainted with squad members and to acquaint them with Stahley's system. In talks with alumni m Boston and Providence, "Skip" Stahley has said that he plans no revolutionary ideas in foot- ball. He expects his game will be patterned after that of Harlow, with whom he has long been associated both at Western Maryland and Harvard, but it will be modified to accord with the material on hand. The new coach has made an instant hit with students and alumni, who found that as an individual he lived up to all the glowing things said about him in advance. His first victory, as the Providence Journal aptly called it, was over the student body, which he captivated at a Faunce House welcome and supper the week his appointment was an- nounced. He was assured alumni co-operation on the basis of his reception by the Advisory Council on Feb. 22, and members of the Providence Brown Club the following Monday also found they liked his looks and manner. He moved to Providence at the end of the Harvard Freshman basketball season, which he had been directing. J. NEIL STAHLEY "My name is Skip" 192 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY ► Stahley was appointed Feb. 12 after the Athlctie Couneil's coaching committee had spent nearly 100 hours in interviewing candidates tor the post and in deliberations. The 32 -year-old Penn State graduate, it was said, had never made a formal application for the Brown post, but he was "on the inside track in the running against half a hundred candidates." Terms of his contract, either as to salary or duration, were not announced. Stahley has been a coaching associate of Dick Harlow for 10 of the 11 years since his graduation. As a student he played three years each of college football, basketball, and la- cross, captaining the Penn State basketball five. As an end, he played in the East-West football game in San Francisco in 19.^0. In June he moved directly toward coaching and persuaded Dick Harlow to take him on as assistant at Western Maryland. He was there until 193? when he was head coach for a year at the University of Delaware, his team winning four games, losing three, and tying one against competition in its class. When Harlow took the Harvard job in 193^, Stahley went along, lirst as head Freshman coach and later as field coach, assuming more and more responsibility for the actual direction of the Varsity when his chief had to spend several weeks on crutches. One of his players describes Stahley as the "pep man" of the Harvard staff. ► St.ahley found Tuss McLaughry's ft)rmer Brown as- sociates widely scattered when he came to Providence to start work. Eck Allen has gone to the University of Maine as head coach of football and basketball. Earl Brown swaps with Stahley by going to Harvard as end coach, and Denny Myers is reported to be in line for the big coaching plum at Boston College to succeed Leahy. McLaughry has taken command at Dartmouth. All these men leave with the high regard and best wishes of all Brunonians. The new coach is the ninth man to direct Brmvn hxitball, Joe Nutter recalled in an article in the Ei-ennig Bullelni. The succession has included : Howland of Yale, Odlin and Norton of Dartmouth, Moyle of Yale, Gammons, Fult: and Robinson of Brown, and McLaughry of Westminster. While the Athletic Council as a whole made the ap- pointment, it is understood that the recommendation of Stahley was made by the coaching committee, composed of Vice-President J. P. Adams, chairman; Paul H. Hodge; Prof. Robert F. Chambers; Frederick Schwinn; Clinton C. White, chairman of the Athletic Council; and Athletic Director Thomas W. Taylor, ex oficio. Other members of the Athletic Council are: Dean Bruce M. Bigelow, vice- chairman. Prof. Sinclair W. Armstrong, Prof. Norris W. Rakestraw, Alexander T. Hindmarsh, Ralph M. Palmer, and Albert H. Poland. i < His Commission ''''Going Places''' ► Clifton N. Lovenberg "20 was the subject of an Ei'e- ning Bulletin feature stor>' by Sumner P. Ahlbum "37 that showed how his work as Secretar>' of the Rhode Island Industrial Commission is "going places" and bringing in- creased manufacturing activity to the State in the short time the commission has been operating. Accomplishments cited were: 1— Up to $100,000,000 worth of defense con- tracts by Dec. H. 2 — Seven new industries persuaded to set up shop and employ 200 workers. 3 — Nine other indus- tries enabled to continue operations in Rhode Island. Mr. Lovenberg, who has been on the job since May, 1939, has the assistance of a good committee that includes two classmates, James Sinclair, department store executive, and Myles Standish, advertising man. i ► A Larger Class ► ► Brown University v>'ill admit a maximum of 450 Freshmen next Fall instead of the usual 400, in order to offset any possible loss of enrollment in the upper classes because of conscription or because of students leaving col- lege to go into defense industry. The announcement was made by President Henry M. Wriston in a letter last month to all Brown alumni. He pointed out that although the University is willingly and actively sharing in defense preparations, its basic purpose of preparing a full quota of students for citizenship should not be curtailed, especially in a time of national emergency. Urging the alumni to co-operate with the Admissions Office in recommending qualified candidates for a larger Freshman class, President Wriston declared that "the de- fense program deeply affects the educational plans of American youth. The Selective Service Act will cause many to interrupt their college course, and industrial oppor- tunities will attract others. "A serious decrease in the enrollment would adversely impair the functioning of the University. To offset in- evitable losses, we plan to admit more Freshmen in Sep- tember, 1941. For 10 years consistent increase in the num- ber of applicants for admission has made possible better selection of students. This gratifying trend toward higher standards should be continued. "Brown IS serving in the national emergency," he said. "Important research for the government is under way in one of our laboratories. Some members of the faculty have been released for defense research, and others have been called to active military service. Brown is providing special courses for defense workers in the community. "Undergraduates are offered unusual opportunities to participate in defense training. Brown is one of 19 Amer- ican universities having a Naval Officers' Reserve Training Corps. It was one of the first to give the elementary avia- tion course under the Civil Aeronautics Administration, and was also one of the first to offer advanced work. Stu- dent interest and participation in all these is lively. "The defense program, however, has not impaired the emphasis upon the liberal arts. They remain the educational foundation for "a succession of men duly qualified for dis- charging the offices of life.' In this atmosphere a boy can live and work and prepare himself for his role as a citizen, and if need be, as a citizen-soldier. "Think of Brown as alert to the national crisis," he said. "Speak of Brown to your friends and acquaintances It is a college any well-prepared boy would like to attend." The Presidents letter met an immediate response from the Associated Alumni organization, whose Executive Committee and Board of Directors voted to support the program wholeheartedly. i i Brunonians at Mitchel Field ► Lieut. J.ames L. Whitcomb "36, on leave from his duties as Brown's Director of Alumni Relations, found two fellow Brunonians on his arrival at Mitchel Field to take up his service as an officer in the Signal Corps. Edward B. Williams, Jr., "31 is a First Lieutenant in the 2nd Air Material Squadron, and David McGovern "37 is a Second Lieutenant in the 35th Pursuit Squadron. Lieut. Whitcomb spent January in Boston, however, as public relations and procurement officer for the Air Defense Command, Boston Sector, in connection with the Army"s development of an air raid warning service for the eastern seaboard. He returned to Mitchel Field last month. i 193 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY The Winter's Sport < ► ► Three times in three meets last month it took a winning performance in the final event to give Coach Barry's improved swimming squad well-earned victories. For a season that, at its outset, promised little beyond the individual performances of its co-captains, there have been thrills and the sweet satisfaction of winning over stout foes. Their success was the surprise of a good winter cam- paign in all sports. The tankmen went into the finale of the Williams meet at Williamstown, trailing 37-30, but Drennan, Carter, Gibbons and Schaper came through in the 400-yard free- style relay with the eight points that were just enough to win 38-37. Schaper and Carter had led the way in both 50 and 100, with tmies of 24.3 and 54.6, and Gibbons had taken a first and second in 220 and 440 respectively. But these had been more or less anticipated, and it was the valuable second places by Burgess in the breaststroke and Irvine in the dives that kept the Bruins within striking distance. Not even a 56-19 defeat at Yale could take away the gknv from that Williams meet. Without the services of Schaper. Brown had only two first-place winners at New Haven — Carter in the 100 and Gibbons in the 200-yard breast- stroke (the latter in 2:32.2). And the meet was only distinguished otherwise by a world's record set by the home quartet in the 400-yard freestyle relay : 3 minutes, 30.1 seconds. ► The two home meets against Army and Rutgers were thrillers both, being decided in the last event. The Cadets were nipped 43-32 as is described elsewhere. Earlier in the program, Schaper had met his first defeat at 50 yards in 22 dual meets as a Brunonian — Schofield led him by a yard in 23.9. But the Brown co-captain had previously swum anchor on the vital medley relay, turning in the fastest 100 yards ever negotiated m the Colgate Hoyt Pool when he was clocked at ''0.8 seconds. Only one event intervened before he duelled with Schofield, and he was not fresh. Rutgers bowed by the same score after a similar situa- tion in the relay. Gibbons, who in three previous meets had won in 220-yard freestyle, 150-yard backstroke, and 200 breaststroke competition, concentrated on the back- stroke this time. Schaper in winning both short freestyle swims raised his collegiate point total to 218 of a pos- sible 230. He had won 22 of 23 50-yard events and 20 of 23 100-yard events. But the great achievement of the day fell to Irvine, who sprang a surprise by amassing 103.8 points to top McClave of Rutgers, eastern intercollegiate diving champion. ► While the Varsities were getting most of the headlines, the Freshman swimmers were making the outstanding record of the indoor season, overcoming all opposition for the first undefeated campaign since 1932. Among their victims were three otherwise unbeaten schoolboy teams, and they set up a national collegiate first-year record in the meet with St. George's. Coach Barry had an out- standing performer in every event and more than once yielded first place in relays alone. That was the case against Gardner High, with the best swimmers held out of the relays and the score showing only a 36-30 loss by the schoolboys. The summary shows the quality of the Cubs: 50 — Capouch and Berns, one-two in 24.9; 100 — Berns and Martin, one-three in 57.7; 200 — Back Flip by Barry ► "The last event," said the announcer at the Brown-Army swimming meet, "will be a back-flip from the board by Coach Barry." The crowd which had just witnessed a thrilling Brown victory saw this added attraction, described in newspaper accounts as "a feat performed by the coach only in moments of great jubilation." With the Brunonians leading 3 5-32, the meet hinged on the 400-yard freestyle relay, as the coach had apparently anticipated. For Carter had been rested after taking a second in the 220, and Gibbons had been held out of the 220 and 440 in order to take over the anchor responsibility. Swimming first, Drennan lost some ground and Carter held his own. Then Schaper, shuffled from his usual anchor position for reasons of strategy, overhauled his opponent and gave a two-yard advantage to Gibbons. The latter held off the challenge of Army's great sprinter, Scho- field. It took a record-breaking performance to win (3 :40.3), but the meet was saved. And Coach Barry, for the first time since Brown broke Harvard's long winning streak two years ago, dived into the pool as the crowd cheered. Carson and Baetzhold, one-three in 2.06.2; 100 breast — Joyner and Lawson, one-two in 1:07:3; 100 back — Brazil in 1:06.8; Dives — Ahearn. ► The national record was set with the sportsmanlike co- operation of St. George's coach and swimmers. The 400- yard relay is not customary in schoolboy competition, but the Academy was willing to schedule it, gave the best opposition, and placed it first in the meet. Swimming in the 20-yard pool, the Cub quartet struck .6 seconds from the mark previously held by Stanford. In posting the time of 3:42, the four men were clocked as follows: Tim Joyner 57.4, Murray Berns 55.2, Joe Capouch 55.2, and Phil Carson 54.2. St. George's, one of the best prep school aggregations in New England, went down to defeat only 35-31. Worcester Academy, unbeaten since February, 1939, had taken 27 straight meets when the Freshmen journeyed to its pool last month and won 41-25. Carson set a pool record of 54.3 in the 100, shaving a tenth off the mark set by Wally Hedquist, Worcester coach and former Brown swimmer. The Cubs took all firsts except the freestyle relay. Moses Brown was set back 42-24 in a program marked by an attempt to break the Brown record for the 150-yard medley relay. It failed by 4/lOth of a second. Pawtucket East High School, later to capture the Brown interscholastics, met its only defeat of the season in tangling with the Freshmen. Notable was the 100-yard freestyle heat in which Ralph Gossler of Pawtucket, brother of the Brown Varsity diver, touched out Carson by inches in 53.8 seconds. Carson, chosen captain by the yearlings, is a former Hope and Mercersburg hoy, who took away from the former Harvard captain. Cutler, his New England A.A.U. record in the 440. In his career Carson has set 10 marks and won 25 titles. John F. Ahearn, Jr., whose photograph appears on the cover of this magazine, went through the season without meeting his match as a diver. Coach Barry will welcome these and other Freshmen next year, for Schaper and Gibbons are Seniors. 194 BROWN ALIIMNI MONTHLY ► One more basket in two major games would have con' verted a fair basketball season for Brown into a good one. But, even so, there was satisfaction in the victories and some hard-fought defeats. First instance in point was the well-played thriller against Yale. It had seemed a lost cause after the Brunon- ians had lost their first-half lead of 27-22. Having let Ray Anderson of the Elis loose for iive straight baskets, they were seven points down with five minutes to play. Then the Padden sparked a Brown rally and his 15 th point tied the score. Again Yale forged ahead and had it 49-48 when Sheffe was fouled with eight seconds left and had a chance to tic. Firing under terrific pressure, he saw his shot roll around the hoop and off. The second heart-breaker came when Rhode Island State captured the return engagement in Providence 7'i-74. At Kingston it had been all State, with a 48-2.'^ lead at the inter- val and an additional 1 8 points in the first five minutes of resumed play. More than 50 personal fouls were called in the 89-43 contest. Even so, there were 2200 people in Marvel Gym for the second game, remembering how Brown had turned the tables the previous year and knowing that Rhode Island was one of the East's outstanding clubs (with a Madison Square Garden triumph behind them and a tournament invitation there almost assured). Continued on p. 198 1910 Award to Marsolini ► John R. M.^r.solini '41 of Milton. Mass., was awarded the Class of 1910 Football Trophy at the luncheon meeting of the Alumni Advisor^' Council. The presentation was made by Ralph M. Palmer '10, President of the New York Brown Club. The trophy, awarded for the first time last year to Spencer Manrodt, is presented annually to the Senior with the highest scholastic standing during the first seven semes- ters, who has been a member of the varsity squad for three years and who has won a football letter. Marsolini has been a varsity end for the past three years, and at the close of the 1940 season received mention on several sectional and Ail-American selections. He has also been an infield mainstay of the varsity nine for two seasons. He has been equally prominent in campus activities, serv- ing as president of his class for four years and heading the Cammarian Club, highest undergraduate campus honor at Brown. Fraternity Athletics ► Delta T.^u Delt.^, Phi Gamma Delta, Zeta Psi, and Sigma Nu led their respective leagues in the intramural basketball competition this winter, although Alpha Delta Phi, Delta Upsilon, Pi Lambda Phi, and Psi Upsilon were also eligible for the championship series. In intramural track the fraternity leagues were topped by Delta Tau Delta, Phi Gamma Delta, Delta Upsilon, Delta Phi, and Alpha Delta Phi. Zeta Psi, Pi Lambda Phi, and Phi Kappa Psi also qualified for the championship meet. Leading their respective swimming leagues were : Alpha Delta Phi, Zeta Psi, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Phi Gamma Delta, and Delta Upsilon. Psi Upsilon, Delta Tau Delta, and Phi Delta Theta also qualified for the championship meets. i Tutoring in Golf ► F. B. Dinger is at the golf nets in Marvel Gymnasium from 3 :00 to 6:00 P. M. daily (Monday through Saturday) to give free instruction in golf to any male members of the Administration, Faculty, Graduate Students and Under- graduates, i ► Baseball for 1941 ► ► The 1941 Brown varsity baseball team will play 19 games, beginning with Rutgers on April 4 and closing with Amherst June 14, according to the schedule released by Thomas W. Taylor, Director of Athletics. The first two games will be played on New Jersey diamonds, as a year ago, with Princeton to be met at Princeton April 5, the day following the Rutgers contest at New Brunswick. Home-and-home series rivals are Harvard, Holy Cross, Providence College, Rhode Island State and Tufts. Other teams who will be the Bruins' guests number Army, Dart- mouth and Lowell Textile. The final game at Amherst will be played on the Lord Jeffs' Commencement Day, June 14. Coach Jack Kclleher, who is starting his 12th season at Brown, called out his battery candidates Feb. 17 for drills in the Lyman Gym cage and a dosen or more pitchers and catchers have been working out daily. Chief reliance for a successful season will rest upon Capt. Walter Juszczyk, diminutive "knuckle" ball veteran hurler, only pitcher to defeat Holy Cross last season. Other leading pitching can- didates are Ed Lally, varsity holdover, Harris Whynaught, and Herb Ginsberg, sophomore righthander. The catching problem is more serious, as the graduation of Lou Sigloch, the team's leading hitter in 1940, and Bill Kelley left the 1941 squad without an experienced back- stop. Lou Berger, a senior and varsity reserve for the past two seasons, is the most likely looking successor to the post at the present time, with John O'Sullivan, next in line. The 1941 varsity track schedule lists four dual meets. Holy Cross, University of New Hampshire and Rhode Island State will be met at home. In their only away meet the Bruins will oppose Army at West Point. The sea- son will be concluded by representation in the New England IntercoUegiates and the IC-4-A's. The Baseball Schedule — April 4, Rutgers at New Bruns- wick; April 5, Princeton at Princeton; April 12, Lowell Textile at Providence; April 19, Holy Cross at Worcester; April 23, Yale at New Haven; April 26, Army at Prov- idence; April 30, Wesleyan at Middletown; May 3, Providence College at Hendricken Field; May 7, Rhode Island at Kingston; May 10, Holy Cross at Providence; May 15, Dartmouth at Providence; May 17, Rhode Island at Providence; May 20, Tufts at Medford; May 24, Prov- idence at Aldrich Field; May 30, Harvard at Providence; May 31, Tufts at Providence; June 7, Boston College at Providence; June 11, Harvard at Cambridge; June 14, Amherst at Amherst. The Trac\ Schedule — April 19, Holy Cross at Prov- idence; April 26, Army at West Point; May 3, New Hamp- shire at Providence; May 10, Rhode Island at Providence; May 17, M. I. T. at Providence; May 23, 24, N. E. I. A. A. at Cambridge. May 30, 31, L C. A. A. A. A. at Randalls Island, N. Y. Freshman Baseball — April 19, Andover at Providence, April 23, Holy Cross at Providence; April 26, Worcester Academy at >X''orcester; April 30, Providence College at Aldrich Field; May 7, Rhode Island at Providence; May 9, Providence at Hendricken Field; May 14, Harvard at Cambridge; May 17, Rhode Island at Kingston. Freshman Trac\ — April 25, Worcester Academy at Worcester; May 1, Holy Cross at Providence; May 9, Rhode Island at Providence; May 17, M. I. T. at Prov- idence; May 20, New Hampshire at Durham. 195 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY The Brown Clubs ► ► Following a custom 73 years old, 300 Brunonians of Metropolitan New York gathered at the Hotel Commodore Feb. 10 for the annual dinner of the New York Brown Club. Although the accent was on gaiety, the evening had its more serious contributions from President Wriston and Quentin Reynolds "24, foreign corre- spondent. A feature, continuing a practice of the previous year, was the award of Brown Bear statuettes to three alumni for "distinguished achievement"": Prof. William W. Browne '08, bacteriologist and Alumni Fund field marshal; William E. Sprackling "12, Vice- President of Anaconda Wire and Cable Company; and Mr. Reynolds. The men were notified of their selection by a sudden pound on the back from Ralph M. Palmer "10, President of the New York Club, who patterned his technique after that of Cam- marian Club "tappings'". The actual pres- entation was made by John T. Winterich '12, who added much to the ceremony by the quality of his "citations."" Myles Standish "20 journeyed from Prov- idence to key the hilarities with his ready toastmaster wit, while a quartet from the undergraduate Glee Club provided inci- dental music. Telling of his experiences while in Eng- land for Collier's magazine, Quentin Rey- nolds took occasion to pay one of the most unusual tributes a college professor has ever received. He said he had wired an invitation to Prof. Benjamin C. Clough to attend the dinner because he had always been grateful to a teacher who had encouraged him with assurances that he could write and who had told him of authors writing since Shakes- peare. ► In fact, Reynolds said, while recovering from bombing injuries, he had recalled one book that Prof. Clough had recommended — James Stephens" "Crock of Gold"" and he had started reading it on a Kentish farm. Though air raiders flew over and the fire of bombings and anti-aircralt flashed on the horizon, the war seemed unreal to him then; far more real was the Stephens classic. A German who jettisoned his bombs about the farmhouse and a mass dogfight overhead failed to shake his conviction that the story was the real thing. He was reading when a Spitfire shot down a Messerschmitt near- by, giving Jerry his deathblow right over- head. Reynolds was still thinking of "Ben" Clough. And the next morning when he went out and found some shells — the very shells that must have brought down the German raider — he wondered if Prof. Clough would care to have them. He had saved them, had them mounted, and pre- sented them to his former teacher while the banquet room added its applause to the grace of the correspondent's gesture. It looked like the happiest moment of Dr. Clough's academic career. President Wriston, too, was in good form as he brought news from the campus and related University life to the times. Others at the head table included: Dean Samuel T. Arnold, Secretary James H. Case, Jr., Trustee W. Randolph Burgess, Harold W. Lord, and W. Chesley Worth- ington. Arrangements for the dinner were in the hands of Fred A. Forbes and William A. Bree, Jr. Boston i Boston Brown men are pointing toward their annual banquet on April 16 at the University Club, complete details of which will be published in the next issue of the Monthly. The scholarship committee of the Brown Club of Boston this year consists of: Ernest E. Nelson '19, chairman, William P. Burn- ham '07, Ernest T. Clough '20, Royal W. Leith '12, Carleton D. Morse '13, and John J. O'Reilly '36. Two-score enthusiasts were on hand for the February luncheon at the Chamber of Commerce when the 1941 official Ameri- can League baseball motion pictures were shown, through the courtesy of O'Reilly. Seated at the head table were President Royal W. Leith '12, O'Reilly, Chester L. Nourse "09, and Charles R. Adams "80. The March luncheon brought Prof. Theodore Collier as speaker, and his talk on "The War in the Near East" brought a good series of these meetings to a successful close. Chicago ► President Wriston's visit to the Brown Club of Chicago this month is eagerly awaited by Brunonians in the Middle West. The date, March 24, lias been well publi- cized by the Club. It is a feature of a busy year's program that has already seen an outing, a sub- freshman luncheon, a direct-wire football broadcast, a special train to West Point, a smoker for Dr. Bruce Bigelow, and a Christ- mas lunch. All this and weekly luncheons at Carson's, too. Emery R. Walker, Jr., tiie Club's Secre- tary and Treasurer, is pushing the cam- paign to raise the annual $500 scholarship. He has worked out a graduated request for contributions, based on the various classes. Washington ► With the Washington Brown Club's annual meeting, Jan. 29. came a new set ol officers for the group. The following were installed at the meeting, in the Army and Navy Club: President — Paul Howard '35, 3134 Dumbarton Ave., N.W.: Vice-Pres- ident — L. Metcalfe Walling '30; Treasurer — John Hunt '36; Secretary — Winthrop M. Southwurth, Jr., '30, University Club. Paul T. David "30 and Chauncey T. Lang- don "20 were elected to the Board of Gov- ernors to fill the expiring terms of Norman S. Case "08 and John N. Shanter '28. Sen- ator Theodore Francis Green '87 was elected to the Advisory Council. The nom- inating committee consisted of: Harold Master '27, Warren B. Francis '29, and John C. Weedon, Jr., '27. The Club made real progress last year under Paul David's leadership, and he re- tired with many complimentary words said in appreciation of his work. Members of the Club gather for lunch on the first Monday of each month at the Army and Navy Club, 1 7th and I Sts., N.W., at 12:30. Baltimore > A DINNER meeting of the Brown Alumni of Baltimore was held at the Faculty Club. Johns Hopkins University, Feb. 19. Classes from 1895 to 1922 were represented. The next meeting will be held early in April. * * * Laci^ of space forbids the conit>!ete rolkall of clubs until the April issue. Advisory Council Continued from p. 192 ► Referring to President Wriston's dif- ferentiation between the good university and the bad, he said the difference between "alumni who arc definitely good for their colleges and those who are not good for their colleges might be suggested in similar terms; A little more concentration on essen- tials; a little more emphasis on thinking in big terms and seeing with wide vision: a little more comprehension of the main ob- jectives; a little more desire to know the facts; above all, a little more willingness to give the officer the benefit of the doubt until you know the facts." And as for knowing the facts? "As Alumni become increasingly aware of the purposes and practices of Brown, they will do an increasingly effective job as Alumni — as representatives of the University. If there are Alumni who share this feeling and who wish to have a more full and comprehensive view of the University's problems, there are other responsible and responsive represen- tatives of the University who will be de- lighted to serve them." ► Alton C. Chick '19, Treasurer of the Associated Alumni, presided in the absence of Walter Hoving '20, President. Con- valescing from an operation, Mr. Hoving sent his regrets and greetings north from Nassau. Alexander T. Hindmarsh '19, Vice-President of the Rhode Island Region, reported that the Board of Directors had that morning conferred honorary member- ship in the Associated Alumni on Mr. Case and on William K. Selden, Admissions official. The following officers were nominated for places on the alumni ballot this June: For President of the Associated Alumni — William P. Burnham '07 of Boston and James S. Eastham '19 of Boston and An- dover. For Treasurer — Alton C. Chick '19 of Providence; for Alumni Member on the Athletic Council — John W. Fawcett "22, Joseph F. Halloran '16. and Raymond L. Smith '14, all of New York. There are no vacancies to be filled in the ranks of Alumni Trustees. Participants in a lively discussion were: Victor A. Schwartz '07. Robert Forster '03 of Albany, W. Randolph Burgess '12 of New York; Arthur L. Philbrick '03, M. R. Flather '24, George S. Burgess '12 of Bos- ton, Ralph M. Palmer '10 of New York, William P. Burnham '07 of Boston, Ernest T. Clough '20 of Boston, Eliot G. Park- hurst '06, Wayne M. Faunce '21 of New York, Alexander T. Hindmarsh '19, Fred A Otis '03, Herbert M. Sherwood '09, Edward H. Weeks '93, Edward T. Richards '27, and Edwin B. Mayer '09 of Chicago, who got a big hand. ► Athletic Director Thomas W. Tay- lor spoke frankly of problems in his sphere of activity, told of the search for a new Varsity football coach, and announced for the first time the 1942 schedule. Inci- dentally he earned the gratitude of the Alumni by the fine schedule of home games arranged in the three principal winter sports for Feb. 22. Coach Stahley, whom he presented to the alumni for the first time, said he had been impressed by the spirit and enthusi- asm of the student body and emphasized the fact that a coach needs "the co-opera- 196 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY DINERS IN NEW YORK: It was the 73r(I annual banquet of the Sons of Brown in Metropolitan New York, and ihev feasted in the Commodore Hotel on Feb. 10 before hearing President Wriston and Quentin Remolds "24, war correspondent. Of three Brown Bear awards there will be more in the April issue. tion of all — including the alumni." Any suggestions would be acceptable and appre- ciated, he assured them. He promised the acquisition as assistants of coaches who would be "young, enthusiastic, hard-work- ing teachers of whom you'll be proud." Having met the squad that week, he said he knew he would get along well with such a fine group of boys: he"d been assured the co-operation of non-playing students, too, he said. He made no rash promises — he'd only seen Brown play twice last fall — against Harvard and Columbia — but he'd try to carry on and live up to the high standards under Tuss McLaughry. ► Resolutions were read by George L. Miner "97 on the deaths of Dr. J. Franklin Collins of the Department of Botany, Prof. Albert E. Rand of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and on the retirement of Prof. William H. Kenerson of the Division of Engineering. Other resolutions recognised the services of Prof. Walter H. Snell, who is relinquish- ing his baseball coaching; former Coach D. O. McLaughry, and Walter Hoving, presi- dent of the Associated Alumni. Prof. S. J. Berard and Fred A. Otis '03 were also members of the Resolutions Com- mittee. Vice President Adams spoke at the con- cluding session of the council after a lunch- eon in Faunce House Art Gallery. He urged that the Alumni assume a mutual re- sponsibility and interest with the officers. Faculty and students of the University in developing moral and spiritual reserves as well as material reserves in the world crisis. "We must remember," he said, "that de- fense IS not only material, but moral and spiritual. We must mobilize our materials and at the same time draw upon our moral and spiritual reserves. We must look to the colleges and universities in part for the preservation of these values." Myron M. Curry '41 on behalf of the Brown Network, described the functions of the campus broadcasting system and pre- sented to Carleton D. Morse '13, of the Friends of the Library, recordings of net- work programs which were arranged for international reception last year by Station WRUL of Boston. Edward T. Richards '27, president of the Brown Club of Providence, presided at the luncheon. ► Mo.ST colorful of all items on the Advis- ory Council program was the battalion in- spection of the Brown Naval R.O.T.C. unit and presentation of colors by the Associated Alumni. Interest in the latter ceremony was heightened by the presence of three of the four members of the color guard of the Brown naval unit during the World War: Alexander T. Hindmarsh '19, Jesse E. Dubois ";2, and Byron M. Hatfield '22. Mr. Hindmarsh, color bearer in 1918, presented a silk American flag to his son, George M. Hindmarsh '44, color bearer of today. Capt. Keppler, head of the Department of Naval Science and Tactics, accepted this flag and the blue and gold battalion pennant. Attorney General John H. Nolan '15 was the speaker of the occasion, matching "Mother of Men" > Ralph M. Palmlr '10 lightened the serious business of the Advisory Council Feb. 22 to read the alumni the following paragraph from the y^ew Tor!;er magazine, headed "Genealogy": "The other day a fellow who was writing a thesis on college songs called up the Brown Club to find out if he was right in thinking that one of Brown's campus anthems is en- titled "Brunonia, Mother of Men." He was connected with a pleasant- voiced chap who said, in answer to the inquiry, "Well, I don't know about the song, exactly, but I can assure you that Brunonia is the moth- er of men." i its dignity and solemnity in a brief, felici- tous address. Others in the inspecting party were: President Wriston, Brig. Gen. Her- bert R. Dean, Col. G. Edward Buxton '02, Col. H. Anthony Dyer "94, Vice-President Adams, Ensign James Sinclair '20, and Lieut. Emmanuel T. Goyette. The battalion made a fine impression in this, its first public appearance since being organized last fall. Commander Charles L. Andrews, Jr., acted as battalion officer. ► Among those present at the Advisory Council meetings were: Francis G. Mar- tineau. University Purchasing Agent: Prof. William T. Hastings '03: Harold W. Lord '20, Metuchen, N. J.: Dr. Charles H. Hare '85 of Boston: Albert H. Poland "09: Ed- ward W. Day "22: Sidney Clifford "15: Richmond H. Sweet '25: Prof. William W. Browne '08 of New York: H. Raymond Searles "19, representing the Oregon Brown Club: Paul H. Hodge "28: E. Tudor Gross '01: John M. Gross '34: Zechariah Chafee '80: Harry H. Burton '16: Paul E. Mona- han '31 of Windsor, Conn.; W. L. Carter '39; Jackson Skillings '37. Joseph N. Ashton '91 of Andover, Mass.; Elmer S. Horton '10: J. Richmond Fales "10: John A. Lubrano '24; William H. Edwards '19: Prof. C. E. Ekstrom '17; Philip M. Lingham '30 of Concord, Mass.; Henry C. Hart '01; W. Granville Meader '05; Dr. Eduard Roosen-Runge of the Photographic Laboratory: Robert B. Per- kins '29 of Ramsey, N. J., representing the Brown Engineering Association: Prof. Leighton T. Bohl '13; Sydney Wilmot '09 of New York; James S. Allen '98 of Win- chester, Mass.: Edward T. Brackett '14 of Newtonville, Mass. Royal W. Leith '12 of Boston: Charles J. Hill '16; John B. Riddock '18 of New Bed- ford: Edson R. Rand '29 of Attleboro: Brenton G. Smith '11: George T. Metcalf '13; Gavin A. Pitt '38; W. Easton Louttit, Jr., '25; A. Chester Snow '07; James L. Whitcomb '36; Nelson B. Jones "28; Wil- liam T. Dorrance "94 of New Haven, 197 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Conn.; Frederic E. Whitaker '88 of Woon- socket; Prof. Robert F. Chambers "09; Dr. Harlan P. Abbott "85; J. Cunliffe Bullock "02; Prof. Sinclair W. Armstrong; Prof. Robert B. Lindsay "20. Charles K. Campbell '34, representing the Brown Club of Oklahoma; Alfred H. Gurney "07, representing the Brown Club of Alta California; Henry S. Chafee '09; Paul C. DeWolf '02; Gurney Edwards '18; Thomas F. Black. Jr., "19; Nelson J. Con- long "28; Dean Edgar J. Lanpher "19; Frank E. Marble '05 of Lynn, Mass.; Charles Rob- inson "05; Prof. Matthew C. Mitchell; Theodore W. Minah. J, Irving McDowell "18; 'Vk'alter G. En- sign "29; Thomas F. Gilbane "3 3: William J. Gilbane "3 3; Prof. Hans Kurath; C. Arthur Braitsch '23; Lawrence Lanpher '23; Stephen Waterman '86 of Washington, D. C: Prof. Chelcie C. Bosland; Prof. Har- court Brown; Prof. Curt J. Ducasse; Lester Lapham; George J. Holden "91; Theodore R. letfers "23; Harold C. Field '94; Henry D. Sharpe "94; Joseph C. Hartwell '99; Prof. Walter S. Hunter; Richard A. Hurley '3 2; Albert L. Parks '26; Louis A. R. Fieri '20; Richard J. Reynolds "31; Frederick Schwinn '05; William K. Selden; Prof. James H. Shoemaker; Antone G. Singsen '38; Charles P. Sisson 'II; H. Stanton Smith '11; Prof. Walter H. Sncll '13; Stuart H. Tucker "22; James P. Fatten "34, William A. Brec, Jr., '3 5 of New York; Robert B. Dugan '3 3 of New Haven; and Whitney E. Easton '36 of New York. Committee on program included: Henry C. Aylsworth '20, and Messrs. Burton, Sweet, Gurney, Case, Worthington, Gurll, and Chick. Not all statements were made from the floor, for a carefully assembled handbook presented in written form the latest news about: the Alumni Office, the Alumni Fund, the Alumni Monthly, Brown Uni- versity Plates, the News Bureau, Friends of the Library, the Department of Naval Science and Tactics, the Civil Pilot Train- ing under C. A. A., Engineering Defense Training, Grants-in-Aid from Foundations and Learned Societies, Changes in Faculty Personnel, Distinguished Visiting Lec- turers and Artists; Admissions, the Place- ment Program, the Union, the Student Recreation Program, and the Yachting Pro- gram. That index shows how wide open was the field for deliberation. i ^ Indoor Season Continued from p. 195 ► But Brown outdid itself, with every- thing to win and nothing to lose. Trailing 3 5-31 at the start of the second half, the Bears drove ahead within three minutes and maintained the lead by adhering to a care- fully planned defense. A foul shot 25 sec- onds before the horn tied up the game. In the overtime State scored first to make it 70-68, but Brown moved out with a 74-70 command that seemed ample. In the last minute of play Harvey of State tied it up and made the winning shot on an awarded foul, Wilson of Brown was the evening's high scorer, with 28 points, but the whole home team played brilliantly as the King- ston boys escaped what would have been their fourth defeat in 24 games this winter. As if the scoring was not enough, the Brown Freshmen had run up a record total of 91 in taking revenge on the State Fresh- Vt INTER SCORES Varsity Basketball Brown 44, Clark 43 Harvard 47, Brown 34 Connecticut 4 2, Brown 36 Brown 40, Holy Cross 26 Brown 49. Lafayette 34 Brown 50, Rutgers 46 Columbia 49, Brown 36 Brown 50, M. I. T. 33 Tufts 31. Brown 29 Army 30, Brown 19 Yale 49, Brown 48 Rhode Island 89, Brown 43 Brown 5 5, Worcester 44 Brown 34. Amherst 31 Brown 62, Alumni 36 Dartmouth 47, Brown 30 Boston U. 55, Brown 49 Rhode Island 75, Brown 74 Brown 36, Tufts 3 3 Brown 63, Providence 59 Freshman Basketball Brown 41, East Providence 29 Harvard 46, Brown 44 Connecticut 49, Brown 40 Brown 48, M. I. T. 23 Tufts 5 3, Brown 47 Rhode Island 57, Brown 50 Amherst 40, Brown 39 Brown 29, St. George's 27 Brown 41, Worcester Acad. 29 Boston U. 52, Brown 38 Brown 91, Rhode Island 57 Brown 45, Tufts 43 Brown 73, Providence 52 Varsity SH-imming Springfield 50, Brown 25 Harvard 62. Brown 13 Brown 38, Williams 37 Yale 56, Brown 19 Brown 43. Army 3 2 Brown 43, Rutgers 32 Freshman Swimming Brown 42, Brookline High 24 Brown 43, Harvard 3 2 Brown 36, Gardner High 30 Brown 36, St. George"s 30 Brown 41, Worcester Acad. 25 Brown 42, Moses Brown 24 Brown 36. Pawtucket 30 Varsity Track Northeastern 47, Brown 25 Freshman Track Northeastern 68, Brown 4 Worcester Acad. 40, Brown 28 men the same evening. Amazing shooting overwhelmed the visitors as Wood scored 27 points, Swingler 23 and Miller 16. The 91-57 score meant 148 points in the Fresh- man game — a record. The 149-point total in the Varsity game was another, and of course the combined total of 297 points kept the baskets hot for an all-time eve- ning"s aggregate. In between the two Rhode Island games Brown whipped a strong Worcester Poly team 5 5-44, with Padden making his third successive total of 15 points. Person, lost for the season with a hurt back, was re- placed in the Varsity line-up by Pournaras in this game, in some others by McGowan. In the Amherst game Brown took command at 34-25 after losing a first-half lead and outlasted a Jeff spurt for a 34-31 final. An- other member of the Little Three, Wes- leyan, fought on even terms for 34 minutes, but Brown poured it on in the last six to triumph 61-46. Padden, who missed only four shots in the first half, had a 19-point tally. ► Dartmouth, always redoubtable on her own floor and this year leader of the Inter- collegiate League, frustrated the Brown at- tack and limited the Bear to seven baskets from the floor in a 47-30 game. Another game on the road went to Boston Univer- sity after nip-and-tuck action. In the final two minutes Boston was only two points up, but haste wasted Bruin opportunities, and contributed to the 55-49 defeat. Fisher, named honorary captain for the night, played well. A second visit to Boston was more satisfactory when the team took ven- geance on Tufts for an earlier 31-29 shav- ing. There was constant seesawing in the return game but Wilson took the lead 3 2 seconds from the end and McGowan cinched it at 36-33. The Freshmen, too, had revenge in a 45-43 thriller. The season ended March 12 with a sweet victory over Providence 63-59. It was the final game of their college career for Wil- son. Fisher, and Padden, and they"ll never forget it, for they (with help from Sheffe and McGowan) pulled up from a 12-point disadvantage in the last half. The crowd of 1,500 had conceded their defeat before an improved P. C. five, but the Bruins had plenty of fight left. Nucleus of next year"s Varsity would appear to be Sheffe, McGowan, Pournaras, Pogson, and Delaney, who saw considerable action this year; Savignano, letterman in 1940 who did not compete much this win- ter; and squad-members Rutherford. Greg- ory, Bill Price, Charley Price, Barker, Thompson, Hall and Dunn. There should be some candidates from Earl Brown's Freshman club, too, which improved in striking fashion as the season progressed. After a mediocre January, the Cubs lost to Rhode Island at Kingston only 57-50; then in the final minute pulled up and passed St. George's, the only unde- feated Rhode Island schoolboy team, 29-27; bowed reluctantly to Amherst 40-39: beat Worcester Academy 41-29 as Captain Swingler started his scoring in earnest with 21 points. He made 19 as the team lost to B. U. 52-38 and poured in 31 as the Fresh- men wound up against P. C. 73-52. The Cubs, though shorter than recent Brown basketeers, boast several growing boys of Varsity promise: Swingler, Wood, Miller, Pattee, and Thompson especially. ► Track's one success in February was the first victory of the season for the Varsity mile relay at the B. A. A. games. Against quartets that had previously bested thcin, Allen, Austin, Battey and Clark led at each exchange of the baton and won from M.I.T. and New Hampshire in 3:30.3. The lone Varsity dual meet was dropped to North- eastern 47-25. From the Brown point of view the bright spots were several: Mikolas turned in a time of 5.8 seconds in the 45- yard high hurdles; replacing Singsen's 1938 record of 6-tlat. Kurath was third man. Allen and Floyd were one-three in the 300, Clark and Austin were two-three in the 600, and Briggs tied for first with the high- jump bar at 6 feet. The Freshmen took four solitary points against the Northeastern Freshmen. Augen- 198 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY stine was second in the shot and Hindmarsh third in the 600, while the visitors were running up 68 points. The showing was more respectable against Worcester Acad- emy, which won 40-28. The Cubs won only the high jump (McMurtrie 5:8) and the relay (Savage, Glavis, Marx and Hind- marsh), but took a lew more places, i i McLaughry and the Iron Men ► De Ormond McLauchry, Hanover- bound, was given a farewell party at the Warwick Country Club Feb. 7 by nearly 50 friends and Brown alumni who had played under him. Coach McLaughry was given a travelling bag. Included in the gathering were eight of the 11 "Iron Men" of 1926, the first football team coached by Tuss at Brown. These Varsity men and some subs recounted incidents of the season during which they were undefeated, but tied once, by Colgate. The Iron Men present were Harold "Hal" Broda of Canton, Ohio, who was captain of the team; Dr. Orland Smith of Pawtucket, Paul H. Hodge of Providence. Louis Farber of East Providence, E. T. Towie of Pawtucket. E. J. Lawrence of Providence, E. A. Kevorkian of Boston, and David Mishel of Boston. Others of the 1926 squad present were Harold Husker of New York, Walter Tre- fethen of Portland, Me., Albert Ricci of Providence, Dorman Searle of East Prov- idence, J. A. C. Hall of Providence, Ralph Holden of Brockton, Mass., Winfield Dodge of New Bedford and Dr. Hyman Heller of Webster, Mass. Among other guests were Edwin Gil- martin of Providence, a former captain; William Gilbane of Providence, Thomas Gilbane, freshman coach; Joe Buonnano, freshman backfield coach; Donald Emery of Boston, a former captain: Denny Myers, line coach at Brown; "Eck" Allen. Brown basketball coach, recently named head coach at the University of Maine, and "Huff and Puff" Team ► "The Huff and Puff opposition" of an Alumni team was unable to give the Brown Varsity basketball five more than an amiable evening's workout last month, but a crowd of 500 found it good fun. All hut Harry Piatt, 1940 captain, wilted when the going got strenuous, the Proi'iderue Journals Barney Mad- den wrote, and the final score was 62-36. The perennial Hellers, Abe and Hymie and Sam, were among those who fought valiantly for the grad- uate cause, and Abe scored the first time he had his hands on the ball. But save for a brief spurt after trail- ing at half-time 28-12, the Alumni were never close. Still, the evening served to parade a number of former stars in: Malkowski, Kelly, Staff, Noonan, Kusinits, Samdperil, Lark- owich, Burkhardt, Kenyon, Arm- strong, and Truman. In a foul- shooting contest Piatt sank 16 of 20 shots to win over Padden's 15, while Wilson led Truman by a single point, too. < Wally Snell of Providence, former backfield coach. A resolution passed by the Rhode Island Senate last month commended Coach McLaughry on his achievements at Brown. Another compliment paid him was at the annual football dinner of the Italo-Amer- ican Club of Rhode Island. Denny Myers and Joe Buonanno were also speakers on the program, arranged in part by Maury Caito '34, Dr. Charles A. Spacagna '27. and Assistant Attorney General John O. Pastore. president of the club and father of Dr. John B. Pastore '27. i Bruiionians Far and Near < < 1878 ► ► George F. Weston, dean of Cali- fornia alumni, answered to his name last month at the annual meeting in San Fran- cisco of the Brown Club of Alta California. He and his son, Stuart D. Weston '09, came to the meeting from their home in Los Gatos. After having served as president of the Providence Journal Co. for 37 years, Stephen O. Metcalf last month declined re-election. Succeeding him is his son, George Pierce Metcalf. Metcalf, Sr., con- tinues as a director. 1881 Charles Evans Hughes began his 12th year as Chief Justice of the United States, Feb. 24. According to the AP, "friends of the white-bearded, 78-year-old jurist ex- pressed the opinion he would continue to preside over the Supreme Court as long as he is able to." 1884 Expressing appreciation of the obituary notice of her husband, Mrs. James W. Johnson of Spuyten Duyvil, N. Y., wrote the Alumni Monthly last month: "It was always a great disappointment to Mr. John- son that he failed, because of illness, to complete his four years' work at Brown. Dr. Faunce wanted him to accept his de- gree, as he felt Mr. Johnson had through his reading and writing fairly earned it, but he felt he could not accept. I have always felt it a mistake." Although his health had not been good for two years, his death was sudden. 1885 The life-long interest of the late Francis W. Greene in his Alma Mater was testified to in a letter which the Alumni Ofhce re- ceived from his widow last month. She was acknowledging the copy of his obituary in the February Monthly. 1888 Josiah Bartlett, who retired from teach- ing in June, 1939. reports that he is living at 402 High St., Burlington, la. 1890 Walter A. Presbrey has the sympathy of the Class in the loss of his wife, Ada Moore Presbrey. who died in Providence, Jan. 29, 1941. Mrs. Presbrey for years was a loyal worker in the Church of the Mediator, and was always a friendly and helpful neighbor. Besides our classmate, she leaves a son, Walter A. Presbrey, Jr., and a daughter, Mrs. Arthur W. Gate, wife of Arthur W. Gate '14. 1891 Abe Mcndenhall has called it "Ninety- One's Golden Jubilee," and that is the offi- cial name of the 50th reunion to be held June 14, 15, and 16. The members of the class residing in and around Providence have constituted themselves a reunion com- mittee and drawn up the following tentative program Saturday: evening — Classmate George J. Holden has invited the members of the Class to dinner. Sunday — 11 A. M. The Class will attend service at Class Pres- ident Charles A. Mcader's St. Luke's Epis- copal Church, East Greenwich. 1 :30 P. M. Classmate Edwin A. Barrows has invited the Class to luncheon at his residence in Sce- konk, Mass. 6:00 P. M. Class Reunion Dinner. Agawam Hunt Club. Commence- ment Day— 9:00 A. M. Meet at Class Fence. 9:30 A. M. Commencement Pro- cession. 12:00 Noon. Luncheon at resi- dence of Secretary Frank L. Hinckley, 72 Waterman St., Providence. 1:30 P. M. Alumni meeting, Sayles Hall. Reverend Leo B. Thomas has retired from his duties because of illness, and is at present living at 57 Roseland Street, Cam- bridge, Ma.ss. Frank L. Hinckley has reported that our classmate, Dr. Alfred S. Taylor has moved to 116 East 68th St., N. Y. C. 1894 Henry D. Sharpe was recently honored when he received from the president of the Providence Community Fund, Curtis B. Brooks, a bron:e medal with the inscrip- tion "In recognition of distinguished serv- ice for human needs". Mr. Sharpe was active in organising the Providence Com- munity Fund and served as its first cam- paign chairman in 1926, as its president from 1926 to 1933, and chairman of its board since then. Mrs. Laura Alexander Richardson, wife of Willard S. Richardson, died at her home in Montclair, N. J., Feb. 19, 1941. The Richardsons were married Oct. 26, 1900. Mrs. Richardson, who attended Marietta College, was a member of the Montclair Women's Club and Riverside Church, New York City. To our classmate and his three daughters the sympathy of the Class is given in full measure. 1895 Reverend Franklin D. Elmer of West Hartford was recently guest preacher at the First Baptist Church, Providence, speaking from the same platform where 46 years be- fore he received his Brown diploma. 1896 Burton S. Flagg has been an active mem- ber of the committee in his home town of Andover, Mass., raising funds for a fighter plane for the town of Andover, England, which is about 20 miles north of South- ampton and which the Germans have bombed in recent months. 1897 Clarence Lingham has retired from Ginn y Company after more than 40 years' serv- ice with this Boston publishing house. The firm also published a number of his own texts in the field of Business English. His fine country home in Littleton will see more of him now. His son Phil, former Varsity pitcher, was in Providence as the Boston Brown Club's delegate to the Advisory Council. Frank O. Jones, manager of the Gary Teachers' Agency in Hartford, attended the 199 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY convention of the National Association of School Administrators in Atlantic City, Feb. 23-27. The dates did not permit him to attend the Advisory Council of the As- sociated Alumni, in which he frequently takes a prominent part. Mrs. Ellen Snow Thornley, widow of our late classmate, William H. Thornley, died at her home in Providence, Feb. 11, 1941. Mrs. Thornley, a direct descendant of Roger Williams, was a member of the cor- poration of Rhode Island School of Design and had given much of her time to char- itable and social activities. 1899 "Stephen Wentworth Bourn was a loyal and devoted son of his Alma Mater, and his associations and friendships there were among his most prized possessions." So wrote a member of his family last month in ac- knowledging words of sympathy from Uni- versity Hall. His classmates know the truth of this characterization. Mr. and Mrs. G. Safford Beal of Harris- burg, Pa., have been making a motor tour of Florida, with their main stops Daytona Beach and Tarpon Springs. 1901 Ernest G. Hapgood, headmaster of Girls' Latin School in Boston, was one of the school officials who supervised the eighth annual Boston Herald spelling bee, in which 48,000 high school pupils participated Feb. 24. 1902 Change in political administration brought about Harry M. Paine's removal as Clerk of the Rhode Island Superior Court for Providence and Bristol Counties. But his successor, recognizing Paine's ability and long experience, immediately appointed him Deputy Clerk, a post provided for but not hitherto filled. J. Cunliffe Bullock and Col. G. Edward Buxton were the Class representatives at the 1941 meeting of the Advisory Council of the Associated Alumni. Fred H. Gabbi left the precincts of his beloved Portland, Me., for a week end last month to return to Brown to take part in the annual initiation banquet of the Brown chapter of Phi Kappa Psi. In acknowledging our recent cheer, Ed- ward K. Aldrich, Jr., reports that the 1941 census of his Diamond Hill Kennels re- vealed that he had 42 Salukis, 28 Schip- perkes, 4 Greyhounds, 1 Cairn Terrier, and 1 Irish Terrier. With conditions as they are now in England he is probably the larg- est individual owner of the Arabian cour- sers in the world. 1903 Louis F. Baker, active in Brown Club of Boston affairs, is with the Recording and Statistical Corps in Boston, and lives at 160 Washington St., Wellesley Hills. Joseph Wheeler, Librarian of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, wrote to tell us that Allan Westcott at Annapolis has a new book coming out. In the Feb. 1 issue of the Christian Reg- ister of Boston, an article appeared about Percy W. Gardner, Treasurer of the Amer- ican Unitarian Association. He is now President and Treasurer of the Marginal Dock Co., Providence; Vice-President, Treasurer and Director of the J. C. Hall Co.; Director and Counsel of Wakefield (R. I.) Trust Company and Director of the Central ReaJ Estate Co. Many of his addresses before Unitarian gatherings have been published for distribution. Enough Sheepskin > Brown University diplomas for the next three years will be printed on sheepskin and not a reasonably accurate facsimile. Francis G. Martineau. the Univer- sity's purchasing agent, has an ample supply of the precious stuff laid away in moth-proof, air-tight, water- proof, fool-proof vaults. The best sheepskin, Mr. Martineau revealed, comes from "a certain shire in England,"" and fears had arisen that maybe the sheep would get thin- skinned about the bombings or that there might be difficulty getting the diploma wherewithal across the ocean. Mr. Martineau revealed that sup- plies of materials the University buys in England are coming through with fair regularity, and that Scandina- vian paper is also finding its way safely to College Hill. Canadian and American products are also being found satisfactory. Brass alone seems t<-i be scarce. ^ 1901 John F, Woodman, livestock dealer and guide at the Flying V Ranch, Laramie, Wyoming, is living this winter at the Elks Club in that city. Maurice S. Lynch, son of our late class- mate, Michael J. Lynch, and Miss Virginia Joanne Clark, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph B. Clark, were married in Endicott, N. Y., Feb. 14, 1941. Dr. John C. Walsh '06 was best man for his nephew. Mr. and Mrs. Lynch will soon be at home at 454 Wayland Ave., Providence. 1905 For 12 successive weeks during the win- ter, Dr. Earle B. Cross, Hoyt Professor of the Hebrew Language and Literature at Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, taught the married people's class in Lake Avenue Baptist Church, Rochester. In the Sunday school world this class is a noteworthy one. Cross's subject was "God's Good Man, Job." Philip A. Hanson, lawyer, is occupying his new offices, Suite 605, 755 Boylston St., Boston, and is acting as appeal agent for one of the Boston draft boards. His house address is 7 Concord Square. Your Secretary records with regret the death of James Henry Leedham, Jr., in Attleboro, Mass., Dec. 24, 1940. Leedham, native of Valley Falls, where he was born March 22, 1868, took a special course in law with the Class in Freshman year. In March, 1903, he became a member of the Massachusetts bar, and had since practised in Attleboro. On May 27, 1905, he married Miss Flora Charpentier, who survives with a son, James H. Leedham, 3rd. Albert A. Deal has changed his address and is now living at 622 West 1 14th Street, New York City. An act empowering the Rhode Island Director of Labor to collect for employes' claims for wages due up to $200 and re- quiring employers to pay their employes weekly wages earned by them within nine days of the date of such earning, was intro- duced by Senator Fred C. Broomhead, chairman of the Senate Labor Committee. A year ago the Senator from Barrington introduced a similar bill which was passed in the Senate but not approved in the House. 1906 BY ELMER D. NICKERSON Steve Wright and Mrs. Wright have been spending the winter in the Hawaiian Islands. Rev. Walter E. Woodbury is Secretary of Evangelism, American Baptist Home Mission Society, with offices at 212 Fifth Avenue, 7 Daisy Place, Tenafly, N. J. Leon S. Gay, in addition to business and political interests, has long given some of his time to the Vermont Historical Society, of which he was re-elected President in January, at the 103rd annual meeting. Three members of the class are serving as State agents for the Brown Alumni Fund. They are: Arizona — Arthur Flagg; Mary- land — Joseph L. Wheeler; South Carolina — Leonard A. Prouty. Along with William Kennedy, class agent, these men deserve our fullest co-operation. Samuel C. Lamport, head of Lamport Co., Inc., one of the country's leading cot- ton and rayon textile exporting firms, is occupying his new offices at 365-367 Broad- way, New York City. The company, now in its 50th year, leased the six-story build- ing at this address last summer and had it made over to produce 60,000 feet of space "and a facade decidedly New England, since Burlington, Vt., was the birthplace of the business." The name was formerly Lamport Mfg. Supply Co. Gerald A. Cooper has the sympathy of the Class in the loss of his mother, Mrs. Clara E. (Saunders) Cooper, who died in Charlotte, N. C, Feb. 12, while visiting our classmate. Mrs. Cooper leaves an older son, George S. Cooper '00. Edward J. Owens, who was with us three years on the Hill, died at the home of his sister, Miss Mary E. Owens, North Prov- idence, Feb. 11, 1941. A resident of New York City for the past 21 years, he had been with Russek's, furriers, until retire- ment a short time ago. His fraternity was Phi Kappa. To Mrs. Owens and other members of the family the Class extends its sympathy. 1907 William P. Burnham, president of the Brown Club of Boston, A. Chester Snow, chairman of the Brown University Nautical Advisory Board, Victor A. Schwartz, for- mer president of the Associated Alumni, When W ill Peace Conte? ► World-Travilir Marc T. Greene '03, back in China, writes a substantia! estimate of the Oriental situation in Amerasia for February. Answering the question, "How Much Longer Can Japan Continue?" he says the war would have been over by now but for the hold of the Japanese military leaders on the country and the "capacity for en- durance of the oppressed and thor- oughly regimented masses." There is a "respect for authority amounting to abject fear in a measure inconceiv- able to the West even today." "Nothing short of desperation is likely to break it down," Mr. Greene concludes. "But there must be a limit to taxation and that limit is rap- idly being reached. Japan's rulers may be confronted with the conse- quences of popular discontent sooner than many believe." ^ 200 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY and A. H. Gurncy, former Alumni Secre- tary, were "07's representatives at the Ad- visory Council meeting on the Hill, Feb. 21 and 22. Al Gurney signed the roll as offi- cial delegate of the Brown Club of Alt.i California. Dr. Vernon K. Krieble is now in his 21st year as Scoville Professor of Chemistry at Trinity College. Hartford, Conn., where his laboratory, which he himself designed in large part, is among the most modern and best equipped in the country. Walter J. Murray's son. Chandler S. Murray, Senior on the Hill, will enter Bos- ton University Medical School ne.xt fall. Rev. Merrick L. Strceter and Mrs. Streeter have observed their 30th anniver- sary as missionaries to Burma. Their home station is still at Tavoy. Your secretary records with regret the death in Brattleboro, Vt., on Jan. 27, 1941, of Edwin Voss Ross and extends to Mrs. Ross and her daughter the sincere sympathy of the Class. An account of Ed's career will appear in a later issue of the Brown Alumni Monthly. 1908 Elmer J. Bunting, who is farming in California, reports his address to be: Box 254A, Lincoln. Leslie E. Swain is serving as State chair- man for the intramural exhibition to be held during the latter part of April at the combined meeting of the National and Eastern District Conference of American Association for health, physical education and recreation; a department of the N.E.A. Sidney S. Paine, President of Tabardrey Mfg. Co., Greensboro, N. C is serving as State agent for the Brown Alumni Fund. Sid is trying a unique plan this year in an attempt to raise 100% contributions for the Alumni fund. Although we cannot at this time divulge his system, we arc looking for- ward to Commencement time to see how it works. Paul L. Chipman in Boston, William W. Browne in New York, Les Swain in Prov- idence and Albert Thomas in Fall River are other '08 men who arc honoring the class by serving as class and district agents for the fund. Harry A. Jager, Chief of the Occupa- tional Information and Guidance Service of the U. S. Office of Education in Wash- ington, has been particularly helpful to the Alumni Office, we hear, in connection with the Career Counseling Panel for Brown undergraduates. Maj. Hill Griffith is carrying out his as- signment as Executive, New Haven Mili- tary District, and instructor of Cavalry Re- serve Officers in the area, which takes in all of Connecticut from New Haven to the Rhode Island line and south of Hartford. He and his fellow officers conduct group schools at New London, Norwich. Waterhury, as well as at New Haven and Hartford, give corre- spondence courses, keep records of officers, and speak before special groups. His office is at 294 Elm St., New Haven, right in the shadow of Yale. 1909 J. Howard Alger is now vice president of Aluminum Co. of Canada, Ltd., replacing the late O. M. Montgomery. He is also di- rector, vice president and secretary of Alu- minum, Ltd., with his offices in Montreal. Lawrence L. Larrabee, president of the Los Angeles Board of Education, is slowly convalescing after a three months siege with an infected jaw bone following removal of a wisdom tooth. Larry had the tooth pulled shortly after arriving home from his trip in Paris country after service as Secre- He "Elected to Remain' ► ► When Cecil M. P. Cross '15 returned to thi tary of the American Embassy in Paris, he brought a letter to President Wriston irom another loyal son of Brown, still in France. "I beg to say that I have always had a deep sense of affection for the University," wrote Dr. Theodore C. Merrill '96, "and now I wish to say that I am electing to remain in Paris as long as it is practicable so to remain. There appear to be many opportunities of being useful here, and I am not disposed to disregard them. So please remember that I desire to live and work well and honourably amid the scene, now of distress, where I have had the best which life has given me." He sent cordial greetings as well to Dr. Mead, Dr. Bumpus, and Prof. Kenerson and concluded with the remark that he was bidding "Ave and NOT Vale." A newspaper story that the American Hospital in Pans might be compelled to close Its doors in April leaves the status of Dr. Merrill's "opportunities of being useful" open to speculation, for he had been a member of the hospital staff for many years. The Rhode Island Alpha of Phi Beta Kappa has received from him a key made in the old style, which he preferred to have in the keeping of the Society, i i East last fall. A streptococcus viridans in- fection of the parotid gland in his left cheek immediately set in, and in November the doctors did not think he would live. But he came through, then underwent an opera- tion on his jaw hone, and had two drainage tubes inserted in his left cheek below the jaw. He still carries the tubes, over which he must wear a surgical dressing for the next several months. He is going to his office for two or three hours each afternoon, and IS carrying on with his old spirit and cheerfulness. Why not write him at 1140 Rowan Bldg., Los Angeles? Four members of the class are Trustees of the Providence Public Library. No won- der, said a cynical classmate, that Henry S. Chafee was named President of the institu- tion when William Davis Miller resigned after 12 years in office. Billy remains on the board and is a member of the Executive and Library Committee. Ivory Littlefield is on the same committee, while Al Poland is on the pensions and nominating com- mittees. Howard K. Jackson has the sympathy of the Class in the loss of his father, Frank A. Jackson, former chairman of the Rhode Island State Food and Drug Commission, who died at his home in Woonsocket, Feb. 3, in his 90th year. The following men appear in the recent issue of "Who's Who in Massachusetts" — John W. M. Bunker, Harold M. Frost and George F. Sykes. Louis A. McCoy, headmaster of Girls' High in Boston, was one of the supervisors of the city-wide spelling bee last month in which 48,000 pupils took part under the auspices of the Boston Herald. Bill Connell, our Class Judge, has been sworn in again as a Rhode Island District Court Judge. Harper Goodspeed is busy with plans for another collecting trip into the Andes. Be- fore sailing he is working hard to complete a book on a Naturalist's Work in South America. Chic Butterworth has opened an office at 17 Exchange St., Providence, to stimulate the knowledge of and ability to speak Span- ish for cultural, good neighbor and business purposes. At a Class Supper held at Faunce House Feb. 5 the following were present: Leach, Strickler, Tinkham, Poland, Hagar, Gor- man, Nash, Butterworth, Sherwood, A. M. Chace, Buss, Chalmers, Turner, Patterson, Henderson, Tanner, Littlefield and Chafee. The Brown Yacht Club has announced that it has been given by an anonymous donor a dinghy on behalf of the Class of 1909, which boat will bear the name Billi- kin. 201 The following '09 men were present at the recent Advisory Council Meeting at the University — Messrs. Mayer, Poland, Sher- wood and Chafee. Eddie Mayer has left with the Class his College scrap book which contains many interesting mementos of our time on the Hill. We will hope to have it available at the next Class Reunion. 1910 Rev. Stephen D. Pyle, minister of Peking Union Church, Peking, China, is heading eastward after two months on the Pacific Coast. He landed in San Francisco, Dec. 29, just 24 days after he left Peking. Five of these days he spent in Japan with Amer- ican friends. "I cannot describe," he wrote, "the relief of being on an American ship and feeling it slip from its moorings in Yokohama." Mrs. Pyle met him in San Francisco, and together they have visited Los Angeles, Portland, and Seattle. John P. Farnsworth of the Trust Depart- ment, Rhode Island Hospital Trust Co., is treasurer of the Board of Trustees, Prov- idence Public Library, and is also a member of the Executive and Library and Buildings and Grounds Committees. 1911 G. Denny Moore came back to the campus last month to speak at the initiation dinner of Phi Gamma Delta. Warren Van Kirk, production manager for Harper Method, Inc., has changed his house address in Rochester, N. Y., to 57 Lanark Crescent. Your Class Secretary and Mrs. Sisson have announced the engagement of their daughter. Miss Hope Davies Sisson, to J. Davidson Rider, graduate of Leland Stan- ford University now in business in Boston. Harold A. Wilcox, member of the Class for nearly four years, died in Webster, Mass., Feb. 10, 1941. He settled in Web- ster in 1920, started a coal and trucking business and operated gasoline stations in the Webster area. To his wife, Mrs. Annie L. Nelson Wilcox, his son, and his daugh- ter, the sympathy of the Class is given. Charles M. Franklin, now at 5912 St. Charles Ave., New Orleans, La., is coming North again. He tells us that after June 1 he will live at 17 -Ashland Rd., Summit, N.J. Bob Skillings, Portland, Maine, is again serving Brown as a state agent of the Alumni Fund. J. Russell McKay, 275 West Federal Street, Youngstown, Ohio, is serving as dis- trict agent for the fund in the Akron- Youngstown-Canton region. Major Jacob M. Howarth, for many years an officer of the U. S. Army Reserve, was BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY called to active duty last November in the office of the Constructing Quartermaster General at Washington, D. C. He wrote last month, however, from Alexandria, La., where he is assistant constructing quarter- master. The War Department is building two large cantonments to house approx- imately 70,000 troops. 1912 W. Randolph Burgess, Vice Chairman of the Board of the National City Bank. New York, and President of the New York State Bankers Association, was chairman of the Annual Mid-Winter meeting of the Asso- ciation held recently in New York. Randy was at the head table at the New York Brown Club dinner last month and was present at the Advisory Council meetings in Providence. The Burgess family turned out in a body to cheer Julian Burgess, Randy's son, as he won his heat in the Army swimming meet. Edward A. (Shad) Adams, Los Angeles, has been named general chairman of the California district of the Brown Alumni Fund. Max L. Grant has begun his 16th con- secutive term as president of Miriam Hos- pital Association, Providence. His mother, Mrs. Louis M. Grant, was elected as the association's first honorary trustee at the annual meeting held late in January. Earle W. Bates has been in the hospital to have some infected teeth attended to. hut is now back at work, although still undergoing treatment. Joseph H. Conzelman of Birmingham is Alabama State agent for the Alumni Fund in that State. 1913 James H. Readio, Jr., has begun his new duties as Tax Collector for the City of Warwick. This is his first political job. Jim is also chairman of Kent County Local Draft Board No. 2. Joseph A McCaull, educational adviser, 1161st Co., CCC, Glocester, R. L, is settled in the house he recently bought on Putnam Pike, Harmony. Russell W. Field and Mrs. Field of Bar- rington have announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Martlia Field, to Donal K. Holway of Tulsa, Okla., University of Chicago '38. Miss Field is a Senior at Radcliffe College. Carleton D. Morse was recently elected to the Board of Governors of the Univer- sity Club in Boston. Frank B. Gihbs has moved to 2') Pleasant St.. Rumford. Frank is associated with the R. L Warp Stop Equipment Co. Daniel L. Mahoncy reports his present home address to be S. W. City of Ardmore, Oklahoma. Dan is with Standard Oil Co. of Indiana. Earl W. Tucker, another Oklahoman at Tulsa, is State agent for the Brown Alumni Fund. 1914 Lt. Col. Chester A. Files is a member of Headquarters 2nd Battalion of the 103rd Field Artillery. The 103rd (a National Guard unit) leaves this month for Camp Blanding, Fla., where it will spend a year in active training. The Providence Journal recently had a half-column "pro- file" of Chet and his career. Howard R. Perrin is Oregon State agent for the Brown Alumni Fund. He lives in Klamath Falls. Edward T. Brackett attended the Ad- visory Council meetings of the Associated Columbia Honors Him, Too ► Columbia University, too, has distinctions for Ralph M. Palmer '10, claiming a measure of his alumni loy- alty through graduate work be did leading to his A.M. in 1926. He was awarded a Columbia Alumni Medal by the Alumni Federation at its Feb- ruary meeting, one of 10 awards made this year, with the following citation: "Typical of those commendable alumni who find it practical and de- sirable to help two institutions, divid- ing allegiance between the one which gave undergraduate instruction, and which he is now serving as a Trus- tee, and Columbia which has sup- plied the professional and graduate school training: highly effective in increasing the size and influence of the Alumni Association of Graduate Schools in his posts as vice-president, president, and as one of its directors on the Federation board." < Alumni at the University on Washington's Birthday. Ed also enjoyed a brief tour of the campus and urges all Alumni who have not yet visited restored University Hall do so. Melvin E. Sawin and Mrs. Sawin of New York and Wakefield, R. L, have announced the engagement of their daughter. Miss Edith Moulton Sawin, to Francis Kcppel, Assistant Dean of Harvard University of which he is a graduate. Miss Sawin is a member of the Junior League. 1915 William G. Thurber and Mrs. Thurber of Providence have announced the engage- ment of their daughter. Miss Alice Ruth Thurber, to George H. Roland of North Walpole, N. H. Paul J. Kingsley has been appointed head of the New York advertising staff of the Ladies' Home Journal. Harvey B. McCrone, manufacturers' rep- resentative in Los Angeles, is now living at 431 Beloit Ave., that city. 1916 Harold R. Hall writes in to say that he is head of his own public relations firm in Hollywood, his offices being located on the famous Hollywood Blvd. He is living at 10525 Valley Spring Lane, North Holly- wood. Dr. David Steel is practicing in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and lives at 2721 Wads- worth Road. Lieutenant Governor Louis W. Cappelli has been busy recently attending dinners in his honor where he is referred to as "the next Governor of R. I." Speaking before a group of North Providence draftees, he urged them to "return by one year's train- ing, the benefit they have received from the Country." Col. Francis W. Rollins is Commanding Officer of the 103rd Field Artillery, bound this month for Fort Blanding, Fla. The Pronidence Sunday Journal recently told how he had risen "From buck private to commander of a regiment, without being a corporal or shavetail." George F. Johnston of Wichita, Kan., is serving Brown this year as State agent for the Alumni Fund. 1917 Howard D. Corkum has reported that he was moving from Waciregan, Conn., to School St., Sanford, Maine. Clarence D. Herrcshofl^, an engineer in the Bureau of Ships, Navy Department, is at present living at 3726 Connecticut Ave., Washington, D. C. 1918 Two '18 men have recently joined the ranks of agents for the Alumni Fund. They are Ernest C. Hathaway, who is State agent at Vermont: and John B. Riddock, who is district agent in New Bedford. John rep- resented the New Bedford Brown Club at the recent Advisory Council meetings. He is President of the club. 1919 Professor Ben W. Brown, director of dramatics at the University lor the past 15 years, directed the recent Sock and Buskin production of "My Heart's in the High- lands," by William Saroyan, one of the features of the Society's 40th Anniversary. Much of the outstanding credit for the splendid work this organization has been doing during these years must he attributed to Ben, and Prof, Thomas Crosby, Jr. Bill Downey, counsel for the Boston Ele- vated Railway, opposes the bill to elect the Boston "El" trustees by popular vote. At a hearing before the Committee on State Ad- ministration he and Francis Kelly, formerly Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, clashed over provisions of the bill. Samuel Temkin and his brother, Jacob S. Temkin '26, former Assistant Attorney General of Rhode Island, are occupying their new law offices at 540 Hospital Trust Bldg., Providence, under the firm name of Temkin 6? Temkin. Richard E. E. Campbell, Superintendent of Schools in Coventry, R. I., spoke re- cently at the annual dinner of the River- point Old Time Carmen's Association. Dr. Charles H. Peckham is chief obste- trician at The Mary Imogene Bassett Hos- pital, Cooperstown, N. Y. Herbert H. Pepler reports his new ad- dress: 49 Eton Road, Larchmont, N. Y. Manuel G. Robinson, an engineer for the General Electric Company, is associated with the Super-Charger Engineering Dept. of the Company at West Lynn, Mass. His new home address is: 4 Crosman Ave., Swampscott. William Albrecht is a structural engineer in the Bureau of Yards and Docks, Navy Department, Washington, D. C. Bill pre- fers his mail addressed to the Elks Club, Washington. 1920 James Sinclair, Manager of the Outlet Company, Providence, has been appointed Colonel on the Governor of Rhode Island's stafl^. He was presented a U. S. Navy dress sabre by the Outlet Buyers' and Managers' Club at a dinner given in his honor. Walter Hoving, President of the Asso- ciated Alumni and President of Lord & Taylor, addressed an informal meeting of Seniors at the University January 13. His topic, "What Business Demands of a Re- cruit" was enthusiastically received hy a large audience. Hoving's "Dollar a Day for One Year" scholarship is proving of great interest to the Seniors. He has begun his third consecutive term as president of the Fifth Avenue Association, New York. His re-election took place at the 34th annual meeting of the association last month. Irving S. Crompton is a cost engineer for the Penn. Electric Co., and is living at 140 Montour St., Johnstown, Pa. 202 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Walter F. Wolfe has been re-elected as manager of the Philadelphia plant of Franklin Process Co., the main office of which is in Providence. He is also a direc- tor of the company. Rev. Carl J. Grahb's son, Robert F. Grabb "41, has been elected to membership in Rhode Island Alpha, Phi Beta Kappa. The Grabbs live in Painted Post, N. Y. 1921 Rev. Herbert E. MacCombie, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Lynn, Mass., and chaplain of the 103rd Field Artillery, 43rd Division, has been promoted from Captain to Major. Major MacCombie will be at Camp Blanding, Fla., for a year's active service. Arthur S. Caputi, district manager of General Motors Truck and Coach Division, St. Louis, is living at the Hotel Orlando, Decatur, 111. Elmer P. Wright, who lives now at 7 Evans Rd., Marblehead, Mass., is an In- dustrial Engineer with the Narunkeag Steam Cotton Co.. Salem. Harold B. Yeaton reported his new ad- dress to be: 230 West Second St., Daven- port, Iowa. Hal is State agent for the Alumni Fund. The New York City 7s(eu'S Record for Feb. 5 had an article on H. M. Bailey, Jr., and his picture. He resigned from a sales executive position with the North Amer- ican Rayon Company to be Sales Manager of the Atwood Machine Company, Ston- ington, Conn. After being associated with the A. D. Julliard y Co. and the Hunter Mfg. 6? Commission Co., he joined the Rayon Institution of America in 1928, serving as head of the mills and manufactur- ing department. While with North Amer- ican Rayon, Bill has worked in New Eng- land, North Carolina and New York. Frederick G. Brown, president of the Apponaug Co., is a director of Phenix Trust Co., Phenix, R. I., of which Daniel A. Clarke "01 is the head. Referring to the deaths of two 1921 men reported in the last issue of the Monthly, a classmate wrote of the loss suffered in the passing of David D. Gil- christ, Jr.. and Joseph B. Makanna. The Liber, he recalled, said Gilchrist "wants to be a pioneer in some foreign country." And he fulfilled that wish by serving in the ex- port division of the Texas Company in Belgium and England, before becoming su- perintendent of operations in London and a director of the company. "Ironical that, with all that war around him, he should die Bacterial Bombing? ► Prof. Charles A. Stuart "19 of the Bacteriology Department of the University foresees the possibility of bacterial bombs, virus-laden explo- sives, and death-giving germs as weapons of war. According to Brown's bacteriologist both English and German scientists have perfected death dealing bacteria to wipe out whole areas of civilians and soldiers, and both nations have wholesale sup- plies of deadly bacterial cultures on hand. Dr. Stuart predicted that Ger- many may use bacteria, and use it only as a last resort, and that if it did, England would retaliate in a similar manner. ^ NEW YORK'S CHOICE: "William A. Brce, Jr. '35 has been appointed Exec- utive Secretary of the Brown Club of New York. He succeeds Fred A. Forbes '38, resigned to enter business. of an accidental gunshot wound on a hunt- ing party." "Makanna," our correspondent went on, "was an authority on linens and laces, and my wife furnished our home from his Boston shop; but I'll always remember him in connection with music, his hobby. He was a member of the Mandolin Club in college and a campus favorite as a pianist."' 1922 Walter Hibbard, North Main St., Man- chester, Conn., has filed an application in Washington for the position of postmaster of that city. Walter had been teaching at Technical and Central High Schools in Providence, and is at present employed by a factory that is engaged in the manufac- ture of war supplies. Principal of the Norwich Free Academy, Norwich, Conn., George E. Shattuck is now living at 120 Broad St., in that city. Kenneth H. N. Newton reports his new address to be 4803 Langdrum Lane, Chevy Chase, Md. Ken is a landscape architect, temporarily Town Planner of the U. S. Housing Authority. Lloyd H. Fisher is associated with the Southern California Telephone Co. His home address is 27851 North Gainsborough Drive, San Marino, Cal. Harold E. Deady is connected with the E. I. duPont deNemours Co., as a steam plant designer. He receives his mail at 900 West 24th St., Wilmington, Del. Harold F. Tracy is a lawyer in the firm of Hannon 6? Tracy, 31 Milk St., Boston. He lives at Newton Center, Mass. The post office department at East Lynn, Mass., reports that Arthur Phelan is living at 119 Lewis St., that city. Chapin S. Newhard, St. Louis, and Mil- ton H. Glover, Hartford, represent the Brown Alumni Fund in their respective metropolitan districts. 1923 On the eve of Lieutenant Colonel Wil- liam B. McCormick's departure for a year in the South with his Rhode Island Field Artillery unit, a score of his classmates turned out at the Brown Suite in Prov- idence to wish him their best. The group included: Johnny Lownes, Fred Beede, Herb Van Hoesen, Art Braitsch, Einar Soderback, Boh Corrigan, Carl Green, Ron- ald Smith, Ted Jeffers, Don Thorndike, Fran Sprague, Jack O'Neil, Chet Worth- ington, Nat Chase, Wally Lisbon, and Ed Bennett. Abbie Lundin drove 130 miles to be on hand. The Providence Journal printed a highly complimentary article about McCormick as one of the outstanding men under whom Rhode Islanders will serve. He was quoted as ascribing to "plain luck" the fact that he escaped the dangers of last war without a scratch, in spite of the fact that he served in all major engagements of the 26th Divi- sion. Bill says that his children (Martha, 13, and W. Merrill, 12) have only a pass- ing interest in the Military. "They take it as a necessary evil with me." Dwight K. Bartlett, Jr., has severed his business connection with the West Dudley Paper Co., division of the R. I. Cardboard Co., to become manager of the Snell Mfg. Co. of Fiskedale, Mass., "manufacturers since 1790 of all types of auger bits, ship augers, car augers, and similar products". Dwight reports especially good business and also that he is still living at 464 Woodstock Rd., Southbridge, Mass. Robert G. Bleakney, 87 Gillette Avenue, and Donald C. Ruhel, 606 West View St., Germantown, Pa., are district agents for the Brown Alumni Fund, while S. Key Dickinson, 808 Orchard St., Charleston, West Virginia, serves as State agent for the same Alumni organization. "Pete" Simmons has just completed ar- rangements to represent Williamson-Hitch- cock y Co., of Denver and Boston, who deal in wool, cattle and sheep. While Pete has known the ranching end of the business for some years, the new connection repre- sents a branching out for him and hopes that it will be the means of some trips to New England. Writing from his North Tejon St. home in Colorado Springs, Colo., Simmons added: "My son Billy recently decided to con- tinue in school so that he could qualify for Brown. For a time he thought that perhaps the third grade would be all that he would need. So I'm encouraged." Rev. Albert N. Sherberg is a member of the Committee on Peace and War Prob- lems of the Rhode Island Interchurch Com- mission for Social Action, which held a special "town meeting" March 9. Chesley Worthington has the sympathy of the class following the recent death of his mother, Mrs. William Worthington of Providence. Some of the class may remem- ber her as a patroness at our Junior Prom, Senior Ball, and Class Night dance. 1924 He calls it the Heywood Broun Memo- rial Fund, and Quentin Reynolds is putting into it all the money he collects during his current tour. The fund will be used for payments to the American dependents of flyers of the Eagle Squadron of the R.A.F. who are killed in action. John F. Lyons is manager for the S. S. Kre.sge Co., 3116 14th St., N.W., Wash- ington, D. C. His home address is I'll 2 Colonial Terrace, Arlington, Va. Dr. Robert Maset, Jr., has established a practice in Springfield, 111., at 608 E. Cap- itol Ave. Mahlon M. Meier, Counsel for the N. Y. Loan Agency of the R.F.C., is at present living at 420 West 24th St., N. Y. C. Windham Hayward of Lakemont Gar- dens, Winter Park, Fla.. is State agent for the Brown Alumni Fund. Earl C. Drake, 114 Harrington Road, Syracuse, N. Y., and John J. Monk of 83 3 North Orleans St., Chicago, are the class representatives as district agents for the Fund. C. F. Rittenhouse 6? Company, Boston certified public accountants, have moved their office from 1 Federal St. to larger 203 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY quarters in the Massachusetts Bonding 6? Insurance Company Building at 10 Post Office Square. PhMip Saunders, Jr., is one of the three partners of this 21 -year-old firm. 1925 President Gordon K. Chalmers of Ken- yon College has appointed Don McNeill, national tennis champion and graduate of Kenyon, as assistant to Dean Anthony Eastman, who is in charge of admissions. John B. Kilton is the new president of Rhode Island Philatelic Society, having been elected at the 57th annual meeting in Providence last month. W. Easton Louttit, Jr., has been elected to the Board of Trustees of Providence Public Library. Prof. Robert Kenny will be on leave from the English Department of the University as he moves South this month with the 103rd Field Artillery to Fort Blanding, Fla. His rank is Captain. Dr. Harry S. N. Greene of Princeton, N. J., known for his extensive research con- nected with the Inheritance of Immunity was elected a member of Sigma Xi honorary society at the February meeting of the Brown chapter. George A. Pournaras asks that his mail be sent to his new address; Hotel Mar- tinique, Broad and 32nd Sts., N. Y. C. Joseph D. Fisler is a teacher at the Tot- tenville High School, Statcn Island, N. Y., living at 51 Chelsea St. Charles C. Meyers has moved to 317 Hamilton Rd., Merion. Penn. Benjamin Winicour is the superintendent of Liquor Inspection under the Liquor Con- trol Administration of the State of Rhode Island. Ben is living at 168 Prospect St. Ed Ailing is at present working for the G. Westhover Co. of Hartford, Conn., and is living at 25 Highgate Rd., Cranston. Harold S. Carr, sales manager for the Grinnell Co. Inc., is now living in East Greenbush, N. Y. 1926 Prof. Israel J. Kapstein's book, "Some- thing of a Hero" will be on sale May 17th. It is his first contribution in the field of full length novel writing, although he has written several short stories and one novella "The Song the Summer Evening Sings. " Professor Kapstein took four years to write his newest book, primarily a dramatic novel. An advance notice by the publisher de- scribes the plot as "a story of patriotism — not the patriotism of the brass band variety but the kind of patriotism that strives for a deep and compassionate understanding of the great driving force of American lives." The book tells of love and murder, of war and strikes; valuing people above costs, it offers a view of a nation that has cut loose from its quiet colonial ways." Harold G. Towne, 58 South St., West- boro, Mass., is "marketing" for the Denison Manufacturing Co. of Framingham, Mass. Lt. Horace S. Mazet is Flight Instructor for the U. S. Marine Corps Reserve and is at the Naval Reserve Aviation Base, Mu- nicipal Airport, Long Beach, Cal. Ernest L. Intlehouse is the Manager of the American National Insurance Co. of Los Angeles. He is living at 1518 Arden- dale Ave., San Gabriel, Cal. Richard K. Connell, owner and manager of Connell Association, Stamford, Conn., lives at 157 Lawn Avenue that city. Roy E. Wheeler is manager for the Hart- ford Fire Insurance Co., Detroit, Mich. He's Barry's Uncle Sam ► Uncle Sam's niece. Liberty, is the heroine of Philip Barry's newest play, an allegory about the problems of democracy. Uncle Sam Bunting IS characterized as a muddle-headed but well-meaning little man who would like to live simply in a little ivy-covcred cottage, as in the good old days, but he has been led into uncomfortably high society by his wife, Gloria. He is fond of Liberty, IS distressed of her nightmares about The Three (Fascists) which have brought her illness, is elated when someone (a naval aviator, ex-appeas- er) is found who will "dance with her. dream of her, die for her." Uncle Sam? Oh, that's the reason wc started to tell you all this. He's played by William Lynn 'ID. i Roy is living at 1072 Wimbleton Dr., Bir- mingham, Mich. Dr. Edward H. Taylor has his residence and office on Gardners Neck Road, Swan- sea, Mass. Ross Andrew, with the Woonsocket Ray- on Co., lives on Harris Ave., Woonsocket. For the fifth consecutive year Emery B. Danzell was referec-in-chief of the New England Interscholastic basketball tourna- ment at Manchester, N. H., this month. 1927 William J. Miller, writing from the Har- rington Hall Hotel, Ocala, Florida, reports that his new address is 2020 Traymore Rd., Jacksonville. W. George Edson, an associate engineer for the Feedwaters Inc. of New York, pre- fers his mail sent to Boxford, Mass. Theodore E. Raynor, whose address is 151 North Pearl St., Buffalo, is a reporter for the Courier-Express. Roy F. Nelson has written us that he is with the Texas Company in New York and would like to receive his mail at Scarsdale Manor, Scarsdale, N. Y. Herbert C. Brownell tells us that he is a Rosarian at the Brownell "Rose Gardens," Little Compton, R. I., where a number of stunning new roses have been created. J. H. Zabriskie notified us that he has moved to 86-06 34th Avenue, Jackson Heights, N. Y. Five of our classmates, not in Providence, are working for the success of the Alumni Fund. They are; Gardner C. Hudson, Ken- tucky State Agent, Louisville; Walter V. Brown, District Agent. New Haven; Rus- sell C. Wonderlic, District Agent, Buffalo, N. Y.; Harry G. Remington, Associate Agent, New York City; John V. Munroe, Associate Agent, Boston. Hudson was in Providence for the Ad- visory Council meeting and Dr. Harry Lee Smith told him his accent was "uncontam- inated by Southern influences." Gardner was a "guinea pig" for the linguistics vir- tuoso. The Baptist Church of Lockport, N. Y., where the Rev. Franklin D. Elmer, Jr., has been pastor since 1936, will celebrate its 125th anniversary day on Easter Sunday, April 13. A handsome anniversary book- let, which has a good photograph of our classmate as its frontispiece, also features a congratulatory letter from President Roose- velt, who said, in part: "I hope that the forthcoming celebration will arouse in all who participate a renewed sense of the blessings of religious freedom and a deter- mination to be worthy of the tradition of Roger Williams, which, in a very special way. is the heritage of the Baptist Church." Mr. Elmer, who took his Divinity studies at the University of Chicago, was formerly student minister with the Hyde Park Bap- tist Church, Chicago; member of the edi- torial staff of The Baptist, and pastor of the First Baptist Church in DeKalb, 111. He is the son of Dr. Franklin D. Elmer '95, West Hartford clergyman. Reverend W. Wyeth Willard, formerly of Newark, N. J., and Cotuit. Cape Cod, Mass., is the new pastor of the Federated Church at Kingston, Mass., where he lives at 211 Main St. Mr. Willard is busy with plans, too, for Camp Good News and Camp Good Cheer, of which he is founder and director. These camps, at Forestdale on Cape Cod. had 132 boys and 106 girls at- tending last summer. Daniel Lapolla, who was director of the 1940 Federal census in Providence, is the new Second Deputy Secretary of State of Rhode Island. He is a member of the Rhode Island bar. Before Dan entered law school he spent two years as assistant m English at Brown. 1928 New Minister of the Congregation of St. John's Cathedral, Providence, is Rev. Duncan Eraser, who began his duties Feb. 23. Eraser, until recently assistant rector of the Church of the Epiphany, Washing- ton, returns to Providence by appointment of Rt. Rev. James DeWoIf Perry, D.D.. "12, honorary. Bishop of Rhode Island, to succeed the late Rev. Arthur H. Beatty. He was an assistant at the Cathedral after his graduation from General Theological Sem- inary in 1930. Irving (Bump) Hadley has been working out in Miami, Fla., as a member of the pitching staff of the New York Giants. This is Bump's first venture into the National League. The ^iew Tori; Hera]d Tribune reporter with the Giants said that the new- comer had more pounds to take off than any pitcher in training camp. Allyn J. Crooker, associated with the Fi- delity y Deposit Co. of Philadelphia, lives at 401 Walnut St. Dixwell Goff, like many other Alumni, is saving the Alumni Office much worry and expense by reporting his address change on a penny postal card. It's "from 36 Berwick Place, Rumford, R. I., to 36 Burlington St., Providence." Vernon C. Stoneman is Principal At- torney, Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor, Washington, D. C. He is living at 2943 McKinley Street, N.W. Robert L. Wadsworth has become as- sistant to the merchandise manager of Lane Gold-Seekers Get Thin ► Food is more important than gold. Take it from one who tried the rela- tive values under field conditions in Central Honduras. Erwin Aymar '25 is back from a gold hunting expedition in uninhab- ited parts of Central America. On his arrival he was still thin from a steady diet of parched corn and not too much of that, but he soon re- gained his normal weight upon re- suming a normal diet. He found gold, but also discovered that food IS the more essential. i 204 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Bryant Inc., New York City. He is receiv- ing his mail at 7301 4Ist Ave., Jackson Heights, L. I. Dr. Frederick Behrendt, who has been practising in New York, has been called to active service with the U. S. Navy. He be- gan his duties as dental surgeon at Marine Barracks, Quantico, Va., on Feb. 3, 1941. 1929 Wallace W. Elton is just settling down in New York City as art director in the office of J. Walter Thompson Co., advertis- ing agency. Wally's previous service was with N. W. Ayer 6? Son, Inc., in Philadel- phia, where his art work put him high up in advertising circles throughout the East and South. John H. Nimmo, 1^23 East Jefferson Ave., Birmingham, Mich., Apt. 307, is salesman with the Graham Paper Co., of East Jefferson. Ralph Goddard Winterbottom is with the 1 141st Co., C.C.C, at Bellows Falls, Vt. John Van Nest, who is doing sales work for the American Brass Co., is living at 40 Beverly Road, Wellesley. Allen L. Simmonds writes in to tell us that he has moved to 713 Seward St., Evanston, 111. J. Blake Cauvet is manager of the Public Loan Corporation of Cleveland. He is liv- ing at 17410 Neff Road, that city. John S. deRussy is in the sales depart- ment with N.B.C., in Rockefeller Plaia, N. Y., and is living at 48 E. 50th St. F. Winthrop Snow, Jr., is associated with Anaconda Wire ii Cable Co., Washington, D. C. 1930 BY HAROLD P. CARVER 75 Federal St., Bonon Karl Stein writes, in brief summary of the past 10 years, that he is still single and has no complaints to make. During 1927 he was exploring portions of the North- western Territory ot Canada unknown un- til his expedition surveyed it. He collected wild-life specimens for the Natural History Museum of New York and the National Museum of Ottawa. Since returning he has been associated with H. Elkan ii Company in the hide business. He finishes by saying "All considered, my first 10 years out have been O. K. and if the next 10 years go as well in the midst of this war-torn, crazy world, everything will be pretty good as far as I am concerned." Norman Arnold reports that he is still doing business in Charlotte, N. C, as chem- ist for the E. I. duPont Company although he still lives in Atlanta, Ga. Lin Roller writes that he is selling for the National Gypsum Company and is living in Summit, N. J. Ted Wallace is the Assistant Director of Research in the Smith, Kline H French Laboratories in Philadelphia, Pa., and is living in "Windover," Gwynedd Valley, Pa. Clifford Weiss of 28 Rhode Island Ave., Newport, is Manager of the London Pipe Shop in the same city. Tubby Beckford arises and makes a noise like a whale about his new daughter, Eliz- abeth, better known as Betsy, whose ar- rival was reported in the last issue. Paul Ochs from the Pacific Coast reports that Mr. Stanford Ochs arrived in town in December. The only fear I have is that Paul may have already selected his young son's University to agree with the first name. Kim Picked Them Up in the Cafes > ► We've found Kim Schee again. He pops up, after having been AWOL at recent alumni rollcalls, as the author of that engaging new book "Cantina", delightedly sponsored by Coward-McCann. The publisher, incidentally, gives us a biographical memo which explains why the Alumni Office has had such trouble keeping tabs on this member of the Class of 1928: "Kim (Oran F., Jr.) Schee was born in Pasadena and educated at Arizona and Brown Universities. After college he spent several years traveling in Europe ad Asia Minor and, while in Paris, wrote for the United Press. He then went to Hollywood as a writer where he worked for Paramount and RKO. During the past five years he has lived in Mexico. He owns a silversmith's shop in Taxco, and the tales in "Cantina" are the ones he has picked up in the cafes as he talked with his friends, the native Mexicans." The approach in the sketches is light, humorous, "New Yorkerish." Here one reads "about poor Angelina, who found out men too young and decided the crea- tures were not worth looking at any more; about Florecita, the fat gringa painter, who foolishly thought that her Mexican admirer was interested in her flower paint- ings: about the immaculate conception of Petra Ruiz: about the powerful senorita from Alaska who refused men favors only if their approach was rough: about the beautiful and silly American tourist who learned how much easier it is to be naughty with a Mexican in Mexico than back home in the States." There are 15 such episodes, with illu-^trations by Carl Critz. The hook was due out March 20. i i A card forwarded by Dave Merrill re- ports that he is in Red Bank, N. J., and still working with D. A. Shulte, Inc. Dave al- ways did have a predilection for cigars. The war moves show up in our records with a card from Dick Livingstone, now Second Lieutenant in the regular Army Air Corps stationed at MacDill Field, Tampa, Fla. Ed Howard, whose wedding we record elsewhere, is circulation manager of J^ews- week- Dr. John S. Dziob of Providence ad- dressed the Ralph Street Parent-Teacher Association on the subject of cancer at its January meeting. 1931 Tenth Reunion Class Joe O'Neil IS taking the lead (with plenty of committee help) in making plans for a "history-making" reunion this June. Oscar Schneider is teaching at the Robert Treat Junior High School of Newark. Finkie Gurll has left New York and his post on the Brown Club squash team to trek the "north country" on skis. He was associated with the Hope Webbing Com- pany ot Pawtucket for a year after coach- ing and teaching at the Choate School. John Wright is advertising manager for Hanlon ii Goodman Company, Belleville, N. J. He is living in Verona at 54 Moun- tain Rd. Phil Kraus is a chemical engineer with du Pont's Newark division. His new ad- dress is 28 East Lincoln Ave., Roselle Park, N.J. Rev. Kenneth L. Palmer is minister at the Federated Church in Leicester, Mass. Melvin Lundstedt has been Supervisor of Recreation for the City of Lynn since 1933, with a particularly fine playground pro- gram. Wes Noble's new address is 1675 LeRoy Ave., Berkeley, Cal. He is now assistant chemist in the United States Department of Agriculture's Western Regional Re- search Laboratory at Albany, Cal. Joe Baruch is president of Concord Books in the Paramount Building, New York. His home is in Hartsdale. Elliott Schultz is assistant sales manager for the Walter Kidde Company in Bloom- field, N. J. Ed O'Malley deals in real estate with the Conningham Park Building Corporation of Jamaica, N. Y. He lives in Brightwaters, L. I., on Woodland Drive. David Landow is an insurance agent with Bretzfelder 6? Cahn of New Haven. Kenneth Ulson has moved from Prov- idence to 1760 Randolph Rd., Schenectady, N. Y. Another new address is that of Ed Osberg— 144-3 5 Northern Blvd., Flushing, L. I. Rev. Robert W. Little took a prominent part in arranging the "town meeting" dis- cussion of the war problems faced by the churches, held in Providence March 9. He is a member of a special subcommittee on such matters under the Rhode Island Inter- church Commi.ssion for Social Action. 1932 Newell Morton, State Representative in the Massachusetts legislature from the Reading district, is on leave of absence from Employers' Liability Insurance so that he may devote full time to his duties at the State House. Richard O'Brien is in the real estate business in Great Barrington, Mass., with Wheeler y Taylor, Inc. Rip Hurley is one of the new officers of the Delta Upsilon Club of Rhode Island. Stanley C. Paige, who has been with Socony Vacuum Oil Co. since he left Col- lege Hill, is now associated with C. D. Paige tf Co., insurance and bonding. Union Trust Bldg., Providence. W. O. J. (Jack) Roberts, erstwhile in- structor in Geology at the University and lately manager of Providence's Duro Com- pany, is again pursuing his first love, me- teorology. Jack has enlisted in the Army and is now at the Air Corps Weather Ob- servers School at Chanute Field, III. He reports an enchanting round of marching, drilling, inoculations, and hopes to be away from this very soon and instructing aviators in the changeability of the American cli- mate. 1933 Davis P. Low is a rating examiner with the Boston District office of the United States Civil Service Commission. He deals especially with applications filed for trade positions at the Boston Navy Yard and Springfield Armory. 20S BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Brown Alumni Monthly Puhlished at Broivn University by the Associated Alumyii CHESLEY WORTHINGTON '23 il/dnaging Editor ARTHUR BRAITSCH '23 Business Miinager HENRY S. CHAFEE '09 ALFRED H. GURNEY '07 JAMES W. GURLL '38 GERTRUDE ALLEN McCONNELL Pembrolte CoTrespondent 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. XLI MARCH, 1941 No. 7 John Runyon is district sales supervisor of the Continental Baking Company at Des Moines, la. Dr. John R. Ewan, called to active duty in the U. S. Army Medical Corps, has been stationed at the Hospital at the Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. Leo Tobak is practicing law in Newport, with offices at 118 Thames St. Ed Rogers has moved to 43 Canterbury Rd., White Plains, N. Y. He is associated with the Bayer Company, New York drug manufacturers. Henry F. Newkirk is Sanitary Engineer for the West Virginia Health Department, with headquarters at Lewisburg. Henry F. Ill is almost four months old. Mort Taylor is an associate class agent for the Brown Alumni Fund in the Greater New York area. Miss Martha Marie Sleeper, whom Harry Deutschbein married last month, is the well known actress, but she will give up the stage. She will, however, continue to dc- ,sign costume jewelry. 1934 Ken Hampson is a personnel technician for the Rhode Island Department of Civil Service, the status of which may be altered as the result of party politics. Ken is living at 136 Trenton St., Pawtucket. Donald Fletcher is a physician at the University Hospital in Ann Arbor, Mich., living at 1127 East Ann St. John Wiren is working for the Shell Oil Company and reports his new address as 41-08 Parsons Blvd., Flushing, L. I. Paul Chaney has moved into Manhattan, to the London Terrace, Apt. 18D, 465 West 23rd St., New York. The J. J. Newberry Company has trans- ferred Christopher Crowe to Malone, N. Y. J. "Ted" Bouton is an auditor for the United States Department of Agriculture in the Eastern Regional Research Laboratory at Chestnut Hill Station, Philadelphia. Robert B. Knapp is used car manager for the Davock Chevrolet Company of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He looks forward to the Christmas visit of Coach Barry's swimmers each year. Allia Rubolino has moved to 189 North Warren Ave., Brockton. Mass., but is work- ing for the Bethlehem Steel and Shipbuild- ing Company at Quincy. David R. Allen is with the Factory In- surance Association at 89 Broad St., Bos- ton, having been transferred from Hart- ford, where he was an effective President of the Brown Club. 1935 BY ROSS A. deMATTEO, II One of the most important news items to be reported this month is the announcement that Bill Bree has been appointed Executive Secretary of the New York Brown Club. Bill was quite active in e.xtra-curricular ac- tivities while in college and has done jour- nalistic work in various cities since gradua- tion. We all remember him at the fifth re- union last year — except for a few additional pounds around the middle section, he looked pretty much the same as he did while in college. On behalf of the class. Bill — good luck! Your scribe had the unique pleasure of participating in the 40th anniversary cele- bration of Sock and Buskin by playing the part of Sam Warren (the guy who does right by Nell) in James Heme's "Shore Acres." It was nice to be back on the Hill for a whole week and see some of the fa- miliar faces around the campus. Til Mason and Bill Bijur, both Sock and Buskin alumni, came back for the production. Dick Batchelder, together with D. Stuart Camp- bell '38, Earl Pearcc '17, and yours truly — "hammed, mugged and sang their way through a group of Gay Nineties numbers between the third and fourth acts," — quote Broii'71 Dailv Herald. It was lots of fun although we missed the "pennies from heaven" which we understand kept last year's quartet financed on cigarettes dur- ing the week. Knight Dexter Robinson is living in a modernistic apartment which he designed and built by himself at 44 Alumni Ave., Providence. Knight commutes daily to Quonset Point, where he is engaged in drafting construction work on the Naval Air Base. J. L. Fenny is with the Cuno Engineering Corporation of Meriden, Conn. He is liv- ing at 80 South Vine St. in the same town. Nathan H. Ragin is Treasurer of the Blue Ribbon Laundry and is living at 142 Squire St., New London, Conn. James P. Reddington's present address is 1142 Ave. C, Flint, Mich. Frank T. Lange is sales engineer with the Baldwin-Duckworth Co. — his home ad- dress IS 13608 Rutland, Detroit, Michigan. Boys — we have a podiatrist in the class — none other than Bill Peterson. He does business at 2 Clark St., Framingham, Mass., and lives at 28 Taunton Ave., Rockland, Mass. — sounds like a good daily hike! John Bookman, M.D., is now interning at the Lincoln Hospital, New York City. From Jan. 1, 1942, to Jan. 1, 1943, he will be resident interne at Mt. Sinai Hospital, also in New York City. His home address IS 983 Park Ave., N. Y. From Fort Wayne, Indiana, we have re- Geologist to Trinidad ► Dr. Arthur B. Cle.wes "27 is at Port of Spain, Trinidad. B.W.I., as chief geologist working on naval air base U. S. will set up there. Left his job as geologist with Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission at short notice (but he was practically finished there) to fly down to Port of Spain from New York early in February. His new company is Caribbean Architects-Engineers. James Wilmot '08 is one of the engineers on the project. ^ ceived word that Jack Cuthbcrt has been promoted to district manager of the Mine Safety Appliance Co. and is living with his bride of a few months at 53 5 West Berry St. Bill Adams, who is on the engineering staff of the Bath Iron Works, has moved with his family to 60 Ivie Road, Cape Eliz- abeth, Me. Thomas Carberry has left for Panama, where he will continue his career in the sporting goods field. Tom was recently with the Wilson Sporting Goods Co. in New York, but decided to plunge into the for- eign end of the business. Al Cotterill was best man and John McGee was among those present at Fred Bauman's wedding in Newark last Novem- ber, along with Frank Costello '36 and Frank Curtiss '36. The Baumans took an extended bridal trip through the South be- fore settling in East Orange, N. J. Received a note from Joe Jatfee stating that he has been commissioned a second lieutenant, QM Reserves, and has been ordered to active duty at New Orleans Quartermasters Depot. Incidentally, Joe never sent the Alumni Monthly word of his wedding until now — he was married on Feb. 22, 1940, to Miss Virginia C. Bayer, Smith '38. She will join him at New Orleans within a few weeks. 1936 Fifth Reunion Class BY JAMES L. WHITCOMB Mitchel Field, L. I. Frank Watson, long silent, came through with the interesting news that he is still single, unenamoured and at the Girard Trust Co. in Philadelphia. He reports a highly successful summer racing season with the Comet in Little Egg Harbour, N. J. Fred Stevens is back in Providence after a prolonged business sojourn in New York. Fred makes, sells and promotes pencils and glasses for Olneyville's Welsh Manufactur- ing Co. Harry Payne is on active duty with the 1 Ith Coast Artillery at Fort H. G. Wright, New York. He is a First Lieutenant. Stewart Anderson is now at 8 Wiswell Circle, Wellesley, Mass., and Frank Zeo- browski has left Chicago and is now with the Minneapolis General Hospital, Minne- apolis, Minn. Al Tabor lives at 120 East 72nd St., New York, and is fast getting acquainted with this new job at Phi Beta Kappa head- quarters. John Morrison, Jr., has been in the Sales Promotion Dept. of the J^ew Yor\ Times, but effective Feb. 5 becomes Private Mor- rison, Troop E, 101st Cavalry, Ft. Devens, Mass. Andrew Jack is still personnel supervisor of the Hamilton Standard Propeller Co., but he has left Hartford for Westerly, R. I. Miner E. Paddock is a salesman with Remington-Rand and lives in Providence at 152 Irving Ave. Stanton M. Latham and his wife have the sympathy of the class and other friends in the death of their daughter, Jean, in Jan- uary, hardly a month after her birth. Stan, who has been a salesman for the Atlantic Refining Company in Providence since last April, IS living at 34 Fort Ave., Pawtuxet Neck, R. I. Rocco Bruno of Providence, who expects to receive the Doctor of Medicine degree from the School of Medicine of Western Reserve University, Cleveland, at Com- mencement June 11, has accepted an in- 206 terneship for next year in P.iwtuckct Memo- rial Hospital. Ray Parlin, whose marriage is reported in another column, is an engineer with Pratt y Whitney Aircraft Corporation, Hartford, Conn. Nearly 300 relatives and friends gave Alden Dooley, recently admitted to the Rhode Island bar, a testimonial dinner at the Biltmore Hotel, Providence, Feb. 11. Former Supreme Court Justice John S. Murdock '96 was toastmaster and Judge Ira Lloyd Letts "13 was a speaker. Alden heard complimentary things said about him, all of which he took in modest stride. Two members of the class are profes- ,sionaI neighbors in Baltimore: Dr. Minot P. Fryer is at Johns Hopkins Hospital, while Dr. Clarence D. Hawkes is serving his in- terneship at the Union Memorial Hospital. Winton L. Slade is a compounder in the Mechanical Goods Department of the Goodyear Tire 6? Rubber Company, Akron, where he is living at the Y. Reunion plans are fast rounding into shape. Joe Olney called a meeting of the class for Jan. 17 and though this particular scribe was busy fighting the battle of Mitchel Field, he heard that all of us will shortly be deluged with promotion litera- ture. Even if sergeants are still frying Sec- ond Lieutenants for breakfast next June, I expect to be at this class confab. I hope you'll be there, too. 1937 Harold S. Barrett, student house officer at the Massachusetts General Hospital, sent us a fine letter the other day with a few compliments for the Monthly and a lot of news about the class, especially its med- ical members: Ray Olson, he tells us, is in the third- year class at Harvard Medical School and is finishing a student residency in obstetrics at the Florence Critendcn Home. Milt Berg will next year go to the Beth Israel Hospital as house officer, and Bob Hallborg will be at the Flower Hospital in New York. Bar- rett conies to the Chapin Hospital in Prov- idence to serve between July and December before going to the Rhode Island Hospital for a two-year appointment. Here's his resume of his work last summer: "I had a fine time down in Tennessee on a Rockfeller Fellowship in Public Health, spending a final week in thrilling work in the section of the country which had the 'flash floods' that rendered nearly 300 peo- ple temporarily homeless. I worked with the county health department and the Red Cross in caring for the sick and giving ty- phoid 'shots', etc. This was to have been my vacation period, so that I had to return directly to the hospital here without a hol- iday." Larry Steiner is associated with the Re- search Institute of America, Inc. Bill Baker is credit manager for G. M. A. C. in Burlington, Vt. Francis Tyler is in the United States En- gineer's office in West Springfield, Mass. Norm Neubert, advertising executive, has placed in the hands of the Alumni Office staff a proposal for creating greater alumni interest in the college. More later. Sandy San Filippo was looking in fine fettle last month at the Brown Club in New York. He is an associate agent for the Alumni Fund in Greater New York. Cliff McGuire was married recently and honeymooned in New York. The McGuires will live in Hartford. We haven't heard who Mrs. McGuire is yet. We Had tlie Imagination Have You tKe Courage / Only an iiRlividualist would have treated (his shoe — and only another individualist would liave tlic courage to wear it. But that's how styles are made ... so here's an op|)ortunity for you to become a Duke of Windsor, for whoever wears this model is sure to be remarked, sure to have imitators. You know Frank Brothers are famous for wing tips. We know a lot about them. But just recently we got bored with modest wing tips ... sat down, let ourselves go, and finished up with double the amount of tip and punching and per- foration found in the a\crage wing. It turned out to be a beauty. Look at it up there! We built it, of course, with all the famous Frank Brothers attention to detail . . . lavished hand workinanshi]> on it . . . selected the veiy finest tan Russia calf for the upper. We also worked out a modified spade sole, and were careful to put it on the Carlton last, one that means snug fit, yet with ade- quate room in all parts of the shoe, and complete comfort. One more icord . . . about the price, u'hich is $18.50. That's not hay, of course, but renumber this about Frank Brothers shoes . . . plenty of our customers say, "You can't wear the .' shoes out'." Jfrank protfjcr^ MEN'S SHOP FIFTH AVENUE— 47th-48th Streets— NEW YORK 641 NORTH MICHIGAN AVENUE— CHICAGO If you can't come in, write for date of Frank Brothers Exhibition in your city BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 1938 The engagement of Ed Fontaine, efficient secretary of the Oregon Brown Club, is an- nounced elsewhere in this issue. But that announcement doesn't tell the whole story: His fiancee, Miss Arloene Davey, is a grad- uate home economist and holds the position of food editor for the Port]and Orenonian. "You can surmise from this that she is a wonderful cook," says a letter received in the Alumni Office. His address is 2362 S. W. Cactus Drive. Dick Whipple, who is in his third year at Yale Medical School, will he married March 22 at the Calvary Baptist Church, Providence. His bride is to be Edith Har- riet Young, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Young of Providence. Free Hersey wrote us a long, informative letter the other day from 7? Park St., Brookline, Mass. He is in the Claims De- partment training course of Liberty Mu- tual Insurance Company, after having pre- viously worked in the Automobile Depart- ment. While in Cooperstown recently, he met President Leonard Carmichael of Tufts, our old psychology professor, who was attending the New York State Histor- ical Society convention. On a visit to Chi- cago Free had the pleasure of spending some time with Alden Hensel and his wife. Alden, Jr., was born last November. Shelton Noyes is a Senior at the Boston University Law School. Although kept busy as editorial page make-up man for the Providence Journal and Evening Bulletin, Tony Singsen finds time to write an occasional letter to the Brown Daily Herald. His latest, on Feb. 14, discussed the track situation at Brown, Providence National Bank Established 1791 ion Westminster Street CAPITAL SURPLUS ^1,500,000 ^2,000,000 OFFICERS Moses J. Biirlier, Chairman of tlie Board Thomas L. Pierce. President Rupert C. Thompson. Jr., Vice President Charles L. Eddy, Assistant Cashier Henry H, Eddy. Assistant Cashier Charles E. Mimyan. Assistant Cashier Ida M. Fryer. Assistant Cashier Benjamin H. Cate. Assistant Cashier Charles M. Smith. III. Trust Officer B. H. Lillibridge, Assistant Trust Officer Directors William Gammell, Jr. Moses J. Barber Frank E. Richmond Richard S. Aldrich Edward P. Jastram A. Livingston Kelley Wilson G. Wing Thomas L. Pierce William L. Sweet Frederick T. Moses John B. Lewis Charles C. Marshall Richmond \'ia]l Maxwell C. Huntoon Charles E. Rigby Benjamin R. Sturges William Slater Allen Member of the Federal Deposit Insuranie Corporati( urging that Coach George Anderson be given time, money and meets in order to develop track men. Sub-stars should be given a reason for going out for track, he said, and not until then will Brown have a real team in the sport. Jimmy Lathrop passes along news of his DTD fraternity brothers, gathered by the chain letter method. Duncan McMillan and Charlie Williams are in the Naval Re- serve. Herb Dalton and Boh Thomas arc engaged already, while next in line would appear to be Bill Browne, Luke Mayer, Harry Stevenson and Charlie Williams, while Norm Prudden is listed as a dark horse. At present Jimmy (classification 2A) is in Stamford, Conn., with Babcock ii Wilcox Company, erecting one of the new- est types of boilers for steam generation. Fred A. Forbes '38, for two and a half years has been genial and capable Executive Secretary of the Brown University Club of New York, has resigned to enter business in New York. He has already begun his new work as administrative assistant to the President of the National Association of Manufacturers. Although his new responsi- bilities require considerable traveling, he is making his home at 5 5 Vernon Place, Stamford, Conn. Forbes has been at the New York Brown Club since his class was graduated, and he has been a good liaison man with the cam- pus and conscientious executive. Jim Keegan and Mrs. Keegan are con- tentedly living in Brooklyn at 145 Henry St. George Pierce has left the Industrial Trust Co. in Providence and is now work- ing for American Airlines at the Municipal Airport, Jackson Heights, L. I. Tony Bove was recently admitted to the practice of law in Connecticut. He was graduated from B. U. Law School last year, having been business manager of the B. U. Law Review, a member of the Student Council, and of Gamma Eta Gamma fra- ternity. We're trying to get correct addresses for everyone so that the Reunion Committee will be able to get in touch with the whole class for our Third this June. The attempt is meeting with some success, and new ad- dresses are reported as follows: J. Henry Harley, 57 Brookside Drive, Cranston; Edward Heint:, 93 5 Dewey St.. Ann Ar- bor, Mich.; Frank Shaw, 2454 Elm St., Manchester, N. H.; Irving Gershkoff, 34 Sixth St., Providence; Burt Titus, 202 Leonard St., Bellerose, L. I.; Gordon W. Mulligan, 217 Vine St., Pawtucket; Walter Covell, 58 College St., Providence; Homer E. Lunken, Compton Hills Drive, Wyo- ming, Ohio. Gershkoff is a subdistributor for Max Silverstein y Son, Providence. Titus is order clerk at the Eastern Co- operative Wholesale, Inc., Brooklyn. Mulligan is with J. U. Starkweather, Providence. Lunken is with The Lunkenheimer Com- pany, Cincinnati. Ben Vaughan has moved to 109 Green St., Melrose, Mass. He is with the Lumber- men's Mutual Casualty Co., Boston. Walter Covell has begun his work as announcer at Station WEAN in Prov- idence, his native city, to which he returned after service with NBC television in New York and then eight months as chief an- nouncer at WKIP, Poughkeepsie. At WEAN he succeeded Ed Fitzpatrick, a member of a Naval Reserve group which took courses at Brown. Fitzpatrick is now in active aviation at the Navy's Squantum base. 1939 Robert D. O'Brien and Edward J. Gil- more, Jr., '40, have made use of their crea- tive talents for the cause of the British Re- lief Fund. Working together they have written all but three sketches of a revue, "It Goes to Show," that was produced Feb. 21 at the theatre of the Barbizon Plaza Hotel, New York. Both men were active in Brownbrokers and so it is natural that one of the songs in the show, "I Wanna Go Back to Brooklyn, " is from the 1939 Brownbrokers' production, "Savoir Faire." Fred H. Greene, Jr., a recent volunteer for Army service in New York, is now training in North Carolina. Fred had been associated with the Corning Glass Co. at Corning, N. Y., for the last two years. Fred L. Parker, an engine test operator with Pratt 6? Whitney, Hartford, Conn., is living at 38 Porter St., East Hartford. John H. (Bud) Striebel, Jr., is a service engineer for the Boeing Aircraft (Do., Seattle. Bud is living at 3 1 Harvard St. N., Seattle. Willard H. Baldwin is a representative for A.S.C.A.P. and is living at 1154 Mad- ison Avenue, Albany. Leonard D. Steiner is with the 104th Field Artillery, Medical Detachment, Fort McClcllan, Alabama. James C. Constable, associated with W. R. Grace ^ Co., cotton and wool im- porters. New York City, is living at 8 West 76th St. Lee Danforth has moved to 55 Dora St., Providence. Kenneth F. Conn has recently moved to 1 18 South Trenton Ave., Wilkensburg, Pa. Phil Feiner is assistant manager at the W. T. Grant (Jo. store in Webster, Mass. Ken Burch reports that he has moved to 636 Sanahican Drive, Trenton, N. J. Lieut. Bill Chipman of the Field Artil- lery Reserve was on active duty for two weeks in January during the Air Defense Command maneuvers in New England. Bill is with the New England Telephone y Telegraph Co. in Boston, normally. E. Butler Moulton, Jr., has recently changed his address to 301 S. Kenmore Ave., Los Angeles, Cal. John A. Donley, whose marriage to Miss Thelma Duemler of Dallas is announced elsewhere in this issue, is with the General Engineering Corporation, Mineral Wells, Texas. The Donleys live at 600 Monticello Drive, Fort Worth. 1940 Bob Sweeney is taking the Business Training Course offered by General Electric Company. He is in the payroll department at Bridgeport, Conn., and lives at 941 Noble Avenue. J. B. Derflinger, U.S.N.R., is studying at Annapolis. His home is at 1302 N. 4th St., Clinton, Iowa. Allen Williams, Jr., former Brownbroker star, was a leading member of the cast of "Of Thee I Sing" which was performed by the members of the Studio Theatre School in Buifalo, N. Y., during the past Christmas vacation. Al played the famous role of John P. Wintergreen. He is working in Buffalo for the American Magnesium Co. Robert E. Trahan writes in to tell us that he is happily located as an assistant man- 208 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY ager of the J. J. Newberry store in Fal- mouth, Cape Cod, Mass. Spence Manrodt was recently signed up for service in the U. S. Army by his father, Kurt Manrodt, secretary of a Newark draft board. Because of his showing with the N. Y. Yankees in the American Profes- sional Football League, Spence received widespread publicity when he was enrolled. Dave Borst has moved again — this time to 83 State St., Schenectady, N. Y., where he is working in the G. E. plant. George K. Pond is a Flying Cadet in the U. S. Army Air Corps, located at the Cur- tiss Airport, Glenview, 111. Robert R. Clifford is in the Army at Fort Rodman, New Bedford, Mass., where he is a member of B Battery. Walt Gummere is working in the Pitts- burgh office of the Gulf Oil Company and living at 434 South Graham St. Newest member of the Brown Club of Boston is Herbert F. Lewis, 1 1 Brimmer St., that city. Engagements > > 1925 — Miss Esther A. Vining, daugh- ter of Mrs. Emiline Vining of Providence, to George W. Kilton. 193 2 — Miss Rose Pickar, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Morris Pickar of Providence, to Lester Eisenstadt. 1935 — Miss Roberta Gardner Grant, daughter of Mr. Max Lewis Grant "12 and Mrs. Grant of Providence, to Alfred Hahan Joslin. 1935 — Miss Caroline Floto, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Floto of Chicago, to Fred S. Neimann. 193 5 — Miss Barbara Salisbury Stott, daughter of Mrs. Leroy Walden Stott, to Henry Tolman, H. 1935 — Miss Gertrude M. Pearson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Victor E. Pearson of Seekonk, to Edward D. Scullen. 1937 — Miss Delma Margaret DeLaskey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elbridge De- Laskey of Nausauket, to Ernest Taylor of Greenwood. 1938 — Miss Arlene Bentley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles N. Bentley of Con- necticut, to H. Dexter Hyland, Jr. 1938 — Miss Arloene E. Davey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Davey of Salem, Ore., to Edward A. Fontaine. 1938 — Miss Jean O. Gordon (Pembroke "38), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Gordon of Kingston, Penn., to Robert M. Thomas. 1938 — Miss Leah Janet Goulett, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul R. Goulett of West Haven, Conn., to Ahti Albert Erik- kinen. 1940 — Miss Ruth Kaplan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Kaplan of Prov- idence, to Bernard Kahn. 1941 — Miss Barbara Wheeler Boone, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Steph- ens of Bristol Ferry, to Bruce Edwards Kerney of Rumford. Weddings ► 1918 — Henry Coe Lanpher and Anne Gibson of Washington. D. C 25, 1941. 1926 — Howard W. Johnson and .....,, Elizabeth Ann Newbauer, daughter of Mrs John Newbauer of Dunkirk, N. Y., Nov. 30, 1940. At home: 24 Belmont Road, Cranston. 1926— Robert Winthrop Pratt III and Miss Elizabeth Jane Woodruff, daughter of Miss Jan. Miss Mr. and Mrs. Leland Sargeant Woodruff of Wauwatosa, Wis., in a candlelight cere- mony in the Congregational Church, Wau- watosa, Dec. 28, 1940. At home: 41 Fifth Ave. 1930— Edmond H. Howard and Miss Hope Jayne Houston, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Houston of Edgewood, at St. Joseph's Church, New York, Dec. 24, 1940. At home: 10 Montague Terrace, Brooklyn Heights, N. Y. 1931 — Bruce MacLellan Docherty and Miss Phyllis Maude Underwood, niece of Mrs. Edward L. Hail of Providence at the parsonage of Rev. Francis J. Russell in Lakewood, Feb. 14, 1941. 193 2 — Everett M. Seixas, Jr., and Miss Eunice E. Torgerson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Torgerson of Seattle, Wash., at the home of the bride's sister in New York City, Jan. 30, 1941. At home: 57 Charles St., New York. 193 3 — Paul Lacoste Maddock and Mrs. Ruth Marion Quigley Moffett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank T. Quigley of Wash- ington and Palm Beach, at Palm Beach Nov. 23, 1940. 193 3 — Harry D. Deutschbein and Miss Martha Marie Sleeper, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. William B. Sleeper of Larch- mont, N. Y., at the Cottage, Hampshire House, New York City, Feb. 14, 1941. 1934 — Donald Meloon Midwood and Miss Margaret Hilda Hudson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hudson, of Prov- idence, Feb. 1, 1941. At home: 55 Algon- quin St. 1934— J. Merrill Wright, Jr., and Miss Margery Lea Hillman, daughter of Mr. John Hartwell Hillman, Jr., of Pittsburgh, at Calvary Episcopal Church there Feb. 3 1941. 193 5 — Frederic A. Bauman and Miss Jane Ryan, daughter of Mr. Frank Ryan of A New Man Takes Over A year ago, there was a boy in his second year at college. With tragic suddenness, he was called upon to become head of the family. He might have felt well justified in stopping his savings on Old Colony Monthly Payment Shares, in view of his new responsibilities. But he was looking ahead. He wanted to maintain and build the comforting assurance of that nest- egg — accumulated through thrift plus compounded divi- dends. And he resolved to do just that, even though it took hard work and real sacrifice. Systematic thrift is a sign of character . . . and a promise of future benefits that is bound to come true. Ask an Old Colony representative for a savings plan that fits your need. ©LD Colony Co-operative Bank 58 WEYBOSSET ST.. PROVIDENCE W3DNSOCKET-PAWTUCKET-WEST WARWICK-NO. PROVIDENCE MEMBER. FEDERAL HOME LOAN BANK SYSTEM 209 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Newark, in a home wedding, Nov. 20, 1940. At home: 10 Summit St., East Orange, N. J. 1936 — Douglas M. Fowler and Miss Vir- ginia Maree, of Bar Harbor, Me., Aug. 31, 1940. The ushers included Robert B. Du- gan '32 and Fred. E. VanStone "36. At home: 91 Bishop St., Apt. 16, New Haven. 1936 — Raymond W. Parlin and Miss Alma C. Fisher, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Fisher of New Bedford, at the Little Church Around the Corner, New York City, Feb. 1, 1941. At home: 64 Del- mont St., Manchester, Conn. 1937 — Philip Munroe Shires and Miss Helen Maurine English, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Frederick English of Pawtucket, Feb. 11, 1941. 1939 — John A. Donley and Miss Thelma Heritage Duemler of Dallas, Tex., Feb. 1, 1941. At home: 600 Monticello Drive, Ft. Worth. Tex. 1939 — Mr. William Wilberforce Creas- ey, Jr., and Miss Dorothy Ward Drake, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond W. Drake of Newark, in a home wedding Feb. 14, 1941. The couple will live in Los Angeles. 1940 — John Joseph Hackett and Miss Catherine Lauretta Lee, niece of Miss Hon- orah Creigh of Fall River, in Blessed Sacra- ment Church, Feb. 13, 1941. 1940 — James M. Carmark and Miss Mar- jorie Armstrong Howard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Howard of Peace Dale, in New York, Jan. 27, 1940. Births ► 1917— To Dr. and Mrs. Clarence H. Woodmansee of Edgewood, a daughter, Clare, Jan. 18, 1941. 1922 — To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Corcoran of Washington, D. C, a daugh- ter, Margaret Josephine, Jan. 20, 1941. 1927 — To Mr. and Mrs. Leonard E. Wilson of West Barrington, a son, Bruce Allen, Jan. 24, 1941. 1928 — To Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Pick- els of Waterbury, Conn., a son, Robert Firth Pickels, Jr., Feb. 8, 1941. 1930 — To Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur A. Bromage of Providence, a daughter, Nancy Hopkins, Feb. 4, 1941. Mrs. Bromage was Judith Sabin, Pembroke "32. 1930 — To the Rev. and Mrs. Charles Duell Kean of 37 Bangor St., Springfield, Mass., a daughter, Jane Annesley, Nov. 20, 1940. 1930 — To Mr. and Mrs. Albert H. Rogers of Rumford, a second child, David Christie, Jan. 11, 1941. 1931 — To Dr. and Mrs. G. Edward Crane, twin sons, George Edward and John Driscoll, Jan. 29, 1941. 1934 — To Mr. and Mrs. Hollis E. Grant of East Providence, a daughter, Jane Doug- lass, Jan. 10, 1941. 1934 — To Mr. and Mrs. John F. Orme of Providence, a third child, a .son, John Stephen, Jan. 12, 1941. 1940 — To Mr. and Mrs. John C. Lhotka of Chicago, twin daughters, Joanne Marie and Mary Jan, May 15, 1940. i < Completed Careers 1877 ► ► "It was his breadth of vision no less than his variety of useful activities that exerted a profound influence fur good in the community,"' the Providence Journal said editorially when Judge Frederick Rueckert died in Providence, Jan. 27, 1941, a short time after he was struck by a trolley car while crossing Hope Street near Hope High School. "His nationally renowned achievements in handling juvenile cases while on the Dis- trict Court bench marked him as a pioneer here," the Journal writer went on. "He was not content to rest on those laurels. Ahead of his times then, he consistently remained in the front rank of those who in very recent years have advocated establish- ment of a separate juvenile court plan. Nevertheless, he proved his ability and sin- cerity ol purpose not merely by maintaining a far-sighted outlook but by making the best use of facilities and statutes available to him in years past. . . . "The significant thing — and the thing for which Judge Rueckert always will he best remembered in the history of this State — is that the sympathetic, expert and far- sighted approach he made toward the solu- tion of the problem of juveniles is as valid and valuable today as it was when he first made it." Judge Rueckert, born in Providence, Nov. 21, 1855, the son of Christian and Theresa (Gottlieb) Rueckert, had been a member of the Rhode Island bar since 1880. He had served in the General A,ssembly, as member and chairman of the Providence School Committee, and as a member of the State Board of Education. He went on the THf BLACKSTOOt CAOAL nATIOOAL BflOli ESTABLISHED 1831 • 20 MARKET SQUARE $500,000 $1,000,000 Capital Surplus and Undivided Profits (over) MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION bench of the Sixth District Court in 1905; when he retired in 1931 he had won na- tional distinction for his success in juvenile court cases. Since 1931 he had practised law and followed his hobby of studying German, his father's language. Rhode Island State College gave him an honorary LL.D. degree in 1920. His wife, who was Ella Louise Senft and whom he married Nov. 22, 1886, is his only survivor. His fraternity was Beta Theta Pi. 1877 > Rev. Thomas Elliott Bartlltt. A.B., retired Baptist minister, born Newburyport, Mass., Sept. 20, 1853, the son of Jonathan and Sarah (Chute) Bartlett; died in Prov- idence, Dec. 21, 1940. As a boy, he worked in a Newburyport brickyard. As a minis- ter and agent of the Rhode Lsland Bible Society, he had the acumen and energy of a trained busine.ss man. From Brown he went to Newton Theo- logical Institution, received his diploma there in 1880, and became pastor of the old South Baptist Church, Providence. He built a new church edifice of brick, remem- bering his early years of labor, organized the finances and increased the membership. In 1901 he resigned to go to Pawtuxet Bap- tist Church, where in nine years he wiped out a debt of nearly $10,000. Then he took over the Bible store of the Rhode Island Bible Society, developed it and made it a going concern. Meantime he raised funds for country churches, and inspired and en- couraged fellow workers in varied religious activities. He and Mrs. Bartlett, who was Isabella J. Tuthill, celebrated their 50th wedding an- niversary May 2, 1932. Mrs. Bartlett, his "active business partner," died the follow- ing November. Surviving are two daugh- ters. Mrs. James A. Farrell and Mrs. Wil- liam T. Beaulieu, and two granddaughters. He was a former president of the Rhode Island Baptist Education Society and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. 1892 ► James Edward Brennan, A.B., lawyer, born Pawtucket, March 27, 1870, the son of Michael and Mary (Connolly) Brennan; died in Pawtucket, Jan. 23, 1941, after a short illness. His daughter and three sons are all graduates of Brown. The law was his objective when he came to Brown. On graduation he entered the law offices of William W. Blodgett and Edward W. Blodgett "78, former Presiding Justice of the Rhode Island Superior Court. Admitted to the bar in 1896, he carried on a general practice while gradually concen- trating upon corporation law. He prepared his cases thoroughly and argued them soundly, thereby winning and holding the respect of judges and his fellow lawyers. His partners over the years were James G. Connolly '09, former Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island, Harold J. McLaughlin, and his son, Raymond D. Brennan "28. During the term of Mayor John J. Fitz- gerald "93, he was president of the Paw- tucket Board of Aldermen, his only public office. With Mayor Fitzgerald, Thomas P. Corcoran "93, and others, he was instru- mental in founding Phi Kappa fraternity and in charting its early course on College Hill. He was president of Brevitt Land Co., treasurer of Blackstone Glazed Paper Co., a charter member of Pawtucket Council, Knights of Columbus, and a member of Pawtucket Lodge of Elks and the Paw- 210 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY tucket Bar Association. He was a com- municant of St. Joseph's Church. He was married Nov. 9, 1898, to Miss Ehzabeth A. McKee, who died in May, 1933. Besides Raymond D. Brennan. there survive James E. Brentjan, Jr., '27, Arthur W. Brennan '31, and Elizabeth C. Brennan '34, Pembroke College. 1892 ► WiLLi.'KM Henry O'Neil. Ph.B., who died in Providence, July 11, 1940, after a long illness, had been with B. B. 6? R. Knight, cotton manufacturers, until his re- tirement 20 years ago. Born in Foxficld, Ireland, Aug. 13, 1862, the son of Henry and Bridget (Kelly) O'Neil, he was the oldest member of the Class to receive a bachelor's degree at Com- mencement. The Alumni Office has been told that he once studied at the University of Louvain. His own record says that he ■entered Brown from Fall River High School. He began work in the Knight offices in Providence as a clerk and was purchasing agent when he retired. Owing to his phy- sical condition in recent years, he seldom went any distance from home. Conse- quently he did not attend reunions, and classmates occasionally asked the Alumni Office about him. His wife, who was Mabel E. A. Waite and whom he married Sept. 18, 1902, is his only survivor. 1899 > Stephen Wentworth Bol'rn. Ph.B., manufacturer, born Bristol, April H, 1877, the son of Augustus O. Bourn '55 and Eliz- abeth (Roberts) Bourn; died suddenly m Taunton, Mass., Jan. 26, 1941. His father was Governor of Rhode Island and U. S. Consul General in Rome, where the son spent several years of his boyhood. From college Stephen Bourn went to work as apprentice with the Bourn Rubber Co., his father's business, and became fac- tory manager. He also served as president of the company, as secretary and director of the Bourn Rubber Mfg. Co., and as pres- ident and general manager of S. W. Bourn Mfg. Co., makers of insulated wire. In 1925 when Phillips-Baker Rubber Co. took over the assets of the Bourn plant he continued with the new company as an executive. After Phillips-Baker dissolved as the result of a workers' strike, he went into business for himself. In college and for years thereafter, yacht- ing and the militia were his chief interests. He belonged to the Brown Yacht Club and to the Bristol Yacht Club. He joined the Bristol Train of Artillery in 1900 and was its Lieutenant Colonel until 1915. During the World War he was Captain, then Ma- jor of the First Regiment, R. I. State Guard. He was a member of The University Club ■of Providence, the Brown University Club in New York, and Psi Upsilon. A bachelor, he is survived by two sisters, the Misses Elizabeth R. and Alice W. Bourn. 1899 y Walter Wentworth Massie, who died at his home, Kentuck Farm, West Wrentham, Mass., Jan. 21, 1941, was a radio pioneer who made "the first success- ful attempt to locate a ship at sea by means of wireless from the shore," and whose con- tracts for wireless equipment for the U. S. Navy, Signal Corps, and Coast and Geo- detic Survey were the first of their kind. His early experiments indicated to him that radio waves followed the earth's curva- ture. As this theory was contrary to the- ories held by Marconi and other rivals in the field, he was laughed at as "a crazy kid." But a German scientist soon proved the point, and Massie had his chance to laugh. In 1904 he became general manager of the Massie Wireless Telegraph Co., which set up wireless stations on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, including five stations in Alaska, and was active with the company until Marconi interests took it over m 1913. He foresaw many of the developments of radio with which the world is now familiar. And he was an ardent crusader for the rights of independent broadcasters. When the United States entered the first World War, Massie joined the Navy as Lieutenant, Junior Grade, and had charge of radio installations on sub-chasers and patrols attached to the 2nd Naval District (Newport). For five years after his honor- able discharge from the Navy he was City Engineer of Cranston. He carried on his work with radio until illness obliged him to retire in 1932. He was born in Providence, Dec 15, 1874, the son of John G. and Harriet E. (Read) Massie. He studied at Tufts Col- lege, as well as at Brown. He was married Oct. 18, 1899, to Ethel C. Farrington, who survives, with two sons, one of whom is Wentworth Massie '27, and three sisters. 1900 ► Henry Jewett Hall. A.B., A.M.. re- tired teacher, born Milford, N. H., May 3 1, 1865, the son of Marsene S. and Sephronia (Hutchinson) Hall; died in New London, N. H., Feb. 1, 1941. One of his contem- poraries has said of him: "An excellent scholar of unquestionable thoroughness in whatever he has undertaken." He was a high school principal, married and well established, when he decided to go to college. At Brown he won election to Phi Beta Kappa and the Sigma Xi, and for two years after receiving the A.M. degree was instructor in psychology on the Hill. Between 1904 and 1933, when he retired, he taught at the Edgewood grammar school, at Colby Academy, and at Whitman, Mass., High School, his major subject being sci- ence. He was also superintendent of schools of Sanford, Me., and principal of Peterborough. N. H., High School. On Aug. 16, 1894, he married Grace A. Todd, who is his only survivor. His fra- ternity was Phi Delta Thcta. 1904 > John Prior Thornley McBay, print- ing superintendent, born Moosup, Conn.. July 18, 1881, the son of James W. and Ruth J. (Prior) Thornley; died in Colum- bus, O., Jan. 15, 1941. Adopted as a child by William A. McBay, he had his name legally changed to McBay. After two years at Brown he left to go to work for the Alpine Printing Co., Prov- idence. In 1903 he entered the employ of Brown y Sharpe Mfg. Co., and in 1904 removed to Philadelphia to join the Lan- ston Monotype Machine Co. At the time of his death he was superintendent of the monotype division of the Spahr 6? Glenn Co., general printing, in Columbus. On Oct. 18, 1905, he married Miss Mary D. Whaley, who survives, with two daugh- ters. His fraternity was Delta Tau Delta. 1904 > George Edward Teehan. M.D., eye, ear. nose and throat specialist, born Worces- ter, Mass., July 17, 1879, the son of Maur- ice W. and Catherine M. Teehan; died of a "THIS PRECIOUS SHADE— of sixty summers' spreading" — can only be replaced in sixty summers more Annual inspection is necessary to prevent the development of unseen decay and progressing disease. Let us advise you the measures necessary to keep your trees in vigorous health. The cost of proper care is negligible compared to the value of a fine tree. We are qualified by twenty-five years' experience PRUNING • SPRAYING • SURGERY EXPERT CONSULTATION L. H. MEADER 09 President STANTON S. C. BABCOCK Manager WALTER H. SNELL, Ph.D. '14 Consultant THE L. H. MEADER CO. ESTABLISHED 1914 75 Westminster St., PROVIDENCE, R. I. TELEPHONE GASPEE 0556 211 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY heart attack at his home in Auburn, Jan. 4, 1941. After two years at Brown he entered Yale Medical School, won his M.D. in 1907, and served as interne at King's Park Hospital. New York, and at Backus Hos- pital, Norwich. Conn. While practising in Providence he took special courses in oph- thalmology at Harvard and in otolaryng- ology at the University of Pennsylvania. For 12 years he was on the staff of Rhode Island Hospital, and in recent years was assistant ophthalmic surgeon at St. Joseph's Hospital. He had also been an examining specialist for the U. S. Veterans Adminis- tration in Rhode Island and Southern Massachusetts. Dr. Teehan belonged to the Rhode Island Medical Society and Providence Lodge of Elks. On Oct. 14, 1917, he mar- ried Vesta N. P. Tomlinson, who survives, with a son, George E. Teehan, Jr., a grad- uate student at Brown. 1908 > Louis John Gillespie. Ph.B., Ph.D., born Hillsboro, N. H., June 10, 1886, the son of John J. and Luella (Walker) Gilles- pie; died in Somerville. Mass., Jan. 24, 1941, after being stricken by pneumonia. As Professor of Physico-chemical Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he was nationally known for his research in thermodynamics and in the mass action law for compressed gases. He was musician as well as teacher. In college he organized and led the first real Brown Band to play at football games. He CO nposed for orchestra, and for string quartet and piano. For years he was trom- bone for the MacDowell Club, Boston, and he played cello and sometimes viola for that orchestra. He also played with the Lincoln Symphony Orchestra, and belonged to the Boston Civic Symphony and Lassell Com- munity Symphony Orchestras. Music was in truth his joy and delight. When he received the Ph.D. degree from Brown in 191 1, he became a Fellow in Bac- teriology with Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. From 1913 to 1919 he was biochemist with the Bureau of Soils, U. S. Department of Agriculture, and in the academic year 1919-20, he taught at Syracuse University. Since 1920 he had been at M. I. T. He wrote "Physical Chem- istry," a text book, and many articles in scientific periodicals. He was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advance- ment of Science and of the American Acad- emy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the American Chemical Society, Washing- ton Academy of Sciences, Alpha Chi Sigma, chemical fraternity, and Sigma Xi. On Sept. 5, 1911, he married Elsie Vaughan Jenney, who survives, with a daughter, Mrs. David D. Greenlie: a son, Louis J. Gillespie, Jr., and a sister, Mrs. Marion G. Perkins, religion editor of the Bo5tDTi Herdld. 1932 ► Joseph Gordon (Tom) Sawyer, one of Brown's all-around football ends in recent years, was killed Oct. 29, 1940, when a railroad train struck his motor car at Yellow House crossing near Manorville, L. I. Since graduation he had been with the Texas Co., first as apprentice in El Paso, Tex., and then as salesman attached to the New York office. Born in New York City, March 6, 1908, the son of Joseph and Ada (Le Roy) Saw- yer, he entered Peddie School as a boy of 1 1 years. There he was a good student, an excellent athlete, and a school leader, sen- sitive and sensible. He was captain of the basketball team. He played end on the football team, winning all-State honors in Senior year. And when he was graduated he received the Fathers' Association Prize, one of the two highest honors awarded at Peddle. At Brown he enhanced his school record. He did well in his studies. He was one of Coach McLaughry's genuinely dependable ends, fast, alert, and a first-class pass re- ceiver. He was also on the varsity basket- ball and track teams, and was a member of Cammarian Club, Brown Key, and Phi Delta Theta. While Tom was in Texas he met Miss George Frances Johnson, whom he married April 28, 1933. Mrs. Sawyer survives, with two daughters. Marguerite and Jo Ann. At his funeral were two of his close Brown friends. Nelson H. Munson. Jr., "30, his room mate and fellow football player, and Fred W. McKeown '3 3, who wrote a mov- ing tribute to him in the Peddie Chronicle . The Joseph Gordon Sawyer Scholarship, established at Peddie by his cousin, Mrs. James Norman Hill, is his memorial. 1940 ► "In the Alumni Monthly for Decem- ber, Robert Fenley was quoted as being in the business of 'National Defense.' Today he closed his books." PRINTERS since 1870 Seventy years YOUISG, a live, progressive organization, ever doing better things and knowing how to do many unusual things. E. A. JOHNSON CO. 71 PECK STREET, PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND So wrote his classmate, Arthur W. Doherty, a fellow aviation cadet at the U. S. Naval Air Station at Pensacola, Fla., on Feb. 10. Fenley, he said, was drowned that morning after parachuting from his plane which had collided in mid-air with another plane while flying in formation. Fenley, who prepared for Brown at Elgin Academy, Elgin, 111., took his A.B. at Brown m History. He was a member of the French Club, Erasmians, Foreign Policy Association, and History Club. His fra- ternity was Delta Phi. 1941 > Perry R. Spindler died at his home in Lakewood, O., Feb. 6, 1941. He had been afflicted with cancer and did not return to Brown this year. A memorial service was held by his fra- ternity. Alpha Delta Phi, Feb. 10, and Brown's campus flag was at half-mast in tribute to him. Spindler was chairman of the Junior Prom last year and had been active with the Brownbrokers. In his Fresh- man year he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi's intramural championship basketball team. Spindler came to Brown from Lakewood High School, m suburban Cleveland, where he had been Vice-President of the Student Council, Class Treasurer, and active in a variety of other school interests. i i Pembroke Chronicle From Other Lands > ► Louise Morgan '07 is writing articles daily for the London 7''lews Chronicle. She not only describes conditions as they exist but helps to improve them, both through her own efforts and by calling the attention of the London officials and members of Par- liament to glaring needs which the cutting of red tape can help correct. She is doing a fine piece of work. Clara Whitehead '97 and her daughter Barbara have sent interesting letters from Liverpool and London respectively, which show the horrors of war but are without bitterness. Clara, who nightly experiences the terror of bombs dropping all about her, hopefully plants bulbs for next spring's flowering. Barbara's work in London is with the refugee children, not only British but from other countries as well. Dorothy Patton Lockwood '23 writes from Jaffna College, Vaddukodai, Ceylon: "Mails are erratic and U. S. letters take two months or more in arriving. Paper is scarce, newspapers abbreviated. The entry into India of some 68 articles is banned or rig- idly restricted; dried fruits, cocoa, and motor cars; toilet requisites, glassware and cutlery; liquors, jam, fabrics, etc. . . . All foreigners (including us) are registered in India, and must notify the police if they travel even from district to district. War charity benefits flourish. Ceylon aims to send an airplane a month to the R. A. F." She writes interestingly of her four boys, her husband, and life in Ceylon. As Ethel Nichols '34 writes from the American College in Istanbul, her only reference to the war is in the unadorned statement that (while on the S. S. Exo- chorda) "we rescued the crew of an English ship, the St. Agnes." She is teaching 21 212 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY hours a week, advising the Freshman class, and taking Turkish lessons. She has found the people most hospitable and the scenery beautiful beyond description. Among the cosmopolitan faculty members are people from America, Turkey, Russia, Greece, Armenia, Belgium, England, and France. Among the Americans she mentioned Harry Emerson Fosdick's sister Edith and John Leavitt, Brown '38. She is most enthusiastic about the college. Martha Dickie Sharp "26 has returned from six months in Europe, where she has been aiding the refugees as a commissioner for the Unitarian Service Committee. In a recent address she said: "We have not begun to touch the pos- sibilities of service. In spite of the coopera- tion of the French and the etforts of the French and Portuguese Red Cross officials and American refugee organizations, there are thousands of refugees in need of imme- diate advice, help, and encouragement from America. "In Lyons I saw people living in a re- frigerator built to hold large quantities of perishables. , . The refugees passed and repassed wrapped in everything they owned — rags mostly — with red noses and tear- filled eyes. The French are doing everything they can to take care of these people, but the country is full of misery." i The Alumnae Classes < < By GERTRUDE ALLEN McCONNELL > > 1902— Grace Pierce Richmond has a new granddaughter. 1905 — The Class is to have a luncheon at the Field House March 22. Millie Church McKeever will be the special guest, as she will return to her home in Pasadena the following month. 1906 — Helen Albro Ewers is living in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. 1907 — Blanche Smith Mitchell has the sympathy of the alumnae in the loss of her husband, Alexander H. Mitchell, head ot the Mitchell School in Billerica, Mass. 1908 — Mary W. Arnold has changed her residence from Touisset, Mass., to 12 Dart- mouth Ave., Providence, where she is tutor- ing pupils of all ages. She has also been in- strumental in helping to organize the Swan- sea Historical Society. 1909 — Matty Bcattie has the sympathy of the alumnae in the loss of her mother. 1909 — Grace Hartman Brigham is pres- ident of the R. I. Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs. She is also the Executive Housekeeper of the Providence Biltmore Hotel. 1909 — Annie Saunders Woods' new ad- dress is Route 12, Box 925, Phoenix, Ariz. 1911— Stella Gcrber Hall has a grand- son, son of Samuel. 1912 — Lottie M. Angell, who has been connected with Y. W. C. A. work in Phil- adelphia for many years, is now at 1647 Marshall St., Houston, Texas. 1912— Ollie A. Randall spent a delight- ful winter vacation at Acapulco, on the west coast of Mexico. 1914 — Dorothy Hull is studying at the University of Pennsylvania and living at 5427 Wayne Ave., Germantown. 1916 — Sally Gallagher is secretary for the R. I. branch of the Woman's Field Army, American Society for the Control of Cancer. 1918 — Isabel Taylor, New York, social ■worker, is directing a course in Leadership in Group Work at the Central Branch of the Brooklyn Y. W. C. A. 1919 — Edith Smith Wilcox has the sym- pathy of the alumnae in the loss of her only son, Paul A. Wilcox, Jr., a freshman at the University of Michigan, where he suc- cumbed to pneumonia. 1921 — Anna La Fond Hurley visited the Alumnae Office last month with her niece, who is a prospective freshman. We all sympathize with Anna in the loss of her sister. 1923 — Anna Coggeshall Bailey has moved to 1817 Emery St., Eau Claire, Wis., where her husband is doing college teach- ing. 1924 — Marjorie Rich Lewis and her daughter Marjorie have returned to their home in La Grange, III., after a visit of sev- eral weeks in Providence. 1924 — Elizabeth Maginnity has the sym- pathy of the alumnae in the loss of her father. 1926 — Frances Mason Harris and hus- band are occupying their new home at 249 Rutledge Road, Belmont, Mass. 1926 — Dorothy Stafford Huss and fam- ily have moved from New Jersey to 89 Rowena Road, Newton Center. 1926 — Margaret Matheson Orkney and family have moved into their new home on Starr Hill Road, Groton, Conn. The three daughters are Peggy 9, Nancy 6, and Bar- bara 3. 1927 — Gertrude Squires Crooker and family now live at 331 Clearbrook Ave.. Lansdowne, Penn. 1927 — Helen Crafts Patton has the sym- pathy of the alumnae in the loss of her father. 1927 — Ruth Hardendorff Erit expects to move soon from North Amherst, Mass., to New Britain, Conn. Her daughter Jean is 1928 — Georgiana Cameron is now living at 246 East 59th St., New York City. 1928 — Dorothy Paine exhibited her paintings at the Copley Society of Boston from March 3 to 14. She has a studio at 3 1 Bay State Road, where she gives lessons in landscape and flower painting. 1929 — Ethel Humphrey Anderson and her husband. Prof. George K. Anderson of the English Department at Brown, motored to Pasadena last month, where Mr. Ander- son IS doing some research work in the Huntington Library while on sabbatic leave. 1929 — Hollis "Vose Arnold has moved to 2386 Alston Drive, Atlanta, Ga. 1930 — Florence Nicholson Birkitt and husband now live at 34 Bay View Ave., East Providence. Louise Kelley Daly and husband are at 509 Wayland Ave., Prov- idence. Grace Home Higginbottom and husband are at 8 Newton Ave., Worcester. Mildred Conn Price and husband are reached at 3036 Baker St., San Francisco. 1930 — Thelma Tyndall has a secretarial position in Brockton and lives at 80 Oak- dale St. 1931 — Anne Carr Booth and family now live at 10 Bellingham Road, Worcester. 1931 — Rosamond Danielson has changed her residence to 385 Ives St. 1931 — The January issue of the Red Cross Courier carried a full page picture of Dena Lampropolous Harmantas in connec tion with the work which a group of Greek- American women in Washington are doing to aid Greece. In four afternoons 98 wom- en turned out 96 garments and 12,600 sur- gical dressings. 1931 — Muriel Barnes Jerome has moved to 36 Alton Place. Brookline, and Mary Metcalf Pleasanton to 16 High St., Val- halla, N. Y. 193 2 — Evelyn Bacheller writes that she was married about a year ago to Edward P. Gosling, Jr., and lives on East Main Road, Middletown, R. I. 193 3 — Ada Ahearn Full and husband have moved from Fall River to 215 West Ridge Pike, Conshohocken, Penn. 1933 — Emma Rose Gorton is at 22 East 74th St., New York. 1933 — Mary C. Smith has moved to Da- vidson, N. C, and in reply to our request for news she writes that she is doing "part time secretarial work, kindergarten work, and piano teaching, as well as enjoying everything Davidson has to offer. 1934 — Betty Brennan has the sympathy of the alumnae in the loss of her father. 1934 — Cecelia Baker Dixon and family have moved to 1070 Woodbine Ave., War- ren, Ohio. 1934 — Marguerite Melville of Upper Montclair, N. J., visited the Alumnae Office last month. 1935 — Dorothy Schloss Abramson and her young son paid us a visit last month. She is living in Philadelphia but had re- cently attended a meeting of the Alumnae Club m Washington. 193 5 — Rhoda Madden Ansley and fam- ily have moved to 278 Bryant St., Buffalo. 193 5 — Barbara Gaisford Eggleston has returned from a trip to California. While in Los Angeles she saw Olive Bilsborough Co well. 193 5 — Frances Hazard has the sympathy of the alumnae in the death of her father. 1935— Elizabeth Shaw Williams is at 21 Chauncy St., Cambridge. 1936 — Hope Richardson Boyd lives at 1903 Lunt Ave., Chicago. 1936 — Eleanor Casey, as the result of a Civil Service examination, is working for the Advisory Commission to the Council of National Defense in Washington. She is living at 317 Cedar Lane, Bethesda, Md. 1937 — Alice Curran is doing social work in Pawtucket. 1938 — Isabel Lion is with Baker, Jones 6? Hausauer, publishers, at 101 Park Ave., New York. 1938 — Virginia Macmillan. class pres- ident, has moved to 1291/2 Pidge Ave., Pawtucket. Ruth Pember's new address is 56 West Uth St., New York, and Char- lotte Rice Stafford has moved to 29 Ontario St., Providence. 1939 — Marguerite Coogan has a position in Washington, D. C, and is living at 2410 20th St., N.W. 1940 — Rita Hines is doing social work in Pawtucket, and Marie Purcell in Prov- idence. 1940 — Margaret McNamara is a student teacher. 1940 — Frances O'Rourke is teaching so- ciology to student nurses at Homeopathic Hospital and is doing Americanization work in Central Falls. i i 213 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Engagements ► > 193? — Esther A. Vining to George W. Kilton, Brown "25. 1938 — Jean O. Gordon to Robert M. Thomas, Brown "38. 1938 — Dorothy Page to George A. Mills. Bucknell University. Weddings ^ 193? — Ruth Tenenbaum and Howard D. Silverman, Brown "36, on Feb. 10, 1941. 1937 — Janet Spindle and Merlin F. Connary, Feb. 15, in Meredith, N. H. 1939 — Albina Pysz and Kasmir B. Jab- lecki, October, 1940. 1942 — Jane Elkms and Douglas Ford Oliver. New Year's Day. Poland. Ohio. Mr. Oliver was a former instructor at Brown. Address: Laurel Drive, Packanack, N.J. Births > 1925— To Mr. and Mrs. James H. Ha- gan, Jr. (Catherine Fitzgerald), a daughter, Sara. Dec. 30, 1940. Address: 5 5 3 Fruit Hill Ave., North Providence, R. I. 1929 — To Mr. and Mrs. Walter H Sakenberg (Frances Leonard), a daughter Sandra, Jan. 11. Address: R. F. D. 3 Box 3A, Newark, Del. 1930 — To Mr. and Mrs. Christopher J Horn, Jr. (Rose Hand), a daughter, Cecily Jan. 11. Address: 75 Holburn Ave., Au burn. R. L 1934 — To Mr. and Mrs. William Mitch ell (Eugenie Leonard), a daughter, Pen elope, in December. Address: 31 10 Quebec Place N.W., Washington, D. C. 1934 — To Mr. and Mrs. Leander F. Pease II, twins, a son, Jerre Woodward, and a daughter. Judy Dyer, Feb. 8 Leander III IS 21/2. Address: 22 Arnold St., Prov- idence. 1937 — To Mr. and Mrs. John E. Jones (Stella Wells), a son, John Henry, July 1 1, 1940. Address: Ferry Lane, Barrington, R. I. 1937— To Mr. and Mrs. W. Leo Shields (Margaret Hayden), a daughter, Mar- garet Lee. October 2, 1940. Address: Oak St., Hyannis, Mass. < < The Alumnae Clubs < < Newport ► y The Club held its annual scholarship bridge at the Viking Hotel under the able direction of Margaret Carr "17, president, and Elizabeth Carr "36. They were assisted by the following committee: Betty Hussey "39, secretary and treasurer: Thelma Hal- verson Ebbitt "38, tickets; Selma Rosen "3 2, printing: Ruth Wolf Adelson "26 and Mary Sullivan '37. refreshments: Dorothy Reilly "38, candy; Margaret Phelan "26, prizes; Gladys Bozyan MacLeod "26, arrangements; Polly Lavin "33, decorations; Dannin "33, music; Clare Sullivan Drummey, publicity; and Mary Clarke "39, posters. The candy venders were students from Rogers High School. Eighty tables were in play. ISetc York ► The members of the Quh were enthu- siastic over their first annual forum, held at the American Woman"s Club Jan. 31. The speakers were Prof. Sinclair W. Armstrong of the History Department and Professor James H. Shoemaker of the Economics De- partment. The sponsors were Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Appleget. Mr. and Mrs. William R. Dorman, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Hugh W. Mac- Nair, Mr. Alfred B. Meacham, Mr. Ralph M. Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. Albert L. Scott, Mr. and Mrs. Norman S. Taber, and Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Tillinghast. South County > Ada Dykstra Stedman "25 was hostess to the members at her home in Wakefield Jan. 25 and m spite of difficult driving be- cause of a recent snowstorm, the meeting was well attended. There was a most in- teresting exhibition of hobbies, from needle- work, crocheting, knitting, stencil-work, and hand-painting, to collections of min- erals, collections of books and pamphlets on moral rearmament, interior decorating pic- tures and materials, and a collection of snapshot albums and scrapbooks. Olive Briggs Harrington won Gertrude Allen McConnelFs prize for the best hobby, but the prize was awarded by the drawing of lots, as a decision as to the best exhibit was deemed impossible. Dons Deming "30 gave a delectable exhibition of her hobby — cooking — by presenting the club with a beautifully decorated cake that had one candle in honor of the Clubs first birthday. Secretary; Mrs. Raymond C. Harrington '21, Moose Horn Road, East Greenwich. advertisers engraving company 126 DORRANCE ST. PROVIDENCE, R. I. TELEPHONE GASPEE 7094 ''Picturize your Product:" Worcester > Emily Grainger Whitney "28 enter' tained the members at a meeting at her home in January. Each member had the privilege of inviting two guests. Sally Har- ris Remington, a local interior decorator, gave an interesting and instructive talk and tea followed with Anna L. Metcalf "97, Anne Carr Booth "31, and Marjorie Daw Morrissey "34 assisting. Secretary: Mrs. George E. Whitney, 8 Roseland Road. Washington ► The alumnae met Jan. 27 at the home of Rowena Bellows Rommel "3 2. In spite of the cold and the icy roads, a record group attended. After a short business meeting at which Eleanor Hanson Vaughan "25, pres- ident, presided, members of the group read Saroyan"s play, "The Time of Your Life."" A "'white elephant"" contributed by Laurinda Andrade "31 helped to raise money for the Club. An "elephant" will be a part of each future meeting. The president has appointed decade chairmen for the different age groups and the idea is meeting with great success. Al- though the dues have been raised from $1 to $2, there is an increased membership this year. Secretary: Dorothea Carr '34, 3602 Van Ness St., N.W. Cleveland y Anne Crawford Jonah '27. president of the club, entertained the members and their husbands at a buffet supper at her home Jan. 26. The evening was a most en- joyable one. A meeting has been planned for the spring vacation, when Pembroke undergraduates and prospective freshmen will be the special guests. Secretary: Mrs. Ashton D. Dixon, 1070 Woodbine Ave., Warren, Ohio. Detroit ► A HEARTY welcome is extended by the Alumnae Association to our newest Club, which was organized Feb. 13. Priscilla Chase De Vlieg "37 was imbued with the idea that a Pembroke Club was needed in Michigan and it didn"t take her long to convince Helen H. Smith "30 that her idea was a good one. Helen invited the alumnae in the Detroit area to meet at the Kings- wood School. Seven members gathered at the Faculty Club: Grace Jones Brennan '01, Marjorie Woodward Brown '20, Katharine Sanson Aikens "25, Beulah Leathers Roensch "25, Muriel Johnson '36, and the two mentioned. They decided that their principal aim for the present would be to "advertise"" Pem- broke and ultimately interest some students in applying for admission. Visits are to be made to the various- schools in the region. It was a highly enthusiastic gathering in every respect. The next meeting is to be a dinner meeting at which Dr. May Hall James "09 has been invited to be the speak- er. Priscilla Chase De Vlieg was chosen president and Helen H. Smith is secretary. The latter"s address is Kingwood School, Cranbrook, Cranbrook Road. Bloomfield Hills. Southern California > Marion Hudson Williams '18 enter- tained the members at a meeting at her home in Glendale in January and Mary Collins McCoy was hostess at a tea at her home in Los Angeles March I, with a book review by Blanche Schiller Hook '15 to raise money for the Semi-Centennial Gift. Secretary: Edna Solinger Lyons '15, 1750 N. Bcrendon St., Hollywood. i < 214 "Ma Hays It Tastes of Coal Oiir MA IS probably right. The clerk who had to fit shoes and horse collars, measure out nails and putty, and draw kerosene couldn't always stop to wash his hands before he handled the butter and crackers. And every so often the potato on the spout of the oil can would joggle off. Today, for most of us, the mixture of food and kerosene odor has ceased to be a problem. More and more of our food, packed by electric machines, comes to us in sanitary containers. Electricity does the work, too, of washboard and carpet beater. Automobiles and good roads have shortened distances to town and work. And because so many of the routine, unpleasant jobs which occupied our parents' time are now only memories, we have more opportunities for enjoying life to the full. Practically every industry in America has helped to bring about this progress. And every industry, in doing so, has made use of the econ- omies and manufacturing improvements that electricity brings. General Electric scientists, engineers, and workmen have been, for more than 60 vears, finding wavs for electricity to help raise American living standards to create More Goods for More People at Less Cost. Today their efforts are helping further to build and strengthen the American way of life. G-E research and engineering have saved the public from ten to one hundred dollars for every dollar they have earned jor General Electric GENERAL tt ELECTRIC Krs. v;. II. p. Faunce 52 Llloyd Ave. Providence, P.. !• Each Can Say «/ n^AS A CJLEMtK'' "/ n'AS A LINEMAN" "/ WAS A DRAFTSMAN" Ihiri tTY-SEVEN years ago, in 1904, tlie president of the Ameri- can Telephone and Telegraph Company went to work as a clerk in one of the Bell System com- panies. About that time, the 18 men who ar^ow the presidents of the Bell telephone companies were starting their careers. For, like the head of the System, they have worked many years in the business — an average of 38 years each. Each of them can say: "I was a clerk," "I was a lineman," "I was a draftsman" — and so on. The "know how" is here — for the every-day job of running the telephone business or to serve you in emergency. Up-from-the-ranks management is doubly important these days. THE BELL SYSTEM IS DOING ITS PART IN THE COLNTRV'S PROGRAM OF NATIONAL DEFENSE. BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM