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BROWN 

ALUMNI MONTHLY 



PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND 

OCTOBER, 1943 
VOL. XLIV NUMBER 3 



► ► 



Summer's Progress and Problems 



► ► It's fair to say that Brown has done what it set out to 
do this summer. The training of a thousand Army and 
Navy men went ahead with businesslike attention to the 
job, while 400 other undergraduates in the College admir- 
ably played their not easy roles without formations or 
uniforms. 

And now, as the brown elm leaves blow about the cam- 
pus, a new term starts on November 1, It will be a smaller 
student body, even with the arrival of about 10 Freshmen, 
for the University graduated the "B" unit of the Army Air 
Forces Training Detachment on September 17 and the 
October Commencement saw a hundred Seniors, most of 
them from the Naval unit, in the First Baptist Meeting 
House to get their degrees eight months earlier than would 
have been normal for the Class of 1944. 

We have already reported the arrival of the military — 
the Army last winter, the Navy on July 1. They moved 
into all the University dormitories, while fraternity houses 
were all leased for the duration to provide accommodation 
for civilian students. Ten of the latter — Beta Theta Pi, 
Delta Phi, Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Delta Theta, Alpha 
Delta Phi, Zeta Psi, Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Kappa Psi, Delta 
Tau Delta, and Sigma Nu — were used as dormitories. Delta 
Upsilon's house became the civilian dining hall, while the 
office of the Housekeeper was set up in the Delta Kappa 
Epsilon House. (Sigma Chi and Delta Tau Delta will next 
semester be used as Pembroke dormitory annexes.) 

The campus soon became accustomed to the nightly mili- 
tary ceremony of retreat by the Army, the formation en 
route to mess, classes, drills. The regimen was stiff and 
intensive, the product good. 

► The B unit of the AAFTD had made a fine record when 
it received "certificates of academic achievement" at 
Brown's first military "graduation." Its morale — and that 
of the C unit — received a shock in the last week, with 
word that the men would not, after all, proceed to the A 
schools for the final training as weather officers. On gradu- 
ation night, September 1 7, however, the policy was revised, 
and new orders eventually sent this brilliant group along 
in accordance with the original plan. To the soldiers, that an- 
nouncement was the high spot of the exercises, even though 
President Wriston led the University in according them 
all honor, Governor J. Howard McGrath reminded them 
of the 156th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution, 
and Major Arthur B. Campbell added his personal con- 
gratulations. 

Seven of the Army "grads" were Brown men. Eighty- 
eight other colleges were represented among the soldiers, 
all with an earlier allegiance to another institution. It was 
a source of great gratification to others on the campus that 
these men developed a fondness for Brown, their "foster- 
college", and many express a continuing interest in her. 

The separate concerns of the elements in the student 
body early raised the question of whether there could be a 
harmonious campus. Although the associations were limited 
by conditions, the various groups lived well with each other. 



The Cammarian Club, with representatives of Army, Navy, 
and civilians, symbolised the desire for unity and its 
accomplishment. 

► At the opening convocation of the summer term Presi- 
dent Wriston had pointed out the problems that faced a 
wartime student body and a wartime University. The nature 
of the student body was different in many ways, more than 
the access of uniforms, for Brown had had those before. 

Heretofore the College had been wholly a voluntary as- 
sociation of students. It had been the college of their choice, 
sometimes for deepseated reasons three and four generations 
old, sometimes for mere convenience or through some whim. 
Nevertheless there had been a corporate tie, a sense of 
solidarity, a basis of leadership, and the means of breaking 
down resistance to learning. The moral equivalent must 
be created by each man for himself so that the experience 
would be meaningful, under the new conditions. 

The President recognised that it would be difficult for 
the Navy, here on assignment, without expectation in all 
cases of "finishing" at Brown. It would be fully as difficult 
for civilians with dislocation of housing and food, courses 
and curriculum, with everything geared about the military, 
with their own graduation doubtful. Yet the adjustment 
was essential. 

"Heretofore," Dr. Wriston said, "there was one centre 
of authority and discipline. The Faculty and its agents in 
the Administration were supreme, so that responsibility was 
undivided and direct. The curriculum was a domestic 
product, devised and altered locally, operated and controlled 
locally. With no external leverage of significance, it was 
unlike any other discipline anywhere in the world. Instruc- 
tion was unique with each instructor, who was king in the 
classroom. 

"Now the Faculty shares these functions: the principal 
control of discipline is military, the curriculum is largely 
prescribed, the instruction heavily regimented." 

The situation, as he saw it, had all the elements and all 
the problems of a league of nations: the Faculty was sov- 
ereign under the Charter; the military officers were sov- 
ereign under Federal law and regulations. Though the 
situation required unanimity, to be effective it must be 
voluntary and complete. "That is the international prob- 
lem — we have it here in microcosm." 

► "We may begin to solve our problems," President Wris- 
ton told the convocation, "if we unite in regarding our- 
selves as one corporate body — for the time we ARE Brown 
University. You are the students not only in, but of, this 
University. You inherit all its traditions and its resources. 
(For some it will be like an inheritance from an unknown 
uncle — so let it be) ." 

While there were reasons of convenience and comfort for 
regarding themselves as part of this corporate tradition, 
there were deeper reasons, too: 

"You are citizen-soldiers and soldier-citizens, born to a 
civil society with a civil tradition. Your military service is 
an interlude, vital but for most of you temporary." Just 



THE COVER PHOTO: Dress parade on the Middle Campus Sept. 17 for the first military unit to he grad- 
uated from Brown in World War II. future weather officers of the "B" unit. AAFTD. (Photo Lab photo.) 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



as the indirect method was the one by which America is 
getting equipment, just as engineers and production men 
used to other problems were uniting with the military to 
meet military production, so the student preparing for war 
service was acquiring, as a by-product of that direct training, 
the habits, skills, attitudes, energies, and powers needed in 
civilian life. 

As a matter of fact, President Wriston concluded, under- 
standing is not open to direct attack but requires knowledge, 
patience, sense of humor, tact, all the fruits of indirection. 
Training and wisdom, he reminded the students, are not 
synonymous, nor were skill and wisdom. 

"There is no way by which wisdom can be acquired 
directly. It is the sum of knowledge and skill and experi- 
ence and humor and self-discipline. And, though the world 
be fed to satiety, housed in luxury, and amused without 
ceasing, troubles would not thus be ended, but only as sen- 
sitiveness is refined and controlled by self-discipline. While 
you are here in this disciplinary atmosphere, remember that, 
over all the disciplines, self- discipline alone is of permanent 
significance." 

► "The whole war contribution of such universities as 
Brown, M. I. T., Harvard, Yale and many others in our 
vast land cannot be mentioned now," a feature writer in 
the Boston Post pointed out last month. 

"The people who mock 'professors' and learning' and 
'research' today either do not know how much of our 
ability to preserve our democracy is due to them, or they 
are not really concerned with winning this most crucial 
war in the history of the age-long struggle for man's free- 
dom. Fortunately for the progress of mankind down the 
ages, the men who devote their lives to research and keep- 
ing the torch of knowledge burning and liberty alive, have 
never been deterred even by torture and death. It is happily 
demonstrated today that the nations which have repudiated 
science and the truth implicit in research are those which 
have aimed at enslaving mankind, and are in process of 
defeat by those that have most ardently striven to enlighten 
and free man. 

"Brown is not only one of the nation's oldest universities 
but it is at present among its progressive institutions. It 
pioneered in bridging the gap between engineering and theo- 
retical mathematics, thus promoting knowledge and practice 
of fundamental importance in this war. It is thus no acci- 
dent that its Graduate School during the past summer has 
made its program of advanced instruction and research in 
applied mathematics an outstanding project. One result 
has been the publication of its new Quarterly of Applied 
Mathematics, which is the most recent of the group of 
national and international scientific publications edited at 
the University. 

"In line with this trend is the close relationship between 
the University and the war industries of Rhode Island, 
which have turned to the faculty for scientific assistance. 
They have trained chemists, engineers and others for direct 
emergency service, and acted as consultants in civilian de- 
fense, OPA and other agencies. Active in leadership of 
community projects, such as the United War Fund Cam- 
paign, the Russian War Relief work, Greek Relief, and 
postwar planning, the University has set up Rhode Island 
principal War Information Centre. The President, Henry 
M. Wriston, is president of # the World Student Service 
Fund in addition to his outstanding service as head of the 
United War Fund in Rhode Island and publicity chairman 
tor the national campaign." Continued i n page 63 




THANKS FROM CHINA. Bishop Tsu of Kunming vis- 
ited the campus last month to tell of the help given by 
Brown men through the World Student Service Fund. 
He is shown with B.C. A. officers, Edward Lawson '44, 
president, and K. Brooke Anderson, executive secretary. 

A Night for "Robbie" 

► ► The University will officially receive on November 1 
a collection of books on athletics which will be maintained 
in the Library as the Edward N. Robinson Collection, as a 
compliment to the coach of 24 Brown football varsities from 
1898 to 192 1. At the formal presentation on November 1, 
the Friends of the Library invite all alumni interested to 
attend and join in doing honor to "Robbie". 

The meeting will be held in the John Hay Library at 
8: is. Furber Marshall '19 will come from Troy to be mas- 
ter of ceremonies, at the request of Kirk Smith '14, President 
of the Friends, and Paul F. Gleeson '32, program chairman. 
Other speakers will be W. Earl Sprackling ' 1 2 of New York, 
former All- American; William P. Burnham "07 of Boston, 
whose purchase of the Boston Athletic Association Library 
provided" a nucleus for the collection: and Robbie himself. 

It is probable that the occasion will be marked by a re- 
union of a considerable number of alumni who once played 
under Coach Robinson. 

The Friends of the Library point out that they are eager 
to receive items for the Robinson Collection. In addition 
to books on athletics there is a need in the collection for 
old Brown score cards, clippings, programs, rule books, 
pictures, and other records and souvenirs. It is interesting 
that no other college appears to have a library collection on 
intercollegiate sport. i i 

Brown Banners in Chieago 

► "Brown University is in New England, but its banners 
waved brightly over Chicago, Monday night when the 
Community and War Fund drive opened. John D. Rocke- 
feller, Jr., Brown '97, was the principal speaker at the open- 
ing rally for the drive, of which Elmer T. Stevens, Brown 

04, is general chairman. James L. Palmer, Brown 17, a 
member of the drive's board of directors, regarded his fellow 
alumni and sugested they were doing the drive up brown." 
— Marcia Winn in the Chicago Tribune. 



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► ► 



Adams, Chafee, Bumpus, Colby 



► ► Four alumni who had served the University conspicu- 
ously on the Brown Corporation died within 23 days of 
each other early last summer, to the deep regret of all who 
knew them and particularly their fellow Brown men. They 
were Charles R. Adams '80, Alumni Trustee from 1922 
to 1928; Dr. Hermon Carey Bumpus '84, Fellow from 
1905 to 1943 and former Secretary of the Corporation; 
Zechariah Chafee '80, first Brown Alumni Trustee and 
Fellow from 1929; and Everett Colby "97, a Trustee for 33 
years. There have been few comparable periods in which 
the University has suffered such a heavy loss. 

► Charles Robert Adams '80, Alumni Trustee from 1922 
to 1928, died June 16, 1943, in Longmeadow, Mass., while 
on a visit to his daughter, Mary Adams Joslyn, and his son- 
in-law, E. R. Joslyn '23. 

Mr. Adams, retired Boston investment banker, had been 
active in many ways on Brown University's behalf during 
his 84 years. He had served as President of the Boston 
Brown Club, and in other alumni capacities. As an under- 
graduate he played Varsity baseball and sang in the Glee 
Club and Quartet. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa 
and Delta Upsilon. 

Mr. Adams taught school on graduating from Brown, 
becoming assistant principal of Monson Academy in Massa- 
chusetts. He was subsequently a partner for several years 
in the clothing firm of Montague fe? Adams at Holyoke, 
Mass., and secretary of the American Boot and Shoe Report- 
ing Co. In 1904 he became Vice-President and Director of 
C. D. Parker ii Co., Boston investment house, with which he 
was connected until his retirement from active business in 
193?. He was a director of nearly 30 Massachusetts corpo- 
rations, principally gas and electricity utility firms. 

Born in Wallingford, Conn., the son of Robert and 
Eli-abeth (Ely) Adams, he married Miss Abbie Parker on 
June 24, 1896. A son, Robert P. Adams '23 of Weston, 
Mass., also survives him, and a sister, Mrs. G. D. Parker 
of Osterville. Previously a resident of Chestnut Hills for 
40 years, Mr. Adams had made his home in Clifton of late. 

Last official act of Z. Chafee as Secretary of the Class of 
1880 was to write on June 22 this tribute to his classmate: 
"As far as I know he was in the Commencement procession 
every year after his graduation until this last June. (He 
had attended the reunion over the weekend at Commence- 
ment time but was unable to stay longer.) At all general 
alumni gatherings he was likely to be present, and wherever 
present he was recognized as a general favorite. To his 
friends he was noted for his universal cheerfulness in bad 
times as well as in good times, for his general information, 
and his unswerving integrity." 

► "Most beloved of alumni", as one letter put it, 
Zechariah Chafee '80 died July 8, 1943, at his farm on the 
outskirts of Taunton where his class had so often enjoyed 
his rare hospitality. He was in his 85th year and, in the 
words of the Providence journal, had served Brown in many 
important ways for more than 60 years. 

"The University was his deepest allegiance, after his 
family," President Wriston pointed out, "and his devotion 
to its work and welfare was outstanding. His death is an 
irreparable loss. 

"Active as an undergraduate, he had served perpetually 
as Secretary of his Class, was continuously a factor for the 
best in alumni affairs, and in 1915 was chosen Alumni Trus- 



tee of the University in the first regular election of those 
so designated. He was continuously re-elected in that ca- 
pacity until he was made a member of the Board of Fellows 
in 1929. He served in that office until his death. In addition, 
he held membership in the Advisory and Executive Com- 
mittee of the Corporation, since 1916, and was faithful in 
attendance, diligent in his duties, wise in the counsel he 
gave, and militant for what he found right. 

"It would be impossible to enumerate individually his 
loyalties, but, while a member of the Committee on the 
Library from 1916, his interest in its growth, in its manage- 
ment, and in its use was unique. He gave that organisation 
the longest continuous period of attention that it has re- 
ceived from any member of the Corporation. This interest 
was not only informed by wide and exact knowledge but 
enlivened by generous intelligence." 

► Other Brown men recall his interested presence at all 
Brown gatherings, ceremonial, festive or deliberative. Im- 
proved after an illness earlier in the year, he had joined the 
Commencement procession in June, and one could feel the 
delight of all as he did so. His annual visits to the Advisory 
Council of the Associated Alumni were always stimulating 
to the company because of the love for Brown that was an 
inspiration to others. It was a constant concern of his that 
alumni should be informed about the University so that 
they might act intelligently on her behalf; he preached again 
and again the closest of understanding between Administra- 
tion and Alumni. He was honored in other hearts as few 
men are. 

It was not that he was otherwise idle and so could give 
his time to Brown without sacrifice. As president of the 
Builders'' Iron Foundry for more than 40 years, he was an 
important figure in the industrial life of Rhode Island and 
served as director of a considerable number of other business 
and civic enterprises. 

The Providence Journal described his connection with 
the foundry: 

"Upon his graduation from college Mr. Chafee hoped to 
go West as a banker, but he was unable to follow his am- 
bition, as his father had become trustee for the Sprague 
Textile Mills, and he was needed in his father's business, 
the Builders' Iron Foundry. Upon the death of his father 
in 1889, he became President of the company, an office he 
had held since that time. 

"Throughout this long business career, he unceasingly 
endeavored to make his business a constructive force in the 
community and to serve faithfully all connected with it, 
whether as stockholders, employers, customers, or suppliers. 
He took especial pride in the steadiness of employment fur- 
nished by his company during the active years of his career, 
and in the manner in which it changed its lines of manu- 
facture as changing conditions dictated. He at all times tried 
to manufacture products which seemed to him needed for 
the long-range general welfare of the country in peacetime 
or for the national defense in wartime. (The original guns 
for defense of the Panama Canal were a product of his 
foundry.) Mr. Chafee brought the Venturi meter manu- 
facture to Providence and built up the grinding machine 
which was sold under the name of the Diamond Machine 
Co. He was always gratified that many millions of dollars 
of business had been brought tu this community by these 
two lines alone." 



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► In addition, Mr. Chafee was for a time Secretary of the 
Brown 6? Sharpe Manufacturing Co., during 10 years' 
association with that company before the turn of the cen- 
tury. Other institutions he served, usually in the capacity 
of director, were: the Barstow Stove Co., the Bank of 
America, Mechanics Savings Bank, Industrial Trust Co., 
First National Bank, the reorganized Union Trust Co., 
What Cheer and Hope Mutual Fire Insurance Co., and the 
Providence Journal. 

He was one of the founders of St. Andrew's School in 
Barrington and otherwise active in diocesan affairs in the 
Protestant Episcopal Church. He was a member of the 
Rhode Island Fuel Commission during the First World 
War. He served in the Rhode Island Militia, as Trustee of 
Swan Point Cemetery, Homeopathic Hospital, Providence 
Athenaeum, and other public and charitable institutions. 
Although he never aspired to public affairs, Mr. Chafee 
always took a strong and independent interest in politics 
and "expressed his views effectively in conversation with 
strangers and acquaintances alike, in letters to the press, 
and in political circulars and handbills which he occasionally 
wrote and distributed at his own expense." His reminis- 
cence, his appreciation of others' ideas and stories, and his 
gracious fellowship made him an ideal member of the several 
clubs to which he belonged. 

Mr. Chafee was born in Providence, April 29, 18^9, the 
sixth child of Zechariah and Mary Frances (Buffington) 
Chafee. He was the eighth of his generation in his family 
in this country and the third in his line to carry the name 
of Zechariah. Coming to Brown from the University Gram- 
mar School, he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Phi 
Beta Kappa. 

Mr. Chafee was married February 10, 1885, to Mary 
Dexter Sharpe, sister of the Chancellor of the University, 
Henry D. Sharpe '94. She died in 1934, survived by four 
sons, Prof. Zechariah Chafee, Jr. '07, of the Harvard Law 
School, Henry S. Chafee '09, former President of the 
Associated Alumni, John S. Chafee '18, War Production 
Board official, and Capt. Francis H. Chafee '27, now over- 
seas with the Army Medical Corps in England. There are 
two daughters. 

► Less than a month after his resignation from the Board 
of Fellows, Dr. Hermon Carey Bumpus '84, scientist and 
educator, died in Pasadena, Calif., June 21, 1943. He was 
81 years old. In the characterization of the Providence 
Journal, "he was a man of dynamic energy and vision and 
ingenuity, and these he combined to demonstrate through a 
long career that teaching and research, rather than being 
incompatible, supplement each other. Dr. Bumpus built 
up the department of biology at Brown on this thesis, his 
keen vision resulting in the inauguration of courses in bac- 
teriology and biochemistry which were to meet a growing 
scientific need. . . . He was never once known to engage 
in any enterprise for his own aggrandizement; he was tre- 
mendously interested in getting things done, but not in 
personal rewards. 

Monuments to him remain at the Marine Biological 
Laboratory at Woods Hole, Mass., and at the American 
Museum of Natural History in New York, where he was 
Director from 1902 to 1911. "He made that institution 
functional by bringing its hidden resources into the public 
view with educational purpose." Similarly, by establishing 
unique museums for the National Park Service, he brought 
knowledge to the trailside for each visitor. 

Continued <»n piipi' 64 



On the Gridiron < 

► ► Two games were enough to demonstrate the truth of 
a gre-season comment about the 1943 Brown footfall team 
— that it would field a good starting eleven but that the 
reserve strength needed to be developed. When injuries 
kept two of the top backfield from playing at Holy Cross, 
they stripped the offense and Brown dropped the opener 
20-0. With the manpower situation improved the following 
week, Tufts was beaten impressively, 35-6. 

"Doc" Savage gets plenty of help from his team, but it 
doesn't take much watching to see that the attack is built 
around him. A great competitor, the Brown captain runs 
and passes with the best of them. A leg injury, sustained 
when he led the Brunonians to a 2 1-0 victory in an informal 
scrimmage against Harvard before the season opened, kept 
him benched for all but a couple of minutes of the game in 
Worcester. Holy Cross remembered all too well that in 
1942 he had limped onto the field a supposed cripple and 
turned a 14-0 defeat into a 20-14 victory. 

► The other three backs are veterans from last year: Pattee 
at quarter, the sure-footed point-converter; Babcock, full- 
back does most of the punting and some of the passing; and 
Tiedemann, scorer of the disallowed "touchdown" pass in 
the 1942 Colgate game controversy, at the other halfback 
station. Tiedemann, too, was hurt against Harvard and was 
sidelined for two weeks. The principal reserves are Coke- 
fair, who played as a Freshman, and Hvpound Connie 
Karambelas, who played a scrappy defense game against 
Holy Cross. Tommy Dorsey, a Freshman from Bulkeley 
High, New London, is going to be valuable, while Fallon, 
formerly of the R. I. College of Education, rounds out the 
second quartet. 

The starting line is a mixture of veterans and new- 
comers. Karafotias serves them up at centre after under- 
studying Regine last season. Teschner continues to play a 
lot of guard, with Montgomery, letterman on the 1941 
Varsity, back at tackle after a year's layoff, and Hinder- 
marsh, a ball-hawk end completing the right side of the 
forward wall. At left end is a bright star in Ed Fiorentino, 
formerly of Boston College. He and Cody, a reserve guard 
from the same school, are the only experienced men trans- 
ferred to Brown for Navy training. The V-12 lottery did 
not send football material to Brown in the style to which 
some other New England colleges have been benefited. But 
the Brown fans are going to do a lot of cheering at Floren- 
tine's play on both the offense and defense. Bateman. tall 
200-pound tackle, is no stranger, nor will "Smokey" Stover, 
Freshman from Milwaukee's Shorewood High, long remain 
one. The latter can alternate between guard and tackle. 
Close to the starting linesman are Tom Davenport, veteran 
tackle, and Sherman Gates, Senior guard. 

Others who saw duty in the first games are: Tracy, Lowe 
and Randall, ends; Jahn, big newcomer from Florida, 
tackle; Petropolous, guard; Lippincott and Fontan, centres; 
Abbott and Zuber, backs. 

► The Brown team probably did not deserve to win against 
the Holy Cross iron men in the centennial year meet 
ing at Fitton Field. But it might have broken loose to win 
until the decision was clinched well into the final quarter. 
True, the Purple went 60 yards in the first period to score on 
a touchdown pass, but the attempt at conversion failed. 
Then for 40 minutes the Brown line fended off the Cross 



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running attack, holding for clowns seven times inside the 
20-yard marker, once on the two. The Bruins' attack 
unfortunately was not in it. Still, in the third period by 
piecing several tidy forwards together, they threatened 
definitely. Babcock tossed them to the 20-yard line, while 
Savage warmed up and tried to unkink his leg. Before he 
could enter the fray, however, another pass had been inter- 
cepted on the 11 -yard stripe, and the threat was over. 
Savage did get in later but only for a couple of footless plays. 
Koslowski, transfer back from Notre Dame, ran two kicks 
back 37 yards each in the last period for Holy Cross's other 
two touchdowns to put the game on ice. 

Tufts, stronger than usual with Navy reinforcements for 
its squad, came to Providence October 9 seeking its first 
triumph over Brown since 1892 and conceded a good chance 
of getting it in the pre-game commentaries. The Jumbo was 
lighter, but he had reserve depth in beating Bates the pre- 
vious Saturday. It was a battle for better than half the 
game, the only margin at halftime being one score, resulting 
from a i 2 -yard screen pass from Babcock to Savage and an 
eventual tackle lunge by the latter. In the third quarter 
Tufts came back to march SS yards, but Stover blocked the 
placement attempt, so that Brown still led 7-6. Hindmarsh 
scored on a ^ 2 -yard pass soon after and nearly scored an- 
other that Babcock took the last half-yard. Then two Tufts 
aerials were nabbed by Teschner, one of the few guards ever 
to achieve touchdown fame, and Dorsey, for the last two 
counters. Pattee was dead-right on all five conversions. 

The prowess of the Jumbos can be seen, though, in the 
fact that they made 12 first downs to Brown's 10, outgained 
the Bear on the ground 184 to 132. But six of their passes 
were intercepted, while Brown completed eight of 19 heaves 
for 174 yards to 63. The Holy Cross statistics showed a 12 
to 2 advantage on first downs, a rushing net of 169 plus 
to 1 4 minus for Brown, 9 of 1 7 passes completed for 86 yards 
against 6 of 1 1 completed for 49. 

Continued on page 62 

E. Leo Barry < 

► ► "Although his success was outstanding, the impor- 
tant thing about E. Leo Barry's two decades at Brown was 
not his knack of making thousands of undergraduates water- 
wise nor his record in developing champion swimmers 
among them. It was his capacity and genuine desire for 
friendship which has endeared him to the wide company of 
Brown men and makes more acute the sense of loss we all 
feel. He was a fine sportsman, the best of coaches, and a 
loyal gentleman, who worked tirelessly in the interests of 
the University and his boys. We mourn his passing and 
know him to be irreplaceable." 

Thus, on August 27, the Athletic Council minutes noted 
the death of Mr. Barry a fortnight before. Eighteen years 
in charge of swimming at Brown, he was the senior coach 
on the staff and was serving his second term as President 
of the American Association of Swimming Coaches. 

Born in East Providence, he had also been schooled at 
Mount St. Mary's and at Mt. St. Joseph's in Baltimore and 
was attending the University of Maryland when the first 
World War broke out. He was an officer candidate in the 
First Officers' Course at Pittsburgh, N. Y., and, as a Field 
Artillery Lieutenant, served at M. I. T., N. Y. U, West 
Point, Ky., and what is now La Salle Military Academy, 
Oakdale, L. I. 



After the war he went to Mercersburg Academy as coach 
of football, baseball, and swimming, there founding the 
famous Mercersburg "swimming empire" that has pro- 
duced so many outstanding athletes. When Charley Hug- 
gins died following the ill-fated trip of the Brown football 
team in Chicago in 1924, Barry applied for the swimming 
post on College Hill, at the urging of two former Mercers- 
burg boys at Brown. He took over that winter and began 
his effective coaching in that first season. 

A pioneer in life-saving work, Mr. Barry held the third 
certificate ever granted by the Red Cross in this field. He 
was a leader, too, in participating in the intercollegiate 
swimming conclave at Fort Lauderdale, Fla. A large num- 
ber of his former swimmers joined his other friends at the 
funeral in East Providence. Tributes from two of them 
appear elsewhere in this issue. < i 

Deans and Their Provinces 

► ► Appointment of Dr. Bruce M. Bigelow '24 as Dean 
of Students at Brown became effective October 15. The 
establishment of the new post was announced by Dr. Samuel 
T. Arnold '13, Dean of the College, earlier in the month. 
It will make possible "the assumption of larger adminis- 
trative responsibility for the social life of the undergradu- 
ates," according to Dean Arnold. 

As Dean of Students, Dr. Bigelow will continue to direct 
the work of the Admissions Office in which he has been so 
conspicuously successful during the last 10 years. He will 
also be responsible for the supervision of student organiza- 
tions, fraternities, residential life on the campus, and other 
matters of personnel. 

The announcement said further: 

"The segregation of these functions and their assignment 
to a separate administrative officer will make it possible for 
the Dean of the College to assume larger responsibility for 
the administration of the curriculum, the organization of 
programs of study and the direction of the academic work 
of individual students. All of these matters are of primary 
concern in the operation of the educational program of the 
College and will demand increasing attention as we face 
our new and enlarging responsibilities in the future. 

"Mr. William K. Selden, Assistant Dean, will continue to 
have responsibility for the administration of financial aid 
to students - - student loans, scholarships, student employ- 
ment, and placement. He will operate as an executive officer 
with respect to such matters and will be responsible to a 
committee consisting of the Dean of the College, the Dean 
of Students, and the Assistant Dean." 

As Chairman of the Committee on Admissions, Dr. 
Bigelow has the respect and friendship of masters and princi- 
pals in secondary schools the country over. His popularity 
with them and their students is as great as it is with Brown 
alumni. Dr. Bigelow will now follow up his association with 
entering students through their whole college careers at 
Brown. 

Originally trained as an historian, Dean Bigelow became 
Director of Admissions in 1932 and has seen applications 
for entrance into Brown mount year after year. In his work, 
he traveled widely, maintaining his contacts with secondary 
schcxils, addressing student bodies, and counseling on col- 
legiate education. He is in constant demand as a commence- 
ment speaker in the secondary school field. Keeping up his 
friendships with the alumni, he has appeared before more 
alumni gatherings than any other member of the Brown 
administration. 



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Mathematics Goes to War < < 



► ► Mathematics, bugaboo of so many people through- 
out their schooling, is taking on new importance as a 
highly specialized but potent weapon in the national war 
effort. In fact calculus has to come before cannons if we 
are to design and build the finest armaments in the world 
in our fight against the Axis powers. 

The nation needs men who can apply higher mathema- 
tics to many of the problems arising in war industries. 
Certain kinds of improvements in the complicated weapons 
we use await the basic work of mathematics, especially in 
the field of aeronautics. These men must be trained, and 
trained quickly. 

The seriousness of the situation may not be apparent to 
the average man, but the "critical lack" of experts in ap- 
plied mathematics and mechanics in this country was early 
recognized by the Committee on the Survey of Research 
in Industry, appointed by the National Research Council 
and reporting to the National Resources Planning Board. 

► Before Hitler and the war, most work in applied me- 
chanics — which is simply mathematics put to practical 
engineering use — was done in Europe, especially in Ger- 
many. Interchange of information was free and uncen- 
sored, and American industry was kept abreast of all 
important developments. Today all this is changed. Na- 
tions at war do not give away technological secrets. 

Fortunately for Uncle Sam, Brown University started its 
school for advanced instruction and research in mechanics 
several months before Pearl Harbor. It is the only school of 
its kind in the country and has already paid dividends in 
important contributions to America's war effort on the 
scientific front. 

Of the 200 persons who have attended the school since its 
founding in the summer of 1941, 40 are now working in 
Army, Navy and other governmental laboratories, 30 others 
arc engineers in vital war industries, while the remainder 
are pursuing further study or are on college faculties. In the 
first summer class there were college professors and in- 
structors from 24 states. 

So widespread are the reputation of the school and the 
prestige of its faculty that several of the country's leading 
aircraft manufacturing firms have from time to time sub- 
mitted special technical problems to it for solution. Dean 
Roland G. D. Richardson of Brown's Graduate School is in 
charge of the progam. 

Even more important than the number of students in the 
school are their background and intentions. All are in train- 
ing either to be war work consultants or to teach others. 
( )ne typical group included a seismologist intending to enter 
aeronautics, a naval ordnance officer, a weather bureau re- 
seach man with technical aspirations, a life insurance statis- 
tician who wants further training for war industry, college 
and university teachers, and graduate students seeking jobs 
in aviation and other fields. 

► Essentially the applied mathematician fits into the 
wartime production picture as an efficiency expert. He 
understands the nature of engineering problems, and he 
has had intensive specialized training in basic theories of 
higher mathematics. These mathematical tools equip him 
to solve certain kinds of industrial headaches expertly, 
with speed and exactness. 



The applied mathematician waves no magic wand, nor 
can he say "open sesame" to every problem which the engi- 
neer meets, but when the applied mathematician and the 
engineer join hands, a good many mountains become mole- 
hills. Some problems ordinarily dealt with only by trial 
and error can be reduced to essential theories of higher math- 
ematics. The engineer's costly experiments can frequently 
be cut short or eliminated. 

Let's see what applied mechanics, or applied mathematics, 
is all about. It ties in with such fields as aeronautics, hydro- 
dynamics, thermodynamics, elasticity, plasticity, electricity 
and magnetism. By its very nature it is a broad subject. 
Brown is treating the field very broadly and comprehensively 
too in its six courses and seminar groups. 

One of the fields of engineering in which applied mathe- 
matics is especially valuable is dynamics. Dynamics is the 
study of everything that moves, from planets to electrons. 
Because this is a war of machines, Brown's work in dynam- 
ics is of course focused upon a practical knowledge of 
dynamics as applied to industry. 

The theory of the gyroscope belongs in the realm of 
dynamics. There is much to be learned about this amazing 
instrument. It is used to steer torpedoes, and is a key part 
of the "automatic pilot" and bomb-sights. At Brown, stu- 
dents are being taught the basic mathematical principles 
involved. 

► The problem of building the most efficient kind of ships 
involves questions like those of friction between water and 
a ship's hull, the energy spent in creating waves, and the 
push of a ship's screws. Behind all this lies the field of fluid 
dynamics, involving water-pressure, the behavior of cur- 
rents, and other forces. The same field applies to conditions 
that planes meet in flight, with the air as the "fluid." 

One aviation company in the United States is at work on 
problems connected with the physics and thermodynamics 
of aircraft heating and ventilating systems. The company 
wants to know more about heat balance factors throughout 
the induction system of carburated gasoline. 

Another aviation concern is studying the dynamics of 
tricycle landing gears, the effect of wing deflections upon 
dynamic stability of planes in flight, and brake chatter for 
a wheel mounted on an axle flexible in bending and in tor- 
sion. These are all practical problems in dynamics where 
the applied mathematician could be of help, and are typical 
of the research on which the faculty and students at Brown 
are working. 

The theory of vibrations belongs to the field of dynamics. 
It is easy for soldiers marching across a bridge to break step 
and avoid setting up serious vibrations which might make 
the bridge collapse, but it is not as simple to cut down 
serious vibrations in the complex machines of combat. 

A typical problem confronting plane manufacturers is 
applying this theory to three-dimensional wing-flutter, a 
serious matter now that engines, cannon and other equip- 
ment are carried in plane wings. Vibration problems of a 
difficult nature have also come up in warships of various 
kinds. Modern battlewagons contain more machinery than 
any vessels ever built. 

► Because every kind of material has definite elastic 
properties, elasticity is a key field of knowledge and is being 
treated accordingly at Brown. The theory of elasticity, 



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with its far-flung mathematical ramifications, can be used 
to study such different problems as the torque of a ship's 
propeller-shaft, the expansion of a gun-barrel, and the bend- 
ing of metal plates in aircraft. 

Engineers and designers of tanks, warships, cannons and 
bombers must know a good deal about the strength of mate- 
rials, which is another way of describing elastic and plastic 
properties. They must be able to predict with mathematical 
exactness the initial buckling stress, the stress at which the 
buckles become permanent, and the yield strength and ulti- 
mate strength of the entire structure. 

The theory of airflight was born after the Wright 
brothers had sent the first plane aloft at Kittyhawk. Its 
modern ramifications include among other things the theory 
of air-wings and lift, pressure on wings and fuselage, and 
the theory of airfoils and propellers. 

High speeds of modern planes bring about complications 
for the designer and engineer. One of these problems has 
to do with propeller efficiencies. At speeds approaching 
500 miles per hour, engineers have found that radical 
changes must be made in propeller designs. Here is a field 
where mechanics can do yeoman's work. 

To understand and use the theories of applied mathe- 
matics, the students at Brown must fly high into the rarified 
atmosphere of the science. Their life-sustaining mathe- 
matical equipment includes a baffling array of signs and 
symbols amazing in their complexity. Because facility with 
these symbols and an understanding of their use is as im- 
portant as a carpenter's knowledge of his tools, Brown is 
offering courses in partial differential equations and numer- 
ical and graphical methods of applied mathematics. 

► If Hitler's code and the war have done anything on the 
credit side for this country, it has been to drive scholars 
and research men across the Atlantic to the free colleges 
and universities here. The men who are teaching at Brown, 
including those who years ago refused to work with the 
Nazis, are among the best that Europe has produced. 

There are Prof. Willy Prager and Prof. Richard von 
Mises, both of whom left Germany and went to the Uni- 
versity of Istanbul when Hitler rose to power. Prof. 
Prager, in pre-Hitler days, was acting director of the Insti- 
tute of Applied Mechanics of the University of Gottingen, 
structural inspector for the German Airsport League and 
scientific adviser to the Fiesler Aircraft Company, one of 
Germany's largest plane manufacturers. 

Prof, von Mises" field is the theory of aeronautics. His 
research as professor at the Technological Institute in 
Dresden and as director of the Institute for Applied Mathe- 
matics at the University of Berlin was an outstanding 
contribution to the development of modern aircraft effi- 
ciency. 

Prof. Stefan Bergmann is a Pole. Before coming to the 
United States he was an instructor and lecturer at the Uni- 
versity of Applied Mechanics at the University of Berlin, 
and taught at the Technological Institute of Tomsk. Part 
of his research was done for the German Department of 
Airplanes. Prof. Willi Feller, a German, is the former 
head of the Institute of Applied Mathematics at the Uni- 
versity of Kiel, and has taught at the University of Stock- 
holm. 

Prof. Jacob D. Tamarkin, a Russian, is one of the editors 
of Mathematical Reviews, the international journal of 
higher mathematics published at Brown. Before coming to 
the United States in 1925 he taught at the Electrotechnical 



School of Petrograd and at the Petrograd School of Rail- 
roads. 

Others are Prof. Leon N. Brillouin, formerly of the 
Sorbonne and College de France; Dr. Witold Hurewicz, 
formerly of the University of Amsterdam; Prof. Stephen P. 
Timoshenko of Stanford University and two special lec- 
turers, Prof. K. O. Friedrichs and Prof. Pierce W. Ketchum 
of the University of Illinois. Prof. John L. Synge, Irish-born 
scholar who commuted by plane between the University of 
Toronto and Providence during the first year of the school 
at Brown, has accepted the post as head of the math depart- 
ment at Ohio State. 

What Brown has done so far has been made possible 
through the support of the United States Office of Educa- 
tion and the Carnegie Corporation. 

As time goes on, Brown's initial efforts and those of other 
colleges will make themselves felt more and more in the vast 
and complicated machinery of the war effort. Even if the 
war ends tomorrow, applied mathematics will be just as 
useful in peacetime. No end is in sight for the progress of 
a machine age, with the applied mathematician as one of its 
counselors. < < 

When You Finish tvilh This Issue 

► "It was just like going back to College Hill to get a copy 
of the Brown Alumni Monthly. And the magazine 
meant all the more to me because a fellow Brown man had 
been thoughtful enough to send his copy along to me." 

The letter is typical of those received since the suggestion 
was first made through these columns that readers might 
care to share their magazine with other alumni in the armed 
forces. It's time we printed another reminder about this. 
Here's what to do : 

Notify the Alumni Office of your willingness to send 
your Alumni Monthly to a service man. The Alumni 
Office sends you the name and address of some young 
Brunonian who is not yet a subscriber to the magazine. You 
write him to tell him of your intention and urge him to 
keep you posted of his changes of address. You send the 
magazine. 

We hear that interesting friendships have been started 
as the result of such procedure. The appreciation of the 
service man is reward enough to the sender, and another 
chain in Brown loyalty is forged. < 

In W PB , s Tool Division 

► John S. Chafee '18 is the new Director of the War 
Production Board's tool division, one of the keystone posts 
in this important Washington agency. Mr. Chafee, one- 
time Vice-President of the Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing 
Company in Providence and President of the National 
Machine Tool Builders' Association, had been deputy 
director of his division since last November. 

Another Brown Academician 

► Dr. Arthur F. Buddington '12, Professor of Geology 
at Princeton, has been elected a member of the National 
Academy of Sciences. 




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The Gridiron Situation < < 



Continued from page 59 

► The other contests on the 1943 schedule 
are: Oct. 23 — Camp Kilmer at Providence. 
Oct. 30 — Princeton at Princeton. Nov. 6 
— Yale at New Haven. Nov. 13 — Coast 
Guard Academy at Providence. Nov. 20 
— Army at West Point. Nov. 25 — Colgate 
at Providence. 

► The football potential at Brown in the 
1943 season is subject to many new factors 
under the wartime regime of the campus. 
In the first place, not all students in good 
standing are eligible for intercollegiate 
sport. The student body of the College has 
three components: 1 — civilian undergradu- 
ates, 2 — Army trainees, 3 — Navy trainees. 

Civilian eligibility is governed as usual, 
except that Freshmen are available for 
varsity play. Members of the Army Air 
Force Training Detachment are permitted 
to take part in intramural athletics only. 
As for the Navy, we quote from regu- 
lations: 

"'Officer candidates will be permitted to 
take part in college athletics and in other 
extra curricular activities on the same ha.-i.- 



as civilian students, insofar as such partici- 
pation does not interfere with their hours 
of Naval duty, with success in their course 
of study, or with special regulations for 
the conduct of the Navy V-12 Units . . . 
Enlisted students in the V-12 Program, ex- 
cept first year, first term students, may par- 
ticipate in intercollegiate sports provided 
there is no interference with their pre- 
scribed hours or courses of study . . . When 
the V-12 trainee takes part in a football 
game in competition with another V-12 
Unit, he does not represent the Navy but 
the college on whose campus the Unit is 
located ... In the playing of any schedule 
of games the trainees are not allowed to be 
away from their duty stations for more than 
48 hours." 

If a Navy man is a candidate for the 
team, the coaches need not worry about the 
regularity of his attendance at practice. 
Workouts are daily requirement for those 
who have been able to substitute football 
for other physical fitness drills. The squad 
at Brown may be modest in size, but the 



How to Make Application 

► The Colgate football game on 
Thanksgiving Day is the only re- 
served seat affair at Brown Field this 
fall. All seats are subject to reserva- 
tion at $2.20 and $1.10. 

NO applications are being sent 
out by the Athletic Office this year, 
but it will accept mail reservations as 
usual, assigning seats in order of ap- 
plication. Address the Athletic 
Office, Brown University, Provi- 
dence 12, R. I., and enclose 25 cents 
above the cost of the tickets to cover 
registered mail. 



daily turnouts at practice have been the 
most regular in years. The Navy man will 
be there, just so he keeps off the "Captain's 
List" of those down in any study. 

As interpreted at most colleges, the rul- 
ing about first year, first term students in 
the V-12 program keeps such men from 
playing in a varsity game until the end of 
their first 16 weeks of training. Some of 
these are available for practice during that 
period but cannot appear in the line-up. 
It is not yet clear what game would be the 



STATISTICS OF THE 1943 VARSITY FOOTBALL SQUAD 



M. 



ENDS 
Phillips, M. A. 
Tracy, R. J. 
Hindmarsh, G. 
Lowe, R. E.* 

Fiorentino, E. A.* 

Randall, J. L.* 

TACKLES 
Bateman, W. B.* 
Montgomery, W. S. M.* 

Davenport, T. H. 

Stover, H. B„ Jr. 
Jahn, R* 

GUARDS 

Teschner, P. E. 

Petropoulos, J. C. ::: 
McMullen, J. H* 
Cody, ]. J., Jr.* 
King, R. H. 
Gates, S. A. 

CENTERS 

Karafotias, C 

Kammler, A. H. 
Round, A. H. 

Fontan, J. P.* 

Daggett, J. A. 
Lippincott, L. H.* 

BACKS 
Olstad, J. F. 
Fallon, J. T., Jr.* 
Mayberg, S. R. 
Dorsey, T. F. 
Tiedemann, C. D.* 
Jira, R. L* 
Zuber, P. B. 
Babcock, R. N.* 
Lee, J. B* 
Donahue, T. H.* 
Cokefair, J. P. E.* 
Savage, D. G., Jr. (Capt)* 
Karambelas, C. 
Pattee, J. H.* 
Adams, B. I.* 
Lees, I. B. 
Armstrong, R. J.* 
Fain, Burton M. 

*V-12 program 



Class Age 



Ht. 



Wt. 



'46 


19 


5'10 


183 


"46 


19 


6'2 


186 


'44 


22 


6'1 


180 


'46 


19 


6'0 


178 


'45 


20 


6'1 


200 


'46 


19 


6'0 


175 


'45 


19 


6'2 


200 


'44 


21 


6'2 


180 


'44 


n 


6'1 


190 


'47 


17 


5'11 


194 


'46 


18 


6'l!/ 2 


200 


'45 


19 


6'1 


210 


'46 


19 


5'10 


190 


'46 


19 


5'10 


200 


'45 


ii 


5'7 


170 


'47 


17 


6'0 


160 


'44 


20 


5'11 


165 


'44 


20 


5'10 


185 


'47 


17 


6'0 


165 


'47 


18 


6'1 


190 


'45 


19 


6'0 


170 


'47 


17 


6'0 


190 


'46 


19 


6'0 


175 


'47 


18 


5'10 


160 


'45 


19 


5'11 


155 


'47 


17 


5'7'/ 2 


160 


'47 


18 


6'0 


183 


'46 


21 


5'10 


170 


'46 


21 


5'8 


165 


'47 


17 


6'2 


172 


'45 


21 


5' 10l/ 2 


185 


'46 


18 


5'11 


150 


'46 


22 


6'0 


170 


'45 


21 


5'8'/ 2 


165 


'44 


21 


5'11 


180 


'47 


19 


5'71/ 2 


145 


'44 


20 


5'10 


190 


'45 


19 


6'1 


187 


'47 


17 


5'10 


153 


'46 


18 


5'9 


130 


'47 


18 


5'10 


148 



Prep School 
or College 
Pawtucket East 
LaSalle Acad. 
Mt. Hermon 
Westfield H. S. 
Boston College 
Crosby H. S. 

So. Kingston H. 
Brookline H. S. 
Taft School 
Shorewood H. S. 
Fort Lauderdale H. S. 

Newton H. S. 
Norwalk H. S. 
Grove City College 
Boston College 
Ballard School 
Scituate H. S. 

Tilton School 
Danbury H. S. 
Wooster School 
Lyndhurst H. S. 
Milwaukee CT Day 
Newtrier H. S. 

Horace Mann 
R. I. C. E. 
Classical H. 
Bulkeley H. S. 
Wooster School 
Fenn College 
Thomas Jefferson H. S. 
Cranston H. S. 
Lake Forest H. S. 
Moses Brown 
Montclair H. S. 
Blair Academy 
Kents Hill 
Kents Hill 
Mamaroneck H. S. 
Northbridge H. S. 
Classical H. S. 
Hope H. S. 



Home 

Pawtucket, R. I. 
East Providence, R. I. 
Cranston, R. I. 
Westfield, N. J. 
Everett, Mass. 
Waterbury, Conn. 

Peacedale, R. I. 
Brookline, Mass. 
Thomaston, Conn. 
Milwaukee, Wis. 
Fort Lauderdale, Fla. 

Newtonville, Mass. 
Norwalk, Conn. 
Sandy Lane, Pa. 
Boston, Mass. 
Cranston, R. I. 
Scituate, Mass. 

Brockton, Mass. 
Danbury, Conn. 
Riverside, Conn. 
Lyndhurst, N. J. 
Milwaukee, Wis. 
Winnetka, 111. 

Yonkers, N. Y. 
East Providence, R. I. 
Providence, R. I. 
New London, Conn. 
Riverside, Conn. 
Palmer, Ohio 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Cranston, R. I. 
Lake Forest, 111. 
Providence, R. I. 
Montclair, N. J. 
Orange, N. J. 
Providence, R. I. 
Providence, R. I. 
Larchmont, N. Y. 
Whitinsville, Mass. 
Providence, R. I. 
Providence, R. I. 



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first in which they might participate, but 
certainly not before October 23. 

To the curiosa about the 1943 season 
must be added the fact that it was interrupt- 
ed by a period of final examinations and 
a graduation. Because of exams no game 
was scheduled for October 16. Commence- 
ment will take place on October 25. At 
some point about that time several Seniors 
will thus be graduated from the squad. 
About that time, too, a new entering class 
of Freshmen may or may not yield further 
football material. Transfers, to6, might 
bring upperclassmen to the Naval unit who 
have had football experience. That is a 
possibility, but not a probability; it merely 
adds a speculative element to any calcula- 
tions. A guess would establish the line-up 
for the earlier games as the stronger, but 
any windfalls would be welcome at mid- 
season. 4 4 
Final Score: Brown 62. Camp Kilmer 3. 

Brown Games on the Air 

► Radio broadcasts of Brown University 
football this fall are scheduled for the fol- 
lowing dates and stations: 

OCT. 30— Princeton. WEAN, Providence. 
WOR, New York. 

NOV. 6 — Yale. WEAN, Providence. 
WNAC, Boston. WSAR, Fall River. 
WHYN, Holyoke. WLLH, Lowell. 
WEIM, Fitchburg. WNBH, New Bed- 
ford. WLNH, Laconia, N. H. WICC, 
Bridgeport. WELI, New Haven. WBRK, 
Pittsfield. WSYB, Rutland, Vt. WHAI, 
Greenfield, Mass. WFEA, Manchester, 
N. H. WATR, Waterbury, Conn. 
WTHT, Hartford. WNLC, New Lon- 
don. 

NOV. 13 — Coast Guard Academy. 
WEAN, Providence. Others, pending. 

NOV. 25— Colgate. WEAN, Providence. 
WNAC, Boston. WSAR, Fall River. 
WAAB, Worcester. WHYN, Holyoke. 
WEIM, Fitchburg. WLLH, Lowell. 
WLNH, Laconia, N. H. WICC, Bridge- 
port. WELI, New Haven. WBRK, Pitts- 
field. WSYB, Rutland, Vt. WHAI, 
Greenfield, Mass. WTHT, Hartford. 
WNLC, New London. 4 

Football Publicist 

► Paul F. Gleeson '3 2, publicist for the 
Rhode Island State Council of Defense, is 
in charge of football publicity for Brown 
this fall. He has been a familiar figure in 
the press-box at Brown Field for several 
seasons, where he has handled the play by 
play narrative over the public address sys- 
tem. 

Beginner's Boot 

► A rookie who had never played a game 
of soccer before in his life took the honors 
as Brown opened its season by edging the 
Coast Guard Academy hooters 2-1. The 
newcomer was Miner, who had been per- 
suaded by his roommate, Joe Schwanda, 
regular right halfback, to go out for the 
sport. He scored the first point in the first 
period, while Walker's goal in the second 
proved the deciding one. 

Coach Sam Fletcher, now the dean of 
coaches at Brown in point of service, had 
only three holdovers from last year's Varsity 
in the squad of 25 this fall. And the in- 
eligibility of Captain Dick Anderson, star 
halfback, was a heavy blow in the opening 
week. The winning line-up: Parker, goal; 
McDonald, Lukert, Sleicher, Miner, Sch- 
wanda, Turnbull, Walker, DePaul, Rod- 
riques, Roos, with Wadbrook and Smith, 
subs. 




THE NAVY, TOO, paid its respects on Sept. 17, sending a platoon of 
V-12 seamen and another of ROTC men to the "graduation parade" of 
the Army's "B" unit at Brown. Lt. Col. Desmore O. Nelson, area com- 
mander of the AAFTP, is taking the salute. On his left, Vice-President 
Adams. 



Summer, 1943 

Continued from fmge 56 

► Brown was one of the few colleges to 
maintain a summer-term baseball team. 
The Acting Director of Athletics, Dr. Wal- 
ter H. Snell left it to student interest to 
determine the extent of actual schedules. 
Most of it centered in the diamond, where 
Coach Eddie Eayrs had a season he'll al- 
ways remember. 

The first three games had to be cancelled 
because of a manpower shortage. The Navy 
was busy with inoculation and other initia- 
tion, and, with seamen getting their campus 
legs, the civilian ballplayers coudn't field 
much of a team. And then, suddenly, Coach 
Eayrs found himself with 88 candidates, 
more than he was anxious to handle and 
certainly an all-time Brown record. Even 
with cuts, he had to maintain a large squad 
for some games were scheduled for days 
when a man might be held to the campus 
for Navy duties. He needed and got a pair 
of men for each position, had what amount- 
ed to a Friday team and a Saturday team, 
neither with too much experience or time 
for long practices. 

Against good competition from service 
clubs, manned by some major and minor 
league pros of a year ago, and from col- 
leges, Brown won six of 13 contests, leaving 
an average of nine men on the bases a game 
when hitting failed. The pitching was 
respectable and would have been better with 
better support. Still, the season fulfilled 
its purpose of proving good sport. With 
some crowds down as slim as 25, it was a 
game for the players and not the stands. 
A 2-1 defeat of Holy Cross was the bright- 
est afternoon, but nothing approached that 
bizarre day of the spring season where 
Brown blew a 15-0 lead against Boston 
University to gain only a 16-16 tic. 

► The Yacht Club undertook a modest 
regatta schedule and finished third in the 



IYRA starboat championships, where the 
scoring was: Yale 62, Penn 56, Brown 
531/2, Harvard 47'/ 2 , Williams 40, Coast 
Guard Academy 3 5, M. I. T. 25, Stevens 
Tech 25. 

r Leslie Swain's intramural leagues off- 
ered other competitive possibilities, while 
mention should be made, only for complete- 
ness' sake, of the fact that Pembroke lost 
2 1 - 1 5 to the Naval ROTC in Softball. The 
men accorded a 10-run handicap and batted 
from the wrong side of the plate. 

The Brown Herald and the Pembroke- 
Record combined in August to reappear as 
the weekly Herald-Record "as a wartime 
measure to assure full news coverage 
throughout the University." The editor is 
a Pembroker, directing two boards, one at 
each college, but permitting the latter to 
retain as much of their separate identity as 
possible. The agreement under which the 
amalgamation proceeded stated: "It shall 
be recognized that the Brown Herald's 
working with the Pembroke Record is ef- 
fected solely as an emergency measure . . . 
Not less than three and not more than four 
semesters after the close of the war, this 
contract shall become void." 

Sock and Buskin featured an ambitious 
season with "Ladies in Retirement" and 
"The Play's the Thing," with an increas- 
ing fondness for plays that rely on feminine 
talent. Janice Van de Water and Leslie A. 
Jones were directors. Two programs stood 
out on the timetable of the Brown Network, 
a broadcast to Brown from Bristol Uni- 
versity, England (in answer to one sent 
from Brown last year) and an interview 
with the ccramicist Prof. Josiah Carberry 
and the up-and-coming Grayson. Additions 
to campus journalism were the Brunavian 
and the Browniari Movement, Navy and 
Army unit publications respectively. B. C. 
A. War Fund drive collected $3 500 from 
the students, over its quota. 4 4 



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Four of the Leaders < < 



Continued from page 58 

► "For about 60 years — one-third of the 
span of the life of the University, Dr. Bum- 
pus has been officially associated with 
Brown, beginning with his matriculation in 
1880 and ending with his retirement as 
Senior Fellow on June 2, 1943. In recog- 
nition of his long and especially distin- 
guished service, the Corporation of the 
University honored him by conferring upon 
him the title ol Fellow Emeritus — a unique 
distinction. 

"As Professor, as member of the Board 
ol Fellows and as Secretary of the Corpo- 
ration, Dr. Bumpus has had a large share 
in the shaping of the educational character 
ot the University. With characteristic vision 
and energy and with the hearty endorse- 
ment of President Andrews, under whom he 
began his work. Dr. Bumpus initiated de- 
partures in educational procedure at Brown 
which have grown to be commonplace 
throughout the University. No one has 
been more successful in his own life and 
work in harmonising and coordinating 
1 unctions of the University, teaching, re- 
search and public service. 

"Dr. Bumpus was a truly great teacher 
who encouraged and rewarded individual 
initiative and sympathised intelligently and 
effectually with the work of his students 
and colleagues. In his passing the Uni- 
versity has lost a great servant and a host 
of men and women, who were his col- 
leagues, students, associates and friends will 
sorrow in his loss." 

► Dr. Bumpus's portrait hangs in Sayles 
Hall. When it was unveiled, Dr. A. D. 
Mead remarked: "Like a benign dragon, 
thriving on a diet of prickly and indigesti- 
ble problems which others avoid, he has 
emitted a breath of fire which has gener- 
ated a new flame of life in every one of 
these institutions." They included the 
University of Wisconsin, which he served 
as the first business manager of an Ameri- 
can college; Tufts College, of which he was 
President; the American Morphological So- 
ciety, the American Society of Zoologists, 
the American Association of Museums, the 
Audubon Society of Rhode Island, all of 
which he had headed as President; the 
American Society of Naturalists, which he 
served as Secretary and Vice-President; the 
New York Academy of Sciences, of which 
he was Fellow and one-time Recording 
Secretary; the Metropolitan Museum of 
Art, which named him an honorary Fellow; 
and numerous other agencies and associ- 
ations. 

Dr. Bumpus was born in Buckficld, Me., 
May 5, 1862, son of Laurin A. and Abbie 
Ann (Eaton) Bumpus. He prepared for 
Brown at Dorchester High, Mass. As an 
undergraduate, he showed an exuberant 
interst in natural history and biology, tak- 
ing all the courses offered by the great 
Prof. Alpheus S. Packard, whose favorite 
pupil he became. Deciding to teach, he 
as professor of biology at Olivet 
( ollege, Mich. With a Ph.D. from Clark 
in addition to his Brown degrees, he was 
I hack to Providence by President 
ws in 1890, creating the department 
ol biology during the decade. During much 
• ■I tin- time he served the Marine Biological 
Laboratory at Woods Hole in various cap- 



acities and was director of the biological 
laboratory of the U. S. Fish Commission 
there, too. He presided at the Fourth Inter- 
national Fishery Congress in Washington in 
1908. His three honorary degrees included 
an Sc.D. from Brown and Tufts in 1905 
and an LL.D from Clark in 1909. 
► Having straightened out the chaotic 
state of finances and administration at the 
University of Wisconsin and then "redeem- 
ing the Tufts Medical School and bringing 
the total enrollment in the academic and 
professional departments to the desired 
2000 mark, even during the war years," he 
came back to Brown for a vital assignment. 
He directed the campaign for $3,000,000 
endowment at the University, exceeding 
that goal by $750,000. 

Dr. Bumpus is survived by his widow, the 
former Ella Nightingale, and two sons, both 
physicians. Dr. Hermon Carey Bumpus, 
Jr. '12, of Pasadena, and Dr. Laurin Dudley 
Bumpus "22 of Beverly Hills. The father 
had entered a hospital in Pasadena, June 1 
and failed rapidly. The funeral, held in 
Boston, was attended by many Brown men. 
Official representatives were: Board of 
Fellows — Albert L. Scott '00, who suc- 
ceeded him as Secretary of the Corporation, 
Dr. Charles N. Arbuckle, and Chief Justice 
Fred T. Field '00; Board of Trustees — 
Homer N. Sweet '07; Administration — 
Dean Roland G. D. Richardson; Depart- 
ment of Biology — former Vice-President 
A. D. Mead, Prof. Philip H. Mitchell, and 
Prof. I. Walter Wilson; Associated Alumni 
—William P. Burnham '07. 

At Brown he was a member of Delta 
Phi, Phi Beta Kappa, and Sigma Xi, the 
latter society electing him president in 1933. 

In alumni affairs he was an active par- 
ticipant, both as leader and consultant. He 
energised the Alumni Fund, stimulated 



Advisory Council meetings, and helped 
relate the work of the Executive Committee 
of the Associated Alumni with that of the 
Administration. 

► A TELEGRAM to the sons from "old 
friends and associates" of Dr. Bumpus on 
the staff of. the American Museum of 
Natural History said, in part: "Remem- 
brance is here still green and flourishing, 
despite the long generation that has passed 
since he labored among us. Wherever he 
directed the light of his mind, he left per- 
petual illumination, a fact that applies alike 
to institutions and to the hearts of his 
fellow workers." Among the signatories 
were Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews, honor- 
ary '26; Dr. Frank M. Chapman, honorary 
'13; Wayne M. Faunce '21, and Dr. Robert 
Cushman Murphy '11. 

Recalling that Dr. Bumpus had served 
as President of the Brown University Club 
in New York from 1900 to 1908, the Board 
of Governors recorded their "profound 
sorrow and sense of loss" at its meeting 
June 24: "His dynamic, but always sym- 
pathetic and understanding nature and his 
steadlast adherence to sound, exemplary 
principles of business and personal conduct 
endeared Dr. Bumpus to all who had any 
association with him. The enduring in- 
fluence of his genius and warm personality 
was far-reaching. He was one of the most 
loyal, sealous, and hard-working alumni 
of Brown University. During his vastly 
fruitful life, Dr. Bumpus served many 
scientific, educational, and humanitarian 
causes with great distinction, but his long 
and distinguished association with the 
affairs of Brown University is outstanding." 

► Everett Colby '97, a powerful factor 
for reform in New Jersey Republican poli- 
tics for 30 years, died June 19. 1943 at 
Mountainside Hospital, Montclair, N. J., 
after an illness of three weeks. He was 68 
years old. 

Graduated from Browning School in 
New York, he came to Brown University 




WHEN DR. Bl'MPl S DIED, the widow of George S. Ellis '94 sent this 
snapshot to A. H. Giirney '07. Taken on the 50th anniversary of Dr. 
Rumpus' graduation, it also shows Dr. William C. Hill '94 of Springfield. 
ll;i".; Dr. Israel Straus '94, and Dr. Fred W. Marvel '94. 



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50 years ago this fall, to become an out- 
standing student scholastically and athletic 
ally. He was a football star, quarterback 
on the team of which John D. Rockefeller, 
Jr. '97 was manager, a member of the Cam- 
manan Club and the magazine board, and 
of Alpha Delta Phi. He was elected an 
honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa in 
1927. 

A faithful member of the Board of 
Trustees of the University from 1906 to 
1939, Mr. Colby showed his loyalty in 
many ways. As a member of the Board 
of Governors and as President of the Brown 
University Club in New York, he served 
"with rare ability and wisdom," in the 
words of the Board's resolution of June 24. 
"He was esteemed for his qualities of kind- 
ness and consideration for all with whom 
he came in contact," it said. "He won and 
kept the devotion of those who knew him. 
The attributes of mind and heart that en- 
deared him to us all and that made his name 
on our rolls an increasing cause of pride 
makes it indeed no common loss." Among 
Brown contemporaries at the funeral at his 
home, Llewellyn Park, West Orange, N. J. 
were: Mr. Rockefeller, Arthur M. Allen 
'97, Dennis F. O'Brien '98, and David 
Fultas '98. 

Mr. Colby was born in Milwaukee, De- 
cember 10, 1874, the son of Charles L. and 
Anna Sims (Knowlton) Colby. After 
graduation with a Ph.B. degree at Brown, 
he took his law studies at New York Law 
School and commenced practice in 1900. 
As a resident of New Jersey, he plunged 
into politics in that State. He was a member 
of the New Jersey House of Representa- 
tives, 1903-1904, and of the Senate, 1906- 
1909. 

► He was the founder of the insurgent 
movement in New Jersey, foe of the bosses 
and a determined, outstanding fighter for 
the regulation of public service corpora- 
tions. He declined a judgeship. In 1906, 
in conferring upon Mr. Colby the honorary 
degree of A.M., President Faunce charac- 
terized him as "a soldier of the common 
good, surrendering leisure and pleasure that 
civic virtue may become credible, and pub- 
lic office be held a public trust." He re- 
turned to the arena in 1934 to overturn 
another machine. 

Mr. Colby was one of Theodore Roose- 
velt's foremost adherents in Bull Moose 
days and was Progressive candidate for 
Governor of New Jersey in 1913. He was 
long a member of the Republican National 
Committee and chairman of the executive 
committee of the League of Nations Non- 
partisan Committee. He was active in sup- 
port of the World Court movement. 

He served under Herbert Hoover in the 
U. S. Food Administration here and abroad 
in 1917 and was a Major in the Officers 
Reserve Corps the following year after hav- 
ing volunteered as a private in the Tank 
Corps. He had travelled extensively in 
Europe, Egypt, India, and China, talking 
with political leaders in those parts of the 
world. His first trip abroad was on a walk- 
ing tour with Mr. Rockefeller. In 1934 on 
a visit to Germany he met Hitler, called 
him "unintelligent but not mentally de- 
ranged" in an article written for the N.eu> 
Yorl{ Herald Tribune's This Wee\ maga- 
zine, nationally circulated. 

At the time of his death, Mr. Colby was 
an inactive member of the law firm of 



Barry, Wainwright, Thacher and Sym- 
mers and director of the Norwich Union 
Indemnity and Eagle Fire Insurance Com- 
panies. During the last six years he had 
virtually retired from professional activities 
but continued to devote much of his time 
to the Rockefeller Foundation, where he 
had long served in a personal consultant 
capacity. Another association was as Presi- 
dent of the National Advisory Board of 
the Council of Moderation, formed, after 
the repeal of prohibition. Mr. Colby worked 
every day in recent months, writing his 
memoirs in longhand under a rigid sched- 
ule, which began at 4:30 a. m. and con- 
tinued until 10 or 11 a. m. Three weeks 
before his death he entered Mountainside 
Hospital, Montclair, with a heart ailment. 
He was a grandson of Gardner Colby, 
after whom Colby College was named. His 
father was a Wisconsin banker and railroad- 
builder. Surviving Everett Colby are his 
widow, Mrs. Edith Hyde Colby, former 
Essex County Freeholder whom he married 
June 30, 1903, and three children, Everett 
Colby, Jr., Mrs. Edith Colby deRahm, and 
Mrs. Anne G. Vanderhilt, wife of the 
former Governor of Rhode Island. His 
father, a graduate of Brown in 1858, served 
on the Corporation as Trustee and Fellow 
from 1879 to 1896. Gardner Colby, 
Trustee from 1855 to 1879, was another 
member of the family. Other Brunonian 
relatives were: Henry F. Colby '62, Louis 
H. Colby '89, Arthur Colby '91, who also 



died this summer, George Walworth '03, 
and Lefferts M. Dashiell '97. 
► In 1900 Mr. Colby established a re- 
union custom by "engaging a band of some 
20 pieces, purchased large Japanese fans 
and rattles for the entire class, and organ- 
ized a procession that stirred up the cam- 
pus and the ball game on Lincoln Field as 
they had never before been enlivened." 
His class's reunion was the largest ever held 
that year. Small wonder the Brown 
Alumni Monthly referred glowingly to 
this "unusual celebration" and "one of the 
most enthusiastic men of the class." 

Ready to help on all Brown occasions, 
Mr. Colby delivered the address in compli- 
ment to President Faunce's 30 years here 
in 1930 and presided at the meeting when 
President Barbour was presented to the 
alumni during his inauguration. 

The ~N.ew York_ Herald Tribune said edi- 
torially that though Mr. Colby's services to 
"great causes were constant and important", 
bis unwillingness to compromise and ma- 
neuver prevented him from reaching higher 
political office. "The politicians — at least, 
the parochial ones, in which the State of 
New Jersey has so often specialized — had 
scant use for such an upright, gallant 
figure." "He waited for no safe and 
cautious approach. To know that old free- 
doms and new progress were in issue was 
enough. At every barricade to advance he 
was the first to lead, the first to attack. His 
abilities matched his conscience and his 



courage. 



4 < 



► ► 



Brunonians Far and Near 



BY A. H. GURNEY '07 

Wednesdays in Providence 

► Continuing its series of weekly football 
meetings, the Providence Brown Club has 
engaged the use of a room at the Providence 
Biltmore Hotel for the showing of movies 
of the latest game. 

Luncheon cannot be served in connection 
with these meetings this year, but members 
of the club and their friends are invited to 
attend — Wednesdays at 12:45. Any alum- 
nus from out of town is especially invited 
to attend. ' 

Tuesdays in New York 

► Regular Tuesday luncheons for all 
Brown alumni in the New York area are 
now being held under the auspices of the 
Brown Club there. The invitation is ex- 
tended to members and non-members of the 
club. A buffet is served in the Dining Room 
Extension of the club quarters at 39 East 
39th St. at 12:45. The price: 80 cents or 
$1.11. < 

Chicago and Boston 
r Also Fridays in Chicago at the Real 
Estate Restaurant. And in Boston Satur- 
day noons in South Station Restaurant, i 

1868 

► ► Deacon William Ensign Lincoln 
recently preached a 3 5-minute sermon at the 
First Baptist Church of Sarasota, Fla. The 
Class Secretary reports Lincoln tired under 
the strain of standing, and adds: "He 
couldn't be sure whether the congregation 
got tired too, but has as yet received no call 
to a pastorate." 

1869 
Dr. George H. Felton wrote Jesse F. 



Smith '96, Alumni Recorder of Suffield 
Academy, in late August from his home in 
Berea, Ky., a few days before his 97th birth- 
day on Sept. 7. His handwriting is firm and 
and clear; he's in fair health for one of his 
years. In age, though not in class, he is 
Brown's oldest alumnus. 

1881 

Charles Evans Hughes, retired Chief 
Justice of the United States, made one of 
his rare public appeals when he spoke last 
month for the $15,000,000,000 Third War 
Loan. "The cost (of the war) is terrific," he 
said. "That cost must be met. It must be 
met by our dollars. No American whose 
heart is in our cause can permit himself to 
be self indulgent at the expense of our 
brothers, our sons and grandsons, who are 
putting all they have to risk in our behalf." 

1885 

About 400 "carefully selected books of 
Arabic literature and as many more in 
Sanskrit and other foreign languages" were 
donated to the Brown University Library 
through the will of the late scholar, Andrew 
McCorrie Warren. 

1887 

U. S. Senator Theodore Francis Green's 
bill to authorize the Treasury Department 
to make the greater portion of the Treas- 
ury's stockpile of silver available at 71.11 
cents an ounce for war uses and civilian pro- 
duction was signed by President Roosevelt 
in July. The President wrote his name with 
a silver-topped pen given Senator Green by 
the New England Mfg. Jewelers & Silver- 
smiths' Association. 



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1889 

After 50 years as physician and surgeon, 
Dr. Warren A. Simmons has retired from 
active practice and is enjoying his leisure at 
4306 45th St., Long Island City, N. Y. He 
is a Fellow of the American College of 
Surgeons. In his long career he has done 
duty at several of Brooklyn's best known 
hospitals and has taught anatomy at Long 
Island College Hospital. 
1890 

Rev. Albert E. Kingsley, pastor of the 
First Baptist Church, Yarmouth, Me., will 
complete his work this fall after extending 
his resignation at the earnest request of his 
parishioners. "Mr. Kingsley has served in 
many of our fine churches," said the Maine 
Baptist Messenger, "and it will be with re- 
gret that many learn of his retirement. 
The prayers and good wishes of his many 
friends will go with him in the years to 
come." 

1891 

Dr. James L. Wheaton is the new vice- 
president of Rhode Island Medical Society. 
He's also head of the executive committee 
of Pawtucket Memorial Hospital and medi- 
cal consultant at Providence Lying-In Hos- 
pital and the State Hospital at Howard, 
R.I. 

Capt. Donald E. Dunn, son of Herbert 
L. Dunn and Mrs. Dunn of New London, 
Conn., is school and classification officer of 
the cadet detachment at the AAF Flying 
School, Garden City, Kans. 

George J. Holden has two grandchildren 
in college — Norma Virginia Holden at 
Pembroke from Lincoln School and House 
in the Pines Junior College, and Wheaton 
Arnold Holden from Moses Brown School. 
Both entered in the summer. Their lather 
is Henry K. Holden '21. 

The Secretary sadly records the death of 
Arthur Hutchins Colby and Fred Wayland 
Woodcock. 

1893 

Robert M. Brown had the honorary de- 
gree of Doctor of Education conferred 
upon him at the June Commencement exer- 
cises of Rhode Island College of Education, 
where he was for many years Professor of 
Geology and Economic Geography and a 
beloved teacher. He gave the Cap and 
Gown address before the 1943 Seniors and 
their friends. 

Ens. Wilson Day, son of the late How- 
ard D. Day, was reported missing in August 
after the crash of a training plane west of 
Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Young Day left 
Harvard in September, 1942, to join the 
"Lexington Squadron" at Chapel Hill Pre- 
Flight School, N. C, and won his commis- 
sion a few weeks before the accident. His 
brother, Allen Day, is an Army air cadet; 
his mother, Mrs. Martha B. M. Day, lives 
at 88 Congdon St., Providence. 
1894 

Chancellor Henry D. Sharpe was chair- 
man of the citizens' committee that made a 
success of the special showing in Providence 
Sept. 9 of the film, "This Is the Army." All 
receipts from the performance went to the 
Army Emergency Relief. 

Dr. Morton C. Stewart, Emeritus Pro- 
fessor of German, Union College, reports 
two son'- in the Army, one a Lieutenant, the 
other a Sergeant. 

Your Secretary records with regret the 
death of Joseph Belfield Mclntyrc in Provi- 
dence, luly 211, 1943, .uul of Col. H. Anth- 



W hat a Dartmouth Man Likes 

► Nostalgic note in a news-story 
from a soldier in Sicily who had time 
to write for his old newspaper boss, 
Harold A. Kirby '27. He is Cpl. 
Jack Little, who happened for the 
first time on Amy Lowell's "Lilacs" 
while in Africa. 

"Sufficient to say that there is a 
great deal ol New England's best 
essence and flavor in the poem ... I 
like New England in general and 
Rhode Island in particular." And in 
a short catalogue of things he liked: 
"I like Brown Commencements 
(though I'm from Dartmouth)." 

Little is the son of Lester K. Little, 
now in Chunking as acting Inspector 
General of Customs for the Chinese 
Government. The father took his 
graduate work at Brown. i 



ony Dyer — "Corky" Dyer to classmates 
and to hundreds of the great Brown family 
— in Providence, Aug. 24, 1943. To their 
families the sympathy of us all is given. At 
the Sunday services at the Cathedral of St. 
John following Col. Dyer's death, Rt. Rev. 
James DeWolf Perry, Bishop of Rhode 
Island, spoke of the "glowing personality" 
of our classmate, and characterized him as 
"a distinguished layman and friend" whose 
"love for fellow men made him sensitive 
and responsive to human strength or weak- 
ness, as quick to help as he was to ridicule 
or admire." 

1896 

Ernest H. Mathewson, in foreign service 
with British American Tobacco Co. since 
1921, is at present in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 
where his house address is Caixa Postal 160. 
He expects to be there until the end of 
1944, his daughter, Miss Charlotte Mathew- 
son tells us. 

The Alumni Office has notified us of the 
death of John DeWitt Larry, former mem- 
ber of the Class, in North Adams, Mass., 
June 22, 1943. 

1897 

Rev. Dr. Joseph C. Robbins, in his sec- 
ond year as President of the Northern Bap- 
tist Convention, made a tour of Maine dur- 
ing part of the summer, speaking in various 
churches and meeting with many religious 
groups. His favorite lecture topic is a 
timely one: "Burma Road: A Link in 
Brotherhood." 

Mrs. Edith Colby de Rham, daughter of 
Mrs. Everett Colby and our late classmate, 
and Edward Grafmueller of New York and 
Detroit were married in the garden of Mrs. 
Colby's home in Llewellyn Park, West 
Orange, N. J., Aug. 26. Mrs. Grafmueller 
is a sister of Mrs. William H. Vanderbilt, 
wife of Comdr. William H. Vanderbilt, 
USNR, former Governor of Rhode Island. 
1898 

Dr. Thomas J. Burrage's son, Henry 
Dyer Burrage '33, is now 1st Lt., Anti-Air- 
craft Artillery, winning promotion in 
August. Dr. William Champlin Burrage, 
the younger son, is in North Africa with the 
6th General Hospital (Massachusetts Gen- 
eral Hospital Unit) and is "enjoying his 
work very much." Burrage, Sr., veteran of 
the First World War, is on call at the Med- 
ical Report Centre, Maine General Hospital, 
and is chairman of Medical Advisory Board 
No. 2, Selective Service. 



John A. Gammons and Mrs. Gammons 
have announced the engagement of their 
daughter. Miss Elizabeth Gammons, to Lt. 
(jg) William J. Hazam, USNR, of Nor- 
wich, Conn. Miss Gammons is a graduate 
of the University of Maine; Lt. Hazam of 
Columbia, with his A.M. degree in mathe- 
matics from the University of Michigan. 

Smith L. Multer is in the midst of his 
duties as President General, National So- 
ciety, Sons of the American Revolution, to 
which high office he was elected last May. 
The S. A. R. Magazine in its July issue car- 
ried a full-page picture of Multer and the 
text of his message, pointing out the society's 
opportunities today "with a resurgence of 
patriotism throughout the land." 

There's a new daughter in the family of 
Lt. and Mrs. Thomas E. Steere, Jr. Mrs. 
Steere is the former Mary Louise Sherwood, 
daughter of Herbert M. Sherwood '09 and 
Mrs. Sherwood. 

1899 

Capt. Gordon D. Hale, MC, USN, re- 
ports his present military address to be 
1102 duPont Bldg., Miami, Fla. 

Nathan W. Littlefield, assistant con- 
struction engineer of the New Haven Rail- 
road, has retired and is living in Sharon, 
Mass. He went with the New Haven im- 
mediately after graduation, and many rail- 
road men knew him as the company's key 
man on the big engineering jobs done in his 
area in recent years. Said Chief Engineer 
A. S. Tuttle: "I remember when Nate en- 
tered the employ of the company — in fact 



I hired him. Today I am 79 years old, and 
all the yot 
out on me. 



the young fellows seem to be running 



Charles C. Remington's son, William G. 
Remington '41, has been promoted to 1st 
Lt., Aviation Ordnance, and is serving 
overseas. 1901 

Dean Arthur Irving Andrews of the In- 
stitute of World Affairs Association is liv- 
ing at the Turn of the Road, Lower Warner, 
N. H. Association topics for 1943 include 
background of the world situation, Ameri- 
can interests in the world conflict, essen- 
tials for permanent peace, and specific prob- 
lems in the post-war world. 

Harold L. Madison, field secretary of the 
Audubon Society of Rhode Island, is co- 
author of "Nature Therapy at Butler Hos- 
pital," which appeared in the March issue 
of Recreation and which has been reprinted 
by the National Recreation Association for 
wider distribution. Madison set up the pro- 
gram for the mentally ill at the hospital in 
collaboration with Dr. Arthur H. Ruggles 
'29, honorary. 

A ruptured appendix sent Elmer S. 
Chace to Jane Brown Hospital, Providence, 
in mid-August. It was nip and tuck for 
days, your correspondent was told. But 
Chace is recuperating now and looking for- 
ward to his return to his law practice. 
1902 

Walter H. Woods is with the Army 
Transport Service, Port of Embarkation, 
Boston. 

J. Cunliffe Bullock, vice president of In- 
dustrial Trust Co., is again head of the 
Executive Gifts Division, Rhode Island 
United War Fund, Inc., for the 1943 cam- 
paign. President Wriston is the Fund 
chief. 

1903 

Arthur L. Philhrick, chairman of the 
Alumni Fund Trustees and an Alumni 



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Trustee of the University, is treasurer of 
the Rhode Island Society. Sons of the 
American Revolution, and Secretary of the 
Providence Chapter. He is now recuper- 
ating after an operation at Rhode Island 
Hospital in mid-September, and will soon 
be doing full duty on the Brown front and 
and along his other civic and social lines. 

William G. Collenburg has begun his 41st 
year with Mutual Life Insurance Co., 
Springfield, Mass. "His long association 
with the company," said the Springfield 
Union, "has covered the period of its 
growth from a comparatively small company 
to one of the great life insurance institu- 
tions of the country." His whole service 
has been with the home office in which he 
"occupies an important and responsible 
position." 

Bob, Tom and Ted, the three sons of 
Boatswain's Mate, 2/c, Robert Aldrich, 
USCGR, came home to Providence during 
the summer from Iran, where they re- 
assembled Lend Lease planes for the Rus- 
sians for 14 months. They had a lively 
time, Robert L. Wheeler reported in the 
Providence Sunday Journal, with Bob and 
Ted driving trucks at first. Bob later did 



electrical work, and Tom had a job in per- 
sonnel. They didn't see an enemy plane, 
but they had plenty to battle with — heat 
(134-175 degrees), dysentery, rain, and 
native beef. Tom Aldrich is now in the 
Navy, hoping to emulate his father. 

1905 

Colgate Hoyt's new rank is Lt. Col., 
AUS. Colgate is on duty at the national 
headquarters of the Selective Service Sys- 
tem, 21st St. and C St., N.W., Washington. 

Rev. Hinson V. Howlett was a summer 
preacher at the Fourth Baptist Church, 
Providence. Howlett has begun his sixth 
year as pastor of Conklin Avenue Baptist 
Church, Binghamton, N. Y. 

DeWitt C. Eggleston is a member of the 
firm of Wilfred Wyler 6? Co., Certified 
Public Accountants, with his office at 60 
East 42nd St., New York, and his house 
at 157 Griffin Ave., Scarsdale, N. Y. 

"Seems rather nice actually to live in 
Providence," says Fred Schwinn, who came 
to town in early summer after having been 
a resident of Attleboro more than 30 years. 
Mr. and Mrs. Schwinn are at 142 Humboldt 
Ave. 



Fifty-five members of Wilmette Baptist 
Church, Wilmette, 111., of which Rev. 
George D. Allison is pastor, were in the 
armed services of the United States at 
Easter time; and the names of David R. 
Allison and Thomas D. Allison led all the 
rest. 

1906 

Rev. Horace E. Chandler is teaching 
descriptive geometry, engineering drawing, 
surveying, and history of education at Whit- 
worth College, Spokane, Wash. For the 
past year he has also served as pastor of 
Whitworth Presbyterian Church. Both his 
sons are in service, each with the rank of 
Captain. 

George A. Claflin, son of President 
Albert W. Claflin of Rhode Island College 
of Pharmacy, is a Freshman on the Hill. 
1907 

Fred S. Auty and Mrs. Auty will soon 
be settled in Boston, where Fred will con- 
tinue his work for the Anti-Trust Division, 
Department of Justice. He and Mrs. Auty 
left San Francisco by motor car Sept. 7 for 
the cross country trip, "subject to three 
short stopovers en route and also subject to 
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► ► 



1908 Has its Own "Sentinel" 



► ► As far as we know, it's unique in the 
history of American journalism and college 
classes. At any rate, the Class of 1908 has 
its own weekly news column in that estim- 
able Rhode Island paper, the 7\(eivport 
County Sentinel. 

It's easy to trace the responsibility, of 
course, when you observe that the mast- 
head carries the name of C. LeRoy Grinnell 
'08 as editor. He also writes a column called 
"Grinnell's Gleanings", which he sometimes 
confuses with the other one called "Brown 
1908 News", but they're both lively, 
opinionated, and highly readable. 

Perhaps it all started when Editor Grin- 
nell became enthusiastic about the oppor- 
tunity which the Brown Alumni Fund had 
this year. He advocated helping the Uni- 
versity through this medium in a page one 
editorial, inviting any of his constituency 
to become honorary members of the Class 
of 1908 and contribute to the Class's share 
of the Fund. The campaign received recur- 
ring publicity thereafter until the benedic- 
tion to Chairman Arthur L. Philbrick '03 
in the headline "NICE WORK, ART." 

The column of Class news followed the 
reunion dinner of 1908 and has brought, we 
hope, a rewarding number of subscribers 
to the Sentinel. Grinnell reports also that 
Dartmouth '16, Holy Cross '07, and other 
college men are reading the column "with 
real joy." 

It's a great column. In it, Grinnell sings 
the praises of the Brown of today and the 
Brown of 1908. He sends an open letter to 
Federal Communications Commissioner 
Norman S. Case 'OS, asking him to take 
Superman off the air. Former Congress- 
man John O'Connor '08 voices his solemn 
concern over the domestic situation. The 
editor told the story of the Marine on 
Guadalcanal months before Mrs. Roosevelt 
put in on the newsreel. H. Thornton Peace 
'07, Block Island weather expert, explains 
the dilemma of his Class allegiance. Grin- 
nell tells tales about his former roomm.ili . 
Clif Hubbard '08, Herbert M. Sherwood 
'09, "Crummy" Watson '07, Dr. Ernest 




EDITOR GRINNELL 

Milton Watson '07, who played "Charley's 
Aunt", Rev. Edgar Brightman '06 and Rev. 
Walter E. Woodbury '07. Col. S. S. Wins- 
low writes from a California air base that 
the Sentinel is "much more readable than 
the regular Brown Alumni magazine, par- 
ticularly for the 1908 group"(!) James H. 
C. Marston of New Bedford assures him 
it's nice to have pleasant memories stirred 
up. The editor tells Rev. Woodbury S. 
Stowell of Henniker, N. H., that he has 
many sorry recollections ol that town, where 
his uncle still lives and where Rev. Albert 
L. Thomas '08 says so has he. Prof. Harlan 
T. Stetson, the astronomer, sends a strong 



forensic against the "Mobilization of 
Science" Bill in the Senate and praises 
President Wriston for expounding "the 
basic principles of our democracy." There 
is a compliment for Capt. Edgar L. Marston 
of the Air Transport Command for receiv- 
ing from General Giraud the French Croix 
Noire de Bennin. (His father is Hunter 
L. Marston '08.) The editor mourns the 
passing of such distinguished Brown men as 
Zechariah Chafee '80, an "irreplaceable 
stalwart "; Everett Colby '97, one of "the 
type of Brown men which has made the 
University famous the world over"; and 
the dynamic Dr. Hermon Carey Bumpus 
'84. Class President Benson R. Frost 
apologizes for missing the reunion merely 
because he was in the hospital after an 
operation. John J. Cooney applauds the 
column. Percy A. Shaw, Superintendent 
of the Manchester Water Works in New 
Hampshire, is assured that his water did 
not kill the editor's brother, who died while 
passing through Manchester. Prof. Harry 
Wolcott Robbins, Chairman of the English 
Group at Bucknell, sends along a copy of 
his fine text, "Developing Ideas into Essays 
and Speeches" and gets a resounding plug. 
Haven Cobb, who went from Brown foot- 
ball to engineering in Korea, reports from 
California that his son is in the thick of 
the war. E. I. LaBeaume writes on the 
stationery of The Explosives Engineer, of 
which he is managing editor. Irving's son, 
Philip, torpedo instructor at Newport, even 
went to Tiverton to enjoy the Grinnell 
family hospitality. Les Swain and Bill 
Browne, Professor of "Bugology" at C. C. 
N. Y., are knighted for getting the 1908 
Fund contribution over $10(mi foi the ln^t 
time (and Grinnell was reminded ol Ins 
own part in that feat). And even a col- 
league, Ralph McPhee '07, publisher of 
the Washtenaw County Post -Tribune of 
Ann Arbor, Mich., writes to confess his 
admiration lor this 1908 novelty . . . And 
so it goes. 

We join with his classmates in saying to 
Grinnell: "Long May He Glean 



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official stops in Washington." During the 
summer Fred was in the New York area on 
an emergency assignment, but was unable 
to come to Providence. He had lunch with 
H. B. (Sal) Keen in New York, reporting: 
"Sal hasn't changed much except he has 
lost 50 pounds." 

Publisher R. W. McPhee — yes, that's 
the correct title is running the Washtenaw 
Post Tribune in Ann Arbor, Mich. We 
had a fine letter from him in August, telling 
the story of his purchase of the paper and 
que. ting the slogan of the Michigan State 
Police: "We don't make much money, but 
we have a hell of a lot of fun." The Post- 
Tribune, founded in 1847 as a German 
language newspaper, changed into English 
in 1918, and "from 1936 to 1939 went to 
pot." Then Mac took it over, found a 
printer, and began putting the paper back 
on its feet. He's doing a real job, too, and 
we read with interest and appreciation the 
copy he sent us. His son is a co-pilot for 
American Airlines. His two daughters are 
married. "Each has a son, so I'm a grand- 
father twice removed," Mac added. 

Charles R. Stark, Jr., is "doing just about 
everything" on the Spo^esman-Rei'ieu*. 
Spokane, Wash., where he has the official 
title of sports editor. "You should see our 
staff — mostly girls with no previous experi- 
ence," he wrote Al Gurney. Brenton, his 
second son, "is a radio man on an aircraft 
carrier and has been all over the South 
Pacific and then went through Attu." 
Charles, the oldest, is a reserve officer, but 
his hay fever has kept him on the sidelines 
to date. Bill, the youngest boy, has been 
working in a defense plant, and "Mary 
Barbara is doing her bit teaching in a 
nursery defense school." 

Capt. Griffith E. Thomas, MC, USN. 
gave up command of the Newport Naval 
Hospital in August to assume new duties 
at Norfolk Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, Va. 

Cpl. Myron H. S. Affleck, Jr., is with the 
654th Engineers at Camp McCoy, Wis. He 
and Mrs. Affleck have a son, born Aug. 7 
in Detroit, Mich., which makes our Spike 
and Mrs. Affleck of Portland, Me., the 
latest addition to the class's list of grand- 
parents. 

Dwight W. Robinson reports a change 
of address from West Newton to 31 Con- 
cord Ave., Apt. 45, Cambridge 38, Mass. 
1909 

Henry E. Fowler and Mrs. Fowler of 
West Barrington have announced the en- 
gagement of their daughter. Ens. Elisabeth 
Fowler, USNR, to Lt. Cutter G. Collins, 
USNR. Ens. Fowler, who attended Pem- 
broke College and Colorado College, en- 
listed in the Naval Reserve last October. 
Lt. Collins, who went to Yale, was with 
Eastern Airlines before being called to active 
duty in June, 1941. 

Edward J. Hollen and Mrs. Hollen of 
Providence and Brunswick, Me., have an- 
nounced the engagement of their daughter. 
Mi« Jane Rayher Hollen, to 1st Lt. John 
H. Slattery, USA, son of the late John H. 
Slattery '01. Miss Hollen was graduated 
from Pembroke College in 1940; Lt. Slat- 
tery is Brown '38. He studied at Cornell 
Law Schoil and Boston University Law 
School before entering service. 

Col R B. (Rex) Cocroft, CAC, is with 
the War Department Man Power Board, 
IX Section, the Whitcomb Hotel, 1231 
Market St . S.m I rancisco, and lives at 145 



Monte Cresta Ave., Oakland, Calif. Rex's 
son, graduate of U. S. Military Academy last 
June, is in the Field Artillery, and his old- 
est daughter is in the Signal Corps, sta- 
tioned in Washington. 

Don Jackson is at Quonset Naval Air 
Station, "not in service, owing to the age 
limit, but doing civilian work important to 
the Navy." Don's house address is 30 
Howard St., West Barrington, R. I. 

Al Leach's boy, George M. Leach, has 
been elected President of the Senior Class 
at Brown. 

1911 

Maj. J. M. Howarth, CE, is Post Engi- 
neer, Army Air Base, Brownsville, Tex. 

Miss Nancy Emily Dane, daughter of 
Earle B. Dane and Mrs. Dane, and Lt. (jg) 
Donald Victor Osborne, USNR, of Eudora, 
Kan., were married in St. Luke's Church, 
East Greenwich, July 24, 1943. Lt. Earle 
B. Dane, Jr., '41 was best man, and Miss 
Ruth A. Dane was flower girl. 

Your Class Secretary, Capt. Charles P. 
Sisson, graduate of the School of Military 
Government, Charlottesville, Va., is some- 
where overseas. 

Earle B. Arnold is practising law at 1002 
Union Trust Bldg., Providence, and is 
Probate Judge of Scituate, where he has 
also served on the Town Council and as 
Town Solicitor. Last June he married 
Doris Cady. He and Mrs. Arnold are liv- 
ing in North Scituate. 
1912 

Maj. A. C. Eastburn, AC, is on duty at 
Hq, Army Air Forces, Washington, where 
his office is at 4E 1029, Pentagon Bldg. 



John T. Winterich, with the Army's 
Bureau of Public Relations, Washington, 
has received his eagles and is now a full 
Colonel. 

Busy as he has been with the engineers 
in North Africa, Capt. Wiley H. Marble, 
CE, has found time to write us several ob- 
serving and informative (as far as the cen- 
sor will allow) letters. He's been looking 
for Brown men, but when he wrote in mid- 
August he said he hadn't seen any. His 
address is Base Hq, Engineer Section, APO 
763, Postmaster, New York. 

Dr. W. Randolph Burgess, vice-chairman 
of the National City Bank of New York, 
has been elected to the board of Virginia 
Fire and Marine Insurance Co. As chair- 
man of the War Finance Committee of New 
York State, he got a great hand from 22,000 
persons in Madison Square Garden the 
night of Aug. 31 when he announced 
$707,784,820 in bonds were sold in the 
Greater New York area during the first two 
days of the Third War Loan Drive. 

President Ernest I. Kilcup of Davol 
Rubber Co., Providence, is a newly elected 
member of Davol Quarter Century Club. 
His 25 years of service were rounded out 
during the summer. At a surprise gathering 
at the plant he not only received the 
Quarter Century Club emblem, but also a 
gold cigarette case and a testimonial book 
containing the signatures of all his em- 
ployes. Walter Goss, receiving clerk, who 
has been with the company 57 years, en- 
rolled him as a Club member. 



They Wrote of the Coach 



Representative of the mail to the 
Alumni Office apropos of the 
death of Coach E. Leo Barry: 

► ► Yes, here's the place we used to find 
him 

Amply eased in the old oaken chair; 
And long before we could become aware 
Of all the watching memories behind him 
Hanging faithful on the whitewashed wall. 
He'd say. "Hello, there. Bud. Come in!" 

now all 
The echoes hush; the silence says a prayer 
For faded days when we were here before, 
Those times which now we know were 

nothing more 
Than studied hours so steeped in many 

dreams. 

► And he became a part of all those days 
With guidance for our labors in the ways 
To gain achievement in our sports and 

schemes. 
With watch in hand that ticked apace each 

heart 
He'd scan us all before our race would start, 
And blend our failings with a mite of praise. 
The while we churned the water with a will 
That lent our eager efforts ev'ry skill. 
His was an artful nature, one that knew 
A mind may help what others strive to do. 

► His heart had travelled ev'rywhere with 
clear 

Affection for the boys who now are men. 
Yet do not grieve. We know that he is near, 
When lusty shouts and laughter sound 

again 
Within this silent room. It will be then 



That we remember, as we found him here, 
His rounded face relaxed into a grin 
That said, "Hello, there, Bud! Well, come 
on in!" i 

Frederick Cook '3 5 

Newark, N. J. 

> The passing of Coach Barry brings 
memories to hundreds of us who had the 
rare good fortune to associate with him as 
undergraduates. As alumni, we have al- 
ways found a genuine friendly welcome at 
Colgate-Hoyt Pool. No feature or phase 
of Brown changed so little over the years 
as has the Coach. To visit him was to pick 
up where we stopped six months, a year, 
five or ten years before. 

I had the particular good luck to visit the 
Coach twice at Camp Wallula this summer. 
In his usual good spirits, and a picture of 
health, he drove us to our train the alter- 
noon before his death. We talked of many 
things and (this is my reason for writing) 
he had a word to say about literally dozens 
of alumni; many of them swimmers, of 
course, from Mark Coles, Tony Hull and 
Jack Munroe to Matt Soltysiak and Phil 
Carson. He kept track of the years by the 
swimmers on each of his teams, and he 
has proudly followed the progress of most 
of us since Commencement. 

I feel that many of the boys will get a 
lift, as I do, out of the Coach's loyalty to 
all of us. i ^ 

L. P. L. '28 
Wilmington, Del. 



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1913 

Alfred B. Lemon's daughter, Miss Mary 
Anna Lemon, and Lt. (jg) Richard W. 
Meyer, USNR, of Great Neck, N. Y., were 
married at the Lemon home in Providence, 
July 17, 1943. Miss Mary Elizabeth Bullock, 
daughter of J. Cunliffe Bullock '02 and 
Mrs. Bullock, was maid of honor. Mrs. 
Meyer is a graduate of Connecticut College; 
Lt. Meyer of Yale. 

Ira Lloyd Letts is a member of the hoard 
of Gilbert Stuart Memorial, Inc., the society 
which has charge of the famous painter's 
birthplace in Rhode Island's South County. 

Walter H. Garrett had a part in the 
spring, he tells us, in the Army Program 
over Radio Station WEAF, and adds: "Be- 
lieve me, that was one time when Professor 
Crosby's course in public speaking came in 
handy. ' 

Sabin C. Percefull, who received his A.M. 
degree with us at Commencement in 1913, 
is President of Northwestern State College, 
Alva, Okla. 

Maynard E. Wright is a member of the 
executive committee of the Brown Club of 
Western Maine for 1943-44. 

The gift of 60 specimens of fine printing 
from California private presses is acknowl- 
edged in the September issue of Boo\s at 
Brown, publication of the Friends of the 
Library. The donor was Dr. Louis I. 
Newman. 

The Alumni Office has received word of 
the death of Dennis Francis Barry on Dec. 
12, 1941. He died of pneumonia following 
a train accident and a leg amputation. Born 
in Warren, Mass., Jan. 11, 1891, the son 
of James and Catherine Buckley Barry, he 
was at Brown for the first two years of his 
class's four before transferring to Columbia. 
He played Freshman football as a guard 
and was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fra- 
ternity. 

Mr. Barry was a Captain in the Army 
Reserve following service in the first World 
War. He was thereafter Chief Engineer of 
the Federal Barge Line and of the Howard 
Ship Yard and Dock Co. At the time of 
his death he was on duty at the Glenn L. 
Martin Aircraft Corporation, Baltimore, as 
Assistant Engineer in the War Department, 
assigned to the Eastern Division of the Air 
Corps. He was a member of the American 
Legion, 40 and 8, Military Order of the 
World War, and the American Society of 
Marine Engineers and Naval Architects. 

His widow survives him, the former Ruth 
Ellis, whom he married Oct. 5, 1918, and 
two daughters, Ruth Ellis and Frances. 
Mrs. Barry's address: c/o British Army 
Staff. 1901 K St. NW, Washington, D. C. 
A sister is Mary A. Barry of Worcester. 

1914 

Comdr. H. Edward Dow, USNR, is on 

duty at the Navy Yard, Pearl Harbor, T. H. 

Joseph E. Cook is Judge of the 2nd Judi- 



Check for Five Million 

> "Fivf. Million on One Check." 
was the caption of the picture in the 
Providence journal one morning last 
month showing Ralph R. Crosby '26, 
vice-president of Old Colony Co- 
operative Bank, giving a War Bond 
salesman the bank's check lor that 
neat sum for bonds of the Third War 
Loan. ^ 



cial District Court of Denver, and will soon 
observe his first anniversary on the bench. 

Morgan W. Rogers and Mrs. Rogers 
have the sympathy of the Class in the loss 
of their son, Morgan W. Rogers, Jr., who 
died Aug. 13 in Providence after one day's 
illness of meningitis. Young Rogers, in his 
1 6th year, was a student at the Avon School, 
Avon, Conn. 

Maj. Earl H. Walker, OC, is back in uni- 
form, picking up, more or less, where he left 
off as an ordnance officer in the First World 
War. His mail address is 1016 1-2 Minerva 
Ave., Durham, N. C. 

E. Pulver Cook's son, Myles M. Cook, is 
a Freshman on the Hill this fall. 

1915 

Miss Janet Augusta Paine, daughter of 
Capt. George T. Paine, USN, and Mrs. 
Paine ot the Boston Navy Yard, and Lt. 
(jg) Jonathan Arnold Barker, USN, were 
married in Christ Church, Cambridge, 
Mass., Sept. 4. Mrs. Barker is a student at 
Wheaton College: Lt. Barker is a graduate 
of the U. S. Naval Academy '42. 

Harvey G. Denham, President of Cali- 
fornia Commercial Co., subsidiary of Stand- 
ard Oil Co. of California, is living at 11 
Paddington Rd., Scarsdale, N. Y. His office 
is at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York. 

Dr. M. J. Lossow and Mrs. Lossow have 
announced the marriage of their daughter, 
Miss Essie Leah Lossow '41, Pembroke Col- 
lege, to Pvt. Lawrence L. Morvay, USA, 
June 19, 1943. Mrs. Morvay is continuing 
her studies at Woman's Medical College of 
Pennsylvania. Pvt. Morvay is a graduate 
of City College of New York '42. 

Edward J. Corcoran of Newport has been 
re-appointed to the Rhode Island Board of 
Bar Examiners for the term ending March 



Pat Kenny's Gunners 

> Maj. Robert W. (Pat) Kenny 
'2?, FA, was one of the key men 
behind the American guns that 
blasted the Japs out of New Georgia 
and its Munda airfield. "Neatly- 
mustached Major Kenny was a 
Brown University philologist 'in love 
with lovely letters' when his National 
Guard regiment was called into serv- 
ice. His love for literature now ranks 
second to his infatuation for his 
guns," wrote Leif Erickson, AP 
war correspondent. Pat's interview 
(Honolulu dateline) in which he 
said some Japs did not fight "until 
the last bullet" was also widely 
broadcast. ^ 



3, 1948. Fellow members include Chair- 
man Chauncey E. Wheeler '08, Secretary 
Fred B. Perkins '19, and Frederick W. 
O'Connell '04. 

1916 

Paul B. Metcalf has been training for 
AMG since reporting at Ft. Custer, Mich., 
early in August. In the First World War 
he was a field artillery officer. His son, Paul, 
Jr., star swimmer, is a student at Harvard 
Medical School and as such a Private in the 
Army. 

Percy W. Sarle's family is growing up, 
as witness this revealing paragraph from a 
letter which we were happy to receive in 
the summer: "Richard is now 21 and is 
taking his last semester's work at Brown, 



Southwest Pacific Poet 

► Lt. (jg) Louis C. Sigloch '40, 
LISNR, said in a summer letter to 
Dean Arnold: "Just to say hello and 
let you know the Brown University 
Club of the Southwest Pacific is still 
going strong. Since being here I've 
met the following Brown men on 
duty out this way: George A. Stuck- 
ert '42. Joe Finkelstein '40, Shelley 
Noyes '38, Charlie Barstow '40, 
Howie Hunt '40 (war correspond- 
ent) Pat Hayes, B. Constantine, and 
several others whose names I can't 
recall at present. 

"Am enclosing a poem I wrote 
down here — which will show you 
what a trip to the tropics will do to 
a baseball player. Don't know wheth- 
er to blame it on the tropical sun 
broiling my brain or just the heat 
boiling out the poet in me." < 



in the NROTC and on inactive duty until 
he gets his degree. Rodney is 18 and in his 
second semester at Brown, on active duty 
with the Naval Reserve. Alan is 12 and has 
six years to go before he will be ready for 
college. Richard is nearly as tall as I am; 
Rodney is taller; and Alan is nearly as tall 
as his mother." The Sarles live at 2 Erchles 
St., Rumford, Me. 

1917 

Col. Joseph E. Maguire, member of the 
Providence Board of Canvassers and Reg- 
istration, has been appointed to the Emer- 
gency Advisory Committee of Phi Kappa 
Fraternity by National Supreme Secretary 
Frank L. Chinery of Cincinnati, O. 

John Mayo is with the New York office 
of Radio Advertising Co., to which he went 
last month after resigning from Associated 
Recorded Program Service. A radio pio- 
neer, he's been broadcaster, program direc- 
tor, promotion man since the early 20's. 

Lt. Col. John R. W. Hall, who trans- 
ferred in the summer from Field Artillery to 
Anti-Aircraft Artillery, has been at Camp 
Wallace, Tex., we learn. "Jack went into 
the hospital soon after he arrived here," a 
correspondent wrote in mid-August, "came 
out, and is now back in again." 

The marriage of Miss Barbara Cornell 
Hunt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter M. 
Hunt, and Alan Ward Butler, fireman 1/c, 
USNR, son of Ward E. Butler and Mrs. 
Butler, took place at the parsonage of Paw- 
tuxet Baptist Church, July 29, 1943. 

Your Secretary records with regret the 
death of A. Lincoln Abel, insurance man, 
in Providence, Aug. 21, 1943, after a long 
illness, and gives the sympathy of the Class 
to his family. A son is Robert B. Abel, 
Freshman at Brown this semester. 

1918 

Lt. Col. Zenas R. Bliss, AA, came back to 
Providence and the campus last month on 
unexpected (and well appreciated) fur- 
lough from Camp Wallace, Tex. He told us 
Lt. Col. Dwight T. Colley, Inf., last re- 
ported at Camp Gordon, Ga., had moved 
to "somewhere in Kentucky." 

Dr. Roy W. Benton is assistant medical 
director of Northwestern Mutual Life In- 
surance Co., Milwaukee, Wis., and "on 
Sundays acts as superintendent of the Sun- 
day School at the Unitarian Church," Ern- 
est T. Clough '20 reports. 



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Symbol to Safe 
► The Lanpher Cup, symbol of 
supremacy in interfraternity athletics, 
has gone into the safe for the dura- 
tion since such competition grows 
increasingly difficult to arrange. In- 
tramurals are set up on the basis of 
dormitories at present. 

Leslie E. Swain, director, an- 
nounced that the Cup had been won 
by Delta Upsilon in the 1942-43 
competition. The totals: Delta Up- 
silon 369. Delta Tau Delta 303. 
Phi Kappa Psi 220. Pi Lambda Phi 
212. Sigma Nu 182.5. Lambda Chi 
Alpha 177.5. Alpha Delta Phi 17?. 
Beta Theta Pi 168. Delta Phi 126. 
Psi Upsilon 121. Zeta Psi 110.7 Phi 
Gamma Delta 94. Delta Kappa Ep- 
silon93. Phi Delta Theta 83. Sigma 
Chi 23. Theta Delta Chi 17. 

The Lanpher Cup has been 
awarded for 16 years since 1927-28, 
most often to Delta Upsilon, six- 
time winner. ^ 



Vincent B. Hackett is in business for 
himself in Los Angeles, "financing farmers 
in Southern California." During the evac- 
uation of Japanese in his area after the war 
began in December, 1941, he acted as rep- 
resentative of the Federal Reserve Bank. 
"My daughter Janette is at present a Soph- 
omore at Pembroke," he wrote, and said he 
"would enjoy hearing from classmates visit- 
ing California." His house address is 5110 
Brea Crest Drive. 

Elijah Anthony is the new head of the 
legal department of the Farm Credit Ad- 
ministration in Kansas City, Mo., and his 
official title is Assistant Solictor, Depart- 
ment of Agriculture. When he went to 
Kansas City a year ago he was no stranger 
to the city, as he spent considerable time 
there in 1931 reorganizing the Kansas City 
Joint Stock Land Bank. He's living at 631 
West 67 Terrace. 

1919 

Lt. Col. Henry R. Dutton is assistant 
chief of staff, G-4, General Staff Corps, 
Camp Smith, Peekskill, N. Y. The Hotel 
Gazette of Aug. 7 told the story of his lively 
and varied career as hotel and club director 
from Providence to Boston, Chicago, Los 
Angeles, Albany, Coral Gables, and New 
York, where the Second World War caught 
up with him as general manager of the New 
York Athletic Club. He was a pilot in the 
Air Service in the First World War. 

Alton C. Chick has been named as a man- 
ager of the American Society of Mechanical 
Engineers for 1944. Al is a former Presi- 
dent of the Providence Engineering Society. 

Although John W. Haley's whole family 
"is vip to its ears in war front work," Jack 
admits he would "like to be back in uni- 
form on the actual front." Lt. John W. 
Haley, Jr., Inf., is with the 79th Division. 
Mrs. Haley is chairman of the Women's 
Division, War Savings Staff for Rhode 
Island: and Jack himself is State chairman, 
Aviation Cadet Committee, director of 
pageants and programs for war activities, 
and War Bond salesman. 

Lt. Col. Courtney P. (Cy) Young, USA, 
was in hospital at Camp Wallace, Tex., in 
late August, but moved out early last 
month, Lt. Col. Zene Bliss '18 told us. Cy 
had been on duty in the Canal Zone, where 



he picked up a bug that sent him to hospital. 

Henry T. Samson is with the War Man- 
power Commission in the office of the Area 
Director, 500 Fifth Ave., New York, and 
lives at 64 Fletcher Ave., Mt. Vernon, N. Y. 

Capt. Edgar J. Lanpher, AAF, was a 
summer visitor to the campus and one after- 
noon took retreat with Maj. Campbell and 
staff of the Pre-Meteorological Unit. Ed is 
in the administration branch of the Air 
Forces at Miami, Fla. 

1920 

Rev. Chauncey D. Wentworth is pastor 
of the Methodist Church, Orono, and direc- 
tor of the Wesley Foundation at the Uni- 
versity of Maine. 

George H. Rhodes is chemist with Kali 
Mfg. Co., which manufactures and applies 
finishes to military fabrics. His laboratory 
is at 1410 North Front St., Philadelphia, 
and his house at 603 Wyndmoor Ave., 
Chestnut Hill, Pa. 

We haven't heard from John Coggeshall 
for some time. One reason is that we didn't 
identify him as that good actar, Allen 
Tower. He's been a member of the company 
this year at Cambridge Summer Theatre, 
Cambridge, Mass., where a colleague has 
been Richard C. Hart '36. 

Said Lou Balatow in a recent letter en- 
closing subscription for the Alumni 
Monthly and the Brown Alumni Fund: 
"I imagine any man who has ever gone to 
Brown would be mighty unhappy if he 
couldn't keep getting the news of what is 
doing on the Hill in the splendid way it is 
presented through the Monthly. . . . And 
couldn't the Fund surpass (other college 
funds) if at this season of the usual college 
openings it solicited a contribution, no mat- 
ter how small, from every Brown man who 
has not given this year?" Lou's letter head 
gives his address, 515 Travis Bldg., San 
Antonio, Tex. 

Tom Vance, the Brown Herald-Record 
said in a summer issue, "has broken into 
print in the June issue of Esquire with a 
humorous piece called 'Patient Please Be 
Patient'." 

1921 

John R. Stevens is with the Central of 
Georgia Railway, "helping war work," and 
is living at 2105 Wynnton Drive, Colum- 
bus, Ga. 

John J. Muccio, last reported as first 
secretary of the United States Embassy in 
Panama, has been promoted in foreign serv- 
ice rating from Class 4 to Class 3. It's his 
seventh advancement since he entered the 
State Department in 1921. He's seen serv- 
ice in Germany, China, South America, 
and Washington. 

Harold B. Yeaton, manager of the W. T. 
Grant store in Davenport, la., has received 



Pollard anil Robeson 

► "Ohd that I'd be working in this 

room again," Fritz Pollard '19 said 
as he cast the show at the Cafe Zanzi- 
bar in the Winter Garden Theatre 
Building in New York. He went 
there in 1921 to introduce a friend to 
Florence Mills. He was a college 
griddcr who wanted to become .t pro 
fessional singer. Miss Mills gave him 
(he chance during her floor show, and 
he was a sensation. "That was Paul 
U.'K -nn." Ed Sullivan noted in his 
"Little Old New York" column. i 



Invasion Xf'eather 

► Lt. Comdr. John (Pinky) Corry 
'31, USN, who went from Brown to 
Annapolis, where he was active in 
tennis and boxing and captain ot 
soccer, was a key man in the invasion 
of Sicily. As expert meteorologist 
he made the weather forecast for 
July 9 — the eve of the invasion — 
"and the weather behaved exactly 
as he had predicted, contributing 
materially to the success of the op- 
eration." He's a Rhode Islander, a 
native of Saylesville, and his wife 
and two children, a son and a daugh- 
ter, live in that town. < 



the Silver Beaver Award of the Buffalo Bill 
Area, Boy Scouts of America, for his work 
as scoutmaster and in Big Brother probation 
work of the Davenport Y.M.C.A. 

1922 

A. D. Somes has been named assistant 
engineer of the Turbine Engineering Divi- 
sion, General Electric Co 's River Works, 
Lynn, Mass. Art began as a testing engi- 
neer at Lynn, and has been with the Tur- 
bine Engineering Division since 1923. 

Raymond T. Rich is Director of Inter- 
American Centres, Office of Coordinator of 
Inter-American Affairs, in Washington, 
where his office is in the Commerce Bldg. 
His preferred mail address is 60 Morning- 
side Drive, New York. 

H. B. Huntley is with Cox and Stevens 
Aircraft Corp., Mineola, N. Y. He gets his 
mail at Box 976, Glen Head, L. I. 

Sayles Gorham is chairman of one of the 
Providence ration boards with shoes as his 
special field. One of his assistants is A. H. 
Gurney '07, former Alumni Secretary. 

Four sons of '22 are Freshmen at Brown 
this fall — a number no other class can boast. 
They are Richard L. Pittenger (Harold L. 
Pittenger), Bloomfield, N. J.: Edward T. 
Litchfield (Arthur K. Litchfield), Strat- 
ford, Conn.; and Joseph Wilbur Riker (J. 
Wilbur Riker) and Bernard R. Pollock 
(David Pollock), Providence. 

1923 

Lt. Thomas G. Simmons, QMC, is "some- 
where in England" — or was when his V- 
mail letter came in August just nine days 
after mailing. "Am really enjoying it in 
spite of the fact that I miss my family and 
am damned homesick," Pete said, adding: 
"No luck yet in finding any Brown brothers. 
. . . Give my regards to any of the old 
gang you see. Don't suppose there will be 
much football this year." (We've already 
written Pete about the football set-up), 

Lt. Col. John H. Williams, special stu- 
dent with the Class, is stationed in Wash- 
ington. Before entering the Army, he was 
assistant treasurer of Marshall <i Williams 
Mfg. Co., Providence. 

Lawrence Lanpher and Arthur Bra'tsch 
are newly named vice presidents of The 
University Club. Providence, for 1943-44. 
Art is also head of the House Committee, 
and is an artist in absorbing complaints as 
well as an expert in handling all kinds of 
daily problems. 

1924 

('apt. M. M. (Molly) Meier, AAF. was 
with the 2 2nd Fighter Squadron in South 
Carolina when he wrote Bruce Bigclow in 
midsummer. 



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Ed Place's new mail address in Washing- 
ton is 2906 Naylor Rd., S.E. Naylor 
Gardens is a Government housing develop- 
ment; and Ed says "we have already formed 
a community association and I am helping 
out on publicity and recreation." Ed's real 
job is running Labor-Management A[ews for 
War Production Drive Hq. 

Luigi Capasso, lawyer, is candidate for 
re-election to the Providence School Com- 
mittee. 

Mark Flather, assistant treasurer of In- 
dustrial Trust Co., did the posing (and did 
it well, too) for the full page of pictures 
in the Gravure Section of the Providence 
Sunday Journal, July 1 1, showing the work 
of the Men's Volunteer Hospital Corps, 
members of which are on duty nightly in 
wards and accident room of the Rhode 
Island Hospital to relieve the help shortage. 

Phil Lukin and Mrs. Lukin were on the 
campus during the summer getting their 
son Dick safely settled as a member of the 
Freshman Class and talking of the war and 
Brown and such with Bruce Bigelow. 

Al Parsons is Sergt., USA, attached to 
the 38th Academic Squadron, Lowry Field, 
Denver, Colo. 

Lt. C. Russell Athern, USNR, reports a 
change of address from New York to 2023 
Q. St., N.W., Washington. 

1925 

1st Lt. Albert F. Cappelli is with the 
Amphibian Engineers in the South Pacific. 
A recent picture in the Providence Journal 
showed him standing before his tent out 
there in full fighting togs. 

Henry Welch is chief of the Micro- . 
analytical Division, Food and Drug Admin- 
istration, in Washington, and is living on 
Overlook Drive, Hillandale, Silverspring, 
Md. "Have a son, David Dickey Welch, 
born March 26," he wrote us. "He ought 
to enter Brown about 1961, Our daughter 
is now eight and is slated for Pembroke in 
"?3." 

Charlie Cuddeback's son Alva is the only 
son of the Class to enter Brown so far this 
year. Dick MacDowell, a cousin, is on the 
Hill with Alva. Besides Charlie, other 
Cuddebacks who have come to Brown are 
Christie '21, and A. Elston '29. A grand 
record for one family. 

Edson C. Lockwood is on the Faculty of 
Mt. Hermon School, Mt. Hermon, Mass., 
this fall, after having filled in for six months 
as mathematics teacher at Litchfield, Conn., 
High School. The Orient must seem far 
away to Ed and his family these days. 

Thomas J. Doughty, lawyer in Beacon, 
N. Y., has been appointed a Workmen's 
Compensation Referee in the New York 
State Department of Labor by Governor 
Thomas E. Dewey '38, honorary. 

Lt. Col. C. H. (Ty) Morhouse, MC, 
sends this laconic note: "Still with the C-in- 
C, GHQ, SWPA, and expect to stay until 
we enter Tokyo." Which means that Ty is 
in the middle of it with General MacArthur 
on the other side of the world. Life maga- 
zine's recent photos of MacArthur showed 
Ty in the offing. 

"Still putting my advertising experience 
gained on the Broiun Daily Herald to good 
use," writes Martin B. Rice. "Have been in 
advertising since graduation and since 1938 
with the Detroit office of Arthur Judner, 
Inc. 

Harry A. Hohman is working for Con- 
tractors, Pacific Naval Air Bases, with his 



headquarters in Port Hueneme and his 
home at 1 H Emma Ave., Ventura, Calif. 

Dr. Roland T. Bellows is physician and 
brain surgeon, with his office in the Pro- 
fession Bldg., and his house at 1812 Win- 
throp Ave., Charlotte, N. C. 

"Col. John A. Isherwood, MC, is doing 
a great job here," Capt. M. M. (Molly) 
Meier reported in the summer from an 




JACK AND THE CORNSTALK. 
One of the most successful Victory 

gardeners on Aldrich Field, popu- 
lar Trainer lleKinnon simulates 
industry for the I'holo Lab camera. 



American air base in southern waters. "He's 
largely responsible for the fine hospital here 
in the tropics. John is that rare chap 
among medicos, an organizer and a quiet 
fighter. He has advanced from Captain to 
Colonel during his stay here and is about 
to be relieved now that the hopsital is com- 
plete and running with magic smoothness." 
Thomas A. Wilson, who played on the 
Brown baseball nine in Freshman year and 
who transferred to Penn State, where he 
later played against Brown at Aldrich Field, 
died in Richmond, Va., June 22, 1943. 

1926 

2nd Lt. James M. Stifler, Jr., is at the In- 
fantry School, Ft. McClellan, Ala. 

Elmer R. Smith is supervisor of curricular 
research, a newly created post in the Provi- 
dence School Department. 

Frederick L. Wood reports: "Am back 
in my favorite field of teaching mathematics 
and am acting head of the department at 
Teachers' College, Bridgewater, Mass. I 
enjoy it here immensely." 

Stanley W. Hunt is assistant to the Di- 
rector of Personnel, Norton Co., manu- 
facturer of abrasives and grinding machines, 
Worcester, Mass., where Stan and Mrs. 
Hunt, the former Geraldine Chamberlin, 
live at One New Bond St. 

R. Franklin Weller has been named full- 
time director of the Rhode Island Seminar 
on Human Relationships, affiliate of the 
National Conference of Jews and Christians. 
He has his new office at ?8 Weybosset St., 
and will supervise the program of the 
National Conference in Rhode Island and 
nearby Massachusetts. Frank knows what 
it is all about, as he has been volunteer re- 
cording secretary of the seminar for four 
years. 

Edward R. Austin and Mrs. Austin, both 
Air Raid Wardens, had their pictures in 
full regalia, tin hats and all, in the Provi- 
dence Evening Bulletin, Sept. 11, showing 
them filling out their pledges and getting 
ready to deliver blanks to neighbors as the 
Third War Loan Drive began two days 
later. 

1927 

Lt. Col. Frederick B. Wiener, JAGD, 
has transferred from the War Department. 
Washington, to Air Force Hq, APO 708, 
Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif. 

Ralph C. Taylor is Assistant Professor 
of English, Norwich University, and lives 
at 66 South Main St., Northfield, Vt. 

W. L. Jack Nelson is with the WPB, 
Washington, and is getting his mail at 114 
West Leland St., Chevy Chase, Md. 

Charles S. Worden is Payroll Controller, 
Crown Fastener Corp., Warren, R. I., 
which is supplying parts and accessories for 
the Air Forces. 

Chief Specialist James E. Brennan, 
USNR, was master of ceremonies for "This 
Is the Navy," feature of the program of 
Sundays-in-the-Park, Providence, the first 
Sunday in September. Jim, you recall, was 
a radio announcer before going into the 
Naval Reserve. 

Lt. Arthur J. Barry, USNR, wrote us 
from Washington a month ago: "Have 
fortunately been able to dig up a billet for 
myself on one of those new small aircraft 
carriers and expect to be on sea duty by 
October." In August, 1942, Art was as- 
signed to the Walt Disney Studios at Bur- 
bank, Calif., as liaison for the Navy during 
production ol nine short films on aircraft 



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manufacturing methods. Starting from 
scratch, he finished the job in six months 
and returned to Washington in February 
to aid in distributing the films to manufac- 
turers of Navy planes. "I can now tell the 
difference between a propeller and the land- 
ing gear," he told us. His first work in the 
Navy was to "dream up" a monthly maga- 
zine for factory workers to expedite pro- 
duction. Wings was the answer. It's an alto- 
gether interesting magazine (we have just 
been reading a copy) with a current circu- 
lation of 90,000. 

Ed Bromage, Jr., has received commis- 
sion as Lt. (jg), USNR, and will put aside 
his plan to practise law until the war is over. 

1928 

"Jennifer Dixwell Goff" was the title 
under a picture in the Providence Sunday 
Journal. July 25, and the caption went on: 
"She is the month-old daughter of Capt. 
Dixwell Goff and Mrs. Goff of 36 Burling- 
ton St., Providence. Her father was a mem- 
ber of the Rhode Island National Guard 
for 1 5 years, but is now somewhere in the 
Pacific area." A Victory Baby, the Journal 
said, and added that a clipping of the pic- 
ture, with a finished print of the photo- 
graph, would be mailed to Capt. Goff "so 
that he can have a look (perhaps his first) 
at a likeness of the child." 

George C. Hoar, director of the Com- 
mercial Department, BMC. Durfee High 
School, Fall River, and instructor in Span- 
ish at Camp Edwards for soldiers and 
nurses preparing for embarkation, received 
the degree of Ed.M. from Rhode Island 
State College in June. 

An excellent picture of the Rhode Island 
Hospital Unit in India in the Providence 
Journal, Aug. 6, showed Capt. Robert G. 
Murphy, MC, looking fine and fit. 

J. Saunders Redding, author of "No Day 
of Triumph," which the reviewers praised 
highly at the time of publication earlier this 
year, is chairman of the English Depart- 
ment, North Carolina Teachers College, 
Elisabeth City. Jay, you may recall, was 
elected to alumni membership in Rhode 
Island Alpha, Phi Beta Kappa, last June. 

Herbert R. Mottshaw joined the staff of 
Burpee Seed Co., Philadelphia, the first of 
this month. Herb has been superintendent 
of the Interstate Tree Expert Co., West 
Warwick, for two years. He has also 
served as chairman of the Pawtuxet Valley 
War Recreation Board, chairman of the 
Price Panel, West Warwick Ration Board, 
President of Pawtuxet Valley Patrons of 
Music, and organist of Rivcrpoint Congre- 
gational Church. 

Edward J. Lawrence has joined the sales 
staff of Arrow Machine Tool Co., Provi- 
dence, with most of New England as his 
territory. 

Watson Wyckoff is in charge of construc- 
tion for Milbrook Realty Co., with his 
office at 14 Oxford Drive, East Hartford, 
and his house at 58 High St., South 
Glastonbury, Conn. 

John ('. Hamilton has changed his address 
from Bloomfield, N. J., to 87 Lewis Place, 
Rockville Centre, L. I 

Lt. (jg) Roger L. Arringdale apologized 
for a belated reply to a note from youi i 01 

I' hi "I've been away, hence the de- 
lay," he wrote in July. Not hard to under- 
stand when you know he's with a patrol 
,)ii. n Iron ,ii ,i ( 'oil ( In. nil |i,r-, 




BANKERS: Gifts of blood for Red Cross plasma were a contribution from 
Brown fraternities early in the summer. Delta Lambda Chapter of Sigma 
Nu was one of the first to aid the blood bank at the Rhode Island Hospital 
in this way. The photograph is used through the courtesy of The Delta of 
Sigma Dlu. Seven of the men are now in the armed services. 



Kent F. Matteson has been re-elected 
secretary and Louis B. Palmer treasurer of 
The University Club, Providence. 

Joseph L. Kostecki, M.D., was promoted 
to Captain, MC, USA, in August. His 
house address is 626 Leonard St., Brooklyn, 
N. Y., where he was practising until the 
war came. 

Lt. Edwin L. Howell, USNR, is at Bain- 
bndge Naval Training Station (the former 
Tome School) in Maryland. Ed's family is 
with him; and Ed and Loring Litchfield see 
each other frequently. Litch came to Provi- 
dence for Coach Barry's funeral. His boy 
was at Camp Wallula with the coach, and 
Litch and Mrs. Litchfield visited the camp 
and had a good talk with Leo just before 
his death. 

George E. Spofford, Jr., is an executive 
with Johnson c? Johnson, surgical supplies, 
New Brunswick, N. J. He was formerly 
agent at the Androscoggin Mills, Lewiston, 
Me. 

1929 

Lt. A. C. Cornsweet, USNR, and Mrs. 
Cornsweet were in Providence early last 
month on their way to Newport Naval 
Training Station, where Al is psychiatrist. 
He came from Parris Island, S. C, after 
nearly two years of service there, during 
which time he interviewed more Marines 
than he cares to recall. He brought greet- 
ings from Maj. D. O. McLaughry and Lt. 
R. E. (Red) Randall '28 and said he hoped 
to see the Brown eleven in action this fall. 

Donald C. Marschner is the newly named 
acting manager of H.O. Sales Promotion- 
Advertising Department, New York. H.O. 
is a unit of Shell Petroleum Products, with 
which Don has been identified since grad- 
uation. He moved up to his new post after 
two and a half years as assistant manager. 



Charlie Barnard's note tells all: "In- 
ducted into the armed forces of the U. S., 
Aug. 3, 1943. Upon assignment to an arm 
or branch of the services, will furnish more 
complete information." Charlie was prac- 
tising law in Manchester, N. H. 

Philip T. Maker is Assistant Professor of 
Mathematics, Duke University, Durham, 
N. C, where his mail address is Box 194, 
RFD 2. 

1930 

Capt. Bob. Uhl, Inf., has sent us an in- 
teresting, newsy letter from Ft. Benning, 
Ga. Bob left Batten, Barton, Durstine &? 
Osborn, national advertising agency, to join 
the 7th Regiment, New York, and later 
went to the General Staff, Washington. 
And so to Command the General Staff 
School, Ft. Leavenworth, Kan., where he 
was graduated twelfth in his class. Bob has 
a dairy farm in Salisbury, Conn., near the 
estate of Daniel Willard of the Baltimore ii 
Ohio Railroad. "That fact," he adds "led to 
some difficulty, as the local population 
seemed to think I was in the same financial 
class as Dan Willard, which I ain't." His 
family — he has a son and a daughter — live 
on the farm most of the time. 

N.B. — How about a report similar to 
Bob's complete one trom any classmate 
who hasn't written in some time? 

Phil Lingham came back to New Eng- 
land from Wapokoneta, O., for his vaca- 
tion. Saw him only for a minute or two, 
but he looked in shape and mentioned a 
recent promotion. 

Walt Holm, Jr., of Connecticut Mutual 
Life Insurance Co., is the newly appointed 
chairman for Rhode Island of the life 
underwriters' section of the Pay Roll Sav- 
ings Division, War Finance Committee, 
Treasury Department. 



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George N. Burns is the new manager of 
the W. T. Grant Co. department store in 
Rochester, N. Y. George, with the Grant 
Co. eight years, went to Rochester from 
Boston. He's married, has a son, Robert, 
5 years old, and a daughter, Sara, who will 
have her first birthday next Feb. 10. 

Jack Curtis, consultant for Scudder, 
Stevens &? Clark, investment counsel, at 10 
Post Office Square, Boston, is living at 62 
Stearns St., Newton Centre, Mass. 

It's 1st Lt. David C. Anthony now, Dave 
having been recently promoted at Camp 
Belvoir, Va. 

1st Lt. Charles S. Badgett, Jr., AAF, has 
been on duty at Miami, Fla., spending a 
good part of his time, L. P. Litchfield '28 
says, teaching basic Army subjects to re- 
cruits and military law to new officers. Ed 
Howell '28, Litchfield, and Charlie had re- 
union earlier in the year at Bainbridge, Md., 
where Howell is an officer in the Naval 
Reserve. 

HAL CARVER 
1931 

Lt. Comdr. William F. Murphy, MC, 
USNR, is optimistic. "My address for the 
duration," he reports, "will be Naval 
Mobile Unit No. 9, Fleet PO, San Fran- 
cisco, Calif." Bill is in charge of the psy- 
chiatry service of the unit. 

Lt. Frederick L. Harson, USNR, was out 
in Tacoma, Wash., during the summer, ac- 
cording to his old friend, Jack Martin of 
the Providence Evening Bulletin. Fred 
went from Quonset to Topeka, came back 
to Boston, and then headed westward again. 
"Now he's getting a look at the blue Paci- 
fic," said Jack, "maybe on a carrier or 
something." 

Frank E. Hemelright is assistant vice 
president of the First National Bank of 
Scranton, Pa., where he and Mrs. Hemel- 
right, the former Ruth Helen Theobald, are 
now at home at 1545 Sanderson Ave. 

Lloyd C. Briggs is general and cost ac- 
countant with Orkil, Inc., Higganum, Conn. 

1st. Lt. Bruce M. Docherty, QMC, is as- 
signed to the Legal Division, Office of 
Quartermaster General, Washington. Bruce, 
a lawyer in Providence before the war, 
came up from the ranks, having gone in as 
a Private in May, 1942. 

Pfc. Frank Merchant, USA, had one of 
his poems selected for "Reveille," a book 
of war poems "of our armed forces," for 
which John Kieran, Grantland Rice, and 
Daniel Henderson, made the choice and 
awarded prizes. Our own Win Scott, 



Arctic Weather Boss 

► Bob Sykes, Jr. '39 is certainly 
moving up. He's Major, AAF, now, 
in charge of Army weather stations 
in the Far North. Bob took com- 
mission in June, 1941, became Cap- 
tain in July, 1942. He has a Master's 
degree in meteorology from New 
York University. Remember what a 
weather bug he was while in college? 



Meat Man's ISetv Tack 

► Here's a newsy letter from W. R. 
Kinnaird '31 advertising promotion 
manager of American Meat Institute, 
Chicago. Sorry we can't quote more 
of it, but you will get the drift when 
Bill says "the line of public approach 
for the meat industry has changed 
abruptly since our famous 'This is 
Life' roast beef illustration was 
issued. It keeps us busy changing 
our tack, and our job right now is 
to try to help the public to a better 
understanding of rationing and the 
reasons for it." Bill sent the war 
version of that roast beef masterpiece 
of his, and as it hangs on the kitchen 
wall we look at it and wonder when 
we'll see a good roast again. 



literary editor of the Providence Journal 
didn't like the prize awards at all, named his 
preferences, Frank among them, and ended: 
"What most matters is that real, solid, bit- 
ing poetry by these men is included. They 
have made the real prize winners of this 
anthology." 

Lt. (jg) W. E. S. (Wecky) Moulton, 
USNR, wrote Dr. Bruce M. Bigelow '24 in 
the summer: "Enjoying my work very 
much — teaching and coaching boys. Have 
not been seasick yet." 

Jean K. Clarendon is purchasing agent 
for 1 1 hotels, with his headquarters at 
Hotel Salisbury, 123 57th St., New York. 
He's a commuter, living on Oval Drive, 
Riverside, Conn. 

Arthur B. Schweikart is doing personnel 
work for Federal Products Corp., Provi- 
dence, which is engaged wholly on war 
contracts. Art's new son, Walter Arthur, 
will be ready for Brown in '60 or '61. 

Rev. Kenneth L. Palmer of the Federated 
Church, Leicester, Mass., was commissioned 
last month Lt. (jg) in the Chaplain's Corps, 
USNR. He is on leave of absence from 
the church for the duration. While he's 
away his family will live at 92 Malvern Rd., 
Worcester, Mass., which will be his pre- 
ferred address, too. 

Richard H. Howland is with the Office 
of Strategic Services, Washington, doing 
some special work with pictures, we are 
told. His knowledge of Greece should be 
valuable. 

1932 

George W. Little is the new superin- 
tendent of printing and dyeing at the 
Pacific Mills, Lyman, S. C. George moved 
to Lyman from Hartsville, S. C, where he 
was in charge of production for the same 
company. 

Lt. (jg) Charles B. Krebs, USNR, was a 
member of the class graduated from Quon- 
set Indoctrination School, Aug. 27. He will 
serve as an aviation specialist for admin- 
istrative work with the Navy's air forces. 

R. A. (Rip) Hurley, Jr., has given up 
his real estate work for the duration to go 
to work for Walsh-Kaiser Co., ship- 
builders, Providence. Jack Walsh, you 
know, is one of the key men with the com- 
pany, of which his uncle is senior partner. 

Rev. Richard S. M. Emrich is rector of 
St. Anne's Church, South Lincoln, Mass., 
and Assistant Professor of Christian Ethics 
at Episcopal Theological School, Cam- 
bridge. He, Mrs. Emrich and their sons, 
Richard and Frederick, live at 2 St. John's 
Rd., in that city. 

Stanley P. Lamberton is an associate 
electrical engineer with the Signal Corps, 
War Department, and is working at Eaton- 
tontown Signal Laboratory, Ft. Monmouth. 
Hi- new mail address is 56 Court St., Free- 
hold, N. J. 

Robert E. Johnson is attorney for Rail- 
way Express Agency, Inc., with his office 



at 230 Park Ave., New York, and his 
house at 1 1 Woodbridge Place, Staten 
Island, N. Y. Bob holds commission as Cap- 
tain, USMCR. He's been in politics, too, 
having served in the New York State 
Senate, 1941-43. 

Capt. Edward J. Damarjian, MC, USA, 
is with the Rhode Island Hospital Medical 
Unit in India. The Providence Evening 
Bulletin published his picture Aug. 31 sit- 
ting in the rear seat of a jeep and looking 
healthy and fairly comfortable. 

Newly promoted to Lt. Col., MC, is 
Joseph E. Cannon, son of Brig. Gen. Fran- 
cis Cannon, USA (retired) and Mrs. Can- 
non of Providence. News of Joe's advance- 
ment came from Lt. Gen. Simon B. Buck- 
ner, Jr., commanding the Alaska Defense 
Command. 

1933 
Capt. Earle C. Hochwald, Ch.C, in a 
note from Camp McCain, Miss., says: "The 
Chaplaincy is a great experience. Am serv- 
ing as Asst. Divisional Chaplain and have 
my Captain's bars." 

Dr. Robert R. Chace is practising in 
New York and acting as instructor in 
ophthalmology at Columbia. 

Joseph E. Fanning was commissioned Lt. 
(jg) in Boston in August and classified 
A-V(S). 

Lt. Maxwell G. Hoberman reported early 
in the summer his transfer from the Air 
Transport to the Air Service Command "at 
request of my old outfit near Macon," and 
was then at Warner Robins Army Air 
Depot, Robins Field, Ga. "Happy to make 
change," he wrote. 

Leo W. Koster of the U. S. Public Health 
Service — Asst. Surgeon Reserve is his 
branch — has been on duty at the USCG 
Training Station, Ft. McHenry, Md. 

New home address for Capt. John E. 
Flemming, USA, is 180 Summit Ave., Apt. 
A-4, Summit, N. J. (John was overseas, ac- 
cording to our last information). And Gar- 
land B. Russell writes his address is now 
450 Pleasant St., Dracut, Mass. 

Anybody heard anything lately about 
Paul M. Palten, reported to be at OCS, 
AAF, Miami Beach, Fla., last spring get- 
ting set for a commission in July? Max 
Hoberman tells us Paul did Judge Advocate 
duties at Geiger Field, Wash., before going 
to Florida. 

1st Lt. Henry Dyer Burrage, AA, re- 
ceived promotion to his present rank in 
late August. He's been doing military in- 
telligence, we hear, and hopes to go to school 
to learn interpretations of aerial photo- 
graphs. Henry's hobby since boyhood has 
been cameras and photography. When he 
left college he made this hobby his business, 
specializing in cameras. 

1934 

Ens. John D. Petersen, USNR, is in the 
gunnery department aboard one of the 
Navy's big new ships. "A fine ship," Jack 
wrote in late July. "Keep your eye on her." 

William S. Brines is in Washington with 
the WPB, and lives at 1068 South Edison 
St., Arlington, Va. His title is Chief of 
the Hospital Section, part of the Govern- 
ment Division of WPB. Bill found a lot 
of New Englanders in his "hospital outfit," 
he wrote Jim Patton. He was assistant ad- 
ministrator of House of Mercy Hospital, 
Pittsfield, Mass., when he was invited to 
Washington to take his present post. 



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Lt. (jg) A. Frederick Haas, Jr., USNR, 
is with the Bureau of Aeronautics, Publica- 
tions Section, in Washington. "Have 
charge of the procurement of technical 
publications and data on airplane acces- 
sories," he explains. "My work necessitates 
considerable traveling to visit various con- 
tractors in the Mid West." Fred's son, 
Gordon Frederick, is going on four months. 
"A Brown man in 1960," Fred says. 

Capt. Walter J. Nelson, DC, is on duty 
at the AAF Training Command Radio 
School, Truax Field, Wis. Mrs. Nelson 
and he arc living in Madison. 

Cpl. Andrew J. Balkcly, USA, is sta- 
tioned at Ft. George Meade. Md., George 
Dickey said in an August note from 1415 
Parker Ave., Detroit 14, Mich. 

Clyde Gordon stepped out as secretary- 
treasurer of the Connecticut Valley Brown 
Club at the end of August. "Leaving Aug. 
28 for the Navy," was his valid reason. 

Jim Sedgwick wrote last spring — our 
fault for this delay — that he'd been "bask- 
ing in the limpid sunshine that is Hawaii 
for over a year. Two and a half years in 
active service. At the moment on special 
duty with G-2 at District Hq." 

William R. Johnson is treasurer of Hope 
Valley Mills, with his preferred mail address 
70 Elmgrove Ave., Providence. 

1935 

Dr. Robert L. Eddy has begun the new 
academic year at Tufts College as Assistant 
Professor of Chemistry. Bob went there as 
instructor after receiving his Ph.D. at 
Princeton. 

Ens. Nelson B. Record, USNR, former 
assistant employment manager of Brown ii 
Sharpe Mfg. Co.. has been in training at 
Ft. Schuyler, N. Y., with assignment to the 
Bureau of Ordnance. He's a new father. 

Tom Carberry has come home from 
Panama, entered the armed forces and is in 
training in Alabama. 

Bernard G. Pollak, Jr., is Assistant Field 
Director, American Red Cross, on foreign 
duty. 

Pfc. Theodore S. Daren is a member of 
the advanced ASTP unit for engineers at 
State College, Pa. 

G. Armand Morin is field representative 
for Pratt 6? Whitney Aircraft, attached to 
the 8th Army Air Force Service Command, 
Mrs. Morin has written us from Lake Mat- 
tawa, Orange, Mass. 

Lt. (jg) Benjamin A. Watts, Jr., USNR, 
is taking his indoctrination at Princeton. 
He resigned as assistant to the Rationing 
Director, Rhode Island OPA, to accept 
commission. 



Norman A. Smith is submaster at Thorn- 
ton Academy, Saco, Me. 

Edward G. Crosby, 2nd, is production 
control manager of Pantex Pressing Ma- 
chine, Inc., Pawtucket, but he still lives 
close to the campus at 29 Brown St. 

Ens. Walter L. S. Bopp, USNR, is with 
the Supply Corp, Navy Department, Wash- 
ington. He's married, too, as you may read 
in another column of this issue. 

Lt. (jg) Robert Jerrett, Jr., USNR. is 
in the Naval Air Transport Service. When 
he wrote us early last month — and the letter 
was the kind we certainly like to get — he 
was based at Jacksonville, Fla., but was 
anticipating "another move very soon." 
Mrs. Jerrett was the former Hope Janet 
Harkness '38, Pembroke College. Their 
son, Robert, 3rd, was born April 23, 1943, 
and Bob thinks he will be ready for Brown 
with the class of '65 or thereabouts. "Mrs. 
Jerrett and Bob are living at Port Washing- 
ton, L. I., and we are hoping strongly that 
my next assignment will make it possible for 
us to be together — for a while at least," 
Bob said. 

Thurston Spicer has completed the course 
in meteorology at New York University, 
received commission as 2nd Lt., and is serv- 
ing at Bedford, Mass. 

Pfc. Bernard Oster, with a medical unit 
in North Africa while the fighting went 
on there, had his picture and long excerpts 
from letters home in the Providence 
Bulletin. Aug. 6. He's been teaching 
swimming and life saving in his spare time, 
he said, and has seen a lot of the country 
out of which the Germans and Italians were 
chased. 

1936 

Lt. W. H. Eddy, MC, is commanding 
officer of the 678th Medical Hospital Ship 
Platoon (Separate) down in Louisiana. 
After graduating from Tufts Medical 
School, Warren was interne at Worcester 
City Hospital. Last April he married Miss 
Margaret Rose Hurley. Their house address 
is 92 Main St., Worcester. 

Geoffrey Graham is with Pratt ii Whit- 
ney Aircraft — "the most recent addition 
among four members of '36. The others are 
Lou Leonard and Ralph Tanner of the office 
force, and Paul Hagan, who is in foreign 
service." Geoff tried to put Armand Morin 
in with '36, but the records insist that 
Armand is '3 5. 

Paul Hagan, of whom Geoff Graham 
speaks as a Pratt &? Whitney Aircraft man, 
is out in Hawaii as service representative. 
His address there in midsummer was 240 
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Gardner E. Wheeler, Jr., is a mechanical 
engineer with the Fractional HP Division, 
General Electric Co., Ft. Wayne, Ind., 
where he lives at 533 Home Ave. He's 
a temporary member of the USCGR. 

Ted Tannenwald, Jr., is in England as a 
civilian attached to the AAF. "More than 
that I can't tell you," Ted wrote, "but I 
shall be gone for the duration." 

Staff Sergt. Donald S. Sherman, AAF, 
has received the Air Medal and Oak Leaf 
cluster for flights over enemy territory. The 
announcement, which came from Scott 
Field, 111., where Don trained as a radio- 
man, said he was overseas with the 8th 
Bomber Command — a surprise to his par- 
ents, Superintendent Warren A. Sherman 
of the Warwick, R. I. schools and Mrs. 
Sherman. 

Lt. Peyton W. Moss, USNR, spent a 
few days in New York last month after 
having taken part in the Sicily invasion. 
Now he's on the other side of the Atlantic 
again. 

Dr. B. B. Mongillo is assistant director 
of the Neuro-Psychiatric Department, 
Charles V. Chapin Hospital, Providence. 

Dick Hart was a member of the Cam- 
bridge, Mass., Summer Theatre, appearing 
as Henry Greene in "Strictly Dis- 
honorable." 

Lt. (jg) William J. George, USNR, was 
aboard the flagship in the Navy's offshore 
action in the invasion of Sicily, serving 
under Admiral Allan G. Kirk. As a mem- 
ber of the Admiral's staff, he had a share 
in working out the invasion plan — "a most 
enjoyable experience," he told reporters 
who interviewed him at his Pawtucket home 
in August. And Admiral Kirk wrote Bill 
commending him for "the zeal, energy and 
thoroughness you displayed in performing 
your duties during the planning and attack 
phases of the landing operations of the 
Western Naval Task Force in Sicily." 

1937 

1st Lt. William P. Horn, Jr., AAF, has 
been awarded the Air Medal for outstand- 
ing initiative in more than 200 hours of 
combat flying. Bill, we understand, is a 
submarine hunter. 

Lt. Alfred B. Morcom, NAF, was re- 
ported missing from his base in August. 
We've heard Al's plane was on an opera- 
tional flight and the last word of it came 
from a thousand miles out from Floyd Ben- 
nett Field. With his mother, Mrs. Alfred 
J. Morcom. who lives at 99 Storrs Ave., 
Braintree, Mass., we hope Al is safe and 
will eventually come back. Senator George's 
son, a shipmate, also is missing. 

Ens. Bruce R. Gordon, USCGR, was on 
duty at the Coast Guard Academy, New 
London, Conn., when we had a line from 
him during the summer. He's married, you 
know, and was teaching French and Ger- 
man at Onconta, N. Y.. State Teachers Col- 
lege before joining the Coast Guard. 

Dick Scott is the new superintendent of 
the blanket mill which Esmond Virginia, 
Inc., has set up at Bluefield, W. Va. Dick 
i* already an old hand in the mill business, 
having been with the Riverside and Dan 
River Cotton Mills, Danville. Va., since 
he left the Hill. 

Sgt. Harry Rodin, Hq ASTU 3927, Uni- 
versity of Washington, Seattle, is studying 
Japanese among other subjects, Brooke 
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Washburn Moss is an airline pilot with 
the Trans-Pacific Division, Pan American 
Airways, San Francisco, and lives at 3 54 
Scale Ave., Palo Alto, Calif. 

"We've been in North Africa so long 
that I'm thinking ol taking out citizenship 
papers," Ens. Arthur Hcllman, USNR, 
wrote Dr. Bruce Bigelow in the early sum- 
mer. "We long to get back to the States, 
but that time looks a long way off. . . . Saw 
Champe Andrews '36 the'othcr day." 

2nd Lt. Charles F. Arrott, Jr., AAF, was 
reported missing in action overseas in 
August. Charlie, who came to Brown from 



Pittsburgh, was a member of Phi Kappa Psi. 
1938 
Lt. (jg) W. K. (Bud) White, Jr., NAF, 
is a fighter pilot on a battleship in the 
Pacific area. "Hope you tolks back home 
aren't worrying about us," he said in a 
fairly recent letter. "Our morale is fine 
and as long as things keep rolling at home 
we'll come out on top eventually. . . . This 
war is an education in itself — not exactly 
a good education but very definitely an edu- 
cation in human nature. Luckily, I have 
many pleasant memories that stand me in 
good stead now." 




As Du Pont Feted Him 

► ► In the bright lexicon of Francis H. Smith '05 there is no such word as absenteeism. 
For 36 years as teacher and chemist he has not missed one hour's time from work because 
of illness or disinclination to keep at it. Can anyone else in this country show a better 
report card? 

Smith's rare record, of striking significance in this time of endeavor to speed produc- 
tion and get on with the war, came to light at the dinner given last summer to celebrate 
his 25 years' service with the Du Pont Co.'s Jackson Laboratory in New Jersey. His 
Du Pont time sheet is spotless. And he had a similar record during the 1 1 years he taught 
chemistry, first at Purdue and then at Rhode Island State College. With Du Pont he's 
spent most of his time in Azo Colors work. Now he is on a special war problem. 

In Woodstown, where Smith lives, everybody knows him and appreciates his work 
in the community. He's been head of the Parent-Teacher Association and the public 
library, has the Silver Beaver Award of the Boy Scouts, is an amateur actor, a proficient 
gardener, and a steady golfer. He's father of two sons, one in Civilian Air Patrol and 
the other with Hercules Powder Co., and of three daughters, two married, and the young- 
est in high school. 

The photo above is used through the courtesy of the Dyeworl{S J^ews, a Du Pont 
house organ. 4 4 



Lt. M. E. Browning, USA, was stationed 
at Camp Robinson, Ark., earlier this year. 
according to a note we have recently seen. 

Lt. Leonard R. Carpenter is at Camp 
Howze, Tex., modestly proud of the fact 
that Leonard Reed Carpenter, Jr., arrived 
in Denton, Tex., July 26, 1943. 

Ed Lovering, with his M.D. from Tufts 
Medical School, is Lt. (jg), MC, USNR. 
A note from him in July said he was in- 
terne at Memorial Hospital, Pawtucket, get- 
ting experience before being called to active 
duty. 

The June N.eivs Letter of the Department 
of Philosophy tells us that Rod Chisholm 
published an article, "The Problem of the 
Speckled Hen" in Mind for last October. 
Ed received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 
1942. 

Lt. (jg) Donald B. Hawkins, MC, 
USNR, has begun his tour of duty at the 
Naval Hospital, Boston, going there from 
Maine General Hospital, Portland, where 
he was interne after winning his M.D. at 
Temple University College of Medicine. 

Lt. Dudley Onderdonk, Jr., graduate of 
the Staff and Command School, Robins 
Field, Ga., now has the longest address of 
his military career: Chemical Sec, 54th 
Service Group, Avon Park Bombing and 
Gunnery Range, Avon Park, Fla. 

Bernard Gold was commissioned 2nd Lt., 
in July on graduation from the AGOCS, Ft. 
Washington, Md. 

Lt. (jg) Henry J. Rohrs, USNR, was 
commissioned at Boston in early July and 
classified Ch.C.-V(S) 

2nd Lt. Edward A. Fontaine, SC, was at 
Ft. Monmouth, N. J., at the beginning of 
summer, Mrs. Fontaine wrote us from 63 5 
North 14th St., Salem, Ore. Nice to hear 
the Fontaines have a daughter, Nancy Jean, 
who will be one year old May 9, 1944. 

1939 

Charlie Kramer and his brother Bob '43 
are both Ensigns, USNR. Charlie had 
finished two years at Harvard Law School 
when he enlisted. 

Capt. James M. Millard, AAF, pilot of 
a troop transport, has been reported by asso- 
ciates to be missing in action. The news 
came to his family in August, but the Ad- 
jutant General's Office in Washington said 
it had no official word from the field regard- 
ing the report. He has two brothers in 
service, Robert, an Army aviation cadet, 
and William, in England with the Army. 

Lt. (jg) Stuart S. Golding, USNR, is on 
duty aboard an Eagle boat on Atlantic 
patrol. 

Ens. William C. Bieluch, USNR, com- 
missioned in June, is stationed in Phila- 
dephia. Bill was with a Washington law 
firm when he entered the Naval Reserve. 

Jack Huerth is directing the Quincy, 
Mass., evening division of the Stenograph 
Secretarial School, Inc., and teaching Eng- 
lish, spelling and effective use of words at 
the Boston school. 

Pfc. George L. Playe is a newly enrolled 
student at the PMG School, Ft. Custer, 
Mich., going there from Camp Ritchie, Md., 
where he was in the MP Detachment. Mrs. 
Playe, the former Margaret Louise Berg, 
graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, is 
instructor in French at the University of 
Illinois. She and George met at Illinois 
while he was University Fellow in French, 
1941-43. 



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Brown Alumni Monthly 

Published at Brown University by the 
Associated Alumni 

CHESLEY WORTHINGTON '23 
Managing Editor 

ARTHUR BRA1TSCH '23 

Business Manager 

LOUIS B. PALMER - 28 

ALFRED H. GURNEY '07 

GERTRUDE ALLEN McCONNELL 

Pembroke Correspondent 

Subscriptions, $2 a year. Single copies, 25 cents. 
There is no issue during August or September. 

Entered at the Providence Post Office 
as second-class matter. 



Vol. XLIV 



OCTOBER, 1943 



No. 3 



Lt. Kenneth B. White, AAF, holder of 
the DFC and the Navy Air Medal, has re- 
ceived the Purple Heart for a wound suf- 
fered in the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands, 
Pacific area, last October. He's training in 
Illinois as a landing signal officer on a car- 
rier. The carrier Hornet was his original 
ship. 

Dr. Marvin Posner is practising at 21 
24th St., Troy, N. Y. His engagement is 
announced in another column. 

Charlie Mort, who took his basic train- 
ing in infantry at Camp Wolters, Tex., 
went to OCS, CWS, Edgewood Arsenal, 
Md., some time ago and was due to finish 
the course last month. 

Jack Volkhardt is office manager of Vick 
Chemical Co., Vitamins Plus Division, 122 
East 42nd St., New York. He and Mrs. 
Volkhardt, the former Doris Elizabeth 
Thompson, live in Scarsdale Manor, Garth 
Rd„ Scarsdale, N. Y. 

Pfc. Arthur S. Gurney, Company A, 
3301st ASTU, was the veteran Brown man 
at Virginia Polytechnic Institute up to at 
least the middle of last month. Art has 
seen a fair number of Brunonians come 
and go since he went to Blacksburg last 
spring, and he has faithfully sent us news 
of them all. 

1st Lt. Ernest E. Alderman, Inf., has 
changed his Pacific base, but the only clue 
to his present station is a sentence in his 
letter of Aug. 15: "The natives here are 
the jet black, fuzzy, wuzzy, husky type, 
definitely not like the ones at our last sta- 
tion." Ernie said he'd seen Ens. Clem Mc- 
Phee '38. "Clem was four days with us, 
and we had a real reunion." Ernie's new 
address is APO 93 2, Co. E., 102nd Inf., 
Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif. 

Lt. Frederick R. Zulch, DC, was on duty 
at the AAF Basic Training Center Station 
Hospital School, St. Petersburg, Fla., his 
home town newspaper, the White Plains 
Reporter said in early summer. 

Lt. (jg) Gardner S. Gould, Jr., USNR, 
is a Naval aviator, with his mail address 
(his home) 409 Highland St., Newtonville, 
Mass. 

Lt. Earl H. Metzger, Jr., AA, wrote us 
in June from North Africa, where his bat- 
talion was playing its part against German 
and Italian fliers. 

Lt. W. H. Hagan, Jr., USNR, is seeing 
the world. He's getting his mail now in 
care of the Fleet PO, San Francisco, and in 
his July letter giving his new address he 
said: "Was within a stone's throw ol A. T. 
Brown '41 in Africa last spring, but didn't 
know he was there until after I left." 



1940 

Capt. Mathew J. Soltysiak, AAF, pos- 
sessor of the DFC for his brilliant flying and 
fighting in the Pacific area, is coming home 
after 1 1 months' absence. So he reported 
early last month in a letter in which he said : 
"I have 40 combat missions under my belt 
and they were all tough." He's the second 
oldest officer left in his squadron. Acting 
navigator of a bomber in the big raid on 
Wewak, New Guniea, he scored in the 
destruction of a Jap plane. 

Lt. (jg) Kenneth D. Clapp, USNR, is in 
London, on the staff of the Commander of 
the U. S. Naval Forces in Europe. 

2nd Lt. Robert R. Clifford came to the 
Alumni Office for a chat early in August 
before returning to San Marco, Tex., to in- 
struct another echelon of 50 cadets in navi- 
gation. Bob Trahan brought him up to date 
on all the Beta news. 

Bill Evans sets it down succinctly: "2nd 
Lt. W. S. Evans, USMCR, house and mail 
address, 24 Mellen St., Cambridge, Mass." 

Capt. Edgar J. Lanpher, AAF, back in 
Orlando, Fla., from air force maneuvers, 
wrote in July to Dr. Bruce M. Bigelow that 
Capt. Richard B. Uhle, AAF, Flight 
Leader of a Liberator Bomber Squadron, 
"senses his responsibility for about 3 3 lives 
and $X,000,000." 

2nd Lt. Harold W. Pfautz was attend- 
ing Instructors' School at the AAF Naviga- 
tion School, San Marcos, Tex. when he 
wrote in August. His was a fine note of 
gratitude for what Brown did for him. 

Also another appreciated note in July 
from Sam Gourse, then and probably still 
at 717 North Shine St., Orlando, Fla. 

George Blood is engineer for Stone ii 
Webster Engineering Corp., at the Clinton 
Engineering Works, Elza, Tenn. 

Phil Rice, Jr., is a staff member of the 
Radiation Laboratory, M.I.T., Cambridge, 
and lives at 53 Sycamore St., Roslindale, 
Mass. 

Lt. Emerson E. Mowry, AAF, has been 
awarded the Air Medal for flying on 25 or 
more operational flights in the Southwest 
Pacific area. Mowry enlisted in December, 
1941, trained in the South and went to 
Australia as a bomber officer. 

Dick Starrett's new house address is 
2049 Vraewick Drive, Akron 13, Ohio. 

1941 

Lt. Robert F. Parkinson, AAF, was co- 
pilot of a Flying Fortress raiding Bremen in 
late July, the AP said, reporting the bom- 
bardier and navigator wounded and the 
ship's communications knocked out. 

Capt. Charnley K. Atwater, AAF, flying 
a Beaufighter off the coast ol Sardinia in 
mid-summer, knocked out a three-engined 
Italian transport plane. Atwater was pro- 
moted to Captain while he was in England 
last May. 

Lt. Arthur H. Bijur, SC, wrote the 
Alumni Office last month he was with "an 
old Rhode Island company" in the South- 
west Pacific and said he knew of two 
Brown men in the area, Maj. Robert W. 
Kenny '25 and Capt. Tilden H. Mason '35, 
both artillerymen. 

Ens. Clayton E. Batchelder, USNR, re- 
porting his address USS LST 72, Fleet PO, 
Postmaster, New York, wrote: "Now at- 
tached to the Amphibious Forces in North- 
west African waters. Our activities may be 
superficially followed in the newspapers 
and radio broadcasts." Clayt had the good 



fortune to be in Providence a few days be- 
fore his ship sailed. 

Starting in the USNR as Petty Officer, 
2/c, Charlie Skelton is now training as avia- 
tion pilot at the Navy Flight Preparatory 
School, Louisiana State Normal College, 
Natitoches. He was married in June to 
Miss Denise Donegan. 

Lt. James A. Cunningham, Jr., USMCR, 
was an "operational training student offi- 
cer" when he wrote at the end of August to 
mention his marriage and give us news of 
Jim Sands, Hal Stege, and other friends. 
His next stop after Lake City, Fla., will be 
Cherry Point. And then the (censored). 
You may read of Jim's marriage in another 
column of this Alumni Monthly. Mrs. 
Cunningham and Jim went to high school 
together in Chicago. 

Cpl. Allan S. Nanes, AAF, was on duty 
at the Air Base, Great Bend, Kan., in early 
August and was "sweating out a third 
stripe." He's been accepted for OCS, but 
he says the school he wants to go to has 
such a long waiting list he won't be sur- 
prised if he doesn't get there before the 
war is over. 

Pvt. Stanley J. F. Johnson's official War 
Department book, "A Guide to Norway," 
has been getting good notices in the Provi- 
dence and other newspapers. Stan has been 
at the Army Air Base, Miami, Fla. An in- 
terviewer said "his ambition is to win a com- 
mission so that he can get back to Norway 
and there, with his knowledge of the coun- 
try, help drive the Germans out." 

We've had a belated note saying Cpl. 
Robert S. Cohn, AAF, cracked up while 
flying down South in March and recuper- 
ating at Lawson General Hospital, near 
Atlanta, Ga. Perhaps Bob himself will see 
this paragraph and give us later and better 
news about himself. 

Lt. (jg) Kevin E. Byrne, USNR, is on 
active sea duty, and asks that his mail be 
sent to 161 Wayland Ave., Cranston. 

Don Smith is "still editing, writing and 
illustrating pamphlets and magazines for 
the Boy Scouts of America. (Been at it a 
little over a year now). The latest pamph- 
let is one on journalism, which draws rather 
heavily on my Brown Daily Herald experi- 
ences." 

Jack Beer told us in late August he ex- 
pected to leave New York in a month or so 
to raise cattle on a small ranch he owns near 
San Antonio, Tex. "I've been knocking 
about for a couple of years," he went on. 



Instead of Vacation 

► Rev. T. Jerome Hayden, Jr., '24, 
rector of Christ Episcopal Church, 
Elizabeth, N. J., gave up his summer 
vacation to take a full-time job on the 
night shift in a General Motors Corp. 
war plant, and the newspapers played 
him up more enthusiastically than 
Jerry ever dreamed. But he took the 
publicity in stride, saying modestly 
that it needed no special talent "to 
move from motor to motor, lubricat- 
ing them when necessary, and to call 
the chief electrician for repairs to 
ailing motors." He worked from 4 
p. m. until midnight, carried his sup- 
per on occasions, and went about his 
parish duties in the morning and mid- 
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"Worked in some of the Washington 
hurcaus for a while, came to New York, did 
welding, heat treating and sundry jobs in 
war industries until the present." Lately 
he has been doing special work for the 
Tvjeic Tor\ Daily T^ews. 

Hal Stege, 1st Lt., USMCR, is some- 
where in the Pacific with a Marine defense 
battalion. 

Lt. James H. Sands, USMCR, and Mrs. 
Sands spent part of Jim's 60-day sick leave 
from the Marines in Lake Geneva, Wis. 

Sergt. William C. Mustard, Jr., Inf., was 
reported in August as wounded in action 
July 16 while fighting with his unit in the 
Pacific area. Since then he has written his 
parents in Providence to say he was making 
good recovery and hoped to get at the Japs 
again. Bill was on the transport Coolidge 
when it struck a mine and sank a year ago. 

1942 

Lt. Anton J. Graham, writing from Camp 
McCoy, where he was with his infantry out- 
fit in August, spoke of his continuing inter- 
est in Brown although he transferred to the 
University of Illinois after his Freshman 
year. He received his degree there on 
schedule in June, 1942. At Brown he'd 
played Freshman football and basketball. 

The last we knew Ens. William R. Pot- 
ter was assistant gunnery officer on a ship 
which figured in the news stories last month. 
She stood by and battled three and a half 
hours to rescue the 136 men aboard a mine 
sweeper in the Aleutians when the latter 
was put out of action by the explosion of 
two of its own depth charges. Bill should 
have seen the brilliant exhibition of seaman- 
ship that saved those men. 

A Private First Class stationed at Yale 
School of Medicine, Aaron T. Beck wrote 
this month that he was counting on the 
Alumni Monthly to restore the contact 
with Brown he has lost since graduation. 

Two more future fliers are Harry L. 
Thompson, at Pensacola's USNATC, and 
William H. Wesson, an Army cadet in the 
midst of basic training at Enid when the 
PRO sent through his photograph. 

First a Private in the QMC at Camp Lee, 
then an Officer Candidate at Davis, lead- 
ing to his commission in the CAC. Now 
Fred Allgeier is at Camp Stewart — married, 
too. as you'll note elsewhere. 

Lt. Arnold KaU, Sig S, is living at 4225 
23rd St. North Arlington, Va., and would 
like to hear from any of the class in or near 
Washington. The Alumni Monthly 
brings back happy memories, he tells us. 

Philip Sincoff, subsequently married and 
Richard D. Dunn were graduated from the 
Field Artillery OCS at Fort Sillin July, along 
with John J. Harrington '39. Lt. Sincoff 
told us about them in a letter sent in August 
when he was still at Sill, taking a post- 
graduate course. 

Staff Sergt. William C. Giles, Jr., re- 
cently promoted to that rank, is teaching in 
the Celestial Navigation Department, AAF. 
Pratt Field, Kan. Bill went to Pratt from 
Gowen Field, Idaho, where one of his co- 
workers was Sergt. W. D. Reynolds '37. 

Pvt. William O'Connor, SC, after a 
course in an Army Reserve Radar School 
last spring, is "now in Philadelphia being 
trained for technical intelligence service in 
the Quality Control Department, Philco 
Radar Plant." Bill hopes to attend a meet- 
ing of the Brown Club of Philadelphia be- 
fore he leaves town. 



Ens. Leonard M. Sweet, USNR, has the 
sympathy of all of us in the sudden death 
of his father, William S. Sweet '10, in 
Providence, July 20, 1943. 
1943 

Sgt. Alexander Jaworski was instructing 
at the Lowry Field technical school early 
in the summer. 

Lt. Davis Curtis became assistant chem- 
ical officer of the 93rd Division after his 
OCS course at Edgewood. In his division 
("one of the few colored divisions in which 
all the enlisted men and about half the 
officers are Negroes") he finds the relation- 
ship so good that "it speaks for a better 
understanding of the colored race problems 
after the war." 

Ralph Grant Arnold, who left Brown in 
1942 to become an aviation cadet, is a 2nd 
Lt., AAF, stationed at Boca Raton, Fla., 



when he wrote in August to tell us of his 
wedding. He was living at 12 Oceanic Villa. 

"Just returned from overseas," Henry C. 
Adams wrote at the end of July. He's a 
1st Lt., still best addressed at 88 Mount 
Vernon St., Boston. 

Edward T. Wilcox was graduated from 
the Armament Dept. at Lowry Field, 
AAFTTC, in August. 

Giving his address as Co. C, SAE House, 
University of Maine, Francis Finn wrote a 
month ago that he expected to stay there 
for the next year. "I am in the ASTP pro- 
gram studying mechanical engineering. 
From an economics major to an engineer in 
one big jump." He added: "There are 
four other Brown men beginning the course 
here — B. Webster Blood '45, Spencer H. 
Baker '44, Nicholas Cappola '44, and Rus- 
sel C. Applegate '42. We are all living in 




"Savings are Shock- Absorbers!" 

They gave him a testimonial dinner when his little hard- 
ware store "came of age". Because of this man's integrity and 
sound sense, a small venture had prospered for 2 1 years. 
"There's no secret of success," he told his friends. "My business 
is run like my personal budget. I've maintained a special sav- 
ings account that grows in good times . . . and in bad times, it 
absorbs the shocks!" It's no "secret" — but this man has a 
sane, sound way to spread his business income, so that one 
year's advantages ease the disadvantages of the next. You can 
do the same. Save as you earn, the Old Colony Way. 

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the SAE fraternity house and look forward 
to our next copy of the Alumni Monthly. 
It brings hack the pleasant memories and 
keeps us in touch with Brown and our 
many fellow students." 

"Brown was never like this." wrote A/C 
Norton J. Wolt. He expected to go to 
Chapel Hill this summer when he wrote 
from Williamstown, Mass. Leonard Geller 
and Walter Milne were there with him. 

"As you undoubetdly know, there are 
many men from Brown here at the Air 
Training Center," John Wallace wrote 
early in the summer from Pensacola. "To 
mention just two, George Fisher '41 and 
Fred Ccnedella '40 arc both Ensigns." John 
got his commission (2nd Lt., USMCR) 
last May and stayed on as instructor. He 
looks r orward to coming back to Brown and 
completing the work needed for a degree 
"some day when the conflict is over and 
the victory is ours." 

War Training Course 58 (Cryptanalysis) 
certainly came in handy for him, Cpl. 
Norton Hirsch wrote. He was doing that 
work in the Army. 

Bill Weston, out of the Army, is back on 
the campus for graduate work. He took a 
lead in Sock and Buskin's fall production 
ol "The Play's the Thing." 
1944 

Phil Carson's family had a letter from 
him in August telling that he is a prisoner 
of the Nazis. He had been reported missing 
after a bombing raid over Kiel on June 13. 
He was safe and unhurt, he wrote. He had 
been a navigator on a Flying Fortress with 
a commission as 2nd Lt. 

Allen R. Howard, Jr., is in the Class of 
1945 at the U. S. Naval Academy at 
Annapolis and expects to graduate in June. 
1944. His address: 2365 Bancroft Hall. 

Writing from M. I. T. in July, Pvt. How- 
ard G. Baetzhold said he'd be back at Brown 
"as soon as this mess is all over", if all goes 
well. He's an Army student at Tech. 

John J. McDonnell was at Lafayette Col- 
lege when he reported in July that most of 
his general training was over and he hoped 
to begin flying at the end of the summer. 

From Dana H. Gallup's July letter: "Hav- 
ing been sent to one of these big mid- 
western colleges has given me a chance to 
compare at least two colleges, and I can 
now appreciate how much the academic 
standards at Brown mean. If I come back 
from this little scrap alive and I can see my 
way to going back to college, I'll be heading 
for Brown." He expected to be sent to 
Texas. Jack Wood has been at Atlantic 
City with him. 

Pfc. Leonard S. Rogers has been at the 
University of Illinois, studying advanced 
foreign area and languages under the 
ASTP. Also representing Brown in the 
first group of soldiers assigned to the same 
university lor either the Army basic college 
training or the area studies are: Thomas 
J. Risinger, Howard V. Hadfield, John B. 
Hill, and Douglas V. Crook '46. 

William P. Walsh is in his first year of 
study at the Yale University School of 
Medicine. (Box 257, 333 Cedar St., New 
Haven.) 

Carroll E. Adams, Jr.. has just completed 
his first year at U.S.M.A., West Point, 
N. V. 

1945 

"Privileges arc never fully appreciated 
until they arc dispensed with. 1 sincerely 



Academic Calendar, 1943-1944 

► Oct. 24 — Baccalaureate Sermon. 
Oct. 25 — Commencement. 

SEMESTER II Oct. 27— Fresh- 
man Week starts. Oct. 29, 30 — 
Registration of Civilian Students; 
Nov. 1 — Registration of New V-12 
Students. Nov. 2 — Classes Begin. 
Nov. 25 — Thanksgiving Day (holi- 
day). Dec. 22-28 — Christmas Re- 
cess. Feb. 16 — Classes End. Feb. 17- 
23 — Exams. Feb. 28 — Commence- 
ment. 

SEMESTER III: Feb. 25— Fresh- 
man Week starts. Feb. 28, 29 — 
Registration of Civilian Students; 
Mar. 1 — Registration of New V-12 
Students. Mar. 2 — Classes Begin. 
May 30 — Memorial Day (holiday). 
June 10 — Classes End. June 12-17 
— Exams. June 22 — Commencement. 

Tentative Calendar for SEMES- 
TER I, 1944-1945: June 27— Fresh- 
man Week Starts. June 29, 30— 
Registration of Civilian Students. 
July 1 — Registration of New V-12 
Students. July 4 — Independence 
Day (holiday). Sept. 4 — Labor Day 
(holiday). Oct. 12-18 — Exams. 
Oct. 23 — Commencement. i 



hope that the pre-meteorologists now sta- 
tioned at Brown recognize the honor that 
has been bestowed upon them. Sensible 
professors, Pembroke women, nights in the 
Bacchante Room and on, and on, and on." 
A/C. Raymond E. Bernz wrote that in July. 

Classmates could brighten life for Lawr- 
ence P. Fishcl with a few letters. He's been 
ill with pneumonia since August 3rd and 
doesn't expect to be discharged until Octo- 
ber. The address: Pvt. L. P. Fishel, New 
Cantonment Hospital, Ward I, Mitchel 
Field, Hempstead, N. Y. 
1946 

Franklin J. Watson found the work at 
the Newport QM School very interesting 
and felt he was doing fairly well when he 
last wrote. 

A communications man in the Field 
Artillery at Fort Bragg, Pvt. Charles M. 
Johnson reported other Brown friends there. 
too: Roger Bestor '45, Robert Hunter '46, 
and William Mackinnon '45. He added: 
"I know that some of my happiest days will 
be spent under the banner of Brunonia. I 
received a lot more than knowledge at col- 
lege; the friends that I made there will not 
be forgotten." < i 

Engagements 

► > 1923 — Miss Eleanor C. Milligan, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Milligan of 
Larchmont, to Robert A. Appleton. 

1930 — Miss Mary Elizabeth Braden, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Morris G. Braden 
of Duluth, Minn., to Lt. Newland P. Jones. 

1935— A. Dale Schweitzer, PhM3c, 
USNR(WR), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
W. A. Schweitzer of Stephens. Mo., to 
James H. Flynn III, PhMlc. USNR. 

193 5 — Miss Natalie Rouslin, daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rouslin of Provi- 
dence, to Jacob Miller. 

1936 — Miss Mildred Robinson, daughter 
ol Mr. and Mrs. [ra Robinson, of Provi- 
dence to Capt. David L. Field, MC, USA. 

1937— Miss Charlotte J. Hosfcld, daugh- 
ter of Mr. and Mrs. George Hosfeld of 



Shippensburg, Pa., to Lt. (jg) Martin L. 
Tarpy, USNR. 

1938 — Miss Eleanor F. Parker, daughter 
of Mr. and Mrs. Laurence A. Parker of 
North Attleboro, to S/Sgt. Roderick M. 
Chisholm. 

1938 — Miss June Gleason, daughter of 
Mrs. Randolph W. Gleason of Hingham, 
Mass., to Gordon DeMoss Robbins. 

1939 — Miss Rena C. Pritsker. daughter 
of Mrs. Esther Pritsker of Providence, to 
Dr. Marvin Posner, USA Medical Corps 
Reserve. 

1939 — Miss Ruth A. Freidal, daughter 
of Col. and Mrs. William Freidal of South 
Orange, to Sgt. Robert L. Whitehead. 

1941 — Miss Marie Helen Betzig, daugh- 
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Betzig of 
North Merrick, N. Y., to Robert Steinsieck. 

1942 — Miss Ethel Bennett, daughter of 
Lt. and Mrs. Victor Bennett, of San 
Antonio, to Lt. Philip L. Sincoff. Miss Ben- 
nett is a junior at the University of Texas. 

1942 — Miss Marjorie MacGillivray, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roswell H. Mac- 
Gillivray of Westfield, N. J., and Washing- 
ton, D. C, to Lt. Dana F. Peck. 

1942 — Miss Elizabeth Dewey, daughter 
of Mr. and Mrs. J. Fred Dewey of Portland, 
Ore., to Arthur W. Stevens. 

1943 — Miss Elizabeth Driscoll, Trinity 
College '42, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Thomas H. Driscoll of Providence, to Ens. 
Howard W. Holmes, USNR. 

1943 — Miss Ruth Flynn, daughter of 
Mrs. F. K. Flynn of New Rochelle, to Pfc. 
Raymond B. Egan, Jr. 

1943 — Miss Carolyn E. Nemiah, daugh- 
ter of Prof. Royal C. Nemiah of Hanover, 
N. H., to Lt. Dwight R. Ladd. USMCR. 

1944 — Miss Janet Elizabeth Peterson, 
daughter of Mrs. D. I. Peterson of Paw- 
tucket, to A/C Frederick C. Williams, Jr., 
USAAC. 

ff eddings 

► 1905 — Ernest Farnum Lewis, and Miss 
Gertrude M. Wilharm, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Charles F. Wilharm of Minneapolis, 
at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I., N. Y., July 17, 
1943. 

1911 — Judge Earle B. Arnold, and Miss 
Dons Cady, sister of Mrs. Earl W. Snowden 
of Providence, in All Saints' Memorial 
Church chapel, June 25, 1943. 

1926 — Stanley W. Hunt, and Miss 
Geraldinc Chamberlin, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Vcrnie R. Chamberlin of Stowe, Vt., 
in the parish house of The First Universal- 
ist Church, Worcester, June 26, 1943. 

1931— Lt. Frank E. Hemclright, USNR, 
and Miss Ruth Theobold, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Ernest W. Theobold of Scranton, 
at the home of the bride's parents, July 16, 
1943. 

1932 — Capt. Robert E. Johnson, 
USMCR, and Miss Margaret Chase, daugh- 
ter of the late Mr. and Mrs. James M. Chase 
of Ithaca, in St. Columbia's Chapel of St. 
Paul's Episcopal Church, Los Angeles, June 
15. 1943. 

1935— Ens. Walter S. Bopp, USNR, and 
Miss Mary Zilla Clarke, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Malcolm D. Clarke of Washing- 
ton, D. C, in St. Alban's Episcopal Church, 
Aug. 14, 1943. 

193 5 -Lt. Joel H. Wright. Jr., USAAC, 
and Miss Celeste Throckmorton, daughter 
of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Throckmorton, of 
Manhattan, Kans.. June 15, 1943. 



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1936— Pvt. Gino DiMarco, USA, and 
Miss Katia Prakhine, daughter of Senora 
Vera Pavlof de Aspiazu ol Guayakil, Ecua- 
dor, in the Cathedral of La Beneficencia, 
Guayakil, April 3, 1943. The bride was 
educated in Switzerland. 

1938— Harold H. Bennett, Jr., S2c 
USCGR, and Miss Virginia Fuller, daugh- 
ter of Secretary ol State of New Hampshire 
Enoch D. Fuller and Mrs. Fuller, in Man- 
chester, N. H., July 26, 1943. 

1939— Lt. (jg) Stuart S. Golding, 
USNR, and Miss Roberta Marks, daughter 
of Mr. and Mrs. Simon Marks of Brookline, 
at Clearwater Beach, Fla., June 13, 1943. 

1939 — Lt. John J. Harrington, and Miss 
Mary Angela Kane, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. lames T. Kane of Fall River, Mass., in 
SS. Peter and Paul's Church, Fall River, 
June 24, 1943. 

1939— Pvt. George L. Playe, USA, and 
Miss Margaret Louise Berg, daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. Ragnar Berg ol Mt. Lebanon, 
Pa., at the bride's home, July 9, 1943. 

1939— Lt. Albert S. Pouliot, USAAC, 
and Miss Lorraine Hostetler, daughter of 
Mrs. John Hostetler of Angola, Ind., July 
12, 1943. 

1940— Ens. Alfred H. O. Boudreau, Jr., 
USNR, and Miss Virginia Gomersall, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Gom- 
ersall of Cranston, in Peoples' Baptist 
Church, July 15, 1943. 

1940— Lt. (jg) Alfred B. Cenedella, Jr., 
USNR, and Miss Jeanne C. Finn, daughter 
of Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Finn of North- 
ampton, Mass., in St. Mary's Church, July 
10, 1943. 

1940— Lt. Harold W. Pfautz, USAAC, 
and Miss Iola Morse, daughter of Mrs. F. B. 
Morse of Providence, in First Baptist 
Church, July 4, 1943. 

1941 — Lt. James A. Cunningham, 
USMCR, and Miss Dorothy Ann Gneiss, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. 
Gneiss of Chicago in St. James' Episcopal 
Church, Lake City, Fla., Aug. 6, 1943. The 
bride attended Centre College, Danville, 
Ky. 

1941 — John DeMello, and Miss Eliza- 
beth T. Crine, daughter of Mrs. Irving 
Crine of Somerville, Mass., in the Im- 
maculate Conception Church, West Somer- 
ville, June 11, 1943. 

1941— Ens. Peter Prudden, USNR, and 
Miss Constance Thurber, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. George F. Thurber of Nashua, 
N. H., in the Church of the Good Shepherd, 
May 27, 1943. 

1941— C. Thomas Skelton, AP, USNR, 
and Miss Denise Donegan, niece of Mr. 
and Mrs. Edwin G. Rutt, of Mamaroneck, 
in the Lady Chapel of St. Patrick's Cathe- 
ral, June 26, 1943. 

1942— 2nd Lt. Frederick C. Allgeier, 
and Miss Barbara Jackson, Wellesley '42, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander F. 
Jackson of West Orange, N. J., in Wilming- 
ton, N. C, June 26, 1943. 

1942— Pfc. William H. Briggs, MC, 
USA, and Miss Virginia I. Richardson, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Richardson, 
Jr., of Edgewood, in Central Congrega- 
tion,!] Church, Aug. 23. 1943. Howard 
Nold '43, AS, USNROTC, and Joseph 
Schwanda '43, AS, USNROTC, were 
ushers. 

1942— Lt. Edward M. Leif, USAAC, 
and Miss Marjorie Young, daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Young of Providence, 
in Temple Emanu-EI, July 25, 1943. 



1942— Lt. John A. Miller, Jr., USAAF, 
and Miss Helen Pharr, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Mack Pharr of Poplar Bluff, Mo., July 
8, 1943. 

1942 — Lt. George W. Richardson, 
USAAF, and Miss Janet L. Wellman, 
daughter of Mrs. Amos Buck, at Bowman 
Field, Ky., May 30, 1943. 

1943— Ens. Wayne P. Curtis, USNR, 
and Miss Flora Kimball, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Linwood Kimball, in the Maple 
Street Church, Danvers, Mass., June 24, 
1943. 

1943— Pfc. H. Wilson Guernsey, Jr., 
and Miss Mary Jane Baum, daughter of the 
Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Frederick J. Baum of 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., in the Church of the 
Wayfarer, Carmel, Calif. 

1943 — Frederick Mason, Jr., BMlc, 
USCGR, and Miss Audrey Hayden, daugh- 
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur C. Hayden of 
Nantucket, Aug. 7, 1943. 

Births 

► 1925— To Lt. (jg) John W. Richmond, 
USNR, and Mrs. Richmond, a son, John 
Whitney, Jr., July 7, 1943. 

1926— To Mr. and Mrs. W. Roland Har- 
rall, a daughter, Mary Howe, July 27, 1943. 

1927— To Dr. and Mrs. Bernard M. 
Siegel, a son, Stanley Ira, Aug. 5, 1943. 

1929— To Mr. and Mrs. Walter G. En- 
sign, a son, Walter Gates, Jr., June 29, 
1943. 

1930— To Capt. John S. Dziob, MC, 
USA, and Mrs. Dziob, a son, Michael John 
2nd, Aug. 2, 1943. 

1930— To Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Ray- 
mond, a son, Charles Gordon, July 13, 
1943. 

1933— To Mr. and Mrs. Clarkson A. 
Collins, III, a son, William Grosvenor, July 
29, 1943. 

1934— To Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Daw, 
a son, David Edward, July 12, 1943. 

1934 — To Lt. A. Frederick Haas, Jr., 
USNR, and Mrs. Haas, a son, Gordon 
Frederick, July 9, 1943. 

1935— To Mr. and Mrs. William S. 
Blanchard, a son, William Penn, July 20, 
1943. 

193 5— To Lt. Alfred H. Joslin, USNR, 
and Mrs. Joslin, a son, Andrew Joseph, 
July 9, 1943. 

193 5— To Ens. Nelson B. Record, 
USNR, and Mrs. Record, a son, Nelson 
Burgess, Jr., Aug. 31, 1943. 

1935— To Capt. Ralph F. Wholey, and 
Mrs. Wholey, a daughter, Honora Mc- 
Grath, Aug. 12, 1943. 

1936— To Lt. Milton G. Calder and 
Mrs. Calder, a son, Robert Granville, Aug. 
15, 1943. 

1936— To Lt. Hubert Holdsworth, and 
Mrs. Holdsworth, a daughter, Nancy Mor- 
gan, July 21, 1943. 

1936— To Ens. David W. Kierst, SC, 
USNR, and Mrs. Kierst, a son, David Wil- 
liam, Jr., Aug. 9, 1943. 

1936— To Mr. and Mrs. Miner E. P.id 
dock, a son, William Shaw, Aug. 3, 1943. 

1936 — To Mr. and Mrs. Edward D. 
Wass, a second daughter, Margaret Farrar, 
July 2, 1943. 

1937 — To Mr. and Mrs. Evan Crossley, 
a daughter, Nancy Evan, June 29, 1943. 

1937— To Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. 
Holt, a daughter, Carla, July 30, 1943. 

1937— To Lt. Uldrich H. Pettine, and 

Mrs. Pettine, a daughter, Bonil.i I. se, 

June 24, 1943. 



1938— To Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. 
Burgess of Providence, a second daughter, 
Marjorie Anne, June 27, 1943. 

1938— To Lt. Leonard R. Carpenter, 
and Mrs. Carpenter, a son, Leonard Reed, 
Jr., July 26, 1943. 

1939 — To Mr. and Mrs. Sherwin J. Kap- 
stein, a son, Jeremy Aaron, July 3, 1943. 

1939— To Mr. and Mrs. George L. 
Miner, a daughter, Betsey Rogers, June 25, 
1943. 

1939— To Mr. and Mrs. George J. Slat- 
tery, a daughter, Lee Abby, Aug. 2, 1943. 

1939— To Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. 
Barker ot Radburn, N. J., a son, Robert 
Reed, June 4, 1943. 

1939— To Mr. and Mrs. J. Stuart Frank- 
lin of Providence, a daughter, Catherine 
Anne, May 19, 1943. 

1939 — To Mr. and Mrs. George L. Miner 
of Edgewood, a daughter, Betsey Rogers, 
June 25, 1943. 

1939 — To Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Mor- 
row, Jr., a son, Stephen Webster, May 27, 
1943. 

1939 — To Capt. Thomas C. Roberts, 
USA, and Mrs. Roberts of Fort Sill, Okla., 
a daughter, Mary Christine, June 29, 1943. 

1940 — To Mr. and Mrs. David W. Borst 
of Scotia, N. Y., a daughter, Linda Joan, 
May 7, 1943. 

1940 — To Mr. and Mrs. Albert H. 
Curtis, II, of Wellesley, a second son, Paul 
Alden, Apr. 27, 1943. 

1940— To Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. 
Engles of Goffstown, N. H., a daughter, 
Lane, June 3, 1943. 

1940— To Lt. (jg) Harrie E. Hart, 
USNR, and Mrs. Hart of New York City, 
a daughter, Henriette Minor, May 6, 1943. 



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1940 — To Lt. Spencer C. Manrodt and 
Mrs. Manrodt of Walnut Ridge, Ark., a 
son, Spencer Chilton, II, June 30, 1943. 

1940 — To 2nd Lt. Charles E. Blount and 
Mrs. Blount, a daughter, Barbara Ann, July 
23, 1943. 

1940 — To Mr. and Mrs. David Borst of 
Scotia, N. Y., a daughter, Linda Joan, May 
17, 1943. 

1940 — To Lt. (jg) Robert A. Newton, 
Jr., USNR, and Mrs. Newton, a son, Robert 
Albro, III, April 12, 1943. 

1941 — To Mr. and Mrs. Alston T. Hor- 
ton, a second daughter, Jane Sally Ann, 
July 3, 1943. 



1941— To Lt. (jg) Charles H. Pease, Jr., 
USNR, and Mrs. Pease, a son, Richard 
Michael, Aug. 5, 1943. 

1942 — To Ens. Edmund F. Armstrong, 
USCGR, and Mrs. Armstrong, a son, Ed- 
mund Flint, Jr., July 23, 1943. 

1942— To Cpl. Donald J. P. Gellert, 
USAAC, and Mrs. Gellert, a daughter, 
Constance Payor, July 4, 1943. 

1942— To Mr. and Mrs. George B. Bul- 
lock, Jr., of Newton, Mass., a son, William 
Gouveneur, June 8, 1943. 

1944— To Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Glad- 
ding, 2nd, a son, Charles Forest, Jr., July 
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Completed Careers 



EDITOR'S NOTE: 

It has been impossible to accord this 
department the space we could wish in 
recent issues. We regret that our obit- 
uary notices must be both delayed and 
abbreviated. 

1877 

► ► Joseph Taft Day, A.B., A.M., died 
in Providence, June 4, 1943. Before re- 
tirement some years ago he held various 
office positions with the Providence & 
National Worsted Mill of the American 
Woolen Co. From college he went to work 
for his father, a textile operator, and was 
an insurance salesman before going to 
Providence 6? National Mill in 1900. Born 
in Providence, March 5, 1856, son of 
Daniel and Maria (Snow) Day. Married 
Sept. 8, 1886, to Harriet A. Brown of 
Providence, who survives, with two sons. 
Mr. Day's fraternity was Zeta Psi. 

1885 

► Charles Owen Dexter, A.B., mill 
agent and horticulturist, died in Sandwich, 
Mass., April 14, 1943. Specialist in the 
hybridising and culture of rhododendra 
and azaleas, his Sandwich estate, Shawme 
Farm, was a show place of plantings of 
these shrubs and an attraction for hundreds 
of visitors annually. He began his textile 
career in St. Croix Cotton Mill, Milltown, 
N. B., was manager of Canadian Colored 
Cotton Mills Co., for which he travelled in 
England and France, agent of Beacon Mfg. 
Co., New Bedford, and President of Nor- 
ristown Hosiery Mills, Landsdale, Pa. All 



were Dexter family developments. In re- 
cent years Shawme Farm and its shrubs 
had been his major interest, yet he visited 
his New Bedford office twice weekly until 
the end. 

He was a former President of the Tex- 
tile Club of Boston, former trustee of New 
Bedford Textile School, director of the 
Safe Deposit National Bank and Ameri- 
can Mutual Liability Insurance Co., and 
member of the Horticultural Club of Bos- 
ton, Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 
and Alpha Delta Phi. Born in Providence, 
Aug. 26, 1862, son of Lewis Dexter of the 
Class of 1849 and Ellen (Owen) Dexter. 
Married Alice E. Wadsworth, Nov. 15, 
1887. Mrs. Dexter, a daughter and a son 
survive. 

1885 
► Andrew McCorrie Warren, A.B., 
A.M., Oriental scholar and retired teacher, 
died in Providence, March 20, 1943. For 
years his intimate interest and concern was 
the Brunonian Chapter of Alpha Delta Phi, 
and college generations of Brown men will 
recall him as "Brother Warren of Alpha 
Delta Phi." He was instructor in rhetoric 
and modern languages on the Hill, on the 
staff of the old Berkeley School, Providence, 
and student of Oriental languages in Paris, 
where he received diplomas in courses in 
Arabic, Persian and modern Greek. 

Travel and study were his given occupa- 
tions; he lived abroad many years, particu- 
larly in France and in Egypt. He collected 
books and paintings and was a fine pho- 





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1886 

► Dana Ripley Bullen, A.B., A.M., re- 
tired Assistant Vice President of General 
Electric Co., died in Worcester, Mass., May 
10, 1943. After graduation he taught school 
for a year and in 1887 joined Thomson- 
Houston Electric Co., predecessor of Gen- 
eral Electric, and held positions in the Bos- 
ton, Atlanta, Philadelphia and Schenectady 
offices until retirement 10 years ago. A 
3 2nd degree Mason, he was also a member 
of the American Institute of Electrical 
Engineers, Phi Beta Kappa and Delta 
Kappa Epsilon, and an honorary member 
of the Electric Manufacturers Club. Born 
in Wakefield, Mass., Aug. 13, 1864, son of 
Rev. George Bullen, D.D. '76, honorary, 
and Maria J. (Ripley) Bullen. Married in 
1906 to Bessie L. Pierce, who died in 1902. 
Surviving are a son, Ripley P. Bullen of 
Andover, Mass., two grandsons, and a 
brother, Rev. Walter B. Bullen '99. An- 
other brother was the late Joseph E. 
Bullen '90. 

1892 

► Edward DeVallie O'Connor, Ph.B., 
lawyer, died in Providence, March 29, 
1943. Since March, 1941, he had been col- 
lection officer in the Rhode Island State 
Division of Taxation. He attended Har- 
vard Law School two years, studied sum- 
mers in a Providence office, and became a 
member of the Rhode Island bar in 1894. 
For some years he was a law associate of 
Judge Howard B. Gorham '98. An active 
Democrat, he served a term in the Rhode 
Island House, and was candidate for judge- 
ships on several occasions. 

He was a co-founder of Phi Kappa, secre- 
tary of St. Vincent De Paul Infant Asylum, 
and member of the Knights of Columbus, 
Rhode Island Bar Association and The Uni- 
versity Club. Born in Providence, Jan. 19, 
1869, son of Edward F. and Madeline V. 
(DeVallie) O'Connor. Married July 10, 
1894, to Susan T. Cottrell, who died in 
1930. Surviving are four sisters, a brother, 
Charles J. O'Connor '95, and two grand- 
sons. His sons were the late Edward G. 
O'Connor '21 and George A. O'Con- 
nor '28. 

1897 

► Rev. William John Ballou, A.B., 
D.B., Congregational minister, died in 
Boston, Mass., March 4, 1943. For 23 years 
pastor of the Congregational Church, Ches- 
ter, Vt., he was known and beloved in 
Vermont as an able preacher and a forth- 
right citizen . He transferred from Am- 
herst to Brown in Sophomore year, studied 
at Hartford Theological Seminary, and 
taught at Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, 
Miss., before becoming minister of the 
Presbyterian Church, Litchfield, N. H. Be- 
sides Chester, his other Congregational 
pastorate was in Ludlow. 

In the First World War he served over- 
seas in the Y.M.C.A. A 3 3rd degree Mason, 
he was Grand Chaplain of the Vermont 
Grand Lodge, Grand Prelate of the Grand 
Commandery of Knights Templar, and 
holder of the distinguished service medal 
from the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts 
and Rhode Island. He was President of the 
Ballou Family Association of America, a di- 






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rector of the Vermont State Congregational 
Conference, an officer of the Boy Scouts, 
and a memher of the S.A.R. and Delta Up- 
silon. An excellent horseman, he made 
many of his parish calls on horseback. Born 
in Wallingford, Vt., June 18, 1871, son of 
William S. and Esther A. (Andrews) Bal- 
lou. Married Anna M. Bingham of Corn- 
wall, Vt., June 16, 1904. Mrs. Ballou sur- 
vives, with a son, William S. Ballou '25, a 
grandson, and a brother. 

1898 

► Charles Atwood Marsh, A.B., A.M., 
mathematics teacher, died in Maiden, Mass., 
March 21, 1943. He taught at Newton and 
Taunton, Mass., High Schools, was head 
of the Mathematics Department, Pawtucket 
High School, principal of Colt Memorial 
High School, Bristol, and sub-master at 
Maiden High School, a post he held with 
distinction 3 5 years. He was prominent as 
a Mason, former President of the Univer- 
sity Club of Maiden, and a member of the 
School Masters Club, New England Asso- 
ciation of Teachers of Mathematics, and 
Beta Theta Pi. He compiled a series of col- 
lege entrance examinations in plane geom- 
etry and wrote articles on mathematical sub- 
jects. Born in Lynn, Mass., Jan. 3, 1876, 
son of George E. and Mary E. (Thomas) 
Marsh. Married Helen A. Dougherty, June 
30, 1926. Mrs. Marsh, a son and a brother 
survive. 

1912 

► Clifton Morse Hull, salesman, died in 
Rehoboth, Mass., Feb. 6, 1943. Leaving 
Brown in Sophomore year, he went into 
the leather belting business in Philadelphia 
and since then had been on the sales staffs 
of Brown 6? Sharpe Mfg. Co.; a machine 
tool company in Putnam, Conn., in which 
he had an interest; and J. T. Slocomb Co., 
Providence. Born in Cincinnati, O., Sept. 
18, 1889, son of Charles and Marian Hull. 
Married Margaret Livermore of Cranston, 
May 16, 1916. Mrs. Hull and two sons 
survive. 

1916 

► Allen Guy Maxwell. A.B., invest- 
ment counselor, died in New York, April 
24, 1943. Guard and tackle on the Brown 
football eleven three years, he played in 
the first game in the Rose Bowl, New Year's 
Day 1916. He was also a star wrestler on 
the Hill. He began work as salesman for 
National Cash Register Co., was with Blair 
ii Co.. Inc., bankers and brokers, and their 
successor, Banc-Amenca-Blair Corp., 15 
years, and an associate of other investment 
concerns. He reorganized the capital struc- 
ture of Arden Farms, Inc., a Los Angeles 
dairy company, before going to National 
City Bank in the personal credit and loan 
department last October. 

In the First World War he became 1st 
Lt., Inf., transferred to the Aviation Sec- 
tion, Signal Corps, and was commander of 
the 82nd Aero Squadron. He was a 3 2nd 
degree Mason, a member of several bridge 
clubs and Phi Delta Theta. Bridge and 
collecting coins, particularly 50-cent pieces, 
were his hobbies. Born in Slatington, Pa., 
July 30, 1892, son of Henry and Medina J. 
(Hunsicker) Maxwell. Married Gladys D. 
Westerman of Providence. May 11, 1918. 
Mrs. Maxwell survives, with a sister, Mrs. 
Edgar L. Klotz '21, Pembroke College, a 
daughter and a brother. 



1917 

► Eliot Horton Luther, A.B., M.D., 
died in Westfield, Mass., May 2, 1943. He 
was resident physician at Westfield State 
Sanatorium and an authority on infantile 
paralysis, of which he made special study 
and about which he wrote comprehensive 
reports. From Brown, where he was a 
Francis Wayland Scholar, member of Phi 
Beta Kappa and on the tennis and gym 
teams, he entered Harvard Medical School, 
received the M.D. degree in 1921 and was 
interne at Boston City and Children's Hos- 
pitals. He was assistant in pediatrics and 
instructor in preventive medicine at Har- 
vard Medical School until illness inter- 
rupted his work. 

While recuperating at Saranac Lake, 
N. Y., in 1931 he was publicly commended 
by the Saranac Board of Health for his 
heroic aid in combatting an infantile paraly- 
sis outbreak. He was a member of the 
American Medical Association, Massa- 
chusetts Medical Society, and the Trudeau 
Society. Born in Providence, Oct. 20, 1895, 
son of Thomas H. and Minnie (Horton) 
Luther. Married Helene Marie Pinel, June 
4, 1926. Mrs. Luther, two daughters, and 
his parents survive. His father and his 
mother were special students at Brown and 
Pembroke College, respectively. 
1921 

► Herbert Leonard Hambleton, Ph.B., 
general manager of H. 6? P. Spool and 
Bobbin Co., died in Lawrence, Mass., 
March 19, 1943. From Brown, where he 
was a member of the Naval Training Unit, 
he went to U. S. Bobbin &? Shuttle Co., 
Lawrence, to learn the business. He was 
assistant superintendent when he resigned 
in 1925 to join the sales staff of H. &? P. 
Spool and Bobbin, of which he became gen- 
eral manager in 1942. He was a Mason, an 
active member of Grace Episcopal Church, 
Lawrence, and of Sigma Chi. Born in 
Goffstown, N. H., Oct. 25, 1900, son of 
Frederick and Annie C. (Smith) Hamble- 
ton. Married Dorothy A. Russell of Gras- 
mere, N. H., Oct. 1, 1925. Mrs. Hamble- 
ton, a son and two daughters survive. 

1930 

► Raymond Irving Blank, Ph.B., thea- 
tre executive, died in Des Moines, la., 
March 7, 1943. Since 1933 he had been an 
officer of Central States Theatre Corp., and 
of Tri-States Theatre Corp., with head- 
quarters in Des Moines. In college he was 
on the Brown Daily Herald three years 
and a member of the Senior Managing 
Board. "Always a student," said Liber 
Brunensis, "but never a 'grind'." 



In 1931 and 1932 he attended the 
Geneva Peace Conference, representing 
several newspapers. He was on the Execu- 
tive Board, Tall Corn Council, Boy Scouts 
of America, and member of the Des Moines 
Music Association, and the Variety, Hy- 
perion and Town Clubs. Born in Des 
Moines, Dec. 5, 1909, son of A. H. and 
Anna R. (Levy) Blank. He leaves his par- 
ents and a brother. 

1940 

► Lt. (jg) George Livingstone Mawhin- 
NEY, USNR, was killed when his plane 
crashed at Quonset Point, R. I., March 10, 
1943. An A.B. graduate, majoring in eco- 
nomics, he was salesman with Sun Oil Co., 
Bridgeport, Conn., before enlisting as avia- 
tion cadet. 

On the Brown football elevens of '37, '38 
and '39 he was a sturdy, fast and versatile 
lineman — one of the best guards in the 
East. He was also a shot putter on the 
Brown track team, Class Treasurer, Presi- 
dent of Brown Key, and member of the 
Vigilance Committee, Cammarian Club and 
Phi Gamma Delta. Because of his high 
qualities of "character, personality, scholas- 
tic ability and capacity for leadership" 
while at Brookline, Mass., High School, he 
received the Brown Club of Providence 
Scholarship when he entered college. Born 
in Brookline, March 15, 1918, son of Henry 
and Sarah (Carlisle) Mawhinney. Sur- 
viving are his mother, two sisters and a 
brother, Pvt. Robert C. Mawhinney, USA. 

► A/C William Charles McLaughlin, 
Jr., USNR, was killed March 14, 1943, 
when his training plane crashed in Pensa- 
cola, Fla. Before enlisting in July, 1942, 
he was scheduling clerk with U. S. Rubber 
Co., Providence. He trained at Chapel 
Hill., N. C, and Squantum, Mass., and 
was a month away from his commission at 
Pensacola. He was a member of the 
Knights of Columbus and a pledge to Psi 
Upsilon. Born in Providence, Feb. 14, 
1916, son of the late William C. McLaugh- 
lin, M.D., '01 and Katherine R. (Learson) 
McLaughlin. Besides his mother he leaves 
three brothers, one of whom is Arthur L. 
McLaughlin '42, and a sister. His uncle is 
Edward A. McLaughlin, M.D., '14, head 
of the R. I. State Division of Health. 

► Lt. Courtland Hunter Young, AAF, 
died in the line of duty somewhere in the 
European area, May 7, 1943. He enlisted 
in the Army Air Forces shortly after grad- 
uation with an A.B. degree, trained as 
bombardier in New Mexico and Florida and 
went overseas some months ago. 



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BY GERTRUDE ALLEN McCONNELL, Alumni Secretary 



Class Notes 

► r 1901 — Louise Gamwell Cobb has 
moved to 210 Ferry Street, Danville, Perm., 
where she is living with her son Donald. 

1903 — Edith Wilcox is making her home 
with her brother at Maple Ridge Farm, 
South Lyndeboro, N. H. 

1906 — Alley ne Clark has changed her 
residence from New York to 142 Chestnut 
St., Boston 8, Mass. 

1906 — Hope Davis Mecklin's son John 
is a war correspondent, assigned to the At- 
lantic Fleet and is just back from the Sicilian 
expedition. Last April he married Shirley 
Karr, University of Chicago '42. 

1914 — Mildred Chapman has moved 
from Attleboro Falls to 34 Hersey Road, 
Cranston 10, R. I. 

1914 — Alice Waddington attended 
Chautauqua during the summer. 

1915 — Irene Mathewson Richardson's 
son Bruce is now a lieutenant in the Navy 
and the proud possessor of a daughter, 
Candace. 

1918 — Dorothy Allan is now living at 94 
University Avenue, Providence. 

1918 — Sally Morse Beardsley spent the 
summer in Nova Scotia. 

1918 — Helen Mowry has been made a 
full professor at Skidmore. 

1918 — Marion Sherman Springer's hus- 
band is a Colonel in the Chemical Warfare 
Service in the AEF. Her son Clinton is in 
the Navy V-12 at M. I. T. 

1924 — Carol Bogman has joined the 
WAVES. 

1924 — Harriet Boyd is now in the 
WACS. 

1927 — Mary Sammis has enlisted in the 
WACS. 

1928 — Sylvia Berkman is teaching at 
Radcliffe and living at 10 Berkeley St., 
Cambridge. 

1929 — Phyllis Fletcher is in training with 
the WAVES. 

193 1— Mabclle Cullen is in the WAVES. 
1933 — Mildred Wood Smith is doing de- 
fense work with a firm that makes plane 
and bomber seats, some of which went into 
General MacArthur's official plane. She 
writes: "It is fascinating work for it is a 
continual learning process and it is a joy 
to find one's mind quicken to one new 
problem after another." 

1934 — Dorothea Carr is living at 7108 
Clarendon Road, Bethesda, Md. 

1936 — Bernice Bigelow received her 
commission as an Ensign and is now on 
duty in Washington. She said "I like this 
Navy life and consider myself very lucky 
to be able to live at home." 

1936 — Laura Lutz has joined the 
WAVES. 

1938 — Phillis Roberts Briggs is with her 
parents at 25 Callendar Ave., East Provi- 
dence while her husband is receving Army 
training. 

1939— Alice Barlow is in the WAVES. 
1941 — Ella Childs is secretary to Ira 
Lloyd Letts 13, Providence attorney. 

1942 — Helena Smith Dunn and husband 
are al 428 Rollingwood Circle, Fayettcville, 
N. C. 

1942 — Sandra Feldmahn is with the 
World Student Service Fund, 8 West 40th 
St.. New York. 



1942 — Joyce Garn is working on the 
News Week Section of the 3\Jem Tor\ Sun- 
day Times. 

1942 — Dorothy King is a reporter for 
the Standard Times in New Bedford and 
has a column in it. 

1942 — Betty Klatt is in the Marines and 
is attending the Radio Operators' School 
(WR), Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. 

1942 — Devara Abramson Poll is work- 
ing in the payroll department of a Paw- 
tucket defense plant. Her husband is with 
the Navy. 

1943 — Marguerite Connolly is working 
at the base works of the General Electric 
Company in Providence. 

1943 — Lina Fitzgerald is with the Signal 
Corps and is living at Maine Hall, Room 
A206, Arlington Farms, Arlington, Va. 

1943 — Julianne Hirshland has joined the 
WAVES. 

1943 — Marion Mills is teaching Latin at 
the Oak Grove School, Vassalboro, Me. 

1943 — Evelyn Reilly is with Liberty 
Mutual. 

1943 — Frances Skerrett has completed 
her internship in the Navy Dept. Division 
of Personnel (civilian) Supervision and 
Management and is now doing administra- 
tive analysis work for the Navy. She is 
living at 3622 White Haven Parkway NW, 
Washington, D. C. 

1943 — Evelyn Williams is Assistant Per- 
sonnel Manager for the General Cable Cor- 
poration in Pawtucket. 4 4 

Engagements 

r ► 1934 — Carmela Santoro to Joseph 
John Di Pippo. 

1937— Ens. Elizabeth Fowler to Lt. Cut- 
ler Goodrich Collins, USNR. Lt. Collins 
attended St. George's School and Yale Uni- 
versity and was with Eastern Airlines before 
going into active service in June, 1941. 

1942 — Barbara M. Wiley to Ens. James 
W. Morley, USNR. Ens. Morley graduated 
from Harvard. Both studied at the Fletcher 
School of Law and Diplomacy this past 
year. 

1943— Margaret Eddy to Wallace E. 
Barnes, Jr. 

1944 — Constance Lucas to John Heidt 
'42. 

1945 — Barbara Morton to Lt. Henry 
Clay Adams, USA. 

1945 — Thais Erving to Philip Waldron 
'43, USNR. 

Weddings 

r 1933 — Capt. Johanna Carol Magyar 
and Lt. John F. Kelly, AUS, Aug. 14, in 
Majors Army Air Field Chapel, Greenville, 
Tex. 

1939^Marie K. Coogan and Lt. Robert 
E. Laurence, Syracuse University '39. May 
26. Address: Fauntleroy Farm, Old Colony 
Road, Monroe, La. 

1939 — Ens. Jeanne Max and Lt. Charles 
Henry Miller, R. I. State '37. Address: 
2702 Wisconsin Ave., NW, Washington, 
D. C. 

1940 — Sylvia Jacobsohn and Lt. William 
B. Miller, USAAC, June 12. Address: 
3278 40th Ave., SW, Seattle. 

1941 — Elizabeth Brayton and Paul Rob- 
ert Miller '39, Aug. 25. Address: 22 Old 
Spring Road, Oaklawn, R. I. 



1941 — Margaret M. Donovan and Ens. 
Paul R. Peterson, CEC, Aug. 14. Ens. 
Peterson is Minnesota '41. Rita E. Matteo 
'41 was maid of honor. Address: Pickwick 
Hotel, San Diego, Cal. 

1942 — Virginia M. Kenny and Lt. Henry 
Palmer, USAAC, Aug. 26. Lt. Palmer is 
a graduate of R. I. State and the R. I. School 
of Design. Address: 700 West 26th St., 
Bryan, Tex. 

1943 — Marilynn A. Barrett and Gordon 
Pennoyer, Aug. 14, in Bexley, Ohio. 

1943 — -Marjory L. Brown and Burt 
Klausner, USAAC, in the Chapel at Lowry 
Field, Denver, Col., July 23. Address: 
c/o Seymour Brown, 3 50 Central Park 
West, Apt. 12 F, New York City. 

1943 — Betty Bernstein and Lt. Bernard 
Lubarsky '41, Aug. 21. Lt. Lubarsky is in 
the Army Air Corps and is an instructor at 
San Marcos Field. 

1944 — Betsey Jane Merrill and Lt. 
Leighton T. Bohl, Jr., USMC, July 3. Lt. 
Bohl is a graduate of Brown in the class of 
'43. 

1944 — Virginia I. Richardson and Pfc. 
William Henry Briggs, Jr., USAMC, in 
the Central Congregational Church, Provi- 
dence, Aug. 23. Address: Peter Bent Brig- 
ham School of Nursing, Boston, Mass. 

Births 

r 1928— To Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. 
Sanderson (Julia Oldham), a son, David 
Willard, June 27. Address: 136 Arnold 
St., Riverside, R. I. 

1931— To Mr. and Mrs. Dale Wood- 
ward (Eleanor Washington), a son, Dale 
Weston, July 16. Address: 405 East 5 5th 
St., New York City. 

1933— To Mr. and Mrs. John Alden 
Peirce (Emma Gorton), a daughter, Pris- 
cilla Alden, June 11. Address: Hope 
Farm, Dutchess County, N. Y. 

1935 — To Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Abram- 
son (Dorothy Schloss), a daughter, Susan 
Jane, Sept. 2. Address: 21 East Oakdale 
Ave., Glenside, Pa. 

193 5 — To Mr. and Mrs. John O'Leary 
Nolan (Elizabeth Blanehard), a son, John 
Blanchard, Aug. 30. Address: 644 Main 
St., Pawtucket. 

1937 — To Ens. and Mrs. Nelson Burgess 
Record (Mary Louise Hinckley), a son, 
Nelson Burgess Record, Jr., Aug. 31. 
Address: 6 Whittier Drive, Johnston. 

1938— To Lt. and Mrs. Robert M. 
Thomas (Jean Gordon), a son, Gordon Al- 
bert, June 8. Address: 614 Wyoming Ave., 
Kingston, Pa. 

1939— To Lt. and Mrs. Charles H. Mul- 
len (Claire Harrington), a daughter, Ann 
Claire, July 8. Address: 704 West Court 
St., Rome, N. Y. 

1939— To Capt. and Mrs. Thomas C. 
Roberts (Christine Whitney), a daughter. 
Mary Christine, June 29. Address: 1601 
Gore Blvd., Lawton, Okla. 

1940— To Mr. and Mrs. Courtland M. 
Briggs (Marjorie Leland), a daughter, 
Allegra, July 12. 

1940 — To Mr. and Mrs. Sherwin J. Kap- 
stein (Gladys Chernack), a son, Jeremy 
Aaron, July 3. Address: 178 Bowcn St., 
Providence, R. I. 

1940— To Mr. and Mrs. Winthrop Tay- 
lor Fagan (Leona Brownell), a son, Win- 
throp Taylor, Jr., Jan. 10. Address: 2 2 
Channing St., Newport. i 






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Pike's Peak to FUJIYAMA 



IT takes a block-buster only a few 
seconds to fall from a high-flying 
U. S. bomber to its bull's-eye on 
Berlin or Naples or Tokio. But it 
took almost 25 years to get the plane 
up there to drop the bomb. For where 



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some of our planes are flying today 
on top of practically anything that 
flies — the air is so thin that a plane 
engine would lose about tour-fifths of 
its rated sea-level horsepower if it 
weren't equipped with a turbosuper- 
ckarger. 

It was back in the days of World 
War I that the Army Air Corps first 
asked General Electric engineers 
to tackle the problem of feeding plane 
engines air under pressure to cure the 
loss of power at high altitudes. The 



result was the turbosupcrcharger — a 
device that scoops in 60-below-zero 
air and crams it down the engine's 
windpipe to provide the same amount 
of oxygen it would normally get at 
sea level. And since the turbosupcr- 
charger takes its power from the 
engine's own red-hot exhaust gases, 
it almost makes the plane lift itself 
by its own bootstraps. 

The first success came in 1918, on 
Pike's Peak, where a supercharged 
Liberty engine, rated at 350 horse- 
power, actually delivered 356 horse- 
power at 14,000 feet. That was just 
the beginning. For 20-odd years G-E 
engineers worked to improve the 
device. When the present war broke 
out, it was ready — a potent, ail- 
American weapon which the Axis, for 
all its years of war preparation, 
could not match. Today all of Amer- 
ica's big bombers are equipped with 
turbosuperchargers. And all of these 
turbosuperchargers are built either by 
General Electric or in the plants of 
two other manufacturers from G-E 
designs. 

The turbosupercharger is just one 
of many engineering near-miracles 
developed in industrial laboratories in 
time to put on a uniform and begin 



fighting for America. We have them 
because of the happy combination of 
ingenuity and perseverance which 
has always characterized American 
industry. It is a combination that will 
have a lot to do with winning the war, 
and with building the better world 
hereafter. For then the men who are 



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the other at 1500! 




building fighting machines will be 
back on the job of providing better 
peacetime things for all of us. General 
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The group that made avi- 
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Pike's Peak. There, 2{ 
miles high, this engine 
supercharged by G-E and 
U.S. Army engineers actu- 
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