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BROWN 

ALUMNI MONTHLY 



OCTOBER 1961 




Excitement in Sayles HMISee page 4 



BOARD OF EDITORS 

Chairman 

C. Arthur Braitsch '23 



Vice-Cliainnan 
George R. Ashbey '21 



Garrett D. Byhnes '26 
Warren L. Carleen '48 
Carleton Goff '24 
Prof. I. J. Kapstein '26 
Stanley F. Mathes '39 
Stuart C. Sherman '39 



Managing Editor 
Chesley Worthington '23 



Assistant Editor 

John F. Barry, Jr., '50 



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BROWN 

ALUMNI MONTHLY 



OCTOBER 1961/VOL. LXII NO. 1 



In This Issue. 



800 Alumni Leaders and Their Program 4 



Give-and-Take on the Physical Sciences 7 



Leadership as a Permanant Challenge 14 



"A Most Sisnificant Gift" to Brown 16 



The Kids Had Their Own Brunonian Days 19 



Brown Mourns the Death of Dean Lewis 26 



WBRU Looks Ahead After 25 Years 34 



FRONT COVER 



EXCITEMENT in Sayles Hall was a reality in August, but it had no corner 
on the interesting things which were happening all over College Hill when 
the Alumni Leadership Conference was in session. This extraordinary 
event was such a fabulous success that it called for an extra effort on our 
part, with text and picture coverage requiring a double issue. Even so, 
some cf the best material remains for our use next month. 




Double loyalty 



INEVITABLY, this issuc is proccupieii, not 
only with catching up after the sum- 
mer interval, but also with the fabulous 
success of the August Alumni Leadership 
Conference at Brown. There was small 
talk, as well as big, and we liked the story 
shared by one husband. 

As a graduate of Harvard Law School 
as well as Brown, he finds that his loyal- 
ties go in both directions; this, he said, 
leads to some confusion on the part of his 
wife. He was not, therefore, alarmed at 
her comment as they stood in line to be 
greeted by the Keeneys at the reception in 
the President's House. Looking around at 
its gracious appointments, she said: "It 
must be very pleasant for the President to 
live here with Mrs. Pusey." 

> ANOTHER WIFE, entering the Refectory 
for the Conference's closing luncheon, 
asked her husband who the speaker would 
be. It was Dr. Francis Sparks, but she 
heard the name as "Dr. Spock." "My," 
she said, "the University has indeed 
thought of everything for the family." 

y A SMOKER among Brown's "alumni lead- 
ers" went over to the Faunce House to- 
bacco counter between sessions. When he 
got his cigarettes, the usual folder of 
matches came with it. But the legend on 
its cover was a bit startling for an old 
grad: "If you didn't finish high school, see 
free offer inside." 

> MAIL to the President's Office covers a 
wide variety of subjects. He gave especial 
note to a letter from a mother last spring 
which complained: "My son is a pitcher 
on your baseball squad. Why don't you 
start him?" 



He asked leave . . 

> SUMMER SESSIONS at Brown this year 
included a younger group than we're used 
to: junior high school boys in an "aca- 
demic potential program." Some Brown 
undergraduates helped proctor and run 
sports events, and one of them was ap- 
proached with a question we'd never 
heard before on the Campus. "May I go 
out tonight." the boy asked, "if I get my 
homework done first?" 

> THE COMMENT was not remarkable un- 
til you looked at the picture which ac- 
companied it in one of our western alumni 
magazines. The comment was: "Frustration 
on the part of college students is caused 
when they get to college and find they 
can't do the work." The picture was one 
of broncho-busting. 

> SOME AMERICAN COLLEGES now en- 
courage the organization of alumni groups 
for European travel, and the tours they 
sponsor seem to work out well, if one is 
to judge by the stories and photos in 
alumni magazines. A Texas magazine cov- 
ered one such trip with pictures of the 




alumni in London, Paris, and other capi- 
tals. Under one snapshot, the bold cap- 
tion-writer said: "While others threw 
coins in Trevi Fountain in Rome, L. L. 
Jiggers declared he would rather throw in 
his wife." 

> PREPARING his talk on college admis- 
sions for the Providence Parents League, 
Brown's Charles Doebler had written that 
he had some hesitation about expressing 
his conclusions in a room he knew would 
be "generously" sprinkled with educators. 
In the transcription, the word came out 
"querulously." He let it go at that, happily. 

> CARPENTERS Were sweltering in the Au- 
gust hot spell as they worked to renovate 
the interior of the Sharpe Refectory, con- 
tinuing during the period of the Alumni 
Conference. As he left after one of the 
luncheon talks, Ed Kiely '50 remarked: 
"TTiese fellows are getting the greatest in- 
tellectual steambath of their lives." 

> A PENN STATE PLAYER was knocked 
cold when hit by three opposing tacklers 
in an early season game. Ridge Riley re- 
ports in his chatty football newsletter. 
Someone asked the man that evening if he 
had been really hurt. "Not hurt," he re- 
plied, "just outnumbered." 

> "to HELL with Gagarin," said a banner 
carried at a Princeton reunion last June. 
"We've been in orbit for 14 years!" 

And we've this note left over from our 
own Commencement. A man in the audi- 
ence had stood up to get a better view at 
one point, lost his balance, and hit his 
head as he fell. The nearest usher was the 
Brown basketball coach, Stan Ward, who 
summoned Dr. Hutchinson; the latter 
called for the Rescue Squad. When it ar- 
rived with a stretcher, it was one man. 
Ward said later: "I don't have large 
squads myself, but I've never seen one that 
small." 

> A SOLDIER at Fort Knox had qualified 
for a Master's degree at Penn, its Gazette 
says, and had a pass reading "for gradua- 
tion purposes." Because of bad weather, 
however, planes were not leaving Louis- 
ville, and he took his degree in absentia. 
"However," Ruth Branning Molloy re- 
ported, "George Arthur will be happy to 
know that his family planned to take pic- 
ture of his cap and gown before they 
returned it." 




> AT THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION, they 

told Prof. W. Freeman Twaddell that 
they'd like to have him attend a week's 
international conference on linguistics at 
Cambridge last summer. It wasn't until he 
was thoroughly involved that the Brown 
Department Chairman realized that he was 
being sent to England, rather than across 
the State line into Massachusetts. 

> OBSERVANT Randy Fort passes along the 
information that his university, Emory, 
offers a Physics course in "Heat" — but 
only in the summer quarter. And, by the 
way, the student newspaper at his Uni- 
versity is called the Emoiy Wlieel. 



What it stood for 



> A WARM-UP SWEATER from our Book- 
store was mailed to Sweden by Marshall 
H. Cohen '54 for a 10-year-old friend 
there. It had the conspicuous B-R-O-W-N 
on the chest, and the boy, Peter, wore it 
to school almost daily. The mother wrote 
that the sweater had attracted so much at- 
tention that the teacher finally asked Peter 
to stand, identify the unusual English 
word, and tell its significance. The boy re- 
plied: "Oh, Brown . . . that's a popular 
American color." 

> A BIT from a Washington paper popped 
up in The College Pump, a refreshing 
area of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin. It 
was an ad under "Articles for Sale": 

"BASS FIDDLE PLAYER has gone to 
Harvard. Father will sell fiddle for $125." 

> WHEN YOU READ the Browii Daily Her- 
ald, you are well advised to look at the 
odd corners of the paper, too. For exam- 
ple, there was a box near the masthead on 
Sept. 19 which said: "The Herald regrets 
to inform its readers that yesterday's 
Wandering Minstrel was not written by a 
Wandering Minstrel at all, but rather by 
a Walter Gordon, who did not write the 
editorial attributed to him and who will 
not write Wandering Minstrel columns in 
future." 

And on the same day there was a classi- 
fied ad which said: "I (and we won't re- 
peat the name) hereby apologize abjectly 
for the abysmal job of desk-editing I did 
on Sunday, Sept. 17, 1961, in my capacity 
as News Editor of the Brown Daily Her- 
ald. It stunk." 

BUSTER 



''Vou cant do anything in the summer'' 



SHAKEN MYTH 



More than 800 came back to Brown for the August sessions 
of the Alumni Leadership Conference and voted it "Great!" 



THE PROGRAM which has been prepared may inform 
you, may enlighten you, and may surprise you," said 
the announcement. But those who prepared the pro- 
gram for the Alumni Leadership Conference at 
Brown in late August had some surprises coming their way, 
too. 

They had been frank about the purpose of the meetings on 
Aug. 24, 25, and 26: "It was to provide alumni and alumnae 
leaders with an opportunity to observe at first hand those 
attributes of Brown which qualified it for selection by the 
Ford Foundation as a recipient of a challenge gift, and to 
study the program that has been developed to meet that 
challenge." 

Early in the planning there were guesses that 300 might 
come. The final registration was over 800. This included more 
than 200 children, to be sure, for this was a "family party." 
From 21 States and the District of Columbia they came — 
from as far as California, Washington, Idaho, and Florida. 
The youngest was five months old; the senior was former 
Senator Theodore Francis Green "87, who was to have his 
94th birthday on Oct. 2. (He was in the hospital by then, 
unfortunately.) 

Most of them lived in Brown and Pembroke dormitories 
for the three days (one family came all of six blocks from 
home to take up residence). They heard about the University, 
saw the University, talked about the University, thought about 
the University. They went home with an understanding of the 
University which was all the reward the planners wanted. The 
guests left College Hill excited about Brown, too, and the 
planners didn't mind that, either, for it was the alumni and 
alumnae leaders who had been invited back: alumni club 
officers, national officers, admissions workers, and regional 
lieutenants in the Bicentennial Campaign. Enthusiasm was 
nothing new for these categorical guests, but it mounted each 
hour. 



Never had anything gone so well. The planning had been 
thorough, in all its diversity and detail. Right from the 
moment of arrival, the Conference just clicked. Through a 
solid program presented by first-rate people, the audiences sat 
earnest and left stimulated. There were color, adventure, 
lively dialogue, provocative questions, frank answers to them, 
demonstrations. If "informed alumni are loyal alumni," these 
will be champions. 

"We Had a Wonderful Time!" 

But, dollars to jonnycakes, when these alumni were back 
home again and talked about their days on College Hill, they 
said first: "We had a wonderful time!" Somehow those days 
reached a peak that reunions never reach, however good. 
Everyone had fun, enjoyed it — but there was purpose, too. 
which made you proud to be there, in such company. "My 
hat is off," said one alumnus, lingering over his departure, 
"to the team which can put on a show like this." Who gets 
the credit? Someone asked Vice-President John Elmendorf 
about that. As Chairman of the Conference Committee, it was 
obvious that a lion's share was due him; but he said: "I 
started to make a list. I quit when I got to 20 names — there 
would have been 80." And more, because there wasn't any- 
body on the Hill this summer who didn't help. 

But we have a job of reporting to do. That's hard, because 
you cannot express the impact of the whole except by re- 
porting the whole, and that's impossible, despite the extra 
pages we've wangled. Instead, we'll try to suggest through ex- 
amples what the ideas and words were like. But that is an 
incomplete impression one will gain, not much better than a 
"spot check." 

If you heard a popping sound, it was a myth exploding. 
Mr. Elmendorf cited the old fallacy, long honored or at least 
observed, that "nothing can be done in the summer." It was. 
as he said, probably the first major university alumni gathering 



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ever met for serious purpose during the lazy heat of a hot, 
lazy August. Yet, after greeting so many old friends, meeting 
their famiUes, and settling in, we went right to work. 

The $7,500,000 challenge grant from the Ford Foundation 
has given Brown University a great opportunity to seek out 
better ways of teaching and learning. President Keeney told 
the alumni leaders at the opening dinner of the three-day 
Conference. Through the grant and the matching funds from 
other sources, the University hopes to "enlarge and improve 
its capacity to carry out its function." The Secretary of the 
Corporation, Judge Fred B. Perkins T9, presented the speaker. 

Building the "Consensus of Sul>(>ort" 

Dr. Keeney dwelt at length on the theme that governments 
and their leaders are powerless without a "consensus of 
support" for their actions. A companion suggestion was that a 
university administration is similarly dependent, for he likened 
a university to other communities. 

The Ford Foundation grant must be matched on a two-for- 
one basis, requiring Brown to raise $15,000,000 to meet the 
requirement. "It is only through you and people like you — our 
workers and leaders — that we can achieve these means. In 
helping us to achieve them, you will require knowledge, under- 
standing, purpose, and action. This is why we have asked you 
here. In providing such tools, we also hope to provide you 
with the knowledge for large leadership and to begin a new 
chapter in continuing education at Brown." 

The full text of Dr. Keeney's address appears elsewhere in 
this issue. Next month we'll print the discussion of the new 
educational experiment, "The University Courses," described 
by Prof. Juan Lopez-Morillas, speaker at the Friday luncheon. 
On that occasion Mrs. Bleike Sheldon Reed, Trustee and Pem- 
broke alumna, was the felicitous mistress of ceremonies. 

The first general session of the Conference came Thursday 
afternoon when Sayles Hall was filled by an audience eager 
to hear about Brown's plans for medical education. The 
speaker, Dr. Glidden L. Brooks, Director of the Institute of 
Health Sciences, reminded us that the proposal was not for a 
two-year medical school but, rather, a six-year program in 
medical education. The requirement was that the student be- 
come a scientist, "at the level of a good, stiff Master's degree 
in a science of his choice." 

An outstanding characteristic of the program was that it 
would be conducted within the University Faculty, rather than 
assigned to a special group recruited and set up exclusively 
as a medical Faculty. "Our present commitment," Dr. Brooks 
said further, "does not carry us beyond the basic science 
years of medicine nor beyond the introduction to clinical 
studies." He offered the reasons which lay beyond Brown's 
decision to move toward its medical program. Dr. Brooks' ad- 
dress will be the basis for discussion in a future issue of this 
magazine; as will an introductory statement by the Chairman 
of the meeting. Prof. William Montagna, Biology, on "Brown 
University and the Life Sciences." 

A Scholar's Adventure in Saigon 

One of the Conference peaks came when Prof. I. J. Kap- 
stein '26 told a dinner audience about the past year he had 
spent on leave to teach in Saigon. It dealt with our ignorance 
about the Far East, it told of personal hazard in the guerrilla 
warfare in Vietnam, it was a lesson on international relations. 
(Incidentally, an attentive listener at the head table was the 



A hundred times the bells of Brown 
Have rum/ to sleep the idle summers, 

And still todaij clangs clamoriiuj down 
A ijrceting to the welcome comers. 



— The opening lines of the Centennial 
Poem by John Hay, 1858. 




FOR BROWN'S 198th academic year, Buildings and Grounds staff had 

completed its annual freshening up. Central and symbolic was the new 

gold-leaf treatment for the College Bell on top of University Hall. 



OCTOBER 1961 



new Brown Trustee, Senator John O. Pastore, who had come 
up from Washington for the day on College Hill.) 

But the greatest excitement came from Dr. Kapstein's con- 
cluding narrative of his efforts to teach Vietnamese in the way 
he knows best and believes in. It is a wonderful story, which 
we hope to have leave to print in another month. To give its 
conclusion only is to lack the suspense of earlier drama, but 
here it is: 

"Thereafter my classes became Brown classes — question, 
discussion, debate, free expression, and exchange of opinion. 
I was at home again. As for my students, not only did they 
respond to the American professor and his ways ... we 
arrived at a true alliance of American and Vietnam, the 
alliance that between person and person we call friendship. 
All my doubts about going to Vietnam were finally resolved. 
I forgave the U. S. Government for spending its money on 
me. and I forgave myself for leaving Brown. Now that I'm 
back, I think I'll stick around. I like it here." 

The curious thing about his story of an Oriental adventure 
was that, listening, we learned a lot about Brown University, 
too. The presiding officer was Lyman B. Bloomingdale '35 of 
the Board of Trustees. 

The panel method was also effective in informing the Con- 
ference about ideas and action which were occupying the 
attention of teachers and administrators at Brown. One group 
addressed itself to the physical sciences, another to the hu- 
manities. (The substance of their discussions appears on other 
pages.) What the third panel had to say can only be suggested 
here, with expectation that we shall return to it another month. 

Its theme of admissions, alumni plans, public relations, and 
development programs was embraced in "The Ford Founda- 
tion Gift and Its Challenge." On the Sayles Hall platform 
Saturday morning were: Vice-President Elmendorf, modera- 
tor; Dean Alberta F. Brown, Pembroke's Dean of Admission; 
Lloyd W. Cornell, Jr., Assistant Dean of the College; Howard 
S. Curtis, Secretary; Daniel W. Earle, Director of Develop- 
ment; William B. McCormick, Alumni Executive Officer; and 
Mrs. Byron J. Stapelton, Executive Secretary of the Alumnae 
Association. Dean R. Bruce Lindsay of the Graduate School 
and Chesley Worthington, Editor of this magazine, also con- 
tributed statements. 

The Admissions Choice of Tomorrow 
By 1975, Dean Cornell predicted, the entering Class at 
Brown and Pembroke would approach 1 100, chosen from 
more than 10,000 well-qualified applicants. There had already 
been a dramatic increase from the 500 in the combined 
Freshman Classes in 1940-41 to nearly 900 today, with ap- 
plications rising in the same period from 1500 to more than 
4800. (The problem of mounting rejections was companion to 
this, of course.) Dean Brown showed how quality had risen, 
as well: while Brown and Pembroke had admitted students 
in 1940 with the median of College Board SAT scores at 
the high national average of the college-bound, our median 
scores today were over 600 — up 100 points in five years. 

Mr. Cornell said the University had been able to accommo- 
date these larger, better classes through new techniques in 
administration and teaching through improved facilities. Dean 
Lindsay provided parallel information and projections for 
the Graduate School, where enrollment had risen from 490 
to 850 in six years. With 1500 enrolled by the end of the 
decade, the Graduate School was expected to account for 
28% of the University population of 5450. 



In the face of such estimates. Mr. McCormick offered a 
prayer for the Alumni Secretary of the future. He and Mrs. 
Stapelton described the development of alumni work at Brown 
and Pembroke and outlined its role in the years ahead. To 
meet new challenges, he promised: an increase in traffic, in- 
formation, and communication; more alumni clubs and more 
active ones; more contacts between alumni and Faculty 
through regional meetings and College Hill conferences stress- 
ing continuing education. Mrs. Stapelton said an alumnae 
study committee at Pembroke had anticipated the Ford Foun- 
dation grant with its plans for the future. 

How Bicentennial Goals Will Be Met 

Mr. Earle had good news for the audience about the Bi- 
centennial Development Program. In mid-June, well on 
schedule, the campaign for $15,100,000 in capital gifts had 
yielded nine million in cash and three in pledges. Plant alloca- 
tions in the grants by the Ford Foundation and ARPA later 
that month had been sufficient to insure the success of the 
drive. Toward an endowment goal of an additional $15,000,- 
000 by 1964, $8,600,000 had been received through bequests 
and outright gifts. 

The immediate effect of the Ford and ARPA decisions, 
however, Mr. Earle said, had been to increase the Bicentennial 
objective from $30,100,000 to $48,600,000. Toward this, 
$21,400,000 was in hand, not counting pledges. (And he re- 
minded the audience that all pledges paid after July 1 qualify 
for matching funds, which increase their etfect.) As Brown 
qualifies for the $7,500,000 from the Ford Foundation, he 
went on, the new needs total $16,700,000 by 1964. Of this. 
Brown expected $12,000,000 in new gifts from "matching 
sources," $4,700,000 in gifts from "non-matching sources." 

"We are not going to start the intense capital gifts campaign 
all over again," Mr. Earle promised. He and Mrs. Stapelton 
offered the revised programs for annual giving through the 
Brown University Fund and Pembroke College Fund. 

$9,700,000 Written in Neiu Wills 
Bequests, said the Development Director, would provide a 
major portion of augmented endowment. In addition to 
$6,500,000 already received, he said that 165 living persons 
had reported estate plans which would eventually add 
$9,700,000 more to endowment, most of these futures in the 
form of memorials. Cultivation of aid from business, industry, 
and foundations would be further broadened, too. 

"We turn again to our leadership," Mr. Earle concluded, 
"without apology but with a confidence born of work together 
in the past and our certain knowledge that we share the same 
pride in Brown and the same concern for an Alma Mater 
whose bright destiny is now clearly apparent." 

Secretary Curtis described the activities of the public-rela- 
tions arm of the University. "In the past few years," he said, 
"we have heard great discussion about the manipulation of 
public attitudes, creation of impressions, and the forming of 
corporate images to the point where the term 'public-relations' 
has become tarnished and the word 'image' shopworn. But the 
image of a university like Brown comes into being from a 
reputation two centuries old, from scholarship, high ideals and 
integrity. The striving for excellence is nothing new at Brown. 
Our colleagues in other institutions take it for granted that 
anything done at Brown will be done well." He referred to the 
strength of Faculty, alumni, student body, libraries, and plant: 
(Continued on page 12) 



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TIME OUT FOR TELEVISION: Five Brunonians took leave from the Confer- 
ence long enough to appear on WJAR-TV: left to right— Prof. Edward A. 



Bloom, Stephen A. McClellan '23, Vice-President John V. Etmendorf, mod- 
erator, Prof, Robert W. Morse, and Maurice L. Clemence '34. 



SUMMER SESSION FOR CxRADS 



WHAT WAS 
IT LIKE? 



The tape-recorder helps a reconstruction 
which catches the essence and the flavor 
of one of the panel sessions featured at 
the August Alunuii Leadershij) Conference. 



WHAT DID ONE GET out of the panel sessions at the Alumni 
Leadership Conference? We cannot recreate the atmos- 
phere of interest and response, but we can offer the substance 
of one of the meetings in Sayles Hall, for the tape-recorder 
brings it back to us. Here is caught much of the spontaneity, 
the thoughtfulness, the wit, the give-and-take, the information, 
and the interpretation. Don't think of them as Utterances or 
Pronouncements — it was too informal for that. Though no 
member of the panel has had opportunity to edit his remarks, 
he need have no fear. It was all clear and pointed, and it 
moved along at a lively pace. There were even a few limbs 
to get out on — sometimes on opposite sides of the tree. 

We chose to transcribe the session on "University Research 
in Physical Sciences Projected into World Affairs," though 
there were other good panels on "The Humanities at Brown" 
and on "The Ford Foundation Gift and Its Challenge." 

Let's introduce this panel: Robert M. Morse, Chairman 
of the Department of Physics, was the moderator. With him 
at the microphones were: Daniel C. Drucker, Professor of 
Engineering: Arthur B. Homer '17, Chairman of Bethlehem 
Steel Corporation; E. H. Lee, Professor of Applied Mathe- 
matics; Harold R. Nace, Professor of Chemistry; and Thomas 
J. Watson, Jr., '37, Chairman of International Business Ma- 
chines Corporation. 

Chairman Morse, for purposes of the morning discussion 
on Friday, included in his definition of the physical sciences 
those areas dealt with by the Divisions of Applied Mathe- 
matics and Engineering and the Departments of Physics, 



OCTOBER 1961 



Chemistry, Astronomy, and Geology, assigning Math to the 
humanities. To demonstrate trends in the modern university, 
he noted that 31% of the Faculty were in these Departments; 
though only 13% of the undergraduates "concentrate" here, 
40% of the graduate students are here enrolled. 

The Impact of the Sciences at Brown 

"While you may feel that the undergraduates are thus 
neglected in the physical sciences," Dr. Morse said, "this is 
not true. Though they may not major here, most of the 
undergraduates take courses in the physical sciences. One 
doesn't concentrate there casually or drift into such programs: 
most who concentrate are motivated toward a career in the 
physical sciences. Brown offers unusual and distinctive under- 
graduate training in the physical sciences, through Sc.B. 
programs in Physics, Chemistry, Engineering, and Applied 
Mathematics. Particularly in the last decade, these have at- 
tracted students of high calibre, as the number who go on to 
graduate work and careers in science will show. But the 
grounding in the fundamentals of science, in the context of the 
liberal arts, has a strong tradition at Brown. We do not turn 
out narrow specialists." 

The physical sciences at the University are characterized, 
he said, by their expensiveness and by the comprehensive 
character of the research. Since World War II, we are more 
aware of "the interaction of scientific research and public 
affairs and every aspect of society." It is not surprising, then, 
that the physical sciences, more than any other groups in the 
University, find themselves able to get outside financial sup- 
port for its program, which is relatively so much more 
expensive. 

Doing "What We Want to Do" in Research 

Most support, Dr. Morse pointed out, comes from the 
Government: Brown receives annually three or four million 
dollars from Federal funds for its scientific research. "Be- 
cause there is so much negative reaction," he said, "I'd like to 
emphasize the nature of that Government support. So far 
it has been sensibly given and in a spirit of liberalness. The 
military services since the war have shown a recognition that 
it is important for their welfare that research be stimulated in 
the country and scientists trained. And so such agencies as 
the Office of Naval Research, the Office of Ordnance Re- 
search, the Air Force Office of Research, the Atomic Energy 
Commission, and (more recently) the National Science Foun- 
dation have deliberately tried to promote scientific research 
and good education in the universities of America. 

"I should point out that this support permits us to do 
precisely the sort of research we'd like to do and should be 
doing, providing we had enough money ourselves. No one at 
Brown does research which is just to solve someone else's 
problems. No one has asked us to solve specific problems 
posed by the Government or the military — to build better 
mousetraps or better missiles. (It may incidentally help along 
these lines, of course.) The kind of research done here is 
decided upon by the Faculty. Each of its members works with 
graduate students on those problems which he thinks are 
fundamental to his own science." 

As an illustration, he read from the work statement with 
respect to the recent grant by ARPA (the Advanced Research 
Projects Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense), which 
is "unusual if only for its scope — 3V2 million dollars over four 
years — for research in four Departments." (We wouldn't dare 
to write such a statement ourselves. Dr. Morse observed.) 



We are to "conduct research in the science of materials with 
the objective of furthering understanding of the factors which 
influence the properties of materials." To this end. Brown is 
to pursue theoretical experimental studies in such fields as 
metallurgy, ceramic science, solid state physical chemistry, 
solid state mechanics, surface phenomena, and polymer sci- 
ence. "Well," said Dr. Morse, "these are precisely the fields 
of our interest. We are instructed to do what we are doing." 

America's Dependence on Research 

Arthur Homer was impressed by Brown's awareness of the 
importance of research in the world today, as demonstrated 
by the prominent place it had been given as a topic for an 
alumni leadership conference. As an industrialist, he realized 
the purpose of scientific research in industry: "to produce new 
and better products for the benefit of mankind and on a 
profitable basis." 

"The economy of this country," he said, "must grow at a 
strong rate or suffer unpleasant consequences. It is estimated, 
for example, that our population growth in the decade begun 
in 1960 will generate an increasing labor force at a rate of 
more than a million a year. People must be absorbed in the 
economy. Furthermore, American industry in recent years 
has progressed into a period of intense competition, which 
shows every sign of continuing. Thus competition is fostered 
by growth and the capacity for conventional materials and by 
the rapid development of new materials, all fighting for 
markets. Further development is fostered by the success of 
American programs for the maintenance of a free world. 

"Thus far we have felt only a slight effect of Communist 
competition in world markets, but this may be a serious threat 
for those unprepared in future. It seems clear that continuing 
prosperity and healthy growth must clearly depend on our 
investment in scientific, technical, and commercial research 
for the development of new products, for more efficient and 
less costly production, and better distribution practices. 

Facilities Useless Without Brains to Use Them 

"Growth thus has its basis in research and development. 
Spectacular increases in this activity have taken place and 
are projected. Already industry has pumped many millions 
of dollars into new research laboratories; the effort to develop 
the new and improve the old is continuing at an accelerated 
pace. Facilities must be excellent, but the central, most needed 
requirement is the training of brains. We need scientists, 
engineers, chemists, physicists, metallurgists, and economists 
— to name a few of those required for the comprehensive 
research of today and tomorrow. 

"All scientific discoveries are built upon preceding discover- 
ies. This means that we must have the best brains to make 
use of our discoveries and must have the best possible litera- 
ture available for guidance, to avoid a waste of time and 
money. Perhaps here is our answer to the question about the 
place of research in a university program. No research facili- 
ties, however modern and complete, are of value without 
brains trained to use them efficiently and with good purpose. 
America looks to the universities to train these minds for 
creative work and beneficial results." 

Mr. Homer's viewpoint was that a university program 
should have these objectives: 1) Give maximum broad train- 
ing in the basic sciences. 2) Train graduates in the art of 
research. 3) Provide access to knowledge in the use of fun- 
damental information already available or being generated. 

Professor Lee agreed with Professor Morse that "at Brown 



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we are doing what we want to do." The Division of Applied 
Mathematics had been built up successfully on that basis. 
"However." he pointed out, "Federal support is not enough. 
It is easier to get money in an area where one is already doing 
successful work and where one has a high reputation. It is 
harder to move into a new area, though it may be important 
so to move. For new programs in statistics and numerical 
analysis (utilizing the new Computing Center), Brown found 
support in strong industrial grants. Industry helped us start 
here, and now we can attract Federal support. Private giving, 
therefore, must play an important part as long as Federal re- 
search grants are awarded on the basis of buying research 
rather than giving broad support to education." 

A Graduate Program Tripled in 5 Years? 

Professor Drucker felt an important point had been over- 
looked: "Members of the staff must spend a great deal of 
time raising money." "If we were willing to take money just 
for money's sake," he said, "then many programs of the 
Federal Government would offer large means of support. 
This then would become a research institute type of activity. 
Because of our academic emphasis, we are not prepared to go 
into this. Therefore, we must ferret out among agencies and 
industrial concerns the sources of support for work we wish 
to do. It is a shame to take staff time away from primary 
duties in teaching and research to seek such financing." 

Dr. Drucker pointed to the enormous increase in research 
activity and education and training of Brown students in the 
physical sciences in the last 15 years. The development in 
Applied Mathematics, pioneered in this country at Brown, 
was an example, but it was paralleled in all areas of the physi- 
cal sciences here. The curve of the future would be as 
spectacular (he foresaw graduate enrollment in this field 
(Continued on page 31) 



Your Homecoming 



THE ANNUAL HOMECOMING celebration, always a gala affair, 
should be even more enjoyable this fall as the result of 
several innovations. However, the football game remains the 
main attraction, and Princeton will be the opponent on Satur- 
day, Nov. 4. 

Activity will shift this year from its old setting near the 
Marvel Gym to Aldrich-Dexter Field, Brown's new athletic 
plant. As usual, the Big Top will be set up as a place of 
rendezvous. Lunch and refreshments will be served, starting 
at 10, and the revitalized Bruin soccer team will meet the 
Tiger on an adjoining field. Dixieland music will be played 
all the while as background. There will be ample free parking 
at the site. For those who come early and have the time, the 
new Meehan Skating Rink and Auditorium will be on view. 

At 12:30, the alumni and their families will be invited to 
join the Brown and Princeton bands in a march from Aldrich- 
Dexter to Brown Stadium, a distance of three-quarters of a 
mile. Private buses will be available for those who might 
wish to join the parade — but not on foot. In addition, those 
parking at Aldrich-Dexter may leave their cars there and 
take advantage of the free shuttle bus service to and from the 
Stadium before and after the game. 

Following the game (which starts at 1:30) the popular 
Alumni Reception will be held across the street at Marvel 
Gym. Now in its third year, this portion of the Homecoming 
program has proved highly successful — perhaps because the 
Bruins have won the last two games. 

Dick Pretat '45 is Chairman of the Homecoming Commit- 
tee, assisted by two classmates, Dan Fairchild and Randy 
Pillsbury. 




A LOOK AT THE FUTURE of Brown University in paintings and models, part of tlie exhibit for the Alumni Conference. 

OCTOBER 1961 




PANEL ON THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES was one of the Conference's most Prof. Harold R. Note, Prof. Robert M. Morse (moderator), Prof. E. H. Lee, 

popular meetings. Its members, right to left: Thomas J. Watson, Jr., '37, Arthur B. Homer '17, and Prof. Daniel C. Drucker. 




JOHN NICHOLAS BROWN. At his left. Dean Rosemary Pierrel. 



JUDGE FRED B. PERKINS '19, Secretary of the Corporation. 




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PARTAKERS 



These were some of the people 
who brought the program to life 
at the Alumni Leaders' meetings 





SENATOR John O. Pastore, right, Lyman B. 
Bl-omlngda'e '35, and Prof. I. J. Kapstein '26. 




DR. FRANK H. SPARKS, above left, was Conference valedictorian. Panel on 
the Humonities included Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr., '32 and Prof. Merton 



P. Sfoltz, above; below. Prof. Edward A. Bloom, Maurice L. Clemence '34, 
Prof. John R. Workman, ond Prof. Robert O. Schulze. 




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Conference 

(Continued from page 6) 

•'It is the establishment of these facts over the years which 
has brought Brown that mysterious asset called prestige." 

There were many reasons why Brown was selected for the 
Ford Foundation challenge grant. Mr. Curtis concluded. 
"Obviously the total impression of Brown was favorable. I 
am sure that, involved in that decision, was the confidence 
that Brown will continue to provide an ideal environment 
where youth can acquire knowledge and wisdom." 

By Bus, the Grand Tow of Broum 

While the program was substantial, it did not preempt all 
the hours of day or evening. In Manning Chapel there were 
religious services for Protestants, Catholics, and Jews. There 
was a reception at the Keeneys and teas in the John Carter 
Brown Library, Annmary Brown Memorial, Champlin and 
Morris Halls (the new Pembroke dormitories). Special meet- 
ings were scheduled, usually at breakfast, for the Board of 
Directors of the Associated Alumni, the Pembroke Alumnae 
Association, Trustees of the Brown University Fund, Class 



Agents of the Pembroke Fund, Bequests Committee, and 
Alumni Admissions Council. Lounges and rooms were full of 
good talk at leisure at the day's end. 

Guided tours of the Campus were no random matters. You 
booked for them, had your ticket for the bus, and made 
the rounds of such attractions as Hunter Lab, Arnold Lab, 
Computing Center, and the Library. The routing provided a 
chance to see the new buildings going up for educational and 
athletic purposes. Bus service, incidentally, was the best Provi- 
dence has seen in years, available when you wanted it to go 
where you were due, at all hours. 

One of the last things the Conference people did was to 
make comments on an evaluation sheet ("to help us do it 
better another time"). Here were repeated the compliments 
heard on every side: "Wonderful." "I wouldn't have believed 
it." "I feel / know my College now." "I'd love to study four 
years under Professors like those we heard." "If the weather is 
as hot as this next time, hold it on the ice in the Meehan 
Auditorium." "When is the next one?" 

Chairman Elmendorf had said: "Most of all, we want to 
inspire in you a sense of the true greatness of Brown, past, 
present, and future." His team had succeeded, from the 
youngest guide to the highest brass. 




SATURDAY'S PANELISTS: Left to right, William B. McCormick, Alumni Ex- 
ecutive Director; Alberta F. Brown, Pembroke's Dean of Admission; Howard 
S. Curtis, Secretary; Doris Stapelton, Executive Secretary of Pembroke Alum- 



nae; Daniel W. Eorle, Director of Development; lloyd W. Cornell, Assistant 
Dean of the College; Vice-President John V. Elmendorf, moderator. They 
talked of the Ford Foundation Challenge. 



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AS THE CONFERENCE OPENED, Vice-President Elmendorf outlined its hopes. 
Others, left to right: Vice-President F. Morris Cochran; Provost Zenos R. 



Bliss; John Nicholas Brown of the Board of Fellows; Pembroke's Dean Rose- 
mary Pierre!; Dean Charles H. Walts, II. 



TRUSTEE Doris B. Reed presented Prof. Juan 
Lopez-Morillas, speaker at the Friday luncheon. 



• SPERAMBS 





MEDICAL PROGRAM and Life Sciences were discussed 

by Dr. Glidden L. Brooks, left, and Prof. William Montagna. 



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LEADERSHIP 

as a Permanent 
CHALLENGE 



TALKING to the alumni leaders on the Campus in 
Aupust, and throus-li them to all Brunonians, Presi- 
dent Keeney said he would describe "in a rather 
roundabout way" the situation in which Brown finds 
itself as the result of "recent successes and the result- 
ing challenge and opportunity gii'en us by the Ford 
Foundation." 



Bv BARNABY C. KEENEY 



WHEN THE FOUNDING FATHERS of the United States wrote 
our Constitution, they intended to set up a system of 
checks and balances which would prevent despotism by any 
branch of government. They probably also intended to estab- 
lish the necessity of agreement by the citizens before action 
could be taken by the Federal Government. 

In their 18th century, there were few occasions that re- 
quired quick decisions, and yet they did provide for quick 
decisions in great emergencies. But it is apparent that they 
did not wish to encourage them in the ordinary course of 
events until due process had occurred. 

They did their work very well. The result is that, whatever 
our Constitution says, we have today a system of government 
by consensus. That is to say: the acts of government depend 
not only on the agreement of the three great branches of 
Government but also on the passive or expressed agreement 
of the majority of the people. 

The Basis of a Leader's Power 

If there is a consensus, the President of the United States 
has great powers; if there is not, he has almost no power. 
For example, President Kennedy attained almost immediate 
agreement to the strengthening of our armed forces because 
there was a large measure of consent that we should act in 
Berlin, if necessary. The Marshall Plan was very quickly 
enacted because the people of this country realized that it 
was necessary to encourage the redevelopment of Europe 
after the Second World War. President Roosevelt was able to 
move quickly after Pearl Harbor because of speedy popular 
rage; 10 years before, he had moved with almost equal speed 
during the first hundred days of his first administration be- 
cause of the general awareness that the depression had to be 
controlled. 



On the other hand, there was no consensus that Laos was 
of great importance to us; this, as much as geography, pre- 
vented drastic action in that situation. There was no agree- 
ment prior to 1939, when the European war broke out, that 
we should intervene in what became the Second World War. 
Lend Lease was based upon a sophisticated technicality, and, 
although the President and others might have produced an 
agreement to enter the war in another year after Pearl Harbor, 
their leadership, however effective, would probably have been 
to late. 

There now appears to be no consensus that it is necesary 
for the President to have a fully free hand for five years in 
foreign aid, nor do we appear to be agreed on the desirability 
of Federal aid to education, nor on the means to carry it out. 

The measures proposed by the Presidents in these situations, 
past or present, where consensus has not existed, have pros- 
pered only a little or not at all. 

Crisis Makes It Easier, Faster 

It is easy for us to reach a consensus by crisis, and this is 
the way we normally proceed in America (and, I might say, 
in Brown University). It is difficult for us to reach an agree- 
ment when the crisis is one over a long term and where con- 
sistent thought rather than quick action is required, and where 
a philosophy rather than a deed is a necessity. Every day, as 
the world develops, the difficulty of reaching a consensus be- 
comes greater because each situation becomes more and more 
international in character and therefore more complicated. 

How is the consensus reached? Not by flat nor commanded 
agreement, not by a leader waving his sword and crying, 
'"Follow me." It is seldom reached by legislation. When one 
of these methods works, it is generally because the consensus 
previously existed. 

The bank holiday in the early 30's was the result of a fiat; 
it worked because the consensus existed that drastic measures 
were necessary to stop the drain on the deposits in the banks. 
The intervention in Korea 25 years later was foUow-me 
leadership; it worked because the people agreed that forceful 
defense was necessary. The Volstead Act and the 18th 
Amendment did not work because, however people voted 
with their ballots, they voted otherwise with their jugs. 

Consensus is reached almost unconsciously in some cases by 
a long, slow process of perception, mulling over, and agree- 
ment. This procedure is one of the characteristics of the 
American people which has puzzled foreign observers. Some- 
times it is reached precipitously from emotional reaction to 
a great wrong, as was the case after Pearl Harbor. Usually, 
however, it is reached through the exercise of intelligent 
leadership on many levels. 

Sometimes Sergeants Lead, Too 

Leadership is a many-layered thing. Sometimes it comes 
from the top; sometimes it is forced upon the top from the 
middle layers. Rarely is it unilateral. It is well known, for 
example, that the sergeants run the army — that is middle 
leadership. Our society is a nest of communities, each fitting 
into a larger one, each affecting the larger, the smaller, 
and the equal one. Each one of these communities goes about 
reaching its decision, and the sum of these decisions is the 
consensus. If there is no sum, then there is no consensus. 

Brown University is a community. Its decisions and their 
effectiveness depend upon a consensus of the Corporation, of 
the executive and administrative officers, the Faculty, the 
students, the alumni, and especially of their leaders, and of 



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the public community in which we hve. The Corporation or 
the Faculty can vote whatever they wish. The President can 
make endless pronouncements in favor of virtue, but, if there 
is no consensus, there will be no virtue. 

In each community the decision is formed, shaped, precipi- 
tated by a relatively small group. How large or small the 
group is depends upon the structure of the community — and 
the literacy, the thoughfulness, and the force of its members. 
But, however large or however small it may be on any given 
question, there are some who lead and some who follow 
(and in the same community the leaders and the followers 
change positions). These leaders state their positions, which 
hopefully they have previously defined. They debate the posi- 
tions, they change their own views and the views of others 
until finally it is clear what the people will agree to and what 
they will not. 

This is the consensus. Reaching it is a very slow process in 
most cases. The deeper the question, the slower the process. 
The more clearcut the question, the quicker the process. 

Yet, this age will not tolerate slowness, for events often 
move faster than debate; therefore, many advocate a change 
in our system. The Rules Committee of the Congress is at- 
tacked because it often keeps things from coming to a vote, 
and all segments of the population are irritated from time to 
time by its actions or its refusals to act. The filibuster is often 
attacked because it prevents or delays action by the Senate. 
Yet, in many instances, these two very irritating institutions 
have served to prevent the disaster of action without a con- 
sensus, which in our society can mean only mockery of the 
legislative process, strife, or (in extreme cases) civil war. 

When Leadership Has the Long Vieiv 

The other and better way of speeding action is to enlarge, 
improve, and sharpen our leadership so that issues may be 
perceived earlier, well before the crisis, and consensus may 
be reached in advance. 

Thirteen years have passed since the question of Berlin first 
came up. We should know by now what we will do. The 
question of nuclear testing has been discussed for several 
years. We should know by now what we will do. Civilian De- 
fense has been an issue since the Second World War. We 
should know now what we will do about it. The population 
explosion has been a fact since the troops came home. We 
should know now what we will provide for education, but 
we do not. 

Now, the role of a university becomes obvious, for in a 
modern society most leaders of opinion come from the uni- 
versities and the colleges. As time goes on, almost all of 
them will — though never all of them. Still, it is not the posi- 
tion of the university to form the political opinions of these 
leaders but to help them learn to form their own, both in 
college and afterward. It helps them through forming their 
habits of thought and providing them with information on 
which to make a decision, providing them with the means 
and habits of acquiring more information. 

Only in the area of education and the institutions that make 
it possible (for example, freedom of speech, freedom of as- 
sembly, and freedom of publication) is it proper for a uni- 
versity as such to take a position. In all other areas, however, 
it must form the habits of those who will lead in the establish- 
ment of positions; it must produce the men and women who 
will take and define our positions and form those of others. 

This function has been well carried out with undergraduate 



and graduate students. There has, perhaps, been a tendency 
to prepare them for the last generation, rather than the next; 
but the leading institutions are getting away from this. 

A Start on "Continuing Education" 

This function has not been well carried out for alumni, and 
Brown is no exception here. We have done a great deal, in- 
creasingly better, to keep our alumni informed of the affairs 
of the University. In doing so, we have provided them with 
material on which to make judgments of matters outside the 
University. Only incidentally have we attempted continuing 
education of our alumni to help them exercise their necessary 
leadership in modern society. This conference is the beginning 
of an effort to provide an opportunity to prepare for continu- 
ing leadership through continuing education. 

In a small way, at this conference, we begin with you, our 
alumni leaders. You are seeing now how we prepare our 
undergraduates and how, through our programs of research 
we prepare our graduate students. This is the method through 
which we exert leadership in education. 

I think there is no place in the country, perhaps in the 
world (certainly not in those parts of the world that I have 
visited) where more effort is given to find better ways of 
teaching and learning than at Brown. The challenge grant of 
the Ford Foundation has given us a great opportunity to en- 
large the means through which we do this, and hopefully to 
to do it better. Obviously, it is only through our workers and 
our leaders that we can achieve those means. 

In helping us to achieve them, your tools are knowledge, 
understanding, purpose, and action.Jn helping alumni leaders 
to acquire these tools, we hope to provide some of the knowl- 
edge for larger leadership and to begin a new chapter in 
continuing education at Brown, which had such a distin- 
guished beginning under President Andrews. 

The world admires the ability of the United States to act 
in crisis. It was astonished and aghast at the speed with 
which our mobilization resulted in victory in the First and Sec- 
ond World Wars. The world used to expect us to exert con- 
tinuing leadership in areas that require long thought rather 
than immediate action, but it has been disappointed over and 
over again. A Nigerian told me the other day with great 
earnestness and affection that the people of Africa know with 
their minds that America is a great country; they beg that we 
act so that they may believe so with their hearts. 

Everyone in America knows today that we are in the 
greatest crisis in our history. It is a crisis different from the 
simpler crises of our past. It will not be solved simply by 
mobilizing, deploying, and demobilizing 12 million troops 
overseas. It is not a crisis that can be solved by a military 
victory, but only by its actual elimination of the causes. We 
all know that this will take a long time. We all know that the 
issues and the means are far from clear. Therefore, the uni- 
versities and their alumni must begin a thoughtful and pro- 
ductive study of these larger problems, not only by the stu- 
dents but by the graduates of the universities. 

If this effort is successful, we may be able to reach a general 
consensus, not only upon our immediate problems, but on the 
problems of the whole world. We may be able to produce a 
program of action that will rally free men around it — and 
some who are not free. Then the world will cease to wonder 
and begin to rejoice, for the American consensus will extend 
and clarify. It will sanction a program not for the present 
and the parochial but for the future and universal welfare. 



OCTOBER 1961 



IS 




THE GARDNER GIFT, which had been "the best private collection of 
Chinese books in the United States," is examined by Librarian Jonah and 
Professor Lea Williams. Brown plans a program in Far Eastern studies. 



'Most Significant in 50 Years' 

A SCHOLARLY TREASURE-TROVE of 35,000 Chinese books — 
the life's work of a man who spent years traveling and 
studying in the Far East — has been given to Brown Uni- 
versity. The collection is the gift of Dr. Charles Sidney 
Gardner, noted Sinologist and former Harvard Professor 
who was for many years on the staff of Harvard's Yenching 
Institute. It is "the most significant gift of books to the Brown 
University Library in the last 50 or 60 years," according to 
David A. Jonah, Director of Libraries. The collection is com- 
posed chiefly of primary source books and studies dealing 
with the history of the Ch'ing or Manchu dynasty that ruled 
China from 1644 to 1911. The majority of the books are 
written in Chinese, but there are also works on China written 
in Japanese and Western languages. 

Professor Gardner's library is "perhaps the best private 
Sinological collection in the United States," according to Dr. 
Francis W. Cleaves, Professor of Far Eastern languages at 
Harvard and a leading authority in the area. "It represents 
years of discriminative, selective acquisition reflecting not 
only Dr. Gardner's special interest in the Ch'ing dynasty but 
also his wide interest in every major facet of Chinese history 
— cultural, economic, literary, political and social." 

The gift comes at a time when Brown is planning to begin 
a program of Far Eastern studies and will serve as a base 
upon which the program can be built. Dr. Jonah says. Plans 
call for the first courses in the program to begin in 1962. 



More of Them in Future? 

IT WAS June when the alumni leaders first heard 
about the Conference plans, in a letter from Presi- 
dent Keeney; "We have been studying, for some time, 
various ways in which Brown University can be of 
further service to its alumni and they in turn can be of 
service to the University. I have felt that many alumni 
would welcome an opportunity to return to the Campus 
for a leisurely but comprehensive study of what we are 
doing and what we plan to do. Such a visit should be 
made at a time when we are not distracted by reunion 
events and other activities on Campus, or you pre- 
occupied with your usual duties. 

"In the midst of plans for such an 'alumni college" 
next year, we have received word of a pending an- 
nouncement of extraordinary significance to Brown. 
(This was, of course, the decision by the Ford Founda- 
tion. — Ed.) This has caused us to revise our plans and 
to schedule a meeting of selected alumni and alumnae 
at the earliest possible moment." 

The intimation here, and in other statements later, 
was that this would not be the last summer gathering of 
Brown's alumni leaders. Those who came in such 
numbers are glad this is so. 



The time-consuming task of cataloging the collection, both 
in Chinese and in English, will begin as soon as specialized 
personnel can be recruited, the Librarian said. The books 
eventually will be housed in a special room either in the 
present John Hay Library or in the university's planned new 
library. 

The 35,000 books are slim, paper-bound volumes printed, 
according to the Chinese custom, on fine rice paper folded 
accordion-style. Anywhere from 10 to 50 of the volumes are 
packed neatly into a cloth portfolio, which is called a t'ao. or 
into a wooden box, a hsiang, which is labeled on the outside. 
The boxes themselves are fine examples of cabinet making, 
fitted without nails and inscribed with large characters which 
indicate the titles of the contents. The bulk of the volumes 
were printed in the 19th and 20th centuries, though many are 
additions of much older works. 

The University, which up to now owned a number of books 
on China but very few written in Chinese, will augment the 
collection and keep it up to date. Dr. Jonah says. Dr. Lea E. 
Williams, Associate Professor of Political Science at Brown, 
who will be a Visiting Professor at the University of Malaya 
in Singapore during the next two years, will make additional 
purchases while in the Far East. He plans to use the collec- 
tion after his return to Brown in 1963. 

Commenting on the gift. Professor Cleaves said: "Al- 
though it might be possible, given the expenditure of much 
time, money and effort, to duplicate in great measure the 
Western books in the collection, it would be impossible, at 
least under the present circumstances, ever to duplicate more 
than a fraction of the Chinese and Japanese. With this col- 
lection as a nucleus of the Library collection to support a 
program in Chinese studies, and with personnel qualified to 
use it effectively. Brown University could become another 
great center of Chinese studies in the United States." 



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3 Good Reasons 

WH1 DID Brown University hold its Alumni Leadership 
Conference? Vice-President John V. Elmendorf, its 
Chairman and master-planner, explained at the outset: Alumni 
gatherings during the past year had been more successful than 
ever ("Even at fund-raising events alumni showed up in 
increased numbers and with increased enthusiasm"). This 
underscored another fact — the remarkable success of the 
Bicentennial Development Program, with its record support 
for the University. 

"The third and most dramatic factor was the awareness of 
the implications of the Ford Foundation Challenge Grant. 
While the grant promised truly great things for Brown, it 
would call for truly great efforts on the part of us all," Dr. 
Elmendorf said. "How could we tell the Brown family what 
was meant by all this? This Conference is our answer." It was 
an attempt to single out a group of leaders among the alumni 
and alumnae and ask them to hear the story. (The invitations 
were categorical: they went to those who had taken leadership 
assignments in the alumni and alumnae programs, including 
the campaigns.) 

Dr. Elmendorf said the prime question before the Con- 
ference was: "Why was Brown selected for the Ford Founda- 
tion Challenge Grant? The lesser questions stem from this: 
1) What will this grant mean for the future of Brown? 2) How 
must the University respond? And, finally, how must we go 
about meeting the explicit challenge of raising $15,000,000 
and the implicit challenge of raising Brown to a level of 
excellence commensurate with the faith in her implied by 
this grant?" 

Daniel Coit Gilman's definition of the object of a university 
was cited: "not so much to impart knowledge as to whet the 
appetite, exhibit methods, develop powers, strengthen judg- 
ment, and invigorate the intellectual and moral forces." Dur- 
ing the Conference, Brown hoped "to give information to 
stimulate your thinking about the University, to exhibit some 
of the methods that we feel may work to help her, and to 
give a basis for better judgments about your relationship to 
the future of Brown." 

John Nicholas Brown, of the Board of Fellows, opened the 
Conference by presiding at the Thursday luncheon. As usual, 
he did it well. 



Fifth Highest in the Country 

THE HONOR ROLLS included the name of Brown University 
as the American Alumni Council published its annual re- 
port in June of "Annual Giving and Alumni Support" for 
1959-60. With 804 institutions reporting to the survey, a 
grand total of $179,226,874 in alumni giving was shown. Of 
this amount, $50,239,384 came through annual alumni funds. 
Brown University was ranked fifth in total alumni giving 
behind: Harvard $18,981,227; Princeton $9,718,148: Colum- 
bia $6,446,253; and Yale $6,213,109; Brown $5,209,022. 
(Although the total of all alumni giving at Dartmouth was 
$6,268,698, it asked to be excluded from rankings because 
it was "not a normal year.") Following Brown in the "top ten" 
were M.I.T., Cornell, Vassar, Tulane, and Lehigh. 

In one respect. Brown University led the nation — in gifts 




HOSTESS: Mrs. Keeney, left, opened her home to receive the Brown families 
at the start of the Alumni Leadership Conference. 

from non-alumni parents. The total reported here was $648,- 
237. In the average alumni gift through all channels. Brown 
was second to Fordham among the private universities 
($658.68 to Fordham's $889.25) and third among all the 
institutions of higher learning in the country. 

Total gift support to Brown University from all sources 
was reported as $7,767,000 for the year 1959-60, with alumni 
gifts representing 68.5 9f of total gifts. The Brown figures in- 
cluded those of Pembroke, where the percentage of participa- 
tion was higher than the men's. 



Conference Brevities 

THERE MAY HAVE BEEN A TIME when the perpetrators of this 
assembly were asking themselves: "Will anyone come?" That 
question, said the conference Reporter, has long since been an- 
swered with a resounding affirmative. The query now is: "Is there 
anyone who isn't coming?" 

"They bring back the alumni at the darndest times," said one of 
them. "Last time I was here (for the Advisory Council in February) 
they had a blizzard." A heat wave opened up for the Confer- 
ence after temperatures in the 50's the week before. The Con- 
ference Reporter said: "Those of you who attend Brown Com- 
mencements may have wondered where we put the rain, mist, fog, 
and clouds that never show up on that occasion. Now you know." 

The Conference Directory listed among the "additional registra- 
tions" the name of Carberry, Josiah S. (Faculty). The space for 
Home State was left blank, but the Conference Address was given 
as "Room with southern e.\posure." 

At the head table for the opening luncheon. Dr. Rosemary 
Pierrel was presented to a Brown audience for the first time. She 
will he installed as Dean of Pembroke on Nov. 15. 

Dr. Glidden Brooks, reporting on the University's decision to 
"prepare and plan for medical education." said Brown had not 
abolished its medical program, only suspended it. The interval 
has been 134 years! 

The brownies served at tea were so popular that the Reporter, 
daily newspaper of the Conference, printed the recipe as provided 
by the Refectory baker. Only trouble was that it was designed to 
"serve 22 to 200 people"; proportions were according. (He'd made 
several rules.) 

Among those present were Octave Beauvais '18 and Mrs. Beau- 
vais from Detroit. He's one of the officers of the Ford Motor Com- 
pany. We looked in his direction when someone remarked: 'Talk 
about the rewards of benevolence. I wonder how many dozens of 
times during this Conference the name of Ford has been men- 
tioned." 



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CORPORATIONS: 



Why they are giving to universities 




LIKE A DOCTOR giving a check-up, Frank Sparks found Brown's financial health good, but he hod a major suggestion to make. 



YOU NEED NO EXHORTATION from me or anyone else to 
activate you into taking full advantage of the present 
great and exceptional opportunities," Dr. Frank H. Sparks 
said at the closing luncheon of Brown's Alumni Leadership 
Conference. "You are already motivated and activated — that 
is one of the reasons the Ford Foundation opportunity is open 
to you.'" 

Dr. Sparks, President of the Council for Financial Aid to 
Education, said his office was a good place from which to 
observe what is going on financially in higher education. "Dur- 
ing the past few years, 1 have reviewed hundreds of financial 
programs and visited many of the institutions whose programs 
I have received. There are close to 2000 colleges and uni- 
versities in the United States, but scarcely 1% of them are 
so advantageously situated as Brown. Using the Ford Founda- 
tion value determinants, the percentage is less than that — six 
out of 2000, of .3%. You are entitled to high praise, and I 
enthusiastically join in the acclaim of this recognition and 
good fortune. Your acceptance of this award and the condi- 
tions that accompany it open large opportunities." 

The educational progress of an institution rarely moves in 
a straight line. Dr. Parks suggested. "Rather, its growth zig- 
zags on the graph, rises sharply, levels off, perhaps even turns 
down, and then (hopefully) comes back up. This has been 
true at Brown: 

The Periods of "Unusual Glou'" 
"In your 200-year history, you have had not more than 
three or four periods of unusual glow. The pioneer days under 
President Manning are probably full of sentiment for all 



Brown alumni, but they weren't very prosperous. It was 60 
years after its founding, during the administration of President 
Wayland, that Brown began to lift itself. Another 60 years 
and you had another thrust under the administration of Presi- 
dent Andrews; and again after 60 years with Henry Wriston as 
your standard bearer. It looks now as if the Wriston-Keeney 
regimes might blend in the historical records of Brown and 
be recorded as your first stratosphere flight." 

Speaking of the financial health of the University, Dr. 
Sparks said Brown had good campaign organization, good 
diversified and strong coverage of its various constituencies. 
But he predicted that from one particular area proportionately 
greater support would come than in the past: from corpora- 
tions. 

"Our records at the Council," he explained, "show that in 
1954 Brown received $90,000 from corporation; in 1956, 
$179,000; in 1958, $321,000; and in 1959, $349,000. These 
are considerable sums: up from $90,000 to $349,000 in five 
years- — -a gain of 287%. But in comparison with gift income 
from other sources, it leaves a good deal to be desired. Only 
4.3% of Brown's total give in 1954 came from corporations; 
5.2%' in 1956; 9.4% in 1958; and back to 4.5% in 1959. 

A Greater Measure of Corporate Support 
"On a national basis, at the present time, corporation gift 
support is running about 16% of gifts from all sources for 
higher education. Our hope at the Council is that within the 
next few years, corporate voluntary giving to higher educa- 
tion can be increased to 25% of the total. 

"Business has had a 10-year trial at using corporate funds 



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for the voluntary support of higher education. The results 
have been very good. Hardly a major corporation in the 
United States has started an aid-to-education program that 
hasn't substantially increased it. In many instances starting 
levels have been increased 300 or 400%. Also, the increase in 
number of corporations with programs has been encouraging. 
Ten years ago not more than two or three thousand com- 
panies were doing anything: now there are at least 35,000 cor- 
porations with regularized annual aid programs." 

Dr. Sparks asserted that at least three "good, solid reasons 
stand up under hard-headed, critical analysis" when a corpora- 
tion justifies its benefactions to higher education: 

1 . A corporation gift dollar buys more education of any 
given quality, coaxing other gift dollars to join in. "Corporate 
giving has had a dramatic leverage" on other giving; every 
corporation gift dollar for higher education attracts at least 
five other gift dollars. 

Recogttiiion for Aid to Quality 

2. Corporation gift dollars increase the quality of educa- 
tion, because these dollars go to the educational institutions 
of greatest interest to the corporate donor. "Tax money, on 
the other hand," Dr. Sparks said, "is always distributed by 
formula. It tends to level down and even out, rather than to 
diversity and grade up. In no place is this more dramatically 
apparent than in Russia where their various categories of edu- 
cational institutions are as alike as peas in a pod." 



3. The corporation gift dollar gets more recognition. "It 
is doubtful if anyone in the audience was ever thanked for 
being a big taxpayer, or if he ever thanked anyone else for 
being a big taxpayer. Yet all who have ever given as much as 
$100 to a college or university have been thanked profusely." 
He said that American industry is paying out seven or eight 
times as much in taxes for the support of higher education as 
it is contributing voluntarily to the support of higher educa- 
tion. "It gets absolutely no recognition for what it pays in 
taxes, yet it is acclaimed from coast to coast for what it is 
doing voluntarily." Moreover, voluntary corporate support 
of higher education will help America "by keeping education 
diverse, strong, and independent." 

In his introduction. Dr. Sparks said: "Henry Wriston was 
just getting his seven-league boots broken in as President of 
Brown when I went to Wabash College as President in 1941. 
I became very much aware of him at once. Some years later, 
when the Council for Financial Aid to Education was organ- 
ized, we were both charter members of its Board of Directors. 
George Valentine Kendall, Brown '12, was Dean of the 
Faculty of Wabash during my 15 years there. My awareness 
of Barnaby Keeney and my acquaintance with him have sus- 
tained and heightened my respect for this great institution of 
learning." 

President Keeney presided over the concluding luncheon 
on Saturday. Recipient of many an introduction before Brown 
gatherings, he showed he could make a good one himself. 



THE KIDS: They had a ball, too" 



We've rather lost our ability to estimate the ages of 
children accurately. But these two with their parents on 
College Hill during the Alumni Leadership Conference in 
August were very young. One was so young in fact that some- 
body had to help push the meat and potatoes into him at meal- 
time. The other, a stranger old enough to handle his own tools, 
opened the conversation: "I see you're off baby food." 

The teen-agers got to know each other quickly, too, and 
agreed "we're having a ball." Cokes, record-players, places to 
dance or talk in their own lounge, and a lively program in- 
doors and outdoors helped. They even had a session with 
Admission Officers from Brown and Pembroke about im- 
proving their chances for college. 

In all, 212 boys and girls accompanied their parents to the 
Hill, for the invitation to make this a family affair had been 
in earnest and cordial. This meant some unusual orders for 
the Brown Purchasing Office: diapers, baby oil, jump ropes, 
see-saws, rubber sheets, coloring books, snow fences for play 
areas. It meant a carefully planned and supervised program 
that included bathing, feeding, and keeping them happy while 
the fathers and mothers attended the serious business of the 
Leadership Conference. Youngest present was aged five 
months. 

Each family with a child under 14 was housed on the Pem- 
broke Campus. The children had breakfast with the family, 
but that was the last some of them saw of the grown-ups until 
they awoke the next morning. A staff of 25 under Miss Bessie 
Rudd and Mrs. Byron Stapelton took over, with play groups, 
story hours, games, crafts, and singing. A platoon of baby- 
sitters was on duty until the parents returned from the evening 
activities. For the older young there was a view of the eclipse 



of the moon at Ladd Observatory, a costume party, a talent 
show, tours of the Campus, a visit to the Indian Museum in 
Bristol, and a big picnic at Brown's Haffenreffer property on 
the shore of Mount Hope Bay that included a swim. 

The supervisers, many of them fresh from camp counseling 
and summer teaching jobs, had, they admitted, quite a work- 
out. But everything went through without a hitch. The three 
nurses with around-the-clock duty in the Pembroke infirmary 
had few problems. We mention only one: a little girl with a 
stomach-ache. What had she had to eat? "Nothing special. 
Just what everybody else had at the picnic: Five cokes (to be 
specific), six hot dogs, one or two sandwiches, three bags of 
potato chips, and four pieces of watermelon — a little of every- 
thing." 

Brown expressed its gratitude to churches, civic groups, and 
schools which lent cribs, playpens, high chairs, and other 
furniture not normally found within the University's walls. 

Like everyone who attended the Conference, the youngsters 
said everything had been "wonderful." Most accepted the 
hospitality without studying its completeness, but one six- 
year-old was given her badge when her family registered. 
Pleased, she inspected it, looked up at the girl at the desk, 
and asked: "How did you know my name?" 

Largest family group was that fathered by Edward K. Gol- 
rick '47, which numbered eight. Less verifiable than this fact 
was the story told by Vice-President Elmendorf, who said 
Mrs. Stapelton had read in the newspapers about a mother 
who had just had her 16th child. She is alleged to have 
checked to see whether or not this family was registered as 
coming. 

* If you don't believe us, turn the page. 



OCTOBER 1961 



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' WHAT DO THEY WANT with cribs and playpens at Brown?" 



"WELL, YOU SEE, it was a family party. Of course, we're 
too old for cribs, but there were some little kids there." 




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THE CHILDREN FOLLOWED THE LEADERS 
to the Leaders' Conference at Brown in August. 



"SO WE MOVED 

INTO THE DORMS 

over at Pembroke 

for the three days." 




OCTOBER 1961 



21 




"WE WERE TOGETHER for a family breakfast . . ." 

". . . BUT WE LEFT THE FOLKS afterward for our own fun.' 




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"COME ON IN. 
It's fun in here." 




"DECISIONS, Dt?CI 



:isiONS. 



"LET'S TRY IT this way.' 





"LET'S GO, MEN." 



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"BUDDY UP. Let's get in that salt water." 



THE WORD eventually got around 

that there was food at the picnic 

at the Hoffenreffer property. 




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"HE'S WHAT THEY CALL 

'the low man,' I guess." 

(At the HafFenreffer 

Indian Museum, Bristol.) 




"IS EVERYBODY HAPPY?" A little tired, perhaps, though. 




OCTOBER 1961 



25 



SHE WAS NANCY 
DUKE LEWIS 



THE Campus was not unprepared for the death of Dean 
Nancy Duke Lewis, for she had not left her home for 
many weeks. When death came on July 31, her friends (and 
who could count them?) had to face up to the same inevitable 
sorrow in a new way. 

At Commencement, most people knew why Miss Lewis had 
not been able to receive her honorary LL.D. with the others 
on The College Green. It would have been difficult to voice 
or hear the citation on that occasion, and we all read it by 
ourselves when it appeared in print: "In you, we honor the 
gentle strengths and wisdom shaping the growth of the Col- 
lege and the University to which you are so devoted, the 
wise and unobtrusive counsel helping us each to see the 
right course, and the charm and grace brightening our lives 
and our work. The effect of your ideas and your example on 
your students will endure, and will spread through them to 
generations you have not seen." The Latin passage ended 
with: "Hoc diploma in recognitione debiti et amoris nostri 
tibi rite trado." 

Manning Chapel was filled for the memorial service held 
on Aug. 2 when Chaplain Baldwin called Miss Lewis "a min- 
ister to all with whom she worked and lived." She was, he 
said, "an illustration of this life's great potential ... a faith- 
ful steward who wrought an increase in the gifts entrusted to 
her. In her, man's crying and laughing both had their rightful 
meaning. She had an openness to time and nature." Every- 
thing of which Dean Lewis was a part "will be the living 
memory of her life and work." She had had "no fear of 
novelty or change" during her 1 1 years as Pembroke's Dean, 
yet she was "certain to Thy leadings of the past." She ex- 
emplified "the fundamental reason to live the day and be 
glad," the Chaplain said. "She was so often the morning of 
our darkness." 

President Keeney had named Miss Lewis "Special Con- 
sultant to the University" in announcing her retirement last 
summer, shortly before Dr. Rosemary Pierrel was named her 
successor. At her death, he wrote this brief, poignant state- 
ment: "Dean Lewis was one of a handful of people upon 
whom the national educational community depended for 
ideas and inspiration. She was the focal point of Pembroke 
College and a steady strength in Brown University. Her 
warmth and kindness will forever be missed." 

Speaking for the Community 

A Providence Journal editorial was headed "Gracious and 
Beloved Educator." It said: 

"It is revealing that in the thick brown manila envelope that 
is the clipping file on the late Dean of Pembroke not a single 
story referred to her as Miss Nancy D. Lewis. She was Nancy 
Duke Lewis. Miss Lewis came from Lexington. Kentucky, 
and it is natural for Southern ladies to use both their given 
names. Southern lady she was, gracious and charming, as 
lovely as the Blue Grass country from which she came. 

"Trained as a mathematician. Miss Lewis knew that two 
and two make four. The hard discipline of her academic spe- 





cialty, combined with her Southern background, made her 
particularly valuable to Brown and Pembroke from the day 
she came among us in 1943. 

"When Henry M. Wriston was making Brown over and 
charting it in the direction of greatness, he selected Nancy 
Duke as his first deputy at Pembroke College. When Barnaby 
C. Keeney became President, the reliance upon Miss Lewis 
continued — for good reason, because she was committed, with 
all the rigidity of an algebraic formula, to the proposition that 
women should be educated. Not so rigid, however, was her 
belief in the sciences, for Nancy Duke, characteristically, was 
a Humanist. The whole person, trained, alert, capable of dis- 
charging responsibility in a complex world, was her mission, 
especially as that mission involved the young women who 
came to Pembroke during her deanship. 

"Pembroke is a finer college because she was there. Brown 
is a better university because she was there. At noon today 
in Manning Chapel during the memorial service for the Lady 
from Lexington, there will be gladness for her presence, sad- 
ness for her going." 

A Tribute for the Faculty 

Miss Lewis' close friend and associate. Assistant Dean 
Gretchen Tonks prepared and read the superb, sensitive min- 
ute which the Brown Faculty adopted at its first meeting in 
September: 

"Nancy Duke Lewis, fifth Dean of Pembroke College, 
died July 31, 1961. She had great courage; her physical 
strength waned, but her dignity remained uncompromised. 
Among the interwoven complexities of her nature ran the 
constant and richly colored thread of her loyalty to Brown 
University. The Faculty and the whole University community 
called forth from her unfailing devotion. Her finest years 
were spent on this Campus. 



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"She was born in Lexington, Kentucky, November 1, 1910, 
the daughter of the late William Logan Lewis and May Duke 
Lewis. Her upbringing and essence were Southern. She at- 
tended the University of Kentucky, concentrating in the field 
of mathematics. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and re- 
ceived her Bachelor's and Master's degrees from that institu- 
tion. She did further graduate work at Syracuse University, 
after which she accepted an administrative position at the 
Woman's College of the University of North Carolina. Six 
years later, in 1943, she came to Brown University to teach 
mathematics and to be Social Director at Pembroke College. 

"Pembroke quickly recognized the competence of Nancy 
Lewis" leadership and in 1948 she gave up teaching to become 
a full time administrator. The following year, she received a 
travel grant from the Carnegie Corporation to visit colleges 
and universities throughout the country to study their ad- 
ministrative and academic organization. This was the first 
such grant given to a woman by the Carnegie Corporation. 
In 1950, Nancy Duke Lewis was installed Dean of Pembroke 
College, succeeding Margaret Shove Morriss. 

A National Influence in Education 

"Dean Lewis served and influenced educational thought 
across the country. Her society memberships and offices re- 
flect her concern. She held several offices, both nationally and 
locally, in the American Association of University Women. 
She served as Chairman of the National Education Commit- 
tee of this organization. She was an active member of the 
American Council on Education; her most recent contribution 
to this group was her work on its Problems and Policies Com- 
mission. She was a member of the Standing Committee of the 
New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. 
She was a Director of the Hazen Foundation. Nancy Lewis 
served both on the Committee on Qualifications and the Com- 
mittee on Nominations of Phi Beta Kappa. She was a mem- 
ber of the Board of Directors of the National Merit Scholar- 
ship Corporation. She contributed to the study on Financing 
Higher Education made by the Economics Department of 
McGraw-Hill Book Company. In 1960, she was elected 
Chairman of the American Conference of Academic Deans. 

"Here in Providence, she served as Trustee of the Mary C. 
Wheeler School and of the Rhode Island School of Design. 
She was a member of the Board of Directors of the Miriam 
Hospital, the Rhode Island Hospital, and the United Fund. 

"Dean Lewis received honorary Doctor of Laws degrees 
from Muhlenberg College, Wheaton College, and the Woman's 
College of the University of North Carolina, and an honorary 
Doctor of Humane Letters from Tufts University. This past 
June, Brown University awarded her an honorary Doctor of 
Laws degree. The University of Kentucky honored her with 
a citation on the occasion of its Founder's Day, as did the 
leading citizens of the City of Providence at the time of this 
City's 325th anniversary. 

"As Nancy Duke Lewis lived her years on the Brown cam- 
pus, she set forth an educational credo with far reaching 
impact. She constantly encouraged capable young women to 
seek a rich intellectual life. She exhorted them from her desk 
in Pembroke Hall, from the lectern in Alumnae Hall, and 
from the halls of colleges and universities throughout the 
United States, and, perhaps most graciously of all, by the 
example of her own life. 

"She saw no conflict between the traditional role of women 
as wives and mothers, and the role of women in search of 



advanced scholarly degrees. She could not countenance the 
waste of intellectual talent; she eagerly urged brilliant women 
to seek professorships and just as eagerly she encouraged col- 
leges to employ women professors. Her most meaningful 
demonstration of this principle was her own final bequest to 
give support to a Woman Professor on the Brown Faculty. 
(The Pembroke Student Government Association has added 
$100 to this fund.— Ed.) 

"A considerable part of a Dean's time is spent in direct 
leadership of her students. Nancy Duke Lewis met the chal- 
lenge forthrightly. She was dedicated to academic excellence 
and insisted that Pembroke students perceive the fruits of 
scholarship. She was determined that no girl would leave this 
Campus unshaken or unenriched. Her counsel to her students 
was well defined: it was kind, it was firm, and it was fair. 
She tempered discipline with understanding. She augmented 
wisdom with love. She cared deeply for her undergraduates, 
and from them she drew happiness. Who can forget seeing 
her walk, with her beloved dog, these familiar Brown streets, 
stopping often to greet her students, and to enter with them, 
for a moment, their sunlit, book-laden lives? 

"Nancy Duke Lewis possessed uncommon administrative 
skill. Her mathematical perception led her quickly to the 
heart of a problem. She chose her pathway of decisions provi- 
dently. It was here that her combination of talents was most 
effectively joined. She brought to her task not only keen 
judgment, but also unaffected charm. Her staff willingly bent 
to her persuasion. Her colleagues, at Pembroke and on the 
Hill, were her friends. She bestowed upon them trust, and 
they returned her confidence. Her staff shared with her a 
family-like devotion to their common venture. At no time dur- 
ing her administration was the person of Nancy Duke Lewis 
received with less than profound respect. Her word was 
honor. 

Brown Was "The Home of Her Friends" 

"Pembroke College and Brown University were the step- 
pingstones to her greatness. The University was the frame- 
work from which she exerted her intellectual talents; it was 
the source of her dreams; and it most surely was the home of 
her friends. Nancy Duke Lewis brought country-wide emi- 
nence to Pembroke College. Her works distinguished her 
name and her College. 

"Dean Nancy Duke Lewis, an erect and proud figure, was 
a gentle lady of fine taste and manner. Her person was a 
picture of feminine loveliness. Her voice, rich in tone, carried 
soft sounds of the South. Her terse wit underlay her briefest 
conversation and it scored her oratory with interest. Nothing 
dry or dusty ever left her lips. She lightened her remarks with 
slyly implanted humor. And all of her spoken words were 
offered in elegant prose. 

"Nancy was apart from much of this world. She did not 
permit herself to be caught up in nonsense. She disliked 
random rushes or slip-shod performances. She was cautious 
and calm. She drew her satisfaction from planned progress. 
Her actions were selective and her thinking incisive. Her goal 
was always excellence. She enjoyed intellectual conquest and 
quickened to its winning. 

"The spectrum of Nancy Duke Lewis' talents was broad. 
She was an intellectual, curious and probing. She was a 
leader, wise and exciting. She was a dignified human being, 
reverent and unpretending. And most memorable to us who 
have known her, she was a sweet and trusted friend." 



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UNUSUAL (BUT WELCOME) guests on the summer Campus. 




AT THE MEEHAN AUDITORIUM, on one of the loors. 



ON PEMBROKE'S CAMPUS, where families were quartered. 




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AUGUST AUDIENCES 

Back on the Hill for the Amazing Conference 




SOME OF THE 800 in Sharpe Refectory at mealtime, above. Below, mornings and afternoons in Sayles Hall. 




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A Pigeonhole 
or the Roost? 



Is THE Professor too much concerned with his pigeonhole 
at the expense of the whole roost? Does his teaching suffer 
because of his other responsibility as a research scholar? How 
can education have unity when broken up into so many 
specialties? Where does the breadth and humanity come from 
which the world looks for in the college graduate? 

Such questions provided lively topics for discussion when 
"The Humanities at Brown" had their innings at the Alumni 
Leadership Conference in August. Actually, the social sciences 
were admitted to their company, for the four Departments 
in the social studies were represented on the panel along 
with spokesmen for the 12 Departments in the humanities. 

The Sayles Hall group consisted of: Dr. John Rowe Work- 
man, Chairman of the Department of Classics, moderator; Dr. 
Edward A. Bloom, Chairman of the Department of English; 
Maurice L. Clemence '34, Director of the Kendall Company; 
Dr. Robert O. Schulze, Assistant Professor of Sociology and 
Assistant Dean of the College; Dr. Merton P. Stoltz, Chair- 
man of the Department of Economics and Assistant Dean of 
the Graduate School; and Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr., '32; 
President of Trans-World Airlines. Both Tillinghast and 
Clemence are Brown Trustees. 

"Conflicts of Interest" in Academe 

The latter challenged the panel at the outset when he asked 
why the curriculum had to be broken into so many fragments? 
Didn't Departments become compartments? Was their au- 
tonomy consistent with unified programs? Wasn't the frag- 
mentation of the curriculum a denial of humanism? Were not, 
in fact, the loyalties to the various disciplines as much of a 
problem as "conflicts of interest" in business? What provided 
a unity of concept in the study of man, his dignity, his 
wholeness? 

Professor Stoltz admitted the problem. The charge had been 
made that the American Professor was so deeply involved in 
specialization that he was losing his ability to communicate. 
Nevertheless, Dr. Stoltz aligned himself with the specialists. 
The real danger was not in lack of communication but the 
rigidity of university structures. Actually, specialization had 
brought its reward in the unification of branches of knowledge 
hitherto regarded as isolated. The next step was to utilize the 
fruits of specialization by rearranging departmental lines to 
exploit the unity. 

Departments were administrative devices for budgeting pur- 
poses, in one sense; they were not stone walls, Dr. Stoltz 
asserted. Moreover, Brown University had plans in motion to 
realign the barriers and get on with the main business. He 
pointed to "the discovery that Physics and Chemistry were 
one and the same, that Biology and Chemistry were one and 
the same." He spoke of a group of linguists, social anthro- 
pologists, statisticians, and computer experts all concerned 
with one problem. In the face of trends like these, "Depart- 



mental rigidities will become a barrier to the diffusion and ex- 
pansion of knowledge." 

Needs and Myths in Business 

Mr. Tillinghast was interested in the validity that the 
humanities had in the eyes of business. Business could find 
plenty of people with intelligence, initiative, and industry; but 
such people reached a level of responsibility where such 
simple (or complex) virtues were not enough, nor was techni- 
cal training. Essential to business success (and to emotional 
well being) were wisdom, judgment, and understanding, the 
ability to deal with new situations, to synthesize, to decide. 

"There is a myth in business," he said, "that decisions are 
made on the basis of careful study. But, as we push to new 
frontiers characterized by unknowns and variables, this be- 
comes less likely. Studies notwithstanding, we must rely on 
the judgment, imagination, and objectivity of the ultimate 
decider." What kind of education would fit one for such top 
responsibility? What background would nourish such quali- 
ties? The humanities, he felt, for they played a major part in 
developing the integrated personality. 

Professor Bloom returned to the earlier theme with the 
statement that any discipline dedicated to the pursuit of truth 
could not be impugned as long as it was loyal to such a concept. 
"Partitions or fractation of learning become simple realism. 
Ideally, every university would have a Faculty of truly com- 
prehensive men, each able to assimilate every branch of 
knowledge. But a major aspect of the enlightened man is his 
capacity to apply his reason, not only to the fate of other 
creatures but of himself. 

"He must know his limitations. He must know that very 
few, including himself, can cope with the complexities of all 
knowledge. It was therefore logical and sound that a Faculty 
man should develop what is within his own capacity and 
enthusiasm, and communicate his discoveries to his students 
and his peers. To become a specialist within one discipline 
does not imply a rejection of other disciplines; nor is there 
serious reason to believe that hostility exists between disci- 
plines. 

The Specialist's Loyalty to His Students 

"Humanism deals with the whole man, whose foundation 
is integrity. Integrity means completeness but also connotes 
honesty and conscience. To deny one's own limitations is 
neither honest nor conscientious. To presume a comprehensive 
grasp of all knowledge is an aberration of the intellect. Brown- 
ing said that 'man's reach should exceed his grasp.' This is 
the difference, of course between perfection and perfectibility. 
Enlightened man aspires to all knowledge but knows he can 
never attain it. Therefore, it is better to be an authority in 
one field and do what he can with others than to have bits 
and scraps of imperfect knowledge from many fields and 
communicate that sense of inadequacy. 

"The 'specialist' (and I put that in quotes) is loyal to the 
University and to his students. He is not more concerned 
with his own pigeonhole than with the entire roost. I see no 
'conflict of interest' at all in the intensive concentration whose 
aim is truth." 

The Chairman had said in his introduction that one of 
Brown's cherished possessions is an absence of Faculty cliques. 
"There are no power squadrons in Departmental shelters 
taking pot shots at enemies. There are no cabals, tongs, and 
coteries here dissipating their strength in forays of this sort." 



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Professor Schulze was glad that the "relative smallness" of 
Brown sometimes forced a specialist to teach outside of his 
specialty. The structure of the University and its curriculum 
demands that be become a generalist, through tackling "a 
big, naively put, even sophomoric proposition which is often 
at the same time significant." Not every demographer in his 
Department, for example, could give courses in population; 
some had to deal with the family, social classes, or the struc- 
ture of American society. "At first glance, this might not seem 
profitable, but it has a fruitful effect on my colleagues, and 
it's good for the students." Thus was resolved a "conflict of 
interest" between the Professor's responsibility to his profes- 
sion as a research scholar and his responsibility as a teacher. 

Mr. Clemence said he had begun by discussing the problem 
which universities had of pulling together the disciplines so 
as to give a breadth despite the autonomy of Departments. 
Brown, he felt, had a basic unity of purpose; therein lay one 
of its great strengths. 

Dr. Workman reminded his audience of the Latin inscrip- 
tion on the Van Wickle Gates which was applicable to the 
humanities. He translated: "These studies contribute nourish- 
ment to youth, are the pleasure of old age, an ornament for 
prosperity, a refuge and comfort in time of adversity. They 
are a delight at home and no hindrance abroad. They are 
companions at night and in travel and even while you are tak- 
ing a week end at your villa in the country." 



The Physical Sciences 

(Continued from page 9) 

tripling in 10 years). "That is a rough picture of how we fit 
in the general trend of population increase and the greater 
importance given to the need for educated people in the 
physical sciences." 

Professor Nace believed that Brown had a "strong point" 
in its refusal to have one Faculty to teach undergraduates 
and another to teach graduate students; the same Faculty 
member, he said, may teach Freshmen and graduate students, 
even in the same semester. "Many undergraduates respond 
to the presence of a first-rate scientist in the classroom, 
communicating his enthusiasm to them. This is not true of 
many great universities where a great scientist may never 
see an undergraduate. Actually, teaching undergraduates 
keeps a Faculty member alive and fresh. Nothing is more 
stimulating than a class of Freshmen." 

Too Much Time Given to Consulting? 

Mr. Watson said he wasn't worried about Government 
support: if the administration of a university was right, then 
Government support could not really control or influence a 
university any more than private support could. 

"But I am bothered," he said, "about the relationship of 
research and engineering to the liberal arts — and the balance 
between a Professor's time in teaching and doing the research 
he has to do to keep bright and sharp and challenging to his 
students. And I am further concerned about the amount of 
time he devotes to outside consulting with industry. We all 
know of great institutions which have become so research- 
minded they've become research factories. While it's wonder- 
ful to be able to accept tremendous responsibility from Gov- 
ernment and industry, the amount of research undertaken may 



make a university lose sight of its fundamental dedication 
to the training of scientists and teachers. Brown will watch 
this, I know, as its research program unfolds further. 

"I'm particularly disturbed," Mr. Watson continued, "by 
the Professor who has taught his class and made a brilliant 
presentation and then, during the question period, is mes- 
merized by the fact that he has a plane ticket in his pocket 
and an appointment in Akron, where he must rush to keep 
up the consultative part of his operation." Teaching salaries 
were so low that many brilliant research people couldn't 
resist the temptation to augment their income in outside con- 
sultation. This has to be watched, or you have "part-time 
professors who are actually industrial consultants," the IBM 
President said. 

"A university has to decide what it wants to do and is set 
up to do; then, despite outside influences or temptation, you 
do not do more in research simply because you can get more 
of it to do. Like a juggler, the administration keeps a lot of 
balls in the air; every new undertaking is like having another 
ball thrown in from the wings. One reason most of us are 
tremendously proud of Brown is the fact that it has a strong 
administration, which keeps all the balls in the air without 
fouling up the act. 

Brown Should "Pick Its Spots" 

"What kind of a science program, then, do we want at 
Brown? Our University becomes more and more of an in- 
tellectual jewel. The size of a jewel is not as important as its 
color and brilliance. We hope to see Brown continue to shine. 
For this, it has to have better research facilities but in proper 
balance. It must pick its spots in the sciences, limiting its 
program in research to those areas it can handle well and 
excel. In those it should be the best in the country. Brown 
has the administrative strength to insist on this and the Faculty 
strength to carry it out." 

The Chairman got a sympathetic laugh when he said he was 
happy Mr. Watson had mentioned the temptation to overdo 
outside research. If there was any danger that this would get 
out of hand at Brown, the solution was obvious: Pay the 
Faculty more. He went on: 

"But why, in the first place, do we want research in a uni- 
versity? As Dr. Drucker suggested, we are not interested in 
becoming a research institute. Anyone with credentials as 
a scientist can raise money in this space age. But at Brown 
we're interested in research as it bears on education; research 
in a university is education. The Professor doesn't take it 
on as a hobby or as amusement, though he may find it en- 
joyable. He does it with graduate students, postdoctoral stu- 
dents, and even undergraduates — this is teaching. Such ac- 
tivity brings together in the lab someone who knows with 
someone who is just learning to fly. Science education is 
least efficient when it means merely standing up and giving 
a lecture." 

The Unwritten Rule on Consulting 

"On this matter of consulting," Dr. Drucker resumed, "it's 
important for people on the Engineering Faculty to have 
direct contact with people in industrial firms in order to under- 
stand the problems which the latter face. After all, you might 
say that Engineering is the application of science on the 
welfare of mankind. 

"Most of our Engineering staff do some consulting, but we 
keep it as a secondary part of one's activity. The unwritten 



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rule at Brown is that we do not commit ourselves to more 
than four days a month in consulting activity. While this is 
valuable, within limits, one should not be conditioned by the 
need to earn that extra money. One institution got into 
serious difficulty during the period when new men joining the 
staff were told they were expected to double their salaries by 
consulting activity (this became so bad that policy was 
changed). We have to keep a watch on over-consulting, but 
consulting per se is not bad." 

Mr. Watson agreed. If one worked wholly within the 
campus, one couldn't "spread one's self across the spectrum 
of what is happening in the world." But he had a plan: "I'll 
advance it and then be thrown out of the hall. First, pay all 
Professors at Brown a salary commensurate with their total 
ability and effort (as we're not able to do at the moment). 
Second, all consulting fees would feed back into the Uni- 
versity treasury. I know that, if I were on a Faculty salary, 
had a flair for consulting and yet loved university life, I'd 
raise my salary by outside consulting and just keep that foot 
on the campus. Few Professors feel this way," he admitted, 
"but I do." ("This, perhaps, is why you are not a Professor," 
suggested Dr. Drucker, to the amusement of his fellow 
panelist and the audience.) 

Adverting to the matter of Government support of research. 
Professor Nace said: "I happen to believe that the universities 
are the last true refuge of freedom of inquiry. At the moment, 
the sciences are wealthy, or at least well to do." 

"I'm worried," Professor Drucker interposed, "by the 
suggestion that the sciences are wealthy ard the rest of the 
disciplines are poor. Let's say, rather, that the sciences are 
poor and the rest poverty-stricken." 

"In defense of Professors who go away," the Chairman 
added, "I would remark that I always seem to get involved 
in things which don't pay me anything." 

Research Money for the Htimanities, Too? 

"This is heretical for a physical scientist to say," Dr. Nace 
went on, "but the humanities and the social studies need 
support for research, too. Now, the only big source left us is 
Government support. As Dr. Keeney says, before action, we 
need a consensus to approve it. At the moment, the public 
consensus wants support of science and health programs; it 
is not yet willing to back the quest for knowledge in general 
in the humanities and social studies. (See what happened to 
the bills for education.) I hope some day soon such a con- 
sensus will be reached. In the meantime, rather than have the 
Government support science and public health studies di- 
rectly. I would prefer Government support of universities. 
Then let the university administration decide which depart- 
ments and which people need support and act accordingly." 

Professor Lee agreed that the broad view of support for all 
education would be the most efficient. "But the circumstances 
under which we function at the moment, it is worth pointing 
out that the support now given science directly does in fact 
help the University as a whole: it relieves the University of 
certain costs which it would otherwise have to accept. 

"Take the situation with respect to graduate students. 
Few of them come able to pay with their own education for 
their further education; most are supported. In Applied Math- 
ematics, we take all the fellowship money allotted us by the 
University and give it to first-year graduate students. This 
lets them study full time, take a full program of courses, 
and so concentrate on preparation for the next step. In the 



"There is no point in kidding 

ourselves nor in being modest. " 



following year, while they are working on their theses, it is 
possible to have them paid as research assistants. Thus we can 
use the free money for fellowships most efficiently. Sponsored 
research makes this possible. A large graduate program (we 
have something like 40 graduate students in Applied Mathe- 
matics) can function effectively with very little drain on the 
over-all resources of the University, thanks to grants for 
research." 

Do7i't Get the Idea We're Wealthy 

"To show you the limits of support for 'wealthy science,' 
let me make a point," Dr. Drucker said. "You've seen the 
Heavy Engineering Lab going up. A good deal of the equip- 
ment here and in the Engineering-Physics Building will come 
from ARPA money (by a good deal, I mean a quarter or 
a fifth). But a million, perhaps a million and a half, must 
be raised to equip these buildings. There are no Federal 
programs in sight which will give anywhere near a fraction 
of this amount of money." 

Dr. Morse was glad this point had been made: "The pur- 
pose of this meeting is not to tell people how rich we are, or 
how well to do. If you need proof, look in on Wilson Hall 
where the Physics Department is. We'd very much like to 
have you see where we do our Physics. It would impress on 
you the fact that your building is not the most important 
thing in science or in a university. But somewhere you have 
to have the proper building — and Brown is seeing to that 
now. Our new buildings will give Brown a tremendous boost 
in the physical sciences." 

Mr. Watson fed the panel a leading question at this point. 
He asked what the areas were in which Brown "can really 
shine." It was late in the session to offer a comprehensive 
inventory — there are so many programs that would demon- 
strate such strength. But Dr. Morse undertook an answer in 
general terms rather than specific: 

"In developing any program, you start with people," he 
said. "Where the future of Brown lies is where the people we 
have and will hire take us. You shouldn't hire because you 
want to get stronger in an area; you hire the most exciting 
men you can find. 

When Research Is "Fabulously Expensive" 

"If you will look in the various Departments, you will see 
that things change as personnel changes. There are, however, 
subjects in which you'd have to make a decision. The realities 
of life are such that, if you promote research in a certain 
area, you get into a very expensive proposition. Say, in 
Physics, the frontier (and it might be a dead end — you don't 
know) is the so-called high energy physics. It deals with the 
strange particles created by those large accelerators — mezons 
and curious things you don't quite understand. 

"Well, should you go into this? We made the decision in 
our Department years ago: you have to go into it, you have 
no choice. If you pretend to be a university, you have to have 
this program here. It turns out that such research is so 
fabulously expensive that it proves you have to have Gov- 
ernment support somewhere in science. There are only two 
or three machines in the world which produce the basic in- 



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formation on mezons. These machines cost roughly $100,- 
000,000 apiece and require an annual budget of 105 to 
run them. You can't finance this in one university; you can't 
go to the alumni and say we need 100 millions to learn about 
mezons. No industry could convince its stockholders of the 
value of such investment — it might not lead to anything of 
profit. Yet someone has to do it. So the universities took it 
on, and Brown went in, too. 

"The thing becomes possible through collaboration. Thus 
at Brookhaven you find large machines owned jointly by a 
collection of universities. Our people spend summers down 
there; often a man will spend a year there. He builds his 
equipment at Brown, takes it down, does his experiments, 
comes back, analyzes the results, and discusses them with his 
associates. Another big machine is being built in Cambridge, 
where our group is collaborating in making the bubble 
chamber (the measuring equipment in it). We have to make 
choices like that. 

"Could we be good in this area? It's hard to say. The 
university which has the machine is in the best position to 
be good. For instance, if Stanford gets a big accelerator (as it 
is going to), this puts Stanford in a unique position. Other 
universities which might share in this have to be very clever 
to look better than Stanford does. It is possible, because being 
clever is more important than the machine. 

"There is, then, no clear answer to Mr. Watson's question. 
You don't deliberately push things; you push people. Some- 
times you make decisions on basic areas and then look for 
the best people. It's interesting, by the way, that at Brown we 
can find good people to hire." 

Why tfie Emphasis on Materials Research? 

Mr. Watson was not wholly satisfied: "Does your balance 
of Engineering budget indicate areas of great effort?" 

"Yes," Professor Drucker responded. "One great effort has 
been in materials science, where the program will be doubled 
as the result of the ARPA grant. Now, we didn't set this 
up as an area to become proficient in. We gathered a number 
of people, actually in different Departments, and let them 
work on what they wanted to work on. It turned out by some 
chance to be materials science. People over the country had 
gotten together and decided to label their field. They called 
it materials science — a wonderful thing to do because they 
convinced the Government that the number one priority in 
the country was to improve the situation in materials science. 
This was easy to do because, you see, no one knew quite what 
it was. They found it very good. 

"What Bob Morse said is exactly right: You pick people. 
They automatically do the things that need doing — that is. 
if they're good people, they're doing the good things. And 
Brown will be getting a reputation in their fields of work. If 
you compare what Brown was doing 10 or 15 years ago with 
what it is doing today, you may find it quite different. Even 
with the same people, the broad areas may be the same but 
entirely different in detail; and sometimes even the areas have 
changed. 

"What makes Brown remarkable in all areas is the high 
uniquality you find. Everyone at Brown is a real contributor 
to the forward progress of science or engineering — I believe 
this is true to a great extent. With possibly one exception, no 
other university can say this. The answer, then, is to have a 
high uniquality and then let the people do what they like." 

"I hope," Dr. Lee observed, wrily, "that our audience 



won't infer that materials science is just a gimmick. For it is 
accurate to say that the limitations of materials are a major 
limitation upon the development of technology. It is essential 
to go beyond the classical study of the developed technology. 
This realization was behind the whole concept, quite apart 
from the fact that a group wanted to promote it." ("I was 
exaggerating to make a point," Dr. Drucker said. "Four of 
us here on the platform are all, in one sense or another, ma- 
terial scientists." "So are most of you," Dr. Morse said to 
the audience.) 

Dr. Nace did not want us to be surprised by new ventures in 
science. "There is an area which I hope will become one of 
strength at Brown, though it does not yet exist," he said. 
"This is the area of biochemistry or molecular biology. One 
of the new directions in organic chemistry is the chemistry 
of biological systems. We've been told about the coming 
medical program at Brown, with research as an arm. We shall 
find as a result that we shall be hiring men with strong 
biochemical interests. Will it mean a new Department? Cer- 
tainly there is closer cooperation between chemistry and 
biology. The physical sciences and health sciences may be 
losing their meaning as terms quite rapidly." 

Professor Lee did not want to leave the topic of Govern- 
ment and industry without a final comment: "We must 
achieve a proper balance of effort between the laboratories of 
Government and industry with those of the universities. It 
is essential that an appreciable number of the best people 
end up in the universities. 

How to Attract the Best People 

"The means whereby people drift into occupations vary 
as circumstances change. For example, after the Korean War 
there was a great demand on the part of industry for applied 
mathematicians. The pay for people just finishing their Ph.D.'s 
increased rapidly. Few went on into university work — -they 
just couldn't take the factor of two or so in salaries they 
would have had to accept to stay in the universities. Since 
that time, the situation has improved, of course, with the 
result that an appreciable number go on into university re- 
search. 

"But the whole question goes back further. It is important 
to consider the support of undergraduate education, too. Our 
best young people must be financed so that they may devote 
their full time as undergraduates to study. When they grad- 
uate, they must not have become so burdened with debts that 
they cannot make the choice to do graduate work and uni- 
versity work. It is a diflScult choice when scientists with their 
first degree are offered three times as much as they can get 
in fellowships for further study (perhaps $2000 and tuition). 
Debts already assumed complicate this serious choice. We 
need to help the undergraduates who show promise." 

The Chairman summed things up: "Since this is a family 
gathering," he said. "There is no point either in kidding our- 
selves or in being modest. The physical sciences at Brown are 
strong, and most people in them believe this. Alumni will 
share this conviction, if they are not too conditioned to the 
Ivy football standings. The thing that most impresses anyone 
who is in the sciences at Brown is the liveliness of it all; 
there's a sense that it's really going somewhere. This feeling 
will crystallize much more in the next two or three years with 
the new buildings. Much of it has been subterranean and 
spread around. If we succeed with our building program, 
Brown will have tremendous assets for the future."-/ 



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33 



Is FM in its future? 



WBRU after 25 years 



By WILLIAM L. FISHMAN '62 

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO this November, two members of 
the class of 1940, George Abrahams and David Borst, 
devised a simple carrier current system which they used to 
send voice and music broadcasts into neighbors' radios. Thus 
began, in Hope College, the first continuously successful 
carrier current radio station in the country — WBRU. 

In the intervening years WBRU has had many ups and 
downs, but today the radio voice of Brown University is a 
proud, self-sufficient and successful station. Our studios are 
located on the third floor, west wing, of Faunce House. We 
have a news room equipped with a United Press Teletype- 
writer, an auditorium-type studio, and a control room, replete 




DICK WALTON '51 now broadcasts to Africa for "Voice of America.' 



with all the inscrutable gadgetry of modern radio. We pro- 
gram 18 hours daily of music, news, features, and sports. 

As a fledgling organization, before and during the war, 
primary emphasis lay in getting out some kind of music 
and campus chitchat to people whose radios were close 
enough to receive the weak signal. Today we run a radio 
station which is not only one of the largest and most popular 
undergraduate activities, but also a station which could, given 
the chance, compete easily with the best of independent radio 
anywhere in the country. 

Our expansion has been somewhat haphazard and not with- 
out occasional setbacks. There appears to be a cycle, generally 
indigenous to such undergraduate organizations, a cycle which 
both fascinates and disquiets the observer: a procession of 
capable people followed by a mediocre group, a group in turn 
succeeded by another strong wave, ad infinitum. 

The presence of sufficient funds to purchase and renovate 
suitable technical equipment has made it possible for us to 
operate a station equal or superior, technically, to many 
purely commercial day-timers. Thus we have the usual com- 
plement of tape recorders, turntables and the like. Only last 
year we purchased a Collins 250-watt transmitter which is 
now ensconced in the basement of Sears House in the Wriston 
Quad. From here it sends our signal to the West and Wriston 
Quadrangles, some old campus dorms, and to the Pembroke 
campus. 

The People Who Make BRU 

The nature of our constitution is such that we must restrict 
our personnel to those students who have demonstrated the 
ability to budget time wisely. Though there never has been, 
and never will be, any direct remuneration, the majority of 
our programmers learn in time to do a surprisingly good job. 
Frequently they are good enough to step from our studios into 
jobs in commercial radio. The startling number of people 
who have done just this, and have gone on to do outstanding 
work in radio, television, and allied fields, attests sufficiently 
to the value of the experience we can offer. 

Of course, many of the people who come to WBRU do not 
entertain the possibility of carving a career in such an area. 
For these people, the lure is often a desire to satisfy the 
peculiar craving the general public often evinces to go "be- 
hind the scenes" in this most fascinating of vocations. 

By now it is old hat to discuss the ever-rising standards of 
the undergraduate body at Brown. Yet it remains fascinating 
to watch the change taking place in the staff at the station 
over the course of four years. The would-be disk jockeys, 
technical men, and salesmen are far and away more talented, 
capable, and serious than they have ever been in the past. 

As the quality of the average student is improved, his 
goals within the station move upward. Rock and Roll, once 
in heavy demand by our listeners, is now severely restricted. 
At the same time. Nocturne, our nightly classical program, 
has been expanded both in program time and the concern we 
give to programming it. To facilitate intelligent selective 



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Were You Ever on BRU's Staff? 

COLLEGE RADIO Will be 25 years old this November. 
To celebrate WBRU's anniversary, and concur- 
rently, that of college radio in general, we have made 
extensive plans for the Homecoming weekend. We 
would very much like to have, as part of our festivities, 
a get-together of as many BRU alumni and friends as 
possible. 

Alumni coming to Brown for the weekend will merely 
have one more party to attend. If perchance you were 
not planning to be here, perhaps our plans will suggest 
a change of heart. If you would like to attend, please 
be good enough to drop a note to the station at box 
1149 or 591. Let us know, briefly, what your plans are 
for the weekend. We would like to arrange things to 
accommodate as many of you as possible. In your note 
give us some information on your undergraduate years 
at WBRU. If you cannot come, drop us a line any- 
how; we will be happy to hear from you, and will 
mail to you, on request, a copy of our program guide. 
We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible. 

WBRU 



listening, we have recently begun a program guide which, 
we hope, will prove a boon for the classical music audience. 
We have also started to tape many of the lectures and convo- 
cations which take place at inconvenient hours or locations. 
These tapes are then rebroadcast at a later date. We are at 
present purchasing new technical equipment, and expanding 
our training programs so that we may devote more of our 
program day to such material. 

FM in the Future for BRU? 

These trends have served to bring more clearly to mind 
the need and the desirability for a commercial FM station 
at Brown. WBRU is a member of the Ivy Network Corpora- 
tion, an organization composed of the eight undergraduate 
radio stations in the Ivy League. At present four such sta- 
tions, those at Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Cornell, are 
operating the kind of commercial FM outlet we are planning 
to build at Brown. These four stations, and many others 
throughout the country, have proven to be marvelously use- 
ful organs of cultural dissemination, not only to the university 
involved, but also to the community at large. Insofar as Brown 
is the cultural and intellectual center of Rhode Island, it seems 
fitting that such a station should be built here. The problems 
involved in securing a license and finding the necessary back- 
ing have proven to be mammouth, but we are moving ahead 
surely, if slowly. 

To describe WBRU in the terms I have heretofore em- 
ployed, is to paint a picture without color. The most striking 
thing :;.yOut our radio station is the emotional bond it engenders 
in its staff. This has been true from the very beginning. In 
conversations with WBRU alumni, one is struck by their 
eagerness to hear of the station, and by their willingness to 
render what assistance they can. Perhaps the most accurate 
way to commit such a feeling to paper is to say that to be 
active in WBRU, means, in a very fundamental sense, to be 
WBRU. 




"HE'S IN THE CLEAR 



. he has his hands on it 



he dropped it!" 



Our financial picture has always been a vaguely trouble- 
some one. It is perhaps this very austerity which is respon- 
sible for our unusually close bonds. We have never received 
any direct contributions from the University (this is a highly 
unique situation amcng college radio stations). Whi'e it would 
be foolish to suggest that we could not have used such sup- 
port, it is, I think, forgivable that we are arrogantly proud 
of our record of self-sufficiency. The funds necessary to 
operate the station come from sponsors, both local (solicited 
by our own business staff), and national (through the sales 
effort of the Ivy Network). 

This then, is a brief picture of WBRU, 1961. Our greatest 
pride is in the pioneering work we huve done for and in 
college radio. Our greatest hope is that one day soon we wil! 
be operating a high quality music and public affairs FM 
outlet, a service which will bring the best of Brown's cul- 
tural offerings to the entire Rhode Island community. Many 
of us, over the last 25 years, have put in long, tiring, un- 
heralded work at WBRU. Our satisfaction lies in the constant 
attempt to improve our abilities and in the obvious results 
thereof; our reward lies in the knowledge that the advance 
of our professional talents, while often considerable, is the 
least of what we have gained from our associations at WBRU. 



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35 



For a Brown Bookshelf 

EDITED BY ELMER M. BLISTEIN '42 



SOVIET MARXISM AND NATURAL 
SCIENCE, 1917-1932, by David Jorav- 
sky. Columbia University Press. 

PROFESSOR JoRAVSKY has not written a 
history of science in this volume. 
Rather, in his own words, "The focus 
here is on Soviet Marxist philosophy of 
natural science, as it developed in its first 
phase, from 1917 to 1932." It is also a 
catalogue of the philosophers and scien- 
tists who enter into this development. 
While a discussion of the contributions 
to science of such Russian scholars as 
Pavlov, A. F. loffe, or Otto Schmidt is 
lacking, there is a painstakingly careful 
pursuit of the concept of science in the 
minds of Marxists, beginning with Karl 
Marx himself, and following through 
Lenin and the 1917 Revolution down to 
the final date in the title. 

Two major poles of thought on this 
question developed in the Soviet Union 
during the 1920's. Each of these had its 
philosophical and scientific supporters; 
each claimed that its views were the only 
logical extension of the doctrines of 
Marx and Lenin. How they struggled 
with one another and what became of 
their struggles make up the major part 
of the volume. 

The first of the two schools was that 
of the mechanists, who held to a com- 
pletely mechanist explanation of the 
world — the "reduction" of all phenomena 
to more elementary constituents. Philos- 
ophy they considered to be a rather un- 
necessary subject. The opposition group 
bore the name of "Deborinites." after 
their leader, a former Menshevik, but by 
1920 a philosophy professor in good 
standing. Deborin accused the mechanists 
of being followers of the positivist Mach, 
whose name had always been anathema 
to communist philosophers, and main- 
tained the necessity of an overall philos- 
ophy for science, namely the materialistic 
interpretation of Hegel. 

In the end, both groups failed. TTie 
mechanists had a period of ascendancy 
until 1926; thereafter, the Deborinites 
succeeded in turning official opinion 
against them, the culmination being a 
formal denunciation of the mechanist 
viewpoint as a "right deviation" in 1929. 
The views of Deborin subsequently un- 
derwent severe criticism in 1930, and 
soon Stahn entered the hsts against him, 
from which attack there could be no ap- 
peal. From that point on, "Philosophers 
were exhorted to develop dialectical ma- 
terialism as the empirical philosophy that 
transcends both positivism and metaphys- 
ics. But the narrow partyness that tri- 
umphed . . . turned such exhortation into 
a cruel joke on the philosophers. In ef- 
fect, only the Party's chief had the right 
to develop dialectical materialism fur- 
thur." 

This reviewer regrets that the ultimate 



personal fate of many of the individuals 
involved has not been mentioned. Admit- 
tedly, the book is a history of ideas, but 
the general reader is also interested in 
the dramatis personae. The book is fur- 
thur handicapped by a very weak index. 
The 100 citations of Lenin and 50 of 
Deborin are of little help to the reader 
who would like to determine at what 
point Lenin endorsed Deborin's profes- 
sorial appointment. 

The dust jacket indicates that this text 
is the forerunner of an analysis of the 
Lysenko-Michurin controversy on genetics. 
It is to be hoped that the author will find 
it possible to make more concessions to 
the general reader in this second study. 
Such a book deserves to be read by a far 
wider circle of readers than the small 
group of specialists for whom the current 
volume makes its appeal. 

ROBERT T. BEYER 

The author is Assistant Professor of His- 
tory at Brown. In working on his book 
about Michitrinism, he has been aided by 
grants from the National Science Founda- 
tion, American Council of Learned Soci- 
eties, and the Russian Center at Harvard. 
The reviewer, a Brown physicist, has con- 
siderable insight into Russian science 
through encounters with its leaders here 
and abroad. 



"Thank God for Ben" 

Word that Prof. Ben C. Clough 
was in the hospital reached Quentin 
Reynolds '24 among others. Reyn- 
olds wrote to us at the time: "By a 
strange coincidence, I finished a 
book I've been working on for 
nearly a year at 4 o'clock this morn- 
ing. It is, of all things, my autobi- 
ography which I'm calling So Far — 
So Good. McGraw-Hill will pubUsh 
it in February. 

"I say it's a strange coincidence 
because I have two chapters on my 
life at Brown in it, and, naturally, I 
wrote a great deal about Ben 
Clough. As you get older, most 
heroes of your youth lose stature, 
but Ben Clough, who was my hero 
during my college days, seems to 
grow larger every year. It was he 
who encouraged me to write, and 
every time I do a book that is rea- 
sonable successful, I say to myself, 
"Thank God for Ben.' 

"I have just written him and 
mailed him the two chapters that 
concern Brown. He will, as always, 
be appalled at my bad grammar and 
bad speUing but may be amused by 
them." 

Professor Clough was making a 
nice recovery from his operation. 



THE ANATOMY OF GLORY: Napoleon 
and His Guard, a Study in Leadership. 
Adapted from the French of Henry 
Lachouque by Anne S. K. Brown. 564 
pages, illustrations. Brown University 
Press. $14. 

A monumental work in more than one 
respect. The Anatomy of Glory can be 
considered on several levels of interest: 
historical, psychological, and esthetic. 

Commandant Lachouque's narrative, 
based on 15 years' research, follows Na- 
poleon Bonaparte's military fortune from 
the coup d'etat on November 10, 1799 to 
his exile on Saint Helena in 1815. Inter- 
woven with this account, a history of the 
Imperial Guard shows the prominent part 
this elite Corps played throughout the 
Consulate and the Empire. Napoleon's 
genius as a strategist and tactician is 
brought out with singular clarity, while his 
political mistakes justify his own statement 
that he was a better general than Emperor. 

The gist of the book, however, is the 
answer it gives to the question posed by 
Mrs. Brown in her preface: "What is lead- 
ership?" Following the adage "There is no 
temple without a God, and no throne with- 
out a Guard," Bonaparte, some 18 days 
after his coup d'etat, created a military 
body whose soul he meant to be, while this 
Guard was meant to become the soul of 
his whole army. 

In order to assure himself of his Guard's 
complete devotion. Napoleon Bonaparte 
saw to it that the contradictory human 
longings for equality and distinction, glory 
and security, were in a measure satisfied. 
Strict regulations were applied to the selec- 
tion of the Guards and governed their 
behavior. This gave them assurance that 
justice was observed. On the other hand, 
individual deeds of valor received im- 
mediate reward, and pensions were given 
to the disabled. In order to preserve the 
men's dignity, they never were supposed 
to act as their superior's servants. For 
instance, it was forbidden for the Guards- 
men to care for an officer's horse or even 
hold its bridle. 

Since the Guard had to be set apart 
from the regular army, the matter of uni- 
forms received much atention and even led 
to extravagance. In addition to expensive 
cloth and good leather, extra finery in the 
form of gold braid and colorful plumes 
contributed to the Corps' prestige. A sub- 
stantial pay, almost twice as high as that 
of the Line, incited the men to consider 
themselves as elite troops and confirmed 
their esprit de corps. 

Even after Napoleon Bonaparte became 
Emperor, he kept admissions, promotions, 
and punishment under his personal super- 
vision. Frequently unscrupulous in politics. 
Napoleon was honest and direct with the 
Guardsmen. He demanded much from 
them but judged them from their perform- 
ance; his notebooks bear witness to his 
liberalities in their behalf from his own 
civil list. 

Even more important than justice, pres- 
tige, and rewards, was the conviction he 
instilled in them that they were not merely 
the instruments for the execution of his 
plans but were part of these plans in con- 



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stituting the elite of a Europe-to-be. Their 
deeds of valor therefore did not originate 
in a coercion artificially imposed upon 
them; they were required by a superior 
necessity, embodied by the Emperor, which 
led them to surpass themselves. There 
probably never was in the history of the 
world such a mystic fusion between a 
military body of men, over 10,000 strong, 
and their leader. 

The matchless quality of the illustra- 
tion, 173 plates of which 73 are in color, 
greatly enhances the value of this hand- 
some book. The color plates were made 
in Vienna in four and occasionally five 
colors with impressive technical skill. Most 
of them are reproduced from originals 
which belong to Mrs. John Nicholas 
Brown's world-famous collection of books 
and prints of military costumes. Seldom 
have illustrations better fitted a text. 

ALBERT J. SALVAN 

Mrs. Brown is the wife of Jolin Nicholas 
Brown, Fellow of Brown University. Her 
book is one of the first two Brown Uni- 
versity Bicentennial Publications. It is re- 
viewed by Professor Salvan of the French 
Department. 

THE CHARLES ILFELD COMPANY: A 
Study of the Rise and Decline of Mer- 
cantile Capitalism in New Mexico, by 
William J. Parish '29. Harvard Univer- 
sity Press. $10. 

This book presents a picture of the 
changing structure of business enterprise 
in the Southwest, from the days of the 
Santa Fe trail to present times. Both in 
its scope and its basis in the private papers 
of a dominating company, the work sug- 
gests the earlier work on the Brown Fam- 
ily Papers by Prof. James Hedges of 
Brown. By following the policies and ac- 
tivities of the Charles Ilfeld dynasty, Pro- 
fessor Parish describes in detail the transi- 
tions from budding to mature mercantile 
capitalism and, finally, to the present de- 
velopment of industrial capitalism. 

Professor Parish's colorful history chron- 
icles the replacement of the adventurous, 
cash-and-carry trader traveling with horse 
and wagon, by the sedentary merchant 
providing goods and sometimes credit over 
the counter. The sedentary merchant could 
also expand a retail business into wholesale 
trade with warehouses, in the case of the 
Ilfelds, storing groceries, feed, wool, dry- 
goods, hardware, and liquor, at various 
times and places. Warehouses, and thus 
trade, followed the railroads as trains to 
and from the East shifted trade areas. In 
1867 the Ilfelds moved from Taos to Las 
Vegas. Firmly committed to wholesahng 
by 1906, the Charles Ilfeld Company built 
its first central warehouse in the rapidly 
growing city of Albuquerque. 

The author also discusses the impact of 
prosperity and depression on the arid sheep 
areas and their effects on mercantile trade. 
He tells of the slow erosion of the founda- 
tions of mercantile capitalism which left 
the ruling business group ill prepared for 
the onslaught of specialists who gradually 
appropriated the general merchants' most 
profitable lines. A growing economy 
spurred on by military and atomic installa- 



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CARL C. CUTLER '03, who rounded Cape Horn in the crew of a square rigger as a young man, still 

slim and erect at more than 80 years, looks over Mystic Seaport. He helped establish it to preserve 

the record of America's maritime glory in the days of sail. His second book adds to their history, 

product of 40 years' research. (Hartford Times photo) 



tions made this development even more de- 
structive to the last of the great mercantile 
capitalists of New Mexico. 

The author is Professor and Dean of the 
College of Business Administration at the 
University of New Mexico. His book is 
Number 20 in the series of Harvard Stud- 
ies in Business History. 



Ocean Queens 

ALONG lifetime's LABOR of love has 
been completed with the publication 
of Queens of the Western Ocean. Writ- 
ing it (and its earlier companion volume. 
Greyhounds of the Sea) has occupied the 
spare time of Carl C. Cutler '03 for more 
than 40 years; he was at it virtually full 
time for the last eight years, since his re- 
tirement as Curator of Mystic Seaport. 

Cutler was one of the founders of the 
Marine Historical Society in Connecticut 
and its famous Museum. Last summer he 
saw Mystic's new Junior High School 
named for him. 

He and Mrs. Cutler live in a house 
which has been in her family for six gen- 
erations, but Cutler was a Midwesterner 
originally. He'd taken a fling at seafaring 
as a young man in 1898, voyaging around 
the Horn to New Zealand aboard the 
barque Alice and making other trips on 
British and American vessels. Even during 
his college days and law studies at Co- 



lumbia, he returned to sea on coasting 
ships. 

During his law and business career. 
Cutler devoted his spare time to showing 
how sea trade had shaped early America 
'■and its people. He picked up information 
wherever he could find it — in custom 
houses, newspaper offices, and libraries. 
About 100,000 reference cards hold the 
gleanings of his research. 

By 1930, his book on the clipper ships 
was ready for publication, and the U.S. 
Naval Institute bought it out. But there 
was so much more to the story of mercan- 
tile shipping that he felt impelled to go 
on with his work. Both books are now is- 
sued in the same format: big handsome 
volumes full of prints and photographs 
(he once saw a picture of the Alice in a 
Mystic photographer's window). 

Theodore L. Holden, Literary Editor of 
the Hartford Times, says: "However many 
of these books are sold at $12.50 each or 
$20 for the pair, they will never repay 
Mr. Cutler for the years of research and 
writing he has given. Everyone who loves 
ships will feel a deep gratitude for his 
great service." 

Writing to his classmate Robert Forster 
when his book came out in July, Cutler 
said: "Just made it. Bob, under jury rig 
and all hands at the pumps." 

A Cutler comment from the book: 
"New England had two colleges in 1838 
— Harvard and the quarterdeck. The first 
turned out specialists . . . the latter, whole 
men, thinking men of action." 



OCTOBER 1961 



37 



More books 



THE FIRST TWO YEARS: Problems of 
Small Firm Growth and Survival, by 
Kurt B. Mayer and Sidney Goldstein. 
U.S. Small Business Administration. 
Two Brown University sociologists have 
obtained the story on small business suc- 
cess and failure from the most logical 
source: the owners themselves. Not all 
small firms do survive — approximately half 
of them go under within two years of their 
founding^ Calling them "the forgotten 
units of the economy," the authors suggest 
that their rate of failure might be reduced 
if they could be brought to accept govern- 
mental counseling services which do not 
now reach them. 

The Mayer-Goldstein study is based on 
the experiences of the owners of 81 retail 
service enterprises established in Provi- 
dence, Woonsocket, Pawtucket, Central 
Falls, Warwick and Cranston during the 
first half of 1958. Information was gath- 
ered for each firm through a series of in- 
terviews over a two-year period from the 
date of founding, or for its full life span 
if less than two years. Only 41 of the 81 
firms survived the full term of the study. 
The establishments selected for the study 
were limited to those with less than four 
employes, a limitation that includes 80 
per cent of all small businesses. The ma- 
jority of them, as a matter of fact, had no 
paid help, and their average capitalization 
was only $5,000. 

Of the 81 businesses, 16 were groceries, 
including five with lunch-counter, 12 were 
restaurants and II were gasoline service 
stations. The remaining firms covered a 
wide range of business activity, from an- 
tique shop to liquor store, from pet shop 
to rollerskating rink. 

"Perhaps the major finding of the study," 
the authors report, "was the overall lack 
of rationality exhibited by all but a few 
owners. Most owners made spur of the 
moment decisions, influenced by chance 
occurrences, and failed conspicuously to 
seek expert advice." Owners who suc- 
ceeded, on the other hand, were generally 
characterized by common sense, patience 
and persistence. 

Among other findings by Professors 
Mayer and Goldstein: Of the 93 owners 
involved in the 81 firms, two-thirds had at 
some time been involved in manual work, 
indicating that the goal of business owner- 
ship has been widely adopted by the work- 
ing class. Only a few of the owners had 
formal education or vocational training di- 
rectly relevant to their business careers. 
In many cases the owners had no clear 
goals in mind and little, if any, apprecia- 
tion of the business world in general. "The 
most striking fact revealed by the motiva- 
tional analysis is the small number of 
business owners who set out deliberately 
to seek maximum monetary rewards." 
They viewed business operation simply as 
an alternative to paid employment or as an 
escape from unemployment. The location 
of the business and timing of its opening 
were, in most cases, decided by chance 
rather than by rational analysis. 



Frohock, Hawkes, Honig 

THE DILEMMAS OF CRITTCISM (OF SOme 
of them1 were identified and discussed 
by W. M. Frohock '30 in the summer 
issue of Soiilliwest Review. Dr. Frohock 
is Chairman of the Department of Ro- 
mance Languages and Literatures at Harv- 
ard. Of his other activities, the Review 
said in an editorial note: 

"Often seen in these pages as a critic 
of American literature, Mr. Frohock has 
published books in this field {The Novel of 
Violence in America) and in his second 
specialty, French Literature (Andre Mul- 
ruiix and the Tragic Imagination). His 
essay on 'The Dilemmas of Criticism' will 
be joined by other recent writing, most 
from SWR, in a book to be issued this 
fall by the SMU Press — Strangers to This 
Ground: Cultitral Diversity in Contempo- 
rary American Writing." 

Referring as it does to two members of 
the Brown University Faculty, the follow- 
ing passage in his essay is of particular 
interest to Brunonians: 

". . . One of the effects of all this is a 
strange compartmentalization of literary 
activities, which is best illustrated by a 
concrete example. Fortunately the men 
concerned are my friends and will not take 
amiss their being cited in this context. ) 
John Hawkes is a respected young novelist 
whose work is beginning to attract serious 
attention; Edwin Honig is a poet whose 
work also commands respect. 

"The two taught together in one New 
England university, then moved at the 
same time to another New England uni- 
versity where again they teach in the same 
department.* Their relations have been 
warmly friendly for years. Yet. although 
each combines critical writing with his im- 
aginative work, so far as I know and up to 
this point* neither man has undertaken a 
critical discussion of the writing of the 
other! 

"I find myself fully persuaded that they 
live in the only not-underdeveloped coun- 
try under heaven where such a situation 
could exist, but it is true that in America 
such a divorce between critical and 'crea- 
tive' functioning is common. . . . 

* "This was true when I wrote it, but now 
I learn that Hawkes has since then pub- 
lished in Voices (January-April, 1961) a 
very brief piece on Honig's work. The 
Voice of Edwin Honig." 



Amy Lowell in Sayles 

Years after her appearance at Brown 
University, faculty still enjoyed telling all 
the commotions Miss Lowell caused there. 
She kept a packed audience waiting an 
hour in Sayles Hall — she was at dinner 
nearby. The moment she arrived her 
chauffeur plugged in the special lamp she 
insisted upon using, and at once every 
fuse on the campus blew. 

After a considerable interlude of utter 
darkness, light was restored, and the eld- 
erly local poet who introduced Miss 
Lowell expatiated on free verse, where- 
upon Miss Lowell opened with the re- 
mark, "Everything this man has told you 
is complete nonsense." It is even recalled 



— and there was this about her — that as 
Miss Lowell was leaving, an unknown dis- 
ciple thrust a poem into her hand, Miss 
Lowell glanced at it, said, "Oh my God! 
Take it away!" 

— From the Chapter on "Amy Lowell 
of Brookline, Mass." in Exiles and Fabri- 
cations by Winfield Townley Scott '3 1 
(DoubledayJ. 



Briefer Mention 

WILLIAM G. Chace '26 of Westford, 
Mass., has sent the University Li- 
brary a copy of Exploding Wires, of which 
he was co-edilor with Howard K. Moore 
(Plenum Press, N. Y., 373 pages). The 
book is based on a Boston Conference on 
the Exploding Wire Phenomenon in April, 
1959. It was conducted by the Geophysics 
Research Directorate, Air Force Cam- 
bridge Research Center, with the coopera- 
tion of the Lowell Technological Institute 
Research Foundation. Professor Chace is 
a physicist in the Hydromagnetic Branch 
at Bedford. 

Volume Four, the concluding volume, of 
The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker, 
was published in June by the Cambridge 
University Press. Its editor is Prof. Fred- 
son Bowers '25, of the University of 
Virginia, who is preparing for the same 
press a companion series on T/ic Works of 
Cliristopher Marlowe. During the summer. 
Professor Bowers was Frederick Ives Car- 
penter Visiting Professor at the University 
of Chicago, in the course of which he gave 
three public lectures on Shakespearean 
texts and editors. He spent two days in 
May as Visiting Scholar at the University 
of Rochester, lecturing and conferring with 
graduate students and Faculty members. 

Louis F. Peck '28 is the author of A 
Life of Matthew G. Lewis, published in 
August by the Harvard University Press. 
It is the first full-length biography, since 
1839, of the most famous Gothic novelist, 
and presents the whole man rather than a 
selection of his eccentricities. His biog- 
rapher. Professor of English at Pennsyl- 
vania State University, does note, to be 
sure, that at Lewis' sea burial in 1818 the 
novelist's aptitude for astonishing effects 
did not desert him. "After the first plunge 
the weights slipped out and the coflRn re- 
appeared, to float spectrally upon the sur- 
face, and the loosened sheet, acting as a 
sail in the wind, guided it off slowly to- 
ward Jamaica until it was lost to sight." 
To Lewis' talent for the spectacular, 
however, must be added his uncanny an- 
ticipation of literary trends popular in the 
age of Romanticism; his varied interests 
in and successful attempts at the novel, 
verse, and the drama; and his wide ac- 
quaintance with such literary figures as 
Scott, Sheridan, the Shelleys (to whom he 
told ghost stories), and Byron (for whom 
he translated Faust). 

Massachusetts Episcopalians. 1607-1957 
is a history by the Rev. Dudley Tyng, who 
received his Brown Ph.D. in 1931. Pub- 
lished by the Episcopal Diocese of Massa- 
chusetts, it is a companion volume to Dr. 
Tyng's Rhode Island Episcopalians, 1635- 
1953, which appeared seven years ago. 



38 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



CAR BERRY 

He reports on kodaks, 
kodiaks. and grunion 



IT WAS FITTING that Prof. Josiah S. Car- 
berry should sign in for the Alumni 
Leadership Conference on the Campus in 
August, for His Day will be observed on 
Friday the 13th of October. (One of the 
Conference staff writes: "Josiah got a lot 
out of the Conference. He has asked Mr. 
Kennedy to make every Friday the 13th.") 

Brunonians everywhere will take note 
of Carberry Day in ways that meet their 
own pleasure. The practical feature will 
be the traditional contributions to the Car- 
berry Fund of such loose change as they 
find in their pockets on Friday the 13th. 

During the summer. Professor Carberry 
qualified as a member of the Wantonoit 
Club of Camp Belknap in Wolfeboro, 
N. H. "through the ability to recognize 
and name 100 natural objects." There were 
even three more gold stars, each giving 
credit for 10 additional objects. The sig- 
natures on a certificate received were those 
of Eugene R. Clark, Jr., '48. Camp Di- 
rector, and Henry J. Adams "30, Director 
of Nature Study. Somewhere in the offing 
was Ruth Sutcliffe Adams '32. In his new 
pride. Professor Carberry is somewhat 
difficult to recognize. But, then, he is no 
natural object. 

Carberry communicated with U-Bild 
Enterprises of Van Nuys, Calif., recently, 
returning a picture from a catalogue which 
showed a lovely model sitting in a U-Bild 
lawn chair. His instructions were: "Never 
mind the pattern. Just send the model." 
The reply came back from the company: 
"No money enclosed. Sorry." 

Among other mail waiting for Professor 
Carberry in the Alumni House is a final 
notification from a Florida land company 
about his "valuable land rights." Either 
they or Carberry were about to expire in 
mid-summer. Our money (until Oct. 13) 
is on the Professor. 

A two-page feature article in the Hart- 
ford Courant for Aug. 8 was headlined 
"We Can't Find Carberry." No wonder: 
they identified him as "Wesleyan's most 
remarkable scholar." More accurate was a 
description of Carberry as "a latter-day 
folk hero who has become the Paul Bun- 
yan of the intellectuals." 

A contretemps of the sort dear to Pro- 
fessor Carberry's heart occurred at the 
annual meeting of the Brown Club of 
Rhode Island. When elections were the 
order of business and before the Nominat- 
ing Committee could get the floor, a 
doughty group of parliamentarians from 
Pawtucket succeeded in nominating Car- 
berry for President. In vain, the Chair 
ruled that Carberry was not a member in 
good standing: someone paid his dues then 
and there. He received active support in 
the voting. 

A summer note from Anchorage, Alaska, 




FRIDAY THE 13TH brought out these Carberry canvassers last winter. Pembroke Freshmen took the 
initiative to aid Josiah's Fund. Brown Daily Herald photo by Pete Pearson. 



reported over his own signature that Car- 
berry had received an honorary D.P.C. 
(not otherwise identified but possibly 
"Doctor of Psycho-Ceramics") from the 
University of Attu at a "very impressive 
ceremony." Carberry further said: "Mrs. 
C. (Laura) is bearing with me; for relaxa- 
tion I am hunting Kodaks with my Ko- 
diak." (John B. Skerry '41, William Van 



City Manager of Miami 

Harold T. Toal, who took gradu- 
ate studies at Brown while serving 
on the faculty from 1947 to 1949, 
was named City Manager of Miami, 
Fla., in July. 'The 38-year-old city- 
planner went to Miami in 1953 as a 
research analyst for the City Plan- 
ning Board. Though engaged for one 
year, he was persuaded to stay for 
five, leaving in 1957 to become Di- 
rector of Planning for the First Re- 
search Corp. of Miami. He rejoined 
the city staff last December as Di- 
rector of Neighborhood Rehabilita- 
tion. With his wife and two sons, he 
lives at 9315 Jamaica Dr. A distinc- 
tion is that of having been one of 
the few men ever to be President 
of the Dade County PTA. 



Alen '50, and John G. R. Wolfe '57 were 
in the area at the time.) 

One of the year's most plausible head- 
lines appeared over a two-column story 
about Carberry in the Anaheim (Calif.) 
Bulletin: Confusion Reigns as Prof Ex- 
plains. It seems there had been an anony- 
mous offer to purchase all of Newport 
Beach, but the Orange County News Serv- 
ice received a release to the effect that the 
offer had been made by Josiah S. Carberry, 
Carberry said he regretted having to make 
his offer by mail, but had been on a lec- 
ture tour of North Dakota, speaking on 
the "Tax Potential of the Avian Cloaca." 

Some of the standard items in the Car- 
berry biography were reviewed in the Cali- 
fornia news story forwarded by James 
McCaffrey '50: e.g., authority on non- 
pythagorean geometry, stating that a tri- 
angle has two hypothenuses and only one 
leg to stand on: inventor of the rotating 
laboratory for work on revolutionary in- 
ventions. But there were some new bits: 
Mrs. Carberry had explored the possibil- 
ities of roundelays for square dancing. 
And: 

"Professor Carberry declined to discuss 
his plans for the area if he is successful in 
buying Newport Beach. He is known to be 
interested in the cross-breeding of grunion 
with lobster, hoping to produce a hybrid 
lobster which will come up on the beach 
periodically." 



OCTOBER 1961 



39 



The Brown Clubs Report 



Boston Reunion on Nov. 18 

RIGHT AFTER the Harvard football game 
on Nov. 18, Brunonians are invited to 
a social hour near the Stadium in one of 
the Harvard buildings. Specific location will 
be provided when tickets are mailed out 
for the game, and there will be announce- 
ment in the Stadium over its public ad- 
dress system. All Brown men and their 
guests are welcome. 

The post-game reunion has been a popu- 
lar feature of the Cambridge afternoon 
for several years, with hundreds adjourn- 
ing to one of the hotels near the Square. 
This summer, however, Harvard alumni 
officers offered facilities nearer the game, 
with Alumni Secretary Peter D. Shultz 
suggesting the use of a cage or other ath- 
letic building for the Brown gathering. 
Brown's Alumni Secretary, William B. 
McCormick, promptly notified the Brown 
Club of Boston, sponsors of the previous 
affairs. President Frederick Bloom "40 ap- 
pointed John F. Prendergast '49 to make 
arrangements, and the cocktail party is on. 
A bow to Harvard for its hospitable ini- 
tiative. 

The Brown Club program promises an 
active year, as drawn up by its officers. 
Monthly luncheons are on the schedule, 
using the University Club as their location 
— at 40 Trinity Place, near Back Bay Sta- 
tion. Service starts at 12:15. 

Among the speakers will be: Oct. 10 — 
Clifford Stevenson, soccer coach, with gen- 
eral comment on all fall sports. Dec. 12 
— Vice-President John V. Elmendorf. Jan. 
9 — James R. Gorham "54, Associate 
Alumni Executive Officer. Mar. 13 — Cam- 
pus student leaders. May 8 — Edward R. 
Durgin, Dean of Students. The February 
event will be a buffet supper before the 
Brown-Harvard hockey game, while the 
annual banquet is being scheduled as the 
April feature. There will be no luncheon in 
November, in view of the plans for Nov. 
18 noted above. All alumni in the greater 
Boston area were to receive printed no- 
tices prior to the first luncheon. 

Donald Saunders '57 is heading up an 
intensive membership drive this month. 

Chicago's Fall Send-Off 
Governor Otto Kerner '30 was sched- 
uled to make a special trip to Chicago to 
attend the annual Chicago Brown Club 
Send-Off Luncheon in honor of the young 
men from the area who were to become 
Brown Men this fall. Twenty-four Seniors 
from leading high and preparatory schools 
were in attendance, one of the finest and 
most interesting groups of boys we have 
ever sent East. 

David F. McKendall '54, a leading 
member of the English Department at 
New Trier High School, was also on the 
agenda as a speaker. Later in the month, 
Dave planned to leave for a sabbatical 
which will allow him a year's study in 
European universities. 

The summer outing consisted of golf at 



Shoreacres Country Club and dinner at 
the Libertyville home of Robert W. Buckley 
'27, the retiring President of the Club. The 
dinner was served in a setting of the cool 
shade of abundant trees and a rolling lawn 
and featured clam chowder made from 
Rhode Island quahogs. 

Following the outing, the following offi- 
cers were elected: President — Norman 
Pierce '33; Vice-President.s — James M. 
Hutchinson '51 and Allen E. BuUey '56; 
Treasurer — George O. Podd, Jr., '5 1 ; Sec- 
retary — Thomas C. Tritschler "54. 

THOMAS TRITSCHLER '54 

In New York's New Home 
Two NEW OFFICERS have joined with 
three holdovers to head the Brown Club 
of New York during what promises to be 
one of the most active seasons in the 93- 
year history of the organization. Monroe 
E. Hemmerdinger '37 was elected a Vice- 
President and J. McCall Hughes '33 Sec- 
retary of the Annual Meeting, which also 
saw Weston M. Stuart '27 and John F. 
Wilson '44 elected to the 18-man Board cf 
Governors. Robert V. Cronan '31 was 
reelected President, Robert G. Berry '44 
was returned as Vice-President and Harvey 
M. Spear '42 as Treasurer. 

During the summer, extensive altera- 
tions were made to the new quarters of 
the Club at Four West 43rd St., under the 
direction of Charles E. Hughes '37, A. I. A., 
and Ward H. Jackson '32, A.I.D. Joseph 
E. Cadden '31 was in charge of repainting 
the new Lounge Office and adjoining Pri- 
vate Dining Room, following the addition 
of air-conditioning equipment and new 
furnishings. With the lares and penates in 
place, the resplendent new quarters were 
unveiled to the membership just after La- 
bor Day. 

The spacious new accommodations of 
the Clubhouse were first put to use early 



in September when over 200 members of 
the Class of 1965 and their families were 
guests of the Club for the traditional Sub- 
Freshman Dinner. Weston M. Stuart '27 
arranged a program which afforded the 
latest Bruin adherents an opportunity to 
hear Charles H. Doebler, Director of Ad- 
mission at Brown, Wendell B. Barnes, Jr., 
'61, Robert Lowe '61, and Robert Martin 
'64. Donald Roth '65 was introduced to 
the group by Ralph C. Tanner '36, Chair- 
man of the Scholarship Committee, as the 
recipient of the annual four-year Brown 
Club Scholarship. 

To acquaint Brunonians in the New 
York area with the new facilities and con- 
veniences of the new Clubhouse, John L. 
Danforth '52, Chairman of the Activities 
Committee, reports that a series of "Show- 
Off Dinners' will be scheduled through the 
fall and winter. Under the direction of 
John E. Flemming '33, these affairs will 
be held at periodic intervals in the form 
of class gatherings and will feature singing 
by quartets composed of former Jabber- 
wocks. 

Other special entertainment in prospect 
for members of the Club include a Recep- 
tion on an October Sunday afternoon to 
introduce the posh Ladies' Lounge occu- 
pying the third floor of the new Clubhouse 
and an off-Broadway theater party in No- 
vember. The latter will be a joint affair 
of the Brown and Pembroke Clubs, with 
Frank Price '56 in charge of details for 
the Bruins. 

ROBERT v. CRONAN '3 1 

Don't Forget Monmouth 
The Alumni Office regrets the omis- 
sion of the name and address of the Sec- 
retary of the Monmouth (New Jersey) 
Brown Club from the roster of Brown 
Club Secretaries appearing on the back 
cover of the July issue of this magazine. 
William A. Wescott '56 is the Secretary, 
and he lives at 68 Hope Rd., New Shrews- 
bury, N. J. The Club was organized last 
Spring and shows good promise of activity. 
Photographic evidence is submitted here- 
with. The camera was busy at the home 




THE BROWN CLUB OF MILWAUKEE changed officers in June. Pictured are, left to right: Robert 

Sinclair '52, retiring President; Bayard Michael '44, incoming President; and Secretary-Treasurer John 

Nickoll '57. (Photo by Platz Studios, Phil Gutenkunst '48, President) 



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NOT YET A YEAR OLD, the Monmouth Brown 
Club in New Jersey is a healthy infant. Its 
rallying point in August was Sandy Oaks Farm, 
West Long Branch, where George Grimm, Jr., 
'20 and Mrs. Grimm were hosts. They are shown 
at left in the smaller photo welcoming Club 
President Arnold Tulp '33 of Rumson and Mrs. 
Tulp. In the larger picture they ore flanked 
by other members, including two '61 graduates. 



of George W. Grimm, Jr., '20 and Mrs. 
Grimm, Sandy Oaks Farm, West Long 
Branch, N. J., on Aug. 26. Grimm, Gen- 
eral Counsel for Public Service Corp. in 
Newark, is one of the Club Trustees. He 
and his wife welcomed nearly 50 at a cock- 
tail party in the patio and on the lawn. 
Although there was intermittent rain, spirit 
was excellent. 

Two new members were pressed into 
service as banner-holders, both 1961 grad- 
uates. Flavil Q. Van Dyke, Jr., at the left, 
is President of his Class; Francis Bonello 
is at the right. Arnold Tulp '33 is President 
of the Club, which embraces all Mon- 
mouth County, N. J. 

Outing on the South Shore 

The annual South Shore Brown Club 
Sub-Freshmen outing was held at the pic- 
nic grounds of the South Weymouth Naval 
Air Station on Saturday afternoon, Aug. 
26. Despite a rainy, humid afternoon, ap- 
proximately 70 alumni and their families 
attended. In addition, 12 Freshmen and 
their families were present to be greeted 
by Club President Henry Phelps. Line 
Coach Red Gowen spoke briefly and re- 
newed friendships during the afternoon. 
Prizes were awarded to the youngest and 
oldest attending. 

HENRY A. FERRARI '50 

Mathes in Springfield 

The Connecticut Valley Brown Club 
held its fall outing Sept. 7 at the home of 
Gus Avantaggio '45 in Springfield. Ap- 
proximately 45 alumni and undergraduates 
attended, in addition to special guests 
Stanley Mathes '39, President of the As- 
sociated Alumni, and Basketball Coach 
Stan Ward. 

Club President Lester Halpern '52 ex- 
tended greetings and introduced the two 
guests from Providence as well as the 




undergraduates present. He and Lew Shaw 
'48 reported on the Alumni Leadership 
Conference held in Providence in August. 
Shaw also spoke on the Club's admission 
activities for the coming year. Plans for 
the future include a Sub-Freshman night 
in February and the annual dinner meet- 
ing in May. 

The committee in charge of arrange- 
ments for the outing included Halpern, 
Avantaggio, Shaw, Maryott '49, and John 
Vivian '55. 

JOHN A. VIVIAN '55 

Year's Plans in Westchester 
Jason C. Becker '50, Assistant Execu- 
tive with Benton & Bowles, has been 
elected President of the Westchester Brown 
Club. Other officers: Vice-President — Jay 
W. Fidler '43; Secretary — Charles C. Beat- 
tie '23; Recording Secretary — James J. 
Gordon '52; Treasurer — Cortlandt P. 
Briggs '39. 



Last year's program ot activities was 
so successful that the Club is planning to 
sponsor all of the events again — with one 
exception. The first event was the second 
Annual New England Clambake (held 
Sept. 24) at the Milbank Estate in Val- 
halla. For December, the football night 
has been expanded to a Brown Sports 
Night, and it is hoped that coaches repre- 
senting the various Varsity sports will be 
present. The Introduction to Brown affair, 
featuring Professors, Admission Officers, 
Coach John McLaughry, and the film, "A 
Procession of Men." was highly successful 
and will be repeated. Also on the agenda 
is another presentation of a Brown Club 
Award to the championship team of West- 
chester County. 

The only change will see the Glee Club 
Concert replaced with a benefit perform- 
ance by some Broadway or off-Broadway 
stars. Funds from this program may be 
directed to particular needs like Brown's 
projected medical program. 



OCTOBER 1961 



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Hartford Highlights 
The Hartford Brown Club held its 
annual Au Revoir Party for the Freshmen 
from the area on Sept. 7 at the Hartford 
City Club. In addition to a good turnout 
from the Club, all the new Brown men 
were present, many of them with their 
families. 

Monthly luncheons started again Sept. 
20 and will be held on the third Wednes- 
day of each month. Other tentative plans 
for the coming year include a Sports Night, 
which will be held right after the football 
season. Athletic Director Paul Mackesey 
and Coach John McLaughry will be fea- 
tured. Hopes are high that in early Febru- 
ary we will have Dr. Henry M. Wriston 
as our guest. Then, in very early May. the 
annual meeting and dinner dance will be 
held. 

CY FLANDERS '18 

Short Term in Newport 
At its "May meeting." held June 30, 
the Brown Club of Newport County 
elected the following officers: President — 
Harold Dorkin '49; Vice-President— Alton 
R. Karoli '48; Secretary — Herbert W. Ep- 
stein '49; Treasurer— Peter C. Petropoulos 
'40. 

Because of a change in jobs. President 
Dorkin was forced to resign his position 
in early July. However, it was felt that he 
had presided over a successful administra- 
tion. No meetings were held, hut, on the 
other hand, no financial obligations were 
incurred. When he left office, the Club 
was as solvent as ever — even more so. 
since one chap sent in a $2 check July 1 
toward his 1959 dues. 

Vice-President Karoli is Acting Presi- 
dent, and he has notified all members that 
he fully intends to keep up the good work. 

HERBERT W. EPSTEIN '49 

Maine's Battle of the Beans 

The FEATURE of the August meeting of 
the East Coast of Maine Brown Club was 
the settlement of an argument of long 
standing between Pip Aldrich '33, our host, 
and Lou Pieri '20 as to who could cook 
the better pot of beans. 

Both presentations were ven' unusual. 
Lou's was based on a Maine woods recipe 
used in days of old by the hunters, lumber- 
men, etc. Besides beans, it contained such 
choice morsels as onions, chicken, moose 
meat and several other ingredients, of an 
unknown nature. Pip's was a little simpler. 
The argument was resolved in this man- 
ner: Those who liked their beans ortho- 
dox, stuck to Pip Aldrich; those who liked 
a surprise or two in their beans, lined up 
with Lou Pieri. 

Among those present for the get-together 
were the "cooks," Donald Dike Dike '15 
and Mrs. Dike, Merrick L. Streeter '07, 
Robert S. Curley '07, William P. Burnham 
'07, York A. King, Jr., '34 and Mrs. King. 

YORK A. KING, JR., '34 

100% in Roanoke Valley 
A REPORT from an enthusiastic group of 
alumni in the Roanoke Valley of Virginia 
is hereby filed. We met for the first time 



Side Trip from Brown 
Prof. S. S. Israelstam came to 
Brown from South Africa last sum- 
mer to attend the summer institute 
on the Chemical Bond Approach. 
He made a side trip, however, not 
in his role as a chemistry teacher 
but as President of the Alumni As- 
sociation of the University of Wit- 
watersrand in Johannesburg. 

The American Alumni Council 
designated his association to receive 
the 1961 Alumni Service Award for 
"its vigorous defense of the role of 
a free university and the principles 
of intellectual freedom during a time 
of intense political controversy." It 
was the first time that an alumni 
group outside the United States had 
been so honored. 

"I know that the aim of alumni 
must be to further the ideals of 
higher education," Dr. Israelstam 
said in his response. "I am proud 
to be with them at the Summer In- 
stitute at Brown and of them at this 
Conference of the A.A.C." 



this summer at the home of Charlotte and 
David Traynor '53 in Roanoke. Attend- 
ance was 100% and included; Christine 
'48 and John Brainard '49, who were co- 
hosts with the Traynors; Dorothy and John 
McCuskcr '49; Loretta and John Murphy 
'48; and Audrey and Richard Whitney '45. 

JOHN J. MURPHY, JR., '48 

On Other Campuses 

IN addition to those recorded in our July 
issue, the following Brunonians received 
honorary degrees at 1961 Commence- 
ments: Governor Otto Kerner '30 of Illi- 
nois at Northwestern University (LL.D.). 
Dean Arthur E. Jensen '26 of Dartmouth 
at Long Island University (Litt.D.). The 
Rev. Dr. Wilbour E. Saunders '16 at Deni- 
son University (D.D.) and Kalamazoo 
(L.H.D.) College. The Rt. Rev. Gray 
Temple '35, Bishop of South Carolina, at 
Virginia Theological Seminary (D.D.). 
The late Ernest I. Kilcup '12 at Bryant 
College (D.S.). Citations available are 
these: 

Dr. Saunders (Denison): Teacher and 
pastor for more than four decades, he has 
combined the two and been a teacher of 
pastors as the very able President of Col- 
gate Rochester Divinity School from 1949 
to his recent retirement this spring. He 
leaves to his successor a thriving school 
of top rank. Adjectives which quickly 
come to mind in thinking of this man are: 
scholarly, dedicated, informed, humble, 
faithful, and all in the liberal tradition. 
Revered teacher and pastor, far-seeing 
planner and administrator, dedicated 
seeker of God's will for man. Christian 
leader by word and deed. 

Dr. Saunders (Kalamazoo') : With canny 
skill he succeeded (as President of Colgate 
Rochester) in identifying, attracting, and 
holding an enviable faculty of theological 
scholars. With administrative statesman- 



ship he urged curricular innovation which 
created a widely respected educational pro- 
gram. With persuasiveness he represented 
the cause of theological education and the 
ministry to churches and churchmen and 
won their loyal support. With a pastor's 
heart he performed the ministry of en- 
couragement to succeeding generations of 
theological students. ... By imagination 
and intelligence, by high vision and de- 
vout determination, he has encouraged and 
enriched the life of faith and learning. 

Dean Jensen (C.W. Post College, 
L.I.U.): Native son of Cape Anne, im- 
bued with its character of quiet fortitude; 
schooled at Phillips Andover Academy, 
Brown University, and the University of 
Edinburgh; teacher of English for 11 
years at Brown and at Maine, and now 
for 24 years distinguished member of the 
Faculty of Dartmouth College. 

His contributions to the cause of Ameri- 
can education have been unique and exten- 
sive, transcending languages and literature, 
world affairs, great issues, and training 
programs in the liberal arts for business 
executives. Disclaiming the invention of 
Great Issues, he nonetheless made the 
course world famous. A reflective thinker 
with expressive powers of poetic lucidity, 
he has helped bring to American business 
leaders — and to many a C.W. Post College 
student — the meaning of a liberal educa- 
tion. . . . 

Now for six years as Dean of the Fac- 
ulty of Dartmouth, he has played a vital 
role in shaping the policy not only of that 
venerable institution but also of liberal 
arts education throughout the United 
States. As a trustee or advisor to many 
educational organizations his wise counsel 
has helped shape standards and goals for a 
free society facing challenge. C.W. Post 
College shall always be grateful for being 
numbered among those served. His annual 
pilgrimage and constant encouragement to 
her are gratefully acknowledged. Here is a 
scholar and a gentleman in the best sense 
of the term. Truly, he epitomizes the edu- 
cated man. 

Dr. Kilcup (Bryant): Industrialist, edu- 
cator and humanitarian, your busy and 
successful life has led you toward ever- 
expanding horizons. Although you have 
attained the pinnacle of business achieve- 
ment in your field, you have never for- 
gotten the welfare of your fellow man and 
have served diligently as advisor to many 
organizations dedicated to higher educa- 
tion and social uplift. 

Your scientific bent and inspirational 
leadership directed the research which led 
to the discovery of new instruments needed 
to alleviate human distress in the fields of 
medicine and surgery. Hence you are hon- 
ored today, not only for the accomplish- 
ments of an outstanding professional ca- 
reer, but also for the altruism which has 
permeated your life. This Rhode Island 
institution, which itself has benefited from 
your wise and friendly counsel, is deeply 
pleased to bestow this degree Honoris 
Causa upon you. (Dr. Kilcup, President 
and Treasurer of Davol Rubber Company, 
had been an active member of the Board 
of Trustees at Bryant. The College has 
named its new classroom building Kilcup 
Hall, as a memorial.) 



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A Stirring Up 
Sir: The Alumni Leadership Confer- 
ence brought a stirring up of college spirit 
comparable to a couple of football vic- 
tories over Harvard and Yale. (Also a bit 
of fuzziness at viewing the equipment in 
the Hunter Laboratory and the Watson 
Computing Center. ) And the whimsical 
thought came; How wonderful if the 
whole Class could have been walking 
across the Campus once more to hear the 
College Bell calhng to the morning meet- 
ing at Sayles Hall as of yore. 

C. L. ROBINSON '05 

Key West, Fla. 

Soft Sell on the Hill 
Sir: During the general sessions devoted 
to the Humanities at the Alumni Leader- 
ship Conference, reference was made on a 
few occasions to "truth." The phrase "mo- 
ment of truth" has become almost a cliche 
lately, but I was pleased in connection 
with its use during this session at Brown 
to note that it was once again being used 
in connection with bull. 

Do you think the University, after its 
successful handling of the young children 
at the conference, might consider, not only 
a new medical education program at 
Brown, but also a nursery school? 

As for me. I greatly enjoyed the "soft 
sell" in connection with the challenge of 
the Ford Foundation gift. I hope that all 
the bread which the University cast upon 
the waters will cause the dough to rise. 

NORMAN B. SILK "49 

Boston 

Foundation Benevolence 
Sir: ... I trust the University is pros- 
pering. According to our newspapers here, 
the Ford Foundation has given Brown a 
grant of $7,500,000. 

(name withheld) 

(We'd heard, thanks. The news was in the 
Providence papers, too. — Ed.) 

How's That Again? 
Sir: Delighted at the news, and at the 
pamphlet about the Ford Foundation Chal- 
lenge. But who read proof on the passage 
which referred to our having "a faculty 
which can develop greatness even with 
its present members"? Did they like that? 

EDWARD B. PETERSEN '23 

Irving, Tex. 

New Captions for Old Photos 
Sir: While reading the magazine article 
on rowing, I just couldn't resist recaption- 
ing a couple of the photos used to illus- 
trate the references to the early crews. I 
enclose them with the thought that you 
may get a laugh, too. No disrespect is in- 
tended. 

Good luck to the crew this year in its 
new status. 

KENNETH M. TOWE, SC.M. "59 

Vrbana, III. 

(The photos, with their new captions, are 
reproduced again herewith. — Ed.) 



Carrying the Mail 




"ALL THESE CUPS AND NOTHING TO DRINK!" 




"IF WE ONLY HAD A SHELL!" 



OCTOBER 1961 



43 



Gentlemen and Scholars 



DR. F. Donald Eckelmann has been 
named Chairman of the Biology De- 
partment, succeeding Prof. Alonzo W. 
Quinn, Chairman of the Department since 
1939 and a member of the Brown Faculty 
since 1929. Professor Quinn, who will con- 
tinue as a member of the Faculty, was 
praised by President Keeney for his "ex- 
traordinary" job in developing the Depart- 
ment. 

"Since 1958 the Department Faculty 
has been increased from three to seven 
members, a doctoral program has been 
instituted, and large research projects have 
been undertaken. Professor Quinn's in- 
fluence on these developments has been 
decisive," Dr. Keeney said. The new Chair- 
man, a specialist in petrology and miner- 
alogy, has been a member of the Brown 
Faculty since 1957. He holds a B.A. from 
Wheaton College and M.A. and Ph.D. de- 
grees from Columbia. 

In another move. Prof. Joseph F. Bun- 
nett has been named Chairman of the 
Chemistry Department. He succeeds Prof. 
Robert H. Cole, Chairman since 1949 and 
Jesse H. and Louisa D. Sharpe Metcalf 
Professor of Chemistry since July of 1960. 
A specialist in organic chemistry. Professor 
Bunnell came to Brown in 1958 after 
several years on the Faculty at the Uni- 
versity of North Carolina. 

The author of more than 50 research 
papers. Dr. Bunnell is a Fellow of the 
American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 
During the summer in Munich, he com- 
pleted a year of research, for which he 
had received Guggenheim and Fulbright 
awards. He received his B.A. degree from 
Reed College and his Ph.D. from the Uni- 
versity of Rochester. Professor Cole, who 
will be on sabbatic leave of absence dur- 
ing the coming academic year, has been 
awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a 
National Science Foundation Senior Post- 
Doctoral Fellowship to work at the Physi- 
cal Chemistry Laboratory of O.xford Uni- 
versity. 

Thomas G. Sanders, Assistant Professor 
of Religious Studies, has been keeping in 
shape by running for the Finnish American 
Athletic Club. In September he was the 
first Rhode Islander across the line in the 
annual Newport 10-mile race, and he 
finished a close second two days later in 
the Warwick 5-mile. At Duke (Class of 
'52) he was the leading mile and two-mile 
runner as well as a star on the Blue Devil 
cross country team. He's been competing 
in road races in New England since joining 
the Brown Faculty in 1959. 

Dr. Wade C. Thompson, Professor of 
Enghsh and self-appointed critic of foot- 
ball, fraternities, and the FBI, has left 
Brown and is leaching at Long Island 
University. Dr. Thompson gained national 
publicity in March, 1959, when he an- 
nounced he was circulating a petition to 
abolish football at Brown. It turned out 
that there was no such petition, but 700 
students jammed Sayles Hall for a panel 
discussion on the subject, and it became 



open season on Dr. Thompson. Long Island 
University does not have a football team. 

Eighteen members of the Psychology 
Department attended the recent annual 
convention of the American Psychological 
Association in New York City. Dr. Judy 
F. Rosenblith led a discussion on measur- 
ing sex-role identification, and Assistant 
Professor Lewis P. Lipsitt led a session on 
early learning. Prof. Harold Schlosberg, 
Chairman of the Department, chaired a 
discussion on judgment and psychophysics 
at a meeting of the American Psychonomic 
Society at Columbia from Aug. 3 1 through 
Sept. 2. 

Four members of the Engineering De- 
partment attended conferences during the 
summer vacation period. Prof. Paul F. 
Maeder attended the West Coast Confer- 
ence of Applied Mechanics, Aug. 28-30, 
at the University of Washington, where he 
and Dr. Hans U. Thommen. formerly of 
Brown, presented a paper on fluid mechan- 
ics. Prof. William N. Findley attended the 
annual meeting of the American Society 
for Testing Materials in Atlantic City. As 
Chairman of the Richard L. Templin 
Award Committee, he was a head table 
guest at the Awards Luncheon and intro- 
duced the 1961 winner. Dr. John J. Gil- 
man attended a symposium on crack prop- 
agation at the College of Aeronautics in 
Cranfield, England, and read an invited 
paper. Before returning to College Hill, he 
visited labs at Cambridge University and 
at the Imperial College of Science and 
Technology in London. Prof. William R. 
Benford, Executive Officer of the Depart- 
ment, attended the meeting of the National 
Society of Professional Engineers in Se- 
attle, July 3-7. 

Prof. Kurt B. Mayer, Chairman of the 
Department of Sociology and Anthropol- 
ogy, participated in the 1 0th International 
Study Conference in Zurich. Switzerland. 
He is a native of Zurich and received his 
Bachelor's degree at the University of 
Zurich. A member of the Brown Faculty 
since 1950, Professor Mayer specializes in 
the fields of population problems and so- 
cial classes. 

Thomas H. Bisson spent three months 
in Europe during the summer on a grant 
from the American Philosophical Society. 
He did research on the subject of medieval 
assemblies. 

Dr. Caleb A. Smith, Professor of Eco- 
nomics, was a delegate to the eighth tri- 
ennial meeting of the Friends World Com- 
mittee for Consultation, which met in 
Kaimosi, Kenya, East Africa. The main 
purpose of the committee is to strengthen 
international contacts among members of 
the Religious Society of Friends (Quak- 
ers). Dr. Smith visited in London, Athens, 
and several African countries during the 
summer. 

Prof. Philip Taft, speaking on a Labor 
Day television show, declared that Amer- 
ican unions give their members "greater 
protection against arbitrary action by the 
employer than anywhere else in the 



world." American labor has never set it- 
self up as a separate class with aspirations 
different from the rest of the country and 
has always been ready to carry a part of 
the burden in time of national emergency, 
according to Professor Taft. 

The Rhode Island area had a new tele- 
vision star during the month of May, For- 
rest McDonald, a tall Texan with five 
children who is Associate Professor of His- 
tory at Brown. His theme: Anaerican jazz. 

"Basically," he observed, "the blues 
break down into two main streams: 
Women ain't no damn good and men ain't 
no damn good. Then, there's the counter- 
strain in folk music that men and women 
ain't so bad once you get used to them." 
McDonald, who came to Brown from the 
American History Research Center in 
Wisconsin two years ago, has made the 
study of jazz a hobby for many years. 




Can You Guess? 

WE WONDER if you Can guess what that 
is which Prof. Alonzo Quinn is touch- 
ing with his right hand. It was pointed 
out to us during the recent renovation of 
the basement of Rhode Island Hall, where 
his Geology Department has its head- 
quarters. 

Rhode Island Hall was dedicated in 
September, 1840. When the addition was 
built on the east (College Green side) in 
1874, use was made of the basement in 
which the picture was taken. The original 
entrance to the building was above the 
spot where Dr. Quinn stands, and the bit 
of curved metal was a boot-scraper. 

Federal grants have made possible a 
thorough refurbishing of the Geology Lab, 
with a number of rooms fitted out with 
the most modern equipment. The old boot- 
scraper is left as a curio, however. 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Under the Elms of Brown 



THE Meehan Auditorium and Skating 
Rink was officially taken over by the 
University Sept. 1, and all work on the 
structure was expected to be completed by 
Oct. 1. In an effort to add variety to the 
color scheme on the interior, the first eight 
rows of chairs have been painted brown, 
the next five rows cardinal, and the final 
five yellow. The seating capacity for 
hockey games will be 2,100, but wide 
aisles at each end of the rink will allow a 
certain amount of extra temporary seating. 
Including standing room and the tempo- 
rary sealing, the arena will hold approxi- 
mately 3,000 for games. For Convocations, 
Commencements, and other gatherings of 
that type, the seating capacity will be close 
to 5,000. 

During the summer, work progressed 
rapidly at Brown's other construction sites: 
The Engineering Lab on Manning St. fac- 
ing Brook is on schedule and should be 
ready for occupancy in early spring. The 
Biology Building, five stories high, will 
be finished around Commencement time. 
Located on Brown St. opposite Faunce 
House, it will have entrances on both An- 
gell and Waterman Streets. Ground will 
be broken this fall for the Pembroke dorm 
units C and D. A completion date of June, 
1963, has been set for these structures, 
which will be located next to Alumnae 
Hall. Working drawings for the new li- 
brary are in progress and ground will be 
broken by the start of the second semester. 
It is hoped that the building will be com- 
pleted by Commencement of 1964, the 
year of the Bicentennial. 

Brown students using the main dining 
room of the Sharpe Refectory will be eat- 
ing in a new environment this fall as the 
result of a summer remodeling job. The 
17 fraternity dining rooms which open off 
the main hall remain unchanged, but mov- 
able room dividers have been installed in 
the big room to provide separate areas in 
which groups of 200 students can eat to- 
gether. The periphery of the dining area has 
been covered with oak paneling, replacing 
the old design which included a green 
fabric on the lower section and painted 
cinder block above. The interior walls sur- 
rounding the serving area have been cov- 
ered with a soft fabric. In addition to these 
minor architectural changes, a new lighting 
system with dimmer board and a modern 
PA system have been added, and the en- 
trances refurbished. 

F. Morris Cochran, Vice-President, has 
announced the purchase by the University 
of several pieces of East Side property. 
One is on the easterly side of Thayer St., 
about 100 feet from Manning St. Mr. 
Cochran said that the property, which has 
recently been used as doctors' offices, came 
on the market and the University felt it 
was in an area that eventually would be 
needed, although there are no immediate 
plans. Brown also has acquired the church 
and land at 193 Meeting St., where more 
than 250 years ago a religious group com- 



posed of slaves is believed to have had its 
first place of worship. Eventual use of 
this Bethel African Methodist Episcopal 
property has not been determined. 

Dr. Henry M. Wriston delivered a 
broadside at the American college frater- 
nity system, writing in the August issue of 
The Wesleyan Alumnus. He described the 
fraternity as "sick" and stated that it was 
unable to cope with the pressure for educa- 
tional quality because fraternity alumni 
"offer leadership in reverse." He offered 
as the heart of the trouble the fact that 
"the alumni have too strongly tended to 
sentimental attachment to the old and have 
not supplied the kind of leadership that 
rapid change requires, failing to recognize 
that higher education is both more expen- 
sive and more urgent than it was in the 
past." 

Now under way on College Hill is a new 
graduate training program in developmen- 
tal biology, thanks to a recent grant by 
the U.S. Public Health Service that will 
amount to $659,817 over a five-year pe- 
riod. The first year of the grant, which 
provides $140,817, will cover the support 
of 10 pre-doctoral trainees and five post- 
doctoral associates. Also included are al- 
locations for increased staff, administrative 
work, and new lab equipment. Coordinator 
of the broad multi-discipline program is 
Dr. Mac V. Edds, Jr., an embryologist and 
Chairman of the Biology Department. 

Mrs. Natalie G. O'Connor and William 
J. Pearce have been added to Brown's 
public relations staff in the office of 
Howard S. Curtis, Secretary of the Uni- 
versity. Mrs. O'Connor, a 1958 graduate 
of Cornell, will be responsible for news 
coverage of Pembroke and will assist in 
general coverage of University activities. 
Mr. Pearce will be responsible for develop- 
ing University radio and television pro- 
grams for local stations and will assist in 
the experimental program Brown is carry- 
ing out under a grant from the Ford 
Foundation. A 1950 graduate of the Uni- 
versity of Miami, he holds a Master of 
Science degree from Syracuse. Prior to 
coming to Brown, he served as a TV 
producer-director for the New York State 
Educational Department. 

When Providence celebrated its 325th 
anniversary in June, Brown Stadium 
served as the scene of the eight-day pag- 
eant. George W. Copeland headed the 
Buildings and Grounds staff that helped 
construct the necessary sets. 

Research Funds 

THE FOLLOWING research grants to 
Brown professors were among those 
announced during the summer by various 
foundations and agencies: 

Dr. Evelyn B. Man, Biology, $230,500 
five-year research grant from the Public 
Health Service, for the study of thyroid 
activity during pregnancy. 

Dr. Paul F. Fenton, Biology, $19,000 



from the National Institutes of Health, for 
a year's inquiry into some influences of 
heredity in cancer. There is a "moral com- 
mitment" for similar grants in each of the 
succeeding six years. Also, $2,070 to 
study the inherited factors that affect 
obesity. 

Dr. Harold R. Nace, Chemistry, $13,062 
from the National Institutes of Health, to 
investigate a number of steroid derivatives. 
There is a moral commitment for similar 
grants in each of the following two years. 

Dr. Kurt B. Mayer and Dr. Sidney 
Goldstein, Sociology, $5,000 from the Na- 
tional Science Foundation, to investigate 
the impact of metropolitanization. 

Dr. Mac V. Edds, Biology, $96,000 
from the Public Health Service, to study 
the origin and distribution of a protein 
substance in connective tissues and bones. 

Dr. Frank Rothman, Biology, $53,000 
from the Public Health Service, to con- 
tinue a study of genetic phenomena rela- 
tive to protein molecules. 

R. A. Yund, Geology, $1,950 from the 
National Science Foundation, for remodel- 
ing a mineralogical research laboratory. 

Dr. Seymour Lederberg, Biology, $2,300 
from the Public Health Service, for a 
study of the physical and chemical char- 
acteristics of sub-cellular particles. 

Dr. Donald S. Blough and Dr. Allen M. 
Schrier, Psychology, $10,881 from the 
Public Health Service, to support their 
research into the visual capacity of mon- 
keys. There is a moral commitment for two 
additional years in the amount of $9,631 
for the first year and $8,643 for the second 
year. 

Dr. Melvin S. Fuller, Botany, $34,500 
from the National Science Foundation, 
over a three-year period for support of 
research into the development of the cellu- 
lar slime mold acresis rosea, a tiny organ- 
ism that grows on yeast and exhibits both 
animal and plant characteristics at differ- 
ent stages of growth. 

Dr. Lleallyn B. Clapp, Chemistry, 
$3,105 from the National Institute of 
Health, for a study of the nature of chem- 
ical compounds that influence tumors. 
Also, $900 from the National Science 
Foundation for helping to direct a summer 
institute in chemistry for high school 
teachers. 

Dr. Herman B. Chase, Biology, $45,924 
from the National Institutes of Health, to 
study the effect of radiation on skin. There 
is a moral commitment to support study 
two additional years with about the same 
amount annually. 

Dr. Walter J. Wilson, Biology, $1,403 
from the National Institutes of Health, for 
a study of electron microscopy of normal 
and tumor tissue. 

Dr. WilKam T. King, Chemistry. $13.- 
800 from the National Institutes of Health, 
for a study that may help prepare com- 
pounds that can test for tumors. 

Dr. Robert M. Brenner, Biology, $17,- 
936 from the National Institutes of Health, 
to study arthritis. 

Dr. Donald S. Blough, Psychology, $17,- 
147 from the National Institutes of Health, 
to study the ways various visual stimuli 
modify the discriminatory behavior of 
pigeons. 



OCTOBER 1961 



45 




SNAPSHOTS from 
the August Conference 



THE BARBERS arrived from Nantucket. 
Howard C. Barber's Class is 1899. 



ALFRED H. GURNEY '07, former 
Alumni Secretary, left, with A. J. Kirley '09. 




BROWN UNIVERSITY FUND CHAIRMAN J. Angus ThurroH '31, left, with President Keeney. 




46 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



The Office of President 

It is not unorthodox for a 
college pres,ident, speaking at the 
inauguration of another college pres- 
ident, to speak about college presi- 
dents. President Courtney Smith of 
Swarthmore was Colby's guest when 
President Robert Strider was being 
installed; he quoted another presi- 
dent, Keeney of Brown, on the na- 
ture of a college presidency: 

"The office depends upon confi- 
dence, just as the position of a 
prime minister in a parliamentary 
democracy depends upon confidence. 
The president cannot make the trus- 
tees do anything; he cannot make 
the alumni do anything; he cannot 
make the public do anything; he 
cannot make the faculty do any- 
thing, though he can stop them from 
doing anything; and good students 
are notably impervious to direct 
orders. He can, however, cause 
these people to do a great deal, and 
if he is a good president, he does; 
but whether he does or not, depends 
upon their daily vote of confidence." 



Flattered 



WE HAD a few compliments recently 
which we're tempted to pass along, 
with attendant grains of salt. One was in 
Christine Rhodes' "Lady on a Soapbox" 
page in the American Alumni Council 
News for April, which also chided us for 
some technical failures which, she said, 
"in a topnotch publication are like the 
Duchess of Windsor in a Dior gown with 
her slip showing." "But," she continued, 
"no matter. Brown reveals a unique and 
charming personality in its pages. ... It 
also has the fabled Josiah Carberry, surely 
one of the happiest occurrences in alumni 
magazine publishing. I wish I'd gone to 
Brown, simply because of the feelings of 
affection and respect I've developed for 
it through reading the magazine." 

In an earlier issue of the AAC News, 
Robert Payton, the new Vice-Chancellor 
of Washington University said: "My im- 
pression of Brown University (which I 
have never visited) has been shaped 
largely by the unfailing wit of . . . each 
issue. I am told that Brown is such an 
institution as the editor paints it. I hope 
so." Incidentally, Payton said the Brown 
editor had been on the job "since 1812 or 
thereabouts." 

Another writer thought our April issue 
provided "an appealing view of the Brown 
student." Our cover photo for May was 
requested for the first Photography Ex- 
hibit of the American Alumni Council. 

In the annual competition for alumni 
magazines, sponsored by the American 
Alumni Council, the Brown Alumni 
Monthly won a second place award in its 
circulation class for its coverage of stu- 
dent life. There were also honorable men- 
tions for stories on the alumni program 
and for general feature articles. 




TABLE-HOPPING at the Conference, our cameraman caught, above left to right: 

George T. Metcalf '13,Thoma5 B. Appleget '17, Donald G. Millar '19, and W. Chester Beard '19. 




SEtvllOR FELLOW Theodore Francis Green '87, 
with Mrs. Allen, wife of Stanley W. Allen '43 



THOMAS F. GILBANE '33, left, with Charles E. Hughes, III, '37 




OCTOBER 1961 



47 



Sophomores dominate 
Brown's 1961 squad 




COACH JOHN McLAUGHRY and one of his few Seniors, Coptoin John Rohrbock. 



PREPARATIONS for Brown's 76th season 
of football got under way Sept, 1 at 
Aldrich-Dexter Field as Coach John Mc- 
Laughry and his staff welcomed 46 candi- 
dates, including five starters on last year's 
team. The general impression after two 
weeks of double drills was that the Bruins 
would begin emerging from the Ivy League 
woods in '61. 

The number of returning veterans was 
two fewer than had been expected. Senior 
tackle Levi Trumbull, who made rapid 
strides last year after being converted from 
an end, was not in school for the first 
semester. Dick Laine, Senior wingman, 
also had scholastic problems and was not 
expected to return. In addition, three other 
Senior lettermen decided against playing 
football this fall: Paul Murphy, a member 
of the top defensive unit; center Charlie 
Coe; and guard John Lavino, who had 243 
minutes of playing time in 1960. Murphy 
suffered a shoulder injury in a touch foot- 
ball game during the summer. 

The five starters who returned included 
Capt. Jack Rohrbach, a solid Ivy League 
quarterback who set a number of Brown 
passing records last fall; fullback Ray 
Barry, the leading ground gainer; halfback 
Jon Meeker; and guards Bob Auchy and 
Gary Graham. Other lettermen back in- 
ckided four Juniors: end Dennis Wit- 
kowski, tackle Bill Savicki, guard Bill 
Caroselli, and center Jon Arata. 

Despite the loss of some men he had 
counted on. Coach McLaughry, starting 
his third season on the Hill, finally had 
potential collegiate football players in en- 
couraging numbers. However, much of the 
potentiality lies in the Sophomore class, 
and Brown's rate of improvement will 
depend on the time it takes the Sopho- 



morea to make the transition to Varsity 
competition. 

Among the leading Sophomore candi- 
dates are tackles John Harenski (6-1, 
240), Tony Matteo (6-2, 205), and Carl 
Mooradian (5-10, 235); guard Ed Green 
(5-11, 185); center John Hoover (6-4, 
250); and halfbacks Tom Draper, Bill 
Lemire, and Jan Moyer. Ends Dave Nel- 
son (6-2, 205) and Manny Menezes (6-1, 
185) are also expected to help the rather 
thin end squad. However, Nelson was 
slowed down in the early drills by illness, 
while Menezes was late reporting. 

McLaughry "s practice schedule included 
two two-hour sessions daily until classes 
started Sept. 18. Starting times were 9:30 
a.m. and 3:30 p.m. However, in order to 
escape the unseasonal heat on several 
afternoons, the second sessions were re- 
scheduled for evening under the lights. 

After two weeks of drills, including sev- 
eral scrimmages, three things were evident: 
1 ) the squad went about its business with a 
crisp, bu,siness-Iike attitude that was re- 
freshing; 2) the quality of the material 
would allow for better competition for 
positions than has been possible the past 
two years; 3) there is an ample supply of 
good backs. 

Broken down by positions, the squad 
shaped up this way: 

ENDS — Witkowski stands out as a good 
short side end, but the strong side position 
was up for grabs. Until sidelined by ill- 
ness, Nelson, on the basis of a good 
Freshman record, appeared to be the best 
bet. Menezes and Roy Litzen were the 
other strong ends from the Cub team. 
With Laine's loss further complicating 
matters, the end positions would appear 
to be the major problem. 



TACKLES — Savicki came fast at the 
close of the 1960 season and was the man 
to beat out on the strong side. Sophomores 
Harenski and Matteo were waging a merry 
battle for the short side spot. Back of 
Savicki came Sophomore Mooradian and 
Junior Bob Gianni. 

GUARDS— With Graham and Auchy, 
a pair of Seniors, backed by Junior John 
Hornyak and Sophomore Ed Green, the 
guard slot could be the strongest unit on 
the team. Others in the picture included 
Sophomores Gary Bucci and John Miles, 
and the Junior, Caroselli. 

CENTER — Arata, up to 263 pounds, 
was the number one center. He alternated 
at the position with Capt. Billy Packer a 
year ago. Hoover, a 250-pound tackle 
with the Cubs, was moved in behind Arata 
and showed signs of being able to pick up 
the fine points of center play. One or the 
other of these men will play tackle de- 
fensively. 

CJUARTERBACK— Junior Dennis Hau- 
flaire was the number one replacement 
for Captain Rohrbach. Behind this pair it 
was a tossup between Sophomores Dennis 
Redding, John Erickson, and Dewey 
Moser. 

LEFT HALFBACKS— Two Juniors, 
Meeker and Parker Crowell, and a pair of 
Sophomores, Moyer and Bill Vareschi, 
give the Bruins four solid left halfbacks. 
Meeker, Crowell, and Moyer are break- 
away men who can go all the way from 
any spot on the field. Vareschi is a very 
good defensive back. Crowell, injured 
through his Sophomore season, was the 
surprise of the early going. 

WINGB ACKS — Sophomores Draper and 
Lemire were running one-two for this 
position, trailed by Fred Avis, a Junior 
transfer from West Point, and John Eus- 
tis, a converted guard. Backfield coach 
Milt Piepul predicted that Draper could 
be the best all-around back on the team. 
He is especially adept at pass receiving. 

FULLBACKS— Barry will be backed by 
Buddy Freeman, a Senior who has been 
converted from left half; Frank Antifo- 
nario, a hard runner who was a left half 
for the Cubs last year; and Fred Kolac, 
the number two fullback a year ago. Anti- 
fonario looked very good in the scrim- 
mages. 

There will be several minor changes in 
the Bruin offense this season. Gone is the 
so-called side-saddle stance for the quar- 
terback. Its main advantage was that it 
allowed the center to make the direct pass 
to the left half. The manoeuvre has been 
dropped because there are no centers on 
the squad who can make the pass (only 
one had any experience at all as a "passf- 
ing" center in high school). Another mi- 
nor change has been the switch in positions 
for the fullback and left halfback. This 
was effected because of the personnel in- 
volved and doesn't represent a change in 
McLaughry's offensive thinking. 

Although the passing attack should be 
just as potent as a year ago, it is expected 
that the over-all attack will be better bal- 
anced because of the number of good run- 
ning halfbacks available. In other words. 
Brown won't have to pass as much to 
make the attack go. 



48 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Nominated for the Ivy Cellar 



WHEN the Ivy League football coaches 
and Directors of Sports Information 
conducted their polls in conjunction with 
the annual meetings of the two groups in 
Providence, it was the consensus of the 
two groups that Yale would finish first 
and retain its Ivy crown and that Brown 
would come in last. 

In the coaches' poll, Yale was followed 
by Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Prince- 
ton, Peon, Columbia, and Brown. In the 
sports-information directors' poll, the seven 
teams trailing the Elis were in this order: 
Cornell, Dartmouth, Columbia, Princeton, 
Penn, Harvard, and Brown. 

The various football magazines that 
flooded the news stands in July and August 
followed the same general tone. Almost 
without exception these publications placed 
the Bruins at the bottom of the barrel 
among the Ancient Eights. 

Brown's sports publicist, Pete McCarthy, 
however, doesn't think the situation is this 
dark. He looks for another topsy-turvy 
race, with tail-end Cornell having an out- 
side chance of going all the way to the top 
in one big jump. As for Brown's chances, 
he sees the Bruins vastly improved, espe- 
cially if the numerous Sophomores make a 
successful adjustment to Varsity status 
early in the season. 

His annual brochure for press and radio 
(another fine job which, incidentally, is 
available to alumni upon request) con- 
tains the following thumbnail sketch of 
Brown's opponents, taking the teams in 
the order in which they appear on the 
schedule. 

COLUMBIA (1960 record: 3-6 over 
all; 3-4 Ivy). The Lion's Senior-studded 
squad is tabbed as the dark horse in the 
Ivy League race this fall and could go all 
the way if it can avoid injuries to key 
players. Senior quarterback Tom Vasell, 
an excellent passer and field general, is 
the player counted on most to do the job. 
Backs Russ Warren and Tom O'Connor 
and All-Ivy tackle Bob Asack are other 
top operators. Lack of depth at some posi- 
tions will be Coach Buff Donelli's chief 
problem. In the 59-year-old series, the 
Lions lead, 12-11-2. 

YALE (1960 record: 9-0 over all; 7-0 
Ivy). Although the defending champion 
Elis have lost 10 of 11 starters, they are 
the consensus choice to retain their Ivy 
League crown. Coach Jordan Olivar faces 
a rebuilding job, to be sure, but with 12 
lettermen available plus numerous out- 
standing Sophomores moving up, the Bull- 
dogs will be hard to beat. End and tackle 
are the main trouble spots. The Brown- 
Yale series, one of the oldest in football, 
goes back to 1880. The Elis lead, 48-14-3. 

DARTMOUTH (1960 record: 5-4 over 
all; 4-3 Ivy). Despite graduation losses of 
such outstanding players as Al Rozycki 
and Jack Kinderdine, the Indians have 
been accorded first division rating in the 
Ivy League forecasts. The return of 14 
lettermen plus the best Sophomore group 
in four years are the main reasons for up- 



grading the Big Green's prospects this fall. 
Quarterback Bill King and center Don 
McKinnon are the best of the Varsity hold- 
overs. Halfback Chris Vancura is a top 
Sophomore candidate. With Brown win- 
ning but one game in the past 14 years 
from Dartmouth, the Bruins trail in the 
67-year-old series, 23-13-2. 

PENN (1960 record: 3-6 over all; 2-5 
Ivy). The Quakers dropped down several 
notches last year from their championship 
perch in 1959, but look for Coach John 
Stigman's lads to climb back into conten- 
tion this fall. The switch from the T to 
single wing last season created numerous 
problems, most of which should be solved 
this year. A number of excellent backs, 
led by Porter Shreve, Pete McCarthy (no 
relation), Mike Ruggieri, Dick Moyer, and 
John Owens stamp Penn as a tough team 
to stop. The line should be stronger than 
last year's, both offensively and defen- 
sively. The Quakers have not been too 
loving in the long series, leading 24-4-1. 

RHODE ISLAND (1960 record: 3-5). 
The Rams, operating under a new coach, 
John Chironna, will have more depth than 
in recent years but will have to find re- 
placements for several top notch players, 
including the great back, John Rollins. The 
last two Freshmen teams have not been 
strong, and this may be a long season for 
the Rams. Brown leads in this series, 42-4. 

PRINCETON (1960 record: 7-2 over 
all; 6-1 Ivy). Flashy tailbacks Hugh Scott 
and John Sullivan were among the 17 
lettermen lost by graduation, so the Tigers 
must do considerable rebuilding this fall. 
Newcomers must come through at several 
positions, notably center, fullback, tackle, 
and tailback. John Henrich at quarterback 
and Hank Large at end are the two stand- 



outs among the holdovers. Brown's last 
victory was on Homecoming Day in 1954 
(21-20), and the lads of Old Nassau lead 
21-6 in the series. 

CORNELL (I960 record: 2-7 over all; 
1-6 Ivy). New coach Tom Harp inherits 
a promising squad that should, barring the 
injuries that riddled the Big Red last year, 
make a strong run for the Ivy title. Half- 
back Marcy Tino and quarterback Dave 
McKelvey, sidelined for the season with 
leg injuries in 1960, will be back for their 
final season, along with halfback George 
Telesh, who came a cropper at midseason. 
The line must be rebuilt, but a generous 
supply of holdover reserves and promising 
Sophomores provide good depth. Brown 
has played fewer games with Cornell than 
any of its other Ivy rivals and stands 3-5 
in the series. 

HARVARD (1960 record: 5-4 over all; 
4-3 Ivy). Nine starters were among the 
17 departed lettermen, but the Crimson 
has 15 lettermen returning as well as sev- 
eral strong Sophomore candidates who 
could move into the picture. Rated a title 
contender a year ago before the loss of 
quarterback Charlie Ravenel, Harvard's 
best hopes this season appear to be for a 
first division finish. End Bob Boyda, guard 
Bill Swinford, and tackle Darwin Wile are 
the outstanding veterans. The Cantabs have 
a wide edge in the competition with 
Brown, 43-15-2. 

COLGATE (1960 record: 2-7). Former 
Brown coach Al Kelley will be leaning 
heavily on Sophomores to supply the 
needed depth behind his veteran first unit. 
Although 17 lettermen are back, the Red 
Raider coach concedes that only a handful 
among the Varsity holdovers can feel se- 
cure about first-line berths. Conditioning 
and defense will be the bywords in Col- 
gate's preparation this season. Brown has 
won five of the last seven games, but the 
Red Raiders still have a bulge in the series, 
20-15-7. 



Autumn schedule adds JV football 



THE Jayvee football TEAM, ncwIy or- 
ganized, was scheduled to inaugurate 
the fall athletic season on College Hill 
with a night game in Newport against the 
Newport Naval Training Station on Fri- 
day, Sept. 23. Altogether, 54 contests have 
been scheduled for the Varsity, Freshman, 
and JV teams. 

The curtain will fall on the autumn 
schedule with the traditional Thanksgiving 
morning game with Colgate on Thursday. 
Nov. 23. Last fall's football finale was 
played on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, 
an unpalatable arrangement for many of 
the old grads. 

For the most part, hopes were high for 
a successful fall season in Brown sports. 
While Coach Ivan Fuqua's cross country 
team will find it hard to improve on the 
1960 record, it should have the ability to 
do nearly as well. The Bruins posted a 
5-0 record last year while defeating 10 
opponents and becoming the first unde- 



feated harrier team in the 38-year-old his- 
tory of the sport at Brown. Included in 
the string were victories over Yale (for 
the first time) and Dartmouth. The Bears 
capped the campaign by capturing the 
New England cross country championship. 

Capt. Bob Lowe, one of Brown's great 
runners, has been graduated. However, the 
1960 Cub group (4-1) is expected to pro- 
vide a generous supply of talent to help 
take up the slack. Heading the list is 
Capt. Dave Farley, who went through the 
Cub campaign undefeated. He came home 
first in the New Englands, and set several 
new course records in his travels. 

Coach Cliff Stevenson's second soccer 
season should be superior to his first when 
Brown went 1-9 over all and finished last 
in the Ivy League with a 1-6 record. The 
reason for the expected improvement is 
that the Cubs had an impressive 7-1 mark, 
with decisions over Yale (5-2) and Con- 
necticut (5-2). The squad was well bal- 



OCTOBER 1961 



49 




JUNIE HOWE has joined the stofF of track 
coaches at Brown. During his years at Moses 
Brown School, he had many successful teams. 



anced, but the feature attraction of th= 
season was Alan Young, a New Yorker 
who set an all-time Freshman scoring 
record with 25 goals in eight games. Ste- 
venson rates Young a supreme opportunist, 
if not a polished soccer player, and he 
just might help the Bruin hooters make 
things a bit more interesting around New 
England and in Ivy circles this fall. 

The schedules, with the exception of 
Varsity football, follow. Games will be 
played at home imless otherwise noted. 

FRESHMAN FOOTBALL: Oct. 6— at 
Boston College. Oct. 14 — Dartmouth. Oct. 
21— Harvard. Oct. 27— at Yale. Nov. 3— 
Holy Cross. Nov. 11 — Rhode Island. 

JUNIOR VARSITY FOOTBALL: Sept. 
23 — at Newport Naval Training Station 
(night). Sept. 29 — Bridgewater. Oct. 6 — 
Massachusetts. Oct. 13 — at Dartmouth. 

VARSITY SOCCER: Sept. 30— Wes- 
leyan. Oct. 2 — at Rhode Island. Oct. 7 
— at Yale. Oct. 14 — at Dartmouth. Oct. 21 
— Penn. Oct. 25— at Springfield. Oct. 28 
— Columbia. Oct. 31 — Connecticut. Nov. 
4 — Princeton. Nov. 11 — at Cornell. Nov. 
17 — Harvard. 

FRESHMAN SOCCER: Oct. 4— Tabor. 
Oct. 9— Bradford Durfee. Oct. 12— at 
St. George's. Oct. 18— at Yale. Oct. 23 — 
Connecticut. Oct. 27— at M.l.T. Nov. 3 
— at Andover. Nov. 6 — New Bedford H. 
Nov. 13— New Bedford Voc. Nov. 18— at 
Harvard. 

VARSITY CROSS COUNTRY: Oct. 6 
— Yale and Connecticut at Yale. Oct. 13 — 
Harvard. Oct. 20— at Dartmouth. Oct. 27 
— at Rhode Island. Nov. 3 — Northeastern. 
Boston College. Providence, and Holy 
Cross. Nov. 10 — Heptagonals at New 
York. Nov. 13— New Englands at Boston. 
Nov. 20— IC4A's at New York. 

FRESHMAN CROSS COUNTRY: Oct. 
6 — Yale and Connecticut at Yale. Oct. 13 
— Harvard. Oct. 20 — at Dartmouth. Oct. 
27 — at Rhode Island. Nov. 3 — Northeast- 
ern, Boston College, and Providence. Nov. 
13 — New Englands at Boston. 



Sports Shorts 

TEN MEMBERS of Coach John Mc- 
Laughry's 55-man football squad have 
prior Brown connections. In seven cases, 
the boy's father is a Brown man. while 
some of the players have as many as three 
relatives who attended the College on the 
Hill. 

The list: Jim Davis '64 — father. Thomas 
F. Davis '37. Dave Nelson '64 — father. 
Raymond D. Nelson '31. Gerald Eggert 
"64 — father, Arnold Eggert '41 (played 
with John McLaughry as a tackle). Wil- 
liam Lynch '64 — father, Leigh Lynch. 3rd. 
'36: grandfather. Leigh Lynch. Jr.. '06. 
Richard D. Greene '63 — father, Richard 
D. Greene '22. Jon Briggs '63 — father, 
Lloyd G. Briggs '31; grandfather. Asa 
Lloyd Briggs '04: uncle. Walter A. Briggs 
'00. Fred Avis '63- father. Frederick R. 
Avis '35. Bill Batty '63— uncle, Donald E. 
Batty '38; uncle. Dr. Earl J. Mathewson 
'03. Carl Arlanson '64 — uncles. Kenneth 
Nash '12. Harold Nash '41. and Phil Nash 
'54. John Miles '64 — uncle, Ralph E. Miles 
'33. 

An Old Timers night will be held at the 
Meehan Rink on Saturday, Nov. 25. ac- 
cording to Jack Skillings '37, Chairman of 
the affair. In the first game, a group of 
pre-war (that's World War II) hockey 
stars will struggle into their uniforms again 
and skate on the ice as they are introduced. 
If the flesh is willing, they will engage in 
a brief, polite scrimmage. The second 
game will be between the post-war stars 
and the Brown Varsity. Nostalgia is bound 
to be the winner that night! (The official 
dedication of the rink has been set for 
Saturday night. Jan. 6, with Princeton pro- 
viding the opposition.) 

Coach McLaughry attracted nearly as 
much attention as his players on the open- 
ing day of practice when he showed up 
wearing clam-digger pants. Ernie Savig- 
nano '42, Captain of the 1941 Bruin 
eleven, was on hand at an early session 
with his son. Dave, a Senior and star ath- 
lete at Tabor Academy. Another former 
Bruin. Wiley Marble '12, who did his 
playing back in the days of Sprackling and 
McKay, put some of the younger men to 
shame on a 90-degree afternoon by engag- 
ing in a passing and punting duel with 
one of the Varsity managers. 

John J. Kelley, Jr., 1961 Providence 
Journal Honor Roll boy, is a Freshman on 
College Hill and a candidate for the Cub 
football team. An All-State football and 
baseball selection and winner of five suc- 
cessive first grants at the Rhode Island 
Science Fair, he ranked second in his class 
at Deering High in West Warwick. Kelley 
was the leading pigskin scorer in the State 
last fall and a .400 hitter on the baseball 
team. 

He is the second West Warwick school- 
boy selection on the Journal Roll. Dr. 
Walter Jusczyk '41 was named in 1937 
when Deering was known as West War- 
wick High School. Of the 1961 Honor 
Roll nominees, eight others entered Brown 
this fall. The list includes Paul Bradley 
and Brian Drought of Cranston East. Don- 
ald Carcieri and Edward Kovac of East 
Greenwich, Edward Green of North Provi- 



dence. Glenn Guittari of Sacred Heart, 
Joseph Lenihan of Scituate, and John Mc- 
Mahon of Warren. Carcieri, Lenihan. and 
McMahon joined Kelley as members of 
the Cub football team. 

F. Warren "Junie" Howe, after 36 years 
of coaching track at Moses Brown, "re- 
tired" in July and immediately accepted a 
position as part-time assistant track coach 
at Brown. His first assignment was to con- 
duct a fall development program for 
Freshman and Varsity trackmen not en- 
gaged in cross-country. During his long 
career at Moses Brown. Howe turned out 
many athletes who later gained national 
prominence as college competitors, includ- 
ing John McLaughry '40 and Kenny Clapp 
'40. 

Mike Cingiser. basketball captain and 
All-Ivy selection the past two seasons, was 
a member of the victorious American hoop 
team that took part in the sixth Maccabiah 
games in Israel during August and Sep- 
tember. More than 1,000 athletes of Jew- 
ish faith from 26 countries competed in 
the games. The only other Ivy players on 
the basketball squad were Rick Kamenski 
of Yale, the League's outstanding Fresh- 
man last year, and Sid Amira of Penn. 

According to a report released by the 
Admission Office, football is the most "en- 
gaging" sport among the members of the 
entering Freshman class. A total of 218 
boys indicated that they had participated 
in some form of football in secondary 
school. Next in line was track (210). fol- 
lowed by basketball (206) and baseball 
(142). Apparently this is a strong year 
for chess with 60 boys indicating some 
experience in this reflective sport. The 
Cheerleaders' Association on Campus will 
find the pickings rather slim — only five 
men with experience! 

Swimming captain John Morris went to 
the National AAU championships in July 
as a member of the New Haven Swimming 
Club. He competed in the 440. 1.500-me- 
ters. and the relays. 

Peyton Howard, tennis star, advanced 
to the quarter-finals of the 39th annual 
Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis Tournament 
last June at Colgate before bowing to 
Jerry Levin of Cornell. 

Gerry Bucci, one of Coach McLaughry's 
promising Sophomore linemen, has run 
into a ticket problem for the game with 
Rhode Island University. His parents both 
attended college on the Kingston campus, 
and young Gerry can't decide whether to 
get them comps on the Brown or the 
Rhode Island side of the field for the big 
game. 

Baseball coach Lefty Lefebvre spent the 
summer scouting the Big League talent for 
the Houston Colts, one of the new entries 
scheduled to join the National League 
under its expansion plans for 1962. 

The late Malcolm G. Chace '96 was en- 
shrined in the Tennis Hall of Fame at 
Newport last summer. He was national 
intercollegiate singles champion three 
times and shared the national doubles 
title in 1895. He was ranked among the 
top 10 nationally for three years, main- 
tained a lively interest in tennis throughout 
his life, and supported numerous causes 
designed to stimulate the sport. 



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ZIT'L ^'^^^y 



ATHLETIC DIRECTOR Paul F. Mackesey '32: The pipe is old; the Meehan Auditorium and Rink is new. 



A Catalogue of Captains 



IN THE PAST those Brown men who have 
been elected captains of their respective 
varsity teams have shown broader and 
more diversified interests than those at- 
tributed to the stereotype of the college 
athlete. Among this year's varsity captains 
can be found recipients of the college's 
major academic awards as well as repre- 
sentatives of the campus social and service 
organizations. 

The captains of this year's Brown varsity 
teams were: Bill Packer, football: Bob 
Lowe, cross country; Denny Master, soc- 
cer; Forrest Broman, basketball; Rod Mc- 
Garry, hockey; Bill Fulton and John Con- 
ron, swimming: Gene Bouley, wrestling: 
Chris Mitchell, baseball; Paul Putzel, ten- 
nis; Angelo Sinisi and Jim Moreland, 
track; Bill Foshay, golf; Bill Engeman, 
crew; and Dick Unruh, Jack Lilly, and Bob 
Bertsch, lacrosse. 

All of this group are active fraternity 
members; and Moreland, Broman, and 
Lowe have been officers in their houses. 

Broman, Conron, Fulton, and McGarry 
have shown, by their consistent appearance 
on the Dean's List, that top athletes can 
also be top scholars. Broman, a member 



of the Sphinx Club, and Conron are both 
in the honors program. Fulton is a James 
Manning Scholar, a Francis Wayland 
Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa, a member of the 
honorary science fraternity, Sigma Xi, and 
was the recipient of the Class of 1952 
Award. 

Several members of this group also 
worked in Brown's service organizations. 
McGarry worked on the World Refugee 
Committee, while Master has worked in 
Brown Youth Guidance, and Fulton has 
been active with the University Christian 
Association. Putzel, Broman, and Unruh 
are members of the Brown Key; Unruh is 
"Vice-President of that organization. 

Aside from social and service activities, 
several of these athletes are active campus 
politicians. Unruh and Putzel have each 
represented their fraternities on the Inler- 
Fraternity Council, and Moreland served 
on the Inter-Dormitory Council as a fresh- 
man. Unruh has also been a representative 
to the Cammarian Club and is now Treas- 
urer of the Class of 1961 . 

Ranging far outside the archetypal do- 
main of the athlete, Fulton sings in the 
Glee Club and the Chapel Choir, and 



Broman has performed with the Brown- 
brokers. Conron writes for the Brown 
Daily Herald. 

However, primarily these are athletes 
and have been honored as such. The ma- 
jority of them have at one time or another 
participated in more than one college sport. 
Bouley, who is president of the Geology 
Club, not only wrestles, but he also plays 
lacrosse and was president of the Lacrosse 
Club. Aside from playing third base, 
Mitchell was a guard on the varsity basket- 
ball team. Technically Lowe participates 
on three varsity teams, competing in cross 
country in the fall, indoor track in the 
winter, and outdoor track in the spring. 
Bertsch, Unruh, and Master all competed 
as freshmen in sports other than those 
which they now play. 

It becomes apparent that Brown athletes 
can not he typed and that most generaliza- 
tions about them are worthless. They are 
not all scholars, nor are they all politi- 
cians; but they all have represented Brown, 
whether it was in the pages of Sports 
Illustrated, on a cinder track in New York, 
or on the wood floor of Marvel Gym- 
nasium. This is the one factor which unites 
these diverse individuals and personalities, 
and it is the one experience that places 
them in a great tradition among the best 
educated of Brown men. 

—WILLIAM SHADE '61, in "Heralding 
Sports" in the Brown Daily Herald, May 1. 



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Another Mile 



Brunonians Far and Near 



DANIEL Howard '93 is walking again. 
Brown's oldest graduate fell and 
broke his hip in May, missing Commence- 
ment as one consequence. Several weeks 
in Hartford Hospital followed, then a 
short period in a rest home; he was back 
in his own house at 380 Broad St., Wind- 
sor, Conn., in August. In fact, when the 
Hartford Times took its photograph of 
him on the 12th, he'd just finished walking 
a mile. 

Even before he left the hospital, How- 
ard concentrated on "getting his independ- 
ence back" with the aid of the "walker." 
But he used the stay to brush up on some 
less familiar languages, to think about 
future travels, and to make other plans. He 
said he might be tempted to head for some 
place he has never seen, perhaps the Carib- 
bean. In 1959, at age 94, he spent a month 
in Russia, having just mastered the lan- 
guage. Travelling alone, he was believed 
the oldest American ever to have visited 
Russia as a tourist or in any other ca- 
pacity. The press in Moscow took very 
friendly notice of his presence, and he had 
an interesting experience. 

Howard is the Superintendent Emeritus 
of Schools in Windsor. Before his accident, 
he had started on his third pamphlet on 
"What Youth Wants to Know." He got 
down to writing again during the summer. 
Other books have been in history and edu- 
cational fields. Early fall plans included 
attending the Hartford Brown Club's send- 
off to the undergraduates. On Dec. 15, 
he'll celebrate his 97th birthday. 



EDITED BY JAY BARRY '50 



1887 

FORMER Senator Theodore Francis 
Green was honored last summer by the 
Armenian Youth Federation of America 
for his many years of effort while in the 
U. S. Senate in behalf of the liberation 
of Armenia from under the yoke of Soviet 
communism. The citation was presented by 
James H. Tashjian of Boston, editor of the 
Arnienicm Review. 

1893 

When Edward H. Weeks had his 90th 
birthday in June, he was guest of honor at 
a dinner with his associates at the Old 
Colony Cooperative Bank in Providence. 
As a tribute to him, they presented a 
trophy which will be used at Brown Uni- 
versity to honor each year the outstanding 
player on the baseball team. The E. H. 
Weeks Trophy will be appropriate for the 
sport in which he was such a star. Another 
presentation at the dinner was a drawing 
by John J. McLaughry '40. 

1896 

Robert C. Vose opened his Boston gal- 
leries early in the fall for an important 
showing of 18th and 19th century English 
paintings. It included works by Gainsbor- 
ough. Constable, Bonington, Morland, Ho- 
garth, Watts, and others. 




THE OLDEST LIVING GRAD of Brown LJniversity mode a fine recovery from his May accident. Daniel 
Howard '93, left, is back home in Windsor, Conn., doing his own housekeeping, and otherwise regain- 
ing his independence. Carlan Goslee, news correspondent and friend, greeted him as he neared the 
end of his daily mile in August. (Hartford Times photo) 



1897 

George L. Miner received the Provi- 
dence Art Club Medal when it was pre- 
sented for the first time at the club's an- 
nual meeting in June. The citation said, in 
part: "It is no ingratitude that prompts us 
here to pass over your leadership on be- 
half of museum or library, college loyalty 
nourished, architecture preserved, the 
economy of peace and war, or social wel- 
fare. As a practitioner of the arts and 
amenities (urban or rural), you can also 
appreciate those of another day. . . . 
Your scholarship encompasses the traffic of 
the Indian path, the sailing ship, or the 
modern highway. You can appraise the 
skill of silversmith, clockmaker, or binder 
of books. You illumine family chronicles; 
you guide us in the homes and livelihoods 
of generations. Each of your interests . . . 
contributed to the fulfillment of that spe- 
cial 10-year project which brought us all 
delight and benefit — the publication of 
your great book (Angell's Lane)." 

Hartford Times columnist. Art McGin- 
ley, speaking of a meeting he had attended, 
wrote: "There I met Frank Jones of the 
Class of 1897 at Brown University. Long 
retired from the Hartford School System, 
he is a gentleman and a scholar if ever 
there was one." 

1902 

Mr. and Mrs. Henry K. Metcalf have 
given the John Hay Library a copy of 
Herman Melville's very rare volume of 
poetry, one of 25 copies printed, John 
Marr and Other Sailors, New York 1888. 
The copy has corrections in the handwrit- 
ing of the author, Mrs. Metcalf's grand- 
father. 

1905 

E. Sykes Goodwin has been Secretary- 
Treasurer of the Colby Academy Associa- 
tion, which he calls "an in-voluntary sort 
of a club." Nearly 150 members meet the 
last Saturday in June, "providentially timed 
after every one of the glamourous Colby 
Junior College girls have left the campus." 
The men seem to enjoy their reunion, par- 
ticularly in their status as "men grads of a 
celebrated girls' school." 

Goodwin, a retired architect, reports 
that his grandson, Bruce, has been ac- 
cepted as one of the 20 applicants from 
all over the country to enter Webb Insti- 
tute of Naval Architecture, Glen Cove, 
Long Island. In the summer of 1959, Bruce 
was one of those who studied math and 
science at Brown. The boy's father is As- 
sistant Dean of Electrical Engineering at 
URI. 

Judson Crane appeared prominently in 
the front row of a full-page picture in 
Look magazine recently. The spread, 
which included a short article, was on the 
Faculty of Hastings School of Law in the 
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part of the story is that Hastings hires only 
men who have reached the retirement age 
elsewhere. Dr. Crane, of course, was Dean 
of the Law School at the University of 
Pittsburgh before his retirement. 

Arthur Townsend has joined Herbert 
Wells at the beautiful Royal Manor at 
East Greenwich, R. I., where the Class 
Secretary and Treasurer propose an '05 
reunion ere long. 

E. Everett Harkness, who wrote the new 
Class song for the 1961 reunion, has a 
grandson in the Freshman Class, Robert 
Jerrett, III. Jerrett, his father, and grand- 
father are just 30 years apart at Brown. 

1906 

Dr. George B. Corcoran of West Spring- 
field has been presented a gold badge to 
commemorate 50 years of membership in 
the Massachusetts Medical Society. The 
presentation was made at the Society's 
180th anniversary banquet. Dr. Corcoran 
is well known as the first Springfield-born 
boy to become a doctor. In 1956 he was 
presented the West Springfield Chamber of 
Commerce's Most Distinguished Citizen 
award, typifying the esteem in which he 
is held by the public and the members of 
his profession. 

Harold W. James, former Deputy Tax 
Administrator and Special Assistant to the 
Tax Administrator, retired last summer. 
He had been working in the Rhode Island 
State tax office since it was created in 
1912. 

Aylsworth Brown, retired Providence 
lawyer, was mentioned in the Rhode Is- 
lander section of the Providence Sunday 
Journal during the summer in connection 
with a story on Hope Island. He was the 
last individual owner of the island before 
the Navy took it over in 1940 as part of 
its Quonset Point air station. The story 
pointed out that since he and his family 
sold the island they have had a summer 
home on Prudence Island, at a spot that is 
as close as he can get to Hope. 

Tlie name of "the late, beloved Philos- 
opher Edgar Sheffield Brightman leads all 
the rest," said Bostoniu when the summer 
issue of the Boston University magazine 
printed a Portfolio of Teachers. Accom- 
panying a fine portrait were comments by 
his former students: "A profound, lucid, 
original thinker — he set an example of 
scholarship and dignity which others could 
aspire to. Disagreement with Dr. Bright- 
man's personal philosophy was not taboo, 
provided, as he put it, the student was 
using logic and real reasoning, and not 
just mouthing. After his students came to 
now him, they came to love him — all of 
us stood in awe and admiration. He was a 
great teacher, a genuinely praticing Chris- 
tian." Thirty-four years on the B.U. Fac- 
ulty, Dr. Brightman died in 1953. 

1907 

Myron S. Curtis and Mrs. Curtis are 
somewhere in Europe, having left the 
United States in late August to be gone 
until early November. First stop was Brus- 
sels, where Myron went to the fair to 
look over the latest in machine tools. 
Spain, Portugal, France, and other coun- 
tries were on the Curtis list to visit. 



Another honor for Joseph Wheeler 



THE American Library Association 
conferred its Joseph W. Lippincott 
Award this year upon Joseph L. Wheeler 
'06 "for notable achievement in librarian- 
ship" and "for his more than half-century 
of distinguished and dedicated service to 
the library profession." Although Dr. 
Wheeler has received an honorary degree 
from Brown (Litt.D. in 1936) and three 
other degrees, the citation at the annual 
meeting of the ALA in Cleveland in July 
expressed an appreciation from his col- 
leagues which meant a great deal. The 
gold medal was accompanied by a $1000 
check. 

The Chairman of the Award Jury said: 
"From New England to the Nation's Cap- 
ital, in the South, on the West Coast, in 
the Midwest, and again in the East, Joseph 
Lewis Wheeler blazed new trails and in- 
troduced new concepts in library service. 
Always in the vanguard, he pioneered in 
administrative methods, publicity and pub- 
lic relations, and staff participation in the 
development of programs. Under his di- 
rection the Enoch Pratt Free Library (of 
Baltimore) attained a pre-eminent place 
among municipal libraries. 

"Many librarians are indebted to him 
for his in-service training and counsel and 
for the courses he taught at library schools. 
He stimulated reading by preparing or 
editing countless reading lists. In 1909, as 
Chairman of the Technical Libraries Com- 
mittee of the Special Libraries Association, 
he initiated the Industrial Arts Index and, 
as a member of the ALA Executive Board 
(1929-1933) he helped create the Junior 
Members Round Table and suggested the 



Samuel A. Steere intended to come on 
for the Alumni Leadership Conference, but 
his old "football knee" kicked up; and the 
doctor said that he must not only do less 
walking, but must also not even think of 
driving his car from Akron to College Hill. 

Another enforced absentee was William 
P. Burnham, who was kept at home on 
Squirrel Island by an accident to Mrs. 
Burnham. 

Charles R. Stark, Jr., reported from 
Spokane in midsummer that a piece of his 
had been accepted by American Legion 
Magazine and that it might appear in the 
September issue. "Have had two orders 
for stories from other magazines," he said, 
"so I'm just a bit on the busy side for a 
change." 

E. A. Batchelor is author of the fore- 
word to Ty Cobb's autobiography, which 
Doubleday & Co. announced for publica- 
tion on Sept. 22. At the time of Cobb's 
death, Batchelder wrote for his old news- 
paper, the Detroit Free Press, a special 
article about Cobb as a player — a subject 
with which he was intimately familiar as 
Sports Editor of the Free Press during 
Cobb's active years. 

William K. White and Mrs. White are 
at home at 53 Sydenham St., South, Kings- 
ton, Ont., "for the fall at least," Bill wrote 
in a mid-August letter. "We'll watch foot- 



first project. Library Literature. 

"Beginning in 1923 and continuing since 
his retirement, he has served as surveyor 
and consultant on more library adminis- 
tration and building projects than any 
other person. His influence has extended 
from Portland, Maine, to San Diego, from 
Cuba to Vancouver. As a result of his 
efforts, library buildings are inviting and 
attractive as well as convenient. His in- 
terest in efficiency and economy is appar- 
ent in the libraries he has directed, as 
well as in his surveys which have affected 
the progress of so many others. 

"A prolific writer, he has produced such 
influential works as The Library and the 
Community and The American Public Li- 
brary Building, the latter with Alfred Mor- 
ton Githens. His continued interest in the 
library profession has been demonstrated 
by his authorship of Problems and Prog- 
ress in Education for Librarianship and 
The Effective Location of Public Library 
Buildings, published after his retirement. 
A new book. Public Library' Administra- 
tion, co-authored by Herbert Goldhor, will 
be completed this November. Two years 
ago he presented a project to give help 
and information to the 6000 libraries in 
communities under 10,000 population. 
This project is about to go into operation 
after brewing in his fertile mind for over 
30 years. 

"For his outstanding leadership in the 
library profession and in token of the 
tremendous contributions he has made to 
libraries of all kinds — public, college, 
school, and special — and through them to 
American life, this Award is presented." 



ball games, the World's Series; Queen's 
University here will provide some enter- 
taining football-wise. . . . The news about 
gifts to Brown was good tidings indeed. 
And the July Brown Alumni Monthly was 
a fine issue, and I gobbled up the details 
and pictures hungrily." 

The Rev. Levi S. Hoffman, now retired 
in Lansdale, Pa., was dehghted to get a 
postcard from Bob Curley and Merrick 
Streeter in July. "Came from the County 
Fair in Maine," Levi wrote. 

Dr. Vernon K. Krieble, who reached 
mandatory retirement age at Trinity Col- 
lege several years ago, was pictured last 
summer in the Hartford Courant. He was 
shown receiving a plaque which proved 
that the fast-growing company, of which 
he is President, American Sealants, has been 
elected to membership in the American 
Supply and Machinery Manufacturers As- 
sociation. 

The University Library noted in a recent 
report that Alfred H. Gurney had given 
Archives a collection of manuscripts con- 
cerned chiefly with the Class of 1822. 



1908 
Dr. Albert Thomas and Lorelta joined 
Bob Pinkham and Sally July 1 on the oc- 
casion of their 50th wedding anniversary 



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at WoUaston and enjoyed seeing the five 
children and a dozen grandchildren. Bob 
was preparing for the ministry years ago 
when the family printing business required 
his services and talents. 

Las Swain plans another trip to India 
with Dr. Anna sometime in October. 

Denny Densmore is trying to grow old 
gracefully up there in Lebanon. 

Chris Greene, our oldest classmate at 
80. is planning to retire. 

Charley Perry is in good health in Glen- 
dale, Calif., and his friend Syd Winslow 
reports that he is getting along, with the 
help of "lots of pills." 

Bill MacDonald recently lost his wife, 
and he is so ill himself that he has found 
it necessary to retire. 

1909 

Adolph Gorman reports that he is semi- 
retired. However, he drops in at his office 
every day, keeping his finger in his various 
pies. 

Westy Westervelt celebrated his 77th 
birthday in July, "up and around watching 
a good corn crop mature." 

Albert and Mrs. Harkness were abroad 
for most of the summer. 

1910 

Claude M. Wood had a serious heart 
operation during the summer. For those 
who wish to drop him a note, he is at 
116 Groveland Ave., Greenwood, R. I. 

1911 
In Rhode Island during the summer to 
star in "Show Girl," Carol Channing spoke 
of her father's Rhode Island associations. 
George Channing began his newspaper ca- 
reer on the Providence Journal, later be- 
came one of the national leaders of the 
Christian Science Church and editor of all 
its publications except the Monitor. 

1912 
Dr. W. Randolph Burgess will serve as 
Regents Professor of Economics at the 
University of California at Berkeley dur- 
ing the second semester. He will conduct 
a seminar in economic matters of rather 
broad scope, with many lectures put into 
writing for future publication. Returned 
from his duties as U.S. Representative 
to NATO, Ambassador Burgess has been 
living at the Jefferson in Washington, D. C. 

1913 
The George T. Metcalf Co. (advertis- 
ing) has been moved from 31 Canal St. 
to the former offices of Nicholson File 
Co., 33 Acorn St., Providence. 

Mrs. Carleton D. Morse has added to 
the University Library another portion of 
the whaling collection which was formed 
by her late husband, one of the founders 
of the Friends of the Library. 

1914 

Denver papers in August reported Judge 
Joseph E. Cook "feeling fine" after major 
surgery which took him to St. Luke's Hos- 
pital on the first day of his annual vaca- 
tion. 

Walter H. Sprague is senior teacher {in 



Presidential Drives 

Faunce, Wriston, Barbour, and 
Maxcy will be street names on the 
site of old Aldrich Field under the 
plan of Jacob T. Sydney '18 who 
bought the 11-acre parcel and pro- 
poses to develop it as choice house 
lots. The Aldrich name will continue 
in that assigned to the area, the 
Aldrich Estates plat. 

Sydney's bid of $306,300 was the 
highest received by the University 
when it advertised the section of 
its former athletic facility for sale. 
Submitting his plat plan to the 
Providence City Council in June, 
he said he and his sons thought it 
would be a good idea to include 
Faunce, Wriston, Barbour, and 
Maxcy Drives in the development. 
(Other Brown Presidents are, of 
course, already identified on City 
maps in Wayland Ave. and Man- 
ning St., for example.) Two of his 
sons are Brown alumni: Allyn W. 
Sydney '49 and Irwin L. Sydney '55. 



service) at Cass Technical High School, 
Detroit. He has taught in Detroit schools 
for 44 years. 

Col. Maurice A. Wolf served as Build- 
ing Committee Chairman of the newly-com- 
pleted Lyra Brown Nickerson Settlement 
House in Providence. At the dedication 
ceremonies in June he was presented with 
a plaque. During the Washington conven- 
tion of the Military Order of Foreign Wars 
of the United States, he acted as Secretary- 
General. 

1915 

Judge Robert E. Quinn, Chief Judge of 
the U.S. Court of Military Appeals, was 
included in a Phi Kappa "hall of fame" 
which the fraternity's magazine published 
this fall. 

1916 

Jesse Bailey has been elected for a 
three-year term as Director of the Retail 
Trade Bureau of the Greater Hartford 
Chamber of Commerce. He was active in 
the Hartford Times Summer Camp pro- 
gram. 

Cecil M. P. Cross was asked by the 
Government to assist in its preparations 
for the recent meeting of Pan-American 
States and attended the conference on the 
staff of the U.S. delegation at Punta del 
Este. 

Gus Houtman has "liberated" a 1916 
Liber Brimensis which was floundering 
around among other antiques in a small 
Antique Shop in Markham, on Baltimore 
Pike, 20 miles outside Philadelphia. Gus 
wonders "how that edifying tome ever got 
stranded there," and he has offered to mail 
it to the first member of the Class who 
promises to give it a good home. Write to 
Gus at 112 West Front St., Media, Pa. 

Frederick L. Ferris has retired as Edi- 
torial Page Director of the Trenton Times 
after 34 years on the staff of the paper. 



He is still serving as Chairman of the 
Journalism Department at Rider College, 
with the rank of Associate Professor. In 
addition, he is writing editorials for Tren- 
ton radio station WBUD and is a con- 
sultant to the Hopewell Township Board 
of Education, in charge of public relations. 
Fred is writing a history of Rider College 
for publication in connection with the in- 
stitution's 100th anniversary in 1965. 

Harry H. Burton is the Blue Cross rep- 
resentative on the Rhode Island Medical 
Economics Council. The council, which 
was set up two years ago to study health 
cost problems and make recommendations, 
consists of representatives of the medical 
profession, hospitals, and the Blue Cross 
and Physicians Service insurance plans. 
He's had many years of close observation 
of hospital affairs as a Trustee of the 
Rhode Island Hospital. 

1918 

James V. Bennett, Director of the U.S. 
Bureau of Prisons, testified in June before 
a Senate subcommittee conducting hearings 
on possible effects of violence in television 
programs. He told the group that violence 
on TV is a definite cause of juvenile de- 
linquency, makes it harder to recruit good 
police officers, and hurts morale of those 
already in law enforcement service. "Mod- 
ern television is something like the old- 
fashioned street-corner pitchman who at- 
tracted and entertained his audience with 
card tricks and magic while he sold them 
snake-oil remedies." He stated that there 
is strong evidence that exposure to crime, 
violence, and mayhem on television "has a 
deleterious emotional impact on youth and 
creates the risk of delinquent behavior." 

Cy Flanders was awarded a handsome 
plaque by the VFW at the State Conven- 
tion in Bridgeport, June 10, "for out- 
standing service to the handicapped." 

Walter Adler served as Vice-Chairman 
in Southern New England for the Harvard 
Business School Reunion in June. 

1919 

Arthur J. Dows, Associate Dean of the 
Worcester Junior College Evening Division 
and Director of Alumni Relations, has re- 
tired after 15 years with the school. He 
was Principal of Dennis Consolidated 
School on Cape Cod in 1946 when he 
was appointed Dean of Students at the 
WJC evening division. In 1948 he was 
named Dean of the Evening Division and 
held that position until 1958, when he 
asked to be relieved of his duties. He was 
appointed Associate Dean of the Division 
and Director of Alumni Relations in that 
year. 

1920 
Bruce N. Coulter had a recent honor at 
Cranbrook School, where he has long been 
an ornament to its Faculty. Some time ago 
the Donner Foundation of Philadelphia ap- 
propriated money to establish a chair 
or fellowship at 15 leading preparatory 
schools. The first Donner Fellow at Cran- 
brook was Coulter. A torn cartilage pre- 
vented Banty from bringing his wife to the 
August conference at Brown. Instead, he 
left his summer place in Middlebury, Vt., 



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to return at once to Michigan, hoping that 
his surgeon might fix him up for the start 
of the school year (at least on crutches). 
Coulter reported during the summer that 
he had had a pleasant visit from Ray 
Halliday, who had been nearby in Corn- 
wall. 

Edgar Noll was elected President of the 
National Office Machine Dealers Associa- 
tion at its 36th annual convention in June. 
He is President of Noll Business Machines, 
Inc., Philadelphia. 

Lou Pieri, owner of the Rhode Island 
Reds, announced during the summer a new 
working agreement with the Boston Bruins 
which gives the Providence hockey club 
the loan of seven players over a three-year 
period. Pieri has long complained about 
the tight hold the National League teams 
have on North American, particularly Ca- 
nadian, hockey players. "I feel we have 
taken a big step towards returning our 
team to the independent status it enjoyed 
as a member of the American Hockey 
League a few years ago," he stated. 

Howard C. Sweet this summer retired as 
President of Starkweather & Shepley, Prov- 
idence insurance firm. His address: Old 
Post Rd., Westerly, R. I. 

1921 

The Brown University Library has re- 
ceived a part of George W. Potter's collec- 
tion of books on American literature and 
American history. His widow, the late Mrs. 
Potter, also gave the Library two versions 
of the manuscript of 5;. Patrick's Ameri- 
cans, the history of the Irish in Ireland and 
in America. The publisher, Little, Brown, 
later changed the title to To the Golden 
Door. 

1922 

Thomas Corcoran, Washington attorney 
and unofficial Administrative Assistant to 
President Roosevelt during FDR's first 
terms, said this summer the United States 
must "Win Something" if people around 
the world are going to continue to believe 
in us. "They are wondering if we can de- 
liver a Sunday punch." he was quoted in 
the press. "It will not be a risk-less opera- 
tion, but we can't afford to take anything 
lightly." 

Dr. Philip M. Brown, a former member 
of the Brown Faculty, has been appointed 
Chairman of the Economics Department 
at Bowdoin College. Dr. Brown received 
his Master's degree from Stanford in 1924 
and his Ph.D. degree from Harvard in 
1931. A member of the Bowdoin Faculty 
since 1934, he became a full professor in 
1949. 

Lloyd Price McAllister, General Man- 
ager in charge of production with Lukens 
Steel Co., has been promoted to Vice- 
President of the Coatesville, Pa., firm. 
He has been a member of the Lukens 
Membership Committee since 1957. 

As far as our records show, Frederick 
C. Reynolds of 26 South St., Plainville, 
Mass., is 1922's leading grandfather with 
14 grandchildren. Does any classmate have 
more? Fred is with the Massachusetts 
Division of Employment and has been ac- 
tive in the Plainville civic and fraternal 
affairs. A descendant of lohn Howland, 




WHEN GEN. DOUGLAS MacARTHUR escaped from Corregidor early in World War II, his personal 
physician and aide was Dr. Charles H. Morhouse '25, officer in the Air Force Medical Corps. Last 
summer Morhouse greeted his old commander when MocArthur visited Yokota Air Station in Japan, 
where Morhouse is assigned as Surgeon, Fifth Air Force. Now a Brigadier General, Morhouse is the 
only officer still on active duty who accompanied the General's party on the memorable breakthrough 
of Japanese lines on the 1942 journey to Austrolio and the restoging of American strength. 



Mayflower passenger, he is interested in 
genealogy and has done considerable re- 
search. Now that his children are grown 
up, he hopes to do more such studies. 

Ernest Bainton, with the New England 
Tel. and Tel., is living at 31 Glen St., 
Melrose, Mass. 

Henry Ise has been actively engaged as 
Class representative for the Bicentennial 
Development Fund. 

Russ Mack has moved from South 
Easton to Brockton, Mass., where his 
address is 64 Woodside Ave. 

Brad Oxnard, former R. I. amateur 
champion, and his guest. Bob Quinn of 
West Warwick, were three down after only 
three holes but fought back and captured 
the championship in the Metacomet Coun- 
try Club's 24th annual Member-Guest 
Golf Tournament. 

1923 

Mark Nevin's photo was on the cover of 
New Jersey Music and Arts for June be- 
cause he was one of "two distinguished 
members of the Music Educators Associa- 
tion of New Jersey selected to be honored 
for their meritorious service." An article 
in the magazine said: "Nevin is one of 
the very few MEA members who have 
gained national recognition. Piano teaching 



pieces and books that he has composed 
over the past two decades have carried 
his name to every State in the Union, 
gaining him popular acclaim in a highly 
competitive field. Lecture tours have made 
him known personally to thousands of 
teachers. . . . Best known as a composer, 
Mr, Nevin entered that field quite by 
chance. However, he had become a teacher 
via a far more final decision than most 
pedagogues. Music had been a gratifying 
avocation all his life." 

After graduation from Princeton, Nevin 
studied at Juilliard hut "felt safer" in busi- 
ness when it came to earning a living. But 
in 1938 he opened a studio and accepted 
his first pupil. He is now working on the 
fourth and final book of a series for young 
pupils, has done considerable arranging, 
and continues his lecture-demonstrations. 
He is a Past President of MEA. After 
coming back for his first visit to Brown 
since his Freshman year (he was present 
for the 1923 reunion in lune), he made 
his fourth trip to Europe in four summers. 

Kilgore Macfarlane, Jr., was the origi- 
nator of a proposed boat trip down the 
Colorado River by the Governors of 
Arizona and Utah, according to the Salt 
Lake Tribune. The trip, to take place early 
in 1962, would be the last down the river 



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in its natural state before the lake behind 
the new Glen Canyon Dam starts filling. 
Macfarlane, who is a Director and Chair- 
man of the Finance Committee of the new 
Guaranty Bank in Phoenix, Ariz., is a spe- 
cial assistant to Arizona's Governor, Paul 
Fannin. The new 1st Security Bank of 
Mesa, Ariz., has just elected him Chair- 
man of its Board. 

Kenneth Sheldon is taking three months 
of home leave from his duties in the Phil- 
ippines as an industrial advisor to the 
government. On completing his 26-month 
tour, he was asked to continue and will 
return for at least another year. "It's been 
a long haul," he wrote Bill McCormick, 
"but in retrospect I am more than mildly 
surprised at how much I have been able 
to get done." 

Prof. Leonard Sayles, Chairman of the 
Biology Department at C.C.N.Y., spent his 
summer holidays in his old home town of 
Chepachet. R. I. 

The Richard Thorndike advertising and 
marketing services agency, established in 
Providence some 25 years ago, has become 
Thorndike & Thomas as a result of a 
recent partnership. The new offices are in 
the Howard Building, and Dick has an- 
nounced that the new organization will 
continue advertising and marketing serv- 
ices to the clients of the Richard Thorn- 
dike agency. 

Bill McCormick, Alumni Secretary at 
Brown, has been elected a member of the 
Board of Governors of the University Club 
for a three-year term. 

When Charlie Soforenko served as 
Chairman of the annual Seniors Golf 
Tournament at Fall River Country Club 
in June, he had the pleasure of presenting 
the low gross trophy to an old college 
friend. Brad Oxnard '22. 

1924 

Harry Bernard has been appointed to 
the newly established position of Executive 
Engineer in the Export Sales Department 
of Mack Trucks, Inc. He has been with 
the outfit since leaving Brown, and his 
experience has included designing, produc- 
ing, selling, and servicing Mack vehicles 
and components. His responsibilities in his 
new position will include overseas trips 
to open new markets and strengthen exist- 
ing contracts in South Africa, the Congo, 
Chile, and India. 

Horace E. Forsyth is Assistant Cashier 
and Manager of the Bay Head branch of 
the Ocean County National Bank. He has 
been an employee of the New Jersey bank 
since 1953. He is a Director and Assistant 
Treasurer of the Bay Head Building and 
Loan Association, a member of the Bay 
Head Board of Adjustment and the Plan- 
ning Board, and Treasurer of the Ocean 
County Girl Scout Council. 

S. Everett Wilkins proudly announced 
on July 1 the association of Richard L. 
Wilkins '53 with him and Grafton H. 
Willey in the general practice of law. At 
the same time he also announced a new 
location — Suite 624, Howard Bldg., 10 
Dorrance St., Providence. Sam was named 
President of the University Club in June. 

Mr. and Mrs. Carleton Goff, in Europe 
again last summer, encountered Mrs. Bruce 




LINNEtL JONES '32, as Public Relations Di- 
rector, is filling a newly-created post for Con- 
tinental Baking Company. His headquarters are 
in Rye, N. Y. Jones was formerly Account Su- 
pervisor with Tex McCrary, Inc., New York. 

M. Bigelow and her parents in the Cots- 
wolds. 

WGMS radio gave a half-hour salute to 
Phi Beta Kappa in late July, featuring the 
PBK Association in the District of Colum- 
bia, of which Edward R. Place is Presi- 
dent. He was returned to office for his 
fifth term, while Earle V. Johnson was 
reelected to the Executive Committee. The 
Secretary-Treasurer is Ann Parker Faul- 
coner, Pembroke '50. Others active in the 
Washington group last spring: Theodore 
Francis Green '87, Thomas Corcoran '22, 
Louis P. Willemin '36, and Maxwell Kauf- 
man '30. 

Wesby R. Parker, President of Dr. Pep- 
per Co., Dallas, has another year to serve 
as Director of Brand Names Foundation. 

While Hobert D. Raskins was in New 
Orleans, he spotted an editorial about what 
a drawing card the cow was in New York's 
Bronx Zoo. The last line, "How now, 
Bronx cow," prompted a postcard to ask 
if there was a Brown man on the Times- 
Picayune. (Not that we know of.) 

Walter Bernard is an Extension Lecturer 
at Brown this fall, giving a double course, 
"Topics in Pre-College Mathematics." 

1925 

The New York Times in August pub- 
lished a picture of the proposed million- 
dollar library at Kenyon College as a 
memorial to Dr. Gordon Keith Chalmers, 
late President of Kenyon and author of 
the Advanced Placement Program. 

I. Austin Kelly, III, has given a Gilbert 
Stuart portrait to the Peddie School in 
memory of Gordon Chalmers, his Peddie 
classmate. The dedication last spring was 
attended by Mr. and Mrs. Kelly, his 
mother, Paul M. Chalmers '18, Associate 
Director of Admissions at M.I.T., Gor- 
don's son Geoffrey, and Mrs. William E. 
Chalmers, Gordon's mother. Kelly is an 
alumni representative to the Peddie Board 
of Corporators and founder and President 
of the National Employee Relationship 



Institute, Inc., consultants on pension and 
profit-sharing plans. Two years ago Kelly, 
a knowledgeable art collector, gave Peddie 
its first major work of art, a Salvator Rosa 
landscape. Through his generosity, the 
Peddie Library has acquired an enviable 
collection of first editions by English and 
American writers, including Goldsmith's 
"Vicar of Wakefield," Gibbon's "Decline 
and Fall of the Roman Empire," Fielding's 
"Tom Jones," and Mark Twain's "Tom 
Sawyer." 

S. J. Perelman read with mixed emo- 
tions about the opening of an off-Broad- 
way musical, "Smiling, the Boy Fell Dead." 
His publishers, Simon & Schuster, also 
noted that Perelman had been at work for 
a year on a book of memoirs under the 
same title. They protested that the Perel- 
man project "has been fairly well known 
in New York." The producers of the 
show insisted that it was all "a rare coin- 
cidence." 

Perelman, the eminent mocker of all 
fads and foibles, is readying for Broadway 
"Tlie Beauty Part," a scoffing assault on 
the general frenzy for spare-time creativ- 
ity. "On all sides today people are itching 
on an elaborate scale," chides S.J. "Every 
damned housewife is studying ballet or 
writing a novel." The project began to 
glimmer in Perelman's eye as the result of 
"Malice in Wonderland," his popular tele- 
vision play of 1959 which dissected the 
Hollywood way of life. 

W. Easton Louttit, Jr., has continued to 
add to the John Hay Collection and turned 
over to the Library a considerable portion 
of his world famous collection of books, 
periodicals, and broadsides on The Legend 
of the Wandering Jew. 

John J. Bauer, Senior Supervisor of 
Mathematics for the Massachusetts De- 
department of Education, represented the 
State at the Washington conference of 
Mathematics supervisors June 19 to 23 at 
the Health, Education, and Welfare De- 
partment. 

1926 

J. W. Nagle, Jr. has been appointed to 
the newly created post of Manager of 
Foreign Sales for The Gorham Co., a 
subsidiary of the Gorham Corporation. In 
his new assignment, he will concentrate on 
expanding Gorham's activities in foreign 
countries in all aspects of the export-im- 
port business. For the past 16 years, he has 
been Export Sales Manager for Gorham. 

R. Ralph Fitzpatrick, Woonsocket Jun- 
ior High School's Principal, dislikes today's 
educational emphasis on science and math- 
ematics. He considers it only a slice of 
the educational pie. "Especially for junior 
high school," he said, "we cannot place 
such emphasis on science and math as 
some writers would have us. It is more 
important to get ideas and use the ideas 
we get out of books so that we will be able 
to formulate intelligent concepts of our 
own. These ideas come from literature, 
reading, and social studies." Ralph has 
been Vice-Principal at the school since 
1944. 

Joseph W. Ress, one of the founders of 
the General Jewish Committee of Provi- 
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at the 16th annual meeting in June. The 
Committee looks after the welfare of the 
Jewish community of Greater Providence 
and meets the community's obligations in 
Israel and overseas. 

Dr. Walter S. Jones, President of the 
Northfield School Alumni Association, has 
been elected an alumni representative to 
the School's Board of Trustees. 

George J. Divine of the Weaver (Conn.) 
High School faculty became the first Hart- 
ford teacher to win a sabbatical leave 
under a new Board of Education policy. 
He plans to do advanced study in the 
humanities at the University of California 
at Berkeley. Appropriately enough, he 
will study under a John Hay Scholarship. 

Congressman William B. Widnall of 
New Jersey's 7th District was host to a 
group of Peddie School students last spring 
when they made their 18th annual Social 
Studies trip to Washington. 

H. Cushman Anthony was a member of 
the Committee which arranged the 1961 
Scout Executives' Conference for the New 
England Region. He directed Camp Yaw- 
goog, the summer headquarters of Narra- 
gansett Council, in another outstanding 
season. 

1927 

Gordon Dunn, Miami meteorologist and 
hurricane authority, was a guest on the 
TV show "To Tell the Truth" in August. 
He and two impostors provided an interest- 
ing episode and fooled the panel on their 
identities. 

Edward T. Richards, Providence attor- 
ney, was the speaker at the Alumni Din- 
ner during the Commencement exercises 
at Blair Academy, where he prepared for 
Brown. 

Frederick Bernays Wiener was elected 
Commander-General of the Military Order 
of Foreign Wars of the United States at 
its Washington convention early in the 
summer. This is the oldest national organ- 
ization for which officer veterans of all 
foreign wars and their descendants are 
eligible. H. Clinton Owen '28 was a Na- 
tional Delegate from Rhode Island to the 
same meetings. 

Irving O, Miner, Engineering Vice-Presi- 
dent and a Director of B-I-F Industries, 
has been named President of the Provi- 
dence Engineering Society. 

The Rev. Franklin D. Elmer, Jr., D.D., 
Minister of the First Baptist Church, Flint, 
Mich., has served as a Trustee of the Uni- 
versity of Chicago Divinity School and is 
a frequent lecturer at college chapels. 
He announced this summer that the church 
will henceforth be known as The Wood- 
side Church. 

1928 

Mr. and Mrs. Brackett Clark of Roch- 
ester, N. Y., established the A. Howard 
Meneely Fund at Wheaton College with 
an initial pledge of $100,000. The Fund, 
a memorial to the late President of the 
Norton institution, will be used to improve 
administrative and teaching salaries. Clark 
is a Wheaton Trustee. 

Dr. Lawlon P. G. Peckham last summer 
asked to be allowed to resume his former 
duties at Columbia University as Professor 



of French Literature, in which he is one 
of the country's widely recognized schol- 
ars. Since 1958 he had been Dean of 
Columbia's Graduate Faculties. President 
Kirk said: "Easily understandable to all 
who have known the deep satisfaction of 
teaching is the desire of Dr. Peckham to 
return to the classroom. We are grateful 
to him for the contribution he has made 
during his term as administrator." 

Walter and Mrs. Brownsword have been 
accepted as exchange teachers in England 
for the current academic year. They will 
both be teaching in London, Walter at 
Clapham College (a Junior-.Senior high 
school) and Mrs. Brownsword at a girls' 
elementary school. They sailed Aug. 17. 
Walter is head of the English Department 
at Central High School, Providence. 

G. Mason Gross and his wife of Pop- 
pasquash Rd., Bristol, have offered to 
erect a bell tower at St. Michael's Epis- 
copal Church there in memory of Mr. and 
Mrs. William S. Cherry. The tower will 
hold the 10 memorial bells now in Trinity 
Church, Bristol, which was closed last 
November, The hells were given to St. 
Michael's by the Episcopal Diocese of 
Rhode Island. Mrs. Gross is the daughter 
of Mr. and Mrs. Cherry. 

Dr. Dean D. Smith, Chief of Surgery 
at Wilson Memorial Hospital, has resigned 
as the hospital's education coordinator, a 
position he had held for five years. Dr. 
Smith received his medical degree from 
Johns Hopkins University, where he also 
interned. He has served as a member of 
the American Board of Surgery and as a 
Fellow of the American College of Sur- 
geons. He is also a member of the Ameri- 
can Medical Association and New York 
State and Broome County Medical Asso- 
ciations. 

Joseph B. Lewis, who supervised pay- 
ment of some $269,000 monthly in State 
pension funds, has himself retired as Chief 
of the Rhode Island Retirement Service. 
He had been kept from his office in the 
State House by illness since last April. He 
joined the system in its infancy in 1939 
and became Chief in 1947. 

1929 

Dr. Alden J. Carr has been appointed 
Professor of Education at Bloomfield Col- 
lege, where he will direct the new program 
in secondary-school teacher preparation. 
Dr. Carr has a Master's degree from 
Boston University, an Ed.M. from the 
University of Vermont, and the Ed.D. 
from Teachers College, Columbia. He has 
served as Chairman of the Department of 
Education at Texas Lutheran College since 
1959. 

Dr. Fiorindo A. Simeone, Chief of Sur- 
gery at Cleveland Metropolitan General 
Hospital, has been made a Commander in 
the National Order of the Cedars of Leba- 
non. This is the highest honor the Leba- 
nese government bestows on persons other 
than kings and presidents. It was in recog- 
nition of the fact that last year Dr. Sime- 
one directed the first open-heart surgery 
performed in Lebanon. 

James Cantor has been elected President 
of the Insurance Brokers Association of 
Massachusetts. He is a partner in Cantor 



& Co., of Lowell and Treasurer of Cantor 
Insurance Agency, Inc., Boston. He served 
as Secretary-Treasurer of the Insurance 
Brokers Association for the past two years, 
and prior to that he had served as Vice- 
President and a member of the Executive 
Council. 

1930 

William E. Bennett has been named 
District Sales Manager in the Providence 
office of Anaconda American Brass Co. 
He has been a sales representative in the 
Providence office for 18 years. Bill has 
been with the company since 1933. In 1942 
he was assigned to the Washington, D. C, 
office, handling government contract work 




DANIEL S. ANTHONY 35 

Rutgers Fellow 

DANIEL S. Anthony '35 has been Ex- 
ecutive Director for the past nine 
years of the Mayor's Commission on 
Group Relations in Newark, N. J. In this 
capacity, he organized and administers 
the operation of the first permanent and 
full-time Civil Rights Commission in the 
State. He has just been selected for the 
program of Urban Studies at Rutgers Uni- 
versity, supported by a Ford Foundation 
grant. 

Anthony was New Jersey Director for 
five years for the National Conference of 
Christians and Jews, during which period 
he experimented with new psychological 
techniques for reducing prejudice and dis.- 
crimination on an individual and group 
basis. He organized the Rutgers Workshop 
in Human Relations for community lead- 
ers and was its Director for three years. 

Other experiences in the field of human 
relations have included a two-year com- 
munity research project in Muncie, Ind., 
for the National Institute of Social Rela- 
tions, He has also instructed at the New 
School for Social Research in New York, 
spent three years as a Captain in the 
Army's Adjutant General's School, and 
serves as an expert on questioned docu- 
ments in the courts. 



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during World War II. In 1945 he was 
transferred to Providence as an outside 
sales representative. 

Hubert C. Hodge, West Haven indus- 
trialist, has been elected to the Board of 
Governors of New Haven College. He is 
Secretary of the American Buckle Co.. 
West Haven. Active in community affairs, 
he is Past President of the West Haven 
Rotary Club, Chairman of the Board of 
the West Shore Fire District, and a mem- 
ber of the Board of Governors of the 
Quinnipiack Club. 

Tom Birch has been named Sales Man- 
ager for Carpenter Brick & Clay Products 
Corp.. South Windsor, Conn. 

The late Dorman Searle was remem- 
bered again last summer when the Dolly 
Searle Memorial Golf Tournament was 
held at the Wannamoisett Country Club 
in East Providence. He was City Treasurer 
of East Providence and long prominent in 
sports in Rhode Island. 

1931 

Hector D. Laudati, Chairman of the 
Providence City Council Finance Commit- 
tee, accused the last session of the R. I. 
Legislature of "officious meddling" in the 
city's affairs. Councilman Laudati was em- 
bittered at the assembly's failure to pass 
several important pieces of legislation af- 
fecting urban renewal that were requested 
by the council. "No longer should impor- 
tant city legislation be subject to the whims 
of the deal makers," he stated, "No longer 
should programs that take months and 
years to develop be made subject to con- 
sideration during the last few hours of 
the last day of the legislature when every- 
one is half asleep." As a solution to this 
annual problem, he called on Mayor Reyn- 
olds to consider a home-rule charter for 
the City. The Providence Journal, in a lead 
editorial, supported the councilman. 

Judge William M. Mackenzie led a 
crusade during the summer to have the 
transportation of prisoners appearing be- 
fore Rhode Island courts transferred to 
State Police "for the protection of the 
whole community." He stated that State 
Police custody should even extend right 
into the courtroom "since for the most 
part deputy sheriffs have no training in the 
handling of prisoners, generally are un- 
armed, and probably would not know 
how to handle firearms even if they were 
armed." His comments stemmed from the 
escape of two prisoners in five days. Noth- 
ing was done about the situation, and late 
in the summer another prisoner escaped 
from the Newport County courthouse, ne- 
cessitating a State-wide search. 

Foster R. Sheldon has been reelected 
Town Clerk of South Kingstown, R. I., 
having been nominated by both parties. 

George F. Troy, Jr., was the Com- 
mencement speaker at Providence Country 
Day School in June when his son, Tim- 
othy, was a graduate. George continues 
as the Literary Editor of the Providence 
Journal-Bulletin. 

Wes Moulton, Alumni Secretary at Wil- 
liston Academy, recently accepted for the 
Academy a $1,000 check and a desk 
trophy in recognition of Williston's win- 
ning the Alumni Giving Incentive award 



Cra'w^ford's Chinese Art 

When the Pierpont Morgan Li- 
brary in New York reopens its Ex- 
hibition Hall after extensive reno- 
vation, its first exhibition will be a 
collection of Chinese calligraphies 
and paintings, 100 items in the pos- 
session of John M. Crawford '37, 
The opening is scheduled for Janu- 
ary, 

This will be the first public 
showing of the Crawford Collection, 
and a Library announcement says: 
"Leading authorities in the field of 
Chinese calligraphy and paintings 
believe it to be the finest private 
collection of its type in existence," 
It is particularly strong in examples 
of the Sung period (960-1279 A,D,), 
with many of China's greatest artists 
represented. There will also be stone 
and wood sculpture dating from the 
6th Century through the Sung pe- 
riod. Another section will be de- 
voted to the "Individualists" of the 
17th Century, 

A New England exhibition at the 
Fogg Museum will follow the New 
York dates, with the collection en- 
hanced by many of the Fogg's own 
items. 



"for distinguished achievement in the de- 
velopment of alumni support," Williston 
was one of two independent secondary 
schools in the entire nation which received 
the award, Fred A, Armstrong, Assistant 
Director of the United States Steel Foun- 
dation, presented the award to Wes at the 
46th annual meeting of the American 
Alumni Council, held in July at Holly- 
wood-by-the-Sea. Fla, 

The sympathy of the Class goes to 
Ronald Green. Jr,, at the death of his 
wife. She was the daughter of the late 
Edward P, Taft '04, 

Capt, Frederick L. Harson. USNR, of 
Providence has been named Executive 
Committeeman for Navy of the Reserve 
Officers Association of the United States. 
Capt. Harson, who was a Naval Aide to 
former Governor Del Sesto, has been on 
active and inactive status with the Navy 
for 19 years. Presently he is Commanding 
Officer of the ONr' Officers' School at 
South Weymouth, Mass, 

Richmond Day served as Chairman of 
the 35th Reunion of Providence Technical 
High School in June, 

Dr, Richard H. Howland, Head Curator 
of the Department of Civil History at the 
United States National Museum in Wash- 
ington, D, C, has been awarded Honorary 
membership by the American Institute of 
Interior Designers. He was one of six dis- 
tinguished persons to receive the honor, 
persons who are nationally known for their 
service to art and industry but who are not 
engaged in the practice of interior design. 

Arthur Novogroski, Providence attor- 
ney, has accepted more than $48,000 in a 
settlement of a suit brought against the 
Federal Government for improper dis- 



charge from his job as a Regional Attorney 
for the Department of Labor in Boston 
eight years ago. He is now with the firm of 
Roberts & Caffey, 

Irving Blanchard, formerly Manager of 
the Bradenton, Fla,, Chamber of Com- 
merce, is Executive Manager of the 
Greater Florence Chamber of Commerce, 
Florence, S, C, Son David received his 
M,E,E, from U,C,L,A, last summer, while 
son Alan is a Junior at Clemson, His wife 
Ada (Ada Moore, Pembroke '30) is taking 
it easy after four years of teaching in 
Florida, The new home address for the 
Blanchards is Windsor Rd,, Florence, 

C, Newton Kraus, Warren's famous ham 
radio operator, reported in August that he 
twice picked up both voice and signal 
transmissions from the second Soviet cos- 
monaut to circle the earth, Kraus made a 
tape recording of the craft's transmission 
signal but was unable to record the voice 
of Gherman Titov. 

Hillis K. Idleman is teaching senior high 
school English in Thomaston, Conn. Dur- 
ing his career, he has served in such posi- 
tions as Superintendent of Schools, high 
school Principal, and head of English De- 
partment with the Connecticut Department 
of Education, Most recently, he had been 
in Anchorage, Alaska. 

1932 

Dick Canning, President of the Ameri- 
can Hockey League, told the league's 
Board of Governors in June that he would 
retire from his post as soon as a successor 
could be found. His duties as head of the 
league, increasingly heavy, were beginning 
to interfere with his law practice in Rhode 
Island, 

John Hope, 2nd, has an important staff 
post in Washington, D, C, with the Presi- 
dent's Committee on Equal Employment 
Opportunity, He is Assistant Executive 
Director for Federal Employment, Hope, 
who received his A,M, from Brown in 
1932, has been in Nashville, Tenn,, for 
15 years as Director of Industrial Rela- 
tions in the Race Relations Department of 
the Congregational Christian Churches at 
Fisk University, During a year's leave in 
1958-59, he served as a research associate 
of the National Manpower Council at 
Columbia University, 

Morton J, Simon's summer postcard 
from Italy said: "I got a real bang out of 
seeing the original Marcus Aurelius and 
Caesar statues in Rome after living with 
them on the Brown Campus," 

"Teachers make a good school great," 
said the headline of a feature in the Mount 
Hermon magazine for June, Pictured was 
Gordon F, Pyper. Associate Director of 
Admissions, whose first appointment at the 
School was in 1926, 

Dr, David E, Bass, Chief Physiologist at 
the Environmental Protection Research Di- 
vision of the Natick (Mass.) Quarter- 
master Research Laboratory, had a rec- 
ommendation last summer for those who 
cared to listen on how to endure the hot 
sticky weather — WORK, It has been 
proven, according to Dr, Bass, that a rea- 
sonable amount of physical labor will help 
you become acclimatized to the heat. 
Other suggestions offered by Dr, Bass in 



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a Boston Herald last June included: a) 
wear as little clothing as possible; b) don't 
take cold showers; c) avoid folk-lore heat 
remedies. 

Prof. Louis J. Lehrman of the Graduate 
School of Social Work of the University 
of Pittsburgh is serving as a Senior Ful- 
bright Lecturer in Special Work at the 
Athens Technological Institute, Graduate 
School of Ekistics in Greece. 

The Rev. Canon Frederic P. Williams 
is serving as E.xecutive Assistant to Bishop 
Craine of Indianapolis. From 1950 to 1957 
he was Canon Preceptor of Christ Church 
Cathedral. Indianapolis. He became Dioc- 
esan Director of Christian Education in 
1957 and has held numerous diocesan 
posts since then. He has been instrumental 
in developing the "Indian Plan" of adult 
education now being used extensively in 
the Episcopal Church and other denomina- 
tions. 

1933 

Walter J. Matthews. Operating Manager 
of the Virginia Electric and Power Com- 
pany, announced his resignation in July to 
accept the position of Executive Vice-Pres- 
ident of the Public Service Company of 
Indiana. He moved from Richmond to 
Plainfield. Ind., to assume his new duties 
Oct. 1. Matthews had been with Vepco 
since 1936, serving in various positions in- 
cluding those of Superintendent at Fred- 
ericksburg. District Superintendent at Clif- 
ton Forge. District Manager at South 
Boston, and General Sales Manager at 
Richmond. He was appointed Operating 
Manager in 1958. Active in civic affairs, he 
was President of the Central Richmond 
Association until his departure for the 
Mid-West. 

John F. Sheasby has been named Man- 
ager of the Industrial Department of the 
Phoenix Chamber of Commerce. He has 
one of the most important jobs in the 
area's economic development — that of at- 
tracting new industries to Phoenix. Jack's 
last position before moving to Phoenix a 
year ago was as Vice-President and Gen- 
eral Manager of Richman Homes Corp.. 
Elkhart. Ind.. manufacturers of prefabri- 
cated and mobile homes. In August, 1960. 
Jack visited Los Angeles and Phoenix, 
seeking a healthful, dry climate, finally 
settling in Scottsdale, Ariz. He was selected 
from among 30 applicants for his new 
position. 

When Frank Hurd returned from the 
12th annual New England Real Estate 
Convention at Pike, N. H.. in July he 
brought back with him more than just the 
gems of wisdom usually picked up at such 
conventions. He carried home a trophy — 
won for hitting the longest ball during the 
golf tournament! 

1934 
George A. Baker. Jr.. has been elected 
to the Board of Directors of the Willi- 
mantic Trust Co. He is Vice-President of 
The American Screw Co., Division of 
Noma Lites. Inc. He joined the firm in 
1940 in Providence and served as a staff 
assistant in the sales production and gen- 
eral administrative departments prior to 
appointment as Vice-President in 1957. 




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EDWARD A. FONTAINE '38 has been named 
Vice-President of Stone & Webster Service Corp., 
one of the world's largest management advisory 
firms. Although previously associated with Stone 
& Webster for 10 years, he had most recently 
been Vice-President for Operations, Puget Sound 
Power and Light Company in Seattle. 

Since moving to the Connecticut commu- 
nity he has participated in numerous ac- 
tivities: he is a member of the Willimantic 
Rotary Club, a Trustee of the Windham 
Community Memorial Hospital, a Director 
of the Y.M.C.A. and of the Willimantic 
Chapter of the American Red Cross. 

The Rev. H. Campbell Eatough keeps 
active as Interim Minister. Southeastern 
Area. Massachusetts State Baptist Conven- 
tion, and as Editor of the Massachusetts 
Baptist Diiiest. 

Eugene M. McSweeney, who had held 
the position of Executive Director of the 
Lowell Development and Industrial Com- 
mission for 18 months, has accepted a sim- 
ilar position in Springfield, Mass. Prior to 
going to Lowell, he had headed the Gard- 
ner Industrial Foundation. 

Col. Herbert W. Coone is President of 
the Air Force Society of Internists and 
.Allied Specialists, which was founded in 
1957 and recently conferred honorary 
membership on Maj. Gen. Oliver Niess, 
Surgeon General USAF. Dr. Coone is 
Consultant in Internal Medicine, Consult- 
ants Division, Directorate of Professional 
Services, Office of the Surgeon General 
in Washington, D. C. In 131 worldwide 
medical facilities, more than two million 
are provided in-patient and clinic care un- 
der that .Air Force Agency. The Coones 
and their three daughters live in McLean. 
Va. 

John M. Sayward submitted his resigna- 
tion to Norwich University in July as Di- 
rector of the Vermont Bureau of Industrial 
Research. He had directed the State-sup- 
ported bureau at Norwich since late 1955. 
In this period it grew through increased 
appropriations to a two-man function in 
1957. and current legislation promises 
further increases this year. Interested in 
Vermont welfare and resources, John has 
helped various firms on individual prob- 



lems and has carried on practical research 
on bark, a promising forest industry by- 
product. Prior to taking this position, he 
had worked for 20 years on research in 
the chemical industry, and he holds patents 
in catalysis and rocket fuels. 

Carleton E. Hammond. Vice-President 
of the National Bank & Trust Co., Stam- 
ford, Conn., has been named Chairman of 
the General Unit, largest of the three top 
units in the 1961 United Fund campaign. 
A resident of Darien, Carleton is also 
Treasurer of the Darien Fund, which runs 
a separate drive. 

1935 

Vincent DiMase, Director of the Provi- 
dence Building Inspection Department, has 
been elected President of the Rhode Is- 
land Building Officials Association. The or- 
ganization is made up of building inspec- 
tors and zoning-enforcement officers. The 
new President is Director of the Depart- 
ment of Building Inspection in Providence. 
He is National Chairman of Committee 
No. 5 of the Building Officials Conference 
of America and a member of its Code 
Changes Committee. Vin also is past Presi- 
dent of the R. I. Society of Professional 
Engineers, past National Director of the 
National Society of Professional Engi- 
neers, and former R. I. Editor of the New 
England Professional Engineer Magazine. 

The arrival of Robert Jerrett III with 
the Class of 1965 continues an interesting 
tradition in the family. Jock is a Freshman 
just 30 years after his father. Robert Jer- 
rett, Jr. Thirty years before Grandfather 
E. Everett Harkness '05 came to Brown. 
His daughter, Hope Harkness Jerrett '38, is 
Jock's mother. 

Philip C. Ciciarelli, CLU. has been 
elected President of Springfield General 
Agents and Managers Association. He is 
associated with his father, John C. Cici- 
arelli, in the management of the Western 
Massachusetts agency of the United Bene- 
fit Life Insurance Co. and Mutual of 
Omaha. Phil has been active in the local 
association since coming to Springfield five 
years ago from Hawaii, where he and his 
father managed the Mutual and United 
agency for 12 years. 

Charles F. Moss, Jr., was Chairman 
last June for the 20th Reunion of the 
Class of 1931, Classical High School in 
Providence. 

Irving Brodsky has been named Presi- 
dent of the Bureau of Jewish Education in 
Providence for the forthcoming year. He 
is an officer in the Jewish Family and 
Children's Service, a former President of 
Temple Beth-Israel, and a member of the 
Rhode Island Bar. 

Gerry Cannon has been appointed Vice- 
President of Northam Warren, Division 
of Chesebrough-Pond's, Inc. In his new 
position, he will be responsible for the 
company's over-all marketing activities in 
the United States as well as in Canada. A 
well-known authority in the cosmetic field, 
he went to the Norwalk, Conn., firm three 
years ago as Assistant General Manager. 

Stan and Mrs. Henshaw "lost" a daugh- 
ter July 15 when Patricia was married to 
Charles Francis Stewart. 

Dr. John C. Allen of West Hartford has 



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ALDEN C. HENSEL '38 has been elected Vice- 
President for Manufacturing by Mueller Brass 
Co., Port Huron, Mich. Former Works Manager, 
he has responsibility for all manufacturing, en- 
gineering and maintenance, quality control and 
personnel functions. He has been Community 
Chest President and Campaign Manager and 
Vice-President of the School Board in Albion. 



been appointed by Governor Dempsey as 
a member of the Council of Tuberculosis, 
Hospital Care, and Rehabilitation. 

1936 

Alvin V. Sizer, formerly Assistant Man- 
aging Editor of the New Haven Register. 
has been appointed Managing Editor of 
the new combined Saturday Special edition 
of The Regi.sler and Journal-Courier. Alvin 
had been on special assignment since early 
May, helping to plan and prepare the new 
Saturday morning paper. 

Buenos A. W. Young has been ap- 
pointed Manager of Sears, Roebuck & Co.. 
Worcester. He joined the firm in 1937 in 
the shipping and receiving room of the 
Stamford. Conn., store. His most recent 
position was as Superintendent of Cata- 
logue Sales Operations in New England. 

Edward E. Androvette. Executive Secre- 
tary of the Merrimack Valley Region As- 
sociation, resigned the post last spring and 
joined Peter J. Agrafiotis as Account Ex- 
ecutive for the Manchester, N. H.. adver- 
tising and public relations firm. 

1937 

Gerald Smithson, Professor of Electrical 
Engineering at Lowell Technological In- 
stitute, has been awarded a grant by the 
Research Foundation for the current aca- 
demic year. He won the grant for his work 
on the development of analog computer 
aids for finding the roots of algebraic 
equations. 

Brig. Gen. Richard G. Stilwell, Deputy 
Commandant at West Point, was elevated 
to the position of Commandant of Cadets 
effective July 1. 

L. M. Foster, who received his Ph.D. 
in physical chemistry at Brown, is co- 
author of an important technical paper 



which appeared in the June issue of The 
Journal of tlie American Ceramic Society. 
He is Chief of the Physical Chemistry Di- 
vision of the Alcoa Research Laboratories, 
New Kensington. Pa., where research for 
the paper was conducted. He has been a 
member of the Alcoa staff since 1947. 

1938 

Philip F. Myers has joined the staff of 
Western College for Women as Assistant 
to the President. His responsibilities will 
include development and public relations 
as well as supervision of alumnae activi- 
ties. For the past two years, he has been 
Director of Development at Wittenberg 
College. From 1957 to 1959, he was a 
campaign director for Tamblyn and 
Brown. Inc., New York fund-raising firm. 
He attended the July Conference of the 
American Alumni Council in Florida. 

Edward A. Fontaine has been named a 
Vice-President of Stone & Webster Service 
Corp., New York City, one of the world's 
largest management advisory firms. He had 
been Vice-President for Operations of 
Puget Sound Power & Light Co., Seattle. 
Wash. However, he had 10 years" previous 
experience with Stone & Webster, leaving 
as head of the Electrical Department in 
1959. 

Merrill L. Hassenfeld, Chairman of the 
Board of Hassenfeld Bros., Inc., Central 
Falls and Pawtucket, has been named a 
Fellow of Brandeis University. In June he 
was elected Vice-President of the General 
Jewish Committee of Providence. 

Fred T. Allen, Vice-President of Manu- 
facturing for Pitney-Bowes, Inc., Stamford. 
Conn., has taken over the leadership of the 
Advance Gifts unit for the 1961 United 
Fund Campaign there. Fred will assume 
the responsibility for the collection of al- 
most two thirds of the entire campaign 
goal. 

George C. Henderson, Director of the 
Brown Photo Lab, is giving a course on 
photography in the University Extension 
series this fall. 

CDR. Arthur Newell, Jr., posted to the 
U. S. Navy Headquarters in London, is 
living at 34 Palace Gardens Terrace. He 
left Newport in August, having been an 
instructor at the Naval War College. 

Maury Kusinitz was elected President of 
the Guardian Life of America's Leaders 
Club at its recent meeting in San Fran- 
cisco. The Fall River agent led the com- 
pany agents in health insurance premiums 
and health applications in 1960. 

Dr. Samuel B. Burgess is the first full- 
time pathologist at Glover Memorial Hos- 
pital, Needham, Mass. He resigned his 
position as pathologist and Director of 
Laboratories at Cambridge City Hospital 
to accept his new assignment. Dr. Burgess 
is a diplomate of the National Board of 
Medical Examiners and a Fellow of the 
College of American Pathologists. 

1939 

Allan S. Hadfield has been promoted by 
the Virginia Electric and Power Company 
to be Norfolk District Manager. He had 
been System Superintendent-Distribution at 
Richmond headquarters. The post followed 
the departure of Walter J. Matthews '33 



from Richmond, where he had been Op- 
erating Manager. The former Norfolk 
manager moved into that spot. Hadfield 
joined Vepco at Alexandria as a junior 
engineer in 1940. With time out for Signal 
Corps service, he filled such posts as 
those of District Engineer at Roanoke 
Rapids. N. C; District Superintendent at 
Williamston. N. C; Richmond District En- 
gineer; and Portsmouth Manager. 

Dr. Charles J. Speel, II, visited friends 
on the Brown Campus in July. He is 
Chairman of the Department of Bible and 
Religion at Monmouth College, 

James B. Hawley spent the summer with 
his family at the famous Dixie Camp in 
Georgia, where he coached 90 boys in the 
fine art of tennis. September found him 
starting his 17th year of teaching French, 
the last 10 all in Michigan. His wife, Shir- 
ley, and his two children, James. Jr.. and 
Margaret, report the summer vacation a 
complete success. 

Tom Carey has left Springfield, Mass., 
for Fort Apache, Ariz., where he has 
joined the Bureau of Indian Affairs, U. S. 
Department of the Interior, as a guidance 
counselor at the Theodore Roosevelt In- 
dian School. "The Indian service got in 
my blood during the eight months in 1957 
and 1958 when I was physical instructor 
and athletic coach at the Indian school at 
Stewart. Nev. We served 16 tribes there, 
mostly from the Southwest." Tom said 
that he wants to assist with efforts to im- 
prove the lot of the Indian, who is still 
faced with educational and other problems 
on and off the reservation. A few years 
back, Tom had been football and hockey 
coach at Technical High in Springfield. 

Stuart Sherman had his fill of reunions 
and commencements in June. In the span 
of a week, he attended his 22nd Reunion 
on the Hill, went with his wife while she 




DR. SIDNEY K. SHEAR, Ph.D. '39, has been 
named Director of Research of the Naval War- 
fare Analysis Group, the long-range studies di- 
vision of the Operations Evaluation Group (OEG) 
of M.I.T. With OEG since 1945, he has headed 
various divisions and, at one point, served in 
London as representative of the U. S. armed 
forces with operations research agencies. 



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renewed old acquaintances at Wellesley, 
and observed his son graduate from Moses 
Brown and his daughter from Lincoln. 

1940 

Horace A. Clem, General Plant Super- 
visor of New Jersey Bell Telephone Co.. 
has been General Plant Manager of the 
company. He joined as a cable splicer in 
1945 and was appointed a chief switchman 
in 1948. He was made a division plant 
manager in 19.^8. 

David L. Hall has been named Manager 
of the DIG plant at West Milton, N. Y.. 
test site of the Knolls Atomic Power Lab- 
oratory. Hall will be responsible for con- 
struction, test, and operation of the 
General Electric-operated plant. 

David W. Borst has left the General 
Electric Company. On Sept. 1 he reported 
to the International Rectifier Corp., HI 
Segundo, Calif., as application engineer for 
silicon diode and controlled rectifiers. 

Long out of the country on Government 
business, E. Howard Hunt provides a new 
D. C. address: 5029 Millwood Lane, 
Washington 16. 

The Ray Currans" Hawaiian holiday was 
noted in a recent ad of a Providence travel 
agency. They viewed the eruption of a 
volcano in mid-July. 

1941 
Daniel M. Braude of the Boston-Braunig 
Agency of the Massachusetts Mutual Life 
Insurance Company has qualified for mem- 
bership in the firm's recently created Presi- 
dent's Club. He sold more than a million 
dollars of individual life insurance in the 
Massachusetts Mutual last year. Dan 
joined the agency in 1953 after 12 years 
of managerial experience with a shoe man- 
ufacturer. 

Dr. W. Gordon Milne is Professor of 




DR. ARTHUR I. HOLLEB '41 has been named 
Associate Medical Director, Memorial Hospital 
for Cancer 8. Allied Diseases, New York. He will 
be executive officer for the surgery training and 
coordinate all clinical teaching, under which 
more than 150 resident physicians take post- 
graduate training annually. He instructs in sur- 
gery at Cornell Medical College, too. 



English at Lake Forest College. He was 
a Fulbright lecturer on American Litera- 
ture at Wverzburg University in Germany 
in 1958 and 1959. 

Peter Allport, President of the American 
National Advertisers, Inc., of New York, 
has been appointed to the Board of Di- 
rectors of Brand Names Foundation to 
represent ANA again this year. 

1942 

Leonard Romagna went to work in Au- 
gust as the new Executive Art Director for 
Montgomery Ward in New York. The re- 
leases pointed out: "Previously with 
Wonuin's Day as Creative Art Director, he 
has won several awards in the annual Art 
Director's Show for e.xcellence in layout 
and typography. He is a member of the 
N. Y. Art Directors Club, National So- 
ciety of Art Directors, Society of Illus- 
trators, Brown University Club, and Port 
Washington Yacht Club, where he retains 
an active interest in sailing." Len passed 
through Providence during the summer to 
show Brown to his sons, recalling (among 
other matters) the hurricane of 1938 
which was part of his original welcome. 
In Port Washington, N. Y., he is writing 
for local musicals and singing baritone in 
the Congregational Church Choir ("never 
had the nerve to do it on the Hill"). 

John E. Petersen is a writer in the Pub- 
lic Information Office at the U. S. Air 
Force Academy, Colorado. 

Dr. Leland Jones. Rhode Island physi- 
cian who specializes in open heart surgery, 
played host at an outdoor party at his 
home in July to 27 of his ex-patients, 
ranging in age from 3 to 22. A busy after- 
noon of swimming, sailing, and games was 
topped off with a barbecue. Dr. Jones is 
chief of cardiovascular and thoracic sur- 
gery at St. Joseph's and Roger William 
General Hospitals and thoracic surgeon 
at Miriam Hospital. 

Henry Dursin has been named Area 4 
Chairman on the 1961 Campaign Com- 
mittee of the United Fund of Northern 
Westchester. Henry is a member of the 
Board of Directors of the United Fund 
and was Chairman of the first fund drive 
in Pleasantville, N. Y., in 1959. He is 
Supervisor of Public Relations Research 
for the General Electric Co., with offices 
in New York. 

Thomas E. Morton has been promoted 
to the position of Administrative Manager 
of the Industrial Sales Division of Puro- 
lator Products, Inc., Rahway. N. J. In 
his new position he is responsible for all 
administrative functions of the new divi- 
sion as well as contributing to the expan- 
sion and development of markets through 
manufacturers, representatives, and dis- 
tributors. Tom has been with the firm since 
1951, when he began as a sales engineer 
in Ohio and Illinois. 

Stephen H. DoUey, Vice-President of 
Winter Mortgage Co., Los Angeles, is a 
1961-62 Vice-President of Southern Cali- 
fornia Mortgage Bankers Association 
board. He is also serving as a Regional 
Director for the Associated .Alumni. 

David E. Fallon, owner-operator of the 
David E. Fallon Insurance Agency of 
Northampton, Mass., has purchased the 




VINCENT L. BENTON '38 has been appointed 
Automotive Distributor Sales Manager for the 
Thermoid Division of H. K. Porter Company of 
Pittsburgh. In previous posts he was Manager 
of Distributor Sales, Clinton Engines Corp.; Zone 
Manager for the From Corp.; and Sales Manager 
of Gilbert and Barker Mfg. Co. 

modern one-story office building where the 
agency is located at 60 Main St. He pur- 
chased the Francis J. Mutter insurance and 
real estate agency last September. 

Dr. F. Karl Willenbrock of Harvard, an 
expert in physics and electronics, served 
during the summer as senior consultant of 
the new Sperry Rand research center in 
Sudbury, Mass. He is Associate Dean of 
Engineering and Applied Physics at Har- 
vard. His assignment at Sperry Rand was 
to help shape advanced scientific programs, 

1943 

Dr. Lester L. Vargas, Providence heart 
surgeon, has been appointed Rhode Island 
Hospital's first full-time Surgeon-In-Chief. 
The appointment will be effective Nov. 1. 
Dr. Vargas has pioneered in research 
which led to the establishm.ent of an open- 
heart surgery program at Rhode Island 
Hospital. "Dr. Vargas" primary role as 
Surgeon-In-Chief will be to give leadership 
to the research and educational activities 
in surgery at Rhode Island Hospital es- 
sential to maintaining high-quality patient 
care," according to an announcement by 
Oliver G. Pratt, Executive Director of 
Rhode Island Hospital. "He will continue 
to be active in surgery and research re- 
lated to the circulatory system, his major 
field of interest." Dr. Vargas was gradu- 
ated siiniina cum laiiile from George 
Washington School of Medicine in 1945. 
Since 1955 he has been on the attending 
staflf at Rhode Island Hospital, where he 
has headed the laboratory work and surgi- 
cal and clinical research which, in 1959, 
resulted in the inauguration of open-heart 
surgery at the hospital. 

John H. Lyman has been promoted to 
the post of City Editor of the Pcilo Alio 
Times, after six years with that California 
paper. He had been on the staff of its 
sister paper, the Redwood City Tribune, 



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D. FRANCIS FINN '43 is the new Business Manoger and Assistant Treasurer of Purdue University, 
where he hod been Purchasing Agent since 1955. He had held a similar post at Brown University. He 
has been a Director of the national association of purchasing agents and President of the Greater 
Lafayette Purchasing Association in Indiana. The family group was photographed during the August 
conference of alumni leaders at Brown University. 



for two years before that. There had been 
earlier newspaper work in Coos Bay, Ore., 
and Worcester. Mass., and he holds a 
Master's degree in journalism from Stan- 
ford (where he also studied law). 

David A. Forster was carrying on a 
family tradition when he became President 
of the Brown Club of Northeastern New 
York. It was organized under that name 
by his father, Robert Forster '03, who 
brought together groups previously formed 
in Albany, Troy, and Schenectady. 

Robert Fisler and Daniel Fairchild '45 
were finalists in the pingpong tournament 
aboard the Leonardo da Vinci on an At- 
lantic run last spring. 

W. Robert Erickson is Director of Re- 
search for the Civic Federation in Chicago. 
Speaking before the Union League Club at 
a Public Finance Forum, he described 
Chicago's pension funds. His paper subse- 
quently appeared in Men and Events for 
July. He is Chairman of the Club's Public 
Affairs Committee and Chairman of the 
Metropolitan Area Planning Committee. 
He also heads a subcommittee on State 
finance at the Union League Club, spend- 
ing several months observing the Illinois 
Legislature and the new Governor, Otto 
Kerner '30. 

Robert C. Achron, Editor of the edi- 
torial pages of the Worcester Telegram 
and The Evening Gazette, has been elected 
President of the New England Professional 
Chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, national 
journalism fraternity. Bob joined the pa- 
pers in 1946 and joined the editorial staff 
in 1953. 

Kendall W. Fisher is 'Vice-President of 
the newly-organized North Coast Sales 
Co., Inc., which will represent Jefferson 
Electric transformer and ballast lines in 
New England. He started with the firm 
five years ago as sales representative. Prior 
to that he was sales representative for 
eight years with Westinghouse Electric 
Supply Co., Boston. 

Clinton R. Carlisle has been appointed 
Manager of the Hartford District for Allis- 
Chalmers Industries Group, Hartford. He 
has been with the company since 1949, 
serving as an application engineer in the 
Control Department before being named 



a sales representative in the Hartford Dis- 
trict in 1953. 

1944 

C. Robinson Fish, 3rd, CLU, has been 
elected a Director of Boston Life Under- 
writers Assoc. He is affiliated with the 
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co.. 
Boston office. He is on the Board of H, A. 
Hills & Sons, Wellesley, and is a Vestry 
Member, St. John's Church, Newtonville. 

David G. Fernald. a tax specialist with 
the firm of Lybrand, Ross Bros, and Mont- 
gomery, has been elected President of the 
Upper Montclair Republican Club, one of 
the oldest established suburban Essex 
County political groups. Dave received his 
Master's in Business Administration from 
Harvard, his Law degree from Columbia. 

Donald M. Joseph. President of the 
General Alumni Association of the Peddie 
School, contributed a sound discussion of 
alumni support to its magazine last spring. 

1945 

Richard Kaffenberger has been pro- 
moted from Assistant Manager to Man- 
ager of the Customer Service Group with 
E. I. DuPont. He is in the Film Depart- 
ment of the Market Development & Cus- 
tomer Service Laboratory. Wilmington, 
Del. Dick and Dorothy live at 2407 Caney 
Rd., Wilmington, with their son and two 
daughters. 

Alan P. CoUer has been appointed Act- 
ing Manufacturing Manager of the Heat 
Transfer Department at the Steam Divi- 
sion of Westinghouse Electric Corp., Me- 
dia. Pa. He has been with the company 
since 1948. 

Guy W. Fisk has been promoted to 
East Coast Sales Manager of the Wiring 
Service Department of General Electric 
Co., with headquarters in New York City. 

Hawley O. Judd, associated with Travel- 
ers Insurance Co., Hartford, has qualified 
for the professional designation of CPCU 
(Chartered Property and Casualty Under- 
writer). 

1946 
Gerald M. Galligan has been appointed 
Sales Supervisor with Barstead Still and 



To Weigh Your Garden 

Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how 
much does your garden weigh? This 
is a new twist to the old nursery 
rhyme question. The answer is com- 
ing from a new machine, a Lysim- 
eter, built by Bytex Corporation of 
Newton, Mass., of which Stanley 
Charren '46 is President. 

The machine, a complex, massive 
version of a scale, will be buried 
in the ground and hooked up to a 
computer. The Lysimeter then will 
go to work measuring minute varia- 
tions in weight (if a single penny is 
dropped on the ground it will show 
on the graph). It is expected that 
these tiny variations in weight can 
be converted, by formula, into a 
record of moisture gains and losses, 
the basic information agricultural 
scientists need in their attempts to 
make soil hold more moisture. 

The Lysimeter is but one of the 
many unusual products of this 
young, fast-growing firm, which 
started business in a grocery store 
two or three years ago. Its present 
location is the old Stanley Steamer 
works in Newton, and the company 
expects sales of about half a million 
this year, which is double what it 
did the first year. 



Sterilizer Company of Boston. He has been 
associated with the Barstead firm for the 
past nine years. 

Moulton Sawin has joined Wilson, 
Haight & Welch. Inc., Hartford advertising 
agency, as a copywriter. He had served 
in the same capacity with Fitzgerald Ad- 
vertising. Cunningham & Walsh, and other 
agencies. 

Elwin E. Linden has been reelected 
President of the Rhode Island Philhar- 
monic Orchestra. Inc. One of the several 
innovations planned for the coming year 
will be Sunday afternoon family concerts. 

1947 

Roger D. Williams is a new member of 
the Board of the Massachusetts Division 
of Fisheries and Game, appointed to a 
five-year term by Governor Volpe in Au- 
gust. Williams is Regional Vice-President 
for Carling Brewing Co. and directs the 
activities of the Carling Conservation Club 
in New England. 

Ted Bowen reports that he has finally 
(after A'/i years) deserted Clinical Re- 
search in the Pharmaceutical Industry in 
favor of the Electronic Industry. "Perhaps 
the recent doings of Messrs. Kefauver, et 
al., had something to do with my decision. 
In any event, I've just taken a research 
position at Melpar, Inc. (subsidiary of 
Westinghouse Air Brake Co.) in Falls 
Church. Va. My immediate endeavors will 
be directed toward more and better, and 
hopefully, cheaper, electronic gadgetry for 
the medical and allied professions." Ted 
also will be concerned with various proj- 
ects related to space medicine, as well as 



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other projects in the national interest. 
'"Ann and I have just bought a house (our 
first!) at 207 Valley Brook Drive, Falls 
Church, Va., and we are now attempting to 
enlarge the family." 

Gerald F. Tucci has been named Vice- 
President of the Leach & Garner Co. and 
General Findings, Inc., both of Attleboro. 
He will continue to function as General 
Manager, Industrial Division, of both 
companies in addition to carrying out his 
new duties as Vice-President. 

Donald E. Creamer, President of 
Creamer, Trowbridge & Case, Inc., Provi- 
dence advertising and public relations firm, 
has been appointed Chairman of IM- 
PACT, Rhode Island, Inc.'s committee on 
public information. 

Kevin Cash has been named Executive 
Director of the New Hampshire Chapter 
of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. 

A five-page article by the Rev. Robert 
Paul Sessions, Pastor of the First Metho- 
dist Church, Booneville, Ark., was pub- 
lished in a recent issue of the Saturday 
Evening Post. The provocative piece was 
entitled "Are Southern Ministers Failing 
the South?" Brother Sessions believes that 
many of them are by compromising their 
beliefs and playing it "safe" on the issue 
of desegregation. 

John D. Hunt, Assistant Vice-President 
of Worcester County National Bank, is an 
instructor at the American Institute of 
Banking, Worcester Chapter. 

Thomas M. O'Reilly, Manager in New- 
port for the Acacia Mutual Life Insurance 
Co., has been elected President of the 
Rhode Island State Association of Life 
Underwriters. 

1948 

Dr. Domenic A. Vavala of Incarnate 
Word College, San Antonio, Tex., has 
written a second article in his study on 
the origin, evolution, and present-day 




JOHN B. LYNCH '49 has been named a general 
partner with the investment firm of Shields & 
Company, New York. He is the resident partner 
in charge of the Third Avenue ofTice; he had 
monoged the Fifth Avenue branch and was a 
NAFI Committeeman. (Edltto Sherman photo) 



meaning and use of academic regalia. Part 
II of "Academic Costume in the United 
States" first appeared in the Texas Journal 
of Science for March and has since been 
reprinted. 

Douglas A. Snow wrote an article re- 
cently for the Phillips Exeter Bulletin ("600 
Charge Accounts") on The Exeter Book- 
store, which he manages. It tells, inci- 
dentally, about the new store which he 
planned and put into operation in 1960. 
Readers of the Brown Alumni Monthly. 
who remember Snow as an Assistant Edi- 
tor, will not be surprised to know that it 
was a fine feature. A good photo of Doug 
accompanied it. 

Jack Newcombe had an article, "I Re- 
member Football," published in the Sep- 
tember issue of Sport magazine. He traced 
the highlights in the pigskin sport, as he 
has seen them, over the past 15 years. In 
the story, he made several references to 
Brown. Don Colo "50 got mention as the 
fellow who had never played football until 
he entered college but who worked hard 
improving himself over the years until he 
had reached the very top in his sport by 
being Captain and an All-Pro tackle with 
the Cleveland Browns. 

His second mention of Brown concerned 
the Yale game of 1947. Let Jack tell it. 
"An obscure piece of football drama, far 
removed from the main arena of the Colts 
and Giants, gave me as much delight as 
I have had at a game. The outcome meant 
little to anyone except the players, coaches, 
and the few thousand people who had sat 
and stood through a violent rainstorm that 
threatened to fill the Yale Bowl with water 
14 years ago. Brown led Yale, 14-7, in the 
fourth quarter, but it was anybody's game 
with the field conditions as they were. 
Brown managed to shove the ball into 
Yale territory and went through the mo- 
tions of preparing for a field goal. Despite 
the rain and sinking visibility, I could see 
the arrangement for the fake-placement- 
and-pass-play, a favorite of Rip Engle's. 
Howie Odell, the Yale coach, knew what 
was up and tried to inform his players. 
Every surviving spectator must have recog- 
nized the outlines of a hoax. But the Yales 
fell for it. Quarterback Eddie Finn, the 
ball holder, straightened up and arched a 
long, true pass to halfback Chuck Nelson 
running alone past the last Yale defender. 
Chuck was so full of glee he could hardly 
wait for the ball to drop into his arms. As 
he circled through the watery end zone he 
wore the wettest, broadest victory grin I 
ever saw. I glanced back to the Yale 
bench to see how Howie Odell was taking 
it. He was taking it flat on his back in a 
large puddle, apparently bowled over by 
disbelief." 

Richard Chakroff and his family have 
been "reluctant" midwesterners for the 
past decade. He has his own agency, serv- 
icing small manufacturers in aircraft and 
commercial lines, in a field service and 
sales capacity. The firm. Engineering 
and Sales Co., is located in Worthington, 
O. Dick's family includes his wife. Barbara 
Middleton Pembroke '49, two daughters, 
and three .sons. 

Harry K. Sleicher, President of Sea- 
board Foundry, Inc., has been elected 




CURVIN J. TRONE, JR., '50 has been elected to 
the Board of Directors of Multibras Industrie 
de Aparelhos Domesticos Ltdo., of Brazil, Latin 
America's largest full-line major home-appliance 
manufacturer. Assistant to the President of Whirl- 
pool Corp., he was its Director of Budgets when 
he joined the firm in 1957. He will also be a Di- 
rector of Whirlpool's foreign subsidiary in Nas- 
sau, its world distributors. 

Vice-Chairman of the New England chap- 
ter, American Foundrymen's Society. 

Frederick M. Fradley is a partner in 
the new architectural firm of Bower and 
Fradley, architects, whose offices are lo- 
cated at 114 West Coulter St., Philadel- 
phia. 

1949 
Frederick R. Govain has taken up his 
new post as Scout Executive of Annawon 
Council, which includes Taunton, Middle- 
boro. Carver, Raynham, Dighton, Mans- 
field, Norton, Attleboro, and North Attle- 
boro, Mass. He had been for four years 
with Monadnock Council as its Scout Ex- 
ecutive in Gardner, Mass., where the 
Council had won national recognition in 
1958 as one of the country's 10 "Blue 
Ribbon Councils." Earlier in his Scouting 
career, he spent four years in Norwich, 
Conn., as Field Executive and four in 
Bridgeport as Assistant Scout Executive. 
In Gardner he was active in Red Cross, 
Rotary, Community Council, and United 
Fund. 

Anthony D'Antuono was caught in the 
middle of a tug-of-war over his educa- 
tional talents last June. Principal of the 
Cohasset, Mass., Senior-Junior High 
School since 1955, he was offered the post 
of Headmaster of Brockton High School 
at a healthy salary increase in May. When 
Cohasset townspeople heard of the Brock- 
ton off'er they turned out in a mass meet- 
ing to petition their principal not to leave 
Cohasset. The School Committee held a 
special meeting and offered him an un- 
specified increase in pay. Finally, Tony 
matched the loyalty of the Cohasset towns- 
people with some loyalty of his own: he 
turned down the Brockton offer. 

H. Calvin Coolidge has been appointed 
an Assistant Secretary in the Trust Depart- 



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EDWARD F. MOORE, Ph.D. '50, Is at M.I.T. 
this year as Visiting Professor of Electrical 
Engineering and a Gordon McKay Visiting Lec- 
turer on Applied Mathematics at Harvord. He 
will return next year to the technical staff of 
Bell Telephone Laboratories in New Jersey. 



ment of the Northern Trust Co., Chicago. 
For the past few years, Cal has been in 
private law practice in Chicago. He is ac- 
tive in fund-raising for Brown and the 
Harvard Law School. He is a member of 
the Chicago and American Bar .Associa- 
tions and Phi Beta Kappa. 

The Rev. William G. Sherman, Jr., has 
been elected Secretary-Treasurer of the 
Boston University School of TTieology 
Club of Florida. He continues as Pastor 
of Melrose Park Methodist Church, Ft. 
Lauderdale. Articles and sermonic mate- 
rials from his pen have appeared recently 
in The Christian Advocate and in volumes 
published by Harper and Abingdon Press. 

Dr. Malcolm G. Idelson has entered 
private practice in gynecology and obstet- 
rics in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. To reach this 
position, he spent one year internship and 
four years residency training at the Mount 
Sinai Hospital, New York City (inter- 
rupted by two years in the Air Force) and 
another year as American Cancer Fellow 
at State University of New York in gyne- 
cologic cancer surgery. 

Victor J. Logan received his Master of 
Science degree from Stevens Institute of 
Technology June 10. He paid a visit to 
Alumni House during the summer. 

Leon H. Temkin, formerly of Temkin 
Tobacco Co., has been appointed southern 
New England sales supervisor for Jno. H. 
Swisher & Sons, Inc., cigar manufacturer 
of Jacksonville, Fla. 

Arthur N. Green has been promoted to 
group leader in the Industrial Chemicals 
Product Development Department with 
Atlas Chemical Industries, Inc., Wilming- 
ton, Del. Art joined the firm in 1951 as a 
research chemist. He transferred to chem- 
ical sales in the company's New York re- 
gional office in 1954 and was named New 
England Representative of that office in 
1959. He received his Master's degree in 



Textile Chemistry from Lowell Tech in 
1951. 

The Rev. Kenneth T. MacLean, Minis- 
ter of the Unitarian Church of Roslindale, 
Mass., and the First Parish Church of 
West Roxbury, spent six interesting weeks 
during the summer at Gallup, N. M., 
directing a rural in-service training team of 
seven Indian and two non-Indian college 
students. 

Joseph H. Farnham has been appointed 
an Assistant Secretary of Atlantic Com- 
panies (Atlantic Mutual and Centennial). 
He joined Atlantic in 1957 as senior under- 
writer in the Inland Marine Department. 
Since April, 1959, he had been Manager of 
Atlantic's New York Metropolitan Marine 
Department. 

Bernard T. Donnelly, a member of the 
Classical High School Faculty in Spring- 
field, Mass., was a Director of the newly- 
organized Longmeadow Summer School, 
Reading comprehension and vocabulary 
building were courses taught by Donnelly. 
He has taught remedial English at Spring- 
field College and has spent a year on leave 
of absence in Tucson, Ariz., where he 
participated in the program at the experi- 
mental Pueblo High School. 

1950 

Joe Paterno, Penn State's young bache- 
lor backfield coach, faced up to a recent 
domestic crisis which drove him to the sea- 
shore for a month of recuperation before 
football practice began. After years of 
rooming with friends, Joe decided to find 
some new quarters for himself where his 
family and friends could stay when they 
came to visit him. He also admitted the 
welcome mat would be out for high school 
coaches and promising uncommitted high 
school players during the recruiting season. 
After a diligent search he came up with a 
handsome bachelor apartment, unfurnished. 
His problems started when the ladies of 
the Penn State football family decided to 




ROBERT M. LEACH, II, '30 has been elected 
President of the Glenwood Range Co. of Toun- 
ton. Formerly Vice-President and Sales Manager, 
he will continue to head the sales program. 



help him furnish the apartment, providing 
a burnt-orange leather sofa and thrush- 
blue draperies. "Can you imagine what 
would happen if a hard-nosed high school 
fullback walked into my apartment and 
saw thrush-blue draperies and a burnt- 
orange sofa? He'd be enrolled at Pitt the 
next day!" Joe wrote. 

Al Poirier, Providence District Scout 
Executive in the Narragansett Council, was 
on the program at the 1961 Regional Con- 
ference of New England Scout Executives. 

Russell J. Moore is on the staff of 
Kennedy-Sinclair, Inc., fund-raising coun- 
sel of Montclair, N. J. He represented the 
company at the American Alumni Council 
meetings in July. 

William H. Leys has been appointed 
Executive Director of the Redevelopment 
Agency in Newport. He had been Assistant 
Treasurer of the William Leys Dry Goods 
Co. Bill was elected to the last Representa- 
tive Council under the old city charter and 
served as Secretary of the Charter Com- 
mission that drafted the present document. 
He later served two terms in the Council. 
He has also served as a member of the 
Easton's Beach Commission and is a Di- 
rector of the Chamber of Commerce. 

Robert D. Hall, Jr., has been elected 
Vice-President of Eastern New England 
Chapter, Association of Industrial Adver- 
tisers. Bob is Industrial Account Super- 
visor of Loudon Advertising, Inc., Boston. 

Dr. Arnold H. Raphaelson, Assistant 
Professor of Economics at the University 
of Maine, made a study during the summer 
of the paths that hundreds of West War- 
wick textile workers have taken since they 
lost their jobs because of plant closings. 
West Warwick was selected by United States 
Secretary of Commerce Luther H. Hodges 
as one of the 21 communities in the nation 
in which his department is financing spe- 
cial studies of the economic effects of the 
closing of textile mills. Arnie's report was 
submitted to the Economics Research Cen- 
ter at Bowdoin College, which is in charge 
of the New England section of the study. 

Fletcher W. Ward has been appointed 
a Vice-President, General Sales Manager, 
and Director of Red Ball Motor Freight 
Inc., Dallas. He has been associated with 
Bethlehem Steel Company for the past 11 
years in Pennsylvania and Texas. The Dal- 
las-based motor carrier's routes stretch 
from Denver, Colo., to Shreveport, La., 
and Houston, covering nearly 7,000 miles 
in three states. 

Joseph M. Souza has been named Chief 
Probation Ofiicer of the Third District 
Court in Massachusetts. He has been asso- 
ciated with the Probation Department in 
New Bedford for seven years and was an 
English teacher in the school system ear- 
lier. He is serving as Chairman of the 
Board of Trustees of the Southeastern 
Massachusetts Technological Institute as 
well as Chairman of the Trustees of the 
New Bedford Institute of Technology. 

Henry Bialecki has been promoted to 
Financial Officer for Olin's Winchester- 
Western Division. He had formerly been 
Controller for the division in New Haven. 
Henry joined Olin in 1952 as a business 
research analyst. From 1952 to 1956 he 
also was an instructor in corporate finance 



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and business management at Quinnipiac 
College. Prior to joining the company, he 
was a manufacturing engineer with the 
Ford Motor Company plant at Somerville, 
Mass. 

Peter N. Colban has been appointed 
residential sales representative in the Leb- 
anon (Pa.) District Office of the Metro- 
politan Edison Co. Pete and Betty live at 
101 East Walnut St., Cleona. with their 
three-year-old son, Peter M. 

Dr. Bernard Berstein was installed June 
10 as President of the Rhode Island Op- 
tometric Association at the 58th Annual 
Convention and Banquet. After graduation 
from Brown, Dr. Berstein received an 
advanced degree from the Massachusetts 
College of Optometry. He is a Staff Mem- 
ber of the Rhode Island Hospital Out- 
patient Eye Clinic and is an Instructor in 
Clinical Optometry at the Massachusetts 
College of Optometry. Locally, he is Past 
President of the Centerdale Business and 
Professional Men"s Association, Sight Con- 
servation Chairman of the North Provi- 
dence Lions Club, and President of the 
Rhode Island Sight Foundation. 

Gordon Maver has been appointed 
Works Accountant at the Lebanon plant 
of Bethlehem Steel Co. He received an 
Sc.B. from Boston University in 1956 and 
later attended its graduate school as a 
statistics major. He joined Bethlehem Steel 
in 1957 in the management training pro- 
gram. 

Dr. E. Franklin Stone, Jr., has com- 
pleted his pediatric residency training at 
St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, 
Philadelphia. He's received a fellowship 
in the Pediatric Department at Johns Hop- 
kins Hospital, Baltimore, and will be work- 
ing in the Diagnostic and Evaluation Cen- 
ter for Handicapped Children. 

Joe Condon, English teacher at Proctor 
Academy, did a three-part live television 
series on the Restoration Drama last 
spring. The programs were carried over 




JOHN C. BARTON '51 has gone to Chicago as 
District Sales Engineer for Norton Company's 
Machine Tool Division. Five years with Norton, 
he is also a Captain, Marine Corps Reserve. 



Channel 1 1 in New Hampshire and 
WGBH-TV, Channel 2 in Boston. Joe, 
who is in his third year at Proctor, reports 
that another similar series is in the offing 
for this coming May. 

Dr. M. Philip Neri has opened an oftice 
for the practice of medicine and surgery at 
22 Elm St., Westerly. He received his 
M.D. from Harvard in 1957 and served his 
surgical-medical program at Syracuse Uni- 
versity and the New York Upstate Medical 
Center. His surgical residency was at 
Boston University Medical Center, the 
Massachusetts Memorial Hospital in Bos- 
ton, and the Veterans' Administration Hos- 
pital in Providence. He is a member of the 
teaching staff at the Boston University 
Medical School. 

John S. Ramaker has been appointed a 
representative of the Connecticut Mutual 
Life Insurance Co., with the Skokie Dis- 
trict Office of the Norris E. Williamson 
.Agency in Chicago. John is a member of 
the Chicago Association of Commerce and 
Industry. 

Roger Laudati is Commander of an Hon- 
est John Rocket Battery stationed in Mu- 
nich, Germany. "Wonderful country and 
valuable experience," he wrote in July — 
before the Berlin crisis came to a head. 

Jim DiDonienico, whose fame during his 
college days was on the gridiron, has be- 
come one of Rhode Island's leading chess 
players. In the Providence Chess Club's 
annual championships last June he finished 
sixth. 

Norm Ebenstein can look forward to 
more evenings at home this winter. His 
wife has been elected President of the 
West Hartford Women's Club. 

Dr. Frank G. DeLuca was graduated 
from the Tufts University Graduate School 
of Arts and Sciences in June. A month 
later, he was appointed to full-time staff 
membership with the Boston Floating Hos- 
pital for Infants and Children. Frank re- 
ceived his M.D. from the University of 
Bologna. Italy. He interned at St. Eliza- 
beth's Hospital in Brighton and served his 
residency in pediatric surgery at the Float- 
ing Hospital. 

Tom Costello has finished his year as 
National Director of the Junior Chamber 
of Commerce from New York State. Dur- 
ing his term as N. Y. Prexy, he attended 
the conventions in Tulsa, Atlanta, and St. 
Louis. Tom is with Equitable Life As- 
surance Company in New York City. 

Albert W. Mackie, Jr., is teaching Gen- 
eral Science at Inter Lakes High School, 
Meredith, N. H. 

1951 
John W. Clark, Supervisor in the Policy 
Department of the Massachusetts Mutual 
Life Insurance Co., has been appointed 
its Assistant Manager. Jack joined the firm 
in 1954 after serving as a 2nd Lt. with the 
U.S. Air Force in Japan for three years. 
Gray Andrews has been named Assist- 
ant to the Manager of Industrial Products 
with Atlantic. He has been with the firm 
for 10 years. An active Sub-Freshman 
worker for Brown, Gray was able to spend 
some time with several admission officers 
and athletic coaches while back for his 
10th. 




FOREST E. BLACK, JR., '50 is in Louisville as 
President of Associated Consultants, Inc. The 
firm, with branches in several other major cities 
in the South and Midwest, is advisory to business 
on retirement, profit-sharing, and other executive 
and employee benefit plans. He is a past Chair- 
man of Employee Benefits Committee, A.I.K., and 
a Fellow, Society of Actuaries. 

James G. Gray, Jr., has been appointed 
Assistant Actuary with Security Mutual 
Life of New York. He will serve in the 
firm's Binghamton home office. An asso- 
ciate of the Society of Actuaries since 
1960, he served in various capacities in the 
actuarial division of Metropolitan Life be- 
fore joining Security Mutual. 

Dr. David Blumen has become a diplo- 
mate of the American Board of Surgery. 
A graduate of the Tufts Medical School, 
he is taking a two-year residency in tho- 
racic surgery at the University of Oregon 
Medical School Hospital. 

The Rev. Henry G. Bowen received a 
Bachelor's degree in Canon Laws at Com- 
mencement exercises at Catholic Univer- 
sity in June. He studied for the priesthood 
in St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore, Md., 
and the North American College in Rome. 
He was ordained in Rome, July 15, 1956, 
at the Church of the Twelve Apostles. 

The Rev. Everett H. Greene, Episcopal 
Chaplain at the University of Rhode Is- 
land, served as ROTC Chaplain during 
the summer at Fort Devens. Mass. A 
reserve officer, he holds the rank of 1st 
Lt. He took his graduate studies at the 
Episcopal Theological School in Cam- 
bridge and formerly was "Vicar of the 
Trinity Church. Rockland. Mass. 

William Van Dusen. Jr., graduated from 
the University of Notre Dame with his 
Ph.D. in Chemistry, is working for the 
Atomic Energy Commission in Albuquer- 
que. 

The Rev. Bruce Edgar Bailey was or- 
dained in the Cathedral Church of St. 
Paul in Detroit last July, and he is serving 
Christ Episcopal Church in Croswell. 
Mich., and the Episcopal Church of the 
Good Shepherd in Lexington. Mich. 

Frank J. Bednarczyk has been appointed 
to the post of Chief Quality Engineer with 



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SKF Industries. Inc.. Philadelphia. He is 
responsible for administrating the quality 
control function for the major ball and 
roller-bearing producer. With the company 
for a decade, he has served in various line 
capacities in both production and inspec- 
tion departments. 

Donald H. Palmer, promoted to Man- 
ager of one of Mutual of New York's si.x 
Chicago agencies, has also been a member 
of the management training staff in New 
York. 

Harry L. Dicks reported in August that 
after 10 years in Government service he 
had resigned and hoped to take up grad- 
uate studies this fall. During the past 
decade, he had tours of duty in Thailand. 
Greece, Laos, and Korea. His new address 
is Federal St.. Blackstone. Mass. 

John C. Barton has been appointed 
Chicago District Sales Engineer by the 
Machine Tool Division of Norton Co. He 
has been with the firm for five years. Prior 
to his present appointment he was a sales 
engineer in the Worcester sales office. 

Charles L. Aylmer has his law office on 
Main St.. Buzzards Bay. He attended Bos- 
ton College Law School and received his 
Bachelor of Laws degree from Portia Law 
School. He was admitted to the Massa- 
chusetts Bar Association in April. 

David Hedison, the Rhode Island actor 
who has been active in movies and televi- 
sion the last few years, played the lead 
in "King of Hearts," the first play on the 
season's schedule at Matunuck's Theater- 
by-the-Sea. He made an appearance on a 
Providence television station while in 
Rhode Island. 

Ken Holmes and his family are enjoying 
the Brown University Chair he won in the 
lucky-number drawing at the June reunion. 

Francis Hunter, Jr., of East Hartford is 
a programmer with the Connecticut Mu- 
tual Life Insurance Co. 

1952 

Peter Petrillo. Jr.. has taken on one of 
the most controversial positions in the 
country. In July the former assistant foot- 
ball coach and physical education instruc- 
tor at Cornwall Central High School was 
named Acting Commissioner of Public Wel- 
fare in Newburgh, N. Y. The city hit the 
headlines early in the summer when City 
Manager Mitchell put into effect a 13- 
point code aimed at cutting down welfare 
costs. The citizens of the country immedi- 
ately took sides, and the plan was hailed 
by Senator Barry Goldwater and called 
illegal by New York Governor Nelson 
Rockefeller. Pete was quoted as saying 
that he believed Newburgh's new welfare 
code to be legal and just but that he in- 
tended to make a more thorough study 
and might eventually change his mind on 
some phases of it. Pete was a noted full- 
back on the Newburgh Free Academy 
football team and later with the New York 
Military Academy. A knee injury cut short 
his football career at Brown. He eventually 
was graduated from Ithaca College. 

Maurice Adelman has left his position 
as assistant Chief Counsel for the Atomic 
Energy Commission in Cincinnati. As of 
Sept. 1 he became an attorney in the Tax 
Division of the Department of Justice. 



"questing with Bobby Kennedy for justice 
against tax malefactors and the like." His 
address in Washington: 3040 Idaho Ave.. 
N. W., Washington 16. 

Steve Espo left IBM in Poughkeepsie, 
N. Y.. in October, 1960, and has been 
working for Stop & Shop, Inc., New Eng- 
land supermarket chain since then. He is 
married to the former Ruth Ann Sidel, 
Pembroke '59. 

Jack Sarson resigned as head football 
coach at Plymouth High School in June to 
accept a faculty position at Brockton High. 
He will also act as assistant football coach 
to Mario Di Marzo, a teammate of his on 
the undefeated Brockton team of 1945. 

Paul E. Ferrari, after only one year with 
Thermo Electron Engineering of Danvers. 
Mass., has been named Controller of the 
corporation. A member of the American 
Institute of Certified Public Accountants, 
he was formerly associated with Arthur 
Anderson & Co., Boston. 

William J. Topazio has been awarded a 
Master of Science degree in Applied Sci- 
ence by Adelphi College. He is a senior 
engineer at Sperry Gyroscope Co.. a divi- 
sion of the Sperry Rand Corp., at Lake 
Success. N. Y. 



Dave Lubrano has been promoted to 
Manager with the Boston accounting firm 
of Arthur Anderson. 

Peter P. Gillis. who received his M.Sc. 
in June, will teach at Dartmouth for a 
year before returning to work on his 
doctorate in Engineering. He has been 
appointed Instructor in Engineering Sci- 
ence at the Thayer School of Engineering 
at Dartmouth for the current academic 
year. He has a concurrent appointment in 
Dartmouth's undergraduate Engineering 
Science Department. Peter has taught ma- 
chine design at the Rhode Island School 
of Design and has been a part-time In- 
structor at Roger Williams Junior College 
since 1959. 

Albert Harkness, an Associate of the 
John Carter Brown Library, attended the 
recent two-day conference of scholars in- 
vestigating ways by which the Library may 
even better serve the world of scholarship. 

Joe Motherway has joined Speidel Cor- 
poration's R&D Division in Providence as 
a project engineer working on instrument 
development for missiles and spacecraft. 
He and his wife recently moved into their 
new home on Blueberry Drive in East 
Greenwich. In June he received an M.S. 




THOUGHTFUL BRUNOK'IANS give prompt notice to Alumni House of changes of address, saving the 

University money thereby and preventing interruption in receipt of this magazine and other Brown 

mail. Here's how the Joel Dovises notified us of their "new pad." He's '56. 



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in Engineering from the University of 
Connecticut. 

Capt. Lester F. Williams, Jr., USAF, 
has finished four years of general surgical 
residency at United States Army Tripler 
General Hospital. He has been assigned to 
E.xperimental Surgical Section, Department 
of Clinical Medicine, School of Aerospace 
Medicine, San Antonio. He will be doing 
surgical research at his new assignment. 
During his residency, Captain Williams 
had several articles and one book pub- 
lished. 

Hovey M. Tyndall. an employee of 
General Electric in Syracuse, won a trophy 
last June for capturing top honors in the 
Industrial Bridge League Championship, 
sponsored by the Manufacturers Associa- 
tion of Syracuse. 

John Zay McKenney received his Mas- 
ter's in Social Work at the University of 
Minnesota during the summer. 

Lt. Robert M. Goodwin is an Agency 
Divisional Assistant for the Lincoln Na- 
tional Life Insurance Co., Fort Wayne, 
Ind. During the summer, he took a two- 
week course at the Grosse He., Michigan 
Naval Air Station, flying the AD-5N "SKY- 
R.-MDER'' single engine attack bomber. 

Dr. Alan C. Eckert, Jr., received his 
Ph.D. degree in June from Case Institute. 
Dr. Eckert, who is married and the father 
of two daughters, received his Master of 
Science degree from Case in 195?. He is 
employed at the New Devices Laboratory 
of Thompson-Ramo-Wooldridge, Inc., in 
Cleveland, where he is conducting theo- 
retical and experimental research in plasma 
physics. 

Robert D. Harrington has been elected 
President of the Hamburg (N. Y.) Cham- 
ber of Commerce. Bob is a licensed pro- 
fessional engineer and a maintenance su- 
pervisor in the Bethlehem Steel Company 
Lackawanna plant. 

Rabbi Irwin H. Fishbein has joined the 
rabbinical staff of Congregation Rodeph 
Shalom, Philadelphia. He had been at 
Congregation Sons of Israel, Nyack, N. Y., 
where he also taught Hebrew in the adult 
education department of the Nyack public 
schools. 

Clinton J. Pearson, President of Pearson 
Corp., Bristol, R. I., manufacturers of 
fiberglass boats, served as Chief Marshal 
of the Fourth of July parade this year. 

Allan C. Westcott has been elected to 
the Town Council as a representative of 
the Third Ward in Annapolis, Md. A grad- 
uate of the University of Maryland Law 
School, the practicing attorney is married 
and the father of four children. 

1953 

M. Barnard Megargee, sales correspond- 
ent in the Philadelphia office of West Vir- 
ginia Pulp & Paper Co., since 1958, has 
been made a salesman in that district. He 
had been employed by the Patterson 
Parchment Paper Company in Bristol. Pa., 
and R. A. Foley Advertising Agency in 
Philadelphia prior to joining West Virginia 
in 1958. 

Arthur F. O'Day has been elected Presi- 
dent of the Brokers Institute of the Greater 
Boston Real Estate Board. He assumed 
office July 1 for a one-year term. He had 




ROBERT L. NODDIN '53 is senior securities 
analyst with Union Service Corporation, New 
Yoric, which provides research services for a 
number of investment companies. He will be in 
charge of the public utility investment area. 
He'd been with Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. 

served as President of Council A of the 
Broker Institute since 1958. Art also serves 
the town of Scituate as a member of the 
Planning Board and as member of the 
School Site Selection and Economic De- 
velopment Committee. In business life. 
Art is a Vice-President of Nordblom Co., 
where he specializes in commercial and in- 
dustrial real estate sales, lease-backs, and 
appraisals. 

Donald A. Murray has been working 
on his Ph.D. at the University of Michi- 
gan. Last year he taught at Colgate, and 
his plans for the current academic year 
include studying and teaching at Syracuse. 
Don's specialty is medieval French. 

James F. Francis spent the summer as 
a reading teacher at Stetson University. 
He assisted in co-ordinating the university's 
reading project for the early admission and 
advanced studies program and acted as a 
consultant to the college skills program. 
This year he is employed as a reading 
consultant in the Bourne, Mass., public 
schools. 

Thomas G. Breslin was graduated with 
a Doctor of Medicine degree from the 
University of Maryland in June. He is 
interning at Rhode Island Hospital. 

John W. Hill is teaching social studies at 
Weymouth High School. He had taught 
for two years at Keene High School, 
Keene, N. H. 

T954 

Alan Brownsword is Assistant Professor 
of American History at Long Beach State 
College. Alan spent four years at the 
University of Wisconsin, starting in the 
fall of 1956. While there, he worked for 
Prof. Howard K. Beale as a Research 
Assistant in the Graduate School. Dr. 
Beale was writing a book on Gideon Wells. 
Secretary of the Navy under Lincoln and 
Johnson, and Alan helped him with this 
project. When Dr. Beale died before his 



work was finished, Alan completed what 
small amount of editorial work was left 
and then read proof. When the work was 
published, he had his name listed under 
that of Dr. Beale, a rather unusual honor 
for a research assistant. 

Lou Murgo, one of Brown's basketball 
greats, has been named head football 
coach at Bristol High School. He has 
taught English at Bristol High for three 
years, and a year ago he served as assistant 
baseball coach. Lou was the Providence 
Journal Honor Roll boy in 1950. He cap- 
tained the Bruin basketball team his final 
two seasons and set an all-time Varsity 
career scoring record with 1,147 points. 
He also was captain of the baseball team, 
on which he was the catcher. Lou played 
minor league ball in the Baltimore Oriole 
farm system for two years. Although he 
didn't play football at Brown, he was con- 
sidered one of the finest quarterbacks in 
the State during his high school days at 
Bristol. 

Kenneth E. Hulme was advanced to 
the diaconate of the Episcopal Church on 
June 17 by the Bishop of Rhode Island. 
(The Rev. Howard C. Olsen '35 preached 
the sermon at the Cathedral in Provi- 
dence.) He had been a chaplain's assistant 
while serving in Nurnberg, Germany, with 
the 8th Infantry from 1956 to 1958. After 
returning to TV work with WJAR in Prov- 
idence, he went to Berkeley Divinity 
School, New Haven. After two years in 
Darien, Conn., at St. Luke's Parish, he is 
now Vicar in charge at the new mission 
in Tiogue for Rhode Island's Coventry 
area. 

William Peace has been named to the 
Avon (Conn.) office of Barrows & Wallace 
Co. He will concentrate on residential real 
estate in the Granby area. He was for- 
merly with Procter & Gamble Company 
as a member of the management training 
program. Bill is President of the Granby 
Junior Chamber of Commerce. 

Sherm Strickhouser. Program Director 
at radio station WICE, Providence, has a 
program of general information, music, 
and news weekdays, 10 a.m. to 2. He 
caused a flood of mail to the station one 
week during the summer. It started one 
morning on his show when he talked about 
a fly flying forward in the cabin of a plane 
going at 500 miles an hour. 'T wonder how 
fast the fly was flying," he queried. 

Charles I. Judkins, Jr., has joined the 
staflf of the Travelers Research Center. 
Inc.. Hartford, as Director of Administra- 
tion Division. He had been a sales repre- 
sentative in New York for three years 
for the Data Processing Division of IBM. 

Dr. John A. Sifakis, a graduate of the 
Tufts University Dental School, has passed 
the state dental examinations and has been 
licensed to practice dentistry in Massachu- 
setts. However, his active practice will 
have to wait a while since he has been 
ordered to report to active duty in the 
Army and expects to be sent to Germany 
next month. 

Dr. Edward J. Beadle is associated with 
the Media Dental Clinic, with offices at 
346 West Baltimore Ave., Media, Pa. 

Emanuel Gerard and Alan Roth '56 are 
General Partners in the new firm of Roth, 



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Gerard & Co., members of the New York 
Stock Exchange. Offices are located at 
25 Broad St., New York, N. Y. 

J. Robert Annino was graduated from 
Brooklyn Law School June 20. He is an 
insurance broker with the Annino Agency. 
West Islip, N. Y. 

The Rev. Loring WilMam Chadwick, 
who has been Curate of AH Saints' Me- 
morial Church in Providence for the last 
two years, has been named Associate Min- 
ister of Trinity Church, Newport. A grad- 
uate of the Episcopal Theological School, 
Chadwick was ordained in 1957 and was 
Vicar of the mission churches in Alton 
and Shannock for a year. 

Dr. John B. Livingstone has been added 
to the staff of McLean Hospital, Belmont, 
Mass. After graduating from the Harvard 
Medical School in 1958, he served as an 
intern at the University of Minnesota Hos- 
pital and as a surgical resident at Beth 
Israel Hospital, Boston. 

Robert M. Sloane has been named to 
the newly created position of Director of 
Admissions at Grace-New Haven Commu- 
nity Hospital. He heads a new department 
which combines the hospital's present ad- 
mitting work and special services in ac- 
counting. 

Robert F. Roth has been appointed 
Merchandising Manager of Metals & Con- 
trols, Inc., a corporate division of Texas 
Instruments, Inc. He has been on the 
merchandising staff since 1956. 

James M. McSherry, recently employed 
as sales correspondent in the New York 
District Office of West Virginia Pulp & 
Paper Co., has been transferred to the 
Los Angeles territory as resident salesman. 
Jim joined the firm in May, 1960. 

Joseph Thomas, owner of Securities, 
Inc., Baltimore, has been elected to mem- 
bership by the Junior Association of Com- 
merce. His firm deals in securities and 
mutual funds. 

Robert Gibson expected to receive his 
Ph.D. from the University of Virginia 
during the summer. His wife, Jan, received 
her M.A. in Psychology from Brown in 
1956. 

Charles B. Fink is a partner in the archi- 
tectural firm of Lester J. Millman Associ- 
ates, Providence. He is also an Instructor 
of Architecture at the Rhode Island School 
of Design. Millman is Brown '43. 

Frank Curhan, a Clinical Psychologist 
with the Federal Government, has a new 
address: River House, Apt. B501, 1400 
South Joyce St., Arlington, Va. 



1955 

Stephen Booth, a Rumford resident who 
has been teaching at Holland Hall School, 
Tulsa, Okla.. had a close call doing some 
part-time construction work in Providence 
during the summer. He was trapped for 
half an hour in a cave-in, but a fellow 
employe dug away enough dirt so that 
Steve could breathe while help was coming. 

G. Kenneth Chambers has been ap- 
pointed Product Manager, Foil and Pack- 
aging Tapes, with Permacel of New Bruns- 
wick, N. J. A resident of Tennent, N. J.. 
Ken joined the company in 1959 as a sales 
trainee and was a salesman for the com- 
pany in Virginia until his recent promo- 
tion. 

Dan Keefe won the 1961 championship 
of the Oakley Country Club in June. The 
Newton, Mass., resident is an executive 
with Polaroid Corp. 

Jack McCuUough, for the last 5'/2 years 
a sales representative for the Hall Syndi- 
cate, has been named Vice-President of 
Adcox Associates and a sales representa- 
tive of Chronicle Features, both of which 
are San Francisco syndicates. Jack will 
make his headquarters in New York and 
handle sales in the East for both syndi- 
cates. 

John E. Burroughs received his Sc.B. in 
June from the University of Connecticut. 
He was graduated with honors, and also 
with distinction in electrical engineering. 
He has accepted a position with the 
Electrical Data Processing Division of 
Minneapolis-Honeywell, Needham, Mass. 

Kenneth F. Kinsey received his Ph.D. 
in Physics from the University of Roches- 
ter during the summer. 

Arnie Abramowitz is associated with the 
law firm of Hofheimer, Gartlir & Hof- 
heimer in New York City. 

Harris Amhowitz spent the summer in 
Mexico after being graduated from the 
Harvard Law School and taking the New 
York bar exam. 

Dr. Andy Blazar is in his second year 
of a three-year residency in obstetrics and 
gynecology at the Pennsylvania Hospital 
in Philadelphia. His wife is teaching biol- 
ogy at Haddonfield (N. J.) High School. 

Bob Bernheim is at Penn State as an 
Assistant Professor in the Chemistry De- 
partment. 

Vaino Ahonen is Assistant Manager of 
the Foreign Department of the Peoples 
Trust Company of Bergen County in 
Hackensack, N. J. 



Brownyoonaversaty 

HOLLY Harris has a souvenir of 
Brown's 1961 Commencement, a 
crayon impression of the Field Day on 
Aldrich-Dexter Field, which her folks let 
us see during the summer. Holly, a first- 
grader from Sharon, Mass., also wrote 
about THE RIDE as follows: 

"This was on a saterday. I went to a 
place called Brownyoonaversaty and I had 
a pony ride 4 times and It was fun. And 
I had a swing ride too. And a tracter ride 
too. But two times I dont get a ride on 
the tracter. Holly." 

Alumni Secretary William B. McCor- 
mick '23 wrote the parents, Frank E. Har- 
ris, Jr., '53 and Barbara Winans Harris 
'53: "We are delighted with her account 
of the experience and very much impressed 
with her portrayal of the scene. She cer- 
tainly didn't miss much!" (The structure 
at the left had a sign which won't show in 
reproduction: it said "pop corn." We wish 
we could reproduce the good color, too.) 
McCormick also wrote Holly to tell her 
how much we enjoyed her drawing and 
the story of her visit to Brown. 



Dr. Leonard Bourras is doing his resi- 
dency in radiology at Montefiore Hospital 
in New York City. 

Dr. Matty Fern is practicing dentistry 
on Madison Ave., also in the Big Town. 

Yours truly is a civilian again and will 
probably be working with the Civil Rights 
Division of the Justice Department in 
Washington, D. C, shortly. 

TED NEWMAN 

1956 

At the Fifth Reunion in June, the fol- 
lowing officers were elected for the next 
five years: President — George P. Clayson, 
3rd; Vice-President — James C. Fry; Secre- 
tary — Marvin Wilenzik; Treasurer — Peter 
Philippi. 

S. Russell Kingman has been appointed 
a Director in Commerce and Industry for 
this fall's United Fund "People Helping 
People" Campaign in Boston. Russ is as- 
sociated with the State Street Bank & Trust 
Co. He has served the United Fund pre- 
viously as a District Chairman. He and 
his wife and two daughters live at 35 
Perry Ave., Lynnfield. 

Alfred E. Boren has returned to this 
country after a year in Graz, Austria, 
here he participated as a Fulbright Ex- 
change Teacher in an Austrian high 
school. He is now teaching English at 
Peekskill Military Academy, Peekskill, 
N. Y. During the evenings he is trying to 
complete his M.A. work at Teachers Col- 
lege, Columbia. 

The Rev. George W. Easton, serving in 
Simsbury, Conn., was ordained in his 
home church. Faith Congregational 
Church, Springfield, Sept. 24. Last spring 
he was named Assistant Minister on a 
full-time basis at the First Church of 
Christ in Simsbury. He received his Bach- 
elor of Divinity degree in June from Yale. 

Carl Ehmann. a June graduate of the 
Harvard Law School, has been selected 



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for service in the Peace Corps training 
program. He and Elizabeth will devote 
two years to rural teaching in the Philip- 
pines. Elizabeth, who has been teaching 
English in the Massachusetts public 
schools for the past two years, has an 
A.B. from Brown and a M.A. from Rad- 
cliffe. They both speak Spanish and took a 
seven-week training program at Penn State 
in the culture of the country before an 
indoctrination period in the Philippines. 

Dr. Theodore L. West has opened his 
office for the practice of periodontics and 
oral medicine at 33 Harding St., Red 
Bank, N. J. He received his D.D.S. degree 
from the University of Pennsylvania. He 
obtained his speciality training there at 
the Graduate School of Medicine and was 
awarded a Master of Dental Science de- 
gree. He was a resident in periodontics 
at Beth Israel and Massachusetts Memorial 
Hospital, Boston. He had been teaching 
at the Graduate School of Medicine and 
the School of Dentistry at the University 
of Pennsylvania prior to settling in Mon- 
mouth County. 

Alfred J. Gemma is associated with 
Joseph Mainelli, former District Attorney 
of Rhode Island, in his office at 919 Hos- 
pital Trust Bldg., Providence. He has also 
been appointed attorney for the Johnston 
Sanitary District. Al is enrolled in the 
Graduate Tax Program at the Boston Uni- 
versity School of Law, working for a Mas- 
ter's degree. 

James P. McGuiness has been promoted 
by the Port of New York Authority to the 
position of Terminal-Services Supervisor 
in the Authority's Aviation Department. In 
his new job, Jim will supervise the opera- 
tion of Terminal Building and baggage 
handling operations at New York Interna- 
tional Airport. Jim is a member of the 
Long Island Association of Football Offi- 
cials and an umpire for the Amateur Soft- 
ball Association. He and Carole live at 
17 Star Lane, Levittown, with their four 
children. 

Paul H. McKay has been appointed As- 
sistant Trust Officer at the Riverside Trust 
Co., Hartford. Paul went to Riverside in 
1957 after receiving his degree from the 
American Institute of Banking. He is Sec- 
retary-Treasurer of the Corporate Fiduci- 
aries Association of Hartford County. 

Philip Gerould has been promoted to 
Associate Editor of Natural Sciences for 
the Rand-McNally Publishing Company in 
Chicago. He joined the company after 
graduation from Brown and has been em- 
ployed in the College Department in Hart- 
ford for the past five years. 

John A. Worsley has joined the Faculty 
of Roger Williams Junior College as a 
full-time member. He will teach English. 
A part-time instructor in the same institu- 
tion will be Harry L. Anderson, Jr., "55. 

Bernard Iser is Director of Development 
for Adelphi Academy in Brooklyn. N. Y. 
He attended the summer Conference of 
the American Alumni Council as its repre- 
sentative. 

Paul Berbeck received his M.B.A. from 
the Harvard Business School in June. He 
is employed in the New Business Depart- 
ment with Hallgarten & Co., investment 
bankers at 44 Wall St., New York City. 



Ralph R. Goodrum received a Bachelor 
of Foreign Trade degree from the Ameri- 
can Institute for Foreign Trade at Phoenix, 
Ariz., in May. Ralph specialized in Spanish 
and in Latin America area studies, prepar- 
ing himself for a career in American 
overseas business or government. 

Gordon D. Bailey received his Master's 
degree in Botany from the University of 
Massachusetts in June. 

Andrew S. Dragat was one of five stu- 
dents at the Rhode Island School of De- 
sign to receive high honors in the form 
of architecture awards last June. He re- 
ceived the Frazier Award for excellence 
in design from Rhode Island Chapter, 
American Institute of Architects. 

Paul Harold Brenner was graduated 
from New York Medical College in June 
with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. 
Dr. Brenner is serving his internship at 
Beth-Israel Hospital, New York City. 

Donald K. Freeman, Jr., was awarded 
his M.D. from the University of Rochester 
in July. 

Clifford A. Ridley, Managing Editor of 
The Town Crier of Westport, Conn., since 
1957, resigned from that position in July 
and from active involvement with the edi- 
torial operation of the newspaper. 

Stephen T. White is teaching English, 
Latin, and physical education at the Ban- 
croft School, Worcester. He received his 
Master's degree from the University of 
California. 

1957 

James E. Hambuechen achieved an un- 
usual distinction in the life insurance busi- 
ness when, in his first full month as a 
life underwriter, he placed nearly $200,000 
of business. It made him number two man 
for the month in the nationwide sales force 
of the Home Life Insurance Company. Jim 
joined the Manhattan agency in April. He, 
his wife Carol, and their six-year-old son 
live at Lloyd Harbor, Huntington, N. Y. 

Roger E. Stoddard has given the John 
Hay Library more than 50 volumes in 
the field of American literature, mainly 
American poetry for the Harris Collection. 
He will work in the latter as Assistant 
Curator. 

George F. Riley has been named In- 
structor in Physics at Worcester Polytech- 
nic Institute. He received his Master's de- 
gree from the University of Maine in 
1959 and taught there until last June 
when he accepted his current position. 

Dr. Richard J. Kostecki, having re- 
ceived his medical degree from New York 
University Medical College, is doing his 
internship at the University of Virginia 
Hospital in Charlottesville. He plans to 
follow through into the field of plastic 
surgery. 

A. Stephen Casimir received his M.D. 
from the Slate University of New York 
in June. While at the College of Medicine, 
he was a member of the Alpha Kappa 
Medical Fraternity. Dr. Casimir is serving 
his internship at the St. Albans Naval 
Hospital, New York City, as Lt., Medical 
Corps, USN. 

Frederick L. Humeston is another class- 
mate to receive the Doctor of Medicine 
degree, graduated in June from New York 



Medical College. He is serving his intern- 
ship at Easton Hospital, Easton, Pa. 

Antone A. Medeiros also has entered 
the medical profession. He was graduated 
from Georgetown University last June and 
is interning at Santa Clara County Hos- 
pital, San Jose, Calif. 

Marvin J. Fialco has been appointed 
Assistant to the Merchandising Manager in 
sportswear and intimate apparel at the 
five Burdine's Department stores in Miami, 
Fla. 

John S. Eskilson is out of the service 
and planned to attend the Law School at 
the University of Chicago. His new ad- 
dress is 443 Cleveland St., Gary, Ind. 

Dr. John F. Just received his M.D, 
degree in June from the College of Medi- 
cine at the University of Illinois. He is 
interning at the University of Illinois Re- 
search and Educational Hospital in Chi- 
cago. 

Frank Spaulding was awarded his Mas- 
ter of Science in Library Science from 
Western Reserve University in June, and 
he has accepted the position of Director 
of Information Services for Colgate-Palm- 
olive Co., New York. 

Valmore Pelletier has started his third 
year at the Albany Medical College of 
Union University. He was at the college 
during the summer months on a $600 
summer research fellowship granted by 
the Albany County Heart Association. He 
spent his time in research and training 
at the College's Department of Medicine, 
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine. 

Richard G. Pierce is teaching English at 
Amesbury High School. He had been a 
program coordinator at Raytheon Elec- 
tronics Corporation the last few years. 

Dr. Harvey A. Reback, a 1961 graduate 
of New York Medical College, has been 
appointed to serve at the New Britain 
General Hospital. 

1958 

Dave Finklestein's deeply felt interest in 
Chinese law and international diplomacy 
has taken him on a 6,000-mile journey to 
the East-West Center at the University of 
Hawaii. After a year's program of Chi- 
nese language and culture studies at the 
university on Honolulu, the Harvard Law 
School graduate expects to travel on to 
the University of Taiwan on Formosa to 
study the language in practice. "The Cen- 
ter is the newest thing in U.S. education," 
Dave reports. "It was set up by the Uni- 
versity of Hawaii with federal funds after 
the former territory became America's 
50th state. After my studies are over 
there, I want to continue learning Chinese 
until I speak it as badly as I do English." 

David P. Jenkins became a Deacon in 
the Episcopal Church on June 17 and has 
been assigned to St. Paul's Church, Ports- 
mouth. R. 1.. as Deacon in Charge. Pre- 
paring for the ministry at The General 
Theological Seminary in New York 
(S.T.B. 1961 ), he worked for three years 
at St. Paul's Church in the Bronx and at 
St. Edward the Martyr in "Spanish Har- 
lem," where he was organist and director 
of both the English and the Spanish choirs. 
He was especially concerned with the 
Puerto Rican children in the parish. 



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Lawrence T. Kocher is teaching history 
at Woodside High School in Redwood 
City, Calif., having moved from Morris- 
town. N. J. He had been in the school sys- 
tem of Madison. N. J., for two years. Mrs. 
Kocher is the former Mary Gerhart. Pem- 
broke '58. 

Stanley Dobson, Jr., on holiday from his 
government duties in Europe, had a month 
in Scandinavia during the summer. His 
new address: APO 742, Box 9, New York. 
N. Y. 

Peter Brogren has continued his interest 
in the John Hay Library and has con- 
tributed binding tools and many special 
papers and skins as an aid to its experi- 
ments in bookbinding. 

Steven A. Schwartz received his Law 
degree from Boston University in June. 

Jim Moulton and his partner won the 
doubles championship in the three-day 
United States Armed Forces Japan Tennis 
Tournament at North Camp Drake, Japan, 
in June. 

Morgan G. Gilman, a graduate of the 
Yale Law School, has been admitted to 
the Connecticut State Bar Association. He 
expects that his military service will have 
to precede his law practice. 

John Shapira was graduated from the 
Yale Law School in June and expected to 
enter the Harvard Business School this 
fall. Uncle Sam willing. 

Eric Brown completed the eight-week 
field artillery officer orientation course at 
the Artillery and Missile School. Fort Sill, 
during the summer. Eric is back on the 
job as an admission officer at Brown. 

Henry M. Drake, with the New York 
Telephone Company in Brooklyn, is a 
Business Office Manager in the Commer- 
cial Department. 

John E. Wright has moved from Spar- 
tanburg, S. C, to Charlotte, N. C, where 
he is a reporter on the staff of the Char- 
lotte News. He has recently completed his 
military service, having spent the past two 
years in Spartanburg with Army Intelli- 
gence. 

J. Bartlett Page and his wife, the former 
Barbara Ann Acott, Pembroke "58, have 
moved to Poughkeepsie. where Bart has 
taken a job with IBM as a mathematician 
programmer. He received an M.S. in 
Mathematics from the University of 
Rochester in June. 

Stanley Paul Leibo received his Master 
of Science in Zoology from the University 
of Vermont in June. 

David J. Mclntire has joined the Dewey 
and Almy Chemical Division, W. R. Grace 
& Co., Cambridge, as a sales engineer in 
the Container and Industrial Products De- 
partment. 

Joe Tebo is working with the Atlantic 
Refining Company in the Providence area. 
Lt. Max McCreery is stationed on Ber- 
muda and, as he has mentioned on several 
occasions, it's "not bad duty!" In a recent 
letter to his former basketball coach, Stan 
Ward, Max recommended Bermuda as "an 
ideal spot for tired old coaches at the 
close of the season. " 

Martin Bernheimer, a member of the 
Music Department Faculty at New York 
University, is also on the reviewing staff 
of the New York Herald Tribune. 



1959, 1960, 1961 

WHEN YOU MAKE your contribution to 
the 25th Reunion Fund of your 
class, for the benefit of Brown University, 
your dollars will now be doing extra duty. 
In each case, every two dollars of such 
gifts will bring Brown an additional dollar 
under the three-year Challenge Grant from 
the Ford Foundation. 

If. moreover, your company has an 
Educational Gift-Matching Program, your 
gift to the 25th Reunion Fund brings even 
more benefit to Brown. It qualifies for the 
matching gift from your company; this, in 
turn, counts toward the Ford Challenge. 
Generosity, in one case, will thus bring 
the University a 50% bonus; in the other, 
it will bring one of 150%. 

Becaase of these two developments, con- 
tributors to the 1959. 1960. 1961 Funds 
are asked to take notice of the following: 
They should now make their checks pay- 
able to "Brown University. Class of 

25th Reunion Fund." As in the past, how- 
ever, the checks should be sent to G. H. 
Walker & Co., 15 Westminster St.. Provi- 
dence 3. R. I., which administers the 
Funds. 

The three Classes may continue to use 
reminder envelopes already processed, in 
print and in stock. Since those still bear 
old instructions as to endorsement, it is 
important that the contributors note the 
proper form given in the preceding para- 
graph. The University reference is needed 
if the gifts are to qualify readily for the 
matching money. 

1959 

Paul Markoff has accepted a position 
with Concord Electronics Corporation as 
Sales Promotion Manager, His duties with 
the Los Angeles firm consist of handling 
the advertising, display ideas, and direct 
contact in the field with the distributor 
sales personnel. "I also expect a trip to 
Japan sooner or later when we manufac- 
ture our line of tape recorders. Travel 
actually fits in with my training last year 
at the American Institute for Foreign 
Trade in Phoenix. I live in a beautiful 
pool apartment off Sunset Strip in West 
Hollywood and am taking advantage of 
every opportunity the area has to offer." 

Bruce Mosher reports that he will be 
in West Africa for three years. His ad- 
dress: Box 2746, Accra, Ghana. 

Calvin K. Keyler has joined the Pub- 
licity Department of O. S. Tyson & Co.. 
Inc., New York industrial and trade ad- 
vertising agency, as an assistant account 
executive. For the past two years, he 
served in the United States Naval Reserve 
aboard the fleet oiler USS Elokomin out 
of Norfolk, Va. 

Eugene A. Nojek is receiving a 47-week 
course of instruction in the Korean lan- 
guage at The Language School, Monterey, 
Calif. He entered the Army last spring 
and completed basic training at Fort Leon- 
ard Wood, Mo. 

Leonard Thompson was given a rising 
ovation for an evening speech at the 1961 
Scout Executives' Conference for the New 



England Region. He is District Scout Ex- 
ecutive of Pomperaug Council, Bridgeport, 
Conn. 

Robert L. Lawson has been named As- 
sistant to the Dean of Students at Ameri- 
can International College. He is working 
on his Master's in Education at Springfield. 
In his position at A.I.C., he will work in 
the areas of student activities, fraternity 
relations, and resident counseling. 

A. Stephen Boyan, Jr., has received a 
scholarship to the graduate school of the 
University of Chicago, where he is work- 
ing on his Doctorate in Political Science. 

Bruno Modica has been graduated from 
the American Institute for Foreign Trade 
in Phoenix, Ariz. 

J. Richard Castellucci is teaching French 
at Uxbridge (Mass.) High School. He re- 
ceived his Master's from Middlebury in 
that field. Dick held an assistantship in 
Paris under the Middlebury plan for one 
year. He has completed two years at Har- 
vard for his Ph.D. degree in French, 

Philip J. Baram received a Master of 
Arts degree from the Center for Middle 
Eastern Studies at Harvard in June. He 
had studied a year at Hebrew University 
in Jerusalem. 

1960 

Will Mackenzie. Jr., spent last year as 
a student at the London Academy of Mu- 
sic and Drama under a Drama Fulbright 
Scholarship. He returned to this country 
in June, just long enough to be married, 
and then it was off again to Italy for the 
summer (with his bride, of course!). He 
served as Assistant Stage Manager at the 
Festival of Two Worlds in Spoletto. He 
also worked in a production of Samuel 
Barber's opera, "Vanessa," and E. E. 
Cummings' play, "Him." If the Cummings 
play proves successful, there was a good 
chance that it will open in New York this 
season. If so. he'd be in it. 

Lt. Karl A. Tunberg is a platoon com- 
mander for a 105 Howitzer Platoon, with 
service in the Philippines and Okinawa. 
While on leave in Manila he saw every 
University in the city, the presidential pal- 
ace, the Rizal Centenary, Corregidor, Ba- 
taan. and the opening of the Manila Sym- 
phony season. 

Robert C. Crowell was an August grad- 
uate of Bryant College, receiving the de- 
gree of Bachelor of Business Administra- 
tion cum laude. 

W. Leslie Smith, Jr., commented on our 
July note which ended by saying: "He 
had two children calling him 'Daddy' 
now." "You're wrong," he wrote from 
Plainfield, N. J., "They don't call me 
'Daddy.' They call me 'Sir.' And damn 
whippy about it, too." 

David J. Hogarth left his position with 
Morehouse-Barlow Company of New York 
City in September and entered Nashotah 
House, a seminary of the Episcopal 
Church, to begin three years of study in 
preparation for ordination to Holy Or- 
ders. His address: 5 S. George Hall, Na- 
shotah House, Nashotah, Wise. 

Terry Case has been named to the staff 
of Pottsville (Pa.) High School, where he 
will teach history and serve as assistant 
football coach. Last year, Terry was at 



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Northumberland High as assistant foot- 
ball coach and head wrestling mentor. 

Tim Hennessey is in his second year at 
Wilbraham Academy, where he teaches 
Russian and European History. In 1960 
he coached the Junior Varsity football 
team to an undefeated season. During the 
summer, he studied Russian at the Har- 
vard Summer School. 

Thomas E. Mitchell, who left Brown 
after his Freshman year, was graduated 
from the Naval Academy in June. He re- 
ceived an Sc.B. degree and was commis- 
sioned Ensign. 

John Caswell has been named a Mc- 
Kinsey Scholar by the Columbia Univer- 
sity Graduate School of Business. While at 
the Business School, he belonged to Kappa 
Psi (business fraternity), the Graduate 
Business Association, was circulation man- 
ager for the Graduate Business News, and 
was on the Dean's list. He expected to 
receive his Master's degree in Business 
.administration this month, after which he 
will be a management trainee at the Rhode 
Island Hospital Trust Co. 

Roger C. Colter has been appointed 
sales representative in central New Jersey 
for Stanley Steel Strapping, division of the 
Stanley Works, New Britain, Conn. His 
territory is part of the firm's Metropolitan 
Region, with headquarters in New York 
City. 

Donald B. Almeida is at the Cornell 
Graduate School working toward a Mas- 
ter's in Business Administration, which he 
hopes to receive in June. 

Ens. David A. Belden, a December 
graduate of the Newport Officers Candi- 
date School, is stationed aboard the USS 
Fidelity (M.S.O. 443), an oceangoing 
minesweeper, as the engineering officer. 
The ship is based in Charleston, S. C. 

Alan D. Carver is a representative for 
Davis & Davis, Turks Head Bldg., Provi- 
dence. 

Ronald J. DiPani is a language teacher 
at Cranston West High School. He's study- 
ing music on the side. 

Ronald Formisano is a House Fellow at 
the University of Wisconsin, where he is 
doing graduate work in Recent American 
History. 

Edward A. Forrest is with the Employ- 
ers Group of Insurance Companies and 
recently finished a nine-week course at the 
firm's underwriting school in Boston. 

Maurice N. Garrity is employed at the 
Air Arm Plant of the Westinghouse Elec- 
tric Co., Baltimore. 

Rockwell Gray studied at the Univer- 
sity of Madrid under a Fulbright grant 
during the summer. He plans to spend 
the current academic year at Columbia 
studying literature. 

Michael Mainelli, after spending two 
years in the Army, is taking up electrical 
engineering at the University of Rhode 
Island. 

Dave Manson is with New England Tel. 
and Tel. as an executive trainee in Boston. 

Robert Mazzeo is working in Hartford 
for the Arrow-Hart-Hegeman Electrical 
Co., Motor Control Division, in Industrial 
Sales. 

Ens. Charlie Olobri, at last reports, was 
working in the Communication Office at 




A GRANT OF $25,000 came to Brown University this year from the Ford Motor Company Fund. Octave 
P. Beouvais '18, Ford's Executive Personnel Administrator, second from right, presented the check. 



the U.S. Naval Air Facility, Sigonelles, 
Sicily, Italy. 

John Pflug is a sales representative for 
the Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., Provi- 
dence. 

William Rouslin is at the University of 
Connecticut Graduate School and expects 
to have his Master's in Biology by June. 

Roger P. Sacilotto is a plant process 
chemist for the Geigy Chemical Corp., 
Cranston. 

Robert P. Sullivan teaches guitar at the 
Preparatory Department of the New Eng- 
land Conservatory in Boston and at the 
Cambridge School of Music, Weston, 
Mass. He is Vice-President of the New 
England Fretted Instruments Association. 

Yours truly is stationed at Williams 
AFB, Arizona, as a 2nd Lt., although 
expecting orders at any time. 

NORMAN J. PINEAULT 

1961 

Bill Staples has joined the Faculty of 
Deerfield Academy. After a three-month 
orientation period, he will be an Instructor 
in American Literature. 

Harry Swanger has accepted a position 
with the Armstrong Cork Co., Lancaster, 
Pa., and has entered the firm's Floor Di- 
vision Sales Training Program. 

Stanley H. Roehig has been selected by 
General Electric Company to participate 
in its three-year business training program. 

Ralph E. Wadleigh, Jr., began a com- 
prehensive indoctrination program during 
the summer in Minneapolis as the first 
step in his training with Cargill, Inc., a 
leading handler and processor of agricul- 
tural products. 

Steven C. Batterman, who received his 
M.Sc. in June, will teach this year at 
Roger Williams Junior College. His sub- 
ject: dynamics and statistics. 



Representing Brown 

Among Brown representatives at 
special ceremonies on other campuses of 
late have been the following alumni: 

Dr. William S. Preston '28, Professor of 
Bacteriology at the University of Michigan, 
at the inauguration of Louis W. Norris as 
ninth President of Albion College on Apr, 
14. (This was one of Dr. Preston's last 
official acts, for he died on Apr. 30.) 

Lyman G. Bloomingdale '35, a Trustee 
of the University, at the inauguration of 
John Rutherford Everett as Chancellor of 
the Municipal College System of the City 
of New York on Apr. 24. 

Dr. Walter H. Richards, Professor of 
Psychology at the University of Arkansas, 
at the installation of David W. Mullins as 
President there on Apr. 24. Dr. Richards 
received his Brown Ph.D. in 1950. 

Joseph R. Topper '52 of Owensboro, 
Ky., at the inauguration of Harold P. 
Hamilton as President of Kentucky Wes- 
leyan College on Apr. 26. 

Dr. Arthur R. Tebbutt '27 at the in- 
auguration of George Wells Beadle as 
Chancellor of the University of Chicago 
on May 4. Dr. Tebbutt is a member of the 
Faculty and former Dean of the Graduate 
School at that institution. 

Warren W. Brown '25 at the inaugura- 
tion of Maj. Gen. George R. E. Shell as 
Superintendent of the Virginia Military In- 
stitute on May 19. Brown, who also re- 
ceived a Brown A.M. in 1935, is head of 
the Department of Chemistry at Staunton 
Military Academy. 

Dr. Frank B. Smith at the inauguration 
of James W. Miller as President of Western 
Michigan University on May 20. Dr. 
Smith, who received graduate degrees from 
Brown in 1930 and 1934, is Technical Di- 
rector of the Dow Chemical Laboratories 
in Midland, Mich. 



OCTOBER 1961 



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Bureau of Vital Statistics 



MARRIAGES 

1910 — The Rev. Allan D. Creelman 
and Mrs. Ada H. Bridge of Hazardville. 
Conn., June 18. 

1943 — Paul S. Rockwell and Miss Eliza- 
beth C. Brown, daughter of Mrs. Gustova 
M. Brown of Black Mountain, N. C, June 
25. At home: 28 Hawthorne St., Cam- 
bridge, Mass. 

1944 — John S. Lennon and Miss Judith 
M. Peacock, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Russell W. Mills of Pawtucket. May 6. 
Mr. Mills is Brown '27. At home: 25 
Blackburn St., Pawtucket. 

1948 — John Avery, Jr., and Miss Judith 
A. Colmer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Clarence H. Colmer of Andover, Mass., 
July 29. At home: 36 Morton St., An- 
dover. 

1948 — Irwin J. Chase and Miss Phyllis 
G. Freeman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Albert Freeman of Chelsea, Mass., June 
4. Ushers included Milton Levin '50, Al- 
fred Silverstein '48, Martin Feldman "58 
and David Berger "48. At home: Wayland 
Manor, 500 Angell St., Providence. 

1949 — Henry F. Cauchon, Jr., and Miss 
Mary E. Farrelly, daughter of Mr. Daniel 
F. Farrelly of Providence, and the late 
Mrs. Farrelly, Aug. 12. John R. Mullen 
'50 was best man. Tracy G. Thurber '50 
and Adolph N. Anderson, Jr., "50 ushered. 
At home: 22 Wyndham Ave., Providence 
8. 

1950 — Roy I. L. Pearson and Miss 
Sarah E. Bard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Erwin W. Bard of Ridgefield, Conn., July 
15. 

1950 — Dr. Barry F. Schwartz and Miss 
Linda R. Feldman, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. George Feldman of Belle Harbor, 
Queens, N. Y., June 11. 

1951 — Bennett Alpert and Miss Fay A. 
Louison, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Israel 
Louison of Taunton, July 30. Harvey Sny- 
der '53 ushered. 

1952 — Dennis B. Blythe and Miss Do- 
lores M. Machowczyk, daughter of the late 
Mr. and Mrs. Steve Machowczyk, June 
24. Charles D. Blythe '55 was honorary 
usher. At home: P.O. Bo.x 291, Saint 
Marys, O. 

1952 — John E. Buy and Miss Priscilla 
Hiers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph H. 
Hiers of Granville, Mass., July 15. 

1953 — Raymond A. Meyrowitz and 
Miss Joan R. Cahane, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Benjamin Cahane of New York City, 
July 2. 

1953 — Harvey M. Snyder and Miss 
Dorothea J. LebofT, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Ezra J. Leboff of Lexington, Mass., 
May 28. Bennett Alpert "51 ushered. At 
home: 31 Adelphi St., Providence. 

1953 — Dale W. Strand and Miss Jean 
A. Kiley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph 
Kiley of Union, N. J., June 10. The bride- 
groom"s father, William C. Strand, "34, 
was best man. 

1954 — Gordon S. Bigelow and Miss 
Beverly F. McCarthy, daughter of Mr. and 



Mrs. Francis B. McCarthy of East Wilton, 
Me., June 10. The groom"s father is the 
Rev. Gordon E. Bigelow '24. 

1954 — Charles B. Fink and Miss Judith 
Davis Appelbaum, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Jack Appelbaum of Providence, Aug. 
27. Michael Fink '59 was best man. Ed- 
ward L. Fink '50 was an usher. At home: 
106 Manning St., Providence. 

1954 — Dr. Serafino J. Fusco and Miss 
Shirley-Ann E. Denno, daughter of Mrs. 
William E. Denno of Pittsfield, Mass., and 
the late Mr. Denno, July 22. At home: 
802 E. Front St., Apt. C-10, Plainfield, 
N. J. 

1954 — Charles S. Genovese and Miss 
Patricia M. Sgrosso, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Emiel C. Sgrosso of Hohokus, N. J., 
July 15. At home: Elizabeth St., Kent, 
Conn. 

1954 — Warren W. Nader and Miss Paul- 
ine T. Benoit, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Robert F. LeFrancois of Manchester, 
N. H., Aug. 5. At home: 40 Ashland Ave., 
Methuen, Mass. 

1954 — Thomas Tritschler and Miss An- 
nabelle Hempen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Fred Hempen of Quincy, III., July 1. At 
home: 747 West Montrose, Chicago. 

1954 — Robert M. Watters and Miss 
Denys Hayes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Daniel B. Hayes of Saginaw, Mich., June 
3. 

1954 — Floyd S. Weil and Miss Judith 
Margulies, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Harry 
L. Margulies of the Bronx, N. Y., June 25. 

1955 — James N. Corbridge, Jr., and 
Miss Charlotte I. Mi.xon, daughter of Mrs. 
Benjamin H. Mixon of Henderson, N. C, 
and the late Mr. Mixon, June 10. James 
N. Corbridge '29 is the groom's father. At 
home: 21 Edgewood Ave., New Haven. 

1955 — William R. Corbus and Miss Jean 
B. Lucas, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd 
B. Lucas of Arlington, Va., June 24. 

1955— Dean F. Kimball and Miss Vir- 
ginia M. Strong, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. 
John Strong of Baltimore, June 3. At 
home: 4033 Deepwood Rd., Baltimore 18. 

1955 — Dr. Algis Matulionis and Miss 
Danute Muliolis, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Ignas Muliolis of Cleveland, June 6. 

1955 — Robert D. West and Miss Caro- 
line R. Harding, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Francis A. Harding of Dedham, Mass., 
June 17. 

1956 — Michael K. Carney and Miss Su- 
san G. Salembier, daughter of Mrs. Robert 
Bromley Grinnell of Wayne, Pa., and Mr. 
Rene Robert Salembier of Los Angeles, 
June 17. 

1956 — Aldo M. Cavallaro and Miss 
Madeleine E. Duhamel, niece of Mr. and 
Mrs. Laurent I. Desrosiers of Manville, 
R. I., Aug. 12. Richard A. Marciano '55 
was best man. At home: 78 Park Place, 
Woonsocket. 

1956 — Dr. Gabriel F. deFreitas and 
Miss Sylvia E. Anderson, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Frederick F. Anderson of Madi- 
son, N. J., June 24. At home: 313 AUston 
St., Brighton, Mass. 



1956 — George S. Groves and Miss Ellen 
N. Ferguson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Nelson L. Ferguson of Ben Avon, Pitts- 
burgh, May 13. At home: 323 Morewood 
Ave., Apt. 18, Pittsburgh 13. 

1956 — Roger L. Hale and Miss Sandra 
B. Johnston, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. 
Alexander H. Johnston of Glen Cove, 
L. I., N. Y., June 10. 

1956 — George S. Kirkpatrick and Miss 
Patience Arnold, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Dana R. Arnold of Lincoln, R. I., 
June 24. At home: 16 Beaumont St., 
Rumford. 

1956 — The Rev. Edward L. Lee, Jr., and 
Miss Kathryn L. Fligg, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. James A. Fligg of Elkins Park, 
Pa., June 17. At home: 135 S. 17th St., 
Apt. 8-D, Philadelphia 3. 

1956 — Charles W. Merritt, Jr., and Miss 
Elizabeth A. Steer, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. John A. Steer of Blue Bell, Pa., and 
Brant Beach, N. J., Aug. 19. Peter Cam- 
pizi "56 was best man. 

1957 — Dr. Frederick L. Humeston and 
Miss Elizabeth A. Doyle, daughter of Mrs. 
William Doyle of Jackson Heights, L. I., 
and the late Mr. Doyle, June 17. Dr. Jack 
Giddings "57 ushered. At home: 119-B 
North 16th St., Easton, Pa. 

1957 — Frank M. Jackson, Jr., and Miss 
Barbara J. Dugall, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Paul J. Dugall of Chester, Conn., 
June 24. Ushers included Peter Fake "57. 
At home: 1907 Willow Hill Ct., North- 
field, III. 

1957 — Richard C. Jordan and Miss 
Anne M. Raso, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Carlo Raso of Fair Lawn, N. J., June 25. 

1957 — Mark K. Kessler and Miss Con- 
stance A. Cohen, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. 
Milton H. Cohen of York, Pa., June 18. 
Stephen Cutler '57 ushered. 

1957 — Dr. Richard J. Kostecki and 
Miss M. Emily Warszawski of New York 
City, June 10. Ushers included Robert L. 
Jones '58. The bridegroom's father is Dr. 
Joseph L. Kostecki '28. 

1957 — Matthew C. Maloney and Miss 
Ellen Eisha. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Anthony Eisha of New Hartford, N. Y., 
July 15. Kevit R. Cook '58 and C. Douglas 
Sampson '57 ushered. 

1957 — Charles E. Peartree and Miss 
Virginia H. Gotwals, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Benjamin F. Gotwals of Barren Hill, 
Pa., June 24. At home: Apt. A, 708 Wol- 
cott Dr., Philadelphia 18. 

1957 — Richard M. Quinn and Miss Jean 
K. Heidt. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John 
J. Heidt of Indianapolis, July 1. John F. 
Quinn, Jr., '59 was best man. The groom's 
father is John F. Quinn '22. At home: 
3540 North Pennsylvania St., Indianapolis. 

1957 — Bruce K. Rideout and Miss 
Nancy M. Thompson, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Ross W. Thompson, Prout's Neck, 
Me., Aug. 26. Francis Thorley '57 ushered. 
At home: 48 Lake Ave., Woburn, Mass. 

1957 — William C. Roesel and Miss Lois 
A. Hallenbeck. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Millard O. Hallenbeck of Newark, N. J., 
June 24. 

1957 — Joseph S. Shapiro and Miss Lil- 
lian E. Wolfe, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Gerard Wolfe of Chestnut Hill, Mass., and 
Heilbronn, Germany, June 25. 



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1957 — George H. Stephenson and Miss 
Jane B. Houghton, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. WiUiam M. Houghton of Marhle- 
head, Mass.. July 30. Ushers inckidcd 
Stephen Smithwick '56, Gordon L. Parker 
'56, Allen G. Powning '57 and John R. 
Chandler '57. Head usher was P. Tapley 
Stephenson, Jr., '53. 

1957 — Alvin J. Sullivan, Jr., and Miss 
Claudette C. Dufresne, daughter of Mrs. 
Wilfred Dufresne of New Bedford, June 
3. At home: 1166 North Main St., Fall 
River. 

1958— Harold D. Bander and Miss Ju- 
dith P. Goodman, daughter of Mr. Charles 
Goodman and stepdaughter of Mrs. Good- 
man of Providence, Aug. 6. At home: 191 
High Service Ave., North Providence. 

1958 — Peter C. Charron and Miss Nancy 

E. Wilson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Samuel H. Wilson of Manchester, N. H., 
June 17. At home: 225 Ocean Spray Ave., 
Satellite Beach, Fla. 

1958 — Thomas M. Cummings and Miss 
Arlene R. Mackey, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Charles C. Mackey of Cranston, July 
8. At home: Mt. Merino. Greenport, N. Y. 

1958— Philip DuMond and Miss Glenna 
C. Meginnis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Harold G. Meginnis of Asheville, N. C, 
Apr. 22. At home: 304 South Harrison 
St., East Orange, N. J. 

1958 — Garry D. Harned and Miss Linda 
M. Messolonghites, daughter of Mrs. Nich- 
olas Messolonghites of Bedford, N. Y., 
and the late Mr. Messolonghites, June 24. 
Earle Leach '58 was best man. 

1958 — Stanley P. Leibo and Miss Bette- 
Rose Altman, daughter of Prof, and Mrs. 
Edward M. Altman of Providence, July 
30. B. Allen Flaxman '58 ushered. At 
home: 219-C King St., Princeton, N. J. 

1958 — Lauren L. McMaster, IH, and 
Miss Joan C. Hoost, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Allen J. Hoost of Sayville, L. I., 
Aug. 19. Robert F. Cunningham was best 
man. The bride is Pembroke '60. 

1958— 1st Lt. Joseph A. Moyer, USAF, 
and Miss Sandra G. Heise, daughter of Dr. 
and Mrs. Edward A. Heise of Sumter, 
S. C, June 24. 

1958 — Jerome M. Thier and Miss Mar- 
ian J. Rapoport, daughter of Mrs. Libbie 
Cooper Rapoport and the late Mr. Isadore 
Rapoport, Aug. 6. At home: R.D. #2, Dal- 
ton. Pa. 

1958 — Martin Wolman and Miss Jean 

F. Callahan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
William F. Callahan of Silver Spring, Md., 
May 6. The bride is Pembroke '59. At 
home: c/o Kogan, 4463 Murietta St., 
Sherman Oaks, Calif. 

1959— Ens. Grover C. Bailey, III, 
USNR, and Miss Carol M. Benischek, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Ben- 
ischek of Rowley, Mass., May 20. The 
best man was Wilham Sitnik '59. 

1959 — Joel D. Baumgarten and Miss 
Barbara J. Leinwand, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Jack Leinwand of Jamaica, L. I., 
N. Y., June 11. 

1959— LT(j.g.) John H. Blish, USN, 
and Miss Edith J. Smith, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Ronald B. Smith of Rumford, 
Aug. 5. Best man was Louis S. Winner, 
Jr., 59. Ushers included Wyndham Eaton, 
II, and Donald Andrew '57. 



1959— John R. Connet and Miss Patri- 
cia A. Wolff, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
George J. Wolff of Mountainside, N. J., 
July 1. Ens. Fourtin Powell, USN, was 
best man, and 2/c Peter Connet, USAF, 
'61 ushered. 

1959 — Peter G. Doyle and Miss Cather- 
ine A. Morrison, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
David Morrison of Fairfield, Conn., Aug. 
26. At home: West Rd., Fairfield. 

1959 — Michael Fedeli and Miss Con- 
stance A. Lango, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Joseph R. Lango of Southbridge, Mass., 
June 10. Robert J. Goldson, Jr.. '58 served 
as best man. At home: 148 Princeton St., 
North Chelmsford, Mass. The bride is 
Pembroke '58. 

1959 — Vincent F. Geremia, Jr., and 
Miss Brenda A. Lesure, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Elmer E. Lesure of Ashfield, 
Mass., Aug. 14. Edward Goldman '59 was 
best man. Clark A. Sammartino '59 ush- 
ered. 

1959 — Peter F. Goldbecker and Miss 
Caroline S. Vilord, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Arthur T. Vilord of Mahwah, N. J., 
July 22. At home: 1476 Chapel St., New 
Haven. 

1959 — Robert E. Kresko and Miss Dor- 
otha N. Siefert, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Elbert Siefert of Pine Bluff, Ark., Apr. 15. 
At home: 8814 Eager Rd., St. Louis. 

1959— William O. Melvin, Jr., and Miss 
Mary C. Lauinger, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Philip C. Lauinger of New York 
City, June 24. 

1959 — Alan P. Miller and Miss Beverly 
Cole, daughter of Mrs. Margaret M. Cole 
of Wenham, Mass., June 24. David Mac- 
Callum '59 was an usher. At home: 1003 
Packard St., Ann Arbor, Mich. 

1959 — Arthur W. Murphy and Miss 
Ellen S. Hurley, daughter of Mrs. Charles 
F. Hurley of Cambridge and the late 
Governor Hurley, June 10. Wyndham 
Eaton, II, '59 ushered. 

1959 — Clark A. Sammartino and Miss 
Carole L. Camparone, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Peter Camparone of North Prov- 
idence, Aug. 26. Paul J. Choquette, Jr., '60 
was best man. Vincent F. Geremia, Jr., '59 
ushered. 

1959 — Walter C. Sanders and Miss Mar- 
ilyn L. Cann, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Edward H. Cann of Rochester, N. Y., 
Aug. 26. 

1959— David B. Schaffer and Miss Ruth 
Weiser, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan 
Weiser of Brooklyn, N. Y., June 22. Dr. 
Lewis Schaffer '56 was best man. 

1959 — C. Jonathan Shattuck and Miss 
Edith M. Volaver, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. William Volaver of Tulsa, May 26. 

1959 — Alan L. Stuart and Miss Jacque- 
line Barkan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Louis M. Barkan of Winter Park, Fla., 
July 27. James M. Stuart '54 attended his 
brother. 

1959 — Bowen H. Tucker and Miss Jan 
L. Brown, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wil- 
liam J. Brown of Ann Arbor, Mich., Aug. 
26. Philip S. Hollman '59 and Bruce E. 
Donovan '59 ushered. 

1959— Richard P. Whitney and Miss 
Barbara Elvin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Kenneth F.lvin of Upper Montclair, N. J., 
June 24. 



1960 — John G. Baldasaro and Miss Car- 
ole A. Nelson, daughter of Mrs. Joseph 
Robbins and Fred C. Nelson of Wilton, 
N. H., July 29. Nicholas Pannes '60 was 
best man. At home: 318 Hanover St., 
Manchester, N. H. 

1960— John J. Belles, Jr., and Miss 
Mary Jane Ives, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Robert P. Ives of Wallingford, Conn., Aug. 

26. Ushers included Michael Barton '60 
and John Mueller '60. At home: 201 
Speedwell Ave., Morristown, N. J. 

1960 — Richard E. Benson and Miss 
Beverly A. Crins, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Howard A. Crins of Cranston, May 

27. The bride's father is '29. 

1960— Rene F. Dautel and Miss Judith 
M. Barchiesi, daughter of Mrs. Alfred 
Barchiesi of Woonsocket, Sept. 17, 1960. 
At home: 8335 So. Langley, Chicago 19. 

1960 — Stephen P. Dretler and Miss Joan 
V. Sorkin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
George Sorkin of Waban, Mass., June 18. 
At home: 6 Charlesbank Rd., Newton, 
Mass. 

1960 — Norman M. Enman, Jr., and 
Miss Elise Emery, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. George E. Emery of Leverett, Mass., 
June 17. John Pflug, Richard Adams, and 
Kenneth Beaugrand, all '60, ushered. At 
home: 87 North Pleasant St., Amherst. 

1960 — Stephen J. Feinberg and Miss 
Roxene Goller, daughter of Mrs. Samuel 
Goller of Kansas City, Mo., and the late 
Mr. Goller, June 17. Best man was Rich- 
ard Press '60. Robert B. Klein, Allan 
Deutsch, Joel Brest and Martin Sloate, all 
'60, ushered. 

1960 — Ens. Lawrence W. Hegarty, 
USNR, and Miss Chrystal Winters in West- 
hampton Beach, L. I., June 17, Ushers 
included William T. Redding '58, Robert 
J. Goldson '58 and Kent Savel '59. The 
bride is Pembroke '60. At home: 630A 
Virginia Ave., Oceana, Va. 

1960 — William P. Kennedy and Miss 
Dianne L. Martin, daughter of Mrs. Ina 
Martin of South Hingham, Mass., June 17. 
At home: 30 Jenkes St., Providence. 

1960— William S. Krafchik and Miss 
Patricia J. Tabak, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. John M. Tabak of Stratford, Conn., 
June 4. 

1960 — 2nd Lt. Joseph F. Laucius, 
USMC, and Miss Martha A. Zsidisin, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Zsidisin 
of Linden, N. J., May 13. Edward Sweet 
'60 ushered. 

1960 — John L. Maryak and Miss Helen 
J. Maclennan, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. 
J. Scott Maclennan of Bound Brook, N. J., 
June 17. At home: 6923 Clarendon Rd., 
Bethesda, Md. The bride is Pembroke '62. 

1960 — Russell C. Mundy and Miss Ann 
C. Scheller, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. 
George A. Scheller of Short Hills, N. J., 
June 24. Frederic H. Mundy, Jr., '53 was 
best man. 

1960— Ens. Edwin F. Nicholson, USN, 
and Miss Barbara N. Jones, daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. Harold N. Jones of West- 
field, Mass., July 1. Walter A. Foley '60 
was an usher. 

1960 — Robert P. Pearson and Miss 
Rosalind Pace, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. 
C. Robert Pace of Manlius, N. Y., June 
5. The bride is Pembroke '61. 



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I960 — Francis A. Pittaro. Jr., and Miss 
Elaine Conte, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
John Conte. Sr., of Trenton, N. J., Nov. 
24. Best man was Joseph Lausicus '60, and 
Peter Sweet '60 and Alvan DiLusia '60 
ushered. At home: 225 Emory Ave., Tren- 
ton 10. 

1960 — Ens. H. Russell Preston, Jr., 
USNR, and Miss Karen A. JJenschke, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William O. 
Henschke of Longmeadow, Mass., June 6. 
Martin Bogdanovich '60 served as best 
man. At home: 4469 Alabama St., San 
Diego. 

I960 — Walter A. Roe and Miss Diane 
Taylor, daughter of Mrs. Lane W. Fuller 
of Wakefield, and Stanley F. Taylor of 
Osterville, N. Y., Aug. 12. John J. Roe, 
III, was best man. John J. Roe, Jr., '27 
is the groom's father. 

1960— Allan S. Ross and Miss Sylvia A. 
Hill, daughter of Mrs. Sylvia Willis Lowry 
of Los Angeles, Aug. 12. Philip fJollman 
'59 and Stephen Harmon '59 were ushers. 

1960 — Nail M. Senozan and Miss Char- 
lotte E, Attride, daughter of Mr. Roy R. B. 
Attride and the late Mrs. Attride of Cold 
Spring Harbor, N. Y., July 29. Lawrence 

D. Ackman '60 was best man. Ushers in- 
cluded Albert Easton '60. 

1960 — Charles E. Southworth, Jr., and 
Miss H. Sandra Schroeder, daughter of 
Mrs. Harry Schroeder, Jr., of Darien, 
Conn., and the late Mr. Schroeder, Aug. 
26. Robert A. Ecker "55, John C. Mac- 
Kenzie '60 and Arthur Weddell, Jr., '60 
ushered. The bridegroom's father is Charles 

E. Southworth '32. At home: 125 Prospect 
St., Providence. 

1960— Ens. Douglas S. Tolderlund, 
USN, and Miss Sandra E. Humes, daugh- 
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Humes of 
Middletown, R. I., Aug. 26. 

I960— Ronald G. Whittle and Miss 
Carol J. Handrich, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Eldor G. Handrich of Wauwatosa, 
Wis., Aug. 12. At home: The Gunnery 
School, Washington, Conn. 

I960 — Ens. Peter LeValley Spencer, 
USNR, and Miss Eugenia Bruno, daughter 
of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Bruno of Provi- 
dence, May 4. Mrs. Spencer is Pembroke 
•60. 

1961 — Jay L. Agran and Miss Lynne R. 
Frestal, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Edgar 
J. Frestal of Trenton, N. J., June 18. 
Steven Abramowitz '61 ushered. 

1961— Ens. Roger W. Barnett, USN, 
and Miss Sandra A. Mason, daughter of 
Col. and Mrs. Richard P. Mason, in Wash- 
ington, D. C, June 16. The bride is Pem- 
broke '61. 

1961— Ens. Avery W. Bates, USN, and 
Miss Carolyn D. Nash, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Robert S. Nash of Washington, 
D. C, June 10. Ushers included J. Baird 
Pittman '61 and A. Courtnay Shepard '61. 

1961 — Milton E. Boyd, Jr., and Miss 
Janet E. Howard, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Whipple L. Howard of Providence, 
June 17. Ushers included Elliot Burton '61, 
Alan Benford '61, and Stuart Money '58. 

1961 — Christopher K. Bullock and Miss 
Susan W. Ellis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
George W. Ellis of Milford, Mass., June 
24. Best man was David B. Bullock '55 
and Donald P. Bullock '57 ushered. 



1961 — John R. Crowley and Miss Eliza- 
beth A. Flynn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Philip A. Duncan of Milton. Mass., Aug. 
12. Henry G. Smith, II, "61 ushered. 

1961— David S. Curry and Miss Gail R. 
Raynor, daughter of Mrs. Gilbert A. Ray- 
nor of Greenwich, Conn., and the late Mr. 
Raynor, June 10. 

1961 — Robert J. Echenberg and Miss 
Judith E. Schiffman, daughter of Judge 
Jacob Schiffman and Mrs. Schiffman of 
Wilkes-Barre, Pa., June 25. Ushers in- 
cluded Morris Filler, Arthur Rosenberg, 
Arthur Solomon and Joel Karp, all '61. At 
home: 1007 Spruce St., Philadelphia. 

1961 — Donald E. English and Joan 
Voelker. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ste- 
phen A. Voelker of Columbus, O., June 
17. The bride is Pembroke '60. At home: 
Rosalind Gardens, Dobbs Ferry, N. Y. 

1961 — John S. Ford, Jr., and Miss Janet 
C. Miller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. 
Francis Miller of Alton, 111., June 3. Wal- 
ter Metcalfe '60 ushered. 

1961 — Pierce K. Healey and Miss Mary 
T. Halpin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed- 
ward M. Halpin of Johnston, R. I., June 
10. Ushers included Albert L. Frechette, 
Jr., '61. 

1961— Ens. John F. Kramer, Jr., USNR, 
and Miss Beverly J. Granger, daughter of 
Mr. Ray E. Granger of Lexington, Ky., 
and Mrs. William Thompson of Varoqua, 
Wis., June 8. Ushers included William 
Shay, Jr., '61. 

1961— 2nd Lt. John F. Lewis, USAF, 
and Miss Marion Lurig, daughter of Mr. 
Wilma Lurig of Bremerhaven, Germany, 
June 17. 

1961 — Ens. Richard C. MacKenzie, 
USN, and Miss Emily Mott-Smith, daugh- 
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth O. Mott- 
Smith of Evanston, 111.. June 10. The bride 
is Pembroke '61. 

1961— Robert G. Markey and Miss 
Carol L. Sogg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Leonard Sogg of Gates Mills. O., June 25. 

1961 — Edgar J. Marston, III, and Miss 
Graeme Meyers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
John H. Meyers of San Antonio, Te.\., 
June 21. Paternal grandfather is Edgar J. 
Marston "11. Ushers included John S. 
Dunn, Jr., John W. Tutt, Foster H. Bal- 
lard. Ralph G. Greenlee, Jr., R. Bruce 
Montgomery and Walter R. McCarthy, all 
of the Class of '61. 

1961— 2nd Lt. James B. Mullen, Jr., 
USAF, and Miss Ann Dunning, daughter 
of Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Dunning of Bur- 
lington, Conn., Aug. 6. Robert Kirchberger 
'61 ushered. At home: Plainer St., Union- 
ville. Conn. The bridegroom's father is 
James B. Mullen '36. 

1961 — Brian L. Murphy and Miss Mar- 
vera F. Sala, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Joseph Sala of Glastonbury, Conn., Aug. 
12. At home: 216 Bishop St., New Haven. 

1961 — E. Dexter Pond, Jr., and Miss 
Susan M. Gasper, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Vincent J. Gasper of Auburn, Mass., 
June II. John T. Barrows '61 ushered. At 
home: 42 Spring St., Medfield, Mass. 

1961 — Edward D. Rotmer and Miss 
Elayne E. Ackerman, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Irving A. Ackerman of Provi- 
dence, Aug. 6. At home: 160 Lowden St., 
Pawtucket. 



1961— Peter M. Shimkin and Miss Lou- 
ise A. Motta, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Anthony B. Motta of Warwick, June 19. 
Best man was John P. Banning, Jr., '61. 
John C. Seymour '61 ushered. At home: 
2720 Daniel Rd., Chevy Chase, Md. 

1961 — Thomas S. Shore, Jr., and Miss 
Margaret F. Kudzma, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. John C. Kudzma of Nashua, 
N. H., Aug. 12. Ushers included Ens. 
Richard C. MacKenzie, USN, '61. The 
bride is Pembroke '61. 

1961— Henry G. Smith, II, and Miss 
Constance A. Warren, daughter of Dr. 
and Mrs. Leon H. Warren of Ann Arbor, 
Mich., July 8. 

1961— Ens. Vane G. Smith, Jr., USN, 
and Miss Dorothy J. McGuigan, daughter 
of Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. McGuigan of 
Norristown, Pa., June 10. 

1961— Charles B. Swartwood. Ill, and 
Miss Ann J. Curtis, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. John N. Curtis of Philadelphia and 
Marion, Mass., July 8. 

1961 — James F. Trafton and Miss Sonya 
M. Martin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Herbert H. Martin of Keene, N. H., June 
24. Ushers included Roger Cirone '61 and 
James Hug '61. 

1961 — John A. Tulloch and Miss Judith 
L. Hunter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam- 
uel H. Hunter of Benton, Me., June 17. 

1961 — Harry L. Usher and Miss Joann 
Misselhorn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Jack Misselhorn of Park Ridge, III., June 
17. Paul Krause '61 was best man. 

1962— Daniel P. Bellerue and Miss Sally 
McDonald, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack 
H. McDonald of La Jolla, Calif., July 8. 
Victor Bellerue '61 was best man. 

1962 — Gary A. Richardson and Miss 
Carole A. Samborski, daughter of Mrs. 
Alec Samborski of Naugatuck, Conn., and 
the late Mr. Samborski, July 17. 

1962— Willard P. Yeats and Miss De- 
lores E. Watt, daughter of Mrs. Russell T. 
Watt of Pittsfield, Mass., and the late Mr. 
Watt, May 13. At home: 234 Wayland St., 
Providence. 

1963— Clive R. Chilton and Miss Kath- 
arine H. Williams, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Theodore G. Williams of Marlboro, 
Mass., June 3. Peter W. Lippard '63 was 
best man. 

1963 — Michael S. Greenwood and Miss 
Susan E. Fowle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Harry W. Fowle of Newburyport, Mass., 
June 10. Best man was John C. Penoyer 
'63, and ushers were Thomas Doyle, Jef- 
frey Johnston and Peter Carmen, all '63. 

BIRTHS 

1939 — To Mr. and Mrs. T. Alexander 
Benn of New York City, a son, Alexander 
Whittingham, May 4. 

1939— To Mr. and Mrs. Philip M. 
Creighton of Larkspur, Calif., a son, John 
Winsa, Aug. 3. 

1940 — To Dr. and Mrs. Bertram H. 
Buxton, Jr., of Providence, their fourth 
son and seventh child. Barton Patterson, 
July 31. 

1941 —To Mr. and Mrs. Earl C. Tanner 
of Princeton, N. J., their second child and 
first daughter. Martha Chase, July 21. 
A grandfather is Harold B. Tanner '09. 



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1942 — To Mr. and Mrs. Robert N. 
Black of Chicago, their fourth child and 
third son, Gregory Redmond, Aug. 9. 

1942— To Mr. and Mrs. William J. 
Roberts of Northfield, 111., their fourth 
child, and fourth daughter, Mary Benedict, 
July 25. 

1944_To Dr. and Mrs. Elihu S. Wing, 
Jr., of Providence, a daughter, Laura, Aug. 
9. 

1945 — To Dr. and Mrs. Lee C. Nathans 
of Cranston, a daughter, Jolie Anne, June 
7. 

1946— To Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. 
Black of Lincoln, R. I., their fourth child 
and fourth daughter, Jennifer Lynne, June 
17. 

1946 — To Mr. and Mrs. John J. Phipps 
of Greenwood, R. L, a daughter, Marcia 
Anne, July 23. 

1946— To Dr. and Mrs. Justin L. Rich- 
man of Newton Highlands, Mass., their 
third child, a daughter, Toby, July 27. 

1946 — To Mr. and Mrs. Edward N. 
Saccoccia of Cranston, twins, David Mi- 
chael and Paul Michael, July 13. 

1946— To Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Smith 
of Watertown, Conn., their third son, 
Jonathan Scott, June 23. Mrs. Smith is 
the former Louise M. Jessell, Pembroke 
'49. 

1948— To Mr. and Mrs. Richard Chak- 
roflf of Worthington, O., their fifth child 
and second daughter, Myra Lynn, Mar. 22. 

1949 — To Mr. and Mrs. Theodore A. 
Hirt of Warren, O., their first child, a 
daughter, Sarah Jane, Aug. 1. 

1949 — To Mr. and Mrs. Ray A. Norton 
of Warwick, R. I., a son, John Raymond, 
July 17. 

1950— To Mr. and Mrs. Harold G. 
Bergwall of Snyder, N. Y., a daughter, 
Sally Wilson, Aug. 2. 

1950 — To Mr. and Mrs Henry Brom- 
berg of Providence, their third child and 
first son, Clifford, July 14. 

1950 — To Mr. and Mrs. Hardy L. Payor 
of St. Petersburg, Fla., their first child, 
a daughter, Susan Margaret, July 21. 

1951 — To Mr. and Mrs. James Asay of 
Yardville, N. J., their fourth child, a 
daughter, Rebecca Joyce, July 20. 

1951_To Mr. and Mrs. Randall C. Hall 
of Orange, N. J., their first child, a daugh- 
ter, Louise Porter, June 11. 

1951 — To Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. 
Hanna of Stoughton, Mass., a daughter, 
Robie Lou, Aug. 21. 

1951 — To Mr. and Mrs. K. Reed Hin- 
richs of Pleasantville, N. Y., a son, Lan- 
sing Warne, Aug. 7. Mrs. Hinrichs is the 
former Mary Wallau, Pembroke '54. 

1951 — To Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm L. 
Mackenzie of Wilmington, Del., a daugh- 
ter, Ellen Lee, Apr. 23. Mrs. Mackenzie 
is the former Barbara Webb, Pembroke 
'51. 

1951 — To Mr. and Mrs. Amedeo C. 
Merolla of Providence, their third child, 
a daughter, Sandra Jean, May 27. 

1951_To Mr. and Mrs. Theodore To- 
pakian of Warwick, a daughter, Lisa Ann, 
Aug. 10. 

1951— To Mr. and Mrs. William Van 
Dusen, Jr., of Albuquerque, their second 
daughter and fifth child, Alison, June 7. 

1952— To Dr. and Mrs. Miles E. Cunat, 



Jr., of Hollywood, 111., their second child 
and second son, John Andrew, June 15. 

1952— To Mr. and Mrs. John N. Davey 
of Greenfield, Mass., their third child and 
second son, Michael Anthony, June 30. 

1952— To Mr. and Mrs. Stephen C. 
Espo of Brookline, Mass., their first child, 
a son, Andrew Michael, July 4. Mrs. Espo 
is the former Ruth Ann Sidel, Pembroke 
•59. 

1952— Rabbi and Mrs. Irwin H. Fish- 
bein of Nyack, N. Y., their fourth child 
and third son, Robert Alan, May 18. 

1952— To Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. 
Goodwin of Ft. Wayne, Ind., their third 
child and first son, Robert Gregg, June 15. 

1952— To Dr. and Mrs. John D. Hutch- 
inson of West Hartford, their second child 
and first .son, Thomas Gordon, II, May 13. 

1952 — To Mr. and Mrs. Frederick W. 
Kopf of New York City, their first child, 
a son, Alexander Conrad, Apr. 6. 

1952— To Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Top- 
per of Owensboro, Ky., their third child 
and first son, Joseph Raphael, Jr., Jan. 26. 
Mrs. Topper is the former Mary Bromage, 
Pembroke '53. Her father is William H. 
Bromage '23. 

1952— To Mr. and Mrs. Chester C. 
Weinrich of Bayport, L. I., N. Y., their 
second child and first son, Erich Matthew, 
Aug. 15. 

1952— To Dr. Lester F. Williams, Jr., 
USAF, and Mrs. Williams of San Antonio, 
their fourth child and second daughter, 
Sandra Lee, Dec. 30. 

1953 — To Mr. and Mrs. Davis P. Brog- 
den of Warwick, R. I., a daughter, Mere- 
dith Louise, Aug. 13. 

1953— To Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. 
Sweeney of North Providence, a son, 
Thomas Gates, Aug. 10. 

1954— To Mr. and Mrs. F. Richard 
Flad of Waltham, Mass., their first child, 
a daughter, Susan Elizabeth, July 21. Mrs. 
Flad is the former Edwina Taylor, Pem- 
broke '59. 

1954 — To Dr. and Mrs. Henry F. Ize- 
man of Silver Spring, Md., their second 
child and first son, Edward Nathan, Mar. 
23. Mrs. Izeman is the former Paula N. 
Adelson, Pembroke '56. 

1954— To Mr. and Mrs. Alfred J. Pet- 
teruti of Bristol, R. I., their second son, 
Steven, Mar. 2. 

1954— To Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. 
Robertson of Scituate, R. I., a son, Robert 
Bruce, Apr. 18. Mrs. Robertson is the 
former Joan Northup, Pembroke '54. 

1954— To Dr. and Mrs. Philip A. Tor- 
gan of Kaiserslauten, Germany, their first 
child, David James, July 31. Mrs. Torgan 
is the former Sophia Brandel, Pembroke 
'56. 

1955_To Mr. and Mrs. Fred H. Bar- 
rows, III, of Providence, their fourth child, 
Reginald, Apr. 3, Fred H. Barrows, Jr., 
'27 is a grandfather and Edward H. Weeks 
'93 a great-grandfather. 

1955 — To Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. 
Borah of Seekonk, Mass., a daughter, 
Mary Catherine, July 6. 

1955_To Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. 
Harvey of Bradley Beach, N. J., their 
fourth child and second son, John Stanley, 
Aug. 9. 

1955 — To Dr. and Mrs. Stuart Kase of 



New York City, a daughter, Jodi Lynne, 
Feb. 26. 

1955— To Mr. and Mrs. Henry M. Kel- 
leher of Alexandria, 'Va., their first child, 
a son, James Matthew, May 18. 

1955 — To Mr. and Mrs. John A. Leva 
of Warwick, their first child, a son, John 
Richard, May 30. 

1956— To Mr. and Mrs. John H. Jeflfers 
of Providence, a daughter, Jennifer Lee, 
July 5. Mrs. Jeffers is the former Barbara 
Clark, Pembroke '59. Paternal grandfather 
is Theodore R. Jeffers '23. 

1956— To Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. 
Matuszek of Pawtucket, a daughter, Lori 
Jeanne, May 17. 

1956— To Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. 
Read of East Providence, a son, Kenneth 
Wheaton, II, June 24. 

1957— To 2nd Lt. Albert Basse, Jr., and 
Mrs. Basse of Madison, Wis., a daughter, 
Lynda Jean, June 24. 

1957— To Mr. and Mrs. Fred D. Beh- 
ringer of Lansdale, Pa., their first child, a 
daughter, Toni Lynne, Apr. 11. 

1957 — To Mr. and Mrs. Louis H. Pas- 
tore, Jr., of Providence, a son, Thomas 
Edward, July 2. Mrs. Pastore is the former 
Elaine Richard, M.A., Brown '58. 

1957— To Sp/5 Ronald V. Peters, USA, 
and Mrs. Peters of Mt. Rainier, Md., their 
second child and first daughter, Rebecca 
Eileen, Mar. 29. Mrs. Peters is the former 
Noel J. Beaulac, Pembroke '58. 

1958— To Mr. and Mrs. William E. 
Corrigan, Jr., of Bronx, N. Y., their first 
child, a son, William Edward, III, June 16. 

1958— To Mr. and Mrs. Henry M. 
Drake of Brooklyn, N. Y., their first child, 
a daughter, Trude Lynn, Apr. 27. 

1958— To LT(j.g.) Peter B. Howard, 
USN, and Mrs. Howard of Charleston, 
S. C, a son, Douglas Loveless, Sept, 21, 
1960. 

1958 — To Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence F. 
Kalesnik of Springfield, Mass., their third 
child and third daughter, Joanne Frances, 
June 20. 

1958— To Mr. and Mrs. Joel D. Katz 
of Brookline, Mass., a son, Howard 
Stephen, June 16. 

1958— To the Rev. Hays H. Rockwell 
and Mrs. Rockwell of Newport, R. I., 
their second son and second child, Stephen 
Dexter, Apr. 6. 

1958— To Mr. and Mrs. Ralph G. Sal- 
vagno of Richmond, Va., their second 
daughter and fourth child, Linda Ann, 
Aug. I. 

1958— To Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. 
Varone of Reading, Pa., a daughter, Alli- 
son Anne, May 21. 

1959_To 1st Lt. Richard J. Beland, 
USAF, and Mrs. Beland of Mather AFB, 
Calif., a son, Jeffrey Mack, Dec. 29. 



Former Coach of the Band 
Edward Denish, who coached the 
Brown University Band for several years, 
died in Providence last summer after a 
lingering illness. In addition to conducting 
his own band at Fay's Theater, Crescent 
Park, and Roger Williams Park, he was 
also a trumpet soloist and had written 
numbers for that instrument which were 
played all over the world. 



OCTOBER I96I 



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In Memoriam 



THERON CLARK '95 in Los Angeles, 
Aug. 7. He was Registrar Emeritus of 
the University of Southern California. 
He was on the business staff of Brown 
from 1895 to 1920, Assistant Registrar 
for 20 years. In 1921 he became Regis- 
trar at Bucknell, leaving for USC in 
1924 and serving until 1943. He was a 
member of the American Association of 
Collegiate Registrars and Past President 
and honorary member of the Pacific 
Coast association. Other memberships: 
Half-Century Club, USC; Faculty Men's 
Club (charter member); Friends of the 
World Council of Churches. He was a 
member of the YMCA for 64 years, a 
former Director and Recording Secre- 
tary of the Providence Y; a Life Direc- 
tor, R. L Baptist Education Society; for- 
mer Vice-President, Brown Club of 
Southern California. In the Brown 
Alumni Monthly's first year, he became 
its Business Manager, continuing for 
three years. His widow is Nancy E. 
Clark, 2335 Fair Park Ave., Los An- 
geles 41. In lieu of flowers, donations 
were made to the USC Scholarship 
Fund. 

FREEMAN PUTNEY, JR., '99. financial 
forecaster and author, in Weymouth, 
Mass., June 14. He was President of the 
Scott Stamp & Coin Co., New York, and 
Treasurer of the New England Stamp 
Co., Boston, until 1915, when he sold 
out his business interests. He then joined 
Moody Manual Co. of New York City, 
as Financial Editor for their manuals 
and financial services. Until his retire- 
ment in 1934, he was Executive Vice- 
President of Poor's Publications, now 
Standard & Poor's of N.Y.C. The orig- 
inator of a method of rating securities, 
he was famous for his stock market fore- 
casts in the 1920's. He also was Editor, 
American Journal of Philately and 
Standard Catalogue of Postage Stamps, 
wrote articles on finance and numer- 
ous short stories. He was a former Trus- 
tee of Babson Institute, a Director of 
Babson Park, and a Trustee of the South 
Weymouth Savings Bank. His sons are 
Freeman T. '26 and Roger L. '32. Phi 
Delta Theta. His widow is Thelma N. 
Putney, 38 Tower Ave., South Wey- 
mouth 90. 

MYRON DANIEL LAPHAM '00 in 
Lindsay, Calif., two years ago, according 
to the "50-Year Plus" luncheon card 
returned by the widow. He was a 
rancher, although at one time he had 
studied law. Chi Phi. Cora G. Lapham, 
Rt. #1, Box 520, Lindsay, is his widow. 

DR. CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON ASTLE 
'02, M.D. Columbia '06, in Tulsa, July 
9. He had been a resident of Rhode Is- 
land until his retirement in 1953. He was 
appointed Warwick's first School Physi- 




THERON CLARK '95; He helped us start 
this magazine. Later he was LISC Registrar. 



cian in 1914, and during his appoint- 
ment saw the Warwick school system 
grow from 15 to 23 elementary schools 
and three Junior-Senior High Schools. 
Under his leadership Warwick was the 
first city in the State to conduct individ- 
ual audiometer tests for children. With 
the late Dr. Ralph Lockwood, he organ- 
ized the Warwick Health League which 
later became the Warwick District Nurs- 
ing Association, and served as Secretary 
until 1927. He was a member of the 
American, R. I., and Providence Medi- 
cal Associations. He was the author of 
a number of articles. His son is Herbert 
H. Astle, 234 Beacon St., Apt. 7, Bos- 
ton 16. 



WALTER KNIGHT PUTNEY 02 in 
Framingham, Mass., Aug. 14. Graduate 
of the State Normal School in 1901, he 
was a former Superintendent of Schools 
for the towns of Ashland, Chelmsford, 
Needhani, North Dighton and Kingston, 
Mass. He was the author of several 
books and short stories, including Team- 
work in Colonial Days. He also appeared 
on the Parents Question Box, Radio 
Station WBSO, broadcasting on school 
subjects. During World War I he served 
as a Corporal in the 1 1th Infantry, Mas- 
sachusetts National Guard. Phi Delta 
Theta. His son is Willis G., HoUiston, 
Mass. 



ALFRED EDGAR FREEMAN '03 in 
Riverside County, Calif., Feb. 10, ac- 
cording to the City Clerk. He was a re- 
tired customs broker. Delta Upsilon. His 
son is Alfred E., Jr., 2342 Rue De Anne, 
La Jolla, Calif. 



FRED ARTHUR GUPTILL 03 in Port- 
land, Me., Aug. 13. For many years he 
was associated with his father in the 
firm of Charles F. Guptill Co., ship 
chandlers. He had been retired several 
years. He was active in the Democrat 
party in early life and was its candidate 
for Sheriff of Cumberland County in 
1928. Alpha Tau Omega. His widow is 
Marion A. Guptill, 748 Congress St., 
Portland. 

LEWIS PORTER DAMON '05 in Fall 
River, Apr. 6. A retired teacher, he had 
taught Mathematics and Science at var- 
ious schools. At one time he was Head- 
master of Wilkes-Barre Academy, Wilkes- 
Barre, Pa. Beta Theta Pi. His daughter 
is Florence W. Wilson, 1248 New Bos- 
ton Rd., Fall River. 

ALBERT RUSSELL BOWEN '06 in Rock- 
land, Maine, May 26. A retired banker, 
he had been employed by the National 
Shawmut Bank, Boston. 

HALL ANDERSON BREWER '06 in St. 
Petersburg, Fla., June 23. He also at- 
tended Furman University. A retired 
school principal, he had taught in Ken- 
dallville, Ind., GifFord, Ida., and in 
Oklahoma. Beta Theta Pi. His sister is 
Mary A. Brewer, 600 28th St., N., St. 
Petersburg. 

GEORGE BRIGGS, JR., 07, in Greene, 
R. I., July 24. He was the retired Pres- 
ident of the Screw Machines Products 
Corp., of Providence, where he had 
worked for 30 years. He formerly had 
been Secretary of The Metal Products 
Corp. Zeta Psi. Marion W. Briggs, 
Barb's Hill Rd., Greene, is his widow. 

FORREST SHEPHERD HARVEY "07 in 

Pasadena, Calif., Nov. 1959, according 
to word lately received. He was a re- 
tired Civil Engineer whose many as- 
signments in charge of construction 
work took him to all parts of the United 
States. During World War I he was a 
Major in the Quartermaster Corps, 
Construction Division. From 1940-48 he 
served with the U.S. Government as a 
member of the Contract Advisory Com- 
mittee, Quartermaster General's Ofl^ice. 
In 1945 he was awarded the Excep- 
tional Civilian Service Award from the 
Secretary of War. Kappa Sigma. His 
widow is Olive M. R. Harvey, 194 Ave- 
nue 64, Pasadena 2. 

GEORGE CAMPBELL '07 in Newburgh, 
N. Y., July 26. He was a retired Man- 
ager of the Apparatus Division of the 
General Electric Co., Buffalo, N. Y., 
and had been associated with the com- 
pany for 42 years before his retirement 
in 1949. He was a former Director of 
the Niagara Falls Rotary Club. Edward 
R. Campbell '15 is a brother; his son 
is George, Jr., '48. His widow is Alice C. 
Campbell, Lattitown Rd., M.D. 25, 
Newburgh. 

HARRY DUANE BRUCE '07, LL.B. Har- 
vard, '10, in Syracuse, July 24. An at- 



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torney and member of the Law firm of 
Hiscock, Cowie, Bruce, Lee & Ma- 
whinney, he was a one-time City Cor- 
poration Counsel and former President 
of the Onondaga Bar Association. He 
was admitted to the Bar in New York 
City in 1910 and moved to Syracuse 
shortly thereafter, when he became as- 
sociated with Nathan L. Miller, then 
attorney for Solvay Process Company. 
He later became the company's attor- 
ney. He was Corporation Counsel from 
1927-29, when he joined the law firm 
of Mackenzie, Smith, Mitchell, & Bruce. 
In 1933, he became a partner in the 
firm of Hiscock, Cowie, Bruce, Lee & 
Mawhinney. He was a delegate to the 
1938 State Constitutional Convention. 
He was a Fellow of the American Bar 
Foundation, a member of County, State, 
and American Bar Associations. A mem- 
ber of the Republican State Committee 
for many years, he was also active in 
Community Chest, Red Cross and Syra- 
cuse Boy's Club (of which he was a 
Past President and Director since 1920). 
He was a Director of the Solvay Bank 
and Past President of the Brown Club 
of Central New York. Delta Upsilon. 
His widow is Mrs. Lucia S. Bruce, 410 
Sedgwick Dr., Syracuse. 

HOWARD RIPLEY McPECK '09 in 
Washington, D. C, Oct. 16, 1960. He 
was a realtor specializing in George- 
town properties. Earlier, he had been 
in the Bond Department of Guaranty 
Trust Co., N. Y., Metals Reserve Co., 
Washington, D. C, and also an agent 
for Stephen M. Weld & Co., Providence. 
He served as 2nd Lt. in the 100th In- 
fantry Division during World War I. 
Alpha Delta Phi. His brother is Mau- 
rice A. '26, and his widow is Mrs. 
Howard R. McPeck, 1542 34th St., 
N.W., Washington 17. 

DR. VICTOR BAYARD SEIDLER 10, 
M.D., Columbia College of Physicians 
and Surgeons '14, in Montclair, N. J., 
June 12. He was an organizer of the 
Urological and Pathological Depart- 
ments at Mountainside Hospital, Mont- 
clair. A member of the hospital's hon- 
orary staff, he had served as President 
of its Medical Staff and Director of the 
Department of Surgery. At one time he 
was also on the Medical Boards of the 
Essex Mountain Sanatorium, Overbrook 
Hospital, Isolation Hospital, and St. 
Vincent's Hospital. During World War 
I he served in France with the 125th 
Infantry and Mobile Operating Unit 
#29, as a Major. He was a Past Pres- 
ident of the Society of Surgeons of 
N. J., a diplomate and member of the 
founders' group of the American Board 
of Surgeons, and a Fellow of the Amer- 
ican College of Surgeons, the Interna- 
tional Academy of Medicine, the Acad- 
emy of Medicine of N. J., and the 
International College of Surgeons of the 
Essex County Medical Society. He was 
Chairman of the Surgical Section of the 
New Jersey Medical Society, and a 
member of the New Jersey State Cancer 
Committee. Psi Upsilon. His widow is 



Eleanor D. Seidler, 16 Plymouth St., 
Montclair. 

HAROLD AVERY SWAFFIELD 10, 
A.M. '11, in Fairfield, Conn., June 19. 
He began his teaching career in 1910-11 
as an Assistant Instructor in the Arnold 
Biology lab while working for his Mas- 
ter's degree. He was a retired Principal 
of Roger Ludlowe High School and 
President of the Connecticut Interscho- 
lastic Athletic Conference. He had 
taught Math and directed Physical Ed- 
ucation at Wilbraham Academy and 
Smith Academy before becoming Prin- 
cipal of Montpelier High School in Ver- 
mont. In May of this year the Fairfield 
Board of Education, in recognition of 
his outstanding service to the school 
system, had voted to name the gym in 
the new Roger Ludlowe High School as 
the SwaflSeld Gymnasium. He was ac- 
tive in many scholastic organizations as 
well as civic groups, and was cited by 
the Lions International and the Fairfield 
Lions Club for his activities. He sparked 
the formation of the Fathers' Club and 
through his interest in the school ac- 
tivities and the students was familiarly 
known to many as "Uncle Joe." Keenly 
interested in High School sports, he was 
an organizer of the New England Bas- 
ketball Tournament, the athletic and 
scholastic leagues in Vermont and Massa- 
chusetts, and one of the four founders 
of the National Athletic Scholarship so- 
ciety. For 15 years he served as Pres- 
ident of the CIAC and was a Past Pres- 
ident of the Council of New England 
Secondary School Principals' association. 
In 1958 he was presented with the Har- 
old M. Gore award for outstanding con- 
tribution to high school basketball. He 
was a former Chairman of the Red 
Cross chapter, and was active in the 
work of the Community Chest. He was 
Deacon Emeritus of the First Church, 
Congregational, where he had been 
Deacon 27 years. Delta Upsilon. The 
Rev. Dr. W. Douglas '06, Paul N. '16, 
and the Rev. Dr. Frank M. Swaflield 
'33 are brothers. His widow is Retha W. 
Swaffield, 1359 Unquowa Rd., Fairfield. 

ERNEST IRONS KILCUP '12, Sc.D., 
hon., R. I. College of Pharmacy '37, 
Sc.M., hon., Bryant College '38, in Bar- 
rington, R. I., July 10. He was President, 
Treasurer, and Board Chairman of the 
Davol Rubber Co., Providence. An ed- 
ucator, humanitarian and philanthropist, 
he rose from clerk to the company's top 
position in an association with the con- 
cern for 43 years. The company last 
year opened a research facility and 
named it the Dr. Kilcup Laboratory. It 
is largely concerned with the develop- 
ment and perfection of electronic heart 
aids and appliances. During his business 
career he taught economics, marketing, 
and financial management at Northeast- 
ern University. He was a Trustee of 
Bryant College and a Director of the 
Citizens Savings Bank, the Automobile 
Mutual Insurance Company of America, 
C. R. Band, Inc., of Summit, N. I., and 
the Emma Pendleton Bradley Hospital. 



He was a Trustee of the Osteopathic 
General Hospital of R. I., an honorary 
Director of the Rhode Island Hospital 
Trust Co., a member of the Greater 
Providence Chamber of Commerce, 
former President of the R. I. Associa- 
tion of Credit Men and the National 
Association of Credit Men. His widow 
is Edna B. Kilcup, 43 Rumstick Rd., 
Barrington. 

LT. COL. KARL HENRY KOOPMAN 
13, A.M. '16, Sc.M., Columbia Univer- 
sity '34, in Cruz Bay, St. John, Virgin 
Islands, June 10. He was Librarian of 
The Citadel from 1939 until his retire- 
ment in 1957. In 1959, he and his wife 
made a world tour before making their 
home in the Virgin Islands. Aside from 
working in the Brown University, Cleve- 
land Public, New York Public, and Bard 
College Libraries, he had taught in Tur- 
key, and Hawaii. He also was a writer 
and film editor for the motion picture 
industry in Hollywood from 1924 to 
1933. He was with the Coast Artillery 
during World War I and was discharged 
in 1918 with the rank of 2nd Lt. He was 
a member of the American Library Asso- 
ciation, South Carolina Library Associa- 
tion, Steuben Society, and American- 
Turkish Society, and a contributor to 
library periodicals. His father, the late 
Harry Lyman Koopman. had been Li- 
brarian at the John Hay Library, Brown, 
for many years. Zeta Psi. Phi Beta 
Kappa. His widow is Martha B. Koop- 
man, Cruz Bay, St. John, Virgin Islands. 

JOSEPH FRANCIS REILLY 13, former 
Brockton Chamber of Commerce Execu- 
tive Secretary, in Bass River, Mass., 
June 23. He was a writer of a weekly 
column, "Smoke Rings," in the Enter- 
prise-Times, Brockton, his last column 
appearing on the day of his death. He 
was a great athlete in his younger days, 
having been a star third baseman on 
three championship varsity baseball 
teams while attending Brown. During 
World War I he served as Petty Officer 
at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. After his 
discharge, he was appointed attache at 
the United States Embassy in Havana, 
then assumed a similar position with the 
American Red Cross there. In 1921 he 
became Assistant Secretary of the Brock- 
ton Chamber of Commerce, then its 
Executive Secretary until his retirement. 
Active in many civic projects, he was 
also a member of the City's Selective 
Service Board and the State Civil De- 
fense Council. Rebecca B. Reilly, Box 
22, Bass River, is his widow. 

LT. COL. JOHN LESLIE JENNEY '15 in 

Manchester, Conn., July 16. He was the 
owner of the John L. Jenney Insurance 
Agency. He was formerly employed at 
Cheney Bros., where he headed the rec- 
reational program, but left in 1932 to 
form the present agency. He served in 
both World Wars, and was elevated to 
the rank of Lt. Col. in World War II. 
He was a Past President of the Man- 
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Board, member of the Associate Board 
of the Manchester office of the Connec- 
ticut Bank and Trust Co., former Ves- 
tryman of St. Mary's Episcopal Church, 
and a Town Selectman in 19?2 and 
1933. In 1932, he served as Commander 
of the Manchester American Legion 
post, and was a charter member of both 
the Army and Navy Club and Veterans 
Committee, as well as a member of the 
Civil Defense organization. Thela Delta 
Chi. His widow is Elizabeth D. Jenney, 
20 Summit St., Manchester. 

JOSEPH HENRY STANNARD "15 in 
North Kingstown, R. I., June 30. He 
was a retired Principal of the Mount 
Pleasant High School. Associated with 
the Providence schools for 36 years, he 
was a staunch supporter of improved 
pension provisions for Rhode Island 
teachers. He first attended the U.S. Mil- 
itary Academy at West Point for one 
year, but was forced to leave because of 
ill health. He then continued his educa- 
tion at the Georgia School of Technol- 
ogy. He worked in East Coast shipyards 
for five years and then became an in- 
structor in mechanical engineering at the 
University of Pennsylvania. He left there 
in 1912 to teach at the old Technical 
High School in Providence, and when 
Mount Pleasant High School was opened 
in 1938, he became its first Principal. He 
was a member of the American Society 
of Naval Engineers, Providence Engi- 
neering Society, the National Education 
Association, Brown Engineering Society 
and was Past President of the R. I. Sec- 
ondary Schools Principals' Association. 

JOSEPH FRANCIS HALLORAN '16 in 
Boca Raton, Fla., July 15, suddenly, 
while having dinner with his wife at the 
Yacht Club. He was a retired business 
executive, a former Vice-President of 
Davis & Catterall, cotton textile print- 
ing, N. Y., and subsidiary Eureka Print- 
ing Co., Clifton, N. J., since 1930. Dur- 
ing World War I he was a LT(j.g.) in 
the Navy Pay Corps. He served one 
term as Regional Vice-President and as 
Director, Associated Alumni of Brown, 
was a member of the N. Y. Brown Club, 
and its Treasurer from 1937-38. Phi 
Kappa. His widow is Grace S. Halloran, 
382 Maya Palm Dr., Boca Raton. 

THOMAS MAYNO HULL "16 in War- 
wick, R. I., Aug. 8. He left Brown dur- 
ing World War I to join the Army and 
served overseas in all campaigns of the 
103rd Field Artillery. While at Brown 
he was captain of the swimming team. 
Zeta Psi. 

WILLIAM RHODES LeROY McBEE '16 
in Stafford Springs, Conn., Aug. 30. He 
was President and General Manager of 
the Gardiner-Hall Jr. Co., cotton thread 
manufacturers of South Willington, 
Conn. He served as a Sgt. with the Yan- 
kee Division in World War I. Prior to 
that he had been in the Sales Depart- 
ment of the Berkshire Fine Thread 
Spinning Association and one of its Di- 
rectors, as well as on the Board of Di- 



rectors of the National Thread Insti- 
tute. He was a member of the Advisory 
Board of the Stafltord Springs Branch 
of the Connecticut Bank & Trust Co. 
Psi Upsilon. His nephew is Earl B. 
Dane, Jr., '41, and his widow is Doris 
H. McBee, South Willington. 

ADOLPH CURTIS '17 in Highland, N. Y., 
Sept. 7, 1960. He had been Manager of 
the Bronx-Westchester Department of 
the Retail Credit Company. He began 
his career as an inspector in New York 
but in 1924 assumed his first managerial 
position in charge of the New York Fire 
and Casualty Office. In 1934 he became 
Manager of the Jamaica, N. Y., branch; 
in 1936 he was transferred to the Bronx- 
Westchester Dept. Lambda Chi Alpha. 
His son is Robert M. "41, and his widow 
is Hilda Curtis, Box 29, Highland. 

THOMAS BRYANT SMITH 17, LL.B., 

New York University '38, in Long 
Branch, N. J., June 7. He was a former 
partner of McCarter, English and Egner, 
law firm in Newark, N. J., and Professor 
Emeritus of Rutgers Law School. He 
also held the degree of Doctor of Judi- 
cial Science from New York University 
Law School. He was formerly a Profes- 
sor of Law at Newark University Law 
School, too. During World War I he 
served with the American Expedition- 
ary Force in France. Theta Sigma 
Lambda. Beta Theta Pi. Phi Beta Kappa. 
His widow is the former H. Miriam 
Chapman, Pembroke '24, 31 Stevens 
Ave., West Long Branch. 

HARRY JACKSON GRAHAM "20 in 
Woonsocket, Aug. 14. A banker, civic 
and community leader, he had served 
as Manager of the Woonsocket office of 
the Industrial National Bank since 1955; 
previously he was Assistant Manager. 
He had wide and varied interests of a 
community-benefiting nature. He was a 
member and Past President of Prov- 
idence Chapter, American Institute of 
Banking, and a Corporator of the Woon- 
socket Institution for Savings. He was 
a Director and a member of the Eco- 
nomic Affairs Committee of the Greater 
Woonsocket Chamber of Commerce; 
Trustee and Past President, YMCA; 
Treasurer and Trustee of Woonsocket 
Hospital; a Past Trustee of the First 
Universalist Church, and a Trustee and 
member of the Finance Committee of 
the Industrial Development Foundation 
of Greater Woonsocket. A Navy veteran 
of World War I, he was a member of 
the Executive Committee of the Rhode 
Island War Fund during World War 
II. He also was a member of a mayor- 
alty advisory committee to plan a loca- 
tion and type of five new city schools. 
Gertrude C. Graham, 46 Summer St., 
Woonsocket, is his widow. 

ARNOLD ELIAS LINDSTROM '20 in 

Jamestown, N. Y., Jan. 9, according to 
the Deputy Registrar. He was a partner 
with Frank T. Meyer '20 in the Heelas 
Flower Shop, Jamestown. His sister. 
Bertha Lindstrom, Jonesboro, Ark. 



WALTER OLIVER UNDERKUFFLER 

'20 in Haddon Heights, N. J., Dec. 12, 
according to a card from the City Clerk's 
office. He was a burlap and cotton hags 
salesman. During World War I he served 
with the Navy as an aviation machinist. 
His widow is Frances C. Underkuffler, 
Golf Club Rd., Cape May Court House, 
N. J. 

CAPT. DEWEY HILL ROSS, USA, '22, 
Dec. 27, according to Clark Forstall '22. 
A former clerk for Wilson & Co., Phil- 
adelphia, Pa., he resigned from his po- 
sition as Assistant Traffic Manager at 
Sears, Roebuck & Co., in 1942 to enter 
World War II. He was a Captain in the 
Transportation Corps. Sigma Chi. His 
sister, Mrs. Helen Usadel, survives. 

WILLIAM CALVIN MUNROE '23 in 
Attleboro, Mass., June 10. He was an 
Executive Officer with Sadler Brothers, 
Inc., South Attleboro. In 1925, when 
he was an engineer in the employ of the 
Truxillo Railroad Company at Puerto 
Castilla, Honduras, he was one of a 
number of alumni travelling the longest 
distance to attend their reunion at 
Brown. Prior to joining Sadler Brothers, 
he was employed by the Fruit Dispatch 
Company as their Dealer Sales Repre- 
sentative. He was a member of the 
American Philatelic Society and a Life 
Deacon of his church. Delta Tau Delta. 
His brothers are John V. '27 and Fred- 
erick G. '33; his son, William C, Jr., '50. 
His widow is Phyllis S. Munroe, 230 
Washington St., South Attleboro. 

FRANCIS PROCTOR BROWN, JR. '25 
in Hartford, Conn., June 28. He was a 
partner in the William R. Penrose In- 
surance Co. In 1926, he was employed 
by the Aetna Insurance Co., but joined 
Penrose in 1928 and was made a part- 
ner in 1938. He was a 32nd degree Ma- 
son. Lambda Chi Alpha. Contributions 
may be sent to the Building Fund, Uni- 
versalist Church of the Redeemer, in 
his memory. Sarah E. C. Brown, 2 
Brenway Dr., West Hartford, is his 
widow. 

THEODORE KENNARD FERRY '25 in 
West Boyleston, Mass., Sept. 2. He was 
a stockbroker for A. C. Allyn & Co., 
in New York. Previously he had been a 
Vice-President in Bond & Goodwin, 
Inc., and Sales Manager for William R. 
Compton Co., and Chatham Phenix 
Corp. He was a former Mayor of Fair 
Lawn, N. J., and a former Commis- 
sioner of the Passaic Valley Sewage 
Commission. He was a former Vice- 
President of the First Savings & Loan 
Association, and President of the Fair 
Rad Investment Corp. Phi Delta Theta. 
His brother, D. Gerald Ferry '35, 366 
Martom Rd., Wyckoff, N. J. 

EDWARD ALEXANDER MOIR '26 in 
Maplewood, N. J., June 26. He was 
General Traffic Supervisor of the New 
Jersey Bell Telephone Co. He taught a 
year at Columbia Grammar School in 
New York City before entering the tele- 



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phone business in 1927 as a traffic stu- 
dent. He was a member of the Lacka- 
wanna Brown Club and the Telephone 
Pioneers of America. Phi Gamma Delta. 
His son, Robert E. "61, was graduated 
at the time of his father's 35th reunion. 
Marion L. Moir, 23 DeHart Rd., Maple- 
wood, is his widow. 

KENNETH JUDSON HOVEY '27 in Bos- 
ton, Aug. 8. He was a retired electrical 
engineer who contributed to the develop- 
ment of Muzak. After several years 
with Western Union, Electrical Research 
Products, Inc., and RCA-Victor, he be- 
came Vice-President of Industrial Elec- 
tronics, Inc., and the Maryland Music 
Corp. For several years he was Presi- 
dent of Audio Services, Inc., which held 
the Muzak franchise in Indianapolis. 
Retiring in 1959, he moved to Laconia, 
N. H., where he was associated with the 
Tri-State Audio Company. Sigma Chi, 
His widow is Nancy S. Hovey, 211 Cut- 
lass Dr., Siesta Isle, Fort Myer Beach, 
Fla, A third-generation Brown man 
(Arthur J. '67 and Horace M, '00), he 
saw his daughter Eleanor graduate from 
Pembroke in 1953. 

EARL WARD KNAPP, JR., 27 in Drexel 
Hill, Pa., Dec. 11. He was Vice-Presi- 
dent and Production Manager of the 
Willson Camera Corp., Havertown, Pa, 
Prior to that, he had been Assistant 
Plant Superintendent of Coopers Creek 
Chemical Corp., Conshohocken, Pa., 
and a Technical Engineer with the 
Quaker Chemical Products Corp. He 
served as Chief Boatswain's Mate with 
the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve during 
World War II. He was a member of the 
National Power Engineers of Norris- 
town. Pa., Coast Guard Au.xiliary, and 
Highland Park Fire Co. His widow is 
Evelyn S. Knapp, 605 Villa Rd., Drexel 
Hill. 

WILLIAM BERTRAM MAUDSLEY '27 
in Hartford, Aug. 27. He had been 
teaching Physics and Chemistry in the 
Hartford school system until he became 
ill about three years ago. He also owned 
a roofing company in Hartford. At one 
time he had been employed by the Pru- 
dential Insurance Co. of Providence 
and had worked for the State of Con- 
necticut in the highway system. 

WILLIAM RAYMOND McNALLY '27 

in Cranston, July 1. He was a salesman 
for the Outlet Company, Providence. He 
formerly had been a clerk for Allison 
Drug Stores, N. Y., and a salesman for 
the Frigidaire Corp., Providence, His 
widow is Genevieve A. McNally, 85 
Lexington Ave., Cranston 10. 

OLIVER ARTHUR TITUS '28 in North- 
field, Conn., June 27, 1960, according 
to word from the Town Clerk. His son 
is Gerald Titus, Box 211. Northfield. 

DAVID ORCUTT MERRILL '30 in C hi- 
cago, June 5. He was District Manager 
for U. S. Steel Products Division, Cam- 
den, N. J. Prior to joining the U. S. 



Steel Corp., he spent 30 years in various 
sales positions with Rheem Mfg. Co, 
and Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp. 
Alpha Delta Phi. Kathleen R. Merrill, 
Lindy Lane, Lincroft, N. J., is his 
widow. 

PHILIP GARDNER TOMLINSON '30 in 
Plainfield, N. J., June 9. He was a staff 
accountant for American Metal Climax, 
Inc., N.Y.C., where he had been em- 
ployed since 1934. Prior to that he had 
been a junior accountant for Lybrand, 
Ross Bros., and Montgomery. Delta Tau 
Delta. His widow is Constance B. Tom- 
linson, 20 West Holly St., Cranford, 
N. J. 



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BERNARD WILLIAM ROTHBLATT '33, 
M.D.. Tufts University Medical School 
'37, in Boston, June 27. He had served 
as resident physician at Boston City 
Hospital and on the staffs of the Beth 
Israel, the Newton-Wellesley, the Chel- 
sea Memorial, the New England Bap- 
tist, and the Whidden Memorial Hos- 
pitals. He was CMDR in the Medical 
Corps of the U.S. Navy from 1941-47 
when he was retired because of injuries 
received during the war. He was a mem- 
ber of the Suffolk, the Massachusetts, 
the New England, and the American 
Medical Societies, and the Phi Delta 
Epsilon medical fraternity. He also was 
a Diplomate of the American Board of 
Obstetrics. Alice P. Rothblatt, 293 Ded- 
ham St., Newton Highlands 61, is his 
widow. 

PAUL AMBRETTE '37 in Old Westbury, 
L. I., N. Y., June 27. He was Executive 
Vice-President and Director of the Am- 
brette Machinery Company of Brooklyn, 
makers of spaghetti and cereal manu- 
facturing machinery. Prior to that, he 
was a machinery salesman with the Con- 
solidated Macaroni Machine Co., 
N.Y.C.; in 1937 he was made a Vice- 
President. During World War II he 
served as an engineer in the U.S. Mer- 
chant Marine. Phi Sigma Kappa. His 
brother is Louis '40; his widow is Jo- 
sephine G. Ambrette, Haddington Dr., 
Old Westbury, L. I. 

JOHN DYER CASEY '37 in North Provi- 
dence, June 23. He joined the New Eng- 
land Telephone and Telegraph Company 
after graduation, and was a Communi- 



cations Engineer in the Dial Systems. A 
member of the Brown Club of Rhode 
Island, he was Class Agent in charge of 
fund raising drives for the University. 
He was a member of the Sons of Irish 
Kings, and the Pioneers of the Tele- 
phone Co. His father is the late Charies 
D. '04, and his brother is Thomas B. 
'34. His widow is Emma (Warner) 
Casey, Pembroke '37, 5 Claremont Ave., 
Providence 8. 

NATHAN STONE '39 in Los Angeles, 
Aug. 20. He had lived in California for 
the last 16 years. At one time he was 
employed by L, Stern, jewelry manu- 
facturers in Providence. He was a vet- 
eran of Worid War II. His widow is 
Rose K. Stone, 1721 Hodson Ave. La 
Habra, Calif. 

LLOYD DAVID MAKER '42 in New 
York, June 2. He was Vice-President, 
Sales, The Hamilton-SKOTCH Corp., 
N. Y. He had been with the company 
since 1956, and prior to that with Jason- 
Gibbs, Ltd., clothing manufacturers, and 
Kent Clothing Mfg. Co. During World 
War II he served as 1st Lt. with the 
USAAF. His father, the late Dr. Gil- 
bert '14, and his uncle, Dr, Samuel '14. 
His widow is Adabele G. Maker, 21 
Copper Beach Cir., White Plains, N. Y, 

JOHN ARTHUR TILLMAN '48 in New 
Haven, Aug. 25. Previous to his illness 
he had taught at St. Margaret's Episco- 
pal School for Girls in Waterbury, Conn. 
He also held positions as Principal and 
teacher in Maine, Massachusetts, Ver- 
mont, and New Jersey. He served in the 
Air Corps during World War II. The 
family has requested that memorial gifts 
to Brown Alumni Class of 1948 be ac- 
cepted in lieu of flowers. His widow is 
Anne S. Tillman, 31 North Main St., 
Slatersville, R. L 

MAURICE LEONARD Van KAVELAAR 

'50 in Baltimore, June 10. He was with 
the Engineering section of The Martin 
Co., Baltimore, and was working on 
the "Dina Soar." During World War 
II, he served in the Radar section of 
the 586th Signal Depot Company in 
the Pacific and took part in the invasion 
of Lingayen Gulf on Luzon. Before and 
after his Army experience, he worked 
as a Western Union telegrapher. One 
of the oldest men ever to be enrolled 
in a regular undergraduate course at 
Brown, he was probably the only man 
who had six children when he gradu- 
ated. He was a Past President and Vice- 
President of the Brown Club of Dela- 
ware. His widow is Lillian M. Van 
Kavelaar, 26 S. Pennewell Dr., Edge- 
moor Gardens, Wilmington 3. 

RICHARD STEPHEN KRAMER '64 in 
Cranston. July 3, after a head-on auto- 
mobile collision. He was the son of the 
Principal of Mount Pleasant High 
School, a former graduate student. His 
parents are Mr. and Mrs. Louis I. 
Kramer, 22 University Ave., Providence. 



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TENT ACTIVITIES at Aldrkh - dexter Field . 10:00 a.m. 
Box lunch. Hot dogs, Hamburgers under the tent 

Free parking at Aldrich-Dexter Field • Use Free Shuttle Bus Service to and 
from the Brown Stadium. 

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