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BROWN 

ALUMNI MONTHLY 




MARCH 1962 






BOARD OF EDITORS 

Chairman 

C. Arthur Braitsch '23 



Vice-Chairman 
George R. Ashbey '21 



Garrett D. Byrnes '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 



MARCH 1962/VOL. LXII NO. 6 



In This Issue. 



Brown's Cadets and the Civil War 



Announcing the First Alumni College 



The Advisory Council: a Photo Report 10 



The Fall-Out Shelters on College Hill 1 5 



TV Programs: They're Your Own Fault 20 



25 Years in America's Best Prisons 22 



A Lively Month in the Brown Clubs 24 



FRONT COVER 



OUR LICENSE as an editor distinctly says that we may publish some snow 
pictures once a year. As our friendly critics remind us, it is a rare winter 
when we do not exercise that option. This year the Big Snow came on Feb. 
14. after considerable leniency on the part of the weatherman. Without 
delay, the cameras of College Hill were at work, including those of the 
Brown University Photo Lab. The cover is one result. 







Tip to panelist 



Taken literally, the advice which Jack 
Monk '24 received beforehand would 
have presented quite a hurdle as he took 
his place as a member of his panel at the 
Advisory Council. His wife had instructed 
him as follows, he said: "Don't read your 
speech — you read terribly. Don't use notes 
— you won't be able to make them out. 
Don't rely on memory — you don't have 
any. And, for Heaven's sake, don't ad lib." 
(Somehow he managed very well.) 

> as a rule, people protest when their re- 
marks are taken out of context. There's 
always a danger, though, of spoiling some- 
thing by putting it back. And so we in- 
quired no further about the relevance of 
an observation we overheard Prof. Wen- 
dell Dietrich make to a companion on the 
Faculty Club stairs: "One man's hodge- 
podge is another man's pragmatism." We 
liked it as it was and leave it so. 

> "the thing I like about reunions," said 
a cartoon character by Donald Mochon in 
the Rensselaer Alumni News, "is you can 
say anything you want to to the Dean of 
Students." But, as our own Dean Durgin 
could remind you, the latter can also say 
anything he wants to, right back. 

> john hay, 1858, was quoted in a recent 
magazine: "Who would succeed in the 
world should be wise in the use of his 
pronouns. Utter the You twenty times, 
where you once utter the 1." 

Firemen, save? . . . 

> someone was remembering what the 
late Dr. A. D. Mead did when people at a 
Campus meeting heard the sounds of bells 
and sirens. As fire apparatus arrived 
nearby, the Vice-President slipped out of 
the meeting for a bit. He reported, upon 
his return shortly, that Maxcy Hall was 
on fire. 

"I told the firemen to go home," said 
Dr. Mead. 

> yale's editor was telling about the self- 
perpetuating group of undergraduates who 
play tunes on the Harkness chimes four 
times each day. Paid 50e per ring, a man 
is barely rewarded for the long climb up 
(and may be fined a like amount for a 
failure to report). But he has considerable 
latitude in his choice of music, often 
adapted to the occasion. Brunonians re- 
turning from the Yale Bowl, for example, 
may hear the notes of the Brown Alma 
Mater. 

On one football Saturday last fall, the 
bellringer of the hour found himself locked 
in the tower during his noon concert. With 
tickets for the game in his pockets and his 
date waiting for him somewhere at ground 
level, he tried in vain to break his way 
out. Failing, he returned to the tower and 
played one more tune: Take Me Out to 
the Ball Game, over and over and over. 
A Campus Cop finally showed up to let 
him out, just in time, says the Yale Alumni 
Magazine. 

"Glad you got my message," said the 




student, pleased with his ingenious call for 
help. 

"What message?" asked the tone-deaf 
CC. "I thought the thing was stuck." 

> a further bit of campaniliana from 
the Yale Alumni Magazine: "During an 
important alumni convocation some years 
ago the noon concert included a Mystery 
Melody. On hearing it at three widely scat- 
tered spots on the Campus, three members 
of a proud and ancient Senior Society 
dropped dead. The chief bellringer that 
year was a member of the Society's under- 
graduate delegation, and he had played a 
song never before heard outside the secret 
portals." 

> working in the library of Hereford Ca- 
thedral, a Case Institute researcher had 
not expected to come upon an appeal from 
a university to an alumnus. But there it 
was: a letter from Oxford asking a promi- 
nent graduate to plead the University's 
cause in Hereford. The need for new build- 
ings and higher Faculty salaries was noted. 
There was a promise that names of donors 
would be recorded "to be laid up for all 
eternity." The plea was dated 1614. 

> by way of contrast, our Morningside 
scout has slipped us a letter which he said 
was sent out to one of the Columbia 
Classes by a certain Fund Agent. We 
won't say it bears repeating, but repeated 
it is, herewith: 

"Dere Clasmait: Akordin to my rek- 
ords yu aint payed nuthin yet to the num- 
ber 10 colidg fund. This is kinda disapointin 
to me on account of we owe Columbia a 
lot of thanx an muny for what she done 
for us. 

"Of kors if yu is busted — I dont expek 
nuthin and sincerly wish yu wuznt busted 
or nuthin. If yu ar let me no and maibe 
one of us kin be of sum help. If yu aint 
busted but ar sore about sumthin I aint 
got nuthin to say, except why ar yu sore? 
If yu tel us about it maibe we kin maik 
yu unsore. 

"If yu aint busted an aint sore an aint 

givin neether, pleez giv sum more thot Hi 

givin sumpin becuz the bois in school now 

aint got no muny just the same as we didnt. 

"Yur Old Clasmait, Gawg." 

(What priest of what corporate image 
is offering special sacrifices of atonement?) 



> when it was learned that Trustee Henry 
Luce was coming to Hamilton College for 
a recent Convocation, one of the adminis- 
trative officials undertook to reserve a 
room for him at a nearby hotel. As re- 
ported in "Hill Talk" in the Alumni Re- 
view, there was silence on the other end 
of the phone after Mr. Luce's name was 
mentioned. 

"Do you recognize the name?" asked 
the College caller. 

"Well," the innkeeper replied, "is he any 
relation to Clare Boothe Luce?" 



Keep talking . 



> "how long should I speak?" one of our 
administrative officers said before he rose 
to address the Apocryphal Luncheon Club 
in a nearby city. 

"Keep talking as long as you like," said 
the Chairman generously. "But the rest of 
us will be leaving here at 2." 

> dr. james p. adams says he took the 
liberty of editing one of President Faunce's 
letters before the dedication year of the 
Brown Stadium. That season, as some may 
recall, the athletic authorities were anx- 
ious to provide an all-home schedule in 
football. It was thought that there would 
be more chance of getting the Yale team 
to come to Providence if the negotiations 
were handled at the presidential level. 

Dr. Faunce complied with a friendly 
personal note to the Yale President, point- 
ing out Brown's hopes and explaining what 
the new stadium meant to us. "In view of 
the long tradition of football rivalry be- 
tween the two institutions," he concluded, 
"it would be particularly appropriate if 
you could send us the Yale nine on this 
occasion." 

> we can't improve on Newsweek's para- 
graph, headed "File and Forget." "At a 
Washington party saluting his 25 years as 
head of the Federal prison system, beam- 
ing bureaucrat James V. Bennett (1918) 
began cutting the cake — and struck some- 
thing hard. Sticking in his thumb, Bennett 
pulled out with something less than aplomb 
an 8-inch file. Prankster: Attorney Gen- 
eral Robert F. Kennedy. Baker Fred Wa- 
ters' recipe, to whom it may concern: 
Bake a pound cake, place a 49-cent file on 
top of it, cover with chocolate frosting." 

BUSTER 



A CIVIL WAR EPISODE: 



When the University Cade 



JOHN HOWARD APPLETON, 1864 

Color Corporal of the University 

Cadets, in the uniform issued 

by the State of Rhode Island 

when the unit went to The Bonnet. 

Appfeton became the famous 

Chemistry Professor, beloved 

of Brown students for more than 

half a century as "Johnny Ap." 




BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



/ent to War 



By Robert H. George 




The year was 1863, and the month was June. The minds 
of Brown undergraduates were filled with such varied 
matters as Class Day, the inevitable examinations, the north- 
ward movement of the Army of Northern Virginia that was 
to culminate at Gettysburg, and the usual spring thoughts of 
youth. 

If they read their Providence Journal, they could not fail 
to have noted the name of the "Tacony" — usually styled "The 
Confederate Pirate" in the news columns. This little brig was, 
in a way, the offspring of the Confederate steam corvette 
"Florida" which had begun her commerce-destroying career 
in January of 1863. On May 6th she had captured the brig 
"Clarence" off the cost of Brazil and, instead of burning her, 
made the prize her deputy, putting a prize crew aboard and 
re-christening her the "Florida No. 2." 

On June 12th the "Clarence" captured her sixth prize, the 
brig "Tacony," and, rating her as a superior vessel, burned 
"Clarence" after trans-shipping crew and armament to the 
new Confederate cruiser. The commander of the "Clarence," 
and now of the "Tacony," was the brilliant Lt. Charles N. 
Read, C.S.N. , Annapolis graduate of 1861 who had thrown in 
his lot with the Confederacy. Her crew totalled 19 men, and 
her effective armament, aside from small arms, was a six- 
pounder boat howitzer, supplemented by Quaker guns which 
the Rebels manufactured from spars. Read's mission was to 
continue his cruise northward, destroying all possible Federal 
craft. 

The Raider Roused the North 

The "Tacony's" voyage was remarkably successful. A 
goodly number of ships bound South with coal or commissary 
supplies were taken and burned, the captive crews being placed 
in a cartel whose captain was forced to sign a bond. This 
stipulated that, 30 days from the signing of peace between the 
Confederate States and the United States of America, the 
owners would pay a handsome sum into the Confederate 
treasury. 

The brig ranged north to Hatteras, beyond to the Delaware 
Capes, and found more happy hunting grounds off the Nan- 
(Continued on next page) 



This article by Professor George 
was a happy by-product of his early 
quest for information about Brown and 
the Civil War, on which he is preparing 
a book for the University Bicentennial. 
He found much of his evidence in the 
Brown Archives and newspaper files. 

But the more intimate items, as well 
as the illustrations, became available 
after his appeal in these pages last De- 
cember: Miss Frances H. Tetlow and 
Miss Marguerite Appleton, daughters of 
the Captain and Color Corporal of the 
University Cadets, respectively, fur- 
nished drawings and a photograph. 

Dr. George is particularly excited 
about the discovery of the diaries of 
Henry Sweetser Burrage, 1861, who 
enlisted as a private and was Brevet 
Major by the war's end. His daughters, 
the Misses Madeleine and Mildred Bur- 
rage, have promised to make available 
the diaries and other materials. Six 
undergraduate months of 1861 are in 
the period of his chronicle. 

Professor George says he is "not a 
greedy man," but he rather desperately 
needs more material of the sort that 
these generous ladies have furnished. 
Surely many alumni will have items of 
the sort which will make his study of 
Brown and the Civil War something 
more than a catalogue. He can be ad- 
dressed c/o Special Collections, The 
John Hay Library, Providence 12, R. I. 

"You can be assured," he says, "that 
any materials will be welcome and will 
be most carefully guarded. Won't you 
respond? Your attic may contain just 
what 1 need." 



MARCH 1962 







"THE UNIVERSITY CADETS DRILLING," a drawing by their Captain, John 
Tetlow, 1864. Before coming to Brown and during his stay in college, he 
published a manuscript paper for the benefit of his family. The drawing 



appeared in this periodical, which he called "The Dew Drop." Miss Frances 
Tetlow, daughter of John Tetlow, has given it to the University for its Civil 
War collection. 



tucket shoals. Schooners were conspicuous among her prey, 
but there was the ship "Isaac Webb" with 750 passengers 
aboard, mostly "wild Irishmen" many of whom Read must 
have known were destined to swell the ranks of the Union 
Armies. She was regretfully bonded, as was the "Shatemuc," 
a packet ship from Liverpool, bound for Boston with 350 
passengers and a cargo of iron plates. Off the Grand Banks 
the little brig took and burned fishing schooners, and then 
made for Portland, Maine, where ships were building for the 
Federal Navy. These Read hoped to destroy. There, being 
both adventurous and optimistic, he planned to seize a 
steamer, the better to carry out his commerce-destroying 
mission. 

However, Read was aware that news of his widespread 
depredations had reached the shores of Yankeedom, and that 
a whole host of ships were in search of him, armed with a full 
description of the "Tacony." Accordingly, after taking the 
schooner "Archer," he transferred crew and howitzer to her, 
burned the "Tacony," and stood for Portland Harbor on his 
great adventure. There he daringly cut out the United States 
revenue cutter "Caleb Cushing," but was caught with his 
prize and the "Archer" as he tried to make his way to the 
open sea on June 27, 1863. The event naturally wrote "finis" 
to Read's career as a commerce-destroyer. 

All of these actions took place a long way from the groves 
of Academe on College Hill, but Minerva and Neptune were 
soon to be brought together. Beginning on June 15th when 
one of his cartels, the "Kate Stewart" reached Philadelphia, 
the press of the Atlantic seaboard blazoned the news of 
Read's exploits. Infuriated shipowners appealed to the Sec- 
retaries of the Treasury and of the Navy for protection and 
revenge. In response, ships, steam and sail alike, regular Navy 



and chartered, set out from Newport News, Philadelphia, New 
York, and Boston to comb the seas for the elusive brig. As 
more and more news of "Tacony's" depredations came in, 
the newspapers gave equal headlines to tales of "The Pirates" 
and the story of Lee's march towards Harrisburg. 

Guardians of the Rhode Island Shore 

Local authorities on the seaboard were full of alarms. 
Mayor William Henry Cranston, Brown 1842, Mayor of New- 
port, and James Y. Smith, Governor of Rhode Island, agreed 
that "there is nothing to prevent a rebel incursion through the 
"West Passage,' exposing to destruction this city, Fall River, 
and other towns on the Bay." Cranston sent local militia men 
to the threatened east shore and bought solid shot for their 
cannon. On the very day that Read fell captive to his enemies 
in Portland harbor. Governor Smith sought and gained Wash- 
ington's permission to construct, arm, and man suitable earth- 
works to guard against the "Tacony." The danger had actually 
passed, but the early alarms had been so intense that defense 
against Confederate marauders still seemed requisite. 

As Commander-in-Chief of the Militia Governor Smith 
ordered out detachments of the Marine Artillery and sum- 
moned contingents from Wickford, Tower Hill, and Ashaway, 
to begin work on an eight-gun battery at The Bonnet, near 
South Ferry. On July 2, when the Providence Journal reported 
that Lee's army was between Chambersburg and Gettysburg, 
and that the sound of gun-fire indicated a battle was being 
fought between his forces and those of Meade, it also carried 
the news that the Wickford and Tower Hill men were to be 
relieved by Co. I, First Regiment, Rhode Island Militia. 

This was a brand new name for an organization whose 
home was on the Brown Campus. It had been born there two 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



years before, on the outbreak of hostilities in April of I 86 1, 
when undergraduates obtained President Sears" permission to 
form a military company. They styled it the "University 
Cadets." In bad weather they drilled in the armory of the 
National Cadets, one of the chartered commands of the State, 
and used their muskets. But the College Green heard "the well 
known cry of 'fall in, men' when, three time a week, at the 
merry call of the drum, the U.C.'s could be seen assembling 
at the hour appointed for drill." 

They made their first formal appearance on Class Day '61, 
when they paraded through the city's streets to the music of 
"Gilmore's Cornet Band" and were reviewed by Col. Slocum 
of the Second Rhode Island Volunteers. Within a year they 
were again to parade, this time as part of the funeral proces- 
sion of the same Colonel, of Major Sullivan Ballou '52, and 
of Capt. Levi A. Tower '57. All three had perished at Bull 
Run in '61 ; their bodies had been brought home. 

Among Other Things, They Missed Exams 

Now, in June '63, another year had passed, and the Uni- 
versity Cadets were "off to war."' Captain John Tetlow '64 
was in command — a veteran thanks to his three months' serv- 
ice as Corporal in the First Rhode Island in '61. The Color 
Corporal was none other than John Howard Appleton '64 — 
the famous "Johnny Ap" who later taught chemistry at Brown 
for a full half century beginning with the year of his gradua- 
tion. They and some 70 other undergraduates had exchanged 
their usual dark blue jackets, blue pantaloons, and scarlet caps 
for the drab uniforms furnished by the State. They cut a fine 
figure, nevertheless, as they embarked for active duty. 

Remember that it was June — true spring in Rhode Island — 
and remember, too, that it was the month for final exams. Of 
course the Cadets were overjoyed to have their offer to serve 
accepted by the Governor. They were now to engage in more 
martial exercises than parades in which their companions were 
the Home Guard, units from the Militia, and the Providence 
Fire Department. They were "off to the front," and they might 
miss — indeed, they would surely miss — those confounded 
finals. 

For two whole weeks Co. I, First Rhode Island Militia re- 
mained at The Bonnet. Their hands were blistered with dig- 
ging trenches, their faces were tanned by the sun, their 
stomachs were filled with poor Army-style rations supplemented 
by the good things which foraging parties collected from 
nearby farmers. They reported that the water which they 
drank had a pleasant flavor since it was brought into camp in 
old whiskey barrels. Later, as alumni, they would "smack 
their lips at the remembrance of that Fourth of July Clam 
bake." In the present of '63 the defenders of Narragansett 
Bay appealed in the columns of The Providence Journal for 
packages of goodies such as the citizens of the community 
were sending to the boys in Virginia and Pennsylvania. 

Back Just in Time for Class Day 

The collegians proved their erudition when, being informed 
by a farmer that they were in Wakefield, they asked to be 
directed "to the Vicar's house." They even scrimmaged with 
the non-collegians who comprised other elements of the garri- 
son of Camp Smith. Fourteen days they remained at South 
Ferry. But on July 13, 1863, they had to relinquish the joys 
of camp life — trench digging, "surf bathing and rambles in 
the field, romantic but for the lack of the most essential ele- 
ment of romance" — and return to the Campus. 



As luck would have it, they were just in time for Class Day. 
To it and other Campus mores they must readjust themselves. 
In particular they must deal with the Faculty who, when the 
Cadets first planned to enter the State's service, sought to 
dissuade them, and reminded them of the coming examina- 
tions. Now the returning soldiery "Resolved" that, in con- 
sideration of services rendered, they be excused from the 
finals which they had missed. But the Faculty, fully in com- 
mand of the situation as Faculties had been since the Middle 
Ages, merely gave them the privilege of taking their exams at 
the beginning of the next term in September. 

So ended a minor episode in the Civil War. But not quite 
that, for the State's treasury eventually paid each man the sum 
of $5.63 for his military services, and thereby gave rise to a 
student song with the wearisome refrain 

"We all went down to West Passage 
For five and sixty three." 

You can imagine the tune to which it was sung. And soon 
after the beginning of the September term cadet William 
Henry Williams '65 wrote on the fly leaf of a handsome vol- 
ume of Pope's Poetical Works "Purchased with money earned 
in the service of the state of R.I. July 1-13 1863 when the 
students of Brown University volunteered to guard the West 
Passage to Providence, and to fortify The Bonnet on Boss 
Neck. Brown University, Sept. 10, 1863." 




THE COtOR CORPORAt on page 4 became John Howard Appleton, New- 
port-Rogers Professor of Chemistry. The portrait is the University's. 



MARCH 1962 



A College for Alumni 




LIKE APPLES, will teach. . . . 



Brown's first full-scale Alumni College, open to a limited 
number of Brown and Pembroke alumni, will be held on 
the Campus this summer between Aug. 12 and Aug 17. Con- 
templated for a number of years, the program will meet an 
expressed interest on the part of alumni, who will now be able 
to go back to the classroom during that summer week on 
the Hill. 

Four and a half days of intensive classroom work will be 
complemented by informal evening sessions that will permit 
wider discussion. Three courses will be offered, each to be con- 
ducted by distinguished members of the Brown Faculty. A 
prerequisite on the part of the "student"' will be his commit- 
ment to prepare himself by doing a reasonable amount of 
advance reading. Because of this requirement of preparation, 
it will be recommended that no one should enroll in more 
than two courses; actually, one course will be a solid under- 
taking. Specifics on courses will be announced in the next 
issue of this magazine, together with the recommended read- 
ing lists. 

Maximum enrollment for the Alumni College will be 400. 
Though all alumni will be invited to participate, applications 
will be handled on a first-come-first-served basis. Brown and 
Pembroke alumni will receive in May the formal application 
blanks, together with full information about registration, fees, 
curriculum, and Faculty. Husbands and wives may also at- 
tend. Please do not send requests for admission until you re- 
ceive your blank in the mail, the Committee asks. 

The Alumni College has been the result of numerous re- 
quests from Brunonians everywhere for a program of high 
academic content, designed to stimulate the mind and keep 
one abreast of world developments. Registration will begin on 
College Hill on Sunday afternoon, Aug. 12, with the first 
classes to be held the following morning. Sessions will con- 
tinue through Friday morning, Aug. 19, with smaller discus- 
sion groups in dormitory and fraternity lounges the first four 
evenings of the period. Luncheon on Friday will be the con- 
cluding event formally scheduled. 

Room and board will be provided on the Campus for re- 
turning alumni and spouses for an inclusive fee of $60 per 
person for the entire Alumni College. There will be no tuition 
for the academic program of the College. 



While the Alumni Leadership Conference of last summer 
was for a different purpose, President Keeney gave an indi- 
cation then that the academic variety of Alumni College was 
in prospect for the future. "We have done a great deal, in- 
creasingly better," he said, "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 to provide an opportunity to prepare for con- 
tinuing leadership through continuing education." 

Again, at the Pembroke Alumnae Council meeting of last 
November, President Keeney expressed the hope that Brown 
University's summer campus would soon "teem with alumni 
returning to refresh themselves intellectually." "The real pur- 
pose of alumni education," he continued, "is to focus on 
areas of uncertainty, areas where opinion is fluid, where the 
final decision has not been made and the definitive formula- 
tion has not been written. In these areas there is opinion on 
every aspect and, since we do not know what is right or sure, 
all opinions must be considered, if not accepted." 

We believe Brunonians will await with interest the provision 
of further information about the First Alumni College. 



To Teach Egyptians 

The Rockefeller Foundation has pledged funds to 
Brown University providing up to $368,000 to underwrite 
the cost of a program for the improvement of English lan- 
guage teaching in Egypt. Prof. W. Freeman Twaddell, Chair- 
man of the Department of Linguistics at Brown, is director 
of the program. Present plans are to bring a total of 20 
Egyptian linguists and their families to Brown over a five- 
year period, each for a two-year study period leading to the 
degree of Master of Arts in Linguistics. The Egyptians will 
be chosen from heads of English departments in Egyptian 
schools, and supervisors of English teaching in Egypt. 

For several years, Professor Twaddell has been general ad- 
visor to a program in which Cornell University and the Uni- 
versities of Texas and Michigan have been training Egyptian 
linguists for the Ph.D. degree. Having received their degrees, 
the linguists return to Egypt as policy-makers and organizers 
of classroom teaching programs. Brown's plan to train the 
middle-level personnel, who turn these high-level policies into 
direct local action, is a unique one, according to Professor 
Twaddell. 

Professor Twaddell's frequent visits to Egypt in connec- 
tion with the Ph.D. training program have enabled him to 
discuss the general framework of the new plan with his 
Egyptian colleagues. Once details have been worked out with 
the Egyptian Ministry of Education, it is hoped that the first 
group of scholars will be able to leave for America in the 
late summer of 1962. 

Members of the Linguistics Department who will help 
train the Egyptians are Durand Echeverria, Associate Pro- 
fessor of French; W. Nelson Francis, who joined the Brown 
Faculty at the start of this term as a Professor of Linguistics 
and English; Henry Kucera, Associate Professor of Slavic 
Languages and Linguistics; and Miss Patricia O'Connor, As- 
sociate Professor of Linguistics. 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 




FEBRUARY 14: The Valentine Was Snowy 



—PHOTOS by the Brown University Photo Lob. 




*•• 



MARCH 1962 




RECEPTION CORPS included: 
left to right, Donald A. Jones '40, 
Roger W. Shattuck '29, Donald 
Campbell '45, and Alexander 
DiMartino '29 (whose face is 
reflected in the mirror. 




DR. JAMES P. ADAMS, former 
Vice-President, is again 
a Providence resident. Old 
friends greeted him, including 
Judge Thomas J. Paolino '28. 



SENIOR FELLOW, former Senator Theodore Francis Green '87, 
was on hand, shown here with Norman Pierce '33 of Chicago. 



HOSPITALITY 
AT THE KEENEYS' 



THE ADVISORY COUNCIL OF 1962 
began, as usual, with the popular 
Open House at 55 Power St. at tea-time 
on Feb. 2. Officers of Brown Clubs, 
Alumni Directors, Class Secretaries, 
Fund leaders, and others (more than 200) 
were back for the two-day meeting. 



10 




ADVISORY 
COUNCIL 



They called the alumni leaders back to 
College Hill in February and put them 
to work on some important business, for it 
was the week end of the Advisory Council. 
On the agenda were conferences, workshops, 
and planning sessions, but there was time, 
too, for the amenities, as photos suggest. 

Group meetings were devoted to the spe- 
cial assignments of a number of major affili- 
ates of the Associated Alumni. The Class 
Secretaries met under Robert Cummings '50 
to discuss aspects of their year-round serv- 
ice. Chairman J. Angus Thurrott '31 pre- 
sided over Head Class Agents of the Univer- 
sity Fund, where early word on the 1962 
Campaign proved encouraging. Admission 
Officers briefed area chiefs in the Secondary 
Schools Program, who compared notes un- 
der Joseph F. Lockett, Jr., '42, Chairman. 
Our own Board of Editors opened their 
monthly meeting under C. Arthur Braitsch 
'23 to interested guests. 

At the Council Dinner, members of the 
Sociology Department impressed an audi- 
ence of 250 with the scope and significance 
of research in progress. With due reference 
to Prof. Lester Ward of Brown, "father of 
sociology," Prof. Robert O. Schulze pre- 
sented his colleagues: Profs. Kurt B. Mayer, 
Harold W. Pfautz '40, Basil G. Zimmer, and 
Robert G. Burnight. We hope in a future 
issue to give some record of their report. 

The official business meeting of the Coun- 
cil nominated candidates for this year's 
alumni ballot and heard reports from Treas- 
urer Richmond H. Sweet '25, Alumni Sec- 
retary William B. McCormick '23, and Ches- 
ley Worthington '23. Stanley F. Mathes '39 
presided. 

Hopes for the Brown of tomorrow were 
expressed by a panel of four alumni: John J. 
Monk '24, Robert V. Cronan '31, Donald 
Campbell '45, and Lewis A. Shaw '48, with 
Vice-President Elmendorf as moderator. 
President Keeney provided the climax with 
his annual report on the "State of the Uni- 
versity," which was largely an analysis of 
those factors which he believed had influ- 
enced the Ford Foundation in its Challenge 
Grant. Next month we propose to sum- 
marize his statement, which brought him a 
standing ovation when he finished. 




K. BROOKE ANDERSON, former Secretary of the Brown Christian 
Association, right, chatted above with Raymond W. deMatteo '39. 




AMONG THOSE PRESENT: David H. Scott '32 and Norman Wright '49. 



BELOW: William Margeson '37, Robert Buckley '27, and Anthony Shabica '38. 




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BELOW: James Eastham '19, Octave Beauvais '18, Richmond Sweet '25. 



SOME SNAPSHOTS FROM 
THE ADVISORY COUNCIL 



All identifications left to right 




PRESIDENT Stanley F. Mathes '39 conferred with Alumni 
Secretary William B. McCormick '23 before the business meeting. 




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JUDGE JOSEPH E. COOK '14, center, came on from Denver. 
With him are William A. Graham '16 and John W. Moore '16. 





NEW YORK DELEGATION included: Edward Sulzberger '29, John E. 
Flemming, Jr., '33, Robert V. Cronan '31, and Charles E. Hughes '37. 



AT THE CLASS SECRETARIES' meeting: 

Martin L. Tarpy '37 and Robert Cummings '50, Chairman. 



IN TWO PHOTOS BELOW are: Bertram N. Schaller '43, Edward G. Rundquist '27, Francis C. Mangione '55, and Daniel Fairchild '45. 





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TROPHY 
WINNERS 



RECOGNITION of best 
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1961 University Fund 
Campaign was part of 
the Chairman's Report 
to delegates attending 
the Advisory Council. 



TOP HONORS went to 1936, 
represented by Robert W. 
Kenyon, Alfred J. Owens, 
and W. E. Easton '36, 
with J. Angus Thurrott 
'31, the University Fund 
Chairman for 1961 and 1962. 





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DECADE WINNERS in last year's University Fund Campaign included: 
front, left to right— Pat Panaggio '51, David B. Bradley '58, Joel Davis '56, 
John F. Barry, Jr., '50; rear— William A. Graham '16, Oscar W. Rackle '06, 
Judge Thomas J. Paolino '28, and Foster B. Davis, Jr., '39. A few other 
Class representatives were missing when post-meeting photo was taken. 



14 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



THE STEPS BROWN HAS TAKEN FOR 



Fall -Out Shelters 



Minimum protection against fall-out is available for the 
entire Brown University community, President Keeney 
told students at a Mar. 1 Convocation in Sayles Hall. A thor- 
ough study of available space had been made, he said. There 
is considerable space which seems to meet the minimum re- 
quirements for shelter, he said. A rudimentary plan of organ- 
ization has been prepared and the system of supply studied. 
The University felt its responsibility, he explained, "to help 
preserve as many as possible of the able people concentrated 
here" against the danger of fall-out. 

A fortnight before, 85 members of the Brown Faculty had 
signed an open letter to President Kennedy arguing that "a 
shelter program is harmful to our national security." They 
published their statement in the form of an advertisement in 
the press, in company with more than 400 other professors in 
institutions of higher learning in Rhode Island. 

President Keeney's address is published herewith, as is a 
companion essay by Prof. Robert W. Morse, Chairman of the 
Physics Department. 

The Basis for 



Brown's Decision 



By BARNABY C. KEENEY 



The controversy over fall-out shelters goes on within 
this University, in the city, and throughout the nation. 
Hopefully, the controversy will be conducted in such a way 
that information will be brought forward on which a sound 
decision can be made. 

The history of shelters is quite similar to the history of 
missiles and of the exploration of space. We got off to a slow 
start — perhaps we have not started yet. We are uncertain as 
to the facts, either because they have not been available or 
because they are not really known — or both. The interpreta- 
tion of the facts is a matter of controversy, legitimate scien- 
tific and political controversy. We are making very slow 
progress. 

Those who oppose shelters make several points on which I 
shall touch briefly: first, that a shelter program will incite 
the Russians to make a pre-emptive attack before we have 
reached the position that will permit us to protect all or 
most of our people. This argument conflicts with some of the 
others later to be listed. Some who take this position advocate 
unilateral disarmament in the belief that, if one nation renders 
itself helpless, another will find it unnecessary to attack it 
and that peace will result. The record of history shows that 



helpless nations are most likely to be attacked, and the realists 
in this group recognize this; they are also the extremists, and 
their slogan is "Better Red than dead," for they know very 
well that, if we are defenseless, we shall be Communist. 
Others who take this position, however, more realistically fa- 
vor bilateral disarmament or multilateral disarmament, but in 
this context they do not seem fully aware that Civilian Defense 
is an essential part of armament. 

Another position is that arms races lead inevitably to wars 
and that shelter programs are part of an arms race — which, 
indeed, they are. There is unquestionably an arms race now 
going on between the Communist bloc and the Western na- 
tions, and probably between China and both. 

The record of history, however, does not show that wars 
are produced by arms races. Let us look back at several 
wars: Before World War II, Germany, Italy, Japan, and 
Russia were more or less well prepared. At the beginning of 
World War II, two of these countries were immediate ag- 
gressors, Russia had taken a position of benevolent neutrality 
to the Axis, and Japan soon entered the war on the side of 
the aggressors. On the other hand, Britain was hopelessly un- 
prepared, France was completely disorganized, and the United 
States barely began to prepare after the war started in 1939. 
In the first World War, again Germany was very well pre- 
pared; Austria-Hungary and Italy were less well prepared; 
Britain was strong at sea but weak on land; France was weak; 
and the United States did not begin to prepare until well into 
the war. In the Franco-Prussian War, Prussia was superbly 
prepared and organized, and France was not. It is not an arms 
race that produces wars, but the predominance of one coun- 
try over its potential enemies. 

It is quite likely that the greatest deterrent to an attack by 
Russia on the United States or by the United States on 
Russia today is the very fact that there is an arms race and 
that each side knows that the other is likely to inflict very 
severe damage in case of an attack. 

Would Shelters Prove Effective? 

The third point is that we do not know that shelters will be 
effective. This uncertainty is certainly justified. Since this 
position is taken by some of the most distinguished nuclear 
scientists, it must be treated with great respect. This is the 
point at which there is disagreement on facts and even more 
on their meaning. Until scientists do agree, the rest of us had 
better listen. 

Finally, it is argued that the cost of constructing shelters, 
adequate or inadequate, and the results of their continued 
use would change our way of life. This likewise is true, but 
how great the change would be we cannot know today. 

In the last months of the second World War, I saw many 
German cities in apparently hopeless ruin; several square 
miles of the center of some of these cities were a mass of dis- 
organized rubble. Yet their inhabitants, living as they did in 
cellars, in holes, and in ruins, survived to a considerable ex- 



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15 



tent; to some extent, they even carried on the ordinary func- 
tions of life, though certainly not normally. The most aston- 
ishing thing was that many of them were cleaner than we 
troops who entered the cities as conquerors. Now these same 
cities are rebuilt, different from what they were before. The 
way of life of their inhabitants is different from the totalitarian 
life that they led before, and it is better. 

I do not say that it would be beneficial to subject our cities 
to nuclear attack; I do say that we cannot know what the re- 
sults of such an attack or of living in shelters would be. I 
hope that we never shall. 

As for the cost, almost every program leading to change 
that has been developed in this country in my lifetime has 
been assailed as so costly that it would completely change 
our way of life. It has changed, in some ways for the better 
and in some ways for the worse, but in none catastrophically. 

The Obligation to Resist and Preserve 

Each society as well as its citizens has a set of obligations 
to itself and to mankind. It has its beliefs, which are codified 
in its institutions and reflected more or less in its practices. 
It is obliged to preserve and perfect these beliefs, institutions, 
and practices and, if necessary, to change them. Society has 
an astonishing capacity to adjust itself to changing condi- 
tions; things that have appeared impossible in the remote 
and recent past have often been accomplished with remark- 
able ease. 

It is our obligation in this country and in the other Western 
countries to defeat, in whatever seems to be the best way, 
totalitarian aggression by force or by infiltration. If many of 
us must die in the process, it is our obligation to do so. If we 
must spend great sums of money in the process, it is our ob- 
ligation to do so. If we must build great armaments, active 
and passive, as a means of forcing our enemies to give up 
theirs, we must do so. And, if it is necessary for us to use 
these armaments, we can and must use them. 

The nation today has the beginning of a shelter program. I 
do not believe that it is a perfect one, nor does the President 
of the United States, who has recently ordered it restudied, 
modified, and strengthened. Those who have called for fur- 
ther study and discussion of the program in terms of ade- 
quacy and feasibility have performed a service. Those who 
urge that we bare ourselves to attack have not. 

As a part of this country. Brown has a program of civilian 
defense. It has a peculiar obligation to have one because of 
the concentration of talent here that may be useful in the 
future. If the c!ty cf Providence receives a direct hit by a 
small bomb or a near-hit by a large bomb, nothing that we 
can do within our means will be of any use. Therefore, we 
are concerned only with shelter against fall-out, not against 
blast or fire. 

There are many possible tactics that might be followed in 
attacking the United States: Our enemy might choose to use 
his weapons entirely upon our Strategic Air Command and 
missile bases in an effort to destroy our capacity to retaliate. 

Second, he might concentrate his efforts on our civilian 
centers (our great cities and our middle-sized cities) in an 
effort to destroy our will to resist, our economic means to do 
so, and our communications. He might assume that, if we 
retaliated similarly, his people would be better equipped to 
withstand such a savage blow. 

Third, he might combine an attack upon our weapons with 



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an attack upon our cities, and, since his weapons do not ap- 
pear today to be sufficient completely to destroy both, some 
weapons and some cities would survive; our retaliatory action 
would reduce his further capacity to destroy them. 

Fourth, he might blanket the country with bombs dropped 
in a pattern. There are other possibilities. 

The problem of shelter may be simply stated thus: if the 
enemy chooses the first option (attacking the bases) most 
survival would be in the cities; if he chooses the second, most 
survival would be in the country; if he chooses the third or 
fourth, some will be in each. The second choice would render 
any efforts we might make at Brown useless; the others might 
make them quite useful for the future. 

What the University Has Done 

We have taken the following steps at Brown, which I be- 
lieve you are entitled to know about: First, we have made a 
thorough study of that space in the University which seems 
to meet the minimum requirements for shelter. There is con- 
siderable space of this sort which can be used either without 
modification or with slight modification. Second, we have 
studied what must be done to make this space usable as 
shelters. Third, we have studied the system of supply — of 
food, water, and other essentials. Fourth, we have made a 
rudimentary plan of organization. 

The conclusions of the study are that there is sufficient 
space now to provide minimum fall-out protection for the 
entire University community. Some of this space must be 
slightly improved. We can supply this space without great 
effort or great expense. Since our students are responsible 
people, the organization can be set up rather speedily. 

We do these things because of our immediate responsibility 
to the members of the University community and because of 




ROBERT W. MORSE: His neighbors wanted advice on fall-out shelters. 

BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



our responsibility to the nation and to mankind to help pre- 
serve as many as possible of the able people concentrated 
here. In the meanwhile, we shall hope and work for universal, 
controlled disarmament, in the hope that it will never be 
necessary for us to learn whether the protection we can pro- 
vide will be adequate. 

All of us must endeavor to keep cur minds open to further 
discussion, until the full story and its implications are much 
clearer than thev are today. 



The Shelters 
And Deterrence 



By ROBERT W. MORSE 



Several months ago my wife informed me that some of our 
neighbors wanted me to join an evening gathering in order 
to tell them what they should build for fall-out shelters. (As a 
physicist, I presumably was supposed to know all about 
them.) 

My first response was to say that it would be far better for 
us all to stay home that night, and have the men spend the 
money on fur coats for their wives. Although this reaction 
came from long-held convictions about the delusions of fall- 
out shelters, I soon realized how irresponsible it was. My 
neighbors, who were conscientiously concerned, deserved a 
better answer. Naturally, I had no alternative to helping my 
neighbors in the best way possible, nor did I have a right to 
say that their sincere efforts at survival were futile and mean- 
ingless. 

But this experience forced me to reexamine my judgments 
regarding shelters, since there seemed an obvious dilemma in 
reconciling sensible action at a personal or neighborhood 
level, with the question of sensible national policy. 

Any prudent man should obviously take reasonable steps to 
increase his family's safety; no one can deny his right to do 
this, and, indeed, it is his obligation. Nevertheless, I firmly 
believe that it is not prudent for us as a nation to develop an 
elaborate fall-out shelter program as national policy. 

"To Make Clear What Is at Stake" 

In spite of what both authorities and self-styled authorities 
say, no one really knows what an all-out nuclear war between 
the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. would be like. It might not mean 
the extinction of life in the two countries, but it most certainly 
would devastate them both so importantly that afterwards 
they would be nearly unrecognizable politically, economically, 
and culturally. A sizable fraction of our population would 
perish, including a major fraction of those who give our na- 
tion its cultural and political vitality, along with most of our 
universities, libraries, museums, political institutions, com- 
munication networks, and economic wealth. We may debate 
degree of damage, but with certainty it would be the greatest 
physical catastrophe ever to befall a nation. 

The results of such a war are emphasized here, not to in- 



duce fear, but to make clear what is at stake and to suggest 
that we cannot make ourselves safer by underestimating or 
minimizing what could happen. But we should not be fright- 
ened just by the possibility of what could happen until we 
have some idea of the probability that it might happen. 

All of us, for example, are well aware of the horror of sud- 
den death from a lightning bolt, yet most of us lose little sleep 
over it because the probability of occurrence is usually so 
low. If, however, we are on a golf course in a thunderstorm, 
our anxiety rapidly increases. Any fool can see that the prob- 
ability factor has suddenly shot up. 

He Offers an "Index of Danger" 

Reduced to a simple-minded equation, therefore, we can 
say that our danger index (D) is a product of two factors: the 
potential outcome itself (O), multiplied by the probability 
(p) that it might happen; i.e., D = p x O. Now a national 
fall-out shelter program affects both of the factors (p and O) 
in subtle ways. It is not sufficient to assume that we have been 
made safer by a shelter program because it temporarily re- 
duces the final damage to us (the factor O). If shelters give us 
any degree of false confidence (which seems to me inevita- 
ble), if we feel they protect us when they do not, then we 
increase the probability (p) of such a war. Therefore the net 
effect of our shelter program could be to increase our over- 
all danger by making us more willing to entertain the idea of 
a nuclear war as a rational alternative. 

This weakening of our own attitude toward nuclear war is 
not the most important reason why a vigorous national shelter 
program could increase our danger of nuclear war, for such 
a program certainly would lead directly to an increase in the 
scale and magnitude of the attack itself (an increase in O). 
To understand this, one must understand both the nature of 
current nuclear strategy and the nature of nuclear weapons. A 
misunderstanding which is often put forth (particularly by 
Life Magazine) holds that the principal targets will be nuclear 
military installations. This view says that fall-out protection 
makes sense even in Manhattan, because most of the bombs 
will land on SAC and missile bases. This is absurd, because 
our present nuclear strategy (which presumably we have 
forced on the Russians too) inevitably makes the destruction 
of populations the prime value. 

Theory of "Hostage or Blackmail" 

Present nuclear strategy is based on the concept of "deter- 
rence," which is nothing more than a hostage or blackmail 
theory. It assumes that our best protection from nuclear at- 
tack is to guarantee that any attack by the Soviets will be fol- 
lowed swiftly and surely by a similar attack on them which 
will wipe out a sizable fraction of their population (i.e., "re- 
taliation"). Since our nuclear weapons effectively hold a frac- 
tion of their population in hostage, they are, in theory, de- 
terred from attacking us. 

Several important consequences of this strategy are worth 
noting, for it is a curious and topsy-turvy one where offense 
becomes defense, and vice versa. Here are some consequences 
relevant to the present argument: (a) Deterrence is possible 
only if enough offensive weapons survive surprise attack; 
hence the importance of the Polaris submarine system and 
"hard" missile bases, (b) One does not deter by threatening 
military bases, but by threatening populations, (c) One does 
not deter by civil defense, but by possessing invulnerable of- 
fensive weapons, (d) Moral implications are made irrelevant 



MARCH 1962 



SNOW TOWER 



FRESHMEN in Littlefield Hall built it for Winter Week End. Students on the 
ground threw waste-baskets filled with snow to a mason perched on top. 
Gaps between the cylindrical blocks were then packed with snow. 




— Brown Daily Herald photo by Charles E. Seagrave '63. 



(so it would seem) since the other side starts it. (e) There is 
a threshold of deterrence; i.e., killing 10 percent of the popu- 
lation is probably insufficient; 25 percent is probably enough, 
but more than this is wasteful. (In the disquieting lingo that 
has emerged, this is called "overkill." Overkill is deemed not 
only uneconomical but hazardous as well, for it may make the 
other fellow think that you have more in mind than just de- 
terring him.) 

It is important to remember that you have deterred the other 
side mainly from doing one thing: launching nuclear attack 
on you. You do not deter him from giving trouble in Cuba, or 
Berlin, or Viet Nam. In such cases all of our expensive nu- 
clear submarines, missiles, and SAC aircraft are of no use to 
us unless national survival itself is directly threatened. This is 
somewhat different from the situation 10 years ago when the 
threat of "massive retaliation" could intimidate the Russians. 
But the Soviets now have strategic nuclear capabilities, and 
so, if the doctrine of deterrence makes sense at all, we must 
recognize that we ourselves also are deterred from launching 
a nuclear attack on Russia in order to force our will on them. 
On the face of it, this seems a fair enough bargain in order to 
avoid the calamity of all-out nuclear war. 

When Civil Defense Is Effective 

Let us continue this discussion far enough to see where 
civil defense comes in. If nuclear war is effectively prevented 
(or made illogical) by this balance of mutual deterrence, then 
the national security of either party is most crucially threat- 
ened by anything that reduces the ability to deter. This could 
happen by one"s nuclear weapons being wiped out by surprise 
(hence the premium on hard weapons), or by a reduction in 
the effectiveness of the weapons. An active and vigorously 
pursued civil defense program is a deliberate attempt to do the 
latter. Effective civil defense immediately puts the pressure 
on the other side to increase the effectiveness of its weapons. 

Suppose, for example, that Side A decides it must threaten 
Side B with the destruction of 25 percent of its population in 
order to attain an adequate level of deterrence. If Side B, by a 
vigorous civil defense program, attempts to reduce this to 10 
percent, then the national security of Side A is immediately 
threatened. Consequently, A is forced to increase his offensive 
capability in an attempt to restore the initial level. Side B's 
program would make sense to him only if it was very difficult 
or costly for Side A to restore the balance. Nuclear weapons, 
however, are such that this is not true. Unfortunately, it is 
cheaper to be killed than to be saved. 

The arguments just given are extremely abstract and ideal- 
ized; they may not appeal to some. In fact, the doctrine of 
deterrence may be all wet, but it is the only one we seem to 
have. The discussion, however, should prove the point, which 
is really a most important one, that an active civil defense 
program is a stimulation to the arms race. 

Indeed, in some ways a vigorous civil defense program is a 
more aggressive action on our part than developing the Polaris 
submarine system. The latter clearly and explicitly is a recog- 
nition of nuclear stalemate and the doctrine of deterrence. A 
vigorously pursued civil defense program suggests that we no 
longer believe in the doctrine. 

Professor Morse, Chairman of the Physics Department at 
Brown, wrote this article originally for THE SUPPLEMENT 
of the Brown Daily Herald. With his permission, we offer his 
analysis to our own readers. 



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MARCH 1962 



-Providence Journal-Bulletin photo, used with permission. 

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WHO'S 

TO BLAME 
FOR TV? 

YOU ARE, 

Says Hubbell Robinson, Jr., '27 



More than 100,000,000 Americans run television. If it is 
a morass of mediocrity, a weekly shambles of violence 
and villainy, a belt-line assemblage of repetitive inanity, it is 
because a vast number of those Americans passively accept 
it that way. They watch it; they buy the products it peddles. 

In reverse proportion, the set-side millions pay scant heed 
to the networks' continuing efforts to supply a more or less 
regular diet of informational and public-affairs programs. The 
number of people who watch these projects is puny compared 
to the potential. 

Last spring, I was a willing party to a woeful example of 
this kind of inattention. On April 19, Startime broadcast a 
one-hour show, produced by Dore Schary, called "Well, 
What About You?" It was designed to remind and impress 
Americans with their sacred and practical obligation to "ex- 
ercise the franchise." It starred Eddie Albert, Polly Bergen, 
Mike Wallace, Marian Anderson, and Joseph Welch, with 
John Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Adlai Stevenson, Nelson 
Rockefeller, Thruston Morton, and Paul Butler among those 
present. The show was heavily publicized and advertised. The 
pre-broadcast support by the press was energetic and 
thorough. 

Whether the show fulfilled its promise was a matter of 
considerable critical contention. Unarguable was the shocking 
fact that only 10 per cent of all the people who could have 
watched this show even bothered to tune in to see if it was 
worth watching. Sic transit gloria rei publicae. 

Efforts in the Right Direction 

When they pass out the onus buttons for the state of tele- 
vision today, that great throbbing mass called the public 
must also wear the label mea culpa. This is a far cry from 
that Athenian democracy when Pericles could say "We con- 
sider the man not informed about public affairs not only 
harmless but useless." Our useless ones would seem to be 
legion. 

Fortunately, television's creators, producers, writers and 
directors of public-affairs, informational and news programs 
are a hardy lot. In spite of the relatively small percentage of 



rabbit ears pointed their way, they continue to enlarge and 
lift their horizons. Because of the massive skills of such men 
as Huntley and Brinkley. Irving Gitlin, Murrow and Friendly, 
Howard K. Smith. Edwin Newman, Joseph C. Harsch, and 
the managements which have backed them, more Americans 
know more about themselves and the world around them 
than ever before in our history. And the men who bring this 
knowledge to them are rapidly becoming, partly by default, 
television's elite. It is to be hoped that, as they sharpen and 
advance their skills, as they are permitted increasing fre- 
quency of appearance, they will find ways to reduce Amer- 
ica's swollen ranks of useless citizens. That is their challenge 
— a gigantic one only giants can meet. 

Television, however, cannot command total respect by 
good works alone. It must mature and upgrade the level of 
its entertainment, show some of the skills in the arts it has 
displayed in the crafts, manage to bring its creative accom- 
plishment more in line with its electronic genius. It must suf- 
fuse at least some of its regular weekly entertainment projects 
with a degree of thoughtfulness, emotional value, social con- 
tent, yet do it in a way that will attract the same audiences 
Wagon Train, Ed Sullivan, and Danny Thomas do. It does 
not seem to me the excessive popularity of such obviously 
escapist items as 77 Sunset Strip, The Untouchables, Gun- 
smoke, and even that obeisance to the cult of something for 
nothing. The Price Is Right, should lead to the conclusion 
that they are all that can succeed. 

It's A'o Neu' Lamentation 
Critics, playwrights, producers and authors, in general, 
have been deploring the public taste for centuries and still 
managing to come up with distinguished work whose excel- 
lence was matched by its broad appeal and staying power. In 
the middle 18th Century. Colley Cibber, a successful London 
playwright, critic and general man-about-the-theater, was 
moaning that "whenever the general taste is vulgar, the stage 
must come down to it to live." In 1889, the distinguished 
American critic James Huneker was complaining of "that 
curious tendency which has developed, instead of abated, of 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



dealing with depraved types." Thirty years later, Clive Bell, 
another English arbiter, was saying, "The public accepts 
. . . because it accepts whatever is provided." 

And, a few months ago, Leo Rosten, a waspish and hard- 
headed observer of the contemporary scene, wrapped it all 
up when to wrote: "The public chooses — again and again and 
again — the frivolous against the serious, escape as against 
reality, the lurid as against the tragic, the trivial as against 
the serious, fiction as against fact. . . ." 

In spite of these doleful pronouncements, serious and 
purposeful works find their way into the mass media and 
prosper. But, in seeking prosperity in the mass media, the 
thoughtful work must find ways to communicate in terms 
identifiable to the audience with which it is dealing. It must 
come forward not as a tract, not as an intellectual, ideologi- 
cal or social abstract or exercise, but as entertainment 
shrewdly conceived, skillfully realized, and practically aware 
of television's limitations, sacred cows, and brass curtains as 
well as its boundless opportunities to enrich the lives of more 
people than were ever reached by any medium in man's his- 
tory. It can say great things, stir great thoughts, provoke deep 
emotions if it is inventive and resourceful enough to make 
its statements in the idiom its huge audience recognizes and 
grasps. 

In my view, this means the most effective use of television 
requires that its creative talents accept the need to be pop- 
ular. It should not be too heavy a burden. In their own way, 
in their own time, Aristophanes, Dickens, Ibsen, Fitzgerald. 
Wilder, Marquand, and Faulkner have managed it. All of 
them are message writers. All of them are good writers. All 
of them are popular. They would seem reputable company 
to keep. 

"Outsize Talents" Lately Lost 

It is of the essence, however, that the requirement to com- 
municate be about the only stricture placed on those qualified 
by talent and desire to seize and energize the Gargantuan 
television opportunity to be heard. That opportunity is worthy, 
on a regular basis, of the outsize talents of such protean skills 
as Paddy Chayefsky. Gore Vidal, Tad Mosel, Martin Manulis, 
Sidney Lumet, Fred Coe, John Houseman, Robert Mulligan, 
Delbert Mann, John Frankenheimer, Frank Shaffner, and 
Ralph Nelson, to catalog some of those who once called 
television home and now are either infrequent visitors or 
totally absent. It is also the lure which can attract to tele- 
vision new talents as well as established ones who are 
strangers to it. Television desperately needs them all. 

What I am proposing here is a wedding of discipline in 
concept with complete freedom in carrying that concept out. 
Another dimension essential to this assertive, aggressive step 
toward a new standard of excellence for television entertain- 
ment is a specific fixed arena in which men with abilities of 
this kind can perform. It requires, too, the financial sinew to 
start and keep going. This does not mean just providing time 
on the air. It also means basic ideas, forming the spine to 
which these talents can attach themselves. The financial sinew 
means a commitment large enough to interest practitioners 
in demand as much as these men are. 

These ends cannot be achieved by the industry's critics, 
salutary as their blasting is. They are not furthered by the 
antics of David Susskind, who has made a career out of an 
occasionally interesting Open End program, partial parent- 
hood of Play of the Week, a vocabulary of shining adjectives. 




' J , 



Hubbell Robinson has long been 
one of television's shining lights. 
He was a Young & Rubicam Vice-Presi- 
dent in 1944 when he left to become 
Vice-President and Director of Pro- 
grams for the Blue Network (now 
ABC). In 1947 he was a CBS Vice- 
President, later Executive Vice-Presi- 
dent for Television in charge of net- 
work programs. Resigning in 1959 to 
become the President of Hubbell Rob- 
inson Productions, Inc., he was at once 
master mind of a package deal of 39 
color TV spectaculars, with a price tag 
of $12,000,000 on them. Industry lead- 
ers likened his operation to a video net- 
work in itself. 

His article in this issue originally ap- 
peared in TV Guide, with whose per- 
mission (and his) it is reprinted. 

On Feb. 25 Robinson became the first 
winner of the newly-created Television 
Plaudit Award, an honor conferred by 
the Television Producers Guild. 



an Olympian vitality, a compulsive ambition to be somebody, 
an undisciplined desire to shake the seats of the mighty, and 
not much else. 

It can be achieved by a network or networks partnered with 
independent production ventures and the major talents them- 
selves. When it happens, television will have taken a giant 
step toward recapturing some of the excitement which char- 
acterized its beginnings, which can secure its future and en- 
able it to be the creative peer of the other arts. It is not a 
question of whether television can afford to take this step. 
The question is, can it afford not to? 

Only the 100,000,000 Americans who run television can 
give you the answer to that one, but I've an awfully strong 
hunch what that answer must be. It can be summed up in 
Fred Friendly's prescient statement: "The excitement of 
good ideas, well-communicated, whether by a playwright or 
a comedian or a journalist, is good showmanship." 

Unless that excitement is managed by idiots, it can also be 
extremely profitable. 



MARCH 1962 



21 




A FILE IN HIS CAKE: James V. Bennett '18 had a surprise as he celebrated 
25 years in charge of Federal prisons. Suspected author of the gag was 



Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, right, while Chief Justice Warren, 
left, also enjoyed it. (Washington Post photo) 



JIM BENNETT: 



He's Been 
in the Best 



of Prisons 



Officially 



A Brown man who has been "a pris- 
oner for 25 years" could read all 
about himself in January in a variety of 
publications that ranged from the Congres- 
sional Record to the Washington press and 
the newsmagazines. James V. Bennett '18 
had rounded out 25 years as Director of 
the Federal Bureau of Prisons. 

Said Alfred E. Lewis in the Washington 
Post: "He has served every minute (of 
his 25-year term) — a prisoner of his own 
dedication to the plight of the imprisoned 
— and with no time off for good behavior." 
The only suggestion of escape came when 
Bennett cut into an anniversary cake and 
found the traditional bit of hardware in 
it — a file. But how was a prisoner to use 
it when he was being watched closely by 
the Chief Justice of the United States and 
the Attorney General? 

"We congratulate the people of the 
United States," said a Post editorial in an 
anniversary compliment to Bennett. "He 
has brought to an exacting and, in some 
respects, distasteful job an exceptional 
blend of sternness and compassion, of ef- 
ficiency and pioneering imagination. Under 



his enlightened administration the Federal 
prison system has moved a long way from 
sterile retribution toward rehabilitation of 
the human beings committed to its care. 
. . . We hope the country will enjoy many 
happy returns of this anniversary." 

"An impressive group of his contem- 
poraries in the penological field are in 
agreement that Bennett's behavior in the 
post has been exemplary and that he 
should have no time off because of it," 
Lewis' story continued. "In a field so re- 
plete with controversy and theoretical 
cross-currents, this agreement is in itself 
remarkable. But then. Bennett is in himself 
a remarkable man. The only 'real reward 
in prison work,' he finds, is the knowledge 
that about one third of his charges never 
return." 

"Extended" in the Record 

Some of those who praised this public 
servant were Congressmen who addressed 
the House and "extended their remarks" 
in the Record. Congressman Celler said he 
first knew of Bennett in the latter 1920's 
when, as a management analyst for the 



22 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



old Bureau of Efficiency, he was loaned to 
the Congress to investigate the Federal 
prisons. "These institutions were a dis- 
grace to the Federal Government," Celler 
continued. 

"With Jim Bennett's assistance the Con- 
gress was able to pinpoint what was wrong 
with our prisons and what could be done 
to improve them. He helped write the leg- 
islation which in 1930 created the Bureau 
of Prisons and set forth its future course 
of development. Jim Bennett must be given 
full credit for the manner in which he has 
fulfilled the mandate of the Congress, first 
as Assistant Director of the Bureau from 
1929 to 1937, and, over the next 25 years, 
as its Director. 

"It is what he has done for our Ameri- 
can prisons that will stand as his enduring 
monument. ... He built up an expert 
and capable career service. . . . Because 
the Federal prison system now occupies its 
pinnacle of professional competence, Jim 
Bennett's advice and assistance are univer- 
sally valued. It is a rare day when a Gov- 
ernor, a State Prison Commissioner, or a 
foreign prison official does not call at his 
office for advice on correctional problems. 
. . . He has been active in international 
organizations, including the United Na- 
tions, in uplifting prison standards the 
world around. 

"Jim Bennett wastes little time reflecting 
on past accomplishments. It is the future 
that commands his attention. . . . He is 
at the peak of his abilities, and I am sure 
that he will make many more contributions 
to the welfare of his nation." 

Those Prison Interviews 

There was praise in the Senate, too, 
where Senator Long of Missouri and Sen- 
ator Hruska spoke and provided longer 
statements for the Record: 

The former mentioned Bennett's book 
and supplement on correctional architec- 
ture, which "now serves as a handbook on 
the subject." "Bennett runs a taut, no-priv- 
ilege penitentiary at Alcatraz," Senator 



Space Candidates 

It happened on Glenn Day, Feb. 
20, while the Lieutenant Colonel was 
still in orbit: The Biological Sciences 
Division of the University Library 
was trying to locate an article which 
an inquirer thought was in the 
American Journal of Psychiatry 
sometime in 1959 or 1960. 

Although the article was soon 
found, the librarians were curious 
about a 10-inch strip of microfilm 
which had been left in the bound 
volume. It proved to be a copy of 
an article in the November, 1959, 
issue of the Journal. It had been lent 
to a West Coast technology labora- 
tory last May. And someone had 
made four prints from the film of an 
article entitled: Psychiatric Evalua- 
tion of Candidates for Space Flight. 



Long pointed out, "but he travels fre- 
quently to the island to inquire into the 
welfare and progress of the men confined 
there. . . . When he visits other prisons 
in the Federal system, he is never too busy 
to talk to any inmate who wants to see 
him, and he seeks many others out for 
helpful talks. Many of these men write 
him or call at his office after their release 
to express their appreciation. . . . Only a 
couple of years ago. President Eisenhower 
conferred upon him the President's Award 
for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service." 

Senator Hruska said: "I hope no parole 
will be granted to Jim Bennett unless he so 
desires." 

One newspaper writer commented on 
the fact that "the violent rash of prison 
riots which spread across the Nation in 
the early 1950's involved only one Federal 
institution." Bennett manages, the article 



added, "to visit at least once each year 
each of the institutions in his far-flung 
jurisdiction, inviting suggestions from his 
field officers — and getting them in profu- 
sion from the inmates themselves." "This," 
the writer suggested, "doesn't leave Ben- 
nett a whole lot of time to spend at home, 
5840 Marbury Rd., Bethesda." 

But Bennett has found time to give 
leadership in Brown alumni affairs in 
Washington over the years and serve as 
occasional host at Brown gatherings in his 
home. The University conferred an hon- 
orary LL.D. upon Bennett in 1950, when 
the citation said in part: 

"For the humane conception of your 
task, for the wise perceptiveness you have 
brought to bear upon it, and for the no- 
table results of your progressive measures, 
we are happy to salute you." On his latest 
anniversary, the salute is still grateful. 



N. Y. Real Estate Spokesman 



Representing several thousand apart- 
, ment owners in the New York area, 
the Metropolitan Fair Rent Committee has 
a new Chairman, Edward Sulzberger '29, a 
veteran of nearly 35 years in the real 
estate business. The Committee is the 
spokesman for all New York City Real 
Estate Boards on rent control matters. 

Sulzberger, a former President of the 
Brown Club in New York, is President of 
Nassoit-Sulzberger & Company, Inc. When 
he accepted his new post recently, he set 
forth the goals of his group: 

"New York City is entering upon a cru- 
cial period of decisions in which answers 
must be found to such difficult problems as 
urban renewal, middle-income housing, the 
new zoning ordinances, and the effects of 
rent control upon deterioration, slums, and 
the community spirit. 

The Metropolitan Fair Rent Committee 
is prepared to volunteer its resources in 
regard to the city's complex residential 
problems. The counsel of competent real 
estate professionals and qualified housing 
authorities can be of invaluable aid in 
reaching equitable solutions. 

"New York City has approximately 
1,800,000 rent-controlled apartment units 
housing more than 4,000,000 persons. Pri- 
vate ownership is prepared to improve its 
housing, but it must get relief and assist- 
ance when it does so." 

Nassoit-Sulzberger, one of New York's 
most prominent and diversified organiza- 
tions, manages more than 135 properties in 
the five boroughs and Westchester County. 
Its management activities include every 
conceivable type of residential housing, in- 
cluding cooperatives, plus important office 
buildings in both the midtown area and the 
financial district. Nassoit-Sulzberger is also 
active in the construction, leasing, and 
management of new residential apartment 
housing; it is building three Manhattan 
apartments; it is handling leasing for new 
apartment houses in Manhattan, The 
Bronx, Queens, and Westchester, which 




EDWARD SULZBERGER '29, Chairman, tells of 
the goals of the Metropolitan Fair Rent Commit- 
tee in New York. (Fabian Bachrach photo) 



properties it will manage upon completion. 

Sulzberger is a Director of the Brokerage 
Division of the Real Estate Board of New 
York and is active in the National Associa- 
tion of Real Estate Boards. He is a mem- 
ber of the Sales Broker's Institute, Institute 
of Property Management, International 
Federation of Real Estate Agents, Interna- 
tional Traders Club. He is on the Board of 
Directors of the Realty Advisory Board 
on Labor Relations and has been a mem- 
ber of the New York County Grand Jury 
for 20 years. 

Son of the late Judge Myron Sulzberger, 
he is a native New Yorker and has lived 
on Manhattan all his life. He is a Director 
of the Associated Alumni of Brown Uni- 
versity and a member of the University's 
Bequest Committee. 



MARCH 1962 



23 




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-Photo by the New York Times. 



What goes on behind the Brown ban- 
ner on West 43rd St.? The Brown 
University Club in New York has a new 
illustrated brochure to answer that ques- 
tion. Alumni interested in this description 
of facilities and program of the Club may 
address the Executive Secretary, 4 West 
43rd St., New York 36, N. Y. (Robert G. 
Berry '44 of J. Walter Thompson Com- 
pany prepared the booklet. ) 

The Brown-Pembroke Theater Party at- 
tracted 250 to the off-Broadway production 
of Thornton Wilder's Plays for Bleecker 
Street. Frank Prince '56 represented the 
Club as Chairman in arranging the joint 
venture. Honorary Co-Chairmen were Ly- 
man G. Bloomingdale '35 and Charles C. 
Tillinghast, Jr., '32 and their wives. 

To facilitate the processing of member- 
ship applications, the Admission and Mem- 
bership Committees have been merged un- 
der Arthur R. Thebado '51 and Berry. 
The enlarged group is working in concert 
with John L. Danforth '52 and John E. 
Flemming '33, who have sponsored a series 
of Class Dinners to acquaint New York 
alumni with the Clubhouse. 

Weston M. Stuart '27 is Chairman of 



the Sub-Freshman Committee, which has 
increased to 10 the group of men inter- 
viewing prospective Brown students. This 
activity, one of the Club's major interests, 
is conducted at the Clubhouse, at second- 
ary schools, and in the homes of appli- 
cants. 

The John Carter Brown Library, through 
Librarian Thomas R. Adams, has donated 
a facsimile of the famed Blaskowitz Chart 
of Narragansett Bay; it hangs in the Club 
Lounge. Under the direction of Charles E. 
Hughes '37 and Ward H. Jackson '32 of 
the House Committee, this popular new 
gathering spot for New York Brunonians 
is furnished entirely with memorabilia of 
Brown and its environs. The Club's new 
house-boy, Felix, serves an increasing cli- 
entele in the Lounge during the noon 
hours. Bert Schwartz '29, Editor of the 
Club's Newsletter, commends him for a 
complimentary degree of Doctor of Hos- 
pitality. 

Evidence that Josiah S. Carberry is 
slowing up is adduced from the fact that 
he was the 13th to respond to a recent 
query in the Newsletter. The readers had 
been asked to give the location of the 



Brown University Seal on public display 
in New York City. First correct answer 
came from Arthur J. Levy '19, a non-resi- 
dent member from Providence, while Ed- 
ward Munves, Jr., '32 of New York City 
made the second proper identification. Car- 
berry, writing on the heavy vellum of the 
Odd Fellows, reported belatedly but cor- 
rectly that the insignia is to be found on 
the Fifth Avenue facade of the University 
Club at 54th St. 

Individualized lost-and-found service is 
rapidly becoming a Brown Club cachet. 
One out-of-town member left a billfold 
containing his membership card in an air- 
plane en route to New York. It was de- 
livered to him at the Hotel Plaza through 
the efforts of the airline and the Club. A 
non-member was likewise confounded 
when informed by the Club that his 1954 
Class ring had been found by a stranger 
30 miles from where he had lost it several 
months before. Both personalized services 
were performed by Miss Christine M. Dun- 
lap, the Executive Secretary, with the aid 
of local and long-distance phone calls, di- 
rectories, and the 1934 Liber. 

ROBERT V. CRONAN '31 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



The Brown Clubs Report 



Glee Club to Mid-West 

Traveling more than 3600 miles in the 
spring recess, the Brown University 
Glee Club will undertake one of its biggest 
tours. Officers of Brown Clubs indicate 
equally elaborate plans for welcoming the 
undergraduate singers to the Middle West. 
Cities included in the itinerary between 
Mar. 31 and Apr. 7 are: Pittsburgh, De- 
troit, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Cedar Rapids, 
St. Louis. Chicago, and Indianapolis. All 
concerts will be under the direction of 
Erich Kunzel. including those over radio 
and TV. 

The tour will open in Pittsburgh on Sat- 
urday, Mar. 31. when the Brown Club of 
Pittsburgh is sponsoring a concert in Me- 
morial Hall, Shady Side Academy at 8:30 
p.m. The next day. Apr. 1. in Detroit, the 
singers will be heard twice: in a Sunday 
afternoon radio broadcast over Station 
WJR and in an evening concert under the 
auspices of the Brown University Club of 
Michigan. The latter event will be held in 
the Lecture Hall of the Detroit Institute of 
Arts, 5200 Woodward Ave. 

On Tuesday, Apr. 3, the Twin City 
Brown Club (Minneapolis-St. Paul) will 
sponsor the Glee Club's concert at the 
Prudential Center. On Apr. 4, the concert 
in Cedar Rapids, la., will be telecast over 
WMT-TV, the local CBS outlet. On Thurs- 
day, Apr. 5, the St. Louis Brown Club is 
sponsor for the concert at Webster College, 
Webster Groves, Mo. 

The Chicago engagement of the Glee 
Club comes on Friday, Apr. 6. when the 
Brunonians will join with the girls of the 
Rosary College Glee Club in a joint con- 
cert at Rosary College in River Forest. 
The Brown University Club of Chicago, of 
course, is active in promotion of the event 
and in hospitality plans. The final appear- 
ance of the Glee Club will be in Indianap- 
olis on Saturday, Apr. 7. at the Orchard 
Country Day School. (Classes resume in 
Providence on Monday morning.) 

A Club on Skates 

The Skating Association of the Brown 
Club of Rhode Island included some 215 
memberships — both family and single — by 
late February. In addition, the Club had a 
waiting list of 75 names. 

The Association took to the ice at the 
Meehan Auditorium on Oct. 20 and will 
skate through Apr. 1. The Club skates 
three times weekly for a total of (>Vi 
hours, with extra ice time provided by the 
University nearly every week. This is the 
first time in the history of the Club that a 
participating activity for both single people 
and families over a sustained period of 
time has been offered to its membership. 

At the January meeting. President Don 
Campbell '45 suggested that the Executive 
Committee should consider increasing the 
amount of the Brown Club's contribution 



for promotion and scholarship aid. He sub- 
sequently appointed a committee of Messrs. 
Reynolds. Bateman. and Lodge to review 
the situation and make a final report this 
spring. 

Two traditional Club events were well 
attended during the month of February. 
Postponed once because of a blizzard, 
the concert of the Brown University Or- 
chestra was given on Feb. 23 under the 
joint sponsorship of the Brown Club of 
Rhode Island and the East Providence 
United Concert Association. The Associa- 
tion has a membership of 750. while the 
Brown Club members also did their share 
toward filling the East Providence High 
School auditorium. Prof. Martin Fischer 
conducted the Orchestra, with Robert Spill- 
man, pianist, as guest artist. 

Matthew E. Ward and Edward Bromage, 
Jr.. were the Brown Club committee. A 
17-inch fall of snow on Feb. 16 forced the 
rescheduling of the popular event on the 
Club's winter program. 

The Brown Club sponsored its annual 
Hockey Reunion on Feb. 24, with Don 
Sennott making the arrangements for the 
roast beef dinner before the Dartmouth 
game. There was a pre-game dinner before 
the Harvard game in Providence as well. 

John Bateman, who served as Chairman 
for the annual Clambake Scrimmage before 
the football season last fall, reported that 
the Brown Club affair had been run at a 
profit (usually there is none); he was com- 
mended by the members of the Executive 
Committee. Under the circumstances, the 
group felt it only fair that he be offered 
the opportunity to run the affair again 
next season. 

ray noonan '36 

N. J. Guest on Apr. 10 

Two of New Jersey's Brown Clubs are 
jointly sponsoring a dinner on Apr. 10 
when Vice-President John V. Elmendoif 
will be the speaker at The Rock Restaurant 
in West Orange. The Essex Brown Club 
and the Lackawanna Brown Club have 
been working together on arrangements 
and will pool their potential audiences to 
welcome Dr. Elmendorf as he rounds out 
his first year as an officer of the University. 

Brown men are urged to bring their 
wives, and Pembroke alumnae are also in- 
vited, with their husbands. Prospective 
students from the area are being included. 
too. 

PAUL YELAVICH '49 

Boston's Annual Dinner 

Brunonians in the Greater Boston 
Area are saving the date of Apr. 16 for 
the annual dinner for all alumni, sponsored 
by the Brown Club of Boston. Charles R. 
Bragg '49 is heading the commitlee on 
arrangements for the affair, which will be 
held at the University Club. 



North Shore Renaissance 

The long-awaited rejuvenation of the 
North Shore Brown Club has begun. Thirty 
members met for a combination dinner- 
business meeting on Jan. 31 at Anthony's 
in Lynn and got the ball rolling. 

This session was organized by four men: 
Dr. Daniel Alexander '35, Dr. S. P. Gem- 
mellaro '43. William D. K. Crooks '56, and 
John D. Warwick '51. The group decided 
that a corporation would be formed to per- 
petuate the Club, and legal papers are be- 
ing drawn by two of our attorneys. Crooks 
and James W. Santry, Jr., '27. 

Two spring activities have been ar- 
ranged. On March 24. the Club and the 
Swampscott Parent Teachers Association 
will jointly sponsor the Brown Glee Club 
concert at Lynn English High School. 
Tickets, which will sell for $1, may be pur- 
chased by contacting Mrs. Willard Stearns 
(LYnn 3-2526). Apr. 2 has been selected 
as the date for the annual meeting, which 
will be featured by the nomination and 
election of officers. All Brown alumni on 
the North Shore are urged to attend. 

RON HARRISON '59 



Activity in Cleveland 

The Cleveland Brown Club is enjoying 
one of its most active seasons. On Dec. 1 1, 
Dave Zucconi of the Admissions Office 
spoke at the annual winter dinner, which 
was attended by 12 alumni and a like num- 
ber of Sub-Freshmen. He described the 
current sports scene at Brown and gave an 
excellent presentation of the educational 
advantages offered on the Hill. He and 
some of the youngsters engaged in an ex- 
tensive question-and-answer period follow- 
ing the dinner. 

On Dec. 30 the fourth annual Egg Nog 
Party was held at the home of Ray Elias 
'47 and his wife, Margery. Forty-five 
alumni and their ladies gathered to sere- 
nade '61 and pledge a bigger and better 
Cleveland Brown Club for '62. Plans for 
the spring meeting on Mar. 1 also were dis- 
cussed, early in the evening, and it was 
decided to invite Prof. Joseph F. Bunnett, 
Chairman of the Chemistry Department. 
The meeting was to be held at the Uni- 
versity Club, with the annual election of 
officers. 

ted selover '52 



Engineers Hear Symonds 

Dr. Paul S. Symonds, Chairman of the 
Division of Engineering on the Hill, was 
the principal speaker at the 49th Annual 
Dinner of the Brown Engineering Associa- 
tion. Stephen A. McClellan '23 was the 
toastmaster at the affair, which was held 
in the attractive new quarters of the Brown 
Club of New York on Feb. 2. In addition 
to Professor Symonds, other members of 
the Engineering faculty were present, as 
were several representatives of the Senior 
Class who are majoring in Engineering. 
Secretary-Treasurer George Pournaras an- 
nounced at the meeting that the member- 
ship has hit a new high — 664. 



MARCH 1962 



25 




THREE SMILES in Buffalo, from Charles H. Doebler '48, Director of Admissions; Gordon Fuller '55, 
Brown Club President; and John McLaughry '40, Varsity football coach. (Courier-Express photo) 



40 Schoolboys in Buffalo 

The visit of Admission Director Charles 
Doebler and Coach John McLaughry to 
Buffalo on Dec. 29 prompted a successful 
meeting, which was also the holiday wel- 
come for undergraduates and permitted the 
annual business session. The following of- 
ficers were elected for a two-year term: 
President — Gordon E. C. Fuller '55; Sec- 
retary — Wyn Eaton II (25 Pine Court, 
Buffalo 26); Treasurer — Richard F. Lamb 
'57. 

The guests spoke of activities in the 
admission and athletic field. Prior to the 
dinner the Club was host to some 40 Sub- 
Freshmen from schools in the area who 
had shown a definite interest in attending 
Brown. The turnout was very encouraging, 
and the movie and talks were well received. 

In San Francisco 

The Brown Club of Alta California en- 
tertained six Sub-Freshmen at a luncheon 
meeting Dec. 27 at the Fairmont Hotel in 
San Francisco. Brown's prize-winning film, 
"A Succession of Men," was shown and 
proved to be very effective prop. Alumni 
from the Admission Committee attending 
the affair included Paul Lucey '48, Emery 
MacFarlane '48, Vernon Libby '23, and 
Gustave Freeman '29. Club President Fred 
Freund '52 provided decorative banners 
and joined the group for lunch. In addition, 
four undergraduates contributed by main- 
taining a lively and perceptive discussion 
during luncheon and after the film: Ste- 
phen Mayne '63, John Lewis '64, Stephen 
Taylor '64, and Dan Funk '64. 

GUSTAVE FREEMAN '29 



The Crew's IRA Date 

Brown University is one of 14 prob- 
able entrants in the annual Syracuse (IRA) 
Regatta, slated for Onondaga Lake on 
Saturday, June 16. Sponsored each year 
by the Intercollegiate Rowing Association, 
the Regatta is the distance rowing cham- 
pionship event for eight-oared crews. 
Other probable entrants are: California, 
Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, M.I.T., 
Navy, Penn, Princeton, Rutgers, Stanford, 
Syracuse, Washington, and Wisconsin. 

In addition to the Varsity, Brown plans 
to send a second boat to Syracuse. The 
choice between the Jayvee and Freshman 
eights will probably not be made until after 
the Sprint Championships of the Eastern 
Association of Rowing Colleges. Brown is 
now a member of the EARC, an affiliate 
of the ECAC, but had twice competed in 
the Sprints previously as the result of its 
success in the Dad Vail Association. (A 
three-time winner in the Dad Vail Regatta, 
Brown resigned from this group, as tradi- 
tion has dictated in the past.) 

The Brown Club of Central New York 
is taking advantage of the Regatta to plan 
a number of events during the season, as 
was the case in 1961. Alumni families will 
have a rallying point, and there will be 
hospitality for the oarsmen, too. 

Cocktails in Washington 

Jointly sponsored by the Brown and 
Pembroke Clubs of Washington, D. C, 
a cocktail party was held in the Congres- 
sional Room of the Willard Hotel on Fri- 
day, Dec. 15. It was a repetition of a simi- 
lar gathering in 1960, and the success of 



Why an Alumni Club? 

Lehigh put it this way: "An 
Alumni Club is the result of a nat- 
ural almost inevitable desire of Le- 
high men to participate more fully 
in the life of the University and to 
associate with other Lehigh men in 
the same community. A successful 
Club can produce extraordinary 
benefits for the University, the en- 
tire alumni body, and its own mem- 
bership. . . . 

"The Club exists as a firm base 
upon which to organize alumni ac- 
tivities on behalf of the University. 
It encourages the renewal and main- 
tenance of Lehigh fellowship. It 
serves as a medium for the exchange 
of information and services between 
the alumnus and the University. It 
provides an instrument through 
which the University may be prop- 
erly interpreted to its community. 
It enables the individual alumnus, 
through its activities, to develop a 
wider association with the leaders in 
his community." 



each affair leads to the prediction that it 
will become an annual event. 

More than 100 Brown men, Pembrokers, 
and their wives, husbands, or escorts en- 
joyed a few hours renewing memories of 
campus life, as well as becoming better 
acquainted with others who have mutual 
interests. Many of us grew to know each 
other during the Bicentennial Development 
Campaign, and we believe the common in- 
terests of Brown and Pembroke have been 
brought into better focus. 

EARLE VINCENT JOHNSON '24 



Fear Unfounded 

Newton G. Chase '09, one-time Execu- 
tive Secretary of the Brown University 
Club in New York, wrote some memoirs 
of its activities, which have been printed 
in the last couple of Newsletters distributed 
by the Club. We were particularly inter- 
ested in the following section — and grate- 
ful for the kind words: 

"The matter of the change-over in the 
distribution of the Brown Alumni Monthly 
came up while I was at the Club. The pro- 
posal came from Providence, and so it was 
not our direct concern. The University 
suggested that it take over the financing of 
the publication and that it be mailed free 
of charge to all alumni. (The initiative on 
this had come from the alumni, by the 
way. — Ed.) Prior to this time the magazine 
had been mailed to paid subscribers only. 

"Those who opposed the change-over 
were afraid it would become an adminis- 
tration organ rather than one reflecting 
alumni sentiments. Now, 17 years later, 
we find the Alumni Monthly bigger and 
better, reaching everyone, yet still a purely 
alumni magazine." 



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CHAIRMAN Joseph F. Lockett, Jr., '42 
with Dean Lloyd W. Cornell, Jr., '44 
before the Saturday morning conferences 
on the Alumni Secondary School Program. 



SOME COUNCIL 
PERSONALITIES 



More of the camera copy 
from the Advisory Council, 
by the Brown Photo Lab. 





James E. Lathrop, Jr., '38 
and Robert W. Kenyon '36. 



Lawrence Lanpher, John A. Wilson, 
and C. Arthur Braitsch, all '23. 




Wiley H. Marble '12 and 
Richard A. Hurley, Jr, '32. 






Edward S. Spicer '10, Sidney 
Bellows '06, and Earl Pearce '17. 



Charles A. Andrews, Jr., '51 
and Rolland H. Jones '49. 



Buzz Barnes '61, Charles E. 
Hughes '37, Charles Thomas '49. 



MARCH 1962 



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For a Brown Bookshelf 



EDITED BY ELMER M. BLISTEIN '42 



AMERICA FACES THE NUCLEAR 
AGE, edited by Johnston E. Fairchild 
and David Landman '39. Sheridan 
House. 

This small book resulted from a Forum 
held at The Cooper Union in 1960, 
with backing and participation by man- 
agement and labor from the electrical in- 
dustries in New York State. Twelve men 
— administrators, educators, engineers, hu- 
manists, scientists — contributed. 

Despite a strong concluding try by the 
editors, the group of essays lacks cohesion. 
Evidently a topic was set to which each 
should address himself; equally evidently, 
as in many a forum, each then said what- 
ever came into or was already in his mind. 
No essay is really irrelevant, yet some 
would have been as pertinent before the 
"nuclear age," or if, instead, some quite 
different, harmless, perfectly non-military 
source of energy had been discovered. The 
urgency of city planning and the social ef- 
fects of cheap power and automation have 
been discussed for years. The specifically 
nuclear age only accelerates the trend and 
perpetuates the new world beyond the ex- 
haustion of fossil fuels. 

These matters bear repeating, but other 
more specific essays can interest readers 
of many backgrounds. An engineering ed- 
ucator assays the near future for commer- 
cial nuclear power. A professor of indus- 
trial medicine offers a cool, balanced 
survey of radiation hazards, protections, 
the outcome and different attitudes toward 
it. 



Percy Marks, Reporter 
"Maybe the reason why the 
Nineteen Sixties have no The Plastic 
Age is that current youngsters are 
too dull," J. C. Furnas wrote in the 
New York Times Book Review. A 
recent column, "Speaking of Books," 
dealt with the book Percy Marks 
wrote as he was leaving Brown, 
reading which he called "undiluted, 
factual harking back." 

"Percy Marks," he said, "blue- 
printed for Freshmen of my crop 
what both the college boy of the 
Nineteen Twenties and his perplexed 
elders thought was happening to 
him. . . . The Plastic Age had the 
advantage of being just as contem- 
porary as it was undistinguished. . . . 
The same qualities that made it re- 
quired reading along Fraternity Row 
when Calvin Coolidge ran for Pres- 
ident still obtrude — gracelessly but 
helpfully." 



Two sharply contrasting essays seemed 
most interesting and pertinent. In one, an 
engineer intimately concerned with the 
project describes the current construction 
of a particular nuclear station for com- 
mercial electric power. Not magic wands 
or Aladdin's lamp, but just such stations 
are the foundations of the "nuclear age." 
In the other essay, an engineer looks for- 
ward a few decades into the "nuclear 
age." He outlines the effects — elaborated by 
other contributors — on affluent societies like 
ours, and emphasizes the equally great but 
quite different impact on underdeveloped 
nations. Nuclear power plants can be ex- 
ported, carrying — as it were — inexpensive 
energy with them, tailored to size, located 
almost anywhere (regardless of roads, rail- 
ways, oil fields) and applied precisely to- 
ward the most immediate needs of each 
locality. Such exports, he says, would ad- 
mirably complement our present greatest 
export to the have-nots, education, which 
taken alone can breed dissatisfaction faster 
than progress. 

All contributors hearteningly brush mil- 
itary aspects aside. Planning is a rational 
act; morality apart, nuclear war without a 
sure defense is irrational, and a defense is 
unlikely. The lesson is clear: plan for the 
new world that can be, not the non-world 
that might. 

ARTHUR O. WILLIAMS, JR. 

The reviewer is Professor of Pliysics and 
former Chairman of the Department at 
Brown. He received his Sc.M. at Brown in 
1936, his Ph.D. in 1937. Landman is As- 
sistant to the President of the Cooper 
Union. 

WENDELL PHILLIPS: Brahmin Radi- 
cal, by Irving H. Bartlett, Ph.D. '52. 
Beacon Press. 

The great abolitionist, who once out- 
raged conservative Bostonians by his vehe- 
ment attacks on slavery, is the subject of 
a biography by Dr. Irving H. Bartlett. The 
author, now serving as Director of the 
Cape Cod Community College at Hyannis, 
Mass., spent several years in research in 
original papers for his book. 

Wendell Phillips was born on November 
29, 1811, in a house which still stands at 
the northwest corner of Beacon and Wal- 
nut Streets. His father, John Phillips, was a 
lawyer and the first mayor of Boston, 
and young Phillips, educated at Harvard, 
seemed destined for a successful career in 
law and a life secure in social position and 
wealth. However, his marriage to Ann 
Terry Green, a convinced abolitionist, and 
an introduction to William Lloyd Garrison, 
editor of the Liberator, changed the course 
of his life. 

He made thousands of speeches against 
slavery from one end of the country to the 



other, fascinating his audience because the 
vehemence of his words was so at variance 
with his restrained delivery and aristocratic 
bearing. In his impatience with the tolera- 
tion of slavery he spoke words of vitupera- 
tion against Webster, Lincoln and Grant, 
and at one point even renounced the Con- 
stitution in a time of violent speech and 
violent deeds. 

Following the Civil War, when he spoke 
for the passage of the 15th Amendment, 
his every word was quoted by newspapers 
across the country. However, he lived to 
feel disfavor with many yet again, when 
he spoke for humane hours for the work- 
ingman, against child labor, and in favor 
of woman suffrage. 

Many original papers were in the pos- 
session of Dr. Bartlett as he wrote the 
book — a gift to him from the estate of the 
late Oswald Garrison Villard. Among them 
were minutes of the Anti-Slavery Society 
from 1841-1870, many of them in Phil- 
lips' own hand, letters, college papers, and 
speeches of Wendell Phillips, a variety of 
photographs, and other important source 
papers. Dr. Bartlett plans to present all of 
these materials to the Boston Public Li- 
brary, already noted for its important anti- 
slavery collection. 

Dr. Bartlett earned his doctorate through 
work in the field of American Civilization 
at Brown, where he first became interested 
in the life of Wendell Phillips. He has 
spent a year lecturing on American Civili- 
zation for the United States Information 
Service in Pakistan, and has taught at 
Brown and M.I.T. He is married to Vir- 
ginia Bartlett, producer of Dateline Boston 
at Station WHDH-TV. and lives in a 265- 
year-old house in Sandwich. 

ARTHUR KUNYOT: The White Rider, 
an autobiography as told to William D. 
Reichmann '24. 171 pages. Hill and 
Dale Press, 235 Glendale Ave., Barring- 
ton, 111. $10. 

"My earliest memories," says Arthur 
Kunyot, "are of a big round tent and wag- 
ons that were red and white, of horses and 
ponies, acrobats, clowns, and dancing bears, 
and of the ring, sometimes referred to as 
the 'Charmed Circle.' " He was born on 
the road, in a Hungarian circus wagon, 
heir to a strong family tradition, and he 
does not seem to have considered any 
other calling. It led him to the top, though 
there must have been hours of apprehen- 
sion. 

The circus has many worlds, and we see 
most of them as we follow the Kunyots 
from land to land: the rugged routines of 
town-to-town gypsying in a small family 
circus, the grand metropolitan establish- 
ments with their famous impresarios, and 
even on our side of the Atlantic in the hey- 
day of the great American shows. 

The hero of this unusual book is well 
remembered in the Ringling Spotlight with 
his dressage horses and Spanish school 
riding. But how many suspected the adven- 
tures which had marked the hard road up? 
The bitter and the sweet came before the 
mellower rewards and the satisfactions 
earned. There were times when the Kunyots 
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their shows together, as on the wartime 
trek in the land of Bela Kun. Later, during 
the siege of Oporto, there was the hazard 
of a journey merely to get food for his 
bears and horses (dead cavalry mounts 
from the battlefield made the desperate 
meal). Though there were defeats, there 
was always the new start. 

Color is here. too. as in the account of 
a performance for a sheik in his own Sa- 
hara courtyard, with the sheik's women al- 
lowed to watch through wall-slots. Rivalry, 
conspiracy, improvisation, false trust have 
their balancing in fine friendships, loyal- 
ties, and unexpected generosity. There is 
one amusing example of the last in the 
episode when the Ringlings had to contract 
for a whole family company of 25 Kunyots 
in order to obtain the equestrian acts the 
Americans were really intent upon. 

It was in Kunyot's other role as a trainer 
of horses, rather than as a circus star that 
Reichmann came to know him. Reich- 
mann. a retired Chicago securities dealer 
has raised and exhibited Arabian horses; 
he was the beneficiary of Kunyot's skill, 
as was Arthur Godfrey, another figure in 
the narrative. (The later pages, we must 
admit, are for the specialist and the hippo- 
phile, although the seeker after circus nos- 
talgia will have had his ample fare before 
then.) 

Friendship, then, was the compulsion 
which led to this book about 60 years of 
equestrianism, and friendship is the key to 
its sympathetic treatment. Kunyot's mod- 
esty, we judge, was insistent, for the story- 
telling is simple and straightforward. It is 
without the flamboyance of a press-agent 
or the ballyhoo, fortunately. Yet this is an 
ambitious, even a grandiose book, as gen- 
erous in its format as it is in the recount- 
ing. Elizabeth Mihaly's sketches and a fas- 
cinating budget of photos illuminate the 
text. And it's as good a job of bookmaking 
as it is of writing. 

But Kunyot, his horses, and his memo- 
ries are central, and the White Rider's 
pride in his most gifted animals is a pleas- 
ant thing to encounter. All the while, one 
marvels at the patience and genius which 
could make them companions, and the de- 
termination which kept them before their 
international audiences, in their different 
styles, elegant and able in adversity or in 
triumph. 

With all the other buffs, repaid by the 
reading of these lively recollections, we ap- 
plaud with a whole heart as Kunyot and 
Reichmann take their bows. 

W.C.W. 



EINFUHRUNG IN DIE KONTINUUMS- 
MECHANIK, by W. Prager. Birkhau- 
ser Verlag. Basel and Stuttgart. 228 
seiten. 26 bilder. 32.50DM. 

Professor Prager is one of the founders 
of the modern theory of Plasticity, and 
Hydromechanics as well as Elastomechan- 
ics are in his debt for essential contribu- 
tions. This, together with its clear exposi- 
tion, makes the study of this Introduction 
worthwhile for the beginner as well as for 
the reader who has already worked scien- 
tifically in some of these fields. . . . 

The German style of the author, who 



has not taught in Germany since 1933, is 
remarkable. Only imponderable nuances of 
rhythm color it occasionally, by no means 
disadvantageous^ (one knows how diffi- 
cult reading autochthonous scientific Ger- 
man often makes). 

How strongly America influences our 
scientific style today is shown by two fea- 
tures of the book: the collection of exer- 
cises which is added as an appendix and 
the portrait of the author, which looks at 
the reader from the dustjacket. The first 
is to be welcomed unconditionally and rec- 
ommended for imitation in German text- 
book literature; the second, however, is 
one of the things to which Europeans ob- 
viously have to get accustomed. 

The review above is translated from the 
German of Prof. K. Marguerre of the In- 
stitute of Technology in Darmstadt; it ap- 
peared in Zeitschrift fur Flugwissenschaften 
(Journal of the Aeronautical Sciences). 
Professor Prager has just returned to 
Brown from a trip to Belgium. France, and 
Switzerland. He lectured before two Swiss 
engineering societies, spent several days at 
the University of Liege, and discussed 
plans for a symposium with colleagues in 
Paris. 



Nelson Commissions 

Ron Nelson, of the Brown Music Fac- 
- ulty, has been commissioned to write 
an hour-long oratorio by the American 
Baptist Foreign Mission Society. It will be 
presented in 1964 at the Atlantic City Con- 
vention Hall by members of the Philadel- 
phia Orchestra, soloists, narrator, 300-voice 
chorus, and organ. 

There are further reports on perform- 
ances of Nelson's most famous work, The 
Christmas Story, performed annually for 
three years in Providence. The Purdue 
University Choir performed it to capacity 
audiences on Dec. 17 and 18; while 18,500 
were able to hear it in Indiana, 5,000 oth- 
ers were turned away at the door. 

Last year the publishers, Boosey & 
Hawkes, Inc., made the piece available on 
an international basis to London, Paris, 
Sydney. Toronto, Capetown, and Bonn. It 
has sold more than 10,000 copies since its 
publication in 1959. The piece is per- 
formed a hundred times each year, but the 
Purdue audience may be something of a 
record. 

The work was completed on Dec. 12. 
1958, for a festival Christmas concert pre- 
sented by the Brown and Pembroke Glee 
Clubs at the Central Baptist Church in 
Providence. This year there were Provi- 
dence performances on successive nights at 
the Church and on the Campus, to accom- 
modate the growing interest in the event. 
Part of the cantata was presented on the 
Bell Telephone Hour Christmas Concert 
in 1961. 

We have noted the premiere of Nelson's 
Overture for Latecomers by the Roches- 
ter Philharmonic Orchestra. Reviews were 
very favorable, and one critic called it "a 
brilliant piece that deserves no latecomers." 
The Ford Foundation commissioned its 
writing. 




-from "The White Rider" 



Briefer Mention 

Prof. Elliot R. Goodman, Political 
Science, wrote "East vs. West in Com- 
munist Ideology" in the recent Journal 
of International Affairs. In it the forgotten 
figure of Sultan Galiev, Stalin's chief lieu- 
tenant for Moslem Affairs, was recalled. 
He "had the dubious honor of being the 
first important member of the Party to be 
placed under arrest." He's sought to set 
up an "organizational spearhead for the 
Communist movement in the East." Per- 
haps, Dr. Goodman suggests, Khrushchev 
is fearful today of this "ghost reborn in 
Chinese garb." 

Arthur Freeman, who taught at Brown 
last year, has published his first book of 
poetry, Appolonian Poems (Atheneum). 
Some of these have appeared in The At- 
lantic, Saturday Review, Paris Review, and 
elsewhere. 

Henry Selleck '09 was the author of Oc- 
cupational Health, in collaboration with 
Dr. Alfred H. Whittaker. The book was on 
the fall list of the Wayne State University 
Press. Selleck, who died in November, had 
also written Uncle Sam, M.D., and Golden 
Century of Medicine, while he was co-au- 
thor of Music and Medicine. 

Rationalism in Greek Philosophy was 
featured in recent advertising of the Johns 
Hopkins Press. The author is George Boas 
'13. "Focussing on a central philosophical 
question and applying it systematically 
throughout the whole history of Greek 
philosophy, Dr. Boas has actually created 
a study of the changing basis of Greek phi- 
losophy." ($7.50) 



MARCH 1962 



29 



A FEW GAMES 
TO CHEER ABOUT 



First Ivy Wins on the Court 

With all its players back in good 
health, the basketball team won 
four of seven games to start the new se- 
mester and bring the over-all record to 
7-13 and the Ivy mark to 3-7. The victories 
came against Northeastern (64-44), Dart- 
mouth (71-52), Harvard (71-67), and 
Columbia (87-57). Defeats came at the 
hands of Princeton (74-70), Penn (71-57), 
and Cornell (67-55). 

Northeastern, with one of its best teams 
in years, was riding a seven-game winning 
streak when the Huskies invaded Marvel 
Gym. With Greg Heath back in the lineup, 
the Bruins were a much stronger club but 
could only manage a 27-24 halftime lead 
against the scrappy visitors. 

Coach Stan Ward had the Bears switch 
from a zone to a tight man-to-man defense 
in the second half, and this move broke 
the game wide open. Northeastern could 
only score 10 points, six of them on foul 
shots, in the first 16 minutes of this half. 
Meanwhile the Bruins romped into a com- 
manding lead, paced by Heath, Capt. Mike 
Cingiser, and Gene Barth. Fran Ryan, the 
Huskies' 6-6 center, had 13 points in the 
first half but was held scoreless by Barth 
in the final 20 minutes. 

Visiting Princeton, where a Brown bas- 
ketball team has never won a game, the 
Bruins almost turned the trick before los- 
ing, 74-70. Brown actually led in the num- 
ber of field goals, 27-26, but the Tigers 
sank 22 of 29 tries from the foul line as 
against 16 of 25 for the Bears. Cingiser 
was high man with 18 points, followed by 
Heath with 12. 

The game against Penn the following 
night was close only during the first half, 
in which the lead changed hands eight 
times. It was 32-32 at intermission, but 
the Quakers outscored Brown, 16-4, over 
a five-minute stretch early in the second 
half to wrap it up. Cingiser (21), Heath 
(10), and Barth (10) were the top scorers 
for Brown, with Barth leading all rebound- 
ers with 16. 

The Bruins scored the first Ivy victory 
of the season in defeating Dartmouth, 71- 
52. Brown took command early and led at 
the half, 43-26. The Indians rallied and 
came within five, 51-46, with 10 minutes to 
go before Cingiser, Ted Gottfried, and 
Gary Nell hit on quick field goals to ease 
the pressure. Using a half-court press, the 
Bears held Dartmouth to six points over 
the final 10 minutes. 

Barth led the scorers with 14 points. 
Cingiser, who had at least a dozen assists, 
scored 12 points and moved past Lou 
Murgo and into second place among 
Brown's all-time scorers. His 12 gave him 



a Varsity career total of 1,149, two more 
than Murgo '54. The all-time record is 
1,319 set by Joe Tebo '58. 

Brown made it two Ivy victories in a 
row the next night, handling Harvard, 71- 
67. Cingiser had a fine night, scoring 28 
points on nine field goals and 10 foul 
shots. He scored 19 of his points in the 
first half, at the end of which the Bears 
led, 40-36. The Crimson tried to stop the 
Bruins in the second half with a zone, but 
Barth and Nell hit over it from the out- 
side. Following Cingiser in the point pro- 
duction parade came Barth (13) and 
Heath (11). 

Returning to Marvel Gym, Brown 
moved into fifth place in the Ivy standings 
with a convincing 87-57 decision over 
Columbia. The Bruins' 87 points repre- 
sented their high for the season. All the 
members of Captain Cingiser's cast had 
a hot hand in this one. Cingiser again 
paced the pack with 22, followed by Al 
Young (17), Barth (12), and Fran Dris- 
coll (10). 

Just as the Bruins were hot against Co- 
lumbia on Friday night, they were ice cold 
against Cornell the next evening. The Big 
Red caught Brown with its shooting sights 
down and won going away, 67-55. In con- 
trast to the 52% of their shots against the 
Lions, the Bruins could hit on only 22% 
against Cornell, 16 for 71. Cornell, fight- 
ing for the Ivy title, had a reputation for 
being a tough defensive club, but the 
Bruins were getting free for good shots 
— only to miss them. 

Barth had 16 points and Cingiser 14. 
The Bruin Captain thus brought his career 
total to 1,213, 106 below Tebo's total. At 
that point, he needed 106 points in five 
games, or a 21 -point game average, to 
overtake Tebo. 

Hockey Lost Its Punch 

Weakened by illness, injury, and in- 
eligibility, the hockey team had rough 
sledding through the middle part of the 
season, losing five of the seven games in 
this stretch. Both victories came against 
Ivy foes, Princeton (3-1) and Yale (3-2), 
while the losses were to Williams (7-2), 
Harvard (5-1), Cornell (7-2), Dartmouth 
(7-3), and Cornell (7-0). 

Early in the year, Brown had a high- 
scoring first line composed of Fred Avis, 
Bruce Mclntyre, and Dave Bartlett. After 
11 games, Avis and Mclntyre had 17 points 
each, while Bartlett was next with 13. 
However, one by one these men started 
to fall by the wayside. Avis suffered a 
shoulder separation in the Jan. 6 dedica- 
tion game with Princeton and was out for 
the year, Bartlett left college for the sec- 




GENE BARTH 

ond semester, and Mclntyre missed most 
of the February action due to mononucle- 
osis. 

With these men available, the Bruins 
could offer something of a scoring threat 
in each game. Without them, Coach Jim 
Fullerton's men have been hard pressed, 
especially against the Ivy opponents. The 
lack of a strong offensive line also put 
added pressure on the defense, which had 
been adequate earlier. 

Having defeated Princeton, 3-2, in Provi- 
dence, the Bruins twisted the Tiger's tail 
again on the road, 3-1. Bartlett broke the 
scoring ice at 14:22 of the second period 
on a 15-footer, but Princeton tied the 
score two minutes later on a rebound shot. 
The Bruins regained the lead in 80 seconds, 
Bob Olson lifting Jim Deveney's rebound 
into the nets. Mclntyre added an insurance 
goal at 14: 18 of the third period. 

Before a standing room crowd of 3,000, 
the largest in the short history of the 
Meehan Rink, the Bears scored two goals 
in 14 seconds to edge the Bulldogs, 3-2, 
in the closing minutes of a game that had 
the crowd in a continual uproar. 

Although Brown had a wide edge in the 
first-period play, Yale got a 1-0 jump after 
intercepting a bad Bear pass at center ice. 
The Elis made it 2-0 at 6:46 of the second 
period, but Ed Ennis made it 2-1 at 12:45 
as he fired home a five-footer after picking 
up a poor Yale clearance right in front of 
the cage. 

The Bruins continued to apply the pres- 
sure through the remainder of that period 
and kept up their pace throughout the 
finale, during which time Yale's goalie 
made 16 of his 35 saves. In the second 
minute of the last period. Brown hit both 
posts from point-blank range on consecu- 
tive shots, but the puck just wouldn't 
bounce right. Finally, with Yale short- 



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handed, Olson came right up the middle 
and drilled a wicked 20-footer at the cage. 
Goalie Scott Nelson made the save but 
sprawled flat on his face on the ice in the 
process. McLaughlin, stationed perfectly 
at the cage, lifted the puck over Nelson's 
head and into the cage. The time was 
18:39. 

Gil Goering got the puck after the face- 
off and fired a long shot at Nelson, who 
again cleared. But once more McLaughlin 
came up with the rebound and again he 
lifted it over Nelson's prostrate body and 
into the nets. The time was 18:53, only 
14 seconds after the tying goal. The 
crowd went completely wild, and a number 
of hats came sailing out on the ice, in- 
cluding one belonging to a gentleman 
named Keeney. Coach Fullerton returned 
it in the locker room. 

Pat Jones, returning to action at right 
wing after a year's battle with the books, 
figured prominently in the victory over 
Yale and in the games that followed. How- 
ever, he couldn't take up the slack caused 
by the loss of the front line. Before an- 
other standing room crowd, this one of 
2,600, Cornell exploded for five goals in 
the second period on its way to a 7-2 
triumph. Harvard, the top team in the area 
with a 13-4 record, scored in every period 
while winning, 5-1, against a Brown team 
that could only skate two lines. Deveney 
tallied twice and McLaughlin once in the 
7-3 loss to Dartmouth at Hanover. 

Despite his prolonged absence, Mclntyre 
led the scorers after 18 games. The Welles- 
ley Hills, Mass., Junior had 19 points. Mc- 
Laughlin, the first-line wing from New 
Rochelle, N. Y., moved into second place 
with 17 points. 

The high-scoring Freshman sextet swept 
through its first 12 games without a defeat. 



Another Winning Year 

After the first 1 1 meets, Coach Joe 
Watmough's swimmers had a 7-4 record 
and seemed assured of another winning 
season. Since the last report, the mermen 
had turned back Coast Guard Academy 
(60-35) and Holy Cross" (67-27) but lost 
to Yale at New Haven (60-35). 

The Bruins broke records in four events 
while defeating Coast Guard at the loser's 
pool. The 40-yard freestyle relay team of 
Tom McMuIlen, Dick Paul, Bob Martin, 
and Mike Prior turned in a time of 3:30.8, 
bettering both the New England Intercol- 
legiate Swimming Association short-course 
(20-yard pool) mark and the Coast Guard 
pool standard. Other record-breakers for 
the Bears, all of them bettering pool marks, 
were Martin with a time of 1:44.1 in the 
160 individual medley; Capt. John Morris, 
4:49.2 in the 440 freestyle, and the 400 
medley relay team of Bruce Rogers, Mar- 
tin, Walt Ingram, and McMuIlen with a 
clocking of 4:02.7. 

Back at Colgate Hoyt, Captain Morris 
broke both the pool and school records in 
the 220 freestyle as Brown easily handled 
Holy Cross. His time of 2:10.6 bettered 
the clocking of 2:11.5 which he hit earlier 
this season. On his way to the 220 mark, 



Morris also lowered the 13-year-old pool 
record for the 200 freestyle set by Kerry 
Donovan, former Yale great, while he was 
a high school student. Morris' time of 1:58 
was more than four seconds better than 
Donovan's clocking of 2:02.6. 

Besides Morris, other individual winners 
for Brown were Paul in the 50 freestyle, 
Ben Kilgore in the individual medley, Bill 
Alderman in the diving, Dave Laney in 
the 100-yard butterfly, Lew Feldstein in 
the 100 freestyle, Ralph Giasi in the 440 
freestyle, and Lonnie Goff in the 200 
breaststroke. Other first places came in the 
400 medley relay and in the 400 freestyle 
relay. 

The Bruins were in over their heads 
against Yale, although they did manage 
to take five events. Martin won both the 
200-yard backstroke and the 200 individual 
medley. His time in the latter event was 
2:13.3 and broke the old New England 
intercollegiate record of 2: 13.7 set by Pren- 
tis DeJesus of Brown last March. Paul was 
also a double winner, taking the 50 free- 
style in 24 seconds and the 100 freestyle 
in :53.2. Brown's other victory was turned 
in by Morris in the 440. 

The thin Freshman team continued to 
have its troubles, losing to Williston Acad- 
emy (61-33), Andover (80-15), and Yale 
(86-9). Its losing string was extended to 
eight. 

Successes on the Track 

The track team won two of its first 
three outings, defeating Boston College 
(52-48) and Columbia (54-50) in dual 
meets and finishing second to Yale and 
ahead of Penn in a triangular meet at New 
Haven (Yale 71 1 /2, Brown 33>/2, Penn 32). 

The two-mile relay unit was the toast of 
the indoor track season after its record- 
breaking performance at the Millrose 
Games at Madison Square Garden. Dave 
Rumsey, Bill Libby, John Jones, and Dave 
Farley, running in that order, were clocked 
in 7:41.7. The splits were Rumsey 1:54.5; 
Libby 1:54.6; Jones 1:56.1; and Farley 
1:56.5. 

Farley was about five yards behind the 
Princeton anchor man in second place after 
taking the baton, but the lanky Sophomore 
caught his opponent on the next-to-the-last 
lap and eventually broke the tape three 
yards ahead. Fordham, the favorite in the 
event, finished fourth behind Princeton and 
third-place Syracuse. The time of 7:41.7 
broke the old Brown mark of 7:49.9 set 
in February of 1959 by Vince MacDonald 
'60, Bill MacArdle '60, Gerry Huetz '61, 
and Phil Schuyler '61. 

The night following the Millrose Games, 
the same two-mile unit came through again 
to capture its event in the BAA Games in 
Boston. Farley passed the anchor man 
from Boston College in the fourth lap of 
the five lap leg to win by 10 yards. His 
effort enabled the Bruins to defeat B.C., 
Northeastern, Harvard, and LeMoyne in 
that order with a 7:45.6. The mile relay 
team, also anchored by Farley, easily tri- 
umphed over Bowdoin by about 50 yards 
in 3:27.5. His running mates were Rumsey, 



Dave Hatcher, and Tom Gunzelman. R.P.I. 
was third in the race and M.I.T. came in 
fourth. 

The two-mile relay was the last event 
on the program in the dual meet with 
Boston College at the Marvel Gym, and 
the Bruins were trailing B.C. by one point. 
With Jones sick, a makeshift foursome of 
Rumsey, Gumzelman, Hatcher, and Libby 
took the race in 7:58.7. With a fine effort, 
Libby came from 10 yards back in the last 
half-mile to win the race and, with it, the 
meet. Other winners for Brown were Rum- 
sey in the 600, Gunzelman in the 1,000, 
Joe Dyer in the shot put, and Roy Litzen 
in the high jump, and Fred Michel in the 
pole vault. 

The feature of the meet was a 4:13.1 
mile turned in by Larry Rawson of Boston 
College. He beat Brown's Farley by 15 
yards in racing to the fastest indoor mile 
ever run in Rhode Island. His time broke 
the State record set by the great Glenn 
Cunningham at the R.I. Auditorium on 
Feb. 15, 1938. It also bettered the Brown 
track record of 4:16.3 set by Farley last 
December. 

Captain Dyer paced the Bears in the 
victory over Columbia, winning both the 
35-pound weight and the shot put. He 
heaved the weight 57 feet, 4 inches and 
tossed the shot 45 feet, 10%. Other indi- 
vidual winners for the Bruins were Farley 
in the mile with a 4:31.5, Charlie Jackson 
in the pole vault at 11 feet, Jones in the 
two-mile with a time of 10:05.9, and Gun- 
zelman in the 1,000 with a 2:30.2. 

Brown had only three victories against 
Yale and the Bruins were shut out in four 
events. Rumsey won the 600 with a 1:15.2, 
Libby took the 1,000 in 2:15.5, and Cap- 
tain Dyer tossed the 35-pound weight 56 
feet, 7 inches, placing first ahead of fellow 
Bruin John Malone. But the team had 
enough to edge Penn. 

The promising Freshman track team was 
undefeated after two meets, handling Bos- 
ton College (62-37) and Andover (60-27). 
Mike Henderson set a new Cub record in 
the 600 against Boston College with a time 
of 1:14.5. Jeff Havener won the 50-yard 
dash in 5.5 seconds, which was an Ando- 
ver cage record. 

Still No Win on the Mat 

Coach Ralph Anderton's wrestlers tied 
Princeton (20-20) and lost to Yale (23-13) 
and Cornell (26-10) at the outset of the 
new term. This brought Brown's record to 
0-6-1 overall and 0-3-1 in the Ivy League. 

The Bruins had to come from behind to 
gain the tie with Princeton. With the Tigers 
leading, 20-15, after eight matches, the 
Bears needed a fall by Bill Wood in the 
unlimited division. The 210-pound Senior 
came through, pinning Princeton's Jim 
Rockenbach. Other winners for Brown 
were Jack Fish (123), Ken Linker (130), 
and Andy Boehm (137). Linker and 
Boehm registered falls. In the 199-pound 
class, Charlie Coe gained a draw. 

Fish, Linker, and Wood were Brown's 
only winners against Yale, though Capt. 
Bart Mosser gained a 1-1 draw in the 



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31 



147-pound class. Against the undefeated 
Cornell grapplers, the Bruins were again 
limited to points in three divisions. Linker 
gained a draw at 130, Coe won at 191, 
and Wood picked up five points on a 
forfeit when there was no one to oppose 
him in the unlimited class. 

Linker, a Sophomore from Philadelphia, 
was undefeated through the first seven 
meets. Last season, as a Cub, he was 5-1. 
He was Captain of the wrestling team at 
Springfield Township, Springfield, Pa. 



Sports Shorts 

For the third straight year, the track 
team will spend the spring vacation at 
the University of Miami getting ready for 
the outdoor season. Coach Ivan Fuqua and 
his men will fly to Miami on Friday, Mar. 
30. and compete against Miami the next 
afternoon at 2:30. The Bruins will face 
Miami and Furman in a triangular meet 
the following Wednesday evening and then 
wind up their stay by opposing Miami, 
Furman. and the University of Michigan 
on Saturday afternoon, Apr. 7. Coach 
Fuqua plans to work his men twice a day. 
morning and late afternoon. Since this trip 
is not included in the athletic budget, con- 
tributions are being accepted from inter- 



ested alumni. Checks, payable to Capt. Joe 
Dyer, should be mailed to the Marvel 
Gym, Elmgrove Ave., Providence. 

The Brown Rugby Club was scheduled 
to start practice March 1 under the direc- 
tion of President Dave Zucconi '55. By 
virtue of capturing the championship of 
Division 2 last spring, the Bruins have 
been moved up to Division 1 of the 21- 
team Eastern Rugby Union. With them in 
this circuit will be defending champion 
Dartmouth. Yale, Princeton, Amherst, and 
the New York Rugby Club. In seven-man 
competition in New York in February, the 
Brunonians suffered only one loss. 

Mike Prior, Bruin Junior, edged out his 
teammate. Senior Tom McMullen, in a 
thrilling finish and won the New England 
AAU senior men's 100-yard freestyle at 
Colgate Hoyt Pool in February. In the 
same meet. Sophomore Walt Ingram cap- 
tured the Junior men's 100 butterfly cham- 
pionship. 

John J. Kelly, Jr., fullback on the Cub 
football team last fall, was selected as 
Schoolboy Athlete of the Year in Rhode 
Island by Words Unlimited, association of 
sports writers and sports casters. Kelly 
attended Deering High in West Warwick, 
where he was an All-State performer in 
both football and baseball. He was also 
named Providence Journal Honor Roll Boy 
for 1961. 




Jabberwocks to Florida 

The 15th season of The Jabberwocks 
will feature a tour of Florida during the 
spring vacation when alumni in several 
communities will be able to hear this, the 
first of the Brown singing octets. Manager 
Finn Casperson announces the following 
bookings for the holiday tour: Apr. 2 and 
3 — The Ponte Vedra Hotel, Ponte Vedra 
Beach. Apr. 4 — Fort Lauderdale Kiwanis 
Club. Apr. 5 — The Castaways, Miami 
Beach. Apr. 6 — The Ivy League Ball, Sara- 
sota. Apr. 7 — The Landmark, Sarasota. 

The Jabberwocks over recent years have 
made several tours of the Caribbean, per- 
formed at Carnegie Hall, and produced 



four LP records for Decca. This year's 
appearances have included those before 
alumni groups, conventions, TV, at all the 
leading songfests, and at numerous colleges 
in the East. The group, founded in 1947 
and recruited anew with each Brown gen- 
eration, is an independent student organiza- 
tion, run solely for the benefit of its mem- 
bers, without University support. 

The Jabberwock repertory ranges from 
the strict barbershop, through show tunes, 
calypso, rock 'n' roll parodies, to modern. 
John Simpson is the leader, while others 
are: Jack Jarett, John Banning, Dave 
Gockley, Jay de Sibour, Lee Hanson, and 
John Gardner. (Peter Jardine will not 
make the Florida trip.) 



The coaches of the seven other teams 
entered in Brown's Christmas Invitational 
Hockey Tournament were so enthusiastic 
about the facilities at Meehan Auditorium 
that they offered to come back again next 
winter for the event. A decision on whether 
or not Brown will play host again in De- 
cember is expected to be made by the 
Athletic Council this spring. 

A major change in the football rules for 
next fall will allow the punting team to 
down a kick within their opponents' 10- 
yard line. Formerly, if a member of the 
kicking team touched the ball within that 
area it was a touchback and the ball was 
brought out to the 20-yard line. In making 
the change, the colleges are actually going 
back to a rule they had on the books 
through the 1940 season. 

Coach John McLaughry approves of the 
new rule, feeling that it is fairer to the 
punter. "Also, the spectators always en- 
joyed seeing a fast end race down field to 
try and cover a punt before it bounded into 
the end zone," McLaughry observed. "This 
was one of college football's most exciting 
plays and the spectators should welcome 
its return." 

Al Kelley, football coach on the Hill 
from 1951 through 1958 and since that 
time at Colgate, resigned in February to 
become an industrial engineer with a Buf- 
falo acoustical firm. Kelley had a 31-39-2 
record with the Bruins and a 9-18 mark at 
Hamilton. 

New football tactics like the split punt 
formation have brought a marked reduc- 
tion in the punt return. Final figures on 
the 1961 season illustrate the trend, for 
Lance Alworth of Arkansas led the nation 
with a total of 336 yards. Twenty years 
ago, Bob Margarita '44 set Brown's all- 
time record in punt returns with 549 yards, 
but he was only 11th in the country for 
the season of 1941. 

Research shows that Brown's three other 
leading punt returners down through the 
years are William E. Sprackling '12, Fritz 
Pollard 19, and Jack Keefer '25. The 
newspaper play-by-plays of the major 
games give an idea of their ability in this 
area, although exact statistics are not avail- 
able due to lack of coverage of minor 
games. 

St. Louis Picks Levis 

Officers of the Brown University Club 
of St. Louis were elected at its annual 
meeting at the Racquet Club in December. 
Edwin Levis. Jr., '50 will be President for 
1962, with the following named to serve 
with him: Vice-President — Kenneth L. 
Green, III, '53: Secretary — Roland C. Baer. 
Jr., '50; Treasurer — Clarence C. Barksdale 
'54. 

The Executive Committee will also in- 
clude: Chapin S. Newhard '22, Minot P. 
Fryer '36, Joel A. Rogers '31. George N. 
Diederich '52, and Harry W. Newhard '53. 
The School and Scholarship Committee is 
headed by Harry L. Franc. Ill, '58. 

The new Secretary's address is 20 Pic- 
ardy Lane. Clayton 24, Mo. (He is with 
the Union Electric Co. at 315 North 12th 
Blvd., St. Louis 1.) 



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Under the Elms of Brown 



A tradition more than a century old 
will be passed up by the Class of 
1962 when it is graduated in June. The 
Commencement Committee of the Univer- 
sity announced in February that Class Day 
exercises "Under the Elms" would be 
dropped from the program this year. The 
Committee acted with the approval of Dr. 
Keeney after members of the Senior Class 
had been polled on their wishes. 

According to Howard S. Curtis. Secre- 
tary of the University and Chairman of 
the Commencement Committee, the deci- 
sion to eliminate the "Under the Elms" 
program was prompted by dwindling at- 
tendance by Seniors in recent years. He 
said a count had shown only a quarter of 
the Class attended the exercises of the last 
three years. Polled early in February, 219 
Seniors responded — about 40% of the 
Class; of those who voted, 120 favored 
continuing the event and 99 opposed. 

Brown and four hospitals in the Rhode 
Island area are taking part in a national 
blood-sampling of expectant mothers to 
determine how large a role virus infections 
play in mental retardation. Blood samples 
taken at the local hospitals will be col- 
lected at Brown and shipped to the Na- 
tional Institute of Neurological Diseases 
and Blindness and the National Institute 
of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. 

The public health agencies will test the 
blood samples for signs of nearly 100 
viruses, ranging in severity from the com- 
mon cold to those which cause paralysis 
and death. The program is expected to go 
on for at least 10 years, with 15 medical 
centers throughout the country taking part. 

The University's planned medical pro- 
gram would stand to benefit from the 
passage of a Federal bill to provide con- 
struction grants for such projects. The bill 
would allot $45,000,000 annually in grants 
for 10 years to assist in the construction 
of schools for training doctors and public 
health officers. The grants would not ex- 
ceed half the cost of the projects. 

Representative Fernand J. St. Germain 
of Rhode Island recently wrote to Repre- 
sentative Oren Harris, a House Commit- 
tee chairman, urging passage of the bill. 
"With such assistance, plus the dedication 
and hard work of its Faculty and students, 
I feel certain that Brown University will 
soon have one of the finest schools of basic 
medicine in the nation," St. Germain said. 

An experimental psychologist from 
the University of California is the first par- 
ticipant in a new post-doctoral training 
program initiated last fall at the Psy- 
chology Department on the Hill. He 
is Dr. James P. Thomas, who has studied 
at Stanford and the University of Califor- 
nia at Berkeley. He was chosen by Brown's 
Dr. Lorrin A. Riggs. who set up the pro- 
gram with the aid of an $8,869 grant for 



On the Mountain Tops 

"Perhaps the most surprising 
thing, to those who were engaged in 
academic administration in the 
1950's, would be our splendid dis- 
covery that, as new institutions grow 
in strength, old ones are not weak- 
ened. Yale and Princeton have not 
vanished from the mountain tops as 
Washington, Vanderbilt. and Brown 
have joined them there." 

— McGeorge Bundy, writing 
in the January Harper's. 



this year from the ophthalmological post 
graduate training committee of the Na- 
tional Institute of Neurological Diseases 
and Blindness. Dr. Thomas is doing basic 
research in the field of visual psychophysi- 
ology, which is concerned with the sense 
of sight and how it works. 

The post-doctoral training program is 
designed to allow scholars who have re- 
ceived their Ph.D. degree to proceed with 
top-level research uninhibited by the ne- 
cessity to teach, to fulfill formal degree re- 
quirements, or to perform administrative 
tasks. The program also allows promising 
young scholars the chance to work closely 
with persons who have outstanding repu- 
tations in their speciality, like Professor 
Riggs, who is well-known for his work 
with vision. 

Admiral Edward R. Durgin, Dean of 
Students, told members of the Providence 
Rotary Club in February that the critical 
point in a marriage is when the husband 
carries his wife over the threshold — and 
she puts her foot down. "Any man who 
says he is the boss at home shouldn't be 
trusted because he is apt to lie about other 
things," Dean Durgin cautioned. 

The Month's Grants 

An initial grant of $50,000 has been 
received from the Ford Foundation to be 
used during the next two years in the form 
of conditionally forgivable loans to pre- 
doctoral engineering students. Administra- 
tion of the program will be under the 
direction of Prof. Paul S. Symonds. Chair- 
man of the Division of Engineering. 

In the Foundation's words, the program 
"aims to introduce into engineering faculty 
careers certain people who wish to prepare 
for them, are well qualified by intellect 
and aptitude to do so, but who ordinarily 
could not afford to enter doctoral study. 
or to complete it fast enough, or to com- 
plete it at all." Students may receive loans 
for as long as three years and up to a 
maximum total of $10,000. Brown is one 
of 42 institutions of higher learning to 
benefit from the program. 



A $63,000 three-year grant under which 
Brown will seek to "help the Junior high 
schools in Rhode Island identify and en- 
courage talented students to plan for a 
college education" has been announced by 
the Carnegie Corporation. Other colleges 
and universities in Rhode Island will be 
invited to cooperate with Brown in this 
project. Dr. Keeney says that the project 
was an outgrowth of the six-week experi- 
mental session the University held last 
summer, with Carnegie support, for aca- 
demically able but under-achieving junior 
high school boys. A similar session is 
planned for this summer. 

Grants totalling $10,700 for scientific 
developments have been awarded to Brown 
by E. I. duPont de Nemours & Co., as 
part of the firm's annual program of aid 
to education. The University received 
$5,000 for fundamental research in chem- 
istry, $4,000 to strengthen the teaching of 
chemistry and "related subjects," and 
$1,700 to support a postgraduate teaching 
assistant in chemistry. 

The University also has received an ini- 
tial grant of $28,350 from the National 
Science Foundation under a new program 
designed to encourage research and inde- 
pendent study by superior undergraduate 
students in the sciences and engineering. 
The grant money to Brown is divided 
among four Departments in the following 
amounts: Psychology, $11,685; Chemistry, 
$10,430; Physics, $3,625, and Geology, 
$2,610. Most of the money will be used 
for stipends to help support selected under- 
graduates who undertake full-time research 
and study for at least eight weeks during 
the coming summer. 

The Brown Debating Union placed 10th 
among 60 college teams at the Winter 
Carnival Debate Tournament at McGill 
University Feb. 17-18. Representing Brown 
were Steven Comen '63 and Charlotte 
Cook, a Pembroke Sophomore. A spread 
of only 10 points separated the top 10 
teams. The Brown team was one of three 
chosen to participate with Canadian teams 
in a debate televised nationally in Canada. 
The tournament resolution was that "The 
Western Alliance must pursue a policy of 
strength and firmness rather than compro- 
mise against the forces of world commu- 
nism." 

For the third summer, a Science Pro- 
gram for Academically Able Secondary 
School Students will be held on the Cam- 
pus from June 25 to Aug. 3. The Univer- 
sity will select 60 outstanding high school 
students from all sections of the country 
who have completed their junior year in 
high school with exceptional ability and 
scholastic achievement in science and 
math. Courses in biology, engineering, 
mathematics, and physics will be offered 
by members of the Brown Faculty or visit- 
ing instructors. 

Hugo O. E. Carlborg, 69, the man who 
modeled the Brown University mace, died 
in February. He had been a sculptor in 
the bronze and silverware departments of 
Gorham Manufacturing Co. since 1916. 



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33 



Brunonians Far and Near 



EDITED BY JAY BARRY '50 



1893 

Rhode Island College is paying Dr. 
i Robert M. Brown a high compliment 
by naming for him a series of lectures to 
be delivered there in March. The general 
title is "Changing Concepts of Man in a 
Scientific Society." The first Robert Mar- 
shall Brown Lecturer will be Dr. Henry 
Margenau of Yale, who was a participant 
in the 1959 Convocation at Brown. Dr. 
Brown was a member of the Rhode Island 
College Faculty for 27 years, as Professor 
of Geography, and its Acting President in 
1939-40. The College conferred an hon- 
orary Ed.D. degree in 1944. 

Author of numerous books and articles, 
Dr. Brown has been a member of the 
American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science since 1899, became a Fel- 
low in 1911, and is now an honorary 
member. Elected to the select Association 
of American Geographers in 1908, he later 
became a Vice-President and (in 1950) 
one of its honorary members. Fifty years 
ago, Dr. Brown helped to organize the Na- 
tional Council of Geography Teachers, of 
which he was President in 1933. He is also 
a member of the International Geographic 
Union, IGU, or UGI (Union Geographique 
Internationale), and he is listed in the re- 
cent Directory of World Geographers. 

In addition to teaching economics, geol- 
ogy, and geography at Rhode Island Col- 
lege of Education (predecessor to Rhode 
Island College), he taught several years at 
Rhode Island State College (now URI) 
and lectured at Cornell and the University 
of North Carolina. A Providence resident, 
he has long been active as '93's Class 
Secretary. 



1902 
Through Dr. Harold G. Calder, Secre- 
tary, the Class extends its sympathy to Ev- 
erett Horton, who recently lost his wife. 
He still is living at 103 Whitmarsh St., 
Providence. 

1904 
Charles W. Hunt Fellowships were es- 
tablished at Teachers College, Columbia 
University, this year. The naming was rec- 
ommended by the Alumni Fund Commit- 
tee of the college "in recognition of its 
10th anniversary and to honor its founding 
chairman." The chairman spoke of "the 
admiration and esteem felt for him by 
Teachers College people all over the world." 
And the TC News Bulletin had a further 
tribute: "Dr. Charles W. Hunt represents 
the tradition of great teachers who have 
inspired students through the decades. As 
a leader in advancing the education of 
teachers, and as an organizer of the 
Alumni Fund, he has demonstrated his de- 
votion to the basic values for which Teach- 
ers College was founded." The President 



Emeritus of Oneota State Teachers College 
is living in Oneonta, N. Y. 

1905 

George Bullock reports that he is still 
on the job every day with E. A. Shaw & 
Co., "and would probably feel lost if I 
tried to retire." The Boston firm deals in 
raw cottons. Bullock has a granddaughter 
who is a Junior at Connecticut College for 
Women and another who is a Junior at 
Chatham College. 

1906 

Charles S. Shinn wrote in late January 
that he was recovering from two strokes 
(thrombosis) which had hospitalized him 
in December and expected to be out of the 
convalescent home the first week in Feb- 
ruary. This, then, should find him back at 
108 Morlyn Ave., Bryn Mawr, Pa. He 
sends best wishes "to all the 1906 boys," 
and especially the Class Officers. 

1907 

Walter C. Slade is again at Sea Grape 
Apartment Hotel, 3400 Gulfmead Dr., 
Sarasota, Fla., living in a cottage adjacent 
to the main hotel. 

"Retirement to Big Business" was the 
title of a feature story in the November 
issue of Connecticut Industry telling how 
Dr. Vernon K. Krieble is developing Amer- 
ican Sealants Co. and his now world- 
known product Loctite, "the liquid lock 
for metal parts." "His is one of the busiest 
retirements on record," says the story. And 
our classmate admits that the work "keeps 
me hopping and happy." Among the pic- 
tures illustrating the story are two showing 
Krieble really at work. 

Carl Crummett's holiday letter lived up 
to its heading: "Food has been fun for the 
Tumbleweed Crummetts." For one reader 
at least the letter is a collector's item. At 
the end the Crummetts say: "You, too, 
surely have had some outstanding food ad- 
ventures which we would relish. Won't you 
jot them down, or let us share them with 
you? Or, better still, when you are near 
by, ring our doorbell." One recipe we 
know — beef stew Burgundy — is already on 
its way to the Crummetts at 238 Cross- 
winds Trailer Court, 4125 Park St., North, 
St. Petersburg 9, Fla. 

Arch C. (Cal) Lewis, retired as Sales 
Manager of Catawissa Valve & Fittings 
Co., is living at 309 Light Street Rd., 
Bloomsburg, Pa. 

President Clark, Bill Burnham, and 
A. H. Gurney sat together at several ses- 
sions of the annual meeting of the Alumni 
Advisory Council on the hill in February, 
and at lunch talked about the 55th Reun- 
ion, with Gurney delegated to look into 
prospects for a quiet Campus setting for 
the gathering next June. 

Your Secretary has been re-elected as 
Moderator of The Charitable Baptist So- 



ciety, the incorporated body of the First 
Baptist Church. 

A. H. GURNEY 

1908 
John G. Canfield of Winter Park, Fla., 
President of the American Liberty Foun- 
dation, is campaigning against fluoridation 
of water. In a January press release he 
charged that over 1600 cities in America 
have adopted fluoridation of their water 
supplies without their citizens approving 
the action by vote. 

1909 
Dinks Dodge has been elected President 
of the Providence Charitable Fuel Society. 
John Wells and Bill Buffum had their 
picture in the paper recently when Bill re- 
tired as President of the Providence League 
for the Hard of Hearing and passed the 
job along to John. 

Don and Mrs. Stone abandoned then- 
proposed trip to Europe for another winter 
stay at 8011 Abbott Ave., Miami Beach 
41, with side trips to Nassau and Jamaica. 

1910 

Charles A. Post, who has served as 
President of the Citizens Savings Bank of 
Providence for the past 28 years, has been 
elected to the newly created position of 
Chairman of the Board of Trustees. Char- 
lie is also Board Chairman of Citizens 
Trust Co.. and under his leadership the 
two banks have grown from 22 million in 
combined assets to more than 128 million. 
He has guided the expansion of the banks 
into a system of 1 1 banking offices, with a 
12th to be added this year. 

Harold E. Henrikson reported at the 
year's end: "My wife and I finally have a 
little business going, making wreaths, trees 
and decorations from cones and pods. We 
get them from Virginia City to the Coast. 
One of our trees took over 1,000 cones 
and was used at a club in Reno, where it 
was on TV." 

Edward and Marion Shaeffer sent an in- 
teresting greeting for the New Year — a 
card built up by miniature photographs of 
their growing grandchildren, along with 
comments on their year's wanderings about 
the West. 

Leon F. Clark has been taking it easy 
for several years, spending the winters in 
Miami. Classmates down that way should 
look Horse up at the Hotel Garlyson. 

Harold D. L'Amoureux has been con- 
fined to the Hahnemann Hospital, Brigh- 
ton, Mass., due to partial paralysis. The 
best wishes of the Class go his way. 

Robert L. Munson reports being "all 
sewed up with carpenters, plumbers, elec- 
tricians, and heating men" while having 
an addition put on the house. "The addi- 
tion was no real problem," he writes. "But, 
oh, those other entangling circumstances 
that go with work of this sort these days." 
Bob is spending the winter in Tarpon 
Springs, Fla. 

Roland E. Hutchins and Hattie joined 
the ranks of the 50-Year wedded group on 
Dec. 27. Their son and daughter-in-law 
entertained with a few intimate friends at 
the local Country Club in Terre Haute. 

William B. Freeman has been in and 



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out of the hospital since our last report. 
He is now back in good shape and, for 
good measure, celebrated with Hope their 
50th Wedding Anniversary quietly at home, 
William C. Oakes has made his annual 
trek to California from Franklinville, N. Y. 
Picking up a son and daughter at Hunting- 
ton, L. I., Bill and his party visited an- 
other son at Pittsburgh before moving on 
to see "Hutch" for a few hours at Terre 
Haute. 

ED SPICER 

1911 

The Chaplin Memorial Library at Nor- 
wich University was completely renovated 
in 1952 through the interest and generosity 
of Henry Prescott Chaplin, a Norwich 
Trustee, the James Foundation, and other 
friends of Norwich. A large addition, built 
in 1960-61, ensured adequate library facili- 
ties in the future for an increased Corps of 
Cadets. The new wing was dedicated at the 
last Commencement; it doubles the size of 
the Library. Trustee Chaplin gave the ded- 
ication address, which has appeared in the 
Norwich Record, along with his photo. 

Dr. Edward B. Allen, who is retired 
after a distinguished career as a psychi- 
atrist in New York City, reports that his 
time is now occupied as Secretary of the 
American Geriatrics Society with an office 
in New York City. As becomes his age 
and prestige, he has an Executive Director 
to do the routine work while he supervises, 
offers suggestions, and assists in publicity. 
He is also Vice-President of the New York 
Psychiatric Society in White Plains and is 
on the Advisory Council of the Adult Ed- 
ucation School. 

1912 

Gerald Donovan, senior partner in the 
legal firm of Sullivan, Donovan, Hanra- 
han, McGovern & Lane in New York City, 
has been elected President of the Law 
Alumni Association of New York Univer- 
sity. Since 1932 he has been an attorney 
for the New York Society for the Preven- 
tion of Cruelty to Children. In New Ro- 
chelle, on the other hand, he's a Director 
and Past President of the Home for the 
Aged. 

Alfred S. Cloues of Warner, N. H., has 
been elected Vice-President of the 95-year- 
old Merrimack County Savings Bank in 
Concord. A Trustee of the bank since 
1943, he is also State Treasurer. 

Wiley Marble complained of some eye 
trouble after returning from his three- 
week holiday trip to the Southwest. Dur- 
ing his sojourn, Wiley drove nearly 5,500 
miles, and his eye doctor back in Provi- 
dence, Joseph L. Dowling, Jr., '47, re- 
lieved his anxiety by informing him that 
it was nothing but a bit of eye strain. 

Max L. Grant has been named Honorary 
Co-Chairman of Miriam Hospital's drive 
for a $5,000,000 building fund. Max was 
the first President of the hospital. 

1914 
The Rev. Laurence C. T. Miller, who 
recently retired as Associate Director of 
the Department of United Promotion of 
the Evangelical and Reformed Church, 
Philadelphia, was honored in January at 



a luncheon in the Robert Morris Hotel. A 
staff member of the Department for 25 
years, Dr. Miller served his denomination 
in pastorates and staff positions since 1917. 
Before joining the national staff of the 
Church, he was Pastor of Christ Church, 
Elizabethtown, Pa., for 21 years. 

1915 
George E. C. Hayes, attorney, has been 
elected to the Board of Directors of Indus- 
trial Bank, Washington, D. C, which he 
has served as counsel for many years. He 
was Chairman of the District Public Utili- 
ties Commission from 1955 to 1961 and a 
member of the District Board of Educa- 
tion from 1944 to 1949. He is General 
Counsel for Howard University and a 
member of its Board of Trustees. He is 
Adjunct Professor at Howard, having been 
Assistant Professor of Law for more than 
26 years. He is a member of the Washing- 
ton law firm of Cobb, Howard, Hayes & 
Windsor. Other community activities are 
reflected in the following: Director of the 
National Capital Housing Authority, Trus- 
tee of Boy Scouts, and member of Selec- 
tive Service Board No. 3 and the Board of 



Appeals for Selective Service. Industrial 
Bank, incidentally, ranks as the largest 
bank in the country entirely owned and 
operated by Negroes, with record assets of 
more than 10 millions. 

1917 

The Reunion Committee reports that 
Poland House will be 1917 headquarters 
during the Commencement season, June 
1-4. This is in the West Quadrangle and 
should be fine for our purposes. 

Repeating a note on Dale Wylie, which 
was misplaced under 1914 in the January 
issue: He has taken a one-year leave of 
absence from Iron Fireman and has been 
spending his time in Europe since Septem- 
ber. After visiting Portugal, Spain, and 
Italy, he settled down in Versailles, just 
outside of Paris. 

1918 

The Rev. Earl H. Tomlin, D.D., retired 
Executive Director of the Rhode Island 
State Council of Churches, has been elected 
Moderator of the First Baptist Church in 
Providence. 

The Alumni Office has learned of the 
death of Walter Raymond McGinn in West 



A Stamp Will Honor Hughes 




Charles Evans Hughes '81 will be hon- 
ored on the centennial of his birth, 
Apr. 11. 1962, in the issuing of a com- 
memorative postage stamp that day in 
Washington, D. C. The 4-cent stamp fea- 
tures the likeness of the late Chief Justice, 
after a photo by Harris & Ewing. A total 
of 115 million has been ordered, printed 
in black on a buff-colored paper, to be 
issued in panes of 50. The stamp will 
measure 0.84 inches by 1.44 inches, ar- 
ranged vertically and electric-eye perfo- 
rated. 

Collectors who desire first-day cancella- 
tions may send addressed envelopes, to- 
gether with remittance to cover the cost 
of the stamps to be affixed, to the Post- 
master, Washington 13. D. C. Each en- 
velope must be marked, in pencil, in the 



upper right corner, indicating the number 
of stamps to be affixed (singles, pairs, 
blocks, etc.). An enclosure of medium 
weight should be placed in each envelope, 
and the flap should either be sealed or 
turned in. The outside envelope to the 
Postmaster should be clearly marked 
"First-Day Covers Hughes Stamp." Such 
requests for first-day covers must be post- 
marked not later than Apr. 6. 

Postmaster General J. Edward Day un- 
veiled the Hughes stamp design in Febru- 
ary on the eve of the banquet of the Chi- 
cago Bar Association. Present was William 
T. Gossett, Vice-President and General 
Counsel of the Ford Motor Company; he 
is the son-in-law of the late Chief Justice. 

Hughes was a member of the Corpora- 
tion of Brown University for 45 years, a 
Trustee from 1903 to 1910 and a Fellow 
from 1910 until his death in 1948. He was 
the second recipient of the University's 
highest honor, the Susan Colver Rosen- 
berger Medal, in 1928. He was Honorary 
Chairman of Brown Housing and Develop- 
ment Drive in 1946, when he was the 
senior Fellow. 

Hughes was Governor of the State of 
New York from 1906 to 1910, Associate 
Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court from 
1910 to 1916. As candidate for the Presi- 
dency in 1916, he lost the election by 23 
electoral votes. He became Secretary of 
State in 1921, under President Harding, 
with the Washington Disarmament Con- 
ference one of his major achievements. A 
member of the Permanent Court of Arbi- 
tration at The Hague and Judge on the 
Permanent Court of International Justice, 
he resigned these posts in 1930 when 
President Hoover named him Chief Justice 
of the United States; he served until 1941. 



MARCH 1962 



35 




JOHN F. CREAMER '20: Trinity College in Wash- 
ington has named the automotive transport ex- 
pert as a Lay Trustee. (Moffett photo) 



Roxbury, Mass., on Nov. 1. 1945. During 
World War 1 he served as a Sergeant in 
the USA Ambulance Service. He received 
a law degree from Harvard in 1934 and 
at one time was employed as Legal Aid 
for the Veterans Charitable Legal Asso- 
ciation in Boston. 

1919 

William H. Edwards, Providence attor- 
ney, heads a State commission on revision 
of R. I. constitution. Adopted in 1842 and 
amended 35 times, the constitution was 
last amended in 1958. Bill has also been 
named Vice-Chairman of the Citizens 
United for a Fair Housing Law. 

Joseph Cohen has been reelected a 
member of the Executive Committee of 
the Northern New England Chapter, Insti- 
tute of Scrap Iron & Steel. Joe is with 
General Scrap Iron, Inc., of East Provi- 
dence. 

Roger T. Clapp was elected Senior 
Warden of St. Martin's Church in Provi- 
dence. He succeeds Robert H. Goff '24. 

1920 
John F. Creamer has been elected to the 
Board of Lay Trustees of Trinity College, 
Washington, D. C. He is Chairman of the 
Board of Wheels, Inc., an automotive serv- 
ice parts distributing organization in New 
York. During World War II he was Dep- 
uty Director of Motor Transport Services 
in Washington. He is a member of the Ad- 
visory Committee of the Chase Manhat- 
tan Bank, a Director of the General Tire 
and Rubber Co. of Akron, and a Trustee 
of the Automotive Safety Foundation, 
Washington. 

Creamer is Vice-Chairman of the Coop- 
erative Education Commission of New 
York City's Board of Education and a 
member of its Advisory Board for Voca- 
tional and Extension Education. He is also a 
Director of the Greater New York Safety 
Council and a Trustee of the American 
Museum of Safety in New York; he was 



formerly Chairman of the Society of Au- 
tomotive Engineers for the New York 
Metropolitan Section. 

Walter Hoving was one of the featured 
speakers at the 14th annual University 
Women's Forum held Feb. 3 at the Wal- 
dorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. The 
President of Bonwit Teller and Chairman 
of the Board of Tiffany & Co., spoke on 
"Excellence in Modern Business and So- 
ciety." 

John W. Albright has a reminder of his 
Pennsylvania homeland in his address in 
Bradenton, Fla. It's 401 Bryn Mawr Is- 
land. Bayshore Gardens. 

1921 

Ralph D. Standish is with Banco Credito 
y Ahorro Ponceno in San Juan, Puerto 
Rico. He came to know San Juan when he 
was with the National City Bank there in 
the '40s. His experience in international 
banking has also included tours in Kobe, 
Calcutta, Singapore, Rangoon, Peking, 
Osaka. Manila, and .leddah. Saudi Arabia. 
His San Juan address is P.O. Box 1288. 

Dr. W. J. Nairn has retired from the 
practice of osteopathy in New Hampshire 
and bought a house at 621 Stremma Rd., 
Largo, Fla. He likes the life there and is 
attending "Fishing School" at the Rod and 
Gun Club in St. Petersburg. Dr. Nairn 
had been an administrative officer at New 
England College, notably with responsibil- 
ity in admissions. 

O. G. H. Oden was in charge of the 
1962 membership drive of the Downtown 
YMCA in Providence, which sought 1100 
members and involved 150 solicitors. 

1922 

An energetic committee is actively pre- 
paring plans for our big 40th Reunion in 
June. Joe Riker is Chairman, aided by the 
following specialists in reunion organiza- 




NATHANIEL B. CHASE '23, former Chairman of 

the Association of Class Secretaries, was back 

in the ranks at its recent annual meeting. 



tion: Sayles Gorham, Jack Mitchell, Leo 
Rosen, Henry Ise, Jack O'Neill, Bill Pren- 
tiss, Ike Farrell, Ed Day, Windy Gale, Art 
Mereweather, Clark Forstall, Jack Quinn, 
Jack Harvie. Bill Greene, Bill Lester, Stu 
Tucker, Ed Haskell, and Howard Kenyon. 

Johnny Dick is in charge of Research 
and Development for the Pond Lily Co., 
New Haven. His daughter, Jane, a gradu- 
ate of Newton College, is a research assist- 
ant at Yale Medical School. John, Jr., is 
expected to return soon after two and a 
half years with the Army Security Service 
in Tokyo. 

Clarence and Mrs. Gray are enjoying 
Florida at 370 Mehlenbacker Rd., Clear- 
water. "We especially enjoy the swimming, 
fishing, boating and visits from friends," 
they report. There are more than 60 
Brown alumni in that area of the Gulf 
Coast, and the group has a grand get-to- 
gether at least once a year. His son Rich- 
ard '58 is stationed at Westover AFB, 
Mass., while David, Yale '51 and Yale 
Divinity '54, is an Episcopal Minister. 

Sedg Ryno recently saw Eb Morse '23 
in Naples, Fla., according to a recent let- 
ter. Sedg retired several years ago from 
The Fair, large Chicago store, and he and 
Gladys have been living at 1035 Green- 
way. Dunedin, Fla. 

Dick Morrissey sends greetings, along 
with the news that he had a brief but 
pleasant visit with Art Mereweather in 
Stockton, Calif., last fall. 

Heber and "Pete" Webb are in good 
health and "enjoying the grandchildren." 
Pete had a recent bout with surgery but is 
feeling much better. Heber continues as 
Safety Director for Monowatt, division of 
GE, and lives at 103 Manor Drive, War- 
wick, R. I. 

Jack Quinn has been busy in recent 
years backing and supporting his five chil- 
dren to completion of their college careers. 
Four are now married, while the fifth is 
beginning to get serious about that situa- 
tion. 

George F. Allen can be reached at Box 
246, Altamonte Springs, Fla. 

Col. Augustus J. Regnier, retired from 
the Army, is living in Oakland, Calif., 
where he has some trustee responsibilities. 

Brad Oxnard advanced to the semi-finals 
of the American Seniors Golf Champion- 
ship at Bellair, Fla., in January before 
bowing. 1 up. to Clyde Haynie of Largo, 
Fla. 

Robert V. Jones has retired after 37 
years with Foster Wheeler Corp., New 
York City. "Among other things, we are 
'nursing' 30 cows at our Vermont farm in 
Arlington. However, I'm still keeping my 
hand in there as a part-time engineering 
consultant," he says. 

George Lapp has been elected Vice- 
President of Roger Williams Savings and 
Loan Association, Providence. He had 
been an Assistant Vice-President, heading 
the Mortgage Department of the home of- 
fice in Providence. Prior to that, he had 
been Manager of the Pawtucket office. 

Your correspondent is back again in tex- 
tiles as Lab Director for the Lee Dyeing 
Co., Johnstown, N. Y., a firm which com- 
prises five dyeing and finishing plants in 



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the U.S. and Canada. This move followed 
an interesting connection of six years with 
the industrial redevelopment operation of 
L. Grossman Sons, Inc., Quincy, Mass. 
Our home continues at 20 Grant Ave., 
Amsterdam, N. Y., to which members of 
the Class are urged to forward any inter- 
esting tales, tidbits, anecdotes, or infor- 
mation concerning other members of the 
Class. 

CLARK FORSTALL 

1923 

Mr. and Mrs. Harold H. Young have 
moved to Charlottesville, Va., and moved 
into a house they built in the Ednam For- 
est area. Harold gave up his general part- 
nership in Eastman Dillon, Union Securi- 
ties & Co. in New York two years ago and 
became a limited partner. He continues to 
work for it on an advisory and consulting 
basis. In Charlottesville (where his address 
is Box 3756, University Station) the Grad- 
uate Business School people at the Univer- 
sity of Virginia caught up with him, and 
one of his projects is the writing of a 
monograph based on his 35 years in the 
field of public utility finance. He has been 
one of the nation's leading authorities in 
this specialty. 

The Youngs' arrival gives Mr. and Mrs. 
Stephen A. McClellan 1923 company in 
the Charlottesville area. More and more 
of the activities of Specialties, Inc., have 
been moved from Long Island, N. Y., to 
the Virginia headquarters. Happy Valley 
Farm in Earlysville, Va., is the McClel- 
lans' home. 

T. G. Simmons was one of the prize- 
winners in the Sarasota Art Association 
Sculpture Show which opened in lanuary. 
His was one of four entries cited for awards 
from the 39 exhibited, most of them by art- 
ists in the Sarasota area. A newspaper critic 
wrote: "Honorable mention was won by 
T. G. Simmons for 'Guinevere,' a wood 
sculpture that utilizes flowing lines and 
contrasts of wood colors and textures." 
Our informant, John W. Albright '20, 
notes that Pete is a Director of the Ivy 
League Club of Sarasota, whose meetings 
both attend regularly. 

Walter and Mary Waldau took a fort- 
night's holiday in Nassau in January. They 
plan to be in Providence for Commence- 
ment, of course, for this is the year of Bill 
Waldau's graduation. 

Arthur Braitsch has been elected for a 
three-year term as vestryman of All Saints 
Church, Providence. 

John O'Neil, after 26 years as a North 
Providence resident, has bought a 102- 
year-old house in Narragansett and moved 
in early February. The new address: South- 
west Wind Acres, Old Point Judith Rd., 
Narragansett, R. I. He commutes each day 
to his work in the Advertising Department 
of the Providence Journal. 

Robert C. Litchfield has been elected to 
the Board of Directors of the Boonton Na- 
tional Bank of Parsippany-Troy Hills, N. J. 
Bob was associated with Graybar Electric 
Co., Inc., until his retirement three years 
ago. 

John B. Applegate, who has been prac- 
tising law in Madison, N. J. for 13 years 



A Chief Retires at the N.I.H. 




DR. G. HALSEY HUNT '24: he leaves Bethesda 

to direct the Educational Council for Foreign 

Medical Graduates. He has been Chief of the 

NIH Division of General Medical Sciences. 



The retirement of Dr. G. Halsey Hunt 
'24, Chief of the Division of General 
Medical Sciences, National Institutes of 
Health, will be effective Apr. 1. He will 
move to the Educational Council for For- 
eign Medical Graduates in Evanston, 111. 
He will become Executive Director there 
on Jan. 1, serving in the meantime as Asso- 
ciate Executive Director. 

Dr. Hunt has been assigned to NIH 
since 1956 when he was named as the first 

under the name of Benson & Applegate, 
has added two partners and changed the 
name of the firm to Applegate, Quinn & 
Magee. John remains in the same quarters 
at 36 Main St. 

1924 
John Monk, lately Vice-President of Hil- 
lison & Etten, has rejoined the staff of Lin- 
coln Printing Company, 732 Federal St., 
Chicago 5. For 30 years he has specialized 
in the production of registration state- 
ments, prospectuses, offering circulars, un- 
derwriting agreements, indentures, and re- 
lated financial printing, as well as annual 
reports, interim reports, advertising fold- 
ers, brochures, and institutional booklets. 
He was with Lincoln for many years be- 
fore going to Hillison & Etten. 

Nathan B. Silberman, attorney of Stam- 
ford, Conn., was honored Jan. 31 at a 
luncheon meeting of the Brotherhood of 
Agudath Sholom Synagogue. He is a Past 
President of the Stamford Bar Association, 
a group he also served as Treasurer for 
many years. He is Chairman of the Stam- 
ford Chapter of the Multiple Sclerosis So- 
ciety and Vice-President of the Stamford 
Jewish Center. He has been admitted to 



Director of the Center for Aging Research. 
He assumed his present post two years 
later when it was established to handle the 
NIH grant programs for research and re- 
search-training in the basic medical and 
biological sciences. 

The Educational Council for Foreign 
Medical Graduates is sponsored by the 
American Hospital Association, the Ameri- 
can Medical Association, the Association 
of American Medical Colleges, and the 
Federation of State Medical Boards of the 
United States. The Council examines the 
medical qualifications of foreign medical 
graduates who seek training as interns or 
residents in U.S. hospitals. It will concern 
itself increasingly with efforts to improve 
the educational opportunities for foreign 
graduates. 

Dr. Hunt received his M.D. from Co- 
lumbia in 1928. After private practice in 
New Jersey, he was commissioned to the 
U.S. Public Health Service in 1936, with 
posts in its hospitals in Staten Island, Seat- 
tle, San Francisco, and Louisville. From 
1945 to 1947, he directed a study of medical 
group practice in this country. He became 
Assistant Chief, then Chief, of the Division 
of Hospitals, serving from 1947 to 1952. 
During the next four years he was Assist- 
ant Surgeon General and Associate Chief 
of the Bureau of Medical Services. 

His publications include studies on anes- 
thesia, surgery, medical group practice, 
hospital administration, and aging. He is a 
Fellow of the American College of Sur- 
geons and of the American Public Health 
Association; he is a member of several 
professional associations and is a Trustee 
of the Medical Service of the District of 
Columbia. 

practice before the Supreme Court of Er- 
rors of Connecticut, all the courts of the 
State, the Treasury Department, the Immi- 
gration Department, and the Tax Court of 
the United States. 

Prof. Arlan R. Coolidge, Chairman of 
the Music Department at Brown, spoke on 
"Providence Musicians and Musical Life 
100 Years Ago" at a recent meeting of the 
Rhode Island Historical Society. 

The new law firm of Weller & Wilkins 
at 613 Howard Bldg., Providence, includes 
S. Everett Wilkins and his son, Richard L. 
Wilkins '53. 

Edward A. Hosp was paid a nice tribute 
by Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborne 
when he retired recently after many years 
of service. He joined BBDO shortly after 
graduation and moved up steadily, serving 
as Vice-President of the New York office 
for the past several years. The agency's 
December newsletter spoke of his fine 
work. 

1925 

Prof. Fredson Bowers, Chairman of the 
English Departmenf at the University of 
Virginia, will be a speaker at the fourth 
Annual Conference on Literary Criticism 
to be held June 25-29 at Georgetown Uni- 



MARCH 1962 



37 



versity. In addition to participating in a 
symposium, Professor Bowers will deliver 
two public lectures on "What Shakespeare 
Wrote: Textual Criticism and Evidence" 
and "Dramatic Structure and Criticism: A 
Study in Hamlet." 

1926 

Roy E. Morse, motor controls products 
specialist at Metals & Controls, Inc., a di- 
vision of Texas Instruments, Inc., pre- 
sented a paper on "Klixon Inherent Motor 
Protection" at the 23rd annual New Eng- 
land Farm Electrification Institute held re- 
cently at the University of Rhode Island. 

Joseph W. Ress has been named Associ- 
ate Campaign Chairman of Miriam Hos- 
pital's drive for a $5,000,000 building fund. 
Joe is President and one of the founders 
of the General Jewish Committee. 

Samuel Blassberg, attorney in Green- 
field, Mass., has formed a law partnership 
with Douglas E. O'Neil. The two men 
have been associated in law practice at 191 
Main Street since 1954. Attorney Blass- 
berg was appointed Special Justice of the 
District Court, Eastern Franklin District, 
in 1936. 

George L. Cassidy is one of the princi- 
pals in the United Public Relations, Inc., 
of 120 East 56th St., New York City. 
Among clients it has served as counsel or 
in execution of special projects are the 
New York Coliseum, Inc., the U.S. World 
Trade Fair, the International Auto Show, 
Cresca Company, Charles Luckman Asso- 
ciates, and (at the request of the U.S. De- 
partment of State) the Soviet Exhibition. 
George, incidentally, reports himself a 
grandfather again. 

Milton E. Raffel's daughter Carole Ellen 
was married on Dec. 3 to Jerome Waksler 
of Providence. Raffel, who lives at 91 Al- 
dine Ave., Bridgeport, conducts his own 
real estate and insurance agency. 

William G. Chace received the Honor- 
ary Award Citation at the Special Convo- 
cation at Lowell Technological Institute in 
November. He received his Master's de- 
gree there in 1942 and was on its Faculty 
until 1956. He has since been a research 
physicist in the Cambridge Research Cen- 
ter, USAF. At Lowell he founded the LTI 
Library Association, Rifle Club, and Stu- 
dent-Faculty Bridge League. The citation 
spoke of him as "educator, adviser, and 
friend of the students and alumni of the 
Institute for 30 years." 

J. Lawrence McElroy has been named 
Treasurer and Secretary of the Providence 
Journal Company, which he had served 
many years as Assistant Treasurer and As- 
sistant Secretary. He joined the newspa- 
per's business staff as a young clerk. 

1927 
The Reunion Committee of the Class 
has been quite active and plans for this 
June are rapidly taking shape. The kickoff 
will be a cocktail party for men and their 
ladies at the University Club on Friday, 
June 1. When the men leave for the 
Alumni Dinner, the ladies will remain at 
the Club for their dinner. The Campus 
Dance will provide a meeting place later 
on in the evening. A dinner-dance will be 
arranged for Saturday night, with location 




EDWARD A. HOSP '24: A BBDO Vice- 
President retires (see 1924 note). 

to be announced later. Follow the plans in 
this column during the next few months. 
We look forward to a big turnout for this 
important 35th! 

Dr. Charles A. Spacagna was elected 
President of the Rhode Island State Dental 
Society at the organization's 84th annual 
convention in Providence. Spike has been 
practicing dentistry in Providence since 
1932, having graduated from the Harvard 
Dental School after leaving Brown. He be- 
came a Fellow of the American College of 
Dentists in 1960. 

Frederick Bernays Wiener, among his 
other activities, is scheduled to deliver the 
Annual Lecture before the Selden Society 
in London on Mar. 29. The Society is the 
most notable group of legal historians in 
the English-speaking world. Fritz is to pre- 
sent a practitioner's view of "The Uses and 
Abuses of Legal History." 

1929 

John E. Gagnon had the honor of being 
the keynote speaker at the 10th Annual 
Career Guidance Conference Feb. 9 at the 
University Club in Boston. Formerly Di- 
rector of Personnel and Labor Relations 
for Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp., John 
is presently Vice-President in Industrial 
Relations at Raytheon Manufacturing Co. 

Dr. Kenneth A. Scott is Chairman of 
the Legislative and Judicial Committee of 
the Rhode Island Osteopathic Society. 

1930 
Aaron H. Roitman of Providence has 
been elected President of Narragansett 
Council. Boy Scouts of America. He was 
General Chairman of the Golden Jubilee 
Fund drive two years ago, which raised 
more than $500,000 for capital outlays for 
Scouting in the State. He is President and 
Treasurer of Roitman & Sons, Inc. He suc- 
ceeds Chesley Worthington '23 as Council 
President. 

Dr. Duncan Stewart, who received his 
Master's degree from Brown in 1930, will 
direct the Summer Institute Program in 
Astronomy and Geology at Carleton Col- 



lege, sharing in a National Science Foun- 
dation grant. He is Chairman of the 
Geology Department at the Minnesota in- 
stitution. 

Henry J. Cooper, Superintendent of 
Schools in Coventry, R. I., represented the 
State's school superintendents in January 
at a Boston conference on financing pub- 
lic education. 

The Alumni Office has only recently 
learned that Dr. Stephen H. Harris died on 
July 15, 1958, in Oakland, Calif. After 
graduate work in Biology at Brown, he 
went to Cornell Medical School, getting 
his M.D. in 1935. During World War II, 
he was a Captain in the USA Medical 
Corps. 

1931 

M. McAllister Clarke of Winnetka has 
been promoted to Vice-President of the 
Continental Illinois National Bank and 
Trust Company. He joined the Chicago 
bank in 1934, became Assistant Secretary 
in 1950, Trust Officer in 1952, and Second 
Vice-President in 1960. He is a member 
of the Midwest Pension Conference and 
Employee Benefit Plan Committee of the 
Corporate Fiduciaries. He has lectured at 
Loyola University (Chicago), the school 
of the Investment Bankers Association, the 
Council of Profit-Sharing Industries, and 
the Conference of Actuaries. 

A. Paul Brugge, President of the United 
Fund of Blackstone Valley, has been tak- 
ing part in conversations which may lead 
to a merger with the United Fund of Prov- 
idence. 

Dr. H. Draper Warren has been named 
to the Development Council of the Univer- 
sity of Maine. He is Director of Medical 
Education at the Eastern Maine General 
Hospital in Bangor. 

Robert F. Eddy, Chairman of the Board 
of the Tillinghast-Stiles Co., has been 
named to the Small Business Administra- 
tion's Small Business Advisory Council for 
Rhode Island. 

1932 

Robert N. Sanderson of Sanderson 
Brothers, North Abington, Mass., took a 
leading role in the celebration of the 16th 
Annual Printing and Publishing Week in 
New England. His contribution included a 
tribute to Benjamin Franklin on the 256th 
anniversary of his birth. 

1933 

Carleton E. Hammond, in addition to his 
duties as Vice-President of the State Na- 
tional Bank in Greenwich, Conn., is active 
in Boy Scout work. He persuaded William 
J. Gilbane to come down from Providence 
to speak at the annual recognition dinner of 
his Council. Bill is Scout Commissioner 
for Narragansett Council and presided 
over the annual R. I. State House cere- 
monies in Boy Scout Week. 

1934 

Maury J. Caito has been named to the 
State Board of Education by Governor 
Notte of Rhode Island. James K. Sun- 
shine, educational writer for the Journal- 
Bulletin commented: "For sheer breadth 
of educational variety, no one on the State 
Board of Education will be able to touch 
the newcomer. Thirty years ago on his 



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way to an illustrious career as one of 
Brown's 'Three Musketeers,' Mr. Caito 
dashed through the academic world like a 
good broken-field runner having one of his 
best days. The score at the end stood at 
two grammar schools, two high schools, a 
preparatory school, a military school, and 
finally, Brown." Maury is owner of Bruin 
Paper Box, Inc. 

Richard V. Clemence, Professor of Eco- 
nomics at Wellesley, has been granted a 
sabbatical leave for next year. Writing a 
paper on the "profit maximum" will be one 
of the projects Dick plans to complete. 

W. S. Steiger's new Florida home is the 
former "Sutton Crest," estate of the late 
Suttons who owned the Sealtest patent 
rights on ice cream formulas. "Old class- 
mates always welcome," Steiger told us re- 
cently. The address: 1610 SW 14th St., 
Miami 45. 

William B. Aular is living in Shore 
Acres, Dunkirk, N. Y., in which commu- 
nity he is practising law as a member of 
the firm of Hurlbert & Aular. 

Zenas J. Kevorkian is a captain without 
a ship this winter. He is Director of Cran- 
ston's Adult Education Program, but this 
semester there is no program to direct in 
the Rhode Island community. 

Lt. Col. Louis C. Irving, an Instructor 
in the US Army Artillery and Missile 
School, Fort Sill, Okla., for the past three 
years, intends to apply for retirement April 
30 after 20 years of active commissioned 



service. He plans to seek some interesting 
position overseas, probably in the Far East 
area. 

Leander F. Pease has been reelected 
President of the District Nursing Associa- 
tion in Johnston, R. I. 

1935 

E. Rex Coman, GOP Senator from Nar- 
ragansett, R. I., was co-sponsor of three 
bills designed to promote participation in 
Rhode Island elections. 

Joseph Busel is a tool engineer with 
Phoenix Steel Corporation, Phoenixville, 
Pa. 

Dr. John C. Allen is Dean and Medical 
Director of the University of Connecticut 
School of Physical Therapy, which cele- 
brated its 10th anniversary in December. 
A feature of the celebration was the an- 
nouncement of the receipt of a U.S. Office 
of Vocational Rehabilitation grant to the 
School to develop a graduate program. 

The Rev. Harold C. Johns has been 
elected President of the Milwaukee Baptist 
Minister's Association. He is Pastor of the 
First Baptist Church of Milwaukee. 

1936 
Clarence H. Gifford, Jr., is the new Ex- 
ecutive Vice-President of the Rhode Island 
Hospital Trust Company. He was formerly 
Vice-President and Senior Loan Officer. 

Ernest C. Wilks, formerly Secretary of 
the Automobile Mutual Insurance Com- 



U 



Elm-Shadowed, Ivy-Clad" 



Willy Fulton didn't want to go to 
Putnam College because he was the 
Class Baby of his mother's and father's 
Class there. Charles Mercer '39 wrote 
about them in a short story, No Place to 
Go, in the Saturday Evening Post for Feb. 
3. As an editorial note said, "Mercer has 
no children and did not go to college with 
his wife, but he has attended Class re- 
unions and observed kids exposed to their 
frolicking elders." 

Anyway, Willy's folks dragged him back 
to their Alma Mater, "a couple of thou- 
sand miles back east," at reunion time. It 
was an outstanding co-ed college. "If you 
asked about the football team, you be- 
came embarrassed," for Putnam lost games 
to everyone from Harvard to East Flats 
Normal. "But it was outstanding academi- 
cally," and the campus was "beautiful, ven- 
erable, elm-shadowed, ivy-clad." 

Alumni and alumnae swarmed every- 
where. The college had allotted dorm space 
to the visitors. "Dad bounced into my room 
wearing a crazy hat with his class nu- 
merals on it and a big tag on his lapel." 
There was lunch in the refectory, followed 
by a tour of the campus, during which one 
had to "stand for what seemed hours, giv- 
ing a glazed look at a library or brick 
wall or something." Willy was strongly re- 
sisting all this, for as a star high school 
quarterback he was all set to go to State 
on a scholarship. He told the Dean of Ad- 
mission he had no interest in Putnam. 



That was before he met a girl who was 
going to be a Freshman in September. 

Willy is so taken with her that he trips 
over a magazine rack just outside the soda 
fountain area. "Putnam needs some good 
football players," the girl tells Willy later. 
"Even my father says so." (Her folks are 
back for reunion, too, you see.) 

And they all wind up at the Alumni 
Field Day, "a gathering of alumni and 
alumnae with their families at the athletic 
field." There, "kids get under foot, and 
people drink sodas and beer and talk and 
try middle-aged sports like softball and 
quoits." 

When Willy gets the ear of the Dean of 
Admission again, he pleads with him: "I've 
changed my mind. I love Putnam. I want 
to enter in the fall, even though you have 
de-emphasized football." "Well," says the 
Dean, "we haven't de-emphasized it that 
much." 

We've ruined a cute, entertaining story 
by seeking out the echoes. If you didn't 
read it at the time, you'd enjoy looking it 
up, and taking it as it's written. Putnam 
isn't Brown, of course, for Brown is not 
Co-ed — it only has a co-ordinate College. 
Moreover, the Dean of Admission wouldn't 
still be interviewing applicants in June. 
And we should add the rest of that edi- 
torial note: "Last spring Mercer's sixth 
novel. Pilgrim Strangers, was published 
quite appropriately — by dear old Putnam 
(G. P. Putnam's Sons)." 



pany and Factory Mutual Insurance Com- 
pany, has been elected a Vice-President 
and Director of each. Headquarters, of 
course, are in Providence. 

Donald D. Dummer has been named 
Production Manager of the Ocean Marine 
Department with the Providence Washing- 
ton Insurance Co. 

Walter G. Barney has been named to 
the Board of Directors of the Narragan- 
sett Council, Boy Scouts of America. 

1937 
Dr. Nathan W. Coleman has taken up 
the challenge issued to classmates by Ar- 
thur I. Saklad in the December issue of 
this magazine, concerning his claim to be 
the first grandfather of '37. "My daughter, 
Mrs. Steven Kaplan of Newton Centre, 
Mass., gave birth to Michael Kevin Kap- 
lan Dec. 8, 1960, so I guess I have Arthur 
beat." After 13 years of general practice, 
Dr. Coleman is in his third year of psy- 
chiatric training at the Boston State Hos- 
pital and will continue for two more years 
in child guidance at the Boston Floating 
Hospital. 

Thomas T. Allan has been promoted to 
Sales Manager, Chemical Department, by 
the Virginia Chemicals & Smelting Co., 
West Norfolk. Prior to arriving there in 
the fall of 1960 as Assistant Sales Man- 
ager of the Chemical Department, Tom 
represented the Company in the New Eng- 
land area for 10 years. He is an active 
member of the American Chemical Soci- 
ety, Technical Association of the Pulp and 
Paper Industry, and the American Asso- 
ciation of Textile Chemists and Colorists. 

Charles H. Anderson, Providence attor- 
ney, has become associated with the law 
firm of Swan, Keeney & Jenckes at 911 
Turks Head Bldg. 

1938 
Al Pereira, District Manager for TWA 
in Miami, Fla., could not attend the 1962 
Advisory Council meetings. Due that same 
week end in Miami for a station inspec- 
tion was TWA's President, Charles C. Til- 
linghast, Jr., '32. 

Walter H. Covell, News Editor of 
WJAR-TV, Providence, has given a series 
of talks around the State on morality in 
television. 

1939 
G. Gale Wisbach, President of Gale 
Motors, Inc., of Fall River, was a friendly 
witness in February before a Congressional 
Committee holding hearings in Washing- 
ton, D. C, on shortcomings in the right- 
of-way condemnation in the Bay State. 

1940 
Irving Twomey has been appointed 
Manager of Engineering Operations at 
United Aircraft Research Laboratories, 
Hartford, which he joined in 1946. His 
most recent position, held since 1958, had 
been Chief of Test Operations. 

Clyde K. Fisk has joined the firm of 
Harold J. Hamilton Associates of Living- 
ston, N. J., general consultants in the field 
of civil engineering and land surveying, 
as Vice-President. Clyde is Chairman of 



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39 



the Consulting Engineers, a functional sec- 
tion of the New Jersey Society of Pro- 
fessional Engineers. 

Lane W. Fuller resigned his position as 
Sales Manager of NECCO Co., Cambridge, 
and has joined the Providence advertising 
firm of Horton, Church & Goff. While 
holding down his former position, he lived 
in Wakefield, Mass., where he was a mem- 
ber of the School Committee for eight 
years as well as a member of several 
building committees. Lane and Mrs. Fuller 
and their four children are now residents 
of Barrington. 

1941 

Dr. Abraham Schwartz has been elected 
Treasurer of the Providence District Den- 
tal Society. About three years ago, he 
purchased his own building on Gano St., 
near Wayland Square, and converted part 
of it for his dental offices. 

Earl W. Harrington, Jr.. has been named 
President of the Cranston Citizens' League 
for Home Rule. He succeeded another 
Brown man, Israel Press '29. 

Charles H. Bechtold (R-Warwick, R. I.), 
who resigned his House seat to run for 
the Senate, walloped his Democratic op- 
ponent by better than a 2-1 margin in a 
special election last month. 

1942 

Frederick C. Allgeier of West Orange, 
N. J., has been elected an Assistant Secre- 
tary of the Board of Directors of Sub- 
urban Propane Gas Corp. Fred is Manager 
of the Data Processing Department of the 
company. 

Francis R. Guyott, President and Treas- 
urer of the Guyott Co., heavy oil and 
trucking firm of New Haven, has been 
named Secretary and Treasurer of Pater- 
son Construction Co., Inc., one of the 
oldest building firms in the area. 

Bernard E. Bell, President of Milhender 
Distributing Co., has been elected Pres- 
ident of the Electrical League of Rhode 
Island. 

1943 

John McP. Collins has been elected 
Vice-President of the Springfield Institute 
for Savings. He joined the bank in 1950 
and most recently has been associated 
with the Mortgage Service Department as 
Assistant Vice-President. 

Joseph S. LeGros, a management con- 
sultant of 11 years experience, has been 
hired by the Illinois Department of Fi- 
nance to conduct efficiency and economy 
examinations and investigations of State 
agencies, commissions, and code depart- 
ments. He had been employed by the State 
of Michigan since 1958. 

Dr. Richard M. Chadbourne has been 
reappointed Chairman of the French De- 
partment at the University of Colorado, 
for a four-year term. 

John T. McMurtrie is a senior super- 
visor (production) at DuPont's Savannah 
River Plant in Aiken, S. C. 

1944 

Louis V. Jackvony, Jr., Providence at- 
torney and GOP gubernatorial hopeful, 
began his door-to-door campaign in War- 
ren with a stop at the home of Mrs. Bar- 
bara Value. The young lady turned out to 




ALBERT C. BLATZ '43 has been elected by the 

Insurance Agents Association of San Diego as its 

President. He has had his own agency in nearby 

La Jolla for the past 1 1 years. 



be a first cousin of President Kennedy. 
However, she greeted him cordially and 
served Louis and his staff coffee. 

George Fuzak announced in January 
that his firm, the United States Plastic 
Badge Co., Buffalo, N. Y., is presently 
producing more than a million plastic 
bandages a week. "We have reached the 
production point where our market is the 
world," George stated. 

1945 

Richard T. Downes is General Man- 
ager of the new Rolling Green Motor Inn, 
two miles from Andover Center, Mass., 
at the junction of Routes 93 and 133. With 
a knighthood motif, the motor hotel in- 
cludes an Ivanhoe Room, a restaurant 
seating 100; the Jousting Room, a cocktail 
lounge for 70; the Great Hall, the largest 
function room with accommodations up to 
450; and 51 guest rooms. 

Tom Woods and Dick Pretat, owners 
of Woods & Pretat Appliance Co., 808 
Hope St., Providence, expected to move 
into new quarters Mar. 1. After 12 years 
at their old location, they purchased a 
building in the Wayland Square section of 
the East Side. Their new address on See- 
konk St. should be easy to remember — it's 
the same number as their Class numeral! 

William J. Barton has been named Re- 
gional Vice-President of Business Interna- 
tional Corporation, the New York pub- 
lishing, research, and advisory company 
serving the international community. Bill 
will have responsibility for the Midwest 
Client Area and will be located in the 
Business International Chicago Regional 
Office at 200 South Michigan Ave. Most 
recently he served as Secretary, General 
Counsel, and Director of International 
Business Development of Economic Re- 
search Corporation International. 

Robert A. McKinnon, former Deputy 
Chief of Mission at Ouagadougou, who 
died Sept. 8. 1961, at Frankfurt Military 



Hospital, was posthumously named an Of- 
ficer of the National Voltaic Order. The 
award was made by the President of the 
Republic of the Upper Volta in apprecia- 
tion of the efforts made by Bob in behalf 
of United States-Upper Volta relations. 

Knight Edwards, Providence attorney, 
served as Dinner Chairman when the 
Providence area alumni of the Loomis and 
Chaffee schools in Windsor. Conn., held a 
February dinner meeting. He had a couple 
of Brunonians helping him on the arrange- 
ments, Ronald C. Green '31 and John A. 
Tillinghast '46. 

James A. Cooper has been named Di- 
rector of Technical Service at Shawinigan 
Resins Corp., Springfield, Mass. He had 
been Product Development Manager. 

Samuel T. Arnold, Jr., has been re- 
elected President of Rhode Island Camps, 
Inc., which operates Beach Pond Camp for 
children. 

Mortimer P. Barnes has become a mem- 
ber of the Greenwich, Conn., law firm of 
Hirschberg, Pettengill & Strong. He has 
been with it since 1958. 

1946 
Donald Dest has been named to a three- 
year term on the West Haven, Conn., 
Board of Education. Don was an insurance 
agent and realtor until recently, when he 
became an investment broker, registered 
representative of White, Weld & Co. in 
New Haven. He has served on the West 
Haven Charter Commission and is a mem- 
ber of the Republican Town Committee. 

Dr. Thomas F. Boyd has been appointed 
Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Bos- 
ton University School of Medicine. A grad- 
uate of the B.U. School of Medicine in 
1948, he trained in general thoracic and 
cardiovascular surgery at Boston City Hos- 
pital and its associate divisions, with time 
out for the Korean War. Tom and his 
wife have two children, Tanya 10 and 
Christopher 7. 

The Rev. Hebert Bolles has resigned as 
Canon Pastor of the Episcopal Cathedral 
in Indianapolis. He is entering the Chap- 
lains' Corps of the Navy and will be at 
school in Newport this spring. 

1947 

Dr. Richard H. Bube will go to Stanford 
University in July to join the Faculty as 
Associate Professor of Materials Science, 
with a courtesy appointment in electrical 
engineering. He is a senior member of 
the technical staff of RCA's David Sarnoff 
Research Center at Princeton, N. J., where 
he went after graduate work. His research 
field has been protoconductivity, the study 
of materials which develop electrical con- 
ductivity under light. Author of more than 
60 articles, he received the RCA Achieve- 
ment Award in 1952 and 1957. Stanford is 
building a new Center for Materials Sci- 
ence Research under an ARPA grant, and 
Dr. Bube will work there. He will teach 
and conduct research in the relationship of 
the quantum theory to solid state phe- 
nomena and electric processes in insulators. 

Charles M. Cole, Jr., has been named 
Manager of the Providence office of the 
American Surety-Pacific National Insur- 
ance Companies, members of the Trans- 



40 



BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



america Insurance Group. As part of his 
supervision in the Providence area, he will 
develop the companies' new sales and ex- 
pansion program, as well as coordinate the 
recent recentralization program. He joined 
the firm in 1950 and most recently served 
as Manager in Rochester, N. Y. 

John C. Spriggs has been appointed to 
the newly created position of Manager of 
the Casualty Underwriting Department 
with Travelers Insurance Company at its 
Houston office. He has been with the com- 
pany for a decade, most recently as Su- 
perintendent of the Casualty Underwriting 
Department in Houston. 

1948 

Prof. Colin E. MacKay of the Colby 
College English Department is telecasting 
a survey course in English Literature from 
the Anglo-Saxon period to the early 20th 
century. Given on 15 Sunday mornings. 
the lectures are offered for credit over 
WMTW-TV and WABI-TV. After getting 
his Ph.D. at Brown in 1957, he was at 
Deerfield Academy for three years before 
going to Colby. 

Dr. Willis A. Adcock of Dallas is Man- 
ager, Integrated Circuits for Texas Instru- 
ments. He is attending the 41st session of 
the Advanced Management Program at 
Harvard Business School. He received his 
Ph.D. from Brown in 1948. 

Fred Flanders is Senior Analyst at 
Travelers Insurance Co., Hartford. 

Charles H. Pinkham, III, President of 
the Eastern Slope Inn, North Conway, 
N. H., welcomed four other Brunonians at 
the January meeting of the American 
Alumni Council, which was held there. 
Representing Brown at this annual gath- 
ering of college magazine editors, alumni 
secretaries, and fund directors were Chet 
Worthington '23, Editor of this magazine; 
Jay Barry '50, Assistant Editor; Jim Gor- 
ham '54, Associate Alumni Secretary; and 
Dan Earle '34, Director of Development. 

Bradford N. Warner has been named 
Director of Community and Employee Re- 
lations at the Warner Brothers Co., Bridge- 
port, Conn. He will be responsible for 
community relations for Warner's four 
divisions, branch plants, and mill opera- 
tions. He will assist in various employee 
activities, recreational programs, and com- 
pany community participation. Included 
with these responsibilities will be the es- 
tablishment of the corporation's news- 
paper. 

Robert M. Miller, Jr., has been pro- 
moted to Sales Manager of Dynacolor 
Corp., Rochester. He joined the firm in 
1959 and was made Director of Sales Ad- 
ministration in December of that year. 
Earlier, he was Regional Sales Manager 
of Pathecolor, Inc., Bayonne, N. J. 

John E. Johnson has been named Chief 
Engineer of the Republic Steel Corpora- 
tion's South Park Ave. plant, Buffalo. He 
had been Assistant Chief Engineer. 

J. Thomas Kershaw has been elected 
Senior Warden at the Church of the 
Rpiphany. Episcopal parish in Providence. 

Leopold Adler is Vice-President of Var- 
nedoe, Chisholm & Co., Inc., Savannah, 
Ga. 




JOHN LOMARTIRE '43 is the new Manager of 
Acrilan Development for Chemstrand Corpora- 
tion, which he joined in 1952. He'd been Super- 
intendent of Fiber Manufacturing and Quality 
Control. 



1949 

Joseph W. Pridmore has been named 
Vice-President of Cooper's, Inc., manufac- 
turer of Jockey brand men's wear prod- 
ucts, Kenosha, Wis. He had been Assist- 
ant to the President, and his new position 
involves general management responsibil- 
ities. Previous to joining Cooper's, Joe was 
a partner in Robert Heller & Associates of 
Cleveland. 

Harold R. Shippee, Jr., a former Re- 
publican State official, has won a victory 
in his legal fight over dismissal early last 
year by Governor Notte of Rhode Island. 
A split decision by the State Personnel 
Appeal Board held that he was dismissed 
from his post in the State Budget Office 
at least five weeks too soon. 

Paul B. Richards was appointed by New 
York's Governor Rockefeller in Decem- 
ber to the Advisory Council, Governor's 
Conference on the Improvement of Occu- 
pational Safety. He also serves on the 
Workmen's Compensation Committee of 
the Empire State Chamber of Commerce. 
He recently began a second term on the 
Advisory Council, Construction Technol- 
ogy Division, of the N. Y. State Agricul- 
tural and Technical Institute (the last a 
unit of the State University of New York. 
His addresses: in Albany, 44 Fuller Rd.; 
in New York City, 903 Chrysler Bldg. 

George F. Wallace, Jr., has been placed 
in charge of the two branch offices of the 
Connecticut State Motor Vehicle Depart- 
ment. 

Edward D. Fisher has his Sundays pretty 
well cut out for him, having been named 
in charge of the Jewish Community Cen- 
ter's Chess Class in Atlantic City. Ed re- 
ports that he still is able to stay ahead of 
"most" of his pupils. He has had 20 years 
of experience in chess programs and holds 
an expert rating with the U.S. Chess Fed- 
eration. Ed is a mathematician at NAFEC. 

S. Clifford Duxbury, Jr., Manager of 



Marketing Services and Advertising for 
Norton International, Inc., served as Pub- 
licity Chairman for the 1962 Cerebral 
Palsy campaign in Worcester. 

Roland C. Clement is assistant to Pres- 
ident Carl W. Buchheister of the National 
Audubon Society on research and biologi- 
cal conservation matters. 

Dr. Leo Stein has been named Chaii 
man of the Public and Professional Wel- 
fare Committee of the Rhode Island Os- 
teopathic Society. 

Sympathy of the Class goes to Robert 
Love in the death of his father, J. Spencer 
Love, Chairman of the Board of the 
Burlington Industries textile chain. 

1950 

John S. Scott is in Paris as Vice-Pres- 
ident in charge of European operations of 
Richardson-Merrell, Inc. Vick Chemical, 
which John joined after graduation, is one 
of its units. John's address: is 58 Blvd. 
D'Inkermann, Neuilly-sur-Seine. 

Cdr. William L. Reardon, Jr., USN, has 
a new address in La Jolla, Calif., at 383 
Westbourne St. He was formerly stationed 
in Texas. 

William J. Cochrane, Jr., has been 
named Vice-President of the Pawtucket In- 
stitute for Savings. However, he still con- 
tinues to serve as Treasurer of the Paw- 
tucket Trust Co., an affiliate. He spent 
some time on Campus recently at the 
Senior Placement Office looking for a 
couple of Brown men for the bank. 

Martin C. Temkin. Providence attorney, 
has entered into a partnership for the gen- 
eral practice of law under the name of 
Temkin, Merolla & Zurier. Offices are at 
832 Industrial Bank Bldg. The second 
member of the firm is Amedeo C. Merolla 
'51. 

Richard H. Hallett is Treasurer of the 
Townsend and Hallett Real Estate Co., 
Framingham, Mass. The firm has grown 
rapidly in the past six years. 

Gordon S. Macklin. Jr., a partner at 
McDonald & Co., Cleveland investment 
firm, has been elected to a three-year 
term as a district committeeman for Ohio 
and Kentucky in the National Association 
of Securities Dealers. 

John E. DePace has been promoted 
from Assistant Vice-President to Vice- 
President of the Wellesley Trust Co. He 
has been with the Massachusetts firm since 
May, 1960. Prior to that John was an ex- 
ecutive of the Household Finance Corp. 
He has been responsible for the develop- 
ment of the Consumer Credit Department 
at Wellesley Trust, and in the past two 
years it has more than trebled in size. 

Dr. M. Dean Jacoby "fell in love" with 
Texas while serving as Chief of Pediatrics 
at an Army base there. So, he did the 
natural thing — opened an office in Dallas 
at 10464 East Northwest Highway. 

Representative Robert H. Breslin, Jr.. 
of Warwick introduced a bill in the R. I. 
House in February which would require 
front-seat safety bells in passenger cars 
sold or traded in 1963 or later. Another 
Warwick Republican is Edward H. Tor- 
gen, reelected First Vice-President of the 
Young Republican Club in that city. 



MARCH 1962 



II 



1951 

John H. Hilpman is in his fifth year in 
Caracas, Venezuela, with International 
General Electric. "I recently returned 
from a month's vacation in Maine," he 
notes. "My wife and three children spent 
the entire summer there while I was in- 
volved in a bit more travel than I like. I 
spent most of the time in the Netherlands 
Antilles, with one short but pleasant trip 
to Europe." Recent additions to his family 
include John H., Ill, born July 11. 1960, 
and Margaret Wiley, who joined the fam- 
ily last Nov. 11. In taking on the job of 
Brown's Area Agent for Venezuela, John 
didn't tie himself down to much of a job, 
since he is the only '51 man in the area. 
"I merely sent in my dough, and the job 
was done," he reports. 

William B. White has been elected Vice- 
President, Administration, of High Vac- 
uum Equipment Corp., Hingham, Mass. 
He was formerly Sales Administrator for 
the Corporation, and his election as Vice- 
President constitutes an expansion of his 
duties. Prior to joining the firm in 1956, 
Bill was associated with Minneapolis- 
Honeywell Regulator Company and with 
Pneumatic Scale Corp., Ltd., Quincy, Mass. 

Richard L. Gempp has served as Chair- 
man of the Warren (R. I.) High School 
Building Committee since the unit was 
formed back in 1955. Although the new 
school was finished in 1959, the committee 
is still in business, trying to wrap up the 
loose ends. 

George L. Johnston has been elected 
President of the Boston Investment Club 
for the coming year. He has been with 
Goldman, Sachs & Company since 1955 
and is Manager of the Municipal Bond 
Department in Boston. 

1953 
Roland F. Dunn is with Kellogg Pan 
American Corp., Cordoba 1367, Buenos 
Aires. He writes: "Life in Argentina dur- 
ing the past 2Vz years has been one of 
much anxiety and apprehension. The gov- 
ernment's economic austerity program has 
been in full swing in an honest effort to 
put the country back on its feet economi- 
cally, since Peron was caught emptying the 
till back in 1955. It has been no easy task, 
especially since inflation has doubled the 
cost of living. Funds through the Alliance 
for Progress will certainly help Argentina, 
though most Latin American countries 
have a difficult time spending the money 
constructively." 

Arthur F. O'Day has been appointed 
Vice-President in charge of acquisition and 
development of investment properties 
throughout the country for Theodore W. 
Berenson Associates, Boston. He had been 
Vice-President of Nordblom Co. Art is 
President of the Broker's Institute of the 
Greater Boston Real Estate Board and a 
member of the Society of Industrial Real- 
tors and the Scituate Planning Board. He 
also serves on various local and national 
committees for the real estate industry. 

Dr. George A. Bray, Jr., sailed for 
London in December, where he will con- 
duct research on the effect of thyroid hor- 
mones on the human body. He plans to 



work with Dr. Pitt-Rivers at the National 
Institute for Medical Research, with re- 
sults of the study to be presented at the 
International Congress of Steroid Biochem- 
istry in Milan next May. Dr. Bray studied 
the response of stress on the human body 
last year, and some of his published papers 
on his work have recently appeared in the 
American Journal of Physiology and Ana- 
lyrical Biochemistry. 

Richard L. Wilkins has joined with his 
father, S. Everett Wilkins '24, and two 
others in the general practice of law at 
613 Howard Bldg., Providence. The firm's 
name is Weller & Wilkins. 

George Beavers, III, is Vice-President 
and Eastern Sales Manager for Broadcast 
Time Sales. 509 Madison Ave., New York 
City. 

Frederick L. Reynolds has been elected 
an Assistant Trust Officer of the National 
Shawmut Bank of Boston, which he joined 
in 1955. He resides in South Acton. 

1954 

Charles L. Judkins, Jr., Director of the 
Administration Division of Travelers Re- 
search Center, Inc., has been named As- 
sistant Treasurer of the corporation. Chuck 
will continue to have personnel responsi- 
bilities, in addition to his new duties. He 
joined the Center last July after having 
served as a sales representative with IBM 
in New York City. He's living in West 
Hartford. 

The Rev. Donn R. Brown has accepted 
a call to be Rector of St. Martin's Church, 
Pawtucket. He had been Curate at the 
Church of the Good Shepherd, also in 
Pawtucket. During the interim period, the 
Rev. Edgar F. Staff '53 was locum tenens 
at St. Martin's; he moved to the other 
church in a similar capacity. 




DR. DONALD E. CUNNINGHAM '51 has been 
named Assistant to the Director and Executive 
Secretary of the Institute of Science and Mathe- 
matics at Adelphi College. Lately on the staff of 
the American Institute of Physics, he was Director 
of its Visiting Scientist Program and was Advisor 
to its Student Sections. 



Alan W. Brownsword is Assistant Pro- 
fessor of History at Long Beach State 
College. He received his Ph.D. from the 
University of Wisconsin in June. 

1955 

Dan Keefe has turned pro. He announced 
in January that the Wayland (Mass.) 
Country Club had appointed him as its 
professional. In the last three years, he 
has run up an impressive record in ama- 
teur circles. He was one of the four New 
Englanders to qualify for the 1961 Na- 
tional Amateur held at Pebble Beach. 
Calif., and was the low amateur in the 
1961 Maine Open, sectional medalist in 
the 1961 Massachusetts Amateur, and win- 
ner of four-ball championships at Oakley, 
Winchester, and United Shoe Country 
Clubs during the past season. 

Dr. Vincent L. Genua, dentist, is prac- 
tising at 246 Center St., Middleboro, Mass. 

Leo Linsky, advanced to Assistant Dis- 
trict Manager for the Metropolitan Life 
Insurance Co. in Springfield, Mass., is 
training for the new position in New York. 
As soon as the course is completed, he 
and Bettie. with their three children, will 
be moving from Salem to Springfield. 

Pete Kohut is in his third year of teach- 
ing and coaching at Kent School. Among 
other things, Pete is teaching Russian, 
which was just added to the curriculum 
this year. The Kohuts, after two male ad- 
ditions to the family, welcomed a girl last 
fall. 

Barry Lougee is still on the road quite a 
bit as sales representative for M. F. Blouin 
Exhibits, Inc. He purchased a new home 
last fall at 241 Mill Rd„ Hampton, N. H. 

Doug Lowe is selling lamps wit-h the 
General Electric Co.. working out of the 
Minneapolis area. Bill Moberger '56 is one 
of his customers, and Penny Pendleton '50 
is a salesman from the Transfer Co. 

Martin Malinou finds that his private 
law practice and his work as Public Ad- 
ministrator for the City of Providence 
keeps him busy. He likes public service. 

Don Newman is a salesman for the 
L. E. Zurbach Steel Co., Somerville, Mass. 
Since Providence is part of his territory. 
he is able to view the changes that occur 
on College Hill. A bachelor. Don is ac- 
tive in Boston's social life. 

Chip Ludlow has had a delightful so- 
journ in Paris since September, where he 
reports progress toward his M.A. in 
French. He finds the French educational 
system at the university level interesting: 
"Classes meet when the professor feels 
like meeting, or if the students don't go on 
strike because the professors went on 
strike the previous week." Ice skating still 
interests Chip, although he finds this sport 
difficult to pursue in France since there are 
no private clubs as we know them. How- 
ever, he has been invited by the French 
Skating Federation to skate during the 
practice sessions of the world team. His 
Christmas was spent at Metz, and New 
Year's found him with a German family. 
He expected to attend the French Figure 
Skating Championships at Geneva in Feb- 
ruary. 

Paul Letiecq is an early morning traveler 



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on western New Jersey highways. Each 
morning he leaves Peg and their three boys 
in the parsonage in Long Valley, and 
journeys to Princeton, where he is in his 
second year of training for the Christian 
Ministry. The Letiecqs and Cliff Kolhs en- 
joyed a day together recently. 

Cliff Kolh completes his third year in 
June as Pastor of the Midvale Methodist 
Church. Wanaque, N. J. At present, he is 
considering entering a special field of the 
ministry, where he will minister among 
college and university students as a chap- 
lain or Wesley Foundation Director. 

CLIFF KOLB 

1956 

Jim DeMund's most challenging assign- 
ment as a realtor recently has been work- 
ing on Constitution Plaza in Hartford, a 
complex of office buildings, retail outlets, 
and hotel facilities in the heart of the 
downtown urban renewal area. Since 
March, 1959, Jim has been associated with 
Dow & Condon, commercial and industrial 
realtors, exclusive leasing agents for Trav- 
elers Insurance Company. The latter has 
invested 50 millions in its Constitution 
Plaza project. Jim and Dwight Doolan, a 
stockbroker for G. H. Walter Co., are 
working on the University of Hartford's 
drive for a new Arts and Science Building. 
DeMund is also the new District Chief for 
District II of Beta Theta Pi, succeeding J. 
Moreau Brown, now General Secretary of 
the fraternity. Jim has been President of 
the Beta Club of Hartford and The Bache- 
lors of Hartford, as well as serving as 
Vice-President of the Hartford Brown 
Club and a Bicentennial Fund worker. 

Rudy Kilianski is News Editor of the 
Worcester Gazette. 

Bill Jacobsmeyer is an engineer with 
G.E. in Pittsfield. 

Al Bulley, Vice-President of the Chi- 
cago Brown Club, is Superintendent of 
Bulley & Andrews, general contractors in 
Chicago. 

Joe Kinter is teaching and coaching at 
the Anchor Bay Schools in New Balti- 
more, Mich. 

Bill Moberger is in marketing with Gen- 
eral Mills in Minneapolis. 

Dave Fishman is a patent attorney in 
East Hartford with United Aircraft Corp. 

Steve Foster is a salesman with Techni- 
cal Tape Corp., Akron, O. 

Guy D. Hughes is a new member of 
the English Department at Phillips Acad- 
emy, Andover, this year. He was a grad- 
uate assistant in English Literature last 
year at Washington University. 

Bruce F. Porter is Sales Manager with 
O. Rings, Inc., Culver City, Calif. He has 
been on the West Coast for about three 
years and previously had worked for Still- 
man Rubber Company on government 
contracts and out-of-State sales. 

Gardner E. Wheeler, Jr., recently com- 
pleted a two-year term as District Repre- 
sentative to the Representative Town Meet- 
ing of Bradford. Conn. 

William W. Russell, Jr., is teaching and 
coaching this year at the Pingry School. 
He had previously been on the Faculty of 
Providence Country Day School. He re- 




YOUNGER DELEGATES to the Advisory Council, they paused near the new Biology Building between 
sessions: left to right— Joel Davis '56, Gordon Fuller '55, and Donald Saunders '57. 



ceived an MAT degree from Brown in 
1960. 

Russ Kingman left the State Street Bank 
& Trust Co., Boston, Feb. 2 and joined the 
Boston office of the investment firm of 
Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis. 

Aaron J. Shatkin has opened an office 
for the practice of general dentistry at 
2861 Pawtucket Ave., East Providence. 

John W. Goemans is Director of the 
Department of State Office in Honolulu. 
2227-A Kalakaua Ave. 

Tom Holmes is a buyer for Pratt & 
Whitney Aircraft in East Hartford. 

1957 
Lt. Harold J. Sutphen received a pre- 
mature Christmas gift on Dec. 21 when he 
was placed in charge of the USS Fairview 
(EPCER-850), based in New London. 
The Fairview is a rescue and patrol boat 
converted for experimental work. "We 
spend most of our time testing and evalu- 
ating the newest developments in ship- 
board equipment. It has all the aspects of 
being a fascinating two-year tour," Sutphen 
says. He and Alex Viessman who have 
been chasing each other all over the world 
for the past five years, have just managed 
to cross tracks for the second time. "In 
typical fashion, his destroyer pulled into 
Charleston for a three-month overhaul the 
day before I left to come north. We man- 
aged to spend about an hour talking over 
old times — in a parking lot, of all places." 



The new address: 13 Deborah St., Water- 
ford, Conn. 

Joseph S. Carnabuci, Jr., has been 
named Assistant Manager of the Brock- 
ton Area Chamber of Commerce. He be- 
comes its first Assistant Manager in 39 
years. Joe has also been accepted at 
the Boston University Graduate Business 
School, where he will study for a Master's 
degree in Marketing. 

E. Joseph Ganz is an Account Executive 
with Reynolds & Co., 125 High St., Bos- 
ton. 

John F. McDaniels, with a new address 
at 360 Edwards St., New Haven, is in his 
second year at Yale Law School. Next 
summer he will work in the New York 
law office of White and Case "to take a 
look at Wall St. practice." He spent last 
summer in the Office of the General Coun- 
sel of the Development Loan Fund in 
Washington, D. C, where he got an in- 
sight into the legal complications that 
arise in the foreign aid program. While 
there, he worked under Ross Davis '41, 
General Counsel of the agency. The Mc- 
Daniels' only child, Louise, is a year and 
a half old. 

The Rev. William R. Fortner had been 
serving as Pastor of Wade Park Methodist 
Church in Cleveland since last July, while 
continuing his staff duties at another 
Cleveland church, the Epworth-Euclid 
Methodist Church. Now the two have 
merged. The latter church began in a log 



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43 



cabin in 1818 and had 1350 members 
even before the smaller Wade Park unit 
joined. 

Tony Booth, who has been on the staff 
of the Sam Houston Area Council. Boy 
Scouts of America, has been promoted 
and is District Executive in charge of one 
of the Houston territories. 

David B. Abramson is with BBDO at 
383 Madison Ave., New York. His duties: 
"advertising client contact." He commute? 
from Forest Hills. 

Valmore A. Pelletier, Jr., is at Albany 
Medical College (N. Y.). 

Arthur B. Williams, Jr., has been elected 
Secretary-Treasurer of the Junior Class 
at the General Theological Seminary in 
New York. 

1958 

Resse H. Harris III has been named 
Sales Manager of the Aerospace Products 
Division of Fenn Manufacturing Co., New- 
ington. Conn. He joined Fenn in 1958 fol- 
lowing service with the Arrow-Hart & 
Hegeman Electric Company in a sales 
capacity. 

Morgan G. Gilman, a recent graduate 
of the Yale Law School, has been assisting 
his father, George Gilman of Norwich, 
Conn., in the defense of Stanley B. Ro- 
manowski, charged with the first degree 
murder of a fellow farmhand last Nov. 
15. However, a promising career in the 
legal profession may be interrupted soon 
by Uncle Sam. 

James J. Noonan, a field engineer with 
Texas Instruments, is living in Rochester, 
N. Y., at 263 Camelot Dr. 

William B. Butler is an English teacher 
in Patchogue, N. Y. (School District 24). 
Butler, who lives at 60 Corey Ave., Blue 
Point, N. Y., received an A.B. from Hof- 
stra in 1959. 

Lt. Manuel Kyriakakis is Assistant Staff 
Judge Advocate at Altus Air Force Base, 
Okla. He was graduated from the Boston 
University Law School in June and passed 
both the Rhode Island and Massachusetts 
Bar Examinations before entering the serv- 
ice. 

1959 

Frederick C. Noyes, Jr., formerly with 
the J. Walter Thompson agency in Frank- 
furt, Germany, has joined the staff of 
Noyes & Co., Inc., Providence, to work in 
the agency's marketing and business de- 
velopment areas. Last summer he attended 
the International Marketing Institute at the 
Harvard Business School. 

William R. Wallace has accepted a po- 
sition with the Industrial Publishing Corp., 
Cleveland, where he is a member of the 
Customer Franchise Department, which 
handles advertising and public relations. 
He was discharged from the service Dec. 
15 at Fort Bliss, Tex., the Army Air De- 
fense Center. 

R. Clark Becker is a title examiner for 
Lawyers Title Company of Missouri in 
St. Louis. 

C. Douglas Fenner is a Graduate As- 
sistant in the French Department at Brown. 
He attended the University of Dijon in 
France during the academic year 1959-60, 
using a Fulbright Scholarship. The follow- 



ing year he began grad work at Yale un- 
der a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. He is 
currently writing an M.A. thesis in French 
for Yale and hopes to get his degree this 
June. 

Lt. Frank G. Atwood was transferred to 
the Vandenberg AFB in California. On 
Nov. 30 he received a tracer from the 
Brown Alumni Office asking for full par- 
ticulars. In answer to a question on "posi- 
tion," he wrote: "It is unknown at this 
time, for I arrived here only yesterday. 
I congratulate you on your quickness!" 

1960 
Will Mackenzie has the juvenile lead in 
"The Fantasticks," originally an off-Broad- 
way musical. During the holiday season a 
new company was playing at the Charles 
Playhouse in Boston, where Ted Holm- 
berg, Providence Journal-Bulletin Enter- 
tainment Editor, saw it and called it "one 
of the most delicious musicals I've seen in 
some time." He wrote: "Will Mackenzie, 
a Providence lad with a bright future is 
thoroughly engaging as The Boy, a role 
which appears simple at first glance but 
requires fine timing and understanding to 
prevent the character from becoming an 
Andy Hardy." 

Fran Pittaro has been moved up to the 
Wilson, N. C, club in the Class B Car- 
olina League by the Twins. He will begin 
workouts on April 1 at Fernandia Beach, 
Fla. The former Bruin baseball captain 
batted .287 for Erie in the New York- 
Penn League last season. He rapped out 
17 doubles, six triples, and one home run, 
had 70 RBI's, and scored 89 runs. 

Robert L. Battel, with the 969th Eng. 
Btn., writes: "Recalled after six months' 
tour. Due to be released in October, I 
hope." 

David M. Kelley enrolled at the Writing 
Workshop at the University of Iowa Grad- 
uate School in September, but Uncle Sam 
wanted him back for another stint in 
the Army. He's stationed at Fort Lewis, 
Wash., but hopes to be back in school by 
summer. 

Dooley McSweeney also got a note 
from Uncle Sam recently. He was working 
in Market Research as Special Assistant to 
the General Manager of the Courier-Citi- 
zen, Lowell, Mass. He was one of re- 
serves mobilized last fall and is stationed 
at Fort Chaffee, Ark. 

George DeWit is enrolled at Michigan 
Law School after taking a year's Sabbati- 
cal. His address: 1512 Geddes Ave., Ann 
Arbor. Mike C. Weston is in his second 
year at the same Law School. 

Daniel S. Connor is studying for his 
Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of 
Washington. 

Christopher B. Norton is studying 
abroad, at the University of Geneva. 

Jay Protass is in his third year at the 
New York University School of Medicine. 

Jim Couzelman is working for the First 
National Bank in St. Louis. 

Dana M. Newbrook is studying architec- 
ture at the Rhode Island School of De- 
sign and expects to graduate in 1963. 

LT(j.g. ) Ed Nicholson is serving aboard 
the USS Lester, stationed in Newport. "I 



get back to the Hill and home on occasion, 
when not in the Caribbean or bouncing 
around the North Atlantic." 

Ens. James D. de Mertier is stationed 
aboard the USS Wren, now on duty in the 
Med. 

Americo Germani has joined the Pur- 
chasing Department of Pratt & Whitney 
Aircraft in Hartford. "I find the work very 
interesting." he reports, "with plenty of 
hustle, bustle, and pressure time schedules 
to meet." 

Walter Foley, teaching history at Taft 
School, is also working on his MAT and 
hopes to write his thesis in Providence 
this summer. 

James A. Mclntyre is in his second year 
at the Stanford Law School. If all goes 
well, he'll finish in December and then 
take the California Bar Exam. 

Hugh Carmichael spent the summer of 
1960 working in a World Council of 
Churches Workcamp outside Johannes- 
burg, Union of South Africa. Last sum- 
mer he was in Atlanta serving as a Chap- 
lain intern at Georgia Baptist Hospital. 

E. Lang D'Atri is in his second year of 
Law School at the University of Cincinnati, 
where he is concentrating his studies in 
the fields of trials and tax litigation. 

E. LANG D'ATRI 

1961 

Dwight N. Mason is a grad student at 
the University of California in Berkeley. 
There are a number of other classmates 
there, including Colston Chandler, a grad 
student in the Physics Department; Mar- 
tin Wennick, who was in the History De- 
partment before leaving for Taiwan, For- 
mosa, to work for the Bank of Canton; 
and Robert Tracy, a grad student in His- 
tory and also the Manager of the Cinema 
Guild and Studio Theater. 

Allyn Freeman, with the American In- 
stitute for Foreign Trade at Phoenix, is 
polishing up on his Spanish and working 
toward another A.B., this time in Foreign 
Trade. Maintaining his interest in comedy 
and wit, he was a fill-in comedian at 
Harold's Club in Reno, Nev., for three 
weeks in December. 

Harry Usher is at Stanford Law School 
on a fellowship, with Corporation Law 
and Finance his main field of interest. He 
and his wife have decided they'd like to 
settle on the West Coast, and Harry has 
some thoughts of working for some film- 
producing firm in Los Angeles. 

Dick Wandmachner is a graduate stu- 
dent in Engineering at Stanford and hopes 
to get his Master's this June. Future plans 
include work for General Motors in De- 
troit. 

Bruce Bates is with the New York 
Telephone Company in Hempstead, N. Y., 
in the management training program. 

Peter S. Zimmerman, commissioned an 
Ensign in the Coast Guard Reserve, has 
been assigned to duty on board the Cutter 
Cactus, operating out of Boston. 

Robert B. Tunick is with Theodore 
Tunick & Co., 80 John St., New York 
City. He reports that he's specializing in 
all forms of insurance. 

WENDELL BARNES 



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Bureau of Vital Statistics 



MARRIAGES 

1933— Paul L. Maddock and Miss Judith 
Cady, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. 
Edwin T. Cady of Waban and North Fal- 
mouth, Mass., Jan. 13. The bride was 
given in marriage by her brother, Edwin 
B. Cady '33. James Maddock '58 was best 
man for his father, and an usher was Ar- 
thur F. Kroeger '33. At home: "Treetops," 
545 No. Lake Trail. Palm Beach, Fla. 

1934 — Coburn A. Buxton and Ellen 
Werner Halberstadt, daughter of Judge 
and Mrs. Herman E. Werner of Akron, 
Dec. 30. At home: 3411 Wylie Dr., Dal- 
las 35, Tex. 

1951 — Loring E. Hawes and Miss Ann 
E. Collins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack- 
son R. Collins of Wilmington. Del.. Dec. 
30. 

1956 — H. Boyd Cameron and Miss Jane 
H. Guthman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, 
Harold A. Guthman of Elyria, O., Dec. 
27. James R. Finnegan '56 was an usher. 
At home: 333 Washington Ave., Elyria. 

1956 — Irving J. Kane and Miss Sara 
Wise, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Abram 
Wise of New York, Oct. 1. At home: 10 
Emerson PI , Boston, Mass. 

1957 — Michael M. Klein and Miss Kath- 
ryn J. Osterman of New York City, Jan. 
6. At home: 79 W. 12th St.. New York 11. 

1959 — C. Douglas Fenner and Miss 
Meredith Woodbury, daughter of Mrs. 
Helen Woodbury of Boston, Mass., June 
24. At home: 162 Prospect St., Provi- 
dence 6. 

1959— David G. O'Connor and Miss H. 
Charlotte Sarrasin, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Philippe J. Sarrasin of Attleboro, 
Jan. 13. 

1959 — Charles A. Simberg and Miss 
Saralee Drubner. daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Hyman Drubner of Waterbury, Conn., 
Jan. 28. 

1960 — E. Lang D'Atri and Miss Sharon 
A. Danhof, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Clarence H. Danhof of New Orleans, Aug. 

12. The bride is Pembroke '61. At home: 
369 Probasco St., Cincinnati 20. 

1960 — Angus MacD. Green and Miss 
Margaret E. Mongan, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Eugene F. Mongan, Jr., of Bernards- 
ville, N. J., Dec. 1. At home: 70 So. Munn 
Ave., East Orange, N. J. 

1960 — Robert N. Lettieri and Miss June 
E. Thibodeau, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Theodore J. Thibodeau of Pawtucket, Jan. 

13. Robert Arruda '54 was best man; Wil- 
liam Gugli '54 ushered. 

l'J60 — Edward F. McSweeney, III. and 
Miss Josie H. Corning, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Levitt Corning of San Antonio, 
Apr. 29. At home: RD #1, Armonk, N. Y. 

1960 — Dana Newbrook and Miss Carol 
Mulleruy, daughter of Mrs. James F. Mul- 
leruy of Rumford. R. I., June 24. At 
home: 64 Elm Ave., Rumford. 

1960— LT(j.g.) Donald L. Peters, USN, 
and Miss Marilyn A. Scheibl, daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick A. Scheibl of 



Newport, R. I., Jan. 20. Ushers were 
LTtj.g.) William M. Pitt, USN, '60, and 
Dana Newbrook '60. At home: 42 Bur- 
lington St., Providence. 

1960 — Donald Poole and Miss Carole 
Holabird. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Evans 
R. Holabird of Orinda, Calif., July 1, 1960. 
At home: 400 Central Park, W., Apt. 17H, 
New York 24. 

1960 — Richard S. Press and Miss Janet 
R. Brown, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Har- 
old I. Brown of Worcester, Sept. 9. Ste- 
phen J. Feinberg '60. Martin B. Sloate '60 
and Alan J. Grace '62 ushered. 

1960 — Gordon E. Wood and Miss Jane 
Coffey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James 

B. Coffey of Springfield, Mass., Jan. 6. 
Thomas D. West '60 was an usher. At 
home: 946 Chestnut St., Springfield. 

1961— Lt. John J. Conron, III, USMC, 
and Miss Cheryl Snider, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. I. John Snider of Detroit, Dec. 
27. Present were Michael A. Conron '57, 
Prentiss DeJesus '61, Jonathan Kapstein 
'61, and Michael Prior '63. The bride is 
Pembroke '60. At home: 1003 Kenmore 
Ave., Fredericksburg, Va. 

1961 — James W. Kelly and Miss Elaine 
M. Guerra, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl 
A. Guerra of Wollaston, Mass., Jan. 6. 
Harold Stanford '61 was best man. G. Ar- 
thur Padmore '62 ushered. At home: 126 
Belmont St.. Wollaston 70. 

1961 — Arthur P. Lisch and Miss Jane 
T. Anderson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Hal C. Anderson of Birmingham, Mich., 
Jan. 8. 

1961— 2/Lt. Walter J. McNamara, Jr.. 
USMCR, and Miss Jean I. DesBarres, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. Mortimer 
DesBarres of New London, Conn., Dec. 

27. At home: 12 Whiting Lane, Milton, 
Fla. 

1962 — Robert C. Wachter and Miss Bar- 
bara R. Zimmerman, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Kent A. Zimmerman of Grosse 
Pointe, Mich., Dec. 22. 

1963 — Gregor W. Greer and Miss Mary 

C. Zettelman, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. 
Henry J. Zettelman of Evanston, 111., Dec. 

28. Best man was Robert Ashcom '62. 
James Greer '56 was an usher. The bride 
is Pembroke '62. 



BIRTHS 

1936 — To Mr. and Mrs. Gardner E. 
Wheeler, Jr., of Branford, Conn., twin 
daughters, Amy Woodruff and Sarah Tim- 
son, Nov. 26. 

1940 — To Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Mc- 
Laughlin of Greenville, R. I., a daughter, 
Mary Elizabeth, Jan. 1 I. 

1943 — To Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Fisler 
of Bronxville, N. Y., their first son, Parke, 
Nov. 28. 

1944 — To Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Castel- 
lucci of Lincoln, R. I., a daughter, Joanne 
Adele, Jan. 4. 

1946 — To Mr. and Mrs. Jeremy U. 



Newman of Bronx, N. Y., their third child 
and first son, Saul, Nov. 21. A grandfather 
is Rabbi Louis I. Newman 13. 

1947 — To Mr. and Mrs. J. Linus Ryding 
of Lincoln, R. I., a son, John Linus, Jr., 
Jan. 6. 

1948 — To Dr. and Mrs. Carmine J. 
Capalbo of North Providence, their fifth 
child and fourth daughter, Nancy Jane, 
Dec. 28. 

1949— To Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. 
Dodge of Moorestown, N. J., their third 
child and first daughter, Ellen Lynn, Nov. 
8. 

1949 — To Mr. and Mrs. Harold Gadon 
of Cranston, their third child and second 
daughter, Brenda Susan, Jan. 28. 

1949— To Dr. and Mrs. Malcolm G. 
Idelson of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., their third 
child and first daughter. Janine Heather, 
Jan. 13. 

1949— To Mr. and Mrs. Paul B. Rich- 
ards of Voorheesville, N. Y., their second 
child and first daughter, Eliza Clark, Jan. 
15. 

1949 — To Mr. and Mrs. Lester Shapiro 
of Cranston, a son, Morton Paul, Jan. 3. 

1950 — To Mr. and Mrs. Frederick M. 
Downey of Catonsville, Md., a son, Kent 
Frederick, Dec. 29. 

1950— To Mr. and Mrs. Ralph H. Sei- 
fert of Mansfield, Mass., their fourth child 
and second daughter, Melissa Louise, May 
22. 

1951 — To Mr. and Mrs. Elwood E. 
Leonard, Jr.. of Providence, their sixth 
child and third son, Anthony Lloyd, Oct. 
9. Mrs. Leonard is the former Barbara 
Martin. Pembroke '46. 

1951 — To Mr. and Mrs. John L. Mc- 
Henry of Lincoln, R. I., a daughter, Anne 
Marie, Dec. 18. 

1951— To Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Shep- 
ard, Jr., of Providence, a daughter, Pamela 
Louise, Jan. 17. 

1952— To Mr. and Mrs. Roland F. 
Dunn of Buenos Aires, Argentina, their 
second and third children, twin daughters, 
Terry Noel and Karen Lancaster, Oct. 15. 

1952— To Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur D. 
Newman of West Hollywood, Fla., a 
daughter, Sally Hopkins, Jan. 12. 

1952 — To Mr. and Mrs. Leo Vine of 
Shelton, Conn., their second child and first 
daughter, Marlene Ellen, Jan. II. Mrs. 
Vine is the former Doris H. Kreiger. Pem- 
broke '54. 

1953 — To Mr. and Mrs. Howard S. 
Freeman of Valley Stream. N. Y., a son, 
Lawrence Scott, July 14. Paternal grand- 
father is Warren Freeman '21. 

1953 — To Mr. and Mrs. John F. Val- 
inote of Roslindale, Mass., their second 
son, Thomas William, Dec. 20. Mrs. Val- 
inote is the former Joan Powers, Pem- 
broke '53. 

1954_To Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Gib- 
son of Pittsburgh, their second child and 
first son, Mark Gregory, Dec. 13. 

1954 — To Dr. and Mrs. Sidney M. Rich- 
man of Brighton, Mass., their second 
daughter, Karen, July 26. 

1955_To Mr. and Mrs. Paul C. Bos- 
land of Short Hills, N. J., a son, James 
Lockwood, Jan. 8. A grandfather is Prof. 
Chelcie C. Bosland. 

1955_To Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kha- 



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chian of Fairfield, Conn., their third child 
and first son, Gary Richard, June 21. 

1955 — To Mr. and Mrs. Peter Kohut of 
So. Kent, Conn., a daughter, Lynda Mary, 
Oct. 29. 

1955— To Mr. and Mrs. William H. Sar- 
gent of Annandale, Va., their fifth child 
and second son, Matthew Crawford, Nov. 
25. 

1955 — To Mr. and Mrs. Leo Setian of 
Norwich, Conn., their third child and first 
son, Richard, Nov. 20. 

1955 — To Mr. and Mrs. Kendrick 



Thayer of Northford, Conn., their first 
child, a son, Douglas Towne, Dec. 19. 
Mrs. Thayer is the former Joan Gately. 
Pembroke '55. 

1956 — To Mr. and Mrs. George A. 
Chapman of Carlstadt, N. J., their first 
child, a son. Grant Alan, Jan. 7. 

1956 — To Dr. and Mrs. Paul Chorney 
of Waltham, Mass., their third child and 
second daughter, Deborah Sharon, Jan. 15. 

1956— To Mr. and Mrs. Charles N. 
Crawford, Jr., of Corte Madera, Calif., a 
son, Steven David, Jan. 3. 



In Memoriam 



WILFRID WHEELER '98, in Falmouth, 
Mass., Dec. 25. He also attended Har- 
vard University, and Harvard's Bussey 
Institute. In 1913 he became Secretary 
to the State Board of Agriculture and 
in 1918 became Massachusett's first 
Commissioner of Agriculture. In the 
1920's he was engaged to develop a 
20,000-acre tract in Coonamesset and at 
Woods Hole. An internationally known 
expert on raising holly, he developed 
and named 21 new species which thrive 
on Cape soil from American. English 
and Japanese hollies. He has received 
innumerable citations from the Massa- 
chusetts Horticultural Society, including 
the Society's Burrage Gold Cup in 1955. 
He was a charter member of the So- 
ciety, and several times its Chairman of 
Exhibits. In 1960. he received an Hon- 
orary Degree from the University of 
Massachusetts College of Agriculture. 
Zeta Psi. His widow is Emily L. Wheeler. 
R.F.D. #1, Falmouth. 

EDWARD RATHBONE BANCROFT 01 
in Providence, Jan. 12. He was a re- 
tired investment broker, formerly asso- 
ciated with J. H. Goddard & Co., and 
Robert S. Wilcon Co., Providence. A 
founder of the Warwick Country Club, 
he was its first President, and for many 
years was an active participant in one- 
design sailboat racing on Narragansett 
Bay. Delta Kappa Epsilon. His sons are 
Edward R. Jr., '37 and William M. '37. 

ELTON MERVILLE ADYE '02, in Mont- 
clair, N. J., Dec. 21. During World War 
I he served with the YMCA, French 
Army. Before his retirement in 1944 he 
was a science teacher for 23 years at 
Nichols School, Buffalo. He also taught 
at North Attleboro, Providence Techni- 
cal, and Watertown (Mass.) High 
Schools. At one time he was President 
of the Adye Coal Co., Inc., Newark, 
N. J. Kappa Sigma. Phi Beta Kappa. His 
widow is Olga B. Adye. 137 Morning- 
side Rd., Verona, N. J. 

LEWIS STILLMAN RECORD '02. LL.B., 
University of Maine Law School '05, in 
Jaffrey, N. H., Dec. 12. He served as su- 
perintendent of Jaffrey Schools for 28 
years until his retirement in 1946. He held 



various teaching positions in New Eng- 
land until 1914, when he was made 
Principal of the Newport (N. H.) Ele- 
mentary School. Admitted to the New 
Hampshire Bar in 1906, he practised 
law in Newport from 1911 to 1915 and 
was Judge of the District Court for two 
years. He was later Superintendent of 
Schools for the Boothbay (Me.) School 
Union from 1916 to 1918. He was a 
member of the National Education As- 
sociation and the New Hampshire Edu- 
cational Council. He also was President 
of the Lincoln County (Me.) and Chesh- 
ire County (N. H.) Teachers' Association. 
Kappa Delta Phi. His widow is Ethel R. 
Record, School St., East Jaffrey. 

ASA LLOYD BRIGGS '04, in Ashaway. 
R. I., Jan. 25. He was a retired banker 
and former Hopkinton Representative, 
serving 10 years in the General Assem- 
bly from 1936 to 1946. In 1904 he en- 
tered the family business, the Ashaway 
Woolen Co., and was its President and 
Treasurer until 1932, when the business 
was sold. He then became a Director of 
the Ashaway National Bank and subse- 
quently its President and Cashier. He 
served on the Hopkinton Town Council 
and was Town Moderator from 1925 to 
1937. He also was a member of the 
Board of Directors of the R. I. Electric 
Protective Association. Zeta Psi. His son 
is Lloyd G. '31, 151 Main St., Altamont, 
N. Y. 

CALEB ARNOLD SLADE 04, in Pocas- 
set, Mass., Dec. 15. He was an interna- 
tionally known artist, particularly as a 
portrait painter. His studio at Truro, 
Mass., the mecca of many art lovers and 
summer people, was once a church. He 
painted many dignitaries there as well 
as in Washington, where he was once 
called the "painter of Senators." During 
World War I he served as Capt. with the 
U.S. Army Engineers in the camouflage 
units, and in World War II he was an 
inspector for the United Aircraft Corp. 
His paintings of the first World War. 
the Far East and the Holy Land, a pic- 
ture of former Vice-President Dawes, 
and Gen. Hines, were in his collection. 
His best known work was "Letter from 
the Front," which he turned out in Nor- 



mandy in 1914, one of the first paint- 
ings of World War I. It was used as a 
cover for Literary Digest and a frontis- 
piece for Woman's Home Companion, 
and reproduced in newspaper rotogra- 
vure sections throughout the country. His 
work can be seen at the Springfield, III., 
Art Museum, the John Wanamaker Col- 
lection in Philadelphia, and others. He 
was a member of the American Federa- 
tion of Artists. Zeta Psi. His widow is 
Irene W. Slade, Castle Rd., Truro. 

ALBERT ARTHUR DEAL '05 in Jack- 
son Heights, L. I., N. Y., July 28. He 
was a retired access clerk of the Chase 
Safe Deposit Co., N.Y.C. He formerly 
had been employed for 17 years as 
Providence Manager of the New Eng- 
land Tel. & Tel. Co. His widow is Aagot 
A. Deal, 37-36-88th St., Jackson Heights. 

CLARENCE IRVING PECKHAM '06, 
C.E., Thayer School of Engineering, 
Dartmouth College '07, in Washington, 
D. C, Oct. 31. Until his retirement 12 
years ago, he served as a civil engineer 
with Government agencies in New York 
State. He was a member of the Dart- 
mouth Society of Engineers. He also 
was a member of the Society of May- 
flower Descendants and the Sons of the 
American Revolution. His widow is 
Marion E. Peckham, 185 A Norwood 
Ave., Providence 5. 

THOMAS PARKER AYER '09 in Sara- 
sota, Fla., Jan. 4. He had been the dis- 
tinguished City Librarian in Richmond. 
Va., from the founding of the Public 
Library in 1924 until his retirement in 
1955, credited with its great develop- 
ment and unusual service. He was a 
leader in obtaining the enactment in 1936 
of the State law for the certification of 
librarians and served on the certifica- 
tion board for 13 years. Before going to 
Richmond, he served in the Libraries of 
Brown and Columbia Universities, the 
Providence Athenaeum, University of 
Illinois, and the Library of Congress; he 
was public Librarian at Reading, Pa. 
He also spent seven years as Head of 
the Federal Trade Commission Library 
in Washington. He was a member of the 
American and Virginia Library Associa- 
tions and the Bibliographical Society of 
Virginia. Phi Kappa Psi. Honorary mem- 
ber, Phi Beta Kappa, University of Vir- 
ginia '33. His widow is Leta T. Ayer, 
1521 Quail Dr., Sarasota. 

DR. CHARLES FLETCHER WARREN 
'09, M.D., Harvard Medical School '1 3, in 
Hatboro, Pa., Jan. 8. He was former Chief 
of Staff of the Anna Jaques Hospital, 
Newburyport, Mass., and on the staff of 
the Amesbury Hospital from the time of 
its establishment in 1927. He interned 
at Massachusetts General Hospital and 
then began practice in Amesbury, Mass. 
As a 1/Lt., he served two years in the 
U.S. Medical Corps during World War 
I. He was a Past President of the Essex 
North Medical Association, and served 
31 years as a member and Chairman of 
the Amesbury Board of Health. Kappa 



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Sigma. Lois W. Warren, 490 No. York 
Rd., Apt. Gl, Hatboro. is his widow. 

KVERETT SHEARMAN CARPENTER 
'11 in Providence, Jan. 6. He was a 
safety engineer with Grinnell Corp., 
Providence. A veteran of World War I, 
he was a Post Commander of Cumber- 
land Post, American Legion, and served 
as Department Executive Committeeman 
of the Legion for 10 years. In 1939, he 
assumed charge of the State Division 
of Factory Inspection, the first to be 
made under the new standard of quali- 
fications, and remained with the depart- 
ment until he joined Grinnell Corp. He 
is a member of the Providence Engi- 
neering Society and Blackstone Valley 
Historical Society, and a life member of 
the American Association of Safety En- 
gineers. His widow is Ruth C. Carpen- 
ter, 551 High St., Cumberland, R. I. 

EDGAR JEAN MARSTON 'II, in La 
Jolla, Calif., Jan. 8. He was formerly 
President of Texas Pacific Coal & Oil 
Co., from which he retired, and later 
became Chairman of the Board of the 
Western Electro Chemical Co.. which 
had offices in Los Angeles and Henderson, 
Nev. During World War I, he served as 
Capt., M.I.R.C, Asst. Military Attache 
in London, Eng. He also was awarded 
the British Military Cross. He was a 
member of the Union League and St. 
James of London, Eng. Alpha Delta 
Phi. His brother is Hunter S. '08, his 
son, Edgar J. Ill, '61, and his widow 
is Margaret H. Marston, P.O. Box 1201, 
La Jolla. 

THE REV. EDWARD IRVING EV- 
ERETT 14. in Phoenix, Ariz., Nov. 23. 
He was a graduate of Boston Univer- 
sity Theological School (S.T.B., 1917) 
and received an A.M. in 1931 from 
Hartford Seminary Foundation. He 
served for many years in the Belgian 
Congo under the Methodist Episcopal 
Board of Foreign Missions, retiring in 
1954. During his career as teacher and 
preacher in Africa, he kept in close 
touch with Brown by mail. He had been 
a member of the Regional Commission, 
Fonds du Bien-Etre Indigene (Congo 
Beige) and, since 1918, a member of 
the National Geographic Society. Phi 
Beta Kappa. Stella S. Everett, RR 3, 
Box 269, Lynden, Wash., is his widow. 
His brother is Dr. Paul E. Everett '09. 

JOHN JOSEPH SCOFIELD '15. in Los 
Angeles, May 15. In 1959, after 40 
years in the Real Estate and Insurance 
business in New York City, he retired 
and moved to California. In 1943 he 
was appointed Regional Administrator 
of Federal Rent Control with domain 
of authority in the States of New York, 
New Jersey, Pennsylvania. Delaware 
and Maryland, and held that post for 
three years. He then accepted a position 
as Vice-President of the Kempner 
Realty Corp., New York City. Prior to 
his Government work he was Real Es- 
tate Supervisor for the Superintendent 
of Insurance, State of New York, and 



before that had been managing director 
for important residential and commer- 
cial buildings in New York City. During 
World War 1 he served as a Lt. with the 
79th Field Artillery. He had been an 
officer of the Brown Engineering Asso- 
ciation. His son is Eugene M. '44, and 
his widow is Sylvia H. Scofield, 410 So. 
Hauser Blvd.. Los Angeles 36. 

DR. HENRY THEODORE HAGSTROM 
'17. in Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 2. With a 
Harvard M.D. (1922) he was attend- 
ing obstetrician and a consultant in the 
Department of Gyne-cytology at Meth- 
odist Hospital, Brooklyn. Except for a 
brief residency at the Sloane Hospital 
for Women in New York, he had 
been associated with Methodist Hospital 
throughout his career. During World 
War I he served for a year at the Base 
Hospital, Camp Sherman, O. He was a 
Diplomate of the American Board of 
Obstetricians and Gynecologists, a Fel- 
low of the American College of Sur- 
geons and Brooklyn Gynecological Soci- 
ety, and was formerly Medical Director 
to the New York Herald Tribune. 
He also was a member of the Harvard 
Medical Society, N. Y.. and a Director 
of the Cancer Detection Clinic, Meth- 
odist Hospital; he had written numerous 
papers. Sigma Phi Epsilon. His widow 
is Consuelo B. Hagstrom, 34 Plaza St., 
Apt. 609, Brooklyn 38. 

RAYMOND HALLIDAY '20, A.M. 
(Hon.), St. Anselm's College '31, in 
New London, N. H., Jan. 5. He was a 
Professor in the French Department of 
Proctor Academy. During World War I 
he served with the 103rd Field Artillery, 
26th Yankee Division. He formerly 
taught French in the Department of 
Modern Languages at Dartmouth, Mas- 
sachusetts State, Rhode Island State, 
Citadel Military, Providence Colleges, 
Brown and Columbia Universities and 
the University of Grenoble. France. He 
also had been assistant to Swimming 
Coach E. L. Barry at Brown, and helped 
with Freshman football at Dartmouth. 
Phi Gamma Delta. 

ALFRED LIVINGSTON GODDARD '23 

in Hartford, Conn., Jan. 8. He also had 
studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. Res- 
ident in Hartford for the past 12 years, 
he was a proofreader employed by the 
Hartford Courant and the U.S. Envelope 
Co. He also had done newspaper work 
in Lowell, Mass. His son is Ens. Jack- 
son Goddard, USN, Cape Canaveral, 
Fla. 

EDWARD WINSLOW LINCOLN '23, 
LL.B., Harvard Law School '26, in 
Providence, Jan. 18. He was a member 
of the law firm of Hinckley. Allen, Salis- 
bury & Parsons. During his profes- 
sional career he handled many labor- 
management relations cases. He also 
had served as Probate Judge in Bar- 
rington. K. I., for 10 years. He was 
Secretary for the Kleistone Rubber Co., 
Inc., of Warren, a member of the Board 
of Directors of Olney & Payne Bros.. 



Inc., in Pawtucket. and a former Board 
member of the Barrington District Nurs- 
ing Association and Rhode Island Coun- 
try Club. A championship golfer, he was 
a member of the Rhode Island, Ameri- 
can Seniors, Rhode Island Seniors, and 
the New England Seniors Golf Associa- 
tions. Phi Gamma Delta. His widow is 
Muriel McK. Lincoln, 248 Rumstick 
Rd., Barrington, R. I. 

HORACE PARTRIDGE '28, in Brook- 
line, Mass., Dec. 21. He was an invest- 
ment counselor at H. C. Wainwright 
Co., Boston, for more than 25 years. 
He also had been a retail merchandising 
salesman for Jordan Marsh Co., Boston. 
He was a former member of the Town 
Meeting and Advisory Committee in 
the Town of Brookline. Sigma Chi. Dor- 
othy H. Partridge, 50 Griggs Rd„ 
Brookline 46, is his widow. 

HOWARD ISYARD LEDDEN '35. LL.B., 
Harvard Law School '38, in Sandy 
Creek, N. Y., Dec. 16. He maintained 
two law offices, one in Sandy Creek and 
one in Adams, N. Y., and had practised 
law at Sandy Creek since 1939. He 
formerly had been with the firm of 
Bloodough & Cedden, Lacona, N. Y. 
He was a member of the Oswego and 
Jefferson County Bar Associations. Phi 
Kappa Sigma. His widow is Barbara S. 
Ledden, Sandy Creek. 

ROBERT BOONE BERTOLETTE '40. in 
Waterbury, Conn., Jan. 12. He also at- 
tended Trinity College. He had been as- 
sociated with the Hollis D. Segur Insur- 
ance Agency in Waterbury as a sales 
agent. He also worked for the Hartford 
Insurance Co., as a claims representa- 
tive and special agent. He is a former 
Director of the Waterbury American 
Red Cross and Visiting Nurses Asso- 
ciation and a Trustee and Past Pres- 
ident of the Waterbury American Can- 
cer Society. Delta Kappa Epsilon. His 
widow is Margery W. Bertolette, 309 
Lincoln, Waterbury. 

LT.(j.g) CHARLES HODGATE, JR., '56, 
near Sanford, Fla., Jan. 15. He was 
a twin-jet Naval aviator. According to 
a Navy spokesman, his "Sky Warrier," 
the Navy's largest carrier jet, caught 
fire shortly after take-off. Commissioned 
an Ens. in 1955, he took flight training 
at Pensacola, Fla., and received his 
wings in 1957. He was a carrier pilot 
and flew more than 100 missions as a 
night pilot, flying support missions at 
Beirut during the Lebanon crisis. His 
widow is Donna M. Hodgate, 2481 Pal- 
metto Ave., Sanford. 

STEPHEN DANIEL YOUMAN '56 in 

Stanford. Calif., Dec. 30. He was a 
third year Medical student at the Stan- 
ford University School of Medicine. He 
also had been an Ens. in the USNR. A 
"Stephen D. Youman Scholarship Fund" 
has been established at the Medway 
Savings Bank. Medway, Mass. His par- 
ents are Mr. and Mrs. David H. You- 
man. North St., Medway. 



MARCH 1962 



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F> A NDING 




Brown University stands today at the edge of 
greatness, thanks first and foremost to its loyal 
alumni. Their support over the years, and 
particularly in the successful capital gifts 
campaign phase of the Bicentennial Development 
Program, was a key factor in persuading the 
Ford Foundation of the wisdom of assisting 
Brown with a massive challenge grant. 






Alumni support through the Brown University 
Fund will help Brown realize the greatness that 
the Ford Grant has brought within its grasp.