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Alumni Monthly 



May 1969. Vol. 69, No. 8 



In this issue 



Board of Editors 




Jim Adams: The Brown Years 

8 Only a few days before he died in February, James P. 
Adams, a teacher and administrator beloved by 
thousands of Brown men, sat down with a tape- 
recorder and talked about his 23 years at the Uni- 
versity. This article is a glance back at what is meaningful 
today. 

Commencement 201 

20 Commencement isn't new — this will be the 201st — 
but Brown alumni somehow feel there is something 
different about this time of year here than anywhere 
else in the country. Plans for this year's Commence- 
ment are in this article and another on Pages 36-40. 

Progress, and a need to progress 

24 Ten years ago, Richard Ramsden "59 wrote about the 
idea of his class to begin a 25th Reunion gift program. 
In the decade since, 1 3 classes have followed '59's 
lead. This is a report on the growth of that idea 
and how the fund can be expanded to assist 
Brown in the future. 

'Run, You Fleet-Fooled Wonder, You!' 

26 For the average American football fan, U.S. rugby 
is still kind of avant-garde. But the Brown Rugby 
Club has developed some notable achievements: it 
wins, it is drawing more undergraduates and, with 
them, more fans. This is a picture story on the recent 
Ivy rugby tourney. 



Departments 

1 Letters 

2 Under the Elms 
26 Sports 

34 Brown Clubs 



36 Reunion Rollcall 

42 Class Notes 

54 Vital Statistics 

55 In Memoriam 



Cover: 

One of the most imaginative news photographers in the 
area has been Lee Romero, oj the Providence Journal- 
Bulletin. Before he left for a new assignment with The^ 
New York Times, Romero toured the campus to illustrate, 
as he saw it, the cover story Jim Adams: The Brown Years. 



Chairman 

Garrett D. Byrnes '26 

Vice-Chairman 

Douglas R. Riggs '61 



Elmer M. Blistein '42 
C. Arthur Braitsch '23 
Alexander A. DiMartino '29 
James E. DuBois '50 
1. J. Kapstein '26 
Stuart C. Sherman '39 



Managing Editor 
Robert A. Reichley 

Associate Editor 

John F. Barry, Jr., '50 

Assistant Editor 
Hazel M. Goff 



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Carrying the Mail 



The ROTC Dilemma 

Sir: Had anyone told me I would be 
ashamed of claiming Brown as my alma 
mater I would have considered him a can- 
didate for psychological examination. Now 
1 have some serious doubts. 

First, I was appalled that a "liberal" uni- 
versity, which Brown claims to be, would 
break with tradition (in which Brown used 
to pride itself) as it did in the separate 
awarding of commissions to ROTC stu- 
dents at Commencement last June. . . . 

Today I read (BAM, March, 1969) of 
the controversy concerning the retention 
of the ROTC program. Unfortunately, 
ROTC was not in existence when I was a 
student. ... I feel my liberal education 
has made me a better Naval officer by af- 
fording me a broader understanding of my 
brothers-in-arms, be they officer or en- 
listed, and made me more compassionate 
than some officer graduates of the Naval 
Academy. There is no need to enumerate 
the many advantages of obtaining an edu- 
cation in a civilian atmosphere rather than 
a military one. 

Furthermore, I fail to see where giving 
credit for military science courses will 
lessen the academic status of a student; they 
are probably less detrimental to a "rounded" 
education than are some of the prerequi- 
site courses required by many universities, 
Brown included. , . . 

Why shouldn't the University recognize 
its responsibility and actively participate in 
the development and supervision of the 
ROTC program? Does this curriculum de- 
serve any less attention than the new Afro 
studies being forced upon many colleges 
and universities by a group of dissonant 
and militant Negroes? At least ROTC stu- 
dents are on the side of "law and order," 
a rather unique situation from what I read 
in the news media. 

Where would boys such as David Kertzer 
'69 be if others hadn't, in World War II 
and Korea, assured him of a free country in 
which to grow up? Where might he be if 
others weren't giving their life blood right 
now upon the battlefields in Vietnam? Ac- 
cording to the ground rules laid down by 
the Ad Hoc Committee, Kertzer should 
have been disqualified from sitting on said 
committee, and when he failed to dis- 
qualify himself, he should have been in- 
vited to step down. 

Yet this man ... is permitted to file a 
minority report which included the state- 
ment: "If the academic community wishes 
to condemn the present course of action of 
the U.S. military, it must order the mili- 
tary to leave the campus." I would suggest 
that Kertzer he required to take a course 
in political science in order to learn that 
U.S. forces are in Vietnam, not by the 
wishes of the military, but on orders from 
duly elected representatives of the people 



of the U.S., namely the President and the 
Congress. . . . 

ROTC students at Brown are in the pro- 
gram on a strictly voluntary basis. No one 
has coerced them. The Navy students have 
passed exacting scholastic examinations, 
above and beyond other entrance require- 
ments, to be eligible for the program. 
Without the program some could never 
aspire to obtaining a college degree, espe- 
cially from an institution of Brown's repu- 
tation. Is Brown to deny students this op- 
portunity? 

Today, the same shortage of officer ma- 
terial exists as during World War II. The 
Secretary of Defense has personally ap- 
pealed to colleges and universities not to 
disrupt the ROTC program. Yet some Ivy 
League universities, which have always 
prided themselves as being leaders in edu- 
cational excellence, have turned deaf ears 
on this appeal. Are we to be less patriotic 
in this generation than the preceding one? 
Have we forgotten what the word patriot- 
ism means? What a travesty when one re- 
calls Yale's motto: "For God, For Coun- 
try, and For Yale." 

The time has arrived for Brown to stand 
up and be counted, to become a leader 
among Ivy universities, and to rededicate 
itself to the principles upon which it was 
founded. 

LEON P. EISMAN '37 

Capl.. USN 

FPO San Francisco 

Sir: There are several disturbing trends 
at Brown which deserve serious attention. 
Among these are the University's retreat 
from the so-called "substitute parent" role, 
the formation of a student-faculty coali- 
tion (one sometimes wonders who is teach- 
ing whom), the appeasement of Negro stu- 
dents, and the recent attacks on ROTC. 
What is doubly disturbing is the fact that 
these trends are not unique with Brown 
but seem to be sweeping the country. . . . 

Let's take, for example, the ROTC issue. 
While the ROTC has existed happily for 
some 20-odd years on many college cam- 
puses, it has suddenly become a burning 
issue. Issues do not just happen but are 
the result of long and deliberate plan- 
ning. . . . 

The ROTC issue which is cropping up 



Letters to the editor are welcome. 
1 hey should be on subjects of interest 
to readers of this magazine with empha- 
sis on an exchange of views and dis- 
cussion of ideas. All points of view are 
uelcome, but for reasons of space, va- 
riety, and timeliness, the staff may not 
publish all letters it receives and may 
use excerpts from others. 



all over the country as if by grand design 
(not unlike the anti-Vietnam and the Afri- 
can studies issues) is the result of a con- 
certed effort by those elements which de- 
sire to cripple the American military by 
disrupting the supply of officers. . . . 

Those who fear a professional military 
would be better advised to work for a re- 
duction in the size of the armed forces and 
the military budget. . . . While I do not 
maintain that members of the Brown fac- 
ulty are in league with far left student or- 
ganizations, the fact that the abolition of 
ROTC has become a cause celebre on col- 
lege campuses indicates that opposition at 
Brown neither stems spontaneously from 
true intellectual fervor nor, in all probabil- 
ity, is sincere. The University should in no 
case yield to a vocal minority whose 
means are well known and whose ends are 
incompatible with the goals of our na- 
tion. . . . 

There are positive reasons for retaining 
ROTC: 

1. It provides a substantial portion of 
new military officers each year at a small 
cost to the taxpayers compared to the serv- 
ice academies and the OC programs. 

2. While some changes in the ROTC 
curriculum are probably necessary, mili- 
tary science is, by its very nature, a prac- 
tical sort of discipline and should be 
judged by the standards of other more 
esoteric disciplines. In answer to those 
who have criticized the ROTC courses as 
being entirely too simple, I would ask them 
to put their own houses in order. . . . 

3. In an age when avoiding the military 
is quite fashionable, it is refreshing to know 
that college students are still able, through 
ROTC, to avail themselves of the oppor- 
tunity of serving their country. 

4. The military service is one of the 
last vestiges of authority and tradition in 
this country. . . . Many of us lose sight 
of the fact that the college-man is not a 
finished product but is still being molded 
into what he will later become. I dare say 
a poll of former Brown ROTC students 
would reveal that their military experience 
was, for the most part, valuable and re- 
warding. 

As a former NROTC student at Brown, 
a former operations officer on a Navy de- 
stroyer, and a concerned alumnus, I ques- 
tion the wisdom and the sincerity of those 
detractors of the ROTC system, and I urge 
each member of the Corporation and each 
alumnus to look at the positive aspects 
of ROTC before the question is resolved. 

CLARKE E. RYDER '61 

Barringlon, R. I. 

Sir: I am giving twice my usual amount 

because I believe all the campus ferment, 

as reported in the Monthly, is the most 

exciting, promising news of Brown that 

(Continued on page 41) 



MAY 1969 



Under the Elms of Brown 



Growing support for the arts 

There may be a groundswell of faculty 
support for improving the creative arts on 
campus as the result of a faculty forum on 
the subject held late last month. The ses- 
sion was attended by 35 faculty members 
and 25 students. 

The creative arts at Brown need facili- 
ties and financial support. Music needs re- 
hearsal space, practice rooms, office space, 
and, ideally, a concert auditorium. The 
needs of theater arts include theater space, 
a dance rehearsal area, a cinematography 
workshop, and an auditorium where the 
regular drainatic season would be pre- 
sented. 

Such buildings are on the University's 
list of long-range construction planning. 
The nub of the problem is that many needs 
of the University are being weighed, and 
a fair number of faculty members and 
students want to see more consideration 
given to the creative arts. 

James O. Barnhill, associate professor 
of English and newly-appointed director 
of theater, was the man responsible for 
calling the faculty forum. He also has pre- 
pared two resolutions which he planned to 
present to the regular meeting of the fac- 
ulty this month. 

In 1961, when discussions were held con- 
cerning an "arts" building, there was an 
attempt to combine music, art, and theater 
arts. It was clear then that the resources 
available were not sufficient for a large 
creative arts center. The staffs in theater 
arts and music believed that under the cir- 
cumstances it would be far better to build 
one building, and build it well. And so 
those two departments withdrew in favor 
of the art building, now under construc- 
tion on College Hill. 

Now that it is time to think in terms 
of the creative arts again. Professor Barn- 
hill is disturbed that his area may get less 
than it needs in terms of facilities. 

"The University is thinking in terms of 
setting aside two million dollars and tell- 
ing us to put a building together within 
that framework," he says. "For the good 
of the University, I think it would be 
much better if our program and space 
needs, present and projected, could be 
drawn up and presented to theater con- 
sultants and other experts in the field. 
Based on these discussions, and discussions 
with the building committee of the Uni- 
versity, we should build what we need. 

"It would be unfortunate to construct a 
facility that would be outdated in 10 
years. Then, too, we want a building that 
not only serves our needs but one which — 
by reason of its architecture — is strongly 
and boldly representative of our times." 

Dr. Edward A. Bloom, professor of 
English, feels that in the past the support- 
ers of the creative arts have made a mis- 



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New art building exterior is illustrated in this artist's rendering of the structure. The 
building was designed by architect Philip Johnson with interior changes in the design 
made by the coordinating architects, Samuel Glazer and partner. 



take in viewing their objectives as a de- 
partmental matter. 

"We've never liefore talked of this new 
structure as something that would be good 
for the entire University," Dr. Bloom says. 
"We should get together as a faculty and 
present our views to the entire University 
community." 

Dr. Leon N. Cooper, professor of phys- 
ics, is one who agrees with this point of 
view. "Hiring faculty members for our de- 
partment would be made much easier if 
we had a living, vibrant theater as part of 
the University community. Candidates be- 
ing interviewed often ask what the college 
and community have to offer in these 
areas." 

Another member of the faculty who has 
come to the support of Prof. Barnhill is 
Dr. John Ladd, professor of philosophy. 
"We must convince the University com- 
munity that we of the faculty who have 
no vested interest think that the perform- 
ing arts are an important discipline within 
the University and that it is important for 
Brown to cultivate these areas." 

The field of cinematography, a fast 
growing interest on campus, is a perfect 
example of the facility gap that exists. 
Students feel that the great films are not 
being shown on campus, largely because 
of scheduling problems. The Faunce House 
Theater is inadequate because, when thea- 
ter groups are rehearsing, films cannot be 
shown. And there is no instructor, equip- 
ment, or facility for those interested in pro- 



ducing films, a field that has become one 
of the most popular means of expression 
for students in today's society. 

Prof. Barnhill hopes, with the support 
of students, to mount a University forum 
this month, just prior to the faculty meet- 
ing. "We believe that now there is strong 
support on campus from faculty and stu- 
dents for our center, and we'd like to 
make the administration fully aware of 
this sentiment," he says. "A strong crea- 
tive arts program, that is, a program which 
concerns itself with the making of art, is 
fundamental to the ideals of a university. 

"At Brown we have a long and dis- 
tinguished tradition in both music and 
dramatic art. Now, we need laboratories 
for art. We need facilities for study in 
these disciplines. Giving priority to the 
construction of these buildings would aid 
in establishing a unique environment at 
Brown. Think about the possibilities: a 
superb, small University that indicates its 
concern for the creative arts by building 
superior facilities. 1 don't think this is too 
much to ask." 



New art building begun 

A dozen or so people were gathered in 
the Corporation Room March 28 awaiting 
the arrival of University Vice-President 
Malcolm S. Stevens and Alexander J. 
Dimeo '50, president of the Dimeo Con- 



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struction Company of Providence. The 
occasion was the signing of a contract for 
the $2.5 million dollar art building. 

Associate Provost Paul F. Maeder no- 
ticed, with some amusement, several spec- 
tators shifting around in those large Cor- 
poration Room chairs, trying to find a po- 
sition they could live with for the next 15 
minutes. 

"You'll find that those chairs are not 
meant to be comfortable," he said. "It's all 
in the Puritan tradition." 

Actually, the signing was merely a for- 
mality. The fireworks had taken place at 
two earlier open sessions, sessions that 
were sometimes heated, when a faculty- 
student committee had pressed, eventually 
with success, to have included in the con- 
tract an equal opportunity agreement that 
would go beyond any provisions contained 
in previous construction contracts. 

In brief, the agreement stipulates that 
"the contractor shall take affirmative ac- 
tion to ensure that applicants are em- 
ployed, and that employees are treated 
during employment without regard to their 
race, creed, color, or national origin." 

Both the University and the contractor 
said a recruitment program already was 
underway for apprentices and skilled 
workers in connection with construction 
of the art building. Both parties agreed to 
intercede with the unions on behalf of new 
employees from minority groups. 

"If the faculty had not appointed the 
Equal Opportunity Committee, we would 
not have the kind of understanding we do 
now," said Vice-President Stevens. "We 
can look upKsn this agreement as progress 
in an industry where this sort of progress 
has been difficult to achieve." 

Dimeo said that his firm "is proud to be 
a party to a contract which represents a 
breakthrough in labor relations with re- 
spect to minority groups." However, he 
and his brother, Thomas P. Dimeo '52, 
secretary-treasurer of the firm, made it 
clear that realistically the onus for hiring 
of minority groups rests more with the 
labor unions than with the construction 
firms. 

"I'm pleased not only that we have a 
book of specifications, but also that we 
have put together some other ideas that 
touch on human elements," said Dr. Juer- 
gen Schulz, chairman of the art depart- 
ment. 

Construction of the art building began 
March 31, just 23 months after earlier 
bids had come back too high and were 
rejected by the University. 

Named the Albert A. and Vera G. List 
Art Building in honor of the principal 
donors, the structure will be built just 
west of the John Hay Library, between 
College and Waterman Streets. The five- 
story structure is expected to be ready by 
the fall of 1971. 

President Heffner has announced that 
the art department will be the sole occu- 
pants of the building. Sculpture rooms, 
paint and model storage space, and flexible 
work space will be located in the base- 
ment. The first floor will house lecture 
halls, a large exhibition area, and foyer. 
Classrooms, department offices, and con- 



ference rooms will be located on the sec- 
ond floor, with graphic design classrooms 
and a darkroom on the third floor. 

The fourth floor will contain offices for 
art department faculty and a photo studio, 
while the fifth floor will house large stu- 
dios for painting and graphics. Skylignts 
will comprise most of the roof area. 

Professor Schulz said the building will 
be "a marvelous plant for all activities of 
the art department." He said it would 
provide an extremely attractive setting for 
teaching and practice in art and as an 
exhibition area. He termed construction "a 
significant step forward in future plans 
for the instruction of art and the history 
of art at Brown." 

A^o time to run away 

When Joseph F. Lockett, Jr. '42 became 
national chairman of the Brown Univer- 
sity Fund last fall, he announced that he 
had set his sights on the University's first 
$2 million campaign. 

Lockett flinched a bit when he said it, 
for he was keenly aware of a few im- 
portant points. The Brown Fund had shown 
some impressive jumps over the last few 
years, and no one could be sure that the 
effort might not taper off. And then there 
was the whole matter of the campus un- 
rest, which threatened to dampen alumni 
giving across the nation. 

At least some of Lockett's fears have 
been eased, for as of March 31, alumni 
giving through the Brown University Fund 
had already set another record — and Lock- 
ett had the $2 million campaign he had 




JOSEPH F. LOCKETT 
Already ahead of last year 

hoped for. As of that date — the fiscal year 
ends on June 30 — the Brown Fund had 
already raised a record total of $2,004,591. 
This compares with the total of $1,810,- 
483 raised by the end of the 1968 fiscal 
year, also a record. 

Not unlike the picture at some other 
universities, the dollar amounts are up and 
participation is about holding its own. De- 



velopment Office staffers say that the vast 
majority of alumni are showing their sup- 
port for Brown by continuing or upgrad- 
ing their gifts. They say no appreciable 
fall-off in any category has developed in 
spite of dissent raised by a portion of the 
alumni body in relation to the University's 
plan to attract more black students next 
year, the ROTC question, and a tendency 
for a small number of alumni to relate 
Brown to the violence that has occurred 
on other campuses. 

The answer, says Lockett, is complex 
and uncertain. 

"I'm sure the professional fund-raisers 
can answer this better than can I. I've 
spent a lot of time talking with alumni 
about Brown, and there is no question 
that many are upset and concerned, and 
many are confused by what they read in 
the news media about campus unrest. At the 
same time, I think Brown alumni realize 
this is no time for them to run away. 

"Although there is argument on this, I 
think more thoughtful alumni realize that 
Brown's affairs have been run better than 
at some other universities. This must be a 
relative statement, for Brown also has its 
troubles. But the campus problems have 
not been peculiar to Brown. The need for 
funds is tremendous and alumni realize 
this in spite of their concern for what is 
happening on U.S. campuses." 

Students in the money barrel 

Students have shown up in a lot of 
strange places this year, but perhaps the 
most curious of all is that a group of 
undergraduates have formed a new organ- 
ization called the Brown Student Develop- 
ment Council. 

The purpose of the BSDC is money, 
and the manner in which they plan to go 
about getting it is perhaps the most sur- 
prising aspect of the group at a time 
when students often deplore the things 
money can buy. 

Although the BSDC is still in a forma- 
tive stage, it has high ambitions, not the 
least of which is that it wants to send stu- 



Notice 

The annual meeting of the Associated 
Alumni of Brown University will be 
held in conjunction with the Alumni 
Dinner at 7:30 P.M. on Friday, May 
30, 1969 in the Sharpe Refectory. Pro- 
posed amendments to the by-laws of 
the corporation, as recommended by the 
Board of Directors, will be voted upon. 
The amendments pertain to: 

1 ) The changing of the name "Alumni 
Advisory Council" to "Alumni 
Council" 

2) Voting procedures in the Alumni 
Council 

3) The deletion of "Article VI — 
Alumni Trustees" and the substitu- 
tion therefor of a new article 

4) Miscellaneous and minor changes in 
wording. 



MAY 1969 



Under The Elms 



dent representatives to Brown Clubs and 
other alumni gatherings to widen the di- 
alogue between students and alumni. The 
group has already attended a number of 
meetings, mostly on the eastern seaboard, 
and the plan is now to expand these ac- 
tivities to the rest of the nation as sched- 
uling and support funds are worked out. 

Equipped with its own office in Faunce 
House, stationery, a position paper outlin- 
ing the purposes of the group, and a vig- 
orous set of officers, the Council is now 
attempting to contact Brown Club officials 
with the hope that they can meet alumni 
either in "hard talk" (stand-up student 
speakers at Brown Club meetings) or "soft 
talk" (students are placed at every dinner 
table for informal discussions). 

Perhaps the most exciting aspect of the 
Council is its membership. Although the 
Council had some modest and restrictive 
beginnings, its membership now is open to 
all students. And those who show up at a 
Brown Club meeting may run the gamut 
from one of the more radical students to 
the captain of the Brown football team — 
or both. 

And in the case of both the radical stu- 
dent and the football captain, the Council 
says the purpose of their participation in 
the work of the Council is "based on a 
firm and deeply-rooted commitment to 
furthering the growth of Brown." Adds 
David Bloom '71. who saw the Council 
through its embryo stage and now serves 
as its president: 

"The breadth of our commitment is 
most directly concerned with establishing 
a dialogue between alumni and students, 
promoting fund-raising on and off the 
campus, and serving as an undergraduate 
public relations liaison between the Uni- 
versity community and the rest of the 
country." 

Adds the BSDC position paper: 

"It is not difficult to lose sight of the 
actual, purported reason for the Council's 
existence. Boiled down to the realities of 
University growth, and all that is implied 
in the plans for an athletic center, a hu- 
manities building, an endowment for the 
physics department, lies the basic assump- 
tion that money is the only thing that will 
bring these 'concepts' into the material 
world of the University community. 

"It is with this understanding, then, that 
the members of the BSDC dedicate them- 
selves to the work ahead, with the hope 
that from their efforts will come a better 
Brown and all that is implied in an out- 
standing university." 

Student Bloom is careful to add that 
the undergraduates who are members of 
the Council are not being told what to 
say and there is no political ideology asso- 
ciated with the Council. 

"The goal," he adds, "is an exchange 
between alumni and students in the hope 
that both will better understand what is 
happening at Brown." 



The proof of the BSDC commitment: 
Bloom says he and his group will run a 
fund-raising campaign on campus next fall 
to emphasize to alumni the student sup- 
port of the future of Brown. □ 



ROTC: To be or not to be? 

The future of ROTC on the Brown cam- 
pus, a question beaten, battered, and al- 
most talked to death during the last month, 
remained unsettled at this writing. And in 
spite of some frantic moments in the past 
few weeks, there were at least a few hints 
of optimism that Brown and other Ivy 
Universities may be able to find ways of 
continuing officer training and still meet 
the series of stringently-worded guidelines 
set down by the faculties of a number of 
schools. 

Officially, where the question rests at 
this moment is with the armed services 
and a group of Ivy League schools which 
are negotiating in the hope of re-structur- 
ing the programs to meet the objections 
of their faculties. Whether the program 
will be preserved at Brown after 1972. 
when the last of the current Brown stu- 
dents enrolled in the Navy and Air Force 
programs will graduate, is not clear. What 
the faculty at Brown did decide last month 
was that those already enrolled in ROTC 
would be permitted to continue according 
to the agreements made when the students 
joined the program. 

In a hectic month in which the faculty 
met three limes to discuss the ROTC 
question, these things occurred: 



• The faculty restated its position that 
the seven guidelines it set at its March 18 
meeting (BAM, March and April, 1969) 
were to be followed if ROTC is to con- 
tinue on the Brown campus. Generally, 
these guidelines are that ROTC is to carry 
no credit, ROTC units will not have de- 
partmental status, military officers will not 
have professorial rank, and ROTC pro- 
grams generally will be viewed as extra- 
curricular activities. 

• In clarifying its position of March 
18, the faculty passed a resolution that its 
intention is that no incoming students be 
taken into the program until the guidelines 
are met, which, in effect, means there 
will be no freshmen in the NROTC pro- 
gram here next year. 

• The faculty recognized the Univer- 
sity's responsibility to stand by the agree- 
ments made between Brown and the Navy 
and Air Force students who were enrolled 
in ROTC, if, indeed, the programs are to 
be phased out. 

• A three-hour sit-in of some 150 stu- 
dents caused a postponement of a meeting 
of the Advisory and Executive Committee 
of the Corporation. The purpose of the 
sit-in was to demonstrate student sentiment 
on the ROTC question. 

• There was developing on campus for 
the first time this year — although too late 
to dramatically alter the decision on ROTC 
at this time — some new student voices not 
yet heard on the matters of military train- 
ing and some of the other burning issues 
of the time. At least one group, which ar- 
rived with too little too late, called itself 
Students for a Responsible Action and de- 
clared it would become involved in broader 
issues on the campus. 




"We cannot conduct our business in a town meeting," Chancellor Charles C. Tillinghast, 
Jr. '32, told about 150 students who showed up at an Advisory and Executive Committee 
meeting last month. With the Chancellor are President Heffner and John Nicholas Brown. 
Three student representatives spoke on the ROTC issue at the session. 



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It is not difficult to understand how 
the types of issues that have faced Amer- 
ican campuses this year have gone from 
bad to worse, and then back to something 
remotely reasonable. Such was the case 
with the ROTC debate at Brown during 
the past four weeks. 

There was a significant barrage of words 
— through which some deep wounds were 
inflicted — a threat of physical confronta- 
tion that never materialized beyond the 
sit-in at the A & E meeting, and then some 
indication that ROTC just might be sal- 
vaged in some form palatable to all but 
a small minority bent on forcing the mil- 
itary off the campus completely. 

In a capsule, this is what happened. 

The faculty set its guidelines at its 
March 18 meeting. The faculty also con- 
sidered, and rejected, a resolution calling 
for the abolition of all ROTC programs at 
Brown. The vote in favor of keeping 
ROTC, but in a different form than now 
exists, was 1 15 to 55. 

Negotiations were being started to de- 
termine if there could be common ground 
between Brown and the armed forces to 
continue the program. In the meantime, 
with annual acceptances scheduled to go 
out April 18, the question arose: On what 
conditions would the incoming NROTC 
students be accepted? President Ray L. 
Heffner, aware that it would take time to 
renegotiate ROTC contracts and possibly 
to seek new legislation, had a decision to 
make. He told the Navy that Brown would 
accept incoming freshmen on the same 
basis as before, but that in view of the 
faculty guidelines on NROTC, he could 
not guarantee the future of the program. 

President Heffner said his decision 
rested on the realities of the time it would 
take to renegotiate and the practical con- 
sideration that some answer had to be 
given to the incoming freshmen in the 
NROTC program who had selected Brown. 
He said it was his understanding that the 
faculty guidelines recommended that he 
begin negotiations toward a new program. 

The faculty said that was not the case. 
And it should be pointed out that the 
"faculty" in this and most other cases this 
year, means about 200 of the approxi- 
mately 500 members who have voting 
privileges. The faculty met twice and clar- 
ified its position that it meant no further 
ROTC students should be enrolled until 
the guidelines were met. Also, the faculty 
passed a resolution, suggested by Pres- 
ident Heffner, that an Ad Hoc committee 
be set up to advise him in preparation for 
meetings with the Navy and Air Force. 
The committee was to include three fac- 
ulty members, two students, and Corpora- 
tion members John Nicholas Brown and 
Judge Alfred H. Joslin '35. 

Those decisions were made April 10. 
The next afternoon was the regular meet- 
ing of the A & E Committee. Encouraged 
by a coalition of the Cammarian Club — 
the student government — and the Brown 
Chapter of SDS, about 150 students were 
in the Corporation Room in University 
Hall when the A & E Committee arrived. 
It was no secret that the students would 
be on hand, and high administrative offi- 



cers met most of the morning to decide 
what position the University would take. 

President Heffner declined to convene 
the meeting. Students, through their repre- 
sentatives, said they were there because 
of their concern over ROTC and wanted 
to take part in the A & E discussion. Ap- 
parently by previous arrangement, three 
students — Cammarian Club President John 
D. Salinger '70, David Bearman '71, and 
David Kertzer '69 — outlined their posi- 
tions. Some discussion followed, partici- 
pated in by Chancellor Charles C. Tilling- 
hast, Jr. '32 and several Corporation 
members. Finally, said Mr. Tillinghast: 

"This committee has a lot of work to 
do. If Brown is to move forward and solve 
its many problems, one of the things it 
must have is able people — people willing 
to spend time with these problems." 

Mr. Tillinghast said it was stimulating 
to have that kind of exchange and that he 
felt more student involvement and a better 
exchange of viewpoints was needed. He 
added: "But if we are to do our work, we 
must meet in committee and not in a 
Town Meeting." Whereupon President 
Heffner asked the students to leave. They 
declined, stating that they wanted to par- 
ticipate in the ROTC discussion. They 
were asked again, with the same result. 
The A & E Committee then left the Cor- 
poration Room. No effort vvas made to 
bar their entrance or exit, and the stu- 
dents themselves, after another two hours 
of discussion, also left at about 5 p.m. 

The sit-in, or whatever it could be 
called, did not alter the course of the 
ROTC issue. The A & E Committee trans- 
acted business at a later meeting. It also 
became clear that the students themselves 
were split on the future of ROTC, and 
while no one has yet said it. the response 
of the A & E Committee appeared care- 
fully planned to provide no further rea- 
son for a coalition of students beyond the 
150 inside University Hall and some others 
outside whose opinions ranged on both 
sides of the question. It is, perhaps, a 
commentary on that decision to add that 
the upheaval at Harvard was taking place 
during those same few days. 

President Heffner met with his Ad Hoc 
Committee on Sunday, April 13, and met 
with representatives of the armed services 
on April 14. Both he and Prof. Seymour 
Lederberg, of the medical science depart- 
ment, reported to the faculty and to the 
press after their return from Washington. 
Said Prof. Lederberg: 

"Every effort had been made to make 
the ROTC program as academically strong 
as possible." Prof. Lederberg said he could 
not speak for the entire faculty, but for 
himself it was a matter of obtaining a re- 
lationship that placed ROTC in a supple- 
mental role. "The issue," he said, "is main- 
taining the autonomy of the University." 

President Heffner, who, from his early 
charge to an Ad Hoc Committee last fall, 
has maintained that ROTC should be re- 
tained at Brown but under different con- 
ditions than currently exist, also spoke to 
the press. He indicated that former Rhode 
Island Governor John H. Chafee, the new 
Secretary of the Navy, as well as Air Force 



representatives, were willing to discuss 
new structures for military training. Pres- 
ident Heffner said that it was not simply 
a matter of seeking revisions in the cur- 
rent program. Said he: 

"TTie fundamental question is whether 
there can be a rethinking of ROTC; 
whether there can be a first-rate liberal ed- 
ucation for military officers. What the fac- 
ulty has said is that it desires a program 
that is not built into the heart of the aca- 
demic program." 

President Heffner said both the Brown 
faculty and the armed services wanted to 
fulfill their obligations to those students 
already in the program and that beyond 
that point that there did, indeed, remain the 
possibility that a new and creative program 
could be designed to meet the require- 
ments of both the faculty and the military. 

On May 1, a group of individual stu- 
dents, most of them members of three 
moderate campus organizations, announced 
that they had surveyed 1,300 Brown and 
Pembroke undergraduates — about a third 
of the student body — on the ROTC ques- 
tion. Sixty-eight percent, they said, are in 
favor of allowing ROTC to remain on the 
campus, but 55 percent said they agreed 
with the faculty guidelines making ROTC 
an extracurricular program without credit. 
Seventeen percent favor a gradual phase- 
out, and 14 percent favor an immediate 
abolition of the program. 

An even more interesting statistic was 
the reaction the moderate students said 
they found with respect to SDS. Asked 
whether SDS, which has sought the aboli- 
tion of ROTC on many campuses, reflects 
their point of view on military training, 
83 percent of the students polled said it 
did not. More than half of the students 
said they strongly object to the occupation 
of buildings, but an equal number said 
they also strongly disapprove of using city 
police to restore order on the campus in 
the event of disruption of classes. 

It was clear to some observers, at least, 
that the University's stance on the day 
the students showed up for the A & E 
Committee meeting accurately anticipated 
those views: that students, generally, want 
ROTC to continue, but in a modified form; 
that the SDS power base remains small; 
and that the University would not enlarge 
it by an overreaction so long as the stu- 
dents did not physically confront the Cor- 
poration members and so long as they left 
the Corporation Room under their own 
power and within a reasonable period of 
time. 

With this, the ROTC situation was gone 
but not forgotten for the first time in sev- 
eral months. The coalition between the 
Cam Club and the small group of 25 or 
30 members of SDS came apart, and the 
Cammarian Club narrowly averted a move 
to take a student referendum on the sub- 
ject. The Maeder Report on curriculum 
reform (BAM, March, 1969) made its ap- 
pearance, and student interest turned else- 
where. The future of ROTC was in the 
hands of the negotiators, with the Brown 
faculty sometime this month scheduled to 
once again discuss the developments of 
those talks. □ 



MAY 1969 



Under The Elms 

Over Brown at 30,000 

Some men ease slowly into a new job, 
others make a shotgun start. Ronald A. 
Wolk could not have hit the campus with 
greater impact if he had jumped from 30,- 
000 feet on the flight from Baltimore to 
Providence. 

Wolk is the new vice-president whose 
job it will be to coordinate development, 
public relations, and alumni affairs. The 
job had been open since 1965 when John 
Elmendorf left Brown to become president 
of New College. 

Appointed in February, Wolk had to 
wind up his affairs with the National 
Commission on the Causes and Prevention 
of Violence, which he served as staff as- 
sistant to his former boss at Johns Hop- 
kins University, Dr. Milton Eisenhower. 
Wolk had made some visits to the campus 
in the intervening months, but he was sched- 
uled to arrive here permanently April 1. 

Wolk's first day in the office was April 
7. The next day the faculty met and sud- 




RONALD WOLK 
Knowing Brown in a very short time 



denly the ROTC situation was again in 
an explosive state. Typical of so many 
of the problems that have hit the cam- 
puses, the language surrounding the ROTC 
question was difficult. 

Thursday of that same week the faculty 
met again and redefined what it meant in 
the resolution it passed on March 18. The 
next day a capacity audience of students 
showed up for the meeting of the Brown 
Corporation's Advisory and E.xecutive 
Committee. Already in the thick of it, 
Wolk found himself by then involved with 
President Ray L. Heffner's administrative 
group, the influential A & E committee, 
and the students. 

After the A & E committee left the 
Corporation Room following the students' 
refusal to leave, it was Wolk who returned 
to talk with the group of students who re- 



mained. Explaining what the course of 
action would be for the University as Pres- 
ident Heffner planned to meet with repre- 
sentatives of the armed services the fol- 
lowing Monday, Wolk stepped into the 
breach only a few days after he arrived on 
the campus. It was clear, too, that Pres- 
ident Heffner had, with confidence, already 
put his new vice-president to work. 

With the situation eased a great deal by 
the developments later the following week, 
Wolk had begun to put together the pieces 
of his job by talks with administrative 
people in the various areas and — the in- 
evitable sign of a new man on the job — by 
holding staff meetings. 

Wolk is a former editor of the Johns 
Hopkins Magazine, and he became Dr. 
Eisenhower's special assistant in 1963. He 
was with the Carnegie Commission before 
rejoining Dr. Eisenhower on the violence 
commission. Said he at the end of his first 
full week on the job here: 

"I don't mind starting a job this way. 1 
learned to know a great many people and 
a lot about Brown in a very short time." □ 



1 ,350 applications accepted 

Brown has sent acceptances to 1,350 ap- 
plicants for admission next fall and ex- 
pects to enroll about 800 of these in the 
Class of 1973. The enrollment shows a 
planned growth from the 747 enrolled in 
the freshman class last year. 

The University selected its new class 
from among a record number of applica- 
tions. This year's 6,368 applicants is a 20 
percent increase over last year when 5,219 
applied. 

Admission Officer James H. Rogers said 
that 140 black students are among those 
accepted. These were chosen, he said, from 
among 450 black applicants. He added that 
another 250 black students who have not 
yet completed applications would be given 
a chance to do so. 

Rogers could not give an accurate esti- 
mate on how many black students would 
be enrolled, although Admission Office 
representatives indicated previously (BAM, 
March, 1969) that perhaps 95 to 100 may 
actually be enrolled. Some of this group 
will go into special transitional programs 
through which they would become more 
fully prepared by next fall. 

The 700 black applicants are a result of 
intensive recruiting eff'orts by the Admis- 
sion Office, alumni, and current Brown 
and Pembroke students. 

Pembroke College announced that 600 
of its 2,200 applicants have been sent ac- 
ceptances and Dean Alberta F. Brown 
said she expects 320 students to be en- 
rolled at Pembroke in the fall. A total of 
292 freshmen enrolled at Pembroke last 
year. Miss Brown added that 325 black 
students are among the applicants and that 
130 of these have been accepted with the 
expectation that about 45 black students 
would enroll. 

The trend at Brown and Pembroke was 
fairly typical of what was happening at 
the seven other Ivy League institutions and 
the "Seven Sisters." The Chronicle of 



Higher Education reported late last month 
that applications at all eight Ivy schools 
and the seven women's colleges were higher 
than last year, and all of them have ac- 
cepted more Negro applicants than ever 
before. Brown had shown the largest in- 
crease in overall applications, and The 
Chronicle said that Brown's recruiting ef- 
forts had attracted the largest number of 
black applicants. 

Among some of the other Ivy League 
schools. The Chronicle said Dartmouth ac- 
cepted 130 Negro applicants, Yale offered 
places to 115 Negro men and 35 Negro 
women. Columbia offered places to 145 
Negroes and Puerto Ricans. In all, the 
Seven Sisters offered 413 places to black 
students, compared to 194 last year. 

Tlie Chronicle's tabulation of applications 
and projected acceptances within the Ivy 
League compares favorably to that which 
appeared in the Monthly in March. □ 



Nichols heads Afro studies 

Dr. Charles H. Nichols, who said not 
long ago that he thought some "fashion- 
able" black courses will disappear from 
American college curricula but many 
others deserve to remain, has been named 
chairman of a new interdepartmental con- 
centration in Afro-American Studies at 
Brown. 

The Afro-American Studies program 
(BAM, April, 1969) will be open to un- 
dergraduates next fall and will consist in- 
itially of at least 10 semester courses in 
Afro-American and African culture and 
history, as well as related courses in the 
social sciences and the humanities. The 
new major will lead to an A.B. degree. 

Dr. Nichols was formerly professor of 
North American Language and Literature 
at the Free University of Berlin and had 
spent the first semester at Brown this year 
as a visiting professor teaching a new 
course in American Negro literature. Dur- 
ing that time he served on the Afro-Amer- 
ican Studies Committee, headed by Prof. 
Charles H. Philbrick '44, which set up the 
new concentration. Professor Nichols was 
a visiting professor at Grinnell College 
and has returned to Berlin in preparation 
for rejoining the Brown faculty, probably 
in July. 

In reflecting on his course in American 
Negro literature (BAM, Jan. 1969) Prof. 
Nichols said at the time that he had some 
concern for the fate of some new black 
courses that have become fashionable in 
college curricula. Said he: 

"Ideally, I think black literature must 
be seen as part of the total American 
scene. . . . But I know this is a transi- 
tional period. . . . There is this whole 
business of African background, anthropo- 
logically and historically speaking, that 
has been overlooked in western culture. 
This can't be considered faddish and I am 
certain it will be retained in the college 
curricula of the future." 

In his role as chairman. Prof. Nichols 
will now administer the new program with 
the aid of a faculty committee. He will 
also appoint a planning committee of stu- 



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dents and faculty to help in the future de- 
velopment of the program, which, initially, 
has been constructed around courses al- 
ready being offered. At a press conference 
at which his appointment was announced. 
Prof. Nichols, himself a black man, made 
it clear that the structure of the program 
was, by no means, final. 

"The thing that concerns me most," he 
said, "is that we must make this new pro- 
gram intellectually firm and solid. I am re- 
minded of the beginnings of American 
studies programs which sometimes become 
refuges for students who can't succeed 
elsewhere. It will be a pity if the Afro- 
American Studies program becomes this. 
We are determined to set this up with 
scholarly apparatus, research in materials, 
and to structure the courses on the hu- 
manities and the social sciences." 

Prof. Nichols, asked whether the institu- 
tion of Afro-American studies have not 
tended to further isolate the races, said he 
believes black studies might function to 
bring people closer. 

"What has isolated the races has been 
the bitter struggle of blacks to reach the 
conscience of America. Through Afro 
studies, ideas can be exchanged frankly. 
If they are properly conducted, they can 
widen understanding. I expect a good re- 
sponse from white students as well as 
blacks, and I think we need to study each 
other." 

Prof. Nichols continued to emphasize 
that the new concentration will move for- 
ward and should not be viewed as a group 
of courses already established and thus 
frozen into the curriculum. He said that 
placing black students in a university was 
not enough. "We need knowledge," he 
said, adding that perhaps there has Ijeen 
some exaggeration in the Negro's struggle 
to grasp for an African past. "This is bet- 
ter than the loss of identity, and we have 
come to realize that there is a vast history 
that needs to be recognized." 

Prof. Nichols is a graduate of Brooklyn 
College and has a doctorate from Brown. 
He had been director of the Department of 
Literature at the John F. Kennedy Insti- 
tute for American Studies at the Free Uni- 
versity of Berlin. □ 

Outside looking in 

It was a great week for the Democrats 
The only thing is the scheduling would 
have been better had the November elec- 
tion turned out differently. 

For there, within seven days of each 
other last month, were Senators Edmund 
Muskie and George McGovern, and former 
Attorney General Ramsay Clark. All had 
lost out in the last election, and all had 
something they wanted to say anyway. 
Senator McGovern became ill and could 
not appear here, but the others went on 
without him. 

Of the two remaining speakers. Senator 
Muskie retained most of the glamour he 
had built up in his unsuccessful bid for 
the Vice-Presidency. In a talk to a large 
number of students at Meehan Audito- 
rium, Senator Muskie talked about some 
of the things Ramsay Clark would say 




SENATOR MUSKIE RAMSAY CLARK 

Agreed on the need to readjust the Nation's priorities 



later that same week. But somehow Mus- 
kie said them better. 

Muskie's salient points were that at the 
end of the Vietnam war, defense spending 
will not decrease automatically, the na- 
tional priorities will nol be adjusted auto- 
matically, and domestic needs will not be 
met automatically. He said the decisions 
on what kind of a society America wants 
and needs cannot await the end of the 
Vietnam war. 

"They are being made now. And if they 
are going to reflect any commitment to 
peace, to a sane defense policy, and to a 
just life for all Americans, they must be 
made on the basis of new thinking and 
new priorities." 

Muskie said that Congress is beginning 
to question the basis of the U.S. military 
posture as well as foreign priorities. The 
options are unlimited, he said, and they 
suggest, among others, that trying "to 
communicate with China will be more 
fruitful than isolating her, that arms con- 
trol is a more direct route to peace than 
arms development, and that hunger and 
poverty are more dangerous than commu- 
nism." 

There is every chance that the public 
will relax with the end of the Vietnam 
war, "believing that Gulliver's travels are 
over." Said he to the audience of students: 

"I plead with you who have been so 
concerned about a war to be equally con- 
cerned with the issues of peace." 

Clark had the good fortune to speak at 
Brown on the day some 150 students in- 
terfered with a meeting of the A & E meet- 
ing of the Brown Corporation. When, a 
reporter asked, did the ex-Attorney Gen- 
eral think the police should be called? Re- 
plied Clark: 

"Only when there is very, very substan- 
tial interference with the operations of a 
university." 

Clark talked about the generation gap 
and said it was a different division of gen- 
erations from the old days when it was 
maturity vs. immaturity. "Today," he said. 



"the young people live in the truth of the 
moment while the older people cling to 
the truth of 10, 20, 30 years ago." 

Clark, too, turned to national priorities 
and spoke about what he called "mal- 
apportioned" affluence and justice. □ 

3 get Guggenheims 

Three Brown professors — Edward A. 
Bloom, Manuel Cardona, and Robert M. 
Marsh — have been awarded Guggenheim 
Fellowships for 1969. 

TTie Brown professors are among 270 
scholars, scientists, and artists chosen by 
the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial 
Foundation from 2,000 applicants. The 
grants totaled $2,214,500 and are in- 
tended to assist Guggenheim Fellows in 
special projects in their particular fields of 
study. 

Dr. Bloom is a professor of English and 
a specialist in 18th century literature and 
literary criticism. He will use his fellow- 
ship for a treatise of neoclassical satire. 
He has been a member of the Brown fac- 
ulty since 1947, co-author of the text The 
Order of Poetry, and a regular contrib- 
utor of book reviews to such publications 
as The Saturday Review. 

Dr. Cardona is professor of physics and 
plans experimental studies in solid state 
physics. He is a native of Spain who joined 
the Brown faculty in 1964 after five years 
as a research specialist for RCA labora- 
tories in Zurich and Princeton. N. J. 

Dr. Marsh is a professor of sociology. 
His principal field of scholarship is com- 
parative sociology of Asian societies, and 
he will use the Guggenheim Fellowship 
for a comparative study on social organ- 
izations in Japanese manufacturing firms. 
He formerly taught at Michigan, Cornell, 
and Duke before joining the Brown fac- 
ulty in 1967. Dr. Marsh is the author of 
two books: The Mandarins: The Circula- 
tion of Elites in China. 1700-1900 and 
Comparative Sociology: A Codification of 
Cross-Societal Analysis. □ 



MAY 1969 



photographs by Lee Romero 



Jim Adams: 
The Brown Years 



Over the 23 years thai James P. Adams served Brown as 
a teacher, department chairman, comptroller, and acting 
president, he became known to thousands of Brown men, 
many faculty, and equal numbers of the Providence 
community. A few months af>o, through the foresight of 
Mary Louise Record P'37, of the University's public rela- 
tions staff, Jim Adams sat down and talked about his Brown 
years in a tape-recorded interview that totaled six hours 
over a period of several days. 

This article contains edited portions of that interview. 
Jim Adams never finished what he and Mrs. Record had 
begun; he was stricken suddenly two days after the final 
portion of this interview was made and died a day later 
on Feb. 26. His death was reported in the April Monthly. 

Jim Adams was a man of deep personal convictions, a 
fighter in the cause of civil rights, a classic humanist, and 
one who deeply loved Brown. For these reasons, and 
because what he says remains important today, this segment 
of Brown history is offered by the Monthly. 



I first saw the Brown campus and met President 
Faunce in April, 1921. Professor Henry B. 
Gardner, the chairman of the Department of 
Economics, was in need of a young man to come 
and teach general economics. He wrote to Michigan 
State College because the Department of Economics at 
Michigan, under Fred Manville Taylor, had quite a 
reputation in the country for turning out teachers in that 
field. Prof. Taylor was a great teacher and he prepared 
a great many men who later became professors of 
economics in various institutions in this country. 

I had no New England ties. I had never been in New 
England. In fact, I had never been in New York 
or any place on the eastern seaboard. 

During the meeting with Dr. Faunce, he asked me 
questions about my experience and my interests. I 
remember one question he asked me about the size of 
our classes. I told him we had 13 instructors who taught 

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'I'm one of those people who believes deeply in the heritage of the past. I want to build on 

the past. It's not to be lived in, it's to be built upon.' 




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in our elementary economics classes and that we taught 
under Prof. Taylor. Prof. Taylor always picked out one 
instructor to be his right hand man in connection with 
administering and helping write the tests. I was serving 
in that capacity at that time. 

And Dr. Faunce said: "Well, do you all teach the 
same?" I answered, "Yes, it's a rather regimented 
program. We teach the same textbook, we follow the 
same schedule of assignments, we give one examination 
for the whole group. We never look over our own 
examination papers. I guess we'd have to say we teach 
Freddy Taylor's economics. We can make use of our 
own explorations, our own divergencies to some extent, 
but by and large we follow his lead, and I guess the 
attitude is that we have been successful and we might as 
well pursue it." He seemed satisfied at that, or at least 
he didn't put thumbs down on me. 

I got the letter inviting me to come to Brown. It 
indicated to me what I later came to learn of Dr. Faunce; 
that he was a very austere person, a man who had a 
magnificent command of the English language. I 
admired that so much that I am sure it must have had 
some influence upon my own use of English. He said 
in his letter: "We are inviting you to come and join us in 
this ancient University at the head of Narragansett Bay. 
We believe you can bring to us something of the spirit 
of the Middle West in its best sense." 

He said "in its best sense." I'm sure he would not 
have felt altogether free to suggest that I bring something 
of the spirit of the middle west in general. He 
wanted only the "best sense." 

There are some things I would like to say about my 
first impressions of Brown. I can cover it most succinctly 
and cogently, or most forcefully, if I say to you what I 
told my wife after I'd been here two weeks. I said: 
"Here is the place I want to hang my hat for the rest 
of my life." This was in 1921. 

I was tremendously impressed. Of course I was a 
young, inexperienced instructor out of the middle west, 
with relatively little sophistication in terms of urban 
communities. While I had come from a large institution, 
it was nevertheless in a setting of a small city. Moreover, 
it was the middle west. It was new, it was young. It had 
none of the charm — and still doesn't in my opinion — the 
charm, the age which is so meaningful in New England, 
and in Providence and Rhode Island. 

I remember very well that when I looked at old 
Mason Hall on the campus of the University of Michigan 
and saw a bronze plaque that read that it was built in 
1842, 1 said to myself "Oh, what a long time ago. How 
old this building is." That was in 1915 when I was a 
freshman and the building was only 73 years old then. 

And when I came to Brown and looked at University 
Hall, which had been built in 1770, 1 thought to myself: 
"This is age." And yet it seemed to be in good form and 
in just as good a condition as the one at Michigan. 

I was tremendously impressed by age, by heritage, by 
the history of Brown, and by the traditions that I saw 
here and there. One of the most important was, of course, 
the Commencement exercise at the end of my first year. 
I remember with what awe, appreciation and pride — 
because I now belonged to the place — I felt when I 
participated in that first Commencement procession. 



Some day the dictates of time and change may crowd 
in upon some of the historic aspects of our — you will 
notice I still say "our" — Commencement season, and 
make it necessary for us to abandon some parts of it, 
perhaps even including the march down the hill. 'Variances 
that have been made I think were happily chosen. They 
maintain the tradition; there's been some change. 

I can easily see that as we move along there are going 
to be fewer and fewer people in the faculty who have the 
nostalgic devotion to some of those elements of procedure. 
1 hope Commencement doesn't go by the board until 
after I've passed out of the picture because I think 
it's a wonderful experience. It ties us to the past. 

You know, one of the things that I've always admired 
about the British people is that through form they've 
retained their long relationships to the long past. But 
through the substance of their life, they keep up to date 
with modern things. 

There's something that ties together the past and the 
present. An institution like Brown can't be described in 
terms of its structures, its physical settings, its buildings 
and grounds and other possessions. It can't be described 
in terms of its resources; its financial resources, its wealth. 
It can't be described in terms really of the people 
who are associated with it. 

It's got to be described in terms of all these things, 
but particularly with reference to people — and that 
means with reference to those who at the very beginning 
envisaged the need for such an institution, gave to it its 
being, watched it through the years, served it. And to the 
long lines of young men and women who have gone 
through its doors, to those who have looked back upon 
it as their academic home, in terms of all these people 
who have shared its life to their benefactions, shared its 
life through their labors, shared its life through their 
youthful enjoyments — it's all part and parcel of that. 

That's what makes an institution like Brown so 
significant in this kind of a society, even in the times in 
which we live, because Brown is one of the things 
that retains for us heritages from the past. 

I'm one of those people who believes deeply in the 
heritages of the past. That doesn't mean I want everything 
in the present and future to be what it has been in the 
past. Heaven help us. I want to build on the past. 
It's not to be lived in, it's to be built upon. 

I'm sure sometimes the University lags. I'm sure it is 
ultra conservative at times. Change doesn't come rapidly, 
and perhaps in this kind of an enterprise it shouldn't. 
It builds upon the past, and when I think about it, the 
major chapter of my life is my life at Brown. One of the 
things I cherish most is the fact that I was, for a time, in 
a long line of people reaching back 1 50 or more years 
who have made imprints upon this institution — some of 
them large, some of them small, but, cumulatively, 
they have amounted to a great deal. 

That's what has given Brown life and meaning. 

Because of my impressions at first and the fact 
that I was rather awed by University Hall — 
there isn't a building that old at Michigan 
except maybe an old tepee up north — I 
immediately got hold of Bronson's History of Brown, and 



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read the whole thing. I began to read as much as I could 
and became interested in the history of Brown and 
its early days and in its Charter. 

Those great sentences in the Brown Charter I suppose 
I have quoted at least a hundred times. ". . . Into this 
Liberal and catholic institution shall never be admitted 
any Religious Tests, but ... all the Members hereof 
shall for ever enjoy full free Absolute and uninterrupted 
Liberty of Conscience. . . ." 

What a magnificent sentence that is for the 18th 
century. It opened a whole new vista of thought with 
enterprises of this kind, because the other institutions 
which pre-dated Brown — there were only six — for the 
most part were identified with specific religious institutions 
or at least denominations. Brown was generated by the 
Baptist impulse which encouraged that kind of provision 
for no religious tests for all students. 

Brown shared corporate control of this institution with 
all other denominations that were then important in 
the community. Keep in mind there were relatively few 
Jews and Catholics in Rhode Island at that time, and 
so corporate control was shared between the Baptists, 
Episcopalians, Congregationaiists, and the Quakers. 

This was a meaningful thing, and it reminds you of the 
great sentence from the original Charter of the Colony of 
Rhode Island, emblazoned on the entablature of the 
State House with respect to freedom of worship: 

"To hold forth a lively experiment, that a most 
flourishing civil state come into existence and be sustained 
with full liberty and religious concernments." 

Dr. Faunce was a broad-gauged person, a man 
whose ideas reached out without limiting 
barriers. He was a man who understood 
international relationships, not in the sense of 
political science but in the sense of human understanding. 

And that was true with respect to Dr. Faunce's relations 
between groups of people in the community and in the 
nation. The confrontations which we are now accustomed 
to and have been for some years, the realizations of the 
way in which we have treated some of our minority 
groups, were unfortunately not as lively a matter of 
interest and concern in those days as they have been 
in these recent days. 

I am sure Dr. Faunce was criticized by religious 
fundamentalists. Probably one of his most significant 
contributions to the life of Brown and the community 
in which it resides was the impact he made upon the 
citizens of that community. He wove a fabric of under- 
standing, appreciation, and respect between the people 
of Providence and the University on top of the Hill. 
He was deeply ingrained in the soil of New England and, 
though he was a man of broad view in a cosmopolitan 
sort of way, he did not fully appreciate and comprehend 
other parts of the country. 

I remember that he would travel around the country 
to visit Brown Clubs. He visited Washington and Cali- 
fornia and he disclosed his immediate bias by saying to 
the faculty: "California has beautiful flowers; no fra- 
grance. Washington has beautiful apples; no taste." 

Dr. Faunce was a master of writing honorary degree 
citations and he had a style of his own. Sometimes they 



were a single sentence only. They were superbly expressed 
evaluations; there was very little of the "who's who" data 
in them. The language was chosen with great care, and 
yet I am sure he did not have to search his mind for it. 
When he gave an honorary degree to Sam Walter Foss, 
the librarian and scholar, he said: "Librarian and man 
of letters, singer of kindly songs in many keys, spreading 
by the poet's art the elemental virtues of courage, 
sympathy and faith." 

With great dignity, he was a man who could unbend 
mildly with a bit of humor. I remember so well something 
that happened in my first year at Brown. I have sometimes 
been known as the person with the loudest voice on the 
Brown campus. Dr. Faunce had a habit of inviting 
young members of the faculty to the oflice to talk about 
their work. He manifested interest in my work, in the 
quality of my students, and then toward what I thought 
was to be the end of the conference, I noticed he became 
a bit fidgety. Finally, he cleared his throat and said: 
"Professor Adams, you lecture quite forcefully, do you 
not?" I answered, "Yes, I guess I do. Dr. Faunce." He 
said: "I sometimes wonder how you emphasize." 

I smiled; Dr. Faunce meant it quite seriously. He never 
mentioned it to me again, but Sam Arnold (later Dean 
and Provost Arnold) said to me one time that he learned 
all the economics he knew while walking past one of 
my classrooms. 

Someone said to me the other day that Dr. Faunce was 
the last President of Brown who could be affectionately 
described as "Prexy." He could easily be thought of in 
that way because he was a man who had fine relationships 
with members of the faculty but was a person of dignity. 
He always wore a morning coat in his office. His diction 
was superb. He could evoke a classical illusion on almost 
any occasion. 1 was tremendously impressed by his public 
address, and all who heard him shared this view. I have 
seen him go into an assembly that was perhaps boisterous 
or a bit rowdy for the niceties of behavior at the moment. 
And I have seen him, without a gesture or an exclamation, 
bring the whole assembly to a quiet hush when he rose 
to speak. 

I can sum up, perhaps, Dr. Faunce's characteristics by 
citing, in part, a salute to him by Dr. Walter Cochran 
Bronson: 

". . . Eloquent voice of Brown University, by tongue 
and pen interpreting the old college to the new age, the 
new age to the old college, and drawing town and gown 
together in the bonds of mutual helpfulness. ... A 
scholar full of confidence in American men of business, 
who in turn willingly leave their ledgers to learn of him 
the wisdom of the ideal. A clergyman without narrowness, 
and a theologian without gall, who holds the fundamentals 
of religion in a spirit of sweet reasonableness and melts 
not in an acid sect the Christian pearl of charity. A 
patriot, so patriotic that he is not afraid to criticize his 
country, and a far-seeing champion of world justice and 
peace by the cooperation of all nations. 

"A sound and wholesome nature, who long later in the 
disillusionment of years, public detraction, and private 
grief have not enfeebled or hardened or soured, but 
mellowed and enriched, laying only broader and deeper 
the foundations of a temperamental and rational optimism. 



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Those great sentences in the Charter I have quoted a hundred times '. . . all the members 
hereof shall forever enjoy full free Absolute and uninterrupted Liberty of Conscience.' 




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'Brown had a great need for leadership at that juncture . . . but we did succeed, with the 
aid of some responsible leaders within the faculty, to make some real progress.' 



A serene faith in the goodness of God, and the high 
possibilities of the human race." 

That was a characterization to which I can subscribe 
with fullness. It described Dr. Faunce. and I cherish 
my memory of my associations with him, and what 
he did for Brown. 



Dr. Faunce retired in 1929. During the last four 
or five years he had been under restraint 
because of illness. He had been considerably 
less active both within and outside the 
University. As the time for his retirement approached, 
the Corporation made arrangements to select his successor, 
and it was a time when no one then on the Corporation 
had participated in such an experience because it was 
approaching 30 years since Dr. Faunce had been selected. 

Tliat process moved on from that point until it was 
announced that Dr. Clarence A. Barbour, then president 
of Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, would be President. 
Dr. Barbour's incumbency was relatively brief. He was 
not a young man even when he came. If he had retired at 
what might have been regarded as a normal period, he 
would have had only seven or eight years in the presi- 
dency. Only a few years after he arrived he sought a leave 
of absence to become part of a special panel which 
engaged in a comprehensive survey of Christian 
missions around the world. 

Brown had a great need for leadership at that juncture, 
having passed through a period of four or five years in 
which Dr. Faunce had been ill. Dr. Albert Davis Mead 
was made acting president and he, with such assistance as 
I could give him, carried on during that year. 

It must have been evident that we were not in a position 
to engage in important innovations, but then and in the 
later years of Dr. Barbour's administration we did succeed, 
with the aid of some responsible leaders within the 
faculty, in making some real progress. The faculty was 
strengthened by some important appointments, the edu- 
cational process was strengthened, new departments 
were created. 



Dr. Barbour's relationship to the functions of the 
University were rather limited, but he was a fine gentle- 
man and a good preacher. He traveled widely, speaking 
to alumni groups and as a representative of Brown. He 
made good friends with alumni; he was always welcome 
at their meetings. I believe it was unfortunate that the 
Corporation did not allow Dr. Faunce to retire when I 
believe he must have asked to do so and that it did not 
reach out and bring to Brown a reasonably young, aggres- 
sive, imaginative dynamic person who could come in and 
move the University forward. 

It should be kept in mind that the period of Dr. 
Barbour's incumbency was one of serious financial strain. 
The country had suffered the collapse of the stock market 
and was soon to enter into the beginnings of the long 
economic depression. Despite the difficulties we faced. 
Brown made some very real strides. But despite the efforts 
of those who labored long and earnestly, Brown had not 
yet begun the process of real strengthening and enlarging 
its vision within the educational economy of this country. 

During those years it became necessary for us to curtail 
expenditures in every possible way and to seek to augment 
our income. It was due to the confidence that the faculty 
had in Dr. Mead, the senior vice president, that I was 
able to do the things I had to do in bringing the budget 
into balance. 

Perhaps one of the most poignant moments in all of 
my experience relates to our efforts to find increased 
income and to achieve diminished expenses. We finally 
came to the conclusion, after the Depression had been 
with us for a few years, that among other things we had 
to do would be a reduction in salaries. Dr. Mead and I 
finally came to the conclusion that it was absolutely 
necessary to cut faculty and administrative salaries 
10 percent. 

This was a conclusion we desperately tried to avoid. 
We had done everything we could envision. We called 
in the department chairmen and shared our expectations 
and intentions with them. We told them we wanted them 
to share with us a knowledge of all the efforts we had 
made to make ends meet. 



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'Leadership was essential; it was with Dr. 
Wrist on that transformation began.' 



The next day we had the meeting, and Dr. Mead 
thought it wise for me to review in some detail the efforts 
which we had made. After spending 20 minutes in that 
review, Dr. Mead took over and announced to the facuhy 
that it was with deep regret that it would be necessary 
to reduce salaries by 10 percent. The entire faculty rose 
to its feet and applauded for a full minute in an expression 
of appreciation for what we had tried to do and perhaps 
in sympathy for the decision they realized had been 
forced upon us. 

I shall always look back on that moment as one of 
the high points in my experience at Brown. 



I 



am never one to credit all that an institution 
achieves to the person or persons who happen to 
be, for the moment, in positions of primary admin- 
istrative responsibility. But leadership was essential, 
and it was really not until Dr. Henry Merritt Wriston 
came to Brown that transformation began. 

Dr. Barbour was 62 years of age when he was elected 
president in 1929, and his term of service would have 
normally come to an end with the close of the 1936-37 
academic year. Illness intervened, Dr. Mead retired as 
vice president, and in the summer of 1936 I was appointed 
acting president. Dr. Barbour never returned to office and 
the Corporation had already initiated a search for his 
successor. 

There was some talk in quarters of the faculty that I, 
the vice president, would be among those given consider- 
ation. I did not share that view. In fact, I asked a promi- 
nent alumnus who was planning to organize a campaign 
of support of me to desist. 

My attitude was not an expression of overweaned 
modesty nor was it a manifest shrinking from undertaking 
further responsibility. It was sensibly grounded in my 
realization of what the University needed by way of 
leadership at this time in its history — leadership that 
would be likely to succeed in developing the increased 
stature and strength to which Brown should aspire. 

I was convinced that after a dozen years in which the 
Corporation marked time in reshaping its expectations 



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'Dr. Wriston was volatile at times, but never sluggish. He was an historian, but he had little 

regard for historical roots unless they nourished the growth he planned.' 



and extending the range and reach of its visions that it 
must have more than it could have gotten from anyone 
there at the time, even Dr. Mead, had he been younger. 
Some new relationships had to be cultivated by bringing 
in a new leader, a man whose venturesome faith and vigor 
could not be dulled by undue caution and by insistence 
upon duly measured tread. 

A new face, a new voice, a new stance, a new style was 
needed. Even then, in 1936, there was a reasonable 
prospect that we would be emerging from the Depression 
and would find an open road ahead for the development 
of the University. 

Brown not only needed new leadership, but what was 
equally important, the Corporation members needed to 
feel in their bones that they had gotten it, and that it 
must be supported and sustained by an investment in 
confidence and commitment of support for any new 
ventures that might loom ahead. 

I was advised that the Corporation committee had 
a rather favorable eye focused upon Dr. Wriston. Then, 
in September of 1936, I was invited to meet him at a 
luncheon. I also took him on a brief tour of the buildings. 
Later, I was advised that the committee proposed to 
recommend Dr. Wriston to the Corporation at its 
October meeting. 

I had not seen much of Dr. Wriston in the brief tour 
that September afternoon, but what I had seen left me 
with a very favorable impression that he had the qualities 
that Brown needed and also the qualities which would 
command respect and support of the Corporation. I also 
caught a glimpse of some of the sandpaper in his make-up 
which would, at times, inflict irritation, if not wounds, 
on the skins of some people at the University. 

The month immediately preceding the arrival of Dr. 
Wriston and his installation was clouded by the fact that 
Dr. Barbour died on Jan. 26, 1937. But as we knew he 
would have wanted us to proceed, we made plans for the 
installation of Dr. Wriston. At his request we did not plan 
an elaborate inauguration. It was a rather modest 
installation in Sayles Hall. 

Dr. Wriston began his active service in February, 1937 



and retired from the Presidency June 30, 1955. Those 
years which intervened were truly eventful years with 
respect to every element associated with the University's 
life and work. It would be inappropriate for me to attempt 
a comprehensive and detailed evaluation of Dr. Wriston's 
service to Brown and to attempt to measure the progress 
made during his administration, the range and reach of 
his leadership, and the changes which were wrought. This 
can be more appropriately left to others because we are 
still too close to the scene. I can only sketch a picture 
with broad strokes of the brush. 

He left the University immeasurably stronger and 
more widely appreciated within the educational economy 
of the country, and better prepared to discharge its 
enlarging responsibilities. I'm not one to write the history 
of academic institutions and their achievement in terms 
of presidential administrations because I realize how 
fully these achievements also depend upon the vitality and 
vision and dedication of faculty, students, and alumni. 

But no one can question the verdict that Dr. Wriston 
brought to the University what it so badly needed at a 
crucial moment in its history. And he left it stronger. 
Probably no one knows better than I what this involved 
in the early years of his administration. 

In immediate juxtaposition to him administratively, I 
could observe firsthand and often the workings of his 
mind and the works of his hands. He was not at all times 
an easy man with whom to work. He was volatile at 
times, but he was never sluggish. He was an historian 
by scholarly profession, but he had little regard for 
historical roots unless they would nourish the growth 
he planned and projected. 

He could manifest sympathetic concern over the 
plight of an individual. He could also be ruthless in the 
presence of recalcitrant opposition. He was impatient 
with deliberative proceedings, but he was not precipitous 
in the making of decisions. He was less than tolerant with 
anything short of perfection as he measured it, whether 
it was in a building code, in a curriculum requirement, 
in the language of a report, or the texture of an argument. 

His mien and manner were such as to command 



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'Time and places and circumstances were different. I find it difficult to imagine Dr. Wriston 
in the settings in which Manning presided. Or Wayland, or Andrews, or Faunce.' 




respect but seldom to inspire warmhearted friendship. 
He was a complex personage, but he had a brilliant mind, 
a steady nerve, a provocative manner, and an unwaver- 
ing determination. He was not at home in companionships 
of equals, but was happier when he was presiding. 

When I left Brown in December 1944 to go to the 
University of Michigan as provost, he wrote me to say, 
"If you are going for negative reasons related to Brown, 
I shall be very sorry. But if you arc going for position 
reasons related to the University of Michigan, I shall 
respect your decision and wish you well." 

Three days before I left my office in University Hall 
for the last time, 1 saw Dr. Wriston in his office. He said 
to me, "You will be leaving within a few days. 1 think 
perhaps I had better say goodbye to you here and now 
because I don't do that very well and I would rather 
do it now than to do it just as you leave." 

One who has enjoyed, as I have, reaching into the long 
history of Brown University, might find himself speculat- 
ing on the relative quality of the men who have sat offi- 
cially in the Manning Chair. I find it far from easy to 
make comparisons between Dr. Wriston and those who 
preceded him. Time and places and circumstances were 
different. I find it dlHicult to imagine Dr. Wriston in the 
settings in which Manning presided. Or Wayland, or 
Andrews, or Faunce. I don't know how in such settings 
he, or the University, would have fared. 

But for reasons which I am not sure 1 could give 
expression. I find it difficult to believe that any one of 
his predecessors could have achieved more, or even as 
much, as Dr. Wriston in the time and circumstances 
in which he served. 



If I may for a moment immodestly indulge in a few 
commentaries, I think that perhaps they are not 
out of place in this record. I don't believe that it's 
necessary for me to apologize to posterity for this 
expression of my deep and abiding devotion to Brown 



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and its interests, past, present and future. And I hope 
that any who may read this record in the future will 
forgive me for picturing at this moment several scenes 
which loom large in my memory when the University, 
or those immediately associated with it, expressed to me 
their appreciation of services which I had Seen permitted 
to render to it. 

One of these occasions came at the time when I reported 
as acting president to the faculty at a special faculty 
meeting that the Corporation had acted and was inviting 
Dr. Wriston to come as the successor to Dr. Barbour. 
At that time Prof. Theodore Collier, chairman of the 
Department of History, spoke fulsomely and, I am sure, 
over-generously concerning my services to the University 
during the years of my association with it, and particularly 
during the period immediately preceding that meeting 
during which I had served as acting president. The 
members of the faculty rose to their feet and applauded 
his very generous remarks concerning me and my service. 
It was done, I must admit, in a manner which moved 
me very deeply. 

The next occasion on which I was given an 
expression of appreciation was at the first Com- 
mencement after Dr. Wriston came to Brown 
University. As acting president before his ar- 
rival, I had made virtually all of the arrangements for that 
Commencement. It was in 1937, which was the 40th 
anniversary of the graduation of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., 
'97. I invited Mr. Rockefeller to come to the campus and 
to act as chief marshal of the Commencement procession, 
and by virtue of the action of the Board of Fellows, to 
accept the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. 

People who know something about Mr. Rockefeller's 
practice with respect to honorary degrees will remember 
that he had declined innumerable invitations to accept 
such degrees from institutions around the country. On 
an earlier occasion he had accepted an honorary master's 
degree from Brown University. We were very happy 
indeed to receive from him an acceptance of both of these 
invitations, the invitation to serve as chief marshal of the 
Commencement procession and the invitation to accept 
an honorary degree. 

I also extended another invitation related to this 
Commencement to Charles Evans Hughes '81, one of the 
most distinguished graduates of the University, and Chief 
Justice of the United States, to attend the Commencement 
and to give an address at the alumni meeting in the after- 
noon. This was especially appropriate in this year not 
only because it marked the first Commencement over 
which Dr. Wriston presided, but it also marked the 
Commencement of Mr. Justice Hughes' grandson, 
Charles Evans Hughes. You will remember, of course, 
that the Chief Justice's son, Charles Evan Hughes, Jr., 
was a graduate of Brown in the class of 1909 and was 
at that time a member of the Corporation. 

There was one other element in the Commencement 
program for which I can take no responsibility. Unknown 
to me until I was advised by Dr. Wriston himself, the 
Board of Fellows had voted to confer upon me the 
honorary degree of Doctor of Laws at Commencement in 
June, 1937. Of course, it is unnecessary for me to include 



in this record an expression of the deep appreciation with 
which I received this advice. But I shall never forget the 
Commencement exercises themselves, because I must 
always remember the spirit in which the persons as- 
sembled in the First Baptist Meeting House received 
the awarding of the honorary degree to me. 

I sat next to Mr. Rockefeller in the pew of the First 
Baptist Meeting House, among the other recipients of 
honorary degrees. Mr. Rockefeller's degree was conferred 
last and the degree was conferred upon me next to the 
last, just before Mr. Rockefeller went to the platform. 
When my name was called and I was ushered to the 
platform to receive the honorary degree, the entire 
assemblage — Corporation, faculty, students and invited 
guests — rose to their feet and accorded to me an expres- 
sion of their apparent pleasure that I was to be made in 
fact, as well as in spirit, a son of Brown. 

It has always remained for me a happy memory that 
my mother and father were present on that occasion and 
witnessed the award of this degree and the tribute 
which accompanied it. 

I shall also always remember the gracious way in which 
Mr. Rockefeller received the fact that I was being awarded 
this degree. As I returned to my seat in the pew next to 
him, he put his hand over on my knee and looked at 
me and said, "You earned yours." When I realized how 
gracious was that statement from a man whose life had 
been to a considerable extent devoted to the service of 
mankind, I realized how warm-hearted a person was 
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 

Later I had the privilege of introducing my mother 
and father to Mr. Rockefeller. As a matter of fact, Mr. 
Rockefeller invited that introduction. He came over to 
the aisle where we were standing and said to me, "May 
I have the privilege of meeting your parents?" I introduced 
them and then he spoke feelingly for a few minutes about 
the relationship of parents and sons. He reminded us 
of his own close associations with his father and the way 
in which his father had influenced his life and the service 
which he was trying to rendei in the field in which he 
labored. 

I realize that I have permitted to be intruded into 
this historical record, shall I call it, some matters of 
personal concern and some expressions of appreciation to 
others about things which have happened to me, by virtue 
of their efforts and interests. I shall not apologize for 
this intrusion. But I will say that I feel a little bit like 
an old distingushed professor of mine years ago at 
Michigan. Shortly after I came to Brown Professor Fred 
Meanville Taylor was accorded upon his retirement 
from Michigan a tribute by his former students brought 
back from all parts of the country. On that occasion he 
was given many gifts and was accorded many expressions 
of appreciation. 

When he got up to respond to these expressions he 
started out by saying: "I am sure that all of you who 
have said all of these nice things know that you have been 
a-lyin'. But the old man likes it just the same." 

So I will say that I am quite sure many of these ex- 
pressions of appreciation which I have recorded here have 
been manifestations of friendship and of generosity. 
Nevertheless, and I can now say it with respect to myself, 
the old man likes it just the same. END 



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The weather was fair in 1919 when 94 Brown men 
and 49 Pembrokers marched down College Hill to 
the First Baptist Meeting House to receive their de- 
grees. The date was Wednesday, June 18, and the route 
of the graduates was well lined, for the Victory Com- 
mencement had brought an unusually large number of 
alumni back to the campus for Brown's 151st Com- 
mencement. 

President Faunce opened the ceremony with a thanks- 
giving prayer. The large assembly was then addressed by 
Class President Thomas F. Black and fellow students Fred 
Bartlett Perkins and Rudolph John Chauncey. Next came 
the conferring of degrees upon the graduating students, 
announcement of prizes, and the awarding of the honorary 
degrees. The 19 advanced degrees given included 12 mas- 
ter of arts, one master of science, and three doctors of 
philosophy. There were seven honorary degrees, including 
those to President Ernest M. Hopkins of Dartmouth, 
Enoch H. Crowdcr, the man who organized the selective 
service; and Roscoe Pound, dean of the Harvard Law 
School. 

On the campus, the college flagstaff floated the service 
flag showing that 1974 sons of Brown served their country. 
Of this number, 43 died. Graduation week started on 
Saturday, June 14, when Prof. Francis G. Allison spoke 
at Alumnae Day exercises at Pembroke. This theme was 
"Old Faiths and New Faiths," and he made what was de- 
scribed in the press as a "vigorous attack" on Bolshevism. 
William H. Edwards '19 and Charles E. Hughes, Jr., '09 
delivered "sincere and forceful" addresses of 10 minutes 
each on Sunday at a memorial service held at the First 
Baptist Meeting House for the 43 Brown men who gave 
their lives in the Great War. This took the place of the 
Baccalaureate service. 

The Alumni Association, at its annual meeting that 
week end, adopted for the first time a comprehensive con- 
stitution and a new set of by-laws "designed to weld the 
graduate body of the University into a closer cooperative 
organization for the promotion of the institution's wel- 
fare." Paul C. DcWolf '05 was re-elected president of the 
Associated Alumni. 

The Class of 1859 celebrated its 60th Reunion with a 
dinner at the Hope Club. "After the dinner they all pro- 
ceeded, arm in arm, to the campus and contributed their 
quota to the hilarity of the Victory Celebration." said the 
Alumni Monthly. "The attitude alluded to, we beg to 
assure our readers, was not assumed as a necessity to en- 
sure equilibrium, but was friendly in its purpose." 

Alumni back for the week end heard that the Brown 
war emergency fund was oversubscribed by $60,000. 
Asked to raise $150,000, the alumni pledged $210,000. 
It was announced that the memorial to be erected at 
Brown in honor of the students and alumni who gave their 
lives in the war would take the form of a gateway at the 
east entrance to the Campus on Thayer Street. The five- 
day celebration drew to a close with the "traditional and 
cheerful costumed nonsense" on the march to Aldrich 
Field, where a very satisfying 4-3 victory over Dartmouth 
gave Brown a 1 3-4 season. 

Now, 50 years later. Brown is about to celebrate her 
201st Commencement. The dates have changed, with 
graduation held two to three weeks earlier, and so have 
many other aspects of the reunion season. But the basics 



are still there, giving the Brown reunion a special flavor 
all its own. One point alumni should keep in mind when 
making their reunion plans is that the four-day week 
end begins on Friday, May 30, the start of the Memorial 
Day week end. 

One of the features of the Commencement period will 
be the Sock and Buskin presentation of "Period of Ad- 
justment," by Tennessee Williams. The dates are Thursday, 
May 29, through Sunday, June 1. In order to avoid con- 
flicts with other reunion events, curtain time for the Wil- 
liams drama will vary, as follows: Thursday (8:30 p.m.), 
Friday (9 p.m.), Saturday (2 p.m.), and Sunday (8:30 
p.m.). All performances are open to the public, with ad- 
mission $3.00. Ticket requests, with checks payable to 
Brown University, should be addressed to Sock and Bus- 
kin, Inc., Box 1897, Brown University, Providence, R. I. 
02912. 

One of the most traditional of the week end events is 
the Alumni Dinner, which has been known for years as 
The Reunion of Reunions. Within the last decade several 
changes in format have given this affair a modern look, 
while, at the same time, retaining the old values. Women 
are now included in the Alumni Dinner festivities, and an 
All-College Alumni Reunion is held prior to the dinner in 
Hughes Court, Wriston Quadrangle. 

Charles A. Andrews, Jr., '51, general chairman, has 
announced several other variations for this year's event 
on Friday, May 30. For all those purchasing Alumni Din- 
ner tickets in advance, the cocktails in Hughes Court be- 
tween 5:30 and 7:30 will be free of charge. Also, enter- 
tainment will be by the team of Drew and Corcoran dur- 
ing the compotation and dinner. 

Following tradition, the President of the University will 
be the only speaker on the after-dinner program. The 
presentation of Brown Bear Awards by the Associated 
Alumni and a progress report on the University Fund will 
round out the program. Toastmaster for the evening will 
be Alexander A. DiMartino '29, president of the Asso- 
ciated Alumni. 

The price of the dinner is up slightly this year to $5.25. 
Reservations may be made in advance by writing to Box 
1859, Brown University, Providence, R. I. 02912. Checks 
should be made payable to Brown Alumni Dinner. Roast 
beef is the principal entree, with seafood an option. As- 
sisting Chairman Andrews on the Alumni Dinner com- 
mittee are T. Robley Louttit '55, Bernard V. Buonanno, 
Jr., '60, and Alumni Secretary Paul F. Mackesey '32. 

The Campus Dance Friday evening will be held on the 
College Green, with Sayles Hall available in the event of 
inclement weather. Dancing will commence at 10 p.m. and 
continue until 2 a.m. Advance ticket sales (until 5 p.m. on 
Friday, May 30) are available at $5 per couple and $4 
stag. Admission at the gate is $6 per couple and $4 stag. 
Tickets may be secured by writing to Student Activities 
Office, Box 1896, Brown University, Providence, R. I. 
02912. Checks should be made payable to Class of 1969. 

At 9:15 Saturday morning there will be an open forum 
Z\ and panel discussion on "Student Activism '68-'69" 
■^ J^ or "What Are We After Now?" This event will be 
held in Carmichael Auditorium, Hunter Laboratory of 
Psychology on Waterman St. Students, faculty, adminis- 
tration, and the University chaplains will participate. 



MAY 1969 



21 



The annual meeting of the Rhode Island Alpha of Phi 
Beta Kappa, followed by the initiation of newly elected 
members, will be held in the Crystal Room of Alumnae 
Hall, Pembroke, at 1 1 o'clock Saturday morning. Lunch- 
eon will follow in the Chancellor's Dining Room, Sharpe 
Refectory, with novelist Charles E. Mercer '39 (Rachel 
Cade and others) the featured speaker. Reservations 
should be made by May 29 with Prof. Bruce E. Donovan, 
secretary of the chapter, at Box 1849, Brown University. 
The cost of the luncheon is $2.25. 

Saturday afternoon, there will be an informal reunion 
for the members of the 50-plus classes in Appleget Lounge 
of Hope College, starting at 2 p.m. Three attractions on 
the Saturday schedule — the Hour with the Faculty (11 
a.m.). Alumni Field Day (12:30 to 5 p.m.), and Com- 
mencement Pops Concert (9 to 11 p.m.) — are discussed 
in detail elsewhere on these pages and on pages 36-40. 

Sunday morning there will be a Roman Catholic Mass 
in Manning Chapel at 9:30, with the Rev. Howard V. 
O'Shea, O.F.M., Roman Catholic Chaplain, the celebrant. 
At 1 1 a.m. there will be a Morning Worship and Alumni 



An Old Timers baseball game pitting the odd-year 
classes against the evens and a rugby match be- 
tween Brown and the Boston Rugby Club will highlight 
the 12th annual Alumni Field Day. The event will be 
held at Aldrich-Dexter Field on Saturday, May 31, 
from 12:30 to 5 p.m. 

The format is basically the same. Children will enjoy 
pony rides, games, and trips around the field with Gabby 
the Clown. For adults, there are running races and 
other athletic contests. And, there will be prizes for all. 
The fun and games will be under the supervision of the 
Pawtucket YMCA, according to Chairman Charles A. 
Andrews, Jr., '51. 

Each of the five-year reunion classes will be assigned 
a tent, an ideal meeting place or a spot to relax a bit 
before starting rambles to various parts of the field. 
However, the Alumni Field Day is also attractive to the 
off-year alumni, particularly the ones with young chil- 
dren who live in the general area of the campus. The 
Charleston Old Timers will be on hand again to play 
old-fashioned tunes. Food and beverages will be avail- 
able. 

All former Brown baseball players are invited to par- 
ticipate in the Old Timers game, either as players or 
spectators. Dr. Walter V. F. Jusczyk '41 and Adolph N. 
Anderson '50 are handling the "odd" and "even" nines, 
respectively. The game, a five-inning affair, will get 
under way at 12:30. Associate Alumni Secretary David 
J. Zucconi '55 is handling arrangements for the game 
between the highly successful Brown Rugby Club and 
the team from Boston. This game is scheduled for 2:30 
and will be played adjacent to the tent area for the con- 
venience of the spectators. 

Sponsorship of the Alumni Field Day has been han- 
dled very successfully for the past 12 years by the As- 
sociation of Class Secretaries. When that group voted 
in February of 1968 to phase itself out of the operation, 
the Brown Club of Rhode Island made arrangements to 
assume control and keep the event in operation. 



Memorial, also in Manning Chapel. The Rev. Charles A. 
Baldwin, Chaplain of the University, will speak. 

The ROTC Commissioning Ceremony has been moved 
to Sunday this year and will be held in Sayles Hall 
at 1 p.m. For many years the granting of degrees and 
the commissioning ceremony took place as part of the 
general University graduation exercises. Last June the 
ceremony was shiJtted to Sayles Hall and held at the con- 
clusion of the Commencement festivities. Bob Hope, who 
received an honorary degree earlier in the morning, was a 
surprise visitor and spoke to the newly commissioned of- 
ficers and 600 spectators. 

The Baccalaureate Service at the First Baptist Meeting 
House at 2:30 will include a sermon by Dr. Kristen Sten- 
dahl, dean of the Divinity School, Harvard University. The 
service will be transmitted to the College Green by public 
address system. 

There will be two receptions later in the afternoon. The 
Graduate School Reception will be held at the Graduate 
Center, starting at 3:30. Immediately following the Bac- 
calaureate Service the President's Reception will take 
place at the President's House, 55 Power St. President and 
Mrs. Ray L. Heffner and the deans of The College and 
Pembroke College will receive the seniors and their par- 
ents and other guests. The spacious grounds at 55 Power 
St. will be used for this reception if the weather cooperates. 

Monday morning, the Procession will form on the Col- 
lege Green at 8 : 30, with the march starting promptly at 9 
o'clock. The Commencement orations and the awarding of 
Baccalaureate degrees will be transmitted from the First 
Baptist Meeting House to the College Green via the P. A. 
system. 

Meanwhile, the Graduate School Procession will form 
on the Front Campus at 9:15 and proceed to Sayles Hall. 
Dr. Harry Kalven, Jr., professor of law at the University 
of Chicago, will be the guest speaker at the Graduate 
School Convocation. 

For the alumni, the week end will close with the Com- 
mencement Luncheon at 1 a.m. in Sharpe Refectory. 
Tickets are $1.50 and may be purchased during the week 
end at the Housing Office in Wayland House, the Faunce 
House News Counter, or at the door. At the same time, 
the 50-plus classes will be guests of the Univershy at a 
special luncheon in the Chancellor's Dining Room of 
Sharpe Refectory. 

In the event of inclement weather, the following events 
will be held at these alternate locations: Campus Dance — 
Meehan Auditorium; Commencement Pops Concert — 
Meehan Auditorium; Baccalaureate Service — relayed by 
public address in Sayles Hall; President's Reception — 
Sharpe Refectory; Commencement Procession and Exer- 
cises — Meehan Auditorium. 

For those alumni who have not been back to College 
Hill recently, there will be tours of the campus and area 
on Saturday. Between 9:30 and 2:30 there will be guided 
tours of the John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Library, Barus and 
HoUey Building, and the new Bio-Medical Center. In ad- 
dition, the following buildings will be open for inspection 
between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Saturday: Barus and Holley, 
Bio-Medical Center, Graduate Center, Manning Chapel, 
Meehan Auditorium, Prince Engineering Laboratory, 
Rockefeller Library, and Sayles Hall. 



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Starting at 9:30 Saturday morning, there will be a walk- 
ing tour of historic Benefit Street, leaving from the Faunce 
House Terrace. The tour includes a visit to the First Bap- 
tist Meeting House. 



serve as Pembroke marshal. She will be assisted by Lois 
Lindblom Buxton P'43 (Mrs. Bertram H. Buxton, Jr.) 
and Nan Bouchard Tracy P'46 (Mrs. Richard J. Tracy). 
The Brown senior marshal is Ira E. Magaziner '69. 



William H. Edwards '19, who has been named chief 
marshal for Brown's 201st Commencement, has 
been a leader of the Rhode Island bar and of in- 
numerable other Rhode Island institutions for many years. 
His interests have ranged from philanthropy to govern- 
ment reform, and from public health to education. 

The 1921 graduate of the Harvard Law School has 
been associated with Edwards & Angell since 1922 and 
has been a member of the Providence law firm since 1929. 
He was an alumni trustee from 1938 to 1944, a trustee of 
Lying-in Hospital for 30 years, and secretary of the board 
of the School of Design for 40 years. 

In 1955-56 he was the first president of the United 
Fund and in 1958-59 was president of the Rhode Island 
Bar Association. He recently served as chairman of the 
Commission on Revision of the Rhode Island Constitu- 
tion. 

For the third straight year, Victor B. Schwartz '40 will 
be chief of staff. His associate this year is T. Dexter Clarke 
'32, in his third year as assistant chief of staff. Aides to 
the chief marshal include Frederick D. Pollard '19, Sidney 
A. Fox '19, M. Randolph Flather '24, Wallace W. Elton 
'29, Dr. Gustave Freeman '29, Edwin J. Schermerhorn 
'34, Stuart S. Golding '39, and Cortlandt P. Briggs '39. 

The four guides will be E. Robinson Fish, 3rd, '44, 
Charles Nathanson '44. Charles W. Briggs, Jr., '45, and 
Daniel Fairchild, Jr., '45. Other aides, who will be in 
charge of divisions in the procession, include: T. Brenton 
Bullock '38 and James P. Brown '50 (alumni); Edward 
T. Brackett '14, Dr. William P. Buffum '09, Sidney Wil- 
mot '09, and the Rev. Norris E. Woodbury '14 (older 
classes); Louis J. DeAngelis '45 and Dr. Sanford W. Udis 
'41 (faculty and graduating class); G. Myron Leach '44 
and Robert W. Kenyon '36 (Corporation and invited 
guests); Robert D. Kasmire '51 (Presidential party); 
Alan P. Cusick '32, William C. Whittemore '33, and 
Howard G. Brown '39 (Graduate School). 

Marshals for the alumni classes will include: Dr. Fred- 
erick W. Lathrop '19, Ernest E. Nelson '19, the Rev. Gor- 
don E. Bigelow '24, Dr. G. Halsey Hunt '24, Frank W. 
Slepkow '29, Theodore Giddings '29, Max H. Raxman 
'34, Carleton Hammond '34, Dudley A. Zinke '39, Walter 
V. Baker '39, Robert B. Lynch '44, Haig Barsamian '44, 
John F. Prendergast '49, Alan S. Flink" '49, William I. 
Reid, Jr., '54, Philip W. Noel '54, Andrew H. Davis, Jr., 
'59, Richard J. Ramsden '59, David V. DeLuca '64, and 
Robert F. Bergeron, Jr., '64. 

Other marshals will be: John J. McLaughry '40 (mar- 
shal-in-charge ) ; Harold G. Rogers '27 (trustees); Fred- 
erick Bloom '40 and Michael A. Gammino, Jr., '45 (Fel- 
lows); Prof. John Rowe Workman and Prof. Arthur O. 
Williams (honorary degrees candidates); Prof. George K. 
Anderson and Prof. Robert P. von der Lippe (faculty); 
Prof. George H. Borth (invited guests); Prof. Philip H. 
Rieger and Prof. Karl S. Weimar (Brown seniors). 

Mary LaFond Bonte P'45 (Mrs. Albert E. Bonte) will 



One of the highlights of the reunion week end is the 
Hour with the Faculty, now entering its second 
decade. The event has proved to be popular with 
alumni, as well as seniors and their parents. Again this 
year there will be two sunultaneous presentations, both 
held in the Barus and Holley Building and both com- 
mencing at 1 1 a.m. 

In Tanner Auditorium (Room 166), the subject will 
be "Black Assertion at Brown." The speakers will be 
Prof. Charles Philbrick, 2nd, '44, professor of English 
and chairman of the committee on Afro-American 
Studies, and William A. Brown, associate dean-elect I 
of student affairs. \ 

In Ress Auditorium (Room 168) the subject will j 
be "Computer Service and Computer Science at | 
Brown." The speaker will be Dr. Walter Freiberger, I 
professor of applied mathematics and director of the | 
Computing Laboratory. Howard S. Curtis, secretary '] 
of the University, will preside in Tanner Auditorium 
while Benjamin D. Roman '25, assistant dean of stu- 
dent affairs, will run the meeting in Rees Auditorium. 

Professor Philbrick, a nationally-recognized poet, 
earned his master's and Ph.D. at Brown and has been 
a member of the faculty since 1941. He teaches courses 
in English and American literature and in his special 
field of 19th- and 20th-century poetry. Earlier this year 
he headed the president's committee that recommended 
that various phases of black culture should come under 
serious study in a new course for students and in a 
i series of free lectures for the general public. His com- 
mittee has also set up a new concentration in Afro- 
American Studies for next year. 

Brown, a one-time resident of the black ghetto of 
Newark, N. J., will assume his new position as dean, 
effective July I . He currently is enrolled in the Graduate 
School at Brown and expects to complete his work for 
a Ph.D. in political science this summer. He also is an 
instructor of political science at Bryant College and 
teaches in the "Black Assertion" seminar program at 
Brown. In addition to his duties as associate dean for 
student affairs, he will also serve as a lecturer in po- 
litical science at Brown. 

Dr. Freiberger came to Brown as a research associ- 
ate in 1955. Before coming to College Hill, he was a 
: senior scientific research officer at the Aeronautical Re- 
search Laboratories, Melbourne, and taught at the Uni- 
versity of Melbourne. Professor Freiberger is chairman 
of the Brown Computer Advisory Committee and a 
member of the Advisory Committee of the New Eng- 
land Colleges and Universities Computing Center at 
M.I.T. He is managing editor of the Quarterly of Ap- 
plied Mathematics. He received a Fulbright Fellowship 
in 1955 and was appointed a Fellow of the John Simon 
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1962, when he 
spent the academic year at the Institute of Mathemat- 
ical Statistics of the University of Stockholm. 



MAY 1969 



23 



Charting the 25th Reunion Fund 



Progress, and the need to progress 



by Richard J. Ramsden '59 



Ten years ago, as a senior, I wrote an article in the 
May, 1959 issue of the Brown Alumni Monthly 
about the efforts of the Class of 1959 to establish a 
25th reunion gift program at Brown University. 

The idea was a simple one. By having each member of 
a graduating class contribute $10 a year for 25 years to a 
fund which would be invested in mutual funds, it was 
hoped that we could accumulate a significant gift for the 
University at the time of our 25th reunion. The article was 
written to inform alumni of the program and to urge 
already graduated classes to start programs of their own. 

A considerable effort also was made to encourage the 
classes which followed 1959 to adopt such a program. In 
this manner we hoped to establish a tradition of vigorous 
and significant 25th reunion giving at Brown. After 10 
years, it is useful to examine the progress that has been 
made and to ask the questions: How have we done? 
Where are we going? How can the program be improved? 

At the present time, 13 classes have organized 25th 
reunion gift programs. These include the classes from 
1959 through 1968, and three classes, 1956, 1957, and 
1958, which, although they graduated before 1959, set up 
programs subsequent to it. At March 31, 1969, these 13 
classes had accumulated approximately $246,000 in 
reunion funds. In the 10 years since graduation, the Class 
of 1959 25th Reunion Fund has grown to approximately 
$79,000. 

The last 10 years have been ones of base building, with 
each new graduating class adding its efforts to those 
presently outstanding. However, in the last year there 
is increasing evidence that the momentum inherent in the 
program is beginning to be felt. It took over nine years 
for the various class funds to reach the cumulative total 
of $195,000. In the last 10 months they have increased 
over $50,000, to the present total of $246,000. 

In the past 10 years, $156,000 in contributions have 
been made to the funds, with the amount growing each 
year as an additional class has joined the program. There 
are now about 4,000 alumni pledged to the program. 
This compares to more than 7,300 alumni listed as mem- 
bers of the 13 classes. The enrollment of graduating sen- 
iors in the program has been much better than the above 
numbers suggest. Excluding 1956, 1957 and 1958, classes 
which organized after graduation, every class since 1959 
has been able to enroll 85 per cent to 95 per cent of the 
graduating senior class. 



The giving record has been good. The Class of 1959 
has contributed approximately $30,000 in 10 years, or 
about $3,000 each year. This compares with approxi- 
mately $4,000 originally pledged to the fund each year. 
Excluding the three classes which started after graduation, 
the other classes have had a comparable experience: 
contributions of $2,500 to $3,000 annually. This is not to 
suggest that the giving record cannot be meaningfully 
improved. Although $156,000 has been contributed to 
date, at March 31, 1969 2,300 alumni in the 12 classes 
were in arrears on pledges by a total of $92,000. 

The University has studied the effect of the program 
on gifts to the Brown University Fund and has concluded 
that it has not adversely affected the level of giving to 
the University Fund. The habit of annual giving as young 
alumni which the program encourages can only result 
over the years in a more informed and generous alumni 
than might have otherwise existed. 

What will the total funds look like in 1984, when 
25 classes, hopefully, will have programs in 
existence, and the Class of 1959 Fund matures 
and is presented to the University? 

It was the original hope of the Class of 1959 that it 
would be able to make a gift to the University of $500,000 
in 1984, which we confidently expect will be the largest 
reunion gift ever given to Brown. The key to the success 
of the 1959 Fund, and the funds of other classes, is largely 
dependent upon its investment success. If, in the remaining 
15 years to 1984, the Class of 1959 continues to con- 
tribute approximately $3,000 a year to the Fund, and the 
appreciation of the Fund, including reinvested capital 
gains and dividends, is 10 per cent a year, then the Class 
of 1959 will realize its goal of a gift of about $500,000 
in 1984. On the other hand, if '59 was fortunate 
enough to realize 15 per cent annual appreciation, we 
would be able to make a gift of approximately $800,000 
to the University at that date. (For those interested in 
numbers, it would require approximately 1 7 per cent 
annual compound appreciation to realize $1,000,000.) 
But what about the program as a whole? Again, as- 
suming that each graduating class establishes its own 
program and contributes approximately $3,000 a year to 
its fund, and the overall appreciation of the combined 
funds is 10 per cent a year, in 1984 there will be almost 
$3,000,000 in the 25 combined 25th reunion funds. 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



At that point, the total funds will theoretically stabilize 
at that level, with each 25th reunion class hopefully 
presenting a gift to the University approaching $500,000 
per year. Even at Brown, with a $100 million endowment 
and an operating budget of approximately $35 million a 
year, this can be extremely important. An annual gift from 
25th reunion classes of approximately $500,000 would 
represent the income on as much as $12 to $13 million 
of permanent endowment. These are our goals; they are 
attainable. 

If we are to attain them, and even hopefully exceed 
them, it is important and even necessary that the 
program be improved. How can this be done? 

Each class since 1959 has requested that each senior 
pledge $10 a year for 25 years, or a total of $250. Ap- 
proximately 400 members of each class have done so, so 
that each class in total has pledged approximately 
$100,000 to their class fund over its 25-year life. The 
original figure of $10 a year was chosen in 1959 because 
it seemed reasonable and convenient. However, after 10 
years in an inflationary economy, it should not be consid- 
ered unalterable. Hopefully, future classes will consider 
making the minimum commitment greater. 

Future classes might also consider experimenting with 
a variable pledge program. The size of a fund ultimately 
depends upon its investment success, and that, impor- 
tantly, is determined by how rapidly the fund can be built 
by contributions to a sizeable amount in the early years. 
While it is economically more feasible to establish a pledge 
program where the contribution increases each year, 
what is needed is the exact opposite, a pledge which 
starts at a higher level and perhaps tapers off. 

The Class of 1959 has made a considerable effort to 
encourage its members to pay up their pledges early in 
order to give the fund the use of the money for a longer 
period of time. I would cite some interesting figures: $10 
a year, given for 25 years to a fund which realizes 10 per 
cent annual compound appreciation, results in a total 
gift per individual of $983 at the end of 25 years. That 
same $250 given at the beginning, again assuming 10 per 
cent annual appreciation, results in a gift at the end of 25 
years of $2,709. 

The comparison, assuming 15 per cent appreciation, 
which may be unattainable, is even more dramatic: $10 a 
year in that case results in an individual gift of $2,128 at 
the end of 25 years. If the $250 is given at the beginning, 
the result is a gift of over $8,200. Obviously, it is unreal- 
istic to expect graduating seniors to be able to make a cash 
gift to the fund of $250, or even a minor portion thereof. 
However, as the numbers show, the importance of building 
the fund rapidly in the early years caimot be overstated. 

Each class since 1959 has typically invested its fund 
in one or more large and well-known mutual funds. 
In each case, these funds have a sales charge at the 
time contributions are invested of up to 8% per cent. One 
class, 1959, has changed its method of investment to a 
single account with a private investment management firm, 
which is handling the account on a charitable basis. Because 
many changes have taken place in investment management 
in the United States in the last 10 years, it is appropriate 



that present and future classes continually reexamine the 
methods by which they invest reunion funds. 

Since the individual class funds are relatively small, it 
is usually not possible to secure the services of able and 
established investment management organizations, which 
typically require a minimum account size of as much as 
$500,000 or $1,000,000. And yet, in the last 10 years 
there has been an increasing proliferation of mutual funds 
of many types, including funds solely for non-taxable in- 
stitutions, and "no-load" funds, which do not impose a 
sales charge at the time of investment. 

Of the approximately 500 mutual funds in the United 
States at the present time, about 75 are "no-load" funds, 
and the number is growing each year. (In 1959 there were 
155 mutual funds in the United States, very few of which 
were "no-load" funds.) Many of these "no-load" funds are 
managed by well-known and established investment or- 
ganizations with longstanding, excellent records. 



Until approximately three years ago, the record 
keeping for the individual class funds was done 
by brokerage firms in Providence, one of which 
had been instrumental in establishing the program at 
Brown in 1959. About three years ago, the University 
assumed the responsibility of sending reminders to mem- 
bers of the classes and maintaining records of contribu- 
tioiiE to the respective funds. While in the early years it 
was only proper that the classes compensate those firms 
in Providence which were incurring considerable costs in 
maintaining records for the classes, that obligation no 
longer exists. 

I should point out that there does exist, at least as far 
as the Class of 1959 is concerned, a considerable debt to 
certain Brown alumni at the Providence firm of G. H. 
Walker & Co., without whom there would be no 25th 
reunion program at Brown today. 

There is an even more important reason than saving 
initial sales commissions why present and future classes 
should consider the flexibOity of "no-load" funds. If a 
class is dissatisfied with the performance of a particular 
mutual fund in which it is invested, and decides to reinvest 
in another fund imposing a sales charge, it pays a high 
price to change — up to 8% per cent of the total value of 
the class fund. By considering "no-load" funds, a class 
does not face this penalty upon reinvestment, and does 
have the flexibility of changing funds if it believes it is in 
its best interest to do so. 

I do not mean to suggest that class funds should change 
the form of their investment because of temporary dis- 
appointment. We are, and should be, long term investors. 
However, as these funds grow, it is incumbent upon those 
of us responsible for these funds to ensure that they are 
invested in the very best manner possible. 

I would recommend that the University, or perhaps an 
advisory committee of three or four interested alumni in 
the investment management business, prepare annuafly 
for individual class fund chairmen and class presidents 
the annual performance of the various funds being used 
by the classes. If, after a minimum of three years, an indi- 
vidual fund's performance is disappointing, we should 
establish a mechanism permitting a class to change its 

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MAY 1969 



25 




'Run, 

You Fleet-Footed Wonder, 
Your 



Rugby, the oft-quoted statement goes, 
is a game for hooligans played by 
gentlemen. And at Brown the last 10 years, 
it might be added, it is played by an oc- 
casional over-aged football player, some 
alumni, and a growing number of under- 
graduates, most of whom are not, nor 
have they been, football players. 

If there is an unusual quality about the 
Brown Rugby Club, it would have to be 
one fact: it wins. For since the sport was 
started at the University on a club basis 
in I960, the Brown ruggers have had only 
one losing season — their first. That was a 
1-3 season when only 17 players could be 
convinced they should risk life and limb in 
the ancient game that prohibits pads and 
helmets and yet carries much of the vio- 
lence of its stepchild, American football. 

Today, the Brown Rugby Club is happy 
to talk about its .732 cumulative average 
and six championships. Its record over the 
seasons since I960 is 109 victories, 40 de- 
feats, and five ties. But the more interest- 
ing statistic is the number of undergrad- 
uates interested in the game — the club's 
various squads now involve about 70 play- 
ers — and the growing crowds that come to 
see them play. 

Rugby still is kind of avant-garde for 
the American sports fan deluged each fall 
weekend with the glitter and excitement of 
the U.S. brand of violence, but the 500 



fans who last month attended the first an- 
nual Ivy League Rugby Tournament — con- 
ceived and hosted by the Brown Rugby 
Club — were simply entertained and thrilled 
as the Bruins whipped Columbia, Har- 
vard, and Penn before losing the cham- 
pionship game, 6-3, to unbeaten Princeton. 

At Brown, rugby is the brainchild of 
Associate Alumni Executive Officer David 
J. Zucconi '55, who played it in England 
while he was stationed there with the Air 
Force. An ex-Brown football player, Zuc- 
coni started the Brown Rugby Club, serves 
it as president, and still is one of its 
finest players. The Brown ruggers gave 
Zucconi a trophy a couple of years ago as 
"the father of Brown rugby," which is to 
say that at age 35, Zucconi is probably 
the oldest living American rugby player. 
And he has creases in his nose from the 
24 stitches he received from a game last 
fall to prove he remains in good shape and 
is as tough as they come. 

Also in contrast to the early years when 
Zucconi took $200 to $300 from his own 
pocket to support the club, the University 
is now giving it financial and physical help 
as the game continues to attract more un- 
dergraduates and more interest. The club 
is coached by its executive officers in the 
same style as English rugby clubs are op- 
erated. The players are serious enough to 
practice three times a week to meet their 



Againsi Harvard, Charlie Edwards '69 
broke away from the pack and lateraled 
to Dave Zucconi '55, who scored in the 
1 1-3 victory over the Crimson. Yelled 
(in enthusiastic undergraduate from 
the sidelines as Zucconi whipped down 
the field: "Run, you fleet-footed wonder, 
you!" The Ivy League tournament 
was originated by the Brown Rugby Club, 
which will sponsor the event here 
again next year before it moves on to 
other sites. At right, in a lineoul at 
the sidelines, Mike Kelly '70 Sail 
Lake City (right) grapples for the ball 
against Princeton. 



18-game schedule during spring and fall, 
and to chip in funds that make the Brown 
team as well-outfitted as any of its Ivy 
League and independent opponents. 

The club's coaches include Captain 
Sandy Edelman '69, of Cleveland; Vice- 
Captain Charlie Edwards '69, of Tunisia; 
New Zealander Mike Robson '70, who is 
helping the club plan a trip through Eng- 
land next fall; All America forward Mike 
Diffily, '67, a Providence school teacher, 
and Zucconi, who shows no sign of weak- 
ening in spite of a battered nose and 
his advancing years. 



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Violence Ltd.: "Wheel right!" yells Brown's Dave Thomas '70, 
(opposite page), iliiriiig a scrum against Harvard. Al once a 
scene of bewilderment and amusement to the new rugby 
fan, the scrum occurs with a minor infraction of the 
rules. The eight forwards of Brown and Harvard bind to- 
gether and push against the other team thus forming a 
tunnel. Thomas will place the ball into the tunnel and each 
group will try to hook and heel the ball back to the 
wailing backs, who can run, lateral-puss, or kick the ball up- 
field. The impact of the game is illustrated as Mike Diffily '67 
is hit by the Harvard captain, and John 
Schindler '6S, Oklahoma City, avoids a Tiger tackle. 




No time-outs for rest, injuries, or tea-breaks. Rugby play is 
continuous and the only time the play is stopped is when the 
ball goes out of bounds or there is a violation of the rules. If 
one or more players are injured, substitution is not per- 
mitted and play continues. The Princeton player above was hit 
hard on a play, and with no padding to protect him. He 
is helped up by his teammates and is back in the lineup 
(right), though not with certainty. He was later hurt 
again and retired from the game. Rugby players say: 
"If you kick a guy and say you're sorry, it's okay. If you don't 
say you're sorry, that isn't sporting." 
Still, major injuries in rugby are reasonably uncommon. 



MAY 1969 



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The Sports Scene: 




The game of rugby, from which American football evolved, had 

its origin in 1823 at Rugby School in England when a frustrated 

soccer player, William Webb Ellis, "who, with a fine 

disregard for the rules of football (soccer) as played in his time, 

first took the ball in his arms and ran with it." Its arrival 

in New England by, as someone quipped, "the New Haven 

Railroad," required another 100 years, but rugby has 

its own poetry in motion of hands and faces. This is a line-out 

in the Columbia-Pennsylvania game which occurred after a 

player was "propelled" out of bounds. This formation 

called for the forwards on each team to align themselves 

facing the sideline. The ball is thrown between the lines so as 

to give each group an equal chance at the ball, 

which is then carried ahead by the forwards or thrown 

laterally to the backs for movement upfietd. 



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"The ancient rites of the occasion are attended to with all the 
dedicated elbow-bending and vocal effort that tradition and 
honest thirst demand," wrote a former captain of a Scottish 
rugby team. With that tradition in mind, the Brown 
Rugby Club defeated Columbia (11-0), Harvard (11-3) and 
Penn (6-3) before losing to Princeton 6-3. The Princeton 
game was hard-fought and the Tigers won, but Brown 
players steadfastly admit that in good grace, the Bruins won the 
party. At top right, sophomore Lynne Steffens, one of a 
number of Pembrokers who helped raise funds for the club by 
selling buttons that read "Happiness is rugby," was ap- 
propriately dubbed a "rugger-hugger." Doug John of McLean, 
Va. and Bob Sedey of Palos Verdes, Calif., both '70, helped win 
the party as Princeton captain Terry Larimer accepted 
the trophy donated by Stephen A. McClellan '23, Early svillt, Va. 



MAY 1969 



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The Sports Scene: 

Spring athletic teams 
off to a good start 

The spring sports scene started impres- 
sively, with the varsity teams posting a 
combined 23-15-1 record and the Cubs a 
6-3 mark after the first few weeks of com- 
petition. 

The baseball team, under first-year 
coach Bill Livesey, showed the results of 
an extensive indoor conditioning program 
by winning five of its first seven games on 
an II -game southern swing during the 
spring vacation. The Bruins were 8-8-1 go- 
ing into the home stretch of a tough 30- 
game schedule. 

Elsewhere, Coach Cliff Stevenson's la- 
crosse team gave early indication that it 
might be an Ivy contender by winning six 
of its first eight games, including two key 
Ivy tilts. With six victories in its first seven 
matches, the golf team was off to its best 
start in years under Coach Alan Soares. 
On the other fronts, tennis was 2-2. crew 
1-1, and track 0-1 as we went to press. 

Capt. Dan Stewart was one of the stars 
of the baseball team's southern trip. The 
husky rightfielder hit safely in the first 
nine games before being put out of action 
with an injury. During this stretch, Stewart 
batted .389, while banging out five doubles, 
two homers, and knocking in 12 runs. His 
slugging percentage was a healthy .694. 

This is a young Brown team, and part 
of the story of the southern trip was the 
impressive debiU of several of the fine 
sophomore prospects. When second-year 
men are on the mound, and there are 
three of them working in regular rotation, 
the team features sophomores at five of 
the nine positions. Dean Hoag, a former 
All-Stale Missouri receiver, moved in be- 
hind the plate ahead of last year's starter. 
Ron Kriedman. Sophomores in the infield 
included Dick MacAdams at second and 
Brian Marini at third. Bill Kahn, a starter 
on the basketball team, is the regular left 
fielder. 

Sophomores also were key factors in 
the pitching staff, which was a big ques- 
tion mark at the start of the season. Bob 
Thorley, a right-hander with a good fast 
ball and a wide assortment of curves, had 
a 2-0 record and a solid 1.61 earned-run 
average on the trip. Against George Wash- 
ington, he hurled 1 I brilliant innings, al- 
lowing only one earned run and walking 
two. Bob Flanders and Bob Anderson also 
showed good stuff against some tough 
competition. 

Brown's 9-2 victory over North Car- 
olina State gave the entire team a big 
boost. The Wolf pack was the third leading 
team in the country last season and is the 
defending Atlantic Coast Conference cham- 
pion. Thorley was the winner in this one. 

The Bruins were 5-6 on the southern 
trip and posted a 3-2-1 record in the first 
six games after their return. Coach Live- 
sey has put together an exciting team to 
watch, one that is solid in the field and 
dangerous at the plate. A shortage of 



pitchers will probably slow the team's ef- 
forts to make an impressive showing in 
the Ivy League. 

Coach Stevenson feels that he has one 
of his finest lacrosse teams this spring. 
Brown's only two losses over the first half 
of the season were to Maryland and Vir- 
ginia, two of the nation's top-ranked teams. 
The Bruins led Maryland, 3-2, going into 
the final period before losing, 6-3. Vir- 
pinia, a team favored to win the national 
championship, broke a tight 7-5 game 
open with three goals in the final period 
while on its way to a 10-5 decision. 

In its two Ivy League games, the Bears 
coasted over Dartmouth at Hanover, 11-4, 
and then roared from behind with three 
goals in the final period to defeat a good 
Penn team, 6-4, at Aldrich-Dexter Field. 
The league race is expected to he a dog 
fight, with the Brown-Cornell battle at 
Aldrich-Dexter Field on May 10 shaping 
up as a crucial game for both teams. 

The three top scorers through the first 
eight games were juniors Bob Anthony 
and Rick Buck and sophomore Bob Scalise. 
Anthony had 22 points on eight goals and 
14 assists. Buck 22 on six and 16, while 
Scalise had 18 points, all on goals. 

With Co-Captain Ted Oatis leading the 
way, the golf team ran up a 6-1 record in 
the early going and seemed on the verge 
of putting winning seasons back-to-back. 
Oatis won six matches and lost one, bring- 
ing his career record to 26-12. Senior 
Dick Higginbotham also had a 6-1 mark 
this season for Coach Soares' team. 

Although the track team was blitzed by 
Harvard, 103-50. at Brown Field, Coach 
Ivan Fuqua's men turned in some fine 
performances. Three sophomores, Lee 
Thompson, Keith Barksdale. and Bill Rob- 
bins, were particularly effective. Thomp- 
son took the 440 in 49.2, Barksdale the 
100 in lO.I, and Robbins the 120-yard 
high hurdles. 

The Cubs also los>, 96-58, to the Crim- 
son, but the storj* here from a Brown 
point of view was that Martin Luftman of 
Providence threw the hammer 150 feet. 
5 inches. This toss is close to the 32-year- 
old freshman record of 152-11-^4 set by 
John McLaughry '40. Assistant track coach. 
Ed Flannagan. who coached McLaughry 
33 years ago at Andover, is now working 
with Luftman. 

The Brown crew had four sophomores 
in the boat when it rowed to a three-length 
victory over Boston University on the 
Charles River. One of the second-year men 
was Bill Haggerty, a 6-3, 185-pound stroke. 
The Terriers jumped off to an early lead, 
but Coach Vic Michalson's men, rowing 
at a steady 34 strokes a minute, over- 
hauled B.U. at the halfway point and won 
going away. Brown's time was 6:07.2 for 
the 2,000-meter race. 

Earlier in the spring. Brown had to settle 
for second place in the Miami Regatta, as 
Columbia beat the Bruins by half a length. 
Columbia's winning time was 5:00.6, while 
Brown was 5:03.1. Rollins and Florida 
Southern finished well back. The Bruins 
had captured this regatta in 1968, the 
first year it was held. 

Capt. Greg "Spike" Gonzales, junior 



Scoreboard 

(Mar. 27 to Apr. 17) 

Baseball 

Varsity (8-8-1) 
Brown 6, Bridgeport 1 
Brown 8, L.I.U. 2 
Delaware 16, Brown 6 
Brown 4, Maine 1 
N. C. State 6, Brown 2 
Brown 9, N. C. State 2 
Brown 4, Maine 3 
V.P.I. 7, Brown 3 
E. Michigan 4, Brown 1 
V.P.I. 7, Brown 
G. Washington 4, Brown 3 
Brown 2. Northeastern 1 
Brown 4, New Hampshire I 
Princeton 6. Brown 2 
U.R.I. 1, Brown 
Brown 6, U.R.I. 1 
Brown 6, Yale 6 

Freshman (2-1 ) 
Northeastern 1 1, Brown 3 
Brown 26, Quonset 10 
Brown 13, U.R.I. 7 

Lacrosse 

Varsity (6-2) 
Brown 10, Fairleigh Dickinson 3 
Brown 10, Baltimore 8 
Maryland 6, Brown 3 
Virginia 10, Brown 5 
Brown 9. Washington Coll. 3 
Brown 17. UConn 1 
Brown 1 1, Dartmouth 4 
Brown 6, Penn 4 

Freshman (3-0) 
Brown 14. Adelphi 4 
Brown 22, UConn 3 
Brown 21. Yale 7 

Golf 

Varsity (6-1) 
Brown 6. Columbia 1 
Brown 4. Penn 3 
Princeton 7. Brown 
Brown 5, Amherst 2 
Brown 4, UConn 3 
Brown 4'/2, Holy Cross 2Vi 
Brown S'A, M.I.T. VA 

Track 

Varsity (0-1) 
Harvard 103, Brown 50 

Freshman (0-1 ) 
Harvard 96, Brown 58 

Crew 

Varsity (1-1) 
Columbia 5:00.6, Brown 5:03.1, 

lins 5:20, Fla. Southern 5:24 
Brown 6:07.2, Boston Univ. 6:20.2 

Freshman (0-1) 
Boston Univ. by 3 lengths 

Tennis 

Varsity (2-2) 
Navy 5, Brown 
Brown 6, UConn 
Williams 5, Brown 4 
Brown 5, U.R.I. 4 



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Curt Bennett, and sophomores Don Smith 
and Pete Guterman provided most of the 
strength as the tennis team split its first 
four matches. It took the Bruins two days 
to beat Rhode Island. 5-4. Brown trailed 
4-3 when the match was halted because of 
darkness. The ne.xt day the Bears took the 
remaining doubles matches behind the 
teams of Smith-Bennett and Art Brum- 
bercer-Steve Bickel. 



Brown squash player ranked 
in top eight in the nation 

Greg "Spike" Gonzales '69, captain of 
the tennis team, has been ranked eighth in 
the nation among the intercollegiate squash 
players from the Intercollegiate Squash 
Racquets Association. 

This is an amazing performance for a 
player from a school in which squash has 
no coach, no varsity status, and less than 
adequate facilities. Despite these handi- 
caps, the sport has been flourishing at 
Brown for the past several years. Gonzales 
is the man responsible. 

The senior from Rochester had never 
played in a squash match when he came 
to Brown four years ago. At that time, 
there were less than 50 members in the 
Squash Club. This year, the club had 120 
members, with 25 per cent of them com- 
peting on si.x different teams in the Rhode 
Island Squash Racquets Association. 

An indication of the growing popularity 
of the sport on the campus came in 1967- 
68 when it was announced that the squash 
courts had been dropped from the plans 
discussed for a new athletic coniple.x 
Within several days, the club gathered the 
names of 2000 members of the University 
community on a petition requesting that 
the courts be put back into the plans. They 
we re . 

An effort to establish a freshman team 
this winter attracted 45 candidates. The 
group played regularly and at the end of 
the season a team was selected to compete 
against the M.I.T. freshmen. 

The varsity entered four men in the Na- 
tional Intercollegiates — seniors Gonzales, 
Jack Isom, and Nick Elmaleh and junior 
Dick Aldrich. Gonzales made the best 
showing, advancing to the quarter-finals 
where he lost to top seed Anil Nayar, 
15-12, 15-8, 15-9. Nayar, who went on to 
win the tourney, had also won the Na- 
tional men's the previous week. 

On his way to the quarter-finals, Gon- 
zales upset the number six seed, Ed Bart- 
lett, the number one player at Yale and 
number three player in New England. It 
was this victory that propelled the Bniin 
senior into the top eight in the NIS rank- 
ing. 

The success of the Squash Club is sur- 
prising when the facilities at Brown are 
considered. The only four courts on cam- 
pus are located at Marvel Gym, an area 
where bus service now is limited. The 
courts are not regulation size, they are 
too hot, and there are no galleries for 
spectators. The courts are closed at 6 p.m. 
daily and are not open on Sunday. In ad- 
dition, they are used for handball. 

MAY 1969 



If and when a new athletic complex is 
completed, many of these problems will 
be solved. Then, the next step would be a 
move toward varsity status. Brown and 
Columbia now are the only two Ivies with- 
out squash as a varsity sport. 

Sports Shorts 

Steve Wormith. Brown's 6-0, 205-pound 
fullback from Sarnia, Ont., has been 
signed to a contract by the Ottawa Rou_h 
Riders of the Canadian professional foot- 
ball league. He will report in mid-June to 
the rookie camp of last season's Grey Cup 
winners. Wormith compiled a three-year 
rushing total of 976 yards and scored 
seven touchdowns for Brown. He gained 
201 yards rushing against Colgate last fall, 
the first Brown back to top the 200-yard 
total in a single game in 26 years. 

Coach Jim Fullerton has announced 
that the hockey team has been invited to 
participate in the Holiday Hockey Tour- 
nament in St. Louis, Mo., on Dec. 28-29. 
The competition in the tournament, which 
will be held in the St. Louis Blues' arena, 
will come from Yale, Wisconsin, and the 
University of Michigan. 

Joe Kennaway, who coached soccer at 
Brown on a part-time basis from 1946 to 
1959, died une.xpectedly Mar^-h 7. An out- 
standing British soccer player in the 1930's, 
he rose to fame with the Glasgow Celtics. 
During his 10 years at Glasgow, he was 
chosen seven times as Scotland's interna- 
tional goal keeper in Britain's annual in- 
ternational series. Since starting soccer as 
a varsity sport in 1925, Brown has had 
only three coaches, Sam Fletcher, Kenna- 
way, and Cliff Stevenson. Kennaway's best 
season was 1956, when the Bruin hooters 
were 7-3. 

Don Sennott '52, former Brown hockey 
great, this year received the Rhode Island 
Squash Racquets Association's Hankins 
Award for improvement and sportsman- 



ship for an unprecedented second time. He 
firtt won the award in 1964. The 1968 
winner was also a Bruin, James R. Gor- 
ham "54. 

When Jack Heffernan '28 spoke at the 
dinner honoring the members of the 1938- 
39 NCAA basketball team, he didn't ex- 
pect to receive a compliment. But, he did. 
In introducing Brown's athletic director, 
the toastmaster recalled that Heffernan had 
been basketball captain the year Marvel 
Gym was dedicated. Then, turning slowly, 
he said, "Looking at Jack tonight, I think 
it's fair to say that he has held up far 
better over the years than has Marvel 
Gym." 

Ivan Fuqua, in his 23rd season as track 
coach at Brown, was honored recently by 
his Alma Mater, the University of Indiana, 
along with other Hoosier Olympic track 
performers. Fuqua gained national prom- 
inence as a sophomore when he was a 
member of the 1932 Olympic 1600-meter 
relay team which won gold medals and 
set a world record that stood for 30 years. 
He also was a Big Ten champion in the 
220 and 440 and a national AAU titlist in 
the 440. Fuqua is a member of the Helms 
Athletic Foundation Hall of Fame and the 
Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame. His 
Brown teams have captured eight New 
England track championships and several 
in cross country. 

Tom Hazlehurst '56 of Warwick, and 
his crew of Narragansett Bay sailors, com- 
piled a 5-4 record and finished fifth in the 
fifth annual Congressional Cup sailing se- 
ries held in March in Long Beach, Calif. 
The Rhode Islanders won their last three 
match races on the final day of the three- 
day round robin to cement the fifth place 
finish in this nationally recognized invita- 
tional tournament. In the final race, Hazle- 
hurst's crew pinned a 21-second defeat on 
a fellow Bruin, Ted Turner '60 of Atlanta, 
Ga. Another Brunonian, Jeff Spranger '55, 
sailed with Hazlehurst. 




Straining at 41 strokes per minute, the Brown crew held off Northeasterti's furious folish 
and won the sprint to the finish line by three feet. Coach V>c Michalson s two freshman 
boats also won in the Spring Week End competition on the .seekonk. 

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The Brown Clubs Report 



Traveling through Florida in March, 
Alumni Secretary Paul F. Mackesey 
'32 spoke at three Brown Club meetings, 
helped map plans to revive a fourth group, 
and discussed 1969-70 programs with a 
fifth. 

Mackesey's trip started in St. Petersburg 
on March 17 when he attended a dinner- 
meeting of the Florida West Coast Brown 
Club at the St. Petersburg Yacht Club. 
Approximately 60 alumni and alumnae 
were on hand to hear Mackesey and Prof. 
I. J. Kapstein 76, who was spending some 
time on Long Boat Key. 

In a brief business meeting following 
the dinner, Henry T. Van Dyke '37 was 
elected president of the club. His slate 
includes 1st Vice-President George F. 
Foley '24, 2nd Vice-President Donald E. 
Cottey '54, Secretary-Treasurer Ross A. 
Giunta '61, and Schools Chairman Jack 
Monk '24. The three-man board of direc- 
tors lists Stuart S. Golding '39. Clifford E. 
Lathrop '40, and Hardy L. Payor '50. 

TTie second annual meeting of the 
Southwest Florida Brown-Pembroke Club 
(formerly Naples) was held March 19 at 
the Beach Club Hotel. In addition to 
Mackesey, Frank Lanning of the Provi- 
dence Bulletin was a guest of the club, 
along with Mrs. Lanning. Lanning was in 
Florida covering spring training of the 
Boston Red Sox, Alex A. DiMartino '29, 
president of the Associated Alumni, spoke 
briefly and presented a number of prizes 
brought from the campus. 

Paul G. Benedum, Jr., '54 is the new 
president of this club, assisted by Henry 
M. Minster '54 as 1st vice-president, Ralph 
R. Crosby '26 as 2nd vice-president, and 
Howard A. Kenyon '22, as secretary-treas- 
urer. The board of directors is as follows: 
Everett M. Arnold '21, DiMartino, Mrs. 
E. J. Hickey P'19, J. L. McHenry, Jr., '51, 
Edwin H. Nichols '31, Mrs. Benjamin 
Johnson P'45, and John C. Talbott '21. 

Mackesey's next stop was Miami, where 
he helped some of the alumni there take 
the first steps toward re-activating the club. 
To be known as the Gold Coast Brown 
Club, it will encompass Dade and Boward 
Counties. Charles P. Isherwood '44, for- 
mer president of the Brown Club of 
Maryland, heads the steering committee 
handling plans for reviving the club. He's 
being assisted by Dr. Louis J. Novak '36, 
Dr. Chauncey M. Stone '38, Arthur S. 
Lippack '44, Irving E. Miller '48, David 
N. Nissenberg '61, Dr. Richard E. Deutch 
'46, and Richard L. Abbott '60. 

There are approximately 300 alumni 
and alumnae in the Miami area, where 
there has been no organized alumni ac- 
tivity in several years. Among the things 
planned by the steering committee is the 
publication of a newsletter. 

The next visit for Mackesey was to the 
Brown Club of Palm Beach County, 



headed by President Paul L. Maddock '33. 
Approximately 115 attended the dinner, 
including 20 of Palm Beach County's out- 
standing high school students who had 
applied to Brown. 

In addition to Mackesey, other speakers 
were Thomas B. Appleget '17, a former 
Brown vice-president, and Jim Dougherty, 
the tennis coach and a member of the 
admissions staff. In the audience were sev- 
eral alumni from other sections of the 
country: John G. Peterson '17 of Way- 
zata, Minn., and Raymond D. Nelson '31 
of Avon, Mass., a former president of the 
South Shore Brown Club. 

A pre-dinner party was hosted by Paul 
and Mrs. Maddock at their home. Tree- 
tops, located on North Lake Trail. An 
unexpected treat for many of the guests 
was a visit by Florida Governor and Mrs. 
Claude Kirk. 

The final stop on the Florida excursion 
was in Jacksonville. There, Mackesey met 
with officers of the Brown Club of North 
Florida at the home of Lloyd M. Butler, 
Jr., '47. Areas in which the club can bet- 
ter serve Brown were discussed. 

Eight speakers from the University were 
featured at meetings of the board of 
directors of the Brown Club of Rhode Is- 
land during the current academic year. 

"The experiment proved highly success- 
ful," said President John C. Edgren '38. 
"Our monthly meetings became far more 
meaningful and the members of the board 
were able to keep in close touch with 



many of the things happening on the 
campus during a very eventful year." 

Jack HefTeman, newly appointed di- 
rector of athletics, spoke at the June 
meeting, outlining plans for the new ath- 
letic complex. The board held its Sep- 
tember meeting at the new Brown Boat 
House, where Coach Vic Michalson spoke 
briefly on the status of crew at Brown. 
Malcolm S. Stevens, vice-president for ad- 
ministration, was the guest in October. 

The board met within one week of the 
walk-out by Negro students in December 
and had on hand to present the Univer- 
sity's point of view on this issue Provost 
Merton P. Stoltz and Associate Provost 
Paul F. Maeder. Two black student repre- 
sentatives spoke at the January meeting, 
while members of the Bruin Club, a vet- 
eran campus organization, had the floor in 
February. Ira Magaziner, president of the 
senior class, spoke to the directors in 
March on curriculum changes proposed 
in the Maxwell-Magaziner Report. The 
final guest was Robert A. Reichley, edi- 
tor of the Brown Alumni Monthly, who 
spoke in April on changes in the maga- 
zines as they are related to changes on 
campus. 

The Brown Club of Rhode Island's an- 
nual golf outing and dinner will be held 
Thursday. May 15, at the Rhode Island 
Country Club. Reservations may be se- 
cured by contacting Chairman Harold 
Demopulos (DE 1-6635). The price is 
$15, including greens fee and dinner. 

Speakers for the Brown Club's dinner 




The Holiday Inn was the scene of the annual Palm Beach dinner. Shown from left, stand- 
ing, are: Herbert B. Johnson '32, vice-president; President Paul L. Maddock '33, Alumni 
Secretary Paul F. Mackesey '32, and the Rev. Samuel Lindsay. Front row, left to right: 
James Dougherty, admissions officer and tennis coach, Mrs. Johnson, and Thomas B. 
Appleget '17, vice-president emeritus of Brown. 



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honoring Coach Stan Ward on Friday, 
June 6, will be Joe Mullaney, head bas- 
ketball coach at Providence College; John 
Hanlon, columnist for the Providence Bul- 
letin: and Athletic Director Jack JJeffer- 
nan. Toastmaster will be Amby Smith, 
sports editor of the Pawluxcl Valley Times. 
The affair will be held at Andrews Hall, 
Pembroke, with a social hour on the terrace 
preceding the dinner. The price of the 
tickets is $7.50, including cocktail party, 
dinner, and something toward a gift. Res- 
ervations should be made through Chair- 
man Bernard V. Buonanno, Jr., "60 (home: 
884-4447; office: DE 1-0126). 



Prof. John Rowe Workman visited sev- 
eral Brown Clubs during the spring va- 
cation. He had stops at Westchester, Chi- 
cago, Cincinnati, St. Louis, and Michigan. 

In Westchester he was the featured 
speaker at the club's Evening with the 
Faculty program held at the home of 
Jacson C. Becker '50 in Rye, N. Y., on 
Sunday, March 30. The Chicago dinner 
the next night was held in Charter Hall 
of the Chicago Bar Association, with ar- 
rangements handled by Jeffrey G. Liss "65 
and Jordon H. Peters '65. Professor Work- 
man's appearance in Cincinnati tied in 
with the annual dinner, which was run by 
John P. Bassler '62. In St. Louis, Ted 
Simmons '60, club president, handled the 
details for the dinner-meeting at the Rac- 
quet Club, while Mike Weston '60, presi- 
dent of the Michigan Brown Club, ran 
the dinner there. 

"The crowds were remarkably fine ev- 
erywhere I went," Dr. Workman said. "In- 
tellectual questions and discussion in Chi- 
cago, an afl'ectionate and virtual all-nighter 
in Cincinnati, rapt attention and great en- 
thusiasm in St. Louis, a strong turnout in 
Rye, and one of the most cordial Brown 
Club affairs I've ever attended in Detroit." 

The Brown Club of Alta California held 
a meeting March 20 at Schroeder's on 
Front Street in San Francisco. The main 
subject of discussion was a new member- 
ship drive and plans to increase Brown 
Club activity in the Bay Area. 

To this end, there will be an open house 
cocktail party June 7 at Bruce Flanagan's 
home in Tiburon, All Brown and Pem- 
broke alumni and spouses are invited and 
suggestions for future Club activities are 
welcomed. 

Paul Lucey '48, chairman of the Alumni 
Secondary Schools Program, reported that 
52 subfreshmen had applied to Brown this 
year. This is considered an especially 
strong showing. 



The 12th annual dinner of the South 
County (R. I.) Brown Club will be 
held Friday, May 16, at Larchwood Inn, 
Wakefield. Alex DiMartino '29 invites 
members to a cocktail party at his home 
in Narragansett starting at 5 p.m. Golfers 
will tee off, starting at I, at the Point Ju- 
dith Country Club. Tennis enthusiasts also 
will have the club's courts available to 
them. 

The speaker wil be Prof. Lyman B. 
Kirkpatrick, Jr., former executive director 




A Wine Tasting Party sponsored by the Boston Brown Club benefited the Brown and 
Pembroke Scholarship Funds. Flanking the ladies and awaiting their turn to savor one 
of the smooth wines are Arthur M. Love '56, left, and David J. Zucconi '55. 



of the Central Intelligence Agency. Pro- 
fessor Kirkpatrick holds the President's 
Award for Distinguished Civilian Defense 
Service, the highest honor that can be 
given a civilian by the government. 

Alex DiMartino will present the awards. 
Earl Philo Perkins will be song leader, and 
Tod Dane will be in charge of first aid. 
The dinner is $5, golf $5, and tennis $3. 
Checks should be sent to Secretary Foster 
R. Sheldon, 4 French Rd., Kingston, R. I. 
02881. 

Eric Brown, dean of freshmen, was the 
featured speaker April 14 when the Con- 
necticut Valley Brown Club held it annual 
spring dinner meeting at Betty's Old 
Towne House, Agawam, Mass. 

Robert Reichley is making his first 
Brown Club tour since taking over last 
summer as editor of the Brown Alumni 
Monthly while visiting four clubs this 
month. He spoke before the Berkshire 
Brown Club in Pittsfield on May 12, the 
Northeastern New York Brown Club in 
Albany on May 13, the Cleveland Brown 
Club on May 14, and the Trenton Brown 
Club on May 17. He gave a frank review 
of the events that have taken place on the 
campus this academic year and discussed 
how these events have affected the Alumni 
Monthly. 

Philip C. Ciciarelli '35, general agent 
with the Ciciarelli Insurance Agency, 
Springfield, Mass., is the new president of 
the Connecticut Valley Brown Club. The 
rest of his slate includes Vice-President 
Harold I. Resnic '56, Secretary William A. 
Sitnik '59, and Treasurer Alfred J. Mary- 
ott, Jr., '49. Directors include the follow- 
ing: Lewis A. Shaw '48, Dr. Sawyer E. 
Medbury '40, H. Russell Preston '60, 
L. Aaron Mendelson '59, Richard C. Mc- 



Kenney '56, Bruce A. Yarber '52, and 
A. Peter Quinn, Jr., '45. Serving as hon- 
orary director is Ralph A. Armstrong '17. 

Michael F. Bergan '59, prominent Al- 
bany attorney, is the new president of the 
Brown Club of Northeastern New York. 
His staff includes Vice-President Louis J. 
Boos '62, Secretary Richard P. Wallace 
'63, and Treasurer James W, Hanner '58. 
The Club's Executive Committee is staffed 
by Lloyd G. Briggs '31, J. Trent Cox '62. 
James R. Cronkhite '40, Stuart P. Doling 
'60, Jerome R. Hanley "57, Philip M. Reed 
'62, G. Alan Rothschild "32, Lewis A. 
Sumberg '34, and Richard S. Walter '31. 

President and Mrs. Donald L. Saunders 
'57 were hosts when the Boston Brown 
Club held its annual Wine Tasting Party 
this spring. The program was considered a 
success socially, where some hard deci- 
sions (definitely not off the top-of-the- 
head decisions) were made on the caliber 
of the various wines, and financially, with 
a substantial sum donated to the Brown 
and Pembroke Club Scholarship Fund. 

The fact that a sizeable crowd was on 
hand for the event was traced to the bub- 
bling enthusiasm shown by the members 
of the club toward Wine Tasting Parties in 
general and to the efficient taxi service 
provided by President Saunders, who put 
his newly acquired English taxi cab to 
good use that evening. 

Dr. Vernon R. Alden '45, the speaker 
at the Boston Brown Club's annual dinner- 
meeting on May 12, will retire in June as 
president of Ohio University to become 
chairman of the board of the Boston Cor- 
poration. Prior to accepting the post at 
Ohio University, Alden had served as asso- 
ciate dean of the Harvard Graduate School. 



MAY 1969 



35 



Rollcall of Reunions 



Down through the years the old-timers 
liked to say that there was something 
special about a Brown reunion. And they 
were right. It's somewhat comforting to 
know that the situation hasn't changed. If 
anything. Brown reunions have taken on 
added significance and appeal over the 
years. 

The basic traditions of the Brown re- 
union are still the same. The Alumni Dinner 
is held on Friday night, although the scene 
has shifted to Sharpe Refectory in the 
Wriston Quadrangle and there is a cock- 
tail party in Hughes Court prior to the 
dinner. The Campus Dance still has its 
rightful place on the Friday night agenda, 
although it seems that the young people are 
dancing less than was once the case. The 
Baccalaureate Service and President's Re- 
ception are features of the Sunday pro- 
gram, as they have been for so many years, 
and then, of course, there is the magic of 
that Commencement Procession Monday 
morning. 

The events mentioned above are basic. 
But there have been some important addi- 
tions over the past decade that have helped 
to fill out the four-day reunion schedule. 
Saturday used to be a rather quiet day. 
The five-year groups did their celebrating 
off campus, and there was nothing sched- 
uled to attract the member of an off-year 
class who might like to visit his Alma 
Mater informally during the reunion sea- 
son. 

All of this has changed. The Alumni 
Field Day, established hy the Association 
of Class Secretaries in 1958, now attracts 
close to 4,000 persons to Aldrich-Dexter 
Field between 1 and 5 p.m. Sponsorship 
this year is by the Brown Club of Rhode 
Island. The Commencement Pops Concert, 
a 9 to 11 p.m. feature, has in five short 
years become one of the finest social events 
of the year on College Hill. And the Sat- 
urday morning schedule now includes the 
Hour with the Faculty for those who wish 
to come back and listen to some of their 
"old" professors. 

For the first time within memory, there 
will be no 25lh Reunion on campus this 
spring. The Classes of 1944, 1945, and 
1946 have decided to band together and 
have one gigantic reunion next June. 

All other reunion reports are listed be- 
low, with the information as complete as 
is possible when dealing with a mid-April 
deadline. In most cases, separate class 
mailings will be sent out to supplement 
this information. Our appreciation to the 
class correspondents who supplied the in- 
formation for these reports. 



1899 — We regret to report that our Class 
will not attempt a reunion this year. We 



are saddened by the loss of our president, 
Howard C. Barber, and our few surviving 
members are either semi-disabled or dis- 
persed in inconvenient locations. We will 
take note of the reunion, however, and we 
do have fond memories of reunions past. 

1904 — Although this year's Commence- 
ment will be an epochal event for the class 
— the 65th year beyond Brunonia's halls 
— the reunion program will differ little 
from our annual get-togethers. The same 
informality and freedom action of each 
returnee over the four-day period will be 
maintained. Any differences will be more 
in mind than body. Our lodging will be in 
Wayland House in the Wriston Quad, 
where we will be guests of the University. 
This location is very near Sharpe Refec- 
tory as well as other centers of activity. 

The Alumni Dinner Friday night opens 
the formal phase of the reunion program, 
preceded, as usual, by the social hour of 
all alumni and their guests in Hughes 
Court. This is a fine opportunity to greet 
contemporaries. Saturday night, classmates 
will enjoy their annual dinner at Carr's, a 
walk of only a city block from Faunce 
House. Monday morning, the highlight of 
all reunions is the gathering of alumni on 
the College Green in preparation for the 
march down College Hill. As the strains 
of the Commencement March fill the air, 
one can't help but be filled with nostalgia. 
It is an emotional moment. 

At noon, following the graduation exer- 
cises at the Meeting House and on the 
Middle Campus, the classmates will gather 
for the 50-PIus Luncheon in the Chancel- 
lor's Dining Room of Sharpe Refectory. 
After that, the parting — and not without a 
certain amount of emotion. 

Classmates planning to return should 
make room reservations as soon as pos- 
sible by calling Bob Hill at the Brown 
Housing Office (863-2253). 

1909 — There will be as much warmth to 
the 60th Reunion of the class as there was 



A popular custom initiated nearly a 
decade ago will be continued this spring, 
with all five-year reunion classes being 
provided free accommodations on cam- 
pus. Robert E. Hill, assistant director 
of housing and student residences, has 
worked out with the various chairmen 
the following house assignments: 

1904, Wayland House. 1909, Poland 
House. 1914, Marcy House. 1919, Mead 
House. 1924, Buxton House. 1929, Ev- 
erett House. 1934, Diman House. 1939, 
OIney House. 1949, Archibald House. 
1954, Kappa Sigma. 1959, Phi Delta 
Beta. 1964, Kappa Delta Upsilon. 



I 



in earlier reunions. However, the pace will 
he slightly slower. The schedule calls for 
attendance at the Alumni Dinner on Friday 
evening. There will be a stag dinner at the 
Hope Club Saturday evening, with Mrs. 
Albert Harkness of 5 Cooke St. entertain- 
ing the ladies at the same time. All will 
get-together following dinner and head for 
the College Green and the Pops Concert. 
Dr. Buffum has reserved a table for the 
Pops, and those wishing tickets should 
write to him at 1 59 George St. 

Sunday is a full day. The ladies and gen- 
tlemen will enjoy a luncheon at 12:30 p.m. 
at the home of Dr. Buffum. At 3:45 there 
will be a reception at the President's house, 
and at 8:30 that evening there will be a 
Sock & Buskin presentation at the Faunce 
House Theater. The march down College 
Hill, and up again, gets more difficult each 
year. However, we'd like a good turnout 
for Monday, June 2. 

1910 — The Class has made it a point 
over the years to have an annual reunion. 
The schedule included the Alumni Dinner 
on Friday, an easy day on Saturday, and a 
dinner at Squantum on Sunday. While our 
plans are not in final shape, the program is 
about the same this year. Members plan- 
ning to attend should contact Secretary 
Spicer at 158 Bowen St., Providence, R. I. 
02906. 

191 1 — Members of the class, their wives, 
sweethearts, and invited guests will enjoy 
a social hour and roast beef dinner at the 
Agawam Hunt Club, East Providence, on 
Sunday evening. June 1, the night before 
Commencement. The committee includes 
Chairman Earle B. Arnold, Ellis L. Yat- 
man, and G. Fred Swanson. 

1913 — Any members of the class (wives 
included) who are in town at the time are 
invited to George Metcalf's house for cock- 
tails on Friday evening. May 30, at 5:30 
p.m. Members will then attend the Alumni 
Dinner. Metcalf's home is at 217 Angell St. 

1914 — Reunion plans were incomplete as 
we went to press with this report. However, 
several things were established. Classmates 
and their ladies will use Marcy House as 
reunion headquarters during the four-day 
week end. A class mailing will provide 
complete details. 

1915— The Class will hold its 54th Re- 
union at the Hope Club on Benevolent 
Street on Friday, May 30. Compotation will 
begin at 4:30. We will also hold our an- 
nual meeting for the election of officers 
and for other matters that may properly 
come before the meeting. It is hoped that 
there will be a large attendance. Len 
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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



Once again, members of the 50-Plus 
Classes returning to College Hill will 
find special arrangements made for 
them throughout the reunion week-end. 
There will be an informal reunion for 
these men in Appleget Lounge in Hope 
College Saturday afternoon (May 31) 
at 2 p.m., but the old grads are urged to 
make use of that area at any time dur- 
ing the four-day get-together. The 
lounge will provide an ideal spot to rest 
and talk or a starting off point for a 
leisurely ramble about the campus. 

The Chancellor's Dining Room in 
Sharpe Refectory will be the scene of 
the special 50-Plus Luncheon on Mon- 
day afternoon at 1 p.m. All members of 
these classes are guests of the University 
on this occasion. TTie old grads will 
gather there immediately following the 
graduation ceremony on the College 
Green. 



us in the Providence area are beginning to 
think in terms of our 55th Reunion next 
year, and we would like your ideas on the 
program. It will be of interest to you to 
know that at the present time there are 125 
members in the class. After the meeting at 
the Hope Club, we will go to the Sharpe 
Refectory for the Alumni Dinner. 

1916 — Following a very pleasant tradi- 
tion, classmates will once again enjoy the 
gracious hospitality of Stan McLeod and 
his wife, Ruth, on Friday, May 30, at their 
home at 15 Freeman Parkway, Providence. 
The social hour will commence at 5 p.m., 
after which the men and women will travel 
together to the Alumni Dinner in Sharpe 
Refectory. 

1918 — There will be no special reunion 
activities this June. TTie 50th last year was 
without doubt the finest, a hard act to fol- 
low. Classmates will gather in the Quad- 
rangle for a toast one half hour prior to 
the Alumni Dinner on Friday. Some are 
planning to reserve tables for the Pops 
Concert Saturday night. 

1919 — The wives will join with the gen- 
tlemen at all events as the Class celebrates 
its 50th Reunion, The program is a good 
one, with a proper blend of activities and 
free time suitable to those who have 
reached our station in life. 

There will be a cocktail party Friday 
afternoon, leading up to one of the most 
traditional of all Brown social events, the 
Alumni Dinner. The morning hours Satur- 
day will afford those who are so inclined 
an opportunity to tour the campus and 
view the new buildings. The Graduate Cen- 
ter is a must. Some may wish to stop in at 
the Alumni Field Day at Aldrich-Dexter 
that afternoon. This is always a fun event, 
and an excellent opportunity to meet and 
greet old cronies. The highlight of the 50th 
comes Saturday night when we hold the 
Class dinner at the Providence Art Club. 
Following the dinner, we will all journey 
to the College Green for the very lovely 
Commencement Pops Concert. 

On Sunday, the gang will travel to Bar- 



rington for the dinner at the Rhode Island 
Country Club. In every case possible, we 
would like the men of '19 to join in the 
Commencement Procession Monday morn- 
ing. The Reunion Committee includes 
Chairman Roger T. Clapp, President 
Thomas F. Black, Jr., ex-officio, Alton C. 
Chick, Dr. Joseph C. Johnston, Arthur J. 
Levy, and H. Raymond Searles. 

1923 — Although 1969 is not a major an- 
niversary year for '23, the class plans to 
have its usual reunion with members from 
distant points returning. President Ron 
Smith will be host at a Friday afternoon 
cocktail party at the University Club, just 
to get the show on the road. The ladies will 
remain at the club for dinner while the 
men journey to Sharpe Refectory for the 
traditional Alumni Dinner. The Campus 
Dance is still an attractive event, for those 
with sufficient ambition. 

Aldrich-Dexter Field will be the scene of 
the Alumni Field Day Saturday afternoon, 
a fun event of some 10 years' standing. 
That evening there will be cocktails and 
dinner at the beautiful new Graduate Cen- 
ter on Charles Field St. At 9 p.m., we 
move to the College Green for the fifth an- 
nual Commencement Pops Concert. 

Sunday, June 1, has been left open. 
However, we will pick up the reunion pro- 
gram Monday morning with the traditional 
class breakfast with wives at the University 
Club, Once again. Bill McCormick and 
Jed Jones will serve as hosts. Thus forti- 
fied, we are prepared for the Commence- 
ment March down College Hill. 

1924 — The fabulous 45th Reunion en- 
compasses a colorful and varied program 
of events beginning with the Reunion of 
Reunions, the Alumni Dinner Friday eve- 
ning, and concluding with the colorful 
Commencement March Monday morning. 

Headquarters will be Buxton House in 
the Wriston Quadrangle. Saturday activities 
include cocktails and lunch at Carr's and 
then the Alumni Field Day, where the class 
will have a separate tent. Paul F. Mac- 




kesey '32, executive alumni officer of the 
University, will speak at the Saturday 
luncheon. Dinner that evening will be at 
the Hope Club, after which we will assem- 
ble at the Class tables on the College 
Green for the Pops Concert. 

Wheelchairs and walking canes will be 
available Sunday for those members who 
need them. Cocktails will be served in the 
lounge of the Graduate Center, followed 
by a buffet luncheon on the Dining Bal- 
cony overlooking the courtyard. Monday, 
we will parade practically on the heels of 
the piccolo and French horn players in the 
band. In deference to the inroads of time 
and tide, the entire program is campus ori- 
ented and within walking distance of our 
headquarters. 

One of the features of our program at 
the Graduate Center Sunday will be the 
appearance of Ira Magaziner, president of 
the senior class. He is the co-author of the 
so-called Maxwell-Magaziner report on 
curriculum reform at Brown and has been 
president of his class all four years. It is 
hoped that he will bring to us a sense of 
what has been happening on the campus 
over the past 12 months. 

1926 — The 43rd annual reunion will 
start with a cocktail party Friday after- 
noon. May 30, in the lounge of Littlefield 
Hall. Classmates and their ladies will meet 
there between 5 and 7 p.m., before attend- 
ing the Alumni Dinner. Some members 
have indicated that they will attend the 
Campus Dance and quite a few are making 
arrangements to sit together at the Pops 
Concert Saturday evening. 

1929 — An attractive four-day package 
has been put together by the reunion com- 
mittee. The program starts early Friday 
afternoon with registration and a cocktail 
party at headquarters. The Friday agenda 
includes the Alumni Dinner and Campus 
Dance. Saturday, of course, is the big day 
in our 40th Reunion. The business meeting 
will be held at noon, following the cock- 
tail brunch. After a luncheon at our cam- 



MAPPING PLANS jor the 

Pops Concert are, seated. 
Honorary Chairman William 
H. Edwards '19, who also 
will serve as chief marshal 
on his 50th Reunion, and Co- 
Chairman Mrs. Ormston C. 
Aldred F50. Standing is 
General Chairman Peter T. 
Barstow '57. The Pops will 
feature the Rhode Island 
Philharmonic Orchestra, 
with Francis Madeira con- 
ducting, and guest soloists 
Earl Wrighlson and Lois 
Hunt. Tickets for the event, 
to be held on Saturday, May 
31, front 9 to 11 p.m., are 
$5 and may be secured by 
writing to Pembroke Alum- 
nae Office, 185 Meeting St., 
Providence 02912. Sponsor- 
ship is by the Brown Club 
of Rhode Island and the 
Pembroke College Club 
of Providence. 



MAY 1969 



S7 



Reunion Rollcall 



pus headquarters, some members will wan- 
der out to Aldrich-Dexter Field for the 
Alumni Field Day while others may prefer 
to rest for a while in preparation for the 
events of the evening. 

The highlight of the reunion comes Sat- 
urday evening when classmates and their 
ladies gather at the Agawam Hunt Club 
for the class dinner. This will be a pleasant 
affair, with nostalgia the main attraction. 
After dinner, we will move back to the 
campus for the Pops Concert. Plans for 
Sunday include an informal brunch on 
campus, the class golf tournament, the 
President's Reception, and a compotation 
at Alex DiMartino's spread. Your reunion 
committee includes President Roger Shat- 
tuck, Claude Belknap, Ted Harris, Alex 
DiMartino, Ken Scott, and Les Shaal. 

1932 — The reunion pattern is about the 
same as it is in all off-year reunions: 
Alumni Dinner and Campus Dance Friday, 
lunch at Wannamoisett Saturday followed 
by golf and then the Class dinner, and the 
Pops Concert that evening. 

1934 — An all-out effort has been made 
to put together an attractive package for 
classmates planning to return for their .^."ith 
reunion. Headquarters will be in Diman 
House, a part of the Wriston Quadrangle. 
Registration will be held there slurl'ng at 
noon on Friday, followed by a late-after- 
noon cocktail parly. Dinner is at the Holi- 
day Inn and the Campus Dance follows. 
The dance ends at 2 a.m., hut not the ac- 
tivities of the '34 group. We will enjoy an 
after-glow back at Diman House, with no 
curfew. 

Saturday is another big day. Early risers 
may wish to take a tour of the campus, 
with special checks on the new Graduate 
Center and the Bryant College land re- 
cently purchased by Brown, We will move 
to the Metacomet Country Club at 11:30, 
where luncheon will be served and the class 
picture will be taken. The Alumni Field 
Day will take up much of the afternoon, 
setting the stage for a buffet dinner back 
at Diman House. The climax to Saturday is 
the Pops Concert. 

The gang will leave for Bristol at 1 1 
a.m. Sunday to enjoy a picnic at the Free- 
mans' estate on Poppasquash Road, cour- 
tesy of John Gross. There will be time for 
relaxing before we take that long walk 
down to the First Baptist Church Monday 
morning. 

1938 — For the first time, the class will 
hold a major off-year reunion. Although 
planned on a do-it-yourself, a la carte ba- 
sis, the plans offer classmates all the serv- 
ices of a five-year reunion. Friday will fea- 
ture a cocktail party at our headquarters 
prior to the Alumni Dinner. The Campus 
Dance will close out the day. Saturday 
morning, classmates and their families will 
have an opportunity to tour the Rockefel- 
ler Library, Barus-HoUey building. Gradu- 
ate Center, and the newly-acquired Bryant 



Campus. All this is in the morning. The 
afternoon will include the Alumni Field 
Day, followed by the Pops Concert that 
evening. The Baccalaureate Service and 
President's Reception will fill the schedule 
Sunday afternoon, with the Commence- 
ment Procession drawing things to a close 
on Monday morning. Reunion chairman is 
Bob Thomas, who can be reached at JA 
1-9100. 

1939 — The 30th Reunion should be a 
good one. A full schedule of events has 
been arranged, right from the class recep- 
tion at Olney House headquarters Friday 
afternoon through the colorful procession 
Monday morning. 

Those two old standbys. the Alumni 
Dinner and Campus Dance, will fill out the 
Friday evening part of the program, as 
they have done for so many years. On Sat- 
urday afternoon, the Alumni Field Day 
will provide an opportunity for softball, 
tennis, beer, and snacks — not to mention 
informal reunions with friends from other 
classes. That evening there will be a cock- 
tail party and clambake at the Squantum 
Club, with the schedule arranged so that 
those who wish to attend the Pops Concert 
may do so. 

1949 — Some new twists have been 
planned for our 20th Reunion, although 
most of the traditional events are still in- 
cluded on the agenda. Archibald House 
will serve as headquarters, with registra- 
tion getting under way there early Friday 
afternoon. The rest of the day includes a 
cocktail party at Arnold Lounge, the 
Alumni Dinner, Campus Dance, and a 2 
a.m. breakfast. 

Saturday is the big day for the '49ers. 
After breakfast, the clan will gather in Ar- 
nold Lounge for the class meeting. The 
class picture will be taken at that time, and 
everyone in the photo gets a copy free. The 
action shifts to Aldrich-Dexter in the after- 
noon, with the '49 tent providing the focal 
point for our activities there. About 5 p.m. 
special buses will head for Rocky Point for 
an old-fashioned New England shore din- 
ner. And then — and then — we will board a 
boat for a delightful sail down Narragan- 
sett Bay. Making ihe moonlight cruise 
all the more appealing will be an open bar. 
An orchestra will play music to cruise by. 

There will be tours of the campus either 
Saturday or Sunday. There are many new 
things to see, including Brown's new Grad- 
uate Center. We are hoping that a good per- 
centage will remain on campus until Mon- 
day morning to participate in the wrap-up 
activities. 

1950 — The typical off-year reunion is 
planned. Classmates will gather at the 
1950 tent at the Alumni Field Day Satur- 
day afternoon and will share several tables 
at the Pops Concert that evening. There 
will be an urgent class meeting at the Field 
Day tent at 2:30 p.m. to discuss with Presi- 
dent Kiely plans for our 20th next June. 

1951 — Following tradition, the Class will 
hold its typical off-year reunion. Class ta- 



bles will be available at the Alumni Dinner 
and Campus Dance Friday night and at 
the '51 tent come Alumni Field Day time 
on Saturday afternoon. Set-ups will be pro- 
vided at the large '51 table at the Campus 
Dance. Charlie Andrews is serving as re- 
union chairman and reservations should be 
made through him at Box 1859, Brown 
University, Providence. 

1952 — There will be no formal program 
this year. However, some classmates are 
planning to return to the Alumni Field 
Day Saturday afternoon while others are 
reserving tables for the Pops Concert on 
the College Green that evening. 

1954 — The week end of May 30 to June 
2 has been christened "The Splendid Fif- 
teenth" by the reunion committee. Kappa 
Sigma has been secured as reunion head- 
quarters for the week end. The headquar- 
ters will he put to the test early Friday aft- 
ernoon with registration and a cocktail 
party. If the weather is fair, the order of 
those two events may very well be re- 
versed. The traditional events. Alumni 
Dinner and Campus Dance, round out the 
day. 

Brunch will be held at reunion head- 
quarters on Saturday morning, if Friday's 
cocktail party has broken up by that time. 
There will be fun and games at Aldrich- 
Dexter Field in the afternoon, with the 
Alumni Field Day featuring baseball, 
rugby, pony rides (especially for those 
who have been going around in circles all 
week end, anyway), and appropriate bever- 
ages (and you know what ihai means!). 
There will be a reception and dinner at 
Churchill House (right near Carr's) at 
6:15, followed by the Pops Concert. An 
afterglow back at reunion headquarters is 
scheduled, if we don't interfere with the 
Friday afternoon cocktail party. 

The rest of the week end shapes up like 
this: cocktails and dinner at the Agawam 
Club on Sunday and participation in the 
Commencement March Monday morning. 
It should be a good one. Make your plans 
to attend. 

1959 — With Dan Kiley serving as chair- 
man, the reunion committee has come up 
with a four-day program that is sure to 
please. All events have been scheduled with 
minimum expense and maximum enjoy- 
ment in mind. And remember, there is free 
lodging for the entire week end for all 
classmates and their w ives. 

Registration will take place Friday after- 
noon at our headquarters. Phi Delta Beta 
Fraternity. A cocktail party will be held 
there starting at 5 p.m. and ending in time 
for attendance at the Alumni Dinner. The 
Campus Dance will take up most of the 
evening and early-morning hours. 

Headquarters will be the scene of the 
brunch and cocktail party Saturday morn- 
ing. The important class meeting has been 
scheduled for 12:30, after which all hands 
will depart for the Alumni Field Day at 
Aldrich-Dexter Field. A class tent will pro- 
vide a handy rallying point. The Class din- 
ner will be held at "The Edge" Saturday 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



evening, with special buses available to 
take the gang to Chairman Kiley's estab- 
lishment. Coach Len Jardine will join us 
and speak briefly. The Pops Concert and 
an Afterglow at headquarters will round 
out the day. 

One of the features of the Sunday pro- 
gram is the Sip-N-Sun affair at the Narra- 
gansett Boat Club. Depending on the 
weather, some will stay on at the boat- 
house while others will return to attend the 
President's Reception. It all winds up Mon- 
day morning with the Commencement 
March down College Hill. 

1964 — Those returning to Brown for 



their 5th Reunion will be able to register at 
Kappa Delta Upsilon between 1 p.m. and 
10 p.m. We recommend an early arrival, 
because the class cocktail party takes place 
at 4:30 Friday afternoon. Special tables 
have been provided for the men and 
women of '64 at both the Alumni Dinner 
and Campus Dance. 

Everyone will be expected to shape-up 
Saturday morning. For those who are hav- 
ing difficulty achieving this objective, there 
will be a Shape-Up Meal, consisting of 
Bloody Marys, whiskey sours, Danish pas- 
try, and coffee. For those so inclined, 
there will be a tour of the campus at 11 
a.m. The afternoon feature is the Alumni 



Field Day, followed by the class cocktail 
party at the University Club. The Pem- 
broke Class of '64 will be our guest. The 
class dinner is at Barus-HoUey, and then 
we take in the Pops Concert, where a spe- 
cial set of tables has been reserved. 

Sunday will provide some let-up in the 
pace, but not much. The feature of the day 
will be a pool party and cookout at the 
home of Mr. and Mrs. Germain Saute in 
Coventry, R. I. The Commencement activi- 
ties Monday morning bring the reunion 
to a close. There is a 50-Plus luncheon for 
the older classes, but we will have to wait 
45 more years before becoming eligible for 
that one. 



The Commencement Calendar 



Wednesday, May 28 

6:45 p.m. Pembroke College: Senior Din- 
ner, Andrews Hall. 

Thursday, May 29 

12:30 p.m. Pembroke College: Luncheon 
for Classes of 1899, 1904, 1909, and 
1914. Alumnae House, 185 Meeting St. 

2:00 p.m. Rehearsal for Graduation. First 
Baptist Meeting House. 

6:45 p.m. Brovm Senior Dinner: Sharpe 
Refectory. 

8:30 p.m. The Sock and Buskin Alumni 
present "Period of Adjustment" by Ten- 
nessee Williams. Faunce House Theatre. 

Friday, May 30 

2:00-5:00 p.m. Open House. Hunter S. 
Marston Boathouse, Seekonk River. 

5:30 p.m. All-College Reunion and Compo- 
tation for alumni and guests. Hughes 
Court, Wriston Quadrangle. 

5:30 p.m. Pembroke College: Alumnae 
Punch Party. Alumnae House lawn. 

6:30 p.m. Pembroke College: Alumnae 
Dinner and Annual Meeting of the 
Alumnae Association. Andrews Hall. 

7:15 p.m. The Chapel Bell will ring for the 
Alumni Dinner. The meal, to which 
wives and other guests are also invited, 
will be served at 7:30. The Annual 
Meeting of the Associated Alumni fol- 
lows. Sharpe Refectory. 

9:00 p.m. The Sock and Buskin Alumni 
present "Period of Adjustment." Faunce 
House Theatre. 

9:30 p.m. Class Night Promenade, followed 
by the Campus Dance. The College 
Green and Sayles Hall. (Senior Sing on 
the Sayles Hall steps at midnight.) 

Saturday, May 31 

7:00-10:00 a.m. Informal Breakfast (gen- 
eral). Sharpe Refectory. 

9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Buildings open for 
visitors: Alumni House, Barus and Hol- 
ley Building. Bio-Medical Center, Gradu- 
ate Center, Manning Chapel, Meehan 
Auditorium, Nicholson House, Pembroke 
Quadrangle, Prince Engineering Labora- 
tory, Power Plant, John D. Rockefeller, 
Jr., Library, Sayles Hall, University Hall, 

MAY 1969 



Wilson Hall. (Tours in Rockefeller Li- 
brary, Barus and HoUey and the new 
Bio-Medical Center between 9:30 a.m. 
and 2:30 p.m.) 
9:30 a.m. Walking Tour of historic Benefit 
St. Leaving from Faunce House Terrace. 
9:15 a.m. Open Forum and Panel Discus- 
sion on "Student Activism '68-'69." Car- 
michael Auditorium, Hunter Laboratory 
of Psychology. 

9:30 a.m. Annual Meeting of the Brown 
University Corporation. University Hall. 

10:00 a.m. Meeting of Trustees Emeriti. 
Appleget Lounge, Hope College. 

11:00 a.m. Phi Beta Kappa: Annual Meet- 
ing of the Rhode Island Alpha, followed 
by Initiation of newly-elected members. 
Crystal Room, Alumnae Hall. 

11:00 a.m. "An Hour with the Faculty." 
Two sessions in Barus and HoUey Build- 
ing. 

12:30 p.m. Phi Beta Kappa: Luncheon for 
Initiates, other members, and guests. 
Sharpe Refectory. 

12:30 p.m. Alumni Baseball Game. Al- 
drich-Dexter Field. 

1:00 p.m. Pembroke College: Alumnae 
Class Luncheons. 

1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Alumni Field Day for 
alumni and their families. Seniors, their 
families and guests. Aldrich-Dexter Field. 

2:00 p.m. Informal Reunion for the 50- 
Plus Classes (Brown). Appleget Lounge, 
Hope College. 

2:00 p.m. Rehearsal for the Graduate 
School Convocation. Sayles Hall. 

2:30 p.m. The Sock and Buskin Alumni 
present "Period of Adjustment." Faunce 
House TTieatre. 

2:30 p.m. Rugby Match: Brown vs. Bos- 
ton Rugby Club. Aldrich-Dexter Field. 

6:00 p.m. Pembroke College: Reception for 
alumnae, husbands, seniors and their 
parents, guests. Andrews Hall Terrace. 

6:30 p.m. Pembroke College: All-College 
Alumnae Buffet Supper. Andrews Hall. 

6:30 p.m. Pembroke College: Dean's Sup- 
per for the Class of 1919. 

9:00 p.m. Commencement Pops Concert by 
the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orches- 
tra; Wrightson and Hunt, vocalists. The 
College Green. 



Sunday, June 1 

7:00 a.m. Informal breakfast (general) 
available until noon. Ivy Room, Sharpe 
Refectory. 

9:30 a.m. Roman Catholic Mass for 
alumni. Seniors, families, and friends. 
Manning Chapel. 

11:00 a.m. Morning Worship and Alumni 
Memorial Service for alumni, Seniors, 
families, and friends. Manning Chapel. 

1:00 p.m. Reserve Officers Training Corps 
Commissioning Ceremony. Sayles Hall. 

2:00 to 5:00 p.m. Buildings open for vis- 
itors. 

2:30 p.m. Baccalaureate Service. First Bap- 
tist Meeting House. (The Service will 
also be broadcast to The College Green 
and certain buildings nearby.) 

3:30 p.m. Graduate School Reception. 
Graduate Center. 

3:45 p.m. The President's Reception. (The 
Deans of The College. Pembroke Col- 
lege, and The Graduate School will as- 
sist Dr. and Mrs. Heffner in receiving 
alumni, and alumnae, candidates for ad- 
vanced and baccalaureate degrees, their 
families and guests, and other friends of 
the University.) The President's House, 
55 Power St. 

8:30 p.m. The Sock and Buskin Alumni 
present "Period of Adjustment." Faunce 
House Theatre. 

Monday, June 2 

7:00 a.m. Informal Breakfast (general) for 
all friends of the University. Sharpe Re- 
fectory. 

The 201st Annual Commencement 
8:30 a.m. The Commencement Procession 

will form on The College Green. 
9:15 a.m. The Graduate School Procession 

will form on The Front Campus. 

10:00 A.M. Commencement Exercises 

First Baptist Meeting House: Candidates 
for baccalaureate degrees and honorary de- 
grees. Senior Orations. (The ceremony will 
be broadcast to The College Green.) 



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Reunion RoUcall Seven alumni seek two trustee posts 



Sayles Hall: Convocation of The Gradu- 
ate School. 

11:00 a.m. Awarding of baccalaureate di- 
plomas, and advanced degrees. Confer- 
ring of honorary degrees. The College 
Green. 

1:00 p.m. (immediately following the Com- 
mencement Exercises). Commencement 
Luncheon (general). Sharpe Refectory. 

1:00 p.m. The College: Luncheon for men 
of the 50- Year Class and 50-Plus Brown 
Classes. Chancellor's Dining Room, 
Sharpe Refectory. 

1:00 p.m. Luncheon for Corporation mem- 
bers and special guests. 55 Power St. 

Note: In the event of rain, alternate ar- 
rangements will be in effect for certain of 
the events listed above. 



25th Reunion Gift 

(Continued from page 25) 

method of investment, preferably without 
the cumbersome obligation of having to 
go back to the class as a whole for ap- 
proval. 

The University, or the committee men- 
tioned above, could make recommenda- 
tions to class fund chairmen as to possible 
changes. Such recommendations should be 
just that, and not binding on the individ- 
ual classes, which should retain control 
over their individual funds. 1 would rec- 
ommend that, by the vote of an individual 
class chairman and class president, and 
perhaps the approval of the chairman of 
the Investment Committee of the Univer- 
sity, that a change in a fund can be made. 
In this manner, I would hope we could 
build in the flexibility to keep the 25lh re- 
union funds as productively invested as 
possible over the years. Since the Univer- 
sity itself in the past year has made the 
important step of changing its own method 
of investment management of the Univer- 
sity Endowment Fund, we also should 
make every effort to ensure that the 25th 
reunion funds are being handled as intelli- 
gently as possible. 

These are some of the ways that we 
can ensure that the program is a successful 
and vibrant one in the years to come. Ul- 
timately, however, its success will depend 
upon the active interest and support of 
thousands of Brown alumni, who not only 
contribute dollars, but by their interest 
ensure that the program will continue to 
be as responsive as possible, not only to 
changing opportunity in the investment 
world, but to the changing needs of Brown 
University. 

1 believe the program has been worth 
the effort; 1 hope alumni do generally. 1 
look forward to the opportunity of writing 
about the program again in 1984, and per- 
haps persuading my classmates to start on 
our 50th reunion fund. 



Votes have begun to come in from the 
alumni body, which has been asked to 
nominate two candidates for the important 
position of alumni trustee along with elec- 
ting other vital officers within the regional 
structure of the Associated Alumni organ- 
ization. All trustees serve for five-year pe- 
riods. 

Alumni Executive Officer Paul F. Mac- 
kesey '32 has stressed the importance of 
alumni participation in these elections, 
with May 22 set as the deadline for re- 
turning the ballots. 

The alumni body in effect nominates 
the two alumni trustees — there are seven 
candidates this year — since the Brown Cor- 
poration, according to its Charter, elects 
its own members. The Corporation then 
considers these nominations at its June 
meeting to complete the election. 

This year marks the end of a transition 
period instituted four years ago for the 
purpose of giving Pembroke alumnae rep- 
resentation on the Corporation. The regu- 
lar rotation is now established through the 
nomination of two men annually, with an 
alumna chosen in four out of every five 



years. Because of this transitional period, 
no alumnae are on the ballot this year. 

To assist alumni who have not yet sent 
in their nominations on convenient punch 
cards mailed out a month ago, the Monthly 
provides the following brief biographical 
sketches of the seven candidates competing 
for nominations as alumni trustees: 

Joseph E. Buonanno '34 
A businessman, Buonanno is chairman 
of the board of the Providence chemical 
firm of Crown-Metro, Inc. He has been 
active in a number of University activities 
including development work and athletics. 
He has served as president of the Brown 
Football Association for four years, and 
is a member of the Development Council 
and a former head class agent. He lives in 
Providence. 

As an undergraduate, Buonanno was ac- 
tive in athletics, mostly football and track, 
and he was a teacher-coach at Massanut- 
len Military Academy and Hope High 
School. Providence. He also served Brown 
as freshman football coach. Buonanno 
was a former chairman of the Rhode Is- 





Alumni Trustee Nominees 

Top Row: 

Joseph E. Buonanno, Donald Campbell, Wallace W. Elton 

Second Row: 

William E. Fay, Jr., Dr. John O'L. Nolan, Donald L. 

Saunders 

Third Row: 
Harvey M. Spear 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



land Governor's Council to study unem- 
ployment compensation. 

Donald Campbell "45 

Donald Campbell is New England dis- 
trict manager for American Enka Corpo- 
ration and has been busy in a number of 
University activities over the years. He is 
a past president of the Associated Alumni 
and a leader for many years in Brown 
fund-raising activities. He is a former 
trustee of the Brown Fund and for the 
past two years has been chairman of Re- 
gion One for the Brown Fund. He is also 
a member of the Development Council. 

He was active in athletics as an under- 
graduate and retains that interest today as 
a member of the Football Association. He 
received the Class of 1910 Football Award. 
Campl;ell served as president of the Brown 
Club of Rhode Island and lives in Provi- 
dence. 

Wallace W. Elton '29 

Retired as e.xeculive vice president and 
director of the J. Walter Thompson Com- 
pany, Elton continues active today as vice 
president of the International Executive 
Corps, an organization sending business 
e.xecutives abroad. He is a past director 
and vice-president of the Brown Club in 
New York, which he served as president 
last year. Elton is a regional director of 
the Associated Alumni. 

As an undergraduate. Elton was editor 
of the Brown ]ii\i, associate editor of the 
yearbook, and active in sports. He has 
been active in fimd-raising campaigns for 
many years. Elton is the author of two 
books on Naval aviation. He lives in Rye, 
N. Y. 

William E. Fay. Jr. '38 

William Fay is senior vice-president, di- 
rector, and member of the executive com- 
mittee of Smith, Barney & Company, Chi- 
cago. He is also president of the Brain 
Research Foundation, which is affiliated 
with the University of Chicago. He has 
been a regional director of the Associated 
Alumni and is a past secretary and former 
president of the Brown Club of Chicago. 

Among his many activities in the Chi- 
cago and Winnetka areas. Fay is a mem- 
ber of the board of directors and chairman 
of the invjstmeni committee for the United 
Charities of Chicago. He has also worked 
with the Red Cross. Fay lives in Winnetka. 

Dr. John O'L. Nolan '36 
Dr. Nolan is chief of surgery at Con- 
necticut Veterans Hospital, a visiting sur- 
geon at St. Francis Hospital. Hartford, and 
consulting surgeon at Hartford's Institute 
of Living. He has headed a number of 
medical organizations, including serving as 
p:esid3nt of the Connecticut chapter of the 
American College of Surgeons. He served 
two years as president of the Brown Club 
of Hartford and is currently serving a two- 
>ear term as regional director for the As- 
sociated Alumni. 

Among a group of other civic activities. 
Dr. Nolan served as a member of the Gov- 
ernor's Council on Corrections. For young- 
sters in the Greater Hartford area, Dr. No- 
lan organized a peewee hockey league. 



while he still serves as president. He lives 
in West Hartford, Conn. 

Donald L. Saunders '57 
President of Irving M. Saunders & Asso- 
ciates, realtors, Donald Saunders is active 
in a number of organizations of a civic 
and business nature. He is a member of 
the executive committee of the Greater 
Boston Real Estate Board, a director of 
the Rental Housing Association and a di- 
rector of Liberty Bank and Trust Com- 
pany. 

He has served on 12 consecutive Brown 
Fund campaigns and is currently president 
of the Brown Club of Boston. Saunders is 
the immediate past president of the Asso- 
ciation of Class Secretaries. In other 
Brown activities. Saunders is active in the 
Alumni Schools Program, the Develop- 
ment Council, and is a former director-at- 
large of the Associated Alumni. He lives 
in Newton Centre, Mass. 

Harvey M. Spear '42 

A lawyer with the New York City law- 
firm of Spear and Hill, Harvey Spear 
served at one time as an assistant U.S. at- 
torney and as attorney with the Security 
and Exchange Commission. He was a spe- 
cial assistant to the U.S. attorney general 
and a legislative assistant to Senator John 
O. Pastore (R. I.). 

He is a member of the Brown Develop- 
ment Council, formerly vice-president of 
his class, a former trustee of the Brown 
University Fund, and past treasurer and 
president of the Brown Club of New York. 
Spear is a founding member and trustee of 
the Harlem Preparatory School, a trustee 
of the Metropolitan Opera Company and 
is chairman of the trustees for the Wash- 
ington International Horse Show. 



Letters 



(Continued from page I ) 

I've heard in years and I want the student- 
faculty-administration dialogue to con- 
tinue. 

Down with the old (and young) fogies 
who curse the kids and withhold their 
contributions! Up with progress! 

R. C. CARMEL '54 

Los Angeles 

Never From The Bottom 
Sir: I have just heard of the death of 
Judge Fred B. Perkins '19. With his passing 
Brown lost a loyal son and I a friend. I 
knew Fred Perkins for over 50 years. It 
was rather curious in a way and I am 
sure he would not have minded the telling. 
Fred and I attended Classical High 
School (Providence) and Brown together 
but our lives could not have been more 
disparate. Our origins, our social milieus, 
our interests in and out of school were 
entirely different; he was Protestant, I from 
a poor Jewish home. (We were poor in 
those days but not disadvantaged.) In high 
school Fred soon became a leader; I was 



an anonymous member in the rear eche- 
lons. . . . 

In September 1965 I attended our 50th 
Classical High Reunion. By then I had 
shed a little of my anonymity. For the 
first time in our lives Fred and I had a 
long and friendly chat. I never saw him 
again. But a correspondence sprang up 
between us which, with the passage of time, 
became more and more active, wider in 
scope and quite intimate. I began to realize 
how great was Fred's love for Brown and 
how much he appreciated, personally, any- 
thing done for Brown. 

In the winter of 1965 I established a 
small memorial fund at Brown. Promptly I 
received a letter from Fred: "Let me indi- 
cate to you the pleasure it gives me to 
learn of this gift. It is doubly a pleasure 
when it comes from one with whom I had 
association not only at the college but 
previously. It is even more so when the 
projected gift takes on the significance and 
importance envisaged by you. I suppose 
neither you nor I can mold completely the 
lives of the young men in the future, but 
we can by devotion and generosity provide 
a framework in which each one of them 
may have the opportunity of making the 
most of his life. This, it seems to me, is 
perhaps our best gift to posterity." . . . 

He was not without humor. Out of the 
blue I was invited to be a marshal at the 
1969 Commencement. I could think of no 
one at Brown, save Fred, who knew 
enough of me to extend such an invitation. 
I wrote him that I sensed his fine Italian 
hand and added jokingly that the ideal 
academic honor for a 71 -year-old man was 
not to stuff him into a cutaway and high 
hat and send him marching down College 
Hill. He replied puckishly: "It is not our 
custom to pick marshals from the bottom 
of the list. . . ." 

He had taken on the task of raising a 
class gift for the 50th Reunion and wrote: 
". . . When the class is all assembled at 
the Friday night dinner the announcement 
of a truly record-breaking gift should be 
heartwarming to every one of our mem- 
bers." His gratitude for contributions to 
the class gift were boundless. When I sent 
him my pledge, I wrote that I could not 
quite match his contribution because of 
other commitments I could not ignore. His 
answer was characteristic; 

"I am afraid," he wrote, "you cannot 
realize with what pleasure I read your let- 
ter. Gifts to the University mean more 
when they come from persons whom I be- 
lieve I can call my close friends, as in your 
case. I was moved by your reference to 
the situation in Israel. When you say that 
whatever the politics of the situation, you 
cannot ignore your heart nor conscience, 
you speak with eloquence and in a manner 
which moves me deeply. This to the point 
where I would like to make a modest con- 
tribution to some Israeli institution in 
which you are interested." 

In the next letter there was a generous 
check for an Israeli institute for the blind. 
What more does one say about such a 
man? 

DR. SIDNEY A. FOX '19 

New York City 



MAY 1969 



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Bmnonians Far and Near 



1899 

Howard Corthell, a resident of Great 
Barrington, Mass., is the town's only sur- 
viving veteran of the Spanish-American 
War. He still walks briskly to the post of- 
fice every morning, rain or shine. A grad- 
uate of Illinois Technical Institute, he has 
worked on a number of important projects 
over the years, including the Thebes bridge 
across the Mississippi and Grand Central 
Terminal in New York City. A corporal in 
the Spanish-American War, he became a 
captain in World War I. As the Berkshire 
Courier said recently, "Howard Corthell is 
indeed a living example of how to reach 
92 and like it." 

1904 

Reading between the lines of correspond- 
ence one can only conclude that Arthur 
Pope is leaving a deep imprint in the 
field of archaeology in that ancient land 
of Iran. Not only has he supplied leader- 
ship in research and exploration and the 
spreading of the story of Iranian Art, but 
Arthur and Mrs. Pope have donated their 
entire personal library of 7,000 volumes 
and a 50-year collection of Persian art to 
the Asia Institute, of which he has long 
been director. Though he resigned that 
office as of this April, he plans to continue 
as president of the International Associa- 
tion of Iranian Art and Archaeology. 

In a recent letter, Charles Frazer notes 
that, except for the inconvenience of 
crutches to relieve a lame back, he's feel- 
ing fine. Because of much ado nationally 
over civil rights, his book. While Man. 
Black Man, published recently, is selling 
well. 

1905 

E. Sykes Goodwin celebrated his 87th 
birthday Dec. 14. In a recent note, he re- 
called his year of architectural study as a 
special student at M.I.T., where he was 
joined by classmate Ernest B. Lewis. 
"That led to many things," he says. "I 
shared an office downtown with John L. 
Casey '93. It was at 29 Weybosset St. I 
still remember painting 'E. Sykes Goodwin, 
Architect' on the entrance. During the next 
30 years I planned almost every sort of 
structure from a R. I. lakeside girls' camp 
to a Presbyterian church. My work in- 
cluded alterations and additions to a stone 
residence at Narragansett Pier for the 
mother of Joseph Heifeiz, the violinist." 

1906 

"It is interesting how little of importance 
happens at our age," writes Bob Field 
from his home in Watertown, Mass. "Last 
year, however, was something special since 
we celebrated our 50th wedding anniver- 
sary Sept. 2." The Fields spend their sum- 
mers at their cottage on Lake Winnipe- 
saukee at Meredith, N. H. Their winter 
address is 104 Church Street in Watertown. 



1907 

Reading the obit of our classmate and 
secretary, Al Gurney, prompted many 
memories to flash across the mind. One of 
them that stands out is the aversion that 
Al had to television. He never could be 
completely converted to this new means of 
communication. A letter from the dusty 
files on the subject of TV brings the situa- 
tion into focus better than my words could. 

"I am on the eligibility committee of the 
University Club, write class notes for the 
Brown Alumni Monthly, make suggestions 
(when I am asked) to Alumni Secretary 
Bill McCormick, go to church, keep on 
good terms with my neighbors, pay my 
bills (when necessary), fight shy of wres- 
tling matches and basketball games, and re- 
luctantly — very reluctantly — accept occa- 
sional invitations to watch special events 
on TV. Bill Reynolds, my classmate, dug 
me out the other night to see the Kid 
Gavilan-Chuck Davey affair. Now, Bill 
knew all the time that I was deep in the 
reading of Why Waterloo? by A. P. Her- 
bert, but he persisted and so I went to his 
home, albeit I much rather would read of 
the dead Napoleon than to see the live 
(and he was lucky to stay alive against 
Gavilan) Davey. After it was over, I ex- 
pressed the hope that Davey would stick to 
school teaching and leave fighting to the 
rougher elements." 

1909 
The late John Wells contributed a great 
deal to the activities of the class, especially 
the last decade or so since the death of 
Secretary Chafee. John was fond of singing 
when he was in college, serving as a mem- 
ber of the Glee Club and the Quartet. He 
also liked to go cruising with Dr. Buffum 
on the boat owned by Max Barus. Every- 
body liked John. He had a delightful per- 
sonality, a wry wit, and a special way 
with him. He will be missed. 

Classmates also are saddened by the 
death of John W. M. Bunker, former dean 
of the Graduate School at M.I.T. At one 
time, John did quite a bit of portrait paint- 
ing, usually giving the paintings to his sub- 
ject. He was also interested in gardening. 

1910 
Eddy W. Tandy must hold the world's 
record for the greatest amount of news 
crowded on to a post card. If he doesn't, 
he comes close. A recent communication 
from him, written from Lunenburg, Mass., 
tells of his good health. Eddy still does 
quite a bit of bowling (candlepin) and 
shuffleboard. He also likes to keep up 
on the latest books and attend a concert 
now and then. He lives with his daughter. 
Edward S. Spicer and his wife drove to 
Florida and back a short while ago. The 
trip, which covered just over 4,000 miles, 
included a number of stops to visit friends. 



1912 

The Rev. Wilbur S. Deming, part-time 
hospital chaplain for the Council of 
Churches of Greater Bridgeport (Conn.), 
has been presented an award for his serv- 
ices to the inter-group church activities in 
the Bridgeport area. Dr. Deming was cited 
for more than 50 years of missionary and 
pastoral work. He served in India from 
1912 to 1933, was pastor of a congrega- 
tion in Washington, D. C, for 20 years, 
and of the First Church Congregational in 
Fairfield, Conn., from 1959 to 1967. Re- 
cently. Dr. Deming donated a gift of 
$45,000 to the Council of Churches of 
Greater Bridgeport. Dr. Deming is from a 
Brown family. His father graduated in 
1865 and his brother in 1897. 

Mabel Woolley has donated $5,000 to 
the Pawtucket Public Library in memory 
of her husband and our classmate, Clar- 
ence N. Woolley, a Pawtucket attorney for 
better than half a century. The money will 
be used to refurbish the conference room 
of the library to make it more serviceable 
and more attractive. Any money remaining 
from the $5,000 will be put into a fund to 
buy books on ethics, philosophy, and phi- 
lology. The three subjects were of particu- 
lar interest to our classmate. 

1913 
Dr. and Mrs. Leighton T. Bohle have 
moved to 36 Longmeadow Rd., Chelms- 
ford, Mass. He'd appreciate hearing from 
classmates. 

1914 

Joseph H. Parnham reports in with 
word that he will be at the reunion. "This 
year I think I'll pass up the campus tours 
and sightseeing trips." 

Frederick L. Loucks is at 503 Monterey 
Blvd., N.E., St. Petersburg, Fla. He would 
be pleased to hear from members of the 
class. 

Earl Walker is up and about but does 
not expect to get north in June. Bill Mof- 
fett is in the same condition. 

Both Reg Poland and Elliott Bugbee 
plan to be on hand for the 201st Com- 
mencement. 

Mrs. Durgin thanks everyone who sent 
cards and notes to Doc. She says that he 
enjoys them very much. 

1915 
Judge Robert E. Quinn has been re- 
elected president of the Rhode Island Year- 
book Foundation, Inc. Governor Licht '38 
is serving as honorary chairman. 

Edward J. Corcoran has announced a 
new location for his firm, Corcoran, Peck- 
ham, and Hayes: 61 Long Wharf, New- 
port, R. I. Three other Brown men in the 
firm are Edward B. Corcoran '50, William 
W. Corcoran '52, and Arthur W. Murphy 
'59. 



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1916 

Herman M. Davis discontinued full-time 
business activities in 1962 and almost im- 
mediately became affiliated with the Cen- 
tral Chemical Corporation of Salem, Mass., 
as treasurer. "I undertook to perform what 
may euphemistically be called useful du- 
ties," he says. "During the season 1 con- 
tinue my active interest in golf. My grand- 
daughter Diana is a member of the Class 
of 1971 at Pembroke, a date you will note 
concurs with our 55th Reunion. Her father. 
Bob, is a member of the Class of 1946 at 
Brown." 

William N. Ormsby continues as pres- 
ident of the Ormsby Roofing Co., Boston, 
a firm that was established in 1895. Bill 
lives in the beautiful town of Osterville on 
Cape Cod and makes good use of the Os- 
terville Golf Club. 

Dr. Maurice Adelman says that he con- 
tinues to practice pediatrics full time. He's 
also doing some teaching in local hospitals. 

Lincoln R. Arnold reports three chil- 
dren and 10 grandchildren are "all nearby 
and well." Line and his wife are living at 
.180 Ives Rd., East Greenwich, R. L 

Robert E. Briggs is engaged in the ac- 
counting and ta.x business as a public ac- 
countant. He retired from International 
Cotton in 1953, bought an accounting busi- 
ness in Bridgeport, and has continued ac- 
tive since then. "My oldest son is second 
vice-president and actuary with Metropoli- 
tan Life in New York," he says. "The 
younger boy is one of the head program- 
mers for Univac Division of Sperry Rand 
Corporation and has charge of divisions in 
France, Belgium, and Germany. Both are 
graduates of Middlebury College." 

Frank E. Paine, Jr., has been semi-re- 
tired since March of 1964, when he sold 
his firm, the Warwick Building Materials 
Co. "We have two daughters and eight 
grandchildren," he says. "For recreation we 
have done considerable traveling to Eu- 
rope, North Cape, Mediterranean, Canada, 
and Hawaii. Hope to go to the Far East 
next year if our health holds out." 

Harry Burton is more or less retired. 
However, he is doing a great deal of work 
for the Rhode Island Hospital, especially 
in the multiphasing service. 

Charles J. Hill is retired from the Title 
Guarantee Company and apparently is 
enjoying life. 

William A. Graham and Francis J. 
O'Brien are still practicing law, both in 
Providence. 

Nathan B. Burton reminds us that this is 
the 10th year of his retirement, "About 
half the year my wife and I spend our 
time in Zephyrhills, Fla.," he says. "I 
preach occasionally, teach a large adult 
Sunday School class, sing in the choir, and 
have a good time generally. The rest of 
the year I spend in Willimantic, Conn., 
preaching most of the time during the 
summer months. Our daughter is active in 
church and community work in Man- 
chester, Conn., while our son, Dick, is 
teaching high school and doing some 
preaching." 

Harold Messer has been retired for five 
years, following a 42-year career as biology 



Monthly acknowledges contributions 



The Brown Alumni Monthly is sent 
free to all Brown men, but this year, 
as in the past, some have continued to 
make contributions toward the opera- 
tion of the magazine. 

Over the past 15 years, these contri- 
butions have financed additional pages 
in the magazine, an occasional color 
cover, and other extras. This year, the 
Monthly staff purchased a new 35mm. 
camera and other photographic equip- 
ment from this special fund of contri- 
butions. Additionally, artists fees and 
some other extras have been possible 
because of the Contributors Fund. 

The staff of the Monthly expresses its 
appreciation to the following who have 
made contributions to the magazine, as 
well as to those 1500 alumni and others 
who have helped support the magazine 
in past years: 

Miss Jane U. Addelson, Boston, 
Mass. Miss Sharon L. Barry P'68, Cam- 
bridge, Mass. Ralph F. Briggs '31, 
Cleveland, O. John S. Chafee '18, Prov- 
idence. Roland E. Copeland '15, Mad- 
ison, Conn. Miss Marie T. Creedon 
P'48, Hopkinton, Mass. Robert V. Cro- 
nan '31, New York City. Mrs. David 
Davidson, Cumberland, R. I. Gordon 
Dewart '26, Brattleboro, Vt. Miss Nancy 
B. Drew P'60, Sausalito, Calif. Miss 
Christine M. Dunlap P'48, New York 
City. Miss Carol M. Eaton, Wilder, Vt. 
Cdr. Frederick A. Edgecomb '08, Hon- 
olulu. Mrs. Elizabeth M. Famsworth, 



Bristol, R. I. Arturo Gonzalez, Jr., '52, 
London, England. Miss Pamela J. 
Grange P'67, Falls Church, Va. 

Also, Mrs. Joseph I. Grover, Fort 
Lauderdale, Fla. John A. Hurley, New- 
ark, N. J. IBM Corp., Providence. Miss 
Trina F. Kravchenko P'67, Washington, 
D. C. Robert O. Loosley, New York 
City. Mrs. John C. Lowman P'51, El- 
mira, N. Y. John B. Lyte, Jr., '50, 
Cranston, R. I. Miss Lucile A. Martin 
P'64, Cambridge, Mass. Forrest Mc- 
Donald, Detroit, Mich. Miss Anita 
Northy P'67, White Plains, N. Y. Dr. 
Hugh D. Palmer, Haddonfield, N. J. 
Dr. Harold A. Phelps, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Henry H. H. Remak, Bloomington, Ind. 
William F. Rooney '20, Mexico City. 
Miss Constance R. Sauer P'68, Mata- 
wan, N. J. William K. Selden, Prince- 
ton, N. J. Miss Kathryn Shibley P'67, 
Park Ridge, 111. 

Franklin C. Smith '16, Ashaway, 
R. I. Mrs. William M. Smith, Jr., P'53, 
Annandale, Va. William E. Sprackling 
'12, Los Angeles, Calif. Chester S. 
Stackpole '22, New York City. Walter 
J. Stein '17, Narragansett, R. I. Mrs. 
Amos L. Taylor, Belmont, Mass. Mrs. 
Robert C. Vose, Brookline, Mass. John 
T. Winterich '12, Springfield, Mass. Miss 
Barbara J. Witten P'67, Hightstown, 
N. J. Sidney D. Young, Rockville Cen- 
ter, N. Y. The Reader's Digest. A con- 
siderable number of anonymous gifts 
should also be noted. 



teacher. He served at Emory University, 
New York University, iTong Island Uni- 
versity, and Gettysburg College. "Came 
back to the old farmhouse where I was 
born after leaving Gettysburg in 1964," he 
says. His address: Box 52, Newbury, N. H. 

Jesse M. Bailey says that he sold out a 
chain of sports stores and retired. "Am ac- 
tive as director of the Hartford Times. 
Help with a farm camp for underprivileged 
kids and serve as chairman of the Greater 
Hartford Boy Scout Award. Also keep 
busy as vice-president of the Hartford 
Council of Churches." 

John P. Palmer is retired after a highly- 
successful career in banking. After leaving 
Brown he spent five years teaching in a 
high school before joining the National 
Bank in 1922. He became treasurer of Lee 
(Mass.) Savings Bank in 1941 and moved 
up to president in 1950 and chairman of 
the board in 1964. He retired in 1968. 
While John was with the bank, the assets 
rose from four to 27 million. His wife died 
in December of 1961 and since then John 
has been living alone at 21 High St., Lee, 
in the old homestead. He has one daughter 
and three grandchildren. His two grand- 
sons graduated from Cornell and Johns 
Hopkins, respectively, and his grand- 
daughter is thinking of Wheelock. John 
celebrated his 77th birthday on Easter Sun- 
day. 



Wilbour E. Saunders was honored April 
22 by the Rotary Club of Rochester as the 
Citizen of the Year. This is a high honor 
in Rochester, which has close to 600 mem- 
bers in its club. The winner a year ago was 
William S. Vaughn, president of Eastman 
Kodak Co. 

Newton P. Leonard retired in June of 
1959 as head of the guidance department 
of Mount Pleasant High School in Prov- 
idence. Earlier he had spent 17 years at 
Hope High as a chemistry teacher. That 
same month he became director of the ap- 
titude testing service, holding that position 
until 1966 when the testing service was 
turned over to the University of Rhode Is- 
land. Since then, Newton has been self-em- 
ployed as a vocational counselor operating 
from his home. Among his clients are the 
Providence Journal-Bulletin and the Apex 
Stores. Last fall was a busy time for the 
Leonards. They celebrated their 50th wed- 
ding anniversary with a luncheon at Laura 
Carr's on Oct. 5 and our classmate cele- 
brated his 75th birthday the next day. 

Dr. George J. Cairns remains pastor 
emeritus of St. Mary's parish, Royal Oak, 
Mich. This follows 23 \ears as pastor 
and 20 years of teaching education. "Still 
keep busy counselling," he says. 

Gus Houtman retired in January as 
Media (Pa.) Borough councilman after 
having served 32 years, 22 as president. 



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He was subsequently honored at a testi- 
monial dinner attended by 200. He has 
been awarded the title of "Delaware 
County Engineer of the Year." His son, 
John, is in partnership with him. "Health 
fairly good and I'm interested to know 
how the other members of the class are 
getting along." 

Percy Sarle says that he came to Rum- 
ford, Me., in 1922 and has remained there 
ever since. "I enjoy Maine and the Maine 
people," he says. "The weather at times 
is a little rough. Had 161 inches of snow 
this winter." His three sons are Brown 
graduates: Dick '40, Rodney '46, and Alan 
'53. "It was all started by O. Perry Sarle 
'86," he notes. 

John J. Riley, who was with the Chem- 
ical Bank New York Trust Co., retired in 
1959 to his newly built home in North 
Falmouth, Mass. "Have been kept busy 
with the property since then," he says. 
"There have been trips in late winter to 
such places as Venezuela, Barbados, Marti- 
nique, Santa Lucia, Dominica, and Mexico. 
Also several trips by car to the West 
Coast, where we have two married daugh- 
ters." 

Steward T. McNeill retired in the fall of 
1967 after 25 years with Anson, Inc. He 
says that this past winter he shoveled 
plenty of snow from around his Rumford, 
R. I., home. "This is not my hobby," he 
adds. "Do some puttering around with elec- 
tric tools, but my chief delight is to work 
in my gardens. They are not prize-winners, 
but I have lots of fun and the work helps 
to keep me in good shape. Have a married 
sen and daughter, and three grandchildren." 
Stan McLeod, former chancellor of the 
University, says that he maintains a small 
office at 211 Turks Head Bldg., Prov- 
idence, "to which I retire when I can't 
stand the heat in the kitchen." 

Charles C. Field retired in 1957 after 
40 years in the retail business in Exeter, 
N. H. He and Carolyn (Folsom) have 
three children, nine grandchildren, and 
three great grandchildren. Although living 
in Hampton, N. H., Charles and Carolyn 
have spent the last 1 1 winters in Ormond 
Beach, Fla. 

Henry Dursin and Mary celebrated their 
50th wedding anniversary last year. They 
have four children and 16 grandchildren. 
"I am 99 per cent retired, in reasonably 
good health, and thankful for all the Good 
Lord has afforded me." 

Horace J. Farlee reports that he is still 
in active law practice in Trenton, N. J. He 
is a graduate of Harvard Law School. 
"Two daughters and one granddaughter," 
he notes. 

Seward G. Byam reports that his two 
daughters, Anne and Marjorie, both grad- 
uated from Pembroke and that his son, 
Seward, Jr., broke the Brown tradition and 
went to Princeton. "We have 10 grand- 
children and two great-grandchildren," he 
says. "Am an emeritus member of the 
American Chemical Society, in which 1 
was very active in various positions for 21 
years." 

Elliot H. Bosworth has been semi-retired 
for the past 12 years, following a career 
as full-time life insurance agent with Con- 



necticut General. He and his wife reside 
in Longmeadow, Mass., where Mrs. Bos- 
worth carries on her small business in an- 
tiques and appraisals for banks and attor- 
neys. "My life was enriched some years 
ago when I was president of the local 
Brown Club and had as my overnight guest 
Al Gurney '07. More recently I had the 
opportunity of renewing my old friendship 
with Bill Saunders. Bill and I were on the 
track team together at Brown. Both of 
these meetings restored pleasant memories." 
The Bosworths have two daughters and 
four grandchildren. 

Harley Joslin is living in Berkley, Mass. 
"Ihis is a small place of about 1700 peo- 
ple," he says. "It doesn't even rate a post 
office. We're nine miles south of Taunton, 
at the end of the line where the Assonet 
River joins the Taunton. But people find 
us. Wish some of my '16 classmates would 
get up this way." 

Herbert R. Lindblom, a former indus- 
trial engineer, is retired and living in Whit- 
insville, Mass. His wife is deceased. "Have 
one son, one daughter, and two grand- 
children." 

John M. Booth is in retirement at Fort 
Lauderdale, Fla. However, he still spends 
his summers in lovely Westport Harbor, 
Mass. Upon the death last year of his wife, 
John transferred his business (exclusive 
ladies specialty shop) to his daughter, who 
operates it in Fall River. 

Bancroft H. Brown is a retired professor 
of math at Dartmouth. His wife, Eleanor, 
a Radcliffe graduate, was an instructor in 
math at Dartmouth. The couple has three 
children, a son and two daughters. "En- 
joying life and occasionally giving a lec- 
ture," he says. 

Paul Saunier describes himself as "par- 
tially retired" after 50 years as school mu- 
sic supervisor in Richmond, Va. He was 
also an organist and radio and concert re- 
citalist. He divides his time between Rich- 
mond and Virginia Beach. 

W. Henry Managan, now in retirement, 
reports that he had two serious illnesses 
during the past year. His address: 220 Wil- 
son Ave., Lake Charles, La. 

Elmer Davenport, a retired educator, 
observed his 50th wedding anniversary last 
winter. His son, Tom '44, is with Mass. 
Electric in Westboro. A daughter is living 
in Geneva, N. Y. There are six grandchil- 
dren. Elmer is living in the beautiful little 
town of Shelbume Falls, Mass. 

Allen G. McKinnon has retired to Char- 
lotte, N. C, after 27 years in Canada. "Do- 
ing some volunteer work with the Small 
Business Administration," he says. "The 
wife and I are in pretty good health. Am 
enjoying the South in general, especially 
the golf courses." 

Dr. William L. Yeaton had a serious ac- 
cident in 1967 and was forced to discon- 
tinue practice in Hoboken, N. J., after 50 
years. Most of his career had been spent 
in surgery. "Expect to continue practice at 
a future date," he says. He's now living at 
Bittersweet Farms, R.D. #2, Box 494, New- 
ton, N. J. The couple has four sons. 

1918 
John S. Chafee looked mighty proud 



when he saw his son, John H. Chafee, take 
the oath of office as Secretary of the Navy. 
The former governor of Rhode Island, 
youthful and cheery, was a grand figure for 
six years in the Commencement Proces- 
sion. 

Recently, two of our classmates headed 
Boy Scout programs in Rhode Island. J. 
Harold Williams was in charge of the final 
salute to Gus Anthony '26, honoring him 
on his 53 years of Scouting. Other Brown 
men who worked on that program included 
Roger Clapp '19, Rufus Fuller '19, and 
Chet Worthington '23. 

And on the same night the High Court 
of Honor of Scouting held its session, pre- 
sided over by Chairman Walter Adler. He 
conferred the order of the Silver Beaver 
upon 10 outstanding Scouters for "distin- 
guished service to boyhood," by order of 
the National Council, Boy Scouts of Amer- 
ica. 

Zene Bliss and Dwight Colley took their 
usual winter voyages to balmier parts of 
the globe. Mexico was Colley's final des- 
tination. 

J. Irving McDowell continues his good 
work for the special medical school fund 
campaign. In between times, he does some 
work for Scouting. 

1919 

Dr. Sidney A. Fox is continuing his in- 
ternational instruction in the field of oph- 
thalmology at the University of Puerto 
Rico to doctors from several South Amer- 
ican countries. He also expects to be at 
the Universities of Tokyo and Kyoto. He 
describes this as "keeping the spirit young 
but aging the flesh fast." 

William H. Edwards, Providence attor- 
ney, has been elected to a three-year term 
on the governing council of the National 
Municipal League. Bill is serving as hon- 
orary chairman of the Brown-Pembroke 
Commencement Pops Concert committee 
this year. 

1922 

John B. Dick has retired and is living at 
102 N.W. 7th St., Delray Beach, Fla. He 
had been technical director for Pond Lilly 
Co., North Haven, Conn. 

Frederick C. Reynolds reports that his 
youngest son, Frederick C. Reynolds, Jr., 
is a corporal in the Marine Corps. He 
served 13 months in Okinawa, came home 
and was married to his childhood sweet- 
heart, and went back to Okinawa for an- 
other six months. Now comes a stint in 
Vietnam. "I don't approve of the authori- 
ties bowing down to the students," Fred 
says. "I support what they said at Notre 
Dame — if you don't like the way things 
are done here, then go elsewhere." 

1923 
Norman Dine, the insomniac proprietor 
of a New Jersey store called the "Speel 
Center," provides his clients with custom 
tape-recorded exhortations from their min- 
ister or psychiatrist. One tape recording 
nags, "You hate to face reality because 
you think you don't measure up. It's ab- 
surd to dwell on something like this." Of 
course, many iron-willed veterans rely on 
nothing more complicated than putting the 



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alarm clock across the room. But, if that 
fails, for $384 Dine sells an ejecting bed. 
At the proper ungodly hour, it catapaults 
the owner upright. 

1924 
Herbert J. Somers, manager of the A. C. 
Lawrence Leather Company's side leather 
tannery in South Paris, Me., has retired 
after more than 43 years' service. He and 
Louise plan to live in Paris. "There will be 
time for travel, golf, and tennis," he says. 

1925 

Alden H. Norton topped a star-laden 
field on Jan. 30 to win the College Clubs 
of New York open pairs duplicate bridge 
championship. He was paired with Roger 
Harris. The College Club Bridge League 
consists of the Ivy League clubs, plus New 
York University and a distaff team from 
Wellesley-Barnard. It was Alden's third 
victory in this event. No one else has ever 



won it twice. And his three victories were 
with different partners. 

A. Butler Williams has been elected treas- 
urer of the Rhode Island Masonic Youth 
Foundation. 

W. Ellison Chalmers, professor emeritus 
at Illinois, is now at the University of 
Michigan doing research in the Institute of 
Labor-Industrial Relations. 

William P. Lyons retired last fall as 
executive special agent with Factory Insur- 
ance Assoc., covering eastern Pennsylva- 
nia, lower New Jersey, and Delaware. "Am 
in the process of selling the house and 
moving to the Pompano-Fort Lauderdale, 
Fla., area." 

1926 

Jack See, who retired from Automobile 
Mutual Insurance Company last year, suf- 
fered a heart attack Jan. 14 and spent 
some time in the hospital. Classmates who 
wish to drop Jack a note can do so at his 



home. Le Barron Way, Mattapoisett, Mass. 
Nathaniel R. Underdown opened The Mo- 
nadnock Shop at 14 Grove St., Peterbor- 
ough, N. H., last Nov. 1. The store spe- 
cializes in women's casual clothes. "I'll 
never get rich, but this job leaves me with 
plenty of time for fly-fishing around the 
country. Here in God's country, we live a 
little more slowly, and maybe 20 minutes 
longer, and that's worthwhile." 

1927 

Selig Greenberg, Journal-Bulletin writer 
on health and welfare, has been awarded 
the Outstanding Citizen Award of the In- 
ternational Institute of Providence, pre- 
sented annually to a person of foreign 
birth. Our classmate has won several na- 
tional prizes in the medical reporting field 
and is the author of a book. The Troubled 
Calling: Crisis in the Medical Establish- 
ment, published by Macmillan in 1965. 



Judge Blassberg: Giant-killer in the courtroom 



I 
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Several years ago. Judge Samuel 
Blassberg '26 of Greenfield. Mass., 
blasted clergymen who "go south and 
break the law." The judge said at the 
time, "Kids get mixed up when they 
see big folks break the law. I'm not 
against demonstrations, but in my 
opinion they should always be con- 
ducted within the framework of laws." 

To those who have followed Judge 
Blassberg's career in the courtroom, it 
came as no surprise that he saw fit to 
take on the clergymen in this case. He's 
taken on a number of "giants" in his 
day, whenever he felt that the needs of 
society were not being met. In 1966 he 
chastised the local parole board be- 
cause offenders were being released be- 
fore one-fourth of their sentences had 
been served. 

When teen-age drinking became a 
problem recently, he publicly an- 
nounced a crackdown and then pro- 
ceeded to back his words by dishing 
out maximum penalties, both to minors 
and the adults doing the selling. He's 
proud that he received many letters 
from teen-agers supporting his position. 

The citizens of Franklin County, 
yoimgsters included, know that Judge 
Blassberg is tough but eminently fair. 
When he announced his drinking crack- 
down he made it perfectly clear that 
there would be no favoritism shown. 
"Some of the offenders came from the 
so-called 'better' homes," the judge re- 
calls. "These youngsters discovered 
rather quickly that their fathers didn't 
have the influence the kids thought thev 
did." 

A native of Turners Falls, a little 
town nestled in the Massachusetts Bcrk- 
shires, Blassberg went to the local 
schools, then Brown, and was gradu- 
ated from Boston University Law 
School in 1927. When he was ap- 




JUDGE BLASSBERG 

'Have you heard the one . . . ' 

pointed presiding justice of the district 
court of Franklin County by Governor 
Volpe in 1962, he brought to that po- 
sition the maturity and integrity of 35 
years in the legal profession and the 
dedication of a lifetime of communil)' 
service. 

The husky Blassberg sometimes ap- 
pears stern and forbidding, but beyond 
the courtroom he is a jovial fellow, 
one noted for his humorous stories. 

"Have you heard the one about the 
. . . ?" is the judge's greeting to the 
many people he stops to chat with on 
the sidewalks of Greenfield. And then 
he proceeds to tell one of his stories, 
blurting it out in his rapid style of de- 
livery. He's one of the most sought- 



after loastmasters in the area. 

The judge is particularly fond of one 
story. As he tells it, he had just com- 
pleted hearing the wife's tale of woe in 
a divorce case involving a ne'er-do- 
well. 

"Madam," Judge Blassberg said to 
the woman, "I'm going to give you 100 
dollars a week." 

"That's great, judge," enthused the 
husband. "I'll toss in 20 bucks a week 
myself." 

Judge Blassberg has been described 
as a man who can't relax, one who is 
always pursuing a cause. One of the 
causes that has received his special at- 
tention is that of the youngsters of his 
area. His positive approach in attempt- 
ing to curb juvenile delinquency was 
recognized recently when he was pre- 
sented Greenfield's Good Citizenship 
Award "for work among young people 
and for encouraging responsible citi- 
zenship through the courts and other 
social agencies." 

The judge doesn't subscribe to the 
permissive approach to raising children, 
nor does he adopt a permissive attitude 
in his courtroom. As a result, most of 
the youngsters hold him in great re- 
spect. "The police and the court should 
be the youngster's friend," he says, 
"but it is also our job to try and help 
him before he gets in trouble." In a 
move in this direction, he was the guid- 
ing force behind the recent develop- 
ment of a Big Brother program in the 
county. He frequently takes time while 
on the bench to commend an individual 
or an organization working in behalf 
of kids. 

A few years ago the Young Men's 
Christian Association elected Judge 
Blassberg, a Hebrew, to serve as its 
president. The judge is that type of a 
man. 



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45 



Bom in Kupin, Russia, he came to the 
United States in 1922. 

1928 

Jay Saunders Redding has been ap- 
pointed to a professorship of American 
history and civilization at George Wash- 
ington University. He will teach the school's 
first course on the Negro in American his- 
tory. Dr. Redding served as professor of 
literature at Hampton Institute from 1943 
to 1966 and then became director of the 
division of research and publications of the 
National Endowment for the Humanities. 

George E. Mosley retired Aug. 1, 1967 
from Seagram Distillers Company after a 
32-year career there. He served as advertis- 
ing manager and vice-president in charge 
of advertising and sales promotion. He 
left Greenwich, Conn., when he retired and 
moved to Florida. "Am doing some free- 
lance writing, public relations work, fish- 
ing, golfing, and gardening," he reports. 

Associate Justice Thomas J. Paolino has 
been inducted as an honorary member of 
Phi Alpha Delta, a national law fraternity. 

1929 
Ben Poulten has been covering the state 
house and general assembly sessions in 
Rhode Island for various Rhode Island 
newspapers since the early 1930's. This 
spring he decided to join the state gov- 
ernment and accepted an appointment as 
assistant director of the Rhode Island Leg- 
islative Press and Public Information Bu- 
reau. An A. P. reporter who worked with 
Ben during General Assembly sessions says 
that he is a storehouse of knowledge on 
all the state's political leaders of the past 
three decades. 

1930 
Peter J. A. Scott retired in January from 
the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New 
England Division. Waltham. Mass. He had 
served 38 years, one month, and six days. 
At the time of his retirement, Peter was 
chief of flood control section, engineering 
division. 

David E. Alper visited his son. Frederic 
'60, in Caracas. Venezuela, recently. Our 
classmate is treasurer of Morris Alper & 
Sons. Inc.. Brookline, Mass. 

Donald Allmon. a realtor, is president 
and treasurer of Donald Allmon & Co., 
Delray Beach, Fla. 

The Rev. Everett Sherwood late last 
year assumed the pastorate of the Matta- 
pan Baptist Church. Milton, Mass. He had 
been at the First Baptist Church of Troy, 
N. Y. 

1931 
Milton G. Davis, vice-president in charge 
of the eastern marketing area, Atlantic 
Richfield Co., Philadelphia, has been pre- 
sented an Igniter Award by the National 
Oil Fuel Institute "in recognition of out- 
standing oil heat promotional efforts." Davis 
is chairman of NOFI Refiner Division and 
is a long-time member of the group's board. 
John W. Lane has been named president 
of the Kenilworth (111.) Village Board, of 
which he has been a member since 1965. 
John is president of the Atlas Electric De- 
velopment Co. 



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1932 

T. Dexter Clarke, president of the Nar- 
ragansett Electric Co., has been named by 
President Nixon as Providence area metro- 
politan chairman of the National Alliance 
of Businessmen. He will direct a team of 
volunteer executives in soliciting private 
firms to hire hard-core jobless persons, 
train them on the job, and provide them 
with remedial counseling. 

Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr., is not sure 
why 26,000 secretaries chose him Interna- 
tional Boss of the Year. "I guess it's be- 
cause I have a persuasive and eloquent sec- 
retary," said the Trans World Airlines 
president. 

Dr. Nathan Chaset's son, Dick '63, is in 
his second year of residency in surgery at 
Boston City Hospital, while Paul '68, is in 
the Army OCS at Fort Leonard Wood, 
Mo. A daughter, Ellen, is a junior at New 
York University. 

1933 
The Gilbane Construction Company of 
Providence has been awarded the contract 
to build an addition to the United Nucreal 
Corporation's plant in Montville, Conn. 
Tom continues as president of the firm and 
Bill is vice-president. 

Richard E. Benson of Citizens Trust 
Company is one of 18 men serving this 
year on the Rhode Island Small Business 
.•Vdministration. 

Edgar Dannenberg has been elected 
vice-president and manager of the branch 
office at 575 Madison Ave., New York 
City, for Steiner, Rouse & Co., Inc., mem- 
bers of the New York Stock Exchange. 

1934 

Robert C. McCormick has been named 
press secretary to Governor Raymond P. 
Shafer of Pennsylvania. He is a veteran in 
the newspaper and public relations busi- 
ness. At one time he served as assistant 
press secretary to former Governor Wil- 
liam W. Scranton. 

Maurice L. Clemence, a vice-president 
for the Kendall Co., told the Providence 
Society of Financial Analysts that 25 bil- 
lion diaper changes a year in the United 
States adds up to change for the belter in 
the sales curve for disposable nonwoven 
fabrics. "The diaper change is one of the 
factors on which the nonwoven fabric in- 
dustry can safely pin its hopes for an ac- 
celeratmg market,' he said pointedly. 

Frank G. Chadwick, Jr., president of the 
First New Haven National Bank, has been 
appointed to serve on the Regional Ad- 
visory Committee of the U.S. Comptroller 
of the Currency, William B. Camp. 

Robert L. Lowenthal is president of Max 
Lowenthal & Sons, Inc., 422 Clinton Ave- 
nue South, Rochester, N. Y. 

Richard K. Hapgood is Central Amer- 
ican and Mexican Reinsurance Representa- 
tive, working out of Leibnitz 14 — 1104, 
Mexico 5, D.F., Mexico. 

H. William Marschner is appraising in- 
dustrial realty for the State of New York. 
"Very interesting, challenging, and satisfy- 
ing job," he says. "Sorry to hear of Will S. 
Taylor's passing. His art classes are the 



classes I remember most fondly." 

Myron G. Buchsbaum is located in New 
York as president of the General Meat 
Corp., 710 Park Ave. 

1935 
Associate Justice Alfred H. Joslin of 
Rhode Island has been made an honorary 
member of Phi Alpha Delta, national law 
fraternity. 

1936 
Clarence H. Gifford, Jr., president of the 
Rhode Island Hospital Trust Co., has been 
appointed chairman of the Providence Col- 
lege Capital Program's foundations com- 
mittee. The appointment was made by a 
fellow Brunonian, Frank A. Gammino '33, 
general chairman. 

1937 
F. Hartwell Swaffield, most recently New 
England Advertising Manager for Saturday 
Evening Post, has joined Kenyon & Eck- 
hardt, Boston, as an account executive. 
Hart has also been associated with Loudon 
Advertising, Inc., in Boston as a media re- 
search director. 

1938 
Lloyd F. Taylor has been elected presi- 
dent of Standard KoUsman Industries, Inc., 
Melrose Park, III. He had been serving as 
president of Casco Products Corp., Stand- 
ard Kollsman's automotive, industrial, and 
consumer subsidiary in Bridgeport, Conn. 
During Lloyd's six years as Casco presi- 
dent, the subsidiary's sales volume tripled 
and its profit increased six-fold. 

Alfred S. Howes, recognized as one of 
the country's leading employee plans au- 
thorities, is serving as president of Em- 
ployee Incentive Plans of America, Inc. He 
has been the advanced underwriting con- 
sultant for Connecticut Mutual Life for the 
states of New York and Vermont. He cur- 
rently is president of the New York State 
Association of Life Underwriters. 

Gabriel Gever has been appointed direc- 
tor of the veterinary research division of 
the Norwich Pharmacal Co., Norwich, 
N. Y. He and Jean have six children. 

William E. Fay, Jr., has been elected 
president of the Bond Club of Chicago. 

1939 
Dr. David B. Scott has been appointed 
dean of Case Western Reserve University's 
School of Dentistry. He had been professor 
of physical biology in the Dental School 
since 1965 and professor of anatomy in the 
CWRU Medical School since 1967. Dave 
received his D.D.S. degree in 1943 from 
the University of Maryland and an M.S. in 
physiology in 1944 from the University of 
Rochester. "Dr. Scott is an ideal choice to 
lead the dental school as it begins an era 
of growth in its new quarters this spring," 
said CWRU President Robert W. Morse, 
former dean of The College at Brown. "He 
is known internationally for his dental re- 
search and has made many significant con- 
tributions to our school of dentistry." 

Richard W. Goodby is president of San- 
son & Rowland. Inc., Philadelphia. He re- 
ports that his daughter, Susan, was gradu- 
ated from Wheaton College last June, spent 
the summer in Europe, and is currently 

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working in Philadelphia. She plans to be 
married June 14. His son, Dick, is a grad- 
uate of the Wharton Graduate School, Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania, where he received 
his Master's in marketing. He is associated 
with his father's firm as sales engineer. 

Last fall Emery Walker was elected a 
trustee of the College Entrance Examina- 
tion Board and was appointed to the exec- 
utive committee. In March he was ap- 
pointed to the California State Scholarship 
and Loan Commission by Governor Rea- 
gan. He continues his chores as dean of 
admission of Claremont Men's College and 
Harvey Mudd College in Claremont. 

1940 

Vincent A. Mangiante has been named 
president and general manager of the 
Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Boston. 
He had been president and general man- 
ager of the Rhode Island plant. 

Maxwell A. Sturtz, an attorney, has his 
office at 54 Mineola Blvd., Mineola, N. Y. 

William F. Kieffer (GS) has been named 
chairman of the department of chemistry 
at The College of Wooster. He began his 
teaching career there in 1940. He edited 
the Journal of Clicinical Education from 
1955 to 1967 and earlier this year he re- 
ceived the American Chemical Society 
Award in chemical education. 

H. Ralph Messenger has been promoted 
from assistant secretary to secretary with 
Puritan Life Insurance Co. A fellow of the 
Life Office Management Association, he 
has been associated with the Providence 
firm since 1965. 

1941 
Robert von Roeder, a management ana- 
lyst, is with the Public Works Department, 
Naval Station, Bermuda. 

1942 

One of the new features of the Class, 
our annual hockey night, attracted the fol- 
lowing classmates to Meehan this winter; 
Angelone, H. Arnold, Bell, BufFum, D. 
Donahue, R. Dunn, Gilbane, Hayes, Israel, 
H. Johnson, Lockett, Ron Mclntyre, 
Meader, Saunders. Timbrell, and G. Wil- 
liams. Johnson and Timbrell came all the 
way from Jersey. 

Norman P. Ross, a senior executive of 
Time, Inc., has been elected an associate 
fellow of Silliman College at Yale. Elec- 
tion to associate fellowship is an honor 
voted by the undergraduate students and 
faculty fellows of a Yale residential col- 
lege, and is aimed at bringing distinguished 
leaders outside the campus into the educa- 
tional and social activities of the college. 
Norm is on leave from Time, Inc., for the 
1968-69 academic year and is a visiting fel- 
low in history at Yale in a special arrange- 
ment designed to bridge the generation gap 
between the world of the scholar and of 
the journalist. During this year at Yale he 
has been closely associated with Silliman 
College and has helped establish a college 
seminar course in the photographic essay. 
A member of the staff of Time, Inc., since 
1947, Norm has held various editorial and 
administrative posts. His most recent re- 
sponsibility was as director of the Encyclo- 



pedia Study Project for the Time, Inc., 
Corporate Development Group. 

Judge Joseph H. Weisberger of Superior 
Court has been elected a member of the 
board of trustees of Rhode Island Hospital. 

Ernest F. John reports that he has been 
appointed a brigadier general in the U.S. 
Air Force. 

1943 

William W. Keefer has been elected sen- 
ior vice-president at Connecticut General 
Life Insurance Company. He had served 
as vice-president in charge of the compa- 
ny's group operations since 1965. Bill is 
chairman of the board of education in Bur- 
lington, Conn., where he resides at Barnes 
Hill Rd. 

John R. H. Truelsen has been appointed 
district sales manager for Norton Compa- 
ny's Grinding Wheel Division on the West 
Coast. He has been with the company for 
24 years, serving in various sales functions. 

David Curtis, president of Kenyon South- 
ern, Inc., Rossville, Tenn., has been ap- 
pointed chairman of the Greater Chatta- 
nooga Chamber of Commerce's Aeronautics 
Committee. His work with the committee 
will involve trying to improve and mod- 
ernize Chattanooga's air service and facili- 
ties. 

Donald Werden broke through the hard 
shell of the New York art scene earlier this 
year with a one-man exhibition of water- 
colors and drawings at the Banfer Gallery, 
23 East 67th St. His work, which he de- 
scribes as "magic realism," includes land- 
scapes, still-lifes, and figures. 

1945 

Henry D. Sharpe, Jr., president of Brown 
& Sharpe Manufacturing Co., North Kings- 
town, R. I. has been elected a director of 
the National Machine Tool Builders' As- 
sociation and a second vice-president of 
the association. 

John W. Gibson has been appointed 
managing director of Addressograph-Mul- 
tigraph de Liege S.A., a newly formed 
manufacturing subsidiary of Addressograph- 
Multigraph Corp., located in Belgium. 
"Am looking forward with particular pleas- 
ure to a return to College Hill for Com- 
mencement," he says. "John, Jr., will grad- 
uate and David is a member of the Class 
of 1970." 

1946 

Albert H. Hartley, Jr., is director of 
computer services with Consolidated Nat- 
ural Gas Service Co., Inc., Pittsburgh. 

The Rev. Edward W. K. Mullen con- 
tinues as superintendent of schools for the 
Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence. 

1947 
Donald E. Creamer was the subject of 
an interview published recently in Madison 
Avenue, popular magazine of New York 
advertising. The article notes that our 
classmate "began at the top in Manhattan 
less than two years ago" as president of 
Basford, Inc., business and industrial sub- 
sidiary of Coordinated Communications, 
Inc. Don is president of CCI and is board 
chairman of Creamer, Trowbridge, Case & 



Basford, Inc., its New England subsidiary. 

Walter A. Hansen has been appointed 
Barberton Works control manager for the 
Babcock & Wilcox Co., Barberton, O. He 
joined the firm in 1948 and, since 1967, 
had served as a section manager in utility 
products design engineering. 

Albert D. Crowell is chairman of the 
department of physics at the University of 
Vermont. He says that his first Ph.D. stu- 
dent is now working with Professor Fams- 
worth at Brown. 

Henry A. Wilkins, a sales engineer, is a 
special representative with Westinghouse 
Electric Co., Washington, D. C. 

1948 

Thomas W. Mooney, one of America's 
leaders in the Scouting movement, has as- 
sumed his new duties as Scout executive of 
the San Francisco Bay Area Scout Council. 
His professional scouting activities had 
been confined to the Midwest, where his 
most recent post was that of deputy Scout 
executive of the St. Louis area council. 

Carl Oxholm, Jr., is serving as national 
president of the General Agents Managers 
Conference for 1969. He has served on the 
board of GAMC since 1962. Carl is a 
C.L.U. general agent for Penn Mutual Life 
Insurance Co. 

Alfred S. Reynolds of the Rhode Island 
Hospital Trust Co., has been named to an 
18-member Rhode Island Small Business 
Administration Council for 1969. Shef con- 
tinues as treasurer of the Brown Club of 
Rhode Island and is serving as associate 
chairman of the Commencement Pops 
Concert committee. 

Alfred H. Haworth reports that on Jan. 
24 he received his doctorate (Juris Doctor 
of Laws) from Stetson University College 
of Law. At the time of his degree he was 
general agent and president of Mattson- 
Haworth Insurance Agency, Inc., Clearwa- 
ter, Fla. 

Capt. John P. Prisley, USN, is com- 
mander of Submarine Division 122. His 
home address is 1056-A Halsey Dr., Key 
West, Fla. 

Allen T. Schultz, who joined Patrician 
Paper Company of New York City in 
1 966, has taken over as president and chief 
executive officer. He had been vice-presi- 
dent and treasurer. 

Herbert MacCombie, Jr., a consulting 
engineer, is co-owner of Damon & Associ- 
ates of Sharon Hill, Pa. 

Norman Robinson, a representative of 
Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company 
of Hartford, has been named a top-ranking 
sales leader in the firm's Rhode Island 
agency for 1968. He qualified for member- 
ship in Phoenix's President's Club and won 
the designation of executive field under- 
writer. 

James P. Elder has been named to the 
executive committee of Planned Parent- 
hood of Rhode Island. 

Charles H. Doebler, director of admis- 
sions at Brown, has been elected to a three- 
year term as a trustee of the Rocky Hill 
School in Warwick, R. I. 

John E. Johnson is chief engineer at the 
Buffalo plant of Republic Steel Corp. 



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1949 

Robert D. Allen, State University of 
New York at Albany professor of biologi- 
cal sciences and cliairman of that depart- 
ment, went to Poland last winter to attend 
a symposium on biology. He attended 
the symposium at the Nencki Institute, 
after which he went to Germany for a 
week and lectured at the University of 
Wurzburg. Bob was a member of the 
Princeton faculty for 10 years before com- 
ing to Albany in 1966. 

Warren N. Martin, director of field 
claims at Connecticut General Life Insur- 
ance Co., is the new president of the Hart- 
ford Claim Association. 

Louis A. Jacob, 2nd, is at the Univer- 
sity of Pennsylvania as director of the 
Asian Reference Department, Van Pelt Li- 
brary. 

Stanley J. Weintraub is a self-employed 



accountant. His address: 37 Hunting Rd., 
Albany, N. Y. 

Richard L. Briggs, an authority on out- 
door advertising programming and tech- 
niques, has been named general manager 
of World Network. Inc., outdoor advertis- 
ing affiliate of Schenley Industries, Inc. He 
comes to Schenley from McCann-Erickson, 
Inc., where he served as manager of out- 
door media and a consultant on all out-of- 
home media advertising to other Interpub- 
lic affiliated agencies. 

1950 

John A. Fahey, a retired Naval officer 
living in Virginia, is the author of a new 
translation of Russian satire. He has com- 
piled A Cartoon View of Russia, the mate- 
rial taken from issues of the Krokodil, a 
Russian cartoon and satire magazine. After 
attending Brown for two years. John trans- 
ferred to the U.S. Navy Language School, 



where he became a qualified interpreter 
and translator of Russian. He advanced to 
the rank of Naval commander. John's new 
book is published by Vantage Press, Inc.. 
N.Y.C. 

Dr. Paul D. Lipsitt has been appointed 
to the post of lecturer on psychology in the 
Laboratory' of Community Psychiatry at 
Harvard Medical School. The appointment 
will take effect in September. Dr. Lipsitt 
will continue until that time in the capacity 
of assistant director of the faculty of the 
Law-Medicine Institute of Boston Univer- 
sity. 

Cur\'in J. Trone, Jr., has been elected 
vice-president of finance, treasurer, and 
secretary of AUis-Chalmers. Milwaukee. 
He had been director of corporate planning 
and a vice-president of the company since 
joining it in 1967. In his new position as 
chief financial officer of the firm, our class- 



Study questions effectiveness of public schools 



A soon-to-be-published study will 
suggest that high schools are failing to 
stimulate original thought and may, in 
effect, be crippling the very children 
th;y are trying to serve. 

The study has been completed by 
two Harvard professors. Norman 
Sprinthall '.^4. director of apprentice 
counseling at the Harvard Graduate 
School of Education, and Ralph Moher. 
The major study was made in three 
Boston area high schools and was com- 
missioned by the U.S. Office of Educa- 
tion. 

In studying the three differently- 
structured high schools, the two pro- 
fessors attempted to assess the learning 
atmosphere and "hidden curriculum." 
The urban school is in a white, work- 
ing-class district, the suburban school 
is in a white, upper middle class com- 
munity, and the third is a small resi- 
dential private school. 

What the study by Doctors Sprinthall 
and Mosher suggests is that public high 
schools, broadly speaking, tend to in- 
hibit rather than encourage independ- 
ent thinking. Only in the residential 
private school, said Larry Van Dyne, 
Boston Globe education editor, did the 
two professors find any students who 
appeared to be learning for the sake of 
learning and who displayed some inde- 
pendent thought. 

In the urban school, the study says 
"the predominant atmosphere was one 
of obedience in thought. Learning was 
seen as an exercise in rote memory — to 
repeat what the teacher said, to follow 
directions, to learn the teacher's inter- 
pretation." 

At the suburban school, the findings 
indicate the search for good grades and 
high placement on the achievement lad- 
der that lacks an atmosphere for learn- 
ing. Though the private residential 
school seemed to have that desirable 
atmosphere, there is the problem of 







NORMAN SPRINTHALL 
A look at the hidden curriculum 

many students who, for lack of money 
and other reasons, cannot avail them- 
selves of that kind of education. 

Says the report: 

"It is increasingly obvious that all 
adults, regardless of their station in 
life, need a capacity for independence 
in thought or an ability to make care- 
ful and examined decisions." 

And it is on this point that Professors 
Sprinthall and Mosher suggest a failure 
on the part of the public schools. 1 he 
two are careful to point out the obvious: 
their study cannot be safely generalized 
for all schools. But they seem to have 
some confidence they picked fairly typi- 
cal schools. 

The study makes some observations 
that include the following: 

• Any proposed solution to school 
problems must view the total process 



of schooling, which destines short- 
range and partial solutions lo failure. 

• The learning atmosphere in schools 
clearly reflects differences in social 
class and community priorities. In the 
urban school, the emphasis is voca- 
tional; in the suburban school, an es- 
sential objective is to guarantee college 
admission, which, in turn, guarantees 
social and economic status. The private 
school guarantees many of the same 
things, but here there is an assumption 
the students will get into college, so 
they can afford more easily to concen- 
trate on learning and independent 
thought. 

While this is an era in which student 
pressure would appear to be making an 
impact in changing education, Sprint- 
hall and Mosher say the students 
themselves are not particularly critical 
of the institutions that stifle their in- 
dependence. The study involved inter- 
views with juniors in the three schools, 
and the study adds: "The voices heard 
from the back of the classroom are not 
those of revolutionaries." 

"A small proportion of students, 
consistent with the dropout figures, in- 
dicate they have no reason to stay. 
But the majority seem impotent or to 
have sold out (in some cases knowl- 
edgeably) to the system. They accept 
parent and teacher rationalizations for 
staying and performing in school." 

While the study points out that stay- 
ing in school may insure a job or col- 
lege admission, it may be at the sacri- 
fice of independent thinking. 

"There seems to be theory and some 
evidence," say Sprinthall and Mosher, 
"that children at fairly young ages in- 
dicate rather strong independent inter- 
ests in learning. The school paradoxi- 
cally may inhibit the child's capacity 
toward learning and mastery, not so 
dramatically as in a city slum, yet, in 
the long run, perhaps as significantly." 



48 



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mate will be responsible for three finance 
subsidiaries — Allis-Chalmers Credit Corp., 
Allis-Chalmers Leasing Corp.. and Allis- 
Chalmers International Finance Corp. 

Dr. Walter J. Brown is associate profes- 
sor of medicine at the Medical College of 
Georgia and associate director of Univer- 
sity Health Service at the University of 
Georgia. 

William J. DeNiiccio is serving as fiscal 
advisor to the Democrat-controlled House 
Finance Committee in Rhode Island. 

Murray S. Danforth, Jr., has been elected 
assistant secretary of Rhode Island Hos- 
pital. 

Dale S. Rothwell has been elected chair- 
man of the Somerset Industrial Commis- 
sion. He is president of the Rothwell 
Foundry in Swansea. Mass. 

State Rep. Norris L. O'Neill has notified 
Hartford Democratic leaders that he is se- 
riously interested in the party's nomination 
for mayor this summer. He is currently 
serving his second term in the House. 

Jay Barry has been appointed a trustee 
of the George Hail Free Library in War- 
ren, R. I. 

William H. Leys of the Newport Rede- 
velopment Agency is one of 18 Rhode Is- 
landers appointed to the state's Small Busi- 
ness Administration Council. 

Timothy J, Duggan has been promoted 
to full professor in the philosophy depart- 
ment at Dartmouth. He is currently editing 
the works of 18th century Scottish philoso- 
pher. Thomas Reid, the founder of the 
common sense school of philosophy. 

Kenneth B. Whitman joined the faculty 
of Dean Junior College. Franklin, Mass., 
last September. In addition to his teaching 
duties, he coached varsity soccer and swim- 
ming. 

1951 

Thomas F. Brady, an assistant vice-pres- 
ident with Old Colony Cooperative Bank, 
has been named to manage the Pawtucket. 
R. I. ofTice. There is a human interest story 
here, in that Tom's father, the late Charles 
F, Brady, managed the same office for 
many years. Tom joined the bank in 1955 
and most recently had been assigned to the 
loan department in Providence. He's a 
commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve. 

The development of a new family of 
plastics by Dr. Robert J. Cotter has been 
reported in a recent issue of Chemical and 
Eiifiinccring News, national weekly publi- 
cation of the American Chemical Society. 
A Union Carbide scientist. Bob is senior 
group leader in the research and develop- 
ment department of the firm's chemicals 
and plastics operation at Bound Brook, 
N.J. 

Dr. C. Thomas O'Connell has been re- 
elected chief of staff of the Cardinal Gush- 
ing General Hospital, Boston. His medical 
tiegree is from Boston University. 

Victor Milroy has been appointed direc- 
tor of alumni relations at Rhode Island 
School of Design. He had been an account 
executive at Potter Hazlehurst, Inc., of 
Providence for the past year. 

John C. Albanese is sales manager and 
assistant treasurer of the Ideal Jewelry 
Manufacturing Co., Providence. 



David N. Freedman. a civil engineer, is 
director of the construction and engineer- 
ing division of Stop & Shop, Inc., Boston. 

Paul G. Page is working in Syracuse, 
N. Y., as branch manager, office products 
division, IBM Corp. 

M. S. Duke Templelon has been pro- 
moted to the newly created position of di- 
rector of sales and distribution in Hanes 
Corporation's knitwear division, Winston- 
Salem, N. C. 

Howard S. Genser is working in Boston 
as a TV director for WHDH-TV. 

Raymond J. Hill, who had been serving 
as a production manager of Swank, Inc., 
Attleboro, Mass., has been elected vice- 
president of the corporation. 

Norbert Fessel is associated with the 
Providence law firm of Temkin, Merolla & 
Zurier. Oflices are at 832 Industrial Bank 
Bldg. 

Robert A. Gammino has been elected 
secretary of the Catholic Association of 
College Alumni of Rhode Island. 

1952 
William Meagher has been elected exec- 
utive director of the Arthritis Foundation, 
Seattle, Wash. He had been on the national 
staff of the foundation for the past three 
years, part of that time as area director of 
the Northeast. Bill's new ^iddress: 12455 
NE 6th Place, Bellevue, Wash. 

Will Stanton, associate professor in the 
department of history at the University of 
Pittsburgh, had an amazing article pub- 
lished in the January issue of Reader's Di- 
gest. Entitled, 'This Year It's Going I'o Be 
Different," the story traced the "fistful of 
resolutions" a father makes New Year's 
Eve, and what happens to them. 

James A. Martland has been appointed 
dean of boys at Rogers High School, New- 
port. His main task will be to enforce dis- 
cipline. 

1953 

Lee Norwood joined the sales staff of 
Encyclopaedia Britannica in April of 1968 
and, since that time, has had a rapid rise 
with the firm. He was appointed division 
programming manager July 1, with re- 
sponsibility for the five-state Seattle divi- 
sion. Then, in October, he was appointed 
Seattle branch manager, with sales respon- 
sibilities for a greater portion of Washing- 
ton state. In January, Lee earned full mem- 
bership in the Britannica Salesmaster Club 
and in February he was named Most Valu- 
able Manager in the first quarterly contest 
sponsored by the Seattle division. He and 
Nancy and the children reside at 9059 
Shorewood Dr., Mercer Island, Wash. 

Theodore S. Jadick has been serving as a 
member of the board of education in 
Franklin Lakes, N. J., for the past year. 
He is assistant manager of Cannon Mills, 
Inc. 

Richard K. Oliver is president of Steiner 
& Mateer, Inc., a wood products manufac- 
turing plant in Sante Fe Springs, Calif. 

Davis R. Bates has been appointed mar- 
keting manager of the Fleet Ballistic Mis- 
sile Program at Raytheon's Space and In- 
formation Systems Division, Sudbury, Mass. 
He joined the division in 1963 as manager 



of advanced program development. Davis 
has done graduate work at M.I.T. 

Kenneth O. Gilmore was published in 
the February issue of Reader's Digest. 
"The Great Challenge — Making Our Gov- 
ernment Work" was the title of the piece. 
He is the magazine's Washington editor 
and, as such, headed a five-man team that 
probed into the problems of the federal 
government stmcture in the nation's capi- 
tal and across the country. 

1954 

Philip L. Nash has been named to head 
a major division of the W. H. Sawyer 
Lumber Co., Worcester, Mass., one of the 
largest building supply firms in Central 
Massachusetts. The appointment is effective 
June 30. Phil now is general manager of 
Alvin Hollis Services of South Weymouth. 
With the Sawyer firm, he will head the fuel 
oil heating division. 

Clarence C. Barksdale. vice-president of 
national accounts with First National Bank 
in St. Louis, has been named an executive 
vice-president. He is active in the Ameri- 
can Bankers Association and is a director 
of the Missouri Botanical Garden and the 
St. Louis Crime Commission. 

Roderick Schutt is a partner with the 
New York law firm of Naylon, Huber, Ma- 
gill. Lawrence, and Farrell. 

Edward F. Bishop is serving as president 
of the Rhode Island Junior Chamber of 
Commerce. 

Ralph W. Morton, Jr., has left Milford 
Rivet & Machine Company and joined 
R. F. Duffy Associates, Inc., manufactur- 
ers' agents. He is living at 194 Country 
Club Rd., Cheshire, Conn., and represent- 
ing several mechanical and electro-mechan- 
ical industrial product lines in the New 
England area. 

1955 

Nicholas Ruwe was appointed by U.S. 
Chief of Protocol Emil Mosbacher, Jr., to 
accompany Apollo 8 astronaut Frank Bor- 
man and his family on a European good- 
will trip. The party visited London, Paris, 
Rome. Brussels, The Hague, Bonn, Berlin, 
Madrid, and Lisbon. Our classmate worked 
in President Nixon's presidential campaign 
as a political advance man, traveling ahead 
of the candidate and making arrangements 
in towns and cities to be visited. A broker, 
Nick is associated with Clark Dodge & Co., 
Inc., which has offices in Detroit and New 
York. 

T. Robley Louttit. Jr., has been elected 
president of the Louttit Corporation and its 
affiliated companies. He is the third genera- 
tion in the family to be elected president of 
the Providence concern, which was founded 
by his grandfather in 1896. 

Norman G. Orodenker has been ap- 
pointed chief of legal services for the State 
of Rhode Island by Governor Licht. This 
will be a part-time position and he will re- 
main as a partner with a Providence law 
firm. 

Loren W. Samsel, Jr., is a sales repre- 
sentative with Austin Powder Co., Hop- 
kinton, Mass. 

Robert D. West is assistant vice-presi- 
dent of Suffolk Franklin Savings Bank, 
Boston. 



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49 



Dr. Eliot Barron is director of the men- 
tal health clinic at New Britain General 
Hospital. A practicing psychiatrist in New 
Britain, his special interest is in group 
work and community psychiatry. 

Dr. Thomas S. Cottrell, assistant profes- 
sor at New York Medical College, is one 
of 25 young medical scientists, all faculty 
members of medical schools in the United 
States and Canada, appointed Markle 
Scholars in Academic Medicine by the 
John and Mary R. Markle Foundation of 
New York City. The sum of $30,000 will 
be paid, at the rate of $6,000 a year for 
five years, to the medical school at which 
each of the Scholars will teach and conduct 
research. 

David B. Kunstler has been selected 
Eastern Airlines division vice-president of 
reservations and telephone sales. Since De- 
cember of 1967 he had served as assistant 
to the president of Eastern. 

Richard J. DePatie has been promoted 
from secretary to second vice-president 
with Puritan Life Insurance Co., Provi- 
dence. He joined the firm last year after a 
decade of group sales experience with Con- 
necticut General Life Insurance Co. 

1956 

Donald K. Hardenbergh reports that he 
has "acquired an instant teen-ager to sup- 
plement our own gang of five children. 
Ada Torres, age 16, whom we met through 
the 'Thing in Spring' in East Harlem last 
April, is living with us and preparing for 
nursing training at Hackensack, N. J., high 
school." 

Richard J. Vesely has been named di- 
rector of advertising and sales promotion 
with the Delaware Management Co., Inc. 
Prior to joining DMCI a year ago, Dick 
was an advertising and sales promotion 
specialist with the General Electric Co., 
Philadelphia. 

Dwight M. Doolan has been named resi- 
dent manager in the Springfield, Mass., of- 
fice of Shearson, Hammill & Co., the largest 
brokerage house in western Massachusetts. 

Barry H. Gottehrer continues as chair- 
man of Mayor Lindsay's urban action task 
force in New York City. 

Christopher H. Murphy is associate edi- 
tor of the transportation services division 
of Air Travel Magazine, New York City. 

Richard A. Nothelfer is sales supervisor 
with the Gulf Oil Corp., East Providence. 

1957 
George W. Cowles has been named vice- 
president on the employee benefit depart- 
ment of Bankers Trust Co., New York 
City. He has been with the bank since 
1960, most recently as assistant vice-presi- 
dent. He and Marion have three daughters, 
Wendy, Catherine, and Elizabeth. 

Dr. Jerome Kroll has been appointed to 
the senior medical staff of the Westchester 
division of the New York Hospital-Cornell 
Medical Center. Dr. Kroll, assistant profes- 
sor of psychiatry, rejoins the staff of the 
Westchester division as a unit administra- 
tor, supervising the management of two 
in-patient halls for women. 

Frank E. Toole, Jr., a native of New 



Haven, has been elected a vice-president 
of Ted Bates & Co., New York City. 

John C. Quinn has been named manager 
of customer services for Moore Fabrics 
Co., a division of Chicopee Manufacturing 
Co., the textile affiliate of Johnson & John- 
son. He had been assistant manager of the 
customer services department since 1968. 

1958 

John W. Brown has become a partner in 
the law firm of Hirschberg, Pettengill & 
Strong, Greenwich, Conn. He is serving as 
program director of Junior Achievement 
of Greenwich, which is sponsored by the 
town's business community. 

J. George Gange, Jr., is working in New- 
ark, N. J. as manager of metal sales with 
the U.S. Smelting Refining & Mining Co. 

Stephen T. Singiser has been promoted 
to trust officer in the trust investment de- 
partment of Chemical Bank, New York 
City. He has been with the bank for eight 
years. 

Ronald D. Agnes, a food broker, is with 
the Boston firm of J. H. Kavanagh, Inc. 

Dr. Nathaniel B. Atwater is assistant 
professor of English at Southeastern Mas- 
sachusetts Technological Institute, North 
Dartmouth, Mass. 

James C. Furlong is working in New 
York City as a financial journalist with 
Dow Jones & Co. 

1959 

Jon D. Westfall is an assistant adminis- 
trator at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is 
completing work on a degree in medical 
care administration at the School of Hy- 
giene and Public Health. 

John J. Orr, 2nd, president of Watt 
Transportation, Inc., Providence, and two 
of his employees, received Liberty Mutual 
Life Savers' Awards this winter for rescu- 
ing a man and a girl who drove a car off 
the municipal wharf. The men dove into 
the water to make the rescue. 

Peter G. Doyle, an insurance counselor, 
is owner of the Doyle Agency in Fairfield, 
Conn. 

Dr. Albert F. Johann, Jr., a dentist, has 
his office at 124 Gregory Ave., Passaic, 
N.J. 

Karlis V. Rutins is employed as manager 
of systems and data processing for Ameri- 
can Hoechist Corp., Bridgewater, N. Y. 

Arthur E. Engler, Jr., is with Harris In- 
tertype Corp., working out of its New 
York office. 

1960 

Michael C. Weston became secretary- 
treasurer of the Economic Development 
Corporation of Greater Detroit in January. 
EDC is an organization of local business- 
men devoted to assisting the growth of 
black business enterprises in that city. He 
had been with Hill, Lewis, Adams & Good- 
rich of Detroit for the past six years. 

Paul J. Choquette, a lawyer with the 
Providence firm of Edwards and Angell, 
took a sharp slap at Governor Licht '38 
last month in a speech at Salva Regina 
College in Newport. He told his audience 
that the Governor, while "brilliant" is "thin 
skinned" and can't take criticism. Paul, 
who served as legal counsel to former Gov- 



ernor John H. Chafee, has been mentioned 
as a possible GOP candidate for high state 
office in the next election. 

Frederic Alper is moving to Buenos Ai- 
res, where he will be director of purchases 
for Mini-Max, the largest food retailer in 
the Argentine. Ernest Hawkinson '31 was 
the M.C. at a farewell party given for 
Fred. 

William Taylor, a teacher and drama 
coach, had two plays on stage in Worces- 
ter, Mass., this winter. One of them, 
"Chamber Music," won the 1968 New 
England Theater Conference play compe- 
tition. 

Richard P. Draves is manager of over- 
seas development with Westinghouse Elec- 
tric International Co., New York City. 

David C. Laub has been appointed a 
general partner in the law firm of Gross, 
Schuman, and Wiltse of Buffalo. His law 
degree is from the University of Buffalo. 

William R. Feeney is an instructor in the 
department of government at Southern Il- 
linois University. 

W. Leslie Smith, Jr., is a staff associate 
with the American Book Publishers Coun- 
cil, New York City. 

Geoffrey A. Powers, 3rd, is a consultant 
with Towers, Perrin, Forster & Crosby, 
Inc., Atlanta, Ga. 

David L. Van Olinda, an electrical engi- 
neer, is chief design engineer of Dynamic 
Controls Corp., South Windsor, Conn. 

1961 

Willoughby Sharp is working on a doc- 
torate in the department of art history at 
Columbia. He is one of the earliest private 
collectors and authorities in the field of 
sculpture of light and motion. As director 
of the Kineticism Press in New York, he is 
dedicated to the total distribution of artis- 
tic information in all media. He produces 
radio and telvision programs to inform the 
general public of contemporary artistic de- 
velopments. Last summer he served as di- 
rector of a large exhibition of kinetic and 
luminic art for the Olympic Games in 
Mexico. 

Joseph E. Ondrick is a television sports 
announcer with WPGH Television, Pitts- 
burgh. 

Stanley H. Roehrig of Hilo, Hawaii, has 
been appointed to the State House of Rep- 
resentatives by Gov. John A. Bums. He is 
a former state deputy attorney general and 
a Big Island public defender. 

Albert R. Symes was discharged from 
the Air Force last November with the rank 
of captain. He's general manager now with 
Symes Builders, Inc., Stoneham, Mass. 

Jerry R. Turnbull is assistant vice-presi- 
dent of the First National Bank of Spring- 
field, Springfield, III. 

Dr. Raymond George has announced the 
opening of his office at 869 Broadway, East 
Providence. 

Edward A. Jones, Jr., has been elected 
an assistant vice-president of the Manufac- 
turers Hanover Trust Company's national 
di\ision in New York City. He joined the 
bank in 1963 and had represented it in the 
Mid-Atlantic states as an area representa- 
tive and assistant secretary. 

Dwight Newell Mason has been pro- 



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moted to Class 5 in the Foreign Service of 
the United States. Since entering the For- 
eign Service in 1962, he has been stationed 
in Tangier, Morocco, and Barranquilla, 
Colombia. 

Walter L. Brothers is in Hawaii working 
at the Pacific Air Command's Air Defense 
Analysis Facility. He's a research analyst. 
"Surfing and scuba diving in the off-duty 
hours," he says. 

Joseph S. Hayden, Jr., director of mem- 
bership for the 19,000-member New York 
State Bar Association, has been named ex- 
ecutive director of the New Hampshire 
State Bar Association. 

Jonathan Kapstein has become associate 
international news editor of Newsweek 
magazine. 

Thomas A. Daffron, associate editor of 
the editorial page of the News-Journal of 
Wilmington. Del., since 1967, has won a 
1969-70 Congressional Fellowship. Starting 
in November, he will spend a year in 
Washington working in the offices of the 
senators and representatives. His master's 
is from the Columbia School of Journal- 
ism. 

1962 

Roger D. Feldman has been detailed 
from the Office of the Secretary of Defense 
to the Office of the President. There, he has 
been participating in the development of a 
program for citizen voluntary action to 
deal with national social problems. Feld- 
man served on the Ni.xon Task Force on 
Voluntary Action during the campaign, 
concentrating on the problems of develop- 
ing a computerized clearinghouse of ex- 
periences with voluntary action programs. 

Charles N. Higgins, Jr., has been elected 
a trust officer of Lake County National 
Bank, Painesville, O. He joined the bank's 
newly-formed trust department last Octo- 
ber from private law practice, having pre- 
viously been in the trust department of 
Cleveland Trust Co. 

R. Ross Ketchum, Jr., has been pro- 
moted to Delaware state sales manager for 
the Smirnoff Sales Co., part of the spirits 
and wine division of Heublein, Inc. He had 
been a sales representative in eastern Mas- 
sachusetts before being named to his pres- 
ent position. 

Louis J. Boos served as chairman in Feb- 
ruary of the Mohican Council, Boy Scouts 
of America. He is a sales estimator and 
audio-visual specialist for Sandy Hill Corp., 
Glens Falls. N. Y. 

Dr. Kenneth F. Green is working in 
Long Beach, Calif., as assistant psycholo- 
gist in the psychology department at Cali- 
fornia State College. 

Donald B. Poulson is working out of 
New Haven as assistant sales manager with 
the Yale University Press. 

S. Stephen Rosenfeld is the executive 
director of a lawyers committee for civil 
rights in Boston. 

1963 
Daniel V. Alper is in the Peace Corps in 
Temuco, Chile. His project for the produc- 
tion of pigs by the Mapuche Indians was 
filmed by NBC and was shown on the 
Himtley-Brinkley show in late January. He 
will complete three years in the Peace 

MAY 1969 



Keith Charles: On the way as an actor 



Young actors trying to make the 
grade in New York City today look for 
a number of things — a fat part, a good 
director, and praise from New York 
Times critic Clive Barnes. All this 
came true for Keith W. Charles '56 
earlier this winter. 

After observing the musical. Cele- 
bration at the Ambassador, Barnes 
wrote: "I thought by far the outstand- 
ing performance came from Keith 
Charles as Potemkin, a bum with the 
soul of a rat in a shop-soiled corner. 
Mr. Charles, never far from the center 
of the action, ironic, mocking, and with 
the lean and hungry look of a moral 
pickpocket, curiously enough showed a 
charm none the less potent from being 
wolfish." 

Other critics concurred with Barnes. 
Among them was Marilyn Stasio of 
Cue Magazine, who referred to the 
Brunonian as "an amazing fellow named 
Keith Charles, whose engaging presence 
dominates the stage." 

Faithful viewers of daytime televi- 
sion, in this case the wives of Brown 
alumni, may more readily recognize 
Charles as newspaperman Nick Kane 
on the CBS soap opera, Secret Storm. 
He has been appearing on that show 
about twice a week. 

The son of an Army doctor. Charles 
was born in San Francisco but lived 
in various parts of the country before 
coming to Brown in 1952. "I had ap- 
plied to a number of different colleges," 
he said, "but several friends with 
whom I had gone to high school were 
planning to go to Brown. My father 
was due to be transferred to Japan. 
The friends said that if I were ad- 
mitted to Brown I could stay with 
them." 

Charles majored in French while at 
Brown. He also got interested in the 
theater halfway through his freshman 
year and did "small parts in a couple 
of shows by Brownbrokers." He was a 
member of the cast of High Tor, which 
featured Roger Carmel '54, who went 
on to fame in television. 

The young actor left Brown in 1954 
and joined his father, who was back 
from Japan and stationed in San An- 



Corps this September. 

John W. Arata, Jr., is manager of public 
affairs services with the Air Transport As- 
sociation, Washington, D. C. John is an 
attorney. 

Joseph P. King is assistant treasurer of 
Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., New York 
City. 

Marvin B. Klein, an electrical engineer, 
is with Bell Telephone Labs, Holmdel, 
N. J. 

Barry L. Shemin has been promoted to 
assistant group actuary in the group actu- 
arial and underwriting department of the 




KEITH CHARLES 
The Brown bills were high 

tonio. "I heard that the University of 
Texas had a great drama department 
and decided to go there." he says. "Be- 
sides," he adds, "it was a lot cheaper 
than Brown because it was a state 
school. I was only a C student, and 
those Brown bills were pretty high for 
someone with grades like that." 

He kept up his French studies, a fact 
which helped him in the Army as he 
translated plays from French and di- 
rected them. Following his discharge 
there was summer stock and then on 
to New York, where he took odd jobs 
to pay for acting lessons. 

His first big break in New York 
came when he was cast as the lead as 
El Gallo in The Fantastics. He was the 
sixth to step into the part in this long- 
running success. He looks back on this 
role fondly for another reason. The 
show's pianist was Nancy Ford. She's 
now Mrs. Keith Charles. 

Looking to the future, his hopes are 
set on acting in the movies, and also 
on writing plays. Hollywood critics take 
note. 



John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co., 
Boston. 

1964 

Chip Cutcliffe, after clerking for a year 
with Judge Alfred Joslin of the Rhode Is- 
land Supreme Court, is with Swan, Keeney 
& Jenckes, Providence law firm. Classmate 
Dave Dumas is with the same firm. 

Tom Draper is operating radio station 
WTHD in Millford, Del. The former 
Brown lacrosse great claims that the call 
letters stand for "Honderful Things Wap- 
pen in Delaware." 

Frank Antifonario put in two years in 



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Nathan assistant director of Budget Bureau 



Richard P. Nathan '57 has joined 
the Nixon administration as assistant 
director of the Bureau of the Budget, 
with primary responsibility for the hu- 
man resources program. He was Di- 
rector Robert P. Mayo's first appoint- 
ment. 

Since September of 1966, Nathan had 
been a research associate at the Brook- 
ings Institute in Washington, D. C. 
During the election campaign, he 
served as chairman of President Nixon's 
transition task forces on public welfare 
and inter-governmental fiscal relations. 

For six months in 1968, on leave 
from Brookings, he was with the Na- 
tional Advisory Commission on Civil 
Disorders, the so-called Kerner Com- 
mission, as associate director for pro- 
gram research. From 1959 to 1962 he 
had served as legislative assistant to 
Senator Kenneth B. Keating (R-N.Y.). 

Director Mayo said that in addition 
to policy responsibilities as a statutory 
assistant director, Nathan would serve 
as operating head of the bureau's hu- 
man resources programs division. 

In 1963 and 1964, Nathan did do- 
mestic research on the campaign staff 
of Governor Nelson Rockefeller. He 
served the governor in this capacity 
again last year, from May to August. 
In 1966 he was a fellow on the State- 
Local Finances Project of the George 
Washington University, and in 1965-66 
he was a research staff member with 
the Committee for Economic Develop- 
ment. At various times in the last few 
years he has testified at Congressional 
hearings on federal aid policy and on 
federal-state-local fiscal relationships. 

A native of Albany, Nathan was 
graduated from The Milne School, 
where he was vice-president of the 
student council, president of the lit- 
erary society, and sports editor of the 
school newspaper. His father was grad- 
uated from Penn; his mother from 
Sweetbriar. 

Nathan spent a busy four years on 
College Hill. Among other honors he 




THb RICHARD NAIHANS 
Developing human resources for ih; budget bureau 



was president of the Brown Key, presi- 
dent of Theta Delta Chi fraternity, stew- 
ard of the Sphinx Club, served on the 
Vigilance Committee, and was a mem- 
ber of the executive board of BYG. He 
was on the Dean's List all four years, 
was a Francis Wayland Scholar, made 
Phi Beta Kappa, and was graduated 



magna cum laude. 

He received an MP. A. degree from 
Harvard in 1959 and his Ph.D. in po- 
litical economy and government in 
1966. 

Dr. Nathan and his wife, Mary, live 
in the District of Columbia with their 
two children, Robert 8 and Carol 4. 



Vietnam and now is back home studying 
at Boston University Law School. 

Chris Arnold is head of the classics de- 
partment at the Noble and Greenough 
School in Boston, where he also coaches 
wrestling and lacrosse. 

Lyman Davenport is interning at Rhode 
Island Hospital, after graduating last June 
from Boston University Medical School. 

Lanny Goff was graduated from Whar- 
ton in January and now is with Textron in 
Providence. 

Tony Gould is a foreign trade consultant 
in Washington. He's been of great help to 
Coach Len Jardine in bringing some out- 
standing football players to the attention 
of the staff. 

Steve Easton checks in with the news 
that he is with Title Guarantee Company 
of Rhode Island. 



Joseph Hardman is working on his Ph.D. 
in history at Wayne State University. 

Douglas W. Webbink received his Ph.D. 
in economics from Duke University last 
fall. He's served this year as assistant pro- 
fessor of economics at the University of 
North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 

James S. Hodgson is acquisitions librar- 
ian for fine arts at the Fogg Art Museum 
at Harvard. 

Capt. William Lynch, having returned 
from his tour in S.E. Asia, is living in 
England with Nancy and their two chil- 
dren. Bill is flying the Phantom RF-4C at 
RAF Alconbury. 

1965 
Price Chenault, Jr.. will graduate this 
month from Albany Medical College. He 
plans a straight surgery internship at Van- 



derbilt University Hospitals, Nashville, 
Tenn. 

William D. Sproul is serving aboard the 
USS Duncan (DD-874), which homeported 
in San Diego. He's the electrical officer. 

Robert J. Rothenberg is in the Domini- 
can Republic with the Peace Corps. He and 
Helen expect to be finished with the as- 
signment in November. 

Frank L. Walker is completing his stud- 
ies at the University of Minnesota Medi- 
cal School. 

Stanley J. Bernstein graduated from 
Pennsylvania Law School last May, passed 
the Massachusetts Bar in June, and is 
working for American Biltrite Rubber Co. 

Edward P. Marecki, Jr., a 1968 graduate 
of the Wharton School with an M.B.A. in 
marketing, worked nine months as adver- 
tising sales representative for Look maga- 



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zine in Chicago. He left them in March to 
become Midwest advertising manager for 
Bobit Publishing Co., Glenview, 111. "I 
have been playing wing forward for the 
Chicago Lions Rugby Club and expect to 
go to Europe with them in September." 

Dennis A. Holt is working in the data 
processing division of IBM. He's living in 
Cedar Grove, N. J. 

J. Michael Hosford finished his M.S. 
(biology) last summer and is now complet- 
ing his first year at the Medical College of 
Georgia. 

Richard L. Huffman is a member of the 
community lawyer program of the Univer- 
sity of Pennsylvania Law School. He was 
elected associate director of the law stu- 
dents civil rights research council for 
1968-69. 

Leslie A. Blatt is working as a radio 
news editor for ABC News in Washington, 
D. C. "Am also working on an extremely 
part-time basis toward my M.A. in broad- 
casting, a useless topic but an enjoyable 
one, at American University." He is a 
member of Sigma Delta Chi, the national 
professional journalism society, and of the 
Senate Radio-TV Correspondents Assoc. 

Lt, Joseph L. Just, U.S. Navy, is opera- 
tions officer aboard the USS Cubera (SS- 
347). 

Barry C. Kaufmann will be graduated 
next month from the University of Ken- 
tucky Medical Center and will intern at 
New York University-Bellevue, concentrat- 
ing on straight surgery. 

Gregory King plans to serve two years 
of active duty in the Army after graduating 
this June from Tufts Dental School. 

John Marquis has finished active duty 
with the Ohio National Guard and is asso- 
ciated with the law firm of Dunbar, Kinezle 
& Murphy in Columbus. 

Ens. Stanley Owen Davis, USNR, is a 
personnel officer at the Naval Reconnais- 
sance and Technical Support Center, Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

Craig Nielsen has just finished Penn 
Medical. "I'm one of those rare birds who 
plans to go into general practice (New 
England area) after a three-year intern- 
ship residency at Methodist Hospital in 
Indianapolis." 

Sgt. John P. Leistritz is an instructor at 
transportation school at Fort Eustis, Va. 

Robert D. Meringolo will graduate from 
Jefferson Medical College in June and will 
intern at Metropolitan Hospital in New 
"ITork City. 

Leon Bryant and his wife, residents of 
Fort Lauderdale, Fla., were on the TV 
show. "Treasure Isle," and won over $5,000 
in cash and merchandise. I-eon still teaches 
art at Pine Crest School. He's had art 
shows displaying his work, which he is 
selling at a rather fast rate. 

Robert Jerrett is working on his Ph.D. 
thesis in American civilization at Harvard. 
Dean B. Pineles was graduated from 
Boston University Law School last May, 
admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in De- 
cember, and enlisted in the Army in July. 
He's in the Infantry OCS, hoping for a 
commission in July. 

William Pillsbury will receive his M.A. 



in Early American Culture from Henry 
Francis duPont Winterthur Museum and 
the University of Delaware. 

Paul D. Pinsky says that he is finishing 
his Ph.D. in operations research at Stan- 
ford. "Am enjoying the California living." 
Richard Pike is working out of Chicago 
as a media supervisor with N. W. Ayer & 
Son, Inc. 

LT(j.g.) Thomas H. Pitts headed back 
for a second look at Vietnam in March. 
"One year dovm in the Navy and two to 
go," he says. 

L. Richard Plunkett is working with the 
Trust Company of Georgia as a senior se- 
curities analyst in the investment research 
department. 

Ralph Pollack received his Ph.D. in 
chemistry from the University of Califor- 
nia last fall. He's a postdoctoral research 
assistant in chemistry at Northwestern. 

Thomas Croke is a member of the Ad- 
missions Office at Brown. He's living on 
the campus of Dean Junior College, Frank- 
lin, Mass., where his wife is employed. 

LT(j.g.) Michael H. Stone, USNR, is do- 
ing method study and work simplification 
analysis. "Will get out this August and 
hope to enter Wharton School of Busi- 
ness," he says. 

John B. Anderson will be graduating 
from Jefferson Medical College in June 
and plans to do his internship at Reading 
Hospital, Reading, Pa. 

Irving A. Williamson, Jr., a foreign serv- 
ice officer, is working in the American Em- 
bassy in Tananarive, Madagascar. "Expect 
to be here until November," he says. 

Anthony J. Beck was sent to Germany 
by the Army in March, the start of a year 
and a half stay. He studied German with 
the Army for eight months. 

Stanley J. Schretter received his master's 
in engineering from Brown last June and 
is working at Bell Telephone Labs, Whip- 
pany, N. J. 

Milan D. Gerlanc is finishing his senior 
year at Georgetown University School of 
Medicine. 

Craig F. Chamberlin is a first-year 
M.B.A. student at the Harvard Business 
School. 

Kent A. Jacobson is at Yale, where he 
is a Ph.D. candidate in American studies. 
Lt. Robert MacDonnell is stationed in 
Washington, where he is taking courses 
toward his Ph.D. at George Washington. 
"Intend to return to Penn Law in 1970," 
he says. 

James R. Cox, 3rd, is a graduate of the 
University of Virginia Medical School, 
where he was senior class vice-president. 
His pediatric internship starts this July 
at the University of Virginia. 

Christopher R. Donoho, Jr., will grad- 
uate from Jefferson Medical College in 
June and do his internship at Philadelphia 
General Hospital. 

John Kelly also will be a June graduate 
from Yale Medical School. He plans to in- 
tern in medicine at Yale. 

Brick Butler reports he is attending Den- 
ver University's Graduate School of Busi- 
ness. 

Wayne E. Pomiansky is working in Prov- 
idence as a sales engmeer with Uniroyal. 



Robert W. Paxson is with the Bethlehem 
Steel Company as a salesman in the New 
England region. 

LTCj.g.) John A. Murray is assigned as a 
controller in the rescue coordination center 
in New York City. He had spent a tour in 
Vietnam. He hopes for a June release date. 
"Looking forward to a summer on Cape 
Cod and then a job in finance in the Bos- 
ton area." 

Richard W. Holt began his fourth year 
at Georgetown University School of Med- 
icine last month. 

William Hooks is working on his M.S. 
in communications at Boston University's 
School of Public Communications, broad- 
casting division. "Wife is working to help 
put me through. Bless them all (women, 
I mean)." 

Richard Hyman is attending Pratt In- 
stitute for an M.S. in city planning. He also 
is working as a city planner for the Ray- 
mond & May Associates of White Plains, 
N. Y. 

Donald R. Wiener, still single, is teach- 
ing at Newton (Mass.) High. He plans to 
teach next year at the Center for Political 
and Economic Studies in London. 

John G. Poole, with a degree from 
Wharton in his pocket, is in the under- 
writing division of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, 
Fenner & Smith, Inc. 

Robert J. Race expects to graduate from 
the Columbia University Graduate School 
of Business in June. He's a finance major 
there. Bob put in two years as a communi- 
cations officer aboard the USS Higbee. 

Jerrir Rasamny will receive his master's 
degree in Middle East languages and cul- 
tures this June at Columbia. 

Laurance A. Read is still on active duty 
at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, where 
he's a lieutenant in the Supply Corps. "I'm 
retiring this summer," he says. 

Edward J. Reardon, Jr., is a Ph.D. can- 
didate in organic chemistry at Seton Hall 
University. At the same time, he's a re- 
search fellow for the National Institute of 
Health at Indiana University. 

LT(j.g.) Robert E. Reuter, USNR, is 
communications officer for the Bureau of 
Naval Personnel, Washington, D. C. 

Donald C. Richards is employed as a 
history teacher at Portsmouth High School, 
Portsmouth, R. I. 

Charles A. Rohrbach will receive his 
M.B.A. at Northwestern in June and then 
go to work for Price Waterhouse & Com- 
pany in the Boston office. 

1st Lt. Terence P. Lukens, USAF, is a 
base procurement officer at Tyndall AFB, 
Fla. 

Frederick M. Lowther is law clerk to 
Chief Judge Caleb Wright, U.S. District 
Court, Wilmington, Del. "Next year I'll 
become an associate in the law firm of 
Pepper, Hamilton & Scheets in Philadel- 
phia." 

J. Michael Lenihan is English instructor 
and football coach at Scituate High School, 
Scituate, R. I. 

John S. Lutz is finishing up his first year 
at the Denver University Law School. "Vic 
Boog. a classmate, is in my class here," he 
says. 



MAY 1969 



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1966 
LTO.g.) John Pfaff, USN, has been act- 
ing as an adviser to the Vietnamese Navy. 
"I do speak Vietnamese, in my own fash- 
ion," he says. "I also can hold my own 
with chopsticks." A recent letter indicated 
that the going had been rough, with his 
group being under rocket fire for the last 
few nights. John expected to leave Viet- 
nam this spring. After some relaxing time 
on a warm beach, he will report to New 
York City, where he will be Naval proto- 
col officer. Third Naval District. 

Jack Bishop has been skipper on one of 
the Navy's "Swift" boats on the canals in 
the Cau Mau area. He came through un- 
scathed, though his crew sustained a high 
casualty rate. Jack is now heading for a 
billet as flag aide to the commander of the 
Pacific Training Command. 

Anthony Saldino is at Da Nang, work- 
ing as officer in charge of a cargo ramp. 
"This is about an 18 to 20 hours a day, 
seven days a week job," he says. 

Frederick Wells is in the backseat of a 
phantom out of Tan Son Nhut. 

Jan Russo is in his second tour of Viet- 
nam in action once again in the China Sea 
flying off the Kitty Hawk. 

William G. Droms is on duty at the Bu- 
reau of Naval Personnel in Washington. 
D. C, having been transferred there last 
month from the USS Everglades, where he 
served as ship's store officer. He plans to 
enter night school at George Washington 
University in June to start work on his 
Master of Science in administration. 

Edward A. Dauer expects to receive his 
LL.B. degree from Yale Law School in 
June. In the fall he will assume his duties 
as assistant professor of law at the Univer- 
sity of Toledo College of Law. 

1st Lt. Arthur B. Mathews has been as- 
signed to McClellan AFB, Calif., where he 
is assigned to a unit of the Aerospace De- 
fense Command. He has been in Vietnam. 

1967 

Francis C. Golet is a research assistant 
with the New York Cooperative Wildlife 
Research Unit at Cornell. He's an M.S. 
candidate there, with his field wildlife con- 
servation management. 

Robert S. Burgess, Jr., is enrolled at the 
School for International Training, Brattle- 
boro, Vt., to prepare for a career in some 
phase of international service. 

David L. Fowler is a surety board un- 
derwriter for Chubb & Son, Inc., San Fran- 
cisco branch. 

Raymond G. Viault is in product man- 
agement with Maxwell House Division of 
General Foods Corp., White Plains, N. Y. 

LT(j.g.) Robert N. Nead, combat in- 
formation center officer aboard the de- 
stroyer USS Strong, was the recent recipi- 
ent of a personal citation from Admiral 
John J. Hyland, commander-in-chief. United 
States Pacific Fleet. 

1968 

John S. Satterthwaite, Jr., and Richard 
J. DriscoU have been commissioned second 
lieutenants in the U.S. Air Force at Lack- 
land AFB, Tex. John has been assigned to 
Randolph AFB, Tex., for pilot training. 



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while Dick is at Edwards AFB, Calif., for 
duty with a unit of the Air Force Systems 
Command. 

Pvt. Robert C. Bernius is at Fort Leon- 



ard Wood, Mo., where he is serving a six- 
month term of active duty with the Na- 
tional Guard. He expects to attend Yale 
Law School next fall. 



Bureau of Vital Statistics 



Marriages 



1949 — Arthur D. Bobrick and Anne M. 
Sillman, daughter of Mrs. John H. Sillman 
of New York, and the late Dr. Sillman, 
Feb. 16. 

1949 — Duncan H. Mackenzie, II, and 
Mrs. Anne Stick Clemson, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Gordon M. F. Stick of Baltimore, 
Md., Feb. 15. 

1951 — John J. Dee and Mary P. Culli- 
gan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Emmett W. 
Culligan of Walnut Creek, Calif., Jan. 25. 
1958— Gilbert P. Cohen and Lois S. Sil- 
verman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel 
Silverman of Cranston. R. I., Feb. 23. At 
home: 26 Warrington St., Providence. 

1961— Bruce A. Rae and Zoe A. Hellek- 
son of Wilmington, Del., Jan. 18. 

1961 — Michael H. Silver and Susan A. 
Muller, daughter of Mrs. Anita G. Muller 
of New York and Morton S. Muller of 
Kitchawan, N. Y., March 15. 

1962 — Capt. Jonathan R. Tower, USA, 
and Gloria A. Duke, daughter of James R. 
Duke of Essex, Conn., Feb. 27. 

1963 — Robert M. Adams and Lynda M. 
Lees, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis E. 
Lees of Billings, Mont., Feb. 15. James R. 
Johnson '64 was an usher. 

1964 — Capt. Cari B. Arlanson, USAF, 
and Phillis-Ann Peterson of Madison, 
Conn., Apr. 19. F. Robert Michel "64 was 
best man and Thomas A. Latanzi '64 was 
an usher. 

1964 — Ronald W. Mardula and Judith 
Callahan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Thomas Callahan of Fall River, Mass.. 
Feb. 21. 

1965— John S. Lutz and Ehzabeth Bo- 
schen of Rye, N. Y., Dec. 14. 

1966 — George A. Hisert, Jr., and Can- 
dace Bienenfeld, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Arthur Bienenfeld of Chicago, Dec. 22. 

1967 — Joseph L. Ruma and Lynda C. 
McNeil, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wil- 
liam J. McNeil of Somerville, Mass., Dec. 
29. Robert O'Day '67 was an usher. At 
home: 33 Dudley St., Medford, Mass. 

1968 — A/IC Lawrence Brown, USAF, 
and Frances Catalano, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Joseph Catalano of Quincy, Mass., 
Feb. 16. Robert Powers '68 was best man. 
1968 — Theodore O. Knight and Norma 
M, Aldrich of Harmony, R. I., Aug. 10. 



Births 



1946 — To Ambassador and Mrs. Na- 
thaniel Davis of Guatemala City, Mexico, 
their fourth child and second son, Thomas 
Rohde, Jan. 20. 

1950_To Dr. and Mrs. E. Mahlon Perry 



of Barrington, R. I., their fifth child and 
third son, Daniel Seth, March 24. Mrs. 
Perry is the former Natalie Bailey P'51. 

1952 — To Dr. and Mrs. William T. Win- 
sor of Trumbull, Conn., their second child, 
a daughter, Elizabeth Tillinghast, May 8, 
1968. 

1953 — To Mr. and Mrs. Norman A. 
James of Birmingham, Mich., a daughter, 
Deborah, Dec. 25. 

1953_To Mr. and Mrs. Walter L. Moli- 
neux, Jr., of Locust, N. J., their first child, 
a daughter, Abigail Alice, Dec. 19. 

1954 — To Mr. and Mrs. A. Richard Is6 
of Media, Pa., their fourth child and third 
son, Mark Robert William, Feb. 21. 

1956 — To Dr. and Mrs. Perry Dorn- 
stein of Cheltenham, Pa., their third child 
and second son, Kenneth, Feb. 17. 

1956 — To Mr. and Mrs. Barry L. Sloane 
of Allendale, N. J., their fourth child and 
third daughter, Brenda Leigh, Jan. 26. 

1957 — To Mr. and Mrs. Britten Dean of 
Turlock, Calif., a daughter, Cecilia Gratian, 
Jan. 10. 

1957 — To Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. 
Geremia of Miami, Fla., a daughter, Julie 
Michelle, Dec. 22. 

1958 — To Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Feld- 
man of Scarsdale, N. Y., a daughter, Karen 
Leslie, March 26. Mrs. Feldman is the for- 
mer Linda J. Blackman P'60. 

1958— To Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Va- 
rone of Cranston, R. I., a daughter, Tracey 
Leigh, Feb. 22. 

1959 — To Mr. and Mrs. Arthur E. En- 
gler. Jr., of Short Hills, N. J., their sec- 
ond son, William Howard, Dec. 12. 

I960 — To Mr. and Mrs. Maurice J. Dil- 
lon of North Providence, R. I., a son, Wil- 
liam David, II, Feb. 19. 

1961 — To Mr. and Mrs. Donald T. Bliss 
of North Attleboro, Mass., a son, Andrew 
Nelson, Dec. 18. 

1961 — To Mr. and Mrs. Stephen L. 
Brown of New York City, a son, Andrew 
Landesman, Oct. 10. 

1962— To Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Al- 
len of Hartsdale, N. Y., a son, David Gor- 
don, March 10. 

1963_To Mr. and Mrs. Jon A. Meeker 
of Wading River, N. Y., their first child, a 
son, Jon Aaron, II, March 1. 

1964 — To Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Aaron- 
son of Arlington, Va., a son, Steven Brad- 
ford, Jan. 29. 

1964 — To Dr. and Mrs. Jme T. Gueh- 
ring of Houston, Tex., a son, Keith Mi- 
chael, Feb. 7. 

1964 — To Dr. and Mrs. Joel M. Klom- 
pus of San Francisco, Calif., a son, An- 
drew Henry, Jan. 17. Mrs. Klompus is the 
former Barbara Simkin P'64. 

BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



1964 — To Mr. and Mrs. A. Thomas 
Levin of Rockville Centre, N. Y., their 
first child, a daughter, Amy Beth, March 5. 

1964 — To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. 
O'Neil of Rockland, Mass., their first child, 
a daughter, Christine Elizabeth, March 7. 
Mrs. O'Neil is the former Judith Macin- 
tosh P'64. 

1964 — To Mr. and Mrs. Ronald B. Stras- 
berg of Forest Hills, N. Y., their second 
son, Robert Allen, Feb. 15. 

1965 — To Mr. and Mrs. James R. Cox, 
III, of Charlottesville, Va., a daughter, 
Kimberleigh, April 30, 1968. 

1965 — To Mr. and Mrs. Gregory J. King 
of Brookline, Mass., their first child, a son, 
Jeffrey Nicholas, Feb. 26. 

1965 — To Mr. and Mrs. John F. Page of 
Cambridge, Mass., their first child, a son, 
Matthew Oliver, Jan. 10. 



1965— To Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Pollack 
of Evanston, 111., a son, Robert Bruce, 
July 23. 

1965— To Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth M. 
Weinstock of Lawrence, N. Y., their sec- 
ond son, Brett, July 30. 

1966 — ^To Mr. and Mrs. David A. 
Deutsch of Port Washington, L. I., N. Y., 
a son, Derek Jay, March 5. 

1967— To Mr. and Mrs. John D. 
Hushon of Cambridge, Mass., a son, John 
Daniel, Jr., Feb. 13. Mrs. Hushon is the 
former Judith A. Minno P'67. 

1967— To LT(j.g.) Steven H. Spayd, 
USN, and Mrs. Spayd of Newport, R.I., a 
daughter, Rachel Ann, Jan. 25. Mrs. 
Spayd is the former Loyes M. Woods P'66. 

1968— To Mr. and Mrs. Jerrold Solo- 
mon of Boston, Mass., their first child, a 
son, Lawrence Michael, Feb. 8. 



In Memoriam 



HOWARD CLARK BARBER '99, in Nan- 
tucket, Mass., Feb. 21. At the time of his 
retirement in 1947, he was an attorney 
with the Legal Division, Welfare De- 
partment, New York City, terminating 
14 years of service that began as a field 
investigator. He took his law studies at 
Harvard Law School and subsequently 
worked with the Legal Aid Society in 
New York and, in 1907, entered private 
practice. From 1913 to 1932, he was su- 
perintendent and director of the Society 
for the Prevention of Crime. On the 
65th anniversary of his graduation, he 
served as chief marshal of the 1964 
commencement procession; he was also 
president of his class. Civic activities 
were of great interest to him and he 
served in Nantucket on the building 
committee which directed construction 
of Nantucket High School in 1955. He 
also served as reporter for the New 
Bedford Standard Times for a period of 
five years. His favorite hobby was 
quartet singing and he encouraged, spon- 
sored, and organized Barber Shop Quar- 
tets. One of his famous, "The Commut- 
ers," won the national contest sponsored 
by the Crosley Corporation at the 
World's Fair of 1939. He also had ap- 
peared at various times with choral 
groups. When Nantucket celebrated its 
300th anniversary, he donned Pilgrim 
costume to meet all the boats in his 
role of Town Crier. His widow is Mabel 
S. Barber, 12 Westminster St., Nan- 
tucket. 

HERBERT KNAPP STURDY, JR., '08, in 
Daytona Beach, Fla., March 7. He was 
a retired jewelry manufacturer and 
founder and president of the Canadian 
Sturdy Chain Co., Sherbrooke, Quebec. 
During World War I, he served with both 
the Italian and American Red Cross am- 
bulance services and was head of Civil 



Defense in Daytona Beach during World 
War II. He was a director of the First 
Atlantic National Bank in Daytona and 
past president of the Seabreeze Club. 
Zeta Psi. His daughter is Mrs. Harold 
D. Rice, Jr., 3101 Huntleigh Dr., Okla- 
homa City, Okla. 

DR. JOHN WYMOND MILLER 
•09, A.M. '10, Ph.D. '12, in Boston, 
March 21. Dean Emeritus of the Grad- 
uate School at the Massachusetts Insti- 
tute of Technology, he was a distin- 
guished bacteriologist and biochemist. In 
1911, he was appointed instructor at 
Harvard University, where he estab- 
lished a new laboratory in sanitary en- 
gineering and organized a course in bac- 
teriology in 1912. During World War 
I, he served as a first lieutenant in the 
U.S. Army, and in World War II, he was 
security officer for M.I.T. From 1944 
to 1945 he was a special consultant to 
the Office of Field Service of the Office 
of Scientific Research and Development. 
In 1915 he became director of the bio- 
logical division of Digestive Ferments 
Co., Detroit, Mich., and then after six 
years he returned to M.I.T. as assistant 
professor of physiology and biochemis- 
try. He was promoted to associate pro- 
fessor in 1924 and professor in 1928. He 
was director of the Research Laborato- 
ries of Biology from 1936 to 1940 and 
became dean of the Graduate School in 
1940, serving until his retirement in 
1952. In 1949, he was awarded an hon- 
orary Doctor of Science degree from 
Brown. He was a fellow of the Ameri- 
can Association for the Advancement of 
Science and the American Academy of 
Arts and Sciences. He was also a mem- 
ber of the American Public Health As- 
sociation, the American Chemical So- 
ciety, Boston Bacteriological Society and 
the American Society for Engineering Ed- 



ucation. Delta Tau Delta. His widow is 
Hazel S. Bunker, 17 Locust St., Bel- 
mont, Mass. 

JOHN HAZARD WELLS '09, in Prov- 
idence, March 12. He was retired as a 
vice-president in charge of the savings 
department and of advertising of the 
Rhode Island Hospital Trust Co., Prov- 
idence. He also was a former member 
of the Providence School Committee. 
Following graduation, he joined Hospital 
Trust as a clerk in the bookkeeping de- 
partment. In 1914 he was appointed as- 
sistant secretary, advancing through the 
ranks until 1919 when he became a vice- 
president, a position he held until he re- 
tired in 1951. Following retirement, he 
became a volunteer secretary of the 
Rhode Island Foundation working at 
the same bank. In addition, he was a 
treasurer of many organizations. He was 
secretary and treasurer of the Friends 
of the Brown University Library, and 
treasurer of the Providence Art Club, 
Rhode Island Historical Society, Shake- 
speare's Head, trustees of the Roger Wil- 
liams Memorial Association, and past 
president and treasurer of the Building, 
Sanitary and Educational Association. 
Along with being secretary of his class 
since the death of Henry Chafee, he 
was the recipient of an award for get- 
ting the highest percentage of contribu- 
tions from 1909 for the Brown Fund. At 
the time of his death he was a volun- 
teer worker for the Rhode Island His- 
torical Society, indexing and cross in- 
dexing Rhode Islanders recorded in the 
Federal Census of 1850, and the inhab- 
itants of Providence County in the 1860 
Federal Census. Alpha Delta Phi. His 
son is Richard K. Wells '51, and his 
widow is Gertrude K. Wells, 92 Wil- 
liams St., Providence. 

WENDELL STIMPSON BROWN 'II, in 
Cranston. R. I., March 23. A consulting 
engineer since 1940 with Charles A. Ma- 
guire and Associates, he had served as a 
consultant to the Rhode Island Devel- 
opment Council during the mid-1950s 
and studied the feasibility of a hurricane 
barrier in Narragansett Bay, which 
eventually was built. During World War 
I, he served as a deputy federal factory 
fuel administrator for Rhode Island and, 
during Worid War II he served on the 
committee on civil protection of the 
American Society of Civil Engineers. He 
also had been a consultant on design for 
the U.S. Navy. He had served as an 
engineering consultant and had given re- 
ports at various times on the water sup- 
ply systems of the surrounding commu- 
nities. Prior to 1940, he had been chief 
engineer with F. P. Sheldon & Son, 
Providence. He was a member of many 
engineering societies and was a trustee 
of the Providence YWCA and Rhode 
Island Bible Society. He also was a 
member of the Providence Art Club, 
Sons of the American Revolution, So- 
ciety of Colonial Wars, the Rhode Is- 
land Historical Society, Better Harbors 



MAY 1969 



55 



Judge Perkins — An adviser to 3 presidents 



The flag on the College Green already 
was at half staff on March 30 out of re- 
spect for former President Eisenhower 
when word was received that one of 
Brown's most loyal alumni, Judge Fred 
B. Perkins '19, was dead. He was 72. 

President Ray L. Heffner spoke of 
Judge Perkins as a man of high principle 
and of great compassion. "As a member 
of the Brown Corporation for 27 years, 
26 of these on the Board of Fellows, 
he was trusted adviser to three Brown 
presidents. He gave the best possible 
advice, for he could see the viewpoints 
of others while articulating his own with 
force and dignity. 

"He served throughout his tenure on 
the Corporation as a member of the 
Advisory and Creative Committee, and 
he was secretary of the Corporation 
from 1945 to 1964. 

As a measure of the esteem in which 
the man was held, close to 700 persons 
attended a memorial service in Sayles 
Hall. Governor Frank Licht '38 at- 
tended the service, as did judges of the 
Supreme, Superior, Family, and district 
courts and Rhode Island's four members 
of the federal judiciary. 

Judge Perkins had been a distin- 
guished member of the bar for 30 years 
when he was named to the Superior 
Court on May 12, 1952. He had been a 
ruling spirit of the Rhode Island Bar 
Association and its long-time secretary, 
vice-president, and president. A member 
of the Supreme Court's Board of Bar 
Examiners from 1930, he continued on 
the board as a judge until replaced at 
his own wish in 1956. 

The Harvard Law School graduate 
('22) said that one of the most difficult 
decisions of his life was the one whereby 
he declined elevation to the Supreme 
Court in 1963 when it appeared certain 
that the General Assembly would elect 
him to succeed Judge G. Frederick 
Frost '96. 

Judge Perkins had suffered two heart 
attacks in 1960 and had other spells of 
illness before the vacancy on the state's 




JUDGE PERKINS 

highest court. In declining the promo- 
tion, he was guided by his doctor's ad- 
vice. 

In the spring of 1964, Judge Perkins 
underwent amputation of his left leg be- 
cause of a circulatory disorder. When 
he resumed his duties that fall he pre- 
sided over sessions from a wheelchair 
placed behind the clerk's desk, below 
the bench. This caused him to quip that 
in his courtroom the judge was "on the 
level." 

He had the reputation of being one of 
the wittiest judges ever to wear the 
robes. Lawyers who happened to be in 
the courthouse tried to be in his court- 
room mornings when calendars were be- 
ing called, and Judge Perkins would in- 
terject tart comments on this or that 
issue or development of the moment. 

But Judge Perkins will be remem- 
bered best by the lawyers of the state 
for the patient hearings he gave them 
and their clients, the detailed and rea- 
soned decisions he gave from the bench, 



and Rivers, and was a vice-president and 
trustee of the Providence Home for the 
Aged. Phi Kappa Psi. His grandsons are 
Wendell S. Brown, III, '65 and Douglas 
E. Brown '65, his sons are W. Stimpson 
Brown, Jr., '37, Edmund D. Brown '39, 
Dr. Roger H. Brown '41 and John M. 
Brown '45, and his widow is Elizabeth 
D. Brown, 201 Wentworth Ave., Cran- 
ston. 

ALLEN DOUGLASS HILL '20, in Ben- 
nington, Vt., Feb. 21. He was the genea- 
logical consultant at Bennington Mu- 
seum, Inc., since 1955. For 34 years he 
was employed by Allied Chemical Corp. 
in the Solvay Process division, Syracuse, 
N. Y., retiring there in 1954 as assistant 
to the auditor. During World War I, he 



served with the U.S. Army. A life mem- 
ber of Bennington Museum, Inc., he also 
was a member of the Vermont and Berk- 
shire County Historical Societies, May- 
flower Descendants, and he was a deacon 
and past treasurer of the First Con- 
gregational Church in Old Bennington. 
Phi Delta Theta. His brother is Charles 
J. Hill '16, and his son is Robert N. Hill 
'52, 34 Mount Anthony Rd., Bennington. 

EVERETT VAN RANSALAER HOOD 
'21, in Bristol, Conn., Feb. 15. At the 
time of his retirement in 1963, he was 
a foreman at New Departure-Hyatt Divi- 
sion of General Motors, where he had 
been employed for 40 years. His widow 
is the former Elaine V. Hildrup P'19, 
13 Race St., Bristol. 



and the exhaustively-researched written 
decisions that he would hand down on 
involved issues. 

In his 27 years as a member of the 
Brown Corporation, Judge Perkins 
brought to that board his convictions, 
integrity, ability, hospitality to friends 
and ideas, and the power of example. 
He had an old fashioned habit of put- 
ting first things first. 

In his talk at the Memorial Service, 
Dr. Heffner said that Judge Perkins had 
a hand in every major decision of the 
University for many years. He noted 
that the Judge worked hard to strengthen 
the religious life of the University and 
that he was among those who saw the 
need for constant communication be- 
tween the University and the student 
body. 

Judge Perkins was a deeply religious 
man. He served as president of the First 
Universalist Church from 1929 until 
1965, when he was made honorary pres- 
ident. He served for many years as pres- 
ident of the R. I. Universalist Conven- 
tion and was a trustee of the State 
Convention. He was a member of the 
board of trustees of the Universalist 
Church of America, 1939-1946, and 
served as vice-president of the National 
Association of Universalist Men. Meet- 
ings in his office led to the founding of 
the Rhode Island State Council of 
Churches, for which he helped to draft 
the constitution and by-laws. 

His list of civic activities was exten- 
sive. He was president of the board of 
directors of the Barrington Citizens 
Scholarship Foundation, vice-president 
of the Home for Aged Men and Aged 
Couples, an honorary trustee of Rhode 
Island Hospital, and a member of the 
University and Hope Clubs. He served 
as town moderator in Barrington from 
1944 to 1952. In 1965, Judge Perkins 
was named University Club Man of 
the Year. 

His wife, Mildred (Randall) Perkins, 
is the only immediate survivor. She re- 
sides at 85 Nayatt Rd., Barrington. 



LLOYD ALAN BERNARD SHEERAN 

'21, in St. Petersburg, Fla., Oct. 29. He 
was the former president of Vanguard 
Engineering, Cranston, R. I. During 
World War I, he served with the U.S. 
Army. After the war. following a five- 
year association with the Coldak Corpo- 
ration as a construction engineer, he be- 
came engineer works manager for the 
Liberty Tool & Gauge Works. Later he 
rejoined Builders Iron Foundry in Prov- 
idence, where he had been an apprentice 
in 1914. He also had been production 
manager of the Narragansett Machine 
Company of Pawtucket, R. I. He was a 
former member of the American Soci- 
eties of Tool and Mechanical Engineers, 
National and Rhode Island Educational 
Commissions, and the American Ord- 



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BROWN ALUMNI MONTHLY 



nance Association. His widow is Diana 
M. Sheeran. 1898 35th St., North, St. 
Petersburg. 

JOHN WARWICK FAWCETT, II, 72, 
in Naples, Fla., March 4. He was retired 
as vice-president of the Baldwin-Lima- 
Hamihon Co. During World War I, he 
served with the U.S. Navy. After gradu- 
ation he was employed as a sales engi- 
neer with Ball Locomotive Co., Erie, 
Pa., followed hy employment as district 
sales manager of Bucyrus-Erie Co. He 
also was eastern district manager of the 
Lima Locomotive works and had been in 
the manufacture and sale of heavy 
equipment since graduation. He was a 
member of the American Societies of 
Mechanical and Military Engineers and 
was president of the Brown University 
Club of Naples. Psi Upsilon. His son is 
John W. Fawcett, Jr., '54. and his widow 
is Florence T. Fawcett, 655 Seventh 
Ave., North, Naples. 

WILLIAM ANDROS LESTER, JR., "22, 
in Warwick, R. I., March 15. A Provi- 
dence general insurance agent, he owned 
the W. A. Lester Insurance Co. of Provi- 
dence which was founded by his father 
in 1886. He joined his father in 1922, 
following a year in insurance work with 
the Providence Washington Insurance 
Co., and served with the Lester firm for 
47 years. During World War I. he served 
with the radio division of the U.S. Navy. 
He was a past president of the Insurance 
Association of Providence and he was 
secretary of the Rhode Island Associa- 
tion of Insurance Agents. Delta Phi. His 
widow is Margaret K. Lester, 54 Aga- 
wam Ave., Warwick, 

MARCUS ALVAH TINKER 73, in 
Clarks Green, Pa., Dec. 3. He was a 
sales engineer for the A. R. Amos Co., 
Harrisburg, Pa. He also was a sales en- 
gineer of the Stewart Engineering Co., 
Harrisburg, president of M. A. Tin- 
ker & Associates, Pottsville, Pa., and 
general superintendent of Wyoming Sand 
& Stone Co., Scranton, Pa. Kappa Sigma. 
His brothers are Herbert T, Tinker '17, 
Harold L. Tinker '21, and George M. 
Tinker, Jr., '29, and his widow is L. 
Katherine Tinker, 1 14 Spring St., Clarks 
Green. 

ADRIEN WARNER HEBERT 76, in 
Warwick, R. I., March 20. He was a 
Pawtuxet Valley attorney. He had at- 
tended the New England Conservatory 
of Music and received his LL.B. degree 
from the Boston University Law School. 
A member of the Rhode Island Bar As- 
sociation, he was a past president of the 
Kent County Bar Association and an 
original founder of the Citizens Scholar- 
ship Foimdation in Coventry, R. I. 
Lambda Chi Alpha. His widow is Al- 
nieade G. Hebert, Hill Farm Rd., Cov- 
entry. 

WILLIAM JOSEPH FITZSIMMONS 79, 
in Buffalo, N. Y., Jan. 12, according to 
word received from the law firm of Cox, 
Barren & Walsh, Buffalo. He also was 



employed by American Telephone & Tel- 
egraph Co., New 'Vork, and the Peddie 
School, Hightstown, N. J. Phi Kappa. 
There are no known survivors. 

EDWIN FOSTER DREW '30, in Provi- 
dence, March 28. He was owner of Ed 
Drew orchestras. His name was synony- 
mous with dance music in Rhode Island 
for a generation, and he became a part 
of the graduation process in the state's 
high schools and colleges because of his 
band's many appearances at proms. He 
began playing a saxophone while in col- 
lege as a hobby, he organized his own 
group, and soon was playing for Brown 
dances. He intended to enter his father's 



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EDWIN DREW 

real estate business and he did for a 
while. Two years after his graduation he 
was playing on the Grace liner Santa 
Clara w hich cruised to Chile. After that, 
with the line wanting him to supply mu- 
sicians for all their ships going to Cali- 
fornia and South America, he became 
involved in the music business on a per- 
manent basis. He also had been a musi- 
cal director for WPRO-CBS and his 
orchestra was heard over CBS on a coast- 
to-coast hook-up on the "Time To Take 
It Easy" show. His band had been heard 
at the Dunes Club, Agawam Hunt, 
Ledgemont, Wannamoisett Country Club 
and many private parties, and he had 
provided music for the singing of Frank 
Sinatra, Judy Garland, Martha Raye, 
and Rudy Vallee and many other stars 
who visited Rhode Island. During World 
War II, he frequently provided music 
for the USO shows at the naval base at 
Quonset, R. I. Sigma Nu. His brothers 
are Alston C. Drew '29 and Arthur W. 
Drew, Jr., '43, his son is Edwin F. Drew 
'70, and his widow is Barbara C. Drew, 
35 Agawam Rd., Rumford, R. I. 

DR. MARSHALL LOVEJOY SNYDER 

'30. in Portland, Ore., March 3. He was 
professor of bacteriology at the Univer- 
sity of Oregon Dental School. He re- 



ceived his Sc.M. and Ph.D. degrees from 
the University of Colorado in 1932 and 
1935. He also had studied at Johns Hop- 
kins School of Public Health and Hy- 
giene and the Royal Dental College in 
Copenhagen, During World War II, he 
served as a major with the 298th Gen- 
eral Hospital, U.S.A. He was for several 
years with the University of Michigan 
Medical School and was the author of 
numerous papers published in the Jour- 
nal of Bacieriology. He was a past presi- 
dent of the Michigan branch of the 
Society of American Bacteriologists, In- 
ternational Association for Dental Re- 
search, and Oregon Medical Chapter. 
He was a fellow of the American Asso- 
ciation for the Advancement of Science 
and a member of the Society of Pathol- 
ogy and Bacteriology of Great Britain 
and Ireland. Kappa Sigma. His daughter 
is Carolyn Snyder Grant P'56, his son is 
Stephen H. Snyder '60, and his widow is 
the former Myrtle C. Ryder P'31, 1130 
Southwest King Ave., Portland. 

ROBERT SAUNDERS FORD '35, in 
North Smithfield. R. I., March 27. A 
former home-office sales manager, he 
was assistant secretarj' of Taft-Peirce 
Mfg. Co., Woonsocket, R. I. He was a 
former agent in the real estate division 
of Woonsocket Institution for Savings, 
and a member of the brokerage firm of 
Brown, Lisle & Marshall. He was active 
in fund-raising activities for the United 
Fund, Red Cross and the YMCA, and 
was Rhode Island chairman of the Can- 
cer Crusade in 1958. He had been a di- 
rector of the Woonsocket YMCA, and 
former president of Summer-Harris PTA. 
He also was a member of Ballou Home 
for the Aged, and an incorporator of the 
Hattie Ide Chafee Memorial and Woon- 
socket Hospitals. Theta Dslta Chi. His 
brother is Herman W. Ford '28, and his 
widow is Catherine H. Ford, 80 West- 
wood Rd., Woonsocket. 

ALBERT GEORGE DAVIDSON, JR., 
'50, in Maracaibo, Venezuela, March 16^ 
when the new jetliner crashed in the 
worst disaster in aviation history. His 
wife, the former Alice Nugent, also was 
killed in the accident. They were in a 
group of 70 Clark Equipment Co. em- 
ployes who had been attending four days 
of sales meetings in Caracas. From 1950 
to 1952 he served as a photographer's 
mate 3/c with the U.S. Navy.^He had 
worked for General Electric in Bloom- 
ington. III., before becoming marketing 
services manager of the industrial truck 
division of the Clark Co. in Battle Creek. 
Mich. He also had been an offlce assist- 
ant for the New Bedford Standard- 
Times. He was a former member of the 
General Electric Employees Club and 
he was the recipient of an award for his 
work in creating and supervising a series 
of service schools and for an advertising 
campaign in trade journals. Phi Beta 
Kappa. He is survived by children Kath- 
leen 14, Diane 12, and Michael 9. His 
parents are Mr. and Mrs. Albert G. 
Davidson, 25 Paine Ave., Cranston, R. I. 



Brown 

Alumni 

Dinner 

Friday May 30th 
Sharpe Refectory 
Dinner 7:30 P.M. 

Compotation Tent 
Opens 5:30 P.M. 
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