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ALUMNI MONTHLY 



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BEAR AND FORBEAR 



NOVEMBER 1954 
SENT BY THE UNIVERSITY TO ALL BROWN MEN 



BROWN 

ALUMNI MONTHLY 

Published by Brown University for its 
Alumni 

MEMBER, AMERICAN ALUMNI COUNCIL 

Board of Editors 

Chairman 
C. ARTHUR BRAITSCH '23 

Vice-Chairinan 
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 

Introducing the Chair 

A Homecoming Thriller 



Features 

Industry and Education 
From John Hay's Family 
Can Colleges Make Room? 
A Look at the Freshmen 
If I Were a Freshman 
The Newest Butch Bruno 



Departments 

The Brown Clubs Report 

Brunonians Far and Near 
Bureau of Vital Statistics 



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11 
13 
15 
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THE COVER PHOTO: True and false, 
the real and the synthetic, both bears 
have been backing the Brown football 
team this fall. Without trying to read the 
mind of Butch Bruno the Latest, we 
thought they made us a good cover. Like 
most of the pictures in this issue, the 
Brown Photo Lab took it. 





THE University of California has rec- 
ognized the centennial of the birth of 
Dr. Benjamin Ide Wheeler '75, who was 
its President during 20 vital years. You 
have to go to California to appreciate 
his influence on the life of that State. An 
illustration is a quotation of his, em- 
blazoned on the City Hall of Los Angeles: 
"A people cannot have the consciousness 
of being self-governed unless they attend 
themselves to the things over against 
their own doors." 

But, of all Wheeler's utterances, none 
is more often quoted on the campus of 
the University of California than his first 
speech — to the undergraduates. He gave 
them some advice, pointing out that they 
were not come "as empty buckets to the 
well to be filled." The real benefits from 
education were not things which "hover 
on the superficies of the mind" but "what 
goes over into spinal marrow." And then 
he concluded with what to UC alumni 
ranks with Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: 

"This University shall be a family's 
glorious old mother, by whose hearth you 
shall love to sit down. Love her. It does a 
man good to love noble things, to attach 
his life to noble allegiances. It is a good 
thing to love the church, the State, and 
one's home, to be loyal to one's father 
and mother. And, after the same sort, it 
is good to be loyal to the University, 
which stands in life for the purest things 
and the cleanest, loftiest ideals. Cheer 
for her; it will do your lungs good. Love 
her: it will do your heart good." 

> THAT sparkling and gracious lady, Mrs. 
Ward B. Chase, who died the other day, 
figures in our favorite recollection about 
her famous son, Gen. William C. Chase 
'16. He'd returned from the Pacific Wars, 
one of the great leaders there as com- 
mander of the First Cavalry, which lib- 
erated Manila. Back in Providence (to 
speak at our Alumni Dinner, among other 
things), he was quick to make friends 
with the children along University Ave., 
where his mother then lived. 

The doorbell rang one afternoon and 
was answered by Mrs. Chase. And there 
was five-year-old Steve, asking, "Can the 
General come out and play?" What we 
particularly liked about it was the lad's 
recognition that a mother's word was 
law, even with a man who'd had charge 
of a few soldiers. 

> lichty's cartoons, "Grin and Bear It," 
often deal with the college scene to the 
merriment of the nation. We liked the 
one this fall that showed a Freshman ad- 
visor talking to a lad on registration day. 
"You have a choice," the character was 
saying, "we have courses that will give 
you a well-rounded education. Others to 



fit you to earn a living. And still others 
merely to make you an alumnus." 

> JACK MONK '24, most faithful and en- 
lightening of Middle West correspond- 
ents, thought we should know about a 
sign which identifies the town of North- 
field, Minn., where St. Olaf's and Carle- 
ton College are located. The legend 
reads: "Northfield . . . Home of Col- 
leges, Cows, and Contentment." Monk 
comments: "Would you call that an in- 
spiring association of ideas? But then, as 
Dr. Wriston might say, some people 
aren't even contented with contentment." 

> BEING OCCASIONALLY caught with tongue- 
in-cheek ourselves, we enjoyed what hap- 
pened across the border in Canada not 
long ago. You doubtless read something 
of it, for word leaked in the American 
press that there was a top-secret project 
of radar defence in progress at McGill. It 
came to be spoken of as the McGill Fence, 
When the furore over the disclosure was 
noted in The McGill News, its columnist 
whimsically illustrated the item with a 
picture of the iron picket fence around the 
campus, much like ours at Brown. The 
caption said, quite accurately: "The Mc- 
Gill Fence." 

The next morning at 10 the editor had a 
phone call from the Department of Na- 
tional Defence in Ottawa, where some of- 
ficial was frantic for fear that a picture 
of the secret McGill Fence had been pub- 
lished. 

> AN EXCERPT from the Michigan Alum- 
nus, complete in itself: "There is a feeble 
joke currently circulating on the Campus 
which goes something like this: 

"Knock knock. 
"Who's there? 
"Yost Field House. 
"Yost Field House who? 
"Yost Field House strong I am." 

> MICHIGAN also provides this quote from 
a press release from the University News 
Service: "In his quest for health, man may 
be sitting on a time bomb capable of 
blowing up in his face. . . ." 

> PROFESSOR smiley's journey to Pakistan 
last summer for the solar eclipse recalls 
one of those foot-of-the-column bits 
which the New Yorker does so well. This 
time the astronomer in question was 
Prof. Harlan T. Stetson '08, of whom the 
Stanford Daily had said: "Dr. Stetson 
holds degrees from Brown, Dartmouth, 
and the University of Chicago. ... He 
has participated in five solar eclipses." 
The New Yorker's comment: "Bet that 
takes it out of you." 

BUSTER 



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BROWN 



ALUMNI 
MONTHLY 



NOVEMBER, 
VOL. LV 



1954 
NO. 2 



INDUSTRY LOOKS TO EDUCATION: 



Old Values, New Appreciation 



"Brown has never been more clearly fulfilling its mis- 
sion," in the opinion of the Chairman of the Board of 
Directors of Brush Electronics Company of Cleveland. 
But the University is subjected to many educational 
pressures. "It cannot give way equally to them all," says 
Dr. Burwell, former Rhodes Scholar, one-time Dean of 
Freshmen, and now a member of our Board of Fel- 
lows. He was the speaker at the 1954 Alumni Dinner. 



By W. RUSSELL BURWELL '15 

WHERE does Brown fit in the educational pattern 
today? To give an answer one must consider not 
only its tradition, history, geographical location, facili- 
ties, and resources, but the whole national educational 
complex and the trends of educational thinking. 

When Harvard was founded in 1636 there were some 
18,000 English along the coast from York, Maine to 
Narragansett Bay, one hundred of whom were gradu- 
ates of Oxford or Cambridge. They were largely clergy. 
It was the spirit of this small group which carried the 
torch from the Old World to the New. It was respons- 
ible for creating a center of education in New England 
which has had an immeasurable effect upon the social, 
intellectual and political history of our country. As 
Harvard was succeeded by William and Mary, Yale, 
University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, Columbia and 
Brown, in each instance a group of educated men was 
carrying forward the tradition of learning and making 
it possible for others to enjoy the benefits which they 
themselves had experienced. 

In this early period approximately 70% of the stu- 
dents of these colleges were ministers, but the fact that 
they were largely ministers is of less significance than 
that they represented the learned professions which 
constituted a very small group at that time. Translated 
into today's environment the definition of professional 
class must be widened to include the very large numbers 
in not only the ministry, teaching, law and medicine, but 
in engineering and business as well, including the 
modern phenomenon, the industrial researcher. 

Three Centuries of Change 
We can feel sure that in every one of today's profes- 
sional groups there is the same will to pass on the bene- 
fits of education to others as was present among the 



groups who were responsible for starting oar early 
colleges. 

The attitude toward education has changed very radi- 
cally during the last 300 years. The idea of compulsory 
secondary education took a long time to catch hold. 
One hundred and thirty years ago children were work- 
ing in Rhode Island textile mills 14 hours a day. In 
1848 the proposal that there should be general educa- 
tion at public expense was looked upon as a horrible 
and radical idea. As late as 1900, less than one boy or 
girl in 10 of high school age actually attended high 
school and less than one out of 25 of college age was 
in college. Now four out of five are in high school, and 
one out of four is in college. 

With each succeeding year the scope of education is 
extended further. We have long since passed the day 
when a few Oxford and Cambridge graduates carried 
the educational torch for a whole community. Today 
there is, as it were, an incandescent educational torch 
in every home in the country. It is energized by the cen- 
tral power station known as our industrial age which 
places the requirement for more and more education 
or training of one kind or another on an increasingly 
larger group of citizens of all ages and in all walks of 
life. In addition to the normal channels, this appears 
in the form of post high school vocational courses, com- 
munity or junior colleges, part time and adult educa- 
tion, graduate professional schools, cooperative educa- 
tion with industry, training within industry, and manage- 
ment development programs by professional organiza- 
tions like the American Management Association and 
Harvard Business School, as well as by companies them- 
selves. One used to learn in industry by doing. Now one 
learns while doing. Nor does education stop with the 
awarding of a certificate. 

Now We All Have Time 

Involved in this extension of the scope of education 
is the radical change in the amount of time available 
to the average citizen. 

What chance for education was there for the child 
or the adult when children and men and women all 
spent 12 to 14 hours or more a day on their tasks? With 
the gains in efficiency through the use of machines and 
power both in industry and at home, an adequate stand- 
ard of living and therefore the inclination to learn and 
the time to learn have been achieved. And the end is 



nowhere in sight. In fact, as the taxi man said — trans- 
lating the phrase over one of our public buildings — 
"The Past is but the Prologue to the Future": "You 
ain't seen nothing yet!" 

There are already appearing examples of the 35 and 
the 30 hour work-week. With a continued trend toward 
shorter hours and relatively higher income for the 
average worker, there will build up further pressures 
for vocational training within and outside of industry 
and subsequently for non-vocational training. The 
President's Commission on Higher Education expressed 
the opinion several years ago that 49% of the general 
population could benefit by two additional years of 
training beyond secondary school, and 32% could 
graduate from college. A recent study in Cleveland 
showed that approximately half of those who had I.Q.'s 
indicating they could graduate from college do not even 
enroll. Another study showed that industry wanted to 
employ 75'^'o more members of graduating classes than 
were available. 

The demands of industry are backing up most di- 
rectly on the technical and professional schools. But 
the effect on our universities — primarily the state uni- 
versities — will be increasingly felt, if for no other reason 
than that the worker will become convinced that his 
children should go to college because he sees the value 
of such training. This will in turn create continuing 
grounds for the re-appraisal by the privately endowed 
colleges of their functions as contrasted with that of the 
state universities. 

What's Education For? 

A recent report of the Educational Advisory Com- 
mittee of the National Association of Manufacturers 
states the primary purpose of education as: "First — To 
prepare the individual to progress in his vocation: 
Second — To prepare him for mature and complete liv- 
ing; Third — To increase his understanding of the arts, 
sciences, humanities, and his appreciation of his cultural 
heritage." 

Universities are, in the first instance, involved in sup- 
plying their clientele with what the latter most directly 
wants. That is, they supply their students with what 
the demands of the age require. This will change from 
time to time as society places its emphasis on religion, 
business, science, politics or social theories. 

President Francis Wayland, who was most progres- 
sive, recommended courses for merchants, farmers and 
professional men. He was far ahead of his time in sug- 
gesting the adaptation of college courses to the require- 
ments of the period. This approach by Wayland was 
followed by Eliot's elective system at Harvard. 

Now, however, with the recent tremendous growth 
of technical training, many have felt that concentration 
in professional training can go too far. Liberal educa- 
tion is being re-emphasized, both for its own sake in 
liberal arts colleges and also as part of a broadened 
curriculum in technical colleges. 

Case Institute of Technology in Cleveland has a sub- 
stantia] Carnegie Grant to experiment with courses in 
humanities for its engineers. Western Reserve University 
has a similar grant of $700,000 from the Common- 
wealth Fund to revise its medical school curriculum so 



that its students may avoid being narrow specialists, 
emphasizing the liberal approach in a professional field. 
Many other instances could be quoted. Universities and 
colleges are, in fact, called upon today both to supply 
very adequate technical and pre-professional training 
to meet the requirements of a changing world and at 
the same time to furnish a high degree of intellectual 
and cultural leadership. 

Industry's New Attitude 
The question of where the balance should be be- 
tween professional or pre-professional training and 
liberal education is an ever recurring one. It is answered 
differently by different universities. But industry is also 
a factor in supplying the answer, for although industry 
is largely responsible for creating the new pressures and 
is the chief beneficiary of technical skills, it is very ap- 
parent that industry is also becoming more and more 
convinced of the value of a liberal training. 

This brief sketch of the larger trends shows educa- 
tion expanding into broader concepts in relation both 
to the needs of the individual and to the needs of in- 
dustry. It shows a growing tendency for participation 
by all elements of our population and to a greater and 
greater extent. Finally it shows that, though new and 
specific demands have thus been introduced, there has 
developed a fresh recognition of the old values in the 
liberal approach. 

Though time does not permit a fuU definition of 
Brown's place in this pattern, it is obvious that it is 
being subjected in varying degrees to many pressures. 
It cannot, however, give way equally to them all. For 
almost 200 years Brown has been charting a course and 
acquiring significant characteristics. It is not hard to 
outline some of the features which serve to indicate the 
area in which it must continue to place its greatest 
emphasis. 

"\ot a Vocational Department Store" 
Brown is rich in its associations as one of the oldest 
universities in the country. Brown is steeped in an 
atmosphere of the highest educational ideals. It is geo- 
graphically located where learning itself has been a tra- 
dition. It shares a religious and community background 
which has fostered independence and liberalism. It is 
supported by private endowment and gifts. Brown thus 
stands for the very best in American liberal education, 
and that is where its emphasis must be. It is not a voca- 
tional department store. Rather it makes a restricted 
and selected educational offering and bases its reputa- 
tion on quality not quantity. 

Brown may well take as a primary aim one of those 
given by the Commission for Financing Higher Edu- 
cation (of which Dr. Wriston was a member) : "to carry 
to the highest level of development of which they arc 
capable the education of those students who demon- 
strate intellectual promise and interest." 

As alumni we may look to Brown's past with pride 
and to its future with confidence, for in my judgment 
Brown has never been more clearly fulfilling its mission 
as an institution of liberal learning than it is doing now 
with its present distinguished Faculty and under its 
present able administrative leadership. 



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JUST TWO DAYS before Hurricane Carol, Neal P. Davis of the Brown Photo Lob took this beguiling picture (Infra-red treo.menO of Lincoln Field. 



A Larger Appropriation 

EACH MONTH this magazine carries an inscription on 
its cover to the effect that the University is sending it 
free of charge to all Brown men. For the last couple of 
years, to have made the statement wholly accurate, we 
should have added further explanation (which we occasion- 
ally did). Actually, the University budget provided for the 
publication of eight issues each year; the ninth was financed 
by voluntary contributions from some of our readers. 

This year, we are happy to acknowledge, the University 
appropriation for the Alumni Monthly covers the full costs 
of the nine issues. In welcoming this increase in the appro- 
priation, the Board of Editors agreed that the magazine 
should no longer solicit funds. In this recommendation, the 
Executive Committee of the Associated Alumni concurred. 
Our understanding is that the magazine may continue to 
"accept" contributions, particularly from those who would 
not be entitled otherwise to receive the magazine. 

We have not previously acknowledged contributions from 
the following: George P. Anderson ^50, Pawtucket, R. I.; 

NOVEMBER 1954 



Mrs. Jennie R. Asay, Haddonfield, N. J.; William W. Baker 
'41, Kings Park, L. I., N. Y.; Creighton B. Calfee '32, St. 
Louis, Mo.; Arthur E. Cameron "04, Westfield, N. J.; John 
S. Chafee '18, Providence; Emerson L. Chandler '09, New 
York City; Alfred J. Densmore "08, Lebanon, N. H.; Gor- 
don D. Dewart '51, Andover, Mass.; John A. Gammons '98, 
Providence; Charles I. Gates '99, Milton, Mass.; C. Mason 
Gross '28. Providence; Hobert Haskins '24, Caldwell, N. J.; 
Elmer S. Horton "10. Barrington, R. I.; Gustave D. Hout- 
man '16, Media, Pa.; Charles D. Kenney '27. Summit, N. J.; 
William R. Kinnaird '31, Winnetka, 111.; Robert H. Mac- 
Lachlan '49, New York City; Lewis S. Milner '02, Provi- 
dence; Harvey J. O'Hare '29, Hastings-on-Hudson; William 
B. Peck "97, Phillips, Me.; Dr. Emery M. Porter '06, Provi- 
dence; Mrs. R. E. Purinton, Yardiey, Pa.; Mrs. Elmer J. 
Rathbun, Providence; Julius A. Saacke '11. Providence; 
Harold F. Spa'ter "51. New York City; Chester S. Stackpole 
'22, Bloomington, 111.; Erwin E. Strasmich '46, Somerset 
Centre, Mass.; Mrs. Allston E. Thorpe, Providence; Alden 
R. Walls "31, Atlanta, Ga.; Anonymous. 



THE BROWN CHAIR: 



They Chose 
a Comb-Back 



OF COURSE, we wanted a Brown University Chair. It 
is the sort of thing a proud alumnus wants around his 
house as one more tie with College Hill, as something that 
speaks to others of his special loyalties. All the better when 
such a souvenir is appropriate, handsome and useful as well. 

But the Associated Alumni didn't want any old chair for 
a Brown chair. And they didn't want a chair that everyone 
else had, pretty much alike except for a change of label. In 
spite of the demand, they weren't stampeded into an early 
choice just to get a chair on the market. They took their 
time looking, studying, and considering. 

Now there is an official Brown University Chair, and we 
think you'll agree it was worth waiting for. The picture 
suggests its quality. 




The short-armed, comb-back Windsor, with an orna- 
mental touch derived from the University coat-of-arms, is 
suggestive of the period when Brown was very young. In 
those Colonial years, Newport, which was the home of 
Brown's first student, was a center for furniture making. 
The makers were men of extraordinary talent and exquisite 
taste, too, and a favorite with them was the Windsor chair. 

It probably got its name from its birthplace in the castle 
town of Windsor in England. American craftsmen adapted 
it, creating a score of variants: bow-back, fan-back, hoop- 
back, and writing-arm. But best of all, from many points of 
view, was the comb-back of different heights. Even today 
in the reading rooms of the Redwood Library in Newport 
and the Providence Athenaeum on College Hill one can see 
original examples of comb-back Windsors. On the Campus 
itself many College generations have used reproductions of 
the Windsor chair, the same chair now given the University's 
name. (They stand up well, incidentally.) 

The Associated Alumni selected this comb-back Windsor 
because of its sturdy comfort, dignity, and its associations. 
Acting for the association in its study and choice was the 
Memento Committee, which includes Russell W. Field, Jr., 
'40, Chairman, Vice-President Bruce M. Bigelow '24, M. 
David Bell '45, John Hutchins Cady '03, and Richmond H. 
Sweet '25. They now offer the Chair for sale, just in time 
for the alumnus or his wife who may be drawing up a Christ- 
mas shopping list. 

Because of its beauty and simplicity, the Committee feels 
the Brown University Chair will fit into any room in the 
house. The comb-back Windsor was used in Carpenter's 
Hall and in Independence Hall when Brown's first Chan- 
cellor, Stephen Hopkins, was present at meetings of the Con- 
tinental Congress. Just as this chair was appropriate then, 
so today the comb-back Windsor is equally adapted to use 
in meeting rooms and in offices as well as in the homes of 
the 20th century. The first purchaser of the Brown Chair 
was the University itself, and you'll see it in use in several 
places on the Campus shortly. 

The chairs are made in Gardner, Mass., by one of the 
nation's oldest manufacturers working in the Windsor tra- 
dition. The reproductions are available to alumni and 
friends of the University in two finishes: black with narrow 
gold trim and old pine. Northern hardwoods are used, and 
the design includes turnings similar to the best of the 18th 
century Rhode Island chairs. A four-color decal (employing 
gold, silver, red, and black) provides a decoration, its motif 
based on the University arms. 

The price is $24.50, with shipment prepaid to any address 
in the continental United States. We suggest using the cou- 
pon for placing orders (or make a copy if you prefer not 
to clip your magazine). 



ASSOCIATED ALUMNI 
BROWN UNIVERSITY 
PROVIDENCE 12, R. I. 

Enclosed find a check or money-order made payable to 

"Associated Alumni" for Brown University Chair(s). 

Note my option with respect to finish: 



1. Black with narrow gold trim. Number 

2. Old pine. Number 



Signed: Class 

Address: 



Ship to: 



JOHN HAY 

The Family's Gift to Brown Makes 
an Amazing Documentary about Him 
and His Colleagues in Great Events 




THERE'S A NICE, unique quality to excitement when 
you encounter it in a library, when something extra- 
ordinary spices its pleasant daily routines. No doubt it hap- 
pens rather oftener than most of us suppose. Still, on this 
October day there was something special about the excite- 
ment in the John Hay. You could feel it as you entered. 

You looked a little longer than usual at the bust of Hay 
in the lobby — not just because it was his birthday, either. 
You went up the stairs into the Harris Room where David 
Jonah and Marion Brown were presiding. They were letting 
us in on some very good news, proud and beaming with an 
honest delight as they talked, while a dozen of us listened or 
scribbled our notes. 

"The Library," said Librarian Jonah, "has received a 
magnificent gift of diaries, letters, and other material which 
once belonged to the statesman, poet, biographer, and alum- 
nus for whom this building was named." His look and ges- 
ture took in an array of books and letters at hand. "John 
Hay's family has begun the transfer of these papers to us. 
They include the journals Hay kept during the period when 
he was secretary to Abraham Lincoln. There are probably 
700 letters to and from Hay, including correspondence with 
Nicolay during the writing of the famous Lincoln biography. 
There are letters and diaries by Hay, the undergraduate; 
Hay, the ambassador; Hay, the editor; Hay, the traveler; 
Hay, the friend of other great persons. The letterpress manu- 
script of his experiences in Spain which later became his 
book "Castilian Days." And much more. 

"It is wonderful source material. Much of it has already 
been worked over and published, of course, by Mrs. Hay 
and others, but there is also new light. It ties in with a great 
deal of our preeminent McLelian Collection of Lincolniana. 
It complements generous gifts in the past from Hay and his 
family. For the literary aspects of his career and the Civil 
War period, ours now becomes the most important Hay 
collection anywhere." 

A Neiv Room to House It 

The donor is Mrs. James W. Wadsworth of Geneseo, 
N. Y., Hay's daughter. Many years ago John Hay him- 
self had given the Library some of his books, including the 
Lincoln, and 600 volumes from his library came from his 
widow. Clarence Hay, a member of the Friends of the Li- 
brary, had been generous in the past, too. 

A new room in the John Hay Library will be set aside to 
house the collection, which is certain to attract scholarly 
and other human interest. Right now, a Hay exhibit rewards 
the visitor to the Special Collections Rooms, of which Miss 



Brown is directly in charge. Appropriately, the new Hay 
Room will be a neighbor of the Lincolniana section. 

Jonah has already spent several engrossed weeks inspect- 
ing and organizing the treasures. Also scanning them was 
W. Easton Louttit, Jr., '25, the University Archivist, who 
has made a specialty of Hay and has contributed or placed 
on deposit many valuable items himself. As a matter of 
fact, the first news of this gift came to the University 
through Louttit. 

Interest in the new material is by no means lessened by 
the actors who appear in it. Take Henry Adams, for ex- 
ample: Great friends, Hay and Adams lived at one time in 
adjoining houses designed by the architect Richardson, and 
they were members of the famous quintet which called it- 
self "The Five of Hearts Club." Thayer quotes a friend as 
saying, "No matter how intimate you were or how merry 
the occasion, nobody ever slapped John Hay on the back." 
But Adams was "one of the few who knew Hay well enough 
to call him John." When Mrs. Hay was editing her husband's 
papers, Adams helped her. Many letters, to be returned to 
others, were copied by Adams and are in the collection in 
his hand. 

But he is only one of the host of great names linked with 
the material. A. L. P. Dennis, who wrote of Hay for the 
Dictionary of American Biography said: "The papers in the 
possession of his daughter, Mrs. J. W. Wadsworth, Jr., are 
essential." Tyler Dennett found them so in preparing the 
latest and authoritative book on Hay. Now they are on 
College Hill. 

A Grateful Brunonian 

John Hay was graduated from Brown in 1858. He had 
spent two years at Illinois State University, but his grand- 
father, David A. Leonard, Brown 1792, persuaded the 
young man to come east for further studies, "You know 1 
entered the Junior class behind the rest," Hay wrote home 
(in one of the letters just given the Library). But, to do him- 
self and his work justice, he received his family's permission 
to take three years at Brown, for which he repeatedly 
showed himself grateful. 

Hay was unhappy in his return to the Middle West, miss- 
ing so much that he had found in Providence, not only in the 
College but also in the company of such persons as Poe's 
Mrs. Whitman. "A Poet in Exile," Caroline Ticknor called 
him when she collected his Illinois letters and published 
them in 1910. (Her own copy of the book, with the manu- 
script letters bound in, is prized by the Library, on de- 
posit from Louttit.) 

But, fresh out of college, Hay was luckier than he knew 



NOVEMBER 1954 



at the time in having a law office across the hall from Abra- 
ham Lincoln in Springfield, 111. Lincoln, 30 years his senior, 
took Hay to Washington with him as secretary in the White 
House, right into the heart of historic drama. In the next 
four years, while practically a member of Lincoln's family. 
Hay sketched in three ordinary notebooks an extraordinary 
chronicle, picturing the President in action. What he wrote 
has always been a major source for Lincoln and Civil War 
historians. Those notebooks have now come to Brown. 

The Day Before Yesterday 

George F. Troy, Jr., '31 of the Providence Journal was 
one of us in the Library on that October morning. He 
wrote: "Leafing through the brittle, musty little books is a 
strange experience. For the clear, dashing handwriting 
somehow brings Lincoln down to the day before yesterday, 
as a human being, not just a massive legend, without be- 
littling him." The material does similarly for Hay. 

Hay was to move from Washington, turning 30 in Eu- 
rope; he was in Paris, Vienna, and Madrid as Secretary of 
Legation or Charge d'Affaires. His travel book, "Castilian 
Days," and his "Pike County Ballads" in 1871 were impor- 
tant milestones in his literary career. After marrying Clara 
Stone of Cleveland in 1874, he assisted his father-in-law in 
finance and found time to write further. There were frequent 
trips to Europe, and in 1897, having been a McKin'ey 
backer, he became Ambassador to Great Britain. He re- 
turned to Washington as Secretary of State the following 
year (he'd been Assistant Secretary of State in 1878). He 
achieved, of course, some of his fame in connection with 
the "Open Door" policy with respect to China and the 
treaties that paved the way for the Panama Canal. 

The monumental "Abraham Lincoln: A History" had 
appeared in 1890 after his collaboration with John Nicolay, 
his White House colleague of Civil War days. The material 
from the Hay family documents this vast undertaking, as 
it does the writing of the anonymously-published, widely 
translated, and even pirated labor novel "The Bread-Win- 
ners" (the hyphen in the title is sometimes elusive, even with 
Hay). The critics damaged his confidence and zeal as a 
poet, but Jim Bludso and others were a strong influence on 
the course of American writing. Hay even had a tour of 
duty as Editor of the New York Tribune during six months 
when Whitelaw Reid was traveling, sending Hay back to 
the paper where he had been an editorial writer and night 
editor as a younger man. 

An Extraordinary Acquaintanceship 

The earliest material in the Hay collection deals with the 
pioneering days of the Hay family in Indiana. Another fam- 
ily association is found in recollections of Lincoln by Hay's 
uncle Miiton. But the range of it a'l is as wide as Hay's ex- 
perience: speeches, souvenirs, copies of Abraham Lincoln 
letters, editorials, travel notes, reports to Lincoln, pardon 
requests, correspondence about the publication of his 
poetry, even letters home from College Hill asking for 
"some of the root of all evil." 

Where does one start quoting from the Lincoln letters in 
this John Hay collection? Here's just one bit at random 
from the President's letter to Maj. Gen. Halleck in 1863: 
"I do not believe Lee can have over sixty thousand effective 
men. ... If Gen. Meade can now attack him on a field 
no worse than equal for us, and will do so with all the skill 
and courage which he, his officers and men possess, the 
honor will be his if he succeeds, and the blame may be mine 
if he fails." 

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letters as writers or recipients: Ne'.son Aldrich, Margot As- 
quith, J. Bryce, J. M. Barrie, Blaine, W. J. Bryan, Andrew 
Carnegie, Richard Harding Davis, Charles G. Dawes, 
Chauncey M. Depew, Mary Mapes Dodge, Charles Eliot, 
Bret Harte. George F. Hoar, O. W. Holm^es, J. C. Hooker, 
E. H. House, William Dean Howells, Colgate Hoyt, Elbert 
Hubbard, R. G. IngersoU, Wallace Irwin, Henry Irving, Jus- 
serand. Ssth Low, John T. McCutcheon, J. P. Morgan, John 
Morley, Richard O'ney (another Brunonian Secretary of 
State), Thomas Nelson Page, Joseph Pennell, Wallace Pike 
(about Steven Crane), Whitelaw Reid, Theodore Roosevelt, 
Elihu Roct, Rhodes, Rosebery, Victoria Sackvilie-West, 
Salisbury. Sargent, Seward, General Sherman, Tennyson, 
Tolstoy, Herbert Tree, Edith Wharton, William Winter, and 
Leonard Wood — just to name some of them. (The mere 
alphabetizing makes for interesting neighbors.) Imagine 
such an acquaintanceship! 

Commentary by Kipling 

Obviously we cannot do justice to these hundreds of let- 
ters. Perhaps one will suffice, a blithe communication from 
Rudyard Kipling which testifies to their friendship and his 
respect for Hay as a creative writer. Kipling wrote from 
Maidencombe, St. Marychurch, on Oct. 8, 1896 (Hay's 
birthday, had he but known ) : 

". . . We've enjoyed a succession of howling gales for 
the last week. As we overhang the channel we can see 'the 
works of the Lord on the great deep." Artistically He is vio- 
lent and monotonous, but his cloud and spray effects are 
superb. ... If only we had a little sun! Vermont (from 
which he had only lately returned) has rather unfitted me 
for a succession of mildewed days with pale blobs of yellow 
wash on the ground that they trustfully call sunlight. . . . 

"Do you know the suburbs of Torquay at all? The town 
is smugly British — so that I want to dance naked through it 
with pink feathers on my stern. 

"The father is staying with us, helping to decorate a new 
edition of Mr. Rudyard Kipling's works which Scribner 
brings out shortly. If there is one thing I hate it is ploughing 



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through that man's stories and arranging them in groups. 
He is a diffuse writer, and if I knew him better I'd edit him 
with a pair of shears. . . . 

"I watch the results of the elections from afar deeply 
thankful to be out of it for the present. . . . Now I must 
go out because there is a feeble glimpse of sun, and if I don't 
take it I mayn't seen another till next month. Isn't it odd 
that a land with string-and-nail political institutions should 
enjoy a machine-cut, nickelled steel climate, while a country 
with bevel-gear bessemer-fitted policies has the sort of 
weather that Bryan might make before breakfast with one 
hand. These things are an allegory. . . ." 

The previous year Kipling had written from Vermont in 
praise of Hay's poems, "most of which I have the honor to 
point out I know by heart." "But here is a peculiar thing," he 
added. "I have been circulating up and down since I could 
read with the lively faith that 'in days of old* when the 
Devil was loose' was Longfellow. . . . But when all is said 
and done — if this is not impertinent, 'Israel' is good enough 
for me and that I read, if my memory serves me, in India 
in the Century in 1887 or thereabouts." 

Sf^eaking in the "Poets' Corner" 

Hay's international reputation as a man of letters is re- 
flected in other ways. Surely it was not as Ambassador to 
the Court of St. James but as a fellow writer that he was 
invited to speak when the memorial to Walter Scott was un- 
veiled in Westminster Abbey. The episode is covered by 
papers on exhibit at Brown. So, too, is the founding of the 
Academy of Arts and Letters, of which he was a charter 
member. But his attitude toward literary notables was not 
always that of adulation. From Liverpool he wrote sarcas- 
tically in 1868: "That true-hearted American and profound 
statesman C. Dickens read last night, and I contributed 6 
shillings to alleviate the sufferings of his honest poverty." 

If Hay's fame is documented, so also is the period of his 
obscurity. One treasure among the papers is the extremely 
rare broadside poem, "The Carriers Address to the Patrons 
of the Daily Illinois State Journal" (Springfield, Jan. 1, 
1861). Such publications continued until fairly recent years 
as a means of assuring the newsboys their holiday tips, and 
some local poet usually obliged in each city. For Springfield, 
the 23-year-old Brown graduate did the honors anony- 
mously. Only two or three copies of Hay's glib poem are 
known to exist. 

There are so many delightful and revealing letters that 
one is bedevilled in choosing a few for quoting here. One 
of Sept. 1 1, 1863, to Nicolay, may suggest their burden and 
even their variety: 

"You may talk as you please of this abolition cabal di- 
recting affairs from Washington. Some well meaning news- 
papers advise the President to keep his fingers out of the 
military pie, and all that sort of thing. The truth is, if he 
did, the pie would be a sorry mess. The old man sits here 
and wields like a backwoods Jupiter the bolts of war and 
the machinery of government with a hand equally steady 
and equally firm. 

"/ Know the People ^Vant Hint" 

"His last letter is a great thing. Some hideously bad rhet- 
oric — some indecorums that are infamous. (Hays, the critic, 
had all the confidence of a young man five years out of 
college!) Yet the whole letter takes its solid place in history 
as a great utterance of a great man. The whole Cabinet 
could not have tinkered up a letter which could have com- 

* Actually, the phrase began "Long years ago" — from "The 
Monks of Basle" by Hay. 



pared with it. He can smoke a sophism out of its hole better 
than all the trained logicians of all schools. 

"I do not know whether the nation is worthy of him for 
another term. I know the people want him. There is no mis- 
taking the fact. But the politicians are strong yet, and he is 
not their 'kind of a cat.' I hope God won't see fit to scourge 
us for our sins by any one of the two or three most promi- 
nent candidates on the ground. 

"I hope you are getting well and hearty. Next winter will 
be the most exciting and laborious of all our lives. It will be 
worth any other ten. I will give the reins up for a few days 
to Stoddard and Howe again. I hope the daring youth will 
not duplicate the fate of Phaeton. (Twenty-five-year-old 
Hay was concerned!) 

"Washington is as dull here as an obsolete almanac . . . 
nobody here except us old stagers who can't get away. We 
have some compatible dinners and some quiet little orgies 
on whiskey and cheese. 

"We are quietly jolly over the magnificent news from all 
round the board. Rosecrans won a great and bloodless vic- 
tory at Chattanooga which he had no business to win. The 
day that the enemy ran he sent a mutinous message to Hal- 
leck complaining of the very thing that secured us the vic- 
tories and foreshadowing only danger and defeat." 

The Grand Collaboration 

Much of the correspondence with Nicolay relates, of 
course, to their monumental biography. The two had ap- 
parently long talked of such a work. In 1872, for example. 
Hay wrote: "I don't think the time for publication has come, 
but the time for preparation is slipping away." In 1885, he 
wrote that he had "at last got down to work." The letters 
show their conflicting ideas on the scope and treatment of 
their material, their problems with the publishers ("I see 
the Century folks have whacked about all the life out of the 
November installment" and "I decline to write the 625 
words required to save the 625 editors"). 

There is evidence of progress: "I have evacuated York- 
town." "They put the last pages in my hands 20 minutes 
before my train started." And from Manitou Springs, Colo., 
he wrote Nicolay on July 22, 1888: "I received your letter 
of the 16th covering Gilder's (of the publishers) with proofs 
last evening. I gave the night to them and mailed them back 
to him this morning. I also wired him to cut as he liked. You 
may write as you choose about your military chapters, but, 
for my part, I am perfectly willing to have him cut out every 
military chapter I have written. I am sick of the subject, and 
I fancy the public is. I will not however rewrite the book or 
boil them down. Let him leave them all out and settle the 
matter with his own readers." 

This last letter illustrates in nice fashion the way in which 
material from the Hay family ties in with material already 
in the collection at Brown. The galley proofs in question had 
previously been given by Archivist Louttit, together with 
another letter from the same hotel the previous day. Here's 
another example of the complementary character of differ- 
ent acquisitions: a certain presidential pardon was among 
those in the McLellan collection of Lincolniana; now from 
the Hay family comes the original request which prompted 
that pardon. 

Riders of the Coat Tails 

Everyone wanted to shine in the reflected glory of Lin- 
coln, and some were unhappy about their role in the Nico- 
lay-Hay biography. Hay writes to Nicolay: "Every old dead- 
beat politician in the country is coming forward to protest 
that he was the depository of Lincoln's inmost secrets." 



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Again, "Dana insists, in reply to a friendly note I wrote him 
about his contradiction of our story of the night of election 
— that I was not at the War Department that night, in face 
of my diary which says I was. You see the sort of pig-headed 
contradiction we have got to go through on the part of con- 
ceited old men with bad memories, who have been lying for 
20 years." 

When the great 10-volume work had been completed. 
Hay wrote to the University from Washington in 1890: "I 
have ordered a copy of 'Abraham Lincoln — A History' to 
be sent to the Library of Brown University. I hope it may 
be accepted as a token of the reverence and gratitude with 
which 1 regard that ancient seat of learning." 

Hay and Nicolay had a regard for Lincoln that was com- 
pounded of affection and worship, though they saw him at 
his most human. The Tycoon or The Ancient, they called 
him. A typical letter, dated Aug. 3, 1863, reads: 

"The Tycoon is in fine whack. I have rarely seen him 
more serene & busy. He is managing this war, the draft, 
foreign relations, and planning a reconstruction of the Un- 
ion, all at once. I never knew with what tyrannous authority 
he rules the Cabinet, till now. The most important things he 
decides & there is no cavil. I am growing more and more 
convinced that the good of the country absolutely demands 
that he should be kept where he is until this thing is over. 
There is no man in the country, so wise, so gentle and so 
firm. I believe the hand of God placed him where he is 
today." 

Behind the Initials 

One of the diary books was originally Lincoln's, used by 
him to note, State by State, the names of key men therein. 
But, whatever the intent was, it was not fulfilled, and Hay 
appropriated the book itself to record his day-to-day diary. 
In the pages, Lincoln appears in now-familiar attitudes, tell- 
ing his jokes, making his comments, wandering about the 
White House in his nightshirt to share some amusing read- 



PHOTO QUIZ 




PROBABLY EVERY BROWN MAN has seen this Bear s heod, but how 
many can tell where it is to be found? (Actually, there ore two of them.) 
The hitch is that no one gets close enough for a good look. But the 
telescopic lens of the Photo Lob mode it possible to get this unusual view 
and to let us pose this problem for you. The answer is on page 21. 



ing with his secretaries. Here, Grant is recorded as telling 
Lincoln that the Rebels were about done for: "I hope we 
will give them the blow this winter that will hasten their 
end." 

In fact, the diaries are the source of many stories of Lin- 
coln since in common currency. This is not wholly new ma- 
terial, then, by any means, and Mrs. Hay published most 
of the diaries later. Unpublished portions can be spotted by 
her blue pencil on certain pages. Her editing also obscured 
the identity of some of the actors, for she used only initials, 
not names. Until recently historians could only guess. 

As we say, there is vast illumination of the Lincoln pres- 
idency in the Hay journal. Granted that the material has 
been mined before this, there is still reward in the reading 
and satisfaction in the deposit of such treasure at Brown. 
Sometimes the theme is politics, as in the resignation of 
Chase and his replacement by Fessenden. There is much of 
the military progress of the war, many word pictures of 
Lincoln and anecdotage, premonition that attended the as- 
sassination plot of 1861, bits of human interest. 

There were the three Indians of the Pottowatomis, for 
example, who "called today upon their Great Father." "The 
spokesman's English," Hay wrote, "was very exceptional. 
The other two were mute. One was a magnificent broad- 
chested, bare-armed giant with a barbaric regal adornment 
of bears' claws. The second a quiet Uncas-looking fellow. 
The spokesman was dressed in a wonderful style of shabby 
genteel. The President amused them greatly by airing the 
two or three Indian words he knew. I was amused by his 
awkward efforts to make himself understood by speaking 
bad English, e.g. Where live now? When go back Iowa?" 

As an investigator for Lincoln, Hay sent back illuminat- 
ing reports. From Stone River he wrote after a visit with 
the Ironsides of the Monitor fleet, after the attack. "We have 
reason for congratulation," he said, "that the operation was 
only a failure and not a terrible disaster." 



The "Rhodian Heroes" 

Troops from Rhode Island were among the first to reach 
Washington at the outbreak of the Civil War, and Hay wrote 
in his journal on April 30, 1861 : "I went up to the Interior 
Department to see the Rhodian heroes. I saw . . . the 
whilom loungers of Westminster (St.), all dressed in the 
coarse blue flannel and all doing duty, the severest duty, 
without a murmur and without any apparent consciousness 
that there was anything at all remarkable about it. 

"Scattered through the rubbish and camp litter of Com- 
pany C's quarters, there was enough of breeding and honor 
to retone the Society of the Gulf and enough wealth to 
purchase the entire State of Florida, and take the poor 
beggarly Montgomery loan. When men like these leave their 
horses, their women and their wine, harden their hands, 
eat crackers for dinner, wear a shirt for a week, and never 
black their shoes, — all for a principle, it is hard to set any 
bounds to the possibilities of such an army. The good blood 
of the North must now be mixed with that of the South in 
battle, and the first fight will determine which is the richer." 

The scope of the papers from the Hay family is so exten- 
sive that we are not going to canvass it in one article. It is 
our intention in an early issue to publish a second sampling, 
built largely upon material which directly related to Brown 
University and Brown men. Therein lies full testimony of 
John Hay's gratitude to the University and his lasting friend- 
ships with his fellow students. 

Something of his affection for Brown must have been im- 
parted in his children for them to have acted with such 
benevolence toward it. 



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MILLIONS OF STUDENTS: 



Can Colleges 
Make Room? 



Populatioti has its grouiid swells, too, and a 
tidal ivave will shortly hit the colleges of America. 
The Provost of Broion University talked in 
forthright fashion about what this ivill mean to 
the colleges when he spoke at the first Senior 
Chapel of the neio year. The following is an 
excerpt from his discussion. 



By SAMUEL T. ARNOLD '13 

OF ALL THE PROBLEMS facing institutions of higher 
education, one which commands high priority atten- 
tion by administrators is the great increase of students who 
will enter the colleges over the next five or ten years. The 
increase comes in part because of the higher birth rate which 
came at the time of World War II, in part because a higher 
percentage of the population is interested in attending col- 
lege. In 1900 the college students comprised only 4% of 
the population of this country; today the percentage has 
risen to 25. 

During the years from 1934 to 1939, the birth rate, be- 
tween 17 and 18 per 1000, was relatively constant. In 1941 
and the two years which followed, the birth rate increased 
to 21 per 1000. In 1944 and 1945 it dropped to 20 per 1000, 
but then the curve began to slope upwards again until in 
1947 it reached a maximum of 18 per 1000 — almost 50% 
higher than in the pre-war years. At the present time the 
birth rate is still over 25 per thousand. 

Those who were born in the early 40's are now in junior 
high schools, will soon be in senior high schools, and will 
enter colleges in 1958 and 1959. The great bulge resulting 
from the birth rates in 1946 and 1947 is due to reach the 
colleges in 1964 and 1965- — in about 10 years. As a matter 
of fact, the number of students eligible to enter colleges in 
1964 and 1965 is approximately 80% higher than the pres- 
ent number. 

The situation has become an item of discussion among 
all who are interested in education, including such agencies 
as the Committee on Financing Higher Education and the 
American Council on Education. I shall not take the time 
to discuss the problems of elementary and secondary edu- 
cation, although they are real and almost impossible of 
solution because of the financial costs involved. We do, 
however, have to decide what is to happen in the colleges. 

The Pressures Will Vary 

There is no question that the number of students entering 
colleges will increase. The pressures will, of course, vary 
according to the type of institution. State universities and 
other institutions financed by public funds will have to make 
provision for many more students. In the case of the pri- 
vately endowed institutions, decisions have not been made 
as yet. But I would venture to predict from the standpoint 
of public relations and social obligations, these institutions 



will also have to increase their enrollments, although prob- 
ably not in proportion. 

A problem is thus raised in the minds of the governing 
boards that is very difficult to settle. For example, we esti- 
mate the cost of educating a student at Brown University 
to be approximately 50% more than the tuition charge. In 
asking industrial firms to grant scholarships to students 
entering Brown, we ask for a total of $1250 for such tuition 
scholarships. Members of our Corporation ask this ques- 
tion: If we increase the size of our undergraduate body, 
shall we increase our deficit in proportion? The problem is 
even more serious if we have to think of building new class- 
room buildings and dormitories to accommodate the in- 
creased number of students. In these days of inflation, the 
cost of construction is such that no institution can face the 
building of new dormitories, laboratories, and classroom 
buildings with any equanimity of spirit. 

These questions are not hypothetical. The students con- 
cerned are already in the elementary schools and junior high 
schools. The problem is just around the corner for the col- 
leges and universities. Many of our undergraduates today 
will soon have positions of responsibility in their communi- 
ties. They will have to participate in discussions about in- 
creased budgets for education, for teachers, and for build- 
ings. There is only one answer for public institutions: they 
must face whatever costs are involved and must meet them. 
In the case of private institutions, time will furnish the an- 
swer. Opinions vary, but there seems to be a real likelihood 
that they will share more, though still to a limited extent, 
in the accommodation of tomorrow's college generation. 

An Opportunity for Collegians 

There is one point about all this that I should like to 
stress to Brown undergraduates. Teachers are not available 
to meet the increased needs either in the elementary or sec- 
ondary schools. There is some doubt as to whether or not 
they will be available in the colleges when the need arises. 
One estimate is that we shall need 50,000 more teachers 
annually, over and above the normal supply of today, to 
help face the demands. 

I am greatly interested in this problem for the future. I 
hope that most of you who are listening have given careful 
thought and have decided what you hope to do. In line with 
past records, many of you will continue in graduate schools 
and professional schools. Others will take positions in in- 
dustry and, at least for a time, enter the Armed Forces. But 
those who are qualified and interested in teaching might 
well give careful thought to entering this profession. Never 
in my experience has the picture been brighter than at the 
present time for those entering the teaching profession, par- 
ticularly for the more able students and those who are really 
interested. 

The teaching supply is short. Salaries are increasing and 
must continue to increase in order to attract. Although no 
person can make a decision for another, it seems obvious 
to me that a larger proportion of the graduates of institu- 
tions like Brown University should look forward to entering 
the field of education. Not in 25 years has this been so true. 

Our TV Series Resumes 

"AN EVENING on College Hill," Brown's prize-win- 
ning television series will be back, starting Tuesday, Nov. 16, 
over Station WJAR-TV (Channel 10; 9:30 p.m.). First 
to appear will be Jess B. Bessinger and Albert D. Van 
Nostrand of the English Department. Our readers will re- 
call their TV dialog published last May. Howard S. Curtis 
and Harmon Hyde of the Public Relations Office are again 
the producers. 



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By CHARLES H. DOEBLER IV '48 

Admission Officer 

HOW BIG A CLASS do you expect?" Every year this 
question is asked by interested alumni of Emery 
Walker, Dean of Admission, or any of his cohorts. Instead 
of crisply responding, "613," the Dean is likely to glance 
reflectively at a nearby cloud and mutter that he would 
like to see about 620 Freshmen report. This would main- 
tain a College of 2000 undergraduates, he feels. "But, of 
course," he will add, "we can't be sure until they finally 
arrive and we are able to count noses. . . ." 

Alumni at this point are leaning toward the opinion that 
the Admission Office at Brown is run with a card file and 
a roulette wheel. 

Actually, the problem is far more complicated than it 
seems on the surface. Take the Class of 1958, for example: 
When it registered in the middle of Freshman Week and 
its members thus officially became Brown men, we dis- 
covered that there were 682 of them. Since this is an in- 
crease of about 90 over last year's entering Class (and 
enough extra to cause some rather embarrassing over- 
crowding in dormitories), it might be useful to go into the 
reasons for the overage. 

How Much Leeway Do You Allow? 

In the first place, competition for entrance into Brown 
or any college In Brown's class is very keen. Last year we 
received nearly 3000 completed applications. Most of 
these were trom boys who were also applying at other col- 
leges, to be sure of getting in somewhere. This statement 
can be borne out by a statement from the College En- 
trance Examination Board, which does the testing for 150 
of our best institutions. Its figures show that its test-takers 
average between two and three colleges apiece. The im- 
plication for us is that we must accept more students than 
we expect to come, since a great many applicants are ac- 
cepted at more than one college and will have to choose 
from among those where they have applied. It has become 
standard procedure at all colleges to accept more than 
they expect. It is our procedure at Brown. 

The question is: How far do you go? How many do we 
over-accept? What percentage of the applicants do we 
think will commit themselves to Brown? We base this es- 
timate on the behavior of the preceding classes, but experi- 
ence has shown that this is not a very good predictor. In 
1953, using the statistics of the year before, we opened 
the College with a Freshman Class of 591, a disappointing 
figure. In this instance, past performance was unreliable. 

We concluded that predicting only on the basis of the 
percentage of accepted applicants who reported last year 
might lead again to error. So we devised new predictive 
measures, based on geographical distribution, whether or 



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CAMPUS PRESSURES are overwhelming for any new Freshman, but even greater for a man from Korea like Chin Tai Kim. Still, he's smiling. 



not the student came from a public or a private school, 
etc. This newer method predicted about the same results as 
before, meaning in effect that the general group each year 
does not change much, and that any predictive device is a 
somewhat cloudy crystal ball. 

The smaller Class of 1957 (last year's Freshmen) was 
due in large part to an unusual number of summer with- 
drawals which came too late to permit us to make replace- 
ments from our waiting list or from late applicants (usually 
local veterans). This year, consequently, we instituted a 
commitment deposit of S50 which the boy has to pay at 
the time he says he will enter Brown. If he later decides 
to change his mind and lets us know about it, we refund 
$10, which insures his letting us know as early as possible. 

Undoubtedly, the deposit did help build the size of this 
year's Freshman Class, just as the increasing teen-age popu- 
lation, the higher percentage of students going to college, 
and, of course. Brown's increasing desirability all helped. 
Whatever the reason, the answer, reduced to simplest terms, 
is that this year more boys who applied and were accepted 
by Brown decided to come. It was a very flattering compli- 
ment paid by the — that's right — the best Class ever to 
enter. Once again, the evidence of tests taken by the 
Freshmen as they entered proves the quality of the Class. 
The scores were not a great deal better but still a percep- 
tible notch above last year's Class, which was, you will 
remember, the best ever. 

All this prosperity has brought some problems, however. 



The proportion of students who want rooms on campus 
has gone up steadily since the completion of the Quad- 
rangle. In 1951 74% wanted residence in a dormitory; 
it had risen to 85% in 1954. At the same time there have 
been fewer dismissals from the student body. Counseling 
has been better, the Quadrangle has helped to provide an 
atmosphere for study, and the general academic morale 
has been good. These three factors — the larger Class, a 
high percentage of students requesting rooms, and a lower 
dismissal rate — meant that there were fewer spaces on cam- 
pus than we had Freshmen who wanted rooms. This was 
true despite the fact that we were still using Adams House 
(an emergency dormitory last year and still occupied) and 
had added Judson House (the old Phi Delta Theta fraternity 
house, handsomely renovated) and had taken Ames House 
over from the Graduate School. 

New Englanders a Minority 
Even with these additions, we were forced to ask some 
local students to live off campus. Veterans and transfer 
students were permitted to live off campus as long as hous- 
ing was crowded. When it finally appeared that there was 
no other way to solve the problem, we were forced to add 
one extra man to the double rooms in Hope College and 
Maxcy Hall. Admittedly, this is not a good situation, but 
we are encouraged at the way the Freshmen have adjusted 
themselves so far. Naturally, as any vacancies did open up, 
we moved the extra man out, but many more will have to 



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wait until the second semester. There is not an empty bed 
in the place. 

In other respects, this Class is much as usual. We are 
still drawing more than half of our students from outside 
New England, although the percentage of New Englanders 
rose from 43.7% to 48.7%. Rhode Island's share in the 
Class rose from 16.6% in 1953 to 19.0% in 1954. Boys 
came from 29 States and the District of Columbia and from 
seven foreign countries. 

Geographic distribution was just about the same this year, 
except for a burst of activity from the South and a gratify- 
ing increase from the Mid-West. The percentage of South- 
erners rose from 2.9 to 4.2; the percentage of Mid-Western- 
ers rose from 10.0% to 12.8%. The latter increase can be 
credited in large part to very fine work by the Alumni-Ad- 
mission groups in Chicago, Detroit, and St. Louis. The per- 
centages from other areas are: New York 21.7%, New 
Jersey 7.3%, Pennsylvania 4.2%, foreign 1.1%. 

Leaders in Secondary School 

The new Freshmen had been, as usual, active in their 
secondary schools, with many student leaders among them. 
One out of every 10 had been a Class President, and another 
18% had been class officers (at least every fourth man had 
thus been an officer). Eighteen per cent had been members 
of student councils. Nine per cent had been team captains. 

There were 40 sons of Brown men in the Class of 1958 — 
the same number as last year but a lower ratio. There was a 
reversal of a trend in that 55% had attended public schools, 
although this change was not marked enough to be signifi- 
cant. 

Financial aid amounting to $1 15,000 was awarded to the 
Freshmen, with a quarter of the group receiving help in the 
form of scholarships, grants, remissions, and job opportu- 
nities. In all, 170 are receiving financial help from the Uni- 
versity. Of the total, $22,000 will be earned by students 
employed on the campus. The scholarships, remissions, and 
grants are valued at $93,000. 

Elections in the experimental curriculum were again high 
in the second year of the courses grouped under the label, 
"Identification and Criticism of Ideas." 

There isn't much else to say about the Class of 1958. As 
a matter of fact, after the pleasant routines of Freshman 
Week, the Admission Office has just about forgotten the 
newcomers. (The Deans and Counsellors and the Faculty 
have taken them over long since.) Right now in the Ad- 
mission Office we are laying plans for the Class of 1959. It 
will, of course, be the finest to enter Brown. 

A More Stable Outlook 

More ground for optimism exists for the student this 
fall than in the years immediately past, in the opinion of 
Provost Samuel T. Arnold '13. He told the undergraduates 
so in a Chapel talk early in the semester. 

"The Selective Service situation seems more stable," he 
said, "and plans can be made with more confidence. This is 
true not only for undergraduate men, but also for graduate 
students and the younger members of the Faculty. One thing 
seems to be assured; although postponements of induction 
are possible within the framework of procedures previously 
set up, young men may expect to serve their term in the 
Armed Forces providing they are physically qualified. 

"We have not established procedures for using our young 
men in a way which will permit us to take advantage of in- 
dividual capacities and special talents, but this situation will 
improve. We still hear a great deal about universal military 
service, but at the present time the Selective Service Pro- 
gram seems to provide enough men to meet the needs." 



ADVICE FROM A SENIOR: 



If I Were 
a Freshman 



By WARREN ILCHMAN 

President of the Cammarian Club 

BY NOW you have been welcomed by everyone from 
the University administration to your dormitory proc- 
tor, and you must feel as well ushered into your college 
career as is possible. If you'll permit me, I would like to 
add another. On behalf of your student government, the 
Cammarian Club, I want to welcome you to Brown and 
extend our wishes for the very best of luck in the coming 
four years. And in so doing, the Club would also like to 
pass on for your consideration a few suggestions born out 
of experience: 

First, let's forget the complaining and the apologizing 
for the unexpected size of your Class. In fact, everyone 
has a right to boast about it. If Brown had not been so 
successful as a residential college, the vast percentage of 
students would not have wished to live on campus. In the 
same vein, if Brown had not been so successful academi- 
cally, more students would not have stayed in college. 
Last, if Brown were not the place that it is, those 3000 
applications would have never been made, nor would the 
unfortunate 684 have accepted. So, let's look at the situa- 
tion positively, and be deservedly boastful. 

Second, perhaps the most important facet of your col- 
lege life is that of your collective Class, the Class of 1958. 
Your Class is your vehicle for all your Freshman under- 
graduate social life as well as your means of expressing 
your alumni interest. Let this serve as a suggestion from 
the Cammarian Club, when the elections for class officers 
arrive near the third week in October. Make sure that your 
officers are the best you could have possibly found. 

Third, there is a group in every entering Class of every 
college in the United States which has an additional ad- 
justment problem. This problem stems usually from the 
respective admissions policies, which, of course, differ 
from school to school. Some place their emphasis on past 
performance while others look for student potential. For 
instance, each year many students at Dartmouth have been 
refused at Brown, and I am positive that the reverse must 
also be true. Do not confuse second choice with second 
rate. This is your challenge! To this small group, admis- 
sions are now over; therefore, start and make the most of 
your first-rate academic heritage. 

Last, the old high school-prep school philosophy that 
made the individual who was interested in activities either 
"a pusher" or "a teacher's pet" is over. To do nothing 
and be nothing in college is not the "casual" thing to do. 
In fact, one of the prime objectives of education in the 
liberal arts is to develop a variety of leaders, and nowhere 
can they be better developed than in a student organiza- 
tion. 

Brown has one of the most extensive systems of extra- 
curricular activities. For all your interests, there is an or- 
ganization interested in you. In the Club's mind, it is 



NOVEMBER 1954 



15 




IN THE PROCESS: Part of the routine of Freshman Week sees the Brown 
newcomer hoving his picture taken for use on his student pass, personal 
file and the Freshman yearbook. At the Pho*ographic Laboratory, Di- 
rector George Henderson '38 handles this detoil with all the expedition 
of a production line, but manages to "keep them smiling." Nearly 700 
portraits are a lot to shoot in two days. 



suggested that you not put off until next year your mem- 
bership, for the leaders of today's activities started as 
Freshmen. However, in the same sense, do not over-extend 
yourself, adding new interests only when your study time 
allows. Take your pick from a host of organizations, and 
I can assure you that you shall have some of your finest 
experiences at Brown in those of your choice. 

Now, a few words about your student government. The 
Cammarian Club is the oldest student government in con- 
tinued existence in any American college or University. It 
was founded in 1893 by 12 Seniors as a Senior secret so- 
ciety. It was composed mostly of athletes, and it met once 
yearly over a lobster dinner to discuss the problems of the 
school. Since that time, the Cammarian Club has become 
representative of all classes and interests, expanded in size, 
and has abandoned its secret nature. 

The Cammarian Club is distinctive in other ways. In 
particular, it is one of the few in the nation with which 
the University administration cooperates in the actions of 
the Club. The Cammarian Club affects nearlv every facet of 
your life at Brown. Your cuts, your intramurals, your gen- 
eral school problems, and even the menus at the Refectory 
receive Cammarian Club attention. We are always open to 
suggestions and criticism. Often we have many Freshman 
members of our open committees, such as the highly com- 
petent (and we hope soon to be successful) Academic 
Honor System Committee. 



"AND TIED A KNOT 



A Homecoming Thriller 



A FULLBACK of another Brown gen- 
eration was getting a haircut in the 
University barbershop Ihe other day and 
comparing the 1954 Varsity with his own 
team. "Oh, they're all right," he said, 
"but they're not in it with my club." The 
atmosphere was getting a bit tense, for 
the shopful of undergraduates resented 
him. It did not help to have three of the 
current eleven walk in at the height of 
his exposition. 

Coach A! Kelley would not have 
agreed with the old grad. He went so far 
as to tell the Providence Gridiron Club 
that the 1954 team was the best Brown 
had ever had. Some thought his basis of 
judging was a little limited after having 
seen only his own Brown teams, and he 
took a bit of kidding, although no one 
denied his right to be proud of the cur- 
rent Bears. 

We refuse to get drawn into this pleas- 
ant debate. It Is enough for us that this 
1954 team is a great one. The remarkable 
thing Is not that It lived up to Its promise 
In the first half of the season but that It 
did so after being riddled, as they say, by 
Injuries. This usual phrase for such a 
situation does not begin to describe the 
dilemma that the Brown coaches found 
themselves in after the team had opened 
against Columbia and won Its first Ivy 
League victory In two years. With four 
men out of the backfield, the Bears were 
outlucked by Yale in a great game, lost 
because we did not convert once after 
four touchdowns (our biggest score 
against the Ells, ever). And then before 
an ecstatic Homecoming crowd In Provi- 
dence Brown rallied for a rousing 21-20 
triumph over Princeton. 



Sioii'ii IS, Columbia 7 

Kelley had said before the season we 
had a chance to win each game on the 
schedule. On the showing against Co- 
lumbia, he seemed wholly justified In this 
uncoachly optimism. 

The Bears served notice right at the 
start of the season's opener in Providence. 
Columbia had received but was unable 
to move the ball and kicked. Brown 
started on its 41. Piscuskas made one 
first down on the Columbia 46. Then 
Zucconi got free on the 15-yard line to 
take Kohut's pass and score, with the 
game less than three minutes old. Eight 
minutes later Pearson had pounded 
through from the six-yard line for a sec- 
ond touchdown, tossing off two tacklers 
at the goal line. Linebacker Mike Reilly 
had hit Lacopo with a tackle that jarred 
the ball loose for two other Brunonlans 
to nab on the 44-yard mark. Zucconi con- 
tributed the key run of 15 yards to set up 
Pearson's score. 

With one of the East's best passers at 
quarterback for Brown, Columbia had 
set its defenses accordingly. But Kohut, 
calling a beautiful game, crossed the Lion 
up and exploited Brown's superiority In 
the line. Speed and power by the backs 
made the most of holes opened up for 
them up front. The Bears gained 202 of 
their 306 yards by rushing. 

Brown was In convincing control most 
of the way, holding Columbia to 184 
yards, little of it In the first half. Not 
until Ihe third quarter, after the Brunon- 
lans had added a third touchdown on a 
71 -yard advance overland, did the Co- 
lumbia attack function to any effect. 



The play was remarkable In that Co- 
lumbia's Carr, a 60-minute iron man 
through all of last season, left the field 
after only 1 1 minutes. A Sophomore 
quarterback, Claude Benham, showed 
then and has since continued to show, 
however, that Carr can be spelled by a 
fine replacement. With Carr below par 
and Mercler, his favorite receiver, out 
with Injuries, Columbia was not at top 
potential, obviously. But the Brown line 
was too tough, limiting the Lions' threats 
to two. Including a mild one in the fourth 
quarter that had few really worried. 

Two years ago In his first Varsity game 
as a Sophomore, Pete Kohut had been so 
uncertain that he called the same play 
against Yale three times in a row without 
gaining a yard. (Later he told the coaches 
that it was the only play he could think 
of.) This year as a veteran, he was poised 
and sure, running his team beautifully 
and adding plenty of talent on his own. 
He connected for his first five passes 
against Columbia, missing his last three 
only in the second half after a sudden 
rainstorm had made the ball heavy and 
wet. 

But the Lion hunt was costly. On Sept. 
26 Columbia's Lou Little wrote a piece 
for This Week magazine about how to 
avoid injury in football. Unfortunately, 
this appeared the day after Brown's game 
with his club, and we were badly hurt: 
Dave Zucconi, off to a brilliant start as 
halfback, suffered a fractured process of 
a vertebra in a pile-up and was to be out 
of action for four weeks. Piscuskas was 
injured, too, and Pearson — the latter on 
the last play of the game. Tommy 
Thompson, tabbed as the likely backfield 
star for the year, had been badly bruised 
In pre-season practice and entered the 
game for just two plays — unnecessarily, 
as It proved. He was tackled on his first 
carry and returned to the Injured list for 
another month. The end squad had been 
plagued with ailing legs In practice, but 
josephson and Blanowicz carried the load 
durably. 

The one weakness that showed against 
Columbia, failure to add a single polnt- 



16 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



FOOTBALL STATISTICS, GAME BY GAME 



First Downs 
Yards Rushing 
Yards Passing 
Pass Attempts 
Completions 
Intercepted by 
Punts 

Av. Punt Yardage 
Fumbles Lost by 
Yards Penalized 



BR 


COL 


BR 


Y 


BR 


RI 


BR 


PR 


BR 


OPPS 


17 


11 


15 


16 


21 


7 


18 


16 


71 


50 


222 


92 


126 


189 


194 


115 


221 


217 


763 


613 


84 


87 


166 


56 


214 


77 


119 


110 


583 


330 


11 


19 


19 


8 


18 


11 


15 


15 


63 


53 


5 


6 


11 


6 


11 


4 


10 


8 


37 


24 


1 


1 





1 


2 


1 





I 


3 


4 


6 


4 


2 


3 


1 


5 


4 


3 


13 


15 


25 


36 


36 


38 


37 


31 


39 


46 


32 


37 





2 


1 


1 


T 


2 





1 


3 


6 


106 


15 


27 


11 


43 


59 


68 


53 


244 


138 



after, did not seem important at the time. 
But the weakness was not remedied in 
time for the following Saturday. 

yale 26, Brown 24 

Many a Brown team has earned itself 
less in the way of cheers in victory than 
the Bears who left the Yale Bowl, losers 
by 26-24. The Brown stands gave them a 
terrific ovation, one of the greatest we've 
ever heard, but it was no solace to an 
eleven that wanted to win and thought it 
should have on merit. 

All week the coaches had worked fever- 
ishly to drill its remaining backs but had 
not dared risk any contact. With Thomp- 
son, Zucconi, Pearson, and Piscuskas out 
of action, the burden fell on their replace- 
ments — Williams, Cronin, and Jazwinski 

together with the quarterbacks Kohut 

and Balogh. Burden it was, too, with the 
thermometer rising from 85 at the kick- 
off to 88 before the end of the half. But 
Brown refused to wilt and, with that 
stalwart line up forward, battled the Bull- 
dog right down to the gun, fighting back 
though every break seemed to go against 
them. 

One typical bad bounce came at the 
outset after both teams had been unable 
to gain on their first series. Then Brown 
began to move, with Williams and Jaz- 
winski speeding for a first down. A pass 
to Josephson was slightly overthrown. 
Reaching for it, he stumbled, and the 
ball was juggled into the arms of Yale's 
good Sophomore McGill, who romped 
off downfield. Instead of another Brown 
first down on the Yale 45, the interception 
was run back to our 18. It took the Elis 
six plays to make its first touchdown and 
convert. 

Rebounding, the Bears got a lift on a 
26-yard return of the kickoff to the 39, 
and Kohut passed three times for first 
downs to the Yale 26. Three running 
plays took the ball to the Yale three, 
where Balogh (who had been substituted 
for Kohut) fumbled. After grinding out 
one first down, Yale was forced to kick, 
with Williams nearly getting away on the 
return as he travelled up the left sideline 
for 24 yards to the Yale 36. (His brilliant 
and bold runbacks don't show in the sta- 
tistics, but he's picked up plenty of yard- 
age all fall.) Despite a penalty. Brown 
went the distance in five plays, with 
Cronin receiving Kohut passes for a first 
down and then the touchdown. But Cron- 
in's placement hit the upright and fell 
back on the field. Yale led 7-6. 

The Brown stands groaned at an inter- 
ference call on a pass attempt that had 
no chance and gave Yale a life at mid- 
field. Seven plays later Mathias bolted 
over right guard to score from the 29, 
and he kicked the point. 

Advancing on the second-half kickoff 
to its 41, Yale needed 12 plays to make it 
20-6, the key play coming on a Brink 

NOVEMBER 1954 



pass to Lopata good for 15 yards when 
the line had apparently stemmed the ad- 
vance. But, though the big crowd ex- 
pected otherwise. Brown was still a stout 
contender. One long pass just missed 
Williams' fingertips for a touchdown on 
the first play from our 41, but he took a 
shovel pass to skirt left end for 22 yards. 
Four slams up the middle made a first 
down, and Kohut passed to Josephson in 
the corner of the end zone. The kick was 
wide, and the Bruins were still behind 
more than a touchdown, 20-12. 

Again Yale boosted its margin by six 
points more, with Loucks twice able to 
run after nearly getting caught behind the 
line. The 59-yard march took 10 plays. 
It was 26-12, and Brown still had a 
chance. The Bears did make their two 
touchdowns. The first one needed only 
nine plays from our 32, with Kohut mix- 
ing his plays like a master and throwing 
two good passes along with ground gain- 
ers by Piscuskas and Cronin. Williams got 
the TD from two yards out. It seemed 
hopeless when the kick again was no 
good, but Josephson recovered a Yale 
fumble on their 37. Forced back by a 
penalty, the Bears nevertheless made a 
first down on the 1 1 when Kohut hit Bar- 
tuska and repeated for a touchdown, 
again with no conversion. Brown had 
failed to convert in two games, despite 
seven straight tries. 

Brown was by now the sentimental fa- 
vorite of the crowd, and the officials were 
booed from all parts of the Bowl when a 
fumble recovery on the kickoff was not 
allowed by the oflicials. They ruled that 
Ackerman's knee had touched the turf 
on his 45, with four minutes left to play. 
Still game. Brown yielded only two yards, 
and Armstrong had to kick. But Kohut 
was trapped twice on pass attempts, and 
time ran out. (Another quixotic lapse by 
the officials was their failure to stop the 
clock during a time-out.) 

Brown was never prouder of a losing 
team. The line had bested the heavy Elis, 
and the little-relieved quartet in the back- 
field had been superb on offense through- 
out the gruelling afternoon. Inability to 
cover on a half-dozen passes and to guard 
the ends on a few other critical plays cost 
the game. But the Bears had been stub- 
born in the face of every break (we got 
just one — Mathias' fumble in the last 
quarter). And Yale took over the lead 
of the Ivy League, which Brown had held 
briefly by winning the only Ivy contest 
on the day it beat Columbia. 

Brown 55, R. /. 

Two years a-running, the University of 
Rhode Island had beaten Brown, but that 
short streak ended abruptly in their 1954 
meeting. The Rams, also with backfield 
casualties, were never in the game, which 
Brown won 35-0. The greatest cheers 
came as every conversion try succeeded. 




PREXY: Brown's Athletic Director Paul F. 
Mackesey '32 is the current Chairman of 
the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference. 
He is also a Vice-President of the National 
Collegiate Athletic Association. 

but there was plenty of action even when 
Coach Kelley emptied his bench to keep 
the score down. 

The Bears scored quickly after an ex- 
change of fumbles halfway into Rhode 
Island territory. Peavy was in position to 
catch a touchdown pass when he was 
interfered with on the two-yard line. Ko- 
hut sneaked it over. The real tip-off on 
the day came shortly after when each 
team had a fourth-down situation calling 
for a yard gain for a first: Rhody lost 
the ball on its gamble; Brown succeeded. 
A Kohut pass to Peavy, some bucks by 
Jazwinski, a spectacular pass-receipt by 
Williams, and his plunge from the two 
told the story of the 65-yard procession. 
The third touchdown resulted from 
Reilly's recovery of a fumble and Bal- 
ogh's long heave to Williams. Josephson 
had a hand in the other two six-pointers, 
stealing the ball right out of the hands of 
a Ram pass receiver as deftly as Bob 
Priestley '42 did in his day against the 
same foe. After a Balogh-to-Peavy for- 
ward, Pearson swept left end. Josephson 
picked up a punt (blocked by Charley 
Brown) for the final touchdown. 

The finest run of the day went for 
naught just as the half ended: Cronin 
took a screen pass on his 15-yard line, 
reversed his field, picked up blockers, 
dodged tacklers, and stiff-armed the 
safety man, only to slip out of bounds on 

(Continued on page 20) 



17 




I was born on Benson's Wild Animol 

Farm in New Hampshire. Life there 
with my family was pleasant enough, 
as you can see in the Lenscrafi 
photo at the left. (The two-legged 
creatures are no relation.) 



But one day a couple of chaps from 
the Brown Key arrived, and my life 
really began, for I was chosen to be 
Mascot of that great Brown football 
team of 1954. 



They took me down to Providence. 
I was dubious about my new den 
under the Stadium, until they 
showed me it was all right by going 
In with me. Shortly after, they took 
me to my first rally at Faunce House 
(top right), and I met the Student 
Body. We hit it off right from the 
start. 



MASCOT 



The Latest Butch Bruno 

Is the Most Ingratiating 

Bear Cub of Them All 



My reol work is cut out for me on the day of the gome. Nofu- 
roily, I wont to look my best before those crowds, so I submit 
fo that currying job (between us, I rather like it). The onimols 
in white sweaters (lower left) are called cheer-leaders. Some- 
times they wear a sort of coon-skin; it seems to be a fur you 
con take off at will. The cheer-leaders also go to my gomes. 







P.S. I get a chuckle every time they call me Butch. Since we're all friends 
here together, I'll let you in on a little secret: The fact is, I guess you'd 
coll me a co-ed. 



r" 



Growling af bulldogs and 
rams makes one thirsty, but 
there is always some refresh- 
ment handy. 1 just let one of 
my boys know. 



Boy, I really clawed that 
Lion and Tiger, didn't I? By 
the way, that other bear on 
the cover is a phony, al- 
though his heart is in the 
right place. 





CONFEDERATE flog in Marvel Gym an- 
nounced the arrival in August of Elgin 
White, new Director of Sports Information. 
Graduate of the University of Florida, he 
hod held a similar post at Davidson College 
for four years, also coaching the golf team 
to a Southern Conference title. He also 
headed Davidson's News Bureau and Place- 
ment Service. A Boston editor wrote in Sep- 
tember: "If oil college information offices 
did as thorough a job, the dividends reaped 
would be amazing." 



Football 

(Continued from page 17) 

the Ram two. Kohut pitched 13 times, 
with eight completions for 166 yards, and 
two other strikes were dropped, one in 
the end zone. Balogh, his understudy, 
made three for three. Kelley gave every 
fit player his inning, going down into the 
fourth and fifth spots on his depth chart. 
He even used some boys who had played 
for the Jayvees the day before against 
Harvard. 

The game had one terrifying moment 
when Brown's Peavy and Rhody's DeSi- 
mone crashed head-against-head after the 
Brown end had caught a forward pass. 
It was a jarring collision. Amazingly, 
Peavy held the ball, got up, tossed it to 
the official, and continued in the ne,\t 
plav, which scored a touchdown. He came 
off the field dazed at this point, removed 
his helmet, and in a few minutes was un- 
conscious. Promptly removed to the hos- 
pital, he underwent two operations to re- 
move a blood clot and continued for sev- 
eral days in very critical condition. He 
made slow progress and will be hospital- 
ized for a long period. A new, improved 
headguard is in use by Brown this year, 
and. investigation showed that Peavy's 
had not failed him. A hundred students 
journeyed to the hospital to offer blood 
if it was needed, and prayers of the whole 
College were for him. 

During the next week there was specu- 
lation as to what effect his injury might 
have on the team. At practice one day, it 
was agreed that the players would try to 
take him a winning football from the 
Princeton game on Homecoming Day. 
Whatever the inspiration, the team went 
out on that memorable afternoon and 
brought home one of Brown's greatest 

20 



and most thrilling victories, our first over 
Princeton in si.x years. 

Brou'ti 21, Princeton 20 

Two offensively-minded, well-coached 
elevens fought it out that afternoon. 
There were spectacular feats, but all were 
shaded by the touchdown run of Captain 
Everett Pearson which settled the issue 
in the last two minutes. This time it was 
a perfect record on conversions that gave 
Brown the winning margin as Jazwinski 
came through under dramatic pressure. 

Pete Kohut had his finest day, calling 
a brilliant game, completing eight vital 
passes, and even running sharply from his 
quarterback position. Archie Williams 
also turned in his top performance, gain- 
ing 67 yards on seven runs and starring 
on his returns of kicks. The Princeton 
coach told the AP that Brown's downfield 
blocking was the best he'd run up against, 
"and they have two good fullbacks (Jaz- 
winski and Piscuskas) that we can't 
match at all." Sharing in the honors were 
the men in the line, particularly Bill Har- 
ris, Bill Klaess, Jim McGuinness, and 
John O'Brien. Line Coach Bob Pflug has 
done a superlative job with his charges 
this fall. 

But, for all the heroic work, it looked 
as though the Bears were to be denied 
their win. A less determined eleven would 
never have made it. Although Brown 
dominated most of the first half, the Ti- 
gers led, 13-7. 

The Bears opened the scoring, traveling 
82 yards to do so. While a high spot was 
Williams' 30-yard run, the touchdown 
came on a perfect 16-yard pass from Ko- 
hut to Josephson. Two minutes later 
Princeton had countered, with consider- 
able luck contributing. The Tiger tally 
was set up on a pass play when Williams 
and Agnew tripped over each other on 
the one-foot line, and Princeton was 
awarded the advance on an interference 
ruling. Some reporters questioned the de- 
cision seeing the incident this way: Ag- 
new fell, tripping Williams so that the 
latter defender fell on top of him. As we 
saw it, however, the official had to rule 
as he did on the technicalities of the situ- 
ation, unavoidable though the interfer- 
ence was. Flippin, a stellar runner all 
afternoon, plunged over easily. The im- 
portant thing, as it turned out, was that 
Princeton missed its point-after. 

Though its lead was slender. Brown 
seemed in command as it then marched 
down the field in the next series. Moving 
by air to the Tiger 31, Kohut then sent 
Williams through the line on a quick- 
opener for a first down on the five. When 
two bucks gained only three yards, Kohut 
called, not strangely, a passing play. With 
Martin intercepting, the toss boomer- 
anged, for he ran the ball out to Brown's 
34. Flippin broke into the clear on the 
next play on the classic single-wing power 
shot off tackle for a TD. Instead of 
Brown getting the odd touchdown in 
three, it was Princeton's. 

Early in the third quarter, the Bears 
had another chance. They held the Ti- 
gers for downs on their 44, thwarting a 
fake-kick play. It was inconsequential 
that the ball was fumbled — the Bears had 
the gamble stopped anyway. Kohut 
opened operations by passing to Biano- 
wicz, but he then mixed up the defense 
with running and power plays as Jaz- 
winski and Pearson took advantage of 
great blocks, the former scoring. The con- 
version by Jazwinski gave Brown the lead 
again, 14-13. 



Again Princeton responded, crossing 
the goal line on seven plays. Flippin jus- 
tified his reputation on this advance with 
some fine runs, although the last yardage 
came on aerials. It was 20 to 14, Prince- 
ton, and it seemed all over as the Tigers 
charged deep into our territory once 
more. With a first down on our seven, 
the Bruins looked despondent. Even 
Coach Kelley, a great man for the side- 
lines, went back to the bench and sat 
down -with his head on his chest. Actually, 
Princeton crashed into our end zone on 
the next play, only to receive a costly 
holding penalty. The threat petered out 
with an unsuccessful try for a field goal 
from the eight, a bit on the angle. 

Brown had four minutes to go 80 
yards. Jazwinski's bolt to the 41 through 
a great hole showed that the Bruins were 
far from licked. Tearing into the Prince- 
ton line, the backs were grinding out slow 
yardage. Two minutes and 40 yards away. 
You had the feeling Brown could make 
it if there were only more time. Fourth 
down and one to go — this was it, and 
Pearson, quick-hitting through the tightly- 
packed Tiger line, was on his way. At the 
20, Bartuska cut down two Tigers, and 
Pearson was home. Jazwinski again made 
good his chance. It was all over, though 
Princeton made one last superb response, 
passing in rapid sequence, without hud- 
dles, and actually coming well down field 
before time ran out. 

The victory was cheered by the largest 
rainy-day crowd we remember seeing at 
Brown Field. And one of the happiest, 
except across the gridiron where the 
Princetonians had turned out for their 
second "PRAB" in great numbers. The 
Princeton Reunion at Brown had its head- 
quarters in a tent on Aldrich Field, ad- 
jacent to the larger one where hundreds 
rendezvoused for our own Homecoming. 

Last year the Holy Cross upset; this 
year a rouser over Princeton. These 
Homecoming games are building quite a 
reputation for thrills. They took the ball 
over to Peavy. 




SKIP STANLEY: He got a Brown greeting in 
Arizona (see next page). 

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Sports Shorts 

BROWN'S FIRST Junior Varsity foot- 
ball team in several years (we've 
lacked the manpower until this fall) 
opened its campaign with a 14-0 triumph 
over Harvard. All the scoring came in 
the first period. Demchak passed to Ham- 
ilton, an end, for 15 yards and the first 
touchdown. For the other, Giovine took 
a pitchout from Tom Lyons and raced 
25 yards. Carpenter kicked both points- 
after — the first any Brown eleven had 
made up to this point. 

The Freshmen also started off on the 
right foot, beating Rhode Island on a 
last-minute pass that broke a 13-13 dead- 
lock. It was Stan Ward's debut as a 
Brown coach, and it kept his assistant's 
record intact. In all his years of coaching. 
Jack Heffernan '28 has seldom, if ever, 
lost an opening game. 

Brown encountered some unusually 
inept officiating this fall. We don't mean 
matters of judgment but real bloomers. 
One official caught a free ball in the Co- 
lumbia game after a blocked placement. 
At another point, Brown had AVi to go 
for first down, and the Lions were ofi'side. 
The referee paced off his "five yards," 
and we were still shy the first down. Most 
officials, in such a situation, would use 
the five-yard spot on the chains to meas- 
ure the close ones. (P.S. We made the 
first down next play, anyway.) The "lost 
35 seconds" in the Yale game were sim- 
ilarly inexcusable. The running of the 
clock during a time-out might have made 
a difference. Another "boot" came on the 
final kickoff with its disputed fumble. If 
the Yale back had touched his knee to the 
ground before fumbling, the officials 
should not have given the ball to Yale at 
the point of Brown's recovery but where 
the back was "down." 

Two minutes after the Brown Band 
played "Stormy Weather" at the Colum- 



bia game, the rain started. The music 
was only a salute to Carol, but the day 
had been fine up to that point. 

Coach Hal Kopp of Rhode Island paid 
Al Kelley a high compliment for some- 
thing he did for DeSimone, the Ram full- 
back who collided with Les Peavy in that 
serious accident. Kelley called on De- 
Simone, assured him he was not at fault, 
urged him not to give up the game 
through any feeling of blame. DeSimone 
stuck it out. More than that he scored five 
touchdowns against Massachusetts the 
following Saturday. Kopp told the Boston 
Sportswriters Luncheon of the incident. 

Rhode Island's extra month of daylight 
saving had some curious sidelights. After 
the Princeton game, we went home and 
saw a New York telecaster predicting a 
Tiger victory. He'd forgotten the differ- 
ence in time. A CBS radio broadcast of 
the game had been announced for 2 
o'clock standard by mistake. They had to 
tape the play-by-play and air it an hour 
after the kickoff. You could still listen to 
the game long after it was over. It was a 
joy to hear Red Barber describe Pearson's 
touchdown as a "cakewalk." 

Brown's passing attack in the first four 
games was effective enough to put it in 
the top 10 nationally when the press serv- 
ices published their statistics. At this point, 
too, Kohut was top passer in the Ivy 
League in percentage of completions. 

Remembering Stahley 

An unusual reunion marked the start 
of seasonal activity by the Brown Club 
of Tucson. Joining Brown men and their 
wives in a football luncheon were alumni 
of the University of Idaho and Penn 
State. The occasion was a visit of Neil 
"Skip" Stahley, Penn State grad and 
Brown football coach from 1942 to 1944, 
now at Idaho. He flew his team down to 
Tucson (only about 1500 miles) to play 
the Univ. of Arizona in a night contest. 



Also on hand were scattering alumni 
from Harvard, Toledo, George Washing- 
ton, and the University of Washington, at 
all of which Stahley has coached. Nearly 
100 turned up for a bang-up affair, at 
which Skip exchanged "forward passes" 
with Arizona coach Warren Woodson. 

W. E. Kay '26 was Chairman of the 
committee on arrangements, with Lou 
Farber as Secretary. Royal Irving, Idaho 
'26, was Toastmaster, while O. B. Thrall, 
Penn State '25, was his school's repre- 
sentative. 

LOU FARBER '29 



Indoors in December 

Without meaning to rush you indoors 
before the end of the football season, let 
us give you the December dates from the 
winter sports schedules (otherwise not yet 
announced because of some matters pend- 
ing). In general, however, the schedules 
will hold few surprises, most games being 
with traditional opponents, in the Leagues 
and out. 

Of particular interest will be the Am- 
herst basketball contest in Providence on 
Dec. 4, for it marks the debut of Stan 
Ward as Varsity coach at Brown in that 
sport. Another feature is a Christmas holi- 
day trip in New York State, during which 
Cornell and Syracuse will be faced, the 
former in an Ivy League engagement. 

The December Varsity sports calendar 
follows, with asterisks noting a dividend 
in the form of Freshman games with the 
same colleges: Basketball: 4 — Amherst, 
home. 8 — Harvard,* away. 11 — Yale,* 
home. 15 — Rhode Island,* home. 17 — 
Cornell, away. 18 — Syracuse, away. 
Hockey: 4 — Boston University,* home. 
8 — Northeastern,* home. 13 — Prov- 
idence College,* home. Swimming: A — 
Connecticut.* away. 8 — M.I.T.,* away. 
1 1 — Columbia, home. Wrestling: 4— 
Wesleyan,* away. 11 — Columbia, home. 



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LONG ISLAND sent this delegation to the 
Freshman Classes at Brown and Pembroke this 
fall, and the Brown Club of Long Island wel- 
comed them beforehand to the company of 
Brunonions. The party at the Garden City 
Casino was planned by the Subfreshman Com- 
mittee: left to right, John J. McGeeney '27, 
George Dawson, Jr., '22, Victor Russo '26, and 
Frank A. Russo '26. (Photo by Harold W. Roeth) 



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Harvard-Eve Smoker 

THE BROWN-HARVARD football 
game is Nov. 13, which was a long 
time away when the Boston Brown Club's 
Directors sat down in September to make 
arrangements for the annual pre-game 
"Smoker." 

The date is Friday, November 12; the 
place is the Boston Club at 46 Beacon 
Street; the star attractions are Director of 
Athletics Paul F. Mackesey '31, Hockey 
Coach Don Whiston '51, one of the foot- 
ball coaches, a Boston sports celebrity 
and the Jabberwocks, undergraduate oc- 
tet. Bill Schofield '31 will be Toastmaster 
for the evening, and there will be movies 
of a recent Brown football game. 

For all this, alumni will pay $1.25, 



while Sub-Freshmen will be admitted free 
as guests of the Club. The program will 
begin promptly at 8 p.m. Members who 
wish to eat at the Boston Club will meet 
at 6:30 for a "Brown Special" dinner at 
a reasonable price. 

Long Lsland Sendoff 

This year's activities for the Brown 
Club of Long Island were initiated by an 
informal but successful get-together for 
Freshmen from the area who entered 
Brown this fall. The affair, planned and 
staged by our Admissions Committee, 
was held in the Garden City Casino. The 
sendoff party afforded an opportunity 
for the new students to meet each other 
and other undergraduates from Long Is- 



land. It was attended by 45 Freshmen, 
14 other students, 40 parents and friends 
and a score of alumni. It would be neg- 
lectful not to mention the fact that every- 
one, including the alumni, seemed to en- 
joy themselves. 

At its final Board meeting in June, the 
following officers were elected and are 
running the Club for the operative year 
1954-55: President — John McGeeney '27; 
Vice President — George West '43; Sec- 
retary — Fred H. Baurenfeind '50; Treas- 
urer — John J. Roe, Jr., '27; Governors — 
Donald Allen '38, Horace Barker '26, 
George Dawson, Jr., '22, Gerard Fernan- 
dez '46, J. W. Ferretti '47, Stephen Mc- 
Clellan '23, Richard C. McDowell '48, 
and Edwin Sherill, Jr., '46. 

FRED H. BAURENFEIND 



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Revival in Worcester 

If there is a Brown Club with a 
younger set of officers than Worcester's, 
we don't happen to know of it. And those 
same men are out to try to make the Club 
one of the liveliest in the country. 

Elected at the annual meeting in Au- 
gust were the following: President — John 
J. Pietro, Jr., '52; Vice-President — Carl 
A. Jacobson '5 1 ; Corresponding Secretary 
—Robert M. Siff '48; Recording Secre- 
tary — Arthur B. Jacobson '50; Treasurer 
— Robert H. Johnson '51; Admissions — 
Robert C. Stewart '51; Membership — 
Norman G. Orrell '51. 

The best Worcester meeting in many 
years came the night of Sept. 30 when 
40 alumni were out to welcome a team 
from College Hill at Cosgrove's Restau- 
rant. Pietro presented the four speakers: 
Vice-President Bruce M. Bigelow '24; 
Alumni Secretary William B. McCormick 
'23; Athletic Director Paul F. Mackesey 
'32; and Stanley Ward, Freshman football 
coach and Varsity basketball coach. Ex- 
cerpts were screened from football films 
of last year's Holy Cross and Harvard 
games and the 1954 Columbia game. Pi- 
etro talked over plans for a full program 
of events for the winter, which were en- 
thusiastically received. The good turnout 
included representatives of all College 
generations back to 1903. 

Freshmen from New York 

The September kickoff of the Brown 
University Club in New York was the 
annual Sub-Freshman Dinner at the Club- 
house, 39 East 39th St. on the 9th. The 
event was very well attended, with 125 
new students and a score of alumni en- 
joying a fine program. 

Club President Jimmy Jemail '18 was 
toastmaster, while Brown's Vice-President 
Bruce M. Bigelow and Dean Emery R. 
Walker, Jr., briefed the new men and sup- 
plemented the welcome of the alumni. 
Through the years these dinners have 
served a very useful purpose in getting 
the boys from the area acquainted and 
answering some of their questions about 
College life before they reach the Hill. 

Among those present were: Lyman G. 
Bloomingdale '35, Herbert Cluthe '35, 
R. H. Diamond '47, R. M. Golrick '47, 
Charles E. Hughes III '37, Herbert M. 
Iselin '42, C. Douglas Mercer '06, Donald 
V. Reed '35, Frederick H. Rohlfs '26, 
William F. Rooney '20, Frank K. Singiser, 
Jr., '28, Louis Smadbeck '42, Edward 
Sulzberger '29, Myron Sulzberger, Jr., '26, 
Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr., '32, Richard B. 
Walsh '51, and Henry H. Whitman '19. 

On the night of Sept. 14 we tried some- 
thing new in the line of a baseball party. 
We had dinner at the Club and then went 
by bus to the Polo Grounds to see the 
Giants and the Braves. The experiment 
was very successful, with a sell-out of our 
block of 50 (about 25 other reservations 
had to be returned for lack of tickets). 

November events on the Club program 
include a Variety Show on the 12th and 
a Sports Luncheon on the 16th, with El- 
gin White speaking as the new Director 
of Sports Information at Brown. The ten- 
tative date for the Football Smoker is 
Dec. 9, with Coach Al Kelley invited. 
The Christmas Egg Nog party will come 
on Dec. 21. 

The new Club Roster (a fine one, inci- 
dentally) lists the following committees 
as active in various phases of the pro- 
gram: Admissions — Harry B. Hensel '40, 



Iselin, Arturo Gonzalez '52, Reed, John 
Danforth '52, Golrick, David Balfour '36, 
Arthur Thebado '51, and William Lyon 
'29. Executive — Jemail, E. Sulzberger, 
Reed, Rohlfs, Tillinghast, Gavin A. Pitt 
'38, Jeffrey Granger '13. Budget and Fi- 
nance — Jemail, Pitt, Granger, William 
Bateman '46, Louis B. Palmer '28. Law 
— M. Sulzberger, Chairman, Iselin, Till- 
inghast. 

Publications and Publicity — Balfour, 
Chairman, Singiser, Thebado, Gonzalez, 
Robert A. Fearon '51. Membership — 
Bateman, Chairman, Reed, Rooney, 
Charles Busch '48, Norman E. Wright, 
Jr., '49, Victor B. Schwartz '40. Activities 
— E. Sulzberger, Chairman, Golrick, The- 
bado, Busch, Diamond, Rooney, Iselin. 
Scholarship — Rohlfs, Chairman, Bloom- 
ingdale, Iselin, Balfour, G. Denny Moore 
'11, Robert S. Cuddy '41, Gerald Dono- 
van '12. Sub-Freshmen — Iselin, Chair- 
man, Golrick, John Feldbush '50, Peter 
Petropoulos '50, Charles H. Huggins, Jr., 
'19. 

The officers are: President — Jemail; 
Vice-President — E. Sulzberger; Secretary 
— Reed; Treasurer — Pitt; Governors — 
Donovan, Golrick, Rohlfs, Palmer, Wil- 
liam L. Dewart '20, Edward J. Gorman 
'23, Bateman, Granger, Tillinghast, Max- 
well Barus '10, Lee Marshall '31, Robert 
G. Inman '24, Mercer, Hughes, Iselin, 
Hugh S. Butler '32, Everett Alden '23, 
Benton Orwig '20. 

RICHARD B. WALSH '51 

Detroit Sees Them Off 

We're still getting reports of the 
send-off parties that Brown Clubs spon- 
sored for Freshmen this fall, and each one 
sounds livelier than the last. The one in 
Detroit was no exception with Vice-Presi- 
dent Tom Appleget '17 going out "West" 
to officially greet 1958 Classmates from 
that area. The impression he left with all 
— alumni, undergraduates. Freshmen and 
fathers — made everyone proud to be a 
part of Brown. 

Alumni at the meeting included: Baird 
'51, Beauvais '18, Brown '13, W. Browne 
'25, Cain '38, Caldwell '34, Caputi '17, 
Clark '53, Dickey '33, Foley '25, Freed- 
man '26, Grout '42, Handy '36, Hocking 
'46, Jacoby '50, Jackson '39, Jones '40, 
Moffitt '46, Rice '25, Richardson '27, 
Shaw '39, Stull '51. Nine undergraduates 
and four of their fathers plus 10 Fresh- 
men with six fathers helped make the 
evening the success it was. 

They Met in Scranton, Too 

Scranton, Pa., had four boys starting 
out for Brown this fall, and the alumni 
in the area got together to mark this oc- 
casion. The group made up in spirit what 
it lacked in size, compared with some of 
the larger centers. 

On hand to introduce the Cubs and two 
of their dads to the Brown family were: 
J. R. Simpson '33, F. E. Hemelwright '31, 
E. W. Connell, Jr., '32, F. B. Gelder '26, 
E. Stringham '20, J. H. Sproul '57, D. R. 
Atherton, Jr., '31, and D. R. Atherton 
III '56. 

Lunchtime in Chicago 

The Chicago Brown Club has changed 
the locale of its weekly lunches, and the 
group now meets every Tuesday at noon 
in the Stevens Building Restaurant at 17 
No. Wabash Ave. "A very pleasant place 
with good food and good service," we're 
told. The company has always been first- 
rate. 



The Engineers' Speakers 

It will be the 42nd annual meeting 
and dinner of their Association when the 
Brown Engineers meet at the Hotel Mar- 
tinique in New York on Dec. 2. The As- 
sociation has fared well at the Martinique 
in the past, and this hotel at Broadway 
and 32nd St. has set aside its Georgian 
Room for the 1 954 dinner. The gathering 
is scheduled for 5:30, dinner no later 
than 6:30. The price will be $5.00. 

In addition to President Wriston, the 
principal speaker will be Dr. David Guy 
Powers, lecturer, author, consultant, and 
educator. The Columbia Lecture Board 
voted him "Lecturer of the Year" in 1949. 
His talk, of an inspirational nature, will 
be based on a topic to be selected from 
the following: "How to Live a More 
Abundant Life," "How to Be a Leader," 
and "How to Sell an Idea." 

This will be an unusual and exciting 
event, writes George A. Pournaras '25. 
Secretary-Treasurer. 

Ivy in Los Angeles 

The Los Angeles Brown Club has re- 
sumed its regular luncheon meetings and 
invites any Brunonians resident in the 
area or passing through to join in the in- 
formal meals. They come on the second 
and fourth Wednesday of each month; 
they're held in the Redwood Room of 
the Hotel Savoy at 6th and Olive in 
downtown Los Angeles. (For additional 
information, call Bob Cowgill '50 at 
MAdison 6-2411.) 

The high point of last summer was the 
highly publicized "Ivy League and Seven- 
College Conference Dance." Exclusively 
for undergraduates, graduate students, 
and entering Freshmen, the affair was 
well attended, with more than 180 pres- 
ent. Cowgill had the honor of attending 
as Chairman. The party at the pool of 
the Huntington Hotel in Pasadena on 
Aug. 19 was such a success that everyone 
is looking forward to a repeat next year. 

President Stephen Dolley '42 called his 
Executive Committee together for an in- 
formal meeting at the Hotel Savoy on 
Sept. 22. Plans for the year were dis- 
cussed, with the first event a fall dinner 
for members and wives "celebrating noth- 
ing in particular." 

New Jersey Action 

Steve Carleton '29 of Oradel is head- 
ing up activities of the Brown Club of 
Northeastern New Jersey this winter. The 
first meeting will be held in November, 
and alumni in the area are asked to watch 
for announcement in the mail. 

The other newly elected officers in- 
clude: Vice-President — Dr. Leroy Black 
'20 of Rutherford; Treasurer — Herb Pear- 
son '29 of Glen Rock; Secretary — John 
J. O'Reilly '36 of Hillsdale; Governors — 
Phil Loux '25 of Franklin Lakes, Jud 
Green '48 of Pompton Lakes, George 
Cole '27 of West Englewood, Jim Fanale 
'28 of Clifton, Art Adams '29 of Bergen- 
field, and Walter Mosch '51 of Mid- 
land Park. 

Committees now functioning are: 
Membership — J. Green, Chairman, M. 
Pinero '45, Fanale, J. Hoffman '49, Phil 
Martin '50. Promotion — G. Hudson '27, 
Chairman, Dr. Black, Mosch, Bill Klie 
'44, Bill Remington '42, Adams, Edgar 
Deuell '28, Dick Shaw '37. Program- 
Cole, Chairman, Wes Stuart '27, Green, 
and Pearson. 

JOHN J. O'REILLY '36 



NOVEMBER 1954 



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Brunonians Far and Near 

EDITED BY DOUGLAS A. SNOW "45 



1888 

FRANCIS H. BROWNELL'S services 
to the American Sugar Refining Com- 
pany were tlie subject of a minute 
adopted by its Board in March and 
printed as a memorial brochure during 
the early summer. "He brought to its 
councils his wide legal and business ex- 
perience," said the resolution, "and won 
abiding confidence by his sound judg- 
ment and sterling character. Our associ- 
ate lived an active, modest, and inspir- 
ing life of service and honor in a rapidly 
changing economic era." 

1893 
Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn will repre- 
sent Brown at the dedication of the new 
campus at San Francisco State College on 
Oct. 16. 



1894 

The sympathy of Classmates and all 
Brunonians is extended to Class Secretary 
William C. Hill whose wife, Mrs. Ger- 
trude Gutmann Hill, died in Springfield, 
Mass., Aug. 2. Mrs. Hill attended the 60th 
Reunion of the Class in June. The couple 
had been married 46 years. 

1899 

Our new Class President, Bill Famham, 
was employed by the Bell Telephone Sys- 
tem from July 1903 to his retirement on 
March I, 1937. He devoted all his time 
to traffic problems in connection with the 
introduction and development of the dial 
method of operation. 

Harry Williams flew to the reunion 
from Texas where he has spent over 40 
years practising law, most of the time rep- 
resenting oil companies. He is attorney 
for the Texas Natural Gasoline Corpora- 
tion. 

Howard Barber reports he is rather 
busy building a new High School, quarrel- 
ing with the Selectmen of Nantucket, 
Mass. and disturbing the serenity of the 
life tenure of some deacons who have 
made themselves "Deacons for life". 

Bill Dufi'y is retired after 47 years in 
the Providence Post Office, 13 of which 
he served as Assistant Postmaster. 

George Beal, who was formerly As- 
sistant Division Engineer in the Penn. 
Department of Dams and Forest Waters, 
is retired. He is now a Director of the 
Employees Credit Union and the Harris- 
burg Building & Loan Association. 

Charlie Dow headed West the day after 
his graduation. Before his retirement in 
1947 he was Civil Engineer with the Il- 
linois Central, Chicago, Northwestern and 
Great Northern Railways, and Assistant 
Professor in the Engineering School of 
the University of Minnesota. 

Dwight (Jack) Hall is Vice-President 
of the Bridgeport Hydraulic Co. and Vice- 
President of the Mechanics & Farmers 
Savings Bank. He has finished 50 years 
with the Hydraulic Co. and has no inten- 
tion of retiring. 

Julian Chase is now living at Water- 



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bury. Conn., having retired after 50 years 
in the auto publishing business. 

George Davis, an engineer with the 
U.S. Government, General Electric, U.S. 
Rubber Co., and Providence Housing 
Authority, says he is "still in circulation." 

Sam Beale, M.D., who still takes care 
of the sick at Sandwich, Mass., attended 
the Reunion with Mrs. Beale and both 
reported a great time. 

George W. Parker, who retired two 
years ago as a newspaperman in Concord, 
N. H., has opened a novelty shop in the 
Taft Hotel, St. Petersburg, Fla. He is 
still an active bowler and in health is 
"as good as he was 10 years ago." 

1900 

Dr. Waldo G. Leland, Director-emeri- 
tus of the American Council of Learned 
Societies, was the speaker at the 33rd 
commencement of the Western New Eng- 
land College in Springfield, Mass. 

The Rev. Herbert E. B. Case celebrated 
three 50th anniversaries this year. On 
September 14 he and his wife, Ada Rogers 
Case, Pembroke '02, celebrated their 
golden wedding anniversary. In June, he 
celebrated his 50th reunion at Hartford 
Theological Seminary and the 50th anni- 
versary of his ordination to the Christian 
ministry. 

Prof. Charles W. Brown had a pleasant 
visit with Classmate Clifford Anderson 
and his wife while at Sugar Hill, N. H., 
this summer. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Plum- 
mer '08 and Dr. Irving Farrell '20 were 
other Brunonians he enjoyed seeing. A 



Job of Publicity 

What can i do about Brown 
University publicity? The individ- 
ual alumnus sometimes asks him- 
self that question. Maybe there's 
an answer, too, in individual ini- 
tiative. 

Take the case of Nathaniel W. 
Dexter '95 of Santa Monica, Calif., 
a community almost as far re- 
moved from College Hill as you 
would find in the continental 
United States. He received the gen- 
eral letter from the Brown Univer- 
sity Fund in September which de- 
scribed the hurricane Carol and its 
visitation to Brown. 

First thing he did, of course, was 
to write a cheek as a contribution 
to the special fund to help repair 
storm damage on the Hill. Then 
he took the letter down to the of- 
fice of the Evening Outlook. The 
result was a story in the Bay Area 
News for Sept. 16 which, based on 
the letter and interpreted by Dex- 
ter, ran under a two-column head- 
ing. After giving "a startling pic- 
ture of the velocity and destructive 
power of the hurricane," it even 
suggested in conclusion that any- 
one might send his gift to Brown. 



former pupil of Brown's, Prof. A. F. Bud- 
dington '12, received the 1954 Penrose 
Award of the Geological Society of 
America. Our Classmate is understand- 
ably proud. 

1903 

Mr. and Mrs. Elmer E. Butler cele- 
brated their golden anniversary in June 
by dining at the 1812 House in Framing- 
ham, Mass. They were the guests of their 
two sons, E. Earl and Herbert. Their 
daughters-in-law and three grandchildren 
were also there. 

1904 

S. Foster Hunt retired in June after 
50 years with the Nicholson File Co. 
in Providence. A Vice-President since 
1942, he remains a Director of the com- 
pany, whose export business he was in- 
strumental in developing. He traveled ex- 
tensively from 1904 until 1916, making 
nine trips around the world. He returned 
to a home office position in 1916 and was 
made Assistant Export Manager in 1919. 
He is active in Rhode Island community 
and business affairs, and has served as 
President of the R.I. World Affairs Coun- 
cil. At a company party, he was given a 
service pin and an executive desk and type- 
writer. 

Clarence E. Akerstrom is another re- 
tired Classmate. He was a Professor at 
Green Mountain Junior College, Poult- 
ney, Vt., for 20 years and recently served 
as its Vice-President and Treasurer. Pre- 
viously he had taught at the Hall College 
of Commerce in Seattle, Wash., and held 
the Boston University Chair of Business 
Administration at the University of Nan- 
king, China, for four years. His present 
address is 86 Central St., Stoneham, Mass. 

Lester H. Nichols celebrates his 50th 
anniversary in the retail field this year. A 
July article in Women's Wear Daily re- 
cited his history as senior partner in the 
E. L. Nichols Department Store of Ben- 
nington, Vt. The business itself has been 
operating for 85 years. 

1905 

The Class has got a better-than-won- 
derful start on its 50-year gift to the 
University. As of June 8 last, 1 1 per cent 
of the $25,000 goal has been raised. But 
the campaign is not over yet, and we are 
aiming to set a real record for Golden 
Anniversary classes when our great day 
arrives next June. 

George R. McMinn became Professor- 
Emeritus of English on July 1 after 36 
years on the California Institute of Tech- 
nology faculty. Before going to Caltech 
in 1918, he had taught at Brown, Iowa 
State and the University of California. 
Besides teaching and doing research in 
his special fields — American literature, 
and technical report writing — he advised 
undergraduate publications, organized the 
student Press Club and the first dramatic 
club at Caltech. He was an editorial con- 
sultant to Engineering and Science, the 
alumni magazine. He helped to edit "Col- 
lege Readings in the Modern Short Story" 
and is the author of "The Theater of the 
Golden Era in California," the pioneer 
book in this field. He lives with his wife 
in Pasadena and is retaining his campus 
office. 

1906 

President Albert W. Claflin of the R. I. 
College of Pharmacy had the pleasure in 

BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



June of awarding honorary degrees to two 
Brunonians. Recipient of an honorary 
Doctor of Science degree was Brown's 
Vice-President Bruce M. Bigelow '24, 
who gave the College's Commencement 
address. Anthony A. Kemalian '30, Presi- 
dent of the Providence Wholesale Drug 
Co. and a Trustee of the College, received 
an honorary Doctor of Pharmacy degree. 
Dr. Claflin is serving his 18th year as 
President. 

Stephen E. Wright was "home" in 
Wickford, R. I., for the summer. During 
the last 10 years he has helped to establish 
American-supervised private schools in 
Argentina, Peru and Costa Rica. A Di- 
rector of the Inter-American School Serv- 
ice Organization, Wright says that while 
no attempt is made by the American 
teachers to propagandize the democratic 
way of life, the schools are "probably 
more effective for that very reason." 

Ross W. Fishburn, President of the 
Whiting-Patterson Co. in Philadelphia, 
has a new home address in Rosemont, Pa. 
It is: 106 Browning Lane. 

Dr. George B. Corcoran, President of 
the Class of 1902 at West Springfield 
(Mass.) High School, was Chairman of 
the 52nd reunion held in June. 

The Rev. Horace E. Chandler was hos- 
pitalized by a sudden illness in June. He 
wrote that he felt "fine" again in August 
but is under doctor's orders to "slow 
down." He is still writing some for the 
Pullman Herald. His address: 201 Ash 
Street, Pullman, Wash. 



1907 

Myron H. S. Affleck and Mrs. Affleck 
are occupying their new ranch type house 
on Townsend St., Pepperell, Mass. Spike 
is up and doing again after a siege of 
serious illness that put him out of circula- 
tion early in the year; and he and his wife 
are happy to be once again with their son. 
Bill, who works in Boston and has been 
living in Groton. "Pretty much in the 
country, but we have some good neigh- 
bors," Spike wrote. "We are about as far 
from Groton as our first home in Rum- 
ford was from Providence. Remember 
that one?" 

Dr. Harold L. Brown and Mrs. Brown 
were at 18 Brooks Drive, Ormond-by-the- 
Sea, Fla., for the summer. "We are 200 
miles north of where we spent last win- 
ter," he reported. "Not in sight of the 
ocean, but only about a block away from 
the beach." 

Commdr. Charles Hibbard USN (Ret.) 
and his wife have been touring the United 
States in a trailer the last few months. 



1908 

Dr. Albert C. Thomas began his new 
pastorate at the First Baptist Church in 
Rockport, Mass., this summer. Our Class- 
mate resigned as Minister of the First 
Baptist Church in Providence in June. He 
had served that church for 12V2 years, 
but "deemed it wise" to seek a less 
strenuous post before "his health and 
energy begin to fail." Dr. Thomas for- 
merly served churches in St. Louis, 
Brooklyn, New York City and Fall River, 
Mass. He played a prominent part in the 
community life of Providence, and has 
always been active in Brown affairs. 

Bill Browne was reported to be in the 
Hospital in August after a fall in his 
home. His address is 129 Devoe Ave., 
Yonkers 5, N. Y., for Classmates who 
may wish to drop him a line. 




THE LITTLE SEAPORT of Mystic, Conn., celebrated its Tercentenary last summer with a colorful 
parade as one feature. The "Mystic Journal" said: "Jeremiah Holmes ('02), who is almost Mr. 
Mystic himself, traveled the entire length of the line of march scarcely getting his beaver hat on 
his head, so busy was he waving to his friends." With his son and grandson, he recalled the 1814 
siege of Stonington Point in which his "great grandpoppy," for whom he is named, commanded 
the garrison of the small fort which drove off five British warships. Byron Hatfield '22, famed 
as a pageant impresario, directed the celebration. (Photo above by J. Alden Lamb.) 



1909 

Dr. Win Adams, in charge of the Vet- 
erans Hospital at Bedford, Mass., has re- 
covered from an operation performed on 
him in May. He wrote that he may retire 
in the not-too-distant future. 

Prof. Edward J. Squire received two in- 
ternational honors this summer. For his 
work on a project for the French govern- 
ment, he was awarded the Order of Sci- 
entific Merit of the Humanist Institute of 
France. His reputation as a leader in the 
field of science was recognized by his be- 
ing named a Knight Commander with 
Star of the Order of the Gold Cross of the 
Military Chapter of Cyprus and Jerusa- 
lem. The latter organization, which dates 
back to medieval times, is headquartered 
in Rome. In 1952 Squire received the 
Cross of Knight and honorary title of 
Companion of the Resistance from the 
National Council of the Order of Knights 
of the Cross of Lorraine and the Com- 
panions of the Resistance. 



1910 

Howard and Mrs. Taber spent part of 
the summer in Bridgton, Me., after being 
honored guests at a round of parties in 
and around Lakeville, Conn. Howard, 
who retired in June after 41 years with 
the Hotchkiss School, received a gift from 
the Faculty at the last dinner before Com- 
mencement when the entire School was 
present. The Tabers are also proud of 
their new grandson, Norman Howard 



Taber, who was born to their son and 
daughter-in-law in July. The baby is 
named after Howard and his brother, the 
late Norman S. Taber '13. Incidentally, 
when Life Magazine failed to mention 
Norman in its article on the record mile 
last spring, Howard wrote a letter setting 
them straight. It was published, together 
with a picture of Norman, who brought 
the world record for the mile to the United 
States in 1915 and held it for eight years. 
Howard and his wife were expecting to 
meet young Norman Howard this fall 
when they travel to Oklahoma and other 
points South. 

The name of the Rev. Stephen D. Pyle 
was omitted when the University Fund 
published its 1953 honor roll. The over- 
sight is sincerely regretted by the Fund 
office. 

Andy Comstock's mother, Mrs. Laura 
Burroughs Comstock, died July 14 in 
Hope Valley, R. I. Classmates join in of- 
fering sincere sympathy to Andy. 

Harold E. Henrikson has transplanted 
a bit of the East out in California where 
he is a pioneer in the growing of culti- 
vated blueberries. His strains of the fruit 
• — larger and sweeter than the New Eng- 
land variety, he claims — are getting lots 
of attention in coast agricultural circles. 

Ralph Palmer went abroad in August 
with friends. He expected to visit Italy, 
France, Spain, Switzerland, the Nether- 
lands, Sweden, Norway and England be- 
fore his return in October. 

The Bill Freemans were hosts again 
this summer to the Andy Comstocks, the 



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25 







OMITTED from our round-up of June reunion groups in the last issue 
was this photograph of the Class of 1914. The men in it have now been 
identified for us: Front row, left to right — Whitmarsh, Brockett, Williams, 
Beckwith. Second row— Affleck, Lord, Moffett, Polond, Campbell, Whitte- 
more, Woolley, Post, Harrington, Everett, McDowell, McKenzie, Wake- 
field, Beachen, Sawin, Files. In the rear— McLaughlin, Smith, Bognoll, 



P. Cook, guide, Chompney, Spooner, Adelman, Bean, Holding, White- 
head, Hazard, Boyd, Willett, Durgin, Nothonson, Kiley, J. Cook. The 
picture was taken in the Quadrangle before the Alumni Dinner. The 
rest of the reunion was spent at the Canonchet Club, which was a hur- 
ricane casualty this foil. A feature was the gift to Brown of $20,685 
(in addition to $1,017 through the University Fund), largest in 1954. 



Elmer Hortons and the Ed Spicers for 
dinner at their home in Tiverton, R. I. 
While there, the Classmates signed a post- 
card and sent it to Ralph Palmer. Ralph 
acknowledged it and promised to send 
each of the signers a card from Europe. 

1911 

Arthur E. Kenyon, "the last of the old 
Providence Telephone Company men" in 
the Traffic Division of the N. E. Tele- 
phone and Telegraph Co., retired in Au- 
gust after 43 years of service. A Rhode Is- 
land area Supervisor, Kenyon started 
working for the Providence company in 
1911, 10 years before it was taken over 
by the New England organization. He is 
one of the few men who ever served as 
Chief Operator in Woonsocket. At a din- 
ner in his honor, Kenyon received a life 
membership certificate in the Telephone 
Pioneers along with a billfold and a scroll. 

1912 

Frederick Tedford resigned in June 
after 36 years as a teacher at the Went- 
worth Institute in Boston. His field was 
industrial electrical engineering. A resi- 
dent of Wellesley Hills since 1919, our 
Classmate was planning to move to Po- 

C3SSCt 

Col. Ernest S. Barker USA (Ret.) is 
living at 800 Orange Ter., Macon, Ga. 

Prof. Arthur F. Buddington, former 
Chairman of the Department of Geology 
at Princeton, has received the Penrose 
Award of the Geological Society of Amer- 
ica. The honor is presented annually to 
one of the Society's 750 members. 

1913 

EarleH. Blanchard retired in June after 
32 years of teaching in Waterbury, Conn. 
For 28 years he was head of the English 
department at Leavenworth High School, 
which he had also served as Vice-Principal 
since 1940. Active in church and Boy 
Scout affairs, Blanchard has no special 
plans for his retirement. He lives with his 
wife at 27 Gordon St. in Waterbury. 

Rabbi Louis I. Newman was called in 
as an "expert" when Hayden Planetarium 
astronomers were trying to compute when 
again Easter and Passover will fall on the 
same date (it happened in 1954). Our 
Classmate, who has written several theses 



on the subject, said it would be in 1981. 
He based his calculations on two systems: 
the Hebrew calendar which depends on 
the moon's position in relation to the 
earth and sun, and the Gregorian calen- 
dar, based on the earth's position relative 
to the sun. 

C. Wheaton Walter is living in Malibu, 
Calif. Classmates will note with regret 
that he is not too well. His address: Rte. 
1, Box 39. 

Howard A. Taber '10 wrote a letter to 
Life Magazine when it failed to mention 
his late brother, Norman S. Taber, in its 
May 17 story on the four-minute mile. 
The letter, which told of Norman's hold- 
ing the mile record for eight years, was 
published together with a 1916 picture of 
our Classmate. 

1915 

Warren P. Norton retired on July 5 as 
Superintendent of Schools of Meadville, 
Pa. A teacher and principal of schools in 
New York, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania 



Military Coach 

Trouble-watcher for the U.S. on 
Quemoy, said U.S. News and World Re- 
port in September, is the man who super- 
vised re-equipment of Chiang's Army 
with U.S. weapons, Maj. Gen. William 
C. Chase '16. He turned up on Quemoy 
only a week after two of his staff officers 
were killed there by Communist shells 
while inspecting defenses against invasion. 

"His headquarters are on Formosa. An 
old cavalryman. General Chase has 
headed the U.S. Military Assistance Ad- 
visory Group on Formosa ever since it 
was sent there, more than three years 
ago. He calls himself a 'military coach' 
and let the Chinese know as soon as he 
arrived on Formosa that he was not there 
to lead an invasion of the mainland, just 
to build defenses. 

"General Chase joined the Army 
shortly after graduation from Brown Uni- 
versity, served in France in World War I, 
in the Pacific in World War II. The First 
Cavalry Division, which he commanded, 
was in the forefront of Pacific campaigns 
— first to enter Manila when it was re- 
captured, first to enter Tokyo." 



since graduation, he was associated with 
the Meadville system for 26 years. He was 
still living at 214 Spring St., Meadville, 
when he wrote us in June, but he noted 
that a sister in Miami was recommending 
Florida as "a good place for a retired 
school superintendent to live." His son, 
David, graduated from Vanderbilt in 1951 
and is in his fourth year at Temple Uni- 
versity Medical School. 

1916 

Harry H. Burton retired August 1 as 
Vice-President of Textron, Inc. He con- 
tinues as a Director and member of the 
Executive Committee. In addition, he is 
President of the Gold Bond Sterilizing 
Powder Co., Fairhaven, Mass., and a di- 
rector of the Millipore Filter Corp., Wa- 
tertown, Mass. 

1917 

Frank C. Cambio is one of four Brown 
men who were selected as legal advisers 
to the Republican party in Rhode Island 
in June. He is also a special assistant to 
the U. S. Attorney General in hearing 
conscientious objector cases. 

Kenneth A. Flanders has left Hartford, 
Conn., for Richmond, Va. His new ad- 
dress: 901 Central National Bank Build- 
ing, Richmond 19. Ken is with the Chris- 
tian Science Church. 

1918 

Walter Adier contributed an article in 
the June issue of Our Public Schools, a 
publication of the Providence School De- 
partment. In the article he wrote appre- 
ciatively as a parent whose youngest 
daughter (of three) was a June high 
school graduate. Walter was named a legal 
aid to the Republican party in Rhode Is- 
land in June, too. 

J. Harold Williams, Chief Executive of 
the Narragansett Council, Boy Scouts of 
America, was the recipient in June of the 
Federal Hill House Association's award 
for "meritorious public service." The 
award is an annual one, presented by the 
Providence organization to "an outstand- 
ing citizen in our community." The 
"Chief" served as Chairman of the train- 
ing conference for N.E. Scout Executives 
held at Crawford Notch, N. H., in Sep- 
tember. 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Fellow-Scouter Dr. Earl Hollier Tom- 
lin received a Bucklin For Merit Medal 
from the Narragansett Council for his 
"long and faithful service" in May. Dr. 
Tomlin is Protestant Scout Chaplain. 

Joseph W. Strout was named Manager 
of Manufacturing, Administrative and 
Planning for the Outdoor Lighting De- 
partment of General Electric's Lynn 
(Mass.) plant. He has been with the com- 
pany since 1928. 

1919 

Dr. Henry McCusker was appointed in 
June to the new position of Director of 
Postgraduate Medical Education at the 
R. I. Hospital. Also Assistant Director of 
the hospital, he retired Sept. 1 from his 
active practice as an orthopedic surgeon. 
He was Surgeon-in-Chief at the Roger 
Williams Hospital in Providence and an 
orthopedic consultant at several institu- 
tions in the State. 

1920 

Albert E. Lownes, as Regional Vice- 
Chairman, sponsored the 1954 dinner 
meeting of Southern N. E. Boy Scout 
Council Presidents and Executives in 
Providence. 

Walter R. Gardner was back home in 
May after a three months' trip to Cey- 
lon, India, Turkey, Greece, Switzerland, 
France and England in the interests of the 
International Monetary Fund. His wife 
accompanied him. Their older son, Emer- 
son, was graduated from Harvard Busi- 
ness School in June. Pierce was President 
of the freshman class at Amherst last year. 

1921 

Maj. Gordon W. Roaf was named a 
member of the Board of Trustees of the 
Essex County Agricultural School by 
Mass. Governor Herter in May. A resi- 
dent of Marblehead, Mass., for 30 years, 
our Classmate is an executive in the Bos- 
ton insurance firm of Hollis, Perrin and 
Kirkpatrick. 





AN EXPERIMENTAL COLLEGE for the Virgin Islands had its first session lost summer, with four 
Brunonions ploying a prominent port. Hampton Institute and the Fund for the Advancement of 
Education sponsored the historic project. President Alonzo Moron '32, Hampton's President, is at 
the left in this group, while Prof. J. Saunders Redding '28, right, gave the instruction in English. 
Prof. Cletus O. Oakley, formerly of Brown and now of Haverford, taught Mathematics. He holds 
a Brown Master's degree, as does Mrs. Oakley. She writes Vice-President Bigelow; "One of the 
first things we did was toast our old Alma Mater." 



LeROY CLAYFIELD '24, Merchandise Man- 
ager of the I. B. Kleinert Rubber Co., was 
elected a Director of the Company in July. 
Clayfield, who lives on Long Island at Man- 
hasset, has been with Kleinert since 1930. 
(Terzion photo.) 



William W. Hall has left Italy for Por- 
tugal. His address last spring was Ro- 
drigues Sampaio 19, 4 Sala A, Lisbon. 

1922 

Miss Carol Irene Bullock, daughter of 
the Rev. Edward A. Bullock and Mrs. 
Bullock (the former Miriam Weaver, 
Pembroke '20) was graduated magna cum 
laiuie from Colby College in June. The 
top-ranking Senior in a class of 190, she 
was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Pi 
Gamma Mu. This year she is studying for 
her Master's degree at Vanderbilt Uni- 
versity on a $1500 scholarship. Our proud 
Classmate and wife live in Winchendon, 
Mass. 

G. Ellsworth Gale, Jr., has joined 
Travel, Inc., Providence travel agency, as 
a consultant. Our Classmate lived in Lon- 
don several years and has traveled ex- 
tensively throughout Britain, the Conti- 
nent and the West Indies. 

Edward J. Haskell and his wife were 
painfully involved in a head-on auto crash 
last spring. Fortunately no permanent dis- 
abilities were suffered by either and Mrs. 
Haskell's broken ankle is now out of its 
cast. Ed is Assistant Secretary of the 
Pawtiicket Times and is a member of 
the National Office Managers' Associa- 
tion and of the R. I. Press Club. His ad- 
dress is 150 Second Street, Pawtucket, 
from which convenient spot Ed is a regu- 
lar attendant at all 1922 activities. 

1923 

The Rev. Albert N. Sherberg is the new 
Executive Secretary of the Connecticut 



State Board of Education for the Blind. 
Our Classmate, who assumed the post 
July 1, formerly served in a similar ca- 
pacity in Rhode Island. Before that he 
was Pastor of churches in Saylesville, 
R. I., and New Bedford, Mass. 

Harold H. Young, who is better known 
for his services as a utilities investment 
counsellor, has broken into another 
(though not unrelated) field, trolley cars. 
Last spring he published a booklet, "The 
Story of the Laconia Street Railway," in 
which he recollects nostalgically the part 
the streetcar played in American family 
life in the early part of the century. A 
native of Laconia, N. H., Young feels that 
the trolley of yesteryear will eventually 
have a place in our folklore. He lives in 
Bronxville, N. Y., now with his wife and 
two daughters. 

The sympathy of Classmates is ex- 
tended to Don Armstrong whose mother, 
Mrs. Earl D. Armstrong, died on May 10. 

Theodore R. Jeffers was elected 2nd 
Vice-President of the American Dental 
Trade Association at its 73rd annual meet- 
ing in June. Normally, such an election 
indicates a progression to the presidency. 
Jeffers will sit on the Board of Directors 
and serve as Membership Chairman. In 
the conference report in The Dental 
Trade, he was shown receiving a plaque 
and taking part in a dramatization on the 
program. Jeffers is Treasurer and Gen- 
eral Manager of Smith-Holden, Inc., in 
Providence. 

1925 

W. Easton Louttit, Jr., joined other 
Brunonians who have contributed to the 



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27 



community "love letter" series in the 
Providence Sunday Journal with his Me- 
morial Day article, "A Love Letter to 
West Greenwich." Louttit is a "new- 
comer" to Rhode Island's most sparsely- 
populated region — he's "only been around 
for 25 years" — but his affection for the 
town with its many Brown citizens, past 
and present, made delightful reading. 

Philip S. Mancini, formerly Director 
of Public Works in Rhode Island, was 
named to the new post of Chief of the 
Division of Traffic Engineering and High- 
way Safety. 

Dr. Harry Luther Day is back in Hol- 
yoke, Mass., after four years of service 
in the Medical Corps of the U. S. Navy. 
Day opened his office for the practice of 
ophthalmology in Holyoke in May. He 
lived in the Paper City during World War 
II when he was a Flight Surgeon with the 
U. S. Air Force. He is the father of three 
daughters. Mrs. Day died last winter. 

Paul V. Hayden, Vice-President of the 
Connecticut Light and Power Co., was 
elected President of the Connecticut De- 
velopment Credit Corp. in the spring. 

Miss Natalie Rice, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Martin B. Rice of Birmingham, 
Mich., was married on Sept. 4. It made 
the second 1954 wedding for the Rices, 
daughter Cynthia having been married in 
January. 

1926 

Perc Bailey's son, Dick, a Senior at 
Governor Dummer Academy this year, is 
Captain of the 1955 lacrosse team. He 
played three varsity sports last season — 
soccer, hockey and lacrosse. 

J. Lawrence McElroy, Assistant Treas- 
urer and Assistant Secretary of the Provi- 
dence Journal Co., was elected a member 
of the Institute of Newspaper Controllers 
and Finance Officers in July. 

Noel M. Field is a special assistant to 
the U. S. Attorney General for the hear- 
ing of conscientious objector cases in 
Rhode Island. 

1927 

Prof. F. C. Schmidt of the Department 
of Chemistry at Indiana University is 
spending this academic year at the Radia- 
tion Laboratory of the University of Cali- 
fornia. Jerry was at Yale last June to at- 
tend a meeting of physical chemists. 

Roy F. Nelson, a chemist at the Texas 
Company's Port Arthur Works Labora- 
tory, is a co-patentee of a process that in- 
volves calcium soda soap greases and 
highly-oxidized waxes. Nelson, who has 
been with the company since graduation, 
is a supervisor in grease research. 

The Providence law firm of Greenough, 
Lyman, and Cross has changed its name 
to Greenough, Cross, Reid and Ewing. 
The Reid is Owen P. Reid. Edgar J. Lan- 
pher '19 is another partner. 

Arthur B. Cleaves is in Reading, Pa., 
on an assignment as Chief Geologist for 
the Manu-Mine Research and Develop- 
ment Co. 

1928 

A July card from John C. Hamihon 
reported that he was convalescing from 
a heart attack, "fortunately very mild." 
He had just returned from a 2300-mile 
trip to the Mexican border. There he met 
Joe Clark '30 who is in the oil and gas 
drilling business. 

H. Gordon Minnigerode is U. S. Con- 
sul at Port Elizabeth, Union of South 
Africa. 

28 




ROBERT P. UHL '30 is a new Vice-President 
of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. 
Uhl has been with BBDO since 1933 and 
is account executive for DuPont. He is an ad- 
visor to the New York City Community Col- 
lege and a contributor to hunting and fish- 
ing magazines. During the war he was a 
Major on the Infantry General Staff, where 
he commanded tactical troops and was in 
charge of training. He lives at 1 Woter 
Lone, Plandome, L. I. 



Mr. and Mrs. Harvey E. Nair cele- 
brated their 25th wedding anniversary in 
June. A Hartford lawyer, he couldn't get 
back for the 25th Reunion in 1953 but 
he still remembers the 20th. 

1929 

Brigadier-General Charles W. Schott 
took over command last spring of Walker 
AFB, Roswell, N. M. With the USAF and 
the Reserve since 1930, Schott was a pilot 
for American Airlines until 1940. He 
served with the 9th Air Force during 
World War II and was most recently 
Deputy Commander of the 8th Air Force. 

Theodore Giddings, Editor of the Berk- 
shire (Mass.) Evening Eagle, is Chairman 
of the 1954 Community Chest drive. 

Dr. E. Kenneth Carpenter was ap- 
pointed a counseling psychologist for the 
Vocational Rehabilitation and Education 
Division of the Veterans .Administration 
in Providence in August. For the last six 
years he had been Director of Guidance 
at Nichols Junior College in Dudley, 
Mass. 

1930 

Ray B. Owen was chosen Chairman of 
the R. I. Turnpike and Bridge Authority 
in June. The Authority has been em- 
powered by the State legislature to make 
a study and ultimately issue bonds for 
the construction of a bridge and highway 
across southern Rhode Island from the 
Connecticut to the Massachusetts lines. 

Edmund J. Farrell assumed the office 
of Superintendent of Schools in Paw- 
tucket, R. I., on July 1. He had been As- 
sistant Superintendent for five years. 

Gilbert C. Rich was named in June to 
head the Public Relations Committee of 
the Holvoke (Mass.) Community Chest. 
He is Librarian of the Holyoke Public 



Library and President of the Holyoke 
Kiwanis Club. 

Joe Clark of Mission, Tex., is the "pro- 
prietor of a charming family and flourish- 
ing oil and gas drilling company," accord- 
ing to a July postcard from John C. 
Hamilton '28. Hamilton met Joe on a trip 
to the Rio Grande. 

Henry J. Cooper is the new Superin- 
tendent of Schools in Coventry, R. I. He 
was formerly Principal of Gorton High 
School in Warwick, R. I. 

1931 

Frank E. Hemelwright became Presi- 
dent of the First National Bank of Scran- 
ton, Pa., on July 1. A Director of the 
bank for several years and its Vice-Presi- 
dent until 1947, he had been President of 
the Scranton Lackawanna Trust Co. since 
January 1953. 

Ronald C. Green, Jr., was named a 
member of the Providence law firm of 
Hinckley, Allen, Salisbury and Parsons in 
July. 

Mr. and Mrs. Ned L. Brody (Hazel 
Antine, Pembroke '30) of Haverhill, 
Mass., announced the marriage of their 
daughter, Helene Lois, to Daniel H. Ax- 
inn on July 3 which was Ned and Hazel's 
22nd wedding anniversary. The bride- 
groom is in the U.S. Army but he expects 
to be released in January. Bob Brody, 
18, is a Sophomore at Brown. 

1932 

H. William Koster, General Manager 
of Providence radio station WPJB, was 
elected President of the R. I. Radio and 
Television Broadcasters' Association in 
June. 

Harold W. Rasmussen, Vice-President 
of the Marine Midland Trust Co., was 
named head of the bank's foreign depart- 
ment in June. 

Hank Letoile is really doing some trav- 
eling in his job with the Boston construc- 
tion firm of Louis Perini. He returned 
from South and Central America in time 




THE BOSTON POST has named Eugene M. 
McSweeney, Jr., '34 as its National Ad- 
vertising Manager, He has been Auto Edi- 
tor and Auto Advertising Manager since 
1940. He is the former Chairman of the 
Finance Committee in Needhom, where he 
lives with his wife and two children. 

BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



to head for Australia last spring. Africa is 
a possible item on the 1955 agenda. To 
quote Boston Traveler Sports Editor Ar- 
thur Siegel: "Who said tackles are col- 
lege students with their brains beaten 
out?" 

Dr. Joseph E. Cannon was granted his 
Master of Public Health degree from 
Harvard in June. 

Alan R. Pearsall is Manager of the 
Group Insurance Division at the new 
North Central home office of the Pru- 
dential Insurance Co. of America. He is 
located in Minneapolis and has jurisdic- 
tion over seven States. 

Jack Baldwin, teacher and coach at Mt. 
Hermon School, has one to tell his golf 
students about now: he shot a hole-in-one 
on the Northfield (Mass.) Golf Course 
in May. It was the 150-yard 16th hole, 
he used an eight-iron, and he has wit- 



1933 

Albert J. McCaffrey was selected to 
head the Personal Loan Department of 
the Newport (R. I.) National Bank in 
May. He was formerly Personnel Man- 
ager for two General Electric Co. plants 
in Newport. 

William J. Gilbane, a former Eagle 
Scout and active as a Boy Scout leader in 
Providence since graduation, received the 
Silver Beaver award of the Narragansett 
Council last spring for his "distinguished 
service to boyhood." 

G. Kenneth Eaton is Factory Manager 
of the Beebe Rubber Co., Nashua, N. H. 
He lives in nearby Amherst, N. H. 

Prof. Garland B. Russell was named a 
full professor at the University of Maine 
in July. A former public school teacher 
and principal, he has been with the Uni- 
versity's Department of Education since 
1949. 

1934 

Benjamin B. Snow, Jr., was named 
Superintendent of Agencies for the North- 
western Mutual Life Insurance Co. last 
spring. In the insurance field since he left 
Brown, our Classmate joined Northwest- 
ern as its Worcester (Mass.) district agent 
when he returned from war service in 
1946. He became Assistant Director of 
Agencies at the home office in Milwau- 
kee in 1948. In his new capacity, he has 
supervision of the eastern half of the 
company's 210 district agencies. 

David Leavitt authored a pantomime 
skit for the "Pops Revue" presented by 
the YMHA and YWHA of Brockton, 
Mass., in May. A lawyer now, Leavitt was 
a professional musician at one time. 

Dr. Douglas L. Kraus was promoted 
to Associate Professor of Chemistry at the 
University of Rhode Island in June. 

Winslow A. Robbins is now a member 
of the Boston law firm of Warner, Stack- 
pole, Stetson and Bradlee. 

Dr. Leroy D. Vandam assumed his new 
duties as Chief of Anesthesia and Surgeon 
to the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 
Boston on July 1. He is living in Waban, 
Mass. 

1935 

Philip Ciciarelli, Honolulu insurance 
executive, was a June visitor to the cam- 
pus during several weeks of business and 
Stateside holiday. A general agent, whose 
office handles the whole range of insur- 
ance, Ciciarelli has his principal affilia- 
tion with Mutual of Omaha and operates 

NOVEMBER 1954 



branches on all the islands. He headed up 
the University Fund campaign in the Ter- 
ritory this year. It was only while he was 
in the States that he realized that Arthur 
Wriston, a business neighbor and com- 
petitor in Honolulu, is President Wriston's 
brother. 

Henry C. Hart, Jr., was named Man- 
ager of the Radio and Television Dept. of 
the Horton-Noyes Co., Providence adver- 
tising firm, in July. 

Classmates join in offering sympathy 
to George A. Blakeslee, Jr., whose father, 
a well-known New York City psychiatrist, 
died June 9. 




SCHICK SERVICE has given its Sales Man- 
ager, Howard Pease '35, additional duties 
by advancing h!m to the post of Assistant 
General Manager. The two posts allow him 
to maintain closer cooperation between the 
Soles Office in Stamford and the activity 
of the 60 service branches operated by the 
electric shaver company throughout the 
country. 



Herbert F. Cluthe is General Agent for 
the State Mutual Life Assurance Co. in 
Newark, N. J. His firm is Wood and 
Cluthe. 

Commander Walter Peck was assigned 
as Chaplain at Quonset Point NAS in 
July. He was formerly stationed at New- 
port as Staff Chaplain for ComDesLant. 

A. Leavitt Taylor is the Government 
Appeal Agent for the draft boards in 
Belmont, Watertown and Arlington, 
Mass. He was appointed by President 
Eisenhower in July. He is also a trustee 
of the Belmont Savings Bank. His father 
is Amos L. Taylor '01. 

Charles J. Bourgault, Providence at- 
torney, was named to the R. I. Liquor 
Control Healing Board by Governor Rob- 
erts in July. 

1936 

Miss Susan Dear, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. William Y. Dear, was married July 
7 to Hamilton Ross in Morristown, N. J. 
The bride attended Finch College in New 
York; her husband is a Senior at Prince- 
ton. 

1937 

Linton A. Fluck was appointed Man- 
ager of the Textile Resin Department of 
the American Cyanamid Company's Or- 



ganic Chemicals Division in Bound 
Brook, N. J., in June. With the company 
since 1939, our Classmate was formerly 
Assistant Manager of the Department. 
He lives in nearby Pluckemin with his 
wife and two children, Linton A. II who 
is 1 1 and Nancy 9. 

Donald L. Daniels of Newton, Mass., 
is serving as Districts Division Chairman 
of the Combined Jewish Appeal of 
Greater Boston during its 1954 campaign. 

Francis T. Eddy is third Vice-President 
of the American Electroplaters' Society. 
Assistant Plant Superintendent of the 
Chase Brass and Copper Co., Waterbury, 
Conn., he was elected at the 41st annual 
meeting of the society in July. 

1938 

Maury Kusinitz, who represents the 
Guardian Life Insurance Co. in Fall 
River, Mass., was elected Secretary-Treas- 
urer of the R. I. chapter of the American 
Society of Chartered Life Underwriters in 
June. 

The Rev. Wilbur E. Hogg, Jr., started 
his new assignment as Rector of the 
Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Falmouth 
Foreside, Me., on September 1. He had 
been a fellow and tutor of the General 
Theological Seminary in New York City. 

Bill Sadowsky won the Oxford Coun- 
try Club golf championship for the sec- 
ond time in August. The Club is in Lud- 
low, Mass. 

1939 

Albert A. Mell sailed in June for Eu- 
rope where he is spending the year on a 
Fulbright grant. He is on the Music De- 
partment faculty at Queen's College, 
N. Y., and traveled the continent during 
the summer. Now, he and his wife are 
settled in Italy where he is studying at the 
University of Florence. 

Two Classmates have been "hitting the 
(amateur) boards" lately: T. Alexander 
Benn, whose two short plays, "Answer 
the Sphinx" and "Love Game," were pre- 
sented by the National Arts Club in New 
York City in June, and Roy Ten Haagen, 
who directed "The Man Who Came to 
Dinner" for the Glen Players of Glen 
Cove, N. Y., in April. Roy is a charter 
member of the Players. 

Windsor Lewis was in Rhode Island in 
July, directing his wife, Barbara Bel Ged- 
des, in their summer production of "The 
Little Hut." It was the "funniest show at 
the Matunuck Theatre-by-the-Sea" in 
years according to the Providence Journal 
critic. 

Gilbert E. Cain is Assistant Safety En- 
gineer for the Engineering Department of 
the Hercules Powder Co. in Wilmington, 
Del. He was formerly Safety Supervisor 
for the company's plant in Parlin, N. J. 

1940 

Prof. Harold Pfautz of the Sociology 
Department at Brown has taken over the 
duties of Class Secretary from the Rev. 
Joseph C. Harvey. 

Joseph J. Parnicky received his Ph.D. 
in Psychology from Adelphi College in 
June. 

1941 

When Jim Cunningham was touring 
Europe for the government last spring, 
he effected a reunion of three ex-Brown 
Placement Officers. The others were 
Classmate Bill Jewett, who was Jim's 
predecessor on the job, and Bill Tate '48 



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CHAPIN S. NEWHARD '22, Community Chest Chairman for St. Louis this year, enjoyed meeting 

the model for his campaign poster. She is Borboro Grant, 6-year-old who attends St. Elizabeth's 

Day Nursery, one of the ogencies — the first such model ever employed for such a purpose in 

St. Louis. (Photo by Posf-Dispotch) 



who was Jim's successor. Jewett had just 
arrived in Germany for a three-year stay 
(he and his family are settled at 6 Mar- 
garetenstrasse in Munich); Tate left for 
the States the next day after two years 
abroad. Jim is still based in Washington 
but certainly "gets around." Tate will be 
teaching this winter at Thayer Academy. 

Maj. William Minton is in Eritrea for 
three years on a U. S. Army assignment. 
He and his wife and four children enjoyed 
a month's vacation in Lynnfield, Mass., 
this summer before sailing for Africa. 

Richard H. Bell is living in Holyoke, 
Mass., now. He is a department man- 
ager with the Hampden Glazed Paper Co. 
in that city. 

Hans J. Epstein is in Alexandria, Va., 
where he is Director of the government- 
sponsored War Documentation Project. 
Columbia University is supervising the 
study. 

1942 

John E. Petersen, Jr., can be called 
"Mister" again at last. He reported in 
July that he was out of service and back 
in Newport, R. I., at 3 1 Prospect Hill St. 



Martin F. Lynn is Vice-President of the 
Waterbury Tag Co. in Waterbury, Conn. 

Raymond E. Blomstedt has left Wil- 
mington, Del., for Chicago where he is 
with the Patent Department of the Inter- 
national Minerals and Chemical Co. 

Rogers L. Johnson appeared on the 
same program with Edward J. Bernier 
'43 at a summer seminar at M.I.T. John- 
son, who is Chief Technologist in the Re- 
search Dept. of the American Thread Co., 
Willimantic, Conn., talked on "A Study 
of Some of the Factors Involved in Evalu- 
ation of Seam Strength." 

1943 

James Whitney was awarded a Doctor 
of Science degree from the University of 
Maryland in June. 

Robert W. McCullough was named As- 
sistant to the President of the Collins and 
Aikman Corp. in Providence in June. He 
was formerly Director of Manufacturing. 

David Bulfum, Jr., was awarded a Cer- 
tificate of Merit by the Greater Hartford 
Junior Chamber of Commerce in June for 
his outstanding work as Chairman of the 
Fishing Derby Committee. 



Lt. Comdr. E. Anthony Buxton was liv- 
ing in Hingham, Mass., this summer while 
his ship, the USS Bennington, was getting 
repaired after the May fire. His wife ana 
three sons were with him. 

Edward J. Bernier, a researchist with 
the Belding Heminway Corticelli Co. of 
Putnam, Conn., spoke at an M.I.T. semi- 
nar this summer on "Functional Produc- 
tion of Seams." Rogers L. Johnson '42, 
"a fellow inmate of good old Hope Col- 
lege while at Brown," was on the speak- 
ing program, too. 

Bill Weston is back at the Lockwood 
High School in Warwick, R. I., after a 
year's leave for advanced study in dra- 
matics at Columbia. 

1944 

Robert L. Baker, who is completing 
work on his Ph.D. at Princeton, has 
started teaching Medieval History at Rut- 
gers University this fall. 

Hampton H. Thomas, Jr., on Campus 
in June for Reunion, reported that he is in 
his third year at Virginia Theological 
Seminary. He was formerly in business in 
Milwaukee. 

John F. Ahearn, Jr., is out of the U. S. 
Navy and doing graduate work at the 
Stanford University Business School, 
Stanford. Calif. 

Dr. Wallace E. Lambert is an Assistant 
Professor of Psychology at McGill Uni- 
versity in Montreal. Wally was on the fac- 
ulty at the University of North Carolina 
where he received his doctorate. He 
worked in Ottawa this summer with the 
Department of Citizenship and Immigra- 
tion. 

Edward M. Dolbashian is one of four 
Rhode Island lawyers named as legal 
aids to the State Republican party. 

Glenn H. Prescott was awarded a Mas- 
ter's degree in Public Administration from 
Harvard in June. 

A. Munro Campbell is teaching Mathe- 
matics and English at the Lexington 
(Mass.) Junior High School this year. 

Dr. Howard Baetzhold of the English 
Faculty of Butler University was the 
speaker at the spring meeting of the In- 
diana State Historical Society. His topic 
was "Charles Major, Hoosier Romancer," 
and the meeting was in Major's home 
town of Shelbyville. Most of us identify 
Major as the author of "When Knight- 
hood Was in Flower." A couple of Baetz- 
hold's articles on Mark Twain, his doc- 
toral subject, have been accepted for 
publication. Howie was a summer visitor 
in Providence. 

1945 

The Class is arranging a gigantic re- 
union for Commencement (June 3 to 6). 
A committee including Knight Edwards. 
Pete Quinn, and Sam Arnold is meeting 
regularly to build a banner program. 
Watch this column for full details, al- 
though the members will also be notified 
by mail. Hold that weekend free. 

Vernon R. Alden, designated Assistant 
Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of 
Business Administration, has been as- 
signed responsibility for its development 
program, including the Harvard Business 
School Fund. He is also Director of The 
Associates' Program, in which a group of 
350 companies supports research at the 
School through annual contributions. The 
Aldens are now living at 69 Sheridan Rd., 
Wellesley Hills. Writing during the sum- 



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mer, Verne said his son Robert, a year 
old in June, "already shows indications 
of being one of the best halfbacks in 
Brown's history. He received early tute- 
lage from Dick Kazmaier, who, as you 
know, studied here during the past two 
years." 

Edmund T. Peckham received his Ph.D. 
in History from Harvard in June. He is 
on the faculty at Rice Institute, Houston, 
Tex. 

Dave Ferguson is with the Electric 
Boat Division of the General Dynamics 
Corp. in Groton, Conn. He is in the Ship 
Design Department. 

Dr. Gennaro P. M. Savastano has 
opened his office for the practice of den- 
tistry in Providence. It is at 354 Broadway. 

1946 

Alan Y. Pardo is with the Paris bureau 
of Newsweek magazine. 

Frank Butiste is with the Bendix Prod- 
ucts Division in South Bend, Ind. A mem- 
ber of the V-12 at Brown during the war, 
he is a graduate of Grove City College, 
Grove City, Pa. 

1947 

William H. Joslin, Jr., is the youngest 
President in the history of the Life Under- 
writers Association of Greater Provi- 
dence. Bill, a certified life underwriter 
with the Connecticut Mutual Life In- 
surance Co. agency, was elected at the 
annual meeting in June. 

R. I. State Senator Joseph R. Weis- 
berger was named a legal aid to the Re- 
publican party in the State in June. 
Three other Brown men are on the list. 

Richard L. Pittenger received his Mas- 
ter's degree in Business Administration 
from the University of Rochester in June. 

A. Coleman Morrison is on the staff at 
the American Elementary School, 60th 
Air Base Group, in Europe. 

Dr. Rude K. Meiselman is a resident 
in Urology at the Philadelphia General 
Hospital. Dr. Gerald Brill, out of the U.S. 




DAVID GOLNER '42 has been promoted by 
Hammel-Dohl to be Sales Manager. He 
joined the Providence manufacturers of au- 
tomatic control equipment in 1945 as a de- 
velopment engineer after earlier associa- 
tion with Curtiss-Wright. 



Navy now, is at the Mount Sinai Hos- 
pital in New York City. Dr. William P. 
Corvese is a resident at the Cleveland 
(Ohio) City Hospital. 

Carrol E. Burtner, who attended Brown 
as a V-12er during the war, is a graduate 
of Worcester Tech and a resident of 
Washington, D. C. He is with the Factory 
Insurance Association. 

H. H. Mang has been promoted to 
EAM Field Supervisor in Poughkeepsie 
for the IBM Corporation. He has been 
with the company since 1951. 

1948 

Lt. Domenic A. Vavala was awarded a 
Master of Science degree from Trinity 
University, San Antonio, Tex., in May. 
He is with the aeromedical school at the 
USAF School of Aviation Medicine at 
Randolph Field, and his M.S. thesis dealt 
with the physiological effects on airmen 
of a sudden loss of cabin pressure. Vavala 
has an M.S. from the University of Rhode 
Island, too. 

Walter S. B. "Bill" Tate is back in New 
England after two years in Germany. He 
is teaching English at Thayer Academy in 
Braintree, Mass. For the last three and a 
half years he was with the U.S. Govern- 
ment. 

Peter Potter is still with Fairchild Air- 
craft in Hagerstown, Md. At present, he 
is Chief of Fairchild's U. S. Air Force 
production. Cliff, who was born while 
Pete was at Brown, is now eight; daughter 
Debbie is three years old. 

Art Palmer scored a double triumph 
in the Fetherdic Tennis Club open tourna- 
ment this summer. He won the singles 
crown and teamed up with Bernie Boyer 
to also take the doubles championship in 
the Fall River, Mass., contest. 

H. Vasken Aposhian received his Ph.D. 
in Physiology and Vital Economics from 
the University of Rochester in June. 

Leonard S. Zartman is with the Roch- 
ester, N. Y. law firm of Nixon, Hargrave, 
Devans and Dey. He received his LL.B. 
from Columbia in 1953. 

Maj. Albert E. Hacking is no longer on 
active duty with the Marines, though still 
in the Reserve. He is currently a salesman 
with the National Shade and Awning Co. 
in Boston, Mass. 

Dr. Donald A. Klotz is an assistant 
resident in Internal Medicine at Queens 
General Hospital in New York. 

Robert R. Eisner is in the contract sales 
department of the Blackhawk Mfg. Co. 
in Milwaukee, Wis. He lives in Milwau- 
kee with his wife and two children. Bob 
2'/i and Mary who is seven months old. 

Leonard A. Jacobvitz is practicing law 
in Albuquerque, N. M. 

Ralph C. Knight, Jr., is Toll Super- 
visor for the N. E. Telephone and Tele- 
graph Co. in Boston, Mass. 

Capt. Warren M. Clark is attending the 
U. S. Army's Finance School at Ft. Ben- 
jamin Harrison, Ind., this fall and winter. 
His residence is at 2411 West Arlington 
Court, Indianapolis 18. 

1949 

Fred Diehl and his family have re- 
turned to the United States for reassign- 
ment after his tour at the American Em- 
bassy in Beirut. The family now includes 
Elisa Margrethe, born in Lebanon July 9, 
1953, as well as three-year-old Paula. 
"We have had a wonderful time in Beirut," 
he wrote just before going home to Mar- 
tinsburg, W. Va., for a visit. He hoped to 
get back to the campus soon. 




EBEN S. CHURCH '40 is the new Vice-Presi- 
dent and General Manager of T. Robley 
Louttit, Inc., Providence advertising agency, 
of which he also becomes a Director. He 
was formerly with Horton-Noyes Co. as 
Medio Director. Louttit is Brown '31. 



Albert DiMartino was the surprised re- 
cipient in May 1954 of a letter that was 
mailed to him in 1944. It was from his 
sister, written to him while he was in 
Italy during World War II. The letter ar- 
rived in excellent condition with no ex- 
planation for its delay of a decade. He 
now lives in Oaklawn, R. I., with his wife 
and four children. 

Dr. Leonard H. Lerner, who received 
his Doctor of Surgical Chiropody degree 
from the Temple University School of 
Chiropody in June, is interning at the 
Illinois College of Chiropody and Foot 
Surgery in Chicago. 

Joseph Bloom, who received his M.D. 
from George Washington University 
Medical School, is interning at the Ed- 
ward J. Meyer Memorial Hospital in Buf- 
falo, N. Y. 

Two Classmates who received Ph.D. 
degrees in Chemistry in June are Edward 
E. Haley and Michael J. Skrypa. Skrypa 
was awarded his by Clark University. 
Haley, who is a research chemist at the 
Mead Johnson Research Laboratories in 
Evansville, Ind., earned his at the Uni- 
versity of Rochester. 

A. Bernard Frechtman is a partner in 
the law firm of Balletta and Frechtman in 
New York City. When Bernie wrote us in 
June, he also noted his engagement to 
Miss Aleta Frankel who graduated from 
Connecticut College this year. 

Word reached the Alumni Office this 
summer that Richard G. Cox has been 
missing in action in Korea since July 13, 
1953. He was a First Lieutenant with the 
461st Infantry Battalion, an experi- 
mental unit that saw plenty of action be- 
fore the Armistice was signed on July 
11. His wife, who lives in Rochester, 
N. Y., at 42 Gillette St., has been waiting 
for hopeful news ever since the prisoner 
exchange. 

David N. Barus and Robert B. Shea re- 
ceived their law degrees from Harvard 
together in June. 

Harry L. Brown has been transferred 
from Boston to New York where he is a 



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District Manager for the McGraw-Hill 
Publishing Co. He is living in Old Green- 
wich, Conn. 

Ralph H. Earle, Jr., is at Purdue, study- 
ing for his doctorate in Chemistry. He 
was formerly with the Hercules Powder 
Co. in Wilmington, Del. 

Morris J. Hutchinson is head teller at 
the Ft. Dodge (Iowa) National Bank. 

Dr. Lawrence M. Bugbee received his 
medical degree in May. He is living in 
Rochester. N. Y. 

Bruce G. Bainton and his wife are liv- 
ing in their new home in Hoxsie, R. I. 
Bruce is with the Shepard Co., Providence 
department store. 

Jacob Shapira received his Ph.D. in 
Chemistry from Florida State University 
in June. 

Dr. Randall S. Naden, Jr., has started 
his residency in Internal Medicine at 
Cooper Hospital, Camden 3, N. J. 

Harold C. Kinne, Jr., was in the oflfice in 
August to report his transfer to Ft. Mc- 
Clellan, Ala. Earlier at Albuquerque, Hal 
and Ed Krise got together for a small re- 
union. John B. Henderson '46, on tem- 
porarv assignment at Sandia, joined them. 

John S. Lane is a Visiting Lecturer in 
Russian at Smith College this year. For- 
merly an Instructor at the University of 
Indiana, our Classmate has also served 
the Department of Defense. 

Dr. Wesley L. Mayo received his Den- 
tal degree from Tufts in June. 

Wendell G. Harris is the fourth owner 
of the oldest homestead in East Green- 
wich, R. I., built in the 17th century by 
Clement Weaver. A barn on the property, 
built in 1680, recently burned, costing 
Harris, among other things, the loss of a 
valuable set of hand-made toy soldiers. 

1950 
Arthur E. Murphy was appointed Su- 
pervisor of Training for the Crucible Steel 
Co. of America in May. With Crucible 




THE RED CROSS has appointed Dorald H. 
Palmer '51 to head a nsw commun':y re- 
lations committee of the Chicago Chaptsr 
to implement i s informa'ion program. He 
is ossoc'oted with the Chicago insurance 
firm of Moore, Cose, Lyman, and Hub-ard 
and livas in Northfield, ill. (Photo by Max 
F. Kolin) 

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since March, 1953, he received his Mas- 
ter's degree in Industrial Relations from 
Columbia in 1951. He later served two 
years with the U. S. Marine Corps and 
was released as a first lieutenant In 1952. 
Dr. Alton J. Curran received his M.D. 
from N. Y. Medical College in June. He 
began his internship at King's County 
Hospital, Brooklyn, on July 1. 

Charles R. Jacobson starts his position 
as a research chemist with E. Bilhuber, 
Inc., of Orange, N. J., on October 1. He 
received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Le- 
high in June and plans to be back there 
to see the Brown football team in action 
on Oct. 30. 

Three Classmates received their M.D. 
degrees together from the University of 
Pennsylvania School of Medicine in June. 
They are Doctors Charles W. Chambers, 
who is interning at Mountainside Hospital, 
Montclair, N. J., Thomas H. Chapman, 
Grace Hospital, Detroit, Mich., and Gif- 
ford Grimm, Presbyterian Hospital, Phila- 
delphia. 

Ernest Ward, Jr., had all kinds of news 
about himself and his brother, Walter, 
also '50, when he wrote in June. Both 
were married this year and Walt, who is 
e.xpecting to be discharged from the serv- 
ice in November, is going back to South 
America to resume his assignment with 
the Inter-American Geodetic Survey. 
Ernie lives in Schenectady, N. Y. 

Donald J. Owler was elected President 
of the Almardon Mills, Inc., Lonsdale, 
R. I., in June. 

Three new M.D.s from Tufts are Nor- 
mand E. Gauvain, Thomas H. George 
and Vartan Papazian. Milton Hodosh is a 
graduate of Tufts Dental School. 

Larry Levenson wrote in July from 
Des Moines, Iowa, that he was moving 
into his new house sometime during the 
summer. We assume that he and his wife 
and Larry, Jr., are now living at 7115 
Reite Ave., where "the welcome mat is 
always out" to Brown Classmates and 
friends. Larry is Assistant Buyer of 
men's furnishings at Younker Brothers, 
the largest department store in Iowa. 

Edmund J. Winterbottom, Jr., started 
teaching English at the Dartmouth (Mass.) 
High School this fall. A graduate of that 
high school, he formerly sold insurance 
in New Bedford. 

Curtis Chrisfield received an advanced 
degree in Education at Syracuse Univer- 
sity exercises in June. 

Edward B. Corcoran has entered the 
law offices of Corcoran, Peckham and 
Hayes in Newport, R. I. A June gradu- 
ate of Columbia Law School, he was art 
editor of the yearbook there. 

John Hurd produced and directed the 
plays at the Green Mountain Playhouse 
in Poultney. Vt.. during the summer. He 
is on the staff of the School of Dramatic 
Arts at Columbia. A former theological 
student, Hurd believes that there is a defi- 
nite relationship between drama and the 
church: both help to give us a better un- 
derstanding of the problems of people 
and the age. 

David E. Marcello received a Doctor of 
Dental Medicine degree from Harvard 
in June. He is back at Harvard this year, 
working on a straight M.D. 

William R. Bush was awarded his Ph.D. 
in Psychology by the University of Roch- 
ester in June. 

Lyle E. Branagan was awarded his 
M.Sc. degree from Harvard in June. At 
the same ceremonies, Carey E. Tharp, 
Jr.. received his Master's in Business Ad- 
ministration. 



Capt. Kenneth A. Clark is Production 
and Contracting Officer at Brady AFB 
in Japan. His wife joined him this sum- 
mer. They e.xpect to be overseas until 
1956. 

Leonard N. Cohen is Manager of the 
Virginia Dare store in Morristown, N. J. 
Richard O. Noyes is attached to the 
American Consulate in Nicosea, Cyprus. 
Thomas N. Oliver, who has been out 
of the U. S. Navy almost a year now, is a 
salesman for the American Lace Paper 
Co. in northern California. He is living in 
San Francisco. 

Maj. Owen J. Carroll is in Washington 
with the Office of the Chief of Military 
History, Current Branch. He lives in 
nearby Arlington. 

Ben Patrick is in Glens Falls, N. Y., 
now, with the Norma Footwear Corp., 
manufacturers of slippers. 

The Rev. Strathmore Kilkenny is an 
assistant at St. Luke's Church in Paw- 
tucket. He graduated from Nashotah 
House. Nashotah, Wis., in June. 

Dr. E. Franklin Stone, Jr., is interning 
at the R. I. Hospital. He received his M.D. 
from Jefferson Medical College in June. 
Curvin J. Trone, Jr., was transferred 
from Oakland, Cal., to Baton Rouge, La., 
the first of the summer. He is Superin- 
tendent of Operations, Analysis and Plan- 
ning for the Kaiser Aluminum and Chem- 
ical Corp. 

Allan J. Dougherty is with the Chase 
National Bank in Heidelberg, Germany. 
Dr. Edgar B. Cutter received his M.D. 
from St. Louis University in June, and he 
is now a surgical intern at the St. Louis 
City Hospital. 

Harold H. Shore was elected Vice-Pres- 
ident of United Public Markets in June. 

Howard K. Page is with the Cooper, 
Page Co., Minneapolis representatives for 
several electrical equipment manufactur- 
ers. He is living with his wife, June, and 
son. Kelsey, at"5605 Beard Ave., South, 
Minneapolis. 

William M. MacMillan is Manager of 
Sales Promotion and Advertising for the 
Textile Division of the U. S. Rubber Co. 
His office is in New York City and he 
lives in East Orange, N. J. 

Doug Ashford was at the 1007th A.S.I. 
Group, Boiling Field, Washington, D. C., 
when he wrote us in July. He wasn't en- 
joving the 100^ weather at the time. 

Ralph H. Seifert has charge of the Di- 
rect Dept. of the Walter S. Attridge Co., 
Boston insurance agency. His letter re- 
porting on this new assignment, also told 
of Bob Miller who is in Washington now, 
advising the U. S. Air Force on its I.B.M. 
electric typewriters. 

Deverne Danburg, Jr., wrote in August 
to report that he is now a bank examiner 
with the First Bank Stock Corp. in Minne- 
apolis. His address there is 4409 Upton 
Ave. South. 

Joseph M. Souza was named Assistant 
Probation Officer of the Third District 
Court in New Bedford, Mass. A former 
teacher, he was President of the New Bed- 
ford Teachers Association. 

Harold N. Godlin has opened his law 
offices in Stamford, Conn. He formerly 
practiced in Hartford. 

1951 
John N. Carpender is working the up- 
per New York State area, from Buffalo to 
Albany, as a retail representative for Life 
Magazine. His main assignment is the 
promotion of products that are "Adver- 
tised in Life." 

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Lt. (jg) Frank Suttell was stationed at 
the Johnsville Naval Air Development 
Center in Pennsylvania when we heard 
from his wife in June. 

Bernard J. Karluk has been released 
from active duty with the U. S. Army and 
is a trainee in the Home Office Group Di- 
vision of the Aetna Life Insurance Co. in 
Hartford, Conn. 

Richard Romoser started on his new 
job as a sales trainee with the Armstrong 
Cork Co., Lancaster, Pa., in June. He is 
with the Building Materials Division. 

Harry L. Dicks was back in Washington 
this fall after a month's vacation. The 
"furlough" followed two years' service in 
Siam for the U. S. Foreign Service. He 
has received his new assignment at the 
U. S. Embassy, Athens, Greece. 

William A. Welch, Jr., Assistant Prin- 
cipal of the new South Memorial School, 
Peabody, Mass., received his Master's de- 
gree in Education from Boston University 
in June. 

Mark S. Pratt is attending the School of 
Foreign Service at Georgetown Univer- 
sity. 

Classmates who received Bachelor of 
Laws degrees from Harvard in June in- 
clude: Paissy D. Chernov, Charles J. 
Cooper, Norbert Fessel, Theodore God- 
lin, George A. Hahn, Amedeo C. Merolla, 
Guido R. Salvadore, Joseph G. Schumb 
and Frederick G. Tate. 

Socrates A. Lagios was awarded an 
M.A. in Teaching by Harvard in June. 

Joseph E. Fazzano, Richard J. Israel 
and David R. Tillinghast received their 
law degrees from Yale. Dave is with the 
New York City firm, Hughes, Hubbard, 
Blair and Reed. He is living with his 
brother, Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr., '32, 
in Bronxville, N. Y. 

Capt. A. Dean Albert was back from 
Korea in April and in charge of the Tank 
Park at Quantico, Va. His wife, Virginia, 
wrote they had found a "very nice un- 
furnished house and have gone modern." 
Their address: 13 White Haven, Dum- 
fries, Va. 

James A. Asay was released from active 
duty as a Lieutenant (jg) with the U. S. 
Navy in May. He is attending Faith 
Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. 
Steve Fenn, out of the Army in June, 
found civilian life "mighty fine." 

Benjamin P. Eisenberg is Assistant 
Manager of Pencraft, Inc., in Boston. 

Dick Wilson, Phil Dodge and Jack Dee 
"had one darn good time on Nantucket 
this June." Jim Bradley and Howie Sweet, 
both '54, joined the group in "doing it 
up Brown!" 

Lt. E. Eugene Jemail is in Salzburg, 
Austria, with the U. S. Army. His address: 
7603 Claims Office Team, APO 541, c/o 
Postmaster, N.Y., N.Y. 

George G. Brooks is out of the U. S. 
Navy and with the Bank of America. He 
and his wife are living in Glendale 3, 
Calif., at 323 West Doran Street. 

Morgan Burns is co-proprietor of Mink 
Hill Farm, an antique shop in Henniker, 
N.H. His business was written up in the 
Boston Herald in August by Hadyn Pear- 
son. 

Jim Donaldson graduated from the 
U. S. Naval Pre-Flight school at Pensa- 
cola, Fla., this summer and was stationed 
at Corry Field, Fla., in August. 

Carl Kuester has been out of the U. S. 
Army a year now and is in New Haven, 
Conn., with the United Illuminating Co. 
He, his wife and new son are living in 
nearby Norwalk. 




PRIZE-WINNER: When the Pholo Lab conducted its 1954 contest on "Life at Brown," the top 

awards went to Robert Finklestein of Boston. First honors went to this backlighted close-up of 

three students on Faunce House Terrace. 



Paul Michael was selected to sing the 
National Anthem at the Newport (R.I.) 
Music Festival on Aug. 20. 

Robert S. Murray is teaching at the 
Henry Lord Junior High School in Fall 
River, Mass., this year. 

1952 

Reginald D. Archambault was among 
the first 12 recipients of Master's degrees 
in Teaching, awarded by Wesleyan Uni- 
versity at its June Commencement exer- 
cises. Initiated two years ago by Wes- 
leyan, the program was designed "to help 
re-establish the influence of the liberal 
arts college in public education." Intensive 
practice teaching was coupled with extra- 
curricular leadership training during the 
two years. Archambault is at Harvard 
this year, starting work on his doctorate in 
Education. 

Joseph E. Motherway, who returned to 
Brown a year ago after service in Korea, 
was awarded a General Electric scholar- 
ship for his Senior year. James P. Paton 



'34, Manager of G. E.'s Providence office, 
made the presentation. 

Lester F. Williams, Jr., received a 
fellowship from the National Foundation 
for Infantile Paralysis to do research in 
medicine for two months. A medical stu- 
dent at Boston University, Lester was the 
only student selected by the school dean 
as an award nominee. 

H. Bradford Benson wrote to the Place- 
ment Office in June that he is out of the 
U. S. Navy and with the Manufacturers 
Trust Co. in New York City. 

Jesse Lowen was discharged from the 
U. S. Army last spring and is now at the 
State University of Iowa, working toward 
his Master of Fine Arts degree. 

Donald G. Manley received his Master 
of Science degree in Chemistry from 
Lehigh in June. George E. Deane received 
his M.A. in Psychology from the Univer- 
sity of Connecticut where he has been 
named a staff member and will continue 
studies toward his doctorate. Don and his 
wife, Pat, visited the Campus in August. 



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Anthony Kooharian is studying mathe- 
matics at the University of Paris, France, 
this year. He received a Fulbright Scholar- 
ship for his work. 

William E. Downey is serving an intern- 
ship in religious education at the Benefi- 
cent Congregational Church in Providence 
this year. A Senior at Boston University 
School of Theology, he had served as 
Pastor of the First Congregational Church 
in North Westport, Mass., for 18 months. 

Philip L. Moss, Jr., was discharged 
from the U. S. Army in June and is study- 
ing at Washington University in St. Louis, 
Mo. Also out, and attending Ohio State, 
is Glenn Bower. 

Howard R. McGee was named a Dis- 
trict Group representative by the Mass. 
Mutual Life Insurance Co. in July. He is 
working out of the Cleveland agency 
group office. 

Burton Downey received his Master's 
degree in Business Administration from 
the University of Rochester in June. 

Classmates who received advanced de- 
grees from Harvard in June include: 
Master of Arts — Richard E. Bayles and 
Timothy Duggan; Master of Business Ad- 
ministration — Kenneth M. Arenberg, 
Peter Bower, David Brodsky, James Die- 
dering, Bernard Fain, Stanley Grossman, 
William F. Kinder, Melvin B. Smith, 
Robert F. Ytterberg. 

Dick Hilkert is an Instructor in Eng- 
lish at Stanford University. 

George P. Leveque is Junior Personnel 
Director for the City of Richmond, Va. 
He and his wife, Maxine, live in Rich- 
mond at 3916 Richmond Henrico Turn- 
pike. 

Fred Kopf counted "very strongly on 
leaving this quaint Peninsula (Korea) 
after a brief 14-month visit" in June. 
His new address: Mr. FWK, 145 Wester- 
velt Ave., Baldwin, N. Y. 

Pvt. Jack Ringer, still in Korea, is with 
the Public Information office at Taegu. 

Mark T. Neville is a college representa- 
tive with the World Publishing Co. in 
Cleveland, Ohio. 

R. Tyler Day was released from the 
U. S. Navy as a Lieutenant (jg) in June. 
He worked at Brown during the summer 
and is now studying at the Tuck School 
of Business at Dartmouth College. Dave 
Lubrano finished his service tour with the 
U. S. Army in July and is also at Tuck. 

Leo Vine, a third-year student at Har- 
vard Law School, worked with U. S. 
District Attorney Jacob S. Temkin '26 in 
Providence during the summer. 




BUY AND USE | 

CHRISTMAS SEALS 




1953 

Reporting on the Pensacola "Campus 
Dance," Roger Smith wrote as follows: 
"Brown Alumni banquet and night out 
held May 29, Martines Restaurant and 
Pirates Cove near here big success. At- 
tended by Capt. Bill Maloney USMC '51, 
Ensigns John DeTar "53 and Dwight Free- 
burg '53, Cadets Jim Donaldson '52, Ken 
Allen '53, Bob Baldani '53, Jim Vreeland 
'53 and self. We sang 'Rah-Rah, Brunonia' 
till 2 a.m. and danced and in general made 
like we were home. Even had a Brown 
Banner. Very strong show." Rog's new 
address (in June) was NAAS Barin Field, 
Foley, Ala. 

Robert Manley, who completed his 
first year at Yale Divinity School in June, 
served last summer as Student Assistant 
Pastor of the Congregational Church in 
South Deerfield, Mass. 

Pvt. Edward Feleppa, Jr., is in the 
Public Relations Office at the Brooke 
Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Tex. 
Pfc. Burton H. Priest was chosen as 
"Soldier of the Month" at the Collier's 
End Air Base in England last spring. He 
is with the 928th Engineer Aviation 
Group. 

Phil Muhlenberg wrote us in June from 
"aboard the USS Gregory, lately returned 



from a tour of duty in the Far East." In 
the middle of a two-year hitch, Phil says 
the Navy represents a "protracted cramp" 
in his style. 

Melvin G. Holland received his M.A. 
degree from Harvard in June. Richard H. 
Yen was awarded an M.Sc. degree at the 
same ceremonies. 

Martin Badoian received his M.A. de- 
gree in Education from American Inter- 
national College in June. 

Frederick A. Baer is a registered stock 
broker with the Wall Street firm, Carl 
M. Loeb, Rhoades and Co. 

Second Lt. Frederic L. Sjostrom, Jr., 
was completing his flight engineer train- 
ing at Mather AFB when we had news of 
him in July. 

1954 

Six June graduates returned to the 
campus in September to receive commis- 
sions from Capt. Frederick W. Laing. 
During the summer they had completed 
qualification. Evan W. Rowe took the 
oath as a 2nd Lt. in the Marine Corps, 
while the others became Ensigns in the 
Navy or Navy Reserve: John E. Royal, 
Albert A. Gallotta, Jr., James A. Bradley, 
Jr., Ralph J. Perrotta, and Louis W. 
Hoppe. 



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TUBERCULOSIS 



1916 — H. Stanford McLeod and Mrs. 
James P. Brown in Pawtucket, Sept. 18. 

1930 — Cliflford S. Weiss and Miss 
Anne Rubenstein, daughter of Mrs. Ben- 
jamin Rubinstein of Fall River, in New- 
port, R. I., Aug. 15. 

1938 — Alfred G. Jarvis and Miss Beu- 
lah Mae Jordan, daughter of Mr. Robert 
G. Jordan and the late Mrs. Jordan of 
West Hartford, in West Hartford, Sept. 
11. 

1939 — Herbert L. Rosen and Miss A. 
Barbara Feital, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Gates Feital of Pawtucket, in Pawtucket, 
Sept. 9. 

1950— Mr. Clayton T. Dietz and Miss 
Annette Elizabeth Dietsch, daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. George F. Dietsch of Le- 
onia, N. J., in New York City, Aug. 14. 
The reception was held at the home of 
Arthur Thebado '51. 

1951_john M. Allard and Miss Bar- 
bara Pierson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Robert J. Pierson of Ridgefield, Conn., 
in Ridgefield, Aug. 17. James Hutchinson 
'51 was best man. 

1951 — Earned Kent and Miss Jean 
Audrey Swain, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Milton F. Swain of Swansea, Mass., Sept. 
11. Richard Kelly '51 was best man. At 
home: 83 Standish Road, Squantum, 
Mass. 

1951 — Francis T. Madden and Miss 
Anne Marie Lawlor, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. William K. Lawlor of Waterbury, 
Conn., in Waterbury, July 31. 

1951 — Franklin J. Powers and Miss 
Barbara Jean Strickhouser, daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. Sherman I. Strickhouser of 
East Greenwich, R. I., in East Green- 
wich, Sept. 11. Sherman A. Strickhouser 
'54 was best man. Richard Coogan '45 
was an usher. 



1952— Lt. (jg) Earle C. Drake, Jr., 
and Miss Ann Reihs, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Fred Reihs, in Honolulu, Ha- 
waii, July 10. Father of the groom is 
Earle C. Drake '24. 

1952 — George S. Kirkpatrick and Miss 
Mary Emily Griffith, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Lawrence H. Griffith of Amarillo, 
Tex., Sept. 8. John J. Gilbert, Jr. '52 was 
an usher. 

1952 — James M. Mather and Miss 
Rosaline Burnham Ray, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Hasseltine C. Ray of New York 
City, in New York, Sept. 25. 

1952 — Alexander R. Simpson and Miss 
Mary Ann Young, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Frank W. Young, in Massapequa, 
N. Y., Aug. 24. 

1952— Lt. Bradley S. Snell USMC and 
Miss Nancy Ellen George, daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. Onsville E. George of Mel- 
rose, Mass., in Greenwood, Mass., Aug. 
22. Albert Gubbins '52 was an usher. 

1953_Ens. Harold E. Bigler, Jr., 
USNR and Miss Mary Bennett Barbour, 
daughter of John C. Barbour and the 
late Mrs. Barbour, in Clifton, N. J., Aug. 
14. Ens. Charles F. Moody, Jr., '53 was 
an usher. 

1953 — Ens. David F. Robinson and 
Miss Patricia Ann McGorum. daughter 
of Mr. and Mrs. William B. McGorum, 
in Hutchinson, Kan., Aug. 14. At home: 
730 West First Ave., Hutchinson. 

1953 — Carl E. Stenberg and Miss Mar- 
jorie Alice Jones, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Franklin P. Jones of Port Chester, 
N. Y., Sept. 4. Best man was Joseph L. 
Tauro '53. Anthony Malo '51 was an 
usher. 

1954 — Stanley B. Jaffe and Miss Judith 
Gail Salk, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Louis Salk, in Providence, Sept. 12. At 
home: 336 Riverside Dr., NYC. 



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BIRTHS 

1936 — To Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Gerstl 
of Bridgeport, Conn., their first child, a 
daughter, Cindy Michele, Mar. 3. 

1938— To Prof, and Mrs. Roderick M. 
Chisholm of Plainville, Mass., their third 
child and second son, Jonathan Parker, 
Sept. 10. 

1939— To Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. 
Barker of Pompton Plains, N. J., their 
fifth child and first daughter, Virginia 
Elizabeth, Sept. 4. 

1939— To Dr. and Mrs. John T. Bar- 
rett of Providence, their fifth child and 
second daughter, Elizabeth Eyre, Sept. 4. 

1940— To Mr. and Mrs. George P. 
Sawyer of Mt. Prospect, 111., their fifth 
child and second daughter, Nancye, Sept. 
20. 

1944 — To Mr. and Mrs. George 
Campbell, Jr., of Syracuse, N. Y., George 
Campbell III, Sept. 9. 

1945— To Mr. and Mrs. Hugh L. 
Chedester of Norfolk, Va., a daughter, 
Susan Dee, Nov. 26, 1953. 

1946— To Mr. and Mrs. Allen F. Rust 
of Fajardo, Puerto Rico, their third child 
and second son, David Hummel, Aug. 30. 

1949— To Mr. and Mrs. Herbert F. 
Hayden of West Barrington, R. I., a 
daughter, Martha Enman, May 8. 

1950— To Mr. and Mrs. William W, 
Day of Providence, their second son, 
Douglas Foxall, June 28. Mrs. Day is 
the former Serenna Foxall, Pembroke 
'49. 

1950— To Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. 
Heckman of East Providence, R. I., a 
daughter, Wendy Ellen, Aug. 15. 

1950— To Mr. and Mrs. Albert W. 
Mackie, Jr., a daughter, Janet Ann, Sept. 
9. Mrs. Mackie is the former Sheila Eck- 
stein, Pembroke '52. 

1950— To Mr. and Mrs. John S. Mer- 
chant of Gilman, Colo., a son, Donald 
Francis, Aug. 16. Paternal grandfather 
is Mason B. Merchant '25. 

1952— To Lt. (jg) and Mrs. Robert 
W. Goodwin a daughter. Leslie Allison, 
Sept. 7. 

1952 — To Lt. (jg) and Mrs. Raymond 
B. Perkins of Providence, their second 
daughter, Elizabeth Chaffee, Aug. 23. 



In Memoriam 



MARTIN SMITH FANNING '91 in 
Providence, Sept. 10. A one-time 
teacher and Principal of the Oxford 
Street Grammar School in Providence, 
he later managed the Turks Head and 
Grosvenor Buildings in the city. He 
was a past President of the Turks 
Head Club and a Major (ret.) in the 
R. I. National Guard. Delta Kappa 
Epsilon. 

REV. JOSEPH LEISHMAN PEACOCK 

'00 in Raleigh, N. C, Sept. 24. A na- 
tive of Scotland, he served churches 
throughout New England and in Tar- 
boro, N. C, after his graduation from 
Newton Theological School in 1903. He 
was Librarian of the Westerly (R. I.) 
Public Library from 1908 to 1919 and 
President of Shaw University in Ra- 
leigh from 1920 to 1931. He received 
an Honorary Doctor of Divinity degree 
from Brown in 1925. He retired from 
the active ministry in 1943. Phi Beta 
Kappa. 

ELIOT ROSSITER SCUDDER '04 in 

Northboro, Mass., Sept. 20. Vice-Pres- 
ident and General Manager of the Jar- 
vis and Jarvis Co. in Palmer, he had 
been an engineer with the Western 
Electric Co. in New York City and 
the Stetson Shoe Co. in Brockton, 
Mass. He was a Trustee of the Wing 
Memorial Hospital in Palmer. His son 
is Steven Scudder '32. Delta Phi. 

CHARLES EDWIN ROBINSON '05 in 
Brentwood, N. H., Aug. 23. Proficient 
in seven languages, he had taught at 
Worcester Tech, the University of Ver- 
mont, N. Y. Military Academy and 
several secondary schools. For many 
years he operated a railroad draw- 
bridge over the Exeter (N. H.) River: 
during World War II he worked at the 
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. He was 
writing an historical novel at the time 
of his death. 



FRANK DeSALLES O'REILLY '06 in 
Lock Haven, Pa., Aug. 14. Publisher 
of the Lock Haven Express since 1931, 
he had been a newspaperman for 40 
years. His big scoop was predicting 
the re-election of President Wilson in 
1916. He was active in Lock Haven 
civic affairs and in national newspaper 
circles. A member of the Freshman 
baseball team at Brown, he maintained 
his interest in the sport through Little 
League sponsorship. 

JOHN ALEXANDER McGHEE '20 in 
Providence, Sept. 14. Vice-President 
and Plant Manager of the Marathon 
Co. in Attleboro, Mass., he had re- 
tired recently. His brother was the late 
William M. McGhee '25. Delta Tau 
Delta. 

ROBERT LINCOLN EATON '23 in 
Phoenix, Ariz., Aug. 16, after an ill- 
ness of several years. A retired medical 
technician, he was Chief Technician at 
the Pathological Laboratory in Phoe- 
nix for 21 years. His son is Robert N. 
Eaton '51. Sigma Xi, Lambda Chi 
Alpha. 

J (AMES) HOWARD BLAKE '28 in 
Philadelphia, Sept. 10. A financial ana- 
lyst and Assistant to the Vice-President 
of the Fire Association of Philadelphia, 
he was formerly Director of Market 
Research for the Glenn L. Martin Co. 
in Baltimore. A graduate of Harvard 
Business School, he had also been as- 
sociated with the U. S. Dept. of Com- 
merce, N. W. Ayer and Son, Inc., and 
the Land Title Bank and Trust Co., all 
in Philadelphia. 

HAROLD ARTHUR LINER '29 in 

Windsor. Conn.. Aug. 19. He was 
President of the Liner and Atwill Co., 
manufacturer of sheet metal products 
in Hartford, with which company he 
had been connected since graduation. 
Phi Sigma Kappa. 



NOVEMBER 1954 



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noble and enduring enterprises, it is the 
lot of most of us to make, at best, merely 
a fleeting impression on our world. 
There are, however, two human institu- 
tions which have, over the centuries, 
demonstrated an amazing capacity for 
survival and permanent usefulness. One 
is the church; the other is the college. 
These constitute not only enduring but 
dynamic memorials. 

Bequests to Brown University, for 
any purpose, offer every man, in vary- 
ing degree, the opportunity to associate 
his name forever with distinguished 
men and significant achievement, "to 
walk with greatness always." As in the 
case of other independent, gift-sup- 



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the funds which Brown has received 
since its founding have come in the 
form of bequests. They constitute, 
therefore, not an incidental and occa- 
sional source of support; they are the 
principal and regular means through 
which Brown has accumulated itsj 
resources. 

This remembrance on the part of 
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about bequests to Brown, is 
available on request. Address 
Box 1889, Brown University, 
Providence 12, Rhode Island