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BROWN 

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 

Dwight T. CoUey '18 
Vice-Presidents 

Nathaniel Blaisdell '83 
Ernests. Fitz'll 
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. Litchtield '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 



Features 

Hockey's Pioneers By Alexander Meiklejohn 
The Inside Story on Admissions 
They Made Friends for Brown 

News 

Near the Top of Puck's Peak 
WBRU Pioneers Once More 
Swinging into Spring Sports 
Curtain Falls on a Good Winter 

Departments 

The Brown Clubs Report 
Brunonians Far and Near 
Bureau of Vital Statistics 
Notes from College Hill 
In the Month's Mailbags 
Small Talk 



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THE COVER PHOTO: Spring was still indoors the tirst of the 
month when Peter M. Brogren '54 took this night shot of the 
Botany Greenhouses at Brown. (That's the Arnold Lab in the 
background as you look east. We had to search out the spot 
to make sure ourselves, for the Freshman photographer avoids 
the hackneyed as he pictures the campus.) 



The Almanac 



Baltimore Brown Club, Johns Hopkins Faculty Club, 6:30. Baseball, 

at Holy Cross. 
Baseball, at Penn. Rowing, at Cornell. 
Chicago Brown Club Annual Dinner, University Club. Glee Club 

Spring Concert Alumnae Hall, 8:30. 
Baseball, at Yale. 

New Bedford Brown Club Spring Dinner, New Bedford Hotel, 6:30. 
Philadelphia Brown Dinner, Barclay Hotel, 7:00. Dinner, Brown 

Club of Western Maine, Portland. 
"Spring Weekend." Baseball, Columbia, home. Rowing, Amherst, 

home. 
Alumni of Trenton, N. J., organize Brown Club. 
Baseball, at Harvard. Track, at Rhode Island. 
Merrimack Valley Brown Club Dinner, Log Cabin, Andover, 6:30. 

Baseball, Army, home. 
Baseball, at Cornell. Track, Holy Cross, home. Rowing, at Rutgers. 
Ivy League Regatta. Edgewood Yacht Club, Providence. 
Brown Night at the Boston Pops. 

Baseball, at Dartmouth. Track. Providence College, home. 
Three New Jersey Brown Clubs, joint meeting. Suburban Hotel, 

East Orange, 8:30. 
Baseball, Navy, home. 

Baseball, Princeton, home. Rowing, at Dartmouth. 
Eastern Women's College Regatta, at Brown. 
Fall River Brown Club Dinner, Mellon Hotel. 
Connecticut Valley Brown Club Dinner. Roger Smith Hotel, Hol- 

yoke, Mass. 

Tennis, N. E. Intercollegiates, at Brown. 
Track, Heptagonal Meet, at Brown. 
Hartford Brown Dinner. 
New Haven Brown Dinner. 
Long Island Brown Club meeting. 
Annual Alumni Dinner, "Reunion of Reunions," Brown Refectory. 

Class Night Promenade and Dance. 
Graduate School Convocation. Annual meeting, Phi Beta Kappa. 

Annual meeting. Brown Corporation. 
Baccalaureate Service. President's Reception. 
Commencement. 



April 19. 

April 21. 

April 24. 

April 25. 

April 26. 

April 27. 

April 28. 

May I. 

May 2. 

May 4. 

May 5. 
May 5, 6. 

May 7. 

May 9. 

May 10. 

May 11. 

May 12. 

May 13. 

May 16. 

May 18. 

May 18, 19 

May 19. 

May 22. 

May 23. 

May 24. 

June 1. 

June 2. 

June 3. 

June 4. 



Published monthly (except in August and September) by Brown University, Providence 12, R. I. Admitted to the second class of mail matter under 
the Act of August 34, 1912, at the Providence Post Office. Additional entry at Brattleboro, Vt. 



BROWN 



ALUMNI 
MONTHLY 



APRIL, 1951 
VOL. LI NO. 8 



Near the Top of Puck's Peak 



THE Colorado Story has as its basic plot the fact that 
an underdog hockey team from Brown fl:w west to 
upset the defending champions from Colorado College 
and was runner-up to the University of Michigan, which 
some persons regarded as the best in American college 
history. The Bears had to come from behind but did so 
convincingly in winning 8-4 over C.C. The second night 
the Wolverines overpowered them 7-1 in the NCAA fina's 
despite a brilliant defensive performance by Brown's newiy 
chosen Ail-American, Don Whiston, the tourney's "most 
valuable player." But no mere catalogue of goals and stops 
and scores is going to give you the essence of that sudden 
March adventure. 

For these Brunonians, first to represent the University 
in national playoffs in any sport since 1939, went as far 
in accomplishment as they did in mileage. Though they 
lost to a champion, in their turn they captured a town. 
Along with playing good hockey, they were mercers of 
good will and benefit for Brown. 

Team Play Made Them Great 

All winter long they had given the campus much to cheer 
about. They had won more games than any other Brown 
hockey team, taken their second straight Pentagonal League 
title, and fought together against handicaps — as a team. 
Individuals had talent, but they made their way up to- 
gether. All season they had been on the road to the NCAA 
finals, marked for special attention by every opponent and 



yet losing to no ether college team against which they did 
not a'so win. There was dismay at the end of the Ivy League 
competition when Yale and Dartmouth both nosed them 
out, jeopardizing their tournament chances. Yet, almost 
before they rea'ized it, on a few hours' notice, they had 
the coveted official recognition as one of the East's two 
best bets for the four-team national playoffs. They were 
Colorado-bound, flying to Colorado Springs and the Hotel 
Crcadmoor's Ice Pa'ace. 

The p'ayers must have sensed the extraordinary backing 
they had on College Hill. They knew that back horrA every- 
one was pulling for them, intent on following t«^ for- 
tunes by radio, as record-breaking broadcasts vvi 'jade 
possible by aggressive enthusiasts in the undergraduate net- 
work s'ation, WBRU. The skaters knew they were good — 
that had been tested and proven — and as a squad they were 
in the best physical condition of the season. But they also 
appreciated the fact that they would have few partisans 
in the stands so far from home, that the draw had pitted 
them in their first encounter against the local favorites, 
playing on their own ice in the Springs. 

The Colorado Tigers took advantage of Brown's shaki- 
ness at the outset, scoring two goals in the first seven min- 
utes. Then the tightness left, and confidence came. But it 
was not until 11:39 that Murphy went the length of the 
ice to net the puck unassisted. He made it 2-1 while each 
team had a man in the penalty box. There was no further 
scoring in that period, a' though Brown attacked relentlessly, 
giving Dewire 17 stops to Whiston's 1 1. 




THE TIGERS EXPECTED TO SCORE, and it looked like o goal far Colorado. But Whiston, in the 

nets for Brown, made the save, one of his many brilllont stops in the Ncticnol Tournament ploy. 

His knee is in the way of the puck, as the picture shows. 



The Titrnhig Point for Browtt 

Those of us listening back in Providence felt the tide 
turn in the first minutes of the second period when two 
Brunonians were thumbed to the penalty box. We groaned 
as the Tigers came storming, but the defense held firm. 
Then, with a swift reversal of the situation. Colorado in 




TV/O MORE ALL-AMERICAN SAVES: V^histon and the Brown de- 
fense thwort the Tigers again (here and below). 

its turn was two men shy. and Brown took advantage of 
the moment with Di Biase's goal at 4:04. At 6:52 Casey 
put the Bears ahead. The next 90 seconds saw three more 
goals. Eastwood tying it at 3-3 for Colorado and Vernet 
and Gubbins more than retaliating. Later two goals by 
Priestley, playing one of his best games, made it 7-3 before 
the period ended. Gubbins at 15:28 matched a C.C. counter 
in the first half-minute of the final session. All the while 
Whiston was breaking the hearts of the crowd with saves 
that they thought impossible — his night's total was 39. 

It was one of the goalie's most magnificent nights. Bob 
Englert of the Providence Journal said: "So brilliant was 
Whiston's stint that the entire final period and a good part 
of the second was played in comparative silence. So stunned 
were the fans, who had expected Colorado to romp, that 
they failed to applaud, much to the surprise of the entire 
press row." But Whiston had grand support from his mates. 
The forwards back-checked constantly, while the defense, 
led by Captain Jim Sutherland and Jake Murphy covered 
well against the fast, clever Tiger forwards. 

The Crowd Was for Brown 

Colorado had previously won 16, lost six, and tied one. 
They beat and tied Brandon of Manitoba, split with To- 
ronto, split with Michigan, beat Denver four times. North 
Dakota twice. Alberta twice, Michigan Tech, and lost twice 
to Minnesota, once each to B.U. and B.C. in the East at 
Christmas time. They had run up an 8-goal average per 
game against strong competition, and their defense was 
highly touted. In vain, their Ail-American Starrak played 
all the last period, collapsing 10 seconds before the game 
ended. On his return to Providence, Coach Moulton said 
his boys approached in that second period surge the per- 
fection of their first period against Boston College (they had 
been irresistible then, scoring on six of seven chances and 
hitting the upright on the seventh). 



Overnight, on the strength of their great performance, 
the Bruins became the crowd's sentimental favorites. Thayer 
Tutt, the Broadmoor's manager, told Athletic Director 
Mackesey there happened to be people in the hotel from 
every State in the Union and they were all backing Brown. 
On the ice and off, the Brown players had sold themselves 
to the town. 

But popular support wasn't enough to win against a team 
as mighty as Michigan. The Wolverines had won 20, lost 
four, and tied one. They'd split with Colorado College, Den- 
ver, and Toronto; they'd lost one and tied another against 
Montreal University, while beating Western Ontario twice, 
Minnesota twice, Michigan State twice, Michigan Tech 
twice. North Dakota twice, and B.C. and B.U. once. Only 
a few days before, they'd given the Detroit Red Wings, a 
big league pro team, a 5-4 tussle. They'd scored nine goals 
a game on the average. 

Offensively, the Bruins couldn't get started in the finals 
against the alert fore-checking and back-checking of the 
Wolverines. Their goalie, Downes, had such protection that 
he had only 19 stops all night, 10 of them in the third 
period when he lost his shut-out to Malo at 7:54. It was 
not until 14:48 in the first period that Brown got a clean 
shot at the Michigan goal. 

At the other end of the rink, the ice was broken early. 
After two sorties had been thwarted. May scored for Michi- 
gan at 3:49, and Burford made it 2-0 at 15:24. At this 
point Brown was getting a few opportunities, but several 
quick shots missed the cage. Three goals in eight minutes 
at the middle of the second period provided the clinchers, 
and Brown was bottled up almost entirely on defense (Whis- 
ton had 18 stops to Downes' four in this frame). After 
Malo made it 5-1 in the third period at 7:54 (what a roar 
the crowd let loose!), the Wolverines scored twice more, 
the last goal coming in the final 20 seconds. 

On the attack, which was most of the time, Michigan 
was doing everything right, with speed, power, and team 
precision. Bob Bowie of the Denver Post wrote that the 
Wolverines showed "the best form of any team ever to 




BROWN .4LUMNI MONTHLY 




MICHIGAN'S STAUNCH DEFENSE was too much for Brown in the finals of the college hockey 
championships. The usually high-scoring Bruins faced o shutout until the third period. 



play in a tournament." Without Whiston's play in the nets, 
he said, Michigan could have run the score into douhle 
figures. He made 46 saves and had few breathing spells as 
his teammates had difficulty getting out of their own zone 
with the puck. Against such odds, the Bruins never quit 
and actually were playing well — Michigan was just that 
much better. One of the Brown players said he felt he'd 
been playing against 10 men. 

But the defeat on Saturday night didn't dull the feeling 
of triumph that all Brown men enjoyed about Friday's 
game. Only the players thought they had a chance against 
Michigan, and they were downcast at first. But on the trip 
home they began to realize that they had gone a long way, 
after all — not to the top, but within sight of it. The Colo- 
rado public couldn't make them champions, but it had 
made them heroes. And the Seniors, who had played their 
last college hockey — Whiston, Priestley, Casey, Malo, Suth- 
erland, and Dion — had the best of memories and highest 
acclaim to treasure with their souvenirs. 

Brown proudly salutes this 1950-51 hockey Varsity and 
its coach. 

Hockey Pioneers 

The story of the first All- Americans in hockey, 
who brought the game back from Canada to the 
United States in the winter of 1894-95, is here told 
by the one-time Brown Dean who was one of the 
four Brunonians in the pioneer group. It is an ap- 
propriate moment to recall their part in the origins 
of hockey in this country. 

By ALEXANDER MEIKLEJOHN '93 

FOR TWO OR THREE YEARS before the momentous trip to 
Canada, we had an "Ice Polo" team at Brown, playing on 
ice the game which the professionals were playing on roller 
skates in the New England rinks. (May I note, at this point, 
that I was an ardent devotee of that game in both of its 
forms?) We had played a bit, and my memory seems to tell 
me that we had never been beaten. I do remember very viv- 



idly a game against Harvard — on Spy Pond, 1 think — in 
which we had a lot of fun with a powerful fellow who caught 
on the Harvard baseball team and was tackle in football. 1 
don't recall his name, but 1 still have in me the feel of the 
good comradeship of the talk as he and I, carrying our skates 
and sticks, walked back toward Cambridge after the game. 

The Canadian trip had its inception at Niagara Falls, 
when Canadian and United States tennis players had some 
days together there in a tournament. Discussing their winter 
sports, they found that they were playing different games on 
ice. Out of that talk came the invitation for an intercol- 
legiate team to go to four Canadian cities (Montreal, Ot- 
tawa, Kingston, and Toronto) and play both games. George 
Wright, who had been an early professional baseball player 
and later started the Wright and Dltson Company in the 
field of sports paraphernalia, was at the time coaching ten- 
nis — not professionally, I think. He had a large part in 
organizing the trip and went along with us as a kind of 
manager. (I had played cricket as a youngster against 
Wright when he was captain of the Longwood Cricket Club, 
and admired him much.) 

The members of the team, as I recall them, were Byron 
Watson '97, Bill Jones '96, George Matteson '96, and my- 
self from Brown; Malcolm Chace '96, who had transferred 
to Yale, and another Yale man, A. C. Foote; F. H. Clark- 
son of Harvard; and Billy Lamed of Columbia. An Asso- 
ciated Press man, C. M. Pope, also went with us. Of him, 
more later. Five of us played when it was polo, and seven 
at hockey. (For picture, see page 12.) 

Each evening we played two periods of polo and hockey 
before capacity crowds. The Canadians beat us easily at 
hockey, four games to zero, if I remember rightly. Their 
game was much more highly developed than ours, as shown 
by their having a league, with regular schedules and big 
buildings, which held large crowds of spectators. They had 
a couple of other advantages as well as greater skill: First, 
they had flat-bladed speed skates as against our "rockers," 
which we had always used. And, second, our hitting stroke 
with one hand would not move a puck along the ice. We 



APRIL 1951 




BROWN'S IVY CHAMPIONS, with the trophy they have won twice in three years of League play; 
Front row, left to right— Whiston, Malo, Sennolt, Wheeler, Copt. Sutherland, Murphy, Gilbert, Di 
Biase, Dion. Second row— Manager Schumb, North, Duffy, Gill, Maley, Coach Moulton, Vernet, 

Gubbins, Petit, Casey, Priestley. 



were accustomed to play with a ball, not a puck. However, 
their pushing stroke with both hands was effective in mov- 
ing the polo ball. Nevertheless, we managed to win two 
games of polo, and the other two were tied. (The late Wil- 
liam A. Jones once said; "We broke even on the series, each 
winning the game with which we were fam'.liar." — Ed.) 

The crowds were not only big but very friendly and much 
interested. 1 remember with pleasure seeing my Brown class- 
mate, Leonard Therrien, a Canadian, as he yelled at me 
from a seat near the ice. 

It was pretty generally agreed among us, as a result of 
the trip, that the Canadian game was bet.er than ours. Hav- 
ing learned the rudiments of the game, we brought back 
with us the flat skates and pucks and sticks and proceeded 
to try to forget old habits and take on new ones. The AP 
man, Pope, on our return, raised money for the building cf 
the Saint Nicholas Ice Rink in New York, which became a 
hockey center. Malcolm Chace, who was our captain, 
played a lot there and developed, with his speed, a lot of 
skill. 

The following year, I went to Cornell as a graduate stu- 
dent and we organized there a hockey team, on whch, on 
the strength of the trip, I'm sure, I was made captain. In 
two years we played only one game (at Saint Nicholas) and 
lost it. Unlike Malcolm, I never really learned the new 
game and so always lamented the loss of the old. Some of 
the happiest hours of my youth were spent in playing polo 
on Hammond's Pond in Pawtucket, on Railroad Pond in 
Providence, and at Roger Williams Park. 

Perhaps I may add another personal word. My interest 
in hockey was so keen that, as soon as my three boys could 
stand on their feet securely, I i^ot them on ska'es and tried 
to teach them the game. Perhaps I had better luck there 
than in teaching philosophy which, as some of you readers 
will remember, I also tried to do. Two of the boys were 
captains of their college hockey teams, and one of them was 
twice chosen to play on the United States team at the Olym- 
pics. But I'm getting off the subject, which is safer in 
philosophy, perhaps, than in hcckey. 



Baccalaureate Preacher 

Dr. Wilbour E. Saunders '16, President of the Colgate- 
Rochester Divinity School, will preach the Baccalaureate 
Sermon to Brown University's 1951 graduates on Sunday, 
June 3, in the First Baptist Meeting House. For 14 years 
Headmaster of the Peddie School, Dr. Saunders has been an 
annua! speaker in Brown Chapel and has always had a warm 
welcome. He received an honorary doctorate in 1941. 

Among Dr. Saunders' services has been membership on 
the Home Mission Board of the Northern Baptist Conven- 
tion, the Social Service Commission of the Federal Council 
of the Churches of Christ in America, the editorial board of 
Religion in Life. New Jersey's Committee on Civil Rights 
(chairman), the New Jersey Constitutional Convention, 
and the International Schoolboy Exchange. 




DR. WIIBOUR 
E. SAUNDERS 
Member of 35-year Class 
will preach the Baccalau- 
reate Sermon In June. 



6 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



The Inside Story on Admissions 



BROWN University will not lower its admission stand- 
ards, in spite of the uncertainties that face higher edu- 
cation in America, Dean Emery R. Walker, Jr., assured the 
alumni representatives on the campus in February for meet- 
ings of the Advisory Council. For all the cloudjd draft situa- 
tion, firm applications for entrance to the College were about 
the same, he reported. More applicants had taken College 
Boards in January than a year ago. And he expected the 
quality to remain high: "We lose if we move into lower 
brackets." 

The Dean was one of the principal speakers before the 
Brown Club representatives and other alumni leaders at- 
tending the Council, discussing admission problems, accom- 
plishments, and opportunities in detail. He revealed that 
several Brown Clubs have been co-operating in a "trial-run" 
of an alumni program in support of admissions work. The 
plan is now ready for general application, and he asked for 
alumni backing. 

The meetings of the Council were regarded as outstanding 
in interest, the substantial quality of the thinking, and the 
atmosphere of loyalty. They reflected a lively year in alumni 
activity, on which the Alumni Secretary reported. About 150 
alumni, most of them delegates from Clubs and Classes, had 
much to take home with them for sharing with their fellow 
Brown men. Not the least of the attractions was the meal in 
the new Refectory, which they saw in operation and whose 
hospitality they enjoyed at the same time the undergraduates 
were lunching. 

Like Taking on a Trainee 

The selection of future students by the Admission Office 
seems to be attended by great mystery in the minds of 
alumni, Dean Walker told the Advisory Council group. He 
said his office had been accused of flipping a coin to see who 
wins among the applicants, of admitting too many sons of 
Brown men, of admitting too few sons of Brown men, of 
admitting too many grinds, and of admitting too many ath- 
letes. 

He drew an analogy which made it clearer to the alumni: 
"You've all hired men to enter your business as trainees," he 
said. "You don't expect them to know the business before- 
hand but to learn it well enough so that the investment you 
make in them will ultimately pay off. You want them to be 
honest, personable, bright, and willing. How do you get 
them? Probably you advertize. When you get your appli- 
cants, you base your choice of each man on several factors — 
the record of his academic experience, the impression he 
makes in an interview with you, the recommendations and 
references he brings from those who know him and his work, 
his application (there are clues in what he presents and how 
he presents it), and possibly the findings of your testing pro- 
gram. 

"We follow pretty much the same routine in selecting from 
among our candidates for Brown. We place a little more 
stress on his academic performance, probably, since the boy 
is going to continue to study. We interview 85% of those 
who apply. We lay great stress on the references which the 
schools submit. We insist on a handwritten application, for 
the clues that this will yield. We place some reliance on Col- 
lege Board exams and other testing. In short, we do what you 
do: we build a picture of the man, for we are choosing men 
as well as minds, and we want character and personality. 




GRACIOUS NOTE in Advisory Council proceedings was provided 

at lea given to delegates by Dr. and Mrs. Wriston. Here they 

greet tv/o guests, John J. Monk '24 of Chicago and his daughter, 

a Pembroke undergraduate. 

We can't take everyone, obviously. And we're learning all 
the time, making some mistakes still, but adding every new 
guide to our routine when it promises to be enlightening." 

The "Ideal" Number of Applicants 

Dean Walker traced admissions trends in recent years. 
'Forty-six, he reminded the alumni, was the year of the 
"Great Flood," when Brown received more than 4600 bona 
fide applications — and took 829 students. Since then, every- 
where, applications have declined. The post-war "normal" 
appeared to have been reached last year when there were 
2300 applications, of whom 659 were accepted, including 30 
transfers. Applications are firmer than they were, however: 
In 1946 of the 4600 who applied 2600 took College Board 
exams; in 1950 of the 2300 who applied, 2100 followed 
through and took the College Beards. 

What would the applications for 1951 number? There 
were many uncertainties, as all knew, but he would guess at 
2100. Though this would be down a few from last year, 
more had taken the College Boards in January than was the 
case in 1950 — you couldn't tell. After next year, no one was 
making predictions; all the colleges would be playing by ear. 

Brown has been saying for some time it wants a "College 
of 2000." This, said Dean Walker, means 2000 paying full 
tuition for the year. The Admission Office had to allow for 
attrition. By studying attrition figures since 1920, he had 
come to the conclusion that an entering class of 630 was 
ideal. 

To get and maintain a flow of good applications (and thus 
to maintain a good student body) required promotional 
work day after day. "Promotion begins at home," the Dean 
said. Consequently, the Admission Office was a service office 
— for students, parents, alumni, applicants, and the public. 
The whole University, of course, was in this public relations 
business, too, but he believes that the front office in the 
Admission set-up deals with more outsiders than any other 
on campus. They try to be prompt, efficient, and courteous, 
though it's hard to build good will when you have to say no. 

Recommendations are most welcome. There are two kinds 
of recommendations from alumni, Dean Walker pointed 
out: some from those who know the boys in question, others 



APRIL 1951 




IP tna k 111 •''I 




LINING UP FOR CHOW on the temporary walk leading to the Refectory, Advisory Council delegates 
linger in the shadow of the looming fraternity wing that will house Phi Kappa Psi next fall. Satur- 
day luncheon in the new dining room climaxed the delegates' first tour of the Quadrangle area. 



when the alumnus doesn't know the boy but is helping out 
some friend or business acquaintance. "We understand the 
latter letters," he said. "Sometimes you're on the hook, and 
it's our job to take you off." He felt the forms in use were 
important, and he would welcome criticism from any who 
had filled out such forms recently since they were always 
susceptible to revision. 

The Saleminnship Involved 

What was involved in the promotional activity? Brown 
was ahead of the game, he thought, in having developed the 
Bulletin of General Information. This culls what is in the 
Catalogue but presents the data more interestingly and se- 
lectively. He was surprised how many colleges still used the 
regular catalogue. The Bulletin is supplemented with a pic- 
ture book — a new edition of which has just been prepared. 
This is often a boy's first impression of a college. Brown 
answers requests for these promptly so that this book may 
beat others in arriving. Some Libers are distributed, mostiv 



to schools, and the Brown Alumni Monthly goes regularly 
to a selection of 75 schools. ("We like that big BROWN on 
the cover — it stands out.") 

The grades of each boy in Brown are sent each semester 
of his four years to the school which prepared him for col- 
lege. This appreciated service often prompts the headmasters 
and principals to write the boys at Brown in terms of en- 
couragement. The routine of delivering these grades is facili- 
tated by the use of IBM equipment which sorts the marks by 
schools. 

Visits to the Brown campus are invited and made attrac- 
tive. There are several undergraduates trained as guides, one 
or two regularly employed in the Admission Office, others 
on call. Seventy-five families were shown the campus during 
a recent period. A map of the campus is also provided, giv- 
ing a little information and pointing out certain highlights. 
Dean Walker acknowledged the interest of alumni who bring 
boys to Brown to see the campus and meet students and of- 
ficers. 



BROWN .\LUMM .MONTHLY 



400 Schools Visited This Year 

Without question, one of the most important activities of 
the Office is the visitation of high schools and preparatory 
schools all over the country. In this work all of the Admis- 
sion Officers participate. They have built up a welcome 
through the years, and the program has been extended to 
the point where 400 schools are covered. All sections of the 
United States have been visited in this way recently, except 
for the Southwest and the Northwest. The program has two 
great merits, in Dean Walker's opinion: It brings the name 
of Brown to the attention of guidance officers, headmasters, 
and students. Moreover, it keeps the Admission Officers in 
touch with their clientele. "You must get out and see them 
to know what is going on." 

In several phases of the promotional program, the Uni- 
versity News Bureau makes a distinct contribution. You 
don't see them headlined in the metropolitan press, but news 
items about all the Brown undergraduates go regularly to 
their home town papers and their school papers. Surveys 
show that 95% of these "home-town" releases are used, and 
there are hundreds of them. Whenever an Admission Officer 
makes a trip, the News Bureau publicizes it. The effective- 
ness of this service can be judged from the phone calls the 
officer receives while he is in a town. 

Athletics is promotional, too. The Dean said, however, 
that an athlete had to make the grade academically to qualify 
for Brown. It was fairer to the boy and fairer to Brown to 
insist on standards. "I like to see a winning team as much as 
you do," Walker said. A winner attracts boys. 

Saving until the last his reference to the alumni part in 
admissions work. Dean Walker revealed that a new plan had 
been evolved which makes useful the willingness of alumni 
to help. Each Brown Club will eventually be asked to assist, 
each in its own appropriate way. The program calls for set- 
ting up a committee of three in the Club, including a chair- 
man. One of its functions will be to keep the Brown Club 
conscious of admissions hopes, with reminders at meetings 
and in other ways. Members of the committee will assist in 
the visiting of local schools to offer service, information, and 
help. Where an alumnus can arrange a Brown Night in his 
own home, there are good color slides and commentary 
available. They have proven good entertainment and effec- 
tive advertising. 

"A few hours out of your year will make Brown's applica- 
tions the best there are," Dean Walker said. The impetus 
must come from the University, he agreed, and a booklet 
(which he distributed) showed how the program may be 
carried out in detail. 

"Pilot" Operation in Eight Areas 

The new program had had a trial period in several cases, 
he revealed, attesting to its success in eight Brown Club 
areas. The previous day several Brown Club committee 
chairmen had met on the campus for two hours and a half 
with various administrative officers, discussing the program 
in many of its aspects. They were enthusiastic about it. Sev- 
eral of them spoke during the Council meeting: 

Robert A. Stoehr, Jr., '27 of Cincinnati told how the 
project had reactivated the interest of the alumni, giving 
them a job to do as Brown men. Their interest is strengthened 
through their acquaintance with the boy, they are proud of 
his undergraduate career. The boys bring back to the com- 
munity an enthusiasm for Brown and thus help build the 
local organization. Stoehr thought the Admissions staff was 
doing an outstanding job for Brown. 

Morris Pepper '27, who brought his boots and "small five- 
gallon hat" with him on orders from the Houston Brown 



Club, said the problem was a little different in Texas, where 
the University is not well known. "Brown has to be explained 
there," he pointed out, but visits from University officers 
have stimulated the alumni, who now use a newsletter to 
sustain interest. A scholarship had been set up as a result 
of the activity. 

George A. Blakeslee, Jr., '35 and Jack Kreitler '38 re- 
ported that the Lackawanna Brown Club had begun its co- 
ordinated school program, in which a scholarship figured 
importantly. An award would go each year to a qualified 
boy. This year the presentation would be made at the annual 
dinner of the Club in May, when President Wriston would 
talk to the alumni and their guests (schoolboys and princi- 
pals). Contacts with principals, coaches, and guidance men 
in the schools had been made by the Club's admissions com- 
mittee, and a feature had been a trip to the Princeton hockey 
game with the high school coach and his players. 

Bob King '50 said that the schoolboys in Buffalo all 
seemed to be uncertain about college so that the field was a 
good one. One member of the Buffalo Brown Club has been 
assigned to each high school and prep school with his chief 
mission that of paving the way for a visitor from the Admis- 
sion Office. He said the Club's program of meetings tied in 
well with this project: in the fall Dr. Bigelow and a school 
guidance officer had been their guests; during the winter va- 
cation the holiday luncheon brought in subfreshmen to a 
gathering where the undergraduates did the selling; in the 
spring recess there would be more such subfreshman con- 
tacts; and the summer picnic would again include the under- 
graduates. 

Jack Monk '24 of Chicago talked briefly about one of the 
most conspicuously successful Club enterprises anywhere in 
the country. It has been Chicago's practice for many years 
to bring subfreshmen into the Christmas party given by the 
alumni for the students home for vacation. Alumni who are 
hosts to the schoolboys follow up later with the schools. The 
Chicago scholarship has been revived, he reported. Dean 
Walker also acknowledged the effectiveness of work by 
Chapin S. Newhard '22 in St. Louis where the steady cultiva- 
tion of fathers and schoolboys has brought about a good 
solid interest in Brown. (Continued on page 30) 




PROUD BROWN FATHER Charles C. Tillinghast 06 looks on op 
provingly as son David R. Tillinghast '51 receives Ihe Brown 
Cub Award from Associoted Alumni President Browne '08. The 
presentation is made each year to an outstanding senior. Dove 
is President of the Commarian Club among other campus ac- 
tivities; his father is a former Alumni Trustee. 



APRIL 1951 



They Made Friends for Brown 



How MANY of Colorado's 35 Brown 
alumni saw the Bruins play in the 
championship hockey tournament, we 
don't know for sure. But everyone was 
swollen with pride at the performance of 
the Brown team on and off the ice. We 
can't begin to tell the story as well as 
three Brunonians who live in Colorado 
Springs: Harrie Hart '36, Joel A. H. 
Webb '36, and T. G. Simmons '23. Here 
are portions of a letter they sent as a joint 
report : 

"As you probably appreciate, this town, 
with our local Colorado College having 
been in the tournament four times, is 
just about the most rabid hockey town 
imaginable. We see a lot of top-notch 
hcckey, and the fans are most partisan 
and critical. When we beat C.C. in the 
first round and broke all their hopes of 
repeating as Champions, we expected all 
kinds of alibis and stories. What we got, 
however, from everyone who saw the 
game, and without a single exception was 
that Brown was one of the finest teams 
that has ever played out here. They were 
fine hockey players, and they were fine 
gentlemen. We saw that night what a 
great many say was the fastest, cleanest 
and best game that's been played here in 
many a year. We won it going away, and 
we won it because the boys just gave it 
everything they had and skated C.C. right 
off their feet. 

"And the fellows played the same kind 
of game Saturday night against Michigan. 
They were in there skating their heads 
off right up to the final whistle, a fact 
that has been remarked upon by a great 
many. That Michigan team that night was 
the greatest thing you ever saw when it 
comes to plain skating and power. As 
Wes Moulton remarked after the game, 
it seemed they had about eight or ten 
men on the ice all night. They were 
every place at all times, and simply 
couldn't do anything wrong. There have 
never been many college teams that could 
have beaten those boys that night. But 
our fellows were in there skating their 
hearts out, and the game was a far better 
one than the score would indicate. 

"All the C.C. players who we see quite 
regularly have gone out of their way to 
say what a fine bunch the Brown team 
was. The Broadmoor officials say it's the 
best crowd cf boys they've ever had out 
here, and want the team cut here any 
time they can make it. President Gill of 
C.C. took special care to tell me what a 
fine group he thought they were, and he 
in particular mentioned Wes. We would 
like to say that there is just about the best 
representative Brown ever had. Everyone 
who has met him last year and this think 
he is just an outstanding guy. He is a fine 
sportsman and gentleman. That is the 
unanimous appraisal of Wes Moulton in 
Colorado Springs. 

"We find it hard to think of the Brown 
team as anything but a TEAM. They 
were all outstanding as a unit. But we 
must just mention the magnificent work 
of Don Whiston. He was unbelievable. 
We guess all the honors he walked off 
with tell it much better than we can, but 
believe us, he was superb in both games. 



"In closing we can only say that Brown 
University made a lot of friends because 
cf the people who represented Brown 
here at the tournament. Every person in 
the party did a real job of selling Brown, 
and each was a fine example cf what be- 
ing a Brown Man means. The alumni of 
Colorado Springs hope that they will be 
out here again soon." 

Another letter from a Brunonian said: 
"The most outstanding thing about the 
tournament is the fact that the crowd 




CAPT. JIM SUTHERLAND and the trophy 

his team trovelled 4000 miles to win os 

an Easiern represen:ative. 



wanted Brown to win. A lot of people re- 
member the team that came out at Christ- 
mas in 1949, too. We heard the remark 
from numerous sources that the Brown 
men were the finest bunch of gentlemen 
who ever played here. It was a good, 
hard-fought, and clean series of games. 
We are 1009'r for Wes Moulton, not only 
as a coach but as a representative of 
Brown." 

The sports director of the Broadmoor 
Hotel, Leon C. Wilmot, wrote: "They 
were certainly a great team and showed 
the finest sportsmanship throughout the 
series that has ever been exhibited here. 
I believe the thrill of the tournament for 
me was the Brown players rushing over 
to congratulate the winners at the end 
of Saturday night's game. They certainly 



deserved the trophies they brought back 
with them, and Whiston earned his 'Most 
Valuable Player' award by demonstrating 
in every way the high ideals and sports- 
manship of what 1 think is our American 
heritage. As the character of the coach 
always reflects in his players, it is only 
necessary for me to say that we all out 
here admired him very much. Everyone 
was greatly impressed by the manner in 
which the Brown team conducted itself at 
all times." 

Because the tournament was a sell-out 
before it was known that Brown would 
be one of the Eastern representatives, 
the Brown alumni had their troubles in 
getting seats. In addition to Hart, Sim- 
mons, and Webb, we had reports of the 
following being on hand (and there were 
doubtless others): Robert J. Dow '46, 
who is doing graduate work at Colorado 
College; William G. Kelly '50 of Colo- 
rado Springs; Cyrus G. Allen '15 of Den- 
ver; Thomas F. Egan '48 of Denver; 
Floyd C. Fay, Jr., '18 of Denver; F. 
Joseph McGarry '44 of Denver; Harold 
F. Tracy '22 of Newton, Mass.; and Lewis 
Milner '02 of Providence. In addition, a 
delegation of Denverites from the Rocky 
Mountain Brown Club journeyed to the 
Denver Airport to give the team a wel- 
come, headed by Judge Joseph E. Cook 
'14. 

Hockey Highlights 

USED TO EARLY RISING for practice ses- 
sions all winter, the players and coach 
had another dawn date when they left 
for the west. The travelling party had 
breakfast at the Refectory, was insured, 
and took off by bus for Boston at 6:30 
the morning of Wednesday, March 14. 
In the group were Coach Moulton: Sen- 
nott, Wheeler, Priestley, Malo, Gubbins, 
Casey, Di Biase, Petit, Vernet, and Gill, 
forwards; Capt. Sutherland, Maley, Mur- 
phy, and Gilbert, defense; Whiston and 
Dion, goalies; Athletic Director Mac- 
kesey. Dr. Crane, Athletic Publicity Di- 
rector Davol, Manager Schumb, Lewis 
Milner '02 of the Athletic Council, and 
Gray Andrews of the Brown Daily Her- 
ald's sports staff. 

At Boston airport they joined forces 
with the Boston University contingent on 
a chartered United Airlines flight, which 
picked up Michigan's team en route. 
Each team got in two lengthy workout» 
on arrival in Colorado Springs, but there 
was hospitality as well as hockey waiting 
for them. They swam in the Broadmoor's 
outdoor pools, had tours cf Pike's Peak, 
Cheyenne Mountain, the Garden of the 
Gods, and old Colorado City. There was 
entertainment for officials and press, a 
luncheon for the coaches, and a recep- 
tion for the players by the Tournament 
Oueen, Debby Greiner, and her court. 
The men were told explicitly, "There is no 
law prohibiting your dating the Queen's 
Court members" at the dance at the 
hotel. Mackesey and Moulton were made 
honorary members of the Colorado 
Springs Quarterback Club after they gave 
good talks to its members; Moulton was 
the star of the coaches' clinic arranged 
for local schoolboys. 

The altitude, though a subject of pre- 
liminary apprehension, proved no handi- 
cap to the Bruins. They employed oxygen 
and a mask, specially devised by Dr. 
Crane for the first 10 minutes of the first 
game. But they found themselves better 
off without this aid thereafter. The Brown 
players were in their best physical condi- 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



tion of the year, with all men available 
and in good shape. For this they give high 
credit to Dr. Crane, Trainer Jack Mac- 
Kinnon, and his assistants. 

The officials for the series were Hank 
Frantzen .of Minneapolis, Jack McKee of 
Winnipeg, and Bill Cleary of Cambridge 
— a westerner, an easterner, and a Cana- 
dian. For the first games the assignment 
followed a draw, with the odd official 
serving as penalty timer. For the finals 
the officials were selected on the basis of 
voting by players and coaches. It was in- 
teresting that the New England man, 
Cleary, was top choice in the poll. 

Most disappointed man in Providence 
was Ernie Savignano, popular Assistant 
Athletic Director. Although scheduled to 
make the trip to Colorado, he went to 
bed the day before the team left and 
battled the grippe instead. 

Most disappointed boy in Colorado 
Springs was Bill Simmons, son of Pete 
Simmons '23. Bill, a good hockey player, 
had looked forward to the tournament, 
but flu kept him home: he missed all the 
games. Two eight-year-old kids in town 
told Paul Mackesey about young Sim- 
mons. "He's going to Brown, you know," 
they said. "And where are you going to 
college?" Mackesey asked them. "Oh, 
Brown," they said enthusiastically. (Mac- 
kesey says he knew they'd never heard of 
Brown before the tourney.) 

The Brown Daily Herald was not out- 
done by WBRU, the campus network at 
Brown, in enterprise connected with the 
games. Andrews filed his story right after 
the game, and the Herald had an extra 
out Saturday morning, in addition to a 
special issue the day the trip was first 
announced. 

Luck Didn't Beat Them 
No one would call the Bruins a "lucky" 
hockey team. It overcame one mishap 
after another all year long: Shepherd, a 
first-string defense man, had to leave 
school this fall when his father died. The 
captain had scholastic difficulties which 
kept him out of the line-up the first 
semester. A first-string wing had a sus- 
pension by the Dean after a misconduct 
penalty incurred in the NYAC game. 
There were two other suspensions for 
over-cutting classes. Casey was hit by the 
grippe, and Priestley had a temperature 
of 101 in the College Infirmary the day 
of the B.C. game. (He played and re- 



BROWN HOCKEY 
The Season's Scoring 



PLAYER 


Goals 


Assists 


Points 


Sennott 


22 


41 


63 


Wheeler 


31 


26 


57 


Malo 


18 


20 


38 


Gubbins 


17 


18 


35 


Casey 


15 


18 


33 


Priestley 


10 


19 


29 


Di Biase 


10 


15 


25 


Petit 


10 


6 


16 


Gilbert 


5 


8 


13 


Murphy 


3 


9 


12 


Vernet 


3 


3 


6 


Gill 


1 


4 


5 


Sutherland 


1 


4 


5 


Brown 


1 


1 


2 


Maley 





1 


I 


North 





1 


1 




BEST MAN in the notional tourney, Brown's Don Whiston, receives the KVOR Trophy from 

the Ice Queen, Debbie Gieiner. At le!t. Coach Moulton with KVOR's Director. (All Colorado 

photos by Egbert, Broadmoor Hotel.) Whiston was also named All-Americon goalie. 



147 



194 



341 



turned to Andrew's House that night with 
temperature normal.) Malo missed four 
important games because he aggravated 
an old groin injury. Vernet was cut 
when a teammate stepped on his bare foot 
in the dressing room, and he was out of 
action toward the end of the season. 
Everyone had colds, acquired on the 
West Point trip. 

They had their problems in getting ice 
for practice, journeying more than once 
to Lynn for workouts and even to Spring- 
field twice. Ice show bookings drove them 
out of the home rink twice for a full 
week each time. They practiced before 
breakfast — at 6, for example — or during 
a spare hour at lunchtime. There was no 
outdoor ice when it was needed. All of 
this was tough on conditioning, and it 
showed in a few critical games. (It was 
even tougher on the Freshmen, since the 
Varsity had first call on time available 
for Brown.) 

But there were no complaints or alibis. 
They realized that Lou Pieri '20, owner 
of the R. I. Auditorium, was giving them 
every possible break in view of the in- 
tense activity at that arena, which ac- 
commodates professional hockey, great 
schoolboy rivalry, skating clubs, public 
skating, and non-ice sports like boxing, 
wrestling, and basketball. It's a crowded, 
complicated local situation, for which 
another or auxiliary rink will provide the 
only alleviation. All these difficulties the 
squad overcame willingly and with high 
morale. 

The draw in Colorado was to the 
team's liking. It helped to have an extra 
day at the high elevation to get accli- 



APRIL 1951 



mated while Michigan and B.U. played 
the first game. But it did not help the 
losing cause to have Michigan rested for 
a day before the finals while Brown 
competed twice in 27 hours. (No one con- 
tended, even so, that Michigan would not 
have won if the dates had been reversed.) 

Telegrams of encouragement and con- 
gratulations kept the Western Union boy 
busy visiting the Brown squad in Colo- 
rado Springs. Several Brown Clubs, indi- 
vidual alumni. University officers, student 
groups, and others sent messages, includ- 
ing Athletic Directors and teams of such 
New England rivals as Dartmouth, 'B.C., 
Harvard, and Yale. They meant a lot to 
the Brunonians. 

Brown and Boston University were 
selected as the Eastern representatives in 
the NCAA playoffs by a regional commit- 
tee of five headed by Coach Vaughan of 
Princeton. B.C., Yale, Middlebury, and 
Clarkson were also given serious consid- 
eration. Basis for judgment included not 
only the season's record and schedules 
but the squad depth and general overall 
hockey experience. Brown had won 15 of 
19 college games, B.U. had won 14 of 17. 

Shorthanded Last Time 
The Bears had played once before in 
Colorado, during the Christmas vacation 
a year ago. Making the trip with a pared- 
down 12-man squad that did not permit 
use of three sets of forwards nor two of 
defense men. Brown took early leads in 
both games with Colorado College, the 
1950 champions, but faded to lose 12-8 
and 8-5 in good battles. For the tourney 
16 players travelled, including Dion, an 



U 




THE PIONEERS OF ICE HOCKEY in the United States: the "All Americans" who took polo to 
Canada and brought back hockey in 1894-95. Left to right, standing — C. M. Pope, Asso- 
ciated Press; F. H. Clarkson, Harvard; W. A. Jones, Brown '96; George Wright. Seated — 
G. A. Motteson, Brown '96; M. G. Chace, Brown '96 and Yale, captain; A. C. Foote, Yale; 
A. Meiklejohn, Brown '93; W. A. Larned, Columbia. The photo, token at Ottawa Jon. 1, 
1895, is in the University Archives. (For story, see poge 5.) 



able and faithful eoalie who had the mis- 
fortune to have Whiston on the same 
squad for four years. 

Don Whiston, "most valuable" player 
in the NCAA tournament play, was also 
named to the All-America hockey team 
on the basis of voting by a panel of 13 
coaches, eight from the West and five 
from the East. He was second in the list- 
ing to Ross of Minnesota. Don Sennott 
and Bob Wheeler, Brown forwards, were 
given honorable mention. Sennott was 
placed on the All-New England hockey 
team chosen for the United Press by 
hockey writers, radio commentators, and 
officials. Wheeler and Whiston were on 
the second team. 

Whiston won the trophy offered by sta- 
tion KVOR as the "most outstanding 
player" of the tournament as the result 
of voting by coaches, press, radio, and 
officials at the meeting. Rated by tourna- 
ment veterans as the best to perform in 
NCAA playoffs to date, he was the only 
Easterner on the All-Tourney team. He 
received the biggest ovation of the three 
days at Colorado Springs when the choice 
of most valuable player was announced. 
On the second team of All-Tourney play- 
ers were two Brown defense men, Capt. 
Jim Sutherland and Jake Murphy, as well 
as Al Gubbins, wing. Sennott and 
Wheeler made the honorable-mention 
list. 

Whiston had to work for his tourna- 
ment honors, making 85 saves in two 
games, 39 against Colorado College and 
46 against Michigan. But he wound up his 
college hockey career by taking one of 
the game's highest honors. His stick has 
been added to the great mementoes in 
the Brown University Trophy Room at 
Marvel Gymnasium. 

In voting for the All-Ivy League squad, 
Harrison of Dartmouth walked off with 
the major share of attention. He made the 



team for the third year in a row, was 
named best all-around performer, top 
offensive forward, and best defensive for- 
ward. Priestley of Brown was a close 
contender for the last distinction. Like 
Harrison, Whiston collected a perfect 
score of 73 points in voting for the first 
team. It was his second year as All-Ivy 
goal-tender. Grocutt of Dartmouth and 
Sennott of Brown were recipients of 68 
and 67 points respectively. Three Bruno- 
nians were on the first team: Whiston, 



Sennott, and Wheeler, while Malo was 
named to the second team and Murphy 
and Priestley were two of the five spares, 
giving Brown six of the 17-player squad. 

In the tournament consolation game, 
Colorado yielded two quick goals in the 
first minute of play and went on to lose 
7-4. 

In 1939 when the Brown basketball 
team went to the NCAA finals, it was 
eliminated in the semi-finals by Villanova. 
The hockey team is believed the first 
Brown outfit to make the finals of tourna- 
ment competition. 

Princeton's threat for the future was 
revealed in the fact that the high scorer 
in Ivy League play was its Sophomore 
Bill Gall (17 points), while another Tiger 
Sophomore, Hank Bothfield, was tied for 
second with Brown's Sennott and Malo 
(16 points). Wheeler had 15. 

Brown hockey players picked three 
Boston University rivals on their all-op- 
ponent team for 1950-1951. Two others 
were from the Dartmouth squad that 
upset the Bruins in their last game. Their 
selections: Goal — Carroll of Boston Col- 
lege. Defense — Grocutt, Dartmouth, and 
Czarnotta, B.U. Wings — Garrity and 
Cahoon, B.U. Center — Harrison, Dart- 
mouth. Oddly enough Grocutt and Car- 
roll were selected on the basis of a single 
game, since each was hurt and out of 
the line-up for the return contest in 
Providence. Cahoon is the brother-in-law 
of Brown's captain, Jim Sutherland. The 
Brown selections were made before the 
tournament play. 

No one could have been happier about 
Brown's Colorado performance than 
Frank Mazzeo, of the Faunce House bar- 
ber shop. When the first hopes of bringing 
hockey back to Brown were stirring sev- 
eral years ago, he organized an informal 
team which played, first in a Rhode Is- 
land amateur league and later in com- 
petition with other colleges, under the 
name of Frank's Clippers. When the story 
of Brown's ice revival is told, Frank must 
get his large share of credit. 



WBRU Pioneers Once More 



The Big Broadcasts 

IT WAS PRETTY EXCITING to hear the sta- 
tion identification: "This is Brown Uni- 
versity's station, WBRU, bringing you 
the national intercollegiate hockey finals 
from the ice Palace of the Broadmoor 
Hotel in Colorado Springs." Two thou- 
sand miles from their base on the campus, 
the Brown Network was breaking long- 
distance records for a collegiate broad- 
cast. It was fitting that the pioneer 
in college radio and the pioneer station 
in the Intercollegiate Broadcasting Sys- 
tem should be carrying the games. To 
those listening back home, the important 
thing was that they were able to follow 
the play in which they were so interested, 
that the broadcast was so excellent. 

The first game was on a Friday night. 
On Tuesday night Barry Cohen "51. Chief 
Engineer for WBRU. and Sophomore 
Steve MacLachlan left Providence by 
auto in a modern variation of "Pike's 
Peak or Bust." That was a 2033-mile 
marathon in MacLachlan's car. Later. 
Jordan Kaplan '52, sportscaster for 
WBRU took off by train. Behind them, 
WBRU President Dick Walton was think- 



ing of the financial end of the operation 
everytime he saw a shoestring. He had 
said to the others: "Take off. Hope you 
get there." The others had said; "We're 
off. Hope you raise the money." 

It took a little raising. After all, the 
enterprise was to cost $1100 in the end, 
more than $800 of it in telephone charges 
for line and calls. The rest covered travel, 
including repair money after two minor 
mishaps to the car that had to be wired 
the drivers. Network expenses under the 
Student Activities budget had not antici- 
pated any national hockey championship 
playoffs. The WBRU executive had to 
find sponsors, and did. 

Not the least interesting aspect of the 
broadcast were the carefully repeated 
credits for the financing: The Brown 
Book Store ("Don't forget they pay good 
prices for your second-hand textbooks"); 
The Blue Room in Faunce House ("For 
those sandwiches, sodas, and snacks"); 
Hillhouse, Ltd. ("Thayer Street for those 
suits"); Jones McDuffee and Stratton 
("They supplied equipment for the new 
Refectory where the food is so good"); 
Gilbane Construction Co. ("The Gilbane 
brothers are building the Quadrangle"); 



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White Star Laundry, the Brown Union, 
the Faunce House Board of Governors, 
the four Class Councils, and R. A. 
Hurley, real estate ("Rip used to play 
hockey, too"); the Interfratemity Govern- 
ing Board, and a dozen fraternities; the 
Student Activities Office; Pete Davis '39, 
Tom Yatman '43, Prescott Gustafson '36, 
Dick Fales '10, and Lunnie's Motors. And 
the hat had been passed to other under- 
graduates and alumni. The contributions 
ranged from a penny to $125. 

WBRU is a "steampipe" broadcasting 
affair. You can't hear it off campus. But 
special speakers were put up in the Brown 
Union, and others were set to listen on 
sets in dormitory rooms and fraternity 
houses. To be sure it did the best techni- 
cal job possible, WBRU called in its 
ablest men including three alumni: Bruce 
Chick, WBRU President in 1950, and 
John Campbell, its Chief Engineer in 
1949, both of whom work in the Metals 
Research Lab at Brown; George Ander- 
son '50 and Bill Youden '51, with Walton 
overseeing everything. 

Into the picture at the last minute came 
a Providence commercial station, WFCL 
As a public service, WBRU offered its 
coverage with the result that Brown 
hcckey fans throughout Southern New 
England were able to listen in to that 
thrilling first game. It was a great job that 
the boys did, matching the play of the 
team. 

Would the finals be broadcast? No 
plans had been made for that contin- 
gency, and it had been hard scraping to 
finance one game, let alone a second. But 
now the championship was a possibility. 
The WBRU phone rang constantly all 
Saturday morning with inquiries, and 
WFCI heard plenty, too. At noon the is- 
sue was still in doubt when Pete Davis 
came to the rescue. He found the neces- 
sary co-sponsors, including himself: the 
Associated Alumni, the Gilbanes '33, Rip 
Hurley '32, Al Parks '26, Joe Olney '36, 
John Lownes '23, Dick Field '43, Roland 
Jones '49, and an anonymous eighth 
angel. 

The second game came on late Satur- 
day night, and again the Brown partisans 
listened to Jordy Kaplan's voice for a 
couple of hours. It was a tired voice this 
time, but again he did an outstanding job 
of action reporting. Hockey is fast, fast- 
moving, fast-shifting, complex with move 
and counter-move. But the recital was 
crisp, accurate, unfaltering, re-creating. 
It was, for the second night, the Big 
Broadcast, and WBRU came through with 
flying colors. The praise was not only 
local, for the western radio men were 
amazed at the enterprise of the students 
from Brown. 

There were many high moments: the 
tension in the first game when Brown 
survived a penalty period with two men 
off the ice, the goal that tied it up with 
Colorado College, the goals that won, and 
the defensive play of Whiston as he made 
his stops. But the top reward of all to 
those who were listening came in the final 
game when Michigan was asserting all 
its mastery. In the third period, as Malo 
scored Brown's only goal, there came 
across 2000 miles such a shout that no 
one could mistake the crowd's heart out 
there in Colorado. That mountain city, 
whose own team Brown had beaten the 
night before, was pulling as hard for 
the Bruins as the early morning listeners 
back home. It was pretty swell to hear. 



Swinging into Spring 



Baseball Potential High 

THE BASEBALL MATERIAL at BrOWn this 
year is such that it is a pity the squad 
had no decent chance to get ready for its 
season. On April I, 10 days before the 
opening game with Rhode Island, the dia- 
mond on Aldrich Field still wasn't usable, 
and the men had been able to get out- 
doors only March 26. You don't get much 
accomplished in that back-alley of a 
"cage" in Lyman Hall, either. 

"I'd like to have a good month of 
practice with this bunch," Coach Lefty 
Lefebvre says. "Then we'd be a pretty fair 
club. In fact, if I were running a team 
this summer, I'd like to take this whole 
crew with me. I think we could really go." 

One of the tough parts about a short 
preliminary period is that a coach has to 
make his personnel decisions on the basis 
of such limited information. The first cut 
of the squad from 40 to 25 had to be 
made scon after the first intra-squad 
games. There'd been throwing and batting 
practice before that, and some shacking 
of flies, but the infield didn't permit real 
competition that shows what a boy can do 
under pressure. 

Lefebvre knew that he had some first- 
rate pitchers. Two are veteran starters: 
Bill Hayes, a big, 195-pound, 6-2 right- 
hander, won three games in eight starts 
last year; Southpaw Fred Kopf threw a 
no-hitter against Providence College in 
1950, one of his two winning starts in 



Maker of Champions 
For his contribution to schoolboy 
sports in Rhode Island, Tom Eccles- 
ton '32 was honored at the fifth an- 
nual award dinner of Words Unlim- 
ited, association of sportswriters and 
sportscasters. Writing of the selection 
for the Frank Lanning Trophy, Earl 
Lofquist '26 said it was "significant of 
achievement over a period of years" 
and "about the nicest tribute that can 
be paid to a guy." 

Eccleston is Principal and Coach of 
Burrillville High School. In 1950 he 
saw his hcckey team reach the finals 
of the New England Interscholastics 
before losing to Melrose. Again in 
1951 it was a finalist, losing to St. 
Dominic's Flying Frenchmen of Lew- 
iston. Me., in the third overtime pe- 
riod. Eccleston's baseball team won its 
third straight State championship, a 
feat unparalleled in R. I. high school 
history. His green football team placed 
third in a league that boasted some 
strong competition. All this by a 
coach, working "beyond the routine 
of duty," with a total enrollment of 
only 200 boys to call on for all sports. 
In hockey this winter, Burrillville 
snapped the 16-game winning streak 
of Northwood High of Lake Placid. 
It also provided seven players in an 
all-star squad which beat Montreal 
Catholic High, undefeated in Mont- 
real play and winner over a Boston 
all-star team. 



three games. And the coach is particularl> 
high on Dave Traynor, another lefthander 
who showed great promise with a weak 
Freshman team last year, though he won 
two and lost three. Joe McOsker, who 
pitched well in relief last spring. Randy 
Duphiney, Jerry Kearney, and Fred Glea- 
son are the other leading prospects. 

Although Capt. Al Gauthier was a 
regular second-baseman last year when 
he batted .308, he was a catcher before 
coming to Brown. He moves back of the 
plate this year experimentally. In thai 
spot already is Don Whiston, the Ail- 
American hcckey player, who did a good 
bit of the receiving in 1950 and was 
ranked number one at the end of the 
year. If Gauthier doesn't work out there, 
he has an outfield berth waiting for him. 
The lad is versatile. 

The Bruin infield will be manned by 
veterans. Bump Spangenberg appeared to 
have the inside track at first, where he 
was a reserve last year. Al Karb, a Sopho- 
more, and Jack Shulz are the opposition. 
Bob MacConnell, a three-letterman, will 
again hold down second, with Glenn 
Flanders on duty at short for his third 
season. Bob Wheeler, who spelled Fland- 
ers last year, moved over to third to take 
the place of Paul Wasseth, last year's 
captain. Other infielders include the Soph- 
omores, Tat Nahabedian and Ted Jadick. 

With Harvey Lapides and Chuck Nel- 
son graduated, only Steve Fenn is back 
from the outfield trio. However, Norm 
Bendroth was a letter-winning player 
from two seasons ago who has picked up 
the sport after little service in 1950. Jack 
Gilbert, defense man in hockey, has 
moved from behind the plate to the gar- 
dens, and Hal Campbell, a promising 
Sophomore, leads such other contenders 
as Dick Sherman and Joe Tauro. 

Talent for Tennis 

With every intention of bettering its 
last season's record of six wins in eight 
matches, the Brown tennis team is look- 
ing forward to outdoor practice after a 
winter of lobbing and volleying in the 
East Providence courts of J. D. E. Jones 
'93. 

Led by Captain Perry Herst, the squad 
will have University champion Don Alsop 
playing the number one position, and Gil 
Bach, Steve Espo, Lohr Gonzales, Dwight 
Ambach and Web Ray returning from 
last year's Varsity. Up from the 1950 
Freshman team are Fred Ryder, Ed Rit- 
chie, Walt Schwabe, Jack Corcoran, Steve 
Barchet and Dike Duncan. 

Coach Art Palmer, Jr., '48 has high 
hopes for the Bruins in their 11 -match 
schedule that opened on April 13 against 
Navy at Annapolis. Highlight of the sea- 
son will come on May 18 and 19 when 
Brown will be host for the playoffs of 
the New England Intercollegiate Lawn 
Tennis Association. 

The entire .schedule is: April 13, at 
Navy; April 14, at Rutgers; April 18, at 
U.Conn.; April 21, M.I.T.; April 25, at 
Holy Cross; April 26, Rhode Island; April 
28, at Harvard; May 2, Tufts; May 5, 
Yale; May 7, at W.P.I. ; May 12, Spring- 
field: May 18-19, NEILTA. 



APRIL 19,51 



13 



Oarsmen Schedule Five Races 



Informal Crew Aims High 

IF THE SCHEDULE for the Brown Rowing 
Association looks tough this spring, it"s 
because the crew wanted it that way. 
They picked their competition beheving 
that the only way to get there is to com- 
pete with good crews. Their dates are the 
following: April 14 — Columbia on the 
Harlem River, New York. April 21 — 
Cornell at Ithaca. April 28 — Amherst on 
the Seekonk River. May 5 — Rutgers at 
New Brunswick. May 12 — Dartmouth at 
Hanover. 

The oarsmen transferred their training 
quarters from Marvel Gym to the Narra- 
gansett Boat Clubhouse on the Seekonk 
the first of March. A month later a new 
shell arrived from the Worcester Oar and 
Paddle Co., and a shell carrier in the 
form of a trailer has been added to the 
equipment as well. The shell was the 
fourth to become the Association's prop- 
erty and was bought to ease the strain on 
the Pocock shell purchased a year ago. It 
will afford visiting crews a first-class ve- 
hicle. 

Coach Robert O. Read, former Prince- 
ton blade, felt in March that the crew was 
far ahead of where it was at the same 
time last year. "We face as rugged a 
schedule as any college of Brown's size 
could hope to handle, and that includes 
institutions which give rowing financial 
support. The boys have been working 
hard to get ready." He has had to direct 
the program of 25 Varsity candidates and 
55 Freshmen. About half of the group re- 
mained in Providence during the Spring 
Vacation in order to get in some extra 
practice. A subsequent cut reduced the 
squad to two Varsity and two Freshman 
boats. 

With such material available, it is the 
intention to enter a Freshman crew in 
each regatta in addition to Varsity and 
Junior Varsity boats. Although the step 
imposes extra burdens on the volunteer 
coach, the Association, and its finances, 
it was taken in recognition of the wider 
participation in the sport. Moreover, the 
Varsity felt that it should comply with 
eligibility regulations in effect at the other 
colleges. The extra crews will also pro- 
vide valuable experience and serve as a 
source of replacement for graduating 
oarsmen. 

Among the hold-overs from the Varsity 
of last year are Jim Donaldson, Harlan 
Bartlett, George Vest, Howard Wenzel, 
Dave Curry, George Pollard, and Ralph 
Gerstle. Donaldson and Bartlett were in 
on the revival of crew at Brown. The for- 
mer prepped at St. Andrew's School in 
Delaware, where he rowed and where the 
first shell for the crew came from in 1949 
(a 28-year-old affair— $100). Bartlett 
rowed for six years at Exeter, and his 
long experience and his 6-5 190-pound 
frame make him the most valuable man 
in the boat. He will return to his number 
seven seat, where he captained the crew 
last year. 

Vest, a Junior from Washington, D.C., 
who rowed with Donaldson at St. An- 
drew's, is likely to stroke the crew again. 
The captain is Curry, a lanky Senior from 
Pittsburgh where he attended Shady Side. 



He is also editor-in-chief cf the 1951 
Liber. Wenzel comes from Buffalo, where 
he rowed at the West Side Rowing Club. 
Like Wenzel, Pollard is a Sophomore who 
returns from last year's Varsity. 

Prospects looked dim last fall when 
Captain Arthur "Duke" Pinkham was 
called into military service, but Dave 
Holies, a Sophomore transfer student, ar- 
rived from Cornell where he had rowed 
on the Big Red's first Freshman crew. He 




DAVE CURRY: Senior from Pittsburgh, 
who is also Edi:or of Ihe Liber Brunen- 
sis, captains the first boot of the Brown 
Rowing Association. The oarsmen have 
set themselves a high mark to shoot at 
in 1951 competition. 

fitted into the Brown Association's boat 
at number five last fall, as did another 
Sophomore transfer, Douglas Turner of 
Buffalo. Junior Bob Turok of Perth Am- 
boy, N. J., took over Donaldson's seat last 
fall while Jim was still in Africa and is 
working for a seat this spring. Two ex- 
perienced coxwains are Ralph Gerstle and 
Ed Collins, Varsity and Jayvee coxes last 
year. Other leading candidates are John 
Hooton, Dave Busing, Bob Con!ey, Bruce 
Carpenter, Stafford Frazier, and Richard 
Clough. 

Columbia, the Association's first oppo- 
nent, placed fifth in the Marietta Regatta, 
second only to M.l.T. among the Eastern 
entries. Even tougher is the second race, 
against Cornell, which rated tops in the 
East on a par with Harvard in pre-season 
ratings. Rutgers, like Cornell and Colum- 
bia, has rowed for the NRA championship 
since the war. It nosed out the Bruins in 
the race on the Raritan last fall when the 
new boathouse was dedicated there. The 
Amherst race will be a feature of the an- 
nual Spring Weekend at Brown, which is 
the modern campus equivalent of the 
Junior Week of old. Similarly, the week- 
end when the crew journeys to Hanover 
will be that of the Green Key festivity 



there. This rivalry has been stimulated by 
the gift of a trophy, named the Atalanta 
Cup in honor of the famous shell of 
Brown's rowing heyday in the 'seventies. 
This cup rests for the moment in Han- 
over by virtue of Dartmouth's 1950 vic- 
tory. 

Crew is still without recognition as an 
official sport at Brown and is likely to 
continue on an informal basis. Its finan- 
cial support comes from friends of row- 
ing, several of them oarsmen at other 
colleges in undergraduate days. The 
Brown students speak with gratitude cf 
the service of Coach Read and the inter- 
est of the Executive Committee of the 
Brown Rowing Association: Joseph Farn- 
ham, Walter Stein, Townes Harris, Mau- 
rice Wolf, and Joseph Buonanno. 



Sailors' Starting Line 

Every weekend from April 7 through 
May 16, Brown University sailors will be 
enjoying competition at home and away 
this spring. The opening regatta was in 
Annapolis where they sought to retain the 
McMillan Cup in a two-day series with 
nine other Eastern leaders. The nine-man 
crew was headed by Townsend Morey of 
Edgartown, others being Commodore 
Francis Crowley, Paul Page, Tapley 
Stephenson, Phil Hayes, Al Fort, Harry 
Duane, Al Haight, and Charles Frank. 
Missing from the group was Frank Foster, 
who skippered the cup-winners last year. 
The Naval Academy provided the 44-foot 
Luders yawls for the races. 

Major home events on the schedule are 
the Jefi" Davis Trophy race with Rhode 
Island April 14, the 16th annual Lucian 
Sharpe Trophy Regatta on April 15, and 
the George Owen Trophy Regatta for the 
Ivy League championship May 5 and 6. 
{For the last event, the Edge wood Yacht 
Club has again offered its facilities.) In- 
terfraternity finals will be held Aoril 29. 
Invitation events include the Eastern 
Women's College Regatta May 13 and the 
Brown Interscholastics May 19, both at 
the Brown Boathouse on the Seekonk. 

In addition the Brown yachtsmen will 
compete in the leading regattas at Cam- 
bridge and New London. They hope to re- 
turn to the Nationals for which they have 
been eligible a number of times in the 
past. 

Anderton Coaching Golf 

Ralph Anderton '30, Brown wrestling 
coach, will take on another sport this 
spring when he takes charge of the golf 
team. Handicapped by the weather, the 
players didn't start their qualifying work 
until the first week in April. However, 
five are on hand from last year to provide 
a squad nucleus. Joe McVicker, number 
one last season, is expected to lead the 
team, along with Captain Frank Wellers- 
dieck. Boots McKinley, Dave Buckley, 
and Dud Bohlen. Rip Connors returns 
after a year's absence, while several 
Sophomores appear to challenge the up- 
perclassmen for berths in the playing 
group. 

The schedule: April 24 — Connecticut 
at Providence. April 26 — Harvard at 
Providence. April 27 — Boston University 
at Boston. April 30 — Rhode Island at 
Providence. May 5 — Holy Cross at Wor- 
cester. May 7 — Dartmouth at Providence. 
Mav 9 — Williams at Williamstown. May 
12-14— FIG A at Yale. 



14 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



The Curtain Falls on a Good Winter 




COACHES AND CAPTAINS for next year's winter sports, left to right: Moulton (hockey) with Co- 
Captains Gubbins and Gilbert; Anderton (wrestling) with Rowe; Watmough (swimming) with Co- 
Captains Pfonnkuch and Arenberg; William T. Brocmhead '35, host at the annual dinner ot 
Carr's; Morris (basketball) wi.h Badoian; and Fuqua (trock) with Hiney. Lettermen voted just before 

the banquet. 



Tank Title Is Shared 

The Brown swimmers are New Eng- 
land champions again, but this year the 
honor is not theirs alone. In an exciting 
meet that found the defending Bears trail- 
ing Trinity College by two points going 
into the final event, the 400-yard freestyle, 
the star relay team of Co-Captains Bob 
Barlow and Duncan Gray plus Harry 
Newhard and Don Englehard came 
through with the essential victory to tie 
the meet, 48-48. Since Trinity placed sec- 
ond for eight points. Brown needed the 
winner's ten points to keep its hold on the 
five-State crown. The time of 3:37.6 was 
the best ever for the Bruin quartet. 

Trinity was definitely a dark horse entry 
as the 13 college teams gathered in March 
at the University of Connecticut pool in 
Storrs; Coach Watmough was expecting 
most of his trouble from the season-strong 
squads of Williams, Amherst and Bow- 
doin. But the team from Hartford gave 
early promise of its strength by qualifying 
nine men (against eight for Williams and 
seven for Brown) in the first-day trials. It 
followed up this promise by capturing the 
first event of the meet, the 300-yard med- 
ley relay. 

Brown came in third in the opener, then 
took a second (Don Cameron in the 220- 
yard freestyle) and two si.xths (Newhard 
in the 50-yard freestyle and Otto Pfann- 
kuch in the diving. Pfannkuch had set a 



pool record earlier in the year). Things 
did not look too bright for the defending 
champions until Barlow won the 100-yard 
freestyle in 53.2, his best time of the sea- 
son, and Gray duplicated, demonstrating 
his famous last lap power to edge out 
Trinity's Don Parrott in the 200-yard 
breast stroke. Cameron took another sec- 
ond in the 300-yard individual medley, 
contributing vital points to the final score. 
The Bears failed to place in the 440-yard 
freestyle and the 200-yard backstroke. 

Trinity depth surprised all the entrants: 
the co-champs finished first only once but 
managed to place two men in each of 
three events to build up their point advan- 
tage. Williams, whose Don Jones was the 
meet's only double winner, came in third 
with 41 points and Amherst tallied up 34 
points for fourth place. 

In a record-setting attempt during the 
NEAAAU Meet at the Colgate-Hoyt 
pool. Gray knocked .4 seconds off Milt 
Brier's Brown record for the 100-yard 
breaststroke by swimming it in 1:4.8. In 
the same meet. Freshman Ronnie Wills 
captured the New England junior men's 
crown in the 300-yard individual medley. 
Ralph Brisco, also of the Freshmen, 
placed third in the senior men's 440-yard 
freestyle. 

At the Eastern Intercollegiate Swim- 
ming League contest at Harvard, the 
Bears chalked up a fourth place in the 



400-yard relay for their only score in the 
meet which was dominated by Yale's great 
team. 

The R. I. men's 300-yard medley relay 
title was won by the Freshmen team of 
Brisco, Wills and Barry Pearce who broke 
a 1937 Brown Freshmen record by almost 
two seconds in covering the distance in 
3:16.1. 

The Wrestling Future 

Having just completed the best sea- 
son in over 20 years — they lost only to 
Yale in nine dual meets — the Brown 
wrestlers journeyed to Penn State for the 
Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Cham- 
pionships. Five squad members reached 
the quarterfinals and the team picked up 
a single point in a tournament that in- 
cluded the top collegiate mat stars in the 
East. 

Angus MacLean provided Brown's 
single tally by pinning Harvard's Icko 
Iben in 2:46 of the first period. MacLean 
had beaten Iben twice before, but this was 
the first time he had won with a fall. Dave 
Michael and Marc Rowe. nreviously un- 
defeated this season, and Dana Eastham 
and Captain John Chernak all won first- 
round matches at their respective weights. 
None of the Bruins advanced beyond the 
second round. Michael won an 8-5 de- 
cision over Longman of Yale only to lose 
to Swygert of Army, 5-1. Eastham had a 
6-2 decision over Marino of Temple but 



APRIL 1951 



15 



was shaded by Lemyre of Penn State 4-3. 
Rowe beat Van Hassel of Columbia han- 
dily 7-1 but lost to Dickason of Cornell 
6-1. After winning a referee's decision 
over Hepburn of Penn, Chernak was 
thrown by Barr of Penn State in the last 
seven seconds of their bout. 

Penn State won the meet with Lehigh 
a close second. At a meeting of the 
coaches held during the championhips, 
Brown Coach Ralph Anderton '30 was 
elected Vice-President of the Eastern 
Wrestling Association, regulating body 
for Eastern collegiate wrestling. 

Michael finished his collegiate wrestling 
career with a record of 33 dual matches 
without defeat. Rowe, who was elected 
next year's captain, has lost but one 
match in three years of collegiate compe- 
tition. The lower weights presented a 
problem all season as 123-pounder Bill 
Bass was out for the major portion of the 
season with illness and Bob Dolt, who 
filled in during the latter part of the year 
for Bob Smart, had a great deal of 
trouble keeping his weight at 130 pounds. 
Angus MacLean (137 pounds) and Dana 
Eastham (167 pounds), both of whom 
were undefeated as Freshmen last year, 
dropped but one match during the season. 
Eastham's loss was to the outstanding 
wrestler in the East, Yale's George Grave- 
son. MacLean was beaten by Paul Shorb 
of Williams, an old prep school nemesis. 
The 147-pound class was handled by a 
pair of Sophomores, Dave Seaver and 
Ted Ferriter, who alternated during the 
year. 

The outlook for the 1951-52 season is 
e.xceptionally fine. The lower weights will 
be well taken care of by Jim Kurfess, Lee 
Breckenridge, and Mike McSherry, all 
three having wrestled for the Freshman 
team this year. McSherry, who pinned all 



but one opponent, and Kurfess were un- 
defeated. The 137- and 147-pound classes 
will be strong with MacLean, Seaver, Fei^ 
riter, and Freshman Gordon Webster 
competing for the starting nod. Eastham 
and Rowe both are planning to come 
down a weight and wrestle at 157 and 
167 pounds respectively. Freshmen Jon 
Fay and Ed Rowland will add deoth to 
these spots. At 177 pounds will be Dave 
Lyons who wrestled several heavyweight 
matches this year. As a Freshman two 
years ago, Lyons was undefeated. The 
heavyweight class will be in the hands of 
sophomores. It looks like a battle between 
Fred Hinck, Gerry Towle, and Ken 
Bourne. 

The EIWT showing was not discour- 
aging, however, for this tournament in- 
cludes the very best in Eastern wrestling. 
The Brown team has been moving into 
this group slowly, and within several 
years the team should have the depth and 
strength in all classes to make a bid for 
the championship. 

Mt. Pleasant High won the Rhode Is- 
land Interscholastic Wrestling Champion- 
ship Meet at Brown in March with 28 
points over Central's 26. Other contend- 
ers: East Providence 22, Moses Brown 
19, Cranston 2, Country Day 1, and 
Hope 0. 

Kozak Got Coaches' Votes 

Fred Kozak of Brown was named 
guard on the second All-New England 
basketball quintet in March when coaches 
voted. In all 65 players from 29 colleges 
were considered by the coaches in their 
balloting. In being selected for the squad, 
Zeke Creswell, another Brown Senior, was 
given an honorable mention among for- 
wards. 



Shy on Track Depth 

Sophomore Walt Molineux contin- 
ues to star as Brown's champion miler, 
but lack of depth in the track squad 
spelled defeat for the Bruins in two dual 
meets and the fourth annual Heptagonal 
Games as the indoor season ended. 

Molineux" best showing was in the Co- 
lumbian mile when he finished third be- 
hind national champions Fred Wilt and 
Don Gehrmann. (This was at the New 
York Knights of Columbus Games when 
Wilt beat Gehrmann for the first time to 
end the Milwaukee runner's victory string 
at 39.) The Brown miler's time for the 
race was 4:19.9, which was 3.2 seconds 
faster than the time which won him the 
mile race in the Heptagonals. Brown 
placed eighth in this meet (which Army 
won); its only other first was chalked up 
by high jumper Tom DiLuglio who tied 
with Yale's Hippie at 6 ft. 3% in. The mile 
relay was fifth. 

Against Boston University, Molineux 
was a double-winner. He ran a slow mile 
(4:52.2) to win by 20 yards, then used 
his conserved energy to spurt past B.U.'s 
Fitzgerald in the final lap of the 1000-yard 
run. He repeated these victories in the 
contest with Dartmouth and ran the an- 
chor-leg in the mile relay to clinch that 
event for the Bears as well. 

In the B.U. meet. Brown chalked up as 
many firsts as the Terriers but not enough 
seconds and thirds, and the final score 
was 54-32. Mel Holland in the 600-yard 
run exchanged the lead twice with his 
rival, Sullivan, before hitting the tape two 
strides in front. Maurice Matteodo cap- 
tured the 16-pound shot-put with a dis- 
tance of 46 ft. 5% in., and DiLuglio had 
to leap no higher than six feet to take the 
high jump. Brown has been without three 



BROWN'S WINTER SUCCESSES TOLD IN SCORES 



Varsity Hockey 
Brown 20, Windsor Club 1 
Brown 8, Northeastern 1 
Brown 15, Holy Cross 2 
Boston College 4, Brown 1 
NYAC 7, Brown 5 
Brown 8, Northeastern 3 
Brown 4, Yale 1 
Brown 4, Harvard 1 
Brown 6, Princeton 3 
Brown II, Suffolk 5 
Boston U. 6, Brown 4 
Brown 6, Princeton 1 
Brown 6, Boston U. 4 
Brown 8, Springfield 3 
Brown 9, Army 3 
Yale 3, Brown 2 
Brown 13, Williams 3 
Brown 11, Boston Coll. 2 
Brown 6, Dartmouth 1 
Brown 5, Harvard 1 
Brown 8, AIC 2 
Dartmouth 4, Brown 3 
Brown 8, Colorado Coll. 4 
Michigan 7, Brown 1 

Freshman Hockey 
Brown 1, LaSalle 1 
Brown 2, Harvard 2 
Yale 7, Brown 2 
Boston College 5, Brown I 
Burrillville 3, Brown 2 
Brown 5, E. Providence I 



Brown 5, Cranston 1 
Brown 1, Hope 1 
Brown 2, Maiden Cath. 2 
Brown 5, Melrose High 4 

Varsity Swimming 
Brown 42, MIT 33 
Brown 43, Columbia 32 
Brown 40, Army 35 
Yale 57, Brown 18 
Brown 42, Williams 33 
Brown 46, UConn 29 
Harvard 43, Brown 32 
Brown 42, Dartmouth 33 

Freshman Swimming 
Brown 38, MIT 37 
Yale 51, Brown 26 
Brown 43, Moses Brown 32 
Brown 41, UConn 34 
Brown 40, St. George's 35 
Harvard 50, Brown 25 
Brown 40, Quonset 35 

Varsity Wrestling 
Brown 21, BU 11 
Brown 19, Williams 11 
Brown 20, Springfield 10 
Brown 23, Tufts 13 
Yale 15, Brown 9 
Brown 17, Harvard 13 
Brown 24, MIT 8 
Brown 19, Penn 13 
Brown 19, Wesleyan 15 



Fresliijian Wrestling 
Brown 25, BU 15 
Brown 31, Andover 3 
Brown 18, Springfield 18 
Brown 33, Tufts 3 
Yale 16, Brown 13 
Brown 21, Harvard 10 
Brown 34, MIT 
Brown 19, Naval Prep. 13 
Brown 16, Wesleyan 14 

Varsity Track 
Yale 75%, Brown 28i4 
Tufts 65, Brown 39 
4th in NEAAU 
8th in Heptagonals 
Boston U. 54, Brown 42 
Dartmouth 72, Brown 31 

Freshman Track 
Andover 56'/2, Brown 42'/2 
Brown 42, Hope High 30 
Brown 57, Tufts 34 
Brown 40i/2, LaSalle 31'/2 
Boston U. 44, Brown 33 

Varsity Basketball 
AIC 55, Brown 47 
Brown 50, Harvard 48 
UConn 64, Brown 58 
Brown 74, UMass 58 
Colby 61, Brown 58 
Yale 70, Brown 60 
Army 54, Brown 49 



Brown 59, RI State 57 
Brown 56, MIT 37 
Holy Cross 83, Brown 68 
Brown 60, UConn 58 
Navy 68, Brown 56 
Brown 62, Providence 61 
Brown 78, Boston U. 76 
Holy Cross 70, Brown 63 
Columbia 93, Brown 55 
Dartmouth 69, Brown 68 
RI State 79, Brown 70 
Brown 69, Providence 64 

Freshman Basketball 
Brown 81, Portsmouth 39 
Harvard 88. Brown 52 
UConn 63, Brown 48 
Brown 58, UMass 53 
Brown 71, Newman Prep 70 
Brown 86, Quonset 55 
Yale 76, Brown 48 
Brown 72, RI State 67 
Brown 98, MIT 31 
Holy Cross 63, Brown 54 
Brown 69, UConn 68 
Naval Prep 74, Brown 56 
Providence 65, Brown 48 
Brown 70, Boston U. 62 
Holy Cross 78, Brown 49 
Brown 65, Tabor 56 
Andover 65. Brown 59 
Brown 87. Leicester Jr. 38 
Brown 77, RI State 62 
Providence 75, Brown 73 



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of its top-flight performers. Gil Borjeson, 
usually good for eight points per meet, is 
on a leave of absence and competed in 
South America. Phil Palamountain and 
Harry Wood, both better than average 
distance runners, had to concentrate on 
their studies. 

Matteodo was the only winner besides 
Molineux and the mile relay team when 
Dartmouth hosted the Bears at Hanover. 
His toss this time was 48 ft. I'm in. Di- 
Luglio failed to make a 6 ft. 2 in. height 
and took only second place in his spe- 
cialty. Ezra Creswell, fresh from the bas- 
ketball season, captured the number three 
spot. Indian depth plus eight firsts resulted 
in the lopsided score of 72-31. 

When the Freshmen met the B. U. year- 
lings. Bill Reid (son of the one-time 
champion jumper, Irving Reid '24) won 
the 1000-yard run and finished second in 
the mile. Joe Burns copied this perform- 
ance, capturing the 28-pound weight 
throw and taking a second in the 12- 
pound shot-put. Stan Deck soared 5 ft. 
10 in. to win the high jump. But these 
points, plus seconds in the mile relay, the 
70-yard high hurdles, the 600-yard run 
and the high jump (a tie between the 
Cubs' Alan Fletcher and B.U.'s Horton), 
and thirds in the 60-yard dash, the high 
hurdles, the 600 and the 1,000, couldn't 
make up for six firsts, and the final score 
was 44-33 in favor of Boston. 

Outdoors this spring, the Varsity sched- 
ule has a top attraction in the holding of 
the Heptagonals at Brown Field May 19. 
The list of events: April 14 — B.U. at Bos- 
ton. April 28 — Penn Relays. May 2 — 
Rhode Island at Kingston. May 5 — Holy 
Cross at Providence. May 9 — Providence 
College at Brown. May 25, 26— IC4A's 
at Franklin Field. June 2 — State Cham- 
pionships. The Freshmen; April 14 — B.U. 
at Boston. April 21 — Andover at An- 
dover. May 3 — Rhode Island at Provi- 
dence. May 5 — Holy Cross at Providence. 
May 9 — Providence College at Brown. 

Philadelphia's Dinner 

The annual dinner of the Brown Club 
of Philadelphia will be held in the Mi- 
rage Room of the Barclay Hotel, Ritten- 
house Square East on Friday evening, 
April 27. (Note that this is a change in 
date. ) Provost Samuel T. Arnold, Dean 
Emery Walker, and Coach Alva Kelley 
will be the principal guests from the 
campus. The affair, which will start at 7 
o'clock, is the 82nd yearly gathering of 
the alumni in the area, and an unusually 
good evening is in prospect, the commit- 
tee feels. President Edgar Noll is head- 
ing up arrangements. 

A special reunion of former football 
players is planned for the late afternoon, 
in order to give them an opportunity to 
meet the new gridiron coach. 

Gala Set for Fall River 

Fall River's biggest Brown Night is 
in prospect for Wednesday, May 16. The 
dinner at the Hotel Mellen will attract 
Brown men and their wives, Pembroke 
alumnae and their husbands, and other 
friends of the University. The visitors 
from Providence will include President 
and Mrs. Wriston, Provost and Mrs. 
Arnold, and Dr. and Mrs. Albert C. 
Thomas. According to Norman Zalkind 
'35, who is in charge of arrangements, 
the dinner at 7:30 will be preceded by a 
reception at 7. 



The Brown Clubs Report 




NEW JERSEY ALUMNI m HIainfield and nearby communities were led by Joseph Freeman 
'32 in welcoming Al Kelley. They are shown here with high school coaches who participoted 
in the football forum which was a feature of the recent gathering. (Photo by Harold Morse.) 



Hosts to the Glee Club 

CONTINUING on the Brown Club trail 
this spring, the University Glee Club 
and Octet appeared in New Bedford Mar. 
1. Approximately 500 people attended 
the concert which was also broadcast by 
a local radio station. 

The New Bedford Brown Club, sponsor 
of the event, reports that ticket sales 
and program advertising netted $425 for 
scholarship fund purposes. Impressed 
with this showing and the favorable re- 
sponse of the audience, the Club hopes to 
make the affair an annual one. 

Howard W. Young '44 (see class 
notes) was General Chairman of the 
Concert Committee. Serving as Ticket 
Team Captains under him were Eugene 
Setteducati '49, Martin Miller '49, Leon- 
ard D. LeValley "39, John F. Gracia '28 
and Howard C. Renfree '42. Undergrad- 
uate William Bailey sold 28 tickets by 
himself in one morning. 

At the annual meeting in January, Ren- 
free was elected President; J. Russell 
Beach "32 was named Vice-President; and 
Secretary-Treasurer Jack M. Rosenberg 
'42 was re-elected. Twelve undergraduates 
from the New Bedford area joined Club 
members at this meeting. 

Jack M. RosEt>JBERG '42 

The Brown Glee Club appeared in 
Hartford Feb. 23 for the first time in a 
long while and we've really been missing 
some excellent singing all these years. 
Co-sponsor with the Hartford Brown 
Club for the scholarship fund-raising af- 
fair was the West Hartford Kiwanis Club. 

The crowd of several hundred enjoyed 
every minute of the varied program and 
showed its appreciation by demanding 
many encores. At Program Committee 
Chairman Jess Bailey's '16 suggestion, 
the Conductor invited all Brown men in 
the audience to come up on stage for the 
singing of "Alma Mater." The suggestion 
proved a ten-strike, for at least 50 Bru- 
nonians responded to the "call." 

The Committee — consisting of Bailey, 
Club President Ed Tuller '35. Club Sec- 



retary Cy Flanders '18, Bill Bieluch '39, 
John Montgomery '38 and Phil Steiger 
'47 — made a real effort to contact Club 
members and to attract others to the 
concert. The success of the affair has en- 
couraged plans to make the event an an- 
nual affair. 

The Club has scheduled its annual 
meeting for May, when Head Football 
Coach Al Kelley will visit Hartford. 
Meanwhile, between 12 and 20 people 
attend the regular monthly meetings of 
the Club. (See "Standing Invitations" 
box.) 

Cyrus G. Flanders '18 

New Jersey's Biggest 

With three alumni groups joining 
forces for the evening. New Jersey"s 
greatest gathering of Brunonians is in 
prospect for May 10 when President and 
Mrs. Wriston will be the guests of the 
Eagle Rock Brown Club, the Lackawanna 
Brown Club, and the Plainfield Area 
Section. Not only are the alumni forces 
consolidating for the event, but wives 
will be with them, as well as Pembroke 
alumnae and their husbands. The commit- 
tee is also inviting high school principals 
and head masters from the region. 

The meeting will be held in the Sub- 
urban Hotel of East Orange, beginning 
at 8:30, with a charge of $1.50 per per- 
son. The committee in charge includes, 
among others: George R. Decker, John 
Kreitler, John Hunt, Joseph Freeman, 
Charles Walsh, Ed Swanson, George 
Blakeslee, Jack Flemming, Charles Ab- 
bott, and Will Mooney. 

A feature of the evening will be the 
presentation by the Lackawanna Brown 
Club of its first scholarship. 

Organizing Trenton 

A NEW Brown Club in Trenton, N. J., 
is in prospect as the result of initiative 
taken by Bryon L. West '15. Alumni in 
the area will be advised by mail or phone 
if the tentative plan is carried out — that 
of having a meeting May 1 with Athletic 
Director Paul Mackesey as guest speaker. 



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In Andover's Log Cabin 

Dr. Bruce M. Bigelow "24, Vice-Pres- 
ident cf the University, and Prof. Herbert 
Couch, Chairman of the Classics Depart- 
ment, will be the speakers at the annual 
spring meeting of the Merrimack Valley 
Brown Club to be held Friday evening. 
May 4. Wives and friends cf the alumni 
in the area, which comprises a dozen 
communities, are invited to the affair, 
which again will enjoy the hospitality cf 
the Log Cabin in the Reservation at 
Andover. Pembroke alumnae and their 
husbands are included in the company. 
Arrangements have been in the hands of 
Secretary James S. Eastham '19. There 



are no better meetings of Brunonians any- 
where than these in the Merrimack Val- 
ley. 

Kelley's May Dates 
Alva Kelley, new Brown football 
coach, will be busy with alumni clubs 
after spring practice permits his leaving 
College Hill. Among his May dates are 
the Connecticut VaKey Brown Club an- 
nual meeting en the 18th; the Hartford 
Brown Club dinner on the 22nd (when 
Provost Samuel T. Arnold will be princi- 
pal speaker); the New Haven Brown 
Club meeting on the 23rd; and a Long 
Island gathering on the 24th. 



Brunonians Far and Near 



EDITED BY DOUGLAS A. SNOW '45 



1887 

AFTER NEARLY 61 YEARS in general med- 
ical practice in Providence, Dr. Ed- 
mund D. Chesebro has retired. Although 
he has net been very active since under- 
going a major operation two years ago, 
he has been thought of for several years 
as the Dean of the State's medical prac- 
titioners as well as the oldest. Another 
record that Dr. Chesebro is proud of is 
his attendance at Brown Commence- 
ments: he has been present at 64, which 
is all of them including his own gradua- 
tion. As far as we know, this is an all- 
time high. At present, Dr. Chesebro lives 
in a convalescent home on Pleasantville 
Ave., Greenville, R. L Dr. Frank C. 
Jadosz '34, who has been associated with 
him for several years, retains the office 
at Elmwcod Ave. and Hawthorne St. in 
Providence. 

1892 

Wilfred C. Leland has advised us that 
he has a new address, 4203 Cortland 
Ave., Apt. 207, Detroit 4. 

1893 

Dr. W. J. V. Osterhout was author of 
an article, "Distant Effects of Toxic 
Agents," that appeared in the November 
1950 issue of The Journal of General 
Physiology. Experimenting with Nitella 
cells at the Laboratories of the Rocke- 
feller Institute for Medical Research and 
the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods 
Hole, Mass., Dr. Osterhout discovered 
that the movement of substances within 
the cell can cause the spread of a toxic 
agent applied at one end of the cell. A 
previous paper in the same publication 
(July, 1950), discussed "Injury in Rela- 
tion to Cell Organization." 

The Rev. H. St. J. Filmer has moved 
from Norcross to Atlanta, Ga., where his 
address is 764 Arragone Ave., NE. 

1897 

Dr. Gregory D. Walcott, Professor of 
Philosophy at Long Island University, 
has been elected a member of the Phi 
Beta Kappa Associates. 

1898 

David Fultz of Lake Helen, Fla., is 
hoping to attend the big baseball anniver- 
sary in Boston in May, when professional 
ball is inviting some of the old-time stars 



to join in the celebration. This news is 
reported to us by Irving O. "Hoppy" 
Hunt '99 who visited the Fultzes in 
March. 

Class Secretary Theodore Dexter is 
also serving as Class Agent for the 1951 
Alumni Fund. 

1899 

No one in Connecticut is more pleased 
than Dwight H. Hall of Bridgeport that 
the present Chief Justice of the Supreme 
Court is a Brown man (Allyn L. Brown 
'05). Mr. Hall's father, Frederic B. Hall 
'67, also held this high judicial post. 
Vice-President Bigelow visited our class- 
mate recently. 

George A. Goulding is Grand Musical 
Director of the Grand Royal Arch Chap- 
ter of the State of Rhode Island and 
Providence Plantations, renamed after the 
154th Convocation in Freemasons Hall, 
Providence. 

Joseph W. Dows wrote us in March 
to note that he was leaving Miami April 
20 to return to his summer residence in 
Old Lym.e, Ccnn. His address there is 
P. O. Box 331. 

1900 

The Class Executive Committee is 
making tentative plans for a Class Re- 
union on Commencement Day, June 4, 
1951. Luncheon, not breakfast; details 
later! 

Leon H. Adams wrote to Class Secre- 
tary Willard H. Bacon to report his new 
addresses; it was the first we'd heard of 
Adams in many years. After withdrawing 
from college because of illness, he took 
up farming. He retired in 1947 but has 
seven children and 17 grandchildren to 
occupy his thoughts and time. In the 
winter months his address is Rte. 19, 
Box 330, Orlando, Fla. Come summer- 
time, he moves back to West Brookfield, 
Mass. 

The Class Secretary also had sadder 
news to relay. Ralph Stoddard died sud- 
denly on April 24, 1950, in Springfield, 
Mass. He had lived there for 50 years, 
first as a practicing lawyer and later in 
the automobile business. His wife, Mabel 
Nicholson Stoddard, and a brother. Dr. 
M. J. Stoddard, survive him. 

Herbert E. B. Case has recently com- 
pleted 20 years as Trustee and Clerk of 
the International College Trustees of Bei- 



Standing Invitations 

Brown Clubs in several cities 
are scheduling weekly or monthly 
meetings on regular days again this 
year. All alumni, resident or tran- 
sient in the area, are invited to join 
without formality at these affairs. 
In answer to our request for infor- 
mation on such gatherings, the 
Clubs have reported as follows: 

Baltimore, dinner on alternate 
Thursdays and Tuesdays each 
month beginning Jan. 18, 1951, at 
the Johns-Hopkins Faculty Club, 
6:30. 

Bridgeport, evening meeting on 
third Wednesday of the month, 
Barnum Hotel, 8 p.m. 

Denver, luncheon third Wednes- 
day of the month. Cosmopolitan 
Hotel Coffee Shop, noon. 

Hartford, luncheon on third 
Wednesday of the month. Univer- 
sity Club, Lewis St., noon. 

Boston, luncheon second Tues- 
day of the month, Thompson's Spa, 
239 Washington St., noon. 

Buffalo and Western N. Y., 
luncheon first Tuesday of the 
month. Hotel Lafayette, 12:30 p.m. 

Chicago, luncheon every Friday, 
Chicago Real Estate Board, 105 
W. Madison St., noon. 

Detroit, luncheon second Fri- 
day of the month. University Club, 
East Jefferson Ave., noon. 

Indianapolis, luncheon first 
Monday of the month, Charley's 
Restaurant, 144 E. Ohio St., 12: 15. 

Los Angeles, luncheon first and 
third Tuesdays every month, Ross- 
lyn Hotel, 1 1 1 West Fifth St., noon. 

Oregon, luncheon every Mon- 
day, University Club, Portland, 
noon. 

Philadelphia, limcheon second 
Tuesdav of the month. Alpha Club, 
1911 Chestnut St., 12:30. 

San Francisco, Brown Club of 
Alta California, luncheon second 
Monday of the month, St. Julien 
Restaurant, 140 Battery St., noon. 

Washington, D. C, luncheon 
every Wednesday, O'Donnell's Sea- 
food Grill, 1209 E. St. N.W., 12:30. 



rut, Lebanon. This college was formerly a 
school of the American Board of For- 
eign Missions of Boston. It is now one 
of the departments of the American Uni- 
versity of Beirut, the leading institution 
of its kind in the Near East. 

John R. Humphreys has retired after 
46 years in the active ministry and is now 
assisting in the expansion of the Peddie 
School. He is living at 123 East Ward St., 
Hightstown, N. J. 

Nathan A. Tufts, recovering from a 
heart attack suffered in early December, 
writes: "I am cutting down my work to 
about 10 hours per day from the 16 
hours I was working previous to my ill- 
ness." He is General Manager of the 
Hotel George Washington in New York 
City. 

1902 

Sincere sympathy of all Classmates is 
expressed to William C. Hardy, whose 



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THERE WAS STILL SNOW on the ground in February when members of the Advisory Council of 

the Associc ed Alumni toured the Quadrangle area before lunching in the new Refectory (seen in 

the background in Ihis Phcto Lob photo). Foundations of one of the lost dormitory-fraternity 

buildings are in the foreground at Thayer and Charles Field Sts. 



son, William R. Hardy, died Feb. 12, 
1951. Bill's address is 406 Blossom St., 
Fitchburg, Mass. 

S. Foster Hunt, as head of the World 
Affairs Council of R. I., was active in the 
events marking World Affairs week in the 
State. 

1903 

Marc T. Greene, world traveler and 
author, has been elected a fellow cf the 
Royal Geographical Scciety for his "con- 
tributions to the knowledge of, and in- 
terest in the science of geography." He 
was in Rome when informed of the honor. 

1904 

Guy Colburn, who is a Professor of 
Foreign Languages in the State College 
at Fresno, Calif., has been elected Pres- 
ident of the New England Society, a local 
organization that meets monthly for so- 
ciability. 

Harry A. Jager, Chief of the Occupa- 
tional Information and Guidance Service 
of the U. S. Department of Education, 
took an active part in the national con- 
vention of the Council of Guidance and 
Personnel Associations, held in Chicago 
in March. 



The Cruiser's Silver 
When the Naval Science Depart- 
ment at Brown held open house in 
Lyman Hall for the Rhode Island 
Brown Club members and their friends 
recently, an object of especial inter- 
est was the handsome silver service on 
display. Brown University is its cus- 
todian. 

The silver was originally a gift from 
the citizens of Providence to the 
Cruiser Providence. When the ship 
was decommissioned, the silver was 
entrusted to Brown, which will keep 
it until such time as the ship is re- 
turned to active duty. 



1905 
Howard R. Heydcn has a new address, 
327 Renner Ave., Newark 8, N. J. 

1906 

Walter Briggs is featuring an all-out 
final meeting of the 45th Reunion Com- 
mittee on April 27. At this time, plans 
that are now well in hand will receive 
the finishing touches. The Judge is going 
to have his latch string out at 250 County 
St., Providence, not only for members of 
the Committee but for all Classmates. 
This is going to be a primer to start off 
the reunion festivities. The ball is rolling, 
so watch '06 in June! 

Arthur Driscoll, our '06 representative 
in the legal fraternity of New York City, 
has been relaxing in the balmy atmos- 
phere of Boca Grande, Fla. As Arthur is 
planning to attend the 45th Reunion in 
June, we are looking forward to a first- 
hand report on this portion of the land 
of sunshine. 

Dr. Alex M. Burgess is emerging as 
the U. S. champion of refugee doctors. 
As Chairman of the R. I. Displaced Per- 
sons Committee, he is campaigning ac- 
tively to encourage the acceptance in 
America of qualified doctors from Euro- 
pean D.P. Camps. He is convinced that 
many excellent medical brains are not 
being given a chance to prove themselves; 
last year he read a paper before the Con- 
gress on Medical Education and Licen- 
sure, urging an easing of licensing re- 
quirements. He has been interested in this 
problem ever since 1939 when he found 
a medical school for a young student 
fleeing from the Nazis. This man is a 
successful doctor in Buffalo today. 

Leon S. Gay has been re-elected Pres- 
ident of the Vermont Historical Society, 
an organization which has grown from 
300 to 1500 in seven years. Gov. Lee E. 
Emerson of Vermont was present at the 
annual meeting and congratulated Pres- 
ident Gay on the Society's achievements. 

At the second annual meeting of the 



Metaphysical Society of America, Dr. Ed- 
gar S. Brightman was elected a Council- 
lor. He is a Professor of Philosophy at 
Boston University. 

Col. L. O. Tarleton has moved from 
Colorado to Texas. In San Antonio 9, he 
lives at 220 Medford Dr. 

In December, Robert F. Field formally 
retired after 21 years of service with the 
Engineering Department of the General 
Radio Co. of Cambridge, Mass. At a 
dinner at the Harvard Faculty Club, 32 
of his associates gathered in his honor, 
presenting him with a specially-designed 
"Type 65 R. F. Field Service Termination 
Unit" whose "operating range" was 
"1929-1950." A year after his graduation 
from Brown, Field earned his M.A. here 
and joined the faculty as an instructor in 
physics and electrical engineering. He left 
in 1915 to work for a Master's at Har- 
vard, on completion of which he became 
an Assistant Professor of Applied Phy- 
sics there. In 1929 he joined General Ra- 
dio where he soon became an authority 
on bridge circuits. He has had many ar- 
ticles published in trade publications, one 
of the more popular ones exploiting his 
favorite hobby: "An Engineering Ap- 
proach to Trout Fishing." (General Radio 
Experimenter, Jan. 1946.) Though retired, 
Field plans to be in and out of the lab- 
oratories for some time, working on vari- 
ous personal investigations he has started. 
At home he can enjoy the gift of his 
colleagues, in reality a condenser with 
which he did much experimenting, re- 
designed to hold phonograph records. 

1907 

There is a new granddaughter in the 
house of John L. Curran. Her name is 
Constance Cottrell Dean, third child of 
Mr. and Mrs. William B. Dean. 

President George Hurley has been re- 
appointed a member of the R. L Civil 
Service Commission for the term expiring 
April 1, 1957. 

A luncheon for Leonard S. Little, re- 
cently retired from E. I. du Pont de 



APRIL 1951 



19 



Nemours & Co., as we reported in an 
earlier issue of the Brown Alumni 
Monthly, had a pleasing write-up by 
Harry Riemer in the Daily News Record 
(New York) of March 22. "Looking over 
the room of more than 150 at the lunch- 
eon," Mr. Riemer wrote, "one got the 
impression that pretty nearly all of them 
at one time worked with Leonard Little 
or under him. There were many men who 
said they owed a lot to the guidance they 
received from Leonard Little at one 
time or another during their careers. . . . 
He was called one of the deans of the 
water-repellent movement — and various 
groups feel deeply indebted to him for 
what he had done in this connection." 

All members of the Class who have 
pleasant memories of reunions at the 
Carlton (later the Dunes Carlton) Hotel 
at Narragansett Pier may like to know 
that the hotel has been sold. It was in the 
news in March when, the Providence 
Bulletin said, the new owner was trying 
to get a liquor license. 

Benjamin P. Graves' new address is 
270 Nayatt Rd., Barrington, R. I. 

1908 

Frederick H. Pierce was elected in 
February as President of the Beverly 
(Mass.) YMCA. He has been a member 
of the board of the organization for 25 
years and has been its Vice-President for 
the last two years. A former Principal of 
Beverly High School, he is now Execu- 
tive Secretary of the Mass. Secondary 
School Principals' Association. 

The Rev. Albert C. Thomas of the 
First Baptist Meeting House in Prov- 
idence and University Chaplain William 
J. Robbins were official Brown repre- 
sentatives at the inauguration, April 12, 
of the Rev. Herbert Gezerk as President 
of the Andover Newton Theological Sem- 
inary. Dr. Thomas is a Trustee of the 
Seminary. 

Virgil Ehle is a Civil Engineer in 
Gloversville. N. Y. His address there is 
21 Grand St. 

1909 

Harold Tanner greeted the delegates on 
behalf of Brown University when Kappa 
Chapter of Beta Theta Pi at Brown was 
host to the first annual New England 
conclave of the fraternity. Attendance 
totalled nearly 100, with eight colleges 
represented from the area. William R. 
Maloney '51 was elected President of the 
conclave. 

Bob Nash writes enthusiastically about 
life in Warner. N. H., where he has made 
his home. A feature is the weekly meet- 
ing of the Warner Cribbage Club, whose 
members he thus identifies: "Three are 
storekeepers, two are truck-drivers, two 
are hotel-keepers (one of whom is Dick 
Heins '27, whose wife is a niece of Elmer 
Horton '10). Then we have a gas-station 
owner, a wood-carver whose work is 
known all over the country, an executive 
of a local box company, and the manager 
of the Henniker Crutch Co. (If any mem- 
ber of "09 breaks a leg, I can get a special 
price on a pair of rosewood crutches.) 
Senator Chandler's grandson, the local 
promoter and editor, is also a member." 
The ribbing and the spirit remind him of 
1 909 gatherings. 

Nash continues: "Don Richardson '08, 
retired from the N. Y. Telephone Co., 
lives at Wardsboro, Vt., about 75 miles 



from here. As soon as the roads get in 
good condition, I'm going over to see 
Don, whom 1 haven't seen for nearly 20 
years. I shall also call on Miner Fenn 
'08, one of my fraternity brothers, whom 
I haven't seen since 1908 — he lives in 
Londonderry, Vt." 

New York '09ers also get together oc- 
casionally. In early February for lunch 
at the Brown Club were Sid Wilmot, Tink 
Chandler. Larry Elliot and Newt Chase. 

Harry F. Cook notified us in February 
that he has moved to 245 Marlboro St., 
Boston 16. 



A Nieman Oscar 

When Nieman Fellows took over 
the Harvard Crimson for a day in 
March, one of their salutes was to 
Prof. Zechariah Chafee, Jr., '07. He 
received one of their hypothetical 
Oscars in the name of the "Harvard 
Square Academy." An editorial by 
Edwin O. Guthman of the Seattle 
Times, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer 
Prize for his reporting of "red-baiting" 
at the University of Washington, had 
further praise of Prof. Chafee: 

"Harvard has been red-baited more 
thoroughly than any university in the 
country. . . . It's too bad, for exam- 
ple, that men who have smeared Prof. 
Z. Chafee, Jr., were not required to 
take his course on Fundamental Hu- 
man Rights last term. . . . The at- 
tack on professors for holding liberal 
views has been malicious and exas- 
perating. We can expect it to con- 
tinue, but the right of professors to 
hold unorthodox views or participate 
in activities of their choosing outside 
the university must be defended 
staunchly." 



1910 

The second issue of the Class Bulletin 
was mailed in March. This new project 
on the part of Class Secretary Comstock 
is proving very popular and the latest 
edition contained many items of interest 
to Class members. Attached to it was a 
list of all members with their addresses. 

A Reunion will be held this year as 
usual. Tentative plans indicate that the 
get-together will be simple, probably lim- 
ited to one day, either June 2 or June 3. 
For any members who wish to stay over, 
the Class Secretary has agreed to arrange 
for inexpensive accommodations on Cam- 
pus. Just let him know ahead of time. 

Class Treasurer Bill Freeman reminds 
Classmates that in 1946 the Class agreed 
to annual dues of $2.00. This money in 
the treasury paid for the overhead ex- 
penses connected with last June's 40th 
Reunion, and it also takes care of the 
new Bulletin's costs. The 1950-51 dues 
are now payable. 

Two Classmates who are finding that 
retirement time doesn't have to be taken 
too literally are President Elmer Horton 
and Seth Kalberg. Elmer, in addition to 
being President of the Providence Rotary 
Club, is Chairman of a special school- 
building committee in Barrington, R. I. 
Seth, after leaving Stone and Webster, 
has gone hack to work again, but he 
didn't say for whom. 

Benjamin Miller moved to 32 Carter 
Rd., Wellesley Hills 82, Mass., in Febru- 
ary. Later word reported that he was in 



the Newton Hospital. Poor health kept 
him from attending our 40th Reunion last 
June. 

A letter from Mrs. Stephen D. Pyle re- 
ported that her husband, our Classmate, 
is recovering from a serious operation 
out in Seattle. 

Winfield W. Greene is living in New 
York City 63 at 2400 Sedgewick Ave. 

1911 

There were 40 acceptances for the 
40th reunion when Chairman Wright D. 
Heydon reported March 30. The follow- 
ing have thus far signified their inten- 
tion to attend the weekend affair at 
Snow Inn, Harwichport, Mass., June 2 
and 3: 

Dr. Edward B. Allen, John A. Ander- 
son, Earle B. Arnold, Henry M. Burke, 
Everett S. Carpenter, Benjamin H. Cate, 
Alfred E. Corp, Philip C. Curtis, H. Eddy 
Easton, Ernest S. Fitz, Judge William C. 
Giles, Frederick R. Gleason, Heydon, 
Jacob F. High, John E. Hinckley, Samuel 
M. Holman, John V. Keily, Ira W. 
Knight, J. Russell McKay, William W. 
MacDougal, Charles C. Maxson, Jr., 
Robert Cushman Murphy, G. Denny 
Moore, Dr. Arthur Palmer, LeRoy G. 
Pilling, Thomas H. Quigley, Orville P. 
Richardson, Julius A. Saacke, Judah 
Semenoff, Robert F. Skillings, Brenton 
G. Smith, Arthur E. Staff, G. Fred Swan- 
son, Wendell R. Swint, Ervin C. Tomp- 
kins, Alan A. Wood, Harold P. Worthing- 
ton, James A. Wilson, Ellis L. Yatman, 
Foster V. Young. There are more than 
15 others who hope to attend, in addition 
to those named. 

One of two Brown Directors of the 
International Institute of Providence is 
Ellis L. Yatman. The other is Robert S. 
Burgess '38. Second Vice-President of the 
organization is Gurney Edwards '18. 

1912 

Max L. Grant, President of Money- 
Meters, Inc., Providence, unveiled his 
latest coin device, the Grant Farelock, in 
March. The product of 16 years and $1,- 
000,000 worth of research and develop- 
ment, the Farelock is a multiple coin, 
lock-box fare collection machine for use 
on buses and street cars. In demonstrat- 
ing what his machine would do that cur- 
rent fare boxes will not do. Grant said: 
"We hope to do for Providence what 
National Cash Register has done for 
Dayton, Ohio." After watching how the 
devices in use on Providence buses to- 
day can be "outwitted," one observer 
suggested that he could make a fortune as 
a dishonest bus driver. Grant then re- 
vealed the advantages of his theft-proof 
receptacle. 

Frank H. Briden was re-appointed 
Manager of the Port Hope, Canada, plant 
of the Nicholson File Co. in March. 

1913 

Provost Samuel T. Arnold addressed 
the Women's Auxiliary of the R. I. Med- 
ical Society on "Civil Defense" in March. 

Edwin F. Morgan is Treasurer of the 
R. I. Cancer Society. 

Norman S. Taber, Managing Director 
of the U. S. Council of the International 
Chamber of Commerce, has recently re- 
turned from Europe where he discussed 
with continental businessmen the overall 
problem of an international economic 



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policy in a re-arming world. In Febru- 
ary he was the principal speaker at a 
luncheon meeting of the Export Man- 
agers Club of New York, presenting 
European reactions to the question: "Is 
Economic Growth Possible Under Re- 
armament?" 

1915 

John H. Greene, Jr., Clerk of the R. I. 
Supreme Court, performed the ceremony 
when Elliot Paul, author and traveler, 
was married for the fifth time in Prov- 
idence in March. 

Sidney Clifford was named to head 
the Membership Committee of the newly- 
organized R. 1. GOP Businessmen's As- 
sociation. E. John Lownes, Jr. '23 is 
Secretary of the group that was formed 
to revitalize the Republican party in R. I. 

At the annual meeting in March of 
the R. I. Cancer Society, Dr. George W. 
Waterman was elected President of the 
organization. Third Vice-President of the 
body is Dr. Frederic W. Ripley, Jr. '32. 

Sincere sympathy of all Class members 
goes out to Dr. Earl A. Bowen of Au- 
burn, R. I., on the death of his father, 
Charles B. Bowen, Mar. 6, 1951. 

Earl F. Luther was elected a member 
of the corporation of the Providence Tu- 
berculosis League in March. Prof. J. 
Walter Wilson '18 is Second Vice-Pres- 
ident of the organization. 

Miss Jean Scattergood, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Ernest T. Scattergood of Prov- 
idence, is engaged to John T. Flavin of 
Attleboro. 

William C. Poland is now receiving his 
mail c/o Brandon Inn, Brandon, Vt. 

1916 

Notices have been mailed to all mem- 
bers of the class announcing the plans 
for the 35th reunion which will be held 
at the Weekapaug Inn, Weekapaug, R. I. 
The reunion committee has arranged for 
accommodations from Friday evening, 
June 1, through Sunday dinner, June 3. 
The inn is beautifully situated in the 
South County area of the state with the 
ocean hard by and the beautiful Mis- 



Financing Defense 

The U. S. Budget can be reduced 
by at least 10 billion dollars, while still 
leaving intact all the government that 
a free nation requires and making 
generous provision for all defense re- 
quirements. Such is the assurance by 
the Committee on Federal Tax Policy 
in its recent publication, "Financing 
Defense." One of the five members of 
the Committee is Rowland R. Hughes 
'17, Comptroller of the National City 
Bank of New York. 

One of the drastic suggestions ad- 
vanced is that Congress should by 
law suspend for three years the opera- 
tion of every provision of the law now 
in force requiring expenditures or ap- 
propriations. Some exceptions would 
be restored promptly after study (like 
pensions to disabled veterans), but the 
idea would be to have an absolutely 
clean slate on non-military expendi- 
tures to start with. A new budget 
would then be prepared with no com- 
mitments to any program or group. 




WHEN IN ROME . . . Wearing their Western hats, given Ihem as part of the welcome to 

Colorado Springs for Hockey Week, ore: Athletic Director Mackesey, Team Physician Crone, 

Athletic Council Member Milner, and Athletic Publicity Director Dovol. The player was part 

of the decoration at the Broadmoor's Ice Palace. 



quamicut golf course only two miles 
away. A record attendance is expected by 
the committee which is as follows: John 
B. Dunn, Chairinan, Harry H. Burton, 
Charles J. Hill, Frederick A. Ballou, Jr., 
H. Stanford McLeod, William A. Gra- 
ham and John W. Moore. 

Judge Louis W. Cappelli of the R. I. 
Superior Court was named Lay Chairman 
of the 25th annual Catholic Charity Fund 
Appeal. He is a Trustee of St. Augustine's 
Parish in Providence. 

Col. H. Stanford McLeod was a mem- 
ber of the Committee that made arrange- 
ments for the appearance of Gen. Carlos 
P. Romulo in Providence during World 
Affairs Week. He was re-elected a Di- 
rector of the R. I. Cancer Society in 
March. 

Paul B. Metcalf and Mrs. Metcalf are 
grandparents of a boy born Feb. 26, 
1951, to Dr. and Mrs. Paul B. Metcalf, 
Jr., of Canton, Mass. 

1917 

President Arthur B. Homer of the Beth- 
lehem Steel Co. reported that his com- 
pany's productive capacity is being ex- 
panded 56';'r over what it was in World 
War II and that new ore resources are 
being developed in South America. He 
said that the largest of Bethlehem's five 
major plants, the one at Sparrows Point, 
Md., has an annual capacity of more than 
5,000,000 tons. 

Edgar O. Benson, Jr., has reported a 
new address: 82 Beck with St., Cranston 
10. 

1918 

Cyrus G. Flanders went to Chicago in 
March to attend the national convention 
of State Supervisors of Counseling and 
Testing. He represented the Connecticut 
State Employment Service. 



Gurney Edwards was elected Second 
Vice-President of the International In- 
stitute of Providence at its annual meet- 
ing in February. 

Prof. J. Walter Wilson of the Brown 
Biology Department substituted for Dr. 
Ernest M. Daland '12, President of the 
Mass. Division of the American Cancer 
Society, when illness forced the latter to 
cancel his appointment to speak at the 
annual meeting of the R. I. Cancer So- 
ciety. Wilson was re-elected a Director of 
the group whose president is Dr. George 
W. Waterman '15. Our Classmate is Sec- 
ond Vice-President of the Providence Tu- 
berculosis League as well. 

To The Rev. Earl H. Tomlin goes the 
sincere sympathy of all Classmates. His 
mother, Mrs. Matilda Hollier Tomlin, 
died Mar. 13, 1951, at his home, 149 
Congress Ave., Providence. 

1919 

Dr. Merrill K. Bennett, Executive Di- 
rector of the Food Research Institute of 
Stanford University, left in February to 
spend three months in British East Africa. 
He is one of five members of a Carnegie 
Foundation-sponsored study group which 
will explore at first hand subjects for so- 
cial science research in that part of the 
world. He is expected to return to Stan- 
ford around June 1. 

Donald G. Millar, President of the 
Greenfield Tap and Die Corp., reported 
to the stockholders in March that the past 
year had been the most profitable in the 
decade. It was the second million-dollar 
year in earnings in the period and showed 
the highest earnings per common stock 
share. 

Sincere sympathy is offered by all 
Classmates to W. Chester Beard whose 
mother, Mrs. Caroline Reed Beard, died 
Mar. 9, 1951. 



APRIL 1951 



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John W. Haley is one of three Brown 
men now on the Board of Directors of 
the R. I. Cancer Society. The others are 
Col. H. Stanford McLeod '16 and Prof. 
J. Walter Wilson '18. 

Dr. Joseph C. Johnston was appointed 
by R. I. Governor Roberts to the State 
Advisory Council on Health in March. 

1920 
Walter Hoving, President of Bonwit 
Teller, is Chairman of the Anti-Sales Tax 
Commission of New York, a group of 
merchants and others whose program is 
self-explanatory. His correspondence with 
Governor Dewey was front-page news in 
New York in March. 

1921 

Miss Mary M. Baldridge, daughter of 
our Classmate and his wife, Dr. and Mrs. 
Robert R. Baldridge of Providence, has 
been elected Secretary of the Student 
Government Association at Mount Hol- 
yoke College. 

George R. Ashbey was re-appointed 
Advertising Manager of the Nicholson 
File Co. at the annual meeting in March. 

1922 

William Paxton, with a colleague at 
Moses Brown School, has revised "Learn- 
ing to Write," a well-known secondary 
school textbook in English composition. 
Undertaken at the request of D. C. 
Heath in 1947, the work is a rewriting 
and complete reorganization of a text by 
the late Reed Smith, Dean of the Grad- 
uate School at the University of South 
Carolina. 

Miss Patricia Holt, daughter of our 
late Classmate, Maj. Walter S. Holt, was 
married Mar. 3, 1951, to John H. Newell 
of New York City. The wedding took 
place in St. James Episcopal Church, 
Birmingham, Mich. 

Arthur H. Feiner was appointed to 
the Public Utility Hearing Board of R. I. 
for a six-year term beginning in March. 

Dr. L. Dudley Bumpus and Mrs. 
Bumpus and their daughter, Gale, are 
off on an extensive tour of Europe via 
the Pacific Ocean and India. Highlight 
of the trip is a week's stay as guests of 
the Maharaja of Baroda, who, when a 
student at Harvard, was a ward of the 
late Dr. Hermon Carey Bumpus '84, our 
Classmate's father. The Bumpus family 
will be back in its Bel-Air, California, 
home around the middle of July. 

1923 

The Committee of Seventy, crusading 
"against municipal incompetence and 
corruption," issued an unusual report for 
1950, relying on the year's headlines in 
Philadelphia to point up the performance 
of public servants and the Committee's 
achievements. Chairman of the Executive 
Board of this aggressive citizens' group is 
Donald C. Rubel. 

Edmund J. Bennett was elected Treas- 
urer of Nickerson House at the annual 
meeting in February of the Providence 
home for the aged. 

President Kilgore Macfarlane's annual 
Report to the Trustees of the Schenectady 
Savings Bank a year ago was cited by the 
Financial World as among the most mod- 
ern from the standpoint of content, typog- 
raphy, and format of 2500 such reports 
examined and judged. The certificate of 



Reply to a Challenge 

"There is no doubt about the will- 
ingness of the American people to 
make whatever sacrifices may be 
needed," Arthur B. Homer '17 said in 
a March address before the Baltimore 
Association of Commerce, in which he 
talked of production for the mobiliza- 
tion program. "But," he continued, 
"they have the right to demand cer- 
tain things in return: 

"When they accept a deprivation, 
they will want to feel sure that it is 
really necessary and not imposed 
merely b;cause some bureaucrat thinks 
it would be 'good for their morale.' 
They would like to see, not politics 
as usual, but wise and selfless states- 
manship of the highest order. They 
are willing to accept the burden of 
higher taxes, but expect their money 
to be used prudently, with a reduc- 
tion in non-defense spending — honest- 
to-goodness reduction, not just a few 
half-hearted swipes. 

"They have the right to demand 
that in doing what we must do to meet 
the challenge from outside we do not 
allow our way of life to be destroyed 
by forces working from within." In- 
flation, he said, is such a threat, and 
price controls to accomplish anything 
constructive must apply to everything 
all along the line. Moreover, the peo- 
ple have the right to insist that "the 
present danger be not used as a pretext 
for putting across any schemes in the 
direction of Socialism." 

The President of Bethlehem Steel 
Company entitled his address, "Our 
Way Is Challenged." It has been re- 
printed. 

this "Highest Merit Award" was repro- 
duced in the Report for 1950 which re- 
cently reached us. 

Mr. and Mrs. Harold F. Ballon have 
announced the engagement of ^ their 
daughter, Joan, to Donald G. Rich '51. 

Lloyd E. Gallup is with the U. S. Fin- 
ishing Co. of Norwich, Conn. Within the 
next few months he will become a mem- 
ber of the sales department in the New 
York office. 

At the February luncheon meeting of 
the Advertising Club of Hartford, Allen 
B. Sikes, Service Manager of the Bureau 
of Advertising of the American News- 
paper Publishers' Association, presented 
a colored-slide talk entitled "The Last 
Frontier of Profits." 

E. John Lownes, Jr., was elected Secre- 
tary of the new R. I. GOP Businessmen's 
Association. The organization was formed 
to revitalize the Republican party in the 
State. 

Sydney C. J. Patton of the Patton 
Realty Co., Ft. Worth, Tex., lives in that 
city at 314 Hovencamp St. 

1924 

W. Carleton Scott and his wife returned 
in March from a 14,000-mile flying trip. 
They flew their own ship from Birming- 
ham, Mich., to San Francisco (where 
they saw Bob Soellner), then took the 
air lines to Honolulu and back, and com- 
pleted the holiday by flying their own 
ship down to Acapulco and Mexico City. 
Their new Navion takes only four hours 
to reach Providence, where one daughter 



is a School of Design Freshman. The 
other girl is married, and Scotty expects 
to be a grandfather in a matter of weeks. 
"Wonder if any other '24 man has beaten 
me along these lines," he speculates. He 
had hoped to fly over to Willow Run 
with some other alumni to greet the west- 
bound Brown hockey team in March, but 
the weather did not permit. 

The Junior Figure-Skating Champion 
of the United States is Dudley Richards, 
son of our Classmate, Byron U. Rich- 
ards. Jr. The day before his 19th birth- 
day in February, Dudley snared the na- 
tional title at Seattle. Later in the month 
he accompanied World Champion Dick 
Button to Milan for the 1951 champion- 
ship and came in fifth. Now a Harvard 
freshman, he was only 1 1 years old when 
he won both the New England and East- 
ern junior titles. He would undoubtedly 
have come into national prominence 
sooner if he hadn't broken his neck in 
1947. This year he successfully defended 
the Eastern senior title that he won last 
year. When asked how his son developed 
into a skating champion, Richards says: 
"He just picked it up ... as some chil- 
dren pick up golf or tennis." Pretty fine 
picking up, we say. 

J. William Nutter, son of our late 
Classmate, Joseph W. Nutter, was mar- 
ried Mar. 3, 1951, to Miss Patricia Pur- 
cell of Washington, D. C. He is a grad- 
uate of Yale, 1947. 

David J. Wolper is Secretary and 
Treasurer of Dianol, Inc., in St. Peters- 
burg, Fla. He's at the Pinellas Interna- 
tional Airport in St. Pete and lives at 
8500 Blind Pass Drive. 

1925 

A. Butler Williams of Cranston was 
appointed Grand Royal Arch Captain at 
the 154lh convocation of the Grand Royal 
Arch Chapter of the State of Rhode Is- 
land and Providence Plantations in Free- 
mason's Hall, Providence. 

Edson Lockwood and his wife, the 
former Dorothy Patton, Pembroke '23, 
are at JaR'na College, Vaddukoddai, Cey- 
lon. Their oldest child, Patton, is a stu- 
dent at Oberlin; Michael, David and 
Merrick are in school in Kodaikanal, In- 
dia. 

Edward K. Strickler, who is recover- 
ing after an operation at the Veterans 
Hospital in Richmond, Va., has a new 
home address: 1610 Greenleaf Lane, 
Charlottesville, Va. 

Wallace B. Bainton was elected Pres- 
ident of the Wannamoisett (R. I.) Coun- 
try Club at the 53rd annual meeting in 
March. 

Joseph G. Glass is the author of "How 
to Plan Meetings and Be a Successful 
Chairman," a book published by the Mer- 
lin Press of which he is Publisher and 
Editor. 

Edward D. Jenkins has a new address. 
421 Woodland Rd., Madison, N. J. 



1926 

The Class is still holding its luncheons 
on the second Monday of every month at 
the Turks Head Club in Providence in the 
interests of the 25th Reunion this June. 
All 1926 men are invited to attend this 
Dutch-treat affair and take part in the 
discussion. President Ed Austin reports. 

R. Franklin Weller, Assistant Man- 
ager of the Providence Retail Trade 
Board, was one of two Brunonians on the 



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committee for the sixth Spring Fashion 
Revue. The other was Robert S. Hall '34. 

Carl Porter-Shirley was Newport Chair- 
man for the annual Easter seal drive of 
the Crippled Children and Adults of 
R. I., Inc. 

Prof. Arthur E. Jensen, Director of the 
■'Great Issues" series at Dartmouth, is on 
the faculty at the Bread Loaf School cf 
English, scheduled for June 27 through 
August 1 1 this year. Under the auspices 
of Middlebury College, the school (now 
in its 32nd year) presents graduate 
courses in English and American litera- 
ture for teachers an J students profes- 
sionally interested in literature. Chairman 
George K. Anderson of the Brown Eng- 
lish Department is also on the faculty. 

Elmer R. Smith, Assistant Superintend- 
ent of Schools in Providence, was instru- 
mental in setting up the first Book Fair 
ever sponsored by the department. The 
emphasis in the March program was on 
books that experts in youthful reading 
habits think youngsters should read. One 
of the participants in a panel discussion 
was Prof. 1. J. Kapstein. He maintained 
that modern literature had not degener- 
ated, that authors are responding with 
vigor in commenting on a much more 
complex civilization than 19th century 
writers had to work with. 

Edward Kip Chace will begin on July 
1 his new duties as Superintendent of 
Schools in Seituate, Mass. He is currently 
finishing out his term as Supervising Prin- 
cipal of the Lower Camden County Re- 
gional High School District, Lindenwold, 
N. J. Before that he was Assistant Princi- 
pal and Acting Principal of the Princeton 



Doctors in the Homes 
For the past three years Dr. 
Henry J. Bakst '27, Associate Profes- 
sor of Preventive Medicine at the 
Boston University School of Medicine, 
has been directing a revolutionary 
training program for doctors-to-be. 
Believing that social, economic and 
family backgrounds are important 
considerations in the treatment of any 
patient, he has set up a program 
which assigns each third-year medical 
student to a South Boston family 
whose needs are known by the Home 
Medical Service of the Massachusetts 
Memorial Hospitals. (Dr. Bakst is Di- 
rector of this service. ) 

While the student dispenses no ac- 
tual treatment, he observes his family 
closely, reporting in detail on his find- 
ings, and comes to learn the various 
factors that affect its health. This as- 
signment continues through the fourth 
year when the student also makes spe- 
cific calls, under staff supervision, at 
the homes of indigent patients. Stu- 
dents are permitted to administer sim- 
ple medication in this phase. 

"The effect cf the program on the 
students is striking," says Dr. Bakst. 
"It gives them a taste of real practice 
and throws them on their own respon- 
sibility in patients' homes. ... In com- 
ing face to face with the everyday 
problems of medical care, (they) 
learn how to combine the science and 
art of medicine." This art is what Dr. 
Bakst feels too many schools are ig- 
noring for the more technical aspect 
of modern medical training. 



(N. J.) High School. He is a member of 
the American Association of School Ad- 
ministrators as well as several New Jersey 
professional groups. He and his wife (the 
former Evangeline Avery P '29) and 
daughter, Elizabeth, will move to Seituate 
in June. 

Sincere sympathy is extended by all 
Class members to Class President Edward 
R. Austin whose father, Charles E. Aus- 
tin, died Mar. 23, 1951. 

Three Classmates with new addresses 
are: H. F. Altman, Dodge's Row, Wen- 
ham, Mass. John H. See, 25 Riverside 
Dr., Country Club Manor, Barrington, 
R. I. and A. P. Simmons, 53 East Patrick 
St., P. O. Box 382, Frederick, Md. 

1927 

Dr. Harold E. Conrad, Professor of 
History and Political Science at Wash- 
burn University for nine years, is a candi- 
date for election to the Board of Educa- 
tion at Topeka, Kan. He has two children 
in the public schools there. Conrad, who 
received his Ph.D. from the University 
of Toronto and studied international law 
at McGill, is one cf the country's fore- 
most experts on U.S. -Canadian relations 
and Canadian history. He is now writing 
a text in the latter field. Before going to 
Washburn, he was Dean of Men at Ot- 
tawa University in Kansas and was chair- 
man of a committee which established the 
guidance program for the school there. 
He has served on a similar guidance com- 
mittee at Washburn, is active in PTA 
work, and will be Chairman of the State 
UNESCO convention which meets next 
winter. He has been dean for two years 
of the Topeka Institute of International 
Relations and has lectured in various 
parts of the country under the Carnegie 
Endowment. He also heads the Evening 
College at Washburn. (Our informant 
was Prof. Matthew C. Mitchell of 
Brown.) 

For word of Dick Heins, see the 1909 
notes. 

William A. Walker is the Automotive 
Products Sales Manager of Tide Water at 
its New England headquarters in Boston. 
We heard of him recently from a mem- 
ber cf the Class of 1950, Dick MacKenna, 
who has gone to work in Tide Water's 
sales division ("we talked for a short 
while about our Alma Mater"). 

Charles W. Goulding of the University 
of Minnesota reports that Minneapolis 
had more than 40 separate snowstorms 
this winter, which required his shovelling 
at least 30 times. 

Selig Greenberg was on the April pro- 
gram for the Brown Faculty Club, sched- 
uled to speak en the problems of medi- 
cal education. He was the author of a 
series of articles on this tonic and related 
matters in medicine for his newspapers, 
the Providence Journal and Evening Bul- 
letin. They were reprinted in the Con- 
gressional Record. 

1928 

Dr. Dean D. Smith is on the staff of 
the Wilson Memorial Hospital, Johnson 
City, N. Y. His residence is at 72 Ben- 
nett Ave., Binghamton, N. Y. 

Mr. and Mrs. G. Mason Gross an- 
nounced in March the engagement of 
their daughter. Miss Ann Darling Gross, 
to Timothy W. Knipe of New York City. 
She is a graduate of Finch Junior Col- 
lege; Knipe is Princeton '44. 



The sympathy of all Classmates is ex- 
tended to H. Gordon Minnigerode, U. S. 
Consul in Karachi, Pakistan, on the loss 
of his father, C. PoweJl Minnigerode, in 
Washington, D. C, Mar. 1, 1951. The 
elder Minnigerode was former Director 
cf the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Wash- 
ington. 

Robert S. Preston also has the sin- 
cere condolences of Class members. His 
mother, Mrs. Florence Spencer Preston, 
died Mar. 15, 1951, in Providence. She 
was the widow of Howard W. Preston 
•83. 

Webster O'Neill, Jr., has notified us 
that his address is now Bronson Dr., Mid- 
dlebury, Conn. 




BROWN MOURNS the death of its Sen- 
ior Alumnus, George Weston '78 in Son 
Jose, Calif., April 8. Staunchly loyal to 
his Alma Mater, he was 97. 



1929 

Prof. Herbert H. Uhlig of M.I.T. was 
the speaker at a March meeting of the 
AE Club in Providence, talking on the 
sub-ect, "Metals Out of This World." 

William R. Faddis, who has been miss- 
ing in our records for several years, was 
"located" by Phi Kappa Psi Secretary 
Andy Comstock '10 this winter. Faddis 
is associated with the New York con- 
struction firm cf John B. Kelley, Inc., of 
101 Park Ave. His home address is 30-78 
Oceanside Rd., Oceanside, L. I. 

Raymond A. Balkcom has moved from 
Connecticut to Independence, Mo. His 
address out there is Residence #2, Lake 
City Arsenal. 

1930 

When R. I. Governor Dennis J. Roberts 
was made a Life Member of the Provi- 
dence Lodge of Elks in March, Past Ex- 
alted Ruler James F. Duffy, Jr., presented 
him with his gold membership card. 

Ermand L. Watelet was appointed Di- 
rector of Design of precision tools and 
gages at the Brown and Sharpe Mfg. 
Co. in March. He has been with the 
concern since 1934. 



APRIL 1951 



23 



Thomas Tisdell was 1951 Chairman in 
the Smithfield area for the Easter seal 
drive conducted annually by the Crippled 
Children and Adults of R. I., Inc. 

1931 

In February complete details of the 
Class' 20th Reunion program were mailed 
out to all members. Every phase of the 
schedule has been carefully planned, and 
the Reunion Committee urges early reser- 
vations to insure the fullest enjoyment 
of a gala Commencement weekend. This 
is what $20.00 will buy this June: Cock- 
tails before the Alumni Dinner on Friday, 
June 1; on June 2, transportation to Re- 
union Headquarters at the Hotel Viking 
in Newport, where caps and badges will 
be handed out; a luncheon followed by 
golf, tennis, sightseeing and "what have 
you"; cocktails and the 20th Reunion 
Banquet and election of officers; on June 
3, breakfast and more sports — for those 
without arthritis. For the Alumni Dinner 
itself, the Campus Dance and overnight 
accommodations on Friday and Sunday 
nights. Classmates are on their own. 

President Clinton N. Williams reminds 
Class members that in 1946 it was voted 
to pay $5.00 in Class dues for the period 
between reunions. As of February, only 
60 out of 400 members had "paid up." 
The Class Treasury needs these dues to 
pay its overhead expenses through the 
years, reunion or no. 

A Senate bill to grant U. S. citizenship 
to Mrs. Maria Rhee, mother of our Class- 
mate, Daniel Rhee. was introduced by 
Senator Theodore Francis Green '87 in 
March. Mrs. Rhee came to this country a 
few months ago from Korea; she and her 
son had not seen each other for 27 years. 

Winfield T. Scott, Literary Editor of 
the Prov'uience Journal, has been kept 
busy introducing celebrities in Rhode Is- 
land this spring. On Mar. 5 he presented 
the lower-case poet, E. E. Cummings, to 
a capacity audience in Alumnae Hall. 
Later that same week he introduced J. 
Donald Adams, a contributing editor of 
the New York Times, who spoke at a 
Providence Book Fair at Hope High 
School. 

Oscar E. Skinner, Jr., is now living at 
152 George St., Providence 6. 

1932 

The 40th anniversary of the National 
Urban League was celebrated by the is- 
suing of a book which recorded its prog- 
ress in inter-racial service. One section of 
the publication was devoted to a report 
on the N.U.L. Fellows. Noted was the 
fact that Alonzo G. Moron, who received 
a Fellowship in 1932, is President of 
Hampton Institute. 

LeRoy C. Thompson's new address is 
Windy Bush Rd., New Hope, Pa. 

Raymond K. Andrew is a Governor on 
the board of the Wannamoisett Country 
Club. His is a three-year term. 

John F. Glover is Assistant District 
Manager fot the Campbell Sales Co. He 
lives at 192-15C 64th Circle, Apt. 2A, 
Jamaica, N. Y. 

Charles E. Benz, reporting officially as 
new Secretary of the Plainfield Area Sec- 
tion I Brown Club, informed us per- 
sonally that he has been married to the 
former Grace G. Shahnazarian since Au- 
gust 26, 1948. (He wonders whether or 
not as the baby of the Class, he was the 
last to become a benedict.) He has a new 




PRESIDENT-ELECT Dwight T. Colley '18 
of Philadelphia will take over the lead- 
ership of the Associated Alumni in June, 
succeeding Dr. William W. Browne '08 
of New York. 

address, too: Martinsville, N. J. His next- 
door neighbor is Linton A. "Bud" Fluck 
'37, whose address is RFD-1, Basking 
Ridge, N. J. Oddly enough, both Bruno- 
nians really live in Pluckemin. Sic semper 
postoffice! 

1933 

Willard E. Retallick retired in February 
after more than 21 years as organist and 
choir director at the Cathedral of St. 
John in Providence. He plans to devote 
all his time to the Providence Mutual Fire 
Insurance Co. of which he is Assistant 
Secretary. Retallick's last service at the 
Cathedral closed a career that extended 
back 40 years when he started as a choir 
boy in St. John's Episcopal Church in 
Troy, N. Y. Since then he has served as 
organist at churches in Troy and Albany 
and as choirmaster at St. Dunstan's Col- 
lege of Sacred Music in Providence. In 
this city he also served as organist and 
music director of Temple Beth El, and 
as choirmaster at the Church of the 
Epiphany and St. Mark's Church. River- 
side, which last post he plans to retain. A 
choir of mixed voices that he directed at 
the Cathedral became widely known for 
its radio program, "Cathedral Vespers." 
He received his musical education in Troy 
and in Europe, earning a B.S. degree from 
New York State Teachers College. At 
Brown, he did graduate work in theology 
for his A.B. 

Howard W. Memmott, since 1949 in- 
dustrial power engineer for the Eastern 
Division of the Connecticut Light and 
Power Co., has been named industrial 
manager of the company. He will join 
the sales staff in Waterbury in April, 
pending completion of the company's new 
general office building in Berlin. 

Edwin J. Lyman is Clerk of the Cor- 
poration of the Fitchburg Yarn Co. 

Tom Gilbane made the presentation 
when the R. I. Brown Club Trophy was 
awarded to Dave Stenhouse, Captain of 
the championship Westerly basketball 
team, after the Marvel Gym finals. 



1934 

Bancroft Littlefield is home from the 
hospital, making excellent progress in his 
recovery from polio. He was a bit ahead 
of schedule in returning to his new home 
on Barnes St., Providence. With the aid 
of crutches he's mobile again. 

New Associate Actuary of the Mon- 
arch Life Insurance Co. of Springfield, 
Mass., is Richard H. Morse. Dick joined 
Monarch in 1948 as Assistant Actuary. 
Formerly he worked for the Connecticut 
General Life Insurance Co. and (after 
the war in which he was a Naval radar 
officer) as an actuarial consultant with 
the brokerage firm of Johnson and Hig- 
gins. His address in Springfield is 135 
Oak Hollow Rd. 

Robert S. Hall, Assistant Manager of 
Kennedy's in Providence, was on the com- 
mittee for the sixth Spring Fashion Re- 
vue, sponsored by the Retail Board of 
the city's Chamber of Commerce. 

Lt. David T. Fairchild sailed for Japan 
Dec. 29, 1950, just six days after his wed- 
ding. He is in the Army. 

Associated with the J. Walter Thomp- 
son Co. (advertising) in New York City, 
Edward N. Robinson lives in Walton, 
Conn., on the Old Boston Rd. 

A long letter from W. S. Steiger, Gen- 
eral Agent for Northern Ohio for the 
Mass. Indemnity Ins. Co., tells us of 
his newest son and new home at 11925 
Carlton Rd., Cleveland. He has been in 
insurance since 1949; before that he 
taught engineering at Georgia Institute of 
Technology, the University of Bridgeport 
and Ohio State. During the war he was 
Commanding Officer of the 1226th Engi- 
neers, a fire-fighting outfit. He is mar- 
ried to the former Clara Louise Goss, and 
they have a two-year-old son, Walter 
Seldon Steiger. Our Classmate's hobby is 
autos — sport, antique and foreign — and 
he'd like to hear from other Brunonian's 
with a similar interest. 

Stanley R. Hunt is living at Crossways 
Cottage, Long Mountain. New Milford, 
Conn. His cartoons continue to enliven 
the Saturday Evening Post. 

1935 

Dick Erstein, Senior Producer at Low- 
ell Institute Co-Operative Broadcasting 
Council in Boston, has been appointed 
Radio Officer in Greece by the U. S. De- 
partment of State. A former Publicity 
Director with the Columbia Lecture Bu- 
reau, he had been with the Institute since 
1947. His "Crossroads of the Future" 
won an honorable mention at the Ohio 
State Institute for Education by Radio 
in 1949. A Lieutenant Commander with 
the Eighth Fleet in World War II, he was 
on duty at the Yalta Conference. He will 
leave for Athens after Foreign Service 
training in Washington. 

Assistant Attorney General William J. 
Counihan, Jr., of Pawtucket, was ad- 
mitted to practice before the Federal 
Court in March. 

Sidney Johnson, Jr., formerly with the 
Barre Wool Combing Co., Ltd., in Mas- 
sachusetts, is now Superintendent of the 
combing plant of the P. McGraw Wool 
Co., Pittsburgh. His home address is 
Woodland Farms, Fox Chapel Rd., Pitts- 
burgh 15. 

Two Classmates with new addresses 
are: Richard A. Batchelder, 10 Damon 
St., Holden, Mass., and Dr. Edward G. 
Savage, 793 Main St., Walpole, Mass. 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



1936 

I5tlt in -51 

A mailing late this month will bring 
full details to members of the Class about 
the Bigger Fifteenth in '5 J at the Atlantic 
House, Narragansett Pier on June 2 and 
3. Plan on it! Write your old gang to 
come. 

The following sub-committees reported 
at a general committee meeting March 
20: Publicity — Walter Gray, Conrad 
Green. Bud GifFord. Activities — Joe Ol- 
ney, Gordon Cadwgan. Wives' Activities 
in Providence — Al Owens, Dick Pearce. 
Entertainment — Alden Dooley, Paul 
Connly. Bar — Dave Stewart, Walter Rol- 
lins. Insignia — Dave Stewart. Room As- 
signments — Walter Rollins. Secretary — 
Bob Kenyon. 

Charles B. White, in reporting a new 
home address — Batten Hall, Montgomery 
Ave., Haverford, Pa. — also told us that 
he is now associated with the insurance 
firm of H. C. Knight in Philadelphia. 

1937 

Arthur I. Saklad, Sales Manager of the 
Ben Elfman Carpet Co. of Boston, has 
been elected President of the New Eng- 
land Carpet Club, made up of manufac- 
turers, wholesalers, and retailers. It is 
the oldest organization of its kind in the 
country and is a model for many newer 
ones throughout the country. Saklad lives 
in Waban at 79 Evelyn Rd. 

Announcement of the engagement of 
Felix J. Freeman, Jr., and Miss Elaine 
Lavalle of New York City was made in 
February. He is with the Foreign Depart- 
ment of the Chemical Bank and Trust 
Co., NYC. 

Milton L. Levy is Vice-President in 
charge of Television and a Director of 
Bay State Film Productions, Inc. He has 
been with the company since 1947 and is 
recognized as one of New England's fore- 
most writers and producers of filmed 
television commercials. He has produced 
films for such national sponsors as the 
U. S. Navy, Sterling Drug Co., Barbasol 
and the U. S. Envelope Co. He works out 
of the company's Boston office and lives 
at 204 Langley Rd., Newton Center 59, 
Mass. 

The Rev. Robert I. Scott began his new 
duties in February as Pastor of the Bay 
Ridge Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn. 
His wife and two sons. Ian, three, and 
•Bruce, five months, have joined him and 
all are living at 640 Bay Ridge Pkwy., 
Brooklyn. 

.■\nnouncement of the engagement of 
Miss Charlotte R. Whittemore to F. Hart- 
well Swaffield was made in January. An 
early June wedding is planned. He is the 
son of Dr. Douglas Swaffield '06 and 
Mrs. Swaffield of Alton, N. H. 

W. R. Hulbert is living in a house in 
Wayland. Mass., that was built by a 
Brown man way back in 1815. He sent 
along this information in writing to us 
about the latest addition to his family. 

Evan Crossley is still living in Hagers- 
town, Md., but his street address is now 
1800 Preston Rd. 

Thomas F. Davis is another Classmate 
who has moved. His address is 138 North 
Marshall St., York, Pa. 

1938 

Bill Wolfe wrote in March from Santi- 
ago de Chile that he expects to return to 



the States in May. He had been back in 
South America since January and ex- 
pected to visit every republic in South and 
Central America before his return. He 
represents Jacques Kreisler Mfg. Corp. 
of North Berger, N.J. 

Capt. Wilbur E. Hogg, Jr., has been 
named Assistant Chaplain at the Indian- 
town Gap (Pa.) Military Reservation. 



From the Audiences 

It was originally Jesse Bailey's 
suggestion at Hartford, we understand. 
At any rate, the Brown Glee Club in 
several of its spring concerts has been 
bolstered by other voices in the sing- 
ing of "Alma Mater," which is always 
the program's finale. (We surmise that 
the "bolstering" has been quantita- 
tive rather than qualitative.) 

The idea was to invite all Brown 
men in the audiences to come to the 
platform to join in singing the Alma 
Mater. In Hartford, at least 50 alumni 
trouped up to the stage in answer to 
the invitation. In New Bedford, the 
performance was repeated. In Lewis- 
ton, Me., a stronghold of Bates in- 
terest, eight men were mustered by 
Barnaby MacAusIan '22. At Wilton 
Academy in Maine the lone volunteer 
had a warm reception from his home- 
town friends — Norman A. Smith '35, 
Principal of the Jay High School. 



Robert S. Burgess was named a Direc- 
tor of the International Institute of Provi- 
dence in February. Ellis L. Yatman '11 is 
another Director, and Gurney Edwards 
'18 is the group's Second Vice-President. 

Donald J. Eccleston has been named 
General Manager of the Warwick Chemi- 
cal Division of the Sun Chemical Corp. 

Rhode Island Chairman for the Centen- 
nial Fund drive of the Hill School is 
James N. Byers III of Providence. The 
1951 campaign goal is $1,480,000 to be 
applied toward increased endowment, fac- 
ulty pensions, scholarships and a building 
program. 

Two new addresses for Classmates are: 
Dr. E. Freeman Hersey. P. O. Box 606, 
East Lansing, Mich, and Francis X. Hope, 
Jr., 1613 Gowen Ave., Philadelphia 19. 

1939 

The Class Reunion Committee — Stan 
Mathes, Bud Reynolds, Pete Davis and 
Charlie Gustavesen — met in March to 
arrange for the 1 2th annual Reunion of 
'39ers. This year the event will be held 
Saturday evening. June 2, at the Wan- 
namoisett Country Club in East Provi- 
dence. 

Activities will commence at 3 p.m. 
when the golfers assemble for their usual 
"slug-fest." At 7:30 a fine dinner will be 
served, preceded by cocktails and fol- 
lowed by an interesting after-dinner pro- 
gram. Full details of the Reunion will be 
mailed to all Classmates soon. 

P.S. Almost forgot to mention that the 
cocktail party before the Alumni Dinner 
on Friday, June 1, will be held as usual. 

CHARLIE GUSTAVESEN 

1940 

Capt. Myron E. Wilcox, Jr., wounded 
in Korean action just after Thanksgiving, 
was awarded the Purple Heart in cere- 
monies held at the Yokosuka, Japan, U. S. 



Naval Hospital. A swimming star while 
at Brown, he has been in the Marine 
Corps since graduation. His wife and 
daughter, Judy, live in LaJolla, Calif. 

Providence Attorney Kirk Hanson was 
admitted to practice in the U. S. District 
Court in March. He has moved to Bar- 
rington. 

Norman Cheever has been appointed 
Inspection Control Coordinator at the 
Everett (Mass.) plant of G.E. He has 
been with the company since 1948. 

Dr. Robert E. Staff left in February for 
the government hospital in Sitka, Alaska 
where he has been assigned by the U. S. 
Public Health Service. A Lieutenant Com- 
mander with the service, he has been sta- 
tioned at the U. S. Marine Hospital on 
Staten Island, N. Y. His wife and two 
children are scheduled to join him in 
Alaska in May. 

Mrs. Robert Poole wrote us to an- 
nounce Bob's job with duPont in Wil- 
mington, Del., and their new house at 1 1 
Stuyvesant Dr., Edge Moor Ter., Wil- 
mington 261, Del. They don't plan to 
move in until June but will receive mail 
there. She is the former Jane Hadfield 
P'44. 

Reade Y. Thompson's new address is 
3205 Lancaster Ave., Apt. C-1, Wilming- 
ton. Del. 

1941 
TEN TO ONE 

TEN TO ONE you won't want to miss 
your BIG 10th Reunion June 1, 2, and 3. 

Your Committee has been hard at 
work on arrangements. 

Watch this magazine for final details 
this month, as well as your mail, but save 
the dates and make your plans to come. 

C. S. GUSTAFSON 

Robert R. Person is staff assistant to 
the Manager of Manufacturing at G.E.'s 
Large Apparatus Division in Schenectady, 
and has been named Secretary of the 
division's Appropriation Committee. A 
member of the American Institute of 
Engineers, he has been with the company 
since graduation. 

Leon L. Tracy, who has done a grand 
job in reviving the Connecticut Valley 
Brown Club in Springfield, Mass., has 
moved down the Connecticut to Hart- 
ford. He is associated with the Wilson G. 
Brainerd Agency, Insurance and Surety 
Counselors, at 1 1 1 Pearl St. His mailing 
address is 25 Sedgewick Rd., West Hart- 
ford. 

Prof. Walter L. Creese of the Uni- 
versity of Louisville's Department of Art 
was elected Director of the College Art 
Association of America in February. 

Two Classmates were awarded ad- 
vanced degrees from Harvard in March. 
William G. Milne received his Ph.D., and 
John R. Mars received his M.A. Milne 
earned his Master's at Harvard, too, re- 
ceiving it in 1947. He is teaching at M.I.T. 
now and will instruct at Tufts during the 
summer. Mars is now teaching at Culver 
Military Academy, Culver, Ind. 

Charles H. Bechtold received his 1951 
orders to report for service with the U. S. 
Marine Corps on Mar. 13, the exact date 
on which he reported for his first hitch 
in 1943. He was to be at Camp Lejeune 
April 9. 

Whereabouts: Howard Aisenberg, 45 
So. Lenox St., Worcester. Mass. Maughan 

C. Gold, 3407 N St. NW, Washington, 

D. C. John A. Padden, Jr., 53 Link Lane, 
Hicksville, N. Y. 



APRIL 1951 



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1942 

New Bedford attorney Jack M. Rosen- 
berg was named Public Information Offi- 
cer for Region 7 in the Civil Defense or- 
ganization of Massachusetts. His area 
includes Cape Cod and the island district. 
In February, Jack was electe.l Secretary- 
Treasurer of the New Bedford Brown 
Club. 

Francis Gilbane, Jr., is Vice-President 
of the Petroleum Club of R. I. He was 
elected to office at the group's annual 
meeting in February. 

Arthur DiPrete was Vice-Chairman of 
the ly.Sl drive ccnducte I by the Crans- 
ton Chapter, American Red Cress. 





ELLIOTT E. ANDREWS, who hos been 
in charge of the Social Studies Reading 
Room at the John Hay Library (or sev- 
eral years, is the new News Librarian of 

the Providence Journol. In oddition to 

maintenance of the flies and reference 

material, the post also involves editing 

the annual Journal-Bulletin Almanac. 

Robert Priestley, end coach of football 
at Brown for four years and Freshman 
hockey coach, is moving to Norwich Uni- 
versity as line coach under George Benz. 
Before his assignment at Brown, Bob 
played one season of professional foot- 
ball. 

The sympathy of all Classmates goes 
to George C. Rose, Jr., who lost his 
father, George, Sr., Mar. 17, 1951. 

Recalled to active duty, Capt. William 
H. Eeauchamp is on the Faculty at the 
Command and General Staff College at 
Ft. Leavenworth, Kan. His address at 
the Fort is 106-4 Fifth St. 

Whereabouts: Keith Brown, 1211 West 
St., Sheldonville, Mass. A. S. Clark, RD 
1, Jamesville, N. Y. Lincoln F. Hanson, 
c/o Psychology Laboratory, Middlebury 
College, Middlebury, Vt. Frank W. Mey- 
ers, Jr., 1401 International Bldg., St. 
Louis 1. Karl Willenbrock, I Waterhouse 
St., Cambridge 38, Mass. 

1943 

Earl Nichols coached Moses Brown 
wrestlers through another successful sea- 
son. They won five of six meets and took 
fourth in the R. L Interscholastics when 
two of his boys won championships. 



1st Lt. Thomas N. Tamburri has been 
assigned to the Medical Section of the 
301st Logistical Command at Camp 
Rucker, Aia. Since discharge from the 
service in 1946, he had become an Assist- 
ant Highway Engineer with the State Di- 
vision of Highways in San Francisco. He 
was recalled to active duty as an Army 
reservist. 

Padraic P. Frucht, a former Assistant 
in the Eccnomics Department at Brown, 
received his Master's degree from Har- 
vard in March. 

Arthur Parker is one cf two R. L 
orators who walked off with the top 
prizes in a contest held in Mexico City. 
A graduate student cf anthropology at 
Mexico City College, he won $300 sec- 
ond-place mcney for his speech on the 
topic, "The Influence cf Mexico on the 
United States cf America." Parker is the 
son of Carleton H. Parker '12 of Paw- 
tucket. 

Dr. Mortimer A. Gallagher is an As- 
sistant Surgical Resident at the R. L 
Hospital. His home address is 52 Adelphi 
Ave., Prov. 

Kings!ey N. Meyer played Dr. Chum- 
ley in the St. Martin's Round Tab!e pro- 
duction cf "Harvey." Director of the play 
was the Rev. Howard C. Olsen '38, 
Rector of the church. 

Two Classmates with new addresses 
are: Francis S. Cole, Jr., 20 Cole Farm 
Ct., Prov. 6 ani Franklin B. Floyd, 2920 
Broxton Rd., Shaker Hts. 20, Ohio. 

1944 

Howard W. Young, who last fall joined 
his father, George H. Young '23, in the 
practice cf law in New Bedford, has been 
recalled to active duty as a first lieu- 
tenant in the Marine Corps. He reported 
to Camp Lejeune in March. Earlier, he 
was Chairman of the Committee that ar- 
ranged the New Bedford concert of the 
Brown University Glee Club and Octet. 

Henry Popkin, who is now in the Eng- 
lish Department at Queens College, New 
York City, was awarded his Ph.D. from 
Harvard in March. 

Dr. Lawrence Herns has closed his 
Hartford dental office to return to active 
duty. 

Whereabouts: Charles C. Peck, Jr., 207 
Wayne Ave., Lansdowne, Pa. John D. 
Ross, Jr., 1200 Main St., Springfield, 
Mass. Norton C. Wheeler, Jr., Pequot 
Trail, RD 1, Stonington, Conn. 



1945 

Charles A. Brown IH, formerly News 
Librarian of the Providence Journal, has 
moved to Milwaukee to assume similar 
duties with the Milwaukee Journal. Elliott 
E. Andrews '47 has replaced him in Prov- 
idence. 

Louis E. D'Amico is Controller of the 
Duro Finishing Corp., Fall River. His 
home address is still 188 Whitmarsh St., 
Providence. 

John J. Fraizer is engaged to Miss Shir- 
ley D. Phinney of Danvers, Mass. No 
date has been set for the wedding. 

George E. Gregson, Jr. has accepted a 
position with the J. P. Morgan Co., Inc., 
on Wall St. He was formerly with the 
Irving Trust Co. of New York and is 
making his home temporarily at 46 W. 
89th St. 

Bill Bateman, Assistant Cashier with 
the Chase National Bank in New York 



City, lives in Noroton, Conn., at 28 
Thomasina Lane. 

Whereabouts: William F. Case, 5039 
N. Vancouver Ave., Apt. A, Portland 11, 
Ore. Hawley O. Judd, 172 Queen St., 
Bristol, Conn. Thomas R. Vennerbeck, 
Sweet Birch Farm, Kennett Square, RFD 
l,Pa. 

1946 

Class Secretary Sandy MacNair has 
really been doing some sleuthing lately. 
In a letter to the Alumni Oflice he re- 
ported the following changes of address 
for Classmates: Burton Blaustein, 127 
Farmedge Rd., Levittown, L. I., N. Y. 
Fowler Blauvelt, 34 E. 68th St., NYC. 
Dr. Clifford H. Marsh, Jr., Newton Falls, 
N. Y. James M. Stewart, R.D. 2, Easton, 
Pa. 

Sandy also wrote that Paul R. Green is 
with Vision magazine in New York City 
where he lives at 61 W. 10th St. and that 
Arthur E. Messner is with Macher Jewelry 
and Watch Corp. in New York. His extra- 
territorial information includes the loca- 
tion of Lewis A. Weeks in Salt Lake 
City where his business address is c/o 
General Petroleum Corp., 601 Newhouse 
Bldg. 

Lt. (jg) Edwin M. Knights, Jr., has 
been transferred from the U. S. Naval 
Hospital at Newport to the Minecraft 
Base, Charleston, S. C. His address is 
127 Ashley Ave., Charleston. 

A student at Pratt Institute, John S. 
Handcock is living in Pratt Vet. Apts., 
200 Ryerson St., Brooklyn 5, N. Y. 

K. Douglas Tobin has finally found a 
place to live in Cleveland where he moved 
last summer. A lighting specialist with 
General Electric, he resides at 2185 Oak- 
dale Rd., Cleveland Hts. 18. 

Harry L. Sheppard, Jr., is a student at 
Cornell University. His mailing address 
is RD 3, Trumansburg, N. Y. 

Whereabouts: Robert E. Barrett. 2310 
Ridge Rd., North Haven, Conn. Walter 
C. Drayton, 142 Rochambeau Ave., Prov. 
6. James S. Siegal, Apt. 8, 18 Valley Rd., 
Drexelbrook, Drexel Hill, Pa. Donald B. 
Thornton, 72 Indian Rd., Riverside, R. I. 
Harold E. Washburn, 164 County St., 
Attleboro, Mass. 

1947 

In a note informing us of his new ad- 
dress, Raymond Barnstone wrote that he 
was .Administrative Assistant to the Chief 
Engineer at the Engineering and Research 
Corp., Riverdale, Md. He has been there 
since last June, and his address is 3800 
Porter St. NW, Washington 16, D. C. 

New law offices have been opened by 
Roland O. Fournier in the Longley Bldg., 
Woonsocket. Early in February he was 
admitted to practice in the R. I. bar. 

William E. Porsche, an engineer with 
the Nordon Laboratories in White Plains, 
N. Y., is engaged to Miss Theresa Biehl 
of Beechhurst, L. I. 

George "Woody" Grimshaw, Assistant 
Basketball and Football Coach at Tufts, 
reports from his two year tenure at the 
University of Puerto Rico that the Puerto 
Ricans make good competitive hoop play- 
ers. Their only fault, he adds, is that they 
always want to shoot and can't be both- 
ered with practicing any defense. Woody 
is Brown's all-time high court scorer with 
1066 points in 67 games. 

Robert L. Pritchard received his Ph.D. 
from Harvard in March. He is with the 
G.E. Research Laboratory in Schenec- 
tady. 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



An accountant with the New Depar- 
ture Division of General Motors Corp., 
George W. Williams lives at 160 Dexter 
Ave., Meriden, Conn. 

Whereabouts: Anthony R. Camarota, 
8 Early Path. Newton Centre, Mass. Wil- 
liam J. Kaplan, 2801 Arbor, Houston, 
Tex. Lt. Howard E. Reese USMC, MOQ 
3104, Camp Lejeune, N. C. Robert Silva, 
522 Washington St., So. Easton, Mass. 
Walter H. Weinberg, 73 Waite Ave., 
Cranston. 

1948 

John F. Crowley was transferred from 
Providence to the Schenectady office of 
IBM just before Christmas. "I'm living at 
home now," he writes, "and still quite 
single." He has been a Customs Engineer 
with the company for almost three years. 
His address is 1205 Albany St., Schenec- 
tady. 

Peter L. Potter has a new position as 
statistician at the Fairchild Aircraft Co., 
Hagerstown, Md. His home address is 
845 Greenbrier Rd., Fairgreen Acres, 
Hagerstown. 

To Washington for an assignment with 
the Federal government went Bill Tate 
in February. He had been Director of 
Senior Placement at Brown since July, 
1950. He is living at 2034 O St., NW in 
the nation's capital. 

With his M.B.A. degree from Harvard 
(vintage 1950), R. Gordon McGovern has 
joined Merck and Co., Rahway, N. J., as 
an Antibiotic Schedule Supervisor. He is 
living in Elizabeth, N. J., but prefers mail 
at his home address, 48 Everett Ave., 
Winchester. Mass. 

Hugh R. Radbill is Ticket Agent for 
Western Air Lines in the Great Falls, 
Mont., office. He is staying at the YMCA 
in Great Falls. 

Jean R. Tarrter, American Vice Consul 
in Edinburgh, Scotland, moved to his 
new post from the Consulate in Salzburg, 
Austria, during the winter. 

Two Classmates with new addresses 
are: Jonathan E. Berry, 8 Plympton St., 
Cambridge, Mass. and Henry B. William- 
son III. 287 Avenue C, Apt. 7-E, NYC. 

1949 

William R. DeWaal is studying for the 
priesthood, having been a religious in the 
Order of Discalced Carmelites since last 
August. He is Brother Henry O.C.D. and 
wrote us from the Carmelite Novitiate in 
Brookline, Mass. His home address (P. O. 
Box 1146, East Hampton, L. I., N. Y.) 
will continue to be his forwarding ad- 
dress. He spoke of his appreciation of 
this magazine as his only remaining con- 
tact with Brown. 

Carl G. Urner and Miss Anna P. Lip- 



Anolher Carberry Enigma 

Prof. Josi.^h H. Carberry did not 
lecture at the Brown Faculty Club in 
March, although the Brown Daily 
Herald had announced that he would. 

His Providence friend and sponsor. 
Prof. Ben C. Clough, was puzzled by 
the original announcement but not by 
the failure of Carberry to appear. 
"The last I heard of the Professor's 
whereabouts he was in Armenia," he 
said. "He is extremely well-qualified 
to lecture wherever he is." 



The Original Georgian 

Writing of college architecture in 
the Oklahoma A. & M. College Maga- 
zine, Vick Lindley, a graduate fellow 
in Journalism, notes that Harvard, 
Brown, Rutgers, and William and 
Mary have gone back to their original 
Georgian style in expanding their 
campuses. He speaks of the spread of 
the style to the American colonies 
and says: 

"All Colonial American colleges 
erected structures in this mode, and 
all but one (Columbia) still preserves 
such a building. Wren himself de- 
signed the original building at Wil- 
liam and Mary College, now the old- 
est college building in America. Mas- 
sachusetts Hall at Harvard and its 
'twin', Connecticut Hall at Yale, along 
with Nassau Hall at Princeton, Queens 
Hall at Rutgers, and University Hall 
at Brown are all examples of this 
style in its simpler state. 

"Perhaps these buildings were pre- 
served only because colleges are gen- 
erally slow to tear down buildings! 
Now they are priceless heritages." 



pincctt of Medford, N. J., announced 
their engagement in February. She is a 
Senior at Pembroke. 

Lt. William T. O'Connor is Assistant 
Wing Intelligence Oflicer at Chanute 
AFB, III. His address there is Box 535 
Message Center. 

Lt. Norman H. Wi^htman, Jr.. reported 
to Ft. McPherson, Ga., in February as 
Chief of the Radio and Television Divi- 
sion of the Third Army Information Sec- 
tion. In World War II he served with the 
10th Mountain Division in Italy. 

Aram J. Thomasian was awarded a 
Master's degree from Harvard in March. 
He still lives at 17 Flint Rd., Watertown, 
Mass. 

To John E. Graham III gees the sym- 
pathy of the Class on the death of his 
mother, Mrs. Mildred Reddingtcn Gra- 
ham, Mar. 19, 1951. 

StiM with Interstate Department Stores, 
Inc., Edward A. Vincent has been trans- 
ferred to Sheboygan, Wis. His address 
in that citv is 1409A Lincoln Ave. 

Ronald E. Hall is a cutter engineer with 
Brown and Sharpe Mfe. Co. in Provi- 
dence. His new home address is 150 Wal- 
nut St., East Prov. 14. 

Donald S. Shaw. Jr., is Assistant to the 
Manager of TV Stations for the Ameri- 
can Broadcasting Co. in New York. He 
lives in Princeton, N. J., on Snowden 
Lane, RFD 1. 

A math and physics instructor at the 
Houston (Mo.) High School, Kenneth K. 
Mustain wants his mail at that address. 

John R. Gabrielson sent along a couple 
of miscellaneous items of Brunonian in- 
terest. The comment in a Los Angeles 
paper in December that Michigan was 
bringing "the poorest record to a Rose 
Bowl game since Brown University" was 
termed "back-handed publicity" by John. 
His coming across the recipe for a seem- 
ingly innocuous cocktail — equal parts of 
sweet vermouth and bourbon dashed with 
orange bitters — called the "Brown Uni- 
versity," presents, he thinks, a "libelous 
innuendo." During the "Frustrating For- 
ties." he maintains that "a drink of this 
caliber would have been quickly relegated 



to the drain, or perhaps even to Dart- 
mouth." This past year John has been 
teaching English, speech and drama at 
Bell High School in the Los Angeles 
School District. In April he was in the 
throes of guiding his senior drama stu- 
dents through a production of "The Man 
Who Came to Dinner." He expected to 
need a whee'.chair himself before it was 
over. 

Whereabouts: John D. Bassett, Ocean 
Vista, Chastellux Ave., Newport, R. I. 
J. Paul Cali. 59 Fourth St., Medford, 
Mass. Ens. Arthur B. Forrest, Jr.. Fighter 
Sq. 113, c/o FPO. San Francisco. Ken- 
neth Hindersinn, 186 So. Grove St., East 
Aurora, N. Y. Alton V. Hooper, 155 St. 
Luke Dr., Florissant, Mo. Donald G. 
Huggins, 146-11 Delaware Ave., Flush- 
ing, N. Y. Richard L. Keats, 30 East 71st 
St., NYC 21. Kenneth C. Leshner, High- 
land St., RFD 1. Oaklawn, R. I. Norman 
Moreau, 25 Vale St., Pawtucket. Allen J. 
Rocney, Jr., 401 Park PI., Linwood Pk., 
Ft. Lee, N. J. Edmond J. Ross, 365 Som- 
erset Ave., Taunton, Mass. 

1950 

Your Reunion Committee continues to 
meet and busy itself with plans for the 
June get-together. Although its report 
missed this magazine's deadline this 
month, watch for a full story in May. 

Richard MacKenna went to work early 
this month in the sales division of Tide 
Water Associated Oil Company. He has 
discovered that the Automotive Products 
Sales Manager of the company is William 
A. Walker '27. 

Roy S. Fidler is with the 28th Division 
at Camp Atterbury, Ind. He's US 
51088695, Co. A, 109th Infantry. 

Jen M. Prentiss wrote from General 
Headquarters of the Far East Command 
in Tokio, enclosing a clipping from the 
Pacific edition of Stars and Stripes that re- 
ported the naming of John R. Pflug as 
line coach under Alva Kelley at Brown. 
Prentiss, with the Military Intelligence 
Section of EEC, finds his post in the 
midst of Far Eastern affairs an exciting 
one. 

Richard H. Miller has been called to 
active duty with the Army as a reserve 
officer but he still wants his mail to be 
sent to Clarksville, Md. 

William Revkin is Credit Manager of 
the Bond Furniture Co. in Providence. 
His home address in the city is 906 
Hope St. 

Ens. Lacy B. Herrmann has been as- 
signed to the USS Wisconsin, but he pre- 
fers his home address for mailing: 115 
Vista Ter., New Haven. 

Thomas B. Griglun, who is studying 
for his Master's degree at the University 
of Connecticut, is engaged to Miss Flor- 
ence Pinkevich of Middletown. Conn. An- 
other Classmate about to take the plunge 
is Thomas R. Nye, whose engagement to 
Miss Patricia Bentley was announced in 
February. He is attending the School of 
Business Administration at Harvard. 

George Barden has accepted a position 
with P. R. Mallory of Indianapolis. His 
mailing address is 341 '/s East Fifth St., 
Rushville, Ind. 

Robert B. Ross wrote from California 
that he is now at the 20th Century Fox 
Studios in Beverly Hills. His address is 
1921 North Kenmore Ave., Los Angeles 
27. 

Chester B. Thomas is in the Army and 



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requests that his mail be sent to his 
home, 83 Arlington Ave., Prov. 6. 

G. Donald Guillet has been transferred 
by the S. S. Kresge Co. to New York 
City. His new home address is 7817 75th 
St., Glendale 27, L. 1., N. Y. 

Maurice L. Van Kavelaar was in the 
office in March to report his new job with 
duPont in Wilmington, Del. His wife 
and family are remaining in Providence, 
however, and that's where he wants his 
mail: 72 Rugby St., Prov. 5. 

Russ Bragg was Coach and Manager of 
the Sigma Chi basketball team that ended 
its undefeated season by adding the State 
Intramural Championship to its Brown 
Intramural crown. Sigma Chi was the 
State champ in 1947, too, but this is the 
first time a squad has completed its sched- 
ule without a single loss. Providence Col- 
lege and R. I. State are the other teams 
in the "league." 

Herman E. Rector, Jr., is helping to 
develop a non-electron radiation meter 
at the Signal Engineering Laborato- 
ries, Development Detachment, Ft. Mon- 
mouth, N. J. The device can be substi- 
tuted for a Geiger counter. As a Provi- 
dence high school student. Rector was 
awarded a slide rule in 1946 as the an- 
nual R. I. Schools' Science Fair winner, 

John W. Thompson is Assistant Direc- 
tor of Recreation at the Middle River, 
Md., plant of the Glenn L. Martin Co. 
He prefers mail at his home address, 233 
Greenwich Ave., New Haven, Conn. 

Kenneth M. Kaligian, Jr., with the sales 
division of the U. S. Rubber Co. in 
Boston, lives at 351 East Main St., Avon, 
Mass. 

Cashier of the William Leys Dry Goods 
Co. in Newport, R. I., is William H. 
Leys. He lives in the same city at 228 
Gibbs Ave. 

While in the Business Training Course 
of the Industrial Heating Division of 
General Electric, Robert L. Rinfret is 
living temporarily at the YMCA in Sche- 
nectady. A Test Engineer with G.E. in 
Providence is Paul J. Savoie. 

Ens. William A. Henshaw has been as- 
signed to the USS Vesole, but he prefers 
his mail at his home, 134-09 Cherry Ave., 
Flushing, L. 1., N. Y. 

Another Classmate in the Navy is 
Robert N. Brightman. He wants his mail 
to go home, too: 838 Robeson St., Fall 
River. 

Taking part in the training program of 
Mercantile Stores, Inc., Charles W. 
Dougherty lives -ab 83-16 159th St., Ja- 
maica, L. I., N. Y. Another trainee is 
Thomas E. Hunt. He is with Federal 
Products Corp. of Providence, and his 
home address is 15 Kent PI., Edgewood 
5, R.I. 

John A. Mogavero is an insurance 
broker with the Ford Agency of Mend- 
ham, N. J. His address in that city is 
P.O.Box 136. 

Assigned to General Electric's Business 
Training Course, Richard Phillips is liv- 
ing in Lynn, Mass., at 27 Northside Ave. 

Whereabouts: Richard E. Arnold, Cog- 
newaugh Rd., Cos Cob, Conn. Howard 
M. Farrow, 56 Rice St., RED. Abington, 
Mass. Robert W. Jamieson. 106 Colonial 
Rd., Prov. Ens. Daniel C. Johnson, USN, 
FASRON II, c/o FPO, San Francisco. 
Philip Lapides, 181 Benefit St., Prov. 6. 
Edmund A. Lutz, I Nickerson St., Paw- 
tucket. Maitland McLarin, 3709 Harley 
St., Ft. Worth, Tex. Norman G. Me- 
lander, 15 Julian St., Prov. 3. 



1951 

When United Nations Forces re-took 
Seoul in March, Cpl. William B. Phillips 
of Providence was one of the 19 men in 
the first patrol to enter the Korean capi- 
tal. He is a Combat Correspondent at- 
tached to information headquarters. 

Albert E. Mink hopes to enter Boy 
Scout work professionally after being a 
successful volunteer leader who did out- 
standing work in Indian specialties. Mili- 
tary service comes first, however, and he 
entered the Army a month after his Feb- 
ruary graduation. 

Raymond V. Leonard is a Test Engi- 
neer with General Electric. His address is 
96 Burns St., Providence. John D. War- 
wick has the same position with G.E. at 
the River Works in Lynn, Mass. 

An investigator with Liberty Mutual 
Insurance Co., Robert M. Marceau lives 
at 229 Marlborough St., Boston. 

R. L. Warsh is Assistant Manager of 
the Little Folks Shop in Albany, N. Y. 
His home address in that city is at 153 
So. Manning Blvd. 

Vahan Bedrosian is an engineer with 
the Transducer Corp. of Providence. He 
lives at 24 So. Court St., same city. 

Whereabouts: Harry L. Dicks, 1308 
North Troy St.. Arlington, Va. James A. 
Elliott, 211 Winthrop St., Winthrop, 
Mass. John T. von Schmid, Box 4, Kent, 
Conn. 



Representing Brown 

Alumni who have represented the Uni- 
versity at official functions throughout the 
country include: Dr. Hari^ Eatough '26, 
inauguration of Oscar J. Chapman as 
President of Delaware State College in 
Dover, Nov. 4. Prof. James Q. Dealey, Jr. 
'20, of the Political Science Department 
at the University of Toledo, ceremonies 
and convocation commemorating the 
100th anniversary of the founding of 
Heidelberg College in Tiflin, Ohio, Nov. 
11. Pres. Harry W. Rockwell '03 of N.Y. 
State College for Teachers, inauguration 
of Thomas R. McConnell as Chancellor 
of the University of Buffalo, Jan. 6. Dr. 
Rockwell was also representing his own 
college and the American Association of 
Colleges of Teacher Education. 

Providence Debuts 

Among the young ladies who made 
their bows to Providence society over the 
Christmas holiday were several daughters 
of Brown men. Alumni fathers of these 
debutantes include: Harold A. McKinney 
'02, John W. Haley '19 (twins), George 
H. Webb, Jr. '22, Benjamin P. Harris, Jr. 
'23, Noel M. Field '26, Dr. Jesse P. Eddy 
III '28 and Howard F. Eastwood '29. A 
daughter of Robert O. Loosley, a former 
Secretary of the University, was also a 
debutante at the Providence Assembly. 



Bureau of Vital Statistics 



MARRIAGES 

1934 — Lt. David T. Fairchild and Mrs. 
Dorothy McM. Jones of El Paso, Texas, 
daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. James 
W. McMahon of Hot Springs, Ark., in 
San Francisco, Calif., Dec. 23, 1950. 

1937— Edward R. Bancroft, Jr., and 
Miss Jean E. Kelley, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. William T. Kelley of Winchester, 
Mass., March 10, 1951. William M. Ban- 
croft '37 was his brother's best man. The 
groom is the son of E. R. Bancroft '01. 

1945— Alton C. Chick, Jr., and Miss 
Barbara J. Hoover, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. George E. Hoover, in Los Angeles, 
Calif., Feb. 14, 1951. The groom is the 
sonof A. C. Chick'19. 

1946 — William J. Bakrow and Miss 
Maree J. Walsh, daughter of Mrs. John 
F. Walsh and the late Mr. Walsh, in 
Lowell, Mass., Feb. 3, 1951. 

1947— Philip C. Steiger, Jr., and Miss 
Margaret La Pointe, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Lionel L. La Pointe of Richmond 
Hill, N. Y., in New York City, March 31, 
1951. At home, after May 1: 1671 Asy- 
lum Ave., West Hartford, Conn. 

1948 — James P. Elder and Miss Helen 
W. Powell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Henry C. Powell of Manchester, England, 
in Providence, R. I., March 24, 1951. The 
usher corps included Charles R. Make- 
peace, Jr.. '46, Charles H. Doebler '48, 
Daniel Fairchild '45, Charles A. Sleicher 
'46, and John B. Henderson '46. At 
home: 259 Benefit St., Providence 6. 

1948 — Stephen Stanley and Miss Kath- 
leen Farley, daughter of Mrs. Anne Far- 
ley and the late Mr. Peter Farley, in 
Middleboro, Mass., Feb. 4, 1951. 

1949— Robert R. Carlson and Miss 
Julie M. Fox. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
John R. Fox of New York City, March 



17, 1951. M. Andrew Karnig '45 was the 
best man. 

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— William R. Gregg, Jr., and Miss 
Nancy Priestley of Hoxsie, R. I., Sept. 8, 
1950. 

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

1949 — Hazen Y. Mathewson and Miss 
Arlene M. Hill, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Jamie Hill of Brockton, Mass., in 
Rehoboth, Mass., Aug. 7, 1950. 

1949 — Daniel Siegel and Miss Alice 
Goldberger in June 1950. At home: 150 
West 21st St., New York City. 

1950 — Phillip I. Crawford and Miss 
Joanne Reycroft of Fairfield, Conn., 
March 31, 1951. At home: after May 1: 
c/o 336 Trp. Carrier Sqdn., 514 Trp. 
Carrier Wing, Mitchel Field Air Base. 
N. Y. The groom is the son of William H. 
Crawford '21. 

1950 — A. Scott Hazel and Miss Ruth 
F. Hunting, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
William W. Hunting of Albany, N. Y.. 
Nov. 25, 1950. 

1950 — Richard S. Larson and Miss 
Eleanor M. Burgess, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. George F. Burgess of Woonsocket, 
R. I., March 10, 1951. Carl Anderson '50 
was the best man. At home: 361 Elm St., 
Norwood, R. I. 

1950 — Harold B. Sturtevant, Jr., and 
Miss Nancy Hough, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Howard K. Hough of Meshanticut 
Park, R. I., in Edgewood, March 24, 
1951. At home: 233 Garden St., Crans- 
ton. 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



1950 — John J. Berzinis and Miss Elea- 
nor T. Mansfield, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Lawrence E. Mansfield of Cranston, 
R. I., in Providence, Feb. 3, 1951. At 
home: 425 E. Nelson Ave., Alexandria, 
Va. 

1950 — Edward C. Bryant and Miss 
Frances E. Reith, daughter of Dr. and 
Mrs. Howard C. Reith of Boston, Mass., 
Jan. 20, 1951. At home: 225 Pleasant St., 
Winthrop, Mass. 

1950— William W. Day, Jr., and Miss 
Mary S. Foxall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Fred A. Foxall of Englewood, N. J., Dec. 
2, 1950. At home: 222 Christie St., Leo- 
nla, N. J. 

1950— Norman E. Hall and Miss Rita 
J. Fitzgerald, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
David F. M. Fitzgerald, in Providence, 
Feb. 5, 1951. 

1950 — Robert C. Herklots and Miss 
Jane E. Jackson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Herbert W. Jackson of Edgewood, R. I., 
Jan. 27. 1 95 1 . Donald R. Gardner '5 1 was 
one of the ushers. 

1950 — Sears W. Ingraham and Miss 
Laura K, Ely, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Robert G. Ely, in Madison, N. J., Feb. 3, 
1951. David W. Hart '50 was one of the 
ushers. 

1950 — Karl J. Jalbert and Miss Shirley 
C. Willson, daughter of Mrs. Albert A. 
Collins of Ontario, Canada, and Mr. W. 
Bruce Willson of Snyder, N. Y., in 
Buffalo, Jan. 27, 1951. 

1950 — Paul O. Kahlbaum and Miss 
Carolene A. Wrenn, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Heaton L. Wrenn of Honolulu, Ha- 
waii, Jan. 19, 1951. At home: 1804 Anap- 
uni St., Honolulu. 

1950 — John E. McCaffrey and Miss 
Elizabeth F. Adams, daughter of Mrs. 
E. H. Abramson and the late Mr. Joseph 
Adams, in Meshanticut Park, R. L, Sept. 
16, 1950. D. William Tierney '51 was the 
best man. 

1950 — John Mogavero and Miss Elna 
Nunes-Vais, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Al- 
bert Nunes-Vais, of Mendham, N. J., Jan. 
28, 1951. 

1950 — Seward P. Tuell and Miss Shir- 
ley E. Guerino, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Thomas Guerino, of Greystone, R. I. in 
Providence, Jan. 26, 1951. Robert Skoog 
'50 was the best man. At home: 12 Moore 
St., Providence. 



"Project Completed" 
Clayton B. Shiver '47, architect in 
Amarillo, Tex., has sent us a blue- 
print announcement: "Completion of 
a Construction Project." She is Denise 
Eva Shiver: "4 lb 10 oz of light weight 
material, contemporary design, ex- 
tremely functional, incubator heated 
(4 weeks), financed (yes), project 
completed Feb. 4, 1951, two months 
before contract date." 

"The architect Clayton and the con- 
tractor ,'\ileen wish to acknowledge 
the following: W. R. Kingensmith, 
M.D., large construction: G. M. Wad- 
dill, M.D., small construction; Eva 
Blakemore, RNA, I.e. foreman; Mil- 
dred Goodson, R.N., s.c. foreman." 
A note describes the project as "de- 
signed for existing needs." "However," 
it adds, "both architect and contractor 
wish to start a similar project in 1953." 



1951 — John F. Palastak and Miss Janet 
I. Mate, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John 
Mate, of Bridgeport, Conn., Sept. 9, 1950. 
Joseph Palastak, Jr., '47 was his brother's 
best man and Stephen Cipot, Jr., '51 was 
one of the ushers. At home: 192 Canfield 
Ave., Bridgeport. 

1952— Gerald B. Riker and Miss Nata- 
lie M. Pfeiffer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
J. Norton Pfeiffer of Seekonk, Mass., in 
Providence, Feb. 25, 1951. J. Wilbur 
Riker, Jr., '47 was his brother's best man 
and Geoffrey W. Riker '54, another 
brother, was one of the ushers. The groom 
is the son of J. Wilbur Riker '22. At home: 
23 Ogden St., Providence 6. 

BIRTHS 

1427— To Mr. and Mrs. John C. Henry 
of Washington, D. C, a daughter, Caro- 
line, Feb. 5, 1951. 

1931— To Dr. and Mrs. Bernard I. 
Sherman of Providence, a daughter, El- 
inor Ruth, Jan. 31, 1951. 

1932— To Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. 
Hurley, Jr., of Rumford, R. L, their fifth 
child, a son, John David, Feb. 13, 1951. 

1934— To Mr. and Mrs. E. Davis Cald- 
well of Maumee, Ohio, a daughter, Kath- 
arine Davis, Nov. 14, 1950. 

193-4 — To Mr. and Mrs. James McC. 
Libby of Detroit, Mich., their third child 
and second son, Stuart McCall, Dec. 14, 
1950. 

1937 — To Mr. and Mrs. Milton L. Levy 
of Jamaica Plain, Mass., their second 
daughter, Deborah Jurist, Feb. 16, 1951. 

1939— To Dr. and Mrs. John T. Bar- 
rett of Providence, a daughter, Margaret 
Jane, Feb. 8, 1951. 

1939— To Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Bles- 
sing of Glen Rock, N. J., a son, Joseph 
Christopher, Jr., Sept. 6, 1950. 

1939— To Mr. and Mrs. Earl H. Metz- 
ger, Jr., of Atlanta, Ga., their second child, 
a daughter, Laura Riviere, Oct. 15, 1950. 

1940— To Mr. and Mrs. Clark T. Foster 
of Ramsey, N. J., their second child, a son, 
Dodd Trumbull, Dec. 31, 1950. 

1941 — To Dr. and Mrs. Benjamin F. 
Harley, Jr., of Providence, their second 
child, a daughter, Deborah Elizabeth, Jan. 
12, 1951. 

1941— To Mr. and Mrs. Roland E. 
Hopps, Jr., of West Harrington, R. I., a 
son, John Stephen, Feb. 18, 1951. 

1941— To Mr. and Mrs. John W. 
James, 3rd, of Brooklyn Heights, N. Y., a 
daughter, Amanda Dixon, Jan. 5, 1951. 

1942 — To Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Green- 
halgh of Providence, their second child, a 
son, Jeffrey Ernest. Dec. 31, 1950. 

1943— To Lt. E. Anthony Buxton, USN 
and Mrs. Buxton of Falmouth, Mass., a 
second son, Robert Palmer. Jan. 27, 1951. 

1943— To Dr. and Mrs. Harry L. Hall- 
iwell of North Smithfield, R. I., a daugh- 
ter, Christine, Dec. 31, 1950. 

1943_To Mr. and Mrs. Russell W. 
Sloan of Chester Springs, Pa., a daughter, 
Diane. Jan. 12, 1951. 

1944 — To Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Cop- 
pola of Hartford. Conn., a son, Michael 
Richard. Jan. 23. 1951. 

1944— To Mr. and Mrs. George E. Ka- 
nouse, Jr., of Summit, N. J., a daughter, 
Penelope, Jan. 22, 1951. 

1944— To Mr. and Mrs. William H. 
Kimball of Providence, a son. Bruce Hor- 
ton. Jan. 7. 1951. 

1945 — To Mr. and Mrs. George L. 
Cady of North Providence, a son, George 
Leonard. Jr.. Nov. 21. 1950. 



1945 — To Mr. and Mrs. Louis E. 
D'Amico of Providence, a daughter, Lau- 
rie Teresa, March 3, 1951. 

1945— To Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. 
Isherwood of Fall River, Mass., a daugh- 
ter. Nancy Adele. Jan. 28, 1951. 

1945— To Mr. and Mrs. Sidney W. 
Wray, Jr., of Bristol, Conn., a son, Mi- 
chael Barnes, Dec. 31, 1950. 

1946 — To Mr. and Mrs. Edward N. 
Clarke of Levittown, N. Y., a daughter, 
Sandra Jean, Oct. 5, 1950. 

1946 — To Mr. and Mrs. Morris A. 
Stout, 3rd. of Lansdale. Pa., a daughter, 
Deborah Denison, Dec. 17, 1950. 



Second Edition 

Another of those announcements 
we enjoy and collect: "Brack House, 
Inc., announces (at long last) a Sec- 
ond Edition entitled Elizabeth Lenore 
Brack. Author — Virginia Wood 
Brack; Co-Author — Frederick William 
Brack (1922); Inspiration — Frederick 
Roy Brack. Cover — pink and white. 
Binding — by Curity. Weight — Seven 
pounds, one-half ounce. Type Face — • 
similar to First Edition. Ornamenta- 
tion — completely different from First 
Edition. Art Work — by Virginia Wood 
Brack; Research — by Frederick Wil- 
liam Brack. Date of Publication — 
March 15, 1951. (Following a limited 
showing at Maternity Ward, Sturdy 
Memorial Hospital, Attleboro, Mass., 
this second edition may be inspected 
by connoisseurs at 25 Fulton St., Mans- 
field, Mass." 



1947— To Mr. and Mrs. G. Kent Dover 
of Providence, a son, George Kent, Jr., 
Sept. 15, 1950. 

1947— To Mr. and Mrs. Walter M. Levi 
of New Rochelle. N. Y., a son, Donald 
Jerome, Dec. 20, 1950. 

1947— To Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. 
Mang of Penfield, N. Y., a son, Peter B., 
June 9. 1950. 

1947 — To Mr. and Mrs. Homer W. 
Moore of Providence, a son, Jonathan 
William, Sept. 21, 1950. 

1947— To Mr. and Mrs. Clayton B. Shi- 
ver of Amarillo, Texas, a daughter, Denise 
Eva, Feb. 4, 1951. 

1948— To Mr. and Mrs. E. Jerrold Mil- 
ler of New York City, a son, Jolyon Clark, 
Nov. 29, 1950. 

1949— To Mr. and Mrs. John F. Gibney 
of Canton, Mass., a son, John David, Oct. 
18, 1950. 

1949— To Mr. and Mrs. Stephen A. 
Greene, Jr., of Edgewood, R. I., a son. 
Christopher Winslow, Feb. 16, 1951. 

1949 — To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Ja- 
cobs of Milwaukee. Wise, a son, Douglas 
Hamilton, Jan. 17, 1951. 

1949— To Mr. and Mrs. William Stein- 
icke, Jr., of Turners Falls, Mass., a daugh- 
ter, Gail Sandra. June 16. 1950. 

1950 — To Mr. and Mrs. John Francis 
Chaney. Jr.. of New Brunswick. N. J., a 
son. John David. Nov. 2. 1950. 

1950— To Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. 
Hague of East Orange. N. J., a son. Elliot 
Weldon, Feb. 19, 1951. 

1950 — To Mr. and Mrs. Donald R. 
Rawson of Springfield, Mass., a son. Don- 
ald Roger. Jr.. Jan. 25, 1951. 

1952— To Lt. (j.g.) Owen F. Dolan, 
USN and Mrs. Dolan of Alameda, Calif., 
a son, Owen Francis, Jr., Feb. 3, 1951. 



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Advisory 
Council: 



Continued from Page 9 

THE Brown Bear Cub Award, which 
takes its inspiration from the Brown 
Bear Award to outstanding alumni, is 
given each year to an undergraduate 
Senior whose "services to Brown promise 
a life of usefulness and reputation as an 
alumnus." Seniors present for "Alumni 
Day" in Chapel saw David Tillinghast 
receive the award for 1951. Among the 
interested alumni spectators was his father. 
Dr. Charles C. Tillinghast '06, while Mrs. 
Tillinghast was also in the gallery of 
Sayles Hall. 

The speaker of the day at Alumni 
Chapel was Alfred H. Gurney '07, whose 
felicitous remarks are printed elsewhere. 
The presentation on behalf of the Associ- 
ated Alumni was made by their President, 
Dr. William W. Browne '08, who carried 



the presidential cane which is his badge 
of office. He used this bit of oak from old 
University Hall to "indoctrinate" the 
Senior, who has been an outstanding cam- 
pus leader. The platform party included: 
Vice-President Bruce M. Bigelow '24, 
Chaplain W. J. Robbins, William B. Mc- 
Cormick '23, James W. Gurll '38, and 
W. C. Worthington '23. 

The Chapel was the first event on the 
weekend's program for the alumni. The 
second was an innovation, made upon the 
invitation of Mrs. Wriston, who opened 
the President's house on Power Street to 
the Advisory Council delegates and their 
wives. Faculty families were also repre- 
sented at this delightful tea. The ladies 
who poured were: Mrs. Arthur Braitsch, 
Mrs. Nathaniel B. Chase, Mrs. Foster B. 
Davis, Jr., Mrs. E. John Lownes, Jr., Mrs. 
William B. McCormick, Mrs. Kingsley N. 
Meyer, Mrs. Richmond H. Sweet, and 
Mrs. W. C. Worthington. 

Supper at the Faculty Club was pre- 
liminary to a lively sports review in which 
Brown coaches talked about their teams 
and their hopes. For many of the dele- 




TEA FOR THE COUNCILORS: The hospitolity of President and Mrs. Wriston to delegates 
and their wives made a pleasant overture to the February meetings of the Advisory Council 
of the Associated Alumni. The group above includes: Mrs. E. John Lownes, pouring; left 
to right— Prof, and Mrs. Alonzo Quinn, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Campbell, Martin Torpy, 
Stanley Henshow, Jr., Mrs. and Mr. Joseph OIney, and Mrs. Torpy. Below, with Mrs. Arthur 
Braitsch pouring, are Mr. Braitsch, Eorl M. Pearce, Henry Wilson, Mrs. Pearce, Mrs. and Mr. 

Knight Edwards. 




gates, it was their first meeting with Al 
Kelley, the new football coach. 

The evening's program was under the 
direction of Foster B. Davis, Jr., '39, and 
Athletic Director Paul Mackesey '32, who 
introduced Freshman Coach Jack Heffer- 
nan '28, Baseball Coach Lefty Lefebvre, 
Swimming Coach Joe Watmough, and 
Hockey Coach Wecky Moulton '31. They 
all told their story colorfully. Other 
coaches were out of town with their teams. 
There was plenty of audience participa- 
tion in a discussion of athletic publicity. 

61 Brown Clubs Active 

President Browne presided over the 
morning session of the Advisory Council 
on Saturday in the Corporation Room of 
University Hall. Alumni Secretary Mc- 
Cormick reported on a productive year of 
activity, announcing that 61 Brown Clubs 
were now en the roster. Thomas F. Black, 
Jr., '19, Chairman of the Trustees of the 
Alumni Fund, reported for them, while 
Fund Executive Gurll told of plans for the 
current year, revealed in this issue last 
month. Balloting for alumni candidates 
preceded the noon recess, but the results 
will not be announced until the official 
slate is complete with the acceptance of 
the nominees. 

Touring the Quadrangle area and im- 
pressed by the advanced stage of construc- 
tion everywhere, the delegates completed 
their ramble at the Refectory, where they 
ate luncheon in the main dining hall and 
then inspected the building from one end 
to the other. Director William N. Davis 
and Alan Maynard welcomed the men. 

The afternoon session of the Council 
began with the talk of Dean Emery R. 
Walker, Jr., '39 on admissions, with re- 
ports from Brown Club representatives 
active in the new Regional Admissions 
Program. President Wriston's inside story 
on the state cf the University stimulated 
a good discussion period, with which the 
Council adjourned. The alumni watched 
the Brown-Holy Cross basketball game 
that evening after a buffet supper in 
Alumni House. 

The program for the Advisory Council 
was developed by a committee headed by 
Nathaniel B. Chase '23, with whom Kings- 
ley N. Meyer '43, Davis, and McCormick 
also served. 

Those present included Brown Club rep- 
resentatives, present and past officers of 
the Associated Alumni, Class Secretaries, 
other alumni leaders and University and 
undergraduate guests. 

Morris L. Pepper '27 came the longest 
distance from Houston, Tex. Others from 
the West were: Roderick M. Meyer '30, 
Kirk wood. Mo.; John J. Monk '24, Chi- 
cago; Harold A. Broda '27, Canton, Ohio; 
Harry L. Hoffman '25, Cleveland; Robert 
A. Stoehr, Jr. '27, Cincinnati; Robert F. 
King '50, Buffalo. 

From Washington, D. C, came Richard 
L. Walsh '37; from Philadelphia Dwight 
T. Colley '18, Edgar Noll '20 and William 
H. Shupert '22. From New Jersey: George 
A. Blakeslee, Jr. '35, Maplewood; Moses 
L. Crossley '09, Plainfield; John H. Kreit- 
ler '38, Short Hills; Robert C. Litchfield 
'23, Morris Plains; Robert B. Perkins '29, 
Ramsey; Byron L. West '15, Plainfield; 
Henry D. Wilson, Jr. '29, Fanwood. 

From New York City: Maxwell Barus 
10. William W. Browne '08, Robert M. 
(iolrick '47, Ralph M. Palmer '10, Fred- 
erick H. Rohlfs '26, Edward Sulzberger 



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ALONG THE BOUNDARY of the Quadrangle on Charles Field St., members of the 1951 Ad 
visory Council took the long way around to the luncheon at the Refectory in order to note the 
progress of construction. One of the nine fra:ernity-dormitory buildings is shown in the background 



'29. From Long Island: George Dawson, 
Jr. '22, Malverne; Stephen A. McCIellan 
•23, Glen Cove; Gavin A. Pitt '38, Man- 
hasset. 

From Connecticut: Robert D. Allison 
"29, Jesse M. Bailey '16, Cyrus G. Flanders 
'18, Russell B. Grannis '36, Frank O. 
Jones '97, John Montgomery '38, Edwin 
H. Tuller '35 and Kenneth Wright '38, all 
from Hartford; and Lloyd E. Gallup '23, 
Groton; Ralph J. Lcckwood '25, Bridge- 
port: Clarence W. Miller '12, Hamden. 

From Massachusetts: Edward T. Brack- 
ett "14. Boston; Richard E. Hale '41, Con- 
cord; Loring P. Litchfield '28, Waban; 
Carleton D. Morse "13, Roxbury; Jack M. 
Rosenberg '42, New Bedford; Leon L. 
Tracy, Springfield; E. Melson Webster 
'40, Chatham; Norman Zalkind '35, Fall 
River. 

The R. I. Delegation 
And from Rhode Island: Raymond H. 
Abbott '43, Hugh B. Allison '48, Edmund 
K. Arnold "04, Willard H. Bacon "00, 
Thomas F. Black, Jr. "18, C. Arthur 
Braitsch '23, William T. Brightman, Jr. 
'21, Garrett D. Byrnes '26, Donald Camp- 
bell '48, Nathaniel B. Chase '23, Alton C. 
Chick "19, Sidney Clifford '15, Andrew B. 
Comstock "10, William I. Crooker '42, 
Foster B. Davis, Jr. '39, Theodore E. 
Dexter '98, Knight Edwards '45, William 
H. Edwards '19, J. Richmond Fales '10, 
Robert H. Goff "24, James W. Gurll '38, 
Alfred H. Gurney '07, Frederick L. Har- 
son "31, Elmer S. Horton "10, Theodore 
R. Jeffers "23, A. H. Joslin '35, William 
A. Kennedy '06, Robert W. Kenyon '36, 
Lawrence Lanpher '23, Leonard D. Le- 
Valley '39. E. John Lownes, Jr. '23, Irving 
G. Loxley '27. Robert H. Maclachlan '49, 
Stanley F. Mathes "39. Kingsley N. Meyer 
'43, John W. Moore '16, Joseph Olney, Jr. 
'36, Earl M. Pearce "17, Arthur L. Phil- 
brick "03, William R. Potter "42, A. Peter 
Quinn, Jr. '45. William Saunders '48, 
Fred E. Schoeneweiss '20, Norman L. 
Silverman "31. Jackson H. Skillings "37, 
Brenton G. Smith '11, Richmond H. 
Sweet '25, Samuel Temkin "19, Albert C. 
Thomas "08, Edward H. Weeks "93. 



University guests included President 
Henry M. Wriston. Vice-Presidents Thom- 
as B. Appleget '17 and Bruce M. Bige- 
low '24, Dean Emery R. Walker '39, 
Capt. Edward R. Durgin USNR and 
Comdr. Herman E. Miller USNR. 

Undergraduate guests included Seniors 
Robert E. Anderson. James S. Keat, 
Henry M. Litchman, Harold F. Spalter, 
and Donald E. White. 



Two from Linnich 

Back in February, 1945, Leonard 
LeValley '37 of New Bedford and Mel 
Webster '40 of Chatham, Mass., were 
in the same observation post in Lin- 
nich, Germany. LeValley, an artillery- 
man, was with the 8-inch howitzers; 
Webster's outfit had 81 -mm. mortars. 
Why do we mention this now? It wasn't 
until the 1951 meeting of the Advisory 
Council of the Associated Alumni at 
Brown that the two learned from talk- 
ing with each other that they had 
been at the same post together. 



Football's Hall of Fame 
Brunonians were active in founding 
the National Football Shrine and Hall of 
Fame, according to a roster of the Na- 
tional Committee and the charter mem- 
bers. Brown University was one of the 
institutional charter members and took 
part in the first Hall of Fame game against 
Rutgers last season. 

On the National Committee are: Ro- 
land K. Brown, T. F. Gilbane, Walter 
Hoving, Paul Mackesey, Furber Marshall, 
Lee Marshall, Samuel Metzger, Jr., John 
J. McLaughry, Fritz Pollard, Roy E. Ran- 
dall, Lewis A. Shaw, W. E. Sprackling, 
Paul Swaffield, and Wallace Wade. Frank 
Gammino was a life member among the 
charter members, while others identified 
with the project include: Joseph Buo- 
nanno, W. J. Gilbane, David L. Fultz, 
Dr. B. B. Mongillo, and Edward H. Weeks. 



Authors' Tributes 

Dedications in five recent books have 
caught our Brunonian-slanted eyes. Josiah 

E. Greene '32, author of "The Man with 
One Talent," dedicated the novel to Prof. 
Sharon Brown "15. (It came as a complete 
surprise to the latter and delights us all 
as one more example of an established 
writer acknowledging the inspiration of 
some member of the Brown Faculty.) 

Janet Mabie"s "Heaven on Earth" car- 
ries the phrase: "For my son, Kenneth D. 
Clapp." Clapp, one of whose attainments 
was the ability to run a winning 100 yards, 
is Brown 1940. 

This quote, from a preliminary page in 
James Thurber's "The 13 Clocks" relates 
to a 1926 man and his wife. From a man 
of Thurber's standing, it's a high compli- 
ment: "To Jap and Helen Gude, who 
have broken more than one spell cast 
upon the author by a witch or wizard, 
this book is warmly dedicated." 

Prof. George Boas '13 of Johns Hop- 
kins is the recipient of the dedication of 

F. L. Lucas in his "Greek Poetry for 
Everyman." The latter, a Fellow and 
Lecturer in Kings College, Cambridge, 
chose and translated the poems in the 
anthology. 

There is always something moving to 
us in the dedication of a book. The 
labors and talents which created the work 
over a long period of time are thus simply 
laid before another as an offering. Usually 
the tribute is to an individual, but this was 
not the case when Prof. Charles Alex- 
ander Robinson, Jr., of Brown's Classics 
Department, dedicated his new book, 
"Ancient History (from Prehistoric Times 
to the Death of Justinian)." We were the 
more touched because we had no fore- 
knowledge of the dedication: 

"CLARISSIMAE ET CARISSIMAE 
UNIVERSITATI BRUNENSI" 



APRIL I95I 



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We Mourn 
Their Death: 



GAY NICHOLS FREEMAN '03, Feb. 3, 
1951, in Puente, Calif. A mining and 
reclamation investor in Wyoming, he 
had retired to California. Psi Upsilon. 

EDWIN JUDKINS TETLOW '04, Feb. 3, 
1951, in Providence. A lawyer, he was 
an active layman in the Methodist 
church. Beta Theta Pi. 

WESLEY FLOYD MORSE '06, Feb. 12, 
1951, in Boston, Mass. A clothing mer- 
chant, he was very active in civic associ- 
ations. Beta Theta Pi. 

ROBERT FRANCIS SEYBOLT '10, Feb. 
5, 1951, in Hollywood, Fla. He was 
Prof, of Humanities at the University of 
Illinois and author of many scholarly 
works. He was an active member of sev- 
eral philosophical and historical socie- 
ties. Delta Tau Delta. 

HOWARD BATES BAKER '13, Feb. 9, 
1951, in Pompton Plains, N. J. He was 
well known as a teacher of mathematics 
and the author of textbooks on the sub- 
ject. 

RICHARD BURTON CARTER '17, July 
4, 1950, in White Plains, N. Y. Treas- 
urer of a real estate firm, he had seen 
service as a Captain in World War I. 
Beta Theta Pi. 

FLOYD WELLINGTON LIBBY '22, 
Jan. 7, 1951, in Lewiston, Maine. Sales- 
man. 

HOWARD ANDERSON FERRIER '34, 
Jan. 11, 1951, in Providence, R. I. He 
had been an accountant and a real estate 
salesman. Sigma Nu. 

JOHN PAUL GOOD '41, Feb. 18, 1951, 
in Brookline, Mass. Sales manager for 
Paramount Pictures, he had suffered an 
attack of polio more than a year ago. 
Psi Upsilon. 

GEORGE EDMUND SAN SOUCI '50, 
Jan. 15, 1951, in Providence. He had 
been in New York attending an execu- 
tive training school. Phi Delta Theta. 

ROBERT MAURICE CUSHMAN '53, 
Dec. 28, 1950, in Takoma Park, Md. A 
transfer to Montgomery Jr. College 
after a year at Brown, he was killed in 
an automobile crash. 

Playwrights Wanted 

The play's the thing that Jerome M. 
Rosenfeld '32 is looking for, and he es- 
pecially hopes that some Brown men will 
try their hands. 

Rosenfeld, the publisher of Boston's 
legitimate theater program magazine. On 
Stage, has announced a contest designed 
to discover new talent for the living thea- 
ter. The competition is open to anyone 
and production and publication of their 
plays are promised to the winning authors. 
The judges are S. N. Behrman, Cheryl 
Crawford, Jean Dalrymple, Vinton Freed- 
ley, Clifford Odets, Arthur Schwartz and 
John C. Wilson. Deadline for entries is 
June 1, 1951; additional information can 
be obtained by writing Contest Editor, 
On Stage, 49 Portland St., Boston 14. 

In the release that Rosenfeld sent the 
Monthly, he penned across the top: "How 
about some Brown entries?" 



Hughes' Service 

THE 1950 Memorial Book of the Associ- 
ation of the Bar of the City of New 
York included a number of revealing com- 
ments on the late Charles E. Hughes, Jr., 
'09 which did not appear in any of the 
more conventional obituaries at the time 
of his death. One which interested many 
Brunonians was this, following a recital 
of some of his public activities: 

"He rendered many other public and 
semi-public services in less formalized 
fashion, such as helping as a member of a 
special committee to select Henry M. 
Wriston as President of Brown University. 
Shortly before his death Hughes remarked 
to the writer (identified only as "a con- 
temporary"), with characteristic sense of 
values, that he felt that the most satisfying 
public service he had ever performed was 
helping to find President Wriston for 
Brown. The affectionate admiration that 
Hughes held for his college was recipro- 
cated by the high confidence that his col- 
lege placed in him." 

Another entry dealt with his filial con- 
tacts with Charles Evans Hughes '81: 
"The relations between father and son 
were almost ideal. Coupled with affection 
between them of the purest sort was a 
mutual respect for the individual qualities 
and human independence of the other that 



is rare between father and son, particu- 
larly when, as with them, there was close 
association in professional activities for a 
considerable number of years." 

An instance of his quick thinking in 
cross-examination is cited: 

"The plaintiff, an oil-enriched Okla- 
homa Indian woman, brought suit against 
Hughes' client to set aside certain chari- 
table gifts that she had made on the 
ground, among others, that she was an ig- 
norant, illiterate Indian who had had in- 
sufficient understanding to effect such gifts. 
The issue of illiteracy was important, and 
Hughes' office had unearthed the fact that 
she had once been a member of a group 
of church workers and had apparently 
written notes of their meetings. Some of 
these notes came into Hughes' possession. 
On cross-examination he placed them be- 
fore her, asking her to identify them. 

"To maintain her claim of inability to 
read, she stared with immobile poker face 
and glassy eye at the paper before her. 
Standing near her, Hughes said: 'Oh, I'm 
sorry; I see you've forgotten your glasses; 
perhaps you can use mine,' and he courte- 
ously handed her the glasses that he him- 
self habitually wore. Absentmindedly the 
woman put on the proffered glasses and 
with a sort of reflex action read aloud the 
notes that lay before her." 



Notes from College Hill 



February speaking engagements for 
President Wriston included appearances 
before the International College of Den- 
tists in Chicago Feb. 4, the Canadian So- 
ciety of New York Feb. 9, television on 
the program "Names Make News" Feb. 
14, Phi Beta Kappa's midwinter dinner in 
Providence, Feb. 15, the Naval War Col- 
lege in Newport, Feb. 21, Brown Chapel 
Feb. 22, and the Advisory Council of the 
Associated Alumni Feb. 24. President 
Wriston brought the greetings of the As- 
sociation of Colleges in New England and 
the Association of American Universities 
to Dr. Daniel L. Marsh at the silver an- 
niversary testimonial dinner of the retir- 
ing Boston University President in sym- 
phony Hall, Boston, Jan. 31. 

More than 80% of 984 eligible em- 
ployes of Brown University voted recently 
to enter the Social Security program of 
the Federal Government. In all 908 were 
enrolled under the extension of the pro- 
gram which now permits a non-profit in- 
stitution to join if its employes so decide. 
{Those who voted in the negative during 
the poll are not included.) 

Perry. Shaw and Hepburn, architects 
of the Brown Quadrangle and Andrews 
Hall, have been commissioned to work on 
Aldrich Hall and Kresge Hall at the Har- 
vard Business School. The former build- 
ing was made possible by a $5,000,000 
gift from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., '97. 

The official name of the Division of 
Athletics at Brown University is now the 
Division of Athletics and Student Recrea- 
tion. 

The noisy, shadow-shivering arc lamps 
that have lighted the way for Brown men 
since 1912 have disappeared on College 
Hill. In December the Narragansett Elec- 
tric Company started installing new mer- 
cury vapor lamps on streets bordering the 
campus. By summer 550 such replace- 



ments will have been made throughout the 
city in a three-year program. 

"Sock and Buskin" Alumni presented 
Jean Anouilh's "Antigone" for a three- 
night run in the Faunce House Theater 
the last three days in January. In the cast 
were: Leah Dooley '38, Joan O'Gorman 
'44, J. Wilbur Riker, Jr., '47, Donald 
Heiferman '50, Charles R. Makepeace, 
Jr., '46, James Woloohojian '47. Arthur 
Markoff '44 and Charles Doebler '48. 
Frank Drummond '42 directed the pro- 
duction and Markoff was stage manager. 
John Roberts '46 and John Campbell '49 
had charge of the sets and the lighting, 
and Mrs. Alice Clark Donahue '46, Mrs. 
Joyce Wetherell Fairchild '47, Marjorie 
Hargreaves '36 and Ruth Levy '36 assisted 
with the costumes and properties. Mrs. L. 
Ralston Thomas and Paul Drummond '52 
provided extra-alumni support. 

A check for $500 was presented to 
Brown in January by the Damon Runyon 
Memorial Fund for Cancer Research. A 
study of cancer has been conducted by the 
Biology Department, under the supervi- 
sion of Prof. J. Walter Wilson '18, for 
several years. Provost Samuel T. Arnold 
'13 accepted the check for the University 
in a television appearance on a Providence 
station. Francis O. Quinn, national Chap- 
lain of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, 
made the presentation for his group which 
has raised $125,000 throughout the nation 
for the Memorial Fund. 

In February, Edgar J. Lanpher '19, 
former Assistant Dean of Undergraduates 
at Brown (1936-1942), opened his Armed 
Services Counselling office in University 
Hall. Discharged from the Air Force as a 
Lieutenant-Colonel in 1946, Lanpher is a 
Providence attorney. He was called back 
by the University to advise students on 
problems of the draft, enlistment and 
military duty. 



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In the Month's Mailbags 



Iron Man's Comment 

Sir: After reading the letter by Bert 
Schwartz '29 on Brown's place ( if any ) 
in the Ivy League, I will be firmly con- 
vinced that your editorial policy is a free 
one, if, in addition, this letter sees the light 
of day in your columns without any omis- 
sions — it's called editing in some circles. 
(We must disappoint Lou Farber, one of 
the Iron men who has since been con- 
spicuously successful as teacher and coach. 
His letter is abridged, for reasons of space, 
and a couple of personal references are 
omitted. Heck, Lou, we're even leaving 
out some of the nice things you said about 
the magazine. — Ed.) 

It is quite likely that an unknown per- 
centage, but possibly a large one, feels 
that no criticism of Brown's athletic poli- 
cies, constructive or otherwise, is called 
for by Brown men. To support this point 
of view would be those who feel that 
Brown, as a private corporation, can do 
as it pleases. Reluctantly, I must concede 
some justification for such an attitude. 
But, just as obviously, I can't feel a surge 
of pride in some of my Alma Mater's 
athletic policies, particularly in regard to 
football. 

And now let's jump into the fray. Is 
Schwartz right, wholly or partially? Are 
most alumni and students at Brown in 
agreement, wholly or partially? Judging 
by the apathetic support of Brown men 
and women at football games, I don't 
think many of them give a good hoot, but 
I could be wrong. 

First, we might analyze Schwartz's 
statements regarding some of the better 
football teams in modern Brown football 
history. . . . Even though he was in col- 
lege in 1928, he left out the 1928 team 
with an 8-1 win record. . . . The 1948 
and 1949 teams were products of a post- 
war generation, and as such can bear no 
comparison to so-called normal teams, in 
my opinion. I think those two teams are 
'way ahead of any others in Brown his- 
tory, if only because the average age of 
the players was at least three years above 
that of others. 

Schwartz makes the point that Brown 
doesn't favor "conscienceless proselyting." 
There are other reasons not mentioned 
in his letter which prevent steady success 
(games won) on the football field year 
after year. 

Schwartz mentions the geographical dis- 
tribution of the 1950 squad, pointing out 
that Massachusetts, R. I., and Connecticut 
furnish the great majority of players. That 
is true, but by no means the whole answer 
to lack of success. High school players 
from those three States are much sought 
all over these United States. Do we get 
our share of the cream of the crop from 
these three States? I believe Brown's stu- 
dent body includes 30% Rhode Islanders. 
Check your football squads at Brown 
over the past 25 years, and you'll find the 
percentage of Rhode Islanders running 
from 10 to 207r. 

What's wrong? An avowed high admis- 
sions level which bans many great ath- 
letes who go elsewhere. Another thing is 
that there are very few Brown men in 
the high school and prep school coaching 



field. Most coaches will send their stars 
to the coaches' Alma Mater, while they 
sell us many a "fish." Many a college is 
self-sufficient with football players from 
its own State: .^11 of the Big Ten colleges. 
Southern Cal, Stanford, Penn, and Penn 
State are predominantly "homer" colleges. 

Is it the coaching? We'll never know 
about the years gone by. Maybe Brown 
hasn't always been fair to its coaches. 

Are Brown teams neither "fish or 
fowl"? Schwartz suggests scheduling Wil- 
liams, Amherst, and Rutgers if we feel we 
must build "character." What a combina- 
tion. Year in and year out, Williams and 
Amherst won't play us because we're too 
good for them; year in and year out, Rut- 
gers is a good football school. (Witness 
1950— Princeton 34, Rutgers 28.) Rut- 
gers is as good as Columbia, Yale, and 
Harvard most years. 

What's it all add up to? Simply this: 
Are the majority of Brown grads and 
students in favor of present football policy 
or against it, or would they just as soon 
abolish the game at Brown? All that's 
necessary is a cutout coupon form in 
the Alumni Monthly and the Daily Her- 
ald. If the issue is big enough, this "Gallup 
Poll" will give the answers. (A penny 
postal will as readily show any ideas. 
—Ed.) 

Louis Farber '29 
Tucson, Ariz. 

The Negative in Us 

Sir: The art of letter-writing-to-edi- 
tors. for some reason or other, almost al- 
ways seems to bring out the negative in 
the authors. In the last issue of Brown's 
excellent Alumni Monthly I noticed that 
of the six letters printed, two were in- 
formative, four bitterly critical, and 
NONE complimentary. Not good. Mr. 
Schwartz's note, for example, reiterates 
the plea to build Brown athletically and 
then takes a poke at its entire athletic 
frame. He states that his point is ". . . 
we have not made the effort to . . . 
encourage athletes. . . ." (Blame the 
alumni, sir, not the school.) 

Hockey-wise, though, we are at the 
pinnacle of success under a great coach: 
Wecky Moulton. In soccer, too, our teams 
are repeatedly powerful; and in wrestling, 
Ralph Anderton has led Brown contin- 
uously up the ladder. Recently our track 
forces captured New England honors; in- 
deed, there are other sports at Brown be- 
sides the one mentioned in the letter. 

As Paul Mackesey has often said, how- 
ever. Brown is in business to build men, 
not athletes. — to increase its reputation 
scholastically, not athletically. Under 
these circumstances, have we not fared 
quite well? The trend on the whole is up. 
The administration, coaches, and players 
are to be congratulated, not laughed at, 
for their grand achievements. We have 
licked other teams as solidly as Penn 
squashed us (in football) last year, but 
the cry of defeat has been buoyed by the 
school spirit, which in itself builds char- 
acter. As a recent graduate, I saw this; 
now, we are at a low peak. After all, does 
any team win most of its games in every 
sport every year? 



Actually, spirit was the subject of an- 
other of last month's letters, this one un- 
signed. It stated that the little cheer- 
leader of the past two seasons "confuses 
rather than stimulates." Well. As this 
boy's cousin and also a member of the 
cheering squad under Curtis Chrisfield 
which decided to use him, I can safely say 
that Kenny Blackman did serve his pur- 
pose. But why so bitter? Kenny gave his 
time, sweated and caught cold often in 
his over-sized jacket, worked and prac- 
ticed after school; as Rip Engle stated, 
"the kid's a good addition to the squad. 
. . ." He was wonderful and capable 
during the 1949 SUCCESSFUL season, 
better, though he appeared less often, last 
year. 

You have a right to take a poke, gentle- 
men, but as they say in my field, use def- 
erence. You never can tell how many are 
hurt, or how much hurt is diffused by a 
widely circulated letter. In the case of 
both of these notes, neither complimented 
the Class of 1950 for their endeavors to 
lift Brunonian cheers everywhere and 
Brown spirit on the campus. They should 
have and, had their thoughts been more 
constructive, I know they would have. 

Jack Schreiber '50 
Providence 

Reunion in Berlin 

Sir: There was a temporary Berlin 
Brown Club established last week, when 
Eric Wendelin and I got together over 
lunch at his home here. Of course, some 
eight other guests forced us to restrain 
ourselves, but the Alumni Monthly dom- 
inated the coffee-table! Seriously, it was 
a real occasion to be treated to the hos- 
pitality of another Bjpwn man so far from 
the States. As you probably know, he is 
Political Affairs Advisor for the Berlin 
occupation, American sector. 

Many thanks for the Monthly. Even 
the English boys enjoy reading it, for the 
American alumni association idea is com- 
pletely new to them. 

Doug Ashford '50 
Berlin 

(Ashford, in Germany for the Christ- 
mas holidays, is a Rhodes Scholar at Uni- 
versity College, Oxford, England. Wen- 
delin, who came into prominence as 
Charge d'Affairs at the American Em- 
bassy in Spain during the siege of Madrid, 
is a holder of an honorary degree from 
Brown. — Ed.) 

Sock and Buskin 

Sir: I have just been reading the stories 
of several alumni formerly connected as 
undergraduates with "Sock and Buskin." 
I cannot let the present opportunity pass 
without adding my bit. Although not a 
charter member, I joined the Society as a 
Junior in 1903. I thought that some ama- 
teur experience might pay off, but evi- 
dently the try-out committee did not think 
so. My support was in other directions. 

However, I do want to mention the tre- 
mendous hit made by my classmate the 
late John H. McGough as Sir Lucius 
O'Trigger in "The Rivals." It was right 
up his alley. 

It was characteristic of Elmer Nicker- 
son '06 in his review to omit mention of 
his own success in the several feminine 
roles he put over so well. 

Tom Crosby's course in Public Speak- 
ing was a big asset to aspiring thespians — 



APRIL 1951 



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and to others, for that matter — in the first 
quarter of the present century. If he had 
gone on the stage as he intended, instead 
of teaching and looking after his mother, 
he would certainly have been one of the 
great American actors. 

Ralph D. Kettner '05 
Wakefield, R. I. 

Sir: 1 want to note my commendation 
for the excellence of the January issue. 
The material on Socks and Buskin's 50 
Years was particularly entertaining. Mr. 
Jones' opening recollection of the last 
show in the old Brown Union Theater 
vividly brought to my mind Ben Brown as 
Uncle Tom and the slush of a March night 
as I trudged back to Hegeman Hall. 

I may be the exception, but I think simi- 
lar reminiscences of particular sports and 
undergraduate activities over the span of 
years would provide the type of enter- 
tainment in literature that is not available 
in the regular courses in the periodical 
bills of fare. 

Alan P. Cusick '32 

The First Original 

Sir: Obviously, one could not expect 
that your good summary of Sock and 
Buskin's 50 years would include every 
scrap of history from the organization's 
past. But, I submit, one event is worthy of 
special note, and that is the original 
writing for the stage by undergraduates 
at Brown. 

We may well take pride in the fact that 
the very first play seen by a Sock and 
Buskin audience was an original. This was 
a one-act farce called "What Came of It" 
which was the curtain raiser for "Our 
Boys," back in 1901. The authors were 
Allen K. Krause '01 and Howard B. 
Grose, Jr., '03, later a member of the 
Brown English Department. In the cast 
were W. B. H. Currier '04, T. Burgess '02, 
K. P. Lincoln '02, C. R. Green '02, and 
F. A. Otis '03. 

This, of course, was not the first prod- 
uct by a Brown undergraduate playwright. 
Seems to me Foster Damon discovered 
that Samuel Randall, 1804, had written 
something back in his day, which was re- 
vived within memory. 

Green Room 

"The Basket Counts" 
Sir: If ever there was a Brown team 
which deserved cheers, it is the basketball 
team this winter. The pity is that it got so 
few cf them. 

Here was a team which wasn't supposed 
to stand a chance. The picture was sup- 
posed to be blacker than last year. Yet 
those boys went out and made a battle of 
it every game. Several they lost only in 
the last few minutes because there were 
no adequate reserves to spell the regulars. 
Several other games, against all the odds 
of height and manpower, they pulled out 
of the fire in hair-raising fashion. 

You would have thought these boys 
would have had great backing from the 
student body. But what was the story? The 
first night they played Providence College 
in Marvel Gym, the only yells in the 
"crowd" of 750 were when P.C, scored a 
basket. Navy had more supporters than 
Brown the night the midshipmen were in 
lown. And the night B.U. was tied in the 
hist few secon.ls and beaten by two points 

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in overtime, there weren't 300 out on 
Elmgrove Avenue to watch. 

There's a lot to watch in Brown ath- 
letics, and you can't follow a team every 
night. But if the basketball players 
couldn't have the backing they deserved, 
1 hope they can get some credit, at least. 
"Dribble" 

The Midnight Baby 

Sir: You call it "Small Talk" if a baby 
was born on the stroke of midnight and 
set people to wondering whether the event 
occurred yesterday or today or both yes- 
terday and today. Yet it was no small talk, 
but a profound mathematical proposition 
susceptible of rigid proof that the baby 
was born both yesterday and today. I 
propose to furnish the proof: 

Proof — the 23rd hour, 59th minute, 
59th second of yesterday was obviously 
yesterday. There was then one full second 
to go, and at the end of that second it was 
yesterday. Yes? Yes. 

One second later today had been in ex- 
istence one second, and therefore today 
began one second before one second after 
the end of yesterday. Hence, the beginning 
of today and the end of yesterday were 
co-terminous. So we have: 

Equation One: The beginning minus 
the end of yesterday equals 0. Or, the be- 
ginning cf today equals the end of yester- 
day. So, the baby was born both yesterday 
and today. 

This can be proved in another way: If 
Equation One is not true, then there was 
a finite period of time between yesterday 
and today which was neither yesterday 
nor today. And this is the joker. 

If this conclusion is not correct, then 
all mathematics is an imaginary equation, 
and Einstein never added two and two — 
and that is no joke. Now, don't tell the 
biby he has two birthdays. It would make 
life too complicated for even a Ph.D. in 
mathematics. 

Yours, from zero to infinity, 

Henry W. Goodrich '02 
Concord, N. H. 

The Advisory Council 

Sir: It was a splendid series of meetings 
(the 1951 Advisory Council of the Asso- 
ciated Alumni), and I enjoyed them im- 
mensely. It warms the cockles of your 
heart to attend such an affair and see such 
a great team at work on College Hill. Be- 
lieve me, I wish every Brown man could 
have the opportunity — I am grateful. 

Jack Monk '24 
Chicago 

The Papers of Dr. Sears 
The Brown University Library has 
had two requests within a recent six-week 
period for information about any manu- 
script papers cf Dr. Barnas Sears, Presi- 
dent of Brown from 1855 to 1867. The 
John Hay does not have such papers, nor 
does it have any record of them or their 
whereabouts. Any information would be 
appreciated by Miss Marion E. Brown, 
Librarian of Special Collections, Brown 
University Library. 

It was curious that in the same period 
this magazine also received a letter from 
Miss Emily J. Clark of Winsted, Conn., 
a great-great niece of President Sears. 
She was inquiring about portraits of him 
on the campus. 



12th Religious Embassy 
Alumni were prominent among the 
clerical and lay leaders who directed the 
various discussion groups, seminars and 
prayer sessions that comprise J the 12th 
annual Religious Embassy on the Campus, 
Feb. 12-20. 

"A Steady Mind in an Unsteady World" 
was the theme of the 1951 student-or- 
ganized, student-produced Embassy which 
was launched by Sunday sermons in Pro- 
vidence churches and climaxed by a 
"Skeptic's Hour" on the final Tuesday. 
Brown clergymen who took part in the 
program were: Dr. Wilbour Eddy Saun- 
ders '16, President of Colgate-Rcchester 
Divinity School, who was keynote-speaker; 
the Rev. Ernest S. Frerichs '48, Mathew- 
son Street Methodist Church, Providence; 
the Rev. Alan B. Hutchinson '49, Park 
Place Congregational Church, Pawtucket: 
the Rev. Howard C. Olsen '38, St. Martin's 
Episcopal Church, Providence; Dr. Al- 
bert C. Thomas '08, First Baptist Meet- 
ing House, Providence; the Rev. Edwin 
H. Tuller '35, General Secretary of the 
Connecticut Council of Churches. Others 
included Roswell S. Cummings '48, An- 
dover-Newton Theological Student. John 
B. Harcourt '43 of the Brown English 
Department, Peter Lawson '50, Yale Di- 
vinity School student, and Harold B. Tan- 
ner '09, Providence lawyer and moderator 
of the First Baptist Meeting House. 

One of the distinct attractions of the 
1951 Religious Embassy was the visit of 
Mme. Ma Aye, a charming Burmese lady. 
She said she was glad to come to the Uni- 
versity: "I've always wanted to see Brown 
because it was the college of Adoniram 
Judson, the great missionary to Burma. 
He baptized my great-grandfather." 

Faculty Club Elects 
Prof. Hunter Kellenberger, Chair- 
man of the Division of Modern Lan- 
guages, was elected President of the 
Faculty Club in February. Serving with 
him in 1951 will be: Vice-President — 
Prof. Philip Taft, Chairman of the Eco- 
nomics Department; Secretary — Prof. 
William McClelland '41, Psychology; and 
Treasurer — Carroll Rikert, Jr., Univer- 
sity Comptroller. Members-at-large on 
the Board cf Governors are Profs. K. 
Roald Bergethon, Alonzo W. Quinn, 
Thomas L. Reei and John R. Workman. 




KELLENBERGER 
BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



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TALKS^ 




WE CONFESS that we. like most Bruno- 
nians, assumed that the name of our 
Alma Mater was simply "Brown Univer- 
sity." Not so, Charles J. Hill '16 informs 
us. He and his associate officers at the 
Title Guarantee Company in Providence 
have been wrestling for years with the 
fact that the correct and official identifica- 
tion is "Brown University in Providence 
in the State of Rhode Island and Provi- 
dence Plantations." As if this wasn't 
enough of a shock. Hill says further that 
the previous form of the corporate name 
was "Trustees and Fellows of the College 
or University in the English Colony of 
Rhode Island and Providence Plantations 
in New England and America." 

Hill concluded his little dissertation 
with the horrendous thought that perhaps 
the College cheers should be revised to 
accommodate the correct name. "Or per- 
haps not," he added, showing that the bet- 
ter side of his nature was asserting itself 
again. 

> When Wes Fesler, one-time Ohio State 
football coach, returned to the game at 
Minnesota after a little more than six 
weeks in the real estate business, the Ohio 
State Monthly headlined the story: "Min- 
nesota Shift — Death of a Salesman." 

> Although alumni magazines are un- 
known in European universities. Trinity 
College (Dublin) does publish an Annual 
which incorporates certain editorial ele- 
ments with which we are familiar. James 
B. McGuire '38 of Brown's English De- 
partment, who took graduate work at 
Trinity, calls attention to a bit of obituary 
writing in the Michaelmas issue of 1950 
that delights the heart of us: 

"DEATHS. O'Brien. October 1949, in 
New York, Dan O'Brien. The 'King of 
Hoboes,' whose death at the age of ninety- 
three was the subject of much kindly no- 
tice in the American papers, attributed a 
long and happy life to his careful avoid- 
ance of 'the frenzy of work which kills so 
many in middle age.' A difficulty in trac- 
ing his academic career must not preclude 
mention of one who not only claimed con- 
sistently to have been educated at Trinity 
College, but who is reported as saying 
that no other institution could have 
trained him so well for his future life." 

> The current vogue at Harvard is to 
identify its courses with a "remarkably de- 
scriptive series of pet names." Thus, Art 
in Man's Environment becomes "Pillars"; 
Geology 1 becomes "Rocks"; and Land- 
scape Architecture becomes "Trees." 
Westward Movement is known affection- 
ately as "Cowboys and Indians." An ab- 



normal psychology course which deals 
with both monkeys and men is "Chimps 
and Chumps." The new course by Prof. 
Zechariah Chafee, Jr., '07 on fundamental 
human rights is tagged with "Famous Jury 
Trials." But special laurels must go to a 
Philosophy professor who met his first 
class at 12 o'clock and suggested that the 
course might prove to bt "Darkness at 
Noon." 

> Harry R. Lee of White Plains, N. Y., is 
a good Rutgers man who has served his 
Class of 1903 well as its correspondent 
with the Rutgers Ahimni Monthly. We 
recognize the admirable sort of chap he is, 
even when his loyalty is directed at an- 
other campus than ours. We liked some 
definitions he ran in his class notes re- 
cently, describing certain persons visible 
on the alumni scene: 

Class Column: A literary vacuum en- 
tirely surrounded by critics. A literary 
monopoly run by a friendless hermit. 

Classmate: A reader who reaps where 
he has not sown and gathers where he has 
not strewed. A person who thinks that 
class spirit is just one more cocktail. A 
person having literary talent that he buries 
in the ground. A person not smart enough 
to be a class correspondent but too smart 
to be a class agent. 

Class Correspondent: A pariah who 
makes brick without straw. A sinner who 
tries to beat the Recording Angel by one 
mail. 

Economist: A class correspondent who 
fails to observe a deadline and uses the 
postpaid envelope to request football 
tickets. 

Class Agent (Alumni Fund) : A martyr 
who squanders postage on misers. 

> A conversation reported from Mom- 
ingside Heights, Manhattan, where three 
Columbia Freshmen were matching repar- 
tee with a lady pedestrian, ended when she 
blurted out impatiently: "Why, I'm old 
enough to be your mother." 

Freshman: "Can I kiss mama good 
night?" 

> "Now that all but six courses are given 
jointly with Harvard," says Radcliffe Re- 
News, "many people have been wondering 
what has happened to the Radcliffe class- 
room buildings. It seems to be a tit-for-tat 
arrangement: Harvard gives us the use of 
its buildings in exchange for the use of the 
Radcliff'e academic buildings. ... It was 
a shock to 'momma' in 1943 when a Rad- 
cliffe girl wrote she was attending classes 
at Harvard, but think of the Harvard man 
who writes home that he's going to Rad- 
cliffe." 



> Operating in other than a mineral vein, 
someone came up at the meeting of the 
Geological Society of America with a 
parody which we lift from Princeton 
Alumni Weekly's blithe "Here & There" 
column. The validity of the demands cited 
can be vouched for by many a Browntown 
veteran and other married student in re- 
cent years. Hum to yourself that hit song 
from "Annie Get Your Gun" as you try 
this out: 

The girl that I marry will have to be 

Independent financially; 

The girl I make my bride 

Must take shorthand, do typing, and cook 

on the side. 
In letters and classes my notes she'll take 
And type my papers with no mistake; 
'Stead of yearning, she'll be earning. 
And she'll pay all my way, while I'm 

learning. 
A good secretary 
The girl that I marry must be! 

> Spike Saunders, the Editor of the 
Ahimni Review at Chapel Hill, challenged 
his readers to name the Presidents of the 
10 institutions on North Carolina's foot- 
ball schedule last fall, including some of 
the better known colleges and universities. 

We have a hunch that Brunonians 
might fare better in a similar trial because 
the heads of our rival schools are in the 
headlines so often. But, just for fun, see 
whether you can recall who were the 
Presidents when we played their institu- 
tions last fall: Yale, Holy Cross, R. I. 
State, Princeton, Colgate, Rutgers, Penn, 
Harvard, and Columbia. 

> A feature writer in the Rutgers Alumni 
Monthly told of an obituary being as- 
sembled in a newspaper office, doubtless 
an apochryphal one. The rewrite man had 
noted the achievements of the deceased: 
president of this company, director of 
that, leader in civic organizations, etc. 
Then, to add one more attribute to round 
out the story in fine style, he typed: "Mr. 
Jones was not a trustee of Rutgers Uni- 
versity." 

> We're so used to excavation near the 
Brown campus that we forgot others 
might be digging, too, until we read that 
The Dartmouth had dispatched a reporter 
to Hanover's Main Street to see about a 
shovel crew at work in a hole there. The 
results of the inquiry: 

"Oh, shucks, we're just digging a little 
hole," said the grizzled workman. He 
swung his shovel high into the air, arching 
a dirt clod towards the sunlight above 
Main Street. "'Tain't much." 

"Want to take a look at the sewers. 
Campion's toilet won't flush," added his 
fellow. "Not much of a hole. We'll have 
her covered up by tomorrow noon." He 
swung his pick into the ground. It snapped. 

"Little bedrock, I guess." he smiled. 

They labored on. A loud screech 
sounded above, and dirt showered down 
from Main Street. Something crashed at 
their feet. 

"Buick," one said. 

"Folks oughta be more careful." added 
the other, poking the wreckage with the 
point of his shovel. 

> Mail still comes to the Brown Faculty 
Club addressed to Prof. Carrie Tower. 

Buster 



APRIL 1951 



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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. 

Qnonnati, 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 Pk^.^ 
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, 16 Church 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, Charles D. Kenney '27, 31 Lavina Ct., Summit, 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. — ^ 



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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, William T. Townsend '46, 4 So. Church St., Sche- 
nectady, N. Y. 

N. E. Pennsylvania, Henry W. Peterson '21, 409 Miners Bank Bldg., 
WilkesBarre, Pa. 

Northwest (Seattle), A. Wilbur Stevens '42, 8244-40th St., N.E., 
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, S. F. Mathes '39, 381 Wayland Ave., Providence 6, R. I. 

Rochester, R. J. Meredith '49, 1 16 Willowbend Rd., 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 Hilicrest 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, 261 State St., Portland, Me. 

Western Pennsylvania, J. O. Chesley '11, 801 Gulf Bldg., Pittsburgh 
19, 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 



Earl M. Pearce '17, Chairman 



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

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

1884 — Col. W. M. P. Bowen, 635 Hospital 
Trust Bldg. 

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

188'' — Dr. Edmund D. Chesebro, 2 Hawthorne 
St. 

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. L 

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. Gurncy, 14 Young Orchard 
Ave. 

Note; 



1908— C. L. Grinnell, 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, R. 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. 

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, 41 1 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., 1109 Hospital 
Trust Bldg. 

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. Harris, 31 Lowden St., Paw- 
tucket, R. I. 

1930— Edmund J. Farrell, 6 Armistice Blvd., 
Pawtuckct, R. I. 



1931— Frederick L. Harson, 18 Rhode Island Ave. 
1932 — Richard A. Hurley, Jr., 80 Don Ave., 

Rumford, R. I. 
1933— Franklin A. Hurd, 5 Meredith Dr., 

Cranston, R. I. 
1934 — Bancroft Littlefield, 1109 Hospital Trust 

Bldg. 
1935— Alfred H. Joslin, 25 So. Angell St. 
1936 — Robert W. Kenyon, 210 Squantum Dr., 

Gov. Francis Farms, Edgewood 5, 

R. r 

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 



Unless otherwise indicated, all addresses are in Providence.