BROWN 

ALUMNI MONTHLY 



JANUARY 1965 




Photo quiz: Where was the camera? 



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 
E. W. Harrington, Jr., '41 
Prof. I. J. Kapstein *26 
Stuart C. Sherman '39 



Managing Editor 

Chesley Worthington '23 



Assistant Editor 

John F. Barry, Jr., '50 

Editorial Associate 
Hazel M. Goff 



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BROWN 

ALUMNI MONTHLY 



JANUARY 1965/VOL. LXV NO. 4 



In This Issue: 



Why the Ford Foundation Offered Challenge 2 



Appraising the Special Program's First Years 



What the First Ford Grant Did for Brown 



A Look at Brown by One Who Returned to Teach 



5849 Participants in a Record Intramural Season 



New York's Bicentennial Concert: A Photo Report 



Giant-Killers in Two Holiday Hockey Tourneys 



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FRONT COVER 

DID THE COVER PHOTO puzzle you at first? What you see is familiar 
enough, even with the snowstorm blurring the distance: elms, lampposts, 
and bits of the College Fence are all hallmarks of the Brown Campus. But 
just where is this scene on College Hill and where did the photographer 
stand? The cue is in the Pump in the foreground. If you noticed that, you 
probably guessed right: Annette Gregoire, of the Brown Photo Lab. took 
the picture looking south from the north side of Waterman St. 




Ivy cut-back 



WHEN MAINTENANCE MEN at BrOWn 
were seen clipping away the ivy on 
certain College Hill buildings last fall, the 
Daily Herald reported that some of the 
students raised a great cry. The answer of 
the B&G men was that the ivy was damag- 
ing the buildings. On the John Carter 
Brown Library, for example, the ivy had 
even raised the roof by prying loose slate 
tiles and pushing them up. It was rough 
on bricks and mortar, too. 

■'I'd rather see buildings holding up ivy 
than ivy holding up buildings." was the 
comment of Thomas M. Sneddon '43, As- 
sistant Superintendent of Buildings and 
Grounds. An Evening Bulletin columnist 
remarked that, like most of the boys who 
attend school there, the ivy vines at Brown 
are irrepressible and will grow back. "The 
ivy, like the students, will sprout onward 
and upward and will be around a lot 
longer that the current crop of students." 

> IT WAS FUN to watch the telecast of the 
Brown-Harvard hockey game over Chan- 
nel Two (WGBH) on Dec. 17. The action 
had been taped the night before for show- 
ing on the station's regular Thursday night 
college sports program. 

Some viewers, however, got the impres- 
sion that the telecast was live. Among 
them was the small son of a Brown Dean, 
and it took considerable explanation to 
convey the idea that this was a repeat of 
what had actually taken place 24 hours 
earlier. The action was the same, and the 
score would be the same. 

"But how," asked the boy, "can they 
get the players to fall down again at the 
right time?" 



The audible shape . . . 

> THE LECTURES Scheduled on a college 
campus are dividends for anyone who 
works there, and we always scan the 
Weekly Bulletin of the University to see 
who is going to speak on what. To a lay- 
man, though, some of the announced titles 
are a warning of the specialized nature of 
what will be discussed at colloquia. Ex- 
amples: "Photopic retinal potentials evoked 
by phase alternation of a barred pattern." 
"Autoradiographic study of time of neuron 
origin in the hippocampal region of the 
mouse." 

But we wish we'd had courage enough 
to go and hear Prof. Mark Kac of the 
Rockefeller Institute the other day at an 
Applied Mathematics Colloquium in the 
Computing Laboratory. His theme was go- 
ing to be: "Can one hear the shape of a 
drum?" And we bet his answer was more 
than Yes or No. 

> A PARENT read our mention of a recent 
weekend program for parents of Brown 
Freshmen and recalled that, when her son 
Bill was in his first year, she was rather 
startled to be going to what had been 
billed as Freshman Parents' Day. It re- 
minded her of a time when this same Bill 
was 1 3 years old that she had occasion to 
point out to a friend that Bill was a bach- 




elor. The friend replied that Bill was "aw- 
fully young to be a bachelor." 

> AN AUSTRALIAN GIRL was Seeing her first 
football game in this country, according 
to the Penn State Alumni News, and it 
happened to be Band Day at State, with 
5000 high school musicians performing. 
She was asked her impressions of the 
game. 

"It was jolly good fun," she said. "Only 
I can't understand why the poor boys who 
gave each other such a beating weren't al- 
lowed to stay and hear the concert be- 
tween the halves. They deserve some con- 
sideration, you know." 

> A WRITER in the Harvard Medical School 
Alumni Magazine was explaining the differ- 
ence between Annual giving and Program 
giving by telling this story: "One bright 
day a pig and a hen were walking down a 
country lane and saw a sign outside the 
village church which read, 'Ham and Eggs 
Benefit Supper for the Church tonight. 
Everyone welcome.' 

" 'Well, isn't that nice?' said the hen. 
'I always like to see money given for a 
worthy cause.' 

"'Huh!' said the pig. 'Naturally you'd 
feel that way about it: for you it's only a 
contribution, but for me it's a sacrifice.' " 

> how's THAT AGAIN? President Keeney 
was writing in the Pembroke Alumna and 
said: "We selected 225 freshmen for Pem- 
broke from about 2000 applicants. Fortu- 
nately, the others were able to gain admis- 
sion to good colleges." 

> 'DEAN ROBERT O. SCHULZE will be the 

speaker," said the notice for a recent Fac- 
ulty Club luncheon. "He will speak on ed- 
ucation. It is expected that he will take the 
affirmative position." 

> THE BICENTENNIAL CONCERT at New 

York's Town Hall drew a capacity audi- 
ence of Brunonians delighted at the per- 
formance of the Brown and Pembroke 
Choruses. When it was over, the enthusi- 
asm prompted some 900 to walk along 
West 43rd St. to the Brown Club's "After- 
Glow." There were so many, in fact, that 
we had to cue up at the door of the Club- 
house. In the Princeton Club across the 
street there was some amazement at the 
size of the crowd. Asked what it was all 
about, one clubman was heard to say: "1 
guess Jackie Kennedy has just gone in." 




> THAT LITTLE PEACOCK, pride, came into 
our day when the woman asked us for our 
autograph not so long ago. As we thumbed 
the modest little booklet for an open space 
for our signature, we spotted one that be- 
gan "Dyl . . ." and then wandered off into 
a scrawl. The woman saw what we were 
studying and supplied the answer: "No, 
it's not Dylan Thomas." And then she 
added, somewhat without grace, as we 
started to write: "I never seem to be able 
to get any very good ones." 



Dials don't doit . . . 

y THE GIRLS who Staffed the switchboard 
in Little Compton, R. I., were like many 
in small-town telephone exchanges. They 
provided those little extras which linked 
the community in an unusual way. They 
generally knew where anybody was and 
could reach you if you were away from 
your home phone. What has happened in 
Little Compton was described in an edi- 
torial page report in the Providence Jour- 
nal by ]PB: 

"The telephone company told everybody 
it was progress last month when they took 
away our local operators and installed an 
automated dial system in a new brick 
building, but that's not the way most of 
us subscribers at Little Compton see it. 

" 'How am I going to be able to get the 
plumber?' complained the President of 
Brown University, who is a summer resi- 
dent. 

"How, indeed? In the good old days 
when you called the plumber and he 
wasn't in his office — which he often isn't — 
the operator would say: 'Eddie's not in the 
shop now, but he ought to be home in 15 
minutes.' Or, 'He's fixing the Jacksons' 
leaky sink. Try him at noon'." 

After seeing the column, we asked Dr. 
Keeney about it. Yes, he had been quoted 
correctly. Moreover, a few days later he 
did need the plumber at his place in Little 
Compton. Couldn't get him, either. 

> FROM OUR DECEMBER COVER, yOU may 

remember that the carving at the door 
identifies the new John D. Rockefeller, Jr., 
Library and adds the numerals MDCCCC- 
LXIIII for the year of its opening. A for- 
mer Trustee, whose tongue is occasionally 
in cheek, wrote to President Keeney to ask 
about the use of the four I's. "I thought 
that Brown was an IV college," he said. 

BUSTER 



Why the Ford Foundation Offered 



THE SECOND 
CHALLENGE 




THE STOCKING had been hung on the chimney of Uni- 
versity Hall with care. A little early, perhaps, but 
welcomed with relief and appreciation, the Christmas 
present to Brown came on Dec. 16: The Trustees of the 
Ford Foundation had voted the University a second grant 
under its Special Program for Education. 

Three years ago the Foundation had allotted $7,500,000 to 
Brown, contingent upon the University's raising twice as 
much money from other sources, apart from Government 
grants. Last June, only a few days before the deadline, the 
University felt it had "made its match" and announced that 
it had received $15,400,000 to meet the Challenge. The bell 
on U.H. was rung on June 25 to celebrate this victory. 

The new grant from the Special Program is for $5,000,000. 
made available on terms similar to those of the first round; 
Brown will have to raise two dollars for each dollar offered 
by the Foundation; again the period is three years. The goal 
of $10,000,000 will have to be reached by June 30, 1967, to 
qualify for the full amount from Ford. 

There'd Been "Reasonable Expectation" 

When the benevolent lightning of the Foundation struck 
for the second time on College Hill, it was, as President 
Keeney said, "no great surprise." The Foundation itself had 
suggested in 1961 that Brown could hold "reasonable ex- 
pectation" of a second grant in the event that it succeeded 
in its first undertaking. Thus, on one appearance before 
alumni leaders. Dr. Keeney had stressed an unpublicized as- 
pect of the three-year campaign; "If Brown fails to meet 
the Challenge of the Ford Foundation grant, it would not 
qualify for another." 

While the new conditions remain essentially the same as 
before, one generous feature was important; the Challenge 
II period is retroactive to July 1, 1964. In the interval, the 
James Foundation had made a grant of $2,000,000, which 
will count as matching money. Another million has also been 
raised toward the $10,000,000 goal. Thus, President Keeney 
could say with confidence; "There is every indication that the 
Challenge II objective is well within our reach." 

Daniel W. Earle '34, Director of University Development, 
put it another way when he talked with a student reporter of 
the Brown Daily Herald: "With gifts and pledges we know of, 
we have been given a running start toward the successful 
completion of the Challenge." At the present time, Earle said. 
Brown does not plan another immediate major capital cam- 

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paign on the model of those recently conducted. "The 
Brown University and Pembroke College Funds," he pointed 
out, "will be the major vehicles through which alumni and 
alumnae will be given the opportunity to contribute." 

The grant to Brown was one of three announced in De- 
cember by the Ford Foundation under its four-year-old Spe- 
cial Program in Education. Other beneficiaries are the Uni- 
versity of Southern California ($7,500,000) and Brandeis 
University ($6,000,000). both of v\hich had met the terms 
of earlier grants. 

The Program is "Special" in that the funds are for gen- 
eral support and may be used for any academic purpose the 
universities determine. This is in contrast to most Foundation 
grants, which are for a specified purpose, such as research, 
fellowships, or experimentation in curricula or teaching. The 
Special Program was established "to assist institutions in dif- 
ferent regions of the country to reach and sustain a wholly 
new level of academic excellence, administrative effectiveness, 
and financial support." In June, 1961, when Brown was 
chosen as the sixth institution included in the Program, a 
decisive factor. President Keeney said, was the University's 
master plan of development for the decade 1961-70. 

More Developments in Prospect Soon 

The plan has now run for a little more than three years, 
already bringing some significant results, both in educa- 
tional program and in new plant and endowment. "Even 
more notable developments are in immediate prospect," Dr. 
Keeney wrote in a prompt notification to alumni about Chal- 
lenge II. "The second grant will make the financing of them 
much easier than would otherwise have been the case." As 
before, the matching money (two dollars for each Ford dol- 
lar) must come from sources other than the Federal Gov- 
ernment and the Ford Foundation itself. 

During the seven years of the Bicentennial Development 
Program, Brown has received $63,500,000 in gifts and grants 
from all sources. 

In the three years ahead. Brown hopes to complete the 
financing of a Graduate Center and a Science Library, for 
v\hich substantial funds were accumulated during the first 
Challenge period. In addition, projects to be financed in large 
part by new gifts and grants received during the next three 
years include a field house and swimming pool, a Humanities 
Building, a Medical Science Building, renovation of the 
John Hay Library, and new dining facilities at Pembroke 
College. 

Planned additions to endowment will underwrite endowed 
professorships, the expansion of scholarship and financial 
aid, the purchase of library books, the support of an ex- 
panded program in medical education, and the growth of a 
fund functioning as endowment but available for other pur- 
poses when needed. The money allocated for operations will 
pay for such programs as summer stipends for Professors in 
the Humanities, cataloguing and fellowships at the John Carter 
Brown Library, the President's Experimental Education 
Fund, the strengthening of undergraduate teaching in Mathe- 
matics, a study of the feasibility of a Second Campus, inter- 
disciplinary fellowships, and seminars and lectureships. 

The good news in the holiday season was heart-warming to 
all Brunonians. The response from the undergraduates was of 
particular interest, and the Brown Daily Herald was a spokes- 
man in an extra published on Dec. 17. Its front-page edi- 
torial said, in part: 




"The University has every right to be proud that it has 
again been honored by the Ford Foundation. Clearly, the 
grant is an indication of the Foundation's faith in the Uni- 
versity as an institution of academic repute. The Challenge 
brings with it, however, a significant responsibility, for now 
it is up to the University to raise the required amount of 
matching funds. The task is made all the more difficult by the 
fact that Brown just last spring successfully completed a 
gigantic seven-year fund-raising program. Now the University 
must go back to many of the same sources and ask them for 
additional aid. 

"Some of them undoubtedly will refuse to help, but those 
of them who can afford it and, more important, who care 
about American higher education in general and Brown in 
particular — will not refuse. Excellence comes at an exacting 
price, but Brown and its supporters must be willing to pay 
it. An excellent Faculty is dependent upon excellent research 
facilities. An excellent hockey team thrives upon an excel- 
lent rink. And excellence, once established, must not be al- 
lowed to evaporate. We are confident that once again the 
Ford Challenge will be met with dynamic response and that 
once again the University will succeed where it must suc- 
ceed." 

Ford's Motivation 

THE Special Program in Education undertaken by the 
Ford Foundation was launched on these announced as- 
sumptions: 

1 . That the strengthening of American higher education is 
one of the primary means by which the Foundation pursues 
its objective of advancing human welfare. 

2. That the continuation of the established dual system of 
publicly-supported and privately-supported higher education 
is essential to the welfare of the nation. 

3. That regional peaks of excellence in privately-supported 
higher education are essential to nationwide intellectual vigor 
and growth, to over-all academic and institutional freedom, 
and to broad equality of educational opportunity. 

4. That regional excellence can be produced faster and 
sustained longer by building on existing institutions than by 
creating new ones. 

5. That support of selected institutions requires great re- 
liance upon the existing leadership of each institution in de- 
termining its programs, its priorities, and the pattern of its 
development. 

6. That a program of assistance on a somewhat massive 
scale is compatible with and can run concurrently with reg- 
ular Foundation programs, which deal in part with the same 
institutions but operate with different criteria and make more 
numerous grants in lesser amounts for more specific purposes. 
(Such other grants totaled $20,900,000 between September, 
1960, when the Special Program began, and mid-December. 
1964.) 



JANUARY 1965 



The Ford Program after 4 years 



IN September, 1960, the Ford Foundation announced a 
Special Program in Education, accompanying it with the 
first grants under that program — $46,000,000 to five 
privately supported American universities. Nine months later, 
Brown University became the sixth, when it received the 
challenge grant of $7,500,000 in June. 1961. 

In December, 1964, a little more than four years after the 
Special Program had been launched, the Ford Foundation 
reviewed its dramatic undertaking in a first report. "To- 
ward Greatness in Higher Education." The thoughtful Brown 
alumnus will study this report, not only for its citing of their 
University but for its implications for American education as 
a whole in a demanding age. 

He will read with pride and an accompanying sense of 
responsibility, for the report gives a background of under- 
standing. Even when it speaks in generalities, there is a 
distinct relevance to Brown University. It states the philos- 
ophy which prompted the Special Program and its rigid re- 
quirements. It answers the questions: How do you get a 
Ford Foundation grant in this category? Why was Brown 
included among the 10 universities which have benefited 
from it? Why is it one of the five which have received a Sec- 
ond Challenge? 

While this is obviously not the whole, comprehensive re- 
port, the following excerpts struck one reader as of special 
interest: 

AMONG THE DISTINCTIVE FEATURES of the second half of 
the 20th century is a worldwide commitment to educa- 
tion. The surge of educational expectations may well go down 
as the most important social movement of our time. Al- 
though American society has built an educational system of 
unmatched dimensions, it is intensifying a drive toward the 
goal of educating every citizen to the highest level of his 
ability. A fourth of the nation is in school. Expenditures for 
education exceed $30 billion a year, a sum greater than the 
income of the nation's agriculture, mining, construction, com- 
munications and public utilities, or transportation industries. 

In announcing the Special Program, Henry T. Heald, 
President of the Foundation, said: "The needs of American 
society, together with the demands placed on the United 
States by nations looking to it for leadership, call for an un- 
common advance in the number and quality of educated men 
and women. Each region of the nation needs more univer- 
sities of excellence and national stature." 

The most visible demand on higher education is for ex- 
pansion. Along with vastly increased numbers of students, the 
challenge to higher education is compounded by an explosion 
of knowledge. Most dramatically in science, but in other 
fields as well, the content of academic disciplines has ex- 
panded exponentially. New. newly synthesized, or radically 
reorganized knowledge is forcing the overhaul of curricula, 
lest they obsolesce or burst at the seams. Pressures for spe- 
cialization are challenging higher education to preserve its 
role of educating broadly through the whole realm of thought 
and knowledge. 

Moreover, higher education, especially at the university 
level, is subject to incessant demands for greater and more 



varied public service. The university is enlisted in research on 
national needs in defense and other fields. As many universi- 
ties contributed to the development of rural America through 
extension work, they are now being sought out for work on 
urban problems. The university's capabilities are being tapped 
for assistance programs in less-developed areas throughout 
the world. And higher education is urged to play a larger 
role in the advancement of education in the secondary and 
elementary schools. 

The Role of the Independent University 

There are no special virtues attached to a college or uni- 
versity because of the nature of its support. The main cri- 
terion is the quality of its program. Strong privately-supported 
institutions and strong publicly-supported institutions are both 
essential to the well-being of American society. 

But private universities and colleges generally have greater 
flexibility and freedom to innovate — to set new goals and un- 
dertake new departures (which is not to say that private uni- 
versities have a monopoly on creativity and excellence). Also, 
private institutions presently educate two million students, 
and it is unlikely as well as undesirable that this responsibility 
could be shifted to the public sector. 

The quality of American colleges and universities ranges 
from the superior to the mediocre. The handful of great uni- 
versities is not enough to provide the intellectual capital of 
American society in the next few decades. Fortunately, there 
is a reciprocal to this deficiency — the real aspirations of a 
number of universities toward first-rank competence. 

It is more difficult today for a university to realize aspira- 
tions to greatness. The pressures are greater, the costs higher, 
and the competition keener. The great universities are power- 
ful magnets for the outstanding scholars who, in turn, attract 
outstanding students. And the better universities, of course, 
are not resting on their laurels; they are seeking to become 
still better. 

A "Basic Condition" of the Ford Grants 

The chief lesson shared by the universities in the Founda- 
tion's Special Program is that university improvement is ex- 
traordinarily complex and subtle. To identify and keep in 
view the university's priority needs and to evaluate and keep 
in phase the actions required at many points, all Special 
Program universities have set forth and adopted detailed, long- 
range plans. Indeed, this was a basic condition of their grants. 

Universities also are too complex to be catapulted to 
eminence by a single personality. No matter how imaginative 
and energetic the academic leader, he needs the support of a 
first-class Faculty and Administration. He must also draw on 
several constituencies — alumni, friends of the university, the 
board of trustees, and, often, the immediate community or 
region. 

A number of private universities were engaged in the 
painstaking effort to climb to the top when the Ford Founda- 
tion began planning its Special Program in Education in 
1959. The program sought to speed them along their course. 

The Ford Foundation Trustees approved the concept of 
the Program in September, 1959. and a year of staff ex- 



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ploration followed, directed by James W. Armsey, then As- 
sociate Director of the Education Program of the Foundation. 
The Foundation's decision to make the grants on an institu- 
tion-wide basis was intrinsic to the objective of helping to 
advance the quality of selected universities as a whole. Put 
another way, general support funds should be used in ways 
the universities themselves believed would advance their 
over-all development. 

"Tell Us What You Want to Do" 

The principle of "no strings attached" applied not only to 
parts of the participating institution but also to academic 
purposes for which the funds could be spent. In a speech to 
a college group a few months after the initial grants, Mr. 
Armsey stated: "There is, in this program, no effort to 
dictate the substance or the method of institutional develop- 
ment — academically, administratively, or financially. When 
the question was asked. 'What do you want us to do?", I 
replied, 'Nothing. Just tell us what you want to do." That 
response tends to stimulate planning." 

Potential recipients have been identified on the basis of 
the following criteria: their commitment to superior scholar- 
ship, their plans and ability to make pace-setting improve- 
ments, the quality of their leadership, their potential for serv- 
ing as models for excellence in their regions, and strength of 
support from alumni and other sources. They are then asked 
to prepare far-reaching improvement plans encompassing the 
total institution. The planning by each of the recipient univer- 
sities has been characterized as one of the most thorough and 
severe processes in the history of American higher education. 



Each university president is asked to project his thinking 
for his institution's development for the next five and 10 
years. Each is reminded that buildings constructed now will 
be in use 40 years hence, and each is asked whether he has 
thought far enough ahead about his academic program to 
justify the kind of physical plant he is building. Each is 
asked to outline his plans, hopes, educational objectives, and 
priorities. 

(In the April issue of this magazine in 1962, President 
Keeney shared with Brown alumni those plans and hopes 
which he had submitted to the Ford Foundation and which 
had carried weight when the Foundation gave the University 
its first challenge award. It was a brief outline of develop- 
ments on College Hill in the 1950-60 decade: it explained 
the goals and priorities of the 1960-70 decade, all thoroughly 
documented. As he was concluding. President Keeney said; 
"I should say that the single most important factor in the 
selection of Brown to receive this grant was its alumni.") 

The Foundation staff stresses that, while the grants give 
the universities' leadership leverage and freedom in which to 
advance their programs, they also impose on the leadership 
a heavy responsibility to make hard decisions necessary to 
reach and maintain a new plateau of performance. Mr. 
Armsey recalls that he told university officials that the grants 
would not eliminate their problems: "It may solve a few im- 
mediate problems, but it will create others. It won't make 
your life happier. The wholly new level of excellence the 
grants are designed to help you reach, while it is comforting 
to contemplate, is disturbing and disruptive to achieve." 



JANUARY 1965 



3 Pillars of 
Improvement 



WHAT HAVE BEEN THE RESULTS in the first few years of 
the Ford Foundation's Special Program in Educa- 
tion? Its first report provides some answers, here ex- 
cerpted as of particular interest to Brown alumni: 

Inevitably, the eflforts to meet the matching requirements 
have assumed a competitive character, but a university's per- 
formance in being first — or last — to meet its goal does not, in 
the Foundation's opinion, necessarily imply its performance is 
better or worse than other recipients. The Special Program 
grants were made to some universities that had just completed 
major fund-raising campaigns (this was the case with Brown 
University. — Ed.), others that were in mid-stream in major 
campaigns, and others that were about to begin. Naturally, 
the stage of fund-raising afi'ected the speed with which the 
universities could meet the extraordinary challenge presented 
by the Foundation grant. 

As it turned out, Johns Hopkins succeeded in raising 
$12 million to meet its $6 million grant less than half-way 
through the three-year period. It received a second $6 mil- 
lion grant in 1962 and matched that well ahead of schedule 
in 1964. Stanford, which had until 1965 to raise its large 
total of $75 million to match the Foundation grant, reached 
its goal a year ahead of time. 

"Accurately and Realistically Calculated" 

On the fact of it, it would appear that Brandeis University 
and the University of Southern California set a record by 
meeting their matching requirements in little over a year's 
time. However, each had the qualifications for and the ca- 
pacity to meet larger grants than they actually received ($6 
million and $6.5 million respectively), but the Foundation's 
budget for the Special Program that year did not permit it 
to make larger grants. Both universities received second Spe- 
cial Program grants in December, 1964. 

At the same time. Brown University received a second 
grant. The fact that Brown had taken almost the full three 
years permitted to match its initial grant of $7.5 million 
demonstrates nothing more than that its first grant was ac- 
curately and realistically calculated. . . . 

The program was of long-range significance to American 
education, the Providence Journal said, because it "cracks 
through the invisible barrier that seems to have held the num- 
ber of universities of nationwide strength and influence to a 
minimum." 

One of the distinctive elements of the Special Program has 
been its intimate linkage with long-range planning. Indeed, 
one of the principal results even at this interim stage can cer- 
tainly be said to be the impetus the Program has given to 
long-range planning by colleges and universities throughout 
the country, nonrecipients as well as recipients, public as well 
as private. 

The volume itself has also called nationwide attention to 
the vast financial requirements for expanding quality in 
higher education. Officials of the participating universities 



also report that the challenge grants have led to the recruit- 
ment of new donors and expanded the dimensions of giving 
among regular benefactors. . . . The universities report that, 
as a result of their successful campaigns, procedures for 
continued steady growth of contributions for immediate and 
long-range needs have now been established. 

It Allows "Attention to Prosaic Needs, Too" 

The grant funds proper have permitted the universities to 
accelerate and add to their academic plans. The funds have 
permitted attention to prosaic needs for which it is not easy 
to raise money. For example, it is easier to raise funds for 
construction of a building than for furniture and laboratory 
equipment to put it to work. In the last decade. American 
higher education has succeeded in persuading donors of the 
importance of gifts for Faculty salaries, but it is still diffi- 
cult to raise funds for increased fringe benefits for the cus- 
todial staff, sabbatical leaves for Faculty, or for repairs to 
an institution's heating plant, to say nothing of experimental 
academic programs. . . . 

The universities have used the grants and matching funds ~ 
for the three pillars of academic improvement — better stu- 
dents, first-rate Faculty, and adequate facilities where the two 
groups can work together. Often, of course, the needs inter- 
lock. Thus, for example, it is difficult to recruit first-class 
Faculty members in the sciences if laboratory and other fa- 
cilities are inadequate; good students are attracted by good 
Faculty, and so on. 

(The Ford Foundation report, "Toward Greatness in 
Higher Education," deals primarily with the universities, since 
the college phase of the Special Program began a year later 
than the university phase.) 

Caveat from Keeney 

WE APPEAR to be in an excellent position to reach the 
Challenge II matching fund goal of $10,000,000 with- 
out a capital funds campaign," President Keeney told alumni 
of Brown and alumnae of Pembroke in a special announce- 
ment mailed to them straightway upon receipt of word that 
the Ford Foundation Trustees had approved the second 
grant to the University. 

He referred to the grant of $2,000,000 from the James 
Foundation, which was reported in a recent issue of this 
magazine. "This sum, which meets the Ford standard of 
eligibility for matching money, has provided a sound base 
on which to build," Dr. Keeney wrote. "In addition, we have a 
fairly substantial total of pledged money that we know will 
be coming in from other eligible sources during the Chal- 
lenge II period. 

"We must, of course, avoid falling victim to a brand of 
overconfidence that would lead us to relax our normal ac- 
tivities in support of the University. I am confident we can 
reach the new goal provided we continue to direct careful 
attention to the opportunities for special gifts and grants from 
corporations and foundations, and provided we receive con- 
tinued loyal response by large numbers of alumni and alum- 
nae to our regular annual giving campaigns." 

To the press, Dr. Keeney said on the day the Foundation 
announcement was made: "The new grant is an essential 
help in carrying forward the 10-year program of educational 
growth that was projected in 1960 before the first Ford 



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grant. This second grant recognizes the success of the Uni- 
versity in meeting the first Challenge. It encourages further 
progress in the next three years. Brown, in turn, recognizes 
with thanks the dedication and generosity of her alumni and 
friends." 



The 'Third Force 



•)•) 



FRANCIS C. Pray, Vice-President of the Council for Fi- 
nancial Aid to Education, contributed to the Ford Foun- 
dation report a thoughtful estimate of the implications for 
educational finance. "The Ford Foundation Special Program," 
he said, "is just one — though perhaps the strongest — of sev- 
eral factors strengthening and reaffirming the role of private 
sectors of our society in support of colleges and universities. 

"The demands of growing numbers of college-bound high- 
school graduates and their anxious parents have pushed Fed- 
eral, State, and local governments into considering dramatic 
new commitments to tax support for higher education. The 
Special Program's challenge grants have provided a parallel 
inducement, stimulating not only the recipients but many 
other enterprising private institutions to face more optimis- 
tically, imaginatively, and courageously the task of seeking 
support for new quality and service levels while remaining 
independent. The more than three-quarters of a billion dollars 
generated by the Special Program for the support of private 
higher education has helped reaffirm the possibility of main- 
taining a viable balance between public and private colleges 
and universities. 

"As an unexpectedly significant by-product, the Program 
has helped improve understanding of the role and problems 
of higher education by a large number of America's top cor- 
porate and professional leaders and by uncounted thousands 
of college alumni. 

"The quality of careful planning prerequisite to qualifica- 
tion of an institution for a Ford Foundation Special Program 
grant lent an unmistakable mark of authenticity to its own 
claims. Thus new patterns being set for trustee and volunteer 
relations with colleges and universities are becoming widely 
adopted throughout the field of higher education. The base 
for long-range success possible in this strengthened common 
interest may be in the long run the most valuable and per- 
vasive outcome of the many capital fund drives sparked by 
the Special Program. 

"One could find considerable support for an estimate that 
this single series cf grants has improved total philanthropy 



What the Three Demonstrated 

COMPANIONS to Brown University as beneficiaries in the 
December Ford Foundation announcement were Bran- 
deis University and the University of Southern California. 
Dr. Henry T. Heald, President of the Foundation, said of 
the three universities: "They have demonstrated that, with 
the support of strong educational leadership and imagina- 
tion, they could marshal the financial support vital to meet 
the high goals they have set for themselves. They have 
raised extraordinary sums of money, but they are also tak- 
ing extraordinary steps to mesh the elements of Faculty, 
students, program, and plant into national centers of out- 
standing scholarship, teaching, and service to society." 




for higher education — which had been around $1 billion a 
year — by perhaps one eighth to one sixth — a remarkable 
achievement. ( It has had less effect on corporate giving than 
on alumni giving.) 

"Dramatically and persuasively, the Special Program has 
bolstered the conviction that private education must and can 
develop private resources to remain fully competitive in qual- 
ity and service. 

"Motivation provided by the matching aspect is difficult to 
assess. Clearly, it motivates the recipient institution to face 
a total job. It is less clear that the prospect of having his 
dollars matched has had any great motivating effect on the 
donor. A number of knowledgeable development officers be- 
lieve that the matching aspect alone would not unlock any 
significant number of dollars in the absence of a persuasive 
case built on a program of valid educational objectives. 

"The matching feature, therefore, has been most effective 
by forcing the institution to a new dimension of effort and 
by providing a deadline that encourages better campaign man- 
agement and a spur to earlier donor action. 

"In general, the program has been most dramatically suc- 
cessful in underlining and reaffirming philanthropy as the 
great "third force' in college financing, an essential partner 
in support of higher education along with tax support and 
student tuiticn. Its impact is a new challenge to the convic- 
tions of individual citizens, boards of corporations, labor 
unions, churches, foundations, and others in maintaining the 
diversity, responsiveness, and flexibility in our system of higher 
education in America." 



JANUARY 1965 




Specifically about Us 

SOME SPECIFIC REFERENCES to Brown University in the first 
Ford Foundation report were the following: 

Admission. The universities generally reported increased 
undergraduate and graduate enrollments, but they stressed 
the improved quality rather than quantity of their new stu- 
dents. Brown and Brandeis Universities and the University of 
Southern California all reported continued increase in Col- 
lege Entrance Examination Board median scores. Some 
universities made organizational changes to obtain better stu- 
dents. For example. Brown, U.S.C., and Brandeis adopted ad- 
mission procedures to identify students of high potential who, 
for whatever reason, have unimpressive test ratings. . . . The 
numbers and quality of graduate students also increased. 
Brown increased its total by one-third to 1143 between 1960 
and 1964. 

Faculty Strengthening. The universities made material ad- 
vances in increasing Faculty salaries and recruiting new tal- 
ent. Brown raised salaries selectively and across the board, 
bringing its scale up to or beyond its 1960 projection. For ex- 
ample, the target salary for full Professors was set at $15,000, 
but the actual median salary of Professors in 1964-65 is 
$16,000. As one result. Brown was able to recruit eight new 
Faculty members in Applied Mathematics for its research 
center on dynamic control systems. 

Curriculum Improvement. Brown took decisive steps dur- 
ing the first grant period to liberalize curriculum requirements, 
giving much greater leeway to students wishing to specialize 
and work on their own. Honor students are now able to do 
independent research for which they receive course credit. 
Brown also reported rapid progress in Language teaching and 
Linguistics; instruction in Chinese and Arabic was intro- 
duced, and additional staff appointments were made in the 
Department of Russian Studies. The projected program of 
advanced teaching and research in Linguistics received strong 
outside financial support. 

Other Reforms. To some universities, the Special Program 
brought organizational challenges. Brown, for example, 
strengthened its general organization by creating a new posi- 
tion, that of Dean of the University, the equivalent of Pro- 
vost in other universities, enabling the President to delegate 
some of his responsibilities. A principal administrative officer 
and a principal development officer have also been appointed. 

Building and Equipment. All participating universities 
have substantially improved their plant and equipment, re- 
flecting the need for new facilities to cope with increased en- 



rollments and the demands, particularly in science, for in- 
creasingly elaborate and complex research and learning tools. 
Brandeis, Brown, Notre Dame, and Stanford Universities de- 
voted major attention to improving their library facilities. 
Brown's largest single building project was a new library 
that opened in the fall of 1964. A new Engineering and Phys- 
ics Building will be occupied in 1965. 

Significant Totals 

THE FOLLOWING TABLE identifies the 10 universities which 
have received grants under the Ford Foundation's Special 
Program for Education. It gives the amount of each grant 
to date, the matching sum which the institution must provide 
from appropriate sources, and the total of resulting new 
funds for each university. The total is spectacular and im- 
pressive. 



Brandeis* 

Brown* 

Denver 

Johns Hopkins* 

NYU 

Notre Dame* 

use* 

Stanford 

TULANE 

Vanderbilt 
47 Colleges 
TOTAL 



Foundation 
Grant 

5 6,000,000 
6,000.000 
7,500,000 
5,000,000 
5,000,000 
6,000,000 
6,000,000 

25,000,000 
6,000,000 
6,000,000 
6,500,000 
7,500,000 

25,000,000 
6,000,000 
4,000,000 

91,000,000 
5218,500,000 



Matching 
Requirements 

$ 18,000,000 
18,000,000 
15.000,000 
10.000.000 
10.000,000 
12,000,000 
12.000.000 
75.000,000 
12.000.000 
12.000,000 
19,500.000 
22,500,000 
75.000,000 
12.000,000 
8,000,000 
225.500.000 

$556,500,000 



Total 

New Funds 

Resulting 

$ 24,000,000 
24.000,000 
22,500,000 
15,000,000 
15,000,000 
18.000.000 
18.000,000 
100.000,000 
18.000.000 
18,000.000 
26,000,000 
30,000.000 
100.000,000 
18,000,000 
12,000,000 
316,500,000 

$775,000,000 



All grants were for a three-year period, except for those to 
New York and Stanford Universities, which were for five 
years. The asterisk calls attention to recipients of a second 
grant. 

The Potential Shown 

When New York University became the lOth univer- 
sity to benefit under the Ford Foundation's Special 
Program for Education last June, James W. Armsey said 
that the elements sought in eligible institutions were present 
in each of the 10. "They vary, of course." he pointed out, 
"but the potential of each has been clearly evident in the 
leadership of its President. All have been headed by able 
educator-administrators. All have been fortunate in having 
Trustee groups that are dedicated to privately-supported 
higher education and to the universities with which they are 
associated. 

"The Ford Foundation intends the matching terms to be 
most beneficial to the university in elevating its fund-raising 
level, developing its constituency, and hopefully pushing its 
goal upward. In this process, no group is more important 
than the alumni." 



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A DYNAMIC PRESENT 



♦•♦,-7— Wf^ 



Marston Hall 



On my 
return 
to Brown 



by Detlev W. Schumann 



On revient toujoiirs 

A ses premiers amours. 

A FTER FOURTEEN YEARS at Brown, in the course of 
/\ which I had vocationally come up through the ranks 
■L ^ and had avocationally founded a family in partner- 
ship with a Providence-born Pembroke graduate, I ac- 
cepted a call to the University of Illinois in 1949. Seven 
years there were followed by five at the University of Penn- 
sylvania. 

The Brown chapter in my life seemed closed. A number 
of times I returned to Providence for brief visits — rarely 
from Champaign /Urbana, more often later from Philadel- 
phia. Somehow the first expedition after each arrival here 
was to the campus. There were always many old friends to 
greet, and sometimes new buildings to behold. I remember 
how interested I was when, after an absence of several 
years, I first saw the Wriston Quadrangle, how impressed 
with the ingenious aesthetic utilization of limited space, 
with the great variety of pleasant vistas that had been 
achieved. 

From year to year the feeling grew that the campus on 
the hill was more than a place with which, somewhere 
along the line, I had had a casual connection. When my 
wife took me to an alumni dinner in Philadelphia — it must 
have been early in 1961 — this feeling became stronger and 



more articulate. Later that year I found myself confronted 
with the utterly unexpected problem of a possible return to 
Brown in the capacity of chairman of the German Depart- 
ment. In the fall I went to Providence for interviews and 
negotiations. 

I was a guest in Gardner House. Beware of Gardner 
House — it has an enchanting and ensnaring power. I re- 
member lying there in a four-poster bed, suddenly wanting 
really intensely to return to this campus and feeling de- 
jected in the face of certain complications and difficulties 
which I saw and which at the moment I did not know how 
to resolve. 

But resolved they were, and in September, 1962, I was 
back — back in Marston Hall, which still had exactly the 
same musty (somehow semi-pleasantly musty!) smell as 
of yore, an odor by which I would identify it if I were left 
there blind-folded after years of rotating in outer space. 

But, of course, my reasons for returning were by no 
means all of a sentimental nature; very practical considera- 
tions entered into the matter. Only one point shall be men- 
tioned here: the summer stipends which carry no obligation 
other than that the bulk of vacation time be devoted to re- 
search, thus enabling a scholar to do with a good con- 
science what he really wants to do anyway and relieving 
him of the necessity of reluctantly accepting a summer 



JANUARY 1965 



II 



teaching position elsewhere because the house needs paint- 
ing. 

HERE WE HAVE REACHED what is really the most im- 
portant point: the role which Brown plays as a 
scholarly institution. It has made considerable strides in 
this respect and may be expected to make even greater 
ones in the future. 

At the time of my first "incarnation" at Brown ( demy- 
thologizers are begged not to take ofTense) the Graduate 
School, if 1 remember correctly, comprised no more than 
about one tenth of the total student enrollment. Its impact 
on the undergraduates was moderately strong. Now it 
represents close to one quarter of the total, and it seems to 
me to affect the general atmosphere far more potently. I 
realize that American college students are altogether more 
graduate-school-conscious and graduate-school-oriented 
than they were twenty or thirty years ago; but I also do 
believe that here at Brown the stimulation of the under- 
graduate body by the Graduate School has been especially 
effective. It is (and, of course, always was) promoted by 
the overlapping of graduate and undergraduate instruction 
in the lOO-courses. Some institutions do not favor this sys- 
tem. I am glad we have it; in my opinion such courses 
benefit the undergraduates (for obvious reasons), the 
graduate students (who are thus assured of something they 
are entitled to: a limited area of non-overspecialized 
courses), and the teacher (who is forced to present some- 
thing substantial in terms that are appropriate and valid 
yet not esoteric). 

Despite much confusion of terminology the degree- 
granting institutions of this country fall roughly into two 
categories: on one hand independent undergraduate col- 
leges, on the other universities comprising both under- 



n)oS^^7^. 




liJii! 








John Hay Library 



graduate and graduate students; independent graduate 
schools are exceptional and serve special limited purposes. 
It is therefore clear that the primary responsibility for the 
furthering of scholarship and for the training of scholarly- 
minded teachers rests with the mixed graduate-undergrad- 
uate institutions. Without making any excuses whatsoever 
I want to say that I see a university in the proper sense — 
hence Brown — as an institution centered on productive 
scholarship and graduate training. Undergraduates — the 
undergraduates whom we want and who can fully utilize 
our human and material resources — will not suffer, but 
rather greatly benefit from such orientation as long as it is 
tempered — as it should be under all and any circumstances 
— with liberality of spirit and with common sense. 

The influx of ever greater human masses into college 
will in time, it appears to me, lead to a clear pragmatic 
and eventually perhaps even to a formalized separation of 
academic and essentially non-academic (far better than 
pseudo-academic!) colleges. It is already clear that some 
colleges tend to be upward extensions of the high school, 
others downward extensions of the graduate school. This 
should not send a chill down our spines. A productive 
scholar need not be a bore — he has no more right to be a 
bore than anybody else. I do not believe that the produc- 
tive scholar is relieved of the duty to teach well, to give a 
clear, intelligible, stimulating presentation of his material, 
and to be concerned about his students. Nor do I believe, 
on the other hand, that at a place like Brown good teaching 
is per se enough. Least of all do I believe in that folklore 
according to which there is a magic correlation between 
lack of research and excellence of teaching. 

BUT TO RETURN TO Brown — Its "image" has consider- 
ably changed over the decades. I remember the ques- 
tion asked of me sometime in the 'thirties by a kindly old 
Providence gentleman. Hans Kurath, the distinguished 
linguist who was then my chairman, was teaching a course 
at the Yale Graduate School as a visiting professor. The 
gentleman in question said: "I hear Professor Kurath is 
going to New Haven once a week. Is he getting his doctor's 
degree at Yale?" Yale (and presumably Harvard) awarded 
Ph.D. degrees — Brown was thought of as being at the 
receiving end. Such a remark was tragicomic then, but it 
seems unimaginable now, even from the least-informed 
member of the non-academic world. 

Again and again one senses in random remarks made 
by colleagues at sister-universities that Brown is considered 
one of the ranking institutions, one with which it is highly 
desirable to be connected. Often the emphasis is on the 
rate of qualitative growth. 

And so we may hope that a few years hence we will be 
noticeably further ahead than we are now. The new library, 
with expanded facilities, will be a great asset on the side 
of the humanities and the social sciences, as the gigantic 
science building now under construction will be in its own 
area. A humanities building would be a great boon, as 
would be a Graduate Center, a place giving the graduate 
students a stronger awareness of belonging to an organic 



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corporate entity. The social fragmentation of graduate- 
student bodies, with the resulting danger of intellectual 
narrowness and departmental parochialism, has always 
appeared to me to be one of the weaker spots in the 
academic life of America. 

I would like to say a few words about our organizational 
setup. The integration of Pembroke College into the Uni- 
versity — an integration without loss of individuality — 
strikes me as most successful. In my own area, that of 
modern languages, we originally had two departments: 
Romance Languages and German. Then came unification, 
advantageous when the University had about 2,000 stu- 
dents, less advantageous when this number was roughly 
doubled. The present system of a confederation (or a 
"Common Market") of five autonomous departments 
(French, German, Linguistics, Slavic, Spanish -I- Italian), 
with interdepartmental "co-ordinators" for certain matters 
of common concern and with a Modern Language Board 
consisting of the five chairmen and the two co-ordinators, 
unites in an unusual measure the advantages of small ad- 
ministrative units and those of a larger one. For some pur- 
poses the five afore-mentioned departments work together 
with Classics and English in the Council for Languages 
and Literatures. 

The setup preserves flexibility; small units retain their 
identity and surveyability, and a balance is established be- 
tween variety and uniformity. 

Size, incidentally, has always seemed to me one of 
Brown's most attractive features. When it had 2,000 
students, it was big enough for people (on the whole) to 
mind their own business; with 4,000 students it is still 
compact enough to preserve organic unity. 

Finally, I would like to say a few words about the re- 
ligious aspect of Brown campus life. I am impressed with 
the way the work of the Rev. Charles Baldwin and of the Rev. 
Julius Scott is dovetailed with that of the denominational 
chaplains. I like going to the Episcopal student services at 
St. Stephen's Church, but I also like going to the chapel in 
upper Manning Hall, which serves three branches of 
Christianity and Judaism too. The universality of its re- 
ligious function somehow seems to have a fitting aesthetic 
counterpart in its serene airiness and beautiful clear-cut 
lines. I often take visitors to see it. 

I have spoken with some warmth, and perhaps I have 
succeeded in giving an idea of the reasons for my return 
to Brown, this place with a past rich in tradition, a dy- 
namic present, and a potentially great future. 

Is THERE NO ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT? There is plenty! 
I spoke above of a potentially great future. 
The departments are uneven in quality; some are more 
clearly committed to the idea of a nationally leading and 
internationally significant university than others. I have 
already mentioned the need for helping the body of gradu- 
ate students to achieve cohesion, to become a corporate 
entity; this is a problem which we share with most other 
universities. The undergraduates are intellectually more 
alert than they used to be. But there are areas where disci- 




ROCKEFELLER LIBRARY 



pline is weak. Some students lack the most elementary idea 
of what craftsmanship in writing is; too many term papers 
are dashed off, deficient in English syntax, spelling, 
punctuation, proof-reading. If all departments would co- 
operate in this! Library behavior leaves something to be 
desired with regard to the treatment both of books and of 
fellow readers. Among my pet objects of antipathy are 
whispered conversations in reading rooms and feet (in 
would-be-white socks) on library tables. Professorial 
heroes of old, such as George Kittredge of Harvard, walked 
about blithely knocking off hats with their canes; alas, in 
most of us moderns the native hue of resolution is sicklied 
o'er with the pale cast of thought. 

But I hasten to add that the John Hay Library is one 
of my favorite spots on earth. May the Rockefeller Library, 
all new and shiny, become as lovable as the Hay is. 

Altogether, I trust it is clear by now that I really like 
Brown. On summer evenings my wife and I almost regu- 
larly take the following stroll: 

From our home we walk along Power Street. At the 
corner of Power and Brown, where the President hves, we 
enjoy the sight of some of the stateliest old mansions on 
the East Side. We turn into Brown Street, cross College 
Green, continue to Gushing Street, turn right again, and 
take in the various pretty perspectives of the Pembroke 
campus. Then we go on to Aldrich-Dexter Field and thence 
turn into Cooke Street, which takes us home again. 

And now, finally, by way of envoy: 

Vivat academia, 
Vivant professores, 
Vivat membrum quodlibet, 
Vivant membra quaelibet, 
Semper sint in flora. 

The next stanza of the old student song starts: "Vivant 
omnes virgines/graciles, formosae. . . ." To quote these 
words probably bespeaks unseemly levity on the part of 
a man of my years, and a professor at that. But I will let 
them stand as a special homage to Pembroke College. 



J.4NUARY 1965 



13 









MOB SCENE at Aldrich-Dexfer; The volley ball area on one autumn afternoon showed how the intramural athletic program set records. 



5849 took part 
in intramurals 



You HAVE TO STOP A MINUTE in Order to realize that it 
is possible. It is possible for Brown University to have 
more than twice as many men taking part in its in- 
tramural athletic program as there are students in The Col- 
lege. We don't need to tell you that the figure of 5849 partici- 
pants shown in Jack Heffernan's autumn report is possible 
because a man may (and usually does) enjoy more than one 
sport in the same season. 

Even so, we submit, the statistics are remarkable as well as 
revealing. 

The most popular sport of ail in the fall continues to be 
touch-football. Here in 1964 there were 41 teams, playing a 
total of 117 games in eight leagues; there were 2498 partici- 
pants in all. But football had a challenger for favor in the 
new schedule of six-man soccer teams, further evidence how 
the sport has caught undergraduate fancy. Here there were 
42 teams, competing in nine leagues and playing 109 games 
in all. Total participation was 2098. 

Volleyball, too, had 808 devotees, although its season was 
limited to four tournaments (29 teams, 47 games). But this 
sport caught our eye one afternoon when we happened to 
go out to Aldrich-Dexter Field. It was a mob-scene of in- 
tense, if not always skillful action. Since Joe Marcello 
chanced to be at the field on another assignment, he readily 
took the picture which accompanies this report (a photo- 
graphic feat, incidentally, since light was fading in the late 
afternoon). The shot helps you to visualize what we"re 
talking about. 

Three other sports drew a few hundred men: tennis with 
180 men in five tournaments; 109 horseshoe-pitchers in four 
tourneys; 23 teams in foul-shooting competition on the bas- 
ketball floor — 156 men in that tourney. 

In touch-football the final point standing in the fraternity 
league was as follows: Theta Delta Chi 100, Lambda Chi 
Alpha 80, Phi Kappa Psi 70, Delta Tau Delta 60, Sigma Nu 



and Alpha Pi Lambda 45 (Sigma Nu won the play-off for 
fifth place). Kappa Sigma 35, Delta Upsilon 30, Sigma Chi 
25. Delta Phi 20, Phi Delta Theta 15. Alpha Delta Phi 10. 
Phi Gamma Delta 8, Beta Theta Pi 6. 

In this sport a Graduate School team went through its 
season undefeated, leading the Brunavians, Tower Club, 
Plantations House. Deacons, and Air Force. Poland, Goddard, 
and South Littlefield were the leaders in their respective 
dormitory leagues. Theta Delt won play-offs and title. 

Why the Records Were Broken 

It was Brown's most active season in intramural history. 
Athletic Director Theibert reported, giving two reasons for 
the results: the interest of a "vibrant" Freshman Class and 
perfect weather conditions. He also cited two major problems 
encountered: It was very difficult to get the undergraduate 
officials to "work" games during the period of Oct. 20 to 
Nov. 14. This is a mid-term exam period when the boys are 
willing to go over to the field to play for an hour but are 
reluctant to stay on for another period of officiating. Many 
of the soccer games were played without officials, but, strange 
to say, everything went well. 

The end of daylight saving causes loss of game time, 
since most of the activity has to be scheduled at the end 
of the afternoon. Indeed, Heffernan says: "The academic 
section of the University continues to take over more late 
afternoon time. It is going to become necessary to schedule 
intramurals during the early evening. Flood lights are called 
for if the program is to reach its potential — one of our great 
needs. 

"The present reading period prior to the semester exams 
is going to hinder our intramural program further, since no 
contests can be scheduled for the month of January. We 
have planned free-play periods during this month. Only a 
new gym and fieldhouse, with space and time provided, can 
handle the needs of a growing student body^ — and that in- 
cludes the Graduate School." 

It is obvious that the student body is making use of the 
fine facilities available at Aldrich-Dexter Field during the 
outdoor season. It is no accident that participation rose 
sharply when the Field was ready, so much nearer the Cam- 
pus than the old Aldrich Field on Elmgrove Ave. (In addition 



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to the intramurals, of course, the fall program of football, 
soccer, and cross country involved sizeable Varsity and 
Freshman squads. Their devotees would swell the athletic 
totals markedly, but we don't happen to have the figures at 
hand as we write.) 

Physical Education Classes Fundamental 

"The basic reason that we have a strong intramural pro- 
gram." Heffernan says, "is the fact that all Freshmen have 
been properly oriented in all of the intramural sports. Physi- 
cal education, at the Freshman level, is a must; I trust that 
it will never be tampered with." Classes in gym and elemen- 
tary swimming cared for 420 students last fall. 

The Director of Physical Education and Intramural Sports 
points to other recreation made possible during the fall. The 
Faculty Nights at Marvel Gym drew an average of 29 per 
evening, while swimming periods for Faculty families aver- 
aged 48 per evening. With ice made early in the Meehan 
Auditorium, the Brown community skating drew 500 a 
week, even during the autumn, with a pick-up expected dur- 
ing the winter. Unlike many schools, Heffernan notes. Brown 
furnishes equipment for free-play activity, thus creating a 
demand for field and floor space outside of the intramurals. 
Each week end. too. the department furnished various or- 
ganizations with athletic equipment to use on picnics. The 
most calls came from the Chinese Club, Brown Youth Guid- 
ance, Chemistry and Biology Departments. 

The winter season is well under way, with hockey, basket- 
ball, handball, badminton, and wrestling provided, in addi- 
tion to Brown representation in the Providence Squash 
Leagues. The number of contests played will be far fewer than 
in the fall due to a lack of facilities. Though there are some 



Proposal to Amend the By-Laws 

Notice is given of a special meeting of the Associ- 
ated Alumni of Brown University to be held February 
6, 1965 at Faunce House Theatre, Brown University, 
Providence, R. I. at 1 1 :30 a.m. 

At that meeting, the alumni will be asked to vote 
upon an amendment to the By-Laws of the Associated 
Alumni of Brown University, as previously recom- 
mended by the Board of Directors. The purpose of the 
amendment is to provide for revised procedures in the 
nomination and election of Alumni Trustees. 

Earl W. Harrington. Jr. '41. President 
Associated Alumni of Brown University 



30 intramural hockey teams entered, the average of games 
played was only six a week because of other rink commit- 
ments. Floor space in Marvel Gym allows only eight bas- 
ketball games in the intramural leagues per week. 

The popular guiding genius of all this activity is, as it has 
been for so many years, John M. Heffernan '28. A letter- 
winner in football, basketball, swimming, and baseball, he 
returned to College Hill in 1949 as Freshman coach. Previ- 
ously he had had great success teaching and coaching at 
Green Mountain Junior College and Norwich University. 
During World War H, his Wright Field basketball team won 
the Army championship. He has held national offices in his 
professional association. 




IMPRESARIO: Jack Heffernan '28 as he told an 
alumni group about his intramural program. 



At the University Club 

BROWN ALUMNI this December took spe- 
cial interest in the Providence Uni- 
versity Club's annual Men of the Year 
awards for the recipients were two popular 
Brunonians. Alfred H. Gurney '07. Club 
Historian, and Judge Fred B. Perkins '19 
of Superior Court. 

Gurney served as Alumni Secretary at 
Brown for 17 years and was appointed by 
former Governor William H. Vanderbilt 
as Rhode Island's first Jury Commissioner 
in 1939. His citation said, in part: "Dur- 
ing these years you found time to serve 
this Club as its Secretary, a member of 
its Board of Governors, as Vice-President, 
and. more lately, in the capacity of His- 
torian." 

In Judge Perkins' citation. Andrew P. 
Swanson '50, Chairman of the Awards 
Committee, said: "Your service to Brown 
began shortly after your Commencement, 
and in the intervening years you have 
served as a Fellow, a Trustee, as Secretary 
of the Corporation, and in other capacities 
too numerous to catalogue in this cita- 
tion." 

Alfred Buckley. Jr., '47, Club President, 
presented gifts of books on behalf of the 
Club. Judge Perkins, who is confined to a 
wheel chair, received his award at noon 
in his judicial chambers. The award to 
Gurney was presented at the Club's annual 
Christmas party. 



Booked for the Pops 

MARTHA Wright, vivacious singing star 
of Broadway, television, and radio, 
will be the featured soloist at the Bicen- 
tennial Pops Concert being sponsored by 
the Brown Club of Rhode Island on Satur- 
day, June 5, of Commencement Week End. 
Miss Wright was secured for the concert 
through the efforts of Hubbell Robinson 
"27. former Vice-President at CBS. 

Committee Chairman Matthew E. Ward 
'35 had announced earlier that Francis 
Madeira will conduct the 65-member 
Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra that 
evening in a two-hour program of pops 
standards. In addition to Miss Wright and 
the Philharmonic. Chairman Ward has se- 
cured the services of the Bruinaires, an un- 
dergraduate singing group for the evening 
under the stars at Pembroke. 

Miss Wright was Mary Martin's succes- 
sor as Nellie Furbush in "South Pacific" 
on Broadway. She is seen frequently on 
television in "The Bell Telephone Hour" 
and other similar shows. She appeared 
with the Rhode Island Philharmonic sev- 
eral years back in a concert at Veterans 
Auditorium. 

The nine-member Brown-Pembroke 
Steering Committee has been meeting 
weekly since early October making pre- 
liminary plans for what is e.xpected to be 
one of the biggest social events of the Bi- 
centennial year. 



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Salute to the 
Bicentennial 



IT WAS A SELL-OUT in New York's 
Town Hall on Dec. 12 when Brown Clubs 
of the metropolitan area teamed up to 
sponsor a monumental concert by the 
combined Choruses of Brown and Pem- 
broke and the Brass Ensemble. In the 
picture at the top of the page. Prof. Erich 
Kunzel is leading the feature work. Prof. 
Ron Nelson's "Christmas Story." The 
Choruses were never better, and the eve- 
ning was memorable for more than 1500 
in the audience. Nearly 1000 went on to 
the Brown Club for the "After-Glow," 
which ended only with the departure of 
the four busses for Providence at 2 a.m. 



ONE LAST REHEARSAL on the scene. Prof. Erich Kunzel is 
conducting, with members of the Brass Ensemble in the foreground. 



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BELOW: Harvey M. Spear '42, 
President of the Brown Club 
in New York. Concert Chairman 
Frank C. Prince '56 was too busy 
for the photo that was his due. 





AT THE RECEPTION, before dinner at the N.Y.U. Club, next door to 

the Town Hall: President Emeritus Wriston with Dean and Mrs. Robert O. 

Schulze. The Dean was narrator for an historical medley at the concert. 



AT DINNER, below: Provost Bliss, Mrs. Appleget, Chancellor McLeod, Mrs. Bliss, and former Vice-President Appleget. 




JANUARY 1965 



17 




DR. EDWARD G. FREEHAFER '30, Librarian of the New York 
Public Library, Mrs. Freehafer, and Dr. Wriston at the Reception 
before one of the pre-concert dinners, this one at the N.Y.U. Club. 



Photos by Stanley Seligson 



WESTON M. STUART 27, below, 
a Regional Director on the Board 
of the Associated Alumni. 




EDWARD SULZBERGER '29, a former Brown Club President, with the Keeneys. 




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is Executive Director of 
the New York Brown Club. 



New York Made a Gala of 
the Bicentennial Concert 




LOUIS B. PALMER '28, left, Frederick H. Rohlfs '26, and their wives. 



JANUARY 1965 



19 



Battling their way 
to heights in hockey 



WITH SIX VICTORIES in its first nine 
starts, including an outstanding per- 
formance in the ECAC Holiday Tourna- 
ment at Madison Square Garden, the 
hockey team appeared to be on its way to 
a successful season. Brown defeated Bow- 
doin (11-1), Boston College (7-2), RPI 
(4-1). Harvard (9-2). Cornell (6-4). and 
Clarkson (3-2). The losses were to North- 
eastern twice (4-2 and 4-1) and to Boston 
University (3-1). 

Coach Jim FuUerton said before the 
season started that this 1964-65 team was 
the best balanced club he's had at Brown. 
Its showing in the early going indicated 
the team is all of that. Some long-time ob- 
servers of the local hockey scene claim 
that the squad is the best Brown has ever 
fielded, including the fine 1949-50 and 
1950-51 combinations. This boast doesn't 
draw many arguments, although it is a 
subject that will be difficult to prove. 

College hockey is a different game to- 
day than it was 10 or 15 years ago. With 
the increasing number of rinks available 
around the country, American boys are 
learning the fine points of the game long 
before they get to college. There are more 
good players around today and, as a result, 
there are many more good college hockey 
teams. So, while it seemed safe to rank 
Brown with Boston University, Northeast- 
ern, and Boston College as one of the top 
four clubs in the East, the team's final 
record over the season may not be overly 
impressive due to the extremely tough 
competition that must be faced. The cal- 
iber of hockey in the East has never been 
higher, with at least 10 teams in the sec- 
tion capable of knocking off any opponent 
on a given night. 

.After an 11-1 romp over undermanned 
Bowdoin, the eighth-ranked Bruin sextet 
opened its home season against Boston 
University, the team rated number one in 
the East in the pre-season poll. TTie Ter- 
riers came in undefeated, but it was Brown 
that scored first at 11:09 on a breakaway 
goal by Capt. Terry Chapman. This lead 
held up until 18:21 of the second period 
when B.U. scored on a 55-foot lob shot 
that skipped past Dave Ferguson in the 
goal. The visitors broke the tie early in the 
third period and picked up a gift goal in 
the closing minute after Brown had pulled 
its goalie for a face oflf at the B.U. end. 
The Bruins had played the top team in the 
East and had given a good accounting. The 
Terriers were to run up 10 straight before 
losing. 

On Tuesday, Dec, 8, Brown opened a 
busy week of home hockey by soundly 
upet.'ing Boston College, 7-2. On Friday 



night, RPI came to town and lost. 4-1. 
The Bruins were sky high for these two 
objective games, and there was a let-down 
Saturday night in the 4-2 loss to North- 
eastern, a team that subsequently proved 
its right to be ranked with the East's elite. 

Challenged by the Ratings 

Undefeated Boston College, ranked sec- 
ond in the East, came to Meehan fresh 
from an impressive 6-1 decision over Prov- 
idence College, the defending Eastern 
champion. The Bears dropped a bombshell 
into Eastern collegiate hockey circles by 
crushing the favored Eagles. 7-2. before a 
roaring capacity gallery of 2,500. The per- 
formance was one of the finest ever turned 
in by a Bruin sextet in the 10-year coach- 
ing reign of Jim Fullerton. 

The Brown coach had B.C. perfectly 
scouted, and his Bruins carried out their 
chores to perfection. In order to break up 
the vaunted B.C. offense, Fullerton had his 
wings forechecking deeply in the Eagle 
end and his defensemen up inside the B.C. 
blue line. As a result. Brown controlled 
the game the entire 60 minutes. Both 
Eagle goals came after face-offs in front 
of the Bear cage. Boston's well-conceived 
pass patterns and power rushes didn't set 
up a goal all evening. 

Setting a terrific pace at the outset. 
Brown hemmed the Eagles inside their 
own end for the first four minutes. This 
aggressiveness paid off when Freddy Soule 
scored at the seven-minute mark. Still 
forcing the play in the second period, the 
Bruins upped thir lead to 5-0 on goals by 
Bruce Darling, Chapman, Charlie Dona- 
hue, and Don Eccleston before B.C. 
scored at 19:33. Assisting on three of 
those goals was Brown's Ail-American 
candidate, defenseman Bob Gaudreau. 
Two goals by Darling in the final 20 min- 
utes iced the issue. 

Getting the Bruins back up for R.P.I. 
(3-1) was no task, since the Engineers also 
had been ranked ahead of Brown, and they 
were the team that went to Colorado with 
P.C. for the NCAA finals last spring. 
Brown's performance against the upstate 
New Yorkers was as flawless as it had 
been against the Eagles. Bill Sack in the 
R.P.I, cage turned back 51 Brown shots, 
but four got past him and that was enough 
for Brown to win the game, 4-1. 

After a scoreless first period of exciting 
give-and-take hockey, a period in which 
the game could have broken open either 
way. Brown put together a three-goal blitz 
in the second stanza that had the crowd on 
its feet and goalie Sack on the ice. Darling, 
Bobby Bruce, and Soule scored for Brown 



within a seven-minute stretch. The Bears 
upped this advantage early in the third pe- 
riod on a pretty tip-in by Sophomore Den- 
nis Macks of a pass from the left board 
by Sophomore Steve Bettencourt. 

Perhaps the game the next night with 
a rested Northeastern was anti-climactic. 
At any rate, the Bears appeared a bit | 
sluggish against a very fine Huskie team 
and fell behind, 3-0. going into the final 
20 minutes of action. Goals by Darling at 
3:23 and Sophomore John Norwell at 3:33 
brought Brown back suddenly into conten- 
tion. But it was too little and too late: 
Brown could not break through for the 
equalizer. A final Northeastern goal at the 
16-minute mark while Brown was still 
pressing settled the issue. 

Brown, which lost the Ivy League cham- 
pionship to Dartmouth by one-half game 
last spring, opened its bid for the 1965 flag 
by dumping Harvard, 9-2. Harvard's strat- 
egy for this game was to station its de- 
fensemen at the Crimson blue line in an 
effort to break up the Brown passing game. 
This had worked well for B.U. against 
Brown, but it didn't for Harvard, (foach 
Fullerton had his men fire the puck into 
the Crimson zone and then tear in after it. 
Brown's superior speed and skating ability 
usually allowed them to get to the puck 
first and set up plays in front of the unpro- 
tected Cantab goalie. 

Hank Manley scored three goals in what 
was announced as Brown's most decisive 
victory over a Harvard hockey team in a 
series that goes back to 1898. Darling and 
Chapman each had two goals, with Bruce 
and Eccleston scoring once. Brown put 42 
shots on the Crimson cage in this their 
first victory at Watson Rink in 10 years. 

Tourney Finalists in New York 

Brown's appearance in the ECAC Holi- 
day Hockey Tournament in New York 
provided thrills for those who saw the 
games as well as the thousands in Southern 
New England who listened to the WJAR 
radio broadcasts of the games by George 
Patrick Duffy. 

Cornell. Brown's first-round opponent. 
had 16 Canadians on its 17-man roster, 
including 12 Dominion residents up from 
last season's undefeated Freshman team. 
The Big Red record coming into the game 
was 5-2. More than 8.0G0 fans were at the 
Garden to see what many believed to be a 
preview of the battle for the Ivy League 
title. 

What they saw wasn't for the weak of 
heart. Brown moved out into a 2-0 lead in 
the opening period on goals by Soule and 
Bruce. Cornell got one back later and then 
tied it in the first minute of the second 
stanza. With two Cornell men in the pen- 
alty box, one on a five-minute high-stick- 
ing penalty for cutting Leon Bryant's nose. 
Brown regained its lead. Chapman whipped 
in a low 15-footer off Darling's feed, and 
defenseman Donahue drilled home a 55- 
foot slap shot. Cornell made it 4-3 at 
12:52, but Manley at 14:59 put Brown 
back into a two-goal lead. 

The third period was a thriller as Brown 
held off a furious Cornell blitz with a tre- 
mendous defensive performance. Bryant's 
7()-foot backhander into an empty cage in 



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the dying seconds finally took the pressure 
off a Brown team that had been pressured 
through the period by the relentless Cor- 
nell attack. The Big Red had made it 5-4 
at 1:33 of this period and from that point 
on they drove for the tying goal. 

Brown was put to the test early in the 
final stanza when Eccleston and then 
Donahue went off with penalties. The 
Bruins played almost four minutes with a 
man short, but. with their box defense 
working perfectly and with goalie Fer- 
guson and Gaudreau making spectacular 
saves. Brown managed to weather the 
storm. During this four-minute stretch, 
iron man Gaudreau made no less than 
sev^n clearances down ice. 

The Clarkson game was just as exciting. 
Captain Chapman's third goal of the game 
late in the first sudden-death overtime fi- 
nally won it for the gallant Bears. Clark- 
son had led, I-O. from the sixth minute 
until Chapman tied it at 17:09. At the 12- 
minute mark of the second period Clark- 
son scored again, and, for a while, it 
looked as though their 2-1 advantage might 
stand up. Then at 16:C9 of the third period 
Chapman broke free for his second goal 
and sent the tilt into overtime. 

This was a rough game which at times 
appeared to resemble a pier-six brawl. Un- 



fortunately for Brown, it was a costly vic- 
tory. Gaudreau was hit needlessly from be- 
hind while stationed near his own cage 
and knocked to the ice with a twisting 
motion that damaged his knee. Team phy- 
sician Eddie Crane put the knee in a cast 
that night, and it was feared that the Bruin 
star would be sidelined through the month 
of January. He was out of his cast by New 
Years, however, and planned to skate 
when College reopened. 

In the final game for the championship. 
Brown again came up against Northeast- 
ern, and again it was at a time when the 
weary Bruins were not at their best. The 
Bay Staters, who had found the path to 
the EC AC tourney final far less strenuous 
than had Brown, had too much zip for the 
Bruins in the third period when they broke 
a 1-1 tie with three quick goals. Brown led. 
1-0, on a goal by Macks at the third min- 
ute, but the Huskies tied the score at 17:01 
when Brown was shorthanded. That's the 
way it remained until the ninth minute of 
the third period when Northeastern scored 
the first of its three game-winning goals. 

Two Bruins made the All-Tourney team 
— Gaudreau and Chapman. These two 
men. in addition to goalie Ferguson, drew 
the raves of several professional scouts 
who were in the audience. 



Bruno, the Giant-Killer 



FOUR YEARS AGO, Brown staged its first 
Holiday Hockey Tournament before 
sparse crowds at newly dedicated Meehan 
■Auditorium. If Brown's new rink was 
ready, the hockey team was not. The 
Bruins edged Norwich, 5-3, in the opening 
the past four years — all for the better. 
Bowdoin, 8-3, and Williams, 8-4. The op- 
position wasn't the strongest, but it was 
considerably more than the Brown team 
of 1961-62 vintage could handle. 

Things have changed dramatically over 
the past four years — all for the better. 
This season's tournament attracted a 
highly competitive field and played to 
standing room only. In addition to the host 
Bears, the field included Michigan State. 
Colorado, and Providence College. The 
home town Friars were Eastern champs 
a year back, losing in the ECAC final at 
Denver. Michigan State came to Meehan 
Auditorium ranked number six in the Mid- 
west and Colorado was number four. 

The two-game tourney was played on 
Friday and Saturday evenings, Jan, 1-2. 
For Brown's good, gray coach, Jim Fuller- 
ton, and his fighting band of cocky Bruins, 
this will be remembered as a weekend 
when young skaters like Bob Bruce, Jack 
Norwell, and Ken Neal matured and veter- 
ans like Capt. Terry ChapTian, Leon Bry- 
ant, Don Eccleston, Charlie Donahue, and 
Bruce Darling rose to supreme heights. It 
also will be remembered as the weekend 
when Eastern hockey took a giant step for- 
ward. 

Defending champion Colorado, an ex- 
plosive and exciting hockey team, was the 
tcurney favorite. The Tigers from the West 
had defeated Boston College earlier in the 



week. 9-7, in a game that received wide 
publicity in the Eastern press. They trailed 
in that one, 7-3, midwa>' through the final 
period but erupted for six goals in less 
than six minutes to pull out the verdict. 
Colorado's forte is the fast break, with 
quick-skating forwards to put tremendous 
pressure on the opposition. The Tigers fol- 
low the theory that the best defense is a 
good offense. 

Brown came into the tournament still 
basking in the glow generated by the fine 
showing at Madison Square Garden, where 
Coach Jim Fullerton's men had won the 
hearts of the fans with their slashing vic- 
tories over Cornell and Clarkson. How- 
ever, the rough-and-tumble sudden-death 
decision over Clarkson had proved costly 
to Brown, with Bob Gaudreau, the team's 
top defenseman and Ail-American candi- 
date, sidelined for the month with a 
twisted knee. It was because of the effect 
his loss was expected to have on the 
Brown defense that most experts favored 
Colorado. 

Coach Fullerton's scouting report on 
Michigan State, Brown's first-round oppo- 
nent, was posted in the locker room the 
week before the game. It noted that the 
Spartans were a Sophomore-studded club 
whose only loss in seven games had been 
to Clarkson in overtime. It cautioned that 
the Westerners would bring to the tourney 
a veteran first line, exceptional size 
throughout the squad, and a reputation for 
being a hard-checking club in the best 
Western tradition. The report also advised 
the Bruins that they would be able to 
match speed with the rugged Spartans, an 
important point as it turned out. 




THE GREAT ASSISTER: Leon Bryant had not 

scored many goals, but he'd fed the puck to his 

teammates for nearly a score of assists. 

"We had to he cautious that their point 
men, their heavy guns, didn't get good 
shots at our cage," Fullerton said. "They 
like to blast from out there. We also knew 
that the Michigan State offensive patterns 
are built on precision and timing. If we 
played their defensive men up tight at the 
blue line we'd force them to change their 
cuts and patterns and, hopefully, take 
away their offense." 

Defensively, then. Brown changed its 
normal game, bringing its wings up close 
on the Spartan point men and not sliding 
its defensemen back as far toward the 
cage. "We had to hope that when Michi- 
gan State did get inside, our defensive men 
would be agile enough to compensate for 
the greater distance between them and the 
cage and that our forwards would be 
quick enough to come back and help out 
behind them and in the corners," Fuller- 
ton said. 

Fullerton had one other concern. He 
was afraid that M.S. would take advantage 
of Gaudreau's absence and try to double- 
team and pressure his replacement. Ken 
Neal, an aggressive and willing but inex- 
perienced Junior. Fortunately, neither 
Michigan State nor Colorado pressed the 
Bruins. When they lost the puck at the 
Brown end, rather than risk a man or two 
forechecking both Western clubs were con- 
tent to get back on defense. 

Neal, son of Edmund A. Neal '36, had 
been the fifth defense man on the team 
prior to Gaudreau's injury. He received 
his real baptism of fire in this tourney and 
came out of it a better hockey player. "AI- 



JANUARY 1965 



21 



though Neal played well. I think the real 
story here is the way his partner at de- 
fense, Charlie Donahue, helped him over 
the rough spots.'" Fullerton said. "You 
could hear Donahue quarlerhacking out 
there. He'd tell Neal. 'Slide to your left." 
"Take that guy coming in." "Bank it off the 
boards." etc. Neal was breaking in against 
some tough competition, and. if he had 
been burned, it might have set him back 
as a hockey player. Thanks to Donahue, 
that didn"t happen."" 

Donahue, a Senior from Norwood. 
Mass., is not a spectacular player. In three 
years as a regular, he's never been in the 
headlines. He's the type of player the cas- 
ual fans never notice when he's on the ice. 
but he's also the type the coaches will have 
trouble replacing when he graduates in 
June. Donahue can hit, move the puck out. 
has a low, hard shot from the point, and 
seldom makes a mistake. 

As a team. Brown seldom made a mis- 
take against Michigan State. Using the 
planned defensive strategy against the 
point men and playing aggressively on of- 
fense, the Bruins took complete command 
in the opening period and built a 3-0 lead 
on goals by Chapman. Fred Soule. and 
Darling. They upped the lead to 4-1 in the 
second period on another Chapman tally 
and removed all element of doubt early in 
the third period when Soule and Chapman 
again flashed the red light to give Brown 
a 6-2 victory. For Captain Chapman, it 
was his second hat-trick in three games. 
The All-American candidate from Chat- 
ham. Ont.. notched all the goals in 
Brown's 3-2 decision over Clarkson in 
New York. 

Brown's offensive strategy in this game 
was two-fold. "Because of Michigan State's 
body-checking tactics, our boys had to 
pass off quickly when bringing the puck 
into the offensive zone."" Fullerton said. 
"When we couldn't pass off and set up 
plays, our lads were told to fire the puck 
into the corners or behind the cage to try 
and tire the big Spartan defensemen." 

Michigan State's coach. Anio Bessone. 
was high in his praise of the job done by 
the Bruins. "We didn't play the game we 
wanted to," he said. "We wanted to go out 
and bomb them down, but Brown's defense 
took that initiative away from us. So we 
had to play a conservative game. They 
shut off our long bombs. Brown is the best 
Eastern team we've faced in at least five 
years, maybe longer. I think they would 
give a good account of themselves against 
just about any of the Western schools." 

Since Colorado had defeated Providence 
College, ."i-S, in the first round on Saturday 
night the championship game was a re- 
match of last year's finalists. The Tigers 
had won that one. 4-3, and the Bruins 
wanted revenge. The game was a natural — 
putting Colorado's offense against Brown's 
defense. 

Brown played a different style of game 
against the Tigers. "We knew that, man 
for man. they were faster than we were." 
Fullerton said. "So we had to play posi- 
tion hockey and out-think them. Our play- 
ers had to stay on their offensive patterns 
and hustle back when we lost the puck. 
Each man had a job to do: if we were to 



beat Colorado, it would have to be a team 
victory." 

Fullerton noticed one flaw in the Colo- 
rado offense. By taking advantage of this 
weakness his team was able to score two 
quick third-period goals that abruptly 
changed the complexion of the game. "We 
knew that they liked to post a wing high 
to get their fast-break offense started." 
Fullerton explained. "However, we also 
noticed that their defensemen didn't feed 
well to this high-posted wing from inside 
their own zone. We hoped that, by staying 
on these defensemen and forechecking, we 
might break up a few plays before they 
formed, steal the puck, and go in for a 
quick score." 

This strategy first paid off midway through 
the second period with Brown trailing. 3-1. 
Chapman, forechecking back on the de- 
fenseman as planned, stole the puck at the 
right boards and fed Darling a pass in 
front of the cage that the Junior from Syd- 
bury, Ont.. tucked into the crease. This 
goal came at 8:26, and five minutes later 
Chapman tied the game with a blistering 
I.'i-footer from the right. But the Tigers 
came back and took a 4-3 at the 15- 
minute mark. That was the situation when 
the third period opened. 

The final stanza was rocking along at a 
sizzling pace when Bruce, a Junior wing 
from Hingham. Mass.. broke it wide open. 
At 11:58. Sophomore wing Steve Betten- 
court stole the puck behind the cage and 
fed Bruce, who hanged a 15-foot back- 
hander into the nets. Brown won the face- 
off and fired into the Colorado zone, where 
Dennis Macks. Sophomore center, this 
time took the puck away from a Colorado 
defenseman and fed a perfect goal-mouth 
pass to Bruce. This goal came at 12:14. 
Brown's forechecking strategy and aggres- 
siveness in the corners had staked the host 



club to a 5-4 lead with less than eight min- 
utes left. 

Remembering how the Tigers had blitzed 
B.C. with six goals in five minutes. Coach 
Fullerton had his Bruins pull in their horns 
and play defensive hockey. Still, Colorado 
tied the score with 1:46 remaining on a 
45-foot screen shot that goalie Dave Fer- 
guson never saw. In the sudden death over- 
time, both clubs raced up and down the 
ice at a furious pace, looking for the one 
opening that could earn them the cham- 
pionship. At about the seven-minute mark, 
the Tigers came down ice on a power rush, 
and the shot hit the right post. Seconds 
later. Darling dug a loose puck out of the 
corner and put a shot on the cage. It was 
blocked, but Jack Norwell. a Sophomore 
from Walpole. Mass., who led the Cubs in 
scoring with 25 points last winter, was 
there to flip the rebound into the net for 
the biggest goal of his career. 

The Providence Journal-Bulletin re- 
porter. Bob Englert, saw the tournament 
as one of the finest moments for Eastern 
collegiate hockey. "The tremendous per- 
formances turned in by Brown and Provi- 
dence College (the Friars had edged Mich- 
igan State. 6-5. in double overtime) in the 
Holiday Hockey Tournament removed any 
doubt that schools on this side of the Mis- 
sissippi are fast closing the gap between, 
themselves and their Western rivals. It has 
been quite some time since an Eastern 
sextet has whipped a pair of Western rivals 
on successive nights such as Brown did in 
sweeping past Michigan State and Colo- 
rado en route to the championship of its 
own holiday event," 

When the cheering died down after Nor- 
well's winning goal against Colorado, the 
huge crowd slowly filed out of Meehan 
Auditorium. One fan. however, had to 
work his way down to the ice to retrieve 
his hat. His name was Keeney. 



An Exciting Court Quintet 



B.\SKETBALL got off to a fair start, with 
Coach Stan Ward's Bruins winning 
four and losing five up through the holi- 
days. Brown defeated Northeastern (64- 
56). Colby (82-77), Yale (68-54), and 
Amherst (74-55) and lost to Rhode Island 
twice (75-65 and 99-78), Providence Col- 
lege (93-63), and Rutgers (94-60). 

The big victory of the early season came 
against Yale at Marvel Gym. In this one. 
Coach Ward threw a special 2-1-2 shifting 
zone defense against the favored Elis, a 
zone he hadn't been able to use since 1959 
because he lacked the proper blend of ma- 
terial to make it go. In this defense. 
Brown's two cat-like guards. Al Milanesi 
and Al Fishman, played out front, where 
they stole the ball a number of times and 
constantly broke up the continuity of the 
Yale offense with a modified press. When 
Yale managed to get the ball to a man in a 
corner, either Milanesi or Fishman would 
slide back and help double-team the man 
with the ball. 

As a result of this defensive alignment, 
Yale was forced to do most of its shooting 



from outside. Here, the Elis were cold, 
hitting on only 3 1 9r of their shots from the 
floor. Meanwhile. Brown was shooting at 
a 43% clip and was clicking on well ex- 
ecuted plays, usually engineered by Mi- 
lanesi or Fishman. 

Fishman scored on outside jumpers the 
first two times Brown brought the ball up 
court, and Milanesi followed suit the next 
two times Brown had the ball. This got 
the Bears off to an 8-3 lead they never re- 
linquished. After the first 10 minutes of 
play, Yale was never closer than six points. 
At halftime it was 33-21. and the margin 
went as high as 18 points midway through 
the second half. Milanesi led the scoring 
parade with 23 points and Fishman had 
10. Also in double figures were Co-Cap- 
tains Dave Tarr and Jay Jones, each with 
13 points. 

Victories over Yale on the basketball 
court have been hard to come by for 
Brown. In the series that goes back to 
1905, this was only Brown's lllh decision 
against 43 for the Blue. Five of the 1 1 tri- 
umphs have come during Coach Ward's 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



tenure on ihe Hill. The 14-point margin 
this year was Brown's biggest bulge over 
Yale in the modern history of the sport 
and was second only to the 24-point differ- 
ential (39-15) chalked up by the 1910 
team. Perhaps Brown's most important 
victory over Yale came in 1939 when 
Harry Piatt's two foul shots with five sec- 
onds remaining brought the Bruins a 40-38 
decision and earned them a bid to the first 
NCAA tourney in Philadelphia. 

Brown's opening victory at Northeastern 
was the result of a nine-point surge mid- 
way through the second half. The Huskies 
had wiped out a seven-point halftime defi- 
cit and were leading 39-38 when the 
Bruins got hot. Center Dave Tarr scored 
five points in this blitz. He led the scorers 
for the night with 23 points while Milanesi 
had 15. 

The most exciting finish of the early 
campaign came in the 82-77 overtime vic- 
tory over Colby at Marvel Gym. The 
Bruins blew a nine point lead with 10 min- 
utes to go and then cashed in on seven free 
throws in the five-minute overtime to nail 
down the victory. Fishman, Sophomore 
from Erasmus High in Brooklyn, clicked 
on four of five charity tosses and enabled 
the Bruins to keep possession of the ball 
with some slick dribbling that drew ap- 
plause from the fans. 

With the score 73-73 and 2:05 remain- 
ing in regulation play. Brown tried to play 
for the last shot. However, the Mules 
picked off a pass and had a chance to win 
it when one of their men was fouled while 
shooting with five seconds left. The game 
hung in the balance as he stepped to the 
line and missed both shots. Fishman had 
his first big night offensively with 22 
points, the same number tossed in by Co- 
Captain Jones. 

This year's Brown squad was no match 
in ability for either Rhode Island or Provi- 
dence, two schools with national ambitions 
on the court. Here again, it was the back- 
court pair of Milanesi and Fishman that 
stood up well against this caliber of oppo- 
sition. At P.C.. Sophomore guard Mike 
Fahey came off the bench to score 13 
points on some fine outside shooting. 

His Family Said "No" 

In the Albright Holiday Tournament, 
Brown played without Milanesi, who had 
to remain at home in North Bergen, N. J. 
There was some question as to whether or 
not family pressure would keep him side- 
lined for the remainder of the schedule. 
His loss broke up, temporarily at least, the 
first truly effective backcourt combination 
Brown has had in Coach Ward's 10 years 
on the Hill. 

In the opening game of the tourney. 
Brown was bombed by Rutgers. 94-60. 
Fishman had 15 points. In defeating Am- 
herst, 74-55. the next night, the Bruins got 
19 points from Jones. 14 from Junior Steve 
Kadison, who was playing in Milanesi's 
spot, and 13 each from Fishman and Dave 
Tarr. When the All-Tournament team was 
announced, Fishman was named to a 
guard spot. 

On the basis of the first nine games, it 
appeared that Brown would have tough 
sledding in the highly competitive Ivy 



League. The material just isn't there, espe- 
cially in the front line, where most Ivy 
teams are especially strong this year. If 
Milanesi is not available, the backcourt. 
which had been the lone bright spot on 
the team, would drop off substantially in 
effectiveness. Coach Ward is hoping for 
the rapid development of a pair of Sopho- 
more forwards, 6-6 Dave Gale from Port 
Washington, N. Y., and 6-3 Shawn Smith 
from Brockton, Mass. Both men have nat- 
ural shooting ability. 

After nine games, Jones was pacing the 
team in scoring with 119 points. He was 
followed by Fishman (115), Dave Tarr 
(98), Milanesi (88), Don Tarr (50), Gil 
Merrill (45), Kadison (33), and Fahey 
(26). 

The Cubs won four of the first seven, 
defeating Northeastern (81-70), Boston 
University (72-67), Springfield (76-55), 
and Providence (51-41 ) and losing to URI 
twice (85-78 and 79-74) and Yale (89- 
62). Billy Reynolds, a former All-State 
player at Barrington High and a star at 
Worcester Academy last year, paced the 
scorers with 106 points. He is the son of 
William D. Reynolds '37. Other leading 
scorers were Greg Donaldson (88), Rick 
Landau (85), and Rod Gillmor (82). 



Advisory 



BASKETBALL CoACH Stan Ward brought 
back an interesting anecdote from the 
Albright Invitational Tournament in Read- 
ing, Pa. At the end of the first half on 
opening night. Brown was trailing Rutgers 
by some 20 points. Ward was so irritated 
that he walked into the dressing room, 
named the five men who would start the 
second half, and walked out. 

As he was pacing back and forth be- 
neath the stands, the janitor came up to 
him. Resting on his broom, he said, 
"Coach, can I give you some advice?" 
Coach Ward suggested that everyone else 
was giving him advice: why not he? "Well, 
you see," the janitor stated with some au- 
thority, "your big guys up front are too 
slow. Get them to move faster." Coach 
Ward thanked the janitor for his sugges- 
tion and resumed his pacing. 

Well, Brown lost that game by a sub- 
stantial margin, but the next night the 
Bruins looked great while soundly dump- 
ing Amherst. After the game, the same 
janitor went out of his way to find Coach 
Ward. "Your big guys moved just great to- 
night," he said. "Just great. You've got a 
good team there, coach." Stan shook hands 
with the janitor and told him, "In 24 hours 
you've made me a great coach. I thank 
you." The janitor beamed, and went on 
his way. 

Apparently, the coaches of the other 
three tournament teams heard about the 
incident, for the next morning Coach Ward 
had an envelope delivered to him at his 
hotel room. In it was a one-way ticket to 
Providence and the following note from 
his colleagues: "This ticket is for John the 
Janitor. Take him back to Providence with 
you as your assistant coach, and you can't 
miss having a winning season." 




STAN WARD, basketball coach, on one of 

his famous trips to the water-cooler. (Liber photo) 



Winning Starts in Track 

Taking nine of 13 events, the track 
team opened its season with a 74-35 de- 
cision over Boston University. It was the 
10th straight victory for Brown's indoor 
track team in a string that goes back to 
the 1962-63 season. The meet was run at 
the new field house of Moses Brown 
School. 

Brown swept two of the events, the 
high jump and broad jump, which were 
won by Senior Bob Rosen and Sophomore 
John Robinson. Other Bruin firsts came 
from Maury Quinlan '66, 45-yard high 
hurdles (5.9); Vic Boog "65, mile (4:21.8); 
Rich Baglow '65, 1,000 (2:17); Al Miller 
'66, shot (48-11); Jay Jacobs '67, pole 
vault (12-6), and the mile and two-mile 
relay teams. The mile relay group of Chris 
Parker '66, Jon Keates '66, Dave Nutting 
'65, and Dave Strawbridge '67 had a time 
of 3:28.2. The two-mile group had an 
8:04.4 with Dick Tulman '67, Herschel 
Bird '67, Glenn Stokes '67, and Baglow 
running. 

Brown also won the Freshman meet, 
79-30, taking nine of 13 events. Dave 
"Chip" Ennis, one of the stars of Ihe cross 
country season, set a new Cub indoor rec- 
ord for the two-mile with a 9:40.1. The 
old mark of 9:45.6 was set by Dave Farley 
'64. 



JANUARY 1965 



23 



A Salute to Brown Football 




AMONG THOSE PRESENT at the Football Dinner: left to right— Freshman Coach Bob Litchord, Paul F. 
Mockesey '32, William J. Gilbane '33, Paul Choquette '60, and Coach John McLoughry. 





AT THE DINNER of the Brown Football Association there were honors for two of the sport's Hall 
Fame: Fritz Pollord '19 and Tuss McLaughry. Joseph E. Buononno '34 is at right. 



THE Brown Football Association 
sponsored a dinner Dec. 13 for the 
1964 football squad and two Bruin mem- 
bers of the National Football Hall of 
Fame. About 200 turned out for the affair, 
which was held at the Sheraton-Biltmore 
Hotel. 

Frederick D. "Fritz" Pollard '19. an All- 
American halfback in 1916. and DeOr- 
mcnd "Tuss" McLaughry. who coached 
Brown teams from 1926 through 1940, 
were presented especially designed Brown 
Bear ash trays. Pollard was named to the 
Hall of Fame in 1954 and McLaughry in 
1962. Both men spoke briefly, recalling 
some of their gridiron experiences. W. 
Earl Sprackling '12, three-time All-Amer- 
ican who made the Hall of Fame this year, 
was unable to attend the dinner. 

Other speakers were Coach John Mc- 
Laughry '40, Athletic Director Dick Thei- 



bert, Frank Lanning, Providence Journal- 
Bulletin sports cartoonist: and Earl B. 
Nichols '4.'?. President of the Football As- 
sociation. Harold W. Demopulos '46 
served as Dinner Chairman; Joe Buonanno 
'34. Captain of the 1933 team, was toast- 
master. 

Gifts were presented to each member of 
the 1964 squad, while Co-Captains John 
Parry and Ralph Duerre each received a 
game-winning football in recognition of 
their selection to the All-Ivy League team. 

Among those introduced by toastmaster 
Buonanno were: Robert E. Quinn '15, 
Chief Judge of the U.S. Military Court of 
Appeals in Washington, D. C: Edward W. 
Day '22, Judge of the U.S. District Court 
in Providence: Frank Licht '38, Associate 
Justice of the Providence County Superior 
Court: Dr. Orland Smith '27, an Ail- 
American tackle with the Iron Men; Edgar 



J. "Spike" Staff '15, a member of the Rose 
Bowl team; Thomas and William Gilbane 
'33, members of the 1932 eleven; E. John 
Lownes '23. former President of the 
Brown Club of Rhode Island: Robert Goff 
'24, Trustee of the University: Raymond 
Nelson '31, representing the South Shore 
Brown Club; William Margeson '37, repre- 
senting the Brown Club of Central New 
York: and Paul F. Mackesey '32, Alumni 
Secretary and former Director of Athletics. 
After dinner, the group was entertained 
by films of two great Brown victories: the 
36-27 triumph over Columbia on Thanks- 
giving Day of 1938 and the 41-26 come- 
from-behind decision over Colgate in 1949. 

Less Talent in the Tank 

The Varsity swimmers were off to a 
slow start, losing two of the first three 
meets. After opening with a 55-40 deci- 
sion over Penn, Brown was dumped by 
Southern Connecticut. 59-33. and Prince- 
ton. 65-29. Coach Joe Watmough's record 
of not having had a losing season in 10 
years will definitely be on the line between 
now and the campaign's close on Feb. 25. 

The Penn meet produced a record per- 
formance by Butch Wilder in the 200-yard 
breaststroke. The Sophomore from Peeks- 
ville High via Boonton, N. J., won the 
event in 2:30.1, breaking the Varsity rec- 
ord for the event of 2:33 set by Bill Riddle 
in 1958. Last season, while with the Cubs, 
Wilder set the Brown record for this event 
with a 2:26.9 against Columbia. He also 
holds the school record in the 100-yard 
breaststroke (1:04.81 and 200 butterfly 
(2:01.9). 

Junior Dave Prior was a double-winner 
for the Bruins against Penn. He took the 
200-yard freestyle in 1:57.7 and then 
came back to grab the 500-yard freestyle 
with a time of 5:34.9. He set the Brown 
record for this event a year ago with a 
5:34.2 against Dartmouth. Other individ- 
ual winners for Brown were Paul Kinloch 
in the backstroke (2:21.2) and Larry 
Rhoades in the diving. A Brown team of 
Kinloch, Wilder. Sophomore Dick Emery, 
and Sophomore Dave Hawk won the med- 
ley relay in 4:07. 

Southern Connecticut took six individ- 
ual events and both relays in beating the 
Bruins. Prior won the 500 free in 5:33.5, 
Rhoades took the diving, and Junior Tom 
Warner had a first in the 100 (53.0). With 
one of the strongest swimming teams in 
its history, Princeton had a relatively easy 
time dunking the Bruins, taking eight of 
1 I events. However, Brown's Wilder was 
the individual star with a 2:23.8 in the 
200-yard breaststroke. This not only broke 
the Brown record but also bettered the 
New England Inter-Collegiate Swimming 
Association mark of 2:25.8 set a year ago 
by John Wester of Williams. Warner, who 
won the 50 free (:23.8) and Junior Bob 
Mohr. in the diving, were Brown's only 
other winners. 

On the Freshman front, the Cubs had a 
2-1 mark at the Christmas vacation, de- 
feating Cranston East, 60-35, and Boston 
Latin-English, 55-40, and losing to power- 
ful Southern Connecticut, 80-15. Walt 
Birnie, former St. George's School star 



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from Norwich, Conn., and Marc Geven- 
son from Coral Gables, Fla., had doubles 
in Brown's two winning meets. Birnie 
took the 200 (1:43.3) and 400-yard 
(4:43,8) freestyle events, while Gevenson 
won the 50 free (24,6) and diving, Harry 
Mugford set a Cub record against Cran- 
ston East when he won the 100-yard but- 
terfly in 59.1, chopping two-tenths of a 
second off the old mark set by Dick 
Emery last January. 

Wrestling's Lack of Depth 

The wrestling te-Mvi had a I-I-I rec- 
ord after the first three matches, but a 
drastic shortage of manpower appeared 
to be a major stumbling block to a win- 
ning season, .'\fter losing to Wesleyan, 
27-5, in the opener, the Bruins defeated 
UConn, 25-5. and tied M.I.T., 14-14. 

In trouncing Connecticut. Brown won 
seven of eight matches. Sophomore Rich 
Whipple got the home team off to a fast 
start with a pin at 5:36 in his 123-pound 
match. Against M.I.T., Capt, Ed McEntee 
saved the Bears from a defeat by register- 
ing a fall in the heavyweight class. His 
five points pulled Brown up from a 14-9 
deficit to a 14-14 tie. 

Coach Bob Litchard's starting team in 
those first three meets included four Soph- 
omores and four Juniors. The second year 
men up from the 5-5 Cub team were Whip- 
ple (5-2-1 Freshman record) at 123, Steve 
Gluckman (9-1) at 130, Steve Cantrill 
(8-0) at 137, and Peter Johnson (5-5) at 
177. In addition to Captain McEntee (7-3; 
4-3 ) at heavyweight, other Juniors in- 
cluded Jeif Goodale (9-3 as Cub) at 147, 
Bob Bundy ( 11-0-1; 3-7) at 157, and Steve 
Zwarg ( 10-1; 3-7-1) at 167. 

While this is a fairly talented group. 
Coach Litchard's main problem is that 
the remainder of the squad does not in- 
clude enough men to provide practice 
competition for the starters. At one point 
in December, the squad numbered only 
12 men. "It is difficult for a wrestler to 
improve himself if he does not have any- 
one of comparable ability to go against 
during the week." Coach Litchard said. 
"It is especially difficult when he has no 
one at all to go against." 

The Cubs won two of the first three, de- 
feating UConn, 25-11, and M.I.T., 15-13, 
and losing to Wesleyan. The leading wres- 
tlers were Bill Achilles of Geneva, N. Y., 
Robison Harley from the Hill School, 
Pottstown, Pa„ and Mai Schookner from 
Concordia Prep in Hyattsville, Md. 



Sports Shorts 

BROWN PLAYED a leading part when the 
Ivy League in December reflected the 
general impatience over the feud between 
the NCA,\ and the AAU by declaring it- 
self "an autonomous body" that planned 
to act independently despite any threat of 
sanction by either group. Delaney Kiphuth. 
Yale's Director of Athletics, announced 
at the annual ECAC Convention in New 
York that his school did not intend to have 
its athletes used as weapons in the fight. 
He said that Yale deplored the efl'orts of 
the NC.'XA to introduce sanctions against 



any member schools who had anything to 
do with the AAU. "We feel this is punish- 
ing the athlete for something over which 
he has no control, and Yale doesn't go 
along with that," he said. 

The move to ratify the Ivy League reso- 
lution came from Brown and was seconded 
by Yale. Here is the resolution. "The Ivy 
League believes that an institution has the 
basic right to: I ) Determine what individ- 
uals or groups and for what purpose those 
individuals or groups may use the facilities 
of that institution. 2) Hold institutional 
membership in any amateur sports organi- 
zation. 3 ) Participate without restraint in 
any and all programs designed to develop 
amateur sports on a local, sectional, or 
national scale. 4) Encourage and permit 
its athletes to participate in non-collegiate 
events which are certified to be amateur by 
the organization conducting same." 

John J. Kelly, Jr., Brown's fullback for 
the past three seasons, has been named 
winner of a $1,000 postgraduate scholar- 
ship by the National Collegiate Athletic 
Association. To win the award, which is 
the first ever given by the NCAA, Kelly 
qualified by maintaining a 3.0 (straight B) 
average and displaying outstanding talents 
on the football field. Twenty-two scholar- 
ships were awarded nationally. Kelly, who 
hopes to study medicine at either Har- 
vard, Yale, or Columbia in the fall, made 
the Dean's List four semesters. During his 
last three semesters he logged 3.50, 3.75, 
and 3.62 averages. 

Brown's Co-Captains for 1964, John 
Parry and Ralph Duerre, were named to 
the All-Ivy League team picked by the 
league coaches. Parry, the 6-3, 190-pound 
end from Marcellus, N, Y,, was named to 
the offensive platoon and Duerre, a 6-2, 
195-pound linebacker from Tenafiy, N, J., 
was selected for the defensive unit. Parry, 
who holds six Ivy and five Brown pass-re- 
ceiving records, was one of three repeaters 
from the 1963 squad. The others were 
Cosmo lacavazzi. Princeton fullback, and 
Archie Roberts, Columbia quarterback. 
Among the Bruins accorded honorable 
mention were Sophomore punter Joe Ran- 
dall and Senior defensive end Bob Seiple. 

Alan Walsh, Brown's spectacular Senior 
goalie, has been named to the AH-lvy soc- 
cer team for the second consecutive year 
in a vote of the league coaches. In addi- 
tion, the 6-3, 185-pounder from Yardley, 
Pa., made the All-New England team, also 
for the second straight year, and received 
honorable mention on the All-American 
squad. Two other Bruin Seniors were se- 
lected on the All-Ivy team: Phil Solomita 
and Bill Hooks. The All-New England 
honorable mention list included Solomita, 
Junior John Krupski, and Sophomore Win 
Anakwa. 

John J. Dystel, 18, a Freshman from 
Rye, N, Y., on Dec. 12 won the North 
Atlantic Senior Figure Skating Champion- 
ships at West Orange, N. J, While an 
honor student at Rye High School, Dystel 
put together an impressive list of skating 
honors: 2nd National Novice Men ('63), 
1st Mid-Atlantic Senior Men's, and Passed 
International Gold Medal. His father, a 
graduate of N.Y.U. and the Harvard Busi- 
ness School, is President of Bantam Book. 



The week after he captured his most re- 
cent title he appeared on the CBS televi- 
sion show "To Tell the Truth," as one of 
the "impostors." 

The Brown skippers finished second to 
Coast Guard Academy in competition for 
the Timm Angsten Trophy in a bitterly 
cold Midwest Intersectional Regatta sailed 
on Lake Michigan in Lehman 10-foot 
dinghies. The Cadets amassed 286 points 
in the three-day competition and the 
Bruins had 243. Next in line came Ohio 
State (212), Tulane (208), Wisconsin 
(207), Wayne (198), Purdue (149), In- 
diana (146), Notre Dame (145), Ohio 
Wesleyan (120), Michigan (115), and 
Cincinnati (93). Bert Goff '67, Chuck 
Paine '66, and Fran Wright '68 were the 
skippers for Brown. 

Athletic Director Dick Theibert has an- 
nounced that the 1965 outdoor Heptagonal 
track championships have been shifted 
from Brown to Yale because of a league 
regulation requiring a minimum track 
width measuring 24 feet. This allows for 
eight lanes. Brown's track around the Sta- 
dium contains only six lanes and thus can"! 
accommodate such events as the 440, 220. 
440 hurdles, and the 440 relay. At the 
present time, only Penn. Yale, Cornell, 
Army, and Navy of the Heptagonal 
schools can handle these events. 

Brown athletic teams appeared on tele- 
vision three times through the first half of 
the academic year. The Bruins' thrilling 
2-1 victory over Harvard in soccer was 
filmed by WGBH, Channel 2, Boston, and 
shown the next week. The same station 
also filmed the hockey team's 9-2 decision 
over the Crimson and put it on the air the 
next evening. Closer to home. WJAR. 
Channel 10, covered the Brown-URI bas- 
ketball game live from Kingston, a game 
that saw the Rams on top, 99-78. There is 
a strong possibility that the Brown-Provi- 
dence College hockey game from Meehan 
Auditorium on Mar. 3 will be televised by 
Channel 10, and arrangements have been 
made to televise the NCAA hockey cham- 
pionship final from Meehan on Saturday, 
Mar. 20. 

Navy won the NCAA Soccer Champion- 
ship held at Brown Stadium the first week 
in December by defeating Michigan State, 
1-0. in the final game. The Middies upset 
defending champion St. Louis, 2-1, in the 
semi-finals, while the Spartans had edged 
Army, 3-2, in overtime to gain the title 
round. This was the first time that the Sta- 
dium had ever been used for soccer in its 
39-year history. Those who have watched 
football played there over the years would 
hardly have recognized the field, with its 
turf painted a bright emerald green and 
soccer goals in place of the football goal 
posts. 

An interesting anecdote on the football 
season is supplied by Pete McCarthy, Di- 
rector of Sports Information, The incident 
took place the day Brown blanked Co- 
lumbia, 7-0, keeping All-American Archie 
Roberts on his back for the better part of 
the afternoon. After the game. Bill Earle, 
the Bruins' 240-pound tackle, approached 
Roberts with an outstretched hand. The 
Lions' star, in mock surprise, said, "Oh. 
no, please don't knock me down again," 



JANUARY 1965 



25 




"MANY HAPPY RETURNS OF THE CENTURY": Daniel Howard '93, the 
University's oldest living graduate, was guest of honor at the Hartford 



Brown Club meeting at the time of his 100th birthday. Club President 
James M. DeMund '56 got his degree 63 years after Howard. 



Brunonians Far and Near 



EDITED BY JAY BARRY '50 



1887 

FORMER Senator Theodore Francis 
Green was serenaded by the Rhode 
Island Boy Choir in December. Twenty- 
one members of the group sang four car- 
ols for Senator Green in the library of his 
home at 14 John St. The program com- 
prised, "Carol of the Drum," "Green- 
sleeves," "Silent Night," and "Adeste Fi- 
deles." 

1905 

In preparation for the big 60th, a roster 
of the 44 living members of the Class has 
been distributed. It is hoped that class- 
mates will jot down some incident or in- 
cidents involving one or more of these 
men and then send the information to 
either Charlie Robinson at 425 Brook St., 



Providence, or Sykes Goodwin at 2889 
Pawtucket Ave., Riverside. R. I. All returns 
will be bound in a scrapbook by Messrs. 
Robinson and Goodwin for enjoyment in 
June and then turned over to the Univer- 
sity for its files. 

Our Class is having more than a one- 
day reunion next June. Brown's 200th 
birthday demands that we make this one 
of the biggest celebrations on record. We 
have already made it a point to be repre- 
sented at all major week-end events. And 
why not? We have been part and parcel of 
Brown for approximately one-third of the 
entire life of the University. Starting this 
fall, members of our Class were present 
at the Elms in Newport and then at the 
ceremonies in Warren's Baptist Church. 
We were at the Meehan Auditorium to 



help welcome the President of the United 
States, and we took pride when our hon- 
orary classmate, John Nicholas Brown, 
helped out at these exercises. Several 
members of the Class were at the dedica- 
tion of the Rockefeller Library, and we 
plan to continue this active participation 
in all things Brown right through the 
200th Commencement. 

E. Sykes Goodwin will be at 2889 Paw- 
tucket Ave., Riverside, R. 1., this winter in- 
stead of heading for Florida. 

Frank Burr is comfortably housed in 
the Veterans Home, Bristol. His daughter, 
Evelyn Long, is able to see him frequently. 

1906 

W. Clayton Carpenter reports from 
Denver that he is spreading the name of 
Brown in the West through his grandsons. 
His son, Everett, graduated from the Uni- 
versity of Colorado in 1936 and has two 
boys. Clayton and George. Clayton fol- 
lowed his dad's footsteps, graduating from 
Colorado in 1963, while George is in his 
final year of high school. "I made sure 
that each of these boys has a pewter mug 
bearing the Brown seal," Clayton reports. 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



"Their friends see it. And recently, when 
Everett added a family room to his home, 
1 contributed a Brown chair and mirror to 
the furnishings. Perhaps Arthur Flagg 
gave us a greater advertisement in Phoenix 
during his lifetime, but at least I have 
planted a seed." 

Gus Russ celebrated his 86th birthday 
on Nov. 19 by taking his driver's license 
renewal test. He passed with flying colors, 
according to word received from our for- 
mer Ail-American end. Brown's annual 
football brochure, published by the Office 
of Sports Information, has Gus listed five 
times in the individual records. He holds 
the record for most touchdowns in one 
game (5), most conversions in one game, 
tie (7), most points one game (30), most 
touchdowns one season, tie (12), and most 
points one season (90). 

Dr. George B. Corcoran reports from 
84 Park St., West Springfield. "Been plod- 
ding along as usual. Keep office hours by 
appointment, which leaves me much time 
to tinker and take in auctions. I've been 
interested in antiques for a long time. My 
son, George Jr., '41, is an ophthalmologist 
and Joseph '44 a dermatologist. Both 
practise nearby." 

Charles Sawyer Shinn has been in a 
nursing home in Wayne, Pa., since June 1. 
He recalls the good time at the 1961 get- 
together. The only bit of news he sends 
along is that he is now a great-grandfather. 
Charlie's home address: 108 Morlyn Ave., 
Bryn Mawr, Pa. 

Ben Lindemuth may win first prize as 
the member of the Class still doing the 
most traveling. He has made five trips to 
Europe since the 55th Reunion. He says 
he is "semi-retired," going to the office 
twice a week "to keep up my interest." 
Ben is in good health but admits that he 
can't do push-ups anymore. He had a visit 
from the Bill Pearsons early in the win- 
ter, just before they left for Florida. 

The Rev. W. Douglas Swaffield writes 
that he is still carrying on his hobby of 
collecting different editions of Bunyan's 
Pilgrim's Progress. So far, he has more 
than 100. Doug is President of the Alton 
Historical Society and has gathered a large 
collection of antiques; old tools, books, 
hand-wrought iron implements, stuffed 
birds, etc. A new State highway has cut 
right through his land in Alton, N. H. 
Doug has rescued 20 cords of fireplace 
logs but says he would much prefer to 
have the fine pine woodland back again. 
"One of my granddaughters entered Pem- 
broke this year," he reports. "This breaks 
a long tradition of Wellesley." 

Horace Chandler, living in sunny Cal- 
ifornia, reports that he has retired from 
the staff of the Duarlcann for which he 
had written the column, "Westminster 
Garden News," for the past five years. 
Horace has had a couple of bad falls — 
but broke no bones. "I thank the Lord 
that I am as well as I am," he says. After 
leaving Brown with a degree in Civil En- 
gineering, Horace was appointed to mis- 
sionary work in Shantung, China, by the 
Board of Foreign Missions of the Presby- 
terian Church. Later, he taught Chinese at 
Washington State University and, after re- 



tiring from teaching, he took up journal- 
ism as a hobby. 

Dr. Alexander Burgess is still giving full 
time to Miriam Hospital as Director of 
Medical Education. His Presidential Ad- 
dress, delivered at the meeting of the As- 
sociation of Hospital Directors of Medi- 
cal Education in Chicago, was printed in 
the Journal of Medical Education. Ale.x 
has given up for a while his consultation 
trips to various parts of the country and 
has resigned from the Medical Advisory 
Committee and the Program Committee 
of the Unitarian-Universalist Service Or- 
ganization, 

1907 
F. Huntington Babcock has the sym- 
pathy of the Class in the loss of his wife, 
Mrs. Dorothy Doubleday Bahcock, in New 
York in November. She was a Director of 
Doubleday & Co., publishers, and a Vice- 
President of the hospital in which she died, 
St, Luke's. Her father was the late Frank 
Nelson Doubleday. 

1908 
C. LeRoy Grinnell, our former Class 
Secretary, was seriously ill at the Union 
Hospital in Fall River during the late fall. 
However, he returned to his home at 57 
."Ktlantic Ave., Portsmouth, prior to the 
holidays and reports that he is feeling 
fine and checks with the doctor only once 
a month. 

The Class wishes to extend its sympathy 
to Howard Newman. His wife Clara died 
Sept. 13, just three months beyond the 
55th anniversary of their wedding. 

1909 
There were 15 persons, three genera- 
tions, in the Sydney Wilmot family photo 
on the Christmas card this year. "The 
whole clan," said the inscription. TTie 
group was photographed at Thanksgiving 
"flanked by the farm security forces" — 
two dogs. 

1911 
Robert Cushman Murphy's recent book, 
Fish-Shape Paumanok, which was reviewed 
in the October issue of this magazine, has 
been advertised in the New York Times 
by Brentano's of Fifth Ave. "He does for 
Long Island what Thoreau did for Wal- 
den," the ad said. The author reports that 
hitherto only his publishers, rather than a 
bookshop, have considered his productions 
worth such promotion. Bob is chairing a 
committee of scholars charged with draw- 
ing up a curriculum for the Zeckendorf 
College of Science and Engineering, a new 
branch of Long Island University. It is to 
be erected adjacent to the Brookhaven Na- 
tional Laboratory in Suffolk County, Long 
Island. 

1912 

Lawton V. Crooker and his brother are 
doing business as the National Survey in 
Chester, Vl. As a matter of fact, this is 
their 53rd anniversary in the map busi- 
ness. Over their career, they have pro- 
duced maps for just about everyone, from 
Uncle Sam to a host of highway depart- 
ments, cities, and towns. 

The Del Eastburns returned to the Hill 
for Homecoming Week End before taking 



off on their annual Florida vacation. That 
was quite a week end for '12 men, with 
Sprackling being honored at halftime on 
his selection to the National Football 
Foundation Hall of Fame. 

The Carleton Parkers celebrated their 
Golden Wedding anniversary Sept. 19. 
Both partners are looking fine and still 
enjoy Homecoming, Commencement, and 
other events on the Brown calendar. 

Apparently, retired ministers find it nec- 
essary to keep very busy. The Rev. Wil- 
liam Dinkins, after resigning from Selma 
University, decided to enter private busi- 
ness. For some years he has run the Din- 
kins Specialty House, dealing in books and 
stationery. He maintains his lively interest 
in college, church, and music. 

Frederick Burgess, another of our re- 
tired ministers, is living in West Redding, 
Conn. He has been keeping busy with a 
number of small jobs and reports that he 
isn't ready to settle down in the easy chair 
just yet. 

The 1964 report from Edgar Buzzell's 
Glen Eyrie Farm for Children at Delavan 
Lake, Wisconsin, would have you believe 
that Ed is retiring in 1965. Don't bet heav- 
ily on it. Maybe Ed will drop some of 
his responsibilities, but he'll stay active at 
something. Incidentally, he wants to know 
how many men of 1912 still have their 
Junior Cruise tin cups. So far, Buzzell and 
Wiley Marble are the only ones we know 
of. Anyone else? 

Wiley Marble, though slowed down by 
that bad leg he picked up in the auto 
accident a year ago, still managed to make 
it to Albuquerque for the Christmas holi- 
day season to be with his children, al- 
though someone else drove. Wiley has 
given up touch football and chops fewer 
trees than he did a year ago but otherwise 
refuses to let his leg slow him down. A 
picture of Wiley running through the Penn 
line in the 1911 game was featured in the 
Brown-Rhode Island football game pro- 
gram this fall. 

1913 

George T. Metcalf presented a plaque 
to Maj. Gen. Harold R. Barker in No- 
vember when that gentleman was honored 
by his comrades by the dedication of a 
bronze plaque in the Rhode Island State 
House. George is President of the El 
Paso Club, a group of Rhode Island Na- 
tional Guard artillery veterans who served 
on the Mexican Border in 1916. Maj. 
Gen. H. Stanford McLeod '16 (Ret,), for- 
mer Commander of the 76th Division, read 
the citation on the plaque, a citation writ- 
ten by General Douglas MacArthur. Other 
Brown men who rendered meritorious 
service under General Barker's command 
included Chester A. Files '14, 43rd Divi- 
sion Artillery Executive and Commander 
of "Flies" Groupment, and Col. William 
B, McCormick '23. 

1915 

Next June will be our 50th — 50 years 
since we marched down the Hill to receive 
our sheepskins from William Herbert 
Perry Faunce. And next June we're going 
to celebrate on the Hill with the best re- 
union you ever attended — clambakes, bar- 
becues, compotations, and everything to 



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WHEN the Electric Council of New England held a two-day seminar on "Environmental Control" in 
December for 350 architects and engineers, three Brunonions were principals: John E. Pemberton '25 
(center), President of Blcckslone Valley Gas & Electric Co., presided over the morning session. The 
ofternoon chairman was Paul V. Hayden '25 (right). President of Connecticut Light & Power. A 
speaker was Charles R. Bragg '50 (left). Executive Director of the Council. Above, they were dis- 
cussing Brown University's electrically-heated Prince Engineering Laboratory. 



make the 50th the greatest. Best of all. 
especially for those living in the far-off 
places, will be the opportunity to see 
Brown as she is today. The charges are 
so low as to be fantastic. Ladies are in- 
cluded at this affair, and housing at the 
University will be free. The dates will be 
June 4, 5, and 6 and then, on the 7th, 
we'll all march down the Hill once again 
to the Old Meeting House. Mark your 
calendar now. 

1916 

Herman M. Feinstein of the Roger Wil- 
liams Hotel. Pawtucket. was doubly hon- 
ored last fall on the occasion of his 70th 
birthday and his 48th anniversary as a 
graduate of Brown. At a dinner, he was 
presented with a Brown University Chair 
by a representative of the Weekapaug 
Group of Rhode Island. Herman is a 
Past President of the Rhode Island Hotel- 
Motel Association. 

1918 
Roswell S. Bosworth, publisher of three 
weekly newspapers in Warren, Barrington, 
and Bristol, acted as Governor Chafee's 
official representative at the first Congress 
of Portuguese Communities held during 
December in Lisbon. He flew home just in 
time to spend Christmas with his family. 
Dr. J. Walter Wilson of the Biology De- 
partment has been awarded a cancer- 
research grant in the amount of $37,200 
for the period Jan. 1, 1965— Dec. 21, 1965. 
The grant, for study of "Nuclear Phe- 
nomena in the Mouse Liver," carries with 
it a moral commitment for three addi- 
tional years in the amounts of $32,320 the 
first year, $33,400 for the second, and 
$34,610 for the third. 

1919 
James L. Palmer, former President of 
Marshall Field & Co., has been elected to 
the Board of Trustees of the University of 
Chicago. Though retired from the top 
post at Marshall Field, Palmer continues 
as a Director of the large Chicago enter- 
prise. 

The Providence Institution for Savings, 



of which Thomas F. Black, Jr.. is Presi- 
dent, has received State approval to acti- 
vate its subsidiary, the Old Stone Safe 
Deposit and Trust Co. as a commercial 
banking operation. This will affect 10 
offices of the parent hank and a branch 
office being built in Bristol. 

There were 20 members of the James 
Eastham family in the group photo of 
three generations on their Christmas card. 
The grandparents still live in Andover, 
Mass., at 16 Alden Rd. 

William H. Edwards. Providence at- 
torney, has been elected to a three-year 
term on the Governing Council of the 
National Municipal League. He was Chair- 
man of the Rhode Island Commission on 
Revision of the Constitution. As President 
of the Corporation of Lying-in Hospital 
in Providence, he recently rendered its 
annual report. 

Eugene W. O'Brien attended the annual 
meetings of the American Society of 
Mechanical Engineers in New York early 
in the winter. The Atlanta man, a former 
President of ASME, presided over several 
group sessions. 

Warren R. Campbell, State Insurance 
Commissioner, had the unpleasant duty 
to inform Rhode Islanders in December 
that fire insurance rates would increase by 
an average of 5.7 per cent. Earlier, he 
had approved revisions filed by the New 
England Insurance Rating Association 
based on fire loss experience from 1958 
through 1963, which showed an increased 
cost of repair and replacement. 

Daniel W. Coggeshall, who has been 
Postmaster in Bristol for close to 30 years, 
is expected to retire in February. 

1920 

Louis A. R. Fieri, widely known Rhode 
Island sports enthusiast and promoter, 
received a special honor in Framingham, 
Mass., during the late fall. Before an en- 
thusiastic crowd of close to 400 at the 
annual New England Turf Writers Associ- 
ation. Lou was given a plaque as the man 
who had made the outstanding contii- 



bution to New England racing in 1964. 
He was honored in recognition of the colt 
he bred and owns, Louis .'Arnold, one of 
the country's top two-year-olds. Reiterat- 
ing his hopes of entering Louis Arnold in 
the Kentucky Derby this spring, Lou 
said, "If all the people I have invited to go 
to Louisville really go, it will take an en- 
tire train, not just a car or two to get them 
there." 

Raymond S. Stites, educator, author, 
and curator of educational affairs, national 
Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C, was 
the featured speaker at the fifth annual 
conference of College Art Educators of 
Pennsylvania held at Penn State in No- 
vember. His lecture was entitled, "The 
Interrelationship of the Arts." 

The Rev. Kenneth H. Robinson is 
Pastor of the Second Baptist Church of St. 
Louis, which last fall dedicated its William 
Coleman Bitting Fellowship Hall in its 
new $593,000 building. Bishop Ivan Lee 
Holt, former President of the Methodist 
World Council, was principal speaker on 
the occasion of the dedication. Bitting 
received an honorarv degree at Brown in 
1910. 

1921 

Walter F. Crawford has retired after 39 
years' service with the Long Lines Depart- 
ment of .'\merican Telephone and Tele- 
graph Co. He had been a staff supervisor 
in the marketing group at Long Lines head- 
quarters in New York. During the last 25 
years, he had been concerned with long 
distance rate structures. In 1957. Walter 
helped design the method for computing 
distances used in determining intercity 
rates. 

John R. Stevens told us recently about 
visiting Dr. Henry Barrett Huntington, 
Professor Emeritus, at his Providence 
home. The latter no longer gets out, but 
Jack has enjoyed a long friendship with 
him. Active membership in Grace Church 
has been a common interest. 

Reporting the birth of another grand- 
daughter, Reginald Stevens Kimball noted 
that this brought the total of his grand- 
children to 17. 

1922 

Milton H. Glover was pictured in the 
Hartford Times in November presenting 
Governor Dempsey of Connecticut with 
the final report of the Commission to 
Study the Social Welfare Laws. Glover 
served as Chairman of that group. In late 
November. Glover was making an "amaz- 
ing recovery" from injuries he suffered 
when struck by a city-owned dump truck. 
He was walking on the sidewalk when the 
accident occurred. 

Charles Jacobson has a loyal Brunonian 
family. Daughter Libby P'51 is the wife of 
Dr. Ernest M. Greenberg '48, and son 
Melvin graduated in 1950. Charles, retired 
from business since 1961, makes his home 
at 86 Gressmere St., Warwick. 

John H. Whorf has been named Presi- 
dent and Chief Executive Officer of the 
Lumber Mutual Fire Insurance Company 
of Boston. He had been Executive Vice- 
President and Secretary. John joined the 
firm in 1946 and moved to his previous 
post in 1963. 

William Paxton, Interim Headmaster of 



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THE ALUMNI fielded a redoubtable soccer team on Homecoming Day for 
the annual encounter with the Freshmen. Front row, left to right — Mike 
Strem '58, Jock Andrews '43, Bill Margeson '37, Bob Jenks '54, Jim Leach 
'50, Walter Jackson '39, Milt Bennett '32. Standing— Bob Dolt '51, George 



Schweikert '64, George Halmos '66, Pete Fuller '65, Bruce Yeutter '57, 
John Haskell '64, John Monaghan '55, Dave Bullock '55, Dick Press '60, Ken 
Chambers '55, Dick Seid '58, and Coach Cliff Stevenson. Though the du- 
rables played well, the Cubs won, 2-1. 



Moses Brown School, says the quote at- 
tributed to him in the New York World 
Telegram was really a quote of a quote. 
It was Prof. George Benedict who had 
said of a student: "I wonder not that this 
young man misspells so many words: I 
wonder that he spells ANY correctly." 
(Professor Benedict, still resident in Provi- 
dence, is as hearty as ever but not as 
hale.) 

1923 

Willan C. Roux has sold the Pearl 
House on Orr's Island. Me., having built 
another. Windswept. Bill says the new 
house is just what they want: "It's located 
so that winter can do its worst and we 
can still get out. I don't know why people 
want to go to Florida. That is, except for 
a week or two." Bill's recent cookbook, 
Wlial's Cooking Down in Maine, continues 
to enjoy a good sale, as it should. (An- 
other islander tells us, by the way, that 
Orr's isn't really an island, because of a 
bridge. ) 

James O'Rourke writes that he is back 
at "the old homstead," 12 Pell Place, 
Stamford, Conn. 

Tony Hofford's by-line appears in the 
Providence Journal over his column, 
"Kingston Hill Topics." His son, CMDR, 
John L. HofFord, is in England on the 
staff of Admiral Sir Charles E. Madden, 
Royal Navy, serving as U.S. Navy Sub- 
marine Force representative. 

1924 
Edward R. Place, who went to Washing- 



ton, D. C, after serving as Information 
Chief for the St. Lawrence Seaway from 
1955 to 1960 in Massena, has left for 
Portland, Ore., where he has been named 
Director of Information for the Western 
Wood Products Association. During his 
four years in the Capital, Ed worked on 
the export expansion program at the De- 
partment of Commerce and later spent 
two years with the National Coal Policy 
conference. 

Jack A. Lubrano has been elected 
Treasurer of the Rhode Island Timers 
Guild. Jack is working on the Hill as a 
Teaching Assistant in Physics. 

1925 
Sarkis Tatarian, East Providence at- 
torney and outgoing City Solicitor in that 
community, was praised by Judge Eugene 
J. Sullivan recently for his "conscientious- 
ness, capability, and hard work." As a 
closing comment. Judge Sullivan said. "If 
your successor does nearly as well as you 
everyone will be happy." 

1926 
The late George Y. Loveridge won a 
posthumous first prize in the news cate- 
gory in the annual writing contest of the 
New England Associated Press News Ex- 
ecutives Association. The prize was 
awarded for his description of Governor 
Chafee's inauguration on Jan. I, 1963. 

Commissioner Frank J. Ortolano of the 
Hoboken Housing Authority has been 
awarded a certificate for 14 years of serv- 
ice to the city. The citation read, in part: 



"This award is in recognition of Commis- 
sioner Ortolano's personal contribution to 
the success of the Federally-assisted low- 
income public housing program in provid- 
ing decent housing for low income families 
in Hoboken." A graduate of Georgetown 
Law School, Frank has been practising law 
in Hoboken since 1929. 

Horace F. Altman, Administrator of the 
Robert P. Brigham Hospital in Boston, has 
been elected President of the Greater 
Boston Hospital Council, Inc. He has been 
.Administrator at the hospital since 1953 
and a member of the Board of Directors 
since 1959. 

Dr. Walter S. Jones had served as Chief 
of Staff at the Providence Lying-in Hos- 
pital for six years when he stepped down 
at the recent annual meeting. His successor 
is Dr. Frederic W. Ripley, Jr.. '32. 

1927 

It was the pleasure of your Secretary to 
visit with John Odin when he was in 
Providence in the late fall. He looks great 
and hasn't changed nearly as much as 
most of us have. This was the first time we 
had seen John since that eventful Com- 
mencement in June. 1927. He has spent 
his post-college years in Los Angeles. 
Other classmates in that city of sunshine 
and beautiful women include John Orth. 
Jack Marinsky. and Joe Reynolds. 

Hal Conrad is Dean of Academic Plan- 
ning at High Point College, High Point, 
N. C. 

Dr. Orland F. Smith retired as Chief 



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of Surgery at Memorial Hospital, Paw- 
tucket, effective Jan. I, but he will remain 
a member of the consulting surgery staff 
and will continue his private practice. Dr. 
Smith, who is one year shy of retirement 
age, said he has been forced to curtail his 
professional activities in order to devote 
time to a family situation which developed 
last fall. On Oct. 3, he learned of the 
death of his daughter-in-law. mother of 
three small children, in Albany, N. Y., and 
on the same day two nephews, age 18 and 
20, were killed in an automobile accident 
in Ohio, where they were attending col- 
lege. Besides the personal grief they com- 
pounded, these deaths left problems, es- 
pecially the reorganizing of two families, 
which he feels are his responsibility. 

1928 

According to the Providence Joiirnal- 
Biilletin, it was the first time in the six 
years that judges of the Rhode Island 
Supreme Court have had law clerks to 
assist them in research that a young 
woman has been selected to fill one of the 
positions. The young woman is Miss 
Judith E. Hodge P'61 of 16 Shaw St., 
Rumford, daughter of prominent Provi- 
dence attorney. Paul H. Hodge. She was 
graduated from Boston University Law 
School in 1964 and is serving as law clerk 
for Associate Justice Thomas J. Paolino. 

E. Edgarton Hart, Secretary of the Il- 
linois Manufacturers' Association since 
1952, has become Executive Vice-President 
of the firm. He has been active in the work 
of the Illinois Industrial Council and the 
National Industrial Council and is a mem- 
ber of the American Society of Associa- 
tion Executives, the Economics Club, and 
the Executives' Club. 

Capt. Alfred S. Cleaves continues as 
Deputy Chief of Staff of the First Naval 
District. He was pictured in the Evening 
Bulletin in November making the presenta- 
tion of the annual Commandant's Trophy 
to the outstanding Naval Reserve mobili- 
zation team division in the district. 

Thomas J. Paolino, Associate Justice of 
the Rhode Island Supreme Court, has been 
appointed Membership Chairman of the 
American Bar Association's Criminal Law 
Section for the State. The appointment 
extends through August, 1965. 

Robert C. Hollingworth has been pro- 
moted to be a Tax Officer at the Industrial 
National Bank of Rhode Island. 

1929 

Alex DiMartino. President of Planta- 
tions Steel Co.. was the featured speaker 
at the fall meeting of Robert Morris As- 
sociates, the national association of bank 
loan officers and credit men. The dinner- 
meeting was held at the Harvard Club, 
Boston. Alvin J. McNulty. President of 
Surety Underwriters' Association of Mas- 
sachusetts, paid our classmate a fine 
compliment after the affair. "I've heard 
a great many straight-from-the-shoulder 
speakers in my day," he said, "but you 
really swung from the heels last night to 
the delight of your audience." This note 
is passed our way by John Bateman '46. 
DiMartino is a new member of the Corpo- 
ration of the Rhode Island Osteopathic 
Hospital. 




ROLAND G. NEWCOMBE '34 has been elected 
Vice-President of the Belson Corporation and is 
General Manager of the Air Appliance Depart- 
ment of its Hoffman Industries Division, of which 
he hod been National Sales Manager. He has 
been with the company since 1953 in a variety 
of engineering and soles capacities. 



John F. Lambden, New Rochelle attor- 
ney, and John J. Gardner have formed a 
partnership for the practice of law under 
the firm name of Lambden & Gardner. 
Their offices are at 277 North Ave., the 
People's Bank for Savings Building. For 
the past 30 years he has specialized in 
banking law and Surrogate's Court matters. 

The Rev. Charles R. Bell. Jr., is the 
Pastor of the First Baptist Church, Pasa- 
dena, Calif. He holds a Th.M. from the 
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary 
and a D.D. from Kalamazoo College. Dr. 
Bell has served on the General Council of 
the American Baptist Convention. 

Bert Schwartz of NBC News in New 
York was assigned to handle the Inaugu- 
ration press coverage job and expected to 
be in Washington for a week prior to the 
festivities of Jan. 20, including the In- 
augural Balls. 

1930 
Dr. Paul T. David attended the Novem- 
ber Shenandoah Conference on non-mar- 
ket decision-making sponsored by the 
Thomas Jefferson Center for Political 
Economy at the University of Virginia. He 
is Professor of Government at the Univer- 
sity and Chairman of the Woodrow Wilson 
Department of Government and Foreign 
Affairs. In addition to his A.M. in 1930. 
David received his Ph.D. at Brown. 

Milton Linden served as Chairman of 
the Greater Boston Brandeis Club's 16th 
annual dinner, which was held Dec. 20. 
He is President of Glaser & Linden. Inc., 
wool merchants of Natick, and is Vice- 
President of Sandman Company of Worces- 
ter, dealers of reinforcing materials and 
abrasives. 

The Rev. Dr. Charles D. Kean received 
a posthumous tribute at the General Con- 
vention of the Episcopal Church in St. 
Louis last fall. It was a citation "for dis- 



tinguished service to the ecumenical 
cause." which was presented on behalf of 
the Presiding Bishop. Dr. Kean's son. a 
Harvard undergraduate. received the 
award for his father, who died in 1953. 
The late Rector of Epiphany Church in 
Washington. D. C, was Secretary of the 
Joint Commission on Approaches to Unity 
for the national church and President of 
the Greater Washington Council of 
Churches. The Washington Evening Slav 
said: "Cut down at a time when his own 
powers were markedly growing. Dr. Kean 
has left a living heritage for the Nation's 
Capital he so loved." 

W. Tallmadge Bullock is in Troy, N. Y.. 
where he is a remedial reading teacher at 
Knickerbocker Elementary. Powers. Has- 
kell, and Whipple annex schools. 

1931 

Dick Reynolds, Schoolboy Sports Editor 
of the Providence Joiirniil-Bnilelin. was 
cited recently for the important role he 
played in the Lalin-American good-will 
tour by a schoolboy baseball team last 
summer. The program was sponsored by 
the R. 1. People-to-People Committee, 
with Dick handling the arrangements for 
the third straight year. Col. Edward P. F. 
Eagan, Chairman of President Johnson's 
People-to-People Sports Committee, termed 
our classmate "a person who is conse- 
crated to good will." 

Frederick L. Harson of Providence has 
been elected President of the Rhode Is- 
land Association of Investment Firms. 
Fred, who is Vice-President of Diamond 
Doorley Douglas c*t Co., succeeds a fellow 
Brunonian, Robert Cummings '50, Presi- 
dent of Cummings & Co., Inc. 

J. Clarke Ferguson has been named a 
member of the Aviation Committee of the 
Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce. 
He is City Manager, American Airlines. 

1932 

Dr. Frederick W. Ripley, Jr., has been 
named Chief of Staff at Providence 
Lying-in Hospital. He replaces Dr. Walter 
S. Jones '26, who had held the position for 
six years. 

The Rt. Rev. Richard S. Emrich. Protes- 
tant Episcopal Bishop of Michigan, served 
last fall as a member of the three-man 
governor's commission that sought to end 
Detroit's newspaper strike. Our classmate 
was strongly opposed to the union stand, 
terming it "a scandalous use of power." 
Among his criticisms was the fact that the 
newspapers are forced to sign 21 contracts 
with 14 different unions. "The real issue in 
the strike," he said, "is that this miserable 
organizational mess has tempted a small 
minority to a scandalous misuse of power. 
The unions have closed down two news- 
papers, deprived a large metropolitan area 
of needed news before an election, put 
thousands out of work, and caused a big 
enough mess to bring in the Mayor, the 
Governor, and even the President of the 
United States — all to no effect." 

Judge William R. Goldberg is President- 
Elect of the Rhode Island Bar Association. 
He is a partner with Goldberg and Gagnon 
of Pawtucket. 



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1933 
George Yoffa has been named Director 
of Purchases for Sweetheart Plastics, Wil- 
mington. Mass. The firm is a division of 
Maryland Cup Corp. 

The article by the "Freshman Dean" on 
the Class of 1968 which appeared in No- 
vember was illustrated with a picture of 
the author. Wayne Williams with two 
Freshmen. One of them was Frederick W. 
Arnold. Jr.. of Canton. Mass.. son of our 
classmate. 

1934 

Dr. Harrie-Lyman Davenport, Jr.. has 
been named Chief of Staff of the Osteo- 
pathic General Hospital of Rhode Island. 
He has been a staff member of the hospi- 
tal since 1937. Dr. Davenport has been 
Chairman of the Department of Roent- 
genology at the Cranston hospital since 
1954. He is the immediate Past President 
of the Osteopathic Credit Union and Past 
President of the Providence Radio Asso- 
ciation. 

John Quattrocchi. Jr., has been elected 
President of the Rhode Island Tennis Or- 
ganization. Serving with him as Vice- 
President is another Brunonian, Charles 
W. Briggs. Jr., "45. 

G. Edward Falciglia. Vice-President 
with the International Institute of Provi- 
dence, served as Chairman of the group's 
fourth annual "Cabaret International" in 
December. 

1935 

The Providence architectural firm of 
Robinson, Green & Beretta has won an 
award of merit from the Community Fa- 
cilities Administration of the Housing and 
Home Finance Agency for the e.xcellence 
of design for the Public Library in 
Warwick, R. I. Knight D. Robinson was 
the principal designer, while Conrad E. 
Green '36 started the project on its way. 
Brown's Librarian. David Jonah, was a 
member of the Building Commission. 

Morton H. Nickerson had an unusual 
trip to Europe recently with a dozen mem- 
bers of Railroad Enthusiasts, Inc. Their 
special interest determined some of the 
travel, and European railroad buffs helped 
entertain them. On the trains, they had 
special accommodation, rode with the en- 
gineer on one run, and sampled monorail 
travel at Wuppertal and the cograils in 
Switzerland; yard visits were also sched- 
uled. The three weeks embraced England. 
Holland. Switzerland, and France. Nicker- 
son is a member of the New York Divi- 
sion of Railroad Enthusiasts as well as the 
New England group centered in Boston. 

H. Brainard Fancher wrote an article 
for the November issue of Space Digest. 
Entitled "Let's Not Promise the Moon: 
Knowledge Is Enough." the piece sug- 
gested that the justification of our national 
space effort should be in terms of knowl- 
edge to be gained — knowledge the impor- 
tance of which may not be realized for 
generations — and not in terms of imme- 
diate product-payofi'. "Space technology is 
a technological tapestry on which we may 
embroider outlines of progress," he said. 

D. Gerald Ferry has been named Sales 
Education and Training Manager with 




TOM F. DAVIS '37 has been promoted to be 
Technical Director of Peter A. Frasse and Co. 
Formerly Marketing Manager of aluminum, Davis 
is now responsible for the technical aspects of 
marketing the company's full line of carbon, 
alloy, and stainless steels and aluminum from 
New York City headquarters. Active in Subfresh- 
man work, he is also on the Boord of Governors 
of the Brown Club of Northeastern New Jersey. 



Moore Business Forms, Inc., Niagara 
Falls, N. Y. He will direct the activities of 
the company's Eastern Division Depart- 
ment of Sales Education and Training and 
will be responsible for all Eastern Division 
training programs. 

Joseph H. Hines has been elected to the 
six-member Executive Committee of the 
New England Area Council of Industrial 
Management Clubs. He's a representative 
of B-I-F Division of the New England Air 
Brake Co. During the 1963-64 term, he 
served as President of the Greater Provi- 
dence Industrial Management Club. 

Paul L. Paulsen has been appointed 
Manager of Research and Development 
with the Bostitch Co., East Greenwich. 

Dr. John C. Allen of West Hartford 
has been named to the Connecticut Coun- 
cil on Tuberculosis Control, Hospital Care, 
and Rehabilitation. His term will expire 
Oct. I, 1968. 

Henry C. Hart, Jr., has been elected a 
Director of the Home for Aged Men and 
Aged Couples, Providence. 

1936 

When Dr. Wesley N. Haines left Buck- 
nell University to take up his new duties 
as President of Franklin College, Dr. 
Charles H. Watts, II, '47, Bucknell's Pres- 
ident, said: "Evidences of his effective 
leadership in the development area are 
visible everywhere on the campus. Buck- 
nell University will miss him, and so shall 
I." Dr. Haines directed Bucknell's Dual 
Development Campaign which raised more 
than $2,000,000 for endowment and 
physical plant. 

Our late classmate, Richard Hart, was 
mentioned in the Providence Sunday Jour- 
nal recently when its drama critic, Brad- 
ford Swan, reviewed the Trinity Square 



Playhouse production of "Dark of the 
Moon." "Memories swarm up out of the 
past when I think of 'Dark of the Moon,' " 
Swan said. "In January of 1945 I was in 
Philadelphia to observe the final rehearsals 
that were getting this play ready for its 
tryout tour and then Broadway. It was 
2:40 in the rather dismal Forrest Theater. 
1 sat there, an audience of one, cold and 
hungry, and on the verge of joining the 
procession of bad tempers which were be- 
ing paraded about the premises. It was at 
that moment that a dark-haired young 
man plopped down in the seat beside me. 
He was calm and smiling, and not the least 
bit tired. He exuded confidence. His name 
was Richard Hart. The play made it to 
Broadway, and young Hart became a 
star." 

Walter Chucnin has become associated 
with the Providence oflice of Tucker. An- 
thony & R. L. Day, members of the New 
York Stock Exchange, as a registered 
representative. He had been President and 
General Manager of Sherman Manufac- 
turing Company of Providence. 

John H. Davis has been reelected Presi- 
dent of the Rhode Island Timers Guild. 

Clarence H. Gilford, Jr., has been 
elected a Director of the Audubon Society 
of Rhode Island. 

1937 

State's Attorney Allyn L. Brown, Jr., of 
Connecticut submitted his resignation 
effective Jan. 1 after nearly 12 years in 
the post because of the increased work- 
load of his job and the effect on his per- 
sonal commitments. In a letter sub- 
mitted to Chief Justice John H. King of 
the State Supreme Court, Allyn noted that 
the amount of work in the county required 
virtually full-time employment. His family 
commitment was a major consideration he 
told the press. Td like to spend more time 
with my six children," he said. The second 
consideration is his responsibility to the 
law firm in which he is senior partner and 
trial specialist. Brown. Jewett & Driscoll 
of Norwich. 

Dr. Edward W. Dempsey is serving as 
Special Assistant to the Secretary for 
Health and Medical Affairs. U. S. Depart- 
ment of Health. Education and Welfare. 
Dean of the School of Medicine, Wash- 
ington University, St. Louis, he received 
his Ph.D. at Brown in 1937. 

1938 
Thomas R. Serpa has been named Ad- 
ministrative Vice-President in charge of 
foreign operations of Sterling Products In- 
ternational, Inc.. Winthrop Products. Inc.. 
and the Sydney Ross Co. The companies 
are subsidiaries of Sterling Drug. Inc.. op- 
erating in overseas trade. Tom had been 
Vice-President and General Manager in 
Brazil. He now makes his headquarters in 
New York City. 

1939 

Melvin Swig has become the principal 
shareholder and President of the San 
Francisco Seals Ice Hockey Club. Some 
years back. Mel and Chuck Greenstone 
put together the Western League Hockey 
package, using the know-how of Van- 



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couver's Coley Hall. Having had experi- 
ence with hockey at Brown, Mel was one 
of the first to step forward when people 
on the West Coast started talking up the 
sport. Against the "better judgment" of 
numerous friends, he made an investment 
in the sport. Hockey has been a quick suc- 
cess on the Coast. The Seals won two 
Western League titles and now the area is 
talking about growth. The National 
Hockey League is considering expanding 
to the Coast, with San Francisco and Los 
Angeles the two cities most likely to be 
added. Right now, our classmate is sitting 
in a rather comfortable position. 

1940 

Edward W. Pietrusza has been named 
Associate Director of Research at the cen- 
tral research laboratory of Allied Chemical 
Corp., Morris Township, N. J. Ed joined 
the firm in 1948. a year before he received 
his Doctorate from Penn State. He was 
named a Senior Scientist in 1960. 

The Rev. John H. Evans on Dec. 20 
was named Rector of St. James" Church in 
North Providence. 

1941 

Lt. Col. John H. Gilbert, Jr.. has re- 
ported for duty with NATO, assigned 
specifically to DCS Operations, Hq. Allied 
Forces Central Europe, Fontainebleau, 
France. Since July, 1961, he had been the 
Hq. North American Air Defense Com- 
mand Representative at the Hanscom Field 
(Bedford, Mass.) Complex, which consists 
of the Air Force Cambridge Research 
Laboratories, Lincoln Laboratories, USAF 
Electronic Systems Division, and the Mitre 
Corp. 

Norman L. Hibbert moved to St. Louis 
last summer, where he is in the home 
office of the consulting firm, Sverdrup & 
Parcel & Associates, as a senior engineer. 
He had worked for them for three years 
on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel 
near Norfolk, Va. 

The Rev. Robert A. Tourigney is Rector 
of St. Francis Episcopal Church in Palos 
Verdes Estates, Calif., where ground was 
broken on Dec. 6 for a $450,000 edifice. 
The parishioners expect it to be completed 
by September. 

Capt. Philip W. Porter, Jr., USN is the 
Commanding Officer of the USS Cadmus 
(AP-14), which was recently at the Brook- 
lyn Navy Yard for overhaul. Last year he 
was Deputy Chief Navy Advisor, Vietnam. 

In his new post as Assistant Executive 
Vice-President of New York University. 
Frederick H. Jackson has special respon- 
sibilities for NYU's two undergraduate 
colleges as well as for its Graduate School 
of Arts and Sciences. He had been with 
the Carnegie Corporation since 1955 un- 
til last August, as an executive associate. 
Earlier he had taught history at the Uni- 
versity of Illinois, and his new duties are 
centered in the humanities and social 
sciences. 

William Paterson's performance of 
"Profile of Holmes" at Brown and else- 
where was noted here recently. He has 
been Assistant Director of The Cleveland 
Play House since 1960, where he had 




CLARK T. FOSTER '40, a Vice-President of John- 
son & Higgins, New York, has been elected a 
Director of the international insurance brokerage 
firm which he joined in 1948 as actuary. In his 
home town of Mahwah, N. J., he is a member of 
the Board of Education. (Pach photo) 



been a leading actor for a dozen years. 
His one-man portrait of Justice Oliver 
Wendell Holmes was created three years 
ago and has been steadily in performance, 
although this year's was his first coast-to- 
eoast tour with the unusual show. 

1942 

There was an informal get-together 
breakfast on Homecoming Day, during 
which there was some discussion of plans 
for the 23rd and 25lh Reunions. On hand 
were Bell, Blistein. Buffum. Giraud. 
Lockett, Meader, Roberts. Sapinsley. and 
Spear. 

Peter M. Healy, a Providence resident, 
became manager of the Electronics Ac- 
counting Corporation of Fall River this 
winter when that firm was acquired by 
Wingate Computing Center of Providence. 
Wingate plans to maintain the Fall River 
operation at its present location. 151 Rock 
St., with its function to receive and pre- 
pare data for direct-line transmission to 
the Providence computing center. Peter 
has been affiliated with business systems 
and techniques for 17 years. 

Norman B. Orent, President of Hamil- 
ton-Skotch Corp.. announced in November 
that his firm has acquired the assets and 
good will of Scott Chairs, Inc. An old- 
line Ohio company, Hamilton-Skotch is 
the maker of the popular Scotch Kooler. 
Scott Chairs was a subsidiary of Bell In- 
tercontinental Corp., manufacturers of a 
line of indoor and outdoor metal furni- 
ture. 

Eugene J. Keenoy, Jr., has been named 
Vice-President and General Manager of 
Suburban Data Processing Center, Inc., a 
wholly-owned subsidiary of Computer Ap- 
plications, Inc. Located in Fairfield, N. J., 
SDPC supplies a variety of counsel and 
service to more than 50 commercial and 
industrial concerns. Gene joined C.A.I, ui 



the fall of 1963 as a technical representa- 
tive after three years with the Univac Di- 
vision of Sperry Rand Corp. 

Robert D. Cotell is an electronics engi- 
neer with Mitre Corporation, Bedford, 
Mass. His new address: 1 1 Skyline Dr., 
Wellesley. 

Harvey Spear (Spear & Hill, 63 Wall 
St.) is Treasurer of the New York County 
Democratic group familiarly known as 
Tammany Hall. This probably gets him a 
tiger in his tank. 

Also in the field of politics, Lila Sapin- 
sley, hostess at many a '42 Reunion cock- 
tail party, served as Chairman of the 
Democrats for Chafee in Rhode Island 
last fall. The election gave national and 
state Democratic candidates pluralities of 
up to 200,000 votes, but Republican Gov- 
ernor Chafee was reelected by close to 
90.000. 

Dr. Tom Forsyth, chief reontgenologist 
at Rhode Island Hospital, was called in 
last summer when a patient was admitted 
after a serious accident at an atomic 
energy plant in Rhode Island. His on-the- 
spot diagnosis of the exact radiation 
dosage was later confirmed by the AEC in 
this, the nation's first such fatality. 

Gus Saunders has returned to Provi- 
dence as Sales Manager of Ail-American 
Life and Casualty Co., with offices at 54 
Custom House St. He's living in Barring- 
ton. "One advantage in being back near 
the Hill is that I can see some of the 
Brown hockey games again," he said. 

Peter J. Klein has been named Acting 
Manager of Moore-McCormack's Los An- 
geles office. He joined the line in 1946 and 
became part of the Los Angeles office a 
year ago. 

Theodore P. Malinowski of Decatur, 
III., has been named by the Hooker 
Chemical Corporation to the newly- 



Providence Debutantes 

The 25th Assembly Ball during 
the Christmas holidays in Provi- 
dence saw several Brunonians pre- 
senting their daughters to society. 
Dancing the traditional waltz with 
their fathers were the following 
among the 19 debutantes: Miss Dale 
Clay Drennan (Fred M. Drennan, 
Jr.. '411, Miss Deborah Field (Rus- 
sell W. Field, Jr., '40), Miss Anne 
Bordley Littlefield (Bancroft Little- 
field '34), and Miss Nina Ward 
Nichols (Earl B. Nichols '43). 

Twin granddaughters of Maurice 
Wolf '14 were also presented (the 
Misses Ruth Taft and Susan Davis 
Hobbs). and he escorted one of 
them in the grand march. C. Gor- 
don MacLeod '15 and Harold A. 
Grout '13 also saw granddaughters 
make their curtsies: Miss Anne 
MacLeod Max-Muller of Much Had- 
dam, Herts, England, and Miss 
Field, respectively. Walter H. Levy 
'34 is the uncle of Miss Elizabeth 
Van Wyck Potter, another debutante. 



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created post of Director of Product De- 
velopment at the firm's Grand Island plant. 
Ted had been Manager of the Chemicals 
Department of the A. E. Stanley Manu- 
facturing the past three years. 

George T. Giraud, Manager of Good- 
body & Co., has been elected Vice-Presi- 
dent of the Rhode Island Association of 
Investment Firms. 

Dr. Richard L. Capwell has been pro- 
moted to Associate Professor of English 
at East Carolina College. Greenville. N. C. 

John Sapinsley, President of the Cres- 
cent Co.. Inc.. Pawtucket. was initiated as 
a member of the firm's Quarter Century 
Club in November. 

Bob Priestley has resigned as football 
coach at Norwich University, although he 
will retain his job as Director of Athletics. 

1943 

George B. Flynn has been elected Pres- 
ident of Pneumatic Applications Co., Sims- 
bury, Conn. He had been General 
Manager at the Industrial Welding Co., 
Wethersfield. Conn. 

John R. H. Truelsen has been named 
Western Regional Sales Manager with the 
Norton Co., Worcester. Mass. He joined 
Norton in 1946 and had been District 
Sales Manager in Indianapolis since 1957. 

Robert D. Schmalz is Assistant Plant 
Manager of a large new plant built by 
Baxter Labs in Mountain Home, Ark. 
"This is a booming little town in North 
Arkansas," he reports, "and the nearest 
city of any size is Memphis. Arkansas is 
quite a change from New England, but 
we all are enjoying the challenge of set- 
tling in a new area and meeting new 
people." 

Milton L. Isserlis, Providence attorney, 
has opened his office at 1131 Industrial 
Bank Bldg. He was graduated from Bos- 
ton College Law School in June and was 
admitted to the Rhode Island Bar on Nov. 
23. 

1944 

Dr. Wallace E. Lambert of McGill Uni- 
versity's Department of Psychology has re- 
ceived a fellowship at the Center of Ad- 
vanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences 
at Stanford University. He has a year's 
leave of absence from McGill for research. 
Lambert holds graduate degrees from Col- 
gate and North Carolina and has studied 
in Cambridge, England, Paris, and Aix-en- 
Provence. His brother. Dr. William W. 
Lambert '42 is Chairman of the Psy- 
chology Department at Cornell University. 

E. Russell Alexander was elected Vice- 
President and Trustee at the annual meet- 
ing of the Franklin Savings Institution. 
Greenfield, Mass. He also will continue his 
duties as Treasurer of the bank, which he 
joined in 1947. He was elected Assistant 
Treasurer in 1952 and Treasurer in 1961. 
He is a graduate of the Stonier Graduate 
School of Banking. Rutgers University. 
Active in his community, he is serving as 
Secretary and Trustee of the Franklin 
County Public Hospital and Treasurer of 
its new building fund campaign. He is 
Treasurer and Trustee of the Home for 
the Aged of Franklin County and Clerk of 
Second Congregational Church. 




VitvlCENT E. SHOGREN '47 was the designer of Ashland College's new nine-story dormitory, cited 
as one of Ohio's outstanding structures by the State's Prestressed Concrete Association. In the photo 
he is at right, receiving its recent Certificate of Merit from Lorry Smedley, Vice-President of the 
Association. The building Shogren designed has a structural steel frame and precast concrete floor slobs. 
The column-free dining room has four roof supports completely outside the building. 



1945 

Michael A. Gammino. Jr., survived a 
count of absentee ballots and was elected 
a delegate to the Rhode Island Constitu- 
tional Convention from Providence's 
Fourth Representative District. Running 
as a Democrat, Mike won by 21 votes. He 
had led his GOP opponent by 39 votes 
prior to the tally of 165 absentee ballots. 

1946 

Clifford W. Harding has been named 
Professor of Biology and Chairman of the 
Department at Oakland University. He 
had been on the Faculty of Columbia Uni- 
versity College of Physicians and Sur- 
geons. His Department, a new one on the 
Oakland campus, has been designed for 
liberal arts and secondary teaching majors. 

Charles R. Makepeace, Jr., was pro- 
moted last fall to Commodore of the 30- 
year-old Point Judith Yacht Club. He had 
been serving as Vice-Commodore. 

Robert W. Jahn is in the real estate in- 
vestment business in Nassau, Bahamas. He 
would be pleased to hear from any Brown 
men passing through. His address: c/o 
P.O. Box 805 (telephone 2-3080). 

1947 
Roger D. Williams, Vice-President of 
Carling Brewing Co., described the de- 
cline in New England's share of the va- 
cation travel market as "the great billion 
dollar robbery" when he addressed the 
New England Council's 40th Annual Con- 
ference. He noted that New England's 
share of the market has declined from 
23 ''f prior to World War II to a level of 
about 4% . "This decline." he said, "repre- 
sents a loss of $2.5 billion to the six-State 
area and a loss of a half-million jobs. We 
are being out-sold, out-maneuvered, and 
robbed blind by more aggressive competi- 
tors, " he said. As a partial solution, Roger 
recommended improved merchandising and 



sales promotion efforts and greater partici- 
pation by private industry. 

Frank E. Kilpatrick has been named 
Financial Vice-President with Bristol Lab- 
oratories, the ethical pharmaceuticals di- 
vision of the Bristol-Myers Co. At the 
same time, he was named to a similar 
post with the Bristol Laboratories Inter- 
national Corp., the overseas unit. Kilpatrick 
had served as Vice-President and Euro- 
pean Regional Manager for W. R. Grace 
& Co. 

John E. Connors of Lynd, Minn., con- 
tinues in an expanding movement in the 
Catholic church as he starts his second 
year of teaching at Rowena, Tex., for the 
Extension Lay Volunteers. John has done 
graduate work at UConn, Cornell, and 
the University of Minnesota. 

John D. Heasley, General Manager of 
Westinghouse Electric Corporation's In- 
dustrial Electronics Division in Baltimore, 
has assumed additional responsibilities 
with the company's Westing-Arc Division 
in Buffalo. 

1948 

Walter S. B. Tate has been named As- 
sistant to the President at Nazareth Col- 
lege, where his duties will be mainly in 
the area of development. Bill had been 
Director of Development at Hobart & 
William Smith Colleges for the past four 
years. 

Cmdr. Tullio A. DeRobbio. USNR, was 
the Commanding Officer of the Mobiliza- 
tion Division in the First Naval District 
for 1964, a year in which the division re- 
ceived the Commandant's Trophy for ex- 
cellence. Tullio is Treasurer with M. De- 
Robbio & Sons, Inc., Cranston. 

Dr. Ernest M. Greenberg, anesthetist at 
Framingham (Mass.) Union Memorial 
Hospital, resides at 21 Red Coat Rd. in 
that community. 

Dr. Philip J. Bray, Chairman of the 
Physics Department on the Hill, is serv- 



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DR. GLENN H. MILLER, Ph.D. '48, is the new 
Assistant Editor of the American Chemical So- 
ciety's Journal ot Physical Chemistry. He is on 
the Faculty of the University of California, 
Santa Barbara, where his Department Chair- 
man, Dr. Frederick T. Wall, will edit the Journal. 
Dr. Wail succeeds a former Brown chemist, Dr. 
W. Albert Noyes, Jr., of University of Texas. 



ing as 2nd Vice-President of the Citizens" 
Scholarship Fund in his home town of 
Harrington. 

Dr. Erwin L. Levine is Associate Pro- 
fessor of Government at Skidmore Col- 
lege, where he is a member of the Admis- 
sions Committee. Faculty Council, and 
Executive Committee of the American 
Association of University Professors. 

1949 

William E. Connors, Jr., Manpower Ad- 
ministration Representative for New Eng- 
land with the U. S. Department of Labor, 
spoke at the 13th annual Governor's Con- 
ference on Children and Youth in Novem- 
ber. He termed the Federal Economic Op- 
portunity Act one of the most promising 
pieces of legislation ever passed in the war 
against poverty. 

John S. Brainard, an operational systems 
engineer with General Electric, has been 
named a Manager of Field Operations of 
the new GE Spacecraft Department, with 
headquarters at Vandenberg AFB. John 
joined GE in 1961 and was responsible 
for the successful operational systems field 
integration of a major satellite program. 

Richard J. Holzinger has been appointed 
Manager of Purchasing and Stores for 
Shell Pipe Line Corp., with headquarters 
in Houston, Tex. Dick had been Purchas- 
ing-Stores Manager at Shell's Research 
Center in Emeryville, Calif. 

William F. McCormick has been named 
an Installment Loan Officer at the Indus- 
trial National Bank of Rhode Island. 

1950 

The Executive Committee of the Class 
held a meeting in December to map tenta- 
tive plans for the big 15th. Among those 
present were President Ed Kiely and Re- 



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W. LEWIS BRIGHAM '50 has been named Vice- 
President of Jay DeBow & Partners, New York 
City public relations firm, and will head up its 
editorial services. A former financial news writer 
with the New York Herald Tribune and the Jour- 
nal of Commerce, he had specialized in petro- 
leum industry and Wall Street coverage, before 
going to the DeBow firm two years ago. 



union Chairman John Lyons. The general 
program, which is subject to change, in- 
cludes a Friday afternoon cocktail party 
and buffet at Reunion headquarters, fol- 
lowed by the Campus Dance. Saturday 
will start with a milk-punch brunch and 
will later include the Class Meeting, the 
Alumni Field Day, a steak-fry at the es- 
tate of Treasurer Bill Mayer, and attend- 
ance at the Bicentennial Pops Concert at 
Pembroke at 9 p.m. A boat trip is being 
discussed as a Sunday possibility. The 
Executive Committee plans to meet regu- 
larly throughout the balance of the aca- 
demic year, and a mailing will be sent out 
in the spring providing more complete de- 
tails. 

Arthur A. Soder, Jr., has been named 
to the Steering Committee which is making 
recommendations for the formation of a 
new Rhode Island Post of the Society of 
American Military Engineers. Art is Su- 
pervisor, General Engineer, at the Davis- 
ville Construction Battalion Center. 

Thomas J. Costello has been appointed 
Assistant to the Vice-President in the Man- 
power Development Division of Equitable 
Life Assurance Company at its New York 
office. Tom had been Assistant Manager 
of the department's Communication and 
Information Division. Active in the Jaycee 
movement, he has served as a local officer. 
State Vice-President, and National Direc- 
tor. In 1962 he received the organization's 
highest award, the designation "Interna- 
tional Senator." Tom and Barbara and 
young T.J. (6 mo.) got back to the Hill 
for Homecoming, spending the week end 
with Jay and Ella Barry. 

Frederick Charleson was among the 
New Englanders attending the recent 
quarterly conference in Asbury Park, 
N. J., of the Auto Body Association of 



America. He serves as legal counsel for 
the association. 

Melvin J. Jacobson is Professor of 
Mathematics at R.P.I. His home address: 
1 Lisa Lane, Troy, N. Y. 

Denton S. Layman has been elected 
Vice-President of Candeub, Fleissig, and 
Associates, community-planning, urban- 
renewal, and economic development con- 
sultants. He is Director of the New York 
office of the firm. 

Richard W. Clark has been advanced 
to Vice-President of the Community Sav- 
ings Bank of Rochester, where he is in 
charge of securities investments. He 
joined the bank as Assistant Vice-President 
in the fall of 1963. 

Robert Cummings. President of Cum- 
mings & Co., retired in December as Pres- 
ident of the Rhode Island Association of 
Investment Firms and became a member 
of the group's Board of Governors. Bob is 
serving as a member of the Board of Di- 
rectors of the Brown Club of Rhode 
Island. 

lames W. Forsyth has been promoted 
to Sales Manager in the Trading Division 
at the New York office of Harris Trust & 
Savings Bank, Chicago. Jim has been with 
the firm since 1961. 

Joe Condon, a teacher-coach at St. 
Mark's School, found his way back to 
Brown Stadium to watch the Bruins hum- 
ble Columbia, 7-0, in the season's finale. 
Joe's football team didn't have too success- 
ful a season, but his lads rose up and won 
the big one to close the campaign on a 
happy note. 

Norris L. O'Neill, Hartford attorney, is 
President of the Urban League of Hart- 
ford and Secretary and Director of the 
Motorlease Corporation of Farmington, 

1951 

Robert D. Hewins' three children have 
all been born in Brussels, where he lives 
at 20 rue Louis Hymans. Despite the fam- 
ily's long residence in Belgium, all the 
children are American citizens, although 
French is their preferred language. Hewins 
says he "struggles along in broken French 
and is vainly trying to learn a bit of 
Flemish, in anticipation of taking up an 
assignment in Antwerp." Hewins is an of- 
ficer of Morgan Guaranty Trust. 

Malcolm L. Daniels has been elected 
Commander of Warwick Flotilla 1-705, 
Coast Guard Auxiliary. As Training Of- 
ficer of the unit last year, he supervised the 
largest free public instruction course con- 
ducted in Rhode Island by any auxiliary 
group. More than 257 students attended 
an eight-week course on seamanship in 
Warwick Veterans Memorial High School. 
George G. Brooks, Manager of the 
Riverhead office of the Security National 
Bank of Long Island, is serving as Vice- 
President of that institution. He is a mem- 
ber of the Riverhead Rotary Club and 
Director of the Suffolk County Mental 
Health Association. 

Robert S. Murray has been named Ex- 
ecutive Manager of the Greater Fall River 
Chamber of Commerce. His selection fol- 
lowed more than four months of inter- 
views with candidates from all parts of the 

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L0unlr\. Bob moves lo the Chamber from 
B. M. C. Durfee Trust Co., where he served 
as Assistant Vice-President in charge of 
piibh'c relations and business development. 
He and Winifred are the parents of four 
children, ranging in age from four to 11. 

David M. Curry has been promoted to 
advertising account supervisor at Ketchum. 
MacLeod & Grove. Inc.. Pittsburgh ad- 
vertising and public relations agency. Curry 
joined KM&G in 1955 as an account as- 
sistant and became an account executive in 
1958. 

Lawrence N. Spitz will be a candidate 
for New England District Director of the 
United Steelworkers of America in the 
Feb. 9 election. Larry is on a slate seek- 
ing to topple the 12-year regime of union 
president David J. McDonald. The United 
Steel Workers Sub-District Director for 
Rhode Island will oppose Roy Stevens of 
Worcester, a McDonald man. The New 
England district includes about 27.000 
union members of five States, Maine ex- 
cluded. 

Socrates A. Lagios is co-author of an 
article, "An Overview of Humanities Pro- 
grams Throughout the Country," which 
appeared in the fall issue of The English 
Leaflet. He is serving as Chairman of the 
English Department at Concord-Carlisle 
High School. Concord, Mass. 

Dr. Vincent A. DeConti has established 
offices at the Atwood Medical Center, 1524 
Atwood Ave., Johnston, R. I. 

1952 
Thomas P. Dimeo has been named 
Special Gifts Chairman of the 1965 Epis- 
copal Charities Fund Appeal in Rhode 
Island. He is Treasurer and Secretary of 
Dimeo Construction Co. 

Albert E. Nichols of Bailou, Johnson 
& Nichols Co.. Providence, attended the 
43rd annual convention of wholesale dis- 
tributors of the Armstrong Cork Company 
lines. While at the conference, he received 




KENDALL R. RICHARDSON '53, recipient of a 

John Hay Fellowship, is studying this year at 

Harvard, on leave from his teaching at the High 

School in Glastonbury, Conn. 



a plaque for his firm's 50 years of associa- 
tion with Armstrong. 

Frederic S. Kramer has been appointed 
a junior officer by Mutual of New York, 
where he is a member of the Tax Division 
staff. 

Miles Cunat, Jr., Brookfield, III., at- 
torney, has been appointed to the Plan 
Commission in that community. 

Walter E. Heingartner. President of Kin- 
ney Motors, Inc., Brooklyn, has been 
elected to represent the Metropolitan New 
York area on the Board of Directors of 
the National Automobile Dealers Associa- 
tion. 

Ernest England. Jr.. is a school social- 
work consultant with the Junior League of 
Providence, Inc. 

Lester S. Hyman, then aide to the Gov- 
ernor of Massachusetts, spoke as his rep- 
resentative at the alumni reunion at the 
University of Massachusetts. 

1953 

Carl E. Stenberg, Assistant Professor of 
English at Rhode Island College, testified 
in U.S. District Court in December that 
he found no literary merit in a paperback 
novel, "Lust Job," but that it qualified as 
"literature" and was not legally obscene. 
The opinion was given by our classmate as 
a defense expert in the jury trial before 
Judge Edward W. Day '22 of Books, Inc., 
of Providence on an indictment charging 
interstate transportation of obscene ma- 
terial, "The dominant theme, taken as a 
whole, is the advocating of moral respon- 
sibility and a moral life," Carl stated. He 
added, "It is poor literature. It is badly 
conceived in characterization, and in most 
instances it is poorly conceived in lan- 
guage. Nevertheless, it has all the elements 
of a novel, and as literature it has a right 
to exist." Carl holds a Master's degree in 
English from Queen's University in Bel- 
fast, Ireland, in 1959, and in American 
Literature from Brown in 1960. He has 
taught at Rhode Island College since 1960. 

Joseph L. Tauro, Massachusetts at- 
torney, has been selected by Republican 
Governor-elect John A, Volpe to serve as 
his liaison with the Democratic administra- 
tion of Gov. Endicott Peabody during the 
transition of the state government. In 
I960, Tauro served as an Assistant U.S. 
Attorney under Elliot Richardson, now the 
Republican Lt. Gov. in Massachusetts. 

J. Stuart Evans has joined the Chicago 
sales office at Kingsport Press. Previously, 
he held sales positions with Twentieth 
Century Press and with Popular Mechan- 
ics. 

Paul A. Goldman has been appointed 
General Manager of Highway Carriers 
Insurance Agency, a Boston general 
agency specializing in truck and bus cover- 
age. He is a resident Vice-President of 
Markel Service, Inc., nationwide trans- 
portation safety specialists and has been 
granted a leave of absence by that firm. 

James H. Carey has been promoted to 
the position of Vice-President with Chase 
Manhattan Bank of New York. 

1954 

Thomas T. Gately has been named 
Materials Manager for the Hand Tool 




DR. JOHN F. BROWN, JR., '47 began the new 
year as Manager of Biological Investigations at 
the General Electric Research Laboratory in 
Schenectady, N. Y. He ioined the Lab in 1950 
after he had received his Ph.D. from M.I.T. 



Division of Stanley Steel Strapping Divi- 
sion of the Stanley Works, Conn. A 
graduate of the Amos Tuck School of 
Business Administration at Dartmouth, 
Tom has been with Stanley since 1959 
and had been Production Control Manager 
prior to his recent promotion. 

Ronald A. Stark has joined the product 
engineering staff of the Norton Company's 
Refractories Division. He had been em- 
ployed by Texas Instruments as a project 
engineer prior to joining the Worcester 
firm last August. 

The Rev. Loring W. Chadwick, Assist- 
ant Minister at Trinity Church in New- 
port, has been appointed Canon Pastor of 
the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John in 
Providence, The graduate of the Episcopal 
Theological School in Cambridge also has 
served as an Instructor at St. Michael's 
School, Newport. 

John E. Maddox has been reelected 
President of the Providence branch of the 
National Association for the Advance- 
ment of Colored People. 

David M. Whalen has received his 
Ph.D. from Cornell. He is a research 
chemist at Union Bag-Camp Paper Corp., 
Princeton, N. J. 

John M. Dauray, President of the Dau- 
ray Furniture Co., Linwood, Mass., has 
been named the 1965 March of Dimes 
Chairman for Uxbridge. He has constantly 
been active in his community, serving as 
a Corporator of the Uxbridge Savings 
Bank and a Trustee of the Uxbridge Public 
Library. 

The Rev. Kenneth L. Hulme is Pastor 
at the new St. Matthias Episcopal Church 
in Coventry, R. 1. The $70,000 structure 
of modern design opened its doors on 
Thanksgiving day. 

1955 

Robert D. Fitzgerald became an assist- 
ant cashier in the Banking Department at 
Harris Trust and Savings Bank, Chicago, 



J.4NUARY 1965 



35 



in December. He joined the bank on grad- 
uation and worked in the business de- 
velopment and credit areas before joining 
a commercial loan division in 1964. Fitz- 
gerald is Vice-President and Chairman of 
the Finance Committee of the Senior 
Centers of Metropolitan Chicago and a 
Director of R. S. O'Riley & Company. 

Kenneth R. Peterson is a member of an 
editorial team of the National Petroleuiu 
News, a McGraw-Hill publication, selec- 
ted to receive the 1964 Marketing Award 
for editorial achievement. He has been 
with the company since 1961. 

T. Robley Louttit, Jr., was elected to 
the Board of Trustees of the Roger Wil- 
liams General Hospital when that group 
met in December. 

Leroy F. Aarons is a writer on cultural 
affairs and entertainment for the Wash- 
ington Post. He was recently shifted from 
a city desk position to his new province. 

1956 

The entire Class has received one mail- 
ing devoted to our special 25th Reunion 
Gift, which, this year, calls for a $9 con- 
tribution. The response to date has been 
most gratifying. If you are among those 
who have not yet sent in your check, 
please do so at your earliest convenience. 
Address it directly to G. H. Walker & Co., 
840 Hospital Trust Bldg., Providence 3, 
R. 1., c/o Class of 1956 25th Reunion 
Fund. 

A. Leonard Parrott has been elected a 
Vice-President and a Director of the Fair- 
field Land & Title Co., Inc. Since joining 
the Connecticut firm as an associate 
realtor in 1961. Len has led the company 
in the sale and leasing of residential prop- 
erties in his area. Active in his community, 
Len is Vice-President and a Director of 
the Fairfield chapter of the Audubon Soci- 
ety and a Director of the Fairfield Junior 
Chamber of Commerce. 

Vit Piscuskas was on Campus in De- 
cember with his two sons. Vit has been 
teacher-coach at Mount Hermon School 
for the past nine years, and last fall he 
put together an undefeated football team. 
According to Vit, five of his lads are in- 
terested in playing their football on the 
Brown Freshman team next fall. 

Two Brunonians were among those re- 
cently receiving promotions at Industrial 
National Bank of Rhode Island. George 
P. Clayson, 3rd, was named an Assistant 
Vice-President and David A. Brown re- 
ceived the title of Assistant Cashier. 

Joseph Solimine is Assistant Professor 
at Wayne State College, following three 
years as an Instructor at Ohio State. 

1957 

Thomas F. Wiener, returned to New 
London on the Skipjack last fall but was 
detached and sent to the George Bancroft, 
a new Polaris submarine under construc- 
tion. He's Chief Engineer of the Senior 
Blue crew. Five weeks in Pittsburgh with 
Westinghouse brought him up to date on 
the latest in nuclear propulsion before he 
went to supervise the installation of ma- 
chinery aboard the George Bancroft. Its 
launching was scheduled for January. 

Gerritt H. Vander Veer, Jr., has been 




ROBERT F. O'SUCH '55 of Fairfield, Conn., has 
been appointed Vice-President of Herlin Press, 
Inc., West Haven. He went to Herlin in 1961 
after being an account executive in New York 
City witfi two advertising firms. He is a former 
Director of tfie Fairfield Jaycees. 



appointed regional group pension repre- 
sentative of the Massachusetts Mutual Life 
Insurance Company and assigned to the 
group office in Detroit. He joined the firm 
in 1961 and has had assignments in Cleve- 
land and Cincinnati. 

Martin D. Singer, a graduate of Lowell 
Tech, is Assistant Superintendent of the 
Split Division at Brezner. Inc., affiliate of 
Allied Kid Co., Penacook, N. H. 

Robert A. Freeman is teaching English 
and working in dramatics at Mount Her- 
mon School. 

Dr. Otis H. Shao spoke before the Ivy 
League Club of Sarasota on Dec. 15, with 
an analysis of Foreign Aid programs. He 
received his Ph.D. at Brown in 1957 and 
is on the Faculty of Florida Presbyterian 
College. 

1958 

George Darling appeared as Mike 
Mitchell in "Sunday in New York," a De- 
cember production of the Providence Play- 
ers. His performance in the Norman 
Krasna play was praised by Bradford F. 
Swan, critic for the Providence Journul- 
Biillelin. "George Darling succeeds in 
helping to keep the very important fifth 
scene of the first act and the first scene of 
the second act moving along at high speed 
through the rolling waves of laughter," 
the review stated. "Darling is excellent at 
making the most of all the comic plights in 
which he finds himself." 

The Rev. Thomas L. Gardner has been 
named Rector of St. Mark's Episcopal 
Church in Warwick, moving to the 800- 
member congregation from St. Peter's 
Church in Johnston. He had served as 
Rector there since 1962. with additional 
duties as Chaplain at St. Mary's Home for 
Children in North Providence. 

Robert Sanchez has had a big year. In 
March, he was promoted to Sales Manager 
in the New '^'ork Telephone Co., and in 



May he married Barbara Nuttall, an Eng- 
lish girl. She is a graduate of Westfield 
College, London University, and is cur- 
rently a researcher for American Heri- 
tage Publications. 

1959 

William H. Scheick, Jr., is employed by 
Washington Engineering Services Co., Inc., 
a management consulting firm with 180 
employees. In addition to serving as the 
New England Government Sales Repre- 
sentative, he also is Director of a newly 
formed Sales Department. 

Wallace Terry, former Editor of the 
Bionn Daily Herald and now on Henry 
Luce's Washington staff, "made" Walter 
Winchell's column recently when he was 
mentioned as a possible Assistant White 
House Press Secretary. 

1st Lt. Angelo L. Anzivino has received 
a safe-flying award in his Air Training 
Command unit at James Connally AFB, 
Tex. He was selected in recognition of his 
distinguished airmanship in landing his 
damaged T-29 aircraft safely after it was 
struck by lightning. 

Frederick C. Broda has been appointed 
an Assistant Treasurer of The Bank of 
New York. He joined the bank in 1963 in 
the National Department of the Banking 
Division. 

Bill Flynn is still with Monsanto but 
now in the Marketing Department, out of 
Wilmington as a sales representative for 
the Inorganic Chemicals Division. 

Dr. Vincent F. Geremia, Jr., of Floral 
Park. N. Y., has been licensed to practice 
in Rhode Island. 

1960 

William R. Feeney wrote a foui-coiumn 
feature article for the Providence Evening 
Bulletin just before the November elec- 
tions in Italy, giving the background on the 
voting. His photo of a campaign rally in 
Rome illustrated the story. Feeney is in 
Rome taking graduate studies at the 
School for Advanced International Re- 
lations, Johns Hopkins University. He's 
living on the Via Villa Pamphili. 

W. Leslie Smith, Jr., has been named 
Assistant Editor of School Management 
Magazine, which is sent monthly to 
50,000 school board members, school 
superintendents, and other top-level school 
oflncials throughout the nation. He had 
been Editor of The Town Crier. 

William S. Clarke, a graduate of the 
University of Pennsylvania Law School, 
was admitted to practice in Lehigh (Pa.) 
County Orphans Court last fall. He is as- 
sociated with the firm of Butz, Hudders & 
Tallman of Allentown. 

Paul Choquette has been elected Secre- 
tary of the Catholic Association of College 
Alumni in Rhode Island. 

Richard L. Abbott is practising law in 
the Palm Beach area. He's with Beverly 
& Moyle, Suite 203 Pan-A Bldg., West 
Palm Beach. 

1961 

Arthur Anderson is Chairman of the 
Thomas Swan Barristers' Union at Yale 
Law School. He wrote us recenlh to pro- 
pose the addition of more correspondents 
in the Class, to work under the Secretarv 



36 



BROWN .\LUMNI MONTHLY 



so that notes under this numeral might be 
more extensive. He offered to funnel in 
information about those he knows, and 
we encouraged him, of course. 

Martin A. Wenick has been transferred 
from the American Embassy. Kabul. Af- 
ghanistan, to the Department of State. 
Washington, D. C. His new address: 
3201 Landover St., Alexandria, Va. 22305. 
I Paul R. Krause has joined Manufac- 

turers Hanover Trust Co., New York City. 
His area of interest is commercial lending. 

Merrill I. Hassenfeld graduated from 
the Boston University Law School June 7 
as the Senior Editor of the Boston Uni- 
versity Lcitv Review. Since then, he's been 
admitted to the Massachusetts bar and is 
associated with the law firm of Wasserman 
& Saltes. "In my spare time, I'm a student 
in the B.U. Graduate Tax Program," he 
reports. 

Michael E. Golemba has started his 
doctoral studies in Clinical Psychology at 
the Stale University of New York at 
Albany, where he has a department fellow- 
ship. He received his Master's in Psychol- 
ogy at Temple in 1963 and last year served 
as a clinical psychologist at the Dr. Joseph 
H. Ladd School for the mentally-retarded 
in Exeter, R. I. 

George Torrey, with a Master's from 
Harvard, is working toward his doctorate 
at the University of Connecticut. He's 
also serving as an Instructor in the Ger- 
man Department at the State University 
of New York at Albany. 

Wilson B. Brown has returned from 
Peru, where he spent a year on a Ful- 
bright grant. He's finishing his dissertation 
at Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. 
His address: 85 Richdale Ave., Cambridge 
02140. 

J. Robert Seder, a graduate of the New 
York University School of Law, passed the 
Massachusetts bar in June and is associ- 
ated with the Worcester law firm of Seder 
& Seder. His future plans include more 
work at N.Y.U. to study tax law. 

Richard A. Nurse has returned from 
Europe, his tour of duty with the Army at 
an end. Writing from Brooklyn, N.Y., he 
thanks Alumni House for the "swift dis- 
patch" of this magazine to his several 
duty stations over the past few years. 
"They did much to brighten my time in 
the service," he says. 

1962 

Dennis C. Erinakes has been appointed 
staff geologist with the Soil Conservation 
Service in Maine, with special duty at 
the recently organized watershed-planning 
party in the Service's State office at the 
University of Maine's Orono campus. 

Willard P. Yeats, a law student at the 
Dickinson School of Law, is directing the 
indoor aquatic programs at the Carlisle 
(Pa.) YMCA. His job includes super- 
vision of all progressive swimming classes 
from beginner through the shark skills as 
well as coaching the YMCA swimming 
teams. 

Peter A. lovino. Jr. has been promoted 
by Southern California's Security First 
National Bank. In his new capacity, he 
will be in charge of one of Security's Com- 
puter Centers, handling liaison activities 



with the 43 bank branches served by the 
center. Pete currently is attending UCLA 
part-time. He joined Security Bank in 1961 
as a teller. 

Bruce V. Pasquale has been promoted to 
1st Lt. in the U.S. Air Force at Otis AFB, 
Mass. He is a Missile Launch Officer in a 
unit that supports the Air Defense Com- 
mand mission of defending the continental 
U.S. against enemy air attack. 

Kenneth B. Middleton has left the USS 
Manatee and the service. He has bought a 
small ranch in Colorado and is working 
his way into the cattle and sheep business. 
His address: Abbe Ranch, Sedalia, Colo. 
80135. 

Stephen M. Pizer, a recent bridegroom, 
has a new address: Apt. 1301 East Pea- 
body Terrace, 900 Memorial Dr., Cam- 
bridge, Mass. 

Robert G. Murphy has received a reg- 
ular commission in USAF while at Elec- 
tronic Communication Officer School at 
Biloxi, Miss. He expects to be stationed at 
Ellsworth AFB, S. D. While in Biloxi, Bob 
met up with Dave Schell and Dennis Wit- 
kowski '63. 

1963 

Ens. Robert E. Nickerson is Communi- 
cations Officer on the USS Fort Marion, a 
San Diego-based LSD. After graduating 
from OCS last April, he stayed in New- 
port. R. I., for Communications School; 
in July he was flown to Manila to pick up 
his ship. 

2nd Lt. Robert H. Morris received his 
Air Force silver pilot wings this fall fol- 
lowing graduation from flying school at 
Laughlin AFB, Tex. He was assigned to 
Holloman AFB, N. M. 

Dennis L. Hauflaire was graduated last 
fall from the Army's Officer Candidate 
School at Fort Benning, Ga., as a 1st Lt. 
He's stationed at Fort Holabird, Md., for 
training in military intelligence. 

Bruce P. Saypol is attending Yale Law 
School, and his bride is doing legal secre- 
tarial work and leaching. 

Ens. William T. Generous, Jr.. is serv- 
ing on a Pearl Harbor-based ship, with the 
following mail address: USS Vance (DER- 
387), FPO San Francisco. 

1964 

Lloyd George is teaching chemistry at 
Abraham Lincoln High School in Phila- 
delphia this year, though service with the 
Air Force was still a possibility. The 
hold-up seems to be some question about 
the leg he broke during his Senior year. 

2nd Lt. Norman W. Scott is taking a 
course in navigator training at James Con- 
nolly AFB, Texas. 

Garvin H. Anderson is attending the 
School of Law at Cornell, where he was 
the recipient of a $2,000 scholarship. 

Charles I. Judkins, Jr., is Treasurer and 
Assistant Secretary of the Travelers Re- 
search Center. He's living at 236 Ridge- 
wood Rd., West Hartford. 

Irwin M. Chaiken is a graduate student 
at UCLA and is living at 10516 Santa 
Monica Blvd.. Los Angeles. 

Dr. Patrick F. Delaney. who received 
his second Brown degree last June, a 
Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Biology at 
Holy Cross. 



In the Mail 
from Readers 



Rink Architecture 

Sir: I feel compelled to add my "two 
cents" worth to the comments made by 
LeRoy F. Aarons '55 in his letter to the 
editor appearing in the December issue. 
Being a writer on entertainment and cul- 
tural affairs for the W cishington Post. Mr. 
Aarons should know that taste in art and 
architecture is a subjective thing. Does 
one prefer Tommy Dorsey or Glenn 
Miller, or, to update myself, the Beatles 
or the Rollin' Stones? 

Mr. Aarons says that Meehan Audi- 
torium is "tasteless." I happen to think 
that Meehan is a beautiful building. He 
expresses delight for the Saarinen Hockey 
Rink at Yale. I happen to think that it is 
a monstrosity. (How did Time Magazine 
once describe that Yale rink — "as having 
the appearance of a pregnant whale'"?) 
I will grant that the "Vale rink is, as he 
puts it, "strikingly novel." But I will 
stoutly suggest to Mr. Aarons that this, 
in itself, is not sufficient grounds to classify 
a piece of architecture as appealing or 
successful. 

WILEY MARBLE '12 

Warrensville, Conn. 



Andrews to the Defense 

Sir: I hope that many Brunonians were 
watching the "Profiles In Courage" TV 
showing on Dec. 6. The program was a 
documented narrative of the persecution 
of the liberal teacher, Prof. Richard T. Ely, 
at the University of Wisconsin in the late 
19th century. At the hearing before the 
Regents to determine his dismissal, his 
defense attorney introduced a letter from 
President Benjamin Andrews of Brown 
University emphasizing the setback to in- 
tellectual freedom if Professor Ely was 
sidelined. Needless to say, at that point in 
the program an unrestrained cheer went 
up from all concerned in our living room. 
Incidentally, the professor was exonerated. 

■TOHN cox '25 
Holland. Pa. 



(The Wisconsin Alumnus, in a November 
article on the 1894 case, quoted the An- 
drews letter: "For your noble university 
to depose him would be a great blow at 
freedom of university teaching in general 
and the development of political economy 
in particular." The Wisconsin Board of 
Regents, in supporting the principles of 
academic freedom, issued a report, from 
which the following appears on a plaque 
in Madison: "Whatever may be the limita- 
tions which trammel inquiry elsewhere, we 
believe that the great State University of 
Wisconsin should ever encourage that con- 
tinual and fearless sifting and winnowing 
by which alone the truth can be found." 
—Ed.) 



JANUARY 1965 



37 



For a Brown Man's Bookshelf 



EDITED BY ELMER M. BLISTEFN '42 



POLICY PERSPECTIVES. By Henry M. 
Wriston. 178 pages. Brown University 
Press. $5. 

If the voice of Henry Wriston is fa- 
miliar to you (and it is to most Brown 
men), there is an added pleasure in read- 
ing his books. It is almost as though you 
hear him speaking and feel the force of 
his mind and personality. Indeed, many of 
the several of the nine sections of Policy 
Perspectives were addresses in their orig- 
inal form, so that the reader becomes lis- 
tener, loo. And that continues to be a 
good experience, no matter how often one 
has been in a Wriston audience. 

As the President Emeritus says in his 
foreword, he was urged to "give some ac- 
count" of his thinking about public pol- 
icies since retiring from Brown in 1955. 
The idea was to gather into one volume 
the major speeches and various articles. 
Since this would be too massive an under- 
taking, the present selection was made. 

Dr. Wriston resisted the temptation to 
'"update" the material and amend view- 
points in the interest of consistency. In- 
stead, what proved prescience and "errors 
of judgment" stand and stand out, but the 
essential honesty of his positions also re- 
mains. 

These are. Dr. Wriston observes, com- 
ments "of a private citizen with no access 
to secret or confidential material." But 
how many private citizens are as well in- 
formed? A lifelong impulse to inquire and 
reflect continues, with a mind open to the 
views of others but with no idle delegation 
of thought. 

It is fitting that the volume should open 
with an address given before a Student 
Convocation at Brown in 1961. And we 
well remember the occasion, for the 
crowded hall was a tribute to the persist- 
ence of the Wriston reputation as a 
speaker in a College generation which had 
not known him as President. This address 
appeared in the Alunini Monllily at the 
time: "Labels for People." 

Its theme was a favorite of the speaker: 
"Make the effort to find out what within 
you responds to situations outside your- 
self. Cultivate those responses until they 
are characterized by skill, deftness, and, 
above all else, by sincerity. Then you will 
be educated." His discourse on the falli- 
bility of labels ("conservative." "radical," 
"timid." "modern") was founded in his 
discipline as an historian, and it led to his 
final exhortation, just quoted. 

Three of the "chapters" are articles 
which have appeared in Foreign Affairs. 
a publication of the Council on Foreign 
Affairs, which Dr. Wriston so long chaired 
— and so ably. In "Education and the 
National Interest," he restates some of his 
past points: It is unreal to think of educa- 
tion as "stuffing the student with enough 



knowledge to last him the rest of his life." 
Education that takes its cue from the cur- 
rent situation is "obsolescent even before 
the student graduates." The broader his 
acquaintance with the fundamental aca- 
demic disciplines, the better for the stu- 
dent. Dr. Wriston also acknowledges the 
potent educational force of extracurricular 
interests. 

Dr. Wriston urges an imaginative ap- 
proach to "The Age of Revolution." though 
he warns of an emotional response. An- 
other summation of the Wriston credo is 
to be found in "Thoughts for Tomorrow." 

One of the most interesting discussions 
is a speech which Dr. Wriston says he had 
been trying to write for 20 years: "The 
Primacy of Secondary Consequences." He 
could wait no longer: he circumnavigated 
the topic for a few paragraphs, then 
headed straight into it here. 

The audiences themselves must have 
been interesting. One, for example, was 
the Asian-American Assembly at Kuala 
Lumpur, Malaya, in 1963. (He talked on 
"Cultural .'\ffairs and Foreign Relations.") 
At the West Point Sesquicentennial, Dr. 
Wriston described "The Role of Higher 
Education in Furthering the Security of 
the Nation." Again at the Military Acad- 
emy, Dr. Wriston talked about the natural 
inclination to escape from thought about 
international matters. But he reminded the 
student conference that this was not the 
first generation which had found democ- 
racy in trouble, with pessimism rampant. 
However, "You are the first generation to 
be given the opportunity to know, to be 
trained, to have available time, wealth, 
and instruments equal to the problems. 
The only need is courage." 

Speaking at Bowdoin on "Rugged In- 
dividualism," Dr. Wriston said life is an 
individual, as well as a social, experience. 
"The wisdom of the ancients was inscribed 
above the door of the temple of the 
Delphic oracle: 'Know Thyself.' Any wis- 
dom that I have can be summed up with 
equal brevity: 'Be Yourself.' " 

No one can say that Dr. Wriston was 
not obedient to both commands. It is 
stimulating and agreeable to have this new 
contact with him. 



RARE AND EXOTIC BIRDS. By Robert 
Cushman Murphy '11. 48 pages. The 
Odyssey Press. 95 cents. 

This fascinating and beautiful book is 
no guide for the backyard birdwatcher. 
One needs to go far afield and know what 
one is doing to find most of the birds here 
so resplendent in color photos and de- 
scribed with such zest and authority. TTie 
birds are not all as rare as the dodo of 
Mauritius, portrayed in a 1759 print as the 
frontispiece, but even the populous species 



shown are not exactly handy. The pho- 
tographer has ranged to .Africa, .'\ustralia, 
and the American tropics for his 75 pic- 
tures. 

Though space limited his text, the writer 
has packed history, anecdote, human inter- 
est, and description into these pages, all in 
justification of his final quotation: "Birds 
are Nature's most eloquent expression of 
beauty, joy. and freedom." There is folk- 
lore as well as bird lore. There is small 
talk as well as scientific estimate. There is 
fun. as the enthusiasm of the expert is so 
well transmitted to the casual homebody. 
Even the answer to the question "What 
is a bird?" is full of surprises. 

Dr. Murphy, as all Brown men know, is 
the distinguished Lamont Curator Emeri- 
tus of birds at the American Museum of 
Natural History. In addition to heading 
numerous expeditions, he is the author of 
many articles and books about birds. His 
companion in this book is Arthur Singer, 
one of the world's foremost ornithologist- 
photographers. Here he offers some pic- 
tures of birds never before photographed, 
and their reproduction must be satisfying 
to him, for their tiny showcase somehow 
does not seem cramped. It is the sort of 
inviting book to which one will resort fre- 
quently, with delight. 

SHAKESPEARE 1564-1964: A Collection 
of Modern Essays by Various Hands. 
Edited by Edward A. Bloom, 226 pages. 
Brown University Press. $6.50. 

This book celebrates what Professor 
Bloom calls "two humanistic events." the 
bicentennial of the founding of Brown 
University and the quadricentennial of 
Shakespeare's birth. Given the transitory 
nature of most commemorative salutes to 
these occasions, it is satisfying to report 
that while this Festschrift may not be, like 
Spenser's EpiihaUiniion. "an endlesse mon- 
iment," it is nonetheless "a goodly orna- 
ment"; and that while, like Mercutio's 
wound, " 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so 
wide as a church-door . . . 'tis enough, 
'twill serve." 

The 17 contributors include nine Ameri- 
can, seven English, and one continental 
scholar — one essay is a collaboration by 
two authors; two essays are by Brown 
alumni: Professor Emeritus William T. 
Hastings '03 and Prof. Fredson Bowers '25. 
Eight are primarily based on the tragedies, 
two on the comedies, three on the non- 
dramatic poems; one examines the effect 
of Shakespeare's education on his plays, 
one addresses itself to Shakespeare and 
the classical dramatists, and the conclud- 
ing essay surveys 20th-century Shake- 
spearean criticism. Each essay was com- 
posed specifically for inclusion in this 
volume. 

Limited space (why is the conductor of 
"For a Brown Man's Bookshelf" so 
stingy?) precludes substantial indication 
of the content of the individual essays. 
The reader who must taste before he swal- 
lows, however, will find that Professor 
Bloom's analytical introduction concisely 
summarizes the essential theme of each 
essay, suggests its relationship to other es- 
says, and provides a synthesizing state- 
ment of the unified whole: "The constant 



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image in Shakespeare's world is man. . . ." 
Indeed, the introductory essay might well 
have been reprinted in these columns in- 
stead of this report, for its describes and 
interprets the essays with insightful skill. 

Criticism of Shakespeare's plays, says 
Professor Hastings in "Is Hamlet a Hoax'?" 
"must avoid the pedantry of categories 
and classifications, trying to see the thing 
simply as it is." TTiis is admirable advice. 
more honored in the breach than the ob- 
servance in this volume. ( I hope Profes- 
sor Hastings will forgive his old student, 
who really knows better, for distorting the 
true meaning of Hamlet's statement for 
the sake of a cliche. ) For categories and 
classifications are here in abundance, 
though not, it must be said, obscured by 
pedantry. 

Sometimes there is disagreement: e.f;.. 
Fredson Bowers and Kenneth Myrick in 
their respective essays on Hamlet and 
Lear postulate a rather tight Christian in- 
terpretation, while Nicholas Brooke. Adrien 
Bonjour, and R. A. Foakes, in their essays 
on Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, and the 
later tragedies, reject the viability of Chris- 
tian themes. But even when the contrib- 
utors disagree, they argue persuasively and 
graciously. 

If, as Professor Bloom says, "The con- 
stant image in Shakespeare's world is 
man," the range of that world is objectified 
in the variety of essays in this volume, 
from Robert Ornstein's belief that Shake- 
speare's art "leaves a deep impression of 
the disparity between the outward appear- 
ance and the inward reality of man's 
moral nature," and Robert B. Heilman's 
examination of the multiple meanings of 
"manliness" in the tragedies, to Robert H. 
West's discussion of The Tempest as an 
"anomolous display of human happiness 
against the shadow of mortality," and 
R. A. Foakes' argument that the substance 
of character in Shakespeare's later trag- 
edies is established in psychological rather 
than moral terms. 

In addition, E. M. W, Tillyard suggests a 
new source for The Taming of the Shrew; 
Christopher Butler and Alastair Fowler 
demonstrate an astonishing number sym- 
bolism in Venus and Adonis: Brents Stir- 
ling offers a new arrangement of the Son- 
nets based on an intriguing manuscript 
hypothesis; Kenneth Muir finds that 
though A Lover's Complaint is not a 
masterpiece, "it has masterly things in it"; 
Hardin Craig discusses what it means to 
have been educated in an Elizabethan 
grammar school and the effect of such an 
education on Shakespeare; T. J. B. Spencer 
traces the development of Shakespeare's 
rivalry with the great classical dramatists; 
and Irving Ribner concludes that 20th-cen- 
tury Shakespearean criticism "has been 
moral and philosophic, emphasizing al- 
ways the value of Shakespeare's plays as 
the embodiment of important truths about 
human experience." 

Shakespeare too was a man, and he had 
his "duds" as well as his triumphs. I am 
not one who believes that Shakespearean 
criticism serves no useful purpose and that 
seeing or reading the plays will do as well 
as reading critical essays. Some criticism, 
including portions of the present volume. 



is siii generis better than certain of Shake- 
speare's own efforts. Still, when all is read 
and done, it is hard to disagree with Mat- 
thew Arnold, who wrote in the opening 
lines of his sonnet, "Shakespeare": 

Others abide our question. Thou art free. 
We ask and ask — Thou smilest and art still. 
Out-topping knowledge. 

SAMUEL N. BOGORAD '39 

Professor Bogorad is Chairman of the 
English Department at the University of 
Vermont. Professor Bloom liolds the cor- 
responding chair at Broun. 

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Herald, Managing Editor of Sport Mag- 
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stories and more than 60 cartoons and 
photographs that should please anyone 
who has ever thrilled to the thud of toe 
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This book provides the first great col- 
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The most famous games in football 
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the Rose Bowl of 1929, Sammy Baugh, 
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A Poet's Papers 

THE Harris Collection of American 
Poetry (still housed in the John Hay 
Library, by the way) has received an addi- 
tion to the papers of Winfield Townley 
Scott '31: the typescript, printer's copy 
typescript, two sets of the foundry proof, 
corrected final galley proof, and an in- 
scribed copy of the published edition of 
his Change of Weather (Doubleday 1964). 
The Harris Curator, Roger E. Stoddard 
"31, said recently: "I think that the Scott 
papers will in years to come be considered 
one of the most important literary ar- 
chives in the Collection." 

Previous gifts have made the Scott items 
comprehensive. The earliest appear in 
scrapbooks of the poet's contributions to 
his high school Chronicle in Haverhill, 
Mass., and to undergraduate publications 
at Brown. Many of his poems are repre- 
sented at stages from draft to final publi- 
cation, with a few unpublished poems as 
well. There are souvenirs of other poets 
and articles about Scott. 



Bureau of Vital Statistics 



MARRIAGES 

1937 — Walter T. Davol and Mrs. Ann 
Hazen Miller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Ben H. Hazen of Portland, Ore., Oct. 30. 

1944 — Dr. Allen McConnell and Miss 
Brigitte Brandis, daughter of Mrs. Curt 
Brandis of Hamburg, Germany, and the 
late Dr. Brandis, Oct. 10. The groom's 
mother is Mrs. Gertrude Allen McCon- 
nell P'lO. At home: 41 West 83rd St., New 
York City. 

1952— William B. Halsted and Miss 
Alice Osborn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Franklin Osborn of Vineland, N. J., Dec. 
12. 

1954 — Mark Hopkins, Jr., and Miss 
Judy A. Tuell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Gordon H. Tuell of Scotland, Conn., Nov. 
4. At home: 210 East 47th St., New York 
City. 



1954 — John P. Philbin, Jr., and Miss 
Donna C. Dumas, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Leo J. Dumas of Leominster, Mass., 
Oct. 31. 

1955 — Henry E. Harrall and Miss Mar- 
garet H. Hobbs, daughter of Mrs. Titus I. 
Hobbs of Dover, Del., and the late Mr. 
Hobbs, Dec. 5. 

1955— Lt. George W. Scott, USN, and 
Miss Joyce C. Fusaro, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. James A. C. Fusaro of Mystic, 
Conn., Nov. 28. Best man was Lt. Gordon 
McClellan, USN, '55. 

1956 — John P. Wiley and Miss Sandra 
J. Church, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rob- 
ert W. Church of Port Dickinson, N. Y., 
Oct. 17. At home: I Lake Ave., Bingham- 
ton, N. Y. 

1958 — William H. Herrman and Miss 
Judith E. Macpherson, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. J. D. Macpherson of Pompano 



JANUARY 1965 



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Beach, Fla.. Nov. 28. Ushers included Ed- 
win A. Cowen. Jr., '57. 

]959_Capt. James F. Baird, USAF, 
and Miss Cynthia J. Buckman. daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick E. Crosier of 
North Adams. Mass., Nov. 21. Best man 
was John F. Baird '56. At home: 34B Co- 
lonial Circle, Chicopee Falls, Mass. 

1959 — Dr. John M. Cohen and Miss 
Bette N. Levinger, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Paul Levinger of Providence. Nov. I. 
Ushers were R. Steven Arnold '59, Stephen 
Feinstein '58, Stephen Harmon '59, and 
Dr. Allen Robbins '59. 

1960 — Hugh N. Fryer and Miss Geral- 
dine R. Caruso P'60, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Leo R. Caruso of Brooklyn, N. Y., 
Nov. 8. Edward F. Hayes, III, 60 was 
best man and A. Buffum Lovell '59 was an 
usher. At home: 85 Livingston St., Apt. 
U.E, Brooklyn. 

I960 — Paul N. Gandel and Miss Sandra 
Golden, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mar- 
shall Golden of Newington, Conn., Sept. 
19. 

1961 — Walter F. Andrews and Miss 
Terry D. Herrin, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. George A. Herrin of Charleston. 
S. C. June 26. At home: Hdqs. Far East 
Neiwork, APO 67, San Francisco. 

1961 — Richard A. Considine and Miss 
Marcia I. Cook, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
A. Lester Cook of North Scituate, R. I.. 
Nov. 27. John S. Dunn, Jr., '61 was best 
man. The groom's father is John A. Consi- 
dine '35. 

1961 — Dr. Joseph G. O'Keefe and Miss 
Carolyn T. Borys, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Stanley Borys of Cranston. R. I.. 
Nov. 7. Ushers included Donald deCiccio 
'55. At home; 380 Lloyd Ave., Providence. 

1961 — David L. Schofield and Miss Car- 
olyn G. Pratt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Malcolm L. Pratt of Pembroke, Mass., 
Oct. 10. Ushers included Stephen Abramo- 
witz '61 and Ronald Agel '61. 

1962 — Donald B. Doe, Jr., and Miss 
Billie J. Hopper, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
William B. Hopper of Orinda, Calif.. June 
19. David M. Carr '62 was best man. At 
home: 2310 Ellsworth St., Berkeley, Calif. 

1962 — Benjamin T. Greco and Miss 
Therese D. Gendron, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs, Hubert J. Gendron of Cranston, 
R. I., Oct. 31. Douglas Gregory "62 was 
an usher. 

1962 — John D. Holbrook and Miss Lynn 
H. Scott, daughter of Mrs. Benjamin E. 
Tate, Jr., of Cincinnati. 

1962 — Gerald Pouliot and Miss Nancy 
M. Trickett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
James F. Trickett of Lawrence, Mass., 
June 27, Patrick Turley '62 was an usher. 
At home: 10 Biltmore St., Jamaica Plain, 
Mass. 

1962 — Arthur J. Wall, Jr., and Miss Su- 
san A. Strawmyre, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. C. Edward Strawmyre of Fairless 
Hills, Pa., Oct. 24. Lynn DiPaolo '62 was 
best man. 

1963 — Stewart B. Hauser and Miss Mar- 
gery L. Sokolsky P'65, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Samuel Sokolsky of Chestnut 
Hill, Mass., Aug. 30. Ushers included Pe- 
ter Carmen '63, Robert Sliney '63, and 
Albin Vaskas '64, At home: 77 East I2lh 
St., New York City. 



1963 — John R. Hornyak and Miss Kath- 
erine McGivern, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Joseph McGivern of Kearny, N. J.. Aug. 
29. 

1963 — Ramond P. Mecherle and Miss 
Ann C. Snell, daughter of George V. Snell 
'41 and Mrs. Snell of Framington, Mass.. 
Nov. 14. Gary Graham '62 was an usher. 
Grandfather of the bride is Prof. Walter 
H. Snell '13. 

1963— 2/Lt. John W. Moniz, USA, and 
Miss Judy B. Paul, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Hyman N. Paul of Higganum, Conn., 
Oct, 31. 

1964 — Alan R. Hinds and Miss Lois M. 
Nyberg P'64, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Herbert R. Nyberg of Warwick, R. I., Oct. 
1. At home: 5110 South Kenwood Ave., 
Chicago. 

1964 — Albert E. Labouchere and Miss 
Anne S. Doswell. daughter of Col. Gelon 
H. Doswell, USMC, and Mrs. Doswell of 
Falls Church, Va., Nov. 28. 

1964 — William F. Maguire, Jr., and 
Miss Rachel-Ann Higson P'64, daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. James W. Higson of North 
Scituate, R. I., June 6. 

1964 — Ens. Scott A. McKenney, USN, 
and Miss Priscilla A. Larson, daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Larson of Pittsburgh, 
Oct. 24. At home: 1430 Moline St., Apt. 
304, Aurora, Colo. 

1964— Philip B. Sheldon and Miss Phyl- 
lis C. Reed P'64, daughter of Mr, and 
Mrs. Wilmot L. Reed of Marshfield, Mass., 
Aug. 15. Best man was Edward L. Seder- 
quest '64, and ushers included Thomas A. 
LaTanzi '64 and Stephen A. Alterman '65. 
At home: 303 G. Eagle Heights Apts., 
Madison, Wis. 

BIRTHS 

1941 — To Mr. and Mrs. James M. Nes- 
tor of Cleveland Heights, O., their sixth 
child and third daughter, Cristin Eileen, 
Sept. 22. 

1944 — To Dr. and Mrs. J. Wallace 
Conklin of Providence, their fourth child 
and third daughter, Suzanne. Oct. 20. 

1949 — To Mr. and Mrs. J. Pierce An- 
thony of Washington, D. C, their fourth 
child, a daughter. Ruth Florence Lister, 
Nov, 8. 

1950 — To Mr. and Mrs. John R. Mullen 
of Waltham, Mass., a daughter, Katharine 
Theresa, Oct. 19. 

1951 — To Mr. and Mrs. Bennett Alpert 
of Somerset, Mass., their second child and 
first daughter, Susan Lauren, Nov. 20. 

1951 — To Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. 
Hewins of Brussels, Belgium, their third 
child and second son, Robert Theodore, 
Sept. 2. 

1953 — To Dr. and Mrs. Robert G. Mei- 
sell of New York City, their first child, a 
daughter, Tina Ingeborg, Nov. 3. 

1953_To Mr. and Mrs. John E. O'Neil 
of York, Pa., a son, John Edward, IV, 
Oct. 21, 

1953 — To Dr. and Mrs. Anthony J. 
Zangara of New Orleans, a daughter, Con- 
cetta Elizabeth, Sept. 23. 

1955 — Mr. and Mrs. Douglas R. Lowe 
of Minneapolis announce the adoption of 
their first child, Elisabeth Catharine, born 
Oct. 16. 



1955 — To Mr. and Mrs. Kendrick 
Thayer of Northford. Conn., their second 
child and second son, Matthew Forrest, 
Oct. 16. Mrs. Thayer is the former Joan 
Gately P'55. 

1956— To Dr. and Mrs. Albert C. Per- 
rino of Cranston. R. I., a son, David 
Matthew, Oct. 8. 

1956— To Mr. and Mrs. David D. Pe- 
terson of Fairfax, Va., a son, Eric David, 
Sept. 25. 

1957— To Lt. Peter S. Corr. Jr., USN, 
and Mrs. Corr of Ballston Spa, N. Y., a 
son, Peter Sarsfield. HI, Nov, 17. 

1957 — To Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. 
Godfrey of Providence, a daughter, Cath- 
erine Elizabeth, Nov. 17, 

1957 — To Mr. and Mrs. Courtney S. 
Jones of Menlo Park, Calif., their second 
child and second son, Evan DeWolfe, Sept, 
16. 

1957— To Mr. and Mrs. Martin D. 
Singer of Concord, N. H., their second 
child and first son, David Paul, Nov. 16. 

1958— To Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Dob- 
son, Jr.. of Washington. D. C, a son. 
Eric Neil, Oct. 19. 

1958— To Mr. and Mrs. Martin L. Feld- 
man of Brookline, Mass., their second 
child and first son, Andrew Lewis, Sept. 
22. Mrs. Feldman is the former Caryl-Ann 
Miller P'59. Maternal grandmother is Bea- 
trice Wattman Miller P'35. 

1958 — To Mr. and Mrs. James J. Noo- 
nan of Rochester, N. Y., their third child 
and first daughter, Mary Susan, Oct. 16. 

1959— To Mr. and Mrs. J. William 
Flynn of Wilmington, Del., a daughter, 
Virginia Kenny, Oct. 16. 

1959— To Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Ha- 
mon of Boston, a daughter, Julie, Oct. 31. 

1959— To Dr. and Mrs. Craig A. Har- 
ris of Montclair, N, J., a daughter. Holly 
Anne, Nov. 26. One grandfather is Edwin 
C. Harris '29. 

1959— To Mr. and Mrs. William F. 
Lawless of Kingston, R. I., a son, Michael 
David, Oct. 31. 

1959— To Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. 
Shohet of Carlisle, Mass., their first child, 
a daughter, Lauren Elizabeth, Oct. 15. 

1959— To Mr. and Mrs. William E. Vo- 
gel of West Orange, N. J., their first child, 
a daughter, Jane Ann, June 20, 

1960— To LTtj.g.) Roger C. Kostmayer, 
USN, and Mrs. Kostmayer of Arlington, 
Va., a son, John Boone, June 17. Mrs. 
Kostmayer is the former Rosemary A. 
Smith P'60. 

1961— To Mr. and Mrs. Paul R. Ma- 
guire of Gansevoort. N. Y., their first 
child, a daughter, Pamela Miller, May 18, 
Mrs, Maguire is the former Susan Miller 
P'62. 

1962 — To Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Levin 
of Providence, a daughter, Tamara Beth, 
Dec. 2. 

1962— To Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. 
Lodewick, Jr., of Ithaca, N. Y., their first 
child, a son, Michael Christian, Oct, 3, 

1963— To Mr. and Mrs. William E. 
Dyer of Secane, Pa., a son, William Ed- 
ward, Jr,, Nov. 6. Paternal grandfather is 
William A. Dyer, Jr., '24. 

1963 — To Mr. and Mrs. Jack Sidman of 
Boulder, Colo., a daughter. Deborah Rose, 
Dec. 3. 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



In Memoriam 



THE REV. EVERETT ANTHONY 
BOWEN '92. in Middleborough. Mass., 
Sept. 29. A retired Baptist minister, he 
received his B.D. from Newton Theo- 
logical Seminary in 1895. He also was 
a student at the University of Chicago. 
He was one of the few surviving mem- 
bers of the first organized football team 
under Jack Lindsey. "the father of 
Brown football," He had been Minister 
in Still River, Mass., Willimanlic, Conn., 
and Hope Valley. R. I., remaining with 
the ministry for 13 years until he de- 
cided to take up farming. He was a 
farm owner and operator for 27 years 
until he retired. He had written many 
articles for magazines and the press, in- 
cluding the Brown Alumni Monlhly. He 
was a member of the Middleborough 
Historical Society. Zeta Psi. His son is 
Richard G. Bowen. 220 Crest Hill Ave., 
Tonawanda. N, Y. 

THE REV. LESTER BENJAMIN MA- 
THEWSON '98. in Providence, Oct. 26. 
He was Teacher Emeritus of the Har- 
rington Bible College since 1962, after 
25 years of teaching. He attended New- 
ton Theological Seminary for three years 
and was ordained into the Baptist min- 
istry. Before joining the Faculty of 
Barrington College he had served in 
churches in Otay, Calif., and Hayden. 
Ariz. In 1928, he presented to the Uni- 
versity Library what is believed to be 
the smallest edition of Homer ever 
printed. He was author of two books. 
The Mcitliemcilical ExpJanalion of the 
Trinity, and The Use of Illustration in 
Preaching. His only survivor is a sister. 
Mrs. Alice A. Barbour, l.'!93 Louisquis- 
set Pike, Lincoln, R. L 

THE REV. THOMAS DAMMES WES- 
LEY '98, in Virginia Beach, Va., Aug, 
1. He was Pastor Emeritus of Calvary 
Presbyterian Church in New York City 
and a member of Norfolk Presbytery 
for 52 years. He studied at Colgate Uni- 
versity and Baptist Theological Sem- 
inary in Rochester, N. Y., before Brown, 
and received his B.D. from Union Theo- 
logical Seminary in 1901. He also did 
graduate work at both Union Seminary 
and Colgate University, studied in Eu- 
rope, and was awarded a D.D. in 1942 
and Th.D. in 1943 at Webster Univer- 
sity. In 1904, after serving two Baptist 
churches he became Pastor of a Presby- 
terian church in N. J., and in 191 1 went to 
Rulo, Neb., as a missionary to the Iowa, 
Sioux, Fox, and Kickapoo Indian tribes. 
He joined Norfolk Presbytery in 1912 
when he became Pastor of the Camp- 
bell Memorial and Milden Churches at 
Weems, Va. He went to the Lynnhaven 
Church in 1925 and became Pastor of 
the Calvary Church in 1926 where he 
served until he retired in 1938. He con- 
tinued to serve as Pastor on a temporary 
basis from 1950 to 1957. Phi Gamma 




DR. ALEXANDER MEIKLEJOHN '93 and the Rev. 
Everett A. Bowen '92 marched together at their 
last Brown Commencement in 1962. Dr. Meikle- 
john died in December and will be the subject 
of an obituary article in our next issue. 



Delta. His nephew is Luther P. Sheldon, 
Rt. 3. Overhill Farms. Glen Allen, Va. 

FRANCIS SESSIONS COLE '99, in Prov- 
idence, Nov. 12. He owned and op- 
erated (from graduation until 1948) the 
next-to-the-last farm within the limits of 
the City of Providence, on Cole Ave. 
In 1947, failing in health, he disposed of 
his herd of three cows on the farm's re- 
maining three acres: in the following 
year the property was platted for res- 
idential development. However, until 
residences crowded in on it, it was still 
a neighborhood source of vegetables, 
poultry, fruit, and dairy products. His 
sons are Francis S. Cole, Jr., "43 and 
Robert T. Cole '50, and his widow is 
Ada T. Cole, 329 OIney St., Providence. 

HENRY KNIGHT METCALF 02, in 
Boston, Nov. 29. He was former Branch 
Manager of the Boston office of the 
Maryland Casualty Insurance Co. In 
1911, he joined the Traveler's Insurance 
Co. in Boston, remaining for 15 years 
until he became affiliated with the Mary- 
land Casualty Insurance Co. In 1935, he 
went into semi-retirement but remained 
associated with the Employers Group In- 
surance Co. until his complete retire- 
ment in 1951. He was a former Chair- 
man of the Board of Directors of the 
Shady Hill School, Cambridge, former 
member of the Providence School Com- 
mittee, and a Past President of the 
Brown Club of Boston. He was the wid- 
ower of Eleanor Melville Metcalf, eld- 



est granddaughter of Herman Melville, 
and assisted her with the preparation 
and editing of a book on the Melville's 
works. Alpha Delta Phi. His granddaugh- 
ter is Anne H. Metcalf P'67, and his son 
is Paul C. Metcalf, RED #1, Chester, 
Mass. 

BRADFORD EARL STEPHENS '02, in 
Needham, Mass., Oct. 13. Founder, 
owner, and publisher of the magazine 
Print, he also established and owned 
for some time the magazine Direct Ad- 
vertising, which he later gave to the 
Paper Makers Advertising Association, 
a group which he also helped to found. 
He was Editor of Direct Advertising for 
more than 50 years. He formerly worked 
as a reporter with the Worcester Tele- 
gram and Boston Traveler, and had 
been Advertising Manager of The Boot 
and Shoe Workers Journal. Fiber and 
Fabric. Springfield Daily News, and the 
Shoe and Leather Reporter. He was a 
Needham resident for half a century 
and served on the Finance and Build- 
ing Committees that located and built 
the Needham High School at its present 
site. He also served as Chairman of the 
Needham Red Cross for many years 
and was instrumental in obtaining the 
Birds Hill Railroad Station for residents 
of the area. He was probably one of the 
best authorities on Ben Franklin in this 
country, wrote books about him, and 
gave frequent lectures on the patron 
saint of printing. His widow is Eunice 
A. Stephens, 28 Green St.. Needham. 

LEWIS FREDERIC HALL '03, in Bridge- 
port, Conn., Oct. 7. He was Production 
Manager of the Bead Chain Mfg. Co. in 
Bridgeport from 1928 until his retire- 
ment in 1950. He was Works Engineer 
at the Remington Arms Company for 
1 5 years and, during World War I, was 
honored by the company for cartridge 
output. He also was Manager of the 
East Side Plant of the Bridgeport Brass 
Company from 1922 to 1928. He was a 
former member of the Contemporary 
Club. Phi Delta Theta. His brother is 
Dwight H. Hall '99, and his widow is 
Freda G. Hall, 271 Mill Hill Ave., 
Bridgeport. 

HERBERT COMSTOCK WELLS 05, in 
Warwick, R. I., Oct. 25. Before his re- 
tirement eight years ago he was owner 
and operator of the Penguin Shop, a 
woodworking establishment in Kingston, 
R. I., for 25 years. First a clerk, and 
then Manager of the Statistical Depart- 
ment of the Rhode Island Hospital "Trust 
Co. from 1905 to 1921, he was also Sec- 
retary of the Peoples Savings Bank from 
1921 to 1924. He was a member of the 
firm of Stone and Webster Securities 
Corporation from 1925 to 1931. During 
World War I, he served as Cpl. with 
the Rhode Island State Guard. He was a 
Deacon of the Kingston Congregational 
Church and its Treasurer for more than 
30 years. He also served as President 
of the Kingston Village Improvement 
and Welfare Associations, was a mem- 
ber of the Tavern Hall Club of South 
Kingstown, and Treasurer of the Con- 



J.\NUARY 1965 



41 



gregational Society of Pettaquamscott 
Purchase from 1912 to 1952. Alpha 
Delta Phi. His brother is John H. Wells 
'09. and his widow is Ethel S. Wells. 
1301 Kingstown Rd., Kingston, R. I. 

CLINTON ALFRED PRAY 06. in Prov- 
idence, Oct. 2. He was Secretary of the 
Hope Webbing Company and had been 
employed by the firm for over 40 years. 
Chi Phi. His widow is Bertha C. Pray. 
86 Overhill Rd., Providence. 

THE REV. WALTER EDGAR WOOD- 
BURY "06. in Englewood, N. J., Oct. 
20. An ordained American Baptist min- 
ister, he was Director of Evangelism for 
the Pennsylvania Baptist Convention. 
Prior to that he served for 20 years 
from 1936 to 1956 as Director of 
Evangelism for the American Baptist 
Home Mission Societies. He received 
his A.M. from Brown in 1908 and his 
B.D. from Newton Theological Institu- 
tion (now Andover Newton Theological 
School) in 1911: he also received an 
honorary D.D. from Northern Baptist 
Theological Seminary in 1938. He served 
as Pastor for four Baptist churches: 
Bristol, Conn.: Lowell and Melrose, 
Mass., and Minneapolis. He also served 
as Field Secretary of Missionary Pro- 
motion for the Southern California 
Baptist Convention from 1930 to 1936. 
In the summer of 1958, at the invitation 
of the European Baptist Federation, he 
spent three months in Europe speaking 
on evangelism in 10 different countries. 
Phi Kappa Psi. Phi Beta Kappa. His 
brothers are the Rev. Norris E. Wood- 
bury '14. and Luke A. Woodbury '17, 
his son is James R. Woodbury '53. and 
his widow is Gladys R. Woodbury, 7 
Daisy PI., Tenafly, N. J. 

HARLAN TRUE STETSON '08, in Ft. 
Lauderdale, Fla., Sept. 16. He was a 
retired astronomer and geophysicist. He 
received his Sc.M. from Dartmouth Col- 
lege in 1910 and from 1911 to 1913 was 
an Instructor in Physics at Dartmouth. 
In 1913, he joined the staff of North- 
western University as an observer at the 
Dearborn Observatory and Instructor in 
Astronomy. His graduate work led to 
a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago 
in 1915, and in 1916 he was appointed 
Instructor of Astronomy at Harvard Uni- 
versity and Radcliffe College; his ap- 
pointment as Assistant Professor at Har- 
vard came in 1920. Later, he accepted 
the post of Director at the Perkins Ob- 
servatory and Professor of Astronomy 
at Ohio Wesleyan University and, under 
his supervision, saw the completion of 
the 69-inch reflecting telescope which 
was put into operation in 1931, then the 
second largest telescope in America. In 
1940. he established and directed a 
laboratory for Cosmic Terrestrial Re- 
search in Needham, Mass.. where he en- 
gaged in extensive studies of cosmic re- 
lationships. He was a member of the 
American Astronomical Society, and 
Fellow of the American Association for 
the Advancement of Science, American 
Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the 
Royal Astronomical Society. He is cred- 



ited as author of more than 150 scien- 
tific and technical papers. Phi Beta 
Kappa. Sigma Xi. His daughter is Mrs. 
Florence S. Pipes, 687 Middle River 
Dr.. Fort Lauderdale. 

SCHUYLER MERRITT SKELDING 11, 
in Stamford, Conn., Oct. 17. A realtor 
and insurance broker, he operated his 
own business from 1917 to 1957, when 
he sold it to the Frank T. Slavin Agency. 
He remained as an advisor to the Slavin 
Co. until he retired a few years ago. He 
previously had been with the Bankers 
Trust Co. and Stewart. Hencken & Will. 
Inc., insurance brokers, in New York 
City. During World War I. he served as 
2/Lt. with the Quartermaster Corps, 
USA. He was a former Police Commis- 
sioner and member of the Stamford In- 
surance Board. He was predeceased by 
his wife, Svea A. Skelding. 

HARRY SHEFFIELD WRIGHT 12, in 

Phoenix, Ariz., Oct. 9. Before his re- 
tirement, he was a construction engineer 
with Thompson Lichtner in Cambridge, 
Mass. He also had attended M.I.T. and 
had lived in Hingham. Mass., for about 
30 years before moving to Sedona. Ariz. 
During World War II, he served as Lt. 
with the USCGR in counter-sabotage 
and marine rescue and safety in short 
patrol and received a service citation 
and WW II medal. He previously had 
been New England Manager of Preload 
Enterprises, Inc. in Boston, and Vice- 
President and General Manager of Stev- 
ens Master Specifications, Inc. He was 
author of several technical papers for 
the C/i(7 Engineering Joiirniil. Delta Tau 
Delta. His son is Harry S. Wright, Jr., 
'50, and his widow is Dorothy D. 
Wright, P.O. Box 515, Sedona, Ariz. 

DR. LOUIS IRVING KRAMER 18. in 
Providence, Nov. 3. A prominent physi- 
cian, he was a former President of the 
Providence Medical Society. During a 
long professional career he had become 
Chief of Medicine at Charles V. Chapin 
Hospital, Physician-in-Chief and Senior 
Visiting Physician at the Rhode Island 
Hospital, and Consultant in Medicine 
at Zambarano Memorial Hospital. He 
formerly was Chief of Medicine at 
Miriam Hospital as well. He graduated 
from Tufts Medical School in 1920. He 
held memberships in many professional, 
medically-related, Jewish and civic or- 
ganizations and was President-Elect of 
the Rhode Island Society of Internal 
Medicine when he died. He also found 
time to serve on numerous organiza- 
tions, including the American and Rhode 
Island Cancer Societies and on the Com- 
mittee on Grants for Cancer Research. 
He was a Fellow of the American Col- 
lege of Physicians, and a member of 
the Rhode Island Advisory Hospital 
Council, the American Medical Asso- 
ciation, National Society of Internal 
Medicine, American Friends of Israel 
Medical Society, and the U.S. commit- 
tee of the World Medical Association. 
Phi Delta Epsilon. His sons are Frederic 
S. Kramer '52 and Dr. Robert I. Kramer 



"54. and his widow is Jessie S. Kramer. 
52 Mount Ave., Providence. 

JOHN ROBERT CALDOW '20. in Glens 
Falls, N. Y., Nov. 25. A former Head- 
master of Park School, he retired two 
years ago as Headmaster of St. Mark's 
School in Dallas. He did graduate work 
at the Universities of Poitiers and Gre- 
noble in France and received his A.M. 
from Middlebury College in 1931. He 
was a veteran of World War I. He be- 
came Assistant Headmaster at Park 
School in Indianapolis in 1924, and in 
1941 became Headmaster, a post he 
held until 1949 when he joined the St. 
Mark's Faculty. He also was Assistant 
Headmaster at Montpelier Seminary 
where he taught mathematics, French 
and Spanish. Phi Delta Theta. Phi Beta 
Kappa. His widow is Calista L. Caldow, 
32 Boulevard, Glens Falls. 

RALPH DeLILLE STANDISH '21, in 
Hanover, Conn., Oct. 4. He had been 
an international banker for four decades, 
with his last assignment as Vice-Pres- 
ident and Manager of the San Juan 
branch of the Banco Creditoy Ahorro 
Ponceno in Puerto Rico, retiring in 
1961. During World War II, he was in- 
strumental in arranging an informal 
get-together with nine Brown service- 
men at his home in San Juan. He had 
been associated with foreign banking 
services of the National City Bank of 
New York, commencing his employment 
in 1922, and at various times in his 
career had served in England, France, 
India, China, Japan, West Indies, and 
Saudi Arabia. Dorothy E. Standish, Box 
96, Hanover, is his widow. 

HAROLD LAMPREY ELLSWORTH '22, 
in Wickford, R. I., Dec. 6. He was a 
retired fireman with Hamilton Web Co., 
Hamilton, R. I. During World War I, he 
served as Pvt. with the S.A.T.C. at 
Brown. He previously had been em- 
ployed by the following concerns: Metro- 
politan Park Commission, Builders 
Iron Foundry, and First National Stores, 
and was Editor, Historical Records Sur- 
vey. U.S. Government. His widow is El- 
len H. Ellsworth, 6 Girard Ter., Wick- 
ford. 

DR. JOSEPH CHRISTOPHER KENT '26, 
in Warwick, R. I., Nov. 10. A member 
of the staff since Kent County Memorial 
Hospital opened 12 years ago, he had 
formerly been on the staffs of the 
Rhode Island and Providence Lying-in 
Hospitals. At one time he practised in 
Pawtucket. He received his M.D. and 
CM. at McGill University in 1931 and 
served his internship at Chapin, Butler, 
Rhode Island and Lying-in Hospitals in 
Providence. He was a member of the 
R.I.N.G. while at Brown and served 
with the 103rd Field Artillery Medical 
Detachment; at McGill he served for a 
year in the Canadian Officers' Training 
Corps. During World War II, he was 
attached to the Army Medical Corps in 
Alaska and Ft. Benning, Ga.. and held 
the rank of Lt. Col. After the war, he 



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resumed his practice in Edgewood and 
Warwick. He had lived in Foster for 
about 10 years. He was a member of the 
American and Rhode Island Medical So- 
cieties and the Academy of General 
Practice, and was a member and Past 
President of the Kent County Medical 
Society. Sally McC. Kent, Johnson Rd.. 
Foster, R. I., is his widow. 

JOHN ALISTER MACDONALD '26, in 
Dcdham, Mass., Nov. 11. He had been 
Senior Instructor. Department of Mathe- 
matics, Wentworlh Institute since 1945. 
He also had taught physics at Techni- 
cal High School, Yonkers, N. Y.. Dover 
School, Dover. Mass., and Qiiincy Junior 
School. Quincy. Mass. He did graduate 
work in psychology at Columbia Uni- 
versity from 1931 to 1933. Delta Up- 
silon. His widow is Eileen S. Macdonald. 
12 Bingham PI.. Dedham. 

FRANK ALLEN RUSSO 76. A.M. '26. 
in Garden City. L. I., N. Y.. Nov. 3. 
He was Assistant Professor of Modern 
Languages at Brooklyn College. He also 
studied at two universities in Italy and 
was working on his doctorate in Spanish 
at Columbia University at the time of 
his death. On the staff of Brooklyn Col- 
lege since 1937. he was the author of a 
te.xt. Modern Spanish Prose, and the co- 
author of another. S/ninisli Composition 
and Conversation. He taught also at 
New York University and the Univer- 
sity of New Hampshire. He developed 
an e.xperimental system to teach for- 
eign languages to children without the 
aid of a skilled instructor which was 
used at the George Washington School 
in West Hempstead. N. Y. He was a 
member of the American Association of 
University Professors. Past President of 
the Brown Club of Long Island, and 
Chairman of the Long Island Admis- 
sions Committee for Brown University. 
Phi Gamma Delta. His widow is Aga- 
tha M. Russo, 64 First St., Garden City, 

JOSEPH GALE GURNEY '26, in Brock- 
ton, Mass., Dec. 1. President and Treas- 
urer of the Gurney Bros. Co.. Brockton, 
he was among the first 100 jewelers in 
the country to earn certification from 
the Gemological Institute of America: 
in 1961 was awarded the Diamond Cer- 
tificate of the Institute. Prior to World 
War II. he was a member of the Civil- 
ian Defense Board and during the war 
served as 1 Lt. in the USNR. He was 
Past President of the Brockton Kiwanis 
Club. University Club of Brockton, and 
Old Colony Advertising Club. A mem- 
ber of the Brockton Chamber of Com- 
merce, he was also a member and clerk 
of its Board of Directors. He was a 
Trustee of the People's Savings Bank of 
Taunton and. for many years, was a 
member of the Commercial Club. Choral 
Art Society, and the YMCA. His pro- 
fessional affiliations included the Retail 
Jewelers Association of America. New 
England Guild of the American Gem 
Society, and the Massachusetts and 
Rhode Island Retail Jewelers Associa- 
tion. Delta Phi. His brother is Richard 



C. Gurney "28, and his widow is Natalie 
P. Gurney. 190 Country Club Lane, 
Brockton. 

DR. FRANCIS KNIGHT BALLAINE 
A.M. "32. in New York City. Nov. 1. 
He was former Dean of Adelphi College 
and more recently Director of Profes- 
sional Development of the New York 
State Society of Certified Public Ac- 
countants. He was graduated from the 
University of Washington in 1930 and 
received his Ph.D. from Columbia Uni- 
versity in 1936. He became Chairman 
of the Department of Philosophy at 
Adelphi in 1939 and Dean in 1953. re- 
tiring from that post in 1959. In 1962. 
he became Chairman of the Executive 
Committee of the Narda Ultrasonics 
Corp.. at Westbury. L. I. He was a Di- 
rector of Peerless Photo Products. Inc., 
Shoreham. L. I., and a member of the 
American Philosophers and Manage- 
ment Associations and the American 
Conference of Academic Deans. His 
son is William G. Ballaine "67. and his 
widow is the former Alice Sergenian 
P33. 83-33 Austin St.. Kew Gardens, 
L.I. 

THE REV. HAROLD AUGUST CARL- 
SON "34. in Stockton. Calif.. May 9. 
He was a Covenant minister teaching at 
French Camp. Calif. To prepare for the 
ministry he studied for two years at the 
Bible Institute of Minnehaha Academy. 
Minn., served as a student pastor at Still- 
water. Minn., from 1923 to 1926 and 
was ordained into the Mission Covenant 
in 1929. During World War II. from 
1942 to 1946. he served as Chaplain in 
the USA with the rank of Capt. Through 
the years he continued his education at 
Brown: Hartford Theological Seminary; 
College of the Pacific: and Pasadena 
(Calif.) College receiving his A.B. and 
A.M. from the latter in 1947 and 1949 
respectively. In 1958 he entered the 
teaching field. Previously he had served 
the ministry at Dubois, Pa.; Cromwell, 
Conn.: East Greenwich, R. I.; Man- 
chester, N. H.: San Gabriel, Calif.: and 
San Andreas, Calif. Delta Upsilon. His 
widow is Deborah B. Carlson, 8309 Ter- 
race Dr., Stockton. 

JAMES FREDERICK SHURTLEEF '34, 
in Medford, Mass., Nov. 17. He was 
President and Treasurer of the Economic 
Development Association, Inc., a Boston 
municipal consultant firm he founded in 
1957. As a young man he was interested 
in journalism and worked for the 
New Bedford Standard Times and the 
Middleboro Journal. It was during this 
time that his interest turned to local 
government and he became candidate 
for the Middleboro Board of Selectmen. 
He served five years and was its Chair- 
man before being appointed Town Man- 
ager of nearby Mansfield, Mass., later 
moving to Brookfield, III., as City Man- 
ager. Returning to Massachusetts, he 
was named Saugus Town Manager in 
1948 and Medford Cit\ Manager in 
1950. He was known as an unusual 
political campaigner because he never 



used public signs or posters. He was a 
member of the Sagamore Lodge of Ma- 
sons of Medford, the International City 
Managers Association, and the National 
Municipal League. Thalia F. Shurtleff, 
24 Powder House Road Ext., Medford, 
is his widow, 

MICHAEL A. DiCESARO '35, in Hyan- 
nis, Mass., Dec. 10, following a heart 
attack. He was a well known public 
links golfer and a retired chemist. His 
son is Michael A. DiCesaro, Jr., '68, 
and his widow is Dora A. DiCesaro, 
100 Hope St., Rumford, R. I. 

SUMNER PLANT AHLBUM '36, in New 
York City, Nov. 12. He was Vice-Pres- 
ident for Public Information of the Ra- 
dio Free Europe Fund, Inc. He was a 
former Providence newspaperman who 
had been Picture Editor and staff writer 
for The Providence Journal-Bidletin. Be- 
fore entering Brown he had been a re- 
porter for the Hudson Dispatch in 
Union City, N, J., and the Bergen Eve- 
ning Record in Hackensack, N. J. Upon 
graduation he joined the stalT of the 
old Providence News-Trihitne and. fi- 
nally, the Providence Tribune. He was 
Night Editor and then Make-Up Editor 
until he joined The Providence Journal 
staff in 1938. During World War II. he 
served as LT(j.g.)USNR in aviation spe- 
cial services. In the post-war period he 
served as News Editor of the Newspaper 
Enterprise Association for 13 years and 
then joined the Manning Public Rela- 
tions firm in New York as a Vice-Pres- 
ident in charge of news. In December. 
1963, he joined Radio Free Europe, Phi 
Kappa Psi. His widow is Joanne C. Ahl- 
bum, 76 MacDougal St.. New York. 

HAROLD ARTHUR CARNER '48, in 
Pelham, N, H., Sept. 29. He was em- 
ployed as an aeronautical engineer by 
AVCO Corporation in Lowell and Wil- 
mington, Mass. During World War II, 
he served as A/S (V-12 NROTC) for 
two years and as 2/Lt, with the 
USMCR. A graduate of Rensselaer 
Polytechnic Institute in 1948, he held 
memberships in several engineering so- 
cieties including the Institute of Aero- 
nautical Sciences. Sigma Chi. Sigma Xi. 
His widow is Ann B. Carner, Box 103 A, 
Jeremy Hill Rd., Pelham. 

1/LT. GUY LOUIS VASSALOTTI, 
USAF, '59, in Goose Bay, Labrador, 
Nov. 7, when his C-133 Cargomaster 
crashed in a snowstorm shortly after 
takeoff. The four-engine plane, based at 
Dover Air Force Base, was heading for 
Greenland. In 1963, he was one of 
many pilots participating in Exercise 
Big Lift, the joint Department of De- 
fense demonstration of U.S. capability 
for rapid, massive reinforcement of 
NATO forces. At that time more than 
15,000 2nd Armored Division troops 
were deployed to West Germany in a 
72-hour period for NATO maneuvers. 
Delta Kappa Epsilon. His widow is the 
former Judith E. Fishback P'59, 7817 
Moorland Lane, Bethesda, Md, 



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