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BROWN 

ALUMNI MONTHLY 



MAY 

1958 




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'^ARVARD^ 
UNIVERSITY 

LIBRARY 
\ MAY 2 11958 



The Week End 
of Commencement 



(Note: In the event of rain, alternate 
arrangements will be in effect for certain 
of the events below. Details are given else- 
where in this issue.) 

U eduesda\. May 2S 
12 noon. Brown Senior Class Outing. 
6:45 p.m. Pembroke College: Senior Din- 
ner. Andrews Hall. 
8:30 p.m. Sock and Buskin Alumni pre- 
sent "The Caine Mutiny Court Mar- 
tial." Faunce House Theater. 



Thtiisday, May 29 

2 p.m. Rehearsal for Graduation. First 
Baptist Meeting House. 

3 p.m. Pembroke Senior Class Outing. 
6:45 p.m. Brown Senior Dinner. Sharpe 

Refectorv. 
8:30 p.m. Sock and Buskin Alumni pre- 
sent "The Caine Mutiny Court Mar- 
tial." Faunce House Theater. 



12:30 p.m. Pembroke College: Alumnae 
Class Luncheons. 

1 p.m. Annual Alumni-Student Sailing Re- 
gatta. Seekonk River, near the Brown 
Boathouse. 

1 to 5 p.m. Alumni Field Day for Alumni 
and their families; Brown Seniors, their 
families, and their guests. Aldrich-Dex- 
ter Field. 

2 p.m. Rehearsal for Graduate School 
Convocation. Sayles Hall. 

2 p.m. The College: Informal Reunion of 
the 50-Plus Classes. Faunce House The- 
ater Lounge. 

4 p.m. Pembroke College: Alumnae Gar- 
den Party. Pembroke Campus. 

6:30 p.m. Pembroke College: Dean's Sup- 
per for the 50- Year Class. Miller Hall. 

6:30 p.m. Pembroke College: Alumnae 
Buffet Supper. Andrews Hall. 

8:30 p.m. Sock and Buskin Alumni pre- 
sent "The Caine Mutiny Court Mar- 
tial." Faunce House Theater. 



Sunday. June 1 

10 to 11:30 a.m. Pembroke College: Con- 
tinental Breakfast for Seniors and their 
guests. Andrews Hall Lounges. 

10 a.m. to 12 noon. Pembroke College: 
Open House. Pembroke Campus. 

3 p.m. Baccalaureate Service. First Baptist 
Meeting House. (The Service will also 
be broadcast to The College Green. ) 

4:15 p.m. The President's Reception. 55 
Power St. 



Monday, June 2 
The 190th Annual Commencement 

7:30 a.m. Informal Breakfast. Sharpe Re- 
fectory. 

8:30 a.m. Commencement Procession will 
form on The College Green. 

9:45 a.m. Graduate School Procession 
will form on The Front Campus. 

10 a.m. Commencement Exercises: 

Sayles Hall: The Graduate School 
Convocation. 

First Baptist Meeting House: Senior 
Orations. The Procession returns to The 
College Green. 

1 1 a.m. Awarding of Baccalaureate Di- 
plomas, Commissions, and Honorary 
Degrees. The College Green. 

1 p.m. Commencement Luncheon. Sharpe 
Refectory. 

1 p.m. The College: Luncheon for the 
50-Plus Classes. Sharpe Refectory. 

1 p.m. Corporation Luncheon for special 
guests. 55 Power St. 

1:45 p.m. Joint Navy and Air Force 
ROTC Coffee Hour and Reception. Ly- 
man Hall. 



Friday, May >0 
1 p.m. 49th Annual Brown Interscholastic 
Track Meet. Brown Field. 

3 to 4 p.m. Pembroke College: Open 
House and Exhibitions. 

4 p.m. "Under the Elms" Exercises (Class 
Day). The College Green. 

5 p.m. Informal Reception by the Deans. 
The College Green. 

6:45 p.m. The Chapel Bell will ring for 
the Alumni Dinner. The meal will be 
served promptly at 7. Annual Meeting 
of the Associated Alumni follows. 
Sharpe Refectory. 

6:45 p.m. Pembroke College: Annual 
Alumnae Dinner. Andrews Hall. 

8:30 p.m. Sock and Buskin Alumni pre- 
sent "The Caine Mutiny Court Mar- 
tial. Faunce House Theater. 

9:00 p.m. Class Night Promenade, fol- 
lowed by the Campus Dance. The Col- 
lege Green and Sayles Hall. (Senior 
Sing on Sayles Hall steps at midnight.) 

Saturday, May ^1 

9:30 a.m. Annual Meeting of the Corpo- 
ration. University Hall. 

10 a.m. Guided Tour of the Campus. As- 
sembly on Faunce House Terrace. 

10:15 a.m. Pembroke College: Annual 
Meeting of the Alumnae Association. 
Alumnae Hall Auditorium. 

10:30 a.m. Phi Beta Kappa: Annual Meet- 
ing of the Rhode Island Alpha, fol- 
lowed by Initiation of newly-elected 
members. Faunce House Theater Lounge. 

1 1 a.m. "An Hour with the Faculty." Up- 
per Manning Hall. Open to the public. 

12:15 p.m. Phi Beta Kappa: Luncheon to 
Initiates. Chancellor's Dining Room. 
Sharpe Refectory. 



BROWN 

ALUMNI MONTHLY 



MAY 

1958 

Vol. LVIII No. 8 



Board of Editors 

Chairmari 

C. Arthur Braitsch '23 

V ice-Chainnan 
George W. Potter '2 1 

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 

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Ill This Issue: 

Commencement Field Day 6 

The Alumni Candidates 8 

Prospectus for a Rink 17 

New York Headquarters 1 

The Rollcall of Reunions 24 

The Brown Clubs Report 30 

Brunonians Far and Near 35 

Small Talk, by Buster 49 



THE COVER PICTURE: The blockprint 
of the First Baptist Meeting House serves 
a double purpose: to call attention to its 
restoration and rededication ( reported on 
page 10) and its readiness for a tradi- 
tional role in the Commencement season. 






Everything Is Ready 

for Brown University's 

Greatest Festival; 

It Will Be the 190th 




COMMENCEMENT 



IF THE YEAR 1958 Carries an official designation in New Eng- 
land as "Yankee Homecoming," what better homecoming 
for a Brunonian than a return to College Hill at Commence- 
ment time? It will be the 190th of annual Commencements 
for Brown University, the climax of the College year for all, 
and the days of reward and celebration for the Senior as he 
takes leave of his undergraduate years. Though there are two 
innovations on the 1958 program at Brown, it is the tradi- 
tional which brings men back. It's their period of reunion — 
this memorable week end from Friday, May 30, to Monday, 
June 2. 

The days will be crowded with incidents of pomp, pleas- 
ure, and sentiment, with nearly 50 Classes planning gatherings 
of varying scope. The major assemblies will be those of 1908, 
50 years out, and 1933, observing the big 25th. Even the 
"off-year" Classes are planning to participate in the Alumni 
Dinner on Friday night. May 30; many will meet informally 
beforehand. 

One addition to the alumni calendar is destined for the 
popularity that should make it a tradition in future: the 
Alumni Field, Day for Brunonians and their families. Seniors 
and their parents, on the newly acquired Aldrich-Dexter 
Field. Of this event, a special story elsewhere gives the de- 
tails. The second major change in custom is the incorpora- 
tion of the Graduate School in the University Commence- 
ment exercises on Monday morning. Advanced degrees will 
be awarded from the same platform where the Seniors receive 
their baccalaureate degrees, on The College Green. The Grad- 
uate School will, however, hold its separate Convocation, in 
abbreviated form, in Sayles Hall while the Seniors are down 
the Hill at the First Baptist Meeting House. 

"The Reunion of Reunions" 
The Alumni Dinner ushers in the reunion period on Friday. 
(Since a slip in the alumni ballot gave the wrong date, we re- 
peat — Friday.) To many, it's the best reunion of them all. 
Under the most agreeable of auspices, it brings together all 
the Brown Classes, wherever they may be bound for their 



own, more intimate hours from then on. Actually, many of 
the reunion men will not be going far afield, for a good num- 
ber of the major "five-year" programs are centered on Col- 
lege Hill, with headquarters in the dormitories. Some alumni 
will even use the West Quadrangle for the first time. In addi- 
tion to the attractiveness of living on the Hill, the new em- 
phasis given to alumni events on Saturday fills in the sched- 
ule for the Campus-based. One such event is "An Hour with 
the Faculty," with its classroom atmosphere in Upper Man- 
ning Hall. 

A year ago the Alumni Dinner Committee introduced a 
streamlined program, which was a popular move. Chairman 
John M. Gross "34 and his associates, Charles E. Trowbridge, 
Jr., '51 and Bruce L. Williamson '49, are following that prec- 
edent. There will be one speaker — President Keeney, of 
course — and Foster B. Davis, Jr., '39 will do the honors as 
toastmaster as well as President of the Associated Alumni, 
sponsors of this "reunion of reunions." The heavy advance 
sale promises a record turnout. There will be seating by 
Classes for those who purchase their tickets in good season. 
(Although the generous facilities of the Sharpe Refectory 
impose no serious limitation on the size of the crowd, there 
are preferential locations.) 

Come Early for Handshakes 

You'll do well to turn up for the dinner at 6:30, when 
handshake time can be enjoyed to best advantage. The Chapel 
Bell will ring at 6:45 to bring the diners to their places for 
the banquet, which will be served at 7. 

A feature of the program will be the presentation of Brown 
Bear Awards to alumni whose service to the University has 
been outstanding. (Their identification as recipients of the 
coveted trophies will be a secret guarded until the moment of 
their introduction.) Gordon E. Cadwgan '36, Chairman of the 
Brown University Fund, will have his report on the status of 
that annual-giving campaign. A spectacular announcement is 
also expected from the Class of 1933, which picked up the 




BACCALAUREATE 

Preacher; the Rev. Dr. 

C. W. Cronford. 

(Photo by Brooks) 



GRADUATE SCHOOL 

Speaker: Dr. Perry 

Miller of Harvord. 

(Photo by Koby) 




challenge of 1931 and 1932, whose reunion gifts broke all 
records. 

Checks for the evening should be made payable to "Brown 
Alumni Dinner" (tickets are $3.50). The coupon on the 
back cover of this issue will prove handy for reservations, for 
those who have not already used the slip enclosed with their 
alumni ballots. The dinner menu provides an option of roast 
sirloin of beef or lobster Newburg. Adjournment by 9:30 is 
assured — a point of interest to those taking their wives to 
the Campus Dance. 

President Keeney's appearance as a speaker will be his 
second that night, for he will be on the program of the Pem- 
broke Alumnae Dinner earlier. Until last year, the Alumnae 
Dinner was held on Saturday evening, but many Pembrokers 
pointed out that they were now included in the invitations 
for the reunion dinners which their husbands would be at- 
tending. The experiment in 1957 was a successful one. 

Because of the interest in additions to the plant at Brown, 
notably the West Quadrangle and the Walter Hunter Psy- 
chology Laboratory, there will be Campus tours on Saturday 
morning at 10. West Quad is finishing its first year of oc- 
cupancy as a dormitory, while the Hunter Lab should be 
open for its first public inspection by that date. 

In 1956, at the instigation of the Class of 1931, a new 
feature was added to the Saturday morning program: "An 
Hour with the Faculty." Repeated with a similar format last 
June, the event now takes its place as a popular fixture. Two 
speakers, one from the Humanities and one from the Sciences, 



have been paired each year to speak to this adult audience, 
bracketing general interest with a touch of the academic. 
When parents of the 1958 graduates were asked to indicate 
their interest in various events of the week end, this hour 
commanded a high preference. The general public is also in- 
vited, of course. The 1958 speakers will be: Prof. Henry Ku- 
cera. Modern Languages, "The Soviet Intellectual Challenge," 
and Prof. Robert Morse, Physics, "Science and a University." 
The Alumni President will introduce the two members of the 
Faculty to their Commencement "class." 

The big social event of the week end, of course, will be 
the Class Night Promenade and Campus Dance on The Col- 
lege Green, a natural complement of the Alumni and Alum- 
nae Dinners on that Friday evening. The Commencement 
program also highlights the "Under the Elms" exercises on 
Friday afternoon, the Baccalaureate Service on Sunday after- 
noon, and the President's Reception, which follows in the 
garden of his home at 55 Power St. 

The Baccalaureate Preacher 

The President of the American Baptist Convention will be 
the preacher at the 1958 Baccalaureate Service in the First 
Baptist Meeting House Sunday afternoon at 3. The Rev. 
Dr. Clarence W. Cranford, Pastor of the Calvary Baptist 
Church in Washington, D. C, was a recent visitor to the So- 
viet Union, where he spoke before some 2000 Russian Bap- 
tists. (Mrs. Cranford, who accompanied him, also spoke.) 

A Trustee of Crozer Seminary and Bucknell University, he 
is also Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Storer College. 
A Bucknell graduate in 1929 and holder of an honorary D.D. 
from his Alma Mater, he received his B.D. from Crozer in 
1932. While a seminarian, he directed Youth Work at the 
Baptist Temple in Philadelphia for two years. His first pas- 
torate was also in Philadelphia, at Logan Baptist Church from 
1932 to 1938. After four years at the Second Baptist Church 
in Richmond, Va., he moved to his present pastoral duties 
in 1942. He is a Past President of the Washington Federa- 
tion of Churches. He is the author of "Taught by the Mas- 
ter" (1956), "Seekers of Life," "The Devotional Life of 
Young People," and "The Devotional Life of Christian Lead- 
ers." He is a current contributor to Missions, Altar Fires, 
Open Windows, and International Sunday School Lessons. 

Traditionally, the First Baptist Church invites a Baptist 
minister who is a Brown graduate to preach at the regular 
morning service of the congregation on Commencement Sun- 
day. This year's preacher will be the Rev. Dr. Gordon E. 
Bigelow '24, Pastor of the Henderson Memorial Church in 
Farmington, Me. His presence, plus interest in the newly 
renovated Meeting House, will attract many Brunonians to 
this service. 

The address at the Graduate Convocation this year (at its 
new hour on Monday morning) will be given by Dr. Perry 
Miller, Professor of American Literature at Harvard. His 
special field of scholarship has been the New England writers, 
from the Colonials to the Transcendentalists, an interest re- 
vealed in such books as "Orthodoxy in Massachusetts," "The 
Puritans," "The New England Mind," "Jonathan Edwards," 
"The Transcendentalists," and "Errand into the Wilderness," 
the last in 1956. 

A graduate of the University of Chicago in his native city, 
he received his Ph.D. there in 1931 and added an honorary 
M.A. from Harvard four years after joining its Faculty. He 
has been a full Professor since 1946. He held a Guggenheim 
Fellowship in 1936-37 and was a Lecturer in American Stud- 
ies at the University of Leyden in 1 949-50. He is a member of 
the Modern Language Association, the Antiquarian Society, 
the Massachusetts Historical Society, and the Colonial So- 
ciety of Massachusetts. 

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For more than a century, the Brown Seniors have cele- 
brated on Class Day. Whether under that name or under the 
more current designation of "Under the Elms," the exercises 
have a colorful tradition. The Class of 1958 has asked Prof. 
George Boas '13, emeritus member of the Faculty at Johns 
Hopkins University, to be the speaker "for the alumni." His 
topic: "Some Educational Superstitions." When he retired 
a year ago, he closed out a teaching career of 42 years, 36 
of them at Johns Hopkins, but retirement has meant only 
more activity. With the aid of a Guggenheim fellowship, he 
has been engaged in research and writing in his joint interests 
of the History of Philosophy and Aesthetics. The Seniors 
may count on hearing a stimulating talk from this member 
of the 45-year Class. He will share the platform on The Col- 
lege Green with President Keeney and Seniors designate. 

A Reunited Graduation 

The vote to bring back the Graduate School into the gen- 
eral graduation exercises this year was prompted by the de- 
sire to emphasize in public its University relationship. Since 
the other two units in the University (The College and Pem- 
broke College) take part in the Monday morning ceremony 
on The College Green, it has been felt that the third should 
also be given more than token recognition. The candidates 
for advanced degrees will therefore receive them just after 
the Seniors and from the same platform. 

In place of the Saturday afternoon Convocation which the 
Graduate School has held for several years, there will be a 
speaking program in Sayles Hall Monday morning during 
the period when the Seniors are in the Meeting House. The 
new procedure will follow this outline: Band music on the 
Green will signal the formation of the regular Commencement 
Procession at 8:30 — 15 minutes earlier than usual. The Chief 
Marshal will be Dr. Robert W. Burgess "08, Director of the 
Federal Census Bureau, back to observe the 50th anniversary 
of his graduation. The duties of Chief of Staff for the Proces- 
sion have been assumed again by the experienced Walter 
Adler T8. 

As the Chapel Bell rings its summons, the familiar Com- 
mencement March of Wally Reeves will set the cadence for 
the swing around the Campus, through the outswung Van 
Wickle Gates, and down the Hill to the First Baptist Meeting 
House, awaiting in its renovated splendor to be hospitable 
to the graduates in its ancient fashion. As has been the custom 
since the War, the Senior Orations will be delivered there 
(by David N. EUenhorn and Irene J. Westing), and the grad- 
uates will be informed by President Keeney of their impend- 
ing diplomas. The physical transfer of the latter will take 
place when the entire company has returned to the hilltop. 




FOR THE ALUMNI: 

Dr. George Boas '13 

will be a principol 

"Under the Elms." 



Meanwhile, Back oti the Hill 

In the meantime, the Graduate School Procession will have 
formed on the Front Campus at 9:45. A band will return 
from Benefit St. to provide music for the Graduate Procession 
to Sayles Hall. Participating will be a representative of the 
Chief Marshal and some aides. Prof. Curt J. Ducasse will be 
the Faculty Marshal, with aides. The Dean of the Graduate 
School, Dr. R. B. Lindsay '20, two Fellows, two Trustees, and 
two representatives of each Department offering graduate in- 
struction will be with the group in the Procession and in 
Sayles Hall for the 10 o'clock exercises there. The Senior 
Fellow will act for the President. (All others will go to the 
Meeting House.) The Graduate School company will have 
found seats on The College Green by the time the others 
come back. 

The address by Prof. Perry Miller before the Graduate 
Convocation in Sayles Hall will also be broadcast to the audi- 
ence on The College Green. Those who wish to hear the 
Senior Orations may do so by going to Upper Manning, 
Alumnae Hall, and various portions of Faunce House. 

There will follow for all the more personal moments of 
the graduation exercises outdoors, including diplomas for the 
Seniors, hoods for the graduate students, commissions for the 
ROTC graduates, and the 1958 allotment of honorary de- 
grees as voted by the Board of Fellows. 

In the event of rain, the candidates for advanced degrees 
will assemble in Alumnae Hall at 8:45 a.m. and remain there 
for their exercises at 9. According to this alternative plan. 
President Keeney would be able to attend the Graduate School 
Convocation and award the advanced degrees there in a sep- 
arate ceremony. He would leave in time to arrive at the 
Meeting House for the exercises which, under rainy conditions, 
would be held there. 

80 More Seniors Than Last Year 

The prospect is that there will be 713 Seniors graduating, 
about 80 more than in 1957 — 537 men and 176 women. The 
number, as has been the case in recent Junes, is far too large 
for families and friends to witness the exercises if they were 
confined within the Meeting House. 

Three years ago, the Sock and Buskin Alumni met a need 
by presenting a Commencement production in Faunce House 
Theater. The engagement has been so well received that, in 
its fourth year, it is now a popular fixture of the season. This 
year the choice is the dramatic success, "The Caine Mutiny 
Court Martial," now in rehearsal under Prof. James Barnhill's 
direction. The attraction is booked for four evening perform- 
ances, starting Wednesday, May 28. While the Sock and 
Buskin season has many subscribers, there is opportunity 
for others to attend the Alumni Show; reservations should 
be made directly at the Faunce House Theater Box Office, 
at $1.50 each. All curtains are at 8:30, including that of Fri- 
day evening, when many wives will be playgoers while the 
men are at the Alumni Dinner. 

The principal roles in the play will be taken by Brenton 
G. Meader '39, J. Wilbur Riker, Jr., '47, Henry C. Hart, Jr., 
'35, Walter H. Covell '38, and Robinson O. Bellin '32. The 
set will be by Kenneth M. Harlowe '25, with lighting by Her- 
bert B. Barlow, Jr., '46 and Paul S. Shelton '41. 

Another event which has annually found favor with spec- 
tators is the annual Alumni-Undergraduate Regatta on the 
Seekonk River. The sailing races start and finish near the 
Brown Boathouse at the foot of Angell St. The competition 
on Saturday afternoon continues an old rivalry, and both 
teams this year will have some good skippers in their lineups. 
Alumni enthusiasts are welcomed to the Boathouse to the 
limit of easy capacity, but anyone may readily follow the 
action from the river parkway. 



MAY 1958 



The "Campus Dance" on Friday night has developed into 
a large, handsome, and very gay party as it holds its traditional 
spot on the Commencement schedule. For the older alumni, 
the reunion opportunities at table are as attractive as the 
dance-floor, but they are bound to be caught up in the festival 
spirit. This year the Senior Committee is permitting the ad- 
vance sale of stag tickets as a special alumni accommodation. 

On the night of the Dance, the admission will be $5.00 per 
couple, payable at the gates (either at Faunce House Arch- 
way or at the John Nicholas Brown Gate, near the John 
Carter Brown Library on George St.). However, tickets 
bought in advance by the alumni will cost only $4.00. Stag 
tickets at S3.50 may be bought in advance or at the gate. The 
sole point of distribution for the advance sale this year is the 
Brown Union Office on the second floor (east) of Faunce 
House. Any alumni group may take tickets on consignment 
by having a representative call in person at the Office. For 
mail orders, checks should be made payable to "1958 Class 
Night Dance" and sent to (appropriately) Box 1958. Brown 
University, Providence 12, R. I. The telephone is UNion 
1-2900, Extension 254. 

For Classes, fraternities, other groups, or private hosts de- 
siring rendezvous for their parties, the committee is again 
making it possible to rent tables. These are scaled in price 
according to the facilities they afford: tables seating up to 8. 
$7; seating 9 to 14 persons, $10; seating 15 to 30, $15. These 
must be reserved well in advance at the Union Office. While 
such reservations may be made by mail or phone, it is prefer- 
able to discuss location in person. No cancellations or refunds 
will be allowed on tickets or tables after 5 p.m. on Wednes- 
day, May 28. As in the past, the members of the 50-Year- 
Class, this year 1908, will be the guests of the Seniors, who 
provide tickets of admission and tables for the group; the 
same courtesy is extended to the Class of 1908 at Pembroke. 

The Abundance of Friday 

Always a spectacular, light-hearted occasion for undergrad- 
uates and alumni alike, the Campus Dance looks gayer than 
ever in prospect this year. The interest of Reunion Classes 
appears greater, as is the case with the Alumni Dinner which 
precedes it. More Classes are developing the pleasant custom 
of arranging dinners elsewhere for the wives while the men 
attend the Reunion of Reunions at the Refectory. The women 
have also liked the Sock and Buskin play the last three years, 
the period of this added feature. This is over seasonably to 
allow all to join forces for the Dance later. 

The Class Night Promenade will begin at 9, with dancing 
to start at 10, lasting until 2 a.m. Ralph Stuart and his or- 
chestras will furnish the music on The College Green in the 
open air and indoors in Sayles Hall. In the event of rain, 
Lyman Hall, Upper Manning, and the Faunce House Art 
Gallery will be available as well as Sayles. Lounge facilities in 
West Quad are also contemplated if the weather is not pro- 
pitious outdoors. Checking facilities arc provided in Faunce 
House and Sayles. 

The Commencement Luncheon on Monday has grown to 
be a great family party for everyone. When the Sharpe Refec- 
tory was opened after the war, the Luncheon was instituted 
as a convenience to all. Now, however, it has become a real 
event on its own, with great reunion possibilities. Although 
there is no formal program of any sort connected with it, the 
Luncheon provides a meeting for all — members of the Fac- 
ulty, the new graduates, their families and friends, the alumni, 
and their guests. With the augmented graduation this year, 
the Luncheon timing is likely to be somewhat later. Directly 
afterwards, the Navy and Air Force ROTC units hold a coffee 
hour and reception for the newly commissioned officers and 
their guests in Lyman Hall. And then it's all over! 



SOMETHING FOR SATURDAY 



Alumni Field Day 



COMMENCEMENT Week End will feature a spectacular new 
event this year: the Alumni Field Day at the Aldrich- 
Dexter Field Saturday afternoon. May 31, from 1 to 5. Its 
basic purpose is to provide an all-inclusive activity and gather- 
ing point for all alumni and their families at that time, tying in 
with other reunion plans which more and more have their 
center on College Hill. The Association of Class Secretaries 
is sponsoring the affair, and most five-year Classes are joining 
in wholeheartedly. In addition to the fun of seeing every- 
body, alumni will enjoy their first official look at the old 
Dexter Asylum, Brown's $1,000,777 purchase. 

The new feature fills a demand for a relaxed family after- 
noon activity on the Saturday of Commencement. The Asso- 
ciation of Class Secretaries, which had been looking into the 
matter for a couple of years, has come up with something 
more than an attractive experiment — it is already tested and 
found to be a great success. A year ago the Classes of 1949, 
1950, and 1951 took over and enlarged on 195rs field format 
of 1956. Banding together they sponsored a "trial run" on a 
smaller scale for the ACS on Thayer Field. Several hundred 
alumni and their families attended that affair, attesting to its 
popularity. Bob Cummings '50 was Chairman, assisted by 
RoUand Jones "49 and Mike Handman '51, all Class Secre- 
taries. 

A year ago the Secretaries' Association toyed with the field 
day idea but lacked time to plan a full-scale program for all. 
Instead, they asked the younger Classes to test the plan, which 
they did. It went over, in fine style. Last February, at its an- 
nual meeting, the Secretaries' Association unanimously en- 
dorsed the idea of sponsoring the Alumni Field Day on an 
annual basis. Frank Hurd '33, Chairman of the 25th Reunion 
Committee, was named General Chairman of Field Day, with 
Cummings (general program) and Jones (physical layout) 
rounding out the committee. The treasury of the Associated 
Alumni is offering financial backing. 

Under the Big and Little Tops 

Most five-year Classes, including the 25th and 50th, have 
indicated that they will participate. Individual multi-colored 
tents or marquees, together with Class banners and pennants, 
have been reserved for their use. In addition to 1908 and 
1933, other five-year classes participating and having tents 
include 1913, 1918, 1923, 1938, 1943, and 1953. A large 
1 00x1 50-foot circus tent will serve as Headquarters. Class 
Tables will be available under the Big Top for use by off-year 
groups and as a meeting place for those classes. The 25th 
Reunion Class will have the use of a 30x60-foot tent nearby. 

Individual Class treasuries are being assessed $25 for the 
initial year. (In future, the Association will shoot for $10 
annually.) These contributions will go toward the purchase 
of tents, 10 of which have been bought. The five-year Classes 
will have the use of a tent without further charge, though a 
few Classes have bought tents outright at $75 each. Two of 
them are ofl-year groups, 1949 and 1950. which plan to use 
the brightly colored marquees at Homecoming and other 
College functions in addition to the Field Days. 

One of the biggest advantages of the Alumni Field Day is 
that it provides the perfect opportunity for off-year classes 
to meet informally without excessive reunion planning. Such 
gatherings, Hurd says, should be a great help in building up 

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the traditional five-year reunions. And, if an alumnus does 
not have any specific Class event scheduled, he still will find 
it enjoyable to drop in with his family for a leisurely after- 
noon of fun and good fellowship. 

There will be something to do for everyone within the 
seclusion of the Aldrich-Dexter walls, although the Committee 
has shied away from any planned schedule, believing that in- 
formality should be the key to this afliair. The older alumni 
may prefer to take advantage of the many tables and chairs 
under and near the Headquarters tent to sit and chat with 
friends they seldom see. For the grown-ups who wish to be 
active and for the older children, there will be such sports as 
soft-ball, volley-ball, and that popular golf game, pitch 'n" putt. 

Plenty for the Children to Do 

The children's activities will be well separated from the 
general area and will be supervised by two representatives 
from the Providence YMCA. Pony rides, one of the highlights 
of the 1956 Field Day, again will be on the agenda, and this 



year there will be a merry-go-round and a fire engine for the 
youngsters to ride. Potato races and similar events also will be 
run, with prizes for all. Ed Drew '30, prominent Providence 
maestro, will be on hand all afternoon with a fine variety of 
music, from band concert selections to Dixieland. 

There will be no registration fee. "Chits" in the form of 
strip tickets will be sold at the field to purchase food, bever- 
ages, souvenirs, banners, pony rides, etc. The food will be the 
field day type — hamburgs, hot dogs, soda, and beer. No liquor 
will be served, and alumni are requested not to bring any. 
Ample parking will be available inside the Hope St. gate, 
which will serve as the sole entrance. Name cards and a map 
of the area will be presented to alumni as they enter, along 
with free balloons for the children. 

The Alumni Field Day shapes up as a gay and colorful 
aff'air, one that shortly should become another traditional event 
on the annual Brown Commencement Week End program. 
So, plan to come early and stay late and renew, in casual 
fashion, your association with old classmates and friends. 




FOR THE FOURTH YEAR in a row, Brown alumni who ore students at the 
Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration hove, without excep- 
tion, contributed to the Brown University Fund. Brunonions on the Faculty 
joined with them in reaching the 100% goal. In the picture are: front row, 
left to right — Marvin Fiaico '57, Barry Markin '57, Richard M. Smith '55, 
Associate Dean Vernon R. Alden '45, Russell K. Shaffer '54, and James M. 



McSherry 54; second row— Jason C. Becker '50, Robert M. Wigod '54, Robert 
Wals '54, Charles Taylor '57, Howard Wenzel '53, Robert Lundon '53, and 
Henry t. Thompson, Jr., '57. Not pictured are: Prof. John D. Glover '36, 
Prof. Paul W. Cook, Jr., '48, Donald C. Carleton '56, Winsor L. Chose '53, 
Richard M. Coveney '56, and Eugene F. McCulloch, Jr., '56. Becker served as 
Fund Agent. 



$175,000 to Go 



THE Brown University Fund on Apr. 24 passed the 
$425,000 mark on the way to its $600,000 objective, well 
ahead of the total at the same date in 1957. Curiously, the 
number of contributors was lagging behind last year. National 
Chairman Gordon E. Cadwgan '36 said, and workers faced 
the necessity of stepping up the tempo of the annual cam- 
paign in the weeks ahead. Figures show the status of the en- 
terprise: 





Donors 


Dollars 


1957 total 


9,173 


$506,442 


Apr. 24, 1957 


4,867 


294,586 


Apr. 24, 1958 


4,617 


425,016 


MAY 1958 







The 1958 campaign was thus about $130,000 ahead in dol- 
lar-total but behind 150 in the number of contributors. Only 
the substantial increase in the average gift had pushed the 
aggregate so far toward the goal. Two observations were 
made by the Brown University Fund Office: the solicitation 
of "leadership" gifts had been successful; the general solicita- 
tion had been slow in getting under way. The big push was 
on, however, as the large army of Regional and Class Agents 
aimed for the Commencement period and the preliminary an- 
nouncement at the Alumni Dinner. The clean-up operation 
would continue until June 30. 

On March 26 Allen B. Williams, Jr., '40, Executive Direc- 
tor of the Fund, reported to the workers: "If we are to reach 
the $600,000 goal, it will take at least 10,000 donors. Every 
single assignment is important this year, and every single gift 
is needed to reach our objective. Half of the picture is en- 
couraging, but there is a great deal of work ahead of us." 



THE ALUMNI BALLOT: 



Have You Voted? 



NEARLY 28,000 Brunonians last month received the ballot 
which permits them to take part in naming two candi- 
dates for Alumni Trustee. Eligible to vote are Brown men, 
Pembroke women, and holders of graduate degrees. In addi- 
tion, the men were to mark their choices for President-Elect 
of the Associated Alumni, Regional Directors, and a repre- 
sentative on the Athletic Advisory Council. 

Your ballot should reach Alumni House no later than 
noon on May 30 (last postal delivery will be the previous 
day — on account of the holiday). The polls close at mid-day 
so that the tellers may complete the count and results may be 
announced at the Alumni Dinner that night. The Corporation 
of the University will take appropriate action on the Trus- 
tees at its annual meeting the next morning. Actually, of 
course, the Corporation elects all its own members. However, 
acting under a long-standing agreement with the Alumni, the 
Corporation will elect the two candidates for Alumni Trus- 
tee who receive the highest number of votes in the general 
balloting. Such action is conditional upon adequate returns: 
the number voting for Alumni Trustee must be not less than 
259c of the number who hold degrees in course. 

On the ballot this year are five candidates for Alumni 
Trustee, from which two will be selected as replacements for 
Norman S. Case '08 of Wakefield, R. I., and Miami, Fla.; 
and Duncan Norton-Taylor '26 of New York City. For the 
two vacancies which their June retirement will create, the 
Advisory Council of the Associated Alumni nominated the 
following candidates: Wendell B. Barnes '32 of Washington, 
D. C; John S. Chafee '18 and Robert H. Goff '24 of Provi- 
dence; Hubbell Robinson, Jr., '27 of New York City; and 
David H. Scott '32 of Chappaqua, N. Y. 

For the office of President-Elect of the Associated Alumni, 
the two nominees are: C. Manton Eddy '22 of West Hartford 
and John J. Roe, Jr., '27 of Blue Point, N. Y. The man 
chosen will serve on the Board of Directors for one year and 
succeed Foster B. Davis, Jr., '27 of Providence in 1959. To 
represent the alumni on the Athletic Council, three have been 
named: Donald Campbell '45, Dr. Walter F. Jusczyk '41, and 
Earl B. Nichols '43, all Rhode Islanders. The retiring alum- 
nus is Joseph E. Buonanno '34 of Providence. 

Each of the seven alumni Regions chooses its own Direc- 
tors, one a year for a two-year term. This year's list includes 
these candidates: Rhode Island — Shirley Elsbree '25, Bancroft 
Littlefield '34, Irving G. Loxley '27, and Ray B. Owen '30. 
New England, excluding Rhode Island: Charles J. Brown '27 
of Waban, Mass.; Kenneth D. Clapp '40 of Needham, Mass.: 
and John Mozzochi '31 of Glastonbury, Conn. North Atlantic 
Midland Region: Louis F. Demmlcr '31 of Pittsburgh; Samuel 
H. Levy '28 of Elkins Park, Pa.; Edward Pietrusza '40 of 
Morristown, N. J.; Thomas Shotton, Jr., '30 of Washington, 
D. C. South Atlantic Midland Region: Lloyd W. Dennis, Jr., 
'31 of Arlington, Va.; Walter I. Dolbeare '23 of Richmond. 
Va. North Central Region: William R. Kinnaird '31 of Win- 
netka. III.; David T. Murphy '51 of Evanston, III. South Cen- 
tral Region: Henry C. Barksdale '50 of St. Louis; Gen. Wil- 
liam C. Chase '16 of Houston; Kenneth Gordon '34 of Okla- 
homa City. Western Region: Miner T. Patton '32 of Portland, 
Ore.; Douglas M. Stewart '31 of Whittier, Calif. 



Candidates for Alumni Trustee 

As is the case on the ballots, the listing of candidates for 
Alumni Trustee is alphabetical — "without other significance." 

BARNES, an attorney who took his Law degree in 1935 at 
the University of Michigan, is an Oklahoman who has been 
Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration 
since 1953. He is a member of the Defense Mobilization 
Board, the Cabinet Committee on Small Business, and the 
Interagency Committee for the Rural Development Program. 
While in the general practice of law in Tulsa, he was general 
counsel for Douglas Aircraft's Tulsa plant from 1941 to 1946. 
From 1936 to 1939 he served as Assistant Attorney for the 
Oklahoma Tax Commission. A former Treasurer of the Fed- 
eral Bar Association, he was on its National Council from 
1953 to 1957. He served in the Oklahoma House of Repre- 
sentatives for two years. He was President of the Oklahoma 
Brown Club for two years, its Secretary-Treasurer for four; he 
served in the organization for Brown's Housing and Develop- 
ment Campaign as State Chairman. He is currently a member 
of the Board of Directors of the Brown Club in Washington. 
A son is a Brown Freshman. 

CHAFEE is President of Ansonia Wire and Cable Com- 
pany, with years of executive experience in other industries 
previously: Vice-President of Builders Iron Foundry (he is 
currently a Director of B-I-F Industries); Vice-President of 
Metals & Controls Corp.; Executive Vice-President of Saco- 
Lowell Shops; Vice-President of Brown & Sharpe Mfg. Co. 
He is a Past President of the National Machine Tool Builders 
Association. During World War II he was Deputy Director, 
then Director, of the Tools Division, War Production Board; 
in World War 1 he was a member of the French-American 
Ambulance Service and a Field Artillery Lt. He is a Trustee 
of the Butler Health Center. Alumni service has included 
terms as Trustee of the Brown University Fund, Director of 
the Associated Alumni, and Chairman of the Advisory Coun- 
cil Program Committee. 

GOFF, a graduate of Harvard Business School, is Vice- 
President and Director of the Automobile Mutual Insurance 
Company of America and Factory Mutual Liability Insur- 
ance Company of America; Vice-President, Assistant Treas- 
urer and Director of Amica Credit Corp.; Vice-President, 
Assistant Treasurer and Director of the Providence Building 
Company. He is a Director of Nightingale, Baker & Salis- 
bury, Inc., and the Old Colony Cooperative Bank. He is also 
a Trustee of Moses Brown School, a Past President of the 
Providence Society of Financial Analysts, and Chairman of 
the United Fund's Budget Committee. President of his Class, 
he has been a Director and President of the Associated 
Alumni and a Trustee of the University Fund. A son was 
graduated from Brown last June. 

ROBINSON is Executive Vice-President and Director of 
Network Programs for the Columbia Broadcasting System 
and Executive Vice-President of CBS Television. He is TV 
Chairman for the American Heart Association and March of 
Dimes; Vice-President, Trustee, and Governor of the Acad- 
emy of Television Arts and Sciences. As a younger man he 
was a reporter on the Knickerbocker Press, Albany, and the 
Schenectady Union Star. His first contact with the entertain- 
ment world was a reviewer of stage shows for the Exhibitor 
Herald, New York. With Young and Rubicam, he became 
Vice-President in charge of program planning and talent buy- 
ing. He was Vice-President and Director of Programs for the 
Blue Network, now the American Broadcasting Company, and 
Vice-President of Foote, Cone & Belding. He is active in 
alumni affairs, notably as a member of the Board of Gover- 
nors of the Brown University Club in New York. 

SCOTT, a publishing executive, has been Editor-Manager 
of the Bible Department of Harper & Brothers since 1946 



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(he had previously been an Assistant Editor for seven years) . 
After graduation, he was an Instructor in English at Horace 
Mann School for two years, then Assistant to the President of 
Lockwood-Greene, Engineers, for four. A member of the Board 
of Deacons of the Riverside Church in New York City, he 
was President of the Laymen's Movement for a Christian 
World from 1949 to 1952. Chappaqua, his home town, named 
him its "Citizen of the Year" in 1957; he had been active in 
school and civic affairs since 1946. A former President of his 
Class, he was in charge of the record-breaking 25th reunion 
gift it presented last June. He is a former Regional Director 
of the Associated Alumni and was prominent in the Brown 
Housing and Development Campaign and University Fund 
drives; he has been a worker in the alumni program of the 
Admission OfBce. In World War II he was a Navy Lt. His 
father, Albert L. Scott '00, served on the Brown Corporation. 

Nominees for President-Elect 

EDDY, an insurance executive, went with the Connecticut 
General Life Insurance Company upon graduation and is now 
Vice-President and Secretary. National service has included 
membership in the Medical Services Task Force of the Hoover 
Commission and the Commission on Financing Hospital Care. 
He is a member of the Connecticut State Commission on the 



Potentials of the Aging. He is a Fellow of the Society of 
Actuaries and a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi. 
His alumni activities have been centered in the Hartford 
Brown Club. 

ROE is proprietor of two Long Island insurance and real 
estate agencies, John J. Roe and Son, Patchogue, and Weid- 
ner-Mackle Agency, Bellport. Professional honors have in- 
cluded: President of the N. Y. State Association of Insurance 
Agents, Vice-President of the Long Island Real Estate Board, 
Director of the N. Y. State Insurance Federation, and Chair- 
man of the Accident Prevention Committee of the National 
Association of Insurance Agents. He is a Trustee of the 
Union Savings Bank and a Director of the People's National 
Bank, both of Patchogue; and a Trustee of the Mather Me- 
morial Hospital. He was President of the Suffolk County 
Council, Boy Scouts of America, for three years, a charter 
member of Rotary in Patchogue, and Trustee of the Patchogue 
Congregational Church. He has been an officer of the Brown 
Club of Long Island, Regional Vice-President and Director of 
the Associated Alumni, and an alumni representative in the 
Brown admission program. Both sons are Brown undergrad- 
uates. 

As the legend on the ballot says, "It is your privilege and 
duty to exercise your franchise." 



CANDIDATES 
FOR TRUSTEE 

(Two will be named as alumni choices for 
the Brown Corporation) 





BARNES 



CHAFEE 






GOFF 



ROBINSON 



SCOTT 



MAY 1958 



The Days of 
Rededication 

Ceremonies in the Meeting House 
Were Based on a Grand Design 
and Were Joyfully Shared by All 



ITS RENOVATION complete, the First Baptist Meeting House 
in Providence devoted a series of April services to the re- 
dedication of the Congregation, the fabric, the organ, and the 
local and general tradition of its denomination. Implicit in 
many references was the renewal of its hospitality to Brown 
University on Commencement Day. During that season, many 
alumni will have the chance to admire the strength and beauty 
of the restoration. 

The official statement of rededication was made by Alfred 
H. Gurney "07 on Apr. 13 when, as Moderator of the Char- 
itable Baptist Society and on its behalf, he received the sym- 
bolic key to the Meeting House from the Chairman of the 
Committee on Renovation and Preservation, Richard W. 
Billings. The Society is the incorporated body of the First 
Baptist Church in America, charged with the maintenance 
of the Meeting House. "I express their gratification and de- 
light with this occasion," Gurney said, "which recognizes the 
complete renovation of this building through the generosity of 
one known to many here, Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., an 




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alumnus of Brown University, who during his student days 
taught a Bible Class in the Sunday School of this Church." 

"We come together to rejoice in the marvelous renewal of 
this venerable building," he continued. "We are glad to be 
assured by Mr. Billings that the Meeting House will stand 
now for another hundred years. As in the last 183 years, so 
in all the years to come we happily and solemnly rededicate 
this building 'For the publick Worship of Almighty God, and 
also for holding Commencement in.' " 

They Shared in Rededication 

The Congregation, which had used the reconsecrated Vestry 
since last November, returned to the Auditorium for the first 
time on Easter Sunday. Nothing intruded on the Easter wor- 
ship except the delight of being "home." The series of special 
services began the following Sunday morning, Apr. 13, with 
the Congregation rededicating itself first. The Minister, the 
Rev. Homer L. Trickett preached on the text, "This is none 
other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven." It 
was the same text used by the Rev. James Manning for the 
first sermon in the Meeting House in 1775. Among those 
taking part were the Rev. Charles D. Lake '54, Assistant 
Minister; James T. Johnson '60; Clifton W. Bowdoin, Chair- 
man of the Board of Deacons; the Rev. Dr. Earl H. Tomlin 
'18, Executive Secretary of the R. I. State Council of Churches; 
and the Rev. Chris E. Lawson, Executive Secretary of the 
R. I. Baptist State Convention. 

The community was invited to share in the Rededication 
of the Fabric that afternoon. Senator Theodore Francis Green 
'87, Governor Dennis J. Roberts, and Mayor Walter H. Reyn- 
olds brought felicitous greetings, and the Brown University 
Choir Chorale sang under the leadership of Prof. William 
Dinneen, Director of Chapel Music at Brown and Organist 
of the Church. The addresses by President Keeney and John 
Nicholas Brown of the Board of Fellows are printed else- 
where, as are the two citations for honorary degrees, con- 
ferred as a surprise feature. There was a welcome, too, from 
the Moderator of the Church, Walter H. Pilcher. 

"A Monument to Religious Liberty" 
In offering his congratulations and best wishes for the 
people of the State, Governor Roberts said of the Meeting 
House, "Its spire shall rise among the towers of our town as 
a daily reminder that these Providence Plantations were, 
from the very beginnings, placed on the solid foundation of 
religious liberty for all men. Through his extraordinary gift, 
Mr. Rockefeller has not only guaranteed the preservation of 
one of America's most magnificent examples of church archi- 
tecture; he has also recalled for us all the inspiration and 
renewal of values we can obtain from association with the 
times, the events, the places, and the shrines outstanding in 
our history. It would be appropriate and inspiring at any 
period to return to this house of religious worship. The re- 
dedication of this building, however, has an especial signifi- 
cance in this critical hour. By rededicating this living monu- 
ment to religious liberty, we demonstrate that Rhode Island 
is aware and proud of its precious heritage. We focus the 
attention that must ever be given to the delicate balance that 
democracy is required to maintain between law and liberty. 

"May the presence of this famed Church daily renew in us 
all Roger Williams' bold resolve which is inscribed high atop 
the south front of the State House and to which you give 
added meaning by this ceremony today: 'To hold forth a 
lively experiment that a most flourishing civil state may stand 
and best be maintained with full liberty in religious con- 
cernments.' " 

Mayor Reynolds reminded those present that the Meeting 
House had been dedicated in the interval between the Battle 
of Lexington and the Battle of Bunker Hill. "Surely so grand 




THOUGH 183 YEARS OLD, the "Fabric" was newly resplendent. 

a design executed in so perilous a period of history exhibits a 
fine kind of courage and faith and optimism for the future. As 
citizens of Providence we should today consider ourselves 
rededicated also." 

His Prompter Lost His Place 

Senator Green recalled that he had spoken from the Meet- 
ing House platform from time to time on difl'erent occasions. 
"The first time," he said, "was when, upon graduation from 
Brown University, I delivered an 'oration,' so called, on 
Christopher Marlowe and his splendid use of the English 
language. I recall how my fraternity brother stood on the floor 
below me with the manuscript of my speech, and I spied in 
the back of the Church my awe-inspiring father who had 
come in late, though he had assured me he would not be 
there. Luckily, I was not overcome by their presence, although 
at one place in my speech I wandered from the text and 
watched my nervous fraternity brother turning the pages back 
and forth to find my place. At other times since, I have 
spoken here of the past. 

"This is not the first time changes have been made in this 
building," he added. "I remember my grandmother explaining 
to me how our pew (Number 87, the same numeral as his 
Class) was not the original family pew because the original 
pews were all square. They had been changed over to the 



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THE REFURBISHED INTERIOR of the First Baptist Meeting House shows the high pulpit, restored along the original lines. 



present style pews against the remonstrance of her grand- 
mother, who was opposed to the modernity, which she termed 
"almost sacrilegious." " 

Senator Green welcomed the most recent changes, "an im- 
provement but in keeping with the original plan." He 
brought the greetings of the Government and people of the 
United States. 

The Baptists' Oirn Day 

Another Service of Rededication. for the Congregation, on 
the morning of Apr. 20 included sermons by two former Min- 
isters, the Rev. Dr. Albert B. Cohoe and the Rev. Dr. Albert 
C. Thomas '08. Among those taking part was Miss Margaret 
E. Smith. Pembroke '60. 

State, National, and world leaders in the Baptist denomina- 
tion took part in the Rededication to the Tradition that eve- 
ning: the Rev. M. Jerome Brown, Minister of the Congdon 
St. Baptist Church; the Rev. DeWitt C. Clemens, President 
of the R. I. State Council of Churches: the Rev. Dr. Reuben 
E. Nelson, E.xecutive Secretary of the American Baptist Con- 
vention; the Rev. Dr. Arnold T. Ohrn, Executive .Secretary of 
the Baptist World Alliance; the Rev. Frank H. Snell, President 
of the R. I. Baptist State Convention; Chaplain Edgar C. 
Reckard of Brown University; and the Rev. Dr. Robert J. 
McCracken, Minister of the Riverside Church, New York City. 
Dr. McCracken's sermon was on "The Marks of a Living 
Church." 

It was the Baptists' own proud evening, with a feeling of 
the worldwide community, but the Meeting House, filled to 
capacity, held men and women of other denominations, too. 



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Scores of Protestant clergy from all over the State were in 
the procession. The choir was representative of the choirs of 
the several Churches which join in the Union Summer Serv- 
ices held in the Meeting House. Frederick Very, Organist for 
the summer services, played the postlude. It was a stirring, 
ennobling evening, and not the least of its memories was the 
exuberant hymn-singing by the 1200 or more there. 

The organ, admirably reconstructed along designs by Pro- 
fessor Dinneen, was rededicated on Apr. 30 when Virgil Fox, 
Organist at New York's Riverside Church, gave the recital. 
It was his first appearance in Rhode Island, the 48th State 
in which he has played. 

Although Mr. Rockefeller was unable to attend any of 
the services, he sent his greetings through Dr. McCracken. 
The latter said Mr. Rockefeller's interest in Providence was 
known, together with his great affection for Brown Univer- 
sity; his regard for the Meeting House had been well demon- 
strated. 

In a year's time the entire structure of the First Baptist 
Meeting House was renovated and strengthened. The high 
pulpit was restored along lines of the original design, while 
the familiar white paint was replaced with the original sayc 
of the Meeting House. As a note in the program said, "New 
carpet was installed, pew cushions were renewed, and innu- 
merable details were carried out to create a building worthy ol 
the past and a noble heritage for the future. These changes 
are a tribute to Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who received his 
degree from Brown University in the Auditorium of this 
Meeting House." 

BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



They Built Boldly 



By JOHN NICHOLAS BROWN 



IT WAS LESS than two years since John Brown led the as- 
sauh on the British sloop of war Gaspee, and things were 
not going so well in the world. John Brown himself had been 
held by the British in Boston and, but for the persuasiveness 
of his brother Moses, might well have been sent to England 
for trial for treason and undoubtedly executed. Yet a band 
of men, as hardy as those who burnt the Gaspee but far less 
hot-headed, decided that, despite the times, their Meeting 
House, situated at what would be now the northwest corner 
of North Main and Smith Streets must be replaced. 

The old records both of the Charitable Baptist Society and 
of the Brown family indicate that the project must have re- 
ceived a good deal of attention even before action was under- 
taken. The great Meeting House could not have been de- 
signed, assembled, and erected in the short span of 16 months 
which elapsed from the Society's first vote to build, on Feb. 
11, 1774, to the first service held in the building on May 
28th of the next year. These men truly had a sense of 
urgency. 

Subscrijjtiotu and a Lottery 

As we scan the old records we can feel the determined ex- 
citement. The members of the Society were evidently in such 
a hurry to build that they did not even wait for the deeds to 
the land to pass. They sent Joseph Brown to Boston with two 
men who knew the techniques of building — Jonathan Ham- 
mond, who is referred to as a "joyner," and Comfort 
Wheaton, called a "housewright" — to survey church edifices 
in that city. This was February, 1774. In March these same 
three men were ordered "to make a Draught of a House, 90 
X 70 feet, together with Tower and Steeple" and report at 
the next meeting. 





BROWN UNIVERSITY'S Choir Chorale participated in the rededication. 

MAY 1958 



MODERATOR Alfred H. Gurney 07, right, was assured by Richard W. Bill- 
ings that the Meeting House was ready for its next 100 years. 

But, being prudent men, the members of the Society had 
previously determined the financial feasibility of the project. 
Under date of 14 February, 1774, only three days after the 
first vote to build, we find a list of subscribers to the Meeting 
House. On it there are 67 entries, amounting to a total of 
2928 pounds. It is interesting to note that 28 men made their 
subscriptions in labor or material: Messrs. Hammond and 
Wheaton, for instance, each subscribed 12 pounds "to be 
paid in work." The largest single subscription was made by 
Nicholas Brown, 450 pounds. His brother John subscribed 
350 pounds, and Joseph, the architect, 250 pounds. Brother 
Moses does not seem to have subscribed. He had recently 
joined the Society of Friends. But shortly he appears as aid- 
ing in the paving of Angell's Lane, just to the north of the 
Meeting House, now called Thomas Street. The list of orig- 
inal subscribers contains the names of most of the founding 
fathers of this town. Daniel Jenckes, the second largest con- 
tributor, the Thurbers, William Russell, Nicholas Power, 
Joseph Tillinghast, and many others. 

This was a great and united effort. But, alas, the total sub- 
scribed was not nearly enough. The balance was raised — by 
means of a lottery, estimated to bring in 1900 pounds; by 
the sale of the old building and its land for 240 pounds: and 
through the sale of pews at 13 pounds 10 apiece. 

We are fortunate in having the very detailed estimate of 
expenses made by John Jenckes, John Brown, Daniel Cahoon, 
and Joseph Brown. This amounted to 6188 pounds, 12 shil- 
lings, 8 pence, including 1710 pounds for land. Professor 
Hedges tells me the pound in 1774 was equal to $3.33 law- 
ful money of Rhode Island. Thus, the estimate called for a 
total expenditure of $20,628 in 1775. If we think of the cost 
of restoration alone, we have a measure of what has hap- 
pened to the dollar in the intervening years! 

Built in Less Than a Year 

Let us return to 1774. Spring was here and the "Draught" 
was finished. On May 9th a committee of 12 was appointed. 
John Brown was made "the Committee Man for carrying on 
the building," or chairman. The minutes state that the com- 
mittee shall meet every Monday evening, at one of the mem- 
bers' houses, beginning at John Brown's. These men were in a 
hurry. 

On June 3, 1774, ground was broken for the foundations, 
and on August 29th the workmen started erecting the Meet- 
ing House and Tower. On May 28th of the next year, 1775, 
as stated above, the first service was held in this building, 
five days short of a year from the breaking of ground. 



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JOHN NICHOLAS BROWN: "These men had □ sense of urgency." 

We have seen the tremendous vigor of these men, their 
determination, their zeal. What was it they accompUshed in 
such haste? Was it something easy to do, something easy be- 
cause it was like the things they had known? On the contrary, 
in one great advance, under the leadership of Joseph Brown, 
they brought to the provincial town of Providence an edifice 
both in style and in scale worthy of any city in the country. 
Suddenly, as if by magic, the citizens of Providence saw in 
their midst an edifice so large, so handsome, so inspiring, 
that they must have felt a new strength rising up within 
them. 

The Meeting House Tradition 

Let me point out one or two striking features of this re- 
markable building, which after so many years still remains 
Rhode Island's greatest treasure. 

First, this building, though large, is fundamentally a New 
England Meeting House. The architect kept the square box, 
80 feet on a side, as the essential shape. The Anglican tradi- 
tion, as at Trinity, Newport, built a half-century earlier, fa- 
vored a long building entered at one end. So. likewise, was 
King's Chapel, Boston, that exquisite transplantation of a 
London church type, built 20 years earlier, which Joseph 
Brown and his committee must have inspected. The great 
churches in London, by Christopher Wren and James Gibbs, 
were almost all of them of this type. 

But Joseph Brown maintained the traditional character of 
the New England Meeting House. This character was even 
more evident when the original pew-arrangement is consid- 
ered. The principal entrances were by the side doors, from 
which aisles crossed the auditorium, thus cutting across the 
axis of the central vault and further enhancing the feeling of 
squareness. Furthermore, the pulpit arrangement, now so 
happily and expertly restored to its original conception, em- 



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phasizes this point. Preaching the Word of God was the 
principal function of this building when used as a Church, 
which it was not intended it need always be. Therefore, no 
chancel, no sanctum sanctorum, no addition along the longi- 
tudinal axis was needed. 

Secondly, I should like to speak about the scale of the 
building. It is large in whatever frame of reference you 
place it. But to the citizens of Providence in 1774 and 1775 
it must have seemed enormous. This matter of scale is not 
easy. First, Joseph Brown and his assistants must have had 
to consider the design, making sure that all parts were in 
harmony. This they did to perfection. And, second, they had 
to find out how such a large building could be constructed. 
Too grandiose a plan would mean lengths of beams, joists, 
and boards too big to acquire. 

Take the matter of the spanning of the great vault. The 
subtle ellipse overhead is suspended from rafters which span 
some 48 feet and are placed 40 feet above the floor. Truly, 
the construction of this building might well have staggered 
the boldest builder. But these men were not daunted, for the 
project was worthy. 

For a Toivn So Stnall 

One wonders sometimes why in 1774 such a large building 
was thought desirable. The Meeting House was to seat be- 
tween 1200 and 1400. Surely, this was more than adequate 
for a town which claimed only 432 inhabitants, including 68 
Indians, a denomination of 118 members, and a college of 41 
students. These men were looking fearlessly toward the fu- 
ture growth of Providence. 

I should like to call special attention to the magnificence of 
the great fluted Doric columns which rise from the floor to 
support the vaults of the center and the side aisles. It would 
have been possible to support the gallery with columns be- 
low, as at the Old South Meeting House in Boston. But, since 
the ceiling was to be vaulted, as it is not in Boston, it would 
have required a second row of supports rising from the gal- 
lery to the vault, as at Trinity, Newport. But Joseph Brown 
chose the nobler, the more imposing and impressive method, 
which allows the eye to sweep up the whole height without 
interruption. 

In speaking of the great span of the central barrel vault, 
we must not overlook the beauty of the groined vaulting over 
the galleries. There is a lovely play of light on the curved 
shapes, which, by the way, must have been difficult to make 
smooth and even, I should think. The smaller surfaces of the 
aisle vaults contrast effectively with the great ellipse of the 
central portion. The tremendous entablatures and overhanging 
cornices also give such an accent to the change in rhythm of 
the vaults. 

Fidelity in Restoration 

I have dwelt long enough on the interior — even though its 
delights, like the chandelier first lit at the wedding of Hope 
Brown and Thomas Poynton Ives, would make us wish to 
linger longer. But, before departing outside, I want to express 
my admiration for the brilliant way the architects. Perry, 
Shaw and Hepburn, solved the problem of restoring the east 
end. The original pulpit from which President Manning 
preached the first sermon had been torn out in 1832 and the 
window above it plastered over in 1846. The present ar- 
rangement with the replacement of the Palladian window in 
its original position and the construction of this handsome 
pulpit with the sounding board above and the seats for the 
deacons and the communion table below gives dignity and 
focus to the whole interior. This is modern, scholarly restora- 
tion at its best. 

Let me also express my deep indebtedness to the late Nor- 
man M. Isham (1886), scholar extraordinary, whose funda- 
mental researches on this building were published by the 



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Charitable Baptist Society to celebrate the 150th anniversary 
in 1925. I am happy that Mr. Isham's reconstruction has been 
so closely and so expertly followed. 

But, noble as the interior is, it is the exterior, with the 
incomparable tower and steeple, which carries to the world 
at large the message of strength, of elegance, and of hope, 
which are the characteristic marks of this building. 

In determining the design for the steeple, Joseph Brown 
turned to the work of the London architect, James Gibbs, 
who a half-century before had designed the Anglican Church 
of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields and two years later, in 1728, had 
published his "Book of Architecture." The steeple of the 
First Baptist Meeting House closely follows the middle design 
of the three illustrated on Plate 30 of Gibbs' book. But in 
saying that our steeple, the most beautiful in America, was 
designed by James Gibbs and not by Joseph Brown, we must 
remember that all Joseph Brown knew was an engraving done 
at very small scale. He had to work out all the details of the 
structure. 

3V2 Days for a "Telescope" 

Furthermore, in coming to the upper window story, the de- 
sign was changed. The plate in the Gibbs book shows a cylin- 
der, while our spire is octagonal at this stage. Not only did 
this change simplify construction but, in my opinion, it en- 
hanced the beauty of the structure. Much of the credit for our 
spire goes to James Sumner, master workman, who had re- 
cently come to Providence from Boston. It is to Sumner in 
large measure that we owe the brilliant manner in which the 
spire was constructed. 

The Providence Gazette of June 10, 1775, reports as fol- 
lows: "Last Tuesday, the Raising of the Steeple, which lasted 



three Days and a Half, was finished." Only three and a half 
days to erect a steeple whose vane is 185 feet above the 
ground! It surpasses imagination that so great a spire could 
have been raised so fast and without the help of modern 
power machinery. 

The Meeting House and stair tower were constructed first, 
as I have said. The workmen then proceeded to the assem- 
bling of the material for the steeple. Brown and Sumner's 
method was indeed ingenious. Instead of building a scaffold, 
which is wasteful of wood and therefore expensive, and rais- 
ing the material on the outside, the architects designed the 
steeple so that the wooden rafters could all be pulled up in- 
side. The platform on which each stage rested was well below 
the top of the stage below so that each stage could be used 
as a derrick for hoisting the material for the stage above. 
Thus, the steeple, built upon the stair tower below, was 
erected like a kind of gigantic, architectural telescope. 

I know no greater example of dauntless courage in time of 
tension than the story of the designing and building of this 
great structure. Its crowning glory is the great steeple, raised 
with such expedition at a time when less than two months 
earlier another Tower in Boston had carried a lantern to give 
the alert which led to Lexington and Concord. Thus it is that 
this great monument, now rededicated, carries with it a mes- 
sage of such strength and such hope. We gain inspiration 
from the fact that our ancestors dared to erect this building 
at a time of great tension and uncertairity, dared to come 
forward and proclaim that their town of Providence must be 
considered in terms of the best that their culture and civiliza- 
tion could offer and, most important of ail, dared to affirm 
that this great effort was inspired by and dedicated to the 
worship of Almighty God. 



Doctors of Divinity 

BROWN University conferred two honorary degrees during 
the ceremonies at the First Baptist Meeting House when 
the fabric was rededicated on Sunday, April 13. One recipient 
was the Rev. Edwin H. Tuller '35, Associate General Secre- 
tary of the American Baptist Convention; the other was the 
Pastor of the First Baptist Church, the Rev. Homer L. 
Trickett. 

At the conclusion of his address on "The Meeting House 
and the University," President Keeney asked leave to act for 
the Board of Fellows in presenting the degrees. The Mace was 
brought forward and laid before him to symbolize his official 
action. Prof. Robert H. George mounted the platform to 
present the homines honorandos, while Prof. Albert A. 
Bennett '10 invested them with their doctoral hoods. Both de- 
grees were Doctors of Divinity. The citations: 

HOMER LEROY TRICKETT: This day belongs at once to the 
Church and to the University, and it recalls the time when the 
Pastor of one was the President of the other. For nearly two 
centuries Brown has descended the Hill to conduct here its most 
solemn rites; for nearly two years now (during the period when 
the Meeting House was being renovated and the Church's services 
were held at the University — Ed.) this Congregation has climbed 
the Hill to worship on our Campus, and we rejoice that many of 
our students joined you there and have returned with you to 
this sanctuary. 

In commemoration of this long and fruitful relationship and 
in expectation of a ministry rich in service, a hope already rein- 
forced by your breadth and vision, we honor you today and, in 
so doing, we venerate our own past. 

Qua ratione memoriae majorum tam spe jiiturorum temporum. 
auctoritate mihi commissa te ad gradum in Divinitate Doctoris 
admitto, omniaque jura ac privilegia ad hiinc gradum pertinentia, 
tibi concede. In huius testimonium lioc diploma tibi summa cum 
pietate do. 




HONORARY DEGREES: President Keeney conferred the University's accolade 

on the Rev. Edwin H. Tuller '35, left, and the Rev. Homer L. Trickett, right. 

Pastor of the First Baptist Church. 

EDWIN HURLBUT TULLER: As an undergraduate at Brown 
you were a distinguished student, athlete, and leader of your 
fellows and have since been a strong force among our alumni. 
We have followed with pride and gratitude the growth of your 
ministry in two States, the Nation, and now the World, and marvel 
that the same joy in life you exhibited as a youth is still evident 
in your work and your words despite the heavy responsibilities 
you have assumed and the great opportunities which lie ahead of 
you. 

Quae cum ita sint, affectuose sed etiam respectuose, auctoritate 
mihi commissa te ad gradum in Divinitate Doctoris admitto, 
omnisque jura ac privilegia ad hunc gradum pertinentia, tibi 
concedo. In testimonium, decora reverentis, hoc diploma tibi 
paterniter trado. 



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Spiritual Father 

Bv BARNABY C. KEENEY 



ROGER Williams founded the First Baptist Church in 
America. In a larger sense, he founded Brown Univer- 
sity and every other university in the country that is a true 
university. He did so by estabHshing a way of thought and of 
behavior without which no university can exist. 

Williams was a scholar — not a professional scholar but a 
very gifted amateur. What he wrote about the Indians in the 
area is still useful to any student who seeks to reconstruct 
the 17th century, even though every observation was made 
for another purpose than to present an accurate description 
of Indian life and thought (for his dictionary was really a 
theological tract or treatise on morals). 

Despite the fact that Roger Williams wrote with a tone of 
certainty, he constantly re-examined his own beliefs and 
moved from position to position as his thinking developed. 
At every point in his mature life he advocated vehemently 
what he believed, and gave up his security for his beliefs. He 
welcomed people who disagreed with him, and yet he at- 
tacked ferociously the beliefs of the very men and women 
whom he defended, for he was as certain they were wrong 
as he was certain they were entitled to believe and to act 
separately. 

"The Right to Disagree" 

These characteristics of Roger Williams are some of the 
marks of a university. Learning cannot develop without suf- 
ferance of diversity and without freedom to attack the estab- 
lished position when evidence and reason justify unorthodoxy. 
Nor can learning be meaningful and effective without 
passionate advocacy. Serious dissent and separatism could not 
exist in Massachusetts in the 17th century, nor even in Con- 
necticut. That they could and did exist in these Plantations 
has been a continuing benefit to Brown University, to the na- 
tion, and to the world. Others have slowly taken up our ways. 
The right to disagree and the expectation of attack for 
disagreeing are gradually being understood as a part of in- 
tellectual growth. 




TO LAFAYETTE Col- 
lege goes Dean 
K. Roald Bergethon 
of Brown to become 
its new President. 
This announcement 
came as we were 
going to press. 



Williams was an outcast. He was prohibited by law from 
re-entering Massachusetts, and, within living memory, so 
were all of us who live in Rhode Island. The formal disability 
is now removed, but everyone who lives in Williams' tradi- 
tion will in his way be an outcast. He will never fit easily 
into a world that prefers to smooth over difficulties rather 
than to discuss them. Yet Williams' influence on our life and 
thought has been greater than that of most moderate men of 
his day. The effect upon the future of his spiritual and in- 
tellectual descendants will be far greater than that of the 
orthodox men who will seek to stifle them. 

The fabric of the First Baptist Meeting House is far 
younger than its covenant, but it is almost coeval with 
Brown's University Hall. It was built in the same hope and 
optimism as University Hall, which was proclaimed to be too 
large for any possible development of the College. When this 
Meeting House was built, it also was too large for the village, 
but it was built "for the publick Worship of Almighty GOD; 
and also for holding Commencement in." Every Commence- 
ment since, with two exceptions, has been held here. 

"An Essential Part of Commencement" 

Last year, when we did not know that the restoration would 
be far enough along to permit the habitual use of the Meet- 
ing House, we planned to march down the Hill as we always 
do, to have only a symbolic entry into the building to confer 
the degrees, and to march back up the Hill again. We made 
this plan because we felt, and always shall feel, that this 
Church is an essential part of our Commencement. Happily, 
the building was ready enough to use. 

It is well that the Meeting House has been restored on its 
original site, even though the population has moved, for the 
Church belongs here at the crossroads of the City, visible to 
all and open to all. It is in the Town, but it is in the Univer- 
sity. To both, it is a cherished reminder that neither learn- 
ing nor life can be complete without religion. 

Think of the men and women of Brown who have passed 
in and out of this Meeting House on Commencement Day. 
How many great clergymen and missionaries I do not know; 
Secretaries of State and other Departments; a Chief Justice 
of the Supreme Court who shaped our laws and our very 
lives; scholars who changed the course of human thought; 
educators who nourished the minds of generations; artists, 
writers, citizens who have wielded their citizenship rather 
than passively enjoying it. The man who made this rededica- 
tion possible sat here more than once. This Congregation and 
this University will be proud that he has lived as a steward, 
rather than merely as the possessor of all he has. 

Think of the men and women who will pass through the 
Meeting House during the Commencements of the future. 
Most of them will be ordinary, able people who will come 
and go, leaving their mark of good or evil within a small 
circle, but some first Monday in June there will sit here a 
Plato, a Lincoln, a Pasteur, or an Einstein. Some day there 
will not be room in the Meeting House for all the graduates, 
and the great man of the next generation may have to wait 
on the lawn until it is time for him and his classmates to 
march back up the Hill. 

Many will think of this Meeting House as a shrine. It will 
be forever a temptation to act as custodians, selling postcards 
and small pieces of the true fabric. To Brown University the i 
Meeting House will never be such a shrine, for it is too much < 
of us, too close to our annual life. We shall love it and even 
venerate it, but we shall not think of it as anything but a 
church. Let us all hope together that the Congregation and 
the Community will remember that the Meeting House is a 
Church and that, however much the past is remembered, the 
present is lived here and the future hoped for. 



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Prospectus 
for the Rink 



Domed Structure Is Proposed to House 
Brown's Future Aldrich-Dexter Facility 




A NOVEL USE of a circular shell to house the rectangle of ice 
appears in drawings submitted for Brown University's pro- 
posed rink and assembly hall on Aldrich-Dexter Field. When 
permission was given for our use of the plans in this issue, 
they lacked official approval, as did the exact location. They 
represented "present thinking" in mid-April, but interest in 
the project has been so high we wanted to reproduce them, 
even with the reservation that the report, though more than 
preliminary, was not final. 

The concept of the dome for the center of the building is 
an imaginative one. It represents a departure from the plan 
tentatively used in the Bicentennial brochure, "For the Spirits 
of Men," where the rink was covered by a roof that dipped 
toward the center, rising at the sides. The circular area, it 
was found, would fit better into the Aldrich-Dexter scheme 
of things. Laminated wooden arches will support the ribbing 
and heavy-planked, asphalt-shingled roof. 

The ice rink will be 200 feet long and 85 feet wide, with 
stands on the sides only, to seat 2500 (perhaps more). The 
rink area will be excavated a bit so that the ice level will be 
below that of the surrounding ground. Some of the surplus 
earth will be used to bank up the seating area The plan shown 
on this page is for the gallery floor. Spectators will enter the 
stands from this level, up ramps from the entrance and 
ticket area (at the bottom of the drawing). The higher level 
of seats is not shown on this projection, nor is the pressbox, 
high up behind the penalty box. 

The main floor, about at ice level, provides two warming 
rooms for the social skaters and can be used by hockey 
players between periods. There is space for the office, ice 
machine, mechanical equipment, and some of the concession 
areas. Nearby is the building which served Dexter Farm as 
hospital: it lends itself readily to conversion into dressing and 
shower rooms for the squads. 

The proposed structure is referred to as an ice rink and 
assembly hall. In its latter role, it could serve for rainy day 
Commencement exercises or other meetings too large for any 
existing building on the Campus. The present plan is a mini- 
mum one. capable of enlargement later if funds permit. The 
architect is Robert Dean of Perry, Shaw, Hepburn, and Dean. 



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17 



GHQ, NY 



New York's 90th Alumni Dinner Prompted a Lively 
Review of the Brown Club's Gay and Golden Past 



QUITE A Club you have here," said the visitor. He'd struck 
up a conversation with another Brunonian at the Brown 
University Club in New York at 39 E. 39th St., just a step 
down Park Ave. from the Grand Central. "Down from Provi- 
dence myself. Arrived late. No trouble getting a room. Quiet, 
comfortable sleep. This morning the shower, shave and trim 
by Peter (quite a barber that Peter). Then breakfast, all the 
papers. Sent a wire, couple of phone calls, made some money. 
Played squash, got 12 tickets to 'My Fair Lady' and two mar- 
tinis. A good luncheon on the Ladies' side. Then a snooze in 
the Great Hall and now the Merchant's back to Providence. 
Yes, quite a Club you have here." 

Prof. Josiah S. Carberry turned, walked past the Grill Room 
through the swinging doors, on past the Oyster Bar, past the 
check room, nodded to the doorman, and went straight to the 
desk. (His bill now amounted to $332.38 — mostly for the 
theater tickets — and if we had room we'd reproduce the state- 
ment with this article, for the Club ran it off for us.) He was 
last seen stuffing his brief case with mail marked "Hold for 
Arrival." 

Carberry, admittedly, is one of the least tangible assets of 
the Brown Club in New York. Most of its history is better 
founded, as I've discovered in studying the records for a 
pamphlet under preparation for the Board of Governors. 

A Tradition 90 Years Old 

Nov. 30. 1869 is the first date one encounters — that of the 
first annual dinner of the "Association of the Alumni of 
Brown in New York." Eighty-one Brunonians had assembled 
at the Metropolitan Hotel at the invitation of William A. 
Crocker. 1822, a Trustee of the University. They connected 
themselves with the Association and agreed to pay $6 annu- 
ally for the purposes of the annual dinner. Thus the April 
gathering of alumni this year was the 90th. 

At the outset we find a beautiful paragraph which perfectly 
describes the continuing purpose of our Brown Clubs. Samuel 
S. Cox, 1846, former Speaker pro tern, of the U. S. House 
of Representatives and Minister to Turkey, presided; he 
greeted the group in the full-dress language of that banquet 
era: "The very name of Brown University is a charm to me; its 
memories are a joy; its history is a theme of admiration never 
unfamiliar to my tongue; and all its children are to me broth- 
ers of the same academy and household. . . . How best to 
strengthen these memories, how to recall these associations 
with a view to aid practically our Alma Mater; how to ag- 
grandize her glories; how to make her shine before others^ — ■ 
this should be one of our proudest aims." 

President Alexis Caswell responded to the first toast: "Our 
Alma Mater — may she grow dearer with the lapse of time." 
Dr. Caswell journeyed again one year later for the Second 
Annual Dinner, and the succession of Brown nights in New 
York had begun. 

Ever since it has been the custom of the New York dinner 
committee to check first with Providence, then set the date of 
the party around the convenience of the President. Dr. Cas- 



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well has been followed by Drs. Robinson, Andrews, Faunce, 
Barbour, through the fire and drive of the great Dr. Wriston 
to the effective leadership of President Keeney. Our "secure 
past" may have become pluperfect, but our future is still what 
Dr. Caswell said it was in 1869: "It depends on us and on 
other alumni friends of the College." 

Chauncey Depew Was on the Spot 

The New York newspapers really entered into the spirit of 
our dinners, and their reporters could provide two and three- 
column accounts under friendly headlines as in the Sun in 
1870: "THE SONS OF BROWN. A genial company make 
merry at Delmonico's. Fully a hundred guests were present, 
and the exercises began early and ended much earlier — on the 
following morning." Or the Daily Tribune could say in 1890: 
"Little Rhody has a great big university, and its name is 
Brown. Whatever Brown does, 'it does up Brown.' " 

Or, again, you may like this shining effort of the Sun: "A 
GREAT COLLEGE REUNION. Distinguished men tip 
glasses at Alumni Banquet. Chauncey M. Depew, speaker at 
1 a.m., worried into an explanation of a joke at a previous 
dinner." It seems that at the Princeton dinner the week before 
Depew had said, "I have gone into training for a speech at the 
Brown Dinner. Brown University, you know, is a place where 
they have no athletics, and are very sparely endowed with learn- 
ing. Its frugal fare, its visage elongated, and its chosen recre- 
ation cloistered perusal of Young's 'Night Thoughts.' " This 
statement was picked up by New York and all New England 
papers. Said the Princeton alumni: "Mr. Depew's appearance 
at the Brown Dinner will be a dazzling display of moral cour- 
age." 

Well, Depew was guest of honor at the Brown Dinner. The 
well-calculated seating plan found him hedged in between two 
clergymen who for five hours conversed only in Latin and 
Greek. Every speaker fired a broadside of sarcasm at him, and 
not until an early hour in the morning could he happily ex- 
plain: "I will confess that, when I alluded to Brown's frugal 
and limited fare, I certainly did not refer to the speeches." 
The account says: "(Laughter)." 

The Invariable Sacrifice 

Depew went on to explain "that unfortunate little accident 
at the Princeton dinner." "It's a curious habit of these big 
colleges," he said, "that they invariably demand the sacrifice 
of some other college at their dinners. I thought at first I 
would offer up Yale to appease my hosts, and elevate them by 
detracting from it. But having no authority to do this from 
the Yale Alumni, I selected an institution that could best stand 
the sacrificial operation and chose Brown. It may truthfully be 
said that, though she is a small college, she is bigger than the 
State in which she is located. 

"I had found that Princeton was jealous of Brown and dis- 
covered the cause. Sometime long ago a Princeton man be- 
came President of Brown and passed around the subscription 

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paper for funds, as is the habit of Princeton men. He divided 
the proceeds between Brown and Princeton, instead of giving 
them all to Brown. Ever since Princeton has had a grudge 
against the Rhode Island College which time does not wipe 
out." 

Charles C. Beaman, President of the Harvard Club, was 
also a guest at the Dinner. "I cordially praise the genuineness 
and value of Brown scholarship," he said, "and the charm and 
attraction of the qualities of the institution. I congratulate my- 
self that I have never uttered a word about Brown which I 
have to regret. I have escaped the fate that overcame my friend 
Depew." 

Later, as President of the Yale Alumni Association, Depew 
said at a Yale dinner; "I have had to carry the banner of Yale 
into the enemy's camp. I have met the blood-red banner of 
Harvard at dinner and sat with Princeton. But the most seri- 
ous trouble I had was with Brown. I wanted to make every- 



body at Princeton feel comfortable and happy, and I did it by 
abusing Brown. This abuse was the only thing reported in the 
morning papers, and every paper in New England printed that. 
1 don"t think that any man in town ever had a harder time 
than I did at the Brown University Club dinner." The New 
York Examiner said: "Being a lawyer, he succeeded in getting 
out of a tight place in such a way as to satisfy his hearers that 
he thought Brown University to be, on the whole, about the 
best College in the United States." 

Brown History in News Clips 
Those were the days before the Slav, before outer space, 
when the fortunate newspapers had space to devote to such 
pleasantries. Here in the black and white of old news-clips, we 
are carried back to the fun of such festivities. As you read 
through the clippings year upon year, you come into the area 
of sterner stuff: 



By DAVID 
BALFOUR '36 




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39 EAST 39TH ST.: The association with the Princeton Club is now 25 years old. Photos by Thomas Murtogh. 



MAY 1958 



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BOARD MEETING: Governors ot the Brown Club in New York. At head 
table— Jeffrey S. Granger '13, Charles E. Hughes III '37, President Donald 
V. Reed '35, Edward Sulzberger '29, Milton Borst '50. At left— James Jemail 



'18, E. R. Alden '23, J. McColl Hughes '33, Herbert Iselin '42. At right— 
Lyman G. Bloomingdale '35, Ralph Tanner '36, David Balfour '36, and Wil- 
liam Boteman '46. 




THREE-STATE CONCLAVE of Brown Club officers brought these men to the 
New York Club to confer on progroms and problems: left to right— Cecil E. 
Roche '31, Charles Beottie '23, Cortlandt P. Briggs '39, Robert C. McKenny 
'21, Stan Word (guest speaker), Frederic A. Bauman '35, William E. Schuiz 



'31, Donald V. Reed '35, George R. Decker '23, Cloyton C. Timbrell '42, 
Joseph McCormick '41, Willord C. Parker '42, Dovid Balfour '36, Norman E. 
Wright, Jr., '49, Robert F. Hague '50, and Richard Dunham '53. Seven Clubs 
were represented in the discussions. 



In 1904 President Faunce could talk of the mighty wishes 
of the University. The greatest, in his opinion, was $300,000 
for a new general Library building and $250,000 for its en- 
dowment. He urged the erection of a modern, completely 
equipped Biological Laboratory. He told of the benefits from 
such new buildings (completed or nearly so) as the "Colgate 
Hoyt Swimming Bath," the Engineering Building, the new 
dormitory (Caswell Hall), Rockefeller Hall, the Clock Tower, 
and the John Carter Brown Library of Americana. 

Farther back in the record (1887) is the statement that 
"what Brown needs most, as the New York Alumni think, is 
a new gymnasium. A memorial urging the use of the newly 
acquired Lyman Fund for the purpose was unanimously car- 
ried." Professor Lincoln had wavered between an observatory 
and a gym, but the following year he came out for "less star- 
gazing and more physical training at Brown." In 1890 the 
alumni at dinner were to launch a campaign for $100,000 in 
honor of Professor Lincoln himself, "the income to be used 
by the venerable Professor during life and subsequently de- 
voted to the requirements of the University." 



When Andrews Spoke of Pembroke 

A Tribune clipping tells of two interests of President An- 
drews, quoting him in 1895: "Now the statement has been 
made that we are straining after a university status. That is 
all wrong. Young folks come to us and demand this or that 
class of study. Thus we have the Graduate Department, but it 
has not drained the Undergraduate Department. The Gradu- 
ate Department will never be a drain on what I call the old 
plant. 

"Then the question of the Women's Department is eyed 
askance. It was a place where it was a condition and not a 
theory that confronted us. (Laughter) Looking around wc saw 
that there were 10,000 girls in and around Rhode Island who 
wanted a collegiate education. Of these not more than one out 
of four could go away, and Brown was their only hope. There 
is no co-education of the sexes. In the graduate classes the two 
sexes are taken together, but in the undergraduate there are 
different classes for each. I am bound to say that our girls arc 
a noble set of young women, and their scholarship is phenom- 



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enal. (Applause) It is better than it will be 10 years hence, 
perhaps, for the girls who have entered our school lately did 
so under peculiar circumstances and with a peculiar zealous- 
ness. I am almost ashamed to say it, but during the last year 
the excess from tuition fees from the girls placed in the treas- 
ury of the boys" school the sum of $3000." 

Pleas and Historic Announcements 

One can almost follow the history of the University by hear- 
ing what was said at those New York dinners. In 1906 Dr. 
Faunce could say: "I have been driven almost desperate by 
contemplating the thousands of books and collections we have 
at Brown that have mouldered and get dusty in out-of-the-way 
buildings. At the present time 20,000 volumes in the basement 
grow green with mold. Other books are stored away in 1 6 
different places over the Campus." At that dinner 150 men 
cheered wildly his announcement that Andrew Carnegie had 
offered $150,000 toward the Library, with the suggestion that 
it be named after his intimate friend, the late John Hay. The 
gift was contingent upon Brown's raising an additional 
$150,000. And now comes the familiar voice of a college presi- 
dent at work: "Gentlemen, it is up to you to add the other 
$150,000 so that we may have a building capable of housing 
1,000,000 books and reading rooms for our 400 students." 

An alert Tribune reporter at the 1902 dinner picked up a 
human-interest item about one of the guests. Bothered by a 
draft from an open window, he modestly asked one of the 
waiters to close it. The waiter paid no attention. Shortly after 
another diner, a young man "of swell appearance" made a 
similar request, which the waiter, wishing to oblige so distin- 
guished a personage, promptly attended to. "The waiter had 
thus obliged a young man whose total worldly possessions con- 
sist of his ability to earn $25 a week as a clerk in a downtown 
store. The modest gentleman whose request he had refused is 
credited with the possession of $120,000,000. He was John D. 
Rockefeller, President of the Standard Oil Trust." 

The account continued: "After an elaborate feast, the post- 
prandial exercises were begun by singing 'Old Nicholas 
Brown.' Mr. Rockefeller joined heartily in the chorus, as did 
Mr. Curtis, the Dinner Chairman, although it cannot be truth- 
fully said of either of these gentlemen that nature had been 
more than ordinarily kind in the matter of voice. Everyone 
seemed to feel at home." Within a few years John D. Rocke- 
feller, Jr., arrived on College Hill as an undergraduate, and 
Rockefeller Hall, first of many family benefactions, could 
be announced at the dinner. 




IN THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE Secretary Borst, left, assists Norman Wright '49, 
Coach Al Kelley, and Richard Dunham '53. 



"The Central Telephone Exchange" 

The younger Rockefeller was to be toastmaster at the 57th 
Annual Dinner, and we quote: "Long known as financier, 
philanthropist, and Bible class teacher, he stepped into the 
front rank of the city's wits. He told a succession of anecdotes, 
imitated Will Rogers even in gesture and intonation, and in- 
dulged himself in animadversions on the subject of prohibi- 
tion." 

Is it any wonder that Prexy Faunce could say: "New York 
City is the central telephone exchange of the continent. Who- 
ever wants to ring up any great cause in the land must do it 
here. No man can accomplish great things without keeping 
close relations with New York City." 

Charles Evans Hughes '81 could say of the dinners: "Brown 
men do not come here in devotion to the numbered courses of 
the curriculum, but to the personal intimate Brown which is 
dear to our hearts." But what the Brown Bear needed in New 
York was a clubhouse. It is not surprising to read an Executive 
Committee vote taken at the office of Samuel H. Ordway '80: 
"That a committee of three be appointed by the President to 
ascertain the cost of permanent headquarters." 

The original group, the Association of the Alumni of Brown 
University in New York, had been succeeded in 1883 by the 
Brown University Club in New York — just 75 years ago. Four 
years later, with Charles Evans Hughes as President, the Club 
revised its 1883 constitution. It held without appeal until 1933 
when the move into the Princeton Club brought the need for 
expanded rules to cover the occupancy. These continued until 
the last meeting of the Board of Governors, when new classes 
of membership were opened to Brown men and friends of 
Brown. 

A new surburban membership is under consideration which 
will closely parallel the habit of the other Ivy Clubs in New 
York. Fathers of Brown men, too, may join. But the most rev- 
olutionary proposal is to open membership to Pembrokers. 
The decision on this is really more in the hands of the Prince- 
ton Governors than Brown's, for the "Women's Side" in the 
Club is already taxed. 

The Club Was a Nomad 

But first came the Brown headquarters at 12 West 44th St. 
Treasurer W. R. Dorman '92 left full records of payment of 
initiation dues of $10, covering the first six months, bills paid 
in the amount of $826.56, and one expenditure of $5 for four 
spittoons. 

For one reason or another, the Club kept moving: in 1905 
to the Mansfield; in 1910 to the Royalton; in 1922 to 119 East 
39th St.; in 1928 to the Wentworth; and in 1933 to 39 East 
39th St., where we now celebrate 25 years of good relations 
with the Princeton Club and the neighboring Dartmouth Club. 

Elliott Tolson '06 was proprietor of the Wentworth during 
the period of the Club's tenancy. A full-time secretary, Mrs. 
Bankhart, handled the office work and coordinated committee 
activity. In the spring of 1931, the Board of Governors de- 
cided to engage a recent graduate as Executive Secretary, and 
Joseph E. O'Neil '31 went to work after Commencement. 

O'Neil recently wrote from Paris: "Those were rough days, 
especially as the economic picture deteriorated during the de- 
pression. As I recall, I was paid $25 a week, and at one period 
1 had to wait three months for the dues to come in so that I 
could receive my salary. The income was solely from dues, 
which were $10 per year. Membership was small because of 
limited facilities, and the Club had to borrow money from 
wealthier members in the months before dues were collectible. 
Several members of the Board personally absorbed deficits. 

"During this period, though, members worked very closely 
with Bruce Bigelow in interviewing all applicants for admis- 
sion to Brown and raised money for scholarships. The weekly 
luncheons began, supplementing the Annual Dinner, the An- 



MAY 1958 



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OTHER BROWN GROUPS enjoy the Club hospitality, too. At the 1958 En- 
gineering Dinner, left to right; Provost Bliss, Horace Barker '26, Stanley M. 
Dore '20, Robert S. Chose '48, and George A. Pournaros '25. 

nual Meeting, the annual lunch for Sub-Freshmen prior to the 
opening of College, and special events in connection with 
Brown athletic events in the metropolitan area." 

The Relationship ivilh Princeton 

"The overtures with the Princeton Club began in the latter 
part of 1932. A successful drive for new members, paying the 
new resident dues of $25, came to an abrupt halt with the 
Bank Holiday in March, 1933. The Princeton Club had lost 
about 1000 members in that awful year." 

The success of the negotiations was told in two headlines: 
In the New York Times, "Princeton Club Invites Brown to 
Share House." In the patriotic Providence Journal, "Brown 
Will Invade Princeton Quarters." There was a reassuring sub- 
head: "Graduates to Share Club's New York Facilities on 
Equal Basis." 

The news was announced at the 65th Annual Dinner, to- 
gether with the challenge that affiliation would be contingent 
upon the outcome of a membership campaign by the Brown 
Club. Alexander Graham '06 was confident, as Club President, 
that the quota would be reached in two weeks. President Bar- 
bour endorsed the project at the dinner. 

Today the membership, which has averaged 500 over most 
of the 25 years, approaches 1000. (The Princeton Club has 
4000 members.) But in 1933 Brown had only 200 on its Club 
roster when the problem was laid on the stout shoulders of 
Jeff Granger '13. "It was just a matter of 'fish or cut bait,' 
Granger says. "Hugh Butler '32 and Jack Calkins '32 were 
hired fresh out of college on a full-time basis to recruit mem- 
berships. Both Hugh and Jack are successful business men in 
New York today, but in those tough days the Brown Club's 
only compensation was a straight salary equal to the first 
year's dues of each individual they enlisted." In January the 
Brown Club was able to vote to join the Princeton Club "al- 
most immediately." 

What the Club Could Now Offer 

"For the first time now," said the announcement, "Brown 
will be able to stand in New York with a clubhouse equal to 
that of any college club in the country. For the first time, 
also, the Brown Club will be able to offer its members these 
facilities: Squash courts, 90-room dormitory, excellent restau- 
rant, bar, gymnasium, billiard, backgammon, and card rooms, 
lounge rooms, and every other facility of a complete and 
elaborate club. In addition, there are special ladies' quarters 
and a restaurant where ladies may be entertained after they 
enter through their own entrance." 



Today's relationship between the Brown and Princeton 
Clubs probably figures on four levels: squash, the restaurant, 
the bar, and just plain good relaxation. Perhaps there is not 
quite enough emphasis on the squash, but Bob Fuller '35 is 
at work in this area. 

Although the Board of Governors is at the heart of Brown 
Club activity, there are just too many names to mention over 
the years of service here. Suffice it to say that this year 
Thomas J. Watson, Jr., '37 is being asked to fill the chair of 
C. Douglas Mercer '06. 

The tick-tock of the Club boils down to our Committees. 
In our neat little Brown roster, laid out and designed by 
Robert Inman '24, you get the tip on the range of the Club's 
interest. Look at the listing: Admissions, Executive, Budget 
and Finance, Annual Dinner, Law, Publication and Publicity, 
Membership, Activities, Scholarships, Sub-Freshman, and En- 
tertainment. 

If any is more vital than another, it is probably the Enter- 
tainment group. And here are some of the plans by Bob Berry 
'47 and Jim Tyrrell '48, evolving a schedule of events that 
build a tradition of having a good time at the Club. To lead 
off in the fall, Dean Lloyd Cornell will bring his staflf down 
and conduct a symposium on admissions. At a football night 
in December, Al Kelley will tell us the inside of what hap- 
pened in the fall. The Christmas Eggnog Party plans itself. 
And in the spring there will be a very restrictive and wonder- 
full party limited to Brown men who have been smart enough 
to marry Pembrokers. The Club has Lou Smadbeck '42 and 
Chet Stackpole '22. A Faculty Night is traditional, along with 
the Annual Dinner, Annual Meeting, and regular luncheons. 

All of this activity is aimed as much at having fun as it is 
in interesting more Brown men in joining Brown Clubs. All 
this report has the same purpose, but it only scratches the 
surface of history of an ancient, active, and amiable agency 
for Brown University and its alumni in New York City. 



CHIEF MARSHAL: 



Nose-Counter 



ROBERT W. Burgess '08, Director of the Federal Census 
Bureau, was identified as a "Man to Watch" when the 
New York Herald Tribune featured him in the department 
which bears this label on March 24. Brown men will be 
"watching" him on June 2 when he appears as Chief Marshal 
of the University's Commencement Procession. Walter Adler 
'18 continues as Chief of Staff with responsibility for per- 
sonnel and general organization of details. 

The Herald Trib headline identified the Director of the 
Census Bureau as a "scientific counter of noses." The story 
continued: 

He has that special fondness and respect for figures which 
well become a man who once studied Mathematics as a 
Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. With recession-conscious officials 
in Washington firing salvos of statistics at one another. Dr. 
Burgess might properly wish that more people shared this 
scholarly respect. The Census Bureau issues a "reliable but 
not precise" monthly report on national unemployment based 
on sample surveys. What happens after the report is issued 
sometimes makes Dr. Burgess wince. "I don't like pouncing 
on figures to prove yes or no on a question," he says. 

A soft-spoken man of 70, Dr. Burgess has spent his life 
with statistics. Figures tell a story to him, a fascinating tale 
of gradual change in the social fabric of the country. They 
should be used, he says, to "gain understanding." 



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» 



Dr. Burgess became the nation's chief commandant of facts 
and figures in 1953 after 28 years as Chief Actuary and Ac- 
countant with the Western Electric Co. His work at Western 
Electric involved pension funds, plant depreciation figures, 
and what he terms "appraisal of business prospects." In those 
days he was an avid chess player (today he finds it "too en- 
grossing"), and test matches against the Bell Telephone Labo- 
ratories team often found him pitted against Donald A. 
Quarles, who later became Vice-President of the Bell labs, 
then Deputy Secretary of Defense. 

Dr. Burgess has a 50th reunion at Brown University coming 
up this June. While a Rhodes Scholar he got another B.A. 
from Oxford in 1910 and a Ph.D. at Cornell four years later. 



After that he was well launched into a teaching career, first 
at Purdue, then at Cornell, and finally back at Brown, where 
he taught Mathematics from 1918 to 1924. During World 
War I he was in Washington with the Statistics Bureau of the 
General Staff and rose to the rank of Major. He received an 
honorary Sc.D. from Brown in 1948. 

The Census Bureau is more than just counting noses (some 
229,000,000 of them by 1975). There are "important and 
interesting trends," says Dr. Burgess as he reels off a figure 
(such as the 3,500,000 people holding two jobs). Facts like 
these "are appreciated more than they have been," he says. 
What does he think of his Census Bureau job? "I don't know 
anything I'd rather be doing." 



The Latchstring 
on College Hill 



COMMENCEMENT hospitality on College 
Hill, already notable since the com- 
pletion of the Wriston Quadrangle, gains a 
further dimension in 1958 with the avail- 
ability of some sections of West Quad for 
the older alumni who like things quieter. 
With reunion groups again centering their 
activities around dormitory headquarters, 
it is obvious that Brown has been success- 
ful in its efforts to make the alumni more 
than welcome, as individuals and as 
Classes. Once again the latchstring is out 
on the Hill. 

As is the custom, the 25-Year Class is 
offered housing without charge as the 
guest of the University. For all others, the 
charge is $3 per night per person, including 
bedding, linen, towel, soap, and service. 
Certain areas have been set aside for mar- 
ried couples. 

First call on the available facilities goes 
to the major reunion Classes; the availabil- 
ity of rooms for parents of Seniors and off- 
year alumni depends on such prior require- 
ments. To the extent that there are rooms 
enough for the latter individuals, the Uni- 
versity will try to house them. In any 
event, advance reservation is necessary; re- 
quests should be filed as early as possible 
with the Office of Student Residences, 
Box 1870, Brown University, Providence 
12, R. I. This is particularly important 
where groups hope to be together. Alumni 
will understand that the number of rooms 
is not limitless nor the choice of location 
unrestricted, for the Seniors are still in 
residence. 

Not the least of the attractions on Cam- 
pus is the fact that the Sharpe Refectory 
is handy, with its excellent meals at mod- 
erate prices. Other services on the Hill in- 
clude shopping, barber, and recreational 
and information facilities. The "back-to- 
the Campus" movement in the post-war 
years has support in additions to the Com- 
mencement program, notably the new 
Alumni Field Day on Aldrich-Dexter Field, 
the Sock and Buskin Alumni performances 
in the Theater, the Saturday afternoon re- 
gatta on the Seekonk, and the Saturday 
morning "Hour with the Faculty," which 
gains in popularity each year. These fea- 
tures supplement the standard attractions 
like the "Under the Elms" exercises. 
Alumni Dinner, Campus Dance, Phi Beta 



Kappa programs. Baccalaureate Service, 
President's Reception, tours, exhibitions, 
and Commencement Day itself. 

The Room Registry will be set up in the 
Office of Student Residences, located in 
Wayland House at the Cincinnati Gate. 
This is the main entrance to the Wriston 
Quadrangle on Brown St., near George. 
You can identify the entrance by the fact 
that it is in the archway under the IBM 
Clock Tower; its gable has a large orna- 
mental treatment of the University seal. 

This registration center will be staffed 
from 8 in the morning until midnight on 
the three busiest days of the Commence- 
ment season (Friday, Saturday, and Sun- 
day). Alumni who have reservations should 
confirm them there, get space assignment, 
and pick up keys and mail. After midnight, 
room keys may be obtained from the 
Porter at this same entrance. The Room 
Registry will also be headquarters for in- 
formation on Class Reunion and other 
Commencement activities, Lost-and-Found, 
and other services. Rooms may be occu- 
pied from Friday morning at 10 through 
the Monday luncheon period. 

In addition to the Alumni Dinner and 
the Commencement Day meals, the Uni- 
versity will serve other meals throughout 
the season, in the Ivy Room of Sharpe Re- 
fectory. The cafeteria will be open during 
the following hours: Friday through Mon- 
day: breakfast — 8 to 10: luncheon — noon 
to 2; dinner— 5:30 to 6:30. The Coffee 
Lounge in Faunce House will serve coffee, 
light snacks, and fountain refreshments 
from 10 a.m. Friday to 2 a.m. Saturday 
morning (an accommodation to those at 
the Campus Dance); on Saturday from 
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; and on Monday from 
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 

The well-stocked University Store in- 
cludes a full line of Brown souvenirs among 
its wares, well worth inspection. Mementos 
sponsored by the Associated Alumni will 
also be on view. The Store will be open 
for the convenience of the visitors at the 
following hours: Friday and Saturday, 
8:45 a.m. to 5:15 p.m.; Sunday, 1 p.m. to 
3 p.m.; Monday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (except 
during the Procession and graduation ex- 
ercises, of course). The Store is located on 
the ground floor of the east wing of Faunce 
House, under the Theater, and may be en- 



tered from the sunken garden as well as 
from within the building. The new Post 
Office is adjacent. The Barber Shop in 
Faunce House is open weekdays until 5, 
Saturday afternoon until 2. The News 
Counter in the old Trophy Room will be 
open each day and also during Friday 
night. 

Guests who arrive by auto will be able 
to park their cars in various University 
lots or in commercial garages in the neigh- 
borhood. Information about this facility 
will be available at the Room Registry 
desk. There are telephones for incoming 
and outgoing calls in the hallways of the 
dormitory sections. 

Alumni House at 59 George St. will be 
staffed at appropriate hours during the 
week end, with a welcome to all alumni. 
The University Club at 219 Benefit St. 
traditionally keeps "open house" for Brown 
men during portions of the Commencement 
season. 




FIRST PRIZE in the annual Members' Exhibition 
at the Providence Art Club was won by this en- 
try, a fighting cock. The sculptor was Carleton 
GofF '24. (Photo was taken by the Providence 
Journal) 



MAY 1958 



23 




A ROLLCALDF REUNIONS 



WITH THE University offering more 
accommodations and festivities than 
ever before. 48 Classes responded to an 
early deadline and supplied this magazine 
with plans for whal shapes up as one of 
Brown's greatest reunions. Starting on 
Friday, May 30 ( Memorial Day ), the 
Commencement Week End will run 
through Monday. June 2. 

The new West Quadrangle will make il 
possible for Brown to house more alumni 
on Campus than at any time in the past. 
And, as might be expected, the swing is 
toward the so-called Campus-based reun- 
ion. However, there are still some Classes 
that have arranged attractive programs 
combining the best features of the Cam- 
pus and off-Campus celebrations. 

This year also will see the birth of the 
Alumni Field Day on Saturday, May 31. 
at the Aldrich-Dexler Field. This all- 
Brown reunion will run from 1 to 5 p.m. 
and should definitely provide a real feature 
of the sort asked for on Saturday after- 
noons of the reunion week end. All the 
details on this gala event are listed else- 
where in this magazine. 

All of the five-year classes have made 
elaborate preparations for their rendez- 
vous on the Hill. In addition, more and 
more of the off-year groups are arranging 
for reunions that will provide their alumni 
with something to do from early Friday 
afternoon until at least Saturday evening. 
Some of these Classes are using the 
Alumni Dinner, the Campus Dance, and 
the Alumni Field Day as the backbone of 
their reunion plans, 

As usual, the Faunce House Theater 
Lounge will be open during the Com- 
mencement Week End for Classes out 50 
years or more to use as a meeting place. 

In most cases, where details in this 
round-up were not complete, the Class 
Secretary or Reunion Chairman was plan- 
ning a mailing to bring his classmates up 
ID date on the last-minute arrangements. 

1893 

Although missing its generous host at 
the Squantum Clambake this year, the 

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The Classes' Individual Plans 
Are Bolstered by the Alumni 
Dinner and a New Field Day 



late Edward B. Aldrich, the Class will 
continue its proud reunion tradition once 
again on its 6.'ith anniversary. Special em- 
phasis will be given to the Alumni Dinner 
and the Alumni Field Day. As in other 
years, J. D. E. Jones. Jr.. has invited "93 
to enjoy breakfast ai the Hope Club on 
Commencement morning. Because of the 
earlier assembly for the Procession, how- 
ever, the breakfast is scheduled for 7:30. 

1900 
Tentative plans are being made for a 
Class get-together in the early afternoon 
of Commencement Day. Monday. June 2. 
The committee hopes to have a good num- 
ber back for a luncheon which probably 
will be served at some locale outside the 
city. Final plans will be forthcoming. 

1902 

The Class of '02 will continue to main- 
tain its unbroken record of anniversary 
observances when it will meet for the 
56th time. This gathering will take the 
usual form of a Commencement Day 
luncheon at the University Club. Mem- 
bers of the Class are being urged to join 
in the Procession and march down the 
Hill — "just to work up an appetite for 
the luncheon!" This combination has 
grown in popularity over the years and is 
e.\pected to draw an attendance of about 
20 "02 men. 

1903 
The 55th anniversary of our graduation 
from the College on the Hill will be cele- 
brated with a four-day get-together on 
Brown's ever-changing Campus. We have 
been assigned the Wriston Quadrangle as 
our headquarters for the week end. 

Our program will start with cocktails 
at Jack Cady's on Friday afternoon. May 
30. after which we will attend the Alumni 
Dinner. Tentative plans for Saturday in- 
clude lunch at a country club and dinner 
in the evening, .^t this latter event, we ex- 
pect to have someone from the Faculty on 
hand to give us an after-dinner talk. 



On Sunday, we will gather at noon for 
our annual Class Meeting, followed by 
dinner. The rest of the day will be spent 
informally at our headquarters. Monday, 
we will march down the Hill in the Com- 
mencement Procession, with a luncheon 
following at noon, probably at the Uni- 
versity Club. 

1904 

The annual reunion of the Class will be 
held on Saturday evening, May 31, at the 
University Club, 219 Benefit St.. at 6 
oclock. This annual Class Dinner is in 
addition to the general events of the sea- 
son in which '04 will join. 

1905 

The 53rd annual Class Banquet will be 
held on Saturday evening. May 31. at 6:30 
in the Sharpe Refectory. Fred Thurber 
and several "surprise" speakers will be 
heard from. In addition, the members of 
the Class will be out in good force for 
all the traditional events that make a 
Brown Commencement so special, includ- 
ing the new Alumni Field Day at the Al- 
drich-Dexter Field. 

1906 

As usual, there will be a table reserved 
for classmates at the Reunion of Reunions, 
the Alumni Dinner, on Friday, May 30. 
at the Sharpe Refectory. In addition. 116 
is planning an independent Class Dinner. 
Classmates will be notified of the lime 
and place of this event. 

1907 

In addition to the traditional Com- 
mencement Week End events, at which 07 
always is well represented, a meeliny at 
the Brown Boat House also has been 
tentatively scheduled. Classmates will re- 
ceive notice concerning final details on 
this affair. 

1908 

Dormitory rooms in the Wriston Quad- 
rangle have been reserved for classmates, 
wives, and friends, and this will be our 
headquarters for the gala 50lh. Cb^s ta- 
bles will provide members with a meeiiog 
place Friday evening at the Alumni Din- 
ner, the first event on our schedule. 

Classmates have been offered an opliun 
Saturday afternoon. As a five-year class. 
we will have a tent supplied us at the 
Alumni Field Day at the new Aldri^"' 
Dexter Field. In addition to classmates 
and their wives, the widows of our laic 
members arc invited to rejoin the Class 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTML^ 



I 



for this occasion. Then, for those who 
wi^h to journey further, a trip by char- 
tered bus and private autos has been ar- 
ranged. This jaunt will take us to Bristol 
where we can inspect the Haffenreffer 
Museum and Reservation. From there we 
will head for Newport and the Ten-Mile 
Drive, returning to Rhode Island that 
evening for the Class Dinner at the Rhode 
Island Country Club. This affair has been 
scheduled for 7 o'clock, and Prof. Charles 
Walts, the new Dean, will be a speaker. 

On Sunday, some classmates will want 
10 rest while others may desire to view the 
new Brown buildings and take in the 
President's Reception. We will say fare- 
well to our Golden Anniversary Monday 
when we march down the Hill to the fa- 
miliar strains of the Commencement 
March. 

1909 

A Class Dinner at the Agawam Hunt 
Club on Sunday evening, June 1. will 
highlight the 49lh Reunion of '09. A large 
attendance is expected at the dinner, as 
there will be an extensive discussion of 
the plans for the big 5Qth next June. 

1910 
Our Class will follow its usual custom 
of getting together Sunday noon, June 1. 
at the Squantum Club for dinner. This in- 
formal dinner-meeting has been very well 
attended in past years. And don't forget. 
all classmates will have an opportunity to 
view the Aldrich-Dexter Field Saturday 
afternoon. May 31. at the first Alumni 
Field Day. Members of the Class are 
urged to contact Secretary Ed Spicer, 158 
Bowen St.. Providence 6, concerning ac- 
commodations or transportation for the 
big Commencement Week End. 

1911 

The members of the Class, along with 
their wives and guests, will meet for cock- 
tails and dinner at 6:15 Saturday evening. 
May 31, at the Agawam Hunt Club in 
East Providence. Judah C. Semonoff, a 
member of the Class and a past President 
of the Rhode Island Bar Association, will 
talk on his trip to London with the Ameri- 
can Bar Association last summer. 

1912 
The Class will hold a cocktail party at 
-^ p.m. at the University Club on Friday, 
May 30, prior to the Alumni Dinner. 
There also will be a Class Breakfast at 
•he University Club Monday morning. 
June 2, prior to the traditional Commence- 
ment Procession down the Hill. The at- 
tention of Classmates also is called to the 
first Alumni Field Day, scheduled for 
AUirich-Dexier Field on Saturday, May 
31. from 1 to 5 p.m. 

1913 
With the new West Quadrangle as head- 
qLCirlers. the men of "13 will celebrate 
their 45th Reunion in gala style during 
Inc four-day week end. right from the 
cockj,ii| party Friday afternoon at 5 to 
^iie 'iimmencement March Monday morn- 
ing -1 9. 

May 1958 



Saturday morning has been left open. 
We know many classmates, especially 
those who have been away for a spell, will 
want to inspect the new buildings, visit 
their fraternity house, play cards, or, per- 
haps, a little golf. Breakfast and lunch 
will be available in the Ivy Room of the 
Sharpe Refectory. We will all journey to 
the Alumni Field Day that afternoon, 
with classmates meeting near the assigned 
'13 tent. For Saturday evening we have 
planned a cocktail party and a Class Din- 
ner at the Hope Club. 

Sunday morning will be reserved for 
rest, but at I p.m. sharp we report to the 
Squantum Club for a shore dinner, cour- 
tesy of Dick Knight. Bull sessions at head- 
quarters will probably occupy the evening 
hours. 

The traditional Commencement Proces- 
sion Monday morning will close out our 
45th Reunion — except in memories, and 
we expect to have a good supply of them 
for all to take home! 

1914 
Members are urged to come out in 
force for the new event on the Brown 
Commencement Week End program — the 
Alumni Field Day on Saturday afternoon. 
May 31, at the Aldrich-Dexter Field. The 
rest of the four-day program takes care of 
itself, with the Class having a table at the 
Alumni Dinner Friday evening. At some 
point, an informal session will be held 
to lay the groundwork for the big 45th 
Reunion approaching us with great speed- 

1915 
The usual off-year reunion is planned 
for Friday afternoon. May 30. at the Hope 
Club from 4:30 to 6 p.m. A short business 
meeting and cocktails will be followed by 
the Alumni Dinner, where a Class table 



For the 5U-PIu.s Clus.sfs 
The Theater Lounge of Faunce 
House will once again be set aside 
for the "50-Plus Classes" during the 
Commencement week end, continu- 
ing a popular arrangement of recent 
years. An informal assembly is 
planned there Saturday, May 31, at 
2 o'clock, but the senior alumni are 
urged to make use of the room as 
headquarters at any time during the 
festive season. The room provides 
comfortable opportunity for leisurely 
talk with contemporaries (individ- 
uals or groups t and makes a good 
starting point for any ramble around 
the Hill. 

As usual, the feature event of the 
week end for the elders will be their 
special luncheon on Commencement 
Day — Monday, June 2. Members of 
the 50-Plus Classes are the guests of 
the University on this occasion, 
meeting in either the President's or 
Chancellor's Dining Room in Sharpe 
Refectory. 



has been reserved. Any further details will 
be forwarded by mail. 

1916 

Again this year, Stan and Ruth Mc- 
Leod have been kind enough to invite the 
members of '16 to their home, 15 Free- 
man Parkway, at 5 p.m. on Friday, May 
30, for cocktails prior to the Alumni 
Dinner. 

1917 

The annual Class Meeting will be held 
at the Delta Tau Delta Fraternity House 
on Friday afternoon from 4 to 5 o'clock, 
followed, of course, by the always-popular 
Alumni Dinner. Something new and excit- 
ing has been planned for Saturday — the 
Alumni Field Day — ^and we hope this 
event will provide a meeting place for 
classmates who are able to get back to the 
Hill. 

1918 

The home of Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. 
Grimes, 123 Grotto Ave., Providence, will 
be the scene of the kick-off cocktail party 
Friday evening. May 30. From then right 
through Monday morning there will be 
something doing as the men of '18 cele- 
brate their Big 40lh. The West Quad will 
be our headquarters. 

While the men are partaking of the 
Sharpe Refectory food at the Alumni Din- 
ner later in the evening, the ladies will 
have a dinner of their own at a spot to be 
announced. The Campus Dance always 
provides a fitting climax to Friday of any 
Commencement Week End. 

Informal golf and relaxation at the 
Wannamoisetl Country Club is the order 
of the day Saturday morning and after- 
noon. The Class Dinner will be held at 
the Club at 7. with a meal also provided 
for the wives at some location. 

No plans have been made for Sunday, 
but a Class Breakfast will be held at the 
Sharpe Refectory Monday morning prior 
to the grand march down the Hill. 

1919 
The Class has again accepted the gen- 
erous invitation of Chet Beard to have its 
39lh Reunion at his home in South Attle- 
boro. with supper on the evening of Sun- 
day. June 1. The pleasant experiences of 
the past two years promise another en- 
joyable occasion. 

1920 
Most of the activity for this off-year re- 
union is scheduled for Friday. May 30, 
although a number of classmates have in- 
dicated that they intend lo join the crowd 
at the Alumni Field Day at Aldrich-Dex- 
ter Field Saturday afternoon. May 31. Tlie 
two events on the agenda for Friday in- 
clude a cocktail party at the University 
Club at 5, followed by the traditional 
Alumni Dinner at 6:30. A Class table will 
be reserved. 

1921 

Our off-year plans include a Class table 
at the Alumni Dinner Friday evening and 
a Class Dinner Saturday night. The time 
and place of the latter event had not been 
established at press time. We also expect 
strong representation at the Alumni Field 
Day on Saturday afternoon. 

1922 

Faced with the limitations of an off- 
year reunion, the men of "22 nevertheless 
are going lo make themselves heard on 
College Hill during the Commencement 
Week End. Wc will be out in force at the 



Alumni Dinner Friday evening, taking ad- 
vantage of our reserved table at the Sharpe 
Refectory, and on Saturday afternoon. 
May 31, we intend to do our part to make 
the newly-established Alumni Field Day a 
huge success. 

1923 

A cocktail party at the home of John 
Lownes will initiate the 35th Reunion of 
the Class on Friday afternoon at 4:30. 
From the headquarters in the West Quad- 
rangle, the men will journey forth to the 
Alumni Dinner at 6:30, while the ladies 
will be taken care of at the University 
Club. As usual. Class tables have been re- 
served at the Alumni Dinner. Also, there 
will be a "23 Table at the Campus Dance 
later in the evening. 

Saturday is a full day. Classmates are 
urged to rally round the "23 multi-colored 
tent at the .Mumni Field Day at Aldrich- 
Dexter Field between 1 and .5 p.m. There 
are activities for both young and old. and 
the whole family is invited. Then, in the 
cool of the evening, there will be a dinner 
for the men at the Viking Hotel, Newport. 

Sunday's schedule also is attractive — 
and filling! Plans call for an afternoon 
clambake at the King Philip Bakemaster 
in Bristol, with the ladies included. 

Col. Bill McCormick and J. D. E. Jones, 
Jr., take over on Monday morning with 
their annual breakfast at the University 
Club. The final official act in our plans 
for the 35th, of course, is the Commence- 
ment Procession down the Hill. Let's make 
the '23 line the longest line in the march! 

1924 

Sam Wilkins will throw a cocktail party 
for returning classmates at his home. 104 
Bowen St., Friday afternoon. May 30, at 
5 o'clock. Most of the classmates will 
then meet at the Class tables at the 
Alumni Dinner. The big event Saturday. 
of course, is the Alumni Field Day. We 
expect a large number of classmates and 
their families to renew old acquaintances 
at the Aldrich-Dexter Field from 1 to 5 
p.m. There is the possibility of a dinner 
Saturday evening, and members will be 
notified at a later date of any plans in 
this regard. Actually, this off-year reunion 
will be a "dry-run" for the big 35th next 
spring! 

1926 

Our informal plans for this off-year re- 
union include the traditional Alumni Din- 
ner Friday evening, the newly-established 
Alumni Field Day Saturday afternoon at 
Aldrich-Dexter Field, and the always- 
pleasant Commencement Procession Mon- 
day morning. A good number of class- 
mates have indicated that they and their 
families will be back for one or more of 
these events. 

1927 

A Class table at the Alumni Dinner will 
be reserved for those classmates who 
would like to get together on this off-year 
reunion. Indications are that a number of 
classmates also will be present at the 
Alumni Field Day on Saturday. 

1928 

The men of '28 will start their 30th Re- 
union with registration at the Goddard 
House on Friday afternoon. Then, at 5 
p.m., Mr. and Mrs. Kent Matteson will 
have a cocktail party at their home for 
all classmates and their wives. The ladies 
will stay at the Matteson residence for a 



buffet while the men attend the Alumni 
Dinner. Classmates will also find a table 
ready for their use at the Campus Dance. 

A luncheon at the Wannamoisett Coun- 
try Club, followed by an afternoon of 
golf, is on tap for Saturday as the men do a 
solo. However, the girls will be picked up 
in time to attend the dinner at the Squan- 
lum Club that evening. 

Sunday has been designated as "sack" 
day, but we expect all available classmates 
to be on hand for the Commencement 
March down College Hill Monday morn- 
ing. 

1930 

A Class table has been reserved for the 
Campus Dance on Friday evening. May 
30, with another get-together planned for 
Saturday afternoon at the Alumni Field 
Day. 

1931 

A Class table has been reserved in the 
large tent at the Alumni Field Day, Satur- 
day afternoon. May 31, at the Aldrich- 
Dexter Field, and we enthusiastically urge 
all classmates to try and attend this new 
event. There also will be informal gather- 
ings throughout the week end, including 
the Alumni Dinner, where Class tables 
have been reserved. 

1932 

The annual Class Reunion of '32 will 
get under way with a Dutch-treat cock- 
tail party for husbands and wives at the 
University Club Friday afternoon. The 
ladies will stay at the Club for dinner, 
while the men journey to the Alumni Din- 
ner. A Class table will be available at the 
Campus dance later. 

The Class Luncheon will be served at 
1 p.m. sharp at the Bay Voyage Hotel, 
Jamestown. A variety of sports, none too 
strenuous, will occupy the afternoon, with 
the Class Dinner set for 7 o'clock. The 
married men have agreed to defeat the 
single chaps in the annual softball game 
by a 23-22'/2 score. 

The Business Meeting and the election 
of officers will be held Sunday after 
church. Then, Monday morning, a break- 
fast for the fathers and the children will 
be held at the Refectory prior to the 
march down the Hill. 

1933 

You'll register in the Bigelow Lounge 
of the new West Quadrangle, but it will 
be in the familiar Maxcy Lounge at 5 
p.m. on Friday afternoon, May 30, that 
the 25th Reunion will get under way with 
a cocktail party. Then, with the wives 
taken care of at the Wayland Manor, the 
men will move on to the Refectory for 
the Alumni Dinner, A Class table at the 
Campus Dance will provide a meeting 
place later in the evening. 

A novelty, a post-dance breakfast, will 
be held at the Faculty Club at 2 a.m. 
Saturday morning. Later in the morning, 
at about 9:30, we will have another 
breakfast, this one in the Refectory. The 
Alumni Field Day will provide the en- 
tertainment from 1 to 5 in the afternoon, 
and classmates are asked to meet at our 
tent on the grounds of the Aldrich-Dexter 
Field. Cocktails, followed by dinner and 
dancing, will climax the day at the Uni- 
versity Club. 

Rather than rest on our laurels Sunday, 
the men of '33 will bravely drag their 
ladies to a buffet luncheon at the Yacht 
Club, This will be followed by power 



boat rides, for those who have the power. 
A Class Meeting will be held at 5:30 in 
the Ivy Room of the Sharpe Refectory, 
followed by supper. 

All are urged to join the Commence- 
ment March Monday. It's down hill, boys! 

1934 

All 1934 men are invited to join the 
local group during the Commencement 
Week End to formulate plans for our big 
25th next June. Other than that, only in- 
formal gatherings will take place at the 
traditional events and at the new Alumni 
Field Day. 

1935 

Classmates will be notified at a later 
date of any reunion plans. At the present 
time, a Class table at the Alumni Dinner 
Friday evening and a tent at the Alumni 
Field Day on Saturday afternoon are be- 
ing considered. 

1936 

Members are urged to "join the crowd" 
at the Saturday afternoon Alumni Field 
Day at the Aldrich-Dexter Field on May 
3 1 . This new event promises a good time 
for all, both young and old. Class tables 
have been reserved for the Alumni Dinner 
on Friday evening. 

1937 

No formal plans have been made for 
this off-year reunion. However, a Class 
table or two will be available at the 
Alumni Dinner, and classmates are alerted 
to a fine new Brown event — the Alumni 
Field Day on Saturday afternoon. May 
31, at the newly-purchased Aldrich-Dex- 
ter Field. We'd also like to make a pitch 
for a better '37 turnout for the Com- 
mencement Procession on Monday morn- 
ing. 

1938 

The 20th Reunion of the Class of '38 
should be one of the best seen on the 
Hill in recent years. Plans are extensive 
and varied, with the ladies also receiving a 
Bear's share of the attention. 

The Providence Art Club will be the 
scene of the opening event on the agenda 
— a cocktail party for the fellas and the 
gals Friday afternoon, May 30, at 5 p.m. 
Then, while the men head for the Alumni 
Dinner at the Sharpe Refectory, their 
"dates" will dine at the Art Club. The 
traditional meeting place for the sexes, of 
course, will be the Campus Dance on the 
Middle Campus. A special treat has been 
arranged following the Senior Sing — a 
midnight snack at a Quadrangle Lounge. 

After breakfast at the Refectory Satur- 
day morning, many will wish to take a 
stroll around the Campus. Some men are 
planning a round of golf at the Metacomet 
in the afternoon, while others with their 
ladies will attend the first annual Alumni 
Field Day at the Aldrich-Dexter Field. A 
'38 tent has been reserved as a meeting 
place for the group. The men will hold a 
Class Business Meeting, followed by cock- 
tails, dinner, and dancing at Froebel Hall. 

After the Refectory breakfast on Sun- 
day, the group will gather at Bill Mac- . 
Dougal's farm in East Greenwich for | 
lunch and further refreshments. 

1939 

The Commencement Week End will be 
ushered in with a cocktail party Friday 
afternoon in the Class room at Sears 
House in the Wriston Quadrangle, com- 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



mencing at 5 o'clock. The Alumni Dinner 
will follow. 

Saturday evening, we give the wives 
their day. There will be a cocktail party 
and dinner at the Wannamoisset Country 
Club starting at 6:30. Earlier in the day, 
classmates and their families are invited 
to attend the first annual Alumni Field 
Day at the Aldrich-Dexter Field. 

1940 

As usual, there will be an open house at 
the University Club on Friday afternoon 
prior to the Alumni Dinner. No other 
Commencement plans have been arranged. 

1941 

Secretary Earl Harrington, Jr., is mak- 
ing arrangements for the 1941 attendance 
at the Alumni Dinner Friday night. May 
30. Contact him at 24 Glen Ave., Edge- 
wood 5, R. I. A large turnout is expected 
at the Alumni Field Day on Saturday, 
May 31, at the Aldrich-Dexter Field. 

1943 

Fifteen years out of College, the Class 
of 1943 will take advantage of other Cam- 
pus festivities to round out its own at- 
tractive reunion program. A cocktail party 
will bring the men together for early reg- 
istration before the Alumni Dinner and 
Campus Dance on Friday. After a night 
in one of the dormitories on the Hill, '43 
will join in the Alumni Field Day at Al- 
drich-Dexter Field and then be by itself 
at a dinner dance for the men and their 
wives. Full details will be provided in the 
mail to supplement this preliminary an- 
nouncement. 




QsjB^BOARD/ 

Get Bet for the salty celebration 
of your first decade out of Brown. 
Here are the highlights. Plan 
to come. 

FRIDAY, MAY 30 

Cocktail Party— Wayland Manor 
Alumni Dinner— Sharpe Refectory 
Campus Dance 

SATURDAY. MAY 31 

Cruise on the good ship Viking 

Shore Dinner 

Moonlight Sail, Music St, Dancing 

Tenth Reunion Committee, 
Class of 1948. 



1945 

If early plans work out, the Class will 
have one of the tents at the Alumni Field 
Day on Saturday afternoon. May 31. We 
hope that purchase of this tent will allow 
us to have a definite rallying place not 
only at this annual affair but at Home- 
coming get-togethers as well. So, when 
you enter the Aldrich-Dexter Field cast 
an eye for the '45 tent and join the gang. 
In addition. Class tables have been ar- 
ranged for the Alumni Dinner on Friday 
evening. 

1946 

No formal off-year plans have been 
made, but we expect that many classmates 
will be participating as individuals in the 
various Commencement Week End activi- 
ties. The Alumni Dinner and the Campus 
Dance always are popular Friday night 
affairs, while the new Alumni Field Day 
on Saturday afternoon promises a good 
time for all men of '46 and their families. 



1948 

The 10th Reunion of '48 promises to be 
a nautical affair, with the committee 
promising to keep classmates and their 
ladies at "sea" during at least the Saturday 
program. A complete sketch of the reun- 
ion plans can be found in an ad elsewhere 
on this page. 

1949 

Friday evening always has been an ac- 
tive one for '49 during the Commence- 
ment Week End with Class tables at both 
the Alumni Dinner and the Campus 
Dance, and this year will be no exception. 
However, our big activity this spring will 
be under our own tent at the Alumni 
Field Day on Saturday afternoon. May 31. 
So, come on back, and bring your wives 
and families. 

1950 
Brown's largest Class (1332) will again 
stage a colorful off-year reunion in the 
hopes of bringing as many classmates as 
possible back to Campus for the week 
end. The 20-man Executive Committee of 
the Class will get the week end off on the 
right track by sponsoring a cocktail party 
for all classmates and their ladies from 5 
to 6:30 at the Bill Mayer residence, 297 
President Ave. At the April monthly meet- 
ing, the Executive Committee voted to foot 
the bill for this affair on all off-year re- 
unions. At the cocktail party the annual 
Class Achievement Award will be pre- 
sented to the member of the Class who 
has most distinguished himself in his 
chosen career during the past year. Then, 
Class tables have been reserved for both 
the Alumni Dinner and the Campus 
Dance. 

The big news Saturday is the first an- 
nual Alumni Field Day, an affair which 
our Secretary, Bob Cummings, worked 
hard to promote last June for the Classes 
of '49, '50, and "51. This year, the event is 
for all Brown men and their families and 
friends. The location this May will be the 
newly-purchased Aldrich-Dexter Field, and 
the Class of '50 has secured a multi-col- 
ored tent as a meeting place for all class- 
mates. Don't miss this one — it should be 
a wonderful time for all! 

Monday morning, of course, closes out 
another college year, and we'd like as 
many '50 men as possible to try and join 
the march down the Hill. 



1951 

An active two-day reunion is planned 
for the men of '51 in this off-year. The 
program will get under way Friday after- 
noon with a cocktail party, time and place 
to be announced. For those planning to 
attend the Alumni Dinner, Class tables 
will be available. The Campus Dance fills 
out the Friday festivities. 

Classmates are urged to rise early Satur- 
day morning because a Class Election 
will be held in the Faunce House Art Gal- 
lery at 1 1 o'clock. Then, after a short 
snack, it's off to the Alumni Field Day, a 
gigantic version of the good time we all 
had on our 5th. 

1952 

Class tables have been arranged for the 
Alumni Dinner and the Campus Dance in 
this off-year. There is also a possibility 
that '52 may purchase a tent for the 
Alumni Field Day on Saturday afternoon 
at the Aldrich-Dexter Field. 

1953 

With George Pollard and Joe Johnston 
making the plans, the big 5th Reunion for 
the men of '53 looks very promising. 
There will be a kick-off cocktail party 
Friday afternoon at 4:30, with the time 
and place to be announced later. To fill 
out the Friday activities, there will be 
Class tables at both the Alumni Dinner 
and the Campus Dance. 

A Class Meeting has been set for one 
of the fraternity dining halls in the Re- 
fectory Saturday morning at 9:30, follow- 
ing breakfast. At 10, there is a guided tour 
of the Campus, a must for those who 
haven't been back since graduation. Then, 
at 1 p.m., we all will gather at the '53 
tent at the Alumni Field Day. The whole 
family is welcome at this event! A cock- 
tail party and dinner Saturday evening 
will officially close the week end program. 
Again, time and place of this affair will 
be announced shortly. 

We trust that all local lads will ask the 
boss for an hour or so off Monday morn- 
ing so that you can join in the Cormnence- 
ment Procession down the Hill. 



Physician's Honor 

THE American College of Physicians 
has conferred on Dr. Alex M. Burgess 
'06 its major honor, the Alfred Stengel 
Memorial Award for 1958. He received it 
on April 30 during the Convocation of the 
College in Convention Hall, Atlantic City. 
The Award is conferred periodically "on 
a Fellow who, by virtue of his loyalty and 
service to the College, deserves an honor 
from it which is unique." A further qual- 
ification is that the recipient shall have 
"displayed an outstanding influence in 
maintaining and advancing the best stand- 
ards in medical education, medical prac- 
tice, and clinical research, in perpetuating 
the history and traditions of medicine and 
medical ethics, and in upholding the dig- 
nity and efficiency of Internal Medicine in 
its relation to the public welfare." 

The College of Physicians regards the 
Award as its "honorary degree for a Fel- 
low who has best carried forward its aims. 
By preference, the Award goes to one who 
has served as an officer, Regent, or Gov- 
ernor of the College. Dr. Burgess has 
been Governor, Regent, and President. He 
is the first New Englander to receive the 
Award, which is named for a former Pres- 
ident of the College. 



MAY 1958 



27 



EDITOR'S NIGHT 





BOARD CHAIRMAN Braitsch reminisced on 
39 years of association with his classmate. 



« 




THOUGH "tickled Brown," Worthington 
detected "o whiff of gas" in some statements. 



RESPONDING: Left to right, lauding laureate Clapp, 

Worthington, Williams, and Mrs. Worthington. 



TOASTMASTER WILLIAMS (at left, below) showed the Editor's first "publishment" (1916). 
Intercollegiate compliments came through the storm with Dartmouth's Editor Widmayer, right. 



28 




APPLAUSE IN A BLIZZARD: 



A Story Marked 'Must' 



It just isn't done, you know. Ait edi- 
tor should stay out of sight in his own 
magazine. But the Editor of the Brown 
Alumni Monthly had nothing to say 
about what follows — the report of a 
dinner in his honor. The story of that 
occasion was ordered by the Board of 
Editors, and that group has the ulti- 
mate control over the policy and con- 
tent of these pages. So here it is: 

By JAY BARRY '50 

MORE THAN 200 MEMBERS of the Brown 
University family braved one of the 
worst blizzards in a decade the evening of 
March 21 to pay tribute to one of their 
favorites, Chesley Worthington '23, Editor 
of the Brown Alumni Monthly. The occa- 
sion was a dinner held at the Sharpe Re- 
fectory, sponsored by the Brown Club of 
Rhode Island to honor "Chet" for his 
"many years of devoted service to Brown 
and to the community." 

Seated at the head table were represent- 
atives of many of the organizations the 
Brown Editor has been associated with 
over the years, both within and beyond the 
confines of College Hill. J. Harold Wil- 
liams '18, Executive Director of Narra- 
gansett Council, Boy Scouts of America, 
was toastmaster. Other guests included 
Diana Worthington, Chet's charming wife; 
Roger Clapp "19, Providence attorney; C. 
Arthur Braitsch '23, Chairman of the 
Board of Editors of the Brown Aliinuii 
Monthly: Charles Widmayer, Editor of the 
Dartmouth Alumni Magazine: Stanley 
Henshaw, Jr., '35, President of the Brown 
Club of Rhode Island; and the lovely Mrs. 
Henshaw. Directly in front of the head 
table sat Connie Worthington, celebrating 
her 14th birthday. Bill Worthington, a 
member of the Freshman Class at Brown, 
President Barnaby C. Keeney, and the 
Dinner Committee of Earl B. Nichols '43, 
Bruce Williamson '49, and Bill McCraw 
•50. 

In the audience were many people who 
had known Chet down through the years 
and, in many cases, those who had worked 
with him on various University or civic 
projects, including Al Gurney '07 and 
Doug Snow "45, former colleagues on the 
staff of the BAM. Scores of telegrams 
poured in from magazine editors and 
Brown Clubs all around the country. 
Other wires came from alumni and friends 
who lived nearby but who were forced to 
miss the affair because of the snowstorm. 
Gil Case '25, Chairman of the Depart- 
ment of Education, pulled down a "first 
prize" with his message: "No heat, no 
light, no transportation — just best wishes 
from a fair weather friend." 

Williams, a man who admitted that he 
has known Chet "since a day in 1915 
when he bought his first Scout suit as a 



member of the famous Third Providence 
Troop," was a perfect toastmaster. He 
kept the affair moving at a fast pace, 
never allowing the situation to approach 
the maudlin, as is common in all too 
many testimonials. He presented Chet 
with a portable typewriter on behalf of 
the Brown Club, as well as "something of 
historic interest for the family archives": 
a copy of the first publication that W. 
Chesley Worthington ever put out — the 
Weekly Echo. Vol. I, No. 1, of the Third 
Providence Troop. The date — Wednesday, 
Sept. 20, 1916. 

Art Braitsch, a classmate, noted that he 
has spent "a great deal of my life proudly 
telling people what a great editor and 
great person is this Worthington fellow." 
He related how Chet, well along on a suc- 
cessful career with the Providence Journal, 
made the decision to come to Brown. 
"Since then," Braitsch pointed out. "he 
has raised the standards of alumni publi- 
cations throughout the country and has 
brought lasting credit and praise to the 
name of Brown." 

Contribution by Anon. 

"It's an awfully difficult thing to try to 
describe someone you like," Roger Clapp 
noted, "because why you do like him is 
for a great variety of reasons." But he 
cited his reasons for speaking up "in favor 
of Worthington: his loyalty, friendship, 
accomplishments, brilliance, wit. humour, 
and general good nature." Admitting that 
"if you start to describe someone like that, 
you don't know where to start, and once 
having started you don't know where to 
stop or how to stop," Clapp read a bit of 
verse he came across "by that famous 
poet. Anon." It was both a warm and 
amusing poem, typical Roger Clapp. 

The "story with the national angle," as 
Williams described it, was spun by Charles 
Widmayer, Dartmouth's fine editor. To 
us, this also seemed the story that best 
summed up the things that many of us 
closer to the scene feel but usually find so 
difficult to express, and we are going to 
take the liberty of quoting extensively 
from this talk. 

"I speak for the hundreds of alumni 
and alumnae magazine editors throughout 
the country," he began. "We want to con- 
gratulate Brown University upon its good 
fortune in having Chet Worthington in the 
key position of providing a two-way com- 
munication between the University and its 
alumni. And we are delighted to know 
that he is not a prophet without honor in 
his own country. This testimonial to Chet, 
recognizing the great importance of his 
work for Brown, is in a very real sense a 
compliment for the college magazine edi- 
tors all over the country. 

"We know him as one who is actively 
interested in all higher education and an 
ever-ready worker for it through the 
agency of the American Alumni Council. 



This organization, of which Chet is a Past 
President, is composed of some 850 col- 
leges and universities. Among all these 
college executives working in the alumni 
field, Chet holds a particularly prominent 
place. He's well known from Coast to 
Coast, and I doubt that any colleague has 
ever approached him for help or advice 
and has failed to get it in a very friendly 
and effective way. Beyond the Brown 
family, Chet is a superlatively good Am- 
bassador for Brown University, creating 
new respect and a heightened sense of 
friendliness toward Brown wherever he 
goes. 

The Test of a Magazine 

"The last thing I need to tell this audi- 
ence is that Chet puts out a consistently 
fine magazine. And in this editorial busi- 
ness, consistency is the real test. Holding 
to a high level of interest, variety, balance, 
and an attractive presentation month after 
month is what separates the men from 
the boys. At our office in Hanover we 
regularly get about 100 magazines on an 
exchange basis. One magazine that I really 
look forward to for good reading is your 
own Brown Alumni Monthly. It may 
be that Small Talk on the inside front 
cover is what Chet uses to get his hooks 
into me. but once I get started I keep 
going. I can tell you all about John Hay, 
Carrie Tower, the Brown quadrangles, and 
even Josiah Carberry. 

"The simple fact is that Chet's magazine 
is immensely readable. It is perhaps a sad 
fact that good reading is such a rare 
thing in our alumni magazine field. But 
the failure on the part of the rest of us to 
match the special quality that the Brown 
magazine has is not a particularly black 
mark against the rest of the field. That 
special quality comes from the fact that 
Chet puts so much of himself into the 
Brown magazine. I hope that Brown men 
place a very high value upon the human 
warmth, the sense of fun, the pleasant wit, 
that appears in the Brown magazine along 
with the clear and straightforward cover- 
age of all the serious things that a great 
University must naturally be concerned 
with first of all. I think it would be a 
very sad day indeed where our alumni, 
students, and teachers are concerned, if 
the common enterprise lacked the fellow- 
ship, the fun, the sparkle, and the human 
warmth that Chet p'ulls out of himself and 
ptits into the Brown magazine in such a 
winning way. 

"Finally, Chet, I would say that know- 
ing you produces not only its own reward, 
it produces dividends. One such dividend 
is Diana Worthington. We are all so happy 
that she is a member of the Worthington 
team and comes to our AAC meetings as 
often as she can. When Chet wrote to me 
a week ago, he commented that he just 
couldn't understand why there was any 
occasion for a dinner tonight. Because, he 
said, there would just be more of the 
same. I can't imagine that Brown men or 
Chet's friends all across this land could 
want any better news than that there will 
be more of the same." 

These sentiments were the sentiments of 
all the people assembled in the Sharpe 
Refectory. As Dr. Keeney said, in closing, 
"This is the only testimonial dinner I've 
ever attended where everything that was 
said was true and richly deserved." A 
wonderful evening, handled in good spirit 
and good taste — one that not only the 
guest of honor but also the participants 
will long remember! 



MAY 1958 



29 



The Brown Clubs Report 



Secretaries Elect 

EARL W. Harrington, Jr., '41 was 
elected President of the Class Secre- 
taries Association at the annual meeting in 
February. Other officers elected for the 
coming year are as follows: Vice-Presi- 
dent — Martin L. Tarpy '37; Secretary — 
Robert Cummings '50; Treasurer — Clinton 
Williams '31. 

After hearing from Franklin Hurd '33, 
Rolland Jones '49, and Cummings '50, the 
Association voted to sponsor the first an- 
nual Alumni Field Day on Saturday, May 
31, of Commencement Week End. 

Since some members felt that the annual 
Homecoming celebration could be ex- 
panded, the Chair appointed a committee 
consisting of Richard Hurley '32, Joseph 
Riker '22, and Richard Tracy '46 to in- 
vestigate the situation. At a subsequent 
meeting on April 1, this committee recom- 
mended that the Class Secretaries Associa- 
tion appoint three members from the 
organization to work with the Homecom- 
ing Committee of the Associated Alumni 
in planning the 1958 Homecoming. The 
Chair named Hurley '32, Jones '49, and 
Nat Chase '23. 

In addition to the annual February 
meeting on Advisory Council Week End, 
the Association has voted to meet a 
second time each fall, probably on Home- 
coming Week End. Also, since the activi- 
ties of the group are rapidly expanding, 
the members voted to request Class Dues 
in the amount of $25 from each Class, 
with those out more than 50 years ex- 
empted. This amount will help to build 
an Association treasury and also help to 
finance the first Alumni Field Day. It is 
expected that dues in subsequent years will 
be considerably less. 

BOB CUMMINGS '50 

Washington's Annual Dinner 

Dr. Leonard Carmichael, Secretary of 
the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 
D. C, and former Professor of Psychology 
at Brown (1927-1936) was the principal 
speaker at the Annual Dinner of the Brown 
Club of Washington, D. C, March 27, at 
the National Press Club. An enthusiastic 
company was on hand. The seventh Secre- 
tary of the Smithsonian gave an informa- 
tive and interesting talk on the past history 
and development of the Institution as a 
medium of spreading knowledge of the 
natural sciences throughout the country. 

Club members were also honored to 
have the 12th President of Brown Univer- 
sity, Dr. Barnaby C. Keeney, join them 
at this dinner. President Keeney gave a 
brief and enthusiastically received talk on 
"The Future Growth of Brown as an 
Educational Institution of Higher Quality 
and Prestige." 

Drs. Carmichael and Keeney were intro- 
duced by Edward R. Place '24, former 
Club President. Ed's many friends and 
fellow Club officers regretfully received 
the news that he will be transferred shortly 
to St. Lawrence Seaway Headquarters, 
Massena, N. Y. He will be missed. 

Also seated at the head table were the 
following distinguished members: Thomas 



Shotton, Jr., '30, Club President; Dr. 
Waldo G. Leiand '00, Director Emeritus, 
American Council of Learned Societies 
and Fellow of the University; Thomas G. 
Corcoran '22, Alumni Trustee; Dr. Robert 
W. Burgess '08, Director, Bureau of the 
Census; Hon. John J. Muccio '21, Am- 
bassador to Iceland; Hon. Roy T. Davis 
'10, retired Ambassador to Haiti; Hon. 
Wendell B. Barnes '32, Administrator, 
Small Business Administration; Hon. Wil- 
liam B. Bates '40, Congressman from Mas- 
sachusetts; Hon. William B. Widnall '26, 
Congressman from New Jersey; Richard 
B. Phillips '50, Vice-President Brown Club 
and Dinner Chairman; Hon. Stephen S. 
Bean '14, of the National Labor Relations 
Board; Hon. George E. C. Hayes '15, 
Chairman, Public Utilities Commission, 
Washington, D. C; Hon. Robert E. Quinn 
'15, Chief Judge, U. S. Court of Military 
Appeals; Dr. Theodore A. Distler '22, Ex- 
ecutive Director, Association of American 
Colleges; Dr. Edward M. J. Krctzmann 
'36, State Department; Rev. Dr. Charles D. 
Kean '30, Rector, Church of the Epiphany; 
and Dr. Henry Welch '25, Director, Di- 
vision of Antibiotics, Food and Drug Ad- 
ministration. 

RICHARD S. STEVENS '50 

Long Island Smoker 

Twenty-seven Long Island Bears came 
out of hibernation on March 20 to 
welcome Coach Al Kelley, a stalwart 
group of Sub-Freshmen, and numerous 
guests to the annual smoker of the Brown 
Club of Long Island, Inc. A dozen high 
school Seniors were on hand to hear Coach 
Kelley talk about athletics and the part 
they play at the College. As a fitting 
climax to this talk, Al had line coach Carl 
Schuette show the films of the important 
wins over Harvard and Colgate. 

The large turnout at the smoker was 
amazing in view of the fact that the area 



was hard hit that evening by the "spring" 
snow storm that nearly paralyzed the area. 
About 40,000 homes in Nassau County 
were without electricity that evening and 
for several days afterwards, but, as the 
saying goes, you can't keep good Brown 
men down. 

The Annual Spring Dinner, a stag affair, 
will be held May 14 at The Viennese 
Coach, Route 25, Jericho Turnpike. 

CLAUDE B. WORLEY, JR., '48 

Fullerton in Chicago 

The Chicago Brown Club held its an- 
nual meeting on Sunday, March 16, at the 
Chicago Yacht Club with about 75 alumni, 
wives, and friends on hand to enjoy Coach 
Jim Fullerton's talk on the hockey situa- 
tion at Brown. He described the plans for 
the new Aldrich-Dexter property and went 
into some detail on the hockey rink and 
what it can mean for Brown. 

At a short business meeting, the follow- 
ing officers were elected: President — Cal 
Coolidge '49; Vice-Presidents — Don Palmer 
'51, and Jim Mooney '52; Secretary — Miles 
Cunal '52; Treasurer — Bob Fitzgerald '55. 

On March 24, the Club held a reception 
for 43 prospective Freshmen at the Uni- 
versity Club, with Jack Monk '24 in charge 
of the arrangements. Jack brought Ben 
McKendall of the Brown Admission De- 
partment to town to talk and show movies 
and slides. 

miles e. cunat, jr., '52 

Walker Talks in L.A. 

Emery Walker '39 was the guest of 
honor at the March 19 meeting of the 
Brown Club of Los Angeles, and one of 
the largest gatherings in recent years was 
on hand at the Harvard Club to hear this 
"refugee" from the East tell about the 
changes on College Hill. The former Dean 
of Admission is now at Claremont with the 
Associated colleges. 

The new slate of new officers is as 
follows: President — Al Marshall '42; First 
Vice-President — S. H. Dolley '42; Second 
Vice-President — Bob Cowgill '50; Secre- 
tary — Stuart E. Eddy '27; Treasurer — Lee 
Greenwood '44. A film on research at 
Brown was shown following the meeting 
and was enjoyed by all. 

STUART E. EDDY '27 




CHANGE OF COMMAND in the West Coast (Florida) Brown Club: George Foley '24, retiring President, 

congratulates his successor, the Rev. Charles H. Ricker '13. With them are Hardy Payor '50, Secretary, 

Clarence Gray '22, and A. Manton Choce '09, 



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283 Hopefuls in Boston 

It was something new and a great 
success, although we"re not sure we can 
give it any official name. What happened 
was that the Boston Brown Club invited 
applicants for the Class of 1962 and their 
parents to come to the Parker House on 
Sunday, April 13. About two dozen alumni 
were present to be hosts to the prospective 
Brunonians and their fathers and mothers. 
The actual count of those attending was 
283. 

There was a little speaking: Prof. 
Robert O. Schulze, Assistant to the Dean 
of the College, represented the Faculty. 
Benjamin W. McKendall. Jr., '52 was the 
Admission Oificer on hand, while Football 
Coach Alva E. Kelley talked on athletics. 
There was a question period, and the most 
recent newsreel, "Highlights of 1957," was 
shown. 

McKendall tells us: "It was a most suc- 
cessful affair, the ideas for which and the 
planning of which can be attributed to Joe 
Lockett '42. He worked hard — and to good 
effect." 

The annual Boston Banquet, which was 
held on March 3, drew 135 alumni, under- 
graduates, and guests to the Harvard Club. 
It was one of the best ever. Seated at the 
head table were President Keeney, Foster 
B. Davis, President of the Associated 
Alumni; Dick Hale, President of the 
Boston Brown Club; Charlie Drury, Dinner 
Chairman; Toastmaster Paul Swaffield, 
and Swede Nelson. 

President Keeney spoke about the state 
of the University, present and future, and 
the responsibilities of liberal arts colleges 
in the world today. Swede Nelson regaled 
the crowd with his usual variety of stories. 
Earlier, Coach Al Kelley presented a run- 
ning commentary along with the complete 
movies of the Brown-Yale game. 

Bliss Listed for Hartford 

The annual meeting of the Hartford 
Brown Club has been scheduled for the 
evening of May 14 at the Hartford Club, 
with Provost Zenas R. Bliss '18 listed as 
the principal speaker. Among other items, 
he'll touch on "Brown and the Scientific 
Age." On the program with him will be 
Mrs. Mary Louise Record, Assistant Vice- 
President at Pembroke. Provost Bliss will 
have to be at his best. Ladies also are in- 
vited, and we understand that the Pem- 
broke girls will be out in force. 

Fairfield Elects Crowell 

A DINNER at the Midtown Club in 
Stamford, Conn., and election of new offi- 
cers featured Provost Bliss's visit to alumni 
in Fairfield County on March 20. Provost 
Bliss gave an enlightening talk on educa- 
tion today and Brown's position in this 
field. 

The new slate of officers is as follows: 
President — Rowland Crowell '34; Vice- 
President — Newton Dana '25; Treasurer — 
David Oppenheimer '44; and Secretary — 
Wallace DeKlyn '37. Directors: Norman 
Wakeman '36, Samuel McDonald '38, 
Hugh Conklin '37, William Weeks '50, 
James Tyrell '48, and Carleton Hammond 
'34. 



Florida Elects Ricker 

Thirty-nine alumni turned out for the 
March 3 meeting of the Florida West 
Coast Brown Club, held at the St. Peters- 
burg Yacht Club. Paul Stannard '29 of 




GREETING DR. KEENEY at the March dinner of Brown and Pembroke alumni in Rochester were, left. 
Dr. Wilbour E. Saunders '16 and A. Dexter Johnson '30. 



Sarasota was the chief speaker. As one of 
the guiding lights behind the founding of 
the Sarasota Ivy Club last year, he was 
able to tell us something of its plans for 
the future. 

An election of officers was held, with 
the following slate named for the coming 
year: President — Charles Ricker '13; 1st 
Vice-President — Clarence Gray '22; 2nd 
Vice-President — Manton Chace '09; Secre- 
tary-Treasurer — Hardy Payor '50. 

Cincinnati Schoolboys 

The Cincinnati Brown Club met at the 
Wyoming Country Club on the evening of 
March 19 to welcome Ben McKendall of 
the Admission Department into the area. 
Also on hand for the session were 24 high 
school Juniors and Seniors who had ex- 
pressed the desire to attend Brown, along 
with College Advisors from several Cin- 
cinnati high schools. 

After a delicious dinner, the group 
watched a movie on Campus life at Brown. 
Both the alumni and the students were im- 
pressed with the commentary of Mc- 
Kendall e.xplaining the scenes shown on 
the screen. It was the opinion of all as- 
sembled that great strides have been taken 
toward getting the name of Brown favor- 
ably in front of the top-grade students of 
the various high schools across the country. 

After the meeting, the group voted to 
make this an annual aflfair, with an early 
invitation extended to Admission Officer 
McKendall to return our way in '59. 

THOMAS SIMON '54 

Framingham Hears Bliss 

Twenty-five members of the Framing- 
ham Brown Club met on Jan. 29 at The 
Maridor on Worcester Turnpike to hear 
Zenas R. Bliss, Provost of the University, 
talk on Brown's Bicentennial Program. He 
pictured in detail the various new buildings 
either under construction or on the plan- 
ning boards. Following the meeting, the 
men enjoyed informal discussions with Mr. 
Bliss and then viewed the movies of the 
Colgate football game. 

JOE ADAM '22 



Rochester Welcomes Keeney 

The biggest and most important event 
of the year for the Rochester Brown Club 
was the visit of President Keeney on 
March 7. The Club, in conjunction with 
the Pembroke alumnae, sponsored a dinner 
for Dr. Keeney at the University Club. A 
large gathering was on hand, with many 
members bringing their husbands or wives. 

A. Dexter Johnson '30 served as toast- 
master, while the Rev. Dr. Wilbour 
Saunders '16 introduced Dr. Keeney. 
Others seated at the head table included: 
Mrs. Raymond Beach, President of the 
Rochester Pembroke Alumni Club, and 
Miss Elizabeth Wirth, Secretary-Treasurer 
of that organization. 

HAROLD J. FROMM '48 

Hockanum Elects Erickson 

Len Erickson '52, employed by Storrs 
& Bement, East Hartford, was elected 
President of the Hockanum Brown Club of 
Manchester, Conn., at a recent meeting of 
that organization. Other officers elected in- 
clude: First Vice-President — Edward Glen- 
ney '49; Second Vice-President — Dr. Frank 
H. Horton '45; Secretary-Treasurer — Dr. 
Don A. Guinan '45. Elected to the Board 
of Governors were Robert C. Barnes '48, 
William L. Wagner '46, and Dr. Harold 
S. Barrett '37. 

San Francisco's Guest 

Dick Messinger '37 was elected Presi- 
dent of the Brown University Club of Alta 
California April 10 at a meeting held at 
the Fairmont Hotel. Other officers elected 
are as follows: Vice-President — Mel Swig 
'39; Secretary — Fred Freund '52; Treasurer 
■ — Doug Maxwell '54. 

The highlight of the meeting was a very 
interesting talk about development on the 
Hill, both the physical and academic, as 
presented by Prof. Lleallyn Clapp of the 
Chemistry Department. The group also 
viewed with interest the current University 
newsreel. The Sub-Freshmen present 
seemed highly interested in Brown. 

FREDRIC S. FREUND '52 



MAY 1958 



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ship expansion and the estabhshment of a 
scholarship fund. 

BERNARD KUSINIT2 '41 

Other Elections 

Harold M. Jackson '15 of the Maga- 
zine Supply Co., Boston, has been elected 
President of the North Shore Brown Club. 
Other officers include: Vice-President — 
Edward A. Johnson "53; Secretary-Treas- 
urer — Ralph E. Lewis, Jr., '50. 

James G. Scanzaroli '44 of Eastman 
Kodak Co., has been elected President of 
the Rochester Brown Club. He had served 
in the capacity of Secretary-Treasurer. The 
new Secretary elected was Harold J. 
Fromm '48. He can be reached at 40 Ar- 
rowhead Drive, Rochester 11. 

Harold G. Bergwall '50 was elected 
President of the Brown Club of Buffalo 
and Western New York at the March 
meeting of that organization. Other officers 
elected are as follows: Secretary — Gordon 
Fuller '55; Treasurer — Richard M. Rieser 
'36. 



AT THE ANNUAL SPORTS BANQUET of the North Shore Brown Club in March; Seated, left to right- 
Harold M. Jackson '15, President; Ralph H. Mogoon '47, toastmaster; Milt Piepul and Charlie Markhom 
of the Brown football cooching staff. Standing— Edward A. Johnson '53, Vice-President; the Rev. Hugh 
Weston; Arthur R. Taylor '57, Admission Officer; Bruce Remick '44, Choirmon of the Scholarship Com- 
mittee; and Joseph C. Lockett '42 of the Boston Brown Club. (Photo by Cloffey, Salem) 



Dean Cornell in Detroit 

The Michigan Brown Club's annual 
Spring Dinner will be held on Wednesday 
evening. May 21, at the Whittier Hotel, 
with Dean Lloyd Cornell the guest of 
honor. A reception will be held from 6:30 
to 7:30. Brown and Pembroke alumni and 
their "better halves" are cordially invited. 

Ben McKendall from Brown's Admis- 
sion Department was in town on March 
23, and he had the opportunity to interview 
16 high school students, mostly Juniors, at 
the home of Jack Foley. That evening, 
a group of alumni and their ladies got to- 
gether at the home of John Welchli to talk 
with Ben and to see the films of the Cam- 
pus that he brought along. 

Jim Fullerton's visit to Michigan on 
March 1 1 brought forth a good crowd to 
the University Club. The "New England 
Hockey Coach of the Year" gave the mem- 
bers a run-down on the winter sports pic- 
ture on the Hill and commented on the 
Dexter Property, recently purchased. 

RICHARD J. SELLECK '51 

North Shore Banquet 

The North Shore Brown Club held its 
annual Sports Banquet March 14 at the 
Colonial Country Club in Lynnfield, Mass. 
More than 100 alumni, coaches, and 
schoolboys were present to enjoy the din- 
ner and interesting program. Arthur R. 
Taylor, Admission Officer, addressed the 
gathering on the topic, "The Brown 
Vision." Milt Piepul and Charlie Markham 
of the Brown football staff, discussed the 
athletic picture on the Hill and showed 
films of the 1957 Harvard game. 

The Brown Club, through this function, 
commenced its program of putting before 
the students of this area a composite pic- 
ture of Brown. More than 40 Sub-Fresh- 
men — men who either had completed their 
application or who were definitely inter- 
ested in Brown — attended the function. 

EDWARD a. .JOHNSON '53 



Groundwork in Worcester 
Members of the Worcester County 
Brown Club turned out in good force on 
the evening of March 4 at the Industrial 
City Bank to discuss the Scholarship Fund, 
the Brown University Fund, and the Sec- 
ondary School Activities. The University 
Fund, headed by Everett Greanleaf, is 
headed for 100% participation this spring. 
The Scholarship Fund, headed by Robert 
Siff, is now nearing its first goal, while the 
Secondary School Committee has been 
organized and is operating under the direc- 
tion of John Pietro and Bob Macko. A 
collation was given by Les Goff, Secretary 
of our Club and Vice-President of the In- 
dustrial City Bank. 

Revival in Cleveland 

The Brown Club of Cleveland was re- 
juvenated on March 24 when Ben McKen- 
dall of the Admission Department was 
joined by 28 alumni and 20 Sub-Freshmen 
at the University Club. With him, Ben 
brought numerous movies and slides of the 
Campus, and many of the boys stayed on 
after the meeting to ask questions about 
Brown. 

At the business meeting, Harry L. Hoff- 
man '25 was elected President and Roy H. 
Smith, Jr., '34 was Secretary. Regular meet- 
ings were planned for the remainder of 
the year and also for the 1958-59 season. 
Cleveland is on its way! 

Newport's New Slate 
Salvatore L. Virgadamo '36 was 
elected President of the Brown Club of 
Newport County at the annual meeting of 
that Rhode Island organization. Other 
officers elected are as follow: Vice-Presi- 
dent — William Michael '38; Secretary — 
Bernard Kusinitz '41; Treasurer — Zalman 
D. Newman '50. Named to the Board of 
Governors were Samuel Friedman '42, 
Nicholas S. Logothets '33, and Edward B. 
Corcoran '50. 

Among the matters to receive particular 
attention in the coming year are member- 



Rolling Screwball 



As ANY SCATTERBRAIN may find himself 
. doing, Prof. Josiah S. Carberry seems 
to be spreading bread upon various waters 
and himself thin. Our story about him in 
March included a reference to his sub- 
scription to Astral University, which the 
HurtfonI CourunI said will he located on 
80 acres of real estate on Mars. It also 
quoted .Seward Marsh, Alumni Secretary 
at Bowdoin, as saying of Carberry Day 
and Brown's Carberry Fund: "The ab- 
sorbing tales of Josiah are wonderful. 
Wish I could concoct something as nice 
for Bowdoin." 

Well, Marsh has heard directly from 
Carberry, on the stationery of the "Car- 
berry Universal Educational Fund, Astral 
University, Eightyacres-on-Canal, Mars." 
We quote from the carbon: "Carrier puffin 
has just brought Brown Alumni Monthly. 
Noted your interest in having fund simi- 
lar as I established at that dear institution 
a while back or forth (interplanetary time 
is almost as confusing as daylight). 

"In accord with your wishes, am en- 
closing initial donation. Please be advised. 
Marshy, that you have been appointed 
Curator; your opposite at Brown will be 
glad to supply details of operation. You 
will or will not follow his recommenda- 
tions. You are to disregard any suggestions 
he may make about jumping and the sa- 
cred waters of the Seckonk, however. 

"While it is not a practice of the CUEF 
to specify use of its donations, we remind 
you that the Brunswick Campus is woe- 
fully short of coeducational facilities. We 
note that pulfin breeding has been grossly 
neglected on your quaint planet. Mrs. Car- 
berry is making amazing progress here. 
They are delicious, but do not tell her I 
said so. Otherwise. I shall have to resume 
buying my lunches; such will only delay 
educational progress. Brown is using its 
Carberry funds for its liebrary {sic). Per- 
haps this is a good idea for Bowdoin. 

"Must dash to Venus to test potting 
qualities of clay there. Keep the screwball 
rolling." 

Seward Marsh inquires: "What is the 
Seekonk'.' A local lake appended to a 
jumping suggestion?" 



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SPORTS: 



First Entries 
for the Spring 



Baseball in the South 

WITH A SNEAK April snowstorm caus- 
ing the cancelling of Brown's open- 
ing game with the University of Rhode 
Island, the only diamond action we have 
to report this month concerns Brown's 
three-game practice series with the Quan- 
tico Marines in Virginia. After winning the 
first Dixie tilt 5-3. the Bruins dropped the 
next two games to the servicemen by 1-0 
and 11-0 scores. 

The pre-season tour, however, was con- 
sidered a success by Coach Lefty Lefebvre. 
After a cold and wet New England spring. 
the warm Virginia weather offered the 
Bears their first opportunity to work out- 
doors. In general. Lefty liked what he saw. 
"We're going to be a lot stronger than last 
year's club." he said. "Our pitching and 
defense looked good, and some of the boys 
were hitting rather well." 

Capt. Don Nelson, Frank Brooks, and 
Sophomore Dave Manson were singled 
out as doing exceptionally well on the 
mound, while a pair of Sophomores. Bob 
Carlin and Dave Reed, stung the ball 
sharply down South and were expected to 
add thump to the attack. Coach Lefebvre 
was especially high on the defensive pos- 
sibilities of his infield: Sophomore Nick 
Pannes at first, Carlin at second, lunior 
Frank Finney at third, and the sensational 
fielding Sophomore. Sunny Pittaro, at 
short. In fact, this inner defense looked so 
good that the byword that had gone out 
to the pitcher was "keep it low in '58!" 




WINTER 
Reading 



SPORTS CAPTAINS were elected for next year at the annual Broomhead Dinner this spring, 
from top left: Lou Winner, wrestling; Dick Cloborn, swimming; Wyn Eaton, hockey; and Allan 

Poulsen, basketball. 



National Contenders 



Coach Ioe Watmough's swimming 
team completed perhaps the greatest season 
in the school's history by placing in both 
the NCAA and National AAU meets at 
Ann Arbor, Mich., and New Haven. 

Capt. Al Chapman got a fourth in the 
200-yard butterfly and a sixth in the 100- 
yard butterfly to account for all of Brown's 
points in the Nationals, which were won 
by Michigan. Ed Nicholson did not qualify, 
though he picked up two lOths in the 100- 
yard and 50-yard sprints. 

The successful medley relay team of 
Chapman, Nicholson, Barr Clayson, and 
Bill Zani placed fifth in that event in the 
New Haven meet. Their time of 4:01 was 
better by seconds than the time they made 
at Michigan, where they failed to place. 
Barr Clayson barely missed qualifying in 
the backstroke by finishing seventh when 
only six swimmers could qualify. 

After tying Williams for the champion- 
ship in the New Englands. the Bruin mer- 




"COACH OF THE YEAR" in New England hockey. Brown's Jim Fullerton was the choice of sports writers 
and coaches in the onnuol voting. Athletic Director Paul F. Mackesey '32, left, admires his trophy. 



men finished third to Yale and Harvard in 
the Easterns. In this latter competition, 
Nicholson won the 50-yard sprint and 
placed second in the 100. The medley 
relay team set a new school record with a 
4:00.1 performance, while others added 
useful points. 

Tennis Warm-up 

Coach Art Palmer's promising tennis 
team took a swing southward for a bit of 
pre-season play, winning two and losing 
one. The Bruin netmen whitewashed both 
Loyola and lohns Hopkins but dropped a 
6-3 decision to Georgetown. A fourth 
match with George Washington was rained 
out. 

As expected, substantial help was re- 
ceived from the three heralded Sophomores, 
Toby Calloway, Doug Crockwell, and Bill 
Sprinkel. However, a pair of veterans, 
Capt. Ed Flattau and Rufus Bullock, also 
counted themselves in for a share of the 
headlines this spring by virtue of their 
solid play down South. "There is a certain 
competition and closeness which we have 
never had in past years," Palmer noted. 

All-Time Hockey Squad 

Westcott E. S. Moulton, Associate 
Dean of Students at Brown and hockey 
coach on the Hill from 1947 to 1952, has 
selected an all-time Bruin hockey team. 
Composed of 22 men, this dream squad 
includes several of Brown's earliest hockey 
heroes, such as Larry MacKinney '03 and 
Prescott Hill '06, as well as two men from 
Coach Jim Fullerton's current crew. Rod 
Dashnaw and Harry Batchelder. 

We are forced to call Moulton on just 
one point. In his selection, he left off a 
diminutive center whose slashing play 
earned him the hearts of the Brown fans 
and an Ail-American rating in 1931. This 
fellow just has to be on any all-time Brown 
hockey squad. His name — Wes Moulton 
'32. 

It's easy to stop and reminisce as you 
go down this list of names. These Bruins 
represent a great deal of talent: they pro- 
vided a thousand thrills. Two of them, 
Don Whiston '51 and Bobby Wheeler '52, 
were Ail-Americans. Eleven of them were 
team Captains. Here's the squad: 

FORWARDS: Harold A. "Larry" Mac- 
Kinney '03, Dr. G. Edward Crane '31, 



MAY 1958 



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Capt. Ray Chace 34, Capt. Harrie E. 
Hart '36, Capt. Foster B. "Pete" Davis '39, 
Warren Priestley '51, Bobby Wheeler '52, 
Don Sennott '52, Danny Keefe '55, Capt. 
Pete Tutless '56, Capt. Rod Dashnaw '58. 

DEFENSE: Capt. Alden Walls '31, 
Charlie Butler '36, Capt. George Menard 
'50, John "Jake" Murphy '52, Capt. Dick 
Pettit '54, Capt. Bob Borah '55, Russ 
Kingman "56. 

GOALIES: Prescott T. Hill '06, Capt. 
Jackson Skillings '37, Donald Whiston '51, 
Harry Batchelder '58. 

Sports Shorts 

PRESIDENT Everett Case had this to say 
about Colgate's athletic policy recently: 
"Ever since the adoption of the so-called 
Ivy Code, Colgate has voluntarily adhered 
to all of its major provisions. We shall 
continue to do so. For this reason and 
many others, Colgate welcomes all invita- 
tions to schedule games with Ivy League 
members. Indeed, it is our hope that the 
number of such games, in football and in 
other sports, may increase to the ma.xi- 
mum consistent with the prior obligations 
of League members toward each other." Dr. 
Keeney was one of the Ivy Presidents who 
expressed appreciation of the statement. 

Baaron Pittenger, Brown's capable Di- 
rector of Sports Information, has been 
named to the National Collegiate Associa- 
tion's Public Relations Committee. A Penn 
State graduate and a former Hartford 
sports writer, "Pitt" has been at Brown 
since the fall of 1955. 

Harry Batchelder, star Bruin goalie, and 
Sophomore defenseman Allan Soares were 
named to the All-Ivy six in the post-season 
balloting. Rod Dashnaw drew down a 
berth on the second team. Batchelder also 
took a first-team slot on the All-New 
England team, with Dashnaw on the 
second team and Sophomore Dave Kelley 
gaining honorable mention. 

And, speaking of the all-all teams, 
Gerry Alaimo was named to the second 
All-Ivy hoop squad. His running mate. 
Joe Tebo, made honorable mention. A 
high scorer, strong rebounder, and solid 
defensive player, Alaimo is rated by Coach 
Ward as "one of the top men and top 
leaders it has ever been my pleasure to 
coach." 

Incidentally, the NCAA statistics re- 
leased at the close of the basketball season 
indicate that the Bruins were 2Ist in the 
country in foul shooting with a .714 per- 
centage. And, the Wardmen led the Ivy 
loop in this department with a .753 mark. 

Charlie Shumway '58, one of the top 
International 14-foot Dinghy skippers, has 
been elected Undergraduate President of 
the New England Intercollegiate Sailing 
Association. He will represent the United 
States in England this summer, along with 
Glen Foster '52 and George O'Day, Har- 
vard '45. 

Gil Robertshaw, Captain of the 1957 
football Bruins, has signed a contract with 
the Chicago Cardinals of the National Pro- 
fessional League and will report to their 
training camp at Lake Forest, 111., the last 
week in July. The big Bear tackle was con- 
siderably in demand in the pro ranks. He 
was on the draft lists of the Baltimore, 
Los Angeles, and Philadelphia clubs of the 
NFL, as well as the Chicago outfit. 'Van- 
couver of the Canadian Football Union 
also courted his services. If he makes the 
grade, Gil will be bumping heads with 
another husky Bruin, Don Colo '50, Cap- 
tain of the Cleveland Browns. 




WITH "NELS" AT MYSTIC 




The Whaleship Revisited 



APiED Piper by the name of Lambert 
shuffled about the main deck of the 
Charles W. Morgan at Mystic Seaport, 
Conn., recently, a trail of eager visitors and 
staff members of the Marine Historical As- 
sociation in his wake. In spite of his in- 
firmities, he had to go below and took the 
steps of the companionway slowly, his 
procession of listeners following. Once be- 
low, he poked into every corner of the 
ship, and every section brought its reminis- 
cences. Nelson Lambert was an old whale- 
man, making the pilgrimage to see again 
the ship he had sailed in 56 years before. 

The Log of Mystic Seaport reported on 
the visit in a recent issue. The photo taken 
on the occasion and the report from the 
magazine are reproduced here for the bene- 
fit of the hundreds of Brunonians who 
knew "Nels" during the years he served as 
custodian in Rockefeller Hall, later Faunce 
House. 

Lambert was not the first to make the 
pilgrimage to the Charles W. Morgan. The 
Marine Museum has known three others 
who shipped aboard her. The writer con- 
tinues: 

A native of Guadalupe who was brought 
to Providence as a child. Nelson Francois 
Lambert was soon left an orphan and was 
given shelter in a Catholic convent. At 14 
he signed on a German ship, the Otto 
Gildmeisler, for San Francisco. After 141 
days the vessel reached Yokohama, where 
Lambert deserted, hid out for a time but 
was discovered and returned to his ship. 
On the return voyage the vessel ran 
through two typhoons, lost some of her 
sails, was partially dismasted, and made 
San Diego under a jury rig, her crew half- 
starved. 

In the steam whaler Kurluk, Lambert 
went to Alaska and Siberia. His boat was 



stove by a whale, he was chased across the 
ice by a polar bear, and the voyage turned 
out to be profitless. He collected a dollar 
for the voyage only because the owners 
were compelled to pay him something. He 
worked on a San Francisco Bay mud-scow 
for a time, then joined a railroad con- 
struction gang, lived in a tent, slept on a 
thin straw mattress on the ground. Making 
his way back to San Francisco, he once 
hopped a freight as it slowed down for a 
tunnel, was shoved off the caboose while 
the train was in motion, made the rest of 
the journey on foot. 

His voyage on the Charles W. Morgan 
was under Captain Thomas Scullion and 
First Mate Morgan from November, 1901 
to October 1902. He slept in the third 
upper portside bunk, ate beans, hardtack, 
corned beef and cracker hash, served in 
Third Mate Thurston's boat crew, and 
broke his leg in a fall from the topsail 
yard. The Mate had sent him aloft with a 
paint bucket and warned him that if he 
spilt a single drop he'd make him lick it 
up from the deck. In a lurch of sea he fell, 
striking first the mainsail, then the main 
hatch. The Mate did not carry out his 
threat. Instead, he had to set the broken 
leg, which he did to the best of his ability, 
and gave him light work such as lookout 
and steering. But primitive surgery left 
Lambert with a limp for the rest of his life. 

That Morgan voyage was to the Mar- 
quesas, the Okhotsk, and Japan. When 
paid off, Lambert collected $55 for his 
1 1 months' work, having spent an earlier 
advance of $40. Later Lambert worked in 
a nickel mine in New Caledonia, sailed in 
a British tramp steamer, Australia to Cape- 
town, reached such places as the Straits of 
Magellan, Java, Cairo, Marseilles, Suez, 
and Singapore. 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Brunonians Far and Near 



EDITED BY JAY BARRY '50 



1894 

ANEW VOLUME of the Dictionary of 
American Biography in June will 
carry an article on Dr. John Hope, the 
distinguished President of Morehouse Col- 
lege and Atlanta University. In addition 
to his honors from Brown, he was the 
first Negro to have a Liberty Ship named 
for him during World War II. The DAB 
is published by Charles Scribner's Sons 
under the sponsorship of the American 
Council of Learned Societies. The new 
volume, Supplement II, includes biog- 
raphies of 585 individuals who died dur- 
ing 1936-40. Among the new sketches is 
one about Dr. Clarence A. Barbour '88, 
one-time President of Brown University. 

1896 
Dr. Theodore C. Merrill of Hopital 
Albert Chenevier, Creteil, France, has 
been lending some overseas support to the 
program of Frederick R. Hazard '14 in 
support of the South County Hospital 
in Rhode Island. The latter collects and 
sells stamps to philatelists for the benefit 
of the Hospital. Dr. Merrill's letter asking 
for cooperation appeared in the Paris 
Edition of the New York Herald Tribune. 

1899 
Dr. Clarence S. Brigham, Director of the 
American Antiquarian Society, was sched- 
uled for honors at the State Teachers 
College at Worcester on April 26. The 
tribute was announced as part of the 
annual Scholarship Tea, for which Ruth 
V. Somers, Pembroke '30, was Chairman 
this year. 

A grandson of Severance Johnson is a 
member of the Class of 1960 at Brown. 
He is James B. Johnson, great grandson of 
James Brainard Johnson. The latter 
traveled to California by boat before the 
construction of the transcontinental rail- 
road. He originally was from Maine. While 
in California, he met and married a music 
teacher, Frances A. Severance. She was 
from New York, also having arrived by 
boat. Their first child was Severance John- 
son, born in 1874. 

1900 
Arthur L. Perry retired as President of 
Puritan Life Insurance Co. at its recent an- 
nual meeting, having indicated his desire 
to be relieved of his duties in that office. 
He continues on the Board of Directors. 
During his years as an officer, Puritan has 
experienced remarkable growth. (This is 
the company in which the late Clinton C. 
White served so long as Executive Vice- 
President.) 

Dr. Ernest H. Gilbert, who retired 
several years ago from his extensive 
dental practice in Portland, Ore., has 
moved to Wisconsin, where his address is: 
1314 Clark St., Stevens Point. 

Prof. Charles W. Brown has given Ar- 
chives a copy of the name plate which 



appeared on the door of 48 Hope College 
when he was an undergraduate. His room- 
mate was G. S. Beal '99. No one took 
more pleasure in the Varsity's victory over 
the Dartmouth track team than Professor 
Brown. He was a member of the 1900 
team, the last previously to win over Dart- 
mouth. He provided first places in both 
jumps. 

1901 

Dr. Arthur I. Andrews was again active 
in leadership of the winter meeting of the 
Institute of World Affairs Association at 
the Hotel Beaconsfield, Brookline, Mass., 
in March. He was one of the incorpo- 
rators of the Institute in Warner, N. H., 
where the 23rd annual session was held 
last August. 

Mrs. Henry C. Hart died March 31 at 
home in Providence, suddenly taken ill at 
dinner time. Active in many civic affairs, 
she had accepted the honorary chairman- 
ship of the League of Annual Giving at 
Lincoln School, where she had taught for 
many years. The sympathy of the Class is 
known by Henry Hart. 

1902 

Apropos of the death of Ray Knowlton 
in January, Everett Horton recalls Knowl- 
ton's coming north from Florida for the 
50th reunion in 1952. When his failing 
health prevented him from repeating in 



Tribute to "Whiskers" 

The admiration and affection 
that a law student felt toward one 
of his Professors at Cornell, back 
before the turn of the present cen- 
tury, will be memorialized when 
the new residence center of the 
Cornell Law School is constructed 
next year. 

The Trustees of Cornell Univer- 
sity have adopted the suggestion of 
Myron C. Taylor that the new resi- 
dence center be named in memory 
of Charles Evans Hughes '81. Tay- 
lor, who studied under the famed 
American jurist when the latter was 
a Professor at Cornell, has con- 
tributed $1,000,000 toward the fa- 
cility. 

Hughes went to Cornell in 1891 
from New York City, where he had 
been engaged in law practice. The 
Law School was only five years old. 
and Hughes, who was then 29, was 
the youngest full Professor at Ithaca 
during his two years there. Hughes 
was considered one of the "giants" 
of the Law School faculty. To the 
200 law students the young lawyer- 
professor was known as "Whiskers," 
although it is said that he himself 
was never aware of this nickname. 



1957, he sent a greeting which "deserves 
repetition as an indication of his choice 
spirit": "I shall forever cherish the 
memories of our 50th. The close com- 
munion, fine fellowship, hearty songs, and 
gay spirits moved me deeply. I felt 
honored to be a member of such a group." 

1904 

Everard Appleton played again in the 
string section of the Brown University 
Orchestra in its fine March concert. C. C. 
Gleason '03 recalls that the Providence 
attorney was a member of the first orches- 
tra at Providence Classical High School 
in 1898 and is among those who applaud 
him for his 60 years as a gifted amateur. 

Ralph Bevan's work for international 
peace was praised in a recent letter to the 
Providence Journal by Grover J. Shoholm. 
Bevan's goal, in Shoholm's words, was: 
world peace through education and, under 
the guidance of an international university, 
active cooperation among nations for con- 
servation of resources and for maximum 
productivity to raise standards of living 
on a worldwide scale. The late Rhodes 
Scholar's "sterling qualities," said Shoholm, 
"were evident in the organization of the 
World Federation of Educational Associa- 
tion." He addressed the first World Con- 
ference in San Francisco in 1923 with 500 
delegates present, representing more than 
40 national groups. They endorsed his idea 
for the international university, though it 
never materialized. "In the organized 
movement for world peace, Ralph Bevan 
was one of the first. For a good cause — 
just as he pulled an oar in the Oxford 
eight — he gave everything he had." 

1905 

One of the highlights of the winter 
season in Naples, Fla., is the annual 
shuffleboard tournament held at the 
Naples Hotel. This year, the finals were 
held on Feb. 26, with two Brown men. 
Judge Allyn Brown '05 and Arthur F. 
Driscoll '06, battling for the grand prize. 
The match was close, keenly contested, but 
eventually '05 prevailed over '06 and Judge 
Brown was led into the winner's circle. 

Theodore W. "Bill" Gordon's son. Dr. 
Bruce R. Gordon '37, is Chairman of the 
Romance Language Department at Emory 
University, Atlanta, Ga. His daughter is 
the wife of Dr. William B. Axtell, Presi- 
dent of West Virginia Institute of Tech- 
nology. 

Ralph Johnson's wife fell and broke her 
hip shortly after Christmas. She was hos- 
pitalized for six weeks and now is con- 
valescing slowly at home. 

Irving Price, who is semi-retired, man- 
ages to spend each winter in Bermuda, 
where he has a home. 

Glenn Woodin's grandson, William 
Nicholas Woodin, is considering Brown as 
his college. The boy's other grandfather 
is J. Howard Mason '01. With these family 
connections and a middle name of 
"Nicholas," where else could he go? 

Raymond W. Seamans reports, with 
pride, of his grandson, W. Henry Seamans, 
a Junior at Brown. 

Raymond D. Cady is retired and living 
in Oswego, N. Y., where he occupies him- 
self with church work and stamp-collect- 
ing. He has two children and six grand- 
children. 

The Hon. Michael F. Costello, our 
"Sheriff-with-a-Heart," notes that he has 
three grandchildren. One of his daughters 
was graduated from Pembroke, the other 
from St. Regis College. When not in the 



MAY 1958 



35 



Douglas Mercer Retires 



ONE YEAR before his company would be 
100 years old, C. Douglas Mercer "06 
has stepped down from the presidency of 
Willcox & Gibbs Sewing Machine Co.. one 
of the big three in the field and specializing 
in industrial sewing machines. Gibbs was 
the inventor of the first chain-stitch ma- 
chine, which led to a far-reaching industry. 
(The original growth of Brown & Sharpe 
Mfg. Co. in Providence was based on work 
done for Willcox & Gibbs. ) 

Mercer had been a management con- 
sultant, serving such a number of im- 
portant businesses. Called on to investigate 
the operations of Willcox & Gibbs. he 
made his report there 21 years ago and 
stayed on with them. He was first Treas- 
urer, later President. Chairman of the 
Board, and chief executive officer. He was 
a Director of Willcox & Gibbs. Ltd.. Lon- 
don, part of the worldwide operations. 

He is a former President of the Sewing 
Machine Trades Association and Chair- 
man of its Executive Committee; he is now 
the senior member of the Association. He 
is a member of ASCE. the Taylor Society 
(management), and such social clubs as 
the Century and Union League in New 
York and The Country Club in Brookline, 
Mass. R. I. State Golf Champion in 1904. 
while an undergraduate, he still enjoys his 
golf, mostly in Maine, where he is Presi- 
dent of the Paris Hill Country Club. 

Mercer is completing his second term as 
a Trustee of Brown University, with oc- 
casional service on the Corporation's Ad- 
visory and Executive Committee. He has 
served on such Corporation Committees as 
those on Pension Studies, Bequests, Fi- 
nance. Committee Vacancies, and the BCA 
(as Chairman). He was a leader in the 
Housing and Development Campaign and 
Chief Marshal of the 1956 Commence- 
ment, when the Class of 1906. which he 
had served as President since graduation, 
observed its 50th anniversary. The special 



Sheriffs Office in the Providence Court 
House, he can be found at home at 58 
Potter St., Pawtucket. In the summer, how- 
ever, his first love is Point Judith. 

Francis H. Smith reports that he still 
chases the "white pill" around the golf 
course in Woodstown. N. J. 

Sykes Goodwin, though retired, is active 
in various organizations in Kissimee, Fla. 
His son. Prof. Ernest B. Goodwin, is on 
the Faculty at the University of Rhode Is- 
land. His daughter is the wife of the Rev. 
Felix C. Davis of Jamestown, N. Y. 

George Bullock remains in the cotton 
business in Boston. He lives, as he has for 
many years, in the Waban section of New- 
ton. George has three sons and nine grand- 
children. One of his sons. Brenton '3H. 
was in charge of the arrangements for the 
Brown Alumni Dinner last June. 

Our Secretary, Charlie Robinson, is in 
line for the Ernest Hemingway degree 
"Old Man of the Sea." He spends half the 
year at Key West fishing in the Gulf 
Stream and then returns to Providence and 
annoys the fish of Narraganselt Bay and 
surrounding waters. He claims to be semi- 
retired, with nothing to bother him but 
some local real estate. His son. Knight 




interest of the Class has been the Brown 
Outing Reservation, which it created with 
a gift at its 25th reunion. 

In New York he has been a President 
and Governor of the Brown Club. He was 
Chairman of its 75th Annual Dinner and, 
in April, toastmaster for the 90th. Few 
Brunonians have been more effective in 
their active loyalty. 

In retirement, he will live at 327 Clinton 
Rd., Brookline 46, Mass.. to which he has 
commuted week ends during his New York 
career. Though he will now see less of 
London, he will see more of his summer 
home in Paris, Me. Mrs. Mercer is the 
daughter of the late Prof. Walter Good- 
now Everett and Mrs. Everett. 



Robinson '35, is a partner in the firm 
known as Cull, Robinson & Green. Provi- 
dence architects, now doing the dormi- 
tories for the Rhode Island School of 
Design. 

Those who knew of the serious illness 
of Colgate Hoyt a year ago will be pleased 
to know that he is sufficiently improved to 
be back at his job. He plans to make 
Providence for Commencement Week End. 

1906 

Dr. Peter Pineo Chase's book, "Your 
Wonderful Body," has received many 
excellent reviews. One of the most recent 
appeared in The Wiirhl Mcilical Journal, 
the official journal of The World 
Medical Association. In this organization 
are represented the medical societies 
of all the leading countries of the world, 
except those behind the Iron Curtain, and 
its journal is published in three languages 
— English, French, and Spanish. 

The first paragraph of the review is as 
follows: "A delightfully light and easily 
read discussion of what usually are un- 
interesting facts. Dr. Chase's book does 
more than recite anatomy and physiology. 
It offers the friendly counsel of a family 



doctor on many things relating to normal 
living as well as a timely warning about 
some of the abnormal practices that can 
interfere with normal living. Facts are 
stated in simple understandable language, 
and, above all else, advice is given in such 
a way that one wants to follow it." 

To those of the Class, as well as to 
many other Brown men and citizens of 
Rhode Island, Peter Chase's sound com- 
mon sense and humor, and his character- 
istic phraseology, will always remain a 
cherished memory, made familiar to them 
for years through the pages of the 
Providence Joiiniul. In this book, the 
wisdom and charm of his writing are pre- 
served for all time. 

The Alumni Bulletin of the Harvard 
Medical School in February published a 
tribute to the late Dr. Emery M. Porter 
by his classmate at Brown and Harvard. 
Dr. Alex M. Burgess. "As a surgeon, Dr. 
Porter was a master of operative technique, 
an able diagnostician, and a man of utter 
faithfulness and meticulous attention to 
details in postoperative care," Dr. Burgess 
wrote. "His energy and absolute integritx 
(as Chief of the Surgical Service at Rhode 
Island Hospital) allowed him to make a 
very great contribution to the surgical 
treatment of patients at that hospital and 
thereby to the community and. indeed, to 
all New England." 

Gerald A. Cooper, who retired from 
business some years ago, is now living in 
the Virgin Islands at St. Thomas. 

1907 

Robert S. Curley is home again at 22 
Amherst St., Biddeford, Me., after spend- 
ing the winter in Mesa, Ariz. 

Rev. Edwin R. Gordon, writing from 
Heald St., Pepperell, Mass., says that he 
is "much interested in the plan to use 
Manning Hall as a Chapel. , . . Do you 
think that the present student and Faculty 
personnel takes a more favorable attitude 
toward religion than was the case in 1907?" 
A fair question, to which your correspond- 
ent is inclined to answer affirmatively. 

Norman F. MacGregor's brother, Dr. 
Herbert P. MacGregor, died in Long 
Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y., 
March 16. Graduate of Cornell Medical 
College in 1905, he had been a New York 
physician for 53 years, and was a past 
President of the Lutheran Hospital in thai 
city. He was a native of St. Andrews East. 
Quebec, where our classmate now lives in 
retirement. 

William E. Bright has begun his eighth 
term as President of Lackawanna Motor 
Club, Scranton, Pa., and is also .serving as 
Director of the Club's Mid-Valley District. 

Miss Mary Barbara Stark, daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Stark, Jr., will be 
listed in the next edition of "Who's Who 
Among American Women" as educator 
and children's expert. Miss Stark is Chair- 
man of the Children's Work Committee of 
the Spokane Council of Churches and is 
otherwise active in the civic and religious 
life of the city. Her father's name will ap- 
pear in the quarterly supplement of 
"Who's Who in America" as author and 
newspaperman. Stark's book. "The Bering 
Sea Eagle," was the subject of a recent 
discussion by the Afternoon Bookworms 
of the Providence Plantations Branch, 
American Association of University 
Women. Mrs. Sidney Bellows, wife of 
Sidney Bellows '06, led off with a review 
of the work. 

"Expect to be here until the first of 
May, and then may head south to Sea 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Island, Ga.. and to points in North 
Carolina and Virginia," Bill Burnham 
wrote at the end of March from Boothbay 
Harbor, Me. He hopes to be on hand for 
our reunion at Commencement. 

Nominees for the Class of 1907 Award 
for 1958 were in the hands of President 
Clark when this paragraph was written. A 
meeting of the Class committee was being 
arranged to discuss the nominees and 
choose the winner. Award will be made 
at the chapel exercises in Sayles Hall, 
Thursday. May 8, at noon. 

Dr. Vernon K. Krieble and Mrs. Krieble 
had their bags packed ready to go to 
Florida in early March when news came 
that Reader's Digest would have an article 
in its April issue on adhesives with special 
reference to Loctite. which our classmate 
has developed and put on the market. So 
the Florida trip went glimmering. 

1908 

After 49 years away from his Alma 
Mater, Frederick A. Edgecomb is return- 
ing to the Hill for the Commencement 
Week End. He is coming all the way from 
Honolulu. 

Charlie Plummer is another "long-lost" 
classmate we will be seeing again this 
June. Charlie hasn't been back since his 
25th Reunion, but he says he wouldn't 
miss this one. "I know I will get a kick 
out of marching down the Hill again in 
the Commencement Procession," he adds. 

1909 

The Class held a supper at the Faculty 
Club on the evening of March 10. with 
the following members present: Connell, 
Leach, Dodge, Sherwood. Tanner, Hender- 
son, Turner. Wells, Kirley, Cook, Ross, 
Tinkham, Hager, Boyce, Sweetland, and 
Chafee. 

George Henderson, the top man in 
Rhode Island's Division of Roads and 
Bridges, has a new title: "Chief Engineer 
of the Division of Roads and Bridges." 
George, who has had a number of titles 
since he entered this field almost 50 years 
ago, believes that this new title is one he 
held some time back! However, as he says, 
the thing that really interests him is the 
opportunity to do a good job for the 
people of Rhode Island. 

Dr. William P. BufFum has been re- 
elected President of the Providence League 
for the Hard of Hearing. 



^"\ 





"I DON'T LIKE to butt into your personal life, son, but I've heard you ore running with a 
pretty fast crowd at school." 



MOSES BROWN alumni in April honored 

Arthur W. Cote '14, who retires this June 

after 40 years of devoted service to the 

Providence school. 



Judge William M. Connell, our Class 
President, is retiring as Judge of the 
Tenth District Court in Pawtucket. How- 
ever, he will continue to serve until Gov- 
ernor Roberts names his successor. 

1910 

Keith Mercer was one of the Brown 
representatives when alumni of 22 Ameri- 
can colleges had dinner in Montreal in 
January. It was a successful intercollegiate 
experiment which all enjoyed. 

Harold A. Swaffield received the annual 
Harold M. (Kid) Gore Award at the 29th 
annual Basketball Conference of the Small 
High School Tournament March 1 at the 
University of Massachusetts. A former 
member of the National Basketball Rules 
Committee, Harold is still active in basket- 
ball circles. 

Paul B. Howland retired from the staff 
of the Providence Journal on Dec. 31 after 
a period of 47 years of active service. He 
celebrated the event by sailing for Europe 
on March 24. He toured southern England 
for a while and now is on the Mediter- 
ranean circuit. Asked how long he would 
be gone, Paul replied "Till my money runs 
out." 

Morris Conant reports that all is well 
with the classmates in the Los Angeles 
area. His only problem this spring is that 
business has kept him moving at a fast 
pace. He is looking for a chance to take a 
short break. 

Bill Oakes, traveling far from his home 
in Franklinville, N. Y., visited Conant in 
Los Angeles. From there he intended a 
short hop to Florida before heading home. 

Frank Mansur and Hoke Horton at- 
tended a meeting of the Brown Club of 
Maussota Key, Venice. Fla.. early in 



March. Hoke is back in Barrington, look- 
ing tanned and rested. 

Albert E. Morse will be 83 years of age 
this month. In a recent talk with us, he 
mentioned his long years of interested con- 
nection with the Round Top Church. He 
and Mrs. Morse recently attended the 25th 
Anniversary Reception to its minister. An- 
other milestone came up last Feb. 12 when 
Mr. and Mrs. Morse and Mr. and Mrs. 
Louis Hall celebrated together their 50th 
Wedding Anniversaries. 

1911 

Classmates offer their sympathy to Julius 
A. Saacke on the death of his mother in 
Providence on March 3. Another son is 
Roland G. Saacke '23. 

1912 

Judge Kenneth Nash in July will com- 
plete 40 years in the District Court of East 
Norfolk County. Quincy. Mass. He is 
Chairman of the Appellate Division of 
District Courts for the Southern Division 
of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 
as well as Chairman of the Administrative 
Committee. He has been a member for 
16 years of the general supervisory board 
of five justices named by the Chief Justice 
of the Supreme Judicial Court. A recent 
two-day feature story on him in a Boston 
newspaper dwelt at some length on Judge 
Nash's baseball career. At one time he 
played major league ball, attended law 
school, and served in the Massachusetts 
Legislature, all in the same season. 

1913 

Dr. Karl H. Koopman. retired as Li- 
brarian of The Citadel, sent a postal from 
Tunis in March, where he has been "visit- 



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37 



ing the ruins of Carthage and watching the 
passing scene." "This is an interesting time 
in the history of this part of the world," 
he remarked. 

George T. Metcalf, Chairman of the 
Board of the George T. Metcalf Co., ad- 
vertising agency, has been Chairman of 
the Corporations Division of the "Design 
for a Decade" building fund drive of the 
Rhode Island School of Design. 

Maynard E. Wright of Alfred, Me., has 
been appointed to serve on a Maine 
Citizens Advisory Committee on Educa- 
tion by Governor Muskie. 

1915 

Leonard B. Campbell, Treasurer and 
General Manager of the Ware (Mass.) 
Savings Bank, was praised in a recent issue 
of The United Stares Investor. The article 
told how he took over the management of 
the Ware Savings Bank in 1935, when the 
institution had assets of $9,721,947.09, 
and by modernizing increased the business 
of the bank until today it has assets of 
$35,748,996.86. Last September, Campbell 
was elected President of the Savings Bank 
Association of Massachusetts. 

Henry S. Newcombe retired from Berk- 
shire Hathaway, Inc., in February after 29 
years of service with the Company. He had 
been Vice-President in charge of the 
Cotton Department since 1950 and prior 
to that was an Assistant Treasurer. He was 
elected a Director in 1943. He has served 
as a member of the Textile Advisory Com- 
mittee of the Rhode Island School of 
Design and has been a Director of the 
Rhode Island Textile Association. 

Harold S. Starin, who has practised as 
an architect in Duluth since 1923, was the 
April 1 speaker before the St. Louis 
County Historical Society in Duluth. His 
talk was a discussion of the architecture of 
that part of Minnesota, the architects, and 
their style, with special reference to the 
first decades of the community. He traced 
changes in style brought about by new 
methods of construction and material. 
After early work with firms in New York 
and Chicago, Starin went further west to 
join the architectural department of the 
Oliver Iron Mining Company during the 
moving and rebuilding of Hibbing. 

Earl F. Luther retired last year after 
36 years with Socony Mobil Co. A resident 
of Warren, R. I., he expects to move 
shortly to a farm in Acworth, N. H., 
where he and his wife will reside with 
their son. Earl F. Luther, Jr., '42. 

1916 

John Ryrie of Alton, 111., enjoyed a 
March vacation in Honolulu with his 
wife. 

1918 

The Rev. Earl Hollier Tomlin, Executive 
Secretary of the Rhode Island State 
Council of Churches, presented a series of 
four Lenten lectures entitled "The Dead 
Sea Scrolls — Archeology's Most Amazing 
Discovery" Feb. 25 through March 18 at 
the Beneficent Congregational Church, 
Providence. 

Dr. J. Walter Wilson, Chairman of the 
Biology Department at Brown, was Chair- 
man of a discussion held in New York in 
March on "The Human Tumor in Heterol- 
ogous Hosts." The conference on screen- 
ing procedures for experimental cancer 
chemotherapy was held at the Barbizon- 
Plaza Hotel March 13 to 15. The three-day 
conference was held under the sponsorship 
of the section of biology of the New York 
Academy of Sciences and the Cancer 




THE QUAtlTY CONTROL of certified milk 
for the Providence metropolitan area has 
been a concern of Prof. Charles A. Stuart 
'18 since 1925. The Brown biologist was 
honored for his work at a March luncheon 
arranged by the Milk Commission of the 
Providence Medical Association. Stuart re- 
ceived a traveling bag from Dr. Harold G. 
Colder '02, Commission Chairman. 



Chemotherapy National Service Center, 
Bethesda, Md. 

Classmates offer their sympathy to 
Frank C. Speck, Jr., on the death of his 
mother on March 25 in Providence. 

1919 

Lawrence B. Bixby, who has been a 
"lost alumnus" on our books for some 
time, has been found residing at 5989 
Suffield Rd., Riverside, Calif. A retired 
Army Colonel, Larry is a Curator at the 
Riverside Municipal Museum. He writes: 
"In 1948 and 1949 the vicissitudes of my 
military service took me to China, from 
which I was evacuated by air to Japan in 
time to avoid liquidation of the unflattering 
price the Communists had placed on my 
head — $4.85 in American money. From 
Japan, I again was hastily flown to Wash- 
ington, D. C, where an operation saved 
my life — just barely." 

William H. Edwards, a member of the 
Rhode Island Bar, wrote an article for 
the Providence Bulletin in March in which 
he supported a recent ruling of the Su- 
preme Court saying, in essence, that the 
military law is, in the last analysis, subject 
to the civilian branch of the government. 
"These are good principles to hear enun- 
ciated in an uncertain world," he con- 
cluded. 

Prof. Charles B. Shaughnessy repre- 
sented Brown at the sesquicentennial 
jubilee convocation of Mt. St. Mary's Col- 
lege, Emmitsburg, Md., on April 12. 

The Rev. Herman L. Noyes, in a 
pastoral letter of warmth and appreciation, 
presented his letter of resignation to the 
First Church, Shelton, Conn., on Feb. 16. 
At the same time, he reported that he 
would shortly return to Massachusetts to 
become Pastor of the First Baptist Church, 
Vineyard Haven. 

Samuel Temkin gave away the bride 
when his daughter, Deborah B. Temkin, 
was married on March 30. 



1920 

Jay Mayo "Ink" Williams is President 
and owner of Ebony Records, a subsidiary 
of Decca Records, with offices in Chicago. 

1921 

Curly Oden was one of three athletes 
honored in March by the Exchange Club 
of Providence at its annual Sports Night 
program. Young Montreal, former fistic 
star, and Bob Kosten, Rhode Island and 
New England Amateur Golf Champion, 
were the two other stars who shared the 
spotlight. 

Ralph Knight has been made a member 
of the New York Committee of the Ameri- 
can Newcommen Society. 

Joel M. Nichols, Jr., left his Tucson 
headquarters recently and did some travel- 
ing through Mexico. "We stayed in Key 
West last year," he writes, "and may 
head for Europe soon if we sell our 
Tucson home." He reports "luck" with a 
few short stories he has written. 

Dan Pinkham was one of two Americans 
taking a refresher course for Deputy 
Camp Chiefs of the International Training 
Team, Boy Scouts, at Jamaica, and one of 
the three at the Western Hemisphere Con- 
ference this spring. Dan taught in England 
at Gilwell Park last summer. Between all 
these activities, he still is busy as Vice- 
President and General Manager of the 
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. 

Ed Phelps reports that he is now in 
good health after a rather "bad time." His 
daughter Judith is teaching at Simsbury, 
Conn., while his son may soon be at 
Brown. 

John Northcott remains active in the 
Social Service field in St. Petersburg, Fla. 

Caesar T. Cambio, Executive Vice-Presi- 
dent of the Columbus National Bank, 
Providence, has been elected President of 
the Providence Clearing House Assn. 

Harold Mills became a grandfather for 
the second time when a daughter was born 
to Dr. and Mrs. Byron J. Park. Harold 
is President of the Wayne County (Indian- 
apolis) Tuberculosis Association, is on the 
Board of Directors of the Merchants Asso- 
ciation of Richmond, Ind., and is a mem- 
ber of the Advisory Board of the Salvation 
Army. 

Dr. Clarence Mansfield attended a re- 
cent Varsity Club dinner in Chicago in 



Missing Since 1926 

"At a nickel a day, that will be 
$584, please," said the Houston 
Post. It went on to tell of a gentle- 
man who went to a Houston library 
to get Vol. 2 of Fielding's "Tom 
Jones." Why only Vol. 2? 

Well, the gentleman was driving 
to New Haven in 1926 when he gave 
a lift to two Brown students. One 
of the latter left behind him in the 
auto Vol. 1 of "Tom Jones" — a 
book from the Providence Athe- 
naeum. Though the gentleman meant 
to return the book, he found it on 
his own shelves 32 years later in 
Houston. He read it, then went to 
the library for the other volume. 
The Post concluded: "He has shipped 
off Vol. 1 to the Athenaeum, de- 
voutly hoping he doesn't have to pay 
the overdue fine." 



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company with a pair of great football 
Bruins of yesteryear — Fritz Pollard '19 
and Jay Mayo "Ink" Williams '20. 

Russell Lane is serving as Administra- 
tive Assistant to the General Superintend- 
ent of Schools in Indianapolis. Previously, 
for 27 years, he had been Principal of 
Crispus Attucks High School. 

Dr. Arcadie Giura has been named Bris- 
tol County Chairman for the Rhode Island 
Division of the American Cancer Society. 

Classmates extend sympathy to Alfred 
Mochau on the death of his mother Feb. 
28 in Manchester, Conn. 

GEORGE ASHBEY 

1922 

George Shattuck, Headmaster at Nor- 
wich Free Academy, Norwich, Conn., is 
the new President of the National Asso- 
ciation of Secondary School Principals. 

Thomas G. Corcoran represented Brown 
at the inauguration of William Joseph 
McDonald as Rector of Catholic Univer- 
sity on April 16. 

Fred and Mrs. Baurenfeind received a 
rather unusual gift on their 33rd wedding 
anniversary on Feb. 28 — a granddaughter, 
courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Decker 
'48. Seems like an excellent gift for those 
who "have everything." 

C. S. Stackpole, Managing Director of 
the American Gas Association, was the 
featured speaker at the 76th annual meet- 
ing of the Petersburg (Va.) Chamber of 
Commerce. 

1923 

Lawrence Lanpher, Vice-President of 
the Board of Trustees of the Mary C. 
Wheeler School. Providence, announced a 
$1,300,000 long-range development to an 
audience of 400 parents, alumnae, and 




GEORGE E. SHATTUCK '22, Principal of the Nor- 
wich Free Academy for 17 years, is President of 
the Notional Association of Secondary School 
Principals. More than 150 Connecticut school 
officials honored him at a recent testimonial din- 
ner. Judge Allyn L. Brown '05, Chairman of the 
Academy's Board of Trustees, was toastmoster. 
There were greetings from Morion B. Folsom, 
U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and V/el- 
fore. Governor RibicofF, and others. Shattuck's 
great-grandfather, Caleb Belcher, was gradu- 
ated from Brown in 1823; Jonathan Shattuck is 
1959. 



friends of the 69-year-old institution at a 
special academic convocation on March 
10. President Keeney was one of the 
speakers. 

Einar Soderback, supervising engineer 
for the City of Providence, was a proud 
official at the recent dedication of a new 
$1,500,000 elementary school in South 
Providence. The building was the second 
of a series of new schools under a rede- 
velopment program. Soderback also super- 
vised engineering details for the Fox Point 
School, the first of the projects. He will 
probably move on to the third, at Joslin 
Park in Olneyville. 

Kilgore Macfarlane, Jr., became Presi- 
dent of the Buffalo Savings Bank in Janu- 
ary, moving from Schenectady where he 
had been President of the Savings Bank 
since 1948. For a few months he was 
President of both banks, as well as a Trus- 
tee, but he is no longer doing double duty. 
He is now living at 33 Gates Circle, 
Buffalo. Mcfarlane is Vice-President of 
the Savings Bank Association of the State 
of New "York and has held many other 
posts in national and State organizations in 
his professional field. 

Robert C. Litchfield, General Appliance 
Sales Manager of Graybar Electric in New 
York, has retired after 35 years with the 
company. Starting in the Accounting De- 
partment, Litchfield's service has covered 
a variety of assignments, including office 
service, credit, sales, and merchandising in 
Graybar offices in New York, Syracuse, 
and Atlanta. For several years he has 
headed Graybar's national sales activities 
in major appliances, television, radio, and 
housewares. He is a Past President of the 
Brown University Club in New York and 
was the 1956 National Chairman of the 
Brown University Fund. Litchfield is Presi- 
dent of Puddingstone Ridge Corporation 
and will devote his time to the development 
of its 300-acre residential area overlooking 
Morristown, N. J., in Parsippany-Troy 
Hills and Danville Townships. Mr. and 
Mrs. Litchfield propose to spend three or 
four months each winter in travel but 
count on the balance of the year at Alta- 
mont. near Morris Plains, their home. 

Arthur Fo.x reports that he has four 
years to go before retirement. He says 
that he is enjoying his curtailed schedule at 
Pittsfield High School, where he has given 
up the coaching load for a straight teach- 
ing diet. "Golf and fishing take up my 
leisure time," Art adds, "and I really 
enjoy it." 

Prof. Herbert M. Hofford, Director of 
Public Information at the University of 
Rhode Island, has been appointed State 
Chairman of Sigma Delta Chi, professional 
journalism society. Prof. Hofford is a 
charter member of the chapter at Penn- 
sylvania State University, where he was a 
Faculty member for four years before his 
appointment to the University of Rhode 
Island. 

1924 

Prof. Arlan R. Coolidge, Chairman of 
the Brown Music Department, appeared in 
Washington on March 10 as a witness in 
the congressional investigation into the 
ethics of the current music broadcast 
business. Among other witnesses was Oscar 
Hammerstein. 2nd. librettist and producer 
of a long line of hit musical shows. The 
committee is considering a measure that 
would prohibit radio or television licensees 
from engaging in the music publishing or 
selling business or in manufacturing 
records. 




WESBY R. PARKER '24, one of the nation's top 
food marketing executives, was elected President 
of Dr Pepper Company in March. He joined the 
Dallas-based firm as Executive Vice-President in 
1956 and became a Director the following Jan- 
uary. He had previously been a Vice-President of 
the General Foods Corporation. Dr Pepper Com- 
pany is one of the oldest firms in the soft drink 
industry; its product, first marketed in Texas in 
1885, has the fourth largest sales volume among 
single-drink brands throughout the world. 

Wesley B. Hayward was honored on 
Feb. 10 at the Pledge Dinner of Sigma Nu 
at Brown. Chapter Advisor for 25 years, 
he received a pen set in recognition of his 
"dedicated service." The Chapter also has 
a Wes Hayward Award, which it gives 
to its student leaders. 

1925 

Martin B. Rice and his wife Margaret 
have moved to 102 Princess Margaret 
Blvd., Toronto 18, Ontario, where he is 
affiliated with MacLaren Advertising Co., 
Ltd. He is heading up a department that 
handles all of the sales promotion ac- 
tivities for the General Motors of Canada 
account. This includes Chevrolet, Buick, 
Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Cadillac, Vauxhall, 
and Chevrolet and GMC trucks. 

The sympathy of the Class is offered 
to William C. Waring on the death of his 
wife on March 23 in Bristol. R. I. A son 
is William C. Waring. 3rd, '56. 

1926 

Lt. Col. Charles K. Baker, Jr., is 
Special Projects Officer for the Director of 
Personnel at 5th Air Force Headquarters, 
Tokyo, Japan. He was commended recently 
for his efficiency and understanding in 
overseeing the administration of some 
7,000 Japanese National employees of the 
Air Force on Itazuke and Brady Air Base. 
He was presented with a certificate of ap- 
preciation from Governor Karoku Tsuchiya 
of Fukuoka Prefecture. 

Albert L. Parks is President and 
Treasurer of the Carlton Engraving Co., 
Worcester, Mass. 

Kenneth K. Knickerbocker (Russ Halli- 
day writes) has "moved up the ladder to 
become Chairman, Acme Visible Records." 

1927 

The Class of '27 Fund Committee has 
held a number of meetings, and plans are 



MAY 1958 



39 




PROF. CARL PFAFFMANN '33 has been elected 
President of the Eastern Psychological Associa- 
tion. Numbering 3000 members, the organization 
is second in size only to the American Psycho- 
logical Association in its field. An experimental 
psychologist. Dr. Pfoffmonn has directed investi- 
gations into the function of taste, as noted in 
a recent issue of Reader's Digest, and more gen- 
erally has done research on brain function In 
relation to behavior. Prof. Lorin A. Riggs of 
Brown is also on the Association's Boord of Di- 
rectors. Drs. Riggs and Pfoffmonn were among 
nine members of the Brown Psychology Depart- 
ment who read papers at its recent meeting in 
Philadelphia. 



progressing rapidly. Information will be 
sent to all classmates in the near future. 
In the meantime, the Fund itself is an 
established fact, set up in a separate ac- 
count, and we shall welcome additions to 
it as the spirit moves you. Checks should 
be made out to the Class of '27 Fund and 
they should be mailed to Class Treasurer 
Irving G. Loxley, 511 Westminster St.. 
Providence. In order to reach our proposed 
goal, we shall need substantial support 
from all members. Get behind this '27 
Class Fund with your generous contribu- 
tion. 

Prof. William Benford represented 
Brown at the inauguration of Dr. Ernst 
Weber as President of Polytechnic Institute 
of Brooklyn on April 19. 

Five classmates attended the Advisory 
Council session on the Hill in February. 
The other members of '27 in attendance 
were Jack Roe, Bob Sanderson, Gardner 
Hudson, Eddie Rundquist, and Irving 
Loxley. 

Jack Hall's son. Howard R. Hall, is a 
Junior at Harvard. A recent newspaper 
clipping indicated that he had been elected 
Vice-President of the Crimson Key Society, 
the University's official guide service. An- 
other son is at Brown. 

1928 
Frederic W. Collins, Washington cor- 
respondent of the Providence Journal-Bul- 
letin, provided a serious ending to the 
annual Gridiron Dinner of Washington 
newsmen. It was a parody of "Around the 
World in 80 Days" on the theme of 
"Around the World We Search for Peace." 
Lyndon Johnson, the Senate Democratic 
leader, was so impressed that he endorsed 



the suggestion that the Voice of America 
seek use of the new version of the song. 

Ritchie L. Stevens has been elected to 
the Housing Authority in Needham. Mass. 
His election is for a five-year term. He 
reports that the work "is particularly im- 
portant right now as we are about to start 
construction of low-rent units for the 
elderly." Ritchie still operates the Craw- 
ford Door Sales Corp., specialists in over- 
head garage doors and electric doors. 

Harold Gouzoules, manager of A. L. 
Green. Ltd.. Three Rivers, Quebec, is liv- 
ing at 2049 Lajoie St., in that city. 

H. Clinton Owen's son, Harry Clinton 
Owen, 3rd, a student at Classical High 
School, was "President of the Senate" dur- 
ing the April 12 session of the R. I. Model 
Legislature. 

Robert F. Marschner, Senior Research 
.Associate in the Research Department of 
Standard Oil, Whiting, Ind., spoke on 
■Recent Advances in Petroleum Refining" 
at Illinois Institute of Technology on March 
28. Dr. Marschner has been with Standard 
since 1934. 

Bob Kline, son of Dr. Ernest Kline, ran 
on the Brown Freshman track team this 
winter. 

Sam Levy's young son, Dick, was a 
member of the record-breaking Cub relay 
swimming team. 

Classmates will be happy to hear that 
Eddie Lawrence has recovered from his 
illness of several years ago. 

Jack Heffernan, Director of Physical 
Education and Intramurals at Brown, at- 
tended the National Intramural Associa- 
tion convention in Louisville, Ky., in 
March. In an address before the gathering, 
he noted that "the growing interest in in- 
tramural sports in colleges and universities 
is a handy cure for 'chronic spectatoritis'." 
Incidentally, while there, Jack was offi- 
cially commissioned a Kentucky Colonel 
by order of Governor "Happy" Chandler. 
He has completed his term as N.I. A. 
President. 

1929 

George F. Ringler, Executive Assistant 
in the Treasury Department, Narragansett 
Electric Company for the past three years, 
has been named Treasurer of that concern. 
George joined Narragansett in 1932 and 
after various assignments was named 
Superintendent of the plant Accounting 
Department in 1950. A year later he was 
named an accountant and in April. 1955. 
was named an Executive Assistant. 

Lou Farber, head football coach at 
Pueblo High School in Tucson. Ariz., will 
be honored by his former East Providence 
High School players at a dinner on May 
10. The affair, which will be held at the 
Palms, East Providence, will feature Tuss 
McLaughry as chief speaker. Members of 
the 1926 Iron Men will be invited. 
Tickets may be purchased through Pat 
Pezzelli, 22 Joann Drive. Barrington, R. 1. 
(CH 5-4790). Lou was head football 
coach at East Providence from 1936-1949, 
turning out Class A Champions in his 
final two seasons. 

Ken Scott, our Reunion Chairman, will 
shortly activate a committee to draw up 
plans for our big 30th a year from June. 
Program suggestions will be appreciated 
and should be sent to Ken at 284 Garden 
City Drive, Garden City, Cranston, R. 1. 

Nathan Pass, a teacher at East Provi- 
dence High School, was the principal 
speaker at a March testimonial dinner for 
Assistant School Superintendent Otho F. 
Smith. Melvin Chernick '46, a member of 
the East Providence Lettermen's Club, 



sponsors of the affair, presented Mr. Smith 
with a gift in honor of "3 1 years of de- 
voted service to the school department." 

1930 

Secretary Ed Farrell is attempting to 
assemble information for a Class Direc- 
tory. So far, 70 classmates have mailed in 
returns. Ed has found them very interest- 
ing and wishes the rest of you would send 
back your questionnaire so that everyone 
can enjoy the good reading. 

The boys are as wide apart geographi- 
cally as they are varied in careers. We 
heard from Dr. Paul Osmun in Seattle; 
Charlie Shapiro, medical supplies man in 
California; Joe Clark, an oilman in Texas; 
and Joe Maleady, a farmer in San Salva- 
dor. Don't hold up the Directory; send 
your questionnaire in now! 

Aaron Roitman has presented to the 
Brown University Library a leaf of a 
Spanish choir-book which probably dates 
from the 16th century. It is written in a 
round Gothic hand with red and black ink 
upon a sheet of vellum more than two feet 
tall. "This large size enabled several mem- 
bers of the choir to read the words and 
music from the same book," Librarian 
Jonah comments. "Due to the suppression 
of many ecclesiastical establishments, as 
well as civil disturbances in Spain from 
Napoleon's time to our own, these frag- 
ments are not frequently found." 

James E. Munroe. retiring Chairman of 
the North Attleboro School Committee, 
was praised in a resolution for "the wis- 
dom, maturity, and real dedication he im- 
parted during nine years of public service." 
The resolution was proposed by fellow 
committeeman Richard L. Sherman '52. 

Edward L. Sittler recently returned from 
a trip to Europe and the Near East. An 
executive with the Mutual Life Insurance 
Co. of New York, he is Chairman of the 
Building for Brotherhoood campaign in 
his home town of Uniontown, Pa. 




CHARLES B. BROWN '31 has joined the Alu- 
minum Division of Olin Mathieson Chemical Cor- 
poration as Monoger, Transportation Industry 
Sales. He hod been Executive Vice-President of 
American Listings, Inc., and earlier with Kaiser 
Aluminum & Chemical Corporation in various 
capacities, notably as General Industry Manager 
of the Development Division. Brown is in his sec- 
ond term as Mayor of Plandome, N. Y. 



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1931 

Class Dues of $5 per man are being 
solicited this spring. As we went to press, 
26 classmates had responded. Checks, 
made payable to Clinton N. Williams, 
Treasurer, should be sent to him at 51 
South Angell St., Providence 6. 

A. Paul Brugge, elected President of the 
Pawtucket Rotary Club in April, will take 
office in July. His brother Carl had also 
held this office some years ago. Paul, who 
lives at 41 Don Ave., Rumford. is Vice- 
President and Treasurer of Carl F. Brugge, 
inc., Pawtucket heating and ventilating 
contractors. 

When Dean Westcott E. S. Moulton 
retired as President of the Rhode Island 
Hockey Officials Association in March, he 
was voted an honorary life presidency and 
received a gift in token of his services. 
Wes was the founder of this organization 
and its President for the past 1 1 years. 

Benjamin Greenfield remains President 
of the Old Colony Knitting Mills of New- 
ton Center and Hingham (Mass.), and of 
the Barberry Knitting Mills in Laconia, 
N. H. 




ROSS A. de MATTEO, II, '35, has been promoted 
by Anocondo Wire & Coble Company as Man- 
ager of Export Sales. With Anaconda since 1947, 
he had most recently been Assistant to William 
D. Bclmain, whom he succeeds. (Photo by Richard 
N, Cassor) 



The Rev. Robert W. Little spoke at the 
West Parish Church in Andover, Mass., 
recently on the breakdown of the promi- 
nence of the father in the American home, 
the emancipation of women, and the be- 
wildering activities offered the present-day 
adolescent. 

Milton B. Levin attended a spring meet- 
ing of the Los Angeles Brown Club and 
bumped into two classmates, Doug Stewart 
and Johnny Aiso. The latter was recently 
appointed Judge of the Superior Court of 
Los Angeles. Milton is Manager of the 
Pacific Southwest Insurance Agency, Inc.. 
South Gate, Cal. 

Milton E. Kingsley has the deep sym- 
pathy of all classmates on the death of his 
wife, Phyllis, on Feb. 27 in Providence. 

1932 

Stanley C. Paige served as Providence 
Trades and Industries Chairman for the 



Rhode Island Division of the American 
Cancer Society. 

Gerald I. Glunts, a partner in the James 
D. Glunts & Co., accounting firm of Bos- 
ton, is serving as Chairman of the Ac- 
countants Division for the Combined Jew- 
ish Appeal. 

1933 

Thomas F. Gilbane, President of the 
Gilbane Building Co., has announced that 
his concern will develop an Industrial Park 
in Kingston, R. I., on land owned by the 
New Haven Railroad. Under the develop- 
ment plan, the Gilbane Company would 
do the engineering work, construction of 
factories, creation of roads, and arrange 
financing for incoming companies. 

Bill Bradshaw, member of the Physical 
Plant Stafl" at Brown, attended the regional 
meeting of the Association of Physical 
Plant Administrators in New York re- 
cently. He gave a talk on "Campus Police 
Organization and Security Problems" at 
the two-day conference. 

1934 

Harry N. Couden is Manager of 
Quality Control in the Piedmont Suppliers 
Division of Safeway Stores in San Fran- 
cesco. He was a luncheon speaker recenth. 
chosen from among the students attending 
an Engineering and Management Course 
at U.C.L.A. His topic was "Education. 
Culture, and Technology," which he hopes 
he developed "in the Henry Wriston tradi- 
tion." "The strength of education." he 
said, "is in its purpose, the development of 
a man's quality, while the strength of tech- 
nology is in the techniques of the subject 
and its quantity. The test of the educated 
man is that he is master of his subject, 
while the technically competent is its 
obedient servant." 

Maurice L. Clemence of Wellesley Hills 
has been elected to the Board of Trustees 
of Wheaton College in Norton, Mass., 
from which his wife was graduated in 
1934. He is Treasurer and a Director of 
the Kendall Company, which manufac- 
tures surgical dressings and textiles. He is 
a Trustee of the Newton- Wellesley Hos- 
pital, a founder of the Treasurers" Club of 
Boston, and a former Chairman of the 
Wellesley School Committee. He was a 
member of several of the Town's school 
building committees. Clemence is also 
active in the affairs of the American Man- 
agement Association and the National In- 
dustrial Conference Board. Another mem- 
ber of the Wheaton Board is Prof. William 
T. Hastings '03. 

Malcolm C. Lang has been elected As- 
sistant Vice-President of the American 
Mutual Liability Insurance Co., Boston. 
He joined American Mutual in 1936 and 
most recently had been serving as Deputy 
Controller and Budget Director. He is a 
past President of the New England Chap- 
ter, Institute of Internal Auditors. 

Bancroft Littlefield has been named to 
the Board of the Rhode Island Society for 
Crippled Children and Adults. Another 
Brown man on the Board is Ed Spicer "10. 

1935 

Paul L. Paulsen has been appointed Di- 
rector of Research and Development for 
Hamilton Manufacturing Co. of Two 
Rivers, Wis. He has been with the appli- 
ance and professional equipment firm for 
the past five years. Before that he had been 
with the General Electric Co. 

Dr. Alvin I. Goldfarb sent a generous 
gift to the University Fund in honor of 
his father who died on Feb. 8. 




JOEL S. DANIELS, JR., '32 has been elected As- 
sistant Vice-President of Advertising and Promo- 
tion for Northeast Airlines, with headquarters at 
Logon International Airport, Boston. With the 
Air Transport Command during World War II, 
he handled special mission aircraft projects out 
of Washington and later took part in ATC's 
famous "Hump" operation in the CBI Theater. 
He was for 12 years with Capitol Airlines, which 
named him Assistant Vice-President, Advertising, 
lost year. (Harris & Ewing photo) 

1937 

Dr. Leonard Robinson represented 
Brown at the inauguration of Dr. Henry 
King Stanford as President of Birmingham- 
Southern College on April 11. 

Martin Tarpy has been elected Vice- 
President of the Pawtucket Rotary Club. 

Richard L. Walsh was active this year 
in the program of the Good Friday Ob- 
servance Committee, an interdenomina- 
tional group in Washington, D. C, which 
seeks voluntary cooperation "in the rever- 
ent observance of Good Friday by allow- 
ing religious-minded employes to attend 
church services during this sacred day." 
Walsh was Chairman of the Business Or- 
ganizations Committee. In another under- 
taking, Walsh's timing was perfect when 
he booked Dr. Hagen, the satellite expert, 
to speak before the Georgetown alumni 
organization in Washington. The appear- 
ance was on the actual day of the Van- 
guard launching. 

1938 

Antone Singsen is anxious to get in 
touch with the following members of the 
Class, for which the Alumni Office has no 
good current address: Gilbert R. Bennett, 
Ronald Bennett. William C. Graf, George 
E. Myers, and Donald V. Vines. Any 
clues sent to Singsen at 159 Brewster Rd., 
Scarsdale, N. Y., would be appreciated. 

Paul W. Welch, who was Captain of the 
1938 baseball team at Brown, continues 
his interest in the game as Secretary of the 
Little League in his home town of Bar- 
rington, R. I. 

Edward Galway wrote from Bangkok, 
Thailand, in March that he would be back 
in the States in June. Unfortunately, it 
won't be until a fortnight after the re- 
union, so that he asks Brent Bullock to 
offer his greetings. 

Dr. Charles B. Round served as Kent 
County Chairman this spring for the 



MAY 1958 



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High Honors 
in Jamaica 



FEW Americans are entitled to the ini- 
tials, O.B.E., after their name, but C. 
Bernard Lewis, Jr., "35 is one of them. On 
the New Year's Honors List for 1957 he 
was made an (Honorary) Officer of the 
Most E.xcellent Order of the British Em- 
pire by Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth IL 
The parenthetical "Honorary" is necessary 
because he is an American citizen. The 
selection carried implicit recognition of 
Lewis' cultural work in Jamaica for nearly 
20 years. 

A few months ago Lewis received the 
insignia and warrant, signed by the Queen 
and Prince Philip, from Sir Hugh Foot. 
G.C.M.G., K.C.V.O.. O.B.E., who was 
then Governor of Jamaica. (More re- 
cently Sir Hugh has been in the news as 
Governor of Cyprus.) It is this ceremony 
pictured in the photograph. The citation 
read: 

"Charles Bernard Lewis: Mr. Lewis, 
who is a United States citizen and a Rhodes 
Scholar, came to Jamaica as Curator of the 
Museum of the Institute of Jamaica in 
1939. He was appointed Director of the 
Institute in 1950. He has been President of 
the Jamaica Natural History Society and 
President of the Jamaica Historical Society. 
He is an able executive officer and also a 
gifted scientist and scholar; his devotion to 
the Institute of Jamaica, together with his 
wide interests and the first-rate work which 
he has undertaken in many different fields, 
have earned him the affectionate admira- 
tion of all who have been associated with 
him." 

Lewis originally went to the West Indies 
as a biologist with a scientific expedition 
sponsored by Oxford University and the 
British Museum, for which he spent five 
months on the Caylan Islands. This led to 



Rhode Island Division of the American 
Cancer Society. 

King A. Grinnell has been elected As- 
sistant Treasurer of the Taunton (Mass.) 
Co-operative Bank. He started in the field 
in 1938 with the Fall River National 
Bank. 

William E. Fay, Jr., has been admitted 
to general partnership with Smith, Barney 
& Co., investment bankers and members 
of the New York Stock Exchange. A 
member of the firm's Chicago office sales 
staff. Bill has been with the concern since 
1946. 

1939 

Richard W. Walmsley sent a postal from 
Saigon, Vietnam, about his impending 
move in April to 2646 North Quantico St., 
Arlington, Va. The picture showed harbor 
traffic. "The strange rollcd-up sails are 
made of woven palm leaves, and what an 
experience to go sailing on the China Sea." 
He said he'd enjoyed the Alumni Monthly 
"immensely in this far-away land." 

Frank L. Miller has been named Man- 
ager of Marketing of the Power Tube De- 
partment at General Electric. In his new 
position, he will be responsible for all mar- 
keting activities of the department, includ- 
ing sales, application engineering, product 




C. BERNARD LEWIS, JR., '35 being decorated 

with the O.B.E. by Sir Hugh Foot, then Governor 

of Jamaica. 

his post at the Institute. It is a cultural 
center with libraries, museum, art school, 
junior centers, etc. The West India Refer- 
ence Library on the upper floor of the 
East St. building in Kingston is a treasure 
trove of books, manuscripts, prints, maps, 
and other priceless items — more than 
20,000 of them including the Commission 
of 1678. But this is only one phase of the 
great program, which this Brunonian di- 
rects and for which he was honored. 



planning, marketing administration, and 
advertising and sales promotion. Miller 
has been with the Company since 1939, 
and. most recently, he served as Manager, 
Product Planning, for the Specialty Con- 
trol Department, Waynesboro, Va. 

George G. Slade has been named Sales 
Training-Promotion Manager with Bos- 
titch. Inc., Providence. He had served as 
District Sales Manager since 1948 at the 
New York office. 

Stuart C. Sherman, Librarian at the 
Providence Public Library, was a guest 
speaker in March on the recorded Radio 
Press Conference over WEAN, one of the 
Journal-Bulletin radio stations. In his talk, 
he claimed that if a child is exposed to 
good books, he will be able to distinguish 
the good from the bad along the path of 
life. He also noted that children are very 
definitely influenced by the kind of litera- 
ture their parents read. 

1940 

The Rev. Harold Dodge Buck is a 
member of the Iowa Commission on 
Human Relations, appointed by Governor 
Herschel Loveless. The group is surveying 
problems created by the rapid industrial 
growth and rise in the ethnic population 
shifts in the State's urban areas. Buck is 



Minister of the First Unitarian Church of 
Des Moines. 

Andrew V. Santangini represented Brown 
at the inauguration of Dr. Frank Anthony 
Rose as President of the University of 
Alabama on Apr. 9. 

John McLaughry, head football coach 
at Amherst, was the featured speaker at a 
March meeting of the Kiwanis Club in 
Springfield. Samuel Thompson '44, a mem- 
ber of the Club, introduced the former 
Bruin captain. 

Ted Dooley has been elected President 
of the Rhode Island Hockey Officials As- 
sociation, succeeding Wes Moulton '31. 

Congressman William H. Bates (R- 
Mass.) spoke in New Bedford recently at 
a dinner-meeting to launch the $500,000 
building fund campaign of the Boys Club 
of New Bedford. 

David and Helen Borst, residents of 
Lynchburg, Va., recently had the leads in 
the Little Theatre's production of "The 
Bees and the Flowers. " This was the first 
time the two had appeared together in a 
play, although both have had extensive 
stage experience. In addition to their col- 
lege training, Dave and his wife, the 
former Helen Thomas P '40, have acted in 
amateur theatrical productions in Massa- 
chusetts and Virginia. In commenting on 
their recent work, Dave remarked: "Now 
I know how it feels to make love to your 
wife for five straight nights before a 
packed house." Dave is an appliance engi- 
neer in the marketing section of General 
Electric in Lynchburg. 

1941 

Dr. Walter L. Creese, Professor of Fine 
Arts at the University of Louisville, moves 
in September to the Faculty of the Uni- 
versity of Illinois. He will be Professor of 
Architecture in the Schools of Planning 
and Architecture, College of Fine and Ap- 
plied Arts. Illinois has the largest and 
second oldest architectural school in the 
country. Creese, at Louisville since 1945, 
was recently elected President of the So- 
ciety of Architectural Historians. He has 
been active in preservation movements, in- 
cluding action to save the east front of the 
Capitol in Washington. He is a former 
Chairman of the Louisville Planning and 
Zoning Commission. "We are going to 
miss him like fury," said President David- 
son of U. of L. An editorial in the 
Louisville Courier Journal, speaking of his 
off-campus influence, said: "Very few 
Northerners transplanted to this still pre- 
dominantly Southern city have so whole- 
heartedly thrown themselves into the life 
of the community, both cultural and civic. 
We are unfortunate in losing him." Dur- 
ing his Fulbright fellcywship to England 
two years ago. Dr. Creese attended the 
founding of the British Society of Archi- 
tectural Historians. 

Bill Minton of the Signal Corps, U. S. 
Army, has been promoted from Major to 
Lieutenant Colonel with the ROTC In- 
struction Detachment. He is the Army in- 
structor at Rutgers University. 

Robert B. Union has the sympathy of 
all classmates on the death of his father 
on March 2 in Providence. 

1942 

Paul Harrison has a new post, reported 
hy Sontheimer, Runkle & Associates, Inc., 
public relations agency for the government 
of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. He 
will be Assistant Director of Mainland 
Operations, with headquarters in New 
York, in the conduct of the Puerto Rico 
News Service. Before joining SKA, Har- 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



rison was Business Editor of Vision, 
Spanish-language newsmagazine edited in 
New York for executives in Latin America. 
He is a former Washington correspondent 
and former assistant to Governor Marin of 
Puerto Rico. 

Eugene Lester, a Music major while at 
Brown, conducted the orchestra when 
Martha Graham and her company played 
a two-week repertory season at the Adelphi 
Theatre in New York in April. It was her 
first New York season since her world 
tour under the President's Special Inter- 
national Program for Cultural Presenta- 
tions. Lester continues active as a com- 
poser, a field in which he began as a 
Brown undergraduate and continued as a 
graduate student under Hindemith at Yale. 

Cmdr. John A. Harman, USN, has as- 
sumed command of the Naval Recruiting 
Station and Office of Naval Office Procure- 
ment in Boston. He had previously com- 
manded the Helicopter Utility Squadron, 
Lakehurst, N. J. 




JOHN D. WALLACE '42 



One of the 10 

THE COVETED Arthur S. Flemming Award 
went in February to John D. Wallace 
'42 when he was selected as one of the 
10 outstanding young men in the Federal 
Government. He heads the Special Meth- 
ods and Analysis Branch of the Undersea 
Warfare Division, Aeronautical Electronic 
and Electrical Laboratory at the Johnsville 
Naval Air Development Center. 

His accomplishments, said the citation, 
"have gained for him an international 
reputation as an expert in the field of 
applying ferroelectric ceramics to under- 
water sound transmitting and receiving de- 
vices." He and his group of physicists and 
engineers provide original idea conceptions 
and validating research upon which a sig- 
nificant portion of the airborne undersea 
warfare program of the Navy is based. 

Work by Wallace in underwater acous- 
tics is also relevant to diagnosis of human 
heart disease. The miniature microphone 
he helped develop was described in our 
March issue, after it was thought the Rus- 
sians had adapted it for use in sending 
signals from the dog in Sputnik II. (Wal- 
lace's picture is an official U.S. Navy 
Photo.) 

MAY 1958 



Willard C. Parker has been reelected a 
Director of the Yardley Building and Loan 
Assn., Yardley, Pa. 

David E. Fallon has been named Special 
Agent at the Springfield (Mass.) office 
of the General Accident Group Insurance 
Co. He has been a Special Agent in West- 
ern Massachusetts for Dubuque Fire and 
Marine since 1955. 

1943 

Classmates extend sympathy to Joseph 
H. Gainer, Jr., on the death of his mother 
on March 20. 

1944 

Irving R. Levine, NBC correspondent, 
followed Bob Hope around Moscow on his 
March visit and wired a number of 
humorous stories to the home office. In 
one. Bob told of his troubles in obtaining 
his Soviet visa and cracked: "I knew they 
had a five-year plan over here, but didn't 
think it applied to getting a visa." Hope 
also was overheard describing Russian 
vodka as "an alcohol rub on the inside." 

Dr. Charles H. Philbrick, 2nd. member 
of the Brown English Department, read 
his poem "New England Suite" at the 
128th Anniversary Dinner of the Rhode 
Island Alpha of Phi Beta Kappa at An- 
drews Hall. Pembroke. March 13. Gov. 
Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut was the 
main speaker at the affair. 

Robert E. Nelson, the new Service Man- 
ager of the Medical Division of Sanborn 
Company, Waltham, is Vice-President of 
the Alumni Council of Cushing Academy. 
He is a member of the Boston Manage- 
ment Club and an advisor in the program 
of the Junior Achievement of Eastern 
Massachusetts, Inc. The Nelsons, who live 
at 15 Westlake Rd., Natick, have three 
children. 

David P. Leonard, Assistant Professor 
of History at Mount Holyoke College, 
spoke to the Discussion Group at the 
Jewish Community Center in Providence 
recently. His subject: "A Historian Looks 
at the Current Scene in Latin America." 
A specialist in Latin American history. Dr. 
Leonard is currently writing a book on the 
colonial history of Colombia. He spent 
the summer of 1954 in Seville, Spain, 
working on the archives of the Indies in 
connection with his book, under a grant 
from the American Philosophical Society. 

Doc Savage, a resident of Allen Way, 
Manasquan, N. J., is Editor of Quality 
Comics Co., N.Y.C. The former Bruin 
football captain notes that he still manages 
to see a game "now and then." Bob 
Margarita, Assistant Coach at Boston Uni- 
versity and the other half of that famous 
Margarita-Savage backfield combination 
during the 1941-42 seasons, spoke in 
Cranston (R.I.) in March. 

1945 

Henry D. Sharpe, Jr., President of 
Brown & Sharpe Mfg. Co., Providence, has 
been named to the private investment sub- 
committee of the World Trade Advisory 
Committee of the Department of Com- 
merce. 

Edward J. McCrystal, Jr., has been 
named Providence Branch Manager with 
the Thermotax division of Spaulding-Moss 
Co. 

Robert F. Cashen has been elected As- 
sistant Vice-President of the First National 
Bank of Shreveport, La. He has been 
Manager of the Petroleum Department of 
the bank since 1955. 

Dr. Frank A. Merlino is Medical Di- 
rector of the Providence Tuberculosis 
League. 




DOUGLAS EDWARD LEACH '42 is the author of 
"Flintlock ond Tomahawk: New England in King 
Philip's War," a March publication of the Mac- 
millon Company. While on the Faculty at Botes 
and, more recently, at Vonderbilt, he spent sev- 
eral vacotions visiting the scenes of King Philip's 
War, consulting importont records and local rec- 
ords. The book. Dr. Leach's first, has had fine re- 
views. (Walden S. Fabry Studios) 



1948 

Alan L. Sack was elected Vice-President 
and Director of the Gilliam Service, Inc., 
Boston, at the March meeting of its Board 
of Directors. He has served as President 
and Director for three years of the Boston 
Chapter, Mail Advertising Service Associa- 
tion International. He is also a member of 
the Advertising Club of Boston and the 
Direct Mail Advertising Association. As 
Vice-President, he will be directly charged 
with production control and planning, 
while continuing to be active in customer 
contact and campaign planning. 

Arvid Willen has been appointed by the 
Alsop Engineering Corporation to its sales 
engineering staff. He will operate directly 
from the main office in Milldale, Conn., 
and will serve the territory covering Con- 
necticut, New York State above West- 
chester County, Western Massachusetts, 
and part of Vermont. Willen had served as 
a District Sales Manager for Master Elec- 
tric Co., division of Reliance Electric and 
Engineering Co., Dayton. 

Ed Crump and Marty Mordlick have 
forsaken the north for sunny (?) Florida. 

Bob Wehrman writes from California 
that the distance is too great for him to 
make the reunion this year. However, he 
informs us that he will be there "in spirit." 

Classmates offer their sympathy to Prof. 
Philip J. Bray on the death of his son, 
Richard J. Bray, age 4. in Providence on 
March 19. 

Dr. Ben Taber has left Cook County 
Hospital in Chicago to start his practice at 
the Medical Center in El Paso. 

Roland A. Bill has been promoted to 
Sales Manager of O.K. Storage Co., Mem- 
phis. The concern is an agent there for 
Allied Van Lines. 

Frank C. Kenyon, Jr., is with the Dow 
Chemical Co.. Midland, Mich., as a mem- 
ber of the Plastics Merchandising Depart- 
ment. His job consists of formulating and 
executing promotional and advertising 



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WERNER B. PETER '46 has joined the New York 
Stock Exchange firm of W. C. langley & Co. as 
Manager of the new Mutual Funds Department. 
He was with the First Investors Corp. for 12 
years, most recently as o Group Manager. (Photo 
by Blockstone) 

campaigns aimed at the industrial market 
for the firm's plastic raw materials. He 
also is responsible for keeping all of the 
sales offices throughout the company in- 
formed of the concern's over-all marketing 
activities. 

Robert J. Wall has been named "Out- 
standing Young Man of the Year" in the 
fields of transportation and communica- 
tions by the Young Men's Board of Trade 
of New York City. Bob became the young- 
est captain in the American Merchant 
Marine three years age when he was 
named Master of the Farrell Lines freighter 
African Patriot. He has since left the sea 
and is a traffic sales representative for 
Farrell, responsible for importing coffee, 
cocoa, tea, rubber, and other cargoes. 

1949 

Many members of our Class are serv- 
ing their Alma Mater as members of the 
various committees of our Brown Clubs. 
Others are working for the Alumni Fund 
and various University projects. The op- 
portunity for the Class as an entity to par- 
ticipate in a project of value to the Uni- 
versity came about last Spring. In con- 
junction with the Classes of 1950 and 
1951, we sponsored a trial running of what 
has now become "Alumni Field Day," de- 
signed to enliven the Saturday afternoon 
of Commencement Week End. So success- 
ful that it is now expanded to include all 
alumni and all Classes, it will be held at the 
Aldrich-De.xter Field Ihe Saturday of 1958 
Commencement. Included in the physical 
arrangements are small, individual class 
tents. The Class Executive Committee de- 
cided to purchase one of these tents, as 
several of the other Classes have done, 
and these can also be used in the expanded 
Homecoming program in the Fall. 

We are looking forward to seeing every 
classmate and his family who live within 
driving distance of Brown University at 
the Alumni Field Day this coming Com- 
mencement. 

With our 10th Reunion only a year 
away, the call is being sounded for com- 



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mittee members. Anyone who will serve is 
needed; all are welcome — either in person 
or with suggestions. Please telephone or 
drop me a note if you can serve on the 
committee, or have any suggestions as to 
what you would be most interested in 
having for a program. We then plan on 
having this committee circulate among our 
classmates at Alumni Field Day and find 
out what their wishes are for the following 
year's reunion. 

It is hoped that the Regional "Vice- 
Presidents will handle their area and see 
that it is well represented at Alumni Field 
Day and at the coming Tenth Year Re- 
union. This is a good place to mention 
that Dave Barus has left Boston and is 
now an attorney in Washington with Cum- 
mings. Sellers, Reeves and Conner. This 
necessitated his resigning as Vice-President 
of the New England area. A nomination 
or a volunteer to fill this position will be 
most welcome. 

Tom O'Brien has done a fine job for 
our Class on the Alumni Fund. Is every- 
one doing his part, so that the Class of 
1949 will be among the leaders? 

At our Fifth Reunion it was de- 
cided that annual dues would be adopted 
and billing of these dues be made. There 
were several problems that had to be over- 
come, and our Treasurer, Rick Wilson, is 
happy to report that the initial billing will 
start this Fall. This billing will be retro- 
active for 1957 and current for 1958. 
Annual dues of $5 will be needed to 
achieve our goal of $100,000 for our 25th 
Year Reunion Gift to the University. This 
doesn't mean that we won't accept more if 
you can afford it, or less if you can't. 
What we are striving for is 100% par- 
ticipation by our Class. 

We evidently have a most modest class 
— because so few report on their activities 
— family, social or professional. Everyone 
enjoys reading the Class Notes column, 
but without your cooperation there can 
be no notes; so won't you please help us 
out? Let's hear from you! Just a postcard 
from your wife will accomplish the desired 
result! 

See you in June. 

ROLLAND H. JONES 

Class Secretary 

1950 

For the second successive year, the 
Class is sponsoring a concert by the 
Brown University Glee Club on Friday, 
May 9, at Sayles Hall. Tickets may be 
purchased at the door or from members of 
the Executive Committee. 

Coach Al Kelley was the guest at the 
monthly luncheon at the Faculty Club on 
April 9. Al noted that the Bruins will be 
strong in the backfield this fall, but he felt 
that much work had to be done on the 
line. He predicted a great season for Paul 
Choquette, whom he termed "one of the 
real good backs in the East." 

William B. Eraser, Jr., has joined the 
Rhode Island Mutual Insurance Co. as 
the head of new department of Communi- 
cation and Supply. A graduate of the 
Bentley School of Accounting, he has been 
employed for five years by Joseph Froggatt 
& Co., a firm specializing in insurance 
company auditing and accounting. 

Carlton H. Yates has been named Man- 
ager of the Development Department of 
the newly-created Firestone Rubber & 
Latex Products Co., Fall Fiver. A native 
of that city, Yates joined the Plant De- 
velopment Department in 1950. He was in 
charge of extruded and molded rubber 



goods development for four years before 
being appointed Assistant Development 
Manager last year. 

Edward J. Davidson has been named 
Branch Manager in Dallas for the Auto- 
mobile Mutual Insurance Company of 
America. He had served in the same ca- 
pacity in San Francisco. 

John Charles Hurd is working out of 
New York as Field Representative for 
Screen Actors Guild. 

Donald H. Spalding is a Research As- 
sistant in the Department of Plant Pathol- 
ogy at Washington State College. Prior to 
last August, he had been a microbiologist 
at the Dow Chemical Co., Midland, Mich. 
Andy DeCesare, Rhode Island State 
Trooper, was pictured in the Providence 
Bulletin in March enforcing a road block 
set up in an effort to capture an escaping 
hold-up man. As usual, the troopers got 
their man. 

John F. Dator, President of the Massa- 
chusetts Junior Chamber of Commerce, 
spoke at the Charter Night Banquet cele- 
bration of that organization in Chelms- 
ford on Feb. 22. Dator was named as the 
outstanding young man in Fall River in 
1956. 

Thomas L. Philbrick, a teaching fellow 
in General Education at Harvard, will 
join the English Department of the Col- 
lege of Arts and Sciences at the University 
of Vermont in September. 

George Paterno, not being sure of the 
proper address, sent a letter marked 
simply: "Fred Kozak, Fall River, Mass." 
The letter arrived — without delay! George 
is doing youth work with the New York 
City Police Department. Last fall, he 
doubled as Assistant Coach at his old 
school, Brooklyn Prep High School. In 
his note to Fred, he mentioned that he 
had seen the "big man" (Moe Mahoney), 
and that the latter was "as happy as a 
lark." 

James Baker, an art teacher at the 




CLYDE A. KEILEY '49 has been appointed a reg- 
istered representative of A. E. Aub & Co., invest- 
ment dealers in Cincinnati. He is also associated 
with Kelley Realty Co. and Kelley & Co., con- 
sulting engineers— probably the only man in 
Ohio who is a registered professional engineer, 
real estate broker, and salesman of securities. 
He was formerly a design engineer with General 
Electric for six years. (Photo by Rensler) 

BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



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Bobby Paid His Taxes 

Timothy A. Fallon '50 and 
Peggy Flores Fallon, Pembroke '50, 
have been paying their income tax 
in good faith for some years now. 
This year, however, their son, 
Bobby, 4'/2, showed a new way to 
do it. Figuring that Mother and 
Dad had carried the load long 
enough, Bobby sent in 35<^ in play 
money "to be sure the President will 
have enough money to run the 
country." 

A week later he got his money 
back, along with the letter of ap- 
preciation from Harold R. All. the 
District Director of Internal Rev- 
enue in Hartford. In addition. 
Bobby was described as a "good 
American" by the Hartford Direc- 
tor. The Fallons, who live in Nor- 
walk, also have a daughter, Hilary, 
who is IVi, too young yet to worry 
about taxes. 



Cos Cob School, Port Chester, N. Y., ex- 
hibited some of his painting and sculpture 
work at the Greenwich Public Library 
Gallery recently. 

C. Benjamin Integlia has been ap- 
pointed to the Board of Tax Assessors in 
Barrington, R. I. 

Maurice R. Plante and a friend have 
announced the formation of a new corpo- 
ration. The Windsor Locks Printing and 
Publishing Co., Inc. Using offset as their 
style, these men will publish a weekly 
tabloid newspaper in that town. Plante will 
act as Advertising and Business Manager. 

James Vendettuoli, of the Religious 
Studies Department at Brown, attended 
the winter meeting of the American So- 
ciety of Church History in New York. 

BOB CUMMINGS 

1951 

Latest and most promising Class activity 
is the formation of the Fifty-One Club in 
Providence. Designed to stimulate and 
support Class projects and fellowship, the 
Club invites the membership of all '51 
men in the area. The officers include: 
President — Pasquale Panaggio; Secretary- 
Treasurer — William Surprenant. A dinner 
meeting at Gates Tavern was the April 10 
event that kept the ball rolling. 

Richard J. Klinger has been sent to the 
Chicago area by the Mississippi Glass Co. 
He had been working in St. Louis. 

Lawrence N. Spitz is First Vice-Presi- 
dent of the Rhode Island Council of Com- 
munity Services, Inc. The organization, 
though in existence before, is now a state- 
wide body for coordinated planning and 
research by leaders in health, welfare, and 
recreation agencies. 

Clifford S. Griffin is an Instructor in 
History at Lake Forest College. His ad- 
dress at the college is Alice Borhaus 
Lodge, Lake Forest, 111. 

1952 

Mark Colby was a March visitor to the 
Campus, returned from his overseas serv- 
ice with the U. S. Information Agency. 
His home leave came after two years in 
the Near East. After six weeks' holiday 
and a month of consultations in Washing- 
ton, he will take up new duties in Vien- 
tiane, Laos. His first assignment abroad 



was in Beirut for 10 months, after which 
he spent 14 months in Khartoum in the 
Sudan. Though also serving as Press At- 
tache at the Embassy, he was primarily In- 
formation Officer, handling the daily news 
summary, special releases, films, and radio 
tapes for local outlets in the Sudan. 

Rabbi Irwin H. Fishbein is serving as a 
Navy Chaplain at the U. S. Naval Air 
Station on Guam. With luck, he expects to 
be back in the States by early summer. 

Vincent R. Keating is now an account 
executive for Merrill Lynch in their Stam- 
ford office. He had been with Phoenix 
Mutual. Vin reports that skiing in the 
winter and golf in the summer and fall 
take up most of his leisure time. 

Joe Bowdring, formerly of St. Louis, 
has been moved to Chicago by the Con- 
tinental Casualty Co. 

1953 

Capt. John E. Sinclair is at Fort Sill, 
Okla., teaching in the Army Artillery and 
Missile School. A year ago he was with 
the 3rd Marine Division in the Far East. 
He notes that during a two-week period 
last spring it could well have been Provi- 
dence at reunion time rather than Yoko- 
suka, Japan, what with the number of 
Brown men stationed there. Among those 
seen by John are George McGowan, Jim 
Bradley, Bob Pike, Eve Rowe, Charlie 
Flather, Bill Frazier, and Roger Hazell. 

Richard Mendelsohn reports he is "re- 
leased by the Navy, recently married, and 
hired." He writes on the stationery of 
American Artists Company, 67 West 44th 
St., New York 36, to put in a plug for the 
reunion. 

Edward B. Hallett has been appointed 
special agent of the American Insurance 
Group in Western Massachusetts. His 
headquarters will be at Springfield. He en- 
tered insurance with the American in 
1955 and has served as special agent in 
Essex County. 

Richard A. Dawley is employed as an 
engineer at the Boeing Aircraft Co., Se- 
attle. 

1954 

Specialist S/C Roger Brandwein, having 
been graduated from the New York Uni- 
versity School of Law, and recognizing 
his civic-minded obligation, is presently 
dispensing legal assistance in an Army 
headquarters in the Bavarian city of Wurz- 
burg, Germany. 

1955 

Maynard P. White hopes to do graduate 
work in Early American Culture at the 
University of Delaware. He's out of the 
Army after two years. He crossed the At- 
lantic four times, visited North Africa 
and most of Europe, and worked in a 
communications center near Pisa. In addi- 
tion to jobs as a maintenance chief and 
platoon sergeant, he was Troop Informa- 
tion and Education NCO, winding up with 
about eight hours of teaching a week. He's 
back at Sedgewick, Queenstown, Md., 
now. 

John Leva, also having finished his mili- 
tary obligation, is working in Boston for 
the United States Gypsum Co. 

Mitch Smith has put his Air Force 
wings away and was busy looking for a 
job at last report. 

Eric Schwartz has been cruising through 
the Middle East for some time, with stops 
in Pakistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, 
and various spots in Africa, as ASW Of- 
ficer on a tin can. He saw "Fearless Fred" 
Fordon in Scotland and George Scott at a 






Benjamin 

^) LATT 




BENJAMIN LATT '49 was featured in the cartoon 
profile of the Grand Rapids Press on March 29. 
As hospital administrator, he directs the Maple 
Grove Medical Core Facility for the long-term 
patient. Caption: material listed his war service 
as a Captain in the Medical Service Corps. Scout 
work is a hobby with him (he earned his first 
dollar on a camp staff). 

masquerade party in Ciudad Trujillo in 
the Dominican Republic. George, who 
may stay in the Navy, is fond of the sub- 
marine service, even though the one he 
was on was the one Eric had been "sink- 
ing" throughout the exercises. 

Yours truly "hitched" a ride on the SS 
Darter out of Key West last March while 
down there as an aide to my Admiral, and 
I can see why George would love 'em. 

Harvey LeSeuer is back with the Cater- 
pillar Company after two years of teach- 
ing the Seabees how to run their big cats. 
He now is the father of two (children, not 
big cats). 

Bill Frazier is at Wharton, and Ernie 
Fontan is covering New York for Penn 
Mutual. 

Ronnie Quinn is in his final year at the 
Catholic University Law School, Washing- 
ton, D. C. 

Bob Borod, a member of Actors Equity 
Association, is working in Pennsylvania at 
Buck's County Playhouse as Technical Di- 
rector. He received his discharge from the 
Air Force last fall, having served in 
France as a Lt. for close to two years. At 
the time of his discharge, Bob received 
the Commendation Ribbon for "excep- 
tionally meritorious service." 

Ed Stone likens the Dyess to my Leyte 
— "a bucket of bolts." Concur, Ed. He 
wants to know how to get shore duty — too 
many cruises for a young married man. 
After DESLANT Engineering School in 
Newport, he faces a summer of Middie 
Cruises. 

Fred Stavis has just made an exit from 
the Army, but he reports that he misses 
Tokyo and Honolulu. He met Harris Am- 



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45 




LTJG NORMAN DAVIDSON '52 has been or- 
dered to duty as an Instructor at the U.S. Naval 
School of Justice, Newport. Earlier he had been 
in Newport at the Nova! War College. A gradu- 
ate of Columbia Low School, he hod previously 
served as Staff Legal Officer for Task Force 66 
in the Mediterranean and for Commander, Car- 
rier Divisions 14 and 18. 



howitz in Tokyo last June as the latter 
was passing through from Hong Kong to 
Okinawa. He is with the Stavis Ipswich 
Clam Company and enjoys the "fascina- 
tion" of the business world. 

Lou Tananbaum, a man noted for his 
"Hemingway" letters, penned a balmy 
piece from Palermo, Sicily, where he is 
working at the Embassy. He tried to ex- 
cuse his penmanship at the end by saying 
that the warm breezes were blowing his 
paper. 

Marv Schwartz is supersonic bound with 
an F-86 in the Fighter Interceptor Squad- 
ron stationed at Scott AFB, Illinois. 

Marty Schwalberg returned to the States 
this spring after a spell on the continent. 
He spent some time with Dave Kunstler. 
whose bridge, incidentally, is reported to 
be as "hot" as when he and Mike Mala- 
mud went to the Regionals in Boston. 
Marty reminisced a bit with Oscar Placco 
in Belfast, as well as aboard their carrier, 
the Intrepid. 

Ens. Peter C. Schlotman is with the 
Seventh Fleet, serving as Crypto Security 
Officer to the Commander, Amphibious 
Squadron Seven. He was graduated from 
Newport OCS in February, 1957. 

Mixie and I are extremely happy in 
Norfolk. This shore duty is the nuts! Our 
only worry is what to do with our venture 
into private enterprise, in the form of a 
record shop. 

DOC HOUK 

1956 

Lt. Roger B. Williams was awarded his 
silver navigator wings in a recent gradua- 
tion exercise at Harlingen Air Force Base. 

Bruce R. Bartsch has been named to 
the Sales Department of the Dow C hemi- 
cal Co. in Midland, Mich. 

Jim Swain is teaching science at the 
Fountain Valley School in Colorado 
Springs, Colo. 

Donald D. Bowen. contrary to a recent 
report in this column, is living at 17 Fa- 



yette St., Cambridge, Mass. He is a Project 
Coordinator at the Gillette Safety Razor 
Co., Boston. 

Frank Yanni is stationed in Baltimore, 
having recently completed the Army Lan- 
guage School Course. 

Barry Blank has been sent to Ethiopa by 
the Navy, while Phil O'Brien is stationed 
aboard the USS Menkin in Mediterranean 
waters. 

Marty Arabian is with General Electric 
International. 

Hal Resnic is studying Business at Cor- 
nell, and Sy Pienkny is in his second year 
at Columbia Law. 

George Boulukos spent two or three 
months traveling in Europe recently. One 
of his surprises was seeing a copy of the 
Brown Ahimni Monthly in Amsterdam. 
Another was a pleasant encounter with 
Ens. Doug Smith in a cabaret in Athens. 

Jack Delhagen is one of the officers at 
the Naval Air Intelligence School in Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

Bob "Skip" Walls is a salesman for the 
Chemstrand Corp., N.Y.C. 

Dick Thompson is still up to his ears in 
work at the Yale Law School. 

Jim Page is working for CBS in New 
York. 

Bob McCarthy is another New Yorker, 
serving on Wall Street with the Irving Trust 
Co. 



George Clayson is in the Signal Corps, 
stationed in East Africa. He was joined 
there recently by Pete Bartuska, working 
with the Army Security Agency. Impend- 
ing assignments will take George to Greece 
and Turkey. 

Mitchell Leaska has taken an interesting 
position with the Retina Foundation in 
Boston. 

1957 

Edwin A. Carter has been appointed 
Group Pension Representative in Los An- 
geles for Connecticut General Life Insur- 
ance Co. He will work on the planning, 
sales, and administration of employee re- 
tirement programs for all types of business 
and industrial firms. He had been em- 
ployed in the Hartford office. 

Harvey Reback, nearing completion of 
a "hard year" of study at the New York 
Medical College, expects to return to the 
Hill for Commencement. 

Edwin A. Carter, formerly of Spring- 
field. Mass., has been appointed Group 
Pension Representative in Los Angeles for 
Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. 

During Secretary Ike Sargon's sojourn 
in the service. B. G. Goff will act as edi- 
tor for this column. Classmates are asked 
to mail any information they may have 
for this magazine to him at 88-43 238th 
St., Jamaica 26, N. Y. 




PRIZE-WINNING PHOTO (of two robbery suspects held by the police) was one George 
E. Adams '54 took tor the Dayton Journal Herald. It was judged "best of show" in the 
annuo! exhibition of the Ohio Press Photographers Association. It also won first in the 

spot news category. 



46 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



The Diner 
Had an Idea 



A HUNDRED YEARS ago the New York spe- 
cialty store of Bloomingdale's sold 
only hoop skirts and girdles. Today it's a 
world-famous department store that does 
$100,000,000 worth of business each year. 
The present generation of Bloomingdales 
includes Lyman G. Bloomingdale "35, 
Brown Alumni Trustee, and Alfred Bloom- 
ingdale '39. 

Seven years ago Alfred associated him- 
self with a different kind of idea — an or- 
ganization which would allow business and 
traveling men to "charge it" in restaurants, 
hotels, night clubs — and get a single ac- 
curate billing at the end of the month. To- 
day he's President of The Diners' Club, an 
organization of more than a half-million 
members using the Club's credit in more 
than 76 countries. The Oldsmobile Rocket 
Circle for February offered a profile of the 
man who had the idea and developed it 
with swift and great success. 

Alfred Bloomingdale left Brown after a 
football injury. After almost a year spent 
in and out of hospitals, he went to work at 
Bloomingdale's department store, spending 
the next three years learning the business 
and performing all kinds of jobs, from 
salesman to Assistant Merchandise Man- 
ager. This training was to be useful in his 
work with The Diners' Club. 

Since the injury disqualified him from 
military service, he spent the war years in 
show business. He brought 20 shows to 
Broadway, including "High Kickers" with 
George Jessel and Sophie Tucker, "Head- 
liners of '42" with Bert Lahr and Joe E. 
Lewis, "Ring Around Elizabeth" with Jane 
Cowl, and "The Ziegfield Follies" with 
Milton Berle and Ilona Massey. At the 
same time he contributed to the war effort 
by running a shipyard in Rye, N. Y., that 
made landing barges and corvettes. He also 
produced camp shows for the USO. This 
led him into opening a talent agency, where 
he handled a couple of newcomers named 
Judy Holliday and Frank Sinatra. 

In 1945, Bloomingdale joined RKO Stu- 
dios to produce musical pictures. After a 
few years in Hollywood, he left the film 
business and started a business developing 
new ideas and inventions. His first was the 
then revolutionary self-service automatic 
soft-drink machine, which proved so suc- 
cessful it has become standard throughout 
the United States. 

As head of The Diners' Club today, 
Bloomingdale spends much of his time 
visiting new and established offices of the 
organization throughout the country and 
the rest of the world. 

Generations of Brown students have seen 
the name of the Bloomingdale brothers as 
they entered the University Infirmary, 
Andrews House. A plaque near the front 
door carries their names as benefactors 
who helped make this vital agency possible. 

Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Bloomingdale (she 
was Betty Newling) live in the residential 
section of Los Angeles known as Bel Aire 
with their three children. Mrs. Blooming- 
dale is a committee chairman of St. John's 
Hospital Guild in Santa Monica and is 
Treasurer of a Los Angeles orphanage. 




ALFRED BLOOMINGDALE '39 ond his favorite dinner companion, Mrs. Bloomingdale. 



Carrying the Mail 



Gifts Made It Possible 

WITHOUT ATTEMPTING tO qUOte from 
many, we note with appreciation a 
substantial number of letters received 
about the April issue of the Aliinini 
Monthly. They were complimentary about 
the special supplement on "American 
Higher Education," which was bound into 
the magazine. Readers liked the survey 
and its conclusions, were interested in the 
circumstances and mechanics of its pro- 
duction, and praised our part in it. 

One point should be made in connection 
with the supplement. Though the expenses 
were cooperatively shared with the other 
150 institutions which used it, the sup- 
plement cost us more than our normal 
budget could accommodate. To make up 
the difference, the Board of Editors au- 
thorized the Editor to draw upon the fund 
built up with contributions from our read- 
ers. Such "voluntary subscriptions" permit 



a magazine of free circulation like ours to 
provide occasional extras. Apparently, the 
allocation from this fund, allowing us to 
pay our share of the special report, was a 
popular one. 

A Challenge on Figure.s 

Sir: I had a very interesting time last 
night reading "American Higher Education 
1958." It is a very good job and should 
be useful to the cause. The writing is ex- 
cellent. 

There are two figures about which I 
have some question. At one point the 
writer says: "The Social Science Research 
Council offers evidence that fewer than 
half of the students in the upper 10th of 
their high school classes go on to college." 
I am reasonably sure this figure is incor- 
rect. The Council may actually have mis- 
read my own study on this subject. 

My figure was that about 40% of the 



MAY 1958 



47 



age group of the top 25 ''i do not go on to 
college. However. I was always careful 
to point out that within the top 25'^c one 
could not say the same for the top 5''c, 
the top lO^c, etc. I think the figure con- 
cerning the top 109c would be about 70% 
going to college, because about 80% of the 
top 5% go. One difficulty with the sentence 
is that it says. "In the upper 10th of their 
high school classes." This is quite a differ- 
ent thing from the upper 10th of the age 
group, which includes youngsters not in 
school. As you know, the percentage of 
the high school graduating classes now go- 
ing to college is close to 50: if you take the 
top 10%, it obviously would be higher. 

However. I don't think that figure is as 
questionable as the one which appears in 



the text later, to the effect that we spend 
only .7% of our gross national product on 
higher education. This is followed by the 
statement that the Russians spend 2% of 
their gross. 

Of course, this is a very complicated 
subject. The Russians include room and 
board and spending money in their figures. 
If we included that e.\pense, it would at 
least double our own figure. However, I 
think if one counts all the expense of 
higher education, including that for grad- 
uate and professional schools, extension, 
research, etc., the figure you give is too 
low. When I was with the Commission on 
Financing Higher Education, we worked 
at great length to see if we could decide 
on a figure. We were never very confident 



A Salvage in Souvenirs 



NEARLY 50 fireplace mantels from Hope 
College, more or less hand-carved 
stimulants to nostalgia, have been placed 
in storage at 200 Meeting St. to await 
possible claims from alumni who occupied 
rooms in Hope during their student days. 
Many of the mantels carry initials of 
former residents of Brown's oldest dor- 
mitory, as well as other examples of student 
handiwork. The mantels were removed in 
preparation for the modernization, now 
in progress, of the 133-year-old building. 
Brown's second oldest structure. Its ren- 
ovation will involve complete rebuilding of 
the interior. 

The idea of preserving the old mantels 
came when John E. Flemming '33 of Sum- 
mit, N. J., spoke up on learning of the 
plans for Hope College last June while 
back on the Campus. He put in a request 
for the fireplace from his old dormitory 
room, 28 Middle Hope, on the northeast 
end of the third-floor corridor. It is now 
installed in his basement gameroom, as 
the snapshot shows. 

When the fireplace arrived, in eight or 
10 sections, Flemming went to work. He 
took off layers of old varnish and found 
the bare wood underneath a golden oak, 
"really quite lovely." he says. He filled 
in the nicks and finished it. To his delight, 
he found some of the plastic wood in the 
mantel with which he had filled some holes 
himself in his Freshman year. 

"This is a wall decoration, not a work- 
ing fireplace," Flemming points out. "This 
use should appeal to most men, for few 
would care to take out an old fireplace 
merely to put in a sentimental heirloom, 
even from Hope College." Flemming put 
in a "brick" backing to give the effect of 
depth. On the mantel in Summit he has 
placed the clock he had in college. Over 
it, hang a flintlock and shotgun he bought 
in his Freshman year. 

The next step in March, after the fire- 
place had been installed and the whole 
room repainted a light brown, was to call 
in some friends. Norman E. Wright, Jr.. 
'49 took his picture leaning on the mantel, 
while John Kreitler '38 barely got into 
camera range at the right. The man in the 
easy chair in the foreground. Flemming 
says, is none other than Prof. Josiah S. 
Carberry. Flemming reminded them that 
his father. Class of 1906, also saw the 
fireplace as a Hope College resident in his 
day. 

Flemming's enthusiasm led Ward A. 
Davenport, Director of Physical Plant at 
Brown, to preserve the other mantels as 




A HOPE COLLEGE FIREPLACE as claimed and 

reclaimed by John E. Flemming, Jr., '33. It's from 

his old room in Hope, but now installed in 

Summit, N. J. 



they were removed from Hope College. 
Each has been tagged with both old and 
new room numbers to assure identification. 
They await claims by other former Hope 
occupants, some of whom may even find 
their initials still visible. 

Since each room had many tenants over 
the years, it is possible that there may be 
more than one request for many of the 
mantels. The policy will be: first come, 
first served, says Vice-President F. Morris 
Cochran. It is to him that inquiries should 
be directed at Brown University, Prov- 
idence 12, R. I. A nominal charge will 
probably be made for the souvenirs and 
their shipment. 

Future disposition of the fireplaces awaits 
the extent of alumni interest in procuring 
them. If the idea of having a Hope College 
fireplace appeals to you, you should not 
delay. You might mention the number of 
the room you lived in, too. as well as your 
Class numeral. Of course, a donation to 
the fund for restoring Hope College would 
also add luster to your request. 



that anybody could state one. It depends 
on many arbitrary decisions about what is 
counted as "expense." 

I hope you won't mind my making these 
two points. I make them only because I 
was working in this field some years ago. 

BYRON S. HOLLINSHEAD '27 

Chicago 

Sm: I read every word of the article on 
"American Higher Education." It certainly 
is "challenging" and fascinating. 1 liked the 
vein of courage that ran through the ar- 
ticle, the absence of defeatism in the face 
of the overwhelming opportunities that lie 
ahead. 

I think you'll find that the alumni will 
rise to the occasion. 

CYRUS G. FLANDERS '18 

Windsor Locks, Conn. 

Sir: Please send me the following in- 
formation: 1. "American Education 1958," 
a special report sponsored by 150 alumni 
magazines. 2. Any material on the Amer- 
ican system of education. 3. Any material 
on the educational systems of other coun- 
tries, especially Great Britain, France, and 
Russia. Any other information on educa- 
tion would be appreciated. 

TOMMY PAUKEN 

Dallas 

(Note — This request was typical of dozens 
received from high school students. The 
national high school debate topic for the 
year is on education. — Ed.) 

Evidence: Caps and Elm 
Sir: I feel definitely that the picture on 
page 14 of the March issue is one of the 
ROTC unit at Brown, a voluntary course 
of endeavor, rather than the SATC as 
stipulated in the caption below the photo. 
Barrack's Caps were not an item of issue 
in the SATC, which wore campaign hats. 
Moreover, by the time the units had been 
organized and drilled to the point of put- 
ting on a formation as indicated by the pic- 
ture, that beautiful elm tree would have 
shed its leaves because the time would 
have been mid-October. 

I write, not as a fully-inducted member 
of the SATC, but rather as a member of a 
forgotten group: the 20th and 21st squads 
of Company B. We had not reached the 
ripe and mature age of 18 years and could 
not be officially inducted. I have never 
seen any printed reference to this group, 
but there we were. 

We paid for our subsistence and educa- 
tion, while the rest of our fellow SATC 
and BNTU students were fully compen- 
sated, even to receiving bonuses from their 
several States of origin. We bought and 
paid for our own equipment — old ROTC 
uniforms, yes. Somewhere in your picture 
is a uniform that bedecked my torso for 
the best part of October, November, and 
December of 1918. Yes, that picture 
brings back memories. But I feel the pic- 
ture is of the ROTC unit — whether 1918 
or not, I don't know. 

ARTHUR C. DURFEE '22 

Fall River 

Correction 
Sir : In the article on Engineering at Brown 
University in the April Alumni Monthly, 
one of the members of the Engineering 
Center Committee was not properly identi- 
fied. Elmer G. MacDowcll '14 is Vice- 
President of Aluminium, Ltd., Montreal. 

MAURICE J. MOUNTAIN '48 



48 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 




PRESIDENT EMERITUS Wristofi packed 
them into Sayles Hall in March when 
he talked under the auspices of the Brown 
World Affairs Committee on "How NOT 
to Think about International Relations."' 
Too many people, he said, are like the 
sexton of a church who had a remarkable 
record for pleasing everyone for whom he 
worked. The sexton revealed this as the 
secret of his success: "I just put my mind 
into neutral gear and go where I'm 
pushed." 

> JEAN DiNwooDEY of the American 
Alumni Council clipped this for us from 
the Ohio State University Monthly: "Few 
illegal parkers use Delta Upsilon lot. 
Reason: a large sign which says, 'Cars 
parked illegally in this lot will be disas- 
sembled.' " 

> AN AGREEABLE comcr of the Harvard 
Alumni Bulletin was recently devoted to 
some epigrams from the Yard. A sam- 
pling: "Only the football team and the 
President work on Saturday," attributed 
to Dean DeVane of Yale. "Some girls re- 
gard going to college as a Safari, the main 
purpose of which is a Man-Hunt." "People 
are examined too much and too fre- 
quently." "Too few students realize that 
God is not grading their bluebooks." 

> WILLIAM p. BURNHAM '07, a Contributor 
to the March Reader's Digest, recalled that 
a group of Brown students once called on 
Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes '81. 
They told him they had come to Washing- 
ton for a few days to "see the Govern- 
ment in action." 

Hughes asked, "Is that one word or 
two?" 

> SINCE the American definition of "alum- 
nus" embraces all former students of an 
institution, it has been the custom to send 
a Brown man his alumni magazine as soon 
as he leaves the University, for whatever 
reason. This has led to some misgivings 
on the part of a Canadian boy who had 
to interrupt his studies on the Hill in order 
to earn money enough to finance the bal- 
ance of his Brown education. Applying for 
readmission, he hoped that getting the 
Alumni Monthly would not mean he had 
been written off as a future as well as a 
former undergraduate. 

Reassurance was easy, for his case is far 
from unique, particularly with so many 
Brunonians taking leave for military serv- 
ice in recent years. 

> WITHOUT GOING SO far as to assert that it 
happened at Case, Helen Borsch tells of an 
instructor who discovered the young man 
in the back of the room didn't know the 
answers to any questions asked one morn- 
ing. "I assigned those questions last Thurs- 




day," the instructor commented. "What 

were you doing last night?" 

"Drinking beer with some of the boys." 
"If you continue that sort of thing, how 

do you e.xpect to pass this course?" 

"I wouldn't know. I just came to fix the 

steam pipes when you're through." 

> PRIMUS, the third of that name to edit 
the delightful College Pump in the Harvard 
Alumni Bulletin, tells of a shopping stop 
in a small West Virginia town, where the 
following colloquy took place: 

"You folks touring for pleasure?" 

"In a way; we're on our way home from 
a conference." 

"You folks preachers?" 

"No; we're sort of connected with an 
educational institution." 

"What's that?" 

"Harvard." 

"Harvard? They teach big or little chil- 
dren there?" 

> c. w. DE KiEWiET Was Speaking: "Ar- 
nold of Rugby said no man should ever 
meddle with a university who does not 
know it very well and love it very dearly. 
I would add the phrase, 'He must be 
greatly optimistic about its future.' The 
proper corrective for the fiscal funk that 
people get when they look at the next 10 
years is a sense of excitement at beholding 
the new formations and horizons in knowl- 
edge and human events." 

> A GREAT FINANCIAL FUTURE awaitS the 

captain of industry who can now come up 
with a disposable Frisbee. 



> PROF. FREDERICK RUDOLPH of Williams, 
says the Williams Alumni Review, dislikes 
the antiquated classroom in which he has 
had to lecture of late and is doing this 
about it: "At the beginning of each term, 1 
make all my students look around the room 
and take a solemn vow that if anyone of 
them makes a million dollars he will re- 
place Goodrich Hall." 

> WHENEVER We get to the Pacific Coast, 
we are reminded that there are other Bears. 
The Daily Bruin of Southern Cal recently 
carried the following paid announcement: 
"PERSONAL — Steve, when are you going 
to take your nose out of those law books 
and ask Pat to the Westwood Ho?" 

> A SPEAKER at Emory was delighted to 
learn that green peas were not to be served 
at a dinner in Atlanta. He reported that 
he'd been given green peas at nearly all of 
the hundreds of dinners he'd attended and 
was fed up with them. In fact, he'd run up 
a tally on the number of green peas he'd 
consumed — 4,486, 141 Vi. 

"That half-pea had me puzzled for a 
while," he said, "until I remembered the 
time in Albany when we were given split- 
pea soup." 

> A MEMBER of the Faculty, assigning 
some papers due Oct. 31, Hallowe'en, in- 
sisted on tricks or treatises. 

> WE LIKED the way President Griswold 
put it in his last Report to the Alumni: 
"Exceptional support will depend upon 
the demonstration of exceptional merit. 
But the demonstration of exceptional merit 
itself requires exceptional financial sup- 
port. At the moment Yale finds itself in 
the dilemma of the cook who knows that 
the proof of his pudding is the eating of 
it, is confident that it will pass the test, 
but is running out of ingredients. We must 
find the resources now to enable us to con- 
tinue to demonstrate the exceptional merit 
that will ensure the exceptional support 
we need for the future. As we look for 
these resources, our Alumni Fund takes 
on the importance of a lifeline, with every 
prospect of gathering strength and every 
possible claim upon our gratitude." 

> A PARENT who received notice of his 
Freshman son's midsemester marks was 
heard to observe: "He has apparently been 
suffering from a low-grade infection." 

BUSTER 



Bureau of Vital Statistics 



IVIARRIAGES 

1945 — Dr. Lee C. Nathans and Mrs. 
Yvette Mencoff Ross, daughter of Mrs. 
Samuel Mencoff of Providence and the 
late Mr. Mencoff, March 2. At home: 19 
Rutherford Court, Greenwood Manor, 
Warwick, R. I. 

1956 — Barry W. Gray and Miss Mary 
J. Tillbrook, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Ralph C. Tillbrook of Middletown, Conn., 
Feb. 22. At home: 581 Prospect Ave., 
West Hartford. 

1956 — Leo Marcoux and Miss Juliette 
A. Brassard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
V. A. Brassard of Pawtucket, Jan. 18. At 
home: 117 Mineral Spring Ave., Paw- 
tucket. 



1956 — Robert M. Rubin and Miss Bar- 
bara A. Rubin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Joseph Rubin of New York City, March 
30. 

1957 — Lewis A. Kay and Miss Jo Ann 
Feldman, daughter of Mrs. Philip E. Ros- 
enblum of Elizabeth, N. J., and the late 
Moe S. Feldman, March 27. 

BIRTHS 

1935— To Mr. and Mrs. Warren F. 
Groce of Selinsgrove, Pa., a son, William 
Frick, July 1 1. 

1940 — To Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. 
Starr of Rumford, R. I., a son, Samuel 
Starr, II, Feb. 28. 



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49 



1941 — To Mr. and Mrs. Don MacAus- 
land of Wilton, Conn., their fourth child 
and second daughter. Robin, March 8. 

1942— To Mr. and Mrs. Robert N. 
Black of Chicago, their third child and 
second son, Stephen Ruether, March 1. 

1943 — To Mr. and Mrs. Leon Solo way 
of Jamaica. L. I., N. Y.. their third child 
and second daughter. Amy, March 27. 

1944 — To The Rev. and Mrs. Peter 
Chase of South Kent, Conn., a son, Mi- 
chael, March 6. 

1946 — To Mr. and Mrs. Moses J. Levy 
of Long Island, N. Y.. their first child, a 
son, Daniel Alexander, Feb. 16. 

1946 — To Dr. and Mrs. Jerome K. 
Sherman of Madison, Wis., their second 
child and first son. Marc, Feb. 28. 

1947— To Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Mc- 
Laughlin of Providence, a son, Paul Rich- 
ard, Feb. 28. 

1947 — To Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. New- 
man of Newport Beach, Calif., a son. 
James Lawlor, March 4. 

1948 — To Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Behr 
of Jackson Heights. N. Y., their second 
child and first daughter, Janet Ann, March 
4. 

1948— To The Rev. and Mrs. Roswell 
S. Curamings of Wallingford, Conn., their 
fourth child and third daughter, Sally 
Elizabeth, Dec. 30. Mrs. Cummings is the 
former Alice Hambleton. Pembroke "50. 

1948— To Mr. and Mrs. John R. Decker 
of Lincroft, N. J., their third daughter, 
Laurie Lee, Feb. 28. Maternal grandfather 
is Fred C. Baurenfeind '22. Paternal 
grandfather is George R. Decker "23. 

1948 — To Mr. and Mrs. Morton J. 
Marks of Chevy Chase. Md., their second 
child and first daughter, Andrea Ida, 
March 7. 

1948— To Mr. and Mrs. Alan L. Sack 
of Canton, Mass., their second child and 
first daughter. Martha Jane, Sept. 24. 

1949_To Mr. and Mrs. Cyril H. An- 
derson. Jr., of Ledyard, Conn., their sec- 
ond child and second daughter, Carol 
Jean, March 20. 

1949— To Mr. and Mrs. B. Albert Cav- 
allaro of Providence, a son, Richard Al- 
bert, March 10. 

1949 — To Mr. and Mrs. Howard A. 
Fain of Providence, a daughter, Andrea 
Meredith, March 16. 

1949— To Mr. and Mrs. Albert J. Ja- 
cobs of Providence, their third child and 
second son, Theodore Robert, March 17. 

1949— To Mr. and Mrs. John J. Ma- 
honey of Pawtucket, a son, Edward Fran- 
cis, Jan. 30. 

1950 — To Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln E. 
Barber, Jr., of Wellesley, Mass., a son, 
Jeffrey Todd, Feb. 18. 

1950 — To Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bar- 
rengos of Riverdale, N. Y., a daughter. 
Randy Sue. Feb. 27. 

1950— To Mr. and Mrs. Harold G. 
Bergwall of Buffalo, their third child and 
second daughter, Susan Whcaton, Nov. 12. 
Mrs. Bcrgvsall is the former Arlene Reed. 
Pembroke '50. 

1950 — To Mr. and Mrs. Howard G. 
Hunt, Jr., of Charlotte, N. C their second 
child and first daughter, Leslie Ann, Nov. 
14. 

1950— To Mr. and Mrs. Burton A. 
Lindblom of Riverside. R. L, their third 
child and second daughter, Lisa, April 5, 
1957. 

1950— To Mr. and Mrs. E. Mahlon 
Perry of West Barrington, R. I., a son, 
Christopher Mark, March 17. 

1950— To Mr. and Mrs. George F. 
Tyrrell of Red Bank, N. J., a daughter, 
Joan, Feb. 26. 



1951— To Mr. and Mrs. John C. Al- 
banese of Cranston, a daughter, Judy Ann, 
Feb. 17. 

1951 — To Mr. and Mrs. Ernest I. Kyle 
of Darien, Conn., their third child and 
second daughter, Lisa Johnson, Feb. 19. 
Mrs. Kyle is the former Beverly Johnson, 
Pembroke '52. 

1951— To Mr. and Mrs. Harold R, 
Steen, Jr., of Essex, Mass., a daughter. 
Deborah Jane, Jan. 2. 

1952 — To Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin D. 
Berkman of Stamford, their second son, 
Benjamin Alanson. March 18. 

1952— To Rabbi and Mrs. Irwin H. 
Fishbein of Nimitz Hill. Guam, their third 
child and second son, David Joel, Feb. 18. 

1952- To Mr. and Mrs. Daniel M. Garr 
of Rochester, N. Y., their first child, a son, 
David Francis, March 24. 

1952— To Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur D. New- 
man of Tampa, a daughter, Barbara 
Greene, Jan. 24. 

1953 — To Mr. and Mrs. Norman C. 



Bassett of East Longmeadow. Mass., their 
second child, a son, William Glen, Feb. 
26. Mrs. Bassett is the former Martha 
Scott, Pembroke '53. 

1953— To Dr. and Mrs. Walfred S. Saari 
of Lafayette, Calif., their second child and 
first son, Dwaib Walfred, Jan. 25. 

1953— To Mr. and Mrs. Everett C. Sam- 
martino of Cranston, a son, Michael 
David, Feb. 18. 

1954 — To Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Flanagan 
of Tulsa, a daughter, Sharon, March 13. 

1954— To Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. 
Smythe of Providence, their first child, a 
daughter, Lauren Martha, Dec. 16. Mrs. 
Smythe is the former Connie Deering, 
Pembroke '54. 

1955 — To Lt. and Mrs. James F. Pen- 
dergast of Hampton, N. H., their second 
son, Kevin Patrick, Aug. 4. 

1956 — To Mr. and Mrs. 
Pringle of Bayside, N. Y., 
Karen Elizabeth, Nov. 7. 



William D. 
a daughter. 



In Memoriam 



DR. WILLIAM HENRY MAGILL '93 in 

Providence, March 12. An outstanding 
baseball player in college and afterward, 
he coached the University of Maine 
nine among others. After six years in 
the rubber business, he took his medi- 
cal studies and received a Cornell M.D. 
in 1903. Appointed Providence Medical 
Examiner in 1906, he continued for 43 
years: in 1949 he became the first 
Rhode Island Chief State Examiner. 
His affiliations with R. I. Hospital and 
St. Joseph's Hospital covered many 
years as a surgeon. He also saw duty in 
the National Guard and on the Medical 
Draft Board during World War I. He 
was a member of the American College 
of Surgeons and of the American, R. I., 
and Cornell Medical Societies. Phi 
Kappa. 

FRANK NEWTON CADY '97 in New 
Bedford, Nov. 4. He was a former Pay- 
master with the Department of Public 
Buildings in Providence. He was a regi- 
mental sergeant major in the R. 1. State 
Guard and a Past Commander of the 
Allen K. Capron Camp, United Spanish 
War Veterans. 

CHARLES ERVIN LEWIS '97 in Welles- 
ley Hills, Mass., March 22. Graduating 
from Newton Theological Institute in 
1900, he was ordained and held pastor- 
ates in Fall River and Dorchester. Mass., 
and Franklin, N. H. In 1918 he took an 
executive position with Bryant & Strat- 
ton in Boston where he remained for 14 
years. He then went into business for 
himself as personal representative for 
doctors and dentists. 

RALPH CALEB ESTES '99 in Coral Ga- 
bles, Fla., after a brief illness. Retiring 
as Presiding Justice of the Fourth Dis- 
trict Court in Attleboro in 1950, he set 
up private practice in Florida with his 
son, Ralph H. Fstes '32. A graduate of 
Harvard Law School in 1902. he served 
two terms as City Solicitor for Attleboro 
and in 1919 was appointed Special Jus- 
tice of the Fourth District Court. He be- 
came Presiding Justice in 1926. Past 



President of the Alden Kindred and the 
Highland Country Club, he was a mem- 
ber of the Massachusetts Society of 
Mayflower Descendants, the N. E. His- 
torical Genealogical Society and other 
historical societies. Alpha Tau Omega. 

RALPH ERNEST LARRY '06 in Pitts- 
burgh, Aug. 31. He was Vice-President 
of Pittsburgh Limestone Corp., until his 
retirement. Joining Pittsburgh Limestone 
in 1921, he served as Plant Superintend- 
ent, Supervisor of Operations, Engineer- 
ing Assistant to the General Manager, 
and Supervisor of Industrial Relations. 
He was a member of the American In- 
stitute of Mining and Metallurgical En- 
gineers and of the American Society of 
Safety Engineers. Phi Gamma Delta. 

DWIGHT WOOD ROBINSON '07 in 
Cambridge. Mass., Feb. 23. Retired, he 
had been Manager of Real Estate and 
Mortgages for the Blackstone Savings 
Bank of Boston. Charles A. Robinson 
'44 is his son. Theta Delta Chi. 

JUDSON EVERETT BENJAMIN '08 in 
Mount Vernon, N. Y., Nov. 14. After 
receiving his LL.B. from the New York 
Law School in 1916, he became an as- 
sociate of the firm of Kellogg & Rose, 
now Nevius, Jarvis & Pilz, where he re- 
mained for some 33 years. Alpha Delta 
Phi. 

EARLE WINFIELD PECKHAM '08 in 
Worcester, Feb. 28. Head of the Latin 
Department at Worcester Academy 
since 1927. he retired last June and 
spent the summer travelling in Europe. 
He received his A.M. from Brown in 
1909 and attended the American School 
of Classical Studies in Rome for gradu- 
ate work. He later taught at Hope Street 
High School and then held principal- 
ships of high schools in St. Albans and 
Newport, Vt., and Concord, Mass. In 
1923 he was appointed instructor in 
Latin, Greek and French at Worcester, 
where he later became founder of the 
Chess Club. He found detective stories 
an intriguing hobby and edited the "Mys- 



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lery Fan" column for the Worcester 
Sniuhiy Tclcf>niiii. He was a member of 
the New England and American Classi- 
cal Association. Edmund T. Peckham 
'45 is his son. Phi Beta Kappa. 

CHARLES HENRY WARD '09 in New- 
port. March 9. Prior to retirement in 
1953. he was for 32 years a maneuver 
board expert at the Naval War College 
He was an Elder and former Clerk of 
the session of the First Presbyterian 
Church in Newport. Delta Tau Delta. 

LEO VINCENT BOYLE '12 in Paw- 
tucket. March 22. Owner of the Mar- 
telle and Boyle Agency, he was an orig- 
inal member and former President of 
the Pawtuckel Real Estate Exchange. 
He was also former President of the 
Pawtucket Business Chamber and the 
Business Chamber Realty Corporation 
since its founding in 1945. He had been 
President of the New England chapter 
of the American Institute of Real Estate 
Appraisers and taught a course in ap- 
praising for the Boston Real Estate 
Board. During World War II he had 
headed the Blackstone Valley promotion 
of war bonds, for which he received a 
Silver Medal from the Treasury De- 
partment. 

EDWIN ROGERS HANDY '12 in Du- 
luth, March 10. Joining the Union Stock 
Y'ards in South St. Paul, he was later 
named General Manager. In 1939 he 
became Vice-President and General 
Manager of the Union Stock Yards in 
Omaha, retiring in 1953. 

IRViNG RUSSELL SMITH '12 in East 
Orange, N. J., Dec. 30. He was a mem- 
ber of the engineering staflf of Public 
Service Electric and Gas Company in 
Newark and at the time of his death was 
its Assistant Structural Engineer. Long 
active in youth work, he was Scout- 
master of a Boy Scout Troop in Ar- 
lington, N. J. for 22 years and received 
the Silver Beaver, one of Scouting's 
highest awards. He had been Superin- 
tendent of the Sunday School of the 
First Baptist Church of Arlington for 
over 27 years and was recognized as 
one of the outstanding religious educa- 
tors of the State. Robert I. Smith '40 is 
his son. Sigma Xi. Phi Kappa Psi. 

PORTER DURANT COLLINS '13 in 

Bradenton. Fla., March 18. Formerly 
Advertising Manager for Kelly Spring- 
field Rubber Co., in Cumberland, Md., 
he moved to Bradenton in 1957 after his 
retirement. He had been also associated 
with Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. in 
San Francisco and Grand Rapids, Mich. 
He was Past President of the Cumber- 
land Rotary Club. Alpha Tau Omega. 

HENRY FORRESTER DRAKE 15 in 

Dutchess County, N. Y., March 10. 
Majoring in Pedagogy, he taught school 
in New England after graduation. Be- 
coming interested in fire prevention, he 
held positions as Field Supervisor for 
the N. Y. Division of Safety, Fire In- 
structor for the Federal Bureau of Edu- 
cation, and Consultant in fire prevention 
and training. He was a former Fire 
Chief of the Clinton and Hudson Valley 
Volunteer Fire Departments, Secretary- 
Treasurer of the N. Y. State Associa- 
tion of Fire Chiefs, and State Vice- 
President of the International Association 
of Fire Chiefs. Phi Gamma Delta. 



VERNON MAXCY WHITMAN '18 in 
Providence. March 25. Since 1920, he 
had been engineer and inspector for fire 
insurance companies. He was a member 
of the Providence Engineering Society 
and the National Fire Protection Asso- 
ciation. He had successfully operated 
the last active farm within the Provi- 
dence city limits for many years. A son 
is Bradford V. Whitman '44. 

WALTER MACHRAY DANIELS '22 in 
Yonkers, N. Y., April 4. Retired Day 
Foreign Editor of the New York Times. 
he was a former reporter and copy- 
reader for the Providence Journal. He 
was an editor of the Reference Shelf 
Series of the H. W. Wilson Co., con- 
tinuing as editor and free lance writer 
after his retirement from the Times in 
1952. He edited "Point Four Program," 
published in 1952, and "Defense of 
Western Europe," compiled in 1950. He 
served with the Coast Guard in World 
War I and was active in Boy Scout 
work. Delta Tau Delta. 

DONALD DAVIS ARMSTRONG '23 in 
Richmond, Va., April 5. Superintendent 
of the U. S. Army Quartermaster Depot. 
he was awarded a Certificate of Achieve- 
ment in 1956 for his work in handling 
perishable foods for the military serv- 
ices. He had also been associated with 
Phillips Petroleum Co., and the A & P 
Tea Co.. in OIneyville, R. I. He was a 
brother-in-law of F. E. Fahlquist '23. 
Sigma Chi. 

PAUL KNIGHT WILSON '23 in Eliza- 
beth, N. J., March 2. Laboratory Man- 
ager and Chief Technologist for Chas. 
Martin & Co., of Elizabeth, he had also 
been a chemist with Producers & Re- 
finers Corp.. and Tide Water Oil Co. 
He was a veteran of the First World 
War with service in France. Prof. J. 
Walter Wilson '18 is a brother. Sigma 
Xi. 

ROGER P. BEHAN '24 of Indianapolis, 
Ind., in October. A salesman, he worked 
for the A. B. Dick Mimeograph Dis- 
tributing Company in Chicago and Bos- 
ton for 18 years and then joined Allen 
and Lounsbury, Inc.. of Indianapolis. 
He was a graduate of the University of 
Chicago. A brother is Dr. Gerald W. 
Behan '24. Delta Upsilon. 

FREDERICK CALDWELL THOMAS, 
JR., '27 in Montclair, N. J., Jan. 31. A 
New England district manager for the 
Autocall Co., for many years, he was 
associated with Lee Higginson Corp., 
in New York City at the time of his 
death. Alpha Delta Phi. 

DR. HENRY CARNIE LAWSON '28 in 
Fall River. March 25. He was Chief 
Obstetrician at Union Hospital in Fall 
River, where he also headed the Depart- 
ment of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 
Graduating from Cornell Medical 
School, he interned at King County 
Hospital in Brooklyn. He set up prac- 
tice in Fall River in 1936 and was a 
former Chairman of the city's Board of 
Health. He was also a consultant on 
the medical staflf of Ste. Anne's Hospi- 
tal. A skilled horseman, he owned and 
bred Tennessee Walking horses, and 
was a judge of the American Horse As- 
sociation. He was a fellow of the Amer- 
ican College of Surgeons and of the 
Academy International of Medicine. 
Phi Gamma Delta. 




THOMAS D. THOMPSON '56, shown here m hib 

Versify days, wos killed in an auto accident on 

April 19. His wife, tiie former Virginia Findley, 

Pembroke '56, died at the same time. 

HOLTON WOOD HORTON '29 in 
Cowesett, R. I., April 1. General Man- 
ager of the Hope Webbing Co., he had 
also been with the U. S. Finishing Com- 
pany. He was founder and first Presi- 
dent of the New England Boxer Club 
and a member of the Eastern Boxer 
Club. Vice-President of the Rhode Is- 
land Society for the Prevention of Cru- 
elty to Children, he also served on the 
Industrial Cabinet of the Chamber of 
Commerce. He was Director of the As- 
sociated Alumni in 1943. 

MAX ADELMAN '31 in Whitman, Mass,, 
Dec. 13. 

QUENTIN RICE COWMAN '35 in Char- 
lottesville, Va., March 24. He was Gen- 
eral Manager of the P. B. Rice Agency 
of Harrisburg, Pa., and general agent 
for the Equitable Life Insurance Co., of 
Iowa. A former student of dramatic art 
at Syracuse University, he had done 
Little Theatre work in Providence and 
Harrisburg, and was on the Executive 
Board of the Harrisburg Community 
Theater. A Lt. Cdr. USNR, he served 
in the South Pacific during World War 
II. He was a life member of the Million 
Dollar Round Table, a Vice-President 
of the Pennsylvania State Association of 
Life Underwriters, Educational Chair- 
man of the Harrisburg Chapter of the 
Society of Chartered Life Underwriters, 
and a member of the Advisory Council 
of the Equitable Life Insurance Co., of 
Iowa. Past President of the Harrisburg 
Exchange Club, he was a member of the 
Boards of the Boy's Club, the Poly- 
clinic Hospital, and the United Fund. 
Phi Gamma Delta. 

BYRON CURT PRENZEL '57 of River 
Edge, N. J., Feb. 10, 1957. 

WAYNE NOEL EDWARDS '60 in Avon, 
Mass., Oct. 5. 

CHARLES NELSON KNOWLES, IH, '61 

of Norfolk, Va., March 7. 

JOEL STEPHEN SEIBEL '61 of Wood- 
mere. L. I., N. Y., Feb. 3. 



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