CHAPLAIN'S LEAVE-TAKING: Dr. Arthur L. Washburn, here photographed 
by Henderson at the door of Andrews House, retires this June. (See page 15.) 



M Qm^^j:^ 




COMMENCEMENT PREVIEW 
MAY-JUNE 1947 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 

Corporation Candidates < < 




BRACKETT 




HUNT 

► ► "A Privilege in Jeopardy" was the 
way the Alumni Executive Officer de 
scribed it. He was referring to the agree 
ment between the Corporation and the As 
sociated Alumni of Brown University un 
der which the alumni indicate their choices 
each year for Alumni Trustees. The alumni 
in recent years have not been fulfilling 
their part of the bargain. 

This is the way it is intended to work; 
There are 14 Alumni Trustees, one-third 
of the membership of 42 on the Board of 
Trustees. Annually two graduates are des- 
ignated for seven years of service as Alumni 
Trustees, replacing two whose "terms" 
have just expired. Their election to the 
Corporation follov.-s a general balloting by 
most alumni of Brown and alumnae of 
Pembroke, in which the two are selected 
from a slate of candidates. Those elig ble 




McLEOD 

to vote are graduates of the University, 
including any holder of an advanced de- 
gree in course, together with former stu- 
dents who attended the University for at 
least four semesters. 

The hitch lies in the requirement that 
the total of those voting shall be "not less 
than 25% of the number of holders of de- 
grees in course." In the three years in 
which there have been contests under the 
new agreement, the required percentage of 
votes has never been attained. "By failing 
to exercise our privilege of franchise, its 
continuance may be in jeopardy," the Ex- 
ecutive Officer points out. The Corpora- 
tion not only may proceed to elect Alumni 
Trustees without reference to the leading 
candidates in such an invalid balloting but 
would seem justified in withdrawing the 
agreement for the future. 

cotifiiuifd on page' 38 



MILNER 



BROWN 

ALUMNI MONTHLY 



MAY-JUNE 
VOL. XLVII 



1947 
NUMBER 7 



Published seven times a year in August, October, December, January. February, April, and June by Brown University. Provi- 
dence 12, R. I. Admitted to the second class of mail matter under the Act of August 24, 1912, at the Providence Post Office. 



► ► BULLETIN: A sharp change in gradua- 
tion procedure seemed inevitable May 1 as 
University officers. Seniors, and alumni lead- 
ers studied alternatives to the awarding of 
degrees in the First Baptist Meeting House for 
1947. (An article elsewhere in this issue states 
the dilemma of a graduating class so large that 
its members could not receive their diplomas 
in the presence of all their parents and wives, 
if all the exercises were to be held in the 
church. ) 

A compromise solution seemed likely which 
would accommodate both the Senior wishes 
and the traditions of the years. The proposal, 
therefore, is to start the day as usual — with 
the formation on the campus, the time-hon- 
ored procession to the Meeting House, and the 
first part of the Commencement exercises in 
the Church. However, when the Senior speak- 
ers have finished their orations, the exercises 



in the Meeting House would be concluded with 
a hymn and benediction. At that point, the 
procession would be reformed, and all — 
candidates, Faculty, Corporation, and alumni 
— would march back again to the top of the 
Hill. All degrees would be awarded during a 
second phase on the Middle Campus, where a 
platform and seats would be ready for a larger 
convocation. 

The program would continue unchanged at 
the end of these exercises, with the alumni 
luncheon and the annual Sayles Hall meeting 
of the Associated Alumni as planned on the 
basis of past custom. Senior sentiment seemed 
overwhelming in favor of the new plan. (In 
case of rain, to be sure, it would be necessary 
to complete the exercises in the Meeting House, 
in spite of its limited accommodations for the 
immediate family of each graduate.) i 



► ► The Clarion Call of Commencement 



► ► "Strong IS THE VOICE that calls from the Hill." And 
at Commencement time it's irresistible. 

Thirty Brown classes had reunion plans well in hand 
May 1, while the second annual All- Alumni Dinner prom- 
ised a large-scale reunion for everyone, with recognition of 
President Wriston's 10th anniversary at the University 
checked as a major element. The weekend dates are from 
June 13 to June 16. 

While the general pattern will be familiar, one innova- 
tion in programming had found widespread support. It 
dealt with the Alumni Dinner, instituted a year ago as a 
Victory Reunion and found so popular that ail classes voted 
for its continuance as an annual feature of the Commence- 
ment homecoming. It provides a centralizing influence to 
complement the class attractions that scatter individual 
reunions from Norwich, Conn., to the Cape. It is a focus 
that brings all Brown men back to the campus for a reunion 
of the reunions. This year it will be held Sunday night, 
between the class reunions of the weekend and the Monday 
climax of Commencement itself. 

Another innovation is actually a return to a pre-war 
custom: the holding of a separate Convocation for the 
Graduate School on Saturday. Such a ceremony, including 
the awarding of advanced degrees, had been the practice 
from 1926 to 1941, after which it was combined during the 
war period with the general graduation exercises in the First 
Baptist Meeting House. The ringing of the Chapel Bell 
and an academic procession will start the Convocation in 
Sayles Hall at 2:30 on June 14. Famed for its scholarly 
addresses in the past (they were usually published subse- 
quently in the series of Brown University Studies) , the 
Convocation will have as its 1947 speaker the distinguished 
scientist. Dr. Richard Chace Tolman. A nephew of the 
late Chancellor Chace of Brown, he is Dean and Professor 
of the Graduate School of California Polytechnic Institute 




ARTHUR B. 

HOMER '17: 
The President of 
Bethlehem Steel will 
be Chief Marshal of 
the June 16 Com- 
mencement proces- 
sion. 



and was wartime vice-president of the OSRD. A reception 
and tea will follow in the John Carter Brown Library at 
3:45, according to plans announced by Dean R. G. D. 
Richardson. 

► Commencement festivities will commence with the 
Pembroke Senior Dinner on Wednesday, June 1 1 , and the 
Brown Senior Dinner the next night. The Pembroke Ivy 
Night Dance will also be held Thursday night, June 12. 
"Under the Elms" exercises will attract the Seniors and their 
families, particularly, at 4 o'clock on Friday, Class Day, 
and will be back on the Middle Campus. That evening is 
the date for traditional illumination of the campus, prom- 
enade, and Class Night Dance. One band for the dancing 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 




CHAPIN S. 
NEWIIARD '22: 
Trustee from St. 
Louis will preside in 
June at Sayles Hall 
alumni meeting. 



will be outdoors on the Middle Campus, with a second in 
Sayles Hall. Dancing, from 9 to 2, will be interrupted at 
midnight for the Senior Sing. Committees of the Senior 
Class include: dinner ^T. J. Luby and J. J. Devlin; 
"Under the Elms"— J. S. Goff, R. F. Conley, and R. Casey; 
Class Night Dance — E. M. Grummer, J. A. Palastak, M. 
Gammino, T. Egan, J. Heinz, and J. D. Connelly. John- 
Sweeney is over-all Class Day chairman. 

While the Brown classes are in the midst of their reun- 
ions, the University Corporation will hold its June meeting 
in University Hall Saturday morning. Phi Beta Kappa's 
Rhode Island Alpha will meet, initiate new members, and 
have its Commencement luncheon that morning and noon, 
as well. 

Pembroke alumnae events are concentrated on Saturday, 
June 1 4, with a business meeting of the Alumnae Associa- 
tion at 10 and class luncheons at noon. In the afternoon a 
Senior- Alumnae program will include some of the features 
of the old-time Ivy Day. The Class Ivy will be planted, and 
appropriate ceremonies will welcome the Seniors into the 
alumnae body. A late-afternoon garden party for Faculty, 
alumnae, Seniors, and their parents will precede the Alum- 
nae Banquet at 7 o'clock. 

Special interest attaches itself to the Baccalaureate Service 
this year, for the preacher will be Dr. Arthur L. Washburn, 
retiring Chaplain. This comes at 3 on the afternoon of 
June 15, in the First Baptist Meeting House, and is to be 
followed by the President's Reception on the Middle 
Campus. 

► In scheduling the All-Alumni Dinner for Sunday 
evening, the Commencement committee was moved by sev- 
eral considerations: It consolidates the campus features of 
the weekend. Class reunions will be over, with large dele- 
gations returning to Providence for the great dinner of all 
Brown men. Men from the odd-year classes, who could not 
come from, out-of-town on Friday, will be able to plan for 
the dinner, spend the night in College dormitories, and be 
on hand for Commencement Day. And, by providing an 
appealing program for what has lately been an open eve- 
ning in the Commencement calendar, it will induce greater 
numbers to remain for Monday. 

President Wriston will be the principal speaker, with 
another to be announced. The Associated Alumni will 
award Brown Bear trophies for the second time to men 
whose services to the University have been conspicuously 



fine. And it is planned to emphasise the musical side of the 
evening, with many a good Brown tune, including the first 
performance of the new prize-winning contest song. (The 
committee reports that a large number of entries had been 
received in April.) And, although the compliment to Dr. 
Wriston and his 10 years will be the keynote (and should 
invite lively reminiscence by him and others), the evening 
will be in lighter vein. The committee in charge includes: 
Judge Robert E. Quinn '15, who will also be master of 
ceremonies. Prof. Leighton T. Bohl, Sidney Clifford, Moses 
L. Crossley, Robert H. Goff, Paul Gleeson, Judge John 
Hartigan, Raymond Jordan, Charles Lawton, William B. 
McCormick, Earl Pearce, Earl Perkins, Charles P. Sisson, 
H. Stanton Smith, Myles Standish, and W. C. Worthing- 
ton, as well as members of subcommittees. The Association 
of Class Secretaries has also accepted responsibilities, prom- 
ising further wide backing. 

Arthur B. Homer '17, Brown Trustee and President of 
Bethlehem Steel, will be Chief Marshal of the Commence- 
ment procession, with J. Cunliffe Bullock '02 as Chief of 
Staff. There is every prospect for the longest line of mem- 
bers in years, to do the ancient honors to the Seniors as 
escort to the Meeting House. After the exercises of the 
179th Commencement, the Alumni Luncheon will be served 
on the campus. 

For the Sayles Hall meeting of the Associated Alumni, 
it is still impossible to reveal the identity of the two speak- 
ers, although their international stature is such as to guar- 
antee a filled auditorium. Chapin S. Newhard '22, St. Louis 
investment banker and civic leader, will be the presiding 
officer, on the occasion of his 25 th anniversary. Announce- 
ment of the results of the alumni elections will be made by 
Dr. Moses L. Crossley '09, who will pass on the presidential 
cane to his successor as alumni leader. i 

Reunion Checklist for 1947 

► For complete reunion information, refer to the notes 
under your class numeral in the Department, "Brunonians 
Far and Near." But here, for quick reference, is a brief 
listing of the principal reunion plans at Brown reported up 
to May 1 : 

1882 — Luncheon, University Club, Monday, June 16. 

1887 — Luncheon, University Club, Monday, June 16. 

1 890 — Luncheon, University Club, Monday, June 1 6. 

1891 —Dinner, Hope Club, Saturday, June 14. 
Memorial Service at Class Fence, Monday. 

1 892 — Plans incomplete at press time. 

1893 — Dinner, Squantum Club, Sunday, June 15; 
breakfast, Hope Club, Monday. 

1897 — Week-end reunion, with Saturday night dinner 
at Agawam Hunt and Sunday supper at home of 
Arthur M. Allen, 184 Upton Ave., Providence. 

1899 — Dinner, Saturday night, June 14, place to be 
determined. 

1900 — Breakfast, University Club, Monday, June 16. 

1902 — Weekend at Weekapaug Inn, Friday to Sun- 
day. 

1903 — Dinner, Agawam Hunt, Saturday night; Lunch- 
eon, University Club, Monday. 

1907 — Weekend at Dunes-Carlton Hotel, Narragan- 
sett, Friday to Sunday. 

1908 — Sunday reunion at Stone Inn, Tiverton (tenta- 
tive.) 

1909 — Sunday dinner and golf, R. I. Country Club, 
June 15. 

1910 — On-campus reunion, Friday to Sunday, with 
special features elsewhere being arranged. 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



1911 — Saturday and Sunday at Cold Spring House, 
Wickford, June 15. 

1912 — Weekend at Norwich Inn, Friday to Sunday, 
with Class Dinner, Saturday night, June 14. 

1917 — Weekend at Popponesset Beach Club, North 
Falmouth, Friday to Sunday. 

1918 — Class Meeting, University Club, Sunday, June 
15 at 5 p.m. 

1919 — Reunion and clambake, Squantum Club, Sat- 
urday, June 15. 

1922 — Weekend at Sakonnet, Stone House and Sakon- 
net Golf Club, Friday to Sunday. 

1923 — Breakfast, University Club, Monday, June 16, 

1924 — Breakfast, University Club, Monday, June 16. 

1927 — Weekend at Muenchinger-King Hotel, New- 
port, Friday to Sunday, with Class Dinner, Satur- 
day night, June 14. 

1932 — Cocktails, University Club, Friday, June 13 at 
5; campus dance; reunion at Cape Codder Hotel, 
Falmouth, Saturday to Sunday, with Class Meeting 
Sunday noon. 

1933 — Luncheon or dinner, time and place still to be 
determined at press time. 

1937 — Weekend at Cold Spring House, Wickford, 
Friday to Sunday, with Class Dinner, Saturday 
night, June 14. 

1938 — Saturday reunion, probably at Pawtucket Golf 
Club. 

1939- — Saturday at R. I. Country Club; cocktails Sun- 
day at 6 at 16 South Angell St. 

1942 — Weekend on campus, Friday to Monday. i 




DAVID A. JONAH (left) is acting Librarian of the 
University during Dr. Van Hoesen's year in New York. 
The photograph, with Prof. C. R. Adams of the Mathe- 
matics Department, was taken at State Department 
request to publicize overseas the resources of our 
science library. 



In the Public Prints 

► ► "Into Providence business and industry on each 
graduation day flows a transfusion of Brown University 
blood and tradition. Whether Brown is a Providence 
institution or Providence is a graduate of Brown is difficult 
to say." ._^ 

W. M. Brooks made this comment in the May 3 issue 
of the Saturday Evening Post when it published the article 
on Providence in its current series on the "Cities of Amer- 
ica." College Hill appeared prominently in the illustration 
of the story. (It may be possible to obtain extra copies of 
the issue from Curtis Circulation Co., 127 Thayer St., 
Providence, or local news dealers in other cities.) 

Of Providence, at one point, he said, "Here, if you at- 
tended Brown University, you can do no wrong." (Do 
we detect a mild note of sarcasm?) ". . . East of the 
river and canal rises College Hill, the East Side, beyond 
the Rhode Island School of Design. Here are a residential 
district of old colonial mansions and the sites of Brown 
University and its feminine adjunct, Pembroke College. 

"For the high schools, Brown University opens its sta- 
dium for both baseball and football, one eye open for the 
making of another such gridiron half-track as the Iron 
Men of 1926. Brown, seventh oldest of the nation's col- 
leges and one of its liveliest, was chartered in 1764 as 
Rhode Island College, and first located in Warren. It 
was moved to Providence in 1770, and in 1804 it took the 
name of the Brown family, which has been prominent in 
Providence history since the beginning of the 1 8th century, 
The cornerstone of University Hall was laid in 1770. 
Cows grazed where the beautiful campus now stretches 
beyond gates whose central portals open only for the 
Commencement procession. 

"There were only about 40 students at Brown when 
the Revolutionary War began. The Army used University 
Hall as a barracks and hospital, and at one time quartered 
the French there. George Washington received a degree 
there in 1790, and slept in the old John Brown House, de' 
scribed by John Quincy Adams as "the most magnificent 
and elegant private mansion I have ever seen on this con- 
tinent." 

In the preparation of the article and provision for its 
pictures, the News Bureau at Brown assisted. Another 
magazine writer who turned to the News Bureau, the 
Library, and other agencies on College Hill was Staffman 
Long of the J^ational Geographic, who is at work on a 
Providence story for the future. 

► "What Good Is a College Degree?" is the provocative 
title of an article by President Wriston which will appear 
in the American Magazine in the near future, probably 
the June issue. Brown men will await its appearance with 
particular interest. 

Dr. Benjamin Fine, education editor of the J^ew Tor\ 
Times, was a campus visitor early in April, with particular 
interest in the Veterans' College. He talked with adminis- 
trative officers and students in preparation for an article 
scheduled for publication April 13 and was apparently 
impressed with the unique character of this college and 
the implications of its marked success. 

William G. Avirett, education editor of the J^ew Tor\ 
Herald Tribune, was to be a chapel speaker at Brown on 
April 30 and planned conferences with University officials, 
arranged by the News Bureau. His report on Brown was 
scheduled for use early in May. 

An international broadcast is in prospect for the fall 
when the new Pembroke dormitory is to be dedicated, i 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



The Campaign at Its Turning Point 



< < 



BULLETIN; Renewed campaigning, spurred 
by a May 1 supper conference of workers, 
brought the Housing and Development Fund 
to $2,668,000 on May 7. With 40 days remain- 
ing, the total was $332,000 away from the 
Commencement goal. 

► ► Thirty-six hundred good Brown men had brought 
the Housing and Development Campaign two-thirds of 
the way to the goal when, in April, The Chapel Bell was 
put in the mail. This pubhcation, "calling all Brown men," 
carried its message throughout the alumni body and re- 
corded a prehminary acknowledgment of $2,614,000. It 
contained a list of subscribers to Brown's $4,000,000 cam- 
paign, as of April 1, with a supplementary roster of addi- 
tional givers scheduled for compilation immediately fol- 
lowing Commencement. 

"When the May issue of the Alumni Monthly is 
received," Col. G. Edward Buxton '02 said, "our campaign 
organization will be in full swing across the country to 
achieve our intermediate objective — $3,000,000 by Com- 
mencement, 1947. This can be accomplished if those who 
have not yet given or pledged will now participate accord- 
ing to their ability." 

At the Boston Brown dinner April 14, Col. Buxton re- 
ported as National Chairman of the campaign and noted 
that the total then stood at $2,630,000. "A short year 
ago," he said, "I stood at this table and repeated that battle 
cry almost 2500 years old — 'Go ye every man of you and 
stand in the ranks. Then shall ye win victories comparable 
to Marathon and Salamis, or falling, fall greatly and 
worthy of your sires.' 

"We did not intend to fall — and will not," he assured 
the alumni. "We were getting ready for another of the 
calls which Brown makes to her sons each generation — a 
call which must be made if we are to be worthy of our 
isires. Two thousand Brown men across the country 
answered the call and entered the ranks. We said Brown 
must spend at least six million dollars to modernize its 
plant, to maintain its historic position in the front rank. 
To make this capital expenditure, we must raise at least 
four million and borrow two. This debt could then be self- 
liquidating over a term of years." 

► Col. Buxton reported on the progress of the drive 
in New England where 326 campaign workers had ob- 
tained 601 subscriptions for a total of $182,000. Of 2600 
Brown men in Northern New England, where Homer N. 
Sweet is National Vice-Chairman, 23% have contributed. 
The dollar total is something over half the tentative budget 
for the area of $350,000. 

"Like all budgets, it was an estimate," Col. Buxton 
pointed out. "If you like, it was the expression of a hope, 
but it was based on a careful study of the total personnel 
available, and our estimate of what each region must and 
could produce if the four million was to be forthcoming 
on some equitable distribution of the burden — and the 
privilege. If this estimate is to be justified, we must expect 
that another 20% or more of resident Brown men will 
pledge a Hke amount to that already contributed. Perhaps 
some who made cash payments without pledges in 1946 
will wish to repeat in 1947. Your committee can merely 
suggest that possibiHty. Each individual alone can say 
whether it is within his ability. 

"Our general policy is one of intermediate objectives. 
We are asking every region to revive an intensive campaign 



starting at once and continuing into June, 1947. Our 
nation-wide goal requires $370,000 more in gifts from 
coast to coast in the six weeks before Commencement. It 
will take a lot of substantial gifts to accomplish that ob- 
jective, supported by many hundreds of modest gifts from 
men of modest means — and that covers most of us. If this 
can be done, we can find the last miUion before Com- 
mencement, 1948 — of that I have faith. 

"Again comes the ancient cry to go and stand in the 
ranks. The cause is worth the effort and the sacrifice. The 
wisdom of a romantic age comes to us from the inscription 
on the Crusader's tomb in Westminster Abbey: 'What I 
saved I lost; what I spent I had; what I gave, I am.' " 

► Writing to the alumni in The Chapel Bell, President 
Wriston said: "We are now at the point where it is es- 
sential to follow through if we are to complete the job we 
have undertaken." Reviewing the achievement to date, 
he commented that a campaign to raise funds is "never 
convenient and always difficult." "Sometimes," he said, 
"circumstances make it appear simple or easy. The first 
large gifts create the impression that people are eager to 
give money and that the goal will quickly be reached. But 
no matter how good the cause, no matter how warm- 
hearted the constituency, a successful financial campaign 
always requires much more energy and persistence than 
the public can know." 

The campaign for Brown has had to compete with more 
fund-raising efforts than ever happened before in the Uni- 
versity's or the country's history. "Nonetheless, the loy- 
alty of the alumni to the University and their conviction 
of the reality and significance of Brown's ideals," the Presi- 
dent said, "have been such that the campaign has gone 
well. . . . Noting with deep satisfaction the manner in 
which Brown men have thus far responded to the leader- 
ship of Col. Buxton and his colleagues, I am confident 
you will finish the task to which you have set your hands." 

All gifts will be recorded in a special book as part of 
the permanent archives of the University, Col. Buxton 
noted in April. Thus the gift and its record become a per- 
manent memorial to the donor as well as an acknowledg- 
ment of the giving. The National Chairman added : "Ob- 
viously, the very magnitude of the campaign makes it nec- 
essary to create an opportunity for those who subscribe in 
the larger amounts so that they may select units in the 
building program or establish more specific memorials. 
Many have already taken advantage of this opportunity, 
for the University's prospectus gives a wide diversity of 
media for gifts to perpetuate personalities. From gifts 
designated for specific units, fraternity houses and non- 
fraternity sections will receive benefit according to the 
donor's choice." 



President Wriston, in 1946: 

► "If we were launching a campaign for brick 
and mortar alone, if this campaign was merely for 
beauty and for comfort, we should have no right to 
ask 2000 Brown men to work to raise the money and 
all the alumni and friends of the University to con- 
tribute. Only because the real purpose is to put 
Brown in a more effective position to go forward in 
its best tradition and keep alight the flame of free- 
dom can such an appeal be made." i 



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► The following list cites the units selected in the fra' 
ternity quarters and the donors of each: 

ALPHA DELTA PHL Lounge and Library donated 
by the Chafee Family in memory of Zechariah Chafee '80. 
Recreation Room donated by Arthur B. Homer '17. Claude 
R. Branch '07 and Edward H. Weeks '93 have each do- 
nated a double room. Also, the gift of George T. Metcalf 
'13 has been designated to Alpha Delta Phi. 

BETATHETAPL Lounge donated by Harold B. Tan- 
ner '09. Private Dining Room donated by Everett M. 
Arnold '21 in memory of Earl Chapman Arnold '93. 
Single room donated by Arthur M. Allen '97. 

DELTA KAPPA EPSILOH: Library donated by Frank 
A. Gammino, 2nd, '33, Thomas A. Gammino, '36, and 
Michael A. Gammino, Jr., student at Brown. 

DELTA PHL. Lounge has been reserved by an anony- 
mous donor. Private Dining Room has been reserved by an 
anonymous donor. A double room has been donated by 
John M. Crawford, Jr. '37. A single room donated by 
Louis E. Young '02 in memory of Howard S. Young, Jr. '45. 

DELTA UPSILOJi: Library reserved by a group of 
donors and friends in memory of Dr. William H. P. Faunce 
'80. Single room donated by Mrs. Walter G. Everett and 
C. Douglas Mercer '06 in memory of Walter G. Everett '85. 

PHI KAPPA PSL Library donated by the late Earle F. 
Bliss '11 in memory of Carlton Merrill Bliss '18. 

PI LAMBDA PHL One single room donated by Ben- 
jamin Brier, Charles Brier, and Burleigh B. Greenberg. 
One single room donated by Max L. Grant, '12. 

PSI UPSILOl^: One single room donated by Donald 
S. Babcock '10 in memory of Harold Pemberton Babcock 
'09. One single room donated by The Glatfelter Family 
in memory of William L. Glatfelter, II '40. 

THETA DELTA CHI. Lounge donated by an anony- 
mous donor. Library reserved by the Louttit Family. A 
double room donated by W. Stanley Barrett '21. A single 
room donated by the Krause Family in memory of Allen 
K. Krause '01, George F. Krause '06, and Maxwell Krause 
'10. 

► The following have designated their gifts for units in 
the new Freshman Houses: Lounge and Library reserved 
by relatives and friends in memory of John W. Case '42. 
Single room donated by Frederick C. Broomhead '05 and 
William T. Broomhead '35. Single room donated by Sid- 
ney Ellis. Other united selected are: 

PEMBROKE: Single room donated by William A. 
Harris '97, in memory of Emma Jane Leaker Harris. 

LOCATIOn TO BE DETERMTHED LATER: Dou- 
ble room donated by the Sopkin Family. One single room 
donated by Forrest E. Dean in memory of Calvin and 
Eliza F. Dean. One single room donated by Samuel Shore 
and Joseph Ress, '26, One single room donated by Captain 
and Mrs. William H. Vanderbilt and Mrs. Everett Colby 
in memory of Everett Colby '97. 

In addition to the units selected, the following gifts have 
been made by relatives and friends TKl MEMORY OF: 
Henry W. Anderson '38. Sarah P. Bowen, George Fer- 
guson Browne '42, Allen H. Chase '97, Charles T. Crocker 
'54, Seeber Edwards '91, Chester C. Green, Jr. '29, Wil- 
liam Greene '17, Charles F. Hanisch '43, Mortimer H. 
Hartwell '70, William C. Huntoon '94, Myron C. Pease 
'76, James Aldrich Pierce, Alfred K. Potter '02, Herbert 
H. Rice '92, Benjamin Ide Wheeler '76, Mrs. Henry M. 
Wriston, Adolph C. Wochomurka '42, Howard S. Young, 
Jr., '45. 

A special plaque in the new refectory will provide a 
permanent record of donors of $500 or more. The follow- 





TREASURERS 
OLD AND NEW: 
G. Burton Hibbert, 
Providence banker, 
has succeeded the 
veteran Harold C. 
Field '94, above, in 
this important Uni- 
versity post. 



ing list supplements those previously printed in issues of 
this magazine. Since the last issue, gifts of this size have 
been received from: 

Preston F. Arnold '13, Donald '45 and Stanley '47 
Blacher, F. H. Brownell '88, Dr. and Mrs. Hermon C. 
Bumpus, Jr., '12, Dr. A. M. Burgess '06, Leroy F. Bur- 
roughs '12, John H. Cady '03, William H. Cady '98, 
Henry G. Carpenter, Jr. '34, Donald G. Clark '09, Leon 
F. Clark '10, George C. Cranston '26, Charles T. Crocker, 
Jr., Robert S. Curley '07, Alfred Elson, Jr. '25, Mrs. Wal- 
ter G. Everett, George W. Grimm, Jr. '20, Morton S. 
Grossman '49, Mrs. Anna A. Thompson Haass, Edward 
J. Hollen '09, William C. Johnson '01, H. Charles Kwasha 
"28, Preston W. Lewis, A.M. '17, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin J. 
Lyman, Hunter S. Marston '08, Sam Mencoff, Elisha C. 
Mowry '04, Henry S. Newcombe '15, Morris L. Pepper '27, 
Mrs. Alfred K. Potter, James C. Scott '19, Robert O. 
Smith '02, Harold R. Strauss '18, Dr. Leslie R. Taber '17, 
John O. Talbot '26, Don C. Thorndike '23, William G. 
Thurber '15, Norman O. Tietjens '25, Dr. Charles C. Til- 
linghast '06, Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Wochomurka, Ellis 
L. Yatman '11. i 



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How Effective Are the Alumni? < a 



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BROWN ON 

THE MAP: 
For alumni throughout 
the country, President 
Crossley's new scheme 
of re-organization will 
mean better liaison and 
rewards. His article on 
this page is a statement 
to challenge all men of 
Brown. 



BROWN MEN ALL 

BY MOSES L. CROSSLEY '09 

► ► Brown men never cease to be loyal and devoted 
sons of Brown. By their deeds they impress the University 
on life, and thus Brown is indestructible. One is born with- 
out a choice in the event, but he deliberately elects to 
enter Brown University and is in for life on this earth and 
for eternity with the spirits of the Brown men in the Great 
Beyond. One is not graduated out of Brown but rather 
into the greater fellowship of the University through the 
Associated Alumni. Every alumnus automatically belongs 
to this organization and has a personal obligation to do his 
part to promote the welfare of the University. The privi- 
lege of being a Brown man carries with it the inescapable 
responsibility for seeing that the means of education made 
possible for him shall be available also for others. 

The organization we know as the Associated Alumni 
is a vital part of Brown University. It has but one purpose 
■ — to serve Brown; by oneness of purpose to secure that 
solidarity in action which will insure that the capacity of 
this great institution to provide instruction and inspiration 
for youth never shall be impaired. The united efforts of 
all elements of the University must be devoted to the task 
of providing for the flow of an increasingly large number 
of men and women from her halls of learning to the marts 
and temples of life, imbued with the desire to serve and 
having the will to achieve success, guided by the light of 
truth along the paths of honor. 

THE CKRE AND FEEDING OF LOYALTY 

► For THE MOST PART, alumni interest and loyalty can't be 
sustained over the years simply by the memory of college 
spirit, nor will they arise spontaneously where they never 
before existed. Both must be cultivated and nurtured care- 
fully and constantly. They can't be taken for granted. 
Both are essential for alumni service to Brown. Loyalty 
involves self-sacrifice and is basic in any philosophy of 
individual service in any cause. One's interest in anything 
is conditioned by what he puts in it. The more alumni we 



put to work for Brown, the greater will be the interest of 
Brown men in the University and the more intense will be 
their loyalty. 

The alumni have a job to do for Brown. We are charged 
by the constitution of the Associated Alumni with the 
noble purpose of promoting the welfare of the University, 
but what are we expected to do, and how shall we do it? 
Words can make sublime phrases, and these have a way of 
mesmerizing action — no intention so good that it may ex- 
cuse inaction. Action is most effective when it results from 
good organization and efficient leadership. 

The Associated Alumni have had purpose and the skele- 
ton of an organization, but it has lacked organs with which 
to function and a permanent head for direction. Both of 
these defects have now been remedied. In Bill McCormick 
we have an executive officer who will provide the wise 
leadership needed, and in the revised organization there is 
provided the means for effective cooperation and efficient 
alumni service. The Associated Alumni have in the past 
been organized into five regional districts — Rhode Island; 
New England, comprising the New England states other 
than Rhode Island; Atlantic Midland, comprising the re- 
maining Atlantic seaboard states, Pennsylvania, Maryland, 
West Virginia and the District of Columbia; the Western, 
comprising the states of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Col- 
orado, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, California, 
Washington and Oregon; the Central, comprising all the 
states lying between the Atlantic Midland and Western 
districts. Each of these Regions was under a Vice-President, 
who had the responsibility for organizing local Brown 
Clubs in his region. He had an impossible task. Under the 
circumstances we are fortunate to have so many strong 
Brown Clubs scattered over the country. 

THE GEOGRAPHY OF BROWN 

► The NEW PLAN of organization of the Associated Alumni 
provides eight regional districts instead of five : The Rhode 
Island, New England, and Western Regions remain as now 
constituted. The Atlantic Midland District is divided into 



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North Atlantic Midland, comprising the States of New 
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, 
West Virginia and the District of Columbia; South Atlan- 
tic Midland, comprising the States of Virginia, North 
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. The Cen- 
tral Region is divided likewise into the North Central and 
South Central. The former comprises the States of Ohio, 
Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Minne- 
sota, Nebraska and Michigan; while the latter comprises 
the States of Kansas, Missouri, Kentucky, Alabama, Arkan- 
sas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee and 
Texas. Finally, a foreign district including all foreign 
countries where Brown alumni are located. At present 
about 1 % of the alumni are in this district. 

Each regional district is made up of State Divisions and 
each of these divided into Sections. These Sections are 
located in cities or areas having the largest concentration 
of alumni. Where there are Brown Clubs now in existence 
they will be the Sections for the area. In addition small 
Groups are to be organized where there are three or more 
__alumni and these affiliated with the nearest Section. The 
scattered alumni not coming within any Group will be as- 
signed to the nearest Section in the area. 

Every regional district is under the supervision, as before, 
of a Vice-President of the Association and he will have to 
assist him as Manager for each Division in his Region and 
the regular officers of the several Sections. One man in 
each of the Groups will be made responsible for contacts 
with all members of his Group and in keeping in touch 
with the Secretary of the Section with which his Group 
is affiliated. The Secretary of each Section is the direct 
contact with the University. He keeps the Alumni Execu- 
tive Officer informed of the activities of the Section and of 
the individual alumni in his section and affiliated Groups. 
The Executive Officer is the chief contact between the Uni- 
versity and the Alumni. He develops and directs alumni 
activities with the full cooperation of the administrative 
officers of the University. 

THREE WAYS OF INFORMING ALUMNI 

► An informed alumni body is essential to sustained 
interest in the University. Information is most effective 
when purposeful. This calls for wise planning to keep it 
above the level of organised propaganda. There are three 
important means of keeping the alumni informed of the 
plans, problems and activities of the University. They are 
the alumni monthly Magazine, motion picture films of 
current events in daily life on The Hill, and visits to the 
alumni Sections by the officers of the Associated Alumni, 
University administration and members of the Faculty. 
The magazine is now sent free to all alumni, and many 
visits are being made to Brown Clubs throughout the 
country. 

The cost of maintaining alumni relations is borne by the 
University. It is obvious that with its limited funds the 
University can't do all that it would hke to do. I hope that 
some alumnus will want to underwrite the expense of 
making moving picture films of current events at Brown 
and of having them available for all the sections of the As- 
sociated Alumni. 

A FOCUS ON TWO OBJECTIVES 

► To FULFILL THE PURPOSE of the Associated Alumni 
there must be, in addition to good organization, a program 
of work to be done by the alumni. This should be focused 
on two objectives: 

In the first place, the alumni should be charged with the 
responsibility of seeing that secondary school education 
establishes the proper foundations for academic instruction 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 

and intelligent citizenship. In every Section they should 
help to influence the best boys and girls to go to Brown 
so that the education facihties of the University may be 
employed to the best possible advantage. 

In the second place, the alumni by chain reactions must 
help to establish and maintain the proper philosophy by 
which they provide adequate financial support for the Uni- 
versity. The alumni could provide in loyalty fund each 
year the equivalent of a $10,000,000 endowment in gilt- 
edge securities paying 2.75%. The first requisite is to 
believe it possible and the second to find a way to make it a 
reality. 

Let's see how it could be done — suppose we recognize 
that every alumnus would want the privilege of putting 
into the University a definite percentage of his annual 
earnings to insure that the institution will continue as a 
going concern with sustained productivity and power. As- 
sume that on the average this would be not less than J/2%, 
and two-thirds of our alumni adopt the plan, then we would 
have 8,412 alumni participating. 

On the basis of average salary data available for college 
graduates, it is fair presumption that during the first five 
years the average rate per alumnus could be $10; during 
the second five-year period $20; the third, $30; the fourth, 
$40; the fifth, sixth and seventh, $50; the eighth, $40; the 
ninth, $30; the tenth $25; and from the eleventh to the 
fourteenth, $15. By finding the percentage distribution of 
the above among the classes and multiplying the numbers 
by the average amounts we get $275,830, as shown in the 
table below. 





% in J-yr. 


Number 


Av. Amt. 




Yrs. 


groups 


alumni 


per man 


Total 


1-5 


12% 


1009 


$10.00 


$10,090 


6-10 


15 


1262 


20.00 


25,240 


11-15 


14 


1178 


30.00 


35,340 


16-20 


15 


1262 


40.00 


50,480 


21-25 


12 


1009 


50.00 


50,450 


26-30 


7 


589 


50.00 


29,450 


31-35 


6 


505 


50.00 


25,250 


35-40 


6 


505 


40.00 


22,200 


41-45 


6 


505 


30.00 


15,150 


45-50 


4 


336 


25.00 


8,400 


Over 50 


3 


252 


15.00 


3,780 



8412 



$275,830 



► Here would be not only an Alumni Fund large enough 
to be of great help in financing the work of the University. 
Moreover, it would secure to the University an active, in- 
terested and loyal alumni body that had learned the joy of 
generously supporting a cause in which they had an im- 
portant part. This makes it possible for every alumnus to 
help the University do for another what it did for him. 

Few realize that the direct cost per student to the Uni- 
versity is on the average about $300 a year above the tuition 
(and this does not take into account equipment, mainte- 
nance and replacement of buildings and plant) . The abil- 
ity of the University to help to finance our education was 
made possible in the past by the generosity of a few bene- 
factors. Present conditions do not assure a similar situa- 
tion in the future, and all the alumni should look upon it 
as a privilege to be among those supporting the work of 
the University. 

At the average rates indicated above it would require 
about 3 5 -years for the man who completed four years at 
Brown to put back into the University an amount equal 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 

to what the University put into his education. This is 
independent of the amount paid for tuition. When the 
tuition was $175 a year the direct cost per student on the 
average was $495. When it was $350 the direct cost was 
about $685, and when the tuition went up to $400 the 
cost rose to an average of $780; and now that the tuition 
is $500 the cost is about $835. Since it is obvious that the 
differences between tuition paid and cost must be made 
up out of the revenue from endowments, what we need 
is to have every alumnus a benefactor of the University, 
thus providing for an adequate and effective revenue. 

The relationship between the University and the AssO' 
ciated Alumni is in the nature of a conjunctive symbiosis — 
an association that makes the two one body. In the union 
is strength and promise of great accomplishments by a big- 
ger and better Brown of the future. ^ 

Rooms on Campus at Com.mencement 

► ► If you want a dormitory room on the Brown 
campus at any time during the Commencement season, 
please make a reservation ahead of time. The University 
can be a better host if it has help in planning. 

A year ago 150 alumni took advantage of the facilities 
available in Hope, Littlefield, Slater, and Brunonia Halls, 
and two classes made their reunion headquarters on campus. 
It seemed to give a little fiUip to their return to Brown to 
sleep again in a college dorm. The experiment was ac- 
claimed a success, not only in that it simplified a housing 
problem in a crowded city. 

For 1947 similar accommodation will be available, 
through the co-operation of Ward A. Davenport, Super- 
intendent of Buildings and Grounds. Rooms will be avail- 
able for the nights of Friday, June 13, through Monday 
night, June 16, and it may be possible to house wives in a 
Pembroke guest house. The largest demand is anticipated 
for Sunday night for men who will return from reunions 
elsewhere for the big Alumni Dinner and will stay over 
for Commencement Day proper. 

The price for a room will be two dollars a night per 
person, which includes towel and bedding. For a reserva- 
tion, write at once to University Room Clerk, c/o Alumni 
Office, Brown University, Providence 12, R. I. 

Upon arrival in Providence, the alumnus should call at 
Faunce House to get room assignment and other informa- 
tion. On Friday night, June 13, inquire particularly about 
access to the dormitories during the hours of the campus 
Class Night dance. The booking desk in Faunce House 
will be attended from 3 to 9 p.m. June 13; up to 5 p.m. 
on June 14; from 3 to 6 p.m. on June 15. Definite room 
assignments may be made in advance if checks (made out 
to Brown University) accompany reservations. If you 
want a room — and particularly if you wish to be with 
your classmates — write ahead of time, being specific as 
to requirements. (A year ago some 75 alumni made 
reservations without showing up or showed up without 
reservations.) ^ 

Citation for Dr. Wriston 

"For outstanding services in the field of humanitarian 
war rehef during Worid War II," Dr. Wriston in March 
received a commendation authorized by President Truman. 
It was presented on behalf of the President's War Relief 
Control Board and signed by him, as well as Joseph E. 
Davis, chairman of the Board. Davies pointed out that Dr. 
Wriston was one of a small group of active workers se- 
lected by the President for commendation. Dr. Wriston 
had been one of the leaders in setting up the National War 
Fund and served on its executive group with responsibility 
for promotion and public relations. < 



Brown's "Upstage-Downstage" 

► ► Prof. Ben Brown's new book, "Upstage-Down- 
stage," presents a wealth of material on play production 
accumulated through his 2 5 -odd years of experience in the 
theatre. The reviews indicate that it will prove indispens- 
able to both the amateur and professional director. We also 
note that Professor Brown (Brown 1919) has been ap- 
pointed to the staff of the University of Vermont Summer 
School of Speech, where he will teach play production and 
acting and will direct two major theatrical performances. 

Praising "Upstage-Downstage" as concise and witty, 
Esther Willard Bates in the Providence Sunday Journal 
pointed out that too many books on Play Production are 
crowded with confusing detail. But here, "step by step, 
beginning with a dark empty stage, the beginner is led from 
the don't-touch status to a comprehensive and understand- 
ing awareness of the theatre in its entirety." The humorous 
illustrations by Leslie A. Jones '25 are also illuminatingly 
clear. 

"Especially good," said the reviewer, "are the pages on 
rehearsing, the emphasis on continuity and fluidity, on 
elementary backstage etiquette, and the reminder to the 
director to build up the faith of the players in their script. 
The chapter on 'Speak the Speech' has more in it than 
many a longer treatise. ... It reads very simply, but it is 
also shrewd and penetrating. Recommended to all those 
blessed idiots who cannot resist launching themselves on 
the most fascinating and perilous of all the seas of art." 

Among Brown men a special army of Professor Brown's 
own alumni of Sock and Buskin players and audiences will 
welcome his book. (Baker $1.50.) i 




OCCUPIES 
TWO CHAIRS: 
Howard S. Curtis, Di- 
rector of Brown's 
News Bureau. 



Double Honor to Curtis 

y Two-fold recognition came to Howard S. Curtis, di- 
rector of the Brown University News Bureau, at April 
meetings of his colleagues in the college publicity field. At 
the meeting of the New England District of the American 
College Public Relations Association in Durham, N. H., 
he was named regional chairman for the coming year. The 
membership comprises some 60 institutions of collegiate 
rank in the six New England States. 

Curtis was also elected chairman of an informal public 
relations group made up of representatives of the eight 
colleges and universities in the Ivy Group, when they held 
their organization meeting in New York. 4 



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► ► Notes from a Traveler's Diary 




BY BRUCE BIGELOW '24 

► ► All aboard for Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, St. Louis, 
Tulsa, Kansas City, Denver, Colorado Springs, San Fran- 
cisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix, Houston, New 
Orleans, Atlanta, Richmond and Alexandria. The trip 
which started on March 2 was a six weeks' tour of 16 
alumni centers,* and a most rewarding experience. Never 
before had I had such an opportunity of becoming attuned 
to alumni spirit from coast to coast. Never before had I 
sensed among our alumni a deeper loyalty to Brown. 

Alumni meetings were held in 14 cities, and five new 
Brown clubs were born. As an admission officer for many 
years, I had realized the need of exploring new fields; I 
had seen the advantage of a wide horizon. As a v.p. I 
am naturally still interested in admission, but as a univer- 
sity officer I should be aware of all phases of Brown activ- 
ity. It was at the suggestion of President Wriston that I 
planned this tour — to obtain a national alumni picture 
and also to see our own University in a truer perspective. 
A war always results in a shift of population, and this last 
war caused more shifting than any other in American 
history. It was Dr. Wriston's hope that through this coast 
to coast tour, the University would gain information about 
its alumni, and the alumni would learn more about their 
University. 

Pittsburgh: 

► In this city I was a harbinger of Dr. Charles Kraus, 
professor emeritus of chemistry, who had promised to 
speak later in the month at the annual dinner of the Brown 
Club of Western Pennsylvania. Bob Schaper '40 pre- 
sided at a Brown luncheon, and I endeavored to answer a 
hundred and one questions about life on College Hill. 
David McCahill '37 drove me out to Shady Side Acad- 
emy which I came to know well in my admission days. A 
dinner in the evening with the Edward Crumps, and I 
realized I had picked a good city for the start of a cross- 
country tour. The Brown Club of Western Pennsylvania 
is a lively club. 

Indianapolis : 

► The Brown club of Indiana was born on March 4, 
1947, at the Indianapolis Athletic Club with Dr. Samuel 
R. Damon '16, Director of the Laboratory of the State 
Board of Health, as president. The secretary is William 



*EarIier in the year Dr. Bigelow had also met with Brown 
alumni in Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Hartford, 
Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, and Minneapolis. He hopes to 
visit other clubs before the year is out. 



WE WON'T TRY to identify these Brunonians in 
Texas who turned out to welcome Vice-President 
Bigelow to Houston, because there's no such thing as 
"left to right" here. But you'll spot familiar faces, as 
we did. At Dr. Bigelow's left is James L. Whitcomb '36, 
former Director of Alumni Relations, who acted as 
toastmaster. 

Allan Dyer, Jr., '24, General Manager of the Indianapolis 
Star. (Since I'll have space in this report to name only a 
few of the alumni I saw, it will be understood, I hope, that 
I am showing no prejudice if the class of 1924 appears 
very frequently.) Lloyd Josselyn '07 provided delightful 
stories of reminiscence. John R. Caldow '20, headmaster 
of Park School, George Kendall '12, Dean of the Faculty 
at Wabash College, Prof. Edward B. Burge '91, Daniel 
Grubbs '26, Donald Howarth '39, and Walter Leonard '21 
— together with guests — were kept well in order by 
Norman McCabe '30, head of the F.B.I, in Indiana. I 
was much impressed by the calibre of the Brown men in 
Indianapolis. 

Saint Louis t 

► On this tour I had three main missions: 

1 . To meet with as many alumni as possible. 

2. To talk with workers on the Campaign. 

3. To visit with certain school men whom I had known 
when I was Director of Admission. 

In St. Louis I was able to accomplish all three. Chape 
Newhard '22 had arranged a Brown luncheon at the 
Noonday Club, and a score of alumni were present. Two 
members of the Class of 1896, Lewis M. Carr and John B. 
Edwards, were at the luncheon — as they have been at 
a great many Brown meetings I've attended from time to 
time in St. Louis. Rev. Charles D. Kean '30 continues to 
show subfreshmen the way toward Brown, and so does 
Ed. Read '31 of John Burroughs School. Others at the 
luncheon were J. A. Ryrie '16, T. "Joe" Drew '31, Don 
Pratt '27, Ev. Vaughn '18, George "Os." Cutter '26, 
Francis White '20, "Barney" Calfee '32, Dr. R. L. Gilbert 
'37, Frank O'Shanick '39, J. R. Ring, PhD. '43, John Mos- 
bey '30, Warren Chandler '22, Rod Meyer '30, John 
Lyman '24, and Robert Lynch '41. Ken Bitting '20 did 
not get to the luncheon, but I saw him later. 

During my stay in St. Louis I visited with several school 
men and met with parents of Brown students and of pros- 
pective Brown students — thanks to the Newhards. Chape 
has done a magnificent job in subfreshman work, and he 
is the main reason why we now have a grand group of 
boys in Brown from St. Louis. 



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Tulsa: 

► The head of the Brown Campaign in the southwest is 
Wendell Barnes '32. The new president of the Brown 
Club of Oklahoma is Earl Tucker '13, and the new secre- 
tary of the Club is Ed Schermerhorn '34. These three 
men arranged a small luncheon at the Hotel Mayo. Reg 
Barnes '36 was also present and so, too, was Dr. Richard 
Meinert, formerly of the Brown Chemistry Department. 
Spring had arrived in Tulsa just before my wife and I 




IN TULSA, PLANNING the itinerant Vice-President 
are the officers of the Brown Club of Oklahoma: Ed 
Schermerhorn '34, Earl Tucker '13, and Wendell 
Barnes '32, as you read from left to right. 

did, and the tour provided by Wendell and Lucy Barnes 
and Ed and Phoebe Shermerhorn was a great treat. I 
want to see Tulsa again, and I want to see more boys com- 
ing to Brown from Oklahoma! 

Kansas City: 

► Mr. and Mrs. Leon H. Denison — Brown '96 for 
Leon Sr. and '38 for Leon Jr. — invited the Brown group 
in Kansas City to a Sunday afternoon tea in their lovely 
home. Including Brown men, their wives and their guests, 
there were about 40 people present. "A grand party" was 
the expression many used in describing the tea. Bill Mc- 
Cormick '23, Alumni Executive Officer, had reported 
earlier that a new Brown Club had been formed there and 
that "Everything's up to date in Kansas City." Among 
guests present at the tea were President and Mrs. Decker 
of Kansas City University and also some Brown subfresh- 
men whom alumni had invited to come. Myron Curry '41 
is the secretary of the new club, and Mr. Denison is presi- 
dent. Included among the Brown men present were Lem- 
uel F. P. Curry '18, Donald Flynn '30, Irving Rubin '43, 
James Archie '11, Leon Sittenfeld '34, Joseph Chandler 
'43, Samuel "Bud" Henry, Jr. '30, Frederick Heath, Jr. '19, 
and William B. Remington, Jr., '42. Since the leading in- 
dependent school in Kansas City is called Pembroke Coun- 
try Day School, one would expect more and more students 
headed toward Brown from this city. And I think there 
will be! 

Denver: 

► Here in the "Mile High City" the visitor is promised a 
warm, western welcome. And that is just what the visitor 
gets. Judge Joseph E. Cook '14 is the greeter of Brown 
men. Everyone in Denver seems to know that Judge Cook 
is a Brown man, for when a Denver sportswriter ever pre- 
dicts such a football score as Dartmouth 14 — Brown 13, 
he will add to his prediction "And this will make Joe Cook 
burn up." The judge arranged for a dinner at the Uni- 
versity Club of Brown alumni and Pembroke alumnae. It 
was an evening packed with many speeches, many anec- 



dotes, a covered wagon full of questions, much reminiscing 
and topnotch singing. I discovered one Brown man who 
could sing four stanzas of Alma Mater — Joe Cook! He 
wonders why we don't revive at rallies and football games 
the old song, "Here's To Good Old Brown" — and I 
wonder too. Among those present were Ellen Pine Cook, 
Pembroke '43, Gloria Fabacher Hector, Pembroke '43, 
Frances Hazard Kessler, Pembroke "35, Charles L. F. Paull 
'97, John B. Bailey '40, Joseph E. Cook, Jr., '43, V. C. 
Coulter '05, Gerald M. Richmond '36, Luke Kavanaugh 
'98, Cyrus Allen '15, Floyd Fay, Jr. '18, Dr. Arthur Wood- 
burne '24, W. Clayton Carpenter '06, Carl Hector '33, 
Harry Baldwin '33, and Alfred Kessler '35. 

Colorado Springs: 

► When I was an undergraduate at Brown in the post 
World War I days, I suppose no two students were better 
known or better liked than two boys from Colorado Springs 
—Gerald Webb (Jerry) Bennett '24 and Thomas G. (Pete) 
Simmons '2 3 . From them and from a roommate in graduate 
school at Harvard I had learned about this delightful 
Colorado city, "nestled at the foot of an evergreen wonder- 
land." And I had heard, too, about the "inherent charm 
and heart-warming hospitality of the Old West." Jerry 
Bennett died some years ago, but his brother-in-law, Joel 
Webb '36, and Pete Simmons took us on a tour which 
included a luncheon at Fountain Valley School and con- 
ferences at Cheyenne Mountain School and Colorado 
Springs High School. We visited Colorado College and 
Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, attended a party at 
the Simmons home and dined with Marka Bennett and 
other Brown friends at the Broadmoor. I want to go back 



again soon 



San Francisco: 

► The outstanding Brown Club president is, of course, 
Nathaniel Blaisdell '83. He says he is a true forty-niner, 
for he has been president of the Brown Club of Alta. 
California (and don't put a comma after Alta) for 49 
years. He is one of the gentlemen who gives me great pride 
in being a Brown man. The annual dinner of the Brown 
Club had been planned far in advance and was held less 
than a month before my visit. Nevertheless, the Club 
arranged for a second dinner at the University Club. 

Any dinner that has both Nathaniel Blaisdell '83 and 
Alexander Meiklejohn '93 present is bound to be a grand 
affair. Two of my classmates. Bob Soellner '24 and Dave 
Goddard '24, were present. Spending some time with them 
was a special treat. Austin Allen '04 travelled many miles 
to get back home to San Francisco in time for the dinner. 
It was good to see him and also Fremont Roper '11. who 
has done such a superb job as the secretary of the Club. 
Others who attended were Dr. William McCarthy '31, 
Herbert Ross '13, Winthrop Richardson '29, William Ban- 
croft '37, Col. LeRoy Bartlett '02, Raymond Mercy '43, 
and Paul Lathrop '43. Rev. M. E. Bratcher, PhD. '16, Rev. 
Robert Tourigney '41, Charles Winterrowd '40, and Ber- 
trand LeBlanc '31 sent regards. To illustrate the housing 
problem in San Francisco, I may explain that at present 
Bert lives more than 100 miles south and Charlie 100 
miles north; yet both have their offices in San Francisco. 

The Ropers graciously arranged for a Berkeley party 
with Prof, and Mrs. Anthony Morse. "Tony" Morse, 
PhD. '30, professor of mathematics at the University of 
California, has been very helpful in cooperating with the 
chairman of the Brown Math Department, Professor C. R. 
Adams '18. 



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Mr. Blaisdell made several plans for the Bigelows — all 
of which were delightful. A luncheon with Mr. Blaisdell's 
friend, Mr. James K. Moffitt, chairman of the Board of 
Regents of the University of California, was a highlight. 
When I reali:;ed that the University of California has 
51,000 students on its various campuses, I began to see 
our own problems in a better Ught. A day at Stanford with 
my old friend, Dr. Merrill K. Bennett '19, Dean of the 
School of Social Sciences, was equally delightful and re- 
warding. He succeeded another Brown man, Dr. Edward 
A. Cottrell '05. Finding our alumni in posts of great sig' 
nificance is not an unusual experience, but it is always 
gratifying. 

Los Angeles: 

► Whether easterners wish to admit it or not, they 
must know that the creative end of our two most popular 
forms of art — the radio and the movies — are concen- 
trated in Southern California. The financial control may 
be in New York and the timing of releases of both the radio 
and cinema may be set for audiences east of the Mississippi; 
but the creative work is done in Hollywood. Here is a 
boom town. Indeed, here is a boom area. 

But don't settle here if you are expecting it to be inex- 
pensive — as it was before the war. When interviewed by a 
Los Angeles Times reporter, I told him I loved the climate 
so much that he better move over in order to make room 
for one more. I was quickly told that "L.A. has all the new- 
comers it can handle for some time to come. There is enough 
inflation here already." No longer are there the signs I 
saw in 1940: "All the orange juice you can drink for 10 
cents." Today the drug stores have no glasses small enough 
for a dime to buy. 

Even before the war, Los Angeles had experienced the 
greatest migration in all history. Its area is the largest of 
any city • — 442 square miles — and its population — over 

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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 

A Mission in Tolerance 

► Charles Evan Hughes '81, retired Chief Justice of 
the United States, observed his 85th birthday April 11. 
Only a few days before it was announced that he had taken 
the lead in the establishment of a new world-wide organiza- 
tion to promote religious tolerance. This organization, to 
be known as the World Council of Christians and Jews, is 
under the auspices of the National Conference of 
Christians and Jews, of which Mr. Hughes was a founder. 
The State Department has given the new group its unquali- 
fied backing in its application to secure affiliation with the 
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organ- 
ization, i 

New York's Scout Commissioner 

► Thomas J. Watson, Jr., '37, vice-president of the In- 
ternational Business Machines Corporation, is the new 
Commissioner of the Greater New York Councils, Boy 
Scouts of America. His appointment was announced by 
President William H. Pouch and recorded in the Times 
for April 7. Mr. Watson succeeds Gale F. Johnston, former 
vice-president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Com- 
pany, i 

Vl\ and Freedom of Information 

► Prof. Z. Chafee Jr. '07, of Harvard Law School is the 
American representative of the United Nations sub-com- 
mission on freedom of information. "An international 
authority on freedom of information, who has written 
several books on the subject, and has served as vice chair- 
man of the Commission on Freedom of the Press." i 

Another Gold Star 

► The Alumni Office has only recently learned that 
Kenneth Alexander, a member of the USAAF Pre-mete- 
orology unit at Brown during the war, was killed Feb. 23, 
1945. He died in a plane crash while still in training, ac- 
cording to his mother, Mrs. H. R. Alexander, 145 Ross 
Ave., Bellevue, Ky. i 




LOS ANGELES' LARGEST Brown gathering rewarded 
Dr. Bigelow for his visit there. At the head table, from 
left to right: Rev. Arthur O. Pritchard '00, Hugh Wal- 



lace '37, Wentworth Mann '28, Richard Hart '36, Col. 
John Aiso '31, Dr. Bigelow, Miles Flint '27, Prof. C. R. 
Dncasse, Henry C. Hart '01, and Leon Goldberg '21. 



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Dilemma for the Graduate < < 







► > What happens to graduation? The 
First Baptist Meeting House hasn't grown, 
but the College and the University have. 
Can we go on holding Commencement in 
the old church for Brown and Pembroke? 

It would wrench the heart to move else- 
where, no one will deny. The building's 
beauty and associations have a tremendous 
hold on all who have been there for a de- 
gree. 

Let Bronson, the University historian, 
recall for us: 

"In 1776 Commencement was held for 
the first time in the new Baptist church, 
now so familiar to all graduates of Brown 
University. This noble example of colonial 
church architecture was completed in 
1775, at a cost of nearly $21,000. The 
building is much larger than was needed 
for the ordinary services of the church, and 
was erected, in accordance with the vote of 
the society on February 11, 1774, both 
■for the publick Worship of Almighty 
GOD; and also for holding Commencement 
in.' Here the Commencements, with two 
exceptions, have been held ever since, and 
the sons of the College have repaid in 
gratitude and veneration the generosity of 
the builders." 

Commencement anywhere else would 
just not seem like Commencement. But 
what is the situation ? The seating capacity 



THE FIRST BAPTIST MEETING 
HOUSE: Where else? 



of the church is figured at 1222. There 
are 778 places on the main floor, another 
444 in the balcony. 

There will be at least 390 Seniors get- 
ting degrees in June of this year; there may 
be as many as 532- — 425 from the College 
and 107 from Pembroke. (More than 100, 
who completed their academic work last 
summer or in February, are included in 
the total since no graduation exercises 
were held and these Seniors are entitled to 
them. Because it is difficult to estimate yet 
how many will take advantage of their 
Commencement opportunity, there is this 
variation between maximum and minimum 
attendance by the graduates. 

Suppose that all want to receive their 
diplomas in the Meeting House. Suppose 
you allotted each the customary two tickets 
for parents. Without any allowance for 
Corporation, Faculty, honorary degree re 
cipients, officials of the State and City, or 
any other guests, you account for 1596 
places for graduates and parents alone. 
(Remember there are 1222 seats in the 
church.) Suppose you limited each grad 
uate to a single ticket for a parent: you 
still account for 1064 places. 

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► Fortunately, the Graduate School will 
hold its separate Convocation this year 
again for the awarding of advanced de- 
grees. Such Convocations were the prac- 
tice from 1926 until 1941, when the num- 
ber of graduate students dropped with the 
war years. They will be in Sayles Hall on 
Saturday, June 14. 

The Meeting House problem will not 
grow less. The estimate is that 380 men 
and 170 women will be graduated in 1948 
— a total of 550. In 1949 it is estimated 
that there will be 580 men and 200 women 
^a total of 780. In 1950, when the church 
will be 175 years old, 700 men and 175 
women will probably get degrees — a total 
of 875. When the University registration 
levels off, there will be about 370 men and 
170 women graduates annually — a total of 
540. 

Alumni have long since given up hope 
of entering the Meeting House for grad- 
uations, unless they are to receive honorary 
degrees or their sons are Seniors. There 
has not been room for them for years, ex- 
cept during the war period when graduates 
were few. And the High Sheriff of Provi- 
dence County is not worrying about his 
seat; he can always count on his chair on 
the platform, armed with his sword and 
high hat to cow any disturbance. 

But Seniors this June and in future are 
going to be unhappy that Mother and 
Dad cannot both see them cross the plat- 
form and come down graduates, diploma 
in hand, at the end of their years of study. 
They are going to feel cheated. 

Certain to arise is the old agitation for 
separate Commencements for Brown and 
Pembroke, a move proposed by undergrad- 
uates and alumni for many years, a move 
bitterly fought by Pembroke undergrad- 
uates and alumnae. Such a change would 
ease the situation but not solve it when 
you have 370 to 700 men expecting de- 
grees in the years to come. 

Loudspeakers would permit a few hun- 
dred to hear the exercises in the basement 
of the Meeting House. Transmission o\ 
voices and music by wire or radio to other 
buildings would accommodate an overflow 
audience, but the visible scene would be a 
poor substitute for the actual ceremony. 

Where else could the exercises be held? 
No building on the campus has an audi- 
torium large enough for the potential audi- 
ences of the future, no building off-campus 
except for two or three theatres in the city 
would be large enough. The Marvel gym- 
nasium is a possibility, unattractive as it 
seems, or the cement stands in the football 
stadium, if the weather is cordial. Or a 
circus tent. 

At its March meeting the University's 
Committee on Commencement asked Presi- 
dent Wriston to appoint a special commit- 
tee to study the problem and bring in a 
recommendation for the first meeting in the 
Fall. For 1947 the exercises will be held 
as usual in the 172-year-old building 
erected "also for holding Commencements 
in." But after 1947 — have you any ideas? 

i 

Called to Arkansas 

► Prof. Virgil G. Sleight, an assistant 
in the Brown Geology Department while 
he was doing graduate work here 20 years 
ago, has been called from the University 
of Miami, Florida, to head a new depart- 
ment at the University of Arkansas. i 



Dr. Washburn Retiring 



► ► There's no need to identity the be- 
nign gentleman on the cover of this maga- 
zine to Brown alumni, standing in the door- 
way of Andrews House where his ministry 
brought him daily. But it may be news to 
Brown men afield that Dr. Arthur L 
Washburn is retiring in June as Chaplain 
of the University. Special honors have 
come to him this spring from Brown Clubs 
in New York, Boston, and Providence, but 
his following is wherever the alumni are. 

He will return in July to his beloved 
Siena, first point of sojourn in a projected 
year and a half abroad. The campus will 
miss him, exceedingly. Of the 27 years he 
had spent in college dorms, all but his stu- 
dent days at Harvard had been here. 

As President Wriston said at the Provi- 
dence luncheon for Dr. Washburn April 9, 
the title of Chaplain was created by the 
University only in 1942, to fit the work 
that Dr. Washburn had been doing among 
Brunonians. He was rector of St. Martin's 
Church in Providence, and resident in Bru- 
nonia Hall when the University bought 
this apartment house for conversion into a 
dormitory. There he had lived surrounded 
by undergraduates for a number of years, 
and he was invited to remain. He gave up 
his parish, taught modern languages on the 
Brown faculty, and then became Resident 
Counsellor. In time he came into the title 
of Chaplain of Brown — "the proudest title 
on earth," he called it. Through the years 
he has told generations of new Brown men 
of his happiness in living among them; 
"My home is Brown." 

"The position of Chaplain was not the 
creation of the Corporation but of a single 
man," Dr. Wriston said at the Brown Club 
headtable in Providence. "He volunteered, 
he took on the job, an individual who per- 
ceived the need, defined it. Without the 
benefit of official status for a considerable 
period, without emoluments of salary, he 
undertook the work as a Christian citizen, 
to perform a service. 

"Dr. Washburn will always find the op- 
portunity to do good. Above the hills of 
Siena, in Worcester or Cambridge, or in 
the heavenly reaches of Providence, he will 
find his own way of expressing human 
warmth and Christian conviction. He has 
been someone at Brown who represents 
nothing, in one sense, but atmosphere. He 
has had no precise responsibilities or du- 
ties, but his years here have been marked 
with sensitiveness, a quick apppreciation 
of events before they could happen, a sym- 
pathy so warm that no one in trouble could 
but find honest comfort, and a devotion to 
the Christian faith so deep that he spoke 
the language not merely of liturgy but of 
affection and meaning. Another will suc- 
ceed him but not replace him." 

President Wriston revealed that a Cor- 
poration committee is at work studying the 
whole broad question of religious faith on 
the campus and is considering the matter 
of a future chaplain in the course of its 
inquiry. 

Dr. Washburn received from the Provi- 
dence Brown Club a personal gift of a 
traveling bag and another, of two hand- 
some candlesticks, which will he placed in 
the Little Chapel of Sayles Hall in his 
name. He spoke of his interest in setting 
up that chapel, where he had daily prayed 
for all who had come into that hall and 
gone out from it in time of peace and war, 
in "that place set apart for faith expressed 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 

Iain's work for the moral and spiritual bet- 
■^ .^ terment of campus life was also the sub- 

ject of comment by Sidney Clifford '15, 
Alumni Trustee, and H. Stanton Smith 
'21 spoke as President of the Brown Club. 
Mason L. Dunn '35 and Stanley F. Mathes 
'39 were the committee in charge of the 
luncheon gathering in the Pine Room of 
Faunce House. 

Albert C. Thomas "08, minister of 



in prayer and meditation and re-dedica- 
tion in quiet." He noted that the Book ol 
Memory was there, with its roll of Brown's 
gold-star alumni (the book an earlier gift 
from the Club) and would now be flanked 
by the candlesticks. 

Dr. Washburn's official connection with 
Brown began in 1929, but earlier under- 
graduates knew him well and afi^ectionately. 
He became Resident Counsellor in 193 5, 
Chaplain in 1942; he holds an honorary 
D.D. from Brown as well. He has long 
conducted College Chapel, occasionally giv- 
ing the talk. He has always felt a special 
responsibility for those confined to the Col- 
lege Infirmary, in addition to his contribu- 
tion as confidant and adviser of all. His 
wartime correspondence with Brown men, 
voluminous as it was, was only one phase 
of his service. In the Department of Home 
Service of the American Red Cross in 
Providence, he headed a translation bu- 
reau that functioned in 39 languages. He 
goes to Italy as a student of languages 
once more. 

At the Providence luncheon, the Chap- 



Dr 

the First Baptist Church and member of 
Brown's Board of Fellows, made an ad- 
mirable presiding officer. He capped the 
day's tributes with the Scriptural quota- 
tion for April 9 from the Churchman's 
Calendar, which Dr. Washburn had given 
him at Christmastime. That it was apposite, 
all immediately observed : 

"Thou, O Man of God, follow after 
righteousness, godliness, faith, love, pa- 
tience, humility. 

"Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold 
on Eternal Life, the faith unto which thou 
wert called and unto which thou hast pro- 
fessed a good profession before many wit- 
nesses, rich in good works, ready to com- 
municate, laying up in store a good founda- 
tion for the time to come." ^ 



By-Law Changes Sought 



< M 



► ► At the annual meeting of the As- 
sociated Alumni on Commencement Day, 
1947, a number of proposed amendments 
to the By-Laws will be presented for the 
vote of Brown men. 

The Constitution has already been 
amended by the Advisory Council in meet- 
ing on February 22, 1947, upon the recom- 
mendation of the Executive Committee and 
the Board of Directors. This amendment, 
to Article V, Section 2, of the Constitution, 
substitutes for the second sentence, the fol- 
lowing "The Vice-Presidents shall be 
elected or appointed as may be provided 
in the by-laws". 

The Amendments to the By-Laws are 
sought for two purposes: First, to provide 
for the election of the President of the As- 
sociated Alumni one year before he takes 
office, and for the membership of the Pres- 
ident-elect on the Board of Directors, the 
Executive Committee and the Advisory 
Council. Under this provision, future 
Presidents of the Associated Alumni will 
be given greater opportunity to familiarize 
themselves with the aims and procedures of 
the organization before taking active lead- 
ership of its affairs. Secondly, to make pro- 
vision for the reorganization of the Asso- 
ciated Alumni according to the "Proposed 
Changes in the Organization of the Asso- 
ciated Alumni" as amended and adopted 
by the Executive Committee on February 
7, 1947, and approved by the Advisory 
Council on February 22, 1947. 

Your Committee recommends that the 
following amendments to the By-Laws be 
submitted at the next Annual Meeting of 
the Associated Alumni. 

1. Article II, Section 2 — Strike out 
"elected by the members of his district by 
signed ballot in the same manner as elec- 
tions by the Associated Alumni," and sub- 
stitute "appointed by the President". 
Strike out "re-election" and substitute "re- 
appointment". 

2. Article II — Renumber Sections 3, 4, 
and 5 as Sections 4, 5, and 6, and insert 
a new Section 3 as follows; 

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"Section 3. Election and Terms of of- 
fice. The Vice-Presidents and Treasurer 
shall be elected in odd-numbered years 
and shall each take office the first day 
of July next after his election. The 
President shall be elected in even-num- 
bered years and shall take office the first 
day of July in the year following the year 
of his election. The President-elect shall 
be a member of the Board of Directors, 
of the Executive Committee and of the 
Advisory Council". 

3. Article IV, Section la — Add, "and 
the President-elect, when there is one". 

4. Article IV, Section 3 — Add, "The 
President-Elect, when there is one, shall 
also be a member of the Executive Com- 
mittee". 

5. Article V, Section 2c — 1st para- 
graph. Strike out "each regional Vice- 
President and for". Also strike out in the 
last sentence, "Vice-President or". Sec- 
ond paragraph. Strike out "Regional Vice- 
Presidents and". 

6. Article VI, Section 1 — Amend sub- 
sections a, b, c, d, and e, (relating to mem- 
bership in the Advisory Council) to read 
as follows; — 

a. The Chairman of each Division of 
Alumni or his duly appointed substitute, 
and an additional delegate from each 
Section into which any Division may be 
divided. 

b. The President of each local Brown 
Club and of each affiliated organization, 
or his duly appointed substitute, and an 
additional delegate from each Brown 
Club and from each affiliated organiza- 
tion having a membership of more than 
fifty. 

c. The officers of the Associated 
Alumni and the members of its Board 
of Directors. 

d. All Alumni Trustees not at the 
time serving on the Board of Directors. 

e. Such others as the Advisory Coun- 
cil or the Board of Directors or the Ex- 
ecutive Committee may from time to 
time invite. 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



7. Article IX, Section 1 — Strike out "in 
the United States." Insert at the end of 
the first sentence, "or subdivide them into 
State Divisions, Sections and Groups or 
otherwise". Strike out subsections 3 and 4 
and substitute therefor: 

3. North- Atlantic Midland District, 
comprising the states of New York, New 
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Dela- 
ware and West Virginia and the District 
of Columbia. 

4. South-Atlantic Midland District, 
comprising the states of Virginia, North 
CaroUna, South Carolina, Georgia and 
Florida. 

5. North-Central District, comprising 
the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, 
Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wis- 



consin, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Michi- 
gan. 

6. South-Central District, comprising 
the states of Kansas, Missouri, Kentucky, 
Alabama. Arkansas, Louisiana, Missis- 
sippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas. 
Renumber subsection 5 as number 7 
and add subsection 8 as follows: 

8. Foreign District, comprising all for- 
eign countries where alumni are perma- 
nently located. Section 2 — Strike out 
and renumber section 3 as section 2. 
The changes and the purposes thereof 
are fully discussed in the article by President 
Moses L. Crossley "09, which appears on 
page 8 of this issue, which we commend to 
your careful reading. ^ 



The Bear Tastes Victory 



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The Athletic Threshold 

¥ k Eighty candidates, apart from 
Freshmen, were out for spring football. 
Athletic Director Paul F. Mackesey '3 2 re- 
ported to the alumni at the Boston dinner 
in April. Baseball had drawn 67 varsity 
candidates and 25 Freshmen, while 50 were 
out for track. 

The quahty? It was good in track, very 
good. In the indoor season two opponents 
had been defeated. Tufts for the first time 
in six years by any rival on its home oval. 
In football it appeared there would be 
faster backs who could run after reaching 
the secondary. 

Brown was on the threshold of a new 
era in athletics, he said. He was glad 
President Wriston had made the deliberate 
choice and entered Brown in the Ivy 
Group. Brown would meet four of the 
seven Ivy rivals next fall in one of the 
toughest schedules ever arranged. Next 
year Brown would move into the Eastern 
Intercollegiate Baseball League. "We be- 
lieve we belong athletically with these sis- 
ter institutions with which we have so much 
in common academically," he said. Appli- 
cations had been made for membership in 
other leagues in other sports as well. 

"We need to see more good students 
who are also good athletes come to Brown," 
he continued. "The time has gone when 
athletes gravitate naturally to any institu- 
tion, and we are in the center of the coun- 
try's hottest competitive area as it affects 
the best type of boy." ^ 

Track Power and Balance 

► Brown showed in its first two outdoor 
meets that it was going to be a power in 
track this spring. To be sure, it trailed 
Rhode Island and Harvard on one Cam- 
bridge weekend, but it beat M.I.T. and 
Maine on another. The scores: Rhode 
Island 66, Harvard 53'/2. Brown 451/2. 
Brown 74'/2, M.I.T. 47, Maine ^lYp The 
second performance was the more impres- 
sive in that two aces, Bennett and Dwyer, 
were absent at the Penn Relays, and the 
lower end of the team was shaved down 
by a Junior Varsity meet which we lost to 
Andover 71^4 to 5'4!4. Bennett was suc- 
cessful in his quest at Franklin Field, win- 
ning by setting down his hammer 157 feet, 
1 1 inches from the circle. 

In the first triangular meet. Bill Dwyer 
of Brown was clocked in 9.9 while winning 
the 100, and Crimmins ran gamely to take 
the quarter in 50.7. The mile went to 
Josh Tobey in 4:25.8, a feat which led many 
to regard him as the best prospect at that 
distance since Norman Taber's golden day. 



But in the field events only Hodash, 
NEAAU javelin champion, and Bennett 
were able to take firsts. 

Even without Dwyer and Bennett, the 
Brunonians captured 1 1 of the 15 events 
against Tech and Maine, and Crimmins 
roared through the 440 in Brown record 
time of 49.4 seconds. (The old mark was 
set by Dick Pearce in 1936 — 49.8 seconds.) 
Crossley scored 12 points by winning both 
hurdles and taking a broad jumper's third. 
Barksdale (dashes), Joshua Tobey (mile 
and 880), and Fhck, the New England 
titleholder in the discus (discus and shot) 
were double-winners, while Hodash 
chipped in nine points in three categories. 
Phillips was the high-jump winner. Brown's 
balance brought her points in every event 
but two, one of them the hammer which 
Bennett could have won had he not been 
in Philly. i 

Yachtsmen Still to Lose 

► The Brown yachtsmen went into May 
competition still undefeated after five regat- 
tas this spring. M.I.T. had been beaten 
90-84 in a four-crew engagement, and 
Rhode Island 243-138, with seven skippers 
apiece. The results of three other regattas 
were: Brown 120, Yale 99, Amherst 75, 
Williams 60. Brown 83, Boston University 
69, Worcester 55, Holy Cross 55, Rhode 
Island 3 5. Brown 104, Tufts 98, North- 
eastern 88, Trinity 56. 

All meets were on the Seekonk, in vary- 
ing weather (one had to be cancelled be- 
cause of a gale). Ricky Wilson and Charlie 
111 were continuing where they left off in 
the successful fall season, while George 
Shepard and especially Buddy Morris were 
leaders. Other Brown skippers include; 
Wally Henshaw, Bill Richardson, Rollin 
White, and Dick Dodge. 

The regattas were all warm-up with the 
big trophy events still to come, but there 
has never been such interest at the Brown 
Boathouse. The ■ new Providence Brown 
Club "crash" boat is already in use. ^ 

Greater Baseball Promise 

► In its most promising start in years, the 
Brown baseball nine beat every April op- 
ponent except Boston College, and she had 
two battles on her hands. In the first a 
Brown rally fell short in the ninth by only 
two runs, 8-6, and in the return engage- 
ment at Aldrich Field a wild 10th inning 
brought defeat again 10-4. The Bears 
swamped Wesleyan 14-2, outlasted Lowell 
Textile in 1 1 innings 9-8, and held Provi- 
dence College in check 3-1. 

Coach Eayrs has been having trouble 
choosing his top line-up from a squad of 

16 



45 that includes many veterans of other 
years, and used as many as 19 in one 
game. His pitching aces seem to be Capt. 
Jim Bryan, Preston Barry, and Ed Nelson, 
with Powell behind the plate. Phil La- 
pides, captain of the 1943 team, and Lou 
DeAngelis, another pre-war player, com- 
pete for first, with the latter getting the 
nod. Ray Norton, from the 1943 team, 
Bob Nelson, Cooney, and Kern are leading 
the other infielders, while the fight in the 
gardens is between George Watts, Charley 
Bentley, Win Reynolds, Ed Vincent, Hal 
Greenhalgh, and Harvey Lapidcs — names 
some of which are familiar to followers of 
previous teams. 

The Freshmen lost to Worcester Acad- 
emy I-O in their opener. 

Phi Psis Lead for Cup 

► Phi Kappa Psi was in the lead for the 
Lanpher Cup when Prof. Wescott Moulton 
announced the inter-fraternity standings 
March 26. Ckimpetition in Softball, tennis, 
golf, volleyball, and horseshoes would de- 
cide the final standings. 

The totals through the winter season: 
Phi Kappa Psi 100. Delta Tau Delta 96. 
Phi Gamma Delta 87. Delta Upsilon 86. 
Pi Lambda Phi 76. Beta Theta Pi 75. 
Sigma Chi 68. Delta Kappa Epsilon 64. 
Phi Delta Theta 64. Lambda Chi Alpha 
62. Alpha Delta Phi 58. Sigma Nu 55. 
Zeta Psi 53. Theta Delta Chi 48. Psi 
Upsilon 48. Delta Phi 44. Kappa Sigma 
40. i 




SPRINT CHAMPION at the New 
England Intereollegiates last year, 
Bill Dwyer of Brown is campaign- 
ing again. 



BROWN ALUMNI IVIONTHLY 



Indoors < 



► ► There's no argument about tlie 
highspot of the indoor season which ended 
in March and produced some stellar 
achievements. It came the night that Rhode 
Island State's high-powered basketball five, 
victor in 15 out of 16 games previously, 
came a cropper at the hands of a Brown 
team which had gone nowhere particularly 
all year. Covetous of a tournament bid 
to New York, the Rams anticipated no 
trouble and, though held even, in the first 
half, pulled away to a 39-34 lead in the 
second. But the Bruins rallied superbly 
on offense and defense and "rolled it up", 
79-60. It was the biggest upset of the sea- 
son and Rhody's worst defeat in 1 1 years. 
The Brown chapel bell rang that night 
after a band-led parade home from the 
R. I. Auditorium. Grimshaw had gradu- 
ated, but a Freshman, Moe Mahoney, elig- 
ible for the Varsity with the new semester, 
took over and scored 34 points. The sweet 
victory more than avenged an earlier de- 
feat at Kingston. Providence College was 
similarly beaten in the rivals' second con- 
test of the season. 

But indoor track had its high points, too. 
M.I.T. had been beaten in a dual meet 
that shared the Aldrich Field boards with 
the R. I. Interscholastics before 2500 peo- 
ple. Then the squad moved on to Med- 
ford, where Tufts had not been defeated 
since 1941. Brown won the meet literally 
by one inch, with the final leap of the final 
event, the broad jump, where Dwyer, pre- 
viously winner of both dash and low hur- 
dles, moved into second place. The three 
points gave the Bears a 60]/z-'j6\/2 victory. 

Bob Bennett, former intercollegiate ham- 
mer champion, had his share of triumphs 
during the season, winning the ICAAAA 
weight throw and setting a new cage rec- 
ord at Tufts at 5 5 feet 2'/2, a mark which 
he had bettered in Providence earlier at the 
AAU Development meet. Royce Crimmin, 
who won the mile and 600 against Tech, 




THE mOOOR RELAY QUARTET: The Brown varsity made a credit- 
able showing in winter miles. Left to right, Henry Barksdale '50 of St. 
Louis, Royce Crimmin '49 of Laconia, N. H., and the "Bible twins", 
Jonathan and Joshua Tobey '49 of Barrington, R. 1. 



set a new Brown record in the former at 
4:34, more than 12 seconds faster than 
Charlie Winterrowd's mark in 1938. An- 
other record-cracker was Bob Phillips, 
whose leap in the high jump exceeded both 
previous indoor and outdoor marks on the 
Brown books. He bested 6 feet 3%, as 
compared with L. H. McGovern's 6 feet 
V/s, in 1934 indoors, and Reb Russell's 
outdoor record of 6 feet 2|/8 in 1929. Jon 
Tobey, one of the two capable "Bible 



Scoreboard for the Brown Indoor Season i 



> VARSITY BASKETBALL: 

Connecticut 65, Brown 44. 
Harvard 61, Brown 48. 
Dartmouth 47, Brown 34. 
Brown 62, M.I.T. 49. 
Boston College 61, Brown 50. 
Harvard 53, Brown 40. 
Brown 63, Worcester Tech 37, 
Rhode Island 96, Brown 71. 
Providence 68, Brown 58. 
Brown 76, Tufts 63. 
Holy Cross 69, Brown 49. 
Amherst 64, Brown 60. 
Brown 57, M.I.T. 46. 
Connecticut 72, Brown 41. 
Brown 79, Rhode Island 60. 
Yale 51, Brown 40. 
Brown 64, Wesleyan 47. 
Brown 72, Providence 58. 
Boston College 60, Brown 57. 
Brown 52, Tufts 34. 

► FRESHMAN BASKETBALL: 

Connecticut 56, Brown 37. 
Brown 66, Harvard JV 44. 
Brown 46, Harvard Fr. 45. 
Brown 74, Providence JV 44. 
Brown 74, Tabor 30 
Tufts J V 43, Brown 42 
Brown 55, Holy Cross JV 47. 
Brown 57, M.I.T. JV 47 



Connecticut JV 64, Brown 37. 
Brown 49, Nichols Jr. 29. 
Yale 50, Brown 37. 
Dean Academy 76, Brown 71. 
Brown 66, Wesleyan 61. 
Brown 53, Providence JV 51. 
Brown 64, Tufts JV 52. 

► VARSITY SWIMMING: 
Brown 41, M.I.T. 34. 
Brown 46, Connecticut 29. 
Harvard 45, Brown 30. 
Brown 50, Coast Guard 25. 
Springfield 55, Brown 20. 
Dartmouth 47, Brown 28. 

► FRESHMAN SWIMMING: 

Harvard 44, Brown 3 1 . 
Brown 39, M.I.T. 27. 
Brown 38, Moses Brown 28. 
Springfield 42, Brown 24. 
Pawtucket East 34, Brown 3 2. 
Brown 36, Pawtucket East 30. 

► VARSITY WRESTLING: 
Wesleyan 23, Brown 13. 
Harvard 30, Brown 8. 
M.I.T. 19, Brown 11. 

► FRESHMAN WRESTLING: 
Brown 17, Harvard 15. 

Brown 36, M.I.T. 0. 

► INDOOR TRACK: 
Brown 68, M.I.T. 31. 
Brown 601/2. Tufts 561/2. 

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twins," captured the lOOOyard run in 
each meet, establishing a new Brown time 
of 2:21.7 against M.I.T. Brown swept the 
shot-put in each meet, with Walsh, Hodash, 
Bartley, and Flick accounting for the 
points. Dwyer tied the indoor mark for 
the 40 at 4.6 seconds in the Tech meet, 
and he was third in the ICAAAA low 
hurdles. 

► The varsity swimmers split even in si.x 
duels and took fourth in the New England 
Intercollegiates. It was the last season for 
one of Brown's greatest athletes, Carl 
Paulson, who is the only Brown swimmer 
to win an NCAA title. He was 200-yard 
breaststroke king in 1944 but this year 
sacrificed all personal ambitions in that spe- 
cialty to swim all manner of events just to 
contribute team points. But he won the 
championship as a breaststroker in the New 
England Intercollegiates and NEAAU com- 
petition, adding to it the title in the New 
England Intercollegiate 400-yard individ- 
ual medley. In addition he swam back- 
stroke on the medley relay team which won 
the NEAAU event and took third in the 
college meet. In his specialty Paulson lost 
only once in four years of dual meet com- 
petition at Brown — to Jackson of Yale, 
whom he later mastered in the NCAA 
breaststroke. He won the breaststroke and 
medley events three times each in the New 
England college championships, never hav- 
ing been defeated in that meet, and his 
medley record still stands. In dual meets 
he has represented Brown in every event in 
the book except the short 50, where the 
undefeated Gossler was a reliable point- 
winner, and the dives. 

In Freshman ranks, the bright swimming 
star was Milt Brier, a promising breast- 
stroker. He and Paul Fisher, 50-yard free 
styler, both were unbeaten in dual meets. 
Brier, a former national interscholastic 
champion, set a new national collegiate 
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stroke with a time of 2:28.3. It replaced 
that of 2:31.4 set by Scott Dudley of Stan- 
ford in 1939 and chopped four seconds off 
Brier's own previous Brown Freshman 
mark. 

With wrestling just revived this winter, 
Brown had a satisfactory season and pro- 
duced two champions in the New England 
meet in which the team placed fifth with 
12 points. Beachen and Michaels took the 
crowns in the 145 and 135 divisions. Man- 
chester, Adams, and Marshall were winners 
in the Jayvee tourney, where the Bears 
were second. 

► Hockey enthusiasts prepared for the 
resumption of the sport on an intercolle- 
giate basis next year, when the students 
fielded an informal team known as the 
Providence Clippers. In the R. I. Amateur 
Hockey League, the team finished second 
to the Cranston Dunnes, the latter runner- 
up in the New England A.A.U. tourney 
in Providence. At that time Brown was 
host to the NCAA's ice hockey committee, 
the National AAU hockey rules committee, 
the National Collegiate Rules Committee, 
and the Olympic Hockey Rules Commit- 
tee. Next winter will see Brown, aided by 
the outdoor rink provided in part by the 
Providence Brown Club, engaged in a 
heavy schedule with top college teams. 
Home ice will be in the R. I. Auditorium, 
and Prof. Westcott E. S. Moulton will 
coach the varsity and Freshman squads. 

Brown's fencers, who beat Amherst and 
Worcester Academy, losing to Wesleyan, 
Harvard, and M.I.T., had an outstanding 
performer in Leonard Garr, who took 12 
of 15 bouts for the best intercollegiate 
record with foils. Edmund Peckham won 
26 and lost 15 bouts, with two weapons. 

The sensational team of all was the 
NROTC riflemen, winners of 24 of their 
25 meets. They also won the regional 
honors, in a shoot which saw three Bru- 
nonians in the first five places, and later 
the Eastern ROTC title. 

Staunton Military Academy brought its 
swinning team up from Virginia to win the 
27th annual Brown Interscholastics over 
a strong field in March. The scoring: Staun- 
ton 361/2, Peddie 21, Gardner (Mass.) 
High 18, Portland (Me.) High 17, Paw- 
tucket East 13, Pawtucket West 12, St, 
George's 11, Moses Brown 7, Hope High 
6, Brockton High and Columbia Grammar 
of N.Y.C. 4, Brookline V/z, Boston Eng- 
lish 5. The first annua! Brown Interschol- 
astic Relay Carnival saw La Salle take all 
three major events, including the Brown 
Club Mile Relay. < 

ISetc Backfield Coaches 

► ► Paul F. Mackesey, Brown Director 
of Athletics, announced the appointment 
of two new assistant football coaches in 
April. James W. Dunn of Grove City, 
Pa., has been appointed Varsity Backfield 
Coach and Capt. Ernest T. Savignano '42, 
USMC, of Newton, Mass., to a similar 
post with the freshman squad. 

Dunn who last season coached the La- 
fayette backfield for "Hooks" Mylin re- 
placed "Weeb" Ewbank who left Brown 
to become head coach at Washington Uni- 
versity, St. Louis, Mo. A graduate of 
Western Maryland in 1934 Dunn starred 
for Dick Harlow who considered him the 
greatest spinning back that he ever 
coached. For the next three years he 
coached with Harlow, first at Western 
Maryland, and then at Harvard. 

In the fall of 1938 Dunn became head 
football coach at Northeastern and also 
took over the basketball team and taught 



physical education. From 1942 — 1946 
he served as a captain in the Army Med- 
ical Corps, taking part in the African and 
Italian campaigns, seeing action at Salerno 
and An;iu. Returning to this country in 
1945, he was assigned to Camp Lee (Va.) 
where he served as backfield coach with 
Mylin. The Camp Lee team that season 
won nine games while losing one. In 1946 
Dunn went with Mylin to Lafayette where 
in addition to his football duties he served 
as head swimming coach and taught phys- 
ical education. 

Capt. Savignano, attached to the Brown 
Navy ROTC unit, was an outstanding ath- 
lete during his intercollegiate career. He 
was a three-sport star, winning awards in 
football, basketball, and baseball. He was 
captain of the 1941 Bruin eleven. 

He received his degree in absentia, hav- 
ing left college before Commencement to 
join the Marine Corps Officer Training 
Program. On being commissioned, he was 
first stationed at Quantico, Va. Later he 
was in charge of the marine detachment on 
the U.S.S. Alaska during the Iwo Jima 
and Okinawa campaigns. At the conclu- 
sion of the war he was stationed at Tsing- 
tao, China, in charge of the marines who 
were responsible for the security of the 
docks in that harbor. In August, 1946, he 
was assigned to the Brown Navy unit as an 
instructor in Marine subjects. ^ 

Minor Sport Schedules 

> Varsity teams and Freshmen have en- 
tered upon competition in golf and tennis 
again this spring, their seasons starting 

Gotham Gets the Story 



after we had sent copy to the printer. The 
opponents: Varsity tennis — R. I. State, 
Tufts, Yale, Wesleyan, W. P. I., Harvard, 
M.I.T., Connecticut, and New England 
Intercollegiates. Freshman tennis — Tabor, 
Harvard, M.I.T., Dean, Nichols Jr. Col- 
lege. Varsity golf — Williams, Connecticut, 
R. I. State, and E.I.G.A. round robin and 
playoffs. Freshman golf — Worcester Acad- 
emy and Nichols. ^ 

Freshntan Baseball 

► Clarence Forsythe, widely known as 
a minor league baseball player, is coaching 
the Freshman baseball team at Brown this 
spring and directing the club through a 
10-game schedule. The schedule, an- 
nounced April 14, follows: April 26 — 
Worcester Academy, home. April 29 — 
Providence College Jayvees, home. May 3 
— Harvard Freshmen, away. May 7 — 
Worcester Academy, away. May 9 ■ — 
Bradford Durfee, home. May 14 — Dean 
Academy, away. May 17 — Andover, away. 
May 20 — Providence College Jayvees, 
away. May 24 — Tabor Academy, home. 
May 27 — Nichols Jr. College, home. 

Forsythe had nine years in the minors — 
with Providence, Milwaukee, Toledo, Des- 
Moines, Evansville, Binghampton, New 
Bedford, New Haven, Mobile, and Shamo- 
kin. When he went to New Haven in 
1926, it was as a replacement for Joe 
Cronin, who had gone to Pittsburgh. For- 
sythe is a veteran of the first World War, 
a graduate of Hope High and Morris 
Heights School, Providence. < 



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> ¥ Through the years the annual din- 
ner of New "York and New Jersey Brown 
Alumni has been built up on the basis of 
its reunion aspect — "You see everyone 
there." In addition, the 79th of these 
yearly banquets rewarded more than 400 
diners with a lively evening of information 
and comment on the state of Brown. The 
principal informant was President Wriston, 
in his best form. 

This University of ours is a going con- 
cern, and big business, too, the President 
asserted, pointing to the prospective budget 
of $3,175,000 for next year — double that 
of three years ago. It will probably be 
another balanced budget, too, and Brown 
has emerged from the war with no fiscal 
obligations outstanding. Salary raises have 
been effected, and withholding taxes on 
1900 employees amount to $210,000. 

The enrollment, including the Veterans 
College, shows 3 360 men, and an over-all 
University total of 4461. While the na- 
tional figures show 25% of the veterans 
dropping out after their academic trial 
period, only 5% were leaving Brown. For 
those whose education had been inter- 
rupted and resumed, grades were a full 
letter higher than before the war. It was 
a period of serious study, marked by drive 
and intensity of interest. 
► To THE Brown faculty. Dr. Wriston 
paid high praise. A spirit of high com- 
radeship had been maintained, and a sense 
of joint responsibility for the University. 
This corporate spirit was important in itself 
and also in that it helped Brown keep its 
best men in a period of high competition. 
Although it had been possible to break 
through the $6500 ceiling, it was the 
atmosphere of Brown and not salary alone 
which kept them here — that and the cal- 

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Exchange of Greetings 

► Meeting on the same evening, 
March 27, the Brown Clubs in Balti- 
more and Chicago gave evidence of 
alumni fellowship in an exchange of 
felicitations. President Chester S. 
Stackpole wired from Baltimore : 
"Greetings to Dean Arnold and Chi- 
cago Brown Club on its annual din- 
ner, from Baltimore Brown Club 
holding its annual ladies' night with 
Bill McCormick and Pat Kenny." 
Warren J. Smith, president of the 
Chicago group, was its spokesman 
in a similar message to Maryland, i 



ibre of students they were given to teach. 
He credited the late Dr. Mead with build- 
ing a family relationship in Faculty mo- 
rale, a fact others had noted at the recent 
memorial service. 

Noting that, with 22 years as a College 
President behind him, he was one of the 
four or five seniors in the field. Dr. Wriston 
lauded his administrative team as well. 
Nowhere would one find an administrator 
with Bruce Bigelow's qualities; Morris 
Cochran was proving himself as skilled as 
any financial officer anywhere; Sam Arnold, 
a major figure in the administrative picture, 
with responsibilities broadened as Dean of 
the University — "fair, temperate, industri- 
ous, loyal"; Col. Pat Kenny, "remarkable, 
keen, sharp, decisive, meeting students 
more than halfway." He had praise for 
the Chaplain, Dr. Washburn, who was a 
head-table guest, for his loving care and 
warmth of heart; for Emery Walker, Di- 
rector of Admissions, "too young to be 
flattered, too good to be overlooked." For 
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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Worthington there was appreciation, too, 
as members of a "wonderful team." 

But it was the Faculty which made a 
University, they were its heart. They teach 
because they love it. And "the next 10 
years will be determined by the next two." 
There is never a shortage at the top, the 
President pointed out. These are raiding 
days, "and we can steal from the chicken- 
coops of the others." The ebb and flow 
of personnel was healthy, kept a school 
from being provincial. Though some of 
the names were unfamiliar, there were 
great ones at Brown today, as in other 
days. Though Dr. Kraus had retired, there 
was Paul Cross to take his place. One de- 
partment head had been able to recruit six 
out of six men in succession, offered posts 
at Brown — a tribute to our standing. 

The John Carter Brown Library was a 
greater instrument of research than ever 
before under Dr. Wroth, "incomparably 
the best man in the world in his field." 
The new department of Mathematical His- 
tory had been created inevitably because of 
the talent at Brown in Neugebauer and 
Sachs. Names, familiar and unfamiliar to 
older alumni, were warrants of Brown's 
great teachers and scholars. 
> The physical setting was our next 
concern, adequate facilities for the ex- 
panded student body and the larger spirit. 
The President was proud and fond of 
Whitehall, which Dr. Compton said had 
set a new speed record for postwar build- 
ing, at a cost of $1.00 per cubic foot. The 
"flawless classrooms are proving the best 
teaching instrument we could hope for." 
The Pembroke dormitory was proving a 
"pilot plant" for future planning, but the 
other buildings will not follow "while 
prices are out of line." 

"What do we ask of Brown men?" Dr. 
Wriston inquired. "Money, of course, but 
more: the opportunity to do our work 
with the young people who need our help. 
Our student body is the ablest today we 
have ever had, industrious but with little 
self-confidence. These boys never knew a 
stable America. They need faith in the 
democratic process. They fought a war 
well, but without an aim, without ideals, 
defensively, and it had been won without 
preparation for exploiting the victory. 
They are getting an education, but the 
alumni can give them assurance that it is 
meaningful. We have the skill and devo- 
tion of the Faculty, our program will pro- 
vide the facilities we seek, and from the 
alumni must come the understanding and 
the faith Brown needs." 

Presiding with pertinent wit and good 
humor was Dr. Theodore A. Distler '22, 
President of Franklin and Marshall Col- 
lege. Dr. W. Randolph Burgess '12 of 
the Board of Fellows reported on the 
progress of the Housing Campaign, while 
C. Douglas Mercer '06, president of the 
sponsoring New York Brown Club, intro- 
duced the head table company and other 
guests: Dean Arnold, William P. Burnham 
"07 of Boston, Vice-President Cochran, 
Alumni President Moses L. Crossley '09, 
Dr. Harvey N. Davis '01, President of Ste- 
vens Institute of Technology, Walter Hov- 
ing '20, Harold W. Lord '20, President of 
the Brown Club of Northern New Jersey, 
Mr. McCormick, Dr. Louis L Newman 
'13, Chancellor Henry D. Sharpe '94, Dr. 
C. C. Tillinghast '06, Mr. Walker, Mr. 
Worthington, and William Jewett, Place- 
ment Officer. Stephen I. Hall '28 deserved 
high commendation for a job well done as 
general chairman of the dinner. i 




PHILADELPHIA HEAD TABLE: Seated, left to right, Dr. Abbott, 
Dr. McFeeley, President Wriston, Dr. Saunders, and Arthur W. Howe 
'80, Brunonian son and Brunonian father. Standing — Mr. Farraday, 
Mr. Shupert, Mr. Moody, Dean Kenny, and Mr. Myers. 



► ► 



In This Common Purpose: 



► ► Not in recent memory has there 
been such a fine year's activity in the 
Brown Clubs. New Clubs, record turnouts 
in many cities, greater interest all along the 
line show on the record. 

To this heartening picture, many factors 
contribute: Release from wartime assign- 
ments has brought club rosters up, alumni 
are settling down again to the pleasant 
things of peace, young blood has vitalized 
many a group where leadership has been 
valiant but overworked of late. Partly be- 
cause so many important things have been 
happening on College Hill, alumni curios- 
ity and news-hunger have been at a peak. 
Some of it is the by-product and by-benefit 
of the big Campaign. And there is also 
the important consideration that officers 
have been able to leave the campus for vis- 
its in alumni centers in greater numbers 
and for longer periods than since before 
the war. 

Some of this boom-time is reflected in 
the reports herewith of Brown Club meet- 
ings and programs. For other news of the 
Clubs, see Dr. Bigelow's notes of his spring 
conferences with Brown men from coast 
to coast (elsewhere in this issue). To loyal 
men everywhere in the field go the thanks 
of the Associated Alumni and the Univer- 
sity for their services. i 

Philadelphia Phenomenon 

> ► Almost 100 Brown men and their 
guests joined to welcome Dr. Wriston and 
a large contingent of guests from the 
campus at the 78th Annual Banquet of the 
Brown University Club of Philadelphia at 
the Hotel Barclay March 25. It was a 
whale of a party with the largest turnout 
in years. With Dr. Wriston as a speaker 
was Blair Moody '22, the Washington cor- 
respondent of the Detroit 'hlews. Dr. Wil- 
bour E. Saunders '16, Headmaster of Ped- 
dle School, acted as toastmaster and was 
introduced by Bill Shupert '22, Club presi- 
dent. 

The dinner was the culmination of a 
continually expanding interest in the 
Philadelphia area in Brown. The monthly 
luncheons held on the second Tuesday of 

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each month, are showing results. Mem- 
bers came from Baltimore, Trenton, Wil- 
mington, South Jersey, Lebanon, Pa., and 
a host of surrounding communities. 

The campus contingent attending in- 
cluded Dean Kenny, who was called 
"Dean" once and Pat 493 times in the 
course of the evening; Bill McCormick, '23, 
the Brown Alumni Executive Oflicer; and 
Vernon Alden of the Admissions Ofiice, 
whom we were all glad to meet and talk 
to for what was for most of us, the first 
time. 

Secondary school guests included Dr. 
E. Carlton Abbott, Principal of Lansdowne 
High School, Dr. Richard H. McFeely, 
Headmaster of Friend's Central School 
with his Head of the Upper School, Clay- 
ton Farraday. We also had a flock of sub- 
freshmen with us, one of whom, Harry 
Ostertag, Jr., Class of 1951, walked off' 
with the door prize. 

In his usual manner. Dr. Wriston took 
a quick hold on his audience and really 
passed the word on what Brown needs 
from each of us in addition to that all- 
important matter of money. He stressed 
the demand for really educated college 
graduates who can carry on and maintain 
democracy in this country. The club was 
electrified by his speech. 

Blair Moody, who writes the column, 
"Both Sides of the Curtain" for Barron's. 
pulled back that curtain and gave us a 
glimpse of what is going on among the 
diplomats. He opened the floor to ques- 
tions and many of us took advantage of 
this opportunity to ask about some of the 
things that have been bothering us. 

Duffy Myers, as banquet chairman, 
worked night and day, and he (and his 
wife) should get a lot of credit for the 
thorough job of organizing and soliciting 
done to get the boys out. The smooth 
functioning of the party showed attention 
to all details that make such an aff^air click. 
The committee: Charles C. Myers '25, 
chairman, Emory S. Kates '25, H. Edgar 
Noll '20, Morton J. Simon '32, J. Harold 
Wilson '25. "Dapper Dick" Connly led 
in the singing of Brown songs. 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 




Officers for the coming year were 
elected. They are: York A. King, Jr. "34, 
president: Emory Kates '25, vice-president; 
Charles C. Meyers, "25, secretary; and 
Heberton Williams, '31, treasurer. Exec- 
utive committee: Maxwell Kaufman '30, 
Edgar Noll '20, J. Harold WHson '25, 
Dudley R. Atherton, Jr., '31, and R. O. 
Brackett "16. A. W. Howe, '80, took a 
bow as the veteran of the house. 

A full list of Brunonia's sons who ral- 
lied round the flag, boys: J. W. Albright, 
'20; M. S. Alexander, '27; D. R. Ather- 
ton, Jr., "31; R. O. Brackett, "16; Walter 
S. Bopp, "35; Waldo F. Brown, "25; Harold 
A. Backus, '18; Robert Braut, '44; H. M. 
Benedict, '22; Howard C. Cummings, '22; 
Richard Conly, '25; E. E. DePaul, '45; 
Horace P. Dorman, '96; Frank W. Davis, 
"17; Charles A. Full, '33; George _W. 
Fisher, '41; Richard Formadoni, '25; 
Roland Formadoni, "27; Albert B. Gordon, 
'25; Dr. I. J. Gruntfest, '37; Artcher Grif- 
fin, '23; David Haweeli, '42; J. E. Haskell, 
'39; Jim Heap, '33; Paul D. Howe, 'II; 
Earle W. Hendrickson, '29: Gordon Hurt, 
'42; G. D. Houtman, '16; Frederick Jack- 
son, '41; York A. King, Jr. '34; James G. 
Krause, '36; Maxwell Kaufman, '30; John 
S. Keay, '42; Charles M. Kenyon, '37; 
Harry Leighton, '03; Walter B. Lister, '20; 
Frank B. Lutz, '33; L. P. McAllister, '22; 
T. R. Marshall, '07; D. W. Marshall, '43; 
M. P. Margolies, "36; A. R. Mathues, '23; 
Frank Mauran, '85; Seth K. Mitchell, '15; 
H. H. Mohrfeld, "3 3; Howard M. Mohr- 
feld, '26; Charles C. Myers, "25; R. C. 
McKinney, '41; Edgar Noll, '20: H. F. 
Osteryee, "13; E. Arthur Parker, '13; Dr. 
M. M. Pearson, '3 2; Francis G. Peacock, 
'33; Don C. Rubel, '23; Roy Randall, '28; 
John W. Rhoads, '17; Morton J. Simon, 
'32; Charles S. Shinn, '06; Joseph D. 
Tuckerman, '25; Jerry West, '22; Charles 
N. Williams, '27; J. W. Worthington, '23; 
Sherman Wells, Jr., '23; H. F. Williams, 
'31; J. Harold Wilson, '25; W. F. Wolfe, 
'20; F. J. Watson, '36; I. H. Whyte, '36; 
David Wilmot. w.H.s. i 

Philadelphia Luncheons 

► Philadelphia luncheons are held on 
the second Tuesday of the month, at the 
University Club. The April meeting was 
devoted to a report from Max Kaufmann 
'30, the club's representative at the Ad- 
visory C-ouncil meeting of the Associated 



AT THE BIRTH of the Brown 
Club of Indiana in Indianapolis 
March 4: Seated, left to right — 
Leonard, Zartman, Josselyn, Bige- 
low. Dyer, Damon, Kendall, 
Grubbs. Standing — Birge, How- 
arth, McCabe, Caldow, and Stark. 
Photo by Star staff photographer, 
Joseph E. Craven. 

Alumni. It was the first meeting under the 
new Myers administration, too. 

The May luncheon, held too late for a 
report here, featured Athletic Director 
Paul Mackesey, who planned to discuss the 
situation at Brown in frank, intimate 
fashion. i 

Aha California 

> ► The Annual Dinner Meeting of 
the Brown Club of Alta California was 
held at the University Club, San Francisco, 
on Feb. 8, 1947. Twenty-eight Brunonians 
were present. 

George F. Weston, class of '78, who now 
has the distinction of being Brown's old- 
est graduate, was among those present. He 
told a most interesting story of the old well 
next to University Hall. This well was the 
only water supply in 1874, and was 
equipped with a bucket for drawing water. 

Austin K. Allen '04 read the "down- 
east" poem "Elkana B. Atkinson", by 
Holman Day, which was encored. 

The speaker of the evening was Dr. 
Alexander Meiklejohn '93 who spoke to 
us on the history of Brown: and those 
things which Brown has continually stood 
for, including Joy, Happiness, Peace and 
Hope. He told of many interesting events 
during his own college days, including the 
founding of the Department of Philosophy 
by James Seth. In closing his remarks. Dr. 
Meiklejohn payed glowing tribute to Ben- 
jamin Andrews as a great teacher and great 
administrator, during the college days of 
the class of 1893. 

Mr. Nathaniel Blaisdell, '83 was elected 
President of the Club for the 49th year in 
succession, and F. E. Roper '11 was re- 
elected Secretary and Treasurer. The an- 
nual meeting closed with the singing of 
our Brown songs, closing with "Alma 
Mater". In addition to those above men- 
tioned, those present were: 

Col. LeRoy Bartlett '02, Wm. M. Ban- 
croft '37, Saul Belilove '40, Guy B. Col- 
burn '04. Dr. Charles B. David '36, Dr. T. 
Harper Goodspeed '09. H. Sterling Mc- 
Intyre '39, Raymond W. Mercy '43, S. L. 
Mitchell '12, Paul Ochs '30, Winthrop 
Richardson "29. Bruce A Rohbins '40, John 
J. Rock "24, Brig. Gen. Francis W. Rollins 
"16, John B. Rosenthal "40, Herbert M. 
Ross '13, H. C. Soellner "28, R. E. Soellner 
"24, Robert A. Tourigncy "41, Stewart D. 

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Weston '08, T. D. Woodbury '03, and 
Dudley A. Zinke '39. 

> The Brown Club of Alta California 
had Dr. and Mrs. Bruce M. Bigelow as its 
guests at a special dinner given March 15 
in their honor at the University Club, San 
Francisco. Mr. Blaisdell presided, and Dr. 
Meiklejohn introduced the Vice-President 
from College Hill. He in turn told us of 
current events and activities at Brown, and 
answered numerous questions regarding the 
student body, the Faculty, the athletic 
teams, the Housing and Development Cam- 
paign, and other important college affairs, 
and facilities including the libraries. 

We certainly appreciated the visit to San 
Francisco of Dr. and Mrs. Bigelow; and 
sincerely hope that they will return again 
soon for another visit to the West Coast 
and to our organization. The members of 
our local club who attended this dinner 
included: Austin K. Allen '04, David G. 
Goddard '24, Paul A. Lathrop '43, Dr. 
WiUiam D. McCarthy '31, and Messrs. 
Bancroft, Bartlett, Richardson, David, 
Mercy, Roper, Ross, and Bob Soellner. i 
F. E. ROPER 

> > Bruce Bigelow's visit to Indianapohs 
was a huge success in that it occasioned 
the founding of the Brown Club of In- 
diana and really got the Housing drive in 
the State off to a start, late though it was. 

Bruce and his attractive wife arrived on 
the morning of March 4, and on that day 
we had a luncheon of Brown men at the 
Indianapolis Athletic Club. Everyone we 
could reach by phone was anxious to at- 
tend and renew Brown ties. The luncheon 
was a pleasant and interesting one, and I 
can tritely but truthfully say that "a good 
time was had by all," which is all the 
more remarkable since with one or two ex- 
ceptions none of the alumni present had 
ever met each other. 

Membership in the Brown Club of In- 
diana, which we voted to form, will be 
open to the 65 or 70 alumni in the State, 
who are soon to be informed of their auto- 
matic status aa members. President is 
Samuel R. Damon '16 of Indianapolis, a 
doctor in the Indiana State Board of 
Health and director of its laboratories. I 
am secretary (William A. Dyer, Jr., '24 
is general manager of the Indianapolis 
Star.) 

Those at the luncheon included the fol- 
lowing: Walter B. Leonard '21, vice-presi- 
dent and general manager, Clicquot Club 
Bottling Co., Indianapolis. Lloyd W. Jos- 
selyn '07, librarian of Wells Library, La- 
fayette, Ind., who brought his 1904 Fresh- 
man Bible with him and gave his class 
yell; and Joe Zartman of Lafayette, a 
guest. George V. Kendall '12, late of 
General MacArthur's staff in the South- 
west Pacific as a Colonel and returned to 
his duties as Dean of the Faculty, Wabash 
College, Crawfordsville, Ind. Daniel D. 
Grubbs '26, in the real estate business in 
Carmel, Ind. Dr. Edward B. Birge '91, of 
Bloomington, Ind., professor emeritus of 
music at Indiana University and composer 
of several Brown songs. Donald C. How- 
arth '39, engineer with Harper J. Roms- 
burg Co. of Indianapolis. Norman H. 
McCabe '30 of the FBI, just moved to In- 
dianapolis, who has demonstrated his skill 
in detection by being able to rent a home 
in a week. John R. Caldow '20. headmas- 
ter of Park School, the fine private school 
for boys in Indianapolis. Dr. William J. 
Stark of Indianapolis, who has a son in 
the student body at Brown. i 

WILLIAM A. DYER, "24 



Boston's Diamond Jubilee 



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Bostonians' Best 

> ► It was Boston's best dinner, they 
all said, and they all believed it as they 
left the Hotel Sheraton April 14. Two 
hundred of them — from Charles S. Weaver 
of 1882 to the youngest grad — found it a 
fitting all-Brown evening in honor of the 
Boston Jubilee anniversary. It had sub- 
stance, it had color, and it had pace, lib- 
erally provided by Ken Clapp's committee 
and marshalled wittily and astutely by 
Linus Travers, with assists from their col- 
leagues of the Yankee Network. 

The evening was full of surprises and 
novelties, not the least of which was the 
use of a recording to confront President 
Wriston with his own voice before he be- 
gan to speak. The transcription had been 
made of his debate with Senator Pepper 
before the Harvard Law School Forum a 
few nights previous. The introduction was 
from the platter, with portions of Dr. 
Wriston's pleading and overwhelming 
audience response readily apparent. He 
had supported the firm policy against Rus- 
sia as the hope for peace. 

As he had done in New York, President 
Wriston praised the team of administrators 
and faculty at Brown, with compliments all 
down the line. He had never encountered 
such alumni enthusiasm as this year, he 
said, and it was fortunate, for the oppor- 
tunity was magnificent. "Never did the 
world need so much what Brown has to 
offer." 

He had a word of warning, too. "Watch 
the intellectuals and their temper," he 
said, "for a ceiling has been put on their 
efforts and 'theories' has become a word 
of scorn. A society which ridicules the 
brain and gives its rewards to those who 
lack one are building no loyalty from in- 
tellect. Instead of considering the pro- 
fessor as just another workman, he must 
be recognized lor what he is — a leader in 
thought, a pioneer in society, a lifter of 
burdens. Woo the intellectual — he holds 
the key to the future. Protect academic 
freedom, the right to search for truth and 
to proclaim truth and its meaning." 

The academic budget at Brown was up 
30% this year. It would he up 30% fur- 
ther next year, he predicted, and he hoped 
it would be a balanced budget again, for 
all its $3,000,000 in commitments. The 
library budget was up 60%, an enormous 
load. But this was the time to make deep 
commitments, to show faith. 
► Brown had the best student body 
ever, but he wanted it better, with selec- 
tion even greater than the one-in-six at 
Brown and the one-in-ten at Pembroke. 
He, too, praised the student spirit, the 



Invocation in Philly 

► They referred to it later as the 
keynote of the evening. It was the 
invocation by Rev. Peter M. Sturte- 
vant, associate rector of Christ 
Church, one of the historic shrines 
of Philadelphia. He prayed, at the 
Philadelphia Brown dinner: 

"O Lord, at this present time, give 
us the serenity and stability of mind 
to accept those things which cannot 
be changed; and the courage to 
change those things which ought to 
be changed; and the wisdom to know 
the one from the other." i 



What Is Victory? 

► It is not only on the athletic 
field that certain standards of vic- 
tory have to be met, Toastmaster 
Linus Travers '27 pointed out at the 
successful Boston Brown Dinner in 
April. He recalled that he and his 
fellow varsity debaters were pretty 
complacent about having defeated 
Harvard during his student days — 
complacent until Prof. Henry B. 
Huntington showed his contempt for 
rhetorical devices and mere effec- 
tiveness which had swayed the 
judges on that occasion. 

The esteemed and popular author- 
ity on argumentation had made just 
one comment: "To win without 
logic is no victory." i 



spirit of "men who had lived in a great 
futility and whose time was running out." 
The alumni were also coming into their 
own, with the war problems altered, war 
restrictions over, and the staff at full 
strength. Brown's publicity was coming 
into its own, with "good notice, intelli- 
gent notice." 

Dr. Wriston went back to the first 
speech he gave at Brown, at his installa- 
tion, and repeated his thesis that the 
world's greatest need was character. "In 
the great reaction after the lessons of the 
war, it is still the lack and the need, for 
which It is Brown's tradition to provide. 
Feel, then, the pride in her history, boast 
your true confidence in her present, and 
take a part in shaping and building what 
is to come to her great and lasting glory." 
► Dean Robert W. Kenny, introduced 
as "a students' dean as well as a Dean of 
Students," predicted an undergraduate 
body of 3200 next fall at Brown but that 
the peak would then be reached. After 
a plateau for two or three semesters the 
enrollment would start to drop again, he 
believed. 

Is it the same college? The traditions 
remained, he assured the alumni. Al- 
though it had taken the better part of a 
year to do it, the students had finally been 
transformed and welded into a unified 
body of Brown men with good spirit. The 
intellectual offerings were essentially the 
same, with the same aim to provide a cohe- 
sive body of knowledge. The end result 
would be educated men, as always, marked 
by loyalty and unashamed to pay their 
respects to their Alma Mater. 

Toastmaster Travers had a surprise com- 
pliment for William B. McCormick when 
he presented the Alumni Executive Officer. 
Telling of two Dartmouth men who are 
Yankee Network commentators, he said 
Bill Cunningham and Cedric Foster were 
kidding him. And Cunningham asked, 
"What ever becomes of Brown men, any- 
way?" Foster became serious and said, 
"Well, I can tell you that one of the 
finest gentlemen I ever met in the Pacific 
as a war correspondent was a Brown man 
named Bill McCormick." "No man can 
represent us alumni with more ability and 
character," said Travers. 

Mr. McCormick congratulated the Bos- 
ton Club on its 75th anniversary. At 
Brown, in alumni affairs too, it was a time 
of reconversion, he pointed out. He hoped 

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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 

the alumni did not want too much too 
soon: an undefeated football team, admis- 
sion of all friends to the College, an im- 
mediate return to the old, normal Brown. 
("What is normal?") Brown was going 
ahead, and it was a time for patience and 
understanding, for intelligent criticism, for 
the giving of loyal services, money, and 
interest. He had high hopes for the new 
alurnni reorganisation plan, he said, as a 
medium for reaching every alumnus. 

One vital service a Brown man could 
perform would be a simple thing to do, 
made easier this year — voting in the alumni 
elections. He stressed this because the 
privilege of nominating (virtually elect- 
ing) Alumni Trustees was in jeopardy. A 
vote is an expression of loyalty and intel- 
ligent confidence in your University, "for 
you are Brown." 

> A novelty in the program was the ap- 
pearance of the Yankee Network radio 
feature, "The Answer Man." Travers said 
the idea had come from Albert Mitchell, 
formerly orchestra leader at the Arcadia 
in Providence. Bruce Chapman '27 had 
set it up and organized it as a nationally 
known show. The diners heard a regular 
quarter-hour of "The Answer Man," with 
all questions relating to Brown — most in- 
terestingly. A recording was promised for 
use on the campus by WBRU and for loan 
to various Brown Clubs for play-back. 

Dr. Arthur L. Washburn, retiring 
chaplain of the University, is a "Brown 
man through and through", had been a 
friend and always would be to Brown 
men, the toastmaster said. The chaplain 
responded, imprumptu, in appreciation of 
his years on College Hill — "there's nothing 
like 26 years in college dormitories for en- 
thusiasm, eagerness, and fine feeling for 
one another." The tie was closer than 
blood, than nationality, he said, sharing 
in the ideals of a University. "The fel- 
lowship of Brown men is the finest thing 
I have ever met — a spiritual truth realized. 
No University had greater democracy, as 
a meditation of gratitude and recognition 
tells me again and again." 

He liked to think of his years in Bruno- 
nia Hall as the happiest of his life — for all 
the water battles, noise, shaking floors, and 
interrupted slumber. Out of his days on 
campus had come a trust in the future of 
the institution, and beyond that to con- 
fidence in all that America means and shall 
mean. 

Others at the head table included: Dean 
Samuel T. Arnold, Vice-President Bruce 
M. Bigelow, Vice-President F. Morris 
Cochran, President Douglas Mercer of the 
New York Brown Club, Judge Robert E. 
Quinn, who told of Commencement plans. 
President Hugh Robertson of the Boston 
club. Chancellor Henry D. Sharpe, Dean 
Emery R. Walker, and W. Chesley Worth- 
ington. The musical program included se- 
lections by a college quartet' and record- 
ings of the Brown Glee Club. 

The dinner committee consisted of: 
Kenneth D. Clapp '40, chairman, Joseph 
F. Lockett, Jr., '42, Hugh Robertson "19, 
Edward T. Brackett '14, Paul N. Swaffield 
'16, Richard E. Hale '41, Carleton D. 
Morse '13, Ernest J. Woelfel "23, and 
Charles L Gates '99. 



Boston's Neiv Officers 

> New officers of the Boston Brown 
Club, always one of the most active and 
responsive alumni groups, were announced 
at the annual dinner in April. Ernest J. 
Woelfel "23, who has taken a leading part 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 

in many club affairs over the years, is the 
president for 1947-1948, with the follow- 
ing aides: 

First vice-president — Donald C. Bower- 
sock "20; 2nd vice-president — Robert G. 
Bleakney "23; 3rd vice-president — John M. 
Curtis "30; secretary-treasurer — Edward T. 
Brackett "14; assistant secretary — Loring 
P. Litchfield '28; assistant treasurer — 
Richard E. Hale '41. Three directors were 
elected for a two-year term: Hugh Rob- 
ertson "19, the retiring president who has 
been a fine leader. Rev. Raymond S. 
Hall '31, and Kenneth D. Clapp "40. 
Terms of the following directors will ex- 
pire a year hence: Charles I. Gates "99, 
Albert B. Coop "16, and Robert F. Jones 
"34. 

At Boston"s regular monthly luncheon 
on March 13, Dean Robert W. Kenny "25 
was the speaker at the Engineers' Club, 
taking as his topic, "What's Cooking on 
College Hill?" < 



Providence Wind-up 

> > An outing and banquet, featuring 
Dean Kenny and the coaches and em- 
bracing the annual meeting of the Provi- 
dence Brown Club, will be held May 22 
at the Wannamoisett. The dinner will 
bring to an end the most active adminis- 
tration in its history. Substantial benefac- 
tions to the undergraduate program at 
Brown, schoolboy awards and recognition 
of two retiring notables in the University 
family were highlights of the past winter 
and spring. 

One gift, to the Brown Yacht Club, rep- 
resented a $700 expenditure on the part 
of the alumni group for a new rescue boat, 
already in use during the spring trials and 
regatta season. The 15-foot "crash"" boat 
is powered by a 10-horsepower motor 
which yields a speed of 15 miles an hour 
and permits a far prompter pickup than 
the old, uncertain boat of the past. The 
Brown Club looked on its gift as a chance 
to show that the alumni are aware of the 
fine program on the Seekonk and the 
yachtmen"s success in intercollegiate com- 
petition. (A photo in the last issue of 
this magazine showed the new outdoor ice 
hockey rink financed to the extent of some 
$400 by the Brown Club. The rink was 
available for 24 days of use this past winter 
in spite of the unusual mildness of the 
weather. It will prove of greater value next 
season as Brown returns to Varsity com- 
petition on an intercollegiate basis.) 

The smoker, in compliment to Dr. Wal- 
ter H. Snell "13, recently retired Athletic 
Director, proved a light-hearted but grate- 
ful affair — in Faunce House March 21. 
"Just an informal get-together to honor a 
swell guy by a bunch of his best friends,"" 
said the notice, and it proved that. Many 
a reminiscence was prompted, as "Spike"" 
Staff, former Athletic Director Tom Tay- 
lor, classmate Dean Sam Arnold, and the 
new Director, Paul Mackesey, spoke in 
praise of Wally, under the guidance of 
Toastmaster Ira Lloyd Letts, another 1913 
notable. (Of the luncheon for Dr. Arthur 
L. Washburn, there is notice elsewhere.) 

As in the past, the Providence Brown 
Club trophies in football, basketball, and 
baseball are emblematic of State cham- 
pionships in Rhode Island. This year, in 
addition, the Club assisted the Athletic De- 
partment in sponsoring the Interscholastic 
Relay Carnival, with suitable medals, and 
the feature of the annual Interscholastic 




MEMORIAL to the World War dead of Pi Lambda Phi was dedicated 
March 9 al Brown. Samuel Temkin '19, who made the presentation, 
is flanked by Harrison Sussman '48, rex of the chapter, and President 
Wriston, the speakers. 



Indoor Meet, held on the Brown track, 
was designated the Brown Club Mile Re- 
lay. Medals for the revival of the famous 
Memorial Day schoolboy meet at Brown 
Field will be provided by the Club. Not 
only in athletics was there a trophy for 
schoolboy winners: Classical High School 
received the first annual Brown Club 
plaque for the best production in the 
Rhode Island High School Drama Fes- 
tival held in Faunce House Theatre in 
April. 

Completing its work for the year at its 
April meeting, the Executive Committee 
spread on its minutes a hearty apprecia- 
tion of the two years during which H. Stan- 
ton Smith "21 has served as President. i 

IVorth Shore Plans 

► The North Shore Brown Club will 
hold its annual dinner on May 15 at the 
Salem Country Club, with President Wris- 
ton as the guest of honor. All alumni of 
Brown and their wives, Pembroke alumnae, 
friends, or other guests are cordially in- 
vited. Samuel Klivansky will be toastmas- 
ter, and the club is also indebted to Ernest 
Woelfel for making the arrangements with 
the Salem Country Club. Athletic Di- 
rector Paul F. Mackesey, a Lynn product, 
is also expected from the campus. 

Plans for the annual meeting, which will 
include a brief preliminary business session, 
were made March 19 at the home of Presi- 
dent Elmer P. Wright, 7 Evans Road, 
Marblehead, Mass. There was 100% turn- 
out of the officers and directors when the 
executive committee gathered. Along with 
other considerations, the officers and di- 
rectors acted as a nominating committee 
and drew up a slate for presentation on 
May 15, w;th James LeFevre, present vice- 
president, listed to succeed Mr. Wright as 
president. 

By dint of the hard work of several 
members, a scholarship fund has been 
raised sufficient to send one or two deserv- 

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ing high school graduates from the North 
Shore Area to Brown under the sponsor- 
ship of the Club. It was voted to continue 
this, if possible, under the next adminis- 
tration. In connection with the plan, the 
club would like to have recommendations 
from any interested party as to boys who 
might quahfy for this scholarship award. 
Suggestions should be sent to Mr. Wright , 
at his home, or to S. Abbott Hutchinson, 
secretary-treasurer, who lives on Pilgrim 
Road, Marblehead. 

Attending the meeting on March 19 
were: J. Donald Jeffers, Warren E. Buker, 
Robert Arnold, Bertram Greene, and 
Messrs. Wright, LeFevre, Hutchinson, 
Woelfel, and Klivansky. 

E. P. W. 

Chicago Elects Faulkner 

> Dr. Samuel T. Arnold "13, Dean of 
the University, was in splendid form as 
the speaker at the annual Brown Dinner in 
Chicago, sponsored by the Chicago Brown 
Club and held in the Tropical Room of 
the Continental Hotel March 27. He gave 
an excellent, highly interesting account of 
Brown. 

Homer R. Faulkner "23 is the new presi- 
dent of the Club, elected to succeed War- 
ren J. Smith, Jr. His co-officers: vice-presi- 
dent — James R. Bremner, Jr., "34; treasurer 
— George Rich, III, "44; and secretary — 
Frederick P. Bassett, Jr., "33. 

Thirty of the Chicago alumni attended 
the regular weekly luncheon of the Brown 
Club there on Feb. 28 when Dr. Moses L. 
Crossley '09, president of the Associated 
Alumni spoke about the new program for 
expanding alumni activity and gave other 
ideas on building up esprit de corps. These 
Brown Club luncheons are always held 
Friday at noon in the Chicago Real Estate 
Board at 105 W. Madison St., where 
alumni can find congenial company and a 
good welcome, whether they are transients 
or locals. ^ 



Baltimore and the Ladies 

^ Bill McCormick and Pat Kenny were 
with us on the night of March 27 — an 
altogether pleasant occasion as befitted the 
annual ladies night of the Baltimore 
Brown Club. Bill opened with a general 
discussion of campus conditions, empha- 
sizing that the spirit of libera! education 
was flourishing despite the physical han- 
dicaps ot shelter shortages, etc. Pat then 
moved in with a discussion of educational 
developments with special emphasis on the 
veterans and their generally excellent per- 
formance. 

President Chet Stackpole, officiating 
with his usual skill and felicity, asked Bill 
Meuse, General Passenger Agent of the 
B y O, to take a bow on Chet's announce- 
ment that Bill had won the annual gold 
medal offered by the Dartnell Corporation 
of Chicago for the best business letter of 
the year. 

Those present included: Mr. and Mrs. 
W. Wallace Buxton '35, Prof, and Mrs 
Raymond P. Hawes "12, Mr. and Mrs. 
K. J. Hovey "27, Mr. and Mrs. William 
E. Meuse '26, Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Sim- 
mons '26, Mr. and Mrs. Chester S. Stack- 
pole '22, Mr. and Mrs. S. Herbert Wil- 
lard '24, and Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Ives '21. 

The Secretary attended the March meet- 
ing of the Board of Directors in New York, 
reporting the lively condition of the club 
and the leading part its members are play- 
ing in the community. ^ 

C. P. I. 

Pitt's Chemical Reaction 

► Pittsburg gave a royal reception to Dr. 
Charles A. Kraus, emeritus professor of 
chemistry, when he brought the news from 
Providence and the world in general to 
the Brown Club of Western Pennsylvania 
Feb. 27. Donald G. Clark '09 wrote: 
"The group here was delighted with his 



Certain Qualifications 
► Athletic Director Paul F. 
Mackesey '3 2 told them in Boston 
April 14 about a letter that had come 
in the mail about a fine sub-Fresh- 
man prospect. An alumnus sponsor 
had written: 

"This boy weighs 220 pounds, 
stands 6 feet one, can run the 100 
in 9.8 with a 100-pound weight on 
his back. He can throw a pass with 
either hand, kicks 60 yards, blocks 
well, backs up the line in rugged 
fashion. Boy, is he an athlete? And 
is he a scholar, too? No, what do 
you expect? " 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 

the group lived up to its fine advance no- 
tices. A dance and .several supper parties 
at the Hotel Ten Eyck accompanied the 
event, which was arranged by the Director 
of Student Activities, the Department of 
Music, and the following Albany alumni: 
Richard S. Walter, chairman, Robert For- 
ster, S. Vint Van Derzee, W. C. Fur.stall, 
J. Gordon Baxter, and Whitney B, Easton, 
ex officio. ^ 



talk and with his personality. I think I 
am speaking for the other members when 
I say that last Wednesday's meeting was 
the best Brown Club dinner I have at- 
tended since coming to Pittsburgh." We 
think he was serious, even though his let- 
ter was written April 1. 

President Robert Schaper was in charge 
of the meeting at the University Club. i 

Albany's Two Dates 

► President Wriston's visit to Albany 
Feb. 28 was the occasion for one of the best- 
attended and stimulating meetings in the 
history of the Brown Club of Northeastern 
New York, held at the Fort Orange Club. 
The dinner was arranged by President 
Whitney Easton, who unfortunately was 
ill the night of the meeting, but Richard 
Walter, Howard Hunt, and others of the 
local group carried the ball in welcoming 
Dr. Wriston. The latter talked "in the 
family" about University matters, most 
revealingly. 

The Club presented the Brown Univer- 
sity Glee Club to an Albany audience in 
Chancellors Hall April 1 1 and found that 



Alumni Balloting Starts 



M M 



► > With the impending retirement of 
Dr. Moses L. Crossley '09 as President of 
the Associated Alumni, the alumni of 
Brown are voting this spring for his suc- 
cessor, as well as for regional officers. Fred- 
erick E. Schoeneweiss '20 is candidate for 
re-election as Treasurer, his name appear- 
ing on the ballot as the sole candidate for 
the office after unanimous endorsement by 
the Executive Committee and the Advisory 
Council. 

The contest for the presidency lists three 
alumni leaders who have been prominent 
and active for many years: Paul E. Mona- 
han '31 of Windsor, Conn.; Carleton D. 
Morse '13 of Needham, Mass.; and H. 
Stanton Smith '21 of Providence. Their 
biographies appear on ballots sent to all 
former students of the College at Brown, 
for their use in voting. 

Three candidates also appear on the bal- 
lot for alumni representative on the Brown 
Athletic Advisory Council to succeed Paul 
N. Swaffield '16 of Watertown, Mass. All 
have maintained an interest in Brown ath- 
letics since undergraduate days. They are: 
Everett M. Arnold '21, New York pub- 
lisher resident in Old Greenwich, Conn.; 
Dean Coffin '3 3 of Detroit, Mich., a writer 
and account executive with a picture serv- 
ice; and John S. Collier '29, instructor and 
coach at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H. 

Each of the five existing Regions into 
which the Associated Alumni are divided 



will this year elect a Vice-President and a 
Director. The candidates for the former 
are: Rhode Island — J. Cunliffe Bullock 
'02 and J. Wilbur Riker '22, both of Provi- 
dence. New England, outside of R. I. — 
Edward T. Brackett '14 of Needham, 
Mass., and Kenneth D. Clapp '40 of Win- 
chester, Mass. Atlantic-Midland Region — 
Dr. William W. Browne '08 of Yonkers, 
N. Y., and Sydney Wilmot '09 of Tucka- 
hoe, N. Y. Central — F. Donald Bateman 
'29 of Barrington, 111., and Martin B. Rice 
'25 of Detroit. Western — Nathaniel Blais- 
dell '83 of San Francisco, sole nominee. 

Directors will be chosen from among 
the following: Rhode Island — Howard F. 
Eastwood '29, Bancroft Littlefield '34, and 
Stanley F. Mathes '39, all of Providence. 
New England, outside of R. I. — George F. 
Affleck '41, Springfield, Mass., and John 
M. Curtis '30, Newton Centre, Mass. Atlan- 
tic-Midland — Robert B. Perkins '29, Ram- 
sey, N. J., and Walter F. Waldau '23, West 
Orange, N. J. Central — James R. Brem- 
ner '34, Chicago, and John S. Foley '25, 
Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich. Western — 
Lawrence L. Larrabee '09, Los Angeles, and 
Howard R. Perrin '14, Klamath Falls, Ore. 

Polls for this election, like those in the 
Alumni Trustee voting, will close Friday 
evening, June 13, at 9 p.m. Results will 
be announced over the weekend, probably 
at the big All-Alumni Dinner Sunday 
night. ^ 

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Fall River Revival 

> A fine meeting of the Fall River Brown 
Club April 15 in the Mellon Hotel brought 
out 40 enthusiastic alumni and guests, and 
prompted a resolve for more frequent gath- 
erings in this good Brown center, after a 
period of wartime quiescence. Classes 
from 1886 to 1944 were represented, with 
Clarence E, Bury the senior of those at- 
tending. 

William B. McCormick, Alumni Execu- 
tive Officer, brought a "Report from the 
Hill," while Athletic Director Paul Macke- 
sey told of the athletic situation and the 
outlook. He showed, with comment, mov- 
ies of the Dartmouth game last fall. The 
latter were of special interest to Coach 
Luke Urban and the B. M. C. Durfee 
basketball squad. Charles V. Carroll, 
principal of that high school, was guest of 
honor. Dr. Albert C. Thomas '08 was in 
charge of arrangements, while Arthur C. 
Durfee '22, pre-war president of the club, 
presided. 

Among those present were: Harry 
Smalley '04, William A. Hart '03, Jackson 
H. Skillings '37, Charles H. Mullen, Amasa 
F. Williston '16, Norman Zalkind '35, 
Charles Soforenko '23, Hugh Neville, Jr., 
"34, Augustus J. Wood '95, Warren F. 
Sanford '24, J. Terence McGuire '12, 
James Brady McGuire '38, Robert C. Bo- 
gle '39, W. S. Canning, Gardiner T. Hart 
'06, Frank T. Albro '05, Theodore Lid- 
man '30, Samuel M. Course '40, Henry 
Packer '44, Merrill Leviss '44, all of Fall 
River; J. Warren Campbell '23 of Somer- 
.set; Milton E. Earle '23 of Westport; 
Gale Wisbach "39 of North Tiverton. < 

Hartford Danced 

> The Brown club of Hartford held its 
first dinner dance in a number of years, 
timed for April 7 with the idea that un- 
dergraduates home for Easter vacation 
might join with the alumni. More than 
60, including many students and recent 
graduates, seemed to be having a gay time. 
There was much singing, mostly of the 
spontaneous variety, with all joining in. 
The locale, the Wampanoag Country Club, 
West Hartford, was ideal, the orchestra 
was superb, and the group most congenial. 
About 20 enjoyed an excellent dinner be- 
fore hand (most of them the "old-faith- 
ful"), the others coming along later. _ It 
was wonderful to see Paul Monahan '31 
back again after his recent illness, looking 
the picture of health. 

All credit to Wally Henshaw "23, gen- 
eral chairman; Larry Smith '20, and Bob 
Allison '29 for their hard work and ar- 
rangements. 

Athletic Director Paul F. Mackesey and 
William B. McCormick, Alumni Executive 
Officer, will be the guests at the Hartford 
Club's annual meeting on May 22. Time 
and place for the gathering had not been 
determined at press time. 

The Hartford Brown Club has a lunch- 
eon every month on the third Wednesday 
of the month at the Heublein Hotel. 
Fifteen attended the gathering on March 
19: John Balmer, Jim Macintosh, Ed Tul- 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



!er, Dick Brainard, Wally Hibbard, Ev- 
erett Harkness, Wally Henshaw, Al Ro- 
botham, Francis Brown, Joe Lombardo, 
Frank Jones, Jesse Bailey, Andrew Jack, 
Milton Glover, and Cy Flanders. i 

Andover Set for May 23 

> The Merrimack Valley Brown Club, 
which draws widely from a number of 
communities, will hold its spring meeting 
May 23 in Andover, Mass. President Fred 
M. Boyce "09 announces that Peabody 
House on the Phillips Academy campus 
has been obtained for the use of the 
alumni that evening, with the program 
starting at supper, 6:30. Speakers from 
the Brown campus will be Dean Robert W. 
Kenny, Alumni Executive Officer William 
B. McCormick, and Athletic Director Paul 
F. Mackesey. Secretary James S. Eastham 
is active in making arrangements. ^ 

Engineers in Spring 

► "Microwaves and Their Potentialities" 
will provide the topic for the spring meet- 
ing of the Brown Engineering Association, 
to be held Friday, May 16, in New York 



City at the Building Trades Employers As- 
sociation, 2 Park Ave. After dinner at 
6:30, Joseph L. Richey will be the speaker. 
A demonstration engineer for the Amer- 
ican Telephone and Telegraph Co., he will 
use microwave generating equipment to 
demonstrate the characteristics of these 
waves and discuss their possible application 
in television and radio. 

In Providence the Association's spring 
plans include a lobster dinner at the R. I. 
Yacht Club Friday, May 23. i 

And These, Too 
> Brown club meetings held too re- 
cently for a report in this issue include 
the following: Portland, Me. (Brown Club 
of Western Maine), with Alumni Execu- 
tive Officer William B. McCormick as the 
speaker, on April 21. Canton, Ohio, out- 
ing for the Ohio area, April 30, with Ath- 
letic Director Paul F. Mackesey as guest 
of honor. Cleveland, Ohio, spring meet- 
ing. May 1, with Mr. Macke.sey as speaker. 
W. C. Worthington planned to be with the 
new Mid-Hudson Club in Poughkeepsic 
May 15. < 



Brunonians Far and Near < < 



EDITED BY JOHN B. HARCOURT '43 



1878 

► ► George F. Weston of San Jose, 
Calif., Brown's oldest living alumnus, was 
to be a guest of honor when the newly 
formed California Theta of Phi Beta Kappa 
celebrated on April 29. The chapter is at 
San Jose State College. Sending the editor 
"greetings of good-will and affection," Mr. 
Weston recently reported that his physician 
finds him in good health. 

1882 

Class Secretary Charles S. Weaver wrote 
from Fitchville, Conn., March 22 to report 
that Dr. William H. Tolman and Rev. 
Frank Everett had promised to join him 
during the reunion season on the campus 
this year, in observance of 1882's 65th an- 
niversary. "I am hoping that Dr. Fred L. 
Gamage will be able to attend, too," he 
said. 

Mr. Weaver had also heard from Wil- 
liam B. Bogert of Keswick, Va., Rev. Ben- 
jamin L. Herr of Homer, N. Y., and George 
Huntington of Ann Arbor, Mich., who 
would not be able to make the long trips 
necessary to accept the Secretary's invita- 
tion. But the faithfulness of the eight 
members of the class in corresponding with 
each other is giving them a "reunion in 
print." 

1883 

Nathaniel Blaisdell, National Vice-Chair- 
man of the Housing and Development 
Campaign and President of the Brown 
Club of Alta California for 49 years, was 
the victim of a hit-and-run auto-driver in 
March, knocked down while he was cross- 
ing the street. But he wrote Class Secre- 
tary Manning April 24 that he was able to 
get around freely again, with the aid of a 
cane. 

1887 

As the newly appointed Secretary of the 
Class, Dr. Edmund D. Chesebro writes: 
"I shall ask our fellows to meet on the 
Middle Campus on the morning of Com- 
mencement Day, preparatory to marching 
down the Hill to the Church. We, as a 
Class, have followed that plan every year 
since graduation. I am asking all members 
of the Class to re-assemble in front of the 



Church after the Commencement exercises, 
and be my luncheon guests. If any out-of- 
town graduates find themselves unattached 
that day we extend them an invitation to 
join our luncheon party as guests of "87." 
Senator Theodore Francis Green was a 
guest at the head table of the 11th annual 
St. Patrick's banquet of the Elmwood Sons 
and Daughters of Eire, held in March at 
the Narragansett Hotel here in Providence. 
We note too the birth of Theodore Francis 
Green, 2nd, to Mr. and Mrs. Burgess 
Green of Providence. Young Theodore is 
Senator Green's grand-nephew. 

1888 

Winthrop B. Brownell of Bethesda, Md., 
who entered Brown in February to be- 
come a member of the Class of 1950, is the 
grandson of our late classmate, Winthrop 
W. Brownell. 

1890 

Dr. Harry L. Grant, indefatigable cheer- 
leader for the class, has sent his annual 
letter to the men of 1890, urging attend- 
ance at a reunion luncheon at the Univer- 
sity Club in Providence on Commencement 
Day, June 16. "The spirit of "90 continues 
to go forward with initiative, enterprise, 
and co-operation — strong on co-operation," 



the secretary reported to the members. 
" 'Ninety has many pleasant memories 
going back 57-plus years. Why not, in 
spirit at least, turn our thoughts toward 
Mother Brown on Commencement Day and 
participate in the reunions on the Hill 
where the fountain of youth is always 
bubbling?" 

1891 
A dinner at the Hope Club Saturday 
evening, June 14, will bring the class to- 
gether this year in what has become a fixed 
feast for the members. Arrangements were 
made at an April committee meeting of 
the class officers: President George J. 
Holden, Treasurer Edwin A. Barrows, and 
Secretary Frank L. Hinckley. The tradi- 
tional memorial service for '91 men will 
be held as usual at 9:00 a.m. on Cx^m- 
mencemcnt morning, June 16, with the 
class gathering at the 1891 section of the 
fence on the Front Campus. 

1892 

Belatedly we report the death of that 
distinguished Unitarian clergyman. Dr. 
Augustus P. Reccord, in Springfield, Mass. 
Oct. 4, 1946. When Brown conferred an 
honorary D.D. upon him in 1922, Presi- 
dent Faunce cited him as "minister of the 
church and civic leader, shaping and formu- 
lating public opinion in Springfield and 
Detroit, fearless expounder of democracy 
and justice, student of history and prophet 
of God's great tomorrow." 

A native of Achushnet, Mass., (born 
1870), he prepared for Brown at Fair- 
haven High; his undergraduate affiliations 
were Phi Delta Theta, Phi Beta Kappa, 
Brown Symphony Society, Debating Union, 
the tennis team, and Liber. He took his 
theological studies at Harvard (S.T.B., 
1895) and was minister of the First Uni- 
tarian Church, Chelsea; Third Congrega- 
tional Society, Cambridge; Channing 
Memorial Church, Newport; Third Congre- 
gational Society, Springfield, Mass., (for 
14 years); and First Congregational Uni- 
tarian Society and Church of Our Father, 
Detroit (for 20 years, until his retirement 
in 1939). 

Dr. Reccord was a national figure in the 
Unitarian faith, and served the denomina- 
tion as director of the American Unitarian 
Association and Unitarian Sunday School 
Society, and trustee of Meadville Theo- 
logical School. His work, "Who Are the 
Unitarians?"' was published in 1920. A 
glowing tribute was paid him in the De- 
cember issue of the Christian Unitarian 
Record. 

Dr. Reccord was married to Mae A. 
Tripp of Charleston, Vt., with whom he 
celebrated his golden wedding anniversary 



A Tested Recipe for Class Spirit 

► ► It was a rainy spring afternoon when Prof. Henry Manning '83 came 
to the editor's office to leave some of the Class records for the alumni files, and it 
was a good chance to learn how a faithful, effective class secretary had served so 
well to build a fine spirit among his classmates. 

"I've written at least once a year to every man in the class," Prof. Manning said. 
"I never asked for anything for Brown. My desire was to show a sincere interest 
in each man and his family — and it was sincere. Even when a man died, I asked 
the families to continue their correspondence and their contacts with the class. 
One man said in reply that there was no group he would rather keep in touch 
with than the men you"d lived with through the years as classmates. I urged the 
men to write each other so that they would keep in touch even if the secretary 
died. There will be letters from 1883 men to each other as long as there are two 
of us. Now we're working up our acquaintance with men in neighboring classes, 
for we have many friends adjacent to '83." 

It's been a full correspondence, and the men of "83 are good friends: Nathaniel 
Blaisdell in California, Marion Denison in Connecticut, Lucius P. Ordway in 
Minnesota, Francis Wayland Shepardson in Hamilton, and Dr. William E. Simonds 
in Ithaca. ^ 



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on Oct. 30, 1945. She and a sister, Mrs. 
Bertha Fish of Worcester, survive. A 
nephew is Albion F. Tripp, who graduated 
from Brown the year Dr. Reccord received 
his honorary degree. 

1893 

Few Brown Classes have a reunion rec- 
ord approaching that of 1893. This year 
the pattern will be familiar: a clambake at 
the Squantum Club will be on the calendar 
for Sunday, June 15, while the traditional 
breakfast at the Hope Club will be a pre- 
liminary to the Commencement procession 
on Monday. 

Edward H. Weeks, president of the Old 
Colony Co-operative Bank in Providence, 
is a member of a subcommittee on housing 
for the Chamber of Commerce there. 

Henry W. B. Arnold informs us of a new 
address. He is now living at Pemaquid, Me. 

The class expresses its sympathy to Dr. 
Alexander Meiklejohn, whose Brother, 
William Meiklejohn, died recently at the 
age of 85, at his home in Pawtucket, R. I. 

1894 

The American Cancer Society lists 
Henry D. Sharpe of Providence among its 
national officers. Mr. Sharpe is one of 
four regional directors. Mr. Sharpe, as 
president of the Puritan Life Insurance Co., 
reported that the insurance in force through 
that company reached an all time high in 
1946. He presided at the company's annual 
meeting in February. 

Tribute to the late John Hope's contribu- 
tion to improved racial relationships was 
expressed by Dr. Will W. Alexander, vice- 
president of the Julius Rosenwald Fund, 
in the current issue of Phylon, the Atlanta 
University Review of Race and Culture. 

William Douglas, who died in Chambers- 
burg, Pa., Dec. 19, 1946, "held the deep 
affection of hundreds of Mercersburg 
Alumni," said the academy's Alumni 
Quarterly in March. He had almost com- 
pleted his quarter of a century on its 
faculty, retiring because of age in 1941. 
In his 76th year, he had been a patient in 



More Than 50 Years Out 

► If you have been out of Col- 
lege for more than 50 years, you 
will be eligible for that fine, vener- 
able company of Brown's Elders and 
for their Commencement Day lunch- 
eon this year. This annual event of 
a past day will be revived in 1947 
with a special luncheon scheduled 
for noon at the University Club. 

Secretaries of the Brown Classes 
between 1879 and 1896 are co- 
operating enthusiastically in the 
project, for which the Alumni Exec- 
utive Officer has made the arrange- 
ments. 

The "Senior Seniors," as they were 
known, were a noble, mellow group 
as they met each year a decade or 
more ago. Providing a living tie 
with the older College Hill, they 
were unequalled in their devotion as 
well as their experience. Their talk 
of Brown (not exclusively in the 
past, either) was an inspiration to 
anyone privileged to be with them. 
It was a fellowship marked by youth- 
ful outlook and progressive ideas 
which could be transmitted — and 
were. 

Reservations for the 1947 lunch- 
eon of the 50-plus classes should be 
made through the Alumni OfEce. i 




HOWARD A. COFFIN 01, for- 
mer Alumni Trustee, is serving his 
first term in Congress as Repre- 
sentative from the 13th Michigan 
District. His informal news-letter 
take his friends behind the scenes. 

Chambersburg Hospital for a month be- 
fore his death. 

A native of Beatrice, Neb., he went on 
from Brown to take graduate work in Indo- 
Iranian philology and Greek at the Uni- 
versity of Chicago. He taught at University 
School, Chicago, Chicago Manual Train- 
ing School, The Asheville School, Sach's 
Collegiate Institute, and Shady Side Acad- 
emy before going to Mercersburg Academy 
in 1917. He was head of the Greek De- 
partment for many years and also taught 
in the English Department. He was secre- 
tary of the Cum Laude Society of the 
Academy and a member of the Kittochtinny 
Historical Society. 

At Brown he was a member of Delta 
Kappa Epsilon, Phi Beta Kappa, and the 
Cammarian Club. He was the third gen- 
eration of Douglases to attend Brown, 
where his grandfather, William Douglas, 
1839, had been registrar for 15 years and 
his father, William W. Douglas, 1861, for 
five immediately following. A son, Wil- 
liam S. Douglas, survives him. 

1895 

The engagement of Miss Frances Fal- 
coner Grant to Mr. Philip Sheldon Jas- 
tram, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Perkins 
Jastram of Providence has been recently 
announced. 

1896 

When he wrote in April, Jesse F. Smith, 
Alumni Recorder of Suffield Academy, was 
convalescing at home from a sifege of sci- 
atica. He had been laid up since January 
hut was on the mend. 

1897 

The fifty-year class, making its head- 
quarters on the campus (probably in Slater 
Hall) during the Commencement period, 
has two events scheduled for its big re- 
union, George Miner, class secretary re- 
ports. Vice-President Bruce M. Bigelow 
will be the guest of the class and talk in- 
formally at the Class Dinner arranged for 
the Agawam Hunt Club Saturday evening, 
June 14. Sunday evening the 50-year men 

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will be the guests of Arthur M. Allen at 
184 Upton Ave. More than 30 are ex- 
pected back. 

Travel is no obstacle. At least four of 
the '97 men will be making long journeys 
in order to arrive in Providence for the 
50th anniversary: Arthur F. Ballou will 
come from Oakland, Calif.; Charles W. 
Towne from Tucson, Ariz.; Howard H. 
Utley from Baxter Springs, Colo.; and 
William B. Peck from St. Petersburg, Fla. 

William A. Harris of Springfield, Mass., 
field sales and service representative of the 
Allpax Co., Inc., of Mamaroneck, N. Y., 
has been with the company for the past 20 
years. He has just completed his annual 
trip to the West Coast factory. He left 
home Jan. 14 by train, contacting Atlanta, 
New Orleans, Houston, El Paso, Phoenix 
and Tucson, with a side trip to Grand 
Canyon and Boulder Dam. Other stops 
were Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, 
Portland, Ore., Seattle, Chicago, Detroit, 
Buffalo, and Syracuse — about 15,000 miles 
in all. He was home April 1, when he said 
he "enjoyed the best of health the entire 
trip and had a most enjoyable time, seeing 
the wonderful scenery and sights around 
Hollywood, Frisco, Portland, and Seattle." 
"Here's to good Old Brown; see you in 
June," he added. 

Charles W. Towne and William Harris 
had a very happy reunion when the latter 
visited Tucson, Ariz. 

John D. Rockefeller, Jr., provided a neat 
solution to a strike by offering to present a 
new playing field to the strikers. The lat- 
ter were the 597 students of the high school 
in North Tarrytown, N. Y., of which Dcl- 
bert O. Fuller '20 is principal. 

1898 

Class Secretary Thomas E. Steere advises 
the class that no formal reunion is planned 
for 1947, but everyone is looking ahead 
to the 50th anniversary next year. 

Mrs. Grace C. Cary, widow of Charles 
Wilbur Cary and president of the Cary 
Teachers Agency in Hartford, writes that 
"it is always a red-letter day for me when 
the Brown Alumni Monthly arrives." 
"While I am a permanent member of the 
Brown Alumnae Association," she adds, 
"I graduated from Brown (in 1896) before 
there was a Pembroke, and I keep a loyal 
devotion to old Brown in its entirety and 
want to keep up to date on its expansion 
and development, made possible through 
the Monthly." She was a subscriber to 
the magazine long before our new circula- 
tion policy, with the result that she con- 
tinues on our roster of readers. Frank O. 
Jones '97 is manager of the Cary Agency. 

William A. Slade has changed his ad- 
dress from Arkville, Delaware County, 
N. Y., to 3425 Ordway St., NW, Wash- 
ington 16, D. C. 

The class necrology notes the following 
deaths during the year, and we regret that 
we have not been able to publish appro- 
priate biographies of these fine classmates: 

Charles Everett Bosworth at Warren, 
R. I., on Jan. 14. 1947. 

Albert Milton Dunham, former Treas- 
urer of the American Screw Company of 
Providence, at Attleboro, Mass., Oct. 19, 
1946. 

Edward Thayer at Charlton, Mass., Nov. 
19, 1946. (Your secretary has sent post- 
cards to members of the class to inform 
them of these deaths.) 

Edward S. Gushee, M.D., writes: "I 
would thank you very much if you would 
put in the Brown Alumni Monthly that 
I would like to thank the many fellows who 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 

have so kindly written me. I trust you 
can make out my left hand penmanship." 
We could, indeed. (His address: 187 North 
Main St., Wallingford, Conn.) 

Edith Thompson Warburton, wife of 
Rev. Stacy R. Warburton, died in Berke- 
ley, Cahf., March 9, 1947. A graduate of 
Pembroke Gjllege in 1898 and holder of a 
Brown A.M. as well, she married Prof. 
Warburton in 1902. They served in the 
mission field in China for a time, had 
church duties in New York and Massa- 
chusetts, and went to California in 1924 
when Prof. Warburton was appointed to 
the faculty of the Berkeley Baptist Divinity 
School. Her husband and two daughters 
survive, Miss Faith M. Warburton and 
Mrs. Florence Day. 

1899 

A dinner of the 1899 men will be held, 
as in past years, at a nearby club during 
the Commencement period. Word was to 
be sent out when the arrangements are 
complete, giving the location and timing 
(probably Saturday evening). In addition, 
of course, attendance at the big general re- 
union dinner of all classes on Sunday is 
recommended heartily. 

'Ninety-nine had one of the best dele- 
gations at the Boston Brown dinner in 
April: Nathaniel F. Bryant, Laurence H. 
Chace, Ira M. Gushing, and Charles I. 
Gates, former president of the club. 

It's Judge Stockwell now. Edward A. 
Stockwell, elected in April, now sits once 
a month as Judge of Probate for the Town 
of Smithfield, R. I. 

John D. Burchard is living in Nenana, 
Alaska, where he can be addressed at 
Box 461. 

Dudley Church, we are glad to learn, is 
recovering from a recent heart ailment, in 
Florida. 

Howard C. Barber's address is 12 West- 
minster St., but this Westminster St. is in 
Nantucket, Mass. 

Oliver C. Horsman asks for mail at 
Ringoes RED No. 1, Hunterdon County, 
N.J. 

Your secretary solicits news of class- 
mates. 

C. C. REMINGTON 

1900 

Proud of its great reunion record over 
the years, 1900 will mark the Commence- 
ment season with its customary breakfast 
at the University Club Monday morning, 
June 16, prior to the "march down the 
Hill." Clinton C. White has made the ar- 
rangements and boasts confidently of the 
number 1900 will have on hand. 

Next year will be Lawrence Painter's 
3 5th as Professor of English at Mississippi 
College for Women at Columbus, Miss. 

Rev. J. Bruce Oilman winters in Florida 
and summers at Pontoosuc Lake in the 
Berkshires but still uses 55 Cleveland Ave., 
Highland Park, N. J. as his permanent 
address. Dr. Oilman is minister emeritus 
of the First Baptist Church of New Bruns- 
wick, N. J, 

Fordyce T. Reynolds, former superin- 
tendent of schools in Gardner, Mass., is 
one of the Brown alumni resident in Had- 
ley whose biography appears in the latest 
edition of "Who's Who in Massachusetts." 
Col. G. A. Taylor '01, the retired author 
and dog breeder, is another, while Dr. 
Clarence H. Hawkes, author, poet, and 
naturalist, is the uncle of Dr. C. D. Hawkes 
"36. 

1901 

Richard LeBaron Bowen has brought out 
the second volume of his historical study 
concerning "Early Rehoboth", privately 



Cttdy, "True Scientist" 

> William H. Cady '98 for many 
years chief chemist of the U. S. Fin- 
ishing Co., holds the Olney medal 
for outstanding achievement in the 
field of textile chemistry. The 
presentation was made during the 
silver jubilee convention of the 
American Association of Textile 
Chemists and Colorists, of which he 
is a past president. 

Dr. Cady has "proved himself to 
be a scientist in the true sense of the 
word, through the preciseness and 
patience he has displayed in his re- 
search work," said the citation. i 



printed by the Rumford Press in Concord, 
N. H. Mr. Bowen has covered his mate- 
rial with meticulous scholarship and has 
utilized some newly discovered town rec- 
ords covering the earlier days of the set- 
tlement. His daughter, Peggy Munster- 
berg, carries on the family tradition of 
book-writing with a highly praised first 
novel, "The Last Leaf." 

1902 

Our first big reunion in 10 years is due 
this year, and it will be our last before we 
are old men. Since everyone seems to be 
coming, your committee seems wholly justi- 
fied in reservations for 50 at the Weeka- 
paug Inn from Friday afternoon, June 13, 
through Sunday dinner. A feature will be 
the class dinner Saturday night when Dr. 
Charles A. Kraus, emeritus professor of 
chemistry, will represent the University. 
(Dr. Paul Cross has also been invited, so 
that we expect to have with us the present 
and the emeritus chairmen of the graduate 
department of chemistry, which has 
brought Brown such fame.) 

"Pop" Munro is heading up the reunion 
committee. 

Guess this belongs in the 1902 column. 
We found it while looking for something 
else in the Alumni Monthly lor March, 
1902. "A good idea of the extent of the 
university's incidental activities in mid- 
winter may be gathered from the daily 
papers of Feb. 26, which reported the sev- 
eral competitions of the evening before in 
which Brown men figured. At New York 
the university hockey team won from Co- 
lumbia, at Cambridge the basketball team 
lost to Harvard, at Edgewood the bowling 
team won from Edgewood, and at Provi- 
dence the checker team won from the City 
Club. All these events occured simul- 
taneously, and Brown achieved three vic- 
tories out of a possible four." 

S. Foster Hunt was re-elected president 
of the Providence Community Fund at an 
organizational meeting held this February. 

Rev. Edward L. Bayliss sends a perma- 
nent address at 140 Dwight St., Kewanee, 
111. 

1903 

Two class functions are on the docket for 
the Commencement period. Secretary Fred 
A. Otis informs us. "I am pleased to re- 
port that the present plans for the reunion 
of the Class of 1903 provide for a dinner 
at the Agawam Hunt Saturday evening, 
June 14, and the usual luncheon at the Uni- 
versity Club after the Commencement pro- 
cession back to the campus on Monday." 

Rev. William M. MacNair, retired pastor 
of the Prospect Congregational Church in 
Cambridge, Mass., has been invited to be- 
come interim pastor of the Dane Street 
Congregational Church in Beverly, Mass. 

Rev. Isaac Fleming, retired from the 

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ministry, is living in Los Angeles at 
117071/2 Kiowa Ave. 

Some new addresses: John L. Pottorf, 
202 Harmon St., North Canton, Ohio- 
Edward N. White, R.F.D. No. 1, Fal- 
mouth, Mass. 

1904 

Edmund K. Arnold of 35 Lenox Ave., 
Providence, is the new Secretary of the 
Class, succeeding the late Dr. Bertram H. 
Buxton. Mr, Arnold is manager of the 
What Cheer Garage in Providence. 

Herbert A. Freeman is living at 242 
Thames St., Groton, Conn. 

Rev. Roye N. Jessup writes that he is a 
clergyman of the Baptist Church at Hague, 
N. Y. 

J. V. Anthony sends a new address at 
1 North Church St., Schenectady, N. Y. 

1905 

Theodore W. Gordon, a design engi- 
neer for many years in General Elcctric's 
motor and generator engineering division 
at Schenectady, was announced in March. 
He had been a specialist for more than 
3 5 years in bearings for huge vertical and 
horizontal water-wheel generators, an im- 
portant assignment inasmuch as G.E. has 
supplied the major private and public 
power projects. After five years with a 
Massachusetts ceramics concern, Mr. Gor- 
don joined G.E. in 1911 as a student en- 
gineer on the test course in Lynn. Transfer 
to Schenectady and his specialty followed 
a year later. He and Mrs. Gordon live at 
1146 Waverly Place. At a dinner in his 
honor, just before his. retirement, he re- 
ceived a wrist watch from his associates. 
F. H. Smith of Woodstown was one of 
our informants. 

Ralph G. Johnson of Chicago, in Hono- 
lulu in March for a holiday, attended some 
of the function in celebration of the 40th 
anniversary of the University of Hawaii 
and was good enough to send President 
Wriston details. 

DeWitt Carl Eggleston has reorganized 
and rewritten his well-known textbook. 




A TRADITION at Mercersburg 
Academy: William Douglas '94, 
who died Dec. 19. (Photo courtesy 
Mercersburg Alumni Quarterly.) 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



35 YEARS AGO, the 
strong Class of 1907 
had its reunion habit 
already well estab- 
lished. This year's 
gathering will be 
without benefit of 
the anrient world. 




Harry E. Pattee and Wright D. Hey- 
don have announced the establishment of 
their general insurance office in Provi- 
dence. 

1907 

The reunion at Narragansett is definitely 
set for the Dunes-Carlton Hotel (the 
former Carlton), and all are looking for- 
ward to a Big Fortieth. It will start Friday 
afternoon, June 13, and adjourn Sunday in 
time for the men to return to Providence 
for the All-Alumni Dinner that evening. 
Final plans were to be completed at a May 2 
meeting of the reunion committee, of which 
Shan Clark is chairman. The rest of the 
line-up is: Vice-chairman and secretary, 
Claude Branch; vice-chairman and treas- 
urer. Bill Burnham; and Affleck, Briggs, 
Bright, Brooks, Duane Bruce, Cummings, 
Curtis, Gurney, Harris, Hurley, Jones, Lit- 
tle, McCann, McEvoy, Payne, and Sweet. 

Harold Miller's death occurred April 24 
while this issue was going to press. He had 
been active in reunion plans and was as- 
sistant treasurer of the committee. 

Professor and Mrs. Zechariah Chafee 
Jr., of Cambridge, Mass., have a grand- 
daughter, Anne Dexter Chafee, who was 
born in Baltimore on December 30th to 
Mr. and Mrs. Zechariah Chafee 3rd of 
Havertown, Pa. 

Francis M. Anderson, briefly in Provi- 
dence in April following the death of his 
wife on March 29, left for the West Coast 
shortly afterward but plans to be back for 
the 40th reunion. As a Naval officer dur- 
ing the war, he was in charge of the Near 
Eastern section of Naval Intelligence. His 
service in the State Department has made 
him an authority on Jugoslovia, Albania, 
Greece, Egypt, and Turkey. He was on 
leave during the war from the Georgetown 
University faculty, where he has taught 
for 20 years. He retired from the Navy 
in January. 



One hump or Tico? 

> It was the men's day at the Pub- 
lic Library in Barrington, R. I., and 
they gave it the works. You see, 
they were very proud of a hobby 
show which they had arranged, 
their own hobbies on view. At the 
opening of the exhibit March 22 
Ernest I. Kilcup '12 was host at a 
tea. He had five other men assisting 
him. They did the pouring. i 



Wells is also president of the Kingston 
Village Improvement Association. 

Senator Fred C. Broomhead of Barring- 
ton, R. I., was a member of the general 
arrangements committee for a testimonial 
held recently in Providence in honor of 
the 75th birthday of Miss Alice Winsor 
Hunt. 

Arthur C. Maxfield writes he is vice- 
president and general manager of the Har- 
ris Textile Machinery Co , Inc., in Provi- 
dence. He is living at 76 River Farm Rd., 
Cranston, R. I. 

Henry A. Gardner has moved to 27 W. 
Kirk St., Chevy Chase, Md. 

The death of Newton P. Hutchison was 
noted with sadness as we were going to 
press. 

1906 

Benjamin F. Lindemuth, of Henshaw, 
Lindemuth 6? Siegl, Counsellors at Law, 
has been re-elected for the fourth consecu- 
tive time Judge of the Probate Court of 
Bristol, R. I. This time Judge Lindemuth 
received the nomination of both parties. 

Percy Shires, recently moved to 11 
Thurston St., Providence, was confined to 
his home for some 12 weeks with illness. 
The class extends its sintere wishes for a 
speedy recovery. 

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"Auditing Procedure," the third edition 
of which will be ready in July, according 
to his publishers, John Wiley y Sons, Inc., 
of New York. The author is a member of 
the firm of Wilfred Wyler and Co., New 
York CPAs; formerly lecturer on account- 
incy subjects at C.C.N.Y. In its earlier 
editions the text had wide use in repre- 
sentative universities. 

Charles Robinson quotes from an in- 
teresting letter he received in Florida from 
Basil B. Wood, librarian of the Goodell 
Library, Massachusetts State College in 
Amherst. (Wood had attended the recent 
Brown Club meeting in Springfield.): 
"The present growth of the College at 
Brown seems almost miraculous, and Presi- 
dent Wriston's explanation of it all was 
very heartening. I do not think he is 
working for outward and showy gains, 
but for true advance — even in this age of 
materialism and sham. I liked him very 
much, as I had what I had heard of him 
before." Wood was expressing apprecia- 
tion of the Class' efforts to get him back 
for reunion a year ago. But, he explained: 
"I'm not fond of reunions, and social cele- 
brations (and like Prince '04, on our 
faculty here) prefer to see the college run- 
ning normally, and not buried under guests 
as at Class Day and Commencement. Is 
that too sinful in us? It may be that being 
in academic uniform all the time affects 
our tastes. We are both loyal to Brown, 
however." Wood is secretary of the Am- 
herst Brown Club. 

Congratulations of the class go out to 
Mr. and Mrs. John McGough who recently 
observed their 20th wedding anniversary 
at the Providence home. 

Herbert C. Wells was chosen chairman 
of a group of Kingston, R. I., citizens or- 
ganized to oppose the sale of the Kingston 
Fair Grounds for use as a race track. Mr. 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Brown Alumni Monthly 

Puhlished by Brown University for its Alumni 

MEMBER, AMERICAN ALUMNI COUNCIL 

Board of Editors 

CARLETON D. MORSE '13 

Chairman 
PROF. I. J. KAPSTEIN '26 
Vicc'Chairman 
DR. MOSES L. CROSSLEY '09 
C. ARTHUR BRAITSCH '23 
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CHESLEY WORTHINGTON '23 
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Vol. XLVII 



MAY-JUNE 1947 



No. 7 



Arthur G. Bruce is Division Engineer, 
U.S. Public Roads Administration, with his 
ofEce and mail address at 112 State St., 
Albany 7, N. Y. 

Homer M. Clark came back to Provi- 
dence in the spring after spending a large 
part of the winter in the Virgin Islands. 
Now retired, he looks forward to enjoying 
his leisure in sailing, writing, music — 
hobbies he has nourished through the years. 
During the summer he will be at Land's 
End, Rockport, Mass. Homer is an added 
starter in the 40th Reunion Committee, 
and has been of able aid in outlining and 
carrying through many details. He was 
chairman in May of Brown Night at the 
Boston Pops. 

Dr. Herbert E. Harris and Mrs. Harris 
have a new grandson, Stephen Alan, born 
March 14, 1947, to Mr. and Mrs. Herbert 
E. Harris, Jr., of Philadelphia. 

W. W. Reynolds' first granddaughter is 
Miss Nancy Reynolds, born April 5, 1947, 
to Charles A. Reynolds '39 and Mrs. 
Reynolds. Bill spent the month of Febru- 
ary in Florida, largely at Fort Myers, and 
was still thawing out when we talked with 
him one evening in April. 

Henry G. Clark has been re-elected as 
President of Roger Williams General Hos- 
pital, Providence. The hospital was for- 
merly the Homeopathic. Shan told of the 
change of name at the 1947 annual meet- 
ing of the hospital corporation, saying that 
such change had been considered for sev- 
eral years. 

We are still on the trail of definite in- 
formation about Archie Brown, and we 
hope that every classmate who reads this 
paragraph will set down what he may 
know of Archie and bring it with him to 
reunion. Or mail it to A. H. Gurney, 14 
Young Orchard Avenue, Providence 6, 
R. I. 

"Glad to get the news about the various 
ones in the class," said Charles R. Stark, 
Jr., in a spring letter from Spokane, Wash. 
"Tell Pat Brooks I'll run a race with him 
for the title of 'youngest looking' any time 
he wants to run it." Charlie says that he 
feels old — only when he has his five grand- 
children in tow, the oldest 13. "I haven't 
a gray hair in my head, yet," Charhe 
ended. And Pat, and Prep Brown, and our 
other "young men of distinction" (if that 
is the phrase) may raise collective eyebrows 
at that statement. 

1908 

Original plans to hold a reunion Sunday, 
June 1?, had not been confirmed as we 



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went to press. The idea had been to meet 
again at the Stone Inn, Tiverton, where the 
class held its 1946 reunion. 

Edward L. Leahy has been re-elected 
president of the Rhode Island Child Serv- 
ice, it was announced at an annual meeting 
of the organization held recently in Provi- 
dence. 

A. J. "Bob" Olsen writes to tell us that 
he has purchased a home in Lawndale, 
California, where he is now living with 
his wife, Thula, his daughters, Zora (23 
years old), and Joyzelle (17) and son Ken- 
neth (9). Bob's first-born son. Captain 
Bob G. Olsen, who formerly commanded 
a company of army engineers at Fort 
Lewis, Washington, has been transferred 
to the Anti-Aircraft service at the Ha- 
waiian Islands. Bob has one grandchild, 
Ellen Marie Olsen, six months old, whose 
mother, formerly Mary Hale, hails from 
the southern part of North Carolina — - 
which is in the South, suh! His address is 
given as 4300 West 170th St., Lawndale, 
Calif. 

Walter Gager is living in Niagara Falls, 
N. Y., at 1318 Lafayette Ave. He is work- 
ing with the DuPont Co. there as metallur- 
gist. 

Willis M. Rose, who has retired, is living 
at Bay Head, N. J. 

Norman S. Case is a grandfather. Mr. 
and Mrs. Norman Stanley Case, Jr., of 
Bethel, Vt., announced the birth of a son, 
John Warren Case, on Feb. 18. The baby 
is named for his father's brother, Lt. John 
Warren Case '42, killed in action in France 
in 1944. 

1909 

The 1909 Off-year Reunion is scheduled 
for Golf and Dinner at the Rhode Island 
Country Club Sunday afternoon, June 15. 

Joe Price continues his active work as 
chief engineer of the Griscom Russell Co. 
in New York City. His home is on Staten 
Island. 

Rev. Warren Goodwin has many duties 
and responsibilities as pastor of the Bap- 



tist Church at Acworth, N. H. He holds 
services in the Baptist Churches in Ac- 
worth and South Acworth and also serves 
as pastor of the Congregational Church at 
Acworth Center. He is living at the Con- 
gregational parsonage. 

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes, 
Jr., of Riverdale on Hudson recently pre- 
sented their daughter. Miss Helen Hughes, 
at a small tea dance at the Cosmopolitan 
Club in New York. 

John H. Wells, vice-president of the 
Hospital Trust Company in Providence, 
has been named chairman of the housing 
committee of the local Chamber of Com- 
merce. 

The sympathy of the class is extended 
to Ernest Hager, whose mother died re- 
cently in her 89th year. 

Current address for Marion E. Mitchell 
is 274 Lake View Ave., Ridgewood, N. J. 

Mr. and Mrs. Henry S. Chafee are the 
grandparents of a son, Arthur Chafee Lee, 
born Dec. 8 to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur V. 
Lee, 3rd. 

Johnny Mayhew's son '43, a former 
Navy fighter pilot with 1200 hours of com- 
bat flying, is a Senior at Brown. With three 
partners, he has leased the four-square- 
mile Tisbury Great Pond on the Vineyard 
for oyster raising. After graduation young 
John intends to devote himself to the oy- 
ster business. 

1910 

The Class of 1910 experimented last 
year with a campus-based reunion, and the 
members were enthusiastic to the point 
that the program for 1947 will follow 
similar lines. What the men liked particu- 
larly was that this type of reunion really 
brought them back to the campus; they 
felt that they had as good a time or better 
than they have had when they had gone 
to some distant hotel for our reunion. 

A year ago we had rooms in Hope Col- 
lege for out-of-town men and planned a 
very active schedule of events for Friday, 
Saturday, and Sunday. While plans are 
not complete for this June, the outline will 
be similar to that of 1946 when we at- 
tended the big Alumni Dinner as a class, 
had a morning of golf and lunch at a 
country club, a clam-bake, class meeting, 
and lunch in a private home. Exact details 
will be sent the class in good season, per- 
haps before this appears in print. 

E. S. H. 

Rev. Stephen D. Pyle has headed west 
again. Shortly after we saw him at the 
New York Brown dinner in March, he 
sent us a change of address to 2727 31st 
Ave. South, Seattle 44, Wash. He does 
not, however, plan to return to the Chinese 
Church in Seattle. Steve has recovered his 
full vigor again after a restful stay at the 



The Giants Bought His Millers 

> ► Michael Joseph Kelley must feel lost without a baseball team, as the 
season gets underway. He sold the Minneapolis Millers, of which he had been 
president, last winter to the New York Giants. "One of the most colorful figures 
in the American Association and undoubtedly has done more to build that organi- 
zation to its present eminence than any other man connected with the game," said 
one newspaper writer. 

Kelley came to Brown at the urging of his father, James B. Kelley, but baseball 
was too tempting. He left after 36 hours as an undergraduate. His first post in 
organized baseball was with Augusta in the old New England League in 1895, at 
$75 a month. In baseball ever since as player, manager, coach, and owner, he 
bought the Millers in 1923. This spring he had no plans beyond continuing a 
Florida holiday, but we're sure he looked in on a few training camps. ^ 



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Half of His Winnings 

¥ Winner OF $1000 in a radio con- 
test, Charles F. Wochomurka of 
West Willington, Conn., a State 
Representative, gave half of the sum 
to the Brown Housing and Develop- 
ment Campaign this spring as a 
memorial to his son, Lt. Adolph C. 
Wochomurka. The latter, a mem- 
ber of the Brown Class of 1942, was 
shot down over Luzon in 1915 while 
on a mission from an aircraft car- 
rier. A similar gift to the Shriners" 
Hospital for Crippled Children was 
designated as another memorial to 
the naval flier. 

A second son, Charles F. Wocho- 
murka, Jr., is a Senior at Brown. ^ 



Ventnor House of Fellowship in New Jer- 
sey. 

George E. Caswell sends us a card stat- 
ing that he is building superintendent at 
180 Commonwealth Ave., Boston. He 
gives his home address as Attleboro Falls. 

Mr. and Mrs. J. Richmond Fales have 
a new grandson, born March 27 to Mr. and 
Mrs. John Richmond Fales of Providence. 

1911 

The Class of 1911 will hold its 36th 
(off-year) Reunion on Sunday, June 15, at 
the Cold Spring House, Wickford. Din- 
ner will be served at 1 : 30 P. M. on Sunday. 
Come early in the morning to see your 
friends and for fishing, golf, tennis or swim- 
ming. Golf will be at Goddard Park for 
a small additional fee. The charge^ will 
be $4.00 without "spirituous liquors". 

Communicate directly with the Alumni 
Office if you wish accommodations in the 
dormitories for Saturday or Sunday night. 

Send Sunday dinner reservations at once 

to Brenton G. Smith, 111 Westminster St., 

Providence, R. I. 

B. G. S. 

Wright D. Heydon has announced his 
association with Harry E. Pattee '06 in a 
general insurance and bonding service in 
Providence. 

John Ervin has a new address at P. O. 
Box 582, Madison, Conn. 

Harold Worthington is purchasing agent 
and director of the Agawam Woolen Co., 
Inc. He is living at 70 Elm St., Agawam, 
Mass. 

1912 

Thirty-five years out, the Class of 1912 
is headed for Norwich Inn at Norwich, 
Conn., for its big reunion Friday, June 13 
through Sunday the 15th. And the word 
is that "everybody's coming back." 

Reunion Chairman Kip I. Chace says 
the men have kidded him for sending out 
such a simple, conservative announcement 
for its first mailing piece. But it gave the 
skeleton outline for a fine weekend. Golfing 
warmups are scheduled for Friday, with 
the class tournament on Saturday. Bridge, 
Softball, and other sports are on the docket, 
too. The Class Dinner will be held Satur- 
day evening at 7, with all hands taking part. 

A preliminary reunion was arranged for 
the New York area in April, with Co-chair- 
man Gerald Donovan and his aide, Wil- 
liam E. Sprackling, as hosts. A lot of in- 
terest in Norwich was generated at that 
party, we feel sure. 

Other members of the reunion committee 
are: Earl P. Perkins, Walter Allen, J. 
Guillemette, Ernest I. Kilcup, W. Randolph 
Burgess, Max Grant, Hermon Carey Bum- 
pus, Jr., Roy W. Leith, Carleton H. 
Parker and Class President Kenneth Nash, 



ex-officio. In addition, Henry Marsh 
solicits $5.00 for class dues, payable either 
now or at the reunion. 

Early responses indicated that the fol- 
lowing will be with us at Norwich: Walter 
Allen. Edgar P. Bangert, E. Payson Blanch- 
ard. Kip I. Chace, Sheldon C. Collins, Dr. 
Ernest M. Daland, T. B. Farnsworth, J. 
Guillemette, Ralph Hurlin, Roy Leith, Ken 
Nash, Wyman Pendleton, W. E. Sprack- 
ling, K. J. Tanner, Howard C. White. 
Ernest Kilcup, and Earl Perkins. That was 
considered a good showing for March 31, 
with six or seven weeks to go. 

A portrait of Dean George Hodges. 
Dean of the Episcopal Theological School 
in Cambridge, Mass., up to the time of 
his death in 1919, is being displayed in a 
Gallery of Prominent Citizens exhibit at 
the Jervis Library in Rome, N. Y. Dean 
Hodges was a recipient of an honorary de- 
gree from Brown in 1912. 

John T. Winterich will bring out a col- 
lected volume of his T^ew Tor\er and other 
sketches of his boyhood jobs in Providence 
sometime this summer. 

Dr. William L. Stidger of the Boston 
University School of Theology was a Len- 
ten speaker in the First Methodist Church 
in Schenectady, N. Y. 

Edward L. Hill, who has retired from his 
position as superintendent of schools, is 
now living at 1 South Water St., Assonet, 
Mass. 

Ferdinand Votta, highway engineer for 
the City of Providence, is living at 105 
Sunset Ave. 

1913 

With the major 35th reunion coming up 
in 1948, this will be somewhat of an off- 
year for 1913, Secretary Bohl tells us. The 
principal Commencement activity for the 
class will therefore be a big turnout at the 
Alumni Dinner for all Brown men on 
Sunday night, June 15. 

Ned Field starred in a recent production 
of "The Late George Apley", put on by 
"The Players" in Providence. 

Ernest Balmforth informs us that he is 
in business for himself as a watch repairer 
in Providence. 

Harry W. Ransbottom writes that he is 
an electrical asesmbler and wireman for the 
Submarine Signal Co. in Boston. He is 
living over in Cambridge, Mass., at 8 Lan- 
caster St. 

Leon Carr sends a changed address: 
1513 Washington St., Boston, Mass. 

The engagement of Miss Ruth Ellen 
Goodman to Mr. F. Perry Davis, Jr., son of 
F. Perry Davis '13, has been announced. 

1914 

Dr. George E. Ronne brings us up to 
date with his address at 49 Fountain St., 
Pawtucket, R. I. 



Another Nine for Durgin? 

► It looks as though Arthur D. 
Durgin '14 would be back in base- 
ball. When the University Club 
in Boston talked in April of forming 
either a Softball league or develop- 
ing a team to represent the club, 
"Doc" was the logical choice as 
coach. 

The University Club 'Hews re 
corded the fact that Durgin "is an 
outstanding authority on baseball, 
having been a real star during his 
college days at Brown, following 
which he played professional ball; 
his interest in the national pastime 
has never slackened." i 




LOS ANGELES GAVE Lawrence 
L. Larrabee '09 an overwhelming 
victory in returning him to the 
Board of Education. He ran bel- 
ter than 4 to 1 against a left-wing 
opponent in the April election. 

Murray L. Jones is vice-president and 
manager of the national title department of 
Kansas City Title Insurance Co. He is 
living temporarily at the Newbern Hotel in 
Kansas City. 

1915 

Wallace L. Gallup, who is the regional 
director of the American Brotherhood of 
the National Conference of Christians arid 
Jews, spoke recently before the Montclair, 
N. J., Kiwanis Club. Dr. Gallup's topic 
was "Teamwork for 1947." 

Judge Robert E. Quinn of the Provi- 
dence Domestic Relations Court has ex- 
pressed his spirited opposition to a "Tommy 
Manville divorce mill" in Rhode Island. 

We hear that Edward W. Hill is now 
with the Corporation De Fomento de la 
Produccion at 120 Broadway, New York 
City. His home address we have as at 55 
E. 86th St., New York. 

Raymond Crum is doing production con- 
trol work with the International Business 
Machine Corporation in Poughkeepsie, 
N. Y. He is living in Pougkeepsie at 47 
Carroll St. 

Dr. Ralph L. Blanchard of the Brown 
English Department has been promoted to 
an associate professorship. Professor 
Blanchard, who was a Lt. Col. in the Army, 
served overseas in Civil Affairs and Mili- 
tary Government. He was attached to the 
101st Airborne Division at the invasion of 
Holland and later had control of the prop- 
erty of a German publisher. The Brown 
Library is richer by some 100 volumes of 
German propaganda Col. Blanchard ac- 
quired during his military duties in 
Germany. 

1916 
Col. Guy W. Wells, M.D., has been 
elected president of the Rhode Island So- 
city, Sons of the American Revolution. 

Dr. Wilbour E. Saunders, headmaster 
of the Peddie School, was the guest speaker 
at a youth rally held in February by the 
Ehzabeth, N. J. Council of Churches. Later 
in the month Dr. Saunders addressed a 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



P.T.A. group in New Brunswick, N. J., on 
the topic "What We Want Education to 
Give Our Children". He made his annual 
appearance at a Brown chapel in April and 
held a reunion with Peddie students now 
at Brown. He's always a popular visitor. 

Maj. Gen. William C. Chase, paying us 
a much-appreciated compliment on the 
magazine, asks us to send it to him at Camp 
Drake, Tokyo. 

1917 

If any class rates a good reunion, it's 
1917. One war spoiled its graduation, an- 
other knocked out the 25th reunion. But 
the latter postponement is one of the rea- 
sons why the class expects to have its big- 
gest and best reunion June 13, 14, and 15 
at Popponesset Beach Club, North Fal- 
mouth, Mass., with a Commencement Day 
climax on College Hill the 16th. Another 
guarantee lies in the week-end accommo- 
dations on Cape Cod, for the class will 
have the club to itself. 

The reunion committee is headed by 
Raymond E. Jordan, 1003 Turks Head 
Building, Providence, Earl M. Pearce, 410 
Turks Head, is secretary, and William B. 
Farnsworth, P. O. Box HOT, Providence, 
is treasurer. Other members cover the 
country: Massachusetts — Ralph A. Arm- 
strong, Bernard D. Feinberg, J, Otis Fuller, 
and John C. Storer; New York — Thomas B, 
Appleget, Rowland R. Hughes, Arthur B. 
Homer, Hugh W. MacNair, and Arthur 
H. Wilkinson; West — Bruce M. Jef?ris, 
Paul H. Keough, John G, Peterson, and 
Dale Wylie; South— W. Wallace Wade; 
Rhode Island — John Francis Brown, Frank 
C. Cambio, Ralph DiLeone, Robert N. 
Foote, Maurice W, Holton, Harry A, 
Hughes, Edwin M, Knights, James W, 
Leighton, Joseph E, Maguire, Howard H, 
Quinham, Russell L, Tomlinson, Raymond 
G. Walsh, Frank V. Willard, and Roger 
Williams, 

Col. Ralph A. Armstrong seemed due 
for another term on the police commission 
of Springfield, Mass., when Mayor Brun- 
ton said in March he planned to reappoint 
the official of the Massachusetts Mutual 
Life Insurance Co. "Mr. Armstrong has 
done excellent work as a commissioner," 
said the mayor. The veteran of two World 
Wars is a Republican, and the commission 
must be bi-partisan. 

James S. Powers spoke recently in Wel- 
lesley and Pittsfield, Mass. Mr, Powers, 
who is public relations director for the 
Yankee Network, stressed future possibili- 
ties in the radio field. 

Walter J, Stein writes that he is pro- 
prietor of an exporting concern in New 
York and is living at Stuyvesant Ave., 
Milton Pt., Rye, N. Y. 

Anthony Caputi is sales engineer for 
the Dubois- Webb Co, in Detroit. His home 
address is 900 Whitmore Rd., Detroit, 
Mich. 

Col. Elmer E. Barnes is now at the 
E.O.R.P., Fort Belvoir, 'Va. 

Announcement has been made of the en- 
gagement of Miss Elinor Brisbane of New 
York to Solon C. Kelley, 3rd, former fighter 
pilot in China, Burma, India and Europe 
and son of Solon C. Kelley, Jr. '17, of 
Darien, Conn. 

1918 

In view of the changed date for the 
Alumni Dinner to Sunday, June 15, the 
Class of 1918 proposes to have a get- 
together earlier that evening at the Uni- 
versity Club at 5 p, m. This before-dinner 
meeting will be an important one, because 
we must set up our committees for the 30th 
reunion next year. We have a permanent 



reunion committee composed of the fol- 
lowing: M. Joseph Cummings, J. Harold 
Wilhams, Dwight T, CoUey, Gordon L. 
Parker, John S, Chafee, Clifton I. Munroe, 
Walter Adier, secretary, and Harold F. 
C, Wilcox, chairman. 

W, A 

The father of "Buz" Wilcox died March 
1 in Tiverton, The T^ewport County Sen- 
tinel said, "Former State Senator Henry 
C, Wilcox will be missed in our town." 

William A. Maguire has been appointed 
New England Sales Manager of the United 
Carbon Co., Inc., the largest carbon hlack 
manufacturers in the world. His office is 
located at 302-303 United Building, 43 
Leon St., Boston, Mass. He is now living 
in Suite 2, 3 5 Hammond Pond Parkway, 
Chestnut Hill 67, Boston, Mass, Bill, for- 
mer captain of the 1918 baseball team, had 
lived in Akron, Ohio since 1924, where he 
represented the United Carbon Co, Before 



that, he was Western Sales Manager of the 
Manville-Jenckes Company of Pawtucket, 
R, I. 

Gurney Edwards is one of the co-chair- 
men of the R, I, committee on Greek War 
Relief. 

Cyrus G. Flanders, Manager of the Con- 
necticut State Employment Service, re- 
cently made the news in his observations on 
the return of housewives to the factories 
in view of the rising costs of living. 

William Horan Higgins died in 
Providence April 12 at his home. 
Waterman St., survived by a sister, 
Joan Higgins, also of East Providence. A 
cadet at the U. S. Coast Guard Academy 
in the first World War, he was graduated 
from Brown in 1919, as of 1918. He spent 
six years in the sugar business, three of 
them as assistant to the general manager of 
the Sula Sugar Co. in Honduras, then re- 
turned for graduate study at Harvard Busi- 



East 

218 

Miss 




"He must have been on Brown Street between classes." 

— A typical topical cartoon from Brunonia 



One Year of "Brunonia" 

> ► This June Brown University's lit- 
erary magazine, Brunonia. will celebrate its 
first anniversary. The students who formed 
the nucleus of its staff in the first hectic 
days of its publication can look back with 
a happy feeling of relief to the time when 
Brunonia was known as "the magazine", 
and nobody could prophesy when it would 
appear on the stands, if at all. Since then 
Brmionia has suffered the usual growing 
pains attendant on the first year of a new 
magazine. There have been changes in 
cover design, format, staff; indeed in almost 
everything but the title. It seems, how- 
ever, that now Brunonia has jelled, so to 
speak, and can look forward to its next year 
of publication with some confidence that 
Volume III, Number 5 will be reasonably 
like Volume III, Number 1. 

One aspect of our magazine has not 
changed. That is its policy, which the 
editors think is somewhat different from 
the policies of any of its predecessors. This 
policy is simple. It is merely to print, with- 
out bias or "crusading," the best that is 
being written by undergraduates at Brown. 
The only standard for acceptance is literary 
excellence. In other words, we do not care 
what is said, so long as it is well said and 
worth saying. The thought of the present 
undergraduate body is vitally connected 
with the problems of today. Colleges are no 

30 



longer "country clubs" or "ivory towers." 
They are schools whose students keenly ap- 
preciate their position as future citizens of 
the world, and are taking their responsibili- 
ties seriously. That is why Brunonia can 
now print the writings of undergraduates 
with perfect confidence that the result will 
not be trivial or divorced from reality, "Joe 
College" has gone, along with his decorated 
antique Ford and coonskin coat. His suc- 
cessor is producing literary work of sur- 
prising maturity and seriousness — surpris- 
ing, at least, to those who think of college 
students only in terms of cheering sections 
and "snap courses." 

To commemorate the successful close of 
its first year of publication, Brunonia plans 
to issue a limited number of bound copies 
of Volume II, which should be of interest 
to alumni and friends of the university, as 
well as to those who participated in the 
production of the magazine. These vol- 
umes will be distributed in June, shortly 
after the appearance of the June issue. 
They may be obtained by sending one dol- 
lar, in check or money order form to: 

Mr. William F. McCormick, Jr., '49 

Circulation Manager, Brunonia, 

Room J, Faunce House, 

Brown University, 

Providence 12, R. 1. i 

W. F. M. 



ness School. He was an auditor on the 
foreign travchng staff of Electric Bond d 
Share Co., with headquarters in Rio de 
Janeiro, and with International General 
Electric in Cuba for many years, later in 
Federal service in Washington. During 
World War II he was a Lt. Comdr. in 
Naval Intelhgence, returning to civilian 
life in March, 1946. He was a member of 
the Brown Club of New York and the 
American Legion. His brother was the 
late Dr. Francis ]. Higgins '19. 

1919 

The Class of 1919, Secretary Fred 
Perkins tells us, is planning a shore din- 
ner at the Squantum Club for the evening 
of Saturday, June 14. The members will 
have details in good season and should 
need little urging, with the renown of the 
Club so firmly founded as a clam bakery. 

The Beard Memorial Altar is a handsome 
feature of the new chapel at St. Andrew's 
School, Barrington, R. I., of which W. 
Chester Beard is trustee and assistant 
secretary. 

"Chops and Tomata Sauce" is the title 
of a sprightly paper which William H. 
Edwards has given this spring before the 
Providence Art Club and the Review Club. 
It affords some legal footnotes on Charles 
Dickens. 

John W. Haley, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. 
John W. Haley, a student in the Veterans' 
College at Brown last term, has married 
Miss Jean Young, also of Providence. 

Paul S. Crandall, a Captain in the U. S. 
Army, is now living at 44 Star Route No. 1, 
Bremerton, Washington. 

Edward B. Ryder, Jr., has been ap- 
pointed poUce commissioner for Warwick, 
R. I. Mr. Ryder is now plant engineer 
with the Apponaug Co. of Apponaug, R. I. 

Dr. Francis L. Simmons recently gave a 
talk on Chemistry as applied to the art of 
forgery at a meeting of the Science Club 
at Wheaton College. Dr. Simmons is 
a specialist in the manufacture of anti- 
counterfeit papers and is now doing special 
research work for Crane 6? Co., Dalton, 
Mass., who are manufacturers of the base 
stock used for the currency of the United 
States as well as of the paper for money of 
48 other countries. 

Dr. Sidney A. Fox is a New York 
ophthalmologist and is living at 138 E. 
36th St. in New York City. 

Frederick Kroener is an engineer for the 
Travelers Fire Insurance Co. in Hartford. 
His home is in West Hartford at 60 Green- 
hurst Rd. 

W. H. Sheldon, Jr., sends a change of 
address to 8-510, The Presbyterian Hos- 
pital, 622 W. 168th St., New York, N. Y. 



From Faculty Pens 

► Faculty authors were featured 
in a March ad of the Brown Uni- 
versity Store which announced the 
arrival of two new books: Ben W. 
Brown's "Upstage-Downstage" and 
Alexander Dorner's "The Way Be- 
yond Art." Also in stock were: 
"Beauty and Parting" by Herbert N. 
Couch; "Building the Canadian 
West" by James B. Hedges; "Paint- 
ing Scenery" by Leslie A. Jones; 
"Short Stories" edited by William 
T. Hastings and Benjamin _ C. 
Clough; "Something of a Hero" by 
I. J. Kapstein; "Strategy of Peace" 
by Henry M. Wriston; "Town Meet- 
ing Country" by Clarence M. 
Webster. < 



High Honor to Ben Brotcn 

► Prof. Ben Brown, Director of 
Dramatics at Brown University, has 
been elected a corporate member of 
the American National Theatre and 
Academy, it was announced in April 
by Vinton Fredley, president of the 
organization. The election of Pro- 
fessor Brown, who has been asso- 
ciated with University dramatics for 
the past 25 years was unanimously 
endorsed by the directors. Promi- 
nent members of the Academy are 
Robert Sherwood, author; Rosa- 
mond Gilder, editor of Theatre Arts; 
Gilbert Miller, producer; Walter 
Prichard Eaton, author and critic; 
Brooks Atkinson, 'N.ew Yor\ Times 
dramatic critic; and Margaret Web- 
ster, producer. 

At a meeting of the New England 
Speech Association, Professor Brown 
was also elected a member of the 
executive committee of that organ- 
ization. ^ 



1920 

Ernest T. Clough has been serving this 
winter as president of the Foreign Policy 
Association in Milwaukee, with a very 
successful program now complete. 

Albert E. Lownes, lecturer in the History 
of Sceince in the Brown Biology Depart- 
ment, was in the news recently when The 
Providence Sunday Journal recently car- 
ried a feature story on his distinguished 
collection of rare books on gardening. 

Dr. Stanley G. Warner continues on the 
staff of the Roswell Park Memorial Institute 
for Cancer Research of Buffalo and is in 
charge of its research laboratory located in 
Springfield, N, Y. The letterhead of New 
York's State Institute for the Study of 
Malignant Diseases lists him as associate 
cancer biologist at the Springvale Biologi- 
cal Station. 

John A. McGhee is vice-president of 
the Marathon Company in Attleboro, Mass. 

George Rhodes sends a new address at 
1748 Beacon St., Brookline, Mass. 

Richmond L. Watson is working with 
the Navy Department in the Bureau of 
Ordnance in Washington, D. C. 

Also in Washington is Walter R. Gard- 
ner, who describes himself as Chief of the 
balance of payment division, research de- 
partment, of the International Monetary 
Fund. 

1921 

Lawrence R. Foote, long in Rockford, 
111., as a utilities engineer, has come back 
east. He is district representative in the 
industrial combustion division of Bryant 
Heater Co., with offices at 122 East 42nd 
St., New York 17. He had a fine evening 
renewing Brown friendships at the New 
York dinner in March, before catching the 
commuting train for New Rochelle, where 
he hves at 23 Flower St. 

Max Meyer, from whom we had not 
heard in some time, visited the New York 
Brown Club recently and told Doris John- 
ston there he enjoy word from any of his 
old friends. He is currently in Jackson- 
ville, Fla., at 3331 St. Johns Ave. 

Harold E. Switzgable informs us that he 
is president of the Linden Manufacturing 
Co. in Linden, N. J. His home address is 
Roaring Brook Farm, Monmouth Jet., N. J. 

Dr. Myron D. Jacoby is a pediatrician 
in Detroit, Mich. 

Harvey R. Harris has a new address at 
14109 Erwin St., Van Nuys, Calif. 

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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 

Dr. Eske Windsberg has been appointed 
Surgeon-in-Chief of the Department of 
General Surgery at the Miriam Hospital, 
Providence, R. I. 

John A. Csepely writes that he is en- 
gineer for the Westinghouse Electric Cor- 
poration in Jersey City, N. J. He is living 
there at 654 Bergen Ave. 

Nathan W. Edson has returned to the 
Boston general advertising division of 
Doremus y Co., as account executive and 
director of research after four years' duty 
as commander in the Naval Reserve. 
1922 
Plans are just about completed for a 
lollapaloosa of a 25th reunion for the 
Class of 1922. We are reuning at the 
Stone House in Sakonnet opposite the 
Sakonnet Golf Club. The facilities of the 
Golf Club will be at our disposal and we 
are taking over the Inn all by ourselves. 

Sayles Gorham, our president, has ap- 
pointed Harold Pearce as Chairman of the 
Reunion Committee, and he has appointed 
the following members of the class as Sub 
Chairmen: Location: Paul Manchester; 
Publicity: Jack Harvie; Refreshments; 
Billy Lester; Finance: Johnny Lownes and 
Howard Kenyon; Entertainment: Doc 
Chesebro; Transportation: Bill Prentiss. 
We are also going to ask some of the boys 
throughout the country to act as Regional 
Chairmen to contact as many members of 
our class as possible. 

A complete program will be in the hands 
of the members of our class probably by 
the time your magazine goes to press. We 
are plugging the Sunday Night Alumni 
Dinner where 1000 alumni are expected 
to attend in honor of Dr. Wriston's com- 
pletion of ten years as president and ex- 
pect that many of the out of town members 
of our class will be able to stay over. 

J. W. RIKER 

Miss Faith Shurtleff, daughter of Ber- 
trand L. Shurtleff and Mrs. Theodora O. 
Swanson (the former Mrs. Shurtleff), is 
engaged to Arthur Charles Russell, son of 
Mr. and Mrs. Franklin M. Russell of East 
Providence. She is a student at R. I. State 
College. 

Bert Shurtleff, on a lecture tour in the 
Carolinas in March, hoped to visit Henry 
M. McKelvie, manufacturer of textile ma- 
chinery and parts at Kings Mountain, N. C. 

Dr. Theodore A. Distler, president of 
Franklin and Marshall College, spoke re- 
cently before the U. S. Naval Academy 
Graduates Association of Philadelphia. 

David Pollock writes that he is general 
manager of the Atlantic Tubing y Rubber 
Co., Inc., in Cranston, R. I. 

A card from George H. Olson locates 
him at P.O. Box 571, Sanford, Maine, and 
states that he is making arrangements for 
a business of his own. 

John H. Whorf is a special representa- 
tive for the Lumber Mutual Fire Insurance 
Co. of Boston. He is hving at 528 Great 
Plain Ave., Necdham, Mass. 
1923 

That pleasant annual custom of having 
breakfast at the University Club in Provi- 
dence Commencement morning at 8 will 
continue, we are informed by our hosts, 
William B. McCormick and J. D. E. Jones, 
Jr. A card to the former will assist in mak- 
ing the necessary reservations. Apart from 
the sociabiUty of the affair, this year's 
breakfast will provide an opportunity for 
talking about the big 25th reunion a year 
hence. 

Robert B. Coons has been appointed 
merchandise manager of men's clothing, 
furnishings, sportswear and shoes, boys' 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 

clothing and furnishings, and women's and 
children's hosiery and gloves for Franklin 
Simon in New York, the World Telegram 
noted April 4. For the past 12 years Bob 
has been responsible for the operation of 
men's hosiery, underwear, sweaters, gloves, 
shirts, bathrobes, and pajamas at R. H. 
Macy. 

Again, the class had one of the largest 
of delegations at the New York Brown 
Club dinner this March, with the presence 
of Alumni Executive Officer Bill Mc- 
Cormick as an extra attraction. Among 
those on hand were: Jack Applegate and 
Bob Litchfield of the dinner committee; 
Al Sikes, former president of the club; 
Walter Fenner; John Wilson; Chet Worth- 
ington; John Lownes, just off the Nassau 
boat and on hand for the alumni Board 
of Directors meeting; George Leddy, on 
the eve of his departure for Wyoming; 
Pete Wilson, still in charge of widespread 

getroleum research but travehng less; 
'ucky Sheehan, back in the practice of 
law in New York after his Army service 
and given a special welcome; and Chick 
Beattie, down from Westchester (he's with 
E. Robinson, Inc., in Hartsdale). 

Albert E. Mulliken, for the past two 
years superintendent of mining operations 
near Silverton, Colo., died March 12, 1947, 
after a stroke. Born in New York City 
Feb. 22, 1898, he was the son of Mr. and 
Mrs. Harry Mulliken of Pelham Manor, 
N. Y., who survive him. Other survivors 
are his widow, Mrs. Mary Sullivan Mul- 
liken; two sons, Harry B., stationed at 
Pearl Harbor with the Marines, and John 
C; and two daughters, Judith Anne and 
Mary Sharon Mulliken. Mulliken came to 
Brown after graduation from New Roch- 
elle High, studied at Brown for two years, 
and then went on to M.I.T. for a metal- 
lurgical degree in engineering. He served 
in the Navy during the first World War 
and was a yachting enthusiast while still 
in the east. Delta Phi was his fraternity. 

George C. Johnstone is vice-president of 
the American Installment Credit Corpora- 
tion, syndicate manager for the American 
Bank Credit Plan, at 2640 Graybar Bldg., 
New York 17, we learn from Chapin S. 
Newhard '22. Johnny is also an officer of 
The Equity Corporation and lives at 666 
Lexington Ave., New York. 

Harvey S. Reynolds announces his as- 
sociation with Horace L. Weller and Mil- 
ton G. Johnson in the general practice of 
law as Weller y Reynolds. Their office is 
at 832 Industrial Trust Building, Provi- 
dence. 

Arthur S. Fox, director of athletics and 
head coach of Pittsfield High School in 
Massachusetts, is now settled in his new 
home at 21 Merriam St. 

Mr. and Mrs. Francis O. Allen, Jr., an- 
nounced the marriage of their daughter. 
Miss Meredith Murdock, to Howard Fenno 
Patterson of Lansing, Mich., on March 4. 

When the R. I. Commandery, Military 
Order of Foreign Wars, sought action in 
March to speed the re-activation of the 
152nd Fighter Squadron, R.I.N.G., its 
formal resolution was signed by William 
B. McCormick, secretary. 

Raymond F. Goodman, who lives at 61 
West St., Harrison, N. Y., is with Liberty 
Magazine, Inc., in New York City. 

Anyone know where Chick Beattie can 
get a copy of the 1923 Liber? If so, write 
him, please: Charles Beattie, 30 Edgemont 
Highway, Scarsdale, N. Y. 

Rolf Einar Soderback has been ap- 
pointed draftsman assistant to the City 




"LONG LASH," the fourth dog 
book by Bertrand L. Shurtleff '22, 
has now been published after a 
serial appearance in Short Stories. 
Shurtleff, writing from Virginia in 
March, said he thought it was go- 
ing to be made into a movie. Awol, 
his dog hero, has been a popular 
character, and Shurtleif is plotting 
a new yam to write this summer. 

Shurtleff has been touring Vir- 
ginia and the Carolinas, lecturing 
at high school assemblies under 
the auspices of the Southeast 
School Assemblies. "I am always 
introduced as a Brown graduate 
and mention the college two or 
three times each lecture," he said. 

Back home in Rhode Island, he 
has bought the upper end of his 
father's old farm in Adamsville, 
R. L, and built himself a cabin for 
a permanent headquarters when he 
isn't on circuit. He gets his mail 
there. 



Architect of Providence. He had worked 
in the division of public buildings from 
1931 to 1941, as engineer and draftsman. 
We were sorry to read of his mother's 
death in April. 

Kenneth P. Sheldon has a new address: 
RFD No. 1, Box 71, Briarchff Manor, 
N. Y. 

w. c. w, 
1924 

Class President Robert H. Goff reports 
that 1924 will resume the custom of having 
a reunion breakfast on the morning of 
Commencement Day. Tentative plans, 
therefore, call for an 8 o'clock gathering 
at the University Club on Monday, June 
16. Let him know if you're coming, and 
plan to march down the Hill in the proces- 
sion afterward. On the previous evening, 
Sunday, the 15th, members of the class 
will be seated together at the all-alumni 
dinner at Marvel Gym, which the 1924 re- 
union committee is stressing as the week- 
end feature. 

Ed Place invaded New England in April 
in support of a hobby. "My barbershop 
quartet. The Diplomats, representing the 
Washington Society for the Preservation 
and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quar- 
tet Singing in America, Inc." had an en- 
gagement at the Algonquin Club in Bos- 

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ton on the 11th. Ed was trying to Sam 
Wilkins, Bruce Bigelow, Arlan Coolidge, 
Pat Kenny, and others in a Providence 
branch of the quartet-making association. 
The Diplomats competed in the Middle- 
Atlantic championships in Baltimore and 
has filled engagements on the road, in- 
cluding missionary work in starting new 
chapters. The national organization now 
has 300 of them, with 17,000 members, in- 
cluding Carleton Scott of Detroit. Ed 
stopped off in Providence, sang at the Phi 
Gam House with his quartet, and filled a 
radio date. 

Mr. and Mrs. Quentin Reynolds at- 
tended Sylvia Sidney and Carlton Alsop 
in their recent Hollywood marriage. 

Rev. Gordon E. Bigelow, pastor of the 
First Baptist Church in Beverly, Mass., is 
also president of the Baptist Massachusetts 
Council, chairman of the social action com- 
mittee of the Cleveland convention of 
churches, and president of the Beverly 
council of churches. 

Mahlon Meier is with the Reconstruc- 
tion Finance Corporation in Washington, 
U. C 

Roger Harvey is living in Stratford, 
Conn., at 11 Frederick St. He is a depart- 
ment head for the Bridgeport City Trust 
Co 

Charles S. Stedman, Jr., with the Gen- 
eral Electric Co. in New York City, is 
living at 45 East 62nd St., New York, 

Rev. Paul D. Wilbur writes that he is 
rector of Trinity Church in Covington 
Ky. 

Everett Woodburne sends along his per- 
manent address: 419 Greenridge Dr.N.W., 
Comstock Park, Mich. 

Richard L. Wheeler, one of the great 
Brown swimmers of his day and lately 
owner of the Plantation night club in 
Houston, Tex., was killed by a pistol shot 
March 5. His wife told the police she 
had killed him. 

A partner in several night club ventures 
in Texas, Wheeler went to Houston in 
1940 to open the Plantation and built it 
to a position of great popularity, with 
nationally known orchestras headlined. 
He rebuilt it in four months' time when it 
burned to the ground. 

Wheeler was a native of Pennsylvania, 
lived in Tulsa for much of his boyhood 
and came to Brown in 1920. He was a 
popular, quiet member of the class and 
a star swimmer in the distance events, win- 
ning the New England title in the 220 
and setting records. After graduation, he 
worked with Missouri Valley Sports for a 
time, then went into real estate in Tampa, 
Fla. He was with U.S. Rubber in Dallas 
for several years, later worked for a Kan- 
sas City radio station. His fraternity was 
Psi Upsilon. 

1925 

Harold Snyder, retired by the Navy be- 
cause of disability, has been working with 



The Best Business Letter 

► Each year the Dartnell Corpora- 
tion of Chicago awards a gold medal 
for what it deems to have been the 
"Best Business Letter" of the year. 
The winner of this annual recogni- 
tion for the past year was William E. 
Meuse '26, General Passenger Agent 
for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 
Meuse now seems settled in Balti- 
more after having lived in 17 cities 
in the past 20 years. i 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



the Kinney Aluminum Co. of Los Angeles. 
Last August he was promoted to general 
manager. His home is once again in Long 
Beach, Calif. 

Paul Braisted, executive director of The 
Edward W. Hazen Foundation in New 
Haven, Conn., is also a member of the 
Board of Pendle Hill School, of The Inter- 
national Film Foundation, The Associated 
Press, and The National Council on Re- 
ligion in Higher Education. 

Harold E. Chapman is in training to be- 
come a fire protection engineer at the Grin- 
nell Corporation in Providence. 

Erwin Aymar is field service engineer 
for the Builders Iron Foundry in Provi- 
dence. He is living at 222 Gaskill St. in 
Woonsocket. 

J. Spencer Hukill is with the DuPont 
Co. in Wilmington. 

The editor was disappointed not to see 
Allen Aikens when he visited the campus 
in March to see his undergraduate son. 
Bert is with Red Head Products Company, 
manufacturers of rivet sets, at 14511 West 
Eleven Mile Road, Route 2, Royal Oak, 
Mich. 

1926 

An office for consultation on personnel 
and labor problems has been opened in 
Worcester by Stanley W. Hunt, former as- 
sistant personnel director of the Norton 
Co. His associate is Prof. Thomas Q, Gil- 
son of the Clark psychology faculty, one 



Kapstein Prize-Winner 

► A $2000 AWARD, one of several 
prizes in a short story competition 
conducted by Good Housekeeping 
Magazine for members of college 
faculties, has been won by Prof. I. J. 
Kapstein '26 of the Brown English 
faculty vice-chairman of the Board 
of Editors of this magazine. His 
story is entitled "The Ship of Pearl." 
Another of his works appeared in 
the March issue of Story Magazine 
—"The Rubber Wall" i 



of the directors of the Veterans Guidance 
Center. Hunt, a Lt. Comdr. in World 
War II, was formerly industrial relations 
Supervisor at the North Works of the 
American Steel and Wire Co. before going 
with Norton. Their office is located in the 
State Mutual Building. 

I. J. Kapstein properly protested my 
having moved him up several classes in 
the last number, for which all due apol- 
ogies. It also should be mentioned that in 
addition to other activities Dr. Kapstein is 
now acting head of the English depart- 
ment at the R. I. School of Design. 

Cyrus H. Polley won the senior U. S. 
Squash Racquets championship Feb. 23 at 
the Detroit Racquet Club. Mr. Polley was 
during the war an Air Corps Major with 
the 14th Air Force in China. 

Paul Williams writes that he will be in 
Seattle, Washington until July 1st. 

Kent Godfrey sends us an up-to-date 
address at 113 East Westmoreland Rd., 
Falls Church, Va. 

1927 

Because of the sudden and unexpected 
changes in the plans of the University 
Commencement committee, the Reunion 
program of the Class of 1927 has had to 
be altered. The 20th reunion will now 
officially start Friday afternoon, June 13 
at the Muenchinger-King Hotel, 38 Belle- 
vue Ave., Newport, R. I. Golf and surf- 
bathing will be available Saturday and 



French Honor Hunter 

► Prof. Walter S. Hunter, 
chairman of the Department of Psy- 
chology at Brown University, has 
been elected a foreign member of 
the Societe Fran^aise de Psychologic, 
it was announced in April. Pro- 
fessor Hunter received notification 
of his election from Prof. R. Bayer, 
secretary of the Societe. There are 
only a few other members in the 
United States, he said. 

Former professor at Clark Uni- 
versity, Worcester, Professor Hunter 
has been chairman of the Brown de- 
partment since 1936. During World 
War II he was a consultant for the 
U. S. Army and served on several 
psychological research panels and 
committees. Professor Hunter re- 
cently resigned as editor of the Psy- 
chological Abstracts after 20 years 
in the post. i 



Sunday, and the Reunion Class Banquet 
and meeting will be Saturday night, June 
14. 

Your committee feels well satisfied to 
have chosen the Muenchinger-King. It is 
well-situated in historic Newport and is 
justly famous for its food. Accommoda- 
tions are of the best, and we know an out- 
standing reunion is in store for all who 
come. Talk it up. Plan on it. See you 
at Newport! (Complete details of costs, 
entertainment, etc., will be in the mail soon 
— perhaps by the time you receive this 
magazine.) 

FRED H. BARROWS. JR. 
Reunion Chairman 

President Byron S. Hollinshead of Coe 
College suffered the loss of his father, 
Charles I. Hollinshead, back home in 
Mount Kisco, N. Y. March 25. He'd been 
president of the school board in Medford, 
N. J., for many years when he operated a 
large truck farm there. He doubts he'll 
be back for our 20th — hard for a college 
president to attend other Commencements 
than his own. 

Irving G. Loxley, a regular in casts of 
The Players of Providence, was particu- 
larly effective as Paul Dabney in Harwood's 
"Man in Possession," their April produc- 
tion. Vera S. Arnold, wife of Dean Arnold, 
played opposite him as his wife. George 
W. Kilton '25 staged the production. 

Rev. W. Wyeth Willard is now living 
at 821 Irving Ave., Wheaton, 111., where, 
as we reported he is assistant to the presi- 
dent of Wheaton College. Mr. Willard 
has spoken recently at churches in Win- 
throp and Roxbury, Mass. and expects to 
return this spring to Cape Cod to direct 
Camp Good News which he founded in 
1935. 

Herbert C. Bullard has joined the Rein- 
gold Co., Inc., of Boston, an advertising 
agency, as copy chief. Mr. Bullard was 
previously in charge of Lifebuoy shaving 
cream and Lypsyl advertising for Lever 
Brothers Co. 

Dr. William E. Braisted will sail soon 
to resume his medical work in China. Dr. 
Braisted has been speaking in churches in 
this country on behalf of the World Mission 
Crusade Fund. 

Francis D. Miller has been appointed 
director of sales training for all American 
Airlines employees. 

Walter V. Brown is public relations 
manager for American Tel. y Tel. Co. in 

33 



New York. He is living at 31 Alden Ave., 
Colonial Heights, Tuckahoe, N. Y. 

Joseph D. Reynolds announces a change 
of address to 197 East Ave., Pawtucket, 
R. 1. 

Rev. Raymond Bragg has left Min- 
neapolis and is now at 9 Park St., Boston, 
Mass. 

Dr. Anton P. Randazzo is a surgeon in 
Passaic, N. J. 

1928 

Bill Powers has been promoted in the 
First National Store organization to the 
post of Assistant to the Vice-President in 
charge of the East Hartford Division. He 
has been with First National since leaving 
Brown and has held the post of bakery 
manager for the chain. 

Adin Capron was on the campus in April 
in connection with his personnel work for 
Babcock and Wilcox Tool Co. at Beaver 
Falls, Pa. He interviewed engineering 
Seniors through the agency of the Uni- 
versity Placement Office. 

Frederic Collins, Washington corre- 
spondent for the Providence Journal, was 
heard interviewing Senator Ball of Minne- 
sota on Mutual's "Meet the Press" pro- 
gram this March. He is a newly elected 
member of the Gridiron Club, famed or- 
ganization of Washington newsmen. 

We learn that Thomas Minnella, mar- 
ried to the former Miss Elisabeth Beck, 
now has four children. 

Robert Trenholm writes that he is divi- 
sion servicing manager for the New Eng- 
land Tel. a Tel. Co. He is living at 109 
Pilgrim Drive., Norwood, R. I. 

1929 

A. Wilson Whitman is instructing in 
the English Department here at Brown. In 
fact, we share an office over in Van Wickle 
Hall. 

Warren B. Frands, Washington corre- 
spondent for the Los Angeles Times, was 
recently elected president of the National 
Press Club. 

Lou Farber recently had the distinction 
of being the first civlian resident of Greater 
Providence to be sworn in as a member of 
the U. S. Naval Reserve. Lou, football 
coach at East Providence, is now on the air 
regularly as a weekly sports commentator 
over WHIN, Providence. 

Mitchell A. Orens is general manager 
of the Mack store chain and recently at- 
tended the opening of a new super store 
in Pittsfield, Mass. 

We have a new address for Raymond A. 
Balkcom: 206 Westport Ave., Norwalk, 
Conn. 

Roy B. Sincere writes he is manager of 
the Garden of Allah Hotel in Hollywood, 
Calif. 

Walter C. Fisher is public relations as- 
sistant for the N. Y. Telephone Co. and is 
living at 313 Milton Rd., Rye, N. Y. 

The sympathy of the class is extended to 
Howard F. Eastwood, whose father, 
Charles W. Eastwood, died recently in his 
65th year. 

1930 

The military pageant has been slowlv 
moving off the stage, but Phil Stiness still 
manages to hold on by reporting that he is 
a Lieutenant Colonel in the regular army 
and is now stationed at the Royal MiHtary 
Academy in Kingston, Ont. This is the 
institution that has the smart uniform and 
is the West Point of Canada. 

In January Bob Uhl. who is with Batten, 
Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc., spoke at 
the Hotel Rodney in Wilmington, Del., to 
the Junior Chamber of Commerce. His 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Want to Beat the Faculty? 

► ^ A NEWLY ORGANIZED faculty Softball team is willing to tangle with any return- 
ing class or alumni nine Saturday, June 14. Although administrative and teaching 
duties will not allow the faculty nine to hold any practice before the day of the 
game, the "professors" are expected to field a powerful, well-balanced club. (In 
the event that the Class of 1942, the logical opponent, picks up the challenge, the 
faculty team will lose several of its regulars, but the offer holds even there.) 

Toeing the rubber will be the willowy, slingshot-armed Emery Walker, Dean of 
Admission, while three of his side-kicks make up the infield — Bud Campbell, Vern 
Alden, and Jim Cunningham. Behind the plate will be Frank Mazzeo, Dean of 
Faunce House Barber Shop College. Normally, the outfield would draw on Arnie 
SoIIoway, Ernie Savignano, Bob Priestley, and Bill Potter — all of 1942. But with 
them in the 1942 line-up, the faculty would have to get along as well as possible 
with such reserves as Rip Engle and others who will be taught the game as quickly 
as possible. 

Class teams interested in the faculty challenge are asked to send their affidavits 
to the Admission Office. ^ 



subject was "Industrial Advertising" and 
as I know how much Bob has worked in 
this field I am sure the discourse was ex- 
cellent. 

Our sympathies go to Paul Marble whose 
father, Charles F. Marble, passed away in 
February in Worcester. In the news com- 
ments on the decease of Mr. Marble, Sr., 
we learned that Paul is now Professor of 
English at Clark University. 

Harry Taylor, the "whiz-bang" of the 
Class of 1930, reports that he is connected 
with Joseph M. Taylor Corporation as 
executive and sales manager. His busi- 
ness address is 200 Newport Ave., East 
Providence, and also the Little Building 
here in Boston. His home address is still 
16 Stimson Ave., Providence. 

Joseph Oscar Clark, Jr., reports he is no 
longer in Sullivan City, Texas, but now 
has a "Mission" in Ufe. He is at Mission, 
Texas, Box 565. If Bob keeps up he may 
land in Mexico. 

I notice that Tom McGowan is active in 
the New York Brown Club affairs, and I 
had a chance to talk with Max Kaufman 
at the Associated Alumni Meeting in Provi- 
dence on February 22. He is busily en- 
gaged in checking prospecti and proxy 
statements for the Securities Es" Exchange 
Commission. 

Willard Macdonald has been back for 

some time in his old job with the Post Office 

Dept. in Attleboro. 

HAL CARVER 

1931 

Alden R. Walls, plant superintendent 
of the National and Providence Worsted 
Mills, entertained Eladio D. Daya, super- 
vising labor inspector of the Philippines 
Department of Labor, when the latter vis- 
ited Providence in March. Mr. Daya was 
much impressed with safety measures and 
labor relations in the State, he told the 
press. 

"If everybody were a literary editor, no- 
body would be." That was the text Win- 
field T. Scott, literary editor of the Provi' 
dence Journal, took in talking about his job 
before the Providence Art Club recently. 

Bob O'Donovan did not return to the 
stage when he finished his five years in the 
Army. He is with Sam Landau, Inc., at 
105 Madison Ave., New York 16, in the 
sales promotion end of the business. 

Hector D. Laudati has announced the 
opening of his law office in downtown 
Providence. 

Joseph Schein was named president of 
the CIO Providence Teachers' Union at 
a recent meeting of the organization. 

Dr. Robert H. Morey is a lecturer in so- 
ciology for the spring term at Hobart and 
William Smith Colleges. 



R. Irving Blanchard, Jr., a candidate for 
a place on the school committee in Hol- 
liston, Mass., is New England sales man- 
ager for the Household Paper Products 
Co. of Detroit and has three children. 

Robert V. Cronan has been elected vice- 
president of the Collegiate School Alumni 
Association. 

Ernest Hapgood sends us a new address: 
370 Lexington Ave., Room 300, New 
York 17, N. Y. 

1932 

With or without the fabulous Goldilocks, 
the "32 Bears have set up their schedule 
for the 15th anniversary. (Some people 
say the 1 5th is the best reunion a class ever 
has.) And the following have already re- 
sponded to the first notice and will be 
present: George Lawton, George Jensen, 
Paul Mackesey, Ray Andrews, John Wat- 
ers, John Dolan, Charlie Tillinghast, Ches- 
ter Lawton, Deck Clarke, Dick Canning, 
Fred Ripley, Walter Kelley, Bill McSnley, 
Bob Cohen, Ted Jaffe, Ev Schreiner. Stan 
Paige, Rip Hurley, Dave Scott, Ev Battey, 
Louis Macktaz, Taylor Phillips, Leon Na- 
jarian. Bill Goldberg, Irving Beck, Ed Da- 
marjian, Hugh Butler, Hank Letoile, Alan 
Cusick, John Flynn, and Tom Hunt. 

The weekend starts with a cocktail party 
at the University Club in Providence at 5 
on Friday, June 13. In connection with 
the campus Class Night dance later in the 
evening, the reunion group will have a 
definite meeting place. The University can 
accommodate men overnight in dormitories, 
if word is sent the Alumni Office in ad- 
vance. 

The official part of the reunion will be- 
gin Saturday, the 14th, at the Cape Codder 
Hotel, Falmouth, Mass. Various sports will 
be provided for the afternoon, and the 
Class Dinner will be held in the evening. 
For Sunday dinner the class will have a 
speaker from the Athletic Department, and 
there will be a class meeting for election 
of officers. Sunday night, after the return 
to Providence, the class group will attend 
the all-college reunion dinner at the Gym. 
On Monday morning, the class will attend 
a breakfast meeting at the University Club 
at 8, prior to the Commencement proces- 
sion. 

R A. H. Jr. 

Asking for reunion dope, Morton Simon, 
Philadelphia lawyer, gave us a change of 
home address to 8108 Cadwalader Rd., 
Elkins Park, Pa. But his office address re- 
mains the same, and that's where he wants 
mail. 

John J. O'Shaughnessy, Jr., has been 
chosen Town Counsel by the Southbridge, 
Mass., Board of Selectman. John, junior 
member of the firm of Buckley & O'Shaugh- 
nessy, served two years as a Lt. in the 

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Navy. He was on the carrier Yorktown 
(the "Fighting Lady") with Task Force 
58. 

William H. Woolf, vice-president of 
Tailor Made Lawn, Inc., of New York, is 
living at 150 Riverside Drive. 

Howard L. Williams, Jr., is an attorney 
in Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

Dr. Peter Erinakes has his practice in 
West Warwick, R. I. 

Henry E. Arnold is now living at 28 
W.ilow St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Richard Hemingway is with the Stand- 
ard Coated Products Co. at 350 Fifth 
Ave., New York, N. Y. 

Robert P. Hunt is in Muncie, Indiana, 
where he is with the Indiana Steel and 
Wire Co. 

Myron H. Wales is a salesman for the 
Quality Hay Co. in New Bedford, Mass. 

Herbert Mann is living at 40 Claftin 
Road. Brookline, Mass. 

Ward H. Jackson is an interior con- 
sultant in Chicago. His home is at 7202 
Oak Ave., River Forest, 111. 

Charles D. Watterston is living at 29 
Dcpan Ave., Floral Park, N. Y. He is 
with Ernst y Ern.st in New York City. 

Roderick MacKenzie is an agent for the 
Office of Internal Revenue in New York 
City. His home address: 106-46 Waltham 
St.. Jamaica, N. Y. 

Shearley O. Roberts writes that he is 
an associate professor of psychology and 
education and consultant to the personnel 
board at Fisk University in Nashville, 
Tenn. 

We learn that Ernest Tomec is living 
at 812 Biltmore Drive, Las Vegas, Nevada. 

Forest Pearson can be reached c/o Dun- 
can Scott, 408 Pershing Sq. Building, Los 
Angeles, Calif. 

William Wemple is a cost accountant in 
the Hotel DuPont, Wilmington, Del. 

Clarkson W. Loucks, Lt., NAC, during 
the war, is now practicing law in Chicago. 

Thomas P. Reidy is merchandise man- 
ager for the W. T. Grant Co. in El Paso, 
Texas. 

Frank S. Rook writes that he was in the 
Naval Reserve for over three years and was 
separated with the rank of Lt. Comdr. 
He is now doing advertising with the 
Providence Journal. 

David Bass is a War Department chem- 
ist, working in the Climatic Research Lab- 
oratory in Cambridge, Mass. 

Dr. Edward R. Squier is practicing den- 
tistry in Providence. 

Alonzo G. Moron is business manager 
for the Hampton Institute in Virginia. 
1933 

The reunion chairman was planning for 
an off-year gathering of 1933 men in or 
near Providence during the Commence- 
ment season, but arrangements were not 
definite enough for publication as we went 
to the printer. The reunion would prob- 
ably be limited to a single luncheon or 
dinner. 

William A. Semmes has moved from 
Washington, D. C, to Stamford, Conn., 
where he is with Eastman Motors, Inc., 
Lincoln and Mercury dealers at 47 West 
Main St. 

Mr. and Mrs. Herbert H. Pickard are 
living in Asheville, N. C, where Herb is 
manager of a string of the Draper Com- 
pany's southern mills. Instead of record- 
ing his engagement last time, we should 
have noted that his wedding had already 
taken place. He and the former Dorothy 
Rice were married at the Rice home in 
Hopkinton Oct. 1, 1946. Our informant 
is Rev. Kenneth L. Palmer '31 of West- 



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borough, Mass., who performed the cere 
mony. Among the guests was Stuart G. 
Waite '32, now practising law in Spring- 
field, Mass. 

Although Paul L. Maddock has a sum- 
mer home in Rumson, N. J., he is a legal 
resident of Palm Beach, Fla., where his 
business interests keep him the greater 
part of the year. 

Frank Hurd, after more than 10 years 
with the Providence Journal, is now New 
England manager for Ellis Publications, 
Inc., with offices in Providence. The prin- 
cipal magazine among several productions 
of Elhs is ]ewelry. His house was featured 
in the Sunday Journal recently as a good 
example of make-over. 

Dr. Bernard Rothblatt has been retired 
from the Navy as Commander for injuries 
received during the war. He announces 
the reopening of his office on Common- 
wealth Ave. in Boston. 

1934 

Bancroft Littlefield, Providence lawyer, 
has written John Gross that he would serve 
as deputy secretary for the class. Charley 
Campbell had been carrying on this work, 
but he followed John to the Middle West, 
as we've said. 

When Johnnie McFadden '30 came 
down with the flu in March, Archie Bowes 
was able to substitute for him at a fine Girl 
Scout banquet in Evanston for the girls 
and their dads. "So again," remarked our 
informant, "Brown men come to the aid 
of Brown men. " 

Harry W. Tapper is working with the 
Veteran's Community Advisory Center in 
Bridgeport as vocational counselor. 

Gorham Henshaw, Jr., writes that he is 
senior accountant with the Gillette Safety 
Razor Co. He is living at 11 Newell Rd., 
Wakefield, Mass. 

Robert D. Whitaker has been named re- 
ligious editor for the Journal-Bulletin here 
in Providence. 

H. R. Jackson has been elected vice- 
president and director of the G. H. Jackson 
brokerage firm in New York City. 

1935 

J. K. Whittemore has been named gen- 
eral passenger agent for the New England 
operations of the Greyhound Lines with 
headquarters in Boston. 

Dr. Daniel D. Alexander has been ap- 
pointed to the medical staff of the Gard- 
ner (Mass.) State Hospital. 

Bernard Pollak, Jr., is back from over- 
seas and is now with the S. y K. Sales Co., 
441 Lexington Ave., New York, N. Y. 

Warren Groce is now general agent of 
the Providence Mutual Life Insurance Co. 
in Chicago. 

Paul Howard is executive assistant of 
the Social Security Board Regional Office 
in Minneapolis. He is living there at 3438 
11th Ave. South. 

Peter L. PauU is superintendent of the 
British American Oil Co. in Clarkson, Ont. 

Dr. Abraham Goldberg is practicing 
dentistry in Norwich, Conn. 

Elmer V. Devolve is acting principal of 
the Bridgham Jr. High School in Provi- 
dence. 

Richard Gardner is with the General 
Electric Co. in the Electronics Department 
in Schenectady, N. Y. 

Rev. Richard Goodier is now doing mis- 
sionary work in Medellin, Colombia. He 
can be reached through the Presbyterian 
Board of Missions, Fifth Avenue, New 
York City. He entered the missionary field 
several years ago after having served as 
pastor of a church in New York City. 



Paul L. Paulson is doing Home Laundry 
Engineering with the General Electric Co. 
in Bridgeport, Conn. He is living at 43 
Benham Ave., Milford, Conn. 
1936 

Chairman Paul O. Connly had a good 
meeting of the Class Endowment Com- 
mittee April 6 when the following sat with 
him in Faunce House on the campus: 
Gordon E. Cadwgan, Jack Despres, Clar- 
ence H. Gifford, Jr., Robert W. Kenyon, 
Joseph Olncy, Jr., Alfred J. Owens, Gordon 
W. Smithson, and Edwin S. Soforenko. 
An appeal went out from them shortly after 
in the interests of the $10,000 Fund which 
is being accumulated for the 25th reunion 
in 1961. Premiums are due on the four 
$2500 life insurance policies maintained 
toward that end, and the wholehearted 
support of the class is asked. ($12.50 pro- 
vides for $250 of this insurance — $25 for 
$500, etc.) Other classes are interested in 
our success to date. 

Chester Feil has moved from Manhattan 
to Jackson Heights (33-31 71st St.), he re- 
ported at the New York dinner. He con- 
tinues with Chem-Col Company, 82 Wall 
St., of which he is assistant manager. 

Arthur Hellman returned to the campus 
April 16 in quest of Brown men for sales 
training position with the Tremco Com- 
pany of Cleveland. The Placement Office 
arranged interviews with interested Seniors. 

Theodore Tannenwald, Jr., is tax coun- 
sel for Weil, Gotshal y Manges Co. in New 
York City and is in charge of their Wash- 
ington office. 

John D. Glover, on the faculty of the 
Harvard Graduate School of Business Ad- 
ministration and consulting expert to the 
Assistant Secretary of War for Air, spoke 
recently at a dinner in observance of the 
95 th anniversary of the Brown chapter of 
Zeta Psi. 



Paris' Marine Guard 

► Lt. Myron E. Wilcox, Jr., '40, 
former Brown swimming star, took 
over duty recently as the officer-in- 
charge of the Marine Guard at the 
American Embassy in Paris. Bud, 
who has transferred from the Marine 
Reserve to the Regulars, was last 
assigned to the United Nations 
Headquarters in New York, an in- 
teresting post which prepared him 
for the new assignment. He has 
been back and forth already on 
courier duty to and from Paris. 

When Mrs. Wilcox wrote March 
18 to the Secretary of the Boston 
Brown Club, Edward T. Brackett 
'14, she expected to join her hus- 
band in Paris in about a month for 
the expected two-year trick. His ad- 
dress: Marine Detachment, Hqtrs. 
U. S. Naval Forces in Europe, Navy 
100, c/o Fleet Post Office, New 
York, N. Y. < 



1937 

The Cold Spring House in Wickford, 
famed rallying spot for Brown reunion 
classes over the years, will be headquarters 
for 1937 over the Commencement season. 
By subtracting 1937 from 1947, the class 
mathematician has discovered that this is 
our 10th. "Reune, reminisce, relax" was 
the slogan cited on the announcement that 
went to everyone. It will all start Friday, 
June 13, with the big banquet of the class 
Saturday night with Burt Shevelove as m.c. 
The "37 trophy will be up for competition 
at the reunion golf tournament, the win- 

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ner to have his named inscribed on the cup. 
The Alumni Dinner Sunday night in Mar- 
vel Gym is on the reunion schedule, too, 
to give the men a chance to see other Brown 
men as well as the class. 

The Class held its spring dinner March 
13 at the Providence Biltmore with a good 
turnout and good fun. The following 
were present, all without exception pledg- 
ing to attend the reunion on the campus 
and at Wickford: Wally Brown, Ben Gate, 
Bob Cunningham, Bud Darman, Hal Has- 
senfeld. Bob Hallborg, Lou Heinold, Bill 
Hulbcrt, Milt Jacobs, Iz Kaminsky, Jim 
Kavanagh, Harlie Latham, Tom Logan, 
Dave McGovern, Ed Pickering, Bill Rey- 
nolds, Phil Shaulson, Jack Skillings, Bud 
Steiner, Hart Swaffield, Marty Tarpy, 
Herm Toof, Gerry Weinberg, and Al 
Young. 

Eighty per cent of the "lost" members 
of the class have been located, thanks to 
fine co-operation from you all. But the re- 
union committee is still anxious to learn 
the whereabouts of the following, who 
were still "fugitives" March 22: William E. 
Baker, Jr., Richard C. Beyer, Alexander 
Brown, James W. Bush, Jr., Richard S. 
Cairns, Richard D. Emery, William Gan- 
zenmuller, 3rd, Robert T. Johnson, James 
C. MacNeil, Eugene W. Nash, Richard L. 
Newton, Jack K. Pearlman, Kenneth L. 
Perry, Bernard Popkin, Robert T. Ryan, 
Glen Lee Rye, Harold A. Stretch, Jr., 
Norman S. Watson, Charles R. Williams, 
Kenfort Wilhams. Have you an address 
that might reach any of them? 

Harvey Nanes returned to Washington 
to work for the Navy Department as a 
civihan after his military discharge last 
spring. He is a job analyst for the Bureau 
of Naval Personnel, which conducts per- 
sonnel research in the interests of best 
using manpower. He reports the work 
"pretty interesting, involving occasional 
trips to various parts of the country and 
talks with people ranging from admirals to 
low-ranking gobs." His immediate super- 
visor is John B. Murphy '33. 
1938 
There seemed to be a reunion in the 
making, as we closed this column for the 
printer, and the likely date was for Sat- 
urday, June 14, at the Pawtucket Golf 
Club. The reunion committee had gone so 
far, too, as to engage Room 1518 at the 
Sheraton-Biltmore Hotel in Providence as 
headquarters for the class on June 13 and 
14. 

J. J. Henry Muller, III, has been ap- 
pointed Connecticut chairman for the Com- 
mittee of the Restatement of the Law of 
the Junior Bar Conference in the Ameri- 
can Bar Association. He has been an as- 
sociate of Beers d Beers in New Haven 
since last summer. He and Mrs. Muller 
celebrated their first wedding anniversary 
April 27th at their new home: 5 Usher St., 
Woodmont, Conn. She is the former Miss 
Ehzabeth F. Cottenham of Hudson Falls, 
a Marine in the war, which makes the fam- 
ily definitely a "veteran" one. 

Among people Muller has seen are: 
Henry Anderson in nearby Milford; 
Charles Wilhams in Woodmont; Wes 
Bartless and Elmer Eaton '37, also from 
the New Haven area; and Bill Bieluch '39 
of Hartford. 

Alden C. Hensel is in charge of the 
division of industrial engineering and in- 
dustrial relations for the Andrew Jergens 
Co. in Beleville, N. J. His home is at 
156 Church St., Nutley 10. 
1939 
The eighth annual reunion of the Class 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



of 1939 will be held at the R. I. Cbuntry 
Club, Barrington, Saturday, June 14. The 
program will commence at 2 o'clock with an 
afternoon of golf and other sports. The 
Class will assemble for registration and 
cocktails at 6. Dinner will be served at 
7:30, followed by a business meeting and 
a social period. Those persons unable to 
attend the afternoon's activities are urged 
to attend the dinner, anyway. Everyone is 
urged to make reservations through the 
Class Secretary (see back cover for ad- 
dress). 

All members of the Class are invited to 
a cocktail party at the home of Charles E. 
Gross, II, 16 South Angell St., Providence 
at 6 p. m. Sunday, June 15, before proceed- 
ing to the All-Class Reunion Dinner at 
Marvel Gymnasium. All persons planning 
to attend are asked to notify the Class 
Secretary. CHARLIE GUSTAVESEN 

We've had a good response, in apprecia- 
tion of the job Class Secretary Charlie Gus- 
tavesen did in arranging for the 1939 
Directory. It was mailed to all members of 
the class for whom we have a good current 
address. 

Leonard Carpenter has had a busy win- 
ter redecorating his new house at 117 
Roger Williams Ave., Rumford. He is a 
buyer for Claddings. 

Peter Corn, one of the boys out for the 
New York Brown dinner in March, gave 
us a change of address to: Richbell House, 
Larchmont Acres, Larchmont, N. Y. 
1940 

John G. Porritt, his father tells us, is 
working for the Fram Corporation in 
Rhode Island and living at 61 Slater Ave., 
Providence. 

Henry D. S. Chafee is a member of the 
Corporation of St. Andrew's School, Bar- 
rington, R. I. 

Alfred Cenedella has been appointed as- 
sistant secretary on the staff of Governor 
Robert F. Bradford of Massachusetts. Al 
was a Navy ensign during the war and 
during his service in the Pacific was 
awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross 
for the first air-sea rescue made m Jap- 
anese home waters. He also holds two air 
medals for other air-sea rescue missions 
and bombardment observation flights. The 
Cenedellas are now living in Milford, 
Mass. 

Howard Hunt's third novel — "Stranger 
in Town" — • was recently published by 
Random House. Dedicated to the late 
Stephen Danforth '43, it is a study of the 
post-war readjustment of a talented young 
sculptor. 

Kenneth Clapp sends us a corrected ad- 
dress at 569 Washington St., Winchester, 
Mass. 

Jim Cronkhite is Assistant Dean of Men 
at Middlebury College, according to 
Henry MuUer '38. This was our first word 
Jim was out of the Army. 
1941 

Norm Dike came up from New Haven 
for a campus visit in March. He'll finish 
his interrupted studies at Yale Law School 
in June. 

J. A. Kidney and R. K. Cox were back 
on the campus as salesmen March 25, an 
ad in the Herald announcing their sale of 
flannel slacks, hand-woven tweeds, and 
worsteds in Faunce House on that day. 

Bill Stinson, who has been an active 
member of the Baltimore Brown Club, has 
been transferred by the Aetna Life Insur' 
ance Co. from Baltimore to Minneapolis. 

Earle B. Dane, Jr., a partner in Jones d 
Dane, importers, is in China this spring on 



firm business. Edward S. Jones, 2nd, '34 
of Providence is his associate. 

Dr. Harvey C. Pauley writes us from 
the Savanna Ordnance Depot, Proving 
Ground, 111. He tells us that he is still in 
uniform but expects to be out soon. After 
his separation from the service, he expects 
to settle in the middle west. 
1942 

The campus is out best bet. That was 
the unanimous decision of the Fifth Re- 
union committee, and rooms in dormi- 
tories are being reserved for us from Fri- 
day night, June 13, through Sunday night, 
June 15. Two big attractions come from 
the over-all Commencement program: the 
campus dance on Class Night, Friday; and 
the Alumni Dinner, Sunday. On Saturday 
a program of sports is planned either on a 
Brown athletic field or at a country club, 
with the class banquet that night. Response 
to the first notice was fine, and a large 
turnout is expected, according to the re- 
union committee made up of Ernie Savig- 
nano. Bill Potter, Arnie Soloway, Bill 
Crooker, and Bob Priestley. 

Several reasons dictated the choice of 
the campus as the headquarters of our ac- 
tivity: 1 — the sentimental interest in get- 
ting back to the familiar scene; 2 — its con- 
venience and accessibility in connection 
with the program, visiting old friends in 
town; 3 — the availability of enough ac- 
commodation for the large crowd expected 
back from '42; and 4 — the moderate 
charges for rooms ($2.00 a night). 

A colossal sequel to the "Lost Week- 
end" — that's the basis on which the Fifth 
Reunion committee was seUing its produc- 
tion in a mimeo mailing piece to the class 
of 1942. "As a character, your presence 



is essential for the success of this historic 
production," said the notice, which an- 
nounced the grand premiere on Friday, 
June 13, and the sad closing on Monday, 
June 16 Savignano was listed as pro- 
ducer. Potter as associate producer, 
Crooker as technical director, and Soloway 
as casting director, all these class ofiicers 
having been together on the Brown campus 
and able to get their heads together just 
by ringing the chapel bell 1942 times. 
Art work on the notice seemed to be by 
Gus Saunders, who was quoted as saying, 
"My first 8 years were the best." 

Edward Sarnoff, formerly with the 
American Broadcasting Company in New 
York City, is now in East Hartford work- 
ing at Radio Appliance and Distributors, 
as advertising and sales promotion man- 
ager. His address: 130 Penn Drive, West 
Hartford. 

A. J. McMillan, sending his gift to the 
Housing Campaign, remarks a change of 
address from Downers Grove, 111., to 216 
North Delphia Ave., Park Ridge, 111. 
watching us for further news about the 
fifth reunion. He hasn't been back for 
several years, but plans to be on hand in 
June. On Washington's Birthday, appro- 
priately enough, he received the degree of 
Master of Arts in Foreign Affairs at the 
winter convocation of George Washington 
University. He had been studying evenings 
for some time while working at a full- 
time job in the State Department, where 
he continues. His address: 2035 H St., 
NW, Washington 6, D. C. 

Charles CoUis, who was a Lt., USNAC, 
has been promoted to the position of di- 
rector of manufacturing for the Stratos 
Corporation of Babylon, N. Y. 



From a Traveler's Diary < < 



continued from page J 3 

3,000,000 — is fifth largest in the United 
States. It is not surprising therefore to find 
over 200 Brown men in Southern Cali- 
fornia. In that city my chief task was to act 
as informant and introducer. A great many 
new names had appeared on the Brown lists, 
but because of various circumstances — the 
war, the difficulties of transportation, etc. 
— many of our alumni had not entered into 
Brown Club activity. They all expressed 
appreciation, however, for the Alumni 
Monthly and its editor, Chet Worthing- 
ton '23. 

The bulk of the alumni work has been 
done by President Miles Flint '27, secre- 
tary Wentworth Mann '28, and the other 
officers, Hugh Wallace '37, James Hay '34, 
and Curtis Peck '34. Lawrence Larrabee 
'09 had been the Mark Hanna of the Club 
and had given the officers advice and di- 
rection. 

The Brown dinner at the University 
Club, with nearly 40 present, convinced 
me that the Brown Club of Los Angeles 
was like the city; it was in a boom, and 
the boom was going strong. Before the 
war a dozen men gathered for a Brown 
affair. This time there were nearly 40. 
Miles Fhnt was the toastmaster, and a good 
one. Professor Curt J. Ducasse, Chairman 
of the Philosophy Department at Brown 
(visiting professor this semester at U.C. 
L.A.), talked about the new curriculum at 
Brown. Lt. Col. John Aiso '31 discussed 
his work on General MacArthur's staff. 
Henry C. Hart '01, former president of 
the Associated Alumni, talked about 
alumni responsibility, and his son Richard 

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Hart '36, now a star with Metro Goldwyn 
Mayer, answered questions about his work 
in Hollywood. It was a pleasant evening, 
and an easy one for me since I had helpers 
at the speakers' table. 

Some alumni who could not get to the 
Brown dinner were able to go to the beau- 
tiful home of Mrs. George W. McCoy, 
Pembroke 1900, who arranged a Pembroke- 
Brown tea. Mrs. Joseph S. Hook, Pem- 
broke '15, President of the Congress of 
Parent Teachers, and Mrs. Howard Byles, 
Pembroke '14, composer, spoke. Miss Alice 
Made, Pembroke '10, president of the Pem- 
broke Club of Los Angeles, presided. A 
large group from the Brown and Pembroke 
clubs came to Mrs. McCoy's home on 
Pacific Palisades. It was a grand afternoon 
for Mrs. Bigelow and for me. 

Space does not permit my giving a full 
account of all the alumni with whom I 
lunched or dined or just got together with 
for a brief few minutes. Here are, how- 
ever, some random impressions: Larry 
Larrabee '09 is sure to win again a place 
on the Los Angeles Board of Education. 
The leading newspapers are with him . . . 
Went Mann '28 is starting his own adver- 
tising company . . . Leon Goldberg '21 is 
doing a great job as vice president of 
R.K.O. . . . Steve Dolley '42 is with an in- 
vestment house . . . Harry Kirkpatrick '42 
is learning the cattle business, as he says, 
literally from the ground up . . . Hugh 
Wallace '37 and Bill Creasey '39 are hap- 
pily situated in Pasadena . . . Dick Ma^et 
'24 left the Navy as a Captain and is now 
chief of orthopedic service at the Los 
Angeles Veterans Hospital . . . Horace 



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Mazct '28, formerly Colonel Mazet, is do- 
ing some writing and is building a motel 
. . . Al Bloomingdale '39, a producer at 
Columbia studios, is serving very good 
luncheons for his Hollywood friends and 
Providence visitors . . . Dr. H. Carey Bum- 
pus '12, still one of the best of hosts, is 
writing a book on that wonderful per- 
sonality. Dr. H. C. Bumpus, 1884 .. . 
Vernon Libby '24 (with Floriman Hath- 
away '21 to help) is running Libby De- 
partment Stores . . . Houghton Metcalf "04 
and Harry Howard "24 (just out of serv- 
ice) are with Travelers . . . Quent Rey- 
nolds '24 was in town working on a movie 
script with Ben Hecht . . . Bob Olsen '08 
is combining writing with lecturing . . . 
Chichesters '08 and '38 are looking better 
than ever in spite of Bill's close call in 
service . . . Frank Jacobson '42 has decided 
to settle in L. A. . . . Larry Gates '21 de- 
serves orchids for a great job done as Cam- 
paign captain . . , Cad Arrendell "39 is still 
in the Navy . . . Arthur Brown "39 is with 
Shell . . . Don Manchester '23 is running 
Manchester"s Bombay Restaurant in Palm 
Springs. Pleasant chats with Dr. Arthur 
Pritchard "00, Ed. Jessup '44, Dr. Ed. 
Savage '3 5, George Nelson "40, Dr. Fred 
Crescitelli '30, Charlie Menges '30, Charlie 
Krebs '32, Watson Buhler '14, John ''J/il- 
liams '17, Avedick Poladian "07, Harvey 
McCrone "15, Roger Altenbcrg '43, Prof. 
John Boodin '95, Bob Richard '38, the 
Dexter brothers, Nathaniel '93 and An- 
thony '02, Hillis Bedell "37, "Wally Goetz 
'36, and an undergraduate, Jerry Miller, 
this semester at U.C.L.A. I am greatly in- 
debted to the Cresap Watsons who have a 
son in Brown and who, like so many other 
friends, helped to make me love California. 

San Diego: 

► I HAD ONE DAY in San Diego with Regi- 
nald Poland '14 and Major William J. 
Reed '13. Friends had told me that 
Reginald Poland had gone to the San Diego 
Gallery of Fine Arts 20 years ago and had 



WHEN SAN FRANCISCO greeted 
Dr. Bigelow on his recent travels 
for Brown, the following were 
present, left to right: Lt. Col. 
LeRoy Bartlett '02 (standing), 
David G. Goddard '24, Robert E. 
Soellner '24, Paul A. Lathrop '43, 
Dr. William D. McCarthy '31, Dr. 
Bigelow, Nathaniel Blaisdell '83, 
Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn '93, F. 
E. Roper '11, William M. Bancroft 
'37, Winthrop H. Richardson '29, 
Herbert M. Ross '13 (standing), 
and Raymond W. Mercy '43. 



made it preeminent as an art center on 
the West Coast. It was a great experience 
to see what this Brown man has accom- 
plished in California. Bill Reed took me 
on a quick tour of La JoUa where 1 had 
the pleasure of seeing both his attractive 
wife and home. I have very pleasant 
memories of that day in San Diego. 



Phoenix : 

► It was nice to be present at the birth 
of the Brown Club of Arizona. Arthur 
Flagg '06 was elected secretary. At the 
alumni dinner we talked Brown and also 
were able to get Arthur Flagg to_ discuss 
Arizona geology. Charles Towne '97 and 
Mrs. Towne came over from Tucson to 
lunch with the Bigelows. (Gave me a good 
talk about advantages of Tucson over 
Phoenix.) Mr. Towne celebrates his 50th 
reunion in June and will see his son enter 
as a freshman in September. Very nice 
going! Derek Van Dyke '43 was most 
helpful in forming the Brown Club, as 
you will note elsewhere. It was good to see 
Neil McLeod, M.A. '29, and Howard 
Jordan '38 again. Bob Eaton '23, on whom 
I called, is improving in health, and I can 
report to his friends that he looked like a 
million dollars. Bill Mulford '47 is at the 
desk in the Hotel Pioneer in Tucson, but 
the arrival of three ball clubs on the same 
day kept him on duty. I look back on the 
Phoenix visit with great glee and only wish 
I had been smart enough to allow more than 
just 15 hours in this warm and friendly 
city. But I'll be back! 

Houston: 

V The Te.xas ballad collector, John 
Lomax, tells us: 

"Whiskey is whisky any way you mix it, 
Texas is Texas any way you fix it; 
When other good people have gone 

to bed. 
The devil keeps a-workin' in a 
Texan's head."" 

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The Brown spirit has certainly been at 
work in Texas. Col. G. Edward Buxton 
"02 helped organize the Brown Club of 
Texas when he was visiting his son, Coburn 
"34, in Dallas last fall. Robert Staples "17 
was elected President: Dr. Kenneth Burdon 
'18, vice-president; Dr. Robert M. Pike 
'28, secretary; and Dr. Leo Horwitz '31, 
treasurer. (It is hard to get elected with- 
out a Ph.D.) The plan was to meet in 
Dallas in the fall and in Houston in the 
spring. My own timing to hit the azalea 
season was pretty smart. 

The day in Houston was taken up with 
visits to schools, talks with old friends, a 
whirl at sightseeing, and an alumni dinner. 
(And I had time for a siesta, too!) The 
dinner was a Brown -Pembroke affair held 
at the Houston Club. There was enough 
spirit engendered there to propel a rocket 
to the moon — and that's almost as far as 
it is from El Paso to Houston. I was most 
impressed when I saw Pat Sayward '25 
who had come all the way from San An- 
tonio (212 miles), and then I found Dr. 
M. E. Malakoff '38 who had flown from 
Laredo, a distance of 340 miles! 

Bob Staples '17, who came from Dallas 
to preside, introduced Jim Whitcomb '36 as 
toastraaster. (During the war Jim found a 
very attractive wife in Texas and decided 
he liked Flouston well enough to stay.) 
There was much discussion about how the 
Club could provide an annual scholarship 
for a Texan. Morris Pepper '27 said he 
would gladly "make up the difference." 
So it looJ^s Uk.e a new Brown Club of Texas 
Scholarship. Bob Cruise '23 and his wife 
came over from Beaumont. My good friend, 
David Daly of Rhode Island and Texas, 
and his son David, Jr., '40 were by chance 
in Houston on a visit and came to the din- 
ner. Very pleasant surprise! Among others 
who attended were: Dr. Kenneth Burdon 
'18 and Mrs. Burdon; Dr. Robert Pike '28; 
Dr. Lee Horwitz '31 and Mrs. Horwitz; 
Leon Payne "36 (still a bachelor); John 
Donley "37; G. Burton Liese "29; Coburn 



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Buxton "34; Wesley Arbuckle '36; Miss B. 
Hall; Mrs. Ruth Bantan Stewart, Pembroke 
'36, and Mr. Stewart; Mrs. Winifred 
O'Hara, Pembroke '3 3, and Mr. O'Hara; 
Warren McGrath '43 and Mrs. McGrath. 
Three yip-pees for Texas and for Brown! 

New Orleans: 

► To BE PRESENT at the birth of a Brown 
Club in this old city of atmosphere and 
romance was a great privilege. The Brown 
Club of Louisiana was born in the home 
of Dr. Dean H. Echols '27. Dean had ar- 
ranged for a dinner at which the Brown 
alumni and friends on the faculty at Tulane 
Medical School joined in toasting Brown. 
It was the perfect New Orleans dinner. 
For planning so well the Club decided to 
give him more work — the usual reward — 
and he is Secretary of the Club. Among 
those present were Harry Coleman 19 who 
had done a great job in getting informa- 
tion about Brown men in Louisiana and 
Mississippi, Dr. Hyman S. Mayerson '22 
who is professor of physiology at Tulane, 
Allan Brent '38 who is now in the adver- 
tising game in Baton Rouge, and John 
Karlem Riess, former graduate student at 
Brown and now an assistant professor at 
Tulane. It was also nice to see Dr. Otto 
Foerster of Milwaukee at the dinner. He 
was one of the early supporters of Mil- 
waukee Country Day School and has seen 
many sons of Milwaukee friends go to 
Brown. As a postscript, I wish to add that 
Dean and Fran Echols are the best guides 
in New Orleans. We'll he back! 

Atlanta: 

► There is now a Brown Club of Georgia, 
thanks to the enthusiasm of a group which 
Eugene O'Brien '19 got together for a 
luncheon at the Atlanta Athletic Club. 
Norman P. Arnold "30, swimming star of 
Leo Barry's day, was elected secretary. Bill 
Eddy '34 who has been active with the 
Campaign in Atlanta was present, I missed 
seeing Gus Williams '30, but his classmate, 
Hal Bauer, was there. It was also very 
nice to see Col. Oliver Seaver '21 and Ray- 
mond W. D. Jones '08. The latter was one 
of the regulars I used to see at the St. Louis 
meetings, but Westinghouse can move its 
men about. Gene O'Brien is always a busy 
man, but this year, as president of the 
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 
he is more of an itinerant than usual. 
Many thanks, Gene (and Dorothy, too), 
for that Southern hospitality. 

When I first arrived at the Atlanta 
Biltmore, I realized the warmth and under- 
standing of the Southerners. In the lobby 
of the hotel there were at least 30 men 
walking about in baseball uniforms, and 
the word Yankees was written right across 
their chest in big bold letters. And no one 
batted an eyelash except a few kids who 
collected autographs. Friendly city, this 
Atlanta! 

Richmond: 

► In Richmond, as in Atlanta, I was again 
impressed with the quality of our engineer- 
ing graduates. Ernest S. Fitz "11 is gen- 
eral manager of the Virginia Electric and 
Power Co., and like Gene O'Brien, is a 
splendid representative of Brown in the 
Old South. Arrangements for a full day 
and evening were made by Ernest Fitz. 
They included a luncheon given by Mrs. 
Fitz "for the ladies" at the Country Club, 
a tour for me of the city and the University 
of Richmond with Walter F. Dolbeare '23 
and Dr. J. Douglas Reid '28. Orchids to 



An Offer tcilh Wings 

► Bruce Bigelow called it "Brown 
loyalty in a delightful modern form," 
and it was definitely something new 
in Brown Club history; 

When the Brown Club of Arizona 
was founded this spring, Derek Van 
Dyke "43 was a leading spirit. And 
he could help in an unusual way. As 
president of the Mercury Flying 
Service in Phoenix, he can get 
around the State with ease. He 
offered to fly Brown men to the 
Phoenix meeting when Dr. Bigelow 
was their guest. i 



Walt who has, as one of his extra-curricular 
activities, the direction of the Naval Re- 
serve program in Virginia. Congratula- 
tions also to Doug Reid who has just been 
made full professor of bacteriology at the 
Medical College of Virginia. 

The Brown dinner at the Hotel Jefferson 
— to which the wives were invited — was 
very good fun. One alumnus, away from 
Brown for several years and out of the 
country during the war, tossed one ques- 
tion after another. After an hour of this, 
he said, "You are our lonely hearts cor- 
respondents. It is wonderful to hear about 
Brown and Providence."" It was a nice end- 
ing to a long and heartwarming tour. 

It seemed to the group that there should 
be a Brown Club of Virginia. The Arling- 
ton and Alexandria groups — and they are 
quite large — would still be attached to the 
District of Columbia; the new Club would 
serve the rest of the State. Walter Dol- 
beare "23 was elected secretary. At the 
dinner I was glad to see William H. Traus- 
neck '09, Dr. Reginald Farrow '26, and 
Dexter Smith '41, in addition to others 
previously mentioned. 

After leaving Richmond I went to Alex- 
andria and stopped for a visit -with that 
great headmaster. Dr. A. R. Hoxton, of 
the Episcopal High School. The day in 



Alexandria was chieHy spent on schools, 
but I did have time to phone Norman Case 
'08, a regional chairman of the Campaign. 
Congratulations to him on the arrival of a 
grandson named John. I also talked with 
Frank Hough '24 and relayed messages 
from friends across the continent. They 
will be glad to see the good reviews of his 
book, "The Island War." 

Back home after six weeks, I can now 
take time to reflect on the 8,000-mile tour. 
A great many happy memories will be held 
forever among my choice possessions, but 
there are a few reflections which should be 
shared by us all. The first is that the Brown 
alumni I saw from the Atlantic to the 
Pacific were a superior group. 

The foreword of our publication. Stu- 
dent Life, reads: "How young men at 
Brown work and play, get tired and rest, 
lay plans and dream of years to come, and 
finally go down the Hill into the town — 
named Providence three centuries ago by 
Roger Williams 'in gratitude to his Su- 
preme Deliverer' — and further out into the 
world to be of use and bring repute to 
Brown." 

As a former admission officer it was a 
wonderful experience to see so many of 
these erstwhile "young men " who are now 
bringing repute to Brown. 

The second most striking impression was 
that at no time during my work at Brown 
have I seen and felt such a lively enthusiasm 
among Brown alumni for their Alma Mater. 
It was^a heartening experience. 

The third impression I wish to record 
here is that Brown, like the other Colonial 
colleges, is now a national institution. And 
it is fortunate for our nation that such is 
the case. Brown must continue to be na- 
tional rather than local and it must con- 
tinue to draw its students from many 
States in order that the principles upon 
which this University was founded and on 
which Brown now stands — the principles 
of freedom and enlightenment — may con- 
tinue to shape our national life. i 



Vote for Alumni Trustee < < 



continued from page 2 

► The past failure has provided an un- 
mistakable challenge. And the Associated 
Alumni have acted to make a final effort 
and get out the vote for 1947. A commit- 
tee, headed by Sidney Clifford '15, who 
retires as Alumni Trustee this year, was 
appointed by the alumni President, Dr. 
Moses L. Crossley '09, to investigate the 
situation. A number of its recommenda- 
tions have been put into effect this year. 
Mr. Clifford addresses the following appeal 
to the alumni body, through the columns 
of this magazine: 

"At the October meeting of the Execu- 
tive Committee a detailed report was sub- 
mitted which showed that in recent years 
the number of ballots cast had been less 
than the required 25% of degree holders, 
although all former students attending the 
University for at least four semesters are 
eligible to vote. 

"The report gives a variety of explana- 
tions for this situation, but in the last 
analysis it is a fact that thousands of alumni 
through choice or indifference fail to exer- 
cise the privilege of naming one-third of 
the Trustees who, with the Fellows, gov- 
ern the affairs of the University. This 
privilege was granted by the Corporation 

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in 1914 after much alumni agitation, but 
it is obvious that it can be withdrawn as 
the result of alumni neglect. 

"The Trustees nominated by the alumni 
have in the past served the University with 
distinction. The great body of alumni take 
pride in the part played by them in their 
selection, and they would view with alarm 
any move to deprive them of this oppor- 
tunity to exert an influence in the govern- 
ment of the University. But privileges are 
not retained by indifference or by failure 
to exercise them, and it behooves all who 
receive ballots to mark and return them 
immediately. By so doing each alumnus 
will not only be exercising and preserving 
a valued privilege, but he will be rendering 
an invaluable service to the University. 

"VOTE NOW FOR 
ALUMNI TRUSTEES!" 

^ Every effort has therefore been exerted 
this year to make voting easy. Ballots have 
been mailed early — before the end of April, 
in most instances, and all by the end of 
the first week in May — a good six weeks 
before the polls close. New design has sim- 
plified the ballots, with information on the 
candidates contained on a separate sheet. 



A postpaid envelope, addressed to tlie 
Alumni Office, was turiiished to pay for 
the return of the marked ballot. Photo.s 
of the candidates are published in this issue 
of the alumni magazine, liuther to pub- 
licize the election. The polls are being held 
open until 9 o'clock Friday, June 13, to 
permit voting by alumni arriving for re- 
unions or attending the Class Night Dance 
on the campus. (The Corporation meets 
the next morning at 9:00 a.m. and acts 
upon the alumni nominations in the course 
of its meeting.) 

The Alumni have this chance to prove 
their interest. 

Seven candidates were listed, all Irom 
New England. In considering candidates 
for Alumni Trustees to succeed Mr. Clif- 
ford and Dr. Marshall N. Fulton "20, b;)th 
of Providence, the Executive C inim ttec 
and the Advisory Council noted the pres- 
ent geographical distribution of members 
of the Corporation and particularly of the 
Alumni Trustees. The other incumbent 
Alumni Trustees come from Canada (one), 
from Chicago (one), from Boston (two), 
from Providence (two), and Irom New 
York (six). 

The Atlantic-Midland district is at pres- 
ent most heavily represented, with 42% 
of the Alumni Trustees (and 30% of the 
alumni population). The Central Region, 
with 9% of the alumni population, has 7% 
of the Alumni Trustees; Rhode Island has 
28%' of the Alumni Trustees and 29% of 
population; New England outside of R. I. 
has 14% of the Alumni Trustees and 30% 
of population; others 7%) of Alumni Trus- 
tees and 3% of population. 

Granting that there are other important 
considerations as to Trustee qualifications, 
the statement on nominees called attention 
to the imbalance in geographical repre- 
sentation. With the retirement of two 
Trustees from Rhode Island, the State's 
representation would be 14%, and the New 
England area also has a representation be- 
low that suggested by the size of the con- 
stituency. Hence, the slate was limited to 
New England, including Rhode Island 

The following are the candidates (for 
whom full biographies appeared in the bal- 
lot enclt)sure) ; Edward Tappan Brackett 
'14 of Ncwtonville, Mass., a Boston invest- 
ment and tax consultant. Arnold Kaywood 
Brown '27 of West Barrington, R. I., vice- 
president and director of Brown Es" Sharpe 
Co. of Providence. Roger Tillinghast 
Clapp '19, Providence lawyer, secretary 
and general counsel for the Grinncll Cor- 
poration. Frederic Johnson Hunt "15 o( 
East Providence, vice-president in charge 
of the Trust Department, R. I. Hospital 
Trust Co., Providence. H. Stanford Mc- 
Leod '16 of North Providence, investment 
banker in Providence. George Tucker 
Metcalf '13, owner of George T. Metcalf 
Co., advertising. Providence. Lewis Stan- 
ley Milner '02, retired Providence business 
man. 

By mistake, 1 ."iO faulty ballots were de- 
livered by the printer from an early run 
and may have gotten into the mail. Any 
alumnus who received such an incomplete 
ballot is urged to write for a new one, 
which will be forwarded promptly by the 
Alumni Office. Most of these, however, arc 
believed to have been caught. < 

Representing Brown 

► ► Brown representatives at func- 
tions of academic importance in various 
parts of the country: 

Ralph M. Brown '25 at the inauguration 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



of Lyndon Osmond Brown as 12th presi- 
dent of Knox College, Galesburg, 111., 
M.ay 12. 

Prof. John M. Montz '11, Associate 
Prolessor of Civil Engineering at Ohio 
State University, at the Centennial Con- 
vocation of Otterbein College, Westervillc, 
Ohio, April 26. 

Charles Summertield '36 of Rockford, 
111., at the Centennial Ceremony in cele- 
bration of the founding of Rockford Col- 
lege, May 3. 

Earl W. Browning '05, Librarian of the 
Peoria Public Library, at the inauguration 
of David Blair Owen as president of Brad- 
ley University, Peoria, 111., May 8-9. 

Prof. Herbert E. Day '93 of Chevy 
Chase, Md., at the installation of Dr. 
Leonard M. Elstad as president of Gal- 
laudet College, April 26. (He was profes- 
sor of history at Gallaudet for a quarter- 
century.) 



Ronald M. Kimball '18, Alumni Trust- 
tee, at the installation of George Dinsmore 
Stoddard as president of the University of 
Illinois, May 16. 

Prof. Clarence Newton Reynolds '13 at 
the inauguration of Irvin Stewart as presi- 
dent of West Virginia University at Mor- 
gantown, April 26. (He will mark his 25th 
anniversary as mathematics professor at the 
university next fall.) 

Dean Robert W. Kenny '25 at the Cen- 
tennial Convocation of the f'ollege of the 
City of New York, May 7. 

Dean Arthur R. Tcbbutt '27 of the 
Graduate School at Northwestern Univer- 
sity, at the inauguration of President C. 
Harve Geiger at North Central College, 
Naperville, III, April 18. 

Dr. Richard S. Austin of the Depart- 
ment ol Pathology at Cincinnati General 
Hospital, at the inauguration of Ernest 
Herman Hahne as president of Miami Uni- 
versity (Ohio), April 19. i 



SEE YOUR CLASSMATES 
AT YOUR CLASS REUNION 



THEN: 



See Everybody 



AT THE 



ALL-ALUMNI DINNER 

Feature Event of Broivn University's 
1 79th Commencement Season 



Marvel Gymnasium 
Sunday Evening 
June 15, 1947 



Reception at 6:30 
Dinner at 7:00 
Tickets $4.00 each 



Plenty of Brown Fun 

and a Conipliiiient to Dr. Wriston 
on His 10th Anniversary as President 



RESERVE YOUR TICKET AT ONCE: 

This blank makes it easy. 

(Make checks payable fo William 6. McCormick, Secy.-Treas.) 

ALUMNI OFFICE 
BROWN UNIVERSITY 
PROVIDENCE 12, R. I. 

Enclosed find check for $ to cover tickets for the 2nd 

Annual Brown Alumni Dinner, Sunday evening June 15, 1947. 

Nome 

Mail tickets to 

Seat me with Class of 

P,S. I do (NOT) wish to reserve dormitory accommodation on campus 
Sunday night. 



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I ASSOCIATED | 

I Alumni \ 

I OF BROWN UNIVERSITY I 



Honorary Chairmen 

Charles Evans Hughes '81 
Henry Dexter Sharpe '94 
Henry Merritt Wriston 
Fred Tarhell Field "00 



S E f: K E T A n I E S O V B K O W N 



C E UBS 



= President 



Dr. Moses L. Crossley '09 = 



= Vice-Presidents = 

= F. Donald Bateman '25 = 

= Nathaniel Blaisdell '83 = 

= George S. Burgess "12 = 

= Rowland R. Hughes '17 = 

= H. Stanton Smith '21 = 

= Treasurer = 

= Fred E. Schoeneweiss '20 = 

= Directors = 

= C. Arthur Braitsch "23, = 

i Edward T. Brackett '14, Ralph M. = 

I Brown '25, William P. Burnham "07, = 

= Sidney Clifford '15, George R. = 

= Decker '23, J. Richmond Fales '10, = 

= David G. Fanning '25, Cyrus G. = 

= Flanders '18, Henry C. Hart '01, S. = 

= Abbott Hutchinson '31, C. P. Ives = 

= '25, Nelson B. Jones '28, Prof. I. J. | 

= Kapstein '26, Lawrence L. Larrabee = 

I '09, W, Easton Louttit, Jr. '25, E. | 

= John Lownes, Jr. '23, Carleton D. = 

I Morse '13, Fred A. Otis '03, Ralph | 

= M. Palmer '10, Harvey S. Reynolds = 

= '23, Fremont E. Roper '11, Roy H. = 

= Smith '01, Chester S. Stackpole '22, = 

= Samuel A. Steere "07, Martin L. = 

= Tarpy "37, Richard S. Walter "31, = 

i Clinton C. White '00, Sydney Wil- = 

= mot '09, E 

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Akron G. H. Gates '23, 2129 17th St., Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. 

Alta California (San Francisco) . . F. E. Roper '11, 2943 Elmwood Ct., Berkeley, Cal. 

Amherst (Mass.) B. B. Wood "05, Mass. State College, Amherst, Mass. 

Arizona Arthur L. Flagg "06, 29 Holly St., Phocni.x, Aru, 

Baltimore C. P. Ives "25, c/o The Sun, Baltimore, Md. 

Boston Edward T. Brackett "14, 3 5 Congress St., Boston 9, Mass. 

Brown Engineering Assn. . A. M. Impagliazzo '34, Griscom Russell Co., 285 Madison Ave. 

New York 17, N. Y. 

Buffalo Dr. Harry W. Rockwell '03, State Teachers College, Buffalo, N. Y. 

Canton Robert H. S. Kaufman '3 3, Carrollton Mfg. Co., Carrollton, O. 

Chicago Arthur M. Oppenheimer '39, 1 No. LaSalle St., Chicago 2, 111. 

Cincinnati Robert A. Stoehr, Jr. '27, 4785 Eastern Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Cleveland Harry L. Hoffman, 18141 Clifton Rd., Lakewood 7, Ohio. 

Connecticut Valley (Spring6eld, Mass.) George F. Aflleck '41, 5 Crystal Ave., 

Detroit Bruce N. Coulter '20, Cranbrook School, Bloomfield Hills, Mich. 

Fall River Arthur C. Durfee "22, 578 Osborn St., Fall River, Mass. 

Georgia Norman P. Arnold '30, 2386 Alston Drive, Atlanta. Ga. 

Hartford . . . Cyrus G. Flanders '18, Conn. State Employment Service, 414 Capitol Ave., 

Hawaii Warren C. Johnson "10, c/o OPA, lolani Palace, Honolulu, T. H 

Indiana Williiim A. Dyer, Jr., "24, Indianapolis Star, Indianapolis, Ind. 

Kansas City Myron M. Curry '41, Station KMBC, Kansas City, Mo. 

Los Angeles , W. W. Mann '28, 643 Moreno Ave., West Los Angeles, Cal. 

Lot'isiANA Dr. Dean H, Echols '27, Ochsner Clinic, 1428 First St., New Orleans, La. 

Merrimack Valley ... .... James S. Eastham '19, 250 Stuart St., Boston, Mass. 

Min-HuDSON Wm. Howard Young "16, 109 College Ave., Poughkeepsic, N. Y. 

Milwaukee Leonard L. Oster "30, 1 102 N. Third St., Milwaukee, Wis. 

New Bedford ... .... Edward S. Burkle '36, 51 Liberty St., New Bedford, Mass. 

New Haven Leonard W. Smith '13, 105 Wayland Ave., Hamden, Conn. 

Newport John H. Greene, Jr. "15, Eustis Ave., Newport, R. I. 

New York . . Mrs. Doris Johnston, New York Brown Club, 39 East 39th St., N. Y. 16, N. Y. 

North Shore (Mass.) S. A Hutchinson "31, 27 Pilgrim Rd, Marblehead, Mass. 

N. E. New York . . E. V. Mullenneaux, Jr. "43, 864 Mercer St., Albany, N. Y 

N. E. Pennsylvania . Henry W. Peterson "21, 409 Miners Bank Bldg., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 

Northern New Jersey Roland D. Beck '20, 125 Willard Ave., Bloomfield, N. J 

Northwest (Seattle) S. H. Shefelman '20, 3620 42nd Ave., NE, Seattle, Wash 

Oklahoma Edwin J. Schcrmcrhorn '34, 2824 So. Columbia Place, Tulsa, Okla. 

Oregon Ashley Greene '21, 1207 Public Service Bldg., Portland 4, Ore 

Philadelphia Charles C. Myers "25, 317 Hamilton Road. Merion, Pa. 

Plainfield Area Section 1 . . . Joseph K. Burwell "13, 165 Crescent Ave., Plainfield, N. J. 
Providence .... ... Arthur H. Feiner '22, 49 Westminster St., Providence, R. I 

Rochester Balie P. Cantrell '28, 25 3 Alexander St., Rochester, N. Y. 

Rocky Mountain ... Judge Joseph E. Cook '14, West Side Court. Denver, Colo. 

St. Louis . . Chapin S. Newhard '22, Newhard, Cook &? Co., Fourth & Olive St., St. Louis, Mo 

Syracuse Earle C. Drake '24, Box 42, Eastwood Sta., Syracuse, N. Y. 

Texas Dr. Robert M. Pike '28, 6202 Vickery Blvd., Dallas 14, Tex. 

Virginia Walter I. Dolbeare '23, 3213 GrifSn Ave., Richmond 22, Va. 

Washington, D. C. . . . Winthrop M. Southworth, Jr. '30, 3700 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., 
Western Maine . . . Robert F. Skillings '11, Room 50, City Bldg., Portland, Me 

Western Penn. . David I. McCahill, Jr., '38, "Tag-Hill" Fox Chapel Road, Pittsburgh 15, Pa. 

Woonsocket Himan M. Caslowitz '28, P. O. Box 533, Woonsocket, R I 

Worcester County (Mass.) George E. Marble '00, 14 High Ridge Rd., Worcester, Mass 

Youngstown Richard B Wilson '12, 304 Dollar Bank Bldg., Youngstown, Ohio 



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Charles P. Sisson "11, 

1879 — Dr. Stephen A. Welch, 253 Washington St., President 1915 

1881 — F. H. Gilford, 380 County St., New Bedford, Mass. 1916 

1882 — Charles H S. Weaver, Fitchville, Conn. 1917 

1883 — Prof. H. P. Manning, 148 Governor St. 1918 

1884 — Col. W. M. P. Bowen, 635 Hospital Trust Bldg 1919 

1885 — Frank Hail Brown, P. O. Box 1172, President 1920 

1886 — Prof. A. K. Potter, 212 Waterman St. 1921 

1887 — Dr. Edmund D. Chesebro, 2 Hawthorne St. 1922 

1888 — Prof. A. E. Watson, 30 Congdon St. 1923 
188H — B. S. Blaisdell, 539 Potters Ave. 1924 

1890 — Dr. Harry L. Grant, 297 Wayland Ave. 1925 

1891 — Frank L. Hinckley, 2200 Industrial Trust Bldg. 1926 

1892 — James C. Collins, 1030 Hospital Trust Bldg. 1927 

1893 — R. M. Brown, 60 Alfred Drowne Rd., West Barrington, R. 1 1928 

1894 — Daniel F. George, 177 Brown St. 1929 

1895 —J. A. Tillinghast, 1204 Industrial Trust Bldg 1930 

1896 — Charles R. Easton, 42 Westminster St. 1931 

1897 — George L. Miner, 276 Blackstone Blvd. 1932 

1898 — Thomas E. Steere, 21 Barnes St. 1933 

1899 — C. C. Remington, 902 Union Trust Bldg. 1934 

1900 — Chnton C. White, P.O. Box 1505. 193 5 

1901 —William H. Hull, P.O. Box 1318. 1936 

1902 — Edward K. Aldrich, Jr., 33 Eddy St. 1937 

1903 — Fred A. Otis, 605 Hospital Trust Bldg. 1938 

1904 - Edmund K. Arnold, 35 Lenox Ave. 1939 

1905 — Charles L. Robinson, 425 Brook St. 1940 

1906 — Percy Shires, 1 1 Thurston St. 1941 

1907 — C. R. Branch, 1042 Hospital Trust Bldg. 1942 

1908 — C. L. Grinnell, Main Rd., Tiverton. R. I. 1943 

1909 — HenryS Chafee, PO. Box 1342. 19^4 

1910 — Elmer S Horton, 2300 Industrial Trust Bldg '945 

1 9 1 1 — Charles P Sisson, 1 1 7 Everett Ave. 1946 

1912 — Earl P. Perkins, 10 Gibson Ave., Narragansett, R. I. 1947 

1913 — Prof. L. T. Bohl. Brown University. 1947 

1914 — C. Lester Woolley. 10 Wildwood Ave. 



Cliairman 

— Sidney Chfford, 1503 Turks Head Bldg. 

— John W. Moore, 378 Auburn St., Cranston, R. I. 
^ Earl M. Pearce, P. O. Box 1505. 

— Walter Adler, !■ 06 Hospital Trust Bldg. 

— Fred B. Perkins i 204 Industrial Trust Bldg. 

— Henry C. Aylsworth, 79 Oriole Ave. 

— Alfred Mochau, 87 Irving Ave. 

— J. Wilbur Riker, 208 Hospital Trust Bldg. 

— W. C. Worthington, Brown University. 

— P. A. Lukin, 2nd, Lawrence Fertig 6? Co., 149 Madison Ave., N.Y.C. 

— Thomas W. Taylor, 20 Benevolent St. 

— Jacob S Temkin, 540 Hospital Trust Bldg. 

— Irving G. Loxley, 94 Albert Ave., Edgewood, R. I. 

— Nelson B. Jones, Brown University. 

— Walter Ensign, 94 Slater Ave. 

— E J. Farrell, 61 Daniel St., Pawtucket, R 1. 

— Frederick L. Harson, 570 Broad Street 

— Richard A. Hurley, Jr., 80 Don Ave., Rumford, R. I. 

— Franklin A. Hurd, 5 Meredith Drive, Cranston, R. I. 

— Bancroft Littlefield, 1109 Hospital Trust Bldg. 

— Alfred H. Joshn, 100 Hazard Ave. 
Robert W. Kenyon, 43 3 Westminster St. 

— Martin L Tarpy, 36 Prince St., Pawtucket, R. I. 

— Paul W. Welch, 26 Gaspce Point Drive. 

— Charles W. Gustavesen, Jr., 12 Burlington St. 

— Joseph C. Harvey, 55 Mountain Ave., Riverside 15, R. I 

— John R. Mars, Culver Mil. Academy, Culver, Ind., President 

— William I. Crooker, Brown University. 

— William H. Sullivan, 1928 Cranston St., Cranston, R. I. 

— W. S. Maxwell Montgomery, 26 Linden St., Brookline, Mass. 

— lames O Starkweather, 23 Autenrieth Road, Scarsdale, N. Y. 

— Hugh A, W. MacNair, Chase C-41, Soldiers" Field, Boston63, Mass. 

— Richard W. Carpenter, 2514 4th Ave.. S., Minneapolis 8, Minn. 

— Richard M. Morris, 75 Division St., North Attleboro, Mass., 

yiew England Deputy. 



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