a 

New 

Relationship 



Question: is the regular Brown University Fund 
appeal to be made in 1960? 

Answer: yes. The reKular annual appeal will be 
made to the majoritv of alumni between now and 
June 30, 1960. 

Question; During this same period will gifts and 
pledges be sought for the Bicentennial Develop- 
ment Capital Gifts Campaign? 

AnSlVer: yes. but only from alumnl in Rhode 
Island, Southeastern Massachu.setts and 15 to 2Qfo 
of alumni elsewhere who are special gift prospects. 

Question: when win all other alumni be a.sked to 
give to the capital gifts campaign? 

Answer: in the second half of 1960 and in the first 
half of 1961. 

Question: Will alumni be asked to give to both 
simultaneously? 

Answer : no. You will be asked to give only once 
during each academic year. 

Question : is the Bicentennial Development Cam- 
paign to be an annual appeal? 

Answer : no. when his turn comes, each alumnus 
will be asked to make as generous a pledge as he can 
to the capital gifts campaign, payable over a 30 
month period. 

Question: is the Brown University Fund to be 
suspended during any part of the two year capital 
gifts campaign ? 



Answer: yes. There will be no Fund appeal in 
1961. It is planned that annual giving will be a part 
of the capital gifts campaign at that time. 

Question : what happens to annual giving and the 

support it has been giving Brown? 

Answer: Part of the dollar objective of the Bicen- 
tennial Development Campaign includes an 
amount to replace the normal unrestricted income 
provided by the Brown University Fund. There- 
fore, when you give to the capital campaign you 
are continuing your regular annual support of the 
University. 

Question : Does this maintain my record of annual 

giving? 

Answer: yes. The Trustees of the Brown Univer- 
sity Fund have voted that those who are paying 
pledges to the capital gifts campaign will be con- 
sidered contributors to the annual Fund during the 
years of payment. 

Broivn University Fund Schedule 



Now thru Mid-1960: I Mid-1960 thru 1961: 



Will seek the support 
of all alumni except 
tho.se in Rhode Island, 
Southeastern Massa- 
chusetts and relatively 
small number of spe- 
cial prospects else- 
where. 



Complete integration 
of the Brown Univer- 
sity Fund and the 
Bicentennial Develop- 
ment Capital Gifts 
Campaign. 



BROWN 

ALUMNI MONTHLY 



APRIL 1960 




In This Issue 



THE THIRD MOONSHOOTER 



BOARD OF EDITORS 

Chainncin 

C. Arthur Braitsch '23 



Vice-Chairnian 
George R. Ashbey '21 



Garrett D. Byrnes '26 
Warren L. Carleen '48 
C. Manton Eddy '22 
Carleton Goff '24 
Prof. I. J. Kapstein '26 
Stuart C. Sherman '39 



Managing Editor 
Chesley Worthington '23 



Assistant Editor 

John F. Barry, Jr., '50 



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Box 1854, Brown University, Provi- 
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January, February, March, April. May, and 
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The Magazine is sent to all Brown alumni. 



BROWN 

ALUMNI MONTHLY 



APRIL 1960/VOL. LX NO. 7 



In This Issue. 



Workhorse of the Antarctic Ice Floes 4 

Robert Burgess and the Big Nose-Count 10 

A Bride Replies to Margaret Mead 12 

Photo Report on the Advisory Council 14 

The Sphinx: The Story of Its Start 16 
MOONSHOOTER: Report on Alumni starting on 23 

Spring Sports: An Optimistic Outlook 43 

FRONT COVER 



THE MOON DEVICE is tlie insigne of the "Moonshooters" (Editorial 
Projects for Education, Inc.) whose third annual report we feature in this 
issue. As one of the original participants in this extraordinary venture, the 
Brown Alumni Monthly is proud to note that the 1960 insert will appear 
in publications of 350 colleges, universities, and schools this month. The 
print order was for more than 3,000,000 copies. The Moonshooter symbol, 
by the way, is an adaptation of a "Mondsichel" or "Croissant" design used 
for a 16th-century watermark in Aix-la-Chappelle. 




Nikki persists 



PROFESSOR smiley's effort to reach his 
young correspondent in Cleveland was 
successful, we're glad to report. You'll re- 
call that Nikki. aged 10, wrote him asking 
for information on the Universe but failed 
to give an address to which he could reply. 
However, when a Cleveland newspaper 
published his letter to Nikki, she saw ii 
and wrote her thanks. She added: "If you 
do get something on the Universe, please 
send it to me." 

> WE suspect that a sentence ending a 
recent speech by President Keeney will be 
quoted again and again. He was the re- 
cipient, as a former Boy Scout, of one of 
two Golden Jubilee Awards at a statewide 
dinner of Scouting people in Providence 
and responded with a fine talk about the 
great values of the Boy Scout program. 
He concluded his tribute with this chal- 
lenge: "No good thing is good enough." 

> AARON H. ROiTMAN '30 has been Cam- 
paign Chairman for the Narragansett 
Council's drive for $500,000 in support of 
the Scouting program in Rhode Island. He 
was handed a $500 check from the Most 
Rev. Russell J. McVinney, D.D., Roman 
Catholic Bishop of Providence and gave 
impromptu thanks. 

Roitman, who is of the Jewish faith, 
said: "I don't know if a blessing from me 
will have the same effect as a blessing 
from you — but God bless you. Bishop 
McVinney, for what it's worth." All pres- 
ent, including the Bishop, seemed to appre- 
ciate it very much. 

> BISHOP MCVINNEY was telling us that 
night about one of his high school teachers 
at La Salle Academy, a Brother who was 
always known to his students as "Brother 
Mike" because of his Tipperary back- 
ground. He was a profound influence on 
all those who knew him. One day, re- 
proving one of his boys, he asked if the 
lad ever went to confession. "If you do," 
he said, "tell about your stealing, for 
that's what you're doing with the money 
your father has been giving for your edu- 
cation. And, if anyone ever asks you what 
you are taking up in school, tell him: 
"Space, and nothing else.' " 



A hold gimmick . . . 

> WITH SO MANY Brown committees hard 
at work with plans for Class Reunions in 
1960, this is an appropriate moment to 
report what an Emory University medical 
group developed as a gimmick for build- 
ing up attendance for its reunion. "This 
Class." says Editor Randy Fort, "mails 
out to the wife of each member a charge 
card guaranteeing practically unlimited 
credit at one of the big Atlanta department 
stores." 



> APRIL is m-month for the college ad- 
mission offices. It is timely, therefore, to 
tell of a letter received at Brown recently 




from a Headmaster about a boy who had 
applied from his prep school. He wrote: "I 
recommend this boy without any qualifica- 
tions whatsoever." After looking at the 
record, one of the Admission Officers said 
he agreed with the Headmaster: "The boy 
really has no qualifications whatsoever." 

> IF YOU KNOW your neighborhood geog- 
raphy from College Hill days, you'll recall 
that C ongdon St. comes to its southern 
end on the hillside of Angell St. As you 
come down Congdon St. today, you are 
facing one of the handsome new dormi- 
tories of the Rhode Island School of De- 
sign. The shades there are not always 
drawn, but a scout with a roving eye re- 
ports that one of the young ladies in resi- 
dence has put a large sign in her window. 
It reads: "Honi soit qui mal y pense." 

> WORDS UNLIMITED, the informal or- 
ganization of those who cover .sports for 
Rhode Island press, radio, and TV, picked 
Joe Mullaney. who handles Providence 
College basketball, for its annual award 
as Coach of the Year. Having learned of 
the honor, Mrs. Mullaney rehearsed their 
two small sons in a special greeting for 
Joe. 

The first one had it down pat and said, 
when Mullaney came home that night: 
"Hello, Coach of the Year." Then it was 
the younger tot's turn, and he followed 
with: "Hello, Joke of the Year." 

> BY THE TIME the Dean of Admission, 
Lloyd Cornell, gave his talk at the Resi- 
dent Fellows' Luncheon, he had thought 
better about announcing his topic. Last 
month we reported his first inclination was 
to call the talk. "Admit Nothing." It would 
have been striking but inaccurate. Ap- 
parently, it would have been safer to use 
something like "Be Careful What You 
Admit" or "Remember anything you ad- 
mit may be used against You." What 
finally appeared in the Weekly Bulletin as 
his topic, however, was merely "The Mad- 
ding Crowd." 

> WHEN REPORTERS interview coaches 
after disappointing football games, the 
latter sometimes say things which they 
might not if given more time for reflec- 
tion. For that reason we subscribe to what 
Dr. Frank P. Graham, former President 
of the University of North Carolina, re- 
marked apropos of a certain Southern 
post-game incident last fall: "When a man 




is beaten badly and the score is lop-sided 
against him, he ought to be permitted at 
least five minutes before quotation." 

> THE GIRL STARTLED the Pembroke Ad- 
mission Office by explaining that she was 
able to spend some time visiting New 
England colleges in January because her 
school had a two months' vacation in the 
winter. Perhaps you, too, will think her 
situation somewhat unusual until you are 
told the applicant was from the Argentine. 



The flocked tree . . . 

> A MooNSHOOTER EDITOR, commenting 
on the supplement which appears in this 
issue, tells us that the phrase "flocked 
Christmas trees" might send three million 
readers to their dictionaries, flocking, of 
course. Having already made the inspec- 
tion, he could report that "flock" is a 
"small, light, loose mass, as of smoke or 
a fine precipitate." In the case of the 
trees, it was snow "made of some secret 
ingredient." 

Noting also the word "alumni-ship" in 
the Masefield section, he added: "We must 
down to the sea in alumni-ships." 

> yale's EDITOR was reporting: "Alumni 
Secretaries who edit football films for the 
edification of the faithful are not main- 
tained on the payroll to stress the prowess 
of Alma Mater's loyal opposition. This is 
just as true at Harvard as elsewhere. Con- 
sequently the Harvard film of last No- 
vember's 35-6 triumph over you-know- 
who was loyally divided into (a) one 
reel for alumni consumption showing only 
a Harvard juggernaut clobbering the Elis 
on every play, and (b) a second reel for 
coachly analysis recording Harvard's oc- 
casional ineptitudes and Yale's solitary 
moment of glory. Was it the editor's fault 
that Coach Yovicsin, en route to a gath- 
ering of reverent Harvards, accidentally 
picked up and showed them the wrong 
reel? Final score that evening: Yale 6 — 
Harvard 0. Brek-ek-ek-ex. coax, coax." 

> HAVING SEEN Profcssor So-and-So headed 
toward home in the early afternoon in- 
stead of putting in the rest of his day on 
research, a Brown colleague remarked: 
"This is not like him." 

Another colleague replied: "Nothing is 
like Professor So-and-So." 

BUSTER 



The Spectacular Exploits 
of Philip Porter's 'Glacier' 





A toush workhorse 
of the Antarctic 
ice floes has 
been niakinu: 
history in its 
latest adventures 
under a colorful 
Brown skipper. 



official Photographs 
i.«li» U.S. NAVY 

BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



A USEFUL BRUTE of ail icebreaker and her colorful skip- 
per have been making history this past winter in Antarctic 
waters. The ship is the Navy's Glacier, "largest and most 
powerful ever built in the free world," and her commander 
is Philip W. Porter. Jr., '41 . an upper-case Commander as 
well. Ten thousand miles from her home port of Boston, 
Glacier has moved from adventure to adventure, from ice 
floe to ice floe. We asked for her story, partly because of 
Commander Porter and partly because the senior .scientist 
aboard has been Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy 'II. 

Our request reached Glacier in Wellington, N. Z., 24 
hours before she left on the voyage that was to .see her 
make man's first penetration of the Bellingshausen Sea. 
Even on such short notice, as Porter wrote, "the enclosed 
was gotten together by our Public Information Section — a 
little flowery but with the essentials included. We have 
quite a crew of newsmen aboard, so the Navy has added a 
group of news experts to my staff. Since we leave for Bel- 
linghausen today, the boys worked quickly." 

In our gratitude, we regret that we can assign no proper 
by-line. Some of the material was specially written; other 
sections come from the shipboard history of the USS Gla- 
cier and from later news stories in the American press. 

Porter's note carried a postscript: "Please remember me 
to all my friends at the Brown Faculty Club." He had 
many others at Brown while a.s.signed to its Naval ROTC 
Unit eight years ago. 



ALTHOUGH Glacier was commissioned less than five years 
- ago, her career has already been spectacular. Her bap- 
tism of ice came in December, 1955, when, within a few 
weeks, she carried out ice-breaking assignments which sur- 
prised polar experts everywhere. Deepfreeze 1 was both a 
shakedown cruise and maiden voyage for her, and everyone 
seemed willing to test the extraordinary potential which de- 
signers had said would be hers. 

At Kainan Bay, a low ice indentation in the Ross Ice Shelf, 
the Glacier took only 25 hours to carve out an ice harbor 
4500 yards wide by 600 yards deep to permit olT-loading of 
cargo ships carrying the prefabricated components which 
were to become Little America V. This job had been previ- 
ously estimated as needing three days of continuous breaking. 

32,000 Miles on Her "Shakedoum" 
Later, at McMurdo Sound, the Glacier took over the job of 
breaking out a 40-mile channel into the solid bay ice. The 
terminus of the project was Hut Point on Ross Island, where 
an air facility was being built. Glacier began at the point, 30 
miles out, where two other icebreakers had been forced to 
halt. Glacier had to stop, too, but for another reason: her 
work was weakening the ice which was to be used as a land- 
ing field. When the planes had completed their missions. Gla- 
cier returned to McMurdo and bulled the channel all the way 
to Hut Point. By the time she was close to the beach, she was 
breaking ice more than 20 feet thick, though her designers 
had predicted that 15 feet would be plenty for her. 

Glacier ended Deepfreeze I by making an exploratory voy- 
age westward around the continent to the Weddell Sea. She 
surveyed Vincennes Bay on the Wilkes Coast and made the 
first landings in history on the Princess Martha and Princess 
Astrid Coasts. Glacier was back in Boston in May, 1956, her 
"maiden voyage" having taken her 32,000 miles and seven 
months. 




"«^' 




COMMANDER Philip W. Porter, Jr., '41, captain of 'Glacier,' the Navy's 
rugged icebreaker. They've run up some new "firsts." 




Commander Bernard J. Lauff had replaced the original 
skipper, Commander Eugene H. Maher, when Glacier headed 
south again to spearhead the second Deepfreeze operation 
for the International Geophysical Year. After a short visit to 
Valparaiso, Chile, she stood by on the northern edge of the 
Ross ice pack as a rescue and beacon vessel for the Air Force 
and Navy planes on their way to the frozen continent from 
New Zealand. After the flyers had landed. Glacier began the 
penetration of the pack which was to prove historic. 

It took her nine days to hammer her way through the 
cement-hard ice. In some spots the ice was under terrific 
pressure; some hummocks were pushed as much as 30 feet 



APRIL 1960 



above the surface. In one 24-hour period she made no prog- 
ress at all. but eventually she bludgeoned her way through 
the solid pack ice covering McMurdo Sound. Here she deliv- 
ered to waiting aircraft the cargo that was later air-dropped 
ai the American South Pole station. 

She Hci'ised Sonic Atitarctit Sotion^ 

Glacier had thus erased the long-held theory that Antarc- 
tica is accessible by ship only in the summer months — from 
January to March. She had penetrated 800 miles of heavy 
Ross Sea pack ice to reach McMurdo Sound in October, 
when the sea ice is generally regarded as being at its hardest. 
No other ship had ever breached the pack so early in the 
season. 

Follow ing a cargo delivery to Little America and another 
stop at the McMurdo station. Glacier pointed her blunt nose 
northward to New Zealand. There she awaited the arrival of 
the Deepfreeze II cargo ships from the United States. When 
they arrived in December, she led them into the Ross ice 
pack to McMurdo and Little America, the largest convoy 
ever escorted through the Antarctic ice pack. 

.\ brash adventurer like Glacier does not have things all its 
oun way. of course. In mid-January she was leading two 
cargo ships to the Vincennes Bay area which she had sur- 
veyed the previous year. During an airlift of mail and small 
cargo from the seaplane tender Curtis, Glacier's only operable 
helicopter crashed and sank, denying the ship her air recon- 
naissance: Consequently she had to spend three days in prob- 
ing for a passage suitable for the cargo ships, a job which 
helicopter observation would have shortened appreciably. At 
one point Glacier encountered heavy pack ice under extreme 
pressure and had to return the thin-skinned cargo ships to 
open water before seeking an easier route. 

When the task group had been led into Vincennes Bay, 
Glaciermen joined the SeaBees in building Wilkes Station, the 
seventh of the American outposts in the Antarctic that year. 
Glacier was the last ship of the season to leave the ice, head- 
ing for home via New Zealand, Australia, and Peru. 

"Rockoons" from Glacier's Flight Deck 

While the rest of the world was listening to the first few 
beeps of Russia's "Sputnik I," Dr. James Van Allen was busy 
conducting his "rockoon" tests from Glacier's flight deck. 
The rockoon was a small rocket carried aloft by a balloon 
and fired at a predetermined altitude. It sent back vital infor- 
mation on cosmic rays and the nature of the upper atmos- 
phere to Dr. Van Allen and his crew. Their work, conducted 
throughout the Deepfreeze III cruise, contributed greatly to 
the successful launchings of the American "Explorer" satel- 
lites. 

After arrival at Little America, Glacier broke blades from 
her propellers while clearing a channel. Though her efficiency 
was cut in half, she continued to break out the heavy ice in the 
Kainan Bay area. A tidal crack in the ice had been reported 
in this vicinity, and Glacier set out to widen the crack. When 
she was able to split the section off, the resultant floe was a 
mass of ice estimated at 1,700,000 square yards of ice which 
probably weighed more than 2,500,000 tons. Aided by an- 
other icebreaker, the Atka, Glacier then proceeded to push 
the floe out to sea and clear the Kainan Bay area. 

While at Little America, Commander Joseph A. Houston 
relieved Commander Lauf as skipper of the Glacier in what 
is believed the southernmost change of command afloat in 
the history of the U.S. Navy. With the repairs to her pro- 



pellers completed in New Zealand later. Glacier returned to 
the ice to shuttle supplies from McMurdo to Little America 
and to conduct oceanographic studies in the Ross Sea area. 

On the first day of February, Glacier struck an ice floe in 
McMurdo Sound which caused a two-inch crack, eight feet 
long, in her bow. To close the wound, her bow was run up 
on the ice so that the crew could weld a metal-plate patch 
in place. Later, upon reaching a little warmer climate, the 
damaged area was reinforced with concrete. She steamed back 
to Boston in April, having completed a 50,000-mile voyage. 

A Trick from Wooden-Ship Days 

Not long afterward, with the temporary repair job still in 
place. Glacier journeyed to the other end of the earth to 
escort ships participating in Operation Sunec. the resupply of 
north polar radar and weather stations. More trouble was 
waiting for her, again to be met by resourcefulness. Back in 
Boston, the Navy Yard had a new prefabricated bow section 
ready to be put in place, and Glacier was bound there from 
Thule, Greenland. En route, she hit a submerged rock on 
July 22 in the uncharted waters of Melville Bay off the west 
coast of Greenland. 

To get out of her predicament, Glaciermen borrowed a 
trick from the wooden-ship era. She freed herself by partially 
deballasting and by sallying ship. This was an all-hands 
evolution in which the entire crew ran from one side of the 
ship to the other, to cause the ship to roll. The ancient tech- 
nique helped work the ship free. With a huge gash in her 
hull, the battered Glacier followed her concrete bow back 
to Boston. 

Two months later, on Oct. 1, 1958, Glacier headed south 
for her fourth Deepfreeze operation. She made another 
early transit of the Ross Sea ice pack, only nine days later 
than the record she had set during Deepfreeze II. After de- 
livering the first fuel and supplies of the season at McMurdo. 
Glacier proceeded to Little America and began preparations 
to deactivate the historic science station there. Later she 
penetrated into the little-explored region of Terra Nova Bay 
for oceanographic and geographic studies. Here she dis- 
covered two previously uncharted islands and a large rook- 
ery of Emperor penguins. This home of more than 50.000 
penguins was believed the largest of the 10 known such 
rookeries in the Antarctic. 

Lost: 1000 Square Miles of Ice 

The most spectacular discovery made by Glacier during 
Deepfreeze IV was the disappearance of more than 1000 
square miles of the Lady Newnes Ice Shelf. Checking of the 
ship's charts affirmed the fact that two thirds of the shelf had 
disintegrated since it was last charted in 1912. While operat- 
ing in this area, the Glacier broke blades from both her pro- 
pellers. She was forced to limp back to New Zealand for re- 
pairs. She arrived in Wellington on Dec. 21 to spend her 
first Christmas in port. 

After the early January repairs, Glacier headed for what 
was thought to be a routine supply run into the Ross Sea 
area. However, as she approached the ice pack, she re- 
ceived orders to proceed halfway around the Antarctic con- 
tinent to aid the Belgian expedition ship Polarhav. By the 
time the Americans came to her rescue, the Belgian vessel 
had drifted more than 150 miles from her destination at 
Breid Bay. Glacier freed the small ship, escorted her out of 
the ice pack, took her cargo and personnel aboard, and pro- 
ceeded into Breid Bay to relieve the previous year's winter- 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



ing-over party. The Belgian Government expressed its offi- 
cial appreciation for this rescue. 

Commander Porter was skipper of Glacier when it set out 
to take part in Deepfreeze 60, setting out last November for 
the 10.000-mile cruise to the Antarctic. Her first assignment 
was to escort the cargo ship USS Arneb through the heavy 
bay ice near Little America V. This lonely scientific outpost 
sits atop the massive Ross Ice Shelf, a barrier of ice more 
than 800 feet thick and covering an area about the size of 
France. Here, last minute supplies were delivered for a 
traverse party that was to move overland 500 miles to Byrd 
Station. Heavy equipment and supplies were then backloaded 
aboard the icebreaker in preparation for the deactivation of 
Little America Station. 

With this mission under her belt. Glacier proceeded to 
McMurdo Sound where she took over the job of carving 
a 16-mile ice channel from her smaller sister ship, the Atka. 
In the course of operations here. Glacier's propeller blades 
were severely damaged, requiring repairs back in drydock at 
Wellington. When this work was completed early in Feb- 
ruary of this year. Glacier was under way for her most im- 
portant mission of Deepfreeze 60 and another adventure, un- 
scheduled. 

The Venture into Bellingshausen Sett 

Glacier, with another American icebreaker as companion, 
undertook to penetrate the Bellingshausen Sea ice pack. This 
area, discovered 140 years ago by the Russian Admiral 
Fabian von Bellingshausen, is 1300 miles from the South 
Pole, on the side of Antarctica nearest South America. Al- 
though there have been 10 expeditions in this area, no one 
had yet succeeded in locating a coastline. It was, in fact, the 
only significant coastal area on the frozen continent which 
had not been explored. Most of the year. Bellingshausen Sea 
is frozen over and not n^avigable, but flights over the area 
during the International Geophysical Year disclosed that, in 
late January, the ice appeared to break up sufficiently to give 
an icebreaker a chance to get through. 

Commander Porter thought the chances for a successful 
operation were good. But, just in case they should run into 
difficulty, both ships carried extra food and equipment to 
withstand a long period of besetment. Because they would 
enter the ice at a point where the direction of ice movement 
is northwesterly, even if the Antarctic winter were to close 
down early and suddenly, ocean currents would gradually 
force the ships to the northerly edge of the ice pack and so 
out. If everything went well, the Glacier would be back in 
Boston this month. 

The Rescue of Sir Vij'ian Fuchs 
Newspapermen aboard reported to the American press on 
Feb. 17 that the Glacier and Burton Island had succeeded. 
They penetrated the Bellingshausen Sea and moved toward 
a stretch of Antarctica never before seen, except a bit 
from the air. In addition to being the first ships ever to enter 
Bellingshausen Sea, the two companions ran up a string of 
dramatic firsts: A new mountain peak was discovered. An 
unmanned weather station set up on the Thurston Peninsula 
was the first there. A two-man coastal landing was made by 
helicopter. The two breakers had also rendezvoused in the 
Amundsen Sea at a latitude of 71 south and a longitude of 
104 west for a new record. At that time they planned to con- 
tinue their eastward voyage. Their first objective was to reach 
the east coast, which no one, either from sea or air, had 
previously seen. 



In the meantime, however. Sir Vivian Fuchs was having 
trouble aboard the British-chartered polar ship Kista Dan. 
The famous Briton was leading a survey team of 30 scien- 
tists in an effort to reopen Britain's southernmost Antarctic 
base at Stonington Island. They were trapped for 15 days in 
the ice in Marguerite Bay. off Grahamland, when the Glacier 
came to the rescue. Glacier reached her, but the Kista Dan 
was not able to follow her out of the icefield at first because 
of heavy ice loose in the new channel. The following day, 
however. Glacier carved a way which was suitable as an es- 
cape route. 

Glacier, which Porter commands, is the largest and most 
powerful icebreaker to be built in the free world. She is a 
third larger and twice as powerful as the "Wind" class break- 
ers built during the latter part of World War II. At the con- 




SPRING SN:AK-PUNCH brought ice and snow to Wayland House. 



.\PRIL 1960 



elusion of Deepfreeze 11 in March. 1957, Rear Admiral 
George J. Dufek, then leader of Navy Support Forces in the 
Antarctic, said that Deepfreeze operations would not have 
been successful without the participation of the Glacier. The 
Admiral made the statement, not to minimize the difficult 
work accomplished by other craft but to point out the revolu- 
tionary capabilities of the Glacier. 

She has the largest diesel-electric power system of its kind 
ever put in a surface ship — 10 engines which generate 21,000 
horsepower for two shaft-driving motors. She displaces 8600 
tons and is 310 feet long. Carrying a full 800,000-gallon 
fuel supply, she can cruise at 15 knots for 18,000 miles, with 
a top speed of 18.6 knots, and can stock provisions for six 
months. A heeling system, designed to give an artificial 10- 
degree roll, enables her to loosen gripping ice. It is activated 
by shifting 140,000 gallons of liquid ballast rapidly from 
side to side. 

A Coiiiinittiity oj Many Talents 

Glacier is also an ocean-going research community, for 
she has laboratories for oceanography, meteorology, and 
photography built in. Enlisted Navy weather technicians have 
kept round-the-clock tabs on weather in the vicinity of 
the ship, including upper-air soundings. Reports and fore- 
casts go out to ships and stations in her area. Much of the 
aerial mapping and scientific photographs carried on Antarc- 
tic expeditions are processed in Glacier's modern photo lab. 
Although compact, the facility can rapidly turn out processed 
aerial photos of geographic features for rapid evaluation. 

The helicopter hangar adjacent to the flight deck can 
house two Sikorsky and one Bell aircraft, the former able 
to carry a pay load of 1900 pounds and stay in the air for 
three and a half hours. Besides ice reconnaissance, the heli- 
copters are used for air-lifting personnel and cargo; they are 
equipped for rescue work. The aviation workshop has com- 
plete repair facilities. Small boats carried by Glacier include 
a 36-foot Greenland cruiser designed for offshore sounding 
work; two 37-foot landing craft are available for small am- 
phibious assignments. The crew numbers about 200, plus a 
scientific corps of a dozen. 

Representatives of 1 1 nations are now cooperating in many- 
sided Antarctic research. South Africa, which is about to 
enter the field, will make a 12th, and Red China is scheduled 
to follow at the end of the current year. A development in 
which the United States is the pioneer is the coming enlist- 
ment of women scientific workers in laboratories at Antarc- 
tic installations. This is expected to begin early next year. 

In addition to his undergraduate years at Brown, Porter 
returned in 1952 as a Lt. Comdr. assigned to the Naval 
ROTC staff on College Hill with Faculty status. (A room in 
the Faculty Club is still named for him.) In World War II he 
commanded an LCI, landing craft infantry, in the amphibious 
operations at Salerno and Sicily. Later he saw combat duty 
in the Pacific, first as a group commander of LCI's and then 
as an LCI flotilla commander. His Pacific campaigns in- 
cluded Lingayen Gulf and Okinawa. 

After the war he was flag secretary and administrative offi- 
cer for Vice Admiral Fahrion at Little Creek, Commander of 
Atlantic Fleet Amphibious Forces, in a period when person- 
nel in the Amphibious Force was tripled and the number of 
craft and ships doubled. Before assignment to the Glacier, 
Commander Porter served in the Bureau of Naval Personnel 
in Washington. 



THE NEW GLACIERMAN 



Another Brunonian 



COMMANDER PoRTER welcomed another Brunonian aboard 
the Glacier late in January when Dr. Robert Cushman 
Murphy '11 arrived to be senior scientist. In addition to a 
team of geologists whose job it was to study whatever land 
or continental ice might be discovered, he was responsible 
for the biological program. He planned to conduct a seal 
count en route and band whatever birds might be captured. 

Dr. Murphy, long known for his work under the auspices 
of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, 
was flown to his rendezvous by way of California, Honolulu, 
Fiji, and Christchurch, N. Z. His trip was in response to an 
invitation last August from the National Science Foundation. 
During the International Geophysical Year, a British traverse 
party discovered and named for Dr. Murphy a 7000-foot 
mountain behind the coast of Amundsen Sea. As the prin- 
cipal outcrop of the area, Mt. Murphy is of much interest to 
the geophysicists of Operation Deepfreeze. 

Dr. Murphy has had former field experience in the area 
north of Weddell Sea and in the ocean south of New Zealand. 
In 1912-13 he made the first chart of a portion of South 
Georgia, which lies 1200 miles east of Cape Horn. On the 
present voyage his responsibilities related chiefly to recording- 
the population, distribution, and life history of vertebrate 
animals, especially sea birds, seals, whales, and porpoises. He 
hoped to band, or otherwise mark with numbered metal tags, 
a substantial number of penguins, petrels, skuas, and seals. 
Ever since the beginning of the current international cam- 
paign in Antarctica, the recovery of a proportion of such 
marked animals has revealed factual information previously 
unsuspected. 

Mrs. Murphy, incidentally, in her husband's absence, set 
out for South America to complete a piece of writing that 
she began there several years ago. The two Murphys planned 
to meet in Buenos Aires when Glacier headed for home. 




ROBERT CUSHMAN 
MURPHY 11, Senior 
Scientist aboard the 
Glacier on its recent 
mission to Antarctica. 



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ADVISORY COUNCIL: They Said 






ALUMNI SECRETARY McCormick: "The last 

year of the 'Fabulous Fifties' climaxed an 

exciting era and set the course for even 

greater things for Brown." 



FUND CHAIRMAN Thurrott: "Take a long 

look at the Thermometer. Each Class can 

break through our previous 50% barrier. 

Our annual giving target is 60%." 



ALUMNI PRESIDENT Eddy: "Great plans 

warrant full support by all Brunonians. It's 

thrilling to find leaders dedicated to the 

welfare of the University." 




ALUMNI TREASURER Sweet: "Since we hove 

no dues, the Alumni Treasury gets its 

major income from sale of chairs, mirrors, 

and plants. Our balance is $9309." 





ATHLETIC DIRECTOR Mackesey: "The key 
to success in the Ivy League in the new dec- 
ade will continue to be the interest and 
activity of Brown alumni." 



ADMISSION CHAIRMAN Lockett: More 

Clubs ore active in admission work than 

ever before. Though applications ore up, 

we still want the best available." 




BICENTENNIAL DIRECTOR Earle: "The De- 
velopment Program's quickened tempo sup- 
ports our confidence that Brown will reach 
its challenging goal." 





DEVELOPMENT OFFICER Williams: "V/e 

are now able to announce the realistic 

Campaign goal as $1 5,100,000. Already 

we are about at the halfway point." 



BEQUESTS CHAIRMAN Brown: "Thought- 
ful provision in the wills of alumni will be 
vital in Brown's future endowment. We're 
told of many generous intentions." 



APRIL I960 




WHEN Dr. Burgess '08 took his oath of office as Census Bureau Director. 



THE 
BIG 
NOSE- 
COUNT 



Chief harvester of the world's greatest crop of statistics, 
Robert Burgess iioants them treated with a fond respect. 



THIS IS A BIG MONTH fof a man who in 1928 wrote a book 
called "An Introduction to the Mathematics of Statistics," 
based on his lectures to Brown students. He is Dr. Robert W. 
Burgess "08. chief harvester of the world's biggest crop of 
statistics as Director of tbe Bureau of the Census, U. S. De- 
partment of Commerce. Eventually, a 100,000-page document 
will be a composite report from 180,000,000 contributors, 
every resident of the United States. To get the statistics there 
consolidated, some 170,000 field workers will have knocked 
on the door of every American during April. 

When Dr. Burgess received an honorary Doctor of Science 
degree from Brown University in 1948, the citation had this 
to say about him, even though he did not move on to his 
most important post in Washington for another five years: 
"After undergraduate work at Brown, a Rhodes Scholarship at 
Oxford, and a doctorate at Cornell, you pursued an academic 
career at Purdue, Cornell, and Brown until 1924. Then as 
statistician and economist for one of America's industrial 
enterprises most completely dependent upon research, inven- 
tion, and novel development (Western Electric Company), 
you brought to bear a whole set of modern tools, by the intelli- 
gent use of which foresight has become more penetrating, 
wisdom has been fortified, and judgments have been made 
increasingly sure-footed. Because you have been original and 
perceptive, we delight to recognize your attainments." 

Command frnni the Constitution 

Dr. Burgess' orders for April, 1960, go back to the adoption 

of the U. S. Constitution. It stipulated the taking of a national 

census every 10 years, starting in 1790. Originally, the basic 

intent was to keep up to date the figufes on which State repre- 

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sentation in Congress is based. As the economy expanded, 
however, other information was authorized. A record of 
manufactures was compiled, beginning in 1810; data on farm- 
ing, fishing, and mining were sought in 1840; and a century 
later the Government asked for statistics on income. This 
year scores of questions are being asked on housing, family 
and personal characteristics, occupations, etc., from 60 million 
homes. The nose-count will cover 50 States, Puerto Rico, the 
Canal Zone, Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa, 
plus (presumably) the Armed Forces. 

The do-it-yourself feature is new in the 1960 census. Each 
family by now has filled out simple basic questionnaires calling 
for names, addresses, relationship to the head of the house, 
date of birth, marital status, race, sex, type of dwelling oc- 
cupied, and guests. Further questions will be sought when the 
enumerator calls, from every fourth house, providing a mod- 
ern sampling built around 45 more questions: on education, 
occupation, income, the number of times maxried, the number 
of bedrooms, water supply, heating, and such possessions as 
TV sets and washing machines. All information is held in 
confidence, as law requires. 

Ten years ago the census-takers had to cope with more 
than 1,250,000 transients and floaters. The guess then was 
that two million persons were missed somehow, about 1.3%. 
The missing were believed to be migrant workers (many of 
them in farming), travelers on business or pleasure, people 
changing residence, or persons just not at home when the 
enumerator called. This year two special task forces will try 
to pick up this slack by better coverage of hotels, motels, 
trailer camps, mission shelters, flophouses, and centers of 
travel. Lighthouses, monasteries, and jails present only minor 
problems, for their residents are apt to be at home to the 

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callers, though one nudist camp refused admission to a 1950 
enumerator who declined to dress (or undress) properly. 

Mobilizing for the Great Quest 

For purposes of the 1960 census, the country was divided 
into 17 regions and 400 districts; 160,000 enumerators are 
working under 10,000 crew leaders. It was estimated that it 
would take each nose-counter 10 to 14 days of field work. By 
the end of April, all the cards and questionnaires would be in. 

Headquarters in two big buildings in Suitland, Md., just 
outside of Washington, would go to work then converting 
the billions of facts into tables of statistics. Microfilm would 
be employed and electronic machines would contribute their 
fantastic speed-up. One writer said that they would make 
short work of what clerks would have taken 25 years to do 
by manual labor starting in 1 880. The machines have been 
in place for several years, each costing $1,250,000 and taking 
up floor space equivalent to half a basketball court. A console 
like a cathedral organ directs each computer. Some 2000 
employees report for work in normal times in Suitland. Dr. 
Burgess goes there daily in a car pool. 

Dr. Burgess does not expect many surprises in the 1960 
census. His Bureau is accustomed to intelligent guesses. For 
years visitors to the Department of Commerce Building have 
stood in its lobby, fascinated by the "population meter" there 
where flashing lights have told of the latest births, deaths, 
and other arrivals and departures. Every 1 1 seconds the run- 
ning meter has shown a net gain of one in the population of the 
United States. One point of professional interest will be the 
accurate check on the estimate of 180,000,000 w» Americans 
were expected to aggregate on April 1 . That would be up 29 
million in 10 years. 

Putting Statistics to Work 

The vast activity is based on no idle curiosity. The informa- 
tion is promptly put to work for a variety of useful purposes 
of national significance. Problems are pointed up: Where 
should there be new schools, factories, markets, and hospitals? 
What may military and industrial mobilization count on? Since 
Federal Aid is based on population, what is due each State 
for many allotments? Will, as expected, the West gain nine 
seats in Congress at the expense of the Northeast? What is the 
job situation? (Estimates have been made that more than 68 
million are employed, 3.6 million not.) What is the average 
family income? (Probably up 50% since 1950, and now close 
to $6700, with more two-income families than ever before.) 
With the male ratio declining since 1910. women outnumbered 
men for the first time in 1950. Will the imbalance be two mil- 
lion women this year? Will the working population include 
as many as a third women? What is the actual need for hous- 
ing? And educational facilities? 

Two years ago. Dr. Burgess, writing in the Eastern Under- 
writer said that the average size of the family had not in- 
creased. This was contrary to the general belief, based largely 
on the record number of births in recent years. "The reason 
for this apparent paradox," he said, "is that the rate at which 
young people have been leaving the parental home to set up 
their own households has largely offset the effect of the 
increase in the number of children per family. . . . Addi- 
tionally, there has been an increase in the proportion of 
older people who continue to maintain their own homes in- 
stead of moving in with their children. 

When census publications speak of families, the "family" 



is limited to "related individuals living under the same roof." 
This is contrary to the implied definition a mature man may 
use when asked about his family. He will usually include all 
his children, wherever they are, and perhaps also his grand- 
children who may never have lived with him. 

Hon' the 'Head Hunter' Got Started 
Though Presidents and Senators may come and go, a few 
men and women in Washington, D. C, keep our country 
running, said Cosmopolitan magazine five years ago. It listed 
as the first of these 14: Robert Burgess, "head hunter." Among 
other things, it said of Dr. Burgess: "He is the man who can 
tell you with no hesitation whatsoever what the nation's most 
densely populated area is (it's Manhattan, which packs in 
80,000 people per square mile) and what the most common 
name in the U. S. is." (The latter was not mentioned.) "He 
has contributed three daughters to the nation's population and 
is a wizard at correlating census statistics so that we get a good 
idea of where we're heading in everything from the mineral 
industry to agriculture." 

Dr. Burgess" start in statistics stemmed from the wedding of 
his younger brother. Dr. W. Randolph Burgess '12, now U. S. 
Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The 
brother of the bride introduced him to Washington, and he 
went to work for the Council of National Defense and later 
for the statistics branch of the Army's General Staff "for the 
duration" of World War I. He reached the rank of Major 
before returning to Brown to teach. 

In 1924 he left the academic world for Western Electric 
Company, where he spent 28 years as Senior Statistician, 
Chief Economist and Actuary. He was a national officer of 
such professional groups as the American Statistical Asso- 
ciation and the Conference of Business Economists and was 
a consultant for such Washington agencies as the Office of 
Production Management, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and 
the Operations Research office. Brown knew him as a working 
alumnus — twice elected a Director of the Associated Alumni, 
five years on the Board of Governors of the Brown University 
Club in New York, and President of the Brown Engineer- 
ing Association for a term. 




BURGES GREEN'S notion of the nose-count, in the Providence Journal. 



APRIL 1960 



II 



Ironically, his availability tor national service followed 
compulsory retirement from Western Electric at age 65 in 
I')?!. "I don't know anything I'd rather be doing." he told a 
New York Hfrald Tribune feature writer a couple of years 
ago when speaking of his Census Bureau post. He also re- 
vealed some of his philosophy: 

"Robert W. Burgess has that special fondness and respect 
for figures which well become a man who once studied mathe- 
matics as a Rhodes .Scholar. With officials in Washington 
firing salvos of statistics at one another, he might properly 
wish that more people shared this scholarly respect. The Cen- 
sus Bureau issues 'a reliable but not precise' monthly report 
on national unemployment based on sample surveys. What 
happens after the report is issued sometimes makes Dr. Bur- 
gess wince. '1 don't like pouncing on figures to prove yes-or- 
no on a question,' he says. 

"A soft-spoken man, he has spent his life with statistics. 
Figures tell a story to him, a fascinating tale of gradual change 
in the social fabric of the country. They should be used, he 
says, to "gain understanding.' Facts are appreciated more 
than they used to be, he finds." 

A New York Times writer about the same time also spoke 
of his "statistician's penchant for accuracy, and that includes 
accurate use of statistics that in themselves have varying 
degrees of accuracy." "Dr. Burgess," the feature went on, "is 
an example of why a sample survey, such as the job report, 
cannot be precise. The samplers who work for him find no 
one in at several thousand of the homes selected for sam- 



pling in any month — in some cases because the owner has 
two residences. Dr. Burgess notes that he is one of them. He 
has a house in Pelham, N. Y., and an apartment in Washing- 
ton. The intricate statistical formulas for selecting the sample 
and preparing the estimate make allowance for the Burgesses 
and their kind." 

The Burgess bookshelves hold a collection of professional 
statistical works, some of his own authorship, but the coffee- 
table collection leans to the Civil War. Though he admits a 
Yankee bias, he reads both Blue and Gray. But, the Times 
observed, he goes neither to the historic battlefields of the 
Washington area, nor around the Washington party circuit. 
He does enjoy the local Brown Club, before which he has 
spoken on occasion. 

Incidentally, one who rummages among the Burgess clip- 
pings will encounter one curio — the lead paragraph on the 
1958 Times story, which originally read: "Robert Wilbur 
Burgess, top counter in the Census Bureau, established his 
talent with figures — among other things— a half-century ago, 
as 'prize heifer' in his Class at Brown University. He took 
the top-cow distinction as the member of the entering students 
who did best in several examinations: First place in mathe- 
matics, first place in Latin, and tied for second place in 
Greek." 

Between editions on that day, some sensitive editor took 
out the words "prize heifer" and "top-cow" and made them 
read "high man." The rest of the story went unchanged, in- 
cluding the final sentence: "His bearing is erect, in public 
and private." 



A BRIDE TAKES ISSUE: 



Nevertheless, Miss Mead 



Widespread was the interest in the article by Margaret 
Mead in our February issue in which she discussed stu- 
dents and wedlock, asserting that college is incompatible 
with marriage. Inquiries jrotn a half-dozen national maga- 
zines came to us, although we had pointed out that the 
article was appearing in many other alumni magazines, 
too, as a copyright, syndicated offering by Editorial Projects 
for Education, Inc. Reader response was good otherwise, 
too, in addition to cotntnent by Newsweek and news- 
papers. 

We'd hoped that some married student at Brown would 
care to take issue with Dr. Mead. We therefore encouraged 
Mrs. Bradford G. Woolley, Jr., to express the contrary 
point of view and defend marriage for undergraduates. 

By GAIL WOOLLEY 

LAST August Gil and I were married. Gil had completed his 
I sophomore year and I was a June graduate from Pem- 
broke. Now I'm teaching and studying for my Master's; Gil 
is continuing his undergraduate education, one of 70 under- 
graduate husbands at Brown. We've mixed marriage and 
college — and, we think, without endangering the value of 
either. We read Margaret Mead's article in the February issue, 
therefore, with mixed emotions. We beg leave to differ with 
her. 



In our marriage, responsibility has not been felt to encroach 
on Gil's "moratorium" (as Margaret Mead calls it) for sev- 
eral reasons. An unfortunately large percentage of college 
bull sessions, wherein the informal exchange of ideas occurs, 
are centered on non-intellectual topics. When true interchange 
occurs, frequently complete agreement is reached as soon as 
definitions of terms are found to be wanting and are agreed 
upon. 

In our own experience, we've found rich exchanges of 
ideas with each other, first as dates and later as man and wife. 
We frequently talk for an hour or more — after dinner, over 
coffee, or while doing the dishes. We discuss things that we 
have heard or read during the day. Our ideas on these subjects 
usually demand more information than either of us have, 
and we end up delving into our fairly large combined library 
— one product of a liberal arts education. In other words, 
marriage can be more rewarding intellectually than the nursery 
of dormitory life. 

The Student's Chance for "Exploration" 

Moreover, I think the exploratory nature and uniqueness 
of undergraduate life are overrated. Many conscientious stu- 
dents have no time for bull sessions; students who do more 
often than not are procrastinating. The topics concern mainly 
the behavior of oneself or some acquaintance. Curiosity about 
human actions is a part of maturing — but can it only take 



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place in the college dormitory? Perhaps the academic atmos- 
phere does aid intellectual inquiry, but bull sessions seldom 
warrant that description. 

Several of our discussions at home stem from our frequently 
differing views. Far from being a source of unhealthy dis- 
sension, as one might think at first, our varying opinions 
have served to enrich and stimulate our thinking. Our taste 
in music, for example, is different: 1 prefer classical; Gil, 
contemporary. We often discuss the nature and place of each, 
learning from each other. Just as roommates bring different 
sets of ideas from their backgrounds and grow through their 
exchange, so can husband and wife benefit from communica- 
tion of ideas not only from their earlier, but also daily, 
experience. 

Although Gil and I have settled on the choice of each other, 
we have felt no need to "settle" on anything else. We attended 
churches of the same faith as children and were married in 
one, but we are still uncommitted as to denomination. All 
through college I explored various religions, and in the last 
year and a half we've been doing so together. Attracted by 
elements in several churches, we have a hard time on Sunday 
deciding where we'll go. We feel no compulsion to reach a 
final decision; we're enjoying a "moratorium," Miss Mead. 

They Still Have Their "Freedom" 

Not only do we feel our freedom unimpaired intellectually, 
but we don't feel tied down when we want to do something: 
we do it. When we're interested in some colloquium or concert, 
we go. Since Gil likes to ski, we took off for New Hampshire 
on two week ends this winter — twice as many as before we 
were married. I have always enjoyed Pembroke activities and 
still take part by working for the Pembroke College Fund, 
this year as chairman of a committee working with parents of 
undergraduates. 

The best evidence of our freedom is our lack of concern 
that Gil "get through" and "get established'" — to use Dr. 
Mead's phrase about the married undergraduate. In the 
spring of his Sophomore year (after we were engaged) Gil 
realized that no Liberal Arts major interested him to the 
extent he felt necessary. Since he was intrigued by the part- 
time work he was doing for the Engineering Division, we 
agreed that this interest was worth investigating. The outcome 
was a switch to Engineering. Now, even though he must 
study two extra years to get his Sc.B. degree, we think it was 
wise that Gil has made the change. He got four good marks, 
incidentally. By the way, his military service is behind him. 

Just as marriage doesn't hurt college, so we feel that school 
doesn't interfere with marriage or career. We haven't had 
any "little responsibilities," which I could definitely see as 
detrimental to undergraduate-type living. We budget our 
hours a bit, perhaps not always consciously. With efficiency, 
domestic responsibilities require only a small portion of time 
— not much more than one would give to take care of a room 
and clothes in a college dormitory. 

We live in a two-room apartment, plus kitchenette and 
bathinette (as my husband calls it) near the Campus. Since 
we are away most of the day, it can be cleaned with dustcloth, 
vacuum, and mop in an hour on Saturday morning. Shopping 
chores are attended to twice a week at a supermarket on the 
way home from school. Laundry goes to the laundromat, and 
almost nothing insists on being ironed in these drip-dry days. 
Cooking, I admit, can be a problem. However, the dinner 
hour often becomes break-time, and Gil and I collaborate 




MRS. WOOLLEY: "We 
have mixed college 
and marriage. We 
think it's without dan- 
ger to either." 



both on the cooking and dishes. When one is studying, it is 
easy for the other to do the same. This companionship is a 
spur rather than an interference. 

What Does the Wife Sacrifice? 

Margaret Mead postulates that, in a wife-supported mar- 
riage, the girl sacrifices her career and/or further education 
for a second-rate job. I happen to commute each school day 
to Fall River to teach in high school there. Although I doubt 
I would be teaching Latin if I hadn't married, I certainly 
don't consider this a second-rate job. My two main interests 
in college were Classics and Economics. I changed my major 
from one to the other, and I never did decide which I pre- 
ferred. Unmarried, I might have gone to graduate school for 
more Economics or pursued a career in finance. But, not 
having done so, it is impossible to say that it would have been 
a first-rate job to me. 

Neither has graduate school been abandoned. Under the 
M.A.T. program at Brown (Master of Arts in Teaching), Lm 
beginning my third course. Lm majoring in Social Studies 
and may break into Economics yet — but through teaching. 
Certainly, as Margaret Mead so strongly advocates, education 
shouldn't end because full-time study has ceased. A career 
and part-time study are compatible. 

In the final analysis, the question isn't an absolute one, 
asking: Does marriage lessen the value of undergraduate edu- 
cation? Or does college interfere with marriage? It is a ques- 
tion of whether two individuals can successfully combine 
both. We're convinced we are doing so. 

I agree emphatically with Dr. Mead that undergraduate 
marriages may be unsuccessful if the couple quickly settles 
into a happy, secure niche that stops education for both. I 
was sorry that a few of my friends dropped out of college 
when they married, but maybe one or two of them came to 
college primarily to find a mate. This accomplished, why 
should we want them to continue, in the face of demands for 
educational opportunity? But we are not broaching the gi- 
gantic problem of who should go to college anyway. 

Since we are not yet assembly-line products, the individual's 
degree of maturity in his college years will vary. An immature 
marriage at any chronological age would be bad. If one is 
ready for marriage, it is not all-important that one happens to 
be an undergraduate. Gil and I are glad we didn't wait. 



APRIL 1960 



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SERIOUS IN MAIN, the President's State of the University" address had its lighter moments. 




Camera Catches of Certain Principa 
During February's Alumni Week 




1919'S OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT in 1959 won it 

the Brown University Fund Bowl, Agents Eastham and Perkins 

accepted the trophy from Fund Chairman Angus Thurrott '31. 



BROWN'S INTENSIVE PROGRAM in teacher education 
was described at the Council Dinner by Faculty trio 
of, left to right, Kellenberger, Smith, and Lindsay. 



ALUMNI MONTHLY BOARD met, too: left to right— GofT, Byrnes, Barry, 
Chairman Arthur Braitsch, Worthington, Provost Bliss, Sherman, and Kopstein. 






OFFICERS of the Class 
Secretaries' Association: 
President Harrington '41 
and Secretary Cummings '50. 



COFFEE BREAK for two 

Fund Trustees: Pinkham '22, 

left, and James '32. 




FROM FLORIDA, Delegate Ricker '13, center, 

dined with contemporaries Grout '13 and Norton '10. 



An Advisory Council Album 






ROBERT H. GOFF '24: Nominations. 



ALFRED H. GURNEY '07: A comment. 



LESTER SHAAL '29: Program Chairman. 



'H T^K 




Hoic if all began. 



By WILLIA.M T. HASTINGS 03 

THE SPARK was kindled in the classroom of Dean Alexander 
Meiklejohn. whose course in Logic. Philosophy 19, was 
popularly known as "Rag-Chewing 19." When the bell rang at 
the end of a session, the boys always debouched into the hall 
outside U.H. 6, still passionately arguing. The idea for a club 
for more leisurely debate came to Arthur Upham Pope '04, 
who tried it on some classmates, the Dean, and President 
Faunce. The result was The Sphinx. 

The plan went forward with details which are recorded in 
a story (largely, as I recall it, inspired by me) in the Provi- 
dence Journal of March 23, 1924. This is in the old record 
book, which will remain safe in the University Archives to 
instruct the cocky intellectuals of the 21st Century that all was 
not dead in the 1900's. 

At First They Were "Analyzers" 

The club was organized with 20 undergraduate charter 
members. President Faunce, Dean Meiklejohn, and Profes- 
sors Bronson and Lindsay Damon of the English Department. 
The first President was Pope, the first Secretary Guy Colburn 
'04, now Emeritus Professor at Fresno State College in Cali- 
fornia. Among the 20 undergraduates, two became Rhodes 
Scholars and 13 members of Phi Beta Kappa; eight were law- 
yers by profession, four college professors, one a librarian, 
one a college president, and one a bank president. 

The first name proposed for the new group was the "Ana- 
lyzer Club." This was in parody of the "Ann Eliza Club," an 
"arty" organization in whose rooms in an old building on 
Weybosset St. some early meetings were held. (The AE Club 
still thrives, by the way, in the same attic quarters. — Ed.) But 
our host club did not like the borrowing of the name, and 
happily so, for "The Sphinx" is immensely superior. It was 
proposed, I believe, by Basil Wood "05, the second Secretary. 
The early members, by the way, tried to insist that it be called 
"The Sphinx," and never "The Sphinx Club." 

It is impossible to record here either the names of all the 
founding members or more than a handful of their successors. 
In 1 924, when we took a first look back and published a list 
of members during the two decades, it included many names 
well known in Brown Annals, of whom I may mention Dr. 
Alexander M. Burgess '06, Claude R. Branch '07, Zechariah 
Chafee, Jr., '07, Charles E. Hughes, Jr., '09, Prof. A. A. Ben- 
nett '10, Henry S. Chafee '09, W. Randolph Burgess '12, Prof. 
John H. Williams '12; also Profs. .Sharon Brown '15, Ben C. 
Clough, R. Gale Noyes '21, and Arlan Coolidge '24; also Tom 
Appleget '17, Rowland R. Hughes '17, Zenas Bliss '18. Dr. 
Wilfred Pickles '18, and Tom Corcoran '22. If I failed to men- 



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tion Tom Black, Ben Brown, Roger Clapp, Jimmy Eastham, 
Bill Edwards, Ed Lanpher, and Fred Perkins of the notorious 
Class of 1919, it would only underline the hazard of selection, 
even among the early members. 

The Rhythm of Sphinx Life 

The first dozen years of The Sphinx were full of vitality. The 
number of meetings in a year varied between seven and twelve, 
with an average of nine. The minutes vary in flavor as the 
Secretaries change, but it is clear that the debates were lively, 
whether between student antagonists or following a paper or 
talk. This type of meeting was then less familiar on the cam- 
pus than today with our "discussion group" instruction. The 
original inspirers of the Club reappeared from time to time, 
always stimulatingly: Pope, Meiklejohn, Damon, Bronson; 
and others like Professors Macdonald. Everett, and Delabarre 
carried on the tradition of provocative analysis. Also during 
this time there was a series of skillful Presidents. 

Then came a slump during 1917-22, partly due to World 
War I, partly to less flair or to special preoccupations on the 
part of the leaders. Student membership shrunk and attend- 
ance dropped. There followed a decade of revived activity. 
That The Sphinx was saved was due, I think I may claim 
with due modesty, to Ben Clough and me, assisted by Sam 
Arnold. We knew meetings had virtually ceased, but we found 
two or three student members who were interested to attempt 
a revival, the stages in which are briefly noted in the record 
book without benefit of Secretary. 

The climax of the effort was a banquet on June 3, 1922, at 
Slocum's, Pawtuxet Cove, with Professor Bronson as toast- 
master, and Professors Collier and Dealey and Tom Cor- 
coran as speakers. Bronson's quotation of Emerson's poem 
"The Sphinx is drowsy" provided the necessary challenge to 
the speakers. The Presidents during this flourishing decade 
were Professors Clough, A. K. Potter. Sharon Brown, E. C. 
Kirkland, Ken Mason, Bob George, and I. 

Perhaps the high point was reached at the celebration of 
our 20th anniversary, in March, 1924. To it we invited all 
our alumni members, and we had a splendid turnout in Sayles 
Hall, to hear Zechariah Chafee, Jr., speak in his crisp and 




LIBER'S HEADING in 1924 was on the romantic side. 

BROWN .\LUMM MONTHLY 



arresting style on a subject which was perfectly appropriate 
both for The Sphinx and for him, "The Open and Inquiring 
Mind." After it we adjourned to the Art Club for chat and 
discussion, during which one Charter member, now the bank 
president, said to me, "Of course in theory Zack is perfectly 
right, but practically think what it would mean!" (All the 
crackpots rocking the boat. ) 

Awakening for New Riddles 
Another slump came during 1931-37. There was an average 
of only five meetings a year and the attendance was poor. The 
holding of "open meetings" was proposed as a solution, but 
not put into efiEect. The trouble this time, I believe, is to be 
found, not in the Depression or the New Deal, but in the acci- 
dent that the Professors, who as President shared with the 
Vice-President, a Senior, responsibility for the programs, had 
rather special interests and lacked the temperamental inclina- 
tion to relaxed and speculative analysis. 

Here I stop discreetly, where the old Record Book stops. It 
is clear that The Sphinx waked again from her drowsiness, and 
for all I know has been actively propounding riddles ever 
since. If any of the younger generation have any doubt about 
it, it may be worth noting that even in good times in the past 
a healthy dissatisfaction found expression. As early as 1907, 
a Committee on the Condition of The Sphinx, of which 
Charlie Hughes and Zack Chafee were members, in a report 
called for "a return to original principles." In 1911 the initi- 
ates were urged to infuse "into The Sphinx even greater ac- 
tivity and significance." In 1912 George Kendall, the Secre- 
tary, in his minutes gives emphasis to "Dean Meiklejohn, who 
stopped in for a moment to toss about a couple of his cus- 
tomary apples of discord." 

The questions considered ranged from the eternal to the 
ephemeral, but many of course were related to current affairs. 
Conspicuous among the latter were Professor Von Klenze's 
defense (in 1909) of German militarism: "Today in Germany 
the army is doing in a scientific way what sport is doing in a 
dilettante way for the English races;" in 1914 Professor Ever- 
ett on "The Ethics of War" and Prof. Philip Mitchell on "The 
Psychology of the Fighting Instinct;" in 1917 Dr. Atkins of 
the Central Congregational Church on "Four Roads to Peace." 
In 1904 it was argued that social and political conditions in 
Russia justified assassination. 

Professor Kirk ended an analysis of Socialism thus: "At 
present Socialism is economically unsafe and psychologically 
unsound. Until we have a higher type of human nature. So- 
cialism would be impracticable; when civilization does reach 
this higher plane. Socialism will be unnecessary, for the evils 
of competition will have been eliminated." Prof. Harry Elmer 
Barnes of Smith College expounded the Fascist doctrine that 
"Democracy always has been an illusion and can never truly 
exist as a form of government." He fled before the boys could 
attack him. 

Other general topics included the negro question (3 times), 
"Graft," "Machiavelli," "Christianity in Modern Life," "Im- 
mortahty," "The Ethics of Suicide," "Partisanship" (by 
Theodore Francis Green), "Dogma versus Philosophic 
Doubt," and a critical analysis of the legal profession. 

Of local concern were "An Educational Bill for Brown" 
(by "Prime Minister Pope of the Liberal Cabinet"), "An 
Ideal Athletic Policy for Brown" (1914), "Intellectuality at 
Brown" (Professor Bronson), and an attack on the report of 
the Survey Committee of 1929 (Win Scott). 




THE AUTHOR: "The Sphinx has a warm place in alumni hearts." 



"The shingle" was a recurring subject in the minutes. The 
handsome original form, with the embossed Sphinx, seems to 
have been in short supply in 1912 and 1913. The die was lost 
by 1917, and in 1920 the Club voted an assessment of 75 
cents each "to pay for the making of a new die for engraving 
the shingles, in case the old die is not found." In the end a 
new printed shingle, without a Sphinx, was secured. 

I had occasion once to ask Professor John F. Greene if it 
was true that he had provided the motto. "Yes," he replied, 
"but they vulgarized it. I suggested Qui solvat, solvetur (i.e., 
the sort of lad who answers the riddles shall obtain free- 
dom); but they made it Qui solvit, solvitur, two flat present 
indicatives." The society might consider a new shingle with a 
motto in classical form. 

Special Problems Had To Be Faced 

"The Meeting Place" was another issue in the early days. 
Freedom of discussion seems to have been associated with a 
break with social convention, probably a transfer from the 
rather ostentatious "bohemianism" of the 90's. So meetings 
were held in the garret rooms of the AE (Ann Eliza) Club 
referred to, at the H.B. Club, and at various restaurants, 
mainly of an Italian or Chinese aura: the Hotel Newman, the 
Napoli, the Roma, the King Fong, the White House Tavern, 
the Anawan House, etc. Also at Brennan's, at the corner of 
Waterman and Thayer Sts., above what is now Whelan's. 
There was also the Bear's Den, operated by Jumbo in the 
basement of U.H., and the music studio of Hans Schneider 
'09 in the Butler Exchange. Instead of a slightly alcoholic 
supper with postprandial feasts of reason and flows of soul, 
they tried evening meetings at fraternity houses with refresh- 
ments after, also the more Spartan environment of Room L or 
Room M in the Union; but these surroundings were less stim- 
ulating to mental and spiritual enfranchisement. One Secre- 
tary records: "In the Basement of Caswell Hall Alma Mater 
. . . presents herself to us as arida nulrix." 



APRIL 1960 



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Faculty members presented a recurring embarrassment. 
The number was fixed by the constitution so that undergradu- 
ates would be always in the majority. But professors who had 
shown an interest were elected, came to meetings for a while, 
and then faded away. They were still members; the quota was 
filled: could they be dropped? For years various devices in the 
shape of amendments were tried — one had to be courteous to 
professors — with very little success. I do not know whether 
the modern generations have been more ingenious than their 
elders. 

Alumni members in the earlier years showed a fair amount 
of interest, and remained "active" through the payment of 
dues and occasional attendance at meetings. After the Twenti- 
eth Anniversary celebration and the issuing of the little cata- 
logue had showed that they were not wholly forgotten, their 
interest. I think, picked up a bit. For a good many years now, 
however. I imagine that The Sphinx has been strictly a stu- 
dent-faculty organization. 

Some Thoughts for the Future 

There is a school of thought which asserts that knowledge 
of the past has no predictive value for the future. I like to 
think that it may lead the open and inquiring mind, that is, 
the Sphinx mind, to a few conclusions. Pardon me if I under- 
score the obvious for a moment. 

It is clear, I think, that there should be close and continued 
contact between the Faculty President and the Senior who is 
the Vice-President, and that both should enjoy intellectual 
adventure. There should be a Secretary (a Junior being 
groomed for the Vice-Presidency, perhaps) who has the 
ability to write, a sense of humor, and a disciplined regularity 
in execution of his duties. 

The speakers should have the ability to state cases clearly, 
fully, and provocatively. Their subjects should be of current 
vitality and not merely factual or informative. 

The undergraduate members should have intellectual energy 
and acuteness. There should be a variety in points of view. 
Their attendance should be regular, not to avoid penalties but 
because of genuine interest. 

This of course raises the problem of the selection of mem- 
bers, of elections. It has always been a real problem, a much 
smaller one, of course, in 1904 than today, when the number 
of upperclassmen is more than four times as great. That so 
many of the members have had distinguished careers indicates 
that on the whole the choices have been good. There have at 
times, however, been hints of favoritism and on one occasion, 
on May 2, 1928, there was something like a scandal. I will 
quote from the Minutes: 

"A goodly number . . . gathered at Brennan's for the 
purpose of electing new members. . . . The meeting resolved 
itself into a veritable slaughter of the innocents, and only five 
men out of the fifteen to be elected succeeded in passing the 
house. At this point . . . Mr. T. F. Black, Jr., an active 
alumnus [member], asked the Club the purpose of its exist- 
ence, and what they considered the qualifications for member- 
ship." Adjourning after his reproof, they assembled a week 
later and were able to elect their quotas. Certainly politics 
should be taboo. 

Should there be a special anniversary program, once in ten 
or possibly five years, at which time the interest and attend- 
ance of alumni members might be solicited? Sphinx men 
among the alumni have a warm place in their hearts for the 
group of their own day, in whose meetings youthful idealism 



and precocious skepticism had a wonderful time. On the other 
hand, most of them are very busy people. 

It would seem that one meeting a month during term-time 
should be the minimum and perhaps the norm. The place of 
meeting remains still a problem, as also whether eating should 
precede or follow the feast of reason. As to the operations of 
the steward, all I can say is that this old fogy — not the steward 
— found himself uncomfortable at one meeting, not many 
years ago, at which the boys sat round on the floor during the 
speaking, drinking beer out of bottles, more than one apiece. 
It was not merely that I am allergic to beer. 

If my thoughts have moved from the sublime to the ridicu- 
lous, I am sure you will forgive me, and not merely with 
generous tolerance for an old professor. We are at one, I am 
sure, in thinking that in The Sphinx a grand idea became a 
reality, and that over more than half a century that reality 
has justified itself. They tell me that youth, no longer having 
any confidence in the future, is determined to drink deep of 
today. Most members of Sphinx, though, I believe will think 
less meanly of mankind. 



Appalachian Quest 

A TEAM of Brown University geologists will probe New 
England's Appalachian Mountains in an attempt to dis- 
close still-kept secrets of the chain's long and turbulent his- 
tory. A $100,000 grant by the National Science Foundation 
has been received by the University for research of "Petrologic 
and Geochemical Problems Related to Mountain-Building". 
The three-year project will be led by Dr. Bruno J. Giletti, 
geochemist and director, and Dr. Frank D. Eckelmann and 
Prof. Alonzo W. Quinn, Chairman of the Geology Depart- 
ment, as geologists. Dr. Giletti, now a research fellow at 
Oxford University, joins the Brown Faculty this year. 

Funds will support both field and laboratory work to study 
the involved processes that form a mountain system. Research 
will center in the Narragansett Basin and Westerly areas of 
Rhode Island and in New Hampshire, utilizing studies previ- 
ously made at Brown. Chief item for the laboratory will be a 
gas mass spectrometer and related equipment, costing an 
estimated $35,000, which will be used to analyze and date 
rock formations. This equipment also will be available for 
training of geologists and other investigations. 

Approximately a century of study by American geologists 
has made the Appalachian system one of the better known of 
the world. Scientists are strongly convinced that the Ap- 
palachians, although now old and worn-down, were once a 
lofty and rugged range. Most of the geologic events — the 
folding and squeezing of the earth's surface, the volcanic 
eruptions — took place from several hundred million years ago 
to as recently as 150 million years ago. 

With the potassium-argon method utilized in the spectrom- 
eter, scientists will now be able to discover the absolute 
geologic age of the granite rocks. This method, which in- 
volves the proportionate rate of radioactive decay of the metal 
potassium to the gas argon, will disclose secrets the mountains 
have kept for hundreds of millions of years. By determining 
the age and sequence of events that went into the building of 
the Appalachians, researchers hope to come to a better under- 
standing of both the evolution of mountain systems in general 
and the origin of the earth's mineral deposits. 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Candidates 

BROWN ALUMNI this month re- 
ceive their annual ballots, enabling 
them to make their choices for 
Alumni Trustees. Two of these five 
will be acted upon by the Uni- 
versity Corporation, following the 
worldwide vote which nominates 
them for such official notice. 





MARVIN BOWER '25 
Bronxville, N. Y. 



EARL H. BRADLEY '28 
Seekonk, Mass. 






FOSTER B. DAVIS, JR., '39 
Providence, R. I- 



ROBERT C. LITCHFIELD '23 
Morris Plains, N. J. 



LEON M. PAYNE '36 
Houston, Tex. 



Faculty Tribute 

RALPH Blanchard was a perfectionist 
, in an imperfect world," wrote his 
classmate and colleague in the English De- 
partment, Prof. Sharon Brown "15, in the 
memorial minute adopted by the Univer- 
sity Faculty. "Equally qualified to teach 
Mathematics or Latin, he elected to teach 
the most intractable of subjects, English 
Composition, and strove patiently to imbue 
his students with his own respect for good 
style. He saw teaching as a responsible 
contract between himself and each indi- 
vidual student. He was unsparing of his 
time in conferences and liked to entertain 
his classes in his home. 

"Somewhat austere in character, he was 

APRIL 1960 



gentle at heart, with quiet tastes. Country 
born, he never outgrew his attachment for 
country living. In many ways he suggested 
Henry Thoreau, not only in the purity of 
his prose style but in his love of country 
solitude, his familiarity with birds and 
bees, trees and wild flowers, and his sym- 
pathy with humble lives close to the soil. 
"Most of all he resembled Thoreau in 
the independence of his opinions, even 
when he found himself a minority of one. 
Behind his reticent personality and diffi- 
dent manner were an inflexible integrity 
and tenacious purpose. Once he arrived at 
a conviction, nothing could swerve him 
from it, and he would defend his opinions 
with sardonic passion. He would have 
found reason for his intransigence in 
Thoreau's words: 'If a man does not keep 
pace with his companions, perhaps it is 
because he hears a different drummer.' 



"Unwavering in his loyalty to his family, 
his friends, his University, and his coun- 
try, he lived his life without fear and 
without compromise." 

The Faculty minute also amplified the 
references to Professor Blanchard's mili- 
tary service given in March under "In 
Memoriam": "When the Second World 
War broke out, he was impatient to bear 
his part in it. Although then 54 years old, 
he applied for and received a commission 
as Major in the Chemical Warfare Corps, 
where he specialized in the 4.2 mortar em- 
ployment. He was assigned to the 101st 
Airborne Division and participated with 
that crack Division in the defense of Bas- 
togne. Although a modest man, he was 
fiercely proud of the part he was able to 
play in this most crucial engagement." 
(Bastogne was only one of seven engage- 
ments for which he earned battle stars.) 



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For a Brown Bookshelf 



EDITED BY ELMER M. BLISTEIN '42 



WILLIAM FAULKNER: From Jefferson 
to the World, by Hyatt H. Waggoner. 
274 pages. University of Kentucky 
Press. 55. 

F.\iLKNER WON HIS Nobel Pfize in 
1950. and since then the critical 
studies of his work have been legion. This 
book, by Prof. Hyatt H. Waggoner of the 
English Department, will take rank with 
the very best of them. 

Professor Waggoner attempts to get at 
"the outlines of Faulkner's career as a 
whole. . . . the unity of the whole of 
his work." To accomplish this he examines 
Faulkner's 16 novels in chronological or- 
der, from Soldiers' Pay (1926) to The 
Town (19.'>7), analyzes a handful of rep- 
resentative short stories, and finishes by 
interpreting the moral and religious im- 
plications of Faulkner's fiction and eval- 
uating its achievement. Many of his major 
observations are unorthodox, and all are 
cogent. The result is a full-scale critical 
surve>', orderly and observant, profound 
and provocative. 

It is not a book for the beginner or 
for the casual reader of modern fiction. 
Mr. Waggoner not only reads closely and 
analyzes subtly; he also assumes that his 
reader has a pretty firm knowledge of 
Faulkner's work to begin with. When he 
says "we shall be repaid for a close read- 
ing" of a Faulkner novel (in this instance. 
Mosquitoes, which other critics have 
brushed aside) he perhaps means "close 
re-reading" or even "re-re-reading." 

He keeps his eye attentively on the 
Faulknerian text, in its whole and in its 
parts, and few nuances escape him. His 
analyses are presented in the terms of 
explicative criticism, and hence paradox, 
ambiguity, ambivalence, irony, image, 
myth, and symbol play a large role in his 
interpretations. But Mr. Waggoner avoids 
the cloudier obscurities that have some- 
times marked this kind of criticism. 

In this book Faulkner's people remain 
people, not pawns in a game of constructs; 
his language is enjoyed, not sieved and 
squeezed for the portents of each paren- 
thesis and comma. Although Mr. Wag- 
goner is as ready as the next man to rec- 
ognize a symbol when he finds one, he is 
not guilty of the excesses of symbol- 
searching. In short, he makes profitable 
use of the newer tools of literary criticism. 

As he traces Faulkner's growth, Mr. 
Waggoner takes each book in the canon 
seriously. A very sympathetic — even de- 
voted — reader of his chosen author, he 
finds a steady and swift development 
through the three apprentice novels until 
Faulkner first discovered his real voice in 
those scenes of Sartoris which treat, with 
conviction rather than convention, a vital 
character struggling with his belief and 



disbelief, a man lost and unknowingly 
groping for something beyond current 
cynicism, beyond naturalistic despair. 
Thereafter Faulkner was the master of his 
intense imagination, the sure-handed ex- 
perimenter who developed new forms for 
new visions, the compassionate creator of 
memorable scenes, families, and inherit- 
ances, the author of half a dozen master- 
pieces in a dozen years. 

Mr. Waggoner's comments on the "form, 
solidity, color" of these works, their sym- 
bolic evocation of a moral order intensely 
Christian, their social analysis and comedy 
and tragedy, are comments of unusual 
depth and insight. So, too, are his explana- 
tions of the diminishing power of Faulk- 
ner's later, more nearly didactic works. 
And his chapter on Faulkner's "uneasy re- 
lation to his Christian background," show- 
ing the discrepancy between Faulkner's 
confessed doubt and conveyed belief, is 
probably the best-reasoned, most persua- 
sive statement now available on this cen- 
tral topic. 

Some readers may think that Mr. Wag- 
goner's style could be simpler and clearer. 
If Faulkner's style, among novelists', is 
dense, parenthetical, and sometimes ob- 
scure, perhaps the same can be said for 
Mr. Waggoner's, among critics'. And the 
non-professional reader may be tempted 
to conclude that the reading of fiction in 
our time is a form of hard, skull-cracking 
work; he may wonder what happened to 
the fun our fathers found in reading 
novels. 

Finally, the "professional" reader may 
wish that Mr. Waggoner had waited a few 
months for the publication of The Man- 
sion, in order to give us a completed study 
of the Snopes saga. But these shortcom- 
ings (if they are such) are not important 
in the face of a book sensitive, scholarly, 
and original; it is major criticism of a 
major writer. 

FREDERIC C. MARSTON, JR., PH.D. '44 

Professor Waggoner has also written 
on Hawthorne and other American writ- 
ers. The reviewer is Professor of English 
at the University of Vermont, and Provost. 

VICENTE ESPINEL AND MARCOS de 
OBREGON: A Life and Its Literary 
Representation, by George Haley. Brown 
University Press. 

In this work, originally his Ph.D. thesis. 
Dr. Haley seeks to shed new light on one 
of the many colorful figures of Spain's 
"Golden Age." Vicente Espinel (1550- 
1624), poet, novelist, musician, and 
churchman, is said to have invented a 
verse-form — the deciina, or espinela — and 
added the fifth string to the guitar. Dr. 
Haley examines both these claims in pass- 



ing, but is concerned chiefly with Espinels 
picaresque novel, Marcos de Obregon. 
and its relationship to its author's life — 
"the intimate connection between present 
and past, history and fiction in the mind 
of Espinel as he created Marcos de 
Obregon." 

What he has in mind is clearly stated 
in the Preface: "It has long been generally 
conceded by critics that the framework of 
Marcos de Obregon is the life of Vicente 
Espinel. But none has systematically 
studied the novel to determine in what 
way and to what extent this is true. Since 
Espinel's life had not been known in suf- 
ficient detail, such an undertaking would 
have required, as its first step, a reworking 
of Perez de Guzman's biography [in an 
edition of Marcos de Obregon, Barcelona, 
1881], which has been done here." 

After devoting two chapters ("Decem- 
ber, 1550, to May, 1599"; "May, 1599, 
to February, 1624") to this re-examina- 
tion of Espinel's life. Dr. Haley turns to 
the novel. He painstakingly studies it from 
such points of view as "An Author and a 
Persona in the Making," "History and 
Poetry," "Chronology and Structure," 
"Leitmotivs," "Itinerary," and "The Later 
Years: People and Places." The numbered 
chapters close with a useful "Recapitula- 
tion," followed by a series of 35 "Ap- 
pendices," "List of Works Cited," and an 
"Index." Interest is further heightened by 
a "Supposed Likeness of Vicente Espinel" 
as the frontispiece, and by six Plates of 
documents concerning Espinel. The book 
is dedicated to Brown's distinguished 
Hispanists, William L. Fichter and Juan 
Lopez-Morillas. 

Determining when Marcos represents his 
creator, and when the fictional character 
is "on his own," is a very intricate and 
demanding thing; but Dr. Haley manages 
It with a sure touch, obviously the out- 
growth of a firm grasp of his material. As 
if not content with only one such task, he 
has also undertaken to straighten out the 
rather involved chronological sequence of 
the novel. The elderly protagonist begins 
his story in about 1615. and jumps back to 
the 1580's; then to about 1550, with a re- 
turn to the 1580's and finally back to his 
present situation. This, again, makes for 
difficult reading; but Dr. Haley is equal to 
this task as well, and future students should 
gain thereby. Extensive documentation 
adds to the persuasiveness of Dr. Haley's 
arguments, and also serves to show where 
earlier investigators, notably Perez de 
Guzman, have fallen into error. 

With this book, and with the recent ap- 
pearance of an edition of Espinel's Diversas 
rimas by California's always-capable Dor- 
othy Clotelle Clark (N. Y., 1956), future 
workers on Espinel have two highly serv- 
iceable new tools with which to go about 
their business. 

R. W. TYLER 

Dr. Haley, who received his Brown 
A.M. in 1951 and Ph.D. in 1956. is a 
member of the Department of Spanish at 
the University of Chicago. The reviewer is 
in the Department of Romance Languages 
of the University of Te.xas; he received his 
Brown Ph.D. in 1946. 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



TRAVEL GUIDE TO RUSSIA, by Irving 
R. Levine "44. 416 pages. Doubleday. 
$4.95. 

This unpretentious volume is probably 
one of the most useful books about Rus- 
sia currently in print. Among the many 
works dealing with the subject that have 
appeared in recent years only Mr. Levine's 
other work. Main Street. USSR, contains 
more information about everyday life in 
the Soviet Union. The latter is of course 
concerned with the life of Soviet citizens; 
the Travel Guide in intended primarily for 
American travellers to Russia, of whom 
there were 2000 in 1956, 2500 in 1957, 
and more than 10.000 in 1959. 



Future visitors will find this book a 
necessary item of tourist equipment, and 
even those who do not plan to visit the 
country may read it with profit. The in- 
formation in it, presented without bias by 
an experienced and knowledgeable re- 
porter, will interest anyone who wants to 
know some of the facts of life in a com- 
munist society. 

The present reviewer, a three-trip vet- 
eran of the Russian travel front, would 
have saved much time and energy had Mr. 
Levine's book been available to him on 
those trips. The book touches upon a va- 
riety of questions, including even the first 
and basic one, whether to go at all. 




IRVING R. LEVINE '44. The former Moscow correspondent has written a guide to Russian travel. 

APRIL 1960 



If you do decide to go, you will find 
answers here to such immediate questions 
as how to get a visa; how much your trip 
will probably cost, depending on what 
class of accommodation you select in the 
classless society; what you can expect of 
Soviet customs inspection (nothing spe- 
cial); whether your hotel room will be 
wired for sound (probably not — a sore 
disappointment); whether you are likely 
to be "followed" (not likely); whether 
there is any danger in making such a trip 
(not enough to make it worthwhile if 
you're looking for danger); what tech- 
niques to employ in argument with Soviet 
guides (hot exchanges with these young 
people leave the American traveller with 
a fine sense of having defended the free 
world). 

Mr. Levine deals definitively with many 
apparently trivial but really very impor- 
tant tourist problems, from soap to sink 
stoppers. Difficulties that never arise when 
one travels in the west but do in Russia 
are dealt with concisely and competently. 
For instance, how do you find a telephone 
number in the absence of telephone books? 
How do you keep up with world news 
during your trip? Do you or do you not 
tip in a workers' state? Where do you go 
if you're looking for night-life, fun, and 
possibly romance? (You return to the 
west.) 

Perhaps more important than all of 
this, Mr. Levine presents a concise history 
of Russia designed specifically to help the 
traveller understand what he sees. His de- 
scription of the museums in Moscow and 
Leningrad is excellent by any standard 
(the Dostoevsky Museum in Moscow is a 
regrettable omission), and his brief but 
illuminating inventory of the rich art col- 
lections in the Hermitage and the Tret- 
yakov Gallery provides the discriminating 
traveller with reasons for making the trip. 
The Travel Guide to Russia contains 
indispensable information for the traveller. 
But it has much more. The author, who is 
well-versed in Russian history and wise in 
the ways of the Soviet bureaucracy, seems 
also to know and appreciate ordinary Rus- 
sians, and he writes of them and of their 
problems with understanding. The tourist 
equipped with this book should be in a 
favorable position to observe these people 
and perhaps communicate with them. 

EDWARD J. BROWN 

Professor Brown, of the Division of 
Modern Languages, has been observed on 
campus during the winter wearing a fur 
hat. a memento of his Russian visits. 



The Convocation Book 

"Man's Contracting World in an Ex- 
panding Universe," the record of last Oc- 
tober's Convocation at Brown University, 
is in galley proof and moving along into 
production with the expectation that it will 
be distributed by Commencement. The 
text of addresses and panel discussions is 
incorporated in the 230-page volume, ed- 
ited by Ben Bagdikian and available at 
$4.00 a copy. Advance orders indicated a 
lively interest in the illustrated work. 



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CarrvinR' the Mail 



Undergraduates Who Marry 

Sir: 1 thought Margaret Mead's article 
in the February issue was excellent. It 
should be required reading for undergrad- 
uates. 

MARY DURFEE BROWN 

Phmdome. L. I.. N. Y. 
(Mrs. Brown is the wife of Charles B. 
BrowTj "SI.— Ed.) 



"Affidavit of Disbelief" 

SIR: I have read your article concerning 
the so-called "affidavit of disbelief." and 
I have read also articles expressing the 
views of other universities toward this af- 
fidavit. I fail to see any valid basis for 
the objections presented in these articles 
against accepting Federal grants under this 
requirement. Surely, when the United 
States Government is disbursing the tax- 
payers" money, some effort should be made 
to see that the money is not giving aid to 
enemies of our country. 

I do believe, however, that the Federal 
grants should be refused because by en- 
couraging or allowing the wholesale sub- 




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sidization of education by the Federal 
Government, we are abandoning yet an- 
other democratic ideal in favor of a com- 
munistic or socialistic one. 

BURR D. BENEDICT, .IR. '49 

Columbus, O. 

"The Plastered Duchess" 

Sir: Knowing of my interest in Na- 
thanael West (Nathan Weinstein '24), on 
whom I have written a number of articles 
and whose brief life I wrote for the Master- 
plots Cyclopedia of World Authors (New 
York. 1958, pp. 1144-1145), my brother- 
in-law Tilden B. Mason '35 sent me a 
piece from the March I960 issue of the 
Brown Alumni Monthly (p. 26) on "The 
Plastered Duchess." 

A copy of the program of this St. 
Patrick's Day Show of 1924 has just been 
added to the Brown University Archives, 
and the author of the note in the Alumni 
Monthly concludes: "The program oddly 
discloses no author; it does not say who 
was in charge. Could it be that no one 
was?" 

Just published is Professor James F. 
Light's "Genius on Campus: Nathanael 
West at Brown," in Contact 3 (1959), 
pp. 97-1 1 1, which he wrote with biograph- 
ical assistance from West's Brown class- 
mates Philip Lukin, Jeremiah Mahoney, 
Quentin Reynolds, Frank Hough. William 
A. Dyer, Jr., I. J. Kapstein, and John 
Monk. On p. 108 one may read part of 
the answer to the query above: 

"The 1924 production, a three-act mu- 
sical farce titled The Plastered Duchess. 
differed from the standard model in that 
there was real talent among its creators. 
Hough. West. Jack Monk, and (probably) 
Quentin Reynolds did most of the writing; 
Lukin played a slave girl and Reynolds a 
duchess: and S. J. Perelman painted a 
weird, surrealist backdrop which later was 
torn up to provide souvenirs. Legend has 
it that faculty members were forbidden to 
attend, and that only Professor Ben 
Brown, who hid in the balcony, managed 
to be present. 



"The show was one of the bawdiest ever 
staged at Brown, and as one consequence 
University officials permanently banned 
future St. Patrick's day shows. Two lines 
from its hit song are an adequate sum- 
mary of the production's intellectual con- 
tent: 

Red-hot Martha, red-hot Martha — 
Pull your bloomers down! 

Both the acting and the audience-reaction 
were largely influenced by alcohol. One 
scene called for Lukin to bow to the 
duchess, but it proved too much of an 
assignment; he clutched at Reynolds and 
both fell down. "Whereupon,' recalls Lukin, 
"the duchess in all her dignity announced, 
'"You're drunk, you bastard." ' This was 
quite true, and seemed funny at the time; 
but the aftermath was not so funny. West, 
Frank Hough remembers, "fortunately 
passed out during the second act, but the 
whole thing got so out of hand — so raw 
and crude — that Quent and I expected 
momentarily to be fired from college.' " 

WILLIAM WHITE 

Wayne State University 

(Note: The legend is that President Faunce 
saw the show or some of it. unobserved, 
from one of the tiny over-door balconies 
in Rockefeller Hall, now Faunce House. 
It was apparently his suggestion that there 
be no more St. Pat's Shows. Professor 
White identified himself in a covering 
letter: "Although I have done research — 
on Nathanael West. Walt Whitman, and 
others — in the John Hay Library, I have 
no degrees from Brown, but you might 
call me a Brown alumnus-in-law. My 
father-in-law is Frank F. Mason, and I 
have mentioned my brother-in-law." — Ed.) 

"Keep Teaching Me" 
SIR: What a contrast between two suc- 
cessive articles in the January number: 
Bertrand Russell took three pages to say 
nothing about education that hasn't been 
said a hundred times, both historically and 
recently; Prof. Cecelia Payne-Gaposchkin 
took two pages to get across a couple of 
new ideas. She was talking like a scientist: 
he was talking like an educationist. 

Perhaps those who attended the Con- 
vocation learned a little from both. Per- 
haps so did your readers. Anyway, I did. 
(Continued on page 39) 



The Moonshooter Repoi't 



FOR THE THIRD APRIL in a row. we 
offer a special report from a cabal 
of editors informally known as 
"Moonshooters." You've seen their 
previous essays: "American Higher 
Education" (1958); '"The College 
Professor" (1959). This year they 
consider the Alumnus himself, a par- 
tisan and partner with a new role in 
education. The editors have pooled 



their resources to tackle a national 
theme too big for any individual 
working alone. 

Their survey, on the next 16 pages, 
is thus a committee product. Its scope 
is such that it cannot be 100% specific 
for any one institution or type of in- 
stitution. But in the generalization 
Brunonians will find many points of 
relevance. 



22 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



THE 



ALUMN^yA 





As student, as 

alumna or alumnus: at 

both stages, one 

of the most important persons 

in higher education. 



ALA^^ BEARDEK. JOX BEEKNEIS 



a special report 



a Salute . . . 

and a 

declaration of 
dependence 



THIS IS A SALUTE, EH acknowledgment of a partner- 
ship, and a declaration of dependence. It is directed 
to you as an alumnus or alumna. As such, you are 
one of the most important persons in American education 
today. 

You are important to American education, and to your 
alma mater, for a variety of reasons, not all of which may 
be instantly apparent to you. 

You are important, first, because you are the principal 
product of your alma mater — the principal claim she can 
make to fame. To a degree that few suspect, it is by its 
alumni that an educational institution is judged. And few 
yardsticks could more accurately measure an institution's 
true worth. 

You are important to American education, further, 
because of the support you give to it. Financial support 
comes immediately to mind: the money that alumni are 
giving to the schools, colleges, and universities they once 







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attended has reached an impressive sum, larger than that 
received from any other source of gifts. It is indispensable. 
But the support you give in other forms is impressive 
and indispensable, also. Alumni push and guide the legis- 
lative programs that strengthen the nation's publicly 
supported educational institutions. They frequently act 
as academic talent scouts for their alma maters, meeting 
and talking with the college-bound high school students 
in their communities. They are among the staunchest de- 
fenders of high principles in education — e.g., academic 
freedom — even when such defense may not be the "popu- 
lar" posture. The list is long; yet every year alumni are 
finding ways to extend it. 

To THE HUNDREDS of Colleges and universities and 
secondary schools from which they came, alumni 
are important in another way — one that has nothing 
to do with what alumni can do for the institutions them- 



selves. Unlike most other forms of human enterprise, 
educational institutions are not in business for what they 
themselves can get out of it. They exist so that free people, 
through education, can keep civilization on the forward 
move. Those who ultimately do this are their alumni. 
Thus only through its alumni can a school or a college 
or a university truly fulfill itself. 

Chancellor Samuel B. Gould, of the University of Cali- 
fornia, put it this way: 

"The serious truth of the matter is that you are the 
distilled essence of the university, for you are its product 
and the basis for its reputation. If anything lasting is to 
be achieved by us as a community of scholars, it must in 
most instances be reflected in you. If we are to win intellec- 
tual victories or make cultural advances, it must be 
through your good offices and your belief in our mission." 

The italics are ours. The mission is yours and ours 
together. 





Alma Mater . . . 

At an alumni-alumnae meeting in Washington, 

members sing the old school song. 

TTie purpose of this meeting was to introduce 

the institution to high school 

boys and girls who, with their parents, 

were present as the club's guests. 



'■"^ALUMN^'^/a 



Alumnus + alumnus 

Many people cling to the odd notion that in this ca 



THE POPULAR VIEW of you, an alumnus or alumna, 
is a puzzling thing. That the view is highly illogical 
seems only to add to its popularity. That its ele- 
ments are highly contradictory seems to bother no one. 

Here is the paradox: 

Individually you, being an alumnus or alumna, are 
among the most respected and sought-after of beings. 
People expect of you (and usually get) leadership or in- 
telligent foUowership. They appoint you to positions of 
trust in business and government and stake the nation's 
very survival on your school- and college-developed 
abilities. 

If you enter politics, your educational pedigree is freely 
discussed and frequently boasted about, even in precincts 
where candidates once took pains to conceal any educa- 
tion beyond the sixth grade. In clubs, parent-teacher 
associations, churches, labor unions, you are considered 
to be the brains, the backbone, the eyes, the ears, and the 
neckbone — the latter to be stuck out, for alumni are ex- 
pected to be intellectually adventurous as well as to ex- 
ercise other attributes. 

But put you in an alumni club, or back on campus for a 
reunion or homecoming, and the popular respect — yea, 
awe — turns to chuckles and ho-ho-ho. The esteemed in- 
dividual, when bunched with other esteemed individuals, 
becomes in the popular image the subject of quips, a can- 
didate for the funny papers. He is now imagined to be a 
person whose interests stray no farther than the degree of 
baldness achieved by his classmates, or the success in 
marriage and child-bearing achieved by her classmates, or 
the record run up last season by the alma mater's football 
or field-hockey team. He is addicted to funny hats deco- 
rated with his class numerals, she to daisy chainmaking 
and to recapturing the elusive delights of the junior-class 
hoop-roll. 

If he should encounter his old professor of physics, he is 
supposedly careful to confine the conversation to remi- 
niscences about the time Joe or Jane Wilkins, with spec- 
tacular results, tried to disprove the validity of Newton's 
third law. To ask the old gentleman about the implica- 
tions of the latest research concerning anti-matter would 
be, it is supposed, a most serious breach of the Alumni 
Reunion Code. 

Such a view of organized alumni activity might be dis- 
missed as unworthy of note, but for one disturbing fact: 
among its most earnest adherents are a surprising number 
of alumni and alumnae themselves. 



Permit us to lay the distorted image to rest, with the aid 
of the rites conducted by cartoonist Mark Kelley on the 
following pages. To do so will not necessitate burying the 
class banner or interring the reunion hat, nor is there a 
need to disband the homecoming day parade. 

The simple truth is that the serious activities of organ- 
ized alumni far outweigh the frivolities — in about the 
same proportion as the average citizen's, or unorganized 
alumnus's, party-going activities are outweighed by his 
less festive pursuits. 

Look, for example, at the activities of the organized 
alumni of a large and famous state university in the Mid- 
west. The former students of this university are often 
pictured as football-mad. And there is no denying that, to 
many of them, there is no more pleasant way of spending 
an autumn Saturday than witnessing a victory by the 
home team. 

But by far the great bulk of alumni energy on behalf of 
the old school is invested elsewhere: 

► Every year the alumni association sponsors a recog- 
nition dinner to honor outstanding students — those with 
a scholastic average of 3.5 (B+) or better. This has proved 
to be a most effective way of showing students that aca- 
demic prowess is valued above all else by the institution 
and its alumni. 

► Every year the alumni give five "distinguished teach- 
ing awards" — grants of $1,000 each to professors selected 
by their peers for outstanding performance in the class- 
room. 

► An advisory board of alumni prominent in various 
fields meets regularly to consider the problems of the 
university: the quality of the course offerings, the caliber 
of the students, and a variety of other matters. They re- 
port directly to the university president, in confidence. 
Their work has been salutary. When the university's 
school of architecture lost its accreditation, for example, 
the eff"orts of the alumni advisers were invaluable in get- 
ting to the root of the trouble and recommending meas- 
ures by which accreditation could be regained. 

► The efforts of alumni have resulted in the passage of 
urgently needed, but politically endangered, appropria- 
tions by the state legislature. 

► Some 3,000 of the university's alumni act each year as 
volunteer alumni-fund solicitors, making contacts with 
30,000 of the university's former students. 

Nor is this a particularly unusual list of alumni accom- 
plishments. The work and thought expended by the alum- 



alumni-or does it? 

the group somehow differs from the sum of its parts 




F.LLIOTT ERT^TTT. MAGNtJU 



Behind the fun 



of organized alumni activity — in clubs, at reunions — lies new seriousness 
nowadays, and a substantial record of service to American education. 



ni of hundreds of schools, colleges, and universities in 
behalf of their alma maters would make a glowing record, 
if ever it could be compiled. The alumni of one institution 
took it upon themselves to survey the federal income-tax 
laws, as they affected parents' ability to finance their 
children's education, and then, in a nationwide campaign, 
pressed for needed reforms. In a score of cities, the 
alumnae of a woinen's college annually sell tens of thou- 
sands of tulip bulbs for their alma mater's benefit; in 
eight years they have raised $80,000, not to mention 
hundreds of thousands of tulips. Other institutions' alum- 
nae stage house and garden tours, organize used-book 
sales, sell flocked Christmas trees, sponsor theatrical 
benefits. Name a worthwhile activity and someone is 
probably doing it, for faculty salaries or building funds or 
student scholarships. 

Drop in on a reunion or a local alumni-club meeting, 
and you may well find that the superficial programs of 



yore have been replaced by seminars, lectures, laboratory 
demonstrations, and even week-long short-courses. Visit 
the local high school during the season when the senior 
students are applying for admission to college — and try- 
ing to find their way through dozens of college catalogues, 
each describing a campus paradise — and you will find 
alumni on hand to help the student counselors. Nor are 
they high-pressure salesmen for their own alma inater and 
disparagers of everybody else's. Often they can, and do, 
perform their highest service to prospective students by 
advising them to apply somewhere else. 

THE ACHIEVEMENTS, in short, belie the popular image. 
And if no one else realizes this, or cares, one group 
should: the alumni and alumnae themselves. Too 
many of them may be shying away from a good thing be- 
cause they think that being an "active" alumnus means 
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Last year, educational institutions 
from anv other source of gifts. Alumni support is 



WITHOUT THE DOLLARS that their alumni contrib- 
ute each year, America's privately supported 
educational institutions would be in serious 
difficulty today. And the same would be true of the na- 
tion's publiclv supported institutions, without the sup- 
port of alumni in legislatures and elections at which 
appropriations or bond issues are at stake. 

For the private institutions, the financial support re- 
ceived from individual alumni often means the difference 
between an adequate or superior faculty and one that is 
underpaid and understaffed; between a thriving scholar- 
ship program and virtuaUy none at all; between well- 
equipped" laboratories and obsolete, crowded ones. For 
tax-supported institutions, which in growing numbers are 
turning to their alumni for direct financial support, such 
aid makes it possible to give scholarships, grant loans to 
needy students, build such buildings as student unions, 
and carry on research for which legislative appropriations 
do not provide. 

To gain an idea of the scope of the support which 
alumni give— and of how much that is worthwhile in 
American education depends upon it— consider this sta- 
tistic, unearthed in a current survey of 1,144 schools, 
junior colleges, colleges, and universities in the United 
States and Canada: in just twelve months, alumni gave 
their alma maters more than $199 million. They were the 
largest single source of gifts. 

Nor was this the kind of support that is given once, per- 
haps as the result of a high-pressure fund drive, and never 
heard of again. Alumni tend to give funds regularly. In 
the past year, they contributed S45.5 million, on an annual 
gift basis, to the 1,144 institutions surveyed. To realize 
that much annual income from investments in blue-chip 
stocks, the institutions would have needed over 1.2 billion 
more dollars in endowment funds than they actually 
possessed. 

A NNUAL ALUMNI GIVING is not a ncw phenomenon on 
y\ the American educational scene (Yale alumni 
-^^^ founded the first annual college fund in 1890, and 
Mount Hermon was the first independent secondary 
school to do so, in 1903). But not until fairly recently did 
annual giving become the main element in education's 
financial survival kit. The development was logical. Big 
endowments had been affected by inflation. Big private 
philanthropy, affected by the graduated income and in- 



heritance taxes, was no longer able to do the job alone. 
Yet, with the growth of science and technology and 
democratic concepts of education, educational budgets 
had to be increased to keep pace. 

Twenty years before Yale's first alumni drive, a pro- 
fessor in New Haven foresaw the possibilities and looked 
into the minds of alumni everywhere: 

"No graduate of the college," he said, "has ever paid 
in full what it cost the college to educate him. A part of the 
expense was borne by the funds given by former bene- 
factors of the institution. 

"A great many can never pay the debt. A very few can, 
in their turn, become munificent benefactors. There is a 
very large number, however, between these two, who can, 
and would cheerfully, give according to their abihty in 
order that the college might hold the same relative posi- 
tion to future generations which it held to their own." 

The first Yale alumni drive, seventy years ago, brought 
in $11,015. In 1959 alone, Yale's alumni gave more than 
$2 million. Not only at Yale, but at the hundreds of other 
institutions which have established annual alumni funds 
in the intervening years, the feeling of indebtedness and 
the concern for future generations which the Yale pro- 
fessor foresaw have spurred alumni to greater and greater 
efforts in this enterprise. 

A ND MONEY FROM ALUMNI is a powcrful magnet: it 
/\ draws more. Not only have more than eighty busi- 
l\ ness corporations, led in 1954by General Electric, 
established the happy custom of matching, dollar for dol- 
lar, the gifts that their employees (and sometimes their 
employees' wives) give to their alma maters; alumni 
giving is also a measure applied by many business men 
and by philanthropic foundations in determinmg how 
productive their organizations' gifts to an educational m- 
stitution are likely to be. Thus alumni giving, as Gordon 
K. Chalmers, the late president of Kenyon College, de- 
scribed it, is "the very rock on which all other giving must 
rest. Gifts from outside the family depend largely— some- 
times wholly— on the degree of alumni support." 

The "degree of alumni support" is gauged not by dol- 
lars alone. The percentage of alumni who are regular 
givers is also a key. And here the record is not as dazzlmg 
as the dollar figures imply. 

Nationwide, only one in five alumni of colleges, uni- 
versities, and prep schools gives to his annual alumni 



received more of it from their alumni than 
now education's strongest financial rampart 




fund. The actual figure last year was 20.9 per cent. Allow- 
ing for the inevitable few who are disenchanted with their 
alma maters' cause,* and for those who spurn all fund 
solicitations, sometimes with heavy scorn, f and for those 
whom legitimate reasons prevent from giving financial 
aid,§ the participation figure is still low. 

WHY? Perhaps because the non-participants imag- 
ine their institutions to be adequately financed. 
(Virtually without exception, in both private and 
tax-supported institutions, this is — sadly — not so.) Per- 
haps because they believe their small gift — a dollar, or 
five, or ten— will be insignificant. (Again, most emphati- 
cally, not so. Multiply the 5,223,240 alumni who gave 
nothing to their alma maters last year by as little as one 
dollar each, and the figure still comes to thousands of 
additional scholarships for deserving students or sub- 
stantial pay increases for thousands of teachers who may, 
at this moment, be debating whether they can afford to 
continue teaching next year.) 

By raising the percentage of participation in alumni 
fund drives, alumni can materially improve their alma 
maters' standing. That dramatic increases in participation 
can be brought about, and quickly, is demonstrated by 
the case of Wofford College, a small institution in South 
Carolina. Until several years ago, Wofford received 
annual gifts from only 12 per cent of its 5,750 alumni. 
Then Roger Milliken, a textile manufacturer and a Wof- 
ford trustee, issued a challenge: for every percentage- 
point increase over 12 per cent, he'd give $ 1 ,000. After the 
alumni were finished, Mr. Milliken cheerfully turned over 
a check for $62,000. WofTord's alumni had raised their 
participation in the annual fund to 74.4 per cent — a new 
national record. 

"It was a remarkable performance," observed the 
American Alumni Council. "Its impact on Wofford will 
be felt for many years to come." 

And what Wofford's alumni could do, your institution's 
alumni could probably do, too. 

* Wrote one alumnus: "I see that Stanford is making great prog- 
ress. However, I am opposed to progress in any form. Tlierefore I 
am not sending you any money." 

t A man in Memphis, Tennessee, regularly sent Baylor University 
a check signed "U. R. Stuck." 

§ In her fiind reply envelope, a Kansas alumna once sent, without 
comment, her household bills for the month. 



memo: from A!\/^lVf S 

^° Husbands 



► Women's colleges, as a group, have had a unique 
problem in fund-raising— and they wish they knew how 
to solve it. 

The loyalty of their alumnae in contributing money 
each year — an average of 41.2 per cent took part in 1959 
— is nearly double the national average for all universi- 
ties, colleges, junior colleges, and privately supported 
secondary schools. But the size of the typical gift is often 
smaller than one might expect. 

Why? The alumnae say that while husbands obviously 
place a high value on the products of the women's col- 
leges, many underestimate the importance of giving wom- 
en's colleges the same degree of support they accord their 
own alma maters. This, some guess, is a holdover from 
the days when higher education for women was regarded 
as a luxury, while higher education for men was consid- 
ered a sine qua non for business and professional careers. 

As a result, again considering the average, women's 
colleges must continue to cover much of their operating 
expense from tuition fees. Such fees are generally higher 
than those charged by men's or coeducational institutions, 
and the women's colleges are worried about the social and 
intellectual implications of this fact. They have no desire 
to be the province solely of children of the well-to-do; 
higher education for women is no longer a luxury to be 
reserved to those who can pay heavy fees. 

Since contributions to education appear to be one area 
of family budgets still controlled largely by men, the 
alumnae hope that husbands will take serious note of the 
women's colleges' claim to a larger share of it. They may 
be starting to do so: from 1958 to 1959, the average gift 
to women's colleges rose 22.4 per cent. But it still trails 
the average gift to men's colleges, private universities, and 
professional schools. 



12 30- I l^j 

S350 





KRICH HABTMAN'N, MAGNUM 



for the J^ublic educational institutions, 

a special kind of service 



PUBLICLY SUPPORTED educational institutions owe a 
special kind of debt to their alumni. Many people 
imagine that the public institutions have no finan- 
cial worries, thanks to a steady flow of tax dollars. Yet 
they actually lead a perilous fiscal existence, dependent 
upon annual or biennial appropriations by legislatures. 
More than once, state and municipally supported institu- 
tions would have found themselves in serious straits if 
their alumni had not assumed a role of leadership. 
► A state university in New England recently was put in 
academic jeopardy because the legislature defeated a bill 
to provide increased salaries for faculty members. Then 



the university's "Associate Alumni" took matters into 
their hands. They brought the facts of political and aca- 
demic life to the attention of alumni throughout the state, 
prompting them to write to their representatives in sup- 
port of higher faculty pay. A compromise bill was passed, 
and salary increases were granted. Alumni action thus 
helped ease a crisis which threatened to do serious, per- 
haps irreparable, damage to the university. 
► In a neighboring state, the public university receives 
only 38.3 per cent of its operating budget from state and 
federal appropriations. Ninety-one per cent of the uni- 
versity's $17 million physical plant was provided by pri- 




The Beneficiaries: 



Students on a state-university campus. Alumni support is proving 
invaluable in maintaining high-quality education at such institutions. 



vate funds. Two years ago, graduates of its college of 
medicine gave $226,752 for a new medical center — the 
largest amount given by the alumni of any American 
medical school that year. 

► Several years ago the alumni of six state-supported 
institutions in a midwestern state rallied support for a 
$150 million bond issue for higher education, mental 
health, and welfare — an issue that required an amend- 
ment to the state constitution. Of four amendments on 
the ballot, it was the only one to pass. 

► In another midwestern state, action by an "Alumni 
Council for Higher Education," representing eighteen 
publicly supported institutions, has helped produce a $13 
million increase in operating funds for 1959-61 — the most 
significant increase ever voted for the state's system of 
higher education. 



s 



OME ALUMNI ORGANIZATIONS are forbidden to engage 
in political activity of any kind. The intent is a good 
one: to keep the organizations out of party politics 



and lobbying. But the effect is often to prohibit the alumni 
from conducting any organized legislative activity in be- 
half of publicly supported education in their states. 

"This is unfair," said a state-university alumni spokes- 
man recently, "because this kind of activity is neither 
shady nor unnecessary. 

"But the restrictions — most of which I happen to think 
are nonsense— exist, nevertheless. Even so, individual 
alumni can make personal contacts with legislators in 
their home towns, if not at the State Capitol. Above all, 
in their contacts with fellow citizens — with people who 
influence public opinion — the alumni of state institutions 
must support their alma maters to an intense degree. They 
must make it their business to get straight information 
and spread it through their circles of influence. 

"Since the law forbids us to organize such support, 
every alumnus has to start this work, and continue it, on 
his own. This isn't something that most people do natu- 
rally — but the education of their own sons and daughters 
rests on their becoming aroused and doing it." 




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a matter of 



principle 



ANY WORTHWHILE INSTITUTION of higher education, 
l\ one college president has said, lives "in chronic 
-^ -^ tension with the society that supports it." Says 
The Campus and the State, a 1 959 survey of academic free- 
dom in which that president's words appear: "New ideas 
always run the risk of offending entrenched interests 
within the community. If higher education is to be suc- 
cessful in its creative role it must be guaranteed some pro- 
tection against reprisal. . ." 

The peril most frequently is budgetary: the threat of 
appropriations cuts, if the unpopular ideas are not aban- 
doned; the real or imagined threat of a loss of public — 
even alumni — sympathy. 

Probably the best protection against the danger of 
reprisals against free institutions of learning is their 
alumni: alumni who understand the meaning of freedom 
and give their strong and informed support to matters of 
educational principle. Sometimes such support is avail- 
able in abundance and offered with intelligence. Some- 
times — almost always because of misconception or failure 
to be vigilant — it is not. 

For example: 
► An alumnus of one private college was a regular and 
heavy donor to the annual alumni fund. He was known to 
have provided handsomely for his alma mater in his will. 
But when he questioned his grandson, a student at the 
old school, he learned that an economics professor not 
only did not condemn, but actually discussed the necessity 
for, the national debt. Grandfather threatened to withdraw 
all support unless the professor ceased uttering such 

I heresy or was fired. (The professor didn't and wasn't. The 
college is not yet certain where it stands in the gentleman's 
wiU.) 

^ ► When no students from a certain county managed to 
meet the requirements for admission to a southwestern 
university's medical school, the county's angry delegate to 
the state legislature announced he was "out to get this 
guy" — the vice president in charge of the university's 
medical affairs, who had staunchly backed the medical 
school's admissions committee. The board of trustees of 
the university, virtually all of whom were alumni, joined 
other alumni and the local chapter of the American 



Association of University Professors to rally successfully 
to the v.p.'s support. 

► When the president of a publicly supported institu- 
tion recently said he would have to limit the number of 
students admitted to next fall's freshman class if high 
academic standards were not to be compromised, some 
constituent-fearing legislators were wrathful. When the 
issue was explained to them, alumni backed the presi- 
dent's position — decisively. 

► When a number of institutions (joined in December 
by President Eisenhower) opposed the "disclaimer affida- 
vit" required of students seeking loans under the National 
Defense Education Act, many citizens — including some 
alumni — assailed them for their stand against "swearing 
allegiance to the United States." The fact is, the dis- 
claimer affidavit is not an oath of allegiance to the United 
States (which the Education Act also requires, but which 
the colleges have not opposed). Fortunately, alumni who 
took the trouble to find out what the affidavit really was 
apparently outnumbered, by a substantial majority, those 
who leaped before they looked. Coincidentally or not, 
most of the institutions opposing the disclaimer affidavit 
received more money from their alumni during the con- 
troversy than ever before in their history. 

IN THE FUTURE, as in the past, educational institutions 
worth their salt will be in the midst of controversy. 
Such is the nature of higher education: ideas are its 
merchandise, and ideas new and old are frequently con- 
troversial. An educational institution, indeed, may be 
doing its job badly if it is not involved in controversy, at 
times. If an alumnus never finds himself in disagreement 
with his alma mater, he has a right to question whether 
his alma mater is intellectually awake or dozing. 

To understand this is to understand the meaning of 
academic freedom and vitality. And, with such an under- 
standing, an alumnus is equipped to give his highest serv- 
ice to higher education; to give his support to the princi- 
ples which make. higher education free and effectual. 

If higher education is to prosper, it will need this kind 
of support from its alumni — tomorrow even more than in 
its gloriously stormy past. 



Ideas 



are the merchandise of education, and every worthwhile educational institution must provide and 
guard the conditions for breeding them. To do so, they need the help and vigilance of their alumni. 



Ahead: 



ROLAND BBAU 




'T'T A . of keeping intellectually alive for a lifetime 

1 I le r\l I will be 



fostered more than ever by a 
growing alumni-alma mater relationship. 



WHITHER THE COURSE of the relationship between 
alumni and alma mater? At the turn into the 
Sixties, it is evident that a new and challenging 
relationship — of unprecedented value to both the institu- 
tion and its alumni — is developing. 

► If alumni wish, their intellectual voyage can be 
continued for a lifetime. 

There was a time when graduation was the end. You 
got your diploma, along with the right to place certain 
initials after your name; your hand was clasped for an 
instant by the president; and the institution's business 
was done. 

If you were to keep yourself intellectually awake, the 
No-Doz would have to be self-administered. If you were 
to renew your acquaintance with literature or science, the 
introductions would have to be self-performed. 

Automotion is still the principal driving force. The 
years in school and college are designed to provide the 
push and then the momentum to keep you going with 
your mind. "Madam, we guarantee results," wrote a col- 
lege president to an inquiring mother, " — or we return 
the boy." After graduation, the guarantee is yours to 
maintain, alone. 

Alone, but not quite. It makes little sense, many edu- 
cators say, for schools and colleges not to do whatever 
they can to protect their investment in their students — 
which is considerable, in terms of time, talents, and 
money — and not to try to make the relationship between 
alumni and their alma maters a two-way flow. 

As a consequence of such thinking, and of demands 
issuing from the former students themselves, alumni 
meetings of all types — local clubs, campus reunions — are 
taking on a new character. "There has to be a reason and 
a purpose for a meeting," notes an alumna. "Groups that 
meet for purely social reasons don't last long. Just be- 
cause Mary went to my college doesn't mean I enjoy 
being with her socially — but I might well enjoy working 
with her in a serious intellectual project." Male alumni 
agree; there is a limit to the congeniality that can be main- 
tained solely by the thin thread of reminiscences or small- 
talk. 

But there is no limit, among people with whom their 



a new (challenge, 



a new relationship 



education "stuck," to the revitalizing effects of learning. 
The chemistry professor who is in town for a chemists' 
conference and is invited to address the local chapter of 
the alumni association no longer feels he must talk about 
nothing more weighty than the beauty of the campus 
elms; his audience wants him to talk chemistry, and he is 
delighted to oblige. The engineers who return to school 
for their annual homecoming welcome the opportunity to 
bring themselves up to date on developments in and out 
of their specialty. Housewives back on the campus for 
reunions demand — and get — seminars and short-courses. 

But the wave of interest in enriching the intellectual 
content of alumni meetings may be only a beginning. 
With more leisure at their command, alumni will have 
the time (as they already have the inclination) to under- 
take more intensive, regular educational programs. 

If alumni demand them, new concepts in adult educa- 
tion may emerge. Urban colleges and universities may 
step up their offerings of programs designed especially for 
the alumni in their communities — not only their own 
alumni, but those of distant institutions. Unions and 
government and industry, already experimenting with 
graduate-education programs for their leaders, may find 
ways of giving sabbatical leaves on a widespread basis — 
and they may profit, in hard dollars-and-cents terms, from 
the results of such intellectual re-charging. 

Colleges and universities, already overburdened with 
teaching as well as other duties, will need help if such 
dreams are to come true. But help will be found if the 
demand is insistent enough. 

► Alumni partnerships with their alma mater, in 
meeting ever-stiffer educational challenges, will grow 
even closer than they have been. 

Boards of overseers, visiting committees, and other 
partnerships between alumni and their institutions are 
proving, at many schools, colleges, and universities, to be 
channels through which the educators can keep in touch 
with the community at large and vice versa. Alumni trus- 
tees, elected by their fellow alumni, are found on the gov- 
erning boards of more and more institutions. Alumni 
"without portfolio" are seeking ways to join with their 
alma maters in advancing the cause of education. The 



representative of a West Coast university has noted the 
trend: "In selling memberships in our alumni associa- 
tion, we have learned that, while it's wise to list the bene- 
fits of membership, what interests them most is how they 
can be of service to the university." 

► Alumni can have a decisive role in maintaining 
high standards of education, even as enrollments 
increase at most schools and colleges. 

There is a real crisis in American education: the crisis 
of quality. For a variety of reasons, many institutions find 
themselves unable to keep their faculties staffed with high- 
caliber men and women. Many lack the equipment 
needed for study and research. Many, even in this age of 
high student population, are unable to attract the quality 
of student they desire. Many have been forced to dissipate 
their teaching and research energies, in deference to pub- 
lic demand for more and more extracurricular "services." 
Many, besieged by applicants for admission, have had to 
yield to pressure and enroll students who are unqualified. 

Each of these problems has a direct bearing upon the 
quality of education in America. Each is a problem to 
which alumni can constructively address themselves, indi- 
vidually and in organized groups. 

Some can best be handled through community leader- 
ship: helping present the institutions' case to the public. 
Some can be handled by direct participation in such ac- 
tivities as academic talent-scouting, in which many insti- 
tutions, both public and private, enlist the aid of their 
alumni in meeting with college-bound high school stu- 
dents in their cities and towns. Some can be handled by 
making more money available to the institutions — for 
faculty salaries, for scholarships, for buildings and equip- 
ment. Some can be handled through political action. 

The needs vary widely from institution to institution — 
and what may help one may actually set back another. 
Because of this, it is important to maintain a close liaison 
with the campus when undertaking such work. (Alumni 
offices everywhere will welcome inquiries.) 

When the opportunity for aid does come — as it has in 
the past, and as it inevitably will in the years ahead — 
alumni response will be the key to America's educational 
future, and to all that depends upon it. 



alumni- 
ship 



J 



OHN MASEFiELD was addressing himself to the subject 
of universities. "They give to the young in their impres- 
sionable years the bond of a lofty purpose shared," he 
said; "of a great corporate life whose links will not be 
loosed until they die." 

The Unks that unite alumni with each other and with 
their alma mater are difficult to define. But every alum- 
nus and alumna knows they exist, as surely as do the 
campus's lofty spires and the ageless dedication of edu- 
cated men and women to the process of keeping them- 
selves and their children intellectually alive. 

Once one has caught the spirit of learning, of truth, of 
probing into the undiscovered and unknown — the spirit 
of his alma mater — one does not really lose it, for as 
long as one lives. As life proceeds, the daily mechanics 
of living — of job-holding, of family-rearing, of mortgage- 
paying, of lawn-cutting, of meal-cooking — sometimes 
are tedious. But for them who have known the spirit of 
intellectual adventure and conquest, there is the bond of 
the lofty purpose shared, of the great corporate life 
whose links will not be loosed until they die. 

This would be the true meaning of alumni-ship, were 
there such a word. It is the reasoning behind the great 
service that alumni give to education. It is the reason 
alma maters can call upon their alumni for responsible 
support of all kinds, with confidence that the responsi- 
bility will be well met. 



thp: 



ALUMN ^^A 



The material on this and the preceding 15 
pages was prepared in behalf of more than 350 
schools, colleges, and universities in the United 
Slates, Canada, and Mexico by the staff listed 
below, who have formed editorial projects 
FOR EDUCATION, [NC, through which to per- 
form this function, e.p.e., inc., is a non-profit 
organization associated with the American 
Alumni Council. The circulation of this supple- 
ment is 2,900,000. 

DAVID A. BURR 

The University of Oklahoma 

GEORGE J. COOKE 

Princeton University 

DAN ENDSLEY 

Stanford University 

DAN H. FENN, jr. 

Harvard Business School 

RANDOLPH L. FORT 

Emory University 

J. ALFRED GUEST 

Amherst College 

L. FRANKLIN HEALD 

The University of Sew Hampshire 

CHARLES M. HELMKEN 

Saint Johns University 

JEAN D. LINEHAN 

American Alumni Council 

MARALYN ORBISON 

Swarthmore College 

ROBERT L. PAYTON 

Washington University 

FRANCES PROVENCE 

Baylor University 

ROBERT M. RHODES 

Lehigh University 

WILLIAM SCHRAMM, JR. 

The University of Pennsylvania 

VERNE A. STADTMAN 

The University of California 

FREDERIC A. STOTT 

Phillips Academy (Andover) 

FRANK J. TATE 

The Ohio State University 

ERIK WENSBERG 

Columbia University 

CHARLES E. WIDMAYER 

Dartmouth College 

REBA WILCOXON 

The University of Arkansas 

CHESLEY WORTHINGTON 

Brown University 



CORBIN GWALTNEY 

Executive Editor 

HAROLD R. HARDING 

Assistant Secretary- Treasurer 



All rights reserved: no part of this supplement 
may be reproduced without the express per- 
mission of the editors. Copyright © 1960 by 
Editorial Projects for Education, Inc., Room 
411, 1785 Massachusetts Ave.. N.W., Washing- 
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In the Mail 



(Continued from page 22) 

So here's another check to help you keep 
teaching me. 

Now, another matter: The photo of the 
small stone image in the February issue 
brings to mind something that happened 
40-odd years ago. It is not likely to help 
Professor Giddings identify the object, but 
the story can't do any good untold. 

In the summer of 1917, 1 believe, two 
other boys and I, all about 9 years old, 
were foraging along the creek that flows 
from the north into downtown Alton, 111. 
At one point we picked out of the pebbles 
in the creekbed the lower third of what 
we thought resembled an "armbone," per- 
haps two thirds the size of one of ours. 
Many years later I learned in Biology I 
at Brown that the lower arm has two 
bones. A better description would thus be 
that our find represented part of an 
emaciated forearm. 

A few minutes later, and perhaps 25 
feet upstream, we spotted another "stone" 
of similar color — a brownish red, very 
different from the pebbles. This object had 
unquestionably been carved, in the form 
of a clenched fist. The carving was crude, 
the divisions between fingers being rounded 
rather than sharp. 

The two objects were almost certainly 
of the same material. Both were lighter in 
specific gravity than the local stones — 
perhaps about 2.5, I would now guess. 
One of the boys became frightened and 
headed for home, and the other two of us 





CHANGE OF COMMAND in Buffalo was photographed for the press when Richard M. Rieser '36, 
right, succeeded Harold Bergwall '50 as President of the Brown Club. 



THE UNIDENTIFIED IMAGE 
APRIL 1960 



followed. I believe we tossed both frag- 
ments back in the water. I never went 
back. I have mentioned the incidents to 
amateur and professional archaeologists 
several times, but without learning any- 
thing which would help tie the objects 
down. 

ROBERT MARSCHNER '28 

Homeivood. Ill, 

(Prof. J. L. Giddings, to whom Marsch- 
ner originally wrote, says: "This recol- 
lection has me wondering how many 
archeological discoveries have been made 
and then lost by boy explorers. Certainly 
all of Illinois was the home-ground of the 
Indians of the Hopewell culture who lived 
around 2000 years ago and who did re- 
markable work in stone and copper. I 
wouldn't be surprised if the pieces found 
were indeed of Indian manufacture." — Ed.) 

Slightly Tiirnecl Head 

Sir: That stone image in the February 
Monthly is a replica of one of our Scot- 
English-French settlers now indigenous to 
these parts. They sit like that all winter. 
When one enters a dwelling, the occupant 
slightly turns his head, never uttering a 
word. But you know he means: "Dammit, 
close the door." 

This, of course, is the usual greeting. 
So tell Dr. Giddings his search is at an 
end. 

H. LINCOLN MACKENZIE 

Prince Edward Island 
SIR: Obviously, it's a guy with a bellyache. 

ROBERT BIRD '41 

East Orange, N. Y. 

Breach of What ? 

SIR: Christine Rhodes has indeed given a 
well-deserved accolade to the BAM, and 
1 hope you will take a bow. However, on 
p. 13 ("Baguio, Revisited") General Mor- 
house in discussing the former habits of 
Negritos near Nipa speak of "the men 
dressed in breach clouts. . . ." By this did 
he mean a severe sock on the snout or a 
fractured skull resulting from a heavy 



blow? Or perhaps a clout (cloth) with a 
rip in it? Or perhaps "breech clout"? 

A severe glance at the proof reader, 
with a carbon copy to the author. 

HORACE S. MAZET '26 

Balboa Island. Calif. 

(Unless the reference was to cloth of 
high porosity, we guess we deserve a clout 
for our breach. — Ed.) 



Father of International La-sv 

Henry Wheaton, American law- 
yer and diplomat, who was born in 
Providence in 1785, will be hon- 
ored on the 175th anniversary of 
his birth in one of the exhibits be- 
ing prepared to celebrate the state's 
fifth annual Rhode Island Heritage 
Week. The event takes place May 
1-8, and will tie in with Rhode Is- 
land's annual Law Day observance. 
The John Hay Library will prepare 
a special exhibition titled: "Henry 
Wheaton, Class of 1802, Brown 
University, renowned lawyer, judge, 
diplomat, author of Elements oj In- 
ternational Law — A selection from 
his early publications on law." 

Wheaton was admitted to the 
bar in 1805 and went abroad to 
study. He returned to Providence 
and practiced his profession from 
1807-12, and in New York from 
1812-27. He was appointed Charge 
d'Affaires to Denmark in 1827 and 
served as Minister to Prussia, 1837 
to 1846. It was while he was abroad 
that he wrote his great works that 
eventually won him laurels as an in- 
ternational lawyer. Elements of In- 
ternational Law, 1836, was consid- 
ered his most important work and 
publication and went into several 
revised editions. Wheaton, who also 
served from 1816 to 1827 as a re- 
porter for the United States Su- 
preme Court, died at Dorchester, 
Massachusetts, March 11, 1848, 



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SOUTH SHORE VISITORS helped the Brown Club's "Introduction to Brown University" which drew 
300 to Hinghom on Feb. 7. Left to right — Lloyd W. Cornell, Jr., '44, Dean of Admission; Coaches 
Fuquo, Fullerton, Gowen, and Mcloughry; and Brown Club Officers Irving A. Hall, Jr., '39 and 

Robert N. Sanderson '27. 



The Brown Clubs Report 



New Den in Boston 

THE Brown Club of Boston has found 
a new home! For many years, the 
alumni in the Boston area have been meet- 
ing in various restaurants. During the 
years, much lip service was given to the 
idea of finding permanent quarters for 
the Club, but until this year nothing con- 
crete had been accomplished. However, 
on Jan. 1. the Brown Club became affili- 
ated with Boston's University Club. The 
initiator and general chairman of the proj- 
ect was Don Saunders '57. 

The University Club, an eight-story 
building, is located in the Back Bay area 
of Boston at Trinity Place. It has an ex- 
cellent physical plant and offers many 
athletic, intellectual, and social activities 
to its members, their families, and guests. 
There are an Olympic-size swimming pool, 
eight squash courts, bowling alleys, a golf 
cage, badminton courts, an exercise room, 
a massage and steam room, and complete 
hotel accommodations. 

Two fine rooms have been designated 
for the express use of the Brown Uni- 
versity Club and have been decorated 
with a Brown motif. One is a function 
room used for monthly luncheons and 
other affairs. It has a seating capacity of 
75. The other is a library-lounge, which 
provides a quiet and pleasant atmosphere 
for relaxation. 

On Saturday, Feb. 20, the Brown Club 
was officially welcomed to the Club with a 
cocktail party, followed by one of the 
University Club buffets for which they 
are noted. For information regarding non- 
resident memberships, please contact Don- 
ald L. Saunders, Chairman, 229 Newbury 
St., Boston, or phone KE 6-1620 (BI 
4-6862 nights and week ends). 

Prof. Harold Schlosberg, Chairman of 
Brown's Psychology Department, ad- 
dressed the luncheon group in January. 
In February, Prof. Elmer R. Smith, Chair- 
man of the Education Department, spoke 
at the first luncheon gathering held at the 
new University Club quarters. 

NORMAN B. SILK 



South Shore Schoolboys 

Phenomenal is the only word for the 
success which has marked Sub-Freshman 
work by the South Shore Brown Club 
these last few years. An example was the 
second annual "Introduction to Brown 
University," held at Hingham High School 
on Feb. 7 with 300 present, all eager to 
learn more about Brown. In addition to 
100 schoolboys, the audience was made up 
of parents, school principals, guidance of- 
ficers, alumni, and their wives. 

The delegation from College Hill was 
headed by the Dean of Admission, Lloyd 
W. Cornell, Jr.. "44, who was welcomed 
by the Brown Club President, Robert N. 
Sanderson '27, Vice-President Irving A. 
Hall, Jr., '39, the chairman of the affair, 
and Secretary Preston Barry '49. A group 
of Brown coaches also took part in the 
informal program: John McLaughry and 
Red Gowen, football: Ivan Fuqua, track; 
and James Fullerton, hockey. 

Among the alumni present were: Albert 
Hunt '26, Superintendent of Schools in 
Bridgewater; William Ripley '26, Super- 
intendent of Schools in Cohasset; and 
Stuart Macmillan "21, Chairman of the 
Massachusetts State Board of Education. 
Refreshments were handled by a tea com- 
mittee composed of alumni wives. 

Each Month in Phoenix 

The Phoenix Brown Club, now hit- 
ting on all "nine" cylinders, has been 
holding monthly luncheons at a local res- 




taurant since September, with an average 
of seven Brown men present. At the 
March meeting it was voted to purchase 
a large Brown banner from the University 
Store for use at these luncheons as well 
as other functions being planned for the 
Club. 

WILLIAM F. MCLELLAN '49 

Darien's Speaker: Watson 

Fairfield County's Brown Club in 
Connecticut will hold its annual meeting 
April 19 at the Country Club of Darien. 
with Thomas J. Watson, Jr., "37, President 
of IBM as featured speaker. While he will 
talk on the Bicentennial Program, the 
meeting is described as not a fund-raising 
one. 

Chairman S. J. McDonald '38 expects a 
large turnout for the gathering. Invitations 
are being extended to all friends of the 
University, including undergraduates, their 
parents, Pembroke alumnae and husbands. 
Brown men and wives. A reception will 
precede the dinner. He bases his optimism 
for a record attendance on the "excellent 
speaker, a good program, a fine location, 
and excellent food." 

Watson was one of several prominent 
business men who appeared in February 
before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee of 
the Government Operations Committee. 
At that time he said: "Our national goal 
should be clear superiority over the Soviet 
Union in all possible areas. We should 
believe enough in our democracy so that 
we will not be reluctant to enter the con- 
test fully." He found the present level of 
U.S. effort inadequate to meet the Soviet 
threat to its security. 

Brown's Hockey BuflFs 

The Brown Hockey Club has had an 
active year. In addition to the annual re- 
union held prior to one of the home 
games, monthly luncheons at the Faculty 
Club were initiated. These affairs have 
brought back to the Hill many former 
Bruin hockey players and have given 
strength to the Sub-Freshman program in 
the local area. 

The annual reunion took place Dec. 8 
at the Brown Faculty Club with Wes 
Moulton '31 acting as Master of Cere- 
monies. Pete McCarthy, Director of 
Sports Information, was introduced to the 
group. He presented Brown Athletic De- 
partment pencils to Larry Shepard "49 for 
being the first alumnus to arrive at the 
meeting and to Ben Chase '38 (Man- 
chester, Conn.) for coming the longest 
distance. Maurice J. Mountain "48 of the 



THEY MEET every 
month in Phoenix: In 
Jonuory the Brown 
Club group included, 
left to right. Herb 
Beedy '50, Bill Mc- 
tellan '49, Walter 
Gray, Jr., '36, Dove 
Yeaton '51, ond Allon 
Johnson '27. Bob Ross 
'50 ond Ed Ventrone 
'19 were also present. 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 





Brown Development Office spoke on the 
future of hockey at Brown. 

Those who attended the annual dinner 
included: Wes Moulton '31, Charlie 
Brown '27, Ned Dewey '50, Larry Shepard 
'49, Pete Davis '39, Stan Henshaw '35. 
Don Sennott '52, Dan Keefe '55, Dan 
Earle '34, Al Buckley '49, Bob Read '56. 
Dick Tracy '46. AI Gardiner '28, Maurice 
Mountain '48, Howie Eastwood '29, Frank 
Sternberg '50, Ben Chase '38. Bill Lewis 
'57, Ray Chace '34. Ed Ahern '31. Dan 
Eccleston '38, Art Schweikart '31, Jack 
Skillings '37, Martin Mullin '55, Wally 
Snel! '13, George Clay&on '56, Ed 
Bromage '27, Elliott Andrews '47, Bob 
Janes '47, Charlie Bryant '48, Ray Nelson 
'31, George Kirkpatrick '51, Hugo Mai- 
nelli '57, Bob Wahlberg '52, Bob Borah, 
Prof. Fred Sherman. Roy Baker, David 
Jonah, Bill Griswold, Pete McCarthy. 
Prof. Richard Parker, W. G. Chafee, Bill 
Bryant. Dean Fd Durgin, L. E. Borah, 
and Coach Jim Fullerton. 

BOB BORAH 

The Engineers' Spring Plans 

The spring meeting of the Brown En- 
gineering Association will be held on the 
University Campus in Sharpe Refectory 
Friday evening. May 6, according to Vice- 
President Edgar R. Loud '27, Dinner 
Chairman. The feature will be a panel 
discussion on "Engineering Education," 
for which participants are being recruited 
from Faculty, student body, and members 
of the outside New England engineering 
community. 

The 48th annual dinner of the BEA, 
held at the New York Brown Club on 
Feb. 3, was one of the most successful. 
Ralph C. Knight '21 of Niagara Law Co. 
was elected President, with Todd Ferretti 
'47 of J. J. Ferretti & Son as Vice-Presi- 
dent. Executive Directors are: Norman P. 
Prudden '38, Manufacturers Mutual Fire 
Insurance Co.: William B. Avery '26, Tex- 
aco; and (for Providence) Edgar Loud of 
B.LF. Industries. George Pournaras '25 of 
Texaco continues as Secretary-Treasurer. 



NOTED at the annual dinner of the Brown En- 
gineering Association in New York; Upper left 
—Dr. Keeney receives from BEA President Earl 
Harrington '41 a check for scholarship pur- 
poses. Upper right— Secretary-Treasurer George 
Pournaras '25 reports, with President-Elect Ralph 
Knight '21 among the attentive. Below— William 
E. Farnham '99. 

Some of the highlights of the meeting 
were: George A. Seaver's interesting talk 
as a representative Senior studying in the 
Division of Engineering at Brown. A 
salute to William E. Farnham '99, "elder 
statesman" of the BEA, and his response. 
Prof. Paul Maeder's comments on the en- 
gineering program at Brown and the 
availability of quality engineering students. 
President Keeney's address (reprinted in 
our last issue) and a fine master-of-cere- 
monies job by the retiring BEA President, 
Earl W. Harrington, Jr., '41. Dr. Keeney 
subsequently wrote his appreciation of 
gifts representing additions to the Brown 
Engineering Association Scholarship Fund, 
the James A. Hall Scholarship Fund, and 
a further contribution to the work of the 
Division. 

With the Association shooting for 1000 
members (almost double its present com- 
plement), applications from Brown engi- 
neers are being solicited. Members of the 
Senior Class are eligible during the year 
of graduation, without a request for dues. 
For alumni, dues are $1 a year up to and 
including the fifth year after graduation; 
thereafter the annual dues are $2. The 
applicant should provide name, class, and 
address (with check for appropriate dues). 
AH interested should communicate with 
G. A. Pournaras at 865 Sprague St.. Bald- 
win. L. I.. N. Y. 

Trenton Honors Parker 
The annual winter meeting of the 
Trenton Brown Club was held at the 
Washington Crossing (Pa.) Inn Feb. 18. 
and a large number of alumni and their 
ladies was on hand to enjoy the program 
arranged by Chairman Al Chapman '58. 
One of the features of the program was 




an illustrated talk by Chapman on Travel 
and Study in Greece. An Instructor in 
Classics at Lawrenceville School, the 
former Bear swimming star showed slides 
of his summer travels in Greece and 
spiced his commentary with some interest- 
ing anecdotes. 

Willard C. "Ace" Parker '42 was 
honored by the Club. One of the found- 
ing fathers of the Trenton organization, 
he has remained one of its most active 
members and one of Brown's hardest 
working alumni. As a token of its ap- 
preciation for his efforts during the past 
decade, the Club presented Ace with a 
Brown Chair. 

Ira Keats '52 was re-elected President 
of the Club at the short business meeting. 
Other officers elected included: Vice-Presi- 
dent — Ed Herrick '29; Secretary — Robert 
C. McKenny '21. The Board of Governors 
includes: Earle Hendrickson '29, Les 
Fagan '26, Alex Muir '10, Richard Formi- 
doni '26, Jack Ferns '48, and Dr. Ben 
Roman '25. 



APRIL 1960 



41 




CLASS SECRETARIES and their representatives wlio attended the annual 
meeting of their Association in Faunce House in February: 1st row, left to 
right— Edwin C. Harris, II, '29, Martin L. Tarpy '37, John W. Moore '16, 
Henry C. Hart, Jr., '35, Clinton N. Williams '31, Franklin A. Hurd '33. 
2nd row— John E. Pemberton '25, Dr. Harold G. Colder '02, Sidney R. 
Bellows '06, Prof. Harold W. Pfoulz '40, George F. Bliven '15, J. Wilbur 
Riker '22, Richard J. Tracy '46. 3rd row— Francis H. Monahan '61, Irving G. 



Loxley '27, Nathaniel B. Chase '23, Robert W. Kenyon '36, Edword S. 
Spicer '10, Alfred H. Gurney '07, Robert Cummings '50, Daniel Fairchild 
'45. 4th row— James E. Lathrop, Jr., '38, William A. Victor '62, Charles A. 
Andrews '51, Earl W. Harrington, Jr., '41, Rollond H. Jones '49, William 
M. McSweeney '19, Richard A. Hurley, Jr., '32, Francis C. Mangione '55, 
and Earl M. Peorce '17. The Association shared other octivities of the 
Advisory Council Week End. 



Sarasota's Flair for Ivy 
Paul L. Stannard '29 and C. Louis 
Bagnall '14 have been named to represent 
Brown on the 16-man Board of Gover- 
nors of the Ivy League Club of Florida, 
four-year-old organization for Ivy League 
alumni in the Sarasota-Bradenton-Venice 
area. At the same time, The Rev. Charles 
Ricker "13 and Paul Snyder '31 were 
named as Greeters for the 1960 season. 

Stannard was President of the Club 
during its first three years of operation. 
During that time, the membership rose 
from 17 to 253, as of last February. He 
was also largely responsible for initiating 
bi-monthly luncheons and for the publica- 
tion of the bulletin, /i_v Notes. One of 
the highlights of his regime was the ap- 
pearance of President Keeney at the an- 
nual gathering in 1959. 

The First Ivy League Intercollegiate 
Ball was scheduled for Friday evening, 
Apr. 1, at the Holiday Yacht Club, half- 
way between Sarasota and Bradenton. In 
addition to being the top social event of 
the season, its purpose was to raise suf- 
ficient money to establish an Ivy League 
scholarship. Stannard was a member of 
the Ball Committee. 



The Class Secretaries 

Martin L. Tarpy '37 was elected Chair- 
man of the Class Secretaries Association 
at the annual meeting during the Advisory 
Council Week End on the Hill in Febru- 
ary. Other officers elected include: Vice- 
Chairman — Robert Cummings '50; Secre- 
tary — Richard Tracy '46; Treasurer — 
Clinton N. Williams '31. 

Chairman Tarpy's first act was to call 
attention to the fine job turned in by Earl 
W. Harrington, Jr., '41, during his two- 
year term as Chairman. He noted that 
the Association had reached a new high 
in activity during this period. With Chair- 
man Harrington's support, the Alumni 
Field Day became established as one of 
the highlights of the Commencement 
Week End. 

Two new Harrington proposals were 
adopted at the February meeting. First, 
a Class Secretaries Undergraduate Orien- 
tation Committee was formed; its func- 
tion will be to help the Seniors smooth 
out the transition from undergraduate to 
alumni status. The Senior Class was rep- 
resented at the meeting and announced 
that a Class Alumni Committee had been 
formed to work with the new alumni 



group. Rolland Jones '49 is Chairman of 
the Secretaries' committee, and he will be 
assisted by Bancroft Littlefield "34, James 
E. Lathrop, Jr., "38, and Charles Andrews 
'51. 

Also formed was a Class Secretaries 
Reunion Committee with Dan Fairchild 
'45 as Chairman. This group will hold 
an annual meeting each September with 
the secretaries of the five-year classes to 
assist them in getting their reunion plans 
on the road. It is possible that monthly 
meetings would be held with this group 
through the early spring, or until all re- 
union plans have been solidified. Assist- 
ing Fairchild as members of this com- 
mittee are Al Gurney '07, Fred Perkins 
'19, Bob Kenyon "36, and Bob Radway '43. 

Dick Tracy '46 was named Chairman of 
the 1960 Alumni Field Day, which will be 
held on Saturday afternoon at Aldrich- 
Dexter Field from 1 to 5 p.m. He will be 
assisted by three of the originators of the 
project. Bob Cummings "50, Rolland Jones 
'49, and Jay Barry "50, and a new mem- 
ber, Charlie Andrews '51. 

In other business, the Association voted 
to continue annual Class Dues in the 
amount of $25. 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



A PROMISING 
NEW SEASON 



Lefty Is No Pessimist 

AFTER Coach Lefty Lefebvre guided his 
. "best baseball team" to an 11-3 rec- 
ord last spring, only a brash man would 
dare to predict better things for 1960. 
However, with a touch of confidence that 
was appealing. Brown's veteran mentor 
predicted that this year's Bears not only 
would improve on their overall record 
but also might do better than their 6-3 
second place Ivy finish. 

Although seven players, including three 
starters, were lost by graduation. Coach 
Lefebvre thinks that he can replace them 
without losing any team strength. Dick 
Judkins' spot behind the plate will be 
taken by either Bob Auchy or Jack Man- 
cuso, a pair of Sophomores, or Bill 
Creese, a Junior. Auchy, first string Cub 
receiver, has an exceptionally strong 
throwing arm. Creese is a good receiver 
and is a left-handed hitter, a priceless 
commodity this season. Mancuso didn't 
catch last year because of a back injury. 

Frank Finney's position at second will 
probably be taken over by slick-fielding 
Spanky Van Dyke, a Junior, who served 
as number one utility infielder last year. 
He should give Brown more defensive 
strength on the right side of the diamond, 
and he is expected to hit as well as Fin- 
ney. Jim Steiner, a long-ball hitter, will 
be replaced in the outfield by Howie 
Bromage, another Junior. The latter is a 
fast fly-hawk with a good arm, and, al- 
though he won't have Steiner's power at 
the plate, he has shown enough potential 
to indicate that he will stick for a decent 
average. 

Three veterans will be back to work 
with Van Dyke in the infield. Senior Nick 
Pannes (.294) will be at first, Chris 
Mitchell (.500), a Junior, will again 
guard the hot corner, and Fran Pittaro 
(.413) will return for his final season at 
short. Pittaro has all the moves of a good 
shortstop and is a good hitter, for both 
average and distance. Coach Lefebvre 
rates him a pro prospect. Mitchell, a 
flawless fielder at third, followed up his 
fine .season at the plate for the Bruins by 
leading the highly competitive Cape Cod 
League in hitting during the summer. 

This unit of Pannes, Van Dyke, Mitch- 
ell, and Pittaro should give Brown a very 
tight defense and better than average 
hitting. Bench strength will be provided 
by two Sophomores, John Espinosa at first 
and Jim Leonard at second, and Senior 
Bob Pearson at short or third. Espinosa is 
highly regarded by Coach Lefebvre and 
could take over at first if Pannes were 
needed in the outfield. 

Actually, the outer garden appears to 
be in good shape. Bromage will probably 
go to right field, with Senior Bob Carlin 



(.276), perhaps the fastest man on the 
team, moving from right to center. Dave 
Reed (.327) will be back for his final 
season in left. Hank Smith, a part-time 
hurler, will be the number one outfield 
reserve, with Pannes available if any of 
the front line men are injured. 

In Dave Manson, the Bruins will have 
perhaps the best college hurler in New 
England and one of the best in the East. 
The Senior right hander from Warwick, 
R. I., had a 7-1 record last year and a 
flossy 1.12 earned run average. A smart 
control pitcher, he walked only 10 men in 
72 innings, while striking out 50 and 
giving up 48 hits. Since he is a hurler 
who keeps most of his pitches down 
around the knees, often forcing the bat- 
ters to bounce the ball to the infield, he 
should profit from Brown's tight inner 
defense. Coach Lefebvre rates him the 
best pitcher he's had at Brown and one of 
the top three or four college hurlers he's 
ever seen. He believes that Manson stands 
a good chance of making the grade in pro 
ball if he decides to give it a try in June. 

Behind Manson, however, Lefebvre is 
going to have to gamble. Al Jasins, out of 
action with a bad arm last season, is no 
longer in school. The best bet to move 
in as the number two hurler would ap- 
pear to be Dick Laine, hard-throwing 6:3 
Sophomore southpaw. A converted first 
baseman, he hurled some good ball for 
the Cubs, including a big win over Har- 
vard. He's big and strong, and his fast 
ball is made the more effective because 
Laine has a reputation of being wild-high. 
The batters wont be digging in on him. 
Other mound prospects include four 




LEFEBVRE: He could be right. 



Juniors of very limited experience, Pete 
Gurney, Hank Smith, Dave Wallace, and 
Harry Usher, and Sophomores Lynn Di 
Paola and Bob Traub. As Coach Lefebvre 
noted, "Our pitching philosophy may be 
Manson and Laine and pray for rain." 
To sum up the situation, the Bears 
should be a good hitting club with a tight 
defense, good speed, and the best front 
line pitching in the league. On the debit 
side is the lack of an experienced number 
two hurler and the fact that Brown will 
have only one left handed hitter in the 
regular lineup. Bob Carlin. All in all, 
however. Coach Lefebvre could be right 
in predicting that Brown's 81st baseball 
season will be a good one. 

Spring Schedules 

VARSITY baseball: April 13 — Provi- 
dence College. April 19 — at Rhode 
Island. April 22 — at Penn.* April 23 — 
at Cornell.* April 26 — at Providence Col- 
lege. April 29 — Princeton.* April 30 — 
Columbia.* May 3 — Holy Cross. May 4 
— at Harvard.* May 7 — Navy. May 10 — 
at Amherst. May 13 — Army.* May 14 — 
at Dartmouth.* May 17 — at Yale.* May 
20 — Rhode Island. (* League games.) 

FRESHMAN BASEBALL: April 16— 
R.I.C.E. April 20— at Andover. April 23 
— Dean Jr. College. April 26 — Provi- 
dence College. April 29 — at Rhode Island. 
May 4 — Rhode Island. May 7 — at Har- 
vard. May 1 1 — at Providence College. 
May 14 — Holy Cross. May 17 — Quonset. 

VARSITY TRACK: April 16— Wil- 
liams, M.I.T., and Dartmouth at M.I.T. 
April 23 — Penn and Columbia at Co- 
lumbia. April 27 — at Wesleyan. May 3 — 
Rhode Island. May 7 — Holy Cross. May 
14 — Heptagonals at Harvard. May 21 — 
New Englands at M.I.T. May 27-28— 
IC4A's at Villanova. 

FRESHMAN TRACK: April 16— 
M.I.T. and Dartmouth at M.I.T. April 27 
— at Wesleyan. May 3 — Rhode Island. 
May 7 — Holy Cross. May 1 1 — at Andover. 

VARSITY TENNIS: April 4— at Mary- 
land. April 5 — at Johns Hopkins. April 6 
— at Georgetown. April 7 — at Haverford. 
April 8 — at Upsala. April 9 — at Prince- 
ton. April 14 — at Rhode Island. April 16 
—at Wesleyan. April 19 — M.I.T. April 
22 — Navy. April 23 — Amherst. April 25 
• — Williams. April 27 — at Harvard. May 4 
■ — at Yale. May 6 — Penn. May 7 — at Holy 
Cross. May 9 — at Providence College. 
May II — Columbia. May 13-14 — New 
Englands at Yale. May 20— Dartmouth. 

FRESHMAN TENNIS: April 16— at 
Wesleyan. April 19— M.I.T. April 20 — 
at La Salle. April 27 — at Harvard. May 2 
— at Rhode Island. May 4 — at Yale. May 
17 — Portsmouth Priory. May 20 — Dart- 
mouth. 

VARSITY GOLF: April 20— Wesleyan 
and M.I.T. at M.I.T. April 22— Harvard 
and Princeton. April 27 — at Yale. May 4 
— Amherst and Holy Cross at Amherst. 
May 7-8-9— EIG A at Pittsburgh. May 10 
— Rhode Island and Providence College. 
May 12 — Dartmouth. May 16 — at Boston 
College. 



APRIL I960 



43 



WRAP UP FOR 
A GOOD WINTER 



Climbing in Basketball 

Brown's most exciting basketball team 
in at least a decade missed the brass 
ring in the wild scramble for the Ivy 
League title but achieved a new high in 
the standings with the third place finish 
and 8-6 record. On the entire season, 
the Bruins were 13-12, the first winning 
campaign since 1953-54. 

This was the first Brown team to defeat 
everj- club in the League at least once, 
the first to score more points than its 
opponents, and the first to be a title con- 
tender. Also, the first-division finish 
marked the second straight year that the 
Wardmen have earned a spot in the upper 
half of the circuit. 

At times, the play of the team bordered 
on brilliance, and the record would have 
been even better if this pace could have 
been maintained. However, one thing that 
prevented a consistent pattern of play was 
that through the season Coach Ward was 
forced to employ six different men as 
Sophomore Mike Cingiser's running mate 
in the backcourt. Until late in the cam- 
paign. Ward was unable to field the same 
backcourt combo more than two games in 
a row. The guards are your quarterbacks 
of the basketball court, and a team's suc- 
cess often depends on their ability to 
"read" one another and fall into the 
rhythm of setting up plays. 

Roger Hurley, high scoring Junior, 
started the season opposite Cingiser. He 
missed several games because of an injury 
before finally bowing to the books at mid- 
semester. Senior Jack Bellavance, the 
third guard, was sidelined with an injury 
just at the point Hurley left the club. 
Chris Mitchell and Gary Bowen, a prom- 
ising Sophomore who had started several 
games, left the team by their own choice 
during the season. Senior Al Diussa and 
Dave Brockway, another good Sopho- 
more, rounded out the backcourt crew. 

However, the results this season clearly 
showed that basketball has come a long 
way under Coach Ward. When he arrived 
six years ago as Brown's first full-time 
basketball coach, the sport was at a low 
ebb. Good players were at a premium, and 
interest generally was lacking among the 
students and alumni. The Brown teams 
were looked upon as "spoilers" in the 
League but never contenders. Under 
Ward, the Brown teams gradually im- 
proved, but so did those of the opposition 
and the progress was slow. This season 
the word "underdog" was dropped from 
the vocabulary of the Brown players, and 
they remained in the thick of the frantic 
flag race until the final week of the season. 

Perhaps the clearest indications of 
Brown's new status in Ivy basketball were 



Ivy Standings 

BASKETBALL 

W L P.P. P.A. 

Princeton 11 3 1010 912 

Dartmouth 10 4 1065 964 

BROWN 8 6 1005 999 

Cornell 8 6 1007 975 

Pennsylvania 8 6 884 833 

Harvard 6 8 923 1032 

Yale 3 11 990 1074 

Columbia 2 12 951 1046 



HOCKEY 



Dartmouth 

Harvard 

BROWN 

Yale 

Princeton 

Cornell 



W 
9 

7 
5 
5 
4 




L 

1 
3 
5 
5 
6 
10 



T 









WRESTLING 



Cornell 

Yale 

Princeton 

Columbia 

Harvard 

BROWN 

Penn 



W 

6 

5 
3 

2 

2 

1 
1 



L 


1 

3 
3 

4 
4 
5 



T 





1 



1 





Pts. 
18 
14 
10 
10 
8 




Pts. 

12 

10 

6 

5 
4 
3 

1 



the home games with Princeton and 
Cornell. The Bears soundly defeated 
Princeton, the eventual League champ, 
79-61, and had led by 28 points late in 
the game. The highly-regarded Big Red 
was bombed, 79-69. The pleasing thing 
to Ward and his men was that in the press 
neither win was called an upset. 

For exciting and colorful basketball, 
this team was hard to beat. The results 
elsewhere in the sports section will show 
that four games were decided by one 
point, two for Brown and two for the 
opposition. One game went into overtime, 
while double overtime was required to 
settle two encounters. Brown fans walked 
away from the home game with Penn say- 
ing that it was one of the great ones. Co- 
Captain Cliff Ehrlich's two goals from the 
floor within five seconds — the last one 
with but seven seconds to play — had lifted 
the Bears from the brink of defeat to an 
amazing 63-62 triumph. The next week, 
however, many of those same fans sat in 
on Brown's 94-89 double overtime victory 
over Yale, a game in which the lead 
changed hands 18 times, and agreed that 
they had never seen anything Like it. 



Brown's next three games, all on the 
road, were as close as you could wan; 
them. Penn went into overtime before 
winning, 58-57 in the last second of pla\. 
Then at Hanover the Bears handed the 
Indians their first Ivy loss in a double 
overtime 84-82 thriller on a 20-foot jump 
shot by Co-Captain Dave Reed with three 
seconds remaining. The next night, how- 
ever, the Wardmen dropped an 82-81 de- 
cision to Harvard. Actually, these two 
one-point losses to Penn and Harvard 
killed Brown's chances of taking the Ivy 
crown, although they stayed in the race 
two more weeks. 

Reed and Ehrlich closed out three fine 
seasons of basketball for Brown. By scor- 
ing 258 points. Reed moved into the 
eighth spot among the all-time Brown 
high scorers with a career total of 767 
points. Ehrlich wasn't far behind. His 263 
points placed him in the ninth spot with 
762 points for three years. Ahead of them 
in the scoring parade are Joe Tebo 
(1319), Lou Murgo (1 147), Gerry Alaimo 
(1046), Woody Grimshaw (1010), Ed 
Tooley (886), Harry Piatt (866), and 
Frank Mahoney (829). 

Bellavance, Diussa, and Pete Kallas 
also closed out their careers for Brown. 
Coming off the bench, Bellavance was 
largely responsible for the big win over 
Yale, and his 12 points in the final game 
with Rhode Island helped Brown win that 
one and end up with a winning season. 
Diussa, with his soft outside shot, was 
always effective against zone defenses. 
Hampered by injuries, Kallas didn't see 
too much action in his Senior season. 

Despite the fine play of the Seniors, two 
Sophomores stole the limelight for the 
Bruins. Mike Cingiser (6:4, 215) from 
West Hempstead, N. Y., led the team in 
scoring with 419 points on 149 field goals 
and 121 foul shots. Greg Heath (6:5, 
210) from Atlantic Highlands, N. J., was 
the second leading scorer with 303 points 
on 119 field goals and 65 foul shots. An 
excellent driver and runner. Ward says 
that Cingiser could be "one of the true 
greats in Brown basketball history." 
Heath was the club's leading rebounder, 
and Ward feels that he hasn't yet reached 
his true potential either as a scorer or re- 
bounder. 

The Cub team, although not nearly as 
strong as the group of a year ago, man- 
aged to chalk up a 10-7 record, including 
wins over Boston College, Harvard, and 
Dartmouth. Gene Barth, 6:6 forward, was 
the leading scorer with 267 points. Coach 
Jack Heffernan rates him the best de- 
fensive player he's had in his 12 years at 
Brown. He is expected to battle veterans 
Ted Gottfried and Forrest Broman for a 
starting berth next season. A pair of 
guards. Bill Oellrich and Warren Fergu- 
son, also were impressive. 

Hockey Against the Odds 

The hockey team posted a 5-5 Ivy 
League record and finished in a third- 
place tie with Yale in the final standings. 
This was a notch above their finish of last 
season and was all the more remarkable 
considering the numerous personnel prob- 



44 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



lems that plagued the squad during the 
campaign. For the entire season, the team 
also came out all even — 13-13. 

The Bruins actually had a 5-3 Ivy mark 
going into the final two League games 
with Dartmouth. The Indians had it easy 
in Providence, winning 7-1. The follow- 
ing week in Hanover, however, the Bears 
gave the Big Green a tough struggle be- 
fore bowing, 2-1. The Indians needed that 
win to wrap up another hockey title, 
but the issue was in doubt right up until 
the final buzzer. The short-handed Brown 
team was further handicapped early in 
the game when Senior defenseman Ralph 
Lowry suffered a shoulder separation and 
Junior wing Bill Creese had his wrist 
broken. Al Soares and Brian Molloy 
played the entire last period together at 
defense and Dave Kelley was forced to 
play 40 of the 60 minutes at forward. 

As usual. Coach Fullerton got the most 
— and perhaps a little more — out of his 
personnel. Not having a strong offensive 
team, Fullerton has his men play close- 
to-the-vest or position hockey, taking 
advantage of his strong defensive unit 
and his excellent goalie. This style of play 
brought some big wins, including the 3-2 
victories over Harvard and Boston Uni- 
versity and the sweep of the Bowdoin 
tourney. 



Asked his views on what had brought 
the unexpected success to his under- 
manned forces this season, Fullerton 
called it a kind of contagion. "It was a 
contagion that came from a nucleus of 
five or six players who wanted very much 
to win hockey games." He named them 
as his Co-Captains, Al Soares and Brian 
Molloy, his Senior front line of Dave 
Kelley, Dave Laub, and Bob Battel, and 
his netminder. Rod McGarry. 

Of these men, only McGarry will re- 
turn next season. The others, in addition 
to third defensiveman Ralph Lowry and 
second line forward Fred Adams, will be 
graduated. Of Brown's 76 goals this sea- 
son, 58 were scored by the Seniors, a fact 
that doesn't brighten the 1960-61 picture 
for Coach Fullerton. Kelley has to be 
ranked with Brown's all-time scoring 
greats, while Soares is rated by Fullerton 
as one of the best college defensemen he's 
ever seen. As a unit, Soares and Molloy 
would rank high on the Brown list. 

Kelley led the team in scoring with 37 
points on 24 goals and 13 assists. He 
raised his Varsity career total to 95. Laub 
and Battel followed with 29 and 15 points 
respectively. 

Next year's team will have to be built 
around McGarry, one of the top goalies 
in the East, and the help the 4-6-1 Cub 



sextet will provide. As Fullerton noted, 
"It will take more than a new hockey rink 
to brighten the picture for 1960-61." 

Swimmer.s Finished Strong 
Coach Joe Watmough's mermen cap- 
tured five of the last six meets and ended 
the season with a 7-4 record. The victories 
in the closing drive came against Spring- 
field (44-42), Coast Guard (50-36), Holy 
Cross (51-34), Amherst (53-33), and 
M.I.T. (60-36). The lone loss was in- 
flicted by Harvard (63-31). 

Brown captured titles in four events but 
wound up second to Springfield (59-55) 
in a hot battle for team honors in the 
41st annual New England Intercollegiate 
Swimming Championships at the Uni- 
versity of Massachusetts. Last season. 
Brown finished second to Williams. Soph- 
omore John Morris led the Brown title- 
snarers by scoring a double, winning the 
220-yard freestyle in 2:13.6 and taking 
the 440 freestyle in 4:48.3. Capt. Ed 
Nicholson retained his crown in the 100- 
yard freestyle with a clocking of 52.1, 
and the 400 freestyle relay team of 
Nicholson and Sophomores Flip Huffard, 
Tom McMullen, and Ralph Giasi placed 
first with a 3:36.1 clocking. 

Two men stood out during the cam- 



SCOREBOARD FOR THE WINTER 



BASKETBALL: 

Varsity (13-12) 
Boston Coll. 75, Brown 69 
Brown 93, Tufts 70 
Brown 89. Rhode Island 83 
Providence 84, Brown 53 
Brown 91, Springfield 70 
Yale 81, Brown 63 
Georgetown 82, Brown 65 
Boston U. 77. Brown 58 
Canisius 76. Brown 66 
Brown 63, Penn 62 
Brown 79, Princeton 61 
Brown 94, Yale 89 
Princeton 71, Brown 57 
Brown 62, Northeastern 57 
Providence 65, Brown 54 
Penn 58, Brown 57 
Brown 84, Dartmouth 82 
Harvard 82, Brown 81 
Brown 59, Columbia 52 
Brown 79, Cornell 69 
Cornell 73, Brown 62 
Brown 63, Columbia 62 
Brown 90. Harvard 70 
Dartmouth 87. Brown 74 
Brown 80, Rhode Island 71 

Frc'shiiiaii (10-7) 
Brown 63. Boston Coll. 62 
Tufts 75. Brown 56 
Brown 66, Rhode Island 63 
Providence 61, Brown 59 
Brown 62. Newport Navy 57 
Yale 63, Brown 57 
Brown 68, Davisville 42 



Brown 70, Quonset 41 
Brown 72, Northeastern 63 
Providence 79, Brown 52 
Andover 69, Brown 67 
Harvard 75, Brown 65 
Brown 77, Tabor 40 
Brown 55, Worcester 50 
Brown 71, Harvard 62 
Brown 67, Dartmouth 58 
Rhode Island 82, Brown 72 

HOCKEY: 

Varsity (13-13) 
Providence 8, Brown 2 
Brown 3, Tufts 2 
Boston Coll. 5, Brown 1 
Brown 2, Northeastern 1 
Colby 5, Brown 1 
Brown 5, Amherst 3 
Brown 9, Colgate 3 
Brown 4, Bowdoin 2 
Brown 5, Hamilton 3 
Brown 3, Boston U. 2 
Toronto 3, Brown 2 
Providence 2, Brown 1 
Brown 3, Harvard 2 
Princeton 5, Brown 
Army 5, Brown 1 
Harvard 3, Brown 1 
Brown 6, Princeton 2 
Yale 6, Brown 5 
Boston Coll. 12. Brown 1 
Brown 7, Cornell 
Brown 3, Yale 1 
Brown 3, Cornell 2 
Brown 3, Northeastern 2 



Dartmouth 7, Brown 1 
Dartmouth 2, Brown 1 
Providence 6, Brown 3 

Freshman (4-6-1) 
Brown 5, Providence 3 
Boston Coll. 10, Brown 2 
Brown 4. Northeastern 4 
Brown 5, Walpole H. 3 
Brown 3, Harvard 2 
Harvard 8, Brown 
Princeton 3, Brown 
Hope H. 4, Brown 3 
Boston Coll. 4, Brown 1 
Yale 9, Brown 6 
Brown 4, Providence 1 

TRACK: 

Varsity (3-2) 
Yale 73, Penn 44, Brown 20 
Brown 59, Columbia 50 
Brown 71, Boston Coll. 29 
Brown 66'/2, Tufts 46'/2 

Freshman (2-2) 
Brown 69, Columbia 26 
Boston Coll. 54. Brown 42 
Andover 71. Brown 37 
Brown 64, Tufts 36 

SWIMMING: 
Varsity (7-4) 

Brown 50, Columbia 45 
Navy 53, Brown 41 
Princeton 60, Brown 35 
Brown 50, Penn 45 
Yale 65, Brown 28 



Brown 44, Springfield 42 
Brown 50, Coast Guard 36 
Brown 51, Holy Cross 34 
Brown 53, Amherst 33 
Harvard 63, Brown 31 
Brown 60, M.I.T. 26 

Freshman (1-7) 
Cranston H. 50, Brown 35 
Yale 68, Brown 9 
Brown 45, Springfield 32 
Williston 47, Brown 39 
Andover 63, Brown 23 
St. George's 44, Brown 42 
Harvard 59, Brown 27 
M.I.T. 47, Brown 30 

WRESTLING: 

Varsity (2-6-1) 
Brown 40, Conn. 
Springfield 17. Brown II 
Brown 14, Columbia 14 
Coast Guard 19, Brown 9 
Yale 30, Brown 2 
Princeton 24, Brown 9 
Cornell 32. Brown 3 
Brown 20, Harvard 15 
Penn 15, Brown 12 

Freshman (4-3) 
Brown 19, La Salle 13 
Coast Guard 26, Brown 8 
Brown 20, Yale 18 
Andover 26, Brown 5 
Brown 28, East Prov. H. 8 
Brown 23, Cranston H. 3 
Harvard 25, Brown 6 



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45 



paign. Captain Nicholson, a Senior from 
Grossc Pointe. Mich., and Morris, the 
Sophomore from Kingston, Pa. 

Nicholson arrived at Brown as a foot- 
ball player. Weighing only l?-'^ pounds at 
the time, it didnt take him long to decide 
that he was too small for the college 
game. He then turned his Thoughts to 
swimming, and Coach W'atmough has 
never regretted the decision. "When 
Nicholson'first tried out for the Freshman 
team in the fall of 19?6, he was just an- 
other swimmer, but I'd have to rate him 
now as one of the most competent I've 
coached in my 17 years on the Hill," the 
Bruin mermen mentor noted. 

He has been Brown's top sprinter since 
his Sophomore season. He won the 50- 
yard freestyle in the Eastern Champion- 
ships at Annapolis that year with a 22.8 
clocking, a school record. The same week 
he was named to the AU-American team. 
Last season he set a Brown record for the 
100 with a 51.8 showing, but he broke 
that mark this year with a 51.2 in a dual 
meet with Navy at Annapolis. 

Morris, a high school AU-American, 
made his presence felt on the Brown 
scene last year when he broke Freshman 
records for the 200. 220, and 440-yard 
freestyle events. This season he scored 
double victories in the 220 and 440 in 
dual meets against Columbia, Navy, 
Springfield, Coast Guard, Amherst, Har- 
vard, and M.I.T. Against Navy, he set a 
new Brown mark for the 440 with a 4:58, 
breaking Win Wilson's 1952 time of 
5:00.5. His top time in the 220 was a 
good 2: 13.6. 

In addition to Nicholson, three other 
Seniors will be graduated in June — Bill 
Zani (breaststroke). Chuck Sieburth 
(diving), and Ed Sampson (freestyle). 

The Cub team, hampered by a lack of 
depth, ended with a 1-7 mark. Capt. Mike 
Prior of Providence was strong in the 
200-yard freestyle and 100-yard butterfly, 
while Dick Paul showed enough to in- 
dicate that he has promise as a sprinter. 

Track Records Broken 
After placing third to Yale and Penn 
in a triangular meet, Coach Ivan Fuqua's 
track forces forged back to defeat Co- 
lumbia (59-50), Boston College (71-29), 
and Tufts (66'/2-46'/2 ) to end a winning 
season. 

Although Brown finished third in the 
triangular meet at New Haven, the spot- 
light was beamed on Bob Lowe, 21 -year- 
old Junior Brunonian from Englewood, 
N. J., who set a Cage and Brown record 
in the two-mile run with a 9:11.4 clock- 
ing. The old Brown mark was 9:32, set by 
Ed Sullivan in 1957. 

The Bruins gained the victory over 
Columbia mainly by sweeping the shot 
put, 35-pound weight, and two-mile run. 
These sweeps offset Columbia's 7-6 edge 
in first place honors. Dave Lange, Joe 
Dyer, Ed Lawler, and John Hoover were 
the weightmen who figured in the scoring. 
The one-two-three finishers in the two- 
mile event were Mark Foster, Ralph 
Steuer, and Capt. Bill MacArdle. Other 
winners for the Bruins were Vince M.ac- 



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Donald with a 4:37 mile and Phil Schuy- 
ler with a 2:26.7 clocking in the 1.000- 
yard run. Members of Brown's winning 
two-mile relay team were MacDonald, 
Gerry Huetz, Schuyler, and Bill Schwab. 

The Bruins broke four Marvel Gym 
records and one indoor mark in the 
victory over Boston College. Huetz won 
the 1.000 run in 2:14.8 to set the Varsity 
indoor mark. The Gym marks fell before 
MacArdle in the mile (4:16.8), Lowe in 
the two-mile (9:18.1), and the two-mile 
relay team of Huetz, MacDonald, Mac- 
Ardle, and Schwab (7:58). The two-mile 
unit also had a good night in the Boston 
A. A. Games, romping to a 50-yard victory 
over Harvard and Cornell with a 7:52.7 
clocking. Huetz, Schwab, MacArdle, and 
Schuyler made up the winning quartet. 

The Cub runners ended with a 2-2 
record, defeating Columbia and Tufts and 
losing to Boston College and Andover. 
Tom Gunzelman. John Jones, and Ray 
Arruda each scored two victories in the 
dual meet with the Lions. Gunzelman won 
the 600 (1:17.1) and 1,000 (2:26.5), in 
both races bettering the times of the 
Varsity runners. Jones placed first in the 
mile (4:32.2) and two-mile runs, break- 
ing the Freshman indoor mark in the 
former event. Arruda placed first in the 
high jump and broad jump. Another Cub 
record was broken against Boston College 
when a two-mile relay unit of Gunzelman, 
Jones, Bob McGee, and Bill Libby was 
clocked in 8:17.8. Against Andover, Jones 
lowered the one-mile standard once again 
with a time of 4:30.6. 

Downhill in Wrestling 

The wrestling team could win but 
one of its final six meets and ended with 
an over-all slate of 2-6-1. The 1-4-1 Ivy 
record left the Bruins in sixth place, one 
game ahead of cellar-dwelling Penn. It 
was the Bears' first losing year since 1956. 

Although the season was a disappoint- 
ment to Coach Ralph Anderton and his 
men, some solace was gained in the 20-15 
upset win over Harvard. With the Crim- 
son leading, 15-11, after six matches. 
Jack Huntsman, Capt. Art Giorgini, and 
Bill Wood won for the Bruins. Huntsman 
decisioned Dan Leary, 8-5, in the 177- 
pound class, and Giorgini outlasted Ted 
Robbins at 191-pounds, 6-4. At that point, 
the Bears led, 17-15, with just the un- 
limited class remaining. Wood preserved 
the victory with a 3-1 decision, scoring his 
points on a reversal and time advantage. 

Huntsman and Wood are Sophomores. 
They showed steady improvement during 
the campaign. In most meets. Coach 
Anderton was forced to go with five Soph- 
omores and one Junior on his nine-man 
team. Gene Bouley, the Junior, turned in 
a good season, and Captain Giorgini came 
into his own as a wrestler, winning in all 
but the "Yale meet. Bart Mosser, unde- 
feated as a Cub last year, won his first 
four matches this season until sidelined 
by the books at mid-season. 

The Cubs had a 4-3 record, the high 
point of which was a 20-18 win over Yale. 
Capt. Tom Paolino (123) and Steve 
Hammalian (191) were the top Varsity 
prospects. 



Palmer'.s Best Team? 

Losing only two men from his top 
eight and bolstered by several excellent 
Sophomores, Coach Art Palmer is look- 
ing forward to perhaps the best tennis 
team he's had on the Hill. Last season the 
Bruin netmen posted a 6-5 record, the 
eighth winning campaign in the past 
decade. 

Missing from that squad will be Capt. 
Rufus Bullock and Bob Cole. Returning 
will be four Seniors. Capt. Ted Simmons, 
Bill Sprinkel, Doug Crockwell. and 
Throwbridge Callaway; and two Juniors, 
Paul Putzel and George Torrey. Up from 
the Freshman ranks will come highly- 
rated Peyton Howard along with Nat 
Chace, John Flattau, and Mike Meyer. 

"The appearance of Howard could 
make the diff'erence between my 1960 
group being an average team or a real 
good one," Palmer says. As a Cub. 
Howard went undefeated, posting an 8-0 
record, including decisive decisions over 
the number one men at Dartmouth, Har- 
vard, Wesleyan, and Andover. What is 
more, he didn't even lose a set. "Right 
now he may possibly need more com- 
petitive experience and poise, but I ex- 
pect him to be one of the top Eastern 
intercollegiate tennis players by his Junior 
and Senior seasons." Palmer adds. 

Last fall in the Exton Tourney, Howard 
defeated Simmons, the Varsity's number 
one man, 6-2, 6-2. On the basis of that 
performance, his Freshman record, and 
his potential, he will move in ahead of 
Simmons as number one man in the 
singles. Crockwell and Putzel are ex- 
pected to battle it out for the number 
three position, with Sprinkel, Callaway, 
and Chace in competition for the remain- 
ing spots. Chace posted an impressive 6-2 
record as a Cub last spring and may make 
his presence felt before the campaign is 
closed. 

Howard and Simmons will team up on 
what could be one of Brown's strongest 
double teams in many years. Sprinkel will 
work with Putzel, while Chace and Crock- 
well will combine on other units. 

"This could be my best team," Palmer 
predicts. "In Howard and Simmons we 
have two 'class' players, and the rest of 
the squad is deeper in experience and 
ability than any I've had at Brown. We 
won't beat Harvard or Yale, but we 
should more than hold our own against 
the rest of our opponents." 

Dates for the Crew 
Seven regattas were listed on the 1960 
rowing schedule announced in March. The 
following is the schedule for the Varsity 
crew, with Freshman races also booked 
for most opponents: Apr. 5 — Washington- 
Lee High School (practice). Apr. 9— 
Fordham at Fordham. Apr. 16 — Dart- 
mouth at Hanover. Apr. 23 — Clark and 
Amherst at home. Apr. 30 — lona at home. 
May 7— North Shore Invitational Regatta, 
Oyster Bay, Long Island. N. Y. May 14 — 
Dad Vail Regatta at Philadelphia. 

Lacrosse also had a vacation tour lined 
up with six southern games before opening 
at home against Babson on the 16th. 

BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Sports Shorts ADVISORY COUNCIL At the Keeneys' 



SWITCHING FROM THANKSGIVING, BrOWn 
has scheduled its Colgate football 
game in I960 to the Saturday preceding 
the holiday, Nov. 19. Athletic Director 
Paul Mackesey says the change was made 
to permit greater numbers of Brown stu- 
dents to witness the game. At the present 
time, only the 1960 schedule is affected, 
since in 1961 and 1962 the ninth and final 
Saturday of the schedule falls after 
Thanksgiving when the students would be 
at home anyway. The holiday morning 
classic, one of Brown's most revered 
traditions, goes back to 1894. 

The baseball team will take a six-day 
Southern trip the week of April 4. Six 
exhibition games will be played, the first 
two against William and Mary at Norfolk 
on April 4 and 5. The Bruins will then 
oppose Hampton Institute at Hampton, 
Va., on April 6 before winding up the trip 
with three games at the Quantico Marine 
Base. 

Frank Finney '59 has signed with the 
Buffalo Bills of the new American Foot- 
ball League. The Dallas entry in the same 
loop also had shown an interest in the 
former Bruin signal caller. Last season he 
threw his passes for the Detroit Raiders of 
the Ontario Rugby Football League. 

Paul Choquette '60 has turned down an 
offer to play professional football in 
Montreal next fall. The decision was not 
an easy one for Brown's All-East fullback. 
The price was one of five figures, with a 
substantial bonus for signing. However, 
Paul prefers to get started in law school. 
Mike Cingiser, high-scoring Sophomore, 
gained honorable mention on the All 
New England basketball team as selected 
by the Associated Press. 

Bill Falk '49, the Hope High track 
coach, and former Bruin trainer Jack 
McKinnon, are marketing a device they 
developed to protect athletes from heel 
injuries. Trackmen and basketball players 
are the ones who seem to need this pro- 
tection the most. Bill Sharman of the 
World Champion Boston Celtics is one of 
the users. McKinnon spent some time in 
Roger Williams Hospital in February. 

Athletic Director Paul Mackesey '32 
has been elected President of the Heptag- 
onal Games Association. The track and 
field group is composed of the Ivy League 
colleges, with the addition of Army and 
Navy. 

Ray Barry, football and track star, is 
back at Brown after being out of college 
during the fall semester because of per- 
sonal reasons. The 6:2. 195-pounder 
should be of help to Coach McLaughry in 
his desire to get some speed into the Bear 
backfteld next fall. 

New England hockey named Jim Fuller- 
ton its "Coach of the Year" for the second 
time in three years. It was notable recogni- 
tion of a coach whose team has a .500 rec- 
ord. 

James Fullerton. son of Brown's hockey 
coach, has been the leading scorer all win- 
ter on the powerful Freshman hockey 
team at Cornell, where he went to study 
hotel management. 




THREE FROM CHICAGO were among the Council delegates enjoying the annual tea at the President's 
House: Robert W. Buckley '27, Joseph Bowdring '52, and William Kinnaird '31. 




NEW YORKERS BACK included, left to right: Herman Lips '36, John J. Roe, Jr., 
Edward Sulzberger '29, and Edward G. Rundquist '27. 



'27, David H. Scott '32, 




WILLIAM P. BURNHAM '07, Post President of the Associated Alumni, left, mokes o point with Ralph 
M. Palmer '10 and Wiley H. Marble '12, another former President. 



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47 



Brunonians Far and Near 



EDITED BY JAY BARRY '50 



1896 

PROFESSOR Emeritus William H. Ken- 
erson was honored in February when 
the Providence Engineering Society named 
him as "Engineer of the Year" and gave 
him a plaque on behalf of more than 400 
members attending its annual dinner. Pro- 
fessor Kenerson continues active as Chair- 
man of the Providence Building Board of 
Review, a post he has held for 34 years. 
He retired from the Brown Faculty in 
1941. having been Chairman of the Divi- 
sion of Engineering; he had taught since 
graduation — 15 years. During the war he 
was E.xecutive Secretary of the National 
Research Council in Washington and Na- 
tional Academy of Science. 

1905 
Dave Davidson's Reunion Committee is 
putting in a great deal of work to make 
the 55th the biggest and best ever. As a 
result, it appears that we will have some 
■05ers with us who have never been able 
to attend a reunion on the Hill before. We 
will be delighted to greet them! Twenty 
have already said they'd be on hand for 
the June 3 dinner at the Squantum Club. 
Judge AUyn Brown has been at the 
Clearwater Hotel. Clearwater, Fla. Ac- 
cording to Class Secretary Charlie Robin- 
son, "Brown is too young a man to be 
way up there. He should be down in the 
Keys where they grow the fish real big." 

Irving L. Price returns home to East 
Aurora, N. Y., this month after his winter 
sojourn at Southampton, Bermuda. 

1906 

According to a survey recently carried 
out by the Secretary of the Class, the rec- 
ord for progeny among the surviving 
members is 22 descendants, held by Arthur 
F. Driscoll, genial New York attorney. The 
runners-up are his old crony. Dr. George 
B. Corcoran of West Springfield, Mass., 
and Henry G. Carpenter of Wickford, 
R. I., with 21 each. These are children 
and grandchildren. Although several great- 
grandchildren are about to appear, and a 
few have already done so, accurate statis- 
tics are not yet available. A study of the 
reports received thus far indicates that the 
average member of the Class, who is 76 
years old. has IVi children and 6^ grand- 
children. 

The Rev. Walter Woodbury is anything 
but retired, despite what he says. To quote 
him: "I enjoy flying back and forth over 
the mountains of Pennsylvania, serving 
over 500 churches as Director of Evangel- 
ism for the Pennsylvania Baptist Con- 
vention. My speciality is training lay 
church members in effective religious visit- 
ing with neighbors and friends. I am 're- 
tired' and do this for the love and joy of 



it, although it keeps me away from home 
day and night more than half of the time. 
The deep satisfaction I get out of my 
work is so great I'd rather be on the job 
than out playing golf." 

Arthur L. Flagg has retired from his 
profession but is working at "a very en- 
joyable job — Curator of the Mineral Mu- 
seum in Phoenix." He has written two 
books on Arizona Minerals and no end of 
magazine articles. In short, he has made 
himself conspicious in the mineralogical 
world. Arthur writes of the reactivation of 
the Phoenix Brown Club and other inter- 
esting activities. 

Henry G. Carpenter and his wife spent 
six weeks last winter with their son, Henry 
G. Carpenter, Jr., '34, at his home in 
Hollywood, Fla. He reported on his re- 
turn that the weather was "the best ever" 
despite one cold snap. The Carpenters are 
looking forward to entertaining all '06 
men and their wives again at The Willows 
on Cold Spring Beach in Wickford during 
the Commencement Week End. 

1907 

The wood-finishing plant of John E. 
Hinckley & Sons Lumber Co., Hyannis, 
Mass., burned in mid-February. F. Howard 
Hinckley, Jr., Secretary-Treasurer of the 
firm, estimated damages at $120,000, an 
AP news story said. 

Dr. Charles D. McCann's postcard in 
February — a Maryland scene with a 
Brockton postmark — included regards to 
all the Class and the note that he was 
"stimulatable." 

President Henry G. Clark spent the 
past month at his favorite vacation spot, 
Naples, Fla., where the Brown colony is 
a neighborly one. 

Dr. Merrick L. Streeter is Minister of 
Visitation for the Phillips Memorial Bap- 
tist Church, Cranston, and assists the 
Pastor, the Rev. Frank H. Snell, in the 
work of visiting sick, shut-in, and pro- 
spective members of the church. 

Arthur W. Wathen, retired school 
teacher, is living at 16 Clinton St., New 
Bedford. 

Francis M. Anderson has left Wash- 
ington and is living at 2761 Kensington 
Place, East, Columbus 2, O. 

Claude R. Branch of the Boston law 
firm of Choate, Hall & Stewart has been 
re-elected as Chairman of the Board of 
Directors of Providence Washington In- 
surance Co. 

1908 
Charles S. Plummer, Jr., and his wife 
decided in February that they would ex- 
change some of the Needham, Mass., snow 
for some of the Florida sun. They vaca- 
tioned at Boca Raton. 

Charley reports that there are five mem- 



bers of the Class now calling Florida their 
permanent home. They are: Ernest L. 
Blish, 2031 Fourth St., Sarasota; John G. 
Canfield, 320 East Kings Way, Winter 
Park; Frank G. Shinn, R.D. #1, Box 60, 
St. Cloud; Dr. Harlan T. Stetson, 541 
Lido Drive, Ft. Lauderdale; and Herbert 
E. Sturdy, Jr.. 310 University Ave., Day- 
tona Beach. 

1909 

Henry Fowler, Town Clerk in Barring- 
ton, also serves as Clerk of the Board of 
Canvassers in that community. In that ca- 
pacity, he is engaged in checking up on 
the many moves of the voters in Rhode 
Island's fastest growing town. His 1958 
efforts resulted in an accuracy of 99.98 
percent — better than Ivory Soap! 

Dr. William P. Buffum was re-elected 
President of the Providence League for 
Hard of Hearing, a United Fund agency, 
at its annual meeting this winter. John H. 
Wells is serving as Secretary of the or- 
ganization. 

1910 

The 50th Reunion Committee is receiv- 
ing encouraging returns from its Com- 
mencement mailing. The hard-working 
committee consists of Bill Freeman, Jack 
Hartigan, Hoke Horton, Charlie Post, Ed 
Spicer, Alan Young for Boston, Ralph 
Palmer for New York, and Skip Conant 
for the Pacific Coast. 

Roland E. Hutchins informed the com- 
mittee that it should include several New 
England lobsters on the menu for him and 
his wife. For Hutch, we may even include 
some good old New England Johnnycakes. 

Albert E. Morse is still in a convales- 
cent home at 31 Parade St., Providence. 
Our oldest classmate would appreciate 
hearing from some of his friends. 

Elmer Horton and Peg left Providence 
by auto Feb. 7 for their annual vacation 
at Manasota Key, about eight miles south 
of Venice, Fla. By a coincidence, Ed and 
Beatrice Spicer also left the same day for 
a vagabond trip to Florida — including a 
new search for the Fountain of Youth! 

U.S. Judge John P. Hartigan of the First 
Circuit Court of Appeals flew to Puerto 
Rico during the winter, but not on a 
pleasure trip. The three-member tribunal 
sat in session there for a week. 

1911 

Herb Easton spent the winter in Fort 
Lauderdale. Fla., but he expects to be 
back at his Barrington home shortly. 

Mr. and Mrs. James C. Archie have 
been named custodians of the Gilbert Stu- 
art birthplace in North Kingstown. 

1912 

Wiley H. Marble, retired as a member 
of the U.S. Corps of Engineers, has come 
back to Providence and lives at 107 Pros- 
pect St. He journeyed to New Haven and 
saw the Brown hockey team win. 

Leon E. Smith is recipient of the 1960 
East Providence Brotherhood Award for 
"his many years of promoting brotherhood 
in civic life." Judge Joseph Weisherger '42 
of Rhode Island Superior Court gave the 
plaque to our classmate, and Judge Frank 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Licht '38 was principal spealcer, thus 
making the brotherhood dinner a real 
Brown affair. Leon, former President of 
the East Providence Town Council, has 
been an active and constructive worker 
for his town's betterment. 

Alan A. Slade had an article entitled 
"Preparing for Renegotiation" published 
in the February issue of Connecticut In- 
dustry. Now retired from Government 
work, Slade is particularly qualified by 
education and experience to outline to 
manufacturers subject to renegotiation the 
best preparatory procedures for such re- 
negotiation and to pin point some of the 
costly errors to avoid. He has served in- 
dustry for at least 18 years in such posi- 
tions as plant manager, treasurer, con- 
troller, general manager, and president, 
and for some 13 years as a designer and 
installer of accounting cost and production 
control systems for industry, including 
complete handling of termination claims. 
His government experience encompasses 
three years (1942-45) in charge of Pur- 
chase Inspection, Air Materiel Command, 
Eastern District, and six recent years in 
charge of the accounting phase of some 
200 renegotiation cases for the New York 
Regional Renegotiation Board. 

Kenneth Tanner expects to get out 
again this month. An operation at Christ- 
mas time kept him in the hospital for six 
weeks. He has made steady recovery al- 
though confined since then to his apart- 
ment at the Minden in Providence. 



1913 

Dr. and Mrs. Karl H. Koopman, hav- 
ing completed their leisurely circuit of the 
world, decided to spend the winter in 
Cruz Bay, St. John. U.S. Virgin Islands. 
They were looking forward to a spring trip 
north when their card came came in early 
February. 

1914 

Arthur D. Durgin sent his three sons 
through college, but the first of his six 
grandsons. Brad Cliff, 18 years old, has 
recently signed a contract with the Boston 
Red Sox. Actually, he is following in his 
grandfather's footsteps. Doc signed with 
the Pittsburgh Pirates the day after he was 
graduated from Brown, and he was a 
pretty good first baseman in the Smokey 
City. Cliff is well over six feet tall and 
bats left handed, also like his granfather. 

Murray Jones describes himself as a 
"Vice-President — partially retired." He is 
with the Kansas City Title Insurance Co. 

1915 

When Dr. Raymond C. McKay retired 
last summer as Director of Lowman Pa- 
vilion at Cleveland's Metropolitan General 
Hospital he immediately got hold of a 
copy of Robert Louis Stevenson's "An 
Apology for Idlers." But Dr. McKay, who 
helped to train almost all of Ohio's tuber- 
culosis experts, has been far from idle. At 
a dinner given for Dr. "Mac" by a group 



of 240 friends, former colleagues, and 
former students, he listed the activities with 
which he would "apologize": Remain on 
the visiting staff of the hospital that he 
served for 40 years; teach a little; continue 
his work with the Ohio Industrial Com- 
mission; work with local, state, and na- 
tional tuberculosis societies; transform his 
"outdoor jungle" in Brecksville gradually 
into a park, a work he never expects to fin- 
ish but has enjoyed for years; read a great 
deal more; see friends he has neglected; 
watch two or three Cleveland Indian base- 
ball games each season; band birds in com- 
pany with a naturalist friend from Kent 
State University. "I can tell you two things 
I will not be doing," he said. "I am not go- 
ing to play golf, and I have never owned 
a television set and won't start now." 

Barney W. Baker has been a resident of 
Hazard, Ky., "the mountainous part of the 
state," since leaving Brown, with the ex- 
ception of time spent at the University of 
Kentucky studying law. He and his wife 
have two sons. John, the oldest boy, is a 
graduate of West Point and the Yale Law 
School and is in the Judge Advocate De- 
partment of the Army in Munich, Ger- 
many. The other son. Dr. Benjamin Rose 
Baker, is a surgeon in the Air Corps and 
is located in a government hospital about 
80 miles outside London. "I have enjoyed 
good health and have entered into the busi- 
ness life of the community here, in the 
practice of law and dealing in coal proper- 
ties and real estate in general." 




MEDICAL VISITORS TO ISRAEL: Drs. Beck, Burgess, Savastano, and Goldowsky. 



The Tie with Tiberias 



ANEW TYPE of program, an exchange 
between a community hospital in the 
United States and one in a foreign coun- 
try, has been undertaken by the Unitarian 
Service Committee. The first phase, in 
which three physicians from the staff of 
Miriam Hospital, Providence, spent a 
month in Israel, was completed in January. 
The doctors involved were Dr. Seebert J. 
Goldowsky '28, Chief of the Surgical Serv- 
ice, Dr. Irving Beck '32, Internist, and 
Dr. Americo Savastano, URI '32, Ortho- 
pedist. Each of these men worked with 
the chief of the service in his specialty at 
Poriah Hospital, Tiberias, Israel. 

On completion of the project, the three 



doctors who head these services at the 
Israeli hospital were to spend a month in 
Providence working at Miriam Hospital. 
They are Dr. Eldad Aschereli, internist 
(originally from Italy), Dr. Reubin Pe'er, 
surgeon (originally from Poland) and Dr. 
Chaim Goldman, orthopedist (originally 
from South Africa). 

As far as can be determined this is the 
first exchange of this type between com- 
munity hospitals. It is considered by the 
Unitarian Service Committee as a pilot 
project which, if successful, will, it is 
hoped, be repeated. This will be by ar- 
ranging similar expeditions by staff mem- 
bers from other hospitals in the United 



States to other foreign countries with cor- 
responding return visits by physicians from 
those hospitals. The purpose of the ex- 
changes is not only to broaden the ex- 
perience of the physicians involved by 
familiarizing them with the medicine of 
other countries but also (and this is more 
important) to cement ties of friendship 
and international understanding. 

To get the project under way and, in- 
cidentally, to make a study of medical ed- 
ucation and practice in Israel, Dr. Alex 
M. Burgess '06, who originated the idea 
of this type of exchange, was sent to 
Israel by the Trustees of Miriam Hospital 
a few days in advance of the other physi- 
cians. He represented both the Unitarian 
Service Committee, of which he is a mem- 
ber, and Miriam Hospital. 

It is the feeling of all concerned that 
the exchange has thus far been very suc- 
cessful. All the American physicians were 
impressed with the ability of their Israeli 
colleagues. Even more striking than this, 
however, was the hospitality and friendli- 
ness with which they were treated through- 
out their stay. They were enabled not only 
to observe Israeli medicine as it is being 
practiced, but also to see and know the 
state of Israel. During their visit they were 
enabled to travel the length and breadth 
of the country, on personally conducted 
tours which they will not forget. It is their 
hope that they will be able to extend to 
their colleagues when they arrive in the 
United States an equal degree of hospital- 
ity and kindness and to give them an 
equally satisfying acquaintance with Amer- 
ican medicine and America. 



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49 



1917 

Maurice W. Holton was elected Vice- 
President of the First Federal Savings and 
Loan Association of Providence in Febru- 
ary. He has served as Assistant Treasurer 
since May 1. 1*^54. As Nice-President, his 
immediate responsibility will be in servic- 
ing mortgage loan accounts. 

1918 
C. Read Richardson retired as auditor 
of the Manchester Trust Company on Jan. 
20. the da\ of the monthly luncheon of 
the Hartford Brown Club. So. the first 
thing he did was to pick up Pierre Teets, 
also retired, and join the gang for lunch. 

Harold McKay retired as Vice-President 
of Travelers Insurance Company in Feb- 
ruary, while another classmate, Dudley 
Sibley, is due to retire this month. 

Walter .Adler has been named Chairman 
for Rhode Island of the Harvard Business 
School annual fund drive. In the past, he 
has served in the same position for the 
Harvard Law School. Walter announced 
in February that William J. Sheehan has 
become associated with him and Bernard 
R. Pollock "48 in the law firm that now is 
known as Adler, Pollock & Sheehan. Of- 
fices remain at 530 Hospital Trust Bldg., 
Providence, 

1919 
Dr. Sidney A. Fox delivered a paper on 
"The Use and Misuse of Irradiation in Lid 
Neoplasms" at the Sixth Pan-American 
Congress of Ophthalmology, which was 
held in Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 31 to 
Feb. 7. He was also elected an Honorary 
Fellow of the Louisiana-Mississippi Oph- 
thalmological and Otolaryngological Soci- 
ety. 

John J. Hall, Director of Industrial Re- 
lations at Brown & Sharpe, participated 
in a panel discussion sponsored by the In- 
dustrial Engineering Committee of the Na- 
tional Metal Trades Association on incen- 
tive plans and methods of wage payments 
in Cleveland on Feb. 11. Chairman of the 
NMTA Industrial Engineering Committee, 
Hall was moderator for the panel. 

Louis E. Caster is a busy man in Rock- 
ford, 111. He is President of both the Rock- 
ford Colonial Baking Company and 
WREX-TV, Greater Rockford Television 
Co. 

1921 

Stuart Macmillan, Hingham, Mass., at- 
torney, was a candidate for Town Modera- 
tor at the town election on Apr. 2. He is 
a senior partner in the law firm of Hous- 
sermann, Davison, and Shattuck, with 
whom he has been associated for the past 
25 years. He served for two terms as a 
member of the Town Advisory Committee, 
part of which was spent as secretary for 
the group, and also two terms as a mem- 
ber of the Hingham School Committee, 
including five years as its Chairman. He 
was appointed by former Governor Herter 
to the State Board of Education in 1956 
and is currently serving as chairman for 
that body. He also served for five years as 
legislative counsel for the Massachusetts 



Association of School Committees, of 
which he was elected a life member. 

1922 

William Paxton received a fine editorial 
"Salute" in the January issue of the Moses 
Brown Bulletin, which he edited for 26 
years. The profile noted these aspects of 
his service in the Providence school: Chair- 
man of the English Department since 
1925. Faculty Advisor to the literary mag- 
azine and yearbook. Board member of the 
Alumni Association. Co-editor of the re- 
vised edition of the text, "Learning to 
Write." Senior member of the Moses 
Brown Chapter of the Cum Laude Society. 
Faculty Advisor to the Fifth Form. "He 
has given unsparingly of his time to ex- 
tracurricular activities at the school. To 
have managed all of this on top of a full 
teaching schedule is a feat of no mean 
proportions. We salute him for the fine 
editor that he was and for his great contri- 
bution to Moses Brown School." 

The following three members of the 
Class have joined the ranks of Co-Chair- 
men for the Bequests Program: Sayles 
Gorham (Rhode Island), Wilson C. Jain- 
sen (Conn.), and Chester S. Stackpole 
(New York). 

Milton H. Glover was a member of a 
panel that discussed "The Trustee and the 
Development Office" at the annual meeting 
of the American College Public Relations 
Association at Hartford recently. A Regent 
of the University of Hartford and a Trus- 
tee of Brown, Glover took the position 
that colleges are best administered by pro- 
fessionals. "The daily attention of experts 
is better than the periodic attention of am- 
ateurs," he stated. 

Ellsworth Gale became a grandfather in 
February when his son, Lt. G. Ellsworth 
Gale, 3rd, and Mrs. Gale of Chateauroux, 
France, became the parents of a daughter. 

Russell Mclnnes, who has been associ- 
ated with the law firm of Wood, King & 
Dawson, 48 Wall St.. New York City, for 
many years, was made a partner in Janu- 
ary. The new name of the firm is Wood, 
King, Dawson & Logan, 

1923 

Chick and Bee Beattie have had an ex- 
change student from Italy as their guest 
this year. Last summer Douglas Beattie, 
their youngest son, won a two-month visit 
to Denmark through the American Field 
Service. He sold his parents on the idea 
of sponsoring such an exchange student 
from abroad in return for his experience. 

Herbert M. Hoff'ord. Director of Public 
Information at the University of Rhode Is- 
land, has been appointed to a vacancy on 
the South Kingstown School Committee 
by the Democratic-controlled Town Coun- 
cil. Tony was on hand for the Advisory 
Council Week End on the Hill in Febru- 
ary. 

Charles Soforenko, Fall River attorney, 
has his oflRce in the Granite Block in that 
city. 

1926 

Russ Halliday, President of Halliday 
Lithograph Corp., West Hanover, Mass., 



attended the American Alumni Council 
District I Conference at the Harvard Busi- 
ness School in January as the guest of the 
Brown University Fund. He was on hand 
for a reception and dinner at Kresge Hall. 
Russ managed to get down to Providence 
for several of the basketball games, includ- 
ing the big win over Cornell late in the 
season. 

1927 

Among the members of the Class at- 
tending the Advisory Council meeting on 
Campus in February, in addition to your 
Secretary, were: Charlie Brown, Bob Buck- 
ley, Jack Roe, Eddie Rundquist, Ed Brom- 
age, Iggy Magee, and Hub Robinson. 

Hal Masters' son, Denny, is Captain- 
elect of the soccer team. A goalie, he has 
been one of the outstanding members of 
the team for the past two seasons. 

Ellis A. Simmons has been promoted to 
Second Vice-President of the Guaranty 
Trust Company of New York. 

Bill Horn is Assistant Manager of 
Brown Bros., Harriman & Co., Wall St.. 
New York City. 

Prof. Henry Bakst is Chairman of the 
Department of Preventative Medicine at 
the Boston University School of Medicine. 

Ken Bailey is in Sacramento, Calif., 
where he is owner of Bailey's Better Shoes. 

George "Whitey" Whitlock is Secretary 
and Treasurer of Sperry Gyroscope Co., 
Great Neck, Long Island. 

Ken Glor is in Cleveland as an Account 
Executive with Ball, Burge & Kraus. 

Dr. Albert E. Geremia was appointed to 
the Board of Directors of the Rhode Is- 
land Heart Association at the group's 19th 
annual meeting in February. 

Hub Robinson's "Startime" fared well 
when the 1959 Sylvania Television Awards 
were presented during the winter. The pro- 
gram itself took the award for "outstand- 
ing new series"; its December offering, 
"Christmas Startime," was judged the "out- 
standing serious musical program": and 
Ingrid Bergman received the award for 
"outstanding performance by an actress in 
a starring role" for her part in another of 
the weekly shows, "The Turn of the 
Screw." 

John F. Horgan continues as Principal 
of the West Warwick Junior High School 
in Rhode Island. 

raVING G. LOXLEY 

1929 

Archie Smith, on leave as an Assistant 
Attorney General, has been engaged as 
counsel for the special seven-member leg- 
islative commission established to study 
revision of Rhode Island's motor vehicle 
code. 

Dr. Aresto P. Tortolani, Assistant 
Health Officer of Plainville, Conn., has 
been appointed Town Medical Examiner. 
He opened his first office in Plainville 23 
years ago. His son Bob is a Freshman at 
Brown. 

Dr, Kenneth A. Scott concluded his 
term as President of the American College 
of Osteopathic Obstetricians and Gynecol- 
ogists at the annual convention in San An- 
tonio, Tex., in February. Dr. Scott is Chief 



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of Staff of the Osteopathic General Hos- 
pital of Rhode Island and was its chief 
obstetrician for 17 years. He is a Past 
President of the Rhode Island Osteopathic 
Society. 

Albert Goldstein reports that business is 
good at the Wayside Furniture Company in 
New Bedford, Mass., where he is Manager. 

1931 

A. Paul Brugge, President and Treas- 
urer of the Carl F. Brugge Company of 
Pawtucket, served as head of the 1960 
United Fund campaign of Blackstone Val- 
ley. He has also served as Vice-President 
and as a member of the Board of Trustees 
of the United Fund of Rhode Island. 

Dr. Frederick J. Carpenter is Chief of 
Staff at St. Luke's Hospital in Pittsfield. 
Mass., and on the Advisory Board of St. 
Luke's School of Nursing. 

Joseph Galkin has been re-appointed to 
a three-year term on the state Parole 
Board by Rhode Island's Governor Chris- 
topher Del Sesto. Originally named in 
1949, he has been Chairman of the Board 
since July of 1958. He is presently serving 
as a member of the special state commis- 
sion to study the feasibility of creating a 
Family Court. 

Richard P. Eldridge, who has been as- 
sociated with the Atlantic Refining Com- 
pany for 23 years, is serving as District 
Manager for the "Western Massachusetts 
area. Prior to going with Atlantic in 1937, 
he had taught Greek and Latin at Williams 
College for two years. 

Dr. Ralph D. Richardson, Providence 
physician, received a Silver Bear Award 
in recognition of "noteworthy service of 
exceptional character to youth" at the 
Golden Jubilee Awards dinner of the Nar- 
ragansett Council, Boy Scouts, in Febru- 
ary. Chesley Worthington '23, Vice-Presi- 
dent of the Council, made the presenta- 
tion. 

Arthur B. Schweikart has been named 
Loan Officer of the Roger Williams Sav- 
ings and Loan Association. He is head of 
the FHA Title I Loan Department at the 
bank. 

1932 

Paul Gleeson has been appointed lec- 
turer in education and television coordina- 
tor at Brown. He will serve on the Hill 
during a year's leave of absence from 
Classical High School, where he has been 
History teacher and Counsellor during 
most of the time since he joined the 
Providence school system in 1933. Dr. 
Elmer Smith '26, Chairman of the Depart- 
ment of Education, stated that Paul will 
direct experiments in the use of closed cir- 
cuit television, particularly in the training 
of teachers. 

Samuel Weissman is Assistant to the 
President at M. Setlow & Sons, Inc., 131 
Chestnut St., New Haven. 

1933 

Francis H. Cary has been elected Vice- 
President of Builders-Providence, Inc., di- 
vision of B-I-F Industries of Providence. 
He joined the firm in 1935 and progressed 
through the design and engineering depart- 

APRIL 1960 




RICHARD F. HOPKINS '35 and Mrs. Hopkins were presented to HRH the Princess Royal of England 

and Governor Beethom of Trinidad and Tobago at a recent reception at Government House, Port-of- 

Spoin, Trinidad. Hopkins is Executive Vice-President of Federation Cfiemicol, Ltd., of Trinidad, on 

offiliate of W. R. Grace & Co., hJew York. (Trinidad Guardian Photo) 



ment to become Chief Engineer of the 
Builders-Providence subsidiary in 1956, a 
position he still holds. He is the holder of 
several patents covering telemetering equip- 
ment and is a member of the Providence 
Engineering Society, American Society of 
Tool Engineers, and the American Society 
of Mechanical Engineers. 

Former Connecticut State Senator 
Stephen J. Sweeney of Naugatuck may be 
a candidate for the Republican nomination 
for U.S. representative in the 5th District. 
His name has been mentioned by prom- 
inent Republican leaders in the district in 
both New Haven and Litchfield Counties. 

Dr. William H. James continues as Su- 
perintendent of Schools in Branford, Conn. 
He is living at Reeds Gap Rd., Northford. 

The Gilbane Building Company of 
Providence was among 12 building firms 
recently admitted to the Hall of America's 
Builders at Pepperdine College, Los An- 
geles. Each of the firms was honored at 
Recognition Night exercises for their con- 
tributions to the building profession. 

Howard M. Bromage, executive with the 
Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.. Hartford, 
has been promoted to Director of Training 
in the Agency Department. 

Austin L. Marsh has been appointed 
Auditor of Brooks Bank & Trust Co., 
Torrington. Conn. He had been a member 
of the Auditing Department of Mechanics 
National Bank, which he joined in 1936. 

1934 

George R. Clapp has moved to 304 
Groff Ave., Elmira, N. Y. He is the Owner 
of Clapp's Hobbies & Crafts at Langdon 
Plaza in that city. 



1935 
George A. Morin is a teacher-coach at 
the Mahar Regional School, Orange, Mass. 
He is teaching science and math and 
coaching basketball and baseball. 

Sidney Johnson is living in the pleasant 
town of Clarksville, Va. He is employed 
there as Superintendent of the Clarksville 
Finishing Plant, Top Making Division, 
Burlington Industries. 

1936 
John F. Heckman, Jr., has been pro- 
moted to Assistant Vice-President and Ac- 
tuary at the Aetna Life Insurance Co., 
Hartford, where he has been since 1936. 
Appointed assistant actuary in 1944, he 
was later promoted to associate actuary, 
and in 1958 was named actuary. 

Dr. Wesley N. Haines, Director of De- 
velopment at Bucknell University, has 
been honored by the Freedoms Foundation 
of Valley Forge which named him as one 
of its 1959 Freedom Award recipients. Dr. 
Haines was awarded a George Washington 
Honor Medal for his address entitled 
"Freedom Is Our Big Idea." The address 
was made last August at the annual meet- 
ing of the Pennsylvania Bankers Associa- 
tion at Bucknell. Dr. Haines joined Buck- 
nell's administrative staff in 1957. Prior to 
that he had been Assistant to the President 
at Keuka College. 

Paul W. Holt is Divisional Controller at 
Sikorsky Aircraft. Active in the commu- 
nity, he is Past President of the Bridgeport 
Chapter of the National Association of 
Accountants. Past President of the Bridge- 
port Industrial Speakers Club, and a mem- 
ber of the American Helicopter Society. 



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WALTER H. VAN COTT '39 has been appointed 
Vice President and Trust Officer in charge of the 
Trust Department at Crocker-Anglo National 
Bank's Santa Barbara Main office. Construction 
has begun on a new $1,000,000 home for the unit. 



Edmond H. Guerin has moved to Port 
Gibson. Miss., where he is Vice-President 
of the .American Paper Tube Co. 

1937 

Dr. Harold S. Barrett is President-Elect 
of the Connecticut Society of Gerontology. 
Organized in 1953. this is an organization 
of professional and lay citizens working 
together to stimulate awareness, interest, 
and community activity in the problems of 
an aging population, to foster scientific in- 
vestigation of these problems, to provide 
for an exchange of knowledge and infor- 
mation pertaining to the subject, and to 
give advisory and consultant services to 
interested organizations and agencies. Dr. 
Barrett is Deputy Commissioner of the 
Connecticut State Department of Health 
in Hartford. 

Cmdr. Forrest A. Pease, USN, is as- 
signed to the Pentagon in Washington, 
D. C. His home address is 2116 S. Kent 
St., Arlington, Va., not far from another 
former football player, Dr. Al Cornsweet 
'29. 

Paul Ambrette is Vice-President of the 
Ambrette Machinery Co.. 156 — 6 St., 
Brooklyn. He is living at Haddington 
Drive, Old Westbury, L. I., N. Y. 

Ralph Kramer is working in Washing- 
ton, D. C, as Deportation Officer with the 
Immigration and Naturalization Service. 

Richard D. Messinger is now employed 
with Power Curbers, Inc., Salisbury, N. C. 
He had been with the Cling Peach Ad- 
visory Board in San Francisco. Dick is 
living at 127 South Jackson St. in Salis- 
bury. 

William M. Bancroft has been promoted 
to Vice-President at the Providence Wash- 
ington Insurance Co. He joined the firm 
in 1950, became an Assistant Secretary in 
1957 and Secretary in 1958. He is in 
charge of reinsurance. 



1938 

Curtis B. Watson has been working in 
Paris for the past year as Assistant Execu- 
tive Officer with the United States Educa- 
tional Commission (the Fulbright Commis- 
sion) for France. He expects to remain 
there for the next two years. He has a 
leave of absence from the American Uni- 
versity of Beirut, where he was Chairman 
of the English Department. 

Senator Shelton C. Noyes of Rangeley, 
Me., has announced that he will run for 
le-election as Franklin County's State Sena- 
tor. He was elected to the Senate for the 
first time in 1958. During the 99th Legis- 
lature, he was Chairman of the Retire- 
ments and Pensions Commission and was 
a member of the Public Utilities Com- 
mittee. He is a Republican, 

Judge Frank Licht has been installed as 
Chairman of the Board of Directors of 
the National Conference of Christians and 
Jews of the Southern New England region. 

Dr. Francis P. Vose was elected Vice- 
President of the Rhode Island Heart Asso- 
ciation at the 19th annual meeting of that 
group in February. 

1939 

As usual, there will be an ofl'-year re- 
union this June. Although the details are 
not complete, the program probably will 
include a cocktail party prior to the 
Alumni Dinner on Friday. Golf and din- 
ner on Saturday also will be included. 
Final details will appear next month in 
the annual Reunion Roundup, but make 
your plans now to be with us on the Hill 
for your 21st. 

John R. Magee of the Chemstrand 
Corp. has been promoted to the position 
of Section Head, Nylon Pilot Plant Opera- 
tions, at the company's new Nylon Devel- 
opment Center at Pensacola, Fla, He 
joined Chemstrand in 1958 as a research 
scientist in the Research Division, Decatur, 
Ala. He was transferred to the Engineering 
and Development Division in 1959 as a 
staff associate to conduct work in Acrilan 
acrylic fiber pilot plant operations. 

Frank A. Healy, Junior Vice-President 
of Wilmot, West and Goulding, Inc., New- 
town, Conn., is a former Vice-President of 
Healy's Self-Service Market in Bridgeport. 
Frank is a member of the Board of Di- 
rectors of Mechanics and Farmers Savings 
Bank. 

Stuart C. Sherman and his library. 
Providence Public, were featured in the 
Library Journal for Jan. 1 in an institu- 
ional ad. Sherman, who succeeded his fa- 
ther as Librarian in 1957, is a member of 
A.L.A., M.L.A., and former Vice-Presi- 
dent of the N.E.L.A. and President of the 
R.I.L.A. The sketch listed his activities: 
Trustee of the R. I. School of Design, Vice- 
President of the R. I. Philharmonic Or- 
chestra, Chairman of a subcommittee of 
the Downtown Providence Master Plan 
Committee, extension lecturer at the Uni- 
versity of R. I., and Bibliographer of the 
Melville Society. 

1940 
Robert I. Smith has been promoted to 
Assistant to the Chief Engineer, Electric 



Engineering Department, Public Service 
Electric and Gas Co., Newark, N. J. He 
had been serving as Assistant Mechanical 
Engineer. Bob started with the firm in 
1942 as an Assistant Test Engineer at the 
Marion Generating Station, Jersey City. 
He is a member of the American Society 
of Mechanical Engineers and of the En- 
gineers Club of New York City. 

George R. Thompson has been made an 
Officer of the National Life Insurance 
Company of Montpelier, Vt., with the title 
of Security Analyst. He joined National 
Life's investment staff in 1956 after an 
association with the Devonshire Finance 
Service Corp., in Portland, Me. 

Stanley I. Jagolinzer is Vice-President 
of the Cranston Furniture Company, lo- 
cated at 50 Rolfe Street in that city. 

Norman W. Cheever is in Pittsfield, 
Mass., as Advance Quality Control En- 
gineer with the General Electric Co. 

1941 
Maj. Stephen G. Stone, Jr., has been 
transferred from New Orleans to Heidel- 
berg. He wrote in February: "Here I am 
back in Germany again for what will 
probably be my last stint in uniform for 
Uncle Sam, as I shall be eligible for re- 
tirement in about two years. So your 
article on 'A Career on a College Campus' 
in the January issue was of particular in- 
terest to me." 

Russell O. Newton has joined the Erie 
Foundry Company of Erie, Pa., as Sales 
Manager. He had served as New England 
Sales Manager for the Industrial Products 
Division of Brown & Sharpe Manufactur- 
ing Co. During his 18 years with Brown 
& Sharpe, he also served as representative 
for machine tools in Pittsburgh and Chi- 
cago. 

Willis F. Woods is in West Palm Beach, 




BENJAMIN AMBROSINI '41 has been named 
one of four "Salesmen of the Year" by Doyton 
Industrial Products Co. Its products are used in 
the automobile industry, and Ambrosini's ter- 
ritory includes most of central and southern 
Michigan. A 13-year employee with Dayton, he 
lives in Grosse Pointe. 



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Fla., where for the past 10 years he has 
been Director of the Norton Gallery and 
School of Art. A recent note incorrectly lo- 
cated him in Fort Lauderdale. 

1942 

Harry L. Thompson has been named 
Managing Director of the Canadian office 
of the United Elastic Corp. He had been 
employed in the home oflfice, Easthamp- 
ton, Mass., since 1949. The Canadian 
subsidiary is located at Bridgetown. Nova 
Scotia. "Our company, as a manufacturer 
of all types of elastic fabrics, is the world's 
largest, having 10 plants in the United 
States. United Elastic Ltd. will be our 
first plant outside the States, and I'm 
looking forward to the new position. My 
wife and three children really like the 
town, especially the weather, which, sur- 
prisingly, is no different than New Eng- 
land except for slightly cooler summers." 

Norman Orent is President of Hamilton 
Scotch Corp., which has taken over the 
Hamilton Speciality Corp. in Easthampton, 
Mass.. one of the largest manufacturers of 
metal furniture with national sales dis- 
tribution. 

Judge Joseph R. Weisberger received the 
Sylvia H. Chretien award this winter as 
the "most outstanding citizen of River- 
side," as determined by the R. I. area 
merchants. Some reasons for the selection 
can be gleaned from the award citation: 
"Distinguished jurist, youngest man in the 
state ever appointed to the Superior Court 
bench, model citizen, public service record, 
deep interest in a better Bullock Cove for 
yachtsmen, amateur actor, prominent 
Christian layman, and a good neighbor." 

Joseph H. Roberts, Sales Manager for 
the Augusta, Me., Print Shop, served as 
Augusta Chairman for the 1960 Heart 
Fund Drive. 

Dave Haweeli, Vice-President with the 
Campbell Soup Co., has been transferred 
from Napoleon, O., to Geneva. 

Ernie Savignano and Barbara could be 
found in their usual seats up on the track 
at most of the Brown home basketball 
games. The night of the Cornell game. 
however, their interest was mainly in the 
preliminary struggle between the Bruin 
Cubs and Tabor Academy. In fact, their 
interest was more than somewhat, for the 
star of the Tabor team was a young resi- 
dent of the Savignano household named 
David, a Sophomore at the Marion, Mass., 
school. Although the Cubs won, Dave 
paced the Tabor attack with 15 points. 
Last fall, the 16-year-old had an outstand- 
ing season at halfback for the Tabor grid- 
ders. Shades of his dad! 

1943 
Russell W. Sloan, Manager of the 
Marketing Planning Department of Penn- 
salt Chemicals Corporation in Philadel- 
phia, lives in Strafford, Pa., with his wife 
and four daughters. He is a Trustee of 
the Wayne Presbyterian Church and has 
served actively in a number of community 
organizations as well as the following na- 
tional groups: Commercial Chemical De- 
velopment Association, Chemical Market 
Research Association, American Chemical 



Society, and American Management As- 
sociation. 

Dr. Adolph I. Snow has been promoted 
to Director of the recently-formed Radia- 
tion Division of Sinclair Research Labo- 
ratories, Inc., Harvey, 111. Dr. Snow was a 
Francis Wayland scholar while on the Hill. 
He resides in Matteson, III. 

Howard H. Braverman is an attorney 
with the Seaboard Surety Company of 
New York City, specializing in advertis- 
ing and broadcasting liability problems. 

Dr. Mortimer A. Gallagher is a surgeon 
at the Akron Clinic, 513 W. Market St., 
Akron, O. 

William H. Parry is with Sperry-Rand in 
Stamford, Conn., as a Management De- 
velopment Representative. 

Thomas D. Burns has announced his 
partnership with Lawrence M. Levinson 
in the law firm of Burns & Levinson, 77 
Franklin St., Boston 10. 

1944 

Christy Karr is a Plant Industrial En- 
gineer with the Wickwire Spencer Steel 
Division of the Colorado Fuel & Iron 
Corp., Palmer, Mass. 

Robert S. Snow is an engineer in the 
Production Metallurgy Section, Research 
and Development Department of the Elec- 
tric Boat Division, General Dynamics 
Corp., Groton, Conn. 

William O. Harbach is in New York as 
a television producer with the National 
Broadcasting Co. He is living at 876 Park 
Ave. 

Herbert H. Mendelson is President of 
the Associated Paper Co., Philadelphia. 

1945 

Hawley O. Judd has been named Chief 
Marine Underwriter in the Marine Depart- 
ment of the Travelers Indemnity Co., 
Hartford. He joined Travelers in 1951 and 
has served in the Marine Department since 
that time. 

Charles W. Briggs, Jr., has been named 
the 38th ranked New England Men's 
Singles tennis player for 1960 by the New 
England Lawn Tennis Association. Al- 
though dropping from the 25th spot held 
in 1959, Charlie managed to remain in 
the rankings for the fifth consecutive year. 

Clifford R. Noll, Jr., is at Goucher Col- 
lege as Assistant Professor in the Chemis- 
try Department. He is living at 701 East 
Gittings Ave., Baltimore 12. 

1946 
Elmer W. Liebsch has been elected 
President of the Salem (Mass.) Bar Asso- 
ciation. The 34-year-old lawyer is one of 
the youngest men ever to achieve this po- 
sition. He received his Master's degree 
from the University of Montreal and his 
Law degree from Boston University. 

Robert Bourne has joined Bird & Son's 
Floor Covering Plant in Norwood. Mass., 
as Assistant to the Floor Covering Super- 
intendent. He will conduct special studies 
to establish a better and more significant 
flow of production information, with a 
later switch to production contemplated. 
Before going to Bird & Son, he spent nine 
years with the Kendall Company as an 




RICHARD W. GOODBY '39, who has served as 
Secretary and Vice-President of Sanson & Row- 
land, Inc., has been elected President and Treas- 
urer of this Philadelphia distributor and ware- 
house of metal fasteners. He joined the firm in 
1949 as Sales Manager and is a Post President 
of the Philadelphia Sales Managers' Association. 

administrative assistant in purchasing, then 
in personnel, manufacturing, and most re- 
cently, market research. 

Richard L. Lapan has been promoted to 
Authorization Oflicer of the Adjudication 
Division at the Veterans Administration 
Regional Office in Providence. 

Eugene F. Mullin, Jr., and J. Parker 
Connor have announced the formation of 
a law partnership under the firm name of 
Mullin and Connor. Gene's offices are lo- 
cated in Suite 300, Southern Building, 
Washington 5, D. C. 

1947 

Isadore Halzel has joined the staff at 
the M.I.T. Instrumentation Laboratory as 
Staff Assistant for Quality Reliability and 
Quality Control. The laboratory is pres- 
ently engaged in the development of the 
inertial guidance system for the Polaris 
Fleet Ballistic Missile for the Navy. 

John A. Washburn is one of the incum- 
bents seeking re-election to the Board of 
Selectmen in the coming election in Mid- 
dleboro, Mass. He is associated with the 
family grain and building supply business. 

E. Parker Johnson was a member of 
the panel that featured the 13th annual 
meeting of the Waterville (Me.) area 
YMCA meeting during the winter. A Pro- 
fessor of Psychology at Colby College, he 
has been affiliated with several YMCA 
programs in the past. 

Dr. Edward H. Bowen, Jr., has been 
appointed Director of Clinical Research at 
the Baxter Laboratories, Inc., Morton 
Grove, III. 

Neil H. Ellis is President of the Green 
Manor Construction Co., Inc., Manches- 
ter, Conn. He is living at 43 Butternut Rd., 
Manchester. 



APRIL 1960 



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ROGER D. WILLIAMS '47 has been promoted by 
the Corling Brewing Company to be General 
Manager of the plant in Natick, Mass., which 
serves its Eastern Division. He joined Carling in 
1953, became Plant Engineer when the new 
Natick brewery wos opened in 1955, and its 
Plant Monager in 1959. (Korday photo) 



Melvin H. Kirschner is a student at the 
University of Southern California Medical 
School. "If all goes well, 1 will receive my 
degree in June."' 

Rev. Norman F. Brooks has accepted a 
call to be Minister of the First Congrega- 
tional Church of Osage. Iowa, after being 
with the First Congregational Church of 
Oakland. Iowa, and the Wheeler Grove 
Church of Carson, Iowa, for more than 
10 years. 

1948 
Dr. Eirik G. Furubotn has been named 
.Associate Professor of Economics at 
Emory University. He had been at La- 
fayette College as Assistant Professor in 
the Department of Economics. 

Irving E. Miller is President of The Mil- 
ler Co., Inc.. real estate investments and 
land development. Miami Beach, Fla. He 
is serving as Director of the Southern 
Realty & Utilities Corp. 

Dr. Philip Bray, Professor of Physics at 
Brown, has been elected Vice-President of 
the Faculty Club. His duties for the com- 
ing year will be to arrange speakers for 
the monthly luncheons. 

1949 
Dr. Joel M. Bems has been a tough 
man to keep track of the past few years 
as he has been moving around the country 
at a great pace in order to complete his 
training in oral surgery. After having 
served two years in the Army as an Oral 
Surgeon in France, he spent a year of 
postgraduate study in oral surgery at 
Northwestern University, a year of anes- 
thesia training at the University of Illinois 
Research and Education Hospitals, De- 
partment of Anesthesiology, Chicago, and 
then finished up with a year of training at 
Mt. Sinai Hospital in Cleveland. Last De- 



cember he opened his office at 140 Hoyt 
St.. Stamford. Conn., for a practice limited 
to oral surgery. While serving in France, 
Joel met a French school teacher working 
at the American School. A year and a 
half later she became his wife, and they 
now have two sons. 

.Angelo Sinisi "61 was this year's winner 
I'f the Class of '49 Scholarship. In addition 
to being an excellent student, Sinisi is one 
of Coach Ivan Fuqua's top track stars, a 
possible contender for the summer Olym- 
pics. 

Robert H. Prater has been promoted to 
the position of Resident Superintendent of 
Plastics Operations at the Everett, Mass., 
plant of the Monsanto Chemical Co. He 
joined the firm in 1951 as a technical 
trainee, became Assistant Operating Super- 
visor in 1953, and Operating Supervisor in 
1956. 

John P. Cady, Jr., is Chief Engineer on 
the Polaris-firing atomic submarine, USS 
Robert E. Lee. launched in December 
from Newport News, Va. Pete has moved 
his wife and their two little girls to 9 
Pauline Circle in Newport News. 

Francis W. Dana, II, is Assistant Regis- 
trar at Hofstra College, Hempstead, N. Y. 

Dr. Daniel Moore. Jr.. has been ap- 
pointed to the Board of Directors of the 
Rhode Island Heart Association. 

After 10 years with Phoenix Mutual, 
your Secretary left to accept a position 
with the New England Mutual Life In- 
surance Company, Feb. 1. 

ROLLAND H. JONES 

1950 

Donald M. O'Brien has been named 
Sales Promotion Manager for Herpol- 
sheimer Co.. department store in Grand 
Rapids. Iowa. He had held a similar posi- 
tion with Clenand-Simpson Company in 
Scranton, Pa. Don now has six years' ex- 
perience in the retailing field. 

Robert D. Hall. Jr.. has been promoted 
to Director of Technical Products Market- 
ing at Chambers, Wiswell, Shattuck, Clif- 
ford, and McMillan. He has been with 
the Boston advertising agency for the past 
four years. 

Bertram A. C. Udovin became "Mr. 
Civilian" again last June. In July, he went 
to work for the West Coast officers of 
Allen B. Du Mont Lab., Inc., Los An- 
geles, as Manager of their Point Mugu 
facility. Most of his work thus far has 
been gathering data on guided missiles for 
the Bureau of Naval Weapons. The rest 
of his time is devoted to sales and public 
relations. 

John F. Kimball has been elected Vice- 
President and Assistant Sales Manager of 
the George C. Fry Co., long established 
surgical instruments firm in Portland, Me. 

Harold V. Garabedian has been placed 
in charge of Sales and Customer Rela- 
tions at the Electric Boat Division, Gen- 
eral Dynamics Corp., Groton, Conn. 

David A. Comfort, special agent with 
the Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co., 
has been promoted to Superintendent of 
Casualty at the firm's Bridgeport, Conn., 
office. He joined the company in 1955 at 



Hartford, where he remained until his 
1957 appointment as special agent in 
Barre, Vt. 

Ernest V. Perreault has been appointed 
Assistant Auditor of the South Shore Na- 
tional Bank. He has been with the bank 
for the past eight years. 

Dr. Bernie Berstein recently delivered a 
paper to the 37th annual New England 
Council of Optometry. The title was "Vis- 
ual Training." 

William Van Allen's fourth child and 
third son was born just over a year ago. 
His name is Derrick Joseph and con- 
fidential reports indicate that he already 
is expressing an interest in an Ivy League 
education. 

Jacob M. Schoenberg is working in the 
Dallas office of the B-I-F Industries of 
Providence. His address in Dallas is 2951 
Joanna Drive. 

Donald C. Hutchison has been named 
General Manager of the Greater Spring- 
field Chamber of Commerce. He had been 
the Manager of the Industrial Bureau and 
Convention Bureau of the Chamber since 
joining the firm in 1952. Before joining 
the Chamber, he had been associated for 
a time with the Goodyear Tire & Rubber 
Co. 

John Scott, former Class President, has 
been named Canadian Manager for Vick 
Chemical Co., Inc. Following a recent 
visit to the Brown Placement Office, he 
had a bull session with President Ed 
Kiely, Fred Kozak, Jay Barry, and Wes 
Moulton '31. John and his wife expect to 
be back on the Hill for the Big 10th. 

J. Barron Leeds has been appointed 
Director of Distribution Centers with the 
Grand Union Company of Norwalk, 
Conn. He has been associated with the 
firm for nine years and had been serving 
as Assistant to the Director of Labor Re- 
lations for the firm. In his new post he 
will have charge of the eastern food chain 
from his office in Grand Union's general 
headquarters in East Paterson, N. J. 

Emil John is wearing two caps. He is a 
student at the Yale Divinity School dur- 
ing the week and works as a copy reader 
at the Providence Journal Company on 
the week ends. He sent to the Providence 
Joiirnol from New Haven a lively post- 
write of the Brown-Yale basketball game. 

Paul Fairbrook is Dean of the Culinary 
Institute of America. 393 Prospect St., New 
Haven. He is living at 2 Susan Lane, 
North Haven. 

Peter B. Lyon is an underwriter in the 
Boston office of the Phoenix Assurance 
Company of New York. His office is lo- 
cated at 141 Milk St. 

Bruce M. Senior may find it difficult to 
get back to the Hill for the Big lOth. He 
is Manager of the Honolulu office of the 
Armstrong Cork Co. 

Paul Lipsitt is an Instructor in Psy- 
chology in the Department of Economics 
and Social Science Psychology Section at 
M.I.T. Paul is living at 98 Packard Ave., 
Somervillc. Mass. 

Donald R. MacDonald is a Field Super- 
visor with Travelers Insurance Company 
in Manchester. N. H. He handles Casualty, 
Fidelity, and Surety Fire and Marine lines. 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Jack Schreiber, Vice-President of the 
Class, is the Frozen Food Department 
Manager for the New England Grocer 
Supply Co., Worcester, Mass. He and his 
family have moved to 44 Valley Hill 
Drive in Worcester. 

BOB CUM MINGS 

1951 

The Class Officers and the Executive 
Committee are very pleased with the 
amount of money received from the Class 
Dues appeal. At this writing, we are .'^OOrr 
ahead of last year. For those of you who 
haven't sent in your voluntary contribution, 
this is a gentle reminder. Remember, the 
more money we receive now the less the 
assessment for our 10th Reunion a year 
from now. 

The following members of the Class 
were present at the annual Advisory Coun- 
cil Week End at Brown in February: Ken 
Holmes, Stu Baird, Chuck Whelan, Ally 
Chatterton. Woody Leonard, Pat Pannag- 
gio. Bill Surprenant, and your Secretary. 

Local class members are planning a 
Dutch treat cocktail party and dinner in 
early May, and all those living in the 
Greater Providence area are invited. A 
note in the ne.xt issue of this magazine 
will give the exact time and place. 

William A. Blome has been promoted 
to Group Leader for the engineering serv- 
ices area of the Research Department of 
Monsanto Chemical Company's plant in 
Springfield, Mass. Bill joined Monsanto in 
1951 as a development engineer in divi- 
sion engineering. He is currently com- 
pleting the R.P.I, courses in automatic 
control. He is a registered professional en- 
gineer in New York and is a member of 
the American Society of Mechanical En- 
gineers. 

Walt Mills is with the General Electric 
Co., Defense Systems Department. Syra- 





RONALD MclNTYRE '42 has been appointed 
Sales Manager, Southwest Region, for UARCO, 
business forms manufacturer. He moves to head- 
quorters at 6300 N. Central Expressway in 
Dallas after previous posts in Boston, Hartford, 
and Chicago. 



HERMAN I. RUDMAN '46 has been named to the 
newly created post of Manager of Sales Promo- 
tion for Photocircuits Corporation of Garden 
City, N. Y. The company produces printed cir- 
cuits, printed motors, and electronic devices. 

cuse, N. Y. The Mills have recently moved 
into their new home in North Syracuse. 

Donald R. Gardner, Jr., gave his first 
set of tests this winter as the new Direc- 
tor of Admissions for Moses Brown 
School in Providence. In addition to teach- 
ing English, he is also working towards an 
M.A. at Brown. 

William D. Macintosh has been named 
General Manager of the Blue Ribbon Feed 
Co., Thorndike, Me. He and his wife are 
living in Belfast. 

Kenneth W. DeHertogh has been hired 
to teach the sixth grade in the Pinecrest 
School, Bellingham, Mass. He received 
his Master's from Brown in 1955. 

Bob Lenker is Assistant Secretary of the 
First National Bank, Millersburg, Pa. 

Robert S. Hazlett. Providence attorney, 
was admitted to the Rhode island Bar in 
November. His office is located at 49 Wey- 
bosset St. 

Robert W. Murray is a member of the 
Technical Staff at the Bell Telephone 
Laboratories, Inc., Murray Hill, N. J. 

Carl A. Jacobson has been promoted 
from Personnel Assistant to Employment 
Manager in Worcester with the State 
Mutual Life Assurance Company of 
America. 

Richard K. Wells is a Research Associ- 
ate with Arthur D. Little, Inc., Cam- 
bridge, Mass. 

Demeril A. Riedinger is Product Man- 
ager of Telephone Cable Sales with the 
Phelps Dodge Copper Products Corp.. 
New York 22. 

Thomas P. Snow, with the Chase Man- 
hattan Bank since graduating, is in in- 
vestment portfolio work. 

CHARLIE ANDREWS 

1952 

Arky Gonzalez has returned from an 
Air Force press junket to California. 
Hawaii, Wake, Tokyo, Taiwan, Hong 



Kong, Manila, and Seoul. The trip was 
sponsored jointly by the Air Force and 
Coronet magazine. In addition to his work 
with Colonel, Arky has become one of the 
top free lance writers in the country. Two 
of his recent features have appeared in 
CosinopoUtan magazine, an interview 
with Sam Levenson in the September issue 
and a fascinating article entitled "The Rid- 
dle of Atlantis" that came out in January. 

Maurice Adelman, Jr., an attorney at 
the Cincinnati oflice of the United 
States Atomic Energy Commission, has 
been awarded a third prize of $200 by 
the Thomas More Association of Chicago 
for his review of "The Great Decision." 
The 2,000-word review, published in the 
Catholic Free Press of Worcester. Mass., 
last June, was entered in the Association's 
national contest for best book sections in 
Catholic newspapers. Maury has been a 
free lance writer and book reviewer for 
several publications for the past six years. 
His Cincinnati address is 2885 Minto Ave., 
Hyde Park. 

William R. Bennett reports that he is 
"stuck" with and on his job as salesman 
for the Lehigh Portland Cement Co.. Al- 
lentown. Pa. 

Robert E. Wagner is working in Ohio as 
a Management Analyst with the Manage- 
ment Engineering Division of the Rossford 
Ordnance Depot, Toledo. 

Conrad J. Kronholm. a representative 
of the Aetna Casualty and Surety Com- 
pany at Hartford, recently attended a 
special insurance course at the company's 
home office. He is associated with the 
John P. Kelly Co. 

Edward W. Day, Jr.. has been approved 
by the Cranston City Council to be Second 
Assistant City Solicitor. A graduate of the 
Boston College Law School, he is afl[iliated 
with the law office of Gardner, Sawyer. 
Cottam. and Gates. 

Lester Hyman, Boston attorney, served 
as Vice-Chairman of the Greater Boston 
Heart Fund. A partner in the firm of 
Springer. Goldberg, and Hyman, he is Vice- 
President and counsel of the Greater Bos- 
ton Junior Chamber of Commerce. In 
the Heart Fund drive, Les worked under 
Chairman Endicott "Chub" Peabody, Ail- 
American lineman at Harvard in 1941. 

T. B. Selover has been promoted from 
Senior Chemist to Technical Specialist at 
the Sohio Research Center of the Standard 
Oil Co., Warrensville Heights, O. He is 
working closely with high temperature 
chemistry. 

Jake Murphy, contractor in Walpole. 
Mass.. was asked by the Town Council 
recently to give a name to a newly con- 
structed street. It didn't take him long to 
come up with the name. Brown Drive. 
Jake is a member of the Brown Hockey 
Alumni Association and has attended sev- 
eral of the monthly luncheons in Provi- 
dence. 

1953 
Carl E. Stenberg, teaching associate in 
the English Department at Brown, is 
teaching a course on the short story in 
the University's Evening Extension Pro- 
gram, 



APRIL I960 



55 




JOSEPH L. TAURO '53 became Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Massacfiusetts in 

February taking his oath of ofTtce from Chief Justice George C. Sweeney of the U. S. District Court. 

Mrs. Tauro was a witness of the ceremony. Tauro had been partner of a Lynn low firm. 



James H. Bramble is working in Silver 
Spring. Md.. as a mathematician at the 
Naval Ordnance Lab. He is living in the 
same town at 2615 Terrapin Rd. 

Donald B. Bailey is a sales engineer 
with the Powers Regulator Co., Dorches- 
ter. Mass. He is living at 212 Bay State 
Rd.. .Apt. 2. Boston. 

Dwight T. Freeburg is a Group Pension 
Representative with the Connecticut Gen- 
eral Life Insurance Co., New York City. 

Sarkis Nahabedian is a policy analyst 
with Equitable Life Assurance Company 
in New York City. 

1954 

Nate Horton has graduated from the 
John Marshall Law School, Chicago, with 
a degree of Juris Doctor, and is currently 
studying for the Illinois State Law Ex- 
amination. 

Robert M. Furman reports that the New 
York firm of public accountants with 
whom he is connected has changed its 
name from Jouche. Niven, Bailey & 
Smart to Jouche. Ross, Bailey & Smart. 

Howard A. Vaughan is in the Insurance 
Department with Food Fair Stores. Inc., 
Southern Division. Miami. Fla. 

1955 

Harry L. Anderson, Jr., is a member of 
the English Department at the new Scitu- 
ate Junior-Senior High School. "Brown is 
well represented in the school system. 
Charles B. Leonard "29 is Superintendent 
of Schools, Everett Tanner '54 is a mem- 
ber of the English Department, High 
School Principal Eldon Wedlock has his 
M.A. from Brown, and Janice Howard, 
Chairman of the Math Department, is a 
Pembroke grad." 

William J. Pearce is an Accounting Ex- 
aminer for the New England Telephone 
& Telegraph Co.. with his home office in 
Boston. His duties emcompass traveling to 
the various accounting offices in the New 
England States (except Conn.) to examine 
the records. 

Robert F. O'Such is an Account Execu- 
tive with O. S. Tyson & Co.. New York 
advertising agency. Most of his work is 



on Union Carbide Chemicals Co. One of 
his neighbors in Fairfield. Conn., is Rob- 
ert P. Scholl '54. 

J. Philip O'Hara and his wife moved 
from Massachusetts to Oak Park. 111., last 
September. He is in the publishing business 
and finds it most interesting. If all goes 
well, Phil will be with us for the Fifth 
Reunion in June. 

Gordon E. Perry is working with Mu- 
tual of New York in its Buffalo Field 
Office as a group insurance and pension 
specialist. His business travels take him 
into Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Canada, as 
well as throughout Western New York 
State. "After completing my second winter 



here. I think I am in the frame of mind 
to apply for a transfer to the sunny South- 
west." 

Peter Pfuderer is still a "struggling 
graduate student" at Iowa State College. 
"I expect to graduate with my doctorate 
this summer and then will take a post- 
doctoral fellowship for a year or two." 
Having married a local girl last June. 
Pete feels that he now has roots in the 
Corn State. 

Ray Fox, who has been flying jets for 
the Navy in California, was grounded for 
a spell in February with a broken ankle. 
However, his mishap didn't come from 
flying jets. He simply made a bad three- 
point landing while wearing a pair of skisi 

Richard F. Nourie is with the Group 
Department of the Connecticut General 
Life Insurance Company. At present he is 
responsible for the production of group 
insurance in the Worcester area, with 
most of his work handled through general 
insurance brokers. 

Bob Popp, having left Uncle Sam's 
Army, has accepted a position with Sys- 
tems Development Corporation as a hu- 
man factors specialist. "We are currently 
involved in designing a control system for 
the Strategic Air Command and setting up 
a training program for the system." 

Neale Peterson is a Vocational Counse- 
lor at the Edward R. Johnstone Training 
and Research Center, having moved there 
in November from his job at a private 
rehabilitation center in Louisville. Ky. "I 
am working as a Vocational Counselor on 
a research project sponsored by the Office 
of Vocational Rehabilitation in Wash- 
ington." Johnstone is a State institution for 



Boston Symphony Soloist 



DAVID Laurent "49. Assistant Professor 
of Music at Brown University, will 
be a soloist in a special concert on April 
6 by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 
honor of Pierre Monteux. Laurent has 
been chosen to sing the bass part in the 
Beethoven Ninth Symphony in a concert 
dedicated to the noted conductor, who will 
celebrate his 85th birthday on April 4. 
Monteux will conduct the work at 8:30 
p.m. in Symphony Hall, Boston, for the 
benefit of the Musicians Pension Fund. 
The choral finale of the Symphony will be 
sung by Eleanor Steber, soprano: Freda 
Gray-Masse, alto; John McCollum, tenor, 
and Laurent, with the Pro Musica Chorus. 

Monteux, a native of Paris who became 
an American citizen in 1942, was con- 
ductor of the Boston Symphony from 1919 
to 1924. He also has conducted at the 
Ballet Russe, the Metropolitan Opera Co., 
the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra, 
the Paris Symphony and the San Francisco 
Orchestra. 

The Brown Professor first sang the 
Beethoven role for Monteux last summer 
at his school for conductors in Hancock, 
Maine. Laurent joined the Faculty as an 



Instructor of Music in 1950. He received 
his A.M. in 1953 and was promoted to 
Assistant Professor two years later. He is 
presently Director of the Brown Univer- 
sity Chorus. 

Well known in the East as a concert 
singer, in recent years he has appeared as 
a soloist with the New Haven and Spring- 
field Symphony Orchestras and has per- 
formed in numerous concerts. While at 
Brown he won the Anne M. Gannett 
award of the National Federation of Mu- 
sic Clubs in 1947 and again in 1959. A 
former pupil of Royal Dadmun of Boston. 
Laurent is now studying under Frederick 
Jagel of Boston, formerly of the Metro- 
politan Opera. His voice first attracted at- 
tention while he was still in high school 
in his native Livermore Falls. Me. Before 
the war Mr. Laurent had his own radio 
program. "Concert in Miniature" in Law- 
rence. Mass. Under the sponsorship of the 
Monday Morning Musical Club Concert 
Bureau in Providence, he has been a guest 
soloist with the Rhode Island Philhar- 
monic Orchestra. Frequently he adds his 
rich baritone voice to concerts at the Uni- 
versity. 



56 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



mentally relardcd youths from the ages 
of 12 to 18. 

Capt. Francis M. Logan, Jr., USMC, is 
serving ahoard the aircraft carrier USS 
Essex in the Mediterranean. 

Your Secretary, Dock Houk, has left 
Mississippi in favor of Washington, D. C. 
He and Mixie are enrolled in the Ameri- 
can University for Ph.D.'s in Education. 
With six-months-old Terrie along to kibitz, 
they will probably have their hands full. 
The new address is 6709 16th St. 

Richard L. Palombo started a six- 
month training course with Brown &. 
Sharpe Mfg. Co., Providence, in Decem- 
ber. Upon completion of the course, he 
expects to join the Manufacturing Engi- 
neering Department. 

Willis H. Riccio has been transferred to 
the Securities and Exchange Commissions" 
Boston Regional Office as an enforce- 
ment attorney. Before leaving the Wash- 
ington main office he completed his course 
at Georgetown University's Law School 
and he expects to receive his degree in 
June. "While in Washington, I was ad- 
mitted to practice before the United 
States Court of Military Appeals, the Tax 
Court of the United States, and the United 
States Court of Claims. I was admitted to 
practice before the United States District 
Court for the District of Massachusetts 
upon my arrival in Boston." He is resid- 
ing at 4.^4 River Ave., Providence. 

Yours truly was discharged from the 
Navy last September, after making full Lt. 
One bad part of the Navy is that you are 
likely to be at sea (in more ways than 
one) when your wife presents you with a 
son, as was the case in our family last 
July. I started school again in September, 
at the University of Virginia Law School. 

HARRY DEVOE 

Regional Secrettiiy 

1956 

Class Agent Joel Davis gave an inspir- 
ing talk on the "Role of the Class Agent" 
before the Trustees, Class Agents, and 
friends of the Brown University Fund dur- 
ing the Advisory Council Week End on 
the Hill in February. The presentation 
may be edited and used as the basis of a 
permanent hand book for Class Agents. 
Under Joel's direction, the Class has 
ranked first in participation from all 
Classes back to 1941. 

Michael K. Carney is a Graduate Stu- 
dent in Marketing at the Wharton School 
of Business Administration. University of 
Pennsylvania. 

Edward V. Randall, Jr., is Staff Assist- 
ant in the Management Development Sec- 
tion, Personnel Relations, with the Alumi- 
num Company of America in Pittsburgh. 

Alan F. Atwood was released from the 
Navy last September and is living in San 
Francisco. He is employed by the Cal- 
Farms Insurance Co., Berkeley, as Policy- 
holders Service Supervisor. 

W. Bradford Schultz went to work for 
Leeds and Northrup Company of Phila- 
delphia as a Product Engineer Mar. 31. 
He and his family have moved to 6725 
Anderson St., Philadelphia 19. 




JUNIOR MEMBERS of the Advisory Council: Kenneth L. Holmes '51, Robert G. Berry '44, and Charles 
H. Whelan '51. Whelon was attending as President of the Cincinnati Brown Club. 



1957 

Arthur Taylor. Admission Officer at 
Brown, spoke recently before a Warwick 
PT.-K Council audience. He told them that 
a student's high school record is the most 
important single factor in college admis- 
sions. However, he also noted that colleges 
look into a student's intellectual life out- 
side of school as well. "A home where 
learning is not pushed under the table 
when the television set is turned on is 
almost as important as good grades when 
it comes to preparing a child for college," 
he stated. 

Richard P. Nathan is Research Assistant 
to Senator Kenneth B. Keating (R.-N.Y.). 
"1 am responsible for legislation in the 
general field of economics (which wasn't 
my major!), such as labor, housing, fiscal 
policies, budget, public welfare, and vari- 
ous Federal grant-in-aid programs." He 
and Mary are living at 55\5 Sonomz Rd., 
Bethesda, Md. 

Don Saunders and his father have re- 
cently purchased the Copley Hotel in Bos- 
ton. Don is Managing Partner of Irving 
M. Saunders & Associates there. He was 
back on the Hill for the Advisory Council 
Week End in February. 

1958 

James V. Thomas and a friend, Irving 
H. Murphy. Jr. (Boston University), em- 
barked on the publication of a weekly 
newspaper in Middleboro, Mass., in Janu- 
ary. The new publication, entitled The 
Inquirer, is the second weekly in circula- 
tion in the town. Its first issue rolled off 
the presses Jan. 14. Jim had joined the 
staff of the Tiiitnlon Gazette last fall, fol- 
lowing a two-year tour of duty in the 
Army. 

Hays H. Rockwell is a second-year stu- 
dent at the Episcopal Theological School, 



Cambridge, Mass. He is also doing field 
work at St. John's Episcopal Church in 
Westwood. 

Philip G. DuMond is an underwriter 
with the Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., 
East Orange. N. J. 

1959 

Lt. Ray Clark is serving as Intelligence 
Officer at the Air Force Proving Ground 
Center. Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. "Al- 
though Northwest Florida is less glamor- 
ous than 1 had expected, I am enjoying 
Air Force life." 

Thomas J. Sullivan is in the training 
program with White, Weld & Co., New 
York investment house. He is serving as 
Class Agent for '."59 in its first University 
Fund drive. In New York. Tom is room- 
ing with Rufus Bullock at 166 East 96th 
St., Apt. 17-A. 

Pvt. Paul H. Fuller recently completed 
an eight-week communications course at 
Fort Gordon, Ga. 

Roland Baer had planned to attend the 
February meetings of the Advisory Coun- 
cil on College Hill, as a representative of 
the St. Louis Brown Club. His plane, how- 
ever, was grounded in St. Louis by bad 
weather. 

Nack-chung Paik continues in this coun- 
try as a graduate student in English Litera- 
ture at Harvard. However, he intends to 
return to Korea when his schooling 
finishes this summer. 

Philip S. Hollman is hard at work at 
the University of Michigan Law School in 
Ann Arbor. 

Jack McTigue's wife was on hand to pin 
the bars of an Air Force Second Lt. on her 
husband after he had been sworn in by Lt. 
Col. George W. Hutcheson, USAF, Pro- 
fessor of Air Science at Brown. The cere- 
mony took place in February. 



APRIL 1960 



57 



Bureau of Vital Statistics 



MARRIAGES 

1945 — Walter P. Gunn. Jr., and Miss 
Margaret T. Carpenter, daughter of Mrs. 
Charles M. Tenney of Longmeadow, 
Mass., Nov. 28. The groom's father is 
Walter P. Gunn 15. 

1950 — Alexander J. Dimeo and Dr. 
Neida Q. Ogden. daughter of Mrs. Herbert 
S. Ogden of Paweatuek, R. I., and the 
late Mr. Ogden, Feb. 6. Thomas P. Dimeo 
'52 was his brother's best man. Gardner 
Macartney '50 and Dr. William J. Osborn 
'50 were among the ushers. 

1951 — George L. Johnston and Miss 
Virginia T. Graves, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Samuel M. Graves of Wellesley, 
Mass., Jan. 23. Among the ushers were 
Robert P. Allingham '51 and Kenneth B. 
Church '51. 

1953 — Howard M. Freeman and Miss 
Phyllis Sackman, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. David Sackman of Stamford, Conn., 
Nov. 14. The groom's father is Warren J. 
Freeman '21. AUyn Freeman '61, the 
groom's brother, was best man, and 
Samuel Bernstein '53, Herbert Pearlman 
"53, and Norman Davidson '52 ushered. 

1953 — John F. Valinote, Jr., and Miss 
Joan C. Powers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
William F. Powers of Providence, Jan. 30. 

1954 — Leland D. Breckenridge, Jr., and 
Miss Patricia R. Hetherington, daughter 
of Mr. and Mrs. Allen H. Hetherington 
of Belmont, Mass., Feb. 20. At home: 
239 East 77th St., Apt. C, New York 21. 

1954 — Nathaniel W. Horton and Miss 
Diane E. Baker, daughter of Mrs. Eileen 
M. Stewart of Vancouver, B.C., Canada, 
Aug, 8, At home: 7330 Merrill Ave., 
Chicago 49. 

1954 — Walter G. Stern and Miss Nora 
S. Rand, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sydney 
M. Shoenberg, Jr., of Clayton, Mo., Nov. 
29. At home: 256 South Brentwood Blvd.. 
Clayton 5. 

1955 — Kenneth F. Arnold and Miss 
Olga S. Miller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Joseph Miller of Reading, Mass., Dec. 26. 
At home: 3 Deering Ave.. Lexington, 
Mass. 

1955 — Socrates H. Mihalakos and Miss 
Joan Nickels, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
John Nickels, Sept. 6. At home: 67 De- 
Cicco Rd., Waterbury, Conn. 

1955 — William P. Pemberton and Miss 
Maritza L. Shaghalian, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Ashund Shaghalian of Cranston, 
Jan. 30. Gilbert Pemberton, II, '56 was 
best man for his brother. Among the 
ushers were Vincent D'Allesandro '55, 
Louis Pastore '54, and William O'Connell 
'55. At home: 70 Union Ave., Warwick. 

1955— William T. Prifty and Miss 
Janice B. Larson, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Eric T. Larson of Waterbury, Conn., 
Jan. 16. Robert Prifty '56 was his brother's 
best man. At home: 234 Hill St., Wa'er- 
bury. 



1955 — John F. Walter and Miss Nancy 
M. Fosdick, Dec. 19. Wilham V. Clarke 
'47 was an usher. At home: 122 Rickbell 
Rd., Mamaroneck, N. Y. 

1956— Lt. Thomas G. Doherty, Jr., 
USAF, and Miss Eileen C. Anthony, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond C. 
Anthony of Fairfield, Conn., Jan. 9. 

1957 — George C. Bitting and Miss 
Carol L. Culver, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Bertram B. Culver of Ladue, Mo., 
Feb. 6. The groom's father is Kenneth H. 
Bitting '20. Guy D. Hughes '56, Howard 
Elliott, Jr., '56, Martin Imm, Jr., '57, 
and William O. H. Freund '57 were among 
the ushers. 

1957 — Robert J. Giordano and Miss 
Dorothy L. Basile, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Joseph P. Basile of Rutherford, N. J., 
Sept. 5. At home: 16-L Riverview Gardens, 
North Arlington, N. J. 

1957— LT(j.g.) John C. Goddard, USNR, 
and Miss Joan Way of Charleston, S. C, 
Dec. 19. 

1958— Edwin V. Burkholder and Miss 
Anne E. Maslen, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Frederick G. Maslen of Highland 
Park, 111,, Feb. 20. 

1958— Lt. Ronald R. Edwards, USN, 
and Miss Judith Pashall, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Harry Pashall of New Haven, 
Dec. 21. 

1958— Ens. Peter B, Howard, USN, 
'58 and Miss Jane M. Loveless, daughter 
of Mr. and Mrs. Everton H. Loveless of 
Westport, Conn., Jan. 2. The groom's 
father is Herbert A. Howard '28. 

1958 — David L. Nass and Miss Judith L 
Kelso, Dec. 26. John Bloom '58 was an 
usher. At home: 54 Trinity St., New Brit- 
ain, Conn, 

1959 — Edward J. Amour and Miss 
Ellen Cohen, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. 
Irving I. Cohen of New Rochelle, N. Y., 
Jan. 31. The bride is Pembroke '60. 

1959 — Kevin J. Daly and Miss Regina 
T. Toole, daugher of Mr. and Mrs. Gil- 
bert A. Toole of Naugatuck, Conn., Jan. 
23. Charles H. Daly '45 was best man for 
his brother. At home: 112 Bay State Road, 
Boston. 

1959— John J. Orr, II, and Miss Eliza- 
beth A. Bourre, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Arthur E. Bourre of Woonsocket, Feb, 6. 




John W. Cronin. Jr., '59 was an usher. At 
home: 26 Grotto Ave., Providence. 

1959— Edward G. Perkins and Miss 
Barbara Carlson, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Gustaf Carlson of Killingworth, 
Conn., Aug. 29. Thomas W. Sudol '59, 
Richard D. Brown '60, and Roger C. 
Colter '60 ushered. At home: 370 Thayer 
St., Providence. 

1959— Robert D. Stein and Miss Car- 
roll A. Trainor. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Frederick Trainor of Pawtucket, Jan. 2. 
The bride is Pembroke '59. At home: 1645 
Touhy Ave., Chicago 26. 

1960— Robert P. Sullivan and Miss 
Eileen M. Silva, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Manuel Silva of East Providence, 
Feb. 20. At home: 135 Sutton Ave., East 
Providence. 



BIRTHS 

1936 — To Mr. and Mrs. James C. 
Maiden of Glen Cove, L. I., N. Y., a son, 
James Cameron, Jr., Feb. 15. 

1946— To Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. 
Burton of Houston, their fourth child and 
third son, Christopher Randolph, Jan. 26. 

1948— To Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. 
Earabino of Waltham, Mass., a daughter, 
Kathleen Louise, Jan. 6. 

1949 — To Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Moore, 
Jr., of Providence, their third child and 
second daughter, Patricia Ann, Oct. 16. 

1950— To Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cum- 
mings of Providence, their fourth child 
and fourth daughter, Alexandra, Feb. 27. 
M. Joseph Cummings '18 is the grand- 
father. 

1950— To Dr. and Mrs. Philip C. Cur- 
tis, Jr., of Los Angeles, a son, Alan Dud- 
ley, June 19. Mrs. Curtis is the former 
Dorothy Smith, Pembroke '50. 

1950 — To Mr. and Mrs. Donald O'Brien 
of Grand Rapids, Mich., their fourth child 
and second son, Timothy Donald, Dec. 29. 

1951 — To Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. 
Atherton of Olmsted Falls, O., their third 
child, a daughter, Robin, Jan. 14. Dudley 
R. Atherton, Jr., '31 is a grandfather. 

1951— To Lt. Laurent N. Dion, USN. 
and Mrs. Dion of Beeville, Tex., their 
second child and first son. Paul Laurent, 
Jan. 18. 

1951— To Mr. and Mrs. John C. Mar- 
tin, Jr., of Cumberland, R. I., their fourth 
child and second son, William David, 
Aug. 1. Mrs. Martin is the former Lucille 
Pieri, Pembroke '48. 

1951— To Mr, and Mrs. Walter Mills 
of North Syracuse, N, Y., a daughter, 
Barbara Jo, Nov. 19. 

1952— To Mr. and Mrs. Leo Vine of 
Shelton, Conn., their first child, a son. 
Harry Alan, Feb. 21. Mrs. Vine is the 
former Doris Kreiger, Pembroke '54. 

1954 — To Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Bay 
of Portsmouth, R. I., a daughter, Kath- 
leen Anne, Jan, 26. 

1954 — To Mr. and Mrs. Lewis H. 
Busell of South Hamilton, Mass,, a daugh- 
ter, Gwendolyn Ruth, Feb. 4. 

1954— To Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. 
Lunn of Dallas, their second daughter. 
Linda Carol, Jan. 23. 

1955— To Mr. and Mrs. Harrv L. De- 



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voe, Jr., of Charlottesville, Va., a son. 
Ryan Woods, July 9. 

1955— To Mr. and Mrs. John W. Fuller 
of Paramus, N. J., their second child and 
first daughter, Jennifer Anne, Dec. 24. 
Mrs. Fuller is the former Anne C. Clowes, 
Pembroke '54. 

1955_To Mr. and Mrs. J. Philip O'Hara 
of Oak Park, III., their first child, a son, 
Keith Armstrong, Jan. 30. 

1955 — To Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. 
Palombo of Cranston, their second child, 
a daughter, Elizabeth Anne, Dec. 15. 

1955— To Mr. and Mrs. William J. 
Pearce of Boston, their first child, a daugh- 
ter, Catherine Low, Jan. 4. 

1955_To Mr. and Mrs. Willis H. Ric- 
cio of Providence, a son, Jeffrey Lynn, 
Aug. 14. 

1955 — To Mr. and Mrs. Leo Setian of 
Norwich, Conn., their second child and 
second daughter, Ann, Sept. 22. 

1956— To LT(i.g.) John E. Delhagen, 
USNR, and Mrs. Delhagen of Norfolk, 



Va., a daughter, Mary Ruth, Jan. 28. 

1957— To LT(j.g.) Don F. Goodwin, 
USN, and Mrs. Goodwin of Norfolk, Va., 
their first child, a daughter, Darcie Lee, 
Jan. 12. 

1957 — To Mr. and Mrs. Loring R. 
Litchfield of Providence, their first child, 
a son, Jeffrey Loring, Jan. 26. Paternal 
grandfather is Loring P. Litchfield '28, 
and maternal grandfather is L. Leslie 
Eaton '31. 

1957 — To Mr. and Mrs. David F. Neil 
of Jackson Heights, N. Y., a daughter, 
Laura Byron, Dec. 15. 

1957— To A/lc Bruce Ralston, USAF, 
and Mrs. Ralston of Colorado Springs. 
Colo., a son, Barry Barnes, Jan. 17. 

1958— To Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. 
Fitch of Fords, N. J., their first child, a 
daughter, Margaret, Nov. 14. 

1958— To Mr. and Mrs. C. Markham 
Langham, Jr., of New Haven, Conn., 
their first child, a daughter, Susan Caul- 
field, Jan. 4. 



In Memoriam 



DR. CHARLES HOBEN DAY '88 in 
Newton Centre, Mass., Feb. 13. He 
came to Brown after receiving an A.B. 
from Acadia University, and a year of 
instructing Latin at Horton Collegiate 
Academy in Nova Scotia. In 1889 he 
studied for his A.M. at Acadia, and 
during the following year was a student 
at Newton Theological Seminary. After 
a year of studies at the University of 
Berlin, he was ordained in 1892. His 
first pastorate was of the First Baptist 
Church, Quebec, for four years. In 
1897 he returned to Brown for an A.M. 
Professor of Modern Languages at 
Shurtleff College for two years, he re- 
turned to the ministry in 1900 at the 
Kentville, N. S., Baptist Church. His 
18 years as Pastor of the Watertown, 
Mass., First Baptist Church began in 
1905. A Director of the Northern Bap- 
tist Educational Society, he was Librar- 
ian of the New England Baptist Library 
from 1930-33. A Trustee of the New- 
ton Theological Seminary from 1917-25, 
he received an honorary D.D. from 
Acadia University in 1912, and was on 
its Board of Governors for 10 years. 
Other honorary recognition came from 
Shurtleff College in 1905. His brother 
was the late Horace L. Day '89, and 
his son is Charles H. Day, Jr., '26. 
Carrie S. Day, 3 Moreland Ave., New- 
ton Centre, is his widow. 

DR. HAROLD DEXTER HAZELTINE 

'94 in Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 23. A 
noted legal historian, he was Downing 
Professor of Laws at the University of 
Cambridge, England, from 1919-42, the 
first American to hold such a position in 
an English University. After a LL.B. 
from Harvard in 1898 and a J.D. from 



the University of Berlin in 1905, he 
became a member of the Faculty of the 
University of Chicago, and later, the 
University of Wisconsin. During the 
years before he went to Cambridge, he 
also lectured at Columbia and the Uni- 
versity of London. In the early part of 
the century, he instructed at Emmanuel 
College, England, and later became a 
Fellow there. Author of numerous ar- 
ticles on English legal history, he was 
a member of the Sheldon Society, the 
International Law Association, and the 
American History Association. As well 
as an honorary LL.D. from Brown in 
1920, he held similar recognition from 
Cambridge and Harvard. Phi Beta 
Kappa. Delta Kappa Epsilon. 

CHARLES READ RICHARDSON '18 in 

Manchester. Conn., Feb. 21. A lifetime 
resident of that city and a veteran bank- 
ing official, he was Assistant Treasurer 
of the Connecticut Bank and Trust Co. 
The State Banking Department's Senior 
Examiner for 21 years, he had also been 
with the Manchester Trust Co. from 
1923-36, and again as Auditor in 1954. 
He was a World War I veteran. Psi 
Upsilon. His widow is Lucile K. Rich- 
ardson, 50 Elwood Road, Manchester. 

RALPH HENRY MULLANE '19 in New 
York City, Feb. 5. The Assistant Vice- 
President and National Credit Manager 
for Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. was 
en route to Washington on a business 
trip when he was stricken at LaGuardia 
Field. He had been with the insurance 
firm for more than 35 years and had 
served as a Director of the National 
Credit Executives Association, President 
of the Boston Credit Men's Association, 



and President of the Liberty Mutual 
Club of Boston. A record-holder as a 
track star while an undergraduate, he 
was later active in alumni affairs as 
President of the Boston Brown Club 
and Director of the Associated Alumni. 
Phi Kappa. June Mullane Ryan, Pem- 
broke '48 is his daughter. His widow is 
Mildred D. Mullane. 59 Virginia Road, 
Quincy, Mass. 

WALTER RAYNER COLE '20 in Kenne- 
bunk, Me., Dec. 13. A lifetime resident 
of Kennebunk, he was one of the own- 
ers of the C. H. Cole & Sons Insurance 
Agency there. He was a veteran of 
overseas duty during World War I. His 
widow is Marion S. Cole, Fletcher St., 
Kennebunk. 

JOSEPH EDWARD BEAGAN '22 in 
Providence, Feb. 22. A graduate of 
Harvard Law School, he began practice 
in Providence in 1926. For a time, he 
was associated with his brother, the 
late Edmund F. Beagan "20, also an at- 
torney, in the firm known as Beagan & 
Beagan. He had been a member of the 
Rhode Island Bar Association and the 
United States Federal Bar. Another 
brother is John G. Beagan '21 of Provi- 
dence. Phi Kappa. 

GERALD FRANCIS WEIS '27 in Dayton, 
O.. Nov. 3. President of Univis Lens Co., 
Dayton, he joined the firm in the early 
1940's as Works Manager, and in 1945 
became Vice-President for Manufactur- 
ing. He previously had been associated 
with the Bendix Aviation Corp. His 
widow's address is 87 East Thurston 
Blvd., Dayton 19. 

ROBERT LEE REYNOLDS '40 in New 
York City, Feb. 11. Since graduation he 
had been with the Solvay Process Divi- 
sion, Allied Chemical Corp. He most 
recently was Assistant Director of Sales. 
Initially with the Technical Service De- 
partment, he also was a field sales rep- 
resentative for Solvay's Detroit and 
Philadelphia branch offices. During the 
war he became an industrial analyst for 
the War Production Board in Washing- 
ton, D. C, and saw active service with 
the Navy. Prior to his most recent posi- 
tion, he was manager of the Sales De- 
partment's Organic Chemicals Section. 
Alpha Delta Phi. His widow is Vir- 
ginia Bowman Reynolds, Pembroke 
'42, 204 Linden Drive, Fair Haven, N. J. 

LOUIS WALTER ANTHONY '51 in 
Troy, N. Y., Feb. 17. After two years in 
the Army, he studied law at Boston Uni- 
versity. After receiving his degree in 
1956, he became an underwriter for 
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance 
Co., Springfield, Mass. In 1957 he 
passed his bar exams and became Trust 
Administrator for the National City 
Bank, Troy. Delta Tau Delta. His 
widow is Ann C. Anthony, 275 Hoosick 
St., Troy. 



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