ALUMNI MONTH LY by the University to All Brown Men BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY In the Month's Mail "From the ISeck Up" ► ► SIR: Holding degrees from both Brown University and the University of Chicago, I receive regularly the alumni magazines of the two institutions. Month after month they arrive — and through the years the comparison has become alarm- ing. The Chicago magazine I pay for, gladly. The Brown magazine is now being sent free — and I would not be in- clined to pay for it if billed. The Chicago magazine proclaims a University which is interested in ideas, a University which feels its responsibility for creating and continuing and develop- ing the ideas which are essential to the survival and the progress of society. One senses that on the Chicago campus there are numbers of men who arc intellectual- ly alive, challenging, provocative. The Brown magazine proclaims a uni- versity which is apparently dead, or asleep, from the neck up. There is a good deal of emphasis on muscles, and much praise for those alumni who have carried the name of Brown to the pinnacles of finan- cial success. But is there any thought- ful professor on campus at Brown who believes the world will be saved in these perilous times by athletics or by "success"? I searched the December issue of the Magazine (for instance) without find- ing one single creative, or stimulating, or provocative idea. Are there none on cam- pus, or is there a conspiracy to keep the alumni from the dangers of stimulating thought? I am sure Brown is much more of a Uni- versity than it is represented as being in the Magazine. Furthermore, I am sure there must be many Brown alumni, like myself, who understand it is far more im- portant in these days (or any days) for a university to have a vital, aggressive, creative faculty than for it to have wrest- ling champions or stuffed bears. Also, if a university has a faculty which justifies its existence, it is certainly an obligation of the university to let the world — or at least the alumni — know about it. This is an obligation not only to the society which supports and sends its students to the university, but equally an obligation to the faculty which will be stimulated and given a sense of import- ance if its ideas are recognized and broad- cast. Brown Alumni Monthly Published by Brown University for its Alumni MEMBER, A.MERICAN ALUMNI COUNCIL Board of Editors C. ARTHUR BRAITSCH '23 Chairman GEORGE W. POTTER '21 Vice-Chairman H. STANTON SMITH "21 GARRETT D. BYRNES '26 PROF. I. J. KAPSTEIN '26 H. LINUS TRAVERS 77 GEORGE F. TROY, JR. '31 CHESLEY WORTHINGTON '23 Manaser'Editor Entered at the Providence Post Office as second-class matter VOL. XLI.\ MARCH. 1949 NO 7 Since leaving Brown I have been privi- leged to get around the world a bit, visit- ing some 40 countries for various pur- poses. The world I have become acquaint- ed with is sleepy in spots, but for the most part is stirring with deep rumblings of discontent and dynamic hopes. I am per- suaded that men who profess to be in some degree educated have a tremendous responsibility for the future. Surely grad- uates of such an institution as Brown should be constantly reminded of this by their university. The University of Chicago, through its alumni magazine, is constantly challenging its alumni. Brown University, through its magazine, definite- ly is not. .And it is my guess that there are hosts of Brown alumni who would be deeply appreciative if their magazine rendered them this service. Why not bring this issue out into the open through the ma.gazine? It might provide some stimulation just to debate the issue in your columns. REV. FRANKLIN D. ELMER, JR. '27 Flint. Mich. * It * On the Air ► SIR: I've just been listening to a Brown-Pembroke chorus broadcast. It was a splendid program, the numbers were well chosen, and the music as it came over the radio was fine. If any of the other New England col- leges put on a program which goes over as well in the series, I'll be surprised. I'm prejudiced but I am very proud of Brown for their performance on the Monsanto Chemical broadcast. Congratulations to Professor Greene and to the Pembroke and Brown Clubs. It was only by chance that I knew of this radio program. The newspapers men- tioned the first of a college glee club series but did not mention the name of the Col- lege. I wish all alumni could have listen- ed to it; all who did were rewarded and must have been proud of their Alma Mater. WALLY HENSHAW '23 Hartford » * * Ask Robbins ► SIR: A further opinion on the identifi- cation of the '97 players in the November cover picture: George Miner and John Gammons did a very satisfactory job, but in my opinion they made one error, in the identification of the player between John Emery and Jim Coombs. Captain Hopkins of the varsity team entered before the class of '97, and he is out of place in their pic- ture. If you will poll the University Board of Trustees, I am certain that Joe Robbins will plead guilty to being the man at the bottom of the heap. JOHN PETTIBONE '98 New Atilford, Conn. * * * The Real Answer? ► SIR: I am inclined to plead guilty, as charged by John Pettibone. Now for five facts about the picture and then a faint memory : The facts: 1. — It is not a picture of the 'Varsity. 2. — It is not a picture of the '97 Freshman football team, as seven members of it are not there. Sec the pic- ture of the '97 class eleven on page 227 of the Liber Brunensis of May, 1894. 3. — ■ The men in the Brown and White striped sweaters are '97 men who were on the Varsity: Colby and Coombs. .\lso on the ■Varsity were Watson, Millard, Jones, and Emery. 4. — The '97 sweater was gray with a big cape collar. Green and the "unknown" man at the bottom of the heap are wearing that sweater. 5. — The unknown man at the bottom of the heap was not Hopkins. He was Captain of the ■Varsity and never played with the Fresh- man team nor had a Freshman gray sweater (see the 'Varsity picture, page 219, 1894 Liber and the Freshman pic- ture, page 227.) Now for the faint recollection of 56 years ago, as it came to me when I first saw the picture in November. There had been a mix-up over the date for the 'Var- sity and Freshman photograph. Six mem- bers of the Freshman team who were not on the Varsity came to the studio at the (continued on page 35) College Hill Calendar Coming Events March 7 — Rhode Island Brown Club Evening in the .Arnold Lab. Prof. J, Walter Wilson, speaker. March 8— Hockey, Yale. March 9 — Basketball, R. I. State. March 10, 11, 12 — Sock and Buskin pre- sents "Deirdre," 8:30. March 11, 12 — Swimming, NEISA at Amherst. March 12 — Brown and Wellesley College Glee Clubs. Basketball, Providence College. Wrestling, EIWA at Cornell. Track at M.I.T. March 14 — Rhode Island Brown Club lecture, Prof. I. J. Kapstein. March 17 — Concert, Hazel Scott at .Alumnae Hall, 8:30. March 18, 19 — 'Track, Boston Univ. March 22— Rhode Island Brown Club lecture. Prof. R. B. Lindsay, Wilson Hall. March 25 — Brown-Pembroke Orchestra Concert, .Alumnae Hall, 8:30. March 28— Rhode Island Brown Club lecture, Prof. Lawrence C. Wroth, John Carter Brown Library. March 28, 29, 30, 31, April 1— Brown- brokers revue, 8:30. March 31 — Annual Dinner of New York- New Jersey .Alumni. -April 2-11 — Spring recess. .April 4 — Friends of the Library, Prof. Norman Holmes Pearson of Yale, on Harvard Poets, John Hay, 8:15. .April 5 — Philadelphia Brown Club An- nual Dinner. April 8 — Hartford Brown Club .Annual Spring Dinner Dance at the Wampa- noag. ■April 11 — Boston Brown Club Annual Dinner. .April 22 — Brown-Pembroke Chorus Con- cert, Alumnae Hall, 8:30. April 26 — Rhode Island Brown Club, sec- ond annual Pops Concert by Brown- Pembroke Orchestra, Alumnae Hall. April 28 — Chicago Brown Club Annual Dinner. May 2 — Friends of the Library Annual Meeting; speaker, Frederick R. Goflf '37. May 5, 6, 7, 8 — Sock and Buskin presents "Countess Cathleen," 8:30. May 13 — Scarsdale-White Plains (West- chester) N. Y., Spring Meeting. May 25, 26, 27 — Sock and Buskin pre- sents "The Country Wife," 8:30. June 1 — Classes end, second semester. June 6-15 — Final exams, second semester. June 17 — .Alumni Dinner. June 20 — 181st annual Commencement. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY MARCH, 1949 VOL. XLIX NUMBER Published monthly {except in August and September) ^y Brown University, Providence, I?, R. I. Admitted to the second class of mail matter under the Act of August 24, 1 9 1 2 , at the Providence Post Office. ► ► The Site Is Being Prepared ^ ^ In the profile of Benevolent St. it was as con- spicuous as the untoothing of a youngster. From Thayer St. you could see other land newly flat in February. Dem- olition had begun. This was the site of Brown University's future Quad- rangle, and the newspapers called it the first phase of one of the largest land clearing projects in Providence history. In the area bounded by Brown, Charles Field, Thayer, and George Sts. immediately to the south of the campus, more than 40 buildings will be razed eventually or re- located. Nine of them in the Thayer St. area are going down to make room for the Refectory, on which work will start this spring. Acquisition of property had at last reached the point where alumni will be able to see physical progress toward the final goal of the Housing and Devel- opment Program. Of the land plans, more later. y In New York State and in certain neighboring counties, the Campaign to finance that program had reached its active point. Fully and enthusiastically organ- ized, the brigade of workers had begun its actual canvass, with the success of the earlier drive in Connecticut as something to shoot at, something which showed what could be done. C. Douglas Mercer '06, Regional Chairman for New York and Northern New Jersey, has done a yeoman job in visiting the various communities, enlisting his aides, and getting the work under way for the area's contribu- tion to the second phase of the $6,000,000 national cam- FROM BENEVOLENT ST. the extent of February demolition was strikingly apparent. Looking north, one sees Hegeman Hall in the distance and a corner of St. Stephen's tower. (Photo Lab photo) BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY paign. His Advisory Committee includes such prominent alumni as Dr. Charles S. Aldrich '94 of Trov, ^Villiam Cornell Blanding '02 of Syracuse, Harold W'. Lord '20 of Newark, Robert L. Lowenthal '34 of Rochester, Irving L. Price '05 of Buffalo, Prof. William W. Browne '08 of Yonkers, Dr. W. Randolph Burgess '12, Jeffrey S. Granger '13, Robert C. Litchfield '23, Ralph M. Palmer '10, and James J. Tyrrell, Jr., '48 of New York. Area Chairmen include: Richard S. Walter '31 of Albany, Paul G. Rohrdanz '41 of Buffalo-Jamestown, W'illiam Howard Young '16 of Poughkeepsie and the Mid-Hudson area, Mr. Lowenthal of Rochester, Kilgore MacFarlane, Jr., '23 of Schenectady, H. Duane Bruce '07 of Syracuse, Mr. Aldrich of Troy, and Prof. Browne of Metropolitan New York. The corps of Local Chairmen and workers includes: Under Mr. Rohrdanz in Buffalo, East Aurora, and Jamestown — Theodore A. Kagcls, Jr., '41, Kenneth B. Smith '48, Richard M. Ricser '36, Louis L. Berger, Jr., '41, Walter A. Henr>' '36, Douglas Whiteside '36, Charles P. Isherwood '44, Richard O. Love '41, Robert M. Neary '47, Earl B. Hubbard '25, Dudley Onderdonk, Jr., '38, George W. Brace '19, and Seth A. Abbott '42, the last three in Jamestown. Glenn W. Woodin '05 is Chairman in Dunkirk. At Niagara Falls L. E. Bauer ' 16 is Chairman, with Albert T. Scialfo '42 assisting. ^ In the Mid-Hudson Area Thomas J. Doughty '25 is Chairman in Beacon, Christopher L. Crowe '34 in Hudson, Dr. Herbert B. Johnson '32 in Kingston, Frank R. Abbott '16 in Middletown, Louis M. Sweeny '15 in Millbrook, Arthur S. Francis, Jr., '39 in Newburgh, and Louis C. Sigloch 3rd '40 in Rhinebeck. Under Mr. Young in Poughkeepsie, Carmel, and Sullivan County are Edwin K. Golrick '47, Robert M. Golrick '47, Homer W. Guern- sey '06, H. Irving Long, Jr., '45, and Carl F. Olson '46. Workers in Rochester are James G. Scanzaroli '44, Malcolm C. Brown '19, David G. Flint '42, Balie P. Can- trell '28, T. F. Pevear, Jr., '28, Edward I. Cristy "16, George E. Hebner '15, and Erwin J. McGuire, Graduate School '33, serving with Mr. Lowenthal. Schenectady boasts these Local Chairmen in its area — Walton C. Forstall '22 in Amsterdam, G. Alan Rothschild '32 in Gloversville, J. Willard Lohnas '23 in Saratoga Springs, and in Schenectady under Mr. Macfarlane Thomas D. McKone '43, John J. McLaughry '40, and Robert R. Person '41. In addition to W. Taylor Davol '37, Auburn Chairman, and Raymond D. Cady '05, Oswego Chairman, the Syra- cuse Area lists the following under Mr. Bruce : Walter T. Littlehales '28, Clayton A. Burtt '46, William H. Marge- son '37, Harry G. Remington '27, George R. Walworth '03, A. Inman Marshall, Jr., '40, Irving Newton '28, A. Dean Dudley '02, and Dr. Reginald C. Farrow '26. The rolls in the Troy Area include: Carl E. Martin '23, Cohoes Chairman; John S. Davison '39, Hoosick Falls Chairman; Alfred S. Howes '38, Salem Chairman; and under Dr. Aldrich — Roland K. Brown '33, James W. Gurll, Jr., '38, Mr. Martin, and Prof. R. Stanley Thomson '12. y In Metropolitan New York there is a Chairman for each Class, all organized under Decade Chairmen. Prof. Browne, in addition to being Area Chainrian is "Decade Chairman" for the Classes from 1885 to 1899. John G. Canfield '08 is Decade Chairman for 1900-1909. His Class Chairmen are: 1900 — Dr. Dana F. Downing. 1901— Daniel J. Maloney. 1902 — Walter R. Bullock. 1903— Dr. Thomas D. Brown. 1904 — Jacob A. Mat- DONALD G. MILLAR '19, Chairman of National Special Gifts Conimittee of Housing and Development Campaign. tuck. 1905 — Colgate Hoyt. 1906 — Nathan Sackett. 1907 —Lee H. White. 1908 — Dr. Robert W. Burgess. 1909 — Charles E. Hughes, Jr. Arthur H. Wilkinson, Jr., '17 is Decade Chairman for: 1910 —Maxwell Barus. 191 1 — James Larkin. 1912 — Gerald Donovan. 1913 — Alexander Gardiner '14. 1914 — H. Elliott Foote. 1915 — Harvev G. Denham. 1916 — Dr. Carl C. Russo. 1917 — Hugh W. MacNair. 1918 — George J. Heidt. 1919— Ralph K. Rogers. Edward Sulz- berger '29 is Decade Chairman for: 1920 — Benton B. Orwig. 1921— George S. Bickwit. 1922 — Austin M. Davies. 1923 — Edward J. Gorman, Jr. 1924 — Philip A. Lukin. 1925 —Arthur W. Packard. 1926 — Frederick H. Rohlfs. 1927 — Carton S. Stallard. 1928 — Harrison W. Bullard. 1929— John H. Dreasen and Edson R. Rand. Cortlandt P. Briggs '39, Decade Chairman, and Joseph H. Mahood, Jr., '31 lead: 1930 — Nathaniel H. Gates. 1931— Mr. Mahood. 1932 — Raymond M. Hamilton. 1933 — Philip D. Straffin. 1934 — Paul B. Chancy. 1935 — Robert J. Silton. 1936 — Warren R. Daum. 1937 — Charles E. Hughes III. 1938 — Peter Corn. 1939 — Mr. Briggs. James J. Tyrrell, Jr., '48 and Herbert M. Isclin '42 head the next decade: 1940 — Seymour Berk- man. 1941— Norman S. Dike, Jr. 1942 — Mr. Iselin. 1943 — David J. Diamond. 1944 — Joseph W. Pearson, Jr. 1945 — Robert P. Breeding. 1946 — Allen Rust. 1947 — Thomas A. Brady. 1948 — Charies L. Busch. In Northern New Jersey Mr. Lord has chosen College contemporaries for his Local Chairmen : Essex County — Walter Waldau '23. Hudson County — John B. Apple- gate '23. Monmouth County — George W. Grimm, Jr., '20. Morris-Essex County — George R. Decker '23. Passaic County — Roland D. Beck '20. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY ^ Back as far as 1922 the University had started acquiring land in the two-block area where the Quad- rangle will rise on the Providence East Side. Two build- ings will not bo touched — the Annniary Brown Memorial Library and the College infirmaiy, Andrews House, both on Brown St. What of the others? Public curiosity had been high, and public concern was considerably relieved by what was learned. Eight of the houses in the area were built before 1830 and claimed distinction in the eyes of architects or histor- ians. Several others built in the 1850's exemplify the Greek revival style, while some substantial mansions arc of later date. Others are two-family houses of the present century. Brown men will remember some of the stores on Thayer St., like the Brown Bear Shop, the Brown Jug, the Savoy Market, a garage, pressing shop, a shoe-repair spot. First to go will be those where the Refectory will rise at the northeast corner of the Quadrangle plot. The nine buildings coming down here were all bought before 1944. Seven of the 10 families which lived there on short-term leases are connected with Brown. Last July they received notice to move. The University has contracted to move some of the more notable houses to new locations. One of the finest early 1800 homes, that of Prof. William T. Hastings, is one which will be moved to lots further south on Power and Williams St., near the intramural athletic field and tennis courts. Houses occupied by Dean Robert W. Kenny and Prof. Will S. Taylor of the Art Department are on the market, with new owners offered encouragement to move them to sites which the University would provide at cost. The University, said President Wriston, would not have proceeded during the housing shortage had it not been for the fact that the new dormitories for 750 students would open up a number of homes and rooms ofT-campus now occupied by Brown men. Five houses in the area were in such bad condition the only logical procedure was to demolish them. But the net gain in East Side housing will be appreciable, of course. ^ For months a special committee has labored with the problem of relocating such buildings as were architectur- ally and economically worth preserving. This group was headed by Vice-President Bruce M. Bigelow. Other members: F. Ellis Jackson, Providence architect who designed the Providence County Courthouse and the School of Design buildings on College Hill; Charles A. Maguire of Charles A. Maguire & Associates, engineers; Dean Albert E. Simonson of the R. L School of Design; Prof. Taylor and Dean Kenny. Mr. Maguire's office ingeniously charted possible routes for moving the best houses with the least disruption in the neighborhood. "The committee," said a February report, "has tried as far as possible to sense the feelings of the community in regard to the destruction or moving of houses. Except for the considerable inconvenience to tenants, some of whom are members of the Brown stafT (two professors are on the committee itself), we felt that there would be no justifiable criticism for the University's razing the houses not marked for relocation." One of the associations which lends color to Dean Kenny's house at 39 Benevolent St. is the fact that it was once the home of Mrs. Sarah Helen Whitman, Poe's "Helen of a Thousand Dreams." The widow of John Winslow Whitman, Brown 1818, she held there her famous literary salons which John Hay and others at- tended gratefully. It was just a century ago that the famous Poe-Whitman romance began and ended, an anniversary which Brown marked this winter with a special exhibition in the John Hay Library. During the demolition of the house at 54 Benevolent St., big copper pennies were found dated 1818 and 1833. Also found was a brass medallion which marks the elec- tion of General Harrison as President in 1840. They had presumably been placed under the flooring when car- penters were constructing the house. Another souvenir is a piece of wood with the date 1800 and the carpenter's name, found in an older building. ^ ► Manhattan Makes a Date 81st New York Dinner, March 31 ► The opportunity to enjoy a good dinner, hear outstand- ing speakers, meet new friends and renew old friendships will be presented to New York and New Jersey alumni on the evening of March 31 at Hotel Roosevelt, New York, when the Brown Club of New York holds its 81st annual dinner. Interest in the dinner is already running high, and a record turn-out is anticipated, according to committee members. Chairman of the dinner committee is Joseph N. Micucci, '31, assisted by John B. Applegate, '23, William B. Bateman, '45, Willard C. Butcher, '48, Robert V. Cronan, '31, William F. Flower, '35, and Edward Sulzberger, '29. Among the large number of guests of honor will be President Wriston, who will bring the Brunonians up to date on the fast-changing university scene. Letters of invitation and reservation cards are being sent out to the 1600 Brown alumni in the New York-New Jersey area, with the special request that reservations be made as early as possible. BROWN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI, GREATER NEW YORK AREA Enclosed is my check for tickets at $6.85. Name Class Street City Zone State (Make Check payable to Brown Dinner Committee and return to 39 East 39th Street, New York 16, N. Y.) BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY When the Advisory Council Met < < y ^ An outstanding year in alumni activity was re- flected in reports brought to the Advisory Council of the Associated Alumni when Brown Club representatives and other leaders brought the news from their areas and heard what was current in thought and act on College Hill in return. The vital program provided rich insight to all \vho attended the meetings on Feb. 18 and 19. President H. Stanton Smith '21 presided. Leading the discussion of Brown Club affairs were: J. Wilbur Riker '22 of Rhode Island: John J. Monk '24 of Chicago: William H. Shupert '22 of Philadelphia; James J. Tyrrell, Jr., '48 of New York; Wallace H. Henshaw '23 of Hartford; and Arthur H. Crosbie '39 of Boston. Among other representatives from distant points were Parkman Saward '25 of San Antonio, Tex., and Ernest S. Fitz '11 of Richmond, Va. Dr. Moses L. Crossley '09 told of the ideals for alumni organization which had materialized in the current "Crossley Plan," while Fred- erick H. Rohlfs '26 showed that the theory could have practical application in the field. He has been successful in organizing a number of alumni groups in the greater New York area. On the speaking program were such men from College Hill as President Wriston, Vice-President Bigelow, Dean Robert W. Kenny '25, Athletic Director Paul F. Mac- kesey '32, Alumni Executive Officer William B. McCor- mick '23 (whose report and recommendations appear elsewhere in this issue) . News Bureau Director Howard Curtis, Placement Officer James Cunningham '41, Football Coach Rip Engle, and the Editor of this mag- azine. There was voting on alumni nominations under the direction of George T. Metcalf '13, chairman of the elections committee, with a slate presented on behalf of the Alumni Executive Committee by Vice-President J. Cunliffe Bullock '02. When the candidates have accepted their nominations, the slate will be announced publicly. Entertainment on the program included two buffet suppers in Alumni House and attendance at a Glee Club concert and two athletic events. ^ "The State of the Nation is good," Dean Kenny told the Council, adding, "Don't confuse it with Para- dise." Brown would award degrees next June to 650 graduates of the College, which he called the largest number in a single year to date. During the summer session 159 men had completed their eight semesters' work, another 140 had graduated at the end of the first semester, and 364 Seniors were in Semester VHI. As with most colleges, Brown's 1950 graduating class will be even larger. Brown would be back to "boy-size" in the near future, he pointed out, as these large classes leave. Next fall the student body would probably be 3050. In 1950 it would be 2468; in 1951, 2100; in 1952, between 1900 and 2000. The Veterans' College had been liquidated with the current semester, and Brown had more than discharged its obligation to the community in this matter of veterans' education. Those who couldn't make the grade had now left; the others had been admitted into the regular College. The experiment had been con- ducted for five semesters, one more than the original guarantee, and it had been a conspicuous success. A good football season inevitably means bad grades for the student body, the Dean commented. There is more cutting in order to back the winning team on the road. Yet the semester at Brown had not been markedly worse than others. The Freshman Classes were now the direct products of the secondary schools, with fewer veterans of military service. There were more demands on scholarship funds as G.I. money became less a financ- ing agent. ^ A HIGHLIGHT of the day was the talk by Dr. Moses L. Crossley '09 under whose presidency the Alumni Plan for Organization had been set up and set in motion. Many had contributed to that plan, he said, although his name had become attached to it. He believed in it because every alumnus interested in the plan belongs in the organization, not as the result of an invitation or payment of dues but because of his stake in Brown. There were five prerequisites to the perfect organiza- tion of the alumni. Dr. Crossley said: The units had to be selected and coordinated so that the work would be effective, with unity of purpose and action. There had to be potential interest (which was there) . Each element had to be informed of Brown's problems, hopes, and accomplishments. The element had to perpetuate itself through internal organization, using the cement of com- mon purpose. And, finally, drive generated from good leadership. The division of the country into areas, then into subordinate State divisions with State managers, and sections organized within the States according to the concentration of men in areas — it was as simple as that. But it overcame the problem of some of the older Brown Clubs which sought to tap too large a region. The free flow of information must be two-way. Dr. Crossley said. It must not only come from College Hill to the Clubs but from the Clubs to College Hill. It was oil for the machinery of plan. It would take care of finance, for men would be bound together by a chain reaction, and the community of feeling and planning would yield the benefits. Recognize young blood, he warned. To organize the alumni fully, there must be driving mechan- ism, and it was a mistake to load all the burden of respon- sibility on senior men. Work went with any honor in the alumni body. From an Advisory Council Notebook y "Our avocation is Brown."- — H. S. Smith '21. "Our Freshmen, once again, are coming direct from the secondary schools, with the bands hardly off their teeth. Our job is to get the intellectual bands off their heads as soon as possible." — Dean R. W. Kenny. "There's nothing wrong with the Housing and De- velopment Campaign a few million dollars won't cure." — President H. M. Wriston. "Every alumnus wants to cheer for Brown in a bigger sense. The Brown Clubs can help teach them the cheers." — J. W. Riker '22. "The Brown Alumni Fund in the future will benefit from the organization, contacts, and generosity devel- oped by the Housing and Development Campaign." — T.F. Black, Jr., '19. "If we're getting anywhere in Chicago, it is because of the complete, warm-hearted support we get from Brown itself." — J. J. Monk '24. "When it comes to financing the colleges of the future there will be two alternatives: Uncle Sam or Brother Alumnus. Take your choice." — President Wriston. ^ BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY SOME OF THE COUNCILLORS : Front row, left to right — York A. King. Jr.. '34. Philadelphia ; John J. Monk '24, Chicago; Alumni President H. Stanton Smith '21; William H. Shupert "22. Philadelphia; Vice-President William W. Browne '08; Percy W. Sarle '16, Portland. Second row — Bvron West '15. Plainfield, N. J.; Irving O. Hunt '99, Wyoming, Pa.; Parkman Sayward '25, San Antonio, Tex.; Wm. Howard Young '16, Poughkeepsie ; Ernest S. Fitz '11, Richmond, Va.; Past President Moses L. Crossley '09 (Photo Lab photo) ^ A HIGH LIEUTENANT in the extension of alumni activity is Mr. Rohlfs, a Director of the Associated Alumni in New York. He has helped make the plan '"tick" in that area. His greatest success, he says, has been with "grass roots" Brown Clubs — virtually neighborhood Clubs in certain sections of Long Island and Westchester County. He had found the men didn't want county-wide organi- zation, rather small groups which could meet often in private homes rather than once a year in a hotel (and dormant otherwise). Placement Officer Cunningham told how his Bureau had expanded its contacts and its services for Seniors. The boys today were older, more mature, he pointed out, asking alumni help in the program of the office. Eighty per cent of this year's Class was made up of veterans, with good College records, and 20% of them already with family responsibilities which had made them more than usually serious in their work and in their preparation for the future. A number of the talks were "off the record." Another, by the Director of the News Bureau, we hope to repro- duce in a future issue. ^ President VVriston's talk to the Advisory Council was an extraordinary, rapid-fire reportorial job, giving a comprehensive survey of the University today in a com- paratively short space of time. He dealt in personalities, in principles, in performance, and in prophecy, now broadly, now intimately, often with pungency, and break- ing so much news that many brief mentions only began to hint at all that is happening. He sketched out the administrative organization, with a comment on what each familiar officer was doing. He told how the budget for the University operation had nearly trebled since 1940 and would be on the way down again, with a retract- ing student enrollment. He told how Brown had doubled its allowance on individual retirement programs for the Faculty, adding $50,000 to the University payroll charges in so doing. He told how young men were getting a break, how we had "grown our own Dean" in Keeney, who succeeds Dr. Richardson in the Graduate School (and what a debt Brown owed the latter for his 25 years!). Brown was moving into unique fields. Applied Mathematics, with its two major publications, was so outstanding that everyone who sought to set up such a program turned to us for staffing. We had provided the basic faculty for several institutions, and yet we were still the tops, partly because Prof. Prager had used a global approach to the problem of recruiting. Many departments were co- operating in new studies in American civilization. Brown was one of the few Colleges where a University Faculty was teaching undergraduates. ^ The Annmary Brown Memorial, in its new University status, had become a center of Renaissance studies through the richness of its resources, Miss Stillwell's scholarship, and Prof. Morgan's new project. He men- tioned electronics laboratory and a center of underwater acoustics studies. Departments were rebuilding, like Biology where new men were bringing vitality to teaching and research under grants of importance; like Engineer- ing, with its new laboratory out at Merino Flats, where much of the building and installation had been done by students. He touched here and there, deftly, swiftly, informing. A new Historical Catalogue, or Alumni Register, would be in the making under Dean Richardson's leadership. It would be a vast project with the larger alumni body, cost considerations, editorial problems. He hoped it would be a continuing project, between publications, probably located in Alumni House. He concluded with some observations on University financing. He was trying to find someone to make a $25,000 study of how to finance higher education in the United States. There had, he noted, been more volun- tary gifts to State Universities than to private institutions of late. One State university had an endowment of BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY MOSES L. CROSSLEY: He reminded the Advisory Council of what was basic in his Plan. $60,000,000. Was voluntary giving switching to such institutions? The only answer the President's Commission on Higher Education had with regard to financing was to drop everything in the lap of Uncle Sam. But more was involved than money. And there would be only two alternatives for the privately supported college: either to get its funds from Uncle Sam or Brother Alumnus. "Take your choice," he concluded. ^ Reporting as Chairman of the Trustees of the Brown Alumni Fund, Thomas F. Black, Jr., '19 said it would be fun to say that the Fund had had its best year. This, of course, was impossible in that the Alumni Fund had been "blanketed" by the major effort for the Housing and Development program. Even so, in an abbreviated and "low-pressure" campaign last spring between the two phases of the Housing and Development drive, the Alumni Fund had done almost half as well as ever. "It shows the place that the Alumni Fund has in the hearts of Brown men that it should be so successful," Mr. Black said. The future was bright, he predicted, for the Housing and Development activities were turning over "new soil." The crop for the Alumni Fund would be good, too. And, if the experience in the areas thus far covered by the Housing drive was typical, the Alumni Fund would benefit from the organization, the contacts, and the generosity. It was a medium for giving Brown "the most money from the most men over the longest period of time." President Wriston said one of his major interests in urging a speedy conclusion for the Housing and Develop- ment Campaign was to get the Alumni Fund back on a normal basis, without any longer interruption than was necessary. It was of primary importance to Brown in the long view. continued on page 12 No Summer Session This Year ^ There will be no summer session at Brown in 1949, Dean Robert W. Kenny revealed in January, calling ac- celeration undesirable henceforth. He said laboratory and class facilities would be adequate now that wartime pressures have been abated. Where necessary, however, credit will be assigned for work undertaken at summer schools elsewhere. ^ In Executive Posts < y ^ Administrative changes at Brown since last fall have affected men in several important posts: Dr. Gilbert E. Case '25, Registrar for the past five years, has withdrawn from the position in order to devote full time to teaching in the University's Department of Education. He has recovered from injuries in an auto accident a year ago. William A. Jewett '41, former Director of Student Activities and Placement Officer, took the title of Re- corder in succeeding to Dr. Case's duties. Francis D. Finn '43 has succeeded Francis G. Mar- tineau as Purchasing Agent. He is Chairman of the Educational Committee of the R. I. Purchasing Agents Association and assisted Mr. Martineau beginning in 1946. The latter has resigned to become regional sales agent for the Wood Conversion Company. He had been at Brown since 1939 and was at one time President of the National Association of Educational Buyers. William N. Davis, Manager of Dining Halls, now also has charge of student residences in an extension of his responsibilities dating from January. William I. Crooker '42, Financial Aid Officer, serves under him as Assistant Manager of Student Residences. Alan P. Maynard '46, Mr. Davis' assistant, has been promoted to Assistant Manager of Dining Halls. He previously was in charge of fraternity dining rooms. The principal objectives of the consolidation of duties under Mr. Davis is better control of the administrative and social aspects of student living. In strengthening this administration. President Wriston said that the move was made at this time so that it would be well established and smoothly operating when the Quadrangle and Re- fectory are added to the University plant. When the new buildings are in use, the percentage of students in residence on the campus will be higher. An immediate phase of the work of the new office will be the listing of off-campus accommodations for men who cannot now be quartered in dormitories and fraternities. Walter S. B. Tate '48, Director of Student Activities, is now responsible for Student Service appointments, general student employment, recording of scholarship awards, granting of student loans, and other aspects of financial aid which Mr. Crooker had previously super- vised. John B. Price '43 has joined the staff of the business office, as assistant to the Comptroller, in charge of the bookkeeping. He left Brown with the ERC group, came out of the Army in March, 1946, and returned to New England last fall after work as a cost accountant with the International Derrick and Equipment Co. in Columbus, Ohio. Accounting studies at Boston University and Bryant College have helped prepare him for his present duties as a general accountant at Brown. ^ College Population Down ^ With the end of the first semester, the population of Brown University declined a bit for one reason or another. Where there were 3261 students in the College for the first term, 2959 had registered at noon on Feb. 16 for the balance of the year — 300 fewer. Part of the difference is undoubtedly to be accounted for by subse- quent registration, but 140 students completed the work required for graduation at midyears, 100 students flunked out, and 25 withdrew for other reasons. Statistics were provided by Recorder William A. Jewett. ^ 8 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY COMPANY — 1949 i ■ '■ -xi;j .HI Dwyer*s Record Dash y y The picture on this page is of one of the best performances ever given by a Brown athlete. It shows the finish of the 60-yard dash at the Millrose Games in New York Jan. 29 when WilHam J. Dwyer '48 tied the worlj jla. indoor record of 6. 1 seconds. It's one of the most interest- mg sports pictures we ve ever seen, too, taken by the Bulova Phototimer and copyright by the Bulova Watch Company. It was made available to us by Harry B. Hen- shel '40, a Bulova executive. Henshel comments: "As you can see, it was awfully, awfully close — less than 1/100 of a second separating the first and second man." From top to bottom, the sprinters are Ed Conwell, who was second; Bill Mathis, who was fourth; Dwyer; and Tom Carey, who was third. Seeing Bill Dwyer come into his own this winter has been a great satisfaction to his friends and, incidentally, to his father, William J. Dwyer '10. The little sprinter showed great promise when he entered Brown in 1941, but he went off to the war. While in service, he took part in some military meets, then returned to College. Ham- pered by an ailing leg, he was disappointed in his Senior year, although he had earlier won titles and points in fast company. This winter, while wearing the colors of the R. I. Track and Field Officials Association, he has been a popular sensation in the indoor games. He started his campaign in the U. S. Naval District track meet in Boston Jan. 8, winning the AAU 60-yard dash in 6.6 seconds. The following week he took a second and two thirds in the sprints at the Washington Star meet (not the Waslmigton Post, as Sunday Editor John C. Henry '27 reminded us with good-humored impatience). After his record-tying race in New York, Dwyer ran third in the BAA sprint in Boston, the shorter 50-yard distance being less to his liking. The race had been held up by prolonged bickering with the starter and spectator haranguing, and Bill got off to a wretched start when the gun went officially. But Boston saw him twice tie the record for the 60-yard dash in the NEAAAU champion- ships on Feb. 11, beating Bill Gould, Holy Cross' inter- collegiate outdoor 220 champion by four or five yards in 6.5 seconds. Two nights later he won the 60-yard event at the New York A.C. championships in Madison Square Garden in 6.2 seconds. The clocking was the same Feb. 19 when he became National AAU title-holder, improving his time by a tenth each time he ran in three trials and final. He was the first New Englander to win the national sprint title since 1929 and the first white boy to triumph in the event since 1932. ^ Win National Geographic Award y Prof. Carl W. Miller of the Brown University Physics Department and Prof. Charles H. Smiley, Director of Ladd Observatory and Chairman of the Astronomy Department at Brown, have been awarded the Franklin L. Burr prize for meritorious work on the Siam astronomical expedition sponsored by the National Geographic Society last spring. Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, president of the Society, announced the award Feb. 27. Recommended by Dr. Lyman J. Briggs, chairman of the Society's Committee on Research, and unanimously voted by the National Geographic's Board of Trustees, these two men traveled to Siam under the auspices of the Society to witness an eclipse of the sun, Prof. Miller in charge of photography for the expedition which Prof. Smiley headed. The Franklin L. Burr awards are made from a memor- ial fund honoring the Hartford, Conn., newspaper pub- BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY lisher of the same name who was keenly interested in geography. Income from the fund founded by Miss Mary C. Burr is to be used for cash awards in the name of her father to "that member or members of expeditions sent out by the Society who are found by the Board of Trustees to have done especially meritorious work upon said ex- peditions." Among people previously honored are Lt. Col, Albert W. Stevens, U. S. Army Air Corps (Ret.), Dr. William M. Mann, Mr. Bradford Washburn, and Dr. Thomas A. Jaggar. ^ Changing the Brown Calendar ^ Brown University has acted to assure its large graduating class in 1950, most of them veterans, an early chance at jobs in what threatens to be a crowded labor market. Breaking a 28-year precedent, the Faculty has voted to begin next fall's term two weeks earlier than usual, on Monday, Sept. 19. The 1950 Commencement will be held June 5, two weeks earlier than this year's. The earlier graduation will give Brown Seniors a chance to compete with men from other colleges for available jobs, according to James A. Cunningham, Jr., Director of Senior Placement. Training programs for college graduates, which are offered by a number of large corporations, often begin in the middle of June, Cunningham says, a fact which has put Brown men at a competitive disadvantage in the past. Traditionally, Brown's Commencement has been held from one to two weeks later than those of other north- eastern universities. In 1950 Brown anticipates a graduat- ing Class of between 1000 and 1100 men, as compared with only 400 this year. The large number of veterans who entered College in 1946 will be finishing up next year. As the tide of veteran enrollment begins to recede, the University has announced also that it will schedule no summer sessions for 1949. Two six-week sessions have been held for each of the past three summers, an accom- modation to those veterans who wished to accelerate. ^ Small Talk ► ► Glass House and Stones Depl.: No suit has been brought against the newest publication at Brown, The Observer, al- though this undergraduate fortnightly re- view announced that its next issue would include "several articles from the faulty." On the other hand, as Col. G. A. Tay- lor '01 informed us, the Springfield Union reported that .Amherst had formed a la- crosse association and hoped to schedule a game, among others with the Narra- gansett Lacrosse Club. This, the Union explained, was the "Brown informed team." There's no end to typos, but we liked the one the Dean of Northeastern told us recently on himself. A Boston paper reported: "Northeastern University to- day announced the appointment of Dr. William C. White as Dean of Students. Dr. White has been acting mean for several months." And the New Yorker commented: "Serves him right." Our colleague at Bowdoin tells us that an industrious Class Secretary sent him the following news item for his alumni magazine (a good one, incidentally) : "John Jones reports the arrival of John Jones III. His daughter Mary will be married in June." ► We've spoken before about the young man who is a graduate of Pembroke Col- lege (Cambridge) and is in this country for graduate work at Brown. Lately Theo Hancock has been exhibiting his water colors in one-man shows in Providence at 30 Benefit St. and in Boston, also under the auspices of the English-Speaking Un- ion — good, strong, colorful pictures in the modern vein. The ESU has shown other courtesies to the young Enlishman who is a Sir John Dill Fellow, and he has enjoyed hospitality in various American homes. One weekend was spent in an impres- sive Manhattan establishment. Sunday night he announced he would be hitch- hiking back to Providence the next morn- ing. Eyebrows were raised, but after breakfast a "tremendous Packard" drew up before the front door. Hancock step- ped in with his little overnightbag. The chauflfeur grandly drove him out to the Merritt Parkway and selected a nice sheltered spot from which to thumb his way. ► Princeton is bubbling about a coup which a Freshman brought ofT during the recent exam period. The room was full of midyear testees, all busily scribbling away at their papers when the young fel- low suddenly sprang to his feet, walked to the front of the room, and tore up his pa- per with these words: "No, sir, that's too much!" Cheers followed the bold fellow as he rushed from the room. (He had had a signal from his buddies that the coast was clear on the stairs. And there was no way of telling how many of the frus- trated students thought he was actually in the course.) y The gossip is that the Class of 1924 plans to do something about College Hill for its 25th reunion. It sent us back to the files of the Herald two years ago when Jack Heinz's "Ode to College Hill" was first published — and we quote: O, summit of precipitous slope! O, fearful crest I someday hope 10 To reach afoot, though air is thinned Not pausing for my second wind. Someday, I vow, with will of rock I'll grasp my sturdy alpenstock .\nA full of fire and youthful zest 111 challenge R. I.'s Everest. My robust strides will carry me Far up the slope, and soon 111 see The Zcta House, the surest sign ; I've reached, at last, the timber line. "Don't falter, lad." My breath comes fast, Then, there's the .^.D. House at last! The worst's behind. My teeth I grate \i\d struggle up past John Stone's gate. The Dek's, their noses deep in beer, Scatter foam in a rousing cheer. Hope renewed, I wrack and strain My legs, those two frail shreds of pain; No respite, nay, no quarter asked — I bend my shoulders to the task. Van Wickle Hall is to the right, Forsooth, the summit is in sight! The sweat pours down my forehead now, And pain and effort mar my brow, t But, ah, my triumph is in view, ' Just four mores steps — now three — now two — My heart gives one brave final beat .'^s I collapse on Prospect Street. .\ thud, a groan, a moment still, .■\nd the stiffening corpse rolls down the Hill. ► The silly season always comes along at the end of exams. It was then that we saw a sign hanging from the sun-dial on Faunce House. It said: "Out of Order." ► Fellow who saw our piece about the four Brown men who are in the elite of football officials said he heard one of them described as the most '"sought-after" ref- eree in the country. But he says the ref can run fast and will probably escape. ► It was in one of these writing courses, and the theme said something about "an old man of 47." The English professor pondered it, hm-m-m-niing. He turned to the author of the piece and asked, "How old do you think I am ? " "Forty-seven." There had been no hesitation. "You change that adjective, or I'll break your neck," said Kappy. ' BUSTER THE COVER PHOTO: The Sci- ence Quad, flanked by Arnold Lab, left, and the Metcalf Chem- istry Labs. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY ► ► Highlights in the Alumni Year Gains of the past year promise further progress for the future. Alumni Execu- tive Officer H'itliam B. McCormick '23 told the Advisory Council in his annual report to it on Feb. 19. He cited the formation of new Brown Clubs, extension of the Crossley Plan, a step-up in Club activity, and achievement by other alumni agencies as encouraging aspects in the pic- ture as he saw it from Alumni House. He also discussed problems in his report, from which the following highlights are directly quoted: By William B, McCormick ^ ► Alumni stimulants: One of our accomplishments of the past year has been that of producing an album of recordings by the Band and Glee Clubs of the Uni- versity. It has been generally well re- ceived by alumni, and fills a long-time need, not only as a stimulus to Brown men, but also as a medium of public re- lations. Revision of the Brown Song Book, the adding to it of new Brown songs and the arrangement of our songs and music for orchestra, band and glee club, have yet to be done. All these things are felt to be justifiable projects for the Associated Alumni. ^ The Brown Alumni Monthly con- tinues its fine job as our main link of intercommunication among alumni and with the University. Like many good things, some of us are inclined to take the magazine for granted, and to forget that it is perhaps our farthest reaching voice. Serious consideration should be given to the need of motion pictures of the Uni- versity and its current life, for circulation among the alumni. The Alumni Office is constantly receiving inquiries for such pictures from Brown Clubs and from groups that are potential Brown Clubs. With the gracious cooperation of the Division of Athletics some of this need has been met by the circulation of football films. These films, however, are primarily coaching aids and are therefore somewhat restricted in general use, especially in the fall. Even if this were not the case, films which carry to alumni a diversified and attractive picture of Life at Brown would not only stimulate alumni interest and loyalty but might prove of great value in attracting subfreshmen, and in publicising the University. Action on such a project would be particularly timely as the Brown of the Future gradually emerges from the Brown of Today. Our new Manual for Class Secretaries is nearing completion and will soon go to press. This manual should be of consider- able guidance to existing alumni classes and especially to the classes of the last decade whose class solidarity and con- sciousness has been seriously impaired by the impact of the war and its aftermath. In this connection, the Association of Class Secretaries has been giving consider- able thought to the stimulation of reunion activity among the younger classes so that the traditional custom of class reunions may continue in strength and in signifi- cance. McCormick : "Building better than we know." ^ Commencement Week is essentially an alumni show! Its success usually de- pends upon two things — the weather and hard work. In planning alumni activities at this time, it is well nigh impossible to suit the wishes of all alumni. In order to approach this ideal, however, experimen- tation continues. The Annual Alumni Dinner, the largest annual gathering of Brown except, per- haps, at a football game, is again planned for the Friday evening before Commence- ment. In all probability it will be held, as it was last year, in Andrews Hall. In 1950, however, we look forward to being together in the new refectory at Thayer and George. It has been decided to return to the general alumni luncheon on Commence- ment Day, and to follow with the tra- ditional Alumni Meeting in Sayles Hall. Several classes have started their reunion plans for next June, and three of these have decided to live in dormitories while here. While there is no preponder- ant trend in that direction, the idea of "on campus reunions" is still definitely considered by reunion classes. In the 1948 alumni elections, only one- third of our graduates exercised their privilege of selecting Alumni Trustees. While this was a higher participation than ever before, it falls short of indicating a real concern for the franchise. ► Brown Clubs : It has been a most encouraging year in Brown Club activity. Twenty-nine Clubs have held at least one meeting. Five clubs have held two meet- ings, two — three meetings, two — - four meetings, and one, 5 meetings. Nine Clubs have held weekly or monthly luncheons. In addition, the Dean of Admission and his assistants, in their travels, whenever possible, have met with several alumni groups in almost every section of the country. Starting as early as midsummer, the meetings have ranged in character from golf outings and wiener-roasts to dinners, smokers, and dances. There has been a marked increase in the number of sub- freshman "send-off" meetings. These occasions, held before the opening of College, emphasize the fellowship and good wishes of alumni toward prospective Brown men and include the presence of the boys' parents. Another development has been that of more gatherings combin- ing Brown alumni and Pembroke alumnae. During the past year five new Brown Clubs have been formed or are in process of organization. These are Manhasset Bay, Long Island; Eastern Connecticut; White Plains-Scarsdale; Berkshire County, Mass.; and Summit, N. J. Two clubs which have been relatively inactive for some time staged comeback meetings. Potentialities for other new Clubs have been realized through meetings initiated by the Housing Fund regional committees. I should like to express our thanks to those in the University who have so graciously contributed time, energy and enthusiasm in visiting Brown Clubs, alumni groups, and even individuals throughout the year. These men — the president — officers — members of the Faculty — coaches in all sports — even undergraduates, have served the Associ- ated Alumni whenever called upon. Because of the expense involved, it is not always possible to send a University representative to Brown Club meetings, particularly the distant ones. In order to effect a maximum of club coverage by the University family however, the Alumni Office attempts to tie in the travel sched- ules of Admission officers, coaches, and others with the requests of various Clubs for visitors from the Hill. In this way many far away alumni have been afforded an opportunity to get first hand informa- tion from the University. ► Organization : The Organization Plan of 1947 is slowly being activated. This plan is based primarily upon delegation of responsibility to Regional Vice Presi- dents who, in turn, delegate a lii'. Subsequently he was con- nected with the engineering department of the Canadian National Railways and with the Bay State Street Railway Com- pany of Boston. At the time of his death, he was Assistant Chief of Education and Rehabilitation of the U. S. Veterans Bur- eau in Boston. No class gathering was ever complete without the presence of "Jiggs" with his incisive intellect, his keen sense of humor and his genial fellowship. He will be mourned by all, and the sympathy of the class goes to his widow, Mary B. O'Don- oghue, and to his daughter, Mrs. Boyd Chapman, of Union, S. C. On the day of O'Donoghue's funeral, Jan. 28, 1949, Ted Chandler was seized with a heart attack and died suddenly as he was leaving for home after winning a friendly chess match. Like Jiggs, Ted always made it a point to be on hand for class gatherings and hereafter when- ever 1915 men meet he will be greatly missed. After leaving college, Ted entered the banking field and was associated with the National City Bank of New York in San- tiago, Chile, and the Shawmut Corpora- tion of Boston. In the early '20's he enter- ed the insurance field, in which he was engaged as a broker at the time of his death, making his home with his wife, Mary Williams Chandler, in Weston, Massachusetts. They had four sons. At The Current Food Scare ► Dr. Merrill K. Bennett '19 sounded a different note from "the one we have lately been hearing from other experts in similar fields when he wrote on "Population and Food Supply: The Current Scare" in The Scientific Monthly for Jan- uary. He is Executive Director of the Food Research Institute at Stanford University (has been since 1942, for that matter) and is an authority in international trade in foodstuffs, prices, production, and standards of living. Time may prove right those who have been pessimistic about main- tenance or improvement of per capita food supply, Dr. Bennett admits, but he says the historical reasons are not likely to be limited to an over-rapid increase of popula- tion set against an over-rapid de- struction of soil resources. Among constructive moves he reconunends are encouragement of invention, accumulation of capital, domestic and international development, and general economic progress, one as- pect of which is the improvement of national diets. ^ A Dinner for 11 Cents ► The Salvation Army in New York will receive a profit of $100 or more on an 11-cent dinner if the suggestion of Walter Hoving '20 is adopted. He has been a leader in Salvation Army support for many years and this vnnter is chairman of the men's division of the campaign for $1,100,000. There had been what the Herald Tribune called "rueful humor" about aid to the campaign lent by a slot-machine operator in the city through a $100 dinner at a night club. Hoving announced that he was determined to give a "benefit" dinner at a cafeteria where a meal costs only 1 1 cents. "Every one who gives $100 or more to the Salvation Army will receive an in- vitation," he said, adding, "I will pay the check." ^ the funeral the class was represented by Wyatt Anthony, Rube Cram and Hart- well Greene, who conveyed the sympathy of the class to the members of Ted's fam- ily. His fraternity was Delta U. 1916 John Coleman is in Nashville, Tenn., where he is District Representative of the Bureau of National Affairs in Washing- ton, D. C. His Nashville address is 1605 16th Ave. So. H. Stanford McLeod has been elected a new Director of the Providence Com- munity Fund. He served as general cam- paign chairman last year. We were sorry to learn of his father's death in January. Dr. Maurice Adelman is Pediatrician- in-chief at Miriam Hospital in Providence. Leon W. Brower is a member of the Rhode Island Senate from Cranston, one of the Republicans who find themselves this year for the first time in a long while without a majority. The full member- ship is split 22 each. Mrs. Florence A. Butterweck, wife of Howard Butterweck, died in Bronxville, N. Y., Jan. 29. She had been active in church and community affairs in Scars- dale. Five children survive, with our class- mate: Mrs. Gordon Bucker, Miss Grace Butterweck and Paul, Br^wn 1942, Rob- ert, and William Butterweck. Howard Butterweck is a trust officer of the City Bank Farmers Trust Company in New York. Current addresses : Leonide DeNomme, 26 Gardner Ave., West Warwick, R. I.; F. Russell Smith, 274 Broadway, Nor- wich, Conn. iqi7 In addition to his activities as Milk Inspector for the Health Department of the City of Providence (and particularly his recent work in rodent control which won national attention), Dr. Edwin Knights finds time to serve on the Health Division of the Providence Council of Social Agencies. Current addresses: Prof. Carl Lathrop, 15 Herkimer St., Hamilton, Ontario; Ephrem Hudon, 107 Newbury St., Dra- cut, Lowell, Mass. 1918 Allison Miller is Manager of the Miller- Blackwood Co., retail auto dealers in Lafayette, Calif. His address there is Rt. 2, Box 464. Dr. Louis I. Kramer is Physician-in- chief at Miriam Hospital in Providence. Prof. J. Walter Wilson of Brown's Biolo- gy Department was moderator when Sta- tion WPJB aired a panel discussion of Fed- eral health insurance proposals recently. He closed the debate with the remark, "I am sure we will arrive at no final con- clusion tonight." Current addresses: James Allen, 71 Greenhurst Rd., West Hartford, Conn.; Howard H. Allsop, Box 1205, Lakeland, Fla.; Wilbur Rice, Ocean Rd., Narra- gansett, R. I. j^j^ "Biggest and best" are the words Bill McSweeney, reunion chairman, uses to describe the 30th reunion of the Class, scheduled for the Weekapaug Inn from Friday afternoon, June 1 7 through Sunday afternoon, June 19. The following com- mittee is working with McSweeney in plotting the course of events and beating the drum: Art Levy, Sam Temkin, Chet Scott, Ray Searles, Roger Clapp, Jack Haley, Chet Beard, and Bill Eraser. Regional committees are also being set up. The reunion coimnittee asks your help in providing addresses for the following members of the Class with whom we have lost touch of late: George R. Burgess, Kenneth N. Burnham, Ki K. Chun, Charles F. Devine, Arthur W. Duryea, Henry D. Fryer, Wallace A. Moyle, David F. Pierce, Francis H. Rich, How- ard W. Tindall, Courtney P. Young. Russell M. Peters has been promoted to a full colonelcy in the Army Air Force. He is stationed at the Mt. Shirdi Air Base in Japan. The revival of hockey at Brown brings back memories to Ernie Nelson when he and Lou Pieri were among those who re- established basketball on a formal basis. On the trips in 1918 and 1919 they di- rected the team themselves, shirts were furnished in 1919, and the sport had offi- cial recognition the next season. Two years ago Ernie's sons Bob and Freddie worked hard getting hockey back on a formal basis at Brown in Pieri's Rhode Island Auditorium. Roger T. Clapp is a new Vice-Presi- dent of the Narragansett Council of the Boy Scouts of America, which embraces Rhode Island. Arthur Levy was away from his Provi- dence law office for a trip to Latin Ameri- ca in February, iqoo Wesley Dedrick is Sales Engineer for the Johns Manville Co. in Boston. His home is at 42 Pinewood Rd., Needham, Mass. LeRoy Black's daughter Barbara Ann is engaged to Philip Clifton Martin, Brown '50, of Rutherford, N. J. 1921 H. Stanton Smith is a new Director of the Providence Community Fund. He has been serving as chairman of the budg- et committee in a difficult period when appropriations had to be cut because of the failure of the Red Feather campaign. Dr. Eske Windsberg is the new Presi- dent of the Staff of Miriam Hospital in Providence. He is also Surgeon-in-chief. Herbert Boden has a new address at 100 Landsdown Rd., Edgewood 5, R. I. 1922 Rev. Edward A. Bullock has accepted a call to the pastorate of the First Baptist Church at Winchendon, Mass. Mr. Bul- lock has been pastor of the First Baptist Church in Worcester since 1931, serving the longest period of any pastor in the history of that church. 21 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Alfred Mack addressed the Greenfield, Mass., PTA group recently on the sub- ject of the evaluation of secondary educa- tion. He is State Supervisor of secondary education in Massachusetts. Bertrand L. Shurtleflf's sixth dog book was running in Short Stories as a serial during January and February. It will ap- pear in bookform later with the customary Bobbs-Merrill imprint. ShurtlefT contin- ues to combine lecturing with writing, and we last heard from him in Indiana. But Adamsville, R. I., is his mail address. Our sampathies to Theodore L. Sweet in the loss of his father, William Luther Sweet of Providence, who died Feb. 4. Mr. Sweet was the former President of the Rumford Chemical Works and had been re-elected President of the Roger Williams Savings and Loan Association only a week before his death. He had been Chairman of the Providence School Committee, a member of the City Coun- cil, and President of the Providence Chamber of Commerce. He was a direc- tor of the National Association of Manu- facturers and the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. 1923 The February meeting which led to the formation of the new Brown Club in the Berkshires brought five 1923 men togeth- er for an informal reunion within the group. Ken Sheldon was a surprise ad- dition, having recently taken up residence in Lenox. Bill Heeks continues his med- ical practice in Pittsfield. Art Fox is Athletic Director and coach in the high school system. Elmer Wagner is a tele- phone executive. The guest of the eve- ning was Alumni Executive Officer Bill McCorraick. Albert O. Lundin was elected Presi- dent of the Taunton Pearl Works Jan. 24. He had been General Manager of this 50-year-old firm since October. It em- ploys 500 in manufacturing jewelry for the syndicate field and men's jewelry for the general field, with flat pearls a spe- cialty. Frank Fahlquist was guest speaker at a January meeting of the Bristol County (R. I.) Lions Club. Frank recently re- turned from a commission in Iraq where he inspected the proposed foundations for a new dam. Lloyd E. Gallup was President of the M. S. Dowd Carton Co., Groton, Conn., which has been purchased by the Robert Gair Co., Inc., of New York. Gallup is joining the Gair organization, with sales responsibilities in New England. John Parker is doing engineering for American Tel. & Tel., in Newark, N. J. He is living in Princeton, N. J., at 151 Patton Ave. Herbert Familton's daughter Joan was married Dec. 4, 1948 to Daniel Earl Gardner, Jr., at her parents' home in Flushing, L. I., N. Y. Samuel Klivansky is practicing law in Lynn, Mass., where his address is 17 Beach Rd. Other addresses : Prof. Harold Streeter, 800 Burke St., Easton, Pa.; Theodore Carlisle, 6229 Hiram Ave., Ashtabula, Ohio; Charles E. Home, Jr., 71 Haw- thorne Ave., Cranston; Herbert 'Van Hoe- sen, 765 Park Ave., Cranston 1. 1924 The big 25th reunion draws nearer, and plans seem complete as outlined by Presi- dent Robert Gofl. Here are the events thus far scheduled: Friday, June 17 — The Beaches at the Pier ► Brown reunion classes will watch with interest the outcome of a controversy between Government engineers and the Narragansett Planning Board over the best way to preserve the beaches at the Pier. Leading the fight for the Planning Board is Arthur E. Miller '22, former Brown basketball captain and real estate man who is its chairman. The Planning Board would pre- fer to erect a breakwater as a protection for the beaches and also for boats. It would also replace sand in the mouth of the Narrow River at the Pier and pump sand to the beach. Government engineering, however, recommend the placing of groins along the shore — jetties built out into the water to divert currents and prevent erosive wave action. The Planning Board calls groins "unsightly and probably dangerous to bathers." ^ Cocktails at the Providence Art Club for members of the Class and their wives. The men proceed to the .'\lumni Dinner, while the wives have a dinner at the Uni- versity Club and coffee at the Bruce Bige- lows, all getting together for the campus Class Night dance later. Saturday • — Lunch at the Brown University Boat- house and a clambake at the Squantum Club. Sunday — Luncheon at the Brown Outing Reservation and attendance at the President's Reception in the late after- noon. Monday — Commencement Day, with the other alumni. Dr. Robert A. Goodell has been pro- moted by Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company in the organization of its home office in Hartford. He becomes Associate Medical Director after serving as Assist- ant Medical Director since 1931. He is chairman of the New England Medical Directors' .Association and a member of the advisory board of the Hartford Med- ical Society. He spent three years in the USNR, part of the time on Okinawa and later as Chief of Medicine in a hospital in Japan, rising to the rank of Comdr. Edward R. Place is with National Wildlife Federation at 3308 14th St., N. W., Washington 10, D. C. "It is a de- lightful change from four continuous years of politics," he said in a note. His main job is to report conservation legis- lation. Continuing his activities with SPEBSQA, Ed sang at the Inaugural Gala for fellow barber shopper Truman with a 100-man "Singing Capitol Chorus," made up of Washington Chapter mem- bers. On March 9, his quartet, the Treble Shooters, is due to sing before 2000 dele- gates to the Music Educators National Conference at Baltimore. The appear- ance was assigned to him as a public re- lations officer of SPEBSQA. Recently Place spent several days in Toledo, attending the midwinter meet- ing of the SPEBSQA and "seeing and singing with Carleton Scott." The latter was with his old quartet, the Detroit Am- bassadors. The two have picked up Sam Wilkins as a baritone and now lack only a lead to complete their quartet for re- union-time at Brown. Our hunch is that their real problem will be to keep every- one from getting into the act. Walton Smith of the Statler organiza- tion and Ed Place joined a new crusade late in January when they were inducted into the Society for the Prevention of Put- ting Parsley on People's Plates in Public Places. There's apparently no program against peas. Quentin Reynolds has a new book scheduled for publication by Random House late in March. "Leave It to the People" is a defense of democracy, draw- ing for narrative on his recent tour of Europe and Palestine. Reginald Barr>' is instructing in Phy- sics and Mathematics at the New Lon- don Junior College. His home is at 180 Shennecossett Parkway, Groton, Conn. Current addresses: Hobert Haskins, Box 430, Caldwell, N. J.; William A. Perkins, 1433 University, Lincoln Park 20, Mich.; Albert Parsons, 16 Stuyvesant Ave., New York 9. 1925 Dr. Paul J. Braisted, Director of the Hazen Foundation in New Haven, was the chapel speaker at Brown on Jan. 19, with a fine message. Kingsley L. Bennett of North Provi- dence is a member of 'Volunteer Reserve Legal Unit 1-2, having been sworn in as a Lt. Comdr., a permanent commis- sion in the Naval Reserve. Malcolm Smith's address with the Hughes Tool Co. is 7000 Romaine St., Hollywood 38, CaUf. John B. Kilton, proprietor of the Hobby Shop in Providence at 109 Empire St., is the Secretary-Treasurer of the R. I. Phil- atelic Society. John W. Richmond was re-elected a Director of the Newport National Bank at its annual meeting in January. Harry R. Colwell, son of Richard Col- well, is one of a group of five Juniors from Friends Central School in Philadel- phia who have gone to Mexico this win- ter as exchange students. Current addresses: Dr. Marshall S. Brown, Jr., 157 E. 72nd St., New York, N. Y.; John Kazanjian, Jr., 35 Kay St., Newport, R. I.; Sidney J. Perelman, c/o Philip Shaw, 220 W. 42nd St., New York 18, N. Y. Lafayette Leave-Taking ► It was page one news and a matter of general lament that the Lafayette Hotel in New York, "a haven of old-world elegance and hospitality," is scheduled to close. Its operators announced that they had been unable to obtain the long- term lease necessary to justify de- sirable repairs. Evariste Orteig '20 is one of the three brothers whose family leased the premises from the owners. Sailors' Snug Harbor, for 47 years. The parting is on good terms, he told the Herald Tribune, but the owners offered only a three- year lease while the hotel operators felt they needed 21 years to warrant expenditures for modernizing the kitchen and other service facilities. The paper described the Lafayette as a "bulwark against the eat-and- run trend of dining." It was Orteig's father, the late Raymond Orteig whose offer of a $25,000 prize inspired Lindbergh to make his flight to Paris. ^ 22 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 1926 David L. Stackhouse won the Axelrod Publication Award this year in the first annual competition for musical compo- sition under the auspices of the Provi- dence Chamber Music Society, in which he has been a leading figure since its for- mation. His work for full symphony or- chestra is a tribute to Providence en- titled "Weybosset Bridge." The prize in- cludes publication of the composition, for which performance is under considera- tion. Ralph R. Crosby, President of the Old Colony Co-operative Bank in Providence, was also elected a new Director of the Providence National Bank in January. As the Old Colony President he made his first annual report to shareholders of that bank Jan. 26. Its assets increased 7J/s millions in the year. Nat R. Underdown, re-elected a Dis- trict Commissioner in the Providence Boy Scout organization, has Benjamin P. Har- ris, Jr., '23 and Prof. W. E. S. Moulton '31 as Assistant Commissioners. Melville Heyman is Assistant Manager of the Delmonico Hotel at Miami Beach, Fla. Elon Notely is Agent for the Davidson Insurance Agency in Tucson, Ariz. His address there is Rt. 9, Box 27. Current addresses: William Stephens, 2 Marine Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.; F. Ab- bott Brown, 360 N. Michigan Ave., Chi- cago 1 ; Dr. Frank C. Fowler, Hotel La- bera, Santa Barbara, Calif.; Dr. Joseph C. Kent, 62 Marion Ave., Edgewood 5, R. I. : Dr. Russell Bray, Church Rd., Bris- tol Highlands, R. I.; George O. Cutter, 436 So. Hanley Rd., St. Louis. 1927 Edwin Wintermute is Director of Pub- lications for the Michigan Education As- sociation in the Michigan Education Building, Lansing 2. He is Editor of the Michigan Education Journal, an illustrat- ed 48-page magazine published 10 times a year. The Rural Editorial Service at the University of Chicago recently rated the magazine as one of the three best pub- lished by educational associations in this country. Nathaniel T. Griffiths has been promot- ed in the Griscom-Russell organization and returns to the New York office. He has been in charge of their Chicago op- erations. Rev. Clifford Chadwick has returned to Providence as a member of the staff of the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John at 271 North Main St. One of the first things he did was to pick up mumps, but after the new year he was able to renew his campus friendships. One of his last previous visits was to speak in chapel as a Marine Chaplain, lately returned from Guadalcanal with a Legion of Merit and other distinctions. Russell D. Scribner is Plant Manager of the BenMont Papers, Inc., in Bennington, Vt., which employs about 475 people. History for Listeners < < "I Can Hear It Now . . ." ► The OuTSTANDiNT. phenomenon of the business of publishing recordings this winter has been the runaway selling of an album devoted to voices that do not sing, to sounds that are seldom music. The point is, of course, that the album "I Can Hear It Now" is audible history, recent enough to stir each listener's own particular associate memories. It covers a period of crisis, 1932-1945 and reproduces speeches and broadcasts that muster the history-makers : Roosevelt, Churchill, Hitler, La Guardia, Mussolini, Willkie, Eisenhower, Al Smith, Truman, the Duke of Windsor, John L. Lewis, Huey Long, and Will Rogers. In the re- cordings General MacArthur accepts the Japanese surrender, the Liberty Bell is tapped on D-Day for the first time in a century, the Hindenburg bursts into disas- trous flame, Louis and Schmeling fight. Storm Troopers march. More than 125,000 albums or long-playing records sold in two months. Says Bennett Cerf in the Saturday Re- view of Literature: "The fabulous success of this album (you must have it if you own a phonograph) is a tribute to Ed Murrow, Fred Friendly, and J. G. Gude, who spent months perfecting it." Gude, Brown 1926, says Friendly contributed a great deal more to the album than he. Friendly broke into radio in Providence, met his Pembroke wife (Dorothy Greene) there, and knew many Brunonians before moving on to New York, where his show "Who Said That?" is a popular quiz. Gude is a partner in Thomas L. Stix & J. G. Gude of New York's Rockefeller Plaza. He is an agent for a number of radio commentators. All told, he and Friendly listened to 500 hours of record- ings, transcribed 100 hours on tape, and edited with true dramatic sense and ap- GUDE: The lady was shocked at what was being left out after 500 hours of listening. preciation of values until 45 minutes were left. Murrow, who also helped, handles the commentary. The title, says the New Yorker, was the accidental suggestion of a lady whom Gude met at a party and who was shocked that he wasn't planning to include Church- ill's "on the beaches and in the hills" speech in the album. "Why, I can hear it now!" she said. Actually, the speech was a Parliamentary one, never broadcast nor recorded. ^ 23 Edmund Wexler has moved his law office to 206 Grosvenor Building, Provi- dence. Rubert Duncan is Representative for the Simplex Wire and Cable Co. in Phila- delphia. His home address is 333 Calvert Rd., Merion Station, Pa. Irving Miner is Chief Engineer for Builders-Providence, Inc. He makes his home at 20 Reservoir Ave., Rumford 16. Abraham Heller is an attorney in Web- ster, Mass. His address there is 252 Main St. Dr. Henry D. Stuard is practicing in Genoa, N. Y. Harold Rogers is Management Con- sultant for the McKinsey Co. in New York City. His home address is Box 156, Glcnville, Conn. Dr. William E. Braisted spoke at a sup- per conference and forum for Baptist men of the Merrimack Valley in December. Dr. Braisted is Senior Surgeon at the Chin Li Hospital in China. Rev. Raymond B. Bragg preached at the Northampton, Mass., Unitarian Church in November. Dr. Bragg is Ex- ecutive Director of the Unitarian Service Committee. New addresses: Gerald Weis, Univis Lens Co., Dayton, Ohio; Woodworth Stoddard, 47 King St., Groveland, Mass.; Rev. Joel Carlson, 152 Summit St., East Providence. 1928 Rev. Frank K. Singiser, Executive Sec- retary of the Massachusetts Bible Society died Jan. 31 in Watertown, Mass., where he had at one time been pastor of the First Baptist Church. He had previously been a missionary in Burma and had held pastorates in Pittsburgh, Mount Video, Minn., and Troy, N. Y. Frank K. Singiser, Jr., radio news commentator of Brandon, Vt., is one of four surviving children. Retailing Daily told the story in its leading article, a full-page feature, on Jan. 3: "Harold K. Halpert, owner of the Mill End Shop in Portland, Me., has found opportunity to turn his teaching profession and training to good advantage in the drapery business." It went on to tell how the former Latin teacher, who also has a Master's degree in English, uses on-the-job training. Since "theoret- ical training can stand in the way of good salesmanship," he believes that actual experience combined with added knowl- edge provides the best working basis. Part of the apprenticeship includes writ- ing an essay on "How to Sell Draperies." The trade daily paid tribute to the suc- cess of Halpert's methods and of his busi- ness. He opened his Portland shop in 1936 after experience in Pittsburgh and Miami. G. Mason Gross is a new Director of the Union Trust Company in Providence, elected at the January meeting of stock- holders. He is President of G. L. & H. J. Gross, realtors, Vice-President of Cherry & Webb Co., and Assistant Secretary of the Cherry & Webb Broadcasting Co., which operates WPRO. Richard A. Chase is a Librarian at the San Diego Public Library. He is living at 3786 First Ave. there. J. Howard Blake is now a Commercial Specialist for the U. S. Department of Commerce in their Philadelphia Regional Office. His home in Philadelphia is at 1906 Pine St. William Perry has a new address at 93 Wyman St., W. Medford 55, Mass. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 1929 In accordance with the vote taken by the Class at its last maior reunion (the 10th in 1939), Norwich Inn will be head- quarters for '29 men this year. John P. Child, President and Reunion Chairman, reports that the Inn has been reserved for Saturday and Sunday, June 18 and 19, and plans are shaping up for a big 20th. H. D. Wilson, Mana.ger of Electronic Tube and Products Sales in the Radio Division of Western Electric, was the author of an interesting article in a recent issue of the Western Electric Oscillator. It described the Machlett Laboratories and its products in telling of the manufac- turing collaboration between two pioneers in electron tub development. Machlett has taken over the manufacture of the Western Electric line of high power tubes for broadcast transmitters and allied appli- cations. Wilson, active in the Brown En- gineering Association, has been with West- ern Electric since 1942 after previous serv- ice (since graduation) in the Bell Tele- phone Laboratories and the Bell technical staff. He was in charge of vacuum tube procurement for Western Electric in the Government Contract Sei-vice and has had several oromotions to his present post, held since 1947. Harold S. Sizer, gear engineer with Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Com- pany in Providence, is conducting a course on machine design in the Extension Divis- ion of Brown University. Samuel Larkin is with the Rawlings Linoleum Co. in Providence. Mrs. Stephen Waterman, mother of Col. Paul Waterman, writes that she is very grateful for messages of sympathy received at the time of his death in the crash of a C-47 at Chanute Field last fall. At the time of his death Col. Water- man was Chief of Special Projects at Wright- Patterson Air Base at Dayton, Ohio. James J. Mahoney, Jr., is a Manager in the N. Y. Telephone Co. His home is at 88-06 195th Place, Hollis, N. Y. 19.30 Ed Sittler received the key to the city of Youngstown recently when he was a visitor in that Ohio community. As May- or of Uniontown, Pa., he was paying a courtesy call on Mayor Henderson of Youngstown when this special hospitality was accorded. Ed is a field underwriter for the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, and the ceremony was photo- graphed for The Mutual Circle. 1931 Joseph Galkin, Director of the Jewish Family and Children's Service in Provi- dence, is one of the three members of the new Rhode Island Parole Board, set up following legislation which wiped out the old board. The latter had released a group of criminals before Christmas against which public opinion reacted. Galkin will serve for two years. He is also executive director of the General Jewish Committee of Providence. .^fter graduation from Brown he took other studies in social service in New York and worked at the Jewish Board of Guardians for eight years as a psychia- tric social worker, as director of the camp for delinquents and assistant director of the Hawthorne-Cedar Knolls School. Later he helped develop resettlement programs under the United Service for New Americans and the National Refugee Salesmanship in Song y If a new S.wings Bond song becomes popular in 1949, three Brunonians may take some of the credit. The idea was to find and popularize a successor to Irving Berlin's wartime melody, "Any Bonds Today?" The project was turned over to the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, whose international president appointed Edward R. Place '24 as liaison be- tween SPEBSQA and the U. S. Savings Bond Division. Place is an associate chairman of the Inter- national Public Relations Commit- tee of the Society. For the Treasury Department the representative is Harold B. Master '27, Director of Community .Activities in the office of the Field Director of the Bond Division. The press chief of that Division is Jacob Mogelever '22. i Service, in which capacity he travelled extensively. Daniel Jacobs has moved his law office to 1035 Industrial Trust Building, Provi- dence, where he is engaged in general practice. Hector Laudati has announced the re- moval of his law office to 1707 Industrial Trust Bldg. in Providence. Ronald C. Green, Jr., Providence lawyer, has a new home at 32 Keene St. Thomas J. Sheahan, who has been Clerk of the Second District Court in Wickford, R. I., has been regarded as a candidate for the judgeship in that court following the death of the incumbent. William H. Crawford is Dean of the College of Mortuary Science in St. Louis. His address there is 3676 McRee .\vc. New addresses: Dr. F. Philip Brown, 126 Colonial Rd., Stamford, Conn.: .M- len Arnold, 12 Sutton Rd., Rocky Hill, Conn.; Clarence Hcisler, 1010 No. Coun- try Club Drive, Schenectady, N. Y. ; John Lane, 99 Robsart Rd., Kenilworth, 111.; Seelev Powley, Mahopac Falls, N. Y. ; Arthur E. Marble, 224 Johnson Ave., Cu- yahoga Falls, Ohio. 19.32 John A. Waters, traveling and study- ing in Europe, was in Paris when we last heard from him. "Tried Switzerland a while, but didn't like it as well as I like Paris," he wrote. "Conditions have much improved over last year — thanks chiefly to the three-fold increase in the value of the American dollar." Russell H. B. Corp was named Junior Warden of the Church of the Epiphany in Providence at the corporation's an- nual meeting Jan. 24. Rev. Byron O. Waterman is minister of the First Baptist Church at Plaistow, N. H. We noted in the January issue the birth of his second son but, as he was good enough to point out, he was not ac- corded the "Rev." to which he was en- titled before his name. William H. McSolcy, Jr., Clerk of the Eighth District Court in Rhode Island, has accepted a permanent commission as Lt. Comdr. in the Naval Reserve, sworn into Volunteer Reserve Legal Unit 1-2. Anthony Ross' engagement in "Leaf and Bough" was a short one. He joined the company after its Boston tryout, but 24 it lasted only three days on Broadway, where he has been involved in a number of successes hitherto. The play folded before our last issue, which referred to the presence of three Brunonians in the company, had come off the press. Dr. Nathan Chasct is Urologist-in- chief at Miriam Hospital in Providence. Richard .\. Hurley, Jr., has been named a member of the National Admissions Committee of the American Institute of Real Estate .Appraisals for 1949. .Albert .\. Barden, Jr., is at the Uni- versity of Maine where he is Assistant Professor of Zoology and Chairman of the Zoology Department. His home is at 1538 Washington St., Bath, Me. New addresses: .Arthur Lofquist, RED 38, Warren, R. I.; Paul Meyer, Jr., 93 Franklin Ave., Malverne, Long Island, N. Y.; Sydney Maslen, 56 Nesbitt St., Toronto, Canada; Theodore Jaffe, Suite 428, Barr Bldg., 910 17th St. NW, Wash- ington 5, D. C; Robert Hunt, 710 Ward Ave., Muncie, Ind.; Francis Dane, 13 West Glen Ave., Port Chester, N. Y. 1933 Edward Taylor is Electrical Engineer at the Portsmouth, N. H., Naval Ship- yard. His home is at RFD 1, Dennett Rd., kittery, Me. Wiliiam G. Bradshaw is a new vestry- man of the Church of the Redeemer of Hope St., Providence. Herbert Anderson is Superintendent of the Eastern Construction Co. in Provi- dence. He lives in Cranston at 53 Wind- sor Rd. New addresses: Lt. Harold P. Rein- hart, USNR, 142 N. Washington St., North .Attleboro; Stuart Woodward, 126 Massachusetts Ave., Providence; D. R. Merkcl, 112 E. Main St., Fleetwood, Pa.; Theodore Babbitt, 190 Institute Rd., Worcester; Robert E. Mayer, 44 Brad- ford Rd., Scarsdale, N. Y. ; Dr. Alfred C. Conte, 540 Charles St., Providence; Richard Buzzell, 16 W. 8th St., New A'ork 1 1 : Edward Triangelo, 79 Taber Ave., Providence. 1934 Caesar M. Danesi has been named the new manager of the Chicago office of Griscom-Russell Co., at 20 North Wack- er Drive. Capt. Louis C. Irving is in Seoul, Korea, as Chemical Industries Consult- ant for the American Mission in Korea. His address is .AMIK, Industry and Min- ing Div., .APO 235, San Francisco. The three Massanutten "musketeers" of Brown football, Joe Buonanno, Muray Caito, and Anthony Capasso took the lead when New England alumni of Mas- sanutten Academy held a winter reunion in Providence. The occasion was the visit of the headmaster. Col. Howard Ben- choff, who had come up from 'Virginia for the gathering. New addresses; Maurice Seligmann, 4005 Centenary St., Dallas, Tex.; William //i'«/i Cost of Sitting ^ Jurors in New Jersey will get .$6 a day instead of .$3 in fees under the terms of a bill introduced into the Legislature at Trenton by .Assemblyman William B. Widnall '26. His explanation, as reported in Time magazine; Women jurors are running in the red on baby- sitters. 4 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY J. Broadhurst, Berry Hill Rd., Syosset, L. I., N. Y. ; John Suesman, 62 Mcshan- ticut Valliy Parkway, Cranston; Robert Pottle, :i9l) Highland Ave., Upper Mont- clair, N. J. ; Lewis Sumberg, 659 Morris St., .Mbany, N. Y.; Coburn A. Buxton, 3411 Wvlie St., Dallas, Tex.; L. Richard Fried, 63D Wcis Rd., Albany, N. Y.; Win- slow Robbins, 7 Colonel Hunt Drive, Ab- ington, Mass. 1935 Stanley Henshaw, Jr., played on the Providence squash-racquets team when it lost its championship in the 10th annual New England tournament to Hartford after having won three times in a row previously. Robert Eddy is working for the Conn- ecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co. in Hartford. His home is at 115 Englewood Ave., West Hartford, Conn. Dr. Alvin Goldfarb is Senior Psychia- tric Physician at the Fairfield State Hos- pital in Newtown, Conn. Paul Paulsen is doing engineering in home laundry equipment for the General Electric Co. in Bridgeport, Conn. His address in Bridgeport is RFD 3. Paul Howard is Field Liaison Officer for the Federal Security Agency in Wash- ington. His address is 19 Brookdale Rd., Washington 16, D, C. Current addresses: Dr. Robert R. Wil- liams, Montgomery County General Hos- pital, Olney, Md. ; G. Armand Morin, 9 Allerton Ave., East Providence, R. I.; Charlis Bourgeault, 226 New London .\ve.. West Warwick, R. L; David Suger- man, 56 Columbia Ave., Edgewood, R. L; Thomas Carberry, 339 Grand Ave., Le- onia, N. J.; George Johnson, 148 Taber .^ve., Providence; E. W. Wittpen, R. D. Route, Ghent, N. Y. 1936 Geoffrey Graham is teaching all Jun- ior and Senior English (150 pupils) at the New Milford High School in Connec- ticut and living in nearby Sherman. Ed- ticalional Leadership, the magazine of the National Education Association, recently published his article which was a com- posite of group reports on a curriculum evaluation program. He's President of the local Teachers' Association. On the side, he continues to write and will have a poem in the 1949 Anthology of Teachers, Instructors and Professors" Poetry, pub- lished by the National Poetry Association. Richard Hart, late of Hollywood, earn- ed only praise for his strong and sensitive work in the lead of "Leaf and Bough," but the play's Broadway run was only for three days. "Direct and honest," was the way one critic described his performance. Robert W. Kcnyon has served his term as President of the Building Owners' and Managers' Association of Providence and has been elected to the Board of Govern- ors for a three-year trick. He manages the Phoenix, Warner, and Olney Buildings in Refresher Courses < < ► ► Recommended reading for alumni is provided each month by members of the Brown University Faculty in various fields where a continuing interest is likely, even in those beyond the reach of classroom assignments. The reading lists include new titles and works of high standing which hold their value for those interested in voluntary "refresher courses." Copies are on reserve at the John Hay Library or may be purchased through the Brown University Book Store. THE RENAISSAISCE The Renaissance. Wallace K. Ferguson, 1940. .An intelligent readable presenta- tion of what the Renaissance in Europe really was. Easily the best book of its kind. The Elizabethan World Picture. E. M. W. Tillyard, 1943. What the Eliza- bethans thought and believed about God, themselves, and the universe they lived in. Excellent background for the reading of Shakespeare or any other Elizabethan writer. The Life of Edmund Spenser. Alexander C. Judson, 1945. The first book-length life of Spenser in 60 years. The new information given here, though already known to scholars, will give the general reader a radically different conception of Spenser. The Tragical History of Christopher Mar- lowe. Bakeless, 1942. The most complete account of Marlowe's astonishing ca- reer. Briefer and more popular accounts exist but you might as well have the best. Christopher Marlowe: A Study of his Thought, Learning, and Character. Paul H. Kocher, 1946. Marlowe's ideas are often quite as exciting as his life. All interpretations of it are likely to be controversial. This one is a pene- trating study by an expert. The Art of the Renaissance in Northern Europe: Its Relation to the Contempor- ary Spiritual and Intellectual Move- ments. Otto Benesch, 1945. Since the art of northern Europe in this period is often neglected in comparison with that of Italy these lectures, now collected in book form, are a welcome addition to art history. The book is provided with excellent illustrations. POLITICAL SCIENCE You're the Boss. Ed Flynn. Politics by a practicianer in the Democratic party. I Chose Freedom. V. Kravchenko. One Who Survived. A. Barmine. Highly critical accounts of the regime by former Soviet officials. Soviet Politics at Home and Abroad. F. S. Schuman. A favorable and sympa- thetic interpretation of the Soviet Union. The Web of Government. R. L. Maclver. An analysis of the nature, evolution, and functions of the state. Slates and Morals. T. M. Weldon. Poli- tical theories from Aristotle to Marx with practical conclusions. The President and Congress. W. E. Binkley. American Political Parties. W. E. Binkley. Both are historical studies of importance. The United States and Britain. C. Brinton. An aid in understanding American foreign policy as well as Great Britain's. The Modern Democratic State. A. D. Lindsay. The theory and practice of democracy and the totalitarian reaction to it. The Red Prussian. L. Schwarzschild. A popular biography of Karl Marx. The Socialist Tradition. Alexander Gray. A history of socialist thought from Marx to Lenin. ^ 25 downtown Providence, with his own office in the Warner Building. Dr. Paul Votta is Radiologist at St. Joseph's Hospital in Providence. His home here is at 270 Freeman Parkway. Clarence H. Gifford, Jr., has been named head of the new commercial firms division in the Red Cross 1949 Fund Campaign to be held in Providence dur- ing the first two weeks in March. Gifford is a Trust Officer in the Phenix National Bank. Jack Pierce is a partner in the Pierce Electric Co. in Chicago. His home is at 700 Park St., .Arlington Heights, 111. Richard Bristol is General Accountant with the American Bank Note Co. in New York City. His address is 145-68 9th Ave., Whitestone, N. Y. Charles lovino addressed the Lawrence, Mass., Rotary Club on the subject "Red Imperialism in Asia" in December. Stewart Anderson spoke on "15,000 Miles in a Modern Covered Wa.gon" be- fore the West Roxbury, Mass., Woman's Club on Dec. 28. New addresses: Andrew Conway, Jr., 30 Wachusett Rd., Needham, Mass.; Winston Slade, Rt. 1, Wilson Lake, Shef- field, .\\a.; Robert Ensign, 8 Custer Place, Bronxville 8, N. Y. ; Alfred Collins, 130 Prospect St., Providence; John Davis, 362 Jastram St., Providence. 1937 Dr. Arthur G. Humes, Professor of Biol- ogy and Parasitology at Boston University, holds a commission as Lt., MSC USNR and went to USNAS Jacksonville this winter for a two weeks' tour of active duty. He took part in a special training course for entomologists and malariology technicians in the Reserve at the Station dispensar)'. During the war he saw for- eign duty in French Morocco and the Pa- cific Islands, also teaching at the Naval Medical School at Bethesda, Md. Our item about Dr. John F. Ebelke in December needs a little clarification. He is on leave for a year from Wayne Uni- versity, where he is Assistant Professor of German, in order to serve as Super- visor of Studies at the University of Basel, for the American Council on Col- lege Study in Switzerland. On the cur- rent program there are 27 Juniors from various parts of the United States and three graduate students from the Uni- versity of Maryland Graduate Study Abroad gioup. Ebelke's boss is Dr. E. E. Miller, who was Director of the Jun- ior Year Program under which Ebelke went to Munich in 1935. Dr. Miller has resumed the program which the war in- terrupted. Mrs. Ebelke is acting as stu- dent counsellor. Jay Andrew Jacobs, formerly Sales Manager for Day's Tailor-D Clothing, Inc., in Tacoma, Wash., had a promotion for a Christmas present. He is the new Merchandising Manager for the corpora- tion, which manufacturers trousers and slacks. He has been with Day's for two years, following war service as a Navy Lt. Jacobs took graduate work in the School of Retailing at N. Y. U., worked with Lord and Taylor in New York and later with the U. S. Rubber Co. in sales and merchandising. Milton Shaw is a Partner in the Pear- son Co., Morticians, in Portland, Ore. He is temporarily living at 2530 Ortega St., San Francisco, but after July 1 the address will be 1408 N. E. Knott St., Portland. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY George Paulson, Jr., is working witii Newsweek, as manager of their advertis- ing service department. He is living at 7 Jay Court, Northport, N. Y. James Rigby is studying at Georgia Tech. His address is 280 8th St. NE, Atlanta, Ga. Current addresses: Robert Mangiante, 96 Dover St., Providence; Dr. John E. Fenton, 33 E. Walnut St., Taunton; Rob- ert Cooper, 70 Brightwood Ave., Provi- dence; William Kubie, 231 Ege Ave., Jersey City; Lt. Col. L. C. Adams, Jr., Yokota A. B., Box 479, APO 328, San Francisco; Charles Wheeler, 2652 35th St. W., Seattle 99; Maj. David Condon, Jr., 2745 29th St. NW, Washington, D. C. 1938 William Wolfe, Export Manager of the Jacques Kreisler Mfg. Corp., world's larg- est maker of jewelry watch bands, was to leave Feb. 5 for a three month's tour of the Latin American market. The trip will cover some 15 countries, including Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, Venezuela, and Brazil, with sales meetings planned for all Kreisler distributors there. The Kreisler headquarters are at 9015 Bcrgenline Ave., North Bergen, N. J. M Jarvis has left the New Departure (no pun) Division of General Motors in Bristol, Conn., and is now a teller for the Society for Savings in Hartford, according to Brown Club Secretary Flanders. Richard Pratt is a Meterologist and Climatologist in the Army's Climatic Re- search Laboratory in Lawrence, Mass. He is in the Environmental Protection Section of the Research and Develop- ment Branch. His home is in Wcstbrook, Conn. Donald Christie is doing graduate studies at the University of Vermont. His address in Burlington is 19 Murray St. Horatio LaFauci is in Worcester, where he is teaching and coaching baseball at Becker College. Address: 120 Salem St. Lewis Wessel is President of the Mer- lite Industries, Inc., in New York City. He lives at 470 W. 24th St. John Certuse is teaching in the Fox- boro, Mass. High School. His home is in Mansfield at 253 Oakland St. New addresses: Dr. Howard A. Bla- zar, 21 A Kevan Park Apts., 52nd and Montgomery, Philadelphia 31; Arthur Payette, 757 W. 3rd St., Mansfield, Ohio. 1939 Response to the Class questionnaire point unmistakably to the fact the 1939 men are going to turn out en masse for the 10th reunion in June. Of the first 116 replies, 92 were from men who are defi- nitely coming back or "hope to." What makes the response the more remarkable is the fact that it comes in advance of any final announcement as to exact plans and program, although such word will soon be forthcoming, according to Pete Davis, who heads up the reunion prepara- tion. The questionnaire was distributed in December by Class Historian Stuart Sher- man. Its purpose is to provide the basis for a Class Directory which will include Irish Collection Honors a Brunonian < < Alfred Williams Began It ► ► A CENTER for Irish studies is being set up at the Providence Public Library as a memorial to Alfred M. Williams, Brown 1860, a benefactor of the Library who left his personal collection of books and literary material as part of a bequest valued at more than a quarter of a million dollars. In his collection were Irish street ballads and other printed items from the 19th century which provide the nucleus of the memorial. Much of it he had gathered in Dublin when Mr. Williams was a reporter at the Fenian trials in 1865 on assignment by Horace Greeley for the New York Tribune. He later became Editor of the Providence Journal. For some time the Williams Collection has been secluded on the sixth floor of the Public Library building in locked al- coves, available (because of its value and the rarity of some of the items) only to students and readers with special per- mission. By decision of the Library Trus- tees, the collection has been moved to new quarters on the second floor until per- manent housing is arranged, with the support of Irish societies in Rhode Island and others. Approximately 1500 volumes on Irish culture are being transferred to the mem- orial. These include a comprehensive list of Irish poetry, especially of the 19th Century, others on Irish folklore, novels and other prose works, history, and patri- otic studies, together with a complete set of the Dublin Review up to the time of Mr. Williams' death, which the Library has continued. It is not at present a sizeable library in comparison with the catalogues of the American-Irish Historical Society in New York, which is the largest, or Columbia University. It is, however, a carefully selected and discriminate library, in keep- ing with the superior standards of Mr. Williams — an excellent foundation on which to build. Its collection of street ballads is particularly rich and covers the period better than any other collec- tion in the world, including that in Dublin. Dr. James B. McGuire '38 of the Brown ADVISORY COMMITTEE for the Williams Memorial. Extreme right is George W. Poller '21 ; three from him is Brown's Dr. James B. McGuire '38; next is Stuart C. Sherman '39, associate curator; then Librarian Clarence Sherman. English Faculty is at present engaged in a scholarly work using this source material. A number of volumes by Yeats, Doug- las Hyde, Katherine Tynan, John Tod- hunter, T. W. Rollcston, and Rose Kavanagh are inscribed to Mr. Williams, since they were contributors to the Prov- idence Journal under his editorship. This co-operative undertaking is historic in that it was the first co-operative offering of the Irish Revival. Interest in Mr. Williams was revived recently as the result of a series of columns 26 written by George W. Potter '21, Vice- Chairman of the Board of Editors of this magazine. A public meeting Feb. 9 brought Padraic Colum to Providence and further stimulated interest in the col- lection. He called Mr. Williams "the fosterer of Irish writers who were my elders." Sean T. O'Kelly, President of the Republic of Ireland, sent four books as the first formal gift to the collection, of which Stuart C. Sherman '39, Assistant Librarian of the Providence Public Library, is associate curator. ^ BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY a summary of information about 1939 and will probably be jjrinted so that cvrry member may have a copy later in the spring. The following men report their inten- tions on reunion: Comittg: L. David Korb, Foster B. Davis, Jr., Stuart C. Sherman, Arthur H. Crosbie, Robert D. O'Brien, Edward J. Deignan, Edward H. Zeigler, Jr., John E. Haskell, Harold N. Ipsen, Samuel N. Bogorad, Philip A. Hartley, David Hull, Harold J. Rosenberg, George H. Truman, Irving Z. Mann, Grant B. Bursley, John S. Davison, Millard A. Lovejoy, Bruno Di- Clemente, William C. Bicluch, Raymond A. Matteson, Matthew J. Brennan, Fred- erick J. Maxted, Jr., Thomas C. McOskrr, Karl F. Weygand, Charles A. Reynolds, John S. Franklin, Alfred H. Macgillivray, Charles W. Gustavescn, Jr., Charles L. Kingsford, Leonard D. LeVallcy, R. L. Fletcher, Jr., Frank P. Comstock, Paul R. Miller, Douglas G. Herron, Thomas J. Quinn, Emery R. Walker, Jr., Andrew B. Porter. Hope to come: Russell S. Wood, Ran- dall H. McWilliams, Charles L. Kramer, Phil Fciner, .'krthur S. Francis, Jr., Rob- ert C. Bogle, Irving A. Hall, Jr., Richard I. Clark, Herbert H. Goldberger, Albert S. George, Charles J. Carignan, Richard W. Goodby, John H. Vocke, Walter Baker, Sydney H. Shapiro, Wickliffe Luhn, Rob- ert L. Scowcroft, Edmund D. Brown, Thomas F. Minuto, Herbert Beasley, James C. Constable, John R. Magee, Jr., Howard A. Lane, Jr., Wilbur F. Eastman, Jr., Henry G. Butler, Jr., Ernest E. Alder- man, James H. Maker, Gardner S. Gould, Jr., Cortlandt P. Briggs, David Landman, George Slade, Frank O'Shanick, Thomas S. Barrett, Frederick H. Greene, Jr., Dwight S. Waring, Jr., Samuel Unger- leider, Jr., Walter Jackson, W. Allen Traver, Jr., Gilbert E. Cain, Howard G. Brown, Robert L. Whitehead, George L. Playe, Frederick A. Smith, Robert H. Wyatt, Robert L. Seekins, Roger L. Sa- very, John W. Barry, Roy Ten Haagcn, Stuart S. Golding, John H. Fletcher, Cad W. .^rrendell, Jr., Richard S. Gates, John M. Hoober, Jr., Wilfred C. Broadbent. In addition to Davis and Sherman, the reunion committee includes G. Gale Wis- bach, Ralph L. Fletcher, Jr., Charles Gustavesen, Jr., John Haskell of Woods- town, N. J., David B. Wilmot of Albany, N. Y., George Witherell of Boston, and Arthur M. Oppenheimer of Chicago. The Providence men have been meeting twice a month. The poll of the Class showed a two-to-one preference for going out of town Saturday night after a Friday on campus, and the committee has proceeded on that basis. The committee asks for the early return of any outstanding ques- tionnaires. Lt. James D. Wilson, USN, on duty aboard the USS .■\lbemarle, wrote in mid- January that his ship had been at the Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, Va., for sev- eral months and that when she was ready for a shakedown he hoped to "absorb a little Caribbean sunshine before the 'sea- son' is over." Douglas G. Herron is Regional Sales Manager for the Hoffman Motor Car Co. in New York City. He lives in Rye at 1305 Boston Post Rd. Ernest Alderman has been appointed Marine Special Agent for the Aetna Insur- ance Co. and its five subsidiaries in Mary- The Bride Rentatiis ► The BRir>E of Stephen Nichol- son, Jr., '36 may stay in this coun- try. The fact is more remarkable than it sounds, for she was Claud- ine Denise Lc Bailly of Paris and Cannes, whom he met at a Thanks- giving Day ball on the Riviera three years ago. Public Law 271 was expiring at the end of December, a law pas.sed in 1945 which permitted foreign war brides who had entered the United States under three-month visitors' permit, to become perma- nent residents. Married in Grace Church, Providence, Dec. 28, the Nicholsons went directly to the U. S. Immigration and Naturaliza- tion office to present their wedding certificate, obtained the status of permanent resident for the bride, and then retrieved the .$500 bond posted before she entered this country two months previously. Then what did the new Perma- nent Resident do? She sought to go straightway to Bermuda. Even for a honeymoon, that took some doing, with special papers, re-entry permit, and co-operation of immigration officials. But every- thing worked out beautifully, and the newspaper headline was: "Cu- pid Triumphs Over Red Tape." i land, Virginia, and the District of Colum- bia. William Bacon is with the Whitney Blake Co. in Hamden, Conn., and is living on Quassuck Rd,, Woodbury, Conn. Dr. Robert V. Lewis has announced the opening of his office for the practice of in- ternal medicine at 441 Angell St. in Provi- dence. John J. Harrington has been named First .Assistant to District Attorney Maurice M. Lyons of New Bedford. William Hogan has returned to active duty as a Commander in the Naval Re- serve. New addresses: Samuel Ungerleider, Jr., 102 South Union St., Margate, N. J.; John Volkhart, Le Roy Rd., Chappaqua, N. Y. ; William Bieluch, 132 Glendale Ave., Hart- ford, Conn.; Arthur Brown, Rd. 1, Box 8, Ventura, Calif.; Charles E. Gross, II, 265 Benefit St., Providence ; David Delack, 2075 Plum St., Schenectady 9, N. Y.; Gil- bert Cain, 38 Newman St., Metuchen, N. J. 1940 Harry Piatt has had a successful year as coach of the Bryant College basketball team, his charges winning the champion- ship of the New England Coastal Confer- ence with the loss of only one game. The team also defeated the Brown Freshmen convincingly. Stanley R. Millard is in the Rockefeller Center Office of the Guaranty Trust Com- pany of New York, in the New Business Department. This we note to clear up an earlier reference that was fouled up re- grettably. Donald Tefft has been named Assistant Secretary of the Providence Washington Insurance Co. and its affiliate, the Anchor Insurance Co. William H. Kean, Jr., is an Industrial Engineer with the George S. May Co. in New York City. His address: 415 W. 23rd St., New York 11. 27 Joseph Harvey is with the American Chemical & Solvent Co. in Providence. Charles Blount is now a Major. He is in Hawaii, with this address: 135th M.R.U., APO 958, San Francisco, Calif. Malcolm .\rmstrong is Service Engineer- ing .Analyst for the Pratt and Whitney -Xir- craft Corporation in East Hartford. He is living at 142 Elmfield St., West Hartford, Conn. Saul Belilove is owner of the Berkeley Machinery Co. in Oakland, Calif. His address there is 629 55th St. Current addresses: Lewis M. Tarnapol, 44 Firgladr Ave., Providence; Merton Barstow, Nimitz Circle, E. Natick, Mass.; Harry Sharkey, Box 196, RED 3, Bridge- port, Conn. ; Leslie Lovctt, South Highland Ave., Nyack, N. Y. 1941 We are sorry to note the death of Dr. Michael J. Nestor, father of James Nestor. Dr. Nestor was City Registrar and Superin- tendent of the Providence Health Depart- ment from 1935 to 1948 and was largely responsible for the present strong sanita- tion program in Providence. John B. Santamaria of 67 Chatham St., Providence, is Personnel Manager for the LI. S. Rubber Co. in that city. He's been in touch with the Brown Placement Bureau. Richard B. Irwin is the new Managing Editor of the Clearfield Progress, which Pennsylvania newspaper he has served for three years as a staff member. The pub- lisher said, in making the announcement recently, that Irwin had developed into "a conscientious and capable newspaper- man." Irwin is living at 12 North Front St. in Clearfield with his wife, the former Kathleen L. Butler of Winburne, Pa. John Benn is Field Construction Engine- er with the Turner Construction Co. in Chicago. He is living at 235 Geneva Ave., Elmhurst, 111. Raymond Moran took a position as Works .Accountant at the Allentown, Pa., Works of the General Electric Co. Feb. 15. H. Elliot Rice was graduated from Har- vard Law School in September and is now with Tillinghast, Collins & Tanner in Providence. He is living at 56 Tiogue Ave., W. Warwick. Dr. A. Walter Murdock, Jr., will be at the Morristown, N. J., Memorial Hospital until June, after which his address will be Box 834, Sparta, N. J. Kenyon Greene has joined the law firm of Bronson, Lewis, Upson, and Secor in Waterbury, Conn. Philip Hawkes, with General Electric in Schenectady, is living at 932 Albany St. Current addresses: Frederick Morrison, Graphic House, Inc., 941 N. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles 46; William Buffum, 159 Waterman St., Providence; Dr. Paul PoUinger, Doctor's Hospital, Eye St., Washington, D. C. : John Pfeil, 26 Walnut Hill Rd., Newton Highlands, Mass. ; Victor Hillery, Wall Street Journal, 347 Oliver Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa.; Richard Bell, Sneach Pond Rd., Box 424, RFD 2, .Arnolds Mills, Valley Falls, R. I.; Lester Bernstein, 134 Tenth St., Providence. 1942 Frederic Hall is Procurement Represen- tative for the Dictaphone Corp. in Bridge- port. He is living on Pine Tree Rd., Red- ding Ridge, Conn. Terence Thompson is Assistant .Adjust- er for Johnson and Higgins in New York City. He is living at 198 Davis Ave., West Brighton, Staten Island 10, N. Y. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Gordon Niemitz, sales representative for Procter and Gamble's Drug Products divi- sion, is living at 1 10 Browers Lane, Roslyn Heights, Long Island, N. Y. Pardon Tillinghast is Instructor in His- tory at Middlebury College. He is living at 79 Main St., Middlebury, Vt. Current addresses: Dr. Thomas For- sythe, Box 203, Dow Field, Bangor, Me.; Seth .\bbott, 191 Highland Ave., Harris- burg, N. Y. ; Sidnev Frank, 950 Bays Drive, Miami, Fla. ; Bob Rockwell, 340 Smithfield Ave., Pawtucket; Norman Orent, 3 Peter Cooper Rd., New York 10; Francis Leary, 632B Shaler Blvd., Ridgefield, N. J.; Rob- ert Michael, Tyron, N. C; G. Lincoln Rockwell, 45 Pleasant St., .\uburn, Me.; Herman Richter, Jr., 276 S. Drive, Roches- ter 12, N. Y.; James Hadfield, 85 Calder- wood Drive, Greenwood, R. I.; Charles CoUis, 25 Grecnway Terrace, Babylon, N. Y. 1943 Leon Leoni is a Research and Develop- ment Engineer in General Electric's High Voltage Laboratory in Pittsfield, Mass. His address is Box 31, East Greenwich, R. I. Clinton Carlisle is Application Engineer for the AWh Chalmers Mfg. Co. He lives at Kurtis Drive, Elm Grove, Wise. Joseph A. Callanan gives us a new ad- dress which will be good March 30: 98-34 63rd Drive, Forest Hills, N. Y. He's been with Fiction House, New York publishers at 670 Fifth Ave., for a year and a half and is an editor. He's done some free-lance writ- ing, too, mostly fiction. Paul Armor is with the Sorensen Co. in Stamford, Conn., and makes his home at 105 Charles St. in Fairfield, Conn. Bob McCullough is with the Collins and Aikman Corporation in New York City. He is living at Cummings Pt., Stamford, Conn. Bob Broadwell is Assistant Store Man- ager for Sears Roebuck and Co. in Glen Ellyn, 111. He is living at 1950 W. Hood St., Chicago, 111. H. Wilson Guernsey, Jr., is Associate Broker with the Homer W. Guernsey Real- ity Co. in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He has a new address at Fairfield Farm, R. D. 3, Poughkeepsie. Bill Sullivan is now in the American Embassy at Bangkok, Siam. Current addresses: Vincent Luca, 228 5th St., Lewiston, Ida.; Bernard Lubarsky, 52 Prospect St., White Plains, N. Y.; George Smith, Manila Hotel, Manila P. I.; 1st Lt. John Hynes, USAF, Box 3143, AFIT, MCGT, Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio; James Munves, 126 E. 54th St., New York, 22, N. Y.; Nelson Portnoy, 1012 N. 14th Ave., Melrose Park, 111.; John B. Andrews, Farm St., Dover, Mass. 1944 Bobbie Nelson is teaching and coaching at Gushing Academy this year, with hockey the sport that has had his attention of late. The Nelsons have two children now, with Bonnie Briggs a new addition and com- panion to two-year-old Robert Scott. Dr. Lawrence J. Berns has announced his association with Dr. Charles E. Barrett, Jr., in the practice of dentistry at 10 North Main St., West Hartford. Leon Plympton's Helicopter Service is continuing its operation of carrying lumber by helicopter to the summit of Pequawket Mountain in New Hampshire where a fire lookout station is being constructed. Herbert Salter is Production Foreman for the Detroit Transmission Division of Markets tcith Care ► Leslie B. Cohen '44, President and Sales Manager of Leselle International Corporation, New York export and import firm, said in a February news interview that the Latin .American markets must be treated as carefully as highly competitive local markets if the L'nited States is to maintain leader- ship in that trade. The countries in Central and South .America can- not be used as dumping grounds for marginal production and re- jects. Returning from a four-week inspection trip to visit his firm's agents and distributors in Central America and the Caribbean, Cohen said he believed the high level of imports from the United States would be sustained as long as sugar production continues strong. 4 General Motors. He is living at 1488 Pierce St., Birmingham, Mich. John TurnbuU is Route Salesman for the Denver Coca-Cola Bottling Co. His home is at 1607 Race St. in Denver. Louis Glavis is working in production control for the Ryan Aeronautical Co. in San Diego. His address there is 943 Opal St. Stuart Roberts is Field Representative for the Administrative Staff of R. I. State College Extension Division. He is living at 6 Manor Drive, Spring Green, R. I. Ed Dolbashian is a law student at Boston University. Richard Hoober is a cattle merchant in Lancaster, Pa. His address there is Willow St. R. D. 1. Lt. (jg) Andrew Whitehead is at present a radar officer aboard the U. S. S. Hugh Purvis in the Mediterranean Fleet. New addresses: Albert Smith, 2292 S, W. 15th St. Miami 35, Fla.; John Lyman, 989 Edgewood Ave., Pelham Manor 65, N. Y. ; Walter Kelly, R. D. 1, Pierce Creek Rd., Binghamton, N. Y. ; Dr. H. Clinton Davis, Rodney Ct, Apts, Wilmington, Del. ; Joseph Olmstead, 16 Congdon St., Provi- dence; David Greenwood, 155 Thayer St., Providence; Dr. William Drennan, 217 Gilliard Rd., Naw Point, Pensacola, Fla.; Bavard H. Michael, 2577 N. Stowell Ave., Milwaukee 1 1 ; Elliot BHss, 2208 76th St., Jackson Heights, N. Y. ; Michael Reddy, 1194 N. Greenbay Rd., Lake Forest, 111; Norman Gayer, 1146 Stafford Rd., Fall River; Charles Nathanson, 121 Overhill Rd., East Greenwich; Joseph Pearson, Hollow Tree Ridge Rd., Darien, Conn.; .■\lfred Richtarik, Masaryk Hotel, Box 11, Brooksville, Fla.; Preston Atwood, 62 Ridge St., Pawtucket; Stevens Kostas, Apt. 87, 921 19th St., N. W., Washington, D. C. 1945 Robert Brown is Sales Manager for the East Coast Aviation Corporation in Lex- ington, Mass. He lives at 1211 West St., Sheldonville, Mass. Milton Rabbitt is doing research engin- eering in the Air Cleaner Division of the Fram Corporation. He is living at 56 Sheldon St., Providence. William F. Case is assistant foreman in the bakery of the National Biscuit Com- pany and lives at 140 South St., Bridge- water, Mass. Richard T. Downes is catering manager at the Taunton Inn. William C. Luther, who received his 28 .A.B. last June in biology, is a student at Tufts Medical School. George H. Main is a graduate trainee with Allis-Chalmers and lives at 2634 N. Maryland Ave., Milwaukee 11. Irving E. Meinrath is a salesman with the Meinrath Company, grocery brokers, in Kansas City. Ralph A. Whitney is an industrial serv- ice engineer with the Blackstone Valley Gas and Electric Co. in Pawtucket. His home address: Carpenter St., RFD 3, Woonsocket. Gus .Avantaggio, on vacation in the Caribbean, entertained several hundred Navy men with his baseball stories and was the subject of a page one news story in the Hartford Times in consequence. John Allen is in Detroit studying law at Wayne University. His address is 265 Washington Sq. Bldg., Royal Oak, Mich. Edson Chick is pursuing graduate stud- ies in German at Princeton. Lt. (jg) William E. Burke is in Naval aviation and is now stationed at the New- port Naval Training Station. Dr. Henry Altenberg is a Resident in internal medicine at the V. A. Hospital in Dayton, Ohio. Edward Feldman is Assistant Production Manager of the Charles Rothman Co., manufacturing jewelers in Providence. His address here is 94 Moore St. Simon Horenstein took his M.D. from the University of Illinois last year and is now interning at the University of Illinois Research and Educational Hospital. His address is 1819 W. Polk St., Chicago 12. Current addresses: .Alfred Boswoith, Box 102, SejTnour Rd., Woodbridge, Conn.; Ralph Monroe, 101 Columbia St., Gaspec Plateau, Warwick, R. I. ; James O'Brien, 502 C St., Copeland Park, New- port News, Va.; Daniel Fairchild, 15 Nis- bet St., Providence; Howard Oliver, Apt. 3K, 72 Barrow St., New York 14; Robin .Abraham, 463 W. 125th St., New York 27. 1946 R. Taber Jenkins is on the job as an X-Ray man working in Japan for the .Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission. His address is in care of the Commission, Chugoku Military Government Region, .APO 317, c/o Postmaster, San Francisco. Leonard P. Garr is a salesman for Garr's Fabrics, Inc., dealers in retail yard goods at 51 Eddy St., Providence. John H. Kimball, Jr., is a sales trainee with the Container Corporation of Am- Just Before Exams ^ Bugs Bunny may have helped, and the Sneezing Weasel, and Wacky Worm. They are all cartoon movie characters, who were called in at exam time during midyears at Brown to help dissipate the nervous tension built up by the slaving undergraduates. The idea was to provide a spot of relaxation just before the tests each afternoon. The Fauncc House Board of Governors scheduled a series of comic cartoons in the cam- pus theatre every day at noon. A news release said the students ap- preciated the "escape phenomena in the interval before dealing with the problems of contemporary European governments and the petrology of igneous and meta- morphic rocks." 4 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY ALUMNI DELEGATES at the Advisory Council included: Standing, left to right — Clarence W. Miller '12, New Haven; Wallace Henshaw '23, and Robert D. Allison '30 of Hartford; Russell Granniss '36 of Manchester, Conn, Seated, clockwise — Past President Sidney Clifford '15, Harry H. Burton '16, and John W. Moore '16 of Providence; Carleton D. Morse '13 of Needham; Jesse M. Bailey '16 of Hartford; and Percy W. Sarle '16 of Rumford, Me. erica in Medford, Mass., makers of corru- gated and folding boxes. Donald W. Lanning is with Shell Oil as a chemist in the control laboratory at the Houston, Tex., refinery. Walter S. Lossow is taking graduate work in biology and chemistry at Colum- bia. He lives at 90 Colonial Parkway No., Crestwood, N. Y. Robert S. Messinger is an agent in gen- eral insurance in Providence. He continues the affihation with C. D. Paige & Co., which he began before graduation in Sep- tember. Johnnie Bach, who played professional basketball most of the winter with the Bos- ton Celtics, went in February to the Hart- ford farm team of the American League. Robert L. Gifford, Jr., is working for the Oxford Paper Company in Rumford, Me., and gets his mail at Box 178, DLxfield, Me. William Briggs is Chemist with the Bryant Chemical Corporation in North Quincy, Mass. He has a new address at 34 Otis St., Newtonville 60, Mass. Fred Parkinson is now a Lubrication Engineer for the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana. His address is 5426 Vernon St., St. Louis, Mo. Current addresses: Ernest Mantz, 103 Ward Parkway, Kansas City, Mo. ; May- nard Burt, 298 Wayland Ave., Providence; Robert Beauregard, 126 St. Mary's St., Boston, Mass. ; Elliott Harris, 98 Washing- ton St., Leominster, Mass. ; James Rodgers, 66 Higbie Drive, East Hartford 8, Conn.; Charles Sleicher, 168 Armington St., Edge- wood, R. I. 1947 Anthony B. Hoying writes that the Alumni Monthly is like "a missing link be- tween all Brown men." He sent us a new address, at the Columbus Club, 1 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn 15, N. Y., so that the magazine might reach him again. Alan H. Nichols is with the General Electric Supply Corporation in Boston and provides a new address: 226 Babcock St., Brookline 46, Mass. He and Jane Harriet Weinert, Pembroke '48, plan to marry this summer. The engagement was announced by Mr. and Mrj. Joseph L. Weinert in Maplewood, N. J. in February. Arthur Marinelli is teaching in Picacho, Ariz. Leonard Schaefer is now a Test Engin- eer for General Electric in Bridgeport, Conn. He is living at 15 Wolfe Ave., Beacon Falls, Conn. Alan Nichols is now a Sales Engineer with the General Electric Supply Corpora- tion in Boston, specializing in power appa- ratus. His address is 226 Babcock St., Brookline 46, Mass. Walter Miller is selling for Miller Bros., Inc., in Erie, Pa. His address there is 714 E. 6th St. Robert Abel is an Oceanographic Chem- ist with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Lloyd Heizer is now a Junior Electrical Engineer at the Dallas Power and Light Co. He has a new home at 1639 E. Elmore St., Dallas 16, Tex. John GofT, now at law school, is living at 73 Grozier Rd., Cambridge, Mass. Kenneth E. Wood is working in the Plant Department of the Long Lines Divi- sion of American Tel. & Tel. With Mrs. Wood he is living at 39 Chapel Lane, Levittown, Hicksville, N. Y. Before last October she was Kathleen Moffat, a gra- duate of Adelphi College in Garden City, N. Y. Although Ken's affiliation with Brown came on Navy orders during the war, he says he still enjoys reading of the activities of Brown. Current addresses: Harold Jones, 120 Smithwood Ave., Catonsville, Md. ; David Cross, 1 400 Genes St., Utica, N. Y. ; Robert O'Connell, 113 W. 188th St., New York 63, N. Y.; Howard Craft, Room 808, John Jay Hall, Columbia University, New York; Richard Knight, 50 Summer St., Westh)oro, Mass.; William Macklin, 44 Bennett St., Woonsocket, R. I.; Harlan Kelley, 62 Fort Hill Rd., Poquonock Bridge, Conn.; Robert Leary, 17 High St., Springfield, Mass. ; Walter Vossberg, 7 Tucker St., Milton, Mass.; Andrew Ouel- lette, 44 Taylor St., Nashua, N. H.; Wil- liam Berger, 1030 Pleasant St., Schenec- tady, N. Y. ; Oliver Williams, Rt. 2, Box 295, Iron River, Mich.; George Schupp, 121 Clover Rd., Syracuse 9, N. Y. ; Ed- ward Coker, 1882 Lindberg St., Wyan- dotte, Mich.; Kirby Smith, 417 Holly Rd., 29 Yeadon, Pa.; Donald Burnside, 910 E. Hooper Ave., Baltimore 29, Md. 1948 Richard C. Philbrick has been elected Treasurer of the Providence County Day School .\lumni Association. Fred Cagle, Service Engineer for the Nicholson File Co., is located in Shreve- port. La., at 1430 Claiborne Ave. George Shakespeare is doing architec- tural engineering in Franconia, N. H. His address: Sugar Hill, N. H. Richard Johnson is taking a training course with Westinghouse. He is living at 196 California Ave. in Providence. Ivan Vasey is at Harvard where his ad- dress is 48 Claverly Hall, Cambridge 38, Mass. Eugene Newcombe is Associate Editor of Sport Magazine in New York City. His address is 30 Marshall Rd., Yonkers 5. John Fallon is in Schenectady where he is working as Test Engineer for General Electric. He is living at 8 Gifford Rd. David Berger, with the United Utilities and Specialty Corporation of Boston, is living at 19 Evergreen St., Providence. Ra)'mond Kassar is now a Fashion Styl- ist for the Burlington Mills Corporation in New York City. His home is at 456 16th St., Brooklyn 15. Dana Leavitt has accepted a position with the Aetna Life Insurance Co. in Hart- ford, Conn. Current addresses: C. A. Peter Lcpach, 19 Brentwood Ave., Barrington, R. I.; James Freeman, 20 Lowell St., Cambridge, Mass. ; Robert Reilly, 107 River Rd., Boga- ta, N. J.; Calvin Bamford, 166 Freeport Rd., New Kensington, Penn.; Harry Moorehead, 3643 Delmar St., St. Louis, Mo.; Harry Sleicher, 765 Park Ave., Cranston, R. I.; James Walters, c/o Self- Realization Fellowship, 3880 San Rafael Ave., Los Angeles 31 ; John Nix, 623 Gar- rett Place, Evanston, 111.; Vincent Rothc- mich, 540 W. 122nd St., Apt. 31, New York 27; Alfred McCallum, 212 Sedgwick St., Syracuse 6. 1949 Adam Sobolewski is doing research en- gineering for the National Advisory Com- mittee on Aeronautics in Cleveland. His address is 1517 Alameda Ave., Lakewood, Ohio. Ernest Perkins is working for the Deering Lumber Co. in Melrose, Mass. His address there is 56 E. Emerson St. Francis Dana is in the Air Corps, with this address: Student Detachment, Bx 162, Goodfellow Air Force Base, San Angelo, Tex. Frank Pctrone is living at 167 Friendly Rd., Cranston, R, I., and is working for Procter and Gamble of Hartford. Howard Fain received a life-saving award from Rhode Island's Governor Pas- tore in recognition of a double rescue How- ard effected at a Rhode Island beach last summer. Howard is now President of the Arrow Buff Manufacturing Corporation in Worcester, Mass. Clark Dickson is now 2nd Officer with the Marine Operating Division of the So- cony- Vacuum Oil Co. His address is 59 Ocean Ave., Cranston, R. I. Current addresses: John Staub, 115-07 Babbage St., Richmond Hill 18, N. Y.; John R. Smith, 2779 Iris St., Riverside, Calif. ; Louis Vito, 50 Irving St., Norivood, Mass. ; Tom Mooney, 409 Grandview Drive, Kirkwood, Mo.; Bob Sleicher, 168 Armington St., Edgewood, R. I.; William E. Gordon, 21 Elk St., Albany, N. Y. BROWN ALLIMNI MONTHLY 1950 Lt. Charles McGowan is currently serv- ing as pilot in the Tokyo area of Japan, where his wife and little girl expect to joinhimin Julv. The address: APO Direc- tory, 5th Air 'Force, APO 328, 3rd Air Rescue Squadron, c/o PM, San Francisco. Charlie Richards is working for the At- lantic Refining Co. in Philadelphia. He lives at 100 Swarthmore Ave., Ridley Park, Delaware Co., Pennsylvania. Joe Farrell is now a Midshipman at the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. Current addresses: Arthur Miller, Treasure Island, Osprey, Fla. : Bob Nelson, 1 1 39 Scotten Rd., Jacksonville, Fla. ; Carl- ton Hazard, 2542 Girard Ave., Philadel- phia; Al Forcier, 844 E. Strong St., Pensa- cola, Fla. Vital Statistics^ MARRIAGES y y 1909 — Judge William M. Council and Miss Hazel Kern, daughter of Mrs. Louise Kern, in St. Mary's Church of Pawtuckct on Jan. 6, 1949. 1932 — Thomas Mann Patterson and Miss Janet Houston Carpenter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold W. Carpen- ter, in Norwich, Conn., Dec. 22, 1948. 1932 — Dr. Ivor Debcnham Spencer and Miss Marion Louise Dickinson, daughter of Mrs. Harriet L. Dickenson, in Los Angeles, Calif., on Sept. 3, 1948. 1938— Monroe E. Fagan, Jr., and Miss Cody Ledford of Georgia in Washmgton, D. C, Dec. 18, 1948. 1939 David B. Wilmot and Miss Francelia Evans Hillard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul N. Hillard of Glenmont, N Y., in the First Reformed Church of Bethlehem at Selkirk, N. Y., Nov. 27, 1948 Robert S. Wilmot '41 was the best man and David Hull '39 and Nor- man Guy '39 ushered. 1941 — Richard Baumann and Miss Frances Madeleine Rosen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis A. Rosen of Buffalo, N. Y., in the Hotel Westbrook on Nov. 25, 1948. 1941 — Donald MacAusland and Miss Edith Shipman, daughter of Mrs. Jehicl Shipman of New York City, on Jan. 7, 1949. 1941 — Russell H. Horton and Miss Lcnore M. Mundy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elsworth L. Mundy of Waltham, Mass., in the rectory of St. Bernard's Church, West Newton, on Nov. 11, 1948. 1943 — Charles L. Lane and Miss Helen Rose Durning of Five Islands, N. S., at Parsboro, N. S., on July 7, 1948. Paul Shclton '41 was the best man. 1944 — E. Russell Alexander, Jr., and Miss Mary Nims Thompson, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Francis N. Thomp- son, in Greenfield, Mass., on Nov. 20, 1948. 1944 — David M. Greenwood and Miss Helen Ann Keenan, Pembroke '44, of Providence on Dec. 3, 1948. 1944 — John Lewis Mcrriamand Miss Avis Ames Hall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin C. Hall of Dean Estates, R. I., in the First Congregational Church (Uni- tarian), Providence on Nov. 27, 1948. 1945 — Robert L. Groves and Miss Jessica Myles, daughter of Mrs. Wesley F. Myles of Campbellton, N. B., in St. 11th In Chad's Line ► Ch.\d Edwards Brown, born Jan. 5, 1949 to Arthur L. Brown ■39 and Mrs. Brown of Ojai, Calif., bears a name famous in Rhode Island history. He is a direct descendant in the 11th generation of the original Chad Brown, the first Baptist minister in Providence Plantations and an associate of Roger Williams. The Browns later so closely identified with Brown University are descendants of the first Chad Brown. The baby is the great-grandson of the late Judge Arthur L. Brown "76 and grandson of Aylsworth Brown 06. 4 Margaret's rectory, Lowell, Mass., on Nov. 20, 1948. George Groves '44 was his brother's best man. 1946 — Prescott Lovell Marsh and Miss Joyce Caroline Upshall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Upshall of Providence, in the Church of the Messiah on Dec. 20, 1948. 1947 — Leonard Charles Schacfer and Miss Barbara Therese Brennan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William L. Brennan of Beacon Falls, Conn., in St. Michael's Church on Nov. 27, 1948. 1948 — Gerald W. Buckley and Miss Phylis Anne DeForge, niece of Mrs. J. B. Sullivan of Lewiston, Me., in St. Cecilia's Church, Pennsauken, N. J., on Nov. 9, 1948. 1948 — Frank S. Ceglarski and Miss Joan Louise Daly, daughter of Mrs. Loretta A. Daly of East Providence, in the Sacred Heart Church on Jan. 8, 1949. Warren Faries '49 was the best man. 1948 — Robert Wingate Noyes and Miss Elvira Grace Turner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George A. Turner of Raynham Center, Mass., in the Union Congrega- tional Church, Raynham on Dec. 18, 1948. Richard Noyes '50 was the best man for his brother. 1949 — Martin Miller and Miss Bar- bara Ann Copeland, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Max Copeland of New Bedford, Mass., in the New Bedford Hotel, Dec. 19, 1948. 1950 — Francis L. Higgins, Jr., and Miss Alice Frias, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Frias of Fall River, in the Santo Christo Church on Nov. 27, 1948. 1950 — Conon Walsh and Miss Barbara Ann Cote, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur E. Cote, in St. Joseph's Church, New Bedford, Mass., on Nov. 25, 1948. 1951 — Lawrence A. Gorman and Miss Florence Mary Murphy, daughter of Dr. Frederick 'V. Murphy of Attleboro, Mass., in St. John the Evangelist Church on Dec. 28, 1948. James Brehm '51 was an usher. BIRTHS y 1931 — To Mr. and Mrs. Richard Arn- old Bowen of Rehoboth, a daughter, Sus- anne Vickery, on Dec. 9, 1948. 1931 — To Dr. and Mrs. Ralph D. Richardson of Providence, their third son. Donald Sinclair, Nov. 11, 1948. 1935 — To Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Hull of Providence, a son, Charles Arnold, Jan. 5, 1949. 1937 — Xo Mr. and Mrs. Marc S. Handler of Providence, their second child, 30 a daughter, Ellen Sue, in Chicago on Dec. 28, 1948. 1938— To Mr. and Mrs. Edmund R. East of Portsmouth, N. H., a third child, "oanne Wright, on Oct. 24, 1948. 1938— To Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Welch of Barrington, R. I., a second child, Thomas C, Sept. 12, 1948. 1939— To Mr. and Mrs. David V. Hull of Providence, a son, William Fulmer, Jan. 3, 1949. 1939— To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Quinn of Cranston, their third child and second son, Mark I'rant, on Dec. 1, 1948. 1940— To Mr. and Mrs. Earle W. Scott, Jr., of Seekonk, their third child and second son, Gregory .^dams, Nov. 29, 1948. 1940 — To Dr. and Mrs. Avery E. Zuckerman of New London, Conn., a second son, their third child, Murray Joseph, on Dec. 8, 1948. 1941_To Mr. and Mrs. Alfred E. Cannon of Hicksville, N. Y., a daughter, Lynn Ann, on Sept. 20, 1948. 1942— To Mr. and Mrs. George Thom- as Giraud of Santa Monica, Calif., a sec- ond child, Roger Freeman, Dec. 7, 1948. 1942 — To Mr. and Mrs. Harry D. Pogson of East Hartford, Conn., a sec- ond daughter, Judith Ann, Dec. 17, 1948. 1942 — To Mr. and Mrs. G. Lincoln Rockwell of Auburn, Me., a second daugh- ter on Dec. 29, 1948. 1942— To Mr. and Mrs. John D. Wal- lace of Groton, Conn., a daughter, Mich- elle, Oct. 13, 1948. 1943 — To Mr. and Mrs. James G. Armstrong, Jr., of Baltimore, Md., their second child, a daughter, Lianne Day, on Dec. 19, 1948. 1943 — To Mr. and Mrs. Duncan J. CoUey, of Warren, R. I., a son, Duncan Jackson, Jr., on Nov. 27, 1948. 1944 — To Lt. Robert H. Curtin USN and Mrs. Curtin of Newport, a son, Rich- ard, on Nov. 30, 1948. 1948 — To Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Cohen of Providence, a son, Jeremy Martin, Sept. 18, 1948. i J. W. RIKER '22: PrcsiHent of the Rhode Island Brown Club, whose members elimb College Hill four times in Mareh. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Visiting the Brown Clubs M M Rhode Island Lectures y y The March project of the Rhode Island Blown Club holds a fine invitation to members and families and friends, set- ting up as it does a series of four lectures on the campus by representative profes- sors. The program lists the following: Monday, March 7 — Prof . J. Walter Wilson, Chairman of the Department of Biology, an evening in the Arnold Lab- oratory. Monday, March 14 — Prof. I. J. Kapstein of the English Department, well-known novelist, speaking on "Writh- ing and Writing." Tuesday, March 22 — Prof. R. B. Lindsay, Chairman of the Physics Department, an evening in Wil- son Hall, with reference to the atom. Monday, March 28 — Prof. Lawrence C. Wroth, Librarian of the John Carter Brown Library, an at-home in the JCB. Where possible the lectures will include considerable demonstration, according to Richmond H. Sweet and William R. Potter who have organized the series for the Rhode Island Club. The experiment is undertaken since this type of program was one of the two most in demand as shown by a poll of the membership re- cently. Something of the sort has been under discussion for several years, and further development of it will depend on the response. In subject matter and in personnel, the committee has chosen four good programs. The Club gave its members a treat in February by taking over the Feb. 8 per- formance of "Sherlock Holmes" by the Sock and Buskin .Alumni in Faunce House, the first night of its successful run. Each member was allotted two free tickets, paid for by the Club treasury, and the house understandably was filled, with other amenities during the intermissions and a special greeting before the curtain. ► Looking ahead to the balance of the year, the Rhode Island Club plans its second annual Pops Concert by the Brown- Pembroke Orchestra. Fred Harson will again be chairman of the committee for this aflfair, which last year drew a packed house to Alumnae Hall. The date for 1949 is April 26. An Ivy League alumni dinner is also being contemplated, with Thomas F. Gilbane given responsibility for this. Again the Club is awarding plaques to schoolboy champions. In March the Rhode Island drama festival will see high school students competing for the Brown Club award in a theatre "tournament" in Faunce House. The award has been the custom annually, and in the years when the New England festival is assigned to Providence another award is provided for that. In athletics the Rhode Island inter- scholastic champion in major sports re- ceives the usual Brown Club plaque, too. As President J. Wilbur Riker says, "We are again concentrating our efforts on making Brown Alumni in Rhode Island better acquainted with their Alma Mater. We believe that loyalty and affection are developed by close contact with the Un- iversity and its activities. This we consider a principal objective of the Brown Club of Rhode Island, in which all Brown alumni are invited to participate." The large Executive Committee con- tinues to hold its monthly meetings. 4 51 Times President y For the 51st ye.\r in succession, Nathaniel Blaisdell '83 was elected Presi- dent of the Brown Club of Alta California at its annual meeting Feb. 5 at the Uni- versity Club in San Francisco. F. E. Roper '11, who has also been a conspicuously faithful officer, was re-elected Secretary and Treasurer. The latter's account of the meeting follows : Mr. Blaisdell told of his trip to Provi- dence and Brown last summer. Mr. Blais- dell had a most enjoyable visit with Dr. Wriston in the new home of the President of Brown University. And, being an architect, Mr. Blaisdell appreciated the splendid architecture of the house as well as the President's hospitality. We under- stand the President's house is one of the finest architectural examples among the outstanding homes of Providence. George F. Weston, Class of '78, Brown's oldest graduate, was unable to be at this meeting, and sent his regrets by letter. The members attending joined in sending a reply to George Weston, signed by all alumni present, conveying to him our sincere regards and best wishes. Emery R. Walker, Jr., '39, Dean of Admissions, was our guest speaker. Emery told us of the purpose of his present trip, which will cover 15,000 miles, and include visits to 92 schools before he returns to the Brown Campus, in promoting Brown, and telling about Brown, to the boys in the West. Emery then took us on a per- sonally conducted tour of the Campus (assisted by exceptionally fine Koda- chrome slides), and told us of "College Life Today at Brown" in his most interest- ing talk. All alumni present enjoyed the evening immensely, and greatly appreci- ated having Emery Walker, Jr., include an evening for us in his busy schedule. We hope he will give us, and also the rest of the West Coast, a return engagement soon. In addition to those above mentioned. Alumni Club members attending in- cluded: Dudley A. Zinke '39, Truman D. Woodbury '03, Vincent C. Treat '46, Robert E. Soellner '24, Frederic R. Roper '23, Frank Rollins, Jr. '40, S. Lyman Mitchell '12, Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn '93, Paul Lathrop '43, Harry R. Kurtz, Jr. '34, Dr. T. Harper Goodspeed '09, Charles B, David, M.D., '36, John N. Burgess '45, Col. Leroy Bartlett '02, and Howard Aisenberg '41. ^ Report from Texas ► ► His visits in Oklahoma and Texas at an end, Emery R. Walker, Dean of Admission, sent us some notes from San Antonio Jan. 27: Ponca City, Okla.: Luncheon Jan. 19 in the private dining room of the Conti- nental Oil Co., through the courtesy of Webster MacMillan '19, one of Conoco's top executives. Also present were Howard Quimby '24 and Dr. Cad W. Arrendell, Jr., '39. Sorry not to see Sam Leonard '48. Oklahoma City, Okla. : Dinner and an evening at the home of Ken Gordon '34 and his wife, Joan Willet Gordon, Pem- broke '35, Jan. 20. In the group were Wade "Vliet '33, Dr. Willard Thompson '31, Dan Mahoney '13 of Ardmore and Mrs. Mahoney, Elizabeth Starkweather, Pembroke '35. Dallas, Tex. : Dinner and an evening at Souther House, Jan. 21. Present: Coburn Buxton '34, Bob Pike '28, Jack Donley '39, W. L. Jack Nelson '27, Jim Nestor '41, Bob Staples '17, Harry J. Williams '99, Ann Crowley Williams, Pembroke '41, and others. Houston, Tex.: Dinner at Ship Ahoy Restaurant, Jan. 25, and evening at Jim and Mary Hill Whitcomb's. Leon Payne, also '36, was there, and Stan Lewis '46, Dick Anderson '49, Bill Slick '49, Ken- neth Burdon '18, Morris Pepper '27, Joe lannoli '32, Morris Malakoff '31, the wives of several of them, and the Heidts and Miss O'Hara with Pembroke affilia- tion. San Antonio, Tex.: The Parkman Saywards (he's '25) entertained, with Gibbs MacDaniel '30 and his wife, a Pembroke alumna, and Dick Wilbur '41 in for the evening. In each instance the group seemed very much interested in the new set of colored slides of College Hill. They're enthus- iastically received everywhere. ^ Hartford's Dinner Dance ► Hartford's annual Spring Dance will be held April 8 at the Wampanoag Country Club, following dinner. Although the Hartford Brown Club sponsors this popular affair, they invite all undergrad- uates of Brown and Pembroke to join them, and the date was set to fall within the Easter holidays. 4 In Pittsburgh ► The annual meeting of the Brown Club of Western Pennsylvania was sched- uled for Feb. 15 at the University Club, with two good Brown men listed as the principal speakers after the dinner: Dr. Judson A. Crane '05, Dean of the School of Law at the University of Pittsburgh, and Ed Sittler '30, Mayor of Uniontown, Pa. An election of officers was slated. ^ Engle in Scranton y Brown men in the Scranton and Wilkes-Barre area held a long-deferred get-together Feb. 11 at the Hotel Casey in Scranton when our guests were Coach Rip Engle and several prospective can- didates for Brown, together with their high school mentors. The dinner and meeting of the Brown Club of North- eastern Pennsylvania were on a purely informal basis and thoroughly enjoyed by everyone. Plans were tentatively made for another meeting in the Spring. Rip talked about football, and a very informative discussion of Brown's prob- lems followed. Rip showed movies of the 1948 Princeton game with its storybook 31 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY ending. All in all, an entertaining and profitable evening for us all. Present were: E. B. Stringham '20, H. W. Peterson '21, M. A. Tinker '23, F. B. Gelder '26, P. E. Hemelright '31, E. W. Connell, Jr., '32, J. R. Simpson '33, R. E. Pickup '36, Joseph Marcinko, Edward Edgerton, James Slowey, David Carter, Nicholas Carter, Pete Doyle, Arthur Morris, and Robert Jones. We were all impressed with Rip Engle's personality and the evident real interest he takes in his boys. H. W. PETERSON '21 Boston's Date Is April 11 ► The annual dinner of New England alumni, under the sponsorship of the Boston Brown Club, will be held this year April 11, with details to be announced. President Wriston will be the principal speaker, according to Edward T. Brackett '14, President of the Club. The February luncheon of the Boston alumni was held on the 8th at the Univer- sity Club, with about 25 men present. The speaker for the occasion was F. Morris Cochran, Vice-President and Business Manager of the University, whose topic was "Brown Business." Mr. Cochran gave his audience an insight into the financial workings of the institution and showed how the impact of modern trends is felt in the business operations of the Univer- sity. Richard E. Hale is chairman of the luncheon committee. Members of the Boston Club had a block of seats for the Brown-Holy Cross basketball game in the Boston Garden March 1. L. P. LITCHFIELD '28 Rochester Drumbeat ► An evening meeting in March, at a date to be announced, is being scheduled for Brown alumni in Rochester, N. Y., where a well-attended luncheon was held Feb. 4 in the interests of the Housing and Development Campaign. C. Douglas Mercer, State Chairman, and H. E. Van Surdam were welcome guests from out of town. Dr. Wilbour E. Saunders '16, recently returned to Rochester and newly installed President of the Colgate Roches- ter Divinity School was also a guest of honor. Others present: President Robert Low- enthal '34, who presided, G. E. Hebner '15, W. R. Dorman '92, E. J. McGuire '33, T. F. Pevear 28, Dr. David H. At- water '99 (his last Brown meeting prior to his lamented death), E. I. Cristy '16, M. C. Brown '19, Dr. J. R. Honiss '08, A. D. Johnson '30, J. G. Scanzaroli '44, and D. G. Flint '42. i Brunonians He Knew ► In A NEW SETTING at the Johns Hopkins Club, the Baltimore Brown Club had a sports evening when J. E. Wild of the Sunpapers staff spent an hour spinning yarns out of his varied experience. Among Brunonians to whom he referred was Fritz Pollard '19, whom he encountered in the days when the later was coaching a celebrated Negro football team in Chicago, the Lincoln Avenue Athletic Club. He also knew Prof. F. H. Dennie '09, Director of .Athletics and Mathematics Professor at RoUa School of Mines, Mis- souri. At the table were: Hawes, Simmons, Madison, Battey, Wonderlic, and Ives. The Baltimore Club, which has had the most active schedule for a club of its size anywhere, has had to interrupt its monthly meetings, but a spring program is in the works. ^ April 5 in Philadelphia ► Justice Owe.n J. Roberts will be the principal speaker at annual meeting of the Brown Club of Philadelphia ."^pril 5. For this popular affair at the Barclay Hotel Vice-President Bigelow will round out the program as the University's rep- resentative. Justice Roberts is an honor- ary alumnus of Brown, having received his hood at the 1939 Commencement at the height of his Supreme Court career. The dinner will be the 80th annual such gathering of Brown alumni in Phila- delphia, one of the oldest events of its kind in the country. The Club's Secre- tary, Francis X. Hope, Jr., '38, is head- ing the committee on arrangements, ac- cording to President C. C. Myers '25. An assembly at 6 o'clock will precede the 7 o'clock dinner in the Mirage Room. The Club held its regular monthly luncheon at the Alpha Club on Feb. 8. In March the noonday group will have a firsthand report on the Advisory Coun- cil meeting of the Associated Alumni from the Philadelphia representative, William H. Shupert '22. i Wriston in Cleveland ^ When President Wriston spoke be- fore the Associated Industries of Cleve- land Jan. 19 at the organization's annual meeting, about 25 Brown men were in the audience in the grand ballroom of the Statler Hotel. Dr. Wriston's topic was "Political Strategy for Business." The importance of the meeting was such that the officers and Board of Governors in- vited all Cleveland employers and "other citizens interested in the welfare of the Community" to attend. ".^s usual," writes Harry L. Hoffman '25, retiring Secretary of the Cleveland Brown Club, "he gave an inspiring ad- Stnnding Inritntion y BROWN CLUBS, an increasing number of them, report regular weekly or monthly gatherings of an informal nature, to which all alumni are invited, whether they are residents of the area or visitors to the towns: BOSTON, luncheon second Tues- day of the month at Thompson's Spa, 239 Washington St. BUFFALO, luncheon first Tues- day of the month. Crystal Room of the Hotel Lafayette, 1:00 p. m. CHICAGO, luncheon every Fri- day at the Chicago Real Estate Board, 105 W. Madison St., noon. HARTFORD, luncheon third Wednesday of the month, Heublein Hotel, 12:15. INDIANAPOLIS, luncheon first Monday of the month, Charlie's Steak House, 144 East Ohio St. LOS ANGELES, luncheon every Thursday at the Hotel Alexandria, 5th and Spring Sts., noon. PHILADELPHIA, luncheon sec- ond Tuesday of the month. Alpha Club, 1911 Chestnut St., 12:15. PITTSBURGH, luncheon fourth Friday of the month, Childs Res- taurant, Smithfield St. ROCHESTER, luncheon first Wednesday of the month. Chamber of Commerce. WASHINGTON, D.C., luncheon every Wednesday at O'Donnell's Restaurant, 1209 E. St., NW. Any more ? 4 dress. At the end of the meeting we were able to chat with him, and Dr. Wriston knew from the attendance of Brown men that we were all for him." Hoffman reports that the next meeting of the Cleveland Brown Club will be held in March, at which time the newly elected officers will take over the Club program. ^ W ashington Plans Fund ► George Hurley, Jr., was re-elected President of the Washington Brown Club at the recent annual meeting held at the Hotel Roger Smith, when 47 members attended. Other officers chosen are: Vice- President — Joe Lyman; Treasurer — Ross de Matteo; Secretary — Donald Ranard. Win Southworth, former Secretary; Paul Harris, former Vice-President; and Tod Shotton, former Treasurer, were elected to the Board of Governors, the Club not- ing with special appreciation their services during the past several years. Guest from Providence was Dean Robert W. Kenny, who told of changes in the University that have taken place dur- ing recent years. His remarks were en- thusiastically enjoyed, including his "Dean jokes." Selections from the new Brown Record Album were played and evoked much interest. One tragic footnote: Dr. Edmund C. Burnett '90 was at the head table, receiv- ing a loud ovation as he was introduced as representative of the oldest class present. Since then, as you know, he has died. He was unusually active in the Club, and his attendance at our meetings was always a welcome and inspiring note. A group of members and guests attended the Washington Evening Star Track Meet on Jan. 15, when some of the Brown track team participated. Of special inter- est was the Ivy League Relay, for which the Club, along with certain other Ivy League schools, had contributed to pur- chase the trophy. Hal Masters and Irv White again handled arrangements for both the cup and the tickets. The Washington Club is setting up a scholarship fund to be used for young men from the area who plan to attend Brown. This will be developed by an optional subscription of $2.00 per member at the time yearly dues are assessed (also an innovation). February plans called for a smoker meeting as a compliment to Henry Margarita '44, new head football coach at Georgetown. In March a husband- wife social evening is contemplated, while the .\pril meeting will probably be built around undergraduates home to this area for their Easter holidays, plus prospective students. DON.-U-D L, RAN.\RD Three Times in New Haven ► It was a busy week for the Brown Club in New Haven. On Monday, Feb. 7, the first Monday in the month, there was the regular luncheon of Brunonians at the Hof Brau Restaurant. On Wed- nesday some of the men turned out to see the Brown Varsity and Freshman teams in action in the Payne Whitney Pool at Yale. President Miller writes: "The Freshmen made a somewhat better competitive showing than the Varsity, but when the Yale 400-yard relay team lowered the college record that night you can apprec- iate the caliber of the competition our boys were meeting. They did well under the circumstances." Before the Yale-Brown hockey game Saturday night at the New Haven Arena 32 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY more than 60 Brunonians joined in a dinner party at the Towne House. It was a disappointment to have Yale skate off with the victory near the end of the third period. Up to that time it looked as though we had better than an even chance of winning, but two penalties in the last five minutes gave Yale an advantage which she lost no time in grasping. It was a good game, and we'll look forward to next year's victory. The first two luncheon meetings of the year were well attended, but the February one fell upon a stormy day. The luncheons will grow and grow and grow. C. W. MILLER '12 It's Official in Westchester y Welcome .\nother Brown Club. The Brown University Club of Scarsdale and White Plains has completed its organiza- tion with the election of temporary officers who will serve until next fall: President — Allen B. Sikes "23 of White Plains: Vice- President — Cortlandt Briggs '39 of Scarsdale ; Secretary-Treasurer — William Roach '46 of White Plains. They will be the interim Executive Committee. Richard L. Briggs '49 of Scarsdale has been named General Chairman of the Spring Get-Together on Friday, May 13, when President Wriston will meet with the Westchester Brunonians in White Plains at the Contemporary Club. Willard Butcher '45 of Scarsdale and Roach will bring in a constitution for that first formal meeting, although business and formality will be limited. Brown music is on the schedule, and general sociability for the alumni and their wives. Various subcommittees have been in session during the month, and enthusiasm for the Club continues. A fall meeting is envisioned to fit in with the weekend of the Brown-Columbia football game in 1949. The alunmi are also trying to pro- mote a hockey game in Rye for next sea- son. Among alumni active in the birth of the Club are: Richard Briggs, Robert Breeding, Irwin Crosman, and Gene Leonard — from Scarsdale : Denny Moore, Alan Sinauer, and Al Thornton — from White Plains: and Dr. Arnold P. Conaty from Hartsdale. WILLLAM RO.ACH '46 IS. Y. Brownbrokers Entertain ► A LARGE CROWD tumcd Out in the Great Hall when the Brownbroker alumni per- formed for the members of the Brown University Club in New York. It was a capacity house as it was, and all were wondering what would have happened if the weather had been good on Jan. 26. The entertainment consisted of songs, skits, and dances from past Brownbroker shows, plus a few new numbers. They were well received. Norman Ross '42 opened the evening by giving the historical back- ground of Brownbrokers. A big delegation from the Club was on hand for the Brown basketball game at Columbia Feb. 23. Secretary James J. Tyrrell, Jr., '48, announces the following additions to the Club roster: Resident members — E. V. Murray, N. B. Orent, L. Rand, W. T. Townsend, P. C. Abramson, R. L. Briggs, R. T. von dcr Lieth, J. K. EUenbogen, P. D. Landsberger, R. P. Onisko, N. A. McAllister, R. Bishop, C. H. Meyer, W. S. Prebluda, A. B. Frechtman, P. A. Cun- ningham, R. K. Healy, A. F. Rust. Non- resident members — F. L. Harson, D. A. Smith, B. A. Joelson, T. F. Egan, R. W. Trimmer, J. D. Mulcahy, J. Penner. ^ AT CHICAGO WINTER DINNER: Standing at hca