/\ ^oLuuc 2/L BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY IN THIS ISSUE: A Challenging Report to 1,400,000 Alumni on AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION APRIL 1958 \ /karvard^ university LIBRARY APR 9 1958 THE FACULTY CLUB was Working both sides of the street when it announced a ■■duo-brow'" buffet supper for Feb. 25. The notice pointed out the options for later entertainment that evening, which many would be enjoying: ■the final hockey game of the season (Providence College versus Brown ) and the ne.xt-to-final concert of the season (Boston Symphony, unopposed)." > A STATEMENT On juvenile delinquency impressed the Rev. Howard C. Olsen '38 as a member of the R. 1. Commission to En- courage Morality in Youth. He found it in the annual report of the Rehoboth (Mass.) .School Committee: ■The time was when parents were rulers in their own household and children were under proper restraints. But, in these latter days, the rule seems to be reversed, and quite too often children are their own mas- ters, if not masters of their parents." The Rehoboth report was issued in 1858 — e.xactly 100 years ago. > 111E ALUMNUS spotted his secretary's rendering but. happily, let it stand for our amusement. His daughter, he reported, hoped to graduate from college on schedule this June, although currently on "epidemic probation." > THE EDITOR of the Yale Alumni Maga- zine is a very courageous man. He sent a photographer touring a residential college during a recess to see what he would find. One conclusion: "Some undergraduates are excessively neat (perhaps 5%), a majority are normally neat, and the rest have what amounts to a mania for disorder." > THE LOYAL WIFE of a loyal alumnus wrote us the other day to report the most recent of his many achievements. There was an air of conspiracy about our negotia- tions, for the man is genuinely averse to ■blowing his own horn." "But," as the wife wondered, ■'whose horn is one supposed to blow?" > DON HERBERT, who began his eighth year on the air in March, gets thousands of let- ters from those who "Watch Mr. Wizard," his TV science show over NBC. Some of the correspondents are juniors, like the seven-year-old who announced that in 20 years he expects to be "a full-fledged fisi- sis." But we sympathized with the eight- year-old girl who asked: "Please, Mr. Wiz- ard, what are saddle-lights?" > liROWN's popular astronomer, Charles Smiley, gets most of his inquiries on the phone in these days of accelerated interest in space travel. And the press turns to him. too, often. Perhaps you saw the UP item, used all over the country, in which he said he would want to go to the moon only after 999 successful roundtrips had been com- pleted. "You might call me a conservative," he said. > DAVID MCCORD would not permit the Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin to mis- quote the inscription on Robert Louis Stevenson's grave in a recent issue. He wrote: "Even doctors can't do very much for dead poets. But they can quote them correctly. . . . Between prescriptions and inscriptions, your critic hopes for accuracy in the former but would also enjoy it in the latter." > ARTHUR SCHWARTZ, the composer and producer, was a recent guest columnist in the New York University Alumni News. He reported that, as an undergraduate, he had found tough going in his courses in the sciences, one of which was Geology. "I'm left today," he admitted, "with the positive knowledge that either stalactites or stalagmites hang downward." > KEVIN R. CASH '48 works on the A>n- Hampshire Sunday News, published by the Manchester Union Leader and speaks of a strong Dartmouth infiltration in the com- munity. In doing rewrites, he suspects there is "collusion on the part of the sports department" that he be called upon to handle stories of defeats suffered by the Brown Bear. It gave him particular pleas- ure, therefore, to note a Union Leader headline recently that read: "Dartmouth Dormitory to Bear Name "Brown.' " > WE LIKE HEARING from Brown alumni about their encounters with other Brunoni- ans in various corners of the world. One such report had a special touch of frank- ness: "I was recently accosted by my 1st Sergeant for various misdemeanors. In the ensuing discourse, I learned that he is also an alumnus of Brown University. Although he has become a shouting Army type, he nevertheless still possesses those intangible peculiarities which always seem to identify a Brown man." > HE was not the first Freshman who had walked into the Providence County Court- house from North Main St. and taken the elevator to the fifth floor, which is the Benefit St. level. But, all the way up in the crowded cage, the operator kept muttering about these lazy kids who didn't have the strength to walk up a little slope like Col- lege Hill; modern youth was a flabby, no- good breed, etc. The Freshman made no reply, but, first out at the fifth floor, he hobbled away with the most painful and violent of limps — until he was out of sight. BUSTER BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY APRIL 1958 Vol. LVIII No. 7 Board of Editors Chairman C. Arthur Braitsch '23 Vice-Chairman George W. Potter '21 George R. Ashbey '21 Garrett D. Byrnes '26 Warren L. Carleen '48 Foster B. Davis, Jr., '39 Carleton Goff '24 Prof. I. J. Kapstein '26 Managing Editor Chesley Worthington '23 Assistant Editor John F. Barry, Jr., '50 In This Issue: A Center for Engineering Graduate School Alumni Psychology in Full View The Deanery in New Hands How Our Supplement Grew Sports, "Winter and Spring Brunonians Far and Near 3 8 9 10 11 14 17 ON THE COVER: Forgive our departure from brown ink for this issue, we pray. Because we consider our special supple- ment something spectacular, we wanted to catch your eye with the announcement. Though University Hall and Van Wickle Gates appear small on the cover, we're not minimizing Brown's role in the big picture of "American Higher Education." 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- gust 24, 1912, at the Providence Post Office. Additional entry at Brattleboro, Vt. Member, American Alumni Council. The Magazine is sent to all Brown alumni. It's Time to Talk about Our Engineering at Brown ENGINEERING was still a modest program at Brown when the first building was built specifically for it in 1903 (see dote near the roof). Today's pre- eminence and opportunities call for the new Center as port of the University's Bicentennial Development Program. WE CAN TAKE A HINT. When I're.mlent Keeney was before the Adri.sury Council in February, he .said: "For many years we have been building up our Engi- neering program, but we have not talked enough about it." He's right, and this is the time for talk. Our author, Assi.ftant ]' ice-President Mountain, is a good man to do the talking. He is ■'serving as e.recutive aide to the committee on the proposed Engineering Center at Brouvi University. By MAURICE J. MOUNTAIN '48 THE Engineering tradition at Brown should be a familiar one since the University established its first program in the field in 1850 and thus has the third oldest Engineering course given by an institution of collegiate rank in the United States. But the Division's progress in recent years has been so marked that most alumni need to bring their impressions and informa- tion up to date. One needs to look ahead, too, for any accurate concept must accommodate the erection of a new Engineering Center, which embodies the hope of the Division in its corner of the Brown Bicentennial Program. The original prospectus listed the Engineering Center as a $2,600,000 project, exclusive of $800,000 worth of equipment. The Center will include 40 laboratories for research and student use, eight recitation rooms, a larger lecture room, five option rooms, lounge and reading facilities for Faculty and students, and 81 offices. These would be housed in the major unit, a tall "quiet" building with six floors and a basement. There would be separate housing nearby for a number of labs which require heavy, noisy, and vibration-producing appa- ratus. Physical facilities for Engineering at Brown have not kept pace with its growth. Floor space presently available to the Division amounts to 39,500 square feet for offices, classrooms, and laboratories. Minimum existing needs are for 117,000 square feet of such space. The "heavy" labs would add an- other 21,000 square feet. The Center would be tenanted by: 30 Professors engaged half-time in teaching, half-time in re- search; 10 Research Associates and Instructors; 70 Research Assistants, technicians, and secretaries; 400 undergraduates and 80 graduate students, including Research Assistants. Where Our Emphasis Lies Through the years the curriculum in Engineering has been revised and broadened to include modern developments and maintain instruction at a high professional level. For today's needs, the use of applied and basic science in all fields is be- coming increasingly important. There is abundant evidence that a technical education geared to current practices is almost certain to be outmoded within a few years. Technological changes are so rapid that the only sound education for tomor- row is one which equips the student to grapple with problems (and solve them) which have not yet been perceived. For the future of science in America, it is necessary not only that our wagon "be hitched to a star but to a star beyond today's horizon" — to use President Reeney's words. Brown University's Engineering program, therefore, puts a much greater emphasis on theory and basic experimentation than on practice. This program is conducted at such an ad- vanced level that completion of requirements for the Bache- lor's degree equips the student for tasks ordinarily regarded as vsithin the competence only of graduate engineers. In addition, it develops a broad background as well as advanced knowledge in Mathematics, pure Science, and Engineering which will enable the student to keep pace with the new ideas in En- gineering. Engineering thinking has come to correspond with this policy. It was expressed this way in a 1957 Report on the Evaluation of Engineering Education by the American Society for Engineering Education : "The ultimate goal is the develop- ment of able and responsible men fully competent to practice on a professional plane, especially those who will eventually lead the profession to new heights of accomplishment through creative practice or research. . . . The instructional goal of Engineering education includes helping the student to learn to deal with new situations in terms of fundamental principles, on his own initiative with confidence and sound judgment." Before They Specialize Another aspect of the undergraduate program at Brown deserves emphasis: the common curriculum which has been built up over many years. This represented a radical depar- ture from traditional methods, but it is a departure which other leading Engineering schools are beginning to emulate. The first three years in Engineering at Brown are the same for all students, except for the electives in the Humanities and So- cial Studies, which may vary in accordance with the indi- vidual's interests. He concentrates in the Engineering field of his choice only in the Senior year. This insures unusual breadth of training for the student and yet allows sufficient time for specialization. The usefulness of this kind of En- gineering education is amply illustrated in the careers of Brown graduates and in the comments of their employers. A major factor in the general excellence of results obtained is the relatively high ratio of professional stafl to students. This has been a matter of deliberate design and controlled growth. Thus, while undergraduate enrollment in the last seven years has increased by 1 1 9f , the professorial staff has increased by ST^r . With an enrollment of 270 today, there is one Professor for every nine undergraduates. Since there are no separate graduate and undergraduate Fac- ulties, the entire professional staff participates in the whole range of instruction from the Sub-Freshman orientation pro- gram to the supervision of Ph.D. theses. One of the remarkable changes in Engineering at Brown is the growth of graduate study. Although the first doctorate was awarded in 1951, holders of advanced degrees from the University are already well represented in important Engineer- ing posts. Two are Government advisors in the field of aero- nautics, while the remainder are equally divided between edu- cation and industry. One is Chairman of the Department of Mechanics at a major university; others are Professors in De- partments of a number of leading universities. In a range of industries from electronics to atomic energy, holders of ad- vanced degrees from Brown are well embarked on what prom- ise to be distinguished professional careers in Engineering. At present, Brown has 50 students pursuing graduate stud- ies. Since the most recent survey by the U.S. Office of Educa- tion lists a total of 596 doctorates in Engineering for the na- tion as a whole, it will be seen that, even now. Brown is in a position to make a substantial contribution to the nation's re- quirements for graduate engineers. In addition, there are 42 graduate students in Applied Math, of whom an appreciable number study Engineering subjects. They, too, enter a high- priority field where the demand for well-educated men and women is more than the universities can presently provide. Research iti Progress Research in the Engineering Division at Brown is consid- ered primarily as an educational process — for both profes- sional staff and students. The emphasis is on fundamentals and on quality rather than on quantity. Still, by either criterion, the record of achievement is impressive. Thus, Brown is not only conserving but transmitting the accumulation of knowl- edge, while contributing to the development of new ideas and new knowledge in Engineering science. Of some 20 major research projects under way, the follow- ing may be noted: 1. Studies of excitation of surface waves in dielectric slabs. 2. Theoretical and experimental research on the propagation of radio waves in the microwave region. 3. Effects of transonic speeds on airfoils. (This research is car- ried on with the aid of a transonic wind-tunnel designed and constructed at Brown, which is one of the few of its kind in the world.) 4. Theoretical and experimental research in gen- eral aerodynamics. 5. Experimental studies of creep and fa- tigue of metals and plastics. 6. The development of new meth- ods of experimental stress analysis, with accompanying basic theoretical studies. Most of the research projects are sponsored either by Gov- ernment agencies or by industrial organizations. In 1957, when more than a half-million dollars in research contracts were received, the annual research budget of the Division showed a 10-fold increase over the last seven years. Virtually all projects are free from security restrictions and are aimed at providing basic understanding rather than merely improv- ing industrial techniques. Results of this research have issued in the form of more than 600 papers, published in America as well as abroad. Research papers by Brown engineers have had an increas- ingly prominent place in the programs of the more advanced Engineering assemblies at the national and international level. In this activity. Brown compares favorably on a relative basis with all universities. On an absolute basis, it surpasses the vast majority, some of which are many times larger than Brown. The Russians Were Impressed The University was one of three U.S. Engineering centers selected by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers to carry out extensive investigations of the thermodynamic prop- erties of steam. These studies represent the U.S. contribution to a vast international project for which the ASME provides the secretariat for the 15 nations participating. Such data will be needed for the efficient design and operation of tomorrow's supercritical power stations. It is of interest that Brown's reputation in research extends even behind the Iron Curtain. The Russian journal Mekhanika is devoted to Russian translations of outstanding foreign papers on theoretical and applied Mechanics which have been selected by a committee of the Soviet Academy of Science. In the last seven years, 39 papers by members of the Brown Fac- ulty in Engineering and Applied Mathematics have been chosen for publication in its pages. One of every eight papers so selected was a publication of the Faculty at Brown. Wc have said that the kind of research carried on at Brown is the disinterested quest for knowledge which leads to great discoveries. While it is foreign to this sort of activity to at- tempt to prove its value in the daily market, its relationship to current industrial needs can be shown clearly by a few ex- amples: In the design of nuclear reactors, of machinery, and of structures it is essential to know the stresses and strains to which they are being subjected. Most of the time, the impor- BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY ■v^ THE PROPOSED ENGINEERING SCIENCE CENTER: a preliminary concept by the architect. tant stresses occur at the surface. A technique for obtaining a comprehensive picture of these strains has been developed at Brown into a practical tool. A plastic coating is applied to the surface of the metal being studied and under polarized light the pattern of strain in the metal becomes visible. At times, the crucial strains occur below the surface of the metal. Study of these interior strains is possible only by means of three- dimensional photoelastic techniques. The availability of these research techniques permits industry to increase the efficiency of designs and to achieve an important economy in the use of critical materials. Another research project is devoted to the study of damping effects of fluids at various temperatures and pressures on os- cillating surfaces. If these effects can be determined and ac- curately measured, the knowledge can be applied to any field where fluids in motion are involved. This research is of great significance to industry as it will affect the design of turbines, pumps, and a host of other devices in power plants. "Creep" and Fatigue Especially relevant to the aircraft industry is research on creep and fatigue of metals and plastics. The phenomenon of creep is the tendency of metal under stress and particularly at higher temperatures to elongate or "creep" over a period of time with no increase in load. One of the present limits on de- veloping more efficient jet engines is the "creep" characteristic of the metals used in their turbine engines when higher tempera- tures are used. There is a comparable application to the design of steam power plants, not only in turbine blades but also in boiler piping and heat-exchange systems where creep some- times produces disastrous ruptures. Fatigue in metals, which causes the progressive fracturing of metals under repeated loading, has been the cause of nu- merous railroad wrecks. It is also accused of 95% of all aircraft failures when personnel errors have been stripped out. Brown is pursuing extensive research in the effort to determine the exact nature of the mechanism of fatigue and how it can be controlled. In the field of physical metallurgy of sintered carbides, in- dustrial practice is ahead of theoretical knowledge. Yet prog- ress toward better control and cheaper production (as well as the development of better alloys) will depend on understand- ing their exact nature and properties. Closely allied with in- vestigation on this at Brown is a project in the field of cer- mets alloy metals which have many of the properties of ceramic materials. In eff'orts to improve jet engines, one of the present limits is the need for cermets which can retain their strength, resist oxidation, and yet be tough enough to with- stand brittle shock at temperatures 20% higher than those cur- rently in use. Development of high-speed aircraft and rockets has raised many difficult problems in designing efficient antennas for communications and radar. Not only must these antennas meet certain beam-pattern and gain specifications, but they must also interfere as little as possible with the vehicle's struc- ture and aerodynamic characteristics. These requirements have led to the consideration of devices complex in their geometry and involving both conductors and dielectrics. Elec- trical research at Brown is directed toward better understand- ing of their characteristics as launchers of radio waves. Studies are being made of surface wave excitation, launching efficiencies, and beam patterns. Dramatic advances in the science of flight now enable manned and unmanned vehicles to traverse great distances at high elevation in and beyond the atmosphere at enormous speeds. Research at Brown aims at understanding the new APRIL 1958 BROWN UNIVER.SITY ENGINEEPIING PR.OFESSORIAL STAFF o V) CO UJ u. O Cl 6 WITH DOCTORATES MEDIAN AGE 54 AVERAGE NO YRSTEACH'NG TOTAL PROFESSIONAL PAPERS PUBLISHED 350+ is V) U) ALL WITH DOCTORATES 30 ISO ALL WITH DOCTORATES 40- physical phenomena encountered. Considerable progress has been achieved in determining the best shapes of body, wings, and guiding surfaces of airplanes and satellite vehicles. The instruction and research described above are the work of a small but outstanding Faculty. It is, of course, possible at a fortunate and particular moment of time to assemble a dis- tinguished Faculty. But it is something else again to assure its continued eminence. Adequate physical facilities play their part in the contentment and effectiveness of such a group. Se- lecting its Engineering Faculty with a view toward the present and the long future. Brown University has had due regard not only for the Professors who have carried on its traditions and brought it renown but also for their replacements who must be brought along through the lower ranks. This care is reflected in the makeup of the present profes- sorial staff. Of the 1 1 "full" Professors, six have doctorates in Engineering, all have tenure, and their median age is 54. They have taught an average of 21 years, of which 11 have been at Brown and an additional three in the Government or in- dustry. They have published more than 350 professional papers. Coming along behind these senior Professors is a vigorous group of 10 Associate Professors, all of whom hold Doctor's degrees in Engineering. Their median age is 35. They have taught an average of eight years, two of these at Brown, and have an average of one year's experience in the Government or industry. They have published more than 130 professional papers. The group of Assistant Professors numbers seven, all with doctorates. Their median age is 30. Of their average of four years in teaching, two have been spent at Brown, with another in industry or the Government. They have published over 40 professional papers. Supporting the professorial staff are 13 Research Assistants, Lecturers, and Instructors, as well as 35 Research and Teaching Assistants. In addition, the Divi- sion employs 37 technicians, machinists, and secretaries. Of 10 other well-known Engineering schools in the U.S.A., only one showed a Faculty with more Ph.D.'s; the rest were well below the Brown total. None had more of its professorial staff with Master's degrees. Headquarters for Editing Even these figures, however, tell only part of the story of the Brown Engineering Faculty. Many would say that Brown has assembled the outstanding group in the world in Applied Mechanics, the basic Engineering science underlying Aero- nautical, Civil, and Mechanical Engineering. The technical editing of the Journal of Applied Mechanics, published by the ASME, is in the hands of the Division at Brown. As is to be expected, so active a group is called upon often for consulting services by industry, governmental agencies. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLV and practicing engineers. In fact, one major industrial concern has set up an entire manufacturing plant to produce a product whose basic design was the work of one of the Division's Pro- fessors. The Worcester Warner Reed Medal of the ASME was awarded last December to a Brown University Professor for his outstanding contributions to the literature of Engineering. This is only the latest of a series of national and international honors which have come to the Faculty. Distinguished visitors from abroad come to Brown for a semester or year in the Division's program. These include such men as Prof. J. L. M. Morrison, in charge of Mechanical En- gineering at the University of Bristol, England: Prof. Kuan-hai Ting, in charge of Civil Engineering at the National Taiwan University; and Prof. Orhan Unsac, of the Technical Univer- sity of Istanbul. Among Brown's graduate students in Engi- neering are candidates for the Sc.M. or Ph.D. from 14 countries. Such is the Faculty and such is its dynamic, exciting work. Knowing them helps to understand the proposal to augment the physical facilities in Engineering. Entitled to Better Buildings Only two buildings on College Hill were built for the spe- cific use of the Engineering Division. The most familiar build- ing, constructed in 1903, contains 18,800 square feet of floor space. It houses some of the professional offices, a Metallurgy Laboratory, and an Electrical Laboratory, as well as student drafting rooms. Even for the limited purposes to which they are now devoted, these quarters are cramped and unsatisfac- tory. The Mechanical Laboratory with its 10,000 square feet of floor space, was built in 1925. About 4500 square feet of base- ment space in a building designed as a classroom structure has been taken over for laboratories. A building from a nearby estate has been converted into a classroom and lab for Sani- tary Engineering. A few blocks away, a private residence, re- cently acquired by the University, houses two more labora- tories, as well as offices for members of the professorial staff who could not be accommodated elsewhere. Richardson Hall, built in 1900 as a private dormitory and once known as Brunonia, has been pressed into service for laboratories, class- rooms, and office space. There are, in addition, borrowed classrooms scattered around the Campus, some near Engineer- ing laboratory facilities, some not. &R.OWN UNIVERSITY GROWTH OF ENGINEERING DIVISION BUDGET (D RESERVE H RESEORCH CONTRACT B INSTRUCTION BROWN UNIVERSITY GROWTH OF ENGINEERING DIVISION STAFF 2 . 2 < I 3 I O 1 I 1- 1 I SECRETARIES. TECHNICIANS, MACHINISTS D RESEARCH AND TEACHING ASSISTANTS I RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, LECTURERS, INSTRUCTORS PROFESSORS '52 '53 APRIL 1958 All told, there is presently available to the Division 39,500 square feet of floor space. Space limits delay the addition of needed equipment, as in the field of electronics — there is no place to put it. In some instruction sessions, only a minimum of demonstration equipment can be used (this holds for ex- periments conducted by students, too). In short, with the exception of the original Engineering Building, built a half- century ago, and the Mechanical Laboratory, built a quarter- century ago, each structure used by the Division has been a makeshift. The Potential of Tomorroiv With such conditions, it is all the more creditable that Brown's Engineering Division has developed as one of the finest in the country. The unique quality of instruction and research gains growing recognition everywhere. The careers of its graduates and the honors accorded its Faculty give ample evidence of its place in the forefront of scientific education. The proposed Engineering Center, obviously, will meet an immediate need at Brown in support of its modern, dynamic program. The stake is more than buildings; it involves the full potential of Brown's influence on Engineering science in America. The related buildings making up the Engineering Center have been carefully planned for utility and flexibility, to en- hance a Division which, in certain fields of its current excel- lence, has no peer anywhere in the world. The success which has attended past efforts now makes it possible to proceed confidently with the next task — to provide the Division with the physical setting which it must have fully to accomplish its function. Thomas J. Watson, Jr., '37, President of International Busi- ness Machines Corporation, is Chairman of the University committee on the Engineering Center. His associates include: Col. Dwight T. Colley '18 of Philadelphia, Vice-President of the Atlantic Refining Co.; Prof. Daniel C. Drucker, Chairman of the Division of Engineering; Arthur B. Homer '17, Presi- dent of the Bethlehem Steel Corp., Bethlehem, Pa.; Elmer G. MacDowell '14, Rhode Islander who is President of Aluminium Ltd., Montreal; Eugene W. O'Brien '19 of Atlanta, former member of the Brown and Yale Engineering Faculty who is Vice-President of W. R. C. Smith Publishing Co.; and Henry D. Sharpe, Jr., '45, President of Brown & Sharpe Mfg. Com- pany in Providence. The Graduate School: A New Relationship STARTING with this issue, the Brown Alumni Monthly will be sent regularly to former students of the Graduate School of Brown University as well as to the men who did their undergraduate work in The College. It is evidence of a strengthening relationship between Brown and these former graduate students. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that this is a rec- ognition of a status already official, for the By-Laws of the Associated Alumni declare "all former students of the Uni- versity" as members in the association. There are no associa- tion dues; there is no subscription charge for the magazine. The alumni of Brown have long been active. The Corpora- tion records of Sept. 2, 1824, for example, refer to "a numer- ous meeting of Alumni'" the previous September. One action was the raising of a fund of $1000 to purchase medals for student winners of contests in declamation and composition. The medals were engraved: "Alumni Fund of Brown Univer- sity." The modern definition of purpose of the Associated Alumni, however, speaks more generally of "promoting a spirit of friendship and cooperation among the alumni of Brown University; uniting the efforts of the alumni; and other- wise contributing to the furtherance and support of the in- terests of that institution." While it has not been uncommon for alumni of the Gradu- ate School to show a continuing interest in Brown in many ways, the natural link with the University was through the Department in which the individual studied. There has never been (and will not be) any intention of undercutting the initial loyalty a graduate student feels toward his undergraduate college or university. But, more and more, one finds evidence that the alumni of the Graduate School are not casual in their loyalty to Brown. A chemist, whose first contact with Brown was at the gradu- DEAN LINDSAY, Vice-President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, is Choirmon of its Physics Section for 1958. ate level, wrote President Keeney as follows: "Possibly one measure of the uniqueness of Brown lies in the fact that many of us who obtained our graduate degrees at Brown have a greater esteem, and perhaps even affection for Brown, than we have for our undergraduate colleges. Moreover, having been privileged to be Assistants on the Brown Faculty, most of us are aware of the undergraduate education which Brown gives and are highly impressed by it. While he was sitting as a Faculty representative on the Board of Directors of the Associated Alumni, Prof. C. Arthur Lynch (who took graduate studies at Brown) conducted a survey to appraise the interest that former graduate students might have in a more active affiliation with the association. He received 371 replies to 1000 letters he sent out. Of these, 280 wanted membership, 47 were indifferent, 44 were not inter- ested. Similarly, he conducted a poll of 276 graduate students currently on College Hill. Of the 123 who responded, 114 said they would join the association either "with pleasure" or "with enthusiasm." Seven replies were reluctant, two "unin- telligible." During the winter the alumni address files of the Graduate School were duplicated in the general files in the Alumni Office. Thus far, the stencils of all former graduate students have been incorporated in the geographical files in Alumni House, on which the mailings of this magazine are based. In addition to readership of the Alumni Monthly, the inter- est of the former graduate students will be encouraged in other ways. They will receive invitations to share in the local programs of Brown Clubs in their communities, with a hearty welcome assured by the members of those Clubs. At such gatherings, visitors from the Campus are heard frequently, and matters of interest are discussed as part of the fellowship there to be found. Other material about the University comes through the mail (e.g., the President's Reports and Bulletins of Information). There is, inevitably, the opportunity to con- tribute to Brown's support through the University Fund, the program of annual giving to the current purposes of the aca- demic enterprise. This magazine, then, adds the names of Graduate School alumni to its mailings with pleasure and hope. Our immediate budget does not permit much expansion of our usual depart- ments, but it will be our expectation eventually to include re- ports of special interest to this new segment of our public. With this issue, our print order has been increased to 21,300. It is not a typical issue, for we have curtailed depart- ments and features to accommodate the special supplement on American Higher Education. But, starting now, we hope the former graduate students will feel at home in this magazine. We shall try to make it an agreeable, informing tie with the Brown to which they look with appreciation. By the way, it will help us if you will see to it that, at all times, the University has a good address for you. New York Dinner April 29 TIN MEN for every year is the target for the University Dinner in New 'York on Tuesday, April 29, scheduled for the Plaza Hotel on Fifth Ave. at 59th. For this 90th annual gathering of the Sons of Brown in New 'Vork, the committee seeks 900 diners. President Keeney will be the guest of honor. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Brown Club's as- sociation with the Princeton Club in sharing its headquarters, the Presidents of all Ivy League Clubs in New 'Vork will be at the head table. Ivy League Athletic Directors will also be the guest of Donald V. Reed '35, Brown Club President, to hear Brown's Paul F. Mackesey '32 tell of the athletic facilities planned for the new Aldrich-Dexter Field, where their teams will meet our Varsities in the future. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY If PSYCHOLOGY: The Wraps Come Off The Walter S. Hunter Laboratory on Waterman St. emerged from its cocoon in March, with occupancy expected in the fall. A Federal grant of $411,000 is financing the research facilities in it. APRIL 1958 DR. BERGETHON, retiring (right), and his successor, Dr. Watts. The Dean Wants to Teach Again WHEN A GOOD PROFESSOR movci jtilo administrative duties at a university, that part of him which made him a good teacher remains rebellious. The scholar in Dr. K. Roald Ber- gethon has won out. He returns to his teaching at the end of this academic year, having resigned as Dean of the College. He had served to great effect since 1955, as successor to Dr. Keeney upon the latter's elevation to the presidency. The new Dean will be Dr. Charles H. Watts, 2nd, "47, one of Brown's most popular teachers as Associate Professor of English. He is no stranger to the Deanery, where he was an assistant for a few years with special responsibility in dealing with Freshmen. President Keeney spoke of the appointment on March 10: "Professor Watts has moved through the ranks of the Faculty to Associate Professor with unusual speed. His teaching is inspiring and his research productive. Several years ago as Assistant to the Dean of the College he acquired a taste for administration that was matched by great skill. He is imagina- tive in education and decisive in decision. He has the deep and personal interest in students which is so necessary to a Dean. it will not be easy for anyone to match the great success of Dean Bergethon, who will return to teaching and research, the work of his first choice." Dr. Watts came to Brown during the period of wartime acceleration in November, 1945. He'd prepared at Riverside Country .School, where he'd been President of the Student Council and taken part in a variety of extracurricular ac- tivities, including several sports. At Brown he participated in Varsity soccer and track and sang in the Glee Club before getting his commission as a Navy Ensign. (He still holds a Reserve commission.) He returned lo the University after taking his A.M. at Columbia. An Instructor in English, he received his Ph.D. at Brown in 1953, was advanced to the rank of Assistant Professor in 1955 and Associate Professor last year. Dr. Watts is Secretary of the New England Association for American Studies and a Trustee of Brewster Academy. He is Chairman of the Brown Faculty Committee on the Faculty Travel Fund and a member of the Committee on Academic Standing; he holds membership in the Modern language As- sociation, the College English Association, and the American Association of University Professors. In his home town of Barrington, he is Chairman of the Board of the Citizens League and headed the drive for the United Fund last year. He is a member of the Development Committee of the Meet- ing Street School in Providence. He is author of "Thomas Holley Chivers; His Literary Ca- reer and His Poetry'"; editor with Prof. S. Foster Damon of "The Complete Works of Thomas Holley Chivers," the first 10 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY of four volumes having been published in 1957; and editor with Prof. Albert D. Van Nostrand of "The Conscious Voice: an Anthology of American Poetry," being published this spring. He has contributed articles on American Literature to various professional journals. Voted the Most Popular Profes- sor at Pembroke a year or two ago, he spoke on "The Cliche Expert Experiences College," an amusing dialogue which this magazine published at the time. A native of New York City, Professor Watts is married to the former Patricia D. McQuillen of Bronxville, N. Y. They had a daughter, Katharine. His fraternity is Delta Upsilon. "If I were to get back into active research," Dean Ber- gethon told a Brown Daily Herald reporter on Feb. 24, "I had to make a choice soon." He made that choice. Next year he will be on sabbatical leave in Germany to study the dra- matic tragedies of Lessing, the 18th century playwright. He will return to Brown in the fall of 1959 as Professor of German in the Department of Modern Languages, where he served be- fore his move to University Hall. "Under his leadership," the Herald pointed out, "the frater- nity academic rulings were developed, and counseling of upper level as well as problem students was developed. He also contributed to the class attendance requirements this year and helped implement plans for the West Quadrangle, the expanded system of Resident Fellows, and the integration of IC and Distribution curricula. He has worked for greater as- sumption of student responsibility." Student leaders were quoted in appreciation of the Dean's activities. A Herald editorial said: "Mr. Bergethon will long be remembered as Dean of the College. ... He possesses certain qualities which have won the admiration and respect of students, parents, and fellow-workers not only for himself and his position but for Brown University. His sincerity and devotion always won student friendship, and he never lost their respect or confidence. His comments were valued and remembered. Although we regret our loss of Mr. Bergethon the Dean, we can look forward to the return of Mr. Ber- gethon the Professor." Before the alumni. Dean Bergethon spoke often, bringing them their contact with the academic life of the University. The alumni, too, will miss their contacts with him as Dean. In 1952 Professor Bergethon led a Faculty inquiry into Brown's educational program under the sponsorship of the Carnegie Foundation. He also served as the national chairman of a group of similar committees which studied the workings of a dozen institutions including Brown. He was on leave for a considerable period to travel in connection with this Foun- dation survey. A graduate of DePauw and Cornell Univer- sities, he is the author of a German textbook and many articles on German Literature and pedagogy. "MOONSHOOTERS": The Big Story: Why Fight Shy? OUR THEME in this magazine, month in and year out. is Brown University. That theme, inexhaustible in its varia- tions, is our reason for being — you would not have us other- wise. In binding into this issue a special supplement on Ameri- can higher education, we may seem at first glance to be de- parting from our province. We are not, of course; we are merely changing the focus. We are joining with 152 other college magazines in spon- soring this unprecedented survey of higher education's achievements and problems. The supplement is reaching this month nearly 1,400,000 readers in all parts of the United States and abroad. The report, months in the making but cur- rent in its conclusions, reaches these alumni at a time when public attention has been directed to the colleges and uni- versities by developments in the national and world news. Why was this project undertaken? The face of Alma Mater is familiar to her sons and daughters. If such magazines as this are doing their job with any competence, their readers know what their colleges are today, what they are attempting in plan and action. Their regular reports are trying to keep open the line of communication which is fundamental in the partnership between alumnus and institution. But have we been too self-centered? Why Not Gang Up on It? Six of us alumni editors v,ere challenged on this point one day in the offices of the Saturday Evening Post. F. Hartwell Swaffield '37 of the Curtis organization had made it possible for us to spend seven hours with the top editors of that maga- zine. While sharing their experience and offering comment on our own products, Ben Hibbs and his principal associates at the Post told us we were apparently doing an adequate job on our own campuses, with our own constituents, with our own situations locally. "But I'm amazed by one conspicuous and consistent fail- ure," said Mr. Hibbs. "You're not giving your alumni a picture with any perspective in it. What about higher education in general — its achievements, its frustrations, its excitement, its hopes, and the nation's hopes? What is higher education doing for the individual and the country? What will it do in the critical years ahead? Why does not Brown, for example, re- mind its alumni that education is not just its own College Hill? Why do you all fight shy of the big story?" We six visiting editors offered, in defense, the explanation that we were limited by available resources — staff, budget, time, routines; there were immediate, demanding preoccupa- tions. Later, though, reviewing our conversation, we came to the inevitable, tempting question: Why not gang up on this problem? Why not pool our individual resources and tackle the bigger assignment together? Well, we did. After some months, we have put together the special report on American higher education 1958. You'll find it in the center of this issue, just as 1,400,000 other alumni find it in theirs. It Took a Lot of Doing It was not achieved simply or easily, this survey essay. First, 14 editors met to agree on the project — a group repre- senting all parts of the country and a variety of institutions, from California to New Hampshire, from Georgia and Okla- homa to Illinois. We glibly did some figuring and said we'd go ahead. There is a lively fellowship among us editors, nurtured by our affiliation with the American Alumni Council and its meetings. Other colleges, attracted by the project, were en- couraged to join us. Dozens were enlisted to help scout out what was significant in education. Working through bureau chiefs in each region, they sent in their findings. Some did their research intensively: one editor took a day's drive into the High Sierras to investigate a curious private college — very private: it has 19 students; another editor spent a day with an APRIL 1958 II They Banded Together to Support the Special Survey THE PARTICIPATING INSTITUTIONS; University of Ala- bama, Albright College, Alfred University, American Alumni Council, American University at Cairo, Amherst College, Antioch College, Arizona State College, University of Arizona, Arkansas College. University of Arkansas, Assumption College, Augustana College, Barnard College. Baylor University, Beloit College, Bow- doin College, Brandeis University, Brown University, Bucknell University, Buena Vista College, University of California, Uni- versity of California at Los Angeles, Cedar Crest College. Chatham College, University of Chattanooga, Chestnut Hill College, Uni- versity of Chicago, University of Cincinnati, Colby College, University of Colorado. Columbia University, Cooper Union. Dartmouth College, University of Dayton, Denison University, DePauw University, Douglass College, Drake University, Emory University, Findlay College, Florida State University, Franklin College, Georgia Institute of Technology, Gettysburg College, Goshen College. Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration, Hillyer College, Hobard and William Smith Col- leges, Hood College, Hope College. Illinois Wesleyan University, Immaculata College, Iowa State College. State University of Iowa, Iowa Wesleyan College, Johns Hopkins University, Juniata College, Kansas State Teachers College, University of Kansas, Uni- versity of Kentucky, King College, King's College, Lafayette College, Lawrence College, Lehigh University, Le Moyne College. Loyola University (Los Angeles), Lycoming College. Macalester College, University of Maine, McMaster University, College of Medical Evangelists, Mexico City College, Miami University (Ohio), University of Michigan, Middlebury College, Mills College; Millsaps College, Milwaukee-Downer College, Uni- versity of Missouri, Monmouth College, Montana State College, Montana State University, Moravian College. Muskingum College, University of Nebraska, University of New Hampshire, University of New Mexico, University of North Carolina, North Central College, University of North Dakota, Northern Illinois State Col- lege. Northwest Christian College, Northwood School, Ohio State University, Ohio University, University of Oklahoma, Pembroke College, University of Pennsylvania, Phillips Academy (Andover), Phillips Exeter Academy, Portland State College, Pratt Institute, The Principia College. Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Regis College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Rhode Island School of Design, Roanoke College. St. Joseph's College. St. Lawrence University, St. Mary's University, St. Mary-of-the-Woods College, St. Michael's College, Salem College, University of Saskatchewan, Seton Hill College, Simmons College, Smith College, University of the South, Spring- field College, Sweet Briar College, University of Tennessee, Uni- versity of Texas, Thiel College, Trinity College (Hartford), Tufts University, Tulane University, U.S. Naval Academy, Ursinus Col- lege. Ursuline College for Women, Vanderbilt University, Vassar College, Villanova University, Washington and Lee College, Wash- ington College, State College of Washington, Wayne State Uni- versity. Wentworth Institute, Wesleyan University, Western Mary- land College, Westminster College, West Virginia Wesleyan College, Wheaton College (Norton), Wilkes College, College of William and Mary, Willamette University, Wilmington College, Wilson College, University of Wisconsin, College of Wooster, Uni- versity of Wyoming. honors group in one of the larger public universities in an- other State. Leaders in education were interviewed. As the outline began to take shape, one of America's best photographers was commissioned, given a shooting schedule, and sent off on weeks of travel around the country. Erich Hartmann of Magnum Photos took 5000 pictures, of which the best 30 were selected for illustration — some because they were unusual, more because they were typical. The student in them was the universal student, the professor the universal professor. The text, meanwhile, underwent revision after re- vision. In some of this, your editor had a part. Last fall all editors in the American Alumni Council were given the chance to subscribe for the special supplement. They could not be shown a final product — it did not exist, tangible, visible, at that point. But, on the basis of a vague generaliza- tion about intentions, 150 institutions bought this "pig in a poke" on faith. They paid (again, incredible faith) half their bill in advance for something "sight unseen." An Experiment Without Precedent One of the novel features of production was the necessity to provide three offset editions so that one or another page- size fits the requirements of each embracing magazine. Seven carloads of paper went to the printer in Indiana. The com- pleted supplement has made the return trip — to all parts of the country, across the border to Canada, to Mexico City, to the American University of Cairo; to institutions large and small, publicly and privately supported, church-affiliated and general, men's and women's and co-ed, technical and liberal arts, new and old, and some secondary schools. It has been a cooperative experiment without precedent. The result we shall offer with some pride, with awareness of both limitations and success, but (above all) with excitement as to how the reader will regard the end product. One of our first copies went to Ben Hibbs. "We've all read it," he wrote back, "and I can honestly say we are delighted. . . . The text, we think, is highly readable and important, and the pictures, layout, and general presentation are excellent. It is nothing less than amazing to us that so many different pub- lications edited in many parts of the country were able to get together on a project of this sort and really put it over. I 12 surely hope your reader response is good — so good that you will want to continue something of the sort year after year." The Innocent Name of "Moonshooter" One sidelight may warrant a mention: When the idea was just taking hold, we conspirators needed a tag for the project. Someone hit upon the phrase, "Operation Moonshooter." It was handy. At that point, too, in our boldness, we did seem to be aiming at the moon. (Such was the innocent symbolism of only yesterday.) We still called ourselves Moonshooters one day when we met in Washington in executive session on the supplement's progress. That day Russia announced the Sputnik. It was odd that the spectacular coincidence should arrive to spur us on, for the nation turned at once to higher educa- tion for an answer to the Soviet demonstration of scientific accomplishment. But it also brought some specious, distracting clamors. This sudden, adventitious hullabaloo was not the justification for what we had in mind. It merely provided one further reason for doing what we already knew needed doing: to look at the face and fact of more than one Alma Mater. The Brown man will look in vain in the supplement for more than one direct mention of Brown University and one other oblique identification (Dr. Hu Shih's quoted statement was made before our alumni in Saylcs Hall). Obviously, this study could not be tailor-made for one institution, even where its editor was deeply involved in the project. You will, then, find no illustration specific of Brown's landscape or activities. But, alongside many a paragraph and many a photo, you will discover an implicit checkmark of relevance. Brown Univer- sity is there. Our regular departments and features stand abridged to accommodate the supplement this month. But, as our Brown Alumni Monthly returns to its central theme of the University and its alumni, we trust it will be with more understanding of the larger canvas. The broad view we've had affords us a new basis for proud confidence in our own vital enterprise. We recognize Brown's particular mission more fully as one ef- fective leader in American Higher Education in 1958. We acknowledge a fresh dedication as we look ahead to Brown's Bicentennial in 1964, and far beyond. BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY I A SPECIAL REPORT AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION 1958 ITS PRESSING PROBLEMS AND NEEDS ARE EXCEEDED ONLY BY ITS OPPORTUNITIES THIS is a special report. It is published because the time has come for colleges and universities — and their alumni — to recognize and act upon some ex- traordinary challenges and opportunities. Item: Three million, sixty-eight thousand young men and women are enrolled in America's colleges and universities this year — 45 per cent more than were enrolled six years ago, although the number of young people in the eighteen- to-twenty-one age bracket has increased only 2 per cent in the same period. A decade hence, when colleges will feel the effects of the unprecedented birth rates of the mid- I940's, today's already-enormous enrollments will double. Item: In the midst of planning to serve more students, higher education is faced with the problem of not losing sight of its extraordinary students. "What is going to happen to the genius or two in this crowd?" asked a professor at one big university this term, waving his hand at a seemingly endless line of students waiting to fill out forms at registra- H, liGHER education in America had its beginnings when the Puritans founded a college to train their ministers. Here, reflected in a modern library window, is the chapel spire at Harvard. tion desks. "Heaven knows, if the free world ever needed to discover its geniuses, it needs to do so now." President Robert Gordon Sproul of the University of California puts it this way: "If we fail in our hold upon quality, the cherished American dream of universal education will degenerate into a nightmare." Item: A college diploma is the sine qua non for almost any white-collar job nowadays, and nearly everybody wants one. In the scramble, a lot of students are going to college who cannot succeed there. At the Ohio State University, for instance, which is required by law to admit every Ohioan who owns a high-school diploma and is able to complete the entrance blanks, two thousand students flunked out last year. Nor is Ohio State's problem unique. The resultant waste of teaching talents, physical facilities, and money is shocking — to say nothing of the damage to young people's self-respect. Item; The cost of educating a student is soaring. Like many others. Brown University is boosting its fees this spring: Brown students henceforth will pay an annual tuition bill of $1,250. But it costs Brown S2,300 to provide a year's instruction in return. The diflference between charges and actual cost, says Brown's President Barnaby C. Keeney, "represents a kind of scholarship from the faculty. They pay for it out of their hides." Item: The Educational Testing Service reports that lack of money keeps many of America's ablest high- school students from attending college — 150,000 last year. The U. S. Office of Education found not long ago that even at public colleges and universities, where tuition rates are still nominal, a student needs around $1,500 a year to get by. Item: Non-monetary reasons are keeping many promis- ing young people from college, also. The Social Science Research Council offers evidence that fewer than half of the students in the upper tenth of their high-school classes go on to college. In addition to lack of money, a major reason for this defection is "lack of motivation." Item: At present rates, only one in eight college teachers can ever expect to earn more than $7,500 a year. If colleges are to attract and hold competent teachers, says Devereux C. Josephs, chairman of the President's Committee on Education Beyond the High School, faculty salaries must be increased by at least From its simple beginnings. American higher educalion has grown into 1.800 institutions of incredible diversity. At the right is but a sampling of their vast interests and activities. 50 per cent during the next five years. Such an increase would cost the colleges and universities around half a billion dollars a year. Itein: Some critics say that too many colleges and universities have been willing to accept — or. perhaps more accurately, have failed firmly to reject — certain tasks which have been offered to or thrust upon them, but which may not properly be the business of higher education at all. "The professor," said one college administrator recently, "should not be a carhop who answers every demanding horn. Educational institutions must not be hot-dog stands." Item: The colleges and universities, some say, are not teaching what they ought to be teaching or are not teaching it effectively. "Where are the creative thinkers?" they ask. Have we, without quite realizing it, grown into a nation of gadgeteers, of tailfin technicians, and lost the art of basic thought? (And from all sides comes the worried reminder that the other side launched their earth satellites first.) THESE are some of the problems — only some of them — which confront American higher education in 195S. Some of the problems are higher edu- cation's own offspring; some are products of the times. But some are born of a fact that is the identifying strength of higher education in America; its adaptability to the free world's needs, and hence its diversity. Indeed, so diverse is it — in organization, sponsorship, purpose, and philosophy — that perhaps it is fallacious to use the generalization, "American higher education," at all. It includes 320-year-old Harvard and the University of Southern Florida, which now is only on the drawing boards and will not open until I960. The humanities research center at the University of Texas and the course in gunsmithing at Lassen Junior College in Susanville, California. Vassar and the U. S. Naval Academy. The University of California, with its forty- two thousand students, and Deep Springs Junior College, on the eastern side of the same state, with only nineteen. Altogether there are more than 1,800 American insti- tutions which offer "higher education," and no two of them are alike. Some are liberal-arts colleges, some are w. f I TH growth have come problems lor the colleges and uriversilies. One ol' the most pressing, today, is swelling enrollments. Already they are straining higher education's campuses and leaching resources. But the present large student population is only a fraction of the total expected in the next decade. SMITH COLLEI vast universities, some specialize in such fields as law, agriculture, medicine, and engineering. Some are sup- ported by taxation, some are affiliated with churches, some are independent in both organization and finance. Thus any generalization about American higher edu- cation will have its exceptions — including the one that all colleges and universities desperately need more money. (Among the 1,800. there may be one or two which don't.) In higher education's diversity — the result of its restlessness, its freedom, its geography, its competitive- ness — lies a good deal of its strength. A MERICAN higher education in 1958 is hardly what L\ the Puritans envisioned when they founded the # % country's first college to train their ministers in 1636. For nearly two and a half centuries after that, the aim of America's colleges, most of them founded by churches, was limited: to teach young people the rudi- ments of philosophy, theology, the classical languages, and mathematics. Anyone who wanted a more extensive education had to go to Europe for it. One break from tradition came in 1876, with the founding of the Johns Hopkins University. Here, for the first time, was an .American institution with European standards of advanced study in the arts and sciences. Other schools soon followed the Hopkins example. And with the advanced standards came an emphasis on research. No longer did .American university scholars IN the flood of vast numbers of students, the colleges and universities are concerned that they not lose sight of the individuals in the crowd. They are also worried about costs: every extra student adds to their financial deficits. HARVARD UNIVERSITY simply pass along knowledge gained in Europe; they began to make significant contributions themselves. Another spectacular change began at about the same time. With the growth of science, agriculture — until then a relatively simple art — became increasingly com- plex. In the I850"s a number of institutions were founded to train people for it, but most of them failed to survive. In 1862, however, in the darkest hours of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Land-Grant Act, offering each state public lands and support for at least one college to teach agriculture and the mechanic arts. Thus was the foundation laid for the U. S. state- university system, "in all the annals of republics," said Andrew D. White, the first president of one institution founded under the act, Cornell University, "there is no more significant utterance of confidence in national destiny, out from the midst of national calamity." NOW there was no stopping American higher edu- cation's growth, or the growth of its diversity. Optimistically America moved into the 1900's, and higher education moved with it. More and more Arnericans wanted to go to college and were able to do so. Public and private institutions were established and expanded. Tax dollars by the millions were appropriated, and philanthropists like Rockefeller and Carnegie and Stanford vied to support education on a large scale. Able teachers, now being graduated in numbers by America's own universities, joined their stalls. In the universities' graduate and professional schools, research flourished, it reached outward to explore the universe, the world, and the creatures that inhabit it. Scholars examined the past, enlarged and tended man's cultural heritage, and pressed their great twentieth- century search for the secrets of life and matter. Participating in the exploration were thousands of young Americans, poor and rich. As students they were acquiring skills and sometimes even wisdom. And, with their professors, they were building a uniquely American tradition of higher education which has continued to this day. OUR aspirations, as a nation, have never been higher. Our need for educational excellence has never been greater. But never have the challenges been as sharp as they are in 1958. Look at California, for one view of American edu- cation's problems and opportunities — and for a view of imaginative and daring action, as well. Nowhere is the public appetite for higher education more avid, the need for highly trained men and women more clear, the pressure of population more acute. In a recent four-year period during which the country's population rose 7.5 per cent, California's rose some 17.6 per cent. Californians — with a resoluteness which is, unfortunately, not typical of the nation as a whole — have shown a remarkable determination to face and even to anticipate these facts. They have decided that the state should build fifteen new junior colleges, thirteen new state colleges, and five new campuses for their university. (Already the state has 135 institutions of higher learning: sixty-three private establishments, sixty-one public Junior colleges, ten state colleges, and the University of California with eight campuses. Nearly 40 cents of every tax dollar goes to support education on the state level.) But California has recognized that providing new facilities is only part of the solution. New philosophies are needed, as well, The students looking for classrooms, for example, vary tremendously, one from the other, in aptitudes, aims, and abilities. "If higher education is to meet the varied needs of students and also the diverse requirements of an increasingly complex society," a California report says, "there will have to be corresponding diversity among and within educational institutions. ... It will i^r ^ ' /f^ ^-4-. *•-« lo accommodate more students and to keep pace with increasing demands for complex research work. higher education must spend more on construction this year than in any other year in history. not be sufficient for California— or any other state, for that matter — simply to provide enough places for the students who will seek college admission in future years. It will also have to supply, with reasonable economy and efficiency, a wide range of educational programs." Like all of the country, California and Californians have some big decisions to make. DR. LEWIS H. CHRISMAN is a professor of English at West Virginia Wesleyan, a Methodist college near the town of Buckhannon. He ac- cepted an appointment there in 1919, when it consisted of just live major buildings and a coeducational student body of 150. One of the main reasons he took the appoint- ment, Dr. Chrisman said later, was that a new library was to be built "right away." Thirty years later the student body had jumped to 720. Nearly a hundred other students were taking ex- tension and evening courses. The zooming postwar birth rate was already in the census statistics, in West Virginia as elsewhere. But Dr. Chrisman was still waiting for that library. West Virginia Wesleyan had been plagued with problems. Not a single major building had gone up in thirty-five years. To catch up with its needs, the college would have to spend $500,000. For a small college to raise a half million dollars is often as tough as for a state university to obtain perhaps ten times as much, if not tougher. But Wesleyan's president, trustees, faculty, and alumni decided that if independent colleges, including church-related ones, were to be as significant a force in the limes ahead as they had been in the past, they must try. Now West Virginia Wesleyan has an cighly-Ihousand- \olume library, three other buildings completed, a fifth lo be ready this spring, and nine more on the agenda. A group of people reached a hard decision, and then made it work. Dr. Chrisman's hopes have been more than fulfilled. So it goes, all over .America. The U. S. Oflice of Edu- cation recently asked the colleges and universities how much they are spending on new construction this year. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA T„, \hi most serious shortage that higher education faces is in its teaching staffs. Many are underpaid, and not enough young people are entering the field. Here, left to right, are a Nobel Prizewinning chemist, a Bible historian, a heart surgeon, a physicist, and a poet. i\ EST VIRi m. helping to develop Peruvian research in textiles: and the University of North Carolina co-operates in a program of technical assistance in sanitary engineering. In Liberia, Prairie View A. and M. College of Te.ias (the Negro college of the Te.xas A. and M. system) is working with the Booker Washington Agricultural and Industrial Insti- tute to expand vocational education. Syracuse University is producing audio-\isual aids for the Middle East, par- ticularly Iran. The University of Tennessee is providing home-economics specialists to assist in training similar specialists in India. The University of Oregon is working with Nepal in establishing an educational system where none existed before (only eleven persons in the entire country of 8.5 million had had any professional training in education). Harvard is providing technical advice and assistance to Latin American countries in developing and maintaining nutrition programs. THUS emerges a picture of American higher edu- cation, 1958. Its diversity, its hope that it can handle large numbers of students without losing sight of quality in the process, its willingness to extend its services far beyond its classrooms and even its home towns: all these things are true of America's colleges and universities today. They can be seen. But not as visible, like a subsurface flaw in the earth's apparently solid crust, lie some facts that may alter the landscape considerably. Not enough young people, for instance, are currently working their way through the long process of preparation to become college and uni- versity teachers. Others, who had already embarked on faculty careers, are leaving the profession. Scholars and teachers are becoming one of the .American economy's scarcest commodities. Salary scales, as described earlier in this article, are largely responsible for the scarcity, but not entirely. Three faculty members at the University of Oklahoma sat around a table not long ago and tried to explain why they are staying where they are. All are young. All are brilliant men who have turned down lucrative jobs in business or industry. All have been offered higher-paying posts at other universities. L_VERYWHERE — in busipcss, government, the professions, the arts — college graduates are in demand. Thus society pays tribute to the college teacher. It relies upon him today as never before. "It's the atmosphere, call it the teaching climate, that keeps me here," said one. "Teachers want to know they are appreciated, that their ideas have a chance," said another. "I suppose you might say we like being a part of our institution, not members of a manpower pool." "Oklahoma has made a real effort to provide an op- portunity for our opinions to count," said the third. "Our advice may be asked on anything from hiring a new pro- fessor to suggesting salary increases." The University of Oklahoma, like many other institu- tions but (//(like many more, has a self-governing faculty. "The by-products of the university government," says Oklahoma's Professor Cortez A. M. Ewing, "may prove to be its most important feature. In spite of untoward conditions — heavy teaching loads, low salaries, and mar- ginal physical and laboratory resources, to mention a few — the spirit of co-operation is exceeded only by the dedication of the faculty." The professor worth his title nui.si be free. He must be free to explore and probe and investigate. He must be free to pursue the truth, wherever the chase may take him. This, if the bread-and-butter necessities of salary scales can be met, is and will always be the great attrac- tion of college and university teaching. We must take care that nothing be allowed to diminish it. GONE is the old caricature of the absent-minded, impractical academician. The image of the col- lege professor has changed, just as the image of the college boy and the college alumnus has changed. If fifty years ago a college graduate had to apologize for his education and even conceal it as he entered the business world, he does so no longer. Today society deinands the educated man. Thus society gives its indirect respect to the man who taught him, and links a new reliance with that respect. It is more than need which warrants this esteem and reliance. The professor is aware of his world and travels to its coldest, remotest corners to learn more about it. Nor does he overlook the pressing matters at the very edge of his campus. He takes part in the Inter- national Geophysical Year's study of the universe; he attacks the cancer in the human body and the human spirit; he nourishes the art of living more readily than the art of killing; he is the frontiersman everywhere. He builds and masters the most modern of tools from the cyclotron to the mechanical brain. He remembers the artist and the philosopher above the clamor of the machine. The professor still has the color that his students recall, and he still gels his applause in ihe spring at the end of an inspiring semester oral the end of a dedicated career. But today there is a ditTerence. It is on him that the nation depends more than ever. On him the free world relies— just as the enslaved world does, too. DR. SELMAN A. WAKSMAN of Rutgers was not interested in a specific, useful topic. Rather. he was fascinated by the organisms that live in a spadeful of dirt. A Russian emigrant, born in a thatched house in Priluka, ninety miles from the civilization of Kiev, he came to the United States at the age of seventeen and enrolled in Rutgers. Early in his undergraduate career he became interested in the fundamental aspects of living systems. And. as a student of the College of Agriculture, he looked to the soil. For his senior project he dug a number of trenches on the college farm and took soil samples in order to count the different colonies of bacteria. But when he examined the samples under his micro- scope. Waksman saw some strange colonies, different from either bacteria or fungi. One of his professors said they were only "higher bacteria." Another, however, identified them as little-known organisms usually called actinomyces. Waksman was graduated in 1915. As a research as- sistant in soil bacteriology, he begun working toward a master's degree. But he soon begun to devote more and more time to soil fungi and the strange actinomyces. He was forever testing soils, isolating cultures, transferring cultures, examining cultures, weighing, analyzing. Studying for his Ph.D. at the University of California, he made one finding that interested him particularly. Several groups of microbes appeared to live in harmony, while others fed on their fellows or otherwise inhibited their growth. In 191S Waksman returned to Rutgers as a microbiologist, to continue his research and teaching. RL-TCBRS tJNIVERalTV ^JoME research by faculty members strikes people as "point- less." It was one such pointless project that led Dr. Selman A. Waksman {left) to tind streptomycin. Good basic research is a continuing need. In 1923 one of his pupils, Rene Dubos, isolated tyro- thricin and demonstrated that chemical substances from microbes found in the soil can kill disease-producing germs. In 1932 Waksman studied the fate of tuberculosis bacteria in the soil. In 1937 he published three papers on antagonistic relations among soil micro-organisms. He needed only a nudge to make him turn all his attention to what he was later to call "antibiotics." The war provided that nudge. Waksman organized his laboratory staff for the campaign. He soon decided to focus on the organisms he had first met as an undergradu- ate almost thirty years before, the actinomyces. The first antibiotic substance to be isolated was called actinomy- cin, but it was so toxic that it could have no clinical application: other antibiotics turned out to be the same. It was not until the summer of 1943 that the breakthrough came. One day a soil sample from a heavily manured field was brought into the laboratory. The workers processed it as they had processed thousands of others before. But this culture showed remarkable antagonism to disease- producing bacteria. It was a strain — sireplomvces griseus — that Waksman had puzzled over as a student. Clinical tests proved its effectiveness against some forms of pneu- monia, gonorrhea, dysentery, whooping cough, syphilis, and, most spectacularly, TB. Streptomycin went into production quickly. Along with the many other antibiotics that came from the soil, it was labeled a "miracle drug." Waksman received the Nobel Prize and the heartfelt praise of millions through- out the world. In a sense, discoveries like Dr. Waksman's are acci- dents; they are unplanned and unprogrammed. They emerge from scholarly activity which, judged by appear- ances or practical yardsticks, is aimless. But mankind has had enough experience with such accidents to have learned, by now, that "pure research" — the pursuit of knowledge for the sake of knowledge alone — is its best assurance that accidents will continue to happen. When Chicago's still-active Emeritus Professor Herman Schles- inger got curious about the chemical linkage in a rare and explosive gas called diobrane, he took the first steps toward tne development of a new kind of jet and rocket fuel — accidentally. When scientists at Harvard worked on the fractionization of blood, they were accidentally making possible the development of a substitute for whole blood which was so desperately needed in World War II. But what about the University of Texas's Humanities Research Center, set up to integrate experiments in lin- guistics, criticism, and other fields? Or the Missouri expedition to Cyprus which excavated an Early-Bronze- BAVLDH irNlVEBStTl lo UNO the most promising young people of America and then provide them with exceptional educational opportunities: that IS the challenge. Above, medical school professors \ote on a candidate. Age site at Episkopi three years ago and is planning to go back again Iliis year? Or the research on folk ballads at the University of Arkansas? In an age of ICBM's, what is the value of this work? If there is more to human destiny than easing our toils or enriching our pocketbooks, then such work is im- portant. Whatever adds to man's knowledge will inevi- tably add to his stature, as well. To make sure that higher education can keep providing the opportunities for such research is one of 1958 man's best guarantees that human life will not sink to meaninglessness. Alfred north whitehead once said. "In L\ the conditions of modern life, the rule is abso- / \lute: the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed." In recent months, the American people have begun to re-learn the truth of Whitehead's statement. For years the nation has taken trained intelligence for granted — or, worse, sometimes shown contempt for it, or denied the conditions under which trained intelligence might flour- ish. That millions are now recognizing the mistake — and recognizing it before it is too late — is fortunate. Knowing how to solve the problem, however, and knowing how to provide the means for solution, is more difficult. But again America is fortunate. There is, among us, a group who not only have been ahead of the general public in recognizing the problem but who also have the understanding and the power, now, to solve it. That group is the college alumni and alumnae. Years ago Dr. Hu Shih, the scholar who was then Chinese ambassador to the United States, said America's greatest contribution to education was its revolutionary concept of the alumnus: its concept of the former student as an understanding, responsible partner and champion. Today, this partner and champion of American higher education has an opportunity for service unparalleled in our history. He recognizes, better than anyone, the es- sential truth in the statement to which millions, finally, now subscribe; that upon higher education depends, in large part, our society's physical and intellectual sur- vival. He recognizes, better than anyone else, the truth in the statement that the race can attain even loftier goals ahead, by strengthening our system of higher education in all its parts. As an alumnus — first by understanding, and then by exercising his leadership — he holds within his own grasp the means of doing so. Rarely has one group in our society — indeed, every member of the group — had the opportunity and the ability for such high service. Education of high quality for as many as are qualified for it has been a cherished American dream. Today we are too close to realizing that dream not lo intensify our striving for it. EDITORIAL STAFF FELICIA ANTHENELLI The University of Chicago WILLIAM SCHRAMM The University of Pennsylvania DAVID A. BURR The University of Oklahoma VERNE A. STADTMAN The University of California JEAN DINWOODEY The American Alumni Council FREDERIC A. STOTT Phillips Academy, Andover DAN H. FENN, JR. Harvard University FRANK J. TATE The Ohio State University RANDOLPH L. FORT Emory University ERIK WENSBERG Columbia University CORBIN GWALTNEY The Johns Hopkins University CHARLES E. WIDMAYER Dartmouth College L. FRANKLIN HEALD The University of New Hampshire CHESLEY WORTHINGTON Brown University ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Photographs: erich hartmann, magnum Typesetting: American typesetting corporation, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Printing: cuneo press, kokomo, Indiana Paper: cico-duoset by champion-international company of LAWRENCE, MASSACHUSETTS PRINTED IN U.S.A. The Brown Clubs Report Engineers to Dine in May THE SPRING MEETING of the Brown En- gineering Association will be held in Providence on Friday evening, May 9. The Chancellor's Dining Room of the Sharpe Refectory has been reserved for this an- nual gathering. Earl W. Harrington, Jr., '41, an engineer with the Manufacturers Mutual Fire In- surance Company of Providence, was elected President of the Association at its 45th annual dinner meeting at the Brown Club of New York on Feb. 5. He succeeded Stanley Dore '20 of New York. Philip Voelker '25, project engineer with the B-I-F Industries, Inc., Providence, was elected as Providence Executive Director. Other officers named are: Vice-President — Robert S. Chase '48; Secretary-Treasurer — George Pournares '25; Executive Directors —Todd Ferretti '47 and Claude B. Worley, Jr., '47. Zenas R. Bliss '18, Provost of the Uni- versity, was the principal speaker in New York. His topic was "In the Spotlight." Lackawanna's Success The Lackawanna Brown Club held one of its most successful Sub-Freshman meet- ings at the Hotel Suburban, Summit, N. J., on Feb. 25. About 80 high school and preparatory school Seniors with an interest in Brown attended. Fathers, guidance di- rectors, football coaches, and alumni brought the total attendance to 100. Arthur Taylor, from the Admission Of- fice, and Coach Kelley were our guests from the Hill. Both gave excellent talks which emphasized not only the actual re- quirements for admission and the high standing of the University, but also those intangible qualities which qualify a boy for a Brown education. Both talks were well received by the attentive audience. Movies of the highlights of the Harvard and Colgate games were shown to conclude the program. George Decker '23, President of the Club, presided, while Jack Kreitler '38, Chairman of the Sub-Freshman and Schol- arship Committee, arranged the affair. Election in Albany The Brown Club of Northeastern New York, at its winter meeting, elected the following officers for the coming year: President — Dr. Jay D. Mann '37; Presi- dent-elect — Richard Brackett '50; Vice- President — Thomas J. Costello '50; Secre- tary — David A. Foster '43; Treasurer — Lewis Sumberg '34. The Club wishes to express its appre- ciation to our retiring Secretary, Tom Costello, for the excellent job he did in bringing our recent activities to the atten- tion of the alumni through his reports in this magazine and to the people of our area through his fine relations with the local press. Michigan Delegates Report The Michigan Brown Club held its monthly Luncheon Meeting at the Uni- versity Club on Feb. 24 and heard an en- thusiastic and informative report given by our delegates to the 1958 Alumni Advisory Council. Our official delegation to this annual meeting included Jack Hocking '46 and George Dickey '33. Two other repre- sentatives, showing their interest in Brown, attended on their own initiative. They were Jack Foley '25 and his son Robert '56. A major meeting of the Club will be held in May when Dean Lloyd Cornell visits the area. A meeting also is planned for Martin Rice, who will be moving from Detroit to Toronto in the very near future. A successful luncheon-meeting was held on March 11 when Jim FuUerton, Bruin hockey coach, came to town. RICHARD J. SELIECK '51 April in San Francisco The Alta California Brown Club has lost its most capable Secretary, Ed David- son '50, who has been sent to Dallas by the Automobile Mutual Insurance Com- pany of America to open up a branch office. We will miss him, but his successor, Fred Freund '52, is expected to carry on the fine work. The Club has been meeting at the Fly Trap Restaurant at noon on the third Mon- day of each month. We had a nice turnout of 17 at the February meeting, and plans for the annual mid-April gathering were discussed. Local alumni will receive a mail- ing on this affair any day now. We are hoping that this meeting will coincide with the visit to San Francisco of alumni and Faculty for the meeting of the American Chemical Society. Those present at the recent luncheons include the following: Vern Libby '23, Bob Soellner '24, Carl Paulson '46, Charles D'Ewart '49, Dick Opper '51, Charles Biesel '48. Doug Maxwell '54, Bill Battles '39, Fred Freund '52. Bill Ryan '37. Dick Messinger '37. Bill Chichester '38, Dave Goddard '24, Dud Zinke '39, Gerard Rup- precht '35, Marshall Staunton '51, and Fred Schlaepfer '52. R. D. messinger '37 Worcester's Football Smoker "Kick for one — plunge for two — come and hear — what Kelley will do" was the rather unusual message sent to members of the Worcester County Brown Club to at- tract them to the Smoker held on Jan. 28 at the Bancroft Hotel. A good group was on hand to "hear what Kelley will do" and to get inside information on the 1957 season. Later in the evening, Carl Schuette, line coach, talked and showed a football film from the 1957 campaign. Long Lsland's May Dinner A meeting of the Board of Governors of the Brown Club of Long Island was held on Jan. 23 at the home of Horace Barker. It was decided that the annual gathering would be held sometime in May, and that the affair probably would be built around a dinner at Milleridge Inn. However, the final details will be forwarded to local alumni in a special mailing. Bert Schaller '43 is Chairman of the affair, and he will be assisted by James Barry '26. CLAUDE B. worley, JR., '47 Brown Wins in New Haven The New Haven Brown Club sponsored a buffet dinner at the Branford Howard Johnson on Feb. 19. A group of 50 alumni, with wives and friends (or should we say wives and other friends?) gathered for dinner and then attended the highly suc- cessful Brown-Yale (successful from a Brown point of view — to the tune of 7-0) hockey game held at the New Haven Arena. Robert Maley '52 was in charge of the evening's entertainment (although he claims no credit for the hockey result), and he did an excellent job. J. W. GRATENSTEIN '36 Lawrenceville Hospitality Members of the Brown Club of Trenton and their ladies were entertained on the evening of Feb. 4 at the Lawrenceville School. The occasion was the annual winter meeting of the Club, and the facilities of the spacious Lavino Field House, with its comfortable lounge, were made available through the courtesy of Leslie T. Fagan. '26, Business Manager of the School. Following the business session, the group was guided through the building by Fagan and Edward L. Herrick, '29, also of the School Faculty and Assistant Coach of swimming. Included in the tour was the new north wing of the facilty which had been dedicated the preceding week. Fol- lowing the tour, the group was enter- tained at the off-campus home of Les and his wife, Mildred. In the business session the members heard reports on the activities in the secondary schools from Willard C. Parker, and on cooperation with other area clubs by Robert C. McKenny, voted a contribu- tion to the University's fund for the Al- drich-Dexter hockey rink, and elected of- ficers for the year 1958. The officers elected were: President — Robert C. McKenny '21; Vice-President — Ira L. Keats '52; Secretary — Julian R. Panek '41; Treasurer — Roland Formidoni '29; Board of Governors — Dr. Benjamin D. Roman '25 and Alexander W. Muir '10. Muir's election was in absentia, for he has been in Tripoli for the past year engaged in Point Four work. The vote of the Club expressed an appreciation of his loyal interest in its affairs and those of the University. Brunonians took an active part in the fourth annual Ivy League Dinner at Wash- ington's Crossing Inn on March 13. John Sapoch of Princeton was on hand to re- ceive the Trenton trophy as Captain of the Ivy League's football champions. Glee Club in Westchester A CONCERT by the Brown University Glee Club is being sponsored by the Brown and Pembroke Clubs of Westchester County on Friday evening. May 2 at 8 p.m. The location is a central one for West- chester residents — the new Edgemont High School. White Oak Lane, Scarsdale (off Central Ave. at Old Army Road). With tickets at $1.50 each, the proceeds will be used for scholarship purposes. This is the first all-Brown sponsored Glee Club concert ever to come to West- chester, says Kenneth L. Holmes '51, Con- cert Chairman. In addition to promoting the sale of tickets, he is also seeking over- night accommodation for the 40 men of the Glee Club's traveling unit. Holmes may be reached at 29 Ramapo Road. Ossining. N. Y. .\PRIL 1958 13 Spring Turns the Sports Page VARSITY HOPES semester. As a result, Palmer has been forced to revise his estimate of the team's chances to the extent that in addition to the Elis and the Crimson, he now believes that Amherst, Dartmouth, and Williams may have an edge on his improved Bruins. The top six singles men, in order, prob- ably will be Callaway, Crockwell, Co- Captain Ed Flattau, Sprinkel, Rufus Bul- lock, and Co-Captain Dwight Seward. The doubles will be strictly up for grabs. DON NELSON '58, Captain, will be pitching for a potentially better nine. Baseball Outlook Good WITH STRONGER PITCHING and Catching, a tighter defense, and more potential power than usual, this edition of the Brown baseball team might easily make its presence felt in New England and Ivy circles, ac- cording to Coach Lefty Lefebvre. Most of the players are back from the team that finished 7-8 a year ago. with a liberal sprinkling of stars from the potent 6-2 Cubs, rated by veteran Freshman coach Jack HefTernan as "the best I've ever had at Brown." The pitching should be good; it could be great. Capt. Don Nelson, owner of a flossy 1.59 E.R.A. last season, has been a steady twirlcr since he found his control last spring. Frank Brooks, a Senior, and Wayne Perkins, a Junior, will back him up. Strong help, however, is expected from two out- standing Sophomores, Dave Manson (1.01 E.R.A.) and Al Jasins (1.78 E.R.A. ). Last season's starting receiver, Dick Judkins. is back for his Junior year, with Pat Gallagher, who hit for .296 for the Cubs, backing him up. Nick Pannes. Sopho- more quarterback for Al Kelley and a top notch baseball prospect from Lynn Classi- cal High School, will probably start at first. The rest of the infield should have Bob Carlin. who led the C ubs with a .400 aver- age, at second. Frank Finney at third, and Sophomore Sunny Pittaro at short. Coach Lefebvre expects this latter lad to be Brown's best short stop since Lou Murgo •54. George Gorgodian will again patrol left field, while Dave Reed, hoop star, is ex- pected to nail down the right field berth. Center field is wide open due to the fact that two regulars from last season. Jim Steiner and Guy Calise. will not be availa- ble. Bud Broda. son of Iron Man Hal Broda "27, Art Giorgini. and Joe Santagini are expected to wage a three-way battle for this position. The squad planned to go south for early exhibition games and drills. Sophomores and Tennis Last summer, after guiding his tennis team to a 3-6 season. Coach Art Palmer stated that he wouldn't sing the blues be- cause his 1958 group "will be the best tennis team Brown has had in the past 20 years, if not in its history. Outside of Yale and Harvard, the Bruins will be at least the equal of any team in New England." he said. The reason for the optimism was that only one Senior was on the 1957 squad and coming along to join the Varsity this spring would be eight members of a solid 6-2 Freshman team, including four men whom Palmer felt could have held down the top four Varsity positions last spring. Ted Simmons. Bill Sprinkel. Trowbridge Calla- way, and Doug Crockwell. Simmons, an outstanding prospect, was National Interscholastic Doubles Champion while at St. Louis Country Day School, and many of Palmer's plans were based on this lad. However, he has decided to spend some additional time with the books this The Golfing Prospeet While claiming that he still doesn't have that top-flight college golfer who can get down consistently to the mid 70's, Coach Ralph Anderton figures that he has enough balance to ensure a successful sea- son. The balance he refers to carried the Brown "duflfers" to a 7-5 record last spring. Last year's number one man, Charlie Batchelder, is back again as Captain. Jim Noonan. another Senior with extensive ex- perience, will back him up. To bolster this group. Coach Anderton expects to have the services of three better-than-average golfers, Bailey Blethemm, Quentin Searle, and Ed Perlberg. He believes that Searle has the ability to move into the number one position. Perlberg was number one man for Andover two years ago. Spring Schedules \ Varsity Baseball: April 12 — Rhode Is- land. April 16— at Yale. April 18- Army. April 23 — at Harvard. April 25- Navy. April 26 — Princeton. April 30 — at Dartmouth. May 2 — Columbia. May 3 — at Penn. May 7 — at Amherst. May 9 — at Rhode Island. May ID — at Cornell. May 13 — at Providence College. May 16 — Provi- dence College. FRESHMAN BASEBALL: April 19— Northeastern. April 23 — Country Day. April 25 — at Providence College. April 30 — at Andover. May 2 — at Harvard. May 3 — Rhode Island. May 7 — at Holy Cross. May 10 — at Rhode Island. May 13 — Providence College. May 15 — Davisville. VARSITY TRACK: April 16— at Am- herst. April 19— at M.I.T. April 30— Holy Cross and Wesleyan. May 3 — at Dart- mouth. May 7 — Rhode Island. May 10 — Penn and Columbia. May 17 — Heptag- onals at Navy. May 30-31— IC4A's at Villanova. FRESHMAN TRACK: April 19— at M.I.T. April 30 — Holy Cross and Wes- leyan. May 3 — at Dartmouth. May 7 — Rhode Island. VARSITY TENNIS: April 17— at Rhode Island. April 18— Penn. April 19— M.I.T. April 21— Boston U. April 23— at Wes- leyan. April 25 — Navy. April 28 — Con- necticut. May 1 — at Harvard. May 3- Amherst. May 5 — at Holy Cross. May 7 — at Yale. May 10 — Columbia. May 14- Dartmouth. May 16-19 — New Englands at Brown. FRESHMAN TENNIS: April 19— M.I.T. April 21— La Salle. April 23— at Wesleyan. April 25 — Portsmouth Priory. April 28 — Connecticut. May 1 — at Har- vard. May 7 — at St. George's. May 14 — Dartmouth. VAR,SITY GOLF: April 15— Boston Coll. April 18— Dartmouth. April 19— at Yale. April 22— M.I.T. and Wesleyan. April 25 — Princeton and Harvard al Cam- bridge. April 29 — at Connecticut. May 5— Rhode Island and Providence at R. I. May 8 — Amherst and Holy Cross at Worcester. May 13 — Providence College. H BROWN ALUMNI .MONTHLY Comebacks Marked the Winter's Sports Headway on the Court THE Brown basketball team definitely reached representative Ivy League status this season, although the final Ivy mark of 5-9, highest ever recorded by Brown in the League, was only slightly better than the 4-10 record of a year ago. However, where the Bruins scored an average of 64.8 points per game in 1956-57 as against 79.2 for the opposition (a point differential of 14.4), this year they cut that differential down to 3.9 while averaging 70.2 to 74.1 for the opposition. The over- all record for the season was 10-15. Perhaps an even better picture of Brown's improvement can be seen by point- ing out that during the last half of this Ivy campaign Brown's record was 3-4. and those four defeats were by one. two, three, and four points. The 57-56 loss to Cornell came with one second to play, while the 81-79 Dartmouth decision was dropped with four seconds left (after the Bears had battled back from a 20-point deficit with but 14 minutes to play). In fact. Brown lost the two games to Dartmouth, Ivy champs and representatives in the NCAA tournament, by a total of seven points. Nor should one overlook when reviewing this season the masterful way in which Coach Ward brought along his promising Sophomores. He worked them in slowly, usually one at a time, and never put too much pressure on them until they were ready. Dave Reed and Cliff Ehrlich in the front court, and lack Bellevance, Allan Diussa. and Ed Roedema at guard were fairly well seasoned players when the sea- son ended. Along with Allan Poulsen. rapidly-improving 6:8 center, they will form the backbone of the team next winter. That brings us to the subject of the Co- Captains, Gerry Alaimo and loe Tebo. There is no question but what they formed the greatest one-two scoring punch in Brown's hoop history. In three years they accounted about 48'^ of all the points Brown scored. Even this season, with the Sophomores available to lighten the load. Gerry and Joe hit for 40%. Tebo scored 393 points for the year and moved past the previous high scorer, Lou Murgo '54, with a career total of 1.319 points. Alaimo, with 380 points this year, raised his career total to 1,046. third highest. (The moral of this story would be to look for players whose last name ends in the letter O — for the top three scorers are Tebo. Murgo. and Alaimo.) With a percentage of .786. Tebo led the team in foul shooting, making 121 of 154. Alaimo was one of the two Ivy players who placed in the top 10 in scoring, rebounding, field goal percentage, and free throw percentage. The Cubs posted an impressive 1 1 and 4 record, and Coach Jack Heffernan's crew will be sending along four men who should help the Varsity next winter: Roger Hurley, the leading scorer, and Chris Mitchell at guard, Forrest Broman and Ray Barry in the front line. Dave Remington, held back by injuries, and Jack Crowley also may help at guard. Ivy Standings BASKETBALL W L P.P. P.A. Dartmouth 11 3 986 915 Yale 9 5 1079 991 Princeton 9 5 880 869 Pennsylvania 8 6 1012 983 Harvard 7 7 962 952 BROWN 5 9 983 1038 Cornell 5 9 868 915 Columbia 2 12 HOCKEY 960 1067 W L T Pts. Harvard 7 1 15 BROWN 4 4 8 Yale 4 4 8 Dartmouth 2 5 1 ? Princeton 2 6 4 WRESTLING W L T Pts. Cornell 6 12 Yale 3 2 1 7 BROWN 3 3 6 Princeton 3 3 6 Harvard 2 3 1 5 Penn 2 3 1 5 Columbia 5 1 1 A Strong Hockey Finish Speaking at the final Boston Hockey Writers Luncheon, Cooney Wieland, Har- vard coach, made the following statement: "I have never seen a team improve as much over the course of a season as this Brown team did. We're all lucky the current cam- paign is closed." Such praise, from one of the most re- spected coaches in the game, was a fitting tribute to the tremendous job done this winter by Brown's Jim Fullerton. And al- though the final record showed the Bruins just over the .500 mark with an 11-10-2 record. Coach Fullerton's fine work was recognized to the extent that he was among the coaches being seriously considered for New England's Coach of the Year award as we went to press. With five games to go, the overall record stood at 7-9-2, but the Bears finished fast to take four of these games while scoring 29 goals to 13 for the opposition. In- cluded were wins over Yale (7-0), Dart- mouth (4-3), and Princeton (6-1), thus giving the Bruins a 4-4 Ivy mark and a second place tie with the Elis in the stand- ings. Actually. Coach Fullerton didn't have too great a supply of material to work with this winter. His goalie. Co-Captain Harry Batchelder. was as good as there was in the country; his front line of Co-Captain Rod Dashnaw, Ed Allard, and Dave Kelley was a smooth-passing, high-scoring unit, and his two Sophomore defensemen, Allan Soares and Brian Malloy, came along very well defensively although they scored only two goals between them. The Bruin coach notes four factors in the success of the team. First he notes the solid leadership of Dashnaw, under whom the team developed into a closely-knit unit. Then, of course, when you have a goalie as good as Batchelder, you have a certain advantage on the opposition. A third reason set forth by Fullerton is that the Bears had more ice than in recent years, thus making it easier to bring along the new men. The fourth, and perhaps most important reason for Brown's success, however, was that all the players were hungry for a winning sea- son and they just wouldn't be denied. Dashnaw paced the squad in scoring with 42 points and joined the Brown Century Club with a Varsity career total of 104. His two first-line teammates were close behind him, with Sophomore Kelley scor- ing 36 points and Allard 35. Batchelder, in 23 games, kicked out 802 shots while al- lowing only 76 goals for a percentage of .947 and a goal per game average of 3.3. The Cubs had an extremely unfortunate season, losing all 10 games. Watmough's Best The swimming team, rated the best he's had by Coach Joe Watmough, established a new Brown record for victories in a single season with 10 wins in 13 starts, losing only to Yale, Harvard, and Navy. The Bear mermen went on to gain further glory by tying defending-champion Williams for first place in the New England Intercollegi- ate Swimming Championships. There was little doubt but what Captain Al Chapman and Barr Clayson. a pair of Seniors, were the foundation of the success the team enjoyed. Another important fac- tor was that the Bruins, for a change, had ample depth. Chapman, defending New England cham- pion in the 100-yard butterfly event, was not only a top-notch swimmer in his specialty but also a solid, versatile per- former who was used with equal success in other events. He recorded 12 first place and two second place finishes between the butterfly and freestyle events. He holds the University record in both the 100-yard butterfly (0:58.8) and the 200-yard butter- fly (2:17.1). He also was a member of the 400-yard medley relay and 400-yard freestyle relay quartets which set new Uni- versity records this winter. Clayson is the University record holder in the 200-yard backstroke. He twice lowered the Brown record in that event this season, checking in with a 2:14.4, his best lime, in the M.I.T. meet. He finished first in eight of nine starts in that event, losing only at Yale. In addition to Chapman and Clayson, Sophomores Ed Nicholson in the sprints and Bill Zani in the breaststroke had fine years, as did Dave Outerbridge, a Junior diver. The Cubs (6-4) will be sending along some able replacements for Chapman and Clayson, chief among them Prentiss De- Jesus who set excellent times in the 200- yard freestyle (2:2.6) and the 120-yard individual medley (1:13.7). Wrestlers in the Black The Brown matmen. though lacking depth, completed a winning season by posting a 5 and 4 mark, including wins over Yale. Princeton, Dartmouth and Columbia. The Ivy record was 3 and 3, good for a tie for third in the League standing. -\PRIL 1958 15 SCOREBOARD FOR THE WINTER BASKETBALL: Varsity (10-15) Brown 81, Tufts 77 Providence 71. Brown 58 Brown 62, Rhode Island 58 Colby 71, Brown 50 Brown 73, Amherst 71 Holy Cross 72, Brown 52 Colgate 80, Brown 66 Boston Coll. 88. Brown 78 Providence 80, Brown 52 Brown 76, Harvard 70 Brown 63, Princeton 57 Penn 92. Brown 76 Brown 91. Northeastern 77 Dartmouth 69. Brown 64 Princeton 79, Brown 57 Penn 77. Brown 60 Yale 83, Brown 64 Harvard 71, Brown 68 Brown 74, Yale 67 Cornell 73, Brown 69 Brown 96, Columbia 94 Brown 81, Columbia 68 Cornell 57. Brown 56 Dartmouth 81, Brown 79 Brown 76, Rhode Island 67 Freshman (11-4) Brown 80, Tufts 65 Providence 84, Brown 83 Brown 80, Rhode Island 73 Brown 75, Leicester 65 Davisville 82, Brown 72 Harvard 71, Brown 60 Brown 58, Dean Jr. 56 Brown 76, Northeastern 63 Providence 74, Brown 71 Brown 72, Andover 71 Brown 72, Harvard 54 Brown 75, Worcester 59 Brown 102, Quonset 75 Brown 65, Dartmouth 60 Brown 90, Rhode Island 84 HOCKEY: Varsity (11-10-2) Boston U. 9, Brown Brown 1, Boston Coll. 1 Brown 5, Tufts 3 Brown 7, Amherst Brown 6, Northeastern 4 Boston Coll. 4, Brown 3 Boston U. 10, Brown 3 R.P.I. 4, Brown 1 Brown 6, New Brunswick Brown 4. Yale 4 Brown 7, Providence 3 Army 5, Brown 4 Brown 4, Northeastern 2 Yale 3. Brown Harvard 3, Brown 1 Brown 4, Princeton 2 Dartmouth 4, Brown 2 Harvard 4, Brown Brown 7, Yale Brown 4, Dartmouth 3 Providence 5, Brown 2 Brown 6, Princeton 1 Brown 10, Boston Coll. 4 Freshman (0-10) Providence 1 1. Brown 4 Northeastern 4, Brown 3 St. George's 4, Brown 1 Harvard 8, Brown 2 Princeton 1, Brown Harvard 8, Brown Andover 3, Brown 1 Dartmouth 2, Brown Providence 8, Brown 5 Boston Coll. 8, Brown 1 SWIMMING: Varsity (10-3) Brown 47, Columbia 39 Navy 46, Brown 39 Brown 48, Coast Guard 38 Brown 51, Princeton 35 Brown 51, Penn 34 Brown 63, Holy Cross 23 Brown 50, Amherst 28 Yale 47, Brown 39 Brown 53, Wesleyan 33 Brown 53, Springfield 34 Brown 54, Tufts 31 Brown 61, M.I.T. 25 Harvard 57. Brown 29 Freshman (6-4) Brown 59, Dean Jr. 21 Yale 70, Brown 16 Brown 50, Wesleyan 27 Brown 54, Springfield 22 Brown 52. St. George's 24 La Salle 49, Brown 37 Brown 56, M.I.T. 21 Williston 57, Brown 29 Brown 47, Cranston 39 Harvard 56, Brown 21 WRESTLING: Varsity (5-4) Springfield 19, Brown 9 Brown 24. Wesleyan 8 Penn 19. Brown 11 Brown 23. Columbia 10 Brown 20, Yale 8 Brown 18. Princeton 12 Cornell 28, Brown Harvard 15, Brown 11 Brown 19, Dartmouth 9 Freshman (1-4) Springfield 18, Brown 14 Brown 24, Wesleyan 8 Yale 29, Brown 5 Andover 21, Brown 8 Harvard 22, Brown 6 TRACK: Varsity (2-1-2) Brown 82, Boston Coll. 12 Brown 61, Dartmouth 43 Brown 52, Tufts 52 Brown 52, Maine 52 Yale 79'/2 , Penn 341/2, Brown 22 Freshman (2-1) Brown 52, Boston Coll. 25 Dartmouth 74'/,!, Brown 29^ Brown 59, Tufts 33 Capt. John Cummings and a pair of Juniors, George Seaver and Lou Winner, had fine seasons. Capt. Cummings won his first six matches, three of them on falls, before losing at Cornell. Seaver won 8 of 9 for the campaign, while Winner was 6 and 2. Only two men, Cummings and Tony Philippi, will be graduated from the squad, and the Cubs, although not a good team, did have strength where it will be needed by the Varsitv next season. Bob Perrine (123), Joel Se'ibel ( 1 30 ) , and Gene Bouley (137, 147) are the most promising pros- pects. Whittemore won his first Varsity bout in the finale against Dartmouth, a non-League opponent. A First over DartiuoiiUi Coach Ivan Foqua termed the winter track season "highly successful." although he went on to point out that while the situa- tion on the Hill is definitely on the upswing, the Bruins still are not ready to "mix with the big boys." The record for the indoor season was 2-1-2. with impressive wins scored over Dartmouth and Boston College. Perhaps the highlight of the winter campaign was the 61-43 decision over Dartmouth. This was Brown's first win over the Indians in indoor track and only the second over the Green in any kind of track competition. The last time the Bruins turned the trick was in a 74-61 outdoor meet in 1901. Capt. Ed Sullivan, still hampered by the ankle injury he suffered last fall, was the best distance man on the squad. Coach Fuqua's most pleasant surprise, however, was the running of Sophomore Bill Mac- Ardle and Junior Phil Reed. MacArdle, from Manchester, Conn., set a new Brown record for the 1 .000 with a clocking of 2:18.5 against Dartmouth. Reed, from Vineland, N. J., set a Marvel Gym record for the 600-yard run with the time of 1:14.7, breaking the 1:14.9 mark set by Royce Crimmin against Boston University in 1948. Then, against Dartmouth, Reed set a new Brown record for the same event with a time of 1:13.8. The late Charlie Vincent set the old mark of 1 : 14.1 in 1956, Two fifths, by Frank Coveley in the broad jump and the two-mile relay team, gave Brown its two points in the Heptag- onals in last place. Sullivan was not in shape to repeat his 1957 victory, which would have moved the Bears up three places. As a unit, the Sophomores gave Brown the depth which has been missing in recent seasons. The same team, with a few ex- ceptions, will handle the outdoor season this spring and should make a representa- tive showing. K. BROOKE ANDERSON at work for the Near East Christian Council. Distributing clothing to Arab refugees, the former Secretary of the Brown Christian Association inspects their cards. He's wearing the beret. 16 BROWN ALU.MNI .MONTHLY Brunonians Far and Near EDITED BY JAY BARRY '50 1887 SENATOR Theodore Francis Green, Chair- man of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has agreed to serve on the Senate's new blue ribbon "Space Age Com- mittee." The Senate created the committee early in February, with instructions to rec- ommend whether space affairs should be under civilian or military control. 1893 The story of Edward H. Weeks' love for antique clocks was told in the Providence Journal Business Weekly on Feb. 2. The story noted that Ned, Chairman of the Board at Old Colony Cooperative Bank, probably had the best excuse anyone ever had for starting a hobby he enjoys. The article went on to explain that he started collecting these old clocks to carry out the colonial theme in Old Colony House. 1896 Mrs. Wesley E. Monk died on Jan. 30, 16 days after the death of her husband, which we reported in our last issue. 1905 Roy Towne, living in Everett, Wash., is Vice-President of the Golden Hours Club, an organization for retired people. The Club has a membership of over 700, with 150 to 200 active members at each meet- ing. Roy has one son in the airplane busi- ness in Santa Monica, Calif., and another in Burbank, Calif. A grandson is in Texas with the Air Force. Robert C. Powell of Swarthmore, Pa., recalls that he and Louis Guernsey "05 led the first Brown Bear mascot on the field at the Brown-Harvard game in 1901. This statement should answer the Brown Alumni Monthly's recent question. Arthur Townsend and his wife are re- tired and living in Rehoboth. Mass. He was a former high school principal in New York, and she was a school teacher there. Ralph B. Woodsum. residing in Brain- tree, Mass., remains active in the down- town real estate business in Boston. A grandson of his was graduated from Brown in 1955, while a granddaughter is a Fresh- man at Radcliffe. He has 11 grandchildren and two great-grandsons. Harrington T. Anthony is partially re- tired in Spokane. He still puts in time with his real estate and insurance business. He makes a yearly vacation trip to Arizona, and, on the last one, he called on Fred Broomhead in Tucson. 1906 The home of Judge and Mrs. Benjamin F. Lindemuth at 70 High St., Bristol, R. I., was badly damaged by a fire in February. 1907 Henry G. Clark, W. P. Burnham, and A. H. Gurney took part in the 1958 annual meeting of the Advisory Council of the Associated Alumni held on the Hill in Feb- ruary. Shan and Bill had credentials as Past Presidents of the Associated Alumni, and Al qualified as a member of the As- sociation of Class Secretaries. Shan later set out for Naples, Fla., where he spent the month of March. Robert Wagenseil Jones, son of Mrs. Robert B. Jones and our late classmate, is a graduate of Cornell. He is now with an architectural firm in New York. E. A. Batchelor, now giving full time as Editor of the D.A.C. News, official pub- lication of the Detroit Athletic Club, was one of the honored guests of the New York Chapter, Baseball Writers" Association of America, at a dinner in January to cele- brate the 50th anniversary of its founding. Batchelor was an original member, joining in 1908, and has maintained his member- ship ever since. "A fine party," he wrote, "and all of us old wrecks got our pictures in the local papers."" 1908 Although final plans for the 50th Reun- ion are not complete, it should be noted that this will be a Campus-based reunion with the main headquarters in one of the two quadrangles. We have made arrange- ments to participate in the new event, the Saturday afternoon Alumni Field Day, the first social to be scheduled for Aldrich- Dexter Field. The Class has purchased a multi-colored tent, and this will be our gathering place for the afternoon of May 31. Men and women are invited, so plan to come and spend a leisurely afternoon meeting and greeting old friends and class- mates. Tom Miller is President of the new Rite- Way Dairy Farm Equipment Corp. of East Longmeadow, Mass. Formerly the Rite- Way Division of the Package Machinery Co., the corporation now has independent status and is owned by Miller and other employees formerly associated with the organization. He was Vice-President for Package, in charge of sales. The new com- pany will continue to serve the dairy in- dustry with its nationally known milking machines and other equipment through its sales organization of nearly 1500 dealers. Ely E. Palmer, our retired Ambassador, living in San Bernardino, Calif., combined with his wife, Eno, on a year-end letter to friends and associates. Among their "pleas- ant"' memories of 1957 are the many visits from old-time friends. "I feel certain that all our friends would like to have news of Eno,"" he writes. "They will be pleased to know that with her continued enjoyment of television and her revived interest in reading, she manages to pass the time with- out the unhappiness she might suffer if her mind were not pleasantly occupied. Thanks to outdoor movies and the possibility of taking her wheel chair to theatres in town, she is able to enjoy the movies." He also reports that they both hope to be on hand for the 50th Class Reunion in June. George D. Taylor is still operating the Taylor Farm Sugar Camp in Stamford, N. Y., although he admits that the deep snow of the past winter posed many prob- lems. "We are currently delivering milk with horses and sled,'" he wrote in Febru- ary. "How we can tap for syrup in 10 feet of snow is a problem, but Til bet that the fifth generation of farming Taylors will find a way."' Norman Case has been ill recently, and the Class wishes him a speedy recovery. C. L. GRINNELL 1910 The Rev. Allan D. Creelman has been elected Executive Secretary of the Massa- chusetts Baptist Charitable Society. The group has about three quarters of a mil- lion invested funds and takes care of the widows and orphans of ministers who have served in Massachusetts. Allan also has had time to serve as pulpit supply of the First Congregational Church in Marshfield. Eddy W. Tandy is retired and living with his daughter at 66 Washington St., Brew, Me., enjoying his three grandchil- dren. His wife died in March, 1956. Ed says that his main diversion is a trip or two to New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Frank L. Mansur expected to see Presi- dent and Peg "Hoke" Horton when the Barrington couple visited Florida in March. Warren Norton blasted all talk of a re- cession in the country by sending Treasurer Freeman class dues for TWO years. He is living in semi-retirement. Leon F. Clark has been retired since January, 1956. He spends his summers in his garden and his winters with his pipe and his good books. He plans a trip to Miami this spring. Francis H. Buffum has sent us a leaflet telling of his publication, "America at the Crossroads." In connection with this, he writes: "I didn't get a chance at the enemy in the Spanish-American War. What 1 failed to do then with my bayonet, I"m determined to do now with my pen." Marshall T. Morgan met your Secretary at the Feb. 22 Annual Meeting of the Rhode Island Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution. Marshall still lives at Warwick Neck, R. I. William C. Oaks dug himself out of 11 inches of snow early in the winter and headed for California. He followed the southern route and was able to spend some time with his son, Dr. William R. Oaks, at Los Alamos. ED SPICER 1911 Robert Cushman Murphy testified in February that government DDT spraying by planes to control gypsy moths killed fish and other wildlife on his Long Island property and destroyed nature's balance in the area. He was the first witness for the plaintiffs in an action brought in Brooklyn Federal Court seeking a permanent injunc- tion against widespread aerial spraying by the Government. He and Mrs. Murphy returned on Feb. 1 from a round-the-world trip that began on Sept. 20, 1957. They vis- ited Italy, Greece, Kenya, Uganda, Tangan- yika, India, Thailand, Cambodia, Singa- pore, Malaya, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and lapan. S. Merritt Skelding is not in the best of health, and he might appreciate cards or letters from his friends. Skel is living at 550 Summer St., Stamford, Conn. 1912 Dr. George V. Kendall. Daniel L. Brown, and Dr. H. Carey Bumpus, who lived on the same floor of Slater Hall as APRIL 1958 17 undergraduates and were members of the same Delta Phi delegation, have all wound up as fellow townsmen in Duxbury, Mass. Colonel Kendall, retired as Dean of Wa- bash College, is the latest to take up resi- dence there. 1913 George T. Metcalf is helping the com- mittee solicit money for Brown's Hockey Rink, having been added to the group this winter. 1915 Minot J. Crowell is the E.xecutive Vice- President of St. Elizabeth's Home in Provi- dence. He was reelected at the annual meet- ing in February. 1916 Maj. Gen. William C. Chase is a member of the Faculty of the University of Hous- ton, teaching in the Political Science De- partment. He did graduate work there after his retirement from the Army. Brig. Gen. H. S. McLeod of Providence is serving as Chairman of the High Court of Honor for the Narragansett Council, Boy Scouts of America. One of its duties is the examination and commissioning of Eagle Scouts in Rhode Island. 1917 William H. Reese, Vice-President of the Chase Bank in Paris, is serving on the Board of Governors of the American Hos- pital of Paris. Frank C. Cambio, Providence attorney, has been elected President of the Rhode Island Bar Association. He had served as President-elect for the past year. 1918 Dr. Earl H. Tomlin, Executive Secretary of the Rhode Island State Council of Churches and former pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, Providence, is serving as a Vice-President of the Lord's Day League of New England. M. Joseph Cummings retired as Rhode Island's State Controller in February after 16 years in that position. He owns an in- vestment business and is Chairman of the Providence Draft Board. Cy Flanders was elected Secretary of the Connecticut Governor's Committee on Em- ployment of the Handicapped at the or- ganizational meeting in February. 1919 Roger T. Clapp has been made a mem- ber of the Regional Executive Committee in New England for the Boy .Scouts of America. He is a Past President of the Narragansett Council. 1920 Ray W. Greene, a member of the Rhode Island Country Club, was elected President of the Rhode Island Golf Association at its annual meeting in February. He is a former State Senior titlist. Ralph R. Crosby '26 was reelected Treasurer of the organiza- tion. Lyman G. Hill celebrated the birth of a grandson on Feb. 1 1 . Our classmate is living at 9695 Burnette Ave.. Detroit 4. 1921 Ashley Greene retired as Colonel, Air Force Reserve, on Jan. 15. He served with the U. S. Air Force in World War II as Supervisor of training material and de- vices. For nine months, he was Com- mander of Air Corps Technical School, now Air University. He is planning to continue his practice of law in Oregon City. NEV/ POST tor the Rev. Dr. Herbert E. Mac- Combie '21 is as one of the six Field Counselors of the Council on Missionary Cooperation, also serving in a similar capacity for the Christian Higher Education Challenge. He will supervise training of area workers and otherwise help in the CHEC campaign to raise $7,500,000 for American Baptist schools and colleges. Nine seminaries and 22 other institutions and 65 stu- dent work centers will benefit from the program. 1923 A score of Rhode Islanders spent a Feb- ruary evening at the home of President E. John Lownes, Jr., when the topic was the 35th reunion of 1923. Plans are well under way, covering the full week end from Fri- day, May 30, to Monday, June 2. Al Sherberg gave an address at the An- nual National Convention of the Blinded Veterans Association held at the Statler Hotel in Hartford last February. His pic- ture was on the front page of the Hartford Coiirant the next day showing him present- ing an award to the Blinded Veteran Man of the Year. 1925 S. J. Perelman was among 10 persons named as life members of the National In- stitute of Arts and Letters in February. This society is dedicated to recognizing achievement in art, literature, and music. Classmates offer their sympathy to Harry J. Weisman on the death of his mother on Feb. 6 in Providence. 1926 Sydney A. Feig has made an interesting proposal to President Keeney that the Eng- lish Department might provide monthly recommendations for reading, a service to which alumni might subscribe and under- take to follow up with five or six purchases a year. Any returns from such a project could go toward scholarship funds. Prof. Elmer Smith has been elected to the Vestry of Grace Church, Providence, for a three-year term. Classmates offer their sympathy to Dr. Carl F. Bayerschmidt on the death of his mother on Feb. 12 in Providence. 1927 Irving G. Loxley, Branch Manager in Providence for Heyden Newport Chemical Corp., has been named Chairman of the New England Chemical Industry Activity Committee of the Manufacturing Chemists' Association, Inc. Ted Raynor is Managing Editor of the Las Cruces Citizen, New Mexico newspa- per. He once worked for the Register in New Haven before heading Southwest some years ago. 1928 Goddard House will serve as headquar- ters for the Class during its 30th Reunion in June. This spot is located between the Alpha Delta Phi and Delta Phi fraternities in the Wriston Quadrangle. Rooms in God- dard House will he reserved for classmates and their wives. Dr. Frank Spellman was a recent visitor to the Campus, and he enjoyed watching the Brown wrestling team defeat Princeton by an 18-8 score. Dick, in his undergradu- ate days, was the New England 157-pound champion. His son, Frank, is a member of the Sophomore class at Brown. Nelson Conlong was observed buying up all the Providence Evening Bulletin news- papers one day last January. His very photogenic daughter's picture was on the front page. Cmdr. Al Cleaves, USN, has the follow- ing address: USS Cascade AD- 16, c/o FPO, New York, N. Y. H. Clinton Owen, Jr., has been added to the committee which is soliciting funds for the Brown Hockey Rink. He was an active participant in the sport both as an under- graduate and later. JACK HEFFERNAN 1929 Your Secretary has been laboring under the effects of a depleted Class treasury for some time now. Since there are a number of small but worthy projects for Brown in which we would like to share, an invoice is being sent to each of you asking for Class Dues in the amount of $2. Your response would be appreciated. This is a new ven- ture, but it is one that we hope will have your annual support. Dr. James S. Stewart is Assistant Profes- sor of Economics at St. John's University, with most of his classes scheduled at the Long Island Division. He had held the same rank previously at New York Uni- versity, where he took his doctorate. The Stewarts, who have a 16-year-old daughter, are living at 33 Floral Lane, Westbury, L. I. Dr. Kenneth Scott of Providence was named President-elect of the American College of Osteopathic Obstetricians and Gynecologists at that group's annual con- vention in Denver in February. TED HARRIS 1930 Dr. Leo Jacobson, Warren optometrist, was elected President of the Warren Dis- trict Nursing Association on Feb. 12 in the annual election of officers. 1931 R. Irving Blanchard, Jr., is living at 516 33rd St., Court W., Bradenton, Fla. He is Executive Vice-President of the Bradenton Chamber of Commerce, having held that position since October 1955. He is a for- mer Director of the Florida Chamber of Commerce Executives, is State Director for the Southern Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives, and is on the Edu- cation Committee of the American Cham- ber of Commerce Executives. He also is 18 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHL1 on the Advisory Council of the Florida Re- tail Federation. His wife is teaching at Manatee High School. Their oldest boy, David, is a Junior in the School of Engi- neering, Duke University, while their other son, Alan, is a Junior at Manatee County High School. Their daughter, Betty, who was a Freshman at Wesleyan College (Ma- con, Ga.), died last fall. Irving and Mrs. Blanchard have the sympathy of all class- mates on their loss. Paul A. Snyder is Executive Manager of the Franklin (Pa.) Chamber of Com- merce. In a recent letter to his old room- mate, Alden R. Walls, Paul noted that he and his wife, Dorothy, and daughter, Judy, "live a peaceful existence" about eight miles outside of town. Carlos P. Recker has been appointed a member of the Alexandria, Va., Board of Architectural Review. This is the watchdog committee set up to protect the historic buildings of George Washington's home town. A resident of Alexandria since 1948, "Top" has earned an enviable reputation for himself as a decorator. Among other projects, he has been commissioned to do the Virginia Room in the Smithsonian In- stitution's "Hall of Everyday Life." 1932 Joel S. Daniels, Jr., has been named As- sistant Vice-President of Advertising and Promotion for Northeast Airlines. A native of New Hampshire, he has had 15 years' experience in military and commercial avi- ation. 1933 Edward H. Kreiselmann is the proprietor and operator of The Festival, one of Ma- drid's best known shops with the Spanish arts and crafts as its specialty. It is located near the Hilton Hotel and enjoys a fine reputation among the tourists recom- mended by this and other hotels. One re- cent customer was Aaron Roitman '30. Kreiselmann originally went to Spain un- der the Point Four Program to assist in promoting the native crafts and finding a market for them. He liked Spain so well he has established himself there as a private entrepreneur, enjoying what is, for a for- eigner, unusual encouragement from the Government. Robert V. Cronan would be glad to give bound volumes of the Brown Daily Herald for the three college years 1930-33 to any- one who'd like them. His address: Charles F. Noyes Company, 42 Broadway, New York 4, N. Y. John E. Flemming, Jr., came back to Providence on Washington's Birthday to observe the 25th anniversary of his initia- tion into the lodge he joined his Senior year. William J. Gilbane, Vice-President of the Narragansett Council, Boy Scouts of America, is also serving on the Regional Executive Committee for New England as one of the Rhode Island representatives. Dr. Alex M. Burgess, Jr., was elected President of the Rhode Island Heart As- sociation at the annual meeting of that or- ganization on Feb. 1 1 in East Providence. A letter from William S. Wager was received asking for information on the big 25th Reunion this June. He noted that after more than 10 years of moving up and down the West Coast with side trips to the Phil- ippines, Okinawa, and intermediate points. he is now a "reasonably permanent" resi- dent of Seattle. Louis Horvitz is President and Treasurer of the Republic Development Corp., which purchased the Barrington (R. I.) Shopping Center in January. Lou is also President, Treasurer, and sole stockholder of Repub- lic Fibers, inc., a Pawtucket raw cotton trading concern. S. Turner Blanchard's wife was killed in an automobile accident on Dec. 14. Class- mates offer their sympathy on his loss. Maxwell Hoberman has been named Merchandise Manager of the Basement Store, G. Fox and Co., Hartford. He has been with the store since 1935. The sympathy of the Class is extended to William P. Hussey on the death of his mother on Feb. 8 in Fall River. 1934 Max H. Flaxman, Vice-Principal of Classical High School, Providence, spoke at the February meeting of the Rhode Island Citizens Association for Public Schools. Also on the speaking program was Sherwin J. Kapstein '39, Providence School Committee member. Richard H. Morse has been elected Vice-President and Actuary of Monarch Life Insurance Co., Springfield, Mass. He was advanced from Assistant Actuary to Actuary a year ago. He joined the company in 1948. John M. Gross and William T. Joyce. Jr., are back in Providence. Gross from Illinois and Joyce from Omaha and points west. They are neighbors on Freeman Parkway. 1935 Vincent DiMase, licensed professional engineer in Rhode Island and Director of the Department of Building Inspection in Providence, spoke before the New England Building Officials Conference on Jan. 22. His subject was "Egress" and "Convales- cent Homes, Nursing Homes, and Homes for the Aged." 1936 C. Warren Bubier was named Assistant Secretary of the Title Guarantee Co.. Providence, at the annual meeting of the company in February. Salvatore L. Virgadamo, an attorney in the Newport law office of Cornelius C. Moore, has been elected a Director of the Newport National Bank. Ernest C. Wilks, Secretary of the Auto- mobile Insurance Company of America, has been named a Trustee of the Woon- socket Institution for Savings. John F. Heckman, Jr., has been pro- moted to Actuary with the Aetna Life Insurance Co., Hartford. A fellow of the Society of Actuaries, he joined Aetna in 1936, was appointed Assistant Actuary in 1944. and was advanced to Associate Actu- ary in 1953. 1937 Prof. Arthur O. Williams, Chairman of the Physics Department at Brown, spoke on "Space Flight" at a meeting of the Rhode Island Purchasing Agents' Assn., in February. Thomas T. Allan was elected to the Wal- pole (Mass.) School Committee in the Jan. 20 election. 1938 Our sincere apologies go to Hyman Feld- man. We reported in error the death of his mother in our February issue. Another Hyman Feldman was listed in an obituary clipping received, and a check of Alumni House records showed the mistake in iden- tification. Unfortunately, however, the no- tation was misunderstood. We also apolo- gize to those who sent Feldman messages of condolence. 1939 A. H. Crosbie an^ his wife enjoyed some good fishing at Marathon, Fla., in Febru- ary. Although his home-town paper in Wellesley credited him with two barracuda and one bonita, the bonita was Mrs. Crosbie's catch, he says. 1940 Russell W. Field, Jr., following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, has been elected President of Brownell & Field Co., makers of Autocrat coffee and tea. His brother, Richard M. Field '43, was elected Vice-President and Treasurer. PAUL W. WELCH '38 of Barrington, R. I., has been named New England Regional Sales Man- ager for Sealol Corp. Sealol, manufacturers of mechanical seals, has been undergoing a rapid expansion of the product line, which now includes Acro-Ment dial indicating gages, coolant supply equipment, and hydraulic accessories. Welch hos been with Sealol since 1951. Duncan Cleaves is Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the Southern Regional Division, University of Nevada. After re- ceiving his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley in 1951, he worked five years for Titanium Metals Corporation in Henderson, Nevada, as a Senior Research Engineer. For three of those years he held the additional post of part-time lecturer in Chemistry at the Southern Regional Division of the Uni- versity of Nevada. The Southern Regional Division consists of one new small build- ing (seven classrooms, two laboratories) located on 80 acres of desert campus. The school has a teaching staff of 14 and a student body of about 500. The Rev. Joseph C. Harvey has been elected a Vice-President of St. Elizabeth's Home in Providence. Classmates extend sympathy to William H. Kean, Jr., on the death of his father on Feb. 12 in New York. 1941 Contrary to a recent report in this col- umn, the Rev. John Arnold Cranston, Jr.. has been appointed to the newly-created position of Assistant to the Rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Riverside, Conn. George G. Davis, Assistant Manager of Industrial Relations at Republic Steel APRIL 1958 19 ROBERT E. NELSON '44 is the new Service Manager of the Medical Division of Sanborn Company. James L. Jenks, Jr., '19 is President of this Waitham company. Corp.. Buffalo, N. Y., was the featured speaker at the annual meeting of the Fitch- burg Area Industrial Management Club in January. Richard Brooks, formerly of Harrington, returned from California to visit his par- ents in February. On the west coast since graduation, Dick is Manager of Mining Op- erations with Gladding McBean in Los Angeles. While in Rhode Island he paid a visit to old haunts on the Hill. 1942 Pardon E. Tillinghast, a member of the History Department at Middlebury Col- lege, has been promoted to Associate Pro- fessor. He was appointed to the Faculty there in 1947. Harry Hoyle, formerly basketball coach at Kent School in Kent, Conn., had a suc- cessful season as coach of the "roundball" squad at Tabor Academy last winter. Harrison H. Goff has been named Vice- President of Fireman's Mutual Insurance Co., Providence. Douglas Edward Leach continues as As- sistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. He taught at Bates College from 1950-56 and at the University of New Me.xico in the summer of 1956. He is preparing a book on the history of King Philip's War (1675-76), which will be published by The Macmillan Company. 1943 An informal dinner was held late in January to discuss our plans for the 15th Reunion this June. Final details will ap- pear in this magazine next month, but so far it looks like a campus-type of reunion, with overnight accommodations in one of the new dormitories. Tentative plans in- clude cocktails, the Alumni Dinner, and the Campus Dance on Friday, May 30, and a full day of activities on Saturday, probably at the new Commencement Week End event, the Alumni Field Day at Al- drich-Dexter Field. Wives will be included in all our Saturday plans. Those attending the Class get-together included Kingsley Meyer, Bob Radway, John Blake, John Price, Jack Hess, Ray Abbott, Jack Toher, Russ Brower, and Anthony Rotelli. George Delaney is back in Boston with the New England Telephone and Telegraph Co. after previous assignment in New York. He is living in Newton Highlands. Robert A. Johnson, Jr., President of the Westfield Metal Products Co., Westfield, Mass., has been appointed to the National Defense Executive Reserve unit of the Business and Defense Services Administra- tion of the U. S. Department of Com- merce. He is a member of the Government Contracts Committee of the National As- sociation of Manufacturers and was Chair- man of NAM'S Small Business Committee for five years. Walter J. McLellan has joined two part- ners in opening new law offices at the Continental National Insurance Building, 2975 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5. Kingsley N. Meyer has the sympathy of all classmates on the death of his father on Feb. 22 in New York. 1944 Robert B. Lynch has been promoted to the post of Plant Manager of Taco Heaters, Inc., Providence. He was formerly with Textron Inc., and Crescent Co., Inc., Paw- tucket. 1946 Johnny Bach, who played some fine basketball for Brown during the war years, returned to Providence this winter as coach of Fordham's squad. The Rams were suc- cessful across town in beating Providence College in an overtime game. Elwin E. Linden, an employe of the Narragansett Electric Co., Providence, won a $25 second prize in the annual research paper competition of the Providence Sec- tion of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. His paper said that heating costs for an air-conditioning system that both heats and cools are about twice that of an ordinary furnace. Roland C. Casperson will direct the sixth annual Human Engineering Institute to be presented from June 10-13 by Dun- lap and Associates, Inc., of Stamford, Conn. Dr. Casperson has been engaged since 1950 for the sponsoring organization in such research and consulting work as the design of aircraft and missile systems, data-processing and other electronic sys- tems, airport and other vision and lighting problems, and displays for commercial products. Woodbury C. Titcomb has been elected Loan Officer of The First National Bank of Boston. He became a staff member at the bank in 1952. 1947 Joseph A. Brian has been selected "Man of the Year" by the Providence Junior Chamber of Commerce. He received the Jaycees' distinguished award at the group's annual "Bosses' and Fathers' Night " dinner in February. Joe is President-Treasurer of the Brian Supply Co., Inc., of 1 1 1 Chest- nut St., Providence. Donald E. Creamer was Chairman of the Rhode Island Advertising Week Com- mittee in February. He is President of Creamer-Trowbridge Co., Providence. Aram K. Berberian appeared as counsel for the Cranston Home Rule Association, before a recent R. 1. hearing in connection with proposals before the State's Constitu- tional Convention. 1948 Your reunion committee has planned a big 1 0th Reunion, and literature describing in detail our Commencement Week End get-together is in the mail. The group has planned a cocktail party for Friday after- noon, May 30, followed by the Alumni Dinner and the Campus l3ance. At the latter event, a Class Table will be available. On Saturday, for the first time at Brown, we will set sail from the Brown Yacht Club in the good ship Viking for a cruise down Narragansett Bay. There will be music, dancing, liquid refreshments, and a shore dinner. This is going to be a real wing-ding affair, one you will be still talking about on your 25th, so let's have those reserva- tions as soon as possible! Lewis A. Shaw, Public Relations Man- ager of the Massachusetts Mutual Life In- surance Co., is Treasurer for the 1958 Eastern Roundtable meeting of the Life Advertisers Association. When he was hon- ored by selection as Massachusetts "Young Man of the Year" by the State's Junior Chamber of Commerce in February, he was the 12th to receive this award. Bob Smith, owner of "Claudia's" in Lake Worth. Fla., was mentioned in a recent "Tales Out of School" column by Dick Reynolds, Schoolboy Sports Editor of the Providence Journal-Bulletin. In comment- ing on a new basketball scoring record for the State, Dick mentioned that Smith had set the R. I. league single-game scoring mark of 42 points while playing for old East Greenwich Academy in 1939. Bob also holds the Brown Freshman record for one game with 43 points against Boston University in 1942. Gerald C. "Fitzy" Fitzgerald, associated with the Factory Insurance Association, has been promoted to Field Manager of their Syracuse, N. Y., office. Charles H. Daly has been named Eastern Manager of B. J. Martin & Co.. publisher of business magazines. He and his wife and three daughters live at 225 Hamiltonian Drive, Red Bank, N. J. Harold W. Demopulos, prominent Provi- dence attorney, served as Vice-Chairraan of the 1958 Rhode Island Heart Fund. 1949 Dominick R. Sperduti is the author of two pamphlets which have recently been published. One is "Spanish Notes," a guide for the first and second year high school student, while the other is titled, simply, "Night Notes." Norman S. Mayberg is Assistant to the Treasurer with the Carbon Products Corp., a Cleveland firm. Norman E. Wright, Jr., has been pro- moled to Assistant Manager, Bond Depart- ment, in the New York office of the Northern Trust Company of Chicago. He joined Northern Trust in 1955. Harold R. Shippee, Jr., has resigned as Assistant to State Republican Chairman William T. Broomhead and as Chairman of the standing committee on public rela- tions of the R. I. State Committee. He remains a member of the Executive Com- mittee and the State Central Committee, however. 1950 Pete McCarthy, ace sports writer for the Providence Journul-Bullelin, was the guest of the Class at the monthly luncheon in February. A good crowd was on hand and classmates took turns in shooting questions at the man who has covered Brown sports for his paper the last couple of years. Prof. Harold W. Pfautz '40 of Brown's Sociology Department was the center of attraction at the March luncheon. The title 20 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY of his discussion: "Good Universities Don"t Win Games." Post cards to local classmates contained this message from Dinner Chair- man Frank Sternberg: "Come and chal- lenge this point. Bring a challenging friend." The early response to the annual Class Dues appeal for $2 was good — $260 in the first three weeks. Those who haven't re- sponded may do so by making out a check to Brown University, Class of '50. and mailing it to Assistant Treasurer Bill Mayer, c o Alumni House, Providence 12. Bob Cummings, 1950's Secretary, was elected Secretary of the Class Secretaries Association on Feb. 8. Richard E. Sprague is with the Eli Witt Tobacco Co.. Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Jim Vendettuoli. Jr.. is an instructor in the Religious Studies Department at Brown. He also is a Resident Fellow at Poland House in the West Quad. Sante Breda is serving as a salesman with the B. F. Goodrich Co., New Bedford. William L. Sweet is living at 10207 Green Forest Drive, Silver Spring, Md.. and is working for the Defense Depart- ment. George F. Shepard has joined Herman Roser & Sons. Inc., Glastonbury. Conn., in a research and development capacity. He was previously employed at George A. Shepard Co., Bethel, Conn. He is a grad- uate of Pratt Institute in the School of Leather and Chemical Technology. Robert W. Carrangelo has opened a law office at 152 Temple St., New Haven. He received his LL.B. degree from George- town in 1953. Attorney Manuel M. Rezendes served as Area Chairman for the 1958 Heart Fund Campaign in Fall River. Ray E. Oilman, Jr., has been named Programming Director, Actuarial Depart- ment. Monarch Life Insurance Co., Spring- field. Mass. Ray has been with the com- pany since graduating from Brown, except for two years in the Army. Since his return, he has been engaged primarily in methods research. William Lees Milligan, Jr., working for the Radio Corporation of America since graduation, is currently an Electrical De- sign Engineer in the Missile and Surface Radar Section of RCA at Moorestown, N. J. Eugene G. Gallant continues as Admin- istrative .Aide to Rhode Island's Governor Roberts. George Menard, hockey coach at St. Lawrence, served as one of the three judges named to select the two Eastern representa- tives in the NCAA hockey championships. George Barden has joined Columbia Records in Terre Haute as the Order Serv- ice Coordinator for the Columbia Record Club. Lt. Joseph A. Felt. USN, reports he has "discovered the Navy has certain advan- tages over civilian life." He is Gunnery Officer aboard the USS Salamonie. With I his wife and two daughters living in Wick- ford. R. I., a recent spell when the ship was docked in the Boston Naval Shipyard wasn't at all hard to take. Robert E. Vivian has been named As- sistant Secretary at Fireman's Mutual In- surance Co., Providence. Ronald A. Sammis, formerly in the Mil- waukee office of Grinnell Co., has taken the position of Manufacturers' Representative with G. H. Fredericks Co., also in Mil- waukee. Pete Lalumia is with the International Division of the Olin Mathieson Chemical Co., New '^'ork City. He reports that "other than the Giants leaving for San Francisco, New York and I are getting along jolly well." Robert F. Morse, formerly with Bidwell Hardware Co., Hartford, has accepted a position as salesman for the Nutmeg Build- ing Supply Corp., Thompsonville, Conn. His duties take him through most of West- ern Massachusetts. Bob and his family recently moved into a ranch house in Thompsonville. 1951 The Class invites all members to a din- ner-meeting on Thursday, April 10, at Gates Tavern, 1195 Douglas Ave., North Providence. Refreshments will be served at 6 prior to the dinner at 7. The meeting will consider the proposed reorganization of the Class. Please try to attend — and bring along some classmates. Dave Murphy, Woody Leonard, and Mai Mackenzie, as well as your Secretary, were among the classmates attending the Advisory Council Week End at Brown in February. One of the most pleasant mo- ments was the formal announcement that the first Alumni Field Day would be held as a part of the Commencement Program at the newly-acquired Aldrich-Dexter Field on Saturday, May 31. Our Class should feel a sense of pride since we were instru- mental in promoting this affair by the example we set at Thayer Field on our Big 5th. Last year, we combined with '49 and '50 to keep the idea alive. Now, the Alumni Field Day is about to become a traditional part of the annual Commence- ment Program. Thanks to all who helped. A side reminder — make plans to come to Providence early Friday afternoon Com- mencement Week End. The Class plans a gala cocktail party prior to the Campus Dance. Time and place will be announced in the next issue. WILLIAM H. BUCK '48 has been appointed Ad- vertising Manager for the Electronics and In- strumentation Division of Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation in Waltham. He will be responsible for all advertising and soles promotion for the company's brood line of strain gages, materials testing equipment, and associated instrumenta- tion. He moves to BLH from Raytheon, where he was Supervisor of Advertising and Sales Promo- tion for the Commercial Equipment Division. tFobion Bochrach photo) George Butsika has been appointed Su- pervisor of Workers' Education and Ex- tension Lecturer in Labor Relations in the University of Rhode Islands General Ex- tension Division. From 1955 to 1957, he was a Research Coordinator and Lecturer in the Labor Management Institute of the University of Connecticut. Bob Murphy, member of the Henry Lord Junior High School Faculty in Fall River and basketball-baseball coach at that school, took on some added duties this past winter. He was named hoop aide to Coach Luke Urban at Durfee High in that city. Bob was a member of the first team Coach Urban led into an Eastern Massa- chusetts Tech Tourney back in 1945. Since he took over the baseball and basketball reins at Henry Lord, Bob has produced winners in both sports. His boys brought the school its first basketball crown in 15 seasons a year ago. Henry F. Shea, Jr., is serving as Staff Assistant to the Vice-President of Mon- santo Japan Ltd., Tokyo. Japan. He is residing at 133, Yamate-cho, Naka-ku, Yokohama, Japan. 1952 Leo R. Murphy, Jr., opened his law office in January at 1985 Smith St., Centerdale, R. I. In December, he received his dis- charge from the Marine Corps, after serv- ing for two years as an instructor at the Marine Corps Institute in Washington, D. C, teaching classes in Military Justice. Dr. Alan E. Besas has announced the opening of an office for the practice of orthodontics at 1091 Post Rd., Darien, Conn. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Dentistry. Thomas F. O'Brien received his Master of Arts degree from Western Reserve at its winter commencement on Jan. 31. 1953 The Rev. Alden R. Burhoe, Curate at St. Martin's Church, Providence, has been appointed Episcopal Scout Chaplain for Rhode Island. He succeeded the Rev. He- bert Bolles '46, who went to the Cathedral at Indianapolis. Penn Westman is Vice-President of the National Accounts System, Inc., with offices in Chicago, Waukegan, and Aurora. He formerly was Merchandising Manager for hospital products with Bauer & Black, Chicago. 2nd Lt. Joseph L. Tauro is stationed at the Nike base at Lorton, Va. He was ad- mitted to the Massachusetts Bar in October. 1956, two weeks before he entered the service. Richard Leonard was presented in a program of piano music at a Neighbors' Day meeting of the Southbridge (Mass.) Women's Club in January. A pupil of Heinrich Gebhardt of Boston, he has played with the Providence Symphony Or- chestra and the Boston Pops. He also has done concert work throughout New Eng- land and last summer made a European tour. Stanley J. Skypeck has been named to the teaching staff in Chicopee, Mass. 1954 David N. Orth will enter the Medical School at Vanderbilt in September. He was also accepted at both Michigan and Mc- Gill, but decided to "stay here in Nashville both because Vandy's a fine school and because it will be easier for Ann, who is busy caring for our two-month-old son, John Randall." He attended summer school APRIL 1958 21 at Michigan last year and was top man in three of the five courses he took there. J. David Perrine represented Brown at the inauguration of Dr. Richard A. Mc- Lemore of Mississippi College, Clinton, Miss., on March 19. 1955 When Robert F. Cahill was released from the Army last October, he enrolled in a four-month training course in group insurance at Aetna Life Insurance Com- pany's home oflSce in Hartford. He ex- pected to be assigned to the Boston office this spring. William Fletcher received training at Aberdeen Proving Ground as Assistant Field Director for the American Red Cross. He was discharged from the Navy last fall. 1st Lt. Charles B. Naylor, III, is com- mander of an Honest John firing battery in the 634th Field Artillery Rocket Battalion of the 2nd U. S. Army Missile Command at Fort Hood. Tex. Bob Popp is stationed at Brook Army Hospital, San Antonio, serving as a Clin- ical Psychology Technician. He enjoys this position, especially as it is giving him valu- able experience in a field in which he hopes to continue as a civilian. However, in July Bob expects to part company with the Army — amiably! Neale Peterson is working as a Voca- tional Rehabilitation Counselor at the Re- habilitation Center. Inc., Louisville, Ky. He moved there last fall after completing his requirements for his Master of Education degree at Springfield College. He is taking some part-time graduate courses at the University of Louisville. 1st Lt. Jim Pendergast, after graduating from Navigation School at Ellington AFB last March, went to Randolph AFB in San Antonio for combat crew training. Now he's a "Yankee" again, being stationed at Pease AFB, Portsmouth, N. H. LTJG John W. Fuller is on destroyer duty on board the USS Hyman in the Mediterranean. Bob Borah is employed with the Con- necticut General Life Insurance Co.. Bloomfield, Conn. A close friend of his, Dick Stephenson '57, also is with that company. 1st Lt. Harry Josephson went through combat training with Jim Pendergast and also through navigation school in Texas. Now, however, Harry is stationed in Mis- souri. Ed Kincade and Gary Wilson are to- gether at Mather AFB, Sacramento, Calif. LTJG Bob "Buzz" Jenney expects to be leaving the Navy in September, in time to be back at Brown for the next school year. His latest duty has had him in Florida. John Aldrich, discharged from the Navy last June, is teaching school at the new Rogers High School in Newport. He is living in Providence, however, while his wife finishes up her Senior year at the Rhode Island School of Design. Tom Fitzgerald, stationed at Fort Hood, Tex., has been able to spend some time in Houston, "a fast-growing, progressive city." Your Regional Secretary is flying F9F-8 Congors for Attack Squadron 106 at the Naval Air Station, Cecil Field, Fla. 1 was fortunate to receive a special award in February for over-the-shoulder bombing while in Cuba. Nick Ruwe is employed by Petroleum Consultants of Houston, Tex., a concern which does geological and engineering studies of oil and gas fields. HARRY DEVOE Regional Secretary 1956 John W. Mogayzel has been serving as an instructor in the Biochemistry Section of the Army Medical Service School in San Antonio and manages to take some evening studies in San Antonio College as well. About to finish his tour of duty with the Army, he looks forward to returning to Brown in the fall. He had qualified for his teaching duties as the result of labora- tory research he carried on with a chemical firm while an undergraduate. Joseph Solimine, Jr., has accepted an assistantship in the English Department at the University of Rhode Island. He also had been accepted at Brown for his Mas- ter's in Teaching. Mike Schaughency is working for IBM at its Endicott. N. Y., plant. He took eight weeks of schooling there, and now he is working on the final test of a new electronic computer. Vince Alsfeld is working as a salesman for Smith-Corona, Inc., Providence. Rudy King is with Ryerson Steel in Chi- cago and is living in Evanston. Bill Moberger has been appointed Adver- tising Product Manager for the breakfast cereal Kix. He is working out of the general office of General Mills in Minneapolis. Bill Westcott is stationed in Philadel- phia on a special assignment with the Army. Phil Hamilton is with the Hamilton Awning Co. in Beaver, Pa. Another classmate in that state is Dean Hottle, managing the Shoemaker Hotel in the town of Somerset. Your Secretary has a new address, and your cards and letters should be sent to 822 Oakland, Ann Arbor, Mich. MARVIN WILENZIK 1957 Ens. Don F. Goodwin has been tempo- rarily assigned to the Naval Justice School at Newport. By late spring, he expects to be assigned to the destroyer Borie. Richard B. Mertens is studying for his Master's in City Planning at the Graduate School of Design. Harvard. Joseph B. Fronapfel. Ill, has been named an Assistant Engineer in Allis-Chalmers Regulator Department. Ens. Bud Feuchtwanger will be stationed on the USS Fremont after completing Am- phibious Warfare School this month. Phil Geraghty is serving in Germany with the 2nd Armored Cavalry Division. Yours truly received "the call" from Uncle Sam in February. Until further no- tice, I'd appreciate it if all classmates would send information for this column to Jay Barry. Assistant Editor, Brown Alumni Monthly, Providence 12, R. I. IKE SARGON Bureau of Vital Statistics MARRIAGES 1939 — Barnard C. Luce, Jr., and Miss Nona West, daughter of Mrs. Catherine Kraus of New York City and the late Mr. Arthur Kraus, Jan. 17. 1949 — Norman S. Mayberg and Miss Lila Stern of Staten Island, N. Y., in October. Marshall M. Eisenberg '49 was best man. Ushers included Albert J. Jacobs '49 and Allan W. Sydney '49. At home: 3444 Superior Park Drive, Cleveland Heights 18. 1952— William R. Hillbrant and Miss Sharon L. Lanning. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Reggie T. Lanning of Van Nuys, Calif., Feb. 1. 1952— Gilbert H. Kelley and Miss Mary King, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl C. King of Islip, L. I., N. Y., Jan. 18. 1953 — Paul J. Grimes, Jr., and Miss Katherine H. Alexander, daughter of Rear Adm. and Mrs. Ralph C. Alexander of Washington, D. C, Feb. 8. Father of the groom is Paul J. Grimes '18. 1953 — Preston T. Stephenson, Jr., and Miss Joan G. Wood, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold S. Wood of Marblehead, Feb. 15. Ushers included John Roberts '52 and Reginald Smithwick '53. Father of the groom is '21. 1954 — Sanford L. Hollander and Miss Roslyn T. Turkin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chaskel Turkin of Jamaica Estates North, N. Y., Feb. 16. 1955 — Lt. Richard H. Brodeur and Miss Marilyn S. Graves, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry O. Graves of Waltham, Mass., Jan. 25. 1956 — Barry H. Gottehrer and Miss Ju- dith L. Loeffler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sigfried Loeffier of New York City, Jan. 19. Lawrence M. Klein '56 was best man. Ushers included Albert Miller '56, Barry Lowen '57 and Fred Behringer "57. 1957— 2nd Lt. Richard W. Miller, USAF, and Miss Nancy J. Fay, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph F. Fay of Newton- ville, Mass., Feb. 22. 1957— Richard J. Sklar and Miss Carole H. Offenberg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel F. Offenberg of Jamaica Estates, L. I., in January. 1957 — Bruce D. Yeutter and Miss Mari- lyn E. Mapes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Mapes of West Caldwell, N. J., Feb. I. John J. Roe, III, '57 was best man. Ushers included G. Donald Newman '55. The bride is Pembroke '57. BIRTHS 1938— To Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Cain, III, of Detroit, their fifth child and second daughter, Carol, Feb. 5. 1939— To Mr. and Mrs. Clinton T. Taylor, Jr., of Chatham, Mass., their first child, a daughter, Elizabeth Regina, May 25. 1945 — To Dr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Corcoran of Springfield, Mass., a daughter, Susan, Jan. 24. Dr. George B. Corcoran '06 is a grandfather. 1945— To Mr. and Mrs. Walter D. Ewing, Jr., of Louisville. Ky., their fourth child and second son, Peter Liberton, Nov. 11. 1945 — To Mr. and Mrs. Austin K. Hines of Valley Falls, R. I., a daughter, Carol Anne, Feb. 2. 1946— To Dr. and Mrs. Justin I.. Rich- man of Newton Highlands, Mass., their first child, a daughter, Donna Richman, Feb. 7. 1947 — To Mr. and Mrs. Alan Atkinson, 22 BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY Jr., of Johnston, R. I., a daughter, Wendy-Jo, Feb. 6. 1947— To Mr. and Mrs. William J. Lyons of Charlotte, N. C, their second daughter, Lynda Jane, May 20. 1947— To Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Wil- kins of Randolph, Mass., a daughter, Pa- tricia Louise, Feb. H. 1949 — To Mr. and Mrs. Norman J. lacuele of Cranston, R. L, twin daughters, Lynn Beth and Lori Anne, Feb. 12. 1950— To Dr. and Mrs. Bernard J. Ber- stein of Providence, a son, Jason Alan. Jan. 5. 1950 — To Mr. and Mrs. Lewis D. Emer- son, Jr., of North Palm Beach Village, Fla.. their second child, a son, David Dexter, Aug. 25. 1950— To Mr. and Mrs. Alfred D. Lally of Dallas, their first child, a daughter, Jean. June 3. 1950— To Mr. and Mrs. William L. Mil- ligan, Jr.. of Haddonfield, N. J., their third child, a daughter, Carol Ann, Dec. 24. 1950 — To Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Morse of Thompsonville, Conn., their sec- ond daughter, Elizabeth Anne, May 16. 1950— To Mr. and Mrs. Ronald A. Sammis of Waukesha. Wise, their first child, a son, Jeffrey Atkinson, Dec. 24. 1950— To Mr. and Mrs. Donald H. Spalding of Pullman, Wash., their second daughter. Donna Jane. Jan. 23. 1951— To Mr. and Mrs. Roland H. Dunlop of East Longmeadow, Mass., their third child and second daughter, Jane Leslie. Nov. 16. 1952— To Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Frank of Beverly, Mass., a son, Ralph Stuart, Jan. 26. 1952 — To Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Trav- erse of Amherst, Mass., a daughter, Maria Dolores, July 23. 1952— To Mr. and Mrs. Porter S. Wood-, of Portland. Ore., a son, Timothy Erick- " Development" The c.\rd said: "The Donald L. Saunders Real Estate Co. announces its newest development — Lisa Meeds Saunders." Don was listed as "gen- eral contractor," while Ginger was named as "decorator." Both are 1957 at Brown, where Mrs. Saunders was Virginia Weisman. The grandpar- ents were mentioned as "sidewalk superintendents." The date: Feb. 15, "Inspection invited," the announce- ment concluded. "Be sure to see Boston's newest and finest at 205 Valentine St., Newton 65." To another card, from the R. Whitney Goffs of Chepachet, there was attached a shiny new penny. "We have increased our assets," the legend said. Inside one learned that their new baby, born in Providence on Feb. 23, is named Penny Jean. Whit is '45, while his wife, the for- mer Jean Rees, is Pembroke '44. son, Jan. 25. Mrs. Woods is the former Gail Erickson, Pembroke '54. 1953— To Mr. and Mrs. Donn H. Worth of Bristol, Conn., their second daughter, Kathryn Hamilton, Feb. 3. 1955— To Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Atkinson, II, of Gouverneur, N. Y.. their second child and second daughter. Wendy Lee, Dec. 19. 1955— To LTJG and Mrs. John W. Fuller of Middletown, R. I., a son. Scott Wesley, Feb. 12. Mrs. Fuller is the former Anne C. Clowes. Pembroke '54. 1955 — To Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Silver- man of Cranston, R. I., a son, Earle Charles, Feb. 18. In Memoriam CHARLES WALTER LOW '99 in Brock- ton, Mass., Feb. 10. A former Paymaster and Cost Manager for the M. A. Packard Co., he had been in retirement for 31 years. He was a member of the Brockton Credit Men's Association, the Brockton Commercial Club, and the council of the University Club of Brockton. He was associated with the Boy Scouts of Amer- ica as a member of the District Court of Honor. Herbert C. Low '01 is a brother and Davis P. Low '33 a nephew. Theta Delta Chi. MICHAEL SHELLEY BRENNAN '00 in Chicago, Feb. 2. A civil engineer, he re- tired in 1943 as Commissioner of Build- ings for the city of Chicago. He had also been associated with the Illinois Central Railroad and the Reclamation Service of the Federal Government as assistant en- gineer and inspector. Phi Kappa. LOUIS MILLENS BURT '00 in Garden City, N. Y., Jan. 30. His retirement in December as Building Manager of the American Fore Group ended 36 years of service with this organization. He had also held the position of Building Man- ager with the Plaza, Flatiron and White- hall Buildings in New York City. He was a member of the New York Real Estate Board. Theta Delta Chi. RAY FORREST KNOWLTON 02 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Jan. 21. Retiring in 1955 from the Educational Department of the J. B. Lippincott Company, Pub- lishers, of Philadelphia, after 33 years' service, he moved to Florida. Prior to entering the publishing field, he had been a teacher in Sutton, N. H., Staten Island, and Philadelphia. He was a former Presi- dent and Secretary of the Brown Club of Philadelphia. He had been President of the Pennsylvania Educational Sales- men's Club, a member of the Profes- sional Bookmen of America and the New Jersey and Pennsylvania Bookmen's Clubs. Phi Delta Theta. FRED JUDSON COX '03 in Perth Am- boy, N. J., Feb. 8, after a brief illness. Since 1930 he had been President of Boynton Brothers & Co., an insurance agency in Perth Amboy which he had joined as a junior partner shortly after graduation from Brown. A Fellow of the Insurance Institute of America, he was a former President of the National Association of Insurance Agents and the New Jersey Association of Insurance Agents. He was active in bringing about laws regulating insurance rates and com- missions and the licensing of insurance- rating groups in New Jersey. A Past President of the Board of Trustees of the Perth Amboy Public Library, he was also an amateur musician, a pianist and church organist. Phi Delta Theta. EDWARD FERDINAND DELABARRE '07 in Conway, Mass., Jan. 19, 1958. A special student in 1903-04, he returned to Conway after leaving Brown, and was General Manager of Conant & Donelson Co. in that town at time of his retire- ment. In 1917 he married Miss Mathilda Davidson, who survives. Sigma Nu. THE RT. REV. PETER AUGUSTINE FOLEY '08 in Pawtucket, Jan. 31. At- tending St. Charles College in Baltimore for a year, he was sent to the American College in Louvain, Belgium, where he was ordained in 1911. On his return to Providence, he was appointed to the Ca- thedral of SS. Peter and Paul as Chancel- lor of the Diocese and in 1921 as Rector of the Cathedral. He was invested as Domestic Prelate with the title of Mon- signor in 1929. From 1933 until his death, he served as Pastor of St. Joseph's Church in Pawtucket. E.xtremely inter- ested in the training of the handicapped, he organized and taught at the Society of St. Francis Xavier for the Deaf. He acted as chairman of the first session of the Rhode Island Seminar on Human Relationships held at Brown in 1931. In 1935 he was director of the Providence Diocesan Pilgrimage to the Seventh Na- tional Eucharistic Congress in Cleveland. DR. JOSEPH EDWIN OSLIN '10 in Brookline, Mass., Jan. 15. Graduating from Harvard Medical School in 1915. he was appointed Director of Boston Laboratories. In 1921 he organized the Physicians' Clinical Laboratory, operat- ing it until his death. He was a Past President of the Wrentham Sportsmen's Association and a Secretary of the Com- monwealth Gun Club. He was a 32nd de- gree Mason. Lambda Chi Alpha. A brother is WilHam H. Oslin '14. JOSEPH TIMOTHY WITHEROW '11 in Pawtucket, Feb. 11. Noted for his lengthy association with the Pawtucket Bar, he was often referred to as the founder and dean of that association. Receiving his LL.B. from the University of Michigan in 1914, he set up practice in Pawtucket. He was elected to the R. I. House of Representatives in 1916, serv- ing four years. For 25 years he was chairman of the nominating committee of the Pawtucket Bar. At a dinner given in his honor last April by 60 Blackstone Valley lawyers, he was cited as "an hon- est, able, conscientious, and dignified practitioner of the law, and a father of the Pawtucket Bar Association." He was also an authority on American history. Phi Kappa. LISTON BARTLETT SWEET 19 in Oak- land, R. I., Feb. 21. A lifelong resident of Rhode Island, he had been a dairy farmer. CHARLES REGINALD PHILLIPS '20 in Portland, Me., Dec. 31. A former Presi- dent of the Brown Club of Western Maine, he was a Sales Representative for the P & F Corbin Division, American Hardware Corporation in New Britain, Conn. Clayton L. Phillips '16 is a brother. Phi Sigma Kappa. APRIL 1958 23 ^Harvard College Library ICambridge 38, (.Massachusetts Kcprhitcd from "American Higher Educatiou enclosed herein. J95S" You serve best by giving NOW to the BROWN UNIVERSITY FUND!