BROWN 

ALUMNI MONTHLY 




CAMPUS LANDMARK 



FEBRUARY 1957 




Boston's football smoker was a great 
success. It was only appropriate, there- 
fore, that the toastmaster, Dave Mishel '27, 
should want the man in charge of arrange- 
ments to get some credit. At the moment 
he thought appropriate, Dave said: " Will 
Chairman Fred Reynolds '53 stand up and 
take a bow for the good job he's done? . . . 
Oh, sorry. Fred is apparently out of the 
room. Well, when he comes back, tell Fred 
to take a bow." 

> THE MORNING after Provost Arnold's 
death. Mrs. Rathbun, widow of Judge 
Elmer J. Rathbun '96, telephoned from her 
room in the hospital to pass on a story she 
had just heard: Last summer a 13-year-old 
boy (son of Philip Goldberg '25) came to 
the John Hay Library, seeking a book on 
harnessing solar energy which he'd been 
unable to find elsewhere. The Provost 
struck up a conversation with the boy, 
helped him find reference material. 

The Provost apologized for not knowing 
more about the subject: "I'm a scientist my- 
self, but I'm rusty," he said. But he called a 
physicist from Wilson Hall, who came over 
to give the boy further encouragement and 
aid. 

Albert Goldberg later won a first prize 
in the R. I. Science Fair at Marvel Gym- 
nasium, with an exhibit demonstrating the 
practical employment of solar energy. 

> SOME student leaders were conferring 
with Dean Durgin about University regu- 
lations with respect to automobiles. Unless 
commuters. Freshmen and Sophomores 
may not have cars in Providence, and, 
you'll recall, upperclassmen must register 
theirs with the Dean of Students as well as 
appropriate State authorities. There were, 
of course, some questions, of which this 
was one: "Dean, if you have a scooter, do 
you have to register it?" 

"If it has a motor, yes," the Dean re- 
plied. "If you push it yourself, you don't 
need to." 

> A PRINCETON Undergraduate had a ques- 
tion for his professor: "Why are we devot- 
ing a whole term to the study of John 
Locke? To me, this seems both meaning- 
less and impractical. I would suggest that 
we study something a little bit more signifi- 
cant, like the pizza pie and its relation to 
modern American society." 

The instructor gazed at the rebel. "It's 
unfortunate," he said, "that you have 
chosen such a poor . . . artifact." He re- 
turned to John Locke. 

> GENERAL ABRASIVE CO. farmed out a re- 
search job to an outside agency recently 
and got back a report which included this 
startling phrase: "Method used — Boric sin- 
ter method for the determination of NA20 
in alumni." Otto Forchheimcr comments: 
"I guess magazine editors are not the only 




persons gathering statistics on old grads." 
But he points out that these had been 
"alumina analyses." 

> A YOUNG, matter-of-fact instructor was 
calling the roll in his class at the Univer- 
sity of Nebraska and came to the name 
"Parrot." Two students answered, "Here, 
sir," because there were brothers in the 
class. The instructor brought down the 
house when he observed, "Killed two birds 
with one stone." 

Two days later the instructor entered a 
colleague's office laughing. He'd just seen 
through his own joke. 

> Dartmouth's able editor, Charley Wid- 
mayer, wrote in May: "The Alumni Maga- 
zine last month received a non-alumni com- 



munication expressing alarm over the 
Chinese birth rate. Because of a misprint, 
we cannot make out whether we were asked 
to stop it or top it. Either way, we beg off." 

> EMERY R. WALKER, JR.. '39, Dean of 
Admissions, shared with his associates a 
postal received recently. It said: "Mount 
Hermon School. Mount Hermon, Mass., 
appreciates the peppermint-flavored return 
envelopes for Brown financial aid refer- 
ences. Especially appreciated by College 
Counselor's office." 

> AT THE DINNER which he and John 
Lownes "23 underwrote for the Brown foot- 
ball coaches and the Providence press, Joe 
Buonanno "34 was talking about Lou Little, 
apropos of the latter's retirement from 
coaching at Columbia. After a meeting in 
New York, he and Denny Myers, former 
member of the Brown coaching staff, were 
driving Little back uptown. Lou didn't like 
the way Myers was handling the car and 
said: "For the love of Pete, Denny! Slow 
down or you'll get us all killed." "Well, if 
I do," Denny said, "you'll eel all the 
publicity, Lou." 

> a new jersey car. observed near the 
Brown Campus the other day, bore a large 
sticker-badge which said it was the "Na- 
tional Symbol of Traffic Safety." Some 
smaller type urged, among other things, 
saving lives and observing traffic rules. The 
car was illegally parked. 

BUSTER 



BROWN 

ALUMNI MONTHLY 



FEBRUARY 

1957 
Vol. LVII No. 5 



Board of Editors 

Chairman 

C. Arthur Braitsch '23 

Vice-chairman 
George W. Potter '21 

Gf.orge R. Ashbey '21 
Garrett D. Byrnes '26 
Warren L. Carleen '48 
Carleton Goff '24 
RoiiERT H. Goff '24 
Prof. I. J. Kapstein '26 

Managing Editor 
Chesley Worthington '23 

Assistant Editor 

John F. Barry, Jr., '50 



In This Issue: 

Hope College Legends 
From the Cliche Expert 
Psychology's Blueprints 
Brown "Will Get a Rink 
"The Jumping Parson" 
Advisory Council Plans 
The First Winter Games 
The Brown Clubs Report 
Brunonians Far and Near 



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12 
14 
16 
19 
20 



THE COVER PHOTO: With the reno- 
vation of Hope Cx)llege high on the 
priority list at Brown, what could be more 
appropriate than a cover picture of this 
Campus landmark? George Henderson 
'38. Director of the Brown Photo Lab, 
took this unusual view himself this winter. 
The interior of Brown's second oldest 
building is ancient, too. 



Published October. November, December, January, February. March, April, May, and July by Brown 
University, Providence 12, R. I. Admitted to the second class of mail matter under the Act of Au- 
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Alumni Council. The Magazine is sent to all Brown alumni. 



BEFORE BROWN 

Hopewell 
Came First 



ALTHOUGH the 200th anniversary of the 
. founding of Hopewell Academy in 
October passed without much notice, it was 
an occasion to which Brown University 
could not be indifferent. The short-lived 
Academy in Hopewell, N. J., pioneered in 
providing higher education under Baptist 
sponsorship in the American Colonies. 

According to the Trenton Times, the 
Academy Bicentennial will be marked in 
the spring when the American Baptist Con- 
vention meets in Philadelphia to com- 
memorate the 250th anniversary of the 
Philadelphia Baptist Association. It played 
an important part in advocating and pro- 
moting Hopewell Academy, which was a 
forerunner of Rhode Island College, now 
Brown University. 

The student body of Hopewell Academy 
included a group that later earned distinc- 
tion in the Baptist ministry. One was Dr. 
James Manning, founder and first President 
of Rhode Island College. Another student 
was Howell, its first tutor, later a mem- 
ber of Congress and Judge, and Secretary 
of the Brown Corporation. 

The Rev. Samuel Jones, noted Army 
Chaplain who was to give the Brown 
Charter its final form, also studied there. 
He declined an invitation to be the Col- 
lege's second President. Samuel Stillman, 
another eloquent Baptist minister, was a 
Hopewell alumnus who took an active part 
in founding the College. He was a signer of 
the petition for the Charter, ordered the 
first seal, and received an honorary degree 
at our first Commencement. Two other 
famous graduates of Hopewell were: Heze- 
kiah Smith, who organized more than a 
dozen Baptist churches in New England, 
and Isaac Skillman, member of the Boston 
Committee on Grievances in pre-Revolu- 
tionary days. 

The headmaster of the Academy was the 
local pastor, the Rev. Isaac Eaton, who re- 
ceived an honorary degree from Rhode 
Island College in 1770 at its second Com- 
mencement. Still standing today is the 
dwelling in which Hopewell Academy was 
housed in part. Now the home of Mayor 
G. Newell Holcombe at 9 West Broad St., 
it was then the parsonage for what was 
later called the Old School Baptist Church. 
A second building was erected adjacent to 
it to provide classroom and living quarters 
for the students. (Eaton's tombstone rests 
in the outer wall of the Old School Bap- 
tist Church.) 

Although Hopewell Academy went out 
of existence in 1767, after only 11 years, 
it continues to be recognized within the 
American Baptist Convention as the sym- 
bol of the birth of advanced theological 
training for its ministry. The Old School 
Baptist Church severed its connection with 
the Central New Jersey Baptist Association 
in 1835, during a denominational contro- 
versy over missions and Sunday Schools. A 
later church. Calvary Baptist Church, 
shows in its minute books that observances 
to mark the founding of Hopewell Acad- 
emy were held at frequent intervals. 




THE ACADEMY in Hopewell, N. J.: The Baptists were encouraged to go ahead. 



Carrying the Mail 



Provost Arnold 

Sir: I suppose Sam Arnold must have 
had thousands of friends among Brown 
alumni, as he was the most completely 
friendly man I ever knew. 

I am very glad to make a modest dona- 
tion to the fund for a memorial scholarship, 
recalling that, as a student, Sam held a 
fellowship established by the Grand Army 
of the Republic. Now that the G.A.R. has 
itself passed out of existence, it is perhaps 
fitting that a scholarship at Brown is being 
established in the name of one whom it 
helped. 

ALEXANDER GARDINER '12 

Fairfield, Conn. 

(The Grand Army of the Republic Fellow- 
ship still exists for the benefit of a graduate 
student. It was created in 1891 by a gift of 
$10,000. "The income is awarded annually 
to a man graduate of Brown University of 
acknowledged excellence in scholarship and 
character. Descendants of Union veterans 
of the Civil War are always to be preferred 
when the other qualifications of candidates 
are equal." In speaking of the Provost, let 
us correct an error in our last issue: The 
funeral was held in the Central Congrega- 
tional Church. — Ed.) 

Dept. of Coincidence 

Sra: I, too, enjoyed the Brown Band at 
the football games last fall, both for their 
music and the originality of their halftime 
stunts. 

You remark that the Band introduced a 
political note at the Penn game on Oct. 20 
in this fashion: An animated golf club 
putted a ball into a hole, in tribute to 
Eisenhower, following this with another 
formation which used the same hole but 
surrounded it with the outline of a shoe- 
sole, the Stevenson trademark. 

What was my surprise, then, to see a 
diagram in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin 



illustrating the same two formations em- 
ployed by the Harvard Band in the Har- 
vard-Penn game of Nov. 3. The Pennsyl- 
vania partisans must have been even more 
amused by the repetition two weeks after 
Brown's presentation. 

ROSCOE DRUMBEAT 

The Legend about Johnnie 

Sir: I regret the appearance in print of 
the Johnnie Green story which ends, "My 
weakness is wine." I do not deny that wine 
was Johnnie's weakness (nor did Johnnie). 
I do not deny that his tongue could be mor- 
tally sharp. But I cannot believe that 
Johnnie was capable of so ungentlemanly, 
so impolite, so brutal a comment at the ex- 
pense of a Pembroke girl. It would be more 
in keeping with Johnnie's kind, helpful, and 
generous character if he were reported to 
have said to a Pembroke student under such 
circumstances, "My dear, up to this mo- 
ment, my weakness has been wine." 

Inaccuracy usually marks students' 
stories about former teachers. I suspect that 
there are at least two reasons for this: 

1 ) There are floating paedagogical tales 
which (even if they were true of one 
teacher in one college) become unjustly 
fastened to many other teachers in many 
other colleges. If you are interested I can 
demonstrate from evidence 2500 years old 
the powerful human tendency to make such 
erroneous attributions — they are made not 
entirely without reason, but for insufficient 
reasons and despite evidence to the con- 
trary. 

2) A student likes to prove that he was 
taught by colorful teachers. The student 
does not care what the color is — he adds 
anything colorful: e.g. the teacher was a 
dope, the teacher was a wit; the teacher was 
so wealthy he never bothered to collect his 
salary, the teacher had a wealthy student 
who used to lend him money for breakfast 

(Continued on page 30) 



Hope College 

When You've Been Around 
135 Years, You're Bound 
to Figure in Some Memories 



THE ARGUMENT in favor of constructing a new building 135 
years ago sounds familiar today: Brown University had 
grown to a point where existing dormitory accommodations 
were no longer sufficient. Accordingly, the Corporation ap- 
pointed a committee. This, however, was 1821, and the building 
that followed was Hope College. 

Since then, Hope has held a strong and curious hold on the 
sentiments of its residents and all generations of Brown men. 
Attention has now been newly directed to it. It holds a high 
priority in the catalogue of objectives in the $30,000,000 pro- 
gram which will culminate in the University Bicentennial of 
1 964. The restoration of Hope College will take place, however, 
well before that date, because of a singular opportunity to move 
on this long-deferred project: When the West Quadrangle is 
completed later this year. Brown will be able to withdraw Hope 
from use temporarily. The restoration will, therefore, be under- 
taken at that time and be pressed with all speed. The estimated 
cost is in the neighborhood of $350,000. 

When the Trustees of the Brown University Fund held their 
meeting on the Campus on Dec. 1, they seized upon the Hope 
College restoration as something in which alumni would im- 
mediately be interested. The Trustees did not depart from their 
customary pledge to provide funds for current operations of 
the University, now so essential to Brown's finances. In addition 
to such plans, though, the Fund's leaders added a further ob- 
jective: they voted to make their campaigns of 1956-57 and 
1957-58 so successful that a substantial share of these Funds, 
"over and above that required for current needs, may be de- 
voted to the restoration of Hope College." 

"Hope College cannot continue any longer as it is," President 
Keeney said when the University Corporation was discussing 
the Bicentennial Development Program at its October meeting. 
"It must be renovated during this period (several months after 
the West Quadrangle is occupied) when we shall have elbow- 
room." Dr. Keeney described the old building as "second only 
to University Hall as a sentimental and architectural asset." 
Even if its priority in the Bicentennial Program was not high, 
the logic of action with respect to Hope would be inescapable. 
There will be no better time to renovate it. 

Thanks Again to Nicholas Broivn 

Brown University had grown healthily in 1821 when the 
Corporation met on Sept. 6, 1821. The student body numbered 
152, including 49 Freshmen. A committee was appointed, in- 
cluding President Messer, Nicholas Brown, and Thomas P. Ives. 
Its instructions: "to consider on the propriety of erecting an- 
other College edifice." A few weeks later the committee was 
authorized "to select and if necessary to purchase a suitable site 
for another College edifice ... to erect the edifice on such 
plan and of such dimensions as they may think proper . . . 
and to solicit donations and draw on the Treasury for the above 
purpose." 




Its restoration will start this year. ■ 

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THE EARLIEST PRINT of Hope College, when it was Brown's "other edifice." 



The result, says Bronson in his History of Brown Universily, 
showed the wisdom of leaving so much latitude to a committee 
of which Mr. Brown was a member. He was the son of one of 
the founders of the College, a member of the Class of 1786, 
and served as University Treasurer from 1796 until 1825. He 
had made a gift of money, a large sum for the times, in 1804, 
as the result of which the name of Rhode Island College had 
been changed to Brown University. His benefactions continued 
through the years until they aggregated about $160,000. 
(Manning Hall and the Library Fund came into existence 
through his generosity, too.) 

The land originally acquired on College Hill had included 
only eight acres; the site of Hope College was not in it, nor that 
of Rhode Island Hall. On Jan. 13, 1823, then, the Corporation 
committee reported that a lot had been purchased of Nathan 
Waterman, and that on it had been erected "by Nicholas Brown 
Esq. the distinguished patron of the University ... an elegant 
brick building . . . length 120 feet Width 40 feet four stories 
high and containing 48 rooms." (The lot, incidentally, had cost 
$5,189. Land values had gone up, a now familiar phenomenon 
in the University neighborhood.) 

"Erected Wholly at My Expense" 
At the same meeting a letter from Mr. Brown was read, which 
began as follows: "It affords me great pleasure, at this ad- 
journed meeting of the Corporation, to state that the College 
Edifice, erected last season ... is completed." He said he was 
"warmly attached to the Institution where I received my edu- 
cation, among whose founders and benefactors was my hon- 
oured Father deceased." "Believing that the dissemination of 
letters and knowledge is the great means of social happiness," 
he went on, "I have caused this Edifice to be erected wholly at 
my expense, and now present it to the Corporation of Brown 
University to be held with the other Corporate property ac- 
cording to the Charter. As it may be proper to give a name to 



this new Edifice, I take leave to suggest to the Corporation that 
of 'Hope College.' 

"I avail myself of this occasion to express a hope, that Heaven 
will bless and make it useful in the promotion of Virtue, Science, 
and Literature, to those of the present and future generations, 
who may resort to this University for education. With respect- 
ful and affectionate regards to the individual members of this 
Corporation, I am their friend, Nicholas Brown." 

The Corporation had the grace to respond: "That the mem- 
bers of this Corporation entertain a very high sense of the 
liberality of this Patron of Science, in the gift of this new 
building, in addition to his former large donations to this Uni- 
versity." How could the Corporation show its gratitude? A 
committee reported in favor of having his portrait painted and 
"placed in an apartment of one of the Colleges." Although 
Mr. Brown delayed the execution of this project for some years. 
it was finally accomplished. Today all Brunonians look often at 
it as it hangs on the east wall of Sayles Hall. 

A second proposal of the committee's was not successful. It 
sought to have "a monumental marble" placed in the front of 
Hope College "with a suitable inscription." Mr. Brown's mod- 
esty defeated this second plan. 

Whence the Name Hope College 

The new building took its name from Mrs. Hope Ives, wife 
of Thomas P. Ives, the only surviving sister of Mr. Brown. 
Bronson says: "It is reputed to be one of the purest specimens 
of colonial architecture in New England, less massive than 
University Hall, but light and graceful in its lines." It was de- 
signed as a dormitory and so used from the start. For many 
years, however, its rooms were not all needed for lodgings; 
some served other purposes. The famous literary societies, the 
Phiiermenian and United Brothers Societies, which anteceded 
Brown's fraternities, had quarters on the top floor of the North 
Division. The building, incidentally, cost about $20,000. (At 



FEBRUARY 1957 



the same meeting of the Corporation which received and named 
Hope College, the Fellows and Trustees voted "That the old 
College Edifice be named 'University Hall.' ") 

We could wish someone had undertaken a history of Hope 
College, formal and informal, or even compiled a roster of the 
Brown men who had lived in it. What hundreds, even thousands, 
of students have run up its grooved stairs or pushed those 
curious swinging doors at the entrance to its three lower halls? 
How many greetings or messages or taunts have been shouted 
up to or from its windows? It would be a colorful, distinguished 
company which knew it as a College home and would admit to 
having worn it down. 

Its scars alone would tell quite a story, and the first were not 
long in coming. Soon after the building was completed, a com- 
mittee of the Corporation reported that "the outside doors in 
the New College have been injured in a shameful manner & 
the Committee are sorry to remark, there appears a disposition 
to cut waste and distroy (sic) the Buildings." 




ALMOST AS STORIED as Hope College have been its pumps. 
The Class of 1894 gave the present one. 



The current concern for Hope College is not the first attempt 
to venerate the venerable building. Attention was directed to 
student housing after the new library (now Robinson Hall) had 
been dedicated in 1878. Not even The Bnmonian could con- 
demn the condition of the dormitories more vigorously than 
President Robinson: Of University Hall, he said, "Its battered 
doors, its defaced walls, the gaping flooring of its hall-ways, 
and the unmistakable odor of decay pervading the building, 
made parents who came to select rooms for their sons, turn 
from the premises with ill-concealed disgust." 

"The other dormitory," he added, "erected in 1822, had in- 
side and out fewer marks of age, but was only a little less unin- 
viting than the older building. The entries and stairways of the 
dormitories had never been lighted at night; the students groped 
their way up and down as best they could." 

Whether anything was done about Hope College at that 
time does not appear, but it was in disrepair in 1891. One de- 
scription speaks of the cracked north wall, rotting timbers, 
"the whole interior worn and dingy." Marshall Woods of the 
Class of 1845 (remembered in part today for the lecture series 
which bears his name) was Chairman of the Real Estate Com- 
mittee. He supervised a program of thorough renovation at a 
cost of $35,000 — nearly twice what the building had originally 
cost. A cellar was dug, weak parts were strengthened, and the 
interior was completely refinished in far better style than before. 

The fireplaces in Hope College are always remembered. Some 
older alumni used to speak of storing coal in their cupboards, 
but the fires were a necessity, not a luxury. When the heating 
station was begun in 1890, to heat Sayles Hall and Wilson, it 
was not long before Hope College was tied into the over-all 
system. Its tunnels are know to a few adventurous Brunonians. 

The Mystic Letters H.C.G.L.A. 

Another comfort had come earlier. The late Prof. Wilfred 
H. Munro '70 wrote, in Memories of Brown: "Only a few of 
the rooms enjoyed the blessing of gas. We of Hope were of the 
elect. We formed an association which was embalmed in the 
Liber. The mystic letters H.C.G.L.A. may be seen there sur- 
rounding a skull and crossbones, the letters standing for Hope 
College Gas Light Association. Singularly enough, the one 
really important office in the Association, that of Treasurer, 
always went to a Freshman. This may have been because the 
Treasurer was responsible to the gas company for the bills. He 
was supposed to collect them, pro rata, from his fellows. If 
these did not pay, then, like the Roman Curial of old, the Treas- 
urer was forced to make up the deficiency — and thereby hangs 
a tale. 

"We had an excellent lot of Treasurers while I was an oc- 
cupant of 23 Hope, but the years following my graduation saw 
a change. The Freshman one year was not sufficiently alive to 
the dignity of his office to use his own money for satisfying the 
moderate demands of the gas company. Consequently, the 
meter was removed from the hall of the North Division, and 
the supply of gas was cut off. 

"Some months afterward the official who had taken out the 
meter happened to pass by Hope at night. He saw that the 
edifice was even more brilliantly illuminated than in the olden 
days. Investigation disclosed the fact that it had occurred to 
some student that a rubber tube might be applied to the pipe 
leading to the meter in such a way as to bypass the shut-off. The 
next night saw Hope once more shrouded in darkness." 

Water from Well and Pump 

Before the Civil War, there was no public water supply serv- 
ing College Hill. Such luxuries as bath tubs or modern plumbing 
were unknown on the Campus. "The supply," wrote a member 
of the Class of 1858 50 years after his graduation, "consisted of 
two ordinary stoned wells, each of which was covered with a 
wooden framework containing a windlass or wheel, from which 
a large stone was suspended, capable of balancing 'an old 



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oaken bucket.' The quality of the water of such wells would be 
regarded as open to question." The writer, Seth W. Abbott, be- 
came famous as an authority on public health and prepared the 
U. S. exhibit on hygiene for the Paris Exposition of 1900. He 
recalled that the College Registrar used to mow the grass on the 
Front Campus and make it into hay. One night the Hope Col- 
lege well was stuffed with haycocks and "for a time the water 
strongly resembled herb tea." 

City water did not arrive in Hope College until 1885. Before 
that time, every drop of water used by the 100 students had to 
be lugged from the old well in the rear of the building in pitch- 
ers. "It was by no means a pleasant task upon a cold winter 
morning for those occupying the upper floors," Anthony Mc- 
Cabe wrote. 

At a period when stoves were in use in Hope College, it was 
common for students to heat shaving water on them. Often the 
iron dipper on the old pump would be borrowed for this pur- 
pose, "which did not meet the approval of the students in Uni- 
versity Hall," who had to draw from the same pump. Finally. 
there appeared one morning a very large iron dipper with the 
inscription cut on the inside: "Presented to Brown University 
by Charles M. Sheldon." This meant undergraduate fame for 
a man who was to become world renowned later as the author 
of one of the 10 best-sellers of all lime, "In His Steps." 

For many years the old pump remained without dipper, until 
the Class of 1 904 presented the College with the new pump now 
in place between Hope and Rockefeller Hall. The old pump 
was removed to become a feature of the trophy room in the 
Brown Union. 

Until 1885, Hope College had no interior drainage except 
a small pipe leading from the South Division. All the waste 
water from 48 rooms had to be carried and deposited in a large 
iron bowl there. If the pipe froze in the winter, water would be 
thrown from the windows. Sometimes, like the waterbags of 
later generations, this would be well aimed. 

One Closet for Your Coal 

Each room had two narrow closets, one for clothing and the 
other for a coal bin. Ashes went, theoretically, into a large iron 
ash can chained to the wall in each hallway. They tell a story 
of a young man in I 8 Hope whose two roommates failed their 
first exams and left Brown. The survivor could not afford the 
room by himself and had to give it up. He also had trouble sell- 
ing their winter's supply of coal since everyone else had simi- 
larly ordered. He had the daytime use of the adjoining room 
through an arrangement with his friends there and delighted in 
its unfailing warmth even on the coldest days. When he finally 
found a customer for his coal, however, he discovered his bin 
was empty. His friends had cut their way from their closet 
through the separating partition into his supply. The comforts 
he'd enjoyed next door had been all on him. 

Memories of Brown is full of pranks recalled, rather mild 
for modern interest, most of them: the duckings at the pump, 
the bedevilling of delivery men, the salutes to Waterman St., 
the first attempts at gag photography, the hazing of Freshmen, 
and the like. A few fraternities were quartered in Hope, perhaps 
the most recent of them Kappa Sigma. It was always a center 
of strong student spirit, at least as a base of operations, and each 
generation added its bit to the lore of the place. Men in the '20s 
recall the night that a student who played feminine leads in Sock 
and Buskin returned in costume from such a masquerade. He 
led old Cap Cameron, the watchman, a merry chase through the 
building. The latter thought he was rescuing an innocent girl 
from the clutches of its occupants. 

Only last Class Night, an officer of Buildings and Grounds 
spotted two couples clambering through a window of Hope Col- 
lege from Waterman St. It looked like a brash manoeuvre to 
bypass the control points for the Campus Dance where one 
pays or presents a ticket. When encountered, however, the cul- 




UNTIL 1885, when City water arrived in Hope, every drop had 
to be lugged from the old well nearby. 

prits did not seem the least dismayed. "We're not trying to crash 
the party," one of them said, producing tickets to prove the 
point. "When we were roommates as undergraduates, we often 
used to climb in the window from the street. We just wanted to 
see whether we could still do it, and our wives climbed in with 
us, just for the heck of it." 

Hope College has seen a succession of wars when its residents 
wore military uniforms. One of our 1943 covers showed a 
helmeted Air Force unit assembling for a formation outside. 
It always made a good picture or a background for one. Outside, 
it looks as handsome and mellow as ever. Inside is another story, 
with only minor improvements there in recent years. 

]Vristons First Visit to Hope 

When Henry Merritt Wriston was being considered for the 
presidency of Brown, he came to Providence for an interview 
with some members of the University Corporation. They 
reached a point when they wanted to talk among themselves, 
and Vice-President Adams was delegated to "show him the 
Campus." Since Hope College was at hand, they went inside 
there first. Dismayed at its condition. Dr. Wriston turned to his 
guide. "Don't take me in any other buildings," he said. "If they 
want me to come, I'd be too discouraged by what I've seen." 

Hope College received attention during his administration, 
but Dr. Wriston spoke of the building at the time of his re- 
tirement as his "failure." For all that he accomplished, here 
was one job not properly done, only tinkered at, patched up in 
makeshift fashion. He referred to the building in one of his 
last speeches as President, before the Rhode Island Brown Club, 
reflecting on his ISVi years at College Hill. He said: 

"Hope College is an historic structure, one of the oldest in 
continuous use in the United States, the College home of famous 
men for 135 years. Yet, after 135 years, it stands in a condition 
unworthy of its great past, scandalously unfit to uphold its 
great tradition. It is a place where I found myself completely 
frustrated." 

There were, of course, good reasons why the complete reno- 
vation had not taken place: the Depression, the war years, the 
overcrowding of the Campus after the war when every room 
was needed. Some money had been allocated to Hope College, 
including one major gift of $100,000. But, by the time the proj- 
ect could be attacked, inflation had come along, and the amount 
in hand was far from sulTicient. The triumph of the Housing 
and the Development Campaign did not help Hope, either, for 

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The Cliche Expert 
Experiences College 




With Tongue in Cheek 
and Chestnut in Hand, 
He Has a Field Day 

By Charles H. Watts '47 




The author of this caprice is an Assistant Professor of 
Englixh at Brown and Assistant to the Dean of the College. 
Obviously, he knows his sfnjf bnt nut his oivn strength. 



I I: What were you when you first arrived on campus? 

Xl A: Ready to begin the four most rewarding years of 
my life. 

Q: What had the Admission Officers told you to expect? 

A: A period of adjustment. 

Q: What happened after your period of adjustment? 

A: I was swept into an extensive program that had been 
planned for me. 

Q: Who were your classmates? 

A: Fellows like myself, drawn from every corner of the coun- 
try; like myself, a cross section of the youth of America. 

Q: Tell me, do you know how you were chosen by your col- 
lege? 

A: On the basis of test scores, with careful consideration to 
every facet of personality and training, only after the most 
rigorous screening of applicants, and after careful delibera- 
tion' 



Q: What else do Admission Officers do? 

A: They welcome you to the historic campus: they instill in 
you a sense of the living tradition, and they disappear after 
you have entered college. . . . Don't you want to hear 
what else happened to me? 

Q: Very well. 

A: I underwent an extensive series of tests. 

Q: How interesting; did you learn the results of those tests? 

A: Oh, no: that would have been educationally unsound. 

Q: I see; well, what were these tests? 

A: They were revealing: they revealed my predicted decile. 

Q: What good does that do? 

A: It will show whether I am an under-achievcr or an over- 
achiever: it provides a standard of measurement: it indi- 
cates whether I am a good educational risk: it. . . . 

Q: I think I get the idea. Now, if you don't mind, I'd like to find 
out a little more about your life at college. What is college? 

A: It is one short golden section of the journey through life. 

Q: What is the college community? 

A: A microcosm. 

Q: A microcosm? 

A: Yes, of the microcosm of the greater world without: it is 
a testing ground where the youth of today become the 
leaders of tonnirrow: il is a hatt'efie!il of ideas. 



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What is it rich with? 

Tradition, opportunity. 

What is the college atmosphere charged with? 

Excitement, enthusiasm, the spirit of young men finding 

themselves. 

Q: Tell me, what kind of a college is Brown? 

A: It is a residential college, offering the facilities of a univer- 
sity as well as the intimacies of a small college. 

Q: Isn't that kind of awkward? What is the college student who 
gets lost in the university atmosphere urged to take ad- 
vantage of? 

A: The friendly guidance of Faculty counselors wise in the 
ways of the world and of youth. 

Q: I see: what does he do? 

A: He offers wise counsel without robbing me of my initiative. 

Q: What is he preparing you for? 

A: To join the lasting fellowship of Brown men. 

Bricks and Mortar 

Q: Have you anything to say about the Campus itself? 

A: It is elm-shaded and rich with tradition: it crowns College 
Hill at the headwaters of that beautiful inland sea, 
Narragansett Bay. 

Q: What about its architecture? 

A: It is studied often as a cross section of developing Ameri- 
can taste and culture: it reflects the awareness of passing 
generations of the ideals of beauty and variety. 

Q: What must a college building be above all else? 

A: Beautifully functional. 

Q: I wonder if you would tell me what a Quadrangle is. 

A: It is a unique contribution to student housing: it is being 
studied by countless other colleges: it is not merely brick 
and mortar: it is a city within a city: it fulfills the motto of 
the Housing Office, "Every boy in a room and a room for 
every boy." 

Q: Why has the Quadrangle drawn nation-wide attention? 

A: Because of its unique facilities. 

Q: What sort of provision is always made? 

A: Ample. 

Q: But beyond that: tell me what a dormitory provides for. 

A: Exceptionally favorable opportunities for the stimulating 
interplay of mind with mind. 

Q; What does a dormitory always have? 

A: Attractive lounges and game rooms. 

Q: How are the rooms furnished? 

A: With a careful attention to every detail. 

Q: Can you explain to me the duties of the various administra- 
tive officials within the University? 
No, sir. 

What have you to say about Pembroke? 
Its first graduate was Mary E. Woolley. 
Where is Pembroke located? 
To the North. 

Outside the Classrootn Walls 

Q: Speaking of extracurricular activities, I wonder if you 
would tell me what student organizations do. 

A: They bring together men of kindred interests and afford 
valuable experience for the undergraduate. 
What is the Blue Room? 
Do you mean for the Strong or the Weak? 
Never mind. What sort of advantages does the City of 
Providence offer students? 
Rare ones. 

What does the Faunce House Theatre do? 
It serves well the meritorious work of the dramatically- 
minded and affords the spectators comfort and satisfaction. 
It is sometimes very much like the Roman Arena. 
What is the Brown Dailv Herald? 



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Opinions vary. . . i 
What does it do? 

It maintains the highest journalistic standards while ex- 
plicating crises. 

Tell me, you've been here for four years and are a re- 
sponsible member of the College Community: just what do 
fraternities do? 

They foster the spirit of brotherhood: they flourish: they 
practice democracy without denying differences among 
men: they provide meaningful relationships: they offer the 
social benefits which accrue from the association of men 
with common interests: they — 

Expanding Horizons 

Enough! I see, thank you. . . . Let me get back to your 
studies for a moment: how do you regard them? 
As an important part of College Life. 
What does a student do with his courses? 
He uses them as building stones to construct a career ac- 
cording to his own architectural design. 
How interesting: therefore a student is free to choose his 
own courses within what? 
Within educationally meaningful patterns. 
What are these patterns? 

Distribution in breadth and concentration in depth. 
Take them one at a time. What does the distribution pattern 
develop? 

Broad interests through the cultivation of knowledge and 
an appreciation of the achievements of man. 
That sounds broad enough: what is a concentration pattern? 
It is an interrelated series of courses leading to knowledge 
in depth; it fulfills the Faculty's intention of "A pattern for 
every student and every student in a pattern": it is also a 
field. 

Good heavens! Does it do anything else? 
It provides mastery. 

I hardly dare ask what the IC Program is. . . . 
It is a revolutionary concept. 
What does it try to do? 

Avoid textbooks: analyze significantly: discuss ideas. 
Where do the ideas come from? 
They are provided. 

Talking of the IC Program, what is it too early for? 
Evaluation or appraisal of it. 
What does it inevitably arouse? 
Unusual enthusiasm in both Faculty and students. 
What happens to library circulation? 
It goes up every year because of the IC courses. 
What happens to a student's curiosity? 
It is ignited. 



All Work and No Play? 

Q: On the lighter side, may I ask why intramural games are 

always encouraged? 

Because we believe that there should be "A game for every 

man and every man in a game." 

What have you to say about the academic average of the 

football team? 

It is always higher this year than anyone else's except Pem- 
broke's. 

What do you seek in the sports arena? 

A fairly earned share of cleanly-fought victories. 

What are intercollegiate athletic contests? 

A reject from the English Department described them as 

good wine which, however, readily turns to vinegar when 

fermentation rises to the point of obsession. 
Q: What call loudly to the more adventurous athletic spirits? 
A: The open waters of the Seekonk. 
Q: This is all well and good, you know, but I think we may 



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have missed several basic points. I'd like to ask you more 
about yourself: can you tell me what all college students 
hope eventually to become? 

A: Rich. 

Q: What! 

A: Excuse me: 1 mean rich in tradition. 

Q: What do you yourself wish to become? 

A: I want to become well-rounded. 

Q: How do you become well-rounded? 

A: You avoid narrow specialization: you train your mind: you 
develop perspectives: you educate the whole man. 

Q: The whole man? 

A: Yes: you make college a richly rewarding experience which 
permeates every fibre of his being, which awakens his pulse, 
which sends his thoughts ranging: you. ... 

Unlocking the Doors 
Q: Yes, yes, I see very clearly indeed. Let me ask you about 
just one more subject: what is your relationship to Faculty 
members? 



Rewarding. 

Is that all? Don't they stimulate? 

Oh, yes; they encourage, they stimulate, they provide ex- 



amples, and, especially, they contribute. 
Q: Contribute to what? 
A: Deeper understandings, fuller appreciations, and broader 

scopes. 
Q: That's nice: what else does the Faculty do? 
A: They educate youthful minds, guide them along the paths 

of awakening thoughtfulness. 
Q: Oh. I thought they were teachers. 
A: Oh, no; they are Professors. 
Q: What are they if they aren't Professors? 
A: They are Doctors of Philosophy. 
Q: Even those in the Science Departments? 
A: I didn't take any Science. 
Q: Tell me, have you found out what Faculty members do 

during summer vacation? 
A: No. 

Q: What do Faculty members mostly do in their spare time? 
A: They research: they study areas of human experience: they 

develop currents and analyze tendencies: sometimes they 

get married. 
Q: Where do they live? 
A: Oflf campus. 



Psychology's Blueprints 



THE Brown University Psychology Department should be 
able to start catching up with itself in the fall of 1958, ac- 
cording to its Chairman, Dr. Harold Schlosberg. He explains 
that in recent years members of the Psychology staff have had 
to postpone certain research projects they would have liked to 
tackle for the simple reason that they didn't have enough labo- 
ratory space to do the work. 

The solution of the space problem was assured in December 
when Brown learned it had obtained a Federal grant that will 
cover about one third of the cost of a new $1,200,000 Psy- 
chology Building. An earlier gift from John D. Rockefeller, 
Jr., '97 has been drawn upon for the balance, an allocation an- 
nounced at the time. If planned schedules are met, the new 
building will be ready for occupancy by the summer of 1958. 

The Psychology Department — rated by President Keeney 
as "one of the best in the country, if not in the world" — has 
been increasingly handicapped in recent years by its lack of 
adequate quarters. The Department has traditionally con- 
centrated its work in fields where strict laboratory controls are 
essential. It has had to maintain its laboratories, however, in 
three old wooden frame buildings — former private residences 
—that have been only marginally adequate for scientific work. 
These buildings will soon be razed, and the new building — 
about 105 feet square, with three floors and a basement — will 
be constructed cm the site, which is on Waterman St. just east 
of Faunce House. 

No Three-Ring Circus 

Dr. Schlosberg says he was particularly pleased by the Fed- 
eral grant, because "hard-headed medical people were willing 
to shell out $400,000 for a Psychology laboratory." The medi- 
cal people he was referring to are members of the committee 
of private citizens who advise the Government on the alloca- 
tion of funds under the Health Research Facilities Act. Brown, 
in its application for construction money, had to convince the 
committee that its Psychology Department was, in fact, con- 
tributing to health research. 

"Our Department is well known in the medical profession," 
Dr. Schlosberg says, "because a lot of its work is in the border- 



land between Physiology and Psychology and might just as 
well be done in a medical school." One of the staff members, 
for instance, has developed a technique for measuring the elec- 
trical impulses given off by nerve tissues of the eye. This tech- 
nique is being used by an increasing number of ophthalmolo- 
gists as a diagnostic aid in certain cataract cases. Dr. 
Schlosberg says. 

Even with its new building, Dr. Schlosberg says, the Psy- 
chology Department will make no attempt to "cover the water- 
front" in its field. "We knew we could never attempt a three- 
ring circus," he says. "Instead of developing two or three 
areas, we decided to stick to the core area — Physiological Psy- 
chology. It's paid off. By any objective standard. Brown has 
one of the outstanding Departments." 

The basement of the new building will be devoted almost 
entirely to laboratories for research in Physiological Psychol- 
ogy. In its location, which should be relatively free from elec- 
trical interference, the Department will carry on its pioneering 
work in measuring the electrical impulses given off by nerve 
tissue of the eye. 

On the first fioor there will be a lecture hall seating about 
200; a conference room for seminar courses, at one end of 
which there will be a one-way vision screen so that subjects 
can be observed in an adjoining room without their knowledge; 
and two large laboratories for elementary courses. These latter 
laboratories will have a central lecture or conference space, 
surrounded by six-foot-square cubicles in which student pairs 
can carry on experiments and tests. 

Staff offices will occupy the perimeter of the second floor. 
The central area will contain small, windowless laboratories, 
offering the investigators maximum control over light and 
sound conditions. A seminar room seating about 40 persons 
will also be on the second floor. Most of the third floor will 
house the animals, principally rats, which are used constantly 
in research. The animal area, incidentally, will be the only air- 
conditioned section. Most of the interior partitions on all floors 
will be movable, enabling the Department to meet varying re- 
quirements for laboratory space. 



10 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



THE RINK 
IS COMING 

The Brown Corporation 

Gives the Green Liffht 

to a Long' -Awaited Project 



THE QUESTION has been asked again and again in recent 
years, sometimes in biope, sometimes in desperation: When 
is Brown University going to have an ice rink? The question 
has been asked more often in a 10-year period which has seen 
the number of covered rinks with artificial ice grow from 14 to 
34 in New England and New York, in addition to 18 other 
uncovered rinks. Fourteen of the rinks are at preparatory 
schools from which Brown likes to draw. A score are owned 
by colleges with which Brown has, for the most part, active 
relations. 

When was Brown, with a strong hockey tradition and a 
great opportunity for social skating, going to join the good 
company in this respect? At last, the answer seems to be: Be- 
fore long. 

For some time, a committee has been studying the situation 
at the request of the Brown Corporation. It was under the 
chairmanship of Edward R. Durgin, Dean of Students. It in- 
cluded: Chancellor Harold B. Tanner '09, J. Richmond Fales 
'10, former Chairman of the Athletic Council; Gen. H. Stan- 
ford McLeod '16 and Frederick A. Ballou '16, also Trustees; 
Paul F. Mackesey '32, Athletic Director; Ernest T. Savignano 
'42, and Foster B. Davis, Jr., '39. The committee consulted 
with an architect and reviewed plans and installations at other 
colleges. 

Only a Limited Solicitation 

A small group of alumni stood ready to solicit the necessary 
funds when it got the green light. That approval came at a 
meeting of the Advisory and Executive Committee of the 
Brown Corporation on Dec. 21. A goal of $500,000 has been 
set, and the prudential work began in January. 




THE BROWN BEAR 
will soon hove 
his own ice, too. 




HOCKEY teams will welcome the rink, but social 
skating and intramurols will benefit, too. 



You may not hear too much about this campaign, sanc- 
tioned as a part of the University's Bicentennial Development 
Program (and one of the first to get under way). The solici- 
tation began in Rhode Island in January, with approaches to 
a comparatively small group of those known to be interested 
in the rink project. Later, it will spread to other metropolitan 
areas on a similar basis. The committee hopes that others will 
respond, on their own initiative. 

The raising of the money for the ice rink, it is stressed, is 
wholly apart from the activities of the Brown University Fund. 
The committeemen are the first to appreciate that the success 
of this general annual program is paramount, particularly 
since the restoration of Hope College is linked with the cus- 
tomary purpose of the University Fund in the next two years 
to provide money for Brown's current operations. The quiet 
appeal for the ice rink is something over and above this vital, 
recurring need. 

The special committee to finance construction of the rink 
held its first meeting on Jan. 10. Its basic members are: Foster 
Davis, Chairman, Fales, Mackesey, and Savignano, from the 
survey group; Edward B. Aldrich '93, Dean W. E. S. Moulton 
'31, and Edward T. Richards '27. Some hockey lettermen will 
shortly be added, with representatives to work in other areas 
than Rhode Island. 

The committee has prepared a small brochure which de- 
scribes its project. The booklet traces the development of 
hockey as a Varsity sport at Brown, discusses its present limi- 
tations, lists the facilities in the competitive area, and partic- 
ularly speaks of the opportunity for intramural hockey and 
social skating in the community. (Many non-Brunonians are 
known to be interested in the latter aspect.) The committee 
notes that the University has made no appeal for funds to 
finance an addition to its athletic plant since 1925. 

Anyone interested in receiving a copy of the brochure may 
address: Foster B. Davis, Jr., P. O. Box 1532, Providence 1, 
R. I. Gifts to the rink project, cash or securities, may also be 
sent to him. Contributions are payable to Brown University. 

"We are anxious to have Brown alumni know that we are 
acting on behalf of the University and with its authority to 
make this limited, selective solicitation," Davis told us in Janu- 
ary. "We are confident that our friends will help in the de- 
velopment of hockey and skating at Brown by the provision 
of this rink." 



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"The Jumping Parson" 




BRUNONIANS watched with special in- 
terest on Sunday night, Jan. 13, when 
the CBS television show, Telephone 
Time, featured an episode in the life of 
the Rev. Raymond S. Hall '31, D.D., war- 
time Chaplain of paratroopers. The ac- 
tion was built around the episode when 
he realized he hod to become a para- 
trooper himself if he was to win the re- 
spect of his men and reach them with 
the word of God. Billy Halop played the 
role of Chaplain Hall, as shown in these 
photos. 




DR. HALL as he looked in 1946 when he 
received an honorary D.D. from Brown. 
A swimming champion as an under- 
graduate, he is now Director of the 
Seamen's Church Institute in New York. 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLV 



The Contributions 
of Provost Arnold 



THERE is an emptiness at this Christmas time in the hearts 
of many of us," President Keeney told the students in 
Chapel a few days after the death of Samuel T. Arnold '13. 
"I hope that many of you will wish to resemble him and that a 
few of you will succeed." 

What did the Provost mean to Brown University? The Pres- 
ident tried to explain: 

"He had many functions and heavy duties. His first func- 
tion was as the great conserving force, for it was he who 
caused us to stop and think about things we might have done 
impetuously. This was not a negative conservatism; it was a 
forceful and positive one. 

"He was the memory of the University. He had been here 
since he entered as a Freshman in 1 909. He knew what had been 
done in the past. He knew what had been tried before and why 
it had not succeeded. He knew what had been tried with suc- 
cess in the past. He gave us all wise counsel. 

"He was the heart of the University. Like Bruce Bigelow, he 
knew more Brown men than any of us. People all over the 
country, whether they were Brown men or not, thought of Sam 
Arnold when they thought of Brown. One reason that he was 
so beloved was that he had the deep inner happiness that comes 
from serving throughout his life the institution he loved the 
best. He was almost completely unselfish, but he always did 
what he wanted — to work for Brown. 

"But, above all, he was the conscience of the University, 
and he maintained with the fierce stubbornness of a gentle man 
what he though right and opposed what he thought was wrong. 
He had a monolithic integrity. 

"These functions were enough for any man, but he had very 
heavy duties. He was, in a sense, the executive head of the Uni- 
versity during two presidencies, for he had the power and the 
right to make almost any decision that the President made. 
Since a university president is an itinerant, he frequently had 
to make final decisions. He led the Faculty. It is partly due to 
his careful scrutiny of candidates for appointment that our 
Faculty has the quality it does today. He helped the Faculty 
in trouble, and he guided it in perplexity. He was the chief ad- 
ministrative officer of the University, and here his influence 
spread into every branch of the institution — administrative, fi- 
nancial, academic, and athletic. Ultimately, he was responsible 
for all the public functions of Brown. But, with all this, he had 
time for students and came to know many of them very well, 
particularly in their Senior year. 

"And so, in addition to the burden of our grief, we have 
upon us the burden of his duties. As usual, I am cheered and 
comforted by something he once said to me when I was 
younger and less patient than I am today. It was just before the 
opening of College. I was urging the adoption of a course of 
action that seemed more important to me than anything in the 
world. He said, "What you do not realize, Barney, is that, if 
you and I disappeared tonight, and everyone else in this build- 
ing, school would keep tomorrow." School kept last week, and 
it will continue to keep. 

"I ask you now to be silent for a moment in respect for the 
Provost and in prayer for ourselves." 




PROVOST 

ARNOLD: 

"School will keep." 



Renovating Hope College 

(Continued from page 7) 

more wholesale construction was needed to improve residence 
for more than the 90 Hope College could lodge. 

It was not wholly neglected, of course. The past 1 years have 
seen it improved. There are new showers, for example, and 
the western doors were blocked to prohibit traffic there. 
When the walks of the Front Campus were relocated, the paths 
to those doors were obliterated. But many a memory "wanders" 
that way, many a memory which will prompt alumni gifts to 
the urgent purpose of renovation. The University Fund has 
picked "a natural" toward which to direct alumni giving — for 
old times' sake, perhaps; certainly for future usefulness. 

(Have you a Hope College story of your own? We wish you'd 
drop it in the mail. — Ed.) 




ROBERT J. BAILEY, popular with generations who used the Brown Post Office, 
has gone back downtown, promoted to Supervisor. 



FEBRUARY 1957 



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All Set for 
the Council 



A Lively Week End Awaits 
Brown's Alumni Leaders 



THE PROGRAM for the 1957 Advisory Council of the Asso- 
ciated Alumni is in readiness for the delegates from Brown 
Clubs and other alumni leaders who come to College Hill for 
their working week end Feb. 8 and 9. It provides topics of 
timely reference, opportunity for meetings of specialized in- 
terests, and entertainment, according to the timetable arranged 
by Chairman Roger W. Shattuck '29. Auxiliary groups within 
the framework of the planning are the Trustees and regional 
chieftains of the Brown University Fund, the Association of 
Class Secretaries, and Brown Club Presidents and admissions 
workers. 

Delegates who arrive early will have an opportunity to visit 
classes in session on Friday, with registration starting at 9 a.m. 
in Alumni House, 59 George St. The traditional tea at the 
home of President and Mrs. Keeney, 55 Power St., will be the 
first social activity, at 4:30. After an open house at Alumni 
House at 6:30, the Advisory Council dinner will be held in 
Sharpe Refectory at 7:30. 

The evening talks take their theme from the Bicentennial 
Development Program: "Program for Progress." Vice-Presi- 
dent Thomas B. Appleget '17 will introduce the subject and 
introduce the following: Athletic Director Paul F. Mackesey 
'32— "The Hockey Rink." Librarian David Jonah — "The Li- 
brary Addition." Prof. Harold Schlosberg, Chairman of the 
Department of Psychology— "Academic Buildings." The pre- 
siding officer will be Robert H. Goff '24, President of the As- 
sociated Alumni. 

After a Dutch-treat breakfast in the Refectory at 8, regis- 
tration will resume on Saturday in both Alumni House and the 
Main Lounge of Faunce House. It should be noted that the 
Corporation Room of University Hall, headquarters in past 
years, will not be used in 1957 for the main session of the 
Council. 

A Busy Morning Schedule 

Three morning conferences will go on simultaneously on 
Saturday, starting at 9. The Brown University Fund will hold 
a general meeting in the Faunce House Art Gallery under the 
leadership of Gavin A. Pitt '38, National Chairman for 1957. 
This session will be followed by separate conferences: for 
Class Agents, in the same room; for Regional leaders, in the 
Board of Governors Room, also on the second floor of Faunce 
House. At the same time, the Association of Class Secretaries 
will hold its annual business meeting and discussion in the 
Faunce House Theatre Lounge, under Chairman Franklin A. 
Hurd '33. Brown Club Presidents and members of Brown 
Club Admission Committees will gather in the Corporation 
Room on the third floor of U.H. Coffee will be served from 10 
to 11 in the West Lounge of Faunce House, providing a 
"break" for those in the special meetings or a gathering point 
for all others. 

At 11, the official delegates and guests will assemble in the 
Theatre for the annual business meeting of the Advisory Coun- 



cil. After reports from the Alumni Secretary (William B. Mc- 
Cormick '23), the Alumni Treasurer (Richmond H. Sweet 
'25), and the Editor of the Brown Alumni Monthly (Chesley 
Worthington '23), the Council will receive nominations and 
ballot on candidates for Alumni Trustee and certain officers of 
the association. There will be time for a question period and 
discussion, too, before the Council Luncheon at the Refectory 
at 1:15. 

President Goff will be in the chair at the General Convoca- 
tion in Upper Manning Hall, which starts at 2:30. Chairman 
Pitt will disclose plans for the 1957 Campaign of the Brown 
University Fund, while Allen B. Williams '40, Executive Sec- 
retary, will make the awards for outstanding achievement last 
year. The athletic interest will be served by talks on the intra- 
mural program by Director John M. Heffernan '28 and Alva 
Kelley, speaking as coach of football. The climax will come 
in the observations of President Keeney on "The State of the 
University," always an Advisory Council highlight. 

A snack will be provided the delegates at Alumni House, 
starting at 5:30. Tickets will there be available for the Varsity 
hockey game against Yale at the R. I. Auditorium at 8:30 (the 
Freshman game is at 7) . Other sports events of the day will be 
swimming (against Wesleyan at 4), wrestling (against Cornell 
at 3), and basketball (across the town at Providence College 
at 8:30). 

Visiting the Classroom 

Friday will afford the delegates an opportunity to sit in on 
certain appropriate class sessions during the morning and after- 
noon. Alumni interested should make arrangements upon reg- 
istration, for there are limitations of space in some instances, 
particularly in the IC courses. The following classes are listed 
by Dean W. G. Lister: 

9 a.m. Prof. William H. Jordy: Art Dl — "Introduction to 
the Visual Arts." Prof. C. A. Robinson, Jr.: Classics D2 — "His- 
tory of the Hellenistic Age and Rome (Alexander the Great)." 

10 a.m. Prof. Hyatt H. Waggoner: English IC4 — "The Prob- 
lem of American Individualism (The Poetry of Robert 
Frost)." Prof. Allen McConnell "44: Political Science 106 — 
"Modern Dictatorship (The Russian Revolution of 1905)." 

11 a.m. Prof. Richard J. Chorley: Geology IC2 — "The Ap- 
palachians, a Key to Earth History." Prof. 'Vincent A. Tomas: 
Philosophy 161 — "Philosophical Analysis of Literature (Can 
Literature Express Truth?)." Prof. Lea A. Williams: "Politi- 
cal Science IC2 — "The Political Idea of Freedom (The Fed- 
eral Constitution of the United States)." 

1:10 p.m. Prof. Allen McConnell: History 132 — "Russian 
History to 1917 (Russia in the Early 19th Century)." 

2:10 p.m. Prof. James L. Giddings: Sociology 102 — "Cul- 
tural Anthropology (Life Crises in a Primitive Society)." 

3:10 p.m. Dean R. Bruce Lindsay '20: Physics 102 — "The 
Concept of Energy (Its History)." 

Among current exhibitions on the Hill will be the following, 
all inviting alumni inspection: Annmary Brown Memorial — 
"The Classical Authors in Renaissance Dress." John Carter 
Brown Library — "Manuscript Sources of American History 
(15th to 18th Centuries)." John Hay Library, Special Collec- 
tions Room — Sports Photos by "Archie" Arsenault of the 
Providence Journal-Bulletin. Faunce House, Art Gallery and 
West Lounge — "Best News Photos of 1955-56." 

The University Store will remain open on Saturday after- 
noon until 2 o'clock for the convenience of delegates and 
guests; its regular hours are 9 to 5 on Friday. Saturday eve- 
ning's motion picture show in Faunce House Theatre, "Tea 
and Sympathy," will have two screenings — at 7 and 9:15. 
Alumni will be welcome. 

Serving on Chairman Shattuck's committee on arrangements 
have been C. Arthur Braitsch '23, Morton H. Nickerson '35, 
Lester F. Shaal "29, Deans Roald Bergethon and William 
Lister, and the Alumni Secretary. 



1) 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS : 



Curtis Named Secretary; 
Appleget Gets 2 Aides 



ADMINISTRATIVE MOVES by President 
Keeney in December included naming 
Howard S. Curtis as Secretary of the Uni- 
versity and appointing two Assistant Vice- 
Presidents: Dr. Maurice J. Mountain '48 
of Washington and Mrs. Nelson B. Record 
"37 of Providence. The latter two will have 
duties at Brown and Pembroke, respec- 
tively, in assisting Vice-President Thomas 
B. Appleget '17 and other officers of the 
University in the Bicentennial Development 
Program and general development and 
fund-raising projects. They began their 
work on College Hill in January. 

Dr. Keeney said the three appointments 
had been planned prior to the death of 
Provost Arnold. For the time being, the 
Provost's duties are being undertaken by 
various members of the administration. 

Curtis, Director of Public Relations since 
1953, came to Brown in 1946 as Director 
of the News Bureau. He will retain his re- 
sponsibilities in charge of information 
services and public relations and have new 
administrative assignments. He is a member 
of the Education Committee of the New 
England Council, Secretary-Treasurer of 
the American College Public Relations As- 
sociation, Vice-Chairman of the Public Re- 
lations Committee of the Providence 
Chamber of Commerce, and President of 
the Norwood Public Library. In his new 
post he has, specifically, no responsibilities 
in the alumni area. 

Dr. Mountain had been Counsel for the 
U.S. House of Representatives Subcom- 
mittee on International Operations, which 




investigates the efficiency and economy of 
all U.S. non-military operations overseas. 
He has been the principal staff member 
employed by the Subcommittee to direct 
its investigations, conduct its hearings, and 
draft its reports. Earlier he was Staff Di- 
rector of the International Operations Sub- 
committee and an Operations Research 
Analyst on psychological warfare. He holds 
an A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard, the latter 
in U.S. foreign policy and international re- 
lations. 

In World War II, Mountain rose to the 
rank of Lt. Col., serving as a combat and 
War Department intelligence officer and 
staff officer under Generals MacArthur and 
Eichelberger in the Southwest Pacific. He 
was a graduate of the Command and Gen- 
eral Staff School, the Military Intelligence 
Center, and the Far East Intelligence 
School. 

Mrs. Record, the former Mary Louise 
Hinckley, is the wife of Nelson B. Record 
'35 and formerly directed the Pembroke 
College News Bureau. At various times, she 
has been Assistant Publicity Director for 
the Providence Community Fund, Publicity 
Director of the R. I. Blue Cross, and Chair- 
man of the Johnston Division of the Provi- 
dence Lying-In Hospital Building Fund 
Drive. She has also served as publicity di- 
rector of several local Community Funds in 
Rhode Island. She is currently Chairman- 
elect of the Pembroke Alumnae Association 
Scholarship Committee, a Director of the 
John Hope Community Association, and a 
leader in church work. 





MRS. NELSON B RECORD '37 
FEBRUARY 1957 



DR. MAURICE J. MOUNTAIN '48 



HOWARD S. CURTIS 



What One 
Man Did 

By Emery R. Walker, Jr., '39 
Deem of Aclntission 

THIS is the story of what one man can 
and did do for his Alma Mater. It is, in 
part, my way of saying thanks to that 
alumnus for an exceptional feat. An inci- 
dental hope is that it may offer encourage- 
ment to someone else who has the same op- 
portunity in his own community. 

For several years I have been promising 
myself a visit to Grand Rapids, since there 
have always been little flurries of interest in 
Brown there. This year we had several ap- 
plications and one entrant and I made up 
my mind to call. When my travel plans 
were set I sent a note to Bill Pollard '50. 
who had been by the office a few months 
before to say that I would be welcome if I 
ever wanted to make the trip. I told Bill in 
the letter that I would arrive early one 
evening and leave early the next evening 
and I told him I had two schools to see, 
but I agreed to be available in any of my 
free time for anything the alumni might 
want. 

This was like lighting a fuse. Within 
a very few days I got an answer back from 
Bill — two pages single-spaced. He had 
called on all six schools in Grand Rapids, 
had talked with all the principals and all 
the guidance people, had obtained lists of 
boys in each school who might be interested 
in going East to college, and had started to 
get in touch wiih all of the boys. He wanted 
36 copies of everything we publish. He was 
also getting in touch with alumni in the 
Grand Rapids area for a meeting the night 
I expected to be there. 

I landed in Grand Rapids on a Wednes- 
day night shortly after 7. Bill met me at the 
airport and took me to the hotel where I 
cleaned up. By 8 we had reached the 
Country Club where 56 people were 
gathered! These were boys, fathers, princi- 
pals, guidance people, and alumni. 1 



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pointed my remarks directly at the boys and 
showed my slides and then we had a very 
successful question-and-answer session. 
After that, the Harvard-Brown football 
movies were shown, and the meeting broke 
up. However, the alumni stayed — 11 of 
them — and we had a little further conversa- 
tion, during which I could point what I 
had to say directly at alumni. 

The next morning Bill met me as I 
finished my breakfast coffee at 8: 15 and by 
5:00 in the afternoon we had hit six 
schools! I have never before in my life 
visited more than four in one day, and we 
all consider three to be a full program. At 
several of the schools Brown material was 
prominently displayed on bulletin boards, 
at Bill's behest. I found that the boys who 
were gathered to listen to me had not only 
heard me the night before but in most cases 
had heard Bill, too. He had already visited 



The Bears Found It 



the homes of more than 30 boys ("I figure 
1 can get to about three each night"). The 
Guidance people were also buddies of Bill's 
by this time. Both the morning and the 
afternoon papers had stories about me (the 
material was 'provided by our Public Re- 
lations Office), which Bill had badgered the 
editors into running. 

Of course we ran out of material and 
more had to be mailed, but, other than that, 
Brown got about as big a play in that one 
city of 200,000 as it has ever had in any 
city in one day in all its history. But, be- 
yond helping a great many people to find 
out what a great institution this is. Bill and 
I fully expect that three or four good boys 
will come into Brown in the Class of 1961. 
After that, a little more of such activity 
each year will bring in several more boys in 
each class. There is no greater contribution 
to Brown. 



TOUGH TO GET 
GOING THIS YEAR 



Five Withoul the Ace 

AN ANKLE INJURY which sidelined scoring 
ace Joe Tebo midway through the 
Rhode Island game, third on the schedule, 
put a serious crimp in Brown's offense and 
was largely responsible for the unimpres- 
sive 2-5 record compiled by the basketball 
team prior to the Christmas vacation. The 
Freshman five, at that point, had a 3-2 
mark. 

The thing Coach Ward could least afford 
this season, especially early in the campaign 
when the Sophomores were still getting the 
feel of Varsity competition, was an injury 
to Tebo, the man who carried a major share 
of the scoring load a year ago. This Brown 
team simply isn't blessed with a multitude 
of men consistent in putting the ball 
through the hoop. With a sound Tebo in 
action. Ward's warriors are a good team. 
Without him, they are something less than 
that. 




U M 

^^f^(<^ •ttw*'. Ten Service Programs 



The one bright spot in an otherwise dark 
basketball report has been the outstanding 
play of Junior Gerry Alaimo. The big 
fellow, a center last season but a corner- 
man this year, quickly adapted himself to 
his new position and was leading the team 
in scoring with an average of 19 points per 
game. He also led the team and was 21st 
in the nation in rebounds. In the first four 
games that Tebo missed, Alaimo hit for 20, 
38, 13, and 25 points. Tebo was expected 
back by the time the second semester 
started, and he and Alaimo should provide 
Coach Ward with a scoring punch down the 
stretch. 

After splitting the first two games against 
Boston College and Northeastern, the 
Bruins were leading late in the first half in 
their battle against Rhode Island. Then, 
Tebo, who had scored 1 1 points in the first 
16 minutes, gave his ankle a bad twist and 
was forced to leave the game. The Rams, 
paced by a fine player in Billy Von Weyhe, 
then pulled into a 27-21 halftime lead. The 
Bruins did make it close several times in the 
final 20 minutes but the Rams, controlling 
the boards, hung on for a 58-49 victory. 

Coach Ward set up a zone defense to 
throw against the strong Providence Col- 
lege quintet, and for the first 27 minutes it 
looked as though an upset might be in the 
making. With 13 minutes to go, the Bruins 
led 47-44, but then the Friars broke through 
to take a one-point lead. They then started 
to pass the ball back and forth near mid- 
court and forced the Bruins to come out of 
their zone, a defense which had stopped the 
Friars from getting in for close shots at 
the basket. Moving into a man-to-man de- 
fense, Brown couldn't keep pace and went 
behind 55-47. Although Alaimo led a 
counter surge that reduced the P.C. lead to 
61-56, the Friars got hot again and pulled 
away for a 73-61 decision. Alaimo scored 
20 points, while Al Poulsen, the 6' 8" 
center, had his best night of the season with 
12 points. Bogar. again playing al guard in 



place of Tebo, came through with 1 1 tallies. 

In the opening Ivy game of the season, 
the Brown hoop squad came up with the 
unexpected as it upset Penn 72-66. For 
Brown, this was the first win in 12 tries 
against the Quakers. The Bruin mainly re- 
sponsible was Alaimo, who scored 38 points 
as he hit on 13 of 21 shots from the floor 
and 12 of 15 from the foul line. In addi- 
tion, he pulled in 23 rebounds. Tebo, al- 
though still limping, reported for the game 
and received permission from Dr. Crane to 
play briefly. He scored only four points in 
his few minutes of action, but he did sel 
up Alaimo for several of his baskets late 
in the game when Penn was pulling close. 
Poulsen also had a good night with 12 
points and 16 rebounds. 

Alaimo took charge right at the begin- 
ning and scored the first eight points of the 
game to give the Bears a quick lead. Half- 
time saw Brown out in front 40-33. Three 
straight hoops by Alaimo, as well as baskets 
by Capt. John Lyden, Bill Wadsworth, and 
Bogar, helped the Bruins into a 12-poinl 
bulge early in the second half. After Penn 
had cut the lead to four points with three 
minutes to play, Tebo entered the fray and 
sank a one-handed to ease the pressure. 
Lyden then put in two foul shots, and 
Brown was home free with its first big win 
of the season. Ward's fluid zone defense 
was a major factor in the victory as it kept 
the Quakers outside and helped limit their 
leading scorer, Dick Csencsitz, to five 
points. 

The Bruins faced a pair of undefeated 
foes in the next two tilts and fared badly 
against each. Harvard compelled Ward to 
abandon his zone defense when his two 
big men, Poulsen and Alaimo, picked up 
their fourth fouls midway through the firsi 
half. The Bears were then victims of a fast- 
breaking Harvard attack which helped the 
Crimson roll up a 92-47 decision. Brown 
managed to stay close until two minutes 
before the half ended. Then, and carrying 
over into the resumption of play. Harvard 
poured in 25 points before Brown could 
score again. Except for Alaimo 's 13, no 
Bear scored more than four points. 

The Bruins experienced another drought 
in the opening half of the game with the 
University of Massachusetts, falling behind 
45-13. Although Alaimo and his mates 
rallied to play a strong second half, the 
deficit was too great, and the Redmen won 
out 64-52. Alaimo had 25 points and Poul- 
sen seven. 

After easily defeating Northeastern in the 
opener, the Bear Cubs split their next four 
games, winning from Rhode Island (75-68) 
and Nichols Junior College (87-75) and 
losing to Providence College (79-62) and 
Harvard (71-67). Dave Reed, a forward, 
was pacing the team with a 16.2 average. 



Swimmers Off Well 

Jumping off to an early lead and then 
going on to capture six of the 10 events. 
Coach Joe Watmough's veteran swirnmers 
decisively defeated Columbia 51-35 in the 
opening meet of the season, breaking two 
Brown pool records in the process. The 
Cubs also showed much class as they 
dunked Dean Academy 51-25. This was 
Brown's only action in the tank prior to the 
Christmas vacation. 

Columbia was expected to prove a tough 
hurdle for the Bruins, but from the time the 
Bear swimmers won the opening event, the 
400-yard medley relay, they were never 
headed. Al Chapman, who made a practice 
of shattering records last year as a Sopho- 
more, picked up where he left off by setting 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



a new pool mark for the 200-yard butter- 
fly. His time was 2:35.2. However, Chap- 
man saw one of his old marks broken when 
Barr Clayson, also a Junior, set a new pool 
record for the 200-yard backstroke with a 
time of 2:20.2. Chapman's time had been 
2:21.1. 

Bob Friedlander, a Sophomore, came 
through with a victory in the 220-yard 
freestyle, an event Watmough had listed 
with a question mark, to give Brown a sub- 
stantial lead. After trailing in the early go- 
ing, Friedlander moved into contention 
with about 80 yards to go and just won by 
a touch. 

Columbia's Sophomore sprint star, Dick 
Stepcick, kept the Lions in contention by 
capturing the 50-yard freestyle in 24 sec- 
onds. He later won the 100-yard freestyle 
as well, to become the meet's only double 
winner. 

Dick Outerbridge, Brown's fine Sopho- 
more diver, scored 189.9 points to win his 
event, and Riddle won the 200-yard breast- 
stroke in 2:36. He also finished second to 
Chapman in the 200-yard butterfly. 

The Bear Cubs took seven of nine events 
in their victory over Dean Academy, losing 
only in the diving and the 100-yard back- 
stroke. Several of the young Bears were im- 
pressive, including Ed Nicholson who did 
the 50-yard freestyle in the good time of 
24.3. 

Hockey Had Its Moments 

After defeating Boston College 6-3 in 
their third game (one of the major upsets 
of the collegiate campaign). Coach Jim 
Fullerton's skaters won two of their next 
six tilts to reach the vacation period with a 
respectable record of four wins and five 
defeats. The two wins were over Colby 
(6-3), and Northeastern (6-4). Defeats 
came at the hands of Providence College 
(4-2), Boston College (5-0), Boston Col- 
lege (6-2), and Boston University (6-1). 
The Cubs sported a 3-2 mark at vacation 
time. 

In these first nine games. Brown's attack 
was hampered by the fact that Rod Dash- 
naw, the team's only experienced forward, 
has been double-teamed, while the other 
forwards, although showing promise at 
times, haven't been able consistently to cash 
in on their opportunities. However, Coach 
Fullerton's maior problem has been with his 
defensemen. They have been fooled often 
on the defense due to their inexperience and 
haven't yet helped the attack. The six de- 
fensemen scored a total of three goals be- 
tween them in the first nine games. 

In the nets, Harry Batchelder has been 
sensational. In several games, he has man- 
aged to keep the scores respectable when 
they might have become astronomical. In 
that first B.C. game he made 58 saves! 

Despite the opponents' attention, Dash- 
naw led the team in scoring at vacation 
time with 16 points on nine goals and seven 
assists. Three Sophomores, Don Hebert, 
Art Cleary, and Dick Haskell trail Dash- 
naw. Hebert has six goals and three assists 
for nine points, Haskell is six and one for 
seven, and Cleary has four goals and three 
assists, also for seven points. 

When Providence College defeated the 
Bears 4-2, it was the Friars' third straight 
victory over an Ivy opponent. Previously, 
they had taken Harvard and Princeton. For 
their new coach, Tom Eccleston '32, it was 
a victory over his Alma Mater. The Friars 
built up a 3-0 lead in the first two periods 
as they completely outplayed and outskated 
the Bruins. However, Dashnaw brought the 
crowd to life with two quick tallies early in 




GEORGE MENARD '50 is having another successful season as coach of hockey at St. Lawrence, one of 
the Eastern leaders in the sport. (Photo by Ray Jubinville, Canton, N. Y.) 



the finale to close the gap to 3-2. Then, 
P.C. iced the decision at the 13:17 mark on 
a combination play. Batchelder made 35 
saves as against 20 for Dom Girard, the 
Friar goalie. 

The Bear bounced back against Colby 
with a 6-3 triumph. Haskell scored in the 
opening period, which ended l-l, and then 
Dashnaw broke through for two goals and 
Cleary for one in the second period. Batch- 
elder had 31 saves. 

The Boston College Eagles got sweet re- 
venge by shutting out Brown 5-0 in the re- 
turn match at Providence. The Bruins had 
their chances in the opening period, but 
they had trouble finishing off scoring plays. 
The score was only 1-0 at the end of this 
period, but Eagles drove four shots past 
Batchelder in the second session. Batch- 
elder ended with 37 saves, many of them 
verging on the sensational. 

Fullerton took his men to the Holiday 
Tournament at the Boston Arena in De- 
cember, but, after defeating Northeastern 
6-4 in the opening game. Brown ran up 
against Boston College and Boston Uni- 
versity again and came out second best. At 
times, Fullerton was impressed with the 
play of his team in this tourney, but, after 
playing well in the 6-2 loss to the Eagles, 
the Bears came up with some very bad 
hockey in the finale against Boston Uni- 
versity. Batchelder had 90 saves in the 
three games and ended up as the top vote- 
getter on the All-Tourney team as selected 
by a board of 1 1 coaches and sports writ- 



ers. Dashnaw and Hebert were given Hon- 
orable Mention. 

The Cub skaters had a 3-2 mark in their 
first five games. Dave Kelley, a right wing, 
leads the team in scoring with 17 points on 
eight goals and nine assists. His running 
mates, Dave Laub and Fred Adams have 
six and four points respectively. Fullerton 
also has two fine defensemen in John Soares 
and Nelson Turnquist. This team will send 
at least 10 good prospects along to the 
Varsity next winter. 

Promise on the Mat 

Coach Ralph Anderton's wrestlers split 
even in their first two meets, losing a close 
14-12 decision to Springfield in the opener 
and defeating Wesleyan 19-7. The Cubs, 
with a thin squad, were decisively de- 
cisioned by the Gymnasts 31-5 and by Wes- 
leyan 20-11. 

Springfield, defending New England 
champion, already had defeated Yale 
20-10 when it took on the Bears. Three- 
time New England champion. Senior Ed 
Amerantes from East Providence, got the 
Maroon off on the right foot by pinning 
Dick Ward with a body press at 2:17 of 
the first period in the 123-pound class. Ac- 
tually, this bout proved the difference in 
the meet. The Bruins went on to capture 
four of the remaining bouts on decisions, 
but they couldn't overcome Springfield's 
early 5-0 lead. 

Brown's Co-Captains, Frank Smith and 
Pete Roche, came through with victories at 



FEBRUARY 1957 



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the 137 and 147-pound levels to keep the 
Bruins in the running, while the two other 
decisions were captured by John Alexander 
at 177-pounds and Ed Eastman in the 
heavyweight class. 

Against Wesleyan, Brown's points were 
scored on two decisions, a pin, a forfeit, a 
draw, and a default. John Cummings at 
130 pounds and Eastman won the deci- 
sions, while Sophomore star, George Sea- 
ver, making his Varsity bow, pinned his 
man after 1:13 of the second period. Smith 
won on a forfeit at 147, and Lou Winner, 
another highly rated Sophomore, won at 
167 pounds when his man defaulted late in 
the second period. 



ON THE SPORTS PAGE: 



Keith Eveland from George School has 
been the lone bright spot for Anderton's 
Cubs. Wrestling at 147 pounds, he has 
taken both his matches, winning on a fall 
against Springfield and on a decision 
against Wesleyan. 

Upgrade in Track 

Strength in the running events should 
make this winter's track team an interesting 
one to watch, but a definite weakness in 
the field events will probably hamper the 
overall effectiveness of the team. JJowever, 
with 15 lettermen joined by a group of 
promising Sophomores, Coach Fuqua's 



A Tribute to Arnold 



By JOHN HANLON 

CORRECTLY SO, the obituarics on Dr. 
Samuel T. Arnold of Brown listed 
line after line on his academic and profes- 
sional activities, and just one paragraph 
told of his interest in sports. 

Perhaps this was in proper balance, but 
Dean Arnold — this was his working title 
and it seemed to fit him and suit him — was 
a perfect example of the educated, well- 
rounded man who had a place in his 
makeup for things athletic. 

As an administrator, he kept them in 
their niche, but as a rooter he could be as 
enthusiastic as a Sophomore, with one ex- 
ception. That was toward the Boston Red 
Sox. This team he followed with something 
akin to fervor, and his associates say he was 
actively despondent while they were going 
bad, happy as a youngster while they were 
winning. 

The Real Director 

His interest in Brown's sports was keen, 
too, but here he managed to keep his feel- 
ings slightly more in bound. 

In the late 20s and early 30s, Dean Ar- 
nold served on the athletic council, and, in 
the words of Paul Mackesey, Brown's pres- 
ent Athletic Director, "really directed 
Brown's athletic program." 

One of Dean Arnold's contemporaries on 
the council. Prof. Wally Snell, was remi- 
niscing about the part Dean Arnold had 
played. 

"Most of the time," Professor Snell said, 
"he represented the Administration on the 
Council, and when Dr. Wriston said yester- 
day that '. . . his influence was magnified 
by integrity so firm that everyone recog- 
nized it instantly' he hit it exactly. He al- 
ways stood for the fairness of things, and 
he always tried to keep the line among stu- 
dents, the public, and the Administration." 

A few years ago, when several Brown 
football players were declared ineligible 
for receiving illegal scholarship aid. Dean 
Arnold was deeply moved by the plight of 
the youngsters. Yet, he realized that such 
breaching of the line was intolerable, and 
he stood firmly behind the "punishment." 

In all Brown sports, he was particularly 
sensitive to the problems of the coaches. 
Several times, I know, during the losing 
spells experienced by the football team. 
Dean Arnold wrote pointed little notes of 
encouragement to Coach Al Kelley. Fit- 
tingly, they arrived just when matters were 



at their lowest, and they served as a partial 
tonic to Kelley and the squad. 

Dean Arnold was something of a perfec- 
tionist in his sports, and he was not one to 
tolerate tomfoolery. For instance, he was 
quite interested in basketball, which he'd 
played, but Professor Snell said he wanted 
it "straight." "Once he went to see the Har- 
lem Globetrotters," he said, "and he came 
away resenting the fact that they make a 
burlesque of the game. He thought they 
were clever and good, all right, but he 
didn't think they had any place in the 
game." 

But Baseball Was His Love 

He frequently attended meets of the 
Brown wrestling team and, in fact, he had 
a working knowledge of all the sports ac- 
tivities in which Brown participated. But of 
all the sports, big-league baseball was his 
compelling interest. While he was working 
on the Manhattan Project during the war, 
he regularly relieved the tension of the job 
by attending the ball games in New York. 
In the winter, the "reliever" was basketball 
at Madison Square Garden. 

Frequently, when he had a speaking en- 
gagement or meeting in New York, he 
would so arrange his schedule so that his 
train would arrive at 125th St. Station just 
about game time at Yankee Stadium or the 
Polo Grounds and, well, what better way to 
kill off a few hours? These games, however, 
were only stopgaps until he could get to see 
his beloved Red Sox. He went as often as 
he could and was not above standing 
through a doubleheader. if seats were not 
available. He carried with him a pair of 
binoculars so that he could peer into the 
dugouts or, this especially, get a closeup of 
what the managers were "saying." 

"He didn't start out with any great knowl- 
edge of the game," Professor Snell said, 
"and he liked to sit next to me and hear 
what I had to say. I'd try to pick out the 
fine points for him, and he'd always be ask- 
ing me, 'Now why did they do that?' or 
'Can you steal their signals?' or 'How did 
this or that work?' I'd spend more time an- 
swering than I would watching the game." 

And now he's gone. His loss is inestima- 
ble — to Brown, to education and, in his 
special way, to sports. 

( Hanlon's popular column. The Spoit- 
■icope. appears in the Providence Evening 
Bulletin.) 



men should improve on their 0-3 record of 
a year ago. 

The big hope lies in the mile relay, which 
is always a crowd pleaser and which draws 
a great deal of attention. Three men are 
back from the group which set a new Uni- 
versity record of 3:22.6 for this event last 
year — Co-Captain Tony Marchesani, Jim 
Cox, and Charlie Vincent. Battling to join 
them has been a group of Sophomores: Cal 
Keyler, Phil Reed, John McTigue, and 
Tom MacDonald. Fuqua thinks that this 
relay group has the potential to get down 
around the 3:20 mark. 

The two-mile relay team also has a good 
potential, although it lacks experience. 
Coach Fuqua will depend on his cross 
country stars, Ed Sullivan and Phil Du- 
Mond, and he should receive help from an- 
other pair of fine Sophomores, Ken Baker 
and Scott Bearce. Fuqua expects this group 
to cover the distance in eight minutes, 
maybe even better. 

The same men who operate in the relays 
will give the Bruins adequate strength in 
the middle distances. Jerry Olanoff, who 
scored in the Heptagonals last year, and 
Dean Soule should have been able to take 
care of the sprints, but Olanoff has been 
hampered by a bad leg and Soule is recov- 
ering from a knee operation which may 
hold him back until the spring. The distance 
runners will be led by Joe Vanable in the 
mile and by Sullivan and newcomer Gerry 
Surette in the two mile. John Fahey leads 
the hurdlers. 

In the field events Brown is very thin. 
Co-Captain Jay Edwards will have to carry 
the major burden in the weights, though 
help may come from Jim Mello and Gil 
Robertshaw, a pair of Al Kelley's tackles. 
Jon Jensen and Jim Wakefield will carry 
the load in the broad jump. Bill Hayes and 
Lauren McMaster are the men to watch in 
the high jump, and Roy Smith has pole- 
vaulted well at times. 



Sports Shorts 

A FEW interesting national football sta- 
tistics came across our desk recently 
Based on completions, Frank Finney, 
Brown's Sophomore signal caller, ranked 
21st in the country and first in New Eng- 
land. He hit on 51 of 107 tries for 617 
yards. The Bruins were fourth in the nation 
and first in New England in the least yards 
penalized. Levies averaged but 23.2 yards 
per game against Brown. There were two 
games, Cornell and Dartmouth, when the 
Bruins went all the way without a penalty. 
Finally, Brown was 19th in the country in 
point after touchdown percentage, making 
good on 14 of 18. 

During the hectic Brown-Penn game at 
the Marvel Gym, the crowd had a chance 
to relax and chuckle a bit when the Bruins' 
Al Poulsen (6'8") and Penn's Paul Kelso 
(5'8") got together for a jump ball at the 
foul line. P.S. — Poulsen controlled the tap! 

The local press noted that Brown was 
showing its true colors this winter. How- 
ever, the remarks were not made in a de- 
rogatory sense. They merely referred to the 
fact that the Bruin cagers appeared on the 
court in warmup suits of cardinal red, 
trimmed with tiny Brown and white stripes. 
Baaron Pittenger, Director of Sports In- 
formation, set the press straight by explain- 
ing that the University crest is embossed 
with a cardinal red cross. 

Earl Sprackling '12, former Bruin foot- 
ball great, has been nominated for one of 
the eight berths to be voted on this year for 
the Football Hall of Fame. 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



The Brown Clubs Report 




AL KELLEY, head coach of football, drew the largest turnout of the season for the Washington Brown 
Club in December, when Football Night was observed at the National Press Club. Among those present: 
left to right, Lloyd W. Dennis, Jr., '31 and his son, Jeffrey; Coach Kelley; Thomas Shotton, Jr., '30, 
Football Night Chairman; and John Dennett Master, son of Harold B. Master '27. The alumni also saw 
films of the 1956 Thanksgiving game agoinst Colgate. (Photo by Carleton F. Smith) 



Philadelphia's Annual 

THURSDAY, Feb. 14 will be the date of the 
annual Brown Dinner in Philadelphia 
this year, according to word from Charles 
J. Cooper '51, Brown Club Secretary. 
Chesley Worthington '23, Editor of the 
Brown Alumni Monthly, will be one of the 
guests from College Hill, while the Pem- 
broke alumnae, co-sponsors of the evening, 
have invited Mrs. Bruce M. Bigelow, Assist- 
ant Dean of Admission at Pembroke. Wives 
and husbands will be welcome with the 
Brunonians. 

The scene of this traditional get-together 
will be the University Club at 22 South 
16th St. Cocktails will be served at 6:30, 
with the dinner starting at 7:30. Local mail- 
ings will provide more details about special 
features for the evening, and the lobby 
bulletin board will confirm the exact loca- 
tion in the Clubhouse for the dinner, tenta- 
tively set as we went to press for the 17th 
floor dining hall. 

Franiingham Organizes 

Edm.\nds Lingham '49, e.xecutive with 
the Dennison Manufacturing Company of 
Framingham, Mass., has been elected Presi- 
dent of the Framingham Brown Club. 
Other officers are: Secretary — Frank Page 
'51; Treasurer — Parker Halperin "37. Mem- 
bers of the Board of Governors include: 
Dr. Ted Golden '37, Stoughton Ellsworth 
■50, and Ralph Seifert '50. 

Nearly 50 Brown alumni from Framing- 
ham and vicinity towns met in December at 
the Beacon Terrace formally to organize 
the Framingham Brown Club. After the 
business meeting, the men enjoyed listening 
to talks by Deane Clark of the Admission 
Office and Milt Piepul and Charlie Mark- 
ham of the football staff. Brief but timely 
talks also were made by President Lingham, 
Roger Williams '48. and Seifert. An added 
feature of the gathering was the showing of 
the movies from the Brown-Harvard game. 



Others present included: Joe Adams '22, 
Norman Barlow '42, Jeff Beede '40, Bob 
Bell '49, Jim Butler '38, John Butterworth 
'50, Ed Cady '33, Ted Cady '33, Warner 
Dalzell '50, John DeLuca '40, George De- 
Wolf "46, Robert Doherty '43, Aubrey 
Doyle '54, Ed Horton '39, Dick Hulme '42, 
Joseph lannoli '32, George Johnston '51, 
Arthur Kimball '48, Crawford Lindsey '45, 
Millard Lovejoy '39, Bruce Mansfield '54, 
Don McNeil '39, Ernest Udson '19, Bob 
Nelson '44, Tom O'Keefe '37, Herbert Pick- 
ard '33, Ed Rogers '38, Ruskin Schwartz 
'25, Howard Smith '46, Austin Thompson, 
Jr., '48. 

Jersey Election 

Clayton C. Timbrell '42, Administra- 
tive Officer with the United Nations, has 
been elected President of the Brown Club 
of Northeastern New Jersey. Other officers 
elected are: Vice-President — Douglas Wid- 
nall '37; Secretary — Herbert Savoye '47; 
Treasurer — Norman Russian '36. The Ex- 
ecutive Committee consists of the above- 
listed officers and Weston Stuart '27. The 
other members of the Board of Governors 
are Austin Volk '41, James Cole '55, Dan 
Earle '34, Ted Jadick '53, and Rodman 
Savoye '53. 

The Board of Governors has several pro- 
grams in preparation. 

IJaston's Good Luncheons 

With the February meeting of the Bos- 
ton Brown Club coming on the 12th, noth- 
ing could be a more appropriate topic than 
Abraham Lincoln, and the monthly lunch- 
eon topic will be "Lincolniana at Brown," 
one of the University's most impressive and 
interesting collections. The speaker at the 
Union Oyster House, 41 Union St., will be 
David A. Jonah, Librarian. The alumni sit 
down for lunch at 12:30. 

Douglas A. Snow '45 was the January 
guest, telling of his own experiences as a 



Resident Fellow in the Wriston Quadrangle 
and describing the general system under 
which the RF operates. Snow is also Man- 
ager of the University Store. Next month 
the speaker from Providence will be the 
Director of Student Aid, Lloyd W. Cornell, 
Jr., '44, who will discuss the general ad- 
mission situation, in addition to his own 
special field. 

Prof. Louis Giddings, Brown anthropolo- 
gist, gave a delightful talk about his plans 
for the new Haffenreffer Museum, on Dec. 
1 1. Not the least of the fun was provided by 
Chairman Fred Bloom '40, who broke into 
verse in his introduction at the Harvard 
Club luncheon, announcing that Giddings 
would 

Tell us tales of the savage 

In Salish and Tlingit, 

In Kwakiutl and Noetka. 

Oh boy, can he sling it. 

The Lo-svdown on T\' 

The New York Brown Club had one of 
its best turnouts in many months at the 
Nov. 20 Luncheon. We were fortunate to 
have as our guest Hubbell Robinson, Jr., 
'27, Executive Vice-President of CBS TV. 
Hubbell is in charge of all network pro- 
graming for CBS, and he gave an extremely 
interesting talk on the lowdown of this 
phase of television. 

On Nov. 30, the annual Ivy League 
Glee Club Concert was held in Town 
Hall. Brown, Cornell, and Yale sang tliis 
year before a good house. Al Kelley 
was guest speaker at a smoker on 
Dec. 5, bringing along films of the Harvard 
and Colgate games. He also gave the mem- 
bers and their wives the inside story on 
what made Brown one of the major con- 
tenders in the Ivy League last fall. 

The annual Christmas Eggnog Party was 
held Dec. 18 in the Great Hall of the Club. 
An enthusiastic audience was on hand, and 
the enthusiasm increased in proportion to 
the eggnogs served. This event is always 
one of the most popular on the Club 
calendar. 

Plans already are under way for the 89th 
Annual Dinner, scheduled for April 23 at 
Delmonico's. President Keeney will be on 
hand as our guest speaker. 

CHUCK BRADLEY '50 



Coaches in Westchester 

ViNCE D'Angelo '49, Sales Manager in 
New York State for Panama-Beaver, Inc., 
was elected President of the Brown Univer- 
sity Club of Westchester County Nov. 28 at 
the annual Fall Meeting. Other officers 
included: Vice-President — Joe McCormick 
'41; Treasurer — Cort Briggs '39; Secretary 
— Chick Beattie '23. 

Two coaches from the University, Al 
Kelley and Jim Fullerton, were the guests 
at this meeting, and they brought word on 
the football and hockey situations at 
Brown. About 50 Westchester alumni and 
guests attended the gathering. In addition 
to Kelley and Fullerton, other guests in- 
cluded five secondary football coaches from 
Westchester County: Frank Robinson of 
White Plains High School, Dave Buchanan 
of Scarsdale High School, Mark Whittleton 
of Horace Greeley, and Lou Amonson and 
his assistant, Jim Ryan, of New Rochelle 
High. 

Preliminary plans were discussed for the 

March 4 dinner meeting at the Scarsdale 

Inn. That will be "President Keeney Night" 

at the Club, and a large crowd is expected. 

JIM HEAP '33 



FEBRUARY 1957 



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Brunonians Far and Near 



EDITED BY JAY BARRY '50 



1896 

R. Theodore C. Merrill, ill with 
gangrene of the foot, has been trans- 
ferred to Hospital Albert Chenevier, rue 
de Mesly, Creteil (Seine), France. He has 
our best wishes for an early recovery. 



D 



1897 

Dr. Gregory Dexter Walcotfs article, 
■•An Inquiring Mind," which appeared in 
the October issue of Philosophy of Science, 
has now been issued in reprint form. This 
is the article which created such a stir 
among his colleagues, supporting a new 
philosophy of science. Walcott calls it criti- 
cal realism. 

1900 

Herbert Armington and his wife attended 
the annual meeting of the "Alden Kindred" 
at the John Alden House in Duxbury, 
Mass., in August. He has been a member 
for several years. On Nov. 16, he attended 
the "Compact Day" dinner of the Society 
of Mayflower Descendants in the State of 
Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, 
of which branch he is the Governor, or 
presiding officer. Compact Day is usually 
Nov. 21, but was moved back a bit last 
year because it would have been too close 
to Thanksgiving. He and Mrs. Armington 
ate Thanksgiving Dinner with their son 
Richard '36, his wife, and three daughters, 
oldest 16. 

1902 

Ray F. Knowlton and his wife celebrated 
their Golden Wedding Anniversary on July 
3 at the home of their youngest daughter, 
Mrs. John B. Davidson, in Fort Lauderdale, 
Fla. Also present was another daugh- 
ter, Mrs. George R. Young of Ridgewood, 
N. J., and four of their seven grandchil- 
dren. The Knowltons live at 12 S.E. 18th 
St., Fort Lauderdale. 

Lewis S. Milner flew to Florida in De- 
cember to stay at his former address in 
Clearwater at 1611 Sunset Drive. He was 
prompt in seeing his old roommate at 
Clearwater Beach, Henry Hart. 

1903 

Prof. William T. Hastings was the Oc- 
tober speaker before the Friends of the Li- 
brary of Brown University, giving a lecture 
entitled "Basic Shakespeare Too?" He re- 
peated the talk before the R. I. Wheaton 
College Club in December. 

1905 

The Rev. Hinson V. Howlett has re- 
signed from the pastorate of the Phenix 
Baptist Church, West Warwick, R. I., and 
gone into semi-retirement after 52 years in 
the ministry, the past 10 of them at his most 
recent parish. He and Mrs. Howlett plan 
to move to South Dartmouth, Mass., where 
he will do interim pastoral work. 

Your Secretary left for Key West early 
in December, and my address there will be 
1015 Simonton St. Just in time, too. It was 
beginning to get r-e-a-1 cold! On my way 
to the Harvard-Brown game, I stopped in 
to see George Bullock. His office is on the 
top floor of my father's old furniture store 
at Adams Square. He happened to be out 
that day, but he soon sent this typical 
"Georgeaneske" letter: 



"It is too bad that you old alumni of a 
Class as far back as 1905 don't make the 
slightest attempt to keep up to date. You do 
not realize that there is no such address as 
1, 2, 3 Dock Sq. You still think that people 
work on Saturdays. You are unfamiliar 
with the fact that G. B. Bullock has not 
smoked a pipe (or anything else, for that 
matter) since eight years ago last August. 
You probably think that the statue of Sam 
Adams still stands in Adams Square and 
that the frigates are sailing up to the 
wharves in Dock Sq. to deliver stoves etc. 
to C. H. Robinson & Company to be sold 
for nothing down and the same each week. 
Just because you are aging is no reason for 
not keeping in step with this rock-and-roll 
age! And, by the way, what are you doing 
in Providence just when my wife and I were 
getting ready to visit you down in Key 
West?" 

C. A. ROBINSON 
1906 

Henry Jackson reports that he had a fine 
vacation trip last year, with his travels 
carrj'ing him to Tulsa and Colorado 
Springs. He visited the famous Gilcreas & 
Philbook Museums while in Tulsa, and 
while visiting with Don Brewer '27 and his 
wife in Colorado Springs he had the good 
fortune to see Cheyenne Mountain, the 
Garden of the Gods, the Ute Trail, and 
other fascinating spots in that wonderful 
scenic section of the Rockies. Henry holds 
the position of Deputy Record Commis- 
sioner at the Rhode Island State House. 
He continues his great interest in the ac- 
tivities of the Indians, particularly those 
who carry on as organized bodies in Rhode 
Island. 

Douglas Swaffleld's family continues to 
grow. The latest addition being the birth of 
a son to F. Hartwell Swaffield '37. Doug is 
now the proud grandfather of 1 1 grand- 
children, six boys and five girls. His activi- 
ties as Pastor of the Community Church of 
Alton, N. H., which is a joint Baptist and 
Congregational organization, makes him 



Among Adventurers 

Both Dr. and Mrs. Robert Cush- 
man Murphy (he's 1911; she's 1913 
at Pembroke) are represented in 
"The Spirit of Adventure," Whit 
Burnett's anthology published by 
Henry Holt and Company. It is de- 
voted to "the challenge and the 
fascination of the strange, the im- 
possible, and the dangerous as told 
by 38 famous writer-adventurers." 
(They range from Cervantes to 
Hilary. Robinson Crusoe to Sidney 
Franklin.) 

Dr. IVIurphy's contribution is 
called "Nine Hours Fast to a Fight- 
ing Whale," his description of a 
Nantucket sleighride taken from 
"Logbook for Grace." Mrs. Mur- 
phy's chapter has the heading: "A 
Naturalist's Wife on Sufferance in 
the Subantarctic." It's from her book, 
"There's Always Adventure." 



Brooklyn Poly's Squire 
Prof. Edward J. Squire '09, re- 
tiring as head of the Department of 
Civil Engineering at Polytechnic In- 
stitute of Brooklyn, can look back 
upon some outstanding achieve- 
ments: he was a designer of the ven- 
tilation buildings for the Holland 
Tunnel in New York; he helped plan 
the trans-Arabian pipeline, the utili- 
ties for the atomic town of Oak 
Ridge, Tenn., the Distant Early 
Warning (Dew Line) radar towers in 
northern Canada, and the bases for 
the power lines when the Pennsyl- 
vania Railroad electrified its New 
York-Philadelphia section. 

He joined the Faculty of Brooklyn 
Poly 46 years ago, and he regards 
the success of his students as his 
greatest achievement. John Devlin's 
recent article about him in the New 
York Times called him Brooklyn's 
own "Mr. Chips," noting a testi- 
monial dinner and other honors. 

What are his retirement plans? He 
will continue consulting work with 
Lockwood, Kessler & Bartloff, Inc., 
N. Y. His current project is helping 
design some of the modern express- 
ways for New York State. 



another '06 so-called retired man who is 
doing a full man-sized job. Actually, his 
pastoral and family affairs appear to be al- 
most spare time activities in light of his 
other interests. For instance, he has re- 
cently had a house renovated with three 
rooms to be used for his growing Church 
School, one room for Youth Fellowship 
activities, and one for the Alton Historical 
Society, which he founded five years ago 
and of which he is President. He has 
cleared five acres of his farm land this 
year, putting it back to hay, and he has in- 
cluded a pond for the "kids" to skate on. 
It is very evident that this naturally friendly 
minister can not help but be friendly with 
the children in Alton. As outside interests, 
Doug is Trustee of the United Baptist Con- 
vention of New Hampshire, Moderator of 
the New Durham Association of the Bap- 
tist Church, and a member of the Ordaining 
Council of the State for Baptist Churches. 
Incidentally, Doug hasn't missed a Brown 
Commencement in 50 years. 

A change of address has been received 
for Oscar Rackle. For the time, at least, he 
is residing at 20940 Montgomery Ave., 
Hayward, Calif. We hope to have Oscar 
back with us in the East in due course. 

The fine appreciation of Peter Pineo 
Chase which appeared in the Harvard Med- 
ical Alumni Bulletin, was written by his 
Brown classmate Dr. Alex M. Burgess. Il 
notes that Peter's book, "Your Wonderful 
Body," is soon to be published. It explains, 
"in simple language and in his characteristic 
style, many of the facts of physiology and 
pathology." 

BILL KENNEDY 

1907 

With Bill Burnham as Chairman and 
President Clark as Honorary Chairman, the 
50th Reunion Committee is as follows: 
Branch, Bright. H. D. Bruce, Chafee, H. M. 
Clark. Cummings, Curtis, Gurney, Hamlin, 
H. E. Harris, Josselyn. Keen. Knowles, Mc- 
Cann, Maddaus, McPhee, Slade, Steere. 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Please be sure to make notes of the Reun- 
ion dates: May 31 through June 3. 

The "Tumble Weed" Crummetts, other- 
wise Carl and Polly, are living at 238 
Crosswinds Trailer Court, St. Petersburg, 
Fla. During 1956, they followed the retire- 
ment trail from Florida to Colorado and 
back again to Florida. 

Leonard S. Little and Mrs. Little are 
living at 2 Horatio St., Apt. 15K, New 
York 14. 

The Rev. Levi S. Hoffman, Minister of 
Central Schwenkfelder Church, Worcester, 
and Mrs. Hoffman have changed their 
home address to 1120 West Thomas Rd., 
Lansdale, Pa. 

Oliver J. B. Henderson, former Assistant 
Headmaster of Moses Brown School, took 
part in the School's recent Homecoming 
Day. He has acquired a new summer home 
at Green Hill, R. L, and spent the season 
there. 

Robert S. Curley, retired engineer in 
Biddeford, Me., was interviewed by the 
Portland Evening Express in November 
and gave his impressions of Egypt and 
Egyptians apropos of the outbreak of hos- 
tilities in the Near East. He'd spent con- 
siderable time there as a traveler. 

Dr. Vernon K. Krieble, Professor emeri- 
tus from Trinity College, is listed in the 
recent edition of "American Men of Sci- 
ence." Major prerequisite for listing in this 
publication is an important research con- 
tribution in the scientific field. 

1908 

Ben Frost received an award from the 
Rotary Club in his home town of Rhine- 
beck, N. Y. commending him for his com- 
munity service. The inscription on the 
plaque read: "Rotary Club of Rhinebcck 
Award of Merit to Benson R. Frost, Law- 
yer, Rotarian, Public Spirited Citizen, as a 
token of respect and admiration for his 
Hfelong adherence to the highest ideals of 
his profession, his innumerable acts of 
kindness and help to others in and out of 
his profession, and his great and unselfish 
service to the whole community." This 
1956 award was the first of this nature ever 
made by the Club. 

George Taylor was elected President of 
the New York State Association for Crip- 
pled Children, Inc., in November. He hns 
served as a member of the Board of Direc- 
tors of that body since 1951. As a matter 
of fact, he was District Governor of Rotary 
International in 1939-40. He was a member 
of the Stamford Board of Education from 
1913 to 1953 and served as its President 
for 16 years before he retired from that 
Board. At present, he is a consultant of the 
New York State School Committee on Edu- 
cational Research. George lives on the 
Taylor Farm at Stamford, N. Y. He is the 
author of a book, "Tliese Hills Are Not 
Barren," and of numerous short stories. 

James O. Hazard, who had been State 
Forester of Tennessee for nearly 25 years, 
retired three years ago. He writes Bill 
Browne that he has quite a job keeping up 
with his seven grandsons and two grand- 
daughters. Hap adds: "I've been sorry to 
miss the Class Reunions all these years and 
hope very much to make our 50th. Whew! 
I used to think of the grads of the '90s were 
()/(/ grads." Mr. and Mrs. Hazard live at 
4407 Hunt Place, Nashville. 

1909 
Heine Selleck has moved into an apart- 
ment in Detroit and reports that he has re- 
covered from his severe operation of a year 
ago. He is busy completing his book on 



medical history. Heine's new address is 
Apt. 202, 731 Covington Dr., Detroit 3. 

Clarence W. Bosworth, who has retired 
as Superintendent of the Cranston School 
System, is in Texas with Mrs. Bosworth 
visiting his married daughter. He plans to 
do some motoring in the South this winter. 

John Wells for some years now has been 
making pencil sketches, and, lately, he has 
done lithography. In the Christmas Show 
of the Providence Art Club, he exhibited a 
lithograph of Snug Harbor which was later 
reproduced on the Art page of the Provi- 
dence Journal as one of the most attractive 
pictures exhibited. 

Dan Harrigan sent Christmas greetings 
to his Classmates and reported the good 
news that he is slowly recovering from his 
hospitalization. He is at his home, 1217 
Oak Ave., Evanston, 111. 

Harry Cook retains his interest in Adult 
Education and is working on this subject 
with the Boston Public Library. 

1910 

Malcolm Jeffris is dissolving the real es- 
tate firm of Northland Lakes, Inc., at 
Rhinelander, Wis. He has purchased a 
home in Janesville, where he lived 40 years 



ago, and expects to move there next fall. 
His sense of humor seems to be as good as 
ever when he says: "The old family bury- 
ing ground in Janesville is filling up fast — 
in fact, very fast — and I'm not sure there 
will be room for me." 

Paul B. Howland was seen in the Library 
of the Providence Journal a few weeks ago, 
presumably hunting up some old reports on 
an old "Sink" show which could be polished 
up for republishing. 

Elmer Horton and your Secretary are 
on a committee which is studying the pos- 
sibility of hanging some pictures depicting 
the history of Brown along the interior 
walls of the Refectory. 

Warren C. Johnson is connected with the 
office of Small Business Administration, 
located in lolani Barracks, Honolulu. 

The sympathy of the Class is extended to 
Malcolm Field in the death of his wife, 
lola G. Field. When reporting this sad 
news, Malcolm advised that he will try to 
be with us for Commencement in June. 

The Rev. and Mrs. Allan D. Creelman 
were guests of honor at a December recep- 
tion in the High School at North Scituate, 
Mass. He recently retired as Pastor of the 
First Baptist Church there. 



Raymond Hawes Retires 




FOR MORE than 35 years, says a writer in 
the Gaucher Alumnae Quarterly, "Dr. 
Raymond Hawes has tried to impart to 
Goucher women an understanding of and 
respect for rational thinking. Through his 
courses in the fundamental problems of 
philosophy, aesthetics, social, contempo- 
rary, and American philosophy, he has en- 
deavored to demonstrate the power of 
reason in dealing with both philosophic and 
social problems." 

It was only one of the tributes received 
by Dr. Hawes upon his retirement from 
teaching. Since 1920 he had been away 
from Goucher classrooms for only two 
quarters and taught occasionally in summer 
schools elsewhere. "Consequently," he says, 
"I am revelling in the unaccustomed ex- 
perience of not having to jump at the sound 
of bells and not having to map out some 
future stretch of instruction." But retire- 



ment does not mean inactivity, for he de- 
votes part of each day to study and writing, 
with especial interest in Existentialism and 
the philosophy of Democracy. 

He continues to serve on two commit- 
tees: the Executive Committee of the 
Maryland Branch of the American Civil 
Liberties Union and the Maryland Com- 
mittee on Public Welfare. 

After graduation from Brown in 1912, 
he married Marion J. Emsley, Pembroke 
'12. After teaching at Rice and serving in 
World War I, he returned for a short period 
on the Brown Faculty before moving on to 
Princeton. He added a Ph.D. from Cornell 
to his Brown M.A. He retired from 
Goucher as Chairman of the Philosophy 
Department. Former students speak of his 
availability for informal chats and of the 
hospitality at ihe Hawes home. (The photo- 
graph is used throuL'h the courtesy of the 
Goucher Alumnae Quarterly.) 



FEBRUARY 1957 



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DI.CI'MIJIH l'>"i(> • :'.">< 



Johns Hopkins 





George Boas on Film 



'"Phl Fund for the Advancement of Edu- 
1 cation has given the Johns Hopkins 
University a $25,000 grant to explore the 
possibilities of presenting university lec- 
tures on film to a wider audience than 
would ever be reached in the classroom. 
The first of two movies to be produced 
under these auspices is "What Is a Picture?" 
The lecturer is Prof. George Boas '13. The 
Johns Hopkins Mtif;iizine for December 
described the experiment with a lively 
feature article, advertised (see illustration) 
on its cover. 

"To call it merely a lecture on film, how- 
ever, would be to understate the aim of the 
project," says the magazine. " 'Lecture' im- 
plies, to many people, a dry-as-dust speech, 
and the film is anything but that. Each 



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movie will employ a wide variety of tech- 
niques of the motion-picture medium in 
order to present its subject in the most 
effective possible manner. In 'What Is a 
Picture?', for instance, there are ballet 
dancers (to illustrate Dr. Boas's point that 
the painter's job, somewhat like a choreog- 
rapher's, is to translate human attitudes 
and emotions into wordless, visually under- 
standable forms), animations (to illustrate 
such concepts as Mondian's thinking of the 
black lines in his paintings as stretched-taut 
springs), detailed, closeup examinations of 
original paintings by the masters. The 
whole film, made at the Baltimore Museum 
of Art, is in color. 

Dr. Boas is Professor of the History of 
Philosophy at Johns Hopkins. 



George Caswell again is avoiding the 
rugged New England winters. He can be 
reached at P.O. Box 396, Tarpon Springs, 
Fla. 

The Rev. Steve Pyle is back in New York 
City after a trip to the Northwest. He has 
given us a "temporary" address of 320 
West 87th St., Apt. 7E, New York 24. 

Warren C. Norton, in a note to Treasurer 
Bill Freeman, reported that he is working 
for Ruggles-Klingemann Company of 
Salem, Mass. These people manufacture 
valves, but Warren does not explain 
whether he makes the valves work or 
"polishes the handle of the big front door." 

George W. G. Carpenter sent in a newsy 
letter sometime ago in which he com- 
mented that "although I have reached my 
three score and 10, I am alive and kicking. 
I can walk down or up a hill steeper than 
College Hill without fatigue. However, 
owing to an attack of arthritis two and a 
half years ago, I can no longer swim. 
Therefore, if I should visit the Brown 
Swimming Pool, I would have to enter the 
shallow end." 

ED SPICER 

1911 

Dr. and Mrs. Robert Cushman Murphy 
returned from the Pacific at Christmas 
time after an absence of more than two 
months. Accepting a prior invitation from 
the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 
University of California, Dr. Murphy took 
part in a six-weeks' cruise from San Diego 
to the tropical Pacific on board the motor 
research vessel Stranger. The ship visited 
Cocos and other tropical islands but 
touched at only one port of entry for re- 
fueling (Balboa). His part in the project 
was made possible by a gift of Edgar J. 
Marston 'II of La Jolla, Calif., to the 
American Museum of Natural History. 
Many newly devised electronic instruments 
were used in investigating oceanic produc- 
tivity, beginning with microscopic plants, 
which are the pasture of the sea, and con- 
tinuing up the scale to tuna and other 
fisheries resources. 

Leonard H. Adams, now retired, has 
left the chilly New England weather for 
some of Miami's famous sunshine. He's 
living at 1015 S.W., 14th Ave. He reports 
that he is interested in doing some me- 
chanical work in his retirement. 

1912 

A pair of investment advisors from our 
Class, George S. Burgess and Royal W. 
Leith, moved to more spacious offices Nov. 
5. They are now located at 53 State St.. 
Boston. 

The Class extends its deepest sympathy 
to Ralph G. Hurlin on the recent death of 
his wife. 

1913 

Karl H. Koopman, Librarian of The 
Citadel, the Military College of South Car- 
olina in Charleston, has been promoted to 
Lt. Col. His staff entertained him and Mrs. 
Koopman on New Year's Eve at a com- 
bined celebration of his birthday and pro- 
motion. He has been Librarian at The Cita- 
del since 1929. Earlier he had served as 
assistant in such libraries as the Cleveland 
Public and New York City Public Library 
and has taught in Istanbul and Oahu, T.H. 
He was a writer and film editor in Holly- 
wood from 1924 to 1933 before he came 
back East to get his Master's degree at Co- 
lumbia. He is the son of Crown's late Li- 
brarian, Dr. Harry L. Koopman. 

George T. Metcalf, President of the 
George T. Metcalf Company, .Advertising 

BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Agency, celebrated the 25th anniversary of 
his business in December. The agency has 
grown into a 23-man outfit, billing more 
than $l-million of business annually. His 
first client 25 years ago, Walter F. Wolfe, 
now President of Franklin Process Com- 
pany, was among the many who extended 
their congratulations. 

Dr. Andrew H. MacPhail, Professor 
Emeritus of Educational Psychology at 
Brown, and Mrs. MacPhail are living at 
120 Congdon St., Providence. Until his re- 
tirement last July, MacPhail also was Di- 
rector of Educational Measurement at the 
University. 

Lionel M. Bishop is Manager of the 
magazine, Western Family, 333 North 
Michigan Ave., Chicago. 

1914 

Stanley Rowland's paintings of episodes 
from the life of Col. Ephraim Williams 
were on display in Alumni House, Wil- 
liamstown, during the Williams College 
observance of the Colonel's Bicentennial. 
Executed in 1946, they are reproduced in 
a pamphlet which records the address of 
the Convocation. 

1915 

"Old Man, Go South," writes Cecil M. P. 
Cross, retired from the U. S. Foreign 
Service and now conducting Cecil M. P. 
Cross & Cia. Ltda., rua Jose Bonifacio, 367, 
Sao Paulo, Brazil. He suggests retirement 
on 100 acres in Central Brazil: "Magnifi- 
cent climate on same plateau as the new 
Capital of Brazil — no mosquitoes — away 
from the rat race, futile fuss, and atomic 
missiles — a comfortable house on a stream, 
with hunting and fishing. Your choice: 
forest and/or grassland, coflfee and/or cat- 
tle and/or poultry and/or pigs and/or 
fruit and/or rubber. $7000. Terms up to 
five years." 

Edward W. Hinks, who retired as Super- 
intendent of Schools in Calais, Me., several 
years ago, worked last summer as Business 
Manager of Pilgrim Lodge, a church camp 
operated in the religious education program 
of the Congregational Christian Conference 
of Maine. However, their winter address re- 
mains Box 14, Sagamore Beach, Mass. 

The Class offers its deepest sympathy to 
Bill Sheffield on the recent death of his wife 
Agatha in Newport. 

1916 

Harry Burton was re-elected Vice-Presi- 
dent of the Rhode Island Hospital Corpo- 
ration Dec. 5 during the annual meeting of 
the organization. 

1917 

William Reese, Vice-President of the 
Chase National Bank in Paris, was hospi- 
talized in the American Hospital there 
this winter. John Peterson had heard he was 
coming along well. 

The steel industry, according to Arthur 
B. Homer, President of the Bethlehem Steel 
Co., must expand its annual ingot capacity 
by 50% in the next 15 years. The 70-mil- 
lion-ton rise cannot be achieved, he believes 
without cooperation by all parties con- 
cerned: labor, capital, and Government. 
Homer was the speaker at the annual con- 
vention of the Investment Bankers Assn. in 
Hollywood, Fla., and his address was 
widely reported in the press. 

Classmates extend their sympathy to 
Roger Williams on the death of his wife, 
Helen J. Williams, Dec. 17, in Providence. 

1918 

Benjamin H. Slade was elected to a three- 
year term as a Director of the Retail Paint 



and Wallpaper Distributors of America at 
its recent convention in Chicago. He is 
Secretary of Westcott, Slade, and Balcom 
Company, with which he has been affiliated 
since his return from service in World War 
I. 

J. Harold Williams, Scout Executive of 
the Narragansett Council, continues in de- 
mand as a speaker in other Councils. 
Among annual meetings he addressed were 
the Berkshire Council and Hampshire- 
Franklin Coimcil, both in Massachusetts. 

1919 

James L. Jenks, Jr., wrote for this maga- 
zine some years ago his account of the 
search for the heartbeat of a whale, a re- 
search adventure which he shared with Dr. 
Paul Dudley White. A sequel to that nar- 
rative appeared last summer in the July 
National Geographic Magazine when Dr. 
White described their further attempts. 
Jenks is President of the Sanborn Company 
of Cambridge, Mass., manufacturers of 
electrocardiographs and other precision in- 
struments. In 1952 Jenks, White, and Dr. 
Robert L. King succeeded in taking a car- 
diogram of a small white whale, the beluga, 
off the coast of Alaska. Three times since 
they've tried to catch a similar record of 
the gray whale, the last mammal to be 
measured in this way. "In the end," Dr. 
White wrote, "we fell short of our goal. 
But we know more about the difficulty of 
measuring the heart impulses of an animal 
'patient' 40 feet long and weighing some 30 
tons." But the whales didn't like them. One 
stove in the bottom of a speedboat right 
underneath Jenks. 

The Rev. Robert L. Weis was the author 
of "Make a Joyful Noise," which was 
printed in the Dec. 9 issue of the Rhode 
Island Churchman. The Rector of St. 
Thomas' Church, Providence, was talking 
of the contribution of music to the religious 
service. 

Roger T. Clapp was once again the au- 
thor of the Christmas Show of the Provi- 
dence Art Club, this year seizing upon a 
circus theme. Rufus C. Fuller, Jr., J. Har- 
old Williams '18, and Theodore R. Jeffers 
'23 were some of the Brown men promi- 
nently involved. 

1921 

John A. Csepely has been transferred 
from the Arm Division to the Electronics 
Division of Westinghouse Electric Corpo- 
ration, Baltimore. He has also been elected 
Secretary-Treasurer of the National Ad- 
ministration Committee of the I.R.E. Pro- 
fessional Group on Component Parts. 

Walter Leonard is Division Manager of 
Brulin & Company, Manufacturing Chem- 
ists of Columbus, O. He has the welcome 
sign out for any '21 men in the area or just 
passing through. He is living at 1495 Berk- 
shire Rd., Columbus. 

William W. Wilcox, Jr., is a member of 
the Editorial Staff of the Syracuse Herald 
Journal and the Sunday Herald American. 

Frederick G. Brown's son, Lorand R. 
Brown, graduated last June as Dr. of Med- 
icine from McGill University and, at pres- 
ent, is interning at the Rhode Island Hos- 
pital. 

Daniel R. Pinkham, a Vice-President of 
the Bay Shore Council, Boy Scouts of 
America, has recently been appointed a 
member of two national Scout committees, 
Activities and Special Events, and Volun- 
teer Training. Vice-President of the Lydia 
E. Pinkham Medicine Company, Dan has 



Anglophile 

I N London, S. J. Perelman '25 ingratiated 
1 himself with the populace by enumerat- 
ing for an Express reporter the reasons he 
likes their city: (1) The manners of the 
English. ("The tensions are as great as al 
home, but people, even if they are in a 
hurry, try to be considerate.") (2) "I defy 




anyone to walk down Jermyn Street, or that 
whole complex of streets south of Picca- 
dilly, without being fascinated by the build- 
ings, the atmosphere, the shops." (3) The 
London theatres (though Perelman adds, 
"I still find that 7:30 curtain arduous. An 
American is used to dining first and having 
the theatre as a climax to the evening"). 
(4) The English sense of humor: "I have 
no difficulty in understanding it; in fact, I'm 
very partial to it." 

Mr. P. concludes by throwing caution to 
the winds. "I'm afraid," he confesses, "1 
even like the London Times!" 

FROM BENNETT CERF'S 

"Trade Winds" in the Saturday Review 



been active in the Scout movement on local 
and national levels for many years. 

Dr. Arcadia Giura of Warren writes that 
he met Herb Marks and Herb's boy at the 
Brown-Colgate game. He wonders where 
the rest of the members of '21 were that fine 
day. Arcadia suggests that we hold the next 
Class Meeting at his home in Warren. We'll 
have to promote that! 

George W. Potter is presently on a year's 
leave of absence from the editorial depart- 
ment of the Providence Journal, and under 
a Guggenheim Fellowship, working on a 
study of the Catholic Irish in America. He 
spent the summer in Ireland in research 
work and now is engaged in writing the 
story. 

Hank Gallup notifies us that he is still 
"going strong" but having a little trouble 
beating inflation. He sure has company in 
this respect. 

Ray Thayer, living in Lexington, Mass., 
reports that he still is in the leather busi- 
ness. He discounts the theory that the 
leather business is the best place to get a 
good tan! 

Charlie Davis, who we reported as mov- 
ing to Florida several months ago, now 
gives his address as 1231 N.E. 26th St., 
Pompano Beach. He is working with 
Sun Realty Company, Fort Lauderdale, 
operated by R. W. Jahn '46. 



FEBRUARY 1957 



23 



Dr. Charles J. Fish, Director of the Nar- 
ragansett Marine Laboratory at the Uni- 
versity of Rhode Island, has been promoted 
to the rank of Captain in the United States 
Navy Reserve. He and his wife, Marie, are 
in Bimini, British West Indies, for a five- 
month period of basic research. 

Herbert H. Boden received an unusual 
tribute when the new parking lot at Camp 
Yawgoog, Rockville, K. 1., was named for 
him. The work on the project had been 
done by one of his former Boy Scouts, now 
a successful contractor, who wanted to ex- 
press his appreciation of his one-time Scout- 
master. Boden has retired as a supervising 
principal in the Providence elementary 
schools. 

Dr. Clarence Mansfield returned to the 
Campus from Chicago for the big two-day 
Homecoming celebration last fall. He en- 
joyed the wm over the Big Red. 

V. M. Meserve informed your Secretary 
that his address, as of July 27, 1956, is 67 
Lincoln Ave., Florham Park, N. J. 

Stan Black writes: "As General Manager 
of the Puwtiickel Times for over 25 years, 
I have been so busy gathering and dissemi- 
nating news, there has been no time left for 
me to make any myself." 

Dr. Bob Baldridge reports that his son, 
Bob Jr., an honor graduate from Wesleyan, 
is attending the Harvard Graduate School 
of Business Administration. Young Bob 
was married last June to Miss Joan Thorn- 
ton. 

Ed Phelps still owns and operates the 
Rockland Insurance Agency of Amos A. 
Phelps and Son, Rockland, Mass. His 
daughter, Judith, was graduated from 
Middlebury in June of 1955 and is attend- 
ing Columbia for her M.A. Ed's son, 
Richard, was elected Captain of the Rock- 
land High School football team last fall. 

Larry Gates sends word from Los 
Angeles that nothing spectacular has hap- 
pened to him but that he enjoys reading his 
monthly copy of the BAM. 

GEORGE ASHBEY 



Venture 



BROWN ALUMNI Were active in the forma- 
tion of Venture Securities Fund, Inc., 
a new open-end investment company of the 
management type, which offered its 200,000 
shares of capital stock to the public last fall. 
The Fund, as the prospectus indicates, is 
not for widows and orphans but for those 
who can appropriately assign some of their 
funds to venture situations. The prospectus 
puts it this way: "For persons who are 
interested in the possible appreciation of 
capital rather than income and who are in a 
position to assume the more than ordinary 
risk involved in this type of investment." 

William H. Shupert '22 of Philadelphia, 
President of Studley, Shupert and Com- 
pany, Inc., is Secretary-Treasurer, while 
another of the eight Directors of Venture 
Securities is Donald G. Millar '19, Presi- 
dent of Greenfield Tap and Die Company. 
Corcoran, Youngman and Rowe of Wash- 
ington is the legal counsel, with Thomas G. 
Corcoran '22 one of the original partici- 
pants. Studley. Shupert and Company is 
investment adviser. Two other Brunonians 
shown in the prospectus as participants are 
William T. Pearson '06. Boston investment 
counselor, and Walter B. Lister '19, Man- 
aging Editor of the Philadelphia Evening 
HuUetin. 

In October, the Fund had a net asset 
value of $23.94 per share; the aggregate 
public offering price was in the neighbor- 
hood of $5,000,000. 





CARTON S. STALLARD '27 has been elected 
a Director of the Mortgage Bankers' Asso- 
ciation of America. Executive Vice-President 
of the Jersey Mortgage Co. of Elizabeth, he 
is a Past President of the Mortgage Bank- 
ers' Association of New Jersey and the East- 
ern Union County Board of Realtors. 



1922 

Prof. William C. Greene of M.I.T. came 
down to speak before a recent meeting of 
The Sphinx and gave the undergraduates 
and alumni a lively lecture on art. 

A. F. Tripp reports that the New York 
Life Insurance Company retired him Oct. 
I, 1956 because of a disability. He and his 
wife have returned to Camp Hill, Pa., where 
they had lived for 14 years. They have 
bought a house there. 

1923 

James F. O'Rourke writes Bill McCor- 
mick that he is "back north once again as 
Chief of Construction, Corps of Engineers, 
U.S. Army, 2400 miles from home." When 
he wrote from Greenland on Nov. 27, it 
was 28 degrees below zero, with the pros- 
pect of 40 below in December and January. 
He continued: "Excellent food and quar- 
ters. Cold does not bother you as in the 
States. White fox in abundance, almost 
tame. Though there's snow on the ground, 
the fall is never heavy. Cheap living here: 
meals 40(?, cigarettes $1 a carton. Base has 
everything a modern city can offer. Flight 
10 hours from McGuire Field, Fort Dix, to 
Goose Bay, Labrador, to Sandrestrovn, at 
18,000 feet." Jim has been engaged in 
building air bases and radar bases for the 
last few years. 

Albert and Mrs. Sherberg have an- 
nounced the engagement of their daughter 
Janet, a graduate student at the University 
of Pennsylvania, to Norman Rasch of Mil- 
waukee. 

Stephen A. McClellan, President of 
Specialties, Inc., has a new home near 
Charlottesville, Va., where Specialties has 
one of its two major research centers. 
Steve's Christmas greetings showed his new 
"base" at Happy Valley Farm, RFD, Earlys- 
ville, Va. He says the latchstring is out. 

John N. Tyler, former Assistant State 
Forester of Tennessee, is now with the 
Bowaters Southern Paper Corp., of Cal- 
houn, Tenn., as Development Forester. The 



Tylers live at 1001 Mt. Vernon Ave., 
Chattanooga 5. 

1924 

Robert H. Goff, President of the Asso- 
ciated Alumni, has been elected by the 
Board of Trustees of Moses Brown School 
to be one of its new members. 

A protest by David J. Wolper led to a 
sudden switch in hotel arrangements for 
Vice-President Nixon during the election 
campaign in Florida. The Nixon party had 
originally planned to stay in a St. Peters- 
burg hotel which has a "restricted" policy. 
Wolper is a former President of B'nai B'rith 
in Florida. 

1925 

Dr. Henry Welch, Director of the Divi- 
sion of Antibiotics of the Federal Food and 
Drug Administration, is one of the two 
editors of a new book, "The Impact of the 
Food and Drug Administration on Our 
Society." Co-editor of the book, published 
by MD Publications, Inc., is Dr. Felix 
Marti-lbanez. 

Herbert Spink, Headmaster of Saint 
Andrew's School, Barrington, R. 1., is re- 
cuperating from an operation performed 
last fall. He has long since resumed his 
work at the School and hopes to be fully 
back in harness by Spring. He is Chairman 
of Laymen's Work for the Episcopal Dio- 
cese of Rhode Island. 

Paul V. Hayden, Vice-President of the 
Connecticut Light & Power Company, has 
been appointed as a member of a new pub- 
lic relations committee of the Manufac- 
turers Association of Connecticut. The pur- 
pose of the committee is to help contribute 
toward public understanding of the role of 
people in Connecticut industry and how 
industry is able to provide the jobs and pay- 
rolls that are a major factor in Connecticut 
people having the highest family income in 
the United States. 

Miles Parker recently became a grand- 
father when his son, Miles, Jr., and wife, 
welcomed Terrance Paul into the Parker 
family. 

Lt. Col. John J. Bauer was graduated 
Dec. 3 from the Command and Staff Soviet 
Orientation Course at the United States 
Army Europe Intelligence School at Ober- 
ammergau, Germany. The course was to 
acquaint senior officers of the United States 
Armed Forces serving in the European 
Command with recent trends, develop- 
ments, and capabilities of the Soviet Union 
and its Satellites. Colonel Bauer is on the 
staff of the United States Army, Europe, 
Engineer School, Bavaria, Germany. 

1926 

A December communication from Wil- 
lard Potter indicated that he was about to 
set sail on a South American cruise. "Me 
and Magellan," he said, asking for Les 
Kelly's address among other things en route 
(Les is in Sao Paulo). Bill planned a re- 
check on Daniel Defoe at Mas a Tierra, 
where the liner promises to have two 
natives row from the shore on a raft in the 
guise of Robinson Crusoe and Friday to 
greet their camera-toting "rescuers." 

J. Lawrence McElroy, Assistant Secre- 
tary and Assistant Treasurer of the Provi- 
dence Journal Company, has been ap- 
pointed to the Publications Committee of 
the Institute of Newspaper Controllers 
and Finance Officers. The Institute, which 
serves the financial and accounting side of 
newspaper publishing, has more than 400 
members throughout the United Slates and 
Canada. 



24 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Ralph Crosby, President of the Old 
Colony Cooperative Bank in Providence, 
has been appointed to the Legislative Com- 
mittee, United States Savings and Loan 
League. This is a nationwide savings and 
loan association, representative of more 
than 4,300 savings associations. He's a Past 
President. 

H. Cushman Anthony, Assistant Scout 
Executive of the Narragansett Council, was 
a recent speaker before the Brown under- 
graduates in Chapel. 

William Ripley, Jr., Superintendent of 
Schools in Cohasset, Mass., and Principal 
of its High School, was a weekend visitor in 
Providence recently. His sister is the wife of 
Prof. Alonzo Quinn, Brown geologist. 

1927 

Prof. William R. Benford was given a 
testimonial dinner recently by the Naval 
Reserve Seabee Division 1-6 at Fields Point, 
Providence. Benford, its former command- 
ing officer, has been promoted to the Re- 
serve rank of Captain. 

1928 

Dr. Ambrose A. McAlevy figured in the 
recent assignment of duties when the Patent 
Section of the Research Division of Du 
Pont's Polychemicals Department was set 
up as a separate unit known as the Patents 
and Contracts Division. McAlevy will be 
Assistant Manager of the Division; he was 
formerly Assistant Manager of the Patent 
Section. A patent chemist who received his 
law degree at Temple in 1946. he has been 
with Du Pont since 1935. His other gradu- 
ate work was at Catholic University and 
M.LT. 

H. Clinton Owen, Jr., continues as Di- 
rector of the Department of Administration 
under Governor Roberts of Rhode Island. 
His first departmental report was recently 
published as an impressive pamphlet that 
gives a good picture of State activities under 
him. 

Dr. James Douglas Reid represented 
Brown University at the Inaugural Exer- 
cises of Robert Blackwell Smith, Jr., as the 
Fourth President of the Medical College of 
Virginia Dec. 17. Dr. Reid is Professor of 
Bacteriology at the Medical College. 

1929 

D. D. Davisson is Public Relations Super- 
visor for Western Electric Company at 195 
Broadway, New York. He was thoughtful 
in providing full details about the January 
TV show which dramatized the paratroop 
experiences of Chaplain Ray Hall '31. 

Frederick M. Chace has been appointed 
Assistant Director of Exploration at the 
M. A. Hanna Company, Cleveland. Holder 
of two advanced degrees from Harvard, Dr. 
Chace has been a mining geologist in Aus- 
tralia, Peru, Chile. Mexico, and Canada. 

Russell E. McKenna has been elected 
Chairman of the Warwick (R. I.) School 
Committee. He has been Vice-Chairman 
for the past two years. 

1930 
Aaron H. Roitman is the new Chairman 
of the Providence District under the Nar- 
ragansett Council of the Boy Scouts of 
America, succeeding Dean Westcott Moul- 
ton '3 1 . A recent achievement of Roitman's 
was in organizing the "Together Plan" 
which led to the extension of the Scouting 
program in the city. Vice-Chairman of the 
District is Rear Admiral Edward R. Dur- 
gin, Dean of Students, while Dr. Thomas 
H. McOsker '29 is another of the District 
leaders. Roitman is a Past President of the 
National Wholesaler Furniture Association. 



Paul Marble is the Sales Manager at the 
Fremont Casting Company, Worcester, 

Mass. 

1931 

John J. Mozzochi announced in Decem- 
ber the formation of John J. Mozzochi and 
Associates, consulting engineers, with main 
office at 265 Hebron Ave., Glastonbury, 
Conn. The firm is the outgrowth of a pre- 
vious partnership. The firm designed con- 



struction of a seven-mile section of the 
Connecticut Turnpike, which it is now 
supervising in Norwich and Lisbon. It is 
also engaged by the Connecticut Highway 
Department as consultants on projects in 
East Hartford, Litchfield, and Torrington, 
and by the Greater Hartford Bridge Au- 
thority in surveying eastern approaches 
to the proposed Wethersfield-Glastonbury 
bridge. Closely associated with the expan- 
sion of Bradley Field, the firm has just com- 




CARL LALUMIA, New Haven AP Bureau Editor, may be the only reporter in Connecticut who works with 
his coat on. He says he isn't formal— just allergic to drafts. 



Switch 



IT WAS A SWITCH last fall when the New 
Haven Sunday Register devoted a page 
feature to Carl Lalumia '24, who has been 
with the New Haven Bureau of the Asso- 
ciated Press for more than a quarter of a 
century. Day Editor and Assistant Bureau 
Chief, Lalumia has covered about every- 
thing in that time, including the Hartford 
flood of 1936, which, after communications 
with the city were cut, was one of his 
roughest assignments. 

His biggest story, at least from the point 
of view of duration, was the covering of 
the Waterbury Conspiracy, when politi- 
cians of both parties were accused of de- 
frauding the City of Waterbury of millions 
of dollars. The Grand Jury and actual trial 



was the longest criminal trial in the country, 
lasting well over two years. Except for the 
rare lulls, Lalumia was there all the time. 

Legislative routine is almost second 
nature to him after 25 vears. "They say I'm 
the dean of the Legislature's reporters," 
he admits, "but I can't say I glory in the 
title." But observers marvel at his ability 
to foresee things that are going to happen. 

National political conventions are pari 
of his work, too, and he broke the inside 
story on Stevenson's decision not to desig- 
nate a vice-presidential choice last summer. 
"Good sources are very valuable," says 
Lalumia. Other big stories were a couple 
of executions which he witnessed, the 1955 
floods, and the Hartford circus fire. But 
Lalumia says: "A lot of my work is waiting. 
A reporter has to develop this art to a high 
degree. Just sitting is the hardest thing 1 
do." 



FEBRUARY 1957 



25 




JOE TAYLOR, 14-year-old son of Harry P. Taylor '30, scored his greatest tennis victory to date in win- 
ning the Southern California CIF Mid-Winter Interscholastic Tennis title. His opponents were all three 
or four years older, but he won the big trophy shown above for his school, Arcadia High. Taylor is at 
the right in the picture. The father is a Los Angeles advertising executive. Incidentally, a finalist in the 
girls' division was Caroline, daughter of Roger Brighom '21 of Pasadena. 



pleted the design of apron and taxiways for 
the new Air Reserve Flying Center. John is 
a Past President of the Glastonbury Cham- 
ber of Commerce and Glastonbury Ex- 
change Club. He is Co-Chairman of St. 
Paul's Building Fund, and a member of the 
Glastonbury Public Building Committee, 
advisory board of the Glastonbury Branch 
of the East Hartford Federal Savings & 
Loan Association, and the State Board for 
the Supervision of Dams and Reservoirs. 

Ronald C. Green, Jr., is a new Trustee of 
Moses Brown School, joining the Board 
with the start of the new School year. He 
is also a Trustee of the Providence Public 
Library, Providence Lying-in Hospital, and 
Swan Point Cemetery. A lawyer, he is also 
a Past President of the R. L Golf Associa- 
tion. 

Joseph A. O'Neil is one of the residents 
of Paris caught by the gasoline shortage 
there. "The monthly ration of 30 liters (less 
than eight gallons) for a Chevrolet will 
cover only 10 round trips per month from 
my apartment to the plant in Genne- 
villiers." That is quite a restriction for the 
Manager of General Motors (France). 

Donald D. O'Neill has been appointed 
General Sales Manager with Tuttle & 
Bailey, division of Allied Thermal Corpora- 
tion of New Britain, Conn. He had been 
Manager of Tuttle & Bailey's New York 
Office until his new appointment. Don has 
been with the company foi 14 years. 

Clarke Ferguson, Regional Director of 
Sales for the American Airlines, has his 
offices in the Prudential Bldg.. Chicago. 

C. Newton Kraus, ham operator from 
Warren, R. I., made it possible for two 
Rhode Island Navy wives to chat for 65 
minutes with their husbands at the bottom 
of the world on Christmas F.ve. The con- 
tact with the 15 Scabecs building a base at 



the South Pole missed making history by 
23 hours. The first "patched" telephone 
conversation was made the day before by a 
radio operator in Clark, N. J. A "patch" is 
made by connecting a telphone line into a 
short wave set that has made contact with 
some spot on the Globe. A week earlier, 
Kraus had talked with Rear Adm. George 
Dufek, head of this "Operation Deep- 
freeze." The Admiral's son-in-law, by the 
way, is Richard B. Phillips '50. 

1932 

John R. Dolan is back in Providence 
with National Cash Register Company, 
holding forth with accounting and book- 
keeping machines. He has moved his resi- 
dence to 30 Anchorage Way, Harrington. 

Tom Eccleston had an auspicious start as 
hockey coach at Providence College. His 
Friars won their first three, defeating 
Harvard, rated the Ivy's best, Princeton, 
and his alma mater, Brown. In commenting 
on the decisive 6-3 win over Harvard, John 
Hanlon, Providence Bulletin reporter, noted 
that "His young men showed a typical drive 
and hustle. However, hardly anyone who 
knows Tom expected anything else." 

Max Millman, who has been Acting 
Principal at the Perry Junior High School 
in Providence, was promoted to Principal 
last fall. 

1933 

Dr. Alexander M. Burgess, Jr., is a new 
Trustee of Moses Brown School, where he 
prepared for Brown. He was chosen for the 
Board by the Yearly Meeting School Com- 
mittee of the Friends. He is on the active 
staff of the Rhode Island Hospital and 
Miriam Hospital and on the Board of Di- 
rectors of the R. 1. Heart Association and 
Child Guidance Clinic. 



Arthur F. Kroeger, a partner in the 
A. & H. Kroeger Organization of New 
York, is a Director of such corporations 
as: Aero Manufacturing Co., Boorum & 
Pease Co., Bridgeport Fabrics, Inc., Capital 
Airlines, Inc., Crescent Corp., Donner 
Corp., Harvey Hubbell, Inc., Henry Diss- 
ton & Sons, Inc., Heppenstall Co., and 
Monroe Auto Equipment Co. 

The Rev. Prescott L. Laundrie is Chap- 
lain of Sea View Hospital on Staten Island. 
While taking his summer holiday in Rhode 
Island, he held services for Episcopal Boy 
Scouts at Camp Yawgoog and renewed 
some Brunonian friendships. 

Max Hoberman has completed his first 
year as Manager of the basement store at 
G. Fox & Company, Hartford. Tliis is one 
of New England's leading department 
stores. Max has 12 buyers working under 
him and reports that the work is "hectic 
but a pleasure." 

The sympathy of the Class is extended to 
Henry D. Burrage on the death of his 
mother, Mrs. Harriet G. Burrage, Dec. 7, 
in Portland, Me. 

1936 

William Y. Dear, President of the New 
Jersey Printing Company, is a new Trustee 
of the Berkeley Divinity School in New 
Haven, serving on the finance Committee. 
Dear's company, one of the largest in 
America, prints Fortune magazine, 80% of 
the school textbooks for several Eastern 
States, and telephone directories for many 
Eastern metropolitan areas. 

David E. Slattery has been promoted to 
Branch Manager at the Detroit Downtown 
Office with IBM. He has been with the com- 
pany 20 years and, most recently, has 
served as Assistant Branch Manager at 
Pittsburgh. 

Paul Hagan, with Pratt & Whitney in 
Seattle, is expecting a transfer which will 
take him to Tokyo. 

The dramatic story of the escape of 
Clarence H. Gifford, Jr., his wife, and their 
four children from the sinking Andrea 
Doria last summer was told in a feature 
story in the Rhode Islander section of the 
Providence Sunday Journal recently. The 
author was a fellow Brunonian, Henry H. 
Smith '40. 

J. Alden Dooley, running on the Re- 
publican ticket, was elected Judge of Pro- 
bate in East Providence in the November 
election. His final margin was 61 votes. 

1937 

John M. Exton of Bachmann Uxbridge 
Worsted Corporation in New York is 
Chairman of the Research Committee of 
the American Institute of Men's and Boys' 
Wear. The committee has begun its first 
survey on a modest basis, and Exton be- 
lieves more research must be done to 
determine motivations on winter and sum- 
mer buying in the field. It is one of the 
first programs of the year-old Institute. 
Exton gave his views for a feature article 
in a recent issue of America's Textile Re- 
porter, written by his classmate Richard C. 
Scott, Assistant to the Publisher. 

1938 

Kenyon J. Hayes, Chief of the Division 
of Chemistry and Assistant Research Di- 
rector of the Norwich Pharmacal Com- 
pany, received the honorary degree of Doc- 
tor of Science from Hartwick College last 
June. (We regret that we did not learn of 
the honor in time to include it in our ear- 
lier list of honorary degrees to. Brown men 



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elsewhere.) He has made a number of out- 
standing contributions in the fields of both 
theoretical and applied chemistry, the ci- 
tation noted. Also mentioned were the 
compounds he developed for use in human 
and veterinary medicine and fundamental 
work by him in the nitration of furan de- 
rivatives. Dr. Hayes, a Commander in the 
Naval Reserve, is Executive Officer of the 
Navy unit in his home city of Norwich. 

Dr. Nelson Marshall is in his first year 
as Dean of Liberal Arts at Alfred Univer- 
sity. He continues as a member of the 
Board of Trustees of Rollins College. Ear- 
lier in his career, he was Dean at William 
and Mary. 

T. Brenton Bullock has been elected a 
Vice-President of Horton, Church & Goff, 
Providence Advertising Agency. He has 
been with the firm since 1948. 

1939 

The Class extends its sympathy to John 
R. Magee, Jr., on the death of his mother, 
Margaret (Holmes) Magee, Dec. 2, in 
Bristol, R. I. 

1940 

William A. McCullough, Jr., Sales Ex- 
ecutive of Nicholson File Company, won 
runner-up honors in the Southern Hard- 
ware Golf Association Championship at 
Pinehurst, N. C. Last year, he won the 
championship of Texas JJardware Boosters' 
Association at Fort Worth and the Hard- 
ware Golf Association at Colorado Springs. 

Dr. Harold W. Pfautz has been promoted 
to Associate Professor in the Sociology De- 
partment at Brown. Harold is Chairman of 
a Brown sub-committee which reported 
Faculty opinion of the undergraduate IC 
program, and he has written articles on re- 
ligious and political movements for various 
sociological journals. He is also Secretary 
of the Brown Faculty Club. 

1941 

Richard F. Brooks, Manager of Mining 
Operations for Gladding, McBean & Co., 
addressed the recent annual convention of 
the American Mining Congress. He told of 
the discovery and development of two 
mineral deposits on which his company is 
now building two new manufacturing 
plants. They will cost in excess of five mil- 
lion dollars and provide employment to 
200 people. 

Emile LeGros has returned from an 1 1- 
week business trip to South America, where 
he installed and started operation of Pepso- 
dent Toothpaste plants in Call, Colombia, 
and Caracas. Venezuela. In Cali, he vis- 
ited with Norman Guy "39. 

The sympathy of the Class is offered to 
Robert E. Hopps, Jr., on the death of his 
father, Nov. 26, in Rumford, R. I. 

Dr. Daniel J. Blacklow, Chief of Medi- 
cine at the Waltham (Mass.) Hospital, 
acted as the moderator in November at a 
discussion during the sixth Free Medical 
Symposium sponsored by the Waltham 
Hospital Associates. 

James Reilly, formerly in the Providence 
school system, was appointed to the staff 
at Madawaska High School, Me., last fall. 
He is teaching social studies there. 

1942 

Howell Wagner has been transferred by 
the Sperry Gyroscope Company to Salt 
Lake City where the company is setting up 
a new organization. 

John M. Sapinsley, President of the 
Crescent Company, Inc., has been elected a 
Director of the Providence Mutual Insur- 
ance Company. He also is a member of the 
Corporation of the Rhode Island Hospital 



and of the Roger Williams Junior College 
as well as being a Director of the Miriam 
Hospital, the Providence Child Guidance 
Clinic, Temple Beth El, the General Jewish 
Committee of Providence, and numerous 
other organizations. 

1943 

Bill Kaiser, Jr., has taken a position as 
Controller of the Misco Corporation, 135 
So. LaSalle St., Chicago. He had been liv- 
ing in Milwaukee and had been serving as 
Secretary of the Brown Club there. 

Langford Barrows proved his right to be 
rated among the top salesmen with the New 
York Life Insurance Company when he 
raised his 1956 paid volume above the 
$1,000,000 mark in October. He has been 
with the Company since 1952. 

1945 

Louis J. DeAngelis, whose duties with 
New England Power Service Company in 
Boston include editorial work for its pub- 
lication Contact, had a chance to give 
Brown a boost recently. When its January 
issue was in preparation, they needed a 
photograph of a college campus to illus- 
trate a story about industry's recruiting of 
Seniors. Lou asked for a picture of stu- 
dents at Brown. 

Vern Alden continues as Director of Fi- 
nancial Development and Assistant Dean 
at the Harvard Graduate School of Busi- 
ness Administration. 

Knight Edwards has become a partner in 
the law firm of Edwards & Angell in Provi- 
dence. 

1946 

Jeremy Newman, Assistant Engineer in 
the office of the Borough President of Man- 
hattan, received an award Dec. 10 at the 
New York City Hall from Mayor Robert 
F. Wagner. The award was made for his 
contribution in the Suggestion Program 




CHARLES C. TILLINGHAST, JR., '32, center 
on the 1931 Brown football team, was 
named on the Silver Anniversary All-Amer- 
ica by Sports Illustrated magazine. The 
magazine sought to honor those Senior let- 
termen of 25 years ago who hove most dis- 
tinguished themselves in their chosen ca- 
reers and in community service. Tillinghast, 
a New York attorney, is an Alumni Trustee 
of Brown University. 



and was his second award since his asso- 
ciation with the Borough President's office. 

Bill Bakrow has accepted a position at 
the University of Buffalo as Assistant Di- 
rector of University Development. He had 
been Public Relations Manager at CBS- 
Hytron, Danvers, Mass. 

Edwin M. Knights, Jr., is one of the au- 
thors of a new book, "Ultramigro Methods 
for Clinical Laboratories," published by 
Grune and Stratton, Inc. It is a manual for 
use in hospital laboratories, the first pub- 
lication of its kind, with a good pre-publi- 
cation reception. Using the methods de- 
scribed, the hospital pathology service can 
now perform complex electrolyte deter- 
minations and other blood studies while us- 
ing only a few drops of blood. This is par- 
ticularly valuable in the care of premature 
infants, burn cases, and others where ve- 
nous blood is difficult to obtain. 

1948 

Harold W. Demopulos, who took his law 
studies at Penn, is the Treasurer of the Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania Club of Rhoiie Is- 
land. Prof. Louis Giddings of Browri was 
speaker at the annual meeting recenth. tell- 
ing of his Arctic expedition while still on 
the Penn Faculty. 

Bob and Faith Smith and their 1 '/i year- 
old bruiser, J. R., were enchanted by a re- 
cent Nen' York Times story extolling the 
virtues of Lake Worth, Fla., where they 
have been living since 1952. 

Robert B. Britton, an engineer with 
Rohm & Haas at Bristol, Pa., is on eight- 
months' assignment to the company's Hous- 
ton plant in Texas. With Mrs. Britton and 
their son, he's living at 6716 Sylvan Rd., 
Houston. 

1949 

Donald J. Davidson is in the Nuclear 
Products Division of Metals and Controls 
Corporation in Attleboro, commuting from 
his new home in Arnolds Mills, Valley 
Falls. R. I. He finds production engineering 
"extremely interesting." The manufacture 
of nuclear fuel elements for atomic reactors 
is handled in his division of the rapidly ex- 
panding company. He's been with Metals 
and Controls for a year and a half. 

Richard Brunell, former head of the De- 
partment of Art at the Georgia State Col- 
lege of Business Administration, is the new 
Director of the Atlanta Art Institute. In ad- 
dition to his Brown degree, he has one from 
t!:e R. I. School of Design and a certificate 
from Pratt Institute, with further studies at 
Fontaincbleau. He came to Brown after 
serving as an Air Force Captain. While 
Art Director of the G. M. Brasford Co. in 
New York, he handled advertising accounts 
for some of the largest American corpora- 
tions and won several advertising art 
awards. He was a three-time winner of the 
Art Directors of Atlanta award. 

Alfred Buckley was Chairman of the 
Episcopal Charities Drive in Rhode Island 
last year, a drive which exceeded its goal 
by $2,01 1.92. 

David I. Flanzbaum has joined the Pro- 
fessional Men's Association of Rhode Is- 
land as an Account Executive. He will 
serve the local chapter in administering the 
national PMA program of medical and 
dental financing. 

Francis C. Craig is working in Philadel- 
phia as a Petroleum Representative with 
the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. 

Richard I. Stevens is employed as Senior 
Fish Pathologist, State Conservation De- 
partment, Rome, N. Y. 

Bruce Williamson acted as Moderator at 
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East Providence. Bruce is heard daily on 
WHIM, popular music and news station in 
Providence. 

1950 

Hank Soar, Providence College and New 
York Giant football star and American 
League umpire, will be the guest of honor 
at the Class of '50 Discussion Luncheon 
Wednesday, Feb. 6, at the Faculty Club. 
Starting time will be 12:05. Hank has never 
been known as one to duck an issue or a 
question (in fact, the only time he ever 
turns his back on anything is when he 
dusts the plate), so bring in some loaded 
questions. 

Many Classmates in the downtown area 
have developed the habit of bringing the 
boss along with them for these gatherings. 
Great idea. We hope that it spreads. The 
attendance has been good, with 25-40 peo- 
ple showing up for these get-togethers. 

Howard Curtis, Public Relations Direc- 
tor of the University, has agreed to "be 
our guest" the first Wednesday in March, 
the 6th. Curt, who has been at Brown 
since 1946, has his fingers on the pulse of 
all phases of the University's program. He 
was recently elected as a Secretary of the 
College. 

Baaron Pittenger, Director of Sports In- 
formation, spoke at the December meeting. 
He traced the routine of his job and stated 
that he is governed by the principle that 
"what's good for the boy is good for 
Brown." He also stated thai he believes 
everything Brown does should be done with 
quality, noting that "Brown has prestige to 
sell and should always attempt to sell this 
product in the most attractive manner pos- 
sible." 

Stan Ward and Jim Fullerton, Brown's 
basketball and hockey coaches, were pres- 
ent at the January meeting. Ward felt that 
his hoop squad would improve "down the 
stretch" because of the large number of 
Sophomores on the team. He rated his Cub 
squad as "one of great potential." Fullerton 
felt that Brown's victory over Boston Col- 
lege early in the season was one of his 
great thrills as a hockey coach. With most 
of the Ivy games coming in the second half 
of the season, he had hopes of making a 
strong showing by that time. 

A total of 29 Regional Secretaries have 
been appointed by the Class, with 13 areas 
of the country not as yet covered. These 
men will assist in gathering information 
about a specified number of classmates in 
their area for use in this magazine, will 
forward information about outstanding 
men in their groups for consideration for 
the annual Class of '50 Achievement 
Award, and will provide the "follow-up" 
during the Class Dues campaigns in the 
fall and the University Fund campaigns in 
the spring. 

The Executive Committee of the Class 
voted to contribute $50 to the fund in 
honor of the late Sam Arnold. President 
Kiely made the presentation to President 
Keeney. 

Second Lt. George Chapin was gradu- 
ated from the Medical Service School at 
Fort Sam Houston in November. He's now 
stationed at Fort Leslie J. McNair, Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

Bill Crafts, Assistant to the Dean of Men 
at Penn State College, sent an interesting 
letter: "Whatever else we may retain as 
memories from this year, perhaps Mari- 
anne's contributions are the greatest. She 
has managed to survive many hair-raising 
escapades and has blossomed out as quite a 
charming young lady of 18 months. Our 
Thanksgiving table was laden with garden 



vegetables, some of which we harvested 
that very morning. EUie has been offered a 
part-time teaching position in Home Eco- 
nomics at Penn State." 

Jay Barry helped Brown to "defeat" 
Notre Dame last November. Running as a 
Republican for the Warren (R. I.) School 
Committee, he defeated his opponent, a 
lawyer from Notre Dame, by 50 votes. His 
running mate got elected also, and they, 
along with Dick Gempp '51, gave the Re- 
publicans control of the five-man School 
Board in Warren for the first time in 18 
years. 




JOSEPH P. AGRONICK '49 has ioined Heidrick & 
Struggles as an associate. The firm of Chicago 
management counsellors specializes in executive 
recruiting. As a former senior consultant with 
George Fry & Associates, Inc., Agronick was an 
adviser to the Chinese National Government on 
Formosa. 



Joseph Paterno, continuing as Assistant 
Coach under Rip Engle at Penn State, had 
another good year. There were a couple of 
exciting finishes in the 1956 games which 
led Engle to say that he'd had only one to 
compare with them: Brown's 23-20 victory 
over Princeton when a 29-yard field goal 
was kicked in the last few seconds. Paterno 
was in the Brown backfield that year. 

Val Gates, David Parry, and Raymond 
J. Green '53 form a Brown delegation in 
the Engineering Department of Hamilton 
Standard, division of United Aircraft Cor- 
poration, in the main plant at Windsor 
Locks, Conn. 

The sympathy of the Class is offered to 
Eskil P. Swanson on the death of his father, 
Eskil V. Swanson, Dec. 2, in Warwick, 
R. I.; to Henry Arnold on the death of his 
father. Brown's beloved Provost; and to 
Edmund J. Brown, Jr., on the death of his 
mother, Cecelia C. (Quinn) Brown, Dec. 
9. in Pawtucket. 

Lacy B. Herrmann is Assistant to the 
Purchasing Agent with the Television and 
Radio Division of the Westinghouse Elec- 
tric Corporation in Metuchen, N. J. 

Chuck Nelson has left the Penn Trans- 
former Company and has accepted an ap- 
pointment as football and baseball coach 
and English teacher at Scotch Plains High 
School in New Jersey. Chuck, Gerrie, and 
all the little Nelsons are living in that 



"Danish" town — Middlesex, N. J., at 604 
Beechwood Ave. 

Curran A. Jules is a resident doctor in 
Internal Medicine at the New England 
Deaconess Hospital in Boston. 

Hank Butts has returned to the United 
States after 4'/2 years in the Army in Ger- 
many. He's now stationed at Fort Carson, 
Colo. "I have never failed to receive the 
Brown Alumni Montlily and its news of 
Brown," he writes, "although, strangely, 1 
failed to run into Carberry anywhere in 
Europe." Hank still recalls his days as a 
guard on the powerful Brown Daily Herald 
basketball team which astounded the 
Brown Intramural League during the win- 
ter of 1949-50. That team was noted for its 
dash, its drive, and the number of players 
who had no connection with the Herald. 

The Class extends its sympathy to Rob- 
ert J. Phillips and his wife on the death of 
their five-year-old son, Robert. He lost his 
life when he fell through quarter-inch 
thick ice in a Crompton mill trench near 
his home Dec. 20. 

Robert D. Hall, Jr., has joined Shattuck. 
Clifford & McMillan, Inc., Boston Adver- 
tising Agency, as an Account Executive. He 
has been with Hugh M. Graham and Asso- 
ciates of New Britain, Conn., for the past 
three years. 

Kenneth B. Whitman has been named 
Junior Case Worker with the Family Serv- 
ice Society, Inc., Holyoke, Mass. A former 
psychiatric social worker at the New Hamp- 
shire Mental Hygiene and Child Guidance 
Clinics in Concord, N. H., Ken is complet- 
ing work towards a M.S. degree in social 
work at Simmons College School of Social 
Work in Boston. 

Fred Kozak was the principal speaker at 
the annual dinner honoring the Durfee 
High football team of Fall River. Fred is a 
former football, basketball, and baseball 
star at Durfee High. He's now working at 
Brown as Assistant Purchasing Agent. 

Don Colo had another fine season as 
Captain and defensive tackle for the Cleve- 
land Browns. At the conclusion of the 
campaign, he was named to the second de- 
fensive All-Pro team as selected by the 
United Press. 

Harold Godlin has joined his brother 
Ted '5 1 and a friend in a partnership for 
the practice of law, to be known as Godlin, 
Rondos, and Godlin. Their offices will be 
in the Gurley Bldg., Stamford, Conn. 

Emil John, a missionary of the Metho- 
dist Church in Linz-Donau, Austria, was 
involved in the relief work for the Hun- 
garian refugees last November and Decem- 
ber. One of his reports to the Board of 
Missions of the Methodist Church, N.Y.C.. 
was reprinted in the Providence Bulletin 
Dec. 2. 

BOB CUM MINGS 



1951 

Robert L. Brown began his new duties 
as City Manager of Sherman, Tex., on Jan. 
I, moving there from his post as assistant 
to the City Manager of San Antonio. After 
getting a degree as Master of Public Ad- 
ministration at the University of Kansas. 
Brown was Assistant City Manager in Law- 
rence, Kan., and at Lubbock, Tex. While 
in the latter town, he taught courses in 
municipal administration at Texas Tech 
and, while in San Antonio, courses in state 
and county government at Trinity Univer- 
sity. He is a member of the International 
City Managers Association and the Ameri- 
can Society for Public Administration. 

Stanley Bujnicki. Oldsmobile dealer in 



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Gardner, Mass., and Mrs. Bujnicki spent 
New Year's in California as a result of 
Stanley winning a trip for two to the Rose 
Bowl game in a nationwide sales contest 
among Oldsmobile dealers. Included in the 
junket was a round trip by plane, a day at 
Disneyland, New Year's Eve at the Coco- 
nut Grove, grandstand seats at the Tourna- 
ment of Roses Parade, the Rose Bowl 
game, and numerous dinners and socials at 
the Ambassador Hotel. 

1952 

Arturo F. Gonzalez, Jr., hit upon a popu- 
lar topic when he wrote "Under the Clock" 
for Today's Living in November. It was the 
story of the famous meeting-place in the 
Biltmore lobby in New York. Among the 
traditions he listed was: "An endless 
stream of Bryn Mawr girls and Brown men, 
Cornell coeds and Colgate students, Co- 
lumbians and Princetonians waiting for the 
5:42 from Poughkeepsie." 

Mat Matteodo has been named General 
and Personnel Accounting Supervisor of 
the Distribution Transformer Department 
at the General Electric Company's plant in 
Hickory, N. C. He has been with G.E. 
since 1953, and he recently transferred 
from the Pittsfield, Mass., plant. 

1953 

Robert F. Hewes is now with the Strat- 
ford News at 2503 Main St., Stratford, 
Conn. He moved to this weekly from his 
post with Theatre Arts Magazine. He says 
he retreated to "the northernmost fringes of 
exurbia" because he was tired of "the hus- 
tle and bustle of the big city." 

Lincoln King has moved to Tucson, 
Ariz., where he is employed by the Hughes 
Aircraft Company. 

Gene Nawrocki is associated with the 
State Mutual Life Assurance Company of 
Worcester. He will work as a life under- 
writer with the Richard F. Wagner Agency 
there. 

Edward Skoog is Engineer in charge of 
construction work on a new high school in 
Quincy, III. He's been with the Illinois De- 
partment of Public Works since graduation. 

1954 

Walter G. Stern is Commanding Officer 
of the Coast Guard Loran Transmitting 
Station, Namaike, Kyushu, Japan. He was 




WHEN WESTCHESTER'S Brown Club observed Sports Night at Scarsdale Inn in November, coaches 
from the County were invited to meet the visitors from College Hill. Left to right: Lou Amonson, football 
coach at New Rochelle High; Al Kelley, Brown football coach; Frank Robinson, football coach at White 
Plains High; and Jim Fullerton, Brown hockey coach. (Photo by Westchester County Publishers, Inc.) 



transferred last July from Port Officer in 
Seattle and sent to school in Groton, Conn. 

Walt Cook was separated from the serv- 
ice early in December after 17 months with 
the Army in Germany. One of the men 
coming in to replace Walt was Paul Bos- 
land '55. 

Emilio D. lannucillo, a third-year stu- 
dent at the Boston University School of 
Law, has been awarded the Edwin C. Jen- 
ney Scholarship at the University. This 
scholarship is awarded by the Dean of Stu- 
dents to a person who "shall be of much 
promise, and high scholastic standing." 

Lou Murgo, former Bruin hoop Captain, 
has received his discharge from the service 
and is serving as Assistant Basketball 
Coach at Central High School, Providence. 
Lou will report this spring to the San An- 
tonio club of the Texas League, a farm 
team of the Baltimore Orioles. He watched 
the Brown-Providence College basketball 
game early in the season from the running 
track above the Gym and sat with Joe 




THREE CLASSMATES at 
Brown ore still together, as 
flight instructors at NAAS 
Corry Field, Pensocolo, Flo.: 
left to right, Vaughn D. 
Fuller, Wolter Holperin, and 
Jock Wallace, all '54. 



Tebo, who shattered Lou's single-season 
basketball scoring record last year. Tebo 
was sitting out the game with a badly 
sprained ankle. 

1955 

Richard Khachian has been elected a 
member of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau 
at the Harvard Law School. The Bureau, 
composed of about 35 students selected on 
a scholarship basis, makes available legal 
assistance to persons who can not afford 
the services of a practicing lawyer. Each 
member has regular office hours and is in 
full charge of cases presented by clients 
during that period. All work is supervised 
by a practicing attorney. 

Herb Melendy is still in Foley, Ala., 
learning to be a jet jockey. 

Bruce Blinn, our Sigma Chi representa- 
tive, writes that Hank Kelleher is with the 
Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean. If pres- 
ent plans work out, he will be at the Har- 
vard Law School next fall. Hank has run 
into Jim Webster, Hank Arwood, and Gor- 
don Perry in his travels. Bruce, incidentally, 
is in the midst of the present Middle East 
crisis, being on loan from the Creole Pe- 
troleum Company to the Middle East En- 
gineering Committee. 

Duncan Olding is employed by the Fair- 
child Engine Corp. and is living in Bay 
Shore, L. I. He reports that Gilbert Kelly 
and Fred Joest are the co-owners of a 28- 
foot sloop which they put to good use in 
Long Island waters last fall. 

Bruce Collins is another man of '55 who 
is stationed in the sunny Mediterranean. 
He's assigned to the carrier Antietan. 

Jack Strong writes each and every "baby- 
looker" (my wife coined that word) to 
come out to Bay Shore and see "Jimmy" — 
a future Brown man. 

Lou Tananbaum. a Regional Secretary, 
writes all the way from Germany that he 
is weighed down with titles (such as Pub- 
lic Information Representative, Security 
Clearance Clerk, and Theatre Manager for 
Headquarters Special Troops). But he 
still has had time for a quick sip of that 
thick German beer that they occasionally 
spill on the b;ir in the smoky Heidelberg 
Rathskellers. He hopes to get an appoint- 



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ment in the Foreign Service, and he also 
has ambitions of returning to the Campus 
this June. 

Roland Dumont has opened his own 
General Insurance Agency. He was for- 
merly with Metropolitan. Roland happily 
reports that his family now numbers four, 
wife Shirley plus Cheryl Ann and Roland 
James the Eighth. 

A letter came along from Marv Schwartz, 
still walking the streets of Laredo, Tex., 
when he's not flying jets, that is. Marv re- 
ports that Kenny Chambers is heading up 
to Goose Bay, Canada, to a lonely Air 
Force outpost following helicopter train- 
ing at Randolph in San Antonio. Tell 
Marge to get out the woolies. We flew into 
Goose Bay on our way back from Iceland, 
and we hasten to report that it is no joke! 
The air is cool! 

Billy Joel pens a pensive piece from 
Havelock, N. C. He reports that, due to 
hard work, "outstanding ability," and hav- 
ing been in 18 months, the Marine Corps 
has promoted him to 1st Lieutenant. He is 
in Tactical Air Control, the General's num- 
ber one boy. Billy's Christmas card "Merry 
Joel" may be a modification of Joyeux 
Noel. 

Joe Galta is doing outstanding work at 
the Boston University Medical School, hav- 
ing been elected to the Beggs Honor So- 
ciety. 

Lou Gauthier married a young German 
lass while stationed in Munich with the 
Army, and he is now happily settled in 
Harrisburg, Pa., U.S.A. Lou is anxiously 
awaiting our next reunion so that he can 
bring his bride to Brown. 

Joe Blumberg, after about a month's 
temporary duty in Tokyo, was preparing 
for an early marriage, the last we heard. 

Ed Sutherland is a member of the 123d 
Transportation Company at Fort Eustis, 
Va. 

Pvt. Rodney Ralston has left the U.S.A. 
for Europe as part of Operation Gyro- 
scope, the Army's unit rotation plan. He is 
a member of the 8th Infantry Division, 
stationed in Germany. 

2nd Lts. James Smith, Tom Morie, and 
George Kern have completed a phase of 
their training at Reese Air Force Base, Tex. 
They each took their final 110 hours of 
flight training in B25s. 

2nd Lt. Buzz Samsel was awarded his 
silver pilot wings Oct. 30, in graduation 
ceremonies at Goodfellow AFB, San An- 
gelo, Tex. 

Barry Lougee has bought an old Colonial 
house, circa 1680, where he and his wife 
live when he is not on the road for New 
Hampshire Profiles. 

Ed Hale received a B.S. and a M.E. at 
M.I.T. I remember playing soccer against 
Ed, Brown vs M.I.T. Varsity, and playing 
with him, Brown vs M.I.T. Freshman. 

Dave Zucconi writes a good long letter 
from England and says that Roger Fair- 
man, an OCS Ensign, is a plotting officer 
attached to the Fleet Camera detachment at 
Newport. 

Vin Jazwinski and his pretty bride, Con- 
nie Paulson P'55, are in Hawaii, where the 
Marine Corps has exiled him. 

Jim Coukos has been doing some deer 
hunting up in Canada, where he is stationed 
with the Air Force. 

John O'Brien married Pembroker Anne 
Murphy and is working for the U.S. Rub- 
ber Company in Chicago. 

Back to correspondent Dave Zucconi 
again: He seems to be playing sleuth, be- 
sides playing, and winning, the base touch 
football championship in Newberry, Eng- 
land. He and some auditors for the Air 



Force uncovered an $8,000 fraud case. 

Mixie and I are enjoying "weekend" 
marriage. She comes up with the car from 
Baltimore, where she attends Goucher, and 
I hitchhike down from Newport, where I 
attend Navy. This boat officer duty, 
frankly, gentlemen, is for the sea gulls. 

DOC HOUK 

1956 

2nd Lt. Paul Hatch got out of the hos- 
pital in December and has resumed duties 
with the SAC at Mather Air Force Base. 
He had quite a siege that included mono- 
nucleosis, phlebitis, and other complica- 
tions, but he was flying again, though 
Christmas leave was out. His address at 
Mather is Box 613. 

Pete Rubin sent along a letter informing 
us that he is traveling the Globe for the 
Lama Dress Company, showing their new 
Junior series. 

Walt Weber is employed as an Engineer 
with the Peoria Caterpillar Tractor Com- 
pany, and he reports that things are "crawl- 
ing" along. 

Don Bowen is with the W. R. Whittaker 
Company in Lynnwood, Cal. "The sun- 
shine is fine, the people are hospitable, and 
the blue Pacific seems to get bluer every 
day," he notes. 

Ens. Frank Klein, serving on the USS 
Ottersetter, was a recent visitor to the Cam- 



pus. And, while there, he bumped into fel- 
low classmate Albert Miller. Al is with 
Stern Brothers, in their Stock Training di- 
vision. 

Norman Levesque is doing some inter- 
esting work with Sikorsky Aircraft in 
Bridgeport, Conn. 

Larry Klein is employed by Blooming- 
dale's, but he still finds time to frequent the 
Japanese art dealers in New York. Larry 
has been considering an exhibition of his 
"Mato" paintings, some of which were 
done while he was at Brown. 

Hal Arcaro is a student at the University 
of Virginia Law School in Charlottesville. 

Pete Trippett, living in East Orange, 
N. J., is working for N. Y. Quinine & 
Chemical Works in Newark. 

Staff Cohen is taking graduate work in 
medicine at Boston University. 

Pete Corning has been soaking up some 
of that wonderful weather at Pensacola, 
Fla., while taking his preflight training. 

Jerry Rosenblum is living at home, 141 
E. 88th St., N. Y., while attending New 
York University Law School. He's also do- 
ing some acting in Spanish productions oSE 
Broadway. His theatrical name is Manuel 
Delano. 

George Chapman reports a change in 
uniform from grey flannel to O.D. We wish 
him well. 

MARV WILENZIK 



More Letters 

(Continued from page 3) 

k.t.l. (Sorry we don't have the Greek 
characters to render this as written. — Ed.) 
Before I became a teacher at Brown (in 
1927) I heard, believed, and enjoyed the 
story in approximately the terms in which 
it is now printed. In 1927 I came to know 
Johnnie well and admire him deeply. I have 
ceased to believe and ceased to enjoy the 
story; I deny it as reasonably as I can at 
every opportunity. I do so herewith. 

C. ARTHUR LYNCH 

Professor of Classics 

An Indian's Brown-Feeling 

Sir: Classmates (1926), from the oppo- 
site side of the globe, I am wishing you all 
a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. 
I am also wishing same to all present 
students of our beloved Brown. 

Our prime minister, great Panditjse, is 
now at Washington. Probably you have 
heard and seen him on your teli-sets. The 
meeting of the two great men may bring 
peace and happiness to our troubled world 
— at least we all hope so. 

The periodicals which you so kindly and 
regularly send me keep the Brown-feeling 
in nie always bright. 

AMARENDRA NATH SEN '26 

Calcutta, India 



Propaganda Piece 

Sir: I bought my copy of "Wriston and 
Brown" as soon as I got out of the Army 
and only wish the recording were twice as 
long — it couldn't be better. I spent the holi- 
days with a friend I met in Germany, and 
I want both him and his family to have the 
recording because, frankly, I want to use it 
as a propaganda piece. 

The boy and his brother both belong in 



college but shy away because they don't 
understand what college can mean. Both 
boys are bright and love to learn, and I am 
hoping that Dr. Wriston's words will con- 
vince them that college is not a memory- 
factory. 

ALAN W. BROWNSWORD '54 

Madison, Wis. 

Professor Watson 

Sir: You may be interested in a comment 
in the last letter I received from Prof. 
Arthur E. Watson last fall. "Whether ac- 
tivity or loafing is the proper treatment for 
my complaint, I have yet to find out. At my 
advanced age, I do not expect to be well." 
What a grand old man. I enclose a con- 
tribution for Professor Watson's pet 
project: the First Baptist Meeting House. 

W. T. BRECKENBRIDGE '15 

Maplewood, N. J. 



"I'm with You" 

No ORDINARY Christmas card was that of 
Eugene W. O'Brien '19 of Atlanta. It 
was in part a tribute to the late Prof. Arthur 
E. Watson '88: "This Christmas of 1956 
we join many — friends we know and 
friends we don't know — in remembering a 
friend who changed but little in 90 years of 
service to all who knew him, regretting 
only that his quiet ways so limited the 
number who enjoyed that blessing." 

O'Brien used excerpts from Professor 
Watson's Christmas letter of 1955: "At 
three-score and ten, plus a factor of safety 
of twenty more, I'm not so enthusiastic 
about winter weather as when young . . . 
perhaps because I left 10 pounds of my 
weight at the hospital, 10 pounds they 
didn't return though I painfully and dili- 
gently paid all my bills. It takes youthful 
blood and those 10 pounds to live without 
creaking on the side of this East Side hill, 
to shovel soft coal in our ravenous old 



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hard-coal furnace, to keep the Old Meeting 
House clocks going. . . . 

"But with winter and snow comes 
Christmas, and its greetings from friends. 
That day, I'm with you in spirit at your 
Midnight Mass, as you are with me at oui 
simple service in the Old Meeting House. 
The hills are gentler, the steps lower, the 



old furnace purrs and purrs; there's no 
static at all; all's well with the world, even 
with the fussy East Side." 

To this the O'Briens added their own 
message: "May the meaning of Christmas 
be ever stronger, its cheer ever finer, its 
friendship ever deeper, its wishes even 
brighter." 



Bureau of Vital Statistics 



MARRIAGES 

1929 — John R. Van Nest and Miss Doro- 
thy Ploger Bell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Frank M. Bell of Garden City, L. I., Nov. 
24. 

1943 — Howard H. Braverman and Miss 
Margaret Peckham, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Maurice A. Peckham of Peoria, 111., 
Dec. 24. 

1950 — George A. Eckert. Jr., and Miss 
Bonnie Jean Douglas of Seattle, Nov. 10. 

1950 — Gerard E. Walters and Miss Joan 
M. Gilbert, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. John 
J. Gilbert of Providence, Nov. 24. Ushers 
included James F. Gilbert '50. 

1951 — Graham D. Andrews and Miss 
Jean Fergusson Reed, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Sherman R. Reed, Jr., of Bala-Cyn- 
wyd. Pa., Nov. 17. At home: Montgomery 
Court Apts., F-33, Narberth and Price 
Aves., Narberth, Pa. 

1951 — David E. Cohen and Miss Fran- 
ces Rosenberg, daughter of Mrs. Bernard 
Rosenberg of Lynn, and the late Mr. 
Rosenberg. 

1951 — Francis L. Foley and Miss 
Yvonne Seisbye, daughter of Mrs. Elida 
Seisbye of Copenhagen, Denmark, and the 
late Gottlieb Seisbye. Oct. 27. 

1951 — Arthur L. Guerin. Jr., and Miss 
Janet Caldwell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Henry C. Caldwell of Spangler, Pa., Nov. 
17. 

1951 — James L. McLay and Miss Bar- 
bara Gibson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Joseph E. Gibson of Pittsburgh. Dec. 1. 

1953 — Philip W. Wehrman and Miss 
Constance Ruth Gibson, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. William Gibson of Madison. 
Conn., Nov. 23. Ushers included John W. 
Gibson '45. 

1954 — James D. Brown and Miss Bar- 
bara Buslik, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Max 
Buslik of New York City, Nov. 15. 

1954 — Charles I. Judkins, Jr., and Miss 
Nancy Brandon Kaufman, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. George T. Kaufman of Bar Vil- 
lage, O. 

1955 — William J. Luque and Miss Diane 
Drouet, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Warren 
Drouet of Monroe, Conn., Nov. 24. Ushers 
included Thomas A. Westbrook '55. 

BIRTHS 

1939 — To Mr. and Mrs. George G. Al- 
lison of Langhorne, Pa., a son, Stephen 
Grier. Nov. 15. 

1944 — To Mr. and Mrs. George Camp- 
bell, Jr., of Camillus, N. Y., their second 
son. Marc Draper. Oct. 17. Grandfather is 
George Campbell "07. 

1944 — To The Rev. and Mrs. Peter 
Chase of South Kent, ( onn., a daughter. 
Cynthia Helen, Oct. 31. Mrs. Chase is the 
former Virginia H. Zimmerman, Pembroke 
'56. 

1945— To Mr. and Mrs. Clinton H. 
Springer of Stamford, Conn., their second 



child, a daughter, Elizabeth Bradley. Dec. 
6. Grandmother is Marion Sherman 
Springer, Pembroke '18, and Great Grand- 
father was the late Clinton T. Sherman '93. 

1948— To Mr. and Mrs. Marvin N. Gel- 
ler of Revere, Mass., a son, Joseph Theo- 
dore. Oct. 10. 

1949— To Mr. and Mrs. Harris W. Ar- 
nold of Cranston, their third child and first 
son, Stephen Harris, Nov. 28. Great Grand- 
father was the late Frederick A. W. Harris 
'88. 

1949 — To Mr. and Mrs. Theodore F. 
Dane of Warwick, their third child and 
first daughter. Deborah. Nov. 27. 



1949— lo Mr. and Mrs. William S. Gro- 
cut, Jr., of Plainville, Mass., their fourth 
child and second son, Peter Sherman, Nov. 
26. 

1950— Jo Mr. and Mrs. Albert G. Da- 
vidson, Jr.. their second daughter, Diane 
Marie. Oct. 6. 

1950— To Mr. and Mrs. Warren R. 
Howard of Greenwood. R. I., a second 
daughter, Sally Jane, November 8. 

1951— To Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Buj- 
nicki, Jr., of Gardner, Mass., their second 
daughter, Patricia Frances, Mar. 17. 

1951— To Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. 
Hall of Worcester, a son, Frederick How- 
ard, Jr., Dec. 18. 

1953 — To Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Dor- 
gan of Cranbury. N. J., their second daugh- 
ter. Martha Jo.. Nov. 27. Mrs. Dorgan is 
the former Jean E. Nostrand, Pembroke 
'54. Paternal step-grandfather is Bertrand 
L. Shurtleff '22. 

1954 — To Mr. and Mrs. Walter M. Cook 
of West Roxbury. Mass., a daughter, Linda 
Susan, Oct. 19. 

1954 — To Mr. and Mrs. Ernest J. Woel- 
fel, Jr., of Peabody. Mass., their second 
daughter, Greta Louise, Sept. 22. Grand- 
father is Ernest J. Woelfel '23. 

1955 — To Mr. and Mrs. Lewis G. Bishop 
of Schenectady, a daughter, Dianne. in 
October. 



In Memoriam 



EDWIN AUGUSTUS ROBINSON "97 in 
Cranston, Nov. 2. A mechanical engi- 
neer, he had been with International 
Silver Co., until his retirement in 1948. 
He had been a member of Masonic 
Bodies and the Power Squadrons of 
Meriden and Middletown, Conn. He 
leaves a brother, Robert C. Robinson 
'00. Beta Theta Pi. 

CLINTON VLALL DEAN 04 in Provi- 
dence, Dec. 10. An investment securi- 
ties dealer, he had been associated with 
E. H. Rollins & Son for many years be- 
fore becoming affiliated with Richardson 
& Clark in 1949. He was active in nu- 
merous Masonic organizations. Zeta Psi. 

ARTHUR JEREMIAH LATHAM 05 in 

Providence, Dec. 24. A prominent civil 
engineer and former Instructor at Brown, 
he headed the firm of J. A. Latham & 
Son. He was a Mason and a member of 
the Providence Engineering Society. He 
leaves a son, Stanton M. Latham '36. 
Delta Tau Delta. 

CLIFFORD MURRAY HATHAWAY '08 
in Springfield, 111., Dec. 11. Former 
Chief Highway Engineer, Illinois Divi- 
sion of Highways, he was a member of 
the American Society of Civil Engineers 
and of Rotary, and was very active in 
Masonic circles. 

HOWARD ALBERT SKINNER 08, in 

Yonkers, N. Y., Nov. 7. A mechanical 
engineer, he had designed oil refineries in 
foreign countries and in the United 
States. 

ARTHUR BARDEN FINCH 17 in 
Fresno, ( alif., Nov. 26. 1955. A public 
accountant, he became Office Manager 
of the A. H. Schultz Chevrolet Co. of 
Tulare in 1928. In World War 1 he 



served as a 2nd Lt. in the Coast Artillery. 
His father was the late Charles H. Finch 

'77. 

JOSEPH DANIEL HAGGERTY '17 in 
White Plains. Nov. 20. An engineering 
graduate, he was an Assistant Controller 
of the New York Central Railroad. Phi 
Sigma Kappa. 

HOWARD ELLIOIT COOK '29 in Santa 
Monica, Calif., Nov. 24. Captured at 
Wake Island, he had been a prisoner of 
war during World War II. He was a li- 
brarian and writer. Delta Upsilon. 

ARTHUR STANSELL BUSH '30 in De- 
troit in November. He had been Vice- 
President of the Charles A. Strelinger 
Co., Detroit hardware firm. 

WALTER EMERSON WENDELL '33 in 
Cranston, Nov. 20. He had been a 
teacher at Central High School in Provi- 
dence and had been a member of the 
Barnard Club, the Rhode Island Voca- 
tional Society, and the Rhode Island Bo- 
tanical Club. Sigma Xi. 

WALTER JOSEF NELSON '34 in Provi- 
dence, Nov. 21. A practicing dentist in 
Providence for the past 15 years, he had 
previously served as Field Dentist with 
the Grcntell Association in Newfound- 
land and Labrador. He was graduated 
from the University of Maryland's Balti- 
more College of Dental Surgery in 1936. 
He had been active in Masonic organiza- 
tions and was a member of the Provi- 
dence District Dental .Society and the 
Rhode Island and New England Dental 
Societies. A World War II veteran, he 
was active in veterans' affairs and served 
on the staff of Miriam Hospital. He is 
survived by his wife. Dorothy Markoff, 
Pembroke '35. 



FEBRUARY 1957 



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A New Hope 

for a Greater Brown . . . 




After one hundred thirty-five years of strenuous service, plans are under way t6 '^-'^^ '^57 
reconstruct HOPE COLLEGE within the original walls. The time has come to 
replace its tired timbers with steel, so that future generations of students may live 
in safety and comfort. Your gift to the new Brown University Fund of 1957 will 
make it possible. 

This year the annual Brown University Fund has TWO objectives: 1) support of 
the general educational program of the University, 2) a substantial contribution to 
the restoration of Hope College. 

In 1956 the Fund total was $370,666 and ALL of it went into the operating budget 
of the University. This year, with TWO objectives, we must aim higher, and the 
amount by which the Fund increases is the amount that will go towards the 
reconstruction of Hope. 

Will you be a part of both projects? You can be by giving MORE in 1957. Increase 
your gift and give DOUBLE assistance to Brown. 

...the Brown University Fund of 1957 

(The only annual appeal to all Brown men) 



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