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ALUMNI MONTHLY 



PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND 

APRIL, 1941 
Vol. XLI NUMBER 8 



► ► 



Should They Bother With College? 



► ► Urging Brown University undergraduates to devote 
their "full time and energy" to their college work as the 
best long-range way to share in the national defense pro- 
gram, President Henry M. Wriston of Brown University 
has cautioned the University's 1,400 students against hasty 
and premature attempts to enter military service. 

Quoting President Roosevelt's statement that college stu- 
dents should continue their educations in order to be "well 
prepared for the greatest usefulness to their country," Dr. 
Wriston, in a letter to all undergraduates, March 26, pointed 
out that "the farther along you are in your college course, 
and higher your quality of achievement, the better your 
chances are for interesting military assignments and the 
attainment of an officer's commission." 

Dr. Wriston's letter was mailed in connection with the 
setting up of an advisory office on military service, and with 
the publication of a special Defense Manual by the Uni- 
versity, listing all possible information about opportunities 
for service in the Army, Navy, Marines and Air Corps. 
Copies of the letter are being sent to parents. 

"Those of you who have not yet registered under the 
Selective Service Act have great flexibility of choice in 
deciding which phase of defense work you will enter," he 
said. "Until and unless you are actually called to military 
service, I advise you to devote your full time and energy 
to your college career. 

"This is not a moment for precipitate action. Balanced 
judgment is as vital for the defense of our way of life as 
guns and planes. The military phase of this crisis is essen- 
tially an interlude. If too much is sacrificed to that inter- 
lude, then the permanent values and the enduring issues do 
not get enough attention. 

"Education is not a short-run objective; it is a permanent 
and continuing process. Your effort should he to absorb the 
interlude rather than permit it to become the dominant 
force." 

► Pl.ans for giving special summer courses in the sciences, 
designed to help Brown University students qualify for 
ensign commissions in the United States Navy, were an- 
nounced by President Wriston earlier in the month. Sum- 
mer courses have not been offered at Brown since World 
War days. 

President Wriston also announced that a central office 
which will be a clearing house, bureau of information and 
contact source for all matters relating to students and 
military service has been set up under his direction. The 
office will be for "finding the best possible service for 
students in terms of their training, preparation and interest." 

In keeping with President Roosevelt's policy of non- 
interruption of university education, Brown plans "to make 
every effort to keep its students on the campus and yet to 
help them meet the requirements of the Selective Service 
Act," President Wriston said. 

The new summer courses, the number and nature to be 
determined by advance registration, will be for Freshmen, 
Sophomores and possibly a few Juniors whose college work 
so far has not included enough study in the sciences to 
qualify them for a Bachelor of Science degree, which is 



required for an ensign commission. Students who are now 
candidates for Bachelor of Arts degrees can change to 
candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Science in Chem- 
istry or Bachelor of Science in Engineering without loss of 
time. President Wriston said, upon successful completion 
of the summer courses. 

The University's tentative plans call for each student to 
take one course in Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or 
Chemistry, covering a normal college year's work in about 
12 or 13 weeks of intensive study. The courses will not he 
given for credit, but only to qualify students for a Science 
degree. 

Qualified Seniors will then be eligible to apply to the 
Navy for a commission as ensign in the Naval Reserve. 
Juniors will be eligible for a probationary commission. 
Seven Seniors and 1 3 Juniors have already applied for 
commissions this year. 

The summer courses will also be open to prospective 
Freshmen who want to enter as candidates for a Bachelor 
of Science degree, but whose regular schtx)l preparation 
has not covered the necessary ground, President Wriston 
said. He is sending letters to schools notifying principals 
and headmasters accordingly. 

► The Cammarian Club on March 20 began a National 
Defense Forum, which was conducted jointly by students 
and Faculty members. Discussions in fraternity houses 
and dormitories continued the program. Undergraduates 
are too inclined to "throw in the towel" on their college 
education because of their ignorance of the facts behind 
Selective Service and National Defense, the Cammarian 
Club spokesmen said. 

"The students have been suffering from a bad case of 
jitters over the future of their college work," said the 
Forum sponsors. "Two Juniors left college last week to 
join up in the Air Forces. They believed it would be futile 
to remain here and get their degree since their draft num- 
bers were coming up soon. Others may not return next 
Fall. The Cammarian Club believes that these students 
may well ruin their futures by leaving college at this time. 
The Forum will attempt to straighten out these ideas." i i 

In the Presidents Month 

► ► President Henry M, Wriston of Brown Univer- 
sity is one of three educators appointed by New York City's 
Board of Higher Education to consider the "complex prob- 
lems of professional responsibility and integrity" raised by 
the recent accusations of Communist and other subversive 
activities in the city colleges. 

Other members of the special committee are Dr. William 
Neilson, former president of Smith College, and Dr. 
Herbert W. Schneider, professor of philosophy at Columbia 
University. 

Preliminary questionings have been under way in New 
York in connection with the beginning of a grand jury in- 
vestigation of charges that certain teachers in the College 
of the City of New York and in Brooklyn College are using 
the classroom to advocate Communism. 



THE COVER PHOTO: Captain Walter Ju.szcz>k lets 
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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



President Wriston was one of the principal speakers at 
the dedication of the new $250,000 fraternity quadrangle 
at Lawrence College, March 22. His topic was "The Frater- 
nity in Education." 

Dr. Wriston, who was president of the college at Apple- 
ton, Wis., from 1926 until he went to Brown in 1937, 
addressed a special all-college convocation which was part 
of the dedicatory exercises. 

► If the world is to look for a lasting peace it must break 
away from excessive political control over its economic, 
social and cultural life which are now suffering from "too 
much government" the President said Mar. 14, addressing a 
luncheon of the New England Council in Providence. He 
declared that "as long as politics insists upon plowing 
under the wealth it does not and can never produce, there 
will be tension so great as to insure war. The indispensable 
step is to bring politics into line with the rest of human 
experience." 

For a long-range policy to insure peace, "the logical 
consequence is not world government and the suppression 
of local and national management of political affairs," 
President Wriston said. "The deadening effect of state con- 
trol has also been one of the striking manifestations of recent 
years. Freedom is the greatest need. 

"The central paradox in the world's search for peace lies 
in the attempt of nations to destroy by political means their 
own cultural, sciendfic and engineering achievements." 
Political isolation checkmates the international ties of mod- 
ern civilization, which depends for its advancement upon 
free interchange of ideas, information and experiences. 
President Wriston said. 

"No nation in the world ... is or can become independent 
of others for the materials of a rich economic life, any more 
than for its cultural and scientific life," he stated, emphasiz- 
ing that Europe's problems are those of the United States 
as well. "To refuse for years to accept the efhciency of 
international interdependence is simply to rob the populace 
of forms of nourishment which no amount of political pap 
can replace in their diet." i i 

Honorary LL.D. for Prof. Chafee 

► An honorary degree of LL.D. was bestowed on Prof. 
Zechariah Chafee, Jr., of the Harvard Law School faculty 
on the occasion of Boston University's Founders Day last 
month. He also holds honorary degrees from Brown Uni- 
versity, where he received his baccalaureate degree in 1907, 
and from St. John's University, Brooklyn. 

Prof. Chafee and Dean Roscoe Pound were speakers at 
Boston University's two-day celebration, devoted to the 
freedom of the press. Appealing for continued open dis- 
cussion — even for Communists — during any emergency, 
he declared that only a strictly military censorship should 
be made. Freedom of speech and other democratic rights 
should not be censored, he said. 

A half-page interview in the Boston Globe further ex- 
pressed his belief on the necessity of preserving free speech. 

In Place of Swing 

► Thursd.'W night is not only maids' night out, but 
Raymond Gram Swing's night off. Taking his place on 
the radio as a commentator on the world situation is Harold 
M. Fleming '20, who discusses the war in economic terms. 
Fleming, who has been Wall Street correspondent for the 
Christian Science Monitor since 1935, had a fine article 
on the national fiscal problem in the February Atlantic. 



In the Emergency < 



► ► Problems ranging from studies of military psychology 
and morale to the use of optical instruments and visual 
cues in landing airplanes are being quietly studied by mem- 
bers of the Department of Psychology at Brown University 
these days as part of Brown's share in meeting the national 
emergency. 

Less conspicuous than either the Civil Aeronautics Au- 
thority's student pilot training program, the new Naval 
ROTC unit, adult classes for defense workers, or Brown's 
special research for the Navy, the psychologists are never- 
theless busy with their own long-range efforts on matters 
touching every citizen, regardless of whether he is in mili- 
tary service or not. 

Germany's powerful and aggressive military psychology 
is being carefully sifted and analyzed by Dr. Heinz L. 
Ansbacher, research associate in the department and assist- 
ant editor of Psychological Abstracts, the psychological 
journal published at Brown. Dr. Ansbacher's findings will 
be turned over to the National Research Council's Emer- 
gency Committee in Psychology. The National Research 
Council, organized during the last World War to place 
the nation's scientific resources at the disposal of the Gov- 
ernment, is again accelerating its efforts in order to meet 
today's crisis. 

One of the organizers of the Emergency Committee on 
Psychology is Prof. Walter S. Hunter, chairman of the de- 
partment and editor of Psychological Abstracts. This com- 
mittee is holding meetings about every six weeks to plan 
and co-ordinate its psychological work. Prof. Hunter, who 
is also a member and former chairman of the National 
Research Council's Division of Anthropology and Psy- 
chology, has secured the appointment of a National Re- 
search Council committee to evaluate and organize the 
contributions of psychology in an emergency. 

Recently he was appointed to serve on the council's 
Committee on Problems of Neurotic Behavior, which is 
interested in securing the collaboration of psychologists and 
psychiatrists in the Army. During the World War, Prof. 
Hunter served as captain in the Psychological Division of 
the Army Medical Corps, aiding and directing the adminis- 
tration of psychological tests to 1 00,000 recruits. 

The Committee on Sensor>' and Perceptual Problems of 
the National Research Council has chosen Prof. Clarence 
H. Graham to work with a sub-committee of the Council 
for National Defense. Prof. Graham will probably be 
called in to deal with a large research problem on the use 
of optical instruments in war. Prof. Graham is one of the 
leading experts in the country in the psychology of vision, 
and has written more than 50 papers on various technical 
studies on the eye and how it reacts to light under different 
conditions. 

Dr. Carl Pfaffmann, newly appointed instructor in psy- 
chology, has been granted special funds by the National 
Research Council's Committee on the Selection and Train- 
ing of Airplane Pilots to study visual ones in landing. His 
findings are expected to prove helpful in the nation's flight 
training efforts. A Naval Reserve lieutenant. Dr. Pfaff- 
mann was at Pensacola last summer at work on visual prob- 
lems in selecting pilots, and is expected to return there after 
Commencement this year. i < 



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► ► For the Reconstruction of Hope College 



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► ► Hope College, second oldest building on the campus 
at Brown University, will soon be reconstructed throughout 
under the terms of a $100,000 gift from an anonymous 
"friend of the University." President Henry M. Wriston, 
who announced the gift before the Advisory Council of 
the Associated Alumni, said that "the time has come when 
positive steps must be taken to preserve one of our finest 
architectural possessions, and to increase its usefulness." 

The project will be the second recent major reconstruc- 
tion of historic buildings at Brown. University Hall, the 
original "college edifice" of 1770, was reopened last May 
after the interior had been entirely rebuilt in accordance 
with the best standards of Colonial architecture. More 
than $2^0,000 was given by friends of Brown for the 
reconstruction and for furnishings. Fifty thousand dollars 
from the same "anonymous friend" has also been received 
to offset unexpected costs here. Dr. Wriston said. 

The general plan for the reconstruction of Hope College 
would call for recapturing the Colonial charm of the inte- 
rior, which has seen repeated alterations since the building 
was opened as a dormitory in 182 J. Although the years 
have not brought any changes to the ivy-covered exterior, 
little of the original woodwork remains in the rooms and 
corridors. 

Long regarded as one of the purest examples of early 
American architecture, Hope College was built on the front 
campus, adjoining University Hall, to house the growing 
student body after the turn of the past century. Its brick 
walls, massive chimneys, and white trim, together with the 
building's simple but graceful lines, have since been copied 
and adapted in Brown's more modern residence halls. 

► The need for another "College edifice" was first ex- 
pressed by the Corporation at its meeting on Sept. 6, 1821, 
when a committee was appointed "to erect the edifice on 
such a plan and of such dimensions as they may thmk 
proper." A lot adjoining the College property was pur- 
chased for $5,189 from Nathan Waterman. 

Although the committee was authorized "to solicit dona- 
tions and draw on the Treasury for the above purpose," the 
entire cost of about $20,000 was met by Nicholas Brown 
of the class of 1786, wealthy Rhode Island merchant for 



whom the University had been named in recognition of his 
frequent benefactions. 

Mr. Brown, in a letter to the Corporation in January, 
182.'^, suggested that the new building be named Hope 
College, in honor of his only surviving sister, Mrs. Hope 
Brown Ives. It was described in the Corporation records as 
"an elegant brick building . . . length 120 feet Width 40 
feet four stories high and containing 48 rooms." 

"I avail myself of this occasion," Mr. Brown wrote, "to 
express a hope that Heaven will bless and make it useful in 
the promotion of Virtue, Science and Literature, to those 
of the present and future generations, who may resort to 
this University for education." 

► For some years not all of the rooms in Hope College were 
needed for students, and a few were even rented to local 
organizations, including the Philermenian and United 
Brothers Societies. As time went on, unruly student be 
havior left its mark on "the outside doors of the New col- 
lege . . . and there appears a disposition to cut waste fe? 
destroy the Building." 

By 1891, Hope College was described as "much out of 
repair — the north wall cracked, timbers rotting and the 
whole interior worn and dingy." A thorough reconstruc- 
tion was supervised by Marshall Woods of the class of 
1845, chairman of the University's real estate committee, 
at a cost of $35,000. Plumbing and heating systems were 
installed, and the fireplaces made usable again. 

Many of Brown's most famous alumni lived in Hope 
College during their undergraduate days. Among them 
were Alexander L. HoUey of the class of 1853, promoter of 
the Bessemer process for manufacturing steel; John Hay of 
the class of 1858, Secretary of State and ambassador to 
Great Britain; Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes of the 
class of 1881, and the late Prof. Dana Carlton Munro '87 
of Princeton, eminent historian. i i 

Mr. Weeks Is Re-Appointed 

► Since the establishment of the Boston Federal Home 
Loan Bank in 1932, Edward H. Weeks '93, president of the 
Old Colony Co-operative Bank in Providence, has been a 
member of its Board. He was recently re-appointed its 
vice-chairman. i 



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Baseball for 1941 ^ 

BY RICHARD J. REYNOLDS '?1 

► ► A CATCHER, first baseman, and set of outfielders com- 
prise the main necessities of Coach Jack Kelleher as he starts 
this, his 12th season, at the helm of the 1941 varsity baseball 
forces. Plenty of promising candidates are competing for 
the positions listed, but depletions by graduations have left 
the berths wide open. Veterans are available at every other 
post. 

From a pre-season perspective, the battery positions seem 
at opposite poles in comparative strength, with pitching the 
team's strongest suit and catching the most questionable of 
all departments. As for the past two seasons, the hurling 
staff is led by Capt. Walter Juszczyk, veteran "knuckle" ball 
artist. Fortified by his lengthy Varsity experience, plus 
greater sise, and weight, the West Warwick, R. I., right- 
hander appears destined for a banner season and right now 
represents the team's outstanding individual hope for a 
successful campaign. 

Behind Juszczyk is Harris "Red" Whynaught, a left- 
hander, whose portside slants have caught the fancy of 
Coach Jack Kelleher at the indoor drills in the Lyman Gym 
cage. Although Whynaught lacks any Varsity experience, 
Kelleher believes the sorrel-topped Sophomore a fine pros- 
pect and if time vindicates these expectations, the mound 
department will have the best balance of any Brown pitch- 
ing staff in recent years. Ed Lally, Senior veteran of two 
seasons, is again available and should prove valuable in both 
a starting and relief role. In addition, two capable Sopho- 
more right-handers. Earl Nichols and Herb Ginsberg, in- 
crease the depth to verify the conclusion that the pitching 
situation is exceedingly bright. 

► The graduation of Lou Sigloch, leading hitter of the 
1940 team, coupled with a general dearth of experienced 
backstops, makes the receiving half of the battery squad a 
horse of quite a different hue. Lou Berger, Senior and re- 
serve for two seasons, is the only candidate with any Varsity 
exposure whatsoever, most of which has been limited to 
practice sessions and occasional subbing in late innings of 
games. This restricted experience, some of which has in- 
cluded working with Juszczyk, may win Berger the job, 
although he has at least two competitors certain to make 
serious bids in Ernie Savignano and John O'Sullivan. 

Savignano has not played baseball since catching with 
the 1939 Freshman nine, but his cage work, featured by the 
abundant drive and vigor characteristic of his participation 
in all sports, has made the 1941 Varsity football captain- 
elect a prominent contender. O'Sullivan, also a Junior, 
played in the outfield of the 19.39 Freshman team and pre- 
viously caught for two years at Hope High. A natural ball 
player, O'Sullivan is the "dark horse" of the three-cornered 
race and may be the ultimate winner of the competition, 
which probably will be decided by hitting ability. 

First base is another position rife with speculation as to 
the ultimate regular occupant. Last season, the initial sack 
was held down by Harry Piatt for the majority of games 
and, although the great basketball ace never played baseball 
before coming to Brown, he submitted a fine fielding record. 

To fill the vacancy created by Piatt's graduation, John 
Marsolini, third sacker for the past two campaigns, may be 
shifted to first. Marsolini is equally adept as an infielder or 
outfielder, in addition to being a heavy hitter and Coach 
Kelleher's chief problem with the Milton, Mass., Senior is to 
station him where he will be most effective. The two other 



prominent possibilities are Russ Barker, a Junior and Ed 
Armstrong, a Sophomore, both of whom played Freshman 
baseball. It is also possible that Whynaught may play first 
when not taking his turn on the mound. Being a left-hander, 
Whynaught's presence on first would give the infield more 
balance, and in view of the batting ability he has evinced 
in cage drills, he will probably be used in the infield or out- 
field when not pitching. 

► H.'KNK GossLER, HOW a Junior, is again ready to take 
over the second base post he won a year ago and the year's 
experience should make the rugged Junior, who has been 
diving on the Varsity swim squad during the winter months, 
a valuable infielder. Bud McKene and Ted Wilks, both 
Sophomores who played in the 1940 freshman infield, look 
to be Gossler's closest competitors and may make the fight 
for the keystone sack a hot battle. 

A regular infielder for two years, Bill Sheehan is again 
the logical shortstop choice. Last season, Sheehan fielded 
excellently and hit both often and opportunely, several of 
his blows being delivered with men on base when runs were 
needed. 

Assuming Marsolini plays some position other than third, 
his successor at the hot corner seems destined to be Maurice 
"Moe" Carroll. A Sophomore, Carroll was out of competi- 
tion most of his Freshman year with a sore arm. Now fully 
recovered, he gives every evidence of developing into a 
reliable third baseman, numbering among his talents a fine 
throwing arm and ability to stop almost anything coming his 
way. Carroll also looks to be a natural hitter and may form 
a partial answer to Coach Kelleher's constant search for 
greater power at the plate. 

All three outfielders of last season, Ray McCuUoch, Ed 
Pietrusza and Dave Redford, have joined the alumni ranks. 
At the present writing. Coach Kelleher is combing the squad 
for a trio most likely to combine the necessary speed to snare 
long fly balls and hitting prowess. 

Bob Tourigney, a Senior and reserve fly chaser in 1939 
and 1940, is the sole squad member with Varsity outfield 
experience, and looks to be a fair certainty of annexing one 
of the three pasture vacancies. If not located on first or 
third, Marsolini will probably be another, with the third 
opening likely to be competed for by a score of aspirants, 
including several of the present candidates for battery or 
infield positions. 

The season was to open with a road trip to New Jersey 
with Rutgers and Princeton the foes on April 4 and 'i. 
After drilling indoors in the Lyman Gym cage since Feb. 1 7, 
the squad moved out to Aldrich Field March 27, a bare 
eight days before the first games. •< i 

A Good Fencing Record 

With only theM. I. T. match remaining on April 12, the 
Brown Varsity fencers had suffered only one defeat in their 
1941 campaign. Victims were Tufts, Fordham, Wesleyan, 
and Boston University. 

High scorer on the team is Falcon John, who won 33 of 
45 bouts. He was outstanding with the saber, meeting de- 
feat only three times in 24 bouts. Edward Leif had the 
distinction of winning the foils title in the Yale Invitation 
Tournament in February, in which the team placed a good 
third in a strong field. In dual matches Leif won 16 bouts 
with foil, lost six; his' record with all weapons was 23 wins, 
17 losses. Capt. John MacGregor posted an average of 
about ."iOO with each weapon to become third high man. 
Football tackle Don Corzine had the best record with the 
duelling sword, winning nine of 1 2 bouts. 



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photos of rehearsals for last year's revue hit. Its pub- 
licity department is sure another success awaits in 
1941's "Run for Your Life." 




Dear Alumni: 

For the past few years you have been hearing more and 
more about Brownbrokers. Those of you who have seen 
any of our shows know that your University has a Hve-wire 
musical revue organisation. The contention is further 
borne out by the evidence of CoWier's magazine, which in 
its Nov. 30 issue of last year pointed to Brownbrokers as 
one of the leading musical productions of the country. This 
year's show, "Run for Your Life," will more than bear 
this out. 

We have written the show around Lije Magazine this 
year. By using this background, we hope to overcome some 
of our chronic technical difficulties and still maintain our 



light, fast-moving tempo. Every department has made 
rapid and widespread improvements for the current pro- 
duction. You will have heard at least one of our songs 
presented over the air waves probably before you read this. 

Tom Lomasney '41, the show accompanist, has succeeded 
in having his song, "You Linger Near," published by a 
New York house. We are not unduly optimistic in saying 
that you will hear more of our tunes before opening night. 
May 5. Have you heard any of Fred Waring's recent 
renditions of "In Spring" from last year's show, "Ten to 
One"? He's been playing them by popular request. 

Barbara Ham, our president and choreographer promises 
some exotic new dances — numbers such as The Cuhiana. 



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Letters to the Editor, and many more. Lucile Stark has been 
organizing some clever new skits; Art Bijur and Tom Ryan 
have created and directed the organization of the staging. 
From last year's show Dan Braude, Lois Lindblom, Ginger 
Bowman, and a host of others have come to lend their 
experience to a promising influx of talent from the Fresh' 
man classes of Brown and Pembroke. 

We'll expect to see you, grads, this spring. The ticket 
office will be open on April 21st; make your checks payable 
to Brownbrokers (tickets are $1.35). The show will run 
for six nights; your best bet for good seats will be during 
the week from the ^th to the 8th. We'll see you there. 
Thomas A. Cotter, Jr., 

Publicity Director. 
Federal District Attorney 

► With two Brown graduates sitting on the bench, George 
F. Troy '98 was sworn in last month at the Federal building. 
Providence, as U. S. District Attorney for Rhode Island. 

Federal Circuit Judge John C. Mahoney '05 was present 
to greet his friend and former colleague, and District Court 
Judge John P. Hartigan '10, presiding, congratulated Troy, 
whose nomination by President Roosevelt had been con- 
firmed by the U. S. Senate without discussion. On hand, 
too, to felicitate his successor was Governor J. Howard 
McGrath, who resigned as District Attorney to win in the 
November election the office he now holds. i 

Scholarships for Engineers 

► A Fund of $20,000, income from which is to be used 
in setting up a scholarship for mechanical engineering stu- 
dents, was bequeathed to Brown University under the will 
of Miss Edith Manton, who died March 3. The scholar- 
ships shall bear the name of Frank Stead Manton. i 

Unitarian Leaders 

► Percy W. Gardner '03 has been named to the Council 
of the Unitarian Laymen's League. He is legal adviser to 
the American Unitarian Association and, a former president 
of the League, is now vice-president. J. Ward Healey '01 
is another vice-president and Council member, while Rich- 
mond H. Sweet '25 is Secretary and Council member. Henry 
D. Sharpe '94 is Treasurer. i 



Secret Service Specialist 

► ► Clifton F.^diman calls him "the greatest living 
authority on international secret service," and last month 
Richard Wilmer Rowan '16 published his sixth and latest 
book in the field of his specialty, "Terror in Our Time: the 
Secret Service of Surprise Attack." 

It is vouched for as "the story of the war that did not 
end at "Versailles in 1918 but continued underground and 
ended by joining the Second World War with the First." 
Among the exciting episodes covered are the betrayal of 
the Czechs, the Russo-German pact, the warfare of delay, 
the death of Von Fritsch, the Munich bombing, the track- 
ing of the Graf Spee, Brien's penetration of Scapa Flow, 
and such earlier violences as the murder of Dollfuss and 
Alexander. 

Mr. Rowan started his writing career as a humorist with 
two magazine stories at 16 and a long, humorous Saturday 
Evening Post story at 17. Say his publishers, (Longmans, 
Green and Co.) : "He has needed to keep that sense of 
humor in the grim field which has been his special study 
since 1912. In that year (he would have been a Freshman 
then) he began studying secret service, applied it before 
the war in behalf of autonomy for Central European minor- 
ities, during the war for the United States Chemical War- 
fare Service, and in 1928 began sharing his knowledge 
with the public in 'Spy and Counterspy,' 'Women in Secret 
Service,' 'The Pinkertons, a Detective Dynasty,' 'Spies and 
the Next War,' 'The Story of Secret Service.' Mr. Rowan 
commands international recognition as the authority on his 
subject and all his books have been published abroad, sev- 
eral of them in French, Czech and other translations." 

i i 

At Mortheaslern's Inaugural 

► Dr. Harvey N. Davis '01, President of Stevens Insti- 
tute of Technology, delivered the principal address at the 
inauguration of Carl Stephens Ell as President of North- 
eastern University in Boston. Brown was represented offi- 
cially by the Dean of the Graduate School, Dr. R. G. D. 
Richardson. 



In the Mail 



> ► The joUoi 
own story: 



■;g two letters 



their 



Morris, D-31 
Soldiers Field 
Boston, Mass. 
February 22, 1941 
Dr. Henry M. Wriston 
Brown University 
Dear Dr. Wriston: 

In this morning's T^ew 'Yor\ Times I 
note the gift of $100,000 which has been 
made to Brown for the reconstruction of 
Hope College. 

During my four years at Brown, all of 
them spent in Hope College, I developed 
quite an affection for that old edifice. As a 
consequence I would like to have some part 
in the reconstruction. Despite the fact that 
funds are never too plentiful in graduate 
school I would be glad to subscribe $5 for 
any purpose in connection with the Hope 
College reconstruction. Perhaps other for- 
mer "inmates" would be glad to do like- 



While I was connected with the Herald 
I believe you said you would like to put 
common or reception rooms on the first 
floor of Hope. If this is still your idea, the 
sums contributed by former residents of 
Hope could be used for furnishing these 
rooms. , ,. , 

Very truly yours, 
(Signed) James D. Wilson '39 
* * * 

Dear Mr. Wilson: 

1 am always particularly heartened when 
an alumnus takes the initiative in express- 
ing his feeling about Brown University by 
coming forward with a suggestion, backed 
by a commitment, for furthering a worthy 
cause. 

I should not like to have the University 
undertake any campaign, either among the 
general alumni or among those who lived in 
Hope College during their undergraduate 
days here, but I should like very much to 
use your letter in the Alumni Monthly. 
It might have real value not only in stim- 
ulating others to follow the particular sug- 
gestion you have made but in putting them 
upon the alert to other ways in which they 
could serve the University. 

Sincerely yours, 

Henry M. Wriston 



> Sir: 

1 was delighted to see the item that told 
of Jim Barry's successful bit of publicity on 
behalf of Brown. You will recall that he 
took advantage of Nebraska Rose Bowl 
fever this winter to remind the paper in his 
prairie city of Scottsbluff that his own Alma 
Mater had opened this whole Rose Bowl 
business 25 years ago. 

It just shows what a willing alumnus can 
do to help the cause by taking a little 
trouble. Notice, too, that it was the sort of 
publicity that is definitely favorable to us, 
working in in a fine incidental way the fact 
that we are "one of the oldest colleges in 
the Ivy League, although the smallest." 

More power to men like Jim Barry. 

* * * Bostonian 

At a recent meeting of our Brown Club 
in St. Louis we discussed at considerable 
length many problems concerned with the 
activities of Brown Alumni groups. It was 
interesting to note the extreme interest 
which all members had in the discussions, 
and, though many of them were in the form 
of criticism, 1 feel it is safe to say that the 
suggestions were constructive. 

It was the general feeling that more 
could be done by the Associated Alumni to 



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create greater regional interest. It appears 
that the only meetings that the Brown 
group have had in St. Louis have heen on 
the occasions when Dr. Bigelow has been in 
town — the previous one approximately two 
years ago. If the Alumni organisation 
could possibly arrange to have a traveling 
representative doing work among the va- 
rious groups throughout the country, sim- 
ilar to that which Dr. Bigelow does among 
the schools, it is felt that much greater in- 
terest could be stimulated and maintained. 
^ * if St. Louis 
Sir: 

I was rather moved to read of the bad 
luck of the young fellow who returned to 
Brown after interrupting his college educa- 
tion for several years — only to be killed in 
an accident while he was working during 
Christmas vacation to help earn money for 
his Senior year. 

He thought enough of Brown to come 
back to her, even after being out in busi- 
ness and getting married to boot. Wouldn't 
it be a nice thing if the University awarded 
him his degree posthumously? It would 
mean a lot to his mother and widow. 

Sentimentalist 
* * * 

St. Louis County Health Dept. 
Clayton, Mo. 

I'm in hopes that I can get back for my 
fifth reunion this June: but whether I can 
or not, I feel sure that I will be well posted 
of the activities through the Alumni 
Monthly. I cannot begin to tell you how 
much I look forward to receiving it each 
month. At times I can still imagine myself 
going to Chapel in Sayles Hall or loafing in 
Faunce House. It is swell having mem- 
ories, and I can assure you that they are 
nothing but the most pleasant. 

Leon P. Eisman '36 



► ► A Roundup of Sports 



Football Dates for 1942 

► ► The 1942 Brown varsity eleven will 
play eight games according to the schedule 
released by Thomas W. Taylor, Director of 
Athletics. 

The Bruins will open their campaign 
Oct. 3 with Rhode Island State at Provi- 
dence for the first time since 1939. The 
following week, the team will meet Colum- 
bia in New York City for the second suc- 
cessive year, as the 1941 game with the 
Lions is also listed for New York. 

Lafayette will repay the Bruins' visit of 
this coming fall in the third test, and the 
fourth and fifth games will he played away 
against Princeton and Yale, respectively. 
Brown last met Princeton in 1939. The 
Yale game is a continuation of an unbroken 
series of 60 years" duration. 

In their sixth encounter, the players will 
entertain Holy Cross at Providence for the 
third consecutive season in an extension of 
the annual series with the Crusaders. 

Harvard will be faced at Cambridge in 
the final away game in the continuation of 
another keen rivalry, virtually as old as that 
with Yale. 

A Thanksgiving Day contest with Col- 
gate will conclude the schedule in a revival 
of one of the Turkey Day classics of the 
East. The game will mark the first time the 
Red Raiders have played at Brown Field 
Thanksgiving Day since 1936, prior to 
which the two teams met in numerous 
memorable and important tus.sles, including 
the 1932 game for the mythical Eastern 



"Battle of Long Island" a m 



> ► This was written for his classmates, 
but we think others will be interested, too, 
in what Lieut. James L. Whitcomb '38 has 
to say about service in the Second Opera- 
tion Company at Mitchel Field. The Direc- 
tor of Alumni Relations seems to be obey- 
ing the old Army precept, "Keep Cool.": 

At one low moment of mine in this man's 
Army, I had intended to give all of you a 
bit of the lighter side of the life military, 
hut tonight I feel very unfunny. Despite 
194rs marvelous scientific achievements, 
nobody has yet designed a composition 
board building that can withstand more 
than a zephyr. So, having stuifed all the 
gaps with dirty shirts and old socks, I am 
tuning in some hot radio music in an en- 
deavor to keep warm. So these are chat- 
tered jottings. 

When I left for my year's active duty, 
my commission clutched firmly in one hand 
and the "Do and don't Manual" in the 
other, I half hoped that the little girl who 
said goodbye on the station platform would 
think of me as returning with that gaunt 
weatherbeaten look of the old campaigner. 
But NO! I've gained 10 pounds. 

Two things a Second Lieutenant learns 
very quickly; he is referred to as a Shave- 
tail or a Jeep, and old-time army sergeants 
speak fondly of having their Second Lieu- 
tenants for breakfast (very good with a 
little marmalade). And one doesn't refer 
to these new bachelor officer quarter as 



"barracks" . . . they're called "Horrible 
Heights." 

But barken, all ye civilians, don't let 
anyone tell you that this is a lazy life. 
Some day when this battle of Long Island 
is over, I shall thumb my nose at a six 
a. m. alarm clock and revel in strolling into 
an office at nine. Worse yet, some darned 
adjutant is always thinking up pleasant 
duties like making you officer of the day, 
which shouldn't be "day" at all, because it 
keeps you up all night. Right now, all 
lieutenants at Mitchel Field finish their day's 
work and then report to a Spanish class, 
and brother, in Uncle Samuel's little school, 
there isn't any such animal as a class cut! 
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Mrs. Crotvley Aneiv 
► "Says Mrs. Crowley, Says She" is Doran 
Hurley's latest book about the outspoken 
Mrs. Crowley, embodiment of the virtues 
and ideals of the Irish in a New England 
mill town. This is the third book — Long- 
mans, Green 6# Co. is the publisher — that 
Hurley '26 has written concerning Mrs. 
Crowley. 

"Here," the Hew York Herald Tribime 
reviewer said, "we have a more complete 
view of her life and what she thinks about 
it. Mrs, Crowley has positive views on 
many topics — sermons, church holidays, 
fifth columns, books, and the home of het 
ancestors. Mr. Hurley reports her with ad- 
miration and zest." i 

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crown and the 1926 engagement in which 
the Brown "Iron Men" were held to a 
10-10 draw after bowling over all previous 
opposition. 

The 1942 Schedule: Oct. 3 — Rhode 
Island State at Providence; Oct. 10 — Co- 
lumbia at New York City; Oct. 17 — Lafa- 
yette at Providence; Oct. 24 — Princeton at 
Princeton; Oct. 31 — Yale at New Haven; 
Nov. 7 — Holy Cross at Providence; Nov. 
14 — Harvard at Cambridge; Thanksgiving 
Day — Colgate at Providence. 

The 1941 Schedule: Sept. 27— Wes- 
leyan at Providence; Oct. 4 — Columbia at 
New York; Oct. 1 1— Rhode Island at Prov- 
idence; Oct. 18 — Tufts at Providence; Oct. 
21 — Lafayette at Easton; Nov. 1 — Yale at 
New Haven; Nov. 8 — Holy Cross at Provi- 
dence; Nov. 15 — Harvard at Cambridge; 
Thanksgiving Day — Rutgers at Providence. 
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Surrender of a Croicn 
► ► The nine-year reign of Brown in the 
New England college swimming champion- 
ships ended last month in the new M. I. T. 
Alumni Pool when the pre-meet favorite, 
Springfield College, led the field. Brown 
hopes, given encouragement in the trial 
heats, slipped back again when Springfield 
conducted a counter-attack in these quar- 
ters. Coach Barry's game squad collected 
30 points, however, to tie Amherst for third 
position. Others finished as follows: Spring- 
field 43, Williams 34, Bowdoin 18, Massa- 
chusetts State 15, Trinity 12. M. I. T. 4, 
Wesleyan 2, Worcester, Boston University 
and Connecticut 0. 

Bob Schaper of Brown won the 50-yard 
freestyle championship but was unable to 
hold his other New England college crown 
in the 100-yard dash when Dave Tyler of 
Trinity slid into the finish line with him. 
Without protesting the result of the meet. 
Brown asked to have the rules clarified when 
first-place judges picked Schaper first, sec- 
ond-place judges picked him second. 

The only N. E. I. S. A. record to fall was 
that for the 400-yard Freshman freestyle 
relay, won by Joyner, Berns, Capouch and 
Carson of Brown. Their time, 3:45.1, re- 
places that set by Brown Freshmen in 1938 
— 3:48.4. Sherb Carter of Brown was right 
on Schaper's heels in each of the shorter 
swims, taking second in the 50 and third in 
the 100. George Gibbons, title-holder in 
the 200-yard breaststrokc, had to be content 
with a fourth and was second in the 300- 
yard medley. Other points for the Bear 
were scored by Gernon, fifth in the 440; 
Gossler, fourth in the dives; and the free- 
style relay, fourth. 

On the qualifying night Schaper set a 
new record of 23.7 seconds when he led the 
50-yard swimmers. Gibbons had led the 
field in the medley preliminaries, while 
Irvine, fourth qualifier in the dives, dropped 
down in the finals. Burgess won his heat 
but failed to qualify in the breaststroke. 

By taking fifth place in the 50 and 100- 
yard freestyle. Bob Schaper gave Brown 
two points and a tie for 1 1th place in the 
National Collegiate A. A. championships in 
Michigan. His time in the 100 was 53.3. 
Ahead of Brown in the final standing were: 
Michigan, Yale, Ohio State, Wayne, Prince- 
ton, Minnesota, Iowa, Occidental, Massa- 
chusetts State, and Williams. i ^ 



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The Broivn Itilerscholastics 

y Pavi-ticket East High School, with a 
victory in the crucial relay, took first place 
from Hotchkiss School in the Brown Inter- 
scholastics, March 8. There were no rec- 
ords broken, but, despite a bliszard, a 
strong field of schoolboy stars was on hand 
for the competition. Points were scored as 
follows: Pawtucket East 41, Hotchkiss 
351/2, Worcester Academy 32I/2, St. 
George's 2II/2, Hebron 12, Pawtucket 
West 6, Moses Brown 5/2. Dean Acad- 
emy 2. 

Only double winner was Ralph Gossler 
of the winners, who captured both 50 and 
inn-yard freestyle events, being close to the 
records with respective times of 24.6 and 
54.6 seconds. Other champions were 
crowned as follows: inO-yard breaststroke 
— Deckel of Worcester (1:9.2). 200-yard 
freestyle — Glynn of Hebron (2:9.9). 100 
backstroke — Kluttig of Pawtucket East 
(1:9.8). Dive — Capparelli of Pawtucket 
West. 150-yard medley relay — Hotchkiss 
(1:29). 200-yard freestyle relay — Paw- 
tucket East (1 :44). < 

Host lo Hockey Players 

> Brown University was host to the eight 
schoolboy hockey teams competing in the 
New England Interscholastic Hockey Tour- 
nament at the Rhode Island Auditorium 
early last month, at a luncheon in Faunce 
House Art Gallery, the following Univer- 
sity officials were introduced: Thomas W. 
Taylor, Director of Athletics: William K. 



Sclden, Admis.sions Officer; and James H. 
Case, Jr., Secretary of the University. Alum- 
ni attending were: Edward T. Richards '27, 
President of the Brown Club of Providence: 
Louis A. R. Pieri '20, manager of the audi- 
torium; Eliot G. Parkhurst '09 and Everett 
Eynon '29. The Providence Brown Club 
co-operated. 

The teams entertained were from Crans- 
ton High School, Melrose, Mass., High 
School, Dover, N. H., High School, Need- 
ham, Mass., High School, West Haven, 
Conn., High School, West Springfield, 
Mass., High School, and WaterviUe, Me., 
High School. They made a tour of the 
campus and the athletic plant after lunch. 

No members of a Brown Varsity team 
could greet the schoolboys, although a 
dozen undergraduates and recent grads 
played last winter in the Rhode Island in- 
ter-city league, and Brunonians Bob Priest- 
ley and Larry Cousins were paired on the 
defense by the Rhode Island Scarlets, New 
England amateur title-holders. 



Guests of the University 

► With headquarters of the Sixth Army 
Corps now located in the old Hope Street 
High School in Providence, Brown Univer- 
sity athletic authorities have extended their 
co-operation to the new unit. A University 
field adjoining Marvel Gymnasium is being 
used for drill purposes by the soldiers, while 
a lecture room in the Gym is being used as 
an Army classroom. The Sixth Corps men 
are being admitted free to all Brown ath- 
letic contests this year. 



With the Brown Clubs m < 



Boston 

> y Efforts of the club are now focussed 
on the annual banquet which will be held at 
the University Club in Boston on Wednes- 
day evening, April 16. Speakers will be 
President Henry M. Wriston, president of 
the University, and Dr. Claude M. Fucss, 
Headmaster of Phillips Andover Academy. 
Guests of honor will be "Skip" Stahley, the 
new football coach, and John R. Marsolini 
"41, former scholarship winner of the club 
who has made an outstanding record on the 
campus. 

Preceding the banquet, the annual meet- 
ing of club members will take place at 6:15 
o'clock, followed by a reception at 6:30 
o'clock and dinner at 7 o'clock. The banquet 
committee is composed of the following: 
William P. Burnham '07, chairman, Fred 
W. Woodcock "91, Frank W. Campbell "00, 
Che.ster L. Nourse "09, Earle W. Bates "12, 
Edwin M. Murphy '19, Edwin A. Cole, Jr. 
"24, Philip M. Lingham "30, Paul Mackesy 
"32, F. Hartwell Swaffield '37 and Ernest T. 
Clough '20, treasurer. 

On the evening of March 17 at the Uni- 
versity Club in Boston, the Alumni Fund 
held its annual Boston dinner for associate 
class agents in that area. The speakers were 
former Judge John S. Murdock '96, Arthur 
Philbrick '03 and James W. Gurll, execu- 
tive secretary of the Fund. James S. East- 
ham '19 presided. 

Dr. Theodore Collier, Professor of His- 
tory and International Relations at Brown, 
was the speaker at the luncheon of the 
Brown Club of Boston held at the Chamber 
of Commerce on March 4. His subject was 
"The War in the Near East." About 3 5 



Brown men attended and listened with rapt 
attention to his masterly interpretation of 
war developments in the Near East and, 
during the question period, in the war as a 
whole. The speaker was cordially greeted 
by former students in his classes on the Hill. 
Royal W. Leith '12, president of the Club 
presided. Others seated at the head table 
were George S. Burgess ' 1 2, Fred W. Wood- 
cock '91 and Ernest T. Clough "20, secre- 
tary-treasurer of the Club. ^ 

Northeastern New York 

> The Brown Club of Northeastern New 
York had the privilege and pleasure of en- 
tertaining Dr. Bruce Bigelow and Secretary 
Jim Case at the University Club in Albany, 
Thursday evening, March 13. 

The meeting consisted of an informal 
dinner and round table discussion covering 
such items as the four course plan, defense 
activities. Alumni Advisory Council meet- 
ings and the new football coach. After 
dinner Furber I. Marshall with his usual 
wit and forensic ability presented a framed 
resolution to R. Forster '03, past President 
of the Club, citing him for his poor though 
loud singing, his nagging for contributions 
to the Alumni Fund and his great ability in 
having most of the meetings in Albany. In 
accepting this tribute. Bob humbly ac- 
knowledged his many failings as cited. 

Bruce Bigelow gave an interesting ac- 
count of his travels west, visiting secondary 
schools and told us of the great activity on 
the hill in connection with National De- 
fense, and the important part Brown and 
Dr. Wriston are taking. 

He then introduced Jim Case whom most 



of us had not met. Mr. Case held forth in 
a delightfully informal manner telling us 
briefly what he was trying to accomplish 
and what improvements might be made in 
the activities of the Advisory Council. 

Lively discussion on many subjects fol- 
lowed and the meeting adjourned about 
10:30 P. M. so as to allow our guests some 
leisure before leaving for Providence. 

Those present were: J. G. Baxter '31, 
H. A. Dodge '20, R. K. Dewey "20, W. E. 
Easton '36, A. J. Eckert, Jr. '32, R. Forster 
"03, H. W. Hastings 'n4, W. G. Hardy '31, 
Dr. H. W. Lyall "n8, J. D. Mann '37, F. I. 
Marshall '19, H. E. Pratt '11, M. Posner 
'39, C. W. Paland (Father of Dick "43), 
W. J. Ross "19, W. S. Stedman '27, F. B. 
Saunders (Father of Bill '43), E. W. J. 
Turnbull '32, S. Vint Van Derzce '32, R. S. 
Walters '31, C. E. Martin '23, F. D. Covert 
'34, and Prof. R. S. Thomson "12. 

To date: 17% of our club membership 
have contributed $250.00 to the Alumni 
Fund. Let"s make that 1007c. That would 
mean at least $800.00. 

> H. A. Dodge '20 of Albany is president 
of the Brown University Club of North- 
eastern New York this year, with the fol- 
lowing aides: Vice-President — S. Vint Van- 
Derzee '3 2 of Albany; Secretary and Treas- 
urer — W. E. Easton '36 of Delman: Exec- 
utive Committee— R. S. Walter "31 of 
Albany, H. N. Lonergan "20 of Albany, 
Robert Forster '03 of Albany, J. Gordon 
Baxter '31 of Troy, Furber I. Marshall '19 
of Troy, F. C. Schmidt '27 of Schenectady, 
Simon England, Jr., '3 5 of Pittsfield, and 
G. A. Rothschild of Gloversvillc. 

Oregon 

> The second meeting of the Brown Uni- 
versity Club of Oregon was held Jan. 25 at 
the Roosevelt Hotel, with Rev. Frederick 
A. McDonald, formerly rector of S. Steph- 
en's Church in Providence, and Francis 
Jackson, a senior at Benson Tech and pros- 
pective Brown man, as guests. 

Members of this newest link in the chain 
of Brown Clubs include: Edward F. Bar- 
rows '23, J. W. Butler '95, Frank Miller 
Chapman, Curtis C. Curry '03, Edward A. 
Fontaine '38, Robert Forbis '20, Dr. Ernest 
H. Gilbert '00, Ashley Greene '21, Paul S. 
Guilford '99, Carl W. Hagquist '34, P. 
Douglas McPhee '11, Capt. F. P. Miller, 
Jr., "27, Sumner C. Mitchell "26, Howard 
R. Ferris '14, Claude E. Stevens '01, Ralph 
E, Storey '99, Paul F. Thomas '28, J. Mark 
Wade '16, John J. Walsh "32, and John B. 
Woods '12. 

New York 

> Preparations for two major dinners 
kept New York's executive secretary, Wil- 
liam Bree. Jr., on an overtime schedule, but 
they promised to be successful affairs. The 
first, on March 26, was the annual gather- 
ing of Fathers of Undergraduates, long 
since past the experimental stage. The fol- 
lowing Thursday, April 3, "Skip" Stahley, 
new head football coach, was to be the 
guest of the Club at a "First Down" dinner 
at the club headquarters. During the in- 
terval in Spring practice occasioned by 
vacation on the Hill, Stahley planned the 
New York visit to meet alumni there, talk 
over plans for 1941, and describe the sys- 
tem of play he is installing at Brown. 

W. Earl Sprackling '12. former All- 
American quarterback, was to be toast- 
master. R. Kenneth Fairman, graduate 
manager of athletics at Princeton, was 
scheduled to speak of the effect of the 
draft on college sports. 



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The last we heard the Brown University 
Club's "B" Team was holding fourth place 
in the Metropolitan Squash Racquets Asso- 
ciation League. Far ahead of Harvard, 
Yale, Dartmouth, and Columbia, the Bru- 
nonians were led by the Downtown A. C, 
Cornell, and their club neighbors. Prince- 
ton. Playing for Brown were: A. I. Gilbert 
'26, P. D. O'Brien '27, F. D. Gurll '31, 
W. A. Stephens '26, and D. H. Scott '3 2. 
At the time, the "C" Team was sixth in its 
league. Brown's players there were Gurll, 
Stephens, Scott, W. S. Davidson '3 1, W. T. 
Hoyt '28, F. A. Forbes '38, and H. S. 
Butler '31. 

iVeie York's Fund Agents 

► The New York City-New Jersey Asso- 
ciated Agents for the Brown Alumni Fund 
met for dinner at the Brown University 
Club of New York Feb. 27. Twenty-four 
men were present at the dinner which was 
given by the University under the direction 
of Prof. William W. Browne '08, district 
agent of the Fund, who was also toastmaster 
at the dinner. 

Arthur L. Philbrick '03, Chairman of the 
Brown Alumni Fund Trustees; Ralph M. 
Palmer '10, member of the Corporation of 
the University, Trustee of the Alumni Fund 
and President of the Brown Club of New 
York: and James 'W. Gurll '38, Executive 
Secretary of the Fund, addressed the meet- 
ing. Mr. Philbrick briefly described the 
financial condition of the University and 
explained the imnortance which the Alumni 
Fund plays in the financial burden. Mr. 
Palmer spoke of the loyalty of Brown men. 
The Executive Secretary revealed that the 
New York Alumni are making rapid strides 
toward achieving the objective they have 
set for themselves. A lively discussion in 
which all participated featured the dinner. 

Agents present were: Harry G. Reming- 
ton '27, Fred A. Forbes '38, William W. 
Browne, Jr. '38, Jeremiah Holmes '02, Sam 
Cohen '02, William A. Bree, Jr. '3 5, Charles 
Eber.-^tadt '34, Leonard P. Sayles '23, 
George Schwenck '3 2, Warren S. Davidson 
'31, Walter L. Bopp '3 5, Philip R. Sisson 
"17, Charles B. Fernald '01, Edward How- 
ell, Jr. '19, J. J. Riley '16, Edward Beam 
'03, James Gorton '25. Frank McEvoy '39, 
W. Eugene San Filippo '37, and Mortimer 
L. Taylor '3 3. 

New York Picks Bree 

► ► William A. Bree, Jr., '3 5 has been 
appointed Executive Secretary of the Brown 
Club in New York to succeed Fred A. 
Forbes "38, Ralph M. Palmer '10, President 
of the Club, announced at its annual din- 
ner. Feb. 10. 

Bree, who was active in extra-curricular 
activities as an undergraduate, was class 
poet, associate editor of the Daily Herald 
and a member of the freshman swimming 
team. A member of Delta Tau Delta fra- 
ternity, he was president of the chapter in 
his senior year. 

Since graduation he has been engaged in 
newspaper and promotional work in Con- 
necticut and New York and has served as 
editorial writer for the >iew Haven Journal- 
Courier, staff reporter on the T^ew Tor?; 
Evening Journal and publicity director of 
the Connecticut State Department of La- 
bor. 

He is the son of William A. Bree, clerk 
of the Superior Court in New Haven, and 
Mrs. Bree. 

Forbes, whom Bree succeeds, has been 



secretary of the Club for the past 
two and one-half years. He resigns to enter 
business in New York. Forbes has had 
much of the executive responsibility of the 
University's largest and most active alumni 
club. The club has grown in membership 
and prominence during his term as man- 
ager. 

Alta California 
► The annual dinner meeting of the Brown 
Club of Alta California was held at the 
University Club, San Francisco, Feb. 8. 

Dr. T. Harper Goodspeed '09, Professor 
of Botany, and Director of the Botanical 
Gardens, University of California, gave a 
most interesting talk on "Political Condi- 
tions in the Countries of South America." 
He described the historic and racial back- 
grounds of each of the larger South Amer- 
ican countries, the political aspects of their 
present governments, and suggested a pro- 
gram that we as Northern neighbors should 
try to constructively carry out, in order to 
build up the spirit of understanding and 
good will so urgently needed at this time, 
between these two great Western Conti- 
nents. At the close of this informative talk, 
those present asked Dr. Goodspeed many 
questions, showing the interest in the sub- 
ject and in South America. 

George F. Weston '78 was present and 
gave an account of the Commencement ex- 
ercises which he attended in 1938 and again 
last year. Mr. Weston also showed us in- 
teresting pictures of some members of the 
Class of 1878, from the class album made 
up at the time of their graduation. George 
Weston is the oldest alumnus in our Club, 
and his presence added a great deal to the 
enjoyment of the evening. 

All present voted that the evening's fine 
program was one that long will be remem- 
bered. 

Our President, Nathaniel Blaisdell, Class 
of '83, presided in his usual urbane and 
effective manner, and received the thanks 
of the Club for providing the beautiful 
table decorations and bountiful refresh- 
ments. Mr. Blaisdell was elected President 
of the Club for the 43rd year in succession, 



and F. E. Roper "II was elected Secretary 
and Treasurer. Others present were: 
Douglas Allan '38, Curtis P. Brace '30, 
David L. Bruce '08, Haven A. Cobb "08, 
David G. Goddard '24, F. Marshall Jencks 
'11, Claire S. Johnston '11, Dr. Alexander 
Meiklejohn '93, S. Lyman Mitchell '12, 
Roland J. Morgan '13, Anthony P. Morse 
'37, Dr. Richard R. Perkins '99, Frederic 
R. Roper '23, Bertram Smith '09, Stewart 
D. Weston '08, and T. D. Woodbury '03. 
F. E. R. 
Providence 

> "Skip" Stahley has a Brown football 
of his own now after attending the Prov- 
idence Brown Club luncheon Feb. 24 in the 
Crown Hotel. Athletic Director Thomas 
W. Taylor presented the pigskin to him 
with the exhortation to carry it without any 
interceptions, incompletions or fumbles. 
With the ball went the official good wishes 
of the University, for the Athletic Council 
was well represented at the head table. The 
new coach made a fine impression with his 
modest, sincere intentions, and he assured 
the alumni of a welcome during Spring 
practice. 

"Tuss" McLaughry also was present to 
receive honest compliments from presiding 
officer Edward T. Richards. In addition to 
receiving the good wishes of the gathering, 
he assured the Providence Club that a coach 
of outstanding ability had been acquired in 
Stahley. 

President Edward T. Richards '27 repre- 
sented the Club at the 12th annual Varsity 
Night of the British Empire Club in Provi- 
dence. Prof. Herbert N. Couch of Brown 
was toastmaster, while Vice-President 
Adams, Charles J. Hill '16, President of the 
University Club, Capt. Keppler, and four 
undergraduates were also guests of the Club. 

Harlford 

> Vice-President Paul E. Monahan '31 
is directing the activities of the Hartford 
Brown Club, following the departure of 
David R. Allen '34 to Boston. Mr. Mona- 
han is with the Orkil Electric Company, 
175 Ann St. 



► ► Bears for These Three 



No fairy tale uas the story of the Three 
Bears atvarded again this year by the New 
York Brown Club to outstanding alumni. In 
presenting the 1941 statuettes, replicas of 
the bronze Bruno, John T. Tinterirh '12 
read the following citations: 



William W. Browne '08 

► ► You see betore you the author of 
"The Presence of Bacillus Coli and the 
Bacillus Welchii in the Intestinal Tract of 
Fish" — or "Twenty Thousand Leagues Un- 
der the Sea." This popular work followed 
several only less widely read successes, 
among them "The Significance of the Time 
at Which Gas is Produced in Lactose Pep- 
tone Bile," "Semipermeable Membranes 
and Capsules," and "A Comparative Study 
of the Smith Fermentation Tube and the 
Inverted Vial in the Determination of 
Sugar Fermentation." 

Bill Browne was born under the shadow 
as well as under the name of Brown Uni- 



versity, where he received his A.B. in 1908, 
his A.M. in 1909, and his Ph.D. in 1912. 
Since 1912 he has been a member of the 
faculty of the College of the City of New 
York, for five years as instructor in biology, 
for the next ten as assistant professor, for 
the next ten as associate professor, and since 
then — we are now at 1937, in case you have 
lost track — as full professor of biology and 
chief of the division of bacteriology. He is a 
member of a dozen scientific societies, and 
holds or has held professional positions as a 
research expert for local, state and federal 
investigating groups, as well as for numer- 
ous private industries. 

But it is not exclusively for his biological 
and bacteriological attainments, his odd 
passion for fish bowels, that the Brown Club 
of New York has selected him for special 
citation tonight. It is also for his contin- 
uous and continuing loyalty and devotion 
to Brown University. As a trustee of the 
Alumni Fund, and in particular as district 
agent for the fund in the New York City- 



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New Jersey area, he has rendered sterling 
and practical service to his alma mater. Of 
the total increase in the fund last year, the 
New York City-New Jersey area registered 
53 per cent. Of new subscribers, this same 
area accounted for 47 per cent of the in- 
crease. Bill Browne did not do this all by 
himself, as he would be the first to insist, 
but he was the spearhead of the movement. 
He has been known to employ guile and 
subterfuge in furthering this endeavor, on 
the theory that the end justifies the means. 
If Dr. and Mrs. Browne invite you for an 
evening of bridge, do not go unless you are 
prepared to devote the entire time to Brown 
Alumni Fund correspondence. He sent his 
sons. Bill, Jr., and George, to Brown. Dr. 
Browne meantime is continuing his investi- 
gations into the habits of halophilic, helio- 
philic, and thermophilic bacteria, and con- 
tinuing as well to provide an admirable 
case history of an alumnus who is acutely 
infected by the bacillus Brunensis, which is 
a highly beneficent organism. i 

William Earl Sprackling '12 

> Out of Cleveland, Ohio, in the fall of 
1908, over the Lake Shore and the New 
York Central and the Boston 6? Albany to 
Worcester, and thence over the New Haven 
Railroad to Providence, came a youth who 
was to make football history. He weighed 
then, as he weighs now, 135 pounds; he 
was then, and looks still, 18 years old. He 
is a grandfather who might be taken for his 
own grandson. He has three daughters and 
two granddaughters, and one of the grand- 
daughters is a year older than one of the 
daughters — in other words, the niece is a 
year older than her aunt. But we antici- 
pate. 

Sprack played football at Brown for four 
years, in a day when quarterbacks really 
ran teams. His most sensational contribu- 
tions to the legendry of the game were a 
105-yard runback of a kickoff in the Car- 
lisle game in 1909, played at the Polo 
Grounds in New York, and three dropkick 
goals from the field in the devastating and 
tumultuous victory over Yale in 1910. 
That was before everybody had begun to 



push Yale around — when besting the Bull- 
dog was as tough a proposition as blasting 
the Brown Bomber would be today. That 
year Sprack was all-American quarterback. 
In that distant era picking all-American 
elevens was not the autumnal pastime of 
every crossroads sports editor; there was one 
all-American team, and Walter Camp was 
its prophet. Then, of course, Sprack went 
on to captain the 191 1 team. 

Then Sprack won his biggest game of all. 
He did not let hero-worship such as has 
been accorded no other athlete in Brown 
history go to his head. He took his diploma 
and went to work, first for the J. C. Hall 
Company of Providence and four years 
later for the Tubular Woven Fabric Com- 
pany of Pawtucket, where he became gen- 
eral manager and later president. When 
the Tubular joined the Anaconda Wire 6? 
Cable Company in 1929 Sprack became 
vice-president of the Anaconda in charge of 
sales. For 12 years he has been a member 
of the board of governors of the National 




SPRACKLING 



Electrical Manufacturers Association, and 
he is now its vice-president. This year he is 
secretary of the Electrical Manufacturers 
Club, and he is also chairman of the execu- 
tive committee of the National Adequate 
Wiring Bureau. 

His interest in football — specifically 
Brown football — has continued since his 
graduation, and he has served as assistant 
coach under Doc Robinson and Tuss 
McLaughry. He has been a member of the 
Athletic Council of the College, and a gov- 
ernor of the Brown Club of New York. 
Brown has deserved well of him, and he of 
Brown. i 

Quentin Reynolds '24 

► This fugitive from a football training 
table, this retired and undefeated heavy- 
weight boxing champion of Brown Univer- 
sity, likes to refer to himself, for reasons 
that are not immediately apparent, as "one 
of the little men." 

He is that rare creature, a native of New 
York City. His father was principal of the 



public schools of Brooklyn, in which bor- 
ough our hero grew up and up and up. 
Following his graduation from Brown he 
attended Brooklyn Law School, and sand- 
wiched in a law degree between bouts of 
newspaper work, first on the Broo\lyn 
Times and then on the 'fiew Tor\ Evening 
World. It would be unfair to draw any 
special inferences from the fact that these 
publications no longer exist. 

When the Hew Tork Telegram absorbed 
the World, it absorbed Reynolds too, but 
not for long. He went over to the Inter- 
national News Service, where he won fame 
by his coverage of the loss of the naval 
dirigible Akron in 1933. Later that year 
he went to Germany. In 1934 he joined the 
staff of Collier's as associate editor, turning 
out an amount of copy that must have de- 
lighted his ancient preceptors in the Brown 
English department — an article every two 
weeks on the average, plus numerous short 
stories for frosting. 

Before the war-that-was-to-be became the 
war-that-is, he made two more trips to 
Europe, and when the blow finally fell he 
returned to Europe on a roving commission 
that took him first to France, where he was 
the last to leave Paris, and later Bordeaux, 
before the entry of the German invaders. 
Then he went to England, with results that 
require neither elucidation nor embroidery 
here. He became a war correspondent in an 
era in which war comes to the correspond- 
ent — an era in which front line and rear 
area are indistinguishable, in which soldier 
and civilian are one. 

Since his return to America a few weeks 
since, this latter-day Patrick Henry has been 
expounding the cause of liberty through 
every channel of communication known to 
man, and he has proved himself an adept 
in all of them. But first and last he is a re- 
porter — a reporter who can both chronicle 
fact and interpret emotion, a quality that is 
often more factual than fact, more redoubt- 
able than bombs, a reporter who observes 
with heart as well as with eye. The Brown 
Club of New York has selected him for 
signal honor. Let us now see if he can 
take it. i * 




REYNOLDS 



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Advisory Council Echoes 



4 < 



► > Athi.ktic Director Thomas W. Tay- 
lor made a hit with his frank discussion of 
affairs in his department. He said the ath- 
letic program was of greater importance 
than ever before, in view of the national 
emergency and its effect on the student 
body. "In times like these," he said, "we 
need to do everything we can to offset the 
uncertainty and questioning and other dis- 
turbing elements which are very much on 
students" minds. As a morale builder, our 
athletic program has a valuable place and 
we shall do everything we can to keep it 
running smoothly." 

A report on the Yachting Program, sub- 
mitted to the Advisory Council by A. 
Chester Snow '07, chairman of the Brown 
University Nautical Advisory Board, re- 
vealed the fact that a new faculty advisor 
has been named for the Yacht Club. "Since 
the Yacht Club's faculty advisor is also a 
lieutenant colonel in the National Guard," 
Mr. Snow noted, "we are losing the services 
of Prof. Zenas R. Bliss '18, famed as navi- 
gator on the last two America's Cup De- 
fenders. We are fortunate, however, in en- 
listing the counsel of Commander Charles 
L. Andrews, Jr., U. S. N., stationed at 
Brown in connection with the Naval 
R.O.T.C. unit. H. Stanton Smith '21 has 
agreed to help the cause as sailing master." 

This year a new permanent trophy will 
go into competition for the first time when 
the Brown Yacht Club holds its annual 
Invitation Intercollegiate Regatta, recog- 
nized as one of the important meets by the 
Intercollegiate Yacht Racing Association. 
The trophy has been presented by Zechariah 
Chafee '80 of the Board of Fellows. This 
brings to four the permanent trophies put 
up for competition under the Brown yacht- 
ing program. The others are: the Newhard 
Trophy for the Interscholastic Regatta, the 
Thurber Trophy for the Alumni Day races 
between alumni and undergraduates, and 
the Interfraternity Trophy presented by 
the Narragansett Bay Chapter of the North 
American Dinghy Racing Association, 
which has given encouragement to the 
students since they first organised their 
club. 

Although President Walter Moving '20 
was authorized to appoint six Directors-at- 
Large in the Associated Alumni at the time 
of the Advisory Council meeting in Febru- 
ary, he notified the meeting that he thought 
it preferable to leave those appointments 
for the man who will succeed him m June. 
They would not take office until that time 
anyway, and Mr. Hoving's action permits 
the new President to select a larger number 
of his official 



> W. Randolph Burgess "12 raised these 
questions at the Advisory Council: what 
has happened to the old Visiting Commit- 
tees? Were they useful as contacts between 
Alumni and Faculty in fields of mutual in- 
terest? Should these committees be re- 
vived? In reply. President Wriston said 
that it all depends on the department and 
the committee. Chemistry still has its active 
group, with an important report made an- 
nually by Prof. Kraus. Music Department's 
committee is still a useful instrument, too. 
The Visiting Committee idea, he said, is a 
good idea, "but I don't want them if we 



have to pump oxygen into them." The 
interest must come from the visitors, he 
said: if they had an interest, the University 
would be only too happy to foster that 
interest. 

Several alumni have raised the point that 
it would seem advisable to record publicly 
such contributions as are made to class en- 
dowment or insurance funds, as well as 
gifts to the Alumni Fund. The Fund at 
present does not list such extra contribu- 
tions, but the Trustees are considering the 
matter. 

The preparation of written reports was 
a popular innovation at this year's Advisory 
Council meetings. Besides presenting this 
material in more permanent form, the meth- 
od permitted the inclusion of information 
on a far wider scope than ever before and 
yet took up less time from the meeting 
proper. The way was thus cleared for more 
discussion based on the reports. Another 
year, following a good suggestion from the 
floor, those reports will be prepared earlier 
and mailed to members of the Council so 
that they can educate themselves at greater 
leisure and perhaps with more profit to the 
actual meetings. 

Six men were named to vacancies in the 
company of Alumni Fund Trustees, follow- 
ing nomination by the Executive Commit- 
tee and recommendations by the incumbent 
Trustees. William A. Graham '16, George 
T. Metcalf '13, and Albert L. Parks '26 
were re-elected. New Trustees are Richard 
A. Bowen "31, Elmer S. Morton '10, and 
Edward T. Richards '27. 

Asked why there were no teams repre- 
senting Brown University in hockey, wrest- 
ling, and lacrosse any more. President Wris- 
ton told the Advisory Council that the 
situation was strictly a financial one. "The 
sports will be restored as soon as it is 
possible to restore them," he said. Praising 
the acumen of Athletic Director Taylor, he 
said he believed in cutting the cloth to suit 



the purse. "It is better not to have teams 
than to pretend to have them and starve 
them." 

► Edwin B. Mayer '09, President of the 
Chicago Brown Club, received a great hand 
when he spoke briefly to the Advisory 
Council. Me told of his appreciation at 
being back on the campus and hearing the 
frank discussions. "I see the problems more 
clearly now," he said, "and I realize how 
many of our complaints are due to lack of 
understanding." He was glad to see Presi- 
dent Wriston again and assured him of 
Middle West loyalty. Chicago Brown men 
hoped that the athletic authorities would 
again find it possible to schedule a game in 
their region. "This time their opponents 
might not fold up before the game took 
place," he said, referring to the dropping 
of football at Chicago the year Brown was 
to inaugurate honie-and-home gridiron re- 
lationships with that institution. 

"We have been disappointed in the 
failure of the new Alumni Suite at the 
Providence Biltmore Hotel to serve any 
appreciable or valid purpose," said a report 
to the Advisory Council. These quarters 
were provided at considerable expense after 
the 1940 Advisory Council had expressed 
an interest in a social headquarters for 
Brown men that would "improve the tech- 
nique of welcoming out-of-town Alumni 
who return to the campus." The fact that 
the Suite has been little used in nine months' 
time, even by Providence men, would seem 
to indicate that this particular arrangement 
is not the solution of the problem. 

An earlier plan had been to seek an ar- 
rangement with the University Club in 
Providence, but this was not attractive to 
the Club. Originally, it had been suggested 
that an Alumni Mouse be provided. That 
seemed to involve not only the question, as 
President Wriston put it, of who was to be 
night clerk, but also of financing adequate 
quarters without a wider demand. 

It was voted by the Advisory Council to 
extend its gratitude to the University for 
financing the .$1500 experiment at the Bilt- 
more and to discontinue the maintenance 
of the Suite. < i 



► ► Brunoniaiis Far and Near 



1871 

^ ► The Alumni Association of Putnam 
High School in Connecticut is collecting 
date for a history of the school. When it 
first opened in 1873. Latham Fitch was its 
first principal. 

1881 
Frank M. Gilford had the pleasure of a 
visit from two members of the administra- 
tive staff recently in his New Bedford home. 
Frank is enjoying good health and is active 
in civic affairs. 

1884 
Edwin C. Gammage, active class agent 
for the Alumni Fund, reports that the class 
is pointing toward a record number of con- 
tributions this year. 

1886 
Prof. Albert K. Potter is seen occasionally 
at luncheon at the new Faculty Club, 1 
Megee St. 

1887 

Dr. Edmund D. Chesbro had the pleasure 

recently of announcing that the class has 



already pledged 100% support of the Alum- 
ni Fund and has passed its quota. 

1890 

Rev. William T. Green, pastor of Natick 
Baptist Church for nearly 47 years, led the 
list of ministers honored by members of the 
Baptist Ministers" Conference at the March 
meeting in Providence for 10 or more years 
of service in Rhode Island. Mr. Green read 
a paper on experiences during his pastorate, 
the only one he has held. 

Henry R. Palmer's daughter, Mary Bab- 
cock Palmer, wrote two highly readable 
articles about Australia and Australians in 
the war for recent issues of the special sec- 
tion, Profideitce Su7iday Journal. Writing 
is in the Palmer blood. 

Past Grand Master Walter A. Presbrey 
of the First Masonic District, which includes 
Rhode Island, received a 50-year medal at 
the annual visitation of the district officers 
to St. Johns Lodge, No. 1, Providence, last 
month. 



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1891 

Clarence C. Converse has moved to 80 
Ivy Lane, Englewood, N. J. 

Joseph N. Ashton has visited the campus 
a number of times recently personally to 
invite members of the Faculty to speak be- 
fore the Merrimack Valley Brown Club. 
1893 

Dr. Clarence E. Ide has moved to 728 
Ormand St., Mission Beach, Cal. 
1894 

Frank E. Lakey is now living in Pocasset, 
Mass. 

Most outstanding contemporary institu- 
tion in Woburn, Mass., is its Winn Memo- 
rial Library, said a Boston Herald feature 
writer Feb. 15. "Here Librarian William D. 
Goddard (Brown '94), with the backing of 
a progressive library board, has built up a 
library which might well be the envy of 
much larger cities, and which contains 
geological and antiquarian collections of 
museum proportions. 

"Mr. Goddard, who is a member of the 
committee planning Woburn's tercentenary 
celebration next year, was born in China 
and worked in the old Harvard Library and 
the Naval War College before coming to 
Woburn. He has taken more than ordinary 
interest in the civic life of his adopted city, 
served on the Charles Goodyear memorial 
committee which commemorated the cen- 
tennial of the Woburn rubber man who in- 
vented the Goodyear process. He has col- 
lected a splendid series of slides with which 
he gives illustrated lectures on Woburn 
history. Mrs. Goddard sews for the Choate 
Memorial Hospital, is active in the Women's 
Guild of the Baptist Church, and has raised 
three fine sons." The article was illustrated 
with two photos of Mr. Goddard, one of 
the "library builder" as a young man, the 
other with Mrs. Goddard today. 
1896 

The 45th reunion of the Class will be 
held at the Squantum Club, famed for its 
shore dinners, probably on the evening of 
June 14. William A. McAuslan, 1896's 
successful secretary, had a meeting of the 
reunion committee Feb. 20 in the Brown 
Alumni Suite to make preliminary plans. 

Judge John S. Murdock was the princi- 
pal speaker at the Boston Class Agents Din- 
ner held recently at the University Club. 
William A. Jones, agent, was among those 
present. 

Your Secretary records with regret the 
death of William Warren Orswell at his 
home, Boston Neck Road, Narragansett, 
Feb. 1, 1941. Orswell was a student at 
Brown for two years and two terms. When 
he retired a few years ago, he was treasurer 
of Pawtucket Dyeing ^ Bleaching Co. To 
his wife, Mrs. Mary A. Orswell, and his 
daughter. Miss Lois T. Orswell, the Class 
extends its sympathy. 

1897 

Byron S. Watson, president and chair- 
man of the board of Rhode Island Insurance 
Co., has resigned as president, but will 
continue as chairman of the board. He 
asked to be relieved of duties as president 
that he might give his full time to adminis- 
trative work. 

Your Class Secretary, George L. Miner, 
has been re-elected as a vice-president of 
the Family Welfare Society of Providence. 

The death of Sidney D. Humphrey in 
Boston, March 20, was a great shock to his 
friends. To his mother and brother, Karl 
Humphrey '12, the sympathy of the Class 
is given. An account of his career will 



Arthur Train's Father 

> "My father was graduated from 
Brown University 105 years ago," 
Arthur Train announced when he 
spoke before the Rhode Island Bar 
Association's annual dinner on 
March 1 1 . The lawyer and writer of 
stories stated the fact a second time 
again, for some of his hearers thought 
they had not heard aright. 

Mr. Train went on to say that he 
was glad to be back in Providence 
because of his father's association 
with Brown. Charles Russell Train, 
a member of the class of 1837 who 
took both his A.B. and A.M. work 
at Brown, was also a lawyer. He 
served as Congressman from Massa- 
chusetts, aide-de-camp to General 
McClellan in the Civil War, and later 
Attorney General for Massachusetts. 
Arthur Train was born in 1875. i 



appear in a later issue of the Brown Alum- 
ni Monthly. 

Augustus P. Hamlin is living temporarily 
at 2067 S. Washington St., Denver, Colo. 
He wrote to say that he has been under- 
going treatment for a double cataract, with 
fair success. 

1898 

Franklin K. Mathiews, chief librarian of 
the National Council, Boy Scouts of Amer- 
ica, is one of the judges for the fifth annual 
children's spring book festival in New York 
City this month. He has books for older 
boys as his assignment. 
1899 

Joseph C. Hartwell, president and treas- 
urer of the Hartwell Co., heating contrac- 
tors, has been elected to the hoard of direc- 
tors, Audubon Society of Rhode Island, 
for a 3 -year term. 

Your Secretary records with regret the 
death of John Benedict O'Donnell, LL.B., 
LL.M., in Washington, D.C., Jan. 21, 1941. 
The cause was a heart attack. Although 
O'Donnell spent four years at Brown, he 
did not take his bachelor's degree. At New 
York Law School, where he won his law 
degrees, he was a high stand student. For 
17 years he practised law in New York City 
and was a member of Tammany Hall. Dur- 
ing the past 20 years in Washington he 
had done Federal food and drug law en- 
forcement work and served on the staff of 
the General Counsel, Federal Security 
Agency. His wife, two sisters and a brother 
in Providence are his survivors. He was 
born in Providence, June 19, 1875, the son 
of Hugh and Ann O'Donnell. 
1900 

Judge Roscoe M. Dexter has the note- 
worthy record of having attended every re- 
hearsal and sung in every concert of the 
University Glee Club, Providence, since he 
joined 29 years ago. The Club had given 
three concerts when he signed the roll. It 
will end its 30th season on April 25, ap- 
pearing then for the first time in the new 
auditorium of the Rhode Island School of 
Design. Judge Dexter is an honorary life 
member of the Club. 

1901 
The Class's 40th reunion will be held at 
the Hotel Andrea at Misquamicut on June 
13, 14, and 15, we learn from William H. 
Hull, Secretary-Treasurer of 1901. Two 
reunion letters have already been put in the 
hands of the class, and the executive com- 



mittee is holding frequent meetings to com- 
plete arrangements and learn of progress. 

At the last meeting Howard H. Tucker 
was elected to fill the vacancy on the exec- 
utive committee resulting from the death 
of John H. Slattery. The committee is now 
composed of: E. Tudor Gross, President, 
(address: Union Trust Building, Provi- 
dence); Mr. Hull (Box 1318, Providence); 
Elmer S. Chace, Charles Chester Eaton, 
Charles H. Gilmore, Henry C. Hart, Stew- 
art B. McLeod, Albert L. Midgley, Alan 
Rattray Wheeler, and Mr. Tucker. 

Lieut. Commander C. Sherman Hoyt, 
U. S. N. R., attached to the Construction 
Corps, is on duty at the DeFoe Boat 6? 
Motor Works, Bay City. Mich., as super- 
visor of boats being built there for the 
Navy. 

President Harvey N. Davis of Stevens 
Institute of Technology was the speaker at 
the annual dinner of the Columbia Uni- 
versity Alumni Club of Essex County. 

Henry C. Hart was recently honored by 
the Legal Aid Society of Rhode Island as 
that organization celebrated its 20th birth- 
day. Mr. Hart, President for 14 years, and 
Leroy G. Pilling '11, Secretary and Chief 
Counsel received scrolls in appreciation of 
their long meritorious service. Later on the 



Re-hanging of a Bell 

> When you were in dc 
Providence, did you ever hear the 
Brown University Bell? 

We don't mean the chapel bell, 
but one that is actually downtown. 
It IS one of the bells in the chimes of 
Grace Church, — the F Sharp, to he 
exact. This winter the set, including 
the Brown University Bell, was re- 
paired, re-hung, re-dedicated. i 



program a three scene historical review was 
presented. The cast included Mr. Hart; 
Alice Hart, his daughter; Mr. and Mrs. 
Henry C. Hart, Jr.; and Clay Hart, his 
grandson, among others. 

Earle S. P. Bodurtha, whose death in 
Springfield, Mass., July 9, 1940, has been 
reported to the Alumni Office, was an ac- 
tive member of the Connecticut Valley 
Brown Club and the father of Edward F. 
Bodurtha '3 3. Born in Agawam, Mass., 
Dec, 14, 1877, the son of Edward K. and 
Jane E. (Millard) Bodurtha, he left col- 
lege in 1901 before taking his degree. After 
a short period with R. G. Dun 6? Co., 
Springfield, he became a funeral director 
and embalmer, and was with Dickinson. 
Streeter ^ Co. until his death. Besides his 
son, he leaves his wife and a daughter. 

1902 

Dr. William A. Hill, retired after 20 
years of service as Secretary of Missionary 
Education, Baptist Board of Education, has 
settled with his family in Isle La Motte, Vt., 
the ancestral home. "Some of my interests," 
he writes, "are gentleman farming on a 
small scale, genealogy and local history. 
Hobnobbing with my children and grand- 
children are my favorite pursuits." He 
notes with pride what Brown is doing and 
sends greetings to all his classmates. 

Rev. Wesley A. Paige is secretary of the 
R. I. Baptist Ministers' Conference. 

1905 

Dr. Charles A. Hobbs, after 28 years of 
practice, is taking things easier now, he says 



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in a letter to your Class Secretary. Im- 
proved after an illness, he adds that he 
hopes to enjoy life with Mrs. Hobbs, "who 
has learned to drive the family auto." 
Charlie's son, Don, is pastor of the Baptist 
Church in Rio Grand, O., and his daughter, 
Priscilla, is married and is living in New 
Mexico. Incidentally, Charlie is a grand- 
father. Mail will reach him at 3333 3rd 
Ave., South, Minneapolis, Minn. 

W. G. Meader's second son, Davol H. 
Meader '42, will be manager of the Brown 
football eleven next fall. 

Alfred W. Ingalls is living at 60 Beacon 
St., Boston. 

Dewitt C. Eggleston, C.P.A. for the Ras- 
kins and Sells Co., is living now at 1346 
Midland Ave., Bronxville. 

Leonard W. Cronkhite of Cambridge, 
Mass., trustee of the World Peace Founda- 
tion and former president of the American 
Association of Rhodes Scholars, spoke be- 
fore the Salem Rotary Club of the "astonish- 
ing transformation that has come over our 
country that makes it possible for the pres- 
ident to say, as he did to the King of Greece, 
'It is the settled policy of the United States 
Government to extend aid to those govern- 
ments and peopiles who defend themselves 

against aggression. This principal is 

far-reaching," he said. "If firmly put into 
practice, it might in time control the making 
of war. . . . The United States is beginning 
to make a deep attempt to build a peaceful 

A camera man for the Providence Eve- 
ning Bulletm recently caught doctors at the 
Cranston Street Armory "listening, thump- 
ing, testing" as they examined candidates 
for induction into the Army under Selective 
Service. One picture showed Dr. Niles 
Westcott testing a knee reaction as he and 
other psychiatrists tested recruits' mental 
condition. 

A bottle of port wine to be drunk by the 
survivor of the Last Man Club of Barring- 
ton Post No. 8, American Legion, rested on 
the table at the second annual dinner of the 
veterans at the Hotel Warren this winter. 
Photographed at the table was Senator Fred 
C. Broomhead. 

1906 

Elmer D. Nickerson writes: 

"Plans for the 3 5th Reunion are already 
under way. Bob Knight has again invited 
returning class members to a clambake at 
his country place, Lippitt Farm. The re- 
mainder of the Reunion will be spent at 
the Cold Spring House, Wickford, R. I. 
Present plans provide for a Reunion which 
will be somewhat shorter in time than be- 
fore hut full of interesting po.ssibilities. 



Silver in Banks 

y "Silver belongs in banks, thinks 
Elmer E. Silver, banker and charities 
president," said a caption that ap- 
peared with the photograph of this 
member of the Brown Class of 1885 
in a recent feature article on Woburn, 
Mass., which ran in the Boston 
Herald. The reference in the story 
proper spoke of him as follows: 

"Member of many Boston clubs is 
Elmer E. Silver, who has served the 
city as president of the Woburn Five 
Cents Saving Bank, president of 
Choate Memorial Hospital, president 
of Woburn Charitable Association." 



Snow Ball Production 

y Snowfall suggested an anology 
to Z. Chafee '80, who wrote as fol- 
lows last month to the Editor of the 
Providence Evening Bulletin: 

"When I was a small boy it was 
the custom in our school to occa- 
sionally divide into two groups and 
have an honest-to-goodness snowball 
fight. Abundant ammunition was re- 
garded as an important aid to victory, 
so some of us had the making of 
snowballs as our part in the defeat 
of the enemy. Sometimes we handed 
the snowballs to boys whom we liked, 
and sometimes we handed them to 
those whom we did not like so well; 
but that was not the question. It 
made no difference whether we liked 
or did not like the boys who threw 
the snowballs. They were doing their 
best to defeat those whom we very 
much wished to see defeated. 

"It seems a bit inappropriate at the 
present time to discuss what Britain 
did or did not do in the past, nor is 
it a point at issue whether we do or 
do not like England, or whether Eng- 
land is or is not deliberately fighting 
our battles. The point is that we 
wish to see Hitler defeated; and this 
being the case, our job is to hand up 
the snowballs." < 



"We expect to have a clambake about 
two o'clock on the Saturday preceding 
Commencement. After the clambake we 
will go to the Cold Spring House to spend 
Saturday night, Sunday, and possibly Sun- 
day night. As an innovation, the Class 
Dinner will be served Sunday afternoon. 
There is a possibility that arrangements 
may be made for a breakfast Monday morn- 
ing on or near the campus. 

"The Chairman of the committee arrang- 
ing the details is William A. Kennedy. Fall 
details will be sent class members later." 

Lanning Myers, now a graduate student 
in the School of Education at the Univer- 
sity of Pennsylvania, has been elected a 
member of Tau Chapter, Phi Delta Kappa. 
He is superintendent of public schools at 
Wildwood, N. J. 

Eliot G. Parkhurst has been elected Vice- 
President of the Home for Aged Men and 
Aged Couples in Providence. Other Brown 
men on the Board of Directors are: Charles 
S. Carpenter '03, A. Chester Snow '07, 
Norman L. Sammis '08, Charles P. Sisson 
'11, Frederick A. Ballou, Jr. '16, and Fred 
B. Perkins '19. 

Henry G. Carpenter, after his winter at 
home in Flushing, N. Y., is making plans 
for the summer season at Cold Spring 
House, Wickford. He will be host to at 
least two Brown reunion classes at Com- 
mencement time. 

Prof. Edgar S. Brightman of the Boston 
University philosophy department was the 
principal speaker at a recent meeting of the 
Rhode Island Ministers'^ Union, with the 
title "Chaos or Cosmos." 

Rev. W. Douglas Swaffield and Mrs. 
SwafReld were guests of their congregation 
and friends at a dinner in Taunton, Mass., 
last month to observe SwaiEeld's 15th anni- 
versary as minister of Winthrop Street 
Baptist Church. Under Swaffield's leader- 
ship the church has grown and prospered 
until it IS now one of the strong, thoroughly 



alive churches of the denomination in 
Southern New England. At the dinner the 
Swaflields received a large silver tray to 
commemorate the anniversary. 

J. Morton Ferrier, real estate man and a 
former City Councilman, is a member of the 
three-man commission appointed by Mayor 
Dennis J. Roberts to draft and present a 
civil service ordinance for the city of Prov- 
idence. 

Francis I. Greene, chairman of the New- 
port Water Commission, said in a report to 
Mayor Herbert E. Macauley last month that 
the city should have a supplemental reser- 
voir to meet the city's great population in- 
crease as a result of national defense proj- 
ects. Newport, as Greene no doubt re- 
members all too well, had a serious water 
shortage in the last World War. At that 
time tank cars brought in water from Fall 
River. 

Albert J. Loepsinger has added another 
patent to his already long list. This one is 
"for evaporative cooling system for a humid- 
ified inclosure." Loepsinger is assignor to 
General Fire Extinguisher Co., Providence. 
1907 

Dr. Leon E. Truesdell, beginning his 
1 6th year as chief statistician for population, 
U. S. Bureau of the Census, will soon have 
many more interesting facts than usual to 
publish about the 1940 census, the most 
comprehensive ever undertaken in this 
country. 

Fred S. Auty has resumed his work with 
the U. S. Department of Justice, with his 
present headquarters at Room 405, 354 
South Spring St., Los Angeles, Calif. He 
and Mrs. Auty drove across the country, 
covering 6,000 miles in 60 days of leisurely 
travel. Fred and E. A. (Shad) Adams '12 
have already had lunch together and are 
checking on Brown acquaintances in the 
Los Angeles area. 

George Hurley is chairman of the three- 
man commission named by Mayor Dennis 
J. Roberts to prepare a civil service ordi- 
nance for the city of Providence. 

John T. Bannan is chairman of a Govern- 
ment land commission which has been act- 
ing on claims for damages after condemna- 
tion of areas in Western Rhode Island near 
the Connecticut line. 

Dana T. Gallup. Massachusetts State 
Representative, came to Providence to speak 
"for the Fraternity" at the 81st initiation 
banquet of the Brown Chapter of Delta 
Upsilon at the University Club March 21. 
He had a particular interest in so doing, for 
his son, Dana Huling Gallup, had just 
been initiated. George Hurley spoke at the 
same dinner "for the Alumni." 

1908 

The Christian Century reports that "Rev. 
Albert C. Thomas D. D., Baptist, of Fall 
River, is chairman of the Liaison Committee 
of the Committee on Military Training 
Camp Service of the Massachusetts Council 
of Churches." 

Prof. Ralph P. Boas, of the Wheaton 
College English Faculty, wrote the editor of 
the Boston Herald recently to express his 
amazement at the "complete callousness to 
human suffering" shown by certain corre- 
spondents to the "Mail Bag." "They are 
willing," he says, "to see the most horrible 
persecutions in Poland that the world has 
ever seen, they condone the concentration 
camp with its almost unimaginable cruelties; 
they pay no attention to persecutions of 
religion unmatched since the middle ages. 
. . . What strange obsession blinds them? . . . 



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Decorated by Poland 

► > Col. G. a. Taylor. U. S. A., retired, of Old Hadley. Mass., has been 
created by Poland a commander of the Order of Polonia Restituta, the highest 
decoration iii their gift. The brother officer bearing his dossier to Warsaw, got as 
far as Gdynia, when the eagles started again rending that fateful country. The 
colonel was gazetted, while the Polish Government was functioning at Angers, 
France. Only recently have the decoration and ribbons been received. 

"As did Napoleon," Col. Taylor (Brown, 1901) says he has always admired the 
soldierly qualities of the Polish, and is the author of the poem "An Uncrowned 
Empress," eulogizing the Countess Walewska. Even one of his English setters 
was named for her, and another favorite for the Countess Potocka. After the 
return of the regiment he commanded in France, while depot quartermaster at 
Montierchaume, he transferred large quantities of supplies to Lieut. Henry Sien- 
kiewicz, namesake of the author of "Quo Vadis." Since his retirement he has 
given several prizes at Hopkins Academy, for essays on the history of Poland. 
Living in a largely Polish community Mrs. Taylor, as regent of the Old Hadley 
Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, has been active in supplying 
booklets for the local nationalization classes of the foreign-born. 

Col. Taylor is local chairman of the Massachusetts Committee on Public Safety, 
and was one of the American Legion airplane spotters. i i 



Why are they willing to see permanently 
clamped down on Europe and perhaps on 
the world the awful vice of totalitarianism?" 
The Alumni Office has confirmed report 
of the death of Harold Gilbert O'Neil in 
Malone, N. Y., April 7, 1940, after a heart 
attack. O'Neil, native of Duane, N. Y., left 
college at the end of sophomore year to en- 
roll at Cornell Law School, from which he 
received the LL.B. degree in 1909, He 
practised law in Malone under the firm 
name of Main 6? O'Neil, and served as 
deputy and then as Clerk of Franklin 
County from 1916 until his death. He was 
also clerk of the county Board of Elections. 
He belonged to the Masons, the Elks, and 
Delta Kappa Epsilon. His wife, a married 
daughter, and a brother, Frederic E. O'Neil 
"07, survive. 

Hill Griffith's rank is Lieutenant Colonel, 
not Major, as was reported in the March 
Brown Alumni Monthly. We wonder 
if Griff doesn't have the record of being 
the only '08 man now in active service? 

The sympathy of the Class is sincerely 
given to the family of Clarkson A. Collins, 
Jr.. who died in Providence, March 14, 1941, 
after a short illness. The news of his death 
followed soon after a report that he was 
improving. In everything that he did, and 
especially in his work for Brown through 
the years, his ability, energy, and enthusiasm 
were ever present and effective. Of his part 
in revitalizing the Associated Alumni after 
the last World War the Brown Alumni 
Monthly will have report in the May issue. 
1909 
George H. Henderson, chief highway en- 
gineer of the Rhode Lsland State Division 
of Roads and Bridges, qualified through 
Civil Service examinations this winter to 
retain his position. An East Providence 
resident, he began his services with the 
State as an inspector of road construction 
in 1908 before graduation. He was with 
the Metropolitan Park Commission from 
1909 to 1912, when he became chief engi- 
neer of the old State Board of Public Roads. 
He remained in that office until 193 7, re- 
turned in 1939 when the Republicans went 
back into power. Democratic attacks on the 
Civil Service make his status uncertain once 
again. His son and namesake is in the 
Photographic Laboratory at Brown, doing 
experimental work with microfilm. 

Chet Nourse, former star pitcher, is hold- 
ing down an important position with H. P. 
Hood 6? Sons in Boston. He was at the head 



table when the Boston Brown Club held its 
baseball luncheon. 

Chauncey E. Wheeler was one of the 
Rhode Island representatives to the meeting 
of the House of Delegates, American Bar 
Association, in Chicago last month. 

Russell P. Hager, elder son of Ernest R. 
Hager, has completed his work for the 
Ph.D. degree in the Zoology Department of 
the University of Illinois. He was recently 
elected to active membership in the Illinois 
Chapter of Sigma Xi. Dr. Hager's thesis is 
entitled "Cytological Studies of the Bar 
Alleles of Drosophila Melanogaste." 

Herbert F. Hager, Ernest's younger son, 
is a fourth-year student in Tufts Medical 
School. Herbert was recently elected charter 
member of the Tufts Chapter of the na- 
tional honor medical society. Alpha Omega 
Alpha. He has been appointed interne at 
Rhode Island Hospital. 

Spike Dennie writes his health has im- 
proved since a heart attack in November, 
1939, although he still must be careful. He 
sends regards to all the boys from School of 
Mines. University of Missouri, RoUa, Mo. 

William W. Dove, who has been teaching 
in the Providence School Department, has 
now reached retirement age and is on the 
retirement list. 

Clarence Richard Johnson reports a 
change of address to 1702 East Hawthorne 
St., Tucson, Ariz. 

George T. Huxford, associated with the 
Taft Peirce Mfg. Co. of Woonsocket, is 
living at 79 Wood Ave., that city, but re- 
ports he prefers his mail .sent to East Green- 
wich. 

1910 

Rev. Dr. Clifton H. Walcott of the First 
Baptist Church. Lincoln. Neb,, was guest 
preacher at the First Baptist Church. Prov- 
idence, Sunday, March 16. His topic was 
"Where Liberty Is Found." and your corre- 
spondent thought that he handled it superb- 
ly. Walcott came East to discuss with New 
York headquarters matters relating to Bap- 



After 24 years in the employ of the 
State of Rhode Island, Dr. Lester A. Round, 
Director of the State Department of Health, 
has been ousted in a political overthrow. 
Back in 1910 he was first appointed Com- 
missioner of Shell Fisheries and has been 
bacteriologist, investigator, pathologist, ex- 
ecutive secretary, and chief of laboratories 
in the department. The new department 
chief. Dr. Edward A. McLaughlin '14, 
quickly hired him back again as a statisti- 

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cian to reorganize certain phases of the 
Division of Vital Statistics. His son Charlie 
'38, well known golfer, is in his third year 
at Harvard Medical School, where he is a 
high ranking student. 

Henry C. Damon is now living at 102 
Orange Ave., East Paterson. N. J. Damon 
IS a partner in the Pabrico Steel Co. 

John P. Farnsworth has been re-elected 

treasurer of the Providence Public Library 

and serves also on the finance committee 

and the building and grounds committee. 

1911 

Cold Spring House, Wickford, will be 
headquarters for 19irs 30th reunion, ac- 
cording to Brenton G. Smith, Secretary. 
The dates are Saturday, June 14, and Sun- 
day. June 15. Plans are rolling for a memor- 
able time. 

Rev. John A. Mitchell, who attended 
Brown with the class as a special student, 
died in Lonsdale Feb. 8, 1941, in his 64th 
year. He had been pastor of the Lonsdale 
Baptist Church for 19 years and last April 
was in charge of the 100th anniversary 
exercises at the church. He was student 
supply minister at Harrisville while attend- 
ing Brown and had previously been grad- 
uated from Newton Theological Seminary. 
One of his sons. John A. Mitchell, Jr., en- 
tered Brown with the class of 1934. 

LeRoy G. Pilling was honored recently, 
along with Henry C. Hart '01, by the Legal 
Aid Society of Rhode Island, as that organ- 
ization celebrated its 20th birthday. Pilling 
has been Secretary and Chief Counsel since 
October 1921. 

Allan W. Greene has a new address in 
Columbus, Ohio. It is 299 South Front St. 

F. Russell Moseley is now living in Need- 
ham, Mass., at 304 Charles River St, 

What Cheer Jottings, the "small town 
newspaper" which the ProDidence Sunddy 
Journal uses for publishing genial chitchat 
about local celebrities, had this to say re- 
cently: "Roy Richardson's field naturalists 
have a spring program mapped out when 
nature will be less unnatural, all hope." 
1912 

Randy Burgess got a big hand from other 
alumni present when the Advisory Council 
delegates visited the Colgate Hoyt pool to 
see Brown trim the Army m a thrilling 
meet. Randy was watching his son, Julian, 
for the first time in Varsity competition, 



Inducements in Vermont 

> Ernest C. Hathaway '18, "who 
hunts up new industries to bring to 
Vermont," was "Vermonter of the 
Week" recently in the Rutland Her- 
ald. He is in his third term as presi- 
dent of the Rutland Chamber of 
Commerce and commercial manager 
of the Central Vermont Public Serv- 
ice corporation. 

"Of course, the best thing Ver- 
mont has to sell is its recreation, and 
its peace and quiet. It's the best 
place on earth to live," Cornelia 
Wilber quoted him as saying. "But 
every industry which locates here 
helps the economic life of the State." 
He has induced glove factory, pajama 
factory, a Goodyear Rubber plant, 
and a plastics company to settle in 
Vermont recently. Inducements he 
stresses are "good native labor, trans- 
portation, power, and virtual lack of 
serious labor disturbances." i 



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and the Sophomore came from behind to 
take his heat in the breaststroke event. 
1913 

James H. Readio, Jr., Chairman of Kent 
County Local Draft Board No. 2, suggested 
recently that Army medical examinations 
be made several days prior to the induction 
of draftees. Jim pointed out that men in his 
district had given up jobs when called to 
service and a few days later found them- 
selves jobless, their old position filled, as 
Army doctors turned them down after local 
physicians had approved their physical con- 
dition. Jim was toastmaster at the 81st ini- 
tiation banquet of his fraternity. Delta 
Upsilon. last month. On top of everything 
else, including his regular work as Warwick 
Tax Assessor, he was foreman of the Kent 
County grand jury last month. 

George T. Metcalf, Trustee of the Alum- 
ni Fund, has been doing an excellent job as 
Chairman of the advertising committee. 
1914 

Rev. Norris E. Woodbury is Pastor of 
the Baptist Church, Madison, N. H. 

Frederick R. Hazard is a member of the 
Corporation and the Board of Directors of 
the Osteopathic Hospital of Rhode Island. 

Nathan M. Wright, Jr., was re-elected a-^ 
president of Wannamoisett Country Club, 
East Providence, at the annual dinner meet- 
ing last month. 

1915 

Sidney Clifford, Alumni Trustee of the 
University, is chairman of the special gifts 
committee, Citizens Appeal for $493,500 
for the Providence Y. M. C. A., which was 
to begin work the middle of this month. 
This IS the first capital drive made by the 
Y.M.C.A. in 25 years. 

W. Russell Burwell, President of the 
Brush Laboratories Co., Cleveland, Ohio, 
is now living at Corning Drive, Bratenahl, 
Cleveland. 

Carl A. Terry is associated with the 
Hyannis Inn, Cape Cod, Mass., where he is 
residing. 

William T. Joyce has recently moved 
from Worcester to 58 Wildwood Drive, 
Williamsville, N. Y. 

1916 
2yih Reunion Class 

Extensive plans are being made by the 
Reunion Committee to make this year's 
gathering a memorable occasion. It will be 
worthwhile for all of our members to make 
an earnest effort to be on hand. 

Robert E. Briggs has left Fall River to 
live on Broad St. in Norwich, Conn. 
1917 

Howard D. Corkum, agent of the Wau- 
regan-Quinebaug Mills, Inc., at Wauregan, 
Conn., since 1936, is the new general super- 
intendent of Goodall Worsted Co., Sanford. 
Me. 

Dale Wylie looked up "Ding" Wood- 
mansee on a brief visit to Providence last 
month. As advertising manager for the 
Iron Fireman, he had just been in Canada 
on business and was returning to Cleveland. 

Barney Feinberg is manager of a shoe 
factory in Rochester, N. H., where he 
spends the week days between Monday and 
Friday. But he and Mrs. Feinberg make 
their home in Brookline, Mass., where both 
are active in civic and charitable activities. 
They have a son who is a Freshman at the 
University of North Carolina and quite a 
tennis star. A second son appears to be 
headed for Brown next Fall, a classmate 
writes, speaking of the lad as a leader in 
his class at Brookline High and all-scholastic 




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tackle last season on the Boston Post team. 
Barney has been getting his fill of high 
school athletics as a rooter for Jim. A third 
son is 12 years old. 

Thomas B. Appleget spoke at the Provi- 
dence Art Club last month. Roger T. Clapp 
"19, chairman of the entertainment commit- 
tee said Tom had been "drafted to justify 
his existence as a Non-Resident member of 
the club to enlighten us on the workings of 
the Rockefeller Foundation, of which he is 
Vice-President, and to explain, if he can, 
why the Art Club is not eligible for a grant 
as a worthy charity." 

1918 

Major Charles B. Malone was called from 
the Reserve into the active Army before 
Christmas and is at the reception centre at 
Fort Devens, Ayer, Mass., according to our 
latest information. He is a Field Artillery 
Officer. 

Gurney Edwards has been elected Presi- 
dent of the R. I. Children's Friend Society 
and succeeds Lawrence Lanpher "23. The 
organization has just completed its most 
active year since its founding in 183 5. Re- 
cently the Society has been active in super- 
vising European children along with super- 
vision of other children in need of special 
care and guidance. 

1919 

Roger T. Clapp, counsel for the General 
Fire Extinguisher Company, spoke on "Busi- 
ness Insurance"' before the Rhode Island 
Bar Association. 

Lt. Commander Paul S. Crandall of the 
U. S. Navy is serving in the Pacific Fleet. 
His home is at 739 Hillside Ave., Berkeley, 
Cal. 



Joseph H. Grand, associated with the law 
firm uf Jones, Hoeker, Gladney and Grand, 
is living at 515 Midvale St., St. Louis. 

Webb W. Wilder has been elected as a 
director of the Audubon Society of Rhode 
Island for a term of three years. 

Warren R. Campbell, Rhode Island agent 
for the Home Insurance Company, was a 
key figure when his company conducted a 
meeting of its Fieldmen in Providence. He 
borrowed the Brown Alumni Suite for an 
informal reception in connection with the 
convention. 

1920 

Dr. Herman A. Lawson submitted his re- 
port as Secretary of the Providence Medical 
Association at its annual meeting in Feb- 
ruary. 

Martin R. Reyder is Vocational Examiner 
of the Rehabilitation Commission in Pat- 
erson, N. J. 

Walter Hoving, President of the Asso- 
ciated Alumni, IS chairman of the National 
United Welfare Committee for Defense, an 
interdenominational organization of im- 
pressive personnel to aid in recreational and 
welfare activities for soldiers. Hoving, 
president of Lord & Taylor and a director 
of many eleemosynary business groups, has 
been termed by the Boston Globe "a busy 
citizen with an out-thrust chin and plenty 
of Scandinavian staying power."' 

Seaverns Hilton has built up a successful 
business making carved and painted toys. 
His enterprise, known as the Weld Wood- 
carvers, found work for the townspeople, 
unemployed since the spool factories left 
Weld, Maine. You've probably seen his 
quaint creations — families of animals, rus- 
tics driving wagons, barnyards filled with 
livestock, Christmas scenes, etc. 

1921 

20tli Reunion Class 

Al Mochau and his committee have issued 
the "draft call" to all members of the class 
to report for Commencement activities. A 
bang-up reunion is in the offing. 

For the first time in 13 years George W. 
Potter is not giving the Brown University 
Extension course in Journalism. He no 
longer has time, because of his increased 
responsibilities as chief editorial writer for 
the Promdence Journal and Evening Bul- 
letin. Chesley Worthington '23 is giving 
the course this Spring. 

Russell P. Jones is the new president of 
the Delta Upsilon Club of Rhode Island, 
succeeding his father, Frederick A. Jones 
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1922 

It is now Maj. Arthur F. Merewether, 
Air Corps, U. S. A., Art having been pro- 
moted to his present rank last month. 

Barnaby McAuslan reports a change from 
Massachusetts to Maine and is now at 18 
Frye St., Lewiston. 

Rev. Frank Walter Williams is Pastor of 
St. Paul's Church, 116 Montecito Ave., 
Oakland, Cal. 

Dr. and Mrs. Edward A. Cooney are 
occupying their new home at 1507 Centre 
St., Newton Highlands, Mass. They have 
three children, Carolyn, Edward Anthony, 
Jr., and Robert Lincoln. 

Dr. William G. Vinal of Massachusetts 
State College, who took his Ph.D. at Brown 
in 1922, spoke before the Audubon Society 
of Rhode Island recently on "The Organ- 
ized Camp: A Method of Democracy." He 
is in charge of nature education at the 
National Camp in the Kittatinny Moun- 
tains. 

Chapin S. Newhard of the St. Louis in- 
vestment firm of Newhard, Cook 6? Co. ap- 
peared this winter before the Securities and 
Exchange Commission in Washington to 
protest against new SEC rules that would 
adversely affect the small securities dealer, 
he said. The Neu) 'Xor\ Times carried his 
picture in this connection. 

1923 

A dozen members of the class had a re- 
union at the New York Brown Club's an- 
nual dinner: Bill Roux, Ed Gorman, Bob 
Litchfield, Johnnie Alden, Ed Peterson, 
Ken Sheldon, Kilgore Macfarlane, Duke 
Farrell, Chet Worthington, Art Nelson, and 
Walter Fenner. 

Artie Fox paid a visit to Providence re- 
cently, taking time off from his duties in 
charge of recreational work in North 
Adams, Mass. It was one of the few times 
he has been back on the campus since he 
was an undergraduate, and he took particu- 
lar interest in looking over the athletic 
plant. 

Stuart A. Tinkham is very busy these 
days designing aircraft engines for the Pratt 
6? Whitney Aircraft Co. of Hartford. Tink- 
ham is living at 47 Stephen St., Manchester, 
Conn. 

Morris F. Swaney, who is associated with 
the U. S. Advertising Corp. of Illinois, is 
living at 2101 Harrison St., Evanston, 111. 

Dr. Milton I. Rose, a Professor at the 
University of Pennsylvania, is in the De- 
partment of Public Health. He is living at 
the Hotel Philadelphia. 

Robert B. Coons has been manager of the 
men's underwear and hosiery department in 
Macy's. A newspaper clipping tells us that 
he has been given expanded duties to in- 
clude the buying of men's shirts, pajamas 
and bath robes, relinquishing supervision 
of the glove and sweater departments. 

The Alumni Office would like to find 
Frank Durfey. Mail for the author of "The 
Sportsman on the Sofa" does not reach him 
at his former Darien, Conn., address. 

Trustees of the Class Endowment Fund 
include: E. R. Joslyn (44 Vernon St., 
Springfield, Mass.), chairman; Edmund J. 
Bennett, treasurer; John B. Applegate, Lin- 
coln H. Howe, Theodore R. Jeffers, E. John 
Lownes, Norman J. Paasche, and Richard 
C. Smith. 

It was good to hear from Herb Familton 
the other day. His son may be along at 
Brown with the class of 1950 if he doesn"t 
go to art school to follow his bent toward 



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editorial cartoons. The Familtons are mov- 
ing from Bellerose, Long Island, to Plan- 
dome. 

Dr. Kalei K. Gregory, assistant superin- 
tendent of the Charles V. Chapin Hospital 
in Providence, was a speaker at the Febru- 
ary meeting of the Providence Medical 
Society. His topic: "In Meningococcal In- 
fections." 

1924 
Quentin Reynolds is one of the sensa- 
tions of the year's lecture platform (turning 
over his proceeds to a Heywood Broun 
memorial fund, incidentally). Boston filled 
Symphony Hall March 16 to hear his talk, 
"My Neighbors in London — They Can 
Take It," which was given for the benefit 
of the British War Relief Society, Inc. 

Collicr'.s magazine, capitalizing on the 
Reynolds boom, has been featuring him in 
promotion advertising in New York and 
other papers. A full-page ad in the Herald 
Tribune and Times says proudly,^ "Reynolds 
puts London right in your lap." A photo- 
graph, nearly a foot tall, shows him "as 
snapped by a young gunner of His Maj- 
esty's Royal Navy, aboard a trawler, in a 
convoy off Dover." 

"Already," the newspaper readers were 
told, "this war has developed its ace corre- 
spondent — Quentin Reynolds of Collier's. 
He crawled out of a pillbox up front in 
France when Hitler exploded the magic of 
the Maginot line. He bobbed up across the 
channel in London in time for the all-out 
bombings. He's been up with the R. A. F. 
bombers and down with the Royal Navy's 
submarines. Between 'em he's ridden the 
convoys through the Channel and up the 
Thames. 

"Millions have been drawn closer to suf- 
fering London by his straight-forward nar- 
ration in the film 'London Can Take It' 
and the subsequent cinema document 
'Christmas Under Fire.' His new book, 'The 
Wounded Don't Cry,' is in its 12th print- 
ing. . . . Before Hitler made Europe the 
news centre of the world, Reynolds' report- 
ing of the Haiti massacre (a clean beat of 
even the daily newspapers' press associa- 
tions) was read into the Congressional 
Record." 

Dr. Robert Mazet, Jr. is at the U. S. 
Naval Hospital, Washington, D. C. He 
had hardly established himself in Spring- 
field, 111., when he was called into service. 
1925 
Trask Wilkinson was recently elected as 
an executive committee member of the New 
England Association of Teachers of Eng- 
lish, as that organization held its 41st an- 
nual meeting in Boston at the Hotel Statler. 
The Proridence Journal of March 5, a 
long story about "Pat" Kenny. Caption of 
a picture read as follows: "Capt. Robert 
W. Kenny of the First Battalion bids fare- 
well for the duration to the books that 
meant so much to Assistant Professor Ken- 
ny, Ph.D. of Brown University. He leaves 
for Fort Blanding, Fla., at 7:30 o'clock this 
morning." "Capt. Pat" is there now. 

Henry Welch is Senior Bacteriologist of 
the U. S. Food and Drug Administration, 
Washington, D. C. 

Paul Chernov reports his new home ad- 
dress to be 78 Princeton Ave., Providence. 
Harry N. Marks is residing at the Resi- 
dence Club, 225 Martine Ave., White 
Plains, New York. 

W. Easton Louttit, Jr., is a new member 
of the Board of Trustees of the Providence 
Public Library. 

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pretentious — with a sports slant, yet sufficiently business-like 
to be worn from nine to five. 

How did we do it? We started by refining the regular 
moccasin model, stripping it down. Instead of a blunt toe, 
we made an easy curve. We put in small hand-stitching, 
instead of the typical moccasin whipstitch. Specified 
light leather linings, brass eyelets, and narrow leather laces 
instead of the usual thongs. Worked out a nice blucher 
model, on the Olympic last. 

But our master stroke was in selecting the leather for 
the upper. We chose tan Forest Calfskin . . .a soft, pliable skin, 
in a shade that, like the style, is also half-and-half — not too 
light, not too dark, somehow just right for almost any suit you 
want to wear. 

We can't let you go without a final word about Frank 
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by hand . . . done by unhurried craftsmen who take pride in 
their work . . . using only the finest leathers and the finest 
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1926 

I Jth Reunion Class 

Major Arthur S. Hassell. a member of 
Adjutant General Herbert R. Dean's staff, 
is in charge of the manpower section of 
Selective Service headquarters for Rhode 
Island. Major Hassell, a soldier, advertising 
man, and editor, is handling the service 
board's public relations activities. Now 
that the National Guard is fully inducted 
into Federal service. Major Hassell is the 
medium through which the Guardsmen and 
their officers will maintain contact with one 
another while scattered at different military 
bases throughout the country. He is editor 
of the by-monthly magazine, R. I. Guards- 
men. 

Remember the "Maxcy" affair — many 
of the fellows in the class have — but it 
took our reunion committee to evoke rem- 
iniscences when it mailed its recent reunion 
notices. 

Wm. R. Boger who is associated with the 
Auchinclos, Parker 6? Redpath Co., of 
Washington, D. C., reports a new address 
— 2244 Cathedral Ave., at the Capitol. 

Richard H. Hammond is in the sales force 
with Socony Vacuum Oil Company, 
Newark, N. J. 

S. S. Stewart, Jr. has moved — across the 
street, we judge — from 1201 to 1212 
Woodland Park Drive, Flint, Mich. 

Theodore Hunt is Professor of Music at 
Centre College of Kentucky, in Danville. 

Al Parks and his wife, Dorothy, are cur- 
rently seen at the Mt. Pleasant High School 
in Providence playing badminton. 

Edward Kip Chace of the faculty of 
Princeton High School in New Jersey has 
written four articles for the new Fathers' 



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Thomas L. Pierce, President 
Rupert C. Thompson, Jr., Vice President 
Charles L. Eddy, Assistant Cashier 
Henry H. Eddy, Assistant Cashier 
Charles E. Munyan, 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. William L. Sweet 
Moses J. Barber Frederick T. Moses 

Frank E. Richmond John B. Lewis 
Richard S. Aldrich Charles C. Marshall 
Edward P. Jastram Richmond Viall 
A. Livingston Kelley Maxwell C. Huntoon 
Wilson G. Wing Charles E. Rigby 

Thomas L. Pierce Benjamin R. Sturges 

William Slater Allen 
Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 



He Saved a Reputation 

> Prof. Walter H. Snell '13 has 
saved the reputations of red currants, 
black currants and gooseberries. 
Don't scoff; if you were a red cur- 
rant, your reputation would be pre- 
cious to you. 

Besides, it's rather an important 
scientific discovery that Prof. Sncll 
has made. For a quarter of a century 
botanists have believed that the 
bushes had helped spread white pine 
blister rust. Prof. Snell doubted it 
and now is convinced that the fun- 
gus which feeds on the berry bushes 
seldom makes headway in spreading 
to pine. 

In connection with his work for 
the New York State Conservation 
Department, he has planted red cur- 
rants in the midst of pine plantations 
in the Adirondack?. "I am not wor- 
rying about them," he says. i 



Magazine, the first of them appearing in the 
March issue. His topics are: "How to Make 
Friends with Your Child's Teacher," 
"Should Parents Help Their Children with 
Their Homework?" "What Parents Do Not 
Know about Report Cards and Grades," 
and "Does Your Child Know How to 
Read?" 

Chace is assistant director of Camp Ma- 
ranacook, Readficld, Maine, which will open 
its 33rd year June 30th. One of his campers 
last year was Blair Moody, III, son of Blair 
Moody, Jr. '22. 

1927 

Maurice H. Hilton is "advancing rapidly 
in executive work" with Macy's in New 
York, a college contemporary writes. 

Carl H. Crandall received the thanks of 
the Alumni office for a favor he recently 
performed. He's living at 4410 Cayuga 
Ave., Riverdale, N. Y. 

Grafton H. Keyes reports a change in 
address to 256 Chestnut Hill Drive, 
Rochester, N. Y. 

Abner B. Auty has moved to 20 Burke 
St., Riverside, R. I. Ab is a machine in- 
spector at the Brown y Sharpe Mfg. Co. 

Eugene M. Purver is an attorney for the 
National Labor Relations Board in Wash- 
ington. Gene went into law despite medical 
studies at Harvard and in Germany. 

Sumner T. Packard, Jr. has returned to 
Providence to live at 60 Franklin St. He 
was formerly a resident of Worcester. 
1928 

J. Howard Blake has resigned as Vice- 
President of the Administrative and Re- 
search Corporation of New York to join the 
staff of the Land Title Bank y Trust Com- 
pany in Philadelphia. Moving to D-13 
Ogontz Manor, at Ogontj and Olney Aves., 
one of his first acts was to write the Alumni 
Office for John Sheldon Collier's address. 

Kent F. Matteson did his bit recently to 
help publicize the Rhode Island Chauffeurs' 
and Butlers' Ball held last month for the 
benefit of British war relief. He posed for 
the cameraman while his family's chauffeur 
explained the inner mechanism of the 
auto, "in case Kent had to fix it while the 
chauffeur was at the ball." Posing with them 
was Miss Helena Strickler, daughter of Guy 
F. Strickler '09. 

John W. Aldrich is another of the many 
Brown men who are living in the Nation's 
Capitol. John is an ornthologist in the Fish 



and Wildlife Service, Department of the 
Interior. 

John L. Cannon, Jr. is in charge of the 
Tax Dept. of the Arthur G. McKee Co. of 
Cleveland, Ohio. He is living at 2993 Font- 
enay Rd., Shaker Heights. 

Watson Wyckoff is in the Real Estate 
business at Ridgefield, Conn, where he now 
makes his home. 

Frank J. Wilson is receiving his mail at 
20025 Sussex Rd., Shaker Heights, Cleve- 
land. Ohio. 

Edwin B. Havens has recently moved to 
1076 Central Ave., Plainfield, N. J. 

W. G. Stuart Sherman notifies us that 
he is with N. L. R. B., 808 Federal Bldg., 
Los Angeles, Cal. 

Dr. Robert G. Murphy was chairman of 
a special committee of the Providence Med- 
ical Association which completed recently a 
year of intensive study of the problem of 
group health and accident insurance for 
physicians. A digest of available insurance 
proposals they had prepared has also been 
distributed to every member of the South 
Dakota State Medical Society and the Mis- 
sissippi Valley Medical Society, and made 
available to many other state and district 
medical groups. 

1929 

Wallace W. Elton is working as an art 
director for J. Walter Thompson, advertis- 
ing house at 420 Lexington Ave., New 
York, and living at the Brown Club. 

John O. Nilan is assistant advertising 
manager for the American Mutual Liability 
Insurance Co., with headquarters in Boston. 
He was back in Providence recently to ar- 
range for a story on the city's automobile 
safety campaign for his company's maga- 
zine. He was editor of it before receiving 
his latest promotion. 

Rev. Powel Mills Dawley is associate 
rector of St. David's Episcopal Church, 
Roland Park, Baltimore, Md., where his 
present house address is 909 University 
Parkway. 

George M. Schlegel has been made super- 
intendent of the Brookfield Schools, Brook- 
field. Georgia. 

Warren B. Francis to: 2808 McKinley 
Place, N. W., Washington, D. C. Paul L. 
Stannard to : Briar Hill Colony, Solon, Ohio. 
John R. VanNest to: 4 Chesterton Rd., 
Wellesley, Mass. Paul E. Wiggin to: 10 
Manomet St., Brockton, Mass. 

1930 

BY HAL CARVER 

Val Bearce writes in from Pleasantville, 
N. Y. and gives his life in brief: At the 
present time he is teaching social studies in 
the Christopher Columbus High School in 
the Bronx at Pocantico Hills, near Pocantico 
Lake, where he lives. The name almost 
stopped me! He reports his marriage as 
nine years, on the President's last birthday. 
Wonderful how we even figure dates ac- 
cording to the President. He reports a 
large and, I presume, growing family that 
include Bradford Clark, Denny Neill, Noel 
Sayles, and Winfield Scott. He doesn't state 
whether the last name came from the Gen- 
eral or Win Scott '31. 

Roth Newpher reports that Brick Fro- 
hock is busy teaching French at Columbia 
University and has a baby carriage parked 
in the foyer of his apartment. 

The latest information from Uxhridge, 
Mass. shows that Buzz Andrews is married 
and is teaching the youth of the nation at 
Uxbridge High School, where he has been 
superintendent since 1933. 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Hal Ribncr writes that he has been prac- 
tising Neuropsychiatry in Bridgeport, 
Conn,, for the past four years. He was 
married in 1934 and has two daughters, one 
five years old, the other nine months. He 
doesn't outline any of the difficulties of his 
profession, but apparently is busy finding 
out why people are having D. T.'s early in 
life. 

Jack Wells is traffic manager in Worces- 
ter, at 3 3 Elm Street, and is living at 37 
RoUinson Street in that city. 

Ralph Purington is busily employed with 
the Shell Oil Company. 

The other member of the Bearse family 
admits that his family is growing. Barbara 
is now a member of this family. 

1931 

1 0th Reunion Class 

Winfield T. Scott read a group of his 
poems before a large audience of under- 
graduates and faculty members in Faunce 
House recently. The occasion was a Faunce 
House Sunday Afternoon Poetry Hour, one 
of several sponsored by the English Depart- 
ment. 

Dr. William E. Boutelle has been made 
Assistant Resident Surgeon by the Memo- 
rial Hospital, New York. 

D. Stuart Clarke, who is still working for 
National City Bank in Cleveland, is now 
living at 164 Maple Rd., Cleveland Heights. 

Alfred Levin, instructor in history at 
New Haven Women's College, is doing 
historical research work in the Yale Uni- 
versity Library. 

Joe O'Neil, in town the other day, ex- 
pressed himself as highly pleased with the 
returns he has been getting from the class in 
answer to his committee reunion question- 
naire. Joe tells us that he expects an ex- 
ceptionally large turnout for the festivities 
this June. 

Jack Horton's part in founding the 
Rhode Island State schoolboy wrestling 
championships was recalled recently on the 
occasion of the 11th annual meet. Horton 
was coach at Cranston High and worked 
with "Sandy" Beachen '14 and Pruf. Fred- 
erick W. Marvel to arrange the original 
meet, held at Brown. 

Frank E. Merchant, writer, was a par- 
ticipant in a recent discussion at Free- 
masons' Hall in Providence on the subject. 
"Is This Our War?" He upheld the nega- 
tive side of the proposition against Prof. 
John H. Finley, Jr., Chairman of Classics 
at Harvard. Herbert M. Sherwood '09 pre- 
sided. 

Joseph Cadden told reporters that Mrs. 
Franklin D. Roosevelt had apparently be- 
come cool toward the American Youth Con- 
gress when it opposed the peacetime draft. 
At any rate, the executive secretary of the 
Congress said that Mr. Roosevelt, Mrs. 
Roosevelt, Sidney Hillman, and Paul V. 
McNutt had all declined invitations to at- 
tend an open discussion of the lend-lease 
bill at the February Town Meeting of 
Youth. A year ago Mrs. Roosevelt had de- 
fended the Congress against charges of 
Communism. 

H. Kingsley Idleman has the sympathy of 
the Class in the loss of his father. Rev. Dr. 
Finis S. Idleman, who died at his home, 4')4 
Riverside Drive, New York City, March 22, 
1941. Dr. Idleman had been since 1915 
pastor of the Central Christian Church, 
Disciples of Christ. He was the author of 
"Peter Ainslee, Ambassador of Good Will," 
which came out last month, assistant editor 



of a religious quarterly, and an administra- 
tive officer of the Federal Council of 
Churches of Christ in America. 
1932 
BY RICHARD A. HURLEY, JR. 
723 Hospital Trust BUg. 

Al Moron is making a name for himself 
as Housing Manager of the Housing Au- 
thority of the City of Atlanta, Ga. If you 
happen to be in Atlanta, you can reach him 
at 673 Greensferry Ave., S.W., Atlanta. 

Tom Bond is with the Union Electric Co. 
of Missouri. At present, he is living at 7736 
Maryland Ave., Clayton, Mo. 

Bob Johnson is making progress on his 
trip to the White House. He has attained 
the position of New York State Senator. 

Dr. Eugene M. Holleb has gone on duty 
with the 1 19th Medical Regiment, Fort Dix, 
N. J., until April, 1942. 

Dexter Clarke has joined the Legal De- 



partment, Narragansett Electric Co., Provi- 
dence, after having been with the law firm 
of Greenough, Lyman & Cross since he be- 
came a member of the Rhode Island bar. 

Tuite Eldredge has become a father. Re- 
liable reports indicate that the baby is 
modeled after Tuite as to stature and is 
proving equally active. Tuite is a salesman 
for the North American Cement Co. 

The Class Executive Committee is ac- 
tively at work on the long range class gift 
fund. Details of the plan will be announced 
at the Reunion in June. 

David H. Scott, in addition to his regu- 
lar duties with Harper ^ Brothers, pub- 
lishers, has been superintending the produc- 
tion and promotion of President Wriston's 
new book, "Prepare for Peace," announced 
for April 16 publication. He was in Provi- 
dence to make arrangements for promotion 
work on the book. 




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His Sport "Most Misunderstood" 

► ► After 28 years, during which he has coached wresthng to more than 2300 
boys and young men, Albert E. Beachen "14 believes it is still the "most mis- 
understood of sports." The Providence Evening Bulletin recently paid tribute to 
him as "father of Rhode Island schoolboy wrestling and recalled his career at 
Brown, too. 

As an undergraduate on the Hill he went through four seasons and more than 
2') bouts without a defeat or draw. He captained the first official Brown wrestling 
team in 1914 and returned for several years as assistant to Frank Herrick. At one 
time he coached Tech, Commercial, Classical and Hope High School squads in 
Providence, totalling 150 boys, 85 of them from Tech, all in the same season. 

"Wrestling," he says, "is the safest, sanest, and best body-building sport of all. 
I have never seen a schoolboy suffer a serious injury from wrestling. And it's the 
most inexpensive of all school sports." 

One of his biggest thrills came last year when his son won the 125-pound 
championship in the Providence city tournament. That was "Sandy's" own weight 
at Brown. i i 



1933 

One form of publicity for the fourth an- 
nual campaign of the Narragansett Council 
of the Boy Scouts of America was the use of 
testimonials by a number of former Scouts 
who today are active and useful citizens of 
Rhode Island. Two of these sponsors were 
the Gilbane brothers, Tom and Bill. "Our 
training as Boy Scouts gave us a lot of 
confidence in ourselves," said Bill. 

Eugene F. Hart has recently taken up 
residence at the Omaha Athletic Club, 
Omaha, Neb. Gene is secretary of the 
American Reserve Life Insurance Company 
agency there. 

Dwight D. Dewey has recently moved to 
223 Washington Ave., Bridgeport, Conn. 
Dwight is still with G. E. 

Robert T. West, salesman for Lubir-Zol 
Corp., East Hartford, Conn., informs us 
that he is now living at White Wing Farm, 
Buena Vista Rd., West Hartford. 

Daniel Rider has recently moved to 68 2 
Great Plains Ave., Needham, Mass. He is 
with the Boston law firm of Badger, Pratt, 
Doyle y Badger. 

Ed Bodurtha is a student at the Columbia 
University Library School. 

Stuart A. Woodward has moved bag and 

baggage across Narragansett Bay. Formerly 

living on Gaspee Plateau, he is now located 

at 65 Terrace Ave., Riverside, 

1934 

William C. Wohlfarth, Jr., whose recent 
marriage is announced elsewhere in this 
issue, is a Lieutenant (Junior Grade) in the 
Dental Corps., U. S. Naval Reserve. Bill 
reports that he is a member of the 12th 
Ward Republican Club, North Yonkers, 
N. Y. 

2nd Lieut. Roy H. Smith, Jr., is stationed 
at Camp Forrest, Tenn. He is in Troop F 
— 107th Cavalry. 

E. Davis Caldwell is now a sales repre- 
sentative for the Lalance ^ Grosjean Mfg. 
Co., Woodhaven, L. I., N. Y. 

Frank W. Moler, Jr. is working as a 
mechanical engineer for the Griscom-Rus- 
sell Co., and is living in the Schuyler House, 
Fort Hill Village, Scarsdale, N. Y. 

William M. Aular, who recently moved to 
122 Whitfield St., Pittsburgh, is associated 
with the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. 

David N. Viger, after four years with 
Parke-Davis y Co. in shipping, invoicing, 
branch distribution, auditing and account- 
ing and comptroller's departments, is now 
working for Whitney Realty Co. Ltd., 
Detroit, as Assistant Secretary of Whitney 
Realty Co. and Assistant Manager of the 
David Whitney Building. 



Harold J. Tanner is working for the 
Glenn L. Martin Company at Middle River. 
Md. 

Roe C. Blanton is assistant cashier at 
Hornblower y Weeks in Cleveland. 

George R. Clapp is assistant program 
service manager at the Mutual Broadcast- 
ing System and lives in New Rochelle, N. Y. 

Newlywed Bancroft Littlefield and his 
bride are established in their home at 147 
Prospect St., Providence. 

Henry G. Carpenter. Jr., is assistant man- 
ager at London Terrace, West 23rd St., 
New York. He is making his home in South 
Orange, N. J., at 66 Duffield Drive. His 
bride of last June, Rose Clews Dillard, 
comes from South Orange. 
1935 
BY ROSS A. deMATTEO, II 

Up to March 10 our class had contrib- 
uted 6l'/c of its quota to the Alumni Fund. 
This is still a long way oif and we only have 
until Commencement to reach our goal! 
We have made a good showing during the 
past few years, so let's dig and go over the 
top! Bill Broomhead will receive contribu- 
tions any time, anywhere and from anybody 
— all for good old Brown. 

Your scribe neglected to mention, in the last 
Alumni Monthly, Dr. James P. Adams' 
official acknowledgment of our class gift. 
Most of you no doubt know that the mem- 
bers of the class attending the fifth reunion 
voted to give the University a check for 
$400 for the purchase of movie equipment 
for the use of the Athletic Department. Dr. 
Adams' letter reads: "May I accept this 
opportunity to express to you and the mem- 
bers of your class our deep appreciation of 
this generous gift and of your interest in 
the work and welfare of the University." 

Mai Ball, who has been in the claim de- 
partment of a Buffalo insurance house for 
several years, is now in the Army, stationed 
at Fort Niagara, N, Y. 

Bill Counihan, Jr,, has passed his bar 
examinations and has started his law prac- 
tice in Pawtucket, His offices are located in 
the Arnold Building, 18 East Ave. 

Ralph R. Walker, who is now working 
for G. Fox in Hartford, Conn., is living at 
220 Hartford Ave., W»thersfield, Conn. 

Dr. Donald W. Smith, is practicing dent- 
istry at 55 Chestnut St., Oneonta, N. Y. 

Robert L. Weill is with the C. I. T. 
Corporation acting as credit manager in one 
of their branch offices in Jacksonville, Fla. 

Bud Wallburg has changed his address 
to 107 Arlington St., Winchester, Mass. 

That is all — and it's your fault — get 
that notepaper out and let's hear from you! 



1936 

Fifth Reunion Class 
BY JAMES L. WHITCOMB, 

2nd Operation Co., Mitcliel Field, L. J. 

News, for some reason or other, is very 
scarce this month. 

I did learn that Walter E. Rollins is a 
member of the experimental department at 
Brown 6? Sharpe m Providence; and Saul 
Spit: is manager of the Marvel Shoe Co. at 
48 Broad St., Pawtucket. 

Al Owens resigned from his work as 
superintendent of the Brown University 
Book Store last month to undertake charge 
of production control at the new plant of 
the Textile Finishing Machinery Company 
in Providence. His company is doing a 
great deal of defense work. 

Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Bedrick are 
spending the semester in Lincoln, Neb., 
where he is an instructor in Classics. 

I'm saving my leave so that I can get 
back to Providence this June for that long- 
awaited Fifth. So, by your leave, I'll keep 
you in touch with one another until June 
through these columns. I'll watch my mail 
box for a letter from you, and you watch 
yours for news from Joe OIney's reunion 
committee. 

1937 

1st Lieut. Louis C. Adams, Jr., of the 
U. S. Army Air Corps arrived at the East 
Boston Airport recently after a non-stop 
flight from Savannah, where he is an in- 
structor of trainees. He was met by his 
father, Lieut. Louis C. Adams of the 
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, 
a veteran of the Philippine and Boxer up- 
risings. 

William P. Horn, Jr., a travelling sales- 
man for the Gulf Oil Corp., is now living 
at 450 E. Prospect Ave., Mount Vernon, 
N. Y. 

Murray H. Ehmke recently moved to 309 
West 57th St., New York City. Murray is 
working for the F. Eberstadt Company. 

Harold Greenspan tells us his new ad- 
dress is 132 South Canon Drive, Beverly 
Hills, Cal. He is writing for the films. 

Thomas Logan, who is associated with 
the textile firm of Taylor, Clapp & Beall. 
has recently taken up residence at 105 
North Munn Ave., East Orange, N. J. 



Private Hughes 

> When the 103rd Field Artillery 
moved South to Florida in March for 
its year of Federal service, the Rhode 
Island National Guard unit had a 
new private in its ranks. He was H. 
Stuart Hughes, grandson of Chief 
Justice Charles Evans Hughes '81, 
son of Charles Evans Hughes. Jr. '09, 
and brother of Charles Evans Hughes 
III '38, who since September had 
been an administrative assistant and 
.'.nstructor in history at Brown. 

A graduate of Deerfield Academy 
and of Amherst College in 1937, 
Hughes had been studying for his 
Ph.D. degree in history at Harvard, 
where he received his A.M. degree 
in 1938. His field of interest is con- 
tinental Europe between 1789 and 
1815. For his doctorate Hughes had 
prepared a thesis on "The Crisis of 
the French Imperial Economy, 1810- 
1812." Due to his enlistment, for 
the next year his studies will be less 
academic. i 



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Robert C. Cooper's new address is 77 
Colonial Ave., Eden Park, R. I. 

W. W. Burbank is hack in New York 
City working with the International Busi- 
ness Machines. 

Robert L. McConncll expected to be 
graduated from the Air Corps Basic Flying 
School, Gunter Field, Montgomery, Ala., 
about March 20, the Brown Daily Herald 
said last month. Previously he had attended 
the Air Corps Primary Training School at 
Albany, Ga., where he obtained 60 hours 
in the air and made his first military solo 
flights. 

Dick Scott has sold his famous "cabin in 
the woods" and moved into town at Dan- 
ville, Va., where he is on his way through 
the Riverside and Dan River Cotton Mills, 
learning the various processes from actual 
laboring experience. And he likes it, ac- 
cording to what we hear. He is assistant 
superintendent of the carding room at 
present. 

Compliments from a newspaperman are 
flattering, and that is why the editor appre- 
ciated one from George A. Mellor of the 
Star-Gazette of Elmira, N. Y. He wrote to 
say he enjoyed the magazine and counted 
on it bringing him the news of Brown. 

1938 

Don Eccleston writes that he is working 
for the Aridye Corp., Fairlawn, N. J., 
makers of textile printing colors, and that 
he was looking forward to our third-year 
reunion. 

Orlando Rodio, after a year's work in 
Washington, has been promoted to the job 
of Inspector in the Wage and Hour Divi- 
sion of the U. S. Department of Labor at 
Boston. 

Ben Chase was in the office just the other 
day to bid us goodbye for he is leaving for 
a year's period of service with Uncle Sam's 
Army. He was sent to Georgia. 

Tony Singsen is taking over the job of 
Chairman of the Class Agents of the Alum- 
ni Fund which has been vacated by Ben 
Chase. 

Maury Kusinitz has been made credit 
manager for Gerber's Inc. of Fall River. 

Vince Benton is schedule clerk at the 
Universal Winding Company of Pawtucket. 

Roy Hanson was recently made foreman 
of Aircraft Division of American Steel and 
Wire Company of New Haven. 

Frank Foster was in the oflice last month 
to get the ball rolling for our reunion this 
June. 

Wallace C. Armstrong reports that he 
has moved to 141 Ballard Dr., West Hart- 
ford, Conn. Wally is working for the Na- 
tional Fire Insurance Co. 

Leonard Reed Carpenter continues in the 
Providence colony of '38 men, at 3 14 Bene- 
fit St. 

1939 

David V. Cull is at Fort Dix. N. J. with 
the Anti-Tank Company, 174th Infantry 
Regiment of the 44th Division. His com- 
pany is entirely motorized with the very 
latest equipment, he writes, and has been 
under intensive training. Called into service 
Jan. 14 from his home town of Ridgewood, 
N. J., he had to give up his position with 
W. T. Grant Co. at Steubenville, Ohio. 
Dave received his Master's degree in Retail 
Merchandising last June from the New 
York University School of Commerce. 

Joe Blessing, Dave's roommate and class- 
mate in college, continues their association 
in the Army. He is in the 118th Infantry, 
same division, same camp. 



Clint Taylor is an instructor of Aero- 
nautics for the Hyannis Airport Corpora- 
tion, Mt. Vernon, N. Y. 

We should have used this item some time 
ago when Gilbert E. Cain first wrote us 
that he was working for the Hercules Pow- 
der Co., in Wilmington, Del. "Bill Canby 
and Norman Guy are constant reminders of 
those wonderful days in the past," he said. 

Private George Witherell is stationed at 
Camp Ewards on Cape Cod, Mass., where 
he is in the 26th Military Police Co. of the 
■Yankee Division. An excerpt from a letter: 
"All surrounding towns must be patrolcd 
as well as the whole camp itself. Traffic 
duty must also be maintained throughout 
the camp. On top of that, all army activities 
such as K.P., Battalion Guard, drilling, 
marching, fire guard, etc., must continue. 
We have 2 to 4 hours of classes every day 
and we're on call 24 hours of the day for 
any disorders which may arise anywhere on 
the Cape involving soldiers. I received 4 
hours of sleep the night before last and 2I/7. 
hours last night and that is the way it will 
probably continue until the company is 
enlarged. It is composed of only about H') 
men so far." 

Al Bloomingdale made an official debut 
into the theatrical world as a producer of 
the Comedy "Your Loving Son." The play, 
written by Ahhy Marchant, opened March 
17 at the Plymouth Theater in Boston. A 
number of Providence people and Brown 
Alumni were in the opening night audience 
and came back with good remarks about the 
show. 

Charlie Farrow has recently been made 
professional manager of the Back Bay 
Music Co., 168 Boylston St., Boston. The 
Farrows live at 38 Clyde Road in Belmont. 



Vin Nast is now associated with the 
Western Lime and Cement Co., Green Bay, 
Wis. 

Don Howarth is busy these days working 
as service engineer for the Wright Aero- 
nautical Corp., Paterson, N. J. Don lives 
in Packanack Lake at 159 Chestnut Drive. 

Larry Hastings is working for the Oti.- 
Steel Co., in Cleveland. 
1940 

Hank Wilder, Jr., 2nd Lieut. 172nd 
Field Artillery (IT? MM Howitzer) N. H. 
N. G., is on active duty in the Federal 
Service with his Regiment at Camp Bland - 
ing, Fla. Hank has been appointed Person- 
nel Adjutant of his Regiment. 

A returned graduate record blank gives 
us the information that Bernard S. Sabean, 
Jr., married Miss Hope Harrison in De- 
cember, 1939; and that they are now the 
parents of Sandra Hope, born November 
23, 1940. The family live at: 34 Williams 
St., North Easton, Mass. 

Leonard "Soupy" Campbell was among 
10 New Jersey men to receive a corporal's 
stripe at Fort Dix. He was one of the first 
trainees to receive a promotion and was 
the first Woodbridge, N. J., man to volun- 
teer under the selective service system. 

Bill Bates has been appointed an Ensign 
in the U. S. Navy. Bill left for Washing- 
ton recently where he will be stationed at 
the Naval Medical Center. 

Walter C. Gummere, Jr., is now working 
at the Gulf Oil Co., in Pitt.shurgh, and is 
living at 434 South Graham St. Johnny 
Records is in Texas with the same company. 

Gene Verdery has completed the ad- 
vanced flight training course at the Naval 
Air Station, Pcnsacola, Fla., where he re- 
ceived his commission as Ensign in the 




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Naval Reserve and has been awarded the 
coveted Navy Wings of Gold. 

John D. Prodgers and Francis K. Wood 
expected to be graduates of the Air Corps 
Basic Flying School at Gunter Field, Mont- 
gomery, Ala., about March 20, the Brown 
Daily Herald reported last month. They 
made their first military flights and had their 
first 60 hours in the air at the Primary 
Training School at Albany, Ga. 

Arthur W. Doherty had intended to 
write his letter of Feb. 10 merely to inform 
the Alumni Office of a change of address, 
but it had a more serious purpose, for on 
that day Robert Fenley, one of the four 
members of the class training as aviation 
cadets at Pensacola, drowned after collision 
in mid-air. 

Three other members of the class who 
have gone into military service are: Bill 
McCall. is a private, Battery A., 103rd Field 
Artillery, 43rd Division, stationed at Camp 
Blanding, Fla. Bob Clifford is stationed at 
Fort Rodman, Battery B, New Bedford. 
Mass. Raymond C. McCulloch al.^o has 
been sent to the 43rd Division at Camp 
Blanding, Florida. He had been working 
at the Hope Webbing Co. in Pawrtucket. 

Eric Schlubach reports that his new ad- 
dress IS 240 East 79th St., New York, i < 

Engagements 

> ► 1926 — Miss Beatrice Brown, daughter 
of Dr. and Mrs. Byron Judson Brown of 
Cranston, to Paul ]. Spencer. 

1927 — Miss Eileen "Bunty" Noble, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bertram Noble of 
Calgary. Alberta, Canada, to James E. 
Brennan. 

1932 — Miss Elizabeth Oat Stavers, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard B. 
Stavers of Moylan, Pa., to Albert A. Bar- 
den, Jr. 

1932 — Miss Pauline Fruitman, daughter 
of Mr. and Mrs. Morris Fruitman of New- 
ton, to Dr. Max D. Stein. 

1932 — Miss Rosalind Arlene Kimball, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Sydney 
Kimball of Lawrence, to Dr. Nathan Chaset. 

1934 — Miss Marion Elizabeth Brown, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Haydn L. Brown 
of Haverhill, to Malcolm Clarke Lang. 

1935— Miss Ruth C. Martin, daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur G. Martin of Philadel- 
phia, to W. Wallace Buxton. 

1935 — Miss Meta Goldstein, daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. George M. Goldstein of Chi- 
cago, to Fred A, Nachman. Jr. 



1937 — Miss Eleanor Dunant White, 
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth C. R. 
White of Brookline, to John Howe Beebe. 

1938 — Miss Elizabeth Lee Parker, daugh- 
ter of Mrs. William Belmont Parker of 
Cambridge, to George Cure Bright. 

1938 — Miss Nancy Adams Warren, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Julius E. Warren 
of Newton, to Robert E. Riegler. 

1938 — Miss Frances Babcock, daughter 
of Mrs. Henry Cyril Babcock of Providence, 
to Benjamin A. Chase, IL 

1938 — Miss Virginia Elizabeth Major, 
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Harold D. Major 
of Newton Center, to Frederick Alden 
Forbes. 

1939 — Miss Jeanne Nehrbas, daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. Harold A. Nehrbas of Hunt- 
ington, L. L. to George V. C. Carter. 

1939 — Miss Helen M. French, daughter 
of Mr. and Mrs. Walter E. French of Provi- 
dence, to Charles B. Willard. 

Weddings 
> 1926 — Prof. Theodore Hunt and Miss 
Sarah Willard Beach of Dubuque, Iowa, 
Dec. 22, 1940. At home: Centre College, 
Danville, Kentucky. 

1931 — George M. Knowles and Miss 
Beatrice Hindley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Walter Hindley of Lonsdale in the Chapel 
of Christ Church, Lonsdale, Feb. 20, 1941. 
At home: 97 Grove St., Lonsdale. 

1934 — William C. Wohlfarth, Jr. and 
Miss Alice Nolte Renshaw, daughter of 
Wallace William Renshaw of Bronxville, 
and the late Mrs. Renshaw, in the Reformed 
Church of Bronxville, Feb. 12, 1941. At 
home: 5 Brooklands, Bronxville, N. Y. 

1935 — Edward Carhart Ashton and Miss 
Elizabeth Phillips Barker, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. E. Barnes Barker of Brooklyn 
Heights, March 6, at St. Stephen's Church 
in Cohasset. At home: Lilac Hill, 585 
Country Way, Egypt, Mass. 

1935 — Amos L. Taylor, Jr., and Miss 
Jean Barker McMann, daughter of Mrs. 
Charles Gideon McMann of Belmont, Oct. 
19, 1940 at Plymouth Congregational 
Church. At home: 29 Alma Ave., Belmont. 

1935 — William Lauder, Jr., and Miss 
Gladys Aaronson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Andrew Aaronson of Norwalk, in the First 
Presbyterian Church of Baltimore, Sept. 21, 
1940. At home: 1 1 Morgan Ave., Norwalk. 

1935— Alfred Hahn Joslin and Miss 
Roberta G. Grant, daughter of Mr. Max 
Lewis Grant "12 and Mrs. Grant of Provi- 
dence, at a candlelight ceremony in the hall- 



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room of the Biltmore Hotel, March 9, 1941. 
Arthur Hellman "36 was an usher. At 
home: Eldorado Apts., 211 Waterman St. 

1937 — John W. Manchester and Miss 
Jean Murchie, daughter of United States 
Dist. Atty. and Mrs. Alexander Murchic of 
Concord, N. H., Nov. 21, at St. Paul's 
Episcopal Church. At home: Ohio State 
University, Columbus, Ohio. 

1938 — Walter Covell and Miss Harriet 
Frances Tahakin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Samuel Tabakin of Indianapolis, in Pough- 
keepsie, Dec. 17, 1940. At home: 58 Col- 
lege St., Providence. 

1938 — Anthony C. Shabica, Jr., and 
Miss Eleanor Vale Wright, daughter of Mr. 
Arthur Wright and the late Gertrude V. 
Wright of Pawtucket, in the Trinity Epis- 
copal Church, Martha's Vineyard, August 
31, 1940. Evan M. Crossley '37 was an 
usher. At home: 217 West Foster Ave., 
State College, Pennsylvania. 

1938 — Lee Norton Booth and Miss Elea- 
nor M. Abrams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Louis I. Abrams of Haverhill, Dec. 22, 
1940. At home: University of N. H., 
Durham, 

1939 — Russell Stewart Wood and Miss 
Georgette Joan Avellanet, debutante daugh- 
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Avellanet of 
New York, at the Hotel Ambassador, Man- 
hattan, March 7, 1941. At home: 3 24 Pierce 
St., Easton, Pa. 

1939 — Roy Ten Haagen and Miss Eliza- 
beth Westcott Foster, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Ralph Leete Foster of Providence, and 
sister of Ralph Leete Foster, Jr. '34, at St. 
Martin's Church, Feb. 22, 1941. At home: 
61 West 51st St., New York City. 

1939 — Clifton Benjamin Brown and 
Miss Thelma Thomas Smith, daughter of 
Mr. Leon Elwood Smith '12 and Mrs Smith 
of East Providence, in the United Congre- 
gational Church, Feb. 22, 1941. Rev. Rob- 
ert W. Little '31 officiated. Edmund D. 
Brown '39 was best man; William E. Smith 
'41 and Robert E. Staff '40 were ushers. At 
home: 138 Barney St., Rumford. 

Births 

> 1921 —To Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Can- 
nell of Providence, a daughter, Mary Cath- 
erine, March 7, 1941. 

1924 — To Mr. and Mrs. Roland V. 
Siddall of Spartanburg, S. C, a second 
daughter, Ann, Feb. 22, 1941. 

1926 — To Mr. and Mrs. John Crowell 
Prior of North Scituate, a daughter, Clair 
Anne, March 8, 1941. 

1928 — To Mr. and Mrs. Paul B. Edes of 
Pittsburgh, a daughter, Emmary, March 10, 
1941. 

1929 — To Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Kevor- 
kian of Boston, a daughter, Jean, Feb. 5, 
1941. 

1929 — To Mr. and Mrs. Frank S. Allen 
of Providence, a third child, a daughter, 
Marcia, Feb. 20, 1941. 

193 2 — To Dr. and Mrs. Manuel Pear- 
son of Connecticut, a son, Lawrence Henry, 
Jan. 30, 1941. 

1933 — To Mr. and Mrs. John E. Flem- 
ming, Jr., of New Jersey, a son, John Ells- 
worth, III, March 16, 1941. The baby's 
paternal grandfather, the late Rev. Dr. John 
E. Flemming graduated from Brown in 
1906; his dad in 1933; and his mother, the 
former Elizabeth W. Bucklin graduated 
from Pembroke in 1934. 

1934 — To Mr. and Mrs. John Reighard 
Lynch of Providence, a daughter, Susan 
Davis, March 2, 1941. 

1934 — To Mr. and Mrs. Henry E. Stan- 



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ton of Hartford, a daughter, Sally Williams, 
March 11, 1941. 

193 5 — To Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Moffett 
of Hope, a daughter, Elizabeth Anne, Feb. 
2, 1941. 

1936 — To Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Olney, 
Jr., of Providence, a second daughter, Sally 
Anna, March 12, 1941. 



1936 — To Mr. and Mrs. Edmond A. 
Neal of New Jersey, a daughter, Judith 
Anne, Feb. 22, 1941. Edmond, Jr., was six 
years old when his dad graduated from 
Brown. 

1939 — To Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Fred- 
erick Nast, Jr., of Wisconsin, a son, Vin- 
cent Frederick, III, Feb. 24, 1941. < < 



Completed Careers 



1888 

> > H.\RRY Ti CK Sherman, dean of the 
American Consular Service when he retired 
in 1933 after 43 years of active duty in 
Antwerp, Belgium, died in Memorial Hospi- 
tal, Orange, N. J.. March 5, 1941. In 1921 
the late King Albert, remembering the 
services which Mr. Sherman had given dur- 
ing the German occupation and the many 
ways in which he had been helpful during 
his residence in Belgium, conferred upon 
him the decoration. Chevalier de TOrdre 
de la Couronne. 

On the occasion of his 40th anniversary 
as American Consul a colleague wrote that 
"Mr. Sherman is held in very high esteem 
not only in Antwerp but throughout Bel- 
gium. He has become a part and parcel of 
the life of that great trading city, but has 
retained his Americanism and his enthu- 
siasm for all that is American. He and Mrs. 
Sherman have achieved the thing which 
they set out to accomplish. He has made 
for himself a happy, contented and useful 
career in the service of our Government, 
and together they have brought up their 
three sons in such a way that the sons can 
rise up and call them blessed." 

Harry Tuck Sherman was burn in Bucks- 
port, Me., Aug. 13, 1866, the son of John 
E. and Velzora A. (Tuck) Sherman. After 
two years at Brown he studied law at Mid- 
dle Temple, London, and on July 1, 1890, 
entered the Consular Service at Antwerp. 
He dropped out in 1893 as a result of an 
administration change in Washington, be- 
came European correspondent of New 
York, London, and Chicago newspapers, 
and for several years edited and published 
two newspapers of which he was part 
owner. One of these newspapers was the 
leading daily in Antwerp until the Germans 
came again last year. 

In 1901 he returned to the Consular 
Service with the understanding that he was 
to remain as a non-career man at Antwerp 
so that he might educate his children. Be- 
tween August, 1914, and April, 1917, he 
had charge of British as well as of Amer- 
ican interests; and even the Germans re- 
spected him. On leaving Antwerp he went 
to Queenstown, Ireland, and greeted the 
first flotilla of American destroyers sent to 
Europe. He also served in London before 
going back to Antwerp in February, 1919. 
He belonged to the Societe Royal de Geo- 
graphic, the Societe Royal de Zoologie the 
Cercle Royal Artistique et Literaire, and 
Beta Theta Pi. 

His wife, who was Ellen Florence Gray 
and whom he married Oct. 31, 1888, died 
several years ago. Surviving are three sons, 
one of whom is Jack T. Sherman, American 
Consul at Berne, Switzerland. 



1891 

> Albkrt Bushnell Johnson, A.M., 
Associate Professor of Romance Languages, 
Emeritus, died in Sarasota, Fla., his winter 
home, Feb. 23, 1941. To many college 
generations he was affectionately "Able 
Bodied" Johnson, a pioneer in teaching 
Spanish, a jaunty and popular figure on the 
campus of other days, and a good com- 
panion. 

"He has given to his Alma Mater a con- 
tinuous service of more than 40 years in 
the field of Romance Languages," said the 
Advisory Council of the Associated Alum- 
ni, noting his retirement in 1934. "For such 
faithful and valued service, sincere appre- 
ciation and congratulations are extended. 
We wish him continued delight in leisurely 
explorations among his castles in Spain." 

His whole teaching career was spent on 
the Hill. Born in Fairton, N. J., Jan. 20, 
1869. the son of Rev. Hiram E. and Sarah 
(Grinnel!) Johnson, he came to Brown 
from East Providence, where his father was 
pastor of United Congregational Church, 
won his A.B. in '91 and his A.M. in "92, 
and was successively instructor. Assistant 
Professor, and Associate Professor in the 
Department of Romance Languages. He 
taught both French and Spanish, the lan- 
guage and the literature, but Spanish was 
his favorite subject. He made it alive and 
attractive; his classes, well attended, reflected 
his ability as a teacher. His "Cuentos Mod- 
ernos," which he edited with introduction, 
exercises, and vocabulary, and which he 
published in 1908, was among the first of 
its kind in this country. 

In this sabbatic year, 1923-24, he and 
Mrs. Johnson spent ten months in South 
America, studying Portuguese and at the 
same time refreshing their knowledge of 
Spanish. He believed Portuguese for Amer- 
ican students to be "largely a matter of 
commercial equipment," and essential to 
any American intending to engage in busi- 
ness in Brazil. After retiring to his Reho- 
both farm, the study of both Portuguese 
and Spanish was his recreation. . . . Pro- 
fessor Johnson was a member of Phi Beta 
Kappa and Sigma Chi. His wife, who was 
Marion M. Casho and whom he married 
Oct. 29, 1921, is his only immediate sur- 

1893 

> Rev. Edwin Barnes Niver, A.B., A.M., 
D.D., was for 10 years previous to his death 
on Sept. 9, 1940, librarian of the College 
of Preachers, Washington, D. C. Thus he 
rounded out a long, devoted career as Epis- 
copal minister and naval chaplain. 

Born in Scott, Cortland County, N. Y , 
July 9, 1863, the son of William A. and 
Mary (Barnes) Niver, he studied at Am- 
herst College and at the Episcopal Theo- 
logical School before taking his bachelor's 
degree at Brown after a year's residence. 



He was, in fact, rector of St. Paul's Church, 
Providence, while an undergraduate. From 
St. Paul's he went in 1894 to Christ Church, 
Baltimore, where he was assistant minister 
and then the vigorous and beloved rector 
for 25 years. 

As soon as the United States entered the 
World War in 1917, Dr. Niver took com- 
mission as chaplain. Naval Reserve, to serve 
with the Marines at Quantico, Va. In 
March, 1919, he resigned as rector of Christ 
Church; in 1922, by special act of Congress, 
he became a chaplain, U. S. Navy, and 
served until 1927. Two years later he set- 
tled in Washington as librarian of the Col- 
lege of Preachers, a place to which he there- 
after gave his time and interest. 

At Commencement in 1909, St. John's 
College, Annapolis, conferred upon him 
the honorary degree of D.D. He won his 
A.M. at Columbian, now George Wash- 
ington, University in 1895. On June 1, 
1893, he married Cornelia Lee Post, who 
survives, with a son, Charles M. S. Niver. 
Dr. Niver was a member of Chi Psi at 
Amherst. 

1897 
► Arthl'r Crowell Stone, Ph.B., 
manufacturing jewelry executive, born Prov- 
idence, Nov. 17, 1872, the son of Jason P. 
Stone, Jr., and Mary E. (Crowell) Stone; 
died at his home in Pawtuxet, Feb. 11, 1941. 
For two years and one term he was a mem- 
ber of the Class of 1896. Then he dropped 
back to take his bachelor's degree with '97. 

As undergraduate and m his younger 
years, the theatre and music were his hob- 
bies. Member of Hammer and Tongs, he 
was the soubrette and Chief dancer in 
"Florida Water" and other musical come- 
dies written by his friend, the late Ned 
Corliss "96. And he also appeared in the 
annual shows put on by the First Corps 
of Cadets, Boston, which were locally popu- 
lar in their time. 

When he left college he started out as a 
salesman of jewelry findings for Providence 
firms, one of which was the George W. 
Dover Co. He engaged in sales work for 
about ten years before taking up executive 
duties as president of Metal Products 
Corporation, Screw Machine Products Cor- 
poration, and Electric Systems Corpora- 
tion. After the World War he served for 
two years as treasurer of George W. Dover, 



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Inc., and then of A. C. Stone, Inc. Recur- 
ring illness hastened his retirement. 

In 1908 he married Ida Lawton Wales. 

who died at Miami Beach, Fla., in January, 

193 5. His fraternity was Theta Delta Chi. 

1899 

► Frank Ferris Woolley, cotton cloth 
broker, born Pawtucket, Feb. 4, 1877, the 
son of Joseph J. and Mary A. (Ferris) 
Woolley: died in Bayside, N. Y., Feb. 17, 
1941, after a month's illness. He was a 
brother of Dr. Mary E. Woolley "94, Presi- 
dent Emeritus of Mount Holyoke College, 
and of the late Erving Y. Woolley '88. 

Resident of Rhode Island for 31 years 
after he left Brown at the end of Sopho- 
more year, he spent 23 of these years as 
agent and superintendent of the Coventry 
Company, Anthony. In that period he was 
president of the Pawtuxet Valley Visiting 
Nurses Association, vice president of the 
R. I. State Conference, Charities and Cor- 
rections, member of the Coventry Town 
Council and School Committee, and presi- 
dent of the R. I. Textile Association. He 
had a strong sense of civic duty, and faith- 
fully followed it. He laid the groundwork 
of his successful business career by two 
years as insurance salesman, one year as a 
traveling salesman, and four years in over- 
alls as mill hand. 

In 1928 he went to New York as produc- 
tion manager of Recording y Statistical 
Corporation, and in 1936 became vice-presi- 
dent of P. L. Davis Co., Inc., cotton goods 
dealers. He left the Davis Company to join 
A. P. Laighton y Co. about six months be- 
fore his death. On May 19, 1905, he mar- 
ried Harriet S. Wright, who survives, with 
two daughters, a son, and his sister. Dr. 
Woolley of Westport, Conn. He was a 
member of the Black Hall Club, New York, 
and the University Club, Boston. 
1900 

► Rev. James Wallace Chesbro, Ph.B.. 
Baptist minister, born Savoy, Mass., June 
15, 1871, the son of Albert W. and Phoebe 
M. (Carter) Chesbro; died in Osterville. 
Mass., Feb. 7, 1941, of a heart ailment. He 
was a lineman, or rusher, on the Brown 
football team of 1899, one of the strong 
elevens of the eastern college world at the 
turn of the century. 

Following graduation from Newton The- 
ological Institution he held pastorates in 
Chester, N. H., South Paris, Me., Narra- 
gansett, and Randolph and Bellows Falls, 
Vt. In 1918 he was called to the Baptist 
Temple, Fall River. After eight years of 
able, arduous work there he resigned and 
removed to Springfield, Mass., where he 
engaged for a short time in selling life in 



surance and in acting as supply pastor tu 
neighboring churches. In 1926 he was in- 
dependent candidate for Congress on a dry 
platform. Two years later he accepted a 
call to the Baptist Church at Osterville. 

On July 2, 1902, he married Addie O. 
Jubb, who survives, with three sons, Albert 
L. Chesbro '27, Ronald A. Chesbro '28, and 
Dr. Wallace L. Chesbro; a sister, brother, 
and two grandchildren. He was a member 
of Phoenix Lodge of Masons, Randolph, the 
Modern Woodmen of America, and the 
Cape Cod Clerical Club. 
1904 

► Richard Owen DuMMER, Ph. B, A.M., 
science teacher, born Weld, Me., Dec. 9, 
1879, the son of Richard Gorham and 
Emma (Annan) Dummer; died in Provi- 
dence, Feb. 22, 1941. He was head of the 
Science Department, Hope High School. 

In 1905, after receiving his Master's de- 
gree in chemistry, he began teaching m the 
high school at Trinidad, Colo. He came 
back East to join the staff of Cranston High 
School, where he remained four years be- 
fore transferring to Hope High School. 
During his long service at Hope, spanning 
war and peace, good times and bad, he en- 
couraged many of his students to go lo 
college. 

On April 21, 1906, he married Hannah 
H. Tripp, who survives, with his mother, 
three sons and a granddaughter. Two of 
the sons are Brown graduates, Richard A. 
Dummer '31 and Donald D. Dummer '36. 
1907 

> Edwin Vose Ross, Ph.B., insurance 
agent and public citizen, born Portland, 
Me., Dec. 21, 1883, the son of William E. 
and Nellie J. (Dunn) Ross; died in Brattle- 
boro, Vt., Jan. 27, 1941. He had been at 
Brattleboro Sanitarium under special treat- 
ment for a heart ailment. 

"Doc" and "Eva" his classmates called 
him. Always friendly and companionable, 
he had a fine personality with a lively sense 
of humor. In college his favorite sports 
were swimming and baseball. As a member 
of Phi Kappa Psi, he was a loyal worker 
and a good counselor. When he was grad- 
uated he returned to Portland, his home 
city, and was with the Maine Central Rail- 
road for two years as assistant cashier be- 
fore he decided that educational work for 
the Y. M. C. A. was his field. 

After excellent service as educational 
secretary of the Providence Y. M. C. A,, 
he went to the Army and Navy Y. M. C. A., 
Newport, to develop and carry out a pro- 
gram for the men of the Atlantic Squadron, 
U. S. N. In 1914 he became secretary of 
the Germani Memorial Club, Watervliet. 



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N. Y., and in 1915 he joined Travelers In- 
surance Co. Until 1923, when he opened 
his own agency in Norwich, Conn., he 
worked for Travelers as special agent, as- 
sistant manager and manager in Chicago, 
Pittsburgh, and Newark, N. J. 

In Norwich he was a useful and valued 
citizen. He was president of Eastern Con- 
necticut Council, Boy Scouts of America, 
secretary of the New London County Agri- 
cultural Society, treasurer of the Norwich 
Town Rural Association, and a leading 
member of the United Congregational 
Church. He belonged to the Tuckerbung 
Club, the Masons, and other fraternal 
groups. He was married June 17, 1912, to 
Jean Fairfield Barr, who survives, with a 
daughter, his father, and a brother, William 
C. Ross '09. 

1929 

> William Warren Crawford. Ph.B., 
Director of maintenance for the Board of 
Education, Millburn, N. J., died at his 
home in Millburn, Oct. 11, 1940, after a 
year's illness. He spent three years at 
Middlebury College before transferring to 
Brown in September, 1928. 

"Pete" Crawford, as he was known on 
the Hill, was born in Freehold, N. J., March 
29, 1906, the son of William Wesley and 
Myra (Schenck) Crawford. In his year at 
Brown he made friends who were fond of 
him because of his "sparkling wit," as 
Liher Brunensis said, and his discriminating 
tastes. His fraternity was Delta Kappa 
Epsilon. 

From college he went to work for West- 
ern Electric Co., his first assignment being 
statistics and prices. During 1932 he studied 
cost accounting, and in 193 3 became pro- 
duction manager of a subsidiary of Pyrene 
Mfg. Co. in Newark, N. J. He later moved 
to Millburn to take charge of maintenance 
work in the public school system. 

"Pete" was married Oct. 19, 1939, to 
Helen Ludlam, who survives, with his father, 
and two sisters. He belonged to the Down- 
town A.C., New York City, and was a com- 
municant of the Dutch Reformed Church. 
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Pembroke 
Chronicle 

The Alumnae Council 

► ► In spite of a snowstorm which reached 
blizjard proportions. Alumnae Council 
members turned out 75 strong to attend the 
annual two-day session on March 7 and 8. 
Visits to classes and a tour of the campuses, 
with special visits to the Annmary Brown 
Memorial Library and reconstructed Uni- 
versity Hall, brought the delegates to the 
highlight of Friday's program — a banquet 
in Alumnae Hall which was addressed by 
Martha Dickie Sharp '26. Mrs. Sharp who 
has just returned from France where she was 
American representative of the Unitarian 
Service Committee and the American 
Friends' Service Committee, presented a 
challenging message on "France Today." 

Saturday's program opened with a round- 
table discussion for Alumnae Club repre- 
sentatives. Participants in the discussion, 
which was led by Margaret Carr '17, presi- 
dent of the Newport Club, included: Elea- 
nor Campbell "34, Boston; Carrie T. Foulkes 
'15, Fall River; Irene Nelson Marvell '11, 
New Bedford; Charlotte Young '15, Bristol; 
Doris Deming '30, South County; Ruth 



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Tufts Cosgrovc "10, Brockton: Helen K. 
Wallace '20. New York: Catherine Hinchcy 
"25, Philadelphia: Hannah Nicholson Ben- 
son "11, New Haven: Dr. May Hall James 
"09, honorary member of the Detroit Cluh; 
and Millie Church McKeever "05, Southern 
California. 

Ollie A. Randall '12, president of the 
Alumnae Association, was in charge of a 
stimulating business meeting for Council 
members. Madeline Kane Durfee "1 3, chair- 
man of the Regional Scholarship Commit- 
tee, presented an interesting report on the 
work the regional committees are doing 
throughout the country. Mary Louise 
Hinckley Record '37, director of the News 
Bureau at Pembroke, described the scholas- 
tic achievements of the recipients of the 
large scholarships and their participation in 
extra-curricular activities. Miss Mooar an- 
swered several questions concerning admis- 
sion facts and figures. 

The suggestion by the president to in- 
crease the membership on the Executive 



Board met with the hearty endorsement of 
the Council members. It was proposed that 
a careful study be made of the constitution 
for the purpose of bringing about desirable 
changes. 

A luncheon for Council members and 
class agents concluded Saturday's program. 
Jessie Monroe Williams '12 presented a 
report urging the classes which arc to hold 
reunions this June to make every effort to 
complete their quotas by that time. Dean 
Morriss outlined the plans which the Col- 
lege is making for the Semi-Centennial cele- 
bration. Gertrude Allen McConnell '10 
spoke on the money-raising projects which 
are planned for this spring, and urged the 
members to send in as many articles as pos- 
sible for the Country Auction on May 3. 
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► The Brown Alumnae Club and Pem- 
broke College were among the organizations 
which sponsored the Fourth Annual Rhode 
Island "CVorld Affairs Week last month, i 



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Bv GERTRUDE ALLEN McCONNELL "10 



* ► 1899— Eva E. Curtiss has changed her 
residence to 38 Spring St., Bristol. Conn. 

1900— Anna C. Buffinton has taken an 
apartment at 406 Brook St., Providence. 

1902— Myrtis Millikin Clayton has re- 
turned from a two months' trip to Honolulu. 

191 1 — Lila Crapo is sportswear buyer for 
R. H. Stearns in New York. She is living 
at 128 Chestnut St., Apt. 54, Bo.ston. 

191 1 — Anna Canada Swain has the sym- 
pathy of the alumnae in the loss of her 
Mother. 

1912 — Jessie Monroe Williams has our 
sympathy in the death of her Father. 

1914 — The Class had a rummage sale for 
the benefit of the Semi-Centennial Fund 
and made $130. 

1915— Blanche Schiller Hook is Parlia- 
mentarian for the 10th District California 
P. T. A. with approximately 80,000 mem- 
bers. P. T. A. is an important part of the 
California school system. 

1915 — Catherine Canada Wright has the 
sympathy of the alumnae in the loss of her 
Mother. 

1916 — Marjorie Barber has our sympathy 
in the death of her Mother. 

1918 -Sarah Morse Beardsley enter- 
tained at a tea recently for Helen K. Wal- 
lace "20. Dean of Women at Hofstra Col- 
lege. Hempstead. L. I. 

1924 — Hilda HofTman of the Bowery 
Savings Bank in New York is regional vice- 
president of the Association of Bank 
Women. 

1924 — Charlotte Ferguson Roads has 
been elected to the School Committee in 
Marblehead. 

1925— Amy Hull Hodge and family are 
.It 3341 West Penn .St., Germantown, Phil- 
adelphia. 

1925 — Nancy Judkins has been taking a 
year's leave of absence from her teaching 
position and has been studying in New 
York. She is living at 414 West 120th St. 

1926 — Martha Dickie Sharp spoke twice 
in Providence last month during World 
Affairs yeek, once on "Saving Children in 
France" and again on "France Under 
Petam."" 

1928 — Frieda Johnson Sibley and her 



husband. Rev. Laurence C. Sibley have 
moved to New Bedford, where Mr. Sibley 
has accepted a call to the South Baptist 
Church. They are living at 10 Emery St. 

1930 — Zelia Downing Mctcalf and fam- 
ily are living at 44 Rockland Ave., Port- 
chester, N. Y. 

1931 — Estelle Moore Eldridge and fam- 
ily have moved to 236 Center St., Man- 
chester, Conn. 

1932 — Rosamond King Lynch and hus- 
band are at 101 Hecla Ave., Uxbridge, 
Mass. 

1935 — Winifred Small has resigned her 
position as a bacteriologist in Boston to go 
to England with the Harvard Medical Unit. 

1936— Katharine Faulkner Neubert now 
lives at 307 Garfield Ave., Brooklyn. 

1937— Elisabeth Rice Smart and her hus- 
band are building a house in Saylesville 
Highlands. 

1938 — Frances Dunn is Assistant to the 
Director of Educational Measurements at 
Brown. 

1938 — Ruth Banks Froling has been 
spending several weeks in San Diego. 

1938 — Dorothy Henry was chairman of 
a food sale for the class which netted over 
$50 for the Semi-Centennial Fund. 

1939 — Marguerite C. Coogan is Person- 
nel Research Technician with the State 
Technical Advisory Service of the Social 
Security Agency in Washington. Her ad- 
dress is 2410 20th St., Apt. 306. 

1939— Margaret Gainer is with WooU- 
cott"s road company of "The Man Who 
Came to Dinner."" 

1939 — Margaret Porter is working in the 
lohn Hay Library. 

1939— Thelma Salisbury is studying at 
the Simmons Library School. 

1939 — Mary Veach has the sympathy of 
the alumnae in the loss of her Father. She 
and her mother have taken an apartment 
at 1410 Metropolitan Avenue. Parkchester, 
N. Y. 

1940 — Katherine Bertram has moved to 
Tiverton, R. I. 

1940 — Evelyn Jacobs has completed 
her secretarial course at the Copley Secre- 
tarial Institute and now has a secretarial 



position. She has moved to 126 Amory 
St., Brookline, Mass. 

1940 — Louise Parker is a technologist 
in the Worcester State Hospital, Worcester, 
Mass. < < 

Engagements 

> > 1911 — Dr. Eva Waterman Magoon to 
Paul Stevens Somerville of St. Johnsbury, 
Vt. 

1936 — Lucille Batchelder to Harry H. 
Walsh, Jr., Amherst. Mr. Walsh is man- 
ager of Headley-Reed Co., radio station 
representatives, in Detroit. 

1939— Virginia Kelley to Harold Arthur 
Sherbino of St. Albans, Vt. 

1939 — Lora E. Morris to Robert Ashley 
Johns, a graduate of Norwich University. 
He is with the Genera! Electric Company in 
Schenectady and is an officer in the U. S. 
Cavalry Reserve. 

1940 — Frances Babcock to Benjamin A. 
Chase. Brown '38. 

1940 — Carol Lobenberg, to Arthur B. 
Freedman, Harvard '37. Mr. Freedman 
graduated from the Harvard School of 
Business Administration in 1939 and is a 
member of the executive staff at Bloom- 
ingdale's. 

1941 -Audrey Smith to David Price, 
Brown "40. 

Weddings 
* 1935— Catherine Jodoin and Robert G. 
Bcckley. Feb. 22. Address: 95 East Main 
St., Tewett City, Conn. 

1939 — Tatiana Dzubay and Michael 
Aruck. Address: 106 West 13th St., New 
York City. 

1940 — Leah Janet Goulett and Ahti 
Albert Erkkinen, Brown "38, in the Central 
Congregational Church in Providence on 
March 14. Marjorie Leland "40 served as 
maid of honor. Address: 612 Angell St., 
Providence. 

1940— Lois Gladding and Adolf F. Haf- 
fenrelfer, Jr. in the Fourth Baptist Church 
in Providence on March 8. Mr. Haffen- 
reffer is a graduate of Lehigh University. 
Address: Gardner"s Neck Road, South 
Swansea, Mass. 

1941 —Ann Lucheme and Rolle Rene 
Rand were married at the Church of St. 
Michael and All Angels ( Episcopal ) in Balti- 
more on Jan. 29. Mr. Rand attended the 
University of Shanghai, China, and Tulanc 
University. He is associated with the Faw- 
cett publications as a writer and editor. 
Address: 60 Bank St., New York City. 

1942 — Florence Mullins and Lieut. John 
F. Barrett, Jan. 25. Lieut. Barrett is a 
member of the 152nd Observation Squad- 
ron at Hillsgrove, where Mrs. Barrett 
learned to fly under the Civil Aeronautics 
Authority. 

Births 

> 1928 — To Dr. and Mrs. Donovan S. 
Correll (Helen Butts), a daughter, Louise 
Butts, on Feb. 26. Address: 27 Chaske 
Ave.. Auburndale, Mass. 

1930 — To Prof, and Mrs, Alan W. 
Brown (Beatrice Simpson), a daughter, 
Diana, Dec. 23, 1940. Address: 417 West 
llSth St., New York City. 

1934— To Mr. and Mrs. John E. Flem- 
ming. Jr. (Elizabeth Bucklin), a son, John 
E. Flemming, III. The baby"s grandfather 
was the late Rev. Dr. John E. Flemming, 
Brown "06. Address: 160 Summit Ave., 
Apt. 22, Summit, N. J. 

1937 — To Mr. and Mrs. John F. Sulli- 
van. Jr. (Barbara Williams), a son, Roger 
John, on Feb. 8. Address: 7 Fowler Ave., 
Newport. < < 



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