• TV '*-?^-* ^""-.^ \'V'\A ?i • \d^\ ^^ V ^^ « i ^. f^f- 9. !<'.<» *?- iWWsK Beyond Waterman Street, viewed from the Front Campus near Manning Hall, is the familiar building occupied for 98 vears by the R. I. Historical Society. The University has just acquired this building by purchase. ^ LU M N-i-^ mo N T H L MAY, 1942 Vol. XLII, No. 9 PER C leo INT (60 140 120 100 60 60 40 Federal Reserve Index o( Industrial Production 1913-17 1916-22 I92S-27 1926-32 1933-37 What do these peaks Imply for Investments? The Nation's business activity climbs to a new high. Prices are rising — taxes mount- ing — a serious shortage of skilled labor, machines and tools — more and faster is the plea. What does this mean to the investor? A new peak of business activity — but look back to the peaks of 1937 and 19281 New conditions, a larger countr)', operating under a war economy, yes, but many corpo- rations report net earnings below those of the previous year. Constant study, painstaking analysis, and qualified experience are needed to interpret all of the many new investment trends and -A\ problems of today. How will these new con- ditions affect your securities and the income from your investments? Would it help you to have your invest- ment account reviewed at this time? Would you be relieved of some anxiety if our officers made suggestions to you for strengthening your investment portfolio? Many customers of the Hospital Trust Company are taking advantage of the assist- ance we are rendering. The details of our service are explained in our new booklet, "Personal Agency Accounts," and we suggest that you send for a copy. 0A Rhode Island Hospital Trust Companij Pawtucket Providence Woonsocket Published monthly, January, August and September excepted, by the BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY, Inc., at Brown University, Providence, R. L Entered at the Post Office, at Providence, R. I., as second class matter, under the law of March j, 1S79. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND MAY, 1942 VOL. XLII NUMBER 9 ► ► A Commencement to Remember ► ► Brown's 174th annual Commencement calendar centres around graduation a month ahead of the usual third Monday in June, but listing most of the traditional events of other years. Seniors will he awarded their de- grees on Monday, May 18, instead of on June 1^. Class reunions will be held May 16. The major change in the Commencement week pro- gram will be omitting the Graduate School Convocation on the Saturday before Commencement, when candidates tor advanced degrees would ordinarily receive their dip- lomas and hear a scholarly address. The Graduate School has had its own convocation since 1926. This year the graduate students will attend the Com- mencement exercises in the First Baptist Meeting House on May 18 and receive their degrees from President Henry M. Wriston along with the seniors of Brown and Pem- broke. Honorary degrees will also he conferred at the graduation exercises. ► Missing from the Commencement program this year will be the colorful outdoor Class Night Dance on the Middle Campus. This year the dance will be held indoors in Sayles Hall and in Faunce House. No Japanese lan- terns will be hung between the elms, breaking a tradition of more than half a century. Other social events have been simplified and combined. One of the most significant events of the week-end will be Pembroke's 50th anniversary celebration. A special Semi-Centennial Convocation will be held on Saturday, May 16. Other anniversary events will be a panel discus- sion on education for women on Friday, May 15, and an alumnae reunion dinner on Saturday. The week-end festivities will open as usual with Ivy Night Dance at Pembroke on Thursday before Com- mencement — May 14. On Friday, Pembroke's Ivy Day exercises will be held in Alumnae Hall in the morning and Brown's "Under the Elms" exercises of Class Day on the Middle Campus during the afternoon. One traditional part of the Class Night festivities w-iU remain. Brown seniors will gather on the steps of Sayles Hall for their last campus sing at midnight on Friday. ► Brown alumni plan to hold class reunions this year, Irom Saturday through Sunday, but the number of gath- erings will probably be smaller than in the past and ar- rangements are less elaborate. Aside from the semi-centennial events at Pembroke, Saturday will also see the annual meeting of Rhode Is- land Alpha of Phi Beta Kappa. No new members are to be initiated this year, since elections were held in February and all candidates made members in March, but the chap- ter is to elect officers as usual. Baccalaureate exercises for the seniors of Brown and Pembroke will be in the First Baptist Meeting House on Sunday afternoon, May 17, with the pastor, Rev. Albert C. Thomas 'OS, preaching the sermon. President and Mrs. Henry M. Wriston, Vice-President and Mrs. James P. Adams and the Deans of Brown and Pembroke will re- The Reunion Calendar for 1942 ► By the end of April 17 Brown classes had noti- fied the Alumni Office that they were planning reunions of various sorts. A few of the groups had arranged overnight affairs, while most had scheduled merely a dinner, but a surprising amount of interest was being shown despite the war. A few other classes* were known to be contemplating reunions but had not settled on details. 1879 — May 16, dinner at the home of Mrs. Sadie Jordan, Norwood Avenue, Edgewood, R. I. 1880 — May 17, at Laneway Farm in Taunton, farm of the Secretary, Zeehariah Chafee. 1882 — May 16, dinner at the University Club. 1891 — May 17, Agawam Hunt, 6 p.m. 1892 — May 16, meet to go to Sakonnet for lunch and afternoon at the home of Charles H. Mer- riman. Dinner at the Stone Bridge Inn. 1897 — May 16, dinner at Agawam Hunt, 7 p.m. Guest of honor, Vice-President James P. Adams, whom other classes dining at the club would be in- vited to hear. 1909 — May 17, dinner at the R. I. Country Club. 1912 — May 16-17, Biltmore Hotel will be head- quarters. Dinner, May 16, Agawam Hunt, 7 p.m. 1916 — May 17, dinner at the University Club. 1917 — May 16, golf and dinner at the Wanna- moisett Country Club. 1922 — May 16, dinner at Providence Biltmore Hotel. 192.^ -May 8 a.m. 1927 — May Connecticut. 19?2 — May 16-17, Bayview Hotel, Jamestown, R. I. Saturday p.m. — golf, horseshoes, etc.; cock- tail hour; banquet, with movies of 19.^2 in action and entertainment. Sunday — ball game and class dinner, with meeting and speaker from University. May 18, breakfast at the University Club, 8:15. 1939 — May 16, dinner at the Old France Res- taurant, 7 p.m. i i ceive students, their parents and friends and the alumni after the e.xercises. In some years the deans of Brown have had a separate reception on Class Day. The Middle Campus should be in full green on Mon- day, May 18, when the colorful Commencement pro- cession forms for its march down College Hill to the First Baptist Meeting House, and all other accoutrements of the occasion will be the same as in other years when Com- mencements were in June. Brown plans to keep its aca- 18, breakfast at the University Club, li-17, Norwich Inn, Norwich, 239 *1887, 1890, 1902, 1903, 1907, 1918, 1924, 1937 are having reunions. The AKiiiini Odicc and class officers can furnish data received too late for publication. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY demic pageantry intact for one of its most highly prucd traditional ceremonies. ► After the graduation exercises the procession will return to the campus for an alumni luncheon. The annual Alumni Meeting is to be in Sayles Hall at 1 :45, where guests of honor will speak and gifts to Brown during the year will be announced. Quentin J. Reynolds '24, war correspon- dent for Collier's magazine, and President Wriston will be the principal speakers. Prof. Zechariah Chafee, Jr.. "07, Harvard Law School professor and authority on the Free- dom of Speech, will be the presiding officer, while the Governor of Rhode Island will bring the State's greetings. President William P. Burnham "07 will announce the re- sults of alumni elections for Trustees, Athletic Council and regional officers of the Associated Alumni. Vice- President James P. Adams will announce the gifts. In a revival of Commencement Day baseball. Brown will meet Dartmouth at Aldnch Field after the Alumni Meeting. Another baseball game, with Rhode Island State, is on the schedule for the previous Saturday, May 16. An innovation that should prove popular is a dinner arranged by the Engineering Association for Friday night, Mayl5, at the University Club. President Wriston and Dean Arnold are the announced speakers, with Joseph H. Stannard, Jr., '15 as chairman. On Tuesday the University year ends with the annual Spring meeting of the Corporation. The first summer session comes, after a month's interval, on June 22 as Brown carries out its promise of year-round operation. ► Inform.-\TION on tickets to Commencement events has been communicated by Prof. H. N. Couch of the Com- mencement committee: No tickets will be needed for Pembroke's Ivy Day, which will be open to the public. Since the Graduate Convocation is being merged with the exercises of Commencement Day, there will be no tickets printed separately for the Graduate School. It is proposed to issue tickets for the Baccalaureate Service pri- marily but not necessarily exclusively to the parents of the graduating students. These tickets will indicate that the bearer may be admitted up to 2 :4i' p.m., after which time the general public will be admitted. Since there will be no outdoor dancing on Class Night, the student commit- tee expects to reduce the size and importance of the occasion without actually excluding the general public if any persons \\ish to attend. Tickets may be purchased on the grounds. As usual, It IS expected that the University Ckib and the Faculty Club will keep open house on Commencement Day. The Alumni Office will be open throughout most of the Commencement week end to offer information and assistance. Returned alumni are asked to register there. i i The Hermit of Carrie Toiver ► ► The draft, air raid precautions and priorities today provided the theme of Brown University's wartime Spring Day exercises — an occasion traditionally devoted to caustic treatment of college personalities and institutions. The identity of the Spring Day speaker is a closely guarded secret until the moment he mounts the stairs of John Carter Brown Library on the campus for his per- oration. Last month's speaker was supposed to have been blown to the top of Carrie Tower on the corner of the campus at Prospect and Waterman streets by the 1938 hurricane, shortly after his arrival at Brown as a freshman, and to have led a hermit's existence up there ever since. The draft board was supposedly after him and it got the bright idea that the best way to lure him out of his lair m the tower was to use a Pembroke lass as bait. As hundreds of students gathered at noon in front of the John Carter Brovi'ii Library, they beheld the hermit chasing the bait — impersonated by Pembroke Junior Lois Lindblom — and being chased in turn by the "draft board", whose members also happened to be the members of the Spring Day committee. Miss Lindblom got away, but the hermit was caught and dragged to the top of the stairs, where he was disclosed to be Louis Smadbeck of the class of 1942. Aside from his references to wartime conditions, Smad- beck's discourse did not differ greatly from those of his predecessors. He paid his respects to Pembroke College by reporting that during the last blackout bands of Pembrokers were cruising around looking for Brown men and to the faculty by remarking that the bald spot on the head of an English professor had come close to spoiling the blackout on the campus. He further announced that due to priorities members of the Brown football team will no longer be supplied with lead in their pants. Ending on a serious note, Smadbeck told his classmates that "in these four years my amson has gone on as dansu- fal, of course, and I am happiest when sarcandis has lastardin the brange for dear old Brown." i i Spring Sports Results BASEBALL: Wesleyan 6, Brown 2. Brown 9, Yale 1. Amherst 1, Brown 0. Rhode Island 3, Brown 1. Provi- dence 5, Brown 0. FRESHMAN BASEBALL: Brown S, Andover 4. Brown 7, Worcester Academy 2. Rhode Island 8, Brown 2. Rhode Island 2, Brown 1. Brown 2, Dean Academy 1. GOLF: Brown 7I/2, M.I.T. V/z- Har- vard \ Brown 4. TENNIS: Brown 7, Coast Guard 2. Brown 6, Bowdom 3. Amherst 8, Brown 1. FRESH- MAN TENNIS: Brown 6, Worcester Academy 3. Brown 9, Cranston High 0. TRACK: Rhode Island 109, Brown 26. Holy Cross 89, Brown 4 'f. Army 99 2/3, Brown 26 1 3. New Hampshire 75, Brown 60. FRESHMAN TRACK: Rhode Island 89, Brown 37. Brown 63 1 3, Worcester Academy 62 2 3. Brown 64, New Hampshire 62. FOOTBALL: Brown 19, Coast Guard 6. i 4 C.4RRIE TOWER: Its '•Hermit" Has Left 240 \ BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY CHAPLAIN OF BROWN : The Rev. Arthur L. Washburn, resident counselor since 1935, will fill the newlv created post in the University. Broicn Charter Bill Passed ► In the closing days of its 1942 session, the Rhode Island General Assembly approved the bill which amends the Brown University Charter so that there would no longer be denominational qualifications for those who are members of the Brown Corporation or Faculty. The amendment would take effect upon endorsement by the University Corpora- tion. The latter may act upon the matter at its annual meeting May 19, the day after Commencement. < i The Progress of the Fund ► Driving for a wartime Alumni Fund of $50,000, Class Agents were told at the end of April that 2564 contributors had given $27,087 up to that date. The totals represent a decrease of 2 1 1 contributors over the corresponding period in 1941, while gifts had increased by $148.20. < i ► Full -Fledged Football ► The Sunday Night Quarterback had a broad grin on his face after the Brown-Coast Guard Academy tiff April 19, New England's first full-fledged spring football game, for the Bear had looked good in beating the cadets 19-6. There was dnve and spirit worthy of an autumnal setting, new material had showed promise and proficiency, and the new Stahley modified "T" formation, though withholding its full repertory, delighted most of those who saw it in its first testing. It was a colorful afternoon. The Brown Naval R.O.T.C. paraded in its first public appearance. The Coast Guard Academy cadet corps passed in review. President Wriston presented a stand of colors to the Coast Guard corps. The game itself had all the attributes of October and Novem- ber. And a by-product of the afternoon was the raising of $4742.73 for the Coast Guard Welfare Fund, one of the largest gifts the fund had ever received and made up from 5195 paid admissions, together with revenue from programs, parking, and concessions. (Brown shouldered all incidental expenses as host.) Rated as pre-game favorites, the Brunonians clinched their triumph in the opening half Vv-hen Bob Margarita and Doc Savage spearheaded two long drives in a manner reminiscent of their best last fall. Margarita's romp of 22 yards completed the 59-yard advance in the first quarter, while Savage pounded over from close-up after a 57-yard gallop on a punt return reverse. He scored again later from the one-yard line after a Cadet fumble had set up the opportunity 11 yards out. Coast Guard's score came on a 98-yard return of a punt with Carter reversing his field. First downs were 11 to 9 in Brown's favor and rushing yardage 222 yards net to 53. Brown completed one of five pass attempts for 14 yards; Coast Guard eight of 20 for 127. Good punting popped up in the face of tricky wind conditions, with the Bruin averaging 41 yards. Brown lined up as follows: CoUer, i.e.; Campbell, l.t.; Teschner, l.g.; Ashley, c; Down, r.g.; Montgomery, r.t.; Milner, r.e.; Bentley, q.b.; Margarita, l.h.; Bowen, r.h.; Savage, f.b. Reservers, most of whom saw considerable service as Stahley tried out his combinations, were: ends — MacNeill, Peden, Coogan, Smith; tackles — Fidler, Flower, Pitman, Mitchell; guards — Russell, Feinberg, Gates; cen- tres — Regine, Karafotias; backs — Swingler, Bestor, Rem- ick, Thomas, Babcock. In normal times these men, newcomers and veterans, would make Brown's gridiron prospects for the fall very bright indeed. They had had the best spring practice on record, thanks in part to the ^incentive th e regulation in- Jcrcollegiate game provided. F rom all poirif? _niF view fh>>' experiment had been a great success. Many were urging that the game become an annual event. i i A Division of Modern Languages ► A Division of Modern L.angu.ages, combining the former Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the Department of Germanic Languages and Litera- tures, has been established at Brown University in order to simphfy the administration of the University's foreign language studies. Prof. Hans Kurath, chairman of the Department of Germanic Languages, has been designated chairman of the new division. Prof. Kurath, who is editor 241 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY of the Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada, has been at Brown since 1927. The teaching staff of the new division includes four professors, an associate professor, six assistant professors and seven instructors, who were formerly members of the staifs of the two separate departments. They will be re- sponsible for instruction in French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Seventy-three courses for undergraduates and graduate students are being offered in modern languages and literature this year. "The whole dnft of opinion and action is toward sim- plification of departmental structure," President Wriston said in announcing the changes. At Brown, for example. Political Science and Sociology are joined together, and in Engineering, Electrical, Mechanical and Civil Engineering are all in one division. < Navy Duties for Gurll . . . ► J.'\MES W. Gurll '.^S, Executive Secretary of the Brown Alumni Fund since 1939, has been commissioned as a Lieu- tenant, junior grade, in the U. S. Naval Reserve assigned to ordnance duties. The University has given him a leave of absence for the duration of the war. His work on the Hill is being carried on by Nelson B. Jones' 28, manager of Faunce House and secretary of the Brown Union. Coming to Brown after being a junior industrial engi- neer with the Revere Copper and Brass Company. Lieu- tenant Gurll saw the Alumni Fund increase from $5 5,502 in 1939 to $42,307 last year. He has also been carrying on a large part of the general alumni work and Alumni Office routine as assistant to the Acting Director of Alumni Relations. ^ . . . and Nickerson ► Stanton P. Nickerson, Director of the News Bureau at Brown University, has been commissioned as a Lieu- tenant, junior grade, in the United States Naval Reserve and reported for training in the A-V (S) indoctrination class at Quonset Point April 15. Brown has granted him a leave of absence for the duration of the war. A graduate of Brown in the class of 1931, Mr. Nick- erson has been head of the News Bureau since 1933. He was chairman of the New England District of the Amer- ican College Publicity Association in 1938-39 and served on the national convention committee of the association in 1939. < i Fisher of Harlem BY WILLIAM T. HASTINGS ► ► The late Rudolph Fisher — Brown 1919, Commence- ment orator, member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi, graduate of the Medical School of Howard University, physician and surgeon in New York City, novelist and short story writer — is mentioned several times in the auto- biography of the negro poet and novelist Langston Hughes, The Big Sea. The most interesting passage is as follows: "Harlem was like a great magnet for the Negro intellec- tual, pulling him from everywhere. . . . The wittiest of these New Negroes of Harlem, whose tongue was flavored with the sharpest and saltiest humor, was Rudolph Fisher, whose stories appeared in the Atlantic MonthJv. His novel, Walls of Jericho, captures but slightly the raciness of his own conversation. "He was a young medical doctor and X-ray specialist, who always frightened me a little, because he could think of the most incisively clever things to say — and I could never think of anything to answer. He and Alain Locke together were great for intellectual wise-cracking. The two would fling big and witty words about with such swift and punning innuendo that an ordinary mortal just sat and looked wary for fear of being caught in a net of witticisms beyond his cultural ken. I used to wish I could talk like Rudolph Fisher. Besides being a good writer, he was an excellent singer, and had sung with Paul Robeson during their college days. But I guess Fisher was too brilliant and too talented to stay long on this earth. During the same week, in December, 1934, he and Wallace Thurman both died." Two years before his death Fisher published a second novel. The Conjure Man Dies, which might be called a detective story in black-face. It is clever and suave, and shows none of the racial self-consciousness which mars the art of many writers of his race. The current allusion to him reminds us again regretfully of his untimely death. ^ ^ ^'Characteristic" Correspondent ► ► D.'\MON Runyon's column, "The Brighter Side," held especial interest on March 18 when he wrote of a mem- ber of Brown's Class of 1918. The column was, as usual, copyrighted by King Features Service, Inc., and distributed by International News Service. It began: ► We ran into three newspapermen at different times in different places one day last week, all making ready to cist off for various remote spots on the globe where the fighting IS going on as war correspondents. Bill Chaplin, of I?iternational T^lews, showed us the new style passport, which is now contained in flexible linen covers dotted with the government seal in a sort of mon- tage effect, and we thought it quite an improvement on the old stiflish books that bulged the pistol pocket out fatly. Bill did not seem to think so. He is a tall, skinny guy who does not look any too strong. But he must have amazing endurance as he flies oceans and continents in pursuit of wars with no more concern than if he was riding the subway down to the Battery. He has been in many theatres of war for International and is now headed for a new stage. Bill is about 47 years old. (Brown men know him better as "Ike.") He was a soldier in the First World War and was cited for gallant conduct in the Argonne. He was v/ounded and gassed. After the war he was with various news services in different cities of Europe before joining International. When Italy went to war against Ethiopia, Bill was with the Italian army as a correspondent. He saw a lot of the campaigning there. He went to France at the start of the Second World War and was with the British troops practically up to Dunquerque. When he returned to the United States he wrote of his experiences in diary form that was widely published in the American newspapers. He has been one of International's stars for some years and is regarded as one of the most brilliant men in the game. Seeing Bill Chaplin reminded us that he is characteristic of the present day type of American war correspondent. Many of them now covering the war for the newspapers and news services of the United States are in their middle years and have been soldiers or sailors. i i Commencement's Chief Marshal ► J.^MES C. Collins '92, respected Providence attorney, will be Chief Marshal of Brown University's 1942 Com- mencement procession. The appointment, one of the high honors bestowed by Brown to its notable alumni, will take effect on the 50th anniversary of Mr. Collin's graduation. E. Tudor Gross '01 will be Chief of Staff, a post he has filled for the past several years. i i 242 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 111 the Mail V Affaire ISotte Milwaukee Dear Mr. Editor-in-Chief: In reading the February issue of the Monthly I noted the puhhshed letter of my esteemed classmate, George B. Bullock, in which he announced his startling dis- covery of a moist spot or blot on the here- tofore unblemished escutcheon of the illus- trious Class of 1907. As I read it, I wondered just how it came to pass that George, a resident of far away Massachusetts, happened to find himself on shady Fountain Street in Providence, im- mediately between the Police Station and Notte's Tap. I also wondered how it came about that the fugitive picture fell into the hands of Mr. Notte. I could not recall any classmate of that name, although it then occurred to me it might possibly be only an alias. Inasmuch as the letter cast no light on these incidental questions of the mo- ment, I hazily dismissed the whole weighty matter from my mind. Today I received a circular reprint of the letter, enclosed in an envelope stamped "Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island" and with facsimile of the official seal of the University imprinted thereon. From this it appears obvious that formal notice of the equivocal event has been taken by the high dignitaries of dear Alma Mater. Thus I have been jarred completely off the beam of my usual complacency about mat- ters geographically so remote. I now realize that the fateful incident must be explained away. Otherwise, a rescue posse ought to be assembled and rushed into action before the moist spot becomes dry and indelible, the rampant dogs of war to the contrary notwithstanding. There w-ill always be wars aplenty, but never another Class of 1905. In view of the enduring vitality of the well known presumption of innocence, it is altogether probable that the matter has not until now been considered in its true per- spective. It may be nothing more than cumulative visual evidence of our demo- cratic way of life. I do not recall ever having gazed upon the now historic photograph of the Class taken on the occasion of its Decennial Re- union. For all I know, some of the mem- bers present may have sported beards. If such were the case, should Mr. Notte he condemned willy nilly for resorting to busi- ness as usual? He may have been merely making an early announcement of the ap- proach of the Bock Beer sea.son. Moreover, the pictorial galaxy in question may have been exhibited as a badge and sure reminder of the respectability of Mr. Notte's business. In the year 1915 there were still compara- tively few bald heads in the Class, and so it may have been only another instance of enterprise and resourcefulness seizing op- portunity by the forelock. There are many other reasons, equally as valid and convincing, why Mr. Notte ought not to he thus held up to ridicule and threatened with the dire countermeasures proposed in the two present and any future editions of the published letter. As an al- ternative, I suggest that a committee of in- quiry be appointed to investigate the matter and ferret out all the facts before recourse is had to poster picketing or sabotage to make the punishment fit the alleged crime. If post mortem committees can explain away the implications arising from such in- cidents as the wrecking of the Normandie and the rape of Pearl Harbor, a similar com- mittee should be equally as successfully in erasing the bacchanal blemish from the good name of the Class of 1905. Very truly yours, George A. Gessner '05. Freshmen on Varsities ► Brown University Freshmen will be eligible to play on all Varsity teams during the war emergency, beginning with the sum- mer semester on June 22, Dean Samuel T. Arnold told members of the Advisory Coun- cil of Brown's Associated Alumni. "We want to make sure that students have every opportunity to compete in inter- collegiate sports," Dean Arnold said. "Un- less such a move is taken, students would have fewer seasons to play under our speeded-up educational program. The value of intercollegiate sports in developing sound bodies, leadership and character is doubly important in wartime and should be en- couraged. " He made it clear that eligibility rules for scholastic standing will remain in force. Under the new plan, similar to arrange- ments made by other colleges and universi- ties in recent weeks, no Freshman teams will be organized after Commencement on May 18. Brown intends to have Junior Varsity teams instead and to encourage general par- ticipation in athletics. All coaches are to be retained, according to Thomas W. Taylor, director of athletics. Plans are being made for intercollegiate sports events during the summer, but their full extent or character has not been announced. Freshmen have not been eligible for Var- sity competition at Brown since 1922, when present eligibility rules were drawn up. Brown's Committee on Student Organiza- tions, of which Dean Arnold is chairman, has authorized the revised set-up. < ► ► Brunonians Far and Near Praising Judge Hall ► "The bench and bar will long remember him as the near-perfect judge of a Common- wealth which has been distinguished for its judges more than a century and a half." This was the final tribute in a Bosto7i Herald editorial on Walter Perley Hall '89, whose death was reported in the last issue of the Brown Alumni Monthly. It called Judge Hall "an ideal Chief Justice of the Superior Court and had an ideal aptitude and training for the position." The writer continued: "A college education, a law school de- gree, practice at the bar, experience in city affairs as solicitor for Fitchburg and in county affairs as an assistant district at- torney, a dash of politics, a wide acquaint- ance, first hand familiarity with business transactions and utilities as chairman of the state railroad commission, and eleven years as associate judge by appointment of Demo- cratic Governor Foss, when Republican Governor Cox appointed him Chief Jus- tice, — what a well-rounded career it was! "He was essentially the lawyer and the judge, taking his profession and his duties very seriously, but he found plenty of time for the exercise on his gregarious instincts. He was active in church, military and so- cial circles, and was especially at his ease in the old St. Botolph Club. The portrait of him by his fellow Botolphian, the late W. M. Paxton, which was in the recent memorial exhibit and hangs in the Worces- ter court house, shows him in his impressive prime. That picture was a source of con- tinual delight to him, as well as to Paxton. "Mr. Hall's friends were so numerous and the friendships so close that the long period of illness, during which he lay in bed motionless, with his mind functioning as alertly as ever, was a grievous affliction. BY A. H. GURNEY '07 but he bore it uncomplainingly and even cheerfully, to the very end. Visits from his cronies of other days lightened his final years." i Three at Lehigh ► When Dr. Duncan Stewart, Jr.. joined the department of Geology, Lehigh Uni- versity, last fall, he became the third col- league and student of Emeritus Professor Charles W. Brown 'GO to link Lehigh with Brown, the University, and Brown, the teacher. Head of the geology staff at Lehigh is Dr. Bradford Willard, who taught at Brown from 1923 to 1930; and Dr. Law- rence Whitcomb '22, who recalls old Rhode Island Hall with affection, is Associate Pro- fessor. Dr. Stewart, graduate of University of Michigan '28, won his Sc.M. at Brown in 1930, and was assistant in geology while on the Hill. From Brown he went back to Michigan, qualified for the Ph.D., and w'as instructor in geology at Carleton College until Dr. Willard asked him to come to Lehigh. His chief work has been in petrology, petrography, and engineering geology, and he is considered an authority on Antarctic petrography. As a member of the U. S. Antarctic Service Expedition, he made the most of his opportunity to observe and study first hand, as well as to get material for later investigation. A recently proffered assignment was to work up microscopically the Expedition's collections from the Mel- chior Islands. i 1870 > > Under the title "Suffield Immortals," the winter edition of Suffield Academy ?h iiling of a baseball gam brings to iniiicl many a ' the past. .4bove are pictu took part in the cosluni , feature reunion time ba BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY IMENCEMENT: Sched- e on May 18 this year omineneeineni Day in red three classes as they ed frolics that used to ball on Andrews Field. vcrsity of Michigan Medical School, is hv ing at 1037 Olivia Ave., Ann Arhor. George E, Adams is manager of the Al- bany, N. Y., office of Commercial Invest- ment Trust Corp. at 537 Central Ave. George's house address is 1111 Western Ave., Albany. Richard G. Coffin is assistant manager in the Marine Sales Dept., Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., 26 Broadway, New York, and lives out on Long Island at 504 Park Ave., Manhasset. Earl H. Bradley, reporting arrival of Earl H. Bradley, Jr., added: "Since I've been a little lax on previous announcements, it is probably news to some of my classmates that this is our third child. The others are William Courtland, 2nd, now six, and Roberta, nearly three." Leonard C. Wright, parole office of the New Jersey State Department of Institu- tions and Agencies, was recently elected as chairman of the management committee of the Court Street Y.M.C.A., Newark, N. J., of which he has been a member and volun- teer worker for many years. New addresses to note: John C. Picker- ing, 1034 Potter Ave., Union, N. J.; Oran F. Schee, Jr., Talleres Borda, Hector Aqui- lar Ricketson, Taxco de Alarcon, Gro., Mexico. Augustus W. Calder, New England Butt Co., executive, has been elected as vice- president and chairman of the executive committee of New England Foundrymen's Association. Lt. Brackett H. Clark, Infantry Reserve, is on duty at Raritan Arsenal, Metuchen, N. J., to which he was ordered to report in March. Robert M. Wallace has stepped up as as- sistant general works manager of Griscom- Russell Co., Massillon, O., with which he started in 1928 as a welding engineer. Bob had been assistant superintendent until last February. He and Mrs. Wallace have adopted a baby girl, Linda Milne Wallace, born Dec. 23, 1941. 1929 Raymond A. Balkom is employment su- pervisor for Remington Arms Co., Inc., Lake City Ordnance Plant, Independence, Mo., and is living at 210 Brush Creek Blvd., Kansas City. Ralph G. Winterbuttom, writing in mid- April from 43 Aiken St., Fairhaven, Mass., added cryptically: "Expect to be commis- sioned in Army." Edwin C. Harris is now assistant general manager of Pawtucket Mfg. Co., Paw- tucket, where he began as paymaster in 1929. Philip A. White is reported to be work- ing for Sperry Gyroscope Co., Brooklyn, N. Y. He left the Gamewell Co., Boston, a year ago, we have been told. Douglass H. Rogers is purchasing agent for Allen 6? Hall, Inc., wooden boxes, with his office at 79 Silver Spring St., and his home at 22 Ravenswood Ave., Providence. Harold S. Suer, design analyst with Brown 6? Sharpe Mfg. Co., has moved to 77 Don Ave., Rumford. 1930 BY HAL CARVER In writing Brick Frohock on the arrival of a young lady in his family, we were inter- ested to hear indirectly about Don Hunt, the goalie of parts and student of French. Don is teaching in a private school in Pasa- dena. Brick says Don has been knee deep in the works of Admiral Mahan and seems to have come to the conclusion that the Admiral knew what he was talking about. Apparently Don has become a thorough-go- ing Californian; so his hockey activity must be a thing of the past. Ted Daggett has been assigned as Lieu- tenant (j.g.) in the Coast Guard. Ted was an originator of the Connecticut River Power Squadron and naturally gravitated to the Coast Guard as a result of his work with the power boats. After May 18, his address will be 1 Park Place, Mystic, Conn. Another naval appointment showed up when Don Allmon, also a bachelor, re- ported induction into the Naval Reserve March 12 as Lieutenant (j.g.). He is in the production end and expects to be stationed for the time being at Charlcstown Navy Yard. Rambling about the country we heard from Ray Blank, still a bachelor and active in the motion picture industry. Ray, who wrote a long letter some time ago giving his activities, says he has now quieted down. He reports 5 206 Waterbury Rd., Des Moines, la., as his house, and 500 Para- mount Bldg., Des Moines, as his business address. During the past month Mac Walling has appeared in print both facially and re- portorially almost every day, result of his appointment as administrator of the Wage and Hour Division, U. S. Department of Labor. Mac has had a great deal of experi- ence handling problems relative to this di- vision, and has tackled his new task with his usual skill and good judgment A report from the hills of New York shows that one Lucius Cary is much in evi- dence and up to his ears in work. Lu is lo- cated at Hart Lot, N. Y., where he serves as traffic manager for Glenside Mills Corp. He graduated from St. Lawrence as a Bach- elor of Science and has been working for Johnny Gets '28, the corporation treasurer. It is a far cry back to Gary's car of parts, hut that car left indelible memories for 1930. The chemical division of the Class receives a little attention this month. While eating breakfast at the Statler in Boston, who should stop by but Ted Wallace, who was attending a chemical conference. He tells me he is handling the financial end of Smith, Kline y French Laboratories, Philadelphia. Despite the ever present business pressure, he looks well, and will be glad to hear from anyone in the Philadelphia sector. Gil Williams, working for Berkshire Chemical Co., a division of Davison Chem- ical Corp., Baltimore, Md., writes his busi- ness address is 92 Howard Ave., Bridge- port, Conn., and that he is living at "The Birches", Flat Rock Park, R. F. D. 1, Bridgeport. Gil is happily married and has two youngsters, Shirley Anne, age ten, and Gilbert, Jr., age six. A member of Corin- thian Lodge, he has progressed up through the line in Masonic work. His hobby is amateur radio, his station, WIAPA. He is Emergency Coordinator for Communica- tions in the Bridgeport area. 1931 With Stan Nickerson, director of the Brown News Bureau, and Francis (Finky) Gurll, Freshman baseball coach, leaving to take commissions in the Navy, the Class does not have any liaison men on the Hill at present. But we are sure Dick Bowen, 249 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY The Steel Waited to Jump y ► Steel and magnets are commonly supposed to have instant attraction for each other. But Dr. Herbert H. Uhhg '29 of General Electric Research Laboratory is showing a strip of stainless steel that waits about a minute and a half before it jumps toward a powerful magnet placed under it. The answer has to do with a delayed change in the steel's atomic arrangement: and "exact knowledge of the nature of such changes is important in making magnetic materials for transformers and other electric equipment." The GE News Bureau, after describing the composition of the steel strip and the heating temperatures concerned, says that "Dr. Uhlig has found that if the heated strip is suddenly cooled by quenching in water, then placed under the magnet, it is not attracted, even though it is cooler than the temperature at which the change should occur. After about a minute and a half, however, it suddenly jumps to the magnet. Dr. Uhlig says that the atoms start rearranging themselves as soon as it is cooled, but it takes this time before a majority are shifted and at least a day before all reach a state of equilibrium." Dr. Uhlig, who recently demonstrated the magnet experiment before the Schenectady Chapter, American Chemical Society, is carrying on this work "in the hope of learning more about the heat treatment of steels and the preparation of alloys with better mechanical properties and corrosion resistance." i i Art Schweikart, and other local Class Agents of the Alumni Fund will fill in neat' ly for the time being. Art Brennan is a reporter on the Paw tuc\et Times, and is living at 1141/2 Provi- dence St., Riverside. Dr. V. Lemoine Heuser, who used to play a smart roving centre on the football team, is a dentist, as some of us already know, with his office at 60 Roseville Ave., New- ark, and his house at 17 Gordon Place, Montclair, N. J. Dr. Alfred Levin is instructor in history at the College of the City of New York. John J. Green is out on Quarter Circle V Bar Ranch, Mayer, Ariz., for his health, a recent postcard from St. Louis said. Jim Sanek, reporting the arrival of his new daughter, Marjorie Ann, added that "our new address is 28 Roberta Ave., Paw- tucket." Mrs. Sanek, the former Madeline H. Bogin, taught in the Pawtucket schools before her marriage. Jim, as we know, is with Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. at 111 Westminster St., Providence. Ed Ahern, salesman for Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., is living at 50 Friendly Rd., Cran- ston. 1932 Tom Snyder is in training at Great Lakes Naval Training Station with the present rating of yeoman, third class. Tom was for seven years reporter on the Pittsburgh Sun- Telegraph before the Navy beckoned to him. John B. Rae, instructor in American his- tory at Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology, discussed "Rebellion in Rhode Island: The Dorr War, 1842," at the April meeting of Rhode Island Historical Society, the last to be held in the society's building on Waterman St. The society is moving to the John Brown House on Power St. after having been on Waterman St. since No- vember, 1844. Hugh Butler is chairman of the enter- tainment committee and Dave Scott is head of the squash committee of the Brown Uni- versity Club in New York. Dave and Dick Small played on the Club team as regulars, and Hugh got into several matches. The 1942 team won 40 and lost 40, finishing ninth among 17 teams. James C. White was graduated in Febru- ary from John Marshall Law School, Chi- cago, with a J.D. degree. Jim and his family live ^t 1130 Maple Ave., Evanston, 111 1933 Max Hoberman is attached to the 24th Squadron, Air Corps Technical School. Fort Logan, Colo. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps the first of the year and went to Jefferson Barracks, Mo. as a buck private in the 31st Squadron. Now he's at school for supply administration, and hopes to win a commission. Max resigned as associate buyer of linens and domestics for G. Fox y Co., Hartford, Conn., department store, to join the Air Corps. Dave Low is labor supply representative of the Boston Ordnance District, with his office at 140 Federal St., and his home at 103 Pinckney St., Boston. Carl Sewall is working for the Kendall Mills in Griswoldville, Mass. Al Lawrence is with the Plastic Sales Dept., Dow Chemical Co., with his head- quarters at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, and his house at 65 Wesley Ave., Port Chester, N. Y. Bill Viall, with the Texas Co. in Provi- dence, has recently changed his house ad- dress to 507 County Rd., Harrington. Hans Linkamper is on duty at the Provi- dence office of U. S. Employment Service, Dave Low tells us. Ed Bodurtha is librarian at Shattuck Mili- tary Academy, Fairbault, Minn. Bill Scmmes is with the War Production Board, Washington, and is living in the Westchester Apartments there, he reports. Ed Brown, according to a recent note, is down in Tyler, Tex., and is well drilling in the oil fields at present. R. Ford Bentley has gone back to the Chicago offices of Miehle Printing Press Mfg. Co. after carrying out an assignment at the Long Island City, N. Y., plant. The picture section of the T^ew Yorl{ Herdld Tribune Sunday, March 29, showed Sam Colt, smiling and husky, strolling on the board walk in Atlantic City with his mother, Ethel Barrymore, the actress. New addresses to note: Nicholas L. Logo- thets, 16 Apthorp Ave., Newport, R. I., and Herbert C. Simpson, 270 Bronxville Rd., Bronxville, N. Y. 1934 A radiogram from Lt. Herbert W. Coone, Medical Corps, U. S. Army, was received in mid-April by Herb's parents. Dr. and Mrs. Francis H. Coone of Providence. It was filed from Cebu, then under siege by the Japs. Herb said that he was well and told his parents not to worry about him. He went to the Philippines in September, 1941, and celebrated his 30th birthday on Bataan. Dick Musson, who went into the Army in April, 1941, as a private and who be- came Technical Sergeant, Headquarters Battery, 122nd C. A., Downey, Calif., re- ported last month for training at the Coast Artillery Officers' Candidate School, Camp Davis, N. C. Harry Tapper is industrial relations counsellor at Alabama Ordnance Works, Childersburg, Ala., where he lives at 91 Coosa Court. Dr. Forest A. Rowell, Jr., with his M.D. from Tufts Medical School, is at present on duty at Memorial Hospital, Worcester, Mass. Ralph L. Foster, Jr., sets himself down as "self-employed free lance musical ar- ranger and pianist," and adds that his new mail address is 246 East 46th St., New- York. Dr. August Buermann, 3rd, is resident neuro-surgeon at the Neurological Institute of New York. Bob Pottle, inspector with Factory In- surance Association, with his office at Room 621, Boston, has moved to 85 Beechwood Rd., Wellesley, Mass. York A. King, Jr.'s new address is long enough to remember: 100 Westwood Park Drive, Manoa, Delaware Co., Pa. Elbridge Taylor's mail address is now 8 Sylvia Rd., Medford, Mass. 1935 Gordon MacLaren resigned last month as district traffic manager of Northwest Air- lines, Inc., New York, to accept commission as Lieutenant (j.g.), U. S. Naval Reserve. For the present any mail will reach him through 3230 South Kenwood Blvd., Mil- waukee, Wis. A Snappy "Highball" Ri-iinrdfil ► ► Private Gordon A. Jeffrey '37 is studying for an officer s commission at the Infantry Officers' School, Fort Benning, Ga. Behind this simple statement is a stoiy which a bright young reporter on the Providence Bulletin told in these words: "Whenever he was on duty in front of the 43rd Division Headquarters (Camp Shelby, Miss.), Private Gordon A. Jeffrey, M.P. from Pawtucket, greeted every officer from the commanding general down with a 'high ball' that was the acme of salutes. "And Jeffrey was a 'sharp' looking soldier, uniform always immaculate and well-pressed. "One day Gen. John H. Hester, who commands the 43rd. stopped and compli- mented Jeffrey on his salute. He requested that the M.P. "with the snappy salute' be placed on duty at division headquarters as often as possible. Staff officers noticed the Jeffrey salute. There were more compliments and commendations. The officers recommended that Jeffrey appear before the officers' candidate examining board. "Next Tuesday (March 31), Private Jeffrey goes to the Infantry Officers" School at Fort Benning, Ga., to study for a lieutenant's commission." < i 250 Families sail safer in convoy! World-wide war has proved that a convoy is the best way to carry cargo through dangerous seas. Single ships are more easily picked off. But fleots of freight- ers traveling together with naval escort can make port. Families, like freighters, are safer when they sail together in troubled times. That's the essence of life insurance — hundreds of thousands united to strengthen one another. When you, as skipper, put your family under the protection of a New England Mutual policy, you assure financial security for them and peace of mind for yourself. This Company — chartered in 1835 — has convoyed families safely through more than a century of wars and depressions. Its protec- tion is broad, its policies liberal, and no beneficiary has yet failed to "reach the port" provided by a New England Mutual contract. 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Mass.. for further information. There's no obligation, of course. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Brown Alumni Monthly Published at Btowu University by the Associated Alumni CHESLEY WORTHINGTON "23 Alanaging Editor ARTHUR BRAITSCH '23 Business Manager HENRY S. CHAFEE '09 ALFRED H, GURNEY '07 JAMES W. GURLL '38 GERTRUDE ALLEN McCONNELL Penibrolfe Correspondent Subscriptions, $2 a year. Single copies. 25 cents- There is no issue during August or September. Entered at the Providence Post Office as second-class matter. Vol. XLII MAY, 1942 Ed Gilman, traveling passenger agent of New York, Susequehanna & Western Rail- road, with his office in New York, has changed his house address to 176 Arlington Ave., Hawthorne, N, J, AI Joslin, Providence lawyer, was sworn in last month as Lieutenant (j.g.) U. S. Naval Reserve to rank from March 16. Eli Levinson is divisional merchandise manager with R, H, White Co,, department store, Boston, and lives at 12 Kilsyth Ter- race, Brookline, Mass, V, Edward Perkins, statistician with Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Inc, 117 Heath St,, Boston, reports removal to 16 West Wyoming Ave,, Melrose, Mass, Irving Strasmich is in charge of tax re- search in the Rhode Island State Division of Taxataion, He recently removed his law office to 417 Howard Bldg,, 171 Westmin- ster St,, Providence, Abbott Cole's new address is 3 1 Bay Spring Ave., West Barrington, R. I., while Roland Eddy has moved to 305 Mee- han Ave,, Philadelphia, Abbott is chemical engineer with Socony-Vacuum Oil Co,; Roland is a chemist at Eastern Regional Re- search Laboratory, U, S, Department of Agriculture, Bruce H, Ritenburg, Jr,, sales manager of Nog, Inc, (sounds good, anyway) in Dunkirk, N, Y,, reports his new house ad- dress is 197 Temple St„ Fredonia, N, Y,, and Charlie Fernald tells us he has left Marblehead, Mass,, to settle for a while, perhaps, at 738 East 21st St,, Brooklyn, N, Y, Can it be that Charlie is a Dodger fan? H, Brainard Fancher and Mrs, Fancher of Scotia, N, Y,, have the sincere sympathy of the Class in the loss of their infant daughter, Carol, who died March 30 as a result of a fall from her crib, 1936 Bob Bromage, so Mrs, Bromage told us in a recent letter, is now Pvt, Robert S, Bromage, Battery A, Battalion 13, Fort Eus- tis, Va, Any mail for Bob should go to Mrs, Bromage, 109 Pearl St,, Thompson- ville. Conn. Frank Handy is working in the Division of Current Information, Department of State, Frank left the United Press Associa- tion to go to Washington. Charlie Nauss is engaged in production management with Grumman Aircraft En- gineering Co,, Bethpage, L. I, Charlie's mail address is 128 Lenox Rd,, Baldwin, N, Y, Herman Schein is an archivist at the Na- tional Archives of the United States, Wash- ington, where he lives at 4819 Kansas Ave,, N,W, "Since the first of this year," Art Terry writes, "I have been with American Steel y Wire Co,, subsidiary of U, S, Steel, in the Industrial Engineering Dept,, Allentown, Pa,, plant, I'm working for defense on the home front, but am ready to go when called," Art was married on Aug. 2, 1941, to Miss Elizabeth M. Nolf. Steve Armstrong is studying law at night at the Law School, Boston College, and ex- pects to receive his degree in June, By day he continues to sell insurance in Provi- dence. New addresses for your file: Walter C. Newman, Jr,, 706 Pontiac Ave,, Cranston; John H, Coogan, Jr,, 191 Boulevard, Glen Rock, N, J, 1937 Bill Horn, Jr,, will soon be getting his wings and commission as Second Lieuten- ant, Air Corps, as the Mount Vernon Argus, Bill's home town newspaper, re- ported late in February: "Aviation Cadet William P, Horn, Jr,, son of Mrs, Helen V, Horn of 450 East Prospect Ave,, has com- pleted approximately two-thirds of his pilot training and will report soon to one of the Air Corps advanced flying schools for the final phase of his flight training," Lieut, Thomas J, Watson, Jr,, Air Corps, has been taking a course at the Command and General Staff School, Fort Leaven- worth, Kan, Dr, Robert N, Adamson is resident den- tist at New York Hospital, 525 East 68th St,, New York, Bob's new house address IS 3 5-15 78th St, Jackson Heights, N, Y. Edward K. Bancroft is sales engineer with Babcock 6? Wilcox Co., working out of 49 Federal St., Boston, and living at 516 Park Drive in that same city. Walt Connolly, noting that he is with Triton Chemical Corp., Industrial Trust Bldg., Wilmington, Del., adds his Wilming- ton mail address is 1111 Delaware Ave. Thurston Steele's cocker spaniel. My Own Mellenie, was a prije winner at the Springfield, Mass., Kennel Club's all breed show last month. Don Haggerty, who has been on the stage and in pictures since leaving college, had a role in the comedy hit, "Mr. and Mrs. Coach for Four Days y The once well known Mr. Finni- gin, who was "off agin, on agm, gone agin," has a modern counterpart in Francis D. (Finky) Gurll '31. "In again, out again," was Gurll's refrain as he left the post of Freshman base- ball coach after four practice sessions to accept commission as Lieutenant, U.S.N, He became coach after the Navy wasn't sure that it wanted him right away, and was just getting to know the names of some of his re- cruits when the Navy called in earn- est, Gurll, one of Brown's best football and baseball players, resigned as ath- letic director at Newman School in New Jersey to enlist. But there was something said about his age, and he returned to Brown confident that the Navy might in good time find out that It could use him. It did. ^ North," the past season. In February he was a guest player at the Vassar College Experimental Theatre, Don is a native of Poughkeepsie, you know, and he had his first theatre training in Vassar productions, Francis C, Tyler reports he has moved from West Springfield to Hudson, Mass,, where his mail address is Box 184, Freeman Love will be graduated from Cornell Medical School in June, His mar- riage to Miss Andree Walton ot Brooklyn, his old home city, w'as arranged to take place April 25 at First Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn Heights, 1938 Ensign John C, Edgren, called to duty in March, is one of eight junior officers at- tached to the Naval Aviation Cadet Selec- tion Board by the Bureau of Aeronautics with the Navy Air Corps, A-V (S). His job is administrative duty in public rela- tions, a contact man for the Navy with newspapers, radio, universities and the gen- eral public. As part of his personnel work in the manpower procurement division, he returned to Providence early last month. He took the C, A, A, flight program at Hills- grove last summer under the supervision of Brown University, but his eyes couldn't make the grade for Naval pilot. John McSweeney's new address is: American Consulate, Lagos, Nigeria, W. Africa (c/o Department of State, Washing- ton, D. C) Shelton C, Noyes, lawyer, has his office at 85 Exchange St,, Portland, Me,, but is living in Rumford, Me, J, J, Henry Muller, III, lately of Wood- mont. Conn,, is a candidate in the Adjutant General's Officer Candidate School at Fort Washington, Md, He hopes to get his com- mission in June, Resigning his position with the Bell Oil and Gas Co, of Ardmore, Okla,, Ainslee Coffin has been in the Naval indoctrination class of the V-7 unit at Notre Dame, with an ensign's commission in sight. He was able to go home for a brief vacation in Marblehead, Mass,, before going into train- ing school. King A, Grinnell is with the Fall River National Bank and lives at Greenlawn St,, in that Massachusetts city. A letter from Edmund R. East told us that he is still Director of Classification, Pennsylvania Industrial School at White Hill. Camp Hill, Pa. Curtis B, Watson is serving at Civilian Public Service Camp No, 15, Stoddard, N, H, Gavin Pitt, who has taken up his person- nel duties with Macy's, New York, has set- tled with his family at 248-32 Rushmore Terrace, Little Neck, Long Island, Norman Prudden is a fire protection en- gineer in the inspection department of the Associated Factory Mutual Fire Insurance Cos,, Boston, but works in the New York area apparently, since his house address re- mains 115 Radford St,, Yonkers, Edward J, Galway has come north from Atlanta, Ga, We're told he was last month at the Brattle Inn, Harvard Square, Cam- bridge, Mass. Roland A. Hueston, Jr,, who used to be in the Brown Band, found that experience of use at Fort Jackson, S, C, where he is now playing solo clarinet in a divisional band there. He's justly proud of his promotion to Private First Class, Speciahst Fourth 252 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Class. "I would appreciate hearing from classmates now in the services," he writes. Vernon J. Allen has moved from Paw- tucket to 314 Benefit St., Providence. Proud father of Decembefborn Judith Hull Montgomery, John Montgomery sends us a lot of good news from Hartford, where his address is 269 South Marshall St. He's an assistant underwriter in the Marine De- partment of the Travelers Insurance Co., in which capacity he occasionally roams the Midwest and South. He reports spending a good week-end in Chicago with Palmer App '37 recently. His other news: He's heard from Ensign Charles E. H. Williams on Dec. 1, when Charlie was en route to Hawaii! W. K. "Bud" White, who has his wings and ensign's rating, stopped in Providence recently. He's certainly a handsome gent in his uniform. F. C. Hinckley, in Hartford with Rem- ington, "makes it possible for us to sleep nights by being on the alert for enemy air- craft as a plane spotter." John A. Priest, following graduation from Harvard Law School in June, went to Washington "to furnish the Brain Trust with some real talent." He and his wife, the former Leigh Kennerly, Pembroke "36, are living at 43 52 North Henderson Rd., Arl- ington, Va. Robert Richard, special agent for the Travelers Insurance Co., is handling the State of Connecticut for them. He's at home with his attractive wife at 72 Garden St., Hartford. Also in Hartford is Wallace C. Armstrong (or, rather, in West Hartford — at 58 Griswold Drive), who is with the National Fire Insurance Co., at 1000 Asy- lum Ave. A. W. Keeraa, "brains of the Class of "38, now serving as Brains of the Pratt 6? Whitney Machine Tool Co., is doing a su- perb job in a very important position." Art Staff received his lieutenant's rating at Fort Monroe in December and married recently. Paul Welch sounded as though he was on the verge of a Navy commission when we saw him a few weeks back. He said the Class's response to the War Bond proposal was fine. We've called off our reunion this year and will buy a bond instead. 1939 Ken Frank is now Lieut. Kenneth L. ■prank, 173rd F.' A. stationed (in March) at Camp Livingston, La. Dave Hull recently won promotion to the Officer Training School, Fort Benning, Ga. Dave was at Fort Caliborne, La., with the Anti-Tank Company, l74th Infantry, 44th Division, when he got his orders. He won his Master's degree at New York Uni- versity in 1940. "His "present work at Fort Benning, he says, is far more strenuous than any he ever did at Brown or at N. Y. U., but he likes it just the same. Bob Whitehead is production manager with Roy S. Durstine, Inc., advertising, 580 Fifth Ave., New York. Don Howarth is research engineer with Dictaphone Corp., 375 Goward Ave., Bridgeport. He lives on Hillspoint Rd., Westport, Conn. Herb Goldberger is in the executive training division of R. H. Macy ii Co., Inc., department stores, with his present head- quarters at Herald Square and his home at 110 West 86th St., New York. Jim Maker is a junior metallurgical en- gineer at Watertown Arsenal, Watertown, Mass., and is living at 83 Plympton St., Waltham, Mass. Bill Baldwin is an investigator for the American Society of Composers, Authors 6? Publishers (ASCAP), with his office at 1140 Lincoln Alliance BIdg., Rochester, N. Y. But he says: "Write me at 41 1 Ken- wood Ave., Delmar, N. Y." Jack Harrington is in his last year at the Boston University School of Law. Floyd Shumway, Jr., is a claims adjustor for Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., 10 Rock- efeller Plaja, New York. Ed Deignan, sales manager of Brown 6? Mills, Inc., manufacturing jewelers at 100 Stewart St., Providence, and Mrs. Deignan (they were married last month) are getting settled at 21 Chestnut Ave., Eden Park, R. I. Jim Fraser, investigator for Liberty Mut- ual Insurance Co., is at present working out of Kansas City., Mo., where his office is at 20 West 9th St. His preferred mail address is 7305 Pershing Ave., University City, Mo. Jack Rowe has come home from Peru, where he has been supervising archaeologi- cal work for the Institute of Andean Re- search, and you will read elsewhere in this issue of his engagament to Miss Barbara B. Burnett of Waban, Mass. Joe Blessing flew home to Ridgewood, N. J., last month for a four-day furlough before heading for Midland, Tex., for schooling in the big bombers. Joe enlisted in January, 1941, in the 113th Infantry, 44th Division, and was later sent to Max- well Field for flight training. What Can You Do with $1.50 a Month? You can easily let $1.50 slip through your fingers each month. Just as easily, you can apply it toward the purchase of an Old Colony Short-Term Share. In about five years, this small regular payment will bring you back $100. Part of that sum will represent accumulated savings; the rest will consist of regularly compounded dividends. There is no limit to the number of Short-Term Shares you are permitted to buy. Any Old Colony representative will gladly supply you with complete details and informative free leaflets. Old Colony Co-operative bank 58 W^EYBOSSET ST.. PROVIDENCE WaONSOCKET-PAWTUCKET-WESTWARWICK-NO.PROVIDENCE MEMBER, FEDERAL HOME LOAN BANK SYSTEM 253 BROWN ALUMM MONTHLl 1940 John McLaughry is in training as lighter pilot at the Southeast Air Corps Training Centre, Maxwell Field, Ala. Army Aviation Cadet Sam Anderson has transferred from Maxwell Field to the ad- vanced training school at Mather Field, Calif. Horace Clem, his mother tells us, is En- sign Horace Clem, U.S.N.R., and that his mail address for the duration is 99 Wood- bine St., Auburn, R. I. Stan Cummings is ending his second year of his three-year law course at the Uni- versity of Chicago. Ensign Daniel F. Larkin, Jr., U.S.N.R., has been in command of the U.S.S. PC 540. Dan and Miss Judith Freeman were mar- ried early in March, you know. Bob Smith is a cadet engineer with Pub- lic Service Electric (i Gas Co., 80 Park Place, Newark, and lives (note change, he says) at 38 South Walnut St., East Orange, N.J. Harry Piatt has put away his basketball togs after a successful spring barnstorming season during which he played with the Providence All-Stars, the Philadelphia Sphas, and other teams. Phil Rice, Jr., has been appointed as in- structor in physics at Case School of Ap- plied Science, Cleveland, O. He has been a research fellow with the Physics Depart- ment at Case since 1940. Melvin Swartz is student assistant mana- ger of Avon Theatre, Providence. He started out as an usher at RKO-Albee Thea- tre and was chief of service at Metropolitan Theatre before going to the Avon, not far from the college campus. 1941 Ensign WiUiam A. Jewett is on active duty aboard U.S.S. Tamaque, Section Base, Newport. Juhan R. Panek has been commissioned as Ensign, U.S.N.R., and assigned to spe- cial engineering service. Steve Dore, Jr., is a civil engineering draftsman in the Navy Design Dept., Quon- set Point, R. I. Steve and Mr^. Dorc (they were married last March 14) live at 212 Smith St., Cranston. Northeastern University School of Law DAY PROGRAM Three Yeais EVENING PROGRAM Four years • • • A minimum of two years of college work required for admission. A limited number of scholarships available to college graduates. LL.B. Degree conferred Admits men and women 47 MT. VERNON ST., BOSTON Near State House Doug Gutenkunst, according to the last note from him, was stationed at the U. S. Naval Aviation Reserve Base, Dallas, Tex. "Not permanent," said Doug, who is in training as a Naval Aviation Cadet. Taylor Belcher is manager of Garrison Coal Co., Garrison-on-Hudson, N. Y. Tay- lor, sworn in last March as a member of Class V-7, U.S.N.R., expects to begin train- ing in October. Emile LeGros is an assistant engineer with Western Electric Co., Hawthorne Sta- tion, Chicago, and is getting his mail at 1048 Chicago Ave., Oak Park, 111. Vic Hillery is Private Hillery, 5th Arm- ored Division, stationed a month ago at Camp Cooke, Calif. Vic, who is with Head- quarters Company, says that the nature of his firm's business (see Graduate Records blank) is "defeating Fascism." Ensign Harry A. Dinham is with the Bureau of Ordnance, Personnel Section, Navy Department, Washington. Harry was in training with Continental Illinois Na- tional Bank is/ Trust Co., Chicago, working in the income tax section when he left to go into the Navy. Dave Welch is a chemist with B. F. Good- rich Co., rubber manufacturers, and is liv- ing at 474 Avalon Ave., Akron, O. That's Dick Starrett's address, too, if we recall correctly. Frank Feldman is a junior executive with Enterprise Stores, with his office at 1479 Hancock St., Quincy, and his house at 110 Arlington Rd., Chestnut Hill, Mass. Myron M. Curry is announcer over Radio Station KMBC, Pickwick Hotel, Kan- sas City, Mo. He started out with Station KCMO (NBC Blue) and then shifted to KMBC (CBS). His mail address is 808 North Union, Independence, Mo. Gordon T. Colley is First Lieutenant, 643rd Tank Destroyer Battalion, 43rd Di- vision, Camp Shelby, Miss. Al Acorn, 3rd, is a clerk and actuarial student with Massachusetts Mutual Life In- surance Co., Springfield, Mass. Hal Detwiler was holding a temporary appointment as clerk in the General Ac- counting Office, Washington, when he wrote late in March. He was on the sales staff of Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co. before going to work for the Government. Jack Ellenbogen is speeding up his courses at the Harvard School of Business Administration and hopes to be graduated next September. We hear he has applied for a commission in the U.S.N.R. Bob Steinsieck is studying at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia Uni- versity, and has had his military duty de- ferred until he completes his medical course. Wallace Allen is a member of the Tech- nical School Squadron, U. S. Army Air Corps, Scott Field, 111. Ted Kagels, Jr., is an adjuster for Aetna Casualty 6? Insurance Co., 421 Genesee Bldg., Buffalo, and lives at 320 Westgate Rd., Kenmoie, N. Y. Tommy Lohr, 2nd Lieutenant, Army Air Corps, has recently been attached to Mac- Dill Field, Tampa, Fla. Tommy won his commission in February, came home to Paterson, N. J., on furlough, and then headed for Florida. Ensign R. Douglas Davis, U.S.N.R., is on duty with the Inshore Patrol, with New York City as his headquarters. Doug and Mrs. Davis have taken an apartment at 309 West 109th St., New York. Nick de Paul, Jr., whose marriage to Miss Margaret Jocelyn Nafc '43, Pembroke College, is reported in another column, is a security analyst with Investors Counsel, Inc., 67 Broad St., New York. "Our an- nouncements," Nick told us in a postscript to a recent letter, "sent out on April 1 to all our friends, were not an April Fool joke!" John O'Leary is on the sales correspond- ence staff of Brown 6? Sharpe Mfg. Co., Providence, where he and Mrs. O'Leary lives at 381 Ives St. Harry S. Perkins, who left us at end of Freshman year, is a salesman for Gulf Oil Corp., 189 Summer St., Boston. Harry mar- ried Miss Elma Johnson on Aug. 16, 1941; and he and Mrs. Perkins live at 401 Broad- way, Cambridge, Mass. i i Those We Mourn 1884 ► ► Henry Hathaway Hammond. Ph.B., retired lawyer, born Providence, Aug. 1, 1861. the son of Barnabas Benton and Jane Swift (Nye) Hammond; died in Provi- dence, April U, 1942. He had been a semi- invalid for many years. After graduation he studied law private- ly, became a member of the Rhode Island bar in 1888 and by appointment of the Rhode Island Supreme Court a Master in Chancery in 1890. Owing to illness, he had to give up this work. Later he was an as- sistant in the City Treasurer's office and clerk for a short time to Mayor D. L. D. Granger '74. Canon Duncan Fraser '28 conducted the funeral services at St. John's Cathedral. 1892 ► Harrison Southwick Taft, Ph.B., S.B., retired construction engineer, born Providence, Jan. 6, 1869, the son of Edward Padelford Taft '54 and Elija (WiHiams) Taft; died in Providence, April 3, 1942. Death came while he was walking on Bowen St., not far from his house. Through his mother he was a seventh generation descendant of Roger Williams. His family has been and is a loyal Brown one. Its Brown members, as Mr. Taft once set down the list, include Edward P Taft '54, Edward W. Taft '81, Orray Taft '85, Robert R. Taft '88, Foster W. Taft "94, Franklin K. Taft '98, Eliza F. W. Taft '02, Pembroke College, Edward Padelford Taft '04, and Edward P. Taft, Jr. '3 5. On graduation from Brown, Harrison Taft entered Massachusetts Institute of Technology, won his S.B. degree there in 1896, and during the next eight years en- gaged in ship construction at Newport News, Va., and Cleveland, O. He worked as an engineer on the building of Grand Central Terminal. New York, and as a con- tracting engineer in Seattle, Wash., until the beginning of the first World War. He began his noteworthy war work as con- tractors' representative during construc- tion of three infantry cantonments at Pre- sidio, Calif. Here he set an engineering record for speed. Then came his biggest job — construction of the giant concrete dry docks for the 254 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Navy at Portsmouth, Va. Dry Dock No. 4 was "the most compHcated concrete struc- ture of magnitude ever built under cog- nizance of the Navy Department." Dry Docks Nos. 6 and 7 were later dedicated by the Queen of the Belgians, a historic ceremony in Navy records. Rear Admiral Richard Watt, U.S.N., in charge of Nor- folk Navy Yard, praising Taft and his col- leagues, called the dry docks" construction "the most expeditious, successful, and satis- factory" piece of engineering work in his experience. Since 1922 Taft had been a construction and consulting engineer on his own. When he retired he settled at first in Monterey, Va., of which he was fond and about which he wrote magazine and newspaper articles. On his return to Providence four years ago he took up historical research. He had compiled notes on the history of various communities and was sketching out a genealogy of the Brown family from which the University got its name. He was a member of the Rhode Island Historical Society and Alpha Delta Phi. Surviving are his sister, Miss Emma A. Taft, with whom he lived, another sister, Eliza F. W. Taft, and four brothers, all Brown men, Orray Taft, Santa Barbara, Calif.; Franklin K. Taft, New York; Ed- ward P. Taft, Augusta, Ga.; Robert R. Taft, Providence. 1894 ► Frederick Eugene Steere, A.B., real estate broker and one of Brown's famous baseball players, died suddenly in San Francisco, March 2, 1942, while on a busi- ness trip to this country from Honolulu, where he had lived since 1898. He was among the first Americans settling in Hawaii after the United States annexed the territory. "Kid" Steere, so Fred Woodcock "91 dubbed him; and "Kid" Steere he was, and is, to his college generation. When he came to college from Johnston High School, he weighed 118 pounds. He was as young looking as he was slim, and his nickname fitted him as neatly as he fitted into short field on the Brown nine. He began his baseball career as captain of his Freshman nine. But he transferred by invitation to the varsity, fiddled about at second base for a short time, and then took over his natural position, shortstop. He played there through his four years on the Hill, was cap- tain in Senior year, and all-American col- lege shortstop in 1894. A technicality held up his degree at Com- mencement, but he received it by special vote in 1909. Meantime he had coached baseball two seasons at Bowdoin College, tried his hand at selling insurance and learning the woolen business in New Bed- ford, and set sail for Honolulu intending to start a coffee plantation. But he grew limes instead, worked for Lewers y Cooke, Ltd. lumber dealers, and then went into the real estate department of Henry Waterhouse Trust Co., Ltd. When he resigned in 1931 to open his own real estate office, he was manager of the department and vice presi- dent of the bank. Although he did it years ago, his work to raise money for the first Y.M.C.A. building in Honolulu is still gratefully recalled. Steere, direct descendant of John Steere, who came to this country from England and settled in Scituate in 1669, was born in South Scituate Aug. 16, 1872, the son of Hardin and Almira M. (Wilbur) Steere. On Oct. 17, 1898, he married Charlotte Doyle lies, niece of the late Sarah E. Doyle '94, honorary. Mrs. Steere died Jan. 17, 1933. Surviving are a son, Frederick E. Steere, Jr., Honolulu, and a daughter, Mrs. Edwin A. Kinsey, Long Beach, Calif. His fraternity was Delta Kappa Epsilon. 189S > Royal Chapin Taft, business man and public citizen, born Providence, Nov. 29, 1873, the son of Royal C. Taft "91, honor- ary, and Mary F. (Armington) Taft; died suddenly in Providence, March 31, 1942. His father, a cotton manufacturer, was Governor of Rhode Island in 1888-89. Death came at Butler Hospital, of which he was senior trustee and where he had just previously taken part in a testimonial din- ner program in honor of his friend and col- league, Harry Hale Goss, who for 45 years has been the hospital's steward and business manager. He said good night to another friend and was getting into his motor car when he was stricken. Leaving college at the end of Junior year. Royal Taft went into the cotton manufac- turing business with his father and was sec- retary-treasurer of the Coventry Company until 1929. Since then he had been an as- sociate in the Providence office of Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co. He was a direc- tor of Rhode Island Hospital Trust Co., and Blackstone Mutual and Merchants Mutual Fire Insurance Cos., a former treasurer of Providence District Nursing Association, a member of Turks Head Club, Agawam Hunt Club, and Psi Upsilon. One of his major activities previous to the First World War was training camp work. He attended the second Plattsburg camp in 1916. He was chairman of the Rhode Island Branch, Military Training Camps Association, in 1917, and adjutant to then Maj. G. A. Taylor, F.A., U. S. A. (1901) in charge of military preparation at Brown. In 1923 he was named as civilian aide for Rhode Island to the Secretary of War, serving four years and doing a great deal of promotion work on behalf of sum- mer training camps in New England. On Dec. 6, 1905, he married Marianna Field Gardner, recently president of the Rhode Island League of Women Voters. Mrs. Taft survives, with two sons. Royal C. Taft, Jr., '3U and Gardner Taft; two daugh- ters, Mrs. Herbert C. Wells and Mrs. Roger M. Freeman, Jr.; a sister. Miss Abby F. Taft, and two grandchildren. 1897 > Howard Mason Van Gelder, M.E., who died of a heart attack in New York, Nov. 22, 1941, had been chief electrifica- tion engineer on the National Power Sur- vey, Federal Power Commission, and was in charge of electrification of the Philadelphia subway system. For 44 years he had been active as an electrical engineer. Born in CatskiU, N. Y., Dec. 15, 1876, the son of David H. and Ellen E. (Mason) Van Gelder, he entered Brown from Cats- kill Academy. For three years after gradua- tion he worked tor General Electric Co., Schenectady, N. Y. After three more years with Manhattan Railway Co., he joined the engineering staff of Westinghouse, Church, Kerr 6? Co., New York, and became a man- aging engineer of the company. In 1920 he resigned to go to Gibbs ^ Hill, another New York firm, as project en- gineer. After a short partnership in the firm of Stovel, Brinkerhoff 6? Van Gelder, he went to the Department of City Transit, Philadelphia; and his experiences in his complicated, difficult and often discourag- ing subway work added more years to his life than he cared to admit. Transfer to Washington in 1934 to take over as chief electrification engineer. National Power Survey, was an interlude. During the first World War he spent considerable time in Washington assisting the Advisory Com- mission, Council of National Defense. His last positions were with the Pennsyl- vania Turnpike Commission and with Charles H. Emerson 6? Co., electrical con- tractors, Reading, Pa. He was a member of the American Institute of Electrical Engi- neers and ot Phi Delta Theta. While a resi- dent of Mountain Lakes, N. J., he was a leader of the Civic Association. His first wife, who was Helen W. Foote of New York, and whom he married in 1905, was for years one of Orange County's active Re- publicans. Mrs. Van Gelder died Jan. 12, 1935. Surviving are his second wife, the former Miriam Stroh, and two sons, Norman F. Van Gelder '27, and Philip H. Van Gelder '28. 1904 ► Porter Fearey, president of the Bay of New York Coal 6? Supply Corporation, born Albany, N. Y., Oct. 14, 1880, the son of Thomas H. and Maria V. B. (Babcock) Fearey; died at St. Francis Hospital, Tren- ton, N. J., March 31, 1942. He lived at Featherbed Farm, Hopewell, N. J. Providence National Bank ESTABLISTTHD 1791 100 Westminster Street CAPITAL SURPLUS ^1,500,000 ^2,000,000 OFFICERS Moses J- Barber, Chairman of the Board Thomas L. Pierce, President Rupert C. Thompson, Jr., Vice President and Cashier Charles L. Eddy, Assistant Cashier Henry H. Eddy, Assistant Cashier Charles E. Munyan, Assistant Cashier Benjamin H. Cate, Assistant Cashier Charles M. Smith. Ill, Trust Officer B. H. Lillibridge, Assistant Trust Officer Directors William Gammell, Jr. William L. Sweet Moses J. Barber Frank E. Richmond Richard S. Aldrich Edward P. Jastram A. Livingston Kelley Wilson G. Wing Thomas L. Pierce Robert Frederick T. Moses John B. Lewis Charles C. Marshall Richmond Viall Maxwell C. Huntoon Charles E. Rigby William Slater Allen G. Beede Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 255 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY An investment broker in the years pre- ceding and following the first World War, he sold many millions in Liberty Bonds dur- ing the various campaigns in 1917-1918. At the old Grand Opera House in New York one evening he had a principal part in selling $28,000,000 worth of bonds. And while he was manager of the New York office of S. W. Straus y Co., bond dealers, he saw the sales force increase from five to 60 individuals and annual sales rise to huge, almost fantastic figures. He also served as secretary of the Straus Co. Fearey left Brown in February, 1903, owing to a severe illness. When he re- covered, he traveled for several months and then went to work for Pierce Arrow Auto- mobile Co. In 1904 he was in charge of the company's exhibit at the St. Louis Ex- position. After a short time with Smith- Premier Typewriter Co., Syracuse, N. Y.. he joined the sales staff of Baker, Ayling H Co., Boston bankers. He also worked for H. M. Byllesby ii Co., public utilities, and was an independent broker in Albany from 1907 to 1913. During that time he lived on his 300-acre farm at Stottville, about 2') miles south of Albany on the Hudson River. Later he was manager of White ^ Co., and a member of the investment firm of Sweet 6? Fearey Co. On March 18, 1916, he married Elizabeth Boyd Martin. Surviving are his son. Porter Fearey, Jr., stationed at Camp Edwards, Mass., two sisters, Mrs. Bessie Fearey Jud- son and Miss Ruth Fearey, and his mother- in-law, Mrs. Howard Martin of New York. He belonged to the New York Wholesale Coal Dealers' Association, and was a mem- ber of the old Brown Yacht Club. His fra- ternity was Delta Kappa Epsilon. 1907 > George Wilder Cheney, A.B., head of the Cost Section, Portsmouth Navy Yard, died in New England Baptist Hospi- tal, Boston, Oct. 30, 1939, according to in- formation recently received and confirmed by the Alumni Office. He went to the Navy Yard in May, 1917, a month after this country entered the First World War. Cheney was born in Nashua, N. H., Nov. 25, 1885, the son of Edward E. and Mary E. (Wilder) Cheney. In college he was an ardent bowler, a member of the Brown Musical Clubs, the Press Club, and Phi Kappa Psi. He won a place on the Brown bowling team in Freshman year, and was the team's captain in Senior year. Class- mates will recall him as a valiant pipe smoker, and Libcr Brunensis's comment: "The wisdom of the man who says little and smokes much is remarkable." During his first ten years out of college he was clerk and assistant watch repairer in a Nashua jewelry store. He was also inter- ested in local politics, with membership in the Nashua City Guards Club. At Ports- mouth Navy Yard he was rated as principal fiscal accounting clerk, and had been head of the Cost Section for 18 years. He be- longed to the Masons, the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and the Warwick Club. On Jan. 22, 1908, he married Mabel E. Clark of Providence, who survives, with a daughter, Mrs. Florence C, Hammar, a grandson, John A. Hammar, and a grand- daughter, Mary Elizabeth Hammar. 1926 ► Robert Charles Knox, Ph.B., assistant secretary and treasurer of the Jewelers Board of Trade, born Philadelphia, Nov. 28, 1902, the son of John and Ellison M. (Brown) Knox; died in Meriden, Conn., April 9, 1942. He had gone to Meriden on a business trip, and was apparently in good physical condition. A heart attack, suffered while he was in the office of International Silver Co., proved fatal. Boh Knox spent one year at University of Florida, and three years at Brown. At Florida he played soccer. At Brown he was one of the game's pioneers, helping organ- ize an informal team, arranging a schedule, and carrying on a campaign to win recogni- tion of the Athletic Council. In recent years dogs were his hobby. Airedales were his special breed, and he showed them in New England. He was a former member of the board of governors of Rhode Island Kennel Club, and had been chairman of the club's bench show committee. For three years after graduation he was a salesman for Rhode Island Printing Co. Then he became a reporter for the Jewelers Board of Trade, advancing to assistant sec- retary and assistant treasurer in 1932. He traveled as far West as the Mississippi, and was a familiar and well liked figure in the jewelry trade. He belonged to the Com- mercial Law League of America, Rhode Island Association of Credit Men, Brown University Club in New York, Orpheus Lodge of Masons, Barrington Yacht Club, and Phi Delta Theta. Since last December he had been active in Civilian Defense in Barrington and had taken his turn as an airplane spotter. Bob married Miss Barbara Allen Powers of Providence, June 14, 1930. Mrs. Knox survives, with two daughters, Judith and Joan, a brother, Lieut. Commander William Knox, U.S.N., Portsmouth, Va., and a sis- ter. Mrs Walter Megee, Rehoboth Beach, Del m BLACKSiont CAOAL hatiohal baoh ESTABLISHED 1831 • • 20 MARKET SQUARE Capital $500,000 Surplus and Undivided Profits (over) $1,000,000 /III ^tvuftl o^ C Second Lieut. Philip Morse Knesal, Air Corps, U. S. A., died at the Station Hospital, Fort Lewis, Wash., March 23, 1942. Officials at Fort Lewis, according to a news story in the Proi'idence Joiirnaf, said that he "had been ill for some time." Phil Knesal, John Hay Scholar who in Junior year was one of four students from New England colleges chosen to attend a seminar in world affairs under Sir Norman Angell in Switzerland, was born in Youngs- town, O., March 16, 1918, the son of Charles M. and Alma C. (Reminger) Knesal. At Shaker Heights (Cleveland) High School, where he prepared for col- lege, he was an excellent student with fine qualities of leadership. There was no mis- take about the award of a John Hay Schol- arship which he received in 1936. His Brown record attests to his choice. He majored in political science for his A.B. degree. He was on the Dean's List, and the Students' International Union Scholar in Switzerland. He belonged to Erasmians and Brownbrokers, led Brown Christian Associa- tion campaigns, and was co-manager of the Brown Co-operative. He also played soccer. With Brownbrokers he had a leading part in the revue "Savoir Faire ". In Senior year he was a member of Cammarian Club, of which he was secretary. His fraternity was Phi Kappa Psi. After graduation he went to work for Republic Steel Corp., beginning at the bot- tom. He left to become an aviation cadet, and on Oct. 31, 1941, received his commis- sion as 2nd Lieutenant, Army Air Corps, at Brooks Field, San Antonio, Tex. He applied at once for foreign service. His first assign- ment was to the 302nd Air Base Squadron, Gray Field, Fort Lewis, and it was there that he caught pneumonia resulting in his death. Surviving are his mother and two aunts, all resident of Cleveland Heights. ^ ^ 256 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY EMGAGEMENTS y ► 1927 — Miss Elizabeth Noble Clapp, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Reuel Frederick Clapp of Albany, N. Y., to Wal- ter S. Stedman. 1933 — Miss Olive Tuck, daughter of Mrs. Alaric R. Tuck of Providence to Dr. Robert R. Chace. Miss Tuck is a graduate of the R. I. School of Design. 1934 — Miss Carolyn Elizabeth Rockwell, sister of Mr. Rockwell of Oak Park, 111., to Dr. Walter C. Lobitz, Jr. Miss Rockwell is a graduate of Vassar College and North- western Medical School. 1934 — Miss Eleanor Frances Jackson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Jack- son of Pawtucket, to Philip B. Thoresen. 1937 — Miss Eleanor Finkelstein, daugh- ter of Dr. and Mrs. Isadore A. Finkelstein of Brookline, Mass., to Corp. Morton H. Darman. 1938 — Miss Elizabeth Stone, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall I. Stone of Auburn- dale, Mass., to David K. Burkhart. 1938 — Miss Betty Jones ( Wellesley '36), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. Garterell Jones of Westport, Conn., to Charles E. Colbert. 1938 — Miss Priscilla Alden Hume, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Russell S. Hume of Brooklyn, N. Y., to C. Hudson Thomp- son, Jr. 1938 — Miss Dorothy MacRobcrt, daugh- ter of Mrs. John H. MacRobert ot Melrose, Mass., to Benjamin R. Vaughan, Jr. Miss MacRobert attend Katharine Gihbs School. 1939 — Miss Mary Agnes McAuliffc, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Simon F. Mc- Auliffe of Providence, to Frank P. Corn- stock. 1939 — Miss Ruth Egee. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin W. Egee, ot Rutledge, Pa., to Ralph B. Dinsmore. Miss Egee attended Bucknell University. 1939 — Miss Barbara Bent Burnett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Burnett of Waban, Mass., to John H. Rowe. Miss Burnett attended Oberlin Conservatory of Music. 1939 — Miss Margaret Frances Rabling. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Rabling of Bronxville, N. Y.. to Floyd M. Shumway, Jr. Miss Rabling is now a student at Skid- more College. 1940 — Miss Barbara Ellen Carens, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George C. Carens of Arlington, Mass., to Ensign Kenneth D. Clapp, U.S.N.R. Miss Carens attended Chamberlayne School. 1941 — Miss Helen Margaret Hovland, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Hovland of Arlington, Va., to John L. Bcnn. Miss Hovland will receive her diploma in May from Boston University. 1941 — Miss Priscilla Marion Bateson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Bate- son of Providence, to Henry P. Eldredge, 2nd. Miss Bateson graduated from Middle- bury College. 1941 — Miss Elizabeth Ann Nestor, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Michael J. Nestor of Providence, to Aviation Caidet Louis J. Duesing. 1941- -Miss Olivia Proctor McCullough, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William M. Mc- CuUuugh of Lexington, Ky., to John C. Mithoeler. 1941 — Miss Doris Marcellus Bainbridge, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence M. Bainbridge of Montclair, N. J., to James F. Gay Murray. 1942 — Miss Priscilla Person, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Flynn R. Person, of Ware, Mass., to Cadet John E. Day, U. S. Coast Guard. Miss Person was graduated from Howard Seminary, Skidmore College, and the Guilment Organ School. 1942 — Miss Nancy Elizabeth Wing (Wheaton "44), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul L. Wing of Crestwood, N. Y., to Pvt. Robert N. Pevoto. 1942— Miss Priscilla Randall Church (Pembroke "43), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert L. Church of Lincoln, to Corp. Rob- ert K. Rockwell. Miss Church is now a junior at Pembroke. 1942 — Miss Joan Gay, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Gay of Scarsdale, N. Y., to Ensign Justin R. Whiting, 3rd, U.S.N. Miss Gay was graduated from the School of Fashion Merchandising, of New York. 1943 — Miss Bernice Emily Lod (Pem- broke "43), daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Clar- ence W. Lod of Westwood, Mass., to Wil- liam N. Bumpus. WEDDINGS ► 1924 — QuENTiN J. Reynolds and Miss Virginia Pine of Chicago, at Mr. Reynolds" apartment in the Ritz Tower, New York N. Y., Mar. 30, 1942. At home: 2 Sutton Place, New York, N. Y. 1928 — W. G. Stuart Sherman and Miss Thelma Williams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs Roy C. Williams of Clarksburg, W. Va., in the parsonage of First Baptist Church, Dec. 20, 1941. At home: 490 South High- land Ave., Apt. 510, Pittsburgh, Pa. 1929— Eric T. Gehlen and Miss Pauline Mary Ormston of New York City, daughter of John J. Ormston of St. Petersburg, Fla., and the late Mrs. Ormston, in St. Francis Xavier Church, New York, April 18, 1942. Mrs. Gehlen was graduated from the Col- lege of New Rochelle. 1931— William H. Crawford and Miss Jane Cook Summers, daughter of Mrs. James Summers of Middlebury, Vt., at the Congregational Church, April 14, 1942. James B. Brown '3 1 was the best man. Mrs. Crawford is a recent graduate technician from the Eckels College of Embalming in Philadelphia. At home: 29 Seminary St., Middlebury, Vt. 1931 — John M. Moler and Miss Ruth Alma Routzahn, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Elvin C. Routzahn of Yonkers, • N. Y., in Scarsdale, N. Y., April 11, 1942. At home: 149 Johnson Road, Scarsdale. N. Y. 1934 — John E. Englund and Miss Jessie McEwan Romer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. Romer of Pleasantville, N. Y., at the home of her parents, Mar. 28, 1942. Herbert S. Phillips "34 was the best man. 193 5 — Theodore S. Daren and Miss Gladys Rosalie Elfcnbein, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Elfenbein of Groton, Conn., at the Norwich Inn, Mar. 27, 1942. At home: 145 Rockwell St., Norwich, Conn. 1937 — W. Stuart Thompson, Jr. and Miss Lillian Louise Schlintz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Schlintz of South Orange, N. J., in the First Presbyterian and Trinity Church, Mar. 14, 1942. Evan Cross- ley "37 was an usher. 1938 — Ensign Robert W. Leonard, U.S.N.R., and Miss Helen Barnes New- berry, daughter of Lieut. Barnes Newberry, U.S.N.R. and Mrs. Newberry of Narragan- sett, at the home of the bride"s parents, Apr. 2, 1942. 1939 — Gilbert E. Cain and Miss Virginia Guy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter G. Guy of Wawaset, Del., in the First and Central Presbyterian Church, Apr. 1, 1942. At home: 2321 Dwight Way, Berkeley, Cahf. 1939 — Edward J. Deignan and Miss Eva Cecilia Dcsrochers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Desrochers of Edgewood, at St, Paul's Church, Edgewood, Apr. 11, 1942. At home: 21 Chestnut Ave., Eden Park, R. I. 1941 — Lieut. Junior M. Barney and Miss Marion Williams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Hanna of Springfield, Mass., in the rectory of St. MichaeKs Cathedral, Mar. 21, 1942. PRIIVTERS since I870 Seventy years YOUl\G, a live, progressive organization, ever doing better things and knowing how to do many unusual things. E. A. JOHNSON CO. 71 PECK STREET, PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND 257 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 1941 — Ensign Richard F. Brooks und Miss Virginia Dale Leeman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry W. Leeman of St. Louis, Mo., in ELsah, Ilh, Mar. 21, 1942. At home: Fairview Manor, Dryden Road, Ithaca, N. Y. 1941 — Nicholas C. dePaul. Jr. and Miss Margaret Jocelyn Nafc (Pembroke '43), of Seattle, Wash., daughter of Mrs. Gertrude Nafe of New York City and the late Mr. Nafe, in New York City, Mar. 51, 1942. At home: 214 Riverside Drive, New York, N. Y. 1941 — John H. Howe and Miss Evelyn Phebe Burnham, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. William S. Burnham of Newprjrt, R. L, at Wilmington, Del., Mar. 2, 1942. BIRTHS > 1926 — To Dr. and Mrs. Reginald C. Farrow of Syracuse, N. Y., a son, Peter Bradshaw, Apr. 16, 1942. 1928 — To Mr. and Mrs. Earl H. Brad- ley of Seekonk, Mass., a son, Earl Halliday Bradley, Jr., Mar. 2, 1942. 1928 — To Mr. and Mrs. Nelson B. Jones of Providence, a third son, Foster Town- send, Apr. 25, 1942. 1930 — To Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Abrams of Providence, a son and first child, George Leslie. Apr. 6, 1942. 1931 — To Mr. and Mrs. Ralph F. Briggs of Cleveland, Ohio, a daughter, Patricia. Mar. 12, 1942. 1931 — To Mr, and Mrs. James Sanek of Pawtucket, a daughter, Marjorie Ann, Mar. 12, 1942. 1932 — To Mr. and Mrs. T. Dexter Clarke of Providence, a son. David Alden. Mar. 29, 1942. 1934 — To Mr. and Mrs. Maury Caito of Providence, a son, Carl Anthony, Mar. 8, 1942. 1934 — To Mr. and Mrs. Winslow A. Robbins of Ahington. Mass., a son, Wins- low Arthur Robbins, Jr., Mar. 30, 1942. 1934 — To Mr. and Mrs. Edward N. Robinson, Jr. of New York City, a son, Apr. 16, 1942. 1935 — To Mr. and Mrs. G. Armand Morin of Hartford, Conn., a son, Paul Arm- and, Dec. 22, 1941. 1936— To Mr. and Mrs. Alfred J. Owens of Conimicut, R. L, a daughter, Alice Eliza- beth, Mar. 24, 1942. 1937 — To Mr. and Mrs. Francis C. Tyler of Hudson, Mass., a daughter, Marion Lee. Mar. 24, 1942. 1938— To Mr. and Mrs. John Mont- gomery, Jr. of Hartford, Conn., a daughter. Judith Hull, Dec. 17, 1941. 1939 — To Mr. and Mrs. Arthur H. Crosbie of Wellesley Hills, Mass., a second son, William Richard, Mar. 13, 1942. •< i Peiiiljroke Chronicle < < CLASS NOTES ► > 1904 — Sarah E. Taylor has the sympathy of the alumnae in the loss of both of her parents. Her father. Rev. William B. Taylor, was a retired clergyman. 1905 — Olive Eddy Eaton has the sym- pathy of the alumnae in the death of her husband. 1907 — Mildred Carnes Nuttall has an- nounced the engagement of her daughter Virginia, to Paul V. Hess, who is attending the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. 1905 — Bertha BufSnton Hull's son Robert, Brown "3 5, was married on April 25 to Mary Caroline Webster of Portland, Ore. 1906 — Alice Tillinghast Bartlett is visit- ing in Cahtornia. 1909 — Dr. May Hall James has our sym- pathy in the death of her mother. BY GERTRUDE ALLEN McCONNELL Altimnae Sccretarv 1910 — Mabel Bushell Donle's son Wal- ter, an Army officer, has been selected to take a special three month's course at Har- vard. 1910 — Alice Sweet Nicholson's son Sen- ior is with the ski troops at Mt. Rainier, where he is teaching skiing. 1913 — Aline Bourgeois Towne was en- tertained by Norah Dowell Stearns and Hcrmoine Dealey Dvorak on a recent trip to Seattle. 1913 — Madeleine Kane Durfec enter- tained the class at dinner last month. 1916 — Alhertine Butts has the sympathy of the alumnae in the death of her father. 1916 — Elsie Cushmg Hurdis and her husband. Brigadier General Charles E. Hurdis, are now at Fort Leonard Wood, in Missouri. 1916 — Dr. Clara M. Thompson is Assist- advertisers engraving company 126 DORRANCE ST. PROVIDENCE. R. I. TELEPHONE GASPEE 7094 "Picturize your Product" ant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at New York Medical College. 1918 — Madeleine Webster Arnold's son George is a Freshman at Brown. 1918 — Edith Earle has moved her Physi- cians Laboratory Service to 501 Reservoir Ave., Cranston. 1918 — Janet Williamson Kingsbury has moved to 211 Glenburnie St., Chapel Hill, N. C. 1919 — Esther Brintzenhoff has taken an apartment at 407 Angell St., Providence. 1919 — Ruth Lester Moulton has been elected president of the Episcopal Woman's Auxiliary — Diocese of Western Massachu- setts. She lives at 218 South St., South- bridge, Mass. Her son is a Freshman at Brown. 1920 — Mary Blake Lovell has a son at the University of Virginia and a daughter at Wheaton. 1922 — Leota Lyon Hall has compiled a cook book of favorite recipes of famous people in and near Madison, Conn. 1922 — Dr. Beatrice Kershaw is at 7 Tra- pelo Road, Belmont. 1923 — Alice Wright Bainton now lives at 120 Don Ave., Rumford. 1924 — The class's interest in school aiTairs is evidenced by the fact that Charlotte Fer- gu.son Roads is a member of the School Committee in Marblehead and Betty Young Jeffers and Helen Fenner Walter arc presi- dents of their respective parent-teacher as- sociations. 1925 — Ruth Davidson Evans and Cath- erine Davidson Almeida '27 have the sym- pathy ot the alumnae in the loss of their mother. 1925 — Hope Thornton Burke has moved to 153 Richmond Ave., Worcester. 1925 — Amy Spencer Cappelli's poetry is appearing in several magazines and an arti- cle on teaching English appeared in the April issue of College English. 1926 — Dr. Mary Kenny Landers now lives at 108-48 67th Drive, Forest Hills, N. Y. and her sister Margaret Kenny '27 is at the same address. Mary has taught mathematics at Hunter College for several years and Margaret is a librarian at the same institution. 1926 — Edith Lovejoy Mohrfeld (Mrs. Howard M.) lives at 705 Park Ave., Col- lingswood, N. J. 1927 — Margaret Abel Gilford and fam- ily have moved to 3 37 Rumstick Point Rd., Barrington. 1927 — Dorothy Hampson Clark Pope (Mrs. Edward) is managing editor of the Journal of Parapsychology. She is still at Duke University. 1928 — Helen Butts Correll has the sym- pathy of the alumnae in the death of her father. 1929 — Alice Plunkett is doing social work with the Dept. of Women and Children in Providence. 1930 — Anne Grisko Flynn has moved to 6856 Edgcvale Road, Kansas City, Mo. 1931 — At the meetings of the Family Welfare Assn. of America held at the Provi- dence Biltmore, Marjorie Battersby led a discussion for case workers on "Our phil- osophy and practice in relief giving." Among the alumnae attending the confer- ence were Estelle Martin '29, Marjorie Hunt "29, Verna Follett Spaeth "30, Leah Easter- brooks '31, and Mary Hagan "32. 258 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 1931 — Alice Brophy is now located at 24 West 69th St., New York. 193 2 — Selma Smira Newman has moved from Connecticut to 83 Oak Hill Ave., Pawtucket. 1933 — Adelaide Davidson Budde is teaching the History of Art at the R. I. School of Design as a small contribution toward preserving some of the higher values which are threatened with complete suffoca- tion and also as a means of survival. She writes: "I am thoroughly delighted with my job and so happy that most of what I did in college propelled me toward it. I am well aware of the part Miss Morriss and Miss Mooar played in arranging the direction." She is living at 28 Yarmouth St. 1933 — Ruth Gagen has a position in the Regional Office of the Social Security Board, 120 Boylston St., Boston. 1933 — Marion Warren is acting head of the history department in the Samuel Gor- ton High School in Warwick. She has also become an ardent fancy skater and skier. 1934 — lola Morse is working in the Al- derman Library at the University of Vir- ginia. 193 5 — Madeliene Cournoy.er is teaching in the high school in Stratford, Conn., and is living at 186 Courtland St., Bridgeport 193 5 — Natalie Basford Fancher has the sympathy of the alumnae in the loss of her eight months" old daughter Carol Ehzabeth. 1935 — Catherine Jodoin Beckley and her husband have bought a house near Center Conway and are having a good time reno- vating it. Although the house is in New Hampshire, her mailing address is Star Route, Fryeburg, Maine. 193 5 — Lillian Hicock is introducing some of our good Pembroke traditions to the Mis- sissippi State College for Women, where she is Social Adviser. She also had the pleasure of introducing Barbara Ham Ray- mond "41 at a tea while she was in Colum- bus. 1936 — Annette Aaronian has accepted a U. S. Civil Service position as statistician with the U. S. Employment Service. 1936 — Charlotte Katz Goldman is living at 75 Clinton Road, Brookline. 1936 — Barbara Hubbard is assistant li- brarian at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt. 1936 — Selby Roberts is teaching sports and recreation at St. Mary's School, Val- halla, N. Y. The beautiful school grounds are located in the highest point in West- chester County and she is thoroughly en- joying both the work and the location. 1937 — Sara Gushing was the recent guest of Alice Curran Kierst in Buffalo. She spent the winter at Daytona Beach. 1937 — Miriam Hahn is living at 146 Fil- bert St., Hamden, Conn. She is becoming an ardent gardener and at the same time is preparing for her finals at the Yale School of Public Health. 1937 — Mary Huntington Pettit is at 115 Main St., Westport, Conn. 1937 — Ruth Manley has a position in the Engineering School at Harvard. 1937 — Helen Foster Thalheimer has moved to 1955 Lexington St., Houston, Texas. 1938 — Lois Allen has been awarded a scholarship at the Graduate School at Cor- nell for next year. 1938 — Eleanor Crost is research assistant to Prof. E. Pendleton Herring of Harvard, a consultant with the Division of Adminis trative Management, Bureau of the Budget. She is living at 532 20th St., N.W., Wash- ington, D, C. 1939 — Marie Coogan has a secretarial position with the American Viscose Cor- poration, makers of crown-tested rayon. 1939 — Lora Morris Johns has been mov- ing frequently as her husband is a reserve officer in the Army. 1939 — Marjorie Kelly Ryan lives at 858 Main St., Watertown, Conn. 1940 — Frances Babcock Chase is at 913 Welch St., Apt. 8, Little Rock, Ark. 1941 — Audrey Smith Price has moved to 1365 Third St., Rensselaer, N. Y. 1941 — Barbara Ham Raymond now lives at 347 Hamilton Ave., Panama City, Fla. 1941 — Margaret Smith has resigned her position in Cincinnati to take one in New York. She and Ann Lucheme Rand are living at 51 East 9th Street. i i Engagements > > 1939 — Olga Louis to Raymond Za- graniski, a Senior at Yale Medical School. Olga is in her third year at the Yale School of Nursing. Both will graduate on June 9 and they are to be married on the 21st. 1940 — Helen Carleton Messinger to John Wrightwood Hayne. Mr. Hayne at- tended Bergen Junior College, Bates Col- lege, and the Juilliard School of Music in New York. Prior to his induction into the Army he was organist-director of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Teaneck, N. J. and as- sistant to Mr. James Corneille at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Englewood, N. J. 1940 — Bernice Doris Temkin to Shepard Justin Freed. Mr. Freed attended Tufts College and Boston University, 1943 Priscilla Randall Church to Robert Kenneth Rockwell, Brown '42. Weddings ► 1929 — Eva Israel and Dr. S. Louis Frumson of Woonsocket Feb. 1. 1931 — Elisabeth de Courcy and Josiah E. Greene, Brown '33, April 25 at the First Congregational Church, Darien, Conn. 1934 — Ruth C. Whitaker and Lieut. Comm. George A. Lang, U.S.N., April 16 at the First Methodist Church in Baltimore. 1934 — Esther L. Holmes and Clyde Allen Rano in Farley, Mass., April 19. Ad- dress: 268 River St., Cambridge. 1934 — Lillian Price and Frank S. Brill on September 7, 1941. Mr. Brill is a grad- uate of City College of New York '3 5 and is a mechanical engineer. Address: 310 West 55th St., New York. 1937 — Rebecca Lowenstein and Caleb Cauman, Harvard '29, in March. Mr. Cau- man is an Army officer, stationed in the South. The permanent mailing address is Apt. 15 A, 311 East 72nd St., New York. 1937 — Gala I. Swann and James A. Jen- nings in the Church of the Transfiguration, April 1 1. Bessie W. Johns "29 was organist. Address: 230 Calla St., Providence. 1940 — Grace J. Lillien and Frank L. Blumberg, Nov. 2, 1941. Mr. Blumberg graduated from Penn in 1933. Address: Temple Garden Apts., Baltimore. 1941 — Lorena Olive Gray and Lieut. Herman Gustave Muenchinger of Newport at the First Congregational (Unitarian) Church, Providence, April 25. Lieut. Muen- chinger attended Danville Military Insti- tute, U. S. Military Academy, and R. I. State College '38. Births ► 1927— To Mr. and Mrs. V. Russell Beck (Alverda Sammis), a son, Allan. Address: 115 Bayard St., Providence. 1927 — To Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Grif- fin (Mildred Fagan), a daughter, Janice, March 5. Address: 37 Howard Ave., Pas- coag. 1928— To Mr. and Mrs. Harold T. U. Smith (Althea Page), a son, Myron Doug- las, on Feb. 25. Address: 1008 Main St., Lawrence, Kan. 1930 — To Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. John- son (Agnes Gould), a daughter, Judith Gould, Nov. 24. Address: 277 Colonial Drive, Portsmouth, N. H. 1930 — To Lieut. Commander and Mrs. Francis W. Laurent (Grace King), a daugh- ter, Joyce, March 23. Joyce's brother Jerome King is now two. Address: 1807 Key Boule- vard, Arlington, Va. 1931 — To Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Ger- rish Dearborn (Roana Robinson), a son, Edmund G., Jr., March 28. Address: 8 Cos- sitt Ave., Claremont, N. H. 1931 — To Mr. and Mrs. Christos Her- mantas (Dena Lampropoulos), a son, Charles Christos, June 6, 1941. Address: 2256 N. Nottingham St., Arlington, Va. 1934 — To Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Bolster Johnston (Katherine Smith), a daughter, Penelope Adams, April 16. Address: King- ston, N. Y. 1936 — To Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Felsch (Marjorie Denzer), a daughter, Bar- bara Ann, March 16. Address: 4605 North 24th St., Arlington, Va. 1939 — To Mr. and Mrs. George V. SncU (Doris Daly), a daughter, Ann Carolyn, March 10, 1942. Address: 21 Laurel Court, Providence. Death > 1938 — Edna Rosaline Margules, a senior at Johns Hopkins Medical School, died sud- denly on April 2, 1942, at John Hopkins Hospital as she was being given an anaes- thetic prior to a tonsil operation. Miss Margules was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Margules and sister of Geraldine, who is a Pembroke Junior. She prepared for College at Classical High School in Providence. While an under- graduate she won the second entrance pre- mium in Greek, was on the Dean's list, was a member of the Sophomore Masque Com- mittee, the German Club, the Classical Club, and did honors work in Premedical Sci- ences. She was the first in her class at Johns Hopkins to receive her appointment as an interne and was to have gone to the hospital in Allentown, Penn. after her graduation in June. The sympathy of the alumnae is extended to her family. ^ ^ Poor Richard, 1942 > The Providence Sunday Journal for March 15 called attention to "a lively-look- ing, pleasant little book," "Poor Richard Comes to Life," by Bessie W. Johns '29. About half of Poor Richard's maxims — 440 — are included. Miss Johns, convinced the maxims ring as true now as ever, has se- lected the sayings and poems most pertinent to modern living and has grouped them ac- cording to subject matter. Fifty sketches by Richard E. Bailey are included. The book, published by the John Day Company, is a delightful little volume. ^ ^ 259 Karl H. Koopman The Citadel Charleston, S. C. 44 c arrying lots of pressure these days../' Ihere is more steam up in the Bell System than I ever remember. The wires hum with war and wartime production. There's more telephoning than ever before. "The pressure of war and wars work is on — especially on our toll lines. If you are going to use Long Distance you can help by — Knowing the number you want to call. Calling in the less busy hours — before 10 A. M. and after 8 P. M., for example. "Let's give vital war calls the right of way and make equipment go as far as possible, saving copper and other mate- rials for the war." BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM "Th^ Telephone Hour" — presenting great artists erery Monday evening — y,B,C. Red Network