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BROWN 

ALUMNI MONTHLY 



FEBRUARY 1961 VOL. LXl NO. 5 



In This Issue. 



The Role of the Computing Center 6 



Biology of the Skin: a New Grant 9 



Should Brown Have a Medical School? 10 



From a Lincoln Letter to a Stamp 15 



Rowing Gains Varsity Recognition 16 



Is Brown "the Ivv Leaaue Doormat"? If 



Josiah Carberry on Friday the 13th 20 



FRONT COVER 



OUR PHOTO shows the lobby of the new Brown University Computing 
Laboratory, suggesting the quality of its architecture but hardly able to 
give a hint of the wonders awaiting beyond the wall at the right. The Lab's 
Director describes some of the potential of this new research tool, in an 
article in this issue. We shall continue its story next month, for the building 
and its IBM 7070 have been among Brown's most exciting acquisitions in 
some time. (Photo by George Henderson ".^8, Brown Photo Lab.) 




It is all fun 



WE SENT AN ARTICLE On the botanical 
varieties of collegiate ivy to Mrs. 
Henry D. Sharpe, thinking that she, as 
"the beautifier of the Brown Campus," 
might be interested. Acknowledging the 
bit, she added: "But please call me not a 
'beautifier.' Sounds so like a beauty parlour 
where beauty is so often destroyed." 

Then she went on to suggest the phi- 
losophy which has guided her in her won- 
derful work on behalf of the visible 
Brown: "I like to think I am a landscape 
designer, if not a landscape architect. It is 
form, rather than colour, and use of space 
to create a sense of space that is my great 
preoccupation. It is all fun. anyhow!" It 
must be the more so since Mrs. Sharpe has 
succeeded so well. 

> TOO LATE for a Christmas story? An old 
friend's return to Providence stoked up a 
lot of memories including this one about 
a three-year-old at one of those Nativity 
pageants at a local church. The child had 
been standing on tiptoe to watch, then 
made it to the seat of the pew. only to get 
down complaining for all to hear: "I can't 
see the Baby lesus. There's too damn 
much hay." 

> WHILE we're harking back to Yule and 
herald angels, here's a belated report on 
the Carol Service of the Classics Depart- 
ment, which continues to draw its overflow 
audience to .-Mumnae Hall and stimulates 
the finest singing of the season, all in 
Latin. The familiar. "While Shepherds 
Watched Their Flocks by Night," had been 
translated to begin: "Dum noctu humi 
praesident." Some fellow (vulgar in more 
than the classical sense) whispered: "That 
means 'Some dumb humans were knocking 
the President.' " 



Tip on string' 



> a certain reader is smarter than we 
are (Voice: "Only one?"). . . . Anyway, 
he's richer by $10. which is the amount 
paid by The American Salesman for "prac- 
tical tested ideas drawn from many fields 
and submitted." He read how a Brown 
Class Agent (it was Joel Davis '56) had 
mailed out his messages in an envelope 
that bore a sketch of a hand with a real 
piece of red string looped over the index 
finger. As you may recall seeing in our 
pages at the time, the message inside said: 
"The attached string is merely to remind 
you that we have not yet received your 
Brown Fund contribution. Hope you'll 
'string along.' " 

> the key reporter of Phi Beta Kappa 
quoted recently from the In Memoriam 
column of an alumnae publication: "I 
kept in fairly close touch with her, though 
she did not answer my letters." 

y THE REV. EDGAR F. STAFF '53 received 
several phone calls recently that mystified 
him. for they were all from people looking 
for a lark. Finally, he looked in the classi- 





fied ad section and found that his Church's 
phone number had been used in an offering 
of a 1959 Lark ("wonderful buy"). 

> A MOTHER was quoted in the Pennsyl- 
vania Gazette after she had paid a visit to 
her son: "You should see Tom's room. 
You know most college boys' rooms have 
the same old stupid stolen things in them. 
Tom's is different ... it has really inter- 
esting stolen things." 



Prize heading- 



> PERIODICALLY somcone asks us why we 
persist in using such a quaint heading as 
"Brunonians Far and Near" over our 
department of personal items. Well, as 
we've said before, this magazine carried 
that banner over its first class notes 60 
years ago, and we just haven't the heart 
to change. 

A recent inquiry, however, led us to see 
what some of our contemporaries were 
calling such departments. We found: 
"Alumni Newsmakers," "Keeping up with 
the Old Grads," and the simple "Class 
Notes." Rollins speaks of it as "Classified 
Information," but our John Doe Award 
for 1961 goes to Utah, which carries the 
heading, "U Alumni Around the World." 
Our prize, however, is based on the de- 
lightful lower-case subheading: "when i 
knew him, he was nothing but a bum." 

> TALKING on individuality in Sayles Hall 
recently. President Keeney came to the 
interesting subject of beards. While we 
can't attempt to quote verbatim, the bur- 
den of his remarks was something like 
this: Some of you have already made the 
inevitable attempt which all men must 
make some time or other, when you must 
test your manhood by growing a beard. 
Often, it seems, a beard becomes a protest 
against society's conventions: then all non- 
conformists conform to that anti-habit 
habit. Suddenly, however, a Castro appears 
on the stage with a beard, with the result- 
ing syllogism that, since Castro is a Com- 
munist, all bearded men are Communists. 
This is not altogether true. "I assure you," 
said Dr. Keeney, "that some of the 
bearded men whose portraits hang here 
in Sayles were not Communists." Looking 
at the faces of Walter Everett, John Lin- 
coln, and Charles Evans Hughes, the stu- 
dents got the point. 



> COMMENT on the Rose Bowl game by 
an alumnus of the University of Michigan: 
"It's about like anything else that is 

cooked up at Thanksgiving, stored in a 
deep freeze, and warmed up for New 
Year's." 

> MAX GORDON, the theatrical producer, 
was talking at one of the Resident Fellows' 
Luncheons at Brown recently when he 
said: "I'm firmly convinced that God 
created Shakespeare 400 years ago to make 
sure that Hollywood wouldn't get him." 

> THERE didn't SEEM tO be tOO ffluch tO 

say about the basketball game, and they 
were on their way out of Marvel Gym. 
And she said: "Well, they won it." And he 
said: "Only on points." 

> it IS ONLY FAIR to keep his identity a 
secret and his reputation unsullied, but an 
alumnus sent a postcard from a Pacific 
cruise after witnessing some native dances 
and ceremonials. His comment: "Two 
sarongs don't make a rite. " 

BUSTER 




STIGMA ON BEARDS 




COMPUTING LAB 



Wherein a marvelous new tool is ready to serve research. 



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ROWN University's new Computing Laboratory was 
dedicated last month, a $350,000 home for the million- 
dollar IBM 7070 and those who will use it. The center at 
Brook and George Sts. is the gift of Mrs. Thomas J. 
Watson and her son, Thomas J. Watson, Jr., '37, and adds 
further importance to the work of the Applied Mathe- 
matics Department, which operates it for the benefit of 
research in its own and many other fields. The 7070 is the 
first to be owned by a university on the Eastern seaboard. 
Its purchase was made possible by a $350,000 grant from 
the National Science Foundation and a generous discount 
from International Business Machines Corporation. Since 
the dedication took place after our deadline for this issue, 
we shall describe it next month and go into some detail 
about the Laboratory itself. 




AMONG THE FIRST VISITORS: Donor Wotson and Dr. Keeney with Prof. William Prager, Director. 





DEDICATION: "to the human use of human beings." 



ITS ROLE 



Service Facility 

or Research Center? 



By PROF. WILLIAM PRAGER 

Director, University Computing Laboratory 



WITH ITS DEDICATION Oil Jan. 12. the Brown University 
Computing Laboratory' officially started serving the Uni- 
versity. It is, therefore, appropriate to examine the potential 
role of this kind of establishment in a university. 

In attempting to do this, we must not forget that it is only 
about a dozen years since electronic computers with stored 
programs were first constructed. The all-transistorized IBM- 
7070 System in our new Computing Laboratory is one of the 
first representatives of the second generation of these com- 
puters. To predict at this stage the full impact of these ma- 
chines on our society is as hopeless a task as it would have 
been to predict the impact of the printing press, a dozen years 
after its invention. In fact, as we go back through the cen- 
turies reviewing the great inventions that have shaped our 
civilization, it is not until we come to the printing press that 
we find one with as all-pervading an influence as electronic 
data processing systems are likely to have. 

Let us briefly review some accomplishments and promises 
of these systems. Although they use punched cards and other 
devices originally developed for business applications, they owe 
their existence to the desire for greater speed in scientific com- 
putations. The need for greater speed usually stems from the 
fact that computations performed to forecast an event or sug- 



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gest an action will not do us any good unless their results 
become available before the event occurs or the action is re- 
quired. Numerical weather prediction illustrates this point. 
The physical laws governing the motion of the atmosphere, 
the formation and dissipation of clouds, precipitation, and so 
on, are well known. Using these laws, we should be able to 
forecast tomorrow's weather from observations made today 
over a sufficiently dense and far-flung net of weather stations. 
If, however, the necessary computations took a week, their 
results would only be of academic interest. 

Both a Science and an Art 

Many other instances could be cited, in which computa- 
tions would be useless if they could not be performed with 
electronic speeds. On the other hand, there is a vast area of 
scientific computation, in which speed is less essential. Here 
the computer performs calculations that have in the past been 
done by hand, slide-rule, or desk calculator. Aside from free- 
ing us from the drudgery of such work, has the electronic 
computer any contribution to make to this area? 

To answer this question, one must appreciate that tradi- 
tional numerical analysis is both a science and an art. As a 
science, it should clearly specify the mathematical features of 
a proposed method of computation. Typical questions are: 
how is limited accuracy of the data reflected in the result, or 
how do round-ofl; errors accumulate during the computation? 
Though easily formulated, these questions are often hard to 
answer and may require protracted study. Meanwhile, the 
numerical problem on hand may have to be solved without 
full insight into the mathematical properties of the method 
used. This situation is typical: it has produced a great number 
of practical rules that have been handed down to us by earlier 
practitioners of the art of computing. While many of these 
rules can be rationalized to some extent, others merely express 
practical experience. This experience is often rather limited, 
and on closer inspection practical rules that have been re- 
peated in textbook after textbook are in fact found to lack 
general validity. 

Using electronic computers, we now can greatly accelerate 
the accumulation of practical experience with old or new 
methods; we can test their performance in situations, where 
mathematical theory is as yet unable clearly to predict their 
power. Experiments in computation will not only assist us in 
the elimination of worthless practical rules, they will also in- 
teract with the theory of computation in very much the same 
manner in which experiments and theory interact in physics 
or chemistry. 

A Revolution in Teaching, Too 
Because they enable the student to experiment with a vari- 
ety of methods for solving a given problem, computers will 
revolutionize the teaching of numerical analysis. When stu- 
dents had to familiarize themselves with the methods of this 
discipline by doing sample computations with pencil and pa- 
per or, at most, a desk calculator, the instructor was severely 
limited in the choice of examples, most of which were una- 
voidably of lesser size and complexity than those encountered 
in the sciences. Even so, the individual student could rarely 
afford to apply more than a couple of methods to the solution 
of a specific problem. If small groups of students agreed to 
attack the same problem with different methods and compare 
their results, the class could gain some collective experience. 
It would be far preferable, however, to have the individual 



student try a variety of methods on a number of carefully 
selected problems, and electronic computers now make this 
possible. 

There is of course a price the student will have to pay for 
gaining this wider experience: he must be willing to master a 
language in which his problem can be stated to the machine. 
In the early days of automatic computation, this was far from 
being an easy task. In recent years, however, command lan- 
guages that closely resemble the symbolic language of mathe- 
matics have been developed. While at present these languages 
are tied to specific brands of computers, work on an interna- 
tional algorithmic language is in progress. 

I have dwelt on scientific computation because it is in this 
area that we can already point to a solid core of accomplish- 
ments. We must however beware of taking it for granted that 
the principal impact of computers will be in this area. In fact, 
the term "computer" reflects but one facet of these versatile 
machines, whose function is more adequately described by the 
statement that they transform information. In all computing 
and many data processing applications, numerical information 
is transformed into numerical information. In machine trans- 
lation, on the other hand, verbal information stated in one 
language is transformed into its equivalent in another lan- 
guage. 

Translation by Machine 

Among the demonstrations prepared for our open house 
at the Computing Laboratory, there was a very simple ex- 
ample of a machine translation, not from a foreign language 
into English, but from the digital representation of a number 
to the corresponding English words. In programming the ma- 
chine to do this, we must keep in mind that for instance the 
digit 3 cannot always be translated by the word "three"; de- 
pending on its position and on the preceding digit, it may 
have to be rendered as "three", "thirteen", or "thirty". Since 
we are however able to formulate clear and unequivocal 
rules for this, we can achieve fully automatic translation of 
high quality in this extremely narrow field. 

When we attempt machine translation of source material 
selected from a less restricted area, we soon realize that lin- 
guistics is not yet sufficiently developed to equip us with 
equally clear rules for this task. All the same, the feasibility 
of machine translation that requires only a moderate amount 
of human editing has already been demonstrated. 

It is still controversial whether fully automatic translation 
of high quality will become possible, even if we restrict our- 
selves to a comparatively narrow field of science with a lim- 
ited and well-defined vocabulary. The obvious difficulties of 
this task are aggravated by the fact that the author of a sci- 
entific paper may introduce new terms, that is, he may endow 
common words of the source language with new special 
meanings in the context of his work. In the machine's mem- 
ory, there will be no equivalents for these words in the target 
language when they are used with these special meanings. Can 
the machine expand its vocabulary by arbitrarily but consist- 
ently picking one of the target equivalents of the source word 
and marking it by say an asterisk, when the new meaning is 
intended? 

Automatic Abstracts; Information Retrieval 

We have considered machine translation as an example for 
the manner in which computers can transform information. 
The automatic preparation of abstracts of scientific docu- 



FEBRUARY 1961 



The Fund at $11,000,000 

YEAR-END contributions to the Bicentennial De- 
velopment Program of Brown University carried 
its total across the 11-miUion-dollar mark, it was 
announced on Jan. 5 by the National Chairman, 
Thomas J. Watson, Jr., '37. Without the giant Uft of 
any spectacularly large gift, a month's campaigning 
had increased by $500,000 the climb toward the 
capital campaign's goal: $15,100,000. The total on 
Jan. 5 was $11,040,587. 

The number of contributors also rose — from 6,263 
to 8,012, about 37% of the prospect list. New cam- 
paign areas will get "active" status in 1961 . 



ments furnishes another example. Here a document is ab- 
stracted by having the machine select a few key sentences 
that are particularly rich in content. Though this richness is 
judged by superficial criteria based on word frequency, such 
an abstract can convey an astonishingly good picture of the 
contents of the document. By making the machine select key 
words rather than key sentences, we may be able to indicate 
the area with which the document is concerned in a way that 
proves useful in automatic literature searching. 

Since the beginning of the 19th century, the number of 
scientific publications has increased 10 fold every 50 years 
with amazing regularity. Thus, only if the efficiency of infor- 
mation retrieval had similarly increased every 50 years, would 
our scientists be as well informed about the contemporary 
scientific literature as were their predecessors some 150 years 
ago. Until the advent of electronic computers, actual progress 
in information retrieval had fallen far behind this modest 
goal. 

There are many other fields in which improved techniques 
of information retrieval will pay dividends. For instance, it 
would be difficult to find a corpus of careful observations of 
which so little use is made in comparison to its tremendous 
size as the hundreds of millions of case histories that hospitals 
all over the world accumulate each year. Better searching 
techniques applied to this wealth of information could greatly 
assist the diagnostician. The search for legal precedents or 
conflicting patent claims are other fruitful fields of applica- 
tion for the new techniques. 



The computer's ability to create a wealth of synthetic ex- 
perience at high speed will obviously be of great value to 
business and industry in situations where there are doubts 
regarding the effect of a proposed change in procedures. For 
instance, to find out whether the adoption of a new system of 
production scheduling and inventory control would be worth- 
while for a manufacturing company, we can employ the com- 
puter to simulate several years of operation under both the 
old and the new procedure using a past or predicted pattern 
of sales. Instead of considering just one preconceived new 
procedure, we could even investigate an infinity of procedures 
that depend on a number of parameters, having the machine 
periodically re-examine the situation and modify the proce- 
dure in accordance with changing market conditions. Though 
this may be a greatly oversimplified example, it indicates the 
possibility of an integrated control system that handles the 
day-to-day operations of a company smoothly and rationally,! 
leaving management free to concentrate on the development 
of long-term policies. 

The Laboratory's Role in a University 

Space does not permit my mentioning other applications. I 
hope, however, that, sketchy though they had to be, my re- 
marks have laid a foundation for the following thoughts. 

Our Computing Laboratory can obviously render important 
services to the university community by speeding up conven- 
tional computation and data handling in connection with aca- 
demic research projects and administrative tasks. There will, 
in fact, be considerable pressures to use it largely in this area 
where the cost of operating the laboratory can be offset 
against the value of its services. It would however be a tragic 
mistake if we treated our new laboratory merely as a service 
facility that processes data for the departments much in the 
same manner in which the stenographic office handles print- 
ing and mimeographing. This is unfortunately the way in 
which computing installations are often used in business and 
industry, because it is short-sightedly held that they must earn 
their keep, not on a long-term basis but day by day. 

At a university, the computing laboratory has a more vital 
role to play: it must become a center of research bringing 
together students and scholars from many disciplines with 
representatives of local government, business, and industry, 
all dedicated to the task of exploring the enormous potential 
of modern computers to make man the master rather than 
the slave of systems which he created to cope with the com- 
plexities of modern life. If a motto should be desired for the 
new laboratory, I cannot think of a better one than this: to 
the human use of human beings. 








BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



The Biology 
of the Skin 

A grant will enable Brown 
to expand a notable program 



A GRANT from the United States Public Health Service that 
will total $333,000 over a SVi-year period has been re- 
ceived by Brown University to underwrite a program of grad- 
uated training in biology of the skin. Director of the training 
program, which is already in progress on a limited scale, is 
Dr. William Montagna of the Biology Department, a scientist 
whose research work in skin biology has earned him a world- 
wide reputation. Assisting Dr. Montagna in organizing the 
new program is Dr. Richard A. Ellis, Assistant Professor of 
Biology. 

The initial portion of the Public Health Service grant is 
$73,143 and covers the period from Jan. 1 this year to June 
30, 1962. The remainder of the grant will be made available 
in four annual allotments through June 30, 1966. More than 
half of the total grant, or just under $200,000, is to be used 
in the form of fellowships, scholarships, and allowances for 
students and visiting scientists who come to Brown to work 
under Dr. Montagna and his staff. 

Currently enrolled in the training program are five gradu- 
ate students and Dr. Tsuyoshi Aoki, a Japanese physiologist. 
Dr. Aoki, whose specialty is the physiology of sweating, will 
return to Japan next August, but four other post-doctoral 
fellows are expected to join the skin biology program at about 
that time. Dr. Montagna said. In addition, the number of 
graduate students in the program will be increased by three 
next fall. 

A fairly large proportion of the initial allotment of the 
grant is being invested in research equipment, much of which 
will be installed in a room in the Arnold Biological Labora- 
tory that has been set aside for graduate students in the 
training program. An example of this equipment, which is 
essential for the refined techniques that undergird modern 
biological research, is the cryostat. This machine is "a freez- 
ing box" that operates at an internal temperature of 26 degrees 
below zero. It enables the researcher to prepare exceedingly 
thin slices of fresh tissue which can then be used for such 
purposes as the study of enzyme action in individual cells. 

"Brown is as well equipped as any place in the world for 
research in skin biology," Dr. Montagna says. "The training 
program being underwritten by the Public Health Service is 
designed to indoctrinate all trainees in the major aspects of 
the structure, composition, and function of skin. Surrounded 
by a staff whose specialties, disciplines, and backgrounds in 
investigating skin are varied, the trainee may come to ap- 
preciate better the complexities of skin as an organ." 

Among the investigative techniques with which all train- 
ees will become acquainted are the use of the electron micro- 



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WILLIAM MONTAGNA: "Brown is as well equipped as any place 
in the world for research. Now we con do more training, too." 



scope and radioactive isotopes. Through the use of these iso- 
topes it is possible to make precise studies of the uptake and 
utilization by the skin of such biologically active agents as 
hormones and vitamins. Dr. Montagna says there will be 
ample opportunity for students to investigate the effects of 
radiation on the skin. Studies in that area will be directed by 
Dr. Herman B. Chase, the Robert P. Brown Professor of Bi- 
ology. 

Eventually, Dr. Montagna says, trainees will be able to 
complement their work at Brown by participating in an ex- 
change program that is now being arranged with skin research 
laboratories at the University of Pennsylvania, the Mayo 
Clinic, and Boston University. 

Dr. Montagna, who recently was named an L. Herbert 
Ballou University Professor, has been a member of the Brown 
Faculty since 1948. Soon after arriving at Brown he initiated 
an annual symposium on the biology of the skin. The sym- 
posium, held each year in January, attracts scientists from 
all parts of the United States and from abroad. Last year his 
alma mater, Bethany College of West Virginia, awarded him 
the honorary degree of doctor of science and cited him as 
"one of the leading anatomists in America." 



FEBRUARY 1961 



By SELIG GREEXBERG, '!27 



SHOULD 
BROWN 
HAVE A 

MEDICAL 
SCHOOL? 



The pressures increase; 

the question will be answered. 



10 



THE Brown University CoRPOR^^kTioN probably will be 
asked at its meeting next June to decide whether Brown 
should establish a medical school. This was learned in inter- 
views with Dr. Barnaby C. Keeney, University President, and 
Dr. Glidden L. Brooks, Director of Brown's Institute for 
Health Sciences, who is heading up a study now underway 
on the feasibility of a venture into the field of medical educa- 
tion. 

Among the topics under study are reported to be these 
questions: 

1. Would it be financially feasible for Brown to establish a 
medical school? 

2. What kind of medical education program would be most 
practicable and useful, in the light of both the nation's over- 
all needs for medical personnel and of Brown's character and 
educational resources? 

3. How much money would it take for the kind of pro- 
gram deemed most desirable and where would that money 
come from? 

Although financial estimates are said to be still far from 
firmed up, it is reported that it may take anywhere from $20.- 
000,000 to $40,000,000 to build a medical school and to as- 
sure its operating income. The lower figure is an estimate 
mentioned for a two-year school and the higher is for a four- 
year school. 

Itujiiiry by Two Study Teams 
These and related issues have been actively under examina- 
tion since June by two study panels and six consultants, all of 
them from outside of Rhode Island. Dr. Brooks describes the 
consultants as "people of importance in the field of medical 
education" and said most of them are or have been deans of 
medical schools. One of the study panels is reviewing the 
financial aspects of a medical school, according to Dr. Brooks, 
while the other is concentrating on "the type of program we 
should have and its impact on the University community." The 
exploration is being conducted under a $30,000 grant from 
the Commonwealth Fund "to study the feasibility of a pro- 
gram in medical education at Brown University." 

Dr. Brooks said he wanted to emphasize that "this is not 
a grant to plan a medical school. It's a grant to see what is 
the proper thing that Brown can and should do." "We are 
studying," he declared, "what is feasible, which could range 
all the way from simply altering our program of pre-medical 
education to setting up a complete medical center, including 
building our own hospitals. Quite clearly, if we do anything, 
it'll probably be somewhere in between." 

Under consideration, it is understood, are a two-year medi- 
cal school, whose graduates would have to complete their 
training elsewhere, and a four-year school. It also is reported 
that if a decision is reached to establish either kind of medical 
school, the program is likely to represent a new departure in 
the field of medical education. One possibility is that the em- 

BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



phasis in the new school would be on the training of medical 
research scientists and teachers of medicine rather than of 
medical practitioners. 
While stressing that the final decision rests with the Uni- 
, versity's Corporation, Dr. Brooks said he personally feels 
that "Brown probably is the single best place" in the country 
for a medical school among universities still without such 
schools. 

President Keeney's Only Comment 

"As soon as the panels report," Dr. Keeney said, "I shall 
take the reports to the Advisory and Executive Committee of 
the Corporation, which meets monthly, and discuss it with 
them. They will undoubtedly wish to communicate directly 
with the panels. If the reports come soon enough and if the 
Advisory and Executive Committee's deliberations have gone 
far enough, we will take it to the June meeting of the Cor- 

, poration with a report which may be a recommendation 
either for or against action in the matter or a recommenda- 
tion that further study be conducted. The Corporation itself 
may take action at its June meeting or lay action over until its 
October meeting." 

While Dr. Brooks was reluctant to discuss specifically the 
amount of money that would be involved to launch and op- 
erate a medical education program, the financial picture is 
reliably reported to shape up like this: 

It would take about $20,000,000 to set up the equivalent of 
a two-year medical school and nearly twice as much for a 
four-year school. This would include the cost of construction 
of buildings and the funds required to pay Faculty salaries 
and to develop the program. It now costs between $1,000,000 
and $1,500,000 a year to operate a top-notch two-year medi- 

'cal school. Average annual expenditures for the basic opera- 
tions of a four-year medical school now amount to about 
$2,500,000. 

Where would the money come from? Here, again. Dr. 
Brooks declined to go into too much detail, but he implied 
that considerable potential sources of financial support appear 
to be available. Among these he listed private foundations, 
support from industry and federal grants. 

Neiii Legislation Would Be Necessary 

The National Institute of Health, the research arm of the 
U. S. Public Health Service, now annually awards many mil- 
lions of dollars in grants for medical research and for the 
training of research personnel. There is no provision under 
existing law, however, for Federal grants for medical school 
construction or operation. Rhode Island's Representative John 
E. Fogarty, who has unsuccessfully sponsored such legisla- 
tion in the past, introduced a bill on the first day of the new 
Congress. 

' "Looking into the future," Dr. Brooks observed, "it's quite 
clear that some type of aid to medical education is going to 
be demanded by the people of this country." But he added 
that "even under existing Federal programs, there are re- 
sources that are of great aid to medical education." 

If Brown decides to set up a medical school, it is believed 
that the Institute for Health Sciences headed by Dr. Brooks 
will become its nucleus. The institute, established in 1957, al- 
ready administers a number of Federal research grants that 
could be transferred to the new medical school. 

Brown is reliably reported to have applied for a large 
Federal grant for a research center which would concentrate 



on the study of the socio-economic aspects of health in aging. 
If the grant is approved, as it is believed likely to be, the new re- 
search center also could be affiliated with the medical school. 
A basic component of a medical school is one or more 
teaching hospitals. Dr. Brooks said that while "formal" dis- 
cussions with hospitals that might become affiliated with a 
medical school have not yet been reached, "we're making cer- 
tain assumptions on the basis of past associations." 

150 Years Ago Brown Had One 

In discussing the genesis of the idea of a medical school at 
Brown, Dr. Brooks recalled that the university actually had 
such a school from 1811 until 1827. Brown's medical school 
was closed down when it ran afoul of a new policy established 
by Dr. Francis Wayland as he became President that required 
all Faculty members to be full-time University employes and 
to live on the campus. "Ever since," Dr. Brooks said, "spo- 
radic attempts have been made to revive the medical school, 
either at Brown or elsewhere in Rhode Island. This uniformly 
came to nothing for two very valid and interconnected rea- 
sons — Brown and the Rhode Island Medical Society consist- 
ently felt they didn't want one unless it was of top rank and 
quality, and to establish such a school it would have taken a 
lot of money." But lately "the climate has changed," Dr. 
Brooks declared, and "there have been increasing pressures" 
from various sources upon Brown that it do something about 
the matter in view of "the obvious need for more medical 
schools." 

These pressures, it is reported, did not exactly come at an 
ideally opportune time for Brown. The University had just 
launched its Bicentennial Development Fund drive for $30,- 
000,000 — half of it for new buildings and the other half for 
endowment — and it was concerned that talk of a new medical 
school and of additional financial needs might have an adverse 
effect on the huge fund-raising effort. 

Such fears, it is reported, are now beginning to subside to a 
considerable extent. The $15,000,000 construction phase of 
the Bicentennial Fund campaign is scheduled to be terminated 
next July. The endowment phase of the drive will probably 
continue until 1964. But as possible sources of support for a 
medical school have become crystallized, there is less concern 
over interference with this effort. 

In the meantime, pressures for a medical school have stead- 
ily risen. "A medical school at Brown," as one man thoroughly 
familiar with the situation has put it, "is virtually inevitable 
when you take into consideration the stirrings around the 
country for more medical schools to relieve shortages of 
skilled personnel. Brown's strong position as an independent 
university and the excellent medical service facilities already 
available in this metropolitan area." 

As to the kind of medical school that would be set up if 
the corporation makes an affirmative decision. Dr. Brooks 
said, "this would offer a unique opportunity for some new de- 
partures." He referred to the "great ferment " and the numer- 
ous experiments now under away in many of the existing 
medical schools as they seek to readjust themselves to new 
demands and the rapid expansion of medical science. With a 
new start, he said. Brown would have an unusual opportunity 
"to concentrate on high quality, with emphasis on training for 
leadership and for teaching and research in medicine." 

Selig Greenberg's article originally appeared in the Provi- 
dence Evening Bulletin. 



FEBRUARY 1961 



II 



WRISTON: ''Functionally incompatible 



5 5 



EXTERNAL pressure" upon Brown University has led to its 
study of the feasibility of establishing a school of medi- 
cine under its auspices, President Keeney said recently. But 
he added that there has also been "strong internal interest." 
He included a paragraph on the subject in his Report to the 
Corporation last October; alumni have read this statement as 
incorporated in the December issue of this magazine. 

"A study has been started," he wrote, "to determine whether 
or not a medical school at Brown is feasible and, if so, what 
kind of medical school it should be. This tentative step has 
been the result not only of external pressure on the University 
to provide medical education of high quality but also of strong 
internal interest. The desire for Brown's entry into this field 
is not restricted to the local community; it is evidently national 
in scope. There are very few first-rate universities in the 
country that do not have a medical school and can add one 
and thereby contribute to the solution of one of the real 
problems of our society." 

We recall only one other statement on the subject from a 
University officer in modern times. President Wriston was 
writing in 1946 about "The University College," in which, at 
the direction of the Corporation, he discussed Brown's educa- 
tional fabric in a message to the alumni. Pointing out that 
Brown occupied a unique educational position, as a university 
college, he said: 

"The university college differs in organization from most 
American universities, which are exceedingly complex. Be- 



tween the two wars, the structure of the characloristic univer- 
sity became vastly more complicated, for State institutions 
burgeoned both in prosperity and depression They grew dur- 
ing the booming twenties, sharing the belief that 'bigger' and 
'better' were synonymous. . . ." 

A consequence of professional and technological emphasis 
in such universities. Dr. Wriston said, was to blanket the lib- 
eral arts: "In many universities even the name 'college o( 
liberal arts' has disappeared; in others the unit which bears 
that name is on the defensive." 

"Against the tendency to allow the liberal arts to occupy a 
secondary position. Brown has been almost uniquely em- 
phatic," Dr. Wriston pointed out. "Brown, for example, is one 
of very few members of the Association of American Univer- 
sities which incorporates even engineering education within the 
liberal arts college instead of segregating it in a separate 
school. In the nearly 200 years of its existence. Brown has 
experimented with a medical school, with agriculture, with 
forestry, and with business administration; each was dropped 
because it proved fundamentally incompatible with the Uni- 
versity's major obligation. Brown is convinced that the impair- 
ment of the liberal program does not pay adequate dividends 
on the technical side and impoverishes education in terms ol 
social effectiveness. The University has concentrated its ener- 
gies deliberately and with more and more conviction and as- 
surance upon the undergraduate colleges of liberal arts and 
graduate work in the arts and sciences." 



FOGARTY: "If we want it enough 



J ? 



THE BALLOON went Up in June, 1959. Congressman John E. 
Fogarty brought his campaign for a Rhode Island medical 
school right to the Brown Campus when he broached the sub- 
ject at Commencement. His statement, made during his ad- 
dress on "Public Responsibilities in Science and Education" 
at the Graduate School Convocation, was the first public pro- 
posal of its kind to receive widespread attention. More re- 
cently. Representative Fogarty has said that Brown is much 
nearer to having a medical school than most people realize. 
In University Hall, however, no one is making predictions 
about what the two study panels will recommend to the Brown 
Corporation. 

In his 1959 address Congressman Fogarty cited a Govern- 
ment report which estimated the country's needs as between 
15 and 20 new medical schools. It would cost half a billion 
dollars to bring them into existence, too, and the indication 
was that Federal funds would have to bear at least a part of 
the construction expense. 

"Some day," the speaker said, "I believe that one of these 
medical schools should be established in this State, preferably 
right here at Brown. I realize that this recommendation can- 
not be taken lightly, and I assure you that it is not offered 
without serious consideration. The location and operation of 
a medical school entail considerable responsibility. What are 
some of these responsibilities? First, a medical school is an 
institution for the training of gifted young men and women 
to practice the greatest of all healing arts. Second, it is a 
haven for community services related to and including the 



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practice of medicine. Third, it is a point of focus for medical 
research. And, fourth, it is most often an extension of a uni- 
versity, expanding and strengthening the university's tradi- 
tional role as intellectual and cultural center for its conn 
munity. 

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

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

The State's Cooperation Pledged 

There was no official reply in public from Brown Univer- 
sity, and there was one very good reason for the silence: no 
money was in sight to build for medical education nor endow- 
ment for the most expensive form of education known. If 
there were private conversations, their nature was not di- 
vulged. It was obvious, however, that the University would 

BROWN ALUMNI MONTHU 



not have asked for a study on the subject merely as an 
exercise in speculation. 

Selig Greenberg's article in the Providence Evening Bul- 
letin of Dec. 3 1 , reprinted elsewhere in this issue, brought the 
matter out into the open again. He anticipated by only three 
days a reference at the Rhode Island State House, where 
Governor John A. Notte said in his inaugural message: 

"It is my firm belief that Rhode Island will develop into a 
center of medical learning. ... I have already been in con- 
tact with the committee presently considering the feasibility 
of a medical school at Brown University. I have directed my 
designee as Director of Health (Dr. Joseph E. Cannon) to 
assure the committee all State cooperation possible to make 
the medical school a reality. The full facilities of the State — 
our hospitals, laboratories, and trained personnel — will be 
available to the medical school for training purposes. I know 
such a school cannot help but contribute to an over-all raising 
of the level of medical care, public and private, throughout 
the State." 

As Soon As Congress Convened 

Congressman Fogarty was ready when the 87th Congress 
convened in Washington. On the opening day, he re-intro- 
duced legislation which would provide for $100,000,000 in 
Federal grants for the construction of new schools of medi- 
cine, dentistry, and public health. He told a Journal-Bulletin 
correspondent that the measure, if enacted into law, would 
apply to the "proposed Brown University medical school now 
under consideration by University officials." The sponsor said 
the similar bill he introduced in 1959 received "no support 
whatever from the Eisenhower administration," but he hoped 
for more favorable action by this session of Congress. As a 
candidate for the presidency, John F. Kennedy had been on 
record in favor of such legislation, he said. In addition, Mr. 
Fogarty had reason to believe, he indicated, that the American 
Medical Association, which has opposed such measures in the 
past, may modify its position this year on construction aid. 

The Fogarty Bill would enable the Federal Government to 
grant up to two thirds of the cost of construction of new med- 
ical schools during the next 10 years. The bill would also pro- 
vide for planning grants of not more than $25,000 for the 
preparation of initial plans and estimates for proposed new 
construction. Mr. Fogarty is Chairman of a House Subcom- 
mittee on health and welfare appropriations. He intended to 
introduce other bills which would provide Federal scholarship 
aid for medical students and Federal assistance to meet oper- 
ating costs of medical schools. 

Explaining his action in a statement for the Congressional 
Record, Congressman Fogarty said the nation will face a 
shortage of 15,000 physicians and 15,000 dentists by 1975. 
Other estimates show, he added, that the output of the nation's 
medical schools must be increased by 50% in order to main- 
tain the present ratio of 141 physicians to 100,000 of popula- 
tion. "It is futile to pretend that any other segment of Ameri- 
ca's economy will meet this need (for medical school 
construction) without some Federal assistance," he said. 

Mr. Fogarty said he felt the Federal program might be 
especially helpful to Brown, where existing hospitals can be 
used as training facilities and where the new construction can 
therefore be limited to meeting classroom and housing re- 
quirements. His understanding was, he said, that a medical 
school could be established at Brown with the construction of 
only one additional building. 



Why Did It 
Fail Before? 

Just 150 years ago, Way land 
killed off the Medical School 



WHAT HAPPENED to the Mcdical School at Brown Univer- 
sity in the 19th century? Speculation about a modern 
program of medical education at the University sent the curi- 
ous to consult two obvious references: the pages of Bronson's 
"History of Brown University" and a series of three articles 
written in 1955 by Dr. Seebert Goldowsky '28 in the Rhode 
Island Medical Journal. 

The program began in 1811, and apparently this Medical 
School was founded on nothing but good will and student 
fees, as Bronson expressed it. He could find no record that 
the Corporation even considered salaries for the medical pro- 
fessors for several years. "The truth is that these men were 
lecturers only, and their duties at the College did not inter- 
fere seriously with their practice, while the distinction of 
holding professorships was doubtless of some pecuniary value 
to them as physicians." 

The standard of medical education in this country was 
then low, but "even by contemporary standards" the Brown 
University Medical School was open to criticism. A letter to 
the Corporation in 1815 from an "Alumnus Brunensis" was 
properly frank: Only two medical students had as yet com- 
pleted the course and taken their degrees, and the Faculty 
was still "but half made up." He proposed that professors 
receive salaries, instead of being humiliated by precarious 
dependence upon fees; lectures by non-resident professors 
ought to be supplemented by a study of textbooks and a drill- 
ing by tutors. (Lab work and clinics were not even hinted at.) 

Action Followed in a Few Weeks 
One might speculate that this letter prodded the Corpora- 
tion into action, for the Faculty was strengthened straightway. 
"Its professors were able men of excellent training," says 
Bronson. "Professor Solomon Drowne was a graduate of the 
University of Pennsylvania Medical School, served as a sur- 
geon in the Continental army, and studied under eminent 
physicians in Europe for four years; he was also a famous 
botanist, having a remarkable botanical garden at his home 
on Mount Hygeia, in Foster. (He was professor of materia 
medica and botany.) William Ingalls was another of the three 
original appointments, professor of anatomy and surgery. He 
took the degrees of A.B., M.B., and M.D. at Harvard, was a 
prominent Boston physician especially skillful in surgery, 
and one of the earliest opponents of the practice of bleeding. 
"William C. Bowen, professor of chemistry, who came of a 
family of eminent Providence physicians, was educated in 
Rhode Island College and Union College, studied and prac- 
ticed in Providence, and then went to Europe, where he took 
a medical degree in the University of Edinburgh, studied in 
Paris and was a private pupil of the great London surgeon, 
Astley Cooper." (Continued on next page) 



FEBRUARY 1961 



13 



His successor, Professor John D'Wolf of Bristol, studied 
in Brown University but did not take a degree; his knowledge 
of chemistry was acquired chiefly under Dr. Robert Hare of 
Philadelphia. A member of the Class of 1826 wrote of him as 
an exceptional lecturer: "He always had a full attendance. 
He opened to the eyes of the student, in his peculiarly attrac- 
tive manner, the wonder of a new and brilliant science. Some- 
times in drawing practical deductions from the science he was 
teaching, he would suddenly electrify the class by illustrating 
its truths in glowing and eloquent words, so impressive and 
graphic as not to be easily forgotten." He also gave popular 
courses of lectures which drew large audiences in Providence, 
New Bedford, and Savannah. He later held the chair of chem- 
istry in medical schools in Vermont and St. Louis. 

A Brilliant Company They Made 

Dr. Levi Wheaton. professor of the theory and practice of 
the "physick," was of the Class of 1782, studied medicine 
with a Rhode Island physician during the Revolution, and 
acquired valuable experience in a military hospital and as a 
surgeon on a privateer and on a prison-ship. He contributed 
many articles to the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. 

One of the greatest was Dr. Usher Parsons, who had served 
with distinction in the War of 1812. He had studied with a 
Boston doctor, later took a Harvard M.D. in 1818, walked 
the hospitals of Paris and London, in 1821 was professor of 
anatomy and surgery at Dartmouth, and came to Brown in 
1823. A modest tribute from his son. Prof. C. W. Parsons, 
said: "If we may accept the testimony of two surviving pupils 
of the school, the opening of courses by Dr. Parsons gave new 
life to the institution. He made arrangements, through chan- 
nels, over which a veil of secrecy had to be thrown, for a 
supply of anatomical material." (Of the latter, we hope some 
time to publish Prof. Ben C. dough's delightful paper, "The 
Corpse and the Beaver Hat," which is a story in itself.) Dr. 
Parsons became eminent as a surgeon and consulting physi- 
cian, and his prize medal essays made his name widely 
known. In 1853 he was chosen First Vice-President of the 
American Medical Association. 

"This," Bronson remarks, "was a brilliant Faculty for a 
medical school without endowment; and it is not surprising 
that the school had a considerable measure of success." 

In addition to its work with students, the Medical School 
was not without its impact on the public. Its lectures offered 
to the community "extended courses of instruction in subjects 
of practical value." These were far from being the first at- 
tempts at "University Extension," for in 1785 and 1786 the 
famous Professor Benjamin Waterhouse had given courses 
of popular lectures on natural history. 

Eminent Names Among the 87 

A Brown University Medical Association, consisting of 
professors, students attending the medical lectures, and resi- 
dent physicians was formed in 1811 and lived until 1825. It 
held weekly meetings during the lecture season and lent books 
from its hbrary. 

The graduates of the Brown University Medical School 
numbered 87, according to Bronson, and it conferred 31 
honorary medical degrees. "Most of the graduates became 
useful members of their profession, and several attained to 
eminence." Jerome V. C. Smith was professor in the Berk- 
shire Medical Institution, port physician of Boston for 23 



years, editor of the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal for 
28 years, and the author of many medical works. Alden 
March was founder of the Albany Medical College and pro- 
fessor of surgery in it for 30 years. President of the American 
Medical Association, and originator of various surgical ap- 
pliances. 

Lewis L. Miller was an eminent physician in Providence 
for 40 years and President of the Rhode Island Medical So- 
ciety. George Capron practiced in Rhode Island for half a 
century; he was physician in the U. S. Marine Hospital at 
Providence, President of the Rhode Island Medical Society, 
and author of numerous publications. Johnson Gardner, a 
Rhode Island physician for 40 years, was examining surgeon 
for the State's recruits during the Civil 'War. Francis L. 
Wheaton was appointed Surgeon-General of Rhode Island 
during the Mexican War and was a surgeon in the Union's 
military service throughout the Civil War. 

The most famous of all was Elisha Bartlett, of the last 
Class under President Messer. He held professorships in sev- 
eral medical schools, including Dartmouth, the University of 
New York, and the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 
New York City. Two works by him were "of great importance 
and permanent value": one on the "Fevers of the United 
States" established the distinction between typhus and ty- 
phoid: the other was an "Essay on the Philosophy of Medical 
Science." 

How Wayland Killed the School 

President Wayland put a stop to all this in short order, be- 
cause it conflicted with his conception of college life as that 
of an academic family. "He wished to establish close personal 
relations between officers and students," Bronson writes, "and 
thereby secure strict though kindly supervision over the lat- 
ter's mental and moral life. What, then, should be done with 
the non-resident professors in the Medical School (and in the 
Departments of Oratory and Natural History)? One plan 
might have been to let them remain and rely on the rest of 
the Faculty to do the work of supervision. The advantages of 
such a plan, combining academic drill with invigorating 
breezes from the outside world of public and professional 
life, were possibly not appreciated by President Wayland; it 
probably seemed to him that the non-resident professors were 
a part, if not a cause, of the lax discipline which he sought 
to cure. Another reason for dismissing them is given in his 
Reminiscences: 'The regular officers were compentent to per- 
form all the required duties, and, by thus dispensing with 
outside services, they found their means of subsistence ma- 
terially increased.' " 

At any rate, the Corporation voted in 1827 that all of the 
University's officers should be "actual residents within the 
walls of the Colleges." No salary or other compensation was 
to be paid to "any Professor, Tutor or other Olficer, who shall 
not during the whole of each and every term, occupy a room 
in one of the Colleges . . . and assiduously devote himself 
to the preservation of order, and the instruction of the stu- 
dents, or the performance of such other duty as may belong 
to his station." The names of the non-resident professors be- 
gan to disappear from the University Catalogue. In 1832-33, 
by vote of the Faculty, all the names were dropped except 
that of Professor Bowen, who was Librarian. 

"Thus," Bronson concludes, "was the Medical School in 
Brown University killed by a President who had been trained 
for the profession of medicine." 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



"Those who deny freedom . . ." 

THE STATEMENT 
ON THE STAMP 



PROBABLY the last place one would expect to find a mem- 
orable quotation would be in a letter of declination sent 
hy a politician in response to a perfunctory invitation to at- 
tend a civic celebration. It was in just such a document, how- 
ever, that the Post Office Department found the statement for 
the fifth in its series of American Credo stamps. The stamp 
was issued initially on Nov. 19 in New York City. 

The quotation that appears on the stamp is: "Those who 
deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves." It is 
taken from a letter written April 6, 1859, by an up-and-com- 
ing young politician from Illinois named Abraham Lincoln. 
The letter is now a part of the famed Lincoln Collection in 
the lohn Hay Library at Brown University. 

Lincoln was replying to a form letter signed by a group of 
Bostonians asking him to attend a festival in Boston in honor 
of the birthday of Thomas Jefferson. He disposed of the invi- 
tation in the first paragraph of his reply, stating simply that 
"my engagements are such that I cannot attend." But then, 
planting himself firmly on the somewhat flimsy platform that 
had been provided him by the Jeffersonian Bostonians, he 
proceeded to expound at length on the political philosophy of 
Jefferson : 

"Bearing in mind that about seventy years ago, two great 
political parties were first formed in this country, that Thomas 
Jefferson was the head of one of them, and Boston the head- 
quarters of the other, it is both curious and interesting that 
those supposed to descend politically from the party opposed 
to Jefferson, should now be celebrating his birthday in their 
own original seat of empire, while those claiming political 
descent from him have nearly ceased to breathe his name 
everywhere. 

"Remembering too, that the Jefferson party were formed 
upon their supposed superior devotion to the personal rights 
of men, holding the rights of property to be secondary only, 
and greatly inferior, and then assuming that the so-called 
democracy of to-day, are the Jefferson, and their opponents, 
the anti-Jefferson parties, it will be equally interesting to note 
how completely the two have changed hands as to the prin- 
ciple upon which they were originally supposed to have been 
divided. 

"The democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to 
be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with another man's 
rights of property — Republicans, on the contrary, are for 
both the man and the dollar; but in cases of conflict, the man 
before the dollar. 

"1 remember being much amused at seeing two partially 
intoxicated men engaged in a fight with their great-coats on. 
which fight, after a long, and rather harmless contest, ended 
in each having fought himself out of his own coat, and into 
that of the other — If the two leading parties of this day are 




AT BROWN for a speaking engagement in November, the Rev. Martin 
Luther King, Jr., Southern anti-segregation leader, visited the John Hoy 
library to inspect the Lincoln letter which provided the quotation for an 
American Credo stomp. With him were local officials of the Notional Urban 
League, including (left) James N. Williams. 



really identical with the two in the days of Jefferson and 
Adams, they have performed about the same feat as the two 
drunken men. 

"But soberly, it is now no child's play to save the princi- 
ples of Jefferson from total overthrow in this nation. 

"One would start with great confidence that he could con- 
vince any sane child that the simpler proposition of Euclid 
are true; but, nevertheless, he would fail, utterly, with one 
who should deny the definitions and axioms. The principles 
of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society — 
And yet they are denied, and evaded, with no small show of 
success. One dashingly calls them 'glittering generalities;' an- 
other bluntly calls them 'self evident lies;' and still others 
insidiously argue that they apply only to 'superior races.' 

"These expressions, differing in form, are identical in ob- 
ject and effect — the supplanting of the principles of free gov- 
ernment, and restoring those of classification, caste, and 
legitimacy. They would delight a convocation of crowned 
heads, plotting against the people. They are the van-guard — 
the miners, and sappers — of returning despotism. We must 
repulse them, or they will subjugate us. 

"This is a world of compensations; and he who would be 
no slave, must consent to have no slave. Those who deny 
freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a 
just God, can not long retain it. 

"All honor to Jefferson — to the man who, in the concrete 
pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single 
people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce 
into a merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth, ap- 
plicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there, 
that to-day, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and 
a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of re-appearing 
tyranny and oppression." 

The gentlemen from Boston, recognizing a good thing when 
they had it, publicized the entire letter and it was given wide 
circulation by the Republican press. 



FEBRUARY 1961 



15 



RECOGNITION: 

Brown rowing gets Varsity status 



CREW, which has been a club activity at 
Brown University for the last 12 years, 
is gaining the status of an oflficial Varsity 
sport for its spring season. Announcing 
the "recognition" last month. Provost Bliss 
said the action would have the following 
practical effects: 

1. A full-time coach will be hired by 
the University to take over direction of 
rowing for the 1962 spring schedule. (It is 
expected that Gordon Helander will re- 
sume coaching for the spring of 1961. As 
a volunteer coach last year, he saw the 
Brown oarsmen cap an undefeated season 
in their own league by two remarkable per- 
formances in the top echelons of inter- 
collegiate competition.) 

2. University financial support for row- 
ing will be increased "somewhat," in addi- 
tion to the sum to be expended for the 
salary of the coach. (TTie Brown Rowing 
Association will remain in existence to lend 
its support, as during the period of the 
sport's development.) 

3. Supervision of crew will be transferred 
shortly from the Director of Student Ac- 
tivities to the Director of Athletics. 

4. Eligibility requirements for the crew 
will be the same as for any other recog- 
nized sports. 

The Fight for Recognition 

The decision had been long awaited by 
supporters of crew, who had submitted a 
variety of requests for recognition in the 
past. In a sense, it had been a progressive 
recognition through various phases as the 
determination and responsibility of the 
oarsmen grew. Last November, following 
a new study of the situation, a four-man 
committee of the University's Athletic 
Advisory Council brought in its recom- 
mendation to add crew to the company of 
intercollegiate sports. Members of this 
committee were: Chairman Edward R. 
Durgin, Dean of Students: Foster B. Davis. 
Jr., '39., Chairman of the Athletic Council; 
Prof. John A. Dillon, Jr., and Paul F. 
Mackesey '32, Director of Athletics. 

The Brown Rowing Association, a group 
of rowing devotees which included alumni 
and former oars from other colleges, will 
be encouraged to continue and expand its 
fund-raising activities in behalf of crew. 
The Association had offered such a com- 
mitment; this had been a major source of 
financial support in the past. The study 
committee recommended that the Rowing 
Association annually make available for 
crew expenses a drawing account of ap- 
proximately $2500, with any unexpended 
funds to be retained in its treasury. "Pay- 
ment of expenses resulting from emergen- 
cies over and above monies available from 
the above source (University allocation 
and Association contribution) would be 
the responsibility of the Rowing Associa- 
tion," according to the committee report. 



Managing Their Affairs 

Prominent in the committee's report was 
the recommendation that the undergradu- 
ates participating in crew be encouraged 
"to manage their affairs to the greatest 
possible degree," as in the past. They had 
shown remarkable faithfulness in this 
respect, as in training and self-discipline. 
(The squad members themselves suspended 
one oarsman from the Varsity boat at an 
early stage last spring for disregard of 
agreed training pledges.) 

Under this policy, the undergraduates 
will continue to purchase their equipment, 
make schedules and travel arrangements, 
and handle their own financial accounts 
and business matters. A part-time rigger 
will be employed, it is expected, in addition 
to a full-time coach by 1962. 

The crew faces an ambitious schedule 
during the coming season. All members of 
last year's crew are back, with the excep- 
tion of Barry Burns, the 1960 captain. The 
crew will open on Apr. 8 against Columbia 
at New York. Subsequently it will race 
against Dartmouth Apr. 15 on the See- 
konk; against M.I.T., Boston University, 



and Columbia Apr. 22 on the Charles; 
against Amherst Apr. 29 on the Seekonk; 
against lona May 6 on the Seekonk, and in 
the annual Dad Vail Regatta May 13 at 
Philadelphia, a race the Bruins have won 
the past two years. 

Broicn's First Crews 

Actually, Brown crew goes back more 
than a hundred years. We have a stirring 
account of the sport in its early days at 
Brown from the pen of George T. Brown 
'73, a member of the first crew, writing an 
article for "Memories of Brown," published 
in 1909. 

"The first Brown crew was formed in 
1857 and engaged in its first intercollegiate 
race against Harvard and Yale on Lake 
Quinsigamond, near Worcester, on July 26, 
1859. The Brown crew, ensconced in a 
cumbersome craft named Atlanta, came in 
third. The next year Brown showed up for 
the race with a much lighter shell, so light, 
in fact, that it went to pieces during the 
race. 

"The Civil War intervened and interest 
in crew at Brown was not revived until 
1868, when Ihe old Brown boathouse on 
the east shore of the Seekonk was repaired 
and two second-hand shells were obtained. 
A new house was built in the spring of 
1870 on the west shore. During the pre- 
vious winter, a determined bunch of Fresh- 
men began preparing themselves for crew 
by regular attendance in Hunt & Butter- 
worth's gymnasium on the fourth floor of 
the Parsons block on Canal Street. This 




1885 FOURSOME was photographed, but it hod no intercollegiate record. 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



crew engaged in some preliminary com- 
petition in tlie spring and then, on July 22, 
entered the Freshman race on Lake Quinsi- 
gamond against crews from Harvard, Yale, 
and Amherst. The young Brown stalwarts 
won the race in the fastest time ever made 
by a Freshman crew. 

"That race proved to be the high point 
of the sport at Brown for a long time. 
Freshman and Varsity crews competed at 
various places during the next five years, 
without winning any more races." After 
1875, crew disappeared as a Brown activity 
until its revival in 1949. 

However, thoughts of crew remained 
fresh in the minds of Brown men. An 
editorial in the May issue of the 1901 
Brown Alumni Monthly, its first year 
of publication, was entitled BROWN 
SHOULD HAVE A CREW. 

"If a baseball nine, a football eleven, 
hockey and basketball teams and a track 
team can be supported at Brown, a crew 
likewise ought to be supported. If it be 
argued that there is no room for another 
athletic organization, it need only be said 
that rowing is a fine exercise, there are 
men in college who are well adapted to it, 
that the Seekonk is near at hand, that 
arrangements doubtless could be made for 
the storage of a shell in one of the boat- 
houses there, that no large amount of 
money is required to be spent for the first 
year, and that to have a crew is to put 
Brown in line with the best known uni- 
versities in the domain of outdoor sports." 

In November, 1910, the BAM tried 
again: "The old Brown boat house is a 
thing of the past; we have ceased to be a 
boating college. But some day we shall 
have our crew again, and undergraduate 
life will be the richer, more picturesque, 
in consequence. There is a certain attractive 
quality in this branch of sport that no 
other possesses. It lends itself to poetry 
and song, it is the apotheosis of whole- 
some athletic activity." 

Determinalion in 1949 

However, nothing was done until the 
spring of 1949. when some undergraduates 
took matters into their own hands, pur- 
chased a second-hand shell, and started 
rowing on the Seekonk. The shell, origi- 
nally built for Harvard around 1930, was 
purchased from St. Andrew's School in 
Middletown, Del., where one of the 
Brown oarsmen (the late Jim Donaldson) 
prepared for Brown. 

The undergraduates transported the 65- 
foot shell on top of a 17-foot Oldsmobile 
in a 14-hour trip from Middletown. The 
embryo crew rowed three times in compe- 
tition that spring, losing to the Yale JV's, 
Dartmouth, and Amherst. Incidentally, 
Harvard and Princeton had donated the 
oars. 

The following year the enthusiasts were 
permitted by the college to organize under 
the name of "The Brown Rowing Asso- 
ciation, an Informal Organization of 
Brown Undergraduates." The crew won its 
first victory on Apr. 22, 1950 against 
Clark. The University assumed no financial 
or other responsibility for the activity. 
The race against Clark on the Seekonk, 
was the first intercollegiate race held there 




EARLY CREW (possibly 1873) was proud of its trophies and bandannas. 



since 1875. The boys had received their 
new $2,000 shell from Seattle the day 
before. 

Crew has become increasingly popular 
on the Hill in recent years. Saturday after- 
noon crowds of 5000 on the banks of the 
Seekonk are not uncommon, especially on 
Spring Week End. 

Interest reached its zenith last spring 
when the Bear oarsmen finished a surpris- 
ing fourth — close behind California, Navy, 
and Washington — in the 12-crew field of 
the Intercollegiate Rowing Association 
Regatta on Lake Onondaga at Syracuse, 
N. Y. That superlative effort captured the 
imagination of sports-writers and rowing 
fans throughout the nation. Although the 
experts had picked the Bruins for last, they 
finished ahead of Cornell, Penn, Wisconsin, 
Rutgers, Dartmouth, Princeton, Syracuse, 
and Columbia. 

Earlier, in defeating Dartmouth for the 
first time in seven years. Brown set a Han- 
over Henley-course record of 5:55 and 
brought home the Atlanta Cup, named 
for the ancient shell of the last century. 

Early in July the "Orphans of the See- 
konk," as they had by then been dubbed, 
returned to Lake Onondaga for the 
Olympic trials. The crew, which had been 
installed as a sentimental, if longshot, 
favorite, performed creditably in its first 
heat but finished a close third behind Cali- 
fornia and the Cornell A team, to show 
that the IRA performance was no fluke. 
Brown was never more than a length off 
the pace, though eliminated in two trial 
heats. 

Brown had actually headed for the IRA 
test without a coach. Gordon Helander. the 
regular season mentor, had been called 
away for his annual stint of military duty. 
Three days before the race they obtained 
"on loan" the services of 1st Lt. Davis 
Pratt of the Marine Corps, coach of the 
150-pound crew at Navy. Pratt stayed with 



the team through the Olympic trials, and 
the Brown men were guests at Annapolis 
for their final training period. 

William K. Engeman, 1961 Captain, 
says it appears that enough men, including 
Freshmen, will turn out this spring to man 
five shells. (There were good Jayvee and 
yearling boats last season, too.) Coach 
Helander, a student at the Rhode Island 
School of Design who had rowed in Syra- 
cuse, will return to Providence for the 
second semester. During the fall workouts 
of the squad, Roderick Beebe, who started 
crew at the Gunnery School, aided the 
men. He has volunteered to coach the 
Freshmen and will be aided by Charles 
Moran, former Captain of the Princeton 
lightweights. Like Beebe, he is a graduate 
student at Brown. 

Expected in March is a new shell, due 
from the State of Washington. The shell, 
with its oars, is the gift of Hunter Marston 
'08. A local company has fibre-glassed one 
of the older shells, which was named for 
Walter J. Stein '17, long a champion of 
Brown rowing. Frederick R. Hazard '14 
had also provided one of the shells in use. 
The Association last fall added a 10-man 
barge for training purposes during the 
winter. (Incidentally, the fibre-glassing 
incident once again pointed up the spirit 
of the oarsmen, for they walked their shell 
all the way to Barrington in the early 
morning hours.) 

One of the remarkable aspects of 
modern rowing history at Brown has been 
the support given crew by alumni of other 
colleges. Not the least of them has been 
Robert O. Read, a Princetonian, who took 
over the coaching duties as a volunteer for 
several seasons. Prof. Durand Echeverria 
and Hockey Coach Jim Fullerton have 
made similar contributions to the sport. 
Dozens of others, close to the situation, 
took especial satisfaction in the new status 
of the sport at Brown last month. 



FEBRUARY 1961 



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IVY LEAGUE 
DOORMAT? 



Has this been Brown's role 
in intercollegiate athletics? 



e 



if^'^jS 



THE QUESTION was raised in a letter 
from Allen J. Arnold '31 of Jackson- 
ville, Fla.: "Why does Brown have to be 
the doormat of the Ivy League? We 
alumni in such places as Florida see prac- 
tically nothing in the public press about 
Brown except brief items about football 
and basketball games. The losses are so 
numerous that 1 automatically look in the 
right-hand column of the scores for 
Brown. 

"While I subscribe 100% to the Ivy 
League program of no athletic scholar- 
ships, I still don't see why we have to be 
last in everything. It's embarrassing at 
times in this hotbed of football enthusiasm. 
I do note that we have a better-than-aver- 
age Freshman squad in both quality and 
quantity. Please don't let them flunk out." 

We thought we'd better set the record 
straight on this "doormat" business, and 
Jay Barry has consulted with Pete Mc- 
Carthy, who keeps the athletic records in 
connection with his duties as sports in- 
formation officer. 

Brown is a member of Ivy Leagues in 
seven sports (football, soccer, bas'ketball. 
hockey, wrestling, baseball, and tennis) 
plus competition in the track and cross 
country Heptagonal meets. There is no 
League record in tennis, since this season 
will be our first of official membership. 

Football, which attracts the most atten- 
tion, has had its League round-robin for 
five years. Brown's first three finishes were 
in the middle of the standing: 5th and 
then two ties for 4th. Two lean years fol- 
lowed in which the Bears were 7th and 
then shared the cellar with a tie for 7th. 
The cumulative standings for the five years 
show the following: Princeton 25-10-0. 
Dartmouth 24-9-2. Yale 22-12-1. Penn 
19-16-0. Harvard 15-20-0. Cornell 13-22-1. 
Brown 12-22-1. Columbia 8-27-0. (With 
only one win in each of the last two years. 
Brown dropped from one game out of 3rd 
to 7th in the cumulative standing. ) Dart- 
mouth is the only one of the eight mem- 
bers without at least one losing season. 

The oldest formal affiliation is the 
Eastern Baseball League, which includes 
Army and Navy as well as the Ivies and 
goes into its 14th season this year. Here 
Brown shared one championship (there 
was no play-off) and finished last twice. 
The Brown finishes in the 10-club circuit, 
beginning with 1948 were these: 10th, 6th, 







8lh, 2nd, the tie for 1st, 5th, 5th, 3rd, 
1 0th, 7th, 9th, 2nd, and 4th. Eight finishes 
were thus in the upper half of the League, 
five in the lower. 

Hockey has had 12 seasons, the five- 
team League adding Cornell two winters 
ago. Though the undermanned Bears may 
fight it out with Cornell for the cellar this 
season, they have not yet finished worse 
than 4th and took two championships. 
Here, beginning with 1948-49, we were: 
3rd. 1st, 1st, 2nd. 4th, 3rd, tied for 2nd 
and 3rd, 4th, 2nd, 4th, and tied for 3rd. 

Track, where the future looks brightest 
at the moment, has had the poorest rec- 
ord. In the outdoor Heps, Brown's record 
book shows five last places, three 9ths. 
two 8ths. and a 7th in 1 1 starts. Indoors, 
there were three lOths, four 9ths, three 
8ths. and a 7th. Cross country, showing 
marked improvement, provided the fol- 
lowing: 4th, 8th, 8th, 7th, 9th, 10th, 10th. 
8th, 6th, 4th, 4th, and 3rd. In the last 
sport. Brown has had a few individual 
winners. 

The Bears moved up into the ranks of 
basketball contenders the last two years 
with a 4th and a 3rd. Earlier finishes were 
7th, a tie for 6th, a tie for 7th (sharing 
the cellar), and two 6ths. The rankings 
fail to show the real gains on the court, 
however, for the League meant a big step 
up in competition for the Bruins. 

Five winters in the Ivy Wrestling League 
have yielded a tie for 4th, a 2nd. a 3rd, a 
4th, and a 6th (there are seven members). 
Soccer found Brown in the cellar three 
times out of six in the League that had a 
seventh member added last fall. The best 
finish has been 4th. 

We attempt little interpretation beyond 
pointing out that, in 82 opportunities. 
Brown has been last 15 times and tied for 
last twice, while winning two titles and 
sharing another. Track and cross country 
contributed 10 of the cellar champion- 
ships, leaving five for other sports. As the 
institution with the smallest student body. 
Brown may have seemed a likely candidate 
for "doormat" honors. Does the record 
really bear out that probability? She has 
been in the exact middle of the standing 
or above no fewer than 32 times out of 
82. 



Basketball Below Hopes 

THE BASKETBALL TEAM Couldn't Stand 
prosperity. Following its sensational 
victory over Boston College, the Bruins 
dropped decisions to Connecticut (85-71), 
Michigan (74-56), and Pittsburgh (57-51 ). 

Lack of consistency in their play was 
the Bears' main weakness. In their upset 
of previously undefeated Boston College, 
the Bruins turned in a fine all-around team 
effort and showed a strong bench in the 
process. On that night, they would have 
given any team on their schedule a tough 
time. Coach Stan Ward still felt that his 
team had the potential to be a factor in 
the Ivy League race, where Princeton and 
Penn were favorites. 

Capt. Forrest Broman and All-Ivy guard 
Mike Cingiser were the only consistent 
performers in the early going, though 
Ward singled out the play of Sophomore 
Gene Barth as outstanding in the Michi- 
gan and Pitt games. Barth, a 6-7 forward, 
scored 13 points against Michigan and 
gathered in 14 rebounds against Pitt. 

After the first nine games, Cingiser led 
in scoring with 163 points for an 18.1 av- 
erage. Broman was second with 146 points 
for a 16.3 mark. 

Hockey Report: Not Yet 

The hockey team was still looking for 
its first victory after nine games. Coach 
Jim Fullerton continued to be plagued b\ 
a shortage of personnel. The squad w;iv 
down to 12 players by Jan. 1, following 
the sidelining of Junior forward Pete 
Kenney because of illness. 

The Bears lost all three games in the 
Boston Christmas Tourney, to Boston 
University (10-0). Northeastern (6-0). 
and Army (5-2). Brian Smith. .Sophomore 
defenseman from Montreal, accounted for 
the Bears' only two goals in the tourney. 
Only 1 1 were in uniform for the holiday 
engagements. 

Sophomore Greg McLaughlin continued 
to lead the team in scoring with nine 
points on four goals and five assists. He 
was followed by Sophomore Ed Ennis 
(4), Sophomore Bruce Mclntyre (4), and 
Senior Jack D'Entremont (4). 



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Sports Shorts 

FRITZ Pollard '19, one of the greatest 
halfbacks of his era, was named to the 
Helms' College Football Hall of Fame at 
Los Angeles in December. He was named 
to the National Football Hall of Fame at 
Rutgers in 1954. As a Freshman in 191.'>, 
Pollard helped lead Brown to a successful 
season and a trip to Pasadena, where the 
Bruins met Washington State in the first 
official Rose Bowl game. He rose to his 
greatest heights in 1916, scoring 12 touch- 
downs and leading the Bruins to an 8-1 
record. At the close of that campaign he 
was named to Walter Camp's first Ail- 
American team, the first man of his race 
to be so honored. 

The final NCAB football statistics pro- 
vided some interesting facts on the Bruins. 
Dick Laine, Junior end. was 13th in the 
nation in pass receiving with 29 receptions 
for 288 yards. Another Junior, quarterback 
Jack Rohrbach, was 20th in forward pass- 
ing, hitting on 76 of 156 for a .487 per- 
centage and 858 yards. As a team. Brown 
was second in the country in percentage of 
points after per touchdown. While scoring 
14 touchdowns, the Bruins picked up 16 
points, 10 on kicks and six on two-point 
conversions. Junior Ray Barry had a per- 
fect 10 for 10 on his extra point kicking 
attempts. 

Denny Master, Senior goalie, was named 
to the All-Ivy soccer team selected by the 
League coaches. A native of Washington, 
D. C, and a graduate of Sidwell Friends 
preparatory school, Master was one of the 
top goal tenders in Ivy circles for the past 
two seasons. He captained the Bruins last 
season. Elected to lead the 1961 team was 
John Sherman of Darien, Conn. 

World-record holder in the high jump. 




A SECOND HALL OF FAME for Fritz Pollard '19 
(undergraduate photo). 



Thomas of Boston University, broke the 
Brown record for that event in a practice 
meet with the Bears at Marvel Gym, won 
by Brown. His 6-10 clearance erased the 
previous mark of 6-8 made by Brown's 
Dick Phillips "50 in 1949. In the same 
meet, Dave Farley of Brewer, Me., set a 
new Brown Freshman record for the mile 
with a 4:18 clocking. The previous mark 
of 4:30.6 was set last winter by John Jones. 

Cliff Stevenson, Brown's new soccer and 
lacrosse coach, has been elected to the 
executive committee of the U.S. Lacrosse 
Coaches Association. He is also a member 
of the N.C.A.A. Soccer Rules Committee. 

Athletic Director Paul Mackesey an- 
nounced in January that Junior Varsity 
football will return to the Brown scene 
next fall after an absence of a decade. The 
lack of manpower forced the authorities to 
cancel the sport after the 1950 season and 
since that time the Varsity squads never 
have been big enough to support a JV 
program. 

Coach Joe Watmough's swimmers had 
five straight winning seasons going into the 
current campaign. During that stretch, the 
Bear mermen have won 35, lost 19, and 
tied one. Against Ivy opposition over the 
same span, Brown has a 10-12 mark. There 
were three more Ivy victories in four meets 
this semester to provide a .500 average. 



Silver All-American 

NOMINATED by Brown University, Leon 
M. Payne '36 of Houston was named 
by Sports Illiislnitecl to its 1960 Silver 
Anniversary All-America. He was one of 
the 25 men selected on the basis of distinc- 
tion 25 years after they had played Senior 
football. 

"College football can be a healthy ad- 
junct to shaping the whole man who is the 
goal of a liberal education," said the 
magazine. "The lives of these men bear 
this out. Almost every one of them gives 
far more of himself to his profession and 
to a staggering variety of community 
service than he gets back in money or 
honors. Responsibility became its own re- 
ward a long time ago. In an age character- 
ized by Operators and Status Seekers, they 
are a select group, indeed." 

Payne's undergraduate record was out- 
standing. In spite of an arm which had 
been torn and broken when he was 10 
years old, he played Varsity center for 
three years. He was also a three-year man 
in lacrosse. He was Class President his last 
two years and President of the Cammarian 
t lub, while qualifying for the Dean's List, 
Phi Beta Kappa, and a cum Uiiide degree. A 
law graduate of the University of Texas, 
he joined the firm of which he is now a 
partner in Houston in 1939. 

When World War II broke out, Payne 
was originally classified as 4F because of 
his old arm injury. Later, however, he was 
permitted to enter the Air Force, serving 
as a pilot of a B-17 in the European 
Theater. He advanced to the rank of Major 
and received the Distinguished Flying 
Cross with one cluster, the Air Medal with 
five, and the FAME Ribbon. 

In addition to his law practice, Payne 
holds important offices in the Pacific 




LEON M. PAYNE '36 

Northwest Pipeline Corporation of Salt 
Lake City and the Coastal Transmission 
Corporation of Houston. He is a Director 
of the Texas National Bank of Houston, 
El Paso Natural Gas Co., the Houston 
Corporation, Houston-Texas Gas and Oil 
Corp., Jacksonville Gas Corp., Associated 
Steel Co., and Warren Automatic Tool Co. 
He followed his father, the late Leon F. 
Payne '07, onto the Brown Corporation as 
an Alumni Trustee. He has been President 
of the Houston Brown Club and a Regional 
Vice-President of the Associated Alumni. 

1961 Football 

Brown's annual football game with Col- 
gate will return to the Thanksgiving 
Day date next season, according to the 
1961 schedule announced by Director of 
Athletics Paul Mackesey in December. 

The 1960 finale with the Red Raiders 
was shifted to the Saturday preceding 
Thanksgiving Day so that the students 
could see the game before their holiday 
began. However, for the next two calendar 
years the ninth Saturday of the football 
season falls within the holiday week end. 
The students would not be on Campus 
anyway, thus prompting the decision to 
return to the traditional Thanksgiving Day 
date. 

The Bruins will open the 1961 campaign 
at home against Columbia on Sept. 30. 
Other home contests will be played against 
the University of Rhode Island on Oct. 28 
and against Princeton on Nov. 4. The 
Princeton game seemed the choice for 
Homecoming. 

The schedule: Sept. 30 — Columbia. Oct. 
7 — at Yale. Oct. 14 — at Dartmouth. Oct. 
21 — at Penn. Oct. 28 — Rhode Island. Nov. 
4 — Princeton. Nov. 1 1 — at Cornell. Nov. 
18 — at Harvard. Nov. 23 — Colgate. 

The Ivy League had another announce- 
ment in January of special interest to 
Brown alumni: Starting in 1964, football 
would be on a home-and-home basis. This 
would give Brown an extra home game 
yearly. 



FEBRUARY 1961 



19 




TWO PEMBROKE FRESHMEN, quickly indoctrinated in the Carberry tradition at Brown, took the initia- 
tive on Jan. 13 to aid Josiah's Fund. Brown Doily Herald photo by Pete Pearson. 



NEWSWEEK Magazine's article on "A 
Real Gone Prof," which led its Edu- 
cation section on Jan. 9, gave Josiah S. 
Carberry his most comprehensive publicity 
in recent years and delighted his Brunonian 
admirers on the eve of 19615 Carberry 
Day, Friday the 13th of January. 

Some of the material seemed to come 
from "Freckled, 72-year-old Dr. Benjamin 
C. Clough, official curator of Carberriana." 
The two-column story, accompanied by an 
Alumni Monthly photo, closed with a 
Clough admission: "There are moments 
when Carberry does pall a bit. But then 
he's off again to some far-off spot. Car- 
berry has always just done something and 
left. To borrow a phrase from the current 
generation, Carberry is real gone — so gone 
he's never really been." 

Coincidental with all this fanfare 
nationally, Carberry was prominent in a 
post-Christmas exhibition of art by non- 
artist members of the Providence Art Club. 
He had submitted an ornate urned incre- 
ment, resplendent with Brown Bears and 
the University seal. This received a place 
of honor, with accompanying explanation, 
"to whom it may (or may not) concern: 

"This creation represents the embodi- 
ment (utilizing psycho-ceramic principles) 
of the spirit of the Old Brown Jug. I have 
called it a Bowl with a Soul. It is my first 
— and probably my last — masterpiece. 



Josiah S. Carberry. I hereby certify that 
the above signature is genuine. Josiah S. 
Carberry." 

Accompanying text further suggested 
that the remarkable piece of pottery had 
recently come to light on the site of an- 
cient Angell's Lane (now Thomas St., on 
the north side of the First Baptist Meeting 
House). "Unfortunately, it fell into the 
hands of one Josiah S. Carberry, erstwhile 
(sic!) professor at Brown University. Dr. 
Carberry immediately laid claim to it as 
one of his early, if not his earliest master- 
pieces. While we cannot deny that it is an 
outstanding example of psycho-ceramics 
(as is also Professor Carberry), yet there 
are certain aspects which we feel should 
be investigated. 

"Professor Carberry dubs it a Brown 
Jug. but whether it is a Juggernaut is open 
to question, as Carberry items often are. 
. . . We decided not to run the risk of 
X-rays lest its delicate glaze and magnificent 
ornamentation be thereby irretrievably 
damaged." The glaze reminded some 
viewers of Carberry 's eyes. 

Meanwhile in Indianapolis 

The Brown University Alumni Club of 
Indiana scheduled its meeting on Jan. 13 
as "a happy event in honor of world- 
famous Professor Carberry." Reference to 
the availability of a "cash bar" led to the 



CARBERRY 

The Campus braced 
itself again for 
Friday the 13th 

"BOWL WITH A SOUL," below. 




mishap suggested in one of two telegrams 
received by William A. Dyer, Jr., '24 and 
the guest speaker, Prof. Albert Van Nos- 
trand. 

The first, a cablegram, was read as 
follows: "Did someone give me a bum 
steer? Slop. Invitation from Brown Club of 
Indiana said you would gather for drinks 
in the Kashbar. Well, here I am in Algiers 
in the Kashbar, with no other Hoosier in 
sight. What the hell? Checking for possible 
confusion. I have consulted my dictionary, 
which says (and I quote) Kashbar is the 
"old native quarter of Algiers." Definition 
is tragically accurate: nothing here but old 
natives. I can't stand being stood up. In 
fact, at the moment. I can't even stand. 
Jason has just been bitten by an Algerian. 
P.S. Am willing to contribute old native 
quarter to the Carberry Fund. Josiah Sh. 
Carberry." 

Second message, vouched for as a night 
letter to be read in the daytime, said: 
"Yoohoo to you Hoosiers. Josiah planned 
to be with you on his big day and was pre- 
pared to salute you from under the table 
during compotation hour. However, I'm 



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not sure he'll make all the rounds, being 
already committed to spend Friday the 
13th in Algiers, Havana, Leopoldville, 
Olneyville, Baghdad, Nome, Rome and 
home, plus Saigon with Kappy, Little 
Rock, Big Rock, and Middle-Sized Rock 
(with three other Bears and Goldilocks). 
Under other cover am sending you grain 
of salt to take anything young Van 
Nostrand says with. Happy Carberry Day 
from Josiah and I. Laura Carberry. P.S. 
Scratch my entry in Indianapolis 500 on 
Memorial Day. It's itching." 

A more substantial member of the 
Brown Faculty, Prof. Philip I. Bray, is 
scheduled to speak in April in Toronto be- 
fore the American Ceramic Society. Since 
the announcement was made just before 
Carberry Day, it was felt on the Brown 
Campus that the News Bureau's release 
should have added: "No kidding." 

Professor Bray received a note from 
Josiah Carberry saying: "Since I am the 
American Ceramic Society, I look forward 
to hearing you." 

Grant to the Dean 

DEAN Charles H. Watts, II, '47 has 
received a travel grant from the 
Carnegie Corporation of New York that 
will enable him to visit liberal arts colleges 
throughout the country during the second 
semester. His main interest will be in 
observing curricular systems covering the 
first two years in a variety of liberal arts 
colleges. Brown several years ago pioneered 
an important innovation in that portion of 
the curriculum with its I.C. courses and is 
now developing other experimental pro- 
grams for the same period of college work. 

On two e,\tended trips — one into the 
South and the other to the West Coast — 
Watts intended to visit close to 20 colleges. 
Among them will be Swarthmore, Haver- 
ford, Johns Hopkins, the universities of 
Virginia and North Carolina, Washington 
& Lee, Tulane, Florida State, the Uni- 
versity of Miami, Kenyon, Western Re- 
serve, the universities of Michigan and 
Chicago, Carleton. Washington University, 
Coe College, Reed College, the California 
Institute of Technology, and the University 
of Te,\as. 

While Watts is away from Brown his 
duties will be performed by Dr. Robert O. 
Schulze, Assistant Dean of the College. 



Under the Elms of Brown 




ROVING DEAN 
FEBRUARY 1961 



READERS of this magazine will recall an 
, article in our October issue about the 
activities of BYG, Brown Youth Guidance, 
written by the undergraduate in charge of 
200 Brunonians who offer their services in 
hospitals and to other Rhode Island agen- 
cies. The author, Melvin D. Levine '61, 
has been selected as one of the two new 
Rhodes Scholars from New England. A 
New Yorker, he is the 25th Rhodes Scholar 
from Brown, although there have been 
none for several years. David N. Barus '49 
and Douglas E. Ashford '50 were the most 
recent Brunonians to go to O.xford under 
the Rhodes program. 

Dr. Leallyn B. Clapp, Professor of 
Chemistry, went to Chile last month to 
lecture at a Chemical Bond Approach In- 
stitute at the University of Santiago. He 
was one of two Americans making the trip 
under the sponsorship of the National 
Science Foundation and the Organization 
of American States. Dr. Clapp has been 
a leader in formulating the new Chemical 
Bond Approach to the teaching of high 
school chemistry. He will direct the activi- 
ties of 40 high school teachers in Brown's 
second annual summer institute in this 
field, a program supported by a $42,900 
grant from the NSF. 

Brown Sophomores received an early 
Christmas present before leaving for home 
and the holidays. Santa, in this instance, 
was Edward R. Durgin. Dean of Students, 
who announced that the Committee on 
Student Affairs will now allow "the use of 
automobiles by Sophomores not on college 
discipline, warning, or probation." Pre- 
viously, only upperclassmen had this 
privilege. The extension is made possible 
by the fact that the University now has 
sufficient off-street parking space for more 
cars. 

College Hill Notebook is a program 
of weekly radio interviews with Brown 
University Professors which may be heard 
on Saturday evenings over Station WEAN, 
Providence (AM 790) at 7:10 p.m. The 
series of 20 programs began in January 
with talks by Prof. Charles H. Philbrick 
and Prof. William Prager. Director Har- 
mon H. Hyde does the interviewing. 
Another series, "From College Hill," is 
aired by WJAR, Providence (AM 920) 
Sundays at 10 p.m. 

Brown has announced that it will 
begin training experts in regional eco- 
nomic development next fall under a 
$295,000 grant from the Ford Foundation. 
The program will produce both research- 
ers and "practitioners" in the art of curing 
local economic ills or preventing them 
from reaching serious proportions. A doc- 
toral degree will be awarded to the re- 
searchers and a Master's to those who in- 
tend to take active roles with private and 
public development groups. Prof. Merton 




PROF. PHILIP TAFT, Brown economist, is the 
new President of the Industrial Relations 
Research Association. Widely known as an 
historian of the labor movement, he has 
served as industrial arbitrator, government 
economist, and member of vorious advisory 
committees. 



P. Stoltz, Chairman of the Brown Eco- 
nomics Department, in which the new 
program will be established, stated that 
regional economic development is a rela- 
tively new field. 

Dr. Lea E. Williams. Associate Profes- 
sor of Political Science, received a grant 
from the Social Science Research Council 
to attend the Jan. 16-21 conference of 
South East Asian historians at the Univer- 
sity of Malaya in Singapore, where he 
delivered a paper on "The Chinese in 
Indonesia." He spent a month visiting 
universities and libraries in Japan, For- 
mosa, and Hong Kong prior to attending 
the conference. 

Dr. Henry M. Wriston has been 
elected a Trustee of Barnard College for 
a seven-year term. 

Dr. Barry A. Marks, Assistant Profes- 
sor of English, is among 50 college 
professors throughout the nation who have 
been asked to prepare a forthcoming series 
of books on American authors for Twayne 
Publishers of New York. Dr. Marks will 
write a volume on the poet, e.e. cummings, 
a work that is scheduled to appear later in 
the year. 

Prof. James B. Hedges, former Chair- 
man of the History Department, returns 
to a part-time teaching schedule after a 
semester's leave of absence due to illness. 
He will teach History 52 this spring and 
resume his full schedule of History 51-52, 
and History 161-162 next fall. 



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BRUNONIANS IN TULSA hod their largest meeting in December when the 
Brown Film was shown at the Romoda Inn. Present, left to right, in back 
row: H. Vinton Potter '25, Mrs. Potter, Eorl W. Tucker '13, Eriing Helland, 
Joseph Gillin, Edwin J. Schermerhorn '34, Mrs. Cromock, Bert Cromack '27, 



Earl H. FuHord '46, Steven D. Booth '54, Dr. Milton L. Berg. Front row— Mrs. 
Joon Gordon Flanagan, Mrs. Hellond, Mrs. Tucker, Mrs. Paul R. Schultz, 
mother of Robert Schultz '64, Mrs. Schermerhorn, Mrs. Berg, Mrs. Fulford. 
The Fulfords hod arrived two days before. 



The Brown Clubs Report 



Honoring Senator Circen 

THE Brown Club of Washington hon- 
ored Senator Theodore Francis Green 
"87 in December at a buffet supper at the 
home of Thomas G. Corcoran '22. About 
40 members were on hand to present the 
retiring Senator with a framed photograph 
of the Brown Campus, showing the Class 
of 1887 Gate, which Senator Green re- 
stored as a tribute to his Class. The 
photograph, bearing a plaque honoring 
Mr. Green, has been hung in Washington's 
University Club, where the 93-year-old 
Senator made his home while serving in 
Congress. During the affair. Senator Green 
was in excellent humor and reminisced at 
length about such things as the poem on 
the 1887 Gate (which he wrote), the early 
days of Faunce House, and his early days 
on Campus when he was in the "dog- 
house" of Prexy Zeke Robinson. 

Those present included: Dr. Walso G. 
Leland '00, Dr. Robert W. Burgess '08, 
Stephen S. Bean '14, Dr. M. J. Kreitzmann 
'36, Edward R. Place '24, A. E. Gottshall 
'15, Tod Shotton '30, George Gibbons 
'41, George Viault '26, Eugene F. Hart 
'33, Paul McGann '38, Dick Walsh '37. 
David N. Barus "49, Charles L. Ill '49, 
Henry A. Niven '50, Richard B. Phillips 
'50, Richard White '50, John C. Henry 
'27. and Lloyd W. Dennis '31. Guests in- 
cluded Robert Baker, President of the 
American Security and Trust Co., and 
Harvey Graham, local investment broker. 
DICK win IE '50 

John Peterson'.s Return 

The December meeting of the Twin 
City Brown Club was held at Jax Care, 
Minneapolis, and featured the return of 
John G. Peterson '17 from his stay in 
Switzerland. He recalled for us many of 



the important events that took place during 
his stay there, and during his tour of 
Europe. It was John who organized the 
Twin City Brown Club and served as its 
President for many years. In other busi- 
ness, the members heard from President 
Bob Pendleton '50 in connection with our 
efforts to aid the Admis.sion Program and 
from Crane Bodine '52 on the wrap-up of 
the Bicentennial Fund in our area. 

HOWARD K. PAGE 



Hartford Talk.s Admissions 

The Brown Club of Hartford held its 
winter meeting Dec. 8 at the Hotel Bond, 
with Tom Caswell '60, Alumni-Admission 
Liaison Officer, the featured speaker. Tom 
gave an interesting talk on the problems 



Sidestei)ping an I.s.sne 

The South County Brown Club 
was faced with a problem in con- 
nection with its sponsorship of the 
Glee Club concert, a fact which 
was not known to us at the time. 
But the Boston Globe subsequently 
reported it. 

Since the concert was being held 
at the University of Rhode Island, 
the alumni decided it would be 
pleasant to have a dozen URI coeds 
as ushers. Two members of the 
alumni committee were sent to the 
Kingston campus to look over the 
field. They came back refusing to 
take the responsibility of selecting 
12 girls from the 1050 available. 
Solution? The women's housing 
units made the choices themselves. 



facing the young man (and his father) 
who wants to gain admission to a top- 
flight college today. The spirited question- 
and-answer period was proof of the quality 
of his talk. 

Hawley Judd '45 presided, while Brad 
Benson '52 was in charge of arrangements. 
Others present included: Dan Howard '93, 
Frank Jones '97, Larry Smith '20, Al 
Goddard '22. Al Sherberg '23, Russ Gran- 
niss '36. Karl Kaffenberger, Jr., '39, Clare 
Roth, Jr.. '46, Warren Randall '50, Tony 
Waterman '51. Dom Worth '53, Jim De- 
Mund '56, and Cy Flanders '18. 

CY FLANDERS '18 

Champion Spanker 

DR. John G. Walsh "06 has spanked 
more Rhode Islanders than any man 
alive, Ben H. Bagdikian of the Providence 
Journul reported in December. He has 
"administered the traditional pat now and 
then to stimulate breathing among the 
approximately 12,000 babies he has helped 
deliver in his 46 years as an obstetrician. 
The story headlined Dr. Walsh as "the 
R. I. Champion." 

"If you insist on writing about me," the 
doctor told his interviewer, "just say that 
1 started practice after medical school, 
went 46 years, and then quit." Bagdikian, 
however, filled in for more than three 
columns of delightful detail about a dis- 
tinguished career. Among contemporaries 
incntioned were Drs. Peter Pineo Chase, 
Emery Porter. George Waterman. In 1931 
Pawtucket Memorial Hospital asked Dr. 
Walsh to organize its new pediatrics and 
obstetrics building, which has become the 
center of a major hospital activity. 

Dr. Walsh lives in "technical retire- 
ment" in his home at University and Ar- 
lington Aves., where a second-floor room 
overlooks the wall of the new Aldrich- 
Dexter Field. "When Brown starts playing 
there," he says, "I'm going to put up some 
bleachers in this room and sell tickets to 
people who want to watch the games from 
the inside." 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Brunonians Far and Near 



EDITED BY JAY BARRY '50 



1887 

SENATOR Theodore Francis Green turned 
over to the Library of Congress in 
December all of his official papers for the 
24-year period of his service in the U.S. 
Senate. The documents numbered about 
750,000 items and filled 85 packing cases. 
Library officials said that they were espe- 
cially interested in Senator Green's papers 
because of his tenure as Chairman of the 
Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The 
Green papers will be preserved in the 
Manuscript Division along with the papers 
of 23 Presidents, numerous statesmen, 
members of Congress, and literary figures. 

1894 

Dr. William C. Hill, retired Principal 
of Classical High School, Springfield, 
Mass., was one of three leaders in educa- 
tion to speak at the 75th annual meeting 
of the New England Association of Col- 
leges and Secondary Schools at Boston in 
December. 

1895 

Late last summer, admirers of Dr. Wil- 
liam Gardner, Nantucketer-turned-author 
after retirement from the Episcopal clergy, 
wanted to honor the man who has written 
so eloquently about his native isle. A 
committee was formed, and the group de- 
cided that Dr. Will should appear among 
the books he loves so much and where he 
has often culled books, documents, and 
papers for data about Nantucket and its 
prominent personalities. So. it was decided 
to commission Elmer Greene, noted inter- 
national artist and Nantucket summer resi- 
dent, to paint a portrait of the genial Nan- 
tucket author, a portrait that would be 
hung in the stately Atheneum Library. On 
Nov. 29 some 100 of the invited contribu- 
tors gathered at the library for the unveil- 
ing. Numbered among the contributors was 
a summer resident of the island and a 
former college friend. Dr. Marcius Mer- 
chant '97. 

1898 

Wilfred Wheeler of Hatchville, Mass., 
was honored last fall by the College of 
Agriculture of the University of Massa- 
chusetts. The citation: "Native son of 
Concord, Mass., educated at Brown, Har- 
vard, and the Bussey Institution: first 
Commissioner of Agriculture for the Com- 
monwealth: promoter of the former New 
England Fruit Shows; winner of numerous 
awards for exhibits in shows of the Massa- 
chusetts Horticultural Society; horticultural 
consultant and prominent member of sev- 
eral horticultural societies. We honor you 
today for your work with the native peach 
plum; for your efforts dealing with the 
preservation of New England wild flowers; 
and especially for your great interest in 



the preservation and improvement of the 
American Holly and your outstanding col- 
lection of specimens of that species." 

1899 

J. W. Dows of Bridgeport is doing his 
bit to encourage support of education 
through support of PTA activity. Using 
the pen name of "Dulsifier," he has had a 
number of letters published in the Bridge- 
port Posl which call attention to oppor- 
tunities for the development of reading 
habits in the young. 

1901 
Special Judge of Probate Court Rufus 
H. Cook of Northampton, Mass., sub- 
mitted his resignation to Governor Furcolo 
in November. The official position held by 
Judge Cook since 1923 was unique in 
that he was the only Special Judge of 
Probate Court in the entire State. He was 
admitted to the bar in Massachusetts in 
1902 and has been a senior member of a 
law firm in Northampton most of his 
years. Currently he is the senior member 
of the firm of Cook, Cook & O'Donnell. 
He intends to continue to practice law. 

1902 
Dr. Harold G. Calder was honored by 
the University Club of Providence at its 
annual Christmas dinner and party with 
one of two Man-of-the-Year awards pre- 
sented. Dr. Calder was hailed in the 
citation as "one of our city's leading 
pediatricians." The citation said, "St. Paul's 
admonition, 'Do nothing from selfishness 
or conceit,' is nowhere better personified 
than in your life of service to your fellow 
man." Dr. Calder has been a practicing 
physician in Providence for more than 50 
years. 

1904 

When the Providence Bulletin did a fea- 
ture story on Elisha Mowry in December, 
the appropriate headline read: "Crusader 
at 78 Retains Youthful Vigor." The article 
told how at the age of 63 he scorned re- 
tirement talk and, touched by Great Brit- 
ain's postwar plight and by a vision of 
what the future would demand, embarked 
on a personal crusade for firmer Anglo- 
American relations. Late in November he 
saw his 15-year dream partly realized as 
the 3 1 ,000-member English Speaking Union 
endorsed a new program drawn up by the 
Mowry Committee which aims to revivify 
the ESU role in cementing U.S. -Common- 
wealth nations. 

1905 

Allyn L. Brown, former Chief Justice 

of the Connecticut Supreme Court of 

Errors, was a guest at the annual dinner of 

the New London County Bar Association 



Honored by the Belgians 

Prof. Arthur F. Buddington 
'12, emeritus at Princeton, was hon- 
ored by the Geological Society of 
Belgium in the award of the Andre 
Dumont Medal for distinction in the 
field of its interest. The compliment 
was the more signal in that it was 
the first time the award has gone to 
other than a Belgian geologist. 

Dr. Buddington, recipient of a 
Brown honorary doctorate in 1942, 
was among the Brunonians who at- 
tended the International Geological 
Congress in Copenhagen last year. 
Others were: Prof. Alonzo Quinn; 
Dr. Charles G. Doll '24, Chairman 
of the Geology Department of the 
University of Vermont and Ver- 
mont State Geologist; Althea Page 
Smith '28, who holds a Brown Mas- 
ter's as well, wife of the Chairman 
of the Department of Geology at 
the University of Massachusetts; 
Prof. Vergil G. Sleight, Sc.M. '27 
and former member of the Brown 
Faculty, Chairman of the Depart- 
ment of Geology at the University 
of Miami; and Prof. Lawrence Whit- 
comb '22 of Lehigh. 



in December. He spoke of changes in 
personnel and practices in the bar since he 
was admitted in 1909 (much tougher 
qualifying exams, for one thing). A col- 
league, Superior Court Judge Elmer W. 
Ryan, said of Judge Brown: "He left an 
enviable record behind him; he will be 
remembered for his scholarly approach 
and painstaking devotion to the rights and 
liberties of lawyers and attorneys." 

1906 

Charles C. Tillinghast, snowbound in 
Wilton, Conn., dropped a line. "October 
and November are Board of Trustees 
meeting months, and last fall I was at 
Springfield College twice, Vermont Acad- 
emy once, and the Horace Mann School 
twice. It was a great satisfaction to be in- 
vited back to Brown on the second week 
end in October to attend a meeting of 
former members of the Brown Board of 
Trustees; I enjoyed all the experiences of 
that visit. I am a member of several com- 
mittees here in Wilton and have been 
doing .some writing for one of them. I 
have also written two chapters of a book 
which the Horace Mann School is soon to 
publish as a part of the celebration of its 
75th anniversary next year. All in all, I 
keep happily busy and out of mischief." 

As a result of three extensive cruises on 
which they visited South America. Ja- 
maica, Tahiti, New Zealand, Australia, 
Hong Kong, Japan, and Honolulu, Gerald 
A. Cooper and his wife report the follow- 
ing highlights: Beautiful girls in Tahiti: 
Glowworm Caves in New Zealand; Aloha 
receptions and farewells in Honolulu; Ty- 
phoon Mary in Hong Kong; riots in Japan; 
happy family reunion in New York; and 
Hurricane Donna in Florida. 



FEBRUARY 1961 



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1907 
Your Secretary has been all at sea for a 
while, and so there isn't much to report in 
the way of class notes this month. In fact, 
we left the week before Christmas on our 
cruise and expect to soak up some of the 
warm weather before reporting back to 
New England. 

A. H. GURNEY 

1908 
In some recent correspondence with Dr. 
Ralph Honiss of Rochester, we asked if he 
was still good at the mile run. remem- 
bering that we were wont to even practice 
with him in 1905. J. Ralph stated: "I 
couldn't even walk a mile today." Thus 
do the mighty fall! 

The Rev. Albert C. Thomas, D.D., 
Pastor of the First Baptist Church of 
Providence for 13 years, was elected Min- 
ister Emeritus at a recent special meeting 
of the Church and the Charitable Baptist 
Society. Dr. Thomas recently retired after 
a six-year pastorate at Rockport, Mass., 




MILTON H. GLOVER 22 (Heilpern photo). 

Bank President 

MILTON H. Glover '22 of Simsbury, 
Conn., has been elected President of 
the Hartford National Bank & Trust Co. 
He had been Senior Vice-President since 
1947 in the bank he joined in 1931 as an 
investment officer. 

He is also a Director of Connecticut 
General, Capewell Mfg.. Ensign-Bickford, 
Kaman Aircraft, National Fire, Veeder- 
Root, Cuno Engineering, Chemical Coat- 
ing, and Holo-Krome Screw. He is a 
Trustee of the Mechanics Savings Bank, 
Chairman of the National Health and Wel- 
fare Retirement Assn., and President of 
Community Research Associates. A former 
Alumni Trustee of Brown University, he 
is a member of the Board of Regents of 
the University of Connecticut. He has 
been active in such alumni projects as the 
Housing and Development Campaign, 
Brown Club, and Associated Alumni. 



and is living in the Rumford section of 
East Providence. 

Chris Greene wants all the members of 
the Class to know that he plans to be with 
them at Commencement in 1962. He re- 
ports that he is approaching retirement 
age. His column, "Field & Stream," is 
still a feature of The Daily Progress of 
Charlottesville, Va. 

Col. S. S. Winslow, Ret., was laid flat 
on his back with a serious illness last 
spring. "I am apparently making a good 
recovery, but I still take lots of pills and 
climb stairs only once a day." 

Sheldon Howe writes from Deerfield: 
"We don't retire here until we are physi- 
cally incapacitated. This hasn't happened 
as yet!" 

C. LEROY GRINNELL 

1909 
Don and Mrs. Stone are planning to be 
in Miami Beach in February and March. 
Their address will be: Brick Apartments. 
8011 Abbott Ave. Don's daughter. Miss 
May Stone, Pembroke '56, recently re- 
ceived her M.S. degree from the Columbia 
University School of Library Service. She 
is presently employed as a reference assist- 
ant in the Avery Architectural Library of 
Columbia University. 

Henry Fowler, long-time Town Clerk 
in Barrington. was to have talked on the 
History of Barrington at the inauguration 
of the new Town Council, but the blizzard 
of Dec. 12 intervened. Henry plans to 
save his talk for another appropriate oc- 
casion. 

Harry Cook is taking a course in pho- 
tography at M.I.T., and he reports that 
the course is all that it was pictured to be. 

1911 
Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy was the 
guest of honor at the December dinner of 
the American Geographical Society in New 
■^'ork. He delivered the Isaiah Bowman 
Memorial Lecture on "Oceanic Science: 
Developments and Forecasts." Dr. Murphy 
is a Councilor of the Society. 

1912 
Edward L. Singsen was honored with 
one of two Man-of-the-Year awards pre- 
sented by the University Club of Provi- 
dence at its annual dinner and party. A 
title lawyer, he is President of the Title 
Guarantee Company of Rhode Island. He 
was greeted in the citation as "counsellor, 
boatwright, bibliophile." The citation said: 
"Your years of experience and scholarship 
in the field of real estate have properly 
qualified you as the 'dean of our title 
attorneys.' " 

1913 
Louis Oshman is Chairman of the Board 
of Directors of Robert Sales Corp., 39 W. 
32nd St., New York City. 

1916 

"Salute to a Predecessor" was an open 
letter to Dr. Wilbour E. Saunders in the 
Peddie Chronicle recently. The tribute was 
written by Headmaster Carrol O. Morong 
in anticipation of the lanuary retirement 



of Dr. Saunders as President of Colgate 
Rochester Divinity School. While there 
was reference to the Saunders era at Ped- 
die, the appreciation was general and cited 
"indefatigable efforts and prodigious ac- 
complishments." In reviewing the Saunders 
career, one is compelled "to wonder 
whether he isn't talking about several men 
instead of one." 

1917 

The Arthur B. Homer, named for the 
President of Bethlehem Steel, is the largest 
ore carrier ever built for Great Lakes 
service. Its launching was filmed for the 
television series, "Man the Maker," which 
has received an award for the finest series 
of its type in educational TV. 

1918 

Roy Benton has retired as Assistant 
Medical Director of Northwestern Mutual 
Life Insurance Company after nearly 26 
years with the firm. He's living at 2685 
N. Lake Drive, Milwaukee. 

1919 

Thomas F. Black, Jr., President of the 
Providence Institute for Savings, heads up 
a new management team set up to pin- 
point responsibility at the decision-making 
level. The team was named at the 141st 
annual meeting of the mutual savings in- 
stitution. 

William H. Edwards, Providence attor- 
ney, served as Chairman of the Rhode 
Island Rhodes Scholarship Selection Com- 
mittee. The group named two Rhode Is- 
land candidates from applicants endorsed 
by the colleges and universities to compete 
with other New England candidates. Dr. 
Marshall Fulton '20 also helped select the 
men for Oxford. 

Rufus C. Fuller, Jr., has been appointed 
Master of Ceremonies for the 203-year-old 
Masonic lodge in Providence, St. John's, 
No. 1. 

1920 

Dr. Marshall N. Fulton, Chief of Medi- 
cine at the Rhode Island Hospital, retired 
at the close of the year after holding that 
position since 1948. At a reception in his 
honor, he was presented with a citation 
by Louis C. Gerry, President of the Rhode 
Island Hospital, and Edmund C. Mayo, 
Vice-President. 

Edward B. Stringham, 2nd, has been 
named Manager of the Life Insurance De- 
partment of the Dunlap Agency, with 
offices at Memorial Circle, Auburn, Me. 
He was associated with the field operation 
of the General Life Insurance Company 
for more than 25 years and had served as 
Manager of the Wilkes-Barre, Pa., broker- 
age agency. 

Lou Fieri, owner of the Rhode Island 
Reds hockey team, was pictured in the 
Providence Journal the week before Christ- 
mas surrounded by a bevy of beauties. The 
girls were the wives of the players, and 
Lou was the host at the annual holiday 
party for his team and their better halves. 

1921 

Dr. Charles J. Fish has asked to be 
relieved of the administrative duties of 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Director of the Narragansett Marine Lab- 
oratory, University of Rhode Island, which 
he founded and has headed for 25 years. 
This action will be necessary to permit him 
to maintain his personal participation in 
the growing program of Navy-supported 
basic oceanographic research for which he 
will continue to have major responsibility. 
(His wife has also been active in this re- 
search.) Charlie agreed to stay on as 
Director of the Lab until a qualified suc- 
cessor could be found. As reported in our 
November issue, the recently dedicated 
Oceanographic Laboratory at URI was 
named the Charles J. Fish Laboratory. 
When Dr. Fish founded the Narragansett 
Marine Laboratory, he had a group of four 
volunteer scientists. The department now 
has a staff of 28 and 18 graduate students. 
H. Stanton Smith, President of Moore 
Fabrics. Inc., Pawtucket, has been elected 
President of the Elastic Fabric Manufac- 
turers' Institute. He served the past two 
years as its Vice-President. 

1922 
C. Manton Eddy. President of the As- 
sociated Alumni, was a member of an 
advisory panel which helped prepare the 
report of President Eisenhower's Com- 
mission on National Goals, headed by 
Dr. Henry M. Wriston. Eddy, Senior 
Vice-President of Connecticut General Life 
Insurance Company, served on the eight- 
member panel which studied health and 
welfare needs of Americans. The con- 
clusions appeared as an essay in the book, 
"Goals for Americans," where the section 
on "Meeting Human Needs" covered pub- 
lic health services, medical care for the 
aged, mental illness, unemployment in- 
surance, and disability protection, juvenile 
delinquency, hospitals, and medical per- 
sonnel. 

Jack Fawcett, our former President, 
has returned from a three-month trip to 



The Outlook for Business 
Business men in general and 
managers of investment funds, too. 
read with interest what Dr. John W. 
Harriman '20 had to say about 1961 
prospects for the nation's economy. 
He is economist for the Tri-Conti- 
nental Corporation, a large closed- 
end investment company, and the 
Broad Street Group of mutual 
funds. His precis appeared in a 
monthly review prepared for Tri- 
Continental and was quoted in the 
New York Times. 

His comments: "Near-term pros- 
pects for business are for further 
softness," but the recession would 
probably be "mild," with the down- 
ward movement reversed by the 
second half of the year. There were 
"sufficient uncertainties to satisfy the 
most masochistic worrier." Pessi- 
mistic factors were the international 
problems in Berlin. Cuba, Laos, and 
the Congo; the balance of payments 
deficit; and unfavorable signs in 
various business indexes. 



Europe. He is continuing his active retire- 
ment in Florida, where he may be reached 
at 529 7th Ave., North Naples. He reports 
seeing Clarence Gray in St. Pete and Pete 
Simmons '23 in Sarasota. Jack's son (also 
John W.) was on the Hill as a member of 
the Class of '54, and now a grandson, 
John W. Fawcett, 3rd, is pointing for the 
Class of '70. The originator of the Fawcett 
relation with Brown was Rev. Dr. John 
Fawcett, author of "Blest Be the Tie That 
Binds" and other hymns, who was awarded 
a D.D. by the University in 1811. 

Jim Serven, authority on firearms, col- 
lector, and a leading participant in the 
affairs of the National Rifle Association, 
contributed a review of the historical im- 
portance of powder horn maps, especially 
those of the Hudson and Mohawk Valleys. 
to the December issue of the American 
Gun. Along with his collecting, writing, 
and participation in the organization of 
Death Valley Encampment last fall, Jim 
finds time to enjoy five grandchildren as 
well as to make regular trips into New 
York and Washington. His home remains 
at 12432 Ranchview Drive. Santa Ana. 
CaUf. 

Jacob H. Mogelever, Promotion Man- 
ager of the Treasury Department's Savings 
Bonds Division and author of the recent 
book, "Death to Traitors," was the fea- 
tured speaker at the December meeting of 
the Phi Beta Kappa Association at its Na- 
tional Headquarters in Washington, D. C. 

1923 
Kilgore Macfarlane has moved to Phoe- 
nix, Ariz., and has a new affiliation in 
banking there — as Chairman of the Finance 
Committee of the Guaranty Bank. The 
Macfarlane residence in Phoenix is at 330 
West Medlock Dr. 

1925 

Kingsley L. Bennett has been installed 
as Worshipful Master of one of the coun- 
try's oldest Masonic groups, St. John's 
Lodge, No. 1, Providence. The Providence 
attorney was elected at the Lodge's 203rd 
annual communication. 

1926 

Edward Hart has his own public rela- 
tions business in Washington, D. C, where 
his address is 3702 Harrison St., N.W. 
"I have a son who may be ready for 
Brown one of these days," he wrote re- 
cently. 

Willard Potter is out on the beach every 
day at Key West this winter. He had some 
unflattering remarks to make (on his post- 
card) about "Castro cohorts" in evidence. 

J. Lawrence McElroy, Assistant Secre- 
tary-Treasurer of the Providence Journal 
Company, has been named to the account- 
ing methods and procedures committee of 
the Institute of Newspaper Controllers and 
Finance Officers. He is a Director of the 
organization. The Institute is an interna- 
tional technical association devoted to the 
business and financial functions of news- 
paper pubhshing. 

1927 
Bert Creese is Manager of Labor Rela- 
tions for the Massachusetts Leather Manu- 




PHILIP LUKIN '24 is the new President of Law- 
rence Fertig & Company, Inc., New York, which 
he joined in 1933 as a Vice-President. He has 
been Executive Vice-President for the post eight 
years. Prior to that he hod been Executive Vice- 
President, Charles Austin Bates, Inc., New York. 



facturers' Association, with his office in 
Peabody. 

George Fessenden is connected with the 
Point Judith Fisherman's Cooperative As- 
sociation, handling marine supplies. 

Harry Bartlett and Tony Randazzo met 
unexpectedly on the first tee of the Do- 
rando Hotel golf course at Puerto Rico 
recently. 

Fred Barrows plans to call a meeting of 
the Reunion Committee shortly to formu- 
late plans for 1962. 

1928 
Supreme Court Justice Thomas J. Paolino 
was invested in the Sovereign Military 
Order of Malta by Cardinal Spellman at 
ceremonies in St. Patrick's Cathedral, New 
York, on Jan. 16. The Rhode Island jurist 
was decorated as a Magistral Knight, one 
of the highest ranks attained by laymen. 
The honor is conferred by the Papal Court 
for outstanding service to society and the 
church. In December. Judge Paolino com- 
pleted a digest of Rhode Island zoning 
cases. All profits from the sale of the SIO 
volume, in accordance with his wishes, will 
go to the R. I. Bar Foundation, a non- 
profit organization dedicated to the pro- 
motion of justice and legal research and 
education. The work, which with indexes 
and charts covers some 400 pages, went 
on sale in the State law library at Provi- 
dence County Courthouse in December. 
Vernon C. Stoneman, Belmont, Mass., 
attorney, has been named Secretary of the 
new Coolidge Bank & Trust Co., in that 
community. A graduate of the Harvard 
Business School, he was formerly asso- 
ciated with Ely, Bradford, Thompson & 
Brown and served as regional attorney in 
New England for the U. S. Dept. of Labor. 
He is presently a partner in the law firm of 
Stoneman & Chandler. 



FEBRUARY 1961 




WALTER S. BOPP '35 has been appointed to the 
new post of Vice-President and General Manager 
of Phiico International Division of Phiico Cor- 
poration. He joined Phiico four years ago as 
Director of Marketing with full responsibility for 
worldwide exports of the company's products. 
He hod previously been in internotionol soles 
management for Avco Manufocturing Co. and 
RCA International. 



1929 
George E. Levine, Vice-President of 
the Providence Institute for Savings, has 
been named Secretary of the bank and a 
member of a new four-man management 
team set up to pinpoint responsibility at 
the decision making level. 

1932 

Four members of the Executive Com- 
mittee of the Class attended the funeral 
of their classmate and friend, Hugh Butler, 
at St. John's Church, Noroton, Conn., in 
December. Hugh was one of those killed in 
the tragic air crash over New York. Those 
attending included President Richard F. 
Canning. Secretary Richard A. Hurley, Jr., 
Stanley C. Paige, and Richard A. Ogden. 
Many other Brown men also were present 
to pay their last respects to a man who 
had done so much for the University over 
the years. Classmates will have an op- 
portunity shortly to participate in a me- 
morial fund that is being set up in his 
honor. Full details will be forwarded in the 
mail. 

Richard A. Hurley, Jr., has been named 
a member of the Executive Committee for 
1961 of the New England Chapter of the 
Society of Industrial Realtors of the Na- 
tional Association of Real Estate Boards. 

Dr. Joseph E. Cannon has been named 
State Director of Health by Rhode Island's 
new governor, John Nolle. He had been 
serving as an Assistant Director of Social 
Welfare for Curative Services. 

1933 

Alfred Lawrence is President of Air-Lite 
Products, Inc., of Cambridge, distributors 
of plastiform in.sulation materials. 



Austin L. Marsh has been promoted to 
Auditor with the Brooks Bank & Trust Co., 
Torrington, Conn. He had been with the 
bank eight months, coming from the Me- 
chanics National Bank of Worcester. 

1934 

Eugene M. McSweeney, Jr., is Executive 
Director of the Lowell (Mass.) Develop- 
ment and Industrial Commission, a group 
that in the last several years has been 
highly successful in bringing new industries 
to the greater Lowell area. 

1935 

President Nils Y. Wessell of Tufts Uni- 
versity has been designated Chairman of 
the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank 
of Boston and its Federal Reserve agent 
for 1961. He became a Director of the 
Bank in 1957. He received his Sc.M. from 
Brown in 1935. 

Alfred H. Joslin, a member of the Provi- 
dence law^ firm of Aisenherg & Joslin, and 
President of the Butler Health Center, has 
been elected to the Board of Trustees of 
the Providence Institution for Savings. 

William T. Broomhead has been re- 
elected Chairman of the Republican Party 
in Rhode Island. He had the backing of 
former Governor Del Sesto in his bid for 
reelection. 

Robert M. Hall has reported as Chair- 
man of the Journalism Fund (Graduate 
School of Journalism, Columbia Univer- 
sity) on the 1959-60 drive. He announced 
a total of $18,880, with participation of 
more than 30rf of the alumni, both figures 
representing gains. 

1936 

Walter G. Barney, Division Vice-Presi- 
dent and Plant Manager of the Okonite 
Co., Kennecott Wire and Cable Division, 
Phillipsdale, R. I., has been elected Chair- 
man of the 12th annual New England 
Congress of the National Metal Trades 
Association. The congress is to be held at 
the Sheraton-Biltmore Hotel, Providence, 
Apr. 13, 

Dr. Harold F. Bright is a Professor in 
the Department of Statistics, George Wash- 
ington University. 

1937 

Thomas J. Watson, Jr., President of 
International Business Machines and Na- 
tional Chairman of Brown University's 
Bicentennial Development Program, re- 
ceived the 1960 Gold Medal of Merit at 
the annual dinner of the Wharton School 
Alumni Society of the University of Penn- 
sylvania, The award is made for "out- 
standing business leadership" and was fol- 
lowed by an address from the recipient. 

Arthur I. Saklad is Executive Sales 
Manager of Ben Elfman & Son, Inc., Bos- 
ton. His son, Jim, after graduating from 
the University of Miami and getting mar- 
ried, is now in the service. 

Dr. Harold S. Barrett has been named 
President of the Connecticut Public Health 
Association. He is head of the new Office 
of Public Health for the Connecticut Stale 
Health Department and Deputy Commis- 
sioner of Health. 



1938 

Dr. Clifford E. Herrick, Jr., has resigned 
as Director of Research and Development 
for Ozalid Division of General Aniline &. 
Film Corp., and has been named Vice- 
President in charge of Research and De- 
velopment for Sumner Williams, Inc., of 
Boston, the largest manufacturers of un- 
sensitized lithographic plates in the coun- 
try. After leaving Brown, he acquired his 
Ph.D. from the University of Rochester 
and went to work on the Manhattan Proj- 
ect, first on the staff of the War Research 
Division at Columbia and later at SAM 
Labs in New York City. He joined the 
Ozalid group at the end of the war and 
has been with them in various capacities 
ever since. He and Susan have four chil- 
dren, two boys and two girls. 

Paul Henkel, having left Dallas, is a 
new resident of Lincoln, Neb. — at 1048 
Aldrich Rd. 

John C. Edgren will serve as General 
Chairman of the 1961 Heart Fund Drive 
in Rhode Island this month. He is Assist- 
ant Vice-President of the Citizens Savings 
Bank and Citizens Trust Co., Providence. 

Dr. James B. Maguire, Professor of 
English at Springfield College, is teaching 
a course in the American novel this winter. 
Prior to joining the Springfield faculty last 
fall. Dr. Maguire has been on the faculty 
of Classical High School in Springfield for 
eight years, 

Lester J. Gates is President of Sidney 
S. Gates & Sons of North Scituate, Mass. 
.An active citizen, he has served on the 
Town's Advisory Board, Building By-Law 
Committee, School Investigating Commit- 
tee, School and Town Building Committee, 
Planning Board, Sewer Commission, and 
the Economic Development Committee. 

Sam Hall, a timber cruiser in Northern 



Providence Debutantes 
The Debut.\nte Assembly in 
Providence in December saw a num- 
ber of Brunonians presenting their 
daughters to society. Among the 
debutantes at the Sheraton-Biltmore 
Hotel were: 

Miss Desire Howland Gorham, 
daughter of Sayles Gorham '22 and 
Mrs. Gorham (the late Prof. Fred- 
eric P. Gorham '92 was a grand- 
father): Miss Martha Ann Owen, 
daughter of H. Clinton Owen, Jr., 
'28 and Mrs. Owen: Miss Nancy 
Young Rapelye, daughter of Robert 
F. Rapelye '41 and Mrs. Rapelye 
(the late Howard S. Young '08 was 
a grandfather): Miss Miriam Diane 
Ripley, Jr.. '32 and Mrs. Ripley: 
Miss Rowena Ruth Robinson, daugh- 
ter of Knight D. Robinson '35 and 
Mrs. Robinson (Charles C. Robin- 
son '05 is a grandfather). 

Miss Eleanor Richmond Fales, 
another debutante, is a granddaugh- 
ter of J. Richmond Fales '10, while 
Miss Katharine Stanley Maybach is 
the granddaughter of the late Daniel 
Howland '00. 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



New England for a long time and a skier 
for a longer time, has established a ski spot 
at Tenney Mt., just outside Plymouth, 
N. H. Sam and Alice have over 1.000 acres 
and have cut and hand-groomed a six-acre 
open slope and a short trail, both served by 
a T-bar lift of 1,000 feet. 

Miles Grover made his 25th business 
trip to Hawaii after returning from five 
weeks in Europe, including the Olympic 
games in Rome. He and his wife have 
promised to make another trip — this one 
to Providence for our 25th in '63. 

Luke Mayer is now settled in Bethesda, 
Md., with the Bureau of Ships. He is in 
charge of the Aircraft Carrier Branch. 

Ben Chase reports that he has formed a 
new company, Chase-MacArthur. in Ham- 
den, Conn., specializing in the sale of 
decorative plastics and industrial packag- 
ing. 

Samuel Rubin has been promoted to 
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at 
New York Medical College, Flower-Fifth 
Avenue Hospitals. New York City. 

J. E. LATHROP 

1939 

Karl Kaffenberger. Jr., was installed 
Dec. 15 as President of Connecticut Chap- 
ter 19, American Institute of Appraisers. 
Karl is an independent appraiser with of- 
fices at 167 Washington St., Hartford. Re- 
cently he has been active in development 
work in Danbury and East Hartford. 

1940 

Gerald Oster is Associate Professor of 
Polymer Chemistry at Brooklyn Polytech- 
nic Institute, where he has been since 1951. 
His research over the past nine years has 
been mainly in the field of photochemistry. 




American Representative 

Dr. Samuel Bojar '36 was the 
only American to attend the recent 
London conference of the Interna- 
tional Study of Psychological Prob- 
lems in General Hospitals. As a 
member of the Boston Study Group, 
located at the Peter Bent Brigham 
Hospital, he had been chosen to be 
its representative. With no other 
American among the 14 delegates 
from 1 1 countries in London, he 
was looked on not only as repre- 
sentative of Boston, Peter Bent 
Brigham, and Harvard Medical 
School but also of the United States. 

Dr. Bojar lectured in Fall River 
recently in the Adult Education 
Series at Temple Beth El. His talk 
gave the psychiatric point of view 
on "Handling Fears and Anxieties" 
in a panel discussion on religion and 
psychiatry. 



DR. LEONARD G. GHERING, Ph.D. '35, has be- 
come Chairman of the Board of Directors of 
Preston Laboratories, Butler, Pa., which he has 
served for 25 years. Former President and Di- 
rector of Research, he will continue as the lob's 
senior glass technologist and consultont tor the 
firm's major clients. Mrs. Ghering is the former 
Jenny Lind, Pembroke '33. 



particularly as it applies to high polymers. 

Lt. Col. Robert R. Clifford recently 
received the Air Force Commendation 
Medal. He was honored for meritorious 
service as an inspector and team chief in 
the 1002nd Inspector General Group at 
Norton AFB, San Bernardino, Calif., from 
1957 to 1960. 

Wilbur E. Becker has been named Plant 
Manager of the Savannah, Ga., factory of 
the Hercules Powder Co. He had been 
Manager of the plant in Franklin, Va., 
since it opened in 1955. He joined the 
firm as a chemist in 1940. 

Prof. Bertram B. Hardy, head of the 
Electrical Engineering Department at Brad- 
ford Durfee College of Technology, has 
been elected Vice-Chairman of the New 
England College of Professors of Electrical 
Engineering. Dr. Hardy is a registered 
professional engineer in both Massachu- 
setts and Rhode Island. 

Congressman Bill Bates (R-Mass.) was 
easily reelected in the November elections. 
His total vote was more than double that 
of his opponent. 

Charles C. Viall has begun another term 
as City Clerk of East Providence. 

Ted Dooley addressed the December 
meeting of the Thoroughbred Racing Asso- 
ciations, Inc., of the United States in his 
capacity as President of the Society of 
North American Racing Officials. Ted also 
is Assistant Racing Secretary at Narra- 
gansett Park, Racing Secretary at Rocking- 
ham Park, and an official at several other 
tracks. 

1941 
Peter W. Allport has been named Presi- 
dent of the Association of National Ad- 
vertisers. A veteran of 14 years with the 
concern, he was named Executive Vice- 
President last May. As the ANA's new 
President, he plans to quarterback efforts 
to win for advertising new stature and 
understanding with the general public and 
industrial management. 

Richard H. Bell has been appointed 




NORMAN P. ROSS '42 is Editor for the new 
Book Division of Time, Inc. Chief correspondent 
in Life's London ofTice, he returned to New York 
in 1959 to edit "The Second World War," a two- 
volume pictorial history with text by Winston 
Churchill, and has been editing Life's books since 
then. Photo by Walter Daron. 



Midwestern Sales Manager for Hampden 
Glazed Paper and Card Co., Inc., Hol- 
yoke, Mass. He will be working from the 
Chicago office at 325 W. Hudson St. His 
home address: 808 V2 Hill Rd., Winnetka, 
111. 

William P. Sheffield, formerly assistant 
to the general manager of the Cutting Tool 
Division of Brown & Sharpe Mfg. Co., has 
been named Director of Purchasing for the 
firm. He has been with the company for 
15 years. 

Earl W. Harrington, Jr., has been named 
Assistant Vice-President of Manufacturers 
Mutual Fire Insurance Co., Providence. 

Frank G. Feldman, President of J. M. 
Field, Inc., has been elected to the Board 
of Directors of the new Coolidge Bank & 
Trust Co., Watertown, Mass. 

1942 
Arthur B. Rice is teaching art at Adams 
High School. Watertown, N. Y. A group of 
his paintings was exhibited through the 
month of December at the 19th Street 
Gallery in New York City. After leaving 
Brown, Art studied at the Rhode Island 
School of Design, the University of Flor- 
ence. Italy, and Syracuse University. 

Bob Priestley completed six years as 
head football coach at Norwich University 
last fall. After a rather slow start, his 
eleven closed fast with shut-out victories 
over Middlebury and Worcester Tech. 
Right now. Bob is more concerned with 
his hockey forces. 

Richard F. Buck is Plant Manager of 
U.S. Korboard Corp.. High Point, N. C. 
He and his wife and four children are 
living at 715 Montlieu Ave. 

1944 
Dr. Anthony F. Bartholomay, who re- 
ceived a Brown M.A. in 1944, holds a new 



FEBRUARY 1961 



27 




PRODUCT MANAGER in Allied Chemicol's Plastics 
Division is David W. Towler '43; his field: Halon 
fluoroholocarbon molding and extrusion com- 
pounds. He hod earlier served Allied in several 
sales and technical positions, most recently in 
the Western New England area as soles repre- 
sentative for Ploskon molding compounds. He is 
a former Director of the Hew England bronch of 
the Society of Plastic Engineers. He lives at 441 
Maple Ave., Cheshire, Conn. 



appointment to the Faculty of Medicine at 
Harvard. He is Assistant Professor of 
Mathematical Biology, which he had pre- 
viously taught at the Harvard School of 
Public Health. He has also been mathema- 
tician in the Biophysics Research Labora- 
tory of Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. 

James H. Flanagan has been appointed 
Scientific Director of the U.S. Army Quar- 
termaster Research and Engineering Center 
Laboratories at Natick, Mass. Former Phys- 
ical Science Administrator at the Boston 
Branch Office of the Office of Naval Re- 
search, Jim took on his new duties in 
November. He is the author of several 
reports and papers in photography and 
photoelasticity, and experimental mechan- 
ics. 

Charles H. Philbrick was featured in 
Look Magazine recently with a four-page 
picture-story. In commenting on his first 
book of poems, "Wonderstrand Revisited,"' 
the story described Philbrick as "a new 
young American poet with an original 
idea; one who writes with power about 
New England, his native land." Among the 
10 pictures used was one of our classmate 
passing through the Van Wickle Gates in 
the traditional Commencement Procession. 

Max Montgomery is teaching at Welles- 
ley High School, Wellesley, Mass. His 
address remains 17 Lancaster Drive, West- 
wood. 

1945 
Dave Bell, who last July was named 
Executive Secretary of the Rhode Island 
Commission to Encourage Morality in 
Youth, was replaced in December by the 
man he succeeded in what the Providence 
Journal called a "demonstration of bureau- 
cratic bungling almost beyond belief." 



Dave's predecessor was dropped because 
of his failure to take a civil service exam 
for his position, only to be reinstated six 
months later after his appeal to the Per- 
sonnel Appeal Board was upheld by a 5-3 
vote. Dave has appealed the decision. Last 
summer, shortly after taking over his new 
duties, Dave was praised in a Providence 
Bulletin editorial for his "sophisticated 
approach to the improvement of young 
people's reading habits." His program was 
based on the assumption that if we are to 
expect our children to read good books, 
we must read ourselves. 

Ralph A. Whitney has become General 
Sales Manager for the Green Mountain 
Power Corp., with headquarters in Burling- 
ton, Vt. He had been Power Sales Engineer 
in the Woonsocket division of the Black- 
stone Valley Gas and Electric Co. 

John F. Falconer has joined two friends 
in the establishment of an architectural 
firm on the top floor of the Levy Bldg., 
318 Main St., Greenfield, Mass. The firm, 
which is registered in Massachusetts, Ver- 
mont, and Maryland, offers complete ar- 
chitectural service, which includes analy- 
ses, design working and detail drawing, 
structural and mechanical engineering, and 
project supervision. John earned his archi- 
tectural degree from Cornell in 1954. 

1946 

Edward N. Clarke is a founder and Vice- 
President for Operations of a new com- 
pany. National Semiconductor Corpora- 
tion, located in Danhury, Conn. The firm 
was established in June, 1959, for the 
purpose of manufacturing and marketing 
high quality silicon transistors of the types 
used primarily in military applications. 
The company sold its first products in late 
1959, and since that time shipments have 
increased to the rate of $200,000 per 
month. With sales continuing to mount, 
the backlog of orders has passed the 
million-dollar mark. 

1947 

G. Thomas Gates, Lebanon, Pa., attor- 
ney, has been appointed to the county's 
vacant judgeship by Gov. David L. Law- 
rence to fill an unexpired term. The ap- 
pointment for the Republican lawyer runs 
until the first Monday of January, 1962. 

1948 
Minerva University in Milan, Italy, has 
conferred its highest award on Dr. Dome- 
nic A. Vavala — the University's Academic 
Palms in Gold. He has returned to this 
country after teaching and studying at 
Minerva. An Air Force physiologist, Cap- 
tain Vavala was on leave from the In- 
carnate Word College. He paid a holiday 
visit with his family in Providence before 
going back to Cannon AF Base, where he 
is Chief of Physiological Training at the 
832rd Tactical Hospital. 

Donald M. Joseph is President of the 
General Alumni Association of Peddie 
School. 

Dr. Philip J. Bray had a part in an 
article entitled "Glass," written by Prof. 
Charles H. Greene of Alfred University 
and appearing in the January issue of 
Scientific American. The article contains 



a pictorial presentation of glass structure 
studies carried out by Dr. Bray, a member 
of the Brown Physics Department. The 
work has confirmed suggestions of some 
30 years standing as to the arrangements 
of boron and oxygen atoms in glasses 
containing boron oxide and alkali oxides. 
These studies, based on the interactions 
of atomic nuclei with their surroundings, 
are presented in greater detail in a chapter 
of the book, "Modern Aspects of the 
Vitreous State," recently published by But- 
terworths of London, England. The chap- 
ter, entitled "Nuclear Magnetic Resonance 
Studies of the Structure of Glass," was 
written by Dr. Bray in collaboration with 
Dr. Arnold H. Silver, who worked with 
him as a research assistant during the 
course of the studies. 

Benjamin Latt, Hospital Administrator 
of the Maple Grove Medical Care Facility, 
Grand Rapids, Mich., has been selected as 
a member of the newly organized Hospital 
Advisory Committee to the Social Welfare 
Commission of the State of Michigan. The 
Committee is to exchange ideas and pre- 
sent problems to technicians so that the 
Commission may have the best possible 
advice prior to making decisions on hos- 
pitalization and nursing home care for 
clients with grants from the State. 

Edward H. Cafferty, a Systems Analyst 
with New England Tel. «S: Tel., Boston, has 
been assigned to a project engaged in put- 
ting into operation an IBM 7070 Computer 
similar to the one that was installed in 
the Brown Computing Center. The Tele- 
phone Company will use its machine for 
payroll, billing, and other company opera- 
tions. 



OvtTsea.s Educator 
In 13 COUNTRIES of Europe, 
North Africa, and the Middle East 
some 8500 members of the U.S. 
Armed Forces are enrolled in the 
European Division of the University 
of Maryland. Dr. Ernest Hofer '45 
is the Acting Director of this un- 
usual educational program. He had 
been Associate Director since 1957 
and took on new duties when the 
Director, Gen. Herman Beukema, 
died on Nov. 26. Headquarters are 
in Heidelberg. 

A former Education Adviser with 
the U.S. Air Force at Mildenhall / 
Lakenheath. England, Dr. Hofer 
taught English at the Taft School, 
at Brown, and at Cornell. He re- 
ceived a Brown A.M. in 1947, then 
began work for a doctorate at 
Ithaca. A two-year Fulbright fel- 
lowship enabled him to go to Ox- 
ford University, where he received 
the graduate degree of B.Litt. in 
1952 and returned to get his Ph.D. 
at Cornell. He had also worked as 
a copywriter for a London advertis- 
ing agency and as a professional 
piano accompanist. He joined the 
University of Maryland staff in 1954 
as assistant to General Beukema. 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



George T. Kitchell has left Cincinnati 
for Puerto Rico, where he is with Caribe 
General Electric, Inc., in Palmer. 

1949 
Peter F. Kenton is with the Societe 
Fran?aise des Services Techniques, 52 Ave- 
nue des Champs Elysees, Paris 8. He gives 
his title as "Directeur Administratif." 

Clifford Duxbury, Manager of Market- 
ing Services at Norton Co., has been 
named to the newly formed School Needs 
Study Committee in Paxton, Mass. The 
committee is studying the best way to 
expand Paxton's school system. 

Professor David Laurent has been en- 
gaged by the Boston Symphony for two 
concerts this spring. 

1950 

Moses Kando, Pawtucket attorney, took 
the oath of office in December as Second 
Assistant U.S. District Attorney. The oath 
was administered by Judge Edward W. 
Day '22. In taking the position, Kando 
noted that he was aware of the impending 
change in national administration and so 
had no illusions about the permanency of 
his job. "Even if it proves to be of short 
duration," he said, "I expect the experience 
will be of value to me as a lawyer in 
general practice." 

Emil John is in his second year at the 
Yale Divinity School. He is employed full 
time during the summers and three nights 
a week during the school year as a re- 
porter for the Providence Journal. 

Robert C. Dunham has been appointed 
Sales Manager for Osman-Amron. Inc., 
the real estate division of Amron Building, 
Inc., Cranbury, N. J., and also Amron- 
Moss, the custom developmental planning 
division. He had been working in the Dela- 
ware Valley area for the past decade in 
marketing and consumer sales. 

Bruce Collins is Assistant to the Man- 
ager of the Greater Boston Chamber's 
Convention and Tourist Bureau. A former 
Field Executive for the Boy Scouts of 
America, he has been with the bureau 
since 1955. 

Andrew P. Swanson had the pleasure 
of presenting the two Man-of-the-Year 
awards at the annual Christmas dinner 
and party of the Providence University 
Club. 

Lt. George Chapin, who has been sta- 
tioned in Berlin since Aug. 19, reports that 
the assignment is interesting and the city 
is fascinating. He had an excellent reason 
for missing the 10th Reunion — the wife 
was waiting for their first child. "Mary 
Alice is now close to six months old and 
she has really changed our lives." 

Chuck Nelson managed a visit to the 
Campus in December while he and Gerrie 
and the children were spending part of the 
holidays with his in-laws in Newport. After 
lunching with a couple of classmates, Fred 
Kozak and Jay Barry, he spent the after- 
noon huddled with members of the Brown 
coaching staff, studying football films — 
natch! Chuck is a teacher and football 
coach at Scotch Plains High School, Mid- 
dlesex, N. J. His team won its second 
conference title in two years with a 4-0-1 
record, and the overall mark of 6-2-1 



against some of the toughest competition 
in the State earned a high ranking for his 
Raiders. Employing the wide-open style of 
ball he played at Brown under Coach Rip 
Engle, Chuck picked up the nickname of 
"The Last of the Successful Gamblers." 
While attending the Heisman Award Din- 
ner he bumped into an old friend and 
frat brother, Fred Franco '52. 

1951 
Herbert F. DeSimone, Providence at- 
torney, was elected a member of the Ex- 
ecutive Committee of the Republican State 
Central Committee in December. He has 
long been active in GOP politics. 

James A. Coleman, Jr., is teaching Eng- 
lish and Biology at Connecticut's Laurel 
Crest Academy. He is completing work 
toward his Master's at Trinity College. 

1952 

Joe Bowdring has been appointed Man- 
ager of the Disability Division in Chicago 
for Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. He has 
been in the insurance field since gradua- 
tion. 

The Rev. Harrington M. Gordon, Jr., 
new Rector of Trinity Episcopal Church, 
Cranston, was one of two men named 
Chaplains of the Rhode Island State Po- 
lice. The first chaplains in the history of 
the force were sworn in at ceremonies at 
the Scituate headquarters in December. 
The Superintendent said that the men will 
offer spiritual guidance to state police 
throughout Rhode Island and take part in 
state police ceremonial functions. 

Curtis B. Schwartz of New Bedford was 
rated one of the 10 highest in an examina- 
tion for Certified Public Accoimtants. He 
is employed as senior accountant with the 
New York firm of Price, Waterhouse and 
Company and is an Instructor in Account- 
ing at Columbia. 

Carl Leone has been named Head Foot- 
ball Coach at his Alma Mater, North 
Quincy High. He had been Assistant Foot- 
ball Coach there since 1955. One of 




These Mortgages Are Big 

Ivor B. Clark, Jr., '53, although 
only 30 years of age, has been 
described as perhaps the country's 
leading expert in arranging multi- 
million dollar mortgages. He is head 
of Ivor B. Clark, Inc., of New York 
and California, a firm that has ar- 
ranged the financing for such struc- 
tures as New York's Chrysler and 
Tishman buildings and hundreds of 
other office buildings, factories, 
shopping centers, and apartment de- 
velopments all across the land. 

"Some big institutions simply 
write checks when they build, but 
most companies don't like to tie up 
millions out of their operating funds 
in a real estate deal," Clark ob- 
served. "Hunting for capital them- 
selves is tedious and risky. They 
can't be sure they will make the 
wisest deal — so they come to us. We 
are practically unique." Founded in 
1929 by his father, Clark's opera- 
tion is said to be the only firm in 
the country working every day at 
brokering multi-million dollar mort- 
gages. 



CHARLES W. COLSON '53, representing the New 
England Council in Washington. 



Brown's top quarterbacks of recent years, 
Carl played for three head coaches. Rip 
Engle, Gus Zitrides, and Al Kelley. 

Donald Stehle is a Sales Application 
Engineer with C. P. Clare Transistor, Glen 
Head, N. Y. 

Neil Schroeder is teaching at Clark Uni- 
versity this year, while continuing his work 
for a Ph.D. He's an Instructor in Public 
Speaking. 

1953 

Robert F. Hewes has been appointed 
Executive Secretary of the Columbia Jour- 
nalism Alumni Association. He also has 
been appointed Alumni Affairs Officer at 
the Graduate School of Journalism. He 
will direct the Alumni Placement program 
and edit the Journalism Alunuii Newslet- 
ter. He had been Editor of the Stratford 
(Conn.) News and a writer for Theatre 
Arts Magazine in New York City. Most 
recently he had been associated with 
Bruthers Co., a public relations firm in 
Cleveland. 

Charles W. Colson assumed new duties 
Jan. 1 as Representative for the New Eng- 
land Council, working out of its newly 
established Washington office. He had been 
Administrative Assistant to Senator Lev- 
erett Saltonstall for AVi years. He will 
represent the Council before regulatory 
and administrative government agencies 
and work closely with the New England 
congressional delegation. CharUe is a grad- 
uate of the George Washington Law 
School. 

Moris Tcath has been named Manager 
of the Zayre department store in Agawam, 
Mass. He had been Assistant Manager of 
Zayre stores in Medford and Braintree, 
Mass., for the past year and a half. 

Carl Stenberg is Instructor of English 
at Rhode Island College. He has been on 



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29 



hand for most of the Brown basketball 
games this winter. 

1954 

Edward W. O'Malley has been promoted 
to District Group Supervisor in Pittsburgh 
by the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insur- 
ance Co. Ed joined the firm in 1955 and 
has been affihated with the Pittsburgh 
office since its opening in 1957. 

Lt. Henry C. Atwood, Jr., has been 
given command of the U.S.S. Henry 
Coimty, and LST operating in Long Beach, 
Cahf. Since his commission in 1954, he 
has served three tours of duty aboard 
destroyers. 

John B. Hunter has been appointed Loss 
Superintendent in the newly established 
Claims Office in Manchester, N. H., of the 
Boston Insurance Group. He had been a 
claims adjuster in the Boston office. 

Edward J. Beadle, a Senior dental stu- 
dent at the University of Pennsylvania, has 
been elected to Omicron Kappa Upsilon, 
national honorary dental fraternity for 
scholarship. He has served as Editor of 
the Penn Denial Journal, sixth oldest in 
the field in America, and is a member of 
the W. D. Miller Research Society. His 
address: 3740-52 Earlham St., Philadel- 
phia 29. 

1955 

1st Lt. George M. Davis of Pawtucket 
survived the crash of a B-52 jet bomber 
over northern New York State in Decem- 
ber. One of eight crewmen who bailed out 
of the crippled plane, he was found after 
40 hours in rugged and snow-covered ter- 
rain, with temperatures near zero. His first 
act upon being rescued was to call his 
parents and inform them of his safety. 

Victor Guinness is studying part time at 
New York University for his Ph.D. in 
Industrial Psychology, while working as 
a staff engineering psychologist for Dunlap 
& Associates. He is also a human factors 
consultant to the Post Office Department 
studying design of semi-automatic mail 
handling equipment. 

Don Janis is a Ph.D. candidate in Lin- 
guistics at the University of North Caro- 
lina. He has a part-time position as Visit- 
ing Instructor at North Carolina College, a 
State-supported Negro college which has 
just celebrated its 50th anniversary. His 
new address: Box 137-B, Route 1, Dur- 
ham, N. C. 

Phil and Claire Jarvinen have moved 
from Seattle to Danvers, Mass., where 
Phil is employed as a Senior Engineer with 
Avco-Everett Research Laboratory in 
Everett. They and their two sons are living 
at 60 Burley St., Danvers. 

Ed Hale is still associated with the Wind 
Tunnel Department at McDonald Aircraft, 
now called the Gas Dynamics Laboratory. 
Last year he helped plan and coordinate 
the shakedown and calibration programs 
of their two newest tunnels, the Mark 0.5 
to 4.0 Polysonic Wind and the Mark 9.0 
to 27.0 "Hotshot" Tunnel. Ed is living with 
two other bachelors in a rented home in 
St. Louis County, Mo. 

Roland J. Dumont is a recent graduate 
of a multiple-line insurance course at the 
Education Center of the Travelers Insur- 



ance Companies. He represents Travelers 
in his own agency in Bristol, Conn. 

Dr. Len Labush, having completed in- 
ternship at St. Luke's and Children's Med- 
ical Center and Philadelphia General Hos- 
pital, is established in the practice of 
podiatry at 10 Elmgrove .Ave., Providence. 
Bill Kelley, West Coast Editor for 
Doubleday, reports being "snowed" by the 
following rather impressive list of activi- 
ties: Lecturing for W. Colston Leigh, the 
lecture agent, throughout the West and 
Midwest: collaborating with Joe Pasternak 
in a novel; working on a second novel set 
in the Hudson Valley: and doing several 
screen plays, one on his novel, "Gemini," 
published in 1959. 

Paul Letiecq has left the insurance busi- 
ness to prepare for the ministry. He is 
enrolled at Princeton Seminary and is liv- 
ing at R.D. #1, Edinburgh, Trenton, N. J. 
He is occupied week ends as Senior High 
Youth Director at the Second Presbyterian 
Church. Rahway. 

Dick Khachian has just moved to 250 
Shelter Rock Rd.. Fairfield, Conn. He is 
still practicing law in Norwalk, hoping 
for an assistant clerkship in the Stamford 
Superior Court. He is serving as local 
chairman for the 1961 March of Dimes. 
1st Lt. George Kern is serving with a 
troop carrier squadron based on Okinawa, 
flying CI 30 aircraft. He expects to remain 
on the island with his wife and three chil- 
dren until next December, unless the new 
government order on dependents overseas 
intervenes. 

This is too old to be "news," but last 
summer in Norfolk we were fortunate 
enough to get together for dinner with 
Jim Corbridge and Marty Schwalberg. Jim 
was about to check out of the Navy after 
a tour as instructor at the Fleet Air In- 
telligence Training Center there. He later 
began law studies at Yale. Marty was just 
in town for a two-week Naval Air Reserve 
cruise, taking a respite from his job as 
Assistant Projects Officer with Grumman 
Aircraft on Long Island. 

Thomas E. Walker of G. H. Walker & 
Co., has been named Secretary-Treasurer 
of the Rhode Island Association of In- 
vestment Firms. 

Cameron P. Quinn, a partner with 
Quinn & Quinn, Industrial National Bank 
Bldg., Providence, has opened evening law 
offices at 1009 Main St., West Warwick. 

Capt. Ralph Lary, USMC, is at the 
U.S. Naval Postgraduate School at Mon- 
terey, in the second year of the Engineer- 
ing Electronics curriculum. He reports 
that Jim Funk is also there taking Ord- 
nance Engineering. Ralph anticipates a 
Master's degree in 1962 and expects to 
stay on in the Corps as a career officer. 

Colman Levin, a trainee with the Lily- 
Tulip Cup Corp.. expected to be doing 
sales work in the metropolitan New York 
area after the first of the year. He was 
anticipating a Mexican holiday in Decem- 
ber, with some rather impressive sight- 
seeing in prospect. 

Barry Lougee of South Berwick, Me., 
sales representative for M. F. Blouin Ex- 
hibits, Inc., finds himself traveling rather 
extensively throughout the East. Barry 
finds time, however, for a family of three 
girls, as well as for a considerable amount 



of officiating at college soccer in Northern 
New England. He reports seeing Dave 
Bullock and Marty Mullins occasionally 
around Boston. He still gets together in 
the summer with Bill Joel and his wife. 

I have left the Navy after five years, 
and I am teaching at the York Country 
Day School in York, Pa. The best part of 
the arrangement is the accommodations. 
Along with wife, son, and dog, I am 
occupying a great brick farmhouse on a 
hilltop in Wrightsville, Pa., with a mar- 
velous view of the Susquehanna River. 

HERB MELENDY 

1956 

Dodd Wragg was drummed out of the 
Army last June with a Good Conduct 
Medal and a discharge in his hand, and, 
after a short vacation, he went to work 
for Vitro Laboratories in Silver Spring, 
Md., as a teacher with the training group. 
He and June are comfortable in their 
small Cape Cod rambler at 5706 Ridge- 
wood Ave., Rockville, Md. 

Barry Greene. Hartford attorney, has 
formed a law partnership, Kagan and 
Greene, with offices at 945 Asylum Ave. 
He had been associated with the law firm 
of Ribicofl[ and Kotkin. 

George A. Chapman is District Group 
Sales Manager for the Massachusetts Mu- 
tual Life Insurance Company in Cleve- 
land. 

1st Lt. John O. Vanderhoop came back 
to this country late last fall from Frank- 
furt, Germany, where he had been sta- 
tioned for three years. While overseas, he 
was sent on assignments to Italy and 
Turkey, and on his furloughs he traveled 
to Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Paris 
and attended the World's Fair in Belgium. 

George N. Boulukos and his bride hon- 
eymooned for six weeks in Greece and 
sailed the Aegean Islands for four weeks 
with a 30-foot sloop. 

Edwin F. Lewis has been appointed to 
the Chem-o-sol Sales Division of Chemical 
Products Corp., East Providence. He is in 
charge of sales correspondence and pro- 
motion of the company's formulation of 
vinyl plastisols. 

Dan Morrissey. taking courses toward 
his Ph.D. at Georgetown, is working part 
time at the Library of Congress. He and 
Barbara are living in new quarters at 
5621 Hamlet West, Sanger St., Alexandria, 
Va. 

Your Secretary's address was listed on 
the back cover last month in necessarily 
abbreviated form. Should anyone wish the 
initials interpreted, the comprehensive ad- 
dress is as follows: 2nd Lt. Marvin L. 
Wilenzik, Box 227, Officer & Enlisted 
Student Co., Provost Marshal General's 
School, Fort Gordon, Ga. 

MARV WILENZIK 

1957 

LT(jg) Robert G. Hummerstone has 
completed two years in Yokosuka, Japan, 
where he was attached to the Intelligence 
Staff of Commander Naval Forces, Japan. 
His new duty station is Washington, D. C. 
where he will be with the U.S. Naval 



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Security Station until his release from ac- 
tive service in August. Before leaving for 
his new assignment, Bob toolc a trip to 
Manila, Saigon, Bangkok, Angkor Wat, 
Calcutta, New Delhi, and the Taj Mahal 
during his two-week leave. 

David Colinan, a representative of the 
Gorham Co., has moved to 308 Belmont 
St., Liberty, Mo. 

1958 

Edward H. LeZotte, after spending two 
years of service time in Germany, landed 
in New York on Christmas Eve and was 
a civilian again before the first of the year. 
He had served in Frankfurt for the past 
18 months as a reporter for Stars and 
Stripes and as Editor of his own weekly 
newspaper. The Guardian. 

Herbert E. Dunnington, who joined the 
staff of the Home National Bank of Whit- 
man, Mass., in 1958, has been named 
Manager of the new East Side Office. He 
began his duties with the bank in the 
Bookkeeping Department, later being 
transferred to the Discount and Collection 
Department. 

Richard Seid is an executive trainee in 
Ted Bates & Co., New York advertising 
firm, and enjoying every minute of the 
job. This is quite a switch from Columbia 
Law School, where he spent the last two 
years, but one that is working out well. 

Lionel R. Etscovitz is teaching English 
at the Elizabeth S. Brown School in Swan- 
sea, Mass. He did his graduate work at 
Boston University. 

Charles S. Watson has been named an 
agent with Arthur A. Watson & Co., gen- 
eral insurance agency in Hartford. After 
two years in the service, he served for a 
while as a life agent with the Occidental 
Life Insurance Company of California. 

1959 
Lincoln S. Beaumont, Jr., is a second- 
year student at Johns Hopkins University, 
where he is studying under a fellowship 
grant. His concentration is European af- 
fairs. 

Ens. Kenneth H. Hauck, Jr., is attending 
the Air Control Course at the Naval Com- 
bat Information Center School in Bruns- 
wick, Ga. 

Ens. Norman B. White is serving with 
the Florida Group Atlantic Reserve Fleet 
at Green Cove Springs as Assistant Se- 
curity Officer. The mission of the Florida 
group is to maintain ships for the opera- 
tional forces in case of an emergency. 

1960 

William R. Feeney and Peter Kallas have 
entered the School for Advanced Studies 
of the Johns Hopkins University. Bill is 
studying toward a Master's degree in the 
area of European affairs. Pete is studying 
under a fellowship in the field of African 
affairs. 

Ens. David A. Belden was graduated 
from the Officers Candidate School at 
Newport in December. Dave, who stood 
fifth in his class, reported to the ocean 
minesweeper Fidelity for duty. 

Ens. Jay B. Burns was another Decem- 
ber graduate of the school. He headed to 
the Supply School in Athens, Ga. 



2nd Lt. John S. Moyle, USMC, was 
graduated from OCS at the Marine Corps 
School, Quantico, Va., in December and 
is now taking the 26-week Basic School 
course required of all newly commissioned 
Marine officers. 

Bob Mazzeo is with Arrow-Hart & 
Hegeman, Hartford electric company. At 
present, he is in the Motor Control Divi- 
sion of Industrial Sales. He's living at 202 
Washington St. 

Lawrence Ackman has been discharged 
from the Army after serving a six-month 
term. During the last seven weeks of the 
term he taught fire direction and control at 
the Fort Sill Artillery and Missile School. 
Larry has taken a temporary position on 
Wall Street until next fall, when he will 
enter the Harvard Business School. 

Bruce Barton is doing graduate work at 
the Iowa Child Welfare Research Station 
at the State University of Iowa, working 
toward a Ph.D. in Child Development and 
Guidance. He has a research assistantship 
there. 

Bob Carlin is with Equitable Life As- 
surance Co., training with the Group De- 
partment in Springfield. He expects to be 
transferred shortly to Syracuse to complete 
the program. Last fall he played some 
football with the semi-pro Providence 
Steam Rollers. 

John Caswell, who entered Columbia 
Business School right after graduation, 
hopes to receive his M.B.A. next Septem- 
ber. 



Roger Colter is a salesman for the Stan- 
ley Works in New Britain, Conn., but 
Uncle Sam is reported to be hot on his 
trail. 

John Dillon is studying at Brown in the 
M.A.T. program. Last fall he served as 
Assistant Line Coach with the Freshman 
team. 

Richard Draves is another classmate 
studying at the Harvard Business School. 
He spent last summer working for Inter- 
national Harvester in Heidelberg, Ger- 
many. While there, he spent one week in 
Berlin attending a student seminar on 
"Economic and Political Problems in the 
Free City and the Soviet Zone." 

Cliff Ehrlich is employed by Monsanto 
Chemical in Everett, Mass., in the Per- 
sonnel Department. He is attending Boston 
College Law School in the evenings. 

Arthur Fine is studying at the Harvard 
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 
the Department of Applied Physics and 
Engineering. He expects to receive his 
M.Sc. in June, and then he plans to return 
to work toward his Ph.D. in the Depart- 
ment of Applied Math. 

Bill Hansen was graduated from the 
Officer Candidate School in Newport Dec. 
16. and then it was off to Georgia for six 
months at Supply School. 

David Berger is attending Harvard 
Graduate School, .studying Geology. 

Stuart Berman is at the Columbia Law 
School. 



HOWARD A. CROOK 



Carrying the Mail 



"Finest ... on Rowing" 

Sir: John Escher's article, "Why En- 
courage Crew at Brown?" is without 
a doubt the finest American article on 
rowing to appear in the past year. Only 
rarely does one find crew discussed with 
such insight and without the sickening 
sentimentality encountered in national 
sports magazines. 

I believe that Mr. Escher's views of the 
sport deserve publicity among those now 
rowing and those contemplating giving 
rowing a try. 

THOMAS G. KUDZMA 

Club Rowing Coach 
Phillips Exeter Academy 

The Glee Club Record 

Sir: 1 hasten to write of my extreme 
pleasure in the new recording by the 
Brown Glee Club. My interest in the Club 
and in Brown songs, in particular, has been 
of long standing, and 1 think Mr. Kunzel 
and the Club have produced a winner. 
We're all glad to have it. 

"Alma Mater" and "Chapel Steps" 
(Brown's finest song) are excellent in their 
rendition. By the way, it's nice to hear all 
three verses of "Alma Mater," for so many 
know only the first. The revival of two 
older songs is of interest, too. 

The new arrangements of the Football 
Medley may startle some old grads, but 



this is how the Glee Club sings them in 
concerts. They are well done. Doubtless 
the more familiar tempo will survive at the 
football games. 

Side Two — all concert numbers — do 
credit to the best in choral singing. Mr. 
Kunzel must be blessed with a lot of good 
voices, but his leadership and ability to get 
results are outstanding, too. The I960 
recording is a real achievement. 

EARL M. PEARCE '17 

Providence 

(The writer has probably directed more 
Brown men in the singing of Brown songs 
than any other individual. His comments, 
therefore, have particular relevance. — Ed.) 

Attacking a Bull 
Sir: We raised an eyebrow as we read 
Buster's little squib about a speaker at 
Brown comparing himself to a bull in a 
bull fight. It is obvious that you don't 
know much about bullfighting when you 
said people know "what happens to the 
bull in the end." Actually, the approach is 
very different: it's frontal, between the 
eyes. 

AFFICIONADO 

Gift.s for Upkeep, Too? 
Sir: The Messengers for Brown's Ex- 
pansion are abroad. They talk nicely, like 



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31 



high-grade Americans, as they present 
their goods. And they have fine goods to 
offer. 

Some years ago Yale received a flood 
of great gifts from Harkness and others, 
and subsequently learned that you can get 
poor through Upkeep. My understanding 
is that there is now a policy in New Haven 
that they require a trust fund to support 
the operation, along with the donation for 
construction, if it is for a "named" build- 
ing. Perhaps this is wise. 

J. w. Dows '99 
Bridgeport, Conn. 



Alas, the T Was Missing 

Sir: You say, in your October issue, that 
"The Brown Club of Rhode Island will 
continue to set up the colorful ten on 
Aldrich Field on the morning of each 
home football game." Just who are the 
"colorful ten". — I mean, the other nine, in 
addition to you? 

ROBERT M. CROSS 

Bowdoin College 



Josiah and Laura 
Sir: I just heard yesterday about Josiah 
S. Carberry, and I am intrigued by his 
dynamic personality as described in your 
magazine. I am enclosing a dollar which 
I would like given to the Laura Carberry 
Library Fund. I am so pleased that the 
fund is in Laura's name, as I feel that all 
of we women should stick together. 

CELIA A. DERRWALDT 

Milwaukee 

(Alas, Mrs. Derrwaldt, Professor Carberry 
set up the fund as "a memorial to my 
future late wife," but stipulated that it 
should be known as the Josiah S. Carberry 
Fund.— Ed.) 

A Carberry Locale 
Sir: I noted with interest the illustra- 
tions accompanying the article entitled 
"The Life and Times of Professor Car- 
berry" in the December issue. I wrote to 
Paul Fisher of United Aircraft, who con- 
firmed my belief that the picture on page 
10 and one on page 12 were taken at the 
Pine Grove Association in Canaan, Conn. 



My grandfather, Elbert O. Hull '91, was 
at one time President of that same Pine 
Grove Association. My family continues as 
property owners and stockholders in Pine 
Grove, which has changed only slightly 
since those pictures were taken. It is, in- 
deed, a charming place. 

DOROTHY HULL VON HACHT 

Pembroke '45 
Milford, Conn. 

Sm: Mr. Dickinson's article on Profes- 
sor Carberry is a windfall. I wanted a 
copy for a correspondent in San Diego, 
who has written me very fully and inter- 
estingly about a character out there named 
the Honorable J. Fortescue. He was 
founder of the International Board of 
Hygiene, an entirely mythical organization 
which was, however, officially recognized 
by the United Nations and by several na- 
tional governments. The Board of Hygiene 
also certified that ABC beer was non-fat- 
tening and was thus quoted in its public 
advertising. Fortescue was listed in "Who's 
Who in San Diego." 

WATSON SMITH '19 

Tucson, Ariz- 



Williston Called Him Back 



WE didn't enjoy watching Wes Moul- 
ton '31 cleaning out his office in 
Alumni House the other afternoon. He was 
making a move that was attractive to him, 
returning to his early allegiances at Willis- 
ton Academy to become its Alumni Secre- 
tary. If this was what he chose, then the 
thing to do was be glad with him. 

But the odds and ends around his old 
oflice were reminders of all he had done 
for Brown in his 14 years on its staff. 
There was personal warmth as well as 
achievement in many of his souvenirs, and 
both will be missed. 

Westcott E. S. Moulton came back to 
Brown in 1946 as Assistant Professor and 
Director of Physical Education and Intra- 
mural Athletics. He did not rest, however, 
until he saw hockey returned to the sports 
program on the Hill. As an undergraduate 
he had been an Ail-American on the ice, 
and he took the initiative in persuading 
the University to restore hockey to Varsity 
status. 

His coaching efforts saw their greatest 
reward in 1951 when his team went to the 
finals of the NCAA championships in 
Colorado Springs. Subsequently he was 
asked to coach the United States hockey 
team for the 1952 Olympics but was un- 
able to accept the honor because of his 
college duties. He is an honorary life mem- 
ber of the American Hockey Coaches As- 
sociation, of which he was Secretary- 
Treasurer for si.x years. He is also an 
honorary Life President of the R.I. Hockey 
Officials Association, which he organized 
and led for 1 1 years. 

In 1952 Moulton was brought from 
Marvel Gym to University Hall to direct 
student activities as Associate Dean of 
Students. One of his moves was to initiate 



the Fraternity Community Service pro- 
gram, recognized by the J. Richmond Fales 
Trophy. In the six years of competition for 
this award, fraternity men have been en- 
couraged to contribute more than 23,000 
man-hours of service to the community. 

Moulton became Secretary of the Brown 
University Fund in 1958, in which post 
his intimate friendship with hundreds of 
alumni was an invaluable asset. He be- 
came its Executive Secretary a year ago. 
As President of the Class of 1931, he saw 
it set a pattern for 25th-reunion giving 
which was a challenge to others. This year 
he has been on the road with assignment 
to the Bicentennial Development Program. 
While in fund work, he has appeared on 
several programs of the American Alumni 
Council. 

Moulton's tie with Williston remained 
strong throughout this period, and he was 
President of the R.I. alumni group. Re- 
turning to Easthampton. Mass., early in 
January, he will direct fund raising and 
edit the alumni magazine in addition to 
general supervision of the alumni program 
for Williston. He will also teach history, 
the field in which he received a Cornell 
A.M. in 1939 and did further work toward 
a Ph.D. at the University of North Caro- 
lina and Stanford. 

After graduation from Brown. Moulton 
joined the staff of Pomfret School as Di- 
rector of Athletics and Physical Education, 
coaching three sports and teaching history. 
His three years in the Navy included con- 
voy duty in the North and South Atlantic 
as a Lt. Commander. Before coming back 
to Brown he was an Instructor at Yale and 
assistant hockey coach. 

Community service has always been 
attractive to Moulton. He recently com- 





WES MOUtTON: He took his souvenirs. 

pleted a term as President of the Federal 
Hill House, and he held a number of 
volunteer posts in the Boy Scout move- 
ment, including those of Commissioner and 
District Chairman for Providence. He was 
Chairman of Volunteer Services for the 
R.I. Council of Community Services, in 
addition to interest in the Butler Health 
Service, R.I. Hospital, YMCA, and Com- 
munity Chest. 

His colleagues on the Hill gave him a 
send-off dinner in December, at which he 
received tributes of appreciation from 
President Keeney and Provost Bliss. He 
was given a Brown Chair, but he is not 
the sitting sort. He is a great addition to 
the Williston scene and a loss to ours. 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Bureau of Vital Statistics 



MARRIAGES 

1934 — Laurence C. Brown and Miss 
Martha Horan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
William Horan of Troy, N. Y., June 25. 
Roland K. Brown '33 and Kennerley Brown 
'38 ushered. At home: 49 Blaisdell Ave., 
Laconia, N. H. 

1953 — Harry W. Newhard and Miss 
Jean McW. Hamihon, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Charles D. P. Hamilton, III, 
Nov. 26. Chapin S. Newhard '22 is the 
groom's father. 

1955 — Raymond Green, Jr., and Miss 
Gail Demoranville, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Arnold Demoranville of Fall River, 
Nov. 26. Ushers included Ernest Fell '55. 
At home: 373 North Main St., Fall River. 

1955 — G. William Hamilton and Miss 
Harriette Roemer, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. William J. Roemer of Marion, Mass., 
Dec. 17. 

1955 — Charles A. McAlister and Miss 
Florence A. Orlando, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Guino Orlando of Walpole, Mass., 
Oct. 23. William H. McAlister '53 ushered 
for his brother. At home: 37 South St., 
Foxboro, Mass. 

1955 — Marvin Schwartz and Miss Betsy 
Klein, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles 
H. Klein, June 16. Ushers were Thomas 
Simon '54 and Charles LeBlond '55. At 
home: 3107 Kinmont St., Cincinnati 8. 

1956 — George N. Boulukos and Miss 
Katherine R. Tsamopoulos, daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Tsamopoulos of 
Astoria, L. I., N. Y., Sept. 25. Ushers in- 
cluded Edward P. Kelly '56 and Joseph 
M. Daley '56. At home: 210 S. Atlantic 
Ave., Lynbrook. N. Y. 

1956 — Louis D. Eigen and Miss Christa 
Buhler, June 12. The bride is Pembroke 
'56. At home: 3801 Hudson Manor Ter- 
race. Bronx 63, N. Y. 

1956 — Richard E. Sackett and Miss Lil- 
lian V. Lenart, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Salvatore Chapparone of Monroe, Conn., 
Nov. 12. Reuben H. Patey '56 was best 
man. William Pringle '56 and John Hines 
'56 ushered. At home: 2 Putnam Hill, 
Greenwich, Conn. 

1956 — Robert L. Webb and Miss Anita 
DeClemente, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Eugene DeClemente of Providence, Feb. 
11. The bride is Pembroke '59. 

1957 — William P. Narkiewicz and Miss 
Elizabeth A. von Gal, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Irving J. von Gal of Washington, 
Conn., Nov. 12. At home: 30 Forest St., 
Hartford. 

1957— LTtj.g.) Clifford Olivera, USN, 
and Miss Nancy SeidI, June 18. The bride 
is Pembroke '60. At home: 40 Tower Rd., 
North Kingstown, R. I. 

1958 — Carl E. Aronson and Miss Mar- 
jorie P. Boutelle, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Myron T. Boutelle of Edgewood, 
Dec. 17. 

1958— -Charles D. Hackett, Jr., and Miss 
Marlene E. Adams, daughter of Mr. and 



Mrs. Joseph R. Adams of Buffalo, Nov. 
19. 

1958— LT(j.g.) Charles L. Hughes, Jr., 
USN, and Miss Elizabeth M. Zawalick, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paustine Zawa- 
lick of Northampton, Mass., Dec. 26. 

1959 — Winfield S. Bearce and Miss 
Diane L. French, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. John R. French, Jr., of Westwood, 
Mass., Nov. 19. Noel S. Bearce '57 was 
best man for his brother. J. Russell French 
'59 ushered. 

1959 — Thomas A. Ciccone, Jr., and 
Miss Penelope A. Hedges, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. George E. Hedges of Beacon, 
N. Y., Nov. 19. At home: 1134 Milledge 
Ave., Athens, Ga. 

1959 — Donald E. O'Brien and Miss 
Julianne H. Shartzer, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. William B. Shartzer of Atlanta, Dec. 
28. The groom's father is Eugene W. 
O'Brien '19. 

1960 — Hubert Allen and Miss Marian 
Ahrens, Oct. 2. The bride is Pembroke '60. 



BIRTHS 

1939_To Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. 
Whitehead of San Francisco, their fourth 
child and second daughter, Pamela Jill, 
May 3. 

1940— To Mr. and Mrs. Allen B. Wil- 
liams, Jr., of Rumford, R. I., their third 
child and first daughter, Kathryn Pauline, 
July 22. 

1946 — To Mr. and Mrs. Edward N. 
Clarke of Ridgefield, Conn., their fourth 
child and third son, Jeffrey Brian, Aug. 7. 
Mrs. Clarke is the former Vivian Berg- 
quist. Pembroke '49. 

1947_To Mr. and Mrs. Elliot T. Bug- 
bee, Jr., of West Orange, N. J., a son, 
Jeffrey Todd, May 27. 

1950— To Mr. and Mrs. Edgar D. 
Beacham of Chatham, N. J., a son, Jeffrey 
Bockalew, Aug. 15. 



In the Malayan Embassy 
The new Japanese Ambassador 
to Malaya is Wataru Okuma, who 
was a special graduate student at 
Brown in 1931 and 1932. A career 
man in the Foreign Service he had 
previously been Consul General for 
Japan in Chicago, according to Paul 
Gleeson '32, who has kept in touch 
with Okuma by mail since their 
friendship as students. 



1951 — To Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Blazar 
of Bronxville, N. Y., their first child, a 
son, Bradford Harris, Oct. 6. 

1951— To Mr. and Mrs. Edward 
Glowka of Montreal, their fifth child and 
third daughter, Mary Beth, Dec. 4. 

1951— To Mr. and Mrs. William A. 
Henry, Jr., of Providence, their fifth son, 
David Kenneth, Dec. 9. 

1952— To Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Bar- 
tolomeo of Westerly, R. I., their fourth 
child and fourth son, Bruce David, Nov. 
16. 

1952 — To Mr. and Mrs. Daniel M. Garr 
of Rochester, N. Y., twins, a son, Jeffrey 
Charles, and a daughter, Susan Rebecca, 
Nov. 8. 

1953 — To Mr. and Mrs. Norman A. 
James of Wilmington, Del., their first 
child, Martha Louise, Dec. 6. 

1955 — To Mr. and Mrs. Philip Jarvinen 
of Danvers, Mass., their second son, Denis 
Wade, March 18. 

1955 — To Lt. and Mrs. George W. 
Kern, USAF, a daughter, Susanne Marie, 
July 30. 

1955_To Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. Le- 
tiecq of Trenton, N. J., their third son, 
Andrew Chipman, Oct. 17. 

1956— To Mr. and Mrs. Carl H. Selig- 
son of Montreal, their second child and 
second daughter, Barbara, Nov. 22. 

1957 — To Mr. and Mrs. James C. Mc- 
Currach, Jr., of Brooklyn, N. Y., a son, 
James Crampton, III, Dec. 9. 

1957_To Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. 
Nathan of Bethesda, Md., a son, Robert 
Joseph, Nov. 10. 



In Memoriam 



DR. WILLIAM HENRY SMITH '92, 
physician, diagnostician, and a "master 
in the art of teaching clinical medicine," 
in Newton, Mass., Dec. 1. He received 
his M.D. from Harvard Medical School 
in 1897 and proceeded to Vienna for a 
post-graduate year at the University of 
Goettingen. Known to five decades of 
medical students at Harvard as "Big 
Bill," he was an Assistant in 1900 and 
Faculty Instructor in Medicine from 
1910 to 1930. During 40 years at Mas- 
sachusetts General Hospital, he was 
physician, visiting physician, and mem- 
ber of the Board of Consultation; he 
was named Honorary Physician in 1942. 



His ward rounds were a "model of bed- 
side teaching." Alpha Delta Phi. Phi 
Beta Kappa. 

ISAAC B. MERRIMAN '97, textile manu- 
facturer, in Warren, R. I., Dec. 11. He 
had been General Manager for several 
large textile concerns, including the 
Manville-Jenckes Co. and its two prede- 
cessor companies, the Manville Co. and 
the Jenckes Spinning Co. Before retire- 
ment in 1943, he was General Manager 
of the Lippitt Woolen Mill, Woonsocket. 
His directorships included: American 
Wringer Co., Chamberlin Corp., Para 
Thread Co., the Rhode Island Hospital 



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Trust Co., and the former Rhode Is- 
land Insurance Co. He gave valued serv- 
ice for years on the St. Andrew's School 
Board. He was a former Commodore 
of the Warwick Country Club Yacht 
Squadron and a member of the New 
York Yacht Club. In years of competi- 
tion a notable victory was with the 
Barbara, winner of the King's Cup. 
President of his Class, he was often a 
reunion host and leader in other Class 
activities. Psi Upsilon. His daughter 
(Mrs. Gordon L. Parker, 72 Barnes St., 
Providence) is the wife of Brown Uni- 
versity's Treasurer. 

OLIVER PERRY HUSSEY '99 in Brook- 
line, Mass., Nov. 3. He was a well 
known Boston business man as owner of 
Oliver P. Hussey Co., manufacturers' 
representative. His death was attributa- 
ble to a stone sent hurtling through his 
car window by a wrecking crane. He 
had been President and Treasurer of the 
Phillips Rubber Co.: Treasurer and 
Trustee of Standard Securities Co.. Bos- 
ton; President of Sanford Rubber 
Works; Assistant Manager, M. G. Wight 
& Co., Lowell: during World War II he 
had administrative duties at the Navy's 
Hingham Shipyard. He had been a Trus- 
tee of the Nashua Public Library. Phi 
Beta Kappa. His widow is Louise Hus- 
sey, 45 Dwight St., Brookline. 

LORA ELMER BEAMAN '01 in Provi- 
dence, Nov. 26. Until his retirement he 
was a draftsman and salesman for the 
former Beaman-Smith Co. His sister is 
Mrs. Irene B. Skelton, 1145 Narragan- 
sett Blvd., Cranston. 

ELMER ELLSWORTH BUTLER '03 

prepared his own obituary some years 
before his death in Westboro, Mass.. 
Jan. 1: "He was in newspaper work 41 
years, serving as reporter, suburban and 
night editor of the Springfield ( Mass. ) 
Union, night editor of the old Boston 
Journal, news editor and Assistant Man- 
aging Editor of the Boston Traveler 
from 1918 to 1926. when a severe ill- 
ness caused him to give up the job and 
return to copy-editing. He was with the 
Traveler 34 years, retiring on a pension 
in 1945." He had a country home in 
Newton, N. H.. for many years and. 
during one period of year-round resi- 
dence, served on the School Board. 
Delta Upsilon. Phi Beta Kappa. His 
widow is Addie Libby Butler, 2 Cross 
St., Westboro. 

FRANK CARTER TAYLOR 09, retired 
Superintendent of Rochester Gas & 
Electric Corp., in Rochester, N. Y., 
Nov. 29. He received his B.S. degree in 
Electrical Engineering from M.I.T. in 
1911, as well as his Brown Ph.B. With 
RG&E, he worked with most of Roch- 
ester's major industries as a consulting 
engineer on electrical problems, retir- 
ing in 1951. He had been active in 
Scouting, the American Institute of 
Electrical Engineers, and the Rochester 
Chamber of Commerce. Beta Theta Pi. 
Phi Beta Kappa. Sigma Xi. His widow 



"Big Bill's" House Officers 

During the 40 years of service to 
Massachusetts General Hospital by 
the late Dr. William H. Smith '92, 
it was always an honor to be one 
of his house officers. They included 
dozens of young interns now famous 
in the world of medicine, among 
them: Dr. Arlie V. Bock, Emeritus 
Professor of Hygiene at Harvard; 
Dr. Robert F. Loeb, Professor of 
Medicine at the College of Physi- 
cians and Surgeons, Columbia Uni- 
versity; Dr. F. Dennette Adams, 
and Dr. Paul Dudley White. 

"A little-known fact about Dr. 
Smith," said Dr. White in Decem- 
ber, "was his persuasion of a pa- 
tient to donate the first electro- 
cardiograph to the Massachusetts 
General Hospital. It was this gift 
which resulted in my being sent to 
London in 1913 to learn electro- 
cardiography under Sir Thomas 
Lewis and to bring back the instru- 
ment so donated in the following 
year — one of the first electro-cardi- 
ographs to be used clinically in the 
USA" 



is Carrie B. Taylor, 166 Shepard St., 
Rochester. 

GEORGE EVERETT CASWELL 10 in 

Hyannis, Mass., Dec. 8. A Cadet in the 
U.S. Coast Guard Service, he was also 
a graduate of Hyannis State Teachers 
College in 1923. He was a schoolmaster 
and principal for 22 years and a Super- 
intendent of Schools in Massachusetts 
for five. After a period as a hotel engi- 
neer in Florida, he returned to Cape 
Cod to operate an auto livery and truck- 
ing business. Beta Theta Pi. His son is 
George E. Caswell. Jr., '36, 36 Buck- 
ingham PI., Milford, Conn. 

RUSSELL CHARLES SMITH 10 in 
Cranston, R. I., Dec. 11. Former Gen- 
eral Manager of the Cranston Print 
Works until his retirement in 1957, he 
was Vice-President and a Director. 
Trained for the textile field at L'Ecole 
de Chemie, Mulhouse, he joined Cran- 
ston in 1927 and became General Man- 
ager in 1931; under his direction, the 
company became the largest independ- 
ent job printer and finisher of fine cloth 
in the country. When the company ac- 
quired plants in Webster. Mass., and 
Fleichcr, N. C, he supervised all three 
operations. Well known in the business 
community, he was a Director and 
member of the Executive Committee of 
the Rhode Island Hospital Trust Co.; a 
Trustee of Citizens Savings Bank; and a 
Trustee of the R. I. Public Expenditures 
Council. He served the State on a post- 
war planning commission and many 
community projects, including the 
Rhode Island Hospital and YMCA. His 
brother is Justin E. Smith. Prospect St., 
Seekonk, Mass. 



ORVILLE PRATT RICHARDSON '11, 
in a fire in their home in Attleboro 
which also cost his wife her life, Dec. 
10. He had been a partner since 1912 
in the H. K. & O. P. Richardson Co., 
one of the oldest insurance brokerage 
firms in Attleboro. He was a Trustee 
and member of the Investment Com- 
mittee of the Attleborough Savings 
Bank, of North Attleboro. Alpha Tau 
Omega. His daughter is Cynthia Rich- 
ardson, 60 West St., Attleboro, Mass. 

JOHN J. LONG, M.Sc. '14, in Fryeburg, 
Me., Dec. 19. He had been Vice-Presi- 
dent and General Manager of Horlick's 
Malted Milk Co. in Racine, Wis., and 
President of the Harbor Plywood Corp. 
in Washington. A graduate of Yale in 
1907, he taught mechanical drawing at 
Brown for four years and was Assistant 
Professor of Engineering at the Uni- 
versity of Cincinnati for three, leaving 
to enter the Air Service in World War 
I as a 1st Lt. He was a lecturer on cor- 
poration finance at N.Y.U. from 1922 
to 1929. His widow is Corinne R. Long, 

ROGER WILLIAMS '14 in New York 
City, Nov. 24. He was a patent attor- 
ney and partner in the Manhattan law 
firm of Richardson, David & Norden, 
specializing in foreign patents. As a 
young man he had been general chemist 
and engineer at the American Emery 
Wheel Works in Providence, later en- 
tering the manufacture of radios. He 
was a consultant and lecturer in the 
field of radio. He started his own firm 
as a patent attorney in 1936. joined 
Richardson. David & Norden in 1957, 
where his earlier experience also gave 
him special competence in electronics 
and electrochemicals. Paul Williams '26 
is his brother. His widow is Odessa Wil- 
liams. 134 West 23rd St., N.Y.C. 

DR. FRED ALMA BRAGG '20 in 

Springfield. Mass., Nov. 7. He had been 
an osteopath there for 36 years, a grad- 
uate of the Massachusetts School of 
Osteopathy. In World War I he saw 
ambulance service with the French in 

1917. moved to the Italian front in 

1918. and became a Lt. Sigma Chi. His 
widow is Mary B. Bragg. 175 Bristol 
St.. Springfield. 

EDWIN CHACE WALMSLEY '22, Pro- 
fessor of Accounting at Wayne State 
University, in Detroit. Nov. 28. Re- 
cipient of an M.B.A. from Boston Uni- 
versity in 1934. he did his first teaching 
at Cleary College and the University of 
Chattanooga before going to Detroit in 
1930. He had taught earlier at the In- 
stitution for the Deaf in New York 
City. Active in alumni affairs for many 
years, he had been an officer of the 
Detroit Brown Club. Phi Beta Kappa. 
His widow is Hazel J. Walmsley. 14208 
Montrose St., Detroit. 

VINCENT JAMES RODDY '25, Presi- 
dent of the American Screw Co., in 
Norwich. Conn., Dec. 8. He had been 



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a production engineer with Nicholson 
File Co. in Providence until 1933 when 
he joined American Screw as research 
engineer. He served as Assistant Gen- 
eral Manager, Vice-President, and Ex- 
ecutive Vice-President before taking the 
top post in 1958. He was also a Direc- 
tor of Noma Lights, parent company: 
the Willimantic Chamber of Com- 
merce; Windham National Bank and 
Connecticut Bank & Trust Co.: and a 
Director of the Manufacturers' Associa- 
tion of Connecticut. Beta Theta Pi. His 
widow is Helen K. Roddy, 1 1 Mohegan 
Park Rd., Norwich. 

JAMES MAGNER BARRY -26 of Lyn- 
brook, N. Y., Oct. 7. He had been with 
the American Sugar Refining Company 
since 1946, notably as Supervisor of its 
Properties Division. Most of his career 
was in auditing and accounting, with 
such connections as Blackstone Valley 
Gas & Electric Co., Waypoyset Mfg. Co., 
Stone & Webster Service Corp.. Western 
Public Service Co. (in Scottsbluff, Neb.), 
and Arthur Andersen & Co. of New 
York. He had been active in the Long 
Island Brown Club. His widow is Mary 
M. Barry, 154 Spencer Ave., Lynbrook. 

GEORGE BEATTY CULBERTSON '27 
in Bryn Mawr, Pa., Nov. 8. He was 
Sales Manager of the Allied Barrel Sales 
Corp. of Philadelphia, with which he 
had been associated for more than 30 
years. Active in community concerns, 
he had been President of the Glad- 
w^ne Civic Association. President of 
the Lower Merion and Gladwyne Fire 
Departments, and a leader in Boy 
Scouts. Phi Kappa Psi. His widow is 
Jane K. Culbertson, 318 W. Consho- 
hocken State Rd., Gladwyne, Pa. 

RONALD PAGE SAMMIS "27 in Provi- 
dence, Dec. 23. Before his retirement 
in 1959 he had been employed by the 
Oliver Johnson Paint Co. in its sales 
operation for 25 years. His widow is 
Marjorie A. Sammis, 175 Summit Ave., 
Providence. 

HENRY OTTE, JR., '28 in Providence, 
Dec. 8. He was Vice-President and 
sales executive of Providence Litho- 
graph Co., with which he had been as- 
sociated for 30 years as purchasing 
agent and later in sales capacities. He 
had also been with the Norton Co. for 
two years previously. During World 
War II, he was a LCDR, USNR (Avia- 
tion), E.xecutive Officer of CASU 30 
and Administrative Officer of Fleet Air 
Wing 8, Hq. Squadron. Delta Phi. His 
widow is Madeline P. Otte, 69 Wey- 
mouth St., Providence 6. 

HAROLD FRANCIS SECORD JONAH, 

M.Sc. '29, in West Lafayette, Ind., July 
22. He was a 1927 graduate of Mt. Al- 
lison and received his Ph.D. from Pur- 
due in 1941. Professor of Mathematics 
in Purdue, he had published several 
papers in the fields of analysis, number 
theory, and mathematics education. He 



reviewed critically many college texts 
and was co-author of a general college 
math text and the Purdue Mathematics 
Training Tests which are administered 
to incoming freshmen. He was a mem- 
ber of the American Mathematical So- 
ciety, the Mathematical Association of 
America, and the Indiana Academy of 
Science. Sigma Xi. His widow is Eleanor 
E. Jonah, 217 Pierce St., West Lafa- 
yette. 

HUGH SLEVIN BUTLER '32 in the col- 
lision of airplanes over New York City, 
Dec. 16. He was Vice-President in 
charge of Sales for the Simmons Co., 
which he joined shortly after gradua- 
tion. Among his many services as a 
loyal alumnus were terms on the Board 
of Governors of the Brown Club in 
New York and the Board of Trustees, 
Brown University Fund. (As noted in 
our last issue, the family suggested that 
memorial gifts might be made to the 
latter Fund.) Delta Kappa Epsilon. His 
widow is Loretta D. Butler, 9 Cross Rd., 
Darien, Conn. 

GARLAND BALCH RUSSELL '33 in 

Upton, Mass., Nov. 28. Former Profes- 
sor of Education and Director of 
Teacher Training at the University of 
Maine, he was head of the Mathematics 
Department of Algonquin Regional 
High School at Northboro, Mass. He 
received his A.M. from Brown in 1935 
and his D.Ed, from Boston University 
in 1943. He served as Superintendent of 
Schools in Westboro and Dracut, Mass. 
Popular as a lecturer before 4-H groups 
in all parts of the country, as well as 
other audiences, he was a featured 
speaker before the 1958 National 4-H 
Club Congress. He had written on pro- 
fessional topics in the education press. 
He was a member of the .American As- 
sociation of School Administrators and 
Phi Delta Kappa and Kappa Phi Kappa, 
education fraternities. Phi Beta Kappa. 
Sigma Xi. His daughters survive: Linda 
and Virginia Russell of Worcester. 

JAMES BENJAMIN RICKS '36 in Ash- 
tabula, O., Aug. 14, 1959. He received 
his M.Sc. degree from Lehigh in metal- 
lurgy in 1940 and had been a metal- 
lurgical engineer employed by Union 
Carbide. He was active in such civic 
enterprises as County Planning and 
County Zoning Commissions, County 
Fair Board, 4-H, and Boy Scouts. His 
widow is Doris C. Ricks, 6309 Murray 
Ave., Ashtabula. 

ROBERT REED PERSON '41 in Balti- 
more, Oct. 18. His professional life had 
been spent with General Electric as a sales 
engineer and department manager in 
the various GE areas. He received nu- 
merous promotions and was last trans- 
ferred from Pittsfield to Baltimore four 
years ago to be Manager of Manufac- 
turing, Insulator Department. While in 
Schenectady, he was President of the 
Brown Club of Northeastern New York, 
and he also served the Brown Univer- 



sity Fund. Phi Kappa Psi. His widow is 
Marilyn M. Person, 29 Deborah Ave., 
Pittsfield, Mass. 

JOHN HOLLAND BLAKE '43, architect, 
in East Greenwich, R. I., Nov. 27. He 
was a partner in the Providence firm of 
F. P. Sheldon & Son, specialists in in- 
dustrial services, since 1946. He was 
permanent Chairman of the East Green- 
wich Development Commission and a 
former member of the Town Planning 
Board. During World War II, he was a 
Navy Lt. He held membership in the 
Providence Engineering Society and the 
American Society of Mechanical Engi- 
neers. His widow is Elizabeth R. Blake, 
15 Harwood Rd., East Greenwich. 

LEON CHARLES LEONI '43 in Albany, 
N. Y., Dec. 10. He received his M.Sc. 
degree in Engineering at Harvard in 
1946 and taught for a time at Brown. 
Apart from a period at the Naval Re- 
search Laboratory in Washington, he 
had been with Genera! Electric for most 
of his professional life and was a de- 
velopment engineer in the High Voltage 
Engineering Lab in Pittsfield. As a Lt.. 
USNR, he commanded a Naval Mine 
Unit in World War II and received a 
letter of commendation. He was a mem- 
ber of the American Institute of Elec- 
trical Engineers. His widow is Beverly 
B. Leoni, 65 South Mountain Rd., Pitts- 
field, Mass. 

WALTER CARR DRAYTON '46 in an 

airplane collision over New York, Dec. 
16, as reported in our last issue. Gen- 
eral Sales Manager for the Volco Brass 
and Copper Co. of Summit, N. J., he 
was returning from a business trip. He 
joined the company in Providence after 
wartime service in the Navy. Psi Upsi- 
lon. His widow is Margaret Duffy Dray- 
ton, 145 Oak Ridge Rd., Summit, N. J. 

RICHARD IRVING STEVENS '49 in 
Madison, Wis., Nov. 27 as the result of 
injuries received in an auto accident. He 
had gone to Madison to take his doc- 
toral exam at the University of Wiscon- 
sin (he received his M.Sc. there in 
1951). He was Senior Pathologist at 
the State Fish Hatcheries in Rome, 
N. Y., having worked earlier in the 
Wisconsin Conservation Department. He 
was an Air Force navigator in World 
War n, with the rank of Lt. While a 
graduate student at Wisconsin, Stevens 
had received a grant for research in 
bovine mastitis and was a research as- 
sistant in the Department of Agricultural 
Bacteriology. He was a member of the 
Society of American Bacteriologists. 
Zeta Psi. His widow is Helena S. Ste- 
vens, RED 3, William Rd., Rome, N. Y. 

WILLIAM CHARLES GAESS, III, '59 
suddenly in N. Y., Nov. 9. He was a 
field man for Young and Rubicam, New 
York advertising agency. Zeta Psi. His 
parents are Mr. and Mrs. William C. 
Gaess. Jr., 203 Wierimus Lane, Hins- 
dale, N. J. 



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Thomas J. ^ atson, Jr. '3' 

yational Chairman 
Bicentennial DeietopmenI Program 



J. A^GUs Thurrott '31 

National Chairman 
Broun i'nitersity Fund 




BICENTENNIAL 
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM 



With a symbolic handsliake. two well-known Brown 
alumni, J. Angus Thurrott '31, National Chairman of the 
Brown University Fund and Thomas J. Watson, Jr. '37. 
National Chairman of the Bicentennial Capital Gifts Cam- 
paign dramatize the partnership between the 1961 Brown 
University Fund and the Bicentennial Campaign. By joining 
forces, the Fund and the Bicentennial Campaign present 
each alumnus an opportunity to consider one gift to Brown 
in 1961 which will: 

1. Represent his contribution to the Bicentennial Develop- 
ment Campaign. 

2. Maintain his annual gift to the Brown University Fund 
during the period of his pledge payment (part of the 
dollar objective of the Bicentennial Campaign includes 
an amount to replace the normal unrestricted income 





BROWN UNIVERSITY 
FUND 



provided by the Brown University Fund. Therefore, when 
an alumnus gives to the Capital Campaign, he continues 
his regular annual support at the University.) 
During 1961 the Capital Gifts Campaign Organization 
will continue the person to person solicitation of alumni 
throughout the country, telling the story of the Bicentennial. 
In the spring. Class Agents will begin a follow-up of class- 
mates who for some reason were not reached by the Capital 
Campaign Organization. Thus each alumnus will have an 
opportunity to consider his gift to help the University meet 
the objectives of the Bicentennial Canlpaign. 

Simply put, this means that each alumnus will have an 
opportunity between now and June 30, 1961 to make his 
contribution to the University either through the personal 
call of a fellow alumnus serving as a member of the Bicen 
tennial Campaign team or through his Class Agent. 



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