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ALUMNI MONTHLY 



PROVIDENCE, KlIOUE ISLAND 

MARCH, 1943 
VOL. XLIII NUMBER 7 



► ► 



What Happens Next at Brown? 



► ► The fuel hunkers were low as Providence experienced 
nii,'hts and days of 10 and 20 degrees below zero. It was 
necessary to postpone the reopening of Brown by two 
weeks, with a three-week interval after the February Com- 
mencement instead of only one. But the third semester of 
the academic year began Feb. 22. 

It had hardly started before nearly 300 members of the 
Army Enlisted Reserve Corps were on their way from 
campus to Army camp. Another 86 were deferred for pre- 
medical, engineering, or chemistry study. In addition, l.vS 
students were members of the various Naval Reserve groups 
and 2^ in the Marine Corps Reserve. Largest single group 
remaining on the campus is the Naval ROTC unit, num- 
bering 237 men who next July will go on active duty, draw- 
ing pay while completing their studies at Brown for com- 
missions. In all, the armed forces gained over 400 men from 
the University between October and February. More than 
100 Freshmen came in in the latter month, however, and 
the total enrollment was announcd as 842, with the likeli- 
hood that it would slide down to 800. 

"I really believe the situation is better than it has been in 
many months," Dean Arnold told the Advisory Council 
of the Associated Alumni. "We have not tried to deter any 
boy who felt he needed no more college training before 
going into the service. The boys v/ho remain mean busi- 
ness and intend to carry on as faithfully as they can. Much 
of the uncertainty that made last semester such a chaotic 
semester in every American college has gone. I think we 
have a stronger and more stable college, now that they 
are gone. 

"We are facing a semester when we have on the campus 
the Navy Reserve, men deferred by the Army, men de- 
ferred by Selective Service, students not yet old enough 
to go, and 4F's. These 4F's feel their rejection very keenly 
and are a special problem, although in general the Army has 
been very good, far more intelligent than in 1917." 

Late in February, the students in Slater Hall and Hope 
College were being transferred to make way for the first 
military unit definitely assigned to the Brown campus. The 
officers arrived the first week in March, and 200 soldiers 
were expected March H for training in the Army's pre- 
metereological program. Brown was chosen as one of the 
colleges to provide housing, feeding, medical care, instruc- 
tion, and other facilities. That the unit will have a stern 
regiment of study, no one doubted who had heard samples 
of the schedule laid out. Forty-nine hours of classroom 
work each week, two hours of assigned and supervised study 



HENRY ROBINSON PALMER '90 

As this issue was in the printer's hands, the 
staff of the BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY was 
saddened to learn of the death of Henry Roh- 
inson Palmer '90. its first editor and •;uidin<; 
spirit during its first 31 years of pulilication. 



in the John Hay each night, military drill, and physical 
fitness were elements in the grind. 

Not until July is the Navy expected to send its trainees 
to Brown. The War Manpower Commission last month 
listed Brown as one of the institutions approved for train- 
ing of Navy engineers. An accompanying interpretation 
said that the listing simply meant that the college named 
met specifications for the program, but it seemed likely that 
the Navy would follow through with its hint. Similarly, 
early in March the indication was that Brown might be 
asked to train a pre-medical unit, also of unspecified size, 
for the Navy, and surveys had been made to see how well 
the University could handle some of the Navy's basic train- 
ing groups. In University Hall, however, it was hard to 
find any feeling of assurance that every possibility would 
materialize. No secret was made of the fact that Brown 
had reported its capacities and would place at the disposal 
oi the Armed Forces any facilities sought and do any war 
tasks assigned. 

In spite of the uncertainty, the start of the summer semes- 
ter is being timed so that it would coincide with the Navy's 
schedule of three 16-week terms. Brown's 17^th Com- 
mencement will be held Wednesday, June 2, the Faculty 
voted early in March. 

As in the case of the pre-meterological assignment for the 
Army, Brown is in good company on the list of institutions 
tabbed lor Navy engineering instruction and training. The 
ethers were : Yale, Northwestern, Illinois, Purdue, Michi- 
gan, Case, M. I. T., Tufts, Minnesota, Dartmouth, Colum- 
bia, Cornell, Rochester, Carnegie Tech, Rensselaer Poly- 
technic, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. It 
has been pointed out that such groups will not be college 
boys in uniform but members of a military unit located 
at the college. The Army and Navy do not "take over" 
the colleges. 

Brown opened its spring semester with full course offer- 
ings as announced in the catalogue, including the usual 
Liberal Arts subjects. The regular program will be con- 
tinued for such boys as are not eligible for military service 
or are still permitted freedom of curricular choices. Courses 
at Pembroke are as usual. 

The future of athletics became a topic of concern, par- 
ticularly when the Presidents of Harvard, Yale, and Prince- 
ton announced that their institutions would drastically cur- 
tail sports, if not actually suspend them. Dr. Walter H. 
Snell. Acting Director of Athletics at Brown, told the press 
that Brown was continuing without radical changes at 
present. The winter schedules were being played out, 
despite loss of athletes to the services, and the squads were 
being pieced out with Vi'illing, if not always as capable, 
substitutes. The purpose of athletics was being fulfilled. 
On March 1 came the hint of a baseball season as usual, 
when Coach Eddie Eayrs called his battery cantlitlales oul 
to start work in the Lyman Gym cage. 



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Opinion seemed to be that men from service units as- 
signed to Brown would be of little use as a source of athletic 
material, even if the Army and Navy and the University 
authorities would approve their participation in college 
sports. (Colgate has voted to make Army and Navy trainees 
eligible for Colgate varsities.) Training programs are ex- 
pected to be so rigorous as to leave little time or energy for 
the necessary practice sessions in teamwork sports. 

Nevertheless, in speaking before the alumni, Dean 
Arnold gave it as his own personal belief that the Armed 
Forces will be in favor of continuing competitive sports in 
some way and, he hoped, intercollegiate sport. "Time alone 
will tell,"" he said, "but they have stressed competition and 
particularly competition in sports. When this is all worked 
out, I believe the colleges will be able to carry on a some- 
what modified program but certainly a definite program 
in sports." 

Many members of the Faculty whose field is in the 
Humanities have taken refresher courses in mathematics 
and physics to enable them to teach those more utilitarian 
fields for the duration. They will be able to assist in the 
training of military units as well as of undergraduates. 
Nevertheless, they are determined that the Liberal Arts 
shall take the aggressive after the war. Already an official 
group within the Faculty is reviewing the whole Humanities 
program at Brown, with a view to taking stock and making 
recommendations for the postwar curriculum. 

The Advisory Council 

► Its scope somewhat limited by the war, the Advisory 
Council confined its deliberations to a single day, Feb. 20, 
but they were productive and profitable sessions. The 
Alumni Monthly hopes to represent the proceedings of 
Advisory Council in its ne.xt issue. i 




FOUR MONTHS EARLY, the S•■Iuor^ of 1913 
entered the Fir.st Bupli!'! Meeting Hou,*e for their 
cli|>lonias. Si^nie were in uniform, others hiifl 
already left for service. 



Coiiiinenceiiieiit 
in the Snow < < 

► ► There w.\s no band music. There was no march down 
th e Hil L There were no sentimental alumni throngirig^n 
the campus after reunions. 

But it was Commencement, all the same, for 26,^ Seniors 
at Brown and Pembroke. They donned cap and gown, 
entered the First Baptist Meeting House to the strains of 
the Commencement March, transcribed for the organ. And 
they crossed the platform to receive from President Wriston 
the degree to which they had persevered through months of 
acceleration and inner turmoil. 

Ordinarily, they would not have been graduated until 
June. Finishing four months earlier because they had re- 
mained at college last summer, they were the first February 
graduates ever to be honored by formal exercises. 

Many of the men graduating expected to enter military 
service at once, and many of their classmates had preceded 
them. Degrees were awarded in absentia to 1 i Seniors, most 
of them in the Marines, who had been called into uniform 
since Christmas, after completing almost all of their aca- 
demic work but the taking of final exams. For 2i other 
Seniors, without sufficient credits lor a degree, there were 
certificates to acknowledge the work they had finished. 
Many another man who had entered Brown with the class 
was also in the Armed Forces, and three of them had lost 
their lives: Joseph Emmet Hand, Charles Fuller Hanisch, 
and James Lawrence Welsh, Jr. 

Since there was no Graduate School Convocation, the 
LIniversity also awarded advanced degrees on the same 
day to 14 of the graduate students. 

► Jt was the University's first mid-winter Commencement, 
and a winFry dayTrproved. Ihe graduates marched TITpro- 
cession through the^snoxXronTyTrom^ across Waterman St., 
after assembling in the Rhode Island School of Design build- 
ing directly opposite the Meeting House. But, once within, 
they found the traditional ceremonies still invoked: The 
President sat in the historic Manning chair. There were 
two good Senior orations (one, curiously enough, by a 
Senior who will not have completed his eight semesters until 
June) . The figure of the high-hatted High Sheriff seemed to 
he on hand to fend ofi" the ancient disorders (actually the 
High Sheriff was home sick, and the functionary was one 
of his deputies, but every bit as colorful). And Brown 
singled out three wartime leaders as recipients of honorary 
degrees: U. S. Senator Walter F. George, chairman of the 
Senate Finance Committee — LL.D. Chester I. Barnard, 
New Jersey telephone executive who is national president 
of the USO--LL.D. And G. Burton Hibbert, Providence 
banker who had been campaign chairman of the R. I. 
United War Fund — A.M. 

Although no other alumni marched, except those in the 
Corporation and Faculty, five were present to officiate : 
Chief Marshal E. Tudor Gross '01 and Marshals Henry C. 
Hart '01, Fred A. Otis '0.^ J. Cunliffe Bullock "02, and 
Kent F. Matteson '2S. 

Senior faces were far more serious than usual. In the 
Commencement procession a few wore unilorm, most of 
them engineers committed to the Navy. It was interesting 
to remark that others, eligible to wear their service uni- 
forms, chose to wear cap and gown on this sole opportunity 



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that would arise for them. One Marine flyer had his cap 
and gown over the other uniform. Prof. Leighton T. Bohl, 
mace bearer, could not see his own son, Leighton T. Bohl, 
Jr., get his degree, for the latter was one of those graduated 
in absentia. The color guard was from Brown's own Naval 
ROTC unit. 

► In short, it was as normal a Commencement as could 
have been devised under the circumstances. A few Senior 
prerogatives had been exercised in the previous week: 
"Spring Day" had been observed on one of the coldest days 
of the winter, with the usual oratorical flamboyances and 
campus cracks, burlesques of the season, and the drafting 
of the speaker. Mufflers, flannel shirts, sweaters, and over- 
coats showed incongrouously under the academic gowns 
being worn for the first time. The Liber, produced under 
difiiculties in half the usual time, came out, a splendid pic- 
torial souvenir. And there were Class Day, Class Night, 
Baccalaureate sermon, and Senior Tea. 

Class Day3 "unde r the elms" was not only not under 
the elms — it was not £ven^n the BrowrTCaSTpusTiOTTKere 
was no fuel with which to~heat"^ayTes Hall. Class Day, 
like Class Night was held in Alumnae HalFat Pembroke. 
The Class Poem made a deep impression, and, though 27 
Seniors could still receive their athletic awards, 26 were 
in service and unable to do so. 

President Wriston's Class Day speech was widely quoted 
from coast to coast, although unfortunately not in its full 
context and sometimes with headlines which did not ex- 
press his point. Referring to the striking anthracite miners, 
he said he was not discussing the merits of the union's tax 
on the miners or the damage to war eff'ort or the public 
hardship. "I am saying that we cannot talk about freedom 
everywhere in the world," he said, "until we find means 
through legal processes and not by military measures and 
the threat of starvation to hear and redress grievances on the 
part of free-born citizens of the United States. And I am 
saying that the Government has no right to protect the 



property rights of the union in the dues of its members 
while neglecting, as it conspicuously did neglect, the human 
rights of those miners to the protection of the democratic 
process. . . . Nowhere in all the vast and involved bureauc- 
racy which constitutes the executive Government of the 
United States was there any one whom the miners could 
petition for the redress of grievances." 

The strikers were proceeded against by two powerful 
instrumentalities, he pointed out. The first was the Army. 
"The other jaw of the pincers was more potent. The union, 
operating under the sanction of the law, threatened those 
men with expulsion. . . . Really it was expulsion from their 
living. They could not work in any mine in America. This 
is the precise and explicit program of tyranny and should 
have no place whatever in American life." 

► Th.at night the Seniors danced, without inviting the gen- 
eral public to their campus fete as would have been usual. 
The dim-out forbade any illumination of University Hall, 
and there was no evening-long promenade in the sharp air 
nor any lantern-lighted campus. The Seniors had their last 
sing together without any loitering on the Chapel Steps. It 
was a moving moment, even if the scene was Alumnae Hall. 

The war hung over every hour of the Commencement 
perjodj^u bdu ing any rollickT^riaHng^afnest every utter- 
ance, leaving unsaid many thoughts of loyalty and leave- 
taking. It was a freak among Commencements, more 
notable for the things that were lacking than for the things 
that were done. We saw a caption on another similar grad- 
uation picture: "Lower temperature, but same degree." 
Probably that's true, but somehow we didn't feel like joking 
about this Commencement. i i 

In the European Theatre 

► Col. Royal B. Lord '21, Corps of Engineers, USA, has 
been appointed Deputy Chief Engineer for the European 
Theatre of Operation. He has been abroad for several 
months. i 



Draft for a \/ aledictory in February, 1943 



Class Poem, Brourn, 1943 

Outside the snow is piled up; 

The pavements are clear. 

We could march through the gate to the Meeting House. 

The snow in Russia and the bodies stiff in the snow 

And the snow on the guns, hiding the cannons 

And the snow-white camouflages 

And sharp against the snow the red of blood. 
June is very far away. 
When we walk singly down the hill 
A little snow may slide over our shoes and melt. 

And in Russia an ear turns black in the cold, 

Two tiny icicles form under a captain's nostrils 

And the breath of a regiment is a cloud of smoke. 
This is a significant time. 
We will not forget 
That there was snow at our graduation. 

For we know where we are going. 

What we are about to do 

We know why tonight we will not dance under Japanese 
lanterns on the campus 

And why we do not sit on the grass in the sun, remembering 
and remembering. 

The snow now is flecked 

With the dust of the city 

But it remains a symbol of our faith. 

And our faith, born upon this hill, growing here 

Out of the loud and frantic doubting of our youth, 



Out of the questions and the answers, the voices of the old 
and the dead: 

The wise and the truthful and the strong 

This faith has tested its words and found them meaningful. 

It has examined its promises and found them real. 
We can be sure 
That the snow will melt. 
The grass will come in a little while. 

The pastel glow of plastics and the glisten of girders 

The high thin arch of sky-ways reaching over rivers and cities 

And the rushing together of nations, by radio and airplane. 

For our speed will not .slacken; it will become suave: it will 
slide with the smoothness of light. 
When the snow is gone 
Under the earth the roots 
Will quicken and become alive again. 

Upon this hill we've known the calm of peace 

And how peace grows and feeds upon the heart. 

We've watched the evening rise about the city, as the sun 
moves down. 

And when we've done what we're about to do 

When the last to die is dead 

In the time of treaties and pacts and retributions 

And after 

We will remember that peace grows only upon the under- 
standing in our hearts, 

The sympathy in our voices, 

The laughter in our eyes. 

Joseph A. Callanan. 



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Endowed Futures < 

Brown and the $25,000 Salary Limit 

By James N. Case, Jr. 
Secretary of Brown University 

► ► Today the colleges and universities of America, having 
readily enlisted in the common purpose of defeating the 
common enemy, will hardly become pre-occupied with lesser 
problems. When the resources of its faculty, the facilities 
of its buildings and equipment and — most of all — the ener- 
gies of its students are put to collaboration with government 
to win the war, an educational institution will hardly make 
captious or irresponsible complaints about its difficulties. 
Too many others have diificulties as well! 

It is precisely at such a time that an examination of the 
relationship between government and the independent en- 
dowed college may best be undertaken. Quite properly, at 
a time when the college is relinquishing the present pursuit 
of its own long-term ends in this collaboration, there should 
be an understanding of conditions. We should appreciate 
the conditions under which the college can most effectively 
carry on both its present task and, later, its more permanent 
and characteristic functions. Specifically, it must be on 
guard that those conditions are not unnecessarily impaired 
by accident or lack of understanding. 

It is not argued that the endowed college enjoys any 
prescriptive right — even to exist. Certain privileges and 
immunities which it has traditionally been granted derive 
from a common recognition of its value to the individual and 
to society. If the value were to disappear, the conditions 
under which it has flourished could he radically changed. 
The fact is, however, that its value is not seriously chal- 
lenged, yet the foundations of its ability to carry on are 
being weakened. The attack is not direct — those who make 
it may not even be aware of its consequences. But, unless 
the colleges and universities point out the impact of the 
measures which affect them, the harm may be done, inad- 
vertently perhaps, but none the less disastrously. 

► Ever since the war, the United States Treasury has had 
an increasingly difficult task. In its attempt to find every 
legitimate source of revenue, it has three times within the 
last year proposed measures which, if they had been 
adopted, would have struck directly at the support of en- 
dowed institutions. There was a proposal to remove the 
tax exemptions hitherto granted to all bequests to religious, 
charitable or educational institutions, thus, in effect, taxing 
such bequests. There was a suggestion that gifts made after 
the donor had reached a specified age should be construed 
as made in anticipation of death and hence subject to estate 
and inheritance taxes. Finally it was proposed to tax any 
income which charitable or educational institutions may 
derive "from a trade or business not necessarily incident to 
their exempt activities." None of these recommendations 
was followed, fortunately, but their enumeration indicates 
the direction from which the danger threatens. And an- 
other tax bill is now under consideration. 

It is a hopeful sign that Congress has not been willing to 
adopt any of these measures, in spite of new entreaties last 
month. Indeed, Congress has demonstrated its awareness 
of the value of the endowed college as well as of other inde- 
pendent educational and charitable institutions. But its 
alertness to guard against encroachment upon these institu- 
tions has not served to avert an action having a most un- 



happy effect upon Brown and all other institutions which 
depend upon charitable gifts for their maintenance. 

Last October, immediately after passage of the anti- 
inflation bill, the President issued a directive, promptly 
amplified by regulations from the Director of Economic 
Stabilization, by which drastic salary limitations were 
effected. In substance, no person may receive after January 
1, 1943 a salary which, after payment of federal income 
taxes and certain other types of fixed obligations, amounts 
to more than $2 5 ,000 net. The regulation provides that if a 
person "establishes that his income from all sources is in- 
sufficient to meet payments customarily made to charitable, 
educational or similar institutions . . . without resulting 
in undue hardship, " he may receive "an additional amount 
sufficient to meet such payments . . .". 

This means that in order to make a gift from salary above 
the $25,000 limit, the donor must show that the gift is one 
"customarily made" and that he cannot make it from other 
income without "undue hardship". At a time when com- 
munity chests, war funds, hospitals and colleges — Brown 
among them — need gifts far in excess of those "customarily 
made", the effect is clear. For all institutions of this kind 
must look to men of means for a substantial portion of the 
gifts which permit them to take on new responsibilities and 
thus to grow in usefulness. 

► Wh.at is the justification of this limitation? Does it swell 
the national revenue? No — on the contrary. Tax payments 
by a high salaried man are reduced. The only possible bene- 
ficiary is the corporation which pays him a lower salary. 
Ostensibly the regulation is designed to combat the very 
real threat of inflation, but obviously its effect in that direc- 
tion is insignificant. Expenditure for ordinary consumer 
goods IS simply not affected by a salary limitation of $25,000 
net. What the limit does affect are (1) tax payments, (2) 
war bond purchases, and (3) gifts to charitable, religious 
and educational institutions. As for the question of social 
policy, It is sufficient to point out that Congress should 
retain the sole power to effect such broad changes of social 
policy as this involves. And Congress has specifically re- 
jected a bill which would have had the same effect in limit- 
ing salaries but which would have had the merit of making 
the Treasury, and not the employer, the beneficiary of the 
excess over $25,000 and would have retained the exemption 
to charitable gifts up to 1 5 ^^ of income ! 

This then is the present threat to your church, your chari- 
ties, your university. Heretofore, government has been 
aware of the necessity of safeguarding these institutions. 
Now, without any clear compensating benefits, it adopts by 
decree a measure which fails to accomplish its avowed aim 
and which handicaps a group of institutions in the per- 
formance of their heavy duties in war and their equally 
vital functions in the peace to come. 

What then will be the result? Simply, I venture to say, 
that government itself will have to use tax funds to support 
the very institutions that government policy is now render- 
ing impotent to do their own job. For in today's world it is 
clear that we need more adequate facilities for higher edu- 
cation; greater care for the sick; and a wider extension of 
religious and charitable services. There is no substantial 
dispute on this point. What Brown asks is that this great 
group of educational, charitable and religious institutions 
may continue, as a matter of social policy, to rely upon 
the support of private benefactions. Only in this way can 
they respond to the increasing opportunities and obligations 
of the future. < < 



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New York's 75th < 

► ► Anticipating one of the largest gatherings of Brown 
Alumni ever assembled outside of Providence, the com- 
mittee for the 75th annual dinner of the Brunonians in 
Greater New York has completed all plans President 
Wriston and Zechariah Chafee, Jr. '07 will be the speakers, 
with Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn '93 as toastmaster. The 
committee feels it has a program arranged as imposing as 
the Diamond Anniversary which will be celebrated. 

The scene will be the University Club, at Fifth Ave. at 
54th St. The time: Tuesday evening, March 2.ird, with 
reception starting at 6 and the dinner service at 7. Members 
of the Armed Forces will be admitted for three dollars per 
plate, 75 cents under the price for all others. To assure the 
alumnus a seat with his class, he must make his reservation 
by March 19. Checks should be made payable to Sydney 
Wilmot '09, Treasurer, at .39 East .39th St. Further in 
formation may be had there from Newton G. Chase '09, 
Secretary, whose phone number is CAlcdonia 5-6200. 

In addition to the speaking program, which is tradition- 
ally of high order at the New York dinner even in ordinary 
years, the Brown Alumni in Greater New York will make 
awards to Brunonians recognized as "duly qualified for 
discharging the office of life with usefulness and reputa- 
tion." This has been the procedure for a number of years 
now, and it makes a fine feature, not only as an interesting 
event but also as a form of recognition accorded outstanding 
alumni. The choices are as much a prc-dinncr secret as an 
honorary degree or a Cammarian Club tap, — in fact, more 
so, since the recipients have no foreknowledge. 

None of the speakers need introductions to Brown men. 
Dr. Meiklejohn, the toastmaster, is the former Dean of the 
University, one-time President of Amherst College and 
founder of the Experimental School at Wisconsin, who 
continues active as lecturer, author, educator and philoso- 
pher. June will mark the 5()th anniversary of his graduation 
from Brown. Prof. Chafee was presiding officer at the 
Sayles Hall meeting on Commencement Day last year. He 
is internationally known as an authority in the field of 
Equity Law. Many others know him, too, as an active 
defender of the Constitutional Right of Freedom of Speech. 
President Wriston, too, can be counted on to match the 
temper of his audience, and two alumni gatherings to 
which he talked in the last month say he has never spoken 
better or more tellingly. 

A lot of hard committee work proceeds a big dinner of 
this kind. The group in charge of the 1943 dinner is 
headed by C. Douglas Mercer '06, Chairman, and Sydney 
Wilmot '09, Treasurer. Chairman of sub-committees in- 
clude: Finance — Alfred B. Meacham '96; Dinner Arrange- 
ments — Melvin E. Sawin '14; Program — Wayne M. 
Faunce '21 and Robert W. Burgess '08; Publicity— Philip 
C. Rogerson '40. Class Representatives and Reception 
Committee— John W. Fawcett "22, W. Earl Sprackling '12, 
and Charles H. Huggins, Jr. '19. < 4 

Bloomingdale and 7Aegfeld 

► Al Bloomingd.ale '35 is associate producer with the 
Shuberts of the Ziegfeld Follies which opened in Boston in 
late January and which the AP reviewer called "a lavish, 
tuneful, entertaining production~-a smash hit." Al's pre- 
vious productions have included "Your Loving Son," 
"High Kicker," (with George Jessel) , "Ring Around Eliza- 
beth," and "Sweet Charity." < 



Heading the Metv York Fund 

► W. R.-^NDOLPH Burgess '12, Vice-Chairman of the 
Board of the National City Bank of New York, has been 
chosen chairman of the 1943 campaign of the Greater 
New York Fund. As such he will lead the May appeal for 
funds to help finance more than 400 voluntary welfare and 
health agencies in New York City. 

During the First World War Dr. Burgess served as 
statistician with the War Industries Board, and the War De- 
partment, becoming assistant chief of the Statistics Branch 
of the General Staff with the rank of Major. After a year 
of research work with the Russell Sage Foundation, from 
1919 to 1920, he entered the Federal Reserve Bank of 
New York serving successively as manager of the Reports 
Department, Assistant Federal Reserve Agent, Deputy 
Governor, and Vice-President. From 1930 to 193S he had 
charge of open market and fiscal agency operations. 

Mr. Burgess left the Federal Reserve Bank in September, 
1938, to become Vice-Chairman of the Board of the Na- 
tional City Bank of New York. He is a Past President of 
the American Statistical Association, the Academy of 
Political Science, and the New York State Bankers Asso- 
ciation. He is a trustee of the Carnegie Corporation and 
the Mutual Life Insurance Company, and a director of 
the City Bank Farmers Trust Co., and the Royal Liverpool 
Groups of insurance companies. 

A Trustee of Brown, he also received an honorary LL.D. 
in 1937. His two sons have come to Brown in recent years, 
Leonard with the Class of 1942 and Julian, Varsity swim- 
mer, receiving his degree at the Fcbruar>' Commencement, 
just past. i 

John Hancock^s l\ew Actuary 

► Harold A. Grout '13, associated with the John Han- 
cock Mutual Life Insurance Company of Boston for 29 
years, has been named Actuary of the company. He has 
been with John Hancock since the year of his graduation, 
when he received both his A.B. and A.M. degrees, with the 
exception of military service in the First World War. He 
was in the Medical Enlisted Reserve Corps of the Army 
and went to France with the 1 16th Aero Squadron. 

Returning to John Hancock as mathematician, he was 
promoted to Assistant Actuary in 1931 and became Asso- 
ciated Actuary in 1939. He is a Fellow of the Actuarial 
Society of America, a Fellow of the American Institute 
of Actuaries, and Secretary-Treasurer of the Actuaries' 
Club of Boston. From 1928-31 he conducted a course on 
the mathematics of life insurance at Boston University 
School of Business Administration. 

Active in civic affairs in Wellesley Hills and Wcllesley, 
he has been on the Town Advisory Committee and is now 
serving as town meeting representative. He is chairman of 
the Town Retirement Board, director of the Wellesley Co- 
operative Bank, and an active sponsor of the Boy Scout 
movement. He is a member of the Brown Club of Boston 
and Delta Phi. One of his three children, Richard, is a 
Brown graduate of the Class of 1942, now an officer can- 
didate in the Engineer Corps at Fort Belvoir, Va. i 

Shulman as Umpire 

► Dr. Harry Shulman '23. administrative associate mem- 
ber of the War Labor Board, was chosen in late February 
as umpire "in disputes between the Ford Motor Co. and 
the United Automobile Workers Union (CIO), which 
holds a closed shop contract," the AP reported. It's an old 



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story with Shulman, who not so long ago acted as arbitrator 
in hearings involving Ford wage rates. He is on leave of 
absence as Sterling Professor of Law at Yale and has been 
special representative of the Defense Mediation Board, i 

How Brown University Helped 

► When Rhode Island's United War Fund went over the 
top by the amazing margin of 2')%, no one was happier 
than the head man in the whole organisation, President 
Henry M. Wriston of Brown. His leadership was a contri- 
bution to the drive that raised $428,575 for war charities 
in the greatest fund-raising effort in the State's history. 

A total of $10,282.15 was subscribed by Brown Univer- 
sity Faculty and employes, a significant record because of 
the fact that the quota for private schools and colleges in 
Rhode Island was $9200. Brown's quota had been $7000, 
and its achievement was cited at the drive's victory dinner. 

i 

Labor's March to Date 

► "Vital importance of an efficient labor force in war-time 
is emphasized in "Economics and Problems of Labor", 
recently-published book by Philip Taft, Professor of Eco- 
nomics at Brown University. 

His excellent book, the newest in its field, covers a history 



of the labor movement and a general complete survey of 
all problems connected with labor and labor organization. 
It is intended as a text-book or reference for use in courses 
on labor problems and social security. 

Taft has spent several years in preparing the book. His 
experience as labor advisor and mediator, as well as his 
other work in connection with labor-industry problems 
for a background for his description of contemporary labor 
problems. We recommend it to any student of the subject, i 

A Power in Miami Journalism 

► James L. Knight 'J4, is secretary-treasurer and business 
manager of the Miami Herald, Miami, Fla., of which his 
brother, John S. Knight, is president and publisher. Jim 
has been Florida member of the board of directors of the 
Southern Newspaper Publishers' Association and on the 
public relations committee. A resident of Miami since 
19?7, he is married and has two daughters, Barbara and 
Marilyn. i 

"Look^s^' Managing Editor 

► New managing editor of Loo\ magazine is John T. 
Hackett '22, only lately a member of its staffs. Previously 
he had been owner and editor of Current History. i 



Brunonians Far and Near < < 



BY ALFRED H. GURNEY "07 

1881 

> ► Headquarters of the Northern Bap- 
tist Convention has notified the Alumni 
Office that the Rev. Joseph A. Bailey is no 
longer on its rolls. There has been report 
that our classmate died in March, 1942, but 
we have not been able to confirm it from 
other sources, although we have known that 
Bailey had been ill for some time previously. 
Some of us will recall that Bailey left Brown 
at the end of Freshman year, went to New- 
ton Theological Institution, and was Baptist 
minister in Chester and Branford, Qinn., 
Eastport, Me., Gotfstown. Brentwood, Not- 
tingham, and Portsmouth, N. H., and 
Dana, Mass. 

Prompted by recent word from former 
Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes and 
Morgan Brooks that John Alvah Taylor 
had died, the Alumni Office is trying to 
learn the date. Taylorslast letter came about 
three years ago when he was living in re- 
tirement in Maiden Mass. In his years out 
of college he had been investment broker, 
and cashier and conservator of several Mas- 
sachusetts banks. 

1884 

Celebrating its 125th anniversary, the 
First Light Infantry Regiment of Rhode 
Island met for dinner in Providence the 
night of Washington's Birthday with Col. 
W. M. P. Bowen, commander of the Infan- 
try, as chairman of the committee in charge. 

Dr. H. C. Bumpus, spending the winter 
with his son. Dr. H. C. Bumpus, Jr., '12 in 
Pasadena, Calif., wrote your correspondent 
in early February that "it is lovely out here. 
Flowers in abundance and from the ranch — 
about an hour's drive — we get all the essen- 
tials that we cannot get at the markets." 

Your Secretary records with regret the 
death of Dr. William Birket Arnold in St 
Albans, Vt., Feb. 27, 1943, and gives the 



Class's sincere sympathy to Mrs. Arnold. 
Our classmate had practised medicine in St. 
Albans for nearly 40 years. 
1885 

Only this past month has the Alumni 
Office been able to get official confirmation 
that Frederick Alpha Very died in Los 
Angeles July 28, 1937. 
1893 

Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn is a contrib- 
utor to a series of articles under the general 
title of "A Faith for Tomorrow," which the 
magazine Common Sense is advertising 
among its features for 1943. "Alexander 
Meiklejohn, the famous educator." said the 
editors of Common Sense, "will break down 
the dynamics of nationalism, on both sides 
of the fighting lines, as the enemy of any 
all-embracing democratic faith." 
1894 

William D. Goddard, having reached the 
age limit in October, 1942, has retired as 
librarian of the Woburn, Mass., Public Li- 
brary, where he served during the past 18 
years. It is 47 years since he began library 
work at Harvard College Library in Sep- 
tember, 1895. His new house address is 
2 Girard Rd., Stoneham, Mass. 

Chief of the speaker's bureau for the 
1943 Red Cross campaign in the Providence 
Chapter area is Col. H. Anthony Dyer, 
veteran of the Red Cross in overseas work 
during the First World War and chairman 
of the Providence Red Cross Roll Call last 
year. Our energetic classmate has also been 
re-elected as Senior Warden of St. Stephen's 
Church and as a delegate to the diocesan 
convention. 

1895 

Dr. Richard M. Vaughan, Emeritus Pro- 
fessor of Theology of Andover Newton 
,yijjThcological School, is in his third year as 
pastor of the Community Church, Babson 



Park, Fla. Vaughan spends his summers in 
Newton Centre, Mass. 

Dr. Frederick Slocum told the story of 
"War Time Astronomy" in the Wcileyan 
University Aliimnu,'; for January. He said 
that the staff of Van Vleck Observatory, of 
which he is Director, had been giving 
courses in navigation for the past two years, 
pointed out the "great need for sea naviga- 
tors," and sketched some of "the practical 
phases of what is sometimes called the most 
useless of the sciences." 

George M. McClellan is counsel for a 
New York company devising new military 
equipment for the Army and Navy, and 
reports his new address to be Glen Cove 
(Meadow Spring), N. Y. 

1896 

Judge John S. Murdock of Providence is 
one of the Public's eight representatives on 
the New England Regional Board of 24 set 
up by the War Labor Board last month to 
assist WLB procedure. It has authority to 
make final decisions on dispute cases and 
on wage and salary adjustments which fall 
within the scope of WLB jurisdiction. The 
national board retains the right of final re- 
view and will continue to establish policy 
by passing on national cases, the Associated 
Press said. 

1898 

Judge Clifford E. McGlauflin is a mem- 
ber of the 1943 Maine State Senate. He's 
an experienced legislator, having served 
several terms in the Maine House, where he 
was chairman of the Judicial Committee in 
the 90th Legislature. This current session 
is the 91st. 

Richard R. Hunter's preferred mail 
address is 14 Paddington Rd., Scarsdale, 
New York. 

1899 

Reminiscing about Waldo P. Cutler, 
whose death occurred Feb. 20, C. I. Gates 
of Milton wrote that Cutler had been a 
roommate of the late Nelson Wood on the 
top floor of the then new Maxcy Hall and 
sang in the Glee Club as well as playing in 



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the Orchestra. Judge C. C. Remington, 
Class Secretary, remembers Cutler as the 
bugler who sounded assembly for the cam- 
pus cadet corps in the days just helore the 
Spanish-American War. 

When we lingered a bit after the first 
chapel of the new semester, we discovered 
a gentleman pointing out portraits on the 
walls of Saylcs Hall with obvious familiarity 
and pleasure. He proved to be Dr. Antonio 
Mangano, in Providence to substitute as 
pastor of the Federal Hill Italian Baptist 
Church. It was also the day when the 
B. C. A."s annual Religious Embassy began, 
and Dr. Mangano was much impressed. 
1900 

Charles G. Richardson, completing 40 
years of able service with Builders Iron 
Foundry, Providence, where he is sales 
manager of the Venturi Meter business, was 
the guest of management and associates at 
a party on Feb. 16 at which he was dined 
and praised. He received tangible evidence 
of his years of success in the form of a 
handsome silver presentation bowl and a 
motion picture camera and projector. 

By one of those mysterious and inex- 
plicable slips the name of James Manning 
Lent was substituted for that of Dr. Fred- 
erick Lent in a note in the January-February 
Alumni Monthly. Your correspondent 
deeply regrets the error. Dr. Lent, former 
President of Elmira College, died in Los 
Angeles, Calif., Dec. 30, 1942. 

Harris H. Bucklin will again serve as 
President of the Rhode Island Historical 
Society for the current year. Re-elected at 
the last annual meeting, he said that "more 
than 1500 visitors have registered since the 
society moved into its new quarters, the 
John Brown House, last July 7." 
1902 

Philip Caswell's house Rosevale on West 
Main Road, Portsmouth, R. I., was seriously 
damaged by fire early in February. The cry 
of a pet parrot roused the Caswells, their 
daughter and grandchild, and all were able 
safely to escape from the smoke-filled house. 
Firemen fought the flames for several hours. 
1903 

Dr. William O. Rice's son is now Sergt. 
William Rice, AAF, and has been attached 
to the Technical Training Centre, Jefferson 
Barracks, Mo. 

John Hutchins Cady is the newly elected 
President of Rhode Island Chapter, Amer- 
ican Institute of Architects. Jack was active 
on the committee responsible for the ex- 
hibit of Providence City Planning shown at 
the Art Club in February. "An appeal to 
all Rhode Islanders, whether their interests 
are concerned in the past or the future," 
was his description of it. 

Dr. Charles A. McDonald was a victim 
of the February sleet storm in Providence 
which treacherously glazed sidewalks and 
streets. He suffered a broken arm. 

Prof. William T. Hastings attended the 
recent annual meeting of the Senate of 
Phi Beta Kappa. 

1905 

Archie Roy Webb, in a note to your 
Secretary earlier this year, said he is "play- 
ing at farming and farming for play" in 
Whitehall, Wis. He admits that his shock 
of hair, conspicuous in his football days, is 
somewhat diminished and that he has re- 
cently had to put on spectacles. 

Rodney C. Walker, reporting his new 
address to be Anson, Me., adds that two 
of his sons are in flying service. 




"Thumper's" Hero 

► 2nd Lt. Samuel Hayden Ander- 
son '40 has been decorated for gal- 
lantry in bomber operations over 
German-occupied territory in Eur- 
ope, according to dispatches late in 
January from the USAAF Hqrs. in 
London. The dispatches do not spec- 
ify the action or the decoration. 

Anderson, former Brown Varsity 
tennis player and IGB oflicer, en- 
tered the Air Corps Jan. 19, 1942 
and received his preliminary train- 
ing at Maxwell Field, Ala, and 
Mather Field, Cal. He received his 
wings and commission on July 4. 
Some time later assigned to a bomber 
crew as navigator, he flew with it to 
England in November. The crew 
had named their ship "Thumper", 
after the Disney rabbit. 

In a recent letter to his mother, he 
said he had been "flying high", men- 
tioning that he had been in a bomber 
piloted by a Captain, with a Colonel 
serving as co-pilot and a General 
making the trip as an observer. i 



Lewis P. Damon, with a fine record of 
teacher and headmaster of boys' school be- 
hind him, is back at a desk again as teacher 
of mathematics and science at B.M.C. Dur- 
fee High School, Fall River, for the dura- 
tion of the war. 

This is the 40th anniversary year of 
David Davidson Pictures in Providence. 
Dave's work with the camera has few equals 
in this country, and it is safe to say that 
his camera studies are to be found in homes 
in nearly every State in the United States. 

Warren A. Whitney is district director 
of the newly created OPA office in Worces- 
ter County, Mass., with his headquarters in 
his home city of Worcester. 

"Old Timer's" column in the K[iagara 
Falls Gazette is a "Peep into the Past" of 
25 years ago. It recently remarked the 
anniversary of Earl W. Browning's arrival 
to be the town's librarian. 

Ralph G. Johnson of Chicago reports 
that his health is excellent and that he is 
busier than ever as Vice-President and 



Western Manager of the Dry Goods 
Journal. 

Glenn Woodin of Dunkirk, N. Y., can 
lecl that his family is deep in this war: His 
son Bill is a Captain in the Army Medical 
Corps; a second son, Byron, is an Ensign; 
a daughter, Cynthia, a graduate nurse, is 
married to a doctor who is a Lieutenant 
aboard an American destroyer. Another 
daughter, Jane, is a Freshman at Cornell. 

1906 

Leon S. Gay, re-elected president of the 
Vermont Historical Society at its annual 
meeting in January, saidr "We have a 
unique opportunity to mold public opinion 
in the way of a lasting peace — one which 
will avoid the pitfalls of disastrous peace 
treaties of former years." 

Dr. Charles C. Tillinghast, headmaster 
of Horace Mann School for Boys, was a 
January speaker before the Parent Teacher 
Association of Tenafly, N. J. His subject 
was "Education in an Emergency." 

Elmer D. Nickerson played the leading 
role of Homer Todd in "The Tick-Tock 
Man," an original comedy by Leslie A. 
Jones '26, which Sock and Buskin and The 
Players put on in Faunce House Theatre 
at the end of February. "Mr. Nickerson's 
authoritative handling of the role of Todd, 
with its many moods running from quiet 
submission to quiet stubbornness, con- 
tributes most to the enjoyment of the play," 
said the journal reviewer. "His characteri- 
zation IS indeed memorable as he makes the 
somewhat eccentric Todd completely be- 
lievable." 

Henry R. Hobson, back in the east, is 
living at the Phi Gamma Delta Club, 106 
West 56th St., New York, after being at 
the University Club in Washington. He is 
enjoying meeting Brown men again after 
residence in San Acacio, Colo.; Vancouver, 
B. C; Wenatchee, Wash.; and other cen- 
ters not conspicuous for a Brown alumni 
population. He has traveled a great deal 
in recent years and at one time was in 
charge of 11 Western States for the Federal 
Surplus Commodities Corporation. 

Alfred W. Fletcher is a member of the 
Faculty of Northeastern University as as- 
sistant director of ESMWT — a combina- 
tion of the alphabet that any engineer will 
quickly translate into Engineering, Science 
and Management War Training. 

Edward C. Palmer and Mrs. Palmer have 
announced the engagement of their daugh- 
ter. Miss Natalie Russell Palmer, to Lt. 
John W. Frost, AAF, of Chestnut Hill, 
Mass., a former student at the University 
of Virginia. Miss Palmer is a graduate of 
Walnut Hill School, and is a Senior at 
the Garland School, Boston. 

A. Fabian Swanson's son, Lt. Chandler 
W. Swanson, Naval Air Forces, has re- 
ceived the Navy Cross "for heroic and dis- 
tinguished services in the Coral Sea on 
May 7-8, 1942." 

Your Secretary records with regret the 
death of Prescott Sumner Moulton in 
Schenectady, N. Y., Feb. 3, 1943, and the 
death of Joseph Leo Harson in Providence, 
Feb. 26, 1943, and extends to the families 
of our late classmates the deep sympathy 
of the Class. 

Lanning Myers has been re-elected 
Superintendent of Public Schools in Wild- 
wood, N. J., for a term of five years. He 
organized the Wildwood High School and 
was its principal from 1906 to 1924, retir- 



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ing from teaching to edit the local news- 
paper for 12 years. He returned to teach- 
ing in 1936 and was elected Superintendent 
in 1938. He earned a M. Sc. degree in Edu- 
cation from the University of Pennsylvania 
last year. 

1907 
Award of the 1907 Scholarship was 
made to Donald E. Cor:ine of Shorewood, 
Wis., at the last chapel service at Brown 
before the February Commencement. Presi- 
dent George Hurley presented the scholar- 
ship, given each year to the Senior who best 
combines scholastic ability, athletic ability, 
and promise of leadership, and A. H. 
Gurney sat on the platform with him. Cor- 
zine, with a splendid academic average in 
his four years on the Hill, held the Brown 
Club of Chicago and William Easton Lout- 
tit Scholarships, was a member of Phi Beta 



Kappa, President of Cammarian Club, 
tackle on the football eleven, and Varsity 
fencing captain. "Enlisted in V-7 of the 
Navy Program" tells his service story. 

New commandant of the Naval Hospital, 
Newport, IS Capt. Griffith E. Thomas, MC, 
USN, who came from the San Diego 
Marine Barracks to take over the important 
Newport post. Thomas has been a Naval 
surgeon since 1908, having joined the Navy 
Medical Corps as soon as he received his 
M.D. from the School of Medicine, Univer- 
sity of Michigan. 

The Merrick L. Streeters and the Fred S. 
Autys have had reunion in San Francisco. 
The Streeters are doing special work for 
OWI; Auty, with the Anti-Trust Division, 
Department of Justice, is at present doing 
duty with the Board of Economic War- 
fare, and is in charge of BEW activities on 




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the entire West Coast, west of Salt Lake 
City. "Purely research and no prosecution," 
he said in his letter to Al Gurney. 

Benjamin P. Graves, executive with 
Brown 6? Sharpe Mfg. Co., Providence, is 
chairman of the 1943 nominating commit- 
tee chosen to select nominees to fill the 
offices of the American Society of Mechani- 
cal Engineers for the coming year. 

Maj. C. W. Way, MC, wrote Al Gurney 
from his new post at Station Hospital, Ft. 
Monmouth, N. J.: "I like it here very 
much — only a few miles from Long Branch 
and Asbury Park, and, best of all, only 
45 miles from New York." 

Jack Dorrance, son of the Herbert L. 
Dorrances and a member of the Class of 
1944 at Brown before enlistment, is now 
2nd Lt. John F. Dorrance. He won his 
commission in anti-aircraft artillery at 
Camp Davis, N. C. 

H. E. Hallborg was a candidate for direc- 
tor in New York on the 1943 slate of the 
Brown Engineering Association. He is 
finding plenty to do as research engineer 
with R. C. A. Communications at 66 Broad 
St,, New York. I 

1908 

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Russell of Okla- 
homa City, Okla., have announced the 
engagement of their daughter. Miss Sally 
Ben Russell, to Lt. Hunter S. Marston, Jr., 
USA. son of Hunter S. Marston and Mrs. 
Marston of New York and Watch Hill, 
R, I. Miss Russell is a graduate of Smith 
College; Lt. Marston of Princeton. They 
met while Lt. Marston was at Ft. Sill, Okla., 
with the Field Artillery. 

Another son of Hunter's, Capt. Edgar 
L. Marston, 2nd, USA, is now serving in 
North Africa. 

The C. Leslie Corderys have announced 
the engagement of their daughter. Miss 
Natalie Cordery, to Air Cadet Charles T. 
Naylor, AAF, in training at Sedman Field, 
La. Miss Cordery is a Senior at Colby Jun- 
ior College; Cadet Naylor left Brown to 
enlist. 

Former Representative John J. O'Con- 
nor, speaking in Atlanta in mid-February, 
urged Georgia Democrats to "support Gen. 
Douglas MacArthur for President and 
James A. Farley for Vice President in the 
1944 election," the AP said. John asserted 
that the New Deal is running the party, 
and asked the Georgians to "stand with 
real Democrats. " 

1909 

Jimmy Dean is Division Chief of the 
Southern Regional Laboratory, U. S. De- 
partment of Agriculture, in New Orleans, 
La. His job has to do largely with textile 
work on Army fabrics. 

Lawrence Richmond is now Treasurer of 
the Crompton Co., a business with which 
he has been associated since graduation 
from college. One of the mills of the com- 
pany at Griffin, Ga., employing about 900 
operatives, was recently damaged by a 
tornado, but weaving of special uniform 
cloth has already been resumed there. 

Henry S. Chafee was elected as a direc- 
tor of the Providence Journal Co. at its 
annual meeting last month. Henry D. 
Sharpe '94 continues as Vice-President of 
the board and Stephen O. Metcalf '78 as 
a member. 

A note from Mose Crossley's .secretary 
early in February said Mose, recovering 



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from illness, would be in California until 
about the first of March. 

Frank C. Taylor's son F. Carter. Jr., 
graduated in February from the University 
of Michigan with the highest honors, in- 
cluding being tapped for Vulcan, honorary 
scientific society. He majored in chemistry 
and now has a job with the duPonts in Wil- 
mington, Del., manutacturing munitions. 

1910 

John Prescott Farnsworth's two sons, 
Robert and Donald, are in service. Boh is 
Tech. Sergt. with an armored division, and 
Don is Private, fir'-t class, on duty some- 
where abroad. 

1911 

J. F. (Jake) High is attached to the Ber- 
wick, Pa., office of the Philadelphia Ord- 
nance District, USA. 

Paul D. Howe's son, Lt. Alder Blumer 
Howe, USMC, was killed in action in the 
Pacific early this year. Graduate of Har 
vard in 1940, Lt. Howe joined the Marine 
Corps in August, 1941, and won his lieu 
tenant's bars only a short time before his 
death. In a letter to his parents received 
Jan. 7 he said that he was feeling fine and 
that everything was going well. His grand- 
father on his father's side was Arthur W. 
Howe '80; his maternal grandfather was 
Dr. G. Alder Blumer '05, honorary. An 
uncle is Arthur W. Howe 13. To Paul and 
bis family the sincere sympathy of the Class 
is given. 

E. E. Jack.son, recently elected a Fellow 
of the Technical Valuation Society, Inc., is 
editor of the society's magazine Teclnncal 
Valuation. His office is at 4 Irving Place. 
Room 449-,S, New York. 

G. Denny Moore reports his new address 
for mail: 26 Harvard Court, White Plains, 
New York. 

Thomas H. Quigley, principal of Lincoln 
High School and president of the Lincoln 
A.ssociation of Jersey City, N. J., was toast- 
master at the association's 78th annual din- 
ner at the Masonic Club, Jersey City, on 
Lincoln's Birthday. Principal speaker was 
Basil O'Connor, brother of John J. O'Con- 
nor '08 and former law partner of President 
Franklin D. Roosevelt. 

1912 

Capt. Wiley H. Marble, attached to the 
QM Depot, Belle Mead, N. J., is back on 
post after having spent a week of intensive 



Civilian Soldier 

> Charactf Ri::hi) as "a civilian 
who IS always a soldier," Herbert M. 
Sherwood '09 received the annual 
community service award of the 
Men's Club of Temple Emanu-EI, 
Providence, at a meeting at the tem- 
ple in late January. "Without need 
of call or prompting, in peace and 
in war, has with unreserved devotion 
made more than his reasonable sacri- 
fice to his city. State and nation in 
safeguarding the right and advancing 
the opportunity of every citizen, with 
full freedom, to enjoy the American 
way of life," read the inscription on 
the plaque given Sherwot.id. 

Fred B. Perkins '19, chairman of 
the award committee, presented the 
plaque and spoke briefly on "The 
Civilian as Soldier." Fellow judges 
included Prof. C. Emanuel Ekstrom 
16. and Rev. Albert C. Thomas. 
D.D '08. * 



training in boxing and crating for export 
at the Forest Products Laboratory, Univer- 
sity of Wisconsin. "Sort of handy man to 
the Chief of my section," he wrote a few 
weeks ago. "No titles . . . but the work is 
interesting. We have to get the stuff away 
without delay, and if we fail to punch the 
time clock or keep union hours, I can al- 
ways figure that wars haven't changed a 
bit. In the AEF we didn't stop fighting at 
5 p. m., and we practically ignored Sundays 
and holidays." 

Your Secretary records with regret the 
death of Clifton M. Hull on Feb. 6, 1943, 
and extends to his family the sympathy of 
the Class. Hull lived at 41 Brook Street, 
Rehoboth, Mass. 

191.? 

Charles H. Philbrick, 2nd. son of Clar- 
ence H. Philbrick, and James O. Stark- 
weather, son of John K. Starkweather, are 
newly elected officers of the Brown Univer- 
sity Yacht Club. Philbrick is Commodore, 
and Starkweather is treasurer. Philbrick is 
also a member of the Cammarian Club. 

Russell W. Field, President of Brownell 
&? Field Co., wholesale grocers, has been 
elected as a director of National Bank of 



Stilwell Needed His Help 



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► Valiantly playing his part in the war 
in the Far East is Brayton C. Case '10. 
civilian aid to General Stilwell, who has 
been an agricultural mi.ssionary in Burma 
since 1913 and who, like many of his fel- 
low missionaries, has temporarily put aside 
the ways of peace to follow the ways of 
war. "You know Burma. We like you and 
we need your help. There will be plenty of 
work to do," General Stilwell told him at 
headquarters in India. 

Case, born in Burma of missionary par- 
ents, had been buying vegetables and pork 
for the troops from Burma when the Chin- 
ese Army headed north to get away from 
the oncoming Japs. Along the way he was 
indefatigable — and ingenious, too — in set- 
ting up new food distributing centres and 
feeding the weary soldiers and civilians. 
He marched with them into India, where 



General Stilwell immediately made him 
civilian aide and gave him important duties 
to carry out. 

When he began as missionary, Case de- 
cided his work was to introduce new crops 
to a people depending wholly upon rice. 
His agricultural school at Pyinmana, Burma, 
has done a great deal to transform Burmese 
village life since it opened in 1915. Its grad- 
uates have learned how "to breed improved 
livestock, cultivate vegetable gardens, 
orchards and field grains, operate and re- 
pair power machinery, and even to make a 
good agricultural living with only a hoe 
and a knife." Moreover, he introduced to 
Burma the Berkshire hogs which have re- 
placed in many villages the thin and tough 
native razorbacks and which the Burmese, 
slyly complimenting Case, call their 
"Christian pigs." ^ 



Commerce ^ Trust Co., Providence, and 
re-elected as Senior Warden of St. John's 
Episcopal Church, Barrington. 

Jeffrey S. Granger has been named to the 
Board of Governors of the Brown Univer- 
sity Club in New York to succeed Christie 
E. Cuddeback '21, who resigned on re- 
moval to Baltimore. 

From Benjamin de Casseres' column "The 
March of Events" in the Hearst papers of 
Dec. 29: "I was pleased to see that Walter 
H. Snell of Brown University has publicly 
taken up a slogan that was first used in this 
country on the ascension of Hitler to power 
in 1933. It is 'Delenda Est Germania!' . . . 
Now this slogan of 1933 goes up again. But 
do we mean it? Are we not the same blind 
'softies' we were in 193 3 when the eco- 
nomic and political power of Germany 
could have been destroyed without firing 
a shot?" 

Raymond J. Bennell has passed the New 
Jersey bar examinations and is now an 
authorized counselor. .Son of a former 
Mayor of Morristown, Bennell has been a 
lifelong resident of the town. He had pre- 
viously passed the examination which ad- 
mitted him to the bar as an attorney, and 
has long been a specialist in title examina- 
tions, m association with Prosecutor Wil- 
liam A. Hegarty. The Morristown Record 
noted some of his activities: "He is a mem- 
ber of Zeta Psi fraternity, a charter mem- 
ber of the Adirondack Mountain Club, a 
member of the Morris County Bar Asso- 
ciation, the Church of the Redeemer, and 
Independent Hose Co. " 

1914 

Lt. Col. Maurice A. Wolf. MP, USA, 
on active duty on the West Coast, was pres- 
ent at the annual dinner and meeting of the 
Brown Club of Alta California in San 
Francisco in mid-February. 

Nathan M. Wright, Jr., is president and 
director of the Mortgage Guarantee ^ Title 
Co. of Rhode Island for the current year. 

James G. Affleck, Jr.'s mother, Mrs. Ger- 
trude Burns Affleck, died at her home in 
Yonkers, N. Y., Feb. 19. She was a mem- 
ber of the Board of Managers of Yonkers 
General Hospital, and had been treasurer 
of the hospital for 22 years. Another son 
IS W. Russell Affleck '17. 

1915 

Lt. Comdr. Alfred W. Anthony, Jr., 
LISNR, has been on duty for nearly two 
years in the Navy office at the Fore River, 
Mass., shipyard of Bethlehem Steel Corp, 
"My work is varied in character," he wrote 
not long ago. "I am responsible to the Ad- 
miral in charge for accuracy of all payment 
matters, and in addition I have several jobs 
in connection with materials, particularly 
getting them here on time. I am Priorities 
Officer, too." The Anthonys live at 257 
Trapelo Rd., Walthani, Mass. 

William A. Necdham and his law part- 
ners, Mortimer G. Cummings and John A. 
Notte, Jr., have opened a branch office at 
2003 Smith St., Centredale. Their main 
office is at 49 Westminster St., Providence. 

Edward H. Winsor is now associated 
with the New York investment firm of 
G. H. Walker ^ Co. at its Providence 
office, one of the group of former Bodell 
associates who took on the new affiliation 
at the old address, 3 2 Custom House St. 

Minot J. (Cap) Crowell's .son, Dave, is 
Apprentice Seaman, USNR. 



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1916 

Lt. Col. Guy W. Wells, MC, USA, is in 
North Africa in command of the 5 2nd Sta- 
tion Hospital. He wrote medical associates 
in Providence that he was quartered in a 
villa, but added the villa was not as preten- 
tious as the name might indicate. 

Lt. Col. John Lindley Gammel's correct 
address is 1537th Service Unit, Camp At- 
terhury, Ind. Lin, returning to active duty 
after Pearl Harbor, went first to Ohio State 
University as Professor of Military Science, 
and during the summer vacation was presi- 
dent of a board of Army, Navy, and Ma- 
rine Corps officers detailed to call upon all 
presidents of the Middle West colleges to 
explain the policy of the services regarding 
college students. He's on special duty at 
Camp Atterbury, which is 30 miles south 
of Indianapolis. 

Newton P. Leonard is Vice-President of 
Westminster Unitarian Church Society, 
Providence, for the current year. 

1917 

Lt. Col. Ralph A. Armstrong, FA, has 
sent greetings from North Africa "to Brown 
and the 1917 boys" on a postal card show- 
ing a view of the harbor of Oran. 

Bob Hall, son of Lt. Col. John R. W. 
Hall, FA, who has been on duty at Ft. 
Bragg, N. C, was manager of the Norwich 
University basketball team during the sea- 
son just ended. He was No. 2 man in his 
class at Norwich, all set to go into active 
service after graduation. 

Want Ad < 

i "No movies nearby," said the ad, "but 
we offer a friendly country home with con- 
genial family of only two adults who try to 
be considerate and democratic. Modern, 
warm, 7-room house with all labor-saving 
devices; private room, bath, and plenty of 
time for yourself; radio, library, piano, 
available; white or colored, any nationality; 
$85 monthly; we can supply excellent refer- 
ences from previous housekeeper." 

And that was the way that Norman Dine 
'23 and his wife touched otT what Meyer 
Berger of the T^ew Tor\ Times "an 
epochal reversal in the relationship between 
householders and some help." Berger wrote 
a column story on the results of that ad 
(need you ask in what paper the ad 
appeared?). 

Dine, he pointed out, is a specialty shop 
executive (the famous Slumber Shop in 
Lewis y Conger) who commutes to Man- 
hattan. Early in February found they had 
had eight houseworker-cookers within a 
year — two had left to go into war work, 
five others didn't like the country, and a 
Jap was too unhappy about crushing tin 
cans to help us win the war. 

The conventional ads didn't work, says 
Berger: "Mr. Dine had studied philosophy 
at Brown University in his youth and had a 
smattering of sociology." He and his wife 
finally figured out "that the war had re- 
leased domestic workers from bondage, so 
to speak. They had been exploited, been 
made painfully aware of class distinction." 

But the new type of advertising worked. 
By the scores came phone calls and letters, 
of all sorts. And the Dines' eight-acre 
estate, overlooking a lake in Katonah in 
Northern Westchester, got its houseworker- 
cook, with plenty to choose from. i 



1918 

Jimmy Jemail, the Inquiring Fotographer 
of The Daily J^eivs quotes Herbert Bayard 
Swope to the effect that racetracks are the 
most peaceful places next to cathedrals. 
Due to recent transportation rulings, we 
agree with the commissioner as of 1943, was 
Stanley Woodward's barbed comment in his 
sports column in the T^ew for^ Herald 
Tribune. 

Roswell S. Bosworth, publisher of the 
Bristol Phoenix, was chosen President of 
the Rhode Island Press Club at the 5 5th 
annual meeting in Providence on Wash- 
ington's Birthday. 

Before resigning as President of the Na- 
tional Machine Tool Builders' Association 
to become Deputy Director of the Tools 
Division of the War Production Board, 
John S. Chafee offered two trophies for 
which association members are eligible. 
John's offer aims at stimulating an increase 
in output of machine tools and at "inject- 
ing into the industry's drive for maximum 
production the further incentive of friendly 
rivalry." 

Capt. Charles H. Eden USA, reporting 
at February's end tor active duty, is at 
Ft. Eustis, Va., with an anti-aircraft unit. 
Charlie is a veteran of the Mexican cam- 
paign of 1916 and of the First World War, 
during which he served as an artilleryman 
with the AEF in France. Before he left 
Providence he was guest at a dinner given 
by friends, many of whom were political 
associates in the old City Council days and 
when he was running for Congress last 
November. 

1919 

Lt. Col. Russell M. Peters, AAF, is execu- 
tive officer of the Oklahoma City Air 
Depot. When he was promoted to his pres- 
ent rank early this year, the Providence 
Evening Bulletin recalled his able record 
in the First World War, during which he 
served with the AEF in France as a bat- 
tery commander with the 124th Field Artil- 
lery and won the award of the Silver Star 
for gallantry in action. A member of the 
ORG, he was called to active duty in May, 
1942, and assigned to the Army Air Force. 

Prof. Ben W. Brown, on leave of absence 
from the Hill, is doing personnel work for 
the American Red Cross in the North At- 
lantic area. His office is in New York, and 
he lives at the Brown University Club in 
New York. 

Capt. Edgar J. Lanpher, AAF, is on duty 
at the Air Support Base, Orlando, Fla. 

New address for George W. Kowalski. 
one of the mainstays of the Chicago Brown 
Club, is 210 East Pearson St., Chicago. 

Rev. Robert L. Weis, a special student 
with the class, is the new pastor of the First 
Universalist Church in Harrisville, R. I., 
returning to his native State after being 
pastor in North Hatley and Huntingville, 
Que., Canada. In addition to his studies at 
Brown, Mr. Weis attended the University 
of Chicago, Meadville Theological School 
in Chicago, and the Pacific School for the 
Ministry in Berkeley. His first call was to 
the First Parish Church, Scituate, Mass. 

1920 

Prof. James Quayle Dealey, Jr., of the 
Department of Political Science, Hamilton 
College, and our former Class Secretary, 
has accepted commission as Captain in the 
Army, and is at the Army School of MiH- 



Hoiv To Spot A Plane 

> Maj. F. R. (Frit?) Hazard's 
new hook, "Elementary and Ad- 
vanced Aircraft Identification," was 
fully described by Charles H. Spil- 
man '32, Providence Sunday Journal 
aviation editor in a recent story in 
the Journal artgravure section. Said 
Spilman: "Maj. Hazard (Brown, 
1914) was at Mitchel Field last week. 
He leaves soon for California. His 
job now is to train soldiers who 
will instruct our growing Army in 
aircraft spotting, but his old book in 
new dress continues to prime those 
civilian volunteers who will pass the 
word to the Army if the enemy 
should strike from the skies." Frits, 
you may recall, began his book when 
he took over two years ago as head 
of Rhode Island's aircraft observa- 
tion work and set up spotters" posts 
all over the State. i 



tary Government, University of Virginia, 
for training. Jim, who was a Rhodes Scholar, 
you know, is on leave of absence from 
Hamilton, where he has been teaching since 
1931. 

Lt. Col. Marshall N. Fulton, MC, AUS, 
is chief of the medical service at Valley 
Forge General Hospital, a new 1800-bed 
Army hospital in Phoenixville, Pa. He and 
Mrs. Fulton and their daughter Edith are 
living in Mont Clare, Pa. 

Lt. Col. Herman A. Lawson, MC, USA, 
has been reported overseas with the 48th 
Evacuation Hospital Group, which had its 
home base at the Rhode Island Hospial, 
Providence. 

Albert E. Lownes gave his version of 
"Venus Upon the Sun, or How Transit 
Street (Providence) Got Its Name" at the 
841st Friday Night of the Providence Art 
Club in late January. "The deus ex machina 
of the Christmas Shows — (very) roughly 
translated as 'the guy behind the scenes' — 
steps before the curtain to reveal for the 
first time on any stage the facts surrounding 
the Transit of Venus in 1 769," said the card 
announcing Al's talk. 

Ernest T. Clough, consultant with Loom- 
is, Sayles 6? Co., investment counsel, has 
already settled with his family at 4524 
North Murray Ave., Milwaukee, Wis. His 
office is at 411 East Mason St. He went 
to Milwaukee from Boston — a fine pro- 
motion, we hear — and by his departure 
the Brown Club of Boston lost one of the 
most efficient and enthusiastic officers and 
workers in all its long history. 

Irving S. Crompton's new address is 65 
Shirley Blvd., Cranston, R. I. 

Roland D. Beck is the new Secretary of 
the Brown Club of Northern New Jersey. 
His address: 34 Broad Terrace, Bloomfield, 
N.J. 

1922 

Capt. D. H. Ross, AUS, is a travelling 
field transportation officer with the Trans- 
portation Corps, Indiantown Gap Military 
Reservation, Indiantown Gap, Pa. He was 
one of Sears Roebuck's experienced traffic 
men with his office in Philadelphia before 
he joined the Army. 

1923 

Win Munro and his wife have collabo- 
rated in writing "Handbook for Club- 
women," which has been published with 



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Mrs. Munro's name on the title page. 
Win modestly sidestepped co-authorship, 
although he assisted his wife in assembling 
the material from many sources. He's in the 
college division of D. Appleton-Century 
Co., with his headquarters in Montgomery, 
Ala., and Mrs. Munro is Associate Professor 
of History at Huntingdon College. She has 
also taught at Lander College and Furman 
University in South Carolina, and at 
Georgia State Women's College. 

Two recently commissioned officers in the 
USNR are Lt. Comdr. Daniel 'V. Troppoli, 
MC, and Lt. Charles E. Home, Jr., CEC- 
V(S). Dan has hen practising surgery in 
Providence, and Charlie has been super- 
intendent for his father, a contractor in 
Millbury, Mass., since he left college. 

Pvt. Mian Gulian has been in training 
with an anti-aircraft battalion at Ft. Eustis, 
Va., after his initiation as a soldier at Ft. 
Devens, Mass. 

Our thanks to Milt Newsome for report- 
ing that Paul L. Holmgren is owner of 
Holmgren Building Materials Co., 82 South 
Van Brunt Ave., Englewood, N. J., where 
he lives at 250 Van Nostrand Ave. 

When nearly a score of men, formerly of 
Bodell 6? Co., Inc., became associated with 
the Providence office of G. H. Walker ii 
Co. in the investment business, Harold H. 
Young's name was listed as associate man- 
ager. Their office continues at 32 Custom 
House St. 

Rev. Willard F. Johnson, for 14 years 
pastor of the Vineyard Haven Baptist 
Church, has come back to the mainland as 
pastor of the South Baptist Church in 
Worcester — the eighth in this 57-year-old 
church. He preached his first sermon in 
Worcester, Dec. 6. 

1924 

Quentin Reynolds appeared in a new 
role of economist when the New "Xork. 
Times published a letter to the editor from 
him Feb. 1. Disturbed by union demands 
for higher wages on the grounds that living 
costs had increased, Reynolds said, "No 
greater disservice could be done union 
workers than to grant such raises." It is the 
shortage of goods, not high prices, that hits 
living standards, he said, and the solution 



Guadalcanal Chaplain 

► A Navy chaplain, serving with 
the Marines on Guadalcanal, W. 
Wyeth Willard '27 had the privilege 
of baptizing 18 of the men while 
they were still in the Solomons. The 
Jvjew 'Yor\ Herald Tribune recently 
printed a photograph of him baptis- 
ing Corporal Arthur S. Tripp, who, 
according to his family, had "never 
wanted to go to Sunday School or to 
church — he said he didn't find it 
interesting enough." 

The ceremony took place in the 
Lunga river, following one of Mr. 
Willard's Sunday services. Writing 
afterwards to Tripp's pastor, the 
chaplain spoke of how it had been 
"a joy to witness to the saving and 
keeping power of Jesus Christ. In 
many cases I have been, as it were, 
speaking as 'a dying man to dying 



was to increase production within the 
present wage standards. It would also speed 
the end of the war, he pointed out. He also 
champions higher taxing to take money out 
ol circulation. 

Now comes a book not by Quent, but 
about him: "War Correspondent, the Story 
of Quentin Reynolds." F. E. Rechnitier 
wrote it for hoys of high school and junior 
high school age, and Julian Messner, Inc., 
New York, will publish it in April. 

W. H. (Bill) Butler, personnel director 
of Chevrolet-Bloomfield Division of General 
Motors Corp., Bloomfield, N. J., reports a 
change of mail address to 59 Ridgewood 
Ave., Glen Ridge, N. J. 

Without any elaboration of the state- 
ment, Joe Nutter said recently in his sports 
column in the Providence Bulletin that John 
Spcllman is in South Africa. 

John E. O'Brien is completing a three- 
months course at the University of Florida's 

In Payment A 

► y We've had a flood of clippings this 
winter about Dave Wolper '24, for papers 
all over the country use George Tucker's 
Manhattan column. Here's a digest: 

Some lawyers' clients pay off with pota- 
toes, poultry and smoked hams. Attorney 
Dave Wolper got paid off with a night club 
— the Hurricane, sometimes called Tahiti- 
on-Broadway. It's an odd story, full of by- 
paths, but that the Hurricane has turned 
into one of the biggest money-making spots 
in town is not the least illogical — if you 
know Dave Wolper. 

He's a big, solidly built fellow of some 
185 pounds who looks like the ex-college 
fullback he is. He has a round, cheerful 
face and is an opportunist both with humor 
and business. 

He chose Brown University, after turning 
down scholarships at half a dozen other 
schools, and although weighing only 139 
pounds as a freshman fullback he placed on 
Walter Camp's third AIl-American team. 

Life was pleasant at Brown. One of 
Dave's roommates was Quentin Reynolds. 
Besides playing football, basketball and 
baseball, Dave took part in a musical show 
as a song and dance man. In his third year 
he decided upon a career — law. He left 
Brown for Syracuse, and when he gradu- 
ated he came to New York. 

Eventually he met Seymour Robinson 
and they set up their firm, specialising in 
theatrical clients. In their first three weeks 
they pocketed $10,000 — but poured $8,000 
back into a bad play whose cast included 
Leslie Howard, Gregory Ratoff, Reginald 
Owen, Warren William, William Gargan, 
Melvyn Douglas and a youngster named 
Clark Gable. 

Robinson left for Hollywood to write 
and Dave went back to his clients. One 
was Virginia Hill, Georgia heiress, who 
had $5,000 invested in the floundering 
Hurricane. She couldn't get her money 
back, so in April of 1941 she turned over 
her interest to Dave as a fee. 

You can see now why the Hurricane has 
boomed. Theatrical-wise Dave, lover of a 
good time, knew who to hire for the Hurri- 
cane's shows. And Partner James Shean 
shines in handling the restaurant end. 
They're a good team. ^ ^ 



Army Administration OCS. In civilian life 
he had been nine years a newspaperman 
and two years a teacher, the Riclimond 
Jvjeuj.'i-Ledder said. His home address: 303 
North Thompson St., Richmond, Va. 

1925 

Emory S. Kates was re-elected to the 
New Jersey Legislature as Representative 
from the Camden district, having made a 
good record for himself in Republican ranks 
the last term. 

Wilton Brown, former Hope St. High 
School instructor, has graduated from an 
aerial navigation course at Miami Universi- 
ty, according to the Proridence Journal. 

Sam Metzger is active in New Jersey's 
1943 Red Cross War Fund as chairman of 
the southern area seeking to raise $250,000 
in Monmouth County. The Spring Lal{e 
Gazette published his picture and said: 
"Samuel P. Metzger, Jr., manager of the 
Insurance Department of the American 
Smelting and Refining Company of New 
York City. He has resided for 30 years in 
Asbury Park, where he has been active in 
civic affairs, having participated in YMCA 
drives and as captain in Red Cross Roll 
Call campaigns." 

Dick Conly continues as OPA Consultant 
for Bakery Price Control, according to an 
informant in Philadelphia, where he used 
to be an officer of the Parkway Baking Co. 
His Washington address: 2440 16th St., 
N. W. 

Apparently John Richmond received a 
Newport billet after his indoctrination at 
Harvard, for the Providence Journal's social 
column noted on Feb. 27: "Lt. (jg) John 
W. Richmond, USNR, and Mrs. Richmond 
have changed their residence from 9 Stim- 
son Ave., this city, to 48 Catherine St., 
Newport." 

George W. Husker, an Air Force 
Sergeant, is at a replacement control depot 
in England. Since he gave up his Newark 
apartment before enlisting, his permanent 
address is with a sister, Mrs. Daniel Miller, 
49 Englewood Ave., Waterbury, Conn. 

Richard H. Anthony, field representative 
of the Ma,?sachusetts Society of Social Hy- 
giene, was the guest speaker at a recent 
luncheon of the Greater Lawrence Council 
of Social Agencies, talking on "Wartime 
Social Hygiene Problems." During the 
New England conference on "Tomorrow's 
Children" at Harvard last summer, he gave 
a lecture on "Promiscuity and Vice in 
Wartime." 

Promoted to 1st Lt. this winter, Ruskin 
Schwartz has been in charge of the 40 
Worth St. (New York) office of the Phila- 
delphia QM Depot since it was opened two 
years ago. He served originally as a civilian, 
joining the QM Depot in Philadelphia 14 
years ago after further studies at the Phila- 
delphia Textile School. He has supervised 
many textile contracts for the Army, and 
the Hew Tor\ H^ws Record spoke appreci- 
atively of his service to the industry. Three 
years ago he opened a district office for the 
QM Depot in Pawtucket. 

1926 

"In a burst of adventure", Phil Bronstein 
came back to the campus the other day for 
the first time since graduation and had a 
fine time, although he missed seeing Prof. 
Arlan Coolidge, under whom he had played 
in the Brown Orchestra. Phil still keeps 
up his musical interests in Boston, playing 



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in the Shriner's Band, the Boston Civic 
Orchestra, and the Professional Men's 
Orchestra. He went to law school after 
Brown but is in the "OPA-directed" real 
estate business as manager of the Fenmore 
Apartments, 64 Charlesgate East, Back Bay. 

William A. Stephens, our star football 
centre and pioneer lacrosse player, is Ameri- 
can Red Cross Club Director at Salisbury 
Plain, England, one of the largest English 
cantonments in the First World War. Bill 
was previously reported as office manager of 
ARC in London. 

Larry McEIroy was re-elected as Assistant 
Treasurer of the Providence Journal Co. at 
the annual meeting early in February. 

W. Roland Harrall is now associated 
with the Providence office of G. H. Walker 
C? Co., New York investment house. He 
transferred with other members of the firm 
of Bodcll 6? Co., who continue at their 
former address, 3 2 Custom House St. 

Lt. Arthur E. Jensen, USNR, of the 
Dartmouth English Department has com- 
pleted his indoctrination course, said the 
Ddrtnioiitfi Alumni Magazine for February. 

Mrs. Fanny (Silver) Kapstcin, mother of 
Prof. L J. Kapsteiii of the Brown English 
Faculty, died Feb. 26. He has the sym- 
pathetic understanding of all his classmates. 



Nice Arabs M 

y From North Africa and Pfc. Bernard 
Oster "3 5 came a call for more socks — to 
barter, not to wear, the Proi'ideiice jnurnal 
reports. The reason: a pair of American 
.socks is worth one chicken to an Arab: a 
piece of plain white cloth brings several 
dollars: and an old Army shirt is practically 
priceless. 

Oster, a Providence man with an A.M. 
from Brown in 1940. is serving with an 
Army medical unit, after having taught sci- 
ence in the Bridgham St. Junior High 
School until drafted last March. 

"I have learned a hit of Arabian and 
have been able to make myself understood," 
he writes. "I have become very friendly 
with many of the Arabs, and they are glad 
to see me whenever I come. I often bring 
them things, for which they are quite grate- 
ful, — cigarettes, matches, candy, crackers 
with jam. gum, string, needle and thread, 
maybe a few nails. For soap they will give 
anything. 

"Every Arab I have met seems to be very 
nice. In the hills here I persuaded one of 
the Arabs to invite me to his hut. Ten peo- 
ple lived in one room. The little donkey 
had a separate room. They had no blankets 
and they slept on a mat on tables. One 
Arab had four wives the youngest 15, the 
oldest 40. He was 3 5. The women do all 
the hard work : Little girls carry goat skins 
lull of water on their backs, while the men 
and boys sit by and watch. Each family 
has a special tattoo. They are not educated, 
but they are intelligent. 

"This is the first New Year's Eve that I 
have gone to bed at 8 p. m. We have been 
going to sleep at 7 p. m. and getting up 
at 8 a. m. because blackouts must be kept. 
Now, however, we have set up a special 
recreation tent which is lighted inside. . . . 
There goes one of the Arabs, wearing my 
old towel on his head. " ^ 



Dreamer Perelman 

> Sid Perelman's new book, "The 
Dream Department," is on the 
stands, and all the reviewers seem to 
he very happy about it. It's a col- 
lection of sketches by this 1925 wit. 
"most of them parodies tinged at 
times with burlesque, which have ap- 
peared over the last few years in 
T/ie !NJeu' Tor/jer. 

That observing newspaperman, 
Stanley Walker of the 'hlew Tor\ 
Herald Tnhnne, said in his review: 
"Mr. P. is one of the craftiest, slyest, 
most accomplished writers of non- 
sense now practising." Regarding 
comparison of Perelman w th writers 
like Bcnchley, Leacock, Ford, Mr. 
Walker commented: "All unneces- 
sary. Mr. P. wears no man's collar. 
He is amusing in his own right: let 
the ethers do their stuff and he can 
be counted upon to do his." < 



1927 

John J. Roc, Jr., in a letter to your cor- 
respondent in early February, said he had 
just received a postcard from Lt. Richard 
E. Barnes. DC, USA, saying: "It may sur- 
prise you to get an answer to your letter 
Irom North Africa, but that's where I am. 
Will you notify the Alumni Monthly 
ol my change of address and tell my friends 
in the East that I'm a long way from home 
and would like to hear from them?" Jack 
aKso gave us the pleasing information that 
on Dec. 2, 1942, Dick married Mi.ss Elsctta 
Gilchrist, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph 
A. Gilchrist of Cleveland and "sister (I 
believe) of Joe Gilchrist, one of Dick's good 
friends and classmates at Univers'ty School. 
Cleveland." Dick's address is Lt. Richard E. 
Barnes. DC. 753 Ry Shop Bn. APO 70O, 
Care ol Postmaster. New York. 

Jack, still hard at it in the insurance and 
I'eal estate business as lohn J. Roe 6? Son, 
125 Ea,st Main St., "Patchogue, N. Y., 
added: "I continue to enjoy the Alumni 
Monthly. So many changes have taken 
place in the last I 5 years that at least one 
member of the Class of 1927 begins to feel 
like an 'old grad'." 

Work in seven countries in two years is 
Arthur B. Cleaves' record to date. His 
seventh country is Mexico: and he is at 
Cananca, State of Sonora, supervising 
foundation studies and excavations for ma- 
chinery and buildings at a new mine belong- 
ig to Cananea Consolidated Copper Co., 
subsidiary ol Anaconda. Cananea is 50 
miles south of Douglas, Ariz., Art says, so 
he is not too far from the United States in 
which he hopes some day to be able to 
settle down and stay close to his own fire- 
side. His American address is 21 Cottage 
St., South Orange, N. J. 

Pvt. Selig Greenberg, one-time reporter 
for the Providence Evening BuUetin, has 
been attending the military intelligence 
school of an infantry unit at Camp Breck- 
inridge, Ky., in addition to basic training as 
an infantryman, his former newspaper said 
last month. 

When the first draftee was inducted into 
the Navy in Providence, the newspapers 
pictured him as getting advice from two 
Navy Chief Petty Officers. One of them was 
Chief Boatswains Mate James E. Brennan, 
Jr., better known to Rhode Islanders in 



peacetime as announcer over radio Station 
WJAR. 

1928 

"A great bunch of boys," Head Coach 
Roy Randall wrote of his Haverford foot- 
hall team of 1942 before he left the Haver- 
ford campus to accept commission in the 
Marine Corps. The team went through the 
season without a defeat, as we reported in 
the December Alumni Monthly. "The 
season did not sneak upon us unexpected- 
ly," Roy added, "for we have lost but four 
games in the last three years. I must admit 
the 1942 season was a fine climax to what 
looks like the end of intercollegiate football, 
at least as we have known it, for the 
duration." 

E. T. Throop, Jr., has changed from pri- 
vate banking and investments to lumber for 
the duration — and maybe thereafter. 
Sounds odd, perhaps, but it's a fact, as he 
reports he is with Ichabod T. Williams (i 
Sons, importers and processors of foreign 
and domestic woods (mostly mahogany), 
and is a.ssistant manager of the Carteret, 
N. J., plant for the production of Army 
and Navy specification veneers and lumber. 
His New 'York office is at 220 Eleventh 
Avenue. 

Paul H. Hodge has been admitted into 
partnership in the Providence law firm of 
Sisson (Charles P. Sisson '11). Fletcher 
and Worrell. While Paul was in the Chapin 
Hospital recovering from spinal meninigitis 
recently, his wife and new-horn son were 
in another hospital. Paul had his first 
glimpse of the heir with the help of pho- 
tography. He's the chairman of the Execu- 
tive C{)mmittee of the Providence Brown 
Club. 

Roger M. Scott is Chief Engineer of the 
New England Butt Co., Providence manu- 
facturers of machinery. With his January 
bride, he is now living at 108 Charles Field 
St. Mrs. Scott is the former Charlotte A. 
Champlin. 

Corp. Clyde P. Mabie is in the head- 
quarters company of an infantry outfit at 
Camp Gruber, Okla. He had been an audi- 
tor and aluminum inspector since gradua- 
tion. Mrs. Mabie (the former Natalie Ruth 
May, whom he married last Hallowe'en) is 
living at 179 South Washington Ave., 
Bergcnhcid, N. J. 

Dr. Robert G. Murphy, an officer with 
an Army evacuation hospital unit, com- 
prised chiefly of Rhode Island physicians 
and nurses, is overseas with his unit, accord- 
ing to word he cabled home late last month. 

Among Brunonians on the African front 
is 1st Lt. J. L. Kostecki with the Army Medi- 
cal Corps. Mrs. Kostecki and six-months- 
old "Toni" are at 626 Leonard St., Brook- 
lyn. New York. 

Dr. Lewis T. Bennett was recently elected 
a Fellow of the American College of 
Surgeons. In addition to his own practice 
in Manchester, N. H., he is acting as exam- 
ining surgeon for the Army Induction 
Board for the State. His father. Dr. H. W. 
N. Bennett '97 is a Fellow of the American 
College of Physicians, and his ancestry 
boasts two Surgeons-General of the U. S. 
Army, the first being Dr. James Tilton. 
who was General Washington's divisional 
surgeon and later the country's first Sur- 
geon-General. Lewis did graduate work 
and teaching at Brown before taking his 
medical studies at Tufts. 

Harold K. Halpert is now conducting 
his business in imported and domestic 



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draperies, upholsteries and other fine fab- 
rics at the Mill End Shop, 639 Congress 
St., Portland, Me. 

H. \V. Bullard, in the Personnel Division 
of American Car Co.'s Industrial Relations 
Department, is now living at 157 Stewart 
Ave., Garden City, N. Y. 
1929 

Archie Smith, Assistant Attorney Gen- 
eral of Rhode Island, was the guest of 
friends and fellow members of the bar at a 
dinner in Providence in mid-February. 
"Honest, unassuming, and capable — the 
type of man I am proud to have on my 
staff," said his chief. Attorney General 
John H. Nolan '15. Other speakers praised 
him, too, and his hosts gave him a war bond 
and a traveling bag, as well as a bouquet for 
Mrs. Smith. 

J. Gerard Carton has the sympathy of 
the Class in the loss of his father, James D. 
Carton, Sr., who died at his home in Nep- 
tune City, N. J., late last month. Mr. Car- 
ton, leading attorney in Asbury Park tor 45 
years, had been U. S. Commissioner since 
1917, and was a former president of Mon- 
mouth County Bar Association. Another 
son is Robert V. Carton "30. Gerard and 
Bob and two other sons have been prac- 
tising law with their father in the firm of 
Durand, Ivins 6? Carton. 

Henry D. Wilson, Jr., former officer ol 
the Brown Engineering Association and 
active in the work of that unit of the Asso- 
ciated Alumni, has transferred from Bell 
Laboratories to Western Electric Co.'s 
Radio Division. He's living at 315 Lenox 
Ave., South Orange, N. J. 

John Regan is a lawyer in the Office of 
the Solicitor of the U. S. Department oi 



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Thomas L. Pierce, Chairman of the Board 

Rupert C. Thompson, Jr., President 

George P. Buell, Vice President and Cashier 

Wilham H. Swift, III. 

Vice President and Secretary 

Charles L. Eddy, Assistant Cashier 

Henry H. Eddy, Assistant Cashier 

Benjamin H. Cate, Assistant Cashier 

Charles M. Smith, III, Trust Officer 

Harry B. Freeman, Trust Officer 

B. H. Lillibridge. Assistant Trust Officer 

Directors 
William Gammell, Jr. John B. Lewis 
Moses J. Barber Charles C. Marshall 

Edward P. Jastram Richmond Viall 
A. Livingston Kelley Maxwell C. Huntoon 
Wilson G. Wing Charles E. Rigby 

Thomas L. Pierce William S. Allen 

William L. Sweet Robert J. Beede 

Frederick T. Moses RupertC.Thompson.Jr. 
Alfred Buckley 

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Agriculture in Philadelphia. His house 
address is 103 St. Laurence Road, Upper 
Darby, Penn. 

The Proi'idence }oury\a] last month spoke 
of Lt. Everett Eynon as "with the fighting 
combat overseas," whatever that means. He 
is "flag secretary to the admiral of his 
division." 

"Out of town now most of the time," 
is the comment of Edmund W. Perry, 
formerly active in the Philadelphia Brown 
Club. His home continues to be 2745 Over- 
brook Terrace, Ardmore, Penn. 

Myron Smith is back in Providence, at 
22 Savoy St., but expected to be in the 
Navy soon, according to Prof. Charles W. 
Brown. Prof. Brown also reported that 
Sam Larkin was at Quonset in flight opera- 
tions metereology. 

Here's the address of John Dierkes, over- 
seas helping to direct club operations for 
the American Red Cross: APO 887, 
Postmaster, N. Y. 

Al Cornsweet, in the post medical de- 
tachment at Parris Island with a commission 
as Naval Lieutenant, wrote Harold Halpert 
recently that he was doing work in "neuro- 
psychology and psychological psychiatry." 
He was looking forward to seeing Tuss 
McLaughry. 

1930 

The big news as we go to press is the be- 
lated announcement of the marriage of John 
M. Curtis, the erstwhile bachelor ot the 
Class of 1930, which took place on April 
24th in Washington, D. C. The lady of his 
choice was Myrtle Douglas of Natick, Mass. 
Jack left his work with the W.P.B. and is 
now associated with Scudder, Stevens, and 
Clark here in Boston. He lives at 69 Rip- 
ley Street, Newton Centre, Mass., which 
apartment, by the way, is owned by your 
secretary's wife, so it is all in the family! 

Alvah Bearse is now residing at 1 1 
Grover Lane, Caldwell, N. J. He left Gen- 
eral Electric in Lynn and is now connected 
with Curtiss Wright. 

The Red Cross drive usually brings to the 
fore familiar names and Dick Blake, one of 
the Economics trio of the Class of 1930, is 
chairman of the Commercial Division in 
the Providence area. 

Bob Wholey is now Lt. Wholey of the 
36th Engineer Regt. stationed at Camp 
Rucker, Alabama. He wrote in an interest- 
ing letter in acknowledgment of a note we 
sent him. He has been at Camp Rucker for 
two months, having gone there directly 
from the Engineering School at Ft. Belvoir, 
Va., where he completed his basic training 
and then went to Officers' School and re- 
ceived his commission. Bob writes that he 
is interested in seeing any Alumni 
Monthly magazines or Heralds that may 
come his way. He is handling all types of 
construction work, building bridges, roads, 
and buildings. "It keeps one in daily contact 
with work which will be done after the 
war," reports Bob. Before entering the 
Army, Bob spent ten months in the British 
Isles building air bases with the George A. 
Fuller and Merritt-Chapman-Scott Corp. 

The other day while having lunch at the 
Statler with my wife I saw a familiar figure 
and suddenly I remembered that John 
Mosby was in town. He gave me the news 
that his father had passed on and that he 
was now heir apparent and leader and di- 
rector of the Mosby Journal. After a few 
passes in the air, I found that he was busy 



traveling around the territory in order to 
pick up the ends where his father had left 
off. John looks well and active. He admits 
that, in view of his new responsibilities, he 
was not too disappointed when the Navy 
commission did not appear. Ott Kerner, 
the last he knew, was in the Army but he 
was not just sure where he was located. 

A long, newsy letter from Lou Demmler, 
1931, gave the information that Phil Ling- 
ham is with Westinghouse, out in Lima, 
Ohio, where he is in line for the Assistant 
Purchasing Agent job. 

Henry B. Riepe has been transferred 
from Philadelphia for work on military ex- 
plosives in the South. He's living at 300 
Oak St., Talledega, Ala. 

Richard H. Clarke, Jr., went to Quonset 
for AV-(P) training in December, com- 
missioned a Lt., USNR. Area representa- 
tive of Socony Vacuum Oil Company in 
East Greenwich, he had been active in 
that town's Council of Civilian Defense, 
serving as director of the planning and 
technical division. He's held a number of 
offices in the East Greenwich Lions. 

Ray B. Owen is the new Secretary of the 
Old Colony Co-operative Bank in Provi- 
dence . He has been Credit Manager of the 
bank and has served as President of the 
Rhode Island Credit Men's Association. 
His predecessor as Secretary was Ralph R. 
Crosby '26, who held that office in addition 
to being Vice-President. The latter will 
now devote full time to the duties of that 
position. The bank's President is Edward 
H. Weeks. 

I don't think we have previously noted 
Gilbert C. Rich's address at 55 Riddell St., 
Greenfield, Mass. 

Nicholas E. Janson, business agent at the 
R. I. State Hospital for Mental Diseases, 
has left for service as a 2nd Lt. in the 
Army's Medical Administrative Corps. The 
hospital staff and employes gave him par- 
ties and presents betore he left. He'd been 
connected with the State Hospital for 17 
years and is a graduate not only of Brown 
but also of the New England College of 
Hospital Administration. He is a member 
of the American Hospital Association, the 
New England Hospital Assembly, and the 
Hospital Association of R. I. 

Lt. David Freedman, MC, USA, is over- 
seas, and his medical colleagues in Provi- 
dence believe that he is in the Southwest 
Pacific. 

Hal Carver 
1931 

Tech. Sgt. John M. Moler, CAC, on duty 
at HQ, Ft. Tilden, N. Y., told us last month 
he had applied for appointment as a war- 
rant officer in the administration field. He 
was due for technical examination early 
this month. "If I succeed in demonstrating 
my knowledge and ability during the two- 
hour sweat before an expert administrative 



"Until He Learns It" 

► George A. Loomis '84 is in his 
50th year as Tov.'n Clerk of East 
Greenwich. A lung injury prevented 
him from realising his original ambi- 
tion of becoming a minister, but on 
his 80th birthday this winter he told 
the Wic\ford Standard that he likes 
the job of Town Clerk pretty well 
and intends "to stick it out until I 
learn it thoroughly." ^ 



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His Favorite Hymns 

> Larry Gardiner '14, who likes 
to sing hymns and is proud of it, 
told all about his favorite pastime in 
a January issue of the Hartford 
Times in which he appeared as guest 
columnist of the musical editor. "As 
for the finest of all the hymns in the 
book, it would be 'Abide With Me' 
if I were to be queried on that head 
by the Celestial Choirmaster. My 
second choice would be 'Jerusalem 
the Golden'," he said. "Maybe . . . 
those choices reflect a sunset mood, 
but unless my memory is playing me 
tricks, I loved them just as much 40- 
odd years ago." 

Larry also revealed that he was 
once a member of the Guild of For- 
mer Pipe Organ Pumpers, for which 
Archer Gibson, noted organist, 
.would play hymns, "in which some 
200 men would join lustily." i 



officer," he added, "and secure a good rat- 
ing from him, I'll be well on the way to 
appointment during the latter part of March 
or early April. Best to any of the boys still 
left in Providence, and say 'Hello' to the 
campus for me." 

Capt. Ralph D. Richardson, MC, USA, 
recently completed the Medical Officers 
Course of the Chemical Warfare Service 
at Edgcwood Arsenal, Md. 

Joseph M. Davis of the Pawtucket Board 
of Canvassers and Registration is on a com- 
mittee of fellow Rhode Island officials mak- 
ing a study of proposed Constitutional 
amendments extending the vote registra- 
tion deadline in the State from June 30 to 
Sept. 30 in election years and providing 
for permanent registration of voters. 

W. Ronald Gill and Lt. Oscar E. Skinner, 
Jr., USNR, arc affected by the transfer of 
the retail business of Bodell 6? Co., Inc., to 
the New York investment house of G. H. 
Walker & Co. The group of former Bodell 
associates, which also includes Howard W. 
Wilson '31, statistician, continue at 32 
Custom House St., Providence. 

Daniel Rhee of Carr Manufacturing 
Corp., Bristol, is a director of the Rhode 
Island Rubber Club, made up chiefly of 
executives of rubber manufacturing plants 
near Providence. 

Rev. Oscar W. Arell is the new superin- 
tendent of the Kallman Home for Children 
at 8TH Ridge Boulevard, Brooklyn, N. Y, 
In addition to special work at Brown, he 
has studied at Rochester Mechanical Insti- 
tute. Chicago Theological Seminary, and 
Clark University. 

Capt. Raymond S. Hall, the first "jump- 
ing parson" of the paratroop service, re- 
turned to Fitchburg, Mass., in January to 
speak at the annual meeting of his former 
parish, Christ Episcopal Church. John Hix's 
nationally indicated cartoon, "Strange as 
It Seems", pictured Ray's first jump. 

"A cartoon, curiously pertinent after all 
these years," appeared in the Providence 
Journal recently, submitted by Jerome S. 
Anderson, III. of the Stonington Mystic 
Mirror-Jour»ia! of Stonington, Conn. It 
had been saved in a collection from the First 
World War and showed a guard of eight 
police "bringing in a truckload of sugar 
for distribution in Providence and vicinity." 



Some '31 addresses David M. Cameron. 
Providence Journal; Anthony J. Russo, 675 
River Ave., Providence; Lee Franklin, 217 
South Alfred St., Alexandria, Va.; Charles 
E. Payne, 754 Bryant St., Woodmerc, Long 
Island, N. Y. 

1932 

Lt. Paul F. Mackesey, intelligence officer 
with a Bomb Group, was at Kearney, Neb., 
when he wrote late in February. 

Lt. (jg) George M. Mullervy D-V(P) 
is at Dartmouth for Naval indoctrination. 
When he left Providence, the local paper 
pointed out his high standing in the com- 
munity as a sports official, "a familiar figure 
for the past decade during which he has 
officiated schoolboy games in football and 
basketball throughout Southern New Eng- 
land." He was Vice-President of the R. I. 
Association of Football Officials and a Past 
President of the State's board of approved 
basketball officials. He has been a member 
of the faculty at Central Junior High School 
in East Providence, where he also coached 
basketball. 

The Rhode Island State Defense Council 
has appointed Paul Francis Gleeson to the 
post of executive secretary of the Consumer 
Division of Civilian War Services. 

Shearley O. Roberts, formerly of the 
Agricultural, Mechanics and Normal Col- 
lege at Pine Bluff, Ark., is now at Dunbar 
Junior College, Little Rock. 

Albert A. Harden, Jr., has moved from 
Providence to Moylan Ave.. Moylan, Pa. 
Another address: Ralph H. Estes, 396 
South Main St., Mansfield. Mass. 
1933 

C. Allen Fuller, Jr., is Representative 
from Dunbarton in the present New Haltip- 
shire Legislature. He's a farmer in Dun- 
barton, running his own farm and the farm 
of his father, Caleb A. Fuller '99. 

Courtney Langdon writes of his further 
teaching experiences at Derby Academy, 
Hingham, Mass. In addition, he is putting 
in about 10 hours a week at beach and 
water patrol, navigation study, and signal- 
ling — all as a Seaman, 1st CI., in the tem- 
porary Coast Guard Reserve. He was 
formerly "dog-watcher" at the Air Raid 
Control Centre, now taken over by the 
police, and continues as an air raid warden, 



blood donor, and rationing board aide. 
Miss Martha Langdon is now five months 
old. 

Maxwell G. Hoberman, with a rating of 
Master Sergt. in January, was then a new 
Officer Candidate, AAF, at Miami Beach, 
Fla. 

James E. Heap, Jr., President of the 
Philadelphia Brown Club, who runs the ad- 
vertisingfor Campbell Soup Co., Camden, 
N. J., is living at 332 Newbold Ave., 
Moorestown, N. J. 

Leonard S. Taber is at 14 Hillside Ave., 
Amesbury, Mass. 

William H. James of New Haven is in 
the AFF OCS at Miami, following service 
at Seymour Johnson Field as a Corporal in 
the AAFTTC. He'd previously graduated 
from the Aviation Mechanics' School. 

Lt. Donald L. DeNyse, MC, USA, is 
somewhere in England, according to the 
February issue of Providence Medical 
iNJeit's, which reported a letter from him 
saying that "all news from home is most 
welcome to us overseas." 
1934 

We'd lost track of Washington S. Steiger 
until his fine article appeared in the na- 
tional magay'ne of Sigma Nu fraternity to 
which we referred last month. We now 
learn he's with Headquarters Company III, 
Armed Corps, APO, Camp Polk, La. His 
home address is 120 High St., Montclair, 
New Jersey. 

Winslow A. Robbins is now associated 
with the firm of Warner, Stackpole, Stetson 
y Bradlee at 84 State St., Boston. 

W. Stanley Pratt and H. Campbell 
Eatough are both clergymen, the former at 
173 5 Congress St., Portland, Me., the lat- 
ter at 18 Beach St., Westerly. Other 
addresses: Philip B. Thoresen, 12 East 
George St., Providence; Irving S. Pascal, 
783 Shady Drive East, Mount Lebanon, 
Pa., Oscar P. Hammer, 33 Duer Place, 
Weehawken, N. J. 

Roy Smith had a legitimate point to 
make when he wrote us the other day. He 
is not "attached to" the parachute troops 
but "part of" them. "At present," he notes, 
"I command the above company (which 
we won't identify other than to say it''s 
with an airborne division addressed at Ft. 



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Brown Alumni Monthly 

Published dt Brown University by the 
Associated Alumni 



CHESLEY WORTHINGTON '23 

Managing Editor 

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Business Manager 

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Vol. XLIII 



MARCH. 1Q4.? 



No. 7 



Bragg). When I jump, it jumps. I'm a 
Parachute Infantry Officer in a cimihat regi- 
ment. As such I'm disgustingly healthy 
and arrogant. Occasionally in my moves 
around the country I meet Brown alumni 
in uniform. Our usual prompt reunions 
may he small, hut always virile. Would 
appreciate your saying hello to my friends 
through your pages." 

1935 

Donald V. Reed has the Class's sympathy 
in the loss of his father, Frank L. Reed, 
who died at the Reed home in Yonkers, 
N. Y., Jan. 31. Mr. Reed, Sr., was Vice- 
President and General Manager of Grosset 
y Dunlap, Inc., hook publishers in New 
York. Under his leadership, the TvJfU' "York, 
Herald Tnbunf said, the company "greatly 
expanded its lists of juvenile books and 
popular fiction." 

Jay S. Baumann has graduated as a 2nd 
Lt. from the AAF Statistical School at 
Harvard Business School. Previously he 
had completed a difficult course in admin- 
istration and military science at Miami 
Beach, where he was selected for further 
training on the basis of "marked ability." 

Dr. Robert R. Williams is involved in 
what must be not only vital but interesting 
as a research project, a study of plasma 
substitutes. Wonderful things have been 
achieved with plasma in this war, but sci- 
ence is not content. Williams is working 
in the Department of Physiology at the 
University of Minnesota Medical School, 
where he has held the Anderson Fellowship 
in Physiology. He and Mrs. Wiliams (he 
married Dorothy H. Fleming last October) 
are living at 813 University Ave., S. E., 
Minneapolis. After getting his M.D. from 
Columbia, Dr. Williams was Assistant 
Resident Physician at the Cincinnati Gen- 
eral Hospital before going to Minnesota. 

John A. Jost is Heat Exchanger Engineer 
with the Foster Wheeler Corp. of Cataret, 
N. J. (marine boilers, refineries, power 
plants). He's living in Rahway, from which 
he came to Brown, at 752 Picrpont St. The 
lady of the house is the former Barbara L. 
Gates, whom he married in November. 
Before going to Foster Wheeler, Jack had 
been with Underwood, Elliott Fisher Type- 
writer Co., in Hartford, and Griscom- 
Russell Co. in New York. 

Ensign John S. Cuthbert has been sta- 
tioned in Florida. He identifies Elisabeth 
Jane Cuthbert, born Oct. 4, 1942, as "Pem- 
broke 1964." 

1936 

Frederick F. Adams, Jr., lately with 
George Ehlenhcrgcr Co., of New York, 



went into the Army Jan. 18 and has been 
assigned to Camp Swift, Texas, for his basic. 

Robert L. Pierson is director of member- 
ship in the National Association of Cost 
Accountants and Bridgeport, Conn., mana- 
ger of International Business Machines 
Corporation, with which he has been asso- 
ciated since he left Brown. Demands of 
taxation and war accounting have resulted 
in a large increase in NACA membership. 

John Howard Young, lately of the Class- 
ics Department of Johns Hopkins, is re- 
ported to be working at headquarters of 
Greek Relief in New York City. John and 
his wife, archaeologists affiliated with the 
American Academy in Athens, saw the war 
come to the Balkans and know what they 
arc up against. 

2nd Lt. Karl E. Righter, SC, AUS, has 
been at the Harvard Radio Engineering 
School, quartered in Austin Hall. Previous 
to entering the Army he had been an engi- 
neering designer for the Buffalo Niagara 
Electric Corporation. He married Sylvia 
Daehn Munt: Aug. It last, while he was 
at Fort Monmouth. 

Pfc. Max Swartz, member of an Air Base 
Unit at Westover Field Air Base, last 
month was reported to have gone to Wood- 
bury College, Los Angeles, for an eight- 
weeks course in Clerical Supply work. 
Prior to his entry into the service last 
August, he had been manager of the Taun- 
ton, Mass., office of the Federal Food Stamp 
program. He got his basic training at Fort 
Bragg and had been at Westover since 
December 17. 

Dr. 1. J. Votta IS in the X-ray Department 
of the Boston City Hospital. 

Harry Moses has been at the weather 
bureau station at the Chicago Municipal 
Airport. 

Addresses: Robert E. Pickup, 77 Lloyd 
Ave., Providence: John D. Glover, 3 2 Avon 
St., Cambridge, Mass.: J. Donald Jumper, 
formerly of Upper Montclair, now at 400 
Fairview Ave., Paramus, N. J.; W. H. Ben- 
ton, Jr., 1018 West Fourth St., Marion, 
Indiana. 

Gordon E. Cadwgan, formerly of Bodcll 
y Co., has become associated with the 
Providence office of G. H. Walker 6? Co., 
New York investment house. 

Lt. (jg) M. P. Margolies, MC, USNR, 
assigned to an East Coast torpedo testing 
range, found the BOQ unfinished when he 
arrived. And .so he had to live on a barge, 
three miles from shore, and had to take 
"a pleasant 20-minute boat ride to the 
dock." The work among the men and their 
families he describes as extremely inter- 
esting, "similar to the type of old country 
medical practice that has been dramatized 
in many novels." He had previously been 
attached to the Medical Office of the 
Potomac River Naval Command. 

1937 

Thurlow Bearsc of Hyannis, a Lt. (sg), 
is with the Navy's commandos, according 
to the way the news reached us. 

Lt. (jg) Albion Edgell, USNR, is a bat- 
talion commander in recruit training at the 
Sampson NTS. He was married Oct. 30, 
last, to Helena Elizabeth Robinson. 

Oliver Wolcott Hayes is with MTB 
Squadron N. 9, Postmaster, New York. He 
had been with the Washington Law Firm 
of Cushman, Darley c^ Cushman (William 
M. Cushman '23) before joining the Navy. 
Mrs. Hayes (until Dec. 4 she was Nancy 



Joy Bernard) is at The Highlands, Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

"One of the comebacks of the new year", 
was the way one newspaper described Alan 
Swartz's feat in winning the Boston A.A.U. 
high jump this winter at 6 ft. 2'/2 inches 
and just shaving the bar an inch higher. 
A Boston hotel manager, he had been out 
of competition for five years, which made 
his victory all the greater an achievement. 
Alan is manager of the Avery Hotel at 24 
Avery St., Boston; runs the Avery Tavern, 
Inc., at number 9: and has just opened 
the Avery Studios, 29 Scollay Sq. To reach 
him by phone, try the one listed for his 
wife, Molic Swartz, 57 Babcock St. 

George A. Mellor is promotion manager 
for the Elmira Star-Gazette, Inc., at Elmira, 
N. Y. 

Addresses: John B. Wathey, from North 
Providence to 12 Richland Road, Cranston; 
Clifford W. McGuire, 60 Curtiss St., Hart- 
ford, Conn.; Gordon F. Todd. 265 High 
St., Valley Falls, R. I.; Palmer App, 2214 
Maple Ave., Evanston, 111. 

We were sorry to read that Tom Wat- 
son's son, Thomas J. Watson, 3rd, died 
Feb. 19 at the age of two months. Capt. 
Watson flew to New York from Washing- 
ton on being told of the death. The sym- 
pathy of his classmates goes Capt. and Mrs, 
Watson. 

Evan McC. Crossley, who has served the 
University and the Brown Club of Northern 
New Jersey well as secretary of the club, 
has moved out of its territory. Roland D. 
Beck "20, his successor, sends us Evan's new 
address as 116 West Washington St., 
Hagerstown, Md. 

1938 

Chick Gaffney, Executive Director of the 
San Pedro Boy's Club, is "doing a wonder- 
ful job" out in California, according to his 
old roommate Jim Gurll, who visited Mr. 
and Mrs. Gaffney and Charlene in January 
before going to the Southwest Pacific. 
"Chick has spread a good word for Brown 
out here and is very well liked by all," Jim 
wrote. "The Boys" Clubs of America rate 
him high in their list of directors." 

Reevan Novograd started last month on 
;t new job as a civilian employee of the 
War Department in the Office of the Ad- 
jutant General. He is Assistant Personnel 
Technician in the Classification and En- 
listed Replacement Branch, Personnel Re- 
search Section. He had previously been 
doing similar work as Assistant Personnel 
Officer in charge of all the personnel trans- 
actions for food-rating divisions of OPA. 
Although inducted for military service re- 
cently, he was turned down because of 
some surgery. 

Russell R. Jauernig will receive his M.D. 
degree from the N.Y.U. College of Medi- 
cine this month. His home address is Living- 
ston Manor, Sullivan County, New York. 

Douglas W. Allan has been appointed 
a teaching assistant in the Department of 
History of the LIniversity of California, 
where he is studying for a Doctor's degree 
in that field. Douglas Whitten Allan, Jr., 
horn in Berkeley, will be a year old next 
month. 

Howard H. King was assigned to Camp 
Lee OCS last month, tabbed for the QM 
C(.)rps. This is along the line of his experi- 
ence, for his work has been transportation 
and traffic since leaving Brown and Penn 
graduate school. His previous military 
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Field taking courses in Link Trainer In- 
struction and then Celestial Navigation 
Trainer Instruction. 

Michael J. Zifcak has been promoted to 
1st Lt. in the QM Corps, serving as adju- 
tant at headquarters of a battalion in Camp 
Lee's QM Replacement Training Centre. 
Commissioned originally in 1941, he ar- 
rived at Camp Lee nearly a year ago after 
previous assignment to Devens, Boston 
Army Base and Fort Ord. Mrs. Zifcak (the 
former Mary Davagian of Sutton, Mass.) 
and he are making their home temporarily 
in nearby Petersburg, Va. Before entering 
the Army, Lt. Zifcak was assistant to the 
textile designer of the Hayward-Schuster 
Woolen Company, East Douglas, Mass. 

J. Francis Cahalan, Jr., sends this ad- 
dress: 1074 Phoenix Ave., Schenectady, 
N. Y. 

1939 

We understand why this classmate of 
John H. Rowe wants to be anonymous. 
Reading about Rowe's excavations 11,5U0 
feet high in the Peruvian Andes, he sent 
us this postcard comment: "Why does 
John make it so hard for himself? Why not 
start digging at sea-level? — there wouldn't 
be so far to go." 

Three members of the class appeared 
in recent Providence journal news photos. 
A/C George H. Truman of the Navy's 
WTS at R. I. State College ("The irony of 
it," writes George) was shown tapping out 
Morse code for three fellow cadets. Rev. 
David E. Evans, rector of St. John's Church, 
Ashton, led his parish in the celebration 
of Its 75th anniversary last month. Lt. (jg) 
and Mrs. Hollier G. Tomlin were shown 
as proud parents at the baptism of their 
baby son, Paul Hollier Tomlin, by his 
grandfather, Rev. Earl H. Tomlin of the 
Calvary Baptist Church. 

Wilfrid C. Broadbent, commissioned 2nd 
Lt. after completing the AGO training 
school course at Fort Washington, was as- 
signed to duty as classification officer at the 
AAC Replacement Field at Santa Ana. 
Before enlistment in April, 1941, he'd been 
with Life and Time in New York. 

Although recently promoted to company 
commander ot a rifle company, Frank Mc- 
Evoy has not yet been in grade long enough 
for a captaincy. He'll be eligible ("if I do 
the job!" he writes) sometime in April. 
Writing from Camp Shelby, he says he 
hears regularly from Andy Comstock '10 
("an excellent correspondent"). Roger 
Francis tells Frank he may be in the Army 
soon. 

Cress Given has been "climbing up the 
ladder" since we last heard of him as a buck 
private at Camp Pickett, where he received 
his basic training in the Medical Depart- 
ment. Promoted to Corporal in September, 
he remained at Pickett as part of the cadre 
until Dec. . On Dec. 7, 1942, (the remi- 
niscent ring of that date!) he was trans- 
ferred to OCS at Carlisle Barracks, Pa. It's 
a three-months course leading to 2nd Lt., 
MAC. 

Arthur R. Musschoot, with a CAC bat- 
tery near New York, was married Jan. 6, 
1943, to Isabel Whitford Adams. Before 
joining up, he was an insurance investigator 
and adjuster with the American Mutual 
Liability Insurance Co. of Boston. 

Rev. Robert L. Seekins, Jr., was advanced 
to the Episcopal priesthood Jan. 16, when 
he was presented for ordination by Rt. Rev. 
James DeWolf Perry, D.D., Bishop of 



Teaching the Other Sex 

y TuRNABOLT IS fair play, remarks 
the New Orleans Times-Picayune- 
States, apropos of the appointment 
of Mrs. Samuel M. Strong as the first 
woman to teach in the department 
of political sciences at Tulane. She 
will be teaching boys in the College 
of Arts and Sciences, while Dr. 
Samuel M. Strong "38, visiting As- 
sistant Professor of sociology at New- 
comb College is teaching girls. 

The Louisiana newspaper pictured 
the Strongs in their library. Born in 
London, Dr. Strong studied at the 
University of Bucharest before he 
came to America in 1927. Before 
going to Newcomb last September, 
he had been lecturer in sociology at 
the University of Minnesota, assist- 
ant at the University of Chicago, and 
instructor at Howard University, i 



Rhode Island. The scene was 100-year-old 
St. Peter's Church, Manton, where Seekins 
has been deacon-in-charge since last June. 
He took his divinity studies at Episcopal 
Theological School in Cambridge and had 
served for more than a year at St. Andrew's 
Church, Brockton. 

Frank L. Miler, Jr., moved to the Am- 
herst Apts., 8 State St., Schenectady, N. Y., 
last fall. 

When John J. Harrington wrote in 
January, he was awaiting appointment to 
OCS. He was then with a bombardment 
group at Columbia Air Base, S. C, His 
permanent address: 131 Warren St., Fall 
River. 

1940 

Al Boudreau's picture in a flying suit ap- 
peared in mid-January in the Providence 
Bulletiii with the caption: "Alfred H. O. 
Boudreau, Jr., son of Alfred H. O. Boud- 
reau of Cranston, has been transferred to 
the Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Fla., 
after completing primary flight training at 
Lambert Field, Mo." 

John B. Crosman, Lt., USAAC, is with 
the Accelerated Service Test Branch at Pat- 
terson Field. Leila Hutchinson Crosman, 
whom he married at Miami Beach in Jan- 
uary, is there with him. 

Ensign Glen L Gould has been through 
the mill at NRAB, Brooklyn: Jacksonville, 
Fla.; and then at the Miami NAS for ad- 
vanced aircraft carrier flight training, which 
he completed early in the winter. 

Bob Clifford wastes no time these days. 



After four months at Mather Field, Cal., as 
instructor in navigation, he was assigned 
to San Marcus, Tex. With a little leave, 
he flew home to Providence, arriving on a 
Saturday. Sunday he and Janet Fine, Pem- 
broke '42, decided to get married. The 
ceremony was on Wednesday, and they left 
driving to Texas on their honeymoon, with 
four days left to make the 2100-mile trip. 
He persuaded George Teehan, his former 
roommate, to come up to be best man. 
George is a Lieutenant (jg) stationed in 
Connecticut. 

Josiah H. Crooker, field engineer with 
Wright Aeronautical Corp., is living at 
917 River Road, Teaneck, N. J. He and 
Jane E. Jennings have been married four 
months. 

2nd Lt. Ben Bradford is assistant public 
relations officer at Camp Davis. 

Robert I. Logan has his Ensign's com- 
mission, following completion of his year at 
Harvard Business School in January. Pre- 
viously he has spent three semesters at the 
Harvard Law School. Jane O. Altman has 
been Mrs. Logan since Dec. 20. 

Gene Verdery, Navy flier, having fin- 
ished his work at Pensacola, is now back in 
the North . 

Gordon E. Poole, 70 Park Ave., Bloom- 
field, N. J., is awaiting call into the Naval 
Reserve. 

Bob Stanley, working for the New Haven 
railroad in Providence, was a caller in the 
Alumni Office early in March. 

1st. Lt. Henry L. Wilder, Jr., was grad- 
uated from the Battery Officers School at 
Fort Sill Feb. 10 and returned to Camp 
Shelby. First however, he married Lt. Mar- 
garet Eloise Davidson, ANC, of Boonville, 
Ind., at the Base Chapel, MacDill Field, 
Tampa. 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Mignone are 
living at 926 Spaight St., Madison, Wis., 
where he is instructing at the Radio Me- 
chanics School. 

Reporting that he went into the Army as 
a Private and worked up to 2nd Lt , QMC, 
AUS, Walt Gummere, Jr., remarks "I had 
plenty ot company doing it." He adds a 
compliment to the editor of 1940 Class 
news, for which we thank him. He's at 
Camp Lee. 

Joseph J. Parnicky finds his new Army 
assignment engrossing. Having finished 
basic, he's doing work in what he calls his 
own field: assisting soldiers who are mak- 
ing poor adjustments. He's a private in the 
Personnel Division of the Signal Corps at 
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William E, Kelly has resigned as a mem- 
ber of the Kilhngly High School Faculty 
and is now teaching at Norwich Free 
Academy. He went to Danielson, the Kil- 
lingly center, only in November from 
Bacon Academy, Colchester. "During his 
short stay here he has become very popular 
with both students and townspeople," said 
the Windham County Transcript. He had 
also done some coaching at Killingly and 
played on the Danielson A. C. and St. 
Joseph's basketball teams. 

Lt. (jg) William Denise Baird has moved 
from Chevy Chase to Apt. 101, 126 3 5th 
St., SE, Washington, D. C. 

Addresses received: Francis X. ReiUy, 
Jr., P. O. Box 1059, Worcester, Mass. 
LeRoy A. Amylon, 379 Hunt St., Central 
Falls. 

Ens. John B. DeLuca, USCG, is assigned 
to the First Naval District, Boston, having 
left sales promotion work with the Atlantic 
Refining Co. He married Barbara C. Por- 
ter, Pembroke "40, Feb. 6. 

Henry H. Smith, first of three brothers 
to come to Brown, is a feature writer on the 
"Waterhury Simday Republican, following 
repertorial work on the daily. He and his 
wife, the former Janet Y. Mix, Pembroke 
"39, are living at 18 Central Ave., Water- 
bury. "I expect to go into military service 
before long,"" he writes. 

Harry Piatt, who holds most of Brown"s 
basketball scoring records, worked out with 
the 1943 Varsity a few times last month. 
He has been playing in a Worcester league 
and keeping in shape while waiting for the 
Marines to call him. 

"Vic is somewhere in South America,"" 
writes the father of Lt. (jg) Victor B. 
Schwartz, Victor A. Schwartz "07, of 
Jacobs Hill, Seekonk, Mass. 

"Changes are definitely coming fast,"" 
says George P. Sawyer. "On Dec. 211 was 
transferred to the Philadelphia Office of 
Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., where I am 
still in the Claims Department."" The four 
Sawyers had"nt found a place to live there 
yet, and it was still 2412 Poplar Drive, 
Baltimore, Md. 

1941 

Lt. Joshua Rothstein has been a member 
of the Ferry Command since October, flying 
our planes to all parts of the world. Since 
graduation he had been with the Lamport 
Co., Inc., of New York (his uncle was 



that loyal Brown man, Samuel C. Lamport 
"06, an important figure in the textile 
world). He enlisted in the Army Air 
Forces a year ago this month. His home 
address continues to be 91 Central Park 
West, New York. 

Writes Pvt. Allan Nanes: "I'm out at 
Fort Logan, Colo., where on Feb. 27 I be- 
gan an eight-weeks" course designed to 
make an engineering and operations clerk 
in the Air Corps out of me. I've been pre- 
ceded here by Dave Kaplan and Dick Bax- 
ter, both "42. The latter is still here, I be- 
lieve in the capacity of instructor, though 
Fm by no means sure."" Allan is eager to 
keep up with doings on the Hill and news 
of Brown men in service, and he sends 
"regards to all of "41, in and out of the 
service." 

2nd Lt. Forrest H. Edson, CAC, is with 
an anti-aircraft regiment overseas (in Eng- 
land, when he wrote early in the winter, 
although military security prevented him 
from disclosing all of the places he had 
been). He inquired particularly about his 
old roommate, 2nd Lt. Harold A. Stege of 
the Marines, who is in the Pacific war zone. 
He wrote appreciatively of all the news he 
had received from the Hill. 

A/C Charles T. Naylor is attending the 
Pre-Flight School (navigator) at Monroe, 
Louisiana. 

When Morley Hitchcock wrote, he was 
awaiting call by the USAAC Reserve. In 
the meantime he was working in the shop 
for Reliance Electric and Engineering Co. 
and living at 3145 Fairmount Blvd., Cleve- 
land Heights, O. 

Herb Buttrick has left the Virginia Epis- 
copal School at Lynchburg to teach at 
Groton School in Massachusetts. 

Bob Tourigney is a student at the Theo- 
logical School, University of the South, 
Sewanee, Tenn. 

Ensign George F. Gibbons, Jr.. hasn't 
been swimming since the day after Christ- 
mas, when he went surf-bathing in the Gulf. 
After indoctrination in Boston and sub- 
chaser work in the South, he came home 
for a brief holiday in Providence before 
heading toward Florida and further school- 
ing in a new assignment. After the war, 
he hopes to complete his law work at 
Georgetown and return to the F.B.I. 

Sgt. Harry Smith had been with Tommy 
Lohr in a bombing squadron in England 



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but, as far as we know, did not share 
Tommy's fate in being made a prisoner by 
the Germans in Africa. 

Leon Tracy is a 2nd Lt. with the para- 
chute infantry at Fort Benning, having 
worked his way up trom Private. He'd been 
with Aetna in the insurance field in Hart- 
ford before joining up in 1941. 

Dick Hubley's wife, reporting a new 
address (373 Charlton Ave., South Orange, 
N. J.), says he has been studying to be a 
bombardier in Texas. 

Charles E. Ailing, in the Army ERC, 
was awaiting orders to report to active duty 
when he wrote late in January. He was 
assistant maintenance engineer with the 
BuUard Co. of Bridgeport, living at the 
interesting address of Sol's Path, North- 
ford, Conn., with his bride of three months, 
the former Anne Booth Gilbert. 

When Walter F. Jussczyk was sworn into 
the Naval Reserve as an Ensign in the 
Medical Corps in January, the officer who 
administered the oath was his former fel- 
low-townsman in West Warwick and for- 
mer Governor of Rhode Island, Lt. Comdr. 
Robert E. Quinn '15, USNR. Slitz was to 
finish his studies at Tufts Dental before re- 
porting for active duty. 

Ensign Channing H. Cox, A-V(N) at 
the NAS, Jacksonville, is still getting his 
mail in care of 20 Medway St., Providence. 

Ensign George W. Fisher went to the 
Pensacola NAS after marrying Paula 
Sawyer Dec. 5. He's instructing there. 
Before going into the service he"d been in 
the shipping department of Keuftel and 
Esser, New York, living at 21 Hamilton 
Terrace, Weehawken, N. J. 

Theodore A. Kagels, Jr. was enrolled 
last month at the Army"s Pre-Flight School 
for pilots at Maxwell Field. He"d been in 
the Air Corps three months when accepted 
as an Aviation Cadet. After graduation 
from Brown he was a claim adjuster for 
Aetna. 

John E. Liebmann, who married Ellen 
Tiefenthal Jan 7, is a 2nd Lt., AUS, get- 
ting mail at 1201 Gove Blvd., Lawton, 
Okla., last month or at his New York 
address, 1155 Park Ave. 

Roland E. Hopps, Jr., is a supervisor in 
the technical department of duPont, mak- 
ing explosives in Alabama. He has been a 
produciton trainee, chemist and supervis- 
ing chemist with E. I. duPont de Nemours 
6? Co., Inc., since graduation. He has been 
married since New Year"s Eve., to Phyllis 
Kraft. 

"Brown certainly has a fine spy system,"' 
writes Lt. Jerry Sokol. "Yes, I did get 
married, and thanks for your congratula- 
tions." His bride was Marion Elizabeth 
Sandy, the date, Jan. 24. He'd been a Bake- 
lite laboratory technician before joining the 
Army Signal Corps, whose Officer's School 
he is now attending. His address: 600 
Munroe Ave., Asbury Park, N. J. "I intend 
to see dear old Brown before I go aCross 
for the intended push this summer." 

Johnny Mars has been in the Army since 
November and is in Hot Springs, Ark., at- 
tending the Medical Technical School. "I 
sure would like to get back to good old 
Brown," he wrote. 

Three members of the Class received 
their A.M. degree from Brown at the 
February Commencement: David Rodney 
Ebbitt, in English; Allen Richmond Fer- 



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jjusdii. in Economics; .incl Andrew Joseph 
Sahol, in English. 

1942 

"My branch is very active, and my flotilla 
is the crack outfit." writes Ensign John 
Sapinsley, engineering officer in charge of 
six 105-foot tank-landing barges at an am- 
phibious training base. 

Ensign Gordon William Niemitz under- 
scored his home address (19402 109 Ave., 
Hollis, N. Y.) because he expected his serv- 
ice address to change March 1. He married 
Betty M. Olson Christmas Eve. 

En.sign William R. Potter built up a 
team of Class Agents for the Alumni Fund 
before reporting to his ship last month. 
The Class will be getting his letter outlin- 
ing his hopes m 1942"s first participation in 
this important program. 

NAC Robert Rogerson should be getting 
his wings as Ensign this month alter ad- 
vanced flight training at Pensacola and 
primary work at Squantum. The same ap- 
plies to NAC Eldridge H. Henning, Jr.. 
who also had completed the CAA primary 
training course while at Brown. 

Ward Sheffe. at the Brown Engineering 
As.Hiciation dinner in New York last month, 
expected to be in uniform in a few days as 
En.sign, USNR. at the M. I. T. NTS in 
Cambridge. His specialty will be airplane 
engines, following a year as test engineer 
trainee for Wright Aeronautic. 

Dick High, who got his commission in 
the Coast Guard at Christmas after training 
at New London, is getting his mail at 94 
San Marco Ave., St. Augustine, Fla. Of 
Dick"s class of nearly 300, only 160 quali- 
fied tor commissions, and Dick was Number 
Two man. 



Daniel H. Noonan is a 2nd Lt., MAC, 
getting mail with Mrs. Noonan (Adrienne 
H. Bramley, whom he married Jan. 25) at 
508 Birch Ave., Westfield, N. J. 

William P. Tukey completed his pilot 
training at Jacksonville NAS and has his 
commission as Ensign. 

1st. Lt. Harvey M. Spear has completed 
a special course of instruction at the Camp 
Murphy Signal Corps School. 

Mrs. Howard M. Arnold, Jr., writes that 
Howard is a Corporal in the Signal Corps 
at ^X'arrenton, Va. 

New home address for Bill Crooker, 
whose service whereabouts we don't know, 
is 170 Nehoiden Road, Waban, Mass. Two 
other addresses: James C. Hadfield, Jr., 
c/o R. A. Howe, 936 Atwood Ave., John- 
ston, R. I. Alexander L. Logan, 562 Power 
Road, Pawtucket, R. L 

"Brothers in Arms" was the caption in 
the New York J^ews Record over pictures 
ol Lt. Alan K. Keay of the Marines and 
Ensign John Keay of the Navy, further 
identified as "sons of Alan Keay, secretary 
of the Kent Manufacturing Co. and great- 
grandsons of the founder." 

Sgt. William A. Spicer, 3rd, son of Wil- 
liam A. Spicer '05, wrote his parents re- 
cently that he has arrived in North Africa 
in a military police detachment which ap- 
parently knows the French language. 
Drafted before graduation, he was sent to 
Scotland where a selected group brushed 
up on their French. He had attended 
school in Grenoble. 

Frederick C. Allgcier has received his 
basic training in the QM Corps at Camp 
Lee and is now in Officers' Training School 
in the anti-aircraft branch of the Coast 
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Pembroke Chronicle < < 

BY GERTRUDE ALLEN McCONNELL, Alumnae Secretary 



CLASS NOTES 

► ► 1S97 — Florence Case is spending 
part of the winter in Mexico. 

1902 — Ada Rogers Case's son, Lt. Roger 
Case, Brown '27, is in the Finance Depart- 
ment of the Army, stationed in Boston. 

1911 — Stella Gerber Hall's son Alanson. 
Brown '42, is a Naval Aviation Cadet at 
Pensacola. Robert, R. L State '41, is with 
the Quartermaster Corps in Seattle. 

1912 — Clarice Ryther Kaufman has a 
position in the Library of Congress. 

1914 — Sybil Kemp Cummings" son, 
George O., Jr., is a medical student at 
the Univers ty of Pennsylvania, where he 
is in the ROTC. He has a young son, 
George O., III. Willis is a Freshman at 
Bowdoin and Jane is a graduate of the Bos- 
ton University School of Music. 

1920 — Alice Tattrie Fletcher has moved 
to Charlottesville, Va. for the duration. 
Her husband is with the Army in Africa. 
Alice, with her three daughters and small 
son, is living in a charming house at 2016 
Minor Road, near the University of 
Virginia. 

1923 — Elizabeth Ewart is a draftsman 
for the Narragansett Machine Co. in Paw- 
tucket. She also completed the optical 
course at Brown. 



1924 — Esther A. Haskard is on leave of 
absence from her ministerial duties in Maine 
and is taking a semester of study at the 
Boston L'niversity School of Theology. She 
is at Temple Hall, 3 5 Temple St. 

1928 — Harriet Silver, after three years 
as organist of the First Congregational 
Church in Burlington, Vermont, has gone 
to the West End Baptist Church in Suffolk, 
Va,, where she is organist, choir director, 
and young people's educational director. 
Suffolk is a defense area and the peanut 



center ol the world. The churches are boom- 
ing, and Harriet, who trained for church 
work at Oberlin College, feels that she has 
a real opportunity. She is living at WlYz 
•St. James Ave. 

193 3 — Florence Campbell is an Ensign 
m the WAVES. 

193 3 — Lt. Johanna C. Magyar is an in- 
structor of Officer Candidates at Fort Des 
Moines, Iowa. 

1934 — Mildred E. O'Neal is teaching in 
the Sarah Fuller Foundation, instructing 
pre school deaf children in lip-reading in 
their homes. This is a service given to 
children throughout the Greater Boston 
area. 

193 5 -Martha Hamhlin Myer's husband 
is a Lieutenant in the Medical Corps of the 
Navy. She and the children have moved 
Irom Maine to 34 Highland Ave., Glen 
Ridge, N. J. for the duration. 

193 5— Lt. Mildred G. Peirce, ANC, has 
gone overseas with the 48th Evacuation 
Hospital. 

193 5 — Miriam Snow Rideout is secretary 
to the Dean at Wells College, Aurora, N. Y. 
and IS very happy in her work. Her husband 
is a member of the Faculty. 

1936 — Ruth Banta and Kathrene Max- 
well '37 are with Gibbs 6? Cox, shipbuilders 
in New York. 

1937 — Sigrid H. Carlson is working for 
the Dept of Social Service, State Sanatori- 
um. Wallum Lake, R. I. 

1937 — Ruth V. Person runs the Merry- 
Go-Round, a most attractive gift shop at 
242 Thayer St., near Angell St. 

1937 — Sara Gushing Westcott's husband 
is a Naval officer in the South Pacific and 
she has taken a position in the Tax Assess- 
ors Office, Daytona Beach, Fla. 

1938 — Leah Dooley is a magnetic in- 
spector in Ypsilanti, Michigan and works 
in Magnaflux. In a letter to one of the 
alumnae she wrote: "It is a fairly new 
field and oije in which women never worked 
until about six months ago. I find it very 
interesting. We have to go to school here 
at the Ford Trade School, and then take an 
examination from the U. S. Air Corps. So 
now I am a licensed government operator. 
It is a little difficult to describe on paper, but 
I'll try to give you an idea of it. We run 
mostly nuts and bolts — give them a 
magnetic shot to bring to the surface inner 
cracks and flaws which couldn't be dis- 
covered otherwise without breaking the 
bolt. No piece can go on the plane unless 
it has been magnafluxed first, particularly 
any piece which has a strain on it. . . I am 
also taking up mechanical drawing and shop 



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later. 

"As you know, Charlotte Rice '38 li 
living with me. She is working in Pre-flight, 
doing repairs — not engine, but to the in- 
side of the plane. So she is a lot closer to 
the finished product than I am. 

"We live on a 90-acre farm about five 
miles out of Ypsilanti. We have a Lithu- 
anian hired man whom I couldn't possibly 
describe, but he keeps us entertained. We 
raise our own livestock and vegetables — 
have a horse, pigs, goat, sheep, etc. As a 
matter of fact we drink goat's milk in our 
lunch every day and cow's milk seems flat 
in comparison. 

"We are on the executive committee lor 
a 'Show for Soldiers" plan we have at the 
plant. Charlotte writes music and I supply 
the lyrics. So far we have written two songs 
which they are going to have published 
and which will be featured in the review 
we hope to put on before long. This is to 
be written, cast, and directed by workers at 
the plant. It's quite an undertaking, but 
it's fun, too." 

1938 — Mary Palmer is writing a book on 
"Convoys" to be published shortly by Bobbs 
Merrill. She has the sympathy of the alum- 
nae in the loss of her father, Henry R. 
Palmer, Brown '90, author, historian, and 
poet. 

1939 — Elisabeth Crowley is attending 
the Naval Reserve Midshipman School at 
Northampton, Mass. 

1940 — Jean Butterfield is in training 
with the WAACS at Daytona Beach. 

1940 — Elizabeth Jencks is with the 
WAVES at Hunter College, New York. 

1941 — Ensign Celeste Griffin, USNR, 
has been assigned to the New York area and 
IS living at 307 East 44th St., Apt. 1801 N. 
1940 — A despatch from the Third 
WAAC Training Center, Fort Oglethorpe, 
Ga., says: "Third Officer Lydia Briggs, 
whose position in the WAACS here is inter- 
viewing new recruits and assigning them to 
jobs, left today for a month's course in this 
held in Washington. D. C. She will report 
at once to headquarters there. Following 
the completion of the course she will re- 
turn here to instruct others. Her rank is 
equivalent to that of 2nd Lt. in the Army." 
1941 — Ensign Helen B. Hunter has been 
assigned to the Naval Air Station. Squan- 
tum, Mass. 

1941 — Barbara R. McCabe is attending 
the Naval Reserve Midshipman School, 
Northampton, Mass. 

1941 — Edna Wilbur is with the WAACS 
at Daytona Beach. 

1942 — Betty Housel is taking the train- 
ing course in personnel at Radcliffe and 
living at 41 Hawthorne St., Cambridge. 

1942 — Kathleen Kelly has been ap- 
pointed to a position with the Office of 
Strategic Services in Washington. 

1942 — Isabel Tuell has been awarded a 
Chance Vought Scholarship in aeronautical 
engineering at New York University, 
where she will study at the Daniel Guggen- 
heim School of Aeronautics. The scholar- 
ship is sponsored by Vought Sikorksy Air- 
craft Division of the United Aircraft Cor- 
poration. After two months of training at 
the Univer.sity she will receive special shop 
training and be placed on the Vought- 
Sikorsky payroll. ^ ^ 



£»igogeiiieri/s 

► ► 1936 — Theodur.^ Gleason to .-Mbcrt 
John Bushkovski, USNR. Mr. Bushkovski 
attended Friends University in Wichita, 
Kansas and the University of Kansas. 

1937 — Margaret Boyd to George Lewis 
Smead, Amherst College. 

1937 — Eileen Streeter to Lt. William 
Hanning Russell, Ordnance Officer with a 
fighter squadron of the Army Air Corps. 
He IS a graduate of Dre.xel Institute and did 
graduate work at the University of Penn. 
He is now on foreign duty. 

1941 — Sylvia B. Rose and Petty Officer, 
2nd class, Russell A. Pitnof, USCGR, of 
Dochester, Mass. 

1942 — Frieda Bojar to Milton Frederick 
Rosenthal, a graduate ot C. C. N. Y. and 
Columbia Law School. 

1942 — Alice D. Brown to John Robert 
Ring. Mr. Ring is a graduate of the Uni- 
versity of Illinois and will receive his Ph.D. 
degree from Brown in May. He has accept- 
ed a position as instructor at the Medical 
School of St. Louis University. 

1942 — Ann Louise Plankenhorn to En- 
sign William H. Collins, Jr., USNR, Brown 
'41. 

1943 — Marilynn Agnes Barrett to Gor- 
don Pennoyer. 

Weddings 

► 193 3 — Jean E. Bauer and Major Win- 
ston E. Glantz, USMC, Feb. 2. Carol L. 
Bauer '31 was maid of honor for her sister. 
The ceremony was performed by the chap- 
lain of the Quonset Naval Air Station. 
Major Glantz comes from Wisconsin. He 
is now with the Marines in the northern 
Pacific area. 

1937 — Mane F. Smith and John C. Wells 
at the Riverside Church, New York City, 
Dec. 28. Mr. Wells is a graduate of Har- 
vard and is with the U. S. Army Air Force 
now stationed at Pawling, N. Y. Marie is 
continuing with her teaching and is living 
at 587 Public St., Providence. 

1939 — Linn Reese and Lt. Samuel Clark 
Keeler, USNR, in the Episcopal Church 
of the Ascension, New York City, Jan. 13. 
Lt. Keeler is a graduate of Phillips Exeter 
Acadamy and the University of Pennsyl- 
vania. 

1940 — Barbara C. Porter and Ensign 
John Basil De Luca, USCGR, Brown '40, 
Feb. 6 at Christ Church, Norwich, Conn. 
Anna Mikolajewski Bamford '40 was maid 
of honor. 

1941 — Ruth Bragdon and Lt. Russell 
Joseph Hall, Brown '43, in the Cathedral 
of Christ the King, Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 21. 
Ensign Dorothy Bragdon '42 attended her 
sister. Lt. Hall is an aviation instructor at 
Maxwell Field, Alabama. 

1941 — Anita Eunice Pariseault and Ed- 
ward Edmonds Ball, Brown '40, Jan. 16. 
Address: 224 Armington St., Edgewood. 

1942 — Claire Anita Bernier and Robert 
C. Hirt, Feb. 6, m the chapel of the Uni- 
versity of Chicago. Mr. Hirt graduated 
from Wooster College in Ohio and did 
graduate work at Brown. He is now a mem- 
ber of the faculty at the University of 
Chicago. 

1942 — Jane Eggleston and Ensign Alex- 
ander L. Logan, USNR, Brown '42, at 
Dwight Memorial Chapel at Yale, Feb. 21. 
Shirley Burr '44 was maid of honor. Ensign 
Logan will receive further training at the 
Naval Meteorological School at Annapolis, 
Md. 

1942 — Helen Herman and Albert Colin 
in the Jade Room of the Waldorf-Astoria, 

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New York, Feb. 7. The ceremony was fol- 
lowed by a reception and dinner dance. 
Mr. Golin is a graduate of the R. I. School 
ol Design. Address: High Ridge Road, 
Stamford, Conn. 

1942 — Dorothy Evelyn Laycock and 
Aviation Cadet Roland Leslie Urquhart, Jr., 
Jan. 9, in San Angelo, Texas. Address: 
General Delivery, Lubbock, Texas. 

1942 — Virginia Randall Pierson, daugh- 
ter of Alice Randall Pierson '16, and Lt. 
(jg) Shailer R. Cummings, USNR, Brown 
'42, in Christ Church, New York City, Feb. 
8. Barbara Pierson '46 attended her sister. 
A reception followed at the Cosmopolitan 
Club. Lt. Cummings is stationed at Norfolk. 
\'irginia has resumed her studies at the 
Yale School of Nursing. 

1942 — Theresa Tremaglio and Corp. 
Thomas F. Minuto, Brown "39, at the 
Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, 
Waterbury, Conn., Feb. 27. 

1942 — Janet B. Fine and Lt. Robert R. 
Clifford, USA AC, Brown '40, Feb. 17. 
Virginia Kenney '42 was maid of honor. 
Address: 3507 Liberty St., Austin, Texas. 

Births 

► 1928— To Dr. and Mrs, Donovan S. 
Correll (Helen Butts), a son. Stewart 
Foster, July 19, 1942. Address: 27 Chaske 
Ave., Auburndale, Mass. 

1930— To Mr. and Mrs. Milton B. Nel- 
son (M. Isabella Jack), a son, John Findlay. 
Jan. 30. Address: 63 Pond St., Westwood, 
Mass. 

1931— To Mr. and Mrs. William Russell 
Walker (Elizabeth Considine), a daughter, 
Patricia lane, lanuary 3. 

1933— To Mr. and Mrs. Wesley C. 
Green (Elizabeth Partridge), a son, Wesley 
Charles, Jr., Dec. 17. Address: 263 Oak- 
dale Ave., Pawtucket. 

1934 — To Mr. and Mrs. Harold N. 
Rosenberg (Frances Lenkowsky), a second 
son, David Paul, Feb. 7, 1942. Address: 
400 Lantana Ave., Englewood, N. J. 

193 5 — To Lt. and Mrs. Harry Wyman 
Gill (Eleanor Keating), a daughter, Mary 
Marcia. Dec. 30. 

1935— To Mr. and Mrs. Donald Oliver 
Starrett (Edith Tittle), a son, Hugh Jona- 
than, Jan. 22. Address: 43-36 169th St., 
Flushing, Long Island. , 

1936 — To Mr. and Mrs. A. Gilbert Wel- 
ler (Dorothy Baron), a son, George Gilbert, 
Jan. 8. Address: 26 Colburn St., North 
Attleboro. 

1937— To Lt. (jg) and Mrs. Leigh B. 
Lynch, III (Eleanor Murphy), a son, Wil- 
liam B., Jan. 10. Address: 69-40 Contin- 
ental Ave., Forest Hills, N. Y. 

1939 — To. Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Wallis 
(Phyllis Sampson), a daughter, Virginia 
Carolyn, Ian. 11. Address: 640 Arden 
Ave.. Glendale, Calif. 

1939 — To Ensign and Mrs. Earl W. Har- 
rington, Jr. (Louise Whitney), a daughter. 
Linda E"li;abcth, Jan. 30. Address: 5 5 
Columbia Ave., Edgewood, R. I. 

1939 —To Mr. and Mrs. Joseph G. Wil- 
son (Helen Hodnett), a son, Joseph. Feb. 
11. Address: 436 Scotland St., Will.ams- 
burg, Va. 

1940 — To Mr. and Mrs. G. Gale Wis- 
bach (Clara Schwab), a daughter. Judith 
Hewitt, Feb. 15. Address: 208 Bcndermcre 
Ave., Interlaken, N. J. 

1941 — To Lt. and Mrs. .Aubrey Leonard 
Raymond (Burb.ira Hani), a sun, Aubrey 
Leonard, Ir., Ian. 22. Address: P. O. Box 
1484, Ft. Myers, Fla. < < 



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• Ir's 4 p.m. on a quiet street. 

A .slip of a girl, w itii a suitcase a little 
too heavy for her, climbs the brounsrone 
steps and rings the bell. 

Her heart is beating fast, but it's not 
from the \\ eight of the suitcase. 

She's wondering what it w ill be like, in a 
furnished room, so far troni home. 

She's hoping she'll make good at her new 
job. 

She's thinking that maybe now she under- 
stands a little bit ot what Tom must ha\e 
felt when he said goodbye and left tor 
camp. 

But she's not uoing back till it's o\er. 



Millions of men and women toda\' are 
finding themselves in strange surroundings — 
in situations they couldn't have imagined a 
few years ago. I hey are giving up their 
pleasures and comforts — and often much 
more — to bring future good to the whole 
world. And they don't mind — too much — 
because it will be worth it. 

Industry, too, has put aside for the dura- 
tion its nex'er-cnding job of suppKing 
those pleasures and comforts which have 
helped to make life fuller and better in 



Aiiierica than an\'where else in the workl. 
Industry is working today w ith strange new 
materials, tow ard grimmer goals — but work- 
ing with the scime iii^iciiuity itnd skill, or^iaiiiza- 
twii ivid experience, iiiitiatixr ivid resoiircef ill- 
ness. For these things arc as much a parr of 
American industry as they are of Amer- 
icans. 

And because they are, we have not found 
toda\'s production task, big as it is, too 
big. Because they are, we shall not find 
tomorrow's challenge, great as it will be, 
too great. With new materials like plas- 
tics, new sciences like electronics, offering 
hope and fuller opportunity; but with the 
old American ingenuity and courage and 
enterprise — we shall face the task of build- 
ing a better world, (ieneral I'lectric Co., 
Sehenectad\% X. ^ . 



The volume of General Electric war production is so high 
and the degree of secrecy required is so great that we can tell 
you little about it now. When it can be told completely we 
believe that the story of industry's developments during the 
war years will make one of the most fascinating chapters 
iti the history of human progress, 

GENERAL & ELECTRIC 






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Karl H. Koopman 
The Citadel 
Charleston, S. C. 



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We are grateful for your help in difficult 
times. 

Here in the Bell System v>c have seen 
some 43,000 of our people go into the 
armed services. 

Shortages of copper and other materials 
have made it impossible to add much- 
needed lines and equipment. 

We have been unable to install tele- 
' phones for all who want them and many 
of our lines are overcrowded. 

Yet in spile of all this, telephone users 
have been tolerant and we have fewer 
complaints right now than at any time 
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