BROWN 

ALUMNI MONTHLY 




COMMENCEMENT MARCH: All the Classes Were Proud 



JULY 1959 





ONE of the technical men handling the 
closed circuit TV from the Meeting 
House was reviewing the Commencement 
morning experiment. "The level on the 
organ was fine." he noted. "The girl stood 
a little too far from the microphone, but 
the boy was easy to pick up. But that last 
fellow was terrible; I couldn't understand 
a word he said." 

The "last fellow" was President Keeney. 
and what he said was in Latin. 

> PROF. CHARLES H. SMILEY is already 
making plans for his 11th trip to observe 
a total eclipse of the sun. in October, ac- 
cording to the campus newsletter which the 
Office of the .Secretary circulates on the 
Hill. No other astronomer will have ob- 
served so many total solar eclipses, for the 
scientist who shares the record of 10 to 
date will not be active in the field this 
time. On previous trips. Professor Smiley 
has journeyed to such distant points as 
Brazil. Pakistan, and Thailand, involving a 
lot of organization and financing. This fall 
he won't have to go much farther than 
Boston. 

> REUNION TIME often means question- 
naire time, as Classes collect biographical 
information appropriate to anniversaries. 
Ruth Branning Molloy of the Peiinsylvoiiia 
Gazelle says some such questionnaires 
come back to the sender "with their heads 
hanging." "Once." she writes, "we saw one 
with blanks ne.xt to spaces reserved for 
Graduate Degrees, Civic Activities. Special 
Interests. Written diagonally across the 
emptiness were the words: "Oh. my! What 
have I been doing?' " 

> BEFORE GOING OH to the Campus Dance 
from a reunion dinner of wives, a mother 
was calling home to be sure everything 
was all right there. We heard her interrupt 
her conversation to exclaim: "Why. here's 
Mr. Chase, and he has a Brown Bear." 

The junior voice on the other end of the 
line cut in to say: "Not a five one'.'" 

> A MEMBER of the 25-year Class admitted 
that he had been out of touch and the 
magazine didn't always catch up with him. 
But he was making up for lost time as he 
wandered about and talked with friends. 
Then he ran into John McLaughry and 
said eventually: "Well, John, where are 
you coaching now?" 

> JOHN FULLER, Saturday Review colum- 
nist, was writing about Theodore Roethke, 
the poet, under whom he had studied at 
Lafayette. "As a teacher then," said Fuller, 
"he was sharp, discerning, relentless. He 
had no patience with the superficial, and 
little regard for convention. He would 
heave into the classroom, a large, bulky, 
but athletic figure, flop down at his desk 



with an anguished look of despair at his 
disciples. Often he would rub his hands 
across his face and stare at us with a 
strange form of benevolent contempt. 

" 'Boys,' he would say, 'I may not get 
through to you today. One reason is that 
you look just a little more stupid than 
usual. The other is that I feel lousy.' " 

> SOME MONTHS have elapsed since 
Northeastern University gave to its Vice- 
President. Dr. William C. White, the title 
of Provost. Seeing word of this in the 
Northeastern Alumnus, we recalled what 
happened to publicity about an earlier 
promotion. One paper printed the item 
something like this: "Dr. William C. White 
has been appointed dean of Northeastern 
University. He has been acting mean for 
some time." (Dr. White told us once that 
the New Yorker's comment was: "Serves 
him right.") 



> OCCASION.^LLY this magazine caught the 
eye of the judges who studied the entries in 
the 19?9 magazine competition of the 
American Alumni Council. They handed us 
a certificate of "Special Recognition," 
awarded "for significant editorial achieve- 
ment in the field of alumni publishing." 

Specifically, they liked our Commence- 
ment issue last June with its "interesting 
and readable coverage of a routine sub- 
ject." The release to the press also spoke 
of the excellence of our photo essays, but 
it was a secretarial error — they meant to 
say Barnard. We got a bona fide mention, 
however, for our reports on alumni ac- 
tivity. And the reason we note all this in 
Small Talk is the fact that the judges cited 
it for a second place in the category of 
columns and edits. 

That fine Johns Hopkins Magazine 
nosed out the Harvard Business School 
Bulletin in the running for "Magazine of 
the Year." While we hung on for a furlong 
or two, we were all but lapped at the 
finish. 

> WE WERE REMARKING on the number of 
Seniors who get married right after gradu- 
ation, when Kent Matteson '28 said: "Yes, 
they no sooner get to be Bachelors when 
they stop." 

> SOME TIME AGO the President of the 
Alumnae Association of the Istanbul 
American Colleges deposited the Associa- 
tion's funds in a local bank, little knowing 
what would happen. By chance, the ac- 
count won a prize in one of the drawings 
which the Yapi Kredi Bank holds to stimu- 
late enthusiasm among depositors. The 
prize was a small apartment, but the 



BROWN 

ALUMNI MONTHLY 



JULY 
1959 

Vol. LIX No. 9 



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 '2 1 

Managing Editor 
Chesley Worthington '23 

Assistant Editor 

John F. Barry, Jr., '50 

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In This Issue: 

Making the Big Move 14 
Commencement Is Everywhere 18 

Hope College Is Ready 28 

Twilight of the Gentlemen 30 

Tom Appleget Has Retired 34 

The Fund's Solid Success 46 

For a Brown Bookshelf 76 

The 1959 Football Outlook 78 



THE COVER PHOTO: One of 700 fine 
pictures from which we chose those in this 
issue to document Brown's Commence- 
ment. As always, we are aware of our debt 
to the remarkable Brown Photo Lab, 
whose staff is directed by George C. Hen- 
derson '.^8. 



\Iumnae Executive Committee voted 
unanimously, instead, to accept the cash 
value of this flat. 

We read the Alumni Bulletin of the lAC 
with special interest, through friendship 
with its Editor, Herbert H. Lane, brother 
of the Rev. H. Arthur Lane, Jr., '39. And 
as we read, we are grateful to our own 
printer. Herbert's, you see, is a Turk who 
knows no English and has to set his copy 
letter by letter. (He does it well, though, 
and it is a first-rate product.) 

> ON THE FIRST DAY of exams in May, we 
overheard a Pembroke student remarking 
on the atmosphere of her dormitory: 
"Everybody is studying — or thinking about 
studying!" 

> THE HARVARD Glee Club and the Rad- 
cliffe Choral Society assisted in two Spring 
performances of Bach's St. Matthew's 
Passion. We wouldn't have mentioned the 
fact had it not been for a notice, reported 
in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, which 
asked the members to come to rehearsal 
and "meet under the Symphony Hall steam 
pipes. . . . Bring pencils and Passions." 

> A WELCOME VISITOR to BrowH cach year 
is Dr. Herbert S. Coith, Director of the 
Scholarship Program for Procter & 
Gamble. This year when he and his charm- 
ing wife came to the Hill to see the P&G 
Scholars, they met a full set of beneficiaries 
— one in each Class. This is the fourth 
year of the program, you see. The Coiths 
were delighted with the records of the four 
boys, the Senior having "monotonously" 
shown a string of A's on his record. 

But for one horrendous slip, the Coiths 
acknowledged that their hospitality at 
Brown had been fine. At Gardner House, 
however, they were provided with a cake 
of Palmolive! 

> HEIGHT OF insult: One student says to 
another, "Is that a beard? Or have you 
just not shaved?" 

> the TROUBLE with having a good Fac- 
ulty is that other colleges try to get it 
away from you, as Presidents have long 
known. The problem was discussed in a 
recent issue of the Michigan Alumnus, 
whose Editor had a sardonic idea for his 
headline: "Have University, Will Travel." 

> A FACULTY WIFE had delivered an ulti- 
matum about punctuality at family meals, 
and the following morning remarked upon 
its effect. "I warned that breakfast would 
begin at 7:30," she said, "and I'm glad to 
see that it did, with everyone here." 

One son observed to the other son: "An- 
other victory for the management." 

> MANY A TEACHER has collected boners 
from student papers and exams. The 5?. 
Louis University Magazine had some good 
samples: "Spain's government in America 
was a strict monotony." "Texas was wildly 
settled in the early 1800's." "The Athe- 
nians obtained their revenues by collecting 
taxis from conquered cities." "Lobby: 
when Senators don't want to vote, they 
stay in the lobby." "The English colonists 
wanted to collect rum and brimstone for 
the coughers of the kings." 

> THE VICE-PRESIDENT of the University of 
Toronto was speaking: "It was Stephen 
Leacock who said that if he were building 
a university, he would first build a library: 
then he would build next to it a smoking 
room; and then, if he had any money left, 
he would hire some professors. Many of 
our students would be lost in such a 



university. They do not understand that 
they have the prime responsibility in the 
learning process." 

> "I'M LYNDON JOHNSON of Texas," said 
the Senator, on the Brown Campus to 
receive one of the honorary degrees at 
Commencement. He extended his hand to 
one of the University police officers. The 
latter shook it heartily and replied: "I'm 
Sam Stuart — from Scotland." 

Guests at the Keeneys house on Com- 
mencement Day looked up and made out 
that it was the lone-star flag of Texas 
which was flying there. Word shortly got 
around why it was there. It was a salute 
to Senator Johnson from Miss Barbara 
Keeney, who, it seems, was born in El 
Paso. 

> SLIP OF THE TONGUE DEPT.: Somcone at 
the exercises at Pembroke, with reference 
to the shovels of earth tossed at the site 
of the new dormitories there, called it a 
"Brown-breaking ceremony." 

y FOR SOME TIME, We've been meaning to 
refer to the revolutionary cheer that was 
given last fall in the Michigan State sta- 
dium when a group of Minnesota students 
bellowed: "Repel them, repel them, make 
them relinquish the ball!" 

Now the Wisconsin Cardinal makes 
some additions to what it calls "pedantic 
cheering" by suggesting the following: 

Instructing the Team in Sportsmanship 
— "Do unto them thy most scurrilous BA- 
ZOOKA, BAZOOKA, BANG! Elbow and 
poke and be injurious. EQIVOCATE, 
EQUIVOCATE, WAHOO!" 

When the Opposition Scores a Touch- 
down — "Snort, snort, we exhort . . . the 
Badgers to avenge this tort!" 

Reprimanding the Referee — "Blasphe- 
mous fool! FIE, FIE, FIE! Return us our 
ill-stolen yardage. Scoundrel! Winebibber! 
Nero! Go melt off that lardage! POSH, 
POSH, POSH! Fathead!" 

A whole new horizon of possibilities 
would seem to be opened. 

> A PROPERLY PROUD parent, a Brown 
man, is looking ahead to the years when 
his two sons may be on College Hill. Their 
record shows fine grades, student leader- 
ship, and athletic versatility. "Now for a 
definite drawback which applies to both 
boys," the father wrote us. "Each plays 
the trumpet loud and well." 

> WHILE REMARKING On the beauty of the 
forsythia last spring, a biologist did not 
seem to share our enthusiasm. "Huh," he 
grunted, "when those blossoms come out, 
I know it's thesis-reading season; and they 
have to be read before the blossoms go." 

> ONE OF THOSE who retired from the 
Brown Faculty in June said the pleasures 
had been many and he believed in keeping 
your troubles to yourself. "Down on the 
Cape," he added, "they have a saying: 
Don't tell your neighbors your troubles. 
Three quarters of them aren't interested, 
and the rest are darned glad you have 
them." 

> COLLEAGUES On the Faculty were talking 
about a certain alumnus who had dis- 
tinguished himself in the years since his 
graduation. One Brown Professor said to 
the other, "Did you happen to teach So- 
and-So while he was a student on the 
Hill?" "No," said the other. "Not a damn 
thing." 

BUSTER 




FOR ONE TEXAN from another. 



'Neat Feat 
by Brown 

THE COMMON PHRASES used to describe 
colleges and their aims are "at best 
loose and at worst meaningless," said Pres- 
ident William C. Eels of Bennington Col- 
lege, writing in the spring issue of the Co- 
lumbia Forum. He had taken a fresh look 
at The College Handbook in which mem- 
ber colleges of the College Entrance Ex- 
amination Board explain their characteris- 
tics. He had some amusing interpretations. 

"A women's college," for example, "is 
one that has none of the disadvantages of 
coeducation but has several select men's 
colleges within a few short miles. . . . 
This nearness of women's colleges to men's 
colleges is a very convenient arrangement 
for the men's colleges. Dartmouth is an 
isolated exception, but it settled up there 
to be close to the Indians, and who could 
have foreseen that the Indians would move 
away?" 

Where Dr. Eels came to distinguish be- 
tween "urban or rural" institutions, he 
found that an urban college is one that is 
in a position "to enjoy the cultural advan- 
tages of a metropolis while at the same 
time retaining a rural character." Brown, 
he discovered, performed a neat feat "with 
the help of a topographical peculiarity." 
He quoted from The College Handbook: 
"From the historic Market House one may 
look straight up College Hill to an elm- 
shaded campus. . . . The almost perpen- 
dicular hill has made it possible for Brown 
to retain the atmosphere of a country col- 
lege." In the view books of urban colleges, 
says Dr. Eels, "it is hardly possible to see 
the buildings for the trees. The photogra- 
phy must be done by tree surgeons." 



COMMENCEMENT 



WE LOOKED in the direction toward which he waved, but 
there was no one in sight — just The College Green with 
its thousands of empty seats left over on the afternoon of 
Brown's Commencement Day. Seeing himself observed, he 
was a little self-conscious but proud, too, and we felt an 
intruder into something personal and private. "Just saying 
goodbye." he explained, got into the well-packed car, and 
drove off. 

He was one of 516 graduates who said goodbye to student 
years at Brown that first day of June. Where now there was a 
deserted Campus, there had been the animation and color of 
the lengthy morning ceremonies in which 836 had received 
Brown degrees and thousands had been witnesses. In addition 
to the Brown Seniors, 196 Pembrokers had graduated and 
124 candidates were rewarded for advanced studies. Fourteen 
had received honorary degrees, too, with citations from Presi- 
dent Keeney. 

It's always a "good Commencement," but this was one of the 
best, surely. The incredible fortune of the University with 
respect to weather held good for one more year, with sunny 
skies from Friday through Monday in what was otherwise a 
wet, wet late spring. And hundreds of alumni in reunion, par- 
ents proud and Professors content, and approving towns- 
people all joined in the 191-year-old experience that catches 
up the heart June after June. 

The ingredients were familiar: Senior Dinner, Class Day, 
Alumni Dinner, Campus Dance, Deans' Reception, Alumni 
Family Field Day, Baccalaureate Service, President's Recep- 



tion, Graduate Convocation, the Senior Orations in the Meet- 
ing House, the Graduation, and the Commencement Lunch- 
eon. We're conscious of having described them year after year 
as old possessions of those who participate. But there is point 
in noting the norm and reporting variations from it. 

Spokesmen for Their Classmates 

Since 1776, Brown Seniors have gone down the Hill at 
Commencement to receive their degrees in the First Baptist 
Meeting House. Restored in 1958, it is all the more appro- 
priate "for the pubiick Worship of Almighty GOD; and also 
for holding Commencement in." The Class of 1959 continued 
the annual visitation on Commencement morning, escorted by 
the alumni to its doorway. 

Two Seniors gave their orations there. The text of one, by 
Nack-chung Paik of Seoul, Korea, appears elsewhere in this 
issue. His companion on the platform was Doris L. Stearn of 
Pembroke, whose oration was on "Subways and Salvation." 
She was talking of the "thinking classes, people immersed in 
a specific intellectual habit" whom she indicated by examining 
individuals in several such groups: The cocktail or social 
thinker, who, after a drink or two, "thinks about social issues 
in a socially acceptable way." The impractical thinker, whose 
requirements for excellence are twofold: "A thought must 
have no possible purpose, and it must be phrased so esoteri- 
cally that only other impractical thinkers of his particuliar dis- 
cipline can understand it." The noncomformist, who spends 
much time "thinking about not thinking like the people who 



Patterns of the Season 



A CENTURY APART: 

James S. Gurney, Senior 

President was 1959's Marshal. 



UP DIM-LIT STAIRS 

some graduates climbed to 

the Meeting House balcony. 






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IN ORBITA: A salute by the Providence Journal's editorial cartoonist, Surges Green. 



think together." And, finally, the avant garde (from advocates 
of the subconscious to the beatniks), "who think a great deal 
about the purposelessness of thinking." But the thinking per- 
son is not a member of a thinking class, Miss Steam insisted. 

Drawing upon an analogy from Camus, she concluded: 
"Thus, we can imagine the thinking man standing on a plat- 
form, watching a subway whizzing from darkness into dark- 
ness. In its few seconds of exposure, he sees the myriad faces 
which epitomize patterns of life unlike his own. Some passen- 
gers should never stop riding, those of low intelligence, those 
who have need of the guidance which right habit affords. 
Others should make a conscious choice about continuing their 
ride, between following a thoughtless and inflexible way of 
life and learning to react in a discriminating way to each new 
situation. If they remain on the subway, it will be through a 
lack of awareness of their state or a lack of courage to leave 
its false security. 

"Easily they can be pitched from one subway to another — 
from one habit to another, but the thinking man hopes that 
they will be drawn from their habit just as he was — by 
momentary glances at those seen only in brief seconds of 
light. All this while, the thinking man must fight the com- 
pelling force of the subway and keep that measure of in- 
dividuality which he has gained." 

While the Seniors were in the Meeting House, the Graduate 
School Convocation was in progress in Sayles Hall, with 



Congressman John E. Fogarty as the speaker. The candidates 
for advanced degrees moved on to The College Green there- 
after so that they might also receive their rewards before the 
general Commencement assembly. 

The Ceremony on The College Green 

Returned to the Hilltop, with five or six thousand witnesses, 
there the Seniors accepted their diplomas without reluctance. 
Pembroke led off, with Dean Nancy Duke Lev/is presenting 
each candidate to President Keeney, who sat in the Manning 
Chair for this portion of the ceremonial. Then Dean Charles 
H. Watts identified each Brown Senior. With a quick change 
from cap and gown to dress military uniform, the ROTC men 
returned later in formation to take their oath and receive 
their commissions. Capt. Charles M. Lyons, USN, commis- 
sioned 42 graduates as officers in the Navy, Naval Reserve, 
and Marnie Corps Reserve. Lt. Col. George W. Hutcheson, 
Jr., commanding officer of the Brown Air Force Unit, com- 
missioned 15 as 2nd Lieutenants in his service. 

A special event at noon on Saturday was the dedication of 
Hope College, newly reconstructed and destined again for 
student occupancy in the fall. Pembroke broke ground later 
in the day for its dormitory complex with fitting amenities 
and many witnesses. 

As usual, it was the Seniors who ushered in the Commence- 
ment season, finding in the Aldrich-Dexter Field a handy 



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locale for their Class Outing. More formal but with its levity, 
too, was the Senior Dinner Thursday night when they were the 
guests of the University in Sharpe Refectory. They appre- 
ciated the compliments and counsel of President Keeney, 
Dean Watts, and their former Dean, Dr. K. Roald Bergethon, 
who returned from Lafayette College to speak to them. The 
Senior President, James S. Gurney, awarded certificates to 70 
Varsity lettermen in the strong 1959 contingent and then 
spoke for the Class of its ties to the University. 

While "generations n-t. revolt" are needed. President Ber- 
gethon told the Seniors, rebels like the beatniks of today are 
the "deadend kids of the intellectual world." It is time to 
take the halo off those who "use thought and sensitivity to 
massage their egos, without producing either butter or 
beauty." At the same time, he would hate to see one genera- 
tion follow another without some exhibition of criticism, re- 
jection, or rebellion. "You will go into a world more imperfect 
than this one." he said. "But it. too, is worth committing your- 
self to. Right now as never before, the world needs people 
who will decide and act. I hope most of you will be such 
people." 

College as an "Obedient Class" 

The sun of Friday afternon dispersed part of the audience 
to the shade that was "Under the Elms," but it was a large 
company which heard the Class Day exercises on The College 
Green. And its program had quality. The address "for the 
Alumni" is reported elsewhere. The Senior participants were: 
President Gurney; Philip S. Hollman, an excellent historian; 
and Robert B. Houriet, one of the best Class Poets in some 
years. 

Speaking "for the University" at the same exercises. Pres- 
ident Keeney said he had seen no reliable evidence that the 
Federal Government wishes to control higher education. A 
supporter of such a proposal, based on the doctrine of "na- 
tional necessity," would be "tolling the bell for this University 
and for the society he seeks to preserve." 

"The doctrine of national necessity goes back to the 13th 
century," he said, "when the prerogative powers of the king 
developed. The prerogative, simply described, is the power 
by which the king or a government may set aside the law 
when it does not serve the ends of justice in a particular case 
or take extraordinary measures to meet extraordinary situa- 
tions. If we admit that the doctrine of national necessity re- 
quires the schools and universities to turn out more scientists, 
we must also admit that it requires us to train not only 
scientists but all our students to accept a particular body of 
political beliefs. College must become even more of an obedi- 
ence class than it is now. 

"If the Federal Government says what shall be taught and 
studied, it may freeze the advancement of knowledge for an 
indefinite period. The political effects would be even more 
revolutionary, for this is, in effect, totalitarianism. You cannot 
be just a little bit totalitarian. If national necessity is the 
price for Federal money for education, the price is too high. 

"Now what should we do? Certainly universities should 
cooperate within the framework of the Government and the 
universities. If the Government wants some research done 
that the Faculty is equipped to do and wishes to do and which 
will contribute to the general program of the University, then 
it should be done. If the University wishes to build a dormi- 
tory and the Government wishes to lend the University money 
to do so, this is scarcely a vicious transaction. If the University 
wishes to build a building and the Government is willing to 
pay part of the cost so that the purposes of both are advanced, 
this can be mutually agreeable. If the National Science Foun- 
dation perceives that teachers of science need further educa- 
tion and wishes to subsidize an institute set up and controlled 
by the University for their further education, this is an ad- 
mirable thing. 



But If fVashington Should Dictate— 

"But if, through the doctrine of national necessity, the 
Federal Government says, "You, you, and you will build a 
science building; and you, you, and you will build a dormi- 
tory; and you, you, and you won't,' this is bad enough. It 
would be terrible, however, if the Government were to say, 
'You, you, and you will teach such a program, whereas you 
won't.' In an area of such great uncertainty as education, the 
inspired individual or corporation must be free to do exactly 
as it pleases within the reasonable limits of human life. The de- 
velopment of the intellect cannot be controlled if advances 
are to be made." 

Dr. Keeney recalled how most colleges and universities 
were stripped of their normal student bodies during the war 
and became training camps and research factories for the 
Government. "Here," he pointed out, "was a clear enough 
case of national necessity. What was done had to be done, 
though it was not all done well. To impose this state of affairs 
upon us permanently would destroy permanently the very 
things we cherish most. 

"To obliterate the distinction between public and private 
educational institutions would weaken the whole fabric of 
American education, for their rivalries, however unpleasant 
they become from time to time, are eventually beneficial. The 
free inquiry of a community of scholars, ranging from the 
very young to the very old. may be aimless in appearance — 
indeed, it sometimes seems aimless corporately. But the labors 
of the individuals are not aimless. Though most of us fail, 
those who succeed are the people on whom we depend, not 
just for national survival but for progress in the long struggle 
of man toward perfection. 

"This is why it is worthwhile at this time of year for the 
students, the graduates, the friends, the alumni, and the 
Faculty of the University to gather together. It is partly for 
pleasure and celebration, but it is partly to rededicate them- 
selves to the preservation of the independence which is the 
truly great national necessity." 




JULY 1959 



On the Platform 




A NEW HIGH SHERIFF, John Leonard. The ofTjcer's 
presence dotes from the 1700's when townsmen "in- 
dulged in riotous conduct." 




Blessed for the second year in a row with ideal weather for 
the out-of-doors, the Campus Dance that Friday night was a 
successful one. It had liveliness, gaiety, and color in the ex- 
pansive tradition that has made this one of the most spectacu- 
lar of parties for all. Ed Drew '30 provided music for all 
tastes, including a lively Brown medley for the climax. Among 
the pauses was that at midnight for the Senior Sing on the 
steps of Sayles Hall under the numeral of 1959. The illumina- 
tion of University Hall, a tradition for nearly two centuries, 
was standard, and so were the oriented lanterns in the elm-to- 
elm garlands. This is a party for which no one needs to drum 
up attendance or enthusiasm. 

The Ingredients of Festival 

All week end, of course, the alumni were back on the Hill. 
Most major reunions, though not all, had their center on the 
Campus, where the facilities of West Quad now augment 
those of other years for housing and hospitality. The Housing 
Office, which cared for the visitors with friendly efficiency, 
reported that the number accommodated overnight was 409, 
the largest of any recent year except 1957. A 37-page dossier 
in the Office of Dining Halls showed the extent of its opera- 
tions through the season: banquets, receptions, picnics, 
buffets, all sorts of meals and snacks provided in more than a 
score of locations, in addition to those at Pembroke. The re- 
quirements were for everything from pianos to pretzels, 
johnnycakes to juices, ice cubes to filets mignon. 

In its fourth year on the Commencement program, the 
"Hour with the Faculty" continued to grow in popularity, 
with the largest gathering to date reporting for the Saturday 



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CAPT. CHAriES LYONS, commander of the Brown Naval ROTC Unit, hod 
also completed the requirements for his Master's degree while here. 



DR. 



K. ROALD BERGETHON, President of Lafayette College and former 
Brown Dean, returned to receive one of the honorary doctorates. 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



morning session, this time in the new Carmichael Auditorium 
of the Hunter Lab. Alumni, parents of Seniors, and others 
went back to a classroom atmosphere to give an alert hearing 
to two fine talks by Prof. Juan Lopez-Morillas and Prof. 
William Montagna. 

"There are indications that the better universities (and 
Brown among them) are becoming aware of the need for 
integrating the various fields of knowledge," Dr. Lopez- 
Morillas said. "Yet the humanities have suflfered grievously at 
the hands of many of those who cultivate them professionally. 
No redemption for the humane studies may be expected until 
the present trend toward piecemeal scholarship is reversed. 
A kind of dehumanized labor has produced a colossal pyramid 
of books, monographs, articles, and notes on absolutely in- 
consequential matters. To discover and edit an obscure 
manuscript and publish it in book form does not necessarily 
mean to bring it back to life; it may only transfer it from a 
potter's field to a mausoleum." 

His plea for "Integration in the Humanities" ended with 
the warning that "we shall be saved only if we escape what 
is human in us (our baser nature) and become humane. In an 
age that puts a premium on fragmented knowledge, it has be- 
come imperative for man to make the greatest effort to re- 
main whole." 

Are We Afraid of Free Time? 

When the scholar in modern literature had finished, the 
scientist. Dr. Montagna, addressed himself to a similar topic, 
"What Shall We Teach?" He welcomed the chance to talk 
about things outside his own specialty, he said, for science 
cannot stand apart from the humanities. The educator had to 
be a scholar in his own right, "for no subject is static." While 
urging the student to consult the great minds of the past, he 
must himself press forward as an investigator. Though the 
essence of his teaching is to lead the student to use his own 
mind, the spirit of inquiry can only be communicated by 
those who habitually inquire. 

"Are we afraid of free time?" Dr. Montagna asked. "Little 
by little we are successfully snuflSng out the contemplative 
life. People nowadays must have their thoughts replaced by 
the blurting of radios and television. The major responsibilities 
of parents and teachers are to nurture the individuality of 
youngsters and train them to rebel against the lies that saturate 
the air daily, and against the constant campaigns waged by 
the industries of distraction and of thought replacement. 
America's over-protective society, moreover, is producing 
youngsters who know so little discipline that they are stunned 
when they come to grips with it." 

Why did colleges insist on the rigidity of its programs? "A 
curriculum merely represents," he said, "the current, most 
satisfactory device to insure some sort of nucleus in the stu- 
dent's program. A concentration in a given subject prevents 
too much shopping at our educational bargain counters. Each 
student should make the point of his greatest interest his own 
portal of entry into education. 

"There are no deep chasms separating the mission of the 
scientist from that of the artist. Only their methods vary; their 
motivation and the needs of their soul are the same. Each is 
seeking the same thing; each is following the dictates of his 
soul; each is striving to express what he knows and feels." 

The immediate success of the experimental Alumni Family 
Field Day last year left no doubt about its repetition in 1959. 
Although the novelty of the Aldrich-Dexter property had worn 
off for some, the event again attracted its large attendance and 
provided its fun. Age and energy dictated the use one made of 
the generous facilities. The children could crowd into Gabby 
Galinelli's clown-cart for a swing around the upper acres of 
the 39. They pressed for pony-rides, balloons, or such games 
as volleyball. Their elders could listen to Dixieland music, 







YACHTSMEN: Provost Bliss, center, was the University s escort (or the Ste- 
phens brothers when the cJesigners came to College Hill for a June degree. 
Bliss v^as navigator on two America's Cup cJefenders. The Brown flagpole 
was once a mast on one of the defending yachts. 

empty a paper cup at leisure, or relax under canvas with con- 
temporaries. We have no statistics, but there were a lot of 
people with a lot of room in which to enjoy themselves in the 
holiday atmosphere of Memorial Day. A hard-working com- 
mittee of the Associated Alumni and Association of Class 
Secretaries could take satisfaction in their preparations. 

The Tii'o Serx'ices of Sunday 

How quickly a new tradition can be established! One felt it 
also in the ready response to a casual suggestion by an 
alumnus that he would like to worship at Commencement 
time in the new Manning Chapel. It took less than a minute 
for an executive decision in the President's Office to initiate 
plans for just such a service. And so, with a minimum of 
advertising, there was a congregation that comfortably filled 
Manning on Commencement Sunday at 10. A Senior choir 
had been enlisted to assist Prof. John Rowe Workman, a 
Senior read the Scripture Lesson, and Chaplain Charles A. 
Baldwin had a felicitous sermon on "The Good Old Days," 
which he projected into the challenge of the present. The 
order of worship, with different unison prayers, was the sajne 
used each morning in the College year at voluntary services 
in Manning Chapel. 

The Baccalaureate Service was held in the First Baptist 
Meeting House Sunday afternoon, with the Chaplain, the 
Minister of the Church, and the Deans of Brown and Pem- 
broke participating. Up on The College Green, the second 
congregation enjoyed a sense of presence under the shading 



JULY 1959 




ROBERT S. HOLDING 14, 1959 Chief Marshal, receives his baton frcm 
Chancellor Harold B. Tanner '09. At the right is Walter Adier '18, Chief of 



Staff. U. S. Senator Theodore Francis Green 87, at the left, is the senior 
member of the Brown University Board of Fellows. 



trees f perhaps 900 in addition to the 1000 in the Meeting 
House). 

The Rev. Truman B. Douglass, the Baccalaureate Preacher, 
urged the Seniors to become committed and effective members 
of "The Responsible Community." Unless they are so moved, 
he said, college is little more than a trade school. "Even 
worse, it may be mainly a club of social snobs who occupy 
themselves with the trivia of cultural dilettantism." To pro- 
duce biased minds is the business of education, he continued, 
for it cannot be a neutral undertaking. It insists that knowing 
is better than not knowing, that some things are more worth 
knowing than others. Education is filled with "value judg- 
ments and unprovable assumptions." Those who have, 
through education, received more than they deserve must 
make up "the responsible community." 

The amenities of the President's Reception followed in the 
sunny garden of 55 Power St. 

Despite a dry northeast wind that had the amateur meteor- 
ologists apprehensive, the sun still shone on Commencement 
morning. Chief Marshal Robert S. Holding "14 received his 
baton from Chancellor Harold B. Tanner, and The College 
Green was well populated at assembly time when the bands 
struck up the sweet monotony of the Commencement March. 



10 




AIDE George S. Foley '24 of St. Petersburg with the Chief Marshal. 

BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 




E. J. SCHERMERHORN, Tulsa, and C. E. Hammond, Stamford, '34 Marshals. 




KENT F. MATTESON '28, perennial as a Divisional Marshal. 



Again the experienced Chief of Staff, Walter Adler '18, had 
given thorough attention to the preliminary arrangements, in- 
cluding the added complication of the separate Procession 
for the Graduate School. 

The Aides and Marshals for the March 

First down the Hill was the Senior Class Marshal, James S. 
Gurney. Aides to Chief Marshal Holding were: George F. 
Bliven '15, C. Arthur Braitsch "23, William T. Brightman, 
Jr., '21, Gordon E. Cadwgan '36, Maury M. J. Caito '34, John 
B. Dunn '16, William H. Edwards '19, George F. Foley '24, 
Ronald M. Kimball '18, Elisha C. Mowry '04, Dr. Robert 
Cushman Murphy '11, H. Clinton Owen. Jr., '28, and Rich- 
mond H. Sweet "25. Divisional Aides included: Wayland W. 
Rice '17, Kent F. Matteson "28, and Denison W. Greene '24. 
Aides to the presidential party were J. Harold Williams "18 
and William J. Gilbane "33. 

Class Marshals in the Alumni Division were: the Rev. 
Charles D. Lake '54, Robert F. Roth '54, Rolland H. Jones 
'49, Theodore F. Low "49, G. Myron Leach '44, Dr. Elihu S. 
Wing, Jr., '44, Ralph L. Fletcher, Jr., '39, Irving A. Hall, Jr., 
'39, Carleton E. Hammond '34, Edwin J. Schermerhorn '34, 
Senator Harold S. Moskol '29, Roger W. Shattuck '29, M. 
Randolph Flather '24, S. Everett Wilkins, Jr., '24. Joseph C. 
Johnstone '19, Ralph H. Mullane '19, Joseph H. Farnham 
'14, Dr. Robert M. Lord '14, Judge William M. Connell '09, 
Dr. Robert H. Whitmarsh "09, Michael F. Costello '05, Elmer 
S. Chace '01, Henry C. Hart '01, and Howard C. Barber '99. 

The Chief Marshal 
and His Lieutenants 




GUARD OF HONOR is formed outside University Hall as the President follows the Mace to the Commencement platform. 

JULY 1959 



11 



BACCALAUREATE SERVICE 




PRINCIPALS in the Meeting House: leff 
to right, Dean Charles H. Watts '47, Dr. 
Keeney, Dean Nancy Duke Lewis of 
Pembroke, the Rev. Dr. Truman B. 
Douglass, who preached the Baccalcure* 
ate Sermon, Choplain Charles A. Bold- 
win, and the Rev. Charles D. Lake '54, 
of the First Baptist Church. 




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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Other Marshals: Prof. R. Gale Noyes '21, Prof. Charles H. 
Smiley, Prof. Mac V. Edds, Prof. Robert H. George, Prof. 
William Montagna, Prof. John R. Workman, Knight Edwards 
'45, Stanley F. Mathes '39, Henry G. Clark '07, Elmer S. 
Horton '10, Prof. C. Raymond Adams '18, and Prof. C. A. 
Robinson, Jr. 

Jerrold Moskowitz, Vice-President of the Class, was in 
charge of the Senior Class Marshals from the College: Joseph 
S. Beale, Richard J. Beland, A. Robert Bellows, Joseph P. 
Carr, John C. Christie, Jr., Raynor W. Clark, John W. Cronin, 
Jr., H. Corbin Day, Howard E. Digel, Philip J. Di Saia, 
Stephen L. Dyson, Victor Elting, III, Frank H. Finney, Jr., 
Glennard E. Frederick, S. Albert D. Hanser. Robert A. 
Hastings, Philip S. Hollman. Albert P. Jonikas, Jr., Richard 
F. Judkins, Donald M. Kartiganer. Calvin K. Keyler, Robert 
E. Kresko, Peter F. McNeish. L. Aaron Mendelson, Richard 
J. Ramsden, William P. Suter. Robert W. Topping, William 
H. Traub, John H. Barcroft, Wallace H. Terry, Jr., and 
Donald J. Warburton. 

Priscilla A. Collins '49 was Pembroke Marshal, with Kath- 
erine R. Hempstead, 1959 President, and Jane G. Allison, 
President of Student Government, as Senior Marshals. The 
other Marshals for the Pembroke Seniors were: Elizabeth 
J. Boole, Jane L. Cayford, Jean Dietel, Nancy E. Gillespie, 
Susan V. Goff, Carol P. Holzapfel, Barbara M. Imm, 
Madeleine de R. Johnson, Eleanor G. Judd, Joanna D. Kel- 
logg. Margot B. Mackmull, Elise D. Phillips, and Victoria L. 
Santopietro. 

Nelson Lambert, former janitor of Faunce House, was at 
his usual spot in front of Sayles Hall to shake the hands of old 
friends as they passed in the Procession. We're told it was his 
50th Brown Commencement. 

There Was Variety in the Exhibitions 

For the Commencement visitors, there were special ex- 
hibitions on display in University libraries, art galleries, and 
elsewhere on the Hill. The John Hay Library showed manu- 
scripts of Abraham Lincoln in the lobby and Special Col- 
lections Room. The John Carter Brown Library's exhibit was 
"A New Universe for a New World: The Colonial Ameri- 
can's Knowledge of Science, 1690-1760." "One Hundred 
Years of Italian Printing, 1465-1565" were documented by 
items on view in the Annmary Brown Memorial. At both the 
Art Department and in Faunce House, there was an ex- 
hibition of original work by undergraduates which attracted 
much interest. Gardner House opened its doors to small 
groups interested in its collections of antiques, art, china, and 
memorabilia, while those who journeyed to Bristol were 
rewarded by an appropriate special exhibition at the Haffen- 
refier Museum of the American Indian. It displayed trophies 
from Brown University field expeditions, illustrative of the 
archaeology of Western Alaska. 

Pembroke used the Crystal Room of Alumnae Hall to 
house a dramatic demonstration of the growth of the women's 
college. "The Whole Admission Process" was graphically ex- 
plained in Pembroke's Admission Office. 

Commencement came to a close with the sociable luncheon 
for all in the Sharpe Refectory, an event which not only meets 
a need but adds to the amenities of the season, an informal 
reunion for families and alumni after it's "all over." For the 
Seniors in the Naval and Air Force ROTC Units, the annual 
coffee hour in Lyman Hall provided a reception for parents 
and compliments to the newly commissioned officers from the 
graduating Class. 

By mid-afternoon, the exodus was well under way. On 
Tuesday, except for the efficient crews of the Buildings and 
Grounds Department dismantling the last platform and re- 
viving the lawns, the University's summer routines had begun. 
The last Senior had said "Goodbye, for now." But they'll be 
back, as we all so intend. 



New Wonder Tools 
for Cancer Study 

Electron Microscopes Allow 
Extraordinary Enlargement 



THE Brown Biology Department recently has acquired two 
electron microscopes which will make possible extension 
and intensification of its studies of body tissues, including 
fields related to cancer research. Installation of the micro- 
scopes was made possible by grants from the U. S. Public 
Health Service. Each instrument, with necessary auxiliary 
apparatus costs approximately $33,000. 

While ordinary glass-lens microscopes can provide mag- 
nification up to 1 ,000 times, the electron microscope magnifies 
up to 30,000 times and the picture obtained can be enlarged 
photographically up to 300,000. 

One of the new instruments, already installed in the base- 
ment of Partridge Hall, is to be used by Dr. J. Walter Wilson, 
Chairman of the Brown Biology Department, and Dr. Eliza- 
beth H. Leduc, Associate Professor, in their study of liver 
tissues. The research is concerned with the relationship of 
structure to function in liver cells. Problems of growth, in- 
jury, and repair will be explored, with the aim of determining 
factors which may cause the development of cancer in liver 
tissues. 

Dr. Wilson says that the electron microscope should reveal 
many details of cell structure, hitherto unidentifiable, which 
constitute the "machinery" by which the living cell operates. 
It is hoped that the research will not only corroborate theories 
based on previous studies, but will unearth many new facts 
about body tissues. 

Dr. Leduc, who has been working on cancer research at 
Brown for a number of years, recently received a U. S. Public 
Health Service Fellowship for study with Dr. William Bern- 
hard in Paris where she expects to perfect use of techniques 
for operation of the electron microscope. 

The second microscope is being installed at the Arnold 
Biological Laboratory for use by Prof. Mac V. Edds in re- 
search seeking to learn the origin of the filaments of connec- 
tive tissue. These, unlike most body tissues, are not made up 
of individual cells. Prof. William Montagna, who is conduct- 
ing extensive research on the skin of primates, also plans to 
use the apparatus. Other uses in biology also are possible. 

While magnification in the ordinary microscope is attained 
by the bending of light rays by means of a lens, it is brought 
about in the electron stream. The field strength can be varied 
to produce different levels of magnification. The magnified 
picture is made visible on a fluorescent screen which converts 
the electron pattern into light. Insertion of a photographic 
plate provides a negative which can be enlarged as desired. 
Three air-conditioned rooms, kept free from dust, are re- 
quired for effective operation of the microscope. In addition 
to the room in which it is installed, a dark room is provided 
for development and enlargement of the pictures, and a third 
room is used for preparation of specimens. Tissues to be ex- 
amined require a special technique of preparation by which 
sections are obtained which are 10 to 50 times thinner than 
those used in the ordinary microscope. 



JULY 1959 



13 



WE ASSESS THE POTENTIAL, THEN 



Brown Makes the Big Move 




AS DONALD MILLAR 19 broke the news to alumni leaders. 

PLANS for an all-inclusive capital gifts campaign were an- 
nounced in a mailing to all Brunonians in May, intro- 
ducing the next phase of the University's Bicentennial De- 
velopment Program. Continuing objectives set up earlier but 
with a new approach, this major effort in the Brown constitu- 
ency will begin before the spring of 1960. It will be a new 
chapter in a narrative of achievement. 

At the Alumni Dinner, President Keeney described the in- 
tensive capital campaign as designed to satisfy some of the 
'"immediate physical needs of the University." While the re- 
quirements for plant and operation are about $15,000,000, 
Dr. Keeney said the precise amount to be set as a goal had 
not yet been established. "We are still in the process of asses&r. 
ing our potential." 

"The emphasis on the campaign next year," he continued, 
"will be on special and leadership gifts and on general solici- 
tation in Rhode Island." The University Funds (Brown and 
Pembroke) will continue except for the people affected by 
these two phases of the campaign, and it is essential for the 
development and improvement of the University that they 
continue successfully. In the following year everyone who was 
not solicited in 1960 will be solicited, and the Funds will be 
integrated with the capital gift campaign. Part of the goal of 
the capital gift campaign includes the amount we would have 
expected to receive in the annual giving in these two years. 
In the autumn we shall have a great convocation lasting three 
days, to which we shall invite all of you." 

Some alumni leaders had already heard of the decision, for 
Donald G. Millar T9, Chairman of the Bicentennial Develop- 



ment Program, told of it before the 1959 Advisory Council 
meeting in February. He told of progress in the long-range 
effort, outlined the new plans and new emphasis, and de- 
scribed the "change-over" period by now well advanced. 

Millar recalled that the initial step had been undertaken in 
the fall of 1956 when President Keeney presented to the Cor- 
poration his recommendations for the future development of 
Brown University. These had been based upon studies made 
by the Corporation Committee on Comprehensive Planning 
and by members of the administrative family and Faculty. We 
reported on these recommendations when the Corporation 
authorized the Bicentennial Program. 

"During the past two years," Millar told the Advisory Coun- 
cil, "we have taken the initial steps to achieve the objectives of 
the Program. Through a plan of limited solicitation of special 
prospects, we have received a total of approximately $3,000,- 
000 to date." This was before the million-dollar allocation 
from the estate of John L. Given, Jr., '34, the Ford Founda- 
tion grant, and other recent benefactions. 

What the Consultants Advised 

Despite progress made, Millar continued, "we have felt 
for some time that it would be wise to invite outside examina- 
tion of our philosophy, our approach, and our specific tech- 
niques in order to assure the greatest possible support for the 
general phase of our Program. Therefore, early last fall, the 
firm of Marts and Lundy. Inc., of New York was retained 
to make a study of our situation and to report their findings. 
This firm has had experience in helping to raise funds for 
nearly 400 university and college capital campaigns during the 
past 33 years. In recent years, it has guided massive develop- 
ment programs for such institutions as Cornell, Dartmouth, 
Lehigh, M.I.T., and N.Y.U. 

"The firm made a careful analysis of the previous project 
program at Brown; it studied our history in fund-raising; it 
sent a representative to talk with many Brown and Pembroke 
graduates to ask their evaluation of the Bicentennial Program. 
The General Development Committee, the Advisory and Ex- 
ecutive Committee of the Corporation, and the President have 
received and accepted their report. They now pass the recom- 
mendations on to the alumni. 

"The important news I have to announce is that it has been 
decided to embark upon a major all-inclusive capital gifts 
campaign to begin in the spring of 1960. This campaign will 
call upon every Brown alumnus, every Pembroke alumna, the 
community, business, foundations, and friends of Brown 
wherever they may be found. It will be the largest and most 
intensive fund raising project ever undertaken in the history 
of Brown University, to provide the biggest step forward in 
our 200-year history. 

United to Make a Single Goal 

"The basic recommendation for this change-over in tech- 
nique also calls for the joining of all objectives into a single 
goal so that all of us will be working toward a common end. 
In other words, all of the current projects will become a part 
of the total campaign objective of X dollars. (The exact figure 



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BROWN .\LUMNI MONTHLY 



will be determined shortly, as we noted above. — Ed.) This 
means that all projects will be stressed equally in publicity, 
that our united efforts will be directed toward the total goal. 
However, donors with special interests will be encouraged; 
they may designate their gifts for specific projects in the 
campaign. We do not anticipate a separate campaign organiza- 
tion for Pembroke. We believe that Pembroke alumnae should 
be represented on campaign committees and should become 
an integral part of the total program. It will be the privilege 
of donors, of course, to designate their gifts for Pembroke or 
for any other special part of the total program. 

The Plan for Organization 

"How will the program differ from our present setup? What 
part are you expected to play? What effect will it have on 
annual giving and the Bequest Program? 

"Successful capital fund campaigns are based on the effec- 
tive personal solicitation of every prospective contributor 
within reach. Only when there is this great concentration of 
interest, attention, and work is it possible to do a complete 
job of finding new prospects for major gifts and of stimulating 
all the financial help which friends of the University are able 
and willing to give. 

"To do this most effectively, we propose to organize com- 
mittees on a regional and area basis where there are large 
concentrations of alumni and alumnae. These committees of 
volunteers will assume the responsibility for calling on all of 
the friends of Brown and Pembroke and asking them to con- 
tribute to the Bicentennial Program. This will require the 
services of thousands of volunteers in every section of the 
country. The committees will be backed up by publicity and 
background material both for themselves and for their pros- 
pects so that there will be widespread information and interest 
among all who are called on to work and to give. A member 
of the staff will work with the local committees on a daily 
basis until their work is completed. 

"Some of you may be asked to take on the responsibility 
for organizing volunteer committees in your area, or you may 
be asked to assume another type of post in the Program. 
Because of your work in alumni affairs and your intimate 
knowledge of the University, you can help immensely by 
interpreting it to other alumni. 

"In the short time we have had since the analysis of our 
program was completed, we have not been able to make de- 
tailed decisions on the relationship of annual giving to the 
Bicentennial Program, or of the probable effect of the cam- 
paign on the Bequest program, or Class Reunion Gifts. These, 
of course, are vital to Brown's future and must be given every 
opportunity to continue their significant role in our total 
financial program. 

The Role of the University Fund 

"Because the Brown University Fund is the channel through 
which most of us are directing our gifts to the University, and 
because its growth has become a matter of pride for all of 
us, and because it provides income that is essential to the 
University's annual operation, 1 want to tell you what general 
provisions have been made to coordinate it with the capital 
campaign. 

"For the current fiscal year, which ends in June, the Brown 
University Fund and the Pembroke College Fund should 
proceed as usual. There will be no interference from the 
Bicentennial Program. 

"As we presently envision the change-over operation of 
the Bicentennial Program, the remainder of the calendar 
year 1959 will be taken up with preparations for the all-out 
campaign beginning in 1960. 

"In the spring of 1960 the Brown University Fund will 
operate as usual with the exception of those alumni in Rhode 



Island and 10 to 20% of the alumni elsewhere who may be 
classified as special gifts prospects. These will not be solicited 
by the annual Fund because there should not be a dual 
solicitation of any person in a single year. 

"From September, 1960 until June, 1961, the Bicentennial 
Program will be presented to all other Brown and Pembroke 
alumni. During that period, we hope the annual funds will 
be completely coordinated with the capital campaign. 

"If this coordination is effected, it is clear that annual giving 
cannot provide the usual amounts expected of it in meeting 
the University's budget for 1960 and 1961. In each of the 
years during which the Bicentennial Program's active solicita- 
tion is under way, part of the proceeds will be allocated to the 
purposes of the annual fund, so that there will be no reduction 
in the operating funds ordinarily provided to the University 
by the Brown University Fund. The objectives of the cam- 
paign will include an amount to cover income normally pro- 
vided by annual giving. 

"As for the years following, records of other universities 
show very conclusively that gifts to the annual fund increase 
considerably after a capital gifts campaign, largely because 
the sights of alumni are raised in the campaign and the donors 
continue to give larger annual amounts to subsequent annual 
fund programs. 

"There is interesting confirmation of this fact in Brown's 
own experience. In 1945, Brown launched a general campaign 
for the Housing and Development Fund. In this effort, 
$5,456,000 was raised in the period 1945-52. In the four 
years, 1946-1949 inclusive, there was no Alumni Fund solici- 
tation, or only limited solicitation. The highest annual fund 
total before this capital fund campaign was about $80,000 
and last year reached $660,000. 

"This story can be repeated in the experience of all uni- 
versities and colleges which have had alumni funds following 
their capital fund campaigns and I have no fears about what 
will happen at Brown when our Bicentennial Program is over. 

On the Area of the Bequest 

"Coordination of the Bequest program with the Bicenten- 
nial Program does not present a serious or complicated prob- 
lem. The Class Bequests Chairmen, we believe, will encourage 
their classmates to make contributions to the Capital Gifts 
campaign if they possibly can. Ordinarily, in campaigns of 
this type, the University hears of many additional bequests 
that have been made by alumni, simply because volunteer 
committee members are given the information by donors when 
they make personal calls. Also, some donors who have made 
provisions in their wills for Brown may find during the cam- 
paign that they want to participate, and consequently, give 
some of their capital to the University immediately. They get 
the added pleasure of watching their gifts being put to use 
during their lifetime. Others who wish to take part in the 
campaign, but find they need some income from their capital, 
may enter into life income agreements with the University. 

"In any event, most universities and colleges that have con- 
ducted capital campaigns have found that the campaign stimu- 
lates bequests, and news of bequests, and that there is no 
reason to worry that the bequest program is forgotten. 

"There still remains a number of important details to be 
worked out for all phases of the program which we plan. Let 
me say in closing that what we have already done, and what 
we shall do in the next few months, is not done in haste or in 
desperation, but with a very real sense of their importance to 
Brown's future, and with every facet of the relations between 
the University and its alumni taken into full consideration. 
These plans come from the very strength of the University. 

"As they succeed. Brown will enter its third century of 
service to the nation as one of America's leading universities, 
and you will have helped to make it so." 



JULY 1959 



15 




THOMAS J. WATSON, JR., '37: His acceptance 
is "one of the happiest events of any season." 



A Big Man 

for 

a Big Job 



THE BEST OF LEADERSHIP has been assured for the Bicen- 
tennial Development Campaign by the decision of 
Thomas J. Watson, Jr., '37 to accept the position of National 
Chairman of Brown's greatest undertaking in capital fund 
raising. The President of the International Business Machines 
Corporation has long since demonstrated that any enterprise 
to which he contributes his talents has a remarkably favor- 
able prospect of success. 

"Mr. Watson's decision to accept the top post in our funds 
drive is one of the happiest events of this or any season," 
President Keeney said in announcing the appointment. "It 
has given an enormous lift to all of us who are concerned 
with the drive and its objectives. It has greatly fortified our 
confidence in the success of what we regard as the most im- 
portant endeavor in the life of the University." 

The National Chairman will contribute his thinking and 
counsel through the course of the campaign, will assist in 
recruiting top campaign aides, and will preside at meetings 
of the Steering Committee. 

The Watson "Service Record" 

This new position adds a major item to the Watson "serv- 
ice record" at Brown. He served as a Trustee from 1948 to 
1955, was elected a Life Trustee in 1956, and is a member of 
the Advisory and Executive Committee of the Corporation. 
In the Housing and Development Campaign, which resulted 
in the Wriston Quadrangle and other College Hill construc- 
tion, he was Chairman of the Publicity Committee and had 
previously been designated Chairman of the Engineering 
Building Committee for the Bicentennial Development Pro- 
gram. Last year he and his mother, Mrs. Thomas J. Watson 
presented Brown with a gift that will make possible the 
construction of a Computing Center. Groundbreaking for it 
is scheduled for this summer. 

It was Thomas J. Watson, Sr., who made the "THINK" 
slogan as famous as IBM's data processing, bookkeeping and 
accounting machines, its fantastic "electric brain" computers, 
its punch cards, time clocks, and electric typewriters, all of 
which have helped revolutionize the world's clerical and 
statistical work. The son has worked something of a revolu- 
tion within IBM through the administrative and production 
innovations he has introduced since he took over the firm's 
presidency in 1952. As for sales, the company topped the 
billion-dollar mark in 1957, three years ahead of the target 
date originally set by Watson. 

"IBM is a way ol life for the Watsons," said Reuben A. 
Borsch when he introduced the younger Watson before The 
Executives' Club in Chicago a few years ago. "At age five 
the son went on an inspection tour of a plant. Four years 
later, he accompanied his father to Europe on the initial 
tour of the new overseas division. As an impressionable 
youngster, he frequently met company executives and got to 
know them all. At 12, he made his first speech before the 
100 Per Cent Club of star salesmen. After graduation from 
Brown University, he went to work for IBM as a junior sales- 
man in Manhattan's financial district. Like father, like son, 
he set a record by selling 231% of quota where previous 
salesmen had never been able to make quota." 

Watson enlisted as a private in the 102nd Observation 
Squadron of the New York National Guard in 1940. Five 
and a half years later he came out of the U.S. Army Air 
Corps as a Lieutenant Colonel with a senior pilot rating, 
2000 hours of flight time, and the Air Medal. (He had 
learned to fly while at Brown and completed a novel project 
in aerial survey for a Geology course.) 

During the war years, he flew transport planes over most 
of the world, including six months in Russia in 1942 opening 
up a Lend-Lease ferry route via Alaska. He has called that 
Russian episode "the greatest adventure of my life." He still 



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does plenty of flying, both on business and pleasure (some- 
times on official business of the University, too). He calls 
flying "the ideal form of recreation for a business man." 
Other forms of recreation to which he is partial include 
skiing and yachting. 

What Brown Has Meant to Him 

"The University has meant, and continues to mean, a 
great deal in my life," Watson said in 1955 when he spoke 
"for the Alumni" at the Class Day exercises Under the Elms. 
He referred to his debt to Dean Arnold, later Provost, and 
his respect for President Wriston and other University 
leaders. "My career to date," he said modestly, "has been 
helped along by many extremely lucky breaks, not the least 
of which was the fortunate choice of a father." But when 
Brown gave him an honorary LL.D. in 1957 (first of several 
such accolades), the citation said in part: "You have built in 
your own right a distinguished career in business and civic 
affairs." The citation continued: "You have promoted inter- 
national understanding, particularly through your presidency 



of the United States Council of the International Chamber of 
Commerce; and you have served this University above and 
beyond the call of duty as an alumnus and a Trustee." As 
a generous Trustee he has contributed industry, analytical 
power, and creative imagination. 

He is a member of the National Executive Board of the 
Boy Scouts of America and was President of the Greater 
New York Councils and Commissioner. Other current public 
service and business positions are: member, Executive Com- 
mittee, U.S. Council, International Chamber of Commerce; 
Public Governor, New York Stock Exchange; Director, Time, 
Inc.; Trustee, American Museum of Natural History, New 
York's Memorial Hospital, and the Mutual Life Insurance 
Co. of New York; member of the Board, Bankers Trust Co. 
of New York; member of the Corporation of M.I.T.; Direc- 
tor, International Correspondence Schools World, Ltd. His 
fraternity is Psi Upsilon. 

Mrs. Watson is the former Olive Field Cawley, whom he 
married in 1941. They live with their six children in Green- 
wich, Conn. 



The First TV 
Commencement 




SOME FUTURE HISTORIAN may note that the 1959 Com- 
mencement was the first for which the University installed 
a system of closed circuit television which transmitted a view 
and hearing of the proceedings in the First Baptist Meeting 
House on Monday to vantage points on the Campus. The 
arrangement was made to provide insurance against bad 
weather, happily unnecessary, but it afforded an opportunity 
to appraise the possibilities of the medium. 

In addition to the customary microphones, the exercises in 
the Meeting House were picked up by cameras installed 
unobtrusively in the balcony. The action and sound were 
sent to the top of the Hill by microwave and there piped by 
cable to indoor locations. There was provision for 30 re- 




ONE OF THE CAMERAS in the Meeting House balcony. 

JULY 1959 



ceiving sets in Sayles Hall, Faunce House Theater, Faunce 
House Art Gallery, Carmichael Auditorium in the Hunter 
Psychology Lab, and at Alumnae Hall, Pembroke. Had it 
rained, 4000 persons could have been accommodated in this 
way. It would have been their only means of viewing the ex- 
ercises if the weather compelled the Seniors to stay in the 
Meeting House for the entire ceremony of graduation instead 
of just the preliminaries. 

How did it work? We wish we could report that it was 
uniformly successful. As far as the Meeting House went, care 
was taken to prevent the TV operation from interfering with 
the conduct of what went on there, for normal lighting was 
sufficient. Reception on the Hill varied, however. Some of 
the difficulties were "technical," while well-meaning volun- 
teers, who tinkered during periods of poor pictures, threw ofl 
the adjustment for longer intervals. But on other sets you 
could see some imaginative video coverage: now the Senior 
speaker, now a long scanning of the Meeting House assem- 
blage, now a close-up on an officer on the platform or a 
listener in a pew. The medium does provide hope of a rea- 
sonable alternative if Brown's weather luck turns bad one of 
these years, for, of course, it has been some time since even 
families of the graduates could be admitted to the Church. 

The thousands on The College Green heard a broadcast of 
the Graduate School Convocation while the Meeting House 
ceremonies were in progress. Although many announced 
themselves as more interested in what the Senior Orators 
were saying down the Hill, it would have been unfair to the 
Sayles Hall audience at the Convocation to try to listen to 
its program inside in competition with loudspeakers outdoors. 

Had it rained, the Graduate Convocation would have been 
held an hour earlier, with advanced degrees awarded there. 
At the conclusion of these exercises. Sayles Hall would have 
been thrown open and TV receiving sets employed there 
for a second audience. 



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COMMENCEMENT is Many Places. . . . 




IT'S CHECKING IN at your reunion headquarters. 



IT'S NEAR THE BANDSTAND . 
at the Field Day. . . . ; 



J8 





IT'S IN THE OLD MEETING HOUSE during the Baccalaureate Service. 



IT'S AT THE DEANS' 
RECEPTION on Class Day. . . . 




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IT'S IN HUGHES COURT before the bell rings for the Alumni Dinner. . 



Commencement Is Many Places, continued 



IT'S ON THE STEPS OF SAYLES as the Seniors sing at midnight. 




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T'S WHILE YOU LISTEN to the Class Day speakers "under the Elms." 








IT'S ON BROWN FIELD with the schoolboys at the 50th Memorial Day meet. 




IT'S AT PEMBROKE 
as they break ground for 
1 the new dormitories there. 



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IT'S IN CABBY'S TRAILER at the Field Day. 



Commencement Is 
Many Places. . . . 



continued 




IT'S AT THE SEEKONK for 

the Alumni-Senior Regatta. . . . 




IT'S AT THE "HOUR WITH THE FACULTY" with Messrs. Lopez-Morillas, Curtis, and Montagna. . . . 

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IT'S AT THE END OF THE MARCH down the Hill with the alumni. 




IT'S IN FAMILY PRIDE 
as the new Ensign gets 
the shoulder-boards he's earned. 



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IT'S WITH THE CHIEF MARSHAL in line with his staff for the Monday Procession. 



Commencement Is Many Places, continued 



IT'S AT THE SENIOR DINNER, 

with Class OfFicers, Dean, 

and a former Dean, returned. . . . 



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, j^ 




IT'S AT SPOTS which bring back memories. 



5!<: 



.'liSfc-" *^•t^ 





IT'S WITH THOSE who mean a lot 
to you, whatever their ages. . . . 



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YES, Commencement IS Many Places, 



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But Its Heart Is 

in the Graduation 

on the Green 





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* 



ti^'^c'i^^. 




HOPE COLLEGE 

A Venerable Dorm Is Ready 
for an Interesting Experiment 



HOPE College, oldest dormitory on the Brown Campus, 
was dedicated anew and inspected with interest at the 
height of the Commencement season, after having been com- 
pletely reconstructed and modernized during the past year. 
In September 78 upperclassmen will move into it, selected on 
the basis of "high ability, a good record, and firm academic 
intentions." "They won't all be Phi Betes," President Keeney 
said during his brief remarks at the rededication on May 30, 
"for some serious people are quite dull." But there was 
enough selection from the applicants to warrant the Her- 
ald's spot conclusion that Hope would be an "honors dorm." 
This is not the case. Dean Watts replied. "But it will be an 
attempt to single out those students who really are quite com- 
mitted to academic work. The idea is to make them conscious 
of themselves and to make the Campus conscious of them." 
Watts, an old Hope College resident himself as an undergrad- 
uate, said the new plan is somewhat parallel to the complete 
"honors colleges" being developed at a few institutions as an 
experiment for exceptional students. The Brown scheme, how- 
ever, he believes, has no direct duplicate anywhere in the 
country. 

The New Tenants of Hope 

The Dean had little trouble filling Hope. When he an- 
nounced its availability, he had a "flood of inquiries." First 
chosen, according to one published estimate, were 29 Seniors, 
18 Juniors, and 24 Sophomores. They were said to represent 
a wide cross-section of undergraduates, including Cam Club 
members, members of Varsity squads, and a number of fra- 
ternity men (from houses with above-average academic rec- 
ords). There is a suite for a Resident Fellow and his wife. 

The interior of the 137-year-old building, second of the 
College Hill edifices, has been completely rebuilt with fire- 
proof construction. Actually, the interior, as President Keeney 
pointed out, bears little resemblance to the old, and it is sup- 
plied with modern facilities to make its rooms on a par with 
those in the University's newest quadrangle dormitories. The 

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137 YEARS OLD, it will have tenants again this fall— 
end very special ones, too. 

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exterior remains unchanged except for such alterations as 
were necessary to restore its original appearance, including 
the installation of smaller panes, 12 to the window. Chimneys 
and doorways, rebuilt, appear as always, though many of 
them remain "blind," with no future utility. 

With 16 singles and 31 double-rooms, Hope College will 
house 18 fewer students than when it was last in use. This is 
due to a considerable space being taken up with the new cor- 
ridor arrangement, lengthwise of the building. There are also 
a large L-shaped living room with fireplace on the Manning 
Hall side of the first floor, a reading room, and basement 
game room and lounge. All plumbing, ventilation, heating, 
and electrical equipment are new, throughout the building. 
Enclosed fireproof stairways at either end will serve central 
corridors on all floors, replacing those which formerly divided 
the building into three sections, each of which was served by 
its own open staircase. 

"The renovation of Hope College will contribute to the 
housing facilities of the University. It is the opinion of Dean 
Watts that it will also contribute much to the academic atmos- 
phere at Brown," the Herald said editorially. "Ideally, Hope 



College will serve as a reward for serious scholarship, a 
brotherhood of intellectuals with which the residents can iden- 
tify themselves, and a demonstration, in Watts' words, of 
"what a residential university can be.' 

"This is basically a good plan, but there are certain difficul- 
ties which must be considered and, if possible, avoided. The 
most obvious difficulty will be the unavoidable tendency to 
augment the intellectual prowess of one dormitory at the ex- 
pense of all the others. At the same time, there is no guaran- 
tee that the segregation of a group of students, ambiguously 
defined as those 'committed to the pursuit of the best aca- 
demic goals,' will produce a tangible atmosphere of any sort, 
academic or otherwise. In fact, if Hope College is opened only 
to Juniors and Seniors, the rapid turnover will obstruct the 
creation of unity and fellowship among residents, coupled 
with an individual sense of belonging to the group and to the 
traditions of a scholarly community. 

"With the above qualifications, this experiment appears to 
have merit, and the results should be interesting." 

The Building Committee, headed by Trustee H. S. McLeod 
(Continued on page 54) 




HOPE COLLEGE was rededicafed at the end of the Corporation meeting on 
May 30. Chairman H. S. McLeod '16, right, with Vice-President Thomas B. 



Appleget '17, told of the old dormitory's history and future. Left, President 
Keeney cited the reconstruction. First Bicentennial project. 



JULY 1959 



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Twilight 

of the 
Gentlemen 



Bv NACK-CHUNG PAIK 



When the Korean finished his Senior Oration, the Meeting 
House resounded with applause for it. But he had draicn on 
his perspective to say some surprising things. 




SENIOR ORATORS, outside the Meeting House: Miss Doris L. Steorn of Ayer, 
Mass., and Nack-chung Paiit of Seoul, Korea. 



FOUR YEARS ago whcti we entered this University we were 
told, as one of the bare facts of our new existence, that 
"a Brown man is a gentleman." Today we are assembled to 
receive congratulations for our accomplishments, such as 
they are, of those four years, and to be once again addressed 
as "ladies and gentlemen." 

At such a moment, it is with great diffidence that I propose 
to speak of gentlemen and by implication, although only by 
implication, of ladies. For in the midst of the congratulations 
and self-congratulations, it would be a tiresome, if pious, 
redundancy of reaffirm that we Brown men are indeed gentle- 
men; to question it would be an unheard-of impudence, if not 
outright blasphemy. 

There are further reasons for diffidence. The word "gentle- 
man," like any other word in which the ideal of a society is 
fused with the genius of its language, is untranslatable, and 
perhaps inaccessible to a foreigner. And as a foreigner, a 
Korean, I speak with this natural limitation. 

Gentleman: "A Man in Western Dress" 

Furthermore, I am a foreigner who comes from a country 
where the word for "gentleman" has ceased to exist in its 
proper sense. We have in Korea today two words denoting 
two different types of gentlemen, but neither evoking the 
living image of a person of ideal human excellence. Our old 
term for "gentleman." which means an ideal man according 
to the Confucian doctrine, has lost most of its vital meaning; 
it is now merely a technical term, often a term of derision 
applied to men of hopelessly outmoded views. The new 
word which is normally used to translate the English, "gentle- 
man," evokes not so much a man of certain inner qualities, as 
one attired in regular, preferably expensive. Western dress. 

This fact is symptomatic of the breakdown of Korean so- 
ciety in the present century and of the spiritual chaos oc- 
casioned by it. The traditional values, which (generally 
speaking) were those of humanism, have been lost in a 
rapidly changing world. On the other hand, the Western 
influence has not filled the cultural vacuum that it created; 
it has not been fully assimilated, and not all of it ought to be. 
But the fact that the new word for "gentleman" evokes a man 
in Western dress indicates the direction in which new values 
are being sought, as well as the unsatisfactory results of the 
attempt so far. 

Gentleman: "Breaker of Fezcer Windows" 

It was, therefore, with a mixture of hope and unrest that I 
came to the United States and to Brown University. Yet no 
sooner had I arrived on The Hill, than I was greeted with 
the sublime assertion that I, being a Brown man, was now 
fully, indubitably, and automatically a gentleman. I did not 
accept the assertion with unquestioning faith — my own 
doubts and confusions were too great for that. They were not 
diminished by the spectacle of my fellow gentlemen foaming 
with the supposedly traditional enthusiasm of Freshman 
Week. 

I survived Freshman Week. And in the years that followed, 
I came upon a large number of gentlemen — men attired in 
Western dress — talking and acting and, at times, thinking like 
men attired in Western dress. I came, too, upon a strange 
inversion of intellectual and athletic values, upon a desire 
for mere difference parading in the name of culture, upon a 
relentless and noisy pursuit of trivialities in order, perhaps, 
to divert oneself from one's own loneliness. In the heat of 
certain Campus disputations I even learned that a "gentle- 
man" is a person who breaks only a limited number of win- 
dows on Spring Week Ends. These additions to my Ameri- 
cana, though interesting in themselves, did not resolve my 
doubts. 

Still, I would not conclude that it is a gratuitous exercise 



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in the rhetoric of irony to say that "A Brown man is a gentle- 
man." Irony, however brilliant, would not be a sufficient 
recompense for having wasted four years and paid for it, too. 
After all, it is impossible to conceive of this University, or of 
any other distinguished institution of liberal education, with- 
out the legacy of civilization treasured there, without the 
humane ideals of intelligence and beauty, "usefulness and 
reputation," which have been the glories of that legacy. To 
these we, as Brown men, have at least been exposed, often 
under duress of examinations and College Disciplines; to these 
we shall perhaps retain some attachment in our future years. 
Perhaps a Brown man is more like a gentleman for having 
been a Brown man. 

Yet one needs an exquisite sense of irony to say, "a Brown 
man is a gentleman" — so much so that I, for one, would pre- 
fer not to say it. And I suspect that the explanation lies 
deeper than mere words; I suspect that today the word 
"gentleman" ordinarily evokes either a man shrouded in old- 
fashioned ideas and habits or a man more accurately de- 
scribed by the new term, "the organization man." 

Indeed, the decline of the "gentleman" is everywhere in 
evidence. He is a puny figure amidst the century's technologi- 
cal advances, its wars, its revolutions, its threats of universal 
extinction. Neither to the mechanized mass-society nor to the 
minority of alienated artists and individualists is he accept- 
able. And an insignificant, isolated, unacceptable gentleman 
is a contradiction in terms. 

The simple fact, I believe, is that the humanistic tradition 
in the West has suffered a fate similar to that of my own 
country: Here, as in Korea, a "gentleman" in the traditional 
sense of a man at once cultured in humane values and fully 
adjusted to his society, has ceased to exist. In such a situation, 
even to try to become a gentleman is perilous: a rigid ad- 
herence to the old values fossilizes one into an "old-fashioned 
gentleman" in the colloquial sense, while an undue emphasis 
upon adjustment to the new society leads to that travesty on 
gentlemanship, "the organization man." The difficulty is 
aggravated by the fact (and I believe that it is a fact) — that 
man cannot truly fulfill himself without a humanistic ideal. 

What the Graduate Will Remember 

To a Korean like me, the irony of the predicament has a 
personal note: Many countrymen of mine, overwhelmed by 
modern civilization, have set aside their Confucius and come 
to the West, only to find that the Westerners are plagued by 
the same problems and are prepared to set aside their Homer 
and Shakespeare, Plato and Aristotle. 

This realization brings with it discouragement and lone- 
liness, but also a certain comfort. For there is comfort in 
being discouraged by a common plight, companionship in be- 
ing lonely together. And we shall need all the comfort we can 
get if (as President Keeney suggested) we are to act "as if 
we'd been here." For this is a world where being a true 
gentleman is an impossibility, trying to become one a danger- 
ous task, yet living without the attempt a degrading lot. 

President Keeney may be disappointed, and we may dis- 
appoint ourselves — although not out of perversity. As the 
years go by, we shall no doubt forget many unpleasant oc- 
casions of these four years; we shall even remember many 
pleasant things that never happened, as well as some that 
did. For my part, however, when I think of Brown, I shall 
wish to remember the perilous position she occupies in the 
modern world, and recall without sentimentality but "with 
freedom and irony" (as Goethe says) the sentence "A Brown 
man is a gentleman." Having recalled those perils and that 
luckless sentence, I should wish still to be attached to the 
ideals behind them, and remember Alma Mater with grati- 
tude and sober good will. 




DR. ALEXANDER MEIKLEJOHN '93 receiving Brown's top accolade. 



OUR RAREST HONOR: 

The Rosenberger Medal 

FEW were more familiar with its paths nor walked them 
faster than Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn '93, back for the 
annual gathering of his classmates, this lune 66 years out of 
Brown University. He returned to receive the award, gen- 
erally regarded as the highest within the University's power 
to grant — the Susan Clover Rosenberger Medal. The privilege 
of the Faculty to confer it, it is reserved for only a few. There 
had been only 10 others to receive it since its provision in 
1919 to recognize "specially notable or beneficial achieve- 
ment in scholarship, in authorship, in public life of any kind, 
or relating to the advancement of the public welfare." 

Previous recipients, all alumni, had been: Dr. William W. 
Keen, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, John D. Rocke- 
feller, Jr., Dr. Charles V. Chapin, President Mary E. 
Woolley, Judge Fred T. Field, Chancellor Henry D. Sharpe, 
Prof. Zechariah Chafee, Jr., Dr. W. Randolph Burgess, and 
Rowland R. Hughes. 

The award was made following the conferring of honorary 
degrees on The College Green. The citation was read by 
President Keeney: 

"You are beloved here by those who knew you, first as a 
member of the great Class of 1893, then as an inspiring in- 
structor, finally, as that rarest of birds, a forceful but 
popular Dean. As President of Amherst and as Director of 
the Experimental College at Wisconsin, you instituted 
changes in the form and spirit of education for which col- 
leges still reach but cannot grasp. You have ever been a 
forthright and articulate champion of free speech, both when 
that right was popular and when it was not. In the judgment 
of the Brown University Faculty, you are deserving of the 
highest honor for 'specially notable or beneficial achievement' 
which this Faculty can bestow. With pride and affection I 
present to you, on behalf of the Faculty, the Susan Colver 
Rosenberger Medal." 



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RECIPIENTS of 1959 Commencement honors at Brown University; seated, left 
to right— K. Roald Bergethon, Walter H. Reynolds, John W. Gardner, Alex- 
ander Meiklejohn '93, President Keeney, Lyndon B. Johnson, Irma Gyllen- 



berg Cull '09, Gaylord P. Hornwell; standing— Olin J. Stephens, II, Roderick 
Stephens, Jr., Henry S. Chafee '09, Robert H. I. Goddard, Samuel Belkin 
'35, Elmer G. MocDowell '14, and Donald G. Millar '19. 



Honorary, 1959 



BROWN CONFERRED 14 honorary degrees as the climax of 
the 1959 Commencement, bringing to 19 the list for the 
academic year. It was a distinguished and agreeable company, 
cited with felicity and candor for their accomplishments near 
College Hill and far afield. Three were college presidents, 
while four were celebrating major anniversaries of their 
graduation from the University. The honoraiidi were pre- 
sented by Prof. Robert H. George and invested with their 
hoods by Prof. Mac Vincent Edds, Secretary of the Faculty, 
while Profs. William Montagna and John R. Workman 
escorted them to the platform for President Keeney's cita- 
tions. 

A special award this year was that of the Susan Colver 
Rosenberger Medal, by Faculty vote, to Dr. Alexander 
Meiklejohn '93, the subject of a story elsewhere in this issue. 

The college presidents who received honorary degrees 
were: Dr. Gaylord P. Harnwell of the University of Penn- 
sylvania; Dr. K. Roald Bergethon, former Dean of the Col- 
lege at Brown who is now Lafayette College's President; and 
Dr. Samuel Belkin, President of Yeshiva University, who re- 
ceived his Ph.D. from Brown in 1935. The Brown Litt.D. 
was one of four doctorates received this June by President 
Bergethon, who was later honored at Muhlenberg, Lehigh, 
and Rutgers. 

The alumni included: Henry S. Chafee '09, President of 
the Providence Journal Company and former President of 
B-I-F Industries in Providence, the Providence Public 
Library, and the Associated Alumni; Elmer G. MacDowell 
'14, recently retired as Vice-President of Aluminium Limited, 
Canada, and Brown Trustee since 1956; Donald G. Millar 



'19, President of Greenfield Tap and Die Corp. and leader in 
many Brown programs as Trustee. Irma Gyllenberg Cull, 
widow of Joseph H. Cull '10, was honored on the 50th anni- 
versary of her graduation from Pembroke, where she has 
been prominent in alumnae service as well as an industrial 
and civic leader. Another Trustee, summoned to receive an 
LL.D., was Robert H. I. Goddard, business executive, whose 
family has been active in University affairs for nearly two 
centuries. 

Senator Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, Senate Majority 
Leader, was accorded the honor of the final call to the plat- 
form for his LL.D., while two other notables were: John W. 
Gardner, one of the most influential men in American educa- 
tion as President of the Carnegie Corporation of New York; 
and John Walker, Director of the National Gallery of Art in 
Washington, D. C. Mayor Walter G. Reynolds of Providence, 
who has "won the increasing respect and aflfection of the 
community," was given a town-and-gown salute. Olin J. 
Stephens, 2nd, and Roderick Stephens, Jr., famed as yachting 
designers, were the first to be summoned to the platform, 
honored simultaneously in an unusual ceremony that in- 
cluded joint citation. 

Fourteen names were added in June to the ranks of hon- 
orary alumni with the degree of Master of Arts ad eundem 
this year. None had previously held Brown degrees. They 
include: Joseph F. Bunnett, Professor of Chemistry; Sol R. 
Bodner. Associate Professor of Engineering; Philip D. Cagan, 
Associate Professor of Economics; Boa-Teh Chu, Associate 
Professor of Engineering; Leon N. Cooper, Associate Pro- 
fessor of Physics; Hubert J. Dyer, Associate Professor of 
Botany; Walter S. Feldman, Associate Professor of Art; 
John W. Lenz, Associate Professor of Philosophy; and 
Wesley C. Salmon, Associate Professor of Philosophy. Others 
from the staff are: Chaplain Charles A. Baldwin; Sam H. 
Newcomer, Executive Secretary of the University Christian 
Association; Thomas R. Adams, Librarian of the John Carter 



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Brown Library; Glidden L. Brooks, Director of the Institute 
for Research in the Health Sciences; and Commander Nor- 
man D. Johnson, U.S.N., of the Faculty of the ROTC Unit. 
Honorary degrees are voted for Brown University by the 
Board of Fellows. The citations for 1959 were these, being 
read in the order given below : 



The Citations 



OLIN JAMES STEPHENS, 2ND, and RODERICK STE- 
PHENS, JR., both A.M.: Diverse but complementary talents and 
temperaments make you a rare team as designers of yachts, ships, 
and amphibious vehicles; respected and ruefully admired by your 
competitors. Rhode Island was built by the sea from which it 
now gains much of its pleasure; we honor you for your con- 
tributions to its mastery. 

DONALD GORDON MILLAR T9, LL.D.: Your unselfish 
devotion to the University has inspired your Class which we 
honor through you and with you. our Corporation which you 
have led as a member and chairman of its most important 
committees, and the officers of the University who have found 
your industry and wisdom a resource and an example. Try as you 
may to hide it beneath a bushel, the light you cast illuminates 
without heat and leads without heroics. 

ELMER GEORGE MacDOWELL '14, LL.D.: We honor 
you as a creative executive who has had much to do with the 
growth of a great industry in its formative years. We cherish 
you most as an alumnus and Trustee who has quietly accepted 
every task and generously labored for the University whose 
affection brings us together today. 

IRMA GYLLENBERG CULL '09, LL.D.: In business, in 
local, national, and international organizations, and in a host of 
other enterprises you have distinguished yourself as you served 
and honored Pembroke by your acts. You have given of yourself 
freely to your college, as a leader of her alumnae. We thank you 
today for all those things. 

HENRY SHARPE CHAFEE '09, LL.D.: In the half century 
since your graduation, you have presided over an industry im- 
portant to Providence, its daily newspapers, and its great public 
library. Yet you have found time to bind together your Class and 
to be a leader of our alumni. Thus your career as a loyal son of 
Brown is a happy combination of useful building, caring for 
knowledge, and transmitting news and ideas, on all of which 
our community depends for its growth and well being. 

SAMUEL BELKIN, Ph.D. '35, D.D.: To few scholars is 
given the opportunity to preside over the transition from a college 
to a university; fewer yet have the power to shape an institution's 
growth as you have done. You are deliberate in judgment; you 
have raised up many disciples; but you have not built a fence 
around the Torah — rather, you have made it a veritable garden 
open to thousands of eager students. 

ROBERT HALE IVES GODDARD, LL.D.: For two decades 
you have served Brown with aid and counsel as your family has 
served this University since its very birth and indeed before its 
conception. Your love for ancient beauty is reinforced by a thor- 
ough understanding of the tradition which produced it, and vital- 
ized by your clean grasp of the present and future needs of our 
society. Above all, your integrity in public and private affairs pro- 
vides us all with an example of happy rectitude which is a living 
sermon. 

JOHN WALKER, D.F.A.: Scholar whose works are as solid as 
they are numerous, trustee and adviser of institutions concerned 
with art, director of our National Gallery, you have served notably 
the world of art and have contributed substantially to the cultural 
development of the nation. For the many facets of your useful 
career, we honor you today. 

WALTER HENRY RE-VTvIOLDS, LL.D.: Municipal adminis- 
tration was your career long before you sought and won election 
as Mayor of Providence. Your mayoralty has been characterized 
by judicious fairness in word and deed, so that you have won the 
increasing respect and affection of the community. Town and 
gown alike will rejoice with us today as we make you one of our 
own. 




SENATOR LYNDON JOHNSON, right, was welcomed to the Compus by Dr. 
Keeney and Mayor Walter Reynolds of Providence, the latter also the recip- 
ient of an honorary doctorate from Brown later that morning. 



KAARE ROALD BERGETHON, Litt.D.: As a teacher at 
Brown, you earned the respect of your students and peers; as 
Dean of the College, you patiently bound the wounds of the stu- 
dents while you goaded your colleagues as you sought to set them 
on the right ways. Joyously you leapt from the frying pan of the 
deanship into the fire of a presidency. We thank you for what you 
have done here, an honor in anticipation of what you will do for 
Lafayette as you lead that fortunate college in the years to come. 

GAYLORD PROBASCO HARNWELL, LL.D.: As a scientist, 
you have moved freely from basic research to useful application 
serving us alike in peace and war. As President of the University 
of Pennsylvania, you have ever put scholarship and teaching first, 
while you have vastly enlarged and developed their environment 
and support. On the highest level of leadership, thought and deed 
are inseparable; we thank you for your daily reminder of this truth. 

JOHN WILLIAM GARDNER, LL.D.: You are the spokesman 
for those who believe that honest education on any level may be 
"the pursuit of excellence." Your skillful pen and quiet voice have 
saved controversy from tumult, and led contestants from hardened 
positions to the fluidity of further study. You have studiously used 
the power of your office to nurture ideas and support men, which 
you judge with equal skill, yet you have ever avoided the chance 
to impose your program, and your ability to expose a shoddy pro- 
posal is the terror of every development officer. 

LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON, LL.D.: When the executive 
and the legislature are divided, anything or nothing can happen. 
As majority leader of the Senate, you have used your political 
strength in the national interest to make it possible for moderates 
of both parties to join with you to do the possible and to seek the 
best. Your skill as a politician has been notable, but you have sub- 
ordinated politics to national interest, the service for which you 
will best be remembered. 



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8 AYS TOM APPLEGET 



Ifs Tivice Been His Career, Too, 
And ihe Story Is a Good One 



THE VICE-PRESIDENT in his last 
Procession before retirement. 

THE SIMPLE FACT is that Thomas B. Appleget '17 has re- 
tired. There were honors at Commencement time based 
on that assumption — sincere appreciation for all he has done 
for Brown as alumnus and as University officer; citations, and 
good sound applause from standing men. But, as one friend 
on the Campus in June put it, "who's he kidding?" A man 
just doesn't move out of an active association of 45 years 
with a University which has been, in his words, "both a hobby 
and a career." 

Nevertheless, his retirement is in the minutes, and Tom 
Appleget spent some difficult days in June cleaning out his 
desk in University Hall and emptying the shelves of the Vice- 
President's gracious office on the first floor. 

What a record it is, if he ever sits back to examine it with 
the satisfaction he has earned. He'd known leadership even 
in student days as "one of the biggest men Brown has seen 
in many a day." He didn't shrink any as a junior officer of 
the University in the 1920's, when he shouldered responsi- 
bilities which today are covered by at least a half-dozen sep- 
arate and well-staffed offices. While Vice-President of the 
Rockefeller Foundation, with all that such duties involved, he 
could still devote energy and ability to Brown causes. And 
the transition back to College Hill as Vice-President in charge 
of public relations was as natural as it was inevitable. At any 
rate, the result is that he can roam the Campus at any point 
and see in the new Brown landmark after landmark that he 
had an executive hand, as volunteer or as professional, in 
planning, developing, and building. 

Out Front and in the Background 

Few have known more Brunonians, alumni and students, 
before whom he spoke with a ready grace, popularity, and 
depth of conviction as he interpreted the University or its 
plans to them. Yet, his solid contribution has not been out 
front. We were embarrassed to find one June that all our 
cameras, whUe taking several hundred photographs of Com- 




mencement activity, had not caught him in one. Tom Apple- 
get's solid contribution has been behind the scenes, as a coun- 
selor in committee, as a consultant with a professor or a 
builder, as the President's right-hand man, ready for tough, 
creative work on any assignment. We thought of him the 
other day, more than a little in earnest, as the "clerk of the 
works" in building Brown. If you've been around a construc- 
tion job, you know how important that gentleman is. 

Well, Tom Appleget says he's retired. And if leisure is what 
he anticipates, leisure he is entitled to. 

Now, where do you begin when you try to talk about all 
he's done in his 66 years to date? For our purposes, at least, 
with the undergraduate days when he was "working his way 
through" Brown. Though given in the once-traditional short- 
hand of the Liber Brunensis, his entry was the longest of any 
in 1917. It suggests the scope and importance of his under- 
takings as a student: 

Sock and Buskin, 1, 2, 3, 4; cast 2, 3 (he'd had the lead 
in "Arms and the Man"). Sphinx 3, 4. Herald Board 1, 2, 3, 4. 
Brunonian Board 1, 2, 3, 4; Editor-in-Chief 4. Athletic 
Board 3, Chairman 4. B.C.A. 3, President 4. Class Secretary 
1. Francis Wayland Scholar 1, 3; James Manning Scholar 2; 
Gaston Scholar 4. Carpenter Elocution Contest, first prize 3. 
Secretary Sophomore Ball Committee. Address to Under- 
graduates, Class Day 4. Commencement Speaker 4. Cam- 
marian Club 4. Phi Beta Kappa 4. (He graduated siimma 
cum, with honors in English.) Delta Phi. 

The Liber offered appraisal, too, a touch on the flamboy- 
ant: "Leaving the derogatory temptations of the Great White 
Way, this marvel of human energy, plus ability, minus vice, 
callaropethed (as Wee Willie Reese would have it) from 
Hightstown, N. J., into the safety zone of Roger Williams' 
home burg. Tom is the kind of a man who will be held up 
for generations to aspiring young Freshmen, just released 
from schoolboy captivity, as a model of intellectual achieve- 
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crowd of live-wires in the Union, perfectly convulsed with 
mirthful emotions, and you will find Tee Bee dispensing his fac- 
ile line. Genius and reliability, combined to a rare degree with 
a wonderful personality that smooths the way — that's the es- 
sence of one of the biggest men Brown has seen in many a day." 
Small wonder that "Prexy" Faunce sought to keep him on 
College Hill, and Tom became Executive Secretary of Brown 
University immediately on graduation. After spending a year 
in the Infantry in 1918, he returned to the Campus to re- 
main until 1925. With the added title of Assistant to the 
President, he directed admissions, the Alumni Fund and 
other money-raising activities, alumni relationships, place- 
ment work for Seniors, academic and sports publicity, and 
anything else administrative that President Faunce might 
delegate. Their relationship was one of mutual affection, but 
Dr. Faunce did not stand in his way when Appleget's great 
opportunity came. (He may even have abetted it.) 

"I'm Just the Messenger" 

For four years Appleget was executive secretary to John D. 
Rockefeller, Jr., "97 in New York City. Surely, one of the 
most memorable incidents of that period must have been 
Appleget's part in an adventure which, though recalled by 
few today, was front page news all over the American con- 
tinent in 1926. It was the era of aviation's pioneer heroes: 
Charles Lindbergh of the Atlantic crossing, Floyd Bennett 
of the polar flight, Berndt Balchen, Commander Richard 
Byrd, and the rest. This incident was to involve them all — 
and Appleget with them. 

It all started late in April when a German monoplane 
crossed the ocean, only to be forced down, a cripple in a 
storm, on ice-locked Greenly Island in Quebec Province. The 
comradeship of the air prompted Bennett and Balchen to 
fly to the relief of the marooned Germans, only to have Ben- 
nett stricken with pneumonia. His doctors in Quebec City 
were convinced that he could be saved only by an anti-pneu- 
monia serum which was available nowhere else but in New 
York at the Rockefeller Institute. They appealed directly to 
Mr. Rockefeller; he agreed to provide it. 

Lindbergh, at the height of his enormous popularity, was 
a guest of the Guggenheims in New York. They informed 
him of the emergency, and he agreed without a minute's 
hesitation to fly the serum to Canada. Dashing to Curtiss 
Field, with a police escort, he there met Mr. Rockefeller's 
private secretary who had been entrusted with the serum and 
three white mice required for some preliminary tests before 
the administration of the fluid. 

Tom Appleget had not pointed out to anyone that he had 
never before been in an airplane. "To the amazement of the 
I onlookers," said the AP, "the plane tore off down wind in- 
stead of wasting time in taxiing to the other end of the field 
before taking off. The manoeuvre seemed almost to threaten 
to stop the race for life before it began, but Lindbergh's skill 
was equal to all emergencies." They flew away through snow 
Y and rain and wind. A correspondent in Troy reported 72 
' minutes later that "the plane was flying low and at a terrific 
speed." Lindbergh had been provided with an Army plane, 
capable of the "amazing" speed of 150 miles an hour. Lind- 
bergh landed on the Plains of Abraham in Quebec, having 
covered the 500 miles in three hours and 42 minutes. 

There's a Future in Flying 

Back in New York two days later, "a modest, smiling 
young man politely asked to be excused from telling about 
his first airplane ride." Appleget had sat in the open cockpit 
of the pursuit plane, gazing at Lindbergh's back while they 
bucked gales and blizzards all the way. "Worried?" he said. 
"Who would be when Colonel Lindbergh was piloting the 
plane? But please leave me out. I don't belong in the picture. 
I was just the messenger." 



The story continued: "Another smile and a bow and Mr. 
Appelget (they even misspelled his name) disappeared into 
an inner room leading to a still more private inner room 
which is the office of Mr. Rockefeller." But first he'd added: 
"Just say I enjoyed my first airplane trip and mean to fly 
again whenever I get a chance. I'm heartily in favor of flying 
as a means of transportation. I think it is the coming thing." 

The irony of it all was that the serum was the wrong type, 
and the trip was in vain. Though the Premier of (Quebec 
criticized the mission as a "cheap publicity stunt," the doc- 
tors and the public were grateful. And it did serve to drama- 
tize the possibilities of flight for the future. 

For a meeting of the Merrimack Valley Brown Club shortly 
afterward, Appleget furnished a direct report by letter. There 
had been none of today's traffic aids, no network of airports, 
and Lindbergh had had to fly low to follow landmarks when 
he could, although the heavy snow made it necessary to use 
compass bearings most of the way. Montreal had originally 
been the destination, with a special train ready to rush the 
serum to Quebec, but the Colonel had chosen to save time en 
route by going direct, though Quebec had no airfield then. 
On landing, Lindbergh was much amused to be the first to 
inform Appleget where they were. Appleget rushed to the 
hospital with Commander Byrd, another famous volunteer in 
the hasty mission. 

Appleget wrote enthusiastically about the charm and skill 
of the man who had been the first to fly the Atlantic. "At 
no time was my confidence shaken. It was impossible to com- 
municate with the Colonel during the voyage (sic) except on 
those occasions when we were badly bumped and he turned 
around to grin and reassure me." The Class of 1917 voted 
Lindbergh an honorary member at its 10th reunion. 

With the Rockefeller Foundation 

In 1929 Appleget was named one of the two Vice-Pres- 
idents of the Rockefeller Foundation. At various times in 
that post he was in charge of the Foundation's grant-in-aid 
and fellowship programs, of several of its departments, and 
of relationships with its London and Paris offices. He was 
for several years director of the Foundation's China program. 
One month he might be surveying the needs of the Museum 
of Natural History, another he might be setting up a pro- 
gram on behalf of European refugee scholars. 

There were 20 years of this, but Tom Appleget's thoughts 
of Brown were constant. "I thought you people staged a 
grand Commencement," he wrote Alfred H. Gurney '07, 
Alumni Secretary, in 1929. "It was great fun to be back." 
Offering a luncheon invitation, he could write: "Our restau- 
rant is on the 64th floor. On very clear days I can see the 
Carrie Tower, but failing eyesight prevents me from being 
able to tell time by it." 

In 1934, having missed his first meeting of the Advisory 
Council since graduation, he acknowledged a resolution of 
appreciation for his term as Alumni Trustee, just ended. 'T 
am interested and a little embarrassed," he said, "in your 
statement that my portrait was included in an exhibit of '100 
Years of Brown History.' Was it there for comedy relief? I 
hope I did not reduce the average too much." 

He was elected a Life Trustee in 1936 and served, in all, 
19 years on the Corporation, at times on the Advisory and 
Executive Committee. He was a Trustee of the Alumni Fund 
for several years, a Governor of the New York Brown Club, 
and a member of the English Department's Visiting Com- 
mittee. Of a number of other committees, perhaps the most 
important was the Student Housing Board, named in con- 
nection with the Housing and Development Program. He 
headed the committee which supervised the building of the 
Sharpe Refectory. Indeed, his increasing activity as an 



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alumni volunteer led naturally to his recall to the University 
as an officer. 

He'd missed the academic life, he admitted. His first year 
in New York, he wrote; "To be perfectly frank, I have been 
a little homesick for the College. This is the first opening of 
College I've missed since I was a Freshman. Heretofore, 
Ned Burlingame (the Comptroller) and I have always be- 
decked ourselves in academic regalia and tagged along at the 
end of the procession, outscored perhaps as to hoods but 
yielding points to no one on dignity and impressiveness." In 
1949, while he was debating the offer of the position of Vice- 
President at Brown from Dr. Wriston, a letter from Harold 
B. Tanner '09 clinched it. The latter's message was simply: 
"Come home, Tom." 

He came. This magazine said that fall: "Alumni will wel- 
come the return of this able and affable graduate to the offi- 
cial family at Brown; he has a wide circle of friendship 
among Brunonians as well as wide acquaintanceship with na- 
tional leaders in various fields." He resigned as Trustee, and 
the effective volunteer turned pro again. He brought with 
him his charming wife, Elizabeth; they'd seen her son Robert 
graduate the previous June. 

A Few Yardsticks of His Service 

President Keeney summarized Vice-President Appleget's 
services in a eulogy before the Corporation this year, speak- 
ing of his constant and exceptionally close association with 
the University all his mature life. "Fund-raising," Dr. Keeney 
said, "was his principal responsibility, shared with several 
others, notably Bruce Bigelow. He has counseled, directed, 
and worked with all the committees which have dealt with 
that phase of the University's Program. Since his return, 
gifts for current purposes have increased from a previous 
high of $180,000 to $1,200,000 in 1958. In the 10 years he 
served as Vice-President, a total of $15,000,000 has been 
received for capital purposes." He was Secretary of the West 
Quadrangle Committee, a member of the Psychology Build- 
ing Committee, and Secretary of the Committee on the 
Manning Hall Chapel. He'd worked on Hope College, too. 

"We shall miss the daily association," Dr. Keeney con- 
cluded, "but we shall continue to count on his advice as we 
approach our Bicentennial. I should like to record here a 
personal debt, for his counsel and comfort have carried me 
through unfamiliar situations in the first years of my office 
better than I could have done alone." 

Tom Appleget has never shirked community service, for 
all the demands of his professional duties. In New York he 
had been a Trustee of the Davidson Fund and of Commu- 
nity Surveys, Inc.; he headed several committees of the New 
York National War Fund. He was a Trustee of Greenwich 
Country Day School. He is a Director of the Greater Prov- 
idence Chamber of Commerce, the Rhode Island Heritage 
Foundation, and the Providence Community Fund; he's on 
the Corporation of the Rhode Island Hospital. 

It is one of his jests that he's "never been President of any- 
thing — just Vice-President," of Brown, of the Rockefeller 
Foundation, of the Providence Preservation Society, of the 
Greater Providence YMCA, of the Hope Club. 

But he is a strong man to have on your team, and he does 
often take leadership. He was chairman, for example, of such 
important University committees as one on the revision of 
the procedure for electing Alumni Trustees and another on 
the "Comprehensive Planning and Development of Univer- 
sity Property." He was Associate Chairman of the Univer- 
sity's Endowment and Building Fund of 1925, when $1,200,000 
was sought. In this connection, it is believed he had a hand 
in the preparation of a booklet which cited Brown's first stu- 
dent in 1765 and was called "The Growth of Wm. Rogers." 
At any rate, Appleget sent a copy to Will Rogers, the come- 



dian, saying "Most readers will think it is your biography." 
(The record doesn't show that Will Rogers sent a gift, but 
the effort was typical of the Appleget imagination and "try.") 

He has three books to his credit, officially, in addition to 
his help with other publications. These are: "Brown Univer- 
sity in War," which he edited in 1919. With Prof. William T. 
Hastings '03, he was co-editor of the "Songs of Brown Uni- 
versity," which came out in 1928 and is still the most recent 
work of its kind. Appleget edited the volume, "John David- 
son Rockefeller, 1839-1937" in the latter year. His facility 
with language came naturally, for his father was a newspaper 
man and editor. 

A feature story in the Evening Bulletin recently pointed 
out that, during Appleget's tenure as Vice-President, the 
University underwent greater physical expansion than in any 
comparable period of its history. He'd had a hand in guiding 
much of it. He could know an earned satisfaction: "The 
problem of dormitories is pretty well licked, although we 
still have some planned for Pembroke. The big dormitory 
construction program of the last 10 years has insured that 
Brown will remain a residential college." But he was not 
complacent: "We're 'way behind on our classroom facilities — • 
there's no doubt of that." 

Recalling the old days when he was first a University offi- 
cer under Dr. Faunce, he said: "My office was myself and 
one secretary. We'd get four to six girls up here from Kath- 
erine Gibbs on big mailings — they called it learning by ex- 
perience. I had a file with a number of different letterheads in 
it; I would pull out the one which fit the particular job at 
hand." 

"/ Admire Today's Undergraduates" 

Out of his experience, he says that another very definite 
improvement he has seen is in the undergraduate himself. 
"The boy of today, as compared with my day, is, on the 
whole, more intelligent and more serious, more tolerant of 
differences in religion or color or background. I admire to- 
day's undergraduates very much, and I tell them, when I get 
the chance, that I hope their convictions survive when they 
get out into the world. Many aspects don't change, of course. 
The age between 18 and 22 has always been characterized by 
seriousness and high idealism on the one hand and foolish- 
ness on the other. We still have waterbags and snowballs, and 
probably always will." 

Summing up his personal hopes for Brown in the years 
ahead, the Vice-President said: "I'm so embedded in the pres- 
ent philosophy that I guess I just want to see more and better 
of the same. Brown will continue to concentrate, I hope, in 
the broad field of the Liberal Arts. I have great confidence in 
our leadership and great hopes for our funds. I'd be content 
to see Brown become somewhat larger within the present 
framework, but no larger at a sacrifice of quantity. There's 
no benefit for education if we diminish our quality. 

"Brown has always been my hobby, when it hasn't been 
my career. I don't see any reason why it can't become my 
hobby again." President Keeney has assured him that there 
will always be office space for him in University Hall. The 
Applegets will continue to maintain their Providence res- 
idence, dividing their time between it and the home they have 
always had in Greenwich, Conn. 

Many honors and tributes came Tom Appleget's way at 
Commencement time. In addition to compliments before the 
Corporation, he received the Brown Bear Award from the 
Associated Alumni and many messages of personal appre- 
ciation. He was dined and approved by associates. But no 
acclaim could have meant more than the standing ovation 
that continued to resound for many minutes when he was 
presented at the Senior Dinner. It was an incident of leave- 
taking which said to Tom Appleget: "Thanks for everything." 



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THE REUNION 
OF REUNIONS 

What Good Are Alumni? Here's 
Dr. Keeney's Ansicer to That 



Brown's biggest family party, the Alumni Dinner at Com- 
mencement, changes little from year to year. Perhaps 
that's why this "reunion of reunions" is so popular, since the 
format was tested and approved long ago, even before the 
Sharpe Refectory was built. 

There is always a good program, though some run shorter 
than 1959's. President Keeney had some lively things to say 
to alumni about alumni, a blend of compliment and challenge. 
There were good news to cheer, honors for a few, a bit of 
bragging by some Classes which had earned the right, a fine 
table, elements of formality and tradition, and memoranda of 
achievement. But. its other pleasures notwithstanding, this is a 
festival of friendship at the point where reunions really start. 
It's the handshaking at table after table that counts; it's being 
there and discovering the others you've been looking forward 
to seeing. 

This is not to be unflattering to the microphone and those 
who address it, for the speaking was well received. It is just 



to suggest the atmosphere of the evening in that packed 
Commons. 

Late in its planning, the Dinner Committee departed a hit 
from custom of having only "inside speakers" and invited 
Gen. Carlos P. Romulo, Philippine Ambassador to the United 
States, to be a distinguished guest. He responded and was at 
his best, infectious, serious, schooled in eloquence. He made a 
strong plea for Americans to project the image of a spiritual 
nation to the rest of the world, "to dovetail preachments with 
actions." "You can face the future with confidence and 
serenity," he said, "if your ideals coincide with your beliefs." 

The Plea of Carlos Romulo 

The former President of the United Nations General As- 
sembly insisted that it was the duty of the United States to 
resist Russia "wherever and whenever a crisis is provoked." 
American world leadership, after only 14 years, he said, is 
now seriously contested: Asian belief in the invulnerability of 
the West is "finished and forgotten." because Russia, even with 
an unpopular political system, has succeeded in outfacing us. 

Ambassador Romulo was introduced by his old friend, 
Senator Theodore Francis Green '87, a man who (Romulo 
pointed out ) represents "not only Rhode Island and the 
United States but the whole free world with competence and 
statesmanship." Brown had every reason to be proud of its 
senior Fellow, the guest said. He had high praise, too, for 
John Foster Dulles, "whose inflexibility in the fight against 
communism saved the free world from many a diplomatic 
booby-trap." The United States must continue to stand firm 
at every critical point, even when attempts at conquest are 
made by Russia at such remote and unfamiliar spots as the 
islands of Matsu and Quemoy. "The United States 7th Fleet 
in the Formosa Straits protects your security here in Provi- 
dence." The battle for power had been forced on us by Russia, 
"but the survival of a wav of life is at stake." 




Nathaniel Borden Chase: Through the years you have ex- 
emplified your loyally by periodic acts of service to Brown and 
your fellow alumni, which the following titles only begin to sug- 
gest — Director of ihe Associated Alumni: Chairman of Home- 
coming: Chairman of the Advisory Council Committee: Chair- 
man of the Pictorial History Committee: Class Secretary for two 
decades: Chairman of the Association of Class Secretaries; and 
for 25 years Alumni Advisor to your fraternity. 

To these and still other labors for your University you have 
brought genial enthusiasm, thoughtful devotion, and faithful in- 
dustry. This Brown Bear Award betokens the friendship so many 
share and the grateful respect so many bestow. 




Thomas Baird Appleget: Long-time Trustee. Officer of the 
Corporation, Executive Secretary to two former Presidents, val- 
ued assistant and advisor to four Presidents of this University, 
and for 20 years Vice-President of the Rockefeller Foundation, 
you have employed your many talents energetically and wisely in 
the broad fields of education, humanity, and philanthropy. Upon 
return to your Alma Mater 10 years ago, you used your wealth 
of experience to interpret the University to the public and to its 
thousands of alumni. 

In recognition of your dedicated efforts in behalf of Brown for 
most of your adult life, we are happy to present to you this 
Brown Bear Award. 



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EMERITI PROFESSORS were guests at the Alumni Dinner. Seated, left to 
right— Charles W. Brown '00, Samuel J. Berard, Ben C. Clough, Alfred Her- 



mann; standing — Henry B. Van Hoesen, former Librarian, Frederick N, Tomp- 
kins 'IB, Walter H. Snell '13, Mathew Mitchell, Leighton Bohl '13. 



There had been a lot of criticism of college alumni, Presi- 
dent Keeney told the Brunonian diners. The Editor of the 
Princeton Alumni Weel<ly. who is "a little on the acid side," 
had written recently about the "intermittent tug of war be- 
tween American alumni and 'their' administrations, espe- 
cially the presidents." Dr. Hutchins was quoted as describing 
the alumni as interested only "in the things that don't count." 
Dr. Lowell of Harvard is said to have wished he were a 
warden of a penitentiary because then he wouldn't have "to 
argue with the alumni." While at Princeton. President Wilson 
complained that it was his lonely privilege at alumni gather- 
ings "to be the only person to talk of education." And more 
recently, Minnesota's former president, Lotus Coffman, had 
said: 

"Whoever heard of a meeting of college alumni to im- 
prove library facilities? Whoever heard of a conference of 
alumni on the research problem of a university? Whoever 
heard of a meeting of alumni that confined its discussions 
largely to the promotion of the moral and spiritual and 
ethical welfare of the student body? Whoever heard of a 
meeting of alumni whose primary purpose was that of im- 
proving scholarship within the institution?" 

"The answer to these questions," Dr. Keeney said, "is that 
I have. I have heard our alumni meet and speak of all these 
things many times, and I have talked with individual alumni 
many times more about these and many other things of cen- 
tral concern to the University. In fact, I do not know of one 
question of prime importance to which the alumni have not 
addressed themselves. (1 have also discussed with groups of 
alumni and with individual alumni many things that are 
peripheral, too, however interesting.) 

"Then It's the University's Fault" 

"The fact of the matter is that, if alumni do not address 
themselves to the central things of the University, it is the 
fault of the University and not of the alumni. The fault 
occurred either when the alumni were students or in the sub- 
sequent dealings of the University with them. If alumni are 
not interested in education, it is because they are not educated. 
If they are concerned only with the things about the Uni- 




TRANSFER of alumni leadership was symbolized at the Alumni Dinner when 

Foster B. Davis, Jr., '39, left, passed the presidential cane to C. Manton 

Eddy '22. The latter now heads the Associated Alumni. 

versity that have nothing to do with education, it is the fault 
of the University for having those things there in the first 
place and, in the second place, for not putting them in per- 
spective." 

The President said he did not believe there were many 
things at Brown which do not serve an educational purpose, 
"though we have some." "Everything about this place," he 
continued, "is subject to the legitimate interest of the alumni. 
It should be treated frankly and openly with them unless it 
involves a future acquisition of real estate or a personal mat- 
ter." Therefore, he turned to some of the central aspects of 
the University, "in which I know from experience you are 
more interested than anything else." 

Speaking of the experiment with the IC Courses and the 
resultant University Courses, he said: "Since I am being 
truthful tonight, I must say that it cannot be shown that the 
students have learned more because of this program about 



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GEN. CARLOS ROMULO of the Philippines was an Alumni Dinner speaker. 

what Students are ordinarily expected to learn. But I think it 
can be shown that they think more and form habits of thought 
that will be very hard for them to get rid of later." He quoted 
"a rather hard-boiled visitor" to the Campus who said: "I 
have never encountered greater student enthusiasm for an 
instructor and a course than I hear from these students I 
have interviewed." The whole result has been to excite the 
students, he said. 

"A less obvious effect," Dr. Keeney went on, "is the in- 
creasing appearance of what might be called 'the questioning 
mind' among the students — a great unwillingness to accept 
things because they are or because they have been printed or 
because a Professor has said them. 

"This Sort of Questioning Is Good" 

"It leads, of course, to some originality in academic work; 
it leads also to an increasing questioning of all aspects of the 
University, for the students are not willing to accept what is 
and are determined to find something better. On the lower 
level, some of them and some of the Faculty ask, 'Why do 
we not abolish football?" "Why do we not organize crew?' 
These questions would indicate that they are not all going in 
the same direction. Others suggest that, if we cease spending 
any money on athletics, we could then build a large and 
magnificent Chapel. Others question the authority of the 
Deans, the wisdom of the President, the learning of the 
Faculty, the morals of the fraternities, the virtue of the inde- 
pendents, the policies of the national administration, and the 
meaning of life. 

"They are applying the habits they have acquired in the 
classroom and in the study to the central features of what is, 
for the moment, their daily life. If they can continue these 
habits of inquiry and carry them into their future life, it 
may well mean an end of the divorce between intelligence 
and intellect which has plagued our society since the great 
material expansion of the 19th century. It may very well mean 
that we have found a way to correct the most obvious short- 
coming of American education — the meaninglessness of a 
great deal of learning to the ordinary man. 

"This sort of questioning is good for us, for we tend to be- 
come complacent, and anyone like me, who spends most of 
his time advertising his institution, ends up seeing only the 
good things and needs to be reminded of the bad ones. So do 
you! So do the Faculty! This sort of questioning is hard to 
take, as is any questioning which strikes at things that are 



assumed to be good — it is hard to take, that is, unless one re- 
gards it as a triumph of education over the natural indolence 
of the adolescent. 

"We Shall Have Turbulent Years" 

"If we can continue this state of affairs, we shall have 
turbulent years ahead, for the students and the Faculty are 
raising fundamental and often embarrassing questions about 
many things that are taken for granted. If this is characteristic 
likewise in other places, we may see great changes in our 
society in the next generation. For this is a very fluid world 
in which we now live and it will become more fluid before 
it becomes stable again. (Even Casey Stengel was 'building 
character' at the start of the season.) Out of such turbulence 
can come destruction or great things. I would remind you 
that the greatest achievements of Athens were made when 
Athens was struggling for her life, that the great synthesis of 
the 13th century was made in period of endemic war, and 
that the Renaissance in Italy was perhaps the most confused 
and disturbed society that this earth has ever known. 

"So, when you read in your newspaper or in your magazine 
that the students at Brown have advocated the aboUtion of a 
venerable institution or the establishment of what seems to be 
the rankest heresy, do not conclude that they are a bunch of 
good-for-nothing Communists. Conclude, instead, that they 
are applying the same habits of thought and inquiry to their 
society that they are applying to their studies. Take cheer 
that they may bring these habits with them when they join 
you as men of 'usefulness and reputation.' " 

Foster B. Davis, Jr., '39, who presided, handed over to C. 
Manton Eddy '22 the cane which is the symbol of the presi- 
dency of the Associated Alumni. The Hartford insurance 
executive took office at that moment. Earlier, Davis had 
presented Brown Bear Awards to Vice-President Thomas B. 
Appleget '17 and Nathaniel B. Chase '23, both popular and 
deserving choices for this high accolade. Of such elements in 
the program and the reports about the Brown University 
Fund there is coverage elsewhere in this issue. Bruce L. Wil- 
liamson '49, with Alumni Secretary William B. McCormick 
'23 as adjutant, was Chairman of the Dinner Committee. 




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Experiment's End 



TY/HEN A CURRICULUM rcaches the point where it can be 
W the subject of a book, it is no longer an experiment," 
President Keeney told the Brown Corporation in June. "The 
recent book, 'New Horizons of Higher Education,' by Prof. 
John R. Workman symbolizes the termination of the experi- 
mental program of the IC Program. Professor Workman's 
study reveals clearly the excitement of the teacher who has 
passed through these interesting years. 

"He demonstrates that scholarship and teaching go hand in 
hand at Brown and mutually contribute to each other. He 
provides the testimony of the teacher himself that the par- 
ticipation of the student in the IC courses is profitable both 
for the student and the instructor. I suppose that the book's 
principal fault is that it is too favorable to our Program." 

"The termination of this experiment does not mean that 
the curriculum is now settled," Dr. Keeney continued. "Dis- 
cussion continues, and should always continue, about cur- 
ricular requirements. A new experiment has been launched in 
the form of University Courses, also supported by the Car- 
negie Corporation of New York. 

"These courses had their germ in the independent specula- 
tions of Dean Lindsay and Professor Morgan, both scientists 
and both learned in the humane and social studies. They are 
an effort to bring together the strengths of these three broad 
divisions of learning and to apply their methods to a series 
of problems of human life. 

"Two more courses will be added in the coming year by 
Professors Lopez-Morillas and Marks, both humanists. The 
excitement engendered among students by these courses goes 
far beyond the small numbers permitted to enroll. (Though 
enrollment in Professor Lopez-Morillas' course is limited to 
25, there were 175 applicants.) The effect of causing the en- 
rolled students to make a synthesis of what learning they have 
acquired has spread to many others in the student body. I 
am informed by officers of the Carnegie Corporation that 
much interest in these courses has developed elsewhere." 

The Health Sciences 

On Faculty recommendation, the Board of Fellows has 
voted to discontinue the curriculum leading to the degree of 
Bachelor of Science in Nursing. 

"However," Dr. Keeney pointed out, "the Institute for 
Research in the Health Sciences appears to be developing 
rapidly. It should be capable of maintaining our relationship 
with the Rhode Island Hospital, as well as other hospitals, 
and putting us in a position to influence the development of 
the medical profession in Rhode Island through involving 
hospitals and doctors in scientific programs of research. 

"This cooperative study involving 15 medical centers 
scattered throughout the country has Brown as its only mem- 
ber without a medical school. Locally the program involves 
four hospitals and the Meeting Street School, District Nursing 
Association, State Department of Health, and Rhode Island 
Medical Society. 

"The first year and a half was devoted to organization and 
pre-testing the study method. The active research has begun. 
There are presently nine studies in progress involving mem- 
bers of our Faculty from the Departments of Biology, Psy- 
chology, and Sociology, together with members of the staffs 
of the various hospitals and other organizations. Plans are 
being made for other studies which could be based in this 
Institute; the most promising of these is the study of cancer 
in cooperation with the Rhode Island Hospital." 




CHRISTOPHER DEL SESTO marched in the Brown Procession as Rhode Is- 
land's Governor this year for the first time. His mihtary aide was a good 
Brunonian, Col. Maurice A. Wolf '14. 



The President touched on other departmental activity: The 
new concentration program in Human Biology appears to be 
"developing well." A second new program of concentration 
has been added in Anthropology, where "Professor Giddings 
has attracted many students to the serious study of this dis- 
cipline." Enrollments are such. Dr. Keeney said, that "we are 
justified in adding a second man to the Department and plan 
to enlarge it further in the next few years." Professor Gid- 
dings, a group of students, and a distinguished foreign scholar 
are in Alaska this summer to continue the important excava- 
tions "which have shed new light on the development of early 
man on this continent." 

Noting that $1,800,000 had been received in gifts and 
grants for the support of teacher-training at Brown, Dr. 
Keeney said: "Perhaps our most remarkable success in 
strengthening a Department has been in the field of Educa- 
tion, where we have had until recently one of the oldest but 
not most productive programs leading to the Master's de- 
gree." Two years ago Brown received some $280,000 from 
The Fund for the Advancement of Education to establish a 
program leading to the Master of Arts in Teaching. 

"You have doubtless read," President Keeney told the 
Corporation, "that we received a second grant of $1,047,000 
from The Ford Foundation this year to establish what is 
called the 'Brown Plan.' Under it, experienced teachers are 
brought here for further study and replaced by interns who 
are inexperienced teachers preparing for their careers. The 
number of veteran and new teachers who are taking courses 
and are candidates for degrees has grown enormously." 



JULY 1959 



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THEY'RE ASSEMBLING on The College Green. 



A SWING along George St. sets up the ranks. 



LINE OF 
MARCH 

A Senior's Progress 
to the Platform 
Is Hardly Direct 






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BACK onto the Campus through the 1887 Gate. 




A SALUTE at Van Wickle Gate. 




PAST MANNING HALL. 



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OPEN RANKS on Benefit St. as the President is awaited. 



THE ALUMNI form a guard of honor at the turn onto lower Waterman St. near the Church. 




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CHECKPOINT at the platform steps. 



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THE FUND: A Solid $652,607 



RESULTS AT A GLANCE: Some Records and a Near- 


Mi 


ss 




Alumni 


Friends 


Parents 


Industries 




Total 


'58 Donors 


9,308 


112 


151 


83 




9,384 


'59 Donors 


8,904 


249 


457 


96 




9,700 


'58 Amount 


$487,770 


$40,754 


$17,474 


$114,040 




$660,039 


'59 Amount 


$450,928 


$27,819 


$19,666 


$154,192 




$652,607 


NOTE: 322 more 


gifts in 1959, $7,43 


2 less. (1958 benefited from $90,000 in large. 


one 


-time gifts.) 



PRIMING THE PUMP for "Brown Week— U.S.A.," nationwide effort 

on behalf of the Brown University Fund. Provost Zenos R. Bliss '18 

and Alumni President Foster B. Davis, Jr., '39, performed 

the symbolic ceremony at the original Campus Pump, now in Faunce House. 




WITH SEVERAL OTHER RECORDS Safely tucked away, the 
Brown University Fund of 1959 was running neck and 
neck in dollar total at Commencement time with the 1958 
Fund that set an all-time high. National Chairman Robert P. 
Fisler '43 announced in his report at the Alumni Dinner 
that the figure that night (May 29) stood at $593,335 from 
8194 contributors. Of the amount $323,854 was for un- 
restricted purposes of the University, $269,481 for specific 
use. A month remained in which to shoot at the 1958 final of 
$660,039. (For results at drive's end, see June 30 box above.) 
Led by a record-breaking 40th reunion gift of $107,000 
from the Class of 1919 and a $46,000 gift from 1934 on its 
25th, 7496 alumni had contributed $423,293 of the whole. 
Another anniversary effort had been that of the Class of 
1914. which has increased the principal amount of its Inter- 
national Scholarship Fund at Brown from $21,432 to $71,094 
since its last major reunion. 

From Parents, Industry, and Friends, Too 

Included in Fisler's preliminary report was the news that 
contributions from non-alumni parents had reached a new 
high this year. Under the leadership of Sumner H. Babcock, 
the Parents' Committee had received 421 gifts in the amount 
of $18,808. The old record had been established in 1957 
when 310 contributed $18,361. The new achievement in this 
category is even more significant when it is noted that the 
1958 total of $17,474 included one non-recurring gift from a 
parent of $10,000. The largest gifts from parents in 1959 
were two for $1,000 each. Thus, in Fisler's opinion, the 
Parents' Fund established a broad base of participation 
which bodes well for the future. 

With a month of campaign remaining, the gifts from in- 
dustry were also well ahead of 1958's final result. This type 
of support includes corporation scholarships, gifts from 
industries which have adopted the plan of matching an 
employee's own gift to his Alma Mater, and miscellaneous 
industrial contributions. The upward trend of industry sup- 
port is evident from the following figures: 1956 — 48 gifts for 
$71,987. 1957—90 gifts for $1^12.229. 1958—83 gifts for 
$114,040. 1959 (a month before the drive's closing) — 85 
gifts for $125,930. 

Although 192 friends of the University had contributed 
$25,303 by May 30 (an increase in number from 112 in 
1958), total contributions from this source were still short of 
the $40,754 received at the end of the 1958 campaign. 



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Summarizing the preliminary figures on May 30 this year 
with the June 30 figures of the previous campaign, the box 
score showed the following totals for number of donors and 
dollars: 





1959 


1958 


1959 


1958 


Alumni 


7496 


9038 


$423,293 


$487,770 


Industries 


85 


83 


125,931 


114,040 


Friends 


192 


112 


25,303 


40,754 


Parents 


421 


151 


18,808 


17,474 



Total 8194 9384 593,335 660,039 

If one used comparable dates (May 30) in both years, the 
preliminary $593,335 from 8194 contributors compared 
with $563,738 from 7808. 

Recognizing the Class Funds 

Not to be overlooked are the substantial contributions 
to permanent Class Funds by alumni, most of whom are not 
participating in a major reunion-year activity. Each year the 
University and the University Fund benefit from many such 
gifts. These add to the principal of established Class Funds 
and provide Brown with additional income to carry out the 
purposes for which each was established. 

Chairman Fisler called special attention to the Class of 
1914 and asked its members to stand as he recognized the 
success of its fund that enables international students to re- 
ceive scholarship aid. But there were other funds, he pointed 
out, which a tight dinner schedule denied special mention 
that night. The status of such Class Funds is here recorded, 
however, the amounts given being the principal at the end of 
the last fiscal year; 

UNRESTRICTED (Endowment Funds for General Pur- 
poses): Class of 1877— $5,000. Class of 1900— $10,315. 
Class of 1904— $5,200. Class of 1905— $36,806. Class of 
1909 — $15,315, plus insurance with maturity value of $10,- 
000. Class of 1913— $5,000. Class of 1915— $2,500. Class 
of 1916— $2,100. Class of 1917— $13,146. Class of 1920— 
$5,000. Class of 1922— $5,613. Class of 1932— $100. 

RESTRICTED (Funds Functioning as Endowment): Class 
of 1897— $15. Class of 1908— $32,592. Class of 1919— 
$21,362. Class of 1923 — Insurance with maturity value of 
$5,000, plus reunion gift of $11,137. Class of 1928— $7,539. 
Class of 1932— $26,382. Class of 1933— $46,295. Class of 
1934 — $16,531. Class of 1935— $1,023. Class of 1936— 
$269, plus insurance with maturity value of $10,000. Class 
of 1938— $1,750. Class of 1939— $1,540. Class of 1948— 
$113. Class of 1949— $5,000, plus additional fund of $458. 
Class of 1952— $3,256. 

For Instruction: Class of 1864— $2,000. Class of 1868 (for 
Classical Art) — $3,200. Class of 1883, in memory of Ezekiel 
Oilman Robinson — $9,387. For Lectureship: in memory of 
Bruce M. Bigelow: Class of 1955 — $6,283. For Libraries: 
Class of 1880 — $6,910, plus Prescott O. Clark Memorial of 
$2,120. Class of 1886— $1,152. Class of 1894— $2,000. 
For Prizes and Premiums: Class of 1873 Prize — $2,060. 
Class of 1906 Memorial Premium— $529. Class of 1952 
Prize — $1,632. For Other Special Purposes: Class of 1875, 
William H. Scott memorial— $2,100. Class of 1892— $6,572. 
Class of 1906— $12,634. Class of 191 1— Insurance with 
maturity value of $10,000. 

For Scholarships: Class of 1838 Scholarship — $3,800. 
Class of 1895 Scholarship— $1,000. Class of 1902 Scholar- 
ship— $6,144. Class of 1903 Scholarship— $7,227. Class of 
1907 Scholarship— $2,710. Class of 1908 Scholarship— 
$2,437. Class of 1912 Scholarship — $2,052, plus insurance 
with maturity value of $20,000. Class of 1914 Scholarship — 
$45,659. Class of 1921 Scholarship— $12,454. Class of 1925 
Scholarship — $3,575. Class of 1933 Scholarship, in memory 
of Prof. Jay Barrett Botsford— $500. 




NATIONAL CHAIRMAN Robert P. Fisler '43, reporting on the Fund, told the 
Alumni Dinner of the battle to set o new mark in 1959. 




CHARtES K. CAMPBELL announced '34's Reunion Gift for his Class. 




FRED B. PERKINS '19 waited behind the head table for his turn to announce 
the record-breaking total for 1919 at the Alumni Dinner. 



JULY 1959 



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People Behind the Year's Progress 

Behind all figures and percentiles are people: Chairman 
Fisler, in addition to the usual responsibilities of that oflRce, 
contributed his considerable talents as a writer to the prep- 
aration of copy for the basic mailing pieces, "Profile of 
Progress" and ". . . Of Men and Minds". Judge Fred B. 
Perkins '19 led the devoted and efficient 1919 Class Gifts 
Committee to the record-breaking result already noted. Al- 
though the Class of 1933"s 25th reunion gift still stands as 
the largest 25th reunion gift ever made to the University, the 
$107,000 from 107 men of 1919 now holds the dual distinc- 
tion of being the largest 40th anniversary gift ever made and 
the largest single Class gift ever presented to the University. 
Other members of the Class of 1919 reunion gift committee 
were: William C. Beard, Thomas F. Black, Jr., James S. 
Eastham, John W. Haley, Donald G. Millar, Ralph H. Mul- 
lane, James L. Palmer, Watson Smith. 

Charles K. Campbell. Chairman of the 1934 Gift Com- 
mittee, presented the University with a 25th Anniversary 
gift that was some $12,000 in excess of the goal of $34,000 
adopted by the Class of 1934 at its 20th reunion. This fund 
has been growing steadily for the past five years, and the 
Class fully expects to see it grow in the years ahead. Serving 
on the 1934 committee with Campbell were: Richard A. 
Casey, Alan K. DeWitt, John E. Englund, John M. Gross, 
Oscar P. Hammer, Carleton E. Hammond, Bertram E. Hum- 
phries, Robert L. Lowenthal, Edward A. Tracy, and the 
late Knight Ames. 

Local Organization Brings Results 

Of all alumni gifts received by the Brown University 
Fund, 57% normally come as a result of the work of the 
regional organization. Literally thousands of devoted Brown 
men serve as Regional Chairmen, City Chairmen, Agents 
and Telethon workers. Special recognition is being paid here 
this year to those City Chairmen whose results bettered 75% 
participation by resident alumni. With a month to go before 
campaign end, these were: 

ALABAMA: Montgomery — Andrew V. Santangini '40, 
100%. CALIFORNIA: Burbank— Charles B. Krebs '32, 
100%; Claremont— Emery R. Walker '39, 100%; LaJolla— 
John P. Child "29, 75%. CONNECTICUT: Bridgeport— 
J. Philip Magill '34, 75%; Greenwich — J. Angus Thurrott 
'31, 92%; Hartford (even) — H. Bradford Benson '52, 76%; 
Litchfield— Francis I. Enslin '25, 80%; Milford— Dr. Mau- 
rice B. Thompson '25, 88%; New Canaan — D. Bret Carlson 
'40, 100%; Norwalk— William Lauder '35, 96%; Old 
Greenwich— Alden R. Walls '31, 100%; Windsor and East 
Windsor Hill— Herbert A. Howard '28, 93%. FLORIDA: 
Clearwater and Clearwater Beach — A. Manton Chace '09, 
87%; Tampa— Wilbur Newman '52, 75%. GEORGIA: De- 
catur—George H. Kelley '10, 100%. 

ILLINOIS: Deerfield— James M. Hutchison '51, 86%-; 
Glencoe — Stuart L. Feuer '53, 83%; Glenview and Mt. 
Prospect — Donald F. Alden '49, 89%; Hinsdale and Western 
Springs— William H. Bromage '23, 100%. MAINE: Bangor 
— G. Kenneth Macdonald '21, 100%; Rumford— Richard 
W. Sarle '44, 80%; York Harbor, Beach and Village- 
George R. Sturtevant '18, 100%. MARYLAND: Towson— 
Jean K. Clarendon '31, 100%. 

MASSACHUSETTS: Andover, 1896-1948— Frederick J. 
Cofer '48, 84% ; Harvard Business School — A. Barry Mer- 
kin '57, 100%; Dighton— John D. Bussey '47, 100%; Fitch- 
burg and Ashburnham — Edward F. Mastrangelo '50, 75%; 
Foxboro — Harold L. Harris '32, 75%; Great Barrington — 
J. Otis Staniels '35, 75%; Holden — Austin L. Marsh '33, 
75%; Hopedale— Edward M. Horton '39, 75%; Monson— 
George D. Morrow '26, 100%; Norton — Arthur M. Free- 
man '36, 80%; Roslindale — John Prendergast '49, 75%; 



South Attleboro — W. Chester Beard '19, 100%; Swampscott 
—Stuart S. Golding '39, 83%; Westfield— John A. DiUing- 
ham '50, 100%. NEW HAMPSHIRE: Concord— Converse 
Prudden '43, 83%; Dover and Dover Point — Herbert V. 
Cohen '34, 83%; Nashua— Albert Lewitt '33, 100%. 

NEW JERSEY: Cranford- Herbert C. Helle '52, 83%; 
New Milford— Allen J. Rooney, Jr. '49, 100%; Oradell— 
Oscar P. Hammer '34, 75%; Ramsey — Clark T. Foster '40, 
75%; Red Bank— George A. Schuetz, Jr. '41, 78%; Roselle 
—Merle I. Hampton '50, 75%. NEW YORK: Freeport— 
Walcott C. Chandler '27, 80%; Hartsdale, 1923-1942— T. 
Robert Garry '37, 89%; Ithaca— F. B. Agard '28, 88%; 
Levittown and Hicksville — Harvey M. Steiner '44, 92%; 
New York City, Zone 7— Hugh W. MacNair '17, 83%; 
Saratoga Springs — Mark Mohler '11, 100%; Wantagh — Al- 
vin L. Natelson '33, 83%; Westbury— Earl Fleisig '26, 80%. 
PENNSYLVANIA: Lebanon— Allen H. Krause '37, 100%. 
RHODE ISLAND: Providence, 1909— John H. Wells, 
100%; 1910— Elmer S. Horton, 100%; 1915— Ralph B. 
Graham, 91%; Tiverton— C. LeRoy Grinnell '08, 78%. 
VIRGINIA: Waynesboro — Howard G. Wilbur '47, 100%. 

Additions to this group will be made in the October issue 
of the Brown Alumni Monthly. 

Pacing the Class Performances 

Not to be overlooked is the highly significant work of the 
Class Agents' organization. Class Agents' letters interlaced 
the mailings of major fund literature and the work of the 
regional organization. As of May 30, Classes producing 50% 
or better participation included: 

1893— Edward H. Weeks, 50%. 1894— William C. Hill, 
100%. 1895— Herbert M. Adams, 56%. 1896— G. Fred- 
erick Frost, 62%. 1897— George L. Miner, 60%. 1899— 
Charles I. Gates, 61%. 1901— William C. H. Brand, 53%. 
1902 — Everett J. Horton, 53%. 1903 — Clarence C. Gleason, 
51%. 1904— Elisha C. Mowry, 59%. 1905— Frederick 
Schwinn, 59%. 1906— Oscar W. Rackle, 59%. 1907— John 
C. Knowles, 55%. 1908— Norman L. Sammis, 66%. 1909— 
John H. Wells, 70%. 1910— Elmer S. Horton, 67%. 1911— 
G. Fred Swanson, 55%. 1912— Kenneth J. Tanner, 60%. 
1913— George T. Metcalf, 61%. 1915— Frederick J. Hunt, 
60%. 1916— William A. Graham, 58%. 1918— John S. Cha- 
fee, 56%. 1919 — James S. Eastham, 58%. As additional classes 
reach the 50% participation figure, results will be reported. 

Brown Week, U.S.A., an innovation this year, was 
launched with two highly successful "kick-off" dinners for 
Fund workers in Manhattan and Greater Providence and 
by a nation-wide barrage of newspaper publicity "home- 
towned" by the University Press Bureau to the local papers 
in organized cities. The Manhattan dinner was sponsored by 
John E. Liebmann, '41 and featured a traditional beef-steak 
dinner at the Community Room of the Liebmann plant in 
the Bronx. The Providence dinner, held at the Sharpe Re- 
fectory, was sponsored by the Gilbane Construction Com- 
pany, the Gray Envelope Company, and the Narragansett 
Brewery. The effectiveness of the Brown Week, U.S.A. pub- 
licity was evidenced by the hundreds of clippings returned 
by the University's Clipping Service. Some 200 of these 
featured a "Brown University in the News" display in Faunce 
House in late May. 

Obviously this report could not wait for the final posting, 
since any gift mailed by midnight on the 30th of June would 
be included in the 1959 University Fund total. (Books are 
normally held open for a few days to allow gifts in transit 
time to reach Alumni House.) Nor is there time for com- 
plete final statistics — you'll have those in the October issue 
when the magazine resumes publication after the summer 
But the picture was clear at press-time: the Fund had scored 
another success, even in the face of the impending capital 



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effort for the Bicentennial. A Fund which only eight years 
ago was producing $75,000 was now nine times greater, an- 
nual income equivalent to the yield on more than $16,000,000 
of endowment at 4%. 

The Corporation Scholarship Program 

A seven-column advertisement in the Providence Sunday 
Journal of May 31 was the medium through which the Fel- 
lows and Trustees of Brown University made public ac- 
knowledgment of contributions received during the last year 
from leaders in business and industry. The University thus 
expressed "grateful appreciation for this helpful and grow- 
ing form of support." 

Sixty-one scholarships, worth $75,250 in all, came last 
year under a plan initiated in 1953. It invites payment of full 
tuition costs for individual students for one year, and the 
scholarships bear the names of the donor companies or their 
representatives. A number of alumni, led by Elmer S. Horton 
'10, have acted for the University in presenting the Corpora- 
tion Scholarship idea to business and industry. They have 
been able to obtain renewal of most of the scholarships given 
in previous years and have increased the number annually. 
One 1959 scholarship was a memorial to the late Provost 
Samuel T. Arnold '13. 

Contributors to the Corporation Scholarship Program 
were listed in the ad as follows (one scholarship each, unless 
otherwise noted): American Silk Spinning Company, B. A. 
Ballou & Company, Inc., B-I-F Industries, Inc., Lyman G. 
Bloomingdale '35, Bostitch, Inc., Brier Manufacturing Com- 
pany, Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Co. (four), Alfred G. 
Burnham, Congdon & Carpenter Company, Thomas P. Cor- 
coran '93, Cranston Print Works Co. (two). Federal Prod- 
ucts Foundation, Inc., Fram Corporation (two), Fribourg 
Foundation, Inc., M. A. Gammino Construction Co., Jacques 
A. Gerard, Gilbane Building Company, R. H. I. Goddard, 
Senator Theodore Francis Green '87. 

Also, the Russell Grinnell Fund (two), Haffenreffer Fam- 
ily Foundation, Hassenfeld Bros., Inc., Industrial National 
Bank, International Business Machines Corporation (eight), 
William Walter Jaffe Memorial, Horace A. Kimball & S. Ella 
Kimball Foundation, Robert L. Knight '06, Manufacturers 
Mutual Fire Insurance Co., Mather & Co., Narragansett Im- 
provement Company, Narragansett Wire Company, New- 
man-Crosby Steel Company, Nicholson File Company, 
Nyman Manufacturing Company, The Okonite Company, 
Kennecott Wire & Cable Company Division, Old Colony Co- 
operative Bank, George R. Ramsbottom, Samuel A. Rapa- 
porte, Jr., Foundation, Rhode Island Hospital Trust Com- 
pany, Sealol Corporation, Speidel Corporation, and Edward 
H. Weeks '93 (three). Three scholarships were given anon- 
ymously. 

Business Aid for Other Purposes 

The advertisement also listed 82 businesses, industries, and 
foundations which had made contributions to Brown Uni- 
versity for purposes other than scholarships: 

Alcoa Foundation; Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation; 
American Cyanamid Corporation; Atlantic Refining Co.; The 
Babcock and Wilcox Company; The Bank of New York; Bell 
Telephone Laboratories, Inc.; Beneficial Foundation Bethle- 
hem Steel Corporation; Bird & Son, Inc.; Brownell & Field 
Company; The Bullard Company Charity Foundation, Inc.; 
Burlington Industries Foundation; Campbell Soup Company; 
Carnegie Corporation of New York; Charles of the Ritz 
Foundation, Inc.; The Chemical Club of New England, Inc.; 
Chase Manhattan Bank Foundation; Corn Products Company; 
Corning Glass Works Foundation; Deering, Milliken Com- 
pany, Inc.; Desitin Chemical Company; The Dow Chemical 
Company; Draper Corporation. 



HOMECOMING 
1959 

The Date: November 14 
The Game: with Harvard 



Also, E. I. DuPont DeNemours Co.; Eastern Scientific 
Company; Ebasco Services, Inc.; Equitable Life Assurance 
Society of the United States; Esso Educational Foundation; 
First National City Bank of New York; M. A. Gammino 
Construction Co.: General Electric Educational & Charitable 
Fund; General Electric Company, Housewares & Radio Re- 
ceiver Division; General Foods Corporation; The B. F. 
Goodrich Fund, Inc.; Gulf Oil Corporation; Harris-Intertype 
Foundation; Charles H. Hood Dairy Foundation; Household 
Finance Foundation; The Ingersoll Fund, International Busi- 
ness Machines Corporation; Jones & Laughlin Steel Corpora- 
tion; Kearfott Company, Inc.; Lebanon Knitting Mill, Inc.; 
Lehigh Portland Cement; Louttit Charitable Foundation; 
Manufacturers Trust Company of New York; The Martin 
Company Foundation; McGraw Hill Publishing Company, 
Inc.; Merck and Company, Inc.; Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fen- 
ner & Smith Foundation, Inc.; William S. Merrell Company; 
Monsanto Chemical Company. 

Also, Narragansett Brewing Company; New England Ma- 
chine and Electric Co.; New England Telephone and Tele- 
graph Company; Owens-Illinois Glass Company; Owens- 
Corning Fiberglas Corporation; C. L. Packham Company, 
Inc.; Pennsalt Chemical Foundation; Phelps Dodge Founda- 
tion; The Procter and Gamble Fund; Reader's Digest Foun- 
dation; Rhode Island Hospital Trust Company; Rockefeller 
Center, Inc.; Shell Companies Foundation, Inc.; Smith, Kline 
& French Foundation; Sprague Electric Company; Standard 
Oil Company of California; Stop and Shop Foundation; U. S. 
Rubber Co.; The Texas Company; Title Guarantee Company 
of Rhode Island; United Aircraft Corporation, Pratt & Whit- 
ney Aircraft Division; Towers, Perrin, Forster & Crosby, Inc.; 
United Steelworkers of America, C.I.O., Providence Subdis- 
trict; Universal Match Foundation Fund; The Warner 
Fund, Inc.; Westinghouse Educational Foundation; Western 
Electric Company; Young and Rubicam Foundation. Two 
contributions were anonymous. 

In a statement which accompanied the listing. President 
Keeney said: "The Charter of Brown University, granted in 
1764, states that it is the purpose of the institution to pre- 
serve 'in the Community a Succession of Men duly qualify'd 
for discharging the offices of Life with usefulness and repu- 
tation.' Brown's community is now the nation. For nearly 
two centuries, Brown University has provided a broadly 
trained leadership for business and industry in addition to 
the learned professions. 

"In recent years this service has had increasing recogni- 
tion. One of the most reassuring examples of this is the num- 
ber of business and industrial corporations, as well as other 
friends who are now contributing to Brown University. It is 
not an exaggeration to say that this new form of support has 
played a vital part in preserving independent higher educa- 
tion for America. Brown University is very proud of the 
donors whose contributions are listed in this announcement 
and deeply grateful to them." 



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49 



124 Masters 



and Doctors 



FOR THE SECOND YEAR in a TOW, the candidates from the 
Graduate School took part in the general University ex- 
ercises of Commencement on The College Green, instead of 
getting their Master's and Doctor's degrees at a separate cere- 
mony on another day. The Graduate School's own Convo- 
cation was, however, held in Sayles Hall on June 1 during 
the period when the Seniors were at the Meeting House. Re- 
minding the public that the Graduate School is a constituent 
part of the whole University, its candidates received their 
degrees from the same platform as the graduating Seniors 
before the same audience before University Hall. The Dean 
of the Graduate School, Dr. R. Bruce Lindsay '20, presented 
his candidates to President Keeney. 

A Procession, separate from that to the Meeting House, 
preceded the Sayles Hall Convocation. Prof. Charles A. 
Stuart '18 was Chief Marshal and George T. Metcalf '13 
Aide in charge. Other assignments for the Graduate School 
aspect of the morning were; Major Domo — Prof. Henry 
Kucera; Faculty Marshals — Profs. Robert H. Cole and 
Richard Taylor; Chaplain — the Rev. Sam H. Newcomer. 

Those who received advanced degrees had graduated in 27 
States, in addition to 15 candidates from foreign countries. 
In all, there were alumni of 81 other institutions. There were 
124 candidates, three more than a year ago, with the largest 
increase in the area of the Master of Arts in Teaching. The 
degrees presented were; 41 Ph.D.'s, 17 M.A.T.'s, 36 A.M.'s, 
and 30 Sc.M.'s. 

Alumni of 16 foreign institutions received advanced de- 
grees. Universities represented were; Aligarh Muslim, Bir- 
mingham, Bristol, Glasgow, London, Manchester, McGill, 
National Southwest, National Taiwan, Prince of Wales 
College, Queen's, Seijo, Taiwan Provincial Chen Kung, 
Tokyo, Utrecht, and Western Australia. One of them re- 
ceived the Potter Prize in Chemistry, for a doctoral thesis of 
outstanding merit; Khairat Mohammed Ibne-Rasa. 



Degrees were also conferred on alumni of 66 institutions 
in the United States: Amherst, Boston College, Boston Uni- 
versity, Brandeis, Brooklyn, Brown, Bucknell, Butler, Cali- 
fornia, California at Los Angeles, California Tech, Clark, 
Colby, Colorado, Dartmouth, Duke, Episcopal Theological 
School. Georgetown, George Washington, Goucher, Harvard, 
Haverford, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Manhattan, M.I.T., 
Michigan, Michigan State, Middlebury, Minnesota, Mount 
Holyoke, Muskingum, N.Y.U., N.Y. State College for 
Teachers, Northwestern, Oberlin, Oklahoma, Penn State, 
Pomona, Providence, Puget Sound, Purdue, Rensselaer, 
U.R.I. , R.I.C.E., Rice, Rutgers, St. John's, Saint Peter's, 
Southern California, Swarthmore, Syracuse, Tennessee, Texas 
Christian, Trinity, Tufts, U.S. Naval Academy, Wayne, 
Wesleyan, Westminster, Wheaton, William and Mary, Wil- 
liams. Wisconsin, and Wooster. 

Brown graduates receiving the M.A.T. were: Albert Basse, 
Jr., '57, Music and Education; Robert F. Blakeley '58, Social 
Sciences and Education; Arsen Shamshoian '49, Science and 
Education. Seven new A.M.'s are; John W. Ambrose, Jr., 
'52, Classics; William V. Gugli '54, Education and French; 
John F. Hale '57, Psychology; Colin D. Hawes '55, Music; 
Lee A. Jacobus "57, English; Norman A. Sprinthall '54, 
Political Science; Sampson J. Weaver '51, Education and 
History. Masters of Science included; Arnold R. Johnson '54, 
Engineering; Peter SimenkofT '56, Engineering; and Earl C. 
Tanner '41, Physics. 

Doctoral hoods were accorded: Carlton H. Gregory '44, 
whose field was Philosophy and thesis subject was: "The 
problem of descriptive religious statements with special refer- 
ence to the thought of Paul Tillich." Myron K. Nalbandian 
'33 took his Ph.D. in Sociology; his thesis; "Methods of 
population estimation for small areas, with specific applica- 
tions to Rhode Island." The thesis topic of Albert D. Wood 
"51, Engineering, was; "Transonic flows through a straight 
cascade of slender airfoils." 

In addition Ph.D.'s went to the following who also earned 
their Master's at Brown: Earl J. Ainsworth, Jacques G. 
Benay, James H. Bick, John B. Brackenridge, James H. 
Cassedy, Robert E. Green, Jr.. Bruce P. Halpern, Paul Hie, 
Donald G. Malm, Ulker S. Tulunay, George D. Waldman, 
and James E. Wright. Dr. Cassedy 's thesis was on "Dr. 
Charles V. Chapin '76 and the modern public health move- 
ment" in connection with his concentration in American 
Civilization. 




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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



A CONGRESSMAN'S HOPE: 



A Medical School at Brown? 



THREE PRINCIPALS in the Graduate Convocation 

on Commencement morning: left to right, Dean 

R. B. Lindsay '20, Chancellor Harold B. Tanner 

'09, and Congressman John E. Fogarty. 




CHALLENGING Brown University to establish a medical 
school. Congressman John E. Fogarty spoke at the 
Graduate School Convocation in Sayles Hall on "Public 
Responsibilities in Science and Education." There was no 
official comment from the University Hall on his proposal, 
and it was not believed likely that Brown would depart 
from its traditional policy as a University College. Brown, 
of course, once had a Medical School, founded in 1811 
and graduating 87 before President Wayland killed it 
with the provision in 1827 that all members of the University 
Faculty must be resident. 

Representative Fogarty cited the Government report which 
estimated the country's needs as between 15 and 20 new 
medical schools and the attendant cost of half a billion 
dollars to bring them into being. Federal funds would have 
to bear a part of construction expense, it was indicated. 

"Some day," the speaker said, "I believe that one of these 
new medical schools should be established in this State, 
preferably right here at Brown. I realize that this recom- 
mendation cannot be taken lightly, and I assure you that it is 
not offered without serious consideration. The location and 
operation of a medical school entail considerable responsi- 
bility. 

"What are some of the responsibilities of a medical school? 
First, it is an institution for the training of gifted young men 
and women to practice the greatest of all healing arts. 
Second, it is a haven for community services related to and 
including the practice of medicine. Third, it is a point of 
focus for medical research, both in the laboratory and in the 
clinic. And, fourth, it is most often an extension of a uni- 
versity, expanding and strengthening the university's tradi- 
tional role as intellectual and cultural center for its com- 
munity. 

"I do not pretend to know how Rhode Island can develop 
its own medical school. I do not know when it can. But I do 
know THAT it can. For ours is a proud and progressive State, 
and Brown University has a tradition of progress and forth- 
right action. If we want it enough, we can have a medical 
school and cease to be one of the nine States which do not 
have one today. 



"There are many critical problems to be considered: How 
would the new construction be financed? Would the Federal 
Government make funds available without insisting on a 
degree of control? Could effective working relations be de- 
veloped with local hospitals and physicians? I intend to see 
that the answers are sought. I am confident that once again 
we will be successful in expressing the public need and carry- 
ing out the public responsibility in this important cause." 

The scientist. Congressman Fogarty began, has vastly im- 
proved communications with his colleagues within the 
scientific community, despite technological advances that 
have required new specialization. At the same time, the 
scientist has also improved his communications with the 
general public. "As a result," the speaker said, "the public 
image of the scientist is no longer one of an ofT-beat character 
who chases butterflies with a net, or of a highly introverted 
recluse in a basement corner, or of an arrogant egotist who 
refused to concede that his work and its results could be 
translated into words understood by those who support him. 

"Finally, the scientist has shown that, given proper support 
and enlightened understanding, he can produce near-miracles 
for the continuing benefit of mankind. In fact, researchers in 
the medical and biological sciences have performed so ad- 
mirably that we might call the last 15 years the Golden Age 
of Medicine. A further point emerges: when the public is 
adequately informed, when it is assured that the basic 
resources and mechanisms exist to attack certain problems, 
when it is asked to support efforts to meet these problems, 
the public will respond." 

Congressman Fogarty thought it would be interesting to 
speculate upon the impending educational challenge and 
whether a similarly informed public would not meet it as 
effectively. "Today's educational effort has not been raised to 
the levels of other essential elements in the space age," he 
said. "We need not spend money irresponsibly to show our 
interest. What we need is a completely revised attitude toward 
education and public support of it. We must make the same 
order of radical change in our attitude toward education as 
we have made in our attitude toward medical research." 



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ON OTHER CAMPUSES: 



June Honors for Brunonians 



ACADEMIC HONORS Came to Brunonians again this year on 
A. campuses other than their own. They included three hon- 
orary degrees for President Keeney and one for Dean Lind- 
say. The summary below, based on early clippings and re- 
leases, is probably short of being comprehensive; certainly, in 
some cases, we lack citations. 

Dr. Keeney's degrees were from Columbia, Rhode Island 
College of Education, and Portia Law School. The Columbia 
citation acclaimed him as "the distinguished president of a 
university that is hailed wherever men honor the best in 
higher learning." In addition. President Keeney was the 
Commencement speaker at Ohio State University and Wheaton 
College (Mass.), as well as speaker at the Alumni Luncheon 
at Columbia. His 1959 degrees brought to 10 the number he 
has received as President of Brown. 

Senator Theodore Francis Green received the degree of 
Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, at Georgetown 
University's 160th Commencement. In an editorial on the 
"gracious and moving citation," the Providence Journal said: 
'■Rhode Islanders can feel a sense of pride in this latest honor 
that has come to their distinguished Senator." 

lohn Nicholas Brown, Fellow of Brown University, was 
saluted at Trinity College's 133rd Commencement. An hon- 
orary LL.D. went to the former Assistant Secretary of the 
Navy, Chairman of the Board of the Providence Preserva- 
tion Society, and Harvard Overseer. 

Arthur B. Homer '17, President of Bethlehem Steel Com- 
pany, recipient of an honorary Doctor of Business Adminis- 
tration degree at Northeastern, was also the Commencement 
speaker there, addressing the 1919 graduates on "Our Com- 
mon Adventure." "America should carefully think through 
the implications of what will happen," he said, "if the forma- 
tion of private capital is unnecessarily checked by Govern- 
ment and other forces, and chief among these is organized 
labor." A later honor was a Lehigh doctorate. 

At the College of Education 

Four Brunonians were honored by the Rhode Island Col- 
lege of Education at its June Commencement. Dr. Alexander 
M. Burgess '06, Miss Marion S. Cole, Pembroke '07, and J. 
Harold Williams '18 received the honorary degree of Doctor 
of Education, while Dr. James P. Adams, once Brown's 
Vice-President, was given a special citation which expressed 
the thanks of Faculty and alumni. Chairman of the Board 
of Trustees of State Colleges, Dr. Adams was cited for "the 
wisdom, vision, and largeness of spirit which have distin- 
guished your career as scholar, teacher, and administrator 
and which you have dedicated fully, freely, and vigorously to 
the service of our college." 

Dr. Burgess was complimented for his "fruitful clinical 
investigations and research extending into your retirement 
and demonstrating to your eager disciples that the physician 
is ever the student." He was formerly Physician-in-Chief at 
Charles V. Chapin Hospital in Providence for 14 years, Phy- 
sician-in-Chief at Rhode Island Hospital for three. Chief of 
Medicine for the Veterans Administration for six, and also 
Chairman of the Division of University Health at Brown. 

Miss Cole retired this year as Headmistress of Lincoln 
School, Providence, after 50 years' association with it. She 
was identified as "gifted teacher, able administrator, inspired 



counselor, gracious gentlewoman." Williams this year cele- 
brated his 40th year as Scout Executive of Narragansett 
Council, Boy Scouts of America. 

The past year has been an important one for R.I.C.E., 
which observed its move to a new campus with a series of 
special events. At the final ceremonies of dedication at Mount 
Pleasant, President Keeney, Dr. R. Bruce Lindsay '20, and 
Dr. Charles W. Hunt '04 received the honorary doctorate of 
Education. Dr. Lindsay, Dean of the Brown Graduate School, 
also spoke at a symposium. Dr. Hunt, Secretary of the Amer- 
ican Association of Colleges for Teacher Education for more 
than 25 years, retired in 1950 from the presidency of Oneonta 
State Teachers College in New York, a post he had held 
since 1933. He was formerly Dean of the School of Educa- 
tion at Western Reserve and has been Chairman of the 
Alumni Fellowship Fund of Columbia's Teachers College. 
Author and consultant, he has long been a leader in his 
field. 

At the Institution Hibbs Built 

Dr. Henry H. Hibbs '10, who retired in June as Provost of 
the Richmond Professional Institute, received an honorary 
LL.D. from the University of Richmond. He opened the first 
School of Social Work in the South in 1917 and saw it be- 
come RPI, a branch of the College of William and Mary. 
At his own Commencement he was hailed as "an educational 
prophet" and honored for 42 years of "devoted service and 
magnificent accomplishment." An honor even more unusual 
was the naming of Hibbs Hill, a new classroom building, for 
him. He has seen RPI grow from a one-room school to an 
institution with 4000 students. 

A similar accolade came to Dr. Charles A. Kraus, Emeritus 
Professor of Chemistry, in the naming of the new Chemistry 
Library at Clark University. He was Director of Chemical 
Research at Clark for 10 years before coming to Brown. 
Clark also honored him for developing the first commercially 
feasible process for manufacturing tetraethyl lead, an anti- 
knock agent. 

Riley Hughes of the Georgetown Faculty, who received a 
Brown A.M. in 1939, gave the address at the 101st Com- 
mencement of St. Benedict's College and received an honor- 
ary Doctor of Letters from the Kansas institution. 

Carl H. Porter-Shirley '26, who has resigned to teach at the 
University of Maine after 1 1 years as Superintendent of 
Schools in Newport, R. I., received an honorary Doctor of 
Education at the Commencement of Catholic Teachers Col- 
lege of Providence. 

Vice-President F. Morris Cochran went back to Denison 
University on the 40th anniversary of his graduation there 
and was given one of the Alumni Citations conferred "in 
recognition of outstanding achievements and services which 
reflect honor upon Denison University." The accolade re- 
ferred to "noteworthy service to the independent college and 
university as an educational administrator" and spoke of his 
publications and participation in the formation and develop- 
ment of national and regional associations of college and 
university business officers. Also cited were his "professional 
and community service and his assistance to young men en- 
tering the field of college business administration through 
his wide personal contacts and friendly counsel" and "his 



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'(^'WM 




WHAT INTERESTED ONE on Commencement Day? It all depended 



energetic devotion to the human problems in his profession 
and in his community." 

Among Brunonians who appeared as Commencement speak- 
ers were: President Emeritus Wriston at Vassar, Dr. George 
Boas '13 at Washington College, and Dean Watts at Union 
Junior College in Cranford, N. J. 

Some of the Citations 

BARNABY CONRAD KEENEY, LL.D., Columbia: Though 
you were bom in Halfway, Oregon, the name of your natal village 
clearly had no influence upon your career. Long a respected his- 
torian, you have lately turned your talents to the exacting field of 
academic administration. Today we welcome you both as a 
scholar and as the distinguished president of a university that is 
hailed wherever men honor the best in higher learning. Over its 
councils you preside with wit, wisdom, and outstanding adminis- 
trative skill. In every phase of your career you have gone all the 
way to deserved eminence. 

BARNABY CONRAD KEENEY, Ed.D., R.I.C.E.: You bear 
with perceptive responsibility the first citizenship of Rhode Island 
Education conferred upon you by the eminent position you hold. 
Your subtle and powerful mind, your sharp-edged wit, cuts to the 
heart of issues and trims ideas to clarity. But to persons you render 
sensitive consideration, for the power of your mind is servant to 
the warmth of your heart. It is in consequence of your intelligent 
and courageous service, not only to Brown University, but to all 
Rhode Island's colleges and universities and to education every- 
where . . . (that this degree is conferred). 

THEODORE FRANCIS GREEN, L.H.D., Georgetown: Men 
have ever deemed worthy of deep respect and deserving of pe- 
culiar honor those who by Heaven's favor have passed nine 
fruitful decades in the service of their compatriots and of all 
humanity. For it is but right to accord to all who excel the due 
reward of excellence. Respect is always deepened and regard 
rises to affection when in the prudent counsellor, the energetic 
executive, the sincere patriot, his associates and fellow citizens see 
a man accessible to all, gentle and kind, loyal to his friends, ever 
desiring and effectively promoting the interests of his fellow men. 

The statesman whom our University is delighted to honor at 
this Commencement continued a long family tradition when he 
turned early to the practice of law. From court and academic 
hall he was called to a soldier's duties in the Spanish-American 
War. Once more, and for the many years to follow, the practice 
of law offered scope to outstanding talent and crowned tireless 
effort with conspicuous success. His fellow citizens of Rhode Is- 
land shared the fruits of a lengthening experience when they chose 
him as their representative in the State Legislature, when they 
drew upon his counsel and inspiration during the trying days of 
World War I, when they twice elected him as Governor of their 
State. In this office he effectively supported measures designed to 
alleviate suffering and ameliorate conditions in a particularly try- 
ing period. From the highest office of his native State, he was 



called, and called four times over, to the Senate of the United 
States. By his sponsorship and support of programs of social leg- 
islation and adequate national defense, and in particular by his 
untiring activity as member and as Chairman of the Senate Com- 
mittee on Foreign Relations, he has for over two score years 
served his country well, at home and abroad. By his travels to 
several continents and his mastery of several languages he has ad- 
vanced the causes of international amity and world peace. 

It is, then, with the earnest desire that he see many more years 
of service, that he gather in ever more abundant measure the fine 
fruits of a full life, and that he remains for his juniors a shining 
example of unremitting toil, steadfast purpose, and unswerving 
principles, that the President and Directors of Georgetown Univer- 
sity create and proclaim (him) Doctor of Humane Letters." 

ARTHUR BARTLETT HOMER '17, D.B.A., Northeastern: 
Chief executive of a great industrial enterprise, you have di- 
rected the operations of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation during 
the period of its widest expansion. During World War II you ad- 
ministered the work of the division which turned out more than a 
thousand ships of all types. This is the greatest ship-building 
achievement by any one company in maritime history. Your 
contribution, therefore, to the American victory was a most dis- 
tinguished one. As a director of men, you have shown yourself 
flexible and farseeing. You have been an eloquent and respected 
spokesman for American industry." 

ROBERT BRUCE LINDSAY, Ed.D., R.I.C.E.: With an envi- 
able flair for precise timing, you entered the world hand in hand 
with the 20th century on January 1, 1900, and you have kept 
abreast of your age ever since. You have served for most of your 
life with the century's scientific vanguard, the brilliant company 
of theoretical physicists, and have distinguished yourself among 
them in such fields as acoustics and ultrasonics. 

A practical, as well as a pure scientist, you have demonstrated 
your versatility in serving as consultant to government agencies 
ranging from the Bureau of Ships to the Bureau of Standards; yet, 
far from confining yourself to the practical applications of your 
science, you have sought its underlying principles and contributed 
to its philosophy. And. with all these interests and distinctions, you 
have taken up the burdens of administration as Dean of the 
Graduate School of Brown University and have fostered in young 
scholars the same zest for learning that has animated your own 
career. (This degree is conferred) in recognition of your gifts as 
administrator, author, scientist, and philosopher. 

CHARLES WESLEY HUNT '04, Ed.D., R.I.C.E.: Rhode Island 
welcomes you home, for here at Brown University you pursued 
your undergraduate study, and here at Moses Brown School you 
engaged in your early teaching. Rhode Island College of Educa- 
tion also welcomes you home because of our community of interest 
in teacher education. We take pride in your frequent declaration 
that had you your life to live over again, you would choose no 
path other than that one leading to the preparation of elementary 
school teachers. 

We have long esteemed your productive career in the improve- 



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53 



ment of teacher education. We have been inspired by your dynamic 
confidence in the importance and final success of your task; by 
your insistence upon intelHgence, social imagination, and discipline 
in teacher preparation; by the simplicity, order, and happiness 
you have wrought in your own life and in the lives of those 
blessed by being your students. With you we believe that the 
teacher can affect the course of history, and we believe that you 
have greatly affected for good the history of teacher education. 

DR. ALEXANDER MANLIUS BURGESS '06, D.E., R.I.C.E.: 
Your qualities as a humane scholar and gentleman have been 
nurtured in the midst of exciting and exacting profession, and 
revealed in tender devotion to family and friends and in your 
gentleness without sentimentality, generous judgments without 
blindness, democracy without cant, and courageous liberal views 
without fear of open support for unpopular causes. 

JAMES HAROLD WILLIAMS 'IS, D.E., R.LC.E.: Your 
name is synonymous with Scouting. Here in Rhode Island, where 
you have served for 40 years, across the United States and Can- 
ada and into many places around the world. Scouts and Scout 
leaders have carried the word of your spirit and showmanship 
from encampment and jamboree. We salute you as "Chief," not 
so much for the organization you represent or the groups you 
have aided, as for the man you are. 

MARION SHIRLEY COLE '07, D.E., R.LC.E. : In this half- 
century of dedicated service to education, your name has become 
synonymous with that of Lincoln School. Trusted friend, with 
ear attuned to their every need, your girls found you available, 
patient, sympathetic. Yourself responsive and responsible, you set 
them a radiant example of self-forgetfulness; you demonstrated 
to them how material gifts and inner resources, with sensitivity, 
may be shared in an ever-widening community. 




THE GENERAL was in cop and gown. The Air Force's David A. Burchinol '38 
spoke "for the Alumni" on Class Day. At the left is Lt. Col. George Hutche- 
son, who commands the Air Force ROTC Unit at Brown. "Better ask the Gen- 
eral," the Colonel said when asked to pose a handshake. 



5 Steps into Space 

WITHIN 15 YEARS the United States will probably operate 
a space station on the moon and be sending men on 
exploratory trips around the planets Mars and Venus. This 
prediction was made by Brig. Gen. David A. Burchinal '38, 
USAF, Deputy Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, when he 
spoke "for the Alumni" at the Class Day Exercises at Brown 
on May 29. While his address was chiefly concerned with a 
dramatic exposition of the steps involved in the conquest of 
space, he reminded his listeners that there were poHtical im- 
plications, too. He said Russia's space program, while funda- 
mentally military in its purposes, was also designed to con- 
vince the world through demonstration and propaganda that 
no coalition could stand against her. 

What are the next steps in this spectacular rivalry to make 
man the master of outer space? General Burchinal described 
five of them as part of the American program: 

1. Send a man through space probably in the nose cone of 
an Atlas rocket. This should be a reality within two or three 
years. 

2. Send men aloft for flights of long duration in space. 

3. Put a manned space station into operation. 

4. Establish a lunar base. 

5. Learn more about Mars and Venus by making explora- 
tory flights at least to their neighborhood. 

"All five steps will be completed within your life span," 
the speaker told the Seniors "Under the Elms." The likelihood 
was that they would come much sooner. 

(General Burchinal has since provided text which we plan 
to publish in the fall.) 



Hope College 

(Continued from page 29) 

'16, included: Judge Fred B. Perkins '19, Secretary of the 
Corporation; John Nicholas Brown, of the Board of Fellows; 
R. H. I. Goddard, Trustee; Vice-President Cochran, and Wil- 
liam N. Davis, Director of Housing and Food Service. The 
contractors were Frank N. Gustafson & Sons, in which Clif- 
ford S. Gustafson '41 and Prescott W. N. Gustafson '36 are 
active, the latter as President. Thomas Mott Shaw of Perry, 
Shaw, Hepburn and Dean was the architect. 

The pleasant but simple ceremony of rededication attracted 
a large group of friends after the Saturday meeting of the 
Corporation. General McLeod gave the principal address, 
tracing the Hope College history with affection and humor. 
He pointed out that it had originally been built for $20,000, 
the gift of Nicholas Brown, Jr., of the Class of 1786. (The 
reconstruction cost was estimated at nearly $500,000.) He 
cited some of the distinguished Brunonians who had been res- 
idents. 

There had been many donors to the project. President 
Keeney pointed out, for some of the proceeds of recent Brown 
University Funds had been allocated to it, out of 8000 gifts. 
Some thought had been given to devoting Hope College to 
offices, he said, but the more expensive dormitory purpose 
was more appropriate to its tradition and thus well justified. 
The original proposal that it be a special kind of dorm had 
come from Profs. Sinclair Armstrong and Robert Kenny, the 
President said. 

Although living room and lounge furniture had not arrived, 
the many visitors could appreciate the quality of the new 
Hope. Typical student rooms were equipped. {We're holding 
our pictures until fall.) 



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The Corporation's Vote: 



Chapel at Brown 
Is Not Required 



COMPULSORY Chapel at Brown University will give way 
in September to a new program of bi-weekly College 
Convocations of a more secular character. After the change 
had been voted by the University Corporation at its meeting 
on May 30, President Keeney pointed out, on the other hand, 
that "we have been concerned to maintain and enliven the 
religious tradition of the University." "Our purpose is to 
make clear to the students the place of religion in life, and to 
encourage each to worship in his own way," he said. "We are 
now providing in Manning Chapel an adequate program of 
worship for the major religious traditions represented in our 
student body. If services continue to be well conducted, they 
can be expected to flourish." 

At the new-style Convocations, distinguished visitors, as 
well as members of the Faculty and Administration, will be 
speakers. The program will include designation of at least six 
visiting speakers as Convocation Fellows. They will be ap- 
pointed to be on College Hill at least three days, speaking at 
Convocations at Brown and Pembroke. They will be given 
opportunities to meet students and Faculty members; they 
may give formal lectures. 

Attendance in Alternate Weeks 

Each of the four Classes of Brown men will constitute a 
Convocation unit, with each Class schedule to attend every 
other week instead of each week as at present. The Con- 
vocations will be held on Wednesdays and Thursdays, filling 
a 30-minute period. The speaker will be accorded 20 minutes, 
instead of the eight of recent years. Each Convocation will 
include an academic procession, an invocation, choral music, 
and an address. Prof. William Dinneen will continue as 
Organist of the University and Director of Convocation 
Music. With the present Choir Chorale as a nucleus, a 
mixed choir of 60 to 80 voices will be developed to take part 
in the Convocations, some of which will be devoted entirely 
to either choral or instrumental music. 

At Pembroke College the Convocation unit will comprise 
the entire student body. The bi-weekly Convocations on 
Tuesdays will alternate with the present Student Government 
Assembly, a discussion session which all Pembrokers are re- 
quired to attend. Thus, each Pembroke student will attend 
either a Convocation or Assembly once a week, rather than 
twice a week as previously. The pattern of the Convocation 
will resemble that for Brown. 

A committee is to be named by President Keeney to plan 
and administer the Convocation program. Either he or the 
Provost will be Chairman, and the group will further include 
the Deans of the Colleges, the Chaplain, the Organist, three 
members of the Faculty (one each from the natural sciences, 
the humanities, and the social studies), and probably two 
und -rgraduates from each College. 



"o 

mi 



The Objectives That Remain 




TV in the Meeting House 



(See also Page 17) 



Prer ninary to consideration of the Chapel program by the 
Corp.^.''ition, there had been discussions with Faculty, Deans, 
Trust {s and Fellows, the Chaplain, and students. President 




JUL, 1959 



55 



Keeney said. "In our conversations, there were two underly- 
ing concerns: The Chapel program has not uniformly been a 
religious service of worship for the whole of a very hetero- 
geneous student body. The University should not require 
compulsory worship and, indeed, any such requirement 
would probably be contrary to the provisions of our Charter. 

"On the other hand," he continued, "we believe that an 
educated man must make some kind of commitment, ulti- 
mately, to God. While we do not presume to force upon our 
students a single understanding or commitment, we do pro- 
pose to state in the most effective manner the deepest and 
most significant questions in man's life and to indicate some 
of the directions toward an effective dealing with these issues. 
Some of these are directly concerned with religion; some are 
not. The nature of society, the nature of law and government, 
questions of internal and external policy, the responsibilities 
of an individual, and many other subjects are appropriate for 
the sort of discussion contemplated. 

"It is not a simple matter to carry out these objectives, and 
yet the University is constantly involved in this essential 
business. We must try to see that all undergraduates, what- 
ever their particular disciplines, face the significant issues of 
our day, their responsibilities as individuals and as free men, 
and the ultimate questions of the meaning of life which are 
religious and moral." 

Under the new program of College Convocations, there- 
fore. Brown would attempt to express to all undergraduates 
these fundamental concerns and, at the same time, to effect 
a sense of the College as a community of learning. "The 
latter purpose is becoming more and more important as the 
Colleges become larger and specializations more widespread," 
Dr. Keeney said. "The whole University will benefit from 
these meetings of the Colleges. The undergraduates will 
benefit both by meeting with their Classes and through the 
addresses they hear." 

The discontinuance of compulsory Chapel could hardly 
have surprised many, for hints were dropped when Manning 
Chapel was rededicated on Mar. 8. Chancellor Harold B. 
Tanner '09 said on that occasion that "the balance of this 
academic year will be used to test the value of a new solution 
to the objectives of compulsory College Chapel." President 
Keeney also then pointed out that he was speaking only for 
himself but believed "this Manning Chapel demands that we 



re-examine our present requirement of attendance at religious 
Chapel in Brown and Pembroke in a manner consistent with 
our Charter and with the temper of modern life and preserv- 
ing the best of what we have." The Brown Daily Herald, as 
we reported in our last issue, interpreted the opening of 
Manning as "the death knell of compulsory Chapel." 

The Rules Were Progressively Relaxed 

Looking in Bronson and other references, we found no 
ready history of Chapel at Brown. Attendance was required 
at family prayers both morning and night during the 18th 
century, the morning exercises coming an hour before break- 
fast. These were held in University Hall until 1835, when 
Manning Hall was built. Although President Robinson was a 
stern disciplinarian, he allowed certain aspects of the regimen 
to be relaxed, including abolishing the requirement to attend 
Chapel on Sunday. After 1877 undergraduates were no 
longer "required to attend public worship twice on Sunday," 
and the President informed them, it seems, that "once was 
enough." Robinson also introduced the custom of allowing 
students a certain number of absences from class exercises 
and Chapel. 

With all the Presidents required to be Baptist ministers 
until the Charter revision prior to the election of Dr. Barbour, 
they assumed the conduct of Chapel as one of their duties. 
And, certainly, there are many alumni who look back on 
even daily Chapel with some appreciation. President Faunce's 
anthology of his Chapel talks, "Facing Life," had a steady 
sale over many years, though many of the originals had been 
heard after a race to beat the 9 o'clock bell and the closing of 
Sayles' doors. With the growth of the student body, daily 
attendance gave way to that of alternating days and eventu- 
ally once a week at noon. 

The responsibility came to be that of a succession of 
Chaplains from the Rev. Dr. Arthur L. Washburn down to 
the incumbent, the Rev. Charles A. Baldwin. Like his pred- 
ecessor, the Rev. Edgar C. Reckard, Chaplain Baldwin was 
known to favor the abandonment of compulsion. 

The spring's voluntary services for all faiths, possible with 
the completion of Manning Chapel, have been attended by 
numbers regarded as encouraging. Certainly, the atmosphere 
of protest was not present, and the sincere responded during 
the 10 weeks of trial. 



Five Who Have Retired 
from the Brown Faculty 



FIVE RETIREMENTS from the University 
Faculty became effective on June 30: 
Hugh B. Killough, Economics; Paul N. 
Kistler, Max J. Schilhansl, and Frederick N. 
Tompkins '18, Engineering: and Walter H. 
Snell '13, Botany. President Keeney paid 
them tributes in his Report to the Corpora- 
tion on May 30. Collectively, they had 
contributed 154 years of instruction and re- 
search at Brown, all but Professor Schil- 
hansl having held Faculty status for more 
than 30 years each. 

Professor Killough, who came to Brown 
in 1924, had been Chairman of the Eco- 
nomics Department from 1953 to 1957. 
During the war, he was Chief of the 
Employment and Occupational Outlook 
Branch of the U. S. Bureau of Labor Sta- 



tistics. In 1950-51 he had leave of absence 
to make a study of Formosa for the U. S. 
Economic Cooperation Administration, 
continuing in the East the following year 
to make an economic survey and otherwise 
advise the Indonesian Government. He is 
well known for his economic analyses and 
is the author of many books and articles, 
particularly in international trade. His lat- 
est book, scheduled for publication shortly, 
was written in association with his wife, a 
member of the Wellesley Faculty. 

When the Engineering Laboratory was 
started at Brown in the '20s, Professor 
Kistler (in Dr. Keeney 's words) "showed 
marked ingenuity in building it up at little 
expense to the University." He is a mem- 
ber of several national organizations in 



engineering, in addition to activity with 
the Providence Engineering Society and 
Brown Engineering Association. In his 33 
years at Brown he earned the University's 
gratitude "for his good teaching and loyal 
service." 

Though Professor Schilhansl has been 
on College Hill only for "a relatively brief 
but very useful career in the Engineering 
Division," he is a widely recognized au- 
thority on turbo-machinery, in which field 
he has specialized in this country and Ger- 
many for more than 35 years. When he 
first came to America in 1947, he was 
consulting engineer at the Wright-Patter- 
son Air Force Base in Dayton. At Brown 
his time has been divided between teaching 
and research under Navy and Air Force 
contracts that "came to this University 
because Professor Schilhansl was here." 
His many scholarly papers have appeared 
in various professional and scientific ,|-ub- 
lications abroad and in this country 

Professor Snell retires at the age jf 70 
after 39 years of teaching at Browfivmany 
of them as Chairman of the Bot; ly De- 
partment. His career was the subj-jiQ of a 
special article in our April issue. _. con- 
nection with his monumental monograph 



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The Wriston Record 

There is a continuing sale for 
the record, "Wriston and Brown," 
available on order by addressing 
Box C, Brown University, Provi- 
dence 12, R. I. The price of $4.35 
includes mailing. 

Thomas Lask in his column of 
record reviews in the New York 
Times said on Apr. 26: "Wriston 
and Brown (Recorded Publications, 
10-inch) contains highlights of 
speeches by Henry M. Wriston, 
who was President of Brown from 
1937 to 1955. Mr. Wriston ex- 
presses himself on civil liberties, 
education, the humanities, and on 
the necessity sometimes of standing 
up and being counted — even in an 
unpopular cause. He also takes a 
couple of swipes at government 
bureaucracy and that august body, 
the Senate. ('The Senate has a cure 
for everything except its own 
faults.') Even to a non-Brown man 
they seemed good talks in good 
causes." 



on the Boletaceae of North America, he 
has painted more than 200 water-color 
plates of high scientific value. A year ago 
Brown alumni were invited to contribute 
toward the publication of this work: to 
date more than 200 of them have given 
$5300. 

Having joined the Faculty upon gradua- 
tion in 1918, Professor Tompkins has the 
longest membership in it of any of the 
men retiring this year. A fellow of the 
American Institute of Electrical Engineers 
and a member of the Society for the Pro- 
motion of Engineering Education, he has 
been active in other professional organiza- 
tions of national and more immediate 
character. He has served as consulting 
engineer for various companies including 
Westinghouse and General Electric, in ad- 
dition to being an able and unselfish leader 
in the program at Brown, in the develop- 
ment of which he has been witness and 
factor. 

President Keeney noted the resignation 
of Prof. Vincent H. Whitney, Chairman 
of the Department of Sociology from 1947 
to 1957, to accept a position at the Univer- 
sity of Pennsylvania "which offers great 
challenges for his extraordinary adminis- 
trative and organizational ability." 

This magazine has published obituaries 
of Profs. Clarence M. Webster and Sinclair 
W. Armstrong, which included the detailed 
minutes adopted by the Faculty. Of Pro- 
fessor Webster, President Keeney said 
further in his Report: "Among the impor- 
tant gifts of this popular undergraduate 
teacher was the ability to recognize and 
bring out the true promise of the seemingly 
unpromising students. . . . Brown is for- 
tunate to have benefited from his skilled, 
mature, witty, and challenging instruction." 

Praising Professor Armstrong's singular 
success as a teacher. Dr. Keeney said: "In 
the classroom he displayed a rare skill in 
communicating to others something of his 
own deep concern over the world around 
us. To his students he gave unsparingly of 
his time and energy; no appeal to him for 
aid or counsel ever went unanswered. His 
enduring monument is the respect and 
affection of several generations of college 
undergraduates." 




A Brunonian's Belgian Honor 



PROF. William Prager, chairman of the 
Physical Sciences Council of Brown 
University, on sabbatic leave during the 
second semester, was awarded a special 
medal by the University of Liege, Belgium, 
in appreciation of two lectures he delivered 
there early in March. Dr. Prager returned 
to Providence in May after five months in 
Europe on a Guggenheim Fellowship. 

While he attributes the medal award to 
the fact that he delivered the lectures in 
French, colleagues at Brown attribute the 
award to recognition of Dr. Prager's posi- 
tion as an internationally recognized au- 
thority in the fields of Applied Mathema- 
tics and Mechanics. 

In addition to speaking at Liege, he 
lectured also at Poiters in France, Copen- 
hagen, Denmark and Zurich, Switzerland, 
speaking both in French and German. 
During another overseas trip last fall, he 
participated in an international conference 
of mathematicians in Edinburgh and in 
scientific meetings in Poland. 

During an extended winter stay in Zu- 
rich, Dr. Prager worked on a forthcoming 
book titled "Introduction to Mechanics of 
Continua". which is now 80% complete. 
He will finish the work during the balance 
of his leave. Arrangements have been 
made for its publication first in German 
and later in English. Another book written 
by Dr. Prager last summer will be pub- 
lished in the near future. He is author of 
half a dozen other books and nearly 150 
scientific papers and articles. His books 



have appeared in a number of languages, 
including Turkish, Russian and Japanese. 
He speaks five languages fluently and can 
converse in others. 

The Year's Varsity Record 

Over-All Ivy League 
Record Record Finish 



Football 


6-3 


4-3 


4th 


Soccer 


2-7 


0-6 


8th 


Cross Country 


3-3 


Heps 


8th 


Basketball 


11-13 


6-8 


4th 


Hockey 


10-14 


4-6 


4th 


Wrestling 


4-3-1 


2-3-1 


4th 


Indoor Track 


3-2 


Heps 


7th 


Swimming 


6-4 


— 


— 


Baseball 


11-3 


6-3 


2* 


Track 


5-3 


Heps 


7th 


Golf 


3-8 


— 


— 


Tennis 


6-5 


— 


— 


Totals 


70-68-1 


22-29-1 


*Ti 


Percentages 


.507 


.433 





Five Freshman teams showed winning 
records: soccer (5-1-2), basketball (15-5), 
swimming (6-4), indoor track (3-1), and 
spring track (3-2). The other records: 
football (2-3), cross country (0-6), hockey 
(3-9), wrestling (2-3), baseball (3-6), 
tennis (4-4). The totals: 46-41-2 for a 
.529 average, thanks to basketball. In Ivy 
competition it was 9-16-1, with five of the 
victories coming in basketball. 



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57 




SENIOR REUNION was that of 1893, at the Hope Club 66 years after graduation. Left to right; Daniel 
Howland, Robert Brown, Thomas P. Corcoran, Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn (who came on from California), 

and the host, J. D. E. Jones, Jr. 



A ROUNDUP 
OF REUNIONS 




FOSTER SON of 1897: Senotor Theodore Francis 
Green, who graduated 10 years before them, 
was officially "adopted" by the Class at its 1959 
dinner. Left to right. Green, Isaac B. Merriman, 
'97's President, and Secretary George L. Miner. 



SOMEONE ELSE was Writing of a college 
reunion and said: "We need occasion- 
ally to come to emotional points like 
those turn-off places on mountain roads, 
wlnere we stop, stretch our legs, and look 
at the view back over the road we have 
travelled." And so they return to a Cam- 
pus, as they did to the Hilltop in Provi- 
dence that Memorial Day week end in 
1959. 

They saw familiar things and strange. 
But, most of all, they saw each other, for 
coming back to Brown was partly coming 
hack to one Class, even to those gone, 
and to memories mild or exciting, reflec- 
tive or raucous, of some very special 
years of one's life. 

And what are the mechanics of recol- 
lection? Pretty shallow, it must be 
granted: a handshake, a drink together, a 
meal or two, a ramble. Its gestures are 
often irrelevant and its efforts frantic, for 
time is so short. But warmth it has, and 
depth, and pride. 

There is no formal rollcall, of course, 
but there is a presence. One knows, really, 
only one Class, but there is a kinship with 
others sharing not only the setting and 
the program but the joint allegiance as 
well. For each is part of a procession 
which has a lengthy unity, just as the 
numerals in iron mark sections of one 
College Fence, though it contains less and 
less of today's Brown. 

"Do you remember when . . . ?" Of 
course, you do — and more. But there are 
other tenses than history's or memory's. 



You look around as well as back. You 
are not rested but refreshed and reassured. 
At any rate, you're back. 

Well, there were many back at reunion 
time this year, and others wished they 
were. What we offer below, thanks to 
faithful and prompt Class correspondents, 
is only the framework to which the rest 
attaches. Here are some names, some de- 
tails about the inconsequential which 
gather an importance from all the associa- 
tions and all that is implicit in reunion. 

50-Plus 

The senior alumni, more than half a 
century out of College, haid their own 
luncheon again on Commencement Day. 
As about 80 of them met in a private din- 
ing room of Sharpe Refectory, this year 
they had a guest. Prof. Gilbert E. Case. At 
work on a biography of President An- 
drews, he told them of his project and 
invited their recollections of him. 

The absence of other "program" made 
for leisure the rest of the week end, but 
the talk was good, as always. They had 
their own headquarters in the Theater 
Lounge of Faunce House, and few alumni 
enjoyed Commencement more. 

1893 

No Class has a prouder reunion record 
than the men 66 years out of Brown. Five 
of them gathered for a Hope Club dinner 
on Saturday and returned there for Jed 
Jones' traditional breakfast on Com- 
mencement morning. Dr. Alexander Mei- 
klejohn came east from California to join 
with those from nearer by — and later was 
to receive the Rosenberger Medal on The 
College Green. Though Edward H. Weeks 
missed one of his first reunions, all were 
glad to hear he was recovering from the 
illness which prevented his being there. 

1897 

The highlight of the 62nd Reunion was 
the Saturday evening dinner at 100 Be- 
nevolent St., at which Senator Theodore 
Francis Green, sole surviving member of 
1887, was officially adopted by the 
"youngsters" of our Class. As has been 
the custom in recent years. Senator Green 
was the guest at the annual dinner, but 
this year there was a surprise — a diploma 
conferring on him the status of "Honor- 
ary Member of the Class of '97." In pre- 
senting the diploma, Isaac B. Merriman 
of Swansea, Class President, recalled in 
a citation that "during our undergraduate 
days you were a member of the Faculty 
teaching the principles of Roman law. 
The same energy with which you inspired 
us as students you have continued to man- 
ifest in your long and distinguished serv- 
ice to the state, the nation, and the 
world." Three other members of the 
Class were on hand to join in the ex- 
pression of good wishes to the Senator — 
George L. Miner of Providence, Dr. Mar- 
cius H. Merchant of Warren, and Frank 
O. Jones of Hartford, Conn. Also present 
was Claude R. Branch '07, another guest 
at the dinner. 

1899 

With Reunion Chairman Benjamin W. 
Grim at the helm, the 60th Reunion of 
'99 was a complete success. Twenty-one 
classmates returned for the four-day af- 
fair, nearly half of the 44 known mem- 
bers. The big event was the Class Dinner 
Saturday evening at the Wannamoisett 
Country Club, with 20 in attendance. 



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Fourteen were at the 50-Plus Luncheon 
in a private dining room of the Sharpe 
Refectory Monday afternoon, while 1 1 
classmates maintained '99's good name by 
joining in the Commencement Procession 
down College Hill in the morning. Ar- 
thur N. Sheldon and William J. Duffy as- 
sisted Grim in making the necessary ar- 



rangements. In addition to those in the 
photo. Hunt, Howard, and Smart were 
back. 

1902 

Prof. William H. Kenerson was the 
guest speaker at a Commencement Day 
Luncheon held at the University Club by 



14 members of the Class. Roses were sent 
to Lewis S. Milner and Charles S. Has- 
1am, who were too ill to attend, and a 
telegram of greetings and good wishes 
was sent to William C. Hardy of Fitch- 
burg, whose failing eyesight prevented 
him from being present. Classmates at- 
tending the luncheon included: Smith, 




BEFORE 1899'S CLASS DINNER at the Wannamoisett Country Club: 1st row, row— Davis, Duffy, Vose, McConnico, Barber, Dr. S. M. Beale, Jr., Gates, 

left to right— Sheldon, Dow, Hall, Farnham, Grim, Williams, Tingley; 2nd Baker, Loud, and G. S. Beal. 




HALF-CENTURY CLASS of 1909 posed during its reunion at the Cold Spring 
House in V/ickford: 1st row, left to right — Turner, Wllmot, Sherwood, Chofee, 
Connell, Leach, McCoy, Chandler; 2nd row — Fowler, Whitmarsh, Paul, Cross- 
ley, Mitchell, Dodge, Weil, Roberts; 3rd row— Butler, Bugbee, Ross, Weed, 



Burgess, Chose, High, Sweetland; 4th row— Buffum, Everett, Sykes, Tinkhom, 
Cook, Barrett; 5th row — Kirley, Henderson, Wightmon, Nash, Stone, Boyce, 
Goodspeed, Wells, Hollen, Frost, Jackson, Horkness, and Hardy. Smiles 
prove it was a wonderful Golden Jubilee. 



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59 



Calder, Saunders, Bullock, Wilmarth, 
Paine, Atwood, Holmes, Pinkham, Greene, 
Horton, Chaffee, Cowen, and Wilson. 

1904 

A rather quiet but enjoyable 55th Re- 
union was celebrated by 12 members of 
the Class. From the Buxton House head- 
quarters in the Wriston Quadrangle the 
men of '04 participated in all the events on 
the University's Commencement agenda. 
from the Under the Elms ceremonies Fri- 
day afternoon to the Procession Monday 
morning. However, the feature event was 
the annual dinner at the University Club 
on Saturday evening. This was an infor- 
mal affair, with no talks, but Secretary 
Elisha C. Mowry did report on losses by 
death during the past year, gifts to the 
University Fund, and letters received 
from classmates who couldn't attend. 



Those who returned were: Dr. McCann, 
Avery and his wife, Heckman, Esten, 
Jones, Booth, Briggs, Hascall, Young, 
Barber, Nichols, and Mowry. 

1905 

Maintaining their record of holding a re- 
union every year, the men of '05 returned 
to the Campus for the 54th time in May. 
The feature attraction of the four-day 
week end was the Reunion Dinner held 
at the University Club on Saturday eve- 
ning. May 30. Judge Allyn L. Brown 
acted as toastmaster and Leonard W. 
Cronkhite spoke on our generation's con- 
tribution to civilization. Seventeen mem- 
bers attended the Alumni Dinner the pre- 
vious night, more than 46 other Classes 
could muster. Ten members marched in 
the Commencement Procession, led by 
Judge Brown. Those returning were: Alex- 




1904 HELD its 55th dinner at the University Club: 1st row, left to right— John Heckman, Howard Esten, 

Dr. James McCann, Elisha Mowry, Willis Avery; 2nd row— Lester Nichols, Thomas Booth, Asa Lloyd 

Briggs, Fred Jones, Charles Hascall, Arthur Young. 



ander. Burr, Davidson, Greene, Howard, 
Schwinn, Thurber, Webb, Costello, C. L. 
Robinson, Bullock, Cronkhite, Brown, 
Goodwin, Bellin, F. S. Cooke, and Hoyt. 

1906 

The off-year 53rd Reunion was long 
and varied. It began on Friday, May 29, 
when we were the guests of Bob Knight 
at one of his famous clambakes on Lip- 
pitt Hill. It continued at Sharpe Refectory 
Friday evening with a good delegation at 
the Alumni Dinner. Then, on Saturday 
the members journeyed to the home of 
Henry and Mrs. Carpenter, the Willows, 
on Cold Spring Beach, Wickford. There, 
the Carpenters and Steve Wright were co- 
hosts for cocktails and a buffet luncheon. 
Several hardy members of the Class even 
went for a dip in the Bay. The long week 
end was concluded Monday with the tra- 
ditional march down the Hill and attend- 
ance at the 50-plus Luncheon in the 
Sharpe Refectory. 

During a short business meeting held 
after the bake, discussion centered on the 
erection of a plaque at the outing reser- 
vation in memory of Dr. Emory Porter, 
who was a prime factor in initiating the 
project. He was actively interested in the 
project up to the time of his death. Mem- 
bers attending included: Bellows, Brown, 
Briggs, Burgess, Carpenter. Corcoran, 
Driscoll, Jackson, James, Knight, Linde- 
muth. Mercer, Pearson, Pattee. Rackle, 
Smith, Swalfield, Tillinghast. Tingley, and 
Wright. The delegation of ladies included 
Mrs. Bellows. Mrs. Briggs, Mrs. Burgess, 
Mrs. Carpenter, Mrs, Pattee, Mrs. Smith, 
Mrs. Jrowju and Mrs. Tillinghast. 

1907 

A shift in plans brought the Class to- 
gether for the Alumni Dinner after a 
meeting for talk and compotation at the 
University Club, where the Class Cup 
made its annual appearance. The Secre- 
tary gave reports of members who were 
unable to attend, and he also spoke with 
feeling of the late Dr. Frank A. Cum- 
mings, faithful and devoted classmate who 
was always ready to play his part in 




SOUTH COUNTY drew 1914: 1st row, left to right-Farnhom, Lord, Smith, 
Boyd, Gardiner, Keily, Wolf; 2nd row— Abbott, Brackett, Moffett, Foote, Wil- 



lett, Williams, Cook, Woolley; 3rd row— Harrington, Sprague, Durgin, Haz- 
ard, Holding, Hoffman, McKenzie, Sowin, Files. 



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AMONG THOSE BACK for the 40th reunion of 1919 were: 1st row, left to 
right— Searles, Clapp, Lonpher, Mason, Russo, Boyle, Holey, Fuller, Chick; 
2nd row — Bolotow, Higgins, Levy, Pollard, Perkins, Block, McSweeney, J. C. 
Scott, Campbell, Temkin; 3rd row — Beard, Jacob Cohen, Erickson, Conroy, 



Wilder, Joseph Cohen, Watson, Edwards, Eastham, Robinson, Johnston, Hind- 
marsh; 4th row — Smith, Philip Scott, Horrls, Hastings, Murphy, MuMone, 
Whitman, Fox, Rogers, Eraser, Pormenter, Tanenboum, Welch. Anniversary 
gift of $107,000 from 107-member Class broke oil records. 



Class reunions and rallies. Later discus- 
sion showed sentiment in favor of a reun- 
ion in 1960 in addition to the Alumni 
Dinner. Chairman William P. Burnham 
will take up this matter with other mem- 
bers of the Reunion Committee so that 
decision may be made well in advance of 
next June. Members of the Class consider 
the new Alumni Field Day first rate, an 
excellent attraction. Present for the 52nd 
were Messrs. Clark, Burnham, Branch, 
Curley, Herbert E. Harris, Gurney, 
Knowles, Curran, W. W, Reynolds, Slade, 
Steere, and Streeter. Sam Steere of Akron, 
O., came the longest distance. 

1908 

A Class Dinner for the men and women 
of '08 at the Rhode Island Country Club 
on Saturday evening. May 30, was one of 
the features of our 51st Reunion. How- 
ever, many members took in the Alumni 
Field Day at Aldrich-Dexter Field that 
afternoon and had a grand time. Thanks 
to our Secretary, C. LeRoy Grinnell, the 
'08 banner was flying from one of the 
tents at the Field Day. Those who at- 
tended parts of the week end program in- 
cluded Tom and Mrs. Miller, Dr. A. C. 
Thomas, Frank F. Mason, Norman Sam- 
Mrs. Murray, Roy and 
Hunter S. Marston, and 



mis, Jim and 
Mrs. Grinnell, 
Robert Burgess. 



1909 



The 50th Reunion was a huge success. 
Forty-seven classmates returned to Col- 
lege Hill for the various events on the 
four-day Commencement schedule. Prior 
to the Alumni Dinner, a social hour was 
held at the Delta Tau Delta Fraternity in 
the Wriston Quadrangle. Saturday and 
Sunday were spent at the Cold Spring 
House, Wickford. R. I. The Class Dinner 
was held there Saturday evening, and a 
more sociable gathering seldom was held. 
The Class photo was taken Sunday, and a 
second good meal also was included on 
the agenda. The march down the Hill, 
still a thrill to every classmate, even after 
50 years, concluded the festivities for the 
first 50 years. Herbert M. Sherwood acted 
as Reunion Chairman. 



1910 

Although this was an off-year, a good 
group did return to the Hill for the Fri- 
day afternoon cocktail party at the home 
of Secretary Ed Spicer and for the Mon- 
day dinner at the Squantum Club. Those 
returning included: President and Mrs. 
Horton, Vice-President and Mrs. Harti- 
gan. Treasurer and Mrs. Freeman, Secre- 
tary and Mrs. Spicer, Palmer, Atwood, 
Dwyer, Gould, Post, Wood, Babcock. 
Howland, and a guest from '07, Bill 
Burnham, who was with us for the 
Squantum dinner. 

1911 

Thirteen classmates returned to partici- 
pate in the Alumni Dinner, the Alumni 
Field Day, and the Commencement Pro- 
cession. They were: Dr. Edward B. Allen, 
John A. Anderson, Earle B. Arnold, Ev- 
erett S. Carpenter, Herbert E. Easton, 
Wright D. Heydon, Dr. Robert C. Mur- 
phy, Brenton G. Smith, G. Fred Swanson, 



After the First 20 Years 

The Secretary of Princeton's 50- 
year Class was writing a foreword 
for his reunion book and said: "I 
have the opinion that Secretaries of 
the Classes out 20 years or more de- 
velop an affection for their class- 
mates which seems to grow stronger 
with the passing years. 

"My memory may be hazy, but 
I am not sure that when we were 
younger we had such thoughts about 
the others in our Classes. As under- 
graduates, we were selective of our 
friends almost to the point of intol- 
erance, and judgments were not al- 
ways based on standards that have 
held up under maturity. 'Getting to 
know you' is a wonderful binder in 
making for Class unity among the 
older groups, a unity which holds 
these men closer to Alma Mater and 
her needs." 



Frederick R. Gleason, LeRoy G. Pilling, 
Judah C. Semonoff, and Wendell S. 
Brown. 

1912 

Classmates gathered for a Dutch treat 
cocktail party Friday afternoon at the 
University Club prior to the Alumni 
Dinner. The other highlight of the four- 
day week end was the Class Breakfast on 
Monday morning before the long walk 
down the Hill. Those back included: 
Brown, Bumpus, Burroughs, Chace, Clark, 
Donovan, Eastburn, Guillemette, Ken- 
dall, Marble, Marsh, Miller, Parker, Per- 
kins, Tanner, and Winterich. 

1913 

Nine hearty sons of '13 gathered for 
cocktails at the home of George T. Met- 
calf on Friday afternoon and then went 
on to the "reunion of reunions," the 
Alumni Dinner. The group included: 
Bailey, Bohl, Grount, Kennison. Mc- 
Caull, McLyman, Robinson, Snell, and 
Tucker. 

1914 

The Atlantic House, Narragansett Pier, 
proved to be an excellent headquarters for 
the 45th Reunion of the Class. During the 
course of the week end, 3 1 classmates put 
in an appearance, with 24 at the Alumni 
Dinner and 18 in the Commencement 
Procession. Reunion Chairman Fred Haz- 
ard planned an affair that combined the 
best of the on-Campus and off-Campus 
programs. Feature events in South County 
were a clambake at the Kettle Hole and 
a barbecue at Hazard's Saunderstown 
home. 

1919 

The 40th Reunion of Brown's "great- 
est" Class was memorable. Art and Mrs. 
Levy saw to it that the week end started 
off in proper style by acting as hosts at a 
cocktail party at their home on Friday, 
May 29. The ladies had a luncheon at the 
Rhode Island Country Club Saturday 
afternoon while their "better" halves were 
in Newport at the Clambake Club. That 
evening. Jack Haley was host to one and 
all at the Mt. Hope Reservation, Bristol. 
The Class Dinner was held Sunday eve- 



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JAUNTY '24 OBSERVED its 35th anniversory this year: 1st row, left to right 
— Chaffee, Horsefield, Lubrano, Sims, Kenny, Morris, Haskins, A. Woodburne, 
McGregor; 2nd row— McDonald, Drake, Wilkins, Robert Goff, Fletcher, Scott, 
Staples, Rothen burger, Place, Miller, Coolidge; 3rd row — Hunt, Cotton, 



O Brien, Hosp, Fitzgerald, Sturtevant, Louis Goff, Hopkins, Monk, Prof. B. C. 
Ciough, Reid, Aldrich, Harrington, Butler, Goodell, Woods, Flather; 4th row 
— Corleton Goff, Saunders, Somers, Voelker, McCully, and Rodman. Ciough 
is an honorary member of the Class. 










1929 at the JCB; 1st row, left to right— Richardson, Harris, Scott, Eastwood, 
Shattuck, Clark, Archie Smith, Formldon, Hendrickson; 2nd row— Shonklin, 
Sinouer, Moskol, Collier, Belknap, Tortolani, Crins, Rich, Lyon; 3rd row— 



Sulzberger, Dovisson, Wright, McKenna, Perkins, Blake, Ringler, Jones, En- 
sign; 4th row— Allison, Corleton, Stewart, O'Hare, Wilson, Foster, Grim, 
Brown, Homer Smith, DiMartino. 



SILVER ANNIVERSARY for 1934: 1st row, left to right-Flack, Noorigion, 
Thomas, Thorsen, Bogert, Hammer, Hopgood, T, B. Casey, Carpenter, Brines, 
Earle, Clemence, King, Aulor, Scott; 2nd row — Zaia, Humphries, Caposso, 
Couden, Buxton, Potton, Hammond, Chace, Littlefield, Suesmon, Folciglia, 
Smith, Phillips, Schermerhorn, Lynch, Lowenthal, Caito, Moat; 3rd row — Rob- 



bins, Rice, Kevorkian, Buttner, Gershmon, Tarlin, Vandam, Scribner, Sawyer, 
Floxman, Chadwick, Pascal, Porter, Tamburello, Caldwell, Hall, Gross, Buo- 
nanno, Rowell; 4th row— Morse, Gordon, Halberstodt, Pease, Goldsmith, 
Allen, Dane, Englund, Felton, Levy, Joyce, Akin, Sayward, Johnson, Wiren. 
(Don't let the fence fool you.) 



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Reunions, cont. 



ning at the Squantum Club, with Provost 
BUss. Professor Kenerson, and Professor 
Hastings the guest speakers. Other guests 
included Otto F. Kerner "30 and Ronald 
Kimball '18. Fritz Pollard, everyone's 
Ail-American, kept the gang in stitches 
with his stories, and J. E. Cohen made 
himself popular by passing out favors to 
the ladies. Bill McSweeney acted as Re- 
union Chairman, and he was assisted by 
Temkin, Levy, Cohen. Searles, Beard, 
Haley, Scott, and Wilder. 

1923 

The return of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon 
Libby from San Francisco was the high- 
light of the annual "off-year" observance 
of 1923 men and their wives. They joined 
the regulars at the cocktail party at the 
home of President E. John Lownes and 
Mrs. Lownes. The wives, as usual, dined 
at the University Club, while the men at- 
tended the Alumni Dinner, with later 
rendezvous at the Class table at the Cam- 
pus Dance. William B. McCormick and 
J. D. E. Jones, Jr., were again hosts to the 
score of marchers in the Procession on 
Commencement Day. 

1924 

Sam and Mrs. Wilkins started off the 
35th Reunion in appropriate style with a 
cocktail party at their pleasant home. 
Mrs. Henry D. Sharpe, Pat and Mrs. 
Kenny, and Ben Clough attended this af- 
fair as guests of the Class. Forty-five 
stout lads attended the Alumni Dinner 
and the number was nearly doubled when 
the ladies joined the group at the Class 
table under the Elms for the Campus 
Dance. Two of the most popular events 
of the week end took place Saturday, 
with a stay at the Alumni Field Day in 
the early afternoon and a gay cruise from 
Providence to Newport aboard the good 
ship Viking. The Class Dinner was held 
there that night in the Muenchinger-King. 
An old fashioned Rhode Island clambake 
at the HaffenrefiFer Estate in Bristol took 
care of Sunday's program. Still wearing 
the jaunty yachting caps, a large group 
remained to take part in the Commence- 
ment Procession Monday. All in all, a 
gala get-together, and now all thoughts 
will be on the 40th Reunion in 1964. on 
Brown's 200th anniversary. 

1928 

The 31st Reunion of the Class got off 
to a rousing start at the home of Mary 
Elizabeth and Kent Matteson on Friday 
afternoon when 20 classmates and their 
ladies enjoyed a cocktail party and buffet. 
Many new faces were seen this year at 
this affair, as well as at the Campus 
Dance. Alumni Dinner, and Alumni Field 
Day. Dr. John Hopkins, Frank Singiser, 
Bert Howard, and Hi Caslowitz saw their 
sons graduate from Brown Monday morn- 
ing, while Win Schuster watched his 
daughter receive her diploma from Pem- 
broke. Following is a list of those present 
for at least a part of the four-day week 
end: Bradley and wife, Calder and wife. 
Carpenter and wife, Conlong, Eddy and 
wife, Evans and wife and daughter, Fau- 
bert and wife, Goff and wife, Heffernan 
and wife. Hodge and wife, Hollingworth 
and wife, Lewis, Lisher and wife. Matte- 
son and wife. Mills and wife. O'Neil and 
wife, Owen and wife, Parkhurst, Pett and 
wife. Preston and wife, Solinger and wife, 
and Trenholm and wife. 




THE 25-YEAR SHAKER was forwarded by the Class of 1933 at the start of 1934'5 reunion. In the group 
in the Brgelow lounge of West Quad were, left to right: James Potton, Ray Chace, and Bancroft Little- 
field, '34 officers, and Franklin Hurd and Clarence Schneider, who had custody of the trophy since 1933 

had its silver onniversory. 



1929 

The Everett House Lounge was the 
scene of the cocktail party that opened 
the big 30th Reunion. Later, while the 
men ate at the great Alumni Dinner, the 
girls dined at the University Club. The 
Campus Dance, on a warm evening for a 
change, closed out the first day of activity. 
The Class Picture and Class Meeting Sat- 
urday noon were followed by the Alumni 
Field Day at Aldrich-Dexter Field, where 
the ragtime of the band brought us back 
to the 20's. That evening, classmates and 
their ladies wined, dined, and danced at 
the Metacomet Country Club, with the 
Class Dinner the feature attraction. Sun- 
day afternoon, Al DiMartino played host 
to all. The long march down the Hill 
wound up a good 30th Reunion. Dr. Ken- 
neth A. Scott acted as Reunion Chairman, 
and he was assisted by President Shattuck, 
DiMartino, Ensign, Carney, Rich, Moskol, 
Eastwood, Harris, and Barrows. 

1931 

Eleven classmates and three wives re- 
turned to enjoy the social atmosphere of 
the Alumni Dinner, the Campus Dance, 



BREAK THE 
BARRIER 




1924'S REUNION mail compoign was lively. 



and the Alumni Field Day. The men took 
time out to discuss the big 30th Reunion, 
just two years away. It was decided to 
form a committee in the fall to map plans 
for this event. Those returning for the 
weekend were: James Brown, Bernard 
Buonanno. Robert and Mrs. Eddy, Ro- 
land and Mrs. Gill. Walter Hagenau, 
James P. Lawton. William M. Mackenzie, 
Wes and Mrs. Moulton, Norm Silverman, 
Walter Wentworth, and Clint Williams. 

1934 

A $46,000 gift to Brown University, 
presented at the Alumni Dinner by 
Charles K. Campbell, Chairman of the 
Class Fund Drive, was the highlight of 
the 25th Reunion. Actually, things started 
popping earlier that evening when the 
cocktail party was held at the Bigelow 
Lounge of the West Quadrangle. While the 
men were at the Alumni Dinner, we gave 
the ladies a chance to discuss what 25 
years have done to their "better" halves. 
They dined at the Providence Art Club, 
and some attended the Sock and Buskin 
show later in the evening. After the color- 
ful Campus Dance, all journeyed back to 
the Bigelow Lounge to make use of the 
snack bar and divans. 

After a late breakfast at the Sharpe Re- 
fectory Saturday morning, everyone jour- 
neyed to the Wannamoisett Country Club. 
The Class Meeting and the Class Picture 
were followed by a luncheon for the lads 
and lassies. In the afternoon, some took 
in the Alumni Field Day at the Aldrich- 
Dexter Field while other stayed on at 
Wannamoisett for tennis, putting, and 
swimming in the new pool. The big social 
event of the week end was the Class Din- 
ner that evening at the one and only 
Squantum Club. The "dinner" was a 
clambake as only the Squantum can 
serve. John McLaughry, our new head 
football coach, was on hand to say a few 
words about next season. 

Sunday's activities consisted of a trip 
to Bristol and an informal cookout with 



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63 




"MAN OF THE YEAR" for 1950 this Commencement was Class Secretary Robert Cummings. John Har- 
rington, Ctioirman of the Awards Committee, read the citation, while President Edward Keily, at the 

right, mode the presentation. 



Classes with an ideal opportunity for at 
least a one-day gathering each year at 
Commencement time. 

1938 

At the annual dinner at the University 
Club on May 30, a scroll was presented 
to classmate Dr. Roderick M. Chisholm 
of the Brown Philosophy Department in 
recognition of his attainments in his 
chosen field. The scroll read as follows: 
"Brown University Class of 1938 Award 
for Achievement in Philosophy to Dr. 
Roderick M. Chisholm. We honor you 
for your long and rewarding application 
to your chosen field — as student, graduate 
student, researcher, publisher of authori- 
tative treatises, Romeo Elton Professor of 
Natural Theology, and Chairman of the 
Department of Philosophy at Brown. In 
presenting you with this Class of 1938 
Award, we join other national and inter- 
national groups in recognizing the sub- 
stantial contributions you have made to 
the world of philosophy." 

1939 

The "Tremendous Twentieth" proved 
to be just that. Cocktails Friday afternoon 
at Sears House got the show on the 
road, a show that didn't close until the 
Commencement Luncheon was finished 
Monday afternoon. While the men were 
at the Alumni Dinner Friday evening, the 
ladies dined at the University Club. The 
Campus Dance seemed more pleasant 
than usual — perhaps it was the warm 
weather. "Shine" Hall and Larry "Chief" 
Atwell showed up looking as though they 
were ready to go 60 minutes in Coach 
John McLaughry's backfield ne,\t fall. 
The Viking Hotel in Newport provided 
headquarters for Saturday, a day that was 
featured by the Class Dinner and dancing 
at the hotel in the evening. Everyone re- 
laxed on Sunday and enjoyed a cookout 
at the home of Pete Davis. Newly-elected 
officers for the Class include: President — 
Charles E. Gross; Vice-President — Cort- 
land Briggs: Secretary — Raymond de 
Matteo; Treasurer — Howard G. Brown. 
Reunion Chairman is Ralph L. Fletcher, 
Jr. 




1938'S HONOR AWARD this year went to a 

member of the Class, Prof. Roderick M. Chisholm, 

Brown Philosophy Chairman. At right is T. Bren- 

ton Bullock, Secretary. 



the Grosses. A large group gathered Mon- 
day morning to march down the Hill and 
officially close out a glorious 25th. Ray 
Chace was Reunion Chairman, and he 
was assisted by Gross, Flaxman, Caito, 
Suesman, Patton, and Littlefield. The 
Wives Committee, which did such an ex- 
cellent job, included Mrs. Raymond H. 
Chace, Mrs. James Patton, Mrs. John M. 
Gross, and Mrs. Bancroft Littlefield. 



1936 

While the Class did not have any for- 
mal reunion program this year, a large 
delegation attended the Alumni Field 
Day at Aldrich-Dexter Field on Saturday 
afternoon. These men placed a hearty 
stamp of approval on this event and feel 
that it could provide all of the off-year 



1944 

Although arrangements were not made 
until late in the spring, the good Class of 
'44 had a gala 15th Reunion on the Hill. 
Harkness House served as headquarters, 
and activities got started there with a 
cocktail party on Friday afternoon, May 
29. At the Campus Dance the Class table 
there provided an ideal spot for our large 
delegation to meet and enjoy the evening. 
We also had a Class tent at the Alumni 
Field Day on Saturday afternoon at Al- 
drich-Dexter Field, and this event is one 
that can be supported every year, whether 
or not a regular reunion is planned. Sat- 
urday evening the Class Dinner was held 
at the Newport Naval Base Officers' Club. 
The Reunion Committee consisted of 
Charles Philbrick, Lloyd Cornell, Milton 
Noble, and G. Myron Leach. 

1949 

The 49ers lived again during Brown's 
Commencement Week End, and if they 
didn't find gold this time, they found 
something more precious — good fun. fel- 
lowship, and memories that will last a 
lifetime. A cocktail party at our March 
House Headquarters was the first event 
on the four-day agenda. Coach John Mc- 
Laughry was the guest of the Class at this 
affair. 

The Class Meeting Saturday morning 
was followed by the trip to Aldrich-Dex- 
ter Field, where everyone gathered under 
the Class tent. Following the Field Day, 
the gang headed for the Chopmist Hill 
Inn for cocktails, clamcakes, and informal 
fun. Paul and Sally Mackesey represented 
the University at this event. A dance 
closed out the evening. 

At the Class Meeting, the following of- 
ficers were elected: President — Ted Low; 
Regional Vice-Presidents — Carl Westbom, 
Bob Schlenger, Paul Hood, Cal Coolidge, 
and Bill McLellan; Secretary — Rolland 
Jones; Treasurer — Tom O'Brien. The Ex- 
ecutive Committee includes Alan Flink, 
Ed Angelone, Bob Gittleman, Jack Lin- 
nell, and Al Toegemann. The Class also 
adopted by-laws and laid plans for a 25th 
Reunion gift to the University. Ted Low 
was Chairman of the Reunion Committee, 
assisted by Jones. O'Brien, Angelone, 
Cauchon, Flink, Gittleman, Linnell, Mc- 
Lellan, and Toegemann. 

1950 

The presentation of the annual Achieve- 
ment Award to Bob Cummings, Secretary 
of the Class, highlighted the 9th Reunion 
of the men of '50. The ceremony took 
place at the cocktail party at the home of 
William and Mrs. Mayer, before close to 
100 classmates and their ladies. Cum- 
mings was cited for his service to the 
Class, his College, and the community. 
He is Secretary of the Class Secretaries 
Association, Chairman of the Alumni 
Field Day Committee, and a delegate to 
the Associated Alumni. Other official 
gatherings during the weekend were held 
at the Class table at the Campus Dance 
and at the Class tent at the Alumni Field 
Day. 

1951 

The Reunion got off to a flying start 
with a cocktail party at the Archibald 
Lounge of the West Quadrangle on Fri- 
day afternoon. May 29. A gay time was 
had that evening at the Campus Dance, 
and the Alumni Field Day on Saturday 
afternoon proved again that it is one of 
the most popular features of the Com- 
mencement Week End. However, the men 



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SATURDAY GROUP of 1939 reunion: 1st row, left to right— Horton, Kaffen- 
berger, Wilmot, Fletcher, Coin, Sherman, Kingsford, Penza; 2nd row — 
Knowles, Lovejoy, Jackson, SemonofT, Simon, Wisbach, deMotteo, Mathes, 
Deignon; 3rd row— Davidson, Roberts, Renfree, Phelps, Davis, O'Brien, Gold- 



ing, LeValley, Slode, Briggs, Quinn; 4th row— Boyce (sorry the engraver lost 
him), Lewis, Mclntyre, Goldbeyer, Ungerleider, Jaburg, Atwell, Robinson, 
Meader, Carey, Gordon, Rosen, Kay, Gross, Brown, Truman, Crosbie, and 
Barrett. 



of '51 also turned their attention to 
sterner stuff — namely, official acceptance 
of the Class Constitution and discussions 
on the 10th Reunion, the Class Gift Fund, 
and a Executive Committee. Back for the 
week end were Leonard, Andrews, Chat- 
terton, Surprenant, Lobsenz, Robb, Wa- 
terman, Thomas, Pannagio, Edwards, Al- 
len, Merolla, Maguire, Agresti, Wood, 
White, Craik, Desimone, Greenberg, Wat- 
son, Zeoli, McKeague, Sellick, Samdperil, 
Gonzalez, Brogden, Connis, Ackroyd, and 
Thebedo. 

1954 

"Looking for more in '64" was the way 
most classmates felt after the wonderful 
5th Reunion on the Hill. When the cock- 
tail party was held Friday afternoon. 
May 29, at our headquarters, Caswell 
Dormitory, nearly 80 men of '54 had 
registered, and most of them brought 
wives or guests, thus assuring us of one 
of the largest turnouts on the Hill. Fol- 
lowing the Alumni Dinner for the men 
and the buffet for the ladies, the group 
(Continued on page 101) 




BEFORE 1944'S DINNER: 1st row, left to right— Leach, Cornell, Philbrick, Merriom, Nathonson, Reid; 

2nd row— Berberion, Young, Lawton, Collins, Isherwood, Barsamion, Baker; 3rd row— Robinson, Holmes, 

Durfee, P. A. Atwood, H. E. Atwood, Adkins, Hastings, Dermody. 



A DECADE AFTER GRADUATION on College Hill, the Class of 1949 lined up 
this way at its reunion; 1st row, left to right — Ensminger, Bobrick, Yelavich, 
Holmes, Gittleman, Schlenger, Livingston, Keats, Low, Pritzker, Bernstein, 
Hindersinn; 2nd row — Jones, Shields, Moreau, Hoyden, Dane, Bergen, Kotlen, 
Tesler, Evans, Smith, Laurent, Ke.-n, Barry; 3rd row — Markey, Thomas, Mere- 



dith, Pollock, Mink, Garratt, Godon, Idelson, Allen, Flink, Ostroff, Resnick; 
4th row— O'Brien, Linnell, Cauchon, Vincent, Dalton, Miles, Richards, Cool- 
idge; 5th row- Wilson, Toegemonn, Angelone, Westbom, Bodamo, Green, 
Mason, Brown, Hagman, Hall, Hood, Wright, Farnhom, and Von Heest. They 
had the banner in cose there was any doubt who they were. 





FIELD DAY group from 1954 at Aldrich-Dexter Field: 1st row, left to right— 
Sklor, WIttreich, Krivit, Cohen, Shortoll, Burdick; 2nd row— Winons, Polleys, 
Thomas, R. Roth, Corney, Shaffer, Simon, Gorman; 3rd row— W. A. Roth, 



Furmon, Love, Lake, De Grooff, Reid, Burrow, Frigoletto, Leahy, Cook, 
Fletcher; 4th row— Coshill, Tecklin, Wigod, Bayer, Striar, Carmel, Wezniok, 
Wills, Bourne; 5th row — Bombino, Christiansen. 



What About 
That Bell? 



IRVING H. Gamwell "96 of Pittsfield 
asked us about the history of the bell 
which hangs atop University Hall. When 
was it put there? Where and how was it 
obtained? 

We turned, of course, to Bronson's His- 
tory and found this reference: "At the 
same meeting at which Hope College was 
received and named (January, 1823), the 
Corporation voted That the old College 
Edifice be named University Hall.' Since 
the completion of its inside finishing in 
1788, a bell had been placed in the old 
building, and necessary repairs had been 
made from time to time. The early laws 
imply that the college had a bell; but it 
either had been broken or was deemed too 
small, for in 1790 a committee was ap- 
pointed 'to procure a Bell for the College, 
as soon as may be.' 

"The next year they were instructed to 
get a bell of "the weight heretofore or- 
dered (about 300 pounds) as soon as may 
be.' Just when this essential to college life 
arrived and was hung in its place does not 
appear; but on Sept. 8, 1791, the commit- 
tee was authorized to 'complete the Cu- 
pola,' no doubt to fit it for its guest; and 
on Dec. 8, 1792, the Corporation voted 
'that the President employ one of the Stu- 



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dents to ring the College Bell, & that 
such Student be allowed his Tuition & 
Room rent for that Service.' " 

When University Hall was reconstructed 
in 1940 and rededicated on May 4 of 
that year, President Wriston gave an ad- 
dress, later published in pamphlet form. 
In it he said that in 1834 "the old bell 
was replaced by the one now in use." We 
don't know whether this was still another 
bell or whether the dates of 1823 and 1834 
were confused. 

Dr. Lawrence C. Wroth, Librarian 
Emeritus of the John Carter Brown Li- 
brary, is working on a study of University 
Hall in anticipation of the University's Bi- 
centennial in 1964. He has written the 
following in reply to our inquiry: 

"There seems to be quite a little confu- 
sion as to the earliest bell. My only contri- 
bution to the subject is this: We have a 
bill rendered the College by Daniel Thorn- 
dike, blacksmith, for all sorts of work in 
connection with tools — chisels, files, pick- 
axes, drills — dated March-June. 1770, 
while the building was still in progress. In 
the margin on page 2 of the bill is found 
what must simply have been a memo- 
randum made by Mr. Thornton to himself. 
It reads: "Brons (sic) to Bell for CoUegg." 
Combined with the fact that the early laws 
imply the College had a bell, this memo- 
randum seems to me to suggest that a bell 
of some sort may have been installed in 
the very earliest days of the building. 

"I wish very much that I knew what they 
meant when they voted in 1791 to 'com- 
plete the Cupola.' Does this mean that the 



outer structure had been built at the time 
the building was erected, but that no ar- 
rangement had been put aside for holding 
a heavy bell? 

"There is in the Brown Papers a letter 
in which somebody in Newport, I think, 
writes to Nicholas Brown in 1775 with 
reference to a bell and clock. I hesitate to 
relate this to the College without further 
information. I will certainly keep on the 
alert for any references to a bell." 

And now will someone statistically 
minded provide an estimate of the number 
of times the bell on U.H. has rung? 

Representing Brown 

More alumni have been designated to 
represent the University at academic 
ceremonies on other campuses, in addition 
to those where officers of the University 
attend. Secretary Howard S. Curtis pro- 
vided the following list: 

Edward J. Sulzberger "29 at a Convoca- 
tion at the Technion-Israel Institute of 
Technology. 

Dr. Edward A. Swakon "48 at the 
Founder's Day Convocation of Valparaiso 
University on Apr. 24. 

Dr. Daniel Howland '39, Director of 
Operations Research at Ohio State Univer- 
sity, at the inauguration of Lynn W. 
Turner as President of Otterbein College 
on Apr. 25. 

John Heffernan '28. former coach at 
Green Mountain College, at the inaugura- 
tion of Raymond A. Withey as its Presi- 
dent on May 27. 

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The Alumni 
Production 

FOUR PERFORMANCES of Gore Vidal's 
"Visit to a Small Planet" added to the 
pleasure and color of the Commencement 
period when the Sock and Buskin Alumni 
played to good houses that appreciated 
this tradition in Faunce House Theater. 
Robert Borod directed the production, 
which had setting by Prof. Leslie Allen 
Jones. 

The play was well cast with William 
M. McLeod in the lead and Roger Car- 
mel, up from New York, and Lois Lind- 
bloom Bu.xton also featured. The other 
players included: Rebecca Anderson, Will 
Mackenzie, Allan Ross, Steven H. Spen- 
cer, Andrew Dragat, and George Spelvin, 
Sock and Buskin's own Carberry. 

Beatrice Calvo was stage manager, with 
Paul Shelton and Herbert B. Barlow, Jr., 
handling lights and Louise H. Fitch and 
Margot M. Harley properties. The elec- 
tronic sound and score were in the hands 
of Louis and Bebe Barron. 



Robert Casey 

Dr. Robert P. Casey, former member of 
the Brown Philosophy Department, died 
in Enghmd in April. The following obitu- 
ary appeared in The Times of London and. 
clipped by Warren Ilchman 55 of the Uni- 
versity of Cambridge, was received in 
Alumni House on Apr. 23: 

THE Reverend Robert Pierce Casey, 
Fellow and Dean of Sidney Sussex 
College, Cambridge, died in hospital at 
Mundesley, Norfolk, on Sunday after a 
long illness. He was 61. 

Casey was born in December, 1897, at 
Boston, Massachusetts, and was an Ameri- 
can citizen to the end of his life. Educated 
at Harvard, where he graduated with hon- 
ours in Philosophy in 1919, and at the 
Harvard Divinity School, his brilliant 
scholarship brought him to Jesus College, 
Cambridge, where he was the first research 
student in theology from overseas to obtain 
the Ph.D. degree, which he did in 1924. 

On returning to America he spent the 
next 15 years teaching theology at the 
Universities of Chicago and Cincinnati, 
but Cambridge was always dear to him, 
and he frequently came over in the sum- 



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"VISIT TO A SMALL PLANET" featured these Sock 
left to right— Roger Carmel, who returned from N 
fifth reunion; William M. McLeod '48, the "visitor," 



and Buskin Alumni in the Commencement production: 

ew York to combine rehearsing and playing with his 

Prof. James Barnhill, and Lois Lindbloom Buxton '43. 



mer and stayed with the late Dr. Wilfred 
Knox at the Oratory House. 

Casey's intellectual interests were re- 
markably wide. He was an outstanding 
textual scholar with an acute and penetrat- 
ing mind, and he had many contacts on the 
Continent. He made an important contri- 
bution to Volume 5 of the Beginnings of 
Christianity edited by Jackson and Kirsopp 
Lake, to whom he had a great devotion, 
and wrote articles on the New Testament 
and Patristic studies in the Journal of 
Theological Studies. Among his other writ- 
ings were Serapion Against the Manichees 
in 1931; Excerpta e.x Theodoto of Clement 
of Alexandria in 1934: De Incarnatione of 
Athenesius, part 2, in 1946; and an 
Armenian Version of the Pseudo-Atha- 
nasian Letter to the Authiochenes in 1947. 
He was a brilliant linguist in both classical 
and modern languages, and was greatly 
interested in Armenian antiquities. He was 
an authority on Russian monasticism, and 
published a book on religion in Russia in 
1946, 




PHI BETA KAPPA leaders at their annual meeting: left to right— Prof. William T. Hastings '03, Dr. Rob- 
ert Cushman Murphy '11 (luncheon speaker). Prof. Arlan R. Coolidge '24, Ronald B. Smith '23, Prof. 
Elmer M. Blistein '42, and the new President, Walter Adier '18. 



From 1939 until his return to Cam- 
bridge in 1950 Casey was Professor of 
Theology at Brown University, Rhode Is- 
land, and was ordained priest in 1940. The 
last nine years of his life were spent at 
Sidney Sussex College, where he was Fel- 
low and Theological Lecturer, and later 
Dean. He was singularly good at encourag- 
ing promising young men, and inspiring 
them with enthusiasm for scholarship. 

Phi Beta Kappa 

Walter Adler '18, Providence attorney, 
was elected President of the Rhode Is- 
land Alpha of Phi Beta Kappa for 1959- 
60 at the 130th annual meeting. He suc- 
ceeds Prof. Sharon Brown '15. Prof. Arlan 
R. Coolidge '24 became Vice-President, 
succeeding Adler. Other officers, re-elected, 
were: Prof. Elmer M. Blistein '42, Secre- 
tary: Ronald B. Smith '23, Treasurer; 
Prof. William T. Hastings '03, Historian; 
and George L. Miner '97, Auditor. 

Committees named at the May 31 
meeting were: Alumni and Honorary 
Membership — Miss Jeannette D. Black 
'30, Bancroft Littlefield '34, and Prof. 
James B. Hedges. Arrangements — Mrs. 
R. B. Lindsay '20, Angus A. Bailey, Jr., 
'39, and Prof. George E. Downing. New 
Chapters — Profs. Blistein, Richard C. 
Taylor, and Guy H. Dodge. Nomination 
of Officers — Clarkson A. Collins, 3rd, 
'33, Dr. Etta Soiref, and Lloyd W. Cor- 
nell, Jr., '44. 

Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy '11, 
Curator Emeritus of Birds, American Mu- 
seum of Natural History, was the speaker 
at a luncheon in honor of the day's ini- 
tiates: 18 Seniors from Brown and 10 
from Pembroke. 

Treasurer Smith disclosed in his report 
that Dr. William H. Tolman '82 had left 
the chapter $1000 in his will. He was one 
of 27 members of the Rhode Island Alpha 
who died during the year. The chapter 
acknowledged the gift of his key from 
Dr. Theodore C. Merrill '96 of Paris. 



JULY 1959 



67 



Carrying the Mail 



"Amazing" Performance 

Sir: Noted in April issue a mention of 
the art of tracking down lost alumni 
as practised by the busy Records Office. It 
is my personal conviction that Brown's 
organization must have trained the Nazi 
Gestapo. 

Since 1936 my address has changed by 
actual count (excluding three World War 
II service years) 15 times and has involved 
four States. Never once, to my discredit, 
have I mailed a forwarding address. In the 
23 years since 1936 it has never taken 
longer than two months before the Brown 
Alumni Monthly showed up with my exact 
new address pasted on the back. 

It is a very impressive thing. I go to my 
new assignment as Manager of American 
Can Company's Philadelphia plant con- 
fident that the magazine will have my new 
home address (with no help from me) ex- 
actly as soon as I learn what it is myself. 
The Records Office is to be congratulated. 
Whatever the motive, the performance is 
amazing and can't miss in eventual results. 

J. F. MCGEE '36 

Philadelphia 

A Service in Manning 

Sir: The articles about the new 
Manning Chapel are well done. I am 
wondering whether, without interfering 
with other events, the University could put 
on a religious service in Manning Hall on 
the Sunday morning of Commencement 
Week End. This would be for all, but es- 
pecially for visiting alumni and their fam- 
ilies. If this were planned and announced 
at the Alumni Dinner Friday night, I feel 
there would be many who would take ad- 
vantage of it. I would like very much an 
opportunity to worship there. 

GEORGE B. BULLOCK '05 

Waban, Mass. 

(When this suggestion was passed along 
to President Keeney and Chaplain Bald- 
win, they seized upon it with enthusiasm. 
The service was held. — Ed.) 

A Colgate Parallel 

Sir: I was very much interested in the 
article in your May number entitled, "The 
Seniors Had a Brand New Idea." Begin- 
ning in 1954, our graduating Classes set 
up an insurance plan based on insuring 
five members of the Class for $5000 each 
in order to build up a 25th Anniversary 
Gift Fund. Several bright young men in 
the Class of 1958, while willing to go along 
with this plan, put up such an excellent 
argument for the investment of money 
they give annually in a mutual fund that 
we, after careful consideration by a special 
committee, accepted the idea. Interesting 
enough, they decided to use two funds. 
The Massachusetts Investors Trust and 
The George Putnam Fund of Boston. The 
Class of 1959 has just completed an agree- 
ment with us to set up a similar fund with 
investments to be made through the same 
investment trusts. 

These programs are not nearly as elabo- 



rate as yours, but we've accepted the idea 
as more readily manageable. . . . Like 
your plan, these "special gifts annually" 
are in addition to the gifts to the annual 
Alumni Funds. 

I thought it might be interesting to you 
and to those whom are in charge of your 
anniversary gift funds to know something 
of our program. We might be able to 
exchange experiences to our mutual ad- 
vantage. 

CARLTON O. MILLER 

Alumni Secretary 
Colgate University 

Sinclair Armstrong 

Sm: If an undergraduate is fortunate 
enough he will find a teacher who tran- 
scends the blue books, themes and pages of 
notes and whose wisdom and personality 
sticks with him far beyond Commencement 
weekend. I regret that no more Brown 
students will be able to find such an as- 
sociation with Professor Armstrong. 

Ten years after my graduation he still 
represents the best of Brown to me. I 
remember the vigor and strong viewpoint 
with which he lectured in History and the 
way he captured the class, most of us 
cynical and opinionated veterans. The Sun- 
day afternoon gatherings at his home on 
Power St., spiced with tea, Mrs. Arm- 
strong's cookies and much strong opinion, 
were a high point of the academic week 
for me. Later on, my wife and I were for- 
tunate enough to visit the Armstrongs on 
post-graduate trips to Brown and to ap- 
preciate the grace and warmth of their 
home. Professor Armstrong had dignity 
without stuffiness, enthusiasm without 
demonstrativeness. And whether he was 
lecturing, conversing on world affairs, serv- 
ing tea or cocktails, he was in quiet com- 
mand of the situation. He saw the Campus 
clearly, but he was not above enjoying 
some of its frivolities. I recall the way he 
rooted for Brown at a Princeton game 
some years ago and yet at halftime, when 
the band played "Nassau Hall." he stood 
up and recognized his old school by wav- 
ing his hat to the music. 

I will miss those friendly visits to his 
home on Power Street. Future Brown stu- 
dents will be poorer without them. 

JACK NEWCOMBE '48 

New York 

(Note: In addition to the bequest of his 
house to the University, Professor Arm- 
strong's professional library of some 500 
books has come to the History Department 
for staff and student use. through the gen- 
erosity of the Armstrong family. — Ed.) 

Future Teacher? 

Sir: The April issue was the finest of 
many fine issues — challenging, stimulating, 
at the same time nostalgic. 

I forwarded it to my daughter, a Senior 
at Northfield. If, after reading some of 
those articles, she doesn't become a 
teacher, she has holes in her head. 

DAVID G. FANNING '25 

Grafton, Mass. 



Shortage or Surplus 
Sir: I enjoyed the April issue very much. 
However, I was sorry to see you give such 
undiscriminating support to the idea that 
a shortage of college teachers exists in this 
country. There probably is a shortage in- 
sofar as the natural sciences are concerned, 
but openings in the social sciences or the 
humanities do not appear to be as exten- 
sive as you suggest. 

Many schools seem to have adopted a 
deliberate policy of increasing the student 
load of each incumbent teacher in response 
to the problem of larger enrollments, 
rather than hire any new faculty members. 
As you point out, this has been done in 
many instances because of a scarcity of 
funds, but the fact of its having been done 
reduces the number of openings that 
should be available to an increasing num- 
ber of new teachers. This contributes to 
the development of a teacher surplus 
rather than a shortage. 

V. PONKO, JR., '51 
Chicago 

A Face for the Faceless 
Sir: You hit upon a novel attention- 
catching device when you removed the fea- 
tures from the photograph of the Profes- 
sor on your April cover. Yes, many of us 
could supply the features of someone on 
the Faculty who meant a lot to us when 
we were undergraduates at Brown. This 
was what you intended and even invited, 
of course. 




But I thought you would be interested 
to know that your cover also caught the 
attention of the six-year-old in our family. 
"Daddy," she said, "this man doesn't have 
any face." 

She proceeded to supply a face. The 
result is enclosed. 

L. M. 

The Age of Buildings 

Sir: As a graduate student in architec- 
ture at the University of Michigan, I am 
presently involved in research on Brown 
University. I would very much appreciate 
knowing the dates of its major buildings. 

ZANE J. ANDERSON '56 

Ann Arbor, Mich. 

(Perhaps others will be interested in the 
dates: University Hall 1770. Hope College 
1822. Manning Hall 1834. Rhode Island 
Hall 1840. Slater 1879. Sayles 1881. Ly- 
man 1891. Wilson 1891. Maxcy 1895. 
Richardson (formerly Brunonia) 1900. Van 
Wickle Hall 1902. Caswell 1903. Engineer- 



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ing 1903. Rockefeller Hall 1903 (renamed 
Faunce House after 1929 addition). John 
Carter Brown Library 1904. John Hay Li- 
brary 1910. Arnold Lab 1915. Metcalf Lab 
1923. Stadium 1925. Hegeman 1926. Lit- 
tlefield 1926. Marston 1926. Marvel Gym 
1927. Metcalf Research Lab 1938. White- 
hall 1946. Wriston Quad 1950. West Quad 
1956. Hunter Lab 1958. At Pembroke: 
Pembroke Hall 1897. Sayles Gym 1907. 
Miller 1910. Metcalf 1919. Alumnae Hall 
1926. Andrews Hall 1947.— Ed.) 

Add the Name of Bowen 
Sir: My recollection of the matter is 
somewhat dim, but I possess a birth cer- 
tificate stating that Everett Anthony Bowen 
was born in Lewiston, Me., on Nov. 12, 
1869. Also I possess a diploma stating that 
this same Bowen was graduated from 
Brown in June, 1892. This was just 400 
years after Columbus crossed the ocean 
blue. 

The facts above should be sufficient, it 
seems to me, to warrant including this 
name among the 25 alumni who are oldest 
in years and in graduation dates. 

EVERETT A. BOWEN '92 

Middleboro, Mass. 

(Mr. Bowen is right, of course. His 
seniority would appear to be about 12th, 
as more careful resort to his file would 
have shown us. — Ed.) 

14th on the Roster 

Sir: Dr. Thomas Dalton Brown '03 of 
22 Symphony Rd., Boston, is not seeking 
any publicity among the "elders," but he 
belonged in the list of 25 oldest living 
graduates which you published in your 
May issue. Tom was bom in Boston on 
Mar. 7, 1871. While he is slightly deaf, he 
is self-sufficient mentally and physically. 

BOSTONIAN 

(The Alumni Office has inserted Dr. 
Brown's name where it should have been: 
14th among our senior alumni. — Ed.) 

Proportional Champion 

Sir: On page 60 of the April issue it is 
claimed in an article that six Brown men 
in Massilon, O., all working for the same 
firm, represent the largest single concen- 
tration, in proportion to firm size, any- 
where. 

I don't know how many employees 
Griscom-Russell has, but I still think we 
top them as "proportional champion." 
General Electric de Venezuela, a wholly- 
owned affiliate of the International Gen- 
eral Electric Co., has a total of 1200 em- 
ployees, of whom about 50 are expatriate 
North Americans. Four of these 50 are 
Brown men, and all are located under the 
same roof in the Caracas Office. If we 
don't beat the Griscom-Russell on a pro- 
portional basis, I'm sure we are number 
one in the field of foreign service. 

Our group consists of: Robert E. 
Sweeney '40, Robert L. Rinfret '51, Martin 
Arabian '56, and myself. 

JOHN H. HILPMAN '51 

Caracas, Venezuela 

Concentration 

Sm: Speaking of concentrations of 

Brown graduates in one corporation, we 

might call attention to the names of those 

employed by B-I-F Industries, Inc., in 




ALL BROWN MOURNED the death of Prof. Herbert N. Couch, right. Chairman of the Classics 

Department and former Secretary of the Faculty, shortly after Commencement. The picture above 

was taken a few years ago when one of his classes showed their oppreciation of his teaching. 

We shall write in the fall of this honored scholar. 



Providence. We should begin with the late 
Zechariah Chafee '80, only one of his 
family closely identified with Builders 
Iron and its later corporate identity. Henry 
S. Chafee '09 was succeeded as President 
by Earl H. Bradley '28. 

Other Brunonians now at B-I-F are: 
Albert E. Watjen '17, Arvid N. Larson '23, 
Philip A. Welch '23, Philip L. Voelker '25, 
Edgar L. Loud '27, Irving O. Miner '27, 
Walter A. Hagenau '31, Gardiner M. Wil- 
fiams '32, Walter H. Brown, Jr.. '33, 
Francis H. Cary '33, James M. Hines '33, 
John M. D. Suesman '34, Wilbur H. 
Frazel '35, Richard W. Pearce '36, Doug- 
lass Taber '36, Edward F. Pickering '37, 
Davol H. Meader '42, David A. E. Wood 
"43, Arthur E. Hatch, Jr., '47, William A. 
Spicer, 3rd, '47, Sidney R. Amylon '48, 
S. Russell Chadwick '48, Nathan Ludman 
'48, Thomas R. Vennerbeck '48, Robert 
F. Kelsey '49, J. Richard Fiebelman '50, 
Bruce E. Hamlett '50, Richard P. Heck- 
man '50, Jack Schoenberg '50, Harlan A. 
Bartlett '51, J. Earle Caton '51, Rodger 
B. Dowdell '52, Gerarad O. Verboncoeur 
'52, and Robert H. Hawley '54. 

J. R. L. 

The Sociologist's Bee 

Sir: In the final exam of a Sociology 
course a decade ago, I was asked to dis- 
cuss why insects do not communicate. I 
remember reading the question with alarm, 
for it was my firm conviction (and still is) 
that insects certainly do communicate. I 
made a brief statement, therefore, to the 
effect that I could not accept the assump- 
tion in the exam question and went on to 
demonstrate my belief. My attempt at 
intellectual honesty apparently went un- 
appreciated: I got a C in the exam and a 
C in the course. 

This year Time magazine carried an 
article which began: "More than 20 years 
ago, Austrian-born Dr. Karl von Frisch 
discovered that bees communicate by 



dancing on the honeycomb." Twenty years 
ago would be 10 years before I took that 
examination. Bees, it would seem, do com- 
municate. Bees are insects. In short, I 
hereby lay claim to having been grossly 
mistreated and request a review of my 
grade with an eye toward correcting the 
injustice done me. 

May I suggest, modestly, a B on the 
final and a B for the course. (Pun defi- 
nitely intended.) 

JESS LOWEN '52 
New York 

The Manning Organist 
Sir: The Secretary of the Class of 1908 
approves with gusto the appointment by 
President Keeney of Hollis E. Grant '34 
as Music Director and Organist extraordi- 
nary of the new Manning Chapel. The 
new organist will be at home there what- 
ever the call for music. A superb classic 
organist with wide acquaintance of all 
church music from Palestrina to Cesar 
Franck, Bach to Richard Rodgers, Hollis 
Grant will add glory to the prestige of 
Brown University. 

c. leroy grinnell '08 
Tiverton, R. I. 

(The writer, who played the organ for 
Chapel while an undergraduate, is a musi- 
cian of no mean ability himself. — Ed.) 

Another Ivy League? 

Sir: The local papers have talked about 
a new form of intercollegiate rivalry. Stu- 
dents from Case Institute of Technology 
and Oberlin College participated here in 
the first of what may be an annual Mathe- 
matics competition, including a written 
exam provided and graded by a Professor 
from the University of Minnesota. 

Why not an Ivy Math League? And a 
Brown Math team? 

DALE wylie '17 
Cleveland 



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Charter group of members of the South Country Brown Club in Rhode Island met in Wakefield on May 8. 



The Brown Clubs Report 



South County Charter 

SIXTY-EIGHT Brunonians have become 
charter members of the South County 
Brown Club, which conducted its charter 
dinner meeting May 8 at Larchwood Inn, 
Wakefield. This was the third annual May 
reunion of full-time and summer residents 
of the area, but the first as an organized 
affiliate of the Associated Alumni. Forty- 
five were present to sign the charter, which 
reads: 

"We, the undersigned Brown University 
graduates of the South County area, be- 
lieving in the sovereign right of Brunonians 
to enjoy life, liberty, and the pursuit of 
happiness, do hereby invoke our Constitu- 
tional and democratic prerogative of or- 
ganizing ourselves into a Brotherhood o£ 
Good Fellowship, to be known as The 
South County Brown Club. 

"Chartered by ourselves, under the com- 
mon law principle of self-determination, 
to serve Alma Mater (In Deo Speramiis) 
to the best of our ability through that best 
medium of service — good will engendered 
by good fellowship." 

Coach John McLaughry, guest speaker, 
reported on Brown football prospects, and 
assured the group that the Brunonians 
would give a good account of themselves 
in Ivy League grid circles ne.xt Fall. 

Charter members are Jarvis H. Alger 
'43. Carl W. Atwood '10, Willard H. Ba- 
con '00, Charles H. Bechtold "41, Provost 
Zenas R. Bliss '18, F. Oliver Brown '27, 
Leroy F. Burroughs '12, Henry Capasso 
'38, E. Kenneth Carpenter '29, Henry G. 
Carpenter '06, Norman S. Case "08, 
Nathaniel B. Chase "23, George C. Crans- 
ton '26. David Curtis '43, T. Charles 
Dansie '31. Arthur A. Denico '04, Dr. 
Samuel R. Damon '16. James Doran, Jr., 
'33, Dr. Frederick C. Eckel '39. Edmund 
J. Farrell '30. Louis J. Ferando '55. Wil- 
liam M. Eraser '19, Denison W. Greene 
'24, Barrett M. Gross '57. John E. C. 
Hall '27. Robert W. Hamilton '17, Arthur 
S. Hassell '26, Clifford S. Hathaway "15. 



Joseph M. Hastings '33, Frederick R. 
Hazard '14. George N. Hazard '13, Wal- 
lace H. Henshaw '23, Herbert M. Hofford 
'23. Joseph W. Ince "02. Joseph C. John- 
son '40GS. William A. Kelly "50, Howard 
A. Kenyon "22, Robert W. Leonard '38. 
Everett M. Lewis '28, Albert E. Lownes 
"20. E. John Lownes '23. Elmer G. Mac- 
Dowell '14. Paul C. MacKay '26. Thomas 
M. Maines '49. Arthur E. Miller '22, 
Joseph Miller '15, Paul E. Monahan '31. 
Gilbert Morgan '37. Charles V. Mulhol- 
land '52, Joseph B. Munro, Jr.. '52, Henry 



He Applied from Bologna 

When the South County Brown 
Club was formed in Rhode Island 
this spring, one application for 
membership came from more than 
4000 miles away. Louis J. Ferando 
"55 is a student in the Faculty of 
Medicine at Bologna University: 
he"s on the list of charter members. 

"I was the youngest graduate 
present at the first get-together 
dinner of South County alumni in 
the spring of 1957." he wrote 
President Herbert M. Hoflford '23. 
"While I don't know the rules re- 
garding admission. I hope to qualify 
for membership in the Club as a 
native of Westerly. Having to re- 
main here to complete my studies. 
I would still be limited as to active 
participation, but I enclose two 
dollars for dues, my only bit of 
American money. 

"1 read of your plans for a meet- 
ing on May 8 in the Brown Alumni 
Monthly, and I decided to write. 
Although I recently had the oppor- 
tunity to see Prof. Henry Capasso 
'38 and his family here in Bologna, 
my only contact with Brown ordi- 
narily is the magazine." 



S. Newcombe '15, Earl P. Perkins '12, 
Cornelius W. Provost '49. Wilbur L. Rice 
'18. Howard T. Richards '27, Winthrop H. 
Richardson '29, Robert F. Rodman, Jr., 
'24, Harold G. Rogers '27, Melvin Sawin 
"14. Wilfred E. Seymour '27, Foster R. 
Sheldon '31. Benjamin H. Slade '18, Ed- 
ward W. Smith '20, Frank C. Speck '18, 
William G. Thurber '15, Charles W. "Van- 
Benschoten '27. Joseph J. Westlake '54, 
and Charles L. Woolley '14. 

The officers of the new Brown Club are: 
President — Herbert M. Hofford; Secretary 
— Foster R. Sheldon; Treasurer — Harold 
G. Rogers. 

The Dean in Detroit 

In spite of torrential rains that left 
many of the streets in the area flooded, 35 
persons attended the Michigan Brown 
Club Dinner honoring Dean Charles H. 
Watts. II. "47, on May 20. 

For many of us, this was our first oppor- 
tunity to meet the Dean. His intelligent 
and informative talk was well received by 
the Brown and Pembroke alumni and 
alumnae as well as the undergraduates, 
Sub-Freshmen, and their parents. Ken 
Brown "22. one of our most active sup- 
porters, arranged to have the dinner held 
at the Grosse Pointe Yacht Club, and the 
atmosphere, as well as the excellent quality 
of the food and service, helped to make 
this one of our most successful gatherings. 

We hope that more Club members, and 
their social and business friends, can get 
to our monthly meetings, held the third 
Friday of every month, at noon, at the 
University Club, 1411 E. Jefferson. De- 
troit. 

Those attending the dinner in honor of 
Dean Watts included: Dean Watts, R. J. 
Selleck "51 and wife, R. A. Grout "42 and 
wife. Jack Hocking '46 and wife, Ken 
Brown "22 and wife. J. R. Welchli '50, 
R. Schweitzer '52 and guest, J. W. Sanders 
"26. Wm. M. Browne "25, J. S. Foley '25 
and wife, S. Harlan "52. O. P. Beauvais 
"18 and wife. R. F. Shiffer '57. D. Hes- 
senthaler '56, J. Freedman '26. O. Ander- 
son '27 and wife, J. A. Herrmann and 
wife, G. A. Kiernan '39, Howard Shaw 
"39, James Manilla, football coach at 
Royal Oak. and his wife, and three Sub- 
Freshmen. 

RICHARD ,T. SELLECK '51 



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Caito Succeeds Tarpy 

Cal Hubbard, former professional 
football player and Major League um- 
pire, was the featured speaker at the an- 
nual spring dinner of the Rhode Island 
Brown Club. Also on hand as guests were 
the three Seniors who won the Club's 
scholarships as Freshmen — Don Warbur- 
ton, John Cronin, and Anthony Maggia- 
como. 

Martin Tarpy '37, outgoing President, 
announced that the program of holding 
pre-game picnics under the big top at 
Aldrich Field would be continued this 
fall for the games with Columbia on 
Sept. 26. Rhode Island on Oct. 24, and 
Harvard (Homecoming) on Nov. 14. 
There will be no tent before the morning 
game with Colgate on Thanksgiving Day. 

The new officers are as follows: Presi- 
dent — Maury Caito '34; Vice-President — 
Richard B. Pretat '45: Secretary — Ray- 
mond F. Noonan '36: Treasurer — William 
H. McCraw '50: Assistant Treasurer — 
Alfred S. Reynolds '48. 

The Executive Committee includes: 
John Bateman '46, Donald Campbell '45, 
Allen Chatterton '51, Eben S. Church '40, 
Paul Connly '36, Alexander A. DiMar- 
tino '29. Parker S. Dupouy '39, J. Rich- 
mond Fales '10, William Goldberg '32, 
Walter Jusczyk '41, Ed Kiely '50, James 
Lodge '46, David Meehan '47, Lewis 
Milner '02. Clinton Owen '29, Ernest Sa- 
vignano '42, Donald Sennott '52, Stuart 
Sherman '39. Joseph S. Thompson '33, 
Matthew E. Ward '35. Bruce Williamson 
'49. 

Thompson was toastmaster for the din- 
ner, one of the best attended in recent 
years. Another principal was Joseph Ol- 
ney '36. who ran the golf tourney and 
handed out both prizes and persiflage. A 
comprehensive on the Club's successful 
year was distributed to the members. 



Election in Cincinnati 

Charles Whelan '51, with the Sales 
Department of Hilton-Hawley Co., was 
elected President of the Cincinnati Brown 
Club at its annual spring meeting. Other 
officers elected include: Vice-President — 
Jim Stoehr '51: Secretary — Thomas H. 
Simon "54: Treasurer — Bob Anderson '51. 
The members of the Club gave a rising 
vote of thanks to the former President, 
Lanford Barrows, and the former Treas- 
urer, Robert Boole. 

The Sub-Freshmen program in Cincin- 
nati is picking up steam. A very successful 
dinner-meeting was held early in May at 
which there was a large turnout of alumni 
and 20 top high school Juniors and their 
Guidance Directors. Slides and movies of 
Brown were shown, and a question and 
answer period about the University fol- 
lowed. 

THOMAS H. SIMON '54 



Philadelphia Turned Out 

The 90th Annual Banquet of the 
Philadelphia Brown Club on Apr. 20 at- 
tracted the largest gathering in the past 
six years. More than 100 alumni and 
guests attended the affair held at the Bar- 
clay Mirage Room and heard Brown's 
President Keeney and Pembroke's Dean 
Nancy Duke Lewis report on the situation 
on the Hill. 

Don Rubel '23 performed his tasks as 
toastmaster in a most gracious and thought- 
ful way. And, in addition to their fine 



talks, the President and Dean Lewis made 
it a point to stop and say a few words 
with nearly everyone there. Unfortunately, 
our two guests, Arthur Homer and San- 
ford Sistare, were both indisposed at the 
last minute. Another illness announced 
during the program got the biggest laugh 
of the evening — our Sub-Freshmen Chair- 
man, York King, was unable to attend 
because he had come down that afternoon 
with the mumps. 

The Brown exhibits provided by the 
office of Secretary Howard Curtis added 
immensely to the atmosphere and success 
of the evening. The Banquet Committee 
consisted of Chairman Robert W. John- 
stone. Malcolm Mackenzie, and Bertram 
Wolfson. 

Newcomer Down East 

The Coast of Maine Brown Club has 
been officially organized and William P. 
Burnham '07 has been installed as its first 
President. Other officers include: Execu- 
tive Vice-President and Steward — Lawson 
M. Aldrich '33: Secretary-Treasurer — Don- 
ald Dike '15; Vice-President for Bar Har- 



bor and Northern District — Philip C. Cur- 
tis '11: Vice-President for Southern District 
—Robert S. Curley '07. 

President Burnham reports that the Club 
will operate "mostly in the summer." A 
series of three meetings had been set up by 
June. The first of these was a Shore Din- 
ner at County Fare, Damariscotta, Me., on 
Saturday, July 18, at 1:30 p.m., with "feats 
of both strength and intellect on the 
agenda." For those who miss this affair 
(and those who want more), the program 
will be repeated on Saturday, Aug. 22. 
Then, on Saturday, Sept. 19, a Club 
Luncheon will be held at the Unity Inn, 
Town of Burnham, 35 miles from Belfast. 
The program, which will get under way at 
12 noon, will include championship horse- 
shoe pitching, championship contests in 
both rifle and skeet shooting, canoe races, 
and a quiz contest which all can enter. 

All Brown men and their relatives and 
friends are invited to these events. Reser- 
vations should be made at least two weeks 
in advance by contacting President Burn- 
ham at Burnham's Woods, Box 50, Squir- 
rel Island, Me., or Secretary Donald Dike 
at Boothbay Harbor, Me. 




PHILADELPHIA'S Admissions Committee hod a May party for the students admitted to Brown with the 

Class of 1963. The committeemen: Chairman York A. King, Jr., '34, Host William H. Shupert '22, Charles 

Williams '27, Gray Andrews '51, Robert King '50, and Graham Michael '50. Some of the guests are 

seen below, photographed when the rain let up long enough to get outdoors. 




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DALLAS ALUMNI surrounded their annual meeting with informal fun. Some who may be identified are: 
John Hannan '53, Larry Hochberg '51, Al Lolly '50, Horry Williams '99, and Ed Petersen '23. 



Glee Club Plans in Texas 

Wesby Parker '24, President of the Dr. 
Pepper Bottling Co. of Dallas, was elected 
President of the Dallas Brown Club at a 
business meeting on May 17. Other officers 
elected include: Vice-President — Alfred 
Hooper '49; Secretary-Treasurer — Robert 
C. Lunn '54. 

A committee consisting of the newly- 
elected officers as well as Ed Petersen '23, 
Coburn Buxton '34, and John R. Caldow 
'20 was appointed to discuss the proposed 
visit to Dallas of the Brown Glee Club, 
tentatively scheduled for the spring of 
1960. In other business, the group voted 
to establish yearly dues in the amount of 
$2.00 to defray the expense of stationery 
and postage. 

Present at the meeting, which was held 
at the home of Coburn Buxton, were: 
George Blome "53, John Hannan '53, 
Larry Hochberg '51 and his date, Frank 
Pierce '51 and his wife and two children, 



Harry Williams "99, Petersen '23 along 
with Mrs. Petersen, Lunn and his wife 
Judy, and Al Hooper "49 and his wife and 
three children. 

Schenectady Welcome 
Dean Charles Watts was the guest 
speaker at the spring meeting of the Brown 
Club of Northeastern New York. Twenty- 
one alumni attended the affair, which was 
held at the Mohawk Golf Club in Sche- 
nectady on May 15. 

Dean Watts' clear and forthright state- 
ments concerning Brown"s aims and ambi- 
tions and the realistic chance of accom- 
plishing these ends were a source of great 
satisfaction to the alumni present. Presi- 
dent Dick Bracket! reported on the success 
of the concert by the Brown University 
Glee Club, when the Club Treasury was 
enhanced by $100. 

Ed Laughlin reported that 17 alumni 
had accepted the responsibility of acting 



Back Cover Overflow 

Expanding alumni activity is re- 
flected in the crowded situation in 
the directory of Brown Club Secre- 
taries listed on the back cover of 
this issue. Some of the less active 
groups have had to be omitted from 
that compilation but are noted be- 
low. 

Brown Clubs of record appear in 
the following communities, which we 
list as a supplement: Akron — Robert 
C. Graham '40, 1432 Sand Run Rd., 
Akron 13, O. Bridgeport — Ralph J. 
Lockwood "25, 1115 Main St. Cen- 
tral Pennsvlvania — James B. Sisk 
"31. Belle Alto, RD 3, Wernersville. 
Coast of Maine — Donald Dike '15, 
Boothbay Harbor. Kansas City — 
L. F. P. Curry '18, 117 West Rubey, 
Independence, Mo. Northwest — Paul 
B. Edes '28, Grinnell Co., 3101 El- 
liott Ave., Seattle 1. Oklahoma — 
Edwin J. Schermerhorn '34, 2824 
So. Columbia PI., Tulsa 5. Phoenix 
—Arthur L. Flagg '06, 29 West 
Holly St.. Phoenix, Ariz. Woon- 
socket — Himan M. Caslowitz '28, 
529 Prospect St., Woonsocket. 
Yoiingstown — Richard B. Wilson 
'12, 304 Dollar Bank Bldg., Youngs- 
town 3, O. 

In all cases, 1959 graduates and 
other newcomers are urged to make 
overtures to the local officers to 
learn of Brown Club programs in 
their areas. 



as representatives of the Club in the 17 
secondary schools in the area. 

Those attending the meeting were as 
follows: R. Brackett, Lloyd Briggs, Earl 
Bucci. Lucian Drury, Philip Hawkes, T. S. 
Krawiec, E. Laughlin, Jay Mann, Warren 
Miller, Lewis Sumberg, William Town- 
send, Alan Rothschild, Dean Siebert, Tom 
McCormick, Norton Falls, David Foster, 
J. Kenneth Graham, Davis Jackson, Carl 
Martin, Albion Eckert, and R. Brown. 
LEWIS sumberg '34 



Tucson's New Slate 
Charles W. Towne '97 delivered a 
real valedictory at the annual meeting of 
the Tucson Brown Club in May as he 
turned over the duties of Club President 
to John W. Anthony '45. Hank Pilote '43 
was named Vice-President, while the loy- 
alty of Pembrokers was recognized by 
electing Doris (Purnell) Frederick '33 as 
a member of the Executive Board. 

Watson Smith '19 entertained, as usual, 
with cocktails in the patio of his hom.e, 
where members of the Club also had din- 
ner. Entertainment from College Hill con- 
sisted of the latest Brown Newsreel and 
pictures of the successful football season. 
Edwin L. Read, Jr.. '35 was welcomed 
with open arms as the newest member of 
the Club. He made the smart move from 
the Windy City to the Sunshine City. 

Other Brown men and Pembrokers who 
enjoved the round-up were Dr. Milton 
Goldberger '24, the Rev. William J. Phil- 
lips '12, Brad Moore '19, Lou Farber "29. 
Bill Schinnerer '26, George Thurman '50. 
Helen (Moscicki) Trifan '41, Rachel 
(Brent) Burkholder '44, Arline Anthony 
'44, and Barbara Johnson '55. 

PAUL A. WILLIAMS '26 



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"No. 1 Team" in New Haven 

One of the largest alumni gatherings in 
several years was on hand to greet Presi- 
dent Keeney and Dean Lewis April 30 
when the New Haven area Brown and 
Pembroke Clubs held a joint Spring dinner 
meeting. 

Nearly 150 Brown and Pembroke grads 
gave "the No. 1 Team" from Providence 
a warm ovation both before and after their 
remarks. Ben Chase '38 was toastmaster 
for the event, held for the first time in the 
new Les Shaw Restaurant, just off the 
Wilbur Cross Parkway. 

President Keeney's talk on "What is the 
Educated Man?" was most favorably re- 
ceived by the audience and was reported at 
length, with pictures, in both morning and 
afternoon New Haven papers the follow- 
ing day. Keeney decried "safeness" in 
American education and declared that 
education is really no education at all if it 
is designed to indoctrinate, or train, some- 
one to be either "for" or "against" some- 
thing. He said the educated man is, in a 
sense, a "dangerous" man since all his life 
he will be comparing his knowledge with 
his beliefs — and changing the latter ac- 
cordingly. 

He said that the educated man can save 
or destroy the world — but the chance that 
he may do the former is well worth taking. 

Dean Lewis spoke of the difficulty of 
selecting college students from the great 
number available and warned of dangers 
which may ensue from increasing competi- 
tion to get into college. 

Present at the head table with the speak- 
ers were Fred Armstrong '23, Brown Club 
President, and Mrs. Raymond Zagraniski, 
Pembroke Club President; John D. Con- 
nelly, chairman of the dinner arrange- 
ments for Brown and Mrs. Henry Rohde, 
chairman of dinner arrangements for Pem- 
broke. 

At a brief business meeting, the follow- 
ing new officers were elected by the Brown 
Club: Vincent Carangelo '48, President; 
John D. Connelly '32, Vice-President; 
Jerome Gratenstein '36, Secretary; and 
Robert W. Carangelo '50, Treasurer. 

ALVIN V. SIZER '36 

Anniversary in Hingham 

The South Shore Brown Club cele- 
brated its first anniversary with a dinner- 
meeting at the Community Center in 
Hingham on May 11. President Bob San- 
derson reviewed the Club's maiden year 
activities, and then introduced John Mc- 




NEW HAVEN HEADTABLE foursome when the Brown Club held its spring meeting. Left to right— Fred 

Armstrong '23, Brown Club President; Mrs. Raymond Zagraniski, President of the Pembroke Alumnae. 

Club; Dean Lewis of Pembroke; and President Keeney. 



Laughry, who previewed the 1959 football 
season on the Hill. Prof. Elmer Blistein 
of Brown's English Department added in- 
tellectual spice to the program with a 
dissertation on "Cruelty and Comedy," 
and Alumni Secretary Bill McCormick 
brought best wishes from the Campus. 

Forty members from the entire South 
Shore area attended and reelected the in- 
cumbent officers for another year. They 
are: President — Bob Sanderson '27; Vice- 
President — 1. A. "Shine" Hall '39; Secre- 
tary — Preston Barry '49; Treasurer — John 
Andrev/s '43. 

PRESTON BARRY '49 

Cleveland Picnic Coming 

The annual election meeting of the 
Cleveland Brown Club was held at the 
University Club on May 15. After a fine 
roast beef dinner. President Harry Hoff- 
man '25 reviewed the past year of his 
tenure in office, which has been the most 
active for the Cleveland Brown Club in 
many years. Harry was unanimously re- 
elected President for another one-year 
term. Theodore B. Selover, Jr., '52 was 
elected Secretary. 

Roy H. Smith, Jr., '34 gave a brief talk 
on the activities of the Alumni Admissions 
Committee. 







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FIRST ANNIVERSARY of the South Shore Brown Club was the occasion of a dinner in Hingham, Mass., 

on May H. The head table, left to right: Russ Holliday '26, Bob Sanderson '26, John McLoughry '40, 

Charles Mullen '39, and William McCormick '23. Photo by Torrey Capo. 



The next scheduled affair for The Brown 
Club will be the second annual picnic in 
late August at the home of Roger Young 
in Hunting Valley for the particular bene- 
fit of the undergraduates and entering 
Freshmen. 

A Reunion in Andover 

The Merrimack Valley Brown Club 
held its spring meeting in the South Con- 
gregational Church in Andover on May 
8. The affair attracted 50 people, including 
a number of Pembroke alumnae, parents, 
wives, and guests. 

Greenville Benedict, Dean of Students 
at Andover, discussed the complexities of 
the college admissions picture. Miss Jane 
Baltzell, Pembroke '55, told the group of 
her experiences during her two years at 
Cambridge University. Rounding out the 
program was Prof. George B. Borts of the 
Brown Economics Department, recipient 
of a Ford Foundation grant for study of 
regional economic development. He talked 
of current interests in this field. 

The Brown men present were: Fred 
Cofer '48. James S. Eastham '19. Rudy 
Goodman '39, Richard H. Moody '50, 
Ralph Wirtz '50. Nel L. Brody '31, Robert 
S. Brody '57, Edward S. Rowland '54, Ar- 
thur Dallon '52, Robert Hambleton '47, 
James Cantor '29, M. H. Robinson '29, 
W. F. Sullivan '15, Richard W. Allen '22, 
and Thomas R. Hadfield '24. 

Newport Picks Its Team 

At a special meeting of the Officers 
and Board of Governors of the Brown 
Club of Newport County on May 4, the 
following standing committees were 
named: Membership — Chairman Harold 
Dorkin. Sam Friedman, and Walter Mey. 
University and Alumni Association — 
Chairman Salvatore Virgadamo, E. J. 
Corcoran, Roy Grinnell, and B. Kusinitz. 
Meetings and Entertainment — Chairman 
Lewis Abramson. Ned Corcoran, and Tom 
Moses. Finance and Audit — Chairman 
Louis P. Virgadamo. and G. Teitz. Sec- 
ondary Schools — Chairman Peter Don- 
nelly, Nick Logothets, and Alton Karoli. 
Public Relations — Chairman David Leys, 
and Frank Greene. 



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73 




OFFICERS of the Brown Club of Central New York, flanking Coach McLaughry at their spring meeting 

in Syracuse. Left to right: Robert F. Conley '49, Treasurer; George A. Wilcox '52, Secretary; Harry G. 

Remington '27, President; and Eorie C. Drake '24, Executive Committee. 



91st Year in New York 

John J. McLaughry '40, new Head 
Coach of Football, was the principal 
speaker at the 91st Annual New York 
Dinner sponsored by the New York Brown 
Club on May 5th. As a departure from 
previous years, the Dinner was held at the 
Clubhouse rather in a hotel. 

Members gathered in the Great Hall at 
6:00 for a reception followed by dinner at 
7:30. Speakers included Club President 
Charles E. Hughes. 3rd. "37 and Chancellor 
Harold B. Tanner "09, who presented greet- 
ings from the University. Director of 
Athletics Paul Mackesey '32 introduced 
Coach McLaughry, who gave a warmly 
received address. 

From College Hill came also Alumni 
Secretary William B. McCormick '23 and 
Secretary of the University Howard S. 
Curtis. C. Manton Eddy '22, President- 
elect of the Associated Alumni, came from 
Hartford to pay official respects for that 
organization. 

MILTON BORST '50 



Other important news in the area is the 
formation of an Ivy League Club for the 
Syracuse area. Many of the Brown Club 
members are in the new organization, and 
Margeson was elected its first Chairman. 
Several activities are being planned for 
the fall. 

Cape Cod's Slate 

WiNTHRDP Wh.bur, Jr., '53, Was elected 
President of the Cape Cod Brown-Pem- 
broke Club at the annual spring dinner- 
meeting held at Armand's Restaurant, Hy- 
annis, on Apr. 15. Other officers elected 
were: Vice-President — Walter Fish, Jr., 
'49; Secretary — Mrs. Hinckley Thacher 
'31. 

Close to 50 members of the Brown fam- 



ily turned out to hear our new head foot- 
ball coach, John McLaughry '40, give a 
detailed picture of his prospects for the 
1959 season. John also brought greetings 
from the University and spoke briefly 
about the entire athletic program. 



Pittsburgh Picks Hooton 

John R. Hooton '51 was elected Pres- 
ident of the Pittsburgh Brown Club at its 
annual meeting on May 7 at the Univer- 
sity Club. Other officers elected are: First 
Vice-President — William Barton '45: Sec- 
ond Vice-President — James R. Gorham 
'54; Treasurer — H. A. Bartlett '51; Secre- 
tary — George E. Hotton '55. 

The head football coach, John Mc- 
Laughry, was our guest. He traced his 
reasons for coming to Brown and told of 
some of his plans for the 1959 season. 
Later in the evening John commented on 
the film, "Brown Football Highlights of 
1958." This is an excellent film, with 
sound track, and we recommend it for 
use by all Brown Clubs. 

Those attending included: L. F. Demm- 
ler '31 and his wife, James R. Gorham 
'54 and his wife, John R. Hooton "51 and 
his wife. H. A. Bartlett '51 and his wife, 
S. K. Haskell '37 and his wife, Morris 
Brown '19 and his wife, Robert Schaper 
'41 and his wife. Jack Brookfield '27, 
Robert Hackett '40, Richard K. Gage '51, 
Charles Leveroni '52, and John Mc- 
Laughry '40. 

HARLAN A. BARTLETT '5 1 



Mackenzie Named Justice 



(Borst this summer completed his term 
as Executive Secretary of the Brown Club 
in New York. The Board of Governors 
has appointed Miss Christine Dunlop. 
Pembroke '48, to move to his desk and 
duties at the Clubhouse at 39 E. 39th St. 
Borst has been an able, effective officer.) 



A Great Washington Reunion 

Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn '93 gave 
the Washington alumni one of their most 
delightful gatherings in the spring when 
he spoke before the Brown Club there. 
He attracted his old admirers and made 
new ones with a philosophical talk. Pres- 
ident Keeney also contributed to the great 
success of the annual banquet, held at the 
Occidental Restaurant on Apr. 21, by 
bringing the latest from the Campus. Pres- 
ident Richard Phillips "50 was in the chair 
but delegated to Thomas G. Corcoran "22 
the privilege of introducing the speakers, 
which he handled with grace and wit. 

A directory of alumni in the Club ter- 
ritory went out to the Club mailing list in 
June, a comprehensive and useful listing 
of several hundred men, categorized as 
"active," "inactive," and "rumored to be 
in the area." 

Heads Both Syracuse Clubs 
William Margeson '37 has been 
elected President of the Brown Club of 
Central New York. Other officers elected 
include: Vice-President — Robert S. Con- 
ley '48; Treasurer — George A. Wilcox 
'52; Secretary — ^Terry Townsend '52. 



A SURPRISE but popular nominee by Gov- 
ernor Del Sesto, William M. Mac- 
kenzie '31 became an Associate Justice of 
the R. I. Superior Court in April. The 
Pawtucket attorney had been proposed in 
an advisory screening by a committee of 
the R. I. Bar Association. The State Senate 
readily confirmed the Governor's nomina- 
tion. 

Mackenzie, a member of the firm of 
Goodman, Mackenzie, Gorin, and Blease, 
had long been active in civic and com- 
munity affairs in the Blackstone Valley. 
He is a graduate of Harvard Law School 
(1934), admitted to the Bar 25 years ago. 
He was Probate Judge of Central Falls 
from 1935 to 1937 and Town Solicitor for 
Lincoln from 1952 to 1955. He has been 
a member of the Massachusetts Bar as 
well and of the U. S. Court for the District 
of Rhode Island and the U. S. Court of 
Appeals for the First Circuit. 

From 1943 to 1946 he served as a Navy 
Lieutenant, acting as convoy and routing 
officer for the Port Director in New 
Guinea and Borneo. 

Judge Mackenzie is a Trustee of the 
Pawtucket Boys' Club and Pawtucket Con- 
gregational Church, a former Trustee of 
Moses Brown School, Vice-President of 
the Estate Planning Council of R. I., Past 
President of the Family Service Society of 
Pawtucket and Vicinity, Past President of 
the Blackstone Valley Area, Boy Scouts of 
America, Vice-President of the St. An- 
drew's Society of R. I., and Secretary of 
the To Kalon Club of Pawtucket. 

His wife, Louise Barr Mackenzie is an 
Associate Professor of English at Wheaton 




and a former graduate student at Brown. 
Their son will be a Brown Senior this year. 
Judge Mackenzie has joined six other 
Brown graduates on the R. I. Bench: 
G. Frederick Frost '96 and Thomas J. 
Paolino '28 of the Supreme Court: Louis 
W. Cappelli '16, Presiding Justice of the 
Superior Court, and Fred B. Perkins '19, 
Frank Licht '38. and Joseph R. Weisberger 
'42. Associate Justices of the Superior 
Court. 



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MANNING: 

Among the Earliest 
to Use the Chapel 



INCIDENTALLY," we said, when we were 
writing in March about the restoration 
of Manning Chapel and its rededication 
as a center of the religious life of the 
Brown community, "it is available . . . 
upon application to the Chaplain, for wed- 
dings and christenings." How well that 
suggestion was received may be indicated 
in a look at the register in the first few 
months; 

The distinction of being first went to 
J. T. Romans, a graduate student, who 
was married to Miss Jo Ann Jacobson on 
Mar. 28, with the Rev. Robert F. Stevens 
officiating. Two days later, the first alum- 
nus groom was Roger Marsell '57, mar- 
ried by the Rev. Richard Manzelmann to 
Miss Carolyn Mayo. Robert Blakeley, who 
received his Master's degree this year, 
married Miss Sylvia Thorley, the ceremony 
being performed by the Rev. Sam H. 
Newcomer, E.xecutive Secretary of the Uni- 
versity Christian Association. 

The largest wedding was that of Miss 
Francine Lanpher, staff artist of the Brown 
Photo Lab who was sentimental enough 
about her association with the University 
to want to be married in Manning Chapel. 
She is the daughter of Lawrence Lanpher 
'23 and Mrs. Lanpher; the Rev. George 
D. Langdon officiated at a lovely ceremony 
on May 23 when she married William 
Compton. Everything conspired to make 
this memorable to all. 

The first baptism in Manning Chapel 
occurred on Apr. 19. Deborah Jane Steen, 
born Jan. 2, 1957, is the daughter of Har- 
old R. Steen '51 and the former Velma 
Jane Walpole, Pembroke '50. The clergy- 
man was the Rev. Howard Olsen '38. 

The Rev. James R. Kelley '56 came 
back to the Campus for his ordination on 
June 14, another first. Having received his 
B.D. from Andover Newton on May 25, he 
was ordained by the R. I. Congregational 
Conference and goes to Mount Hermon 
School as Chaplain and Instructor in the 
Department of Religion. 

The participants in the service repre- 
sented Kelley s recent affiliations: The In- 
vocation was given by the Rev. Dr. Fred- 
erick M. Meek, Minister of the Old South 
Church in Boston, where Kelley had 
served for two years on the staff. There 
was a prayer by the Rev. Dr. Lawrence L. 
Durgin, Minister of the Central Congrega- 
tional Church in Providence (of which 
Kelley has been a member) and Chairman 
of the Committee on Christian Higher 
Education of the Congregational Christian 
Churches. Brown's Chaplain, the Rev. 
Charles A. Baldwin, gave the sermon, while 
the charge was given by the Rev. James 
Rae Whyle, Minister of the Northfield 
Schools. Lessons were read by the Rev. 
Dr. Wallace Forgen, Professor of the An- 
dover Newton Theological School, and 
Robert C. Dana, a classmate of Kelley 
there. The Right Hand of Fellowship was 
extended by the Rev. J. Wesley Prince, 
Chairman of the Committee on Credential 
of the R. I. Conference. 




THE REV. JAMES R. KELLEY '56 



Haec Diplomata 

THE Latin which traditionally ends each 
honorary degree citation at Brown is 
awaited with a curious interest each June, 
where once it was accepted as a perfunc- 
tory touch of the antique. Although the 
English portions of the citations appear 
elsewhere in this issue, we should here re- 
fer to the Latin, if only for the record. 

For years, the wording was constant: 
"Auctoritate mihi commissa te ad gradum 
. . . admitto, omnisque jura ac privilegia 
ad hunc gradum pertinentia, tibi concedo. 
In testimonium hoc diploma tibi solem- 
niter trado." Of late, however, the final 
phrase has been adapted to the individual 
recipient of the degree. (For the reasons 
and the rest of the story, we refer you 
back to our July issue a year ago.) 

The Brothers Stephens, side by side on 
the platform, heard: "In testimonium haec 
diplomata vobis duabus manibus dis- 
tribuo." To Donald Millar on his 40th 
anniversary of graduation, it was "Tibi 
hoc die fausto dedo." To others, it was 
"Tibi bona voluntate do," "Tibi animo 
Optimo dedo." "Tibi gravitate summa do," 



and "Tibi rite trado." Only one was sin- 
gled out for the once-familiar, "Tibi solem- 
niter trado," Henry Chafee. 

John Gardner received his degree 
"summa amicitia" and John Walker "rite." 
The associations of the Goddard family 
had an echo in the phrase "spe reaedifi- 
cata." Dr. Bergethon, Dean become Presi- 
dent, whose citation had already been 
illuminated with affectionate humor, heard 
that his degree was bestowed "tarn pater- 
niter quam fraterniter." 



Gerry, Ress, 
and Aldrich 



THE Corporation of Brown University 
on May 31 elected Winthrop W. Al- 
drich and Joseph W. Ress '26 as members 
of its Board of Trustees, while re-electing 
Louis C. Gerry. All are residents of Prov- 
idence. The elections were in addition to 
two Alumni Trustees, nominated by the 
Associated Alumni. Aldrich and Ress 
were named for seven-year terms, while 
Gerry's new term will be for three years. 

Aldrich, former United States Ambas- 
sador to Great Britain and New York 
banker, like others in his family has taken 
an active interest in the University's af- 
fairs. He received an honorary LL.D. 
from Brown in 1944, which cited among 
other distinctions his work in organizing 
and leading the National War Fund as 
President. He has had a notable career in 
the world of finance, supplemented by 
extensive public and philanthropic serv- 
ice. He was formerly President of the 
Equitable Trust Co. and Chairman of the 
Board of the Chase National Bank of 
New York. Named Ambassador to the 
Court of St. James by President Eisen- 
hower in 1953, he served there for four 
years. He has been associated with many 
philanthropic and educational organiza- 
tions in the New York area. He is a 
graduate of Harvard College and Law 
School. 

Ress is President and Treasurer of 
E. A. Adams & Son, Inc., and of D. M. 
Watkins Co., both manufacturers of jew- 
elry findings. A Harvard Law School 
graduate in 1929, he practiced law in 
Providence as a member of the Rhode 
Island Bar for a period before taking up 
manufacturing. He is a former Trustee of 
the Brown University Fund. Chairman of 
the Rhode Island Charities Trust since 
1950, he was formerly President of Mir- 
iam Hospital and a Director of the Provi- 
dence Community Fund. He has served 
as officer and board member of numerous 
charitable and civic agencies in the Prov- 
idence area. 

Gerry has served with distinction on 
the Corporation, to which he returns after 
a year's absence. He was one of the most 
valued workers and advisors, at various 
times participating in the duties of the 
Advisory and Executive Committee, Com- 
mittee on Comprehensive Planning and 
Development of University Property, and 
Finance Committee. A Dartmouth grad- 
uate, he received an honorary degree 
from Brown in 1947. He has been prom- 
inent in business and finance in Provi- 
dence, where his civic activities have in- 
cluded the presidency of the Rhode 
Island Hospital. 



JULY 1959 



75 



For a Brown Bookshelf 



EDITED BY ELMER M. BLISTEIN '42 



SUNSET COX, IRREPRESSIBLE DEM- 
OCRAT, by David Lindsey. Wayne 
University Press. 

SAMUEL S. Cox, 1846, gained the nick- 
name which was to prove such an 
asset when the Ohio Daily Statesman, 
which he edited, carried a florid, front- 
page description of "A Great Old Sunset" 
in 1853. It also won the young lawyer an 
entry into politics, and thereby onto the 
national scene. He had shown a predilec- 
tion in this regard both at Ohio University, 
his first college, and at Brown, and in 
"Memories of Brown" one finds several 
contemporary anecdotes of his activities. 

He served eight years in Congress from 
Ohio, attempting to halt the tide toward 
the War between the States: he later 
served many years as a Representative 
from New York. "Champion of many 
causes," says Lindsey, "he fought for 
lenient treatment of the South in Recon- 
struction, lower tariffs, a better Navy and 
Merchant Marine, a vigorous foreign pol- 
icy, and won reputation as the champion 
in Congress of the United States Life Sav- 
ing Service (forerunner of the Coast 
Guard) and as "The Letter Carriers" 
Friend." After his death the National As- 
sociation of Letter Carriers erected a statue 
of him in Astor Place in New York. He 
was Minister to Turkey for a year, too, 
about the time Brown gave him an honor- 
ary LL.D. 

Cox was in great demand as a popular 
lecturer, wrote a dozen books, and was 
regarded as a great humorist and story- 
teller. He was headed that way even as an 
undergraduate, for they used to describe 
one conversation with President Wayland. 
Even then, they were trying to keep stu- 
dents off the grass, and Cox paid no at- 
tention to paths or signs. When Wayland 
caught him in a violation, he said to the 
Ohio boy, "Why did you disregard my 
orders?" Cox replied, "Well, sir, the only 
reason I can think of is that I come from 
a State where there is more grass than 
gravel." Relaxing, Dr. Wayland remarked. 
"Young man, I expect we shall hear from 
you after you leave here." 

We're still hearing from Cox, thanks to 
David Lindsey. He's found a lively subject 
for a lively book. 

SONGS AND DANCES FOR THE 
STUART MASQUE, by A. I. Sabol '41. 
172 pages. Brown University Press. $4. 

The English court masque (1603-1640) 
is better known to literary students by 
reputation than personal acquaintance. In 
most masques the subjects seem fantastic 
or trivial, the poetry banal and insipid (a 
notable exception being Milton's Coinus). 
But reading a masque as literature is com- 
parable to reading the libretto of a modern 
musical extravaganza. The masque was a 
compound of elaborate costumes, spectacu- 
lar staging, poetry, singing, and dancing, 
with particular emphasis on the latter. 
Though it embraced dramatic elements 
and influenced the drama, the masque had 
an independent existence as an aristocratic 
art form related to the masqued ball. The 



masque as literature has received far more 
scholarly attention than its music. Until 
now widely representative examples of the 
music have not been readily accessible. 

Mr. Sabol has filled a genuine need in 
this edition, which consists of the bulk of 
extant masque songs (38) and selected 
dances (24). For the convenience of the 
musical layman he has transcribed all the 
music according to modern notational 
rules, with piano accompaniments, either 
arranged from the original lute accom- 
paniments, or provided for items which 
had only an unfigured bass in the originals. 
For each item full notes describe the music 
as it appears in the source as well as any 
notational problems and emendations. An 
introduction outlines the characteristic 
musical structure of the masque and pro- 
vides commentary on instrumentation, 
types of songs, and vocalists, as well as a 
critical history of masque music through 
a survey of the composers (e.g. Campion, 
Ferrabosco, Henry and William Lawes, 
and others). 

Of primary interest is the music itself, 
which ranges in form from simple strophic 
solos to elaborate antiphonal choruses and 
in mood from meditative to triumphant. 
In the introduction Mr. Sabol aptly char- 
acterizes most of the songs and highlights 
those of particular interest, though he 
tends to make several sound more interest- 
ing than performance might warrant. The 
most appealing have a haunting wistful- 
ness reminiscent of the harmonies of 
"Greensleeves." On first hearing, the 
simpler, more lyrical songs of earlier 
composers (e.g. Campion, in his Lord 
Hay's Masque) have a more immediate 
appeal than those in the later declamatory 
style (e.g. the songs for Comiis), wherein 
the vocal line closely matches the syllables; 
however, greater familiarity reveals un- 
expected depths and drama, and, as Mr. 
Sabol has observed, the music sometimes 
gives grandeur to otherwise undistinguished 
poetry. 




"SUNSET" COX 



Mr. Sabol has done an admirable job, 
not only in aiding the student of the period 
to a fuller appreciation of the masque, but 
in providing pleasure for anyone who en- 
joys music. 

MATTHEW M. WISE 

Mr. Sabol is Assistant Professor of Eng- 
lish at Brown and was Director of Music 
for Pembroke Chapel. The reviewer, a 
former Instructor at Brown, is Chairman 
of the English Department at Roanoke 
College. 

THE SPRING OF CIVILIZATION: Per- 

iclean Athens, by C. A. Robinson, Jr. 

E. P. Dutton. 460 pages. $1.95. 

This anthology edited by the Brown 
classicist has enjoyed five years of respect 
and popularity. In its new guise as a Dut- 
ton Everman Paperback it will continue to 
warrant purchase as a student text or a 
more voluntary possession. It all seems 
to be here, including some 40 fine photos 
and the introductions by Professor Robin- 
son. 

Drama is represented by Aeschylus 
(Agamemnon); Sophocles (Oedipus the 
King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone); 
and Euripides (Medea and The Trojan 
Women). Plato's philosophy may be sam- 
pled in The Apology and The Symposium, 
the latter in Shelley's translation. The his- 
torians are Thucydides and Xenophon. All, 
of course, are in English translation, yet 
testifying to the quality of "one of the 
few Golden Ages that man has thus far 
been able to achieve." 

We believe all the fine things that have 
been said about this book, as well as the 
identification of Professor Robinson as 
"one of America's eminent classicists." 

WE WERE THERE WITH LEWIS AND 

CLARK, by James Munves '43. Grosset 

& Dunlap. 180 pages. $1.95. 

The younger reader's attention is invited 
to this lively addition to the score of books 
in the format of dramatized history with 
which the "We Were There" series has 
been so successful. The author takes one 
through the Lewis and Clark adventure as 
companion to the boy, Tom Hendon, a 
member of the expedition, searching for 
his father. The writing aim was action: 
"The Indian kept running, then fell down 
headlong in the dust. Dead." But, with 
A. B. Guthrie, Jr., as historical consultant, 
the fiction is embellished by the structural 
fact or based on it. 

Munves has written previously for the 
New Yorker and other magazines, news- 
papers, CBS News, and films. He can be 
content with this book, dedicated to one 
of his three daughters: "Katie, who is 
very particular about what she reads." 
She'll like Robert Glaubke's illustrations. 



WAGONS ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS, 

by Bruce N. Coulter '20. Dodd, Mead. 

$3. 

A red-faced editor must admit that this 
fine historical novel for juveniles has been 
off the press for a long while without de- 
served notice in these pages. Though we 
do not claim that many "juveniles" read 
this magazine, we know that many friends 
of "Banty" Coulter do. The former Varsity 
football player and English major has been 
successful as Headmaster of the Junior 
School at Cranbrook School. Michigan. 

The basic story is about the "Great Mi- 
gration" of 1843 from Independence to 



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the Willamette River Valley in the then- 
disputed Oregon territory. Facts are care- 
fully authenticated. 

Nat Kilburn is a Vermont boy whose 
mother has died, and his father has gone 
out West to seek a new life for himself 
and Nat. Tired of waiting for him, the 
boy joins a wagon train about to take off 
and hopes it will take him into the trap- 
ping and trading country where his father 
has been reported. There are discourage- 
ments and adventures along the way, but 
the narrative builds up to a lively climax. 

Coulter, who has been at Cranbrook for 
more than 20 years, obviously knows what 
boys like to read. He camped along the 
Oregon wagon trail himself, making the 
trip with his family in a station wagon. 
We've heard reports that another book is 
in the making. 

w.c.w. 

THE UNFAIRNESS OF EASTER and 
Other Stories, by David Cornel DeJong. 
500 copies. The Talisman Press, San 
Jose. Calif. 106 pages. $5. 

Although books by this former Brown 
graduate student continue to attract at- 
tention, this is the first collection of his 
short stories published since "Snow on the 
Mountain" in 1946. The new collection is 
"diverse in plot and setting, rich in detail, 
and each is an example of accomplished 
prose fiction. This edition contains seven 
line drawings by Newton Baird, all printed 
in color. Five hundred copies have been 
printed. 

DeJong's most famous novel was "Old 
Haven," which received the Houghton- 
Mifflin Fellowship award in 1938 and has 
been translated and published into six 
languages. Howard Mumford Jones, writ- 
ing in The Saturday Review, considered 
DeJong's work "touched with genius. 
Other books are "Belly Fulla Straw," 
1934; "Light Sons and Dark," 1940; "Day 
of the Trumpet," 1941; "Benefit Street," 
1942; "Across the Board," 1943; "Domi- 
nation of Jane," 1944; "Somewhat Angels," 
1945; "The Desperate Children," 1949; 
"Two Sofas in the Parlor," 1952. 

THE A.F. of L.: FROM THE DEATH 
OF GOMPERS TO THE MERGER, By 
Prof. Philip Taft. Harper & Brothers. 
499 pages. $7.50. 

For 10 years the Brown economist has 
been working on his extraordinary history 
of the A.F. of L., and now the project 
stands complete with this latest volume, 
companion to "The A.F. of L. in the Time 
of Gompers." His source material has been 
exceptional: a vast quantity of minutes, 
memoranda, letters, records public and 
private, as well as personal interviews with 
labor leaders. 

There is no opportunity, with the sea- 
sonal deadlines upon us, to assign the 
book for a full-dress review until fall. We 
merely note that the 32 years covered by 
the new volume were critical ones: the 
inactivity after the end of the Gompers 
era, the unions' battle to survive unemploy- 
ment and depression, the "favorable" years 
of the '30s, the public reaction to labor 
strength as evidenced in Taft-Hartley legis- 
lation, the war and post-war years, and 
"the search for a united labor movement." 
Professor Taft repeats his point that he 
was not preparing a general labor history 
but a study of the American Federation of 
Labor. 

It would be remarkable if the second 
volume were not as definitive, authorita- 



tive, even as monumental as the first, and 
those were adjectives applied by qualified 
reviewers when that appeared. Surely, the 
new book is just as basic, just as standard 
a source of reference as that to which it is 
companion and complement. It will do 
nothing to lower Taft's reputation in his 
field, and The American Federationist 
called him "the foremost labor historian 
of our day." The students and colleagues 
who have admired him on College Hill 
know further that he is an honest, thor- 
ough, stimulating one. 




PHILIP TAFT 



His Second Village 

PROF. Laurence Wylie, who received 
his Ph.D. from Brown in 1940, is at 
work on a companion book to his famous 
"Village in the Vaucluse." The earlier 
study was a remarkable account of life in 
a rural village of southern France, which 
has become a popular reading assignment 
in several college courses since it was 
published in 1957. Last year he began a 
second book, a study of life in an indus- 
trial village in northern France. 

Recently Chairman of the French De- 
partment of Haverford College, Dr. Wylie 
has been appointed to a new professorship 
at Harvard University, the C. Douglas 
Dillon Professorship of the Civilization of 
France. Because he has applied his knowl- 
edge of French language and culture to 
an insight into contemporary French life. 
Professor Wylie will join sociologists, so- 
cial psychologists, and social anthropolo- 
gists in the Department of Social Relations 
at Harvard. Last year the Dillon Chair 
was held by Jean-Joseph Seznec of Ox- 
ford, a Visiting Professor, but Dr. Wylie 
will become a permanent member of the 
Harvard Faculty. 

His new line of research begins with a 
thorough study of economic, social, and 
political data and local history. This is 
followed by observing day-to-day life of 
the village during a year of residence. In 
his observations of the French, Professor 
Wylie has been assisted by Mrs. Wylie and 
their two sons. For "Village in the Vau- 
cluse." they lived in a small community 
during 1950-51 while he held a fellowship 
from the Social Science Research Council. 
In 1957-58, they participated in the life 



of the industrial village of Chanzeaux, 
Maine-et-Loire, on a Guggenheim Fellow- 
ship. In addition to studies at the Uni- 
versity of Paris and the Ecole Libre des 
Sciences Politiques, he has held a Ford 
Faculty Fellowship. 

NEW SPANISH SELF TAUGHT, Re- 
vised by Prof. Juan Lopez-Morillas. 
Funk & Wagnalls. $3.50. 

The theory of this "self taught" book, 
like those in French, German, and Italian, 
is that you can speak a language well 
enough in three weeks to "enable you to 
get along with ease and confidence in a 
foreign country." You start with sentences 
from everyday speech and "master the 
idiom and the flavor of the language in- 
stead of dry-as-dust rules of grammar." 
The series is extensively advertised, with 
offers of five days of free examination. 



Briefly Noted 

Two Brown University Professors have 
been named to the Advisory Council 
of the Yale University St. Thomas More 
Project, an international undertaking which 
is to produce a nine-volume edition of 
More's complete works. Prof. Leicester 
Bradner of the English Department and 
Prof. C. Arthur Lynch of the Classics De- 
partment have been invited to edit and 
translate the Latin verse of More. In 
1953 the two scholars collaborated when 
More's Latin epigrams were published by 
the Chicago University Press. 

Rutgers University Press will publish 
"Their Brother's Keepers: Moral Steward- 
ship in the United States, 1800-1865," a 
history of organized benevolence in this 
country. The author is Dr. Clifford S. 
Griffin '51, whose promotion to Assistant 
Professor of History was announced by 
Lake Forest College in May. He went to 
Lake Forest in 1957 as an Instructor after 
receiving his Ph.D. from the University 
of Wisconsin. 

"Freight Transport and the Metropolis" 
is a new book by Dr. Benjamin Chinitz, 
who received his M.A. from Brown in 
1951. He has been a senior staff member 
of the New York Metropolitan Region 
Study for the past two and a half years; 
he has been appointed Associate Professor 
of Economics at the University of Pitts- 
burgh, where he will devote half of his 
time to teaching and half to research for 
the Pittsburgh Regional Planning Asso- 
ciation. 

Wriston's Recollections 

Though Dr. Henry M. Wriston's latest 
book would presumably be available for 
summer reading, all we'd seen of "Aca- 
demic Procession" when we went to press 
was the jacket. These "Recollections of 
a College President" were expected from 
the Columbia University Press ($4) in 
late June or early July. 

The publishers note that the period 
covered by the book saw a revolutionary 
change in the concept of college president. 
"The courage and spirit of one man who 
made it his life's work to meet the chal- 
lenges of this much discussed but little 
understood profession emerge clearly in 
the pages. Dr. Wriston sums up the re- 
wards and trials of college presidency in 
the following words: "The opportunities 
so far outweigh the heartbreaks that to 
evade the responsibility would be folly." 



JULY 1959 



77 



FOOTBALL 



How Deep Must a Squad Be? 
A New Ivy Coach Speculates 



■I Tl fiTH THE LOSS of 21 lettermen, most 
VV of whom played a major role in giv- 
ing Brown three consecutive winning sea- 
sons, Coach John McLaughry's first Bruin 
team, on paper, figures to be weaker than 
last year's squad which chalked up a 6-3 
record over all and finished in a fourth- 
place tie in the League with a 4-3 mark. 
When interviewed at the Gym in June. 
Coach McLaughry summed up the situa- 
tion this way: "Without a surplus of ex- 
perienced players, I still think we can field 
a good first team. However, more than one 
injury to a position could leave us in 
tough shape." 

The list of lettermen "lost" includes 
some great names in recent Brown foot- 
ball history. Gone from the end squad 
will be Bill Traub. Jack Cronin, Dick Jud- 
kins, Lou Gundlach, Bill Flynn, and Russ 




Prouty. John Glasheen, Pete McNeish, and 
Frank Jeffrey will be missing from the 
strong tackle positions. Bob Bellows, John 
Jangro, and Joe Larimore are the guards 
who will be among the missing. All-Ivy 
center Don Warburton and his able re- 
placement, John Hansen, round out the 
14 linemen lost through graduation. 

Frank Finney, holder of a hatful of 
Brown offensive records, is the top loss in 
the backfield at the quarterback spot, along 
with one of his subs, Ed Lapinski. Missing 
from the halfback positions will be Jack 
McTigue, Dick Beland, Joel Caslowitz, 
and Guy Vassalotti. Bob Topping, an able 
replacement for Choquette at fullback, also 
has graduated. 

Available jor 19S9 Duty 

Only nine lettermen will be returning. 
The list includes Charlie Olobri at end, 
Tom Budrewicz and Dave Waterman at 
tackle, Tom Clingan at guard, Nick 
Pannes at quarterback, Capt. Bob Carlin, 
Ray Barry, and Matt Connors at halfback, 
and Paul Choquette at fullback. Tony 
Petrarca, who alternated with Finney and 
Pannes at quarterback two years ago, is 
back in school and may be available for 
duty at either quarterback or tailback. 

"In Pannes, Carlin, Barry, and Cho- 
quette, I think I have the best backfield 
in the League," McLaughry stated. "Al- 
though Pannes played in Finney's shadow 
the past two years, I think he has great 
ability. I remember that I tried hard to get 
him to matriculate at Amherst four years 
ago." McLaughry termed Choquette an 
outstanding runner. "When you have a big 



fullback who can run to the outside you 
can do a lot of things with your offense." 
He rated Carlin and Barry strong, fast 
runners who are effective either inside or 
outside. "My first string unit has size, 
speed, and experience and is ideally suited 
to my offense," he added. 

However, behind the first backfield there 
would appear to be a decided drop in ex- 
perience and ability. It's anyone's guess 
who will support Pannes at quarterback. 
Ned Ormand, a Senior, is the best bet. 
Petrarca could get the nod if McLaughry 
doesn't use him at tailback. Jack Scheilfler, 
a Junior, is the only other contender. It 
would be well for Pannes to stay healthy. 

Matt Connors and John Phipps will 
probably back up Carlin at the wingback 
position. Connors is an excellent defensive 
back and a good blocker, but he does not 
have Carlin's offensive ability. Phipps, 
though fast, does not have extensive ex- 
perience. Frank Monahan and Bob Seijas, 
slated to play behind Barry at tailback, 
have potential as yet not developed. 

The ground-gaining strength will rest 
with last season's three top running 
backs. Choquette had 576 yards in 123 
carries for a 4.7 average. Carlin gained 
384 in 74 tries for a 5.2, and Barry had 
211 yards in 52 attempts for a 4.1 aver- 
age. Through the air. Pannes completed 12 
of 24 passes for 159 yards and two touch- 
downs. His most memorable T.D. toss 
came in the closing minutes of the Yale 
game (to wingman Jack Cronin) and gave 
the Bruins a 35-29 victory. The backfield 
will average 186 pounds. 

The line also presents its problems. It 



THE 1959 VARSITY will take the field in new 

uniforms. Paul Choquette, fullback, was wearing 

one when publicity photos were taken. 



Your Football Tickets for 1959 

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prove this economy measure. In effect for several seasons, it has worked to the 
satisfaction of the Athletic Office ticket department and the football followers. 

In filling out each coupon for each game you wish to attend, please include 
the postal zone number in your address. If you have preference in location (high, 
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Note that the closing date on each coupon is 16 days before the game in question 
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children under 12 years of age. None of the tickets is redeemable. 

The home schedule at Brown Field calls for four games with traditional rivals, 
two of them Ivy League teams. Included is the Homecoming game with Harvard. 
The Thanksgiving opponent will again be Colgate, a morning game. 



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lacks experience, of course. With three of 
last year's heavy-duty performers gone, 
Olobri is the only returning letterman at 
end. Pete Dauk, a Senior, and Tim Orcutt, 
a Junior, loom as the top candidates for 
the other starting berth. Orcutt was the 
star of the Cub eleven two years ago, but 
he sat out the 1958 season due to an eli- 
gibility problem. He has class, and, if the 
layoff has not slowed him down, he should 
help. Holdover reserve Jim Bower also 
could help, and Sophomores Dick Laine, 
Levi Trumbull, John Holbrook, and Paul 
Huffard have good size and potential. Lack 
of e.xperience behind Olobri is the main 
concern here. 

All-Ivy tackle Tom Budrewicz will be a 
solid anchor on the left side of the line. 
Dave Waterman, a starter at guard in 1958, 
will probably be moved to help shore up 
this position. Bob Courtemanche, a Senior, 
may be used as a swing man behind both 
Budrewicz and Waterman. Sophomore Bob 
Auchy is considered a good prospect, al- 
though he may also be used at the guard 
positions. 

Letterman Tom Clingan and Harry 
Swanger appear to be the best bets at the 
guards. Swanger, a big Junior, came along 



fast last season and should develop into a 
good lineman. A fine pair of Sophomores, 
Gary Graham and Jack Mancuso, will 
provide some depth at this position. Gra- 
ham was the star of the strong Cub line 
and was the team's best punter. Gene 
Koenig is another good Sophomore. 

At center, neither Senior Jack Dillon 
nor Junior Bill Packer saw much action 
behind Captain Warburton last season but 
should wage a hot battle for a starting 
berth. Sophomore Wendell LaFreniere 
(6-2, 215) could move into contention by 
the middle of the season. He is a fine line- 
backer. 

Brown's starting line will average about 
201 pounds with Olobri (185) and Orcutt 
(205) at the ends, Budrewicz (230) and 
Waterman (210) at the tackles, Clingan 
(190) and Swanger (200) at the guards, 
and Packer (190) at center. The guards 
and possibly the tackles will be strong, but 
experience will be lacking at the ends and 
especially at center. 

Obviously, McLaughry will have no 
worries about whether or not to use the 
so-called two-platoon system allowed by 
the new rule change. "Our version of the 
two-platoon system will consist of a man 



knowing two positions," said the son of 
the man who coached Brown's Iron Men. 
"In this way, I'll be able to keep my 15 or 
16 first line men on the field as much as 
possible. The fans should expect a great 
deal of "swinging,' especially at the guards 
and tackles." 

Newcomers Among the Coaches 

There have been several changes in the 
coaching staff since last season. Backfield 
Coach Milt Piepul (Notre Dame '41) will 
be back, as will Defensive Coach Alex 
Nahigian (Holy Cross '42) and Freshman 
Coach Charles Markham (N.Y.U. '42). 
However, End Coach Joe Restic, who did 
such a fine job at Brown, went with Al 
Kelley to Colgate. He has been replaced 
by Jack Zilly, assistant to Terry Brennan 
at Notre Dame the last three years. A 
1947 graduate of Notre Dame, he played 
professional football with the Los Angeles 
Rams and Philadelphia Eagles. Line Coach 
Carl Schuette resigned and has been re- 
placed by Richard "Red" Gowen (Dart- 
mouth '50), who was McLaughry 's line 
coach at Amherst. Stan Ward (Canisius 
'42) and Bob Bennett "48 will be back to 
assist Markham with the Cubs. 



1959 Varsity Football Roster 



Katne 


Class 


Age 


Ht. 


Wt. 


School 


Home Town 


ENDS 














Adams, Richard C. 


'60 


21 


6-1 


185 


Summit H. 


Summit, N. J. 


Bates, Bruce 


'61 


20 


6-3 


200 


Amityville H. 


Amityville, N. Y. 


Bower, James M. 


•60 


21 


6-0 


185 


Bronxville H. 


Bronxville, N. Y. 


Dauk, Peter 


'60 


23 


6-2 


190 


New Canaan H. 


New Canaan, Conn. 


Formisano, Ronald 


'60 


20 


6-1 


185 


Bristol H. 


Bristol, R. I. 


Holbrook, John 


'62 


19 


6-0 


185 


Stony Brook 


West wood, N. J. 


Huffard, Paul 


•62 


19 


6-0 


180 


Deerfield 


New Canaan, Conn. 


Laine, Richard 


'62 


19 


6-3 


210 


Weymouth H. 


Weymouth, Mass. 


McGuinness, Robert 


'62 


19 


6-1 


180 


Rumson H. 


Rumson, N. J. 


Olobri, Charles 


'60 


22 


6-0 


185 


St. Raphael 


Pawtucket, R. I. 


Orcutt, Timothy 


•61 


20 


6-2 


205 


Andover 


Gloversville, N. Y. 


Rohrbach, Nelson 


'62 


19 


6-0 


175 


Ridgewood H. 


Ridgewood, N. J. 


Snyder, Jack 


•62 


19 


6-0 


170 


Horace Mann 


Gary, Ind. 


Thompson, James 


'61 


20 


6-0 


175 


Hinsdale H. 


Hinsdale, III. 


Trumbull, Levi 


•62 


20 


6-2 


190 


Delbarton 


Bemardsville, N. J. 


TACKLES 














Auchy, Robert 


•62 


19 


6-0 


195 


Haverford T. H. 


Haverford, Pa. 


Budrewicz, Thomas 


'60 


21 


6-3 


230 


Greenfield H. 


Greenfield, Mass. 


Coffin, Howard 


'61 


20 


6-5 


220 


Wn. Reserve A. 


Hudson, O. 


Courtemanche, Bob 


'60 


21 


6-0 


220 


Central Cath. 


Methuen, Mass. 


DeGennaro, Carmine 


'62 


18 


5-11 


205 


Clifford Scott 


East Orange, N. J. 


Dyer, Joseph 


•62 


18 


6-2 


205 


Manchester H. 


Manchester, Conn. 


Easterson, Brad 


'62 


19 


6-1 


190 


Memorial H. 


Claire, Wise. 


Hoover, John 


•61 


20 


6-2 


205 


Altoona H. 


Altoona, Pa. 


Krouse, Roger 


'62 


19 


6-2 


200 


Rumson H. 


Rumson, N. J. 


Lawler, Edward 


•60 


21 


6-3 


225 


Stephen's 


Alexandria, Va. 


Messier, Lynn 


'62 


19 


6-3 


185 


Classical H. 


Johnston, R. I. 


Wright, Gilbert ' 


•61 


20 


6-2 


200 


Andover 


WeUesIey Hills, Mass 


GUARDS 














Banks, Charles 


•62 


18 


6-0 


190 


Hempstead H. 


Hempstead, L. L 


Childs, James 


'61 


20 


5-9 


180 


Teaneck H. 


Teaneck, N. J. 


Clingan, Thomas 


•60 


21 


5-10 


190 


Boardman H. 


Youngstown, O. 


Forster, Alan 


'62 


19 


5-9 


175 


Du Pont H. 


Wilmington, Del. 


Graham, Gary 


•62 


19 


5-9 


200 


Springdale H. 


Harwick, Pa. 


Green, Robert 


•62 


19 


5-8 


190 


Sleepy Hollow H. 


Terrytown, N. J. 


Henderson, Thomas 


•61 


19 


6-1 


210 


Washington H. 


Washington, Pa. 


Hurley, Peter 


•61 


20 


5-11 


190 


Prov. Co. Day 


Rumford, R. I. 


Koenig, Eugene 


•62 


18 


5-8 


205 


Garden City H. 


Garden City, N. Y. 


Krause, Paul 


•61 


20 


5-9 


175 


Staunton Military 


Ambler, Pa. 


Mancuso, Jack 


•62 


19 


5-10 


190 


Central Cath. 


Reading, Pa. 


Swanger, Harry 


•61 


20 


5-11 


200 


Lebanon H. 


Lebanon, Pa. 


Wall, Arthur 


•62 




6-1 


180 


Pennsbury H. 


Fairless Hills, N. J. 


Waterman, David 


'60 


22 


5-10 


210 


Whitman H. 


Halifax, Mass. 




BOB CARLIN, one of Brown's leading ground- 
gainers as a halfback last year, will be Captain 
of the Bruins in 1959. 



80 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



This fine staff has put in a great deal of 
hard work since the coaching changes in 
February. They have been trying to de- 
velop an offense around players that only 
two of the full-time staff, Piepul and Mark- 
ham, have ever seen in action. The hardest 
job of all will come this fall when Mc- 
Laughry's offensive and defensive patterns 
must be taught to the Bruins in just three 
weeks. 

Ivy football should be exciting football 
in 1959. The League has fine backs, with 
eight of the top ground gainers of 1958 
returning. Dartmouth and Princeton, the 
teams that ran one-two last year, will prob- 
ably fight it out again for the title. The 
Indians have 18 lettermen back; Princeton 
has 19. (Brown, by the way, has the fewest 
returning lettermen in the League.) Penn, 
with 22 lettermen and a fleet of good half- 
backs, may be a dark horse and certainly 
should be a first division possibility. We 
believe that Brown, Harvard, and Cornell 
will fight it out for the one remaining first 
division berth. Both the Crimson and the 
Big Red will have to depend on Sopho- 
mores, but good Sophomores, to make 
them click. Columbia and Yale both have 
quarterback problems and will probably 



have to fight each other off to stay out of 
the cellar. 

Because of its lack of depth, Mc- 
Laughry's first Brown team could finish 
anywhere from third to eighth. If the solid 
first unit is able to play through the season 
without many injuries, this club could 
cause a great deal of trouble among the 
League favorites. Otherwise, the Bruins 
would be in deep difficulty in what should 
be a fairly fast League. 

The Modificatioyi in Rnles 

There were two major rule changes 
pushed through at the winter convention. 
One liberalizes the substitution rule so 
that a coach may now make a single sub- 
stitution any time the clock is dead with- 
out the man being charged as a sub. Coach 
McLaughry believes that this was merely 
a compromise with the advocates of two- 
platoon football. The rule will allow the 
coach at least to get his specialist, his 
punter, or extra-point man, on and off the 
field as many times as he needs him at 
crucial moments in the game. Previously, 
a player was allowed to re-enter the game 
but once in each period. 

The second rule, a rather drastic one. 



1959 Varsity Football Roster 



Name 


Class 


Age 


m. 


Wt. 


School 


Home Town 


CENTERS 














Coe, Charles 


'62 


19 


6-3 


210 


Loomis 


West Granby, Conn. 


Dillon, lohn 


'60 


21 


5-10 


190 


Torrington H. 


Torrington, Conn. 


Hackett, Bruce 


'61 


21 


5-11 


195 


Lawrenceville 


Easton, Pa. 


LaFreniere, Wendell 


'62 


18 


6-2 


215 


Walpole H. 


Walpole, Mass. 


Neal, Thomas 


'62 


18 


5-11 


185 


Worcester Ac. 


White River Jet., Vt. 


Packer, William 


'61 


20 


5-10 


190 


Tolman H. 


Pawtucket, R. I. 


QUARTERBACKS 














FitzGerald, Denis 


'62 


19 


5-11 


188 


Worcester Ac. 


Worcester, Mass. 


Home, John 


'62 


19 


5-11 


165 


Pennsbury H. 


Yardley, Pa. 


Ormond, Edward 


'60 


21 


5-9 


170 


Mt. Hermon 


Zanesville, O. 


Pannes, Nicholas 


'60 


21 


5-10 


175 


Lynn Classical 


Lynn, Mass. 


Petrarca, Anthony 


'60 


21 


5-11 


185 


Vandergrift H. 


Vandergrift, Pa. 


Scheiffler, Jack 


'61 


20 


5-11 


190 


Jackson H. 


Jackson, Mich. 


HALFBACKS 














Balicki, Frank 


'62 


19 


5-10 


170 


Williston Ac. 


Chicopee, Mass. 


Barry, Raymond 


'61 


20 


6-2 


190 


Lynbrook H. 


Lynbrook, N. Y. 


Carlin, Robert 


'60 


21 


5-10 


175 


Swampscott H. 


Swampscott, Mass. 


Case, Terry 


'60 


21 


5-9 


175 


Sunbury H. 


Sunbury, Pa. 


Cashen, Henry 


'61 


20 


5-10 


170 


Cheshire Ac. 


Grosse Pte., Mich. 


Cirone, Roger 


'61 


21 


6-0 


165 


Drury H. 


N. Adams, Mass. 


Connors, Matthew 


'60 


21 


6-0 


175 


Mt. St. Michael 


Woodside. N. Y. 


Espinosa, George 


'62 


19 


6-0 


175 


Teaneck H. 


Teaneck, N. J. 


Fleming, Tim 


'62 


19 


5-10 


180 


Hughes H. 


Cincinnati 


KJarsch, Robert 


'62 


19 


6-0 


175 


Danville H. 


Danville, Pa. 


Lavino, John 


'62 


19 


5-11 


170 


St. Mary's H. 


Lynn, Mass. 


Leonard, Jim 


'62 


19 


5-10 


165 


Manheim Town. 


Prairie Village, Kan, 


Monahan, Frank 


■61 


21 


5-10 


170 


Berkshire 


Fairfield, Conn. 


Murphy, Paul 


'62 


19 


5-9 


170 


Westboro H. 


Westboro, Mass. 


Myles, Robert 


'62 


19 


5-6 


140 


North Shore H. 


Glen Head, N. Y. 


Overby, Albert 


'62 


19 


5-9 


150 


B.T. Washington 


Norfolk, Va. 


Phipps, John 


'61 


20 


5-11 


165 


Chadwick 


Anaheim, Calif. 


Roy, Harold 


'62 


19 


5-11 


165 


Woonsocket H. 


Woonsocket, R. I. 


Seijas, Robert 


'60 


20 


5-11 


180 


Clifton H. 


Union, N.J. 


Sousa, Manuel 


•62 


19 


5-11 


175 


Durfee H. 


Fall River, Mass. 


Switzer, Charles 


'62 


19 


5-11 


165 


Pitsmouth Priory 


Clayton, Mo. 


FULLBACKS 














Childs, Raymond 


'61 


20 


6-1 


195 


Westfield H. 


Westfield, Mass. 


Choquette, Paul 


'61 


21 


6-0 


205 


Card. Stepinac 


White Plains, N. J. 


Penz, Andrew 


'61 


20 


6-0 


175 


Grosse Pte. H. 


Grosse Pte., Mich. 


Tyler, David 


'62 


19 


6-5 


210 


Oliver Ames H. 


Easton, Mass. 


Wood, William 


'62 


18 


6-2 


215 


Wn. Reserve A. 


Cleveland, O. 


JULY 1959 















increases the width of the goal posts by 
five feet. Again, McLaughry believes that 
this was a compromise with those who 
wanted the goal posts moved back to the 
goal line. He would prefer to see the goal 
posts on the line, as in the pro game, and 
thinks that the change will come in time. 
Meanwhile, this move will definitely in- 
crease the number of field goal attempts 
and should make extra points by place- 
ment easier, since most kicks miss literally. 

Four home games, including Ivy tilts 
with Columbia and Harvard, make up the 
1959 nine-game football schedule. The 
campaign will open at home against Co- 
lumbia on Sept. 26 and close with the tra- 
ditional Thanksgiving Day battle with 
Colgate. The latter will have added interest 
this year since the Red Raiders will be 
coached by Al Kelley, former Bruin men- 
tor. The Harvard game on Nov. 14 has 
been selected as Homecoming. 

The schedule: Sept. 26 — Columbia. Oct. 
3 — at Yale. Oct. 10 — at Dartmouth. Oct. 
17 — at Pennsylvania. Oct. 24 — Rhode Is- 
land. Oct. 31 — at Princeton. Nov. 7 — at 
Cornell. Nov. 14 — Harvard. Nov. 26 — 
Colgate. 

A radical departure in the football uni- 
forms will be in evidence when the Bears 
take the field this fall. The new design is a 
combination of what Coach McLaughry's 
Amherst teams wore the last few years 
and what he, himself, wore as a player on 
the Hill in 1937-38. At home. Brown will 
sport white pants with a seal Brown stripe 
down the outside of each leg. The jerseys 
will be seal Brown, but they will have 
white sleeves with a series of Brown 
stripes. The helmets will be white, as will 
the numerals. On the road. Coach Mc- 
Laughry's men will be all white, except 
for the numerals and the seal Brown 
stripes on the pants and sleeves. 



To Keep Posted 
on Brown Sports 

The order changeth, but the Brown 
Sports Newsletter goes on. Pete McCarthy, 
Brown's new Director of Sports Informa- 
tion, plans to continue production of a 
weekly Newsletter during the college year 
as a primary means of contact with the 
press, radio and TV. For the fourth con- 
secutive year, the publication will be 
available to alumni and friends of the 
University. 

The format will be about the same. The 
Newsletter will include a brief review of 
highlights from the previous week's action, 
the outlook for upcoming contests, and 
vital statistics on the various Varsity teams. 
Also available, as part of the package, are 
the Brown football and Winter sports 
brochures, and the Ivy League football 
brochure. The price is $5, which just about 
covers the cost of production and mailing 
for about 30 Newsletters to each sub- 
scriber. 

Also available by mail from the Office 
of Sports Information will be the official 
1959 football program series. The cost 
of the four home game programs is $1.25. 
Checks should be made payable to "Brown 
University" and sent to the Office of Sports 
Information, Brown University, Provi- 
dence 12, R. I. Please include your Class, 
as well as your name and address when 
ordering. 



81 



ONE OF THE QUESTIONS most frequently 
asked of Brown's new football coach, 
John McLaughry, since his appointment in 
February has been: "Just what is your 
Side-Saddle T formation?" Being as good 
an artist as he is a coach, McLaughry drew 
the accompanying sketch to illustrate some 
aspects of his now-famous offense, the 
only one of its kind in the country. 

The large drawing shows the relative 
position of the backfield, with special em- 
phasis on the quarterback, who is facing 
the sideline. The two smaller diagrams il- 
lustrate the plays that would not be pos- 
sible from the normal T-quarterback setup. 
Because of his placement, the side-saddle 
quarterback can make a handoff nearer to 
the point of attack than his original sta- 
tion. The play in diagram number two is 
a standard single-wing cutback by the tail- 
back, in which the quarterback can be used 
as a key blocker. 

How did the Side-Saddle T get its start? 
"Well," McLaughry explains, "we were 
using a conventional wing-T at Amherst 
in 1955, and we were faced with that old 
problem of tipping our hand on fourth 
and one situations. If we were going to 
run, we came out in the T. If we were 
going to punt, we came out in punt for- 
mation. I wanted to do something about 
it, so we moved our wingback to the deep 
spot and left the other two backs at their 
normal positions. Of course, we had to 
get the quarterback out of the way so we 
could make a direct snap if we wanted to 
and yet leave him in position to hand off 
if that was our strategy. So, we set him in 
this new position where his hands are 
placed exactly the same as they would be 
in the T, but one foot is pivoted so he 
faces the sideline. We only used the for- 
mation several times that year, but, dur- 
ing the winter when we realized its possi- 
bilities, we developed a whole new offense 
around it." 

In the three years he used the offense 
at Amherst, it averaged about 350 yards 
per game. In 1957 the Lord Jeffs led the 
East in total offense with 391 yards per 
game. 

McLaughry 's offense can be deceptive, 
but it isn't fancy. He doesn't use spreads 
or flankers to any great extent. "I think 
you win football games on fundamentals 
and toughness. When you see us doing 
something fancy, it's just to please the 
folks in the stands." 

Basically, the Side-Saddle T would seem 
to be a happy combination of the best of 
the single wing and the T. The tailback 



RIDING 

SIDE 

SADDLE 



(Barry) stands almost directly behind the 
center and will receive a direct pass from 
him about 20 per cent of the time. The 
fullback (Choquette) stands further for- 
ward, behind the guard, but is not in a 
position to receive the snap. The wing- 
back (Carlin) stands outside the end and 
is in a position to take a handoff, block, 
or go out for a pass. 

The key man in the Side-Saddle T, of 
course, is the quarterback (Pannes). Mc- 
Laughry listed three definite advantages 
which a Side-Saddle T quarterback has 
working for him. "First of all," he said, 
"the quarterback can move up and down 
the line much faster than in the T, which 
requires a lateral movement. The T quar- 
terback can only gain an average of six 
inches in his first step, while in the Side- 



Saddle T he can average four feet. The 
large sketch shows him taking but two steps 
to get out behind the end. Secondly, being 
half-turned, the quarterback can pitch out 
much quicker and then get ahead of the 
play faster as a blocker. Finally, he can 
also hand off much quicker on reserve 
spins to the fullback, for example, who will 
line up less than two yards from the ball." 
The effects of the Side-Saddle T have al- 
ready been felt in the Ivy League. The 
seven other Varsity coaches spent the 
spring bombarding the officials at Williams 
College for the films of the 1958 Amherst- 
Williams game. As Len Watters, Williams 
coach, said: "Had we charged the seven 
Ivy schools a rental fee for these films, 
we could darn near have balanced our 
athletic budget this spring." 





© ® © ® ©ji 



TIana-off to fuUhock 
over d'nd. 



Direct Pas-J' to })B, 
power ploy over <fnd. 




82 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Recalling a Strong Spring: 



Lefty's Best Team 



Cellar to Second 

\ Veteran Lefty Lefebvre called the 1959 
baseball team "the best Brown ball 
club I've ever coached." Some of the old- 
timers went a bit further and called it one 
of the soundest Brown baseball teams since 
the heyday of the sport on the Hill. It 
would seem that both Lefty and the old 
timers had the facts with which to back 
up their statements. 

By compiling an 11-3 record. Brown had 
its best season since 1919 (13-3). By win- 
ning eight straight in mid-season, the Bears 
tied the 1907 and 1921 teams for the third 
longest winning streak in Bruin baseball 
history (the teams of 1896 and 1919 each 
won nine straight). By posting a 6-3 
League record, they climbed from their 
1958 position in the cellar (1-7) to a 
three-way tie for second place in the final 
League standings. In his 1 1 seasons at 
Brown, Lefebvre's best previous marks 
were 11-5 in 1952 and 12-5 in 1951. 

With a little luck. Brown might well 
have tied Navy for the title instead of 
settling for the second-place deadlock with 
Cornell and Dartmouth. Coach Lefebvre 
received his first bad break when Al Jasins, 
one of his two starting hurlers, came up 
with a lame arm on the Southern tour 
and was lost for the season. That left Dave 
Manson, another Junior, with the task of 
pitching the bulk of the nine-game Ivy 



schedule in the three-week period between 
Apr. 15 and May 9. Brown lost to Prince- 
ton (13-5) in a game in which Manson 
didn't pitch but defeated Yale (6-5), Navy 
(4-1), Penn (9-2), Army (9-2), Colum- 
bia (8-4), and Harvard (6-0) to top the 
standing with a 6-1 record going into the 
final two games against Cornell and Dart- 
mouth. Two heart-breaking one-run de- 
feats in these games cost the Bruins a 
share of the title. 

One of baseball's most unusual plays, 
the missed third strike by the catcher, 
paved the way for Cornell's 6-5 victory at 
Aldrich Field. Senior hurler, George For- 
sythe, was riding a 4-3 lead when disaster 
struck in the sixth. With a man on second 
and one out, Forsythe seemed to be work- 
ing his way out of the inning when he 
fanned the ne.xt batter. However, the ball 
got by catcher Dick Judkins and rolled to 
the back stop for an error that opened the 
floodgates for a three-run inning for the 
Big Red. Ironically, it was Brown's first 
error in three games. Speaking of the play 
later, Forsythe said he and Judkins had a 
mixup on signals. 

Manson, with a 6-0 record, hooked up 
with Dartmouth's Art Quirk at Aldrich 
Field in the final game of the season before 
2,500 spectators, the largest crowd in 
nearly a decade. Manson gave up only 
two hits, one of them a wind-blown fly 
ball that should have been caught in the 



SCOREBOARD FOR SPRING 



BASEBALL: 

Varsity (11-3) 

Brown 6, Providence 3 
Brown 6, Yale 5 
Princeton 13, Brown 5 
Brown 4, Navy 1 
Brown 6, Rhode Island 2 
Brown 13, Providence 12 
Brown 9. Penn 2 
Brown 11, Amherst 6 
Brown 9, Army 2 
Brown 8, Columbia 4 
Brown 6, Harvard 
Cornell 6. Brown 5 
Dartmouth 1, Brown 
Brown 4, Rhode Island 2 

(The team also split even 
in two exhibition games 
with service nines.) 



Freshmen (3-6) 

Holy Cross 15, Brown I 
Rhode Island 4. Brown 1 
Providence 14, Brown 1 
Brown 6, Harvard 3 
Dean 8, Brown 6 
Northeastern 9, Brown 2 
Brown 7, Quonset 5 
Providence 7, Brown 3 
Brown 13, Rhode Island 3 



TRACK: 

Varsity (5-3) 

Holy Cross 75, Brown 65 
Brown 94, M.I.T. 41 
Brown llSVi, Amherst 

16'/2 

Brown 77 Vi, Dartmouth 

621/2 
Brown ISVi, Wesleyan 

56'/2 
Rhode Island 69, Brown 

66 
Penn 84, Brown 66'/2, 

Columbia llVz 



Freshmen (3-2) 

Brown 74, Holy Cross 68 
Brown 84, M.I.T. 38 
Dartmouth 96'/2, Brown 

421/2 
Brown 76, Wesleyan 50 
Rhode Island 73, Brown 

62 

TENNIS: 

Varsity (6-5) 

Brown SVi, Navy iVi 
Penn T/i, Brown P/i 
Columbia 5, Brown 2 
Brown 9, Providence 



Brown 6, M.I.T. 3 
Brown 51/2, Wesleyan 3V2 
Brown 9, Holy Cross 
Brown 9, Rhode Island 
Amherst 51/2, Brown 3!/2 
Yale 9. Brown 
Dartmouth 7, Brown 2 

Freshmen (4-4) 

Brown 7, M.I.T. 2 
Brown 8'/2, LaSalle Vz 
Brown 5, Wesleyan 4 
Harvard 7, Brown 2 
St. George s 5, Brown 4 
Dartmouth 7, Brown 2 
Brown 6, Priory 3 
Andover 7'/2, Brown Wz 



GOLF: 

Varsity (3-8) 

Princeton 7, Brown 
Yale 5, Brown 2 
Brown 5, Wesleyan 2 
Brown 4, M.I.T. 3 
Harvard 5, Brown 2 
Rhode Island 5, Brown 2 
Dartmouth 7. Brown 
Brown 6, Amherst 1 
Boston Coll. 5. Brown 2 
Providence 6, Brown 1 
Connecticut 6, Brown 1 



Ivj^ League 


Baseball 




Final Standing 






College 


W 


L 


R* 


PC 


Navy 


8 


1 





.889 


BROWN 


6 


3 





.667 


Cornell 


6 


3 





.667 


Dartmouth 


6 


3 





.667 


Princeton 


4 


4 


1 


.500 


Army 


4 


5 





.444 


Harvard 


4 


5 





.444 


Columbia 


3 


5 


1 


.375 


Penn 


-) 


7 





.222 


Yale 


T 


8 





.111 


* Rained out. 











second. Unfortunately for him, Dart- 
mouth's second hit, another double, fol- 
lowed in the same frame to give the Big 
Green a 1-0 lead. Thereafter, only two 
Dartmouth men reached base, one on an 
error in the fourth and the other on a 
walk in the eighth. In one span, Manson 
retired 18 straight men, broken only by the 
infield error. However, the Bruins couldn't 
crack Quirk, though they banged out eight 
hits and managed to put 13 runners on 
base against him. The Indian ace fanned 
14 and left all 13 men stranded as Dart- 
mouth won the game, 1-0. 

What changed Brown from a cellar- 
dweller in 1958 to a title contender in 
1959? Coach Lefebvre had several an- 
swers. The addition of Sophomore Chris 
Mitchell, Junior Fran Pittaro, who sat out 
most of the Sophomore season with a bad 
ankle, and Senior Jim Steiner, who was 
not in school in 1958, bolstered the team a 
great deal. Mitchell paced the team in 
hitting with a .500 average and fielded his 
position at third flawlessly. Pittaro had a 
.413 average and developed into one of 
Brown's great shortstops. Steiner filled the 
gap in center field and hit .254. In addi- 
tion, he led the League in home runs with 
three and was second to Pittaro with 10 
runs batted in. 

Paced by these men, the team batting 
average jumped from .174 in 1958 to a 
highly respectable .286 last spring. Where 
there hadn't been a single .300 hitter in 
1958, Dave Reed (.327) joined Mitchell 
and Pittaro in the charmed circle in 1959. 
In addition. Nick Pannes was close with 
.294 and Bob Carlin hit a strong .276, with 
three triples and one home run. The field- 
ing also was strong, with both the infield 
and outfield showing good range and speed. 

However, Manson, the Junior right- 
hander from Warwick, R. I., was the big 
story on the 1959 Bruin baseball season. 
His final record was 7-1, and he posted a 
flossy 1.12 earned run average. In 72 in- 
nings, he gave up 48 hits, nine earned runs, 
struck out 50 and walked only 10. Coach 
Lefebvre rates him the best pitcher he's 
had at Brown and one of the three or 
four top college hurlers that he's seen. 

An All-State hurler who pitched War- 
wick High to the Rhode Island Baseball 
Championship in 1956, Manson has also 
been a successful hurler on the Hill. As a 
Freshman he had a 1.01 earned run av- 
erage with 38 strikeouts and only nine 
walks in 41 innings. As a sophomore he 
won two of Brown's four victories, while 
again showing his good control with 28 
strikeouts and 14 walks in 35 innings. His 
ERA was 3.34. His Senior year will be 
watched with interest. 



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ANGELO SINISI: In addition to titles, 124 points in dual meets. 



"The loss of Jasins hurt us," Lefebvre 
noted at the close of the season, "but it"s 
difficult to say how much. After all, we 
were 10-1 without him before we lost our 
last two. Perhaps the Cornell or Princeton 
games might have gone our way if he 
were pitching." As a Freshman. Jasins was 
rated on a par with Manson. In 1958 he 
had a better ERA (2.25), although his 
control was not as sharp at times. 

Although Lefebvre lost seven Seniors at 
graduation in June, the prospects for 1960 
are bright. Three regulars will be gone: 
Judkins, Steiner, and second baseman 
Frank Finney. Also lost by graduation will 
be Joel Baumgarten, a good left-handed 
pinch hitter, and three hurlers, Forsythe, 
Pete McNei&h, and Bud Broda. Forsythe 
pitched the important win over Columbia, 
while McNeish defeated Amherst and was 
effective in relief. 

To fill these holes. Coach Lefebvre has 
some promising players who should be 
able to step in without proving too great 
a loss to the team. Replacing Judkins be- 
hind the plate will be either Bob Auchy 
or Jack Mancuso, up from the Cubs. Jun- 
ior Spanky VanDyke, a good infielder, will 
replace Finney at second. Howie Bromage, 
another Junior, may move into Steiner's 
spot in center field. If Jasins can make a 
comeback, he and Manson could give 
Brown the best pitching in the Ivy League. 
Dick Laine, a 6-3 flreballer up from the 
Cubs, should help add depth to the staff. 

A Good Track Year 

Angelo Sinisi, talented Sophomore 
from West New York, N. J., continued to 
be the big news on the track front through 
the spring season. The winter champion 
in IC4A and Heptagonal competition, he 
scored 124 points in seven dual meets as 
he paced Coach Ivan Fuqua's forces to a 
5-3 season, including a cherished win over 
Dartmouth. He capped his sensational 
Sophomore season by becoming Brown's 
first double winner in the history of the 
outdoor Heptagonals. 

Brown lost the opener to a very good 
Holy Cross team, 75-65, and then defeated 
M.I.T. (94 1/6-40 5/6), Amherst (118 1/3- 



16 2/3), Dartmouth (77V2-62V2), and 
Wesleyan (78'/2-56V2 ). Brown lost a close 
one to Rhode Island, 69-66, and then 
finished second in a triangular meet where 
the scores were: Penn 84. Brown 66'/2, 
Columbia 22'/2. Except for the Holy Cross 
meet, Brown ran without the expected 
services of Jim Moreland, who as last 
year's Freshman captain had scored sweeps 
in the 100, 220, and high and low hurdles. 

Sinisi's outstanding record was as fol- 
lows: Holy Cross — first in the 120 high 
hurdles, 220 low hurdles, and 220-yard 
dash, second in the 100-yard dash, third 
in discus. M.I.T. — first in high and low 
hurdles, 100-yard dash, and discus. Am- 
herst — first in high and low hurdles and 
100-yard dash, and second in the discus. 
Dartmouth — first in the high and low hur- 
dles and second in the discus. 100-yard 
dash, and 220. Wesleyan — first in the high 
and low hurdles and second in the discus, 
100-yard dash, and 220. Rhode Island — 
first in the high and low hurdles, second 
in the discus, and third in the 100-yard 
dash and 220. Penn and Columbia — first 
in the high and low hurdles, second in the 
220, and third in the 100-yard dash. Hep- 
tagonals — first in the high and low hurdles. 
New Englands — first in the 120 high hur- 
dles, second in the 220 low hurdles, and 
fourth in the discus. 

In addition to being Brown's first double 
winner in the history of the Heptagonals, 
Sinisi figured in several other records last 
spring. In the New Englands, he tied the 
old mark for the 120-yard high hurdles 
with the time of 14.5. The record was 
established by Ed Dugger of Tufts in 1940. 
Sinisi set two meet records against Penn 
and Columbia at Franklin Field with a 
14.8 in the high hurdles and a 24.4 in the 
lows. Against Dartmouth, his 23.4 in the 
lows tied the Brown record for the event 
set by Billy Dwyer in the IC4A champion- 
ships of 1948. However, the time was not 
recognized because he was helped by a 
favoring wind in excess of the 4'/2-mile- 
per-hour allowed for record purposes. His 
124 points for the dual meet season is 
believed to be a Brown record. 

Sinisi wasn't the only record breaker. 
Don Birkholz, a Junior from Hopatcong, 



N. J., shattered the Brown record in the 
discus with a toss of 149 feet, 3'/2 inches 
against Wesleyan. He erased the previous 
mark of 145 feet, 3 inches (John Gosnell 
against Holy Cross in 1941). Bill Mac- 
Ardle, captain-elect for 1960, ran only 1.1 
seconds off the college record for the mile 
in the meet at Franklin Field. His time was 
4:17.5. The record was set by Norman 
Taber in 1913. j 

Another strong point getter for the Bru- I 
ins was Sophomore Ray Barry. He ran as * 
a member of the winning mile relay team 
against both Holy Cross and Dartmouth. 
Against M.I.T., he took the 220 and 440, 
and he had a fine day in the meet with 
Amherst, winning the broad jump and the 
220 and finishing a close second to Sinisi 
in the 100. When Coach Fuqua had some 
early-season trouble in the high jump, 
Barry volunteered for that event and 
picked up some important points against 
Dartmouth, Rhode Island, and Wesleyan. 
Altogether, the versatile Barry scored in 
six different events throughout the season. 
Other winners for the Bears were Dave 
Lange and Ed Lawler in the hammer, Paul 
Choquette in the shot. Matt Connors in 
the pole vault, Phil Schuyler, Phil Reed, 
and John Conner in the 440, Bill Mac- 
Ardle and Bobby Lowe in the mile, Lowe 
and Mark Foster in the two-mile, and 
Gerry Huetz in the 880. 

Coach Fuqua gave Sophomore distance 
runner Lowe a great deal of the credit for 
the important win over Dartmouth. With 
three events remaining, only 1 '/z points 
separated the two teams, and Fuqua 
thought the Bears could wrap it up if 
they took 1-2 in the two mile. Lowe stayed 
with his classmate, Mark Foster, a less 
experienced runner, all the way through 
the race, "talking" him home. So con- 
cerned was Lowe with Foster's progress 
that he forgot to win the race, finishing 
second about a stride behind his teammate. 
Foster gave Lowe credit for the victory 
"by making me run faster than I thought 
I could." Athletic Director Paul Mackesey 
later sent a letter to Lowe congratulating 
him for "one of the finest demonstrations 
of sportsmanship I've ever seen." 

Speaking well for the future track pic- 
ture at Brown is the fact that there were 
but two Seniors on the team: Co-Captains 
Reed and Keyler. The rest of the squad 
was made up of 22 Juniors and 12 Sopho- 
mores. In addition to the Varsity men 
returning, a good supply is expected from 
the Cubs, who posted a 3-2 record. They 
defeated Holy Cross (74-68), M.I.T. (84- 
38). and Wesleyan (76-50) and lost to 
Dartmouth (96y2-42'/2) and Rhode Island 
(73-62). The three top prospects are Capt. 
Gordie Hughes in the broad jump, 220, 
and 440: Joe Dyer in the hammer, javelin, 
and discus; and Dave Brockway in the 
high and low hurdles, events he swept 
against Holy Cross, Dartmouth, M.I.T., 
and Wesleyan. 

Golfers Won Three 

Ralph Anderton's golfers experienced 
a less than successful season, winning three 
of 1 1 matches. The victories came against 
Wesleyan, M.I.T., and Amherst. Three 
Seniors, Bailey Blethen, Capt. Jerry 
Cantini, and Bill Scott were the only con- 
sistent golfers. Blethen won eight of 1 1 
matches, losing only to Harvard, Princeton, 
and Boston College. He tied for 16th, the 
last play-off position, at the Easterns but 
was defeated one-up on the 20th hole in a 
sudden-death overtime. 



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THE BROWN CREW at the finish of its upset victory in the Dad Vail championship on the Schuylltiil at Philadelphia. 



Surprise on the Schuylkill 



ALTHOUGH ROWING at Brown is still "in- 
. formal" in status, the crew staked a 
strong claim for Varsity recognition this 
spring. The oarsmen, most of them Soph- 
omores, won three of their four dual races, 
knocked off 16 rivals to capture the Dad 
Vail Regatta, and then made a representa- 
tive showing against the big-time crews in 
the Eastern spring championships. The sea- 
son was a great achievement for Coach 
Gordon Helander, 26-year-old School of 
Design student who rowed at Syracuse, 
and for his charges. 

The Bruins surprised everyone except 
themselves by winning the Dad Vail. 
America's "minor-league" title, although 
their earlier record gave them an outside 
chance against their 16 rivals. The week 
of the race, all eye were on Jim Moody, 
a Senior from Yonkers who hadn't previ- 
ously rowed a stroke for the Varsity. A 
member of the lightweight crew, he had 
to fill in for an injured heavyweight. While 
the Varsity averaged 175 pounds and six 
feet, Moody weighed only 149, but there 
was no other substitute for the bow seat. 

In the morning trials on the Schuylkill, 
Brown led in the fastest heat of the up- 
stream Henley course, a mile and 5/16ths. 
In the same division were LaSalle, Purdue, 
Jacksonville, and George Washington, and 
LaSalle, rowing on home waters in Phil- 
adelphia, had taken the title three years 



in a row. But the Bears opened up three 
lengths in the 6:40.1 heat. 

A stiff headwind made the going tougher 
in the afternoon, but Brown still set the 
pace at 7:13, though not trailed by Menlo 
Park College for more than a quarter 
length until the last quarter-mile. Menlo 
Park, the first California crew to compete 
in the Dad Vail Regatta in its 21-year 
history, could not match Brown's closing 
burst and finally yielded a full length. In 
third place was St. Joseph's College, an- 
other Philadelphia entry, which adopted 
rowing as a major sport only last winter, 
lona was fourth. (Brown's Freshman crew 
had to withdraw from its event, there be- 
ing no spare the coach could substitute for 
a boy who was taken ill.) 

Earned the Crowd's Cheers 

As ihe result of its triumph in the Dad 
Vail, Brown earned an automatic invita- 
tion to the Eastern Sprint Championships 
at Princeton, but the committee is not ac- 
customed to have this option picked up by 
the minor-leaguers, for the field is the 
strongest in the region. When the matter 
of entry had been straightened out, the 
Bears found themselves in the toughest 
qualifying heat. Though Brown's time was 
the sixth fastest of the 14 crews in the 
morning trials, they were not eligible for 



the four-crew final or second-four con- 
solations. 

In their heat. Syracuse led all the way 
with Brown second for the first half-mile 
of the 2000-yard distance. Then the Mid- 
dies moved up one place and held it. They 
had to fight off a final challenge from the 
Bears, who were gaining in the last 100 
yards and narrowed the distance to a mere 
deck-length and a half-second of time. 
Rutgers was far back in fourth place. 

The Associated Press said: "Navy, tra- 
ditional rowing power, was never able to 
build an open-water lead over the Bruins. 
Many spectators apparently didn't realize 
Brown was a rowing school, and, being 
the underdogs, the Bruins had the loudest 
rooting section in the crowd of 10,000 
during their duel with Navy. As the Bears 
turned their shell around in front of the 
judges' stand and started rowing back up- 
stream, they received another ovation. 
Brown, which upset 16 'minor' rivals in 
the Dad Vail Regatta, is the first Vail 
winner to tackle the rowing powers in the 
Easterns. Brown rowed a high stroke all 
the way in its heat, hitting 36 during the 
body of the race and increasing the beat 
to about 40 near the finish. They received 
a rousing cheer from the crowd." 

Though comparisons are unrealistic 
where competition in a heat often deter- 
mines the full effort of the winners. 
Brown's time was better than that of the 
first boat in two of the other three heats. 
The Bears' 6:29.2 was faster than the 
times of Penn, Cornell, B.U., Columbia, 
Yale, Wisconsin, and Dartmouth, as well 
as Rutgers. Harvard took the honors in 
the final, over Syracuse. Yale, and Penn. 
Navy was edged by Cornell in the conso- 



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BROWN SPORTS PUBLICISTS; Baaron Pittenger, left, who has resigned to take the corresponding 
post at Harvard, and his successor, Pete McCarthy, late of the Providence Journal. 



lation race, with M.I.T. and Wisconsin 
following. 

The Brown boating was: Jim Moody, 
Phil Cushing, Lew Covert, John Escher, 
Doug Dysart, Barry Burns, Marshal Bas- 
sick, and Stroke Bill Engeman. with Dick 
MacKenzie as co.xswain. (The first three 
are Seniors, the rest Sophs.) Their fine 
showing earned the Bears an invitation to 
compete in the Chicago trials to pick a 
U.S. crew for the Pan American Games, 
but they had to withdraw because of one 
or two summer-school commitments. 

When Helander took over the coaching 
duties this year, he demanded a strict 
training routine that saw the oarsmen run- 
ning back to the Campus from the See- 
konk after each workout. Their fitness 
paid off. Brown opened the season by up- 
setting Boston University's "regular" crew 
by a length and a half. 

Dartmouth, winner over the Bruins by 
six lengths a year ago, came to Providence 
for Spring Week End expecting another 
easy win. The heavily-favored Indians had 
to stage a muscle-tearing rally in the last 
half-mile to gain a half-length victory. In 
the next two outings, the Brown crew 
coasted to easy wins over Amherst and 
Clark. (An interesting story in connection 
with the Dartmouth race is that the Han- 
over coach wrote suggesting that the 
Green's Jayvees would make a better 
match for the Bears. "We want the Var- 
sity or no one," Helander replied. The 
Varsity came — and nearly didn't get the 
job done.) 

New Calls for Recognition 

The spring success prompted anew an 
old cry from some quarters on College 
Hill: "Can't crew be recognized as an oflfi- 
cial Varsity sport?" Since 1949, when row- 
ing was revived, it has been classified as 
an "activity" — along with skiing, lacrosse, 
and sailing. The University subsidy is an 
allotment from Student Activities of $250, 
although an additional $200 was granted 
to permit the men to travel to Princeton 
for the Eastern Sprints. Coaching salaries 
have been nominal, at best, and financing 
has largely come from alumni contribu- 
tions plus student dues. The one new shell 
this year was the gift of an alumnus. 



Although sentiment on behalf of crew 
mounts each year, Athletic Director Paul 
F. Mackesey points out that recognition is 
a matter of economics. The Athletic Ad- 
visory Council has not felt the athletic 
budget could support such a luxury sport 
as crew. "Dartmouth, with only a limited 
program, spent $25,000 last year." Mac- 
kesey says. "Yale and Harvard spend some- 
thing like $80,000 annually. Brown does 
not want a sport it can accept only in a 
halfway manner. If we recognized crew, 
we would want to support it at least on 
the same basis as Dartmouth." Salaries 
for coaching and rigger plus the expense 
of new shells and maintenance would place 
the sport in the category of being "too rich 
for Brown's blood. " he feels. 

The loyalty of the "informals," alumni 
devotees, and coaches, coupled with the 
1959 triumphs, are sure to keep agitation 
strong, however. 

The season's success was recognized by 
the Athletic Council in the award of 
Brown Varsity "letter sweaters" to the 
members of the Dad Vail crew which rep- 
resented the Brown Rowing Association. 
Twice in the past, members of the Brown 
Yacht Club were similarly honored. One 
precedent was the award to the two under- 
graduates who won the National Dinghy 
Sailing Championship; the second was the 
award to members of the sailing team 
which won the Mid-West Regatta on Lake 
Michigan three seasons in a row. 

Into the Tennis League? 

Coach Art Palmer's tennis team won 
six of its first eight matches and went on 
to post a 6-5 record, the eighth winning 
season in the past decade for the Bear 
courtmen. Impressive wins over good 
Navy and Wesleyan teams highlighted the 
campaign. 

Early in the spring Coach Palmer 
stated that "barring any complications the 
1959 team could be the best I've coached." 
The first complication came prior to the 
Southern swing when Capt. Rufus Bullock 
injured his ankle skiing and was limited 
to doubles play for the remainder of the 
season. Another complication was that Ted 
Simmons, the highly-regarded Junior from 



St. Louis, was obviously rusty and badly 
off in his timing after being away from 
competitive play for two years. Although 
he did fairly well in the tough number 
one position, the former Eastern and Na- 
tional Interscholastic Doubles Champion 
did not play up to his great potential. 
"We might have been able to reverse the 
results of the Columbia and Amherst 
matches if Bullock had been available for 
full-time play and if Simmons had been 
sharper," Palmer noted. 

However, the prospects for 1960 are 
bright. Palmer will lose only Bullock and 
Bob Cole from his top eight men. Sim- 
mons will be back for his Senior season as 
will three of his classmates, Bill Sprinkel, 
Doug Crockwell, and Throwbridge Culla- 
way. Paul Putzel and George Torrey had 
good Sophomore seasons, and Coach 
Palmer is counting on them for substantial 
support next year. 

In addition to this group, two excellent 
prospects will move up from the Cubs — ■ 
Peyton Howard and Nat Chace. Howard 
went undefeated, posting an 8-0 record, 
including decisive wins over the number 
one men at Dartmouth, Harvard, Wes- 
leyan, and Andover. His Harvard opponent 
was the ninth ranking junior in California 
last year. Howard was ranked third in the 
Middle Atlantic States in the 18 and under 
competition a year ago and was number 
one man at Landon Prep. Coach Palmer 
predicts a great future for him at Brown. 
Chace, one of the top interscholastic and 
prep school stars in Rhode Island the past 
two years, also had a fine season, losing 
only to Harvard and Andover. 

There may be other big news brewing 
on the tennis front. Coach Palmer reported 
that he has had several conferences with 
Athletic Director Paul Mackesey and that 
there is a good chance that Brown will 
become a member of the Eastern Inter- 
collegiate Tennis Association next season. 
The loop is made up of the Ivy teams, 
plus Army and Navy. At the present time, 
Brown is the only Ivy college not included. 



Sports Information 

FRANCIS X. McCarthy, sports writer for 
the Providence Journal-Bulletin for the 
past 13 years, was named Director of 
Sports Information at Brown, effective 
July 1. "Pete" replaced Baaron B. Pitten- 
ger. who resigned to accept a similar po- 
sition at Harvard. 

A native of East Providence, McCarthy 
is a graduate of LaSalle Academy and 
Providence College, Class of 1941. He 
served with the Navy during World War 
II, in the European Theater, and was dis- 
charged as a Lieutenant (senior grade) in 
1946. He covered college and professional 
sports for the Journal-Bulletin, with assign- 
ment for the past three years principally 
to Brown events. He brings to the posi- 
tion an extensive knowledge of the history 
of Brown athletics. He is married to the 
former Ruth E. Halton of Riverside and 
is the father of four girls: Patricia. 15; 
Gail, 14; Ann, 12; and Ellen, 8. 

During his four years at Brown. Pitten- 
ger raised the standards of the sports in- 
formation oflRce to new heights, winning 
first place national awards in all three 
phases of the operation: football game 
programs (1955), press box service 
(1957), and footbal press brochures 
(1958). In addition, he developed the 
weekly sports newsletter for the press and 
interested alumni. 



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Sports Shorts 

THE Class of 1910 Award went in May 
to Bill Traub as "that Senior who has 
been on the football squad for three years, 
has earned a Varsity letter, and who has 
earned the highest academic average for 
the first seven semesters." Although he 
missed several games due to injuries, 
Traub led the Ivy League in pass-receiv- 
ing and was rated by many of the rival 
coaches as the best end in the loop. 

George Seaver, one of Brown's out- 
standing wrestlers of recent vintage, won 
the 1907 Trophy as "a Senior who com- 
bined in a high degree scholastic ability. 
athletic ability, and character." Seaver won 
eight of nine matches as a Junior and had 
a perfect 7-0 record this past season. 

Two of the Senior Class Officers were 
members of the football team. The above- 
mentioned Traub is Class Treasurer, while 
tackle Pete McNeish is Secretary. 

Stanley Woodward's annual football 
magazine, which hit the newstands this 
month, lists two of Coach John Mc- 
Laughry's Bruins on the first All-East 
team. Paul Choquette was placed at full- 
back, while Tom Budrewicz was listed as 
one of the two top tackles. 

After living out of a suitcase for sev- 
eral months. Coach McLaughry was fi- 
nally able in May to move his family from 
Amherst to their new home at 155 Brown 
St., Providence. 

Brown's football brochure, edited by 
Director of Sports Information Baaron 
Pittenger for the members of typewriter 
row, was rated as one of the 12 best in 
the country by the Football News of De- 
troit. The award received by Pitt stated 
that the brochure contained "excellent in- 
formation, complete, and attractively pre- 
sented." 

Jack McKinnon, who retired as athletic 
trainer in June after 50 years on the Hill, 
was honored in May at the annual dinner 
of the Rhode Island Football Coaches As- 
sociation. He was praised for his "loyal 
service to the youth of Rhode Island for 
a half-century." 

Thanks to the tireless efforts of Bob 
Bennett '48, Assistant Track Coach, a list 








MEMORIAL DAY saw the 
50th Brown Interscholas- 
tic Track Meet. Paul 
Mackesey '32, Athletic Di- 
rector, is at right. 



of Brown's all-time individual and team 
track records will be available in the fall 
for the press and any interested alumni. 

Our April issue carried a statement by 
Tennis Coach Art Palmer that Nat Chace 
'62 was the outstanding interscholastic and 
prep school star in Rhode Island the past 
two years. Fred W. Berg, Athletic Direc- 
tor at St. George's School, took issue, 
claiming that his Billy Reynolds, now at 
the University of Pennsylvania, had been 
slighted since he had defeated Chace in 
1957 and 1958. Palmer regretted the un- 
intentional slight to Reynolds, and also 
regretted that the lad was at Penn rather 
than on the Hill. 

The informal Brown Lacrosse Club won 
two of seven games, defeating Wesleyan, 
15-5, and Trinity, 10-5. Bob Pyper, a Sen- 
ior from Greenfield, Mass., scored 12 
goals in those two games and paced the 
team on the season. 

The Bruin dinghy sailors won the Jeff 
Davis Trophy again, defeating the Uni- 
versity of Rhode Island skippers in four 
straight races, and finished second to Bos- 
ton University in the Boston University 








LOBSTERS? You may have yours on Sept. 11 when the Brown Club of Rhode Island sponsors its annual 

clambake, after the scrimmage preview of the football squad. Coach McLaughry, left, readily joined in 

the promotion stunt above with Brown Club President Maury Coito '34, center, and Bake Chairman Dick 

Pretot '45. Why not? They like lobster, too. 



Trophy. Although the Bruins qualified for 
the 19th annual New England Dinghy 
finals, they did not finish high enough to 
earn the right to help represent the area 
in the Nationals, which were held at the 
Rhode Island Yacht Club June 17-19. 
Brown was host instead of contender. 

Frank Finney, Brown's record-shatter- 
ing quarterback, was signed to a provi- 
sional contract by the Detroit Lions of 
the National Professional Football League 
in June. He will work out with the Lions 
in August and, if he makes good, will be 
signed to a regular contract prior to the 
start of the official campaign. 

Dave Manson, Brown's sensational Jun- 
ior hurler, and Fran Pittaro, its .413 hit- 
ting shortstop, were named to the NCAA's 
New England All-Star baseball team. 



Clams and Football 

ANEW COACH, John McLaughry, and a 
new system, the Side-Saddle T, will 
feature the 1 1th annual Clambake Scrim- 
mage, sponsored by the Brown Club of 
Rhode Island for followers of Brown foot- 
ball. The event has been scheduled for 
Friday, Sept. II, a week later than has 
been the custom in recent years. The intra- 
squad scrimmage will get under way at 
Brown Field at 2, with the social hour at 
5 and the bake at 6 p.m. at Peleg Francis 
Farm, Rehoboth. 

Pete McCarthy, Brown's new Director 
of Sports Information, expects that many 
of the leading sports writers and sports- 
casters in the East will be on hand for both 
the scrimmage and the bake. Coach Mc- 
Laughry and his staff, including several 
new men. will be on hand to talk infor- 
mally with alumni during the social hour. 
In addition, the coaches will speak briefly 
after the bake on Brown's prospects for 
the coming season. 

Chairman Dick Pretat '45 has an- 
nounced that the affair will be open to all 
Brown men, whether or not they are mem- 
bers of the Club. He expects a large crowd, 
and applications will be honored on a 
first-come, first-served basis while there is 
room. Tickets for the scrimmage, social 
hour, and bake are $6 and may be pur- 
chased by writing to Chairman Pretat c/o 
Woods & Pretat, 808 Hope St., Providence. 



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SINGLES AND DOUBLES: 



Among Those Present 









BRENTON G. SMITH '11, for many yeorj Chief 
of Staff to the Commencement Marshal, had no 
ofTiciol duties this year. He could relax, right, 
with his classmate, Earle B. Arnold, before the 
Procession on Monday morning. 





i 






UNTIL her Daddy came by, she wasn't going to 
be interested in very much else outside the Meet- 
ing House. 



MICHAEL COSTELLO '05, no longer the Sheriff, 

could march swordless as Aide this year. Henry 

C. Hart '01 is left. 



K. BROOKE ANDERSON, former BCA Secretary, 
back from refugee work in the Near East, at- 
tended the Alumni Dinner. 



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Brunonians Far and Near 



EDITED BY JAY BARRY '50 



1897 

GEORGE L. Miner has given to the Uni- 
versity what the April "informal re- 
port to the Friends of the Library" de- 
scribed as "an especially interesting and 
valuable collection of book binders' tools." 
The University now owns "probably one 
of the most interesting and complete work- 
ing collections of binders' tools available 
in any institutional bindery in the coun- 
try." Miner has been a practitioner in the 
craft and has some splendid examples of 
books he has bound for his own library. 

The Library report also cites the acquisi- 
tion of 13 letters which Lincoln wrote to 
his first Secretary of the Treasury, Salmon 
P. Chase. "This collection, part of which 
is unpublished, supplements and comple- 
ments the large gift which Mr. Rockefeller 
made to the Library in the Spring of 
1957." 

Charles L. F. Paull had sad news in 
April. He and his wife were told that they 
must move from their lovely home in 
Englewood, Colo., because of highway 
construction that is demanding their prop- 
erty. "I don't know what my wife and I 
will do." he told a reporter. "We've been 
here 35 years. " They had done a lot of 
special planting, and their wildflowers 
were extraordinary, as Colorado alumni 
saw when he was their host at a Brown 
Club meeting several years ago. "You get 
pretty attached to these homes," Paull 
said. "I remember when they captured a 
bear in the back yard. There's a lot of 
history in the house. Many years ago it 
was a famous gambling den; there were 
supposed to be escape tunnels, but I never 
found traces or proof of any." 



1901 

Dr. Amos L. Taylor, President of Cal- 
vin Coolidge College of Liberal Arts and 
Portia Law School, was the subject of a 
recent feature story in the Journal-Tran- 
script of Franklin, N. H. Its title: "New 
Hampshire Boy Who Made Good." Dr. 
Taylor was born in Danbury, N. H. and 
went to Franklin schools before attending 
Andover. 

The Rev. Irving Enslin rounded out 20 
years of ministry to the Milton (Conn.) 
Congregational Church on Apr. 2. In 
1939, Rev. Enslin retired from his pas- 
torate, a large Baptist church in Derry, 
N. H., and went with his wife to Litch- 
field, Conn., to make their home with their 
son, Francis Enslin, who was then Princi- 
pal of Litchfield High School. However, 
the Milton church was without a minis- 
ter and Enslin was asked to come as the 
Sunday preacher, a "job" that covered 
two decades. 

1902 

A collection of the papers of Frederick 
Phillips Craig has been given to the Uni- 
versity Archives by Charles Eberstadt '34. 
For the most part the papers include let- 
ters written while Craig was a student at 
Brown 60 years ago. Craig, a resident of 
Short Hills, N. J., is a partner in Craig & 
Seymour Co., real estate and insurance. 

1905 

Harold Greene Arnold and his wife ob- 
served their 50th wedding anniversary on 
Apr. 12 with a family reunion at their 
home, 55 Emmonsdale Rd., West Roxbury, 
Mass. Arnold is Minister Emeritus of the 



First Parish Church of West Roxbury, 
Unitarian. 

Credit George Bullock with the sug- 
gestion which led to the holding of a spe- 
cial service in Manning Chapel on Sunday 
of Commencement Week. 

1906 
Henry G. Carpenter, now retired but 
long a member of the Faculty and Ad- 
ministration at the Collegiate School in 
New York, was an April contributor who 
wrote in the Collegiate Journal in appre- 
ciation of the work of Wilson Parkhill's 25 
years as Headmaster. Dr. Parkhill was the 
fourth Headmaster under whom Carpenter 
served. 

1907 

John Courtland Knowles, formerly as- 
sociated with the late Fred A. Otis '03, has 
become associated with Tillinghast, Collins 
& Tanner in the practice of law at 1030 
Hospital Trust BIdg., Providence. The 
Tanner, of course, is the Brown University 
Chancellor, Harold B. Tanner. 

Charles Hibbard, seriously ill for the 
past 18 months, is now in the Veterans' 
Hospital, Augusta, Ga. "Charles was al- 
ways very proud of Brown and the part 
it played in his career," his wife writes. 

1908 

Robert W. Burgess, Director of the 
Bureau of Census, spoke in Providence 
this spring at the annual convention of 
the Population Association of America. 

Fred Edgecomb is back home again 
after 1 1 months of "touring the world." 
"We made 20,300 miles in all, including 
11,700 with the car in the United States, 
Canada, and Mexico." Fred spent some 
time in Honolulu, Hawaii, and reports 
"plenty of excitement there on becoming 
our 50th state." 

Sid Paine wasn't able to make the re- 
union, but he sent his regards to all his 
classmates and their ladies. Sid feels that 
the Class should send out a mimeographed 
sheet with the names and addresses of all 
living classmates. 



1898 

Mr. and Mrs. lames S. Allen spent five 
weeks in Honolulu this past spring — "the 
most restful and delightful vacation ever." 
He regretted missing the annual Boston 
Brown Club dinner but was back in time 
for the Commencement season. 

1899 

Harry J. Williams retired last year after 
more than 52 active years in the legal 
profession. After receiving his degree from 
the Rhode Island Law School in 1906. he 
practiced there until 1919. He moved to 
Oklahoma in 1920 and served as an at- 
torney until 1939. Since that time, he had 
been engaged in legal and administrative 
positions with the American Liberty Oil 
Co., the Warren Petroleum Co., the Sin- 
clair Oil Co., and Texas Natural. His ad- 
dress is 1329 Canterbury Court, Dallas 8. 

J. W. Dows wrote under the pen name 
of "Dulcifier" when he contributed a letter 
to the Editor of the Bridgeport Post in 
April. His international outlook began 
years ago as a graduate student at the 
Sorbonne in Paris. He then encountered a 
common refrain, "Oh, you Americans are 
educated, but you are not wise in the 
ways of the world." His letter applied that 
phrase to present-day conditions. 



Bulls, Byron, and Hi-Fi as Hobbies 



IT WAS THE TURN of the Rcv. William 
Phillips '12 to be "Today's Citizen" 
recently and so be interviewed by Jack 
Carson of the Tucson Daily Citizen. If 
others have as lively a story, it's quite a 
citizenry: "He's preached the Gospel at 
Sing Sing Prison, thrilled to the dancing 
of Pavlova, dwelled deep in the theatrical 
world, and performed a wedding ceremony 
with the four Marx brothers as ushers. On 
top of that, the retired Episcopal minister 
is an aficionado of the bulls." 

As a member of the Order of the Holy 
Cross, which is in charge of Sing Sing's 
Chapel. Phillips discovered ministers were 
transported in and out of the prison in 
Black Marias. He was able to enjoy this 
weekly ride, "complete with two armed 
guards hanging on the back." He got to 
know many celebrities in the theatrical 
world as Assistant Rector of The Little 
Church Around the Corner in New York. 
When George Arliss was President of the 
Episcopal Actors Guild. Phillips became 
Chaplain. At the famous Little Church, he 
married 3400 couples in 45 months. — 30 



couples on one busy day. ("We didn't 
keep any fees, so I'm no millionaire.") 

His interest in bullfighting has led him 
to build up an extensive library on the 
subject, and he often goes to Nogales to 
see the bullfights. ("Most people see just 
the blood, not the whole artistry.") Other 
collecting emphasis is directed toward the 
works of Byron and hi-fi recordings. 

What does he consider his greatest ac- 
complishment? "Saying a prayer over the 
radio during the 1924 Democratic Con- 
vention." When the delegates were hope- 
lessly deadlocked, they asked a prayer for 
guidance, and the Rev. Phillips was called 
on. "The deadlock was broken the same 
day. But the funny part of it is that I'm 
a Republican." 

Although retired, he often assists in 
serving Communion at St. Phillip's-in-the- 
Hills Church. He went to Arizona from 
Plainfield, N. J., for his health in 1943. 
Doctors suggested he carve soap, to keep 
occupied. ("It drove me crazy. I had soap 
all over the place.") So he spent his time 
writing. His book, "Seeking After Perfec- 
tion," was one result. 



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DR. W. RANDOLPH BURGESS '12, left, has received a special Sovings Bond Minute Man Citation 
signed by President Eisenhower, in recognition of his contributions to the Savings Bond Program dur- 
ing his five years in the Treasury Department. The former Under Secretary of the Treasury is U.S. Am- 
bassador to NATO. "One living abroad," said Burgess in accepting the Citation, "has reason to knov/ 
that the financial leaders in Europe are keenly aware of the U.S. Savings Bond Program and recognize 
that the widespread participation of the American people in financing their Government contributes to 

the fiscal soundness of our country." 



Bob Nason and his wife may be leaving 
their home in Huntington Station, N. Y. 
"We are trying to sell out so we can go 
to California where we feel the climate is 
better for old folks. Our son is in San 
Diego and likes it so much that he won't 
come back East." 

Dr. Charles Francis Potter was another 
old friend who wasn't able to make the 
Commencement Week End. "I've always 
dreamed of sometime being able to at- 
tend a Class of '08 reunion, but most 
preachers and writers just can't afford it." 

Irving H. Coffin sent word that his wife 
died May 2. The sympathy of the Class 
goes to him on his loss. 

Leslie Swain, coach at Old Technical 
High School from 1910 to 1931, was a 
speaker at an alumni gathering of that 
school last spring. 

1909 

Four more members of the Class have 
undertaken to assist the Class Invitation 
Phase of the University Bequests Pro- 
gram: Robert C. Weed, Co-Chairman for 
Illinois; E. Lawrence Chandler, Co-Chair- 
man for New York; and, in Rhode Island, 
Judge William M. Connell and Albert E. 
Leach. The names of Dr. Moses L. Cross- 
ley and John H. Wells had been previously 
announced. Each of the six has remem- 
bered Brown in his will. 

Albert Harkness has been reappointed 
to the State Board of Examination and 
Registration of Architects by Governor 
Christopher Del Sesto of Rhode Island 



and is its chairman. He is a partner in the 
firm of Harkness & Geddes. 

Ed Hollen has been awarded a Life 
Membership in the American Society of 
Civil Engineers. He also received a Cer- 
tificate of Appreciation for his long service 
to the Society as Chairman of the Local 
Qualification Committee. 

Henry E. Fowler, Barrington's veteran 
Town Clerk, sports several other titles by 
virtue of his manifold duties in the town. 
Recently he earned a new one — Town 
Forecaster — and it had nothing to do with 
the weather. At noon on Apr. 23, he con- 
fidently predicted that the annual financial 
town meeting would be concluded by 10 
p.m. despite wide-spread reports that it 
might be a long controversial session. 
That evening the town moderator banged 
the gavel for adjournment just as the 
second hand on the High School audi- 
torium clock swept toward 10 p.m. 

1910 
Roy Tasco Davis, who recently retired 
as Ambassador to Haiti and had served on 
missions to Latin America for 27 years, 
has been appointed by the Department of 
State and the American Council on Edu- 
cation as Director of a Latin American 
Orientation Program. He will provide in- 
formation and guidance to several hun- 
dred professors, lecturers, and students 
who have received grants to teach and 
study in the other Americas. The program 
is under the auspices of the Washington 



Elections and Fellowship.s 

Honors which have come to the 
Brown Faculty during the past year 
were identified by President Keeney 
in his Report to the Corporation at 
its meeting May 30: Professor Pfaff- 
mann was elected a member of the 
National Academy of Sciences. Pro- 
fessors Bunnett and Sternberg were 
elected to membership in the Amer- 
ican Academy of Arts and Sciences. 

Among fellowships received were: 
Guggenheim — ProfessorsTomas, 
Mylonas, Ross, Kornhauser, and 
Truell (Professor Kornhauser also 
received a NATO fellowship). Pro- 
fessor Ridgely has received a How- 
ard Fellowship, and Professor Chis- 
holm a Fulbright. Professor Brennan 
has been awarded a Ford Faculty 
Fellowship. 



International Center. Roy formerly headed 
the diplomatic missions to Haiti, Panama, 
and Costa Rica, as well as the commis- 
sion which settled the boundary between 
Guatemala and Honduras. He also served 
on special assignments to Mexico. Colom- 
bia, Ecuador, and Bolivia. For 10 years, 
he was the Director of the Inter-Ameri- 
can Schools Service which established 
American-type schools throughout South 
America. 

Dr. Albert A. Bennett, former Profes- 
sor of Mathematics at Brown, has been 
appointed Visiting Professor of Mathe- 
matics at the University of Rhode Island 
for the next academic year. Dr. Bennett 
spent the past one as Visiting Professor 
at Southern Illinois University. 

Harold E. Henrikson, in a recent letter, 
told of his new bachelor life in Cedar 
Ridge, Calif. "I have joined a couple of 
old age clubs and danced in Sacramento 
until 12 last evening." 

The Rev. Allan D. Creelman, since re- 
tirement last January, has been interim 
pastor of several churches. At present, he 
is with the Plymouth (Mass.) Baptist 
Church. He has just completed 10 years 
as Secretary of the Massachusetts Baptist 
Charitable Society, which included re- 
sponsibility of 46 widows and four or- 
phans. Allan is occupying a new home in 
North Scituate, Mass., but unfortunately 
Mrs. Creelman has been confined by illness 
in the Ripley Road Nursing Home, Cohas- 
set, Mass. 

Winfield W. Greene has moved his office 
to 32 Cliff St., N.Y.C. 

Joseph E. Bliss entertained the South- 
ern California Division of the 1910 Class 
at his home in Encino, Calif., Mar. 21. 
Those present included: Joe and Mrs. 
Bliss, Ed and Mrs. Schaeffer. Fred and 
Mrs. Trover, Malcolm and Mrs. Field, 
Skip and Mrs. Conant, Ralph and Mrs. 
Farnum. and Bill Oakes and his sister. 

Malcolm and Mrs. Field took a belated 
honeymoon to Hawaii in April and early 
May. They were married on Dec. 26, 1958. 

Morris Conant continues as a most in- 
terested booster for Brown and the good 
Class of 1910. He recently made a hurried 
visit to Providence and saw a few old class- 
mates. 

The Rev. Stephen D. Pyle has decided 
to continue his stay in New York at least 
through next October. His new address is 
501 W. 123rd St., Apt. 18C. 

Claude M. Wood recently made a trip 



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to Paris and sent us a most interesting ac- 
count of his visit to museums, cathedrals, 
and other historic points of interest. 

Donald M. Tobin has moved from Rich- 
mond, Vt., to 208 So. Main St., St. Albans, 
Vt. 

Bill Oakes wrote us from Venice, Calif., 
in early spring telling of his visits with 
Skip Conant, 

ED SPICER 

1912 

W. Randolph Burgess, U. S. Ambassa- 
dor to NATO, was the principal speaker 
at the annual meeting of the World Affairs 
Council of Rhode Island. In his talk, he 
claimed that the North Atlantic Treaty has 
proved to be "a massive deterrent" to the 
Russians. Commenting upon John Foster 
Dulles, whose resignation as Secretary of 
State was announced that day, he stated: 
"For sheer penetrating analysis of world 
problems, he was the best of them all." At 
the same time, he predicted that under 
Christian A. Herter "the policies of Foster 
Dulles will be carried through and carried 
through completely." 

Max L. Grant, first President of Miriam 
Hospital, was honored on his 70th birth- 
day. May 5, at a reception in the hospital 
auditorium by members of the Board of 
Trustees and Corporation of the hospital, 
the Miriam Hospital Women's Associa- 
tion, and the professional staff. He re- 
ceived an engraved resolution, voted by 
the Board, "in grateful recognition of his 
outstanding contribution to the relief and 
comfort of those in pain and distress" and 
expressing esteem, affection, and gratitude. 
The next night he was among three Rhode 
Islanders honored by the National Con- 
ference of Christians and Jews. He has 
been Co-Chairman of the region for 26 
years. 

1913 

Mrs. Carleton D. Morse has given to 
the Brown University Library another sec- 



He Found Time to Retire 




GORDON L. PARKER '18, Treasurer of 
Brown University since 1950, now has an 
office in University Hall. He retired recently 
OS Vice-President of tfie Rhode Island Hos- 
pital Trust Co. after affiliation there since 
1921. He has already given the University 
the value of more than 30 years work in 
finance and received an honorory degree 
from his Almo Mater in 1958. 



AFTER COMPRESSING three separate and 
. successful careers into 65 years, W. 
Russell Burwell found time to retire yes- 
terday." That was the way the Cleveland 
newspaper put it in May. Dr. Burwell '15 
stepped down as Vice-Chairman of the 
Board of the Clevite Corporation, but he 
remains on that Board as well as several 
others, including the Wheeling Steel Cor- 
poration. This June he celebrated the 30th 
anniversary of his election to the Brown 
University Corporation, on which he con- 
tinues as a Fellow. 

The Cleveland reporter asked him 
which he liked best: being Dean of Fresh- 
men and Assistant Professor of Mathemat- 
ics at Brown, where he was from 1922 
to 1926; or being an investment banker, 
as he was from 1926 to 1937: or being an 
industrialist, which he has been since then. 
"The latest part of my life has been the 
most interesting," he replied. "There has 
been more activity and the chance to 
build." The writer remarked that it had 
been "pretty fair material success for a 
man who started out with hopes of be- 
coming a college president, who developed 
into a distinguished mathematician, and 
who attained his doctorate following a 
thesis on 'asymptotic expansions of gen- 
eralized hypergeometric functions.' " 

"His five earned college degrees sit 
lightly on Burwell," the story continued. 
"He is a comfortable man upon whom the 
years sit well. He does not look his 65 
summers." Dr. Burwell also received an 
honorary degree from Brown and Case 
Institute of Technology, in addition to a 
Brown A.B., and a Brown Master's in 
1916, and three degrees from Oxford, 
where he was a Rhodes Scholar. His Ph.D. 
there in 1921 was the first awarded to an 
American scholar. 

His wife's cousin is Cyrus S. Eaton, 
Cleveland financier. "He interested me in 
investment banking," Dr. Burwell told the 
reporter. "I found that I had more and 
more the idea that I would like to do ad- 
ministrative work, and this seemed to be 



tion of her late husband's whaling collec- 
tion. We carried an extensive article on 
the collection last fall. 

Rabbi Louis I. Newman delivered the 
discourse at a recent Chapel service at the 
Colgate Rochester Divinity School, of 
which Dr. Wilbour E. Saunders '16 is 
President. His theme was "The Price We 
Pay for Living." 

Dr. Morgan E. Pease has been elected 
to the Board of Directors of the Chiro- 
practic Society of Rhode Island. 

1914 

Paul D. Davis, son of the late Clarence 
A. Davis and Mrs. Davis, has joined the 
public relations staff of the University. He 
has been a reporter for the Providence 
Joiiniiil-Bulletin. with a particular flair 
for science writing. 

1915 

Leonard B. Campbell, Executive Vice- 
President of the Ware (Mass.) Savings 
Bank, has accepted an appointment as 
Class Bequests Program Co-Chairman 
with George Bliven in Massachusetts. 




DR. V\^. RUSSELL BURWELL '15 

the chance." The reporter added: "It was 
also a chance to go broke, which Burwell 
and many other investment bankers did in 
1929. By 1937 he had become solvent and 
operating again, in charge of the New 
York office of Otis & Co., when A. L. 
Williams, President of the Brush Develop- 
ment Co., interested him in the industrial 
field. 

"Burwell became Chairman of Brush 
Development, President of Brush Labora- 
tories, and Treasurer of Brush Beryllium, 
which probably supplied him with enough 
administrative work to make him content. 
In fact, he eventually gave up his office in 
Beryllium and was holding only two Brush 
jobs at the merger of Brush into Cleve- 
land Graphite Bronze, now known as 
Clevite." 



Leonard has three children, Leonard R. 
Campbell '43, John H. Campbell '48, and 
a daughter "who is not a graduate of 
Brown." He also has eight grandchildren. 

Raymond "Stub" Gallant, a resident of 
Largo, Fla., 'was re-married in March. 
"We intend to sell the home here and 
live near Hartford. However, we are com- 
ing back to Florida to spend the winters — 
just to please the Mrs." 

Harold T. Eaton sends greetings from 
the Sunshine State. "I retired from the 
Brockton (Mass.) School System in 1957 
after 33 years of service, and Ruth and I 
moved to Florida. I served in the Her- 
nando County School System during 
1957-58, at which time I left to do some 
writing." 

Harvey G. Denham writes from Menio 
Park, Calif.: "We are back in the area 
where we spent 16 years from 1927 to 
1943. Our three children were born around 
here and are still nearby. We are very 
near Stanford, which adds to our enjoy- 
ment as our three children, my wife, and 
members of her family went there. Since 
retiring from business in October (Cali- 



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JOHN W. HALEY 19 was elected Vice-President 
of the Narragansett Brewing Company at its an- 
nual meeting in May. He was also named to the 
Executive Committee and the newly-created post 
of Generol Advertising Director, supervising ad- 
vertising ond merchandising of all brands. Haley 
has been Advertising Manager and Director of 
Public Relations since the opening of the Cran- 
ston brewery in 1933 and a Director since 1955. 
(Photo by Fabian Bachrach) 

fornia Texas Oil), it has taken a lot of 
time to move out here, find a place to buy, 
and get settled down. So it won't be con- 
venient to get back to Providence this 
year." 

"George Paine and his wife have a 
beautiful place in the Berkeley hills over- 
looking San Francisco Bay. We spent a 
delightful evening with them early in 
May," Denham said in his letter to George 
Bliven. "As you may recall, George re- 
tired from the Navy with the rank of 
Commodore about 11 years ago. Since 
then he has been with the President 
Lines and for some years has been in 
charge of ship construction for them. He 
talks about retiring soon, but I'll believe it 
when I see it." 

1916 

Francis J. O'Brien was named a coun- 
sellor of the Rhode Island Society for the 
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals at the 
annual meeting of that organization last 
spring. 

Abraham Burt played the part of 
Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester, in the 
Phoenix Theatre's production of Shake- 
speare's "Henry IV." The play was staged 
as part of the Arizona Shakespeare Festi- 
val in Phoenix last spring. 

1917 
Arthur B. Homer, President of the 
Bethlehem Steel Corporation, has been ap- 
pointed a member of the Board of Trus- 
tees of Lehigh University. He continues, of 
course, on the Brown University Cor- 
poration as a Life Trustee. 

1918 

Prof. Charles A. Stuart of the Brown 
Biology Department has been reappointed 
to the State Board of Examiners in the 
Basic Sciences. 

When J. Harold Williams was guest of 
honor and speaker at the Statewide "Pot- 



Luck" Dinner of the Boy Scouts in Rhode 
Island, his 40 years of professional service 
in Narragansett Council were saluted. The 
Board of Directors gave him and his wife 
airplane tickets for a visit to their son in 
California. 

1919 

Dr. Sidney A. Fox was signally honored 
by being chosen to deliver the 1959 Walter 
R. Parker Memorial Lecture at the annual 
Ophthalmology Conference of the Univer- 
sity of Michigan. 

H. Harold Whitman has been elected 
President of The Pan American Society 
of the United States, succeeding the Hon. 
Spruille Braden. A Vice-President of the 
First National City Bank of New York, 
Whitman spent the first 30 years of his 
business career in the South American 
branches of that bank. 

Wilfrid W. Brouillette was named Pres- 
ident and Executive Officer of the Salem 
(Mass.) Co-operative Bank in May at the 
annual meeting of its Corporation. He 
joined the bank in 1931 as a clerk and 
worked his way up to Treasurer, prior to 
his present appointment. He is a Past 
President of the Salem Credit Bureau and 
a member of the Salem Chamber of Com- 
merce. 

While Bill McSweeney was hospitalized 
last spring at the Rhode Island Hospital, he 
had the room across the hall from Senator 
Theodore Francis Green '87. The doctors 
advised Bill to take a few weeks off and 
get out in the fresh air and sunshine. Fol- 
lowing the medical dictum to the letter. 
Bill was frequently seen watching the 
Brown baseball, track, and tennis teams in 
action. 

William H. Edwards, President of the 
Rhode Island Bar Association, spoke out 
strongly last May against recent criticism 
of the U. S. Supreme Court by the Ameri- 
can Bar Association. Speaking in the 
State Supreme Court in the annual May 
Day exercises commemorating Law Day- 
U.S.A., he stated that such criticism was 




JAMES A. PEIRCE '19, Director of the Bureau of 
Publications of the John Hancock Mutual Life In- 
surance Co., has been elected Treasurer of the 
International Council of Industrial Engineers. He 
was Chairman of the 1957 ICIE Convention and 
held top offices in the New England Conference 
for Industrial Editors. With John Hancock for 34 
years, he was formerly Advertising Manager. 



"ill considered" and that similar criticism 
from the association of Supreme Court 
justices was "a pretty shoddy thing." Ed- 
wards also claimed that the only real hope 
of saving mankind from extinction is the 
establishment of a true world government 
operating something like our own federal 
government, with a disarmed populance 
and with a legislature, court system, po- 
lice force, revenue system, and develop- 
ment agency, all on a worldwide scale. 

1920 

Kenneth H. Bitting, St. Louis invest- 
ment banker, is a member of the Board 
of Curators of Stephens College. 

Albert E. Lownes helped to plan and 
arrange the John Hay Library's exhibition 
in celebration of the 100th anniversary of 
the publication of Darwin's "Origin of 
Species." The first announcement of the 
theory of evolution appeared in an article 
which Darwin and Wallace published in 
the Journal of the Linnean Society. The 
offprint of the article, a very rare pamphlet 
around which the exhibiiton was centered, 
was loaned by Lownes from his own col- 
lection of works on the history of science. 

Dr. Marshall N. Fulton, Providence 
heart specialist, was named Chairman of 
the American College of Physicians at the 
annual meeting in Chicago on Apr. 20. Dr. 
Fulton is Chief of the Medical Staff at the 
Rhode Island Hospital. 

1922 

Senator G. Ellsworth Gale, Jr. (R- 
East Greenwich, R. I.) missed his first 
General Assembly session in five years 
May 15 because of "foreign commit- 
ments." He and Mrs. Gale left on that 
date for two weeks in England and two 
weeks in France, including a visit with 
the family of their son. 

1923 

H. R. Faulkner is Chairman of the 
Council of the Australian-American Asso- 
ciation in Sydney and had a leading role 
in welcoming Admiral George Dufek 
when the commander of Operation Deep- 
Freeze spoke before the Association in 
April. "We love to see representatives of 
the American Government and other na- 
tional leaders create an outstanding reputa- 
tion and create good will in other coun- 
tries," Diz wrote when he sent his gift 
to the Brown University Fund. Faulkner 
is in charge of Caltex Oil operations in 
Australia, but "it gets lonely being the 
only Brown graduate hereabouts." We've 
told him about Tristan Hearst '37, for 
whom we also have a Sydney address. 

Theodore R. Jeffers, as President of 
the American Dental Trade Association, 
presided over its annual convention in 
May, returning just in time for Commence- 
ment activity on the Hill. He is General 
Manager of Smith-Holden, Inc., in Provi- 
dence. He and Mrs. Jeffers planned to 
travel in Ireland this summer. 

Lawrence Lanpher has been named 
Honorary Chairman of the Board of the 
Providence Better Business Bureau in 
recognition of his past services to the or- 
ganization. His daughter Francine was a 
May bride, with the ceremony taking place 
in Manning Chapel. 

Kenneth Sheldon has accepted a post 
with the U.S. Overseas Mission in the 
Philippines and may be addressed in care 
of the American Embassy in Manila. A 
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was to precede his work as an economic 
consultant. 

Chilton Kemp has been named Princi- 
pal of the Darien (Conn.) Junior High 
School. He has been in the Darien School 
System since 1931 and had been Assistant 
Principal at the Junior High since 1951. 

Kilgore Macfarlane, writing in the 112th 
annual report of the Buffalo Savings Bank 
as its President, finds the opening of the 
St. Lawrence Seaway "a tremendous chal- 
lenge to all the lakeshore cities from Du- 
luth to Buffalo and beyond." 

Prof. Leonard Sayles has been in Europe 
this past spring. Presumably, he has been 
on sabbatical from his teaching in the 
Biology Department at C.C.N.Y. 

Howard L. Fales and his wife were 
scheduled to give a recital at the Green- 
ville (R. I.) Library this summer. Others 
in the series were to be: Prof. David 
Laurent '49 and Prof. Elmer Tolstead of 
Pomona College, former member of the 
Brown Mathematics Department. 

Chesley Worthington is a new Director 
of the Community Concert Association of 
Providence. Prof. Arlan Coolidge '24 con- 
tinues as a Vice-President. 

Robert F. Cahill has been transferred 
from the Boston office of the Aetna Life 
Insurance Company to the Washington. 
D. C, office. He moved in June to 4429 
South 36th St., Arlington, Va. 

1924 

Jack Monk received several "ribbing 
phone calls" about the triumph of a horse 
named "Brown Monk" at Sportsman's 
Park in April. It paid $13.60, but the real 
Brown Monk had no hunch bet down. A 
daily double combination of Brown Monk 
and Bank Night paid $262. 

Charles E. Hopkins, Manager of the 
Harris Lumber Co., Providence, has been 
listed as a worker with the business-in- 
dustry division of the 1959 campaign of 
the Rhode Island Association for Mental 
Health. The group hopes to raise $70,000 
for 1959. 

S. Everett Wilkins, a member of the 
Providence Players, appeared in the spring 
production, "Affairs of State." He took the 
part of Byron Winkler in the Louis Ver- 
neuil comedy. 

Seven more members of the Class have 
agreed to assist the University Bequests 
Program through the Class Invitation 
Phase. All are Rhode Island Co-Chairmen: 
Denison W. Greene, Carleton Goff, M. 
Randolph Flather, Prof. Arlan R. Cool- 
idge, S. Everett Wilkins, Jr., J. A. Lu- 
brano, and Charles E. Hopkins. Robert H. 
Goff is over-all Chairman for 1924. All 
have remembered Brown in their wills. 

1925 

W. Easton Louttit, Jr., University Ar- 
chivist, has given the Library the balance 
of his John Hay Collection. The most re- 
cent gift includes manuscripts and books 
and a half-size bronze bust of John Hay 
which he commissioned Ben Johnson to 
do and had cast at Gorham's. The collec- 
tion was Louttits hobby for many years, 
and his gift was accompanied by an en- 
dowment. While the gift was unrestricted, 
the income will be used for the purchase 
of books in subject fields which he has 
done so much to develop at the Library. 
Louttit is a member of the Publications 
Committee, which has plans well ad- 
vanced for special activity in connection 
with the Brown Bicentennial. Prof. Robert 
W. Kenny is an ex-officio member as 




KILGORE MACFARLANE, JR., '23, retiring President of the Savings Banks Association of the Stale of 

New York, was honored by his associates when he retired from ofTice in April for his "outstanding 

service." He is President of the Buffalo Savings Bank. The presentation was mode by George M. Penney, 

Managing Director of the Association, at its annual meeting. 



over-all Chairman of the Bicentennial ob- 
servance. 

Warren C. Johnson, who received his 
Ph.D. from Brown in 1925, is Vice-Presi- 
dent of the University of Chicago in 
charge of special scientific programs. A 
Faculty member since 1927, he became 
Chairman of the Chemistry Department at 
Chicago in 1945, Associate Dean of the 
Physical Sciences in 1946, and Dean in 
1955. An authority on the chemical 
properties of the rare earths and pluto- 
nium. Dr. Johnson worked during the war 
with the A-bomb project as Director of 
the Chemistry Division of the Clinton 
Laboratories at Oak Ridge. He is a mem- 
ber of the General Advisory Committee of 
the AEC, a member of the Defense 
Science Board of the Department of De- 
fense, and a member of the President's 
Scientific Committee. He was a technical 
consultant of the U. S. delegation to the 
Conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic 
Energy in Geneva. 

Alfred Elson, Jr., is not only active in 
community service generally but specifi- 
cally on the Board of the R. I. Council 
of Community Services, Inc. 

Edward K. Strickler is at the U.S.V.A. 
Center at Kecoughtan, Va. He was dis- 
appointed not to see the Brown baseball 
team play at Hampton during its rainy 
vacation trip. 

Mason B. Merchant, Providence attor- 
ney, is Vice-President and Assistant Sec- 
retary of General Fittings Co. of War- 
wick. He is also one of its Board members. 

1926 

Leslie A. Jones, Assistant Professor of 
English and Technical Director of Dra- 
matics at Brown, prepared a 30-minute 
tape recording in May for presentation be- 
fore the National Association of Watch 
and Clock Collectors at a meeting in 



Swampscott, Mass. The tape was used in 
explanation of slide photographs of 
clocks manufactured by Simon Willard, 
world-famed American clockmaker and 
Revolutionary War veteran. 

Carl H. Porter-Shirley, Superintendent 
of Schools in Newport for the past 11 
years, submitted his resignation in June 
in order to accept a position on the 
Faculty at the University of Maine. Dur- 
ing his administration, the school enroll- 
ment jumped from 4,000 to 6,000 and the 
budget went from $900,000 to $2,167,000. 

Prof. I. J. Kapstein received one of the 
loudest and longest ovations of the Brown 
Chapel season last spring. Speaking before 
a Freshman group, he severely criticized 
the thoughts of a father as expressed in a 
letter in the Brown Daily Herald. The let- 
ter had emphasized the "useless informa- 
tion" inherent in the education of the 
classics. On this basis, Kappy said "you 
can throw out all humanities — none of it 
can be cashed in." On this premise, he con- 
tinued, "you are out of your minds for 
being here. Pack your bags and go home." 
He stated that a college diploma was 
neither a symbol of useless information 
nor an "Ivy League union card," rather the 
means that will show one how to live and 
how to experience the delight in living 
and the happiness and pleasure of the 
human spirit. 

Willard Potter was back in Maine in 
May at Dutch Neck, Waldoboro, having 
finished his round-the-world journey with 
Mrs. Potter. "At Bangkok," he said on 
one postal en route, "the only Buddha 
that looked at ease was the 100-foot 'Re- 
clining Buddha,' asleep with one eye 
open." 

Noel M. Field, Providence attorney, is 
a new member of the Board of the Provi- 
dence Boys' Club. It recently raised $500,- 
000 for a new South Side clubhouse. 



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THOMAS J. WATSON, JR., '37 was moderator foi Mie Congressional panel discussion in April when 

delegates from 43 countries attended the International Chamber of Commerce Congress in Washington. 

At his right, is Representative William B. Widnall '26, one of the 10 members of the Congressional 

panel who answered questions from the audience of nearly 2000. 



1927 

Dave Mishel again is operating Camp 
Brunonia in Casco, Me., this summer. A 
highlight of the season will be a basketball 
clinic conducted by Bill Sharman, Boston 
Celtics star, and others from the National 
Basketball Association. 

Selig Greenberg, feature writer for the 
Providence Joiiinul-Biillelin, was honored 
last spring by the Gilbert-Stuart Parent- 
Teacher Association for his writings in 
the field of mental health. He was given 
a scroll "as an expression of appreciation 
and acknowledgement of the outstanding 
service of Selig Greenberg to his fellow 
men." 

Prof. William E. Benford, who is also 
a Navy Captain, lectured before Navy 
personnel in Newport on May 31 about 
the St. Lawrence Seaway. He visited the 
Seaway in March, during which time he 
saw the Bertrand H. Snell being flooded 
for the first time since the close of the 
1958 navigation season in December. One 
of his guides was Edward R. Place '24, 
Information Officer for the Seaway. 

1928 

Mr. and Mrs. Loring P. Litchfield missed 
their first Brown reunion in many years, 
going to Syracuse University instead to 
see their daughter graduate. 

Hi Caslowitz watched his son graduate 
last month. It's a true Brown family, with 
Hi, his brother, son. daughter, and 
nephews graduating from the University. 

During the first week of May, Clint 
Owen and Jack Heffernan took part in 
ceremonies attendant to the annual ROTC 
Review at Brown, presenting awards to the 
ROTC Units at their annual review: Com- 
mander Owen presented a Navy award, 
while Lt. Col. Heffernan presented an 
Air Force award. 

Thomas J. Paolino, State Supreme Court 
Justice, went back 35 years last spring to 
his days as a pupil in the Class of 1924 at 



Classical High School in Providence. He 
was the featured speaker at the 35th Class 
Reunion Dinner held at the Brown Faculty 
Club. A Brown classmate. Dr. Seebert J. 
Goldowsky, was Chairman of the affair. 

Earl H. Bradley has been elected a Di- 
rector of General Fittings Co. of Warwick, 
R. I. In addition to being President of 
B-I-F Industries, Inc., he is a member of 
the Advisory Board of Liberty Mutual 
Insurance Co. and a Director of the 
Ansonia Wire & Cable Co. 

Sam Levy was a spring visitor to the 
Campus. His son, Dick, earned his 
Varsity swimming letter last winter as a 
frees tyler. 

1929 

Matthew P. Zendzian is President of the 
Zendzian Co., Inc., planned insurance, of 
Milwaukee. He and his wife spent a hectic 
spring helping their daughter, Karen 
Lynne, to plan her July wedding. 

Dr. Aresto P. Tortolani has been named 
Assistant Health Director in Plainville, 
Conn. He has maintained a local practice 
in that town for the past 20 years. Dr. 
Tortolani also is affiliated with the New 
Britain General Hospital and the Hartford 
Hospital, where he interned. 

Harold S. Moskol and Westcott E. S. 
Moulton '31 have been members of the 
Board of Directors of the R. I. Council of 
Community Services this year. 

1930 

Gilbert C. Rich, Librarian of the Hol- 
yoke Public Library, has completed 13 
years in that position. He is a member of 
the American Library Association, a past 
president of the Massachusetts Library 
Association, and a former treasurer of the 
New England Library Association. 

Dr. John S. Dziob, Providence physi- 
cian, has been awarded a pin by B-I-F 
Industries, Inc., for 15 years' devoted and 
conscientious service. In presenting the 
pin, President Earl H. Bradley '28 stated 



that although the doctor was not a com- 
pany employee, he was nevertheless very 
close to the company and its employees. 
He gave Dr. Dziob credit for much of the 
success of the company's plantwide safety 
program — a program that has won several 
awards for excellence. Dr. Dziob runs the 
fully-equipped surgical clinic for the B-I-F 
Industries, Inc., five days a week, several 
hours each day. With the assistance of a 
full-time nurse, he handles all medical 
problems of the 970 company employees. 
He carries on his own practice at 148 
Blackstone Blvd. He also is a member of 
the staff of the Rhode Island Hospital and 
is outpatient surgeon at Brown four days 
a week. 

Ray B. Owen has been elected Vice- 
President and a Trustee of the Rhode 
Island Society for the Prevention of 
Cruelty to Animals. 

1931 

Irving Blanchard has been elected Presi- 
dent of the Florida Chamber of Commerce 
Executives. He is Vice-President of the 
Bradenton Chamber of Commerce and 
has been active in the Southern Associa- 
tion Chamber of Commerce Executives 
and the American Chamber of Commerce 
Executives. In addition, he served as Di- 
rector, Vice-President, and Treasurer of 
the FCCE. June was a big month for Irv 
and his wife, Ada. Their son, David, was 
graduated from Duke and made plans to 
attend UCLA Graduate School under a 
Hughes Aircraft Master's Fellowship. 
Their other son was graduated from high 
school in lune and will attend Florida 
State University in the fall. Irv had a visit 
from a classmate, Paul Snyder, last spring. 
He reports that the welcome mat is out for 
any Brunonians in the Bradenton area. 

Dr. Ralph Richardson, as President of 
the Chapin Hospital Staff Association in 
Providence, acted for the Mayor in pre- 
senting the Charles V. Chapin Medal for 
1959 to Prof. John R. Paul of Yale at the 
148th annual meeting of the R. I. Medical 
Society. The award memorializes the late 
Dr. Chapin '76, whom Professor Paul 




HUBBELL ROBINSON, JR., '27 went on a closed 
circuit broadcast in May to inform his associates 
that he was resigning as Executive Vice-President 
in charge of network programs. Creator of TV's 
"Climax" and "Playhouse 90," he now heads 
his own production company to do Ford specials. 



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praised in his speech for his pioneering in 
public heahh and work in promoting pre- 
ventive medicine. 

Westcott E. S. Moulton, reelected Presi- 
dent of the Federal Hill House Association 
in Providence in May, needed a speaker 
for its 72nd annual meeting. He found a 
good one in his classmate, Joseph M. 
Davis. 

Bernard V, Buonanno, General Man- 
ager of Metro-Atlantic, Inc., and Warren 

A. Pearce '32, Vice-President of Ballou, 
Johnson & Nichols Co., have been named 
as workers of the business-industry division 
of the 1959 campaign of the R. I. Associa- 
tion for Mental Health. 

T. Robley Louttit was elected President 
of the Rhode Island Society for the Pre- 
vention of Cruelty to Animals at the 
group's annual meeting. He also was 
elected a Trustee of the organization. 

Kenneth A. Henn has been named Do- 
mestic Sales Manager for the Jones & 
Lamson Co., Springfield, Mass. In this 
new capacity, he will direct the activities 
of all District Offices in addition to the 
Domestic and Canadian Agents. Ken has 
been with the concern since 1939. 

Arthur Sondheim of Brookline, Mass., 
got a little publicity recently when he lost 
a goat, but the police rounded up the 
animal with its two kids. Nursing an 
ulcer, Sondheim keeps the goat for the 
milk that is part of his diet. 

Winfield Townley Scott joined the Fac- 
ulty of the Indiana University Writers' 
Conference this summer for the week's 
workshops. His field, of course, was poetry. 
By the way, we failed to mention at the 
time the lively exchange between Scott and 
Edith Sitwell in the Saturday Review last 
winter. She did not like his critique of her 
anthology and said so: Scott's reply, though 
temperate, piled up a few points. 

1932 

Charles B. Krebs is President of Charles 

B. Krebs & Co., Inc., administrators of un- 
employment insurance tax reduction pro- 



Sugar and a Rat 

EVEN white rats have a sweet tooth. 
Prof. Carl Pfaffmann '33 discussed the 
reaction of animals and people to the sense 
of taste before the 30th annual meeting 
of the Eastern Psychological Association 
in Atlantic City on April 3. Introduced as 
an outstanding authority on the study of 
perception, he gave the keynote address in 
his role as President of the Association. 
About 4000 psychologists from a dozen 
States heard his talk on "The Pleasure of 
Sensation." 

He reported on experiments which had 
succeeded in measuring by electrical means 
the nerve impulses that were set in motion 
from taste-perception. Sweets were proven 
to produce the most pleasant sensations 
and bitter foods the most unpleasant ones. 
Certain amounts of salt were proven to be 
welcome if the physical need for the salt 
was there. But, when the need for salt did 
not exist, it no longer produced a pleasant 
sensation. 

Sugar, on the other hand, continued to 
be desirable even when not required as a 
food. It was preferred even to water, in 
most instances. It is a reward for a goal 
for which a creature will perform tasks 
and work at things it might otherwise not 
want to do. 



grams in Los Angeles. He is a member of 
the National Association of Cost Account- 
ants, Los Angeles Chapter; the Harvard 
Club of Southern California, and the L.A. 
Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity. 
In 1950 he was the author of "Digest of 
Appeals Board Decisions." 

Richard A. Hurley, Jr., has been elected 
to the Board of the Providence Boys' Club. 

T. Dexter Clarke is Class Chairman 
under the Brown University Bequests Pro- 
gram, giving 1932 representation in the 
Class Invitation Phase along with nearly 
30 other Classes. As described in the 
March issue, the program is functioning 
in Classes more than 25 years out of Col- 
lege. Once the Chairman has remembered 
Brown in his own will, he invites class- 
mates to serve as Co-Chairmen who carry 
the idea to others. It has been emphasized 
that the sole objective is to get confirma- 
tion from each participant that Brown has 
been included in his will. The amount of 
the bequest is not subject to discussion. 

Hugh S. Butler has been elected a Di- 
rector and member of the Executive Com- 
mittee of the Board of Directors of the 
Simmons Company of New York. Vice- 
President in charge of sales, Butler joined 
the firm in 1933. 

Everett B. Nelson was Chairman of the 
"Pot Luck Supper" of the Narragansett 
Council, Boy Scouts of America, which 
more than 2000 attended in Providence on 
May 5. One of his committeemen was 
William N. Davis, Manager of Dining 
Halls and Student Residence at Brown. 

Judge William H. McSoley, Jr., came 
out in favor of spring and love recently, 
but he didn't approve of a Providence 
youth brought before him for driving 50 
miles an hour through city traffic with an 
arm around his girl. 

1933 

Norman J. Blair has been named As- 
sistant Manager in the Underwriting and 
Contract Division of the Group Pensions 
Department with the Massachusetts Mu- 





PROF. CARL PFAFFMANN '33, Brown Psycholo- 
gist, was elected to the Notional Academy of 
Sciences at its April meeting. One of the highest 
honors on American scientist con receive, it is 
based on "distinguished and continued achieve- 
ments" in original research. 



OGDEN E. SAWYER '32 is the new Chief Engi- 
neer for the New England Electric System. A 
resident of Wellesley, he joined the System in 
1932 with the Narragansett Electric Company. 

tual Life Insurance Co. in Springfield. He 
has been with the firm since 1953. Prior to 
that, he was an Instructor of Psychology 
at Hofstra College and a teacher and 
Director of Testing and Guidance at Green 
Mountain College. 

William C. Whittemore, formerly As- 
sistant Treasurer of the John Hancock 
Mutual Life Insurance Co., Boston, has 
been elected its Treasurer. He has been 
associated with John Hancock since 1945 
and has been an Assistant Treasurer of 
the Company, specializing in municipal 
and railroad investments, since 1949. Last 
March he was elected a Town Meeting 
Member from Wellesley Hills. 

Dr. Alex M. Burgess, Jr., has been 
elected President of the Rhode Island 
Heart Association. 

Roger D. Elton has been elected as a 
Director of the Housatonic Public Service 
Co., Derby, Conn. He is Vice-President in 
the National Department of Manufacturers 
Trust Co., New York City. 

Edgar Dannenberg has been named Co- 
Manager of the Madison Avenue office of 
Steiner, Rouse & Co., members of the New 
York Stock Exchange. "I don't see too 
many men from my Class, but there are 
many Brown men working in the IBM 
office right across the street." 

Herbert L. Anderson, Finance Chairman 
of the Cranston district of the Narra- 
gansett Boy Scouts Council, was one of 
six Rhode Island Scouters who received 
Silver Beaver awards last spring at the 
group's fourth annual appreciation night. 
The Silver Beaver, one of Scouting's highest 
awards, is conferred by the National Boy 
Scout Council for "distinguished service to 
boyhood." Herb is a partner with Eastern 
Construction Co. 

1934 

In his new post as Director of Marketing 
for the American Brake Shoe Company, 
Arthur P. Felton is coordinating marketing 
functions at the corporate level. He also 
assists the company's nine operating di- 
visions in their marketing problems. Other 
responsibilities: advertising and economic 
forecasting and assistance in evaluating 
companies that Brake Shoe is considering 



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for purchase. His office is at 530 Fifth 
Ave., New York 36. Before going with 
Brake Shoe, Felton had held vice-presi- 
dencies with three other companies: Nor- 
folk Paint Corporation, Quincy, Mass., 
1945-52; Bruce Payne and Associates, Inc., 
management consultants; and Cunningham 
and Walsh, Inc. 

Gordon MacPherson has been named 
Vice-President for Manufacturing with 
Reed & Barton, 135-year-old Taunton 
silver firm. He had been Assistant to the 
President of Ford Motor Co. before going 
with the 135-year-old Taunton silver firm 
in 1954. 

Charles Eberstadt, in addition to a 
generous contribution toward the purchase 
of a manuscript for the Lincoln Collection 
at Brown, has also given to the University 
Archives a collection of the papers of 
Frederick Phillips Craig '02. 

1936 

Prescott W. N. Gustafson, President of 
Frank N. Gustafson and Sons, Inc., Provi- 



dence contractors, is President of the 
Rhode Island Chapter, Associated General 
Contractors. As such he appeared in news 
photos of the second annual safety dinner 
of the organization in April. He appeared 
helmeted with a construction worker's 
safety headgear. 

Irving S. Williams, an English teacher 
at Fox Lane School, Bedford, N. Y.. has 
been awarded a John Hay Fellowship by 
the John Hay Whitney Foundation. The 
Fellowship includes tuition and a sum 
equal to the recipient's salary. He plans to 
study at Harvard for a year, starting in 
September. 

Gustav E. Olson, long-time member of 
the West Warwick Republican Town Com- 
mittee, resigned from that organization. 

With 50,000 Boy Scouts expected in 
Colorado Springs for the big anniversary 
Jamboree, Gerald M. Richmond has been 
assigned to head up phases of the training 
program there. He has been detached for 
that purpose from his normal duties with 
the U. S. Geological Survey at the Denver 



The Baptists Elect Tuller 



THE American Baptist Convention 
elected the Rev. Dr. Edwin H. Tuller 
'35 as its General Secretary at the de- 
nomination's annual meeting in Des 
Moines in June. He becomes the top ad- 
ministrator of the ABC. having been 
nominated by the General Council in 
March. He succeeds the Rev. Dr. Reuben 
E. Nelson, first to hold the post of Gen- 
eral Secretary when it was created in 
1950. 

Dr. Tuller has been General Director of 
the Baptist Council on Missionary Co- 
operation and Associate General Secretary 
of the Convention since June, 1957. He 
submitted his resignation from those posi- 
tions in March in order to accept nomina- 
tion to the higher office. This year he has 
also been Co-Director of the denomina- 
tion's $7,500,000 campaign to meet the 
"Christian Higher Education Challenge." 
He will continue in that capacity for an- 
other year. 

As Director of the Council on Mission- 
ary Cooperation, Dr. Tuller has been in 
charge of budget-raising and promotional 
activities for the 1,500,000 members of 
the American Baptist Convention, which 
includes more than 6300 churches in 37 
States, including Alaska and Hawaii, and 
the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. 
Under his leadership, giving to all phases 
of the ABC work increased by a half- 
million dollars during 1957-58. 

Prior to going to New York headquar- 
ters. Dr. Tuller was Executive Secretary 
of the Massachusetts Baptist Conven- 
tion for two years. He led the denomi- 
nation's work in 300 American Baptist 
Churches in the Bay State and was espe- 
cially active in starting new churches. 
Earlier he had been General Secretary of 
the Connecticut Council of Churches, As- 
sistant Executive Secretary and Director 
of Christian Education of the Connecticut 
Baptist Convention, and Assistant Pastor 
of Calvary Baptist Church in Washington, 
D. C. 

A native of Hartford, he did his 
theological studies at Colgate Rochester 
Divinity School, receiving a B.D. in 1938 
and following this with graduate work in 
Paris. He was ordained a Baptist minister 
in 1937. 




THE REV. DR. EDV/IN H. TULLER '35 when he 
received an honorary D.D. from Brown last year. 
He has become General Secretary of the Ameri- 
can Baptist Convention. 



When the First Baptist Church in Provi- 
dence rededicated its Meeting House in 
1958, Dr. Tuller's was one of two honor- 
ary degrees conferred by Brown Univer- 
sity. The citation by President Keeney 
said: "Edwin Hurlbert Tuller: As an un- 
dergraduate at Brown you were a distin- 
guished student, athlete, and leader of 
your fellows and have since been a strong 
force among our alumni. We have fol- 
lowed with pride and gratitude the growth 
of your ministry in two States, the Nation, 
and now the World, and marvel that the 
same joy in life you exhibited as a youth 
is still evident in your work and words, 
despite the heavy responsibilities you have 
assumed and the great opportunities which 
lie ahead of you." His responsibilities and 
opportunities continue, in even greater 
measure. 



Federal Center. He did his Scouting as 
a boy in Rhode Island. 

David C. Scott, Jr., President of Scott 
Testers, Inc., in Providence, is a member 
of the Board of Directors of the R. I. 
Council of Community Services. 

Conrad E. Green, prominent Providence 
architect, has been appointed to the State 
Board of Examination and Registration 
of Architects by Governor Del Sesto. 

1937 

James F. McCoy was elected District 
Governor of Rotary International at the 
795 District Conference in Canton, Mass. 
McCoy, a former Probate Judge, is a 
prominent Pawtucket attorney. The Dis- 
trict includes the 46 Rotary clubs from 
southeast Massachusetts and Rhode Island. 

Luther E. Stanhope has been elected to 
the office of Executive Vice-President with 
Carter Rice, Storrs & Bennett, Inc., 273 
Summer St., Boston. The firm also has 
offices in New York and Baltimore. He 
sent best wishes to his former teammate 
and Brown's new head football coach, 
John McLaughry. 

1938 

LCDR Kenneth C. Foote. USN, finished 
his tour of duty in the Philippines in June, 
and he has returned for duty in Washing- 
ton, D. C. "The wife and I and the four 
kids made the long cross-country trip from 
California by Microbus, seeing all the 
sights and our scattered families in the 
process." Shortly before he left the Philip- 
pines, a Brown man "found" him when 
Ken's Brown Alumni Monthly arrived at 
the base. The other Brown man was Ens. 
John S. Eskilson '57, who was stationed 
at the Naval Communications Station 
there. 

Dr. Nelson Marshall has been appointed 
Professor of Biological Oceanography and 
Administrative Associate in the University 
of Rhode Island's Narragansett Marine 
Laboratory. Dr. Marshall was Associate 
Director of the Oceanographic Institute of 
Florida State University from 1952 to 
1954. In 1955, he was visiting investigator 
at the Bingham Oceanographic Laboratory 
at Yale University. He also has served as 
a research fellow of the Woods Hole 



As We Grow Older 

Dr. Warren Andrew, who re- 
ceived his Sc.M. from Brown in 
1933, earned the 1959 award by the 
Gerontological Research Foundation 
at its annual meeting in St. Louis 
in May. He has been active in re- 
search and publication in the field 
of old age, most recently as Chair- 
man of the Anatomy Department at 
Indiana University School of Medi- 
cine. 

In his address before the Founda- 
tion, Dr. Andrew said that not only 
should man's life be longer but that 
his health and vigor should be re- 
tained so that even the end of life 
need not be attended by pain, anx- 
iety, and sorrow. "We may well be- 
lieve that the remarkable advances 
in our fundamental knowledge of 
living matter . . . are carrying med- 
ical science forward to the place 
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Oceanographic Institution. His most recent 
position was as Dean of the College of 
Liberal Arts at Alfred University; he'd 
been Dean of the College of William and 
Mary earlier. 

Alderic Senecal, Jr., formerly with the 
Atlantic Refining Co., is Marketing Man- 
ager with the Tidewater Oil Co., covering 
the New York district. 

Fred A. Forbes, Public Relations Coun- 
sel for the Crotched Mountain Foundation, 
Greenfield, N. H., has been appointed 
Director of Development for the Boston 
Evening Clinic. He has served as Public 
Relations Director of Rider College, Tren- 
ton, N. J., and Public Relations Consultant 
for the American Cancer Society's Penn- 
sylvania Division. 

1940 

Harry Piatt, Sales Manager for the C. J. 
Fox Co., is a worker in the business-in- 
dustry division of the 1959 campaign of 
the Rhode Island Association for Mental 
Health. 

Donald A. Jones, Chairman of the 
Cranston School Committee, resigned from 
the board last month. A Republican, he 
had been a member for seven years and 
Chairman since last January. 

Frederick Bloom, Executive Vice-Presi- 
dent of The 210 Associates in Boston, 
found a John Hay quotation on the back 
of a wine list from the Silvermine Tavern 
in Norwalk, Conn.: "Some say three 
fingers, some say two; I shall leave the 
choice to you." Bloom sent it along to 
College Hill with the note: "I don't know 
whether this ought to be added to the John 
Hay Collection in the Library or not." 

1941 

George Hurley, Jr., was able to get 
away from his Government duties in Eng- 
land in April for a motor trip with his 
family in Belgium, France, and Holland. 




ALFRED E. KESSLER '35 has been installed as 
President of the National Conference of Tuber- 
culosis Workers. He is Executive Secretary of the 
Marion County Tuberculosis Association, Indian- 
apolis. He will go to Turkey in September to at- 
tend the 15th Conference of the International 
Union Against Tuberculosis, taking part in a 
panel discussion and giving a paper. Before 
moving to Indianapolis in 1947, Kessler was in 
professional TB work In Buffalo and Denver. 



Thirty years ago he saw much of the same 
territory while with his father, the late 
George Hurley '07, at the time of a 
major Rhodes Scholars reunion. 

John Shartenberg's father, Charles 
Shartenberg, died in May. He had been 
Vice-President and General Manager of 
the Pawtucket department store, Sharten- 
berg's, Inc., and active in civic and business 
circles for more than half a century. 

Dr. George B. Corcoran, Jr., partici- 
pated in the opening program of a spring 
television series entitled "The Doctor 
Speaks" over WHYN-TV, Channel 40, 
Springfield. His topic was "Your Eyes." 

1942 

Irving R. Levine, NBC correspondent in 
Rome, was named in May to receive a 
Columbia Journalism Alumni Award for 
distinguished service to journalism. He was 
graduated from the Graduate School of 
Journalism at Columbia in 1947. He 
covered Europe and the Far East before 
beginning a Moscow assignment that lasted 
until the first of this year. His book, "Main 
Street, U.S.S.R.," has been on the best 
seller list. 

Edmund F. Armstrong is Vice-President 
of the Westminster Unitarian Church in 
East Greenwich, which is making plans 
for a new church and school building. 
The congregation's expansion is particu- 
larly interesting because the Church moved 
from Providence last fall. 

William C. Giles, Jr., in cooperation 
with Western New England College, con- 
ducted a Bar Review Course for the six- 
week period immediately preceding the 
Massachusetts Bar Examination given early 
this month. Giles is a partner in the 
Springfield law firm of Buckley, Richard- 
son, Godfrey, and Burbank, and is Asso- 
ciate General Counsel of Monarch Life 
Insurance Co. 

1943 

Edward T. Wilcox, Director of the Ad- 
vanced Standing Program at Harvard, re- 



A Novel Thank-You 



FRIENDS of Brown University talk about 
it, even in far-away places. Such was 
the case when Mrs. Sol 'W. Weltman met 
Daniel J. Brand '40 in Brazil. Mrs. Welt- 
man has known the University as a Trustee 
of the Jacob Ziskind Charitable Trust and 
sister of the late Mr. Ziskind. whose will 
created the Trust. When the West Quad- 
rangle was being built, the foundation 
made a grant of $50,000 toward it. 

Writing about recent travel in South 
America, Mrs. Weltman added the fol- 
lowing paragraph in a letter to Vice-Presi- 
dent Thomas B. Appleget '17: "Inciden- 
tally, Brown was very much in our con- 
versation while we were in Brazil. We were 
very fortunate to have as our host Mr. 
Daniel Brand, a loyal alumnus of Brown. 
Mr. and Mrs. Brand, the son-in-law and 
daughter of very dear friends, were our 
hosts during our stay in Sao Paulo. They 
added greatly to the pleasures of our trip. 

"In appreciation of their many kind- 
nesses, we are sending the enclosed check, 
through you, to the Alumni Fund. We 
will appreciate it if an acknowledgment is 
sent to the Brands. It is always a pleasure 
to find friends with mutual interests, es- 
pecially away from home." (The check 
was for $50.) 




EDWARD A. FONTAINE '38 has been elected 
Vice-President of Puget Sound Power & Light 
Company and will supervise its engineering and 
operating activities from Seattle headquarters. 
He has been Manager of the Electric Department 
of the Stone & Webster Service Corporation of 
New York. His broad operating and administra- 
tive experience in the electric utility field also 
includes service with West Coast Power in Port- 
land, Ore., and Sierra Pacific Power in Reno be- 
fore joining Stone & Webster in 1949. 

Viewed in April the four years during 
which it "progressed from a theory to an 
established process," as the Harvard 
Alumni Bulletin put it. More than 700 
students have been directly affected by 
Harvard's granting them freedom from 
pursuing elementary courses when they 
have shown the desire and ability to do 
advanced work. One thing disturbed Wil- 
cox: "One private school has supplied al- 
most one quarter of our advanced place- 
ment candidates; eight schools have 
supplied over one half." 

Seth K. Gifford passed his R. I. bar 
exams, it was announced in May. 

Robert W. Radway, a Vice-President of 
the Rhode Island Hospital Trust Co., was 
reelected Treasurer of the Rhode Island 
Bankers Assn. at its annual luncheon meet- 
ing on Apr. 22. 

1944 

Dr. Charles H. Philbrick, Assistant 
Professor of English at Brown, gave a 
reading of his poetry at a meeting of the 
Ladies of the Faculty in Alumnae Hall on 
Apr. 16. 

1945 

Prof. David E. Warren of the Political 
Science Department at the University of 
Rhode Island will become the moderator 
of the WJAR-TV show. "The World 
Around Us" in September. He participated 
in the URI series "Perspectives and Close- 
ups" over WPRO-TV in 1958 and drew 
rave notices as "a most promising and 
dynamic TV personality." In keeping with 
his political science background. Professor 
Warren expects to devote more of "The 
World Around Us" time to examinations 
of local politics than had previously been 
the practice. 

Michael A. Gammino, Jr., was R. I. 
Chairman for the United Negro College 
Fund for the second year in a row. 

Douglas Snow played the part of Law- 



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rence, the butler, in "Affairs of State." the 
April presentation of The Players. It re- 
ceived a good press. 

1946 

Dan Sargent is a new Vice-President 
with Manufacturers Trust Co., 44 Wall St., 
New York City. His rise with the firm has 
been rapid. He was appointed an Assistant 
Treasurer in 1955 and an Assistant Vice- 
President the following year. 

1947 

LCDR Kenneth Gavitt is Executive Of- 
ficer on the new destroyer Barry and has 
been living in Brenton Village, Newport. 
He's had a variety of experience in his 19 
years in the Navy, and destroyer duty 
takes him back to the branch of the serv- 
ice to which he was first assigned on get- 
ting his commission. He has attended the 
Naval Line School at Monterey, studied 
mine-warfare and commanded a division 
of minesweepers, and then had a tour as 
Mines Officer on the staff of the Com- 
mander Mine Force, Atlantic Fleet. 

Ross Stong. science teacher at King 
Philip Junior High School, West Hartford, 
has received a grant from the National 
Science Foundation and is attending the 
summer session at the Teachers College, 
New Britain. 

The Rev. Clyde J. Walsh, Assistant 
Pastor of St. Mary's Church, Bristol, has 
been named Spiritual Director of a com- 
munity of diocesan brothers, to be known 
as the Society of the Brothers of our Lady 
of Providence. It will have its beginnings 
in September. Father Walsh has served St. 
Mary's Church since he was ordained in 
1951. 

Charles Goodwin, former teacher at the 
Gilman School in Baltimore, has been ap- 
pointed Headmaster of the Meadowbrook 
School, Weston, Mass. 

1948 

Capt. Warren M. Clark has been trans- 
ferred to Paris, where he is Chief, Ac- 



Ill Kansas City Post 

THE Kansas City Art Institute and 
School of Design has chosen Richard 
H. Brunell '49 as its new President on the 
eve of its 75th anniversary. He had been 
Dean of the Institute for nearly a year 
and previously was Director of the Atlanta 
Art Institute. In his acceptance statement 
on May 20, President Brunell said: "The 
era ahead of us offers a great challenge to 
the artist-designer who so largely influ- 
ences the quality of our environment, 
communications, and creative expressions." 

Brunell, who also holds degrees from 
Pratt Institute and R. I. School of Design, 
has also studied abroad. He has combined 
an active career as a designer with his 
various assignments as an art teacher and 
administrator in Providence, New York, 
and Atlanta. In four successive years he 
was the winner of an annual graphic de- 
sign award in Atlanta; in 1957 he was 
one of 10 nominees for Art Director of 
the Year in a magazine poll. 

During World War II, as an Air Force 
Captain, Brunell received a special com- 
mendation for a series of illustrations re- 
sulting from his experiences as a photo- 
reconnaissance pilot in Europe. Recently 
he served as Co-Chairman of the Mid- 
America Art Exhibition and Chairman of 
the Missouri College Art Conference. 




PROF. JOHN K. BARE, Co-Chairman of the De- 
partment of Psychology and Education at Carle- 
ton College, is engaged in a $16,000 research 
project for the Notional Institute of Health on 
the physiology of hunger in white rats. Dr. Bare 
received his graduate degrees at Brown. 



counts Office, Europe, for the Army. Mary 
and the three children. Beth, Berta, and 
Barbie, sailed with him in June. 

John E. Johnson has been appointed 
assistant to the chief engineer of the Buf- 
falo steel plant of Republic Steel Corp. 
Johnson, who joined Republic 10 years 
ago, had been a field engineer at the plant 
since 1955. He is a member of the Asso- 
ciation of Iron and Steel Engineers and 
the Industrial Management Club, and is 
a New York State Professional Engineer. 

Samuel W. Leonard and his wife had 
the pleasure of entertaining K. Brooke 
Anderson in Alexandria, Egypt, in late 
."Xpril, when all sent a card of greeting to 
Alumni House. Leonard is with Sahara 
Petroleum Company (Box 50, Alexandria) 
as Controller. 

Dr. Ogden R. Lindsley, Director of Re- 
search, Harvard University Department of 
Psychology — Metropolitan State Hospital, 
spoke on "Falsification in Religion and 
Science" at the Hiller Brunch in the Pem- 
broke Field House on Apr. 12. 

Dr. Eirik G. Furubotn, an instructor in 
the Department of Economics at Lafayette 
College since last September, has been 
named Assistant Professor for a three-year 
term. Dr. Furubotn earned an M.A. degree 
at Columbia in 1951 and a Ph.D. degree 
at the same university early this year. His 
dissertation concerns the rehabilitation of 
underdeveloped areas of the world, and he 
is continuing research in that field. He is 
a member of Phi Beta Kappa, The Econ- 
ometric Society, and the American Eco- 
nomic Assn. 

Roland A. Bill is President of the Royal 
Order of the Last Nighters for the 19'59 
Memphis Cotton Carnival. A Director of 
the Memphis Cotton Carnival, he also is 
Past Chairman of the Escort Committee 
for the ladies of the realm of the Carnival 
Court. The Last Nighters present the final 
All-Carnival party the final evening of the 
May 12-16 Cotton Carnival. Bill is Sales 
Manager for the O.K. Storage Co., 
Memphis. 

Edward X. Tuttle, Jr., Birmingham, 



Mich., architect, has opened his office at 
30801 Northgate Drive. He received an 
architectural degree from the University 
of Michigan in 1954, and he subsequently 
studied at Princeton for two years. Prior 
to opening his new office, Ed gained ex- 
perience in several Michigan and New 
Jersey architectural and engineering of- 
fices, including three years with Giffels 
and Rossetti of Detroit and a year with 
Frantz and Spence of Saginaw. He is a 
former member of the Faculty of the 
School of Urban Planning and Landscape 
Architecture at Michigan State. 

Gordon Pyper, Assistant Professor of 
Civil Engineering at Norwich University, 
is attending an eight-week summer in- 
stitute course on nuclear energy at Cornell. 
He joined the Norwich staff in 1953 and 
was made Assistant Professor in 1956. 

Ralph Wilcox is President and Manager 
of Wholesale Tire, Inc., 920 Broadway, 
East Providence. "Our major efforts are 
directed to the retail and wholesale dis- 
tribution of U.S. tires, tubes and batteries 
and related services such as wheel align- 
ment and balance and brake work." Ralph 
had been Manager of Town Tire, Inc., 
also in East Providence. 

Tullio DeRobbio is a partner in the firm 
of H, DeRobbio & Sons, food importers, 
at 433 Union Ave., Providence. He is re- 
siding at 99 Woodstock Lane, Cranston 9. 

1949 

A. Russell Tomkinson has been elected 
a Vice-President of Hutchins Advertising 
Co., Rochester, N. Y. An Account Execu- 
tive, he has been with Hutchins since 1955, 
going there from Horton-Noyes Company, 
Providence advertising agency. 

Richard A. Dodge and his wife have the 
sympathy of the Class on the death of 
their only son, Richard Austin Dodge, 
Jr., age 4, on Mar. 25. 

Louis Moretti, who has been general 
superintendent of golf balls, resort wear, 
and cut thread at the Providence plant of 
the U.S. Rubber Co., has been appointed 
superintendent in hose and belting at the 
plant in Passaic, N. J. 




IBM has put Dr. H. J. Greenberg, Ph.D. '46, in 
charge of its Mathematics Theory Department ai 
the Lamb Estate Research Center in Cortland, 
N. Y. He hod been Acting Manager of the En- 
gineering Science Department. 



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John T. Townsend has received his 
Doctor of Theology degree from Harvard 
and has been appointed as Vicar of the 
Two Missions of the Episcopal Diocese of 
Rhode Island. 

Prof. David Laurent of the Brown Music 
Department was a soloist at the spring 
concert sponsored by the Rhode Island 
Civic Chorale, with the 115-voice Civic 
Chorale and 45 members of the Rhode 
Island Philharmonic Orchestra. 

Roland C. Clement is enjoying his work 
at Audubon House in New York, national 
headquarters for the Audubon Society. He 
reports a "short but pleasant visit" with 
Norman Fisher '50. Superintendent of the 
Washington Crossing Park, one of Penn- 
sylvania's attractive State Parks, on the 
Delaware. Fisher, a Botany major, started 
there as Naturalist. 

1950 

Dallas B. Trammell, Sales Manager in 
the Western New York Area Sales Depart- 
ment of the New York Telephone Co., 
has been promoted to District Manager of 
the concern's Hamburg District. In his 
new capacity, he will be responsible for 
the telephone company's Commercial De- 
partment operations in the district, which 
comprises Hamburg. Dunkirk, East Au- 
rora, Olean, Salamanca, and Wellsville 
and communities south from these loca- 
tions. Following his release from active 



The Boy Was 

the Dalai Lama 

SOME 15 YEARS AGO in Darjeeling. Jack 
I. Podret '39 came upon a street fight. 
"To be exact, they were just beating the 
hell out of this little boy," he told a re- 
porter for the Arizona Daily Star recently. 
Podret and another American ambulance 
driver stopped the brawl. The next day 
they discovered that the 10-year-oId boy 
being attacked was Tibet's Dalai Lama. 

Podret says he wasn't sure of the identity 
of the boy he saved, but monks and high- 
ranking lamas called upon him to express 
their gratitude. "I guess he just wandered 
off as kids that age sometimes will and 
got into the street fight." Podret and his 
companion were asked to join the Tibetans 
on the pack trip back to their country. Un- 
fortunately, the British 4th Army felt it 
needed the ambulance drivers more than 
Tibet, and approval for the visit was 
denied. 

Podret is the new Chief Deputy County 
Attorney in Tucson. He went to that city 
12 years ago as an invalid flat on his back 
and attended by a nurse. His asthma was 
so bad that his doctor sent him to Arizona 
as a last resort. That ailment had kept 
him out of the military in World War II 
but he was able to serve with the ambu- 
lances on battlefronts of the Far East. 

His law practice began in 1942 in the 
office of the Corporation Council for the 
City of Kingston, N. Y. After the war 
Podret went to work for the Securities 
Exchange Commission in New York City 
as an attorney in the Enforcement Di- 
vision. Then his asthma knocked him out. 
While recovering in Arizona, he took more 
law studies to qualify for the Arizona bar 
and was admitted to practice in 1947. 
Since 1955 he had been the County's chief 
criminal deputy attorney. He moved into 
his present post in April. 



duty as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. 
Marine Corps, Trammell began his tele- 
phone career as a Traffic Department stu- 
dent in Syracuse in January 1953. Shortly 
afterward, he was transferred to Albany, 
where he served as Staff Assistant and 
Assistant Engineer. In June of 1956 he was 
transferred to Western New York, where 
he held the assignment of Manager of the 
company's Kenmore Business Office and 
later Sales Manager. Married and the 
father of four children. Trammell and his 
family reside at 74 Harding Ave., Ken- 
more, N. Y. 

Thomas L. Philbrick, a member of the 
English Department at the University of 
Vermont, received his Ph.D. degree from 
the Harvard University Graduate School 
of Arts and Sciences last spring. 

William A. Pollard is the new Executive 
Secretary of the National Association of 
Insurance Agents. He had been Production 
Supervisor of branch offices for the Zurich 
American Insurance Company of Chicago, 
responsible for 10 branches in the Middle 
West, South, and Rocky Mountain areas. 
He also headed up sales leadership and 
promotion, as well as formulation and 
interpretation of company policy in such 
branches. He had had a promotion this 
year to Division Sales Manager. While in 
the insurance business in Grand Rapids, 
he was outstanding in his work on behalf 
of Brown in the secondary schools. 

Dick Nason, on the staff of the New 
York Times, has written several interest- 
ing articles recently for the entertainment 
section of the Sunday supplement. One 
included an interview with David Niven 
shortly after he had won his "Oscar." 

Philip C. Curtis, Jr., Assistant Professor 
in the Mathematics Department at UCL.'K, 
managed a visit to the Brown Campus last 
spring. He spent the academic year teach- 
ing at Yale while on his sabbatical. Phil 
and his wife drove from California to New 
Haven last August with their four children 
in what was termed a "hectic" trip. Things 
should be even more hectic on the way 
back next month. The fifth child was due 
in June! 

Don Colo, having retired from the 
Cleveland Browns of the National Profes- 
sional Football League, is Terminal Man- 
ager of the Liberty Highway Co. in 
Akron. He had been a member of the 
football play-for-pay circuit nine years, 
and three times was named as a tackle on 
the all-pro eleven. 

William D. Lawton received the J. 
Howard Brown Award at a May meeting 
of the Maryland Branch of the Society of 
American Biologists. It goes annually to 
the outstanding student of microbiology in 
Maryland. He is a civilian employee of the 
Army, living in Detrick, Md., while com- 
pleting the requirements for his Ph.D. at 
George Washington University. He took 
his Master's at Maine in 1952. 

Chuck Nelson, teacher and coach at 
Scotch Plains High School, Middlesex, 
N. J., spent a week in Rhode Island during 
the spring vacation. He reserved one after- 
noon for a visit to the Marvel Gym and a 
meeting with football coach John Mc- 
Laughry. Chuck, head football mentor at 
Scotch Plains High, was especially inter- 
ested in viewing films of McLaughry's 
Side-Saddle T formation. 

Dr. Charles R. Jacobson writes that he 
has purchased a home in Scotch Plains, 
N. J., "after years of apartment house 
living." He is Director of Chemical Re- 
search at Knoll Pharmaceutical Co., 
Orange, N. J. 




DONALD A. HAAS '48 has been named Vice- 
President in charge of operations of Damar 
Products, Inc., Mrs. Dorothy Damar, and Domor 
Stores, Inc., national mail order organization. 
He joined the staff in 1953 and had been Con- 
troller and Administrative Manager. 



Andrew Swanson, President of G. F. 
Swanson of Cranston, has been elected a 
Director of the Providence Better Business 
Bureau. 

Daniel Connell, a teacher of Mathe- 
matics at Colby Junior College, is one of 
60 teachers from 20 states attending Clark 
University's 1959 Summer Institute for 
Mathematics. 

William J. Cochrane, Jr., joined the 
Pawtucket Trust Co., a new commercial 
bank, on March 2. A month later, he was 
elected Assistant Treasurer of the concern. 
Bill had been with the National Cash 
Register Company Accounting Machine 
Sales for the past nine years. However, he 
had previous banking experience at the 
Rhode Island Hospital Trust prior to 
entering Brown. 

Oliver Patrell has been appointed Super- 
intendent of the Agency Department at 
the Hartford office of the Aetna Casualty 
and Surety Co. Since joining Aetna at 
Providence in 1950, he served at Bridge- 
port, prior to moving to Hartford as field 
representative four years ago. 

Al Mink directed the 1959 Scout-0- 
Rama in Providence, a spectacular Scout- 
ing show that had a cast of 3000 boys and 
an audience of about the same size in the 
Rhode Island Auditorium. 

A. Earl Shaw, Providence attorney, is 
Probate Judge and Town Solicitor in West 
Greenwich. R. I. He is a member of the 
West Warwick Republican Town Commit- 
tee. 

BOB CUMMINGS 

1951 

Richard Walton, reporter for the New 
York World-Telegram, got a story he 
hadn't bargained for last spring. Dick and 
his wife were taking a walk through 
Prospect Park with their young son when 
1 1 teen-age terrorists armed with clubs and 
wire whips attacked a 13-year-old boy just 
across the small lake. More than 100 men, 
women, and children witnessed the brutal 
attack but did nothing to stop it. Dick 
took several pictures of the scene and 



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WHEN THE DEANS received after the Class Day exercises. Dean and Mrs. Durgin and Dean Frerichs 

may be identified in the upper photo; below, right to left, are Mrs. Cornell and the Dean of Admission; 

Mrs. and Mr. Robert E. Hill; and Mrs. Frerichs. 




then plunged into the lake and swam about 
20 yards to the opposite shore. He shoved 
the hoodlums one side, picked up the 
injured boy and led him away. The gang 
made no move to stop him. The next day, 
the story of the rescue, as well as one of 
Dick's pictures, was on the front page of 
his paper. 

Raymond Gustafson has been trans- 
ferred to Puerto Rico by the Raymond 
Construction Co. He had been working 
in New York. 

Lt. Reeves Taylor, USN, is serving on 
the USS Ranger somewhere in the Pacific. 
"Our detachment has four pilots for three 
airplanes, which gives us a great deal of 
leisure time," he writes. He is expected 
back in the States some time this summer. 

Brad Pease received his Master of Sci- 
ence degree in Mechanical Engineering 
from Lehigh University in January. Since 
leaving Brown, he has been employed by 
the Bethlehem Steel Co. Last spring he 
was promoted from Field Engineer, Com- 
bustion Department, to Engineer, Fuel 
Engineer, Research Department. He is 
doing research and development work on 
fuels, burners, and combustion equipment 
from the laboratory stage to full-scale ap- 
plications. 

Lawrence E. McLean, his wife, Margie, 
and daughter, Laura Lee (IVi), have 



moved to their new home at 3000 Chad- 
bourne Road, Shaker Heights, O. Larry is 
Group Insurance Manager in Ohio for 
State Mutual Life Assurance Company of 
America. 

Jerry Zeoli, basketball coach at Moses 
Brown, was named "Coach of the Year" 
in the Providence Journal-Bulletin's All- 
State prep school selections. Jerry also 
won honors last fall when he coached the 
Moses Brown football team to an unde- 
feated season. 

Ray L. Hurd is a Sales Engineer for the 
General Electric Co. in the Buffalo area. 
His line is electrical components, and the 
accounts are those of original equipment 
manufacturers who purchase for resale. 
Ray and his wife and three children are 
living in temporary quarters until a new 
ranch house (designed by Ray and the 
Mrs.) is finished. 

George E. Brown is a member of the 
English Department at Bradford Junior 
College. Last spring he participated in a 
program depicting the relation between 
music and poetry. He read eight poems 
demonstrating the musical use of words 
and syllables. "Very good poetry should be 
read out loud," he explained, "since the 
real message is in the sound." 

James A. Garland is doing therapeutic 
group work at the Boston Children's Serv- 



ice Assn., directing the agency's summer 
camp at Cohasset, and teaching part time 
at the Boston University School of Social 
Work. He received his Master of Science in 
Social Service degree from B.U. in 1956. 

John H. Carpender has moved with his 
wife and two daughters to 380 Shea Drive. 
New Milford, N. J. Following his gradu- 
ation from Brown, John spent three years 
in the Navy as Gunnery Officer aboard a 
destroyer operating out of Newport. Then 
came close to three years with Lije Maga- 
zine in their Retail Merchandising Depart- 
ment, winding up as Manager of the New 
York Merchandising Office. John then 
went with Burke, Dowling, Adams, Inc., 
advertising agency, as an Account Execu- 
tive on the Curtiss-Wright account. He left 
this position last February to become As- 
sistant Brand Manager for all "Vaseline" 
brand products by Chesebrough-Pond's, 
Inc. 

Lloyd Hill, former Bruin football cap- 
tain and presently teacher and coach at 
Pittsfield High, was described as a "power- 
ful man" by none other than Rocky 
Marciano, ex heavyweight champion of 
the world. They were close friends in their 
home town of Brockton when Rocky was 
breaking into professional boxing. "Lloyd 
is a grand guy," Rocky noted. "He helped 
me a great deal with a strength test 
Charley Goldman, my trainer, made me 
do daily. In the test, one man would put 
his hand on the other's chest and push. 
Goldman had me do this to become a 
better inside fighter." He and Lloyd 
worked every day for a month when 
Rocky was preparing for one of his bouts. 

Lawrence N. Spitz has been Vice-Presi- 
dent of the R. I. Council of Community 
Services, Inc., this past year. Robert T. 
Engles '40 is the other Vice-President. 

Pat Panaggio has been named Assistant 
General Manager of the Azica Corp., 
Middletown, R. I., producers of flexible 
metal tubing. He had been associated with 
California Artificial Flowers in Providence. 

CHARLIE ANDREWS 

1952 

Normand C. Cleaveland, Jr., has pur- 
chased the Travelers Fare Inn at Middle- 
boro, Mass. The inn, at the gateway to 
Cape Cod, was built in the 17th century 
and occupies 20 acres. Its restaurant seats 
300 patrons and its bar, colorfully named 
"Hell's Blazes," is believed to be the oldest 
operating "ordinary" in America, dating 
back to 1690. A graduate of Cornell Uni- 
versity's School of Hotel Administration, 
Norm has been associated with the Duncan 
Hines organization; the Rumely Hotel, La- 
Porte, Ind.; the Blacksmith Shop Restau- 
rant of Cape Cod; and the Ithaca (N. Y.) 
Yacht Club. The new owner plans to 
operate on a year-round basis, and Brunon- 
ians planning a Cape Cod vacation are 
urged to make themselves known when 
they drop in. 

Dr. Richard P. Benton is Ship Surgeon 
on the Santa Rosa, a luxury liner that 
collided with the Valchem. a tanker, last 
spring off the New Jersey coast. Dr. Ben- 
ton was jarred from his sleep at 3:01 a.m. 
by the collision. Grabbing his life jacket 
and emergency gear, he answered a call 
to the bridge and was sent to the Valchem 
to check on the injuries there. Two of the 
injured were litter patients. Benton re- 
ceived his appointment on the Santa Rosa 
last July and has made several trips to 
South America and the Caribbean. 



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Raymond A. Young has been promoted 
to Junior Administrative Assistant by the 
Prudential Insurance Co. He has been with 
the company since 1954. 

John W. Ambrose, Jr., a teacher at 
West Roxbury Latin School in Massachu- 
setts, is studying in Rome this summer on 
a Fulbright Scholarship. 

The Rev. Harrington M. Gordon, Jr., 
Pastor of St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 
Warren, served as one of the three judges 
for the annual Gardner Medal Speaking 
Contest for High School students on May 
7. 

Stafford Frazier and Maurice Adelman, 
Jr.. passed their R. I. bar exams, it was 
announced in May. 

1953 

G. Wyman Carroll, President and Owner 
of Wyman Carroll Expeditions, has en- 
tered into a partnership with Lee Nor- 
wood, Managing Partner of V. Lee Nor- 
wood & Co., New York Stock Exchange. 
"Lee is arranging financing for my I'A- 
million-dollar dream, 'Safariland,' " Carroll 
reports. He describes the project, which 
will be located in Florida, as "the finest 
animal attraction in the world." 

Gerasim Seredin, a Senior in Painting 
at the Rhode Island School of Design, has 
had an original print, "The Dissenters," 
accepted for exhibition use in the New 
Directions in Printmaking Exhibit in Chi- 
cago. In addition, the work will be in- 
cluded in a national tour lasting approxi- 
mately a year of outstanding prints from 
that exhibit. His entry is a four-plate 
intaglio color print. Seredin recently as- 
sisted Herbert Fink of the Faculty of the 
School of Design in painting the mural in 
the new Almac Supermarket in Newport, 
the first know mural in a market in this 
country. 

Alan Le Gloahec has been promoted to 
Assistant Advertising Manager of Ayerst 
Laboratories. He has been with the com- 
pany since 1953. Ayerst Laboratories, bio- 
logical and pharmaceutical chemists in the 
ethical drug field, make up a division of 
American Home Products Corporation. A 
native of France, Le Gloahec came to this 
country in 1936 and became a citizen in 
1947. 

Chadbourne Cutler, who had been work- 
ing with the Data-Processing Group of 



New Jersey Bell Telephone Company, has 
resigned to take a post with McGraw-Hill 
in a "group around a computer." 

Deene Clark, whose Danforth Founda- 
tion grant for a year of post-seminary 
training was announced in this column in 
May, has been placed in residence at the 
University of North Carolina for the com- 
ing academic year for the observation of 
and participation in the campus ministry. 
Deene then will return to Harvard for the 
final year's study for the B.D. 

The Rev. Milton Hurdis went to Lynn 
in May to become Rector of the Church of 
the Incarnation there. He had been Curate 
of St. Barnabas' Church, Warwick, R. I. 

Gerald H. Markowitz has been dis- 
charged from the service and is in the 
private practice of law in Yonkers, N. Y. 
While in the Army, he was stationed in 
Heidelberg. 

1954 

Walter Cook, located in his newly-ac- 
quired ranch home in South Windsor, 
Conn., is a sales representative for the 
Hartford District of the Socony Mobil Oil 
Co. He hopes to attend night school in the 
fall for his M.B.A. degree. 

Dr. Henry F. Izeman is serving as 
Resident in Medicine at the Rhode Island 
Hospital. He was graduated from the Tufts 
University School of Medicine in 1958 and 
served a year of internship at the Buffalo 
General Hospital. 

Walt Olstad is an Aeronautical Research 
Engineer with the National Aeronautics 
and Space Administration. He received his 
M.S. from V.P.I, in Aeronautical Engi- 
neering in 1958 and hopes to have his 
Ph.D. by the 10th reunion. 

Alan Fletcher joined the Schering Drug 
Corp. in Bloomfield, N. J., after he re- 
ceived his Master's degree in Business Ad- 
ministration from Wharton in 1958. He 
has been promoted to the position of Sales 
Analyst with the firm. 

Dr. Gerry Burrows is completing his 
internship at the Grace New Haven Hos- 
pital. He expects to sail to Japan for his 
residency. Gerry will be a "family man" 
before too long. 

Lt. Henry C. Atwood, Jr., has been on 
active duty with the Navy since 1954 and 
is one of '54s most traveled men. Henry 
sailed the seas from Norway to Brazil, 



AT THE BOATHOUSE for the Alumni- 
Student Regatta: left to right— York 
King '34, Fred Thurber '05, Dick 
Hatch '50 and Bob Richards '52. Not 
much air for this annual competition. 




around the Mediterranean, Suez, Saudi 
Arabia, and Pakistan. His new assignment 
is Alaska, where he will be Flag Secretary 
to the Commander. 

Ned Rowland and his wife Susan live in 
Salem, Mass., with the "bread winner" 
employed by Easterbrook brokers. Word 
has it that Ned's agility in conquering the 
Head Wall on Mt. Washington was 
threatened not only by typical ski gear 
which weighed him down but also by a 
few additional pounds gained prior to the 
ascent. This information about Ned 
(Daddy Long Legs) was forwarded by his 
Boswell, Bill Polleys. 

Dick Borod handed in his resignation 
to the U.S. Army Intelligence Staff in 
June. His acceptance was acknowledged 
both by the Yale Law School, where Dick 
will study in the fall, and by Miss Gale 
Cohen, Pembroke '58. The wedding date 
has been set for Aug. 28. 

Charles L. Alspach has been employed 
since 1954 as a date processing sales rep- 
resentative for IBM. He and his wife, 
Anne, have two children, Barbara and 
Steven. 

Richard L. Amill has been promoted to 
the position of Assistant to the Vice-Presi- 
dent in charge of public relations with 
Life. He had been in the magazine's Mer- 
chandising Department. 

Bob Ames is a Manufacturing Standards 
Engineer with the Grumman Aircraft Co. 



Reunions 

(Continued from page 65) 

regathered at the Class table for a most 
enjoyable Campus Dance. 

Saturday afternoon, one and all at- 
tended the Alumni Field Day, an event 
that helps to make the Commencement 
Week End more complete. A champagne 
cocktail party with lobster Newberg on 
the side prepared everyone for the Class 
Dinner and the dance that followed at the 
University Club. President and Mrs. 
Keeney dropped in to say hello and "wel- 
come back." Wes Moulton, Secretary of 
the Brown University Fund, and Dr. 
Maurice J. Mountain. Assistant Vice- 
President, were the speakers at the dinner. 
Gifts were distributed to various members 
of the Class by Chairman Marshall H. 
Cohen. Other guests at the dinner were 
Prof, and Mrs. Robert H. George and 
Prof, and Mrs. Israel J. Kapstein. 

At the Class Meeting, the following 
oflScers were elected: President — Robert 
Roth; Vice-President — Norm Sprinthall; 
Secretary — Caleb Woodhouse; Treasurer 
— Dick Borod; and Class Agent — Mike 
McSherry. It was also decided to invest 
the Class Treasury in Mutual Funds and 
make a presentation to the University on 
the 10th Reunion. Assisting Chairman 
Cohen were Sprinthall, Roth, Gorham, 
Lake, Borod, Thomas, deGraff, and Pol- 
leys. 

1955 

Approximately 30 classmates and their 
ladies returned to College Hill to cele- 
brate the 4th Reunion and to discuss pre- 
liminary plans for the Big 5th. A cocktail 
party was held in OIney House Friday 
afternoon, and a Class table helped keep 
the group together later in the evening at 
the Campus Dance. The Alumni Dinner 
Friday evening and the Alumni Field 
Day Saturday afternoon also drew strong 
'55 support. 



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THE ENTERPRISING MANAGEMENT of the Brown Daily Herald brought out a 12-page mogazine, 
"Wheels," in April. Well sponsored with advertising, it reported on "Cars at Brown" and other auto- 
motive developments. Art Editor Dove Morse provided the cartoons, including the above. 



He plans eventually to return to his studies 
and earn his M.A. degree in Industrial 
Engineering. 

John Gorham, who received his Law 
degree from Harvard in 1958, is practising 
law in Providence with two other Brown 
men — Sayles Gorman '22, his dad, and 
Monroe Allen "52. 

Sherm Strickhouse regrets not being 
able to attend the Fifth Reunion, but he 
was lured to Florida by the appeal of the 
Gulf Stream. Actually, he was in attend- 
ance at the Disc Jockey's Convention at 
that time. 

Mike McSherry received his degree 
from the Harvard Graduate School of 
Business Administration in June. He and 
his wife hope to enjoy Southern living for 
a few years. 

Edward J. Beadle has been elected 
Editor of the Penn Dental Journal for the 
next school year. This is an undergraduate 
journal, published by the student body at 
the University of Pennsylvania School of 
Dentistry. Shant Markarian is a former 
Editor. 

Ronny Columbus is an insurance under- 
writer for the New York Life Insurance 
Co., and is also a member of the Advertis- 
ing and Selling Club of New York. He 
reports that he spent an educational sum- 
mer in 1956 working aboard an overseas 
freighter in Europe. 

M.\RSHALL COHEN 

1955 

Bill Corbus completed his second year 
of law school at George Washington Uni- 
versity in June. Present plans call for him 
to complete his schooling ne.xt June and to 
take the D.C. bar examinations in De- 
cember of I960. While in the Washington 
area. Bill has been active in Brown Club 
activities there. 

Graham Browning Place, Biology teacher 
at the J. W. Weeks Junior High School. 
Newton Center, Mass., has received his 
Master of Arts in Teaching degree from 
Harvard. 

Francis A. Brooks, Jr., has been ap- 
pointed to the teaching staff at Moses 
Brown and will start there in September. 

Jim Coukos, who went with the Belton 
E. Corporation after his discharge from 
the Air Force, is now a life insurance sales- 
man with the Boston office of Mutual of 



New York. Jim saw all the Boston Celtics 
home games this year through the com- 
pliments of his old buddy and current 
Celtics star, Lou Tsiropolous. 

Bob West is Assistant Treasurer at the 
Dukes County Savings Bank in Edgartown, 
Mass. He is still single with "no prospects," 
he says. 

Pete Kohut is in his second year as a 
claims adjuster for Liberty Mutual In- 
surance Company in New York. Pete is 
seriously interested in teaching and coach- 
ing in prep school and was considering 
several offers in May. 

Wayland Vaughan is living in Stone 
Lake, Middlebury, Ind. He is Mid-West 
sales representative for the Nashua Corpo- 
ration in the Flexible Packing Division. 

Dave Yale is with Pratt Whitney in 
North Haven, Conn. Dave and Sue live at 
737 Seventh Ridge Rd., Wallingford, Conn. 

George Ulrich is doing graduate work 
in Geology at the University of Colorado. 
He and Sally have been in Boulder. Colo., 
since July of 1958. Their address there is 
926 Marine St. 

Joel Thea is a salesman for Thea-Schoen, 
Inc., dealing in electrical supplies. He and 
his family make their home in Riverdale. 
N. Y. 

Bud Van Vlack is with the Aluminum 
Corporation of .'\merica at their Boston 
Sales Office. After his hitch in the Army, 
Bud returned to Brown for his degree in 
1957. He and his wife and two children 
are living in Hopkinton, Mass. 

Gordy Willette, back from a vacation 
in Europe, has completed his thesis and 
now has his Ph.D. in Chemistry. He has 
accepted a position with the Research 
Laboratories of Rohm and Haas Company 
and is living in Philadelphia. 

Frank Yatsu has received his M.D. de- 
gree and diploma from Western Reserve 
Medical School and has started his intern- 
ship at the University Hospitals in Cleve- 
land where he plans to concentrate on 
clinical investigation work. He occasionally 
sees Bob Knowles, who is working on his 
Ph.D. at Western Reserve. 

Vin Jazwinski, a salesman for National 
Cash Register, is living in New Jersey with 
his wife and two children. 

Bill Klaess is a sales representative with 
IBM. He and Pat and their two children 
recently moved into a new home at 
Wantaugh, N. Y. Pete Kohut and Vin 



Jazwinski were guests at the housewarm- 
ing. 

Mike Usdan is teaching at the Franklin 
School in New York. He is waiting for 
the opportunity to start a boys' summer 
camp of his own. 

Lt. Jim Smith, USAF, may decide 
shortly to put a close to his service career. 
An Aircraft Commander. Jim is stationed 
in New York. He and his wife have three 
children. 

Yours truly had a most enjoyable year 
teaching and coaching at Taft School, but 
I returned to the Brown Campus this sum- 
mer to accept a position in the Admission 
Office. I also will be working on my M.A. 
degree. 

DAVE ZUCCONI 

1956 

Barry Gottehrer has been named Asso- 
ciate Editor of Sport, monthly magazine 
published at 205 East 42nd St., New York. 
He had been on the staff of the New Bed- 
ford Standard Times. Barry thus becomes 
the second ex-Sports Editor of the Brown 
Daily Herald to work for Sport. Jack 
Newcombe '48 served as Managing Editor 
there until moving to Life Magazine as 
Assistant Sports Editor. 

Henri Leblond completed the first year 
in June of what is considered a pioneer 
teaching post in the East Providence 
School System. He taught Conversational 
French to 838 seventh and eighth graders, 
the first year that the town has offered a 
foreign language at those grade levels. 

Russ Kingman, discharged from the 
Navy in May, accepted a position with 
Procter and Gamble, where he will be 
working in the Greater Newark area. Russ 
purchased a home at 35 Sunrise Terrace, 
Cedar Grove, N. J. 

LT(jg) Harold R. Lambright qualified 
as a carrier pilot last April aboard the sup- 
port aircraft carrier USS Antietam, operat- 
ing in the Gulf of Mexico. 

LT(jg) Joseph M. Daley, Jr., has been 
transferred to Whittier, Alaska, where he 
is with the MSTS Office. He had been in 
Winston-Salem. N. C. 

James M. DeMund has become asso- 
ciated with Dow & Condon, Hartford 



To the 1959 Graduates 

You HAVE in your hands the first 
issue of the Brown Alumni Monthly 
which the members of the Class of 
1959 are receiving as alumni of the 
University. It comes to you without 
charge under an agreement between 
the University and the Associated 
Alumni, which provides that the 
former foots the bills for this publi- 
cation, while the latter retain control 
over policy and content. We hope 
you will enjoy the magazine and 
through it keep alive your contacts 
with classmates and College Hill. 

May we ask one favor in return? 
Please remember to inform the 
Alumni Office when you change 
your address. Prompt attention in 
this regard by all Brown men would 
save the University a substantial 
sum of money each year. It's not 
much to ask, is it? 

And, of course, we welcome news 
of Brunonians at all times. 

THE EDITORS 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



realtors, and is specializing in commercial 
and industrial real estate. 

Edward L. Lee, Jr., was ordained to the 
Sacred Order of Deacons on May 9 at St. 
Thomas' Episcopal Church, Bethlehem 
Pike and Church Rd., Whitemarsh, Pa. 
The ceremony was performed by the 
Bishop of Pennsylvania. 

John Jeffers of the Moses Brown Faculty 
made his debut last winter as coach of 
wrestling at the Providence School. De- 
spite an ine.xperienced squad and injuries 
to key men, his team took the prep 
school title in Rhode Island. 

1957 

Bob Minnerly received his Navy wings 
on Feb. 6 and is now attached to Patrol 
Squadron 44, operating out of Norfolk. 
He spent some time with John McDaniels, 
while the Saratoga was in Norfolk, and 
also with Dick Barker, operating with an 
air group out of Quonset Point. Bob also 
managed to take a preview look at the 
Brown baseball team when it played 
against Norfolk Navy on its Southern 
swing, and he was one of the first to 
predict a good season for the Bruins. 

John C. MacLean, having finished with 
OCS, is on active duty with the Navy on 
Guam as a Communications Officer on 
the Admiral's staff. "My billet carries the 
same prestige as the janitor of the build- 
ing, but the job does offer a rest cure from 
the grind at OCS." John Lew was a recent 
visitor. 

Raymond D. Chuvala has been trans- 
ferred from Westover to Eglin Air Force 
Base in Florida. 

Ens. George B. Delaney, Jr., is flying 
out of Pensacola. 

Loring R. Litchfield, recently married, 
plans to return to Brown in the fall. He 
had two years in Korea in Intelligence. 

1958 

Alfred M. Chapman, Jr.. gave an il- 
lustrated lecture on the subject "Impres- 
sions of Greece and Europe" at the April 
2 dinner-meeting of the Indian Walk 
Kiwanis Club of Wrightstown, Pa. In the 
summer of 1958, Al studied Ancient 
Greek Civilization at the American 
School of Classical Studies at Athens. He 
is a Latin instructor at the Lawrenceville 
School. 

Gilbert Lugossy joined the Army in 
March for a six-month period and took his 
basic training at Fort Dix, N. J. He ex- 
pects to return to civilian life in September. 

Stan Dobson reports that he has suc- 
cessfully adjusted to the "harassment and 
confinement of Fort Dix as compared with 
the freedom of the open road." He has 
been assigned to the Army Language 
School at Monterey, Calif. 

Kevit Cook, whose six-month tour of 
Army duty will end this summer, expects 
to go into business with his father at the 
R. H. Cook Co., Lynn, Mass., manufac- 
turer of buffing wheels. While in the Serv- 
ice, he spent time at Fort Dix, N. J., and 
in Oklahoma. 

Jack Smythe, with the New Jersey Bell 
Telephone Company, has been converting 
part of a billing procedure in Trenton to 
IBM cards and equipment. He's living in 
Levittown, Pa. 

Pvt. Arthur M. Bylin is stationed at 
Fort Dix, N. J., where he recently was 
named "Trainee of the Week." Prior to 
entering the Army last January, Art was 
employed as a salesman by the Procter 
and Gamble Co. in Boston. 




GORDON E. CADWGAN '36 



Elected 

GORDON E. Cadwgan '36 of East Green- 
wich, R. L, and John J. Monk '24 of 
Winnetka, 111., were elected to the Cor- 
poration of the University this year as 
Alumni Trustees. They succeed Frederick 
A. Ballou '16 of Providence and William 
A. Dyer, Jr., '24 of Indianapolis, having 
been "nominated" in nationwide balloting 
by the alumni. Cadwgan, 1958 General 
Chairman of the Brown University Fund, 
is a partner in the investment firm of 
G. H. Walker Co., while Monk is a 
"Vice-President of Hillison & Etten, Chi- 
cago printing house. 

Under the agreement which provides for 
alumni participation in choosing certain 
Trustees, the requirement stipulates that 
the votes shall exceed 25% of the elec- 
torate. The actual returns in 1959 were 
7253 ballots, or 31%. While the total vote 
was the largest ever, the percentage was 
lower than the 34.6% of 1958 when 6813 
sent back ballots. The alumni nominate 

1959 

Richard H. Jones, who has been work- 
ing at Brown toward his Ph.D. in Mathe- 
matics, was one of the 15 national winners 
of the Bell Telephone Laboratories Grad- 
uate Fellowships. The fellowship, awarded 
outstanding students in sciences relating 
to communications, carries a minimum 
grant of $2000 to the winner and an ad- 
ditional $2000 to cover tuition and other 
costs at the university selected for his 
doctoral studies. 

Myron K. Nalbandian, a Ph.D. candi- 
date this year, has been appointed an as- 
sistant to Patrick B. McGinnis, President 
of the Boston and Maine Railroad, as a 
consultant on foreign trade. He served four 
years in Europe as postwar civilian chief 
of food and beverages for the American 
Department of the Army in France arid 
Belgium. Later, he worked with ECA in 
Holland. Back in Rhode Island he had an 
executive post with the Survival Planning 
Office. 

Gordon Davis is the new Headmaster of 
the expanded Holland Hall School in 
Tulsa. The former Headmaster of St. 
Dunstan's School in Providence took his 
M.A. in Teaching at Brown this year. 




JOHN J. MONK '24 

two Alumni Trustees each year for seven 
years, the 14 Alumni Trustees representing 
a third of the total membership in the 
Board of Trustees. 

Richmond H. Sweet '25, Treasurer of 
the Associated Alumni for the past 10 
years, was continued in office for another 
two. Another alumni choice was that of 
Foster B. Davis, Jr., '39 of Providence to 
be a member of the Athletic Advisory 
Council for three years, succeeding Ernest 
T. Savignano '42, also of Providence. 
Davis had just completed his term as Presi- 
dent of the Associated Alumni. 

In regional voting, the alumni picked 
some new Directors of the association: 
Richard Pretat '45 of Rumford, for the 
R. I. Region; Irving A. Hall, Jr., '39 of 
Hingham, Mass., New England; Judge 
Norman O. Tietjens '25 of Washington, 
D. C, North Atlantic Midland; Earl H. 
Metzger, Jr., '39 of Atlanta, South Atlantic 
Midland; H. Calvin Coolidge '49 of Chi- 
cago Heights. North Central; Leon M. 
Payne '36 of Houston. South Central; and 
Dudley A. Zinke '39 of Palo Alto, Calif., 
Western. 

Paul A. Russo received a Fulbright 
grant for study abroad for one year. He 
will study Russian at the Free University 
of Berlin, Germany, under terms of the 
International Exchange Program of the 
State Department. 

Guest.s at the Hospital 

Premedical students at Brown were 
entertained with their Professors at an 
April dinner at the Rhode Island Hospital, 
along with similar groups from Providence 
College and the University of Rhode Is- 
land. The affair had been arranged by Dr. 
Henry McCusker '19, Director of Medical 
Education at the Hospital, with a view to 
establish a rapport between the groups in 
the interest of future associations. 

The Brown delegation included; Dr. 
Glidden L. Brooks, Dr. Richard J. Goss, 

A. Stephen Boyan, Jr., Stephen M. Cat- 
taneo, Gordon S. Cohen, John M. Cohen, 
Philip J. DiSaia, Miss June Fessenden, 
David E. Glass, Craig A. Harris, Robert 

B. Houriel, Donald L. Kinley, Carl M. 
Lieberman, Jon T. Lum, James Orr, 
Wayne A. Perkins, Jay Protass, Douglas 
K. Sanderson, Raymond E. Sullivan, and 
Reuben I. Weiner. 



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Bureau of Vital Statistics 



MARRIAGES 

1921 — W. Freeman Crawford and Mrs. 
Dorothy A. Stevenson of Culver Citv, 
Calif.. Apr. 15. At home: 29 James St.. 
Newark 2. N. J. 

1926 — Philip G. Bronstein and Mrs. 
Patricia K. Porter of Brookline, Mass., 
June 4. 

1941 — John E. Kenlon and Miss Jean 
W. Heiges, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Calvin A. Heiges of Elizabeth, N. J., Apr. 

11. The groom's brother, Peter F. Kenton 
'49. was best man. 

1942 — Theodore Friedman and Miss 
Suzanne L. Neuman. daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. B. M. Neuman of Lexington, Ky.. 
Apr. 12. 

1949 — Louis Moretti and Miss Marie 
DiPrete of North Providence, Apr. 18. 

1950— William F. Healey and Miss Bar- 
bara Cahill, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Robert L. Cahill of New York City, Apr. 
18. Henry M. Healey '51 was his brother's 
best man. Robert K. Healey '48, another 
brother, ushered. 

1950 — Emil Paul John and Miss Ruth 
Naufner of Linz, Austria, June 6. 

1951 — Dr. Saverio Caputi, Jr., and Miss 
Alexandra J. Parker, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Alexander J. Parker of London, June 
28, 1958. 

1951 — Bernard S. Goldberg and Miss 
Beverly A. Halpern, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. I^arry Halpern of Woonsocket. Apr. 

12. Harvey B. Sindle '51 and Norbert 
Fessel '51 ushered. At home: 35 Thackeray 
St., Providence. 

1951 — Jason I. Greenstein and Miss 
Kay Hohenthaner, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Peter Hohenthaner of Yankton, S. D., 
Apr. 5. Howard Greenstein '56 was best 
man for his brother. At home: Essex Rd., 
North Kingstown, R. 1. 

1952 — Ernest Gleckman and Miss Lor- 
raine Rothbard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Louis Rothbard of New York City, Mar. 
21. 

1952— Donald E. Mitchell and Miss 



Judith Ann McCormick, daughter of Mrs. 
Harold J. McCormick of South Braintree, 
Mass., June 28, 1958. 

1953 — Edward A. Adams and Miss 
Rosemary Chesney of Beacon Beach, N. J., 
Sept. 20. At home: 180 Prospect St., Apt. 
C3, East Orange, N. J. 

1953 — Norman A. James and Miss M. 
Elaine Morrissee, daughter of Mrs. Wil- 
liam E. Morrissee of Rumford, R. L, Apr. 
25. David Lownes '53 was an usher. At 
home: 265 Plaza Dr., St. Louis. 

1953 — Roger E. Marchand and Miss 
Junice A. Racicot, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Theodore L. Racicot of Worcester, 
Apr. 18. 

1953 — Gerald H. Markowitz and Miss 
Sandra Schulner of Milwaukee, Apr. 19. 



1953 — Walter L. Pierson, Jr., and Miss 
Jane Church, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Benjamin A. Church, Jr., of Essex, Conn.. 
Apr. 18. James Lynn '53 was best man. 
Mr. Church is '29. At home: 363 Alden 
Ave., New Haven. 

1954 — The Rev. Charles S. Tyler and 
Miss Betty-Ann Law, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Albert N. Law of Providence. May 
16. At home: 50 Park Place, Pawlucket. 

1954 — David F. West and Miss Carol 
McLeod, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Harry 
J. McLeod of Tenafly, N. J., May 24. 
Gregory J. Sullivan '54 was an usher. 

1955 — Daniel A. D'Andrea and Miss 
Elizabeth N. Wagner, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Richard F. Wagner of Waban, Mass., 
Mar. 28. 

1955 — Frederick Stavis and Miss Ruth 
Ann Lasky, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. 
Lester Lasky of Zanesville, O., Apr. 11. 
Ushers included Arnold C. Abramowitz 
'55, Harris J. Amhowitz '55, and Thomas 
N. Casselman '55. 



Minutes of a Very "Special Meeting" 



OUR COLLECTION of unusual birth an- 
nouncements has been augmented by 
the Minutes of a Special Meeting of the 
Board of Directors of The Coopers, Inc., 
complete with attestations and a proper 
embossed seal. 

"A special meeting of the Board of Di- 
rectors was held," we read, "at Presby- 
terian Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa., at 10 
a.m. on Saturday, April 11, 1959, pursuant 
to written waiver of notice attached hereto. 
Present: Charles Jasper Cooper '51, Presi- 
dent; Sally Hill Cooper '52, Secretary; 
Carol Ann Cooper, age 6; Douglas Newlin 
Cooper, age 5; and Charles Hill Cooper, 
age 3. 

"The President announced the birth of 
Elizabeth Jeffreys Cooper at 7:27 a.m. 
that day and that 'Libby' and her mother 
were in good health. Upon Motion duly 
made, seconded, and carried, it was 

"RESOLVED that Bylaw 22 of this 
Company be, and hereby is, amended to 
provide for six (6) directors instead of 
the present five, and it was 

"RESOLVED FURTHER that Eliza- 
beth Jeffreys Cooper be and hereby is 




elected a director to fill the vacancy cre- 
ated by the amendment of Bylaw 22, and 
it was 

"RESOLVED FURTHER that the Sec- 
retary be and hereby is directed to send a 
certified copy of the Minutes of this meet- 
ing to all regular correspondents of this 
Company. 

"There being no further business, the 
meeting was adjourned." The minutes were 
"respectfully submitted" by Sally Hill 
Cooper, Secretary, who further certified 
that she was "Secretary of The Coopers, 
Inc., successor to the partnership Cooper, 
Cooper, Cooper. Cooper, and Cooper, and 
that the above is a true and correct copy 
of the Minutes" of the special meeting. 



THE BRILLIANT SUN sent many of the Class Day audience to the shaded areas. On Commcncumc 
Day, however, good weather was so essential that all welcomed it with relief. 




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1956 — George P. Clayson, III, and Miss 
Marilyn R. Fleming, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. William R. Fleming of New York 
City. Jan. 31. The bride is Pembroke '59. 
Alan Clayson, II, '60 ushered. At home: 
127 Elmgrove Ave., Providence 6. 

1956— LT(j.g.) Richard C. Fredette, 
USNR, and Miss Terry G. Schwarzen- 
boeck of Charlottesville, Va., Mar. 25. 
.-Kt home: 2121 H St., N.W.. Washington 
7, D. C. 

1956 — Robert F. Zimmerman, Jr., and 
Miss Patricia A. Timpson, daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. Augustus D. Timpson of 
Far Hills. N. J.. Apr. 4. 

1957 — Richard A. Chagnot and Miss 
Nancy J. Barten, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Andrew N. Barten of Needham, Mass.. 
Apr. 4. Among the ushers was Eugene F. 
McCuUoch '56. 

1957 — Raymond D. Chuvala and Miss 
Carole L. Schumikowski, daughter of Mrs. 
Mary Schumikowski of Easthampton, 
Mass.. and the late Mr. Schumikowski. 

1957 — Loring R. Litchfield and Miss 
Eleanor Crowell Eaton, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Leslie Eaton of Verona, N. J., 
April 4. Loring P. Litchfield '28 is the 
groom's father. LT(j.g. ) George M. Quint, 
USN, '57 was best man. John Marshall '57 
was an usher. L. Leslie Eaton '3 1 is the 
father of the bride. 

1957 — John L. Marshall and Miss 
Joananne Argus, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Joseph V. Argus of Milton, Mass., 
May 2. John M. Keith "57 and Robert 
Borah '55 ushered. 

1958— Ens. Dennis J. Fish, USN, and 
Miss Nancy A. Couch, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Harold F. Couch of Warwick, 
R. I., May 16. Ronald E. Oberg '58 was 
an usher. 

1958— Ens. Stephen H. Gushee, USN, 
and Miss Anne E. Taylor, daughter of 
Mrs. Elizabeth P. Meier of Englewood, 
N. J., and Duncan C. Taylor of White 
Haven, Pa., Apr. 26. 

1958 — Starr P. Todd and Miss Dorothy 
Dalzell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harri- 
son H. Dalzell of Newburyport, Mass.. 
Apr. 19. 

BIRTHS 

1937— To Mr. and Mrs. Louis O. 
Heinold, Jr.. of Cranston, R. I., a son, 
Alan Scott, Mar. 21. 

1937— To Mr. and Mrs. F. Hartwell 
Swaffield of Needham, Mass., their third 
son, James Hartwell, Mar. 14. The Rev. 
W. Douglas Swaffield '06 is a grandfather. 

1947— To Mr. and Mrs. William O. 
Hoverman of Liverpool. N. Y., a son. 
Christopher James. Sept. 7. Mrs. Hover- 
man is the daughter of Fern Falloon 
Nutter. Pembroke '24 and the late Joseph 
W. Nutter '24. 

1948— To Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Kim- 
ball of Short Hills, N. J., their third son, 
John Holland, Mar. 19. 

1948— To Mr. and Mrs. Ralph I. Wilcox 
of Providence, a daughter. Margaret, May 
16. 

1949— To Mr. and Mrs. Francis W. 
Dana of Hingham, Mass., a son, Francis 
William. Nov. 10. W. C. Forstall '22 is a 
grandfather. 

1949— To Mr. and Mrs. Alan S. Flink 
of Providence, their third son, Peter Jef- 
frey. Mar. 28. 

1949 — To Mr. and Mrs. Victor J. Logan 
of West Caldwell, N. J., their third child 
and first son. Andrew John, Oct. 28. 

1949 — To Mr. and Mrs. Morris P. 



Schwartz of Cranston, a son, William Lee, 
Mar. 25. 

1950— To Mr. and Mrs. William J. 
Cochrane, Jr., of Warwick, R. I., their 
fourth child and third daughter, Pamela 
Marjorie, Nov. 10. 

1950— To Mr. and Mrs. Arthur E. 
Erickson, Jr., of Avon, Conn., a daughter, 
Christina Linnea, May 1. 

1950 — To Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Fisher 
of Fresh Meadows, N. Y., their third child 
and first daughter, Judith, May 3. 

1950— To Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Har- 
wood of Westfield. N. J., their second 
child and first daughter, Robin Lee, Apr 
28. 

1950— To Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth W. 
Smith of Endicott, N. Y., their second 
daughter, Carol Ann, Mar. 16. 

1950— To Mr. and Mrs. Fred H. Varner 
of Cumberland, R. I., their first child, a 
daughter, Lee Anne, Apr. 29. 

1951— To Mr. and Mrs. Saul D. Ar- 
vedon of Needham Heights, Mass., their 
third child and first daughter, Sheri June, 
Apr. 3. 

1951 — To the Rev. and Mrs. James A. 
Asay of Dallas, a son, Mark Allen, Apr. 
21. 

1951— To Mr. and Mrs. John N. Car- 
pender of Milford, N. J., their second 
daughter, Dana Whiting, Oct. 18. 

1951 — To Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. 
Gorman of Richmond, Va., their second 
daughter, Melissa Ann, Feb. 21. 

1951— To Mr. and Mrs. George H. 
Norton of San Francisco, a son, Edward 
Polk, Mar. 26. 

1951— To Mr. and Mrs. Marshall A. 
Staunton of Palo Alto, Calif., their second 
child and second daughter, Julia Shannon, 
Apr. 6. Mrs. Staunton is the former Nancy 
McLandress, Pembroke '52. 

1952— To Mr. and Mrs. William Flanz- 
baum of Los Angeles, a daughter, Ronda 
Ellen, Apr. 19. 

1952 — To Mr. and Mrs. James H. 
Readio, III, of Warwick Neck. R. I., their 



third child, a daughter, Marnee Elizabeth, 
Apr. 23. 

1952— To Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. 
Mitchell of Nashua, N. H., a daughter, 
Paula, Apr. 15. 

1952 — To Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence R. 
Ross of New York City, a daughter, Sara 
Ruth, Apr. 28. 

1952 — To Mr. and Mrs. Norman M. 
Steere of Pittsburgh, their second child 
and first son, James Mowry, Apr. 14. Mrs. 
Steere is the former Blyth Barnes, Pem- 
broke '54. 

1952— To Lt. Richard M. Stockwell, 
USN, and Mrs. Stockwell of Brooklyn, 
N. Y., their second son, David Matheson, 
Mar. 2. 

1952 — To Mr. and Mrs. George S. 
Sunderland of Essex, Mass., a daughter, 
Jodi Long, Apr. 20. 

1953— To Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. 
Pappas of Warwick, R. I., their first child, 
a daughter, Elaine Theona, Feb. 6. 

1954— To Mr. and Mrs. Walter Cook 
of South Windsor, Conn., their second 
child and second daughter, Karen Lee, 
Oct. 18. 

1954— To Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. 
Hawley of Swansea, Mass., their second 
son, Steven Robert, Apr. 20. Mrs. Hawley 
is the former Shirley Adams, Pembroke 
'54. 

1954 — To Mr. and Mrs. John W. Leahy 
of Littleton, Mass., a son, Michael, Feb. 4. 

1954 — To Dr. and Mrs. Matthew 
Scharfl' of New York City, their second 
child and first son, Thomas Charles, Mar. 
29. 

1955 — To Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. An- 
derson of Providence, a son, Mark Steven, 
Apr. 13. 

1955— To Rev. and Mrs. Clifford E. 
Kolb, Jr., of Oakfield, N. Y., their first 
child, a son, Darrell Leigh, Apr. 2. 

1956— To Lt. Daniel K. Hardenbergh. 
USAF, and Mrs. Hardenbergh of Leisure 
City, Fla., their second son, David Wil- 
liam, Feb. 20. 



In Memoriam 



FRANK HEATH MASON '93 in Bronx- 
ville, N. Y., Apr. 23. In 1897 he re- 
ceived an LL.B. from Columbia Uni- 
versity School of Law. For nearly 45 
years thereafter, he was a practicing at- 
torney. For most of his career, he was 
in New York, although he spent a few 
years in Denver as senior member of the 
firm of Mason and Reid. During re- 
cent years, he also had been counsel 
for several corporations in New York. 
A member of the American and New 
York State Bar Associations, he also 
was a member of the Bar of the U. S. 
Supreme Court and of two Federal Cir- 
cuit Courts of Appeal. Beta Theta Phi. 

FRANK STEERE '94 in Scituate, R. I., 
Apr. 6. After graduating from Boston 
University Law School in 1897, he be- 
came associated with the firm of Stone 
& Lovejoy before opening his own law 
office. His law practice continued for 
more than 60 years. He represented the 
town of Glocester, in the R. I. House 
of Representatives for two terms and 
had been Town Moderator continuously 



from 1908 to 1956. Phi Beta Kappa. His 
daughter is Miss Ruth G. Steere, Pem- 
broke '34, 20 Taber Ave., Providence. 

WALTER CYRUS SHERMAN '97 in 
East Providence, May 10. He had been 
a yarn broker until his retirement in 
1944. He was founder and Past Presi- 
dent of the Massasoit Gun Club, former 
President of the Rhode Island Riflemen, 
Inc., and a life member of the National 
Rifle Association. He had been fire arms 
instructor for the East Providence Police 
Department for many years. His widow 
is Ellen H. Sherman, 27 Doro PI., East 
Providence. 

HERBERT OLIN BRIGHAM '99 in New- 
port, Apr. 27. He was Assistant Li- 
brarian at Brown from 1899 to 1903. 
when he was appointed Rhode Island 
State Librarian. He resigned in 1937. 
He established the Legislative Refer- 
ence Bureau at the State Library and. 
while he was Librarian, it grew from 
14,000 volumes to 100.000 volumes. He 
was also State Record Commissioner, 



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with the duty of seeing that the com- 
munities of the State maintained proper 
records. He had also served on a com- 
mission to revise the State's General 
Laws and on the Advisory Committee of 
the New England Regional Planning 
Commission. After retiring from his 
State job, he worked for a time as a 
private research consultant. In 1938 he 
was elected Librarian and Recording 
Secretary of the Newport Historical So- 
ciety, a position which he held for more 
than 20 years. A member of the R. L 
Library Association and of the Ameri- 
can Historical Association, he served 
from 1943 to 1946 as Secretary of the 
Newport Postwar Planning Commission. 
Shortly after his death, he was one of 
the 20 librarians chosen in the Special 
Library Association's first Hall of Fame 
elections. His widow is Mary P. 
Brigham, 91 Rhode Island Ave., New- 
port. 

ALEXANDER SUTHERLAND GRIER 
'99 in Dumony, N. J., July 10, 1958. He 
had been employed by the James Mc- 
Cutcheon Co., N. Y. C, as Manager of 
the Correspondence Department from 
1898 to 1950. 

DR. RAY OSGOOD HUGHES '00 in 
Pittsburgh, Apr. 10. Educator and au- 
thor, he had written a total of 22 ele- 
mentary and high school te,\ts in the 
fields of economics and civics, including: 
"Problems of American Democracy," 
"New Community Civics," and "A Text- 
book in Citizenship." In 1900 he began 
teaching at various private and public 
schools in New England, moving to 
Pittsburgh in 1911 to teach citizenship 
and social studies. He was Vice-Princi- 
pal of the Peabody High School in 
Pittsburgh from 1926 to 1929. A life 
member of the National Education As- 
sociation and the American Historical 
Association, he became Director of 
Citizenship and Social Studies in 1939, 
continuing in those positions until his 
retirement in 1945. An instructor for 
several years at Harvard's Graduate 
School of Education, he was a Past 
President of the National Council for 
Social Studies. He received an A.M. 
from the University of Pittsburgh in 
1924, and in 1941, received an honorary 
L.H.D. from Brown. Phi Delta Kappa. 
His widow is Helene H. Hughes, 5517 
Beverly PI., Pittsburgh 6. 

CARL AUGUSTUS HILAND '05 in 
Daytona, Fla., May 1. He had been 
with the New England Telephone and 
Telegraph Co. since 1906. His positions 
were successively: Traffic Manager, Toll 
Traffic Superintendent, Division Traffic 
Engineer, and Division Traffic Supervi- 
sor. Theta Delta Chi. His daughter is 
Mrs. Allen S. Lehman, 74 Hubbard Dr., 
Glastonbury, Conn. 

DR. FRANK ANTHONY CUMMINGS 
'07 in Providence, May 6, after a long 
illness. After graduating from Tufts 
Medical School in 1911, he served his 
internship at Boston City Hospital. In 
1914 he became an associate at Rhode 
Island Hospital, and from 1919 to 1942 
he served on the active staff at the hos- 
pital. Since 1942 he had been on the 
courtesy staff. A member of the R. I. 
Medical Association and the American 
Medical Association, he was a life mem- 



In Memory of Bill Browne 

When Dr. William W. Browne 
'08 died recently, his colleagues in 
the Biology Department at CCNY 
contributed to a memorial fund "as 
a token of our respect and affec- 
tion." Instead of being used for 
flowers, the money was turned over 
to the Brown University Class of 
1908, at the suggestion of Mrs. 
Browne. The Class in turn directed 
the $25 check to the Brown Univer- 
sity Fund, designating it as a gift 
in memory of Dr. Browne, Past 
President of the Associated Alumni. 



ber of the American College of Gas- 
troenterology. His widow is Athalie S. 
Cummings, 72 Keene St., Providence. 

GEORGE WASHINGTON GREENE 
CARPENTER '10 in Santa Ana, Calif., 
May 3. After attending Brown, he 
graduated from Stamford University in 
1911. For many years he lived on the 
Island of Tahiti. During the war years 
he returned to the United States to work 
at the Douglas Army Air Force Base in 
Arizona. Psi Upsilon. 

CHARLES HAROLD BLOMBERG '11 in 
Leonia, N. J., Mar. 26, after a short 
illness. He had been associated with 
Swift & Co. for many years. Delta Tau 
Delta. His widow is Anna E. Blomberg, 
636 Grand Ave., Leonia. 

JACOB FREEMAN HIGH '11 in Daven- 
port, la., Aug. 8, 1958. For three years 
after graduation, he coached football at 
Tulane University, Wesleyan University, 
and at New York University. In 1914 he 
became a Sales Engineer for Linde Air 
Products in Eastern Pennsylvania. More 
recent associations included sales engi- 
neering with the Lonsdale Foundry, the 
Air Reduction Sales Co. in Pennsyl- 
vania, and construction engineering with 
a contracting business. He had also been 
with the U. S. Maritime Commission. 
Phi Delta Theta. His son is Richard T. 
High '42, 3701 South Olive Ave., West 
Palm Beach, Fla. 

OTIS WILLIAM JORDAN '11 in Cornish, 
N. H., Apr. 7. He had been a farmer 
in Plainfield, N. H., all his life. In 1953 
he was the Town's representative in the 
General Assembly. 

FOSTER VERNE YOUNG '11 in Read- 
ing, Mass., Apr. 13. He had been Vice- 
President of B. F. Marsh Co., Worcester 
manufacturers. He later was a salesman 
for J. O. Young Co. in Springfield, lad- 
der manufacturers. Psi Upsilon. His 
widow is Marian W. Young, 161 
Pleasant St., Reading. 

THE REV. JOHN HERSCHEL SPIND- 

LER '12 in Chesterfield. Mo., May 17. 
He graduated from Rochester Theologi- 
cal Seminary, New York, in 1916, and 
from Northeast State Teacher's College, 
Kirksville, Mo., in 1944. He had been 
Pastor of churches in Illinois, Ohio, and 
Nebraska until 1939, when he retired 
from full-time pastorial work. His 
widow is Rebecca Spindler, 29 Nardin 
Drive, Rt. 2, Chesterfield. 



WALTER HIBBERD GARRETT '13 in 

Hillsdale, N. Y., May 13. Since 1916 
he had been with the New York, New 
Haven, and Hartford Railroad. He be- 
gan as a clerk, later was an electrical 
operator, and recently was an examiner 
and instructor on vision and operating 
rules. Kappa Sigma. His widow is Eliza- 
beth P. Garrett, RED #2, Hillsdale. 

ALBERT EDWIN BEACHEN '14 in 
Providence, Apr. 17. Known as the 
"father of interscholastic wrestling in 
Rhode Island, " he was the founder of 
the R. I. Secondary Schools Wrestling 
Association which annually sponsors a 
meet to decide the State championships 
in that sport. After several years as a 
machine tool designer for various com- 
panies in the New England area, he be- 
gan teaching Mathematics at Central 
High School. In 1948 he was made 
Head of the Math Department. During 
28 years of high school coaching, he 
worked with more than 2300 young men, 
training as many as 150 men from four 
high schools in one season. In 1949 he 
was elected President of the R. I. 
Mathematical Association. His sons are 
Albert E. Beachen, Jr., '43, and Samuel 
P. Beachen, II, '49. His widow is Hulda 
L. Beachen, 49 Hillside Ave., Provi- 
dence. 

JOHN ALBERT WELD PEARCE '15 in 

Saugus, Mass., Apr. 9. Principal of 
Saugus High School for the past 23 
years, he retired in July, 1958. He be- 
gan his teaching career in 1916 at East 
Greenwich Academy and after one year 
went to Plymouth High School. In 1919 
he became Principal of Yarmouth High 
School. He had also been Principal at 
Oxford and Rockland High Schools, 
both in Massachusetts. He received a 
Master of Education degree from Har- 
vard in 1930. A veteran of World Wat 
I, he was a Past President of the Saugus 
Lions Club, and former Chairman of 
the Saugus Community Relations Coun- 
cil. Sigma Phi Epsilon. His widow is 
Jessie B. Pearce, 1 Stanton Road, 
Saugus. 

HAROLD MURDOCK TAYLOR '15 in 
Providence, May 17. Radio pioneer, ad- 
vertising executive, and author of 
family histories, for more than 32 years 
he was confined to his home with 
multiple sclerosis which he contracted 
in 1927. Proud of the fact that he was 
one of the first two directors of radio 
broadcasting in the United States, and 
the first in New England, his station, 
located at Medford Hillside, Mass., was 
the first in the country to broadcast on 
a regular daily schedule. In 1921 he per- 
sonally gave the first play-by-play ac- 
count of the World Series ever broad- 
cast via radio. He inaugurated many 
program features that have since be- 
come standard, such as the use of radio 
in political campaigns, news, weather, 
etc. Before he became disabled, he was 
a Manager at the Taft-Pierce Manu- 
facturing Co. in Woonsocket; Director 
of Technical Publicity at the Aluminum 
Castings Co. in Cleveland; and then in 
1920, was Advertising Manager of the 
American Radio and Research Corp. of 
New York and Medford, Mass. In 1918 
he enlisted in the U. S. Navy. After his 
confinement, he turned his interests to 
genealogy, particularly of the Taylor 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 




PHILIP HOLLMAN I ^ 

has a Closs Day I **" 

role as Historian. / " 



family, whoie roots can be traced to 
the nation's beginnings. He compiled, 
edited, and published a 600-page, illus- 
trated volume entitled Anthony Taylor 
of Hampton. New Hampshire, and Some 
of His Desicndents. 1635-1935. In 1945 
a supplement to that book was pub- 
lished. Librarians and scholars ac- 
claimed both as models of the type ot 
form and content which a family history 
should contain. In addition to produc- 
ing numerous manuscripts on other 
families, he had, in recent years, con- 
tributed to the Cranston Historical So- 
ciety, of which he was a charter mem- 
ber. He wrote many historical sketches 
under the title, "Echoes of Cranston" 
for the Cranston Herald. He was a 
member of the Institute of American 
Genealogy, New England Historic 
Genealogical Society, and the Boston 
Advertising Club. Phi Sigma Kappa. 
His widow is Eunice R. Taylor. 2286 
Cranston St., Cranston. 

DR. FRANCIS VINCENT GARSIDE '18 
in Providence, Apr. 7. He graduated 
from Harvard Medical School in 1922, 
and then interned at Providence City 
Hospital. He had been on the staff of 
Rhode Island Hospital and St. Joseph's 
Hospital. A member of the active surgi 
cal service of Our Lady of Fatima Hos- 
pital, he was a former President of the 
staff. A member of the State Board of 
Examiners for Medicine since 1954. he 
had been assistant gynecologist at St. 
Joseph's Hospital. Treasurer of the R. I. 
Medical Society, he was a member of 
the International College of Surgeons 
and the American Medical Society. His 
widow is Marie D. Garside, 102 Laurel 
Ave.. Providence. 

EDMUND FRANCIS BEAGAN "20 in 

Providence. May 9. He graduated from 
Boston University Law School in 1923. 
In 1938 he was named Chief Clerk of 
the office of former Governor Quinn of 
Rhode Island. He also had been a right- 
of-way agent for the Department of 
Public Works. Phi Kappa. His brothers 
are John G. Beagan '21 and Joseph E. 
Beagan "22, both of Providence. His 



AS HOPE COLLEGE 
was rededicated; 
Trustees Tanner and 
Pierce in foreground. 



widow is Maybelle M. Beagan, 476 
Hope St., Providence. 

ALBERT HADFIELD NUTTALL '22 in 
Pawtucket, Apr. 7. Recently he had been 
a claims examiner for the R. I. Depart- 
ment of Employment Security in Provi- 
dence. Previously he had been a Collec- 
tor of Internal Revenue and an adjuster 
with the Narragansett Electric Co. 
Theta Delta Chi. His widow is Hope L. 
Nuttall, 163 Lafayette St., Pawtucket. 

NEWELL WALCOTT BISHOP '23 in 
New York City, Apr. 6. He had been a 
statistician with the Western Electric 
Co. in New York since 1943. After re- 
ceiving a Master of Arts degree from 
Brown in )925, he moved to New York 
where he worked for a time with an 
advertising agency. In 1939 he became a 
management assistant with the N. Y. C. 
Housing Authority. Before his associa- 
tion with the Western Electric Co., he 
had also been a statistician with the 
British Ministry of Supply Mission. His 
widow is Margaret R. Bishop, 30 East 
9th St.. New York 3. 

DR. HARRY HOWARD REYNOLDS 
'23 in Claymont, Del., Nov. 17. He held 
both a Sc.M. and a Ph.D. from Brown, 
earned respectively in 1925 and 1928. 
He had been a research chemist for the 
E. I. DuPont Co. Phi Beta Kappa. 
Sigma Xi. His widow is Marion B. 
Reynolds, 52 Osage Rd., Claymont. 

DR. JOHN EDWARD CANDELET '26 

in Glastonbury, Conn., Apr. 16. In 1946 
he joined the Faculty of Trinity College 
in Hartford as an Associate Professor 
of Economics. After graduating from 
Colby College in 1927, he earned his 
M.B.A. degree at Pennsylvania in 1929, 
and his Ph.D. from the New School for 
Social Research in New York. He was, 
for a time, a statistician with the In- 
dustrial Trust Company in Providence. 
An authority in corporation finance and 
investments, he also had taught at the 
University of Rhode Island and at 
Northeastern University. He had served 
as a Commander in the U. S. Navy 
during World War II. Parsons College 




gave him an honorary LL.D. in 1945. 
Phi Beta Kappa. 

DR. JOHN WILLIAM KINLEY "26 in 
Summit, N. J., Apr. 13, A surgeon and 
psychiatrist in private practice since 
1944, he was Chairman of the Neuro- 
psychiatric Section at Overlook Hospi- 
tal, Summit. In 1931 he received his 
M.D. and CM. degrees from McGill. 
He served on the staffs of the State Hos- 
pital at Greystone Park. O., and the 
Institute for Living in Hartford. A Fel- 
low of both the American Medical As- 
sociation and the American Psychiatric 
Association, he was a Diplomate to the 
American Board of Psychiatry and 
Neurology. He served as Secretary to 
the N. J. Neuro-Psychiatric Association 
in 1946. Kappa Sigma. His son is 
Donald L. Kinley '59. His widow is 
Alice H. Kinley. 116 Ashland Rd., Sum- 
mit. 

MILTON BLAKE BRIGHTMAN '29 in 
San Francisco, Apr. 30. He had been 
associated with the American Mutual 
Liability Insurance Co. since 1941, first 
as a district engineer in New Hamp- 
shire and Connecticut, and later as an 
Assistant Manager for the New Eng- 
land district. Theta Delta Chi. H"is 
brother is William T. Brightman. Jr., 
'21. His widow is Elizabeth E. Bright- 
man, 84 Whittier Rd., Needham, Mass. 

DR. NORMAN RICHARD LARSON '43 

in Pawtucket, Apr. 21. Since 1956 he 
had been on the staff of Hollingworth 
and Vose Research Laboratory in East 
Walpole. Mass. A recipient of a Ph.D. 
degree from Northwestern University in 
1950, he also had been employed as a 
research associate with Chemical Con- 
sultants, Inc., in Seattle. His mother is 
Mrs. Alma J. Larson, 200 Bloodgood 
St., Pawtucket. 

ROGER DENNIS PLANTE '61 in Provi- 
dence May 26. Stricken with bulbar 
paralytic polio in the middle of the exam 
period, he died within four days. He was 
the first polio death in Rhode Island 
since 1956. Top student and valedic- 
torian in the Class of 1957 at Providence 
Central High, he was a member of the 
R. I. Honor Society and had received in 
each of his two years at Brown a schol- 
arship from the Lions Club of his home 
town. Scituate, R. I. He was an Ameri- 
can Civilization major. His brother is 
Adrian Plante '59. Chaplain Baldwin 
conducted the funeral service. 



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SECRETARIES OF BROWN CLUBS 



Alta California (San Francisco). Frederic S. Freund '52, Property 
Management Co., 85 Post St., San Francisco 4. 

Baltimore, William R. Bennett '52, 10-A Virginia Ave., R D 2, 
Reisterstown, Md. 

Berkshire County, Simon England. Jr., '35, c/o England Bros., 
89 North St., Pittsfield, Mass. 

Boston, Norman B. Silk '49, 77 Cole Terrace, Randolph, Mass. 

Brown Engineering Assn., George A. Pournaras '25, 825 Sprague St., 
Baldwin, L. I.. N. Y. 

Buffalo (Western N. Y.). Gordon E. C. Fuller '55, lloVi Anderson 
PI.. Buffalo 22. 

Canton, Robert M. Mann '52, 2815 St. Elmo, N.E., Canton 4, O. 

Cape Cod, Mrs. Hinckley Thacher '31, 198 Main St., Hyannis, Mass. 

Central Jersey. Frederick A. Bauman '35, Pres.. 806 Harding St., 
■W'estfield, N. J. 

Chicago, Dr. Miles E. Cunat, Jr., '52, 165 No. Canal St., Chicago 6. 

Cincinnati. Thomas H. Simon '54, 2706 Section Rd., Cincinnati. 

Cleveland, Theodore B. Selover, Jr., '52, 19614 Winslow Rd., Shaker 
Heights 22. O. 

Color.WO. Richard H. 'W'oulfe '51, 660 nth St., Denver 2. 

Connecticut 'Vallev, Donald C. Hutchinson '50, 31 Donamor Lane, 
East Longmeadow, Mass. 

Dallas, Robert C. Lunn '54. 5434 Boaz, Dallas 9. 

Delaware, Frederick Knecht, Jr., '53. 2111 Gilles St., Wilmington 5. 

Eagle Rock, Charles D. Fischer '46, 60 Forest Ave., Glen Ridge, N. J. 

Eastern Connecticut. Stephen S. Armstrong '36, Pres., 120 Broad- 
way, Norwich, Conn. 

Fall River, C. Frank Gifford, Jr., '51, 124 Lafayette St., Somerset, Mass. 

Florida (West Coast), Hardy L. Payor '50, Box 233, St. Petersburg. 

Framingham, W. Gordon Carlisle, Jr., '50, 2 Old Farm Rd., Wayland, 
Mass. 

Georgia, Elliot P. Harris '46, 3221 N. Druid Hills Rd., Atlanta. 

H.«TFORD, Cyrus G. Flanders '18. 66 N. Main St., Windsor Locks, Conn. 

Hockanum (Manchester, Conn.), Dr. Don A. Guinan '45, 35 Milford 
Rd., Manchester. 

Houston. Morris L. Pepper '27, 3416 La Branch. Houston 4. 

Indiana. Alfred E. Kessler '35. 2429 Baur Dr.. Indianapolis 20, Ind. 

Lack.\wann.\, Norman E. Wright '49, 52 Bellevue Ave., Summit, N. J. 

Long Island. V. Donald Russo, Jr., '50, 42 Temple St.. Williston Park. 

Los Angeles. Stuart E. Eddy '27. 803 E. Oakwood Ave., Glendora. Cal. 

Louisiana, Dr. Dean H. Echols '27, 1428 First St., New Orleans 13, La. 

Merrimack 'Valley. James S. Eastham '19, 250 Stuart St., Boston 16. 

Michigan, Richard J. Selleck '51, 1838 Book Tower, Detroit 26. 

Mid-Hudson, H. Wilson Guernsey, Jr., '43. Upton Lake Rd., Clinton 
Corners. N. Y. 

Milwaukee, Roger D. Mclntyre '37, 805 E. Green Tree Rd., Mil- 
waukee 1". 

New Bedford, Jack M. Rosenberg '42, 329 Maple St., New Bedfrrd. 

New Haven, Jerome W. Gratenstein '36, 21 Abigail St., Woodmont, 
Conn. 

Newport, Harold L. Dorkin '49. 59 Harrison Ave., Newport. 



New York, Miss Christine Dunlap '48, Brown Club, 39 E. 39th St., 

N. Y. 16. 
N.E. New Jersey, Arthur Stein '52, 10^ Kensington Ave., Jersey City, 

N.J. 
N E New York, Lewis A. Sumberg '34, 659 Morris Ave., Albany 3, 

N. Y. 
NE. Pennsylvania, Henry W. Peterson '21, Pres., 742 Miners Bank 

Bldg., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 
North Shore (Mass.), Ralph E. Lewis, Jr., '50, 10 Elnew Ave., 

Beverly. Mass. 
Oregon, Ashley Greene '21, 3-189 Molalla Rd., Ore.gon City. 
Philadelphia. Bertram Wolfson '52, 724 Newtown Rd., Ithan, Pa. 
Pittsburgh, George E. Hotton '55, 499 Haverhill Rd., Country Club 

Hts.. Pittsburgh 34. 
Rhode Island, R. F. Noonan '36, 405 Grotto Ave.. Pawtucket. 
Rochester. A. Russel Tomkinson '49, 25 Dunrovin Lane, Rochester, 

N. Y. 
South County (R. I.), F. R. Sheldon '31, 4 French Rd., Kingston. 
South Florida, Edwin C. Bliss '47, 7001 S.W. 5"'th St.. Miami. 
South Shore (Mass.), J. Preston Barry '49. 3 Spring Lane. Hingham. 
Stamford and Fairfield Counties, Wallace D. DeKlyn '37, 197 

Highland Ave.. Rowayton, Conn. 
St. Louis, Richman Bry '55, Park Plaza Hotel. St. Louis 8. 
Syracuse, Terry M. Townsend '52, Kinne Rd.. R.D. 3, Syracuse, N. Y. 
Trenton, Alfred McC. Chapman '58, Davidson House, Lawrenceville, 

N.J. 
Tucson, Paul A. Williams '26, 2826 E. Alta Vista St., Tucson. 
Twin City (*Iinneapolis-St. Paul), Joseph E. Coughlin, Jr., '53, 5704 

Beard So., Minneapolis 10. 
Virginia, Ernest S. Fitz 11, Three Chopt & Bandy Rds., Richmond 26. 
Washington, D. C, Richard W. White '50. 7120 Healy Drive, 

Springfield. Va. 
Westchester, Charles Beattie '23, 30 Edgemont Hwy., Scarsdale, N. Y. 
Western Maine, Brooks Colcord '52, 188 Eastern Promenade, Portland. 
Worcester County (Mass.). Robert M. SifF '48. 79-20 Park Ave., 

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ASSOCIATION OF CLASS SECRETARIES 



1891~-F.L.Hincklev. 2211 Industrial Bank Bldg. 

1893— Dr. R. M. Brown, 123 Waterman St. 

1894— Dr. William C. Hill. 1166 Worthington 
St.. Springfield 9, Mass. 

1895— Herbert M. Adams, 61 Nayatt Rd.. W. 
Barrington, R. I. 

1896— Prof. Wm.H.Kenerson. 100 Morris Ave. 

1897— George L. Miner, 276 Blackstone Blvd. 

1898— George F. Troy, 40 Colonial Rd. 

1899— Benjamin W. Grim. 123 Waterman St. 

1900— Prof. Charles W. Brown, 37 Barnes St. 

1901— William H. Hull, 266 Gano St. 

1902— Everett J. Horton, 103 Whitmarsh St. 

1903— Prof. William T. Hastings, Brown Uni- 
versity. 

1904 — Elisha C. Mowry. 59 Freeman Pkwy. 

1905 — Charles L. Robinson, 1015 Simonton St., 
Key West. Fla. 

1906— Dr. Alex M. Burgess, 107 Bowen St. 

1907— A. H. Gurney. 14 Young Orchard Ave. 

1908— C. L. Grinnell. Main Rd'.. Tiverton, R. I. 

1909— Henry S. Chafee, P. O. Box 1342. 

1910— Edward S. Spicer. 158 Bowen St. 

1911— Earle B. Arnold. P. O. Box 205. North 
Scituate, R. I. 

1912— Earl P. Perkins. 10 Gibson Ave., Narra- 
gansett, R. I. 

1913— George T. Metcalf. 21- Angell St. 

1914 — Earl W. Harrington. 55 Columbia Ave., 
Edgewood 5, R. I. 

1915— George F. Bliven, 201 Turks Head Bldg. 

1916 — John W. Moore, 63 Tryon Ave., Rum- 
ford 16, R. I. 

1917 — Earl M. Pearce, 4 Exchange St., Cranston 
10, R. I. 

1918— Walter Adler. 1006 Hospital Trust Bldg. 

Note 



Earl W. Harrington, Jr., '41, Chairman 

1919— Fred B. Perkins, 85 Nayatt Rd., Barring- 
ton, R. I. 

1920 — Frederick E. Schoeneweiss, 35 Fosdyke 
St. 

1921— Alfred Mochau, 123 Oak Tree Ave., 
Warwick, R. I. 

1922— J. Wilbur Riker, 905 Hospital Trust Bldg. 

1923 — Nathaniel B. Chase, 110 Windermere 
Way, Warwick, R. I. 

1924 — John J. Monk, Hillison and Etteti Co., 
638 South Federal St., Chicago 5 ., 111. 

1925 — John E. Pemberton, 120 Pro.gress St., 
Lincoln, R. I. 

1926— Jacob S. Temkin, 15 Harwich Rd. 

1927 — Irving G. Loxley, 94 Albert Ave.. Edge- 
wood, R. I. 

1928— Ralph B. Mills. 126 Naushon Rd.. Paw- 
tucket, R. I. 

1929— Edwin C. Harris, 2nd, R.F.D. 3, Box 
250A. Esmond 17, R. I. 

1930 — Edmund J. Farrell, 6 Armistice Blvd., 
Pawtucket, R. I. 

1931— Clinton N. Williams, 51 So. Angell St. 

1932— Richard A. Hurley. Jr.. 80 Don Ave., 
Rumford, R. I. 

1933— Franklin A. Hurd, 5 Meredith Dr., 
Cranston 10, R. I. 

1934— Bancroft Littlefield, 1109 Hospital Trust 
Bids. 

1935— Alfred H. Joslin, 25 So. Angell St. 

1936 — R. W. Kenyon, 910 Squantum Dr., Gov. 
Francis Farms, Warwick, R. I. 

1937 — Martin L. Tarpy, 6 Pequot Rd., Paw- 
tucket, R. I. 

1938 — ^James E. Lathrop, Jr., 31 Alfred Drowne 
Rd., W. Barrington, R. I. 
Unless otherwise indicated, all addresses are in Pro 



1939— Raymond W. deMatteo, 180 Rankin Ave. 

1940— Dr. Harold W. Pfautz, 11 John St. 

1941 — Earl W. Harrmgton, Jr., 24 Glen Ave., 
Edgewood 5, R. I. 

1942— William I. Crooker, 8 Kingsford Rd., 
Hanover, N. H. 

1943 — Robert Radway, 29 Brenton Ave. 

1944 — W. S. M. Montgomery, 702 So. Perry 
St., Napoleon. O. 

1945— Daniel Fairchild, 10 Rhode Island Ave. 

1946 — Richard J. Tracy, 134 Don Ave., Rum- 
ford 16. R. I. 

1947 — Norman A. Jerome, 61 Fairfax Dr., 
Edgewood 5, R. I. 

1948 — Burton I. Samors, 172 Irving Ave. 

1949— Rolland H. Jones. P. O. Box 338, East 
Greenwich, R. I. 

1950 — Robert Cummings, 176 Everett Ave. 

1951 — Charles A. Andrews, Jr., 227 Cleveland 
St., Pawtucket, R. I. 

1952 — Dr. John D. Hutchinson. 41 Randolph 
Ave., ^"aterbury. Conn. 

195 3— Richard Mendelsohn, 90-02 63rd Dr., 
Forest Hills. L. I.. N. Y. 

1954— Caleb Woodhouse, 2477 Prince St., 
Berkeley. Cal. 

1955— LT(j.g.) John T. Houk. Jr.. 143 A Or- 
leans Circle, Norfolk. Va. 

1956— Marvin L. Wilenzik, 1212 Hill St., Ann 
Arbor. Mich. 

1957 — Ivor Sargon, 10 Strathmore Rd., Brook- 
line 46. Mass. 

1958 — William F. Barry, 211 Highland Ave., 
Newtonville 60, Mass. 

1959— Peter F. McNeish, 773 Fruithurst Dr., 
Pittsburgh 34. 
idence. 



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