X 3S'7C>. 1^ 3-0 O ; i lUil n VE :|Ii|rI:I \ |I _ ; 111 11 TAS r HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY [university! LIBRARY OCT 15 1954 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 3 5-lc Jj OCTOBER 1954 SENT BY THE UNIVERSITY TO ALL BROWN MEN BROWN ALUMM :M0NTHLY Published b\ Brown University for its Alumni MEMBER, AMERICAN ALUMNI COUNCIL Board of Editors Chairman C. ARTHUR BRAITSCH '23 Vice-Chairman GEORGE W. POTTER 21 GARRETT D. BYRNES "26 WARREN L. CARLEEN '48 CARLETON GOFF '24 ELMERS. HORTON '10 PROF. I. J. KAPSTEIN '26 JOHN T. WINTERICH 12 Managing-Editor CHESLEY WORTHINGTON "23 Assistant Editor DOUGLAS A. SNOW '45 CONTENTS News Brown and the Hurricanes As the New Year Begins The Homecoming Program Kelley: "My Best Team" A Rollcall of Reunions In Honor of Fritz Pollard Features Griswold on Conversation He Tests Your Penicillin A Namesake in the Sky Freshman Sons of Alumni They Raced to Bermuda Departments The Brown Clubs Report Mail in Postbox 1854 Bureau of Vital Statistics 3 7 13 18 22 31 13 14 17 21 15 30 31 THE COVER PHOTO: We don't recog- nize the hand, but those tickets are un- mistakable — for Homecoming football, of course. And with the team that Al Keiley calls his best meeting the Tiger, you'll want your tickets, too. Be with us for all Homecoming events, won't you? (See page 13 and the back cover.) ONE OF THE MOST ENLIGHTEN- ING moments of any Freshman Week is the period in which Dean Walker undertakes to answer any questions from the floor. The crowded campus of 1954 gave rise to several about housing: "If there are three in a room, should I unpack?" "If there are three in a room — and only two beds — what am I supposed to do?" "If there are three in a room, do we get a reduction in our room rent?" To the latter question. Dean Walker said. "Yes. You'll get a credit on the hill." The Freshman said the bill had already been paid — did he get his cash back? "Certainly," the Dean replied, and then had an afterthought: "Does papa know?" > THEY SAY it happened in one of the pre-season football practices this fall at a time when minor leg injuries were epi- demic. One player reported he'd just been hurt in scrimmage, only to be given a favorite response by one of the coaches: "Just jog around and run it off." "But, coach," said the lad. "It's my head." > WE STARTED TO SULK when President Griswold of Yale said in his Convocation speech (reprinted elsewhere in this issue) that "small talk and gossip are not con- versation." But we felt better when he admitted that conversation might begin anywhere, "even in the realm of the trivial." > WHEN YOU PICK a couple of boys at random to pose for a photograph, you never know what you'll get. Two likely Freshmen were called aside for a picture at Brown this fall, and, when it was all over, they were asked who they were. "And where are you from?" "From Wellesley," said the first. "And I'm from Pembroke," said the other. The photographer gulped, and then recalled that there are towns of that name in Massachusetts. > ONE OF OUR Providence alumni found an interesting solution of a photographic problem last summer, shortly before he was to go to Hawaii on a holiday. Eager to have a camera for the trip but with- out experience in this field, he went into a shop and asked that they recommend a suitable camera for a hypothetical nephew, aged 10. On the basis of this ad- vice, he bought a camera with which he thought he might be able to cope him- self and took it along. > YOU MAY REMEMBER a paragraph about the mysterious appearance of a porpoise on the Brown campus last spring, in which we noted some student specula- tion about the possibility of "fish on the menu" at the Refectory as a result. Hor- ace S. Mazet '26 wrote from California to call us on this, as well he might as the author of a book or two on creatures of the sea. "Half a dozen graduates of the Biology Department must have pointed out to you that a porpoise is not a fish — could never appear on any menu as fish. But good red meat, yes!" y Tlie Cornell Alumni News has been publishing some recollections about Prof. Robert H. Thurston, a Brown graduate of nearly 100 years ago. It seems he never recorded attendance in any of his lectures to engineers at Ithaca. But one day. after the group had dwindled to a fraction of its registration, he did make a request: "Please tell your absent classmates that graduation from Cornell is not compul- sory." Attendance returned to normal. > BEA FIELDS, that amazing and compe- tent Alumni Secretary at Tulane, known to her devoted colleagues in alumni work as the "Queen Bea." found her maid in low spirits last spring. Was she working too hard? Did she feel bad? No. every- thing was fine on the job except for one thing: "Miss Bea, life is just so daily." > A FOREIGN STUDENT, Writing in the Sim- mons Review, offered her impressions of America. The labor-saving gadgets every- where struck her as remarkable. "You're able to do most things with one hand," she said, "except mail your letters." > UNDER OUR CLASS NOTES, we haven't used the item quite as it was reported to us by one of our good alumni. What he said was more like this: "Mr. X very sadly announces the second wedding in his family in less than a year. The First National Bank announced the first wed- ding, and the Sterling National Bank the second." > AN ENGLISH PROFESSOR at the Univer- sity of Texas, The Alcalde notes, was talking about "The Grapes of Wrath" in his class. He worried somewhat about a small girl in the group who looked "as though she'd never left Sunday School." At a conference with her one day in his office, he asked her how she was getting along. "This book — does it shock you?" he asked. "Oh, no!" the girl replied with some emphasis. "I've been living in a dorm for a semester." BUSTER Published October, November, December, January, February, March, April, May and July by Brown University, Providence 12, R. I. Admitted to the second class of mail matter under the Act of August 24. 1912. at the Providence Post Office. Additional entry at Brattleboro, Vt. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY OCTOBER, VOL. LV 1954 NO. 1 A HUNDRED YEARS A-GROWING, this elm before Hope College went quickly on Aug. 31, the ilie l^font Can HURRICANE INVENTORY: College Hill's Fate At the Hands of Carol and Edna THE HAVOC of Carol and Edna, the hurricanes of Aug. 31 and Sept. 10, is an old story by now and a familiar one to many Brunonians. There is no intention here of giving any detailed account of what happened, even in Providence. Our thought is to answer the question in many alumni minds: How did the University fare? The reply, of course, is foreshadowed by the absence of news about Brown from the general stories on the hurri- canes: We came off pretty well, all things considered — pretty well, in comparison with vast losses elsewhere, even near by, just down the Hill. As most of our readers know, downtown Providence was again completely flooded by high tides hurled up the Bay by Carol. Perhaps you recall the bronze markers on many buildings showing the height of the waters in the 1815 hurricane and in 1938. This time the flood came about as far up as it did in 1815, about a foot below the 1938 level. The waves would have come up to your neck on Market Square, if you kept your footing. They would have swept to the roof of your car in front of the Biltmore. The immediate losses were staggering, whether sensed in the aggregate or reduced to the particular instance you happened to know well. There's destruction in salt water, burdened also with runaway bunker oil, when it over- whelms your first floors as well as your basements. And there are delayed losses, too, as the life of a great city slows to a standstill. You realized all this as you saw the pumps at work, the sodden debris shovelled into trucks, business men lunching at makeshift lunch-counters in doorways, traffic barred from the central areas, electricity and phones gone for days or a fortnight, a 4:30 curfew to keep people from where they had no cause to be after dark. Our neighbors in Providence suffered, materially, brutally. The Wounds on Campus The waters stayed at the foot of College Hill, though Market Square was a raging sea. But the winds had no barrier, as they reached 125 miles an hour. And so Brown University did have its wounds from the buff'eting. Perhaps $20,000 will cover the bill of repairs, most of it resulting from damage to roofs. But you don't grow overnight again a grand, venerable elm. As was the case in 1938, one feels especially the loss of so many of Providence's fine old trees that conferred a quality to its East Side. This time, the Campus came through reasonably well in this respect. But here and there one saw the casualties. Perhaps they were not the healthiest of trees in their old age, but we'd rather they were still up, just the same. One lovely elm from the west side of Hope College went down, for example. When the power saws had ripped it into sections, you could count the annual rings — about a hundred, a Professor reported to us. An- other large one is missing near the George St. fence at the flagpole, and from our own doorway at Alumni House. Others of the 15 enumerated on the Campus were of a lesser sort — populars by the backdoor of Sayles and along Lincoln Field for which one had less sentiment. Perhaps, after the heroic clean-up job, you will return to College Hill and not be aware of some trees that went. But you'll notice the bareness of the Iselin residence at the corner of Brown and George Sts., stripped of its ivy and without its familiar row of four great lindens. They crashed down in formation, like wooden soldiers, flat across the old ornamental iron fence and tearing up complete widths of the brick sidewalk as they went. It took a giant crane to remove the sawed sections, some of them a yard through, a fortnight later. The sunlight glares down on Brown St. across from Wayland House, which they once shaded in the afternoon. Alumni who have attended the Commencement Recep- tions at the President's House at Power St. will remember the lovely garden there. One of our photographs suggests what happened in this spot, but it was swiftly cleared in anticipation of the Freshman Reception. Sidewalks and curbing were destroyed or broken where trees were uprooted. Of the flowering shrubs, part of the comparatively recent landscaping of the Campus, many were blown over, but replanting may have saved them. Next spring will tell the story. Most of the foliage withered from the force of the wind and the spray of salt from the Bay waters. .■In Act of Generosity As always, trouble brings out acts of kindness and gen- erosity. Frank Gammino '33, who played on the famous 1932 football team, was visiting practice on Aldrich Field on the afternoon of Labor Day. He noted the large trees down around the area. "A mess, isn't it?" he remarked to Athletic Director Mackesey. The next day he dispatched trucks, a half-dozen power saws, and men from his con- struction company. They spent two long days in the heavy clean-up, a much appreciated favor by a loyal alumnus. The Seekonk River, as in 1938, was flooded high, with waters deep over the River Road where hundreds watch the crew and dinghy races on the Spring Weekend. Here again, the camera is more graphic, and Mrs. Burnett's photo is a classic. The stormy waves wrenched away the landing float and the ramp for the boats at the Brown Boathouse. New piling will be necessary to replace the ramp and platform, in addition to a new float. (For temporary use this fall, a giant inflated raft of the military type was procured. It was an incongruous sight as it rested near Alumni House before its installation.) The flooring of the Boathouse was raised in spots, and the balcony porch was slightly damaged, but none of the boats or equipment was much hurt, although the first floor became part of the river during the peak of the flood. (In the 1938 photographs by Roger T. Clapp '19, one finds some evidence on this page that the earlier hurricane caused even higher waters on the Seekonk. But, if a shade less violent, Carol and Edna carried a one-two punch. Peo- ple remarked that, though we'd had only two hurricanes in the previous 135 years, 1954 provided two in a fortnight.) The stadium at Brown Field suffered some superficial damage from the blows. Several windows in the press-box above the stands were smashed, while flagpoles on the roof were broken. The First Baptist Meeting House, with its tall, lovely spire, again seems to have withstood hurricane fury with- out material harm. Stucco was ripped away, however, from the exterior of Rhode Island Hall. The well-built Quad- rangle sustained hardly any damage ($100 will cover it there). The man in the best position to assess the cost of the storms was obviously Ward A. Davenport, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds. A week after the first blow, one of his memos listed the spots that suffered most: Major damage to roofs at Marvel Gym, Faunce House, Arnold Lab, Sayles Hall, Snow House and Bates House (the latter two Pembroke dormitories); minor damage to a few other buildings: about 50 windows broken by wind pressure or hit by flying limbs and tiles. Of the roof repair jobs, the BROWN ALU.MNI MONTHLY ^J^in^xiwitL.Ji r;,^^. Souvenirs of Carol TWO VIEWS of the Brown Boathouse on the Seekonk River provide evidence of the fury of the first of the two foil hurricanes which hit Providence. Above, the flood waters at high tide were pictured at the height of the storm by Kay Burnett of the Brown Photo Lab staff, who lives just up the hill from the river. The lower photo shows the damage to the landing float after the waters had subsided. THE FACING PAGE offers a striking com- parison with its pictures taken in 1938 by Roger T. Clapp '19. Again the Boathouse provides a yardstick for the height of the waters. By happy coincidence, both sets of photos were shot from the identical spot. OCTOBER 1954 most expensive was that at Marvel Gymnasium where the heavy slates were torn loose and sent flying. The depth of their imbedding in the turf of Aldrich Field showed the force behind them. The Buildings and Grounds crews worked feverishly to make crucial repairs before more rain seeped through the broken areas to cause further interior harm. Their labors saved serious trouble when "Edna" roared by so soon after. As You Look at Photos Our photographs, of course, show damage. You don't take a picture of what was unharmed: you look around for the extremes. We publish our pictures because they inform, but they tend to exaggerate with respect to the over-all scene. For the University was lucky, all agreed, compared with the tragic damage in other sections of the City and State. It had been a violent experience — two of them, ac- tually — and you recall the shaking of the buildings, the flight of the heavy roofing slates that cut viciously at any- thing in their way, the branches tossed and tortured. And there was the inconvenience of being without electric power for a few days. (The Campus jested mildly that University Hall had been "immobilized without its electric type- writers.") But College Hill recuperated with fair dispatch, thanks to the valiance of B & G men and the utilities and the City. We were ready for our Freshmen when they arrived on the 12th. Yes, Brown was lucky, escaping with damage ( the sort you can put a dollar value on) of perhaps S20.000. But budgets make no allo\\ance in advance for hurricanes, and there was no appropriation to cover their costs. The week of Carol, the University Fund was prompt with a letter to alumni to make a report on the situation (a good terse sur- vey of the sort people wanted). It suggested that the alumni might care to help foot the bill for damage, only partly coverable by insurance. "This letter will be received by many who, themselves, have suffered personal losses of lesser or greater amounts than this," Allen Williams wrote. "To them we send our sincere hopes that they will receive assistance from their friends and business associates. If you, however, have been fortunate enough to escape such losses in your home or in your part of the country, perhaps you would like to lend your assistance through the Brown University Fund. We would be most grateful to you for this help." The first mails showed a willingness to contribute to this special ap- peal, similar to the 1938 Tree Fund that the Alumni Fund of that year raised. THE LOCALE of this photo is fomilior to hundreds of Brunonians who and Grounds went to wori; promptly to clear the debris so that it might have attended the President's Reception at Commencement time. It is be ready for the reception to the entering Classes during Freshman the garden of the Wriston's house at 55 Power St. The crew of Buildings Week. (And then it rained, anyway.) BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY THE 191st YEAR BEGINS: A Problem in Housing THIS YEAR could be even better. Those of us on Col- lege Hill this fall recall with considerable delight what an extraordinarily fine year Brown experienced in 1953-54. But the University's 191st academic year began with even more promise, although problems attended the arrival of the Class of 1958 and the accommodation of a student body up 240 men from the previous registration of 1936. It was not that the Freshman Class was larger than its predecessor, although the total of 666 represented an in- crease of 71. The impressive factor was the exceptionally low academic mortality of last semester. The upper Classes had not shrunk appreciably. If, as President Wriston says, you can judge the well-being of an institution by the percentage of its students who remain to graduate, Brown is very healthy indeed. Pembroke's enrollment is higher by 30, to reach 816, its Freshman Class mustering 242 (17 more than a year ago). A higher percentage of the eligibles is found in the ex- perimental curriculum, "The Identification and Criticism of Ideas." There are 346 registered, 215 Freshmen and 131 Sophomores, as against a total of 103 Freshmen and 81 Sophomores in the first year of the program last year. The large enrollment at Brown raised a knotty question on housing the students. Again, more than half of the Fresh- men come from outside of New England. Again, the de- mand for residence on campus was pressing — more than we could fill. One makeshift was the undesirable allotment of three students to a room in 29 cases, while another score found temporary quarters in dormitory lounges, converted for housing. Plantations House, the new Commuters' cen- ter on George St., had to surrender some of its rooms for the first month until things squared away. More permissions were given upperclassmen to live off-campus, and the Uni- versity even advertised for quarters, in a fashion reminiscent of the post-war deluge. Students from the greater Provi- dence region were, for the time being, given a low priority on dormitory rooms. ("We need another new dormitory," President Wriston said.) But things ironed out rapidly, particularly during the Freshman Week when the newcomers had the Campus to themselves during their traditional period of orientation, testing, and welcome. Talking at the Faculty Club Smoker the night College opened. President Wriston spoke of the year's prospect, with a glance over his shoulder at 1953-54. The latter, he said, was the best he'd ever known in 29 years of administrative work in education. He spoke of the "satisfactions and ex- citement" on College Hill which resulted from what he will remember as "The Teaching Year." It was coincidental with the IC Courses, to be sure, but there had been marked ad- vances in the regular courses, too, with a great surge of teaching enthusiasm, infectious to the learners as well. The results were visible in higher library circulation, good self- discipline, and fine morale. "I can wish nothing better than another "Teaching Year,' " he said. MJ^^^^^lb^ UPHEAVAL ON BROWN ST.: The famous corner of George St., graced by the Iselin residence, lost its four great lindens as the trees were up- rooted by Hurricane Carol. Thrown toward the house in a row, they tore the brick sidewalk with them and broke down sections of the iron fence. Auto ot the lower left provides a scale. "The IC Courses." he pointed out. "exploit the initiative of a student, his capacity to educate himself. Our experience last year was sensational, although we withheld full publicity of its success. If we can maintain our pace, we shall change the morale of the entire student body and get stability in stu- dent leadership. Freshmen look to Seniors and take their advice. When you reach the point where the Senior Class survives academic rigors and is numerically strong, those Seniors will really lead, as they should. We're on our way to that goal." The Class of 1957 had been exceptionally fine, the Presi- dent said. On the basis of its selection, its September tests, and its attitude during Freshman Week, the newcomers of 1958 could be even better. "The tone of a college is set in its admission office by the boys there chosen. We have a first class group of customers, a challenge to any teachers," Dr. Wriston told the Faculty. Though two hurricanes were its herald, it could be a great year again. But the President would like that other dormi- tory, if you have one. OCTOBER 1954 HELP FOR A TONGUE-TIED DEMOCRACY: Of Conversation, Chiefb;^ By A. WHITNEY GRISWOLD {His Convocation Address at Bro^vn) CONVERSATION IN THIS COUNTRY has fallen upon evil days. The great creative art whereby man translates feeling into reason and shares with his fellow man those innermost thoughts and ideals of which civilization is made is beset by forces which threaten its demise: It is forsaken by a technology that is so busy tending its time-saving devices that it has no time for anything else. It is drowned out in singing commercials by the world's most productive economy, that has so little to say for itself it has to hum it. It is hushed and shushed in dimly lighted parlors by television audiences who used to read, argue, and even play bridge, an old-fashioned card game requiring speech. It is shouted down by devil's advocates, thrown into disorder by points of order. It is subdued by soft-voiced censors who, in the name of public relations, counsel discretion and the avoidance of controversy, like so many family physicians breaking the news gently and advising their patients to cut down on their calories. It starves for want of reading and reflection. It languishes in a society that spends so much time passively listening and being talked to that it has all but lost the will and the skill to speak for itself. The Pedigree of Coni'ersation I wonder how many of us are aware of this predicament and interested in its possible consequences. It was conversa- tion, reaching its orderly and exalted climax in the dialogues of Socrates, which, in an age without books or their latter- day substitutes, laid the foundations of the civilization we are dedicated to defend. It was conversation of which the New Testament, the greatest teaching ever recorded, was composed. It was conversation, among small groups of uni- versity scholars still in a bookless world that revived learn- ing at the end of the Dark Ages. "I am a great believer in conversation." said Whitehead toward the end of his life. "Outside of the book-knowledge which is necessary to our professional training, I think I have got most of my development from the good conversa- tion to which I have always had the luck to have access." Conversation is the oldest form of instruction of the hu- man race. It is still an indispensable one. Great books, scien- tific discoveries, works of art — great perceptions of truth and beauty in any form all require great conversation to complete their meaning: without it they are abracadabra — color to the blind or music to the deaf. Conversation, invent- ing its own substitute for words, has accomplished the great- est miracle known to pedagogy in piercing the veil that hung between the infant Helen Keller and nothingness, bringing her into mature objective knowledge of the world after a normal subjective experience of it of only 19 months. Con- versation is the handmaid of learning, true religion, and free government. It would be impossible to put too high a price on all we stand to lose by suffering its decay. How then do we account for the symptoms of decadence? Are they the result of a sinister softening-up process such as 8 preceded the dictators of recent history not to mention Big Brother of 1984? Or are they our own fault? Are we being softened up or are we merely softening? In either case, what can we do about it? And It's Our Own Fault I think that the present predicament of conversation in America is our own fault, and I take courage from the thought. For what is our own fault lies within our power to correct. I think there are a number of things we can do about it. I propose to suggest a few that are already going on right here in this University and that ought to be encouraged and capitalized for the benefit of the nation. Let me first defend the thesis that the predicament from which we suffer is our own fault and not something slipped over on us by conspiracy. Consider all the tools and toys of our prolific economy: the time-saving, labor-saving devices, the automatic cookers and washers, the almost automatic automobile that will present us with a new industrial tau- tology when it becomes complete, the 3-D movies, and the television sets. Do these distract us from conversation any more than the toil and drudgery they have supplanted? Perhaps not, but that is not the point. The point is that they have given us more leisure than the human race has ever known and in more equal, democratic measure; yet, instead of making that leisure the ally of conversation, we seem content with it as no less of a distraction than drudgery. Is this the result of machination or conspiracy? 1 find it hard to believe so. Whitney Griswold, LL.D., '54 When the Presidents of Harvard and Princeton came to Providence last June to receive their honorary degrees at Brown. Dr. A. Whitney Griswold had a Commencement of his own over which he had to pre- side that day. He was, therefore, all the more welcome as the Convocation speaker as Brown opened its 191st year on Sept. 20, for it permitted the University to add his name to the roll of honorary alumni with the de- gree of LL.D. President Wriston's doctoral citation of Dr. Gris- wold was as follows: "In a world obsessed by crises, it is refreshing to find an educator who can deal wisely with great issues without ever becoming ponderous, who brings to po- litical and social questions (as to education) keen perception, deep conviction, luminous expression, and a sharp wit. These qualities justify an influence al- ready great and rapidly growing; they mark you as a leader in the enlightening interpretation and effective cultivation of the liberal arts." President Griswold then exemplified some of the qualities thus cited, in the delightful and thoughtful address which it is our privilege to print on these pages. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY \ \cademic I find it much easier to believe that it is nobody's fault but our own, and I rest my case on a cardinal principle of American business: "The customer is always right." If he wants fatter, more expensive cars, he shall have them. If he wants bubble gum and comics, he shall have them too. And, if he wants to spend his time looking and listening, without ever discussing with his friends the meaning of what he sees and hears, that, too, is his prerogative. No. We look in vain for scapegoats in this quarter. The trouble here is toys, not traitors. We and Our Scapegoats I would argue the same of scapegoats in general. Orderly conversation in its parliamentary sphere, the sphere essential to free government, has been much abused and disrupted of late. The abuses and disruptions have spread like ripples from a stone cast into a pond, stirring up strife all over the country. The effect of this strife has been to inhibit conver- sation and make a case for the public relations experts. Some critics have found individuals responsible for the phenom- enon. I do not agree with them. On the contrary, I think we are responsible for the individuals. I think we are responsible because we, the people, elected and appointed such indi- viduals to represent us, and that is exactly what they are doing. They are representing our fears and suspicions. This, I think, constitutes a real peril to the country, but not of the kind commonly deplored by the critics of such individuals. Bacon told us long ago that believing a rumor was as bad as starting a rumor. He said: "Suspicions amongst thoughts are like bats among birds, they ever fly by twilight. Certainly they are to be repressed, or at least well guarded, for they cloud the mind; they leese (lose) friends; and they check (interfere) with business, whereby business cannot go on currently and constantly. They dispose Kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, wise men to irresolution and melancholy. They are defects not in the heart but in the brain. . . . There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little; and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more . . ." Suspicions arouse passions. If we become creatures of passion, the individuals who represent us will represent pas- sion. The danger is not that one or another of them may attempt to make himself dictator: I have enough faith in this country to believe that such an attempt would inevitably fail, all European analogies to the contrary notwithstanding. The danger is that we ourselves allow passion to blind us to things we should see with clear eyes and calculate with cool heads and so lead us to a Pearl Harbor compounded of hydrogen. In either case — the hypothetical one of a foreign- style coup d'etat or the imminent danger that passions may cloud our minds, interfere with our business, and so bring us to disaster — the remedy is "procuring to know more" ourselves, not hunting scapegoats to blame for our own shortcomings. Evidence of Its Value By this path I return to this University and the extraordi- nary opportunity that is yours who are about to enter it. Can you think of a better place for "procuring to know more" PRESIDENT GRISWOLD or for conversation to prove itself as a means to that end? Where else (save Elysium itself) is life so congenial to this combination as it is in a residential liberal arts college? Where else does conversation play so vital a part in the cen- tral purpose of the institution? Where else, though hard pressed from without, does it yet survive so stubbornly and hold out so much hope to those who would encourage it? Whitehead is but the most distinguished of educational phi- losophers, most of whom appear to us in the more familiar context of alumni reunions, to testify to its value in his own education. Our civilization and our sacred liberties can be offered as potential evidence of its value to ours. How then, shall we make the most of it? Shall we have courses in conversation? Perish the thought. Let us have conversation in courses but no courses in conversation. By conversation in courses moreover, I do not mean whispering at lectures. I mean as much give and take between teacher and student as is possible in this day of soaring enrollments, teacher shortages and financial deficits. Let us not forget that there is a point in relation to these seemingly ineluctable limits beyond which teaching becomes mass-production and the law of diminishing returns sets in. At its best, teaching is a two-way process, an exchange of thought between teacher and student, by which both profit and the thought exchanged becomes ennobled in the trans- fer. I do not see how we can make very great compromises with this principle, without dashing our hopes for conversa- tion and for higher education as well. Where to Look for Help This is a hard row to hoe. We must have help with it. To maintain the proper ratio of teachers to students necessary to avoid such compromises will tax our resources to the ut- most; it may well overtax them. Where then shall we look for help? Where better than to our own students, imbued with Whitehead's respect for conversation as an educational process, with a sense of its value to the world into which they will graduate, and with the heaven-sent opportunities of cultivating and putting it to use afl'orded them in college? Here is potential relief from the teacher shortage that would cost nothing, that is present in every liberal arts college worthy of the name. It needs only to be galvanized to prove its value. (I say "galvanized," not organized. Organization would kill it.) Self-conscious circles of undergraduate pedagogues would, I predict, become ever-decreasing and concentric in charac- ter. Undergraduate assistants to professors on the model of hospital nurses aides would find ideas harder to handle than OCTOBER 1954 thermometers and bed pans; they would finish by proving that teaching is a profession. These undergraduates could resist the distractions of their elders and, in their own time and place, give themselves over to conversation that tested and distilled into wisdom the knowledge derived from lec- tures and books. They would do honor to the disciples of Socrates. They would give our universities and our civiliza- tion a new lease on life. Ready to Be Employed To a certain extent this is already happening at Brown and Yale. Yet in relation to capacity the reserves of power have scarcely been tapped. They should be. Here is the strength of the residential liberal arts college, waiting to be called upon; the principle of self-education waiting to be demonstrated. Both liberal education and the residential college were founded upon that principle, the liberal arts to train men and women to think for themselves, to learn by themselves, to go on educating themselves for the rest of their lives; the residential college to initiate and foster that process — not as a club or hotel but as a corporate society of teachers and scholars. Only part of the process can be accomplished through formal instruction. The other, and not always the lesser part, is accomplished in the social life and intercourse of students outside the classroom. British educators have made much of these principles — the liberal arts and the residential. They are reflected in the remarkable systems of adult education developed in the Scandinavian countries, especially Denmark, which have served as models to proponents of adult education in Britain since the war. They say, in effect, that they would rather have a group of adult students living together as a residential community for two weeks than they would individually at- tending night school or taking correspondence courses for two years. They have carried their convictions into Western Ger- many. There, for example, one finds in the Collegium Aca- demicum of Heidelberg a conscious (and, so far, apparently successful) attempt to foster the residential principle in a national system of higher education which, like most con- tinental systems, has been almost wholly non-residential. I cite these cases to show that in the judgment of a people whose educational experience goes back nearly 800 years and from whose universities our own are lineal descendants, the residential principle is neither a whim nor a luxury but a vital necessity. The Opportunity at Hand This is in keeping with the character of the American liberal arts college. All any such college needs to do to real- ize the educational potential I have suggested for it is to live up to that character. With its predominantly residential sys- tem of higher education, the United States is favored beyond any other nation in having ready to hand the very means which others emulate and strive to develop with scant re- Socrates Takes on Bojo and Dink SUPPOSE WE DID BRING Socra- tes back to earth to consider the revival of conversation among college men. President Griswold said he would not find the going easy, particularly at this season of the year: "I can see him now returning, not from the army at Potidaea or a reli- gious procession at the Piraeus, but, let us say, from a meeting of the Associa- tion of Colleges in New England, where he has been demonstrating the impossibility of computing the essen- tial worth of each member institution on four pieces of paper 8V2 inches long by 1 1 inches wide. "On the train he has encountered graduates of two of the member insti- tutions, men whose names (with apolo- gies to Owen Johnson and J. P. Mar- quand) are Dink Stover and Bojo Brown. They engage Socrates in a dis- cussion of education and arrive with the utmost despatch at the following proposition." We quote the dialogue as Dr. Griswold rendered it with gusto and skill: BOJO: I don't like this new Ivy League Agreement. DINK: Neither do I. All this business about spring practice and recruiting players! SOCRATES: Players? What is the Ivy League, a group of actors? BOJO: No, a group of colleges. SOCRATES: Ah, and they have just agreed to recruit ac- tors? DINK: No, they have just agreed not to recruit foot- ball players. SOCRATES: But why should they wish to recruit football players? I thought colleges were for students. At first I thought you were talking about players in the sense of actors or possibly mu- sicians, who would entertain the students and recreate them after their studies. But why football players? DINK: You tell him. Bojo. BOJO: Well, you see, a lot of colleges award football scholarships. SOCRATES: But what has football got to do with scholar- ship? BOJO: Well, I see what you mean, but that's what they call them. SOCRATES: DINK, SOCRATES: BOJO; DINK: BOJO: SOCRATES: DINK AND That may be what they call them, but what ARE they? interrupting: They're grants of financial as- sistance. Financial assistance? You mean money? You mean young men are paid money to play football in college? In some cases, yes. But not in the Ivy League. Although, by the way. Dink, a friend of mine in Greenwich told me the other day . . . Of course, I don't believe it, but I thought you ought to know it's going the rounds, that a Princeton man in his office told him he knew for a fact that a group of your alumni had offered . . . I deny that! And, anyway, what about that fellow up in Buffalo who was registered in our Freshman Class and then a group of your alumni grabbed him as he was stepping off the train and . . . Oh, that old chestnut! I . . . Gentlemen, all this talk about football and chestnuts! I thought we were discussing edu- cation. BOJO, testily and in unison: WE ARE! 10 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY THE COLLEGE GREEN suffered far less than in the 1938 hurricane when so many elms were lost. Fallen branches near U.H. the force of the wind the morning after 1954's "Carol." rthele sources. Our undergraduate students do not know their own strength. They do not realize the educational benefits they might confer upon all of us (and themselves, in the bargain) by refinement and more extensive practice of the art of conversation. The forms such coaversation should take and the rules it should follow, are, of course, important. Like all art, it cannot be formless; it must show obedience to certain clas- sic principles. Jargon is not conversation. Plain English, the purer the better, is essential. One of the things that made possible the attainments of Greek philosophy was the ex- traordinary fluidity of the Greek language, which the phi- losophers who are still read used in its purity and never in adulteration. Small talk and gossip are not conversation. Neither is in- dictment, with which I include any and all one-way processes of insinuation, invective, diatribe, denunciation, excoria- tion, and anathema, — notwithstanding their current popular- ity. Conversation is an exchange of thought that leaves all parties to it a grain the wiser. It implies progress. Though it may begin anywhere, even in the realm of trivial, it should try to get somewhere and carry everyone with it as it goes. Valedictory Before the Hemlock The basic principles of conversation were established by Socrates, both by example and by precept, more than 2,000 years ago: One of the most important of these was that conversation should take place among friends, in a congenial atmosphere, with common interests at heart. Best of all would be one common interest, namely wisdom. (It is inter- esting to see how these principles anticipate the nature and purposes of our liberal arts colleges.) Wisdom, to Socrates, was "the one true coin for which all things ought to be exchanged, . . . and only in ex- change for this, and in company with this, is anything truly bought or sold, whether courage or temperance or justice. And is not all true virtue the companion of wisdom, no matter what fears or pleasures or other similar goods or evils may or may not attend her?"' Such were his last words to his disciples just before he drank the hemlock. (How close they come to the charters of Brown and Yale!) Again, in an earlier dialogue, Socrates declares: "Some things I have said of which I am not altogether confident. But that we shall be better and braver and less helpless if we think that we ought to enquire, than we should have been if we indulged in the idle fancy that there was no knowing and no use in seeking to know what we do not know; — that is a theme upon which I am ready to fight, in word and deed, to the utmost of my power." Where could we find a better motto for higher education? These are, it is true, the utterances of a consecrated teacher and philosopher rather than merely a gifted conversational- ist. Yet they tell us much about both learning and conversa- OCTOBER 1954 11 tion. If Carlyle could define a university as a collection of books, Socrates might well have defined it as a conversation about wisdom. In any event we may conclude from what he did say that conversation about wisdom is true conversation. Locomotioti for Cotiversation To facilitate conversation of this kind, to keep it moving and make it truly productive, Socrates established one prac- tical rule that has served both conversation and learning well ever since: This was his separation of the hypothesis and its consequences into two distinct questions. The hypo- thesis was first assumed as true. Then the consequences of the hypothesis were deduced, those which agreed with it being accepted as true and those which disagreed rejected as false. The hypothesis was never taken as axiomatic or self-evident and, if called into question was debated in its turn. By this method the parties to a conversation were brought onto common ground, unity and relevance were ensured for their discussion, and the whole range of human knowledge was infinitely expanded. What a boon it might be to our troubled world, that wastes so much time and temper arguing at cross purposes, if we could apply this rule more generally to the discussion of human affairs today. Criticism would have to be answered on its merits rather than by attacks on the critic. Concealed or unstated premises would be brought out into the open. It might even become possible to discuss our foreign policy without raising our voices and accusing one another of treason. Who knows what enlightened dispensations in the national interest might not result? But I am afraid that for such exalted conversation as this we should either have to bring Socrates back to earth or wait as he did in the conviction that the ideals of men were laid away in heaven. Even supposing we did bring him back to earth and sum- moned his thought to the matter at hand — the revival of conversation among students in residential colleges of the liberal arts — he might not find the going so easy at first. . . . An Educational Birthright No. Even with the help of Socrates, we should have work to do before the art of conversation in our colleges came into its own. We should have to ensure our students a proper subject of conversation. Fortunately we have this, too. ready to hand in our liberal arts curriculum. This is the educational birthright of undergraduates at Brown and Yale. Its currency has never been devalued: it is still at par with the currency of Socrates' one true coin. With its percep- tions of greatness and excellence, its intimations of im- mortality, it embodies the full meaning the Greeks gave to virtue and Socrates himself gave to wisdom. As a source of great conversation it has never been equalled. I do not decry vocational training. In some form or other it is essential for most of us and has something to offer all of us. What I do decry is vocational training masquerading as liberal education and usurping its place. The demand of society for the immediate and the utilitarian is unremitting. The Sophists answered it in Socrates' day. Suppose Socrates had followed suit. Education can always cash in on this demand, nor do I criticize the educational institutions that do. I just hope Yale and Brown won't. But What Is Communicated? Is this a pious hope, visionary and impractical in this practical world? I ask you what might have happened if we had started cashing in on the demand when it was first felt. Let us take the timely case of television. It is said to be revolutionizing American life and we are urged to introduce courses in it in our curriculum. There have been several such inventions that were thought by contemporaries to be rev- olutionary agents of change in American life. The first was the telegraph, whose inventor and his associates, as I recall it, were so awe-struck by their handiwork that their first signaled message was "What hath God wrought!" Next came the telephone, then movies, then radio, and finally TV. Each one of these inventions, speedily put into mass pro- duction and consumption, was fraught with no less revolu- tionary consequences for our society and accompanied by no less apocalyptic prophecies than those which accompany television today. Suppose, in view of this, Yale had added courses in the techniques and uses of each to its liberal arts curriculum. I can imagine an entering Freshman with the Course of Study Catalogue in his hand. He finds courses in telegraphy, telephony, cinematography, radiotelegraphy and telephony and — words fail me to describe the science of television. Then come the Influence courses: the influence of the tele- graph on the telephone, the influence of the telephone on radio, the influence of radio on the movie, and so on. Then the Influence of Influence courses, e.g. the influence of radio and telephonic techniques on communication and its impact on the American family. The Freshman reads on in despair. He is looking for a course in English. He can't find one. He goes to the Dean. "English?" says the Dean. "Oh, we don't bother with that any more. We have developed more effective means of communication." The most important thing about any form of communica- tion is what is communicated. The most important thing about what is communicated is its valuation in the currency of Socrates' coin. The utilitarian skills and techniques of each generation are soon outmoded. The search for wisdom and virtue never is. Not all the technological triumphs of history have satisfied man's need for these, nor displaced or even approached them as the most inspiring and fruitful of all subjects of human conversation. We must manage to present this subject to our under- graduates in such a way as will inspire them to help revive conversation in this tongue-tied democracy that has such good ideas yet cannot speak its own mind. ASSIGNMENT TO REYKJAVIK: John J. Muccio '21, former U. S. Am- bassador to Korea, has a new post at the Embassy in Iceland. The photo above was taken during his address at the Alumni Dinner during the Brown Commencement of 1952. 12 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY f ? HO:\IECOMING PLANS: Autumn's for Reunions Too WITH PRINCETON as the gridiron attraction, plans are complete for a banner Homecoming Day for Brunonians on Oct. 16. The big fall reunion on the Hill, it is the gayer because it includes the whole family in its wel- come. In addition to the game, the feature is a picnic lunch reunion beforehand on Aldrich Field, where Princeton grads will also be gathering with a similar program and com- parable hopes. A Varsity soccer game with Harvard, festival parties in fraternities and dormitories, and an evening buffet in Sharpe Refectory fill out the schedule. The game will also be marked by specialties for the occasion. You are invited to use the coupon on the back cover of this issue to indicate your intentions with respect to the luncheon hour. Brown and Princeton will have their big tents on the baseball field, north of Marvel Gym on Elm- grove Ave. (There's plenty of parking in the Brown lot across the way, of course.) Catering v\ill be a la carte, with offerings of sandwiches, coffee, pie, potato chips, and appe- tizers. But the big appeal is the opportunity to find your friends and be together during the lunch hour. Some Classes are planning their particular rendezvous on the field. The soccer game, one of the highlights of the fall schedule for the boosters, will begin at 11:30. In the past, many Bru- nonians have found it pleasant to eat their lunches on the sidelines, getting action to watch while enjoying their food and friends' company. Luncheon under the big tent will be served from 12 noon until game-time. Pre-game color will be provided by the rival bands, with Princeton fielding its 75-piece organization along with the Bruins. Half-time novelties will have Homecoming for their theme. The game itself should be a great battle. If you haven't your tickets yet. don't wait to mail your checks to the Division of Athletics, Providence 12, R. I. All seats are reserved, although there are two prices: $3.50 and S2.00 (children's tickets are $1.75 and $1.00). An extra quarter should be handled for insurance and mailing charges, unless you want to pick up tickets at the call gate on your way into the Stadium. After the game, the Homecoming scene shifts to the fra- ternity houses and dormitories for the undergraduate par- ties in which many alumni and their families join. The Uni- versity Dining Halls offer a fine buffet in Sharpe Refectory at 6, for which the price is a dollar. (No reservations are necessary.) Homecoming plans were the responsibility of an alumni committee headed by Jackson H. Skillings '37. Robert T. Engles '40 is in charge of publicity, while Alfred J. Owens '36 is Treasurer. Other members are: Alfred Buckley, Jr.. '49, Alfred H. Macgillivray '39. Elmer S. Horton '10, Wil- liam B. McCormick "23. and Samuel T. Arnold, Jr., '45. P.S. Don't forget that Rhode Island will still be on Day- light Saving Time. If you live in a State which has gone back on "Sun Time." allow for that difference in planning your day on College Hill with the other Homecomers. OCTOBER 1954 THE DISCOVERER OF PENICILtIN was on hond to pay his respects when Dr. Henry Welch '25 received the 1954 Distinguished Service Award of the U. S. Department of Health, Education, ond V/elfare. Above, left to right. Secretary Hobby, Dr. Welch, and Sir Alexander Fleming. Welch's Honors THE HIGHEST AWARD which the U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare may bestow this year went to Dr. Henry Welch '25. The Distinguished Serv- ice Award is based on outstanding contributions to public health and science, as well as the demonstration of out- standing skill in public administration and eminent author- ship. "Dr. Welch, who has devoted his life to the protec- tion of public health, richly deserves this recognition," said the magazine Aniihiotics and Chemotherapy. He is the Director of the Antibiotics Division of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The Secretary of the Department, Oveta Culp Hobby, said in making the presentation: "Many members of the armed forces during World War II owe their lives to the work of Dr. Welch, who then had the responsibility of certifying the safety and efficacy of all penicillin. At that time supplies of penicillin were so limited that none was available for experimental work. Dr. Welch developed his own pilot plant. Within a few months he had developed satisfactory methods for testing the potency and safety of each batch of the new miracle drug. "The Food and Drug Administration and the manufac- turers believed that the best interests of the consumer would be served if the Government continued testing each batch of penicillin. Accordingly, Congress amended the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act in 1945 to require certification of each batch of penicillin and penicillin prep- aration. Since then other antibiotics have been brought under the act. Because of his ability as an administrator and organizer, Dr. Welch has been able to knit together an efficient, well-trained group of scientific workers to carry out this all-important task which involves an average of 17,500 batches of drugs a year. "This citation is hardly adequate. Dr. Welch, to ex- press to you the gratitude of the people of the United States for your work in making our lives healthier and happier. "There is an additional — and very special — tribute to Dr. Welch in this occasion. He, and we, are honored by having as our guest Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of peni- cillin. Sir Alexander has come here today to witness this IS presentation as a mark of his esteem of Dr. Welch and his work." The program executed bj" Dr. Welch was described in Antibiotics and Chemotherapy as "magnitudinous in that his decisions affect millions of people not only in the United States, but in countries the world over." "It is his responsi- bility to be sure that, when the ultimate consumer receives an antibiotic, the drug will have its full potency and will not be toxic. Dr. Welch has responded to the trust and responsi- bility invested in him with wisdom and judiciousness." Dr. Welch served a year ago as Chairman of the Sympo- sium on Antibiotics, organized by the Government and attended by more than 500 researchers and clinicians from this country and abroad. It was so well handled that Dr. Welch was asked to make it an annual international event. More than 100 scientific papers delivered at last October's Symposium were published in toto in the Antibiotics An- nual, under Dr. Welch's editorship. \ / BRIXOXU IX THE SKY The Planet Is Our Very Own BROWN UNIVERSITY now has a namesake in the sky. A planet has been named "Brunonia" by its dis- coverer. Dr. S. Arend of the Royal Observatory of Belgium. Its presence was originally learned at Uccle in 1948, but Dr. Arend this year gave it its official designation "1570 Brunonia— 1948TX."'' Dr. Arend wrote Prof. Charles H. Smiley, Chairman of the Brown Astronomy Department last summer; "This planet is named in honor of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Chartered in 1764, it is the seventh oldest university in the United States. Its astronomical history dates back to the transit of Venus in 1769, observed by Prof. Benjamin West. Two local streets are named Planet and Transit." The naming recognizes the fact that Brown was one of the first colleges in America to teach astronomy. It is also a tribute by Dr. Arend to the internationally known research of Prof. Smiley. It was the intention of the Belgian astronomer to honor Brown University some years ago when he found another planet. Closer observations, however, showed that the planet was an old one and already had a name. This time his computations have shown that the new planet had not been observed previously, and Brunonia is well established in the planetary system. "We take special care of the planets discovered here," Dr. Arend informs his Providence col- league, "and Brunonia will be carefully followed." Brunonia is only a minor planet, 32 miles in diameter and 171,000,000 to 375,000,000 miles away, just barely visible through the telescope in the Ladd Observatory. "Wonder which Class on College Hill will lay claim to it," the Provi- dence Journal-Bulletin mused editorially. "We hope Brown doesn't intend to let its representative in the crowded heavens just wander around indefinitely under the mere designation 'No. 1570, Brunonia.'" Word came too late for the Class of 1954 to take Bru- nonia over, "although Hitching Your Wagon to a Star is what graduating classes are traditionally supposed to do." "It would be better," said the editorial, "to have Doctor Arend's newly discovered planet take the summer off and next fall assume the permanent job of giving each incoming Brown Class an inspirational tow, just enough to start it on its University career. Serving as the official Freshman Star of Brown University would give Brunonia celestial standing — and something to do besides circling around between Mars and Jupiter." Glaciers nud a River The planet is not the first natural phenomenon to bear the University's name. Two glaciers and a river have been designated in the past by loyal Brunonians. During World War II, Austin N. Volk '41 was commanding officer of an LCT in the Solomon Islands area. During a quiet period, he took a small captured Japanese folding boat, attached an outboard motor to it, and set out on a trip of exploration up one of the rivers. Since the river was uncharted and 14 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY unnamed, he wrote home his intention to give it the name of Brown Bear River. Brown University Glacier is the name given to the main source of the Harvard Glacier in the Chugach Mountains of Alaska, flowing into College Fjord at the Northwestern end of Prince William Sound. It was named in Brown's 150th anniversary year, 1914, by Miss Dora Keen of Phil- adelphia in honor of her father, Dr. W. W. Keen, 1859, the distinguished surgeon who so long served on the University Corporation. The expedition's adventures were described in the Alumni Monthly for May, 1915. Although the source was seen, it was not reached, and the party had to turn back, "baffled by the inhospitable though dazzingly beau- tiful Brown University Glacier." Last April, when Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy '11 gave a Mandeville Lecture at Brown on oceanic birds, he showed pictures of Brunonia Glacier, in another part of the world. He had named it, also in 1914, on one of his many voyages for the American Museum of Natural History. He wrote us this year: "Brunonia Glacier is shown on the chart of South Geor- gia Island published by the Hydrographic Office. Navy De- partment, Washington, D. C. It lies at the head of the west- ern extension of the Bay of Isles. The latter appears on a separate inset in the chart. It is based upon my map of 1914 with extensions and emendations subsequently made by the British "Discovery" Expedition. A particularly beauti- ful photograph of Brunonia Glacier appears in Niall Ran- kin's "Antarctic Isle," published by Collins, London, in 1951. The reproduction is Plate I in this book, entitled 'Midsummer in South Georgia. Looking westwards from Albatross Island across the Bay of Isles to the Brunonia Glacier." WHEN BROV^N'S AIR FORCE ROTC members were taking summer training at Longley Field, they hod these official visitors from the Cam- pus: Left to right. Col. Goodman, new commanding officer of the Brown Unit; Dean Keeney; and Col. Harper, whose inspection was his last with the group before reporting for new duties in the South. Harper was a popular and effective leader during his three years at Brown. Dr. Murphy has provided the University with a Hydro- graphic chart which shows this area. He applied most of the names to coastal and insular points over a considerable area of it. including Grace Glacier, which he named for his wife. Dr. Murphy is now Lamont Curator of Birds and Chairman of the Museum's Department of Birds. The Brown Clubs Report Salute in Chicago IF THE TURNOUT at the annual Freshman Send-Off Luncheon on Sep- tember 8 was any indication, the future strength of the Chicago Brown Club is assured. Substantially bettering last year's figures, there were a total of 103 in at- tendance, including 33 Freshmen and 15 of their fathers. The 39 alumni had to call on the 16 undergraduates to main- tain numerical superiority. Representation was good geographi- cally also, with Brad Moore '19 in from the Tucson Brown Club, one undergrad- uate from Pittsburgh and four freshmen making the trip down from Milwaukee. This fall we are sending to Brown from our area 44 excellent freshmen, representing all of the major schools in- cluding Wayland Academy, of which Ralph Johnson '04 is a trustee. Much of the credit for the selection of this dele- gation is due Jack Monk '24 and his Freshman Committee. President Harper Brown '45 and Vice- President Dave Murphy '51 alternated as masters of ceremony. Harper, just back from an Eastern trip, gave a very vivid account of the hurricane damage in Prov- idence, but assured the Freshmen (or rather their fathers) that their fifty dollar deposits had not been washed away. Highlighting the program were three brief but interesting speeches of welcome to the Freshmen. Jim Kilpatrick '55 spoke on behalf of the undergraduates, striking a note of seriousness of purpose which has become increasingly prevalent in re- marks by our undergraduate speakers. He lent substance to the words of praise for Dr. Wriston and "the mark he has left on Brown" spoken by Jim Palmer '19. Joseph E. Townsend, father of Joe. Jr. '57 and a constant friend of Brown, wel- comed the fathers of the Freshmen. (NOTE TO OTHER BROWN CLUBS: We think we set a record at this luncheon — seating began at 12:30, dessert was down and program begun at 1:00, Fresh- men introduced and three speakers ap- plauded into silence by 1:33: elapsed time: 63 minutes flat. Write for details.* Advice will be freely given, but contribu- tions to our treasury are always appreci- ated.) Plans are now being made to receive the broadcast of the Princeton game on October 16 at the Glenview Naval Air Station, in cooperation with the other Brown Clubs and WBRU. We will take the Yale and Harvard games also if enough clubs will be in on the network. The annual Chicago Brown Club Sum- mer Outing, held on Friday, June 25, was every bit as successful as it has been in the past, despite the record heat for the day in this area. The newspapers * We used two gavels. told us it was several degrees cooler out in the country where we were, but the 50-odd men who played golf ( most played 18 holes, and some even more) couldn't tell the difference. At any rate the heat seemed to have the effect of making everyone enjoy himself more once we got to the Studio Barn of Larry Bateman '31, and had a chance to relax and cool off. Around 75 men, several of them undergraduates, attended the de- licious chicken barbecue, and most of them stayed until close to 1 1 o'clock to sing and enjoy themselves. After we had eaten. President Harper Brown '45, announced the golf winners, and we learned that Mai Smith '43, who had been our host at Inverness Golf Club had evidently picked his course with care, for he and Dave Murphy '51, won the blind bogey. Prize for the low gross went to Al George '39, and Bill Schulz '31 had the low net, with Dave Lyons '52 coming in with the high gross. As our guests there were present for both golf and the barbecue men from Dartmouth. Columbia, Yale and Penn- sylvania. Next summer we hope to be able to arrange and sponsor an Ivy League golf tournament. Committee included: John Lane '31, Harper Brown '45, Mai Smith '43, War- ren Smith '32, Dave Murphy '51, Larry Bateman '31, Will Engelhard '49, and Cal Coolidge '49. CAL COOLIDGE '49 New Haven Rendezvous The Browtn Club of New Haven an- nounces two events in connection with its annual observance of the Yale football game Oct. 2. The evening before, the tra- OCTOBER 1954 15 ditional smoker will be held at the Hotel Taft at 8 o'clock, with all Brunonians on hand for the game invited to enjoy the Sports Night program. The day of the game, the Club is for- malizing the impromptu custom which has grown popular with alumni. It is sug- gested that you go to the Bowl early, be- tween noon and 1 o'clock, bringing your box lunches with you. The rendezvous is in the official Bowl parking area (be care- ful, there are several, B. A. Chase '38 warns) at the corner of Derby Ave. and Central Ave. The entrance on this is from Derby Ave., near the Yale Cage. "This," he says, "almost assures being in your seals for the kickoff, invariably assures seeing old friends, and definitely assures a place to park your car. All this lets you encounter and chat with your favorite Brunonians, who might otherwise be missed in the vast confines of the Bowl during the game. All Brown alumni are cordially invited to attend, as they are to join the New Haven Club at the Friday night party at the Taft." Under Way in New. York New York's annual Sub-Freshman Dinner brought more than 100 to the Brown Club for its annual send-oflt Sept. 9 when Jimmy Jemail. President, pre- sented Vice-President Bigelow and Dean Walker to the new students from the met- ropolitan area. A second September event came the following week when members of the Club dined at the Clubhouse and then journeyed by bus to the Polo Grounds — at least, that was the plan as we went to press. The New York luncheon series will get under way on Oct. 19. These popular at- tractions are scheduled for the third Tues- day of every month, in the Landon Room at 12:30. Guests are always welcome. Secretary Dick Walsh reports. Events of the season, already on the Club books, are the following: Oct. 14 — Cocktail party. Nov. 19 — Variety show. Dec. 10 — Football smoker. Dec. 21 — Christmas eggnog party. Leading the Club activities for the year are these officers: President — Jimmy Jemail '18; Vice-President — Edward Sulz- berger '29: Secretary — Donald V. Reed '35; Treasurer — Gavin Pitt '38. The fol- lowing have joined the Board of Gover- nors to fill unexpired terms and vacancies: C. Douglas Mercer '06. Hugh S. Butler '32, Louis B. Palmer '28, William L. De- wart '20. and Gerald Donovan '12. Frederick H. Rohlfs '26. Chairman of the Scholarship Committee, has sent to the membership a fine report on the awards of the past five years. It accom- panied an appeal for gifts to help con- tinue the practice. (Many members allow their accounts to be charged for a monthly contribution.) The committee also includes: G. Denny Moore 'II, David Balfour '36, Herbert M. Iselin '42, and Lyman G. Bloomingdale '35. The Football Clambake The Brown Club of Rhode Island opened clams and its season simultane- ously on Sept. 10, a popular tradition this year enjoyed by 125 hardy trenchermen despite the approach of Hurricane Edna, arriving the next day after due advertise- ment. The annual clambake at the Peleg Francis Farm in Rehoboth provided good food and good fellowship for the Club and its guests from the press of the East. Earlier all had watched the Brown Varsity football squad hold its first scrim- mage of the season, and that, too, was a pleasure. After the Browns and the Whites had provided some lively action. Coach Kelley talked with the score of newspapermen on hand from Boston, Hartford, New York, and Southern New England. Ernie Savignano '42 handled the party in fine style. Boston's Luncheors Luncheon meetings for the year were set up by the Directors of the Boston Brown Club at their organization meet- ing Sept. 8. These gatherings, scheduled for the second Tuesday of most months at the Olde Oyster House, Union St., are increasingly popular with the Bostonians. Fred Bloom announced the following pro- gram: Elgin White, the new Director of Ath- letic Publicity, will make his bow before the Club at the luncheon on Oct. 19 (a week later than usual because of the Oct. 12 holiday). He will provide the in- side story on football prospects with com- ments on the season as it has progressed to that point. November's event will be the annual smoker the night before the Harvard game, with Sam MacDonald as Chair- man. The luncheons will resume Dec. 14 when Ward Davenport, the Superintend- ent of Buildings and Grounds, will be the speaker. He'll talk about the University plant and is preparing some eye-opening facts about it and its maintenance. Later luncheon bookings are: Jan. 1 1 — Prof. Robert H. George of the History Department. Feb. 8 — Vice-President Thomas B. Appleget. March 8 — Foot- ball Coach, Alva E. Kelley. John Chapman is President of the Boston Club this year. Hartford Scnd-Off An old custom was revived in Hart- ford when the Brown Club held its first fall meeting. The fathers of the boys who entered Brown this fall were invited as well as the boys themselves. Eight of the 16 boys in the area showed up, seven of them with their Dads. We're glad they came. Emery Walker held the audience spell- bound as he told of the make-up of the Class of 1958 and their four years ahead, starling with Freshman Week. The fath- ers know Brown's attitude and atmos- phere; they can't help be proud of the University and will talk about it. One pleasing item is that eight other undergraduates came and seemed to en- joy the proceedings immensely. Ed Tuller '35, at times humorous, again serious, pleaded with the Freshmen to "go out" for some activity to add to the benefits they'll receive from their studies. Larry Smith '20 led the singing. Nick O'Neill '50 and his committee did a bang-up job. Fifty-four were present: Dan Howard '93, Frank Jones '97, Jesse Bailey '16, Wally Henshaw '23, Bill Robotham '26, Bert Howard '28 (his son is Peter, a Freshman), Ben Crehore '28, Paul Mona- han '31 (he's President), John Mozzochi '31, Howard Memmott '33, Andy Jack '36, Bob Hartigan '38, Jack Montgomery '38, Tom McCabe '40, Don Guinan '45, Sid Wray '45, Bob Price '47, Bob Barnes '48, Glenn Flanders '49, Steve Garrett '49, Ted LaBonne '49, Joe Rice '49, Bill Phillips '50, Jack Durnin '50, Don Mac- Donald '50, Walt Crabtree '51, Ed Barry '52. Joe North '52, Craig Leuthner '52, Connie Kronholm '52, Dick DePatie '55, John Burroughs '55, Paul McKay '56, Jim Gaghardi '56, Andy Dragat '56, Charles Nutt '57, Bob Hellstrom '57, Reese Har- ris III '58, Peter Howard '58, John Roach, Jr. '52, Gary Johnson '58, Robert Siera- kowski '58, Robert Frazer '58, Robert Thompson '58, John Riddeford '58, and Cy Flanders '18. Brown's new basketball coach, Stan Ward, made his first official appearance at the Hartford Brown Club meeting last May. It was the annual meeting, and Vice-President Bruce Bigelow '24 and Pembroke Dean Nancy Duke Lewis were on hand to report on the Campus scene. .At elections that followed the dinner, Paul Monahan '31 was elected President. Paul served as the Club President several years ago and was given a hearty wel- come back to office. Other officers are: Vice-President — Norris O'Neill '50; Treas- urer — Clarence Roth '46; Secretary — Cy Flanders '18: Assistant Treasurer — Jack Durnin '50. More than 60 alumni, alum- nae, wives and husbands attended. CY FLANDERS '18 Trenton's Plans A BUS TRIP to the Lehigh game in Bethlehem on Oct. 30 is projected by the Brown Club of Trenton, first tentative event on the year's program for this lively group. Willard C. Parker '42 has circu- larized the alumni in the area to deter- mine their interest in the journey at $4.00 a head, with a box-lunch stop also indi- cated. Wives and other guests are solicited to make up the complement. Since the game is Lehigh's Homecoming and a good contest is in prospect, the Club feels there will be interest enough to warrant the arrangements. On Aug. 26 the Club entertained the fine group of boys headed for Brown in September. Actually, the hosts were Earle Hendricksen '29 and his wife, Kath- erine. who welcomed all to their grand summer home at Sea Girt. It was an ex- cellent place for the party, and the boys showed sincere appreciation of the oppor- tunity to get acquainted with their fellow Brunonians. Earle was assisted by Bob McKenny '22 and Roland Formidoni '29, while Bruce Wetzel '29, who has a place at Brielle, joined the party. The Freshmen were given monogram shirts as gifts from the Club and seemed appreciative. Valley Scholarships The Connecticut V.\lley Brown Club scholarship has been awarded jointly to two area students entering the University last month, according to an announce- ment by Club President Samuel L. Thompson, Jr. The recipients are Charles Lynch, a graduate of Classical High School, and Joseph Tebo, a graduate of Wilbraham Academy. Lynch and Tebo will each receive $350 from the club for use during their Fresh- man year to supplement other college scholarships which they have both re- ceived. This is the third year that the local Brown Club has awarded such scholarships. Past winners have been George Easton, Robert Corrigan and Roosevelt Parrish, all of Springfield. The club's scholarship committee is made up of Thompson, Ralph A. Armstrong, A. F. Avantaggio and Lewis A. Shaw. Lynch is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Lynch of 391 Armory Street. 16 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY BROWN SONS in the Class of 1958 stopped just long enough during a busy Freshman Week for this picture. Left to right, first row— Fox, Howard, Flaxman, Beckwith, Lowton, Morse, H. M. Drake, C. E. Drake, Watson. Second row— Brown, Smith, Scott, Fowler, Singiser, Summer- field, J. Clark, Eveleth. Third row- Chodwick, Feinstein, Lone, A. Clark, Leoch, Hopkins, Maddock. Fourth row— Gomwell, Dona, Jones, Dunn, West, Cummings. Not present for the photo: Cluthe, Gilmortin, Glick- man. Gray, Hart, Howes, Kretzmann, McDonald, Sauter, Whitman. At Classical, he was President of the Stu- dent Government, a member of the Board of the PTSA, Secretary of the Student Senate, and a member of the Boys' Pa- trol. He was also named "Student of the Month" during his Senior year. Tebo, a resident of Grafton, was an honor student at Grafton High School before attending Wilbraham. During his Senior year at the Academy, he was a member of the school newspaper staff and played on the soccer, baseball and basketball teams. He was Captain of the basketball team and re- ceived an award as the most valuable player on the squad during the 1953-54 season. A Winner in Pittsburgh Representatives of the Bro