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ALUMNI MONTHLY 

Published by Brown University for its 
Alumni 

MEMBER, AMERICAN ALUMNI COUNCIL 

Board of Editors 

Chairman 

C. ARTHUR BRAITSCH '23 

Vice-Chairman 

GEORGE W. POTTER '21 

WILLIAM W. BROWNE '08 
GARRETT D. BYRNES '26 
CARLETON GOFF '24 
PROF. I. J. KAPSTEIN '26 
H. LINUS TRAVERS '27 

Managing-Editor 

CHESLEY WORTHINGTON '23 

Assistant Editor 

DOUGLAS A. SNOW '45 



ASSOCIATED 
Alumni 

OF BROWN UNIVERSITY 

Honorary Chairmen 

Henry Dexter Sharpe '94 
Henry Merritt Wriston 

President 

William W. Browne '08 
President-Elect 

D wight T. Colley '18 
Vice-Presidents 

Nathaniel Blaisdell '83 
Ernests. FitzTl 
Fred Harvey '24 
Wallace H. Henshaw '23 
Lewis S. Milner '02 
John J. Monk '24 
Frederick H. Rohlfs '26 



Treasurer 
Secretary 
Directors 



Richmond H. Sweet '25 
William B. McCormick '23 



R. H. Abbott '43, H. B. Allison '46, 
R. D. Allison '29, J. M. Bailey '16, 
M. C. Ball '35, M. Barus '10, R. G. 
Bleakney '23, E. A. Briggs '35, H. C. 
Bumpus, Jr. '12, G. D. Byrnes '26, 
N. B. Chase '23, R. T. Clapp '19, S. 
Clifford '15, J. M. Curtis '30, F. B. 
Davis, Jr. '39, S. H. Dolley '42, S. J. 
Dreyer '22, R. E. Hale '41, L. LeValley 
'39, L. P. Litchfield '28, J. R. Lyman 
'24, S. A. McClellan '23, R. D. Mes- 
singer '37, K. N. Meyer '43, R. G. 
Noyes '21, E. M. Pearce '17, R. B. 
Perkins '29, W. R. Potter '42, J. A. 
Rogers '31, P. Saunders, Jr. '24, R. H. 
Smith, Jr. '34, E. H. Tuller '35. 



CONTENTS 



Commencement 

Variations on an Ancient Theme 3 

The Baccalaureate Service 5 

Alumni Dinner in the Refectory 7 

Graduate School Convocation 8 

Honorary Degrees Awarded to 9 11 

News 

Rockefeller's Challenging Gift 6 

Beaulac Ambassador to Cuba 9 

Delta Tau Delta House Fire 10 

Results of the Alumni Voting 12 

Problems the Corporation Faced 13 

Athletics: a Near Championship 16 

Departments 

In the Vlonth's Mailbag 14 

Brunonians Far and Near 20 

The Brown Clubs Report 30 

Bureau of Vital Statistics 31 

Notes from College Hill 34 

Small Talk 35 

THE COVER PHOTO: Between the ranks of Seniors the head 
of the Commencement procession moves down College Hill and 
makes the turn onto Benefit St., on the way to the First Baptist 
Meeting House. In the foreground are Chaplain Robbins and 
Prof. Ben W. Brown '19, mace-bearer. In the middle distance 
are President Wriston and Chancellor Henry D. Sharpe '94. 
(Nearly all photos in this issue, unless taken out of town, are by 
the Brown Photographic Laboratory.) 



The Almanac 



August 22. Cape Cod Brown dinner for residents and transients. Coonames- 
set Inn, North Falmouth. 

September 10. Freshman Week begins. 

September 14. Football clambake at Francis Farm. Rehoboth. following Var- 
sity scrimmage at 2 p.m. 

September 17. Official opening of the 188th academic year. 

September 29. Football, Temple, home. 2:00 p.m. 

October 6. Football, at Yale. 2:00 p.m. 

October 13. Football. Rhode Island, home. 2:00 p.m. 

October 20. Homecoming. Football, Colgate, home. 2:00 p.m. 

October 27. Football, at Holy Cross. 2:00 p.m. 

November 3. Football, at Princeton. 1:30 p.m. 

November 10. Football, Rutgers, home. 1:30 p.m. 

November 17. Football, at Harvard. 1:30 p.m. 

November 24. Football, at Columbia. 1:30 p.m. 



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ALUMNI 
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JUNE, 1951 
VOL. LI NO. 10 



Variations on an Ancient Theme 




A GENERAL VIEW OF THE EXERCISES on the College Green, taken from the Terrace of Faunce 
House and looking south. Once again. Brown was blessed with sunny skies on Commencement Day. 



By DOUGLAS A. SNOW 

The basic pattern of Commencement is always the 
same. The pomp, the ceremony, the costumes change 
little through the centuries. Yet, despite the annual 
familiarity of the setting and the ritual, the observer is aware 
of a refreshing newness in all that is taking place. Perhaps 
it is the eagerness and reward in the smiles of the Seniors. 
Maybe it is the look of pleasant recall on the faces of the 
alumni. At any rate it is there, and it lends an element of 
timelessness to Commencement. 

Commencement is timeless because it is able to adopt the 
ways of progress without losing the forms of tradition. Its 
hallowed customs are now conveyed to a larger audience 
by means of a public address system. And under many a 
medieval mortarboard this June of 1951 was a crew haircut. 
So, though the pattern is ancient, the colors do not fade 
and the seams are as strong as ever. And this Commence- 
ment was Brown's 183rd. 

By no means the least of this refreshing aspect of the 
activities were the 588 new graduates who joined the ever- 
increasing body of Brown alumni. Their number was less 
than 1950's record-breaking 851, but still a sizable addition 
as attested to by the estimated 6000 spectators on Campus 
to witness the awarding of degrees. Besides the men there 
were 181 Pembrokers, also fewer than last year's 213. 
Thirty-six men ( three more than a year ago ) received com- 
missions in the Navy, the Naval Reserve and the Marine 
Corps. 

Again the Sun Was Shining 

The weather was benevolent as usual, and, following the 
custom of years since the war, President Wriston opened 



Commencement proceedings in the First Baptist Meeting 
House after the academic procession had marched its famil- 
iar way down the hill. There the first part of the program 
was performed before Seniors, Faculty and guests. They 
heard Senior orations, by William H. Dyer, Jr., who spoke 
of the theater as a mirror reflecting the truth in life, and 
Daniel G. Donovan, Jr. (son of Gerald Donovan '12), who 
stated that training in "a way of thinking" and the "pos- 
session of a body of knowledge" were the two desirable 
products of a liberal arts education. Then the procession re- 
formed to return to the Campus. 

Proud parents, nostalgic alumni, University people and 
just plain "friends" — some Providence citizens, though 
without any Brown relationships, attend every year — having 
heard the preliminaries over the public address system, had 
chosen their places on the College Green to observe the 
awarding of degrees. Pembroke Seniors, presented by their 
Dean, Nancy Duke Lewis, received their diplomas first. 
Then came the Brown men of 1951, presented by Dean of 
the College Robert W. Kenny '25 and Dean of Admission 
Emery R. Walker, Jr. '39. Recorder William A. Jewett '41 
assisted President Wriston in the presentation. Prof. William 
T. Hastings taking a minor role for the first time in many 
years beside the rack of diplomas. 

The Seniors who were to receive commissions for their 
work in the Naval R.O.T.C. unit executed quick changes in 
Slater Hall and reappeared in their whites at the end of the 
degree-awarding. President Wriston took a back seat on the 
platform while Captain Edward R. Durgin USN, Com- 
manding Officer of the Brown unit, presented the commis- 
sions and swore in the new men. Included were 25 Ensigns 



JUNE 1951 




NEARING THE MEETING HOUSE, the Seniors pass by alumni 

who flanked the Hill. Senior orations were given within; then all 

returned to the College Green where their parents and friends 

waited to see them get their sheepskins. 

in the Navy, seven Ensigns in the Naval Reserve and four 
Second Lieutenants in the Marine Corps. One graduate 
student was also named an Ensign in the Navy. 

With the ceremony completed, most of the spectators 
turned to the task of collecting themselves and their belong- 
ings for the trek back home. For those who could stay, 
varied offerings promised a full program for the afternoon. 

The Luncheon and Rallgame 

This year for the first time the Refectory was the setting 
for the ever-popular Commencement Luncheon, here served 
buffet style from four locations in the main dining hall. 
After this, the Refectory opened all its doors for the in- 
spection of those who had not seen it before. An added 
treat that afternoon was the opening of two sections of the 
first fraternity-dormitory unit in the fast-growing Quadran- 
gle. Though interior finish work was not completed, sample 
rooms were painted and fitted out with furniture to give 
some idea of the attractiveness and flexibility of the new 
living arrangements. The impressions were enthusiastically 
favorable. 

At 3:30 Brown took on Springfield College at Aldrich 
Field for the first game in a playoff series to determine the 
New England entrant in the national collegiate baseball 
championships at Omaha. Alumni were there in force to 
cheer on the best Bear nine since 1913, and the 2-0 victory 
was a fitting climax to a colorful and exciting weekend. It 
was the first Commencement ballgame in many years and 
brought back memories as well as action. 

But all the color and excitement was not a Monday mo- 
nopoly. The weekend had got under way four days earlier 
with the Senior Dinner in the Refectory. On that occasion 
President Wriston told the soon-to-be graduates that "we 
are due for long years of crisis. . . , a generation of ten- 
sion." Other speakers included Class President Robert E. 
Anderson and University officials. Provost Arnold, Vice- 
President Bigclow and Dean Kenny. 

On Friday afternoon, Anderson and Class Historian John 
Graham performed traditional functions in the "Under the 
Elms" exercises. A special song, written for the occasion by 
William H. Dyer, Jr., was sung by half of the Jabberwocks, 



University octet. President Wriston addressed the Seniors 
again, advising them that the world was wanting in the vital 
leadership they could supply, that the American people 
must take command of their own destiny by maturing a 
public opinion. The Deans' Reception followed on the Col- 
lege Green with Provost and Mrs. Arnold, Dean and Mrs. 
Kenny and Dean and Mrs. Walker receiving Seniors, their 
relatives and friends. 

The Seniors' Last Dance 

At 6:30, all alumni present converged on the Refectory 
for the largest of all Alumni Dinners. The Class Night 
Dance was more popular than ever, too, with Seniors, 
undergraduates, alumni and friends of Brown mingling in 
unprecedented numbers under the Japanese lanterns that 
turned the staid campus into a gay and glittering ballroom. 
The Senior Sing on the chapel steps at midnight was a time- 
stopping moment for alumni. The John Carter Brown Li- 
brary was open early in the evening and a special exhibit in 
the West Lounge of Faunce House depicted the variety and 
scope of work done by the University Photo Lab. 

People from out of town met on Faunce House Terrace 
Saturday morning to tour points of interest on the Campus. 
As in previous years, the NROTC unit at Lyman Hall, 
where Captain Durgin described the training and equip- 
ment; the new functional classroom building, Whitehall; 
and the John Carter Brown Library, where Librarian Law- 
rence C. Wroth told of the University's famed treasury of 
Americana, were principal stops along the way. But most 
people were interested in Brown's rising Quadrangle and the 
tour ended up there in time for lunch at the Refectory. Con- 
struction men were working overtime to ready the area for 
the inspection on Monday afternoon, but Saturday's tour- 
ists were able to gain some idea of the eventual appearance 
of Brown's growing campus. 

Saturday afternoon, the Graduate School Convocation 
was held. A tea and reception followed in the John Carter 
Brown Library. Sunday was the day of Baccalaureate and 
the President's Reception. Always a pleasant occasion offer- 
ing the chance to exchange a personal greeting with the 
Wristons, the affair attracted students, their families and 




AS THE GRADUATES RECEIVED their diplomas from the hand of 

President Wriston, who sits in the Manning Chair. The mace is 

before the platform. Tassel on the left of the first two men signals 

their transition into alumni ranks. 



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FIRST OF THE NINE residential buildings in the Quadrangle was open 
for inspection on Commencement Day, with hundreds of visitors outspoken 
in their admiration of the new accommodations. Enough furniture was in 
place to suggest the quality of future occupancy (next fall). The view, 
taken from near the Refectory on the inner court, shows "Building No. 1" 



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which flanks George St. in the neighborhood of St. Stephen's Church. 
Doorway at the right leads into the home of Phi Kappa Psi, while the 
white-brick section at the left is a non-fraternity dormitory. Phi Delta 
Theta's fraternity house is the farther wing, only a little of which is shown 
in the photograph above. 



friends to the quiet garden behind the President's House at 
55 Power Street. 

Starting promptly at 9 a.m. on Commencement morning, 
the academic procession followed its familiar way through 
the gate by Rhode Island Hall, down George Street to the 
Gate by the John Carter Brown Library, across the Campus 
to the Faunce House archway, then down to the Robinson 
Gate by Hope where it turned in to proceed between Uni- 
versity and Manning Halls, thence to pass through the Van 
Wickle Gates and descend College Hill to the First Baptist 
Meeting House. 

As usual the alumni with selected offspring were at the 
fore and it was as inspiring and significant as ever to see the 
older Classes leading the younger ones. To the well-known 
Commencement March as played by the historic American 
Band, the procession led by Class President Anderson, kept 
building up as it criss-crossed the Campus until, when it 
finally headed out through the Gates that are opened out- 
ward only that once each year, the capped and gowned 
Seniors, the robed Faculty, candidates for honorary degrees 
and invited guests had added their color to the marching 
lines. At the end of the procession, Mace-Bearer Ben W. 
Brown '19 was followed by Chancellor Henry D. Sharps 
'94, President Wriston and Sheriff Michael F. Costello '05. 

All of this parade requires more organization than might 
at first seem necessary, and Chief Marshal William T. Pear- 
son '06 and Chief of Staff Brenton G. Smith '1 1 handled 
their roles expertly. 



Saunders to the Seniors 

Only a return to religious idealism can halt Commu- 
nism and bring an end to "soaking the soil in blood once 
each generation," stated the Rev. Wilbour E. Saunders '16 
in his Baccalaureate Address to Brown Seniors. 

Taking for his theme the Old Testament story of how the 
captains of the Israelites disagreed and stood hesitant before 
the gates of the Promised Land, Dr. Saunders urged the 
graduating classes to spurn latter day pessimists, comparing 
the Biblical indecision with the current confusion among our 
top military leaders as evidenced by the MacArthur hearings 
in Congress. And just as the pessimists of old were able to 
sway the Israelites, delaying for 40 years their entrance into 
the Promised Land and causing a generation to pay for 
this pessimism with death in the desert, so the doubters of 
today are preventing the free forces of the world from tak- 
ing a united, positive stand against those who would enslave 
mankind. 

"The Christian ideal," asserted the President of Colgate- 
Rochester Divinity School, "projects a world of idealism, 
unselfishness and brotherhood. To achieve it requires nerve 
as well as faith." 

At the services in the First Baptist Meeting House on 
Sunday, June 3, President Wriston read the scripture lesson. 
The Rev. Albert C. Thomas '08, Pastor of the Meeting 
House, and University Chaplain William J. Robbins also 
participated. 



JUNE 1951 



$400,000 TOWARD THE GOAL: 

A New Rockefeller Gift 

John D. Rockefeller, Jr., '97 has made an additional 
gift of securities to the Brown University Housing and 
Development Fund, it was announced May 21 by Arthur B. 
Homer '17, Chairman of the University's Student Housing 
Board. The securities have realized $400,000. 

The gift, his third since the Development Campaign be- 
gan in 1946, brings to $1,300,000 the amount Mr. Rockefel- 
ler has so far contributed in the two phases of the drive. 
His first was of securities with market value of $500,000. 
The second was of securities worth $400,000, and with that 
gift he made the conditional pledge of an equal amount of 
securities contingent upon the University raising $2,000,000 
from other sources by Dec. 31, 1950. The University was 
unable to meet those terms within the required time, and 
Mr. Rockefeller was so informed. 

In consideration of the fact that the University had raised 
$1,400,000 (70% of the $2,000,000), Mr. Rockefeller con- 
tributed 70% of his pledge. He provided that he would make 
a further contribution of securities when the University 
raised the remaining $600,000 in cash or pledges before 
Dec. 31, 1951. In the May market the securities would have 
had a value of approximately $150,000. 

The addition of Mr. Rockefeller's contribution brings the 
current total so far raised in both phases of the campaign to 
$5,200,000. The contribution goal is $6,000,000. The en- 
tire construction costs will involve the expenditure of ap- 



proximately $10,000,000. The buildings are planned to be 
self-financing with regard to the balance of the cost. 

President Wriston said in comment: "This modification 
in the terms of Mr. Rockefeller's gift is not only a manifesta- 
tion of his generosity but is also a testimony to the vital 
character of the project itself. It gives fresh assurance to the 
Campaign Committee of the Housing and Development 
Fund that it can complete its program." 

The $2,000,000 Refectory, where some 1800 students 
can be served at a single sitting, was opened last January at 
the start of the second semester. Whitehall, a classroom 
building, and Andrews Hall, a Pembroke dormitory, were 
built earlier in the project and have been in use for several 
years. Nine Quadrangle units, accommodating fraternity 
and non-fraternity men, are now well along in construction. 
The first, fronting on George St., was ready for inspection 
on Commencement Day. With the work pressed through the 
early summer months, it is expected that at least half of the 
units will be ready for use when College opens in the Fall, 
the remainder by the end of this calendar year. Thus is the 
end in sight of the program to provide on-campus housing 
of better quality for all resident students. 

Homecoming Set for Oct. 20 

October 20 is a date for all alumni to remember as they 
mark up next fall's calendar. The day will be the Saturday of 
the 1951 Homecoming Weekend, which will include the 
Brown-Colgate football game in Providence. 

Exact details as to program are being worked out and 
will be itemized in this magazine between now and the 
event. This is merely a date-saving notice — Oct. 20. 







WORKMEN (LEFT) WERE FINISHING the grading of the court of the Quadrangle as the Classes 
met outside the Refectory before the Alumni Dinner, June I. A prodigious job was done that last 
week to have the landscaping and Building No. 1 ready for the visitors' inspection on June 4. 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 




THREE BROWN BEAR AWARDS were presented by President William W. Browne '08 on behalf of 
the Associated Alumni at the Alumni Dinner, in recognition of outstanding service in Brunonian 
ranks. The recipients: Alfred H. Gurney '07, Caileton D. Morse '13, and Jimmy Jemail '18. They 
were presented for the award by Lewis S. Milner '02, Dr. Moses L. Crossley '09, and Ralph M. 
Palmer '10, all (like Browne) similarly honored in the past. Left to right— Morse, Crossley {back to 
camera), Milner, Gurney, Palmer, and Jemail. 



A Memorable Dinner in the New Refectory 



Surely, it was the biogest Brown Alumni Dinner ever, 
taking place for the first time as it did in the new Refec- 
tory — and there are many who say it was the best! All the 
features of memorable past gatherings were present: good 
food, good fellowship, good speeches; and the highlight of 
the program as always was the recognition of three fellow 
alumni for outstanding service through the years to Brown. 
Brown Bear awardees for 1951 were Alfred H. Gurney '07, 
Carleton D. Morse '13 and Jimmy Jemail '18. 

Of course, it made a difference to be in the new Refectory. 
There was something symbolic in the fact that the associ- 
ations of years gone by were being renewed in a hall de- 
signed for the years to come. That it represented a growing 
Brown in these stunted times was significant, too. 

Seated at tables set up in two sections of the main dining 
area, some diners on the fringes couldn't even see the head 
table. When the dishes had been cleared away, they were 
able to move their chairs into watching range; at all times, 
the amplifying system kept them splendidly informed of 
what was taking place out of sight. 

The food was tasty, and temptingly-served. (There was a 
choice of roast beef or lobster Newburg.) Latecomers (over 
the 720 who had made -eservation) were able to eat in the 
Ivy Room downstairs i. id return for the meeting after the 
dinner. 

In his annual report to the assembled alumni. President 
Wriston called upon Brown men to support the University's 
campaign for funds as they never had supported it before. 
Citing past years when financial problems have been met 
only through the generosity of friends, the President noted 
the severe strain that inflation had inflicted on college budg- 
ets. Since Korea, costs have risen 25 to 30 per cent, he said. 
Faculty and administrative co-operation have effected many 
economies, he revealed, but increased government research 



grants, which pay for labor and materials only, meant an 
increased burden for overhead. 

But the University was glad to accept the grants even 
under such adverse conditions. President Wriston added, 
"because the United States cannot stay abreast of foreign 
countries" without research. "It is a grave mistake to under- 
estimate the Russians in scientific and technical develop- 
ments," he cautioned; "they have a deep zeal and conviction. 
I wish democracy could catch that flame." 

The President had a special word of commendation for 
the Committee on Investments, Chancellor Henry D. 
Sharpe '94, Chairman, which has managed to produce a 
yield of 5 per cent through securities this year instead of 
the normal 3.9 per cent. He reiterated his gratitude for 
Faculty faith in Brown in such trying times. 

Perehnan in "Providonia" 

The other speaker on the program, humorist S. J. Perel- 
man '25, was less solemnly concerned with finances. In re- 
lating the story of the movie producer who was upset when 
his set designer added a $25,000 item to the budget, he 
admonished: "But, $25,000 here, $25,000 there— it all adds 
up, Web; it all adds up!" There was probably more moral 
in this punch line than many of Perelman's listeners realized. 

The one-time scripter for the Marx Brothers opened his 
talk by telling of the preparations he had made for his trip 
to "Providonia." A native of all parts of the globe, Perelman 
referred to Abercrombie and Fitch. New York outfitters for 
big-game hunters, for advice on the proper equipment for 
his safari. Then, after rounds of farewell parties, he set off 
for the airport in pith helmet and khaki shorts and with an 
amulet of pulverized Libers s'ung around his neck. He was 
somewhat surprised on boarding the plane to learn that the 
unknown to which he was heading for was none other than 
Providonia, the haunt of his childhood. 



JUNE 1951 




LARGEST ALUMNI DINNER CROWD in Brown history enjoyed the meal, the program, and the re- 
union atmosphere in the new Refectory. President Wriston's comments on the difficult year ahead 
were compelling. The senior alumni listened to him from down front. 



Here followed stories of his high school days when, as a 
member of the debating team, he took part in a contest with 
the Lucy Borden High School of Fall River. His costume: 
a laurel wreath and corduroy knickers. He also revealed 
scenes from his life as an author in New York and Holly- 
wood. His lines were peppered with Perelman wit; his audi- 
ence relished the unrelenting laughter. 

Associated Alumni President William B. Browne '08, 
officiating at his last meeting, presented the Brown Bear 
Awards with an amiable flourish of his bear-scented cane. 
The recipients were cited as follows: 

Three Cited for the Bear 

"Alfred Henry Gurney. Devoted and sparkling scribe 
of the Class of 1907; popular Alumni Secretary for a score 
of years; kindly critic, genial guide, and stimulating cor- 
respondent of countless Brown men around the globe, you 
have enriched the meaning of alumni loyalty. In recognition 
of your unwavering faithfulness to your Alma Mater, and 
of your ceaseless efforts for her welfare, we salute you with 
this Alumni Award." (Gurney, a former newspaperman, is 
retired now.) 

"Carleton Doty Morse. Respected adviser and ever 
loyal alumnus, you have served your university faithfully 
and well. Through your lively interest in youth, scores of 
young men have followed your footsteps up College Hill. As 
the first President of the Friends of the Library, and as an 
effective worker in alumni affairs, you have combined your 
scholarly interests and executive talents in helping to make 
a better Brown. In acknowledgement and appreciation of 
your constancy and service, we present you this Alumni 
Award." (Morse is President and Treasurer of the Clear- 
water Laundry in Roxbury, Mass.) 

"Jimmy Jemail. In days of old, Andrews Field echoed to 
the popular yell, 'Give Jimmy the ball.' Whether as a dazz- 
ling halfback or as 'The Inquiring Fotographer,' whose root- 
ers are legion, you still carry the ball for Brown. For your 
tireless support of worthy causes and for your profound 



loyalty to your Alma Mater, we delight in bestowing on you 
this alumni honor." (Jemail, "The Inquiring Fotographer" 
of the New York Daily News, is replacing the Jinx Falken- 
berg-Tex McCrary Show on television this summer.) 

With appropriate words of wit and wisdom. President 
Browne then turned over his symbol of office, the cane made 
from an old beam out of University Hall, to the incoming 
President, Dwight Colley '18. Colley, who is Vice-President 
and Director of Domestic Sales for the Atlantic Refining 
Company in Philadelphia, will serve until June, 1953. 

The evening's toastmaster. James V. Bennett '18, kept the 
proceedings moving along at a crisp pace. Among his first 
official actions was the introduction of distinguished alumni 
in the assemblage. Prof. Henry P. Manning '83 represented 
the oldest class there. From the Class of 1884 were Col. 
William M. P. Bowen and Albert A. Baker. A rousing hand 
was given Dean Alexander Meiklejohn '93, all the way from 
California, and Fremont E. Roper '11, 35 years Secretary 
of the Brown Club of Alta, California. 

The eventful meeting was closed by the singing of "Alma 
Mater" under the leadership of Earl M. Pearce '17. At the 
head table besides the speakers, the toastmaster and the 
Alumni Presidents, were Chancellor Sharpe, Provost Arnold 
and Dinner Chairman Martin L. Tarpy '37. 



88 Advanced Degrees 

Dr. Charles A. Kraus. Brown's far-famed Professor- 
Emeritus of Chemistry, delivered the Graduate School Con- 
vocation address in Sayles Hall on the Saturday of Com- 
mencement weekend. Speaking to the 88 advanced degree 
recipients and the audience on the general theme of grad- 
uate schools today, the recent winner of chemistry's coveted 
Priestley Award said that he favored State rather than Fed- 
eral aid for graduate schools which are so largely dependent 
on outside income for the carrying on of their activities. 

Dr. Kraus criticized universities for failing to provide 



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sufficient firsthand research experiences for graduate stu- 
dents. From the viewpoint of a scientist, he stated that he 
thought it would be quite proper in the arts "to award a 
degree for a good painting, a poem, a drama, an essay or a 
novel. Why," he insisted, "in these subjects should degrees 
be given so largely for criticisms of writings of the past?" 
Then, with a twinkle in his eye. Dr. Kraus turned toward 
Graduate Dean Barnaby C. Keeney, a medievalist, as he 
said: "The past cannot do much to advance our civilization; 
advances must be made in the present on the basis of new 
ideas and concepts." 

Chief Marshal of the Convocation procession was Prof. 
J. Walter Wilson '18. Mace Bearer Prof. Ben Brown '19 
was followed by President Wriston, Chancellor Henry D. 
Sharpe '94, Dean Keeney and Dr. Kraus, Provost Arnold 
and Dr. William G. Braude of Temple Beth El who gave the 
invocation. Following the ceremonies, Dean and Mrs. 
Keeney and new Acting Dean and Mrs. Edmund S. Morgan 
received at a tea in the John Carter Brown Library. 

An interesting side light to the Graduate School Convo- 
cation was the one-man reunion held by Dr. Laurence S. 
Foster of the Watertown ( Mass. ) Arsenal Laboratory. One 
of the two first students to receive advanced degrees from 
the newly established Graduate School in 1926, Dr. Foster 
attended his quarter-century anniversary alone. From 1927 
through 1943, he was a Professor of Chemistry at Brown. 

Brown graduates who received advanced degrees at the 
exercises included: Master of Arts — William R. Bush '50, 
Psychology; Robert R. Johnson '48, Political Science; James 
F. Reilly '41, History; Carlton M. Singleton '41, Education, 
Psychology. Master of Science — Gordan F. Anderson '48 
and William S. Haigh '49, both Engineering. The only Doc- 
tor of Philosophy degree to be awarded to a Brown man 
went to Edward N. Clarke '46, Physics. His thesis was en- 
titled: "The photoelectric work functions of and the low 
speed electron diffraction from thin films of silver on the 
( 100) face of a silver single crystal." 

In October, four alumni who earned advanced degrees 
were: Master of Arts — Percy B. Allsup '49, Classics; Wil- 





"OPEN HOUSE" at the John Carter Brown Library has long been 
a tradition of Class Night on the Campus. With the distinguished 
librarian. Dr. Lawrence C. Wroth (center), are two early visitors: 
Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy '11, Curator of Birds at the Ameri- 
can Museum of Natural History, recent discoverer of the supposedly 
"extinct" cahow; and Mrs. Murphy, Grace Barstow, Pembroke '13, 
author of the new book "There's Always Adventure." 



CHARLES A. KRAUS, Emeritus Professor and honorary alumnus 
of Brown, was the speaker at the 1951 Graduate School Convo- 
cation. As the academic procession was forming, he posed with 
President Wriston and Barnaby Keeney, Dean of the Graduate 
School. A few days later Dean Keeney left for military duty. 



liam E. Costello '49, Economics. Master of Science — Ogden 
R. Lindlsey, '48, Psychology. Doctor of Philosophy — Al- 
bert D. Crowell '47, Physics; Thesis: "Adsorption of carbon 
dioxide on a nickel single crystal employing a radioactive 
tracer technique." 

But again, Brown men were a definite minority in the 
graduate school services. Other advanced degree recipients 
represented the following institutions: Allegheny, Illinois 
Institute of Technology, C.C.N.Y., Illinois, N.Y.U., Haver- 
ford, Harvard, Bowdoin, Middlebury, Wesleyan, Acadia, 
Oregon, Tufts, Washington, Mississippi, Trinity, Bates, Uni- 
versity of the Philippines, Yeshiva, William and Mary, 
Brooklyn, Oberlin, Kenyon, Wagner Memorial Lutheran, 
Clark, Seoul National University, Providence, St. John's 
(at Annapolis), Sterling, Queens, Saint Lawrence, Indiana, 
M.I.T., Hartwick, Gettysburg, Colby, Kentucky, Vermont, 
W.P.I., Seton Hall. Rochester, Holy Cross, Rice Institute, 
Arizona, William Jewell, Massachusetts, U.C.L.A., Michi- 
gan, Saskatchewan, Connecticut, Maine, Baldwin-Wallace, 
McGill. Baylor, B.U., Wooster, Reed, Swiss Federal In- 
stitute of Technology, Cornell, Amherst. 

Beaulac Assigned to Cuba 

The new United States Ambassador to Cuba is Wil- 
lard L. Beaulac '20, a career diplomat and one-time embassy 
counselor in Havana. A native of Pawtucket. Beaulac was 
Ambassador to Colombia when appointed by President Tru- 
man to his new post in April. 

When Naval service during World War I interrupted his 
studies at Brown, Beaulac completed his college training at 
Georgetown and took his first foreign service post as Vice- 
Consul at Tampico, Mexico, in 1921. His assignments, all 
in South and Central America, have included stays at Hon- 
duras, Port au Prince, Managua, San Salvador, Guatemala, 
Asuncion and Bogota, where he and his wife and two chil- 
dren survived the revolutionary turmoil of 1948. 

He has served as Assistant Chief of the State Depart- 
ment's Division of American Republics and in 1949 he was 
honored by Georgetown which awarded him the degree of 
Doctor of Laws. 



JUNE 1951 



Flames in the Early Morning 



The young man in the hospital bed looked up surprised 
when President Wriston, Provost Arnold, Dean Coles and 
Captain Durgin walked into his room. They were in full 
academic regalia, and for a moment he must have thought 
he was dreaming. But he knew he wasn't when, after a few 
phrases in Latin, President Wriston handed him his Bache- 
lor's degree. For William P. Emerson, the presentation came 
a day earlier than it did for his fellow Seniors. Too, it was 
the first time a Brown baccalaureate degree had ever been 
presented off the campus. 

This unprecedented "Commencement" was the result of 
a near-tragedy that took place in the early hours of Friday, 
June 1, Class Day. After their Class Dinner on Thursday 
night, many of the Seniors stayed up late, making the most 
of their last few chances for collegiate bull sessions. The 
members of Delta Tau Delta fraternity were not unlike their 
Classmates, and when they finally did go to bed, they were 
pretty tired. 

The night watchman made his rounds at 3:30 a.m.; every- 
thing at DTD was in order as he punched his clock in the 
basement. An hour later DeMerial Reidinger was awakened 
in his second-floor room by smoke. He got up and tried to 
shout an alarm, but the flames, sweeping through the hall- 
way, prevented him from leaving his room. So he climbed 
down the fire escape outside his window and re-entered 
through the front door. 



By this time several other brothers had been aroused. 
Charles Whelan and Kenneth Holmes, two third-floor oc- 
cupants, called to Emerson, a floormate; and when he an- 
swered, seemingly in no danger, the two boys found their 
way to safety. When the firemen arrived, most of the stu- 
dents were outside the building, either climbing down fire 
escapes or already on the ground. Soon the flames had burst 
through the roof, and a second alarm was rung. Then it was 
noted that Emerson was missing. 

For an hour firemen attempted to get up to his third-floor 
room. But the collapse of the roof sent a shower of sparks 
over nearby dwellings, and six hose lines had to be turned 
on the blaze to keep it under control. It was 5:30 a.m. before 
two firemen reached Emerson's room and found him un- 
conscious, still in his bed. To protect himself, he had pulled 
an extra mattress over his body; nothing else can account 
for his survival for so long in the hottest part of the fire. 
At the time he entered Brown he was the youngest member 
of the Larchmont Volunteer Fire Company. 

When the rescue squad carried Emerson out of the house, 
his fraternity brothers cheered. At the R. I. Hospital he was 
found to have suffered first and second degree burns on both 
legs and his right arm. He was also effected by smoke in- 
halation and shock, and upon regaining consciousness, ex- 
pressed the fear that this would mean he could not graduate. 
On the advice of University medical officer Dr. Charles A. 




THE DELTA TAU DELTA HOUSE on the morning of Ihe fire. This photo token from the Christian 

Science Church across the way shows the havoc caused by the mysterious blaze, especially on the 

third floor. All 12 Delts in the house the night of the Senior dinner escaped, although one was 

rescued only in the nick of time. 



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McDonald '03, President Wriston brought Emerson's di- 
ploma to his bedside on Sunday, June 3. From all reports, 
the psychology proved sound. 

In attendance at the historic graduation were the parents 
of the 22-year-old Larchmont, N. Y., Senior, Mr. and Mrs. 
Walter S. Emerson, his sister, Carole, and his fiancee. Miss 
Ann Bradley. Emerson, a chemistry major, was scheduled 
to be commissioned an Ensign in the Naval Reserve. The 
Navy will require a physical examination upon his release 
from the hospital before awarding the commission. (In a 
fortnight Emerson was back home.) 

Firemen battled the blaze for three hours before getting 
it under control. They theorized that the fire started in the 
basement and was carried up the stairwell. The house was 
little more than a charred framework when the fire trucks 
finally rolled away. It will have to be razed. Pembroke lent 
its vacated West House to shelter the Delts for the remain- 
der of the Commencement celebrations. The brothers' big- 
gest immediate problem was replacing their clothing in time 
for the Class Night Dance. 

Two other fires on College Hill at approximately the same 
time aroused some suspicion concerning incendiarism. At 
the Theta Delta Chi house a burning mattress was discov- 
ered in a cupboard when residents were awakened by the 
fire apparatus on its way to DTD. In Horace Mann dormi- 
tory a janitor discovered a blaze in some linen in a storage 
room at around 7 a.m. Both fires were put out easily. So far, 
no result of the investigations that followed has been re- 
leased. 

Early the same morning a prowler who tried to enter the 
First Baptist Meeting House was frightened away by the 
Sexton, who sleeps in the historic structure. Did that episode 
also fit into the mysterious pattern? 




FROM THIS THIRD STORY and other portions of the Delta Tau 
Delta House a dozen Seniors made their escape. 



Honorary Degrees: an Accolade for Nine 



Eight men and one woman received honorary degrees at 
the 1951 Commencement exercises. For one. Dr. Harry 
W. Rockwell '03, it was a second accolade from his Alma 
Mater: in 1922 he received an honorary Master of Arts de- 
gree from President Faunce. 

Presented to President Wriston by Prof. Herbert N. 
Couch and invested with their hoods by Prof. William T. 
Hastings '03 were the following honorati: The Rev. Robert 
H. Schacht, Jr., Minister of the First Congregational Church 
(Unitarian) of Providence; Grace M. Sherwood, Pembroke 
'06, R. I. State Librarian; Harry W. Rockwell, retiring this 
summer after 24 years as President of New York State 
Teachers College; Paul C. French, Executive Director of 
CARE, Inc.; Mark A. DeWolfe Howe, Pulitzer Prize winner 
for his biography of Harvard professor Barrett Wendell and 
one-time Vice-President of the Atlantic; Dudley Harmon, 
Executive Head for 26 years of the New England Council, 
regional development body; Thomas Mott Shaw, director 
of the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg and architect 
of the post-war development at Brown; Grayson L. Kirk, 
acting head of Columbia University in the absence of Presi- 
dent Eisenhower; and Robert A. Lovett, Deputy Secretary 
of Defense and former Assistant Secretary of War for Air. 

Master of Arts degrees ad eundem were awarded to Pro- 
fessors Guy H. Dodge (Political Science), Herbert Federer 
(Mathematics), Erastus H. Lee (Applied Mathematics) 
and Rohn Truell (Physics). 

The citations follow: 



Robert Hugo Schacht, Jr.. Doctor of Divinity: For twenty 
years you have been the spiritual guide of one of the oldest con- 
gregations in these Plantations; they have been decades of un- 
wavering support of all that is finest in the life of the community. 
As a clear and forceful exponent of the great liberal tradition, 
you have been an unwearying laborer for the betterment of your 
parish, your city, the state and nation, and an ardent advocate 
of measures designed to bring peace to a confused world. 

Grace Mabel Sherwood, Doctor of Humane Letters: 
Ever since graduation from Pembroke College in Brown Univer- 
sity you have dedicated yourself to Rhode Island, first as Director 
of the Bureau of Legislative Reference, then as State Librarian 
and Record Commissioner; during both world wars you found 
and developed effective means for lifting the minds of the armed 
forces from the grimness of their lives. Wide-ranging knowledge, 
a passionate care for completeness and accuracy, eagerness to 
improve the technical aspects of legislation have marked your 
professional career; warmth of personal interest has illumined it. 

Harry Westcott Rockwell, Doctor of Laws: You are one 
of the very few alumni whom Brown has twice chosen to honor. 
For over thirty years you have guided one institution for the 
training of teachers with unfailing fidelity, sane statesmanship, 
deep concern for fundamentals, and a keen human interest in 
your students. Manifold community activities have benefited by 
a generous share of your time, thought, and energy. With pro- 
found respect and warm affection, we greet you again. 

Paul Comly French, Master of Arts: As America has 
grown in stature, its heart has expanded until new standards have 
been established in philanthropy as in so many other fields of 
action. Private giving has kept pace with the broadening scope 
and reach of public programs; CARE is one of the striking man- 
ifestations. To a vast humanitarian task you have summoned 
financial acumen, business efficiency, and a gift for evoking co- 
operation: these you have used not as substitutes for, but rein- 
forcements to, a spontaneous outpouring of love for mankind. 



JUNE 1951 



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SYMBOLISM IN THE SIGNS went unobserved at the Senior Din- 
ner by members of the Class of 1951 about to make their "exits" 
from undergraduate life. With Provost Samuel T. Arnold '13 are 
three Class Officers, left to right— Bob Lenker, Harold Spalter, and 
Bob Anderson. 

Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe, Doctor of Literature': 
Your literary work has been inspired by a zest for life so fresh 
and perceptive that it has communicated itself to countless read- 
ers; they have seen things through your eyes, felt things through 
your emotions, understood things through the clarity of your ex- 
position that, by themselves unaided, they would have missed. 
For the enrichment of two generations by sensitive appreciation, 
vigor of mind, and felicity of expression we here manifest our 
gratitude. 

Dudley Harmon, Doctor of Laws: I remember you well as 
an unusual undergraduate: at that time you exhibited the charac- 
ter, personality, intelligence, and leadership which have since 
distinguished your labors. A lively spirit of inquiry joined with 
fair and exact reporting made you a successful journalist. Now 
for a quarter of a century your vigorous and well-balanced judg- 
ment has helped to reawake regional pride in New England, re- 
develop its resources, and stimulate it to fresh endeavors in many 
phases of life. 

Thomas Mott Shaw, Doctor of Fine Arts: At the height 
and summit of your powers you were called to design more 
buildings for Brown than any previous architect in its 187 years. 
Learned in historical forms, fertile in imagination, practical in 
conception, dependable in taste, hospitable to lay suggestions, 
and patient without limit, the fruits of your labors will long re- 
main to benefit a succession of students and to adorn the ex- 
panded University campus. 

Grayson Louis Kirk. Doctor of Laws: You embody the 
best traditions of the academic world. Trained in three Ameri- 
can universities and two abroad, you taught in the South, West, 
and East. Besides serving the government in responsible posts, 
you have made significant additions to knowledge and have ex- 
erted great influence toward better instruction in international 
relations. Now you carry the chief administrative responsibility 
for a great university. For distinction in three vital elements of 
academic life — teaching, research, and administration — we de- 
light to honor you. 

Robert Abercrombie Lovett, Doctor of Laws: Suspending 
your college course to become a naval flier in the First World 
War, you began a notable record of national service: repeatedly 
interrupting your work as a brilliant business executive, you 
made superb contributions as Assistant Secretary of War for 
Air and as Undersecretary of State; now again you have set 
aside personal profit and preference in behalf of the public weal. 
In all this varied experience your sole ambition has been to in- 
sure the safety of our country. Democracy survives and thrives 
only through selfless devotion to its ideals by men of high talent 
Mich as yours. 



ALUMNI ELECTION RESULTS: 



The Voting for Trustees 

The voting was spirited all through the ballot, and when 
the final tabulations had been recorded some 5,159 
Brunonians had made their choices of the men to represent 
them in University Corporation, athletic and alumni affairs. 

As new Alumni Trustees on the Brown Corporation, 
Norman S. Case '08 and Duncan Norton-Taylor '26 were 
formally admitted to that body at its June 2 meeting. Case, 
former Governor of Rhode Island and now a Washington 
lawyer, served on the Federal Communications Commission 
from 1934-1945. A Colonel in the Organized Reserve, he 
is an active alumnus, and was Vice-Chairman of the Hous- 
ing and Development Campaign for the Middle-Atlantic 
States. 

Norton-Taylor, a Senior Editor of Time, has been writing 
for the national news weekly since 1939. Since the war he 
has specialized in politics, labor-management and econom- 
ics and was on an assignment in Europe when his election 
was announced. C. Douglas Mercer '06 and Ronald M. 
Kimball '18 are the Trustees whose terms expired. 

The sole nominee for the office of Treasurer of the As- 
sociated Alumni, Richmond H. Sweet '25 was re-elected 
without dissent. A Providence attorney, Sweet is head of 
the Title Department of the Old Colony Co-Operative Bank. 
He is a former Trustee of the Alumni Fund and was a Team 
Captain in the Housing and Development Campaign. 

Succeeding Everett M. Arnold '21 on the Athletic Ad- 
visory Council is Kenneth D. Clapp '40. An intercollegiate 
sprint and low hurdle champion while at Brown, Clapp is 
now Advertising and Sales Promotion Director with the 
Boston real estate firm, Town and Country Homes, Inc. He 
is a former officer of the Boston Brown Club. 




FCR THE FIRST TIME this year the Japanese lanterns which il- 
luminate the Campus on Class Night were electric. New, too, was 
the machine-age method of hanging them. (The College Green 
looked as lovely as ever that night, candles or no candles.) 



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THE CORPORATION OF BROWN UNIVERSITY posed for this picture on 
the steps of Manning Hall just before its June 2 meeting. The photo is 
the first taken of Fellows and Trustees in several years. 

Front Row— (left to right) Edwin Farnham Greene '01, New York; Nor- 
man S. Taber '13, South Orange, N. J.; H. Stanton Smith '21, Providence; 
Dr. W. Russell Burwell '15, Cleveland, Ohio; E. John Lownes, Jr. '23, 
Providence; L. Ralston Thomas, Providence; Chancellor Henry D. Sharpe 
'94, Providence; President Henry M. Wriston; Samuel Temkin '19, Provi- 
dence; John G. Peterson '17, Minneapolis, Minn.; George T. Metcalf '13, 
Providence; Mrs. Leslie E. Swain '11, Craigville, Mass.; Sidney Clifford '15, 
Providence; Robert H. Ives Goddard, Providence. 

Second Row — Vice-President Thomas B. Appleget '17, Wa'son Smith 
'19, Cambridge, Mass.; Thomas J. Watson, Jr., '37, N. Y.; Judge Allyn L. 
Brown '05, Norwich, Conn.; Donald S. Babcock '10, Providence; Arthur 
B. Homer '17, Bethlehem, Pa.; Eugene W. O'Brien '19, Atlanta, Ga.; Dr. 



Waldo Gifford Leland '00, Washington, D. C; Roger T. Clapp '19, Provi- 
dence; Ronald M. Kimball '18, Chicago; Gordon L. Parker '18, treasurer, 
Providence; Harold B. Tanner '09, Providence; William David Miller '09, 
Wakefield, R. I.; C. Douglas Mercer '06, N.Y.C.; Prof. Zechariah Chafee, 
Jr., Cambridge, Mass. 

Third Row— Vice President Bruce M. Bigelow '24; Provost Samuel T. 
Arnold '13; Vice President F. Morris Cochran, James L Palmer '19, Chi- 
cago, ML; Rowland R. Hughes '17, New York; W. Easton Louttit, Jr., '25, 
Providence; Donald G. Millar '19, N. Y.; Dr. W. Randolph Burgess '12, 
N. Y.; James S. Eastham '19, Bos'on; Rev. Dr. Albert C. Thomas '08, 
Providence; U. S. Senator Theodore Francis Green '87, Washington, D. C; 
Hermon C. Bumpus, Jr., '12, Duxbury, Mass.; Dr. Moses L. Crossley, '09, 
Plainfield, N. J. ; Rev. Dr. Joseph C. Robbins '97, New Haven, Conn. 

(Lamentably, our photo failed to include Chopin S. Newhard '22, St. 
Louis, and Col. H. S. McLeod '16, Providence, both of whom were present.) 



Problems the Corporation Faced 



President Wriston's report to the June 
meeting of the Brown Corporation em- 
braced an all-out attack on Congressional 
failure to cope with the crises of the cur- 
rent world and domestic situations. Blam- 
ing government inability to control infla- 
tion for the present financial state of the 
colleges, he further charged that an ap- 
parent complacency on the part of college 
students is the direct result of a lack of na- 
tional leadership. 

"I have found no unwillingness on the 
part of the students to play their full part 
in service to their country," he said, "but 
they have felt, and I think correctly, that 
they had a right to have the government 
make up its mind regarding what is ex- 
pected of them." Dr. Wriston added that 
this lack of guidance has had a disastrous 
effect on the academic work of many, that 
it may well have a harmful effect upon 
our national institutions. 

Praising the veterans for their industry 
and interest while at the University, the 
President noted that their absence from 
the campus scene tended further to upset 
normal procedure. Their graduation left 
a body of Seniors who had not yet gained 
experience in leadership as underclass- 
men. Virtual expiration of the G.I. pro- 



gram and a falling-off in enrollments has 
added to Brown's financial problems. 

President Wriston had warm praise for 
the Faculty that has remained faithful un- 
der the most discouraging of conditions. 
A special word of tribute was reserved for 
the two Deans, Robert W. Kenny '25 of 
the College and Barnaby C. Keeney of the 
Graduate School, who left immediately 
after Commencement to report for mili- 
tary duty in Washington. 

Seven-Year Terms End 
But there were other matters for 
Brown's governing body to consider, too. 
The most important from the alumni 
point of view was the election of Norman 
S. Case '08 and Duncan Norton-Taylor 
'26 as Alumni Trustees. (See the election 
story elsewhere in this issue. ) Trustees 
whose terms expired at the meeting were 
Donald S. Babcock '10, Arthur B. Homer 
'17 and Chapin S. Newhard '22. They 
were the first group to accept appointment 
under the 1944 policy limiting all trustee 
elections to a first term of seven years. 
Ronald Kimball '18 and C. Douglas Mer- 
cer '06 completed their present tour as 
Alumni Trustees. All have been exception- 
ally useful members of the Corporation. 
The report of the Committee on Stand- 



ing Committee Vacancies was made by 
James S. Eastham. Rowland R. Hughes 
was elected to the Advisory and Execu- 
tive Committee, and Harold B. Tanner, 
Fred B. Perkins, W. Russell Burwell and 
James S. Eastham were re-elected. Lewis 
S. Milner was elected Chairman of the 
Athletic Advisory Council, H. Stanford 
McLeod was elected to succeed Roger T. 
Clapp, and Capt. Edward R. Durgin was 
elected to succeed Prof. Zenas R. Bliss. 
Dr. Albert C. Thomas was re-elected 
chairman of the Brown Christian Associa- 
tion Board. Prof. Harold R. Nace was 
elected faculty member of the Brown Out- 
ing Reservation Advisory Board to suc- 
ceed K. Brooke Anderson: Hazen Math- 
ewson was elected as alumni member to 
succeed Charles J. Hill. Dr. Emery M. 
Porter was re-elected chairman. 

Samuel Temkin and Dean Edmund S. 
Morgan were elected to the Commence- 
ment Committee. W. Easton Louttit, Jr., 
was re-elected Chairman of the Commit- 
tee on Comprehensive Planning and De- 
velopment of University Property, and Ar- 
thur B. Homer and Donald G. Millar 
were re-elected as members of this com- 
mittee. Rowland R. Hughes was elected 
to succeed Claude R. Branch on the Com- 
mittee for Consultation Between the Ad- 
visory and Executive Committee and the 
Associated Alumni. Prof. Harold Schlos- 
berg was elected to succeed Prof. Herbert 



JUNE 1951 



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HONORARY DEGREE CANDIDATES are shown above during the exercises on the College 
Green: front row, left to right-Mark A. De Wolfe Howe, Robert A. Lovett, Grayson L. Kirk, 
Thomas Mort Shaw, Dudley Harmon; behind— Rev. Robert L. Schacht, Miss Grace M. Sher- 
wood 06, Harry W. Rockwell '03. Paul C. French does not appear in the picture. 



N. Couch on the Committee for Consulta- 
tion Between the Corporation and the Fac- 
ulty, and E. John Lownes. Jr., was 
elected to succeed Albert H. Poland. Clar- 
ence H. Philbrick was re-elected Chair- 
man of the Faunce House Advisory 
Board, with Prof. Otto van Koppenhagen 
elected to succeed Prof. C. Arthur Lynch, 
and Theodore C. Dye to succeed Harold 
F. Spalter as undergraduate member. 

Other Committee Designations 
Henry D. Sharpe was re-elected as 
Chairman, and Robert H. Ives Goddard 
was re-elected a member of the Invest- 
ment Committee. Prof. Charles H. Smiley 
was re-elected Chairman of the Lecture- 
ships Committee; John Nicholas Brown 
and Lawrence C. Wroth were re-elected 
members, and Prof. W. Freeman Twad- 
dell was elected to succeed Prof. Hunter 
Kellenberger. 

Lawrence C. Wroth and Albert E. 
Lownes were re-elected to the Annmary 
Brown Memorial Committee of Manage- 
ment, and Henry D. Sharpe was re- 
elected to the John Carter Brown Library 
Committee of Management. Prof. W. 
Freeman Twaddell was elected to succeed 
Prof. Lewis H. Gordon on the University 
Library Committee; Watson Smith was 
elected to succeed Roger T. Clapp, and 
L. Ralston Thomas was re-elected. Prof. 
Zenas R. Bliss was re-elected Chairman of 
the Nautical Advisory Board; E. John 
Lownes, Jr., was elected to succeed L. Ral- 
ston Thomas as corporation member, and 
Richmond H. Sweet was elected to succeed 
H. Stanton Smith as alumni member. 

Roger T. Clapp succeeds Dr. Albert C. 
Thomas as corporation member of the 
Pembroke College Advisory Committee, 
and Prof. W. Freeman Twaddell succeeds 
Prof. Robert B. Lindsay as faculty mem- 
ber. Walter Wilson was re-elected repre- 
sentative on the Administrative Board of 
the Rhode Island Hospital School of 
Nursing. Provost Samuel T. Arnold will 
act as representative on the Board of 
Trustees of the Rhode Island School of 
Design during the absence of Dean Rob- 
ert W. Kenny. Sidney Clifford was elected 
to succeed James S. Eastham on the Com- 



mittee on Standing Committee Vacancies 
and Maxwell Barus and James S. Eastham 
were elected to succeed William Davis 
Miller and C. Douglas Mercer, respec- 
tively, as members of the Trustee Vacan- 
cies Committee. 

Mrs. Morris H. Brown succeeds Mrs. 
Charles A. Stuart as alumnae member of 
the Advisory Committee on Pembroke 
College. 

Gordon L. Parker, Treasurer of the 
University, presented his report. Arthur B. 
Homer, Chairman of the Student Housing 
Board, summarized progress on the Quad- 
rangle, and George T. Metcalf gave the 
report of the Special Committee on Cor- 
poration Meetings. Dr. Wriston made the 
report for the Advisory and Executive 
Committee. 

Rowland R. Hughes of New York. 
elected a member of the Corporation last 
October, took his engagement. 



In the Mailbag 



Samuel Pepys 

Sir: Up betimes and I mightily satisfied 
to read the kind words of that good 
friend and scholar. Alfred Gurney, he 
speaking of me in a publique discourse 
on loyalty before certain students of the 
University met in Chapel. 

But I did take it ill that the poor 
wretch who in the keeping of his Journal 
did write down my Lord Alfred's compli- 
ment. His account was that I "insisted 
that British soldiers were human beings." 

Down to some business at the office 
trustful that my Lord Alfred said no such 
thing, he being very sensible of my hu- 
mours and knowing that I did labour for 
the King's seamen. But never was I oc- 
cupied with soldiers, nor care to be. 

I pray then that the libel circulate no 
wider. So home and to bed, where I 
could wish that miserable scrivener had 
but stayed. 

Samuel Pepys 
Clapham 



Constructive Critic No. 1 

Sir: It may be unfair to single out one 
particular issue of the Alumni Monthly. 
but after reading through the March is- 
sue, I can only conclude that Brown Uni- 
versity has ceased to exist as an institu- 
tion of higher learning. The year's pre- 
vious issues haven't helped to dispel my 
suspicions. 

We have loyally ploughed our way 
through detailed itineraries of the per- 
egrinations of University officers, the tale 
of the lamented departure of Mr. Zitrides 
and the appointment of a successor, a 
lively history of the Alumni Fund, rosters 
of those attending Brown Club meetings, 
a detailed chronology of Sock and Buskin, 
and the interminable turgid accounts of 
what has happened in every major and 
minor sport. Nine pages in the March 




GRADUATION IN A HOSPITAt BED: William Emerson, victim of the Delta Tau Delta fra- 
ternity fire three mornings before Commencement, had some official visitors on June 3. Presi- 
dent Wriston awarded him his diploma in the presence of the boy's mother, Dean Coles, 
and nurses, doctor, and other University officers not shown in the picture. 



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issue on the operation of new dining 
rooms — even dining rooms dignified with 
the name of "Refectory" — were the last 
straw. 

There has been precious little in all 
this to indicate Brown is doing anything 
about the minds of young men and 
women. The questions one naturally asks 
about Brown go unanswered: Who is 
teaching these days? What are people 
learning? What research is going on? 
What is the state of the University's li- 
braries and laboratories? Is Brown able 
to pay enough to attract and keep com- 
petent teachers? If anyone asked me 
about these matters or even just about 
Brown's general academic standing, I 
couldn't tell him, although I could give 
a pretty accurate picture of how the 
wrestling team made out this winter. In 
fact, the general impression which the 
Alumni Monthly gives is that Brown is 
currently a real estate development which 
supports a football team. 

It's no use passing this off as being 
what the alumni want, because I'm not 
persuaded it is. But if Brown is turning 
out people for whom the University 
means primarily new buildings and inter- 
collegiate sports, the educational program 
Brown is administering deserves a long, 
hard look. 

Richard R. Baxter '42 
Jesus College 
Cambridge, England 

Constructive Critic No. 2 

Sir: I've just been reading the May 
issue of the Alumni Monthly. You've had 
good issues before, issues which were 
more than notes about who's what where, 
issues which contained demonstrations of 
why Brown is an important institution 
nationally. That first function is interest- 
ing enough to the public to which you 
address yourself, but the second, often 
assumed, makes the Brown Alumni 
Monthly a magazine of considerable in- 
terest to anyone who gives a damn where 
American education, and our country it- 
self, is going. I'd nominate the May issue 
as the best issue assuming that second 
function that you've published. 

President Wriston's remarks, pp. 14 ff. 
and Football Coach Kelley's announced 
policies on p. 26 need to be written with 
a sharp nail on the foreheads of most of 
our administrators, in colleges and else- 
where. It's an even more positive thing 
than a relief to find some administrators 
in this nation who do something more 
than wave papers, platitudes, and techni- 
cal terminology in the way of those who 
do the colleges' and the country's work. 
Perhaps one could boil it all down to a 
matter of writing in gold over the door 
of every co-ordinator, contact man and 
executive director and vice-president that 
line from Wriston's Lowell anecdote: 
"Cherchez le concierge!" 

As an old grad "gone back to school," 
I realize now that Brown burned into my 
hide an ineraseable "philosophy of edu- 
cation" (SMALL "e." please). I haven't 
seen a better expression of that philos- 
ophy, in the last hundred years, than 
President Wriston's. Here's hoping he, 
and Brown, keep preaching those ideas 
in louder and louder tones to the nation. 

I feel a little odd being "constructive." 
But more stuff like Wriston's would de- 
prive gripers like me of our favorite copy. 
Frank Merchant '3 1 
Denver 



From Korea 

Sir: I thought you'd be interested to 
know that the Special Edition of Stars 
and Stripes for the UN Forces in Korea 
carried comment of Chairman Russell of 
the Congressional Committee which in- 
terviewed General MacArthur. Remark- 
ing on the General's stamina, he likened 
him to the "Iron Man Team at Brown 
University some years ago," adding: 
"They had 1 1 men who played all games 
against teams with many substitutes. He 
played alone against 26 Senators and 
held his own." 

The recollection is a bit inaccurate, 
but it's good to see the Iron Men re- 
membered even over here. 

Louis C. Irving '34 
Capt. Cml. C. 
Teayan, Korea. 

Prof. Lester Ward 

Sir: A few weeks ago I had dinner with 
Dr. Bernhard J. Stern who is a member 
of the Department of Sociology at Colum- 
bia University. You may remember that 
he was one of the lecturers in the His- 
tory Science series and I understand that 
he did an excellent piece of work. Dr. 
Stern has been greatly interested in Pro- 
fessor Lester Ward who was a member of 
our faculty just before I entered college. 
Dr. Stern thinks that Professor Ward was 
one of the greatest men that we have ever 
had on our faculty and he regards him as 
the American equivalent of Herbert 
Spencer. Dr. Stern has written a great 
deal on Professor Ward and has sent me 
several reprints which you are welcome 
to read if you have the time. 

Dr. Stern would like very much to have 
comments from Brown alumni who had 
courses with Professor Ward giving their 
reactions to Professor Ward and his 
teaching. 

Samuel T. Arnold '13 

The Libers 

Sir: Don't ever say that it doesn't pay to 
advertise! Within 10 days after receiving 
my March copy of the Alumni Monthly, 
I had the pleasure of hearing from 14 
men in seven States asking for 29 old 
copies of the Li her. (Drury had offered 
a number of Libers to those who wanted 
them.— Ed.) 

Woe is me! The task has been similar 
to handing out tickets on the 50-yard 
line because there were some duplicate 
requests. In addition to the 16 copies 
which I have mailed out (to Severance 
Johnson '99, Charles Atkins '99, Fordyce 
Reynolds '00, Elton Adye '02, John 
Fleming '33, Raymond Fenner '10, Rich- 
ard Formidoni '27, and the American 
Antiquarian Society in Worcester), I 
think it would be very helpful if the 
Alumni Monthly could carry the sleuth- 
ing one step further by publishing a list of 
Libers still desired, as follows: 

1899 wanted by Charles D. Atkins, 160 
Euston Rd., Garden City, L. I., N. Y. 
1900, 1901, 1902, and 1904 wanted by 
Clarence S. Brigham, American Anti- 
quarian Society, Salisbury St. and Park 
Ave., Worcester 5. Mass. 1905 and 1907 
wanted by Henrv R. Hobson. 417 River- 
side Dr., New York 25, N. Y. 1920 
wanted by Sherman Wells, Jr., 77 South 
4th Ave., Coatesville, Pa. 1927 wanted 
by both A. J. Barry, Jr., Bangall Rd., 



Millbrook, N. Y., and William J. Nich- 
olas, 727 15th Ave., S.E., Minneapolis, 
Minn. 1929 wanted by Louis Farber, 
2014 Grant Rd., Tucson, Ariz. 1930 
wanted by Mrs. E. H. Howard, 70 Rem- 
sen St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

I still have 1892, 1911, 1916, and 1928. 
Leon A. Drury, Jr. '33 
28 Beacon St., Fitchburg, Mass. 




MOST POPULAR PROFESSOR at Pem- 
broke is Leslie Allen Jones '26, so voted 
by Senior girls on the 25th anniversary 
of his graduation. They also made him 
on honorary member of the Class of 
1951 at Pembroke. We're glad of this 
excuse for showing a photograph of 
him before the set he used in staging 
the recent 50th Anniversary show of Sock 
and Buskin. The bears are holding the 
tragic and comic masks of the dramatic 
society, which is his major preoccupa- 
tion at Brown. 

Transformation 
Sir: Somebody ought to get some 
warm congratulations for an excellent 
planning and detail job at graduation at 
Brown. For instance, I saw preparations 
being made on the campus for Class 
Night Dance, lights being strung, flood- 
lights placed, etc., about 6:30 p.m. At 
eleven I passed the campus and saw the 
throngs. At some such hour as 3 a.m. 1 
still heard the music at home nearby. But 
when I passed through the campus at 
8:30 Saturday morning everything was 
in spotless condition. I'd wager there must 
have been thousands of cigarette butts 
and other debris to clean up. All special 
lights were cleared away. And, mind you, 
even the grass on the Green had been 
freshly cut that morning. All by 8:30. 

Huntington Hanchett '32 

By Way of Correction 

We are corrected by several readers 
who saw that our identification of the 
"Pioneers of Ice Hockey" was faulty in 
the April issue. The four men seated 
were, left to right: Matteson, Meikle- 
john, Larned, and Foote. Standing: Pope, 
Clarkson, Chace, Jones, and Wright. 



JUNE 1951 



15 



A Nine That Just Missed Out 



Brown almost had a second national 
championship contender carrying its 
name westward this year. An umpire's de- 
cision, right or wrong, meant the margin 
of victory in the New England baseball 
playoffs — it was as close as that. And the 
ruling went against the Bears. 

One of Brown's best nines had had a 
year when the breaks were critical. It 
wound up in second place in the Eastern 
Intercollegiate Baseball League, after set- 
ting the pace most of the season. Brown 
beat Princeton, the eventual champions 
and the District II NCAA representatives, 
in their encounter, only to be the loser in 
the only League game which Dartmouth 
won. That was typical of the spring's ex- 
citement — and irony. 

In the last week of May four teams were 
in the running for the 10-team Ivy title: 
Brown. Princeton, Navy, and Cornell, 
each with two defeats. Cornell, which had 
given the Bears their first League defeat, 
then lost to Harvard. Navy was beaten by 
Army. That left the Bears and the Tigers 
on top with a 6-2 record each. Yale had 
beaten Princeton, but it was not the rec- 
ord encounter for the League standings, 
and the Tigers won the one that counted. 
Each of the leaders had a game rained out 
— Brown tried in vain to reschedule its 
engagement with Navy; Princeton, more 
successful, beat Harvard to claim the title 
with a half-game advantage. It had been 
a ding-dong battle all the way. 

In the running for the berth as New 
England representative in the Omaha fi- 
nals of the NCAA championship. Brown 
had to wait three weeks for a playoff with 
Springfield, a strong defensive club. (The 
official season had ended May 16 for 
Brown. ) The holiday from competition 
seemed likely to hurt the Bears, and their 
batting eye had definitely suffered. But 
the three-game series with Springfield was 
a thriller all the way, just the same. 

Just Like Old Times 
On June 4, after receiving their degrees 
at Commencement, the Seniors on the 
squad doffed their caps and gowns and put 
on baseball uniforms to join their team- 
mates in winning the first playoff before a 
crowd of jubilant alumni. To many of the 
latter, this first Commencement ballgame 
in years brought back memories. The 
Bears took into it their 1 1-3 record for the 
year. 

Bruin Coach Lefty Lefebvre picked Bill 
Hayes to pitch the opener. Hayes, with a 
record of six wins in seven starts, tossed 
his first shutout of the season against 
Springfield. It was a pitcher's duel all the 
way, and the defeat was the first this sea- 
son for the Maroon's Nordberg. The lat- 
ter, who was boasting an earned-run aver- 
age of 0.75 at the outset, gave the Bruin 
batters plenty of trouble with his curve. 
He gave up only four hits against Hayes' 
five, but walked seven men to Hayes' six 
and struck out only four to Hayes' six. 

Tight infield playing spelled the differ- 
ence in the ball game. Two sensational 
stops by third baseman Bobby Wheeler 
put an end to two Springfield threats. The 
second, a diving stab that led to a force- 
oul at second base, ended the inning with 
the bases loaded on two walks and a bunt. 
Captain-elect Hob MacConncIl scored 



both Brown runs en hits of first baseman 
John Schulz. The ball beat him home the 
first time he headed for the plate, but 
Springfield's catcher, Walt Smith, dropped 
the ball on the tag and the umpire ruled it 
a score. Occasional wildness on the part of 
the visitors aided the Bears' baseline prog- 
ress, and after stealing second and third. 
MacConnell scored for the second time on 
a hit by Schulz. 

In the second game, played the next day 
at Springfield, Sophomore Dave Traynor 
gave up only six hits, but the five walks 
that he also contributed proved costly in 
Springfield's 3-2 triumph. Maroon ace Bob 
Douglas had some early trouble in settling 
down. A walk to Captain Al Gauthier, a 
hit batsmen (Wheeler) and MacConnell's 
base knock gave Brown a run in the first 
inning. A double steal by Springfield 
scored the tying run in the second half. 
Springfield scored again in the third, but 
Brown tied this up in the fifth when Jack 
Gilbert advanced from first to home on 
two wild pegs. 

At 2-all in the seventh, Traynor walked 
Simos and Hopkins .Tioved him to sec- 
ond on a sacrifice. Another save by 
Wheeler, this time of a wicked hopper by 
pitcher Douglas, go: the ball to first in 
time for the out and kept Simos on second. 
Then Maetoza sent a solid single through 
the middle and Simos scored. Brown 
threatened in the last two innings, but 
Douglas preserved his no-loss record in 
six games for the season. 

An Ump Is Never Wrong 
In the final game of the series, the Bears 
were handed their first shutout of the year. 
Springfield's Hawaiian southpaw, sopho- 
more Hank Tominaga, was in complete 
control as he bested Brown's star relief 
hurler, Joe McOsker (starting his first 
game of the year), in the third pitchers 
duel of the tourney. McOsker walked only 
two men, but again these walks spelled the 
ball game: D'Agostino in the first and 
Tominaga in the third scored after reach- 
ing first on balls. 

The Bruins weren't sitting back all this 
time, either; in fact, they would have had 



at least a tied ballgame but for a hotly 
contested umpire's decision against them. 
Trailing 2-0 with one away in the sixth, 
Brown loaded the bases. Then MacCon- 
nell laced a knee-high liner through short- 
stop. Dick Sherman and Gauthier scored 
from third and second respectively, but 
the umpire ruled that the ball had hit 
Gauthier. (After the game the official ad- 
mitted to considerable uncertainty.) 

In the argument that followed. Hayes 
was ordered off the bench. When play was 
resumed, Sherman was returned to third 
but Gauthier had been declared out. 
Schulz then hit into a force play that ended 
the inning with Sherman and MacCon- 
nell left on. Brown threatened again in 
the ninth, but Tominaga caused Steve 
Fenn to ground out and the game and the 
series went to Springfield. Tominaga 
pitched a three-hitter against McOsker's 
five. In the three games, Brown collected 
only 1 1 hits and four runs. 

Strength on the Mound 
In college baseball it's the pitcher that 
makes the difference, and Bruin Coach 
Lefebvre had the pitchers this year. Lefty's 
formula this spring was to start either 
Hayes or Fred Kopf, who had a 2-and-l 
record before a sore arm benched him; 
then, if the going got rough (and it often 
did), he put in McOsker as relief. Mc- 
Osker had allowed only two earned runs 
in 16^ innings before the Dartmouth 
game. His best performance was a one-hit 
stint in four innings against Army; his 
most valuable, the retiring of the side in 
the ninth inning when Yale had the bases 
loaded. 

Hayes' outstanding game of the season 
was his two-hitter against Harvard. Mak- 
ing strategic use of a strong Cambridge 
wind, he struck out eight batters and 
walked nine for his fourth straight victory. 
He even batted in a run in the Bears' big 
third when Bob MacConnell lined a single 
over second, advanced on Schulz' single 
and scored (with Schulz) on Sherman's 
hit to left. Hayes brought Sherman home. 
These three runs plus two in the first in- 
ning gave Brown the game. 5-1. 



Scores of the Spring's Victories 



Varsity Baseball 
Brown 5, Rhode Island 4 
Brown 11, Connecticut 4 
Rhode Island 3, Brown 2 
Brown 8. Holy Cross 3 
Brown 5. Pennsylvania 3 
Brown 3, Yale 2 
Brown 4, Columbia 1 
Brown 5, Harvard 1 
Brown 7, Army 6 
Cornell 8. Brown 5 
Dartmouth 7, Brown 4 
Brown 6, Princeton 2 
Brown 8, Providence 5 
Brown 3, Providence 2 

Freshman Baseball 
Brown 8, Rhode Island 1 
Brown 18, Rhode Island 5 
Brown II, Providence 5 
Brown 9. Providence 8 
Brown 7. Harvard 4 



Brown 8. Nichols JC 1 
Brown 5, Holy Cross 5 
Andover 3, Brown 2 

Varsity Track 
Boston U 79. Brown 56 
Rhode Island 86, Brown 49 
Brown 77, Holy Cross 57 
Brown 83, Providence 51 

Freshman Track 
Boston U 65, Brown 57 
Andover 87, Brown 39 
Brown 75, Rhode Island 60 
Brown 75, Holy Cross 50 
Brown 73, Providence 61 

Golf 
Brown 6V2, Connecticut VA 
Brown 3! 2, Harvard 3'/2 
Boston U 4, Brown 3 
Brown 7, Rhode Island 



Holy Cross 6, Brown 1 
Brown 5V4, Dartmouth 4Vi 
Williams 9, Brown 1 
Brown 6, Providence 1 
Boston Col. 5'/2. Brown l'/i 

Varsity Tennis 
Navy 9, Brown 
Brown 9, Connecticut 
Brown 7, MIT 2 
Brown 7, Holy Cross 2 
Brown 8. Rhode Island 1 
Harvard b'. Brown 1 
Brown 5, Tufts 4 
Yale 9, Brown 
Brown 8, WPI 1 
Brown 8, Boston U 1 
Brown 8, Springfield 1 

Freshman Tennis 
Brown 8, Country Day 1 
Harvard 9, Brown 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



When the Cadets came to Providence, 
they put up a stiff battle; but McOsker's 
performance (as noted above) held them 
back while Bruin power overcame a 6-4 
lead to win in the ninth, 7-6. Pinch-hitting 
for McOsker. Gilbert doubled to left- 
center and advanced to third on an Army 
error. He scored on a single by Sherman, 
who was in turn moved to second on a 
sacrifice by Gauthier. Wheeler flied out, 
but MacConnell scored Sherman to tie 
the ballgame, stole second on the first 
pitch and was brought home by Fenn's 
double (which could have gone for a 
homer if necessary). In relieving Sopho- 
more Dave Traynor in the sixth inning, 




SPECTACULAR WINNER of the Hepta- 
gonol Meet mile was Brown's Walt 
Molineux. He was the home team's best 
bet as the colorful meet was held at 
Brown Field (and superbly handled, ac- 
cording to our guests). 

McOsker retired the first ten batters, gave 
up his only hit in the ninth and then put 
out the side. 

On trips to Ithaca and Hanover, the 
Bruins hit a two-game losing streak that 
ended their consecutive wins at eight. Cor- 
nell's 8-5 victory was Brown's first defeat 
in Ivy competition. Both teams came up 
with 14 hits and the Bears were ahead 2-1 
in the second inning. But the Big Red's 
Winnick, with some fine infield support, 
wouldn't permit any sustained drive on 
the visitors' part. This was Hayes' lone 
defeat. 

Brown was tied with Princeton at the 
top of the Ivy League and enjoying a 
seven-inning 4-0 advantage until Dart- 
mouth went on the warpath for sure. 
Opening up in the eighth against Traynor, 
who had allowed but two hits until then, 
the Indians scored their first run on a sin- 
gle, a steal, a walk and a single. McOsker 
rushed in to cool the Green batters, but 
it just wasn't his day. Dartmouth chalked 
up seven runs before retiring to snare its 
lone win in League play. The final score, 
7-4. It was Dartmouth's only win in the 
League but it hurt Brown. 



It was Hayes again when the Tigers 
came to town, and here's how he regained 
first place for Brown in the Ivy circuits 
(Columbia's 4-1 triumph over Cornell 
helped, too, of course; the Ithacans would 
have taken top honors had they downed 
the Lions ) : In four innings, Hayes struck 
out the third batter; in three innings he 
got the third man on ground balls to the 
mound; in another, he started a double- 
play, then retired the side. All told. 12 
Princeton runners were left on base. With 
only six hits of their own, the Bruins capi- 
talized on five Tiger errors for two of the 
runs in their 6-2 victory. 

The last two games on the schedule 
comprised a home-and-home series with 
Providence College. Pitching an eight-hit- 
ter, Traynor took the first one, his first 
win in three starts. Highlight of the game 
was Sherman's sixth-inning homer, his 
first of the year. No one was on at the 
time, but the Bears had already scored 
six times and added another run in the 
ninth to make the score 8-5. The next day 
at Aldrich Field, Hayes tossed a five-hit- 
ter as the Bears won 3-2. After Campbell 
had scored in the second inning, a double 
steal by Gauthier and Wheeler brought 
the former home for Brown's second run. 
The Friars tied it up at 2-2 in the sixth and 
threatened in the seventh when they had 
two men on and only one out. Ducharmes 
was caught on an attempted trip for the 
plate and a pop-fly retired the side. In the 
eighth, MacConnell scored the winning 
run from second on a hit by Flanders. 
MacConnell and Flanders accounted for 
five of Brown's six hits in the ballgame. 

With 19 hits in 54 trips to the plate, 
Wheeler led the hitting with a .352 aver- 
age. He and MacConnell tied for RBIs 
with 1 1 each. MacConnell is in second 
place with .349. Gilbert chalked up the 
most runs, 13, on 10 hits in 36 times at bat. 
Senior Iettermen who played their last sea- 
son included Bendroth, Burfiend, Fenn, 
Flanders, Gauthier, Hayes. Scott, Span- 
genberg and Whiston. In Ivy League com- 
petition Gauthier tied for the batting 
honors with MacConnell third. 

With seven straight victories in as many 
starts, the Freshman baseball team was 
heading for an undefeated year as its 
eighth and final contest of the season got 
underway against Andover Academy. But 
the Massachusetts prep schoolers, un- 
cowed by such statistics, scored three runs 
in the first inning and the Cubs never over- 
took them. 

Ken Moffat. Freshman Coach Jack Hef- 
fernan's "Joe McOsker", was called in as 
fireman in the first inning. He had pitched 
6J<3 innings of scoreless relief ball against 
Holy Cross three days earlier and he didn't 
allow another Andover run. But the dam- 
age had been done. The home team's Bill 
Duffy limited the visitors to five hits to 
preserve the edge and the victory. Single 
runs in the seventh and ninth brought the 
score up to 3-2. 

Against the Crusader freshmen, Moffat 
bolstered his pitching performance by hit- 
ting a home run that tied the score, 5-5. 
in the last of the seventh. Pastore tripled 
and then scored the winning run on a fly 
by Enoch. Moffat also hurled the first five 
innings when the Freshmen downed 
Nichols Jr. College, 8-1. Striking out nine 
batters, he allowed only one hit. In the 
fourth inning, he tripled with the bases 
loaded. Cashill, Enoch, Pastore. Roth and 
Murgo are other Cub stars who will 
strengthen the Varsity ranks in 1952. 




ACE OF THE BROWN pitching stofT this 
year was Bill Hayes, who defeated 
Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Holy Cross, 
and (in the first New England cham- 
pionship playoff game) Springfield. As 
the photo suggests, he did some scoring 
on his own, too, as was the case here, 
against Princeton. 



Heptagonals at Brown 

It was freely predicted that records 
' would tumble when the track squads of 
ten Eastern colleges converged at Brown 
Field for the annual spring Heptagonal 
games, and tumble they certainly did! No 
less than seven field marks (it was the 
first time the games had ever been held at 
Brown ) were broken in the May weekend 
sessions that saw two meet records 
smashed and two more tied. Cornell domi- 
nated the 17th annual contest scoring in 
1 1 of the 1 6 events to tote up five firsts and 
enough placings for 50 points. 

Miler Walt Molineux was the only 
Brown winner, surging past the favored 
Tobey Maxwell of Princeton in the back- 
stretch of the gun-lap to win by 12 yards 
in 4: 19.6, just .2 of a second off the field 
record established by Maine's Don Smith 
in 1938. Other Bears to hit the scoring 
column were Maurice Matteodo, who 
placed third in the javelin, and Ezra 
Creswell, one of five entrants to tie for 
second in the high jump. Bruin star Tom 
DiLuglio was disappointing in his failure 
to gain any points in this event which was 
won at a height he has often negotiated, 
6:2. 

The only double winner of the two-day 
tourney was Cornell's Meredith Gourdine. 
He successfully defended his low hurdle 
crown, knocking .4 of a second off the 
meet record of 23.6 and .8 of a second off 
the field record. His broad jump of 23 
feet 7 1 8 inches was the best of the event, 
too. In addition, he led off the Big Red's 
successful mile relay team, handing over 
the baton first in his lap in spite of three 
spike slashes (that later required six 



JUNE 1951 



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stitches ) and the loss of his right shoe in 
an accidental skirmish with Army's Jim 
Cain at the first turn. Gourdine's team 
won the event by 25 yards in 3:17.8. 

Brown's mile relay team, running tenth, 
still broke the Brown record by two sec- 
onds! Setting the pace or running with 
the leaders for the first two laps. Brown 
called on Ralph Lee to run the third 
quarter. He'd been out of action for a 
month with a bad leg which tightened up 
on him in the last 150 yards, but he fin- 
ished gamely. . 

Cornell's other firsts were in the 880 and 
the 440. In the former event, a second 
and a half was shaved off the field mark 
of 1:54.8; in the latter, Olympic-con- 
tender Charley Moore equalled his own 
1950 meet record of 47.9 to better the 
field mark by .9 of a second. The second 
new meet record was in the javelin which 
Navy's Bob Allison tossed 217 feet 8% 
inches, some 15 feet further than the Hep- 
tagonal mark set by Harvard's Johnson in 
1936 and more than 18 feet better than 
the 1932 field record of Springfield's Foot- 
rick. . .. , 

Army's Dick Shea, in running the dou- 
ble-mile 16.2 seconds faster than anyone 
else ever had on a Brown field, shattered 
the 931.2 mark established by Norman S. 
Taber '13 in his Senior year. Thirty-eight 
years is a remarkably long time for any 
athletic record to stand, and the mark ot 
Brown's one-time Olympic star stood out 
through all those years a great perform- 
ance Shea broke the tape 130 yards ahead 
of his nearest rival, Princeton's Al Pittis. 
In tying the 11 -year old meet record ot 

14 5 for the high hurdles, Pete McCreary 
of Dartmouth wiped out the field mark of 

15 seconds made by Brown's John Collier 
in 1929 The seventh field mark, in the 
discus, was bettered by five feet, nine 
inches in the 154 feet 10% inches toss ot 
Alan Wilson of Harvard. 

Last year's Heptagonal champ, Yale, 
snared a first in the hammer and a first- 
place tie with Cornell in the pole vault to 
end up in second place this year. The ten 
teams finished in this order: Cornell. Yale, 
Navy, Harvard, Dartmouth, Army and 
Princeton (tie), Columbia, Brown, Penn- 
sylvania. , 

The games were run off in superb tasn- 
ion: right on the dot as to time schedule 
right up to the last event. No false starts, 
no rhubarbs— a great feather in the collec- 
tive cap of the officials (R. I. Track and 
Field Officials Association included), with 
many Brunonians among them. As Earl 
Lofquist wrote in his Providence Journal 
column,"Inside-Out": "Somebody deserves 
a medal. A perfect day, a perfect setting, 
a well-conducted meet." 

A week later in the IC4As, Molmeux 
took third in the mile. Gourdine starred 
again despite stitches in his foot. In a 
special event during the 42nd annual In- 
terscholastics at Brown Field on Memorial 
Day, Fred Wilt ran the fastest two-mile 
race ever turned in by an American. His 
time was 8:54.5 which was 3.9 seconds 
faster than the 1936 record set by Don 
Lash of Indiana University. 

In the dual meets that preceded the 
Heptagonals, the Brown track team 
downed Holy Cross and Providence Col- 
lege but lost to Rhode Island. 

The victory over Holy Cross was the 
Bears' first of the spring season. Superior- 
ity in the field events, where Brown piled 
up a 47-15 advantage, spelled the differ- 
ence as Holy Cross excelled on the track. 



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Clean sweeps in the hammer (Sweeney, 
Munro and Heintz) and the javelin 
(Steere, DiLuglio and Matteodo); firsts in 
the pole vault (Vreeland), shot put 
(Sweeney) and broad jump (DiLuglio): 
and one-two in the high jump (when Di- 
Luglio and Creswell tied) amassed the 
necessary total. With a second in the 220 
low hurdles, DiLuglio was the busiest man 
on the field: he scored in all five events in 
which he was entered. Molineux won the 
mile and the 880 to join DiLuglio and 
Sweeney as meet double-winners for 
Brown. DeMarrais won the two-mile event 
for the Bears. The final score: 77-57. 

It was in the field again that Brown 
overcame Providence College, 83-51. 
Cleaning up in the broad jump, discus and 
shot put, and capturing firsts in the high 
jump (another tie between DiLuglio and 
Creswell), pole vault and hammer, the 
Bears outpointed P.C., 50-12. The Friars 
enjoyed a slight edge in the running events, 
but firsts in the mile, 880. 440 and 120 
high hurdles, kept that advantage from 
turning the meet. 

Lack of depth was the deciding factor 
when the squad went down to Kingston. 
With the exception of the high jump, 
which DiLuglio won and Creswell tied 
for second. Brown was unable to add a 
second finisher to its string of seven firsts. 
Molineux and Matteodo were double win- 
ners for the Bruins, and Holland in the 
440 and Ford in the high hurdles were the 
single winners. The Rams swept the ham- 
mer, discus and 100-yard dash, and the 
final score was 86-49. 



Flanders Brother Act 
Two of the four Flanders boys — 
all sons of Cy Flanders '18— who re- 
ceived nationwide publicity in 1949 
when they were undergraduates to- 
gether at Brown, have established 
themselves in the business world. Ur- 
ban '49 is a Special Agent for the 
Aetna Life Insurance Co., Inland Ma- 
rine Division, in the Cleveland office. 
His address is 13870 Clifton Blvd., 
Lakewood 7, Ohio. Samuel '50 is also 
with Aetna, with the Philadelphia 
agency. He lives in Haddonfield. N. J., 
at 239 D Haddon Hills. Cy, Jr., and 
John were still at Brown this year. 



The Freshman track team won all 
three of its last dual meets to end up the 
season with a three-win, two-loss record. 
In downing Rhode Island, the Cubs took 
seven firsts (as did the Ramlets) but added 
enough seconds and thirds to build up the 
winning total to 75-60. Winning the mile 
and 880 events. Bill Reid was top scorer 
for Brown. Milne, Donaldson, Whitlock, 
Fletcher, Deck and Swanson contributed 
the other first-place points. In sparking 
the squad to its victory over Holy Cross, 
Reid ran his mile in 1.6 seconds faster 
time than Molineux ran his in the Varsity 
meet. Reid also won the 880. Another 
sweep in the high jump and firsts in the 
discus, shot put. broad jump, hammer and 
pole vault plus enough necessary seconds 
and thirds produced the winning 75-50 
score. Against the P. C. freshmen, Reid 
lost in the mile but won the 880. The final 
tally was 73-61, favor of the Cubs. 

At the season's end. Brown Coach Ivan 
Fuqua was selected to accompany a five- 
member squad of U. S. indoor and out- 



door track and field champions on a tour 
through England and Scotland. The travel- 
ers competed in three meets during their 
one-week jaunt. 

In M.l.T.'s Wake 

The Brown sailors chased M.I.T. all 
spring but never quite caught up. Then 
Harvard came along and beat them to it. 

With the MacMillan Cup, the Lucian 
Sharpe Memorial Trophy and the George 
Owen Trophy safely stowed away in their 
locker, the top-notch crew from Tech, 
Bob Nickerson and Howie Fawcett, went 
to New London the favorite in the New 
England dinghy championships. When the 
first day's racing was over. Harvard's Hop- 
pin, Scully and Bishop (the only crew to 
beat the Techmen during this college sail- 
ing year), led the field by six points. 
M.I.T. was second, Brown was sixth. 

When the second day had ended, the 
margin had been narrowed to three points 
but Harvard was the winner. Equipment 
breakdowns plagued the Bruin skippers, 
Pete Heaton and Tom Gately, but they 
managed to keep their sixth place behind 
Harvard, M.I.T., Tufts, Coast Guard and 
Dartmouth, and ahead of Rhode Island, 
Trinity and Holy Cross. The winners' 
scores, 152 and 149 respectively, quali- 
fied them for the Nationals scheduled at 
M.I.T. where Tech won, with Harvard 
second. 

In the Eastern College dinghy cham- 
pionship competition. Brown fared better. 
Profiting from a loss of valuable points 
for hitting too many markers in the first 
day's races, Gately and Heaton took their 
turns wide on the second day and climbed 
from sixth place to fourth place over 
Harvard and Yale. Coast Guard and Navy 
separated them from the winner, M.I.T. 
This was for the Owen Trophy. 

When the fifth annual Powder Puff Re- 
gatta took place on the Seekonk, an un- 
heralded crew from Barmore College left 
the opposition far behind in the early 
races. However, the entry was disqualified 
from the competition when closer scrutiny 
by the officials revealed the sailing "co- 
eds" to be merely Brown undergraduates 
with shiny noses. They were awarded two 
honorary points for their prowess. 

Then Radcliffe went on to defeat Vas- 
sar, 69-66. The others: Pine Manor Jr., 
Bradford Jr., Bennett Jr.. Connecticut. 
Mount Holyoke, Wheaton, Pembroke and 
R. I. School of Design. 

An Even Year in Golf 

The golfing year was no leaner in 
1951 than it has been the past two seasons 
at Brown, but neither was it very fat. 

Of the four victories in nine matches, 
the most satisfying was over Dartmouth. 
The match score was close, 5V4-4V4, and 
so were the first two individual bouts. Joe 
McVicker downed Green Captain Carey, 
2-up, and Captain Frank Wellersdieck 
sank a 10-foot putt on the 18th to clinch 
a one-up triumph. The other matches were 
more decisive, one Bruin losing 8 and 7. 
But the team triumph was over a top- 
notch Indian squad. 

The duel with Harvard was nip-and- 
tuck, and Brown's Joe Friedman kept it 
that way when he snared a tie for the 
home team at VA-VA. The official sched- 
ule-opener with Connecticut was a victory 
for Brown, 6 1 A-3 1 A. Providence College 
went down, 6-1. Boston College, Boston 
University, Holy Cross and Williams all 
downed the Bruins. 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 




CREW VICTORY by the Brown Rowing Association, competing on the Seekonk with Amherst, was a 
feature of the 1951 Campus Week. The festive crowd lined the river banks for more than a mile. 



Host to Tennis Tourney 

Highlight of an excellent tennis season 
at Brown was the playing off of the New 
England Intercollegiate championships on 
the Manning Street courts. Bruin Captain 
Perry Herst gained the quarter-final round 
in singles competition, only to be defeated 
by Amherst's Bill Smith who captured the 
crown for his third straight year. 

Squads from Amherst and Williams 
dominated the tourney, which ended up 
with each school scoring IVi points on a 
silver cup that requires 8 points to be re- 
tired. The winning doubles team from 
Williams. Dick Squires and Tom Kent, 
was coached by Clarence Chaffee '24. 

Other schools who participated in the 
meet were American International, Bos- 
ton College, Boston University, Bowdoin, 
Connecticut, Dartmouth, Harvard, Holy 
Cross, Maine, M.I.T., Rhode Island. 
Springfield, Trinity, Tufts, Wesleyan, and 
Worcester Tech. The Brown duo of Gil 
Bach and Steve Espo reached the doubles 
quarter-finals. 

In dual competition, the Brown team 
did not let a season-opening shut-out by 
Navy daunt it for long. On completion of 
its schedule, the squad had chalked up 
eight victories and one tie in 12 matches. 
Percentagewise, this wasn't as good as last 
year's six wins in eight contests, but 
against some rugged competition and with 
an extended schedule, the record evi- 
denced another banner year for Coach 
Art Palmer's men. 

The strength of the squad was proved 
against the University of Connecticut 
when a juggled lineup (necessitated by 
the fact that number one man Don Alsop 
was unable to make the trip), came home 
with a 9-0 victory. Herst, Espo, Bach, 
Dwight Ambach, Lohr Gonzalez and Ed 
Ritchie had little trouble in winning their 
singles matches. 

Two days later the Bruins sent M.I.T. 
home defeated, 7-2. Herst, in a three-set 
duel with the Engineers' Gerald Monsal- 
vatage, was the only Brown man to lose 
his singles match. Brown's third victory 
was over the University of Rhode Island. 



Alsop and Herst led their teammates in 
snaring all the singles matches, but as a 
doubles combination they lost the only 
tally of the afternoon. 

Espo, coming back to take his match af- 
ter dropping the first set, was the only 
Bear winner when Harvard played the vic- 
torious host, 8-1. Yale left Providence an 
even more victorious guest, carrying a 9-0 
triumph back to New Haven. The spring's 
lone tie — with Rutgers, 3-3 — came when 
Brown stopped off at New Brunswick on 
the way back from Annapolis. 

The victory over Tufts was a close one 
but a satisfying one: at 5-4 it ended a 
four-game winning streak for the visitors. 
The Bruins took four of the six singles 
matches without too much trouble, but the 
tourney could have gone either way when 
their opponents took the first of the dou- 
bles matches. Bach's service aces in the 
third set of his doubles bout saved a cru- 
cial game for the home team; then he and 
Ambach went on to take the match. 

Co-Captains for Crew 

At the Brown Rowing Association's 
Dinner in May, George Vest and Arthur 
W. Pinkham, Jr., were unanimously 
elected Co-Captains of the eight-oared 
crew for the 1951-52 season. A new 
award, the Brown Rowing Association 
Coach's Cup, was presented to Seniors 
Harlan Bartlett (this year's Captain) and 
Jim Donaldson for their contributions to 
rowing at Brown during the last two years. 
The silver bowl is a perpetual prize don- 
ated by Walter J. Stein '17. 

Since the sport is not official at Brown, 
a special rowing insigne was sanctioned 
in place of Varsity letters. The 12 crew 
members who received emblems were: 
Bartlett, Carpenter, Coffey, Curry, Don- 
aldson, Gerstle, Hollis, Pollard. Torak, 
Turner, Vest and Wenzel. Pinkham, on 
active duty with the Army since last sum- 
mer, is returning to Brown in September. 
His father is Arthur W. Pinkham '02. 

In its two races since our last report, 
the crew lost to Rutgers on the Raritan 



and to Dartmouth on the Connecticut. 
The second defeat was tempered some- 
what by the fact that the Bear rowers 
ended up in second place, ahead of Am- 
herst for the second time this spring. 

Good Year for Lacrosse 

Brown athletes in the independently 
sponsored Narragansett Lacrosse Club re- 
corded four wins and two losses in their 
1951 season. Sophomore Ed McKallor led 
the squad in its schedule-opening 11-6 
victory over Tabor Academy, and he con- 
tinued to be high scorer for the Bears in 
every game. 

Once McKallor had broken the ice with 
a goal at the 35-second mark in the con- 
test with Dean Academy, scoring got to 
be a habit with the 'Gansettmen. Prac- 
tically every member of the team netted 
the ball at least once: and when the final 
whistle blew, the visitors were on the short 
end of a 25-1 score. Harry Duane and Mc- 
Kallor shared honors in this match with 
four goals apiece. 

Against Tabor and, later, against Trin- 
ity (whose squad the Brown team downed, 
14-1 ), McKallor racked up six tallies. He 
was also high with two goals in the out- 
fit's defeat at the hands of Worcester Tech, 
9-4. In two other games. Brown beat Am- 
herst, 10-7, and lost to the Boston La- 
crosse Club, 11-8, in the final minutes. 

Skiers Off-Season 

At an informal dinner at the home of 
Ray Greene '20 in Barrington, R. I., the 
members of the 1950-51 Brown ski team 
received insignia in recognition of an out- 
standing season in which they won four 
straight meets and placed third in the 
New England Intercollegiate Skiing cham- 
pionships at Mad River Glen, Vt. Star of 
the squad Bill Polleys was re-elected 
Captain, and Marshall Greene, Herbert 
Hunt, Jim McKnight and Sumner Young 
were the other insignia recipients. Don 
McBrien '48, a former team captain and 
now Coach at Boston University, was the 
guest speaker. 



JUNE 1951 



iy 



We Mourn 
Their Death 



CLARENCE LITTLEFIELD '85, in 
Brooklyn, N. Y., March 2. 1951. He 
had been a stock broker and manufac- 
turer before his retirement. Sigma Chi. 

GEORGE GRAFTON WILSON '86, in 
Cambridge, Mass., April 30, 1951. An 
authority on international law, he was 
the author of numerous books and arti- 
cles and the recipient of several honors. 
During his teaching, he served for a 
time on the Brown Faculty and had 
been an Alumni Trustee. Father of 
Grafton L. Wilson T4. Delta Phi. 

GEORGE ROBERTSON DOUGLAS 
MacGREGOR '91, in Pawtucket, R. I., 
May 11, 1951. He was a retired Army 
Colonel. Theta Delta Chi. 

ARTHUR FRANCIS McGINN '92, in 
Providence, May 21, 1951. He had been 
a physician specializing in dermatology 
in Portland, Ore., as well as Providence. 
He had been a founder of the Brown 
chapter of Phi Kappa. 

HENRY MILTON BARRY '94, in Wash- 
ington, D. C. May 10, 1951. Former 
Brown instructor and Providence news- 
paperman, he had spent most of his life 
in Washington as a secretary to mem- 
bers of the Senate and later to N. S. 
Case '08 when he was on the FCC. He 
was the clerk on several Congressional 
committees. Phi Delta Theta. 

ALFRED BEETHOVEN CONNABLE 
'94, in Kalamazoo, Mich., April 4, 
1951. Former mayor of Kalamazoo, he 
had been instrumental in the develop- 
ment of several business enterprises and 
had held directorships in many corpo- 
rations. Delta Kappa Epsilon. 

HARRIS DELOS HlGMAN '97, in Chi- 
cago, Feb. 9, 1951. He had been associ- 
ate general agent for the Connecticut 
Mutual Life Insurance Co. in Chicago. 
Beta Theta Pi. 

ERNEST CLINTON ROWELL '98, in 
Lincoln, Neb., April 22. 1951. A com- 
mercial salesman, he was active in 
choral work and was a charter member 
of the Lincoln Men's Chorus. 

ANTONIO MANGANO '99, in Kew 
Gardens, N. Y.. May 10, 1951. Baptist 
clergyman and educator, he had been 
for many years a professor at Colgate- 
Rochester Divinity School. He was the 
author of several books and pamphlets 
in addition to a book "Sons of Italy." 

FRANCIS DANIEL GULLIVER 02, in 
New York City, April 12. 1951. A 
physician, he was a prominent eye sur- 
geon and one of the founders of the St. 
Vincent's Hospital eye clinic. Father of 
Allan D. Gulliver '44. Phi Kappa. 

ALFRED VARNEY BLACKSTONE '03, 
in Absarokee, Mont., March 7, 1951. 
A physician, he served a large rural 
population for nearly 50 years. Theta 
Delta Chi. 

ROLAND CUTHBERT ORMSBEE '08, 
in Honolulu. T. H., Oct. 18, 1950. He 
had been an Episcopal clergyman in 
parishes in New York State. Alpha 
Delta Phi. 

BERNARD SHAFFNER ROSE '09, in 
Belmont, Mass., April 12, 1951. He was 
an engineer with Charles T. Main, Inc. 
in Boston. 

HRNRY PHILIP REYNOLDS T4, in 
Wellesley Hills, Mass., Feb. 16, 1951. 



A sales executive for Swift & Co. he had 
been an officer in World War I. Phi 
Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa. Father of 
Henry P. Reynolds, Jr., '50. 

HARRY DANFORTH BRICE 15, in 
Providence, May 18, 1951. A Provi- 
dence dentist, he had graduated from 
Harvard Dental School. Beta Theta Pi. 

HAROLD WILLIAM RYLEY '17, in 
East Rutherford, N. J., April 19, 1951. 
A graduate of Harvard Medical School, 
he had been a general practitioner for 
30 years. Veteran of World War I. 

GLENN BRIGHAM BURT '19, in Bos- 
ton, Mass., March 15, 1951. A manu- 
facturer's agent and salesman, he served 
in the Navy during World War I. Delta 
Tau Delta. 

DONALD WASHBURN HURD '19, in 
Providence, May 28, 1951. Head of the 
mathematics and physics department at 
R. I. School of Design, he was active in 
the civil aeronautics programs in the 
State. He had done research work and 
had written several articles in his field. 



Father of John C. Hurd '50. 
COURTNEY PARKER YOUNG 19, in 

Charleston, 111., March 12, 1951. He 
was a retired Colonel in the Coast Ar- 
tillery. Theta Delta Chi. 

ROBERT JOSEPH BURGH '22, in De- 
troit, Mich., Feb. 18, 1951. He was the 
owner of Bob Burgh Appliances, elec- 
trical supplies. Kappa Sigma. 

WINFIELD EUGENE OHLSON '22, in 
Shrewsbury, Mass., April 22, 1951. A 
lawyer and crime investigator, he was 
a member of the Mass. Industrial Acci- 
dent Board. He served in World War II 
as an officer in Military Intelligence. 

ABBEY ALTMAN SURREY '36, in New 
York City, March 25, 1951. A former 
editor for Macy publications, he was 
the owner of The Little Shop in New 
York City. Pi Lamda Phi. 

DAVID ARMSTRONG GREER '53, in 
Saratoga Springs, N. Y., March 21, 
1951. An undergraduate, he was killed 
in an automobile accident on the way 
to his home in Watervliet, N. Y. 



Brunonians Far and Near 



EDITED BY DOUGLAS A. SNOW '45 



1888 

Prof. Arthur E. Watson was elected 
Historian of the First Baptist Church of 
Providence at the annual meeting in May. 
Moderator of the church is Harold B. 
Tanner '09. 

1894 

Fred Tenney wound up his professional 
baseball career 40 years ago after four 
seasons with the New York Giants and 
1 1 with the Boston Nationals. He joined 
the latter on graduation from Brown. In 
a letter to Class Secretary William C. 
Hill. Fred says he still listens to the games 
on the radio and when the weather is 
favorable gets out to the field now and 
then. Fred's address is 118 Norfolk St., 
Holliston, Mass. 

1896 

The sympathy of all Classmates is of- 
fered to Thaddeus J. Hayden whose wife 
died in Providence on May 10, 1951. 
She was the former Katherine Ann Mc- 
Lean Hayden. Their son, the Rev. T. Jer- 
ome Hayden, Jr. '24, Rector of Christ 
Church, Elizabeth, N. J., celebrated the 
Mass at St. Stephens Episcopal Church. 

Judge G. Frederick Frost, the oldest 
active judge in Rhode Island, was pre- 
sented the "first annual award of appre- 
ciation for outstanding aid, contribution 
and service" to young lawyers. The R. I. 
Junior Bar Conference of the American 
Bar Association sponsored the unique 
tribute which read in part: "In grateful 
recognition of the kindly assistance and 
invaluable advice which you have gener- 
ously bestowed upon the younger mem- 
bers of the Bar of this state." Our Class- 
mate celebrated his 79th birthday on June 
18. 

1897 

William A. Harris, who has been a 
generous benefactor of the Hope Congre- 
gational Church in Springfield. Mass., for 
many years, in May contributed $25,000 
for the erection of a chapel-addition 



which will be known as the William A. 
Harris Chapel. In disclosing the gift, our 
Classmate pointed out how important it 
is that every person support his church to 
his fullest ability. Two years ago he do- 
nated a set of carillonic bells in memory 
of his wife, the late Emma Leaker Harris. 

Dr. Roswell S. Wilcox was honored at 
the 98th annual dinner of the Greater 
Providence YMCA for having been a 
member of the organization for 49 years. 

We have word from Joseph C. Robbins 
that he is now living at 193 Maple St., 
New Haven, Conn. 

1899 

At the 50th Anniversary Dinner of 
the Metacomet Golf Club, John F. Ban- 
non was one of 28 members cited for 
having belonged to the Club a quarter- 
century or more. 

Ernest W. McKeen, who retired from 
business April 1. has notified us that he'd 
like his mail at 16 Winslow Place. Ruth- 
erford, N. J. from now on. 

Whereabouts: Francis S. Cole. 12 Cole 
Farm Court. Prov. 6. Frank A. Jennings, 
218 Washington Ave., Batavia, N. Y. 
Charles M. Teague, 25 Hall St., Spring- 
field, Mass. 

1900 

George E. Marble with Mrs. Marble 
has been a recent guest at the Hotel 
George Washington in New York City en 
route to Virginia Beach for an early 
Spring vacation. At the Washington they 
were entertained by Classmate Nate Tufts, 
Managing Director of the Hotel. 

Another spring visitor at the George 
Washington was Horace Hovey who 
stopped off on his return from an exten- 
sive South American sea trip. 

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of 
the Harlem Branch of the New York 
I ity YMCA. John S. Brown, Jr., has 
written a dramatic history of the Branch 
since its founding in 1901. Brown was 
first Chairman of the Branch and the 
story will be presented by charter mem- 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



bers. Currently our Classmate's interest 
is in a method of teaching illiterates to 
read and write through the use of record- 
ings. He devised the system which is 
copyrighted. 

The Rev. K. R. Forbes writes us that 
his address now is 135 West Upsal St., 
Philadelphia 19. 

1901 

Class Secretary William H. Hull reports 
that two Classmates have new addresses. 
They are: Lora E. Beaman, 2149 War- 
wick Ave., Hoxie. R. I., and Horace T. 
Day. Bassin Lane, Scituate, Mass. 

1902 

J. Cunliffe Bullock was re-elected a Di- 
rector and Vice-President of the Outlet 
Co. at the Providence department store's 
annual meeting in April. 

Whereabouts: Ernest Baker. 7 Winfield 
Rd.. Johnston, R. I. Preston H. Porcheron, 
1619 Ridgewood St., Clearwater, Fla. 

1903 

Merle T. Barker, representing the Di- 
rectors of the Machinists National Bank 
of Taunton, served on the building com- 
mittee for the bank's recently completed 
new quarters. Our Classmate is also Presi- 
dent of the merged Taunton and Attleboro 
Gas Companies. 

1904 

At the annual dinner meeting in May 
of the World Affairs Council of R. I., 
S. Foster Hunt was re-elected President of 
the organization that has sponsored some 
60 meetings, luncheons and discussion ses- 
sions during the past 12 months. 

Mr. and Mrs. Elisha C. Mowry enjoyed 
a motor trip to Williamsburg, Va., in May. 
Our Classmate was attending a meeting 
of the National Board of the English- 
Speaking Union. He is President of the 
R. I. branch. 

1905 

Gilbert E. Slone's son, George Lucian 
Slone. has been ordained a Deacon in the 
Episcopal Church. Our classmate is in 
much better health and hopes to attend 
his son's ordination as a full-fledged priest 
in the fall. When he wrote C. L. Robinson 
in April he was back home at 151 Massa- 
chusetts Ave., Providence, after having 
been hospitalized. 

Whereabouts: Michael F. Costello, 58 
Potter St., Pawtucket. Dr. Judson A. 
Crane, 1401 Cathedral of Learning, Pitts- 
burgh 13, Pa. James R. Foulder, White- 
view Rd., Rte. 38, Troy, N. Y. Howard R. 
Heydon, 72 Sea View Ave., Edgewood 
Station, Providence 5. 

1906 

Gerald A. Cooper has notified us that 
he has moved from Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., 
to the Virgin Islands where his address is 
General Delivery, St. Thomas, V. I.. 
U. S. A. 

Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Lindemuth re- 
turned to their Bristol, R. I., home in May 
after a vacation trip to Bermuda. They 
flew down but came back by boat. 

1907 

A. W. Bushell and Mrs. Bushell have 
moved into their new house at Mt. Carmel, 
Conn., where Bush's business address is 
Box 164. Moving and Mrs. Bushell's ill- 
ness kept Bush from reunion this year. 



In the publication, "A Quarter Century 
of Textile Progress," the photo-story of 
"the birth, growth and triumph at Good- 
year-Cedartown," Sam Steere has his pic- 
ture (slightly dated) wielding a shovel, 
and this tribute: "S. A. Steere, vice-presi- 
dent of Goodyear's Textile Mills, traveled 
all over the South in 1925 in quest of a 
suitable site for the company's first South- 
ern venture. He selected Cedartown 
( Georgia ) because of its adequate supply 
of good water, favorable climate, ample 
supply of efficient, quick-learning workers, 
good railroad facilities." Sam is "a famil- 
iar figure in Cedartown," the story goes 
on. and one of the mill leaders "who lead 
with the heart as well as the mind." 

Homer M. Clark was on the high seas 
at reunion time, bound for Rockport, 



Stephen Wright of Lima 

Two years ago, while on a tour of 
South America with his wife, Stephen 
E. Wright '06 was asked to take over 
as Headmaster of the American School 
of Lima, S. A.. Colegio Franklin D. 
Roosevelt. Wright had just retired af- 
ter some 40 years as an educator in 
New England, but he accepted the po- 
sition as a community service. This 
June he is retiring. 

During Dr. Wright's tenure, the 
school has acquired a competent teach- 
ing staff and a substantial plant. Its 
progress in the two years has been so 
marked that the Peruvian govern- 
ment gave it recognition as an experi- 
mental school. In writing of the Head- 
master's contributions to the school, 
the President of the Board of Direc- 
tors stated: "Mr. Wright's . . . pub- 
lic spirit and devotion to duty have 
won our everlasting gratitude and af- 
fection." 

This spring Wright was the Ameri- 
can Council on Education's official 
representative at ceremonies commem- 
orating the 400th anniversary of the 
National University of San Marcos. 



Mass., from Southwest Harbor. Me. 
Should we set Homer up as the best ama- 
teur sailor in the Class? 

Carl S. Crummett mailed his reunion 
return postcard from Dallas, Tex., a long 
way from his favored Boston. "Sure will 
be with you next year," he wrote. 

R. L. Elrod was getting ready to fly 
from Trenton, N. J., to Los Angeles when 
he sent back his card May 15. "Expect to 
become a native son again, urged on by 
Perry's two fine boys," he told us. 

Dedication of the beautiful new Central 
Schwenkfelder Church, of which Rev. 
Levi S. Hoffman is Minister and which he 
was largely instrumental in building, took 
place at Worcester, Pa., June 10. In fact, 
the dedicatory program lasted a week, 
with varied services and fine music. 

E. B. DeMeritt keeps active as signal 
engineer of Central of Georgia Railway 
Co., with his offices at 207 Terminal Sta- 
tion, Macon. Bronc has lived in Georgia 
for nearly 37 years, and is a good South- 
erner, although he likes to recall that he 
was born and brought up in New England. 

Lloyd W. Josselyn is back at Wells Li- 
brary, Lafayette, Ind., after a trip that 
took in the Rotary International Conven- 
tion at Atlantic City, N. J., Washington. 
Mt. Vernon, Williamsburg, and other 
places of interest. 



Warren B. Harris is President of Rice- 
Dobby Chain Co., and of Millbury Co- 
operative Bank, Millbury, Mass., where 
Fred Lane lives. Harris and Bill Burnham 
roomed together in Freshman year; and 
Bill and all of us were happy to see Harris 
at reunion. 

Your Secretary makes note of good let- 
ters from H. B. Keen, Bill Partridge, 
Charlie Church, A. E. White, W. K. 
White. Arch (Cal) Lewis, R. W. McPhee, 
H. E. Hallborg, and regrets that lack of 
space prevents quotations from them. 

1908 

A letter to Class Secretary C. LeRoy 
Grinnell told of James Wilmot's retire- 
ment with the disbanding of the War As- 
sets Administration in 1949. But "there 
were those who valued (his) services", so 
within a month he was back in private 
industry. With the outbreak of the Korean 
war, he returned to the government in 
the Small Business Division of the Na- 
tional Production Authority. Last January 
he was named a Life Member of the 
American Society of Civil Engineers after 
43 years as a member. His address in 
Washington 16 is 3720 39th St. NW. 

The Rev. Woodbury S. Stowell is now 
living at 92 Stockton Ave., Ocean Grove, 
N. J. 

1909 

Harold B. Tanner was re-elected Mod- 
erator of the First Baptist Church of 
Providence at the annual meeting in May. 

Henry Fowler was Master of Ceremo- 
nies at a reunion dinner given in April to 
honor all the present and past members 
of the Town Council of Barrington, R. I. 

Moses Crossley, former President of the 
American Institute of Chemists, had an 
article in a recent issue of The Chemist, 
discussing "The Education of the Chemist 
for Tomorrow's World." In it, he pleads 
for a sound basic education prior to a 
specialty in order to widen an individual's 
vision by the development of the whole 
man. 

A new address for Classmate Kenneth 
L. Butler is 1280 Lombard St., San Fran- 
cisco. Another one is Dr. P. E. Everett, 
Box 58, Silver Lake, N. H. 

1910 

Class President and Mrs. Elmer S. Hor- 
ton enjoyed a motor trip through the Great 
Smokies early in May. They stopped at 
Williamsburg for a few days, then headed 
north to complete arrangements for the 
Class' 41st annual Reunion in June. In 
May Elmer's portrait was frozen in a 300- 
1b. cake of ice to feature the Rotary Club's 
speaker from the R. 1. Ice Co. 

Malcolm R. Jeffris (whose trip to Gua- 
temala we reported earlier) saw most of 
his nine grandchildren on his way home 
to Rhinelander, Wis., from New Orleans. 
(Raymond K. Gould, as far as Class Sec- 
retary Comstock knows, is the champion 
grandfather of 1910: he has 14 grand- 
children.) One of Jeff's sons-in-law is a 
paratroop officer, at a camp near Clarks- 
ville, Tenn., and Jeff and his wife ob- 
served a parachute drill during their stop 
there. Our Classmate resented our in- 
ference that his trip resulted from the 
severe winter his home state experienced 
this year. "I've yet to see the place that 
beats Wisconsin winter or summer," he 
insisted. 

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list sent in March to each member of 1910, 
Jeff had a letter from Eddie Gannon from 
whom he had had no word in almost 40 
years. Eddie, who has not been able to 
make a Reunion since the first one in 1911, 
vows that he "will return" sometime for 
sure. 

George Caswell was home in Attleboro 
in May after a winter in South Carolina. 
This summer he takes over new duties at 
the Oyster Harbors Club at Osterville on 
Cape Cod. 

Just before Reunion time, Jim Battey 
and Dick Colmetz were reported success- 
fully convalescing after hospitalization. 

Warren C. Norton advises that he is re- 
tiring in August after 36 years with the 
General Electric Co. in Lynn, Mass. 

Word from a near Classmate, Everett 
A. Greene '09, told of Steve Pyle's con- 
tinuing to gain after hospitalization in 
early spring. 

To John C. Hennessy and his brother, 
Hoey Hennessy '12, goes the sympathy of 
alumni on the loss of their father, John A. 
Hennessy, April 21, 1951. He was a for- 
mer Managing Editor of the old Provi- 
dence News. 

Ed Spicer and his wife are new grand- 
parents. A little girl was born April 15, 
1951, to their son and daughter-in-law, 
Mr. and Mrs. E. Sheldon Spicer, Jr., of 
Barrington, R. I. 

In April, Maxwell Barus enjoyed a fly- 
ing trip to England where he visited his 
son, Maxwell, Jr. '49, at Oxford. The son 
is in his second year on a Rhodes Scholar- 
ship. 

Brown mathematics Professor Albert A. 
Bennett will be a study group leader when 
the Institute for Teachers of Mathematics 
meets in August at Connecticut College. 
Another group leader will be Professor 
Edward M. Pease '27, head of the Mathe- 
matics Department at Rhode Island Uni- 
versity. 

Ralph M. Palmer has been re-elected a 
Director of the Alumni Federation of 
Columbia University. He has been a direc- 
tor for over 15 years, and Class Secretary 
Comstock thinks that Ralph's active loy- 
alty to two universities. Brown and Co- 
lumbia, is worthy of note. This year, too, 
Ralph served on the Columbia Com- 
mencement Day Committee for the sec- 
ond time. 

Dr. Edward J. Shaeffer and Mrs. Shaef- 
fer of Altadena, Calif., traveled across the 
country this spring to attend the marriage 
of their son, Roger P. Shaeffer, to Miss 
Gwendolyn Brown in Bronxville, N. Y. 
Another son, Stanley B. Shaeffer of Mid- 
land, Tex., was best man for his brother. 

Mr. Winfield C. Potter's home address 
is 85 Mechanic St., Foxboro, Mass. 

1911 

Orville P. Richardson and his wife be- 
came grandparents again on April 23, 
1951, when a second son was horn to Mr. 
and Mrs. Orville P. Richardson, Jr. 

Classmates extend their sincere sym- 
pathy to Hubert D. Tanner whose wife, 
Mrs. Laura Weare Tanner, died in West 
Hartford, Conn., May 14, 1951. 

Though Thomas H. Quigley is retired, 
he is not exactly retin/i.i;. When he spoke 
before a meeting of the Jersey City (N.J.) 
Kiwanis Club in May, he introduced his 
talk by singing a favorite Sir Henry Lauder 
number, "It's Nice to Get Up in the Morn- 
ing." The former Principal of Lincoln 
High School, Jersey City, addressed the 
Kiwanians on "Some Cities of the Old 




PHI BETA KAPPA FAMItY: Gerald Donovan '12 and Richard C. P. Donovan '42 were on 

hand at the annual meeting of the Rhode Island Alpha of the honorary scholastic fraternity 

which D. Gerald Donovan '51, right, attended as a new member. 



South." He mentioned a few historical 
items but concentrated on architecture, 
"The first of all the arts." 

A 36-year member of the Greater Provi- 
dence YMCA, Pete Heydon was honored 
at the 89th annual meeting of the organi- 
zation in May. 

Whereabouts: John V. Keily, 25 Pequot 
Rd„ Pawtucket. Wendell R. Swint, 9100 
du Pont Bldg., Wilmington, Del. 

1912 

A long May letter from E. Payson 
Blanchard informed us that he retired last 
September after 30 years with the Bullard 
Co. of Bridgeport. He was a member of 
the Board as well as Director of Sales of 
the company and looked forward to a 
little traveling, a little writing, a little fish- 
ing when he stepped down. But he ac- 
cepted an appointment as machine tool 
consultant with the NPA and is now in 
Washington. His address: Westchester 
Apts., 4000 Cathedral Ave., Washington 
16, D. C. 

Carleton H. Parker is the newly-elected 
Treasurer of the Providence Engineering 
Society. President of the group is Harold 
S. Sizer '29. 

Herbert E. Adams is now living at 14 
Doris St., West Hartford 7, Conn. 

1913 

Herbert F. Osteyee was unanimously 
elected President of the Cooperative Pub- 
lishers' Association in Chicago on June 7. 
The C.P.A. is comprised of 28 Protestant 
denominational publishing house repre- 
sentatives. Mr. Osteyee, who is Business 
Manager of the American Baptist Publica- 
tion Society in Philadelphia, lives in Me- 
dia, Pa. Mrs. Osteyee is Director of the 
Christian Author's Guild. 

Russell G. (Busty) Ashbaugh, who re- 
tired in 1938 after 24 years as Coach of 
the South High School (Youngstown, 
Ohio) football team, was honored in 
May at a dinner reunion of 200 of his for- 
mer grid stars. Captain of the Brown team 
in 1912, Busty claims that successful foot- 



ball is 90 per cent material and 1 per cent 
coaching. In his tenure at South High, his 
teams scored 135 victories against 36 de- 
feats. He retired because of ill health but 
he is still an avid fan. He's a grandfather 
now, too: Russell G. Ashbaugh III was 
born to his son and daughter-in-law on 
April 2, 1951. 

Ben I. Robinson has a new address, 17 
Brookway Rd., Providence. 

1914 

Class President Robert S. Holding is 
still awaiting a reply from certain Class 
members concerning his proposal for the 
creation of a "1914" Fund." Thus far, 90 
per cent of the replies received indicate 
enthusiastic endorsement of the project. 

Albert E. Beachen is "a grandfather 
again." On April 21, 1951, a daughter 
was born to Mr. and Mrs. Samuel P. 
Beachen II. (He is '49.) The other grand- 
father is Hamilton S. Rice '25. 

Whereabouts: Joseph H. Farnham, 24 
Hillside Ave., Short Hills, N. J. Chester A. 
Files, 6 Young Orchard Ave., Providence. 
George B. Whitmarsh, P. O. Box 313, 
Walpole, N. H. C. Lester Wooley, 10 
Wildwood Ave., Providence 7. 

1915 

Dr. George W. Waterman had a nar- 
row escape in May when a brand new 31- 
foot motor sailer, the Half-Moon, that he 
was helping to crew on its trip from Rock- 
port, Me., to Rhode Island waters, caught 
fire and exploded five miles off Wells 
Beach, Me. Our Classmate and two other 
men (including the boat's Providence 
owner) took to a small dinghy when they 
were unsuccessful in their efforts to 
quench the burning motor. The gasoline 
tank blew up shortly afterwards. The 
dinghy was taken in tow by a lobster 
fisherman and led into Kennebunkport. 
Dr. Waterman suffered no ill effects. 

H. G. Denham's address is 8 Stone- 
house Rd., Scarsdale, N. Y. 



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1916 

In April, State legislation abolished the 
three-man Bureau of Police and Fire in 
the City of Providence and Mayor Rey- 
nolds promptly named John B. Dunn as 
Commissioner of Public Safety in its 
stead. Our Classmate, who is also a mem- 
ber of the newly-organized three-mem- 
ber Licensing Commission, was City 
Treasurer for several terms. 

Herman M. Davis of the American Fin- 
ish and Chemical Co., Chelsea, Mass., was 
appointed a member of the Rubber Ad- 
hesives Industry Committee of the OPS 
in April. 

Providence City Collector since 1945, 
John J. Cashman was in May appointed 
City Finance Director. He is Vice-Presi- 
dent of the R. I. branch of the Municipal 
Finance Officers Association. 

In May. Frederick C. Ballou, Jr., was 
elected to a one-year term as Director of 
the Greater Providence YMCA. 

Charles C. Field has notified us that 
his new address is 23 High St., Exeter, 
N. H. 

1917 

An April letter from Dr. C. H. Wood- 
mansee extolled the delights of desert liv- 
ing thus: "Palm Springs, a real oasis in 
this California portion of the Colorado 
Desert (where we live with our daughters, 
Bonnie and Gay (ages 10 and six); Taffy, 
the golden Palomino; Cinderella, the 
white cocker; and ten cats) is increasingly 
and with pleasure to all of us becoming a 
Mecca for many former Brown Class- 
mates, their families and friends en route 
to and from the Pacific Coast. Today, 
April 30th, there were both snow and 
thunder storms in the adjacent San Jacinto 
Mountains, while here in the desert sand 
jasmine, oleanders, hibiscus, bougainvilla. 
petunias, sweet peas, roses and cactus 
blooms disputed in riotous color the oft- 
mistaken idea of barrenness and waste." 
The poetic doctor specializes in pediatrics 
and general medicine as a member of the 
staff of The Desert Clinic in Palm Springs. 

University Vice-President Thomas B. 
Appleget was elected a Director of the 
Greater Providence YMCA for a four- 
year term in May. 

Two new addresses: L. E. Close, Box 
10, Watertown, N. Y. and W. Wallace 
Wade. Manchester Apartments, Durham, 
N. C. 

1918 

The Rev. Earl H. Tomlin is first Ex- 
ecutive Secretary of the new Rhode Island 
State Council of Churches, organized in 
May. During the previous seven years he 
had acted in the same capacity for the 
Council of Churches that the new body 
supersedes. 

Mr. and Mrs. James I. McDowell's 
daughter. Miss Nancy Church McDowell, 
was married April 21, 1951, to John L. 
Baldwin of Rochester. N. Y. 

Wheaton G. Hudson. Jr., Class of 1954 
at Brown, told us where we could find his 
father, "unknown" in our files for several 
years. Wheaton, Sr., is in Freeport, Me., 
where his address is Box 15. 

District Governor of the 42nd District 
of Lions International is James H. Foley. 
He was elected at the annual convention 
in Woonsocket, R. I., in May. 

Two classmates with new addresses are: 
Zenas R. Bliss, 238 Armington St.. Edge- 



wood, R. I. and Cyrus G. Flanders, 66 N. 
Main St., Windsor Locks, Conn. 

1919 

In recognition of his 30 years' service 
with the N. E. Telephone and Telegraph 
Co., Harrison A. Brown was honored in 
February at a ceremony in his office and 
received his 30-year pin. At present, he is 
Unit Plant Engineer in the Brockton, 
Mass., district. His son, Harrison, Jr. '45, 
was cited for his scholastic standing at 
Oklahoma A & M College where he is 
studying to be a veterinarian. 

Maurice Bazar was elected Treasurer 
of the Providence Lodge of B'nai B'rith in 
April. 

John W. Haley and his wife are grand- 
parents of a boy, the third son born to 
their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and 
Mrs. John W. Haley. Jr., of Barrington, 
R. I. The baby was born Apr. 18. 1951. 

James L. Palmer. President of Marshall 
Field & Co., was General Chairman of the 
Futures Unlimited banquet held in Chi- 
cago the last week in May. The group is 
comprised of teen-age boys and girls who 
operate tiny businesses on big company 
principles. 

In May, John J. Hall was named Di- 
rector of Industrial Relations at the Brown 
and Sharpe Mfg. Co. He was formerly 
Personnel Director of tie company. 

B. Van R. Moore has notified us that his 
address is now P. O. Box 66, Monticello, 
111. 

1920 

John W. Harriman, who is in England 
as Deputy Chief of the ECA Mission to 
London, wishes his mail c/o The Ameri- 
can Embassy, London, Eng. 

New President of the R. I. Medical So- 
ciety is Dr. Herman A. Lawson, Chief of 
Services at the Providence Veterans Ad- 
ministration Hospital. 

A new Class grandfather is Harvey A. 
Whipple. On May 5, 1951, his daughter, 
Shirley Whipple Hinds (P '49) gave birth 
to Ralph Winthrop Hinds III. The baby's 
father is Class of 1951 at Brown, cur- 
rently attending the University of Maine. 

William J. Crouch now lives at 1924 
Schiller, Little Rock, Ark. 

1921 

Walter P. Hatch wrote to Andy Corn- 
stock '10 to explain a situation that has 
had us puzzled. While he works at the 
Springfield (Mass.) Ordnance District, he 
still maintains his home in Portland. Me. 
He commutes weekends when the weather 
is favorable. In Springfield he lives at the 
Oaks Hotel, corner of State and Thomp- 
son Sts. 

Reginald M. Pease, retired from active 
business, has sent us a new address: 167 
Magnolia St., Jersey City, N. J. 

A new Director, for three years, of the 
Greater Providence YMCA is Joseph W. 
Ress. 

Whereabouts: Floyd W. Buswell, Or- 
mont Rd., Chatham, N. J. Charles L. Em- 
eu. 106 East Manning St., Providence. 
Harvey R. Harris. 12248 Moorpark. No. 
Hollywood, Calif. Walter P. Hatch, 179 
Dartmouth St.. Portland, Me. Vincent M. 
Meserve. 44 Main St.. Orange, N. J. Louis 
Salk. 114 Morris Ave., Providence 6. 
Elmer P. Wright, 50 Locust St., New Bed- 
ford, Mass. Harold B. Yeaton. 12908 
Riverside Dr., Van Nuys, Calif. 



1922 

A new Department of Administration 
created by the State of Rhode Island is 
headed by Howard A. Kenyon, veteran 
budget and financial chief of the State. 
Kenyon will direct all finance department 
divisions such as budget, controller, taxa- 
tion and purchasing, as well as the Civil 
Service Department, the public buildings 
division and the automotive pool of the 
Public Works Department, and all central 
tabulating and duplicating services. The 
set-up is designed to bring greater effi- 
ciency to the operation of all agencies that 
handle money and perform services within 
the government. 

J. Wilbur Riker is a member of the vol- 
unteer committee set up by Providence 
Mayor Reynolds to enlighten the public 
on the aims of the government's anti-in- 
flationary program, principally as con- 
ducted by the OPS. 

Whereabouts: Robert T. Cooke, Jr., 
Box 487, Nashua, N. H. George Dawson, 
Jr., 22 Linden St., Malverne. L. I. Albert 
E. Fowler, 14 Essex St., Newburyport, 
Mass. Raymond O. Hennigar, 407 Moody 
St., Waltham, Mass. John T. Lythgoe, 81 
Suffolk Ave., Pawtucket, R. I. 

1923 

Arthur Braitsch is a member of the 
Board of Editors of the Rhode Island 
Churchman, a publication of the Episcopal 
Diocese. 

Lanpher, Lownes, Braitsch, McCor- 
mick, Ronald Smith, Harvey Reynolds, 
Paasche, and Worthington had lunch to- 
gether in the Ivy Room of the new Refec- 
tory at Brown one noon in May. 

Robert O. Meader. who is performing 
quality control engineering work at the 
Central Torpedo Office in Newport, 
dropped into the office in April to give us 
his new address: 121 Second St., Newport, 
R.I. 

Leader of a conference on Pastoral 
Counseling at the Town and Country Con- 
ference at Block Island this spring was the 
Rev. George H. Parker, Jr. The Baptist 
Conventions of Massachusetts, Connecti- 
cut and Rhode Island sponsored the meet- 
ing. Our Classmate's new address is 283 
Maple St., New Bedford, Mass. He is 
Minister of the Trinity Methodist Church 
in New Bedford. 

Whereabouts: Paul E. Boughton, RD 2, 
Cuba, N. Y. Philip K. Finegold, 18 Tre- 
mont St., Boston, Mass. Mian Gulian, 130 
Nonantum Rd., Newton, Mass. Fergus B. 
Purves, 210 W. 7th St., Los Angeles 14. 
Richard C. Smith, 142 Beaufort St.. Prov- 
idence. 

1924 

Referring to an expected grandchild. W. 
Carleton Scott wrote in April: "Wonder 
if any other '24 man has beaten me along 
these lines." In response, John P. Doyle 
advised: "Tell Scotty that I have a grand- 
daughter over a year old. This is in an- 
swer to the letter he wrote you on specula- 
tion." 

Even more o erwhelming was the let- 
ter from Paul E. Kothenberger, who. look- 
ing forward to his fourth grandchild in 
November, is "tempted to boast. My 
youngest grandchild is one day old (let- 
ter was dated May 8. 1951). the next 
youngest is almost three and the eldest is 
almost six. . . . 

"Son Cary Edward II is the daddy of 



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the first two and daughter Clara Jane 
Cosner is mother of the eldest. Son is Sgt. 
in the Marines while daughter is married 
to Bosun's Mate 1st Class Lawrence Cos- 
ner now on the Oriskany. The two-year- 
old is Cary Edward III and a real husky 
that we all hope will develop into a full- 
back for Brown. 

"Wife and I are owners of the largest 
book store (used) in the North Country 
(The Old Trading Post. 347 Main St., Lis- 
bon, N. H.). We also have a large antique 
department and cater particularly to 
'Hobby Riders'. We don't make much 
money but we sure have a lot of fun. Sum- 
mer season is coming on and we hope a lot 
of Brunonians will come in and say hello 
when up through this section of God's 
country." 

Satisfied, Scotty? 

Lt. Col. Henry Howard was recalled to 
active duty with the Air Force in May. He 
is currently stationed at Williams AFB, 
Chandler. Ariz., but wants his permanent 
mailing address kept at 510 W. 6th St.. Los 
Angeles 14. 

The Rev. T. Jerome Hayden, Jr., cele- 
brated the Mass for his mother, Mrs. 
Katherine McLean Hayden, who died in 
Providence, May 10, 1951. Her husband 
is Thaddeus J. Hayden '96. Sincere sympa- 
thy is extended to our Classmate. Rector 
of Christ Church in Elizabeth, N. J. 

Vice-President Bruce M. Bigelow is also 
Vice-President of the Board of Trustees 
of the Lincoln School in Providence. He 
was elected at the annual meeting. 

Director Arthur E. Marley of the R. 1. 
Training School for Boys was installed as 
President of the Catholic Guild of How- 
ard, R. I., in May. Installing officer was 
Adolph H. Stein '27. 

Whereabouts: James H. Barrett, 274 
Madison Ave., NYC. Kenneth P. Doe, 65 
Maple St., Franklin, Mass. Walter W. 
Green, 323 West Main St., Danville, Va. 
William H. Sargeant, 201 Knight Ave., 
Hebronville, Mass. 

1925 

A new Vice-President of the Brown and 
Sharpe Mfg. Co. is Wallace B. Bainton. 
He has been with the Providence tool 
company since graduation and has been 
Works Manager since 1947. 

Hamilton S. Rice became a grandfather 
again in April when a daughter was born 
to his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and 
Mrs. Samuel P. Beachen II. The father is 
Class of '49; the other grandfather is Al- 
bert E. Beachen '14. 

Benjamin D. Roman has resigned as 
Headmaster of Blair Academy to accept 
the post of Assistant Headmaster at the 
Peddie School, Hightstown, N. J. He will 
also serve as Director of Studies. 

Whereabouts: Henry F. Anglim, 18 Or- 
chard St., Leominster, Mass. C. Russell 
Vreeland, 101 W. Lindsley Rd., Caldwell. 
N. J. H. A. Zantow, 702 Hudson St., Ho- 
boken, N. J. 

1926 

Garrett T. Green is Chairman of the 
1951 Cancer Crusade in Glen Ridge. N. J. 
Associated with the State Division of Al- 
coholic Beverage Control, he is active in 
civic affairs and has served at various 
times with the Community Chest, Red 
Cross and YMCA campaigns in Glen 
Ridge. 

Whereabouts: Frank C. Andrews, 220 
Morris Ave., Providence 6. Edward K. 



Chace, 80 First Parish Road, Scituate, 
Mass. Stuart P. Cooke, 2710 Fairmount 
Blvd., Cleveland Hts. 6, Ohio. Campbell 
Posey, Box 1 240, Hendersonville, N. C. 

1927 

Linus Travels, Executive Vice-Presi- 
dent and General Manager of the Yankee 
Network, has been elected a Vice-Presi- 
dent of Thomas S. Lee Enterprises, Inc., 
operators of the Yankee and the Don Lee 
Broadcasting System on the West Coast. 

Professor Edward M. Pease, Chairman 
of the Mathematics Department at Rhode 
Island University, will be a study group 
leader at the Third Institute for Teachers 




SID PERELMAN '25, fretting under his 

designation as humorist, nevertheless 

proceeded at the Alumni Dinner to be a 

great entertainer. 

of Mathematics to be held in August at 
Connecticut College. Professor Albert A. 
Bennett TO of Brown is another group 
leader. 

Arnold K. Brown was elected Executive 
Vice-President and Director of the Ameri- 
can Machine and Foundry Co. in May. 
Formerly, he was Vice-President and Di- 
rector of Brown and Sharpe Mfg. Co. 

Whereabouts: Albert L. Chesbro, P. O. 
Box 65, East Harwich, Mass. John J. Con- 
nors, Bethlehem, Conn. Wilmot E. Fan- 
ning, Jr., 130— 75th St., Brooklyn 9. John 
J. Orth, 1043 Lakeside Drive. East Grand 
Rapids, Mich. Rev. Frank Tishkinas, 368 
Chadron St., Chadron, Nebr. Fred H. Van 
Duyn, P. O. Box 311, Fairlawn Farms. 
Port Chester. N. Y. Frederick B. Wiener, 
Carillon House, 2500 Wisconsin Ave., 
NW, Washington 7. 

1928 

Allan C. Robotham of West Hartford, 
Conn., was elected Governor at the annual 
convention of the New England District 
Civitan held in Hartford in May. He is 
new Brown Club President in Hartford, 
too. 

At the 146th annual meeting of the 
Central Baptist Church of Providence, 
Francis B. Armington was named Super- 
intendent of the Church School. 

Whereabouts: A. W. Calder, Box 36, 
Riverview Ave., So. Swansea, Mass. Clif- 
ford B. Good, 155 James St., East Provi- 
dence 14, R. I. Earle A. Hover, 411 N. 
Broadway. Greenville, Ohio. Clyde P. 
Maber. 34 Brook St., Hackensack, N. J. 
Kenneth A. O'Brien, 2001 Oak Knoll 
Ave., San Marino, Calif. Dr. Louis Pomi- 
ansky, 621 Hope St., Providence 6. Nor- 



man J. Smith, 401 Halley St., Lawrence 
Park, Erie, Pa. F. Lloyd Young, 323-A E. 
Water St., Austin, Minn. 

1929 

On a February "Meet the Press" broad- 
cast. Warren B. Francis, Washington cor- 
respondent for the Los Angeles Times, 
was one of a panel of reporters who 
quizzed Senator Fulbright. His wife, who 
writes under the pen name of Lorania 
Carrington King, is now in Saudi Arabia 
to do a story on the operation of American 
oil companies there. She is the first woman 
reporter to get visas to enter that country. 
Our Classmate is a veteran of 20 years in 
Washington and a former President of 
the Washington Press Club. He and Mrs. 
Francis met when they both worked for 
the Providence Journal. 

Cranston High School teacher Howard 
Crins was a volunteer swimming instructor 
during the Cranston YMCA's "Learn To 
Swim" Week in April. A picture in the 
Providence Journal showed our Classmate 
with one of his pupils who was demon- 
strating the "kick" he was getting out of 
the program. 

A business card with footnotes from 
Alan B. Sinauer, Vice-President of Porter 
Henry & Co., Inc., New York City, in- 
formed us that his family consists of a 
wife and two boys, 16 and 13. Our Class- 
mate is a Major in the Intelligence branch 
of the Air Force Reserve — "and keeping 
my fingers crossed." 

A welcome letter from Matthew Zend- 
zian brought us up-to-date on a Classmate 
who has not been heard from for almost 
20 years. After many "traveling" years, 
he is "settled" now as Vice-President and 
Treasurer of the Benj. M. Weil Co., In- 
surance and Real Estate, of Milwaukee, 
Wis. A client of Matt's is Harold R. 
Strauss '18, and their reminiscences of 
Brown prompted the letter. An active 
citizen of Milwaukee, he lives with his 
wife and 13 -year-old daughter in suburban 
Shorewood. His business address is Wells 
Bldg.. 324 E. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee. 

New President of the Providence Engi- 
neering Society is Harold S. Sizer. An- 
other Krunonian. Carleton H. Parker '12, 
is Treasurer of the organization. 

Harold Moskol was elected a Repre- 
sentative to the R. I. General Assembly 
last fall. Writing of his upset victory (he's 
a Democrat and his district is normally 
Republican), he said: "Of course I al- 
ways knew I would win the election, but 
not by so great a plurality." His "plural- 
ity" was one vote! 

Sincere Class sympathy is offered to 
Robert G. Shanklin. who lost his father, 
Radford C. Shanklin, in New London, 
Conn., May 15, 1951. 

Whereabouts: Howard F. Eastwood, 20 
Brentwood Ave., Barrington, R. I. Na- 
thaniel S. Keith, 3212 Macomb St., NW, 
Washington. Dr. Edward B. Medoff, 88 
Woodland Rd., Woonsocket, R. I. Pincus 
Pearl, General Delivery, Lorraine, Ohio. 
J. Lawrence Phipps, Jr., 5 Avon Road, 
Hewlett, L. 1. Ben Poulten, 249 Warring- 
ton St., Providence. Stephen Waterman, 
Jr., 27 Victoria Drive. Burlington, Vt. Eric 
C. Wendelin. 4121 Military Rd., NW, 
Washington, D.C. 

1930 

Ellery W. Carpenter is Assistant Trust 
Officer in charge of Trust Operations and 



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Personnel at the Industrial Trust Co. in 
Providence. He has been with the com- 
pany since graduation. 

According to word received from Dave 
Alper, "Red" Russell, champ high hurdler 
at Brown, is reported to be the best cro- 
quet player in Wethersfield, Conn. He says 
he finds it easier to go through the hoops 
than over the bars at his age. 

Carroll Rickard was elected Treasurer 
of the World Affairs Council of R. I. in 
May. 

Whereabouts: Frank C. Aldrich, 101 
Algonquin Drive, Governor Francis 
Farms. Providence 5. John M. Curtis, 100 
Walnut St., Natick. Mass. Edward L. Sit- 
tler, Jr., Box 1015, Uniontown, Pa. H. 
Adrian Smith. 20 Medway St., Providence 

6. Dr. Lester H. Sugarman, 24 Trumbull 
St., Meriden, Conn. 

1931 

Oscar F. Schneider is associated with 
the Mavflower Plumbing Supply Co.. Inc., 
of Miami, Fla. His address is 625-631 
N. W. 5th St.. Miami 36. 

In May. Lloyd Dennis was named Di- 
rector of Program Service for WTOP, Inc. 
Our Classmate, who has been with the 
Washington Post — CBS station since 1937, 
will have charge of all program opera- 
tions: AM, FM and TV. In Naval intel- 
ligence during the war, Dennis was 
"loaned" to the State Department in 1945 
to serve as radio adviser to then Secretary 
Edward Stettinius and arranged all broad- 
casts concerning the founding conference 
of the United Nations in San Francisco. 
He is also Secretary-Treasurer of the Cen- 
tury Broadcasting Co. of Johnstown, Pa. 
He lives with his wife and 10-year-old 
son at 2619 Upshur St., Arlington, Va. 

To Dr. Eugene A. Field goes the sym- 
pathy of all Classmates on the death of 
his mother, Mrs. Mary Felder Field, May 

7, 1951, in Providence. Dr. David L. Field 
'36 is another son. 

Winfield T. Scott has resigned his posi- 
tion as Literary Editor of the Providence 
Journal-Bulletin to devote more time to 
creative writing. With the paper since 
graduation, he had been Literary Editor 
for 10 years. Already the author of five 
books of poems, Scott has several works 
in progress, including a book-length nar- 
rative poem about the Viking discoverers 
of America. He has won several poetry 
awards and has been Phi Beta Kappa poet 
at Brown, Harvard and Tufts. 

J. Angus Thurrot, now Philadelphia Ad- 
vertising Manager for McCall's, has a new 
business address: Girard Trust Co. Bldg., 
Philadelphia 2. 

Whereabouts: Kenneth S. Fisher, 28 
South Williams St., Burlington. Vt. Earle 
E. Manwaring, RD 5, Oswego, N. Y. E. V. 
Osberg, 539 Nome Ave., Apt. 2, Akron 
20, Ohio. Kenneth L. Palmer, U. S. Naval 
Station, Argentia, Newfoundland. An- 
thony J. Russo, 51 Wabun Ave., Provi- 
dence 8. Winfield T. Scott, 312 Morris 
Ave., Providence 6. Douglas M. Stewart, 
8243 Ocean View Ave.. Whittier, Calif. 

1932 

Joseph J. Iannoli, who had been Re- 
gional Supervisor for the John Hancock 
Mutual Life Ins. Co. in New York City 
for almost a year, was appointed in Feb- 
ruary as the company's District Manager 
for Waltham, Mass. He has been with the 
company 17 years. 



Stanley C. Paige is the Lions Club rep- 
resentative on the volunteer committee of 
Providence citizens, established to keep 
the public enlightened as to the objectives 
of the OPS in its fight against inflation. 

Whereabouts: Everett M. Battey, 24 
Tansey Dr., Falls Church, Va. Charles D. 
Brady, 108 Norwood Ave., Edgewood, 
R. I. Robert F. Cohen, c/o Hemp & Beat- 
ley, Inc., 15 West 34th St., NYC 1. Mur- 
ret H. DeLorme, 3 Surrey Rd., Massape- 
qua, L. I., N. Y. Nathan B. Gerstenblatt. 
291 Cole Ave., Providence 6. A. Rich- 
mond Peirce, Jr., 130 South Angell St., 
Providence 6. Anthony Ross, 506 East 
89th St., NYC. Charles H. Spilman, 24 
Elm Circle, Cranston 10, R. I. 

1933 

In February, the Rev. Frank M. Swaf- 
field conducted a week's preaching mission 
at the Perrin Air Force Chapel in Texas. 
At the request of Secretary for Air Finlet- 
ter. Dr. Swaffield has agreed to donate 
two months of his time this year in con- 
ducting such missions throughout Air 
Force installations. At present he is Pastor 
of New Haven's Calvary Baptist Church, 
adjacent to Yale University. 

Hyman Schulson was named Executive 
Director of the American ORT Federa- 
tion in February. 

Whereabouts: William G. Bradshaw, 73 
Summit Ave., Providence 6. Edgar Dan- 
nenberg. Hotel Salisbury, 123 West 57th 
St.. NYC 19. David L. Davidson, 6 Oak 
Hill Dr., Arlington 74, Mass. Robert B. 
Dugan, Bayberry Rd., Branford, Conn. 
Joseph M. Hastings, -!0 Cedar St., Worces- 
ter, Mass. Lowell J. Ruprecht, 2033 No. 
Major, Chicago 39. Richard A. Schwenck, 
1584 N.E. 108 St., Miami 38, Fla. Richard 
D. Squire, 193 Brown St., Providence 6. 
William H. Streit, 151 Mathewson Rd., 
Barrington, R. I. Dr. Thomas Walker, 
7311 Three Chopt Road, Richmond 26, 
Va. 

1934 
Hollis E. Grant, organist and choir di- 
rector of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church 
in Providence, was elected Subdean of the 
R. I. Chapter, American Guild of Organ- 
ists, at the annual meeting in May. Class- 







mate Robert D. Whitaker, Religious Edi- 
tor of the Providence Journal-Bulletin, 
was named Treasurer of the organization. 

Classmates offer sincere sympathy to 
Major William T. Joyce, Jr., whose father 
died on May 21, 1951. He was a promi- 
nent New England textile executive. 

From Leon Drury we learned that Ed 
Tracy is leaving Baldwinsville, Mass., 
where he has been Superintendent of 
Schools, to take over the Principalship of 
the high school in Easton, Pa. 

Whereabouts: Allen W. Baldwin, Apt. 
6-G, Springwood Village, Hyde Park, 
N. Y. Edward A. Barry, 397 Forest Boule- 
vard, Park Forest, III. Charles H. Conner, 
Jr.. 1208 Biltmore Drive, Charlotte, N. C. 
John P. Corlett, 3811 Fair Oaks, South 
Euclid 21, Ohio. John J. Cosgrove, Jr., 
2935 N. Valencia Drive, Phoenix, Ariz. 
Harry N. Couden, c/o Whitney Frozen- 
food Co., 337-17th St., Oakland 12, Calif. 

1935 

Amos Landman and his wife, Lynn, 
spoke at the May meeting of the World 
Affairs Council of R. I. Returned home 
last fall after two years in China, the 
Landmans declared that the Asians are 
sympathetic to Communism only because 
the Communists offer them what they 
want: land reform, tax relief, easy credit, 
a release from illiteracy. The Western 
powers can offer these things, too, and 
should take advantage of the opportunity 
to win one billion friends. 

Recalling his Class Oration when he 
convincingly defended bureacrats and 
braintrusters, James J. Hines admits that 
he would treat government brains and 
methods less kindly today. This, even 
though he — as the State Department's 
only regulations attorney for the visa di- 
vision — is a bureaucrat himself! Now in 
his fourth year in the post, Hines is work- 
ing on a manual that explains the United 
States rules covering the issuing of visas. 
It is for the use of diplomatic and consular 
officials abroad. 

Whereabouts: Ross A. DeMatteo II, 
Apt. T-21, 5415 Connecticut Ave. NW., 
Washington. Richard Erstein, c/o Ameri- 
can Embassy, APO 206, c/o Postmaster, 
NYC. Steven A. Klancko, 2100 11th St. 
South, St. Petersburg, Fla. Robert H. 
Loeb. Jr., 57 Bronxville Rd.. Bronxville, 
N. Y. Gordon MacLaren, 6 Winslow Cir- 
cle. Tuckahoe, N. Y. Dr. Justin J. Parvey, 
8607 Brookshire Lane, Canterbury Gar- 
dens, University City #24, Mo. Ralph R. 
Walker, 81 Flagg Rd., West Hartford, 
Conn. 

1936 

Irving Strasmich is one of two Brown 
Directors of the World Affairs Council 
of R. I. The other is the Rev. Howard C. 
Olsen '38. 

New Sales Manager of the N. E. Divi- 
sion Personal Lines of the American Mu- 
tual Liability Insurance Co. is Collamore 
H. Richmond. Our Classmate has been 
with the company since 1947 and has been 
in close contact with the Personal Lines 
program since its inception. 

To Dr. David L. Field, and to his 
brother, Dr. Eugene A. Field '31, goes the 
sympathy of Classmates on the death of 
their mother, Mrs. Mary Felder Field, 
May 7, 1951, in Providence. 

The sympathy of Classmates is also ex- 
tended to David C. Scott, Jr., whose fa- 



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25 



ther, a prominent Providence textile test- 
ing authority, died May 12, 1951. 

Whereabouts: Dr. Gilbert Woiler. 115 
Davis St.. Providence 8. William S. C. 
Davies. 677 Anderson Ave., Franklin 
Square, N. Y. John R. Davis, 1900 Clay- 
more Drive, Apt. c. Marietta. Ga. Ed- 
ward F. Hand, Green St., West Warwick, 
R. I. George L. Munde, 201 West Apache 
St.. Norman, Okla. John J. O'Reilly, 100 
Chadwick Rd„ Hillsdale. N. J. Max 
Swartz, 94 Montgomery St., Apt. 11. 
Pawt ticket. 

1937 

Whereabouts: Edward R. Bancroft, Jr., 
RFD 1, Westport, Conn. Ernest H. Beck. 
48 Paschall Rd., Shellburne, Wilmington 
3, Del. Capt. J. D. Crocker, Headquarters 
10th Inf. Div., Fort Riley, Kans. Arthur 
M. Crowley, c/o G. C. Crowley, 51 1 East 
164th St.. NYC 56. Lt. Comdr. Leon P. 
Eisman. USN, H & S Company, 2nd Med. 
Bn, 2nd Marine Division, FMF, Camp Le- 
jeune, N. C. William V. Heard, 49 Poplar 
St., Danvers, Mass. Dennis H. Jamieson, 
13 Coolidge Ave., Glen Head, N. Y. Wil- 
liam L. Kubie, 9571 S. Yates Ave., Chi- 
cago 17. James C. MacNeill, 6218 Gilles- 
pie St.. Philadelphia 35. Ladd McConnell, 
427 Butler Rd. NE, Warren, Ohio. Peter 
J. Purcella, Box 461, Cheshire, Conn. 
Charles J. White, 1 14 Cedar St., Wethers- 
field, Conn. 

1938 

Fred A. Forbes has left his post as Di- 
rector of Public Relations at Rider Col- 
lege to join Keystone Associates, a Phila- 
delphia public relations, fund-raising and 
research firm. Recently recovered from an 
attack of polio. Fred lives with his wife 
and two children at 308 Hillcrest Ave., 
Morrisville, N. J. 

The Rev. George L. Slone was ordained 
to the diaconate of the Episcopal Church 
this spring and is now Deacon-in-Charge 
of Calvary Church, Pascoag, R. I., where 
he was Vicar. Our Classmate completed 
his undergraduate work at Boston Uni- 
versity and studied for the Ministry at the 
Episcopal Theological Seminary. He is 
married and the father of a son, 11 -year 
old David. 

Manager of Equipment Sales Co. of 
New Haven is Ben Chase. His company, 
which represents manufacturers of ma- 
terials handling and steel equipment in 
Connecticut and Western Massachusetts, 
has a new office in New Haven at 210 
Prospect St. 

William P. Ash didn't know that his 
signing up for Blue Cross membership 
would result in his being "found" by the 
Alumni Office — but it did! Alumni Fund 
Class Agent Antone G. Singsen, who is 
Assistant Director of the Chicago Blue 
Cross Commission, located Ash through 
the Blue Cross manager in Parkersburg, 
West Virginia. Our rediscovered Class- 
mate is with the Union Trust and Deposit 
Co. of Parkersburg, and lives in that city 
at 1506 32nd St. 

A Systems Analyst with R. H. Macy 
and Co. in New York City, R. Joseph 
Novogorad lives at 508 W. 1 14th St., Ari- 
zona Studios, Apt. 1-B, NYC 25. He was 
formerly with the office of Chief of Army 
Ordnance in Washington, D. C, as a 
Deputy Chief in the Industrial Relations 
Branch. 

Whereabouts: Dr. Lee N. Booth, 45 
Tamarack Rd., Staten Island 4, N. Y. Maj. 
Allan R. Brent, Hq. 306th Bomb Wing. 



McDill AFB, Tampa, Fla. Thomas H. 
Curran, 104 Winthrop St., Providence. 
William E. Fay. Jr.. 2310 Burr Oak Rd.. 
Northfield. 111. Charles T. Gaffney. 530 E. 
Pike St., Pontiac, Mich. Harry L. Judd, 
Jr., Treeholme Park, Chappaqua. N. Y. 
Donald W. MacMillan, 2739 38th Ave., 
San Francisco 16. Dr. Edgar M. Major, 
South Main St., Santa Ana, Calif. Lt. 
Comdr. Lucas B. Mayer, USS Leyte 
(CU 32) FPO. NYC. Samuel J. McDon- 
ald, Jr., 44 Chesterton Rd., Wellesley 81, 
Mass. Wyman Pendleton, Jr., 241 East 
77th St., NYC. Frank A. Shaw, 132 Main 
St., East Hampton, Conn. Michael E. Tur- 
cone, 15 Turcone Drive, Centredale 11, 
R.I. 

1939 

In April, Stan Mathes was elected Vice- 
President of the R. I. Mechanical Con- 
tractors and Associates at the organiza- 
tion's annual meeting. 

Philip M. Creighton, a food broker and 
manufacturers agent in Portland, Me., for 
the past four years, has accepted a posi- 
tion with the U. S. Department of Com- 
merce. He will be responsible for pro- 
motional work on and imports in Portland 
and adjacent areas. 

W. Allan Traver, Jr.. was chosen by 
Providence Mayor Reynolds as one of 33 
citizens to serve in a volunteer capacity on 
a committee designed to explain OPS ob- 
jectives to the public. 

Lt. Comdr. Douglas G. Herron has been 
recalled to active duty as Assistant Re- 
serve Director of the Third Coast Guard 
District. 

Although "a long way off from Provi- 
dence" in San Juan, Puerto Rico, W. A. 
Luhn quite often sees a Brown man. In 
April he met "inquiring" Jimmy Jemail 
'18 and also had a chat with R. I. Gov- 
ernor Roberts. 

Lt. Comdr. Hollier G. Tomlin was re- 
ported "safe" after the ramming of his 
ship the USS Valcour, by a collier off 
Cape Henry, Va.. in May. His father, the 
Rev. Earl H. Tomlin '19 of Providence, 
received word of his safety shortly after 
the crash occurred. Our Classmate, a 
Naval aviator, lives with his wife and two 
children in Norfolk, Va. 

Whereabouts: Dr. Cad W. Arrendell, 
Jr., Ochsner Clinic, 3503 Prytania St., 
New Orleans. Joseph C. Blessing, 19 Rod- 
ney St., Glen Rock, N. J. Henry G. Butler, 
Jr., RFD 1, Forge Road, East Greenwich, 
R. I.. David G. Essex, 617 Main St., So. 
Egg Harbor. N. J. Rudolph Goodman, 96 
Sixth St., Dover. N. H. Irving Z. Mann, 
5 Helene Rd.. Waban 68, Mass. Brenton 
G. Meader, 79 Albert Ave., Edgewood 5, 
R. I. Thomas C. Roberts, 82 Apple Tree 
Lane, Gov. Francis Farms. Edgewood 5, 
R. I. Eldon S. Sizer, 77 Hillandale Rd., 
Fairfield, Conn. 

1940 

Dr. Robert Handy of the Union Theo- 
logical Seminary faculty conducted the 
March 1 session of the Parent's Class at 
the First Baptist Church of Westfield. N. J. 

Abraham Belilove was elected a Vice- 
President of the B'nai B'rith Lodge of 
Providence in April. 

Major Leonard M. Campbell, on leave 
from his position with the Boston office 
of Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., is on 
active duty at the Pentagon in Washing- 
ton. 

In May, Capt. Harlow L. Paul was as- 



signed to the 1277th Army Service Unit at 
Ft. Dix, N. J. 

Whereabouts: Hadley P. Atlass, 60 Bea- 
con Hill Dr.. Dobbs Ferry, N. Y. Louis 
M. Bloch, c/o Bloch and Co.. 402 Swet- 
land Bldg., Cleveland. Robert T. Engles, 
66 Cole Ave., Providence 6. Kirk Hanson, 
23 Brentonwood Ave., Barrington, R. I. 
Charles Harkins, Jr.. 457 Rantoul St., 
Beverly, Mass. Gordon A. Kiernan, Pine 
Knoll, Libertyville, 111. Roger C. LaCroix, 
Pillsbury Bldg., Minneapolis 2. John R. 
Lemon, 116 Berkeley Rd., Glenside, Pa. 
Maj. Herbert F. Lewis, 381 North Glebe 
Rd.. Apt. 4, Arlington 3, Va. Rev. Rich- 
ard N. Pease. 138 West Passaic Ave., 
Rutherford, N. J. Edward W. Pietrusza, 36 
Fairmont Ave., Morristown, N. J. W. H. 
Jaquith Rowland, 1517 West Third St., 
Jamestown, N. Y. Joseph J. Terranella, 
223 Stanley Ave.. Hasbrouck Heights, 
N. J. George T. Urban, 28 Palmer Rd., 
Yonkers 2, N. Y. 

1941 

Treasurer of the Central Baptist Church 
of Providence is Ralph D. Berry II. He 
was elected to office at the 146th annual 
meeting in May. 

Allan Nanes informed us that he will 
be instructing a class in Political Science 
at Brooklyn College come next Septem- 
ber, "provided that the Air Force Reserve, 
in which I've got an Intelligence commis- 
sion, doesn't tap me first." 

New Production Manager of Provi- 
dence television station WJAR-TV is 
Lewis I. Schwartz. 

H. Eliot Rice was admitted to prac- 
tice in the U. S. District Court in Rhode 
Island in May. 

Radiologist at Ft. George Meade, Md., 
is Dr. Benjamin F. Harley. His mailing 
address is still in Providence, though, 159 
Sharon St. 

Whereabouts: Peter W. Allport. 14 
Lake Ave.. Bronxville, N. Y. Ivor F. Boi- 
arsky, 201 Union Bldg., Charleston, W. 
Va. Myron M. Curry, 1118 W. Johnson 
St., Madison 5, Wise. Lt. Arthur Helger- 
son, MC USN, Naval Hosp., Chelsea, 
Mass. Victor J. Hillery, The Wall Street 
Journal, 1097 Arcade Bldg., St. Louis 1. 
Capt. John A. Kidney, Hq Sqd-15. Marine 
Corps Air Station (El Toro), Santa Ana, 
Calif. Robert E. Lord, 957 No. Main St., 
Rockford, III. Harry K. O'Melia, 3238 
South Home. Berwyn, III. Edward H. 
Rickard, 1 1 Sacramento St., Cambridge, 
Mass. Robert von Roeder, "Panorama", 
Southampton, Bermuda. 

1942 

On May 1. Davol Meader became asso- 
ciated with the Providence firm. Propor- 
tioneers. Inc., an affiliate of Builders Iron 
Foundry. He was formerly with the Provi- 
dence Washington Insurance Co. 

A letterful of 1942 news came to us 
from Lincoln F. Hanson, the last part of 
April. A Psychology Professor at Middle- 
bury College. Line regularly sees Pardon 
Tillinghast who is in the History Depart- 
ment there. Two other Classmates in Ver- 
mont are Art Long (recently of the Chem- 
istry Department at the University of Ver- 
mont ) and Shailer Cummings who "holds 
forth in Bennington — weekend after 
weekend, as far as can be ascertained." 
John Henry "Bucky" Walters is teaching 
at Browne and Nichols in Cambridge, 
Mass., and living in Lexington at 14 Cut- 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 




AT THE PRESIDENT'S RECEPTION Mrs. Wriston and the President greeted o Faculty family, 

with hundreds of others at a delightful party in the garden at 55 Power St. Chief Usher 

was Frank P. Drummond '42. 



ler Farm Rd. As far as Line knows, J. 
Donald Foley and Herb Iselin are faithful 
to the "NYC Lunch Club that used to 
meet around Radio City — from the Red 
Brick to the Penthouse of the Museum of 
Modern Art." Line himself had June plans 
for a wedding. 

In May, Dr. Earl E. Brant wrote us 
from Oak Ridge, Tenn., where he was 
studying the use of radioisotopes in medi- 
cine as part of his residency at the Youngs- 
town (Ohio I Hospital. At Oak Ridge he 
met Dr. Howard H. Dunham Ph.D. '39. 
Earl is back home now in Canfield, Ohio, 
at 1 13 Fairview Ave. 

Whereabouts: Wallace M. Adams, 1943 
Loch Shiel Rd., Baltimore 4, Md. John N. 
Ashworth, Nelson Ave., Lake Nelson, 
Route 44, New Brunswick, N. J. Benjamin 
H. Ballard, Jr., 191 Gerry Rd., Brookline, 
Mass. Edmond J. Bennett, 10006 Cedar 
Lane, Kensington, Md. Richard L. Cap- 
well, Box 4968 Duke Station, Durham, 
N. C. Irving J. Casey, 7574A Hawthorne 
St., Hyattsville, Md. James T. Clifford, 
Barnabas Road, Woodbridge, Conn. 
George O. Ellis, Jr., 339 E. 4th St., Mt. 
Carmel, III. Earle W. Fisher, 100 Mass. 
Ave. N.W., Washington. Charles C. Has- 
kell, Box 417, Osterville, Mass. Russell R. 
Jalbert, 259 Benefit St., Providence. Eu- 
gene J. Keenoy, Jr., Smull Ave., North 
Caldwell, N. J. Harry C. Kirkpatrick, 235 
South Plumas St., Willows, Calif. William 
E. O'Connor, "Green Shadow," Old Lyme. 
Conn. Robert B. Priestly, Norwich Uni- 
versity, Northfield, Vt. George W. Rich- 
ardson, 138 Centerway, Corning, N. Y. 
Joseph H. Roberts. 1025 N. Park Ave., 
Tucson, Ariz. Howard Sloneker, Jr., New 
London Pike, Hamilton. Ohio. A. Wilber 
Stevens, 4061 Pasadena Place, Apt. 1, 
Seattle, Wash. John H. Sullivan, 5 Brook- 
line St., Worcester, Mass. William F. 
Thixton, 1515 S. E. First Ave., Ft. Lauder- 
dale, Fla. 



1943 

Capt. John A. Hynes is stationed at 
Wheeler Air Base, Tripoli, North Africa, 
as a budget and fiscal officer. His mother 
sent us his address which is 1603rd ABC, 
APO 231. c/o Postmaster, N. Y., N. Y. 

Walter A. Mengel of the Tek Bearing 
Co. was elected Vice-Chairman of the 
Providence Section, American Society of 
Mechanical Engineers in May. Prof. 
George Carrier (not an alumnus) of the 
Division of Engineering at Brown is a 
member of the Executive Committee. 

Whereabouts: Ralph G. Arnold, Ft. 
Walton, Fla. John H Blake, 85 Puritan 
Drive, Norwood, R. I. John D. Briggs, 
Box #1. Branch St.. Egypt, Mass. Dr. Stan- 
ley E. Cate, 175 Bluff Ave., Edgewood 5, 
R. I. Arthur W. Drew. Jr., 29 Luzon Ave., 
Providence. John H. Garlock, Jr.. 30 Pad- 
dington Rd., Scarsdale, N. Y. Norman 
Larson, University of Washington, Dept. 
of Chem., Seattle 5. Robert G. Leadbetter, 
3 Ober St., Beverly, Mass. Malcolm R. 
Lovell, Jr., 607 S. Washington St., Hins- 
dale. 111. Robert B. Lynch, 619 Upper 
Mountain Ave., Upper Montclair, N. J. 
David B. MacAusland, 50 Commonwealth 
Ave., Boston 16. Capt. Donald J. Nenno, 
MC, USA, 2128 USAH, Fort Knox, Ky. 
Richard W. Paland, 30 The Fairway, 
Cedar Grove. N. J. Herbert W. Taylor, 
RD #7, Schenectady. N. Y. Dr. Francis J. 
Troendle, St. Louis Childrens Hospital, 
St. Louis 10, Mo. 

1944 

A note from Herbert L. Sherman, Jr., 
told us that he is now an Assistant Profes- 
sor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh. 
In April he was admitted to the Bar of the 
U. S. District Court for the District of Co- 
lumbia. 

Dr. Elihu S. Wing, Jr., is serving his 
third year of residency at the Johns Hop- 



kins Hospital in Baltimore, Md. 

Roger W. Sampson is an Instructor in 
the Electrical Engineering Department of 
the University of Florida. His address in 
Gainesville is 1405 NW 13th St. 

From Harvard where he is a Teaching 
Fellow in General Education, Len Rogers 
writes that besides instructing in the so- 
cial sciences he is doing Ph.D. research in 
19th century French history. 

Whereabouts: John L. Brazile, 5425 
Willowcrest Ave., No. Hollywood. Calif. 
John F. Buchman III, 3210 Martindale 
Rd. NE, Canton, Ohio. George Campbell. 
Jr., 947 James St., Syracuse, N. Y. Rob- 
ert O. Case, 2815 So. 9th St., Arlington, 
Va. Rev. Peter Chase, Trinity Church, 
Newport, R. I. Leslie B. Cohen, 15 West 
81 St., NYC. Raymond M. Durfee. 2135 
Blanding Blvd., Jacksonville, Fla. Robert 
W. Gillies, c/o Occidental Life Ins. Co.. 
Rm. 810 First Nat'l Bank Bldg., Albu- 
querque. N. M. Frederick H. Heck, 311 E. 
72nd St., NYC 21. Chapman Hutchinson, 
276 Engle St., Englewood, N. J. Frank M. 
Jacobs, 1816 West St. Paul, Milwaukee 3, 
Wis. Edmond N. Morse, c/o Smith, 
Barney & Co., 14 Wall St.. NYC 5. Charles 
Nathanson, 122 Overhill Rd., East Green- 
wich, R. I. Robert H. Phillips, RFD 3, 
Centerdale 1 1, R. I. Carter M. Roberts, 60 
Cavalcade Blvd., Hoxsie, R. 1. Stuart C. 
Roberts, 113 Pinckney St., Boston 14. 
Charles A. Robinson, 151 Everett Ave., 
Providence. Herbert E. Salter, Rt. 1. Box 
497, Sarasota, Fla. Philip A. Simpson, 16 
Woodland Rd., Bedford, Mass. Elmer R. 
C. Stafford, Jr., 34 Hutton St., Fall River. 

1945 

Dave Bell has recently taken over his 
duties as Manager of the Trade Book De- 
partment of the University Store. 

Harrison Brown, Jr., is listed in the 
scholastic "Who's Who" of the Oklahoma 
A. & M. College at Stillwater, Okla. He is 
studying to be a veterinarian. 

Charles W. Briggs. Jr., dropped us a 
card to report that he is with Young & 
Rubicam, Inc., New York advertising 
firm. Other Brown men that he sees 
around the office include Jim Tyrrell '48, 
Alec Taylor '49, Andy Karnig '45, Rod 
Carlson '49, and Dick Briggs '49. With 
two tennis courts right across the street, 
Charlie is "keeping in fine shape." He lives 
at the Zeta Psi Alumni Club, 31 E. 39th 
St. 

Robert A. McKinnon went home to 
Westminister West. Vt., in April for his 
40-day leave after a term as U. S. Vice- 
Consul at Cebu, Philippines. After his 
vacation with his wife and three daughters, 
he was scheduled to report to Halifax, 
Nova Scotia, as Vice-Consul there. While 
in Washington on a I2-weeks' training pro- 
gram during the winter, he roomed with 
Jasper Olmstead '44 and Jim Cunning- 
ham '41, both of whom are in and out of 
Washington on government work. 

Along with his pledge to the Alumni 
Fund, Gennaro P. M. Savastano sent along 
the news that he is just finishing his fresh- 
man year at Loyola University. Chicago 
College of Dental Surgery. He prefers 
mail at his home address, however: 91 V2 
Tell St., Providence. 

Charles Ault, a lawyer with the Cleve- 
land firm of Falsgraf, Reidy and Pan- 
grace, passed his bar exams in February. 
He is a Captain in the Ohio National 
Guard, 145th Infantry Regt., and is going 
to summer camp this year. 



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27 



Whereabouts: Charles B. Ahrens, 1520 
Harvard Ave. NW, Canton, Ohio. Hamil- 
ton C. Albaugh, Jr., 849 Springfield Ave., 
Apt. 16G, Summit, N. J. Donald L. 
Blacher, 76 Elton St., Providence. Dr. 
Ernest A. Blakey, 38 Allerton St., Ply- 
mouth, Mass. Lt. William J. Bradford, Jr., 
USNR, USS Walter B. Cobb (APD 106), 
FPO, NYC. John M. Brown, 4011 N. 
Ayers Ave., Chicago. William L. Cook, 
1726 Club Rd.. Charlotte 5, N. C. William 
E. Dunn, 2569 J St. Olga Ave., Cleveland 
13, Ohio. Samuel Formal, 105 Indiana 
Ave., Providence. Wallace C. Fry, Jr., 37- 
30 81st St., Jackson Heights, L. I. Donald 
H. Gardner, 88 Mayfair Rd.. Edgewood 
5, R. I. John W. Gibson, 58 High St., Guil- 
ford, Conn. H. Winthrop Greene, 849 
Springfield Ave., Apt. 3C, Summit, N. J. 
Lt. (jg) Don A. Guinan, MC USNR, 79 
Woodlawn Ave., Northampton, Mass. 
Dr. Frank Merlino. 51 Richland Rd., 
Cranston, R. I. Clifford R. Noll, Jr., c/o 
H. L. Christensen, 729 Pacific Ave., Wau- 
kegan, 111. Howard W. Nudd, Jr., RFD 
118A, Mansfield, Mass. William F. 
O'Brien, 14 Stuyvesant Oval, NYC 9. 
Alex A. Trout. 141 Puritan Ave., High- 
land Park, Mich. Robert P. Wagner, 110 
Ludlow Rd., Windsor, Conn. Lawrence 
Wanthouse, Jr., 36 Fairmount Ave., Mor- 
ristown, N. J. 

1946 

Wounded in April near the Wachon 
Reservoir in Korea, 1st Lt. Richard W. 
Phifer is convalescing in Japan. A mortar 
shell bursting near his tank struck him 
in the back, causing a temporary paralysis 
from the waist down. Dick had been in 
Korea with the First Marine Division since 
January. A word of cheer from Classmates 
will undoubtedly help to brighten his 
hours at the Yokasuka Naval Hospital, 
Ward "O", Navy 3923. c/o Postmaster. 
San Francisco. News of Dick's injury was 
brought in by his brother. Gene, a mem- 
ber of the Class of 1954 at Brown. 

Andrew B. Ferrari, a New York City 
attorney, was admitted to the Washington, 
D. C, bar in April. He is now an Asso- 
ciate with the prominent Washington law 
firm of Elmore and Moore. 

Whereabouts: Paul N. Anderson, Jr., 
78 Forest Ave., Jamestown, N. Y. Robert 
J. Bauer, 730 Elm St., Beloit, Wis. Rob- 
ert A. Bourne, 616 County Rd., Barring- 
ton, R. I. Leslie F. Carson, 230 Ives St., 
Prov. 6. Roland J. Carson, 633 S. Edge- 
worth, Royal Oak, Mich. Frederic E. Cole, 
296 Benefit St., Providence. Thomas L. 
Culbertson, 444 East Second Ave., Ros- 
elle, N. J. John H. Dolan, Jr., 33-34 77th 
St., Apt. 6-B, Jackson Heights, N. Y. 
George C. Huse, 1 3 1 Pawtuxet Ave., 
Edgewood, R. I. John F. Larsen, 302 So. 
Morningside Ave., Albuquerque, N. M. 
John B. Lee, Old Range Rd., Wilton, 
Conn. Bencion Moskow, 18 Jameson Rd., 
Newton, Mass. Richard S. Paster, 185 
Bluff Ave., Apt. 5, Edgewood, R. I. Wer- 
ner B. Peter, 100 Lexington Ave., Apt. D„ 
Middletown, R. I. John C. Petropoulos, 
1170 Genesee St., Rochester, N. Y. Lt. 
(jg) H. Scott Powers, USN, BOQ, Naval 
Air Station, Pensacola, Fla. Allan J. Ros- 
enberg, 60 Harvard St., Lynn, Mass. Clar- 
ence F. Roth, Jr., 23 Parkview Drive, 
Plantsville, Conn. Harry L. Sheppard, Jr., 
1 14 Summit Ave., Ithaca, N. Y. Robert M. 
Thompson, Box 701, Phoenix, Ariz. Lt. 
(jg) K. Douglas Tobin, USS Stormes 



(DD 780), c/o FPO, San Francisco. Rich- 
ard J. Tracy, 1 Sheldon Ave., East Provi- 
dence, R. I. Hugo P. Verges, 209 Valley 
Rd., Plymouth Valley, Norristown, Pa. 
William M. Wheeler, 309 Ninth Ave., 
Haddon Heights, N. J. 

1947 

A long letter from Lt. (jg) Charles R. 
Longo informed us that he has decided to 
make the Navy his career. In the past two 
years he has accompanied aerial survey 
missions to Alaska and Labrador with the 
Navy's Photographic Squadron. 

After three years with the Phoenix Fire 
Insurance Co. as a Special Agent, Thomas 
O'Connor is now associated with the Dan- 
iel J. Farrell Insurance Agency in Nor- 
walk, Conn. His mailing address in Nor- 
walk is 9 Arch St. 

A fine letter from Knight and Gilbert, 
Inc., Providence advertising firm, told us 
of Don Creamer's election as agency Vice- 
President in May. Don has been with the 
firm almost three years, and his "energy, 
interest and ambition" have earned his em- 
ployer's commendation as "the up-and- 
coming young advertising man of Provi- 
dence." 

Lt. (jg) Hayden Owens, Jr., is making a 
career of the submarine service of the 
U. S. Navy. Currently on the West Coast, 
he is living witr his wife and daughter, 
four-year-old Shcryl Lynn, in a newly- 
bought home at 1304 Emerald St., San 
Diego 9. He spent his last leave working 
around the house. He is assigned to the 
USS Catfish. 

Whereabouts: Irving Gerstein, Tracer- 
lab Inc., 130 High St., Boston. Robert M. 
Botsford, c/o Hosking, 4 Park Quadrant, 
Glasgow, Scotland. Richard Bowen, 729 
St. George Ave., Rahway, N. J. Charles 

F. W. Burmeister, 29 Middle Lane, Levit- 
town, L. I., N. Y. John E. Connors, 113 
West Third St., Hastings, Minn. Ray Elias, 
2040 E. 86th St., Cleveland 6, Ohio. 
Charles Feldman, 76 Mayfair Drive, W. 
Orange, N. J. Richard G. Fischer, 12 
Stratford Place, Newark 8, N. J. Anthony 

G. Iannuccillo. 1017 Hospital Trust Bldg., 
Providence. Ralph F. Jacobs. 12 Spring 
Valley Rd., West Roxbury, Mass. Jay Z. 



James, 14 Willow Drive, Cranston 10, 
R. I. Joseph E. Jones, F.B.I. , 419 North 
American Life and Casualty Bldg., Minne- 
apolis 3. Dr. Sumner Levine, Dept. Neur- 
ology, College Physicians and Surgeons, 
Columbia University, NYC. Daniel F. 
Mansur, 98 Whitmarsh St., Prov. William 
J. Mellish, 321 Carroll Park, W., Long 
Beach, Calif. F. Burton Nelson, 1708 
Oak Ave., Evanston, 111. Robert H. Oberg, 
1617 South 91st Place, Seattle 88. Nelson 
H. Odt, 247 3d Ave., Stanley, Wis. Frank 
J. Pagliaro, 7833 Mammoth Ave., Van 
Nuys, Calif. Roger G. Peterson. 80 Indian 
Hill Rd., Newington, Conn. G. A. Peter- 
son, 1209 Dudley Rd., South Hills, 
Charleston, W. Va. Ralston B. Read, Jr., 
79 Davis St., Rehoboth, Mass. Harold J. 
Reeves. 1826 E. 39th St., Savannah, Ga. 
Milton A. Smith, Jr., 382 McKinley Pkwy., 
Buffalo 20. Philip C. Steiger, 1671 Asylum 
St., West Hartford, Conn. Haden W. Wer- 
han, P. O. Box 542, Nyack, N. Y. Claude 
B. Worley, 39 Rue Cambon (c/o Lum- 
mus), Paris, France. 

1948 

Charles L. McKennan, Jr., has been at 
Camp Pickett, Va., with the 43rd National 
Guard Infantry Division, QM Corps, since 
September, 1950. 

John H. Campbell sent us a note in 
April to advise us that he is a Career 
Guidance Counselor at Lackland AFB, 
Tex. 

Merrill B. Shattuck, an Instructor in 
Psychology and Advisor to Students in the 
Extension Division of the University of 
Wisconsin, has moved to 1505 Superior 
Ave.. Sheboygan. He expects to move to 
California — his wife's home state — soon. 

At a special all-Rhode Island program 
of the Providence Chamber Music So- 
ciety, a String Quartet by Donald Wiley 
was presented for the first time. Don, who 
won the Helen Wheelwright Memorial 
Scholarship as an undergraduate, is now a 
graduate student at Colorado College 
where he is also Music Director. Prof. 
Arlan R. Coolidge '24 of the Brown Mu- 
sic Department was one of the violinists 
in the quartet. 

Lloyd Davis has sent us word of his 




37 GRADUATES RECEIVED commissions in the Navy or Marine Corps during the Com- 
mencement exercises on the College Green. After getting their diplomas in academic cap 
and gown, they made a quick switch to military uniform in nearby Slater Hall, returning to 
be sworn in by Capt. Durgin. 



28 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



position as Employment Manager with 
the Whitney Chain Co. of Hartford, Conn. 
Whereabouts: B. Allen Aikens 3rd, 480 
Southlawn. Birmingham, Mich. Lt. (jg) 
Frank J. Alberto USN, USS Philippine 
Sea (CV-47). FPO, San Francisco. James 
W. Babcock, RFD 2, Box 318, East Hamp- 
ton. Conn. Sigmund Baszkowski, RFD 2, 
Bound Brook, N. J. John Decker, 192 6th 
Ave. Apt. 6F, NYC. William D. Dando, 
3221 Purdue St., Apt. 1, Houston 5, Tex. 
Charles H. Doebler IV. 108 Crown Hotel, 
Prov. Robert J. Donovan. 34 Lowell Ave., 
Summit, N. J. Thomas F. Egan, 930 Sher- 
man St., Denver, Colo. Douglas B. Esten, 
154 Collins St., Hartford. Conn. John R. 
Feins, 140 Eldridge St., Cranston 10, R. I. 
Justin J. Green, 201 E. Concord Dr., Para- 
mus, N. J. Morton S. Grossman, 36 
Quincy Rd., Chestnut Hill 67, Mass. Don- 
ald A. Haas, 66 Woodland Ave., Ver- 
ona, N. J. Robert R. Johnson, 529 Belle- 
view Drive, Fallschurch, Va. William T. 
Keech, Hopkinton, N. H. Fred W. Lohse, 
Jr., Military Police Detachment, c/o Ken- 
tucky State Police. Henderson, Ky. James 
B. Lovell, 2392 W. Galbraith Rd.. Cin- 
cinnati 24. Thomas E. Pitts, IBM Engin. 
Lab., Poughkeepsie, N. Y. David A. Rob- 
inson, 1305 Belvedere Ave.. Baltimore 9. 
Norton E. Salk. 1 14 Morris Ave., Prov. 6. 
Paul W. Smith. Beech Spring Garden 
Apts. Studio Apt. #3, Summit, N. J. Ken- 
neth L. Williams. 67 Watsessing Ave., 
Bloomfield. N. J. 

1949 

A $2100 Atomic Energy Commission 
scholarship has been awarded to Edward 
A. Tyczkowski, a Duke University gradu- 
ate student in chemistry. He will use the 
one-year grant to conduct basic research 
at Duke in fluorine chemistry. 

Donald B. Hyde is back in the Air 
Force and at present is stationed in Eng- 
land. His address: 28th Weather Sq., APO 
125, c/o Postmaster, N. Y., N. Y. 

Stephen Garratt has taken a leave of 
absence from the Home Life Insurance 
Co. to accept a position with the gov- 
ernment in Washington. 

Sol Elmasian wrote in May to tell us of 
his new address. He is living in Danielson, 
Conn., at 68 Broad St., although he still 
works in Plainfield at the Plastic Film 
Corp. He took over the control of plant 
production, research and development last 
fall when the plant chemist was absent be- 
cause of illness. When he isn't quite so 
busy, he enjoys a "Brown chat" now and 
then with A. Dean Williams '30, in charge 
of the company's shipping and inspection 
department. 

This summer, Joe Agronick is starting 
in the sales department of the Florence 
Stove Co. After a six to eight months' 
training period at the factory in Gardner, 
Mass., he will work with an area repre- 
sentative and later be assigned his own 
territory. 

In advising us of his newest acquisition 
(see "Vital Statistics"), Sandy Beachen 
also wrote about his new job. He is associ- 
ated with the Allstate Automobile Insur- 
ance office in the new Sears store in 
Providence. 

Gerrit Sanford of the R. I. Hospital 
Trust Co. used a facsimile of a bank de- 
posit slip to announce the arrival of his 
May-born son. "Deposit to the credit of 
Bets and Gerrit Sanford, 16 Adelphi 
Ave.," said the slip, dated May 21, 1951. 



The following information had been en- 
tered below: "Hour a.m. — 5:35. Height — 
21 in. Weight— 10 lbs. Wait— 2 long." It 
all added up to Winthrop Davis Sanford. 

John Cappello was admitted to the bar 
in Rhode Island early in June. 

Lloyd Broomhead is associated with 
Carr's, Providence catering house, on An- 
gell St. His mail address is at his home, 20 
Roberta Dr., West Barrington, R. I. 

Upon receiving his M.S. degree this 
June, Arthur Green was scheduled to re- 
port to the Atlas Powder Co., Wilming- 
ton, Del., as a Technical Sales Trainee. 
At Lowell Textile Institute, where he did 
his graduate work, he was aided by a U. S. 
Public Health Service Fellowship. 

Leslie Evans is in the advertising depart- 
ment of P. Lorillard and Co., makers of 
Old Gold cigarettes. His address is 106 N. 
Arlington Ave.. E. Orange, N. J. 

To Walter E. Mey goes the sympathy 
of all Classmates on the loss of his mother, 
Mrs. Elizabeth Bamberger Mey, in Provi- 
dence, May 22, 1951. 

Whereabouts: W. Lee Abbott. 683 Lex- 
ington Ave., NYC 22. Richard G. Adams, 
62 Algonquin Rd., Rumford, R. I. Sum- 
ner Alpert, 12 Goddard St., Fall River, 
Mass. Constantine E. Anagnostopoulos, 
61 Strathmore Rd., Edgewood, R. I. Rich- 
ard C. Anderson, 3332 Sixth St.. Port Ar- 
thur, Tex. Donald E. Brat!, 44 No. Spring 
Court, Meriden, Conn. Lawrence Bug- 
bee, Box 26—806 Bard Hall, 50 Haven 
Ave., NYC 32. Richard K. Check, 62 
Miner St., Providence. Robert B. Dalton, 
530 Winter St., Waltham 54, Mass. Ed- 
win J. Deadrick, 2209 Monument Ave., 
Richmond, Va. Bernard H. DiOrio, 1211 
Charles Dr., Reno, Nev. Edwin J. 
Dobrodj, Apt. 232 Rhodes Village, Utica, 
N. Y. Joseph H. Driscoll, 42 Eleventh St., 
Prov. 6. Daniel I. Flanzbaum, 29 Congress 
Ave., Prov. Harold W. Foss, Box 373, 
Ypsilanti, Mich. Lester G. Freelove, Jr., 
24 Arlington Ave., Yardville. N. J. Ste- 
phen M. Garratt, 2034 O St. NW, Wash- 
ington, D. C. Gerard E. Gerhardt, 31 
Trinity Place, Montclair, N. J. Everett R. 
Gibbs, Jr., 1005 So. Lincoln St., Park 
Ridge, 111. Frederick R. Govain, 14 Scot- 
land Rd., Norwichtov»n, Conn. Edward 
G. Hail, 9 Lantern Lane, Barrington, R. I. 
Louis A. Jacob II, 29725 Grand Blvd., 
Wickliffe, Ohio. Clyde A. Kelley, Jr., 
YMCA, 822 So. Wabash Ave., Chicago 5. 
Charles D. Keyes, 373 High Rock St., 
Needham, Mass. Victor J. Logan, 412 
Norton Pkwy., New Haven, Conn. Lt. 
Theodore F. Low 0-989697, 43d QM Co., 
43d Div., Camp Pickett, Va. Daniel F. 
Norwood. 179 Lowell St., Reading, Mass. 
William F. O'Brien. Jr., 4 Denville Ave., 
Denville, N. J. Ellsworth H. Ostergard. 
1763 Algonac, Cleveland, Ohio. Raymond 
T. Owen, Jr., 1006'/2 Branson St., Fayette- 
ville, N. C. Harold S. Pivnick, Melrose 
Rd., RFD 4, Huntington, N. Y. William 
G. Rose, 1726 Yakona Rd., Towson 4, 
Md. James A. Dennis Scriven, Sunnydale 
Ave., Bristol, Conn. Lawrence Shepard, 
Rt. 85, Hebron, Conn. Arthur W. Tower, 
74 Donald Place, Waldwick, N. J. Richard 
F. Wilder, 11533Vi Rochester Ave., Los 
Angeles 25. 

1950 

Ens. Allen S. Kerr sent this note along 
to us in April: "I am currently aboard the 
USS Robert H. McCord (DD 822), which 
is attached to the Sixth Fleet in the Medi- 
terranean. At present, low man on the 




SENIOR CLASS SECRETARY Michael 
Handman shows his new diploma 
proudly to his mother. Mrs. Handman's 
interest was not only maternal, for 
within the week she had a sheepskin of 
her own — from Columbia. 

totem pole in the gunnery department of 
said ship." 

Arthur Demarais is a graduate student 
at the Russian Institute at Columbia Uni- 
versity. 

Mrs. George H. Hart, Jr., has written 
us that her husband is now with the Navy 
aboard the USS Oriskany. He'd like his 
mail sent to Old Main Rd., Tiverton, R. I. 
for now, however. When he leaves the 
service he will report to his new position 
as a junior engineer with the Raytheon 
Corp. of Waltham, Mass. 

John Boyce of the Automobile Mutual 
Insurance Co. of America's home office in 
Providence hopes this year to retain the 
horseshoe-pitching title he won at the 
company picnic last summer. His address 
is 186 Summit St., Pawtucket. 

Robert T. Cole, a real estate salesman 
with the J. Benjamin Nevin Co. of Provi- 
dence, lives in the city at 12 Cole Farm Ct. 

William W. Wirtz is a junior partner 
in the Chicago office of the public account- 
ing firm of Peat, Marwick & Mitchell. His 
address in the city is 1420 Lake Shore 
Drive. 

Roy Moriarty is representing Esquire, 
Inc., in New York City. His mailing ad- 
dress is 428 Hudson St., NYC. 

An Air Force pilot in Korea, 2nd Lt. 
Douglas C. Anderson, Jr., prefers mail at 
his home address, P. O. Box 305, Plain- 
field, N. J. 

A student at Union Theological Semi- 
nary, Peter H. John lives at 600 W. 122nd 
St., NYC 27. 

Along with his regrets that he would be 
unable to attend the Alumni Dinner, Al- 
fred G. Morse informed us that he is now 
with the Charles E. Crofoot Gear Corp. 
of So. Easton, Mass. 

Curtis Chrisfield is currently attending 
Officers' Candidate School at Ft. Sill, 
Okla. 

Anthony Marshall and his wife spent 
their March leave in Key West, Fla. Tony 
is with the Department of State in Wash- 
ington and lives at 1523 29th St. NW, 
Washington 9. 



JUNE 1951 



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A Public Information Officer with the 
Massachusetts Military District in Boston. 
2nd Lt. Lester R. Allen, Jr., prefers mail 
at Box 881, Chatham, Mass. 

David Miller writes that he is with the 
Whitney Blake Co. of Hamden, Conn. He 
is a lab technician. 

Attending Infantry OCS at Ft. Benning, 
Ga., is Haven H. Newton. His complete 
address is 3rd OC Co., 1st OC BN, Ft. 
Benning. 

Robert A. Moyer has a new home ad- 
dress. 102 Wayland Ave., Providence. He 
is Assistant Superintendent of the Hope 
Webbing Co. in Pawtucket. 

Classmates join in extending their sym- 
pathy to Raymond B. Littlefield, Jr., 
whose father died May 25, 1951, in Provi- 
dence. 

George D. Jones, a salesman with the 
Bethlehem Steel Co., lives in the Garden- 
crest Apts., 97-1 Lyman St., Waltham, 
Mass. 

Education and Promotion Director for 
the Long Island Zionist Region is Stanley 
R. Greenberg. His home and mailing ad- 
dress is 418 Central Park West, NYC. 

Whereabouts: John F. Barry, Jr., 593 
Main St., Warren, R. I. Frank H. Black, 
Jr., 1536 Great Highway. Apt. 32, San 
Francisco. Peter Butterfield, 5200 Browns 
Lake Rd.. Jackson. Mich. Joseph F. Con- 
don, 24 Claremont Ave. Prov. 8. Robert 
H. Cowgill, 1260 La Loma Road, Pasa- 
dena 2, Calif. Robert O. Gertz. Box 83, 
Shenandoah Station. Miami 45, Fla. Don- 
ald S. Gleason. 190 Waterman St., Prov. 
6. Arnold Green, 22 Chace Dr., Prov. 6. 
Kenneth F. Griffiths. Griffiths & Co.. 280 
Madison Ave., NYC 17. Henry D. Hoyle. 
Jr., 418 Caplin St., Houston, Tex. David 
B. Jacobson, 83-4 Park Ave., Worcester, 
Mass. Raymond E. Knox, 34 Read St., 
Riverside 15, R. I. Robert M. Leach II, 
55 Ferry Lane, Barrington. R. I. John A. 
Leonard, c/o T. Donelon, 681 Lexington 
Ave., NYC. John W. Lyons. 212 Water- 
man St., Prov. 6. William G. Marancik, 
533 East 2nd. Ave. Apt. 31, Roselle, N. J. 
Roy A. Martin, 35-63 83 St., Jackson Hts., 
N. Y. Daniel W. Moran, 25 Vi Commer- 
cial St., Lynn, Mass. Ernest V. Perreault. 
77 Tampa St., Mattapan 26, N. Y. Robert 
N. Pollock, 3139 Bracken Woods Lane, 
Westwood, Cincinnati. Ohio. Charles 
Richards. 503 Morton Ave.. Ridley Park, 
Pa. Robert Ross. 192 Waterman St., Prov. 
6. Dale S. Rothwell. 2120 Riverside Ave.. 
Somerset, Mass. David Scott, P. O. Box 
66, East Rindge, N. H. E. Elliot Smith, 
470 Brook St., Prov. 6. William J. Tregar- 
then, Jr.. 63 Lawrence Lane, Bay Shore, 
N. Y. M. L. Van Kavelaar. Sutton's Lane, 
New Castle, Del. 

1952 
Leonard J. Panaggio, Director of Pub- 
lic Relations at Old Sturbridge Village 
Museum and Crafts Center, Sturbridge, 
Mass., Mrs. Panaggio, and their two chil- 
dren. Leonard C. and Madeleine L, re- 
turned to the United States in April, com- 
pleting a two-months' vacation in France, 
Italy, Monaco and Corsica. More than 
600 color-slide pictures were made show- 
ing how people live and work in the places 
visited and the Panaggios will give lec- 
tures on their travels during the coming 
season. Mrs. Panaggio. a reporter for the 
Worcester Telegram, wrote several spe- 
cial articles for the newspaper on the so- 
cial, economic and political life of French 
people. 



The Brown Clubs Report 




TRIO IN SYRACUSE before the Brown Club dinner in late April. Left to right, President 

H. Duane Bruce '07; Dr. Bruce M. Bigelow '24; University Vice-President, who was visiting 

alumni groups in upper New York State; and Secretary Earle C. Drake '24. 



News to Syracuse 

Vice-President Bruce M. Bigelow '24 
was on hand in Syracuse the 25th of 
April to bring news of the Campus to 
lunching members of the Brown Club of 
Central New York. At the gathering in 
the Hotel Syracuse, he told about the new 
Quadrangle, fraternities, faculty, football, 
financial problems, enrollment and espe- 
cially the impact of the draft situation on 
the University. 

At a press conference before the meet- 
ing. Dr. Bigelow told a reporter that the 
boys in all colleges were willing to do their 
part in the military service despite govern- 
ment "fumbling": and he added that it 
was not true that the colleges wanted mass 
deferments. 

The keenness of interest in Brown af- 
fairs was evidenced by the splendid turn- 
out. Those present were: A. Dean Dudlev 
'02, W. Cornell Blanding '02, Raymond D. 
Cady '05, H. Duane Bruce '07. Allen D. 
Hill '20, Richard D. Greene '22, Earle C. 
Drake '24, Harry G. Remington '27, Ir- 
ving Newton '28. Dr. E. H. Wood '29, Vic- 
tor Vernon, Jr. '34. H. Brainard Fancher 
'35. William H. Margeson '37. Malcolm 
H. Dearden '38, Andrew S. Clark '42, 
Louis A. Ferguson '50 and Albert P. Ed- 
inger, a guest. 

Earle C. Drake '24 

In the Connecticut Valley 
The Connecticut Valley Brown 
Club held its spring meeting at the Roger 
Smith Hotel in Holyoke May 18 with 
Provost Samuel T. Arnold and Head Foot- 
ball Coach Alva E. Kelley as principal 



speakers. About 50 members were in at- 
tendance. 

Provost Arnold discussed changes in the 
college life and routine, emphasizing how 
the Korean War had affected college stu- 
dents in general. He gave his views of 
UMT and UMS and concluded his talk 
with a discussion of the recent sports 
scandals, stating that he felt that colleges 
had a responsibility to cultivate proper 
ethical concepts among students today. 

Al Kelley introduced himself and his 
staff to the club members and told what he 
was attempting to do at Brown. He said 
that he had "a staff of teachers" and that 
"Brown must meet the trend in the Ivy 
League." He stated that Brown could pro- 
duce an Ivy League Champion, but that it 
was up to the University, the students and 
the alumni. The new coach has been im- 
pressed with the Faculty and students and 
friendly spirit at Brown and considers his 
new position a great challenge and oppor- 
tunity. 

New officers elected for 1951-52 were: 
President — Henry W. Hayes '42; Vice- 
President— William C. Giles, Jr. '42: Sec- 
retary — Lewis A. Shaw '48; Treasurer — - 
Samuel Thompson '44: Directors — Wil- 
liam C. Hill '94, Elijah Anthony '18, 
Ralph A. Armstrong '17. Edwin Rose '12 
and Clyde Gordon '34. A new club consti- 
tution was also accepted by the member- 
ship, and Hill and Armstrong were ap- 
pointed respective chairmen of the schol- 
arship and admission committees. 

Among those present were: Ed Thomas 
'34 and Harold Worthington '11, of Aga- 
wam; John McLaughry '40 of Amherst; 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Albert Shaw "02 of Blandford; Sam Blass- 
berg '26. Stan Cummings '40 and Russell 
Jones '26. of Greenfield; Leon L. Tracy 
'41 of Hartford. Conn.; Martin Jaffe '28 
and John Ross. Jr. '44 of Holyoke; Elliot 
Bosworth '16. Judge William C. Giles. Sr. 
Ml, Elmer R. Joslyn '23 and his son. Jack 
Joslyn. a member of the class of 1953 at 
Yale, all of Longmeadow: Dr. Herbert 
Lang '96 of South Hadley; Stan Allen '43, 
John Byam '36. Henry Carey '37. Tom 
Carey '39. Bill Dwyer '48. William A. Har- 
ris '97, Len Michelman '45, Dick Slattery 
'49. Moses Sparks '48, Stuart Waite '32 
and Bob Wessman '39, all of Springfield; 
Bill Steinecke '49 of Turners Falls; John 
Dillingham '50 of Westfield; Joseph Small 
'36 of West Holyoke; and John Collins 
'43, Dr. George Corcoran '06 and Dr. 
George Corcoran, Jr. '41. all of West 
Springfield. 

At the conclusion of the meeting, retir- 
ing President Lee Tracy was given a rising 
vote of appreciation for the fine job he had 
done as club president. 

Lewis A. Shaw '48 

Welcome, Trenton 

^ The kickoff meeting of the Brown 
Club of Trenton — with the help of a trio 
from Plainfield: Dr. Moses Crossley '09, 
Dr. Byron West '15 and Charlie Benz '32; 
Athletic Director Paul Mackesey '32; and 
an ample supply of sandwiches and beer — 
was most successful! Fifteen Trenton area 
members were present and several others 
pledged future support to the new organi- 
zation. 

At the informal meeting at the Hotel 
Hildebrecht. Director Mackesey talked 
about the current athletic picture at 
Brown. Then a committee was named to 
arrange for the Club's next meeting in the 
fall. Its members — Clyde F. Hoover '27, 
Richard Formidoni '26, Hiram M. Bene- 
dict '22. Robert C. McKenny '21 and Wil- 
lard C. Parker '42 — were also directed to 
draw up a pattern for the permanent or- 
ganization of the Club. 

Others present were: Alexander W. 
Muir '10, Ralph L. Elrod '07, Prof. Dana 
G. Munro '12. Howard Husker '27, Earle 
Hendrickson '29, Roland Formidoni '29, 
Julian Panek '41, Robert Klie '44, Samuel 
Zucherman '47 and Donald S. Shaw, Jr. 
'49 

Willard C. Parker '42 

Bigelow in Washington 

Washington Brown Club members 
turned out in force to honor the presence 
of Vice-President Bruce M. Bigelow '24 
in the nation's capital. At the evening 
meeting in the Army-Navy Club on April 
9, Bruce discussed a number of points 
from President Wriston's trip to the prog- 
ress of the rising Quadrangle. His descrip- 
tion of the effects of the current draft 
situation on Brown students and his re- 
port on the new Refectory were of special 
interest to the alumni in Washington. 
Among the VIPs who came out to see the 
V-P were Senator Theodore Francis Green 
'87, former R. 1. Governor Norman S. 
Case '08, former U. S. Representative 
Howard Coffin '01 and Dr. Waldo G. Le- 
land '00. 

Club President Richard L. Walsh '37 
reported on his observations while at the 
Advisory Council in Providence in Feb- 
ruary. Don Clayton '31 reported on the 
progress made by the newly-formed 
Alumni Admission Committee which he 



heads. The Club expressed favor towards 
the plan whereby the local Clubs will co- 
ordinate their activity with Admission 
Office emissaries. George Hurley '41, 
former Club President, emerged from re- 
tirement to serve as Chairman of the 
Membership Committee, and he described 
his plans for increasing attendance at Club 
functions. A letter of commendation to 
Wecky Moulton '3 1 for leading the hockey 
team to victory in the Pentagonal League 
and to second place in the national colle- 
giate picture was unanimously voted. 

Others at the meeting were: Alan N. 
Abelman '49. Herbert B. Barlow. Jr. '46, 
William J. Barton '45, John J. Burke, Jr. 
'45, E. R. Cleaveland '14, Ross A. DeMat- 
teo '35. S. Key Dickinson '23, N. S. Dike. 
Jr. '41, John R. Ewan '33, James Fishback 
30, Kenneth C. Foote '38, Edwin K. Fox 
'48, Warren Francis '29. Stephen M. Gar- 
ratt '49, Maughan C. Gould '41, Norman 
E. Hall '50, Eugene Hart '33, Paul W. 
Holt '36, Paul Howard '3 5, Frank P 
Huddle '35, Maxwell Kaufman '30. 
Charles T. Lloyd '42, Harold B. Master 
'27, Thomas R. McCabe '40, Paul Mc- 
Gann '38, W. J. Miller '35, Eugene F. 
Mullin, Jr. '46, Harvey Nanes '37, Elliot 
Salter '46, Walter S. B Tate '48, Arthur 
Urrows '49, Fritz Wiener '27, James Wil- 
mot '08 and Lt. J. D. Wilson '39. 

William J. Barton '45 
Western Maine's Annual 
The Brown Club of Western Maine 
held its annual meeting at the Cumberland 
Club in Portland, April 27. Especially 
honored among the 26 Brown men and 
guests who attended was the Rev. Charles 
R. Upton '84, Brown's oldest living alum- 
nus. Mr. Upton, a retired Baptist minister, 
is residing with a daughter in Portland; 
he will celebrate his 95th birthday in July. 
Among invited guests were high school 
boys from Portland and Auburn, includ- 
ing Gordon L. Sellick, a member of the 
Portland Boys' Club championship swim- 
ming team, and his coach, Harold A. 



Paulson. Paulson gave sidelights on his 
April trip to New York where his team 
tied the New York Boys' Club for top na- 
tional honors. Alumni Executive Officer 
William B. McCormick '23 and Director 
of Athletics Paul Mackesey '32 repre- 
sented the University, covering a lot of 
ground in an entertaining manner, both in 
their talks and in a later question period. 

John S. Warren '31, high school Prin- 
cipal of Caribou, was given a hand for 
traveling the greatest distance — 300 miles 
— to be present. Newton C. Reed '03 was 
given a vote of thanks for the three excel- 
lent newspaper stories he prepared to pub- 
licize the meeting. 

In the elections, the following were 
chosen for next year: President — Robert 
S. Curley '07, Biddeford; Vice-President 
— Charles H. Mullen '39, Portland; Secre- 
tary — Robert F. Skillings '11, Portland; 
Treasurer — Henry D. Burrage '33, Port- 
land; Executive Committee Members-at- 
Large — Herbert R. Coffin '11. Auburn; 
Richard W. Sarle '44, Rumford and War- 
ren '31, Caribou. 

Western Penn. Elects 

At the annual spring meeting on May 
24, the following men were elected to of- 
fice in the Brown Club of Western Penn- 
sylvania: President — Dr. Judson A. Crane 
'05; Vice-President— Robert B. Clark '39; 
Treasurer — George S. Daugherty '35; Sec- 
retary — Albert B. Jeffers '22. No formal 
program was staged, the evening being de- 
voted to a general discussion of the future 
of the Club and plans for next year. 

"Jeff" Jeffers '22 

The Brown Navy Club 

New officers of the Brown Navy Club 
— elected at the May meeting to serve next 
year — are: President — William A. Jewett 
'41; Vice-President — Victor B. Schwartz 
'40; Secretary — Lt. Cmdr. Alfred S. 
Cleaves '28; Treasurer — George C. Hen- 
derson '38; Director (three-year term) — 
Norman Zalkind '35. 



Bureau of Vital Statistics 



MARRIAGES 

1935 — Gordon MacLaren and Mrs. 
Catherine B. Kinney, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Richard E. Behnke, in Bronxville, 
N. Y., May 30, 1951. David C. Moore '34 
was the best man. 

1936 — Frank J. Watson. Jr., and Miss 
Elizabeth Barrows, daughter of Dr. and 
Mrs. David N. Barrows, in New York 
City, June 9, 1951. 

1936 — Gardner E. Wheeler. Jr., and 
Miss Nancy C. Woodruff, daughter of 
Mrs. Leroy J. Monks of Orange, Conn., 
and the late Mr. Stiles D. Woodruff. II. in 
Orange. May 12, 1951. Dr. Robert N. 
Adamson '37 was the best man, and A. 
Woodbury Calder '28 and Richard J. Dee, 
Jr., '50 were ushers. At home: 9 Harbor 
St., Branford, Conn. 

1937 — James L. G. Kavanagh and Miss 
Mary M. Stolle. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Emile J. Stolle of Providence, April 28 
1951. 

1937 — John H. Lundgren and Miss 
Roberta E. Granata. daughter of Mrs. Ed- 
ward C. Drinkwater and Dr. Tancredi G. 



JUNE 1951 



Granata, in Providence. June 1, 1951. Wil- 
liam H. Briggs. Jr., '42 was the best man. 
At home: 7 Orchard Dr., Dean Estates, 
Cranston, R. I. 

1938 — John C. Edgren and Mrs. Sally 
Fogg Cushing of Beverly Hills, Calif., in 
Providence, May 25, 1951. 

1940 — Robert L. Joslin and Miss Mary 
F. Sulzbacher. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Edward B. Sulzbacher of Nashville, Tenn., 
in New York City, June 8, 1951. Alfred 
H. Joslin '35 was his brother's best man. 
At home: 210 E. 73rd St., New York. 

1943 — Frederick A. Manley and Miss 
Mary J. Connolly, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. John L. Connolly, in Paterson, N. L, 
April 28, 1951. 

1945 — M. David Bell and Miss Laura 
Martin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wade 

B. Martin, in Ramsey, N. J., Sept. 24, 
1950. 

1945 — William B. Mason and Miss 
Katherine Wood, daughter of Mrs. Henry 

C. Wood of Bristol, Tenn., in Quepos, 
Costa Rica, April 14, 1951. 

1945 — Dr. Frank Merlino and Miss 
Mary Ellen Murtagh. daughter of Mr. and 



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"UNDER THE ELMS" on Class Day, the Brown Seniors wore their caps and gowns for the first time 
June 1. The platform, also used on Commencement Day, was erected just east of University Hall. 



Mrs. Lawrence F. Murtagh of Providence, 
April 28, 1951. Mitchell Checrallah '48 
was an usher. At home: 51 Richland Rd., 
Cranston. 

1946 — James P. Connelly, Jr., and Miss 
Anne M. Dawson, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. John F. Dawson, in Belmont, Mass., 
April 7, 1951. 

1946 — Leonard P. Garr and Miss Adri- 
enne C. Zacks, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. 
David Zacks of Brookline, Mass., April 
19, 1951. At home: 22 Nancy St., Paw- 
tucket, R. I. 

1946 — Carl F. Graesser, Jr., and Miss 
Natalie E. Henderson, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. William W. Henderson of York 
Village, Me., May 5. 1951. Robert K. 
Leary '47 was an usher. 

1946— Stephen J. Siegl, Jr., and Miss 
Carol S. Souther, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Shirley M. Souther of South Hing- 
ham, Mass., March 31, 1951. Edward 
Simpson '46 was the best man and Alan 
Atkinson, Jr., '47 was one of the ushers. 

1947 — Robert W. Hambleton and Miss 
Irene Zalanskas, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Peter Zalanskas, in Lawrence, Mass., 
April 1, 1951. 

1947 — David J. Meehan and Miss 
Phoebe A. Trainer, daughter of Mrs. 
Harry P. Trainer and the late Mr. Trainer 
of Waban, Mass., in Wellesley, June 2, 
1951. Howard G. Hunt '50 was the best 
man. Ushers included John Markham '49, 
Philip C. Steiger '47, and Robert Borg '50. 

1948— Edward P. Coop and Miss Mar- 
ion D. Miner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Milton C. Miner of Rumford, R. I., April 
28, 1951. Edward M. Perry '50 was the 
best man and Robert T. Cole '50 was an 
usher. At home: 83 Hope St., Rumford. 
The groom is the son of Edward R. Coop 
'24 and Mrs. Coop. 

1948— Richard C. McDowell and Miss 
Martha Nugent, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Edwin E. Nugent of Manhasset, L. I., 
N. Y., Oct. 21, 1950. Alva C. Cuddeh.ick 
'50 was the best man and ushers included 
Allen Rust '45, John Heneghan '48, Philip 
Massare '49, and Robert Cuddeback '5 I . 



At home: 144-1! Sanford Ave., Flushing, 
N. Y. 

1948— Robert G. Petersdorf and Miss 
Patricia H. Qua, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Kenneth M. Qua, in Melrose Highlands, 
Mass., June 2, 1951. 

1948 — Lewis A. Shaw and Miss Carol 
Roper, daughter ot Mr. and Mrs. Robert 
G. Roper of Springfield, Mass., May 5, 
1951. Wallace L. Poole '50 and Douglas 
A. Snow '45 were among the ushers. At 
home: 231 Belmont Ave., Springfield. 

1948— Charles H. Watts, II, and Miss 
Patricia D. McQuillen, daughter of Mr. 
Paul W. McQuillen and the late Mrs. Mc- 
Quillen, in Bronxville, N. Y., June 9, 1951. 
D. Bruce Hutchinson '47 was the best 
man. 

1949 — Marshall C. Battey and Miss 
Jane A. St. Germain, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Adrian St. Ge.-main of West Barring- 
ton. R. I., April 28, 1951. 

1949— Walter H. Fish, Jr., and Miss 
Margaret P. Bodfish, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Robert W. Bodfish, in Long- 
meadow, Mass., March 3, 1951. 

1949— Ralph F. Gossler and Miss Vir- 
ginia J. Gately, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Harold F. Gately of Cranston. R. I., in 
Saylesville, June 9, 1951. Colin MacKay 
'48 was the best man. 

1949 — Frederick R. Govain and Miss 

102 Years Apart 

Writing to a Brown alumnus after 
the Commencement in which he re- 
ceived an honorary degree of Doctor 
of Letters. Mark Antony DeWolfe 
Howe said: "The honor that Brown 
did me was valued all the more be- 
cause it made me an alumnus of a col- 
lege attended by five generations of my 
family. 

"Fantastic as it may seem, the M. A. 
DeWolfe Howe similarly honored in 
1849 (by a degree of D.D.) was my 
father. The gap of 102 years is ex- 
plained in part by his having been 40 
in 1849 and I 86 in 1951." 



Mary E. Lake, daughter of Mrs. Arthur L. 
Lake of Providence, April 21, 1951. 

1949 — Frederick C. Hailer, Jr., and 
Miss Mary E. Gilson. daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Irving E. Gilson of North Provi- 
dence, May 5, 1951. 

1949— Alfred L. Hood and Hope M. 
Cannon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Vernon Mason, in Cambridge, Mass., 
April 14, 1951. Harold G. Hood '20 was 
his son's best man. At home: 56 Gardner 
St., Allston. 

1949 — John M. Houston and Miss 
Anne D. Stafford, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Philip H. Stafford, in Swampscott, 
Mass., March 24, 1951. 

1949 — Edmands P. Lingham, Jr., and 
Miss Priscilla A. Wright, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Norman E. Wright of Sayles- 
ville, R. I., in Pawtucket. June 8, 1951. 
Alan P. Maynard '47 was the best man 
and Norman E. Wright. Jr., '50, brother 
of the bride, was an usher. 

1949 — Victor J. Logan and Miss Grace 
M. Eakes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elvin 
G. Eakes, in Detroit, Mich., April 14, 
1951. Arnold S. Chatterton '50 was an 
usher. At home: 412 Norton Pkwy., New 
Haven, Conn. 

1949 — Donald Miller and Miss Janice 
L. Roebuck, daughter of the Rev. Canon 
and Mrs. Arthur F. Roebuck, in Paw- 
tucket, R. I., May 11. 1951. At home: 127 
Elmgrove Ave., Providence 6. 

1949 — Martin L. Riesman and Miss 
Beverly Bolotow, daughter of Dr. and 
Mrs. Nathan A. Bolotow. in Providence, 
April 8, 1951. At home: 365 Slater Ave/, 
Providence. 

1949 — Alan Willoughby and Miss Jane 
L. Winter, daughter of Mrs. William H. 
Winter of Edgewood, R. I., April 7, 1951. 

1950 — Cpl. LeRoy F. Anderson and 
Miss Claire Christiansen in Providence in 
April 1951. At home: c/o Hq. Co., 175th 
M.P. Bn.. Camp Atterbury, Ind. 

1950 — Robert N. Armour and Miss 
Joan M. Berson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Milton Berson. in New York City, April 
15, 1951. 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



1950— W. Gordon Carlisle and Miss 
Nancy J. Gilbert, daughter of Mrs. A. C. 
Gilbert, in Elkins Park, Pa., Sept. 16, 
1950. Richard W. Brackett '50 was one of 
the ushers. 

1950— Robert T. Craig, Jr., and Miss 
Joan R. Pickard of Pleasantville, N. Y., on 
Oct. 18, 1950. At home: Jamestown, N. Y. 
(c/o Goodyear Service Store, 3rd & Pren- 
dergast). 

1950 — Ens. Charles D. DeLaittre and 
Miss Barbara F. Maxwell, Feb. 3, 1951. 
At home: 2501 Benvenue, Berkeley, Calif. 
1950 — Ralph Dunn and Miss Harriet 
Abramson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Harry Abramson of Brookline, Mass., 
April 7, 1951. 

1950— George R. Fiddes and Miss Ruth 
J. Turner, daughter of Mr. Preston E. 
Turner and the late Mrs. Turner of Paw- 
tucket, R. I., in Providence, May 12, 1951. 
William F. Turner '49, brother of the 
bride, was the best man. 

1950— Robert W. Finlay and Miss 
Georgine J. Gillette, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. William B. Gillette, in Darien, 
Conn., June 9, 1951. John P. Finlay '53 
was best man for his brother. 

1950— Donald S. Gleason and Miss 
Kathleen B. Urch, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Wellington T. Urch, in Providence, 
March 24, 1951. At home: 190 Waterman 
St., Providence 6. 

1950— Ens. Albert M. Hunt and Miss 
Irene L. Kelley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Andrew J. Kelley of Bridgewater, Mass., 
April 6, 1951. Bruce H. Hunt '54 was best 
man for his brother. 

1950 — David B. Jacobson and Miss 
Barbara D. Levine, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Saul Levine of New Haven, Conn., 
March 25, 1951. Arthur Jacobson '50 was 
his brother's best man. Ushers included 
Marvin Tesler '49, Arnold Dunn '48, and 
Kenneth List '50. At home: 83-4 Park 
Ave., Worcester, Mass. 

1950 — Zareh S. Kalarian and Miss 
Gladys R. Manoogian, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Zakar Manoogian of Cranston, 
R. I., in Providence, May 6, 1951. At 
home: 29 Lenox Ave., Providence. 

1950 — Ernest J. Lyons and Miss Rose 
M. Bybee. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John 
Fulton of Farmington. Mich., March 24, 
1951. 

1950— David A. Molter and Miss Mil- 
dred M. Smith, daughter of Mrs. Charles 
J. Smith and the late Dr. Smith of Provi- 
dence, April 28, 1951. Peter R. Cruise '50 
was the best man and Herman E. Trotter 
'47, David E. Kinney '47, and Robert F. 
Kelsey '49 were ushers. 

1950— William A. Pollard and Miss 
M. Jeanette Jones, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. John W. Jones of Haddonfield, N. J., 
May 26, 1951. William M. Hale '49 was 
one of the ushers. At home: Apt. 1M, 1 
Manchester PL, Newark, N. J. 

1950 — Maynard N. Sallet and Miss 
Shirley E. Lechtman, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Abraham J. Lechtman of West War- 
wick, R. I„ in Providence, April 15, 1951. 
At home: 72 Summit St., Pawtucket. 

1950— Ens. Bruce M. Senior, USN, and 
Miss Ruth E. Way, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Alva O. Way, Jr., of Cranston, R. I., 
in Providence, April 21, 1951. Alva Way, 
III, '51, brother of the bride, was the best 
man. 

1950 — Thomas A. Thompson and Miss 
Marie L. Peltier, daughter of Mr. and 



Mrs. Rudolph J. Peltier of Waterford, 
Conn., in New London, April 21, 1951. 
At home: 810 Montauk Ave., New Lon- 
don. 

1950 — Ernest W. Tuckerman. Jr., and 
Miss Eunice M. Abramson, in Providence, 
May 26, 1951. Joseph W. Adams '50 was 
the best man and John McCaffery and 
Robert C. Ward, both '50, were ushers. 
At home: 17 Sarah St., Providence 6. 

1951 — Paul F. Bergmann, Jr., and Miss 
Joan C. Fuller, daughter of Mrs. Ruth S. 
Fuller of Wayland, Mass., and the late 
Mr. Dwight S. Fuller, in Weston, June 9, 
1951. 

1951— Ray L. Hurd and Miss Clarice 
J. Phaneuf, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jo- 
seph Phaneuf of Providence, June 9, 1951. 
Joseph Marot '51 was the best man. 

Lincoln's Muster Roll 
From Miss Sarah Hicks of Syca- 
more, III., came a letter this spring 
saying that she had in her possession a 
muster roll of Abraham Lincoln's 
company in the Black Hawk War, writ- 
ten in Lincoln's own hand. Miss Hicks 
noted that she was offering the manu- 
script for $3,000 to several libraries 
with Lincoln collections. 

Librarian David Jonah's quick reply 
to the letter secured a "first refusal" 
arrangement for Brow.!. When the 
Friends of the Library of Brown Uni- 
versity were advised of the offer, they 
agreed to subscribe the purchase price. 
From 72 individual contributors — 20 
of whom were not members of the 
Friends — $3,096 was raised in six 
weeks. 

Now a part of the John Hay's fa- 
mous collection, the muster is the Uni- 
versity's second earliest Lincoln manu- 
script. Dated May 27, 1832, it contains 
the names of 68 members of "Captain 
Abraham Lincolns (sic) Company of 
the Brigade of Mounted Volunteers." 

1951 — Ernest A. Malo and Miss Teresa 
N. Pate, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph 
Pate of Cranston. R. I., April 28, 1951. At 
home: 162 Prospect St., Providence 6. 

1951 — Richard B. Vivian and Miss Jan- 
ice E. Boott, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Hector Boott of Pawtucket, R. I., June 9, 
1951. 

1951— Alva O. Way, III, and Miss Inez 
M. Balentine. daughter of Mrs. Frank 
Balentine and the late Mr. Balentine of 
Cranston, R. I., in Providence, April 21, 
1951. Ens. Bruce M. Senior '50 was his 
brother-in-law's best man. At home: 188 
Atlantic Ave., Providence. 

1951 — Winthrop B. Wilson and Miss 
Etta Franklin, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. 
Joseph Franklin of Edgewood. R. I., June 
2, 1951. Robert Pendleton '50 was an 
usher. 

1952— Peter M. Beattie and Miss Jan- 
ice Cook, daughter of Mrs. Lillian E. 
Cook and Mr. Edward S. Cook of Adams- 
ville, R. I., in Tiverton, March 10, 1951. 
At home: 580 Cranston St., Providence. 

BIRTHS 

1926— To Mr. and Mrs. Jacob S. Tern- 
kin of Providence, their second son. Dean 
Norman, May 5, 1951. 

1930 — To Mr. and Mrs. Samuel J. 
Henry, Jr., of Rowayton, Conn., their 
third child, a daughter, Mary Jullien, 
March 17, 1951. 



1932 — To Mr. and Mrs. Paul Meyer, 
Jr., of Lynbrook, N. Y., a daughter, Ju- 
dith Weston, May 7, 1951. 

1933— To Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. 
Dugan of Branford, Conn., a son, David 
Shove, Dec. 22, 1950. 

1934 — To Mr. and Mrs. G. Edward 
Falciglia of Greenwood, R. I., a son, 
Douglas Edward, April 16, 1951. 

1934— To Mr. and Mrs. Alfred H. Hal- 
berstadt of Cape Elizabeth. Me., a son, 
Peter Devereux, May 10, 1951. 

1934 — To Mr. and Mrs. William S. 
Mombert of Jamestown, N. Y., their sec- 
ond son, John Provoost, April 30, 1951. 

1935— To Mr. and Mrs. William S. 
Blanchard of Edgewood, R. I., their sec- 
ond son, Andrew Murray, May 1, 1951. 

1935— To Dr. and Mrs. Victor M. Em- 
mel of Rochester. N. Y., their third child, 
a daughter. Elizabeth, in Sept. 1950. 

1935— To Dr. and Mrs. William V. 
Loebenstein of Mt. Rainier, Md., a daugh- 
ter, Linda Carol, Nov. 30. 1950. 

1935 — To Dr. and Mrs. Justin J. Parvey 
of University City, Mo., their second son, 
Steven Richard, May 24, 1951. 

1936— To Dr. and Mrs. John O'L. No- 
lan of West Hartford, Conn., their third 
child, a daughter, Suzanne, Jan. 25, 1951. 
1937— To Dr. and Mrs. Jay D. Mann 
of Albany, N. Y., a son, Ronald Jay, May 
7, 1951. 

1937 — To Mr. and Mrs. Jackson H. 
Skillings of Fall River, Mass., a son, Jack- 
son Herbert, Jr., Oct. 18, 1950. 

1938— To Mr. and Mrs. Samuel J. Mc- 
Donald of Wellesley, Mass., their second 
daughter, Nancy Soule. April 19, 1951. 

1939— To Mr. and Mrs. Roy Ten 
Haagen of Glen Head, L. I., N. Y.. their 
third son, Christopher, Jan. 27, 1951. 

1940— To Mr. and Mrs. Russell W. 
Field, Jr., of Barrington, R. I., a daughter, 
Martha, April 30, 1951. 

1941— To Dr. and Mrs. William E. 
Askue of Drexel Hill. Pa., a daughter, 
Elizabeth Elling. April 29, 1951. 

1941— To Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. 
Belluche of Arlington, Mass., a son, 
Charles Benberg, II, Jan. 3, 1951. 

1941— To Dr. and Mrs. Daniel Black- 
low of Weston, Mass., a son. Douglas Jay, 
April 6, 1951. 

1941 — To Dr. and Mrs. Paul A. Black- 
more of Georgiaville, R. I., a daughter, 
Paula Marie, April 28, 1951. 

1941 — To Mr. and Mrs. Emile LeGros 
of Oak Park, III., a daughter, Jean Suz- 
anne, June 4, 1951. 

1941 — To Mr. and Mrs. Donald Mac- 
Ausland of New York City, a daughter, 
Ann Celine, May 24, 1951. 

1942— To Mr. and Mrs. Harry D. Pog- 
son of East Hartford, Conn., their third 
child and first son, James Harry, Feb. 28, 
1951. 

1943 — To Mr. and Mrs. John D. Briggs 
of Scituate, Mass., a son, John Dixon, Jr., 
May 1, 1951. 

1943— To Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. 
Knapp of Naugatuck, Conn., a son, Ver- 
non Wheeler, May 6, 1951. 

1943— To Mr. and Mrs. Paul S. Rock- 
well of Bennington. Vt.. their second 
daughter, Valerie, May 4, 1951. 

1943— To Mr. and Mrs. Richard 
Sneider of Silver Spring, Md., a son, Dan- 
iel Charles, May 16, 1951. 

1944 — To Mr. and Mrs. Haig Barsam- 
ian of Providence, a son, David Alan, 
April 23, 1951. 



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1944— To Dr. and Mrs. David H. Solo- 
mon of Brighton, Mass., their second 
daughter, Nancy Ellen, Jan. 28. 1951. 

1945— To Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Ault of 
Cleveland Heights, Ohio, a son, Charles 
Rollin. Jr.. Sept. 21, 1950. 

1945 — To Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Ehr- 
enhaus of Fall River, Mass., a daughter, 
Barbara Ann, March 11, 1951. 

1945— To Mr. and Mrs. Randall M. 
Pillsbury of Providence, their second son, 
John Dunn. April 17, 1951. 

1946— To Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. 
Boole of Cincinnati. Ohio, their second 
child, a son. Timothy Whitney, May 5, 
1951. 

1946 — To Mr. and Mrs. Albert H. Hart- 
ley, Jr., of Bryan, Ohio, their second 
child, a daughter, Susan Ellen, Nov. 8, 
1950. 

1946 — To Mr. and Mrs. James T. 
Lodge of Silver Spring, Md., a daughter, 
Deborah Marie, April 22. 1951. 

1946— To Mr. and Mrs. Allan J. Rosen- 
berg of Lynn. Mass., a son, Lawrence An- 
drew, Dec. 31, 1950. 

1947 — To Mr. and Mrs. Anthony B. 
Hoying of Springfield, Ohio, a son, 
Stephen Anthony, May 16, 1951. 

1947 — To Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Ouel- 
lette of Lowell, Mass., a daughter, Susan 
Marie, May 14, 1951. 

1948— To Mr. and Mrs. James W. Bab- 
cock of East Hampton, Conn., a son, Regi- 
nald Louis, Jan. 14, 1951. 

1948 — To Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Geller 
of Cambridge. Mass.. a daughter, Ann 
Sarah. April 18. 1951. 

1948 — To Mr. and Mrs. J. Thomas 
Kershaw, Jr., of Cranston, R. I., their 
second daughter, Beth Diane, May 15 
1951. 

1948— To Lt. Robert H. Reilly, 
USMCR, and Mrs. Reilly of Manville, 
R. I., a son, James Edgar, May 1, 1951. 

1948— To Mr. and Mrs. Frank O. 
White of Edjewood, R. I., a daughter, 
Sally Cummings, April 30, 1951. 

1949 — To Mr. and Mrs. Percy B. All- 
sup of Pawtucket, R. I., a son, Geoffrey 
Percy, April 24. 1951. 

1949 — To Mr. and Mrs. Samuel P. 
Beachen. Ill, of Providence, a daughter 
Lorrie Jane, April 21, 1951. 

1949— To Mr. and Mrs. Ronald E. 
Hall of East Providence, R. I., a daughter 
Deborah Lee, May 13, 1951. 

1949— To Mr. and Mrs. Gerrit Sanford 
of Providence, a son, Winthrop Davis 
May 21, 1951. 

1949— To Mr. and Mrs. William G. 
Sherman, Jr., of Aliquippa, Pa., a son, 
Paul Raymond, May 6, 1951. 

1950 — To Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Aus- 
tin of No. Tarrytown, N. Y., a daughter, 
Barbara Ellen, March 14, 1951. 

1950 — To Mr. and Mrs. Allan A 
Campbell of West Warwick, R. I., a son, 
Brian James. May 26, 1951. 

1950— To Mr. and Mrs. Philbin S. 
Flanagan of Bergenfield, N. J., a daughter 
Kathleen, Feb. 24, 1951. 

1950— To Mr. and Mrs. Norman G. 
Melander of ProviJence, a son, Eric Paul 
April 15, 1951. 

1950 — To Mr. and Mrs. James A. 
Reilly. Jr., of No. Kingstown. R. I., a son, 
Kevin Daniel. April 28, 1951. 

•950 — To Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan S. 
Tobey of Cromwell, Conn., a son, Peter 
Pierson, May 13, 1951. 



1951— To Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Hinds, 
Jr., of Orono, Me., a son, Ralph Winthrop, 
III, May 5, 1951. 

Acting Deans Named 

The week preceding Commencement, 
President Wriston announced the appoint- 
ments of James S. Coles, Associate Pro- 
fessor of Chemistry, as Acting Dean of 
the College; Edmund S. Morgan, Associ- 
ate Professor of History, as Acting Dean 
of the Graduate School; and Westcott 
E. S. Moulton, Associate Professor of 




DEAN OF THE COLLEGE Robert W. 

Kenny who is on military leave from the 

University. 

Physical Education, as Acting Dean of 
Students. The three appointments fill the 
vacancies created by the departure of 
Dean of the College Robert W. Kenny '25 
and Dean of the Graduate School Barnaby 
C. Keeney, both of whom left immediately 
after Commencement for military duty in 
Washington. Assistant Dean Sonntag is 
also on leave for Government duties. 

Dean Coles, executive officer in the 
Chemistry Department, has been at 
Brown since 1946. A graduate of Mans- 
field (Pa.) State Teachers College, he 
later earned B.S., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees 
at Columbia. During the war he received 
commendations from the President and 
from the U. S. Navy Bureau of Ordnance 
for his investigations of all phases of ex- 
plosives research in the European war 
theater. 

The first head of the American Civiliza- 
tion program at Brown, Dean Morgan has 
been Associate Dean of the Graduate 
School under Dean Keeney, in anticipa- 
tion of his new responsibilities. An Asso- 
ciate Professor of History, he has been at 
Brown since 1946. 

Moulton, better known for his recent 
success as Coach of Brown's national 
championship hockey team, is also Direc- 
tor of Student Recreation. Before coming 
to the University in 1946, he had served 
as Assistant Football Coach at Bainbridge 
Naval Training Station and as Director of 
Athletics at the Pomfret School, Pomfret. 
Conn. He taught at Yale before coming 
back to his Alma Mater. 



Dean Kenny, a Lieutenant-Colonel 
when discharged from the Army in 1946, 
was named Dean of Students on his return 
to the University. When Dean Samuel T. 
Arnold '13 became Provost, Kenny was 
named Dean of the College. He is an As- 
sociate Professor of English. 

A medievalist in the Department of His- 
tory, Dean Keeney has been head of the 
Graduate School since 1949. At Brown 
since 1946, he won a battlefield commis- 
sion for his service with the 35th Infantry 
Division in World War II. He will assist 
the Department of Defense in a civilian 
capacity as an adviser on training. 

College Hill Notes 

The Department of Physics at 
Brown started preliminary work on its 
first major nuclear physics experimental 
project this spring for the Atomic Energy 
Commission. The unclassified program 
will deal with the effect of high energy 
gamma radiation on atomic particles and 
will involve the construction of a small 
accelerator, probably in Wilson Hall. As- 
sistant Professor Russell A. Peck, Jr., is in 
charge of the work. 

Other research grants to Brown include 
a $2000 Fellowship in Physics provided 
by the Socony Vacuum Oil Co., Inc. One 
of 20 such awards assigned to colleges 
throughout the country, the fellowship 
does not restrict the recipient as to subject 
of research and future employment. 

The Albert M. Steinert Memorial Fund 
in Music was established this spring at 
Brown by the widow of the late music 
company owner and patron. The income 
from the $5000 gift may be used, accord- 
ing to terms, for scholarship aid to stu- 
dents, the presentation of concerts or other 
needs of the Department of Music. 

Of interest to alumni is news of the 
resignation of Dr. James Pickwell Adams 
as Provost of the University of Michigan. 
A Michigan graduate. Dr. Adams came to 
Brown in 1921 and was named University 
Vice-President in 1932. He left in 1945 to 
accept the position of Provost at Ann Ar- 
bor. Mentioned as a possible successor to 
Michigan President Alexander G. Ruth- 
ven, who retires this June, Dr. Adams said 
he did not wish to be considered for the 
post. His plans have not been announced. 

Two Brown Professors who have been 
elected Fellows of the American Academy 
of Arts and Sciences are Chemistry De- 
partment Chairman Robert H. Cole and 
head of the Graduate Division of Applied 
Mathematics, Dr. William Prager. 

The battleships USS Missouri and USS 
Wisconsin have contingents of Brown 
NROTC students aboard for training on 
European cruises this summer. Of the 57 
Brown men scheduled to sail, two who 
graduated in June will receive their com- 
missions at the end of the mission. 

Captain Bill Polleys III of Brown's his- 
tory-making 1950-51 ski team was winner 
in a contest sponsored by the Vermont 
Development Commission on "Why Ski?" 
Bill's prize entry was a 12-line jingle and 
his prize was a week's jaunt (all expenses 
paid ) through the major ski areas of Ver- 
mont. His dad is William V. Polleys, Jr., 
'24. 

New officers of the Brown Chapter of 
the American Association of University 
Professors are: President — Arthur O. Wil- 
liams, Jr., Associate Professor of Physics; 
and Secretary-Treasurer — Westcott E. S. 
Moulton '31, Associate Professor of 
Physical Education. 



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Dean Kenny, who with Dean Keeney of 
the Graduate School, has left the 
campus for military duties, had a long 
and deserved ovation from the students 
in Chapel in May. We quote, however, 
from what he said to the Seniors at their 
Class Dinner at Commencement time. It 
was a bit out of Bulwer-Lytton's "Pel- 
ham'*: 

"I went to take leave of our college 
tutor. 'Mr. Pelham.' said he. affectionately 
squeezing me by the hand, 'your conduct 
has been most exemplary; you have not 
walked wantonly over the college grass- 
plats, nor set your dog at the proctor — 
nor driven tandems by day, nor broken 
lamps by night — nor entered the chapel 
in order to display your intoxication — 
nor the lecture-room, in order to cari- 
cature the professors. This is the general 
behaviour of young men of family, and 
fortune: but it has not been yours. Sir. 
you have been an honour to your college.' 

"Thus closed my academical career. 
He who does not allow that it passed 
creditably to my teachers, profitably to 
myself, and benefically to the world, is a 
narrow-minded and illiterate man, who 
knows nothing of the advantages of mod- 
ern education." 

> From the father of an alumnus to the 
Secretary of the latter's Class, apropos of 
its June gathering: "Blank is now a mis- 
sionary in Africa and will not be coming 
home for your cocktail party." 

> When we were introduced to the father 
of one of the June graduates, he said we 
could answer a question for him. His son, 
who was to start work in the fall, intends 
to give his first month's paycheck to 
Brown. How should he go about it? That 
was easy, of course, and we told him 
about the Alumni Fund, but we couldn't 
so readily tell him how much we were 
moved by the graduate's decision, and 
what prompted it. 

> One of the particularly nice aspects of 
Commencement is the custom that en- 
courages children to march beside their 
fathers in the procession. One seven-year- 
old, watching the Seniors pass, said: 
"Daddy, I bet you were handsome when 
you graduated." We didn't blame the 
father for feeling set-up. 

> We're afraid Dr. G. Keith Funston 
was saying a lot that was true when he 
addressed February graduates as Presi- 
dent of Trinity College. We lift the 
quotes from The Pennsylvania Gazette: 

"During the Commencement season the 
air will be filled with the words of gradu- 
ation exercise speakers. These orators 



will be engaged in the time-honored, if 
hopeless, task of trying to impart some 
last minute nuggets to perspiring gradu- 
ates. Unusual will be that graduation 
speaker who makes even the slightest 
dent on even one of his youthful listeners. 
If you don't believe it, think back to your 
own graduation day." 

"The odds are that your memory will 
cast up no super-distilled bits of wisdom 
absorbed on that occasion. Rather you 
will recall a lot of matters nearly all re- 
lated to your bodily comfort. You will 
probably remember how hot it was under 
the dark folds of your rented gown. You 
will remember how uncomfortable the 
chair was. Or how good old Joe Beamish 
breathed down your neck all during the 
oration. But you're doing very well if you 
even remember the name of the man who 
made the principal speech." 
/ 

y It was a great afternoon in Faunce 
House Theatre when the students in Eng- 
lish 24 (Play Production) presented 
"Alice in Wonderland" as iheir final work 
of the year. To a special Saturday after- 
noon performance they invited all the 
children of the Brown Faculty. It was a 
grand show and a lively, appreciative 
audience. 

One five-year-old was asked later what 
she'd liked most about the afternoon. Her 
answer: "They have the nicest bathroom 
doors I've ever seen." 

y The City College Alumnus in New 
York has printed a fine feature by Ben 
Grauer, who "nearly flunked public 
speaking," as an undergraduate. He was 
describing some of his adventures as a 
radio reporter, and the magazine quoted 
from Grauer's favorite fan letter, from 
an Illinois housewife: 

"You talk too much on the air. Don't 
bother to answer this letter. Just shut up." 

> The Princeton Alumni Weekly was 
titillated recently over its discovery that 
there were 28 Princetons, 23 Yales, and 
18 Harvards in the Manhattan phone di- 
rectory. This is minor league stuff, as the 
Editor will observe by consulting five 
pages of Browns and seven of Smiths. 

> The undergraduates this year have 
been about as baffling a group of students 
the Brown campus has known. One inci- 
dent in May will perhaps suggest what 
the College officials have been up against: 

Word came to Buildings and Grounds 
that some resident of Caswell had dug a 
three-foot hole at the bottom of the stairs 
in the basement of that dormitory. One of 
the stall, checking, found that the hole 



had been filled in. cemented over, and 
the floor painted afresh. Everyone has 
been accounted for, and all we can think 
of as a solution of the mystery is that a 
Time Capsule has been planted. 

> He sounded like a good boy, and his 
interest in coming to Brown was being 
supported over the long-distance tele- 
phone by an alumnus in his home town. 
The latter was talking to a friend on the 
campus in Providence: 

"He'd make a good Brown man, and I 
want to get him in. The kid did well in 
school — upper fifth of his class and all 
that. His father is one of our leading 
citizens. The boy is six-one and weighs 
185 — plays football and basketball. He's 
a big, good-looking fellow with a nice 
personality." 

At this point there was a pause. When 
the alumnus came back into the phone 
conversation again, it was to add: "My 
secretary says if Brown doesn't want him, 
she'll take him." 

> An alumnus wrote the President this 
spring: "It was nice of you to write to me 
with respect to my contribution to the 
Housing and Development campaign. In 
all seriousness. I feel that alumni are not 
deserving of any thanks for sharing in a 
program of this kind. I feel it is the obli- 
gation of every alumnus to recognize the 
need of the University and I will be happy 
if. in some small measure, my contribu- 
tion will facilitate the program." 

> Of course, at a reunion you reminisce. 
But have you noticed how large in mem- 
ory and how treasured are the recollec- 
tions of things past which were beyond 
the Dean's laws? The word "prank" has 
almost as antique a sound as the act it- 
self, but we are talking about pranks. 

A tale that was new to us was told at 
the 1905 dinner by W. Granville Meader 
'05, whose grand-uncle was at Brown in 
the 1840's. In that era some students 
managed to get on the roof of Univer- 
sity Hall in the dead of winter, fixed the 
Chapel Bell in an up-ended position, and 
filled it with water. Next morning the 
ice wouldn't ring. 

> We couldn't help being impressed by 
this observation by Judge Harold R. 
Medina in a recent magazine interview: 

"The first thing 1 do every morning 
when I get down to my chambers at the 
courthouse is to go over a list I have and 
send out birthday cards to the members 
of the Class of 1909. They are not some 
printed affairs that one turns over to one's 
secretary and forgets, but a real honest- 
to-goodness message written in my own 
hand and bearing unmistakable evidence 
that it is meant for the particular man 
to whom it is sent. 

"How absurd this would have seemed 
35 or 40 years ago, how insincere and 
unreal. But now the messages of affec- 
tion and gratitude that come back show 
how closely we have all been drawn to- 
gether over the years." 

> One of the alumni back on the Hill for 
Commencement was reminded that he 
had failed to return a book borrowed 
from another Brown man while he was in 
( ollcge. The book was Professor Ever- 
ett's "Moral Values," used as the text in 
the course on "Ethics.'' 

Buster 



JUNE 1951 



35 



SECRETARIES OF BROWN CLUBS 



Akron, G. H. Gates '23, 2129 17th St., Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio 

Alta California (San Francisco), F. E. Roper '11, 2943 Elmwood Ct., 

Berkeley, Calif. 
Arizona, Arthur L. Flagg 06, 29 Holly St., Phoenix, Ariz. 
Asheville, N. C, James B. Hurley '29, Box 174, Canton, N. C. 
Baltimore, H. L. Madison, Jr. '31, 3 H. Alder Dr., Baltimore 20, Md. 
Berkshire County, P. A. Tamburello '34, 28 North St., Pittsfield, Mass. 
Boston, Loring P. Litchfield '28, 140 Federal St., Boston 10, Mass. 
Bridgeport, D. A. Mahoney, Jr. '49, 195 Oakland St., Stratford, Conn. 
Brown Engineering Assn., George A. Pournaras '25, 37 Sprague St., 

Baldwin, L. I., N. Y. 
Buffalo (Western N. Y.), Robert F. King '50, 43 Northampton St., 

Buffalo 9, N. Y. 
Canton, Samuel J. Dreyer '22, 1950 No. Market, Canton, Ohio 
Cape Cod, Carl A. Terry '15, Box 84. Barnstable, Mass. 
Central Pennsylvania, James B. Sisk '31, Belle Alto, RD 3, Werners- 

ville, Pa. 
Chicago, R. Harper Brown '45, 1160 So. Oak Park Ave., Oak Park, 111. 
Cincinnati, Thurston Merrell, Jr. '45, 2919 Victoria Ave., Cincinnati 

8, Ohio 
Cleveland, O. F. Walker '33, 12700 Shaker Blvd., Cleveland 20, Ohio 
Connecticut Valley, Lewis A. Shaw '48, 231 Belmont Ave., Spring- 
field 8, Mass. 
Dallas, Coburn A. Buxton '34, 3411 Wylie Dr., Dallas 9, Texas 
Detroit, Robert L. Reynolds '40, 15735 Heyden Ave., Detroit 23, Mich. 
Eagle Rock, Francis S. Quillen '33, 9 Hawthorne Ave., Glen Ridge, 

N.J. 
Eastern Connecticut, R. Whitney Goff '45, 209 Shennecossett Pkwy., 

Groton, Conn. 
Fall River, R. C. Bogle '39, 733 Brayton Ave., Somerset Centre, Mass. 
Georgia, Norman P. Arnold '30, 2386 Alston Dr., Atlanta, Ga. 
Hartford, Cyrus G. Flanders '18, 66 N. Main St., Windsor Locks,' 

Conn. 
Houston, Morris J. Pepper '27, 708 Sterling Bldg., Houston 2, Texas 
Indiana, W. A. Dyer, Jr. '24, Indianapolis Star, Indianapolis, Ind. 
Kansas City, Mo., L. H. Denison '96, 200 Rialto Bldg., Kansas City, 

Mo. 
Lackawanna, Walter Koebig '32, 204 Longwood Ave., Chatham, N. J. 
Long Island, John J. Roe, Jr. '27, 125 E. Main St., Patchogue, N. Y. 
Los Angeles, A. T. Marshall '42, 703 W. 46th St., Los Angeles 37, Calif. 
Louisiana, Dr. Dean H. Echols '27, Ochsner Clinic, 1428 First St., 

New Orleans, La. 
Manhasset Bay, R. P. Uhl '30, 71 Arleigh Rd., Great Neck, L. I., N. Y. 
Merrimack Valley, J. S. Eastham '19, 250 Stuart St., Boston, Mass. 
Mid-Hudson, H. Irving Long, Jr. '48, Camelot Rd., R-4, Poughkeepsie, 

N. Y. 
Milwaukee, G. J. Devine '36, 709 E. Juneau Ave., Milwaukee 2, Wise. 
New Bedford, Jack M. Rosenberg '42, 133 Plymouth St., New Bed- 
ford, Mass. 



Harvard College Library 
Cambridge 38, 
Massachusetts 




New Haven, J. C. Braman '40, 153 McKinley Ave., New Haven, Conn. 
New York, R. M. Golrick '47, Brown Club, 39 E. 39th St., N. Y. 16, N. Y. 
Newport, John H. Greene, Jr. '15, Eustis Ave., Newport, R. I. 
North Shore (Mass.), S. A. Hutchinson '31, 27 Pilgrim Rd., Marble- 
head, Mass. 
N. E. New York, Edwin B. Laughlin '43, Albany County, Box 31, 

Loudonville, N. Y. 
N. E. Pennsylvania, Henry W. Peterson '21, 409 Miners Bank Bldg., 

Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 
Northwest (Seattle), A. Wilbur Stevens '42, 4061 Pasadena PI., Apt. 

1, Seattle 5, Wash. 
Oklahoma, E. J. Schermerhorn '34, 2824 So. Columbia PI., Tulsa, Okla. 
Oregon, Ashley Greene '21, 1207 Public Service Bldg., Portland 4, 

Ore. 
Philadelphia, A. P. Coller '45, 402 Swarthmore Ave., Ridley Park, Pa. 
Plainfield Area Section 1, Charles E. Benz '32, Martinsville, N. J. 
Rhode Island, William D. Reynolds '37, 40 Bluff Rd., Barrington, R. I. 
Rochester, R.J. Meredith '49, 116 WillowbendRd., Rochester 18, N. Y. 
Rocky Mountain, Judge Joseph E. Cook '14, City and County Bldg., 

Denver, Colo. 
San Diego, Allen Huntington '43, 421 S. Coast Blvd., La Jolla, Calif. 
Scarsdale-White Plains, William J. Roach '48, 531 E. Lincoln Ave., 

Apt. 3K, Mt. Vernon, N. Y. 
South Florida, Edwin C. Bliss '47, Box 772, Coral Gables, Fla. 
St. Louis, Creighton B. Calfee '34, 30 Clermont Lane, Clayton 24, Mo. 
Syracuse, Earle C. Drake '24, 114 Harrington Rd., Syracuse, N. Y. 
Virginia, Walter I. Dolbeare '23, 4108 Hillcrest Rd., Richmond, Va. 
Washington, D. C, William J. Barton '45, 1650 Harvard St., N.W., 

Apt. 110, Washington 9, D. C. 
Western Maine, Robert F. Skillings '11, 7 Oaklawn Rd., Peaks Island, 

Me. 
Western Pennsylvania, Albert B. Jeffers '22, 365 Jonquil PI., Mt. 

Lebanon, Pittsburgh 34, Pa. 
Woonsocket, H. M. Caslowitz '28, P. O. Box 528, Woonsocket, R. I. 
Worcester County (Mass.), George E. Marble '00, 14 High Ridge 

Rd., Worcester, Mass. 



ASSOCIATION OF CLASS SECRETARIES 



1881— F. H. Gifford, 380 County St., New 
Bedford, Mass. 

1883 — Prof. H. P. Manning, 148 Governor St. 

1 88 4 — Col. W. M. P. Bowen, 635 Hospital 
Trust Bldg. 

1885— Frank Hail Brown, P. O. Box 1172. 

1887 — Dr. Edmund D. Chesebro, Theinert 
House, Pleasant View Ave., Green- 
ville, R. I. 

1888 — Prof. Arthur E. Watson, 30 Congdon St. 

1890 — Dr. Harry L. Grant, 297 Wayland Ave. 

1891— Frank L. Hinckley, 2200 Industrial Trust 
Bldg. 

1892— Dr. Herbert G. Partridge, 190 Angell St. 

1893 — R. M. Brown, 60 Alfred Drowne Rd., W. 
Barrington, R. I. 

1894 — William C. Hill, 1166 Worthington St., 
Springfield, Mass. 

1895 — Herbert M. Adams, 15 Westminster St. 

1896 — Charles R. Easton, 368 Benefit St. 

1897 — George L. Miner, 276 Blackstone Blvd. 

1898— Theodore E. Dexter, 73 Hawes St., Cen- 
tral Falls, R. I. 

1899— Benjamin W. Grim, 302 Thayer St. 

1900— Willard H. Bacon, 33 Spruce St., West- 
erly, R. I. 

1901— William H. Hull, P. O. Box 1318. 

1902 — Lewis S. Milner, 40 Irving Ave. 

1903 — Fred A. Otis, 605 Hospital Trust Bldg. 

1904 — Edmund K. Arnold '04, 77 Sumter St. 

1905 — Charles L. Robinson, 49 Appian Way, 
W. Barrington, R. I. 

1906 — William A. Kennedy, Grinnell Co., 260 
West Exchange St. 

1907— Alfred H. Gurney, 14 Young Orchard 
Ave. 

Note: 



Earl M. Pearce '17, Chairman 

1908— C. L. Grmnelf; Main Rd., Tiverton, R. I. 

1909— Henry S. Chafee, P. O. Box 1342. 

1910 — Andrew B. Comstock, 15 Beach Park, 
Buttonwoods, R. I. 

1911— Brenton G. Smith, 211 Butler Ave. 

1912— Earl P. Perkins, 10 Gibson Ave., Nar- 
ragansett, P.I. 

1913 — George T. Metcalf, 68 South Main St. 

1914 — Francis W. Post, 65 Orchard St., Crans- 
ton, R. I. 

1915— Sidney Clifford, 1003 Turks Head Bldg. 

1916 — John W. Moore, 378 Auburn St., Crans- 
ton, R. I. j 

1917— Earl M. Pearce, P. O. Box 1505. 

1918— Walter Adler, 1006 Hospital Trust Bldg. 

1919— Fred B. Perkins, 1204 Industrial Trust 
Bldg. 

1920 — Fred E. Schoeneweiss, 35 Fosdyke St. 

1921— Alfred Mochau, 123 Oak Tree Ave., 
Warwick, R. I. 

1922— J. Wilbur Riker, 411 Hospital Trust Bldg. 

1923 — Nathaniel B. Chase, 110 Windermere 
Way, Apponaug, R. I. 

1924 — P. A. Lukin, 2nd, Lawrence Fertig & Co., 
149 Madison Ave., N.Y.C 

1925— William C. Waring, Jr., c/o Textron, 
Inc., 20 Market Square. 

1926 — Jacob S.Temkin, 540 Hospital Trust Bldg. 

1927 — Irving G. Loxley, 94 Albert Ave., Edge- 
wood, R. I. 

1928— Earl H. Bradley, 920 County St., Seekonk, 
Mass. 

1929— Edwin C. Karris, 31 Lowden St., Paw- 
tucket, R. I. 

1930 — Edmund J. Farrell, 6 Armistice Blvd., 
Pawtucket, R. I. 
Unless otherwise indicated, all addresses are in Pro 



1931— Clinton N. Williams, 51 So. Angell St. 

1932 — Richard A. Hurley, Jr., 80 Don Ave., 
Rumford, R. I. 

1933— Franklin A. Hurd, 5 Meredith Dr., 
Cranston, R. I. 

1934 — Bancroft Littlefield, 48 Barnes St. 

1935— Alfred H. Joslin, 25 So. Angell St. 

1936 — Robert W. Kenyon, 210 Squantum Dr., 
Gov. Francis Farms, Edgewood 5, 
R. I. 

1937 — Martin L. Tarpy, 6 Pequot Rd., Paw- 
tucket, R. I. 

1938— Paul W. Welch, 527 Industrial Trust 
Bldg. 

1939— Charles W. Gustavesen, Jr., 200 Water- 
man St. 

1940 — Joseph C. Harvey, 116 Greenwich Ave., 
E. Providence, R. I. 

1941 — James A. Cunningham, Jr., 221 Benefit St. 

1942 — William I. Crooker, Brown University. 

1943 — Kingsley N. Meyer, 80 Grotto Ave. 

1944 — W. S. Maxwell Montgomery, 26 Linden 
St., Brookline, Mass. 

1945 — Peter Quinn, Jr., 311 Laurel Ave. 

1946— Hugh A. W. MacNair, R.F.D. No. 24, 
Great Neck, L. I., N. Y. 

1947— Richard W. Carpenter, 2009 4th Ave., 
So. Minneapolis 4, Minn. 

1947 — Richard M. Morris, All Saints Church, 
Belmont, Mass. 
New England Deputy. 

1948— James J. Tyrrell, Jr., 235 E. 54th St., 
New York 22, N. Y. 

1949 — Vincent D'Angelo, Peckham Rd., Pough- 
keepsie, N. Y. 

1950 — Robert C. Pendleton, 149 Wesleyan Ave. 
vidence.