BROWN 

ALUMNI MONTHLY 




PORTRAIT WITHOUT A FACE 

(Or, if you prefer, with a Hundred Faces) 



A Challenging Report 
to 2,300,000 Alumni on 



TEACHING IN 
OUR COLLEGES 



APRIL 1959 





TIRELESS, those college fund raisers," the 
heading said, and Theodore Irwin in 
Today's Living for March 1 proceeded to 
tell a supposedly uninformed public how 
alumni organizations operate and why. It 
was a partial picture of college loyalty as 
reflected on check stubs and gift lists. 

We mention it because Irwin devoted 
some words to the art of tracking down 
"lost" alumni as practised in a busy Rec- 
ords Office. Then he said: "Once found, 
you may get a free subscription to a maga- 
zine like the Brown Alumni Monthly or 
Columbia University Forum. Your interest 
in the old school is nudged." 

Guilty, as charged. That's what we hope, 
too. 

> DID YOU READ the story about the midget 
who orbited the moon in the Saturday 
Evening Post for Mar. 7? (If you did, you 
know what we're going to mention. ) Pat 
Frank had this agent describe the hero: 
"My midget's name is Roscoe LeBlond. He 
is 27 years old. He is 37 inches tall, and 
he weighs 48 pounds. He's a bright lad. 
Got straight A's in high school in Upper 
Hyannis, Vermont, and was offered a 
scholarship at Brown. Didn't take it be- 
cause his family was poor, and he was 
stage-struck." 

Alackaday. Roscoe is only a fictional fel- 
low. Otherwise, we'd be tempted to send 
him our magazine and nudge his interest 
in the old school, too. 

> "collegians Don't Change Much with 
the Years," said the editorial's headline in 
the Fall River Herald News last winter. 
And this is part of what the writer had to 
say: 

"Sometimes it seems as if youth, too, is 
no longer what it used to be. . . . Then 
something happens to make us all feel that 
college pranks don't change much with the 
years. No doubt Brown University officials 
will take a dim view of the snowball riot. 
. . . Something will have to be done to dis- 
cipline those responsible. . . . But there 
will be many reading about the fight at 
Brown who will wish they were still young 
enough to get back into that kind of fray, 
and to be worried afterward about getting 
a summons from the Dean." 

The writer was Angus Bailey '39. So, at 
least, Robert Batchelder '44 tells us. 

> HELEN BORSCH, Associate Editor of the 
Case Alumnus, says two secretaries were 
discussing a new office machine. "1 know 
that our new electronic computer does the 
work of three men," one observed glumly. 
"but, personally, I'd rather have the men." 

> RECORDING the proud triumphs of the 
Dartmouth rugby team in England, the 
Dartmouth Alumni Magazine took obvious 
relish in describing an elderly member of 



London's Savile Club who was told that 
Harvard and Yale, among other American 
universities, also played a little rugger. 
"Harvard? Harvard?" he pondered. "Oh, 
yes, isn't that somewhere near Dart- 
mouth?" 

> LYNN was his name but "14,000 called 
him Teddy," said the University of Chi- 
cago Magazine, in which an unusual obit- 
uary used candid photos and candid com- 
ments. The late English Professor had said 
it annoyed him when students took notes. 
He was always afraid they would remem- 
ber his opinions^not form opinions of 
their own. Had he ever taught anything? 
No. Had anybody learned anything while 
he was talking? That was a different mat- 
ter. 

> A BROWN PROFESSOR, talking about the 
way campus folklore will accumulate, said 
an alumnus had come up to him with a 



cordial greeting and recalled being one of 
his students in years past. "I enjoyed the 
course," he insisted. "But you told me 
you'd give me a C if I would promise not 
to take another course in your Depart- 
ment." The Professor said further he'd 
never made such a bargain in his teaching 
career, and he happened to know the 
student had received a D. He grinned, said 
nothing, and let the legend live. 

> A CERTAIN ALUMNUS hadn't been back 
on the Hill for some years but was enjoy- 
ing the Advisory Council meetings in Feb- 
ruary, finding it easy to strike up friend- 
ships. He went up to one chap during a 
coffee break and said: "I don't remember 
your name, but your face is familiar. Have 
I seen your picture in the Alumni Monthly, 
perhaps?" 

"Probably," said the other. "They've 
seen fit to use it on several occasions. My 
name is Keeney." 

> THE POPULAR APPOINTMENT of John 

McLaughry '40 as football coach was one 
of the chief topics of conversation during 
that Advisory Council Week End. One 
alumnus was telling Dr. Keeney his views 
on the subject: "This is the best appoint- 
ment Brown has made in years," he said. 

A second alumnus broke in with an 
amendment: "He means, of course, next 
to your appointment." 

> EARLIER in the week, a classmate wrote 
us about the coaching vacancy, but we 
don't think he meant quite what he put on 
paper: "I hope they obtain a first-class 
couch to take Al Kelley's place." 

BUSTER 



BROWN 

ALUMNI MONTHLY 



APRIL 

1959 
Vol. LIX No. 7 



Board of Editors 

Chairman 

C. Arthur Braitsch '23 

Vice-Chairman 
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 
George W. Potter '21 

Managing Editor 
Chesley Worthington '23 

Assistant Editor 

John F. Barry, Jr., '50 



In This Issue: 

Letter from a Professor 
A Tribute to Our Faculty 
A Million-Dollar Legacy 
Is Brown "Root-Bound"? 
Where the Fund Stands 
I Like Teaching at Brown 
Wriston on Brown Blessings 
MOONSHOOTER starting on 
For a Brown Bookshelf 
Sports Between Seasons 
Brunonians Far and Near 



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May We Make a Suggestion? 



DON'T READ this yet. Turn, instead, to the 
center of the isstie Avhere you will find a special 
feature in ^vhich ^ve take some pride. It has been 
prepared for you and 2,300,000 other Americans 
who will see it in 250 alinnni magazines; thus it is 



reaching the largest audience of college alumni in 
the history of publishing. We direct yotu" atten- 
tion to that 16-page insert at once because so much 
else this month relates to what it has to say. We'll 
stay right here tmtil you come back. 



The Professor Without a Face 



WE LEFT the cover portrait of a College Professor without 
eyes or nose or mouth because he has no one face. We 
leave it to you to supply the missing features. Out of your own 
undergraduate experience you will remember a number of 
faces which could serve under the familiar mortarboard with 
its golden tassel. The men of those faces were your own 
teachers, and some of them have meant a great deal to you. 
And now there is a new generation of college teachers, from 
which many other faces would be appropriate for our picture. 
When you have completed the portrait to your own require- 
ments and satisfaction, think of it as you read your Brown 
Alumni Monthly for April. 

This issue, along with 249 other alumni magazines this 
month, is dedicated to the American College Teacher. The 
general theme is provided in the 16-page insert to which we 
tried to direct your first attention. 

If the special section reminded you of a similar essay on the 
broader aspects of American Higher Education just a year 
ago, it is no coincidence. The origins, mechanics, and intent 
of the two were the same. They were attempts by a group of 
editors (Brown's among them) to tackle a challenging theme 
which was too big for the individual resources of time, man- 
power, and budget of any one of them working alone. Because 
in our ambition we seemed to be aiming at the moon, we 
attached the innocent name of "Moonshooter" to the project, 
which seems to be a continuing one. 

Normally, from month to month, we each devote our pages 
to telling the story of one Alma Mater and its alumni. We do 
not apologize for this preoccupation: the limited focus has 
every justification, and you would not have it otherwise. But 
it is also healthy and useful to remind ourselves of a national 
situation which must inevitably affect our own. 

The 1959 survey section was prepared by 19 alumni editors 
from all types of educational institutions. After the general 
theme of 1958, it was probably foreordained that the subject 
of this year's essay should be the College Faculty. With more 
students than ever headed towards the colleges and universi- 
ties, the teacher's role, always central, mounts in importance. 
Where will tomorrow's teachers come from? Will there be 
enough to go around? How shall we attract and reward them? 
What will happen to the quality of college teaching, and 
hence of education, with all that is implicit in the word? It's 
a "problem" story, of course, but it is also a human story. 

As a committee job, the 16-page survey obviously could 



not be made specific for any one institution. Further, the 
intensity of the problems so generally stated will vary in local 
instances. For this reason, the Brown Alumni Monthly has 
provided a number of companion pieces, generously written 
especially for us. Our purpose was to illumine the Brown 
situation for Brown readers. This is not to dissent from the 
conclusions of the survey, which your editor helped the edi- 
torial group to reach, but rather to relate them to College 
Hill. 

The necessities of production, of combining the 16 "Moon- 
shooter" pages with our own, all dictated the binding of the 
insert where it is. Some of our regular features may be out of 
place for the same reason, but you will find them. But our 
big story is the story of the Portrait Without a Face or, 
rather, the Portrait with a Hundred Faces. 

We've thought of that portrait before this. We felt it would 
be interesting to put such a faceless oil painting in Sayles 
Hall where, in our "Brown Hall of Fame," some of the great 
teachers of the past attend the great leaders and benefactors 
and alumni of Brown who look down on today's generation of 
Brown men. It would be a picture of a Professor, identifiable 
from the cap and gown which has been his uniform for cen- 
turies, but it would lack features. 

"This portrait needs a face," some little inscription might 
say to the returned alumnus. "No one man sat for it. You can 
think of a dozen faces which would qualify, out of your own 
student memories, for this portrait of a man who has exerted 
a tremendous influence through his teaching, the sharing of 
his experience, his inspiration. Moreover, some you have 
never seen would also qualify out of the continuing tradition 
of dedication to scholarship and instruction. 

"Who, of all your college teachers, meant most to you? Put 
his face in this portrait and look upon him gratefully. Let 
him stand as representative, for Brown University has known 
hundreds of men like him during its two centuries. On such 
men. Brown will depend, m the nation's service, through 
years to come." 

As Brown approaches its Bicentennial, it would be un- 
thinkable to plan a celebration without appreciation of the 
teacher. It would be unspeakable not to give thought to his 
future. That's why so much of what Brown men give in their 
anniversary offering will be for the man in your portrait, the 
Brown Professor. 



A Letter That Needs 
No Headline — 



Only a Salutation 



ft WOULD NOT HAVE YOU TEACH merely because I have taught. 
^ I do not need your decision, your commitment, to make 
me content in retrospect with my own. But, yes, I am glad that 
I teach. Shall I tell you how I came to be a teacher? 

There was at first the challenge of my field of scholarship. 
I wanted to master some portion of it. out of simple, selfish 
delight in it. I felt at home in it, a tenant comfortable there 
but restless, before its windows of opportunity. 

Then, of course, I shortly was aware of a compulsion to 
share my enthusiasm with others. And this, I suppose, was the 
vocation; it still is. 

It helps that I like young people. As I lecture to them, dis- 
cuss with them, work with them in the laboratory, it helps 
that some of them show the divine spark of curiosity, which 
it is my pleasant duty to encourage. Perhaps I do not teach as 
much as I suppose; perhaps, instead, I help these students to 
learn — and that is better, after all. I rejoice when I see them 
beginning to think for themselves, to discover the muscles of 
their minds and flex them. 

You have been aware that I love to talk. I like to organize 
my ideas, to correlate them, and put them into words. You, 
too, are articulate, and so I bother with you, for the scholar's 
mind is wasted when he is tongue-tied. It is agreeable to me 
that I can indulge in this human pleasure of talk. It is impor- 
tant to me that I can express myself freely, even experimen- 
tally, with honesty and boldness. Others call this academic 
freedom, and they can state this vital concept with more 
philosophical dignity and concern. For me, it is enough to 
know that I can say and teach what I believe. 

Mark Van Doren has put it another way: "The college 
teacher is devoted to the search for truth, and as such he is 
the envy of all those in our society who are paid to obscure 
or distort it. . . . Because the value of truth remains un- 
known, he is paid chiefly with gratitude and love, whose value 
also remains unknown." 

"/ Am Underpaid, Bttt—" 

Rewards, then — but let's talk about more of such rewards 
as the world can understand. I am underpaid. But some of 
those who tell me so are receiving more money for doing what 
they like less. Be grateful, of course, to those who are trying 
to improve the estate of the teacher. Give every aid to their 
propaganda, but do not conclude that, in entering the teaching 

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profession, you are of necessity taking the vow of poverty. 
True, great wealth will never be yours in teaching, but the 
point has been over-labored. The law of supply and demand 
has begun to operate. As the teacher becomes twice as hard 
to find, you will benefit materially. You will be able to choose 
between opportunities; rewards will come to you sooner. I do 
not scorn ambition. I understand why men move from one 
teaching post to another, from teaching into administrative 
duties. For those disposed and qualified, responsibility awaits. 
The point is: in your time you will see the teacher "writ- 
ing his own ticket," as you put it. 

Yes, salaries must go up. And you will know benefits in 
family welfare — insurance of various forms, provision for 
misfortune or retirement, perhaps help with a home, probably 
assistance of a material sort when you come to educate your 
children. But this is not unique to those in education, reassur- 
ing as such provisions are and more generous as they become 
with the passage of time. 

The Times When One Can Grow 

As you teach, you will punch few clocks other than those 
of conscience of your own disciplines. As you meet classes, 
you have fixed appointments, but your hours of labor will be 
unconventional by many standards. You will work harder, 
longer than many in other callings, but there will be blessed 
time you can call your own. There will be occasion for "out- 
side" consulting, advising, research, lecturing, and writing 
which are all compatible with your role. There are agreeable 
interludes in the demands of the college year. Your summers 
can bring refreshment, catching-up, even extra money. 

You will enjoy the sabbatical. Every six years, usually, you 
will have a year of your own at half-pay or half a year at full pay, 
when you will control your own scholar's life without distrac- 
tion. You will look forward to the sabbatical as a period when 
you can grow in competence, productivity, and stature. Where 
else does one find such an opportunity formalized and known 
to be good? You will be given occasional leave for advanced 
study. You will find financing for a personal project in investi- 
gation or creativity or expression. You will be aided regularly 
to meet with your peers and betters in scholarly exchange, in 
our strange world which has so few boundaries. In their fel- 
lowship you will find a special prestige in areas where it means 
most to you — national, even international recognition. And 
this esteem will come from the world at large, as it progresses 
again toward honor to the intellect. 

And, by the way, if science calls you, the educational world 
will not deny you the privilege of working in that odd realm 
of "pure" research, which claims so little utility in one sense 
but which surprises us so often with achievement. A college 
or university is understanding and patient and helpful, for the 
labels on its projects need not always read: "Urgent, immedi- 
ate, rush." In the halls of ivy, we live for more than the mo- 
ment. 

This, too, is relevant: Were you a woman, I would speak 
to you much as I have already done. But I would add one 
thing more for the woman who looks to teaching as her life. 
The old restraints and handicaps for a woman are disappear- 
ing. There are special opportunities for her, as she earns her 
standing alongside the man who teaches. And, were I a 
woman, it would give me a particular satisfaction to compete 
with men in the free market of the mind. And I would be 
proud of the girls who show their mettle in the classroom. 

Tfie Place Where You Will Labor 

Where will you turn when you look for the campus which 
will become your home? Again each open gate is difl'erent 
from another. You may choose a public institution which is 
valiant and effective in dealing with numbers (numbers which 
are still made up of individuals, mind you, and wherein there 



is a growing focus on quality). Or you may choose the private 
institution with its special prides. You may share the prestige 
of an older, established tradition; you may respond to the 
fresh vitality of new institutions with new programs. You may 
accept the dedication of the church-affiliated college with its 
attendant matters of the spirit in the association with men and 
women of religious vocation. The sort of student you will wish 
to help is waiting for you. Picture yourself in the situation 
that appeals most to you, that most challenges you. You are 
needed there; you will find acceptance. 

Welcome, then, my young friend, to the life of the mind in 
the world of today. Welcome to its freedom, its driving curi- 
osity, its deep satisfactions. The talents you can bring will be 
appreciated. 

I have given you assurance on material grounds. The col- 
lege salary budget of each new year will improve the material 
compensations — have no fear on those grounds. The alumni 
of your college will have learned their lessons, as the public 
has learned its own, in supporting education. 

You will want your labors rewarded, as I have. You will 
want your dignity and your independence. You will want a 
proper setting for your work and adequate tools. You will 
want qualified, responsive students. I am not so foolish as to 
say such things will not influence where you teach or how 
well. 

"// Education Is Worth Something" 

Some of my colleagues used to worry about their prestige. 
We went through the period when the term "egghead" was 
used in ridicule. Well, that doesn't worry me as much as it 
did. Now that every parent seems, rightly or wrongly, to want 
a college education for his son and daughter — or at least re- 
regards it as within reach — people are bound to respect the 
college teacher. If education is worth something, then the man 
or woman on the faculty who helps provide it is going to be 
considered important. 

President Keeney of Brown said this winter: "Professors 
used to be, and sometimes still are, pictured as old fuddles 
covered with chalk and forever losing their glasses — sweet 
old eggheads who had no notion what the world was about! 
But these men are now consulted on everything that is of im- 
portance." That's true. The world relies on me and my col- 
leagues and will on you. 

If you have not already read the 1958 pamphlet of the 
American Council on Education on "College Teaching as a 
Career," you will find in it reinforcement of your conviction. 
It provides practical, germane information. I close with two 
quotations from it. 

The first is from Fred M. Hechinger, who says: "The in- 
tangible values in teaching mean a great deal to a person or 
they mean nothing. ... A decision to become a college 
teacher will be an act of faith in an intangible idea: the idea 
that the future must give honor to the independent mind and 
must be ready to be led by it." 

And perhaps Mark Van Doren is saying the same thing in 
another way with that characteristic felicity of his: "His (the 
college teacher's) final reward is the quality of his life, which 
teaching has helped shape. His final payment is in the coin 
of happiness: gold coin, which he shares with those who have 
some suspicion of its value." 

Well, my young friend, your old teacher has had his say, 
drawing upon his experience, citing the authorities, asking a 
few questions. You must now do your home-work, your in- 
dependent study, your soul-searching. 

P.S. I am sending a copy of this letter to our alumni. It 
seems to me that they must do some soul-searching, too. And 
they must act as well as understand, for they are the co-sign- 
ers of my promissory note to you. 



APRIL 1959 



Achievement in Teaching: 

How Lucky 
the Brown 
Students Are 

By JOHN W. GARDNER 




John W. Gardner, President of the Carnegie Corpora- 
tion of New York, is one of the most-quoted of nien, es- 
pecially when he speaks on the "pursuit of excellence" 
and other aspects of higher education. We are about to 
quote him at some length on this page. 

A new book, which all Briinonians shoidd read, has just 
appeared with tlie imprint of the Public Afjairs Press. Had 
it been addressed only to Brown men, it would then have 
been called "The IC Program," for such is its theme. In- 
stead, since it will have a far wider public, the book has 
a better title, "New Horizons of Higher Education: In- 
novation and Experimentation at Brown University." The 
author is Dr. John Rowe Workman. Associate Professor 
of Classics. 

We must postpone consideration of tfte book itself, but 
John Gardner's introduction, with its comments on college 
teaching, demands a prominent place in this special issue 
of oi4rs. Alumni will remember him as the distingidshed 
speaker at the installation of Barnaby Keeney as President 
of Brown University. Permission to quote has been ac- 
corded by the holders of the copyright, the Public Affairs 
Press. 



IN CONDUCTING a symphony some years ago, Toscanini is 
said to have observed that the new second violinist main- 
tained throughout the performance an expression of acute 
pain. Toscanini sought him out later and asked whether he 
were ill. The answer was "No." Angry? "No." Trouble in 
the family? "No." Then what was wrong? The violinist gri- 
maced and said, "I hate music!" 

Some college presidents, deans, and professors would 
give the same response with respect to teaching if the penal- 
ties for such candor were not so high. 

Brown University has had the very good fortune to have 
presidents, deans, and professors who care a great deal about 
teaching. The students at Brown cannot be expected to know 
how lucky they are. 

Almost any first-rate college teacher can draw up a sig- 
nificant list of broad educational goals that should govern 
the early years of college before the student has begun to 
specialize. And, when various people draw up such lists, they 
exhibit a fair measure of agreement. The great difficulty is to 
create the educational situations in which such goals may 
be attained. 

Important innovations in college teaching can only be ac- 
complished by men with a thorough mastery of subject matter 
and an imaginative grasp of the teaching process. Beyond 
that, they need time, energy, and courage. Any substantial 
innovation in the curriculum disturbs comfortable habits and 
threatens vested interests on the faculty. Only a faculty which 
is intellectually vigorous will attempt such an innovation. And 
only a faculty which is large-minded and courageous will 
carry it through. 

Brown University has accomplished such an innovation in 
the program described by Professor Workman. I have talked 
with students who have participated in this experiment, and 
I have no doubt of its impact on them. Students are usually 
grateful for an educational experiment which brings them to 
life intellectually and lures them into active coping with ideas. 

Unfortunately, successful teaching is not an easily visible 
thing. Successful teaching might stand out more starkly if in- 
effective teaching could be properly appraised. If there were 
some way to demonstrate how many thousands of students on a 
given campus on a weekday morning simply were not listening 
to the lecture; if it were possible to count the tens of thousands 
of students over the country who are getting literally nothing 
out of page after page of reading assignments; if it were pos- 
sible to make visible the inertness, the apathy, the emptiness of 
much that passes for education — memorizing trivial facts, 
filing away the instructor's pet opinions, learning to judge 
shrewdly what will be asked on examinations — if all of these 
depressing truths could be demonstrated, then the vital suc- 
cesses in education would ring triumphantly in the college 
halls. 

How applicable is the Brown experiment to other institu- 
tions? That is not an easy question to answer. I believe that 
every college professor seriously interested in undergraduate 
liberal education should read this book. But I have never been 
impressed with the possibility that one could develop at one 
institution a "formula" for liberal education which could be 
copied by all others. Accomplishing good undergraduate lib- 
eral education is a highly creative task. A college faculty 
which has achieved this has created something that cannot 
be copied — something blended of their own experience and 
talents, the character and background of their students, and 
the resources of their institution. 

And yet this book will have many lessons for anyone 
launching a similar enterprise. Certainly college teachers 
everywhere might profitably emulate the intellectual vigor 
and flexibility, the devotion to teaching, and the high serious- 
ness of the group which accomplished this important work at 
Brown. 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 





LOOKING IN on one Brown IC session, 

this one conducted by Prof. Philip Taft, 

economist. Coverage by Brown Photo 

Lab. 



One Million 
from the Will 
of John Given 

How Brown Will Benefit 
from an Unusual Document 



WHEN John LaPorte Given, Jr., '34 died on Sept. 15, 1957, 
he left a generous and unusual will. It was generous in 
that he directed that $4,500,000 be distributed to charity; it 
was unusual in that he named no beneficiaries. Told to select 
the recipients for him, the executors reflected upon the pat- 
tern of Given's past interests and chose 51 colleges, hospitals, 
museums, and social agencies. The executors allotted $1,- 
000,000 to Brown University, the largest beneficiary of all. 

"Brown is deeply grateful for this large gift from the Given 
estate," President Keeney said on March 4 when the distri- 
bution was announced. "He was a loyal and generous alumnus 
during his life, and his executors have made that generosity 
permanent. This is a very significant contribution to our Bi- 
centennial Program to raise $30,000,000 by 1964." 

This will be the 25th anniversary year for Given's Class. 
In 1954 it received a trophy from the Brown University Fund 
for both outstanding improvement and substantial total in its 
annual giving through that medium. Given, who had made 
the largest individual contribution to the Fund that year, 
shared in the pleasure of that award. The trophy earned by 
1934 was placed on view in Faunce House "as a constant re- 
minder to the undergraduates of what the Brown University 
Fund means to the University and the work that the alumni 
are doing for it." A regular and generous contributor to the 
Brown University Fund, Given again led the list of individual 
donors in 1957. He had been a substantial contributor to the 
Housing and Development Fund, prior to the construction of 
the Wriston Quadrangle. 

Although Given maintained a long loyalty and active in- 
terest in Brown, he was not a graduate. He withdrew after 
his first Freshman semester and the following year, after 
being readmitted, withdrew again. But his contacts, though 
seldom direct, continued through a considerable correspond- 
ence, reading of literature from College Hill, and an occa- 
sional visit from fellow alumni. Although asked to serve as a 
Trustee of the Brown University Fund, he had to decline for 
reasons of poor health. A similar overture had to be refused 
when Chief of Staff Walter Adler '18 asked him to be a Com- 
mencement Aide. Given phoned to explain that he walked 
with difficulty because of a bone disease, and it was out of 
the question. But he expressed his appreciation of the invita- 
tion. 

When Given died, the New York press identified him not 
only as investor and philanthropist, but also as sportsman. 



The entry in the last Historical Catalogue spoke of him as 
"revolver expert, retired." Years ago he had held the revolver 
championship of Massachusetts, and he had been a finalist 
and runner-up in several national competitions. 

Recently a member of the Brown Faculty recalled an an- 
nouncement made at a Faculty Meeting about the time Given 
would have been an undergraduate on the Hill. It seemed that 
a Freshman had been granted an exception to the general pro- 
hibition against possessing firearms in a dormitory. The stu- 
dent was a collector, the Faculty was assured, and his weapons 
came with him on the strict understanding that they might be 
"exhibited but not flourished nor used." It is probable that 
Given was that undergraduate, for, as time went by, his in- 
terest in smafl arms came to be centered in collecting rather 
than marksmanship. The New York hotel suite, to which he 
was confined more and more, gave evidence of knowledge 
and success in his hobby. His collections survive him: one, of 
antique arms, will go the Stamford Museum in Connecticut; 
the other, of modern arms, was left to a nephew in California. 

Given, who survived his father and mother, was the grand- 
son of H. J. Heinz, leader in the food industry. He was a 
bachelor. His most intimate associate was his financial ad- 
visor, Robert J. Bruneau of Darien, Conn., who was named 
co-executor of the estate with the Chase Manhattan Bank. 
Bruneau, of course, was aware of Given's gifts to Brown. 

Under the allocations of the executors, Choate School, of 
which Given was a graduate, received $100,000, as did New 
York University, where he took some courses after leaving 
Brown. The executors also alloted $100,000 each to Amherst, 
Williams, Bard, Washington and Jefferson, Colby, Dartmouth, 
Fordham, Hamilton, Tuskegee, Muhlenberg, and Pitt. Col- 
leges which benefited to the extent of $50,000 each were 
Smith, Barnard, Illinois, and Vassar. Columbia University re- 
ceived $200,000 for the Department of Urology in the Col- 
lege of Physicians and Surgeons, while similar amounts went 
to Stamford Museum, and the National Council of Alcohol- 
ism in New York City. Other beneficiaries included Boy 
Scouts, Girl Scouts, Audubon Society, YMCA, YWCA, the 
American Museum of Natural History, the Lincoln Center 
for the Performing Arts, and several hospitals. 

The will has been accepted by the Surrogate Court of New 
York County. Distribution of about half the amount of each 
gift is planned before May 1, with the balance to follow by 
the end of the year. As we went to press, the University had 
made no statement about the specific use to which the $1,- 
000,000 from Given will be put, other than to receive it as a 
part of the Bicentennial Fund. 




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DR. KEENEY: "Is Brown 'Root-Bound'?" 



A Chance to Seize Greatness 



When you finish reading this statement by the Presi- 
dent of Brown University, you will probably feel like do- 
ing what the members of the Advisory Council did in 
Providence in February: give him a standing ovation. 
Many felt this was his finest speech to date. Certainly, it 
could not deal with a matter of more importance. 

EACH TIME Brown's Advisory Council has met of late, we 
have talked in an atmosphere of great pressure on Ameri- 
can higher education. The first two times the pressure was for 
more educational opportunity for more people because of the 
great increase in the population. The third time the pressure 
was for more quick education in the sciences because of the 
great fear that gripped America when the first Sputnick was 
launched. 

In the past year, a great debate has been raging: whether 
we should have more educational opportunity for the masses 
or better educational opportunity for the best. The calm 
voices of John Gardner. President of the Carnegie Corpora- 
tion, speaking through a committee supported by the Rocke- 
feller Brothers Fund, has quieted this debate by making it 
clear that we can afford neither to educate the few at the cost 
of the many nor to lower the level of education so that it can 
be grasped by the many at the expense of the few. It is not a 
question, he said, whether we can afi'ord education for many 
or education for few; what we cannot afford is not to have 
both. We must "pursue excellence" at all levels, so it is not 
"either/or" but "and" — not for each college or university, to 
be sure, but for the country. Each educational institution 
must make it choice, or the choice will be made for it. 

We made our choice in 1955 — before the question came 
up — when the Corporation decided that we must provide 
education of the highest quality for as many students as we 
can afford to have. I see no reason to change this excellent 
and clear policy which we have followed since with very bene- 
ficial results. 

The Baby and the Bath 

Yet we are still under pressure, as is everyone else, and the 
pressure has taken a new form. It is pressure to strip educa- 
tion to its bare essentials; to economize in fields that do not 
appear to have immediate utility; to teach in larger classes; to 
have smaller breadth in the curriculum; to reduce the re- 
search program, both to save money and to save teaching 
time; to have fewer books for the library, and especially fewer 
rare books; to have less research laboratories, so that we may 
have more teaching laboratories; to have stark barracks for 
dormitories, so that for the same amount of money we can 
build for more students; in short, to reduce a first-rate uni- 
versity to a teaching factory geared to the needs of the av- 
erage person who will need enough knowledge to lead an av- 
erage life at an average level in an average world or, to bor- 
row a phrase from my more colorful predecessor, to "throw 
out the baby with the bath." 

To the efficiency experts. Brown's response must seem per- 
verse, for we have gone in precisely the opposit direction. We 
have devised a curriculum which requires every Freshman 



and Sophomore to meet the challenges of very small and stim- 
ulating classes in the IC program. We have experimented gen- 
erously with the University courses where an effort is made 
to lead the best minds of the undergraduates to a synthesis of 
the Humanities, the Social Studies, the Sciences — the very 
thing which is most critically lacking in our society. We have 
found money to pay for these experiments. We have ex- 
panded our research program, so that our faculty may carry 
our students to the very frontiers of knowledge — as only men 
who are there themselves can do. We have found the money 
to pay for that expansion. We have so stimulated the students 
that the Library is more heavily used than ever before, more 
so than almost any other university library, and it would be 
still more heavily used, if the students had not formed the un- 
American habit of buying books in great quantities. 

We have built dormitories in the Quadrangles that provide 
the widest opportunities for social life and help carry educa- 
tion into every moment of the student's days and years. We 
shall provide greater and very expensive opportunities for 
sport and relaxation on Aldrich-Dexter Field, which has been 
prepared from the generous bequest of Ned Aldrich. We are 
giving the students opportunities for a greater and richer 
spiritual life through the restoration of Manning Chapel, with 
the support of the James Foundation. Even in teacher prep- 
aration, which some might say is the responsibility of the pub- 
lic rather than the private institutions, we have found and 
spent great sums of money to bring a new challenge to the 
people who prepare the students who come here. 

This is the way a university must proceed. It can and must 
do these things with stringent economy, but it cannot do them 
cheaply or a university ceases to be a university. This has 
been our response to the smaller challenge, for the proposed 
solution would run against our very nature. 

Greatness for a Handful 

There is, however, a much greater challenge that faces us 
and a handful of other American universities. During the next 
decade the pressures and the challenges will create an oppor- 
tunity that will push one or two American universities up into 
real greatness. 

Now, what does "great" mean? If I ask my son how he en- 
joyed a dance, he will say it was "great." This is the basest 
meaning. "Great" is used in educational circles in a rather 
broad sense to mean a first-rate college or university. There 
are not a few of them in this country, and Brown is one of 
them. But I am using "great" here in a very restricted sense 
to mean a university which has such eminence that it stands 
at the very apex of education in the world and serves as a 
model for others to emulate. 

There are a few of these great universities: in the United 
States there are several: in Britain there are a couple; on the 
continent of Europe there may be two or three — there used 
to be more. There are no others. These institutions have a lone- 
some eminence and a glorious part to play in the shaping of 
the future and the storage of the past. 

During the past year I have become convinced that we have 



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LAUGHTER . 





BUT DR. KEENEY'S Advisory Council talk was serious and challenging. 




a chance to seize this kind of greatness. The chance may not 
be with us long, and there is a very great urgency in our 
quest. Why do we have this opportunity? For one thing, our 
past: we have here a tradition and a history of excellence. 
Brown has been in the front rank almost since our foundation. 
Just as important, and perhaps more so for this purpose, we 
have one of the oldest traditions of freedom in American 
institutions — freedom of thought, freedom in expression, free- 
dom from outside control, and, above all, freedom to experi- 
ment for educational excellence. It is this habit of experi- 
mentation of our Faculty which is possibly the most important 
of all our resources, for they are never content that what they 
are doing is good enough. 

To Have and (Especially) to Hold 

During my travels in Israel I visited every one of their fine 
institutions of higher education, and I met scarcely a Professor 
who did not know and admire some member of our Faculty. 
Ours have an international eminence which is richly deserved. 
Recently the Dean of the Graduate School assembled for me 
a partial list of Faculty publications during the last several 
years; the list was four inches deep and some of the work is 
of the very first importance. As teachers, our Professors im- 
port this scholarly enthusiasm to their students who will one 
day become a generation of intellectuals, whether they are in 
academic pursuits or out, and who will bring the clarity of 
the scholar to bear on every problem. 

One of the things that makes my rest less easy than it might 
be is the danger of losing this Faculty, for members are con- 
stantly sought by other institutions. So far this year seven of 
our younger full Professors have received very attractive 
offers from other first-rate universities; so far five have de- 
clined, one has accepted, and one is in the process of making 
up his mind. Ten years ago these statistics would have been 
reversed — a striking example of the great progress we have 
made. The other day I had lunch with the director of the 
foundation which has done more than any other to promote 



the individual development of American scholars and from 
which our Faculty have benefited in utterly disproportionate 
numbers. We fell to talking about some of our candidates for 
fellowships this year; my friend said, "Every year I find that 
what I had thought of as a fine Faculty at Brown had a 
greatness that I did not even realize." 

Our students are good, too, and even the best are not 
lonely. This year the College Entrance Examination Board, 
which is the greatest repository of information on the raw 
quality of college students, published some statistics about the 
ability of the students in several kinds of colleges, of which 
one was a very highly selective institution. Our students, by 
the same criteria, are somewhat better than that select group. 

Just as important, they have a physical, intellectual, and 
emotional vigor which promises that they will use their talents. 
They have shaken off the lethargy, the apathy, and the tend- 
ency to conform that used to irritate me so. They have shown 
a creative interest in almost everything that can possibly 
concern them — and some things that do not. I am convinced 
that some of the great men of the next generation are under- 
graduates and graduate students at Brown today — more than 
we are entitled to have. 

Our students and our Faculty would provide the opportu- 
nity for greatness, but it could not be carried out without our 
alumni. You are convinced of the mission of Brown, you are 
wise in your judgment of what we can do, you are generous, 
and you are an example often cited when American alumni 
bodies are talked about. Any university president would envy 
my opportunity to talk to you today. 

When Roots Outgroiv Their Space 

What must we do to seize this opportunity to rise to the 
pinnacle? Why cannot we take it today? The very simple fact 
is that we are in a sense root-bound. You have seen strong 
young plants placed in pots and have seen the plants grow 
vigorously and then stop growing because their roots have 
outgrown their space. This is why you must dig a $10 hole for 



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a $2 tree — so that it will not become root-bound. The root- 
bound tree will flourish at first, but then cease to grow and 
stunt itself through its very strength. Brown is root-bound. 

In terms of our current expenditure the situation is not bad. 
Our Faculty salaries are good, but we must put our best 
people out of the reach of other institutions, so that they 
cannot even think of seeking them out. Our Faculty must 
have more freedom to experiment educationally. Sometimes 
they are prevented from doing so for the lack of a very little 
money; more often, they must wait a year or two before it is 
available. They must be free to carry out the research they 
wish, whether it is sponsored or not, for great ideas in their 
infancy do not always attract sponsors. They must be free to 
seek new knowledge wherever it lies — in London, in Paris, 
under the ground in Greece or Alaska, in the atmosphere or 
in outer space. We have a great Library, but we do not quite 
have the means to develop it as fully as we should or even to 
provide the tools to use it as it should best be used. 

Physically the situation is far worse. If you will go to the 
Library on any weekday evening, you will find students almost 
sitting on top of each other and lined up at the desk waiting 
for books. There is no university or library in the world 
where access to all the books is freer to the humblest student; 
the difficulty is that there is not enough space for all who 
would use the library. You will find thousands of useful books 
in storage elsewhere when they should be on the open shelf. 
Every activity of the staff is constrained by lack of space in 
which to carry it out. 

Go to the laboratories and see eminent scientists carrying 
out their work in space so cramped that there is scarcely 
room for their equipment, see them teaching in laboratories 
where the equipment must be taken down every hour to 
permit another class to come in and to do another experiment. 
Consider our facilities for physical education and sports. Our 
hockey team is unsuccessful this year, not because we do not 
have good players and a good coach, but because we do not 
have an adequate place for practice. 

When Freed from Restrictions 

What will happen when we free the roots by enlarging the 
environment of the University? I can give you several ex- 
amples: The Wriston Quadrangle and the West Quadrangle 
have freed the environment of our students. As a result they 
have developed a whole new way of life which is far better 
than the old. What has happened to the psychologists since 
they were freed from their humble cellars? In the new Hunter 
Laboratory, they have already become more productive in 
ideas, they have sought out new worlds to conquer, and they 
are having a much greater efl'ect on the students. What will 
happen to the spiritual life of the University when Manning 
Chapel becomes fully operative? I am sure that it will both 
broaden and deepen so that more students will carry through- 
out their lives the richness of a truly thoughtful religion. 

If we can free the whole University from its present re- 
strictions, you will see here the full flowering of a plant 
which had flourished as long as it can without room to develop 
further. The harvest will be an intellectual fruit whose rich- 
ness has never been surpassed and which we can scarcely 
imagine. 

A little while ago the president of one of the great founda- 
tions and I were talking about other things; he paused and 
said, "What can we do to make the world realize what a 
great university Brown is?" Well, he can do a great deal, for 
no one's voice carries greater authority than his in these 
matters. What can you and I do? We can think and find new 
ways of doing great things better; we can work and find the 
means for others to do them; we can give. All of us can learn 
more about this wonderful place and, in telling others, can 
"Cry the Beloved Country." 



Preparing for 
Brown Week 

The Fund's Above $300,000, 
Almost at the Halfway Point 



THE Brown University Fund, shooting for $750,000 by 
June, passed the $300,000 mark on Feb. 11, three weeks 
earlier than the previous year. The pace reflected the earlier 
achievement of organization and other 1959 speed-up. In the 
first week of March the Fund had grown by another $36,000 
from another 1000 contributors, raising the total of the latter 
to 3163. (The corresponding March date in 1958 showed 
$307,412 from 1979 donors.) 

Fund Trustees and oflScers were looking ahead to a novel 
feature of the current campaign: "Brown Week — U.S.A." 
The new idea is built around a nine-day period (Apr. 25 to 
May 3) in which the attention of all alumni would be fo- 
cused on their University. National Chairman Robert Fisler 
'43 explained it this way: "This is the time when City Chair- 
men and their Agents should go all out to capitalize on the 
national promotion and urge non-donors to add their support 
to this campaign to provide funds for a better Brown, for 
better education in America. Publicity will be tied in with 
local work to provide maximum response to your work." A 
back-cover advertisement in this issue gives the theme for 
using the week as a "clean-up" period where necessary. The 
Office of the Secretary is preparing home-town news-stories 
to call attention to "Brown Week" and recognize the local 
workers. 

A Fund dinner in Manhattan on Apr. 9 will bring the Zone 
Chairmen and their Agents together for a kick-off of the 
New York City Campaign. They hope to complete their ac- 
tivity by May 3, the final day of "Brown Week." A similar 
dinner in Providence on Apr. 16 will provide a similar spur 
in Rhode Island, while observance of the special Fund-time 
will be adapted to local situations elsewhere. 




NORMAN SAMMIS 08 accepted the Fund Bowl from Allen Williams on be- 
half of his classmates. Their work lost year was outstanding. 



APRIL 1959 



II 




BEQUESTS TO BENEFIT BROWN: One of the most significant meetings of the 
Advisory Council Week End was that of the University Bequests Committee, 
chaired by Daniel L. Brown '12, left. Others are Class Chairmen: left to 
right— Ernest J. Woelfel '23, Robert H. Goff '24, Harold A. Grout '13, 



George S. Burgess '12, John Hutchins Cody '03, Claude R. Branch '07, Al- 
fred Elson, Jr., '25, Noel M. Field '26, Edward T. Brackett '14, Edward 
Sulzberger '29, C. Douglas Mercer '06, and Roger Shottuck '29. (Full group 
does not show in photo.) 



The Fund was in the hmeUght at the annual Advisory 
Council Week End on the Hill in February, when leaders met 
for planning and briefing sessions with Chairman Fisler, 
Daniel W. Earle '34, Executive Director of the University 
Fund, W. E. S. Moulton, '31, Fund Secretary, and Allen B. 
Williams '40, Director of Development. 

A feature of the Saturday afternoon general session was 
the award to 1908 of the Annual Achievement Award. Be- 
cause Frank F. Mason was ill, Norman Sammis represented 
the Class in receiving the coveted bowl for outstanding per- 
formance in Class competition. Williams said: "There is some- 
thing unique about a group of men who, at the age when most 
are tending to enjoy the passing scene, organized themselves 
in an effort of this sort and produced such remarkable results. 
I think it was an achievement that gave them as much of a 
thrill as it did the University. It stands out as the top accom- 
plishment for the 1958 Campaign." 

But there were other outstanding achievements in 1958. A 
close contender for the award was the 25-year-Class of 1933, 
which built a record-breaking total of $74,722 for its reunion 
gift under Fund auspices. The Class of 1908 announced 
$61,752, while other reunion gifts included the following 
portions allocated to the Brown University Fund: 1923 — 
$21,050; 1928— $26,390. The reunion effort of 1922, com- 
pleted in 1958, brought $39,250. 

As the 1959 Fund approached the half-way mark, a news- 
letter from Alumni House quoted the comment of Jeremiah 
Holmes '02, City Chairman of Mystic, Conn. The $750,000 
goal, if reached, he pointed out, would mean an increase in 
Brown's "living endowment" to $15,000,000. He showed how 
each $12 given the Fund produces for the University as much 
as $240 of University endowment money produces each year 
at 5%. 

Broivn, by National Comparisons 

The success of the record-breaking 1958 Fund was under- 
scored in the recently published Survey of Annual Giving and 
Alumni Support, prepared and distributed by the American 
Alumni Council in late February. The Fund at Brown, shown 
to be the seventh oldest among American college funds, was 
ranked high in 1958 performance. It was among the top 10 
among private institutions in five different categories: 

Effectiveness of solicitation (number of donors compared 



with number of alumni actually solicited) — fifth with 48.7%. 
behind Princeton (71.8%), Dartmouth (68.4%), Xavier of 
Ohio (51.8%), Notre Dame (49.2%). 

Dollar totals of alumni gifts made through the alumni 
fund: 10th with $487,770, behind Harvard, Yale, Princeton. 
Cornell, Chicago, Notre Dame, Penn, Columbia, and North- 
western — all far larger in terms of alumni body. 

Average alumni gift: eighth with $53.97, behind St. Bona- 
venture, DePauI, Creighton, Princeton, Baylor, Harvard, and 
Yale. 

Total gifts to annual fund: 10th, with $660,039, behind 
Notre Dame, Harvard, Yale. Princeton, Cornell, Syracuse, 
Creighton, Dayton, and Columbia. 

Total alumni giving: ninth, with $1,766,612. behind Yale, 
Harvard, Dartmouth, Penn, Tulane, Princeton, M.I.T., and 
Cornell. In total voluntary support from all constituencies: 
25th, with $3,514,224. 

The report covered 610 colleges, universities, and schools, 
which received a grand total of $143,112,213 from their 
alumni. Of this amount $38,799,845 came through annual 
alumni funds. Alumni support reached a record high of 
$129,442,980. with the average gift set at $32.03. Of 5,380,- 
462 alumni asked to give to the institutions reporting, 1,211,- 
395 responded; alumni giving represented over 25% of all 
voluntary support recorded by the the 610 institutions. 

New this year was the American Alumni Council's program 
of Alumni Giving Incentive Awards, launched with a grant 
from the United States Steel Foundation and administered by 
the AAC in behalf of American business and industry. Cri- 
teria guiding the judges in making their selections included 
the dollar totals, percentage of participation, improvement 
over previous years, and other evidence of the effort to 
broaden the base of support. The top honor (a $10,000 cash 
prize) went to Texas A. & M. College, while there were eight 
$1000 winners for leaders in their categories. The winner in 
the private university category was Princeton. Cited for hon- 
orable mention were: Brown, McGill, St. Bonaventure, and 
Tulane. 

The detailed 52-page report of the American Alumni Coun- 
cil carried a quotation on its cover from the late Dr. Gordon 
K. Chalmers '25: "The very rock on which all other giving 
must rest is alumni giving. Gifts from outside the family de- 
pend largely- — sometimes wholly — on the degree of alumni 
support." 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Tailoring the Fabric 
of "Moonshooter" 

A Professor Explains What He's Liked 
About Teaching: at Brown University 

By ROBERT H. GEORGE 




It seemed pretty obvious to its that an issue which con- 
siders "College Teaching" must include the comments of 
a College Teacher. It was also obvious that we should 
nominate for spokesman one who has been respected, 
effective, and popidar with successive generations of 
Brown students, including today's. The Mimro Goodwin 
Wilkinson Professor of History has been a member of the 
University Faculty since 1923. March TV audiences saw 
and heard his lectures on Russian history. 



A Faculty member who has seen Brown develop from a 
good institution into an outstanding one may be allowed 
to make some observations on the subject matter and con- 
clusions offered in this issue in the supplement provided by 
"Operation Moonshooter." Realizing that the broad fabric 
of the essay on College Teaching is ready-made, one is moved 
to tailor it a bit if our University is to wear it. 

One is forced to stress the fact that Brown, in common 
with all institutions of higher learning, is faced with the ap- 
proach of a deluge of applicants for admission, and with the 
continuing need to increase the rewards offered the teacher- 
scholar. The Admission Offices are coming to grips with the 
first problem. 

Appreciable beginnings have been made in the increase of 
salaries which have improved our competitive position to at- 
tract and hold Faculty members of a high order. However, 
the competition for the type of man we wish to have on our 
Faculty is bound to increase in intensity. We must be in a po- 
sition to meet it. To somewhat prejudiced Faculty eyes, salary 
increases top our list of "musts" (think of the young men 
and their growing families). But added facilities to permit a 
distinguished Faculty to carry on their activities more effec- 
tively come a close second; labs and libraries loom particularly 
large in the latter connection. 

"Fringe benefits" are noteworthy at Brown: 

The community in which we live is friendly. It seems to 
exhibit a regard for "College Hill," and to be appreciative of 
its scholar-teachers. Few Faculty members have ever been 
accorded the status of "Brown egg-heads." 

The University shows a rather emphatic interest in main- 
taining high standards in teaching, in addition to a very proper 
regard for scholarly production. It seems determined to re- 
tain the advantages of that intimate contact between students 
and teachers which legends declare to have been the hallmark 



of the Mark Hopkins type of small college. There is evidence 
that the University recognizes teaching achievements. 

Brown imposes a relatively light teaching-load on the Fac- 
ulty — a practice which has helped hold desirable men and 
women. It also provides added freedom for research. It makes 
room for those student-teacher conferences which can do so 
much to clinch classroom gains and to afford the teacher some 
intimate evidence both to his errors and achievements. (The 
students tell us they benefit, too, from such personal contacts.) 

The intelligent development of the Administration, which 
centers in U.H., has largely freed the Faculty from onerous 
committee duties — with the exception of a few on which 
heavy Faculty representation is an essential. (The committees 
are those on Curriculum and Academic Standing, plus the 
Graduate Council. — Ed.) Even here, the assignment is for a 
limited term of years. 

The University doubles the individual's contributions to the 
purchase of his retirement annuity and gives him useful in- 
surance. It furnishes reasonably workable and livable offices 
(blessed be those old residences!); the Bicentennial Program 
will allow recent progress in this respect to continue. 

There is other evidence to support the assertion that the 
situation at Brown is heartening. An increasingly competent 
student body gives enlarged opportunities to the teacher- 
scholar and affords him a most stimulating challenge. It is 
exciting and rewarding to encounter the eagerness and com- 
petence of today's undergraduates. (I've bored my colleagues 
with my enthusiasm for this year's classes, but quality is 
there.) 

The growing interest of the Alumni in academic matters is 
encouraging — witness the upward climb of the Brown Uni- 
versity Fund and significant lesser evidence of that interest. 
But we come back to the basic facts of today: 

Given the nature of the already existing competition for 
eminence among outstanding institutions; and given the hot 
competition for the type of Faculty which gives an institu- 
tion that eminence, one is forced to underline the fundamental 
conclusion of "Operation Moonshooter": Still greater support 
and a heightened interest are absolutely necessary. If, and 
only if, additional support and heightened interest are forth- 
coming, will Brown men — from the youngest undergraduate, 
through the Administration and the Faculty, to the oldest liv- 
ing graduate — be able to continue to "praise the name of 
Brown." 

It's as plain as daylight that, if we don't go forward, we're 
licked. 



APRIL 1959 



13 







Brown University 
Has Been Blessed 



The Teaching' Function Has 
Never Been Sacrificed 



When the President Emeritus was back on College Hill 
in February to speak at Chapel and at a dinner sponsored 
by the Class of 1961 , we asked him if he would read some 
advance proofs of our special supplement on College 
Teaching and write us a companion piece for it. He did, 
graciously, and the result is good, vintage Wriston, as were 
the talks he gave on Campus to full houses. 



By HENRY M. WRISTON 



ALL THE UNIVERSITIES and colleges of the country are seek- 
. ing funds, and I hope they get them. In recent days, too 
much of the appeal, it seems to me, has been based upon 
fears, deficiencies, shortcomings. I hope that in further devel- 
oping their programs, they will take heart from the belief that 
"nothing succeeds like success." That idea should spark the 
campaigns. 

Right now it is not customary to accentuate their successes. 
We have had a surfeit of stress upon shortcomings, a kind of 
continuous barrage of information about how well the Rus- 
sians do it. About the only dissenting voice is that of Mr. 
Khrushchev who, in the midst of the paeans of praise being 
voiced in America, expressed in caustic terms his estimate of 
the shortcomings of Russian education. Surely, the Soviets 
offer us no pattern of progress which we should imitate. We 
have goals enough, ideals enough, and resources enough right 
here at home. They are sounder, better tested, and, above all, 
our own. 

The colleges have always been needy, but they have not 
always succeeded in performing their function. If one studies 
the history of American higher education, he will be impressed 
with the long and somber record of its poverty. At the begin- 
ning of the 20th century, the endowment of the "richest" uni- 
versity was scarcely ten million. Budgets had attained no such 
dimensions as they have since achieved. The record shows 
many colleges founded on a shoestring and expiring into the 
hands of ruined creditors. There was one Midwest area known 
as "the graveyard of colleges" because so many had failed fi- 
nancially and otherwise. The record is replete, also, with en- 
dowments frittered away by unwise investments, by unbusi- 
nesslike methods, by foolish emphases. 

But if institutions of higher education have been needy, 
they have not, as I have indicated, always been successful. 
There have been considerable eras of intellectual sterility. 
Many of those institutions which are now nostalgically glori- 
fied as the "old fashioned college" were little, if any, better 
than High Schools, and poor ones at that. Their program of 

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teaching was a dead level of rote memory; books were mem- 
orized and parroted back. That process passed for learning. 
There was a marked failure to stimulate thought; there was 
shocking insensitiveness to world changes and to domestic 
requirements. These and other negative characteristics were, 
from time to time, far more conspicuous than we now like to 
recall. But they are all on the record for those who study 
educational history. 

Opportunities for Neiv Conquests 

This is part of the explanation of the greatness of Francis 
Wayland. He was protesting against the sterility of much of 
the education of his time. That is why he met with so much re- 
sistance from the stand-patters — and ultimately with seeming 
defeat. His specific reforms were, indeed, repealed. Neverthe- 
less, the stimulus he gave to defining what the university was 
supposed to do lived long after his death, and fertilized 
thought, not only at Brown, but throughout the nation. 

The colleges continue to need reform, for all life must be 
a continuous effort at re-creation. If we had attained perfec- 
tion, much of the zest would disappear. It would be tragic if 
there were no opportunities for new conquests for the mind. 

In point of fact, however, education in the 20th century has 
made strides at a pace and to an extent that could not have 
been dreamed of at an earlier time. The growth in the corpus 
of knowledge, the refinement of techniques and instruments 
for its further expansion have been amazing. Methods of in- 
struction have been reviewed, analyzed, and vastly improved. 
Having spent more than 50 years in the midst of these devel- 
opments, I have seen them at first hand. It is upon the basis of 
such triumphant progress that I feel we should make our ap- 
peal. It is not enough to harp upon needs, however real and 
urgent. The colleges deserve support upon the basis of attain- 
ments which, seen in right perspective, are no less than monu- 
mental. 

As for Brown, in particular, it is entitled to support upon a 
scale unique in its history. If the record of higher education 
generally is one of success, the record of Brown is outstanding. 
The University has been blessed with a rare combination 
within its Faculty. It has been composed of scholars who felt 
and exhibited to a high degree responsibility to engage in re- 
search, to expand the bounds of knowledge, to enlarge in- 
tellectual horizons, and to be creative. 

An Eagerness to Experiment 

However, the Faculty has never sacrificed the teaching 
function to scholarly research. It has manifested a responsi- 
bility in this respect which is of the first order of importance. 
It has not followed fads and fashions in its instruction; nor has 
it clung grimly to inherited modes of teaching or stubbornly 
persisted in ancient educational rituals from which solid sub- 
stance had fled. There has been a readiness to experiment, to 
look upon experiment with quiet criticism and a candid eye 
and to make modifications as experience opened new lines of 
endeavor. 

Indeed, it has gone further: It has set competing ideas re- 
garding teaching into the framework of fair competition so 
that each instructor could follow the method adapted to his 
own personality as well as to the discipline to which he had 
committed his life. This has brought a freshness and vigor into 
instruction. Such vitality is difficult to maintain when Profes- 
sors have to face an endless succession of new students and 
therefore have to begin over again just when they feel they 
had begun to achieve something substantial. 

Brown has another asset to its credit; it possesses an admin- 
istrative staff, beginning with the President and running 
through all his associates, which puts the work of the Faculty 
as central in discharging the function of the University. The 
administrators see themselves — and this is manifest in all they 
do — as the servants of instruction, not as employers of the 

APRIL 1959 



teaching staff. In many American institutions, the tensions be- 
tween those who administer and those who teach are very 
acute. It is easy for misunderstanding to grow and for tension 
to eventuate in rupture. From the day of Andrews forward, 
there has been at Brown less of this kind of disruptive fric- 
tion than is to be found in a great majority of the institutions 
of higher education. 

In giving primacy to teaching and research, the University 
has been economical in building. Bricks and mortar have had 
little stress. Some of the great Departments have worked under 
the handicap of inadequate physical facilities in order that 
they might stretch their resources in the teaching field. The 
time has come to equip this magnificent Faculty with more 
appropriate environment and instruments. They have "made 
do" with obsolescent equipment while they brought fresh re- 
sources of the mind to teaching and research. They not only 
need, they deserve, more nearly adequate equipment. 

I repeat, education is needy, and the needs of Brown are 
known to all. But if success begets success, as I believe it does, 
the triumphs of the past will be but a prologue to the attain- 
ments just ahead. 





Photo by Ooxoiny Hlancltard Vanwaketis 



It's hard to believe that Wally Snell will be retiring this 
year. When we add to his 32 years of continuous service 
on the Faculty the seven student years that culminated in his 
Master's degree in 1915, we have the record of a man whose 
life is deeply woven into the fabric of Brown. With his schol- 
arly insight coupled with a ready, friendly interest in his 
students, Walter Henry Snell is known to hosts of Brown 
men as a great teacher. (One estimate is that he has coached 
and taught between 4000 and 5000 Brunonians.) 

Genuine friendliness, a cardinal virtue of great teachers, is 
a quality that glows in Wally Snell, particularly when he 
reminisces about his own college days. If his pipe is burning 
with that characteristic clean but full-bodied aroma, Wally 
the raconteur is at his best. In this atmosphere, informality 
reigns; students and colleagues enjoy the chance to relax and 
listen. Here, indeed, is a counselor with a sense of humor 
which is refreshing. 

An All-American Catcher 

Who does not enjoy hearing of the golden age of baseball? 
And who can tell about it better than Wally? His stories ring 
with a vitality that reflects his true love of sport. Baseball 
nearly cost him his life when he was a camper in 1910, for 
he dove for a foul fly and banged his head on a rock. He was 
taken to the hospital for dead, but he recovered to play for 
many more years. After starring at Brockton High and An- 
dover, he won three successive Varsity letters at Brown and 
was named All-American catcher in his Senior year, 1913. 

One of his favorite anecdotes dates from the period when 
New England college ball players continued the sport during 
the summer. At a game in Oneonta, Wally's team decided 
something had to be done to take care of an opposing slug- 
ger. His hits even reached a large tomato patch beyond the 
outfield, a favorite target. The New England team hid a few 
extra balls in the patch before the game, and the hits there 
that day were fielded with incredible speed. All went well 
until one recovered ball proved to be a ripe tomato, which 



THE LIVES OF 
WALLY SNELL 

A Colorful Appreciation 
of a Retiririg Professor 

By GEORGE R. CHURCH 



burst in mid-air before Wally could catch it at the plate. The 
free-for-all which followed was a dandy, Wally says. 

Wally enjoyed basketball and football just as much and 
earned his letters in both sports three years in a row. In one 
of his best known football exploits, he encountered the fa- 
mous Jim Thorpe. It was generally admitted that no one 
could stop this Indian, who weighed 180 pounds and towered 
a good six feet; he'd just won the Pentathlon in the 1912 
Olympics, for he was fast, too. 

On the day of the game, a light covering of snow had 
melted, turning the field into a morass of mud. Uniforms 
became so coated that the players wore them right into the 
showers later, to wash them off so they could find the lacings 
that kept the canvas chest-protectors in place. It was in this 
mud that Wally dumped Thorpe with a low tackle. "He was 
built like iron, and — gawd — what legs," says Wally. "But I 
put his ankles together and held him." 

Wally's athletic career came to a turning point in the 



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spring of 1913, when Connie Mack signed him with the Phila- 
delphia Athletics. If Wally had gone with the A's, he probably 
would have had a cut in the World Series money. But he 
broke his thumb in his last college game, with the Alumni in 
June, and he voluntarily gave up his contract. When the 
thumb healed later, Wally joined the Red Sox for one season 
and remembers getting a hit as a pinch-hitter in his first 
major-league appearance, a drive past Lajoie. 

Adventures in the Field 

In the meantime, Wally's interest in science was growing. 
His physical vigor was matched by an intellectual vigor that 
won him election to both Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi. As a 
botanist, he found his special interest centering in trees and 
the fungi, particularly the blister rust that was taking its toll 
of northeastern white pine forests. To continue his study of 
plant diseases, an interest nurtured under Professor York at 
Brown, Wally went to the University of Wisconsin, where he 
was awarded the Ph.D. in 1918. With the urgent need for cer- 
tain types of timber in the First World War, he was partic- 
ularly well qualified to serve as a forest pathologist with the 
Bureau of Plant Industry from 1918 to 1920. 

During this period, Wally was stationed in the redwood 
country of the Pacific Northwest. He got to know something 
of the Klamath Indians there, too. Those living near the lum- 
ber camps at Eureka were hard drinkers, and their stimulated, 
chaotic dancing disturbed everyone else's sleep. One night, 
when they paid no attention to pleas for quiet, Wally pitched 
their empty bottles at their feet, with a force and accuracy 
that impressed them. They soon respected his arm and quit. 

When Dr. Snell joined the Brown Faculty in 1920, he be- 
gan a long series of researches on the fungi that infect forest 
trees and destroy timber. For several summers he made 
pioneering studies on the white pine blister rust in the Adiron- 
dacks while serving as assistant forest pathologist with the 
New York State Conservation Commission. He made one 
very important contribution to our knowledge of the rela- 
tionship between currants and pines in the rust cycle of re- 
production: it is the European black currant (not the native 
red currant) that helps spread the disease in any significant 
degree. Wherever the white pine infection was heavy, Wally 
was always able to find the alternate black currant host by 
inquiring where villagers of English extraction lived and sub- 
sequently spotting the infected bushes in their gardens. Their 
desire for the traditional jam had unwittingly helped spread 
the blister rust. 



At one time Wally experimented with a mold he had found 
which seemed successful in retarding rot in wood. Unfor- 
tunately, his research was interrupted, for he was on the verge 
of discovering what later became well known as penicillin. 

Wally's enthusiasm for probing into the controlling factors 
of forest maintenance and timber disease has permeated to 
all of his students. Here again the qualities of a successful 
teacher are seen in his high standards of excellence in the 
performance of any task. Many a graduate student has learned 
to appreciate his meticulous craftsmanship as he rewrote a 
thesis several times until it met with Wally's approval. Some 
of these students have gone on to important posts in Federal 
and State research organizations. 

Called Back into Athletics 

Wally's tremendous capacity to do many jobs well is the 
envy of his colleagues. With his characteristic vigor, he con- 
tinued with Brown athletics for many years in coaching 49 
squads, even including soccer, and scouting. During the war, 
he was called on to be Athletic Director in addition to his 
other work in teaching and research as Department Chairman. 

Wally's scientific publications, including some with his stu- 
dents as co-authors, number more than 70. He is still very 
much absorbed in his researches on the fleshy fungi. Mush- 
rooms, toadstools, coral and bracket fungi have always held 
for him an intense fascination. On several occasions he has 
found species in the East that had previously been known only 
in Europe. Indeed, he is the expert on fungi to whom every- 
one in the community, amateur or professional, turns for in- 
formation. Harvard University Press published in 1957 "A 
Glossary of Mycological Terms," co-authored by Esther A. 
Dick and already widely known as a reference work in 
earlier editions. 

Of major interest to Wally for some years have been those 
fleshy, mushroom-like forms which resemble toadstools but 
are characterized by a spongy, porous undersurface to the 
cap instead of radiating plates or gills. Most of the species are 
brightly pigmented. In order to preserve an accurate record 
of these species of the genus Boletus, Wally has painted more 
than 200 water-color plates of high scientific value. It 
is hoped that a monographic treatment of these Boletes can 
be published in the near future, together with many of, the 
plates. (It would be a fitting tribute at this time.) The collec- 
tion of these species in the Brown University Herbarium is 
the largest known in any institution in the world. 

Among His Many Honors 

Appropriately, Wally holds the chair of Stephen T. Olney 
Professor of Natural History. This professorship was en- 
dowed by the estate of the well-known Providence business 
man whose botanical collections became the nucleus of the 
University Herbarium. 

Wally has served as Vice-President of the Mycological So- 
ciety of America; President of the R. I. Botanical Club, Hor- 
ticultural Society, and Audubon Society; and Chairman of the 
Northeastern Forest Pest Commission. He also enjoys mem- 
bership in the American Association for the Advancement of 
Science, Botanical Society of America, Phytopathology So- 
ciety, New England Botanical Club, and the Wisconsin Acad- 
emy of Science. 

Brown is fortunate that a man of Wally's physical and men- 
tal vigor will continue to work in the University community 
of scholars as Emeritus Professor. Furthermore, we shall be 
guided by his sense of fairness in judgment, respect for the 
feelings of other people, and his sense of humor. His hand 
extended in firm, warm greeting and his love of hearty fellow- 
ship will always be a source of genuine pleasure to his many 
colleagues, students, fellow alumni and friends. 



APRIL 1959 



17 



ANSWERS: 

Here's One Set Provided 
by President Keeney 



CHET WoRTHiNGTON has asked me to comment on "The 
College Teacher" from the point of view of Brown Uni- 
versity, for some of the conclusions describe a situation some- 
what different from ours. It is an excellent article that should 
be taken very seriously. The questions for alumni and alum- 
nae at the end are thought-provoking and perhaps the most 
important part of the paper if it is to have the effect that it 
should. I shall make my comments in the form of brief an- 
swers to these questions. 

Question: Is your Alma Mater having difficulty finding 
new teachers to fill vacancies and expand its Faculty to meet 
climbing enrollments? 

Answer: We do not have climbing enrollments at Brown; 
we do have vacancies on the Faculty. Other institutions have 
climbing enrollments, and this causes the market for new 
teachers to be tight. We can always find someone to fill a 
position, but sometimes we cannot find a person as good as 
we want. In these cases, we do not fill the vacancy until we 
do. Every year there are several unfilled vacancies for this 
reason. 




Question: Has the economic status of Faculty members 
of your college kept up with inflationary trends? 

Answer: Until a couple of years ago it had not; we have 
now caught up, so that our Faculty are no worse off than 
their predecessors were in 1900. However, they are not much 
better off. They should be. Yet our salaries are among the 
best in the country. 

Question: Are the physical facilities of your college, in- 
cluding laboratories and libraries, good enough to attract and 
hold qualified teachers? 

Answer: Some of them are, some of them are not. Our 
teachers must also be scholars, and the teacher-scholar re- 
quires a great deal more to work with than the teacher alone 
or the scholar alone. We have very serious deficiencies in some 
departments and crowding of space in all. The Bicentennial 
Program is intended to correct some of the most outstanding 
deficiencies. 

Question: Is your community one which respects the col- 
lege teacher? Is the social and educational environment of 
your college's "home town" one in which a teacher would 
like to raise his family? 

Answer: I know of no place where the Professor is more 
respected by the layman than Providence where there is a 
very close and warm relationship between Town and Gown. 
Some parts of Greater Providence are excellent places to 
raise a family, some are not. Some of the schools are supe- 
rior, some of them are weak. Our teacher-training program is 
intended to strengthen them. 

Question: Are the restrictions on time and freedom of 
teachers at your college such as to discourage adventurous 
research, careful preparation of instruction, and the expres- 
sion of honest conviction? 

Answer: No. One of the great advantages of the Professor 
at Brown is his very freedom. It is achieved through the 
maintenance of a light teaching load, the assignment of ad- 
ministrative problems to Administrative Officers rather than 
Faculty Committees which are concerned mainly with matters 
of policy, and the strength of the Corporation which is dedi- 
cated to freedom of speech. 

Question: To meet the teacher shortage, is your college 
forced to resort to hiring practices that are unfair to segments 
of the Faculty it already has? 

Answer: We try not to. The other side of this coin is that, 
in an institution administered as Brown is, it is necessary to 
pay a new man a salary larger than we have been accustomed 
to. This very fact has the effect of raising other salaries. How- 
ever, salaries are not uniform by Departments. But here again 
the high price of scientists has the effect of raising the salaries 
of humanists. We do not lose many of our Faculty to industry 
and government after they become members of the Faculty. 
We do lose candidates for positions, because about half of 
the best Ph.D.'s do not enter teaching. 

Question: Are courses of proved merit being curtailed? 

Answer: No. They would be if our alumni and friends 
did not support us as well as they do. However, one of the 
greatest needs of Brown and every other lively university is 
for funds that are free for experiment designed to improve 
instruction. 

Question: Are you, as an alumnus, and your college as 
an institution, doing everything possible to encourage talented 
young people to pursue careers in college teaching? 

Answer: I can answer only for our University. We spend 
a great deal of time talking to talented students about teaching 
and encourage them to try it. The greatest encouragement, 
however, is the example of the Faculty. Young men generally 
go into an occupation because they wish to be like someone 
who is already in it. 

What is your answer? 

barnaby c. keeney 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



The Yankee 
at His Best 



The following minute on the death of 
Prof. Clarence M. Webster was read by 
the Chairman of his Department and 
adopted at the February meeting of the 
Brown Faculty. It is particularly appro- 
priate that this superlative tribute should 
be included in an issue of this magazine 
which so concerns itself with college teach- 
ing. 

By GEORGE K. ANDERSON 

IT IS MY SOMBER DUTY to report to this 
faculty the death, on January 24, 1959, 
of Clarence Mertoun Webster, Associate 
Professor of English, following an opera- 
tion for the removal of a lung. His final 
illness can be traced ultimately to the se- 
vere gassing which he suffered in the First 
World War. 

Clarence Webster was born in Hampton, 
Conn., in 1892. After receiving the Bache- 
lor's degree from Clark University in 1915 
and the Master's degree from the Univer- 
sity of Michigan in 1916, he taught at vari- 
ous institutions — the University of Michi- 
gan, the University of Denver, Albion 
College, Battle Creek College, and the 
University of Tennessee, before coming 
to Brown as a graduate student in English 
literature. He received the degree of Doc- 
tor of Philosophy from Brown in 1935. 

Until that time, in spite of a continuous 
fight against the harassing effects of his 
war-wounds, he was a most productive 
scholar in the field of 18th-century English 
literature and miscellanea, but a shift of 
interest led him to leave academic life for 
a time and to turn his efforts to the free- 
lance writing of short essays and fiction, 
for which he showed unusual talent. He 
wrote much during the next half-dozen 
years, particularly for that hardy little 
magazine known as Yankee, of which he 
was for a time a Contributing Editor. 

In 1942, however, under the pressure of 
the Second World War, he was persuaded 
to return to teaching, and he soon demon- 
strated that this was indeed his true calling. 
He was appointed Instructor in English at 
Brown in that year. Assistant Professor in 
1946, and Associate Professor in 1949. 
Had he lived, he would have begun his 
"full" professorship on July 1, 1959. In his 
17 years of devoted service to this institu- 
tion, he came to occupy the rank which is 
in essence the highest rank that we teach- 
ers can attain — that of the true "old pro- 
fessional" — mature and stable, erudite and 
wise, tolerant and witty. 

Born and reared a confirmed New Eng- 
lander, he admired the breed and never 
shrank from proclaiming its virtues. Yet 
nothing could be more absurd than to sup- 
pose that he adopted this Yankeeism as a 
mere pose or professional stock-in-trade. 
On the contrary, he was in this respect, as 
in all others, sincere in every element of 
his moral and intellectual being; and it 
happens that he typified, better than most, 
all the virtues of the New Englanders with- 
out their concomitant vices. 

Nothing delighted him more than to 
speak for the Yankee way of life, because 
he believed in it, and his two best books — 
Puritans at Home (1936) and Town Meet- 
ing Country (1945) — were at once the 
statement, the defence, and the justification 
of his thesis. And yet they were not mere 

APRIL 1959 



romantic idealizations of the subject, be- 
cause he had always the true lover of the 
18th century's distrust of the very word 
enthusiasm, but rather friendly though 
cool appraisals of its merits and defects. 

The record of Clarence Webster's pub- 
lications in the first phase of his career 
(19 articles and one book in the five years 
between 1931 and 1936) and in the second 
phase (34 short stories and sketches in the 
six years between 1936 and 1942) is in 
each case remarkable. His seminar on 
Jonathan Swift remains one of the best 
graduate courses which the Department of 
English at Brown had offered during the 
past generation. 

After his appointment at Brown, when 
he entered what may be called the third 
phase of his professional experience, it 
would appear from the record that he had 
abandoned publication and research in 
favor of teaching. This is partially true, 
and yet his best known work. Town Meet- 
ing Country, appeared during these years, 
to says nothing of literally dozens of book 
reviews. After 1942, he brought to the 
fore a special interest in Milton and the 
theological backgrounds of 17th-century 
England, concerning which he teemed with 
ideas for teaching, discussion, and publica- 
tion. 

But his now frequently recurring ill- 
health frustrated him much too often. Af- 
ter all, to be four times within five years 
in the hospital for extended periods func- 
tions as a powerful brake on scholarly ac- 
tivity. 

His growing devotion to teaching, which 
became particularly clear after his return 
to Brown as an Instructor at the age of 50, 
was due in large measure to his great af- 
fection for his students. There is no doubt 
that he was, in his unassuming and un- 
spectacular way, one of the most popular 
undergraduate teachers among the many 
who have graced the classrooms of Brown, 
but his was not that easy, meretricious kind 
of popularity which almost anyone can 
attain with the proper amount of conscious 
effort. Those students who were far-sighted 
enough or fortunate enough to be in one 
of his courses, by and large, loved him for 
his salty personality, his genuine paternal 
feeling for them, his alert willingness to 
challenge them on any and all precon- 
ceived notions that they might possess con- 
cerning literature, life, and living. 

Not so many of them, of course, could 
be expected to realize that one of his great- 
est gifts was an almost preternatural in- 
stinct for recognizing the true promise of 
an unpromising student. Many a boy and 
girl in the College or at Pembroke came to 
developing intellectual maturity out of dis- 
couraging beginnings because he had faith 
in their potentialities and gave them en- 
couragement in the proper direction in an 
unfailingly honest but tactful way. 

Not the least of Clarence Webster's as- 
sets as teacher and scholar was a God- 
granted ability to impart knowledge — more 
than that, to breathe life into that knowl- 
edge; to give significance to the logos, the 
Word; to examine everything for what it 
was, not for what it should be or for what 
it was supposed to be or for what one 
would wish it to be, but for what it was, 
and to do this without pretensions, hy- 
pocrisies, or conventional formalisms. 

With this power was the further ability 
(so rare in any walk of life and especially, 
it would seem, in this warring generation 
of ours) to get along well with those who 
differed with him, perhaps in diametrically 
opposite disagreement. This gift, however, 
did not arise from any cheap political in- 




stinct or sycophancy, nor even because to 
do so might be more convenient, but rather 
from friendliness and a sense of human 
kinship. His own opinions could easily 
have been warped, based as they were on 
the harsh realities of more than 40 years 
of precariously balanced health, but they 
were nevertheless always firm, positive, 
and stimulating. Only toward the defeatist, 
the whiner. and the irrational dreamer did 
he show impatience. It mattered not a whit 
if his ideas on politics or religion or a 
philosophy of life did not coincide with 
yours; he would always listen to you with 
respect and sympathize with your attitude, 
provided that you could convince him that 
you meant it. 

A dispassionate observation would be 
that we — the Department of English, the 
whole faculty, the administration, and the 
student-body of Brown University — have 
lost a good friend and companion and a 
useful member of the University commu- 
nity. We can never forget that, of course, 
but we should keep our eyes fixed on 
something a little higher. We have lost in 
Clarence Webster a man of fundamental 
integrity and courage — sheer unflinching 
gallantry, which can look hard into the 
face of death and then stay for an answer. 
The operation which ended fatally for him 
was his own decision, a brave but agoniz- 
ingly diflncult choice between the possibil- 
ity of recovery and an inevitably progressive 
disability and imprisonment in hospital. 

Yet, even when he was physically most 
wretched, his mind continued to reach out 
for something that would be interesting 
and challenging to his students — if I may 
quote his affectionate language, "some- 
thing to make the little rascals think." The 
last time he was in my office (back last 
October) he was full of a projected new 
IC-course on the importance of satire and 
the satirical thrust: "I'll write it up by- 
and-by for you and the Curriculum Com- 
mittee, as soon as I get over being tinkered 
with. In the meantime, keep it open for 
me." The Department of English is pre- 
pared to do just that. 



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FLORIDA WEST COAST Brown Club members held their annual meeting in Sarasota with Dr. Keeney as their guest. 



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CLUB OFFICERS; left to right. Secretary Payor, Vice-President 
Gray, President Ricker, Dr. Keeney, and Vice-President Chace. 




RINGLING MUSEUM Director Donahue asked Dr. Keeney if the canvas scowler was one of his Sarasota Brunonians. 

BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



The Brown Clubs Report 



Boston's Big Banquet 

ONE of the biggest evenings in the his- 
tory of the Boston Brown Club is 
planned for Apr. 13 when President Emeri- 
tus Wriston and President Keeney will 
speak at the Annual Banquet at the Har- 
vard Club. For the first time, the annual 
event will be sponsored not only by the 
Boston Brown Club but also by all the 
Brown Clubs of Eastern Massachusetts. 

Brown's new football coach, John J. 
McLaughry, also will be honored at this 
affair, along with football greats Frank 
Finney and Don Warburton. As usual. 
Sub-Freshmen, undergraduates, parents of 
undergraduates, and alumni are cordially 
invited to this stag event. Door prizes of 
items with a Brown motif will be given 
away. 

The Boston Brown Club, together with 
the Pembroke Club of Boston, plan to 
sponsor one of the Pop Concerts this 
spring in Boston. It is anticipated that 
Tuesday evening. May 19, will be the date. 
It has been some time since our group 
participated in a Pops Night, and the af- 
fair is being eagerly awaited. 

At our January luncheon. Daniel W. 
Earle '34, Executive Director of the 
Brown University Fund, gave an interest- 
ing talk on this aspect of the University's 
program. Arthur R. Taylor '57 of the Ad- 
mission Office, spoke in January, and 
Allen B. Williams, Jr., '40, Director of De- 
velopment, addressed the luncheon group 
at our most recent get-together on Mar. 10. 

NORMAN B. SILK '49 



A Fisherman in Florida 

Brown's President, Dr. Barnaby C. 
Keeney spent five days in February com- 
bining fishing and work in Sarasota, Fla., 
at the invitation of the Florida West Coast 
Brown Club and as a guest of the Rev. 
Charles Ricker '13. The fishing was highly 
successful and was sandwiched in between 
equally successful visits with alumni and 
friends in the area. 

Dr. Keeney's schedule included a talk 
before the Sarasota Ivy League Club as a 
guest of Paul Stannard '29. The Ivy League 
responded with its biggest (125) turnout 
in history to hear the President talk on the 
character of the American University. 

The local alumni also responded with 
the largest turnout since the Club was 
founded in 1954. Forty nine Sons of 
Brown were present at a dinner-meeting 
at the Sarasota Bay Country Club. At the 
meeting a memorial resolution was pre- 
sented and adopted for delivery to Mrs. 
William B. Peck, widow of Bill Peck '97. 
the founder of our local organization. Dr. 
Keeney talked to the alumni and Sub- 
Freshmen guests on the physical and men- 
tal character of the University. Brown's 
newspaper publicity was never better lo- 
cally, with several photos of Dr. Keeney 
and other Brunonians. 

Reelected for another year were the 
following officers: President — Rev. Charles 
H. Ricker '13; 1st Vice-President — Clar- 
ence Gray '22; 2nd Vice-President — Man- 
ton Chace '09; Secretary-Treasurer — Hardy 
L. Payor '50. Stannard has been reelected 



President of the Ivy League Club of Sara- 
sota and serves as a Governor, with 
C. Louis Bagnall '14. A full-page spread 
in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune described 
activities and pictured representative Ivy 
alumni, including Stannard and Ricker. 

HARDY L. PAYOR '50 

Hartford's Date for Dancing 

Greater Hartford alumni are already 
making plans to attend a dinner dance 
sponsored by the Brown Club on Satur- 
day, May 23. The aff'air at the Farming- 
ton Country Club will renew an old cus- 
tom of the Connecticut Brunonians which 
was very popular in other years. Phoning 
an advance outline of plans, Chairman 
Bradford Benson '52 told us in February 
he was lining up "a good combo," and the 
7:30 dinner would be in the fine tradition 
of the Farmington Club. Dress will be 
informal; tickets for the dinner and dance 
are priced at $10 a couple. 

Serving with Benson are the following 
committeemen: Joseph North, Jr., '52. 
Tony Waterman '51, and Donn Worth '53. 
For further information and reservations, 
Benson may be addressed at 41 Edward 
St., Newington, Conn. 

A Coach and His Contacts 

John McLaughry '40, football coach, 
has been devoting a considerable amount 
of time to widening his acquaintanceship 
among alumni. Following several March 
engagements, he will attend a few more 
Brown Club meetings this month. He will 



be at the Boston dinner on Apr. 13 and 
with the Cape Cod Brown Club on Apr. 15. 
March Brown Club dates included: New 
Bedford on the 5th, Syracuse on the 9th, 
Hartford on the 13th, and Providence on 
the 20th. In addition, he was the speaker 
at a dinner of the Freshman Class on the 
18th. 

Philadelphia's Plans 

President Barnaby C. Keeney and 
Dean Nancy Duke Lewis will be guests of 
honor at the Philadelphia Brown Club's 
90th Annual Banquet at the Barclay Hotel 
on Apr. 20. Donald C. Rubel '23, will act 
as toastmaster. 

Plans for the occasion were made at a 
kick-off luncheon at the Adelphia Hotel 
on Jan. 29. Attending this luncheon were 
Jack Cooper, H. French, M. Jacobs, 
R. Johnstone, 'Vork King, Mai McKenzie, 
and Bert Wolfson. 

Brown's basketball team played before 
a record full house at the Palestra when 
meeting the University of Pennsylvania in 
January. Close to 10,000 saw the Bruins 
upset the high-riding Quakers. 

The Club has reluctantly accepted the 
resignation of Roger King as Treasurer. 
He has been replaced by Dave Rothman 
'50. 

BERTRAM WOLFSON '52 



Engineers' Date May 1 

Earl H. Bradley '28, President of B-I-F 
Industries, Providence, will be the featured 
speaker at the Annual Spring Dinner of 
the Brown Engineering Association in the 
Chancellor's Room of the Sharpe Refec- 
tory at 6:30 p.m. on May 1. All Brown 
alumni with engineering affiliations or in- 
terests are invited to attend. Reservations 
may be made through Phil Voelker '25 at 
B-I-F Industries, Inc., 345 Harris Ave., 
Providence. 



Films for Brown Club Use 



Two new films have been added to the 
library of motion pictures available 
without rental charge to any Brown groups. 
Like previous films, both are 16 mm., with 
sound, and may be borrowed by writing 
Howard S. Curtis, Office of the Secretary. 
Brown University, Providence 12, R. I. 

The Brown Newsreel, 1957-58 is the 
third annual compilation of topical shots 
which have proved so popular on Brown 
Club programs of late. The 30-minute se- 
lection includes the major events of the 
year on College Hill, including the Dexter 
Purchase and the 1958 Commencement. 
There are also songs by the Jabberwocks 
and the Chattertocks, Brown and Pem- 
broke double quartets. 

Brown Football Highlights, 1958 
runs 20 minutes and includes the most ex- 
citing action from an exciting season. 

Earlier Newsreels, for 1956-57 and 
1957-58, still hold much interest, although 
they have made the rounds of the Brown 
Club circuit to a considerable extent. The 
former includes the election of Dr. Keeney. 
Dr. Wriston departing as President Emeri- 
tus. Mount Hope and the Haffenrcffer 
Museum of the American Indian, the Latin 
Christmas service, a scene from Brown- 
brokers, the Chapel Choirs at Radio City 
Music Hall, Commencement, and other 
scenes. The 1957-58 version similarly doc- 



uments a lively year with episodic cover- 
age. Both run 28y2 minutes. 

Research at Brown not only suggests 
the scope of such activity but also intro- 
duces a number of familiar members of 
the Faculty. A few of the areas touched 
on are: work in aerodynamics at the wind 
tunnel, laboratory equipment in Engineer- 
ing, including analysis of stress and 
strain, work in Psychology in measuring 
electrical impulses of the human eye, and 
some of the colorful source material in 
the libraries. 

The Brown Glee Club is a short film, 
running S'/i minutes with typical samples 
of the organization's repertory. It makes 
a good companion piece to any of the 
above. 

The films were made on low-cost budg- 
ets, and some scenes were originally taken 
for the University's television programs. 
But they have been skillfully edited, tied 
together with commentary and incidental 
music. While they lack some of the niceties 
of films produced more expensively, the 
Brown Photo Lab under George C. Hen- 
derson is proud of them, and they well 
serve their purpose in presenting signifi- 
cant Brown personalities, places, and 
events at the University. Secretary Curtis, 
Baaron Pittenger, and Harmon Hyde were 
the producers. 



APRIL 1959 



21 




RECIPIENT of the Westchester Brown Club Scholarship is John Moroso '61, right. He received a check 

from the Club President, Kenneth L. Holmes '51 when the latter attended the Advisory Council Week 

End on the Hill. Norman A. Sprintholl '54, center, is Director of Financial Aid. 



South Shore Seminar 

The South Shore Brown Club, founded 
only a year ago, is becoming one of the 
most active of Brown's many nation-wide 
organizations. More than 150 turned out 
for the Sub-Freshman meeting on Feb. 8, 
and on Mar. 5 a smaller but equally en- 
thusiastic group gathered for an Admis- 
sion Seminar with Ben McKendall '52. 

The Sub-Freshman session was the larg- 
est ever held in the area, and included 
alumni. 37 high school Seniors, and their 
parents. Representing the University at the 
affair were Provost Zenas Bliss, Admission 
Officer Bruce Hutchinson, and Jim Fuller- 
ton and Ivan Fuqua, coaches of hockey 
and track, respectively. 

The Admission Seminar was held under 
the sponsorship of the newly-formed 
Alumni Advisory Council on Admission. 
McKendall discussed the proper way for 
alumni to approach high school officials 
and undergraduates on behalf of Brown, 
and he reviewed a number of admission 
case histories. An extensive question and 
answer period followed his presentation. 
According to McKendall, "The meeting 
was stimulating and the Club is on the 
move." 

Those present for the Admission Semi- 
nar included: President Bob Sanderson 
'27, Al Hunt '26, Walt Pastuszak '50, 
Charles Mullen '39, Steve Stanley '48. Ed 
Chace '26, Howard Williams '17, Cmdr. 
John Harmon '42, Moses Sparks '48, 
George Boothby '48, John Andrews '43, 
Joe Silvia '50, and Irving A. Hall '39. 

"shine" hall '39 

Football Talk at Framingham 

Forty alumni attended the winter meet- 
ing of the Framingham Brown Club on 
Jan. 20 at the Carling Brewery in Natick, 
Mass. The evening was devoted principally 
to football, with backfield coach Milt 
Piepul and former head coach Al Kelley 
representing the University. 



Kelley reviewed the accomplishments 
of the 1958 season and took a look at the 
prospects for the future. He praised the 
1958 squad highly and stated that he had 
never been associated with a team that 
had given him as much personal satisfac- 
tion. He was pessimistic about the 1959 
football season, partly because of the 
heavy graduation toll but chiefly because 
of the strong Freshman teams most of the 
other Ivy League colleges have had in the 
past two years. Kelley commented on films 
of the Brown-Yale game to close out the 
program. 

Several fine sessions have been sched- 



uled for the months ahead. We are joining 
with all the other Brown Clubs of Eastern 
Massachusetts for the Annual Banquet of 
the Boston Brown Club on Apr. 13 at the 
Harvard Club. There will be a golf outing 
in June and a lobster feast, with wives in- 
vited, in early September. 

The following officers have been elected: 
President — John Butterworth '50; Treas- 
urer — Parker Halpern '35; Secretary — 
Gordon Carlisle '50. 

GORDON CARLISLE '50 



Carberry and Oregon 

Word that Prof. Josiah S. Carberry 
would attend the meeting of the Brown 
Alumni Club of Oregon on Friday, Feb. 
13, proved a drawing card for 23 Bru- 
nonians who enjoyed a "spot-luck" dinner 
at Snyder's "Catchup" that night. Carberry 
was billed as one of the many celebrities 
arriving for Oregon's 100th anniversary as 
a State on the 14th. 

A generous slice of Oregon "mist" spliced 
with snow may have kept the Professor 
from keeping his date (he sent greetings), 
but the others found their way without 
difficulty to the home of President Marshal 
L. Snyder '30 in Milwaukee. Husbands and 
wives were not only "warmly tolerated" 
but added to the gaiety of the evening. 
The Carberry Fund is richer by $6.13 as 
the result of a collection taken which in- 
cluded the traditional small change of 
those present. 

The company included: Prof. John L. 
Boling '39 of Linfield College, Walter T. 
Davol '37, Dr. Donald H. Holden '41, 
Dr. Joseph D. Metarazzo '47, Dr. Miner 
T. Patton "32, Rodman A. Savoye '53, Col. 
Harry A. Skerry '09. Porter S. Woods '52, 
Mrs. Reid H. Stone, Mrs. William H. 
Breeden, Mrs. F. Harlan Flint. Mrs. Walter 
A. Hall, Mrs. K. Nolen Tanner, Mrs. Pat- 
ton, Mrs. Woods, Mrs. Matarazzo, Dr. and 
Mrs. Snyder, and Miss Carolyn G. Snyder. 
The oldest Brunonian in Oregon, Dr. 
Ralph Storey '99, had planned to come 
with Professor Boling, but Mrs. Storey 
died the previous day. 




OREGONIANS who honored Josiah Carberry; left to right, Prof. John L. Boling '39, Goyle Woods '53, 
Porter Woods '52, Col. Harry Skerry '09, Dr. Joseph Motorozzo '47, Dr. Ruth Matarazzo '48, Dr. Don- 
ald Holden '41, Mrs. Holden, Carolyn Snyder '56, Mrs. Skerry, Constance Patton '31, Mrs. Walter Dovol 
'37, Mrs. William Breeden, Mrs. K. Nolen Tanner '47. Seated: Mrs. Boling, Dr. Marshall Snyder '30, and 
Myrtle Snyder '31. Minor Patton '31 took the photo at the Brown Club party on Feb. 13. 



22 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 




BRUNONlANS IN LOS ANGELES welcomed the Secretary of the University in February. (For the diners' names, see below.) 



Los Angeles Visitor 

The Brown University Club of Los 
Angeles met at dinner on Feb. 6, at Mike 
Lyman's Restaurant in downtown Los An- 
geles, to honor Secretary of the University, 
Howard S. Curtis. The latest Brown news- 
reels were shown, and a novel and nostalgic 
touch was added in the form of tape-re- 
corded personal greetings to the Los An- 
geles Alumni from members of the Brown 
Administration and Faculty. 

The breakdown of a railway locomotive 
delayed by mere than an hour Curtis' ar- 
rival from Santa Barbara (where he pre- 
sided at a regional conference of the 
American College Public Relations Asso- 
ciation, of which he is President). The 
Secretary made a virtue of adversity, how- 
ever, by effecting one of the most dramatic 
entrances of his career — to the immense 
relief of the company assembled — just as 
dinner was being served. His composure 
was not a whit disturbed, nor did he seem 
to mind that his Southern California hosts 
could not even apologize for the trans- 
portation difficulty on grounds of bad 
weather (as one might do in other less 
favored climatic zones). 

The faces in the accompanying photo, 
taken immediately after arrival of the 
honor guest, are, on the outside of the 
horseshoe, reading clockwise from the 
lower left: Walter J. McLellan '43, W. Ed- 
gar Jessup, Jr., '44, Dr. Hugh J. Hamilton 
'36 (Professor of Mathematics at Pomona 
College), Malcolm S. Field '10 and Mrs. 
Field, prospective Brown students Corbett 
Donohue, John Luce and David Van 
Riper, all from the Cate School, Judge 
John F. Also '31, the Rev. Robert A. 
Tourigney '41, Mrs. Eva M. Marshall, 
Pembroke '43, Curtis, Alfred T. Marshall 
'42 (Club President), Mrs. Helen Tourig- 
ney, Pembroke '41, Stuart E. Eddy '27 
(Club Secretary) and Mrs. Eddy, Paul 
B. Hunt, Jr., '47 and Mrs. Hunt, Henry 
Howard II '24 and Mrs. Howard, John F. 
Mackey, Jr., '47, Milton B. Levin '37, 
Bernard I. Kahn '40. On the inside of the 
horseshoe, clockwise from the lower left: 
Lee M. Greenwood '44 (Club Treasurer) 
and Mrs. Greenwood, Lyle Caldwell '21 
and Mrs. Caldwell. John J. McCabe '49 



and Mrs. McCabe, Dr. John T. Burroughs 
'47, Eugene Scofield '44 and Mrs. Scofield, 
Newland P. Jones '30, Alton V. Hooper 
'49 and Mrs. Hooper, Stanley H. Fuehrer 
'49 and Mrs. Fuehrer, Maitland McLarin 
'50, David Kohan (guest), James C. Wake- 
field '58, and Steve Kohan, prospective 
Brown student from Westchester High. 

AH Brunonians who may at any time 
be in the Southern California area are re- 
minded that Mike Lyman's Restaurant at 
749 South Hill St. in downtown Los An- 
geles is also the scene of the regular 
monthly Brown Club lunches held on the 
Third Thursday (it alliterates!) of each 
month at 12:15 P.M. 

ALFRED T. MARSHALL '42 

Smoker in Springfield 

More than 100 alumni, Sub-Freshmen, 
and parents turned out for the Annual 
Sub-Freshman Night and Sports Smoker 
sponsored by the Connecticut Valley 
Brown Club on Feb. 27 at the University 
Club in Springfield. The gathering was 
considered one of the largest and most 
productive in recent years. 

John McLaughry, newly-appointed head 
football coach, made his first Brown Club 
appearance at this affair. He discussed his 
plans for the future and his pleasure at 
being back at the College on the Hill. Ben 
McKendall, Admission Officer, discussed 
the importance of Sub-Freshman decisions. 
Frank Finney, All-Ivy quarterback, traced 
some of his experiences at Brown, both 
on and off the athletic field. Club Presi- 
dent, Lewis A. Shaw '48, presided. 

Mercer at the Golden Gate 

The San Francisco Brown Club held a 
meeting in December in honor of C. Doug- 
las Mercer '06, former Trustee who was 
visiting that city. The visitor from New 
England was entertained at a luncheon at 
the "Flytrap" on Sutter St. Present for the 
occasion were Melvin M. Swig '39, David 
G. Goddard '24, Richard D. Messinger '37, 
Dudley A. Zinke '39, Robert C. Lewis '45, 
Frederick S. French '52, and Douglas C. 
Maxwell '54. Mercer was given a good 
welcome. 



The members further hope that a mem- 
ber of the Faculty or Administration could 
visit them in the near future on a com- 
bined trip to Seattle, Portland, Los An- 
geles, and San Francisco. Interest in 
Brown is higher than ever, and there are 
hopes of sending a few more Bay Area 
undergraduates to the Hill in the near 
future. 

Greetings to Tucson 

Howard S. Curtis, Secretary of the 
University, gave the Tucson alumni and 
alumnae the real flavor of Brown at a 
mid-winter dinner-meeting on Feb. 8. The 
voices of Tom Appleget, Provost Bliss, and 
Paul Mackesey came through loud and 
clear to the Southwest by virtue of tape 
recordings. These men painted an inter- 
esting picture of recent developments on 
the Hill. A Brown Newsreel, shown later 
in the evening, made the picture even more 
graphic. 

Charles W. Towne '97, Club President, 
stated that he was quite overwhelmed with 
the great array of University oflScials. He 
remembers the day when Brown was 
manned by only "a President and a jan- 
itor." 

The following were present: Towne '97, 
Julius Saacke 'II, the Rev. William L. 
Phillips '12, Watson Smith '19, Bradford 
Moore '19, George Cossock '24, Paul Wil- 
liams '26, Lou Farber '29, Jack Podret 
'39, Henry J. Pilote '43, Cad L. Becker 
'46, Dr. Daniel W. Raaf '51, George O. 
Thurman '50, Dave Graham '58, and 
Rachel Burkholder, Barbara Johnson, and 
Nancy Worcester, all Pembroke '58. 

PAUL a. WILLIAMS '26 

Before the Yale Game 

The New Haven Brown Club spon- 
sored a buffet dinner and cocktail party at 
York Hall prior to the Brown-Yale hockey 
game at the new Ingall's Rink in New 
Haven. Under the chairmanship of Robert 
Carangelo '50, a very large gathering of 
Brown alumni and Pembroke alumnae 
enjoyed both the dinner and the game. 

JEROME W. GRATENSTEIN '36 



APRIL 1959 



23 




They Teach 
at Brown 



VOTING MEMBERS of the 
Faculty as they met for 
their March meeting in U.H. 




24 



BROWN ALUAINI MONTHLY 



THE COLLEGE 
TEACHER: 1959 




''If I were sitting here 

and the whole outside world 

were indifferent to what I 

was doing, I would still want 

to be doing just what I am!' 



I'VE ALWAYS FOUND IT SOMEWHAT HARD TO 
SAY JUST WHY I CHOSE TO BE A PROFESSOR. 



There are many reasons, not all of them tangible 
things which can be pulled out and explained. I still 
hear people say, "Those who can, do; those who 
can't, teach." But there are many teachers who can. 
They are teachers because they have more than the 
usual desire to communicate. They are excited enough 
about something to want to tell others, have others 
love it as they love it, tell people the how of some- 
thing, and the why. 

I like to see students who will carry the intellectual 
spark into the world beyond my time. And I like to 
think that maybe I have something to do with this. 





THERE IS A CERTAIN FREEDOM 
IN THIS JOB, TOO. 

A professor doesn't punch a time clock. He is allowed 
the responsibility of planning his own time and activi- 
ties. This freedom of movement provides something 
very valuable — time to think and consider. 

I've always had the freedom to teach what I believe 
to be true. I have never been interfered with in what 
I wanted to say — either in the small college or in the 
large university. I know there have been and are in- 
fringements on academic freedom. But they've never 
happened to me. 



THE COLLEGE 
TEACHER: 1959 



I LIKE YOUNG PEOPLE. 
I REGARD MYSELF AS YOUNG. 



I'm still eager about many of the things I was eager 
about as a young man. It is gratifying to see bright 
young men and women excited and enthusiastic about 
scholarship. There are times when I feel that I'm only 
an old worn boulder in the never-ending stream of 
students. There are times when I want to flee, when I 
look ahead to a quieter life of contemplation, of 
reading things I've always wanted to read. Then a 
brilliant and likeable human being comes along, 
whom I feel I can help — and this makes it all the 
more worthwhile. When I see a young teacher get a 
start, I get a vicarious feeling of beginning again. 





THE COLLEGE 
TEACHER: 1959 



PEOPLE ASK ME ABOUT THE 
"DRAWBACKS" IN TEACHING. 



I find it difficult to be glib about this. There are major 
problems to be faced. There is this business of salaries, 
of status and dignity, of anti-intellectualism, of too 
much to do in too little time. But these are problems, 
not drawbacks. A teacher doesn't become a teacher 
in spite of them, but with an awareness that they 
exist and need to be solved. 



AND THERE IS THIS 
MATTER OF "STATUS." 



Terms Uke "egghead" tend to suggest that the in- 
tellectual is something Uke a toadstool — almost phys- 
ically different from everyone else. America is ob- 
sessed with stereotypes. There is a whole spectrum of 
personaUties in education, all individuals. The notion 
that the intellectual is somebody totally removed from 
what human beings are supposed to be is absurd. 




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TODAY MAN HAS LESS TIME 
ALONE THAN ANY MAN BEFORE HIM. 



But we are here for only a limited time, and I would 
rather spend such time as I have thinking about the 
meaning of the universe and the purpose of man, than 
doing something else. I've spent hours in libraries 
and on park benches, escaping long enough to do a 
little thinking. I can be found occasionally sitting 
out there with sparrows perching on me, almost. 




"fVe may always be running just to keep 
from falling behind. But the person who 
is a teacher because he wants to teach, 
because he is deeply interested in people 
and scholarship, will pursue it as long as 
he can." — Loren C. Eiseley 



T 



-HE CIRCUMSTANCE is a Strange one. In recent 

years Americans have spent more money on the trappings of 

higher education than ever before in history. More 

parents than ever have set their sights on a college education 

for their children. More buildings than ever 

have been put up to accommodate the crowds. But in the 

midst of this national preoccupation with higher 

education, the indispensable element in education — the 

teacher — somehow has been overlooked. 

The results are unfortunate — not only for college teachers, but 

for college teaching as well, and for all whose lives it touches. 

If allowed to persist, present conditions could lead 

to so serious a decUne in the excellence of higher education 

that we would require generations to recover from it. 

Among educators, the problem is the subject 

of current concern and debate and experiment. What is missing, 

and urgently needed, is full public awareness of the 

problem — and full public support of measures to deal with it. 



H, 



-ERE IS A TASK for the college alumnus and alumna. No one 

knows the value of higher education better than 

the educated. No one is better able to take action, and to 

persuade others to take action, to preserve and increase its value. 

Will they do it? The outlines of the problem, and some 

guideposts to action, appear in the pages that follow. 



WILL WE RUN OUT OF 
COLLEGE TEACHERS? 

No; there will always be someone to fill classroom vacancies. But 
quality is almost certain to drop unless something is done quickly 



WHERE WILL THE TEACHERS COME FROM? 
The number of students enrolled in America's 
colleges and universities this year exceeds last 
year's figure by more than a quarter million. In ten years 
it should pass six million — nearly double today's en- 
rollment. 

The number of teachers also may have to double. Some 
educators say that within a decade 495,000 may be needed 
— more than twice the present number. 

Can we hope to meet the demand? If so, what is likely 
to happen to the quahty of teaching in the process? 

"Great numbers of youngsters will flood into our col- 
leges and universities whether we are prepared or not," a 
report of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of 
Teaching has pointed out. "These youngsters will be 
taught — taught well or taught badly. And the demand for 
teachers will somehow be at least partly met — if not with 
well-prepared teachers then with ill-prepared, if not with 
superior teachers then with inferior ones." 

MOST IMMEDIATE is the problem of finding enough 
qualified teachers to meet classes next fall. Col- 
lege administrators must scramble to do so. 

"The staffing problems are the worst in my 30 years' 
experience at hiring teaching staff," said one college presi- 
dent, replying to a survey by the U.S. Office of Educa- 
tion's Division of Higher Education. 

"The securing and retaining of well-trained, eff"ective 
teachers is the outstanding problem confronting all col- 
leges today," said another. 

One logical place to start reckoning with the teacher 
shortage is on the present faculties of American colleges 
and universities. The shortage is hardly alleviated by the 
fact that substantial numbers of men and women find it 
necessary to leave college teaching each year, for largely 



financial reasons. So serious is this problem — and so 
relevant is it to the college alumnus and alumna — that a 
separate article in this report is devoted to it. 

The scarcity of funds has led most colleges and uni- 
versities to seek at least short-range solutions to the 
teacher shortage by other means. 

Difficulty in finding young new teachers to fill faculty 
vacancies is turning the attention of more and more ad- 
ministrators to the other end of the academic line, where 
tried and able teachers are about to retire. A few institu- 
tions have modified the upper age limits for faculty. Others 
are keeping selected faculty members on the payroll past 
the usual retirement age. A number of institutions are 
filling their own vacancies with the cream of the men and 
women retired elsewhere, and two organizations, the Asso- 
ciation of American Colleges and the American Associa- 
tion of University Professors, with the aid of a grant from 
the Ford Foundation, have set up a "Retired Professors 
Registry" to facilitate the process. 

Old restraints and handicaps for the woman teacher are 
disappearing in the colleges. Indeed, there are special 
opportunities for her, as she earns her standing alongside 
the man who teaches. But there is no room for com- 
placency here. We can no longer take it for granted that 
the woman teacher will be any more available than the 
man, for she exercises the privilege of her sex to change 
her mind about teaching as about other matters. Says 
Dean Nancy Duke Lewis of Pembroke College: "The day 
has passed when we could assume that every woman who 
earned her Ph.D. would go into college teaching. She 
needs something positive today to attract her to the col- 
leges because of the welcome that awaits her talents in 
business, industry, government, or the foundations. Her 
freedom to choose comes at a time when undergraduate 
women particularly need distinguished women scholars to 






inspire them to do their best in the classroom and labo- 
ratory — and certainly to encourage them to elect college 
teaching as a career." 

SOME HARD-PRESSED ADMINISTRATORS find themSClveS 
forced to accelerate promotions and salary increases 
in order to attract and hold faculty members. Many 
are being forced to settle for less qualified teachers. 

In an effort to attract and keep teachers, most colleges 
are providing such necessities as improved research facili- 
ties and secretarial help to relieve faculty members of 
paperwork and administrative burdens, thus giving faculty 
members more time to concentrate on teaching and 
research. 

In the process of revising their curricula many colleges 
are eUminating courses that overlap one another or are 
considered frivolous. Some are increasing the size of 
lecture classes and eliminating classes they deem too small. 

Finally, somewhat in desperation (but also with the 
firm conviction that the technological age must, after all, 
have something of value to offer even to the most basic 
and fundamental exercises of education), experiments are 
being conducted with teaching by films and television. 

At Penn State, where televised instruction is in its ninth 
semester, TV has met with mixed reactions. Students 
consider it a good technique for teaching courses with 



large enrollments — and their performance in courses em- 
ploying television has been as good as that of students 
having personal contact with their teachers. The reaction 
of faculty members has been less favorable. But accept- 
ance appears to be growing: the number of courses offered 
on television has grown steadily, and the number of faculty 
members teaching via TV has grown, also. 

Elsewhere, teachers are far from unanimity on the sub- 
ject of TV. "Must the TV technicians take over the col- 
leges?" asked Professor Ernest Earnest of Temple Uni- 
versity in an article title last fall. "Like the conventional 
lecture system, TV lends itself to the sausage-stuffing con- 
cept of education," Professor Earnest said. The classroom, 
he argued, "is the place for testing ideas and skills, for the 
interchange of ideas" — objectives difficult to attain when 
one's teacher is merely a shadow on a fluorescent screen. 

The TV pioneers, however, believe the medium, used 
properly, holds great promise for the future. 

FOR THE LONG RUN, the traditional sources of supply 
for college teaching fall far short of meeting the de- 
mand. The Ph.D., for example, long regarded by 
many colleges and universities as the ideal "driver's 
license" for teachers, is awarded to fewer than 9,000 
persons per year. Even if, as is probable, the number of 
students enrolled in Ph.D. programs rises over the next 






few years, it will be a long time before they have traveled 
the full route to the degree. 

Meanwhile, the demand for Ph.D.'s grows, as industry, 
consulting firms, and government compete for many of the 
men and women who do obtain the degree. Thus, at the 
very time that a great increase is occurring in the number 
of undergraduates who must be taught, the supply of new 
college teachers with the rank of Ph.D. is even shorter 
than usual. 

"During each of the past four years," reported the 
National Education Association in 1958, "the average 
level of preparation of newly employed teachers has 
fallen. Four years ago no less than 31.4 per cent of the 
new teachers held the earned doctor's degree. Last year 
only 23.5 per cent were at this high level of preparation." 

HERE ARE SOME of the causes of concern about the 
Ph.D., to which educators are directing their 
attention: 
► The Ph.D. program, as it now exists in most graduate 
schools, does not sufficiently emphasize the development 
of teaching skills. As a result, many Ph.D.'s go into 
teaching with little or no idea how to teach, and make 
a mess of it when they try. Many who don't go into 
teaching might have done so, had a greater emphasis been 
laid upon it when they were graduate students. 



► The Ph.D. program is indefinite in its time require- 
ments: they vary from school to school, from department 
to department, from student to student, far more than 
seems warranted. "Generally the Ph.D. takes at least 
four years to get," says a committee of the Association 
of Graduate Schools. "More often it takes six or seven, 
and not infrequently ten to fifteen. ... If we put our heads 
to the matter, certainly we ought to be able to say to a 
good student: 'With a leeway of not more than one year, 
it will take you so and so long to take the Ph.D.' " 

► "Uncertainty about the time required," says the 
Association's Committee on Policies in Graduate Educa- 
tion, "leads in turn to another kind of uncertainty — 
financial uncertainty. Doubt and confusion on this score 
have a host of disastrous effects. Many superior men, 
facing unknowns here, abandon thoughts about working 
for a Ph.D. and realistically go off to law or the hke. . . ." 

ALTHOUGH ROUGHLY HALF of the teachers in Amer- 
/\ ica's colleges and universities hold the Ph.D., more 
-*- -^ than three quarters of the newcomers to college 
and university teaching, these days, don't have one. In 
the years ahead, it appears inevitable that the proportion 
of Ph.D.'s to non-Ph.D.'s on America's faculties will 
dimmish. 

Next in line, after the doctorate, is the master's degree. 



For centuries the master's was "the" degree, until, with 
the growth of the Ph.D. in America, it began to be moved 
into a back seat. In Great Britain its prestige is still high. 

But in America the M.A. has, in some graduate schools, 
deteriorated. Where the M.A.'s standards have been kept 
high, on the other hand, able students have been able to 
prepare themselves, not only adequately but well, for 
college teaching. 

Today the M.A. is one source of hope in the teacher 
shortage. "If the M.A. were of universal dignity and 
good standing," says the report of the Committee on 
Policies in Graduate Education, ". . . this ancient degree 
could bring us succor in the decade ahead. . . . 

"The nub of the problem ... is to get rid of 'good' and 
'bad' M.A.'s and to set up generally a 'rehabilitated' de- 
gree which will have such worth in its own right that 
a man entering graduate school will consider the possi- 
bility of working toward the M.A. as the first step to the 
Ph.D " 

One problem would remain. "If you have a master's 
degree you are still a mister and if you have a Ph.D., no 
matter where it is from, you are a doctor," Dean G. Bruce 
Dearing, of the University of Delaware, has said. "The 
town looks at you differently. Business looks at you dif- 
ferently. The dean may; it depends on how discriminating 
he is." 

The problem won't be solved, W. R. Dennes, former 
dean of the graduate school of the University of California 
at Berkeley, has said, "until universities have the courage 
... to select men very largely on the quality of work they 
have done and soft-pedal this matter of degrees." 

A point for parents and prospective students to remem- 
ber — and one of which alumni and alumnae might re- 
mind them — is that counting the number of Ph.D.'s in a 
college catalogue is not the only, or even necessarily the 
best, way to judge the worth of an educational institution 
or its faculty's abilities. To base one's judgment solely on 
such a count is quite a temptation, as William James noted 
56 years ago in "The Ph.D. Octopus": "The dazzled read- 
er of the list, the parent or student, says to himself, 'This 
must be a terribly distinguished crc vd — their titles shine 
like the stars in the firmament; Ph.D.'s, Sc.D.'s, and 
Litt.D.'s bespangle the page as if they were sprinkled over 
it from a pepper caster.' " 

The Ph.D. will remain higher education's most honored 
earned degree. It stands for a depth of scholarship and 
productive research to which the master has not yet 
addressed himself so intensively. But many educational 
leaders expect the doctoral programs to give more em- 



phasis to teaching. At the same time the master's degree 
will be strengthened and given more prestige. 

In the process the graduate schools will have taken a 
long step toward solving the shortage of qualified college 
teachers. 

SOME OF THE CHANGES being made by colleges and 
universities to meet the teacher shortage constitute 
reasonable and overdue reforms. Other changes are 
admittedly desperate — and possibly dangerous — attempts 
to meet today's needs. 

The central problem is to get more young people 
interested in college teaching. Here, college alumni and 
alumnae have an opportunity to provide a badly needed 
service to higher education and to superior young people 
themselves. The problem of teacher supply is not one 
with which the college administrator is able to cope alone. 

President J. Seelye Bixler, of Colby College, recently 
said: "Let us cultivate a teacher-centered point of view. 
There is tragedy as well as truth in the old saying that in 
Europe when you meet a teacher you tip your hat, whereas 
over here you tap your head. Our debt to our teachers is 
very great, and fortunately we are beginning to realize 
that we must make some attempt to balance the account. 
Money and prestige are among the first requirements. 

"Most important is independence. Too often we sit 
back with the comfortable feeling that our teachers have 
all the freedom they desire. We forget that the payoff 
comes in times of stress. Are we really willing to allow 
them independence of thought when a national emergency 
is in the offing? Are we ready to defend them against all 
pressure groups and to acknowledge their right to act as 
critics of our customs, our institutions, and even our 
national policy? Evidence abounds that for some of our 
more vociferous compatriots this is too much. They see no 
reason why such privileges should be offered or why a 
teacher should not express his patriotism in the same out- 
worn and often irrelevant shibboleths they find so dear 
and so hard to give up. Surely our educational task has 
not been completed until we have persuaded them that a 
teacher should be a pioneer, a leader, and at times a non- 
conformist with a recognized right to dissent. As Howard 
Mumford Jones has observed, we can hardly allow our- 
selves to become a nation proud of machines that think 
and suspicious of any man who tries to." 

By lending their support to programs designed to im- 
prove the climate for teachers at their own colleges, alumni 
can do much to alter the conviction held by many that 
teaching is tolerable only to martyrs. 



WHAT PRICE 
DEDICATION? 

Most teachers teach because they love their jobs. But low pay is 
forcing many to leave the profession, just when we need them most 



EVERY TUESDAY EVENING foF the past three and a half 
months, the principal activity of a 34-year-old 
' associate professor of chemistry at a first-rate mid- 
western college has centered around Section 3 of the pre- 
vious Sunday's New York Times. The Times, which ar- 
rives at his office in Tuesday afternoon's mail delivery, 
customarily devotes page after page of Section 3 to large 
help-wanted ads, most of them directed at scientists and 
engineers. The associate professor, a Ph.D., is job- 
hunting. 

"There's certainly no secret about it," he told a recent 
visitor. "At least two others in the department are look- 
ing, too. We'd all give a lot to be able to stay in teach- 
ing; that's what we're trained for, that's what we like. 
But we simply can't swing it financially." 

"I'm up against it this spring," says the chairman of 
the physics department at an eastern college for women. 
"Within the past two weeks two of my people, one an 
associate and one an assistant professor, turned in their 
resignations, effective in June. Both are leaving the field 
— one for a job in industry, the other for government 
work. I've got strings out, all over the country, but so 
far I've found no suitable replacements. We've always 
prided ourselves on having Ph.D.'s in these jobs, but it 
looks as if that's one resolution we'll have to break in 
1959-60." 

"We're a long way from being able to compete with 
lindustry when young people put teaching and industry on 
[the scales," says Vice Chancellor Vem O. Knudsen of 
'UCLA. "Salary is the real rub, of course. Ph.D.'s in 
physics here in Los Angeles are getting $8-12,000 in 



industry without any experience, while about all we can 
offer them is $5,500. Things are not much better in the 
chemistry department." 

One young Ph.D. candidate sums it up thus: "We want 
to teach and we want to do basic research, but industry 
offers us twice the salary we can get as teachers. We talk 
it over with our wives, but it's pretty hard to turn down 
$10,000 to work for less than half that amount." 

"That woman you saw leaving my office: she's one of 
our most brilliant young teachers, and she was ready to 
leave us," said a women's college dean recently. "I per- 
suaded her to postpone her decision for a couple of 
months, until the results of the alumnae fund drive are in. 
We're going to use that money entirely for raising sala- 
ries, this year. If it goes over the top, we'll be able to hold 
some of our best people. If it falls short. . . I'm on the 
phone every morning, talking to the fund chairman, 
counting those dollars, and praying." 

THE DIMENSIONS of the tcacher-salary problem in the 
United States and Canada are enormous. It has 
reached a point of crisis in public institutions and in 
private institutions, in richly endowed institutions as well 
as in poorer ones. It exists even in Catholic colleges and 
universities, where, as student populations grow, more 
and more laymen must be found in order to supplement 
the limited number of clerics available for teaching posts. 
"In a generation," says Seymour E. Harris, the dis- 
tinguished Harvard economist, "the college professor has 
lost 50 per cent in economic status as compared to the 
average American. His real income has dechned sub- 



stantially, while that of the average American has risen 
by 70-80 per cent." 

Figures assembled by the American Association of 
University Professors show how seriously the college 
teacher's economic standing has deteriorated. Since 
1939, according to the AAUP's latest study (published in 
1958), the purchasing power of lawyers rose 34 per cent, 
that of dentists 54 per cent, and that of doctors 98 per 
cent. But at the five state universities surveyed by the 
AAUP, the purchasing power of teachers in all ranks rose 
only 9 per cent. And at twenty-eight privately controlled 
institutions, the purchasing power of teachers' salaries 
dropped by 8.5 per cent. While nearly everybody else in 
the country was gaining ground spectacularly, teachers 
were losing it. 

The AAUP's sample, it should be noted, is not repre- 
sentative of all colleges and universities in the United 
States and Canada. The institutions it contains are, as 
the AAUP says, "among the better colleges and universi- 
ties in the country in salary matters." For America as a 
whole, the situation is even worse. 

The National Education Association, which studied 
the salaries paid in the 1957-58 academic year by more 
than three quarters of the nation's degree-granting insti- 
tutions and by nearly two thirds of the junior colleges, 
found that half of all college and university teachers 
earned less than S6,015 per year. College instructors 
earned a median salary of only $4,562 — not much better 
than the median salary of teachers in public elementary 
schools, whose economic plight is well known. 

The implications of such statistics are plain. 

"Higher salaries," says Robert Lekachman, professor 
of economics at Barnard College, "would make teaching 
a reasonable alternative for the bright young lawyer, the 
bright young doctor. Any ill-paid occupation becomes 
something of a refuge for the ill-trained, the lazy, and the 
incompetent. If the scale of salaries isn't improved, the 
quality of teaching won't improve; it will worsen. Unless 
Americans are willing to pay more for higher education, 
they will have to be satisfied with an inferior product." 

Says President Margaret Clapp of Wellesley College, 
which is devoting all of its fund-raising efforts to accumu- 
lating enough money ($15 million) to strengthen faculty 
salaries: "Since the war, in an effort to keep alive the 
profession, discussion in America of teachers' salaries has 
necessarily centered on the minimums paid. But insofar 
as money is a factor in decision, wherever minimums only 
are stressed, the appeal is to the underprivileged and the 
timid; able and ambitious youths are not likely to listen." 




PEOPLE IN SHORT SUPPLY: 



WHAT IS THE ANSWER? 
It appears certain that if college teaching is to 
attract and hold top-grade men and women, a 
drastic step must be taken: salaries must be doubled 
within five to ten years. 

There is nothing extravagant about such a proposal; 
indeed, it may dangerously understate the need. The 
current situation is so serious that even doubling his sal- 
ary would not enable the college teacher to regain his 
former status in the American economy. 
Professor Harris of Harvard figures it this way: 
For every $100 he earned in 1930, the college faculty 
member earned only $85, in terms of 1930 dollars, in 
1957. By contrast, the average American got $175 in 
1957 for every $100 he earned in 1930. Even if the pro- 
fessor's salary is doubled in ten years, he will get only a 




TEACHERS IN THE MARKETPLACE 



S70 increase in buying power over 1930. By contrast, the 
average American is expected to have $127 more buying 
power at the end of the same period. 

In this respect, Professor Harris notes, doubling faculty 
salaries is a modest program. "But in another sense," he 
says, "the proposed rise seems large indeed. None of the 
authorities . . . has told us where the money is coming 
from." It seems quite clear that a fundamental change in 
public attitudes toward faculty salaries will be necessary 
before significant progress can be made. 



FINDING THE MONEY is a problem with which each 
college must wrestle today without cease. 
For some, it is a matter of convincing taxpayers 
and state legislators that appropriating money for faculty 



salaries is even more important than appropriating 
money for campus buildings. (Curiously, buildings are 
usually easier to "sell" than pay raises, despite the seem- 
ingly obvious fact that no one was ever educated by a pile 
of bricks.) 

For others, it has been a matter of fund-raising cam- 
paigns ("We are writing salary increases into our 1959-60 
budget, even though we don't have any idea where the 
money is coming from," says the president of a privately 
supported college in the Mid-Atlantic region); of finding 
additional salary money in budgets that are already 
spread thin ("We're cutting back our library's book 
budget again, to gain some funds in the salary accounts"); 
of tuition increases ("This is about the only private enter- 
prise in the country which gladly subsidizes its customers; 
maybe we're crazy"); of promoting research contracts 
("We claim to be a privately supported university, but 
what would we do without the ABC?"); and of bar- 
gaining. 

"The tendency to bargain, on the part of both the col- 
leges and the teachers, is a deplorable development," says 
the dean of a university in the South. But it is a grow- 
ing practice. As a result, inequities have developed: the 
teacher in a field in which people are in short supply or in 
industrial demand — or the teacher who is adept at 
"campus politics" — is likely to fare better than his col- 
leagues who are less favorably situated. 

"Before you check with the administration on the 
actual appointment of a specific individual," says a 
faculty man quoted in the recent and revealing book. The 
Academic Marketplace, "you can be honest and say to 
the man, 'Would you be interested in coming at this 
amount?' and he says, 'No, but I would be interested at 
this amount.' " One result of such bargaining has been 
that newly hired faculty members often make more 
money than was paid to the people they replace — a happy 
circumstance for the newcomers, but not likely to raise 
the morale of others on the faculty. 

"We have been compelled to set the beginning salary 
of such personnel as physics professors at least $1,500 
higher than salaries in such fields as history, art, physical 
education, and English," wrote the dean of faculty in a 
state college in the Rocky Mountain area, in response to a 
recent government questionnaire deaUng with salary prac- 
tices. "This began about 1954 and has worked until the 
present year, when the differential perhaps may be in- 
creased even more." 

Bargaining is not new in Academe (Thorstein Veblen 
referred to it in The Higher Learning, which he wrote in 



1918), but never has it been as widespread or as mucli a 
matter of desperation as today. In colleges and universi- 
ties, whose members like to think of themselves as equally 
dedicated to all fields of human knowledge, it may prove 
to be a weakening factor of serious proportions. 

Many colleges and universities have managed to make 
modest across-the-board increases, designed to restore 
part of the faculty's lost purchasing power. In the 1957- 
58 academic year, 1,197 institutions, 84.5 per cent of 
those answering a U.S. Office of Education survey ques- 
tion on the point, gave salary increases of at least 5 per 
cent to their faculties as a whole. More than half of them 
(248 public institutions and 329 privately supported insti- 
tutions) said their action was due wholly or in part to the 
teacher shortage. 

Others have found fringe benefits to be a partial 
answer. Providing low-cost housing is a particularly suc- 
cessful way of attracting and holding faculty members; 
and since housing is a major item in a family budget, it 
is as good as or better than a salary increase. Oglethorpe 
University in Georgia, for example, a 200-student, pri- 
vate, liberal arts institution, long ago built houses on cam- 
pus land (in one of the most desirable residential areas on 
the outskirts of Atlanta), which it rents to faculty mem- 
bers at about one-third the area's going rate. (The cost 
of a three-bedroom faculty house: S50 per month.) "It's 
our major selling point," says Oglethorpe's president, 
Donald Agnew, "and we use it for all it's worth." 

Dartmouth, in addition to attacking the salary problem 
itself, has worked out a program of fringe benefits that 
includes full payment of retirement premiums (16 per 
cent of each faculty member's annual salary), group in- 
surance coverage, paying the tuition of faculty children at 
any college in the country, liberal mortgage loans, and 
contributing to the improvement of local schools which 
faculty members' children attend. 

Taking care of trouble spots while attempting to whittle 
down the salary problem as a whole, searching for new 
funds while reapportioning existing ones, the colleges and 
universities are dealing with their salary crises as best they 
can, and sometimes ingeniously. But still the gap between 
salary increases and the rising figures on the Bureau of 
Labor Statistics' consumer price index persists. 

How CAN THE GAP BE CLOSED? 
First, stringent economies must be applied by 
educational institutions themselves. Any waste 
that occurs, as well as most luxuries, is probably being 
subsidized by low salaries. Some "waste" may be hidden 



in educational theories so old that they are accepted 
without question; if so, the theories must be re-examined 
and, if found invalid, replaced with new ones. The idea 
of the small class, for example, has long been honored 
by administrators and faculty members alike; there is 
now reason to suspect that large classes can be equally 
effective in many courses — a suspicion which, if found 
correct, should be translated into action by those institu- 
tions which are able to do so. Tuition may have to be 
increased — a prospect at which many public-college, as 
well as many private-college, educators shudder, but 
which appears justified and fair if the increases can be 
tied to a system of loans, scholarships, and tuition re- 
bates based on a student's or his family's abihty to pay. 

Second, massive aid must come from the public, both 
in the form of taxes for increased salaries in state and 
municipal institutions and in the form of direct gifts to 
both public and private institutions. Anyone who gives 
money to a college or university for unrestricted use or 
earmarked for faculty salaries can be sure that he is mak- 
ing one of the best possible investments in the free world's 
future. If he is himself a college alumnus, he may con- 
sider it a repayment of a debt he incurred when his col- 
lege or university subsidized a large part of his own edu- 
cation (virtually nowhere does, or did, a student's tuition 
cover costs). If he is a corporation executive or director, 
he may consider it a legitimate cost of doing business; the 
supply of well-educated men and women (the alternative 
to which is half-educated men and women) is dependent 
upon it. If he is a parent, he may consider it a premium 
on a policy to insure high-quality education for his chil- 
dren — quahty which, without such aid, he can be certain 
will deteriorate. 

Plain talk between educators and the public is a third 
necessity. The president of Barnard College, MiUicent C. 
Mcintosh, says: "The 'phght' is not of the faculty, but of 
the public. The faculty will take care of themselves in the 
future either by leaving the teaching profession or by 
never entering it. Those who care for education, those 
who run institutions of learning, and those who have chil- 
dren — all these will be left holding the bag." It is hard to 
believe that if Americans — and particularly college alum- 
ni and alumnae — had been aware of the problem, theyj 
would have let faculty salaries fall into a sad state. Ameri- 
cans know the value of excellence in higher education too 
well to have blithely let its basic element — excellent teach- 
ing — slip into its present peril. First we must rescue it; 
then we must make certain that it does not fall into dis- 
repair again. 



Some 

Questions 

for 

Alumni 

and 

Alumnae 



► Is your Alma Mater having difficulty finding qualified 
new teachers to fill vacancies and expand its faculty to 
meet climbing enrollments? 

► Has the economic status of faculty members of your 
college kept up with inflationary trends? 

► Are the physical facilities of your college, including 
laboratories and libraries, good enough to attract and 
hold qualified teachers? 

► Is your community one which respects the college 
teacher? Is the social and educational environment of 
your college's "home town" one in which a teacher would 
like to raise his family? 

► Are the restrictions on time and freedom of teachers 
at yourcollege such as to discourage adventurous research, 
careful preparation of instruction, and the expression of 
honest conviction? 

► To meet the teacher shortage, is your college forced 
to resort to hiring practices that are unfair to segments of 
the faculty it already has? 

► Are courses of proved merit being curtailed? Are 
classes becoming larger than subject matter or safeguards 
of teacher-student relationships would warrant? 

► Are you, as an alumnus, and your college as an insti- 
tution, doing everything possible to encourage talented 
young people to pursue careers in college teaching? 

If you are dissatisfied with the answers to these questions, 
your college may need help. Contact alumni officials at 
your college to learn if your concern is justified. If it is, 
register your interest in helping the college authorities 
find solutions through appropriate programs of organized 
alumni cooperation. 



EDITORIAL STAFF 



DAVID A. BURR 

The University of Oklahoma 

DAN H. FENN. Jr. 
Harvard University 

RANDOLPH L. FORT 

Emory University 

CORBIN GWALTNEY 

The Johns Hopkins University 

L. FRANKLIN HEALD 

The University of New Hampshire 

CHARLES M. HELMKEN 
St. Johns University 

JEAN D. LINEHAN 
The American Alumni Council 

ROBERT L. PAYTON 

Washington University 

MARIAN POVERMAN 
Barnard College 



FRANCES PROVENCE 

Baylor University 

ROBERT M. RHODES 

Lehigh University 

WILLIAM SCHRAMM 
The University of Pennsylvania 

VERNE A. STADTMAN 

The University of California 

FREDERIC A. STOTT, Jr. 

Phillips Academy, Andover 

FRANK J. TATE 
The Ohio State University 

ERIK WENSBERG 

Columbia University 

CHARLES E. WIDMAYER 
Dartmouth College 

REBA WILCOXON 

The University of Arkansas 



CHESLEY WORTHINGTON 

Brown University 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



Photographs: Alan J. Bearden 

Printing: R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. 

This survey was made possible in part by funds granted by Carnegie Corporation of New York. 
That Corporation is not, however, the author, owner, publisher, or proprietor of this publication 
and is not to be understood as approving by virtue of its grant any of the statements made or 
views expressed therein. 

The editors are indebted to Loren C. Eiseley, professor of anthropology at the University of 
Pennsylvania, for his contributions to the introductory picture section of this report. 

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MAIN STREET, U.S.S.R,, by Irving R. 
Levine '44. 408 pages. Doubleday. $4.50. 

THE AUTHOR of this comprehensive ac- 
count of impressions of the Soviet 
Union became a foreign correspondent via 
the Providence Journal and a Masters de- 
gree in Journalism from Columbia. He has 
reported for the International News Serv- 
ice, the London Times, and most recently 
for the National Broadcasting Company, 
traveling in almost all of the imaginable 
places in Europe and Asia where world 
news was made in the last decade. 

In 1955, the National Broadcasting 
Company sent him to Moscow where he 
has been stationed, with minor interrup- 
tions, ever since. Mr. Levine has traveled 
widely in the Soviet Union and the satel- 
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the unpredictable Soviet censors in re- 
porting his observations and comments, 
and answering patiently, in his broadcasts 
over NBC, a host of questions about all 
imaginable aspects of Soviet life which 
his listeners in the United States have 
been sending him. 

His book profits both from his long ex- 
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research which he did in preparing his 
answers to his listeners' questions. In the 
recent deluge of articles and books about 
the Soviet Union, often written by short- 
term visitors, Mr. Levine's book is, be- 
cause of the conscientiousness with which 
it is written and because of the author's 
familiarity with Soviet life, a decidedly 
refreshing experience. 

One may perhaps disagree occasionally 
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ual information, but the reliability and ac- 
curacy of Mr. Levine's account are quickly 
apparent to anybody familiar with Soviet 
affairs. The careful reader can obtain a 
great deal of basic information from the 
book. 

Mr. Levine writes, with equal skill, 
about the small facts of Russian life and 
the more general questions. He discusses 
the prices of the essential consumer items 
(including a set of false teeth about which 
a listener asked him), gives fascinating 
details about the life, travel and small ad- 
ventures of the foreigners living in Mos- 
cow (including those of Mr. Levine's 
charming wife, Nancy). But he also offers 
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processes in the Soviet Union, the de- 
stalinization and its consequences, the cu- 
rious contradictions in the utilitarian So- 
viet system with its progress in some fields 
and backwardness in others, the attitudes. 
often inconsistent, which the Soviet people 
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medical care, or the single-mindedness of 
Soviet propaganda and mass-conditioning. 
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about the Soviet ballet, theater, and 
movies, an amusing account of the mixed 
pleasure of eating in a Moscow restaurant, 
and some close-up views of the Soviet 
leaders. The wealth of information which 
the book includes cannot even be enumer- 
ated in a brief review. Mr. Levine usually 



begins his chapter with a brief episode or 
an anecdote about Soviet life which then 
serves as a motif for further discussion. 
The reader will thus find the book both 
interesting and informative. It can be read 
with the good feeling that the information 
which it contains and the judgments which 
it makes come from a conscientious and 
reliable reporter. (The book made its way 
into the best-seller category in February.) 

HENRY KUCERA 

Henry Kiicera is Associate Professor 
of Russian and Linguistics at Brown and 
Head Resident Fellow. A native of Czecho- 
slovakia, he traveled in Europe last sum- 
mer and visited the Levines in Moscow. 

WHY I AM A CATHOLIC, by Paul vanK. 
Thomson. 204 pages. Thomas Nelson & 
Sons. $2.75. 

Dr. Thomson, who received his gradu- 
ate degrees from Brown in 1952 and 1956, 
is the author of this work in Nelson's 
series dealing with the beliefs of each of 
the major religious groups in this country. 
Each of the chapters bears as a title a 
phrase taken from the well-known hymn, 
"Onward Christian Soldiers," and deals 
with one aspect or another of the Roman 
Catholic religion. 

Dr. Thomson, Professor of English at 
Providence College, has not written down 
to his audience. Rather, the book deals 
with the faith and practices of the Catho- 
lic, written from an intellectual and spir- 
itual point of view. Complicated points do 
not get watered down answers; and yet in 
the process of explaining a complex sys- 
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intelligible exposition of this belief to the 
average reader, whether or not of the au- 
thor's faith. What is particularly striking 
in this work is its succinctness. The book's 
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Did You Know Andrews.^ 

Looking ahead to the Univer- 
sity's Bicentennial, Prof. Gilbert E. 
Case '25 is at work on a biography 
of President E. Benjamin Andrews. 
He is using his sabbatical from duties 
as Chairman of the Department of 
Education to study the Andrews 
papers in the John Hay Library and 
other source material here and else- 
where. 

Dr. Case would be very grateful 
to Brown men and women who at- 
tended the University during the pe- 
riod of Andrews' presidency if they 
would write him any recollections 
they have of him. He may be ad- 
dressed in care of Brown University, 
Providence 12, R. I. He would be 
glad to meet alumni who would pre- 
fer to talk about Andrews rather 
than to write. He is making appoint- 
ments for the Commencement sea- 




LEVINE of Moscow 



any indication of the lack of thought and 
preparation which went into its composi- 
tion, for the economy of words only makes 
more important those which are there. 

The author looks at the Catholic Church 
from theological, spiritual, historical, and 
social points of view. He explores the re- 
lationship of the Church to the various 
epochs in which it has lived and also its 
part in the very delicate relationship be- 
tween God and the individual. 

The only misleading thing about the 
book is its title. While there is a great deal 
of Dr. Thomson's thought and spirit in- 
cluded in its pages, the book is unassuming 
and modest about the author's own ex- 
periences and personal feelings. 

MAURICE ADELMAN, JR., '52 

The Old D.U. House 

The three-story brick building at 80 
Waterman St., formerly the Delta Upsilon 
fraternity house, has been taken over by 
the Brown University Biology Department 
as an annex to its Arnold Laboratory 
down the street. Eighty Waterman will be 
used exclusively for graduate research in 
genetics, radiation biology and allied fields. 

The building, temporarily occupied by 
the Psychology Department while the new 
Hunter Laboratory was under construction, 
has been completely renovated with the 
aid of a $26,384 grant from the National 
Institute of Health of the U. S. Public 
Health Service, supplemented by funds 
from other sources. 

The modernized structure at present 
provides offices for three Faculty members 
and a number of post-doctoral research 
associates and graduate students, with in- 
dividual laboratories provided for special- 
ized work of each where desirable. New 
laboratory equipment, metal desks and fil- 
ing cabinets have been provided for the 
building. The basement has been subdi- 
vided with tiled walls, with quarters for 
animals used in research. No classes will 
be held in the building, but a large room 
on the first floor is being equipped as a 
conference room. 

Faculty members with quarters in the 
building are Dr. Herman B. Chase, special- 
ist in genetics and radiation biology, and 
Drs. Jack B. Bresler and George W. Hagy, 
specializing in human genetics. 



APRIL 1959 



41 



m'; ' 




Advisory Council 

Candid Catches of Certain Principals 
During February's Alumni Week End 



TREASURER; Richmond H. Sweet '25. 




CIGARETTE BREAK for Dr. Keeney ond Ralph Seifert '50. 



PRESIDENT-ELECT of the Associated Alumni: C. Monton Eddy '22, right, with F. K. Armstrong '23, New Haven Brown Club President. 





FINAL CONFAB: Progrom Chairman Richard Field '43, left, with Alumni Secretary William B. McCormick '23. 





EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR of the Brown 
University Fund; Daniel W. Earle '34. 



UDGE JOSEPH E. COOK '14 came on from Denver. His companion is Trustee William A. Graham '16. 
APRIL 1959 



43 




ANGELO SINISI, Brown's Sophomore hurdler, added his name to those of ICAAAA and Heptogonal 
record-holders, in his championship efforts at the winter gomes. 



An Optimistic Coach 

LEFTY Lefebvre, Bruin baseball coach. 
-i was frank to admit that he expected 
to enjoy the New England springtime sea- 
son this year. A veteran team, featuring 
strong pitching, a stout defense, and po- 
tential power at the plate more than likely 
had something to do with his feelings on 
the subject. 

Last year, Brown posted a 4-8 record, 
but was only 1-7 in the Ivy League. The 
fielding was good and the hurling was ex- 
cellent (eight complete games in 12 by 
his staff), but the hitting left something to 
be desired. As a result, Brown lost four 
games by one run, two of them in extra 
innings. Gone from that squad are Capt. 
Dave Nelson, a good pitcher who com- 
piled a 2.54 earned run average, and re- 
liefer Frank Brooks. 

Coming along from the Freshman team 
will be several good men to help take up 
the slack. Chris Mitchell is a leading can- 
didate for the hot corner position, while 
Spanky Van Dyke, who had a great year 
in the field and at the plate with the Cubs, 
is expected to be Lefebvre's number one 
utility man in the infield. Substantial help, 
especially at the plate, should come from 
Jim Steiner, who was the regular center 
fielder two years ago as a Sophomore but 
missed the 1958 campaign. 

The pitching staff will again be in the 
capable hands of Dave Manson and Al 
Jasin, both of whom had fine seasons last 
year as Sophomores. Manson, a good con- 
trol pitcher, struck out 28 and walked but 
14 in 35 innings. Jasin, who has a slight 
control problem at times, led the staff a 
year ago with a 2.54 E.R.A. These men 
will be supported by Wayne Perkins, a 
Senior. 

Dick Judkins and Pete McNeish, a pair 
of Seniors, will give Lefebvre adequate 
strength behind the plate. Judkins paced 
the attack with a .294 average last season. 
No help is expected here from the Cubs. 

The infield probably will include Nick 
Pannes at first, Capt. Frank Finney at 
second, Mitchell at third, and Fran Pittaro 
at short. Pannes can hit, field, and run the 



bases. Out of Lynn Classical in Boston, he 
is rated as one of the best of the recent 
players from that area. Finney played 
third last year, but Coach Lefebvre thinks 
that he will be better suited to the key- 
stone sack. Pittaro, a Junior, is an excel- 
lent fielder. He has great hands and the 
necessary range for a shortstop. He played 
in the fast Nova Scotia league during the 
summer. Mitchell, a former Rhode Island 
All-State baseball selection, is expected to 
be a good college player. 

The outfield will have speed in the field 
and power at the plate. Dave Reed will be 
back in left, Steiner in center, and Bob 
Carlin will move from second base to right 
field. Carlin led the team last year with 
10 RBIs, and Reed had a number of extra 
base hits to his credit. Bud Broda. a Sen- 
ior, also will see spot service in the out- 
field, at first base, and on the mound as a 
relief hurler. 

The Best Tenni.s Squad.' 

"Barring complications, the 1959 ten- 
nis team should be the best I've coached 
and very possibly the finest Brown has had 
in modem times," Coach Art Palmer '45 
said as he prepared for his 10th season on 
the Hill. "We will have good over-all 
strength. With the exceptions of Yale and 
Harvard, we will have at least a 50-50 
chance against all our opponents." 

Last year the Bruins posted a 6-3 rec- 
ord, including wins over Navy, Penn, and 
Wesleyan. Gone from that squad are Capt. 
Ed Flattau and Dwight Seward. Returning 
will be a pair of Seniors. Capt. Rufus Bul- 
lock and Bob Cole, and the three star 
Sophomores of 1958, Doug Crockwell, 
T. Callaway, and Bill Sprinkel. In addi- 
tion. Ted Simmons, another Junior, will be 
available for his first taste of Varsity com- 
petition. The best prospects up from the 
Cubs are Paul Putzel, George Torrey, and 
Bob Chapin. 

The key to the success of the team may 
be Simmons. At Deerfield Academy in 
1956 he won both the Eastern and Na- 
tional Interscholastic Doubles Champion- 



ships. "Simmons is the best doubles player 
I've ever coached and, with the possible 
exception of Doc Houk '55, the best tennis 
player I've ever had." Coach Palmer says. 

Simmons, obviously, will be the number 
one man in the singles, with the other five 
positions up for grabs. However, it ap- 
peared that Crockwell, Callaway, Sprinkel, 
Bullock, Cole, and Sophomore Putzel had 
the best shot at starting positions, with 
Torrey and Chapin ready to move up if 
any of them faltered. Simmons and Bul- 
lock will team in the number one doubles 
spot. Putzel, Crockwell, and Sprinkel will 
fight for position on the number two unit, 
with the odd man dropping down with 
Cole on the third. 

Don Alsop '51, Cub coach, expects a 
fair season, with Peyton Howard, Nat 
Chace, and John Bassler among his top 
players. Howard ranked third in the Mid- 
dle Atlantic States in the 18 and under 
competition last year. He was Captain and 
number one man at Landon Prep, Wash- 
ington. D. C. Chace, the son of Ray Chace 
'34, was the outstanding interscholastic and 
prep school star in Rhode Island the past 
two years. Bassler was the top star at 
Cranston High School a year ago. 

Spring Schedules 

\/'arsity Baseball: April 1 — at Norfolk 
Naval. April 2 — at Norfolk Naval. 
April 3 — at Quantico. April 15 — Yale.'* 
April 17 — at Princeton.'* April 18 — at 
Navy.* April 21 — at Rhode Island. April 
24 — Providence. April 25 — Penn.'* April 
29 — Amherst. May 1 — at Army.'* May 2 
— at Columbia.* May 6 — Harvard.* May 
8 — Cornell.* May 9 — Dartmouth.* May 
12 — at Holy Cross. May 15 — Rhode Is- 
land. (* League games.) 

FRESHMAN BASEBALL: April 18— 
Holy Cross. April 21 — Rhode Island. April 
24 — at Providence. April 29 — at Andover. 
May 2 — Harvard. May 5 — Dean Junior 
College. May 7 — Northeastern. May 12 — 
Providence. May 14 — at Rhode Island. 

VARSITY TRACK: April 15— Holy 
Cross. April 18— M.I.T. April 22— Am- 
herst. April 25 — Dartmouth. April 28 — 
Wesleyan. May 6 — at Rhode Island. May 
9 — Columbia and Penn at Penn. May 16 
• — Heptagonals at Yale. May 22 — New 
Englands at Storrs. May 29-30 — IC4A's at 
New York. 

FRESHMAN TRACK: April 15— Holy 
Cross. April 18— M.I.T. April 25— Dart- 
mouth. April 28 — Wesleyan. May 6 — at 
Rhode Island. 

VARSITY TENNIS: April 1— at 
Georgetown. April 2 — at Johns Hopkins. 
April 3 — at Navy. April 4 — at Penn. April 
11 — at Columbia. April 16 — Providence. 
April 18— at M.I.T. April 22— Wesleyan. 
April 24 — Holy Cross. April 28— Rhode 
Island. April 29 — Harvard. May 2 — at 
Amherst. May 6 — Yale. May 8 — at Dart- 
mouth. May 12 — at Williams. May 15-17 
— New Englands at M.I.T. 

FRESHMAN TENNIS: April 18— at 
M.I.T. April 20— at La Salle. April 22— 
Wesleyan. April 29 — Harvard. May 1 — 
Dean Junior College. May 6 — St. George's. 
May 8 — at Dartmouth. May 1 1 — at Ports- 
mouth Priory. May 13 — at Andover. 

VARSITY GOLF: April 18— at Prince- 
ton. April 20— Yale. April 23 — M.I.T. and 
Wesleyan at Wesleyan. April 27 — Rhode 
Island and Providence. April 29 — Harvard. 
May 2 — at Dartmouth. May 5 — Amherst 
and Holy Cross. May 7 — Boston College. 
May 9-11— E.I.G.A. at Princeton. May 12 
— Connecticut. 



44 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



HALFWAY UP IN 3 LEAGUES 



A Winter Sports Wrap-Up 



A First-Division Finish 

PUTTING TOGETHER a 6-8 mark against 
Ivy competition, Coach Stan Ward's 
basketball Bruins finished fourth in the 
Ivy League race, the first time that Brown 
has been able to crack the first division 
since entering the circuit eight years ago. 
The over-all record was 11-13, with the 
Bears averaging 64 points a game as com- 
pared to 67 for the opposition. 

As Coach Ward admitted, this was a 
team with definite limitations. Losing the 
greatest one-two scoring punch in Brown's 
hoop history, Joe Tebo and Gerry Alaimo, 
the squad lacked an established star and 
"take-charge" player. In addition, it lacked 
team speed and scoring punch in the back- 
court, especially when Sophomore Roger 
Hurley became ineligible at midsemester. 

However, the team did play up to its 
capabilities. Prior to the start of the sea- 
son, the experts predicted the Bruins would 
finish seventh or eighth. That they came 
in fourth is evidence that they surprised 
more than a few of the scribes. Capt. Al 
Poulsen had a good season at center and 
did a fine job as team captain. Dave Reed 
and Cliff Ehrlich developed into better 
than average corner men, with the latter 
winning a spot on the second All-Ivy team. 

The Bruins won three of their last four 
Ivy games to grab the first division berth. 
Two of the wins were over Columbia, 
66-64 and 80-62. while the real big win 
was a 66-63 overtime decision over Cornell 
in the last home game of the season. Be- 
yond the Ivy games, perhaps the highlight 
of the campaign was the 72-64 victory 
over Providence College. The Friars later 
were invited to the National Invitation 
Tournament. 

The top five men in scoring are as fol- 
lows: Ehrlich (131-71-333-13.9). Poulsen 
(111-94-316-13.2), Reed (110-75-295-12.2), 
Bellavance (58-38-154-6.4), Diussa (59- 
15-133-5.2). By scoring 14 points in his 
final game against Rhode Island, Poulsen 
tied Fred Kozak '50 for career total points 
with 709. They are now tied for eighth 
spot behind Joe Tebo (1319), Lou Murgo 
(1147), Gerry Alaimo (1046), Woody 
Grimshaw (1010), Ed Tooley (886), 
Harry Piatt (866), and Moe Mahoney 
(829). 

Coach Ward will only lose Poulsen and 
Bill Suter from this team. However, Poul- 
sen's loss will be felt, since he is 6-8 and 
there is no one his size in sight to take his 
place at center. 

This season, the Cubs won 15 and lost 
five. The team started slowly because all 
the guards were converted corner men. 
However, Coach Heflfernen's men won 13 
of their last 15 games. In Ivy competition, 
the Cubs won five and lost one, defeating 
Harvard and Dartmouth twice and Colum- 
bia once, while losing to Yale in an early- 
season game. Mike Cingiser, one of the 
finest players to come to Brown in quite a 
while, averaged better than 20 points for 
the Freshmen. He scored in double figures 
in every game, twice hitting 30 or better. 
Greg Heath, 6-6 center, also may help the 
Varsity next winter at Poulsen's vacated 



pivot position. The other prospects who 
should help in time are Ted Gottfried, 
Gary Bowen, Capt. Dave Brockway, John 
Taddiken, and Barry Behn. 

A Better Track Season 

Although Coach Ivan Fuqua's track 
team enjoyed a rather successful season 
with dual meet victories over Columbia, 
Boston College and Tufts in five outings, 
it was a 20-year-old Sophomore from West 
New York, N. J., who was the biggest star 
of the winter season on the Hill. Angelo 
Sinisi, who didn't compete last year as a 
Freshman because he elected to concen- 
trate on his studies, jumped into the na- 
tional track picture when he won the 
60-yard high hurdles championship at both 
the IC4A meet at Madison Square Garden 
and the Heptagonals at Ithaca. 

At the Garden, Sinisi defeated Mary- 
land's Bill Johnson by inches. His time 
was 7.3, but he equaled the meet record, 
7.2, in winning his semi-final heat. Sinisi 
thus became Brown's first individual IC4A 
champion since Gil Borjeson won the 
35-pound weight in 1950. 

As a capacity crowd of 4,500 watched 
in Barton Hall on the Cornell campus, 
Sinisi ran the 60-yard hurdles in 7.4. equal- 
ling the mark set by Bob Rittenberg of 
Harvard in 1955 and tied by Joel Landau 
of Harvard last year. Landau was second 
to Sinisi this year in a blanket finish. 

Coach Fuqua was not completely sur- 
prised by his star Sophomore's perform- 
ance. "I've known he had the potential 
ever since he came here," he said. In high 
school he won the Eastern Interscholastic 
high hurdles title (120 yards) in 14.3, and 
he took three State titles — high and low 
hurdles and discus — in his Senior season." 
Fuqua regards his latest star as definitely 
of national caliber. Furthermore, he firmly 
believes that the lad has the talent to make 
a bid for the 1960 Olympics in the decath- 



Helping the Director 

Elliott Andrews '47, Librarian 
of the Providence Journal Co., has 
won the life-long respect of Ath- 
letic Director Paul Mackesey '32. 
An avid football fan, Andrews jour- 
neyed to the Marvel Gym the week 
after Al Kelley's resignation to see 
if there was any news on the selec- 
tion of a new coach. 

A harassed Mackesey told him 
that there was not but that the 
alumni and friends of the alumni 
had not exactly been reticent about 
offering suggestions on whom to 
hire. "Well, I thought I'd come up 
here this noon to make my feelings 
known on the matter," Andrews be- 
gan, as Mackesey braced himself. "I 
just wanted you to know that I have 
absolutely no suggestions to make to 
the Athletic Department at this 
time." 



Ivy Standings 




BASKETBALL 






W 


L 


P.F. 


P.A. 


Dartmouth* 


14 


1 


1083 


987 


Princeton* 


13 


2 


930 


896 


Yale 


9 


5 


1014 


955 


BROWN 


6 


8 


900 


949 


Penn 


5 


9 


926 


951 


Cornell 


4 


10 


890 


941 


Harvard 


4 


10 


786 


982 


Columbia 


2 


12 


915 


1083 


* Dartmouth 


won play-off. 

HOCKEY 








W 


L 


T 


Pts. 


Dartmouth 


10 








20 


Harvard 


6 


2 


2 


14 


Yale 


5 


4 


1 


11 


BROWN 


4 


6 





8 


Princeton 


3 


6 


1 


7 


Cornell 





10 








WRESTLING 






W 


L 


T 


Pts. 


Cornell 


6 








12 


Yale 


5 


1 





10 


Princeton 


2 


2 


2 


6 


BROWN 


2 


3 


T 


5 


Penn 


2 


3 


1 


5 


Columbia 


1 


5 





2 


Harvard 


1 


s 





2 



Ion in view of his manifold skills. He al- 
ready is superior in the hurdles, sprints, 
and discus; is a good average college 
performer in the 440 and broad jump; he's 
respectable in the high jump; fair at the 
shot put. The only events he has to work 
on, according to Fuqua, are the pole vault 
and javelin. 

Several records were broken in the dual 
meets. Against Boston College at the 
Marvel Gym, Bill MacArdle broke both 
the Brown and Gym record for the 1,000- 
yard run with a 2: 16.5. In the meet against 
Tufts, two Marvel Gym records fell. Bob 
Lowe broke Ed Sullivan's record in the 
two-mile with a time of 9:33.1. Joe Dyer, 
strong Brown Freshman, broke his own 
mark by throwing the 35-pound weight 
50-6'/2 . 

A disqualification in the 600-yard run 
proved a costly penalty as the Bruins lost a 
55-54 decision to Dartmouth. Phil Schuyler 
led the pack home in the 600, but he was 
disqualified by officials for pushing near 
the start of the race. The Bruins took all 
three places in the mile, with Lowe, Mac- 
Ardle, and Vince MacDonald finishing in 
that order. Sinisi was a double winner, tak- 
ing the hurdles and the dash. 

In addition to Sinisi's victory, the mile- 
relay team took a fourth in the Heps and 
Schuyler got a point for a fifth in the 1000. 
The nine points were enough to move 
Brown ahead of Columbia, Dartmouth, 
and Princeton into seventh place. 

Cal Kyler and Phil Reed are the only 
two Seniors on the team who will be lost 
by graduation. The Cubs, with a 3-1 rec- 
ord, should add more strength to the Var- 
sity. Dyer, Gordon Hughes, Ken Skinner 
and Ralph Steuer were the mainstays of 
the team. 

For spring track, the Varsity will have 
approximately the same squad, plus sev- 
eral other runners, including Ray Barry, 
one of the Cub stars a season ago. It 
should be a good team. 



APRIL 1959 



45 



SCOREBOARD FOR THE WINTER 



BASKETBALL: 
Varsity (11-13) 
Brown 67, Tufts 41 
Brown 75, Trinity 66 
Providence 72, Brown 48 
Rhode Island 65, Brown 52 
Yale 76, Brown 73 
Boston Coll. 67, Brown 54 
Boston Coll. 98, Brown 78 
Brown 70, Colgate 65 
Brown 72, Providence 64 
Brown 68, Harvard 63 
Brown 72, Penn 64 
Princeton 66, Brown 44 
Brown 61, Northeastern 47 
Dartmouth 71, Brown 59 
Princeton 61, Brown 48 
Penn 75, Brown 67 
Yale 78, Brown 67 
Brown 69, Harvard 60 
Cornell 72, Brown 58 
Brown 66, Columbia 64 
Brown 80, Columbia 62 
Brown 66, Cornell 63 
Dartmouth 74. Brown 63 
Rhode Island 75, Brown 68 

Freshman (15-5) 
Brown 82, Tufts 56 
Brown 86, Trinity 66 
Providence 82, Brown 60 
Rhode Island 94, Brown 76 
Brown 69, Davisville 64 
Yale 77, Brown 60 
Brown 75. Harvard 69 
Brown 69, Dean Jr. 46 
Brown 73, Northeastern 50 



Brown 60, Dartmouth 50 
Brown 69, Nichols Jr. 46 
Brown 83, Andover 59 
Brown 58, Harvard 51 
Worcester 62, Brown 55 
Brown 94, Quonset 63 
Brown 72, Providence 51 
Brown 87, Columbia 61 
Brown 87, USS Yosemite 32 
Brown 59, Dartmouth 54 
Rhode Island 93, Brown 72 

HOCKEY: 

Varsiry (9-14) 
Boston Coll. 3, Brown 2 
Brown 3, Tufts 2 
Northeastern 5, Brown 3 
Army 5, Brown 2 
Brown 4, Amherst 3 
Boston V. 8, Brown 3 
Michigan St. 11, Brown 3 
R.P.I. 8, Brown 1 
Brown 4, Princeton 1 
Boston Coll. 7, Brown 5 
Brown 5, Princeton 2 
Northeastern 5, Brown 1 
Yale 9, Brown 3 
Yale 4, Brown 3 
Harvard 6, Brown I 
Brown 4, Princeton 3 
Harvard 6, Brown 4 
Brown 4, Providence 3 
Brown 8, Cornell 2 
Brown 4, Providence 1 
Dartmouth 6, Brown 2 
Dartmouth 6, Brown 2 
Brown 8, Cornell 



Freshman (3-9) 
Boston Coll. 12, Brown 3 
Northeastern 5, Brown 1 
Brown 3, Cranston 2 
Hope 3, Brown 2 
Northeastern 5, Brown 2 
St. George's 2, Brown 
Harvard 17. Brown 1 
Brown 5, Princeton 4 
Providence 8, Brown 3 
Brown 13, Columbia 
Providence 5, Brown 2 
Dartmouth 9, Brown 5 

SWIMMING: 

Varsity (6-4) 
Springfield 44, Brown 42 
Brown 50, Columbia 36 
Brown 55, Coast Guard 31 
Navy 54, Brown 32 
Yale 59, Brown 27 
Brown 52, Penn 34 
Brown 60, Tufts 24 
Brown 56, M.l.T. 21 
Harvard 50, Brown 36 
Brown 50, Amherst 36 

Freshman (6-4) 
Brown 39, Springfield 38 
Cranston 45, Brown 41 
Brown 45'/2, Williston 40'/2 
Brown 59, La Salle 27 
Yale 54, Brown 23 
Brown 48. St. George's 38 
Andover 47, Brown 39 
Brown 49, Tufts 28 



Brown 53, M.l.T. 15 
Harvard 44, Brown 32 

WRESTLING: 

Varsity (4-3-1) 
Brown 14, Springfield 12 
Brown 20, Penn 5 
Brown 33, Connecticut 2 
Columbia 16, Brown 15 
Yale 15, Brown 9 
Brown 14, Princeton 14 
Cornell 20, Brown 8 
Brown 22, Harvard 6 

Freshman (2-3) 
Springfield 21, Brown 11 
Brown 14, Cranston 11 
Yale 21, Brown 10 
Brown 20, Andover 8 
Harvard 14, Brown 12 

TRACK: 

Varsity (3-2) 
Yale 75, Penn 37, Brown 25 
Brown 67'/2, Columbia 35Vi 
Brown 64, Boston Coll. 21 
Dartmouth 55, Brown 54 
Brown 85, Tufts 27 

Freshman (3-1) 
Brown 63, Columbia 37 
Brown 46!/,, Boston Coll. 26J^ 
Dartmouth 72, Brown 37 
Brown 57, Tufts 47 



Sliort-Handed Hockey 

While Coach Jim Fullerton ended up 
with his second losing season since he 
came to Brown four years ago, he had 
nothing but admiration for his short- 
handed team that "stayed in there" and 
won five of its last eight games. The over- 
all record was 10-14, while the Ivy mark 
was 4-6. 

Highlighting the season were three 
straight decisions over Princeton and a 
pair of victories over highly-rated Provi- 
dence College. The Bruins played several 
other strong, if losing games, notably 
against Harvard (6-4), Ivy League winner 
Dartmouth (6-2), and Yale (4-3). 

Fullerton was forced to play the last 
eight games with 12 players, seven for- 
wards, three defensemen, and two goalies. 
The Bears didn't quit at any time, and the 
club actually played some of its best 
hockey during this stretch. However, it 
was impossible for them to play at full 
steam for 60 minutes against these odds, 
and the unavoidable let-downs that came 
at some time in each game were enough to 
cost the Bruins several potential victories. 

The prospects for next season are about 
the same as they were this year. By apply- 
ing scotch tape, a great deal of luck, and a 
dash of imagination. Coach Fullerton will 
probably be able to put three lines and 
two sets of defensemen on the ice in No- 
vember. However, an injury or two could 
throw all his hopes and plans out the 
window. 

Allen Soares, All-Ivy defenseman as a 
Sophomore last year, will be back, as will 
his running mate, Brian Malloy. There will 
be no help from the Cubs. Rod McGarry 



and Bert Creese, both Sophomores, will be 
back in the nets. McGarry, especially, de- 
veloped into a good college goalie toward 
the end of the season and closed on a high 
note with a shutout of Cornell in the finale. 
Dave Kelley, a good forward who was 
double-teamed most of the way, will return 
for his final fling next year. However, some 
good men will be marching down the Hill 
in June, including Capt. Wyn Eaton, Dick 
Cleary, Pete Gray. Dick Haskell, Don 
Hebert, and Dave Morton. 

Frankly, the hockey picture at Brown 
is not good. Three of the last four Fresh- 
men teams have a total of four victories 
against 27 defeats. This season, with the 
exception of the goalies. Brown had only 
two Sophomores on the team. This year's 
Cubs, with another losing record, will send, 
at the most, five men to the Varsity. 

It would appear that hockey at Brown 
has reached the crossroads. At a time 
when Cornell has just entered the Ivy 
League and when both Penn and Columbia 
are planning to come in, it is ironical that 
Brown should find itself in such a precari- 
ous position. 

Wrestling in Review 
By defeating Harvard. 22-6, in the final 
meet of the season. Coach Ralph Ander- 
ton's wrestlers assured themselves of a 
winning campaign. The final record was 
4-3-1 overall and 2-3-1 in the Ivy League, 
where Brown finished fourth. 

Two excellent wrestlers will be gradu- 
ated in June, Capt. Lou Winner and 
George Seaver. Wrestling at 167. Winner 



posted a 7-2 record in 1958 and a 6-1 
mark this season. Seaver, who competed 
in the 137-pound class, had an 8-1 mark as 
a Junior and followed it up with a perfect 
7-0 this year. His record included four 
falls. 

Captain Bob Keith (147) and Tom 
Noye (123) were the top wrestlers on the 
Cub team. Each compiled a 4-1 record. 
Other Varsity prospects include Dick Rin- 
derknecht (130), Tom Mcllwain (137), 
and Chuck Coe (167). Bart Mosser, Penn- 
sylvania State Champion last year, did not 
wrestle this season. However, Coach An- 
derton is counting on him for substantial 
help at the Varsity level in the future. 

Winners in the Tank 

Taking four of their last five meets. 
Coach Joe Watmough's swimmers closed 
out the season with a respectable 6-4 rec- 
ord. The Bruins finished second to Wil- 
liams in the annual New England Inter- 
collegiate Association championship meet 
at M.l.T. A year ago, the Bruin and Wil- 
liams mermen had tied for the title. 

Ed Nicholson, All-American as a Soph- 
omore a year ago. continued to set a tor- 
rid pace. He captured both the 50 and 
100-yard freestyles in every meet except 
those against "Yale and Harvard. Against 
the Crimson, he was edged by Dick Hunter 
in the excellent time of 51.8. 

Bob Taggart, swimming the opening 
backstroke leg in the 400 medley relay 
against M.I.T., was clocked in 59.5 sec- 
onds for the 100 yards, a new Brown rec- 
ord. The old mark was 59.6, set a year ago 
by Barr Clayson. The Bruin swimmers also 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



set several records against Tufts at Med- 
ford. A team of Taggart. Bill Zani, Penn 
Brown, and John Halliday won the 400- 
yard medley relay in 4 minutes, 10.6 sec- 
onds, breaking the pool record of 4 min- 
utes, 24 seconds set by M.I.T. in 1958. 
Charlie Sieburth set the other record in 
winning the diving with a score of 64.03 
points. The old record was 63.98 made by 
Dave Outerbridge of the Bruins in 1957. 

In the New Englands, the Bruins came 
up with two individual winners. Nicholson 
won the 100-yard freestyle in 52.2 seconds 
and finished in a dead heat with Connecti- 
cut's Dick Beauvais in a thrilling 50-yard 
freestyle. The time was 23.4. Taggart took 
the 200-yard backstroke in 2:17.2 and 
broke the pool record while swimming the 
backstroke leg in the 400-yard medley, in 
which Brown finished fourth. Taggart cov- 
ered the 100 yards in 1:00.7. 

Also scoring for Brown were Bob Fried- 
lander, third in the 440 freestyle and 
fourth in the 220; Dick Claiborn, fifth in 
the 220 and sixth in the 100; Zani, fifth in 
the 200 breaststroke; Sieburth, sixth in 
the diving; and the 400 freestyle relay team 
of Nicholson, Claiborn, Ned Sampson, and 
Halliday, which finished second. 

Six of Watmough's swimmers will be 
graduated in June: Penn Brown, Dick 
Claiborn, Bob Friedlander, Jack Halliday, 
Ned Sampson, and Bob Taggart. A good 
supply of talent is expected from the suc- 
cessful Cubs. 




"Why, Professor Quigley, you old progressive!" 



Sports Shorts 

TERRY Reardon, General Manager and 
former player-coach of the Rhode Is- 
land Reds hockey team, is coaching the 
Brown lacrosse squad this spring. He 
played the reduced version of the game, 
called box lacrosse, in his younger days in 
Canada. 

Baaron Pittenger, Director of Sports In- 
formation, moved into his new office in the 
Trophy Room at the Marvel Gym on 
March 15. He is fully prepared for the ob- 
vious ribbing that being quartered in a 
trophy room will bring. 

Three athletes made the Dean's List for 
the first semester: footballer Bill Traub, 
basketballer Forrest Broman, and track- 
man Dave Berger. 

A pair of Brown men, Herman Toof '37 
and Pete Laudati, Jr., '41, tried to turn the 
annual Rhode Island Ski Meet into a fam- 
ily affair in February. Toof placed second 
in the Veteran's competition, while Laudati 
placed 10th in the Men's Division. That 
was only the beginning. Toof's daughter, 
Patti, came in a close second in the com- 
petition for girls 15-17, and his son, Billy, 
was ninth in the field for boys 14 and un- 
der. And who trailed young Billy Toof in 
10th place in that race but Laudati's son 
Peter. 

Two additional football records have 
come across our desk. Bob Pendleton '50 
reminds us that Paul Gaffney '49 returned 
the second half kickoff 90 yards for a 
touchdown against Rhode Island in 1947, 
and a member of the Class of 1934 re- 
called that Joe Buonanno '34 also scam- 
pered 90 yards for a touchdown with a 
kickoff against Tufts in 1931. Thus these 
players join Bob Margarita '44 and Pat 
O'Brien '46 with the fifth longest kickoflt 
return in Brown's football history. 

Ted Simmons of Brown reached the 
quarter-finals of the National Intercollegi- 
ate Squash Tournament before bowing to 
Dartmouth's Dick Hoehn, seeded first. 



Champion Sledders 

LT. C. Thomas Butler '55 and his com- 
-i panions were in the lead when they 
called a halt in the competition at the end 
of the first day's runs for the four-man 
bobsled world's championship in February. 
But the advantage after the first two runs 
down the treacherous mile-long Olympic 
chute at St. Moritz was only a 100th of a 
second. They had had to overcome rela- 
tively slow starts because they were not as 
heavy as their rivals from seven other na- 
tions and had compensated by making their 
sled the heaviest in the field of 13. 

Bad luck hit them at the outset of the 
final day. One of the push-handles used in 
the running starts broke off as the men 
inspected their sled minutes before the 
first of the last two runs. Unlike the other 
entries, the Americans were taking care of 
their own repairs, and there wasn't time to 
fix the handle. With only one push-handle, 



they were really handicapped with the 
heavy sled. 

Butler was brakeman for the famous 
Art Tyler. Working on the lone push-han- 
dle, he was off balance, slipped on the icy 
track, and barely managed to leap aboard 
backward. But, said the Associated Press, 
"Tyler's superb driving and the acrobatic, 
'old pro' try of brakeman Tom Butler, a 
Marine Lieutenant from Vista, Calif., got 
the job done." They wound up with the 
fastest runs of the day, adding to their 
lead over an Italian team in second place. 
(Neither performance matched the per- 
fect descent of the first day, when one 
run set a course record in 1:17.42.) Their 
winning advantage was 35 lOOths of a 
second for the four descents. It was the 
first American victory since 1953. 

Butler, who learned his bobsledding at 
home in Saranac, N. Y., is a veteran of 
international competition. If he continues, 
he will need a new driver, for Art Tyler 
retired after his championship feat. 



First Aid to Class Officers 



ATTENTION, Class officers: Are you dis- 
. organized? Are all the millionaires in 
your Class contributing to Vassar, Welles- 
ley, Smith, or maternal health? Are your 
reunions more difficult to organize each 
year? If the answer to any of these ques- 
tions is yes, then you need a copy of our 
handy little "Handbook for Class Secre- 
taries of Brown University." 

Appoint a Constitution and By-Laws 
Committee and charge the group to pre- 
sent a proposed Class Constitution at your 
annual June meeting. A sample Constitu- 
tion is in the handbook. Implement the 
Constitution as revised, amended, and ap- 
proved by your Class. If you have no re- 
union this June, put your Class Secretary 
to work with the Constitution and By-Laws 
Committee, with instructions to draft the 



document and poll the Class by mail. 

As soon as possible, get your Advisory 
Committee and Executive Committee func- 
tioning. These men, most of whom should 
be living in the Providence area, will be 
the backbone of your Class in the years to 
come. They will provide the continuity 
necessary for pleasant reunions, for ef- 
fective liaison with other Classes, for suc- 
cessful Class projects, and, most important 
of all, for general support of an ever-im- 
proving University. 

Address the Association of Class Secre- 
taries, Box 1859, Brown University for 
your handbook and other information. 

EARL W. HARRINGTON, JR., '41 

Chairman. Association 
of Class Secretaries 



APRIL 1959 



47 




MEN AND MIKES: The three had leading roles in Advisory Council proceed- 
ings. Left to right, Arthur Braltsch '23, Chairman of the Nominating Com- 



mittee, Alumni President 
Temporary Chairman of 



Foster B. Davis, 
the Bicentennial 



Jr 

Prog 



39, and Donald G. Millar '19, 
ram. 



Brunonians Far and Near 



EDITED BY JAY BARRY '50 



1884 

("'oL. Albert A. Baker, Brown's oldest 
■^ living graduate, at 96 maintains a lively 
interest in what is going on in the world. 
He was cited, though not named, in a para- 
graph in a recent issue of the newsletter 
which the Office of the Secretary circulates 
within the Brown Faculty. The item said: 
"Prof. Charles H. Smiley, who has been 
tracking satellites since the first one was 
launched, says that for every minute that 
he has scanned the sky he has spent an 
hour answering the telephone. Inquiries 
have come from people of all ages — from 
11-year-olds to the oldest Brown alumnus." 

1896 

Judge G. Frederick Frost is Honorary 
Chairman of committee of Newman Con- 
gregational Church, Rumford, R. I., which 
is arranging the 150th anniversary of the 
present church building next year. The con- 
gregation recently held its 315th annual 
meeting. 

1897 

George L. Miner has been reelected 
Treasurer of the Providence Charitable 
Fuel Society, an agency providing coal and 
heating oil to destitute families in the State. 

1901 

Dr. Albert L. Midgley, 80 years of age 
and still a practicing dentist, was honored 
at the 81st annual convention of the Rhode 
Island State Dental Society. He was picked 
as "dentist of the century" for his many 



contributions to dental education. Dr. 
Midgley's qualifications for the title are 
many: he organized and operated Dental 
Students Register many years ago, offering 
statistical data to dental schools and den- 
tists generally; was Secretary of a Car- 
negie Foundation study of dental education 
in this country, and has lectured or taught 
at Harvard, Forsythe, and North Carolina 
dental schools, and at Brown and Provi- 
dence College, and has been a consultant 
at several Rhode Island hospitals. 

1903 

Prof. William T. Hastings talked on the 
early days of The Sphinx before the Feb- 
ruary meeting of the Brown society. An- 
other recent talk of his was on "Shake- 
speare and the King James 'Version of the 
Bible," before the First Unitarian Alliance 
in Providence. 

Every member of the Class has a sense 
of great personal loss in the death of Fred 
Otis, for so many years the thoughtful and 
devoted Class Secretary. He and Jack 
Cady, our President, have in a real sense 
come to stand for, almost to be, the Class. 
Otis' many services to other organizations 
and his record as a member of the bar 
have been recorded in the obituary notices. 
To many of us he was the quiet and cor- 
dial friend and the informed authority on 
all our members. 

Marc T. Greene continues to write 
warm and interesting feature stories for 
the Providence Journal of his trips through- 
out this country and Europe. 



1904 

Dr. James A. McCann, Class President, 
attended the 50th Reunion of his class at 
Johns Hopkins Medical School in Balti- 
more Feb. 26-29. Dr. McCann was hon- 
ored at that time for his years of service 
in many fields of medicine. 

The Rev. Eugene M. Wilson resigned 
from the active Baptist ministry last Sep- 
tember. He and Mrs. Wilson, who will 
continue to reside in Glenrock, Wyo., 
spent a month with their children in Cali- 
fornia last winter. 

Arthur L. Young and Margaret hope to 
be able to make the 55th Reunion in May. 
One of the projects Arthur is working on 
in his spare time is the organization of the 
large number of postage stamps he has 
collected during the last 20 years. "They 
are exquisite engravings, depicting and 
commemorating great personalities, events, 
and developments of our history," he adds. 

1905 

Art Townsend received a note from 
Charlie Robinson at Key West, Fla., en- 
closing a picture of Batista's yacht docked 
just a short distance from Charlie's cabana. 

1906 

Gustavus Adolphus Russ, whose where- 
abouts was recently reported after many 
years, has written to Sidney R. Bellows 
telling of his life since graduation. This 
information will interest those who knew 
him as a genial classmate and, incidentally, 
one of Brown's great football players. Af- 
ter a discouraging experience of coaching 
football in the South, he took a position 
with a firm of belting manufacturers. After 
three years in Chicago, he traveled through- 
out the West in this work. He then married 
a girl from Colorado and spent nearly 20 
years working for the Northern Insulating 
Co. When the firm closed down in 1930, 
he became a roofing contractor and has 
been at this work ever since. At the age 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



of 79, he says that his health is good and 
his total expenditure in doctor's fees for 
himself has been $3.00. 

The latest project of the Rev. W. D. 
Swaffield of Alton, N. H., is the conver- 
sion of a huge barn into a colorful recrea- 
tion hall for use by youth groups as well 
as adult organizations. Considering the 
liberality of snowfall in the area, this 
facility will be greatly appreciated by 
Doug's townspeople. The local paper noted 
that "the town is fortunate in having such 
a generous person in the community." He 
is Pastor of the Community Church and 
President of the Historical Society. 

Dr. Ale.x M. Burgess was elected Presi- 
dent of the Rhode Island Heart Association 
at the group's annual meeting in February. 
Our classmate seems to make a habit of 
collecting such honors. 

1907 

President Henry G. Clark is back at his 
desk at the R. I. Electric Protective Co., 
Providence, after his February-March va- 
cation in Naples, Fla. At the Advisory 
Council meeting in February, Henry, Bill 
Burnham, and your Secretary got together 
and talked about the Class Reunion at 
Commencement. 

Charles R. Stark, Jr., has finished his 
second book and hopes to have the manu- 
script in the hands of the publisher "before 
too long." 

George W. Davis is still enjoying good 
health and retirement, according to word 
received from Washington. "I'm spending 
most of the year at my summer place on 
the Severn River and like it," he noted. 

Dr. Ernest S. Reynolds, writing from 
Coral Gables, Fla., still wishes that he 
might have come up for the reunion, with 
Bill Burnham's special inducement, last 
June. His work at the Marine Laboratory, 
University of Miami, continues "interesting 
and engrossing." He adds: "There is so 
much to learn concerning living things; and 
the more we know the more there is to find 
out." 

Charles R. Church has changed his ad- 
dress to Scituate Sanitarium, Danielson 
Pike, Scituate, RFD, R. I. Charlie would 
enjoy post cards or letters from classmates. 

Dr. Merrick Streeter keeps active as In- 
terim Minister of the First Baptist Church. 
Rumford, where one of his innovations, a 
mid-week chapel hour with him as discus- 
sion leader, is proving popular. 

When the Progress Edition of the Spokes- 
man-Review. Spokane, Wash., came out 
this year, Charles Stark sent a copy to 
H. B. Keen in East Setauket. N. Y., think- 
ing that he'd "give Sal a little education 
about this part of the country." Sal read 
the edition, page by page, found a great 
deal in it to interest, but came up with the 
comment: "I'm too settled to take up any 
pioneering." 

Claude R. Branch was reelected to the 
Board of Directors of the Providence 
Washington Insurance Co. for a five-year 
term at its 160th annual meeting in Febru- 
ary. He also was reelected Chairman of the 
Board. 

1908 

The men of '08 are proud of our Class 
Agent, Norman Sammis, who won the 
Brown University Fund's annual Achieve- 
ment Bowl at the Advisory Council Week 
End in February. Congratulations, in turn, 
are sent by Norman to those classmates 
who worked with him on the committee: 
Frank Mason, Dr. Albert C. Thomas, Nor- 
man Case, James Murray, Hunter Marston, 
and C. Leroy Grinnell. 

The Rev. Dr. Charles Francis Potter 



and his wife celebrated their golden wed- 
ding anniversary last June. The Bucknell 
Alumnus recently said of him: "The story 
of CFP's current weekly activities is star- 
tling. He is indeed an intellectuals' intel- 
lectual, what with speaking at organiza- 
tions which he founded (e.g., the 20th 
anniversary of The Euthanasia Society), 
officiating at the weddings of artists (e.g.. 
Rex Harrison — a midnight Kendall-light 
service), debating all and sundry on radio 
and TV, and attending the annual meeting 
of World Government Sponsors, of which 
he was co-founder." 

1909 

Henry S. Chafee was elected President 
of the Providence Journal Co. at its annual 
meeting on Feb. 3. He also serves as a 
member of its Board of Directors. 

Robert D. Willemin, 33-year-old son of 
our late classmate, Louis Willemin, was 
among those killed in the tragic airplane 
crash in New York on Feb. 3. He was 
Manager of a department of Merrill Lynch, 
Pierce, Fenner & Smith. 

Ed Hollen played in the Winter Seniors 
Golf Tournament at Pinehurst in March. 

Julius Lasker's health, according to Mrs. 
Lasker, unfortunately has not as yet im- 
proved. He is confined to his home at 1440 
Beacon St.. Apt. 104, Brookline 46, Mass. 

William E. B. Mitchell retired from the 
Connecticut Light & Power Co. about 
seven years ago, but he still does some 
work for local Utilities Companies. "How- 
ever, for the most part I'm quite content 
to take it easy," he reports. His last work 
with his former company was as a Real 
Estate Engineer and consisted mostly of 
layouts of high tension lines, purchase of 
properties, and legal work in connection 
with these tasks. 

George H. Henderson expects to retire 
from his position as Chief of Roads and 
Bridges in Rhode Island about the first of 



April. He has long passed the normal re- 
tirement age, but because of his experi- 
ence and valued service he had been re- 
tained. 

William P. Dodge has been reelected 
President of the Providence Charitable 
Fuel Society. The group has been provid- 
ing coal and, more recently, heating oil, to 
poor families in the Rhode Island area for 
the past 132 years. 

1910 

Edward J. Shaeffer and his wife took a 
pleasant Pacific cruise during the winter. 
Sailing from San Francisco on Jan. 7, the 
trip included stops at Tahiti, New Zealand, 
Australia, Singapore, Manila, Hong Kong, 
Yokohama, and Honolulu. 

J. Richmond Fales, a member of the 
Athletic Advisory Committee, is to be 
congratulated for the part he played in 
the selection of our new football coach, 
John McLaughry. 

Walter C. Cameron, even in retirement, 
admits to a continued interest in tooting 
the trombone in a small orchestra at the 
Quartermasters Depot in Natick, Mass. 
(This reminds me of the days of the birth 
of the Brown Band.) Walter and his wife 
journeyed to Los Angeles in March for a 
visit with their daughter. 

Clifton B. Ward, home again at 333 
Turner Rd., Middletown, R. I., states that 
he has nothing against hospitals but that 
"there's just no place like home." Chub 
has completed a course of "sprouts" in two 
hospitals, which included taking ofi" some 
excess weight. He would enjoy hearing 
from classmates. 

Donald S. Babcock donated $3,000 to 
the Providence Boys' Club Building Fund. 
The money will be used for a control 
room adjacent to the public locker and 
shower room on the first floor of the new 
building which will be erected in South 
Providence. 




PAST PRESIDENTS of the Associated Alumni, on the Campus for the Advisory Council: seated, left to 

right— Edward H. Weeks '93, Henry G. Clark '07, William P. Burnham '07, Henry C. Hart '01; standing, 

Dr. Moses L. Crossley '09, Wiley H. Marble '12. Robert H. Goff '24, and Elmer S. Horton '10. 



APRIL 1959 



49 



Frost to the Supreme Court 



Two Brunonmns were advanced in the 
Rhode Island judiciary in February 
moves at the State House. Judge G. Fred- 
erick Frost '96, Presiding Justice of the 
Superior Court, was elevated to the Su- 
preme Court when the Senate and House, 
sitting as the Grand Committee, voted to 
fill a vacancy on the high bench. Governor 
Del Sesto's nomination to succeed Judge 
Frost as Presiding Justice of the Superior 
Court was Judge Louis W. Cappelli '16; 
the Senate's confirmation on Feb. 17 was 
quick and unanimous. 

Governor Del Sesto said the Grand 
Committee had "performed a great service 
for the people of our State in recognizing 
Judge Frost's long and brilliant record as 
a lawyer, public servant, and jurist." Frost 
had been a member of the Superior Court 
since 1931 and its Presiding Justice for 
more than seven years. 

When Judge Frost received his honorary 
LL.D. from Brown in 1953, President 
Wriston's citation said: "Legal acumen, 
even more that rarer quality which we mis- 
call common sense; uprightness which 
makes the word 'integrity' in its complete 
connotation entirely appropriate; prompt- 



ness in the dispatch of judicial business; 
fidelity to the best traditions of the law; 
the whole enlivened with a salty humor 
which keeps dignity from any danger of 
stuffiness — these aspects of character have 
given you a place of your own in our be- 
loved commonwealth." 

Judge Cappelli was praised on the Sen- 
ate floor as "one of the great lawyers and 
one of the great gentlemen of Rhode 
Island." He was sworn in an hour after the 
confirmation was voted. Associate Justice 
of the Superior Court for 14 years. Judge 
Cappelli recently became its senior mem- 
ber. A veteran of overseas service with the 
Army in World War I, he was admitted to 
the Rhode Island Bar in 1923. He was 
Secretary of State from 1933 to 1940 and 
Lieutenant Governor in 1941 until he was 
appointed to the Superior bench. 

Four other Brown graduates are Rhode 
Island Justices: Thomas J. Paolino '28 is 
a Supreme Court Judge, while Fred B. 
Perkins "19 (also Secretary of the Cor- 
poration of Brown University), Frank 
Licht '38, and Joseph R. Weisberger '42 
are Associate Justices of the Superior Court. 




IN HIGHER POSTS: Judge G. Frederick Frost '96 (seated) was elevated to the R. I. Supreme Court in 
February. Judge Louis W. Cappelli '16 succeeded to his duties as Presiding Justice of the Superior Court. 



1911 

Edwin C. Bosworth was in Providence 
on Feb. 24 and had lunch with Ellis Yat- 
man and Earle B. Arnold. He is Dean of 
the Benjamin Franklin School of Business 
Administration, Washington, D. C, where J 
he has served for the past 30 years. ^ 

Ernest S. Fitz came up from Richmond, 
Va., to join the 1911 delegation at the 
February funeral of Ira W. Knight. Fitz 
made a few calls about the Campus while 
in Providence. 

1913 

Joseph F. Reilly, who has taken part in 
many surprise parties in his 33 years as 
Secretary of the Brockton Chamber of 
Commerce, had the tables turned on him 
recently as the Chamber honored him at its 
annual Past Presidents' Night. He was 
presented with a substantial purse of 
money for his long and faithful service to 
the group. 

Dr. George Boas, Emeritus Professor of 
Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, 
returned to Rhode Island in March as a 
Visiting Scholar at U.R.I. During his two- 
day stay, March 18-19, he gave a Con- 
vocation address on "Philosophy and 
Common Sense" and an evening public 
lecture on "Freedom and Authority." 

1914 

In the January issue of this magazine, 
we reported that Eugene Dukette was the 
only member of our Class for whom there 
was no address. Art Cate has set the 
record straight and given us a 100 per cent 
record. He states that Eugene has been for 
many years a prominent lawyer in San 
Diego, Calif., serving in the District At- 
torney's office. His home address is 3912 
Bernice Drive, and his otfice is in the San 
Diego Trust and Savings Building. "We 
are in touch with each other regularly, es- 
pecially at Christmas, and recall many 
happy times we have had together," Art 
stated. Larry Gardiner sent us similar in- 
formation, recalling a visit when he was 
in California for an American Legion con- 
vention some years ago. Gardiner's sister 
had once sent a clipping that told of Du- 
kette's rescuing a boating group caught in 
a storm off Newport Beach. 

C. Lester Wooley is a new Vestryman of 
All Saints' Church in Providence, as is 
Leon W. Brower '16. 

1915 

Frederic J. Hunt has retired after 43 
years of service with the Rhode Island 
Hospital Trust Co. He joined the bank in 
1916 and was elected an Assistant Trust 
Officer in 1922. He became a Trust Officer 
in 1934 and a Vice-President in 1944. 
Three years later he was made Vice-Presi- 
dent in charge of the Trust Department 
and served in that capacity until his re- 
tirement. 

After 45 years, two "former Brown 
Union waiters" got together in Richmond, 
Va., recently. Wallace Wade '17, who got 
the Rose Bowl habit at Brown as a player 
and continued it at the University of Ala- 
bama and Duke as a coach, was in town 
in his official capacity as Commissioner of 
the Southern Conference, attending the 
basketball tournament. Don Dike, sojourn- 
ing in town, called Wally on the phone at 
his hotel and gave his name. Wade's im- 
mediate response was "baseball," and in 
a matter of minutes these two were in the 
lobby together talking over old times. 
Wally returned to his home town, Durham, 
N. C, while Dike went back to Boothbay 
Harbor, Me., with pleasant memories of 



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the hour's chat. On his way north, Dike 
planned to spend a night with Larry Gar- 
diner '14 in Fairfield, Conn. 

1916 

The Rev. Charles Ryrie, son of our 
classmate, John A. Ryrie, has been elected 
President of the Philadelphia Bible Col- 
lege. His parents, of Alton, 111., attended 
the installation ceremonies in September. 

Dr. Wilbour Eddy Saunders, President 
of the Colgate Rochester Divinity School, 
addressed the Sophomore chapel at Brown 
in February. He is Chairman of the Amer- 
ican Baptist Board of Education and Pres- 
ident of the World Fellowship of Baptist 
Theological Seminaries. 

H. Stanford McLeod was elected to the 
Board of Directors of the Providence 
Journal Co. at the annual meeting of the 
Board in February. 

Leon W. Brower is a member of the 
Board of Governors of the Edgewood 
Yacht Club, one of the older groups of 
R. L boating enthusiasts. 

1918 

Calling the late Gurney Edwards "one 
of the most distinguished members of the 
bar of this State," the Chairman of the 
R. I. Board of Bar Examiners, Laurence J. 
Hogan, recently said his life and career 
provided an ideal on which a young lawyer 
might well build his own. Success and 
honor in his profession and in his life 
would then be assured, Hogan said. The 
occasion was the admission of four new 
lawyers to the R. I. bar during a February 
ceremony. One of them was Charles Gur- 
ney Edwards '51, whose presence prompted 
the tribute to his father. 

Clarence E. Lightfoot has been located 
at Erie St., Ardsley-on-Hudson, N. Y. He 
is a Consultant with The Todd Lightfoot 
Associates, Inc., in that city. 

J. Irving McDowell, of the Rhode Island 
firm of McDowell, Diamond & Co., is one 
of the initiators of a new professional asso- 
ciation designed to maintain a high stand- 
ard of ethics in the local securities indus- 
try. Approximately 30 investment firms are 
involved, and McDowell noted that this 
may be the first time in the history of the 
securities industry in Rhode Island that in- 



Blue Cress Leaders 

Rhode Island Blue Cross, 20 
years old, printed the pictures of its 
Board members in a recent newspa- 
per ad. The Brunonians included 
William H. Wagenknecht '25, Secre- 
tary. He is Controller of B. A. Bal- 
lon & Co. 

The Directors included: Prof. 
Chelcie C. Bosland; Dana R. Arnold 
'26, Treasurer of the Lonsdale Bak- 
ing Co. and Trustee of Memorial 
Hospital, Pawtucket; Harry H. Bur- 
ton '16, Trustee of the R. I. Hos- 
pital; Henry G. Clark '07, President 
of the R. I. Electric Protective Co. 
and Trustee of Roger Williams Gen- 
eral Hospital; T. Dexter Clarke '32, 
Secretary and Counsel of the Narra- 
ganselt Electric Co.; Ralph R. 
Crosby '26, President of Old Colony 
Co-operative Bank; Robert T. Engles 
'40, Taylor-Engles Company and 
Trustee of Providence Lying-In Hos- 
pital; Dr. Harmon P. B. Jordan '11, 
Superintendent of the Lying-in; and 
E. John Lownes, Jr., '23, American 
Silk Spinning Co. 



Keuka's President 

DR. William S. Litterick '28, Head- 
master of The Harley School, Roch- 
ester, N. Y., has been named as the fifth 
President of Keuka College. He will as- 
sume duties at the New York institution 
in August, after continuing in Rochester 
through the school year. 

Earlier, Litterick had been Assistant 
Headmaster and Director of Studies and 
Guidance at The Peddie School and Di- 
rector of Research at Stephens College. He 
has also been a consultant to the Ford 
Foundation and the Department of De- 
fense; for the latter he was in charge of 
field research in morale and orientation 
among troops of all services. Present com- 
mitments also include duties as a con- 
sultant to the Educational Records Bureau 
and a Director of the Bureau of Research 
of the Secondary Education Board. A 
member of the Voluntary Education 
Council of Rochester, he is also a con- 
sultant in teacher training in Mathematics 
for the Nova Scotia Department of Edu- 
cation. 

Dr. Litterick has been a member of the 
College Entrance Examination Board, the 
Middle States Association of Secondary 
Schools and Colleges, and the New Jersey 
State Department of Education. He served 
on a committee appointed by the Ameri- 
can Council on Education to study goals 
and outcomes of general education at the 
college level. 

Community activities include the fol- 
lowing: Director, Rochester Association 
for the United Nations, City Club of 
Rochester, Trustee of the Rochester Pub- 
lic Library, and Board of Friends of the 
Federation of Churches. 



vestment firms have banded together to 
promote the betterment of the industry. 

Chester M. Downing, Principal of the 
Fairhaven High School for the past 22 
years, will retire June 30. He has been 
teaching and administering public schools 
in Massachusetts for 41 years. His decision 
was approved "with deep regret" by the 
Fairhaven School Committee in February. 

Kenneth Parker, Chairman of the Board 
of the Parker Pen Co., was pictured in a 
full-page ad for that concern in the Feb. 
16 issue of Newsweek Magazine. 

Provost Zenas R. Bliss' new home is at 
24 Channing Ave., Providence 6. (We 
gave the wrong address in our February 
issue.) 

1919 

More than 400 years after Coronado's 
visit to Awatovi, a large pre-historic Hopi 
village in northeastern Arizona, Watson 
Smith is studying their pottery intensively 
— "a full time job." as he called it in a 
three-column interview in the Tucson 
Daily Citizen in February. Smith is Cura- 
tor of Southwestern Archaeology for the 
Peabody Museum at Harvard, with head- 
quarters in Tucson. His laboratory and 
workshop bear the sign: "Peabody Institute 
West of the Pecos." In it are some 50,000 
shards of pottery, of the more than a mil- 
lion recovered at Awatovi. His work there 
has also made him an authority on Indian 
murals. Archaeology, he told the reporter, 
is "the most fascinating occupation" he 
could think of. (Bradford Moore, class- 
mate and fellow-townsman, sent us the 
clipping.) 

Roger T. Clapp is the new Junior Warden 
of St. Martin's Episcopal Church in Provi- 




DR. WILLIAM S. LITTERICK '28 



dence. He had previously served as Vestry- 
man. 

Thirteen-year-old Bethny Hall, daughter 
of Comdr. Thomas W. Hall of Greenville, 
R. I., won the junior showmanship award 
in the Westminster Kennel Club Show in 
Madison Square Garden, the youngest girl 
ever to win the coveted prize. This is the 
fourth time she has competed in the West- 
minster Show, having placed in all three 
previous appearances. Since 1955 she has 
won 80 firsts in junior showmanship and 
in January was honored by being named 
recipient of the Stewards Club of America 
Award as the U. S. champion girl dog- 
handler of 1958. 

Thomas F. Black has been elected First 
Vice-President of the Providence Journal 
Co. He also will serve as a member of the 
Board of Directors this year. 

Henry T. Samson, Administrator of the 
Peabody Home, New York City, was 
praised in the press recently as a person 
with "a real interest in people as they are 
and who does not make the mistake of 
trying to reform or remodel them." The 
home was described by the reporter as 
"The most unusual, charming, and cheer- 
ful home for older women I have ever en- 
countered." 

1920 

Willard L. Beaulac, U. S. Ambassador to 
Argentina, returned to his post in Buenos 
Aires in February after several weeks in 
the States. 

Dr. Robert Bruce Lindsay, Hazard Pro- 
fessor of Physics at Brown, will lecture 
this summer at the American University in 
Washington. D. C. He will be on the staff 
of an institute on the history and philos- 
ophy of science and mathematics to be 



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51 




THE CLASS OF 1935 has olready started plans for its 25th. Committeemen seated, left to right: Robert 

Hull, Matthew Word, Stanley Henshaw, Alfred Joslin, Donold Reed. Standing: Edwin Tuller, Edward 

Crosby, Norman Zolkind, Harry Wareham, and Henry C. Hart, Jr. 



held in Washington from June 15 to July 
24. The institute, one of the first of its kind 
to be given in the United States, is sup- 
ported by a grant of $41,000 from the Na- 
tional Science Foundation for professors 
of engineering, science, and mathematics. 
Ray Greene resigned as President of the 
Rhode Island Golf Association at its an- 
nual meeting in February. The group cited 
him for his contributions to golf and his 
service to the association. 

1921 

Bill Hall recently took a three-week trip 
to Moscow and Leningrad. The living con- 
ditions of the people in those cities are 
quite poor, according to Bill. "I don't see 
how they will be able to reach our stand- 
ard of living by 1970," he adds. His ad- 
dress is Arcos Da Serra, Malveira Da 
Serra, Portugal. 

1922 

Henry G. T. Langdon, who had not 
been back in Providence in some years, 
returned recently for the wedding of his 
niece. Miss Katharine R. Langdon, daugh- 
ter of the late Dr. John Langdon '25 and 
Mrs. Langdon. He enjoyed seeing William 
C. Greenough. Jr., and other Brunonians. 

1923 

The Class Directory, as circulated in 
February, has been appreciated by all. Al- 
ready it has stimulated some letter-writing 
and promises to "get in touch." 

Robert Carrigan was prompted by the 
Directory to send word that he has left 
Florida and is now living at 1236 Salem 
Drive, Charlotte 9, N. C. He's back in 
textiles, connected with Barnhardt Mfg. 
Co. as a chemist. 

Several 1923 men working on the Brown 
University Fund lunched together at the 
University Club in Providence in February 
as guests of John Lownes. Others present 
were: Bill McCormick, John O'Brien, Junie 
Allen, Larry McCarthy, Nat Chase, and 
Chet Worthington. 

Stephen A. McClellan writes: "The 
BAM is apparently a lousy advertising 
medium. To date I have had no takers on 
the free room and board at Happy 'Valley 
(near Charlottesville, "Va.)." 

Capt. Marsden P. Earle, Jr., son of our 
classmate, was married on Dec. 27 to Miss 
Alexandra B. Boyd of Duxbury, Mass. 
They are stationed at Fort Sill. 

Charles L. Scanlon, late of Highland 
Park, Mich., is now in Menlo Park, Calif. 
(993 Santa Cruz Ave.). 



1924 

Edward R. Place, Information Officer 
for the St. Lawrence Seaway Development 
Corporation, presented a new Seaway 
color-sound film. Chapter 4 of "The 
Fourth Seacoast" series before 13 groups 
in Washington. D. C, recently. The film 
depicts highlights of the 1958 navigation 
season, including dedication ceremonies 
and inspection trips of President Eisen- 
hower and Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, 
Chief of Naval Operations. Perhaps the 
most important showing took place in the 
original Supreme Court chambers in the 
Capitol, where Senator Wiley of Wiscon- 
sin was host to members of Congress, their 
staff assistants, and the Capitol Hill press 
corps. 

S. Everett Wilkins, Jr., of Fram Corp., 
has been named to the Board of Managers 
of Associated Industries of Rhode Island. 
The association represents manufacturing 
and business firms from throughout the 
State. 

Quent Reynolds joined Jack Parr's 
"family" on one of the late-evening TV 
shows last winter. Some interesting anec- 
dotes came forth in a discussion of Quent's 
days as a correspondent in Europe and the 
Pacific during World War II. 

Wyndham Hayward of Winter Park, 
Fla., is a Director of the Hispanic Insti- 
tute of Florida and Chairman of its Pub- 
licity Committe. A member is Professor 
Emeritus Theodore Collier. 

Prof. Arlan R. Coolidge arranged a de- 
lightful program for his fellow members in 
the Providence Art Club in February. The 
University String Quartet gave a preview 
of its Alumnae Hall concert. Prof. David 
Laurent '49 sang some solos, and the Uni- 
versity Glee Club was also roundly ap- 
plauded. 

Robert H. Goflf, formerly Junior Warden 
of St. Martin's Church in Providence, was 
elected Senior Warden at the recent an- 
nual meeting. His predecessor was Edward 
Austin '26. 

1926 
Oliver H. P. Rodman is the New Eng- 
land representative for Sports Afield, Bos- 
ton. The concern acts as the representative 
in the New England area for The Sporting 
News, weekly baseball publication; The 
Sporting Goods Dealer, leading trade mag- 
azine in its field: and Sports Afield, one of 
the Hearst magazines. "Acting for the 
above in an advertising sales as well as an 
editorial capacity gives me the opportunity 



(and excellent excuse!) of following my 
favorite hobbies of hunting and fishing." 

Dr. Elmer R. Smith, Professor of Edu- 
cation at Brown University and a former 
assistant superintendent of schools in Provi- 
dence, is also serving informally as an 
aide to Governor Del Sesto. He is presently 
making a study of the proposed reorganiza- 
tion of the Department of Education. 

Myron Sulzberger, Jr., is attorney for 21 
present and former N. Y. Municipal Court 
justices seeking more than $200,000 in ac- 
cumulated back pay for pay cuts taken dur- 
ing the depression. A special law enacted 
by the State Legislature in 1955 specified 
that any elective official whose pay had 
been reduced by action of the City during 
the depression could collect the accumu- 
lated cuts. 

George Cassidy's son, Martin, is a can- 
didate for a Master's degree in Geology at 
the University of Oklahoma. A Lt. in the 
Air Force Reserve, he is living on the 
campus at Norman with his wife and two 
children. 

Samuel Karp was honored recently at a 
Washington, D. C, reception for members 
of the Anti-Trust Division of the Depart- 
ment of Justice. Karp is a division head 
and trial attorney for the Anti-Trust Divi- 
sion. His award was for "outstanding per- 
formance of duties and public service of 
the highest order over an extended period 
of time." 

Ralph R. Crosby resigned in February 
as Treasurer of the Rhode Island Golf 
Association. He had held that position for 
the past six years. Ralph, however, remains 
as Treasurer of the John P. Burke Memo- 
rial Fund, which provides scholarships for 
caddies in the State. 

1927 
Kenneth J. Hovey recently sold the 
Muzak distributing company which he has 
operated in Indianapolis for the last 10 
years. Audio Services, Inc., is the fourth 
largest Muzak distributorship in America 
and the largest one that has ever been sold. 
Purchasers were the Twin State Broad- 
casting Company, operators of WFBM and 
WFBM-TV and a subsidiary of Times, 
Inc. Hovey remains as President of an- 
other Indianapolis company. Audio Serv- 
ices Distributing Corporation, which is 
agent for RCA commercial electronic 
products throughout central Indiana. He 
is also Vice-President and Treasurer of 
Tri State Audio, Inc., located in Laconia, 
N. H., which transmits Muzak by FM 
radio at 50.000 watts to Maine, New 
Hampshire, and Vermont from facilities 
on the top of Mount Washington. Mr. and 
Mrs. Hovey were planning to move to Fort 
Myers, Fla., and make their home there. 

Daniel Lapolla has been renamed to a 
five-year term as a Democratic member of 
the Rhode Island State Board of Elections 
by Governor Del Sesto. His name topped 
the list submitted to the Governor by the 
Democratic State Chairman. 

Matthew Koly, Woonsocket attorney, 
has been named Legal Counsel to the 
Rhode Island State Department of Health. 
A graduate of the Boston University Law 
School in 1931, he was admitted to the 
Rhode Island Bar that year. During the 
Republican administration of former Gov. 
William H. Vanderbilt, he was workman's 
compensation hearing officer and legal ad- 
viser to the Department of Labor. 

Edwin Wintermute. of the State Journal 
(Lansing, Mich.) editorial staff, has taken 
over the duties of the newspaper's Book 
and Music Editor. Before coming to the 
paper, he had taught humanities at Mich- 
igan State University and had edited the 



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college press there. He previously had 
served on the staff of the Providence 
Journal and the Seattle Star. 

The Rev. Clifford Chadwick has as- 
sumed his duties as Priest-in-charge of the 
Episcopal Mission, Burlington, Mass. He 
is Associate Vicar of the Old North 
Church, Boston, and when he assumed his 
additional duties in Burlington he was then 
serving the oldest and newest churches in 
the Episcopal diocese of Massachusetts. 

Ale.x Maley, who has been President of 
Alexander Chemicals, tank-farm storage 
business in Chicago, announced this winter 
that his firm had been taken over in a 
merger move by the North American Car 
Corp. He has been named Vice-President 
of North American's new Chemical Divi- 
sion. 

1928 

The Class, in conjunction with the Uni- 
versity, has set up a Student Loan Fund 
with the money donated and pledged last 
June in honor of the 30th anniversary. 
The portion of the Fund which was not 
restricted by donors or the Class has been 
added to one gift made specially to estab- 
lish the Class of 1928 Student Loan Fund. 
Including pledges, the Fund now amounts 
to nearly $15,000. Undergraduates may 
draw loans from this Fund to help defray 
the expenses of their college education. No 
interest will be required until after gradu- 
ation. 

John B. Thayer, Director of Guidance 
at Cranston High School, was pictured in a 
recent issue of The Rhode Islander coun- 
seling one of his students on courses. 

Clint Owen, Reunion Chairman, and 
Al Lisker, Co-Chairman, are planning an 
off-year reunion which will start Friday, 
May 29. The annual Kent Matteson invita- 
tion has once again been extended for Fri- 
day evening, and classmates and their 
wives will be welcome at his home for 
cocktails and a buffet supper. Plans are 
being made to have a Class table at the 
Campus Dance on Friday evening as well 
as at the Alumni Field Day at Aldrich- 
Dexter Field on Saturday afternoon. Jack 
Heffernan will send out a mailing as soon 
as arrangements are complete. 

Judge Thomas J. Paolino of the Rhode 
Island Supreme Court appeared on the 




Kalamazoo's Quest 

When the Delta Chapter of 
Michigan, Phi Beta Kappa, was in- 
stalled at Kalamazoo College in 
December, it brought to a culmina- 
tion a movement with which Brown 
had long been connected. 

Dr. Justin H. Bacon '96, Emeri- 
tus Professor of French, one of the 
charter members, had worked on 
the project for some years. Dr. Ivor 
D. Spencer '32, Chairman of the 
Department of History and another 
charter member, had been since 
1946 the chairman of the faculty 
committee on a charter. Prof. Wil- 
liam T. Hastings '03 had passed 
upon the project favorably both as 
Chairman of the Committee on 
Qualifications and as President of 
the United Chapters. Dr. George V. 
Kendall '12, former Dean of the 
Faculty of Wabash College, and 
Dean Nancy Duke Lewis of Pem- 
broke both visited the Kalamazoo 
campus and gave the institution 
their approval as members of the 
Committee on Qualifications. Spen- 
cer is now Secretary-Treasurer of 
the Delta of Michigan. 



DEAN LAWTON PECKHAM '27 of Columbia 

came back in March to speak before Phi Beta 

Kappa. 



"This Is Your Life" TV show in February 
which honored his colleague. Justice Wil- 
liam E. Powers. Powers was the first blind 
person ever to be a subject for the nation- 
wide television show which originates from 
Hollywood. "The person who surprised me 
the most," said Powers, "was Judge Pao- 
lino, who didn't show up in court on Mon- 
day. Nobody seemed very upset by that at 
the time even though we had a full docket. 
Now I know why." 

1929 

Dr. Kenneth A. Scott, a Past President 
of the Rhode Island Osteopathic Society, 
was installed as President of the American 
College of Osteopathic Obstetricians and 
Gynecologists at the annual convention of 
that group in Detroit on Feb. 10. Dr. Scott 
is Chief of Staflt of the Osteopathic General 
Hospital, Cranston. 

Dr. Powel M. Dawley, Sub-Dean of the 
General Theological Seminary in New 
York City, has established family residence 
on the campus of the University of the 
South until the end of May. The noted 
Episcopal theologian, educator, lecturer, 
and author is making his home on the 
mountain site during the first part of a 
sabbatical leave. His wife and daughters 
are with him. The Seabury Press is pre- 
paring for publication the latest of a series 
of sketches of leading missionaries of the 
American Episcopate to the Anglican Com- 
munion entitled "Builders for Christ," and 
edited by Dr. Dawley. 

Edward Sulzberger's daughter on Jan. 5 
"gave birth to another potential Pern- 
broker, her third child, which she has 
named Penny." 

1930 

Jo Anne McFadden, daughter of the 
late John E. McFadden and Mrs. McFad- 
den. was the bride of Elliott Roosevelt, Jr., 
in Kenilworth, III., on Jan. 24. Mrs. Eleanor 
Roosevelt, the groom's grandmother, was 
among those present at the wedding. The 
couple will live in Fort Worth after Roose- 
velt finishes his Army tour. 

Ermand L. Watelet has been elected 



President of the American Ground Flat 
Stock Assn. for 1959. He is Superintendent, 
Precision Tool and Gage Group, at Brown 
& Sharpe Mfg. Co. 

Frederick K. Daggett is President of 
Flexible Tubing Corp., Guilford, Conn. He 
organized the concern in 1947. Previous to 
that time he had been Manager of the 
Spiratube Division of Warner Brothers 
Co. Fred is a Trustee of Williston Acad- 
emy and a past Commodore of the Eastern 
Connecticut Yacht Racing Association. 

Dr. David Freedman reported at the 
annual meeting of Miriam Hospital in 
Providence as President of the Medical 
Staff Association. He outlined plans for a 
major research project — rebuilding dam- 
aged hearts. Involved are the use of cardiac 
drugs and the heart pump in open heart 
surgery. Daniel Jacobs '31 is Secretary of 
the Hospital Board. The institution con- 
templates a 160-bed addition. 

1931 

Robert F. Eddy has been appointed 
Purchasing Agent for the State of Rhode 
Island by Governor Del Sesto. He resigned 
his position as Treasurer of Tillinghast- 
Stiles Co., Providence yarn merchants, to 
take the new position, but he subsequently 
was elected Chairman of the Board. Bob 
went to work for the company as a sales- 
man in 1932 and had been its Treasurer 
since 1939. In addition, he is President of 
the Association of Yam Distributors of 
Philadelphia, President of the Caldwell 
Cotton Mill Co. of Lenoir, N. C, and 
holds directorships in several textile mills. 
His new position is rated one of the top 
jobs in the State government. As Purchas- 
ing Agent, he will direct the spending of 
millions of dollars for almost everything 
the State buys, from new freeways to 
thumb tacks. 

Dr. William F. Murphy, Psychoanalyst 
and Clinical Professor at Harvard, dis- 
cussed Freudian theories at the eighth 
meeting of the Institute of Adult Studies 
at Temple Beth El, Fall River, in January. 
In addition to his duties at Harvard, Dr. 
Murphy has a private practice and is a 
part-time Staff Psychiatrist at the Boston 
VA Hospital. 

John T. Dolan has been elected Vice- 
President-Director of Engineering at Bauer 
& Co., Hartford. He came to the company 
in 1955 after service with Westcott & 
Mapes, New Haven. 

jjector D. Laudati, Providence attorney 
and Chairman of the City Council Finance 
Committee, served as a member of the 
Providence Committee on Municipal Rev- 
enue. The group recommended a gradu- 
ated State income tax. 

Brig. Gen. Waldo H. Fish, Jr., was host 
in February at a dinner in honor of the 
new R. I. Adjutant General, Maj. Gen. 
Daniel S. T. Hinman. Among other Bru- 
nonians photographed by the Providence 
Journal at the time were Maj. Gen. Chester 
A. Files (ret.) '14 and Prof. Robert W. 
Kenny '25 in his capacity as Brigadier 
General, commanding the 76th Division 
Artillery. 

Dr. Ralph D. Richardson's son John was 
Captain of the Moses Brown football team 
last fall. In recognition of its untied-unde- 
feated record, he was allowed to choose a 
holiday for the whole school and selected 
Feb. 20 to allow a four-day week end. 

Daniel R. Mclver has been renamed 
Honorary Chairman of the Rhode Island 
Multiple Sclerosis Society. 

Paul Monahan is Treasurer of Seven-Up 
Bottling Co., East Hartford. The firm has 
a new home under construction at 1080 
Silas Deane Highway, Wethersfield, Conn. 



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53 




ROBERT V. CRONAN '31 




LOUIS SMADBECK '42 

ROBERT V. Cronan, '31 and Louis 
Smadbeck, '42 have been elected Di- 
rectors of the Charles F. Noyes Company, 
Inc., prominent New York City real estate 
firm. William B. Falconer, President of the 
60-year-old brokerage and management 
concern, reported recently that the two 
brokers, already Vice-Presidents of the 
Company, were among the six elected by 
the stockholders as the first step in plans 
to expand and broaden the Company's ac- 
tivities in commercial and industrial real 
estate. 

Both Brunonians have been with the real 
estate organization since being graduated 
from the University. Except for a three- 
year tour of duty in the U. S. Navy, 
Cronan has been handling industrial sales 
and leases for the past 28 years. Smadbeck 
has specialized in investment sales during 
15 years with the Company, except for a 
two-year period between 1950 and 1952 
when, as a Captain in the U. S. Army Re- 
serve, he was recalled for service in the 
Army Security Agency and was stationed 
in Japan and Korea. He is married to the 
former Justine Tyrrell, Pembroke '42. 



1932 

Tom Eccleston, hockey coach at Provi- 
dence College for the past three seasons, 
was given a new two-year contract at the 
conclusion of the past campaign. Colum- 
nist John Hanlon of the Providence Eve- 
ning Bulletin stated: "Providence College 
made a good move in getting Tom Eccles- 
ton signed on for two more seasons as 
hockey coach. The troubles the Friars have 
had this season have nothing to do with 
coaching. Eccleston, in fact, is probably 
among the three or four most competent 
coaches at the college level today." 

Richard A. Hurley, father of Richard A. 
Hurley. Jr., died in February. He was a 
founder and President Emeritus of the 
Providence Real Estate Board, who had 
been active in the leadership of many civic, 
church, and professional programs. 

Charles H. Spilman continues as Assist- 
ant Managing Editor of the Providence 
Journal. His daughter, Mrs. Carolyn Howe, 
a graduate of the Rhode Island School of 
Design, is editorial assistant on the Staff of 
the Brown Alumni Monthly. 

1933 

Russ Davy has been in Paris the past 
year as an Executive Accountant of the 
Free Europe Committee, Inc., Paris Divi- 
sion. He writes: "Helen and I are enjoying 
the experience very much and are capital- 
izing on it in every way. We are improving 
our knowledge of French and of the French 
and their somewhat different outlook on 
many important things. Once in a while 
we take trips to Belgium, Switzerland, and 
other countries." 

Owen F. Walker is associated vv-ith 
Thompson, Hine & Flory, with law offices 
at 1100 National City Bank Bldg., Cleve- 
land. 

William Allyn, New England Telephone 
and Telegraph Executive, is Chairman of 
the School Committee in Wakefield, Mass. 
He is active in other community affairs, 
having been Chairman of the Cancer Cam- 
paign in 1956 and a member of the local 
United Fund Campaign last year. 

William J. Gilbane is Co-Chairman of 
the National Council of Christians and 
Jews for Southern New England. 

William G. Bradshaw is a newly-elected 
Vestryman of St. Martin's Church in Provi- 
dence. 

1934 

Clyde B. Gordon has been elected As- 
sistant Vice-President and Assistant Secre- 
tary of Monarch Life Insurance Co. of 
Springfield, Mass. He joined Monarch as a 
Claim Examiner in 1934 and became 
Agency Secretary in 1940. He was ap- 
pointed Manager of Policyholders' Service 
in 1948, the same year in which he became 
a Director. 

Arthur K. Smart, Editor of Smart's Con- 
fidential Insurance Bulletin in San Fran- 
cisco, is among those being considered for 
the post of California Insurance Commis- 
sioner. The final decision rests in the hands 
of newly-elected Governor Edmund G. 
Brown. Arthur has a background which in- 
cludes activity in politics. Upon the day of 
his graduation from Brown he became a 
candidate for and was elected to the New 
Hampshire House of Representatives. In 
1940 he became the first Democrat since 
the Civil War ever to be elected to the 
New Hampshire Senate from his district. 
For the past year and a half he has been 
publishing his own weekly insurance bulle- 
tin. 

Robert L. Smith is a Chemical Engineer 
with the Research Department of S. D. 



Warren Co., Westbrook, Me. He had been 
employed by the paper manufacturing firm 
in Michigan prior to moving to the Maine 
location a decade ago. 

Lewis A. Sumberg has announced his 
association in the general practice of law 
under the firm name of Sumberg, Leonard 
& Leone, with offices at 100 State St., Al- 
bany, N. Y. Lew represented the Brown 
Club of Northeastern New York at the 
annual Alumni Advisory Council at Brown 
in February. 

Hollis E. Grant. Organist at St. Stephen's 
Church in Providence and Director of the 
University Glee Club, was one of the 
judges for Brown's annual award of the 
Wassili Leps Foundation Prize for orig- 
inal musical compositions. The winner was 
Mrs. Marie L. Viera of Providence, with 
honorable mention to a Brown Junior, Al- 
vin Curran. Grant was the organist when 
the Canterbury Choir of Brown students 
sang for the first time on March 1 an orig- 
inal musical setting for the Holy Eucharist, 
written by Robert Rogers, Brown Senior 
whose composition was his Honors thesis. 

1935 

The Rev. Edwin H. Tuller came back to 
Rhode Island in January to preach at a 
service of the Central Baptist Church in 
Providence, which he attended while an 
undergraduate. He is Associate General 
Secretary of the American Baptist Con- 
vention. 

Israel Weisman, Comptroller of Lodding 
Engineering Corp., Auburn, Mass., spoke 
on "Is Profit Sharing Worthwhile?" at the 
January monthly meeting of the Society of 
Advancement of Management in Worces- 
ter. Lodding began profit-sharing in 1953, 
made some changes in the program at the 
start of 1955, and has operated the plan 
unchanged since then. He was an Internal 
Revenue agent specializing in the examina- 
tion of corporation tax returns before join- 
ing Lodding in 1952. 

Robert S. Ford has been reelected Dep- 
uty Assistant Secretary of the Taft-Peirce 
Mfg. Co., Woonsocket, R. I. 

Fred Avis, Director of the Science De- 
partment at St. Mark's School, Southboro, 
Mass., has been elected Treasurer of the 
Prep-School Division of the New England 
Intercollegiate Lacrosse League. 

William T. Broomhead, Rhode Island 
State GOP Chairman, was the featured 
speaker at a monthly luncheon at the 
Brown Faculty Club in February. The af- 
fair was sponsored by the Classes of 1950 
and 1951. 

1936 

John W. Tukey, Professor of Mathemat- 
ics at Princeton University since 1950 and 
a member of the Mathematical Research 
Department of Bell Telephone Labora- 
tories, has been appointed Assistant Direc- 
tor of Research in Communications Prin- 
ciples at the Laboratories. Dr. Tukey joined 
the technical staff of Bell Laboratories in 
1945. His work has covered development 
of new statistical techniques, broad analy- 
sis and synthesis problems related to com- 
plex weapons systems, and other problems 
with mathematical or statistical aspects. 
He continues to teach at Princeton. 

Gordon E. Cadwgan, a partner in the 
firm of G. H. Walker & Co., Providence, 
discussed "The Business Outlook and the 
Securities Market in 1959" at a February 
meeting of the Rhode Island Assn. of 
Credit Men. 

Dr. C. D. Hawkes of Memphis, Tenn., 
was elected President of the Southern 
Neurosurgical Society at a recent meeting 



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of that group in Miami. Dr. Hawkes had 
served as Secretary of the Society for the 
past three years. He is Associate Professor 
of Neurology and Assistant Professor of 
Neurological Surgery at the University of 
Tennessee College of Medicine. 

Edward E. Androvette has been named 
Assistant Director for Publicity in the 
N. H. State Planning and Development 
Commission. He served as a publicity 
writer with the Commission for 15 months 
in 1955-56, leaving his position to become 
Secretary to Governor Lane Dwinell. 

Donald D. Dummer has been named to 
the University of Rhode Island Adult Edu- 
cation Faculty as an E.\tension Lecturer in 
Insurance. He is employed by the Provi- 
dence Washington Insurance Co. 

Walter E. Rollins is Supervisor of Screw- 
Machine Sales Projects for Brown & 
Sharpe Mfg. Co. 

Dr. M. Price Margolies is Cardiologist 
and Chief of Medical Service at the Coates- 
ville (Pa.) Hospital. He served as Ad- 
vanced Gifts Chairman for the 1959 Heart 
Fund in his community. 

Paul Connly served as Chairman for the 
Welcome-Home dinner for Brown's new 
head football coach, John McLaughry. The 
affair, which was sponsored by the Brown 
Club of Rhode Island, was held at the 
Sharpe Refectory on March 20. 

Walter G. Barney is Senior Warden of 
St. Michael's Church in Rumford, R. I. 
He was pictured in the press in February 
with his new Rector. 

1937 

Evan Crossley has been Judge of the 
Juvenile Court for Washington County, 
Hagerstown, Md., for nearly seven years. 
The Court has jurisdiction over all juvenile 
offenses by offenders up to the age of 18, 
plus jurisdiction over all cases of nonsupport 
or adults contributing to delinquency, de- 
pendency, and neglect. The Court regularly 
handles more than 200 formal juvenile and 
400 formal adult cases each year, as well 
as 500 informal juvenile and family mat- 
ters. The successful use of group training 
for delinquents and their parents was de- 
scribed in Judge Crossley's article last 
summer in Federal Probation Magazine, 



Interviewing Seniors 

Corporations by the score con- 
tinue to send representatives to the 
Brown Campus to interview Seniors 
who are considering their careers 
after graduation. Appointments are 
arranged through the Office of Sen- 
ior Placement and Mrs. Hope Broth- 
ers, its Director. Often a Brown 
alumnus with the company is in- 
cluded in the delegation that comes 
to College Hill for such interviews. 

Among those who visited Brown 
in this capacity in February were: 
Robert Anderson '51, Procter & 
Gamble; J. M. Driscoll '25, Con- 
solidated Edison; Richard Gage '51, 
Alcoa; David Yeaton '51 and Robert 
Peabody '50, Aetna Life; Roger 
Elton '33, Vice-President of the 
Manufacturing Trust Co. of New 
York; Stephen Garratt '49, Per- 
sonnel Assistant, Connecticut Gen- 
eral; Frank P. Ring '24, Basement 
Divisional Selling Superintendent, 
Filene's of Boston; and Joshua 
Tobey '50, Eastern Personnel Rep- 
resentative, Sears Roebuck. 




now reprinted. Such group training for 
parents and children, he is convinced, is 
"an efficient and economical method of 
reducing delinquency." The Judge has 
written a book of experience stories, "Tips 
for Teens," publication of which is pend- 
ing. 

Prof. Bruce R. Gordon, Chairman of 
the Department of Romance Languages at 
Emory University, has been named Profes- 
sor-in-charge of the 1959-60 Junior Year 
in France. As an undergraduate, he studied 
in Paris under the Junior Year Program, at 
that time administered by the University 
of Delaware. Sweet Briar College took it 
over in 1948. Gordon led a student tour 
through France several summers ago. 

David R. McGovern, Deputy City Treas- 
urer in Providence, was a member of the 
special Committee on Municipal Revenue 
that recommended a graduated State in- 
come tax for Rhode Island. 

Jackson Skillings, in the Providence of- 
fice of Equitable Life Assurance Company, 
earned a certificate in February for com- 
pleting a two-week field school on estate 
planning sponsored by the Home Office 
Training Department. 

Fred E. Strong, Manager of the M-A-C 
Plan, Rochester. N. H., has been elected 
President of the Greater Rochester Cham- 
ber of Commerce. He had been Treasurer 
of the organization. Active in community 
affairs, Fred is Past President of both the 
Strafford Lenders' Exchange and the New 
Hampshire Consumer Finance Association. 

1938 

Lloyd F. Taylor has been named Execu- 
tive Assistant to the President of Casco 
Products Corp., Bridgeport, Conn. Prior to 



joining Casco. he was associated with the 
Industrial Relations Division of the Bridge- 
port Brass Co. 

Frank Licht, Associate Justice of the 
R. I. Superior Court, is teaching a course 
in business law in the evening division of 
Bryant College in the current term. 

John A. Donley has been named Vice- 
President of Ken R. White Consulting En- 
gineers, Denver. He resigned as Consultant 
with the Southwestern Portland Cement 
Co. to accept the position. He will be in 
charge of business development for the 
engineering firm. 

William Sadowsky, Treasurer of Wil- 
liams Distributing Co., Springfield, Mass., 
won a 1959 convertible for top sales record 
in his area. The executive of the beer-dis- 
tributing firm received the keys to the car 
at the annual national sales convention at 
the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York. 

Irving W. Lemaux, Jr., President of the 
Indiana Brush & Broom Mfg. Co., Indi- 
anapolis, has been elected to the Board of 
Directors of the Columbia Club. Active in 
the community, he is a member of the 
Woodstock Country Club, the Dramatic 
Club, and the Indiana Society of Chicago. 

Dr. Howard A. Blazar has removed his 
office for the practice of ophthalmology to 
1 101 Beacon St., Brookline, Mass. 

Sam Hall placed seventh in the Men's 
Division of the 1959 Rhode Island Down- 
hill Skiing Championships held at North 
Conway. N. H., in January. 

1939 

Ralph P. Semonoff of Semonoff & Se- 
monoff. Union Trust Bldg., Providence, 
was elected President of the Urban League 
of Rhode Island at the group's 20th annual 
dinner-meeting in February. 



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55 



1940 

The men of '40 are proud to have John 
McLaughry back at Brown as head foot- 
ball coach. He is the first alumnus to guide 
the football destinies at the University 
since his father replaced Edward North 
Robinson '96 in 1925. Good luck, John! 

Col. John D. Prodgers, Director of Pro- 
curement at Wright Air Development Cen- 
ter, Wright-Patterson AFB, O., has been 
reassigned to Headquarters of the Air Re- 
search and Development Command, An- 
drews AFB, Md., where he will serve in 
the same capacity. John entered the service 
as a flying cadet in 1940 and was commis- 
sioned a Second Lieutenant in 1941. He 
served as Staff Judge Advocate in the 
Japan Air Material Area in 1947 and again 
in 1951. His decorations include the Bronze 
Star. 

Harry Piatt has been appointed Sales 
Manager in charge of transparent plastic 
packaging for the C. J. Fox Co., Provi- 
dence. 

Dr. Floyd T. Gould took a position last 
fall as a Physicist in the Experimental 
Group at Knolls Atomic Power Labora- 
tory (G.E.), Schenectady, N. Y. For the 
past five years he had been Staff Scientist 
at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. 

Harold W. Pfautz has been named to 
the Board of Directors of the Urban League 
of Rhode Island for a three-year term. 

Norman S. Case, Jr., attorney, is Presi- 
dent of the Rotary Club in Bethel, Vt. 

Robert Logan has been named Execu- 
tive Vice-President of the Interstate Vend- 
ing Co., Chicago. He had been a partner 
in the Chicago law firm of Sonnenschein. 
Lautman, Levinson, Rieser, Carlin, and 
Nath. Interstate Vending Company is the 
second largest industrial vending concern 
in the United States, with 64 subsidiaries 
in 20 states from coast to coast. 

Irving Twommey has been assigned as 
Chief of Test-Operations in the Research 
Department of United Aircraft Corpora- 
tion, Manchester, Conn. He has spent nine 
years with the firm supervising transonic 
and supersonic aerodynamic testing and 
designing of test equipment and wind tun- 
nels. 

1941 

George Hurley, Jr., came back to the 
States for a brief furlough in February 
and was able to spend the Washington's 
Birthday week end in Providence in addi- 
tion to his official business in Washington, 
D. C. He expects his Government duties 
in England to continue through Christmas, 
perhaps through June, 1960. 

Harry A. Dinham has been promoted 
from Assistant Trust Officer to Trust In- 
vestment Officer of the Merchants Na- 
tional Bank of Mobile. He entered the 
bank's employ in 1952 after 11 years as 
investment adviser and analyst with the 
Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust 
Co. of Chicago. He is a member of the 
National Association of Financial Ana- 
lysts. He's been brought up to date on 
Brown through recent contacts with 
Charles Batchelder '58. 

Charles Weisbecker has been promoted 
to the position of Southeast Regional Car 
Merchandising Manager in the Southeast 
Regional Sales Office, Ford Division, Ford 
Motor Co. His headquarters will be in 
Drexel Hill, Pa. He had been Business 
Management Department Manager in the 
Philadelphia District Sales Office. 

John R. Gosnell has been named Second 
Vice-President and Assistant Treasurer by 
the Massachusetts Protective Association, 



Inc., and the Paul Revere Life Insurance 
Co. He has been associated with the 
Worcester companies for the past 12 years. 

Charles Bechtold, Manager of the Provi- 
dence branch of the American Surety 
Company of New York, served as South 
County Chairman of the 1959 Heart Fund 
Drive. 

John DeMello, Jr., is Chairman of the 
School Committee in East Falmouth, Mass. 
He has been a member of the board for 
eight years. 

1942 

Prof. Arnold M. Soloway of the Eco- 
nomics Department at Harvard spoke be- 
fore the Wellesley Club in February. His 
topic was "Massachusetts Tax Tangle." 
Arnie has had extensive experience in this 
field, having served as Research Consultant 
to the New York Metropolitan Region 
Project, as Consultant to the International 
Program in Taxation at Harvard Law 
School, as a member of the Mayor's Fi- 
nance Committee of Boston, and as a 
member of the Consumers' Council, ad- 
visory body to the Attorney General of 
Massachusetts. For the past two years he 
has been E.xecutive Editor of Business 
Scope and Editor of the Monthly Business 
Letter of the Merchants National Bank, 
Boston. Soloway was quoted in "Harvard 
in Epigram," a feature of the Harvard 
Alumni Bulletin in February: "The city of 
Boston, as it's presently administered, is a 
sponge." 

William C. Giles received the Republi- 
can nomination for Planning Board mem- 
ber in Springfield, Mass. He is a partner in 
the law firm of Buckley, Richardson, God- 
frey, and Burbank and is Associate Gen- 
eral Counsel of Monarch Life Insurance 
Co. 

Raymond T. Leary, Sales Manager of 
the Distributor Division of Cornell-Du- 
bilier Electric Corporation, has been 
elected a Vice-President. He has been with 
the company since 1946, serving his ap- 
prenticeship in its Chicago office and then 



"Lock-and-Key" Chemistry 

"It's distressing," Dr. John F. 
Brown, Jr., '47 said in General Elec- 
tric's full-page ads in February, "to 
know that even the lowliest amoeba 
is much better at performing chemi- 
cal syntheses than the chemist is. 
The big difference between nature's 
chemistry and man's is the ability — 
or lack of it — to fit things together 
precisely." 

An organic chemist at the GE Re- 
search Laboratory, Dr. Brown serves 
as manager of the reaction-studies 
unit. He and his associates are ex- 
ploring a variety of unusual tech- 
niques for making organic molecules 
fit together as a key fits a lock. An 
example is their work with canal 
complexes, strange organic crystal 
structures much like a honeycomb. 
When the "honey" is polymerized — 
linked together — the regular walls of 
the honeycomb serve as "molecular 
templates," forming a polymer with 
precise and ordered structure. Chem- 
ically specific synthesis is one of the 
great scientific "barrier problems" 
being attacked by chemists and biol- 
ogists. GE presented Dr. Brown as 
the type of man who is seeking out 
new knowledge in the area. 



moving to the main office at South Plain- 
field, N. J. 

Edmund J. Bennett was among the six 
builders in the United States who received 
design merit awards at a recent conven- 
tion of the National Association of Home 
Builders in Chicago. Bennett is a builder 
in the Washington, D. C, area, where his 
latest project is Flint Hill, a 40-home sub- 
division in the Bethesda area. 

1943 

Francis Finn, Purchasing Agent at Pur- 
due University, is serving as Vice-President 
of the Faculty Club there. He also is Vice- 
President of the local Purchasing Agents 
Association. He reports that his job is still 
a challenge, with new problems of pro- 
curement occurring in such areas as nu- 
clear engineering, TV equipment for class- 
room teaching, a new School of Industrial 
Management, and a new School of Veteri- 
nary Science and Medicine, which has 
opened a whole new and strange field from 
scalpels and butcher knives to operating 
tables for cows. In addition, a new Food 
Stores Building was completed in February 
and is under the management of the Pur- 
chasing Department. 

Gordon T. Neale has been elected an 
Assistant Vice-President of the Rhode Is- 
land Hospital Trust Company. He has been 
with the bank since 1955, having previ- 
ously been with Textron and Price, Water- 
house & Co. He was made an Assistant 
Secretary at the bank in 1957. 

Charles P. Littlefield has been named a 
Commercial Loan Officer of the Union 
Commerce Bank, Cleveland, O., where he 
has been employed for the past year. His 
previous experience includes several years 
with New York's Chase Bank, where he 
was Senior Credit Analyst and a position 
of Assistant Auditor with the Iowa Electric 
Light and Power Co. 

Kingsley Meyer, Vice-President of Hor- 
ton. Church & Goff, Inc., Providence, was 
a guest on the WEAN show. Radio Press 
Conference, in January. He was inter- 
viewed in connection with his position as 
Chairman of a "Politics in Action" sem- 
inar to encourage Rhode Island business- 
men to be more active politically. 

1944 

Stanley E. Snyder is the Director of So- 
cial Service for the Rosa Coplon Jewish 
Home and Infirmary, Buffalo, N. Y. He is 
living at 288 Hartwell Road in that city. 

Bruce Remick attended the Advisory 
Council Week End at the University in 
February and enjoyed talking football shop 
with a former teammate, Oscar Milner '43. 
Bruce was the fullback and Oscar an end 
on the successful 1942 eleven. 

Prof. Howard Baetzhold of Butler Uni- 
versity attended the annual meeting of the 
Modern Languages Association of America 
in New York in late December. 

1945 

Dr. Donald E. Andersen, a Research Su- 
pervisor with E. I. du Pont de Nemours, 
Inc., is in the Research Division of the 
Neoprene Works in Louisville, Ky. 

Dr. Frank H. Horton is President of the 
Lutz Junior Museum Board of Trustees, 
Manchester, Conn. The museum was 
started six years ago by Miss Hazel P. 
Lutz, Art Supervisor for the Manchester 
School System, when she sent letters to 
every child's home asking for contributions 
of articles of interest to children. Last year, 
a group of townspeople, headed by Horton, 
took over the problem of transforming the 
school project into a town museum. 



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CLASS SECRETARIES and their representatives who attended their Associa- 
tion's meeting on Feb. 7: Front row, left to right— John W. Moore '16, Ed- 
ward S. Spicer '10, Edwin C. Harris, 2nd, '29, Chairman Earl W. Harring- 
ton, Jr., '41, Doniel Folrchild '45, Chorles A. Andrews, Jr., '51, Vice-Chairman 
Martin L. Torpy '37, Robert W. Kenyon '36, Bruce L. Fowler '58. Second 
row— Ralph B. Mills '28, Edmund J. Farrell '30, Richard A. Hurley, Jr., '32, 
Nathaniel B. Chose '23, Earl W. Harrington '14, Earl B. Arnold '11, Peter 
F. McNeish '59. Third row— John J. Mozzochi '31, Rollond H. Jones '49, 



Everett J. Horton '02, C. Roy Grinnell '08, Irving G. Loxley '27, Alfred H. 
Joslin '35. Fourth row— Secretary Robert Cummings '50, Alfred H. Gurney 
'07, C. Edward Kiely '50, Walter Adier '18, Earl M. Pearce '17, Richard J. 
Tracy '46. Fifth row— Franklin A. Hurd '33, Alfred Mochau '21, William T. 
Hastings '03, J. Wilbur Riker '22, Robert Thomas '38, Henry S. Chofee '09. 
Sixth row — David Davidson '05, Robert Radwoy '43, William M. McSweeney 
'19, William Victor '62, Arthur Anderson '61, Treasurer Clinton N. Williams 
'31, and T. Brenton Bullock '38. 



1946 

Joseph Penner has been named Town 
Manager of Harbour Heights, Fla., a com- 
munity located between Fort Myers and 
Sarasota on Florida's West Coast. Since 
leaving college, Joe has operated numerous 
camps throughout the country. He also 
served as a member of the Board of Edu- 
cation of Upper Saddle River, N. J. He 
is one of the youngest Town Managers in 
the country. 

Elmer W. Liebsch, Jr., attorney, has ac- 
cepted a position as instructor in negotiable 
instruments with the Boston Chapter, Inc., 
American Institute of Banking. The Insti- 
tute's educational section of the American 
Bankers Association is the largest adult 
education organization in the world. 

Dan Sargent has been appointed Vice- 
President of Manufacturers Trust Co., Dar- 
ien, Conn. He was appointed an Assistant 
Treasurer of the firm in 1955 and an As- 
sistant Vice-President the next year. At the 
present time he heads the division which 
handles the bank's business in Michigan, 
Kentucky, Ohio, and Pittsburgh. 

Johnny Bach coached the Fordham 
Rams to victory in six of the last eight 
games and a position in the National Invi- 
tation Basketball Tournament at Madison 
Square Garden March 12-21. The Rams" 
victims included Yale, Syracuse, Pitts- 
burgh, George Washington, and Army. A 
year ago they were eliminated in the quar- 
ter-finals of the N.I.T. by Dayton Univer- 
sity. 



The Rev. Emil A. Ahokas has left Sleepy 
Eye, Minn., and is Minister of the First 
Congregational Church in New Rockford, 
N. D. 

1947 

Robert H. Diamond has been elected 
Vice-President of Michael Investment Co., 
Inc., Providence. He had been affiliated 
with the New York Stock Exchange firm 
of Hawkes & Co. of New York City as 
general partner. 

Richard H. Bube was involved in two 
elections in February. On Feb. 6 he was 
elected an Elder in Calvary Orthodox Pres- 
byterian Church in Ringoes, N. J., where 
he has been a teacher and lay preacher for 
years. Then, on Feb. 10, he was elected to 
the School Board of Hillsborough Town- 
ship in Somerset County, N. J. Dr. Bube is 
a Research Physicist specializing in solid 
state at the RCA Laboratories in Prince- 
ton, N. J. 

Dr. Charles H. Watts, II, Dean of the 
College at Brown, has been awarded the 
Distinguished Service Award of the Bar- 
rington Junior Chamber of Commerce. Dr. 
Watts, a resident of Barrington for six 
years, was presented the award for his 
prominence and active participation in 
community affairs. He served as Chairman 
of the Citizens League which supported 
the town's home rule charter and as Chair- 
man of the 1957 United Fund Campaign. 

Bernard C. Gladstone served on a spe- 
cial committee of the Rhode Island Bar 
Association which drew up a schedule of 



suggested minimum fees to be charged by 
lawyers in the association. 

Joseph C. Cicchelli and James A. Howell 
have formed an association for the practice 
of architecture and interior design with an 
office at 388 Benefit St., Providence 3. The 
firm name: Cicchelli-Howell, Associates. 
James and Marie Howell recently received 
an award citation from Progressive Archi- 
tecture for designing the School of Crafts 
for Haystack Mountain School, Deer Isle, 
Me. 

Kenneth Gavitt has been having his first 
northern winter in many years, living at 
Brenton Village, Newport. He's Executive 
Officer of the new Destroyer Barry, which 
was in overhaul in Boston in February. 
Gavitt made Lt. Comdr. in 1956 and has 
had 18 years of service in the Navy, which 
included two years at Brown with the V-12 
program. After being commissioned he 
went to destroyers for the next seven years, 
then attended the Naval Mine School in 
1952 and specialized in mines, command- 
ing a division of minesweepers for 18 
months. Later he was Mines OflRcer on the 
staff of Commander Mine Force, Atlantic 
Fleet. 

Kirby J. Smith is a psychologist attached 
to the Children's Unit of the Eastern Penn- 
sylvania Psychiatric Institute in Philadel- 
phia. 

1948 

Harry K. Sleicher has been elected Presi- 
dent of Seaboard Foundry, Inc., of John- 
ston, R. I. He succeeds his father, who has 



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57 



been elected Senior President. Harry's 
brother, Robert S. Sleicher "48, who has 
been serving as Secretary, will replace him 
as Vice-President. 

Dr. Domenic A. Vavala had an early 
April date to speak on "Science and Lib- 
eral Education" in Houston before a meet- 
ing of the Presidents of church-related 
colleges and universities. He recently re- 
ceived his sixth degree, an M.Ed, from the 
University of Houston. 

Alfred M. Silverstein has announced his 
association in the general practice of law 
under the name of Needham, Silverstein, 
Gnys, and LaFazia. The offices are located 
at 530 Industrial Bank Bldg., Providence. 

William F. Long, Jr., of Fall River has 
been appointed Assistant Attorney General 
in Massachusetts. He has been a practicing 
attorney since 1952. 

Charles H. Pinkham, Vice-President and 
Director of the Sherrard Hotel organiza- 
tion, has been elected to the Board of Di- 
rectors of the First Federal Savings and 
Loan Association of Boston. Formerly 
manager of the Parker House in Boston, 
he's been at the Eastern Slope in North 
Conway, N. H., this past winter. 

1949 

Philip C. Steiger, Jr., took over his new 
duties as Divisional Merchandising Man- 
ager for the ready-to-wear clothes in the 
Hartford and Springfield stores of Albert 
Steiger, Inc., on Feb. 2. Active in the com- 
munity, Philip is President of the Retail 
Trade Board in Hartford and is a former 
Director of the Hartford Chamber of Com- 
merce. 

Bruce L. Williamson was elected a Ves- 
tryman at the annual meeting of St. Mar- 
tin's Church in Providence in January. 

Mars J. Bishop, a Sales Representative 
working out of the New York office of 
Tillinghast-Stiles Co., Providence yarn 
merchants, has been elected Treasurer of 
the concern by its Board of Directors. He 
has replaced Robert F. Eddy '31, who re- 
signed to become Purchasing Agent of the 
State of Rhode Island. Mars joined the 
company in 1954 after service as a Marine 
Corps officer. Since that time, he served 
as a Sales Representative in the New Eng- 
land area and more recently has worked 
out of the New York office, selling in both 
New York and New England. 

Lynn Carter has been named Superin- 
tendent of the Defense Products Group in 
the Hydraulics Division of Brown & Sharpe 
Mfg. Co., Providence. He had been Direc- 
tor of Purchases. 

Lt. John P. Cady, Jr., who was assigned 
to the Seawolf as Assistant Engineering 
Officer, was one of the crew during the rec- 
ord-breaking 60-day cruise beneath the 
North Atlantic. 

1950 

Tony Travisono has been appointed Su- 
perintendent of the Rhode Island Training 
School for Boys. Formerly Assistant Exec- 
utive Director of the Big Brothers of 
Rhode Island, he assumed his new duties 
on Feb. 20. Tony holds a Master's degree 
from the Boston University School of So- 
cial Work. 

Stanley B. Thomas has been named Sec- 
retary-Treasurer of the Rhode Island Tex- 
tile Association. An assistant to the holder 
of this position since 1957, he formerly 
was associated with the General Motors 
Acceptance Corp. as a credit man. 

Stephen F. Burke, Jr., has been named 
"Supervisor of the Year" by the Winslow 
Cobb Agency of the Connecticut Mutual 
Life in Boston. He entered the Winslow 
Cobb Agency as a full-time agent in 1951 




BIG BROTHERS: Brown men currently active in the Rhode Island program are, left to right: Benjamin 

W. McKendall Jr., '52, Frank A. Sternberg '50, Andrew P. Swonson '50, Col. Maurice A. Wolf '14, 

President, Peter P. Gillis '52, John De Pasquale '53, Anthony P. Travisono '50, and Haig Barsomion '44, 

Thirty-nine other alumni hove taken port in the agency's work since its local founding in 1953. 



and was appointed Brokerage Supervisor 
in 1954. 

Harold Garabedian is a nuclear engineer 
in the Electric Boat Division, General Dy- 
namics Corp. Research and Development. 
Groton, Conn. He is living at 15 Nipsah 
Rd., East Greenwich. R. I. 

Paul Fairbrook is Manager of the Hous- 
ing and Food Service Departments at 
Northern Illinois University, De Kalb, 111. 
He reports the campus life as "pleasant but 
at times hectic." 

Emil John, who has been doing mission- 
ary work with the Methodist Church in 
Austria for the past three years, has re- 
turned to Providence and is an Assistant to 
the City Editor at the Providence Journal. 
He had been a sports writer for the paper 
before going to Austria. Emil was pre- 
sented an award at the annual Sports Night 
of Words Unlimited, association of Rhode 
Island and Southeastern Massachusetts 
sports writers and sportscasters. He was 
the recipient of the Class of 1950 Achieve- 
ment Award in 1957. 

Ray Henshaw has worked in the New 
Jersey Division of Standard Oil Company 
of New Jersey since graduation, except for 
a short hitch in Korea. He and his wife, 
Barbara, have built, largely with their own 
hands, a very attractive home on the face 
of one of the Ramapo Mountain ranges. 
The work includes a king-size swimming 
pool with a 15-mile valley view. The pool 
with the view has a special attraction for 
their two children, Allan Munroe (5) and 
Robin Ann (16 mo.), and their two dogs. 

Bill Henshaw, Ray's brother, works for 
the Shell Oil Company, in the Newark, 
N. J., district. Bill married Ann Robinson, 
sister of Ray's wife, Barbara. Bill also has 
two children, Susan Ann (6) and Gail (4). 

Robert Ross is with Francis I. duPont & 
Co., members of the New York Stock Ex- 
change, in the Account Executive training 
program. He will be located at One Wall 
St., New York, through July 3 and then 
will be moved to a permanent position in 
the Phoenix office. 

Jack Guveyan has been named Super- 
visor of the Social Medical Section of the 
Massachusetts Department of Public Wel- 
fare. In this capacity he also acts as Con- 
sultant to the Commissioner and staff. 

.'\dolph N. Anderson, Jr., Cranston at- 
torney, has been named administrative as- 
sistant to the Governor's Committee on the 
Workmen's Compensation Law. The com- 



mittee has been formed to investigate the 
present workmen's compensation law ii; 
Rhode Island and to explore the feasibilit\ 
of a State fund. 

Dr. Jon Tobey is with the Quaker Oats 
Co., Memphis Feed Division, Cullman. 
Ala. He received his Ph.D. at Cornell lasi 
year. 

Capt. Robert Lerner is stationed at Pat- 
rick AFB, Fla., where he is an R&D Staff 
Officer. Bob reports that "reading of ice 
storms in New England made me appreci- 
ate my Florida retreat all the more." 

David D. Hurlin was elected President 
of Goodell Co., Antrim. N. H., at the an- 
nual meeting in January. Dave also is Vice- 
President and Treasurer of Abbott Co., 
Keene, N. H. 

BOB CUMMINGS 

1951 

At the February meeting of the Alumni 
Advisory Council, the following classmates 
had lunch together and discussed Class ac- 
tivities: Allen Chatterton, Jr., Woody 
Leonard. Pat Pannagio. Dick Craik, and 
Charles Andrews, all from Greater Provi- 
dence; Jack Cooper from Philadelphia, Stu- 
art Baird from Needham, Mass., and Ken 
Holmes from Westchester County. A com- 
mittee was set up to prepare a Class con- 
stitution, which will be proposed for ac- 
ceptance at the annual Class Meeting on 
May 30. Also, plans for our 8th Reunion 
were completed and will be made known 
to all classmates in an April newsletter. 
This newsletter, our first venture in this 
field, will bring all the members up to date 
on the activities since the election of new 
officers last spring. 

Charles Gurney Edwards was admitted 
to the State bar in a February ceremony 
before the Rhode Island Supreme Court. 

George L. Johnston has been appointed 
Manager of the Boston office of Goldman, 
Sachs & Co. He joined the firm in 1955 
after having been associated with the First 
National Bank of Boston since 1951. He is 
a member of the Municipal Bond Club of 
Boston and Secretary of the Boston Invest- 
ment Club. 

The Rev. Allan Edward Smith, a priest 
of the Episcopal Church, expected to finish 
his novitiate at Holy Cross Monastery in 
West Park, N. Y., this month, when he was 
due to make his first profession to the mo- 
nastic life of the Church. He was then to 



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take what are termed "simple vows," an- 
nually renewed and preliminary to the 
"solemn vows" several years hence. The 
Holy Cross Monks run a boys' school in 
Tennessee, a Retreat House in California, 
and a large Mission in Bolahun, Liberia. 

Hugh Reilly Thomas, President of the 
Hugh Reilly Co., Washington, D. C, paint 
distributors, has moved his company into 
newer and larger quarters in the Industrial 
Mart of Washington, 931 Brentwood Rd., 
N.E. The previous location at 1334 New 
York Ave., N.W., will be retained as a re- 
tail outlet. 

Kenneth de Hertog, bass baritone, is 
carving quite a career for himself in the 
musical world. The former Brown Glee 
Club vocalist has appeared in opera pro- 
ductions of the Rhode Island Conservatory 
of Music and he has sung professionally in 
several Florida supper clubs. Ken, who 
studied voice with Mrs. Catherine Farrell 
in Rhode Island and attended the New 
England Conservatory of Music in Boston, 
continues to study in New York. 

Herbert J. Solomon, Credit Manager for 
J. M. Fields Co., Framingham, Mass., did 
a great deal of work to support the March 
of Dimes Campaign in his area this winter. 
Due to his efforts, scores of valuable mer- 
chandise, ranging from items worth $10 to 
hundreds of dollars, were donated by 
Framingham-Natick merchants to an auc- 
tion held over WHDH-TV, Channel 5, 
Boston. Solomon has felt deeply about this 
annual appeal since he was stricken with 
polio in the statewide epidemic of 1955. 

Donald E. White would like it known 
that Pamela is his fourth child, second 
daughter, and not his second child as was 
suggested in the February issue of this 
magazine. 

Warren B. Coburn has been transferred 
by General Electric from Pittsfield, Mass.. 
to the firm's Schenectady headquarters, 
where he has been assigned as a traveling 
auditor. In Pittsfield he was a measure- 
ments specialist in power transformer ac- 
counting. 

Robert D. Kasmire, a former reporter 
for the Providence Journal and for WJAR- 
TV, has been appointed a coordinator of 
special projects and corporate planning at 
NBC. 

Albert H. Lounsbury of Taunton, Mass.. 
is employed by the State Department of 
Public Works as a Civil Engineer. He has 
served on the Planning Board in that town 
for the past two years. 

Malcolm L. Daniels, Chairman of the 
Cranston Republican City Committee, has 
been chosen acting Treasurer of the Re- 
publican State Central Committee. 

Joel Tobey is back in the United States, 
stationed at Ft. Benning, Ga. He had been 
in Germany with the 11th Airborne Divi- 
sion for several years. He was with the 
troops moved into Lebanon during the 
crisis last summer. 

William J. Maguire, Jr., has joined J. R. 
Williston & Beane, 70-year-old stock ex- 
change firm in New York City. He will be 
assigned to a new branch office at 521 
Fifth Ave. He had been an account execu- 
tive with Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & 
Smith. 

Lawrence Spitz, Subdistrict Director. 
United Steelworkers of America, spoke on 
"Labor's Doubtful Alliance" at the Resi- 
dent Fellows' Luncheon at Brown in Feb- 
ruary. 

John J. Luddy is a Special Agent with 
the American Insurance Co., Newark, N. J. 

Dave Thurrott, owner of the D. L. Thur- 
rott Co., Inc., complained in a letter to the 
Editor of the Providence Journal of the 



layoff of 191 persons at the U.S. Naval 
Construction Battalion Center, Davisville, 
R. I. 

As Class Secretary, I invite all class- 
mates to drop me a line concerning any 
promotions, changes in family status, spe- 
cial events, or anecdotes that you'd like to 
see in our Class column in this magazine. 
Send your communications to me at P.O. 
Box 1810, Brown University, Prov. 12. 

CHARLES A. ANDREWS, JR. 

1952 

Irvin A. Wexler has been with the Cus- 
tom Shops, Inc., of New York City since 
he was graduated from Harvard Business 
School in 1957. His position with the firm 
is that of Merchandise Manager. 

Stuart H. Fitzpatrick has been named 
Manager of the Washington, D. C, Group 
Office of the State Mutual Life Insurance 
Co. 

William W. Corcoran, Newport attorney, 
has been appointed to the Redevelopment 
Agency in that town. He is associated with 
his father, Edward J. Corcoran '15, in the 
law firm of Corcoran, Peckham & Hayes. 

Marshall H. Cannell, Jr., has been trans- 
ferred by the Systems Development Corp. 
from Fort Lee, Va., to the home office in 
Santa Monica. His new address is 5116 
Serrania Ave., Woodland Hills, Calif. 

1953 

John P. DePasquale received a gold 
plaque in February for "outstanding ac- 
complishments" last year while a Senior at 
the College of Pharmacy at the University 
of Rhode Island. He received his B.S. de- 
gree in Pharmacy last June. 

A. Edward Skoog represented Brown 
University and Librarian Jonah at the Il- 
linois Lincoln Sesquicentennial exercises in 
Springfield on Feb. 12 and, in the process, 
collected a great deal of interesting mate- 
rial for Brown's Lincoln Collection. He 
was pleased to find that the quality of 
Lincolniana at Brown was well known to 
scholars at the Illinois banquet. Skoog is 
an engineer with Flemley-Dickerson Com- 
pany, Bloomington, III. 

George T. Blome has been transferred 
from the Providence home office of Auto- 
mobile Mutual Insurance Co. of America 
to Dallas, where he is the Branch Manager. 

Stephen Sultan, graduated from the 
Cornell Law School last June, is working 
with the Music Corporation of America. 
"I am hoping that my legal background 
will be of some aid," he says, "in my quest 
for a career in the theatrical agency field." 

Art Bayer is employed by the Colgate- 
Palmolive Company in New York City. 

Everett B. Vreeland. Jr., has been gradu- 
ated from the Boston University Law 
School and is clerking for Stickel & Stickel, 
Newark, N.J. Across the street, he reports. 
Francis J. Lutz is engaged in the practice 
of law in association with Steelman, Laf- 
ferty & Rowe. 

Dr. Daniel Porte, Jr., is working at the 
Cardio-Vascular Research Institute at the 
University of California Medical Center, 
San Francisco. 

1954 

Plans for the Fifth Reunion of the Class 
May 29-June 1 are being formed by a Re- 
union Committee consisting of Bob Roth, 
Norman Sprinthall, Richard Borod, Charles 
Lake, and Marshall Cohen. Tentative ar- 
rangements for the affair include a cocktail 
party Friday evening before the Campus 
Dance, participation at the big Alumni 
Field Day on Saturday afternoon at Al- 



Representing Us 

MORE ALUMNI have accepted invitations 
to represent Brown University at aca- 
demic ceremonies on other campuses. Sec- 
retary Howard S. Curtis had enlisted the 
following to serve in this capacity on re- 
cent or future occasions: 

Dr. George B. Davis, Ph.D. '58 at the 
inauguration of George Thomas Walker as 
President of Northeast Louisiana State Col- 
lege, Feb. 21-22. 

Dr. Thomas H. Patten, Jr., '53 at the iii- 
auguration of Dewey F. Barich as Presi- 
dent of the Detroit Institute of Technology, 
Feb. 28. 

Dr. Leonard Robinson '37 at the inaugu- 
ration of Leslie Stephen Wright as Presi- 
dent of Howard College, Apr. 21. 

Edwin J. Schermerhorn '34 at the inau- 
guration of Ben Graf Henneke at the Uni- 
versity of Tulsa, Apr. 16. 

Dr. Philip M. Brown '22, Professor of 
Economics at Bowdoin College, at the in- 
auguration of Edward York Blewett as 
President of Westbrook Junior College, 
Apr. 17. 

Dr. E. Maurice Beesley, Ph.D. '43, Pro- 
fessor of Mathematics at the University of 
Nevada, at the inauguration of Charles J. 
Armstrong as President of that institution, 
Apr. 19. 

Dr. Harold E. Conrad '27, Dean of the 
College at High Point College, at the in- 
auguration of David Grier Martin as Presi- 
dent of Davidson College, Apr. 22. 

Dr. George F. J. Lehner, Ph.D. '41, Pro- 
fessor of Psychology and Director of the 
Psychological Clinic at the University of 
California, Los Angeles, at the inaugura- 
tion of Ralph Prator as first President of 
San Fernando Valley State College, May 7. 



drich-Dexter Field, and a banquet and 
dance Saturday evening. The annual Class 
Meeting will be held Sunday at a conven- 
ient outing location. The Class novelty by 
which all members shall be recognized is 
guaranteed to be a big surprise! 

Larry Good has ended his government- 
sponsored tour of the world and is manag- 
ing L. S. Good & Co., Wheeling, West Va. 
The shop retails draperies, fabrics, and 
floor coverings. 

Lt. Manfred Seiden and his wife Beverly 
are enjoying German cuisine while Manny 
is completing his service requirements in 
the Finance Corps. Manny expects to be- 
come a father in June. 

Norm Sprinthall is completing his Mas- 
ter's thesis at Brown and expects to earn 
his M.A. in Political Science in June. He 
plans to devote substantial time this spring 
to plans for the Fifth Reunion, despite the 
burdens of combining his duties as a Uni- 
versity official and a graduate student with 
those of being a recent father! 

Nine members of the Class returned to 
the Campus to participate in the annual 
Alumni Advisory Council Week End in 
February. The group included: James Gor- 
ham, Jim Stuart, Herb Cohen, Roth, 
Borod, Lake. Sprinthall, Hugh Major, and 
Marshall Cohen. 

Bill Polleys, former Brown ski team cap- 
tain who was mustered out of the Navy jet- 
flying service in December, repeated a 1952 
performance when he headed the Men's 
Division in the 1959 Rhode Island Down- 
hill Skiing Championships at North Con- 
way, N. H., in January. He had two of the 
day's fastest runs on a 22-gate giant slalom 
course set on the expert Hannes Schneider 
Trail, Bill is a sales engineer in the General 



APRIL 1959 



59 



Plate Division of Metals & Controls Co., 
Attleboro. 

Robert M. Walters received his degree 
from the Graduate School of Business at 
Stanford University last June. He is work- 
ing for the Electro Data Division of the 
Burroughs Corp., Denver. In the near fu- 
ture he hopes to receive a permanent as- 
signment to San Francisco. 

Alan M. Corney is Sales Representative 
in New Jersey for the Century Furniture 
Co., Hickory, N. C. 

Bob Glass, graduated from the Wharton 
Graduate Division with his M.B.A. degree 
last June, is working on Wall St., with 
Dreyfus & Co. 

The Rev. Charles J. Lewis has been ap- 
pointed Chairman of the Mathematics De- 
partment at Fordham University and Di- 
rector of its Institute for High School 
Teachers of Mathematics and Physics. He 
joined the Fordham Faculty in 1954 after 
receiving his doctorate in Math at Brown. 

1955 

Nick Ruwe is working for Petroleum 
Consultants and enjoys living in Houston, 
"one of the fastest growing cities in the 
United States." 

Charlie Le Blond has moved to Houston 
from Cincinnati. He has formed a small 
drilling company and hopes to secure some 
contracts for drilling in the Persian Gulf. 
He already has a two-year contract to drill 
for Humble in Alaska. 

Gene Rivera is in his third year at the 
University of Buffalo Medical School. 

John O'Brien is living in Evanston, 111., 
and working for Kaiser Aluminum and 
Chemical Sales in the Electrical Wire and 
Cable Division. He is attending the North- 
western University Graduate School of 
Business in the evenings, working for his 
M.B.A. His wife, Anne Murphy O'Brien, 
Pembroke '55, is working at Northwestern 
in the English Department. John had a 
visit recently from Bill Klaess who was 
passing through on his way to San Fran- 
cisco for an IBM sales meeting. 

Neale Peterson is a Kentucky Colonel, 
living in Louisville and working as a Voca- 
tional Counselor. During the fall he was a 
guest lecturer at the University of Louis- 
ville on the subject of psychological test- 
ing. He reports that he liked this experi- 
ence so much that he now has in the back 
of his mind trying college-level teaching 
some day. 

Gordon E. Perry has been discharged 
after two years of service as a Naval Offi- 
cer. He has joined Mutual of New York 
Insurance Co. in its Buffalo branch office. 

Daniel R. Whitehouse, a teacher at Ux- 
bridge (Mass.) High School, headed the 
Special Gifts Committee for the 1959 
March of Dimes Campaign in Bellingham. 

Norm Orodenker received his degree 
from the Columbia Law School last June. 
He passed the Rhode Island bar in Septem- 
ber and has started to practice in Provi- 
dence. 

Gerry Poliks has received his discharge 
from Uncle Sam and is back in New Haven 
with the Southern Bell Phone Co. as an 
Assistant Engineer in the Traffic Division. 
While spending most of his Army time in 
Korea, Gerry was a radio operator. He 
managed to get to Japan on three leaves. 

Willis Riccio is an attorney-trainee with 
the United States Securities and Exchange 
Commission. He also is attending the 
Georgetown Graduate School of Law and 
has completed one semester's work toward 
an LL.M. degree. He is a frequent visitor 
to the Washington Brown Club gatherings. 



"Proportional" Champion? 

Of the Brown men working in 
Massillon, O., six are with Griscom- 
Russell, manufacturers of special 
industrial heating equipment: Rob- 
ert Bent '24, Nat Griffiths '27, Bob 
Wallace '28, Caesar Danesi '34, 
Mike Impagliazzo '34, and Phil 
Woodford '43. Sydney Wilmot '09 
notes that the late Joseph Price '09 
was Chief Engineer and influential 
in bringing the first group of Bru- 
nonians to G-R. "Even today," says 
Wilmot, "the list remains impres- 
sive, and while one of them says all 
are doing 'quite well,' this is too 
modest. 

"Other larger firms (for instance. 
Bell Labs, and the Bell System) 
have their quotas which may be 
larger. But, speaking relatively, I 
think Griscom-Russell is champion 
in proportional Brown engineering 
influence. Moreover, all these men, 
it seems to me, have long, if not 
exclusive, terms of service with 
G-R." 



Jim Pendergast is stationed at Pease 
AFB. Portsmouth, N. H. He recently re- 
turned from a two-week trip to Madrid 
and London and was fortunate enough to 
run into Bob Ecker and spouse at the 
Columbia Officers' Club in London. Jim 
played in the 8th Air Force Central Divi- 
sion Basketball Playoffs against Max Mc- 
Creary '58, who is stationed in Maine. 

Yours truly spent two months last fall 
on the USS Intrepid. The ship spent five 
days in Barbados, where "a good time was 
had by all." I arrived back in the States 
just in time for Thanksgiving. However, 
my squadron expects to deploy again in 
May to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and then 
on to the USS Essex. While in Norfolk 
last fall, I bumped into Frank Whitney, 
and Jim Corbridge and I spent a very en- 
joyable evening at Doc Houk's house. 

HARRY DEVOE 

1956 

Langdon S. Smith has taken a position 
in Iran as assistant to the mission chief of 
CARE. Following his graduation, he went 
on active duty as a Reserve officer with 
the Chief of Naval Operations in Washing- 
ton. He also served with the Joint Nuclear 
Task Force in the 1958 atomic tests in 
the Marshall Islands. He arrived in Tehe- 
ran in time to assist with the distribution 
of 25,000 CARE packages on Feb. 5 to 
victims of recent earthquakes in the area 
where 103 villages were destroyed. 

Henry M. Minster is working in the 
real estate business in Southwest Florida. 
Following his graduation, Henry attended 
the Wharton Graduate School at the Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania. 

Joseph P. Randazza, after being sepa- 
rated from the service last September, 
went to work as a salesman for the Amer- 
ican Brass Co., Waterbury, Conn. 

George J. Hudak is a Quahty Control 
Engineer at the Hughes Aircraft Co., Los 
Angeles. 

George Kirkpatrick and his 13-year-old 
partner, Joanne Swanson, were semifinal- 
ists in the mixed doubles of the National 
Women's Indoor Tennis Championships in 
Brookline in February. They lost 7-5, 8-0, 
6-4 at the Longwood covered court after 



leading 3-1 in the deciding set. George is 
with Hornblower & Weeks in their Provi- 
dence office. 

John J. Whipple has issued a "call" to 
all Chicago alumni in the market for a 
new or used Buick. He is Assistant Man- 
ager at the Broadway Buick Sales Co., 
5701 Broadway, Chicago. 

James P. Gregory has been discharged 
from the Army and is attending George 
Washington University School of Law. 

1957 

LT(jg) Harold J. Sutphen has a new 
address at 430 East Coast Drive, Atlantic 
Beach, Fla. "I haven't seen much of Flor- 
ida as yet," he writes, "since my ship has 
been steaming between Charleston, S. C, 
and Cuba. We are presently undergoing 
the ordeal known as Refresher Training." 
Harry had hopes of seeing Harvey Sproul, 
who is stationed in Green Cove Springs, 
Fla. While in Cuba he saw two other 
classmates. Max Volterra and Graham 
Rose. 

Ens. Robert B. Grafton is stationed with 
the Division of Naval Reactors of the 
Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, 
D. C, where he is working under Admiral 
Rickover. 

2nd Lt. Karl F. Lauenstein, USAF, is 
with the 28th Combat Defense Squadron 
at Ellsworth AFB, Rapid City, S. D. He 
had been on temporary duty as a Security 
Officer in Anchorage, Alaska. Karl's room- 
mate in South Dakota is 2nd Lt. Bill 
Starke '58. 

Walter K. Fries has been appointed 
Dormitory Supervisor at Sheldon Jackson 
Junior College. Sitka, Alaska. 

1958 

In an attempt to facilitate the job of 
communicating with more than 600 class- 
mates, the membership of the Class has 
been broken down into seven geographical 
regions. To date. Regional Deputies have 
been appointed for three of these regions: 
Dave Bradley of St. Mark's School, South- 
borough, Mass., has District I — New Eng- 
land (275 members); Martin L. Ritter, 364 
Beech Spring Rd., South Orange, N. J., is 
in charge of District II — New York (150 
members): and Don Dowling, Interna- 
tional House, University of Chicago Law 
School, Oak Park, 111., is handling things 
in District III — Wisconsin, Michigan, and 
Illinois (36 members). 

Jerry Thier has been discharged from 
the service and is working for Blooming- 
dale Bros., 1000 3rd Ave., N.Y.C., as a 
trainee in the Retail Training Program. 

John S. Shapira, Yale University law 
student, had his car stolen in February in 
Hamden, Conn., but by no ordinary car 
thief. The chap who took John's car had 
taken $12,000 minutes earlier from the 
Hamden branch of the Union & New 
Haven Trust Co. As we went to press, 
John's car had been recovered but the 
money and the bank thief had not. 

Pvt. John Becker has been selected for 
a year-long course of instruction in Rus- 
sian at the U. S. Army Language School 
in Monterey, under the Army's stepped-up 
program for overcoming a critical shortage 
of skilled linguists. 

Joe Tebo managed to get back to Provi- 
dence to see several of the Brown basket- 
ball games this winter, including the big 
win over Colgate in the Christmas Tourna- 
ment at Providence College. 

Charlie "Lee" Hughes, who transferred 
to the Naval Academy in the summer of 
1955, will graduate this June. He expects 
to be sent to Pensacola for flight training. 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Lee reports that there are three other for- 
mer '58 men at the Academy: Fred Naef, 
Bob Beaton (who is pushing the 14-foot 
mark in the pole vault), and Frank Young. 

Bruce Van Auken is in the Government 
and Industrial Division of the Philco Cor- 
poration in Philadelphia, where he is em- 
ployed as a research engineer. 

Frank E. Schueler, Jr., is with the Mel- 
rose Free Press, Inc., printers and publish- 
ers, 40 West Foster St., Melrose, Mass. 

Ens. Michael F. Larratt has been gradu- 
ated from the Naval Officers Candidate 
School in Newport, R. I., and is attending 
the Naval Air Intelligence School in Jack- 
sonville, Fla. He expects to be stationed 
in Washington. D. C, for further work in 
Naval Air Intelligence. 

Pvt. Jerry Alaimo is attending Radio 
Communications School at Fort Gordon, 
Ga. He sees a trip to Germany in the 
immediate future. Following the Army 
duty, Jerry hopes to go after his Master's 
degree. 

Dick Sauter has completed a six-month 
training course with the Babcock Wilcox 
Co., Alliance, O.. and is working at the 
Atomic Energy Division in Lynchburg as 
a patent liaison engineer. 

Barrett Barnard, with his discharge in 
his pocket, has gone to work for the Man- 
ufacturers Trust Co., N.Y.C. 

Dick Carolan was authenticating his 
classical studies in Athens last summer un- 
til international tensions sent him to Leba- 
non and then to Formosa. 

Ron Speckmann is on a leave of absence 
from the Yale University Graduate School, 
but he expects to return in the fall. He 
hopes to do Geology field work this sum- 
mer, either out of New Haven or in the 
coal fields of Pennsylvania. 

George Darling, after a six-month hitch 
in the Army, is working at the Industrial 
National Bank in Providence. 

Dwight Seward is working for Alex- 
ander & Alexander, Inc., insurance bro- 
kerage firm in New York. He expects to be 
transferred to the St. Louis branch in 
August. 

Harry Franc is working in St. Louis at 
the present time as a member of his fa- 
ther's brokerage firm. 

Buck Summers is in the Law School at 
the University of Michigan, where he is 
a member of Phi Delta Phi, professional 
law fraternity. He is seriously considering 
entering the Army for six months. 

H. Sharpe Ridout. who transferred to 
the Cornell Hotel School at the end of his 
Sophomore year, will graduate this June. 
He plans to work for Howarth & Howarth, 
hotel accountants. 

Conrad L. Hamel was with the Western 
Electric Co. at the Bell Telephone Labora- 
tories in Whippany. N. J., prior to ac- 
cepting a position with Raytheon Mfg. Co. 
at their Wayland Labs, Wayland. Mass. 

Ed LeZotte is in the Army, serving at 
Fort Dix, N. J. He was drafted the day 
he received a job from Time, Inc. 

Martin L. Ritter is with the Huster 
Brokerage Company in New York City. 
He has offered to work with the Class 
Secretary as a regional assistant. 

Dick Emmons is with the New York 
Telephone Co. as a Staff Assistant in a 
commercial business office. He is training 
in a class for business representatives. 

Mike Strem is doing graduate work in 
Chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh. 

Joe Miluski is attending an Artillery 
Officers' Orientation course at Quantico. 
He previously had completed an eight- 
month basic training course for the Marine 
Officers Corps. 



Bill Williams is a Unit Supervisor with 
All State Insurance Co. He and Gail and 
their young son. Bill, are enjoying a new 
home at 1243 Sleepy Hollow Lane, Scotch 
Plains, N. J. 

Dave Milot expects to be released from 
the service within a month, at which time 
he will enter the manufacturing business 
with his father in the Paragon Worsted 
Co., Providence. 

Seymour Hall is working toward his 
Master's in Education at Tufts. His sched- 
ule is a busy one: he teaches at Needham 
High in the mornings and attends classes 
in the afternoons. 

Bob McBride has entered the teaching 
profession. He is instructing in Latin, His- 
tory, Math, and Science at the Fenn 
School, Concord, Mass. A call from Uncle 
Sam may come in June. 

Charles Batchelder is currently assigned 
to the Air Force Radar Center at Dauphin 
Island. It is an auxiliary field, associated 
with Brookley Air Force Base in Mobile, 
Ala. Harry A. Dinham '41, a Mobile 
banker, tells us: "The young ladies of the 
community, and particularly of this bank, 
are enjoying his tour of duty. In fact, he 
is dating my secretary, so I get an occa- 
sional opportunity to be refreshed on the 
happenings at Brown during the last four 
years and brought up to date on the latest 
versions of the many Brown songs." 

Dave Ridderheim is working for his 



Master's degree in Hospital Administration 
at the University of Minnesota. He will be 
assigned to some hospital in June for his 
residency in administration. 

Pat Picchione, also a medical student, is 
attending the Dalhousie Medical School in 
Halifax. Last fall he played some Canadian 
football for "Dal" Univ. Pat is a member 
of Phi Chi Medical Fraternity. 

Bob Schwartzman is studying for his 
doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Teach- 
ers College, Columbia University. He in- 
tends to spend the summer working at 
Camp Tomahawk in Bristol, N. H. 

Jack Smythe is an Assistant Accountant 
in the Accounting Department of the New 
Jersey Bell Telephone Co., Trenton. 

Bruce Van Auken is in the Government 
and Research Division of Philco Corp. as 
an engineer. 

Marshall Sawyer is a Social Studies 
teacher at Wareham Junior High School, 
Wareham, Mass. He attends classes at 
Bridgewater State Teachers College one 
night each week working toward his Mas- 
ter's in Education. 

Yours truly had been selling at Filene's 
in Boston, but on March 23 headed for 
Officers Candidate School in Newport. 
During my four-month course, classmates 
should send news about themselves or their 
fellow Brown men directly to Jay Barry, 
Box 1 854, Brown University, Providence 1 2. 

BILL BARRY 



The Parents Are Helping, Too 



SUMNER H. Babcock, Boston attorney, 
is Chairman of the Parents' Committee 
of the Brown University Fund for 1959. 
He has enlisted a score of other parents of 
undergraduates to assist him in the annual 
appeal, for which the Fund has announced 
a $750,000 goal this year. 

Serving with him are: David L. Babson, 
Wellesley Hills. Mass.; Carl L. A. Beckers, 
St. Louis; Hendry S. MacK. Burns, New 
York; John C. Cairns, New Britain; Stan- 
ley T. Crossland. Harrison, N. Y.; George 
L. Eber, Belle Harbor, L. I., N. Y.; Frank 
H. Finney, Royal Oak, Mich.; the Rev. 
William H. Fryer, D.D.. Metuchen, N. J.; 
Robert C. Gunness, Flossmoor, III.; Reese 
H. Harris, West Hartford; Henry Ittleson. 
Jr., New York; George J. Limp, Bloom- 
field Hills, Mich.; John H. Morava, Wil- 
mette. III.; Sidney R. Nathan, Albany, 
N. Y.; George E. Newell, Barrington. 
R. I.; Donald W. Poole, Swarthmore, Pa.; 
Herbert N. Stein, Chicago: Dr. Thomas J. 
Sullivan, New Haven; Dudley A. Voor- 
hees. Short Hills, N. J.; Richard K. Weil. 
St. Louis; and Westcott E. S. Moulton '31, 
Secretary. 

Father of William S. Babcock '61, the 
Chairman is a Wellesley Hills resident, 
who took his law degree at Harvard in 
1927 and is a partner in the Boston firm 
of Bingham, Dana & Gould. Lafayette 
College knows him as one of its most 
loyal graduates. He received a B.S. in 
Mechanical Engineering in 1924. is an 
Alumni Trustee of the College, and for- 
merly served as Alumni President. He is 
a member of the Council of the Boston 
Bar Association, of which he was formerly 
Vice-President and President; he holds 
membership as well in the Norfolk County, 
Massachusetts, and American Bar Asso- 
ciations and the Maritime Law Associa- 
tion. He is a Trustee of the Wellesley Pub- 
lic Library and President of the United 



^.^ 







HEADING the Parents' Committee of the Brown 

University Fund: Sumner H. Babcock, graduate 

of Lafayette, is a prominent Boston attorney. 

Prison Association of Massachusetts; he is 
Past President of the Wellesley Commu- 
nity Chest and Council. 

Mrs. Babcock is the former Catharine 
Bushnell Jones, Smith '25. Oxford '29. Her 
grandfather. Dr. Matt B. Jones, received 
an honorary Litt.D. from Brown in 1936. 

Last year, with other friends of the Uni- 
versity, the non-alumni parents of under- 
graduates contributed $48,229 toward the 
record-breaking $660,059 Fund. The total 
was in addition to gifts which some fathers 
made as alumni. 



APRIL 1959 



61 



Bureau of Vital Statistics 



MARRIAGES 

1907— William W. Reynolds and Mrs. 
Ellyn Hague Mehan, Pembroke '09, of 
Mineola, N. Y., Jan. 28. At home: 132 
Irving Ave., Providence. 

1949 — Frederick H. Wilson, Jr., and 
Miss Jane E. Key of Dallas. Best man was 
Fletcher W. Ward '50. Among the ushers 
were Joseph Dimeo '50 and John B. Lyte 
"50. At home: 248 C Rogers Forge Rd., 
Baltimore 12. 

1949 — Dr. Mendell Robinson and Miss 
Beatrice S. Turek, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Sol Turek of Oradell, N. J., Feb. 8. 
At home: 100 East Manning St., Provi- 
dence. 

1950 — Dr. Vartan Papazian and Miss 
Joan C. Yaghjian, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Menas Yaghjian of Barrington, R. I., 
Feb. 8. Dr. Thomas George "50 was an 
usher. At home: 72 Allerton Ave., East 
Providence. 

1950 — Barry Robbins and Miss Jill Stern, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Stern of 
Beverly Hills, Calif., Dec. 28. 

1951 — Charles F. Clarke, Jr., and Miss 
Eleanor M. O'Connor, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Richard A. O'Connor of Fort 
Wayne, Ind., Jan. 3. Edward P. Flynn '51 
was best man. 

1951 — Thomas P. Ormsby and Miss 
Joan E. Descheneaux, daughter of Col. 
and Mrs. George L. IDescheneaux, Jr., of 
Cape Elizabeth, Me., Jan. 10. 

1953 — James L. McNulty and Miss 
Claudia N. Park, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Lloyd C. Nelson of Salt Lake City, 
Jan. 17. 

1953 — Joseph L. Tauro and Miss Eliza- 
beth M. Quinlan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
John L. Quinlan of Hempstead, N. Y., 
Feb. 7. Bruce H. Hunt '54 and Carl B. 
Stenberg '53 ushered. 

1954 — John F. Cuzzone, Jr., and Miss 
Madeline E. Day, daughter of Judge and 
Mrs. Edward W. Day of Edgewood, R. L, 
Jan. 24. Edward W. Day, Jr., '52 was an 
usher. Judge Day is '22. At home: 271 
Lincoln Ave., Barrington, R. I. 

1954 — Gregory J. Sullivan and Miss 
Judith A. Neilley, daughter of Mrs. Henry 
McD. Neilley of Ridgewood, N. J., and 
the late Mr. Neilley, Nov. 1. Ushers were 
Leslie B. Disharoon '54, David F. West 
'54, George M. Gregory '56, and Richard 
A. Clough '52. At home: 302 High St., 
Radburn, N. J. 

1954 — Roger B. Wilks and Miss Graciela 
Urrego, daughter of Mrs. Ismael Urrego 
and the late Mr. Urrego of Bogota, Co- 
lombia, Jan. 17. Best man was Vincent M. 
Love '54. At home: 514-D, Larchmont 
Acres, Larchmont, N. Y. 

1955— LT(jg) Sterling Dimmitt, USNR, 
and Miss Katharine R. Langdon, daughter 
of Mrs. John Langdon of Providence, and 
the late Dr. Langdon, Jan. 31: Ushers in- 
cluded LT(jg) Richard M. Beers, USNR, 
'55, John Dorer '55, George A. Midwood 
'56, and Richard A. Lawson '55. Dr. Lang- 
don was 1925. The bride went down the 
aisle on the arm of her uncle Chauncey T. 
Langdon '18. 

1958 — Bruce Van Auken and Miss Di- 
ane Wunschel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Kenneth R. Wunschel of Graniteville, R. L, 
Sept. 6. At home: 4814 Greene St., Phila- 
delphia. 



1958 — Theodore Cohen and Miss Benita 
L. Machson of New York City, Nov. 26. 

1958 — Lt. Joseph Miluski and Miss Jane 
Bertram, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry 
C. Bertram of Wallingford, Pa., June 21. 
The bride is Pembroke '58. 



BIRTHS 

1927— To Dr. and Mrs. Herbert A. 
Clark of Frederick, Md., their third son, 
Kingsley Williams, Nov. 6. Mrs. Clark is 
the former Ruth Grimes, Pembroke '40. 

1930 — To Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Cres- 
citelli of Los Angeles, their third child and 
second son, Adrian Nicholas, Dec. 10. 

1945— To Mr. and Mrs. Stanley L. Ehr- 
lich of Waltham, a son, Michael Alan, Jan. 
26. 

1949— To Mr. and Mrs. Harold Gadon 
of Cranston, R. L, their second child and 
first daughter, Jane Leslie, Jan. 22. 

1949— To Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Kol- 
len of Cranston, R. I., their second daugh- 
ter, Lori Ann, Feb. 21. Mrs. Kotlen is the 
former Rita-Ellen Jaffe, Pembroke '52. 

1949— To Mr. and Mrs. William F. 
O'Brien of Nanuet, N. Y., their third child 
and second son, Kenneth William, Jan. 19. 

1950 — To Mr. and Mrs. Roy S. Fidler of 
New York City, a daughter, Lisa Jo, Jan. 
27. 

1951— To Dr. and Mrs. Allen Goldman 
of Hamden, Conn., a son, Jonathan, Jan. 
26. 

1951— To Mr. and Mrs. William A. Sur- 
prenant of Providence, a son, Douglas 
Michael, Jan. 29. 

1951— To Dr. and Mrs. Charles G. Vos- 
mik of Gates Mills, O., their second child, 
Barbara Jane, Sept. 30. 

1951 — To Mr. and Mrs. Douglas M. 
Watson of Barrington, R. I., their second 



child and first daughter, Cynthia Helene 
Holmes, June 20. 

1952 — To Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. 
Bayles of Waltham, a son, Gerald Melville, 
Feb. 22. 

1952— To Dr. and Mrs. George E. 
Deane of Wooster, O., their second child 
and second son, Douglas Alan, Jan. 31. 

1952— To Mr. and Mrs. Alan C. Eckert 
of Cleveland, their second daughter, Cyn- 
thia Laurel, Nov. 28. 

1952— To Mr. and Mrs. William 1. Smith 
of Spring Mount, Pa., their third child and 
first daughter, Susan Jeanne, Oct. 3. 

1953 — To Mr. and Mrs. Morris A. Tcath 
of North Weymouth, Mass., a daughter, 
Laurie Sue, Feb. 18. 

1954 — To Mr. and Mrs. P. Gerald De- 
Simone, Jr., of Levittown, N. Y., their 
fourth daughter, Cheryl Lynn, Nov. 15. 

1954 — To Mr. and Mrs. Leslie B. Dis- 
haroon of Collinsville, Conn., their third 
daughter, Martha Braford, Nov. 21. 

1955— To Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Carl- 
son of Springfield, Mass., their first child, 
a son, Steven Paine, Dec. 25. 

1955— To Mr. and Mrs. Philip O. Jar- 
vinen of Seattle, their first child, a son, 
Michael Philip, Oct. 8. 

1955— To Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kha- 
chian of Norwalk, Conn., their first child, 
a daughter, Carol Ann, Feb. 2. 

1955— To Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Pa- 
lombo of Cranston, R. I., a son, Richard 
Louis. Jr.. Oct. 22. 

1955— To Lt. and Mrs. Garwood P. 
Wilson of New Haven, a son, John Phil- 
lips. Oct. 26. Russell M. Wilson '15 is a 
grandfather. 

1957— To Mr. and Mrs. Robert Salton- 
stall, Jr., of Buffalo, a daughter, Joanna 
Ayer, Nov. 1. Mrs. Saltonstall is the for- 
mer Elizabeth Zoppi, Pembroke '59. 

1958— To Mr. and Mrs. Hays H. Rock- 
well of Cambridge, Mass., a son, Keith 
McElroy, Nov. 30. 

1958— To Mr. and Mrs. John T. Spicer 
of Providence, their third child, Douglas 
Branch, Jan. 31. 

1958— To Mr. and Mrs. William E. 
Williams, Jr., of Radnor, Pa., a son, Wil- 
liam E. Williams, III, Aug. 2. 



In Memoriam 



HOWARD HARRIS UTLEY '97 in Bax- 
ter Springs, Kan., Feb. 15. He graduated 
from the Colorado State School of Mines 
in 1900 with the degree of Mining Engi- 
neer. From 1915 until his retirement in 
1946, he was with the National Lead 
Company's mining operations, retiring as 
Chief Engineer. Previous associations 
had been with the Sutton, Steel & Steel 
Co., in Denver, United Zinc & Chemical 
Co. in Leadville, Colo., Jellico Coal Co. 
in Louisville. Ky., and the Colorado 
Fuel & Iron Co. in Redstone, Colo. Af- 
ter retirement, he did consulting work 
in Baxter Springs. A member of the 
American Institute of Mining and Metal- 
lurgical Engineers for 50 years, he had 
been honored in 1952 by being made a 
member of their Legion of Honor. In 
1938 he was elected Chairman of the 
Tri-State Section of that organization, 
thus representing three important mining 
states — Colorado, Kansas, and Missouri. 
Delta Kappa Epsilon. His widow is Mrs. 
Marjory C. Utley, 543 East 1 5th St., 
Baxter Springs. His brother is Albert G. 
Utley '97. 



HARRY WARREN MUMFORD '01 in 
Dalton, Pa., Oct. 16. He was admitted 
to the Bar of Wayne County, Pa., in 
1902, as well as to the Bar of Lacka- 
wanna County. During most of his ca- 
reer, he practiced alone. However, in 
1928 he formed a partnership under the 
name of Welles, Mumford & Stark. He 
retired in 1951. Past President of the 
Lackawanna Motor Club, he had served 
as Solicitor for several of the counties 
in Pennsylvania. He was also a former 
Trustee of Keystone Junior College and 
a former Director of the Lackawanna 
Bar Association. A member of the Ma- 
sonic Order, he was active in the Kiwanis 
Club. Chi Phi. His widow is Mrs. Dor- 
othy A. Mumford, 447 Colfax Ave., 
Scranton, Pa. 

NEWTON CHAFFIN REED '03 in Port- 
land, Me., Jan. 20. A veteran newsman, 
he began his newspaper career in 1898 
as a reporter for the Framingham, Mass., 
Evening News. In 1901 he joined the 
staff of the Newton Weekly Circuit, and 



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in 1902 he became a reporter for the 
Walthatn, Mass., Daily Free Press. From 
1909 until his retirement in 1949, he was 
with the Portland Evening Express and 
Sunday Telegram as a reporter. State 
editor, and church editor. Even though 
he had officially retired, he continued to 
write the Maine Church News Column 
and the daily feature, "Fifty Years Ago." 
Active in the affairs of his church, for 
25 years he had been Clerk, as well as 
serving as a Trustee and Deacon. He 
had been Director and Trustee of the 
Provident Loan Co. in Portland for a 
number of years, and had held similar 
positions in the Casco Homestead Sav- 
ings and Loan Association. He had also 
been Trustee of the Portland Widows' 
Wood Society. He was a charter mem- 
ber and organizer of the Brown Club of 
Western Maine and was the perennial 
Nominating Committee. 

HORATIO NELSON OTIS '04 in Win- 
sted. Conn., Feb. 27, after a short illness. 
He had been associated with the Ana- 
conda Wire & Cable Co.. New York 
City, in the Sales Department from 1929 
until 1952. He retired as Sales Promo- 
tion Manager. Previously, he had been 
with the Tubular Woven Fabric Co. in 
Pawtucket. Zeta Psi. His widow is Mrs. 
Nathalie G. Otis, R.F.D., Canaan, Conn. 

HOMER WILSON GUERNSEY '06 in 
Poughkeepsie, Jan. 12. A real estate 
broker, he had been active in civic af- 
fairs. In 1906 he was elected Treasurer 
of the City of Poughkeepsie. Police 
Commissioner in 1929, President of the 
Police Traffic Commission in 1948, and 
member of the Poughkeepsie Board of 
Education. He was a former President 
of the Dutchess County Real Estate 
Board. Alpha Delta Phi. His son is 
H. Wilson Guernsey '43, Upton Lake 
Road, Clinton Corners, N. Y. 

GUY REYNOLDS HICKEN 10 in Row- 
ley, Mass., Jan. 2. For 12 years he had 
been associated with the Ruth Shoe 
Company in Newburyport. Mass. His 
widow is Mrs. Nellie E. Hicken, Main 
St., Rowley. 

IRA WINSOR KNIGHT "11 in Provi- 
dence, Feb. 16. after a long illness. Af- 
ter receiving a graduate degree from 
M.I.T. in 1913, he joined the Under- 
writers Laboratories, Inc., in Boston. In 
1917 he became an Electrical Engineer 
with the General Fire Extinguisher Co., 
Providence, now known as the Grinnell 
Corp. At the time of his death he was 
Manager of the Research & Develop- 
ment Division. Active in the National 
Fire Protection Association, he was 
granted many patents during his 40 
years with Grinnell. He was a member 
of the Providence Engineering Society, 
the Industrial Research Institute, the 
Institute of Electrical Engineers, the 
British Empire Club, and R. I. Histor- 
ical Society. Sigma Xi. Tau Beta Phi. 
His widow is Mrs. Christina A. Knight, 
21 Dexterdale Rd., Providence. 

JOSEPH MERRIT COUSE 16 in West 
Long Branch. N. Y., Feb. 12. A veteran 
of the first World War, he had been Di- 
rector and Vice-President of the Asbury 
Park National Bank and Trust Co. He 
retired in 1957. Delta Tau Delta. His 
widow is Mrs. Clare L. Couse, 52 El- 
wood Ave., West Long Branch. 



EDWARD DON A VAN BRADY 19 in 

Uxbridge. Mass., Feb. 10. Vice-President 
of the Waucantuck Mill, he had been as- 
sociated with the mill since his return 
from World War I. He was also a Trus- 
tee and Auditor of the Uxbridge Savings 
Bank. His widow is Mrs. Katherine R. 
Brady, 27 Oak St.. Uxbridge. 

DR. LEO JOSEPH ODONNELL "23, in 
New York City, Feb. 7. Former Direc- 
tor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at 
Lenox Hill Hospital, N.Y.C., he gradu- 
ated from Cornell Medical School in 

1927. He had served as an Associate 
Professor at New York University and 
was a diplomate of the American Board 
of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and a 
fellow of the American College of Sur- 
geons. He had also held memberships in 
the New York Academy of Medicine 
and the American Medical Association. 
Phi Kappa. 

GILBERT ANTHONY CARTIER 26 in 
Coventry, R. I., Feb. 17. He attended 
Bryant & Stratton Business College and 
received his degree in 1925. In 1926 he 
became Assistant Office Manager of the 
M. M. Cartier Co. in Providence. His 
widow is Mrs. Norma M. Cartier, Hop- 
kins Hill Road, Coventry. 

BRUCE CALDWELL '27 in New Haven. 
Conn., Feb. 15. After attending Brown. 
he graduated from Yale University in 

1928. An outstanding athlete at 'Vale, 
he was named to the All-Eastern foot- 
ball team in 1927. He signed a baseball 
contract with the Cleveland Indians in 
1928 and played baseball with the In- 
dians, New Haven and Hartford of the 
Eastern League, Minneapolis of the 
American Association, and with Albany 
of the Eastern League until 1932. That 
year he entered Yale Law School, gradu- 
ated in 1935, and passed the Connecti- 
cut bar examination. He established his 
law practice in Hartford, where he was 
at one time counsel to the Mayor. He 
later moved to West Haven, becoming 
Town Judge and Selectman of that city. 
During World War II. he served in the 
Navy with a physical fitness group which 
traveled to bases in South America, 
Greenland, and Africa, setting up fitness 
programs. 

WILLIAM RAYMOND HENRY "29 in 
Cape Elizabeth, Me., Dec. 20. After 
graduation, he joined the Armstrong 
Cork Co. as an Electrical Engineer. In 
1936 he received a degree in accounting 
from Bryant College. He was later af- 
filiated with the Builders Iron Foundry, 
the Grinnell Co. as Operating Manager, 
and the Portland Pipe Line Corp. as 
Senior Engineer — his last position. Sigma 
Phi Sigma. His widow is Mrs. Rena E. 
Henry. 12 Orchard Rd.. Oakhurst Park. 
Cape Elizabeth. 

ROY BLACK SINCERE "29 in Phoenix. 
Ariz., Feb. 8, after a heart attack. Man- 
ager of the Phoenix Country Club for the 
past 5V2 years, he had held similar posi- 
tions in California and Ohio. He had 
also been with the Commercial Broad- 
casting Co. as Vice-President and Secre- 
tary. He served in the Navy during 
World War II. Sigma Chi. His widow 
lives at 2 East Country Club Drive, 
Phoenix. 

ROBERT McLAREN HOWARD '30 in 
Warwick, R. I., Jan. 25. From 1930 un- 



til 1945 he was a member of the stafli 
of the Providence Journal-Bulletin. Be- 
sides reporting, he wrote and broad- 
casted news briefs from the news room 
during the early years of news broad- 
casting. In 1945 he became Air Trans- 
portation Manager of the R. I. State 
Port of Authority. During his two years 
in this position, he was instrumental in 
winning certification for Eastern and 
Northeastern Airlines in this state. In 
1948 he was named Assistant Adminis- 
trator of Aeronautics for R. I., having 
been for two years Manager of the State 
.Airport at Hillsgrove. He was Secretary 
and Treasurer of the Warwick Industrial 
Commission. Delta Upsilon. His widow 
is Mrs. Helen H. Howard. 79 Vaughn 
Ave.. Warwick. 

REV. WESLEY HODGE "33. in Coven- 
try, R. 1.. Feb. 4. He had retired last 
year as Pastor of the Washington and 
Greene (R. I.) Methodist Churches. 
Previously he had been Pastor of the 
Christ Methodist Church in Wakefield. 
R. I., for 18 years. His widow is Mrs. 
Florence M. Hodge, Harkney Hill Road. 
Coventry. 

KNIGHT AMES '34 in Milton, Mass., 
Feb. 2. Vice-President of the Boston 
Safe Deposit & Trust Co. since 1953, he 
had been with that firm since graduation. 
He did advanced study at the Rutgers 
University School of Banking. During 
World War 11. he served on the staff of 
the Quartermaster General and retired 
with the rank of Major. A former Chair- 
man of the Milton Town Warrant Com- 
mittee. Trustee of the Milton Savings 
Bank and the Milton Public Library, he 
was Director of the Milton Convalescent 
Home. He was active in work with the 
James Jackson Putnam Children's Cen- 
ter and Guidance Camps, Inc. He was 
also a member of the American Insti- 
tute of Banking, the American Bankers 
Association, the Boston Life Insurance 
and Trust Council, and the Corporate 
Fiduciaries Association of Boston. Alpha 
Delta Phi. His father was the late Stephen 
B. Ames "06 and his brother is George 
H. Ames '36. Margaret B. Ames. 241 
Canton Ave., Milton, is his widow. 

BENNETT GODFREY GALEF '34 in 
New York City in the crash of an air- 
liner near LaGuardia Field. Feb. 3. In 
1935 he joined J. L. Galef & Son. Inc., 
arms and ammunition distributors. He 
later became Vice-President of the or- 
ganization. During World War II. he 
served with the Bureau of Ordnance as 
a Lieutenant. Phi Beta Kappa. His widow 
is Mrs. Edith Galef, 100 Central Park 
South, New Yoi-k 19. 

JOSEPH ROBERT WINANS "34 in West 
Greenwich, R. 1., Feb. 8. He had been 
physical education instructor at Hope 
High School in Providence for the past 
20 years. He was a member of the 
R. I. Physical Education Association, the 
American Federation of Teachers, the 
Gridiron Club, and the R. I. Institute 
of Instruction. His brother is John F. 
Winans "32. and his widow is Mrs. Mary 
W. Winans. 43 Hope Rd., Cranston, R. I. 

JOSEPH BERNARD FRONAPFEL. Ill, 

'57 in Hales Corners. Wis., Feb. 22. He 
had been associated with AUis-Chalmers 
Manufacturing Co. as an assistant engi- 
neer in the Regulator Department. His 
mother is Mrs. Katharine L. Fronapfel, 
2904 Pacific Ave., Belmar, N. J. 



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