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Brown Alumni Monthly April 1970, Vol. 70, No. 7 



In this issue 





1st. Floor 

FEMIA 
STEARNS 

MAGAZINER 

CORNER 

GLICK 

PINEAU 



Donald F. Hornig: A circuitous route to Brown 

12 When Donald F. Hornig was presented to the University 
community last month, he made three separate talks 
about his decision, education and Brown. These are 
excerpts from those talks plus a profile article on the 
14th President. 

Curriculum Reform: Only a beginning 

20 University of New Hampshire Professor Dwight Ladd 
'43 was chosen to make a national study on curriculum 
reform for the Carnegie Commission on Higher Edu- 
cation. He reports on one segment of that study with 
references to Brown. 

Modes of Thought: Hyperbole aside, is it happening? 

24 When the Brown curriculum was restructured last 
spring, one of its brightest aspects was the adoption of 
Modes of Thought courses. A year later, the MT pro- 
gram has experienced success and failure. 

The painful birth of Black Studies 

30 Brown had begun work on a black studies program 
before last year's tempest began. The program was put 
together mostly from existing courses. Now it looks to 
the future with some special contributions Brown can 
make in this area of study. 

Magaziner and Bose: Alive and well at Oxford 

36 The BAM last March did major articles on Ira Mag- 
aziner and Tom Bose, two members of the Class of '69 
who received Rhodes Scholarships. Arturo F. Gonzalez 
'52 writes from London about how both are faring 
at Oxford. 



Departments 

2 Under the Elms 
10 Letters 
40 Brown Books 
42 Sports 



46 Brown Clubs 

48 Class notes 

56 Marriages, births, deaths 

60 On Stage 



Editor 

Robert A. Reichley 

Associate Editor 

John F. Barry, Jr., '50 

Assistant Editors 

Hazel M. Goff 
Ann Banks 

Design Consultant 

Don Paulhus 

Board of Editors 

Chairman 

Garrett D. Byrnes '26 

Vice-Chairman 

Douglas R. Riggs '61 

Elmer M. Blistein '42 
C. Arthur Braitsch '23 
James E. DuBois 'SO 
I. J. Kapstein '26 
Stuart C. Sherman '39 
Richard J. Tracy '46 

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Under the Elms 



By the Editors 



Round One 

I think that today you came to see 
what I look like and to size me up," said 
Donald F. Hornig. 

He was right. The students, faculty, 
alumni and others of the University who 
overflowed Sayles Hall on March 13 were 
there to do exactly that. When the day was 
over, not many denied the theory that the 
newly appointed 14th President of Brown 
had convincingly won Round One. 

Although Dr. Hornig spent 11 years as 
a faculty member at Brown, to most of 
those in Sayles Hall on March 13, he was a 
new face — and a new leader. Maybe it was 
the age and tradition of Sayles Hall — 
with its array of somber presidential 
portraits and other suggestions of things 
past — that served most to counterpoint 
the dynamism that Dr. Hornig displayed on 
the day the Brown Corporation elected him. 

It was clear on March 13 that a new 
era was beginning, but that has happened 
before, and in Sayles Hall. Maybe it was a 
silent awareness of the turbulent aspects 
of university life and the number of men 
who would not accept the challenge of a 
college presidency in these times. It could 
have been the end to the uncertainty of 
who would lead Brown into a new decade. 
Whatever, it was refreshing to see a man 
enthusiastically accepting all the challenges 
that a presidency offers. The crowd sensed 
it, and Dr. Hornig's vivacity in beginning 
the challenge was infectious. 

At least twice on March 13, Dr. Hornig 
said it was not a time for master plans 
and blueprints for the future. He did not 
know enough and he would have to learn. 
No one really expected him to say very 
much, but then he did. He delivered three 
speeches, all of them different and 
appropriate to his audiences (excerpts 
appear in an article beginning on Page 12). 
All of them tended to indicate what 
Dr. Hornig has already said of himself: 
That he is not a man accustomed to silence 
on major issues. 

The day was gloomy and wet, but it 
was doubtful that Dr. Hornig noted the 
weather. He was formally elected President 
by the Corporation in a 2 p.m. meeting 
and by 4 p.m.. Dr. Hornig was in the 
Jellybean Lounge of the Graduate Center 
for an impromptu reception mostly for 
students. Inbetween, he spoke to the faculty 
and 20 minutes later gave what sounded 
like a major address at a University 



convocation. There were no blueprints for 
the future, but in two hours the pattern had 
already begun to develop. Donald F, 
Hornig wants to be President of Brown, and 
he will be — in every sense of the word. 

It is here that words of welcome are 
usually accorded a new President. But if 
Dr. Hornig sensed from the platform the 
feeling that was unmistakeable in the 
audience, that message has already been 
conveyed. 

Stoltz to stay as provost 

The day belonged to the newly elected 
14th President of Brown, but there was no 
mistaking Donald F. Hornig's customary 
tribute to those who have preceeded him 
as chief executive officer of the University. 
And without question, his highest praise 
was heaped upon Acting President Merton 
P. Stoltz who. Dr. Hornig said, has 
agreed to remain at Brown as provost. 

In the three speeches he made on the 
day of his election as President by the 
Brown Corporation, Dr. Hornig forcefully 
and articulately made it clear that he 
wanted Mert Stoltz to stay. In one sense, it 
was a sensitive situation. 

Dr. Stoltz had led Brown since last 
summer after Dr. Ray L. Heffner's resigna- 
tion. He served in the dual capacity of 
acting president and provost. It was no 
secret that Dr. Stoltz was also a candidate 
for the presidency. In such situations, it 
is easy for newly elected presidents to 
pay customary bows to the past without 
achieving the ring of sincerity. Not so with 
Dr. Hornig. Said he to the Corporation: 

"Despite the uncertainty of being 
acting president. Dr. Stoltz has moved 
forward resolutely, inaugurating a bold 
new curriculum and a massive fund drive." 

Less than 20 minutes later he told 
the faculty: 

"Acting President Stoltz has made 
major contributions to all of these 
achievements and has guided the University 
with strength and wisdom during the 
current year. 

"I shall come to Providence with my 
family in June. Between now and then I 
shall be learning as much as I can. Acting 
President Stoltz has my complete confidence 
and I do not intend to look over his 
shoulder and redo his actions in that 
period. He is in charge and I am sure he 
will continue to act with the wisdom and 
courage he has demonstrated so abundantly 
in this past year. 

"I am happy and pleased that Merton 
Stoltz has consented to continue to serve 
Brown as her provost, I am enormously 
grateful that in facing the complex 
problems ahead, I shall have him at 
my side." 

In Dr. Hornig's case, it was not so 
much what he said as the way in which he 
said it. He was sincere, and each of the 
groups he faced March 13 knew it. All gave 
Merton Stoltz a standing ovation, but the 



one that penetrated the most came from 
the faculty. In overcrowded Carmichael 
Auditorium, the faculty rose for a full five 
minutes of applause and cheers in a 
gesture of respect, appreciation, and 
warmth that could not be mistaken. 

To those who know and understand 
Merton Stoltz' respect for his colleagues 
and the importance of a unified faculty, 
there is a suspicion that it was the ovation 
that touched him most. 



Pembroke: Sentiment 
for change 

When President Benjamin Andrews 
admitted women to classes at Brown for 
the first time in 1891, and created the 
Women's College of Brown University in 
1892, it was partially in response to the 
feminist movement of his time. There was 
some talk that the first women students 
were impatient with Brown's halfway 
measures, and these charges were answered 
in a Providetice News editorial. 

"As the women of this state," said the 
News, "are at least ordinarily sensible, they 
realize the value of half a loaf and are 
quietly waiting for the inevitable steps 
forward." 

Nearly 40 years later, the Brown Daily 
Herald editorialized that the name, 
"Women's College in Brown University," 
gave Brown the reputation of being 
coeducational. "This name," said the 
Herald, "in recent years has prevented the 
Women's College from attaining a dis- 
tinctive and individual development . . . 
What we propose, therefore, is not the 
adoption of any new policies. We simply 
suggest the change of one word in the title 
of the institution from Women's College in 
Brown University to Pembroke College in 
Brown University." 

The Brown Alumni Monthly of 
February, 1928 reprinted the editorial and 
noted that "a grave division of opinion 
exists as to the desirability of the change. 
Some alumnae, probably for the most part 
older graduates, prefer to retain the name 
of Women's College in Brown University. 
Among the younger alumnae there is 
apparently a greater sentiment for a 
change." The young alumnae won the 
issue, and the Women's College became 
Pembroke. 

In a latter day reversal of the 1928 
controversy, a number of Pembroke 
students and recent graduates are again 
pressing for change — this time in the 
direction of coeducation and merger. In 
response to questions about the future of 
Pembroke, Acting President Merton P. 
Stoltz early this year created the Pembroke 
Study Committee to advise the Brown 
Corporation on the education of women at 
Brown and authorized it to present 
recommendations for possible changes in 
Brown's services to women students. The 



12-member committee has met five times 
and considered such issues as coeducational 
housing, and the possibility of merging 
"dupHcate services" at Brown and Pembroke 
like placement, admissions, alumni activities 
and publications. 

The committee's initial report is due in 
May and it will probably take the form of 
specific recommendations about which 
Brown-Pembroke activities can be com- 
bined. If, as a result, most of the separate 
offices are merged, then Pembroke as a 
functioning institution may no longer exist. 
There is some feeling among under- 
graduates that Brown is already function- 
ally coeducational. Girls are now fully 
represented on the Cammarian Club and 
there is no longer a Pembroke student 
government. Both the Record and the 
Herald staffs are coed. The Brown and 
Pembroke class of '70 merged to elect a 
combined set of class officers and to 
establish a joint 25th reunion gift fund. 
Coeducational housing is on the increase. 

Committee member Beverly Hodgson 
'70, believes Pembroke's separate identity is 
crumbling under the weight of such 
activities. "Most girls," she says, "feel that 



the only separation between the schools is 
psychological. Girls have all their classes 
with men, get a Brown diploma, participate 
in University extracurricular activities, and 
generally have no illusion that they are 
going to a women's school." 

Total or partial merger, proponents 
argue, would result in improved services 
and a more efficient utilization of resources. 
There is also a feeling that, although in 
the past Pembroke protected the interests 
of women, the existence of a separate 
structure today serves to discriminate 
against them. 

For example, three Pembroke seniors 
recently applied for the $5,000 Arnold 
Fellowship designated for "promising 
young men at the College." Such male-only 
benefits, merger advocates contend, might 
be eliminated if the financial aid offices 
were combined. And if women were 
retained on the staffs of the offices that 
were merged, nothing would be sacrificed 
in terms of attention to the special 
problems of women. 

Others are not so certain that there is 
everything to gain and nothing to lose by 
combining the two institutions. Mrs. Elmer 



Blistein, study committee member and 
president of the Pembroke Alumnae 
Association, says, "If Pembroke is merged 
into Brown, I just hope that it will not 
mean that the women are submerged." 

Associate Professor Newell Stultz, who 
is a strong women's rights advocate and 
a member of the committee, shares the 
same doubts. "The special needs of 
women," he says, "are probably not going 
to be dealt with by flat merger. If the study 
committee recommends the merger of many 
activities and that is all, I will feel that it 
has failed and missed a golden opportunity 
to recast the role that was Pembroke's in 
past years. I appreciate the mission that 
Pembroke played in the past, in offering 
equal educational opportunity to women, 
but that mission has been completed. 
Which is not to say that the educational 
interests of women can be adequately 
served if there is no specific recognition of 
women's special needs." 

Stultz feels that Brown University is 
a male-dominated institution and con- 
sequently it does not always serve the 
needs of its women students as well as its 
men students. He cites the athletic program 



Whatei^er functions Pembroke did or did not fulfill in the past, it always 
had a definite geographical identity as the female conclave on Meeting St. 
Now, with coeducational housing on the increase, even the Pemhroke-as- 
real estate definition is open to change. 




as an example of the way Brown is biased 
towards male students. Stultz would like to 
see Pembrokers become more assertive on 
these issues. "They have asserted them- 
selves as students, " he says, "but not 
as women." 

Stultz argues for more academic 
research on the education of women and 
tor better services to women students and 
alumnae. A model he suggests is the 
Radcliffe Institute, which exists to help 
women in their 30's and 40's re-enter 
productive careers following a period of 
professional inaction during child raising. 

The "Pembroke question," as it has 
come to be called, evokes strong emotional 
responses from undergraduates and 
alumnae. And on the merger question, the 
lines of debate are not clearly drawn. Some 
of the "new feminists " are for total merger 
because they feel it is difficult to agitate 
for equal rights when they are being 
coddled by an all-girl institution. Other 
women's rights advocates are in favor of 
the coordinate system because it provides 
an institutional voice for women's interests. 

One intangible but important factor 
is the sentimental value attached to 
Pembroke's history. Thousands of women 
have graduated from Pembroke since its 
founding, and few of them fancy the idea 
of having their alma mater dissolved 
from under them. Even among younger 
alumnae there is considerable sentiment for 
retaining the name of Pembroke, even if 
it were to become a kind of academic 
Potemkin Village. Says Virginia Doyle 
Kennedy '69: 

"If Pembroke was established in the 
19th century in response to the lack of 
equal educational opportunity for women, 
and if it is to be as responsive to the needs 
of the community now as it was then, 
then perhaps the time has come for it to 
just quietly fold up its tent and steal away. 
But I hope they will leave the banner 
flying even if the tent is gone." 

A classmate of Mrs. Kennedy's echoes 
her attachment to the name of Pembroke. 
"The question of whether the two institu- 
tions should merge is an important one, 
but it has already been answered. For all 
intents and purposes they have merged. 
The question of the name is just icing on 
the cake. Personally, I would rather say I 
graduated from Pembroke because 
Pembroke has a better academic reputation 
than Brown." 

Chancellor Charles Tillinghast, in 
addressing the 1969 Pembroke Alumnae 
Dinner, helped to put the issue in 
perspective. 

"... A lively topic of discussion in 
agitation today," he said, "is that of the 
future of Pembroke. Shall it continue as a 
coordinate entity in the University or shall 
it completely lose its separate identity? 



Gradually over the years in various ways, I 
guess beginning in m9, it lost certain 
of its distinctive features. I recall well that 
in the time that I was at Brown I had 
the oddity of a Pembroke coed in just two 
classes. And by the time that my children 
came along, of course, they had boys in all 
of their classes and they married two of 
them. I think that the next year or two 
are going to see great pressures to 
determine for quite some time in the future 
exactly the degree of coeducation we shall 
have at Brown. 

"Whatever we decide will have to be 
done thoughtfully and carefully. And as 
we appraise the need, we need to recognize 
that Pembroke in its present or past form 
has been a highly successful institution, or 
portion of an institution. It has been in 
great demand, really greater demand than 
the men's college. It has greater selectivity 
in admissions than any other part of the 
University. It has achieved a position as 
unquestionably one of the outstanding 
women's colleges in the United States. 
Perhaps one could fairly say that in many 
ways it has been the outstanding unit of 
Brown University. I doubt we should 
change this unless we are convinced that 
there is something better that lies ahead. 
But that is not to say that we should close 
our minds to this very important question." 

Proposed solutions to the very 
important question range from total merger 
of Brown and Pembroke to turning 
Pembroke into a center devoted to the 
study of women and their education. 
Whatever the future of women's education 
at Brown, it is certain to be affected by 
the new awareness of women as a special 
interest group that is buffeting the country. 
And if, as some people have suggested, 
the women's liberation movement does 
parallel the struggle for black awareness, it 
is not too farfetched to imagine that 
today's demand for total coeducation 
might become tomorrow's desire for 
female separatism. 



A woman's first duty . . . 

"A woman's first duty is to be desir- 
able" says the magazine advertisement 
posted on a Pembroke bulletin board. 
Underneath is the hand-written question, 
"Do you agree?" 

This sign is one of many prepared by 
the newly-formed Pembroke Women's 
Liberation group in an effort to make 
campus women aware of its aims. 

The group of about 15 girls started 
meeting early this semester in a study 
group devoted mainly to educating them- 
selves to the issues. "Most of us were 
originally attracted to Women's Liberation 
for emotional reasons," says Sue Rogers 
'72, "so we want to investigate the issues 
on a rational basis." 

Some of the topics that the group plans 
to discuss are: the image of women in the 
media, the nuclear family, the relationship 
between the economic system and the 



equality of women, and the acculturation 
process by which children are educated 
to their sex roles. 

The women in the group have varying 
ideas about what will be enough to liberate 
them — some believe in specific reform 
on such issues as abortion and day care 
centers; others feel that nothing can really 
improve women's lot until the present 
capitalist system is abolished. But however 
they may differ on where they are head- 
ing. Women's Liberation members agree 
on where they started from: oppression. 

For many of the Pembroke group, the 
most immediate concern is job discrimi- 
nation against women. Says Sue Rogers: 
"It's scary looking at the future and seeing 
how many Pembrokers end up working 
as secretaries. We are being given a good 
education, the same quality education as 
the boys are getting, but many of us are not 
going to be able to get the same jobs." 

A favorite preoccupation of new 
recruits to Women's Liberation is trading 
horror stories about such discrimination. 
The classic one circulating around Pem- 
broke involves a foreign girl who spoke 
five or six languages and wanted to work 
at the UN. She expressed this desire 
to a counselor at the Pembroke placement 



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behind him a bust of John Carter Brown, 
his grandfather, who began the collection 
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office and was told, the story goes, that 
"there is a lot of competition for secretarial 
jobs at the UN." 

This sort of automatic assumption 
about the work appropriate for women 
strikes dead center for Women's Liberation 
members. And even some of the more 
politically conservative male students back 
them up. 

"All they are saying," says Gary West- 
moreland '72, a member of the Young 
Republicans, "is that they want a fair 
share of the pie. After all, the girls are 
smarter than the men when they enter 
Brown, according to test scores, and they 
are still smarter when they graduate, accord- 
ing to academic achievement. So why 
shouldn't they have an equal chance 
at jobs?" 

The Pembrokers' concern for equal 
access to jobs after they graduate is tied 
to a desire to be accepted as intellectual 
equals while they are still on campus. "I 
was a fairly intelligent girl in high school," 
says Sue Rogers, "and I made no bones 
about it. So I stood out as being different. 
I wanted to go to a competitive school like 
Pembroke because I had the feeling that 
when I got here I would be at least partly 
judged by my ideas. But I found that that 



wasn't true. You are still judged in the 
same old superficial way." 

Although the Pembroke group is still 
small, they hope to attract more members 
as they spread their message through 
the dorms. Many Pembrokers, they feel, 
would share the Women's Liberation con- 
cerns if they knew more about the group. 
To this end, one of their secondary objec- 
tives is "to clean up the image of Women's 
Liberation and show that we're not all 
wild-eyed bra burners who gave up men 
three years ago." 

For the 200th time 

Birthday parties don't attract much 
attention outside the immediate family, but 
a few months ago one was celebrated at 
Brown that did manage to cause more than 
a ripple within segments of the educational 
community. 

The event was the 70th birthday of 
John Nicholas Brown, who, as secretary, is 
one of the most influential members of the 
Brown Corporation, He is also the senior 
member of the Board of Fellows, a patron 
of many projects including the University's 
John Carter Brown Library, and — as the 
New York Times put it a few days later — 



"a multi-millionaire real estate investor." 

It was not the party, held in the 
surroundings of the JCB, that attracted the 
attention. That was posh enough — black tie 
and all that — to get some space on the 
social page. Where Mr. Brown's birthday 
became an event of some educational 
significance was when he, and the JCB, 
began to announce gifts purchased for 
the occasion. 

Librarian Thomas R. Adams told the 
group of 50 that in tribute to Mr. Brown, 
the JCB was adding to its famed collection 
of Americana an extremely scarce and 
important book: the first separate printing 
of the sayings of Poor Richard, which 
Benjamin Franklin originally had scattered 
through various issues of his celebrated 
almanac. 

Adams also announced the JCB 
had put together a specially prepared 
printed catalogue of the 200 rare books, 
manuscripts, and maps the library has 
added to its collections with Mr. Brown's 
help and resources. Mr. Brown's copy of the 
80-page volume was bound in red morocco 
leather and decorated in gold with binder's 
tools which his father had had made by a 
European designer in the 1880's. 

Not to be outdone by the John Carter 



T^i's rare map of 17th Century Canada given by Mr. Brown is one of five from a drawing by Samuel de Champlain. All five are now owned 
by the John Carter Brown Library. Only two other copies of this map are known to exist. 



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Bro>\Ti Libran- and its staff, Mr. Brown 
acknowledged the gifts, then said he was 
giving the JCB a surprise of his own: a 
rare map of 17th century Canada engraved 
from a drawing of Samuel de Champlain. 
The gift is important because it is the 
first-known publication of the map, which 
was issued in 1653. 

The rare Canadian map is one of a 
series of five maps of the same region, each 
showing additional geographic information. 
The relationship between the maps and 
their significance in the growth of 
geographical knowledge was first discovered 
in 1954 by Lawrence C. Wroth, librarian 
emeritus of the JCB, whose studies showed 
the series to have been printed from a 
single re-hammered and re-engraved 
copperplate over a period of 60 years. 

What Mr. Brown's gift accomplished 
was to complete the JCB's ownership of 
all the maps in the series. It is now the 
only library in the world to own all five, 
and only two other copies of the 1653 
Champlain map are known to exist. 

The volume of the sayings of Poor 
Richard which the library purchased in 
Mr. Brown's honor carries its own 
significance in the rare book world. That 
particular printing of the maxims, done in 
Boston in 1758 by Franklin's nephew 
Benjamin Mecom, is called father 
Abraham's Speech. Subsequently reprinted 
under the title The Way to Wealth, the 
collection of sayings became Franklin's best 
known and most popular work. 

Curiously, only three copies of Father 
Abraham's Speech have ever been 
uncovered, and the volume purchased by the 
JCB is the finer of the two perfect copies. 
The third lacks a title page. 

The JCB copy of the sayings also bears 
the added interest of an inscription by 
Solomon Drowne, a member of an important 
Rhode Island family. Drowne, who wrote 
his name in the book in 1758, was the 
father of the widely known surgeon 
Solomon Drowne, a friend of Franklin's. 

The party, of course, was more than 
just a big night for rare book buffs. It was 
steeped in Brown and Rhode Island history 
and tradition, and continued the long 
interest in books and libraries begun as 
early as 1829 by John Carter Brown, 
grandfather of the man who was honored 
by the JCB. 

The JCB collection, which today 
contains over 40,000 rare books, manu- 
scripts, and maps pertaining to early 
American history, was begun as a private 
collection of John Carter Brown. The library 
dates its founding to 1846, when John 
Carter Brown purchased a major group of 
300 scarce items of Americana. By the time 
of the death of his son, John Nicholas 
Brown in 1900, the collection numbered 
12,000 items and was the first great 
American rare book collection placed in its 
own separate library building and main- 
tained as a separate scholarly entity. 



Funds for the growth of the collection 
after it passed to Brown University were, for 
the first four decades, drawn from its 
own endowment. When that became 
inadequate, it was the present John Nicholas 
Brown who stepped in and, with other 
friends of the library, formed the Associ- 
ates of the John Carter Brown. It is this 
group that provides the funds for the 
acquisition of rare books, and during the 
past 30 years the University has borne the 
largest part of the expense connected with 
the actual operation of the JCB. 

Lawrence Roth said some high words 
of praise about tradition, excellence, and 
understanding the aspirations of one's 
forebears on the occasion of John Nicholas 
Brown's 70th birthday. Good as those 
words were, somehow the presence of yet 
two more treasures of Americana in the 
JCB is sufficient tribute. 



On saving Commencement 

At a meeting of the faculty last month. 
Dr. Horst R. Moehring, of the religious 
studies department, moved that an ad hoc 
committee of the faculty be established 
to advise the President and Corporation 
concerning the place and, in case of 
continuance, the future format of official 
Commencement exercises at Brown. 

The next morning, a page one headline 
in the Provide^^ce Joitrnal read: "Brown 
May End Commencement." As might have 
been expected, alumni reaction was 
extensive, with more than 50 letters of 
protest received by University officials 
within a short time. 

Prof. Moehring also was upset by the 
handling of his proposal in the local press, 
claiming that the Journal's headline was 
"most unfortunate" and that the body 
of the story tended to emphasize the 
negative rather than the positive points of 
his motion. 

"My intention was not to kill 
Commencement, but to save it," he said. 
"A Brown Commencement, by tradition, is 
a very tender, very beautiful thing. What 
bothers me is that at Brown, and at 
other institutions, commencement exercises 
have become the scene of various forms 
of demonstrations, the character of which 
are purely political." 

Dr. Moehring contends that his motion 
has as its goal the application of a 
principle which Brown has increasingly 
accepted as valid: all aspects of the life of 
the University must be subjected to 
continuous re-examination. If changes are 
necessary, they should be the result 
of rational discussions among responsible 
men and women, rather than the pressures 
applied by small groups or the consequences 
of demonstrations on Commencement Day. 

"President-elect Hornig," says Prof. 
Moehring, "has stated that the University 
can preserve the freedom which is absolutely 
necessary for the proper performance of its 
tasks only if it does not allow itself to be 
identified with political or social causes, 
correct as some of these causes may be. 

"My motion intends to prevent, as far 



as possible, the prostitution of Commence- 
ment for extra-University purposes. Every 
member of this University is guaranteed 
by the Constitution his right to express 
his political views within the framework of 
the law. No member of this University, 
on the other hand, has the right to abuse 
official University functions to propagate 
his personal political views." 

It is Dr. Moehring's hope that 
whatever results from his motion. 
Brown can arrive at a basic policy concern- 
ing Commencement which would preserve 
as much of the rich tradition connected 
with this event as possible, and at the same 
time, would correct those aspects of the 
event which easily lead to demonstrations 
or, at best, apathy. His point of reference 
here was to religious ceremonies and 
rituals and the conferring of honorary 
degrees. 

As a result of the misunderstanding 
growing out of the Moehring motion. 
Acting President Merton P. Stoltz had this 
to say in a letter to Rhode Island alumni: 

"One professor proposed in a meeting 
of the faculty that a study be made of 
Commencement. His concern grew out of . . . 
a feeling that Commencement is increasingly 
used by some as an opporttmity for political 
activity. The faculty referred the motion to 
the Faculty Policy Group to decide 
whether a study of Commencement is 
necessary or desirable. You may be assured 
that the Commencement exercises at 
Brown will continue." 

It is expected that the Faculty Policy 
Group will make a recommendation 
on the motion to the faculty at its 
meeting this month. 



Ed Koren at Sayles 

Ed Koren admits that at least one 
person in the drawing that appears on the 
opposite page looks suspiciously familiar, 
but that isn't the only suggestion of Brown 
in the Koren cartoon that appeared in the 
Feb. 27 issue of The New Yorker. 

Koren, a regular cartoonist for The 
New Yorker (see the BAM cover story, 
April, 1969) is also an associate professor 
of art at Brown. His February cartoon is a 
thinly disguised drawing of Sayles Hall, 
but the humor — or satire — is basic Koren, 
which means that it is affectionate. 

"The one painting does look just a 
little like Barnaby Keeney, doesn't it? But it 
is a friendly reference to him," Koren 
adds, which is partially evident in the fact 
that the artist included Barnaby Keeney 
among the portraits of Brown presidents in 
Sayles — even though Dr. Keeney's portrait 
does not hang there. 

Now working in New York while on a 
second semester leave of absence from 
teaching duties at Brown, Koren recently 
illustrated an article on pollution in the 
New York Times Magazine. He scored 
another rare honor — for an artist, at least — 
when he recently won a Guggenheim 
Grant for a year's independent work 
on his art. 



A statement of direction 

Not unlike the experience at some 
other Ivy institutions, alumni organizations 
at Brown have been concerned over the 
lack of participation in annual elections 
for key offices. Last year, as well as in 
some previous years, the participation 
among Brown alumni in nominating alumni 
trustees and in electing the president and 
other officers in the organization has been 
about 27 percent. 

Where the lack of participation goes 
beyond simple concern is in the nomination 
of alumni trustees to the Brown Corpora- 
tion. There, the stipulation is that at least 
25 percent of degree holders must take part 
in the election for the nominations to the 
Corporation to be valid. Otherwise, the 
Corporation itself can elect the allotted 
number of trustees. 

In an effort to bolster participation of 
alumni in the annual balloting, something 
new has been added to the elections this 
year. When punch-card ballots went out to 
approximately 30,000 Brown alumni and 
Pembrokers this month, they contained 
the usual biographical information on the 
seven Brown men and two Pembrokers 
who are candidates for alumni trustees. In 
addition, each of the candidates has 
included a statement designed to give 
alumni an opportunity to weigh the 



candidate's thinking about Brown and 
its future. 

The seven Brown alumni competing 
for the two alumni trustee nominations 
have written 250-word statements 
addressed to the general question: "What 
concerns seem most important to you as 
Brown enters the decade of the 1970's?" At 
Pembroke, the two candidates have written 
25-word statements to the statement: 
"What do you consider the role of the 
trustee in the constantly changing concept 
of University governance?" Ballots are due 
back by May 21. 

For the Associated Alumni, at least, 
the adoption of the experiment was made 
by the Board of Directors in answer to 
some critics who said the biographical 
information was not sufficient for them to 
make a wise choice. "I am more interested," 
said one critic, "in knowing what a 
candidate thinks about Brown and its 
problems than in bio information that tells 
me how many United Fund projects he 
has worked on." 

No one is predicting at this point 
whether requiring statements from 
candidates will spark the percentage of 
those participating. Last year, 35 percent of 
alumni of the College participated and 
Pembroke had 27 percent of its degree- 
holders involved. Where the overall 



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The fac-ul-ty stu-dent sen-ate, yeah man; 
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Drawing by Koren;© 1970 

Ttie New Yorker Magazine, Inc. 



percentage suffered came with the Graduate 
School, where 21 percent of the women with 
advanced degrees voted but only seven 
percent of the men returned their ballots. 
Still, the overall 27 percent return was not 
much different than at Princeton, for 
example, which is attracting from 25 to 
28 percent. 

Directors of the Associated Alumni 
plan to evaluate the experiment this 
summer after this year's return has 
been counted. 



8 get Woodrow Wilsons 

Eight seniors have been selected as 
the "most intellectually promising" 1970 
graduates planning careers as college 
teachers in the annual Woodrow Wilson 
National Fellowship competition. 

They are among more than 1,150 
seniors named as Woodrow Wilson Desig- 
nates and chosen from a field of nearly 
12,000 outstanding graduating seniors 
nominated for the honor by 800 colleges 
and universities in the United States and 
Canada. The fellowships no longer carry 
an automatic stipend, but a list of the 
designates will be sent to all graduate 
school deans in the U.S. and Canada with 
the recommendation that the schools 
provide the winners with financial support. 

The students who were named as desig- 
nates are: Richard H. Trainor, an American 
civilization major from Haddonfield, N.J., 
who was also named a Rhodes Scholar 
this year; Steven S. Robertson, a physics 
major from Wayne, N.J.; John M. Love, an 
English major from Westport, Conn.; David 
N. Comberg, an anthropology major from 
Cumberland, R.I.; Andre R. Aubuchon, 
a history major from Fitchburg, Mass.; 
Jean E. Howard, an English major from 
Houlton, Me.; Juliet A. Rake, an anthro- 
pology major from Princeton, N.J. and 
Barbara J. Traver, an American civilization 
major from Arlington, Virginia. 

In addition to the fellowship designates, 
seven seniors received honorable mention 
from the foundation and also will have 
their names circulated among graduate 
school deans. These students are: Jonathan 
D. Cowan, Whitestone, N.Y.; Steven M. 
Zucker, Queens Village, N.Y.; Jean F. 
Ehrenkranz of South Orange, N.J.; Judith 
A. Naschke, Burlington, Mass.; Marta C. 
Peixoto, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Carol L. 
Smith, East Greenwich, R.I. and Jill A. 
Winters, Corinda, Calif. 



Heads economics department 

Mark B. Schupack, associate professor 
of economics, has been appointed chairman 
of the department, succeeding Professor 
Benjamin Chinitz. 

A member of the Brown faculty since 
1959, Prof. Schupack holds a B.S. degree 
in industrial management from M.I.T. and 
M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from 
Princeton. His special field of study is 
industrial organization. 



Prof. Schupack is a member of the Rhode 
Island Consumers Council and served as 
consultant to the legislative commission 
which studied the field of education in 
Rhode Island. 

He is the co-author of a book. The 
Economics of Age, published in 1967, and 
has written numerous articles in his special 
field. Last year, a study by Prof. Schupack 
on automobile industry competition was 
submitted to the U.S. Senate's Select Com- 
mittee on Small Business and published, 
along with testimony from other inter- 
ested parties, including industry critic, 
Ralph Nader. 



Another can of worms 

Not many months ago the Brown 
Young Republican Club announced that it 
had surfaced from relative obscurity (BAM, 
Jan. 1970) and that it intended to provide 
a voice pitched in a different key toward a 
number of campus issues. 

BYR President William J. Olson '71 
said at the time: "One of the main functions 
of BYR is to provide a rational alternative 
to the radical rhetoric and actions on the 
campus." He added that even though the 
Young Republicans were the largest student 
organization with 80 members, they were 
"rank amateurs" in the political sphere 
when compared to the New Left. 

In March, BYR proved rather convin- 
cingly that whatever else it was, the organi- 
zation was not amateurish in its ability to 
open its own can of worms. In the first of 
what Young Republican officers say will be 
a succession of projects, the Young Repub- 
licans charged the University with imbal- 
ance in the political leanings of the outside 
speakers who appear on Brown platforms. 
Too many left-wingers, BYR said in a 
special pamphlet that was sent, along with 
a covering letter, to many key alumni in 
Rhode Island and across the nation. 

The Young Republicans also sent copies 
of the pamphlet to a number of news- 
papers, a gesture that attracted some cur- 
ious journalistic responses. The Chicago 
Tribune accepted the BYR premise com- 
pletely and said editorially: "Brown is very 
sick indeed." The Providence Journal played 
the story on Page 1 alongside another 
reporting in large type that a Brown faculty 
member was circulating a petition recom- 
mending an honorary degree for William 
M. Kunstler, one of the defense attorneys in 
the Chicago conspiracy trial. 

Questions of whether both newspapers 
had overplayed the story aside, what was 
most surprising about both the Tribune and 
the Journal was that neither followed one 
of the oldest journalistic precepts — giving 
the accused a chance to reply to the charges 
at the time the story is published. Both 
newspapers ran variations of the Young 
Republican theme and the Journal pub- 
lished it in full. Neither made an effort to 
determine if the University had a position 
on the charges by contacting those who 
were accused. 

It was not long before the combined 
effect of the BYR mailing and the news- 



paper coverage it got resulted in a flow of 
letters from alumni, some questioning the 
validity of the charges and others angrily 
accepting the broad charges made by the 
two graduate students who signed the 
covering letter, James W. Diamond and 
Thomas H. B. Dressier. 

Within two weeks after BYR had dis- 
tributed what it estimated to be 6,000 copies 
of the pamphlet, it became clear that the 
pamphlet was not only causing the prover- 
bial tempest but had seriously hurt the 
University, especially in the early months 
of its $92 million fund-raising campaign. By 
the early part of April, University officials 
had decided to reply. 

In a letter to approximately the same 
mailing list that the Young Republicans had 
used. Acting President Merton P. Stoltz 
denied the University had any centralized 
policy on bringing speakers to the campus, 
much less one that favored — as BYR 
charged — the left-wing. Said Dr. Stoltz: 

"[The University's] only policy, and 
indeed its duty, is to assure a free forum for 
every point of view. If it is true that there 
are more speakers at Brown from the left 
side of the political spectrum than from 
the right, the proper inference is not that 
there exists a policy which decrees such 
results. . . . The basic problem is that the 
moderates, conservatives, and even the lib- 
erals have failed to articulate forcefully 
their positions on major social issues and 
have further failed effectively to engage the 
left in debate." 

Dr. Stoltz called attention to his open- 
ing convocation address (BAM, Oct. 1969) 
in which he said that it was time to recog- 
nize that the position of the extreme left 
has been well articulated by "dedicated 
spokesmen" who should be countered by 
rational debate from the other side of the 
spectrum. And, he added in his letter: "I am 
distressed to see that moderates or con- 
servatives are not debating the issues with 
the kind of insight and dedication that is 
required to capture the attention and sup- 
port of today's students." 

If Dr. Stoltz followed his customary 
reasoned and low-key approach to answer- 
ing the charges, Vice-President Ronald A. 
Wolk, who, along with Dean of the College 
F. Donald Eckelmann, was hit hardest by the 
BYR charges, was visibly angry. Said he: 

"The Young Republicans, in the manner 
of the radical left which they loudly and 
ineffectually oppose, have distorted the facts 
and misquoted University officials. And 
they have hurt the University. The Chicago 
Tribune, for example, defamed Brown with 
an editorial based solely on a pamphlet sent 
them by the Young Republicans. One won- 
ders if they would have accepted as gospel 
truth such misinformation had it been sent 
them by SDS." 

In the pamphlet "Academic Freedom 
and Responsibility: Fair Speech at Brown," 
the Young Republicans alleged that the Uni- 
versity favored "left-wing views in pref- 
erence to all other political persuasions," 



and that the chief means of accomplishing 
this imbalance was "its speaker selections 
policy." BYR said its members had done 
"extensive research" on the speakers at 
Brown between September, 1967, and Jan- 
uary, 1970, and in a key sentence in the 
pamphlet, they added: 

"During this period there were 26 
'political' speeches of which 16 were left 
wing, two right wing, and nine generally 
neutral." BYR added a disclaimer and said 
such labeling was naturally imprecise and 
debatable. So that the reader could make his 
own judgments, they included a list of the 
speakers. The pamphlet used pictures of 
a student throwing a rock during the 
Columbia University riot in 1968 and an- 
other of former University of California 
President Clark Kerr wiping from his face 
a pie that had been thrown at him during a 
speech at Indiana University. The pamphlet 
also used pictures of Dr. Stoltz, Vice- 
President Wolk, and Dean Eckelmann, im- 
properly crediting them as having been 
supplied by the Brown Alumtti Monthly. 

The list of speakers was a mixed bag 
of names with either descriptions of their 
talks or their positions. The list was also 
incomplete for the period the BYR alleged 
that it covered. Speakers ran the gamut 
from Yale University Chaplain William 
Sloane Coffin (BAM, Jan. 1969), Congress- 
man Allard Lowenstein (BAM, Nov. 1969), 
Brown professors William McLoughlin, 
Lyman Kirkpatrick, and Richard Taub, to 
Israeli Ambassador Yitzhak Rabin (BAM, 
March, 1969), Judge Otto Kerner '30 (BAM, 
Nov. 1968), NBC United Nations corres- 
pondent Richard C. Hottelet (BAM, Dec. 
1968), to Boston conspiracy trial defendant 
Mitchell Goodman, Chicago minister 
Rev. John R. Fry, and Robin Palmer, a 
"co-conspirator in the Democratic conven- 
tion riot case." 

The arrival of the list set those who 
received it to playing the label game, and it 
was probably prophetic of the entire hassle 
to say that no one — not the Young Repub- 
licans, the Providence Journal, nor the 
Chicago Tribune — was willing to gamble on 
making a statement as to which label fit 
each of the 26 speakers. 

An incident central to the arguments 
on both sides of the debate was what took 
place during the two days previous to the 
observance of the Oct. 15 Vietnam 
Moratorium. The Young Republicans 
charged that Vice-President Wolk flatly 
rejected a request to balance anti-Vietnam 
speakers Lowenstein and former Robert 
F. Kennedy staffer Peter Edelman (BAM, 
Nov. 1969) with speakers of the other 
persuasions. 

Later, they attributed to Dean Eckel- 
mann and Vice-President Wolk statements 
alleging that neither was willing to schedule 
conservative speakers because the Univer- 
sity would not be able to control the radicals 
who might protest such an appearance. 
The BYR added that the University felt the 
conservatives would not interrupt a radi- 
cal speaker. 

Wolk said the statement was taken 



out of context and applied by the Young 
Republicans as evidence of a general Uni- 
versity policy. Said he: 

"These charges are absolutely false. 
First, the request by the two students 
to schedule pro-war speakers in the campus 
observance of the Vietnam Moritorium 
in October was denied because it was made 
on the afternoon before. I am not very 
sympathetic with these young men who 
claimed to feel so strongly about something 
but were too busy to do anything about it 
until the afternoon before the event. 

"Secondly, I told the two young men 
who came to me on Oct. 13 that if we tried 
to then force John Tower or Curtis LeMay 
into the Oct. 14 convocation, we would be 
asking for trouble. But I made it clear to 
them that my opinion was confined to that 
specific occasion under those specific cir- 
cumstances. We would defend the right," 
Wolk told one alumnus who questioned the 
charges, "of any group to bring any speaker, 
whatever his political coloration, and re- 
gardless of whether any other group rattled 
its saber. 

"The very week that the Young Repub- 
licans falsely accused me of fearing vio- 
lence from the left if conservatives were 
invited to campus. Marine Corps recruiters 
came to the campus despite threats from 
radical students. The Administration made 
it clear that any disruption of the Marines' 
visit would result in disciplinary action. The 
Marines came; there was no disruption." 

Finally, in his letter replying to the 
BYR charges. Dr. Stoltz said that in 
the course of a year, a staggering number 
of speakers are brought to the campus. 
Most, he said, are invited by academic de- 
partments for coUoquia and seminar series. 
Any recognized group of students may 
bring to the campus speakers of its choice. 
He added that the University also has a 
number of endowed lectures and that speak- 
ers brought in under these programs rarely 
are political. 

"Many of the remaining speakers are 
brought by student organizations who 
often charge admission to raise funds. No 
attempt is made to censor or influence 
these student organizations, and the groups 
invite speakers who share their own 
political views or who, in their judgment, 
will attract large audiences." 

The convocation speakers. Dr. Stoltz 
said, categorized by the Young Republicans 
as "left-wing" represent "a minuscule 
fraction of the speakers coming to Brown." 
They are selected by a committee which 
includes students, one of whom is chairman. 
The University allocates $2,500 a year for 
fees and expenses. 

"We will continue our time-honored 
policy of free debate, even though it may be 
trying and difficult at times," Dr. Stoltz 
said. "I know we will be misunderstood by 
some, but I also know that I can count 
on the understanding and support of 
many others." 



New journal edited here 

One of the most compelling require- 
ments of Sociology Professor Harold 
Pfautz' new job is learning how and when 
to say no. 

As the recently-appointed editor of The 
American Sociologist, an official journal 
of the American Sociological Association, 
Pfautz will read between 150 and 200 
articles a year and exercise final judgement 
about which 50 or so should be published. 
To help him in the weeding out process, 
Pfautz has nine assistant editors at other 
universities — referees who read articles 
dealing with their special field of compe- 
tence and make recommendations. 

The focus of The American Sociologist 
is on the state of the art — sociologists 
writing about sociology. Says Pfautz, "I 
would like to have the journal be a picture 
of trends and problems that currently are 
of interest to sociologists concerning the 
present and future status of the discipline." 

The American Sociologist is published 
quarterly and has a circulation of 14,000. It 
is the second national academic journal 
to be edited at Broiuri. The other is the 
American Economic Review. 



Alumni offices are moved 

Alumni House has changed locations 
from 59 George St. to 159 George, the 
former home of the late Dr. and Mrs. 
William P. Buffum, located between Thayer 
and Brook Streets. 

Alumni Secretary Paul F. Mackesey '32 
and his associate, David J. Zucconi '55 will 
occupy the first floor of the Colonial home, 
along with their secretaries Miss Winifred 



Bell and Mrs. Marjorie White. The records 
staff of six full-time people, headed by Mrs. 
Helen Harrop, will be on the second floor, 
along with the alumni files. 

The alumni office has been at the 59 
George St. location since November of 1955. 
The Alumni Monthly staff, which had been 
in with the alumni office in the past, will 
move later this spring to a yet to be named 
location. 

When Dr. Buffum '09 wanted a home 
built at 159George St., he turned to a former 
classmate and roommate, Albert Harkness, 
a well known architect. The two had not 
only roomed together at Brown but also in 
Boston when Buffum was at Harvard 
Medical and Harkness was attending MIT. 
The spacious home, with a large secluded 
yard in the rear, was the first built by 
Harkness. 



New dean appointed 

Lee L. Verstandig, who directed a 
special interdisciplinary program in 
American political studies at Rhode Island 
College, has been named assistant dean. 

He will serve under Dean of the College 
F. Donald Eckelmann with primary duties 
in academic and personal counseling for 
undergraduates. Verstandig is a graduate of 
Franklin and Marshall College and is now 
finishing work on his doctorate in 
history at Brown. 



The house owned by the late Dr. William Bujfum has been refurbished for the new offices 
and fdes of the Associated Alumni of Brown. 




Carrying 
the mail 



Letters to the editor are welcome. 
They should be on suhjects of interest 
to readers of this magazine with emphasis 
on an exchange of views and discussion 
of ideas. .All points of view are xoelcome, 
but for reasons of space, variety, and 
timeliness, the staff may not publish all 
letters it receives and may use excerpts 
from others. The magazine will not print 
unsigned letters or ones that request that 
the author's name be withheld. 



Keeping it cool 

Sir: I enjoy browsing through the 
Brown Alumni Monthly. I catch a bit of the 
vibrant vitahty of today's college campus, 
so different from the relative placidity of 
50 years ago, when the single campus 
policeman, "Cap" Cameron, paced his 
solitary beat at night, and Dean Randall ran 
the college during the day with no thought 
that his rulings would be questioned in 
any manner. "Prexy" Faunce could then 
walk across the campus just before six 
o'clock in the morning, on his way to his 
office, without the slightest risk that it 
might have become "occupied" by students 
during the night. 

Yes, Brown is different today, as some 
of your alumni letter-writers have pointed 
out with acerbity. Nevertheless, as compared 
with many other colleges, the administration, 
the faculty, and the students have kept 
their "cool." During the current era of 
national unrest and violence, which I 
believe is a passing fever, Brown has shown 
a rather amazing ability to maintain its 
equilibrium and its traditionally high 
standard of excellence as a liberal 
arts college. 

I am not suggesting that Brown has 
suffered no ill effects from the current wave 
of anti-intellectualism that is sweeping the 
country. No institution is immune to 
nationwide trends. Nevertheless, Brown, up 
to now, has been extremely lucky or its 
campus inhabitants have exhibited a 
maturity that has too often been lacking 
across the nation, from Cambridge to 
Berkeley. 

Of course, there is no assurance that 
we have yet fully experienced the nationally 
adverse effects of the campus revolution, 
which started in the last generation with 
the revolt of the faculty against their 
previous domination by the trustees and 
their appointed representative, the college 
president. By now, many of the boards of 
trustees have largely abdicated. They 
no longer exercise many of their legal 
responsibilities, and they no longer support 
their appointee, the college president. In 
too many cases, a leaderless faculty is now 
in full control of the college. As McGeorge 
Bundy has noted, the college president has 
become the servant of the faculty. 

From what I read, I gather that not all 
members of college faculties are completely 
happy with the fruits of their campus 



victory. It seems that a disturbing portion 
of the students is now stridently demanding 
that the faculty share its power with them. 
Perhaps the next revolution will eliminate 
the need for a full-time faculty, although, 
frankly, I find it difficult to visualize a 
Brown campus without full-time living 
symbols of scholarship adorning it. 

However, now that the campuses of 
the larger universities are becoming 
politicized and McGeorge Bundy has 
assured us that this is inevitable on all 
college campuses, perhaps the educational 
standards of the past will not need to be 
maintained. The scholarly requirements 
needed to provide and teach a curriculum 
devoted largely to overall social experi- 
mentation and racial integration are no 
doubt less intellectually exacting than was 
needed when education of the young, 
rather than social reform, was the primary 
function of the college. 

Obviously, the current period of 
enlightenment is illuminated by different 
truths than those that recently prevailed. 
This is plainly evident when such an 
eminent British historian as Professor 
J. H. Plumb of Cambridge University 
entitles a recent book of collected lectures 
The Death of the Past, and can write that 
history's "place as the interpreter of man's 
destiny will be taken by the social sciences." 
If Professor Plumb is correct in his 
analysis of our intellectual future (and 
who could deny his competence to provide 
us with expert advice?), it would appear that 
a start toward cutting down the size of 
the average college faculty could be made 
by excising the history department. This 
could be a popular move, since a fair 
number of students and faculty members 
(other than those in the history department) 
indicate publicly that they agree with 
Henry Ford that history is bunk. 

But I am wandering afield. The more 
acute effects of the present virus of anti- 
intellectualism do not appear to have been 
felt at Brown— at least not yet. As a matter 
of fact, I am rather hopeful over Brown's 
future, although I have less confidence 
about the future educational standing of 
some of the multi-universities that are now 
becoming so ubiquitous. I can't help 
thinking that the independent spirit of 
Roger Williams will help prevent Rhode 
Island's most prestiguous institution of 
learning from prostituting its enviable 
academic standing to become a center of 
political and social activism. 

I believe that Brown, as a liberal arts 
college, will continue to recognize that it 
is important to emphasize the concept — so 
central to scholarship and teaching — that 
there is an inherited body of knowledge, 
necessary in the rational testing of ideas old 
and new, that needs to be transferred from 
one generation to another as an integral 
part of the educational process. If I am 
right. Brown University and its deservedly 
high reputation can and will outlast the 
present era of non-rationality. 
ERNEST T. CLOUGH '20 
Marlboro, Mas$. 



10 



Look to the bread line 

Sir: The explanation of the 13 percent 
increase in tuition in the February issue, 
citing the necessity of increasing the faculty 
salaries to attract top scholars, would have 
been more effective had the same issue 
not contained an item headed "Ph.D's on 
the Breadline," which stated that department 
chairmen have been swamped with 
applications to choose from, including an 
instance where 700 applications had been 
received for one opening. 
ARTHUR M. FREEMAN '36 
Boston, Mass. 



Do without gimmicks 

Sir: Mr. Robinson writes extremely 
well, in the February Monthly, of the 
television monster and its hopeless 
mediocrity. 

However, it is disappointing that his 
piece clings to the standard arguments and 
does not grapple with the more fundamental 
failing of this powerful medium. 

The real problem is not that TV has 
failed to bring us quality entertainment and 
quality news "specials," which fall into the 
category of show production numbers, all 
of it play-acting. For the potential of TV 
extends beyond the walls of a TV studio, 
whatever the quality and dimension of 
the transaction. 

This potential is to swing the camera 
into the direction of events and happenings 
around the world that pour forth relentlessly 
every day, in a never-ending human drama 
that can do without the gimmicks and the 
hordes of re-write men, editors, assorted 
stylists and other hangers-on. But we see 
none of this. Here is the crime of network 
television — not that it has failed to bring 
us good acting, but that it has failed to 
realize its true potential as the visual, live 
recorder of great and moving events. 

The great myth persists that TV is 
where the action is. It isn't, except in the 
nature of clipped footage of headlines 
present at news time that merely whet 
the appetite. 

Another barren area, unmentioned by 
Mr. Robinson, is the non-criticism of our 
newspaper TV critics. All, except Jack 
Gould of the New York Times, transmit 
an inane, bush-league commentary on who 
is substituting for who on what show and 
whether or not Jim Nabors has a good voice. 

It is an approach that accepts the 
status quo and does not penetrate beyond. 
Of course, the current fare on TV is so 
stultifying that one would have to pav a 
good man a healthy salary to keep him in 
his armchair. But we — the viewers — have 
paid a large price for the TV critic's 
obeisance to the routine, and of course with 
Senator Pastore and the FCC allied to the 
existing rules which allow for this 
tedium, the future is not encouraging. 
W. H. VAN DEN TOORN '60 
Washington, D.C. 



Sir: As a recent co-author of an eco- 
nomic analysis of the television industry, I 
read with special interest Mr. Robinson's 
article. Although the banality of the cur- 
rent television fare is a problem of funda- 
mental concern, I find the author's solution 
dangerous and inequitable. 

To carp about "a tyranny of the 
majority" is commendable, but I find that 
infinitely preferable to a tyranny of the 
minority, which is the essence of the 
author's scheme. Is it fair to ask the entire 
tax-paying public to finance programming 
of a high quality that appeals only to a 
small percentage of that population? 
Secondly, entry of the government into a 
communications medium could lead to 
violations of a prime directive of the Con- 
stitution. The image of Spiro Agnew edi- 
torializing on student strikes is nothing less 
than horrifying. 

The government should indeed spend 
more money on television broadcasting, but 
this investment should be directed toward 
an expansion of programming in the fields 
of basic education and vocational training. 
The latter use, particularly, is a largely un- 
developed resource and could lead to better 
qualified workers and lower unemployment. 

Entertainment broadcasting should be 
shifted from commercial television to pay- 
television. This would effect two major 
changes: It would allow programs of high 
quality to be broadcast, if the limited 
number of viewers who desire these types 
of broadcasts are willing to pay the higher 
price necessary to recover capital costs. 
Second, pay-television would alleviate the 
so-called advertising tax . . . the higher price 
charged by corporations as a result of ad- 
vertising expenditures. This tax has been 
estimated at $183 a year per family and is 
imposed on every consumer regardless of his 
ability to pay or the quantity of television 
he views. 

Drastic revision of the television indus- 
try, although certain to incur the enmity of 
the network broadcasters, is necessary to 
allow the market mechanisms to function 
naturally. In the history of the United 
States there has never been an industry 
owned or controlled by the government 
that has functioned at anything approach- 
ing efficiency, and it is safe to postulate 
that the implementation of Mr. Robinson's 
scheme would prove to be no exception. 

NORMAN MACBETH III '70 
Brown University 



Sir: In his article "There is less here 
than meets the eye" (BAM, February 1970) 
Hubbell Robinson refers to "Midnight 
Cowboy" and other films as "cloaca." 
"Midnight Cowboy" is a serious, artistic 
film with the message (among others) that 
even the most derelict human being has a 
soul and the ability to love. 

I thought "Talking to a Stranger" was 
one of the best things I've seen on NET. 

Maybe there are more to some things 
than meets Mr. Robinson's eye, anyway. 

FRANCES DUCKETT '59 
Roosevelt, N.]. 



About the chaplaincy 

Sir: I read your article {BAM, February, 
1970) about the ministry at Brown with 
great interest. Charlie Baldwin helped 
place me here at Harvard, and I believe he 
stands apart from many of the men I have 
met who are in similar positions because of 
his excellence. 

JAMES A. DIAMOND '66 
Harvard Divinity School 



In kindness 

Sir: As an act of pure kindness and 
simple justice to me, a retired editor and 
writer, will you please publish this letter 
in your earliest possible issue. It is a no- 
rock-throwing, no-boycott, completely 
non-violent "protest" — and appeal. 

When your editors, in an effort to do 
me a favor, changed the direction of my 
letter to Dr. Stoltz (BAM, Feb. 1970) from 
second to third person in order to conform 
to the policy of the magazine, there was an 
unfortunate oversight, due, I am sure, to 
the unusual rush in getting the February 
issue to press. 

Several of the you's and yonr's (refer- 
ring directly to Dr. Stoltz or the university 
in the original writing) were not changed 
to third person pronouns or appropriate 
nouns in the revised version. This resulted in 
what must be mutual embarrassment for 
you and me and confusion for the reader. 

I know that you regret this inadvertence 
as much as I do. 

JULIAN CHASE '99 
Woodbury, Conn. 



We bow, sir 

Sir: I was very glad to read "Alumni 
in the 1970s" (BAM, February, 1970). 
It is a good representation of the round- 
table discussion. 

However, I feel that I should bring to 
your attention the cardinal sin of jour- 
nalism — my name was misspelled as 
"Rosenberger". 

ROBERT D. ROSENBERG '70 

Brown University 

(Robert Rosenberg is correct, and we vio- 
lated another cardinal sin in omitting 
from the introduction of the same story the 
name of Michael Robson '70, whose views 
appeared later in the article. Ed.) 



Sir: The recent issues of the Alumni 
Monthly have been excellent. More than 
being a means to keep track of old class- 
mates, the magazine is now a source of 
well-written material on a number of in- 
teresting topics. My thanks for the fine job 
you are doing. 

KENNETH A. COHEN '63 
Los Angeles, Calif. 



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Donald F. Hornig: 



A circuitous route to Brown 



Some ^veeks ago someone asked a friend of Donald F. 
Homig's why he thought Hornig had accepted the 
presidency of Brown University. Many good men with 
their wits about them do not accept such positions in these 
times, said the questioner. Did Don Hornig have some 
kind of death wish? 

"Death wish? Are you kidding?" replied Homig's 
friend. "You must understand that with men like Don 
Hornig, the college campus is where the action is. If the 
action were in manufacturing pencils, Don Hornig 
probably would want to be president of a pencil manu- 
facturing plant." 

When you talk to people who have known Donald 
F. Hornig for a long time, that, frequently, is the kind of 
answer you get. They say the man who in March was 
named the 14th President of Brown is dynamic, enthusi- 
astic, effervescent, not so much an administrative type as 
he is the kind of leader other men follow. If campus unrest 
and uncertainty within higher education are part of the 
job, to Donald Hornig these are plus factors. He is not 
likely to be deterred just because Grayson Kirk and James 
Perkins have been kicked around. 

There is agreement from his friends and former 
colleagues on another point. No one is startled that Dr. 
Hornig has become a college president. To them, his 
positions in the chemistry departments at Brown and 
Princeton, five difficult and controversial years as science 



adviser to President Lyndon B. Johnson, and less than a 
year as a vice-president at Eastman Kodak were a 
circuitous route to get back where he started — Brown — 
and in the position he has always wanted — a college 
presidency. In spite of whatever mutual benefits Eastman 
Kodak and Dr. Hornig might have had for each other, it 
is said candidly that his job in Rochester, N.Y. was a 
sidestep operation that would inevitably have led him 
back to one of perhaps three or four campuses where Dr. 
Hornig felt he could make a special contribution as 
president. 

"Any man who would become a college president at 
this point in history has to have a sense of duty that is 
not very common," says Professor Walter Kauzmann, a 
Princeton colleague of Dr. Homig's. "He'll be in there all 
the way. Don is not a doctrinaire person. He is flexible. 
He's got goals, and he will make those side trips that 
compromise requires if they lead him to the goals he has 
set. Remember that it is easier to be a good scientist — 
which Don is — than it is to be a good administrator. In 
science, one searches for truth and there are at least some 
guidelines and indications that one is successful. Admin- 
istration is a great, grey area, and that suits Don Hornig 
just fine." 

The "circuitous route" that brought Dr. Hornig to 
the presidency of Brown did not actually begin here 



In the first of three talks on March 13, Dr. Hornig (right) addressed 
the Corporation. Excerpts from that talk are at right. 




'Looking ahead 

I came to the decision to cast my lot 
with Brown only after a great deal of 
soul searching. After all, barely a year 
has gone by since I committed myself 
to a quite different course. It would not 
seem profitable now to review the many 
questions I resolved with myself but I 
would like to say why I ultimately 
decided to commit myself to Brown, 
wholeheartedly and without reservation. 
It is that I believe the directions this 
country will take in the future will 
depend on our ability to provide leader- 
ship in each succeeding generation — • 
and particularly this one — which is 
capable of exercising trained intelligence 
in facing new and unforeseen problems. 
I believe also that it will depend on our 
ability to carry on research and scholar- 



but in the desert of New Mexico where, in the mid 1940's 
scientists would unlock the secrets of the atom and create 
the weapon that would end World War II and set a 
different course for all future conflicts in which man is 
involved. Writing in his book Day of Trinity, Lansing 
Lamont captured this moment in 1943: 

At the Underwater Explosives Research Laboratory 
in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, the director summoned 
to his office young Donald Hornig, a Hanmrd graduate 
student addicted to sailing and violin playing. The director 
escorted Hornig to a dingy attic in one of the Labs and 
locked the door behind them. 

"How would you like another job?" he asked the 
startled youth. 

"What have I done wrong?" 

"Nothing." 

"What kind of a job?" 

"Can't say." 

"Well, where is it?" 

"Can't say." 

Hornig recalled that a lot of prominent scientists had 
disappeared from view lately. There was talk of a myste- 
rious project somewhere west of the Mississippi. "East or 
West?" he asked. 

The director shook his head. "Sorry, my lips are 
sealed," he said, and turned to leave. "Think it over and 
let me know in the morning." 

Hornig didn't care for games. His answer was no. 
The following day his phone nearly jangled off the hook. 
James Conant [then president of Harvard] called from 
Washington, asking Hornig what had gotten into him 
and didn't he know Uncle Sam needed his services. Other 
colleagues phoned to put on the pressure. That afternoon 
a long-distance call from George Kistiakowsky, an explo- 



sives expert, alerted Hornig to what was up. The call was 
from Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

Suddenly things fell into place: the vanished 
scientists, the pressure from his colleagues, explosives, 
and Albuquerque. Hornig promptly changed his mind. 
Within tiuo weeks he and his wife, Lilli, had sold their 
yawl and bought an ancient Ford with frayed tires. They 
loaded it with personal belongings and arranged for the 
rest of their household goods to be shipped after them. 
Then they pointed the Ford west and chugged off. 
Destination: Santa Fe. 

Donald Hornig was to head a three-man detonation 
unit known as "X-5." And like other scientists he was to 
know both success and failure in those months at Los 
Alamos. Lamont says in Day of Trinity that X-5 was 
responsible for the firing circuits that would activate the 
detonators on the bomb. At one point, Hornig met 
agonizing failure: 

Hours later, another misfire jolted the camp. Again 
it occurred in Kistiakowsky' s division. But this time young 
Donald Hornig caught the blame. 

. . . Hornig's special pride was the 500-pound firing 
unit which was finally hoisted atop the tower that 
afternoon. Before it went, though, the scientists ran off 
one more rehearsal zvith the dummy firing unit they had 
been using. The circuits blew out and the rehearsal 
collapsed. Hornig was as baffled as he was dismayed. He 
checked every detail of the detonating system for weeks; 
the dummy had never missed before. Now, with only 
24-hours left, one of the most critical parts of the bomb 
had failed. There seemed to be no explanation. Hornig 
wondered if his whole design was at fault and if it would 
wreck the test on the 16th. He would spend a sleepless 
night trying to find the answer. 



Whatever the temporary problems' 



ship which will help understand our 
situation and inject creative new ideas 
for meeting our problems. 

And lastly, in a world which seems 
increasingly confused as to its purpose, 
it is critical that we understand man, 
how he has developed, what he has 
achieved, what he is capable of and 
what he might become. We have come 
to another of those times in history 
when the established way of doing things 
is no longer adequate to the task ahead. 
Our very success in building an urban, 
industrialized, enormously affluent 
society has made the simultaneous 
existence of poverty, injustice and the 
degradation of our environment an issue 
which students find intolerable — as 
we should, too, if we were not too 



comfortable to think about it. Our stu- 
dents are looking for a better world, in 
some sense, and the prospect of trying to 
establish a mode of higher education 
which will help them find it is, to me, an 
exciting one. 

Brown, through its traditions and 
its recent actions, has shown the way in 
meeting these problems. It has lived with 
grave tensions and it has found con- 
structive ways to deal with them. Unlike 
some sister universities, it has shown 
that despite deep divisive differences, 
intelligent, civilized men can find ways 
to move ahead — and to show the way 
to others. 

In short, what attracted me was 
that at Brown all of its many parts, 
students, faculty, administration and 



the Corporation were looking ahead in 
the same direction — whatever the 
temporary problems. 

Most of all, it seemed realistic to 
hope that Brown could move from being 
a fine university to being a great uni- 
versity. That will require great and 
continuing efforts by all of us, but I hope 
I am right in believing that the Corpo- 
ration and, indeed, all Brown men and 
women share that dream with me . . . 

Brown is where the action is. I am 
honored to join this distinguished 
company in trying to serve her distin- 
guished tradition, yes, but even more to 
face the grave problems, financial and 
otherwise, which are ahead, and in 
solving our problems to show the way 
to a troubled educational world. 



13 



By the next day, Hornig had found the answer. And, 
as Lament \vrote, it was exasperatingly simple: the 
scientists had overworked the dummy firing unit through 
countless experiments and the machine finally rebelled. 

The real firing unit for the test was sitting on the top 
of the tower and was ready to perform. But on the night 
before the test, it began to rain and scientists worried that 
the rain might damage the circuitry. Scientist Robert 
Oppenheimer called Hornig to go back up the tower and 
baby-sit with the bomb. Dr. Hornig would remember that 
night the rest of his life. A paperback he was reading lost 
its fascination with each flash of lightning, and he was to 
say years later: 

"I spent three hours up there in the midst of the 
violent thunder and lightning. I thought about what might 
happen if the tower were struck by lightning. So I started 
counting '1,000, 2,000, 3,000' between the thunder and 
the flashes of lightning to determine how close it was. I 
reconciled myself that if lightning did strike the tower, it 
was \vet and grounded and maybe nothing would happen. 
And if something did, I would never know about it 
sitting that close to a nuclear weapon." 

The next day, in the atomic flash that would change 
the course of history, the bomb was detonated success- 
fully and the long ordeal for the scientists had ended. 
The Los Alamos camp disbanded, and Donald Hornig 
headed to Brown to begin an appointment as a member 
of the chemistry department. He would, years later, as a 
science adviser to the President, be instrumental in the 
fight for arms control. 

The 11 years Dr. Hornig spent at Brown were not only 
the longest single job he has held but, he said recently, 
they were among the happiest. It was his first real 



position, and Professor of Chemistry Gene B. Carpenter, 
who continues as a member of the chemistry department 
today, remembers him as a young instructor full of 
energy. 

"I was a young appointee in 1949 and he was almost 
a veteran member of the department by then. He was 
serving as director of research. The department was small 
and there were only one or two members over 35. We 
had a close bond with the other members — we were 
together academically and socially. 

"Hornig was a versatile man in those days. He was 
an excellent chemist and a good and inspiring teacher. 
He was quick and slightly impatient. In a one-to-one 
debate he would fight like hell to beat you to the punch 
on some issue. And then he'd defend the issue strongly. 
He'd also listen to you, and if you had done your home- 
work and could convince him, he'd change his mind. 
But if you didn't have your facts, he wouldn't budge. 
And yet he never carried a grudge. 

"Hornig didn't have a big, loud sense of humor. But 
he's funny — maybe clever-funny is the best way to put 
it. I remember one day when a well known speaker came 
to campus who happened to be a friend of his. Hornig 
introduced him this way: 'A man whose work is always 
interesting and sometimes sound.' The speaker loved it 
because that was the way he thought of himself." 

Chemistry Professor Harold Nace also remembers 
Dr. Hornig as a man with a sense of humor. Often the 
joke was on him. 

"He did have a problem when he was teaching," says 
Prof. Nace. "He would get so involved in what he was 
doing he would lose all sense of time. Sometimes he 
would go 20 or 30 minutes over in his lecture. The 
students would be sitting there squirming. Finally his 



Professor Richard Parker greets Dr. Hornig after his March 13 
speech to the faculty. Excerpts from that address begin at right. 




'Whatever else il 



It is with deep pride and great personal 
pleasure that I accept the honor the 
Corporation has done me in electing 
me the 14th president of Brown 
University — pride because I know the 
University's tradition of excellence and 
pleasure because I am returning to the 
place where I spent eleven very happy 
years. 

When I came to Brown 24 years 
ago Henry Wriston had just survived 
the struggle with the fraternities and 
was going on to launch a whole series of 
new undertakings: a great building 
program, the strengthening of the 
graduate school, and the first of the post 
World War II innovations in under- 
graduate curricula. 

President Keeney's distinguished 



wife bought him a pocket alarm; it would go off and he 
wouldn't hear it — he was that intense when he was 
involved scientifically." 

It was the pocket alarm that Dr. Hornig either would 
not hear or would turn off and continue lecturing that 
led to a department joke in those days. Chemistry 
Professor Lee Clapp recalls that a unit of time then was 
called "A Hornig," which was the elapsed time between 
the moment Dr. Hornig said, "I'll be with you in a 
minute," and his actual arrival. 

In his years at Brown, Dr. Hornig was to become 
the youngest man, at 31, to be awarded a full profes- 
sorship and, in addition to his duties with the chemistry 
department, he was also associate and later acting dean 
of the Graduate School. The path was not always smooth, 
and Dr. Philip Bray '48, member of the Brown physics 
department, remembers him as an associate professor just 
a few years out of graduate school. 

"I know Dr. Hornig irritated a few people in those 
days and this was because he was the kind of person who 
wanted to get things done. He was hard-nosed and hard- 
driving. He was also extremely bright. Sometimes pro- 
fessors and administrators would start to make a point 
with him and they'd drag it out and out; he would get 
impatient because he had long ago picked up the point 
they were making. He didn't want to sit in on a long 
soliloquy toward a conclusion he had already made." 

By 1957, another challenge came, this time an offer that 
would lead to the chairmanship of the chemistry 
department at Princeton. Professors Kauzmann and 
Leland Allen, two of his associates in the seven years he 
spent there, agree that at the time, Princeton chemistry 
needed a Donald Hornig. Says Leland Allen: 



"He was a dynamic person at a time when we needed 
a change and his type of dynamism. He had an outward 
look; a world-wide look. We didn't need to look inward. 
Many new aspects came in with him: biochemistry, a 
reemphasis of theoretical chemistry, revitalization 
of the physical side of chemistry. But most of all he 
brought enthusiasm. 

"He was good because he would allow a thousand 
flowers to bloom. He made an attempt to balance decisions 
by getting all viewpoints. Yet I don't think of him as an 
administrator. He is more of an action man than a 
synthesizer; he is not a James Conant. 

"You cannot talk about Don Hornig without men- 
tioning his effervescence. He gives exciting talks and 
lectures. People are interested in following him. He 
appears to touch base on most things and to pay attention 
to details. He walked through the labs here; I am sure 
you will find him walking through the campus at Brown 
talking to undergraduates." 

Prof. Kauzmann agrees and adds that Dr. Hornig 
faced a difficult situation at Princeton. The department 
needed strengthening and many felt it should come from a 
chairman from the outside. 

"He reacted beautifully, but not everyone liked it," 
says Prof. Kauzmann. "Yet he did get everyone to 
pull together. One or two thought Don Hornig was a 
catastrophe because they knew he was better than 
a department chairmanship. They suspected that Prince- 
ton was a way station for him. He had growing con- 
nections in Washington and they knew he would be here 
for only a few years. He was on the way up and every- 
one knew it." 

It was during this period that President Eisenhower 
appointed Dr. Hornig to his Science Advisory Committee 



akes, the quality of the faculty is centrar 



tenure saw the flowering of these enter- 
prises and accelerated progress as he 
added more. It saw Brown's reentry into 
medical education, after more than a 
century's lapse, and the inauguration of 
a host of imaginative programs in many 
fields, as well as changing the face of 
the ever-enlarging campus. 

The beautiful new buildings in such 
numbers made the campus almost un- 
recognizable when I revisited it. I feel 
compelled to note, parenthetically, that 
I am particularly pleased at the quahty of 
the recent Brown architecture. Buildings 
alone do not make a great university but 
they reveal a great deal about the quality 
of its spirit, and in this Brown gets very 
high marks. 

President Heffner's years at Brown 



covered some of the most difficult times 
the American universities have ever 
faced. They were the times when the 
disturbing social and political issues 
which beset our society were taken to 
heart by the students and brought on to 
the campus — civil rights, Vietnam, 
the draft, the whole question of the 
legitimacy of established institutions. It 
is his great achievement that although 
Brown had its share of deeply divisive 
issues, the University survived them not 
only intact but greatly strengthened by 
the unique and workable answers it was 
able to develop . . . 

Yes, Brown has grown, prospered 
and matured in those 24 years. In coming 
back, though, it is good to fee! that it is 
essentially the University I knew and to 



recognize many familiar faces and old 
friends on the faculty. 

When people ask me why I chose to 
accept this post, one of the reasons I 
give is the opportunity to work with 
and to serve the faculty. Whatever else 
it takes to make a great University the 
quality of the faculty is central. 
Succeeding generations of students come 
and go, each leaving his imprint on the 
University, but the faculty determines 
what the university is over a much longer 
time span. 

No matter how we restructure 
curricula, no matter how we change 
grading systems, no matter what 

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and several years later President Kennedy renewed the 
appointment. More and more Donald Hornig had 
become part of — as Prof. Alien puts it — "the Wash- 
ington experience." 

"Toward the end of his career here, Don Hornig 
was a man with too many balls in the air. Good as 
he was — and he was better than most in being able to do 
this — he inevitably put up one too many. It was the 
Washington experience again." 

Only a few weeks before he was assassinated. Presi- 
dent Kennedy announced that Dr. Hornig would 
become his science adviser with offices near the White 
House. But the Senate had not confirmed the appointment 
when President Kennedy was killed in Dallas. The decision 
was up to Lyndon Johnson and he followed through and 
also named Dr. Hornig to the job. The Princeton chem- 
istry chairman accepted the post as science adviser at an 
extraordinary time. LBJ would be re-elected by an over- 
whelming majority, the confidence in the President 
and his own self-confidence were incredibly high, and the 
country was just beginning to turn inward but had not 
yet turned inside out. 

Superimposed on this seemingly blissful situation 
was a stark reality for Donald Hornig. Many felt he had a 
hard act to follow. Jerome Weisner had been a popular 
science adviser who enjoyed a special relationship 
with President Kennedy. He had championed popular 
causes — or at least some that enjoyed popularity with the 
vocal elements of the science community. And science 
cmd scientists still were regarded by many as the new 
Merlins capable of solving any and alb^rthly challenges 
— provided they received enough money. It was and is 
a myth, but a myth that in 1964 many in the Congress and 
among the public cherished. 

The quality of the faculty (continued) 



As science adviser. Dr. Hornig's tasks were formi- 
dable. He had a number of duties, among them: chairman 
of the Federal Council for Science and Technology, chair- 
man of the President's Science Advisory Committee, 
director of the Office of Science and Technology, and 
special assistant to the President. Of them all, the last is 
probably the most important because of the individual 
and confidential relationship it carries with the man who 
holds the Presidency. 

No one can be sure, and this would probably include 
Donald Hornig, how effective he was in the position. 
There was a growing awareness of President Johnson's 
distrust of intellectuals, and LBJ wanted a wider geo- 
graphical spread in the funds spent on science rather than 
having more money dumped into already established 
centers of excellence. Observers of the Washington scene 
said President Johnson's interest in basic and academic 
research greatly diminished — and this was a subject dear 
to the hearts of the scientific community and Donald 
Hornig. As the Vietnam war came to consume LBJ, and 
academicians were in the forefront of criticism. Dr. 
Hornig's job got tougher. Said one reporter there at 
the time: 

"Accordingly, and through no fault of his own, Don 
presided over the slow but sure decline of the rate of 
growth that the scientific community had come to enjoy 
since World War II. Hornig did fight the good fight, yet 
one senses that if he had little clout in the White House, 
he may have been the wrong man for the wrong Presi- 
dent at the wrong time." 

In one instance. Dr. Hornig was able to keep a good 
deal of money in the President's budget for the National 
Science Foundation — the government's patron saint for 
basic research — only to lose out in the Congress. "It took 
some guts," said one science watcher, "because it always 



technological aids to education may 
become available, it is the quality of its 
faculty which will determine what 
Brown is to become. Since I wouldn't 
have undertaken this responsibility 
without great dreams for Brown's future, 
it is obvious that I have great respect for 
the stature of the faculty. 

I should also add that I am im- 
pressed by the excitement of Brown and 
the willingness of the faculty to be 
flexible and imaginative and to adapt 
its concept of education to a rapidly 
changing world with rapidly changing 
problems and needs. Several times in 
those 24 years there have been radical 
curricular innovations, culminating in 
last year's changes which set the pace 
for American universities . . . 

Lastly, I am impressed that despite 



the strains of the last few years, the 
Brown faculty, unlike many others, has 
not broken up into warring factions. 
Despite great differences it has been able 
to move ahead, and this offers great hope 
for the future . . . 

It is clear that these are complex 
times when we must continue to reassess 
the meaning of a liberal education, and 
find new ways to make it still more 
meaningful. We must bear in mind, 
though, that what was "relevant" a 
decade ago is not on center stage today 
and that what seems most relevant today 
may not be what matters most when our 
students are 10 years out of college. Our 
problem is to fit them for the next 50 
years in a world whose form and 
character we cannot perceive sharply. 

It is also clear to me that however 



concerned we are with contemporary 
problems, and however determined we 
are to alleviate them, the fact is that in 
any case we do not know enough about 
them or about the means to their solution. 
No amount of enlightened and exciting 
discussion can substitute for facts, for 
understanding and critical analysis. 

On one occasion my wife suggested 
as a theme: "The Only .Alternative to 
Knowledge is Ignorance." Too often we 
must proceed from the latter. We need 
more research and scholarship in the 
natural sciences, in engineering, in the 
social sciences and the humanities. We 
need to understand nature and society 
better but in this confused world we 
need also to understand what it means to 
be a civilized man, what we are, what 
we are capable of, and what we might 



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made the President unhappy to put something before 
the Congress which his pohtical sense told him was 
a loser." 

It is generally agreed that Dr. Hornig earned high 
marks for his dogged pursuit of international cooperation 
in science. He was probably the most travelled science 
adviser and the most tenacious and aggressive arguer in 
Europe's Council of Science Ministers. 

There is one anecdote, maybe apocryphal, that the 
President called in his advisers and wanted them to come 
up with something imaginative that LBJ and the United 
States could do for the Republic of Korea. Dr. Hornig 
apparently had the only useful suggestion, and con- 
sequently Korea now has a going Institute for Science and 
Technology — a Hornig invention. As a result of a trip to 
Libya, he put together an imaginative new post-AID 
program. As a result of the trip to Taiwan, Generalissimo 
Chiang Kai-shek increased the level of basic research 
on that island. Dr. Hornig also initiated an important 
industrial scientists' visit to Russia. 

One veteran Washington observer who knew Dr. 
Hornig and had closely followed his career as science 
adviser, has his own "rough catalog" of some of the 
things in which Dr. Hornig was engaged during the years 
in Washington. 

"The President would call him when a disaster, 
most often with technological consequence, beset the 
nation. Don played a major role in helping to put things 
back in order after the Alaska earthquake and stimulated 
further reseach on earthquake prediction and pre- 
vention. The same was true when the Northeast was 
blacked out by the giant power failure and again when 
the Torrey Canyon made 'oil spill' a popular phrase." 

Dr. Hornig is credited with inspiring the so-called 



Tukey Report, or "Quality of Environment," the first 
major overall review of ecology. The report came after 
Hornig wrote Presidential aide Bill Moyers in 1964 with 
the prediction that pollution would become one of the 
biggest problems of the times. He had also worked 
actively in the space area in his early days as science 
adviser. Under his guidance, a plan for post-Apollo 
efforts was developed, one that observers feel pretty 
much anticipated the Nixon program. 

And one observer notes that the President's Science 
Advisory Committee, under Dr. Hornig's direction, 
played a significant role in LBJ's decision to call a bomb- 
ing halt in Vietnam. 

"In trying to give a capsule assessment of Don 
Hornig's career in Washington," said one source, "it is 
impossible to know all that he accomplished or failed to 
accomplish or why. Much of what a Presidential adviser 
does is unseen and unsaid. Be it understood, too, that 
he is not only a captive of the times and temper of the 
nation, but of the President, who is captive, too." 

When Donald Hornig left Washington in 1969, he 
said that he felt he had accomplished all he could. There 
were other challenges to be met, and he accepted the 
vice-presidency at Eastman Kodak. 

"I know how much time Don spent in fighting the 
Washington battle," says Prof. Leland Allen today. "He 
had one other alternative — to resign. He was the guy 
out front taking all the shots, and it would have served him 
better personally if he had left Washington two years 
before he did. But he stayed and fought. The thing that 
is most important to know about Don Hornig is that 
whether or not he is out front taking all the shots, he 
isn't the type to quit." R.A.R. 



become. 

The central purpose of the university 
is surely to develop the capabilities of 
young men and women, on the one 
hand, and to develop knowledge and 
understanding on the other. But beyond 
that, because the university is a reservoir 
of knowledge and of talent, it must also 
find appropriate ways to help our com- 
munity and nation meet the difficult 
problems which surround us. 

All in all it is an exciting prospect. 
Of course, we will face difficulties. We 
face the need to reassess everything we 
do in the light of a changing world and 
the changing needs of our students. It 
will not always be easy to maintain both 
the pluralism and diversity which makes 
the life of a university rich while also 
maintaining that sense of purpose and 



cohesion which makes it effective. But 
Brown has shown the capacity for self- 
renewal throughout its history and I 
have great confidence on this score. 

Not the least of the difficulties we 
must face is the financial stringency 
which afflicts all universities, public and 
private, right now. Much of what is 
needed demands new resources at a time 
when for many reasons resources are 
becoming harder to find. The public at 
large shows signs of disenchantment 
with some aspects of higher education. 
Public purse strings, largely those of the 
Federal government, are being tightened 
just when the needs are great and the 
costs of higher education are rising. I 
cannot be sanguine about the prospects 
of an early change in these policies but 
neither am I pessimistic. But until there 



is a change, we will have to learn to do 
more with what we have. 

An ambitious fund drive has just 
been launched. We have good friends 
and loyal alumni. Brown, its faculty and 
its students, have shown that they are 
worthy of support. I believe that as we 
continue to demonstrate what we can 
accomplish as teachers, scholars and 
researchers and as concerned citizens, 
we will continue to find the resources 
needed to accomplish our goals. But it 
will take a lot of hard work by 
everyone . . . 

I assure you that I will devote every 
bit of my energy and capacity to serving 
Brown. I hope I also merit your 
confidence and cooperation for alone I 
can do little; together everything is 
possible. 



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A new president and the future: The only 



A university is a little like a family; 
it has its births and deaths, its 
marriages and anniversaries, its loves 
and hates and family squabbles. Each 
new generation casts off the old one and 
makes a fresh start and then finds itself 
still possessed of family traits from 
which it cannot escape. I hope my 
appointment won't be regarded as the 
return of the prodigal son. I would rather 
believe that we are starting a new 
generation. Like a family I hope that 
though we may be boisterous and argue 
we will continue to be devoted to each 
other's welfare. I will do my share and 
I hope others will, too. 

This is not the occasion to outline 
policies or set forth blueprints. It is not 
even the occasion to tell what I think 
about all the burning issues of the day. 
All of this will have to wait until I have 
had more chance to do my homework, to 
learn the realities of the issues on the 
campus and to consult with all elements 
of the University community ... I think 
though that you are entitled, even before 
I really go to work, to some insight into 
the philosophy with which I approach 
this task. It is, of course, subject to 
change as I learn more. 

Let me start by saying that in my 
view this University is first and foremost 
an educational institution, a place to 
develop the capacities of people and a 
place to advance knowledge and under- 
standing across the whole spectrum of 
the arts, sciences and humanities. Its 
most basic function is to provide a place 
and a climate where people — faculty and 
students — can learn, individually, jointly, 
with and from one another. 

Its first concern, then, is to assure 
each of its members the freedom to 
pursue learning: to study, think, in- 
vestigate whatever and wherever his 
spirit may lead him, provided he brings 
to this work that honesty, intellectual 
rigor, and concern for the rights of others 
to the same privilege which should 
characterize any civilized society. 

Providing such a place and such an 
intellectual climate has never been an 



by Donald F. Hornig 



easy task, but it is perhaps harder now 
than at many times in the past. I am 
thinking not only of material and 
financial pressures, great as these are. 
For better or for worse the human con- 
dition has always depended on money 
or its substitute, work, which produces 
goods. Despite the fact that this is the 
most affluent country in the world, 
money for education is harder to find 
than it has been for many years, and we 
will have to work hard to get it. 

But aside from that there are many 
pressures on the University as we 
have known it, pressures that sever it 
from its past detachment and propel it 
into the world of action. As thinking 
people, faculty and students cannot be 
unconcerned in a world ravaged by war 
and violence, divided into rich and poor 
or black and white, threatened by over- 
crowding, hunger and the prospect of 
suffocating in its own waste. 

The University has never been and 
is not now structured to be a direct 
action agency for social change. None- 
theless its individual members have a 
deep obligation, as educated and able 
people, to make the fullest contribution 
they are capable of to society at large, 
to tackle the problems within their pur- 
view in the best way they know. 

As an institution the university is 



a reservoir of knowledge and collective 
talents which can be brought to bear 
on the problems of our community and 
our society. We must seek out new ways 
by which our intellectual skills can con- 
tribute to the problems, old and new, 
that surround us. In return, the experi- 
ences obtained and the problems en- 
countered in the process will provide 
new, exciting relevant material and 
experience to the internal processes — 
teaching, discussion and research of 
the University. 

Of course, it is precisely this new 
sense of involvement with the world, 
a sense which has been growing in 
faculties for the last two decades and 
in the student body for the past few 
years, that in a very real and profound 
sense threatens the University's valued 
independence and freedom of inquiry, 
sometimes even its integrity. 

It is not only the sense of involvement 
by the universities and their members; 
it is the expectation of assistance by 
agencies of the federal government, by 
communities and so forth which has 
created entirely new demands on the uni- 
versity. But big business, government, 
political, economic pressures, and the 
rest of the litany of villains, are not root 
causes, they are simply facts of the 
world everyone lives in. 



After three speeches, Dr. Hornig loalked with the students and members of the staff to an 
informal reception in the Graduate Center. Excerpts from his convocation speech 



are printed above. 



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alternative to knowledge is ignorance 



It is within ourselves that we must 
look for the strength to resist pressure, 
within the structure of the University 
that we must find the means to defend 
its most valued privilege. Independence 
of mind and freedom of the spirit last 
only so long as we follow no carrot that 
is inconsistent with deeply-held ideals, 
no matter who is holding it out. 

If the university is to protect the 
intellectual freedom of each of its mem- 
bers, if it is to protect the right of each 
and every member to dissent, it is 
precluded from adopting official posi- 
tions, that is positions as an institution. 
Only 15 years have gone by since that 
tradition of official non-involvement and 
individual freedom was a bulwark 
against McCarthyism. Now the pressure 
is from other quarters, but no matter 
how right or moral the present causes 
raay be we will surely need the pro- 
tection of that tradition again in 
the future. 

Of course freedom to learn, to 
discuss, to protest, to investigate is a 
necessary foundation, but where do we 
go from here? How do we translate these 
principles into action, into a workable 
educational experience? 

It is already a cliche' to say that the 
world is changing faster than it ever 
has. Nonetheless that is true, and knowl- 
edge is often obsolete before it can be 
used. We can no longer simply impart the 
conventional wisdom to students and 
be confident that after four years of 
dutiful application to established truth 
they can go forth prepared to solve the 
world's problems. It is already true that 
the facts and even the values we may 
try to teach to freshmen sometimes lose 
their applicability or their validity four 
years later. 

We can at best dimly foresee the 
outlines of even the next decade's major 
problems — population pressure, envi- 
ronmental quality, full equality for men 
and women of all races — and we are 
certainly far from being able to solve 
them. But the university's concern is 
not merely with the problems of today, 
next week, or the next decade. Its con- 
cern is the development of individuals 
who will shape their own world 25 and 
50 years into the future, and who will in 



their turn set the stage for generations 
to follow. 

Education used to be something like 
a bag of tools we could hand to a student 
and say "Here is your equipment — go 
out and build something with it." Now 
the best tools we can give him may be 
obsolete tomorrow or next year. What 
we have to do is make available the 
know-how for him to fashion and 
refashion his own tool kit. In short, we 
must teach people how to learn and 
keep learning, to keep alive the curiosity 
and inquisitiveness and rigorous intel- 
lectual honesty that will lead them to 
continue seeking new and better answers 
to changing problems. 

The university as an institution 
cannot bend to every passing breeze of 
fashion, but the underlying principle of 
adaptability to change is what must be 
implemented in its mechanics of opera- 
tion, its social and administrative struc- 
tures, and most of all in its curriculum. 

Let me summarize for you a set of 
recommendations for action contained 
in a Report to the Corporation of 
Brown University: 

1. The abandonment of a fixed re- 
quirement of courses. 

2. The length of each course is to be 
determined by its nature. 

3. A student has a right to study 
what he chooses. 

4. New courses should be established 
whenever community needs require. 

5. No student should be required to 
proceed to a degree unless he 
chooses to. 

It may interest you to know that 
this report was issued in 1850 under the 
guidance of President Francis Wayland. 
The point I want to make is not that 
there is nothing new under the sun, but 
that the university's concern with the 
world in which it exists and to which it 
contributes its intellectual resources is 
and must be a continuing one. 

The generation gap is a topic that 
already suffers from rhetorical over- 
kill, and I know that many students 
feel that because their generation is the 
first to have grown up with change as 
a condition of life they have little to learn 
from us. I only want to remind them 
that my generation is the first that has 



had to learn to adapt to the new pace 
of change. 

Continuing change has become a 
fact of life, in the university and in 
society. Although this is certainly one 
of the sources of the instability we now 
experience, I suspect this will continue 
to be the case. This surely calls for a 
continuing self-assessment and constant 
self-renewal. Fortunately, Brown was 
capable of it in Francis Wayland's day 
and is quite evidently capable of it today. 

The response to change, both the 
rapid advance of knowledge and the 
changing problems of society, lead some 
to de-emphasize education as learning 
in favor of education as an experience. 
It has lead others to seek more education 
as a by-product of social action. This is 
all valid to a point — but. — The "but" 
is that repeatedly we now find ourselves 
stopped by not knowing enough. That 
is true for pollution and environmental 
quality problems as it is for social prob- 
lems. We repeatedly undertake well 
intentioned and expensive programs 
which either have no effect or effects 
other than those intended, usually 
because they started with an inadequate 
base of knowledge and understanding. 
Therefore, even on these burning issues, 
the only alternative to knowledge 
is ignorance. 

I have aired a few views but I have 
not attempted to present any answers for 
Brown. But one of the reasons I have 
accepted this position is that they are 
being approached and dealt with — 
witness the new curriculum. Brown and 
its students are alive and vital and to- 
gether with the faculty and the adminis- 
tration; Brown has found constructive 
solutions to some of the problems. 

I am here because I consider the 
work of the University the most im- 
portant task to which I can contribute 
in these turbulent times. I consider 
Brown a leader in the world of higher 
education ... I suppose I should also 
look forward to occasional violent protest 
and a certain amount of personal abuse 
at times, but that goes with the job. 
Nonetheless, with cooperation and help 
I look forward to a productive and 
satisfying tenure at Brown. 



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Curriculum reform: 



Only 



beginning 



by Dwight R. Ladd '43 



Last spring. Brown adopted a new curriculum that 
proposed dramatic changes in the ways in which students are 
to be educated (BAM, July, 1969). Not long after the Brown 
faculty adopted these changes. Professor Dwight R. Ladd '43, 
of the University of New Hampshire's Whittemore School 
of Business and Economics, began a study of major efforts in 
changing educational policies for the Carnegie Commission 
on Higher Education. His study is completed and is published 
under the title Change in Educational Policy (New York: 
McCraw Hill Book Company, 1970). This article is not a survey 
of all the changes being made throughout higher education 
and Prof. Ladd's study for Carnegie Commission was as much 
concerned with the processes by which change was attempted 
as with the details of proposed changes. Here, he is essentially 
concerned with the basic direction of educational reform. 



In the early days of 1970, when I write, the campuses 
of America are relatively peaceful, but that peace 
is not unlike the Peace of Versailles: It should not be 
taken as a sign that very many basic problems have been 
solved. 

In the past three or four years many colleges and 
universities have made changes in response to the turmoil 
in which they have lived, but the real issue beneath 
that turmoil is only just beginning to be faced — indeed, 
to be understood. That issue has to do with the basic 
role of the university in an advanced technological society. 
And unhappily for the universities (and for the rest of 
society, too) it is not at all clear that we have much of any 
idea what the shape of that society is and may become 
• — or perhaps more tragically — what we want it to be. 

Assessment of recent educational reforms must, 
then, be written and read with the understanding that the 
reforms are almost surely temporary and that more 
fundamental changes are surely to come. Changes have 
been made within the framework of the traditional 
university, but it seems more than likely that an entirely 
new framework will evolve as society as a whole develops, 
as it surely must, forms more appropriate to meaningful 
human existence in a world dominated by technology. 

Changes have been made — student conduct rules and 
university governance are two prominent ones — but space 
will not permit discussion of all of them. Through dis- 
cussion of the changes in curriculum and grading I hope to 
convey some sense of what is going on and of the prospects 
of adapting the university to an uncertain future. 

Recent reforms have partly been a response to 
pressure from students. This is probably nowhere more 
evident than at Brown. As I wrote in Change in Educational 
Policy: "Whatever may be the ultimate result of the 
changes in educational policy at Brown, that they were 
made is surely a tribute to the remarkable tenacity of a 
group of students and especially to the dedication and 
organizing skill of Ira Magaziner . . . All faculty members 
with whom I talked agreed that such sweeping changes 
would not have taken place at this time without the work 
of the students and especially of Mr. Magaziner, which 
is not to say that all of them were happy with either the 
results or the origin of the pressure." 

Much — including a great deal of nonsense — has lately 
been written by way of explanation of the apparently 
dramatic change in the value of orientation and behavior 
standards of those currently under 30. I shall not add to this 
outpouring except to point to two characteristics which 
are at odds with certain fundamental traditions of 
higher education: 

Students have become insistent, at most, upon doing 
their own thing, and at least, upon having a voice in any 
decisions about what they may and may not do. The 
elements of authoritativeness (too often become authori- 
tarianism) which has always been an accepted part of most 
educational philosophy and practice is being relentlessly 



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challenged by students. 

Secondly, while vast numbers of students continue to 
have a career orientation and wish only to acquire the 
expertise and certification which will permit entry into 
the middle class, there are many who have different 
orientations. Some are more concerned with "feelings" 
than with cognitive learning, with self-discovery rather 
than discovery of knowledge about other phenomena, and 
these concerns conflict very directly with the almost 
completely cognitive basis of traditional higher education. 

Further, another group of dissatisfied students are 
those less concerned with what is and has been than with 
what should be, those who wish to learn through personal 
and institutional involvement in societal change. These, 
too, are in conflict with the typically historical and 
introspective stances of the university. 

Apart from pressure from students, however, reform 
also reflects a growing questioning, by at least some 
faculty and by most administrators, of certain assumptions 
on which the educational processes of the contemporary 
university rest. Some of these assumptions are very old, 
others derive from quite recent developments such as the 
knowledge explosion and the related professionalization 
of scholarly activity. A brief review of these assumptions 
may help to put some of the recent changes into 
perspective: 

(1) There exists a relatively fixed body of knowledge 
which is an important constituent of our 
cultural heritage. It is a principal function of 
the university to transmit that heritage to each 
new generation. 

(2) Our highly technological society requires cadres 
of professionally-trained specialists who will fill 
its executive positions. It is a principal function 

of higher education to train these specialists. 

(3) Positions of leadership and influence in our 
society are filled on the basis of merit, and it is a 
principal function of higher education to identify 
and classify the members of the meritocracy. 

To sum up, it is pressure from students with new 
ideas about the content and processes of their education 
and a questioning by faculty of certain basic assumptions 
which have brought about some of the changes in 
curriculum and grading. 

American undergraduate curricula generally consist of 
two parts: a "general education" segment concerned 
with the development of the well-rounded man of the 
familiar cliche, and a major or concentration intended to 
develop a certain amount of knowledge in depth about 
a single field. These have long co-existed in spite of the 
obvious conflict between them, but as knowledge has 
increased and become fragmented and specialization 
become more intense, the tension has grown into 
open conflict. 

Both parts of the curriculum usually involve a fair 
degree of prescription. In a few institutions — Columbia 



and Harvard perhaps most notably — general education has 
involved required, specially-designed interdisciplinary 
courses such as "Contemporary Civilization." The more 
common approach (familiar to most Brown graduates) 
has been to require that the student take a certain 
number of courses in each of several designated areas — 
humanities, social sciences and natural sciences, for 
example. Generally, these courses have little to do with the 
concept of general education; they are simply courses 
designed and offered by individual departments to 
introduce the department's field. In the case of the major, 
the amount of prescription will depend upon the field. 
For example, the sequential nature of study in most 
sciences results in fairly rigid prescription, whereas in the 
humanities, concentration generally permits a fair 
degree of student selection from among courses. 

Much that has happened in recent years conflicts 
with this educational model. The specialists who make up 
today's faculties rarely want to teach broad inter- 
disciplinary courses. In fairness, it must be said that most 
of them do not feel competent to do so, and probably 
are not. These specialists have directed the introductory 
courses, used to satisfy breadth requirements, more 
and more towards beginning specialization in a field and 
thus farther away from the concept of general education. 

In 1943, the year I graduated. Brown had 21 
academic departments. In 1968, there were 28 academic 
departments and most were offering many more courses 
than was the case 25 years earlier. The development of 
new fields and the growth of old ones has made definition 
— in both philosophical and practical terms — of the body 
of knowledge which "every educated man should know" 
difficult, if not impossible. 

No doubt everyone should study Plato, but in the 
late 1960's it is defensible to state that everyone should 
also be familiar with molecular biology. If everyone should 
know a foreign language, so, it may be argued, should 
they know how to program a computer. The difficulty is 
that with a fixed number of courses involved, priorities 
must be set and no one seems certain of what these 
should be. 

Finally, students object to required programs, partly 
because they are required, but even more because they 
lack "relevance." History or 18th century literature, they 
argue, have little to offer to the solution of the terrible 
problems which beset mankind. The acquisition of 
previous generations' cultural heritage seems to make 
little sense to the children of a McLuhanite age of 
instant culture. 

There is a growing feeling that the problems of 
society are so many and so complex that the best way to 
learn is to be involved with the problems, an approach 
which has little to do with the traditional lecture hall. 
Related to this is the view that when knowledge increases 
geometrically, its acquisition is less important than 
is learning about knowledge — how it is acquired, 
conceptualized, and used. 



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Recent changes in curriculum have been made as a 
result of these dissatisfactions and concerns with the 
traditional model, though generally speaking, the changes 
seem less effective than the analysis of weaknesses in 
existing curricula. The most common element in recent 
curriculum changes has been the substantial reduction or 
elimination of specific requirements. Increasingly, students 
are being allowed, or forced, as the case may be, to design 
their own general education programs. Less widespread, 
but increasing, is the tendency to permit the student to 
design his own concentration, though in this case there 
are still requirements for some coherent, thought-out plan 
behind the student's selection of courses. One restriction 
remains: students are generally prevented from devoting 
more than a part of their programs to specialization. 
While there is an apparent uncertainty as to what 
constitutes breadth in learning, it remains an article 
of faith that breadth is a good thing. 

One may argue that reduction or elimination of 
requirements is a rational and considered answer to an 
out-dated curriculum, but it is also possible that it reflects 
an unwillingness or an inability to devise alternatives. In 
any case, it may fairly be described as insufficient to make 
the student select his own program without better 
mechanisms for counselling students than exist on most 
campuses. A required curriculum is a form of mass 
counselling, and while students have steadily become 
better prepared and more sophisticated it is not certain 
that, unaided, they can make intelligent course selections, 
from tlieir own point of view, from among the 
bewildering array found in most catalogues. 

So far, the faculties that have approved greater, or 
complete freedom of choice for students have not 
committed themselves to devoting the substantially larger 
amounts of their time and effort which serious provision 
for the additional counselling needed clearly requires. 
Nor, as far as I know has anyone — in spite of our vaunted 
"communication skills" — made a catalogue intelligible. 

Curtailment of requirements does not meet the 
issue of "relevance" either if the student is only made 
free to choose from among the same old specialized 
courses. Consequently, there are springing up on nearly 
every campus, usually on an informal basis, experimental 
programs and courses concerned both with relevance and 
with a different type of educational experience. Such 
courses offer "The Military-Industrial Complex," 
"Technology and Modern Man," "The Arts, the Artist 
and Society," "Self-Discovery," to name a few of which 
I know. They are often taught by two or more faculty 
members and often depend heavily on persons from 
outside the regular faculty. 

Beyond "relevant" subject matter, many of these 
courses are also directed toward the need of contemporary 
students to be concerned with "feelings" more than with 
cognitive learning. The courses often devote attention 
to interpersonal relationships and the dynamics of learning 
groups, frequently utilizing the techniques and ideas of 



sensitivity training. Formal lectures are used infrequently, 
if at all, and a good deal of work off-campus — in ghettos, 
for example — is involved. 

For the most part, these courses are being conducted 
outside the framework of the "regular" curriculum, in 
the sense that they have rarely been substituted for the 
regular curriculum. Also, while there are notable 
exceptions, these new approaches are infrequently 
developed or conducted by more established members of 
the faculty, largely because these efforts do not fit the 
pattern of departmental control of the curriculum and of 
faculty appointments which are characteristic of American 
universities. As long as the status and salary of the 
professor depends primarily upon his acceptance by 
fellow professionals, he is unlikely to stray far from his 
field. Furthermore, the department is the primary basis 
for budgetary allocations in the university and as long as 
this remains so, the chances are limited for much 
development (which is expensive) of extra-departmental 
or non-departmental programs and courses. 

The new Brown curriculum has elements of all of these 
developments. It certainly follows the current trend 
toward reduction of requirements, and on paper, it seems 
to portend a move away from the usual departmentally- 
oriented curriculum. Whether any of the "Modes of 
Thought" courses will move away from the cognitive to 
the experiential remains to be seen. 

It is at least possible to argue, as one Harvard faculty 
member suggested to me, that the "Modes of Thought" 
courses are nothing more than the Harvard "Gen. Ed." 
courses done up in new rhetoric. These courses are quite 
explicit about the intention to focus on "modes of 
thought" rather than on the accumulated wisdom in 
a field. Serious implementation of this intent will take 
more time than has thus far elapsed. 

The time and effort involved in developing Modes 
of Thought courses will also be needed for more University 
courses and for the increased student counselling which 
the lack of requirements throughout the curriculum 
necessitates. For this time and effort to be made available, 
changes will be needed in the professional, departmental 
basis for rewards and punishments which Brown shares 
with all other "big league" universities. On paper Brown 
has moved, as a total institution, farther from the current 
status quo than any university I know. There is widespread 
interest in what actually happens. 

There is probably no reader of this magazine who has 
not, at one time or another, been opposed to grading — 
especially when he got poor grades. However, it is 
probably equally true that few who left the University 
15 or more years ago have any idea (except as they may 
have experienced it vicariously through their children) of 
the extent to which grades and grading have come to 
dominate higher education. 

Grades have become a major determinant of what 



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students do and do not do. As the Muscatine Report at 
Berkeley put it: ". . . as more and more students compete 
for admission to our better undergraduate and graduate 
schools they have become increasingly 'grade conscious.' 
Students, faculty and administrators alike have expressed 
concern about the pressure of grades . . ." Since those 
words were written in 1965, the "pressure" has been made 
intolerable — one might say obscenely so — through tying 
deferments from the military draft to grades. Quite 
literally, in some cases grades have become a matter of 
life or death. Obviously, this has done much to undermine 
the confidence of both graders and the graded system. 

Apart from the draft, over which the universities 
have no control, the emphasis on grades has resulted 
from the increasing concern with "merit" and from the 
vast expansion of enrollments. Both have meant that an 
administratively convenient way to label and sort out 
individuals was needed and the grading system serves 
admirably. 

While there is a general agreement that the system 
is deceptively refined and (in the words of a Swarthmore 
faculty committee) ". . . inadequate in the dimensions of 
work that it measures and the amount of information 
about progress that it provides," we nevertheless can and 
regularly do average grades to three or four decimal places, 
and these deceptively refined numbers are regularly used 
to sort out people. Knowing how they are being sorted 
out and tagged, students work for grades rather than 
for education. 

An important part of educational change has been an 
attempt to deemphasize the grading system, to remove 
some of the worst effects of meritocracy and competition 
from the educational process. Probably the most wide- 
spread approach has been to give students the option of 
having a limited number of courses (usually outside the 
major field) graded only as Pass or Fail. The avowed intent 
here has been to encourage students to take courses 
outside their fields of established competence (physicists 
studying poetry and poets studying physics, for example) 
without having to fear that their "average" would 
be lowered. 

A variation on this is the system of Pass or No Credit, 
in which nothing appears on a student's record if he does 
not pass a course. "The "F" of old is eliminated. (The 
penalty is still there, for the student must pass the number 
of courses required for graduation.) At Brown and Stan- 
ford, this idea has been carried to the ultimate point. There 
students may elect to have all of their courses graded on 
a Pass — No Credit basis. Some institutions — Swarthmore, 
for example — have tried to get at the grade-grubbing 
syndrome by making the entire freshman year simply 
Pass or Fail. 

There are fears that the elimination of grades will 
mean the elimination of standards, that without the carrot 
or stick of grading, too many students will do nothing. 
It is much too soon to tell. There is a good deal of 
anecdotal evidence which points in both directions, but as 



far as I know, there has as yet been no solid research done. 
It does seem clear that students have not yet flocked to 
take advantage of gradeless courses. And the probable 
reason for this gets at the nub of the whole issue: Is there 
a fear that elimination of grades will interfere with real 
education, or is there a fear that elimination of grades will 
undermine the whole meritocratic structure which has 
been built up? If we have no grades, how will government, 
industry, even universities know whom to hire? 

The university, like the society of which it is a part, is 
in a period of transition, and the changes I have 
described are, therefore, transitional. They are tentative 
steps away from the model of the past, but it is not clear 
toward what model they are moving. Reduction of specific 
curriculum requirements, deemphasis of grades, substi- 
tution of the experiential for the cognitive, and moves 
from the lecture room to the community at large must be 
regarded as experimental, and, in part, as having been 
made in response to pressure. 

This latter fact at least raises a question about what 
may happen when and if the pressure is lifted. On the 
whole, the faculties of our universities have been the 
principal force behind the move into specialization and 
meritocracy. Both of these are part of the value systems of 
most faculty members, and consequently, whether planned 
changes intended to modify these characteristics become 
effective changes depends, in the absence of pressure, on 
the willingness or ability of faculty members to modify 
their value systems — to see a somewhat different role 
for themselves. 

However, as suggested earlier, the changes also 
represent a questioning of assumptions which have been 
principal foundations of university education in recent 
years. How one views changes which depart from these 
assumptions depends, then, on how one feels about 
the assumptions. 

To make a most impressionistic generalization, many 
faculty members are deeply uncertain about the idea that 
there any longer is a well-defined body of knowledge 
which expresses our cultural heritage and which the 
university should be transmitting to all students. While 
doubts are growing, not many faculty members are yet 
ready to support any real reversal of either the professional 
or the meritocratic foundations of contemporary higher 
education. Thus, if these impressions are valid, and if one 
assumes that faculties will continue to make decisions in 
these matters, one could conclude that except for elimina- 
tion of specific curricular requirements, further change 
away from the status quo is unlikely, at least in the 
short-run, and in the absence of pressure from students 
or other sources. 

Questions have been raised and assumptions chal- 
lenged, and thus far the questions have not really been 
answered, nor challenges really met. The search for new 
patterns and new objectives for higher education is 
only beginning. 



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Modes of Thought: 

Hyperbole aside^ is it really happening? 



On paper, it really sounds good. 
Small, informal freshman 
classes designed to emphasize the 
underlying concepts that relate one 
area of inquiry to another. Free- 
wheeling discussions. Close personal 
contact between student and teacher. 
Learning as its own reward. 

To read about the new Modes of 
Thought courses is to want to start 
over as a freshman again — this time 
freed from the tyranny of large, boring 
lectures usually entitled "Introduc- 
tion to . . ." Instead, the Modes of 
Thought program attempts "to make 
a novel and stimulating intellectual 
experience available to freshmen . . . 
bringing them into direct and stimu- 
lating contact with instructors who 
are enthusiastic about what they are 
teaching and how they teach it." The 
looming question, after almost a 
year's trial run, is hyperbole aside: Is 
it really happening? And, after the 
glow wears off, can it keep on 
happening? To the first question, the 
consensus seems to be a qualified, 
but optimistic yes; answers to the 
second question range from a pessi- 
mistic maybe to dark allusions to 
departmental sabotage. 

Most of the doomsayers are in 
favor of the Modes of Thought pro- 
gram in concept; they are just afraid 
that it won't work. It didn't before, 
some of them point out. For anyone 
who was around Brown during the 
late 50's and early 60's, the MT pro- 
gram may well seem like re-inventing 
the wheel. Ten years ago, the courses 
were called "Identification and 
Criticism of Ideas," and the concept 
was much the same as Modes of 
Thought. The IC courses eventually 
faded quietly off the horizon, 
apparently the victim of lapsed pro- 
fessorial enthusiasm. It is perhaps 
unrealistic to expect any program to 
survive in one specific form for a long 
period of time, but what is to say the 
MT courses will fare any better than 



did the IC program? Hopes are 
pinned on the fact that times have 
changed and that the MT courses are 
less discipline-oriented than were 
the IC courses. Certainly, it is difficult 
to fault the goals of the MT program. 
"We have embarked here on more 
than one more new curriculum," says 
the catalogue. "We hope to transform 
the university into a place where 
more people talk to each other." 

Anything so well-intentioned 
deserves to work and during 1969-70, 
many professors made what was 
essentially a gift of their time to see 
that it would. The problem for the 
future is how long the program can 
operate on this fund of good will. 

In terms of the sheer volume of 
students processed, teaching 
freshmen in groups of no more than 
20 is less efficient than discharging 
the obligation in lecture sections 
numbering in the hundreds. Although 
what is happening inside a student's 
head might be qualitatively more 
worthwhile, the arithmetic is still 
important. Since the University 
cannot afford to double the teaching 
staff and professors cannot afford to 
double their teaching load, something 
has to give. 

Several department chairmen, 
either because of a lack of sympathy 
with the MT program, or because of 
a staff shortage, have made it clear 
that faculty who teach an MT course 
must do so over and above the 
regular teaching load. Other depart- 
ments are willing to consider an MT 
course part of the regular teaching 
load but there is some worry that 
this may eventually work to the 
expense of the department concen- 
trators. If much teaching energy is 
diverted to the MT program, a 
department might have to cut back on 
regular course offerings. 

No one has yet come up with a 
universal answer to the problem of 



how to budget the time for MT 
teaching and individual professors 
and departments have been left to 
find their own solutions. Which may 
be all to the good, according to MT 
advisory committee member and 
biomedical sciences Professor John 
Fain. "As soon as you institutionalize 
the program," he says, "it's dead." 

It does seem appropriate that a 
program which, by its very 
concept, discourages rigid structure 
in the classroom, should operate in a 
fairly relaxed and unstructured 
manner. Since all MT courses were to 
be taught on a voluntary basis and 
an interdisciplinary approach to 
course content encouraged, there was 
some apprehension, at first, that 
most of the MT instructors would 
be graduate student teaching assist- 
ants. In the academic hierarchy, 
teaching freshmen has never been 
considered a plum assignment and 
often, the older and fewer a pro- 
fessor's students, the greater his 
status. 

In practice, some of the MT 
courses are taught by graduate 
students, but a list of MT instructors 
also reveals an encouragingly large 
proportion of senior faculty members. 
English Professor Hyatt Waggoner, 
who usually teaches graduate stu- 
dents, wrote in his MT course 
proposal, "I have not taught any 
freshmen or sophomores for nearly a 
decade. I look forward to renewing 
my acquaintance with them." 

According to an informal 
survey made after the fall semester, 
most of the students and instructors 
involved in MT courses reacted 
favorably to the program. There 
were many "If I had it to do over 
again . . ." comments from both 
professors and students, but these 
were in keeping with the spirit of the 
program, which encourages sugges- 
tions about the conduct and content 



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Modes of Thought 80: The Control of 
Behavior: Man the Victor versus Man 
the Victim. 

This course would explore the 
known determinants of behavior, 
principally in humans, and would 
emphasize methods by which the pre- 
sumed causes of behavior are discovered 
and explored. The role of the investi- 
gator's "manner of thinking" about 
causation will be discussed, along with 
the issue of free will and determinism. 
Where human data are not available, 
animal experimentation will be 
introduced. 

Various facets of the term control 
will be discussed: the control of parents 
over their children's behavior; the origins 
of learned behavior in the congenital 
response repertoire of the organism; the 
effects of social stimulation (the milieu) 
on behavior of adolescents; the alteration 
and control of the environment by 
persons arid other organisms; the con- 
trolling influence of education (and lack 
of it) on persons; and behavioral and 
emotional control induced through 
psychotherapy. Throughout , interest will 
probably return to the effect of intent 
on behavior and the constitutional and 
experiential forces that themselves shape 
intent. Thus values and attitudes will 
be suggested as human dispositions to 
behavior which are inevitably condi- 
tioned, at least in part, by the values, 
teachings, and controls exerted by others. 



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of the course from professors and 
fellow students. 

Freshman Renee Auriema noted 
that the closeness of her class "The 
Self in Literature," which was con- 
ducted in French, helped her to adjust 
to Brown. "We were able," she said, 
"to obtain a deeper knowledge of the 
essentials of the four writers we 
studied, rather than a slight knowl- 
edge of the 14 we might have studied 
in a more formal course." 

Several students mentioned that 
the eulogistic send-off the program 
received during orientation week had 
left them with unreasonably high 
expectations that had to be adjusted. 
Professors also have noticed a gap 
between rhetoric and reality. One 
school of though contends that, like 
youth. Modes of Thought courses are 
wasted on the young — freshmen are 
too immature and passive to appre- 
ciate the intellectual freedom. "I 
looked in vain," said one professor, 
"for the student envisioned in the 
Magaziner-Maxwell report on 
curriculum reform, one who is 
champing to be turned loose in the 
groves of academe." 

Old classroom habits are hard to 
shed, for students as well as pro- 
fessors, and the difficulty of accom- 
plishing selective reform became 
increasingly apparent during the 
first semester. If you are taught in a 
high school history class that U.S. 
foreign policy is always right, if not 
actually divinely inspired — and no 
arguments please — you have a lot to 
unlearn before any "free-wheeling 
discussions" can happen. And for 
students conditioned in high school 
to working for grades and playing the 
game, it can be somewhat unsettling 
when there is no longer any game to 
play or any bell-shaped curve to scale. 

One freshman who, by his own 
account, spent the better part 
of a semester abusing his new 
freedom, eventually saw the light, 
started working, and described the 
result of his MT course a success. In 
an anonymous evaluation of "The 
Control of Behavior: Man the Victor 
versus Man the Victim," he wrote: 



"In a way it was a gut course but 
with one exception: I consistently 
felt the encouragement to investigate 
in more depth any topic of interest 
which came up in class. Remarkably, 
attendance was about 90 percent, 
which must imply that something 
was attracting the students. 

"It was difficult to get out of the 
habit of doing just what is required, 
and since there was nothing required, 
for two-thirds of the course I did 
nothing. I did read several indepen- 
dently chosen books, and got a good 
idea of the mode of thought in psy- 
chology through contact with the 
instructor. 

"Though my opinion of what 
psychology is has changed, my 
interest in the field has increased and 
is still there now that the course is 
completed. That is, I am not tired of 
it, stifled and ready to go on to a 
different subject. This is not my 
usual reaction to a taught course. 

"At the end of the course, on my 
own initiative, I assimilated some 
ideas from another class and those I 
encountered in readings for this class 
and wrote what I consider to be the 
best term paper I have yet produced. 
So, from what seemed a dismal 
beginning, I ended up doing more 
independent work for this class than 
any other." 

The instructor of "Man the 
Victor versus Man the Victim," 
Psychology Professor Lewis Lipsitt, 
also went through some changes 
during the course of the semester: 

"I did every now and then, 
particularly in the beginning, find 
myself lecturing to the group, 
especially when I noted that attention 
on the part of the students toward 
the reading materials of the course 
was something less than diligent. 
Examining my own behavior, it 
occurred to me that I might be using 
the lecture mechanism to punish the 
students for their lack of informed 
involvement in discussion. I quickly 
ceased and desisted, for that is what 
has been happening to students all 
their lives. I began to tolerate pauses 
better and to appreciate that the 
silence on the part of one-third of the 



students is more attributable to 
psychological reticence than it is to 
either stupidity or malingering. 

"On the whole, I found the group 
most exciting, usually willing to 
participate actively in discussion and 
invariably ready to challenge me or 
another student who might have said 
something that did not appear to be 
empirically justifiable. I have never, 
for example, had more interesting 
discussions concerning the relation- 
ship between statements of fact and 
statements of value than I had with 
this group. The course did us all 
good, just as has the general awaken- 
ing over the past couple of years to 
the fact that education does not 
always have to be the way it used 
to be." 

The experimental and open-ended 
nature of the MT program has 
engendered a good deal of discussion 
about teaching methods. How struc- 
tured should classes be? What is the 
most effective way to encourage 
informal class discussion? How much 
should students be permitted to 
influence the content and conduct of 
a course? The program is still in the 
early stages and no one is ready to 
write an all-purpose manual on how 
to teach an MT course, but with the 
classroom as a laboratory, each in- 
structor is evolving personal answers. 
Nancy Harlow purposely allowed 
early sessions of her "Fiction and 
the Film Generation" to flounder a 
bit so that a relaxed class atmosphere 
would be established. "I can even 
recall choosing my clothes in the 
beginning of the course so that I 
would look very relaxed," she says. 

Another MT instructor, Richard 
Steingesser, opened his first session 
of "Literature as Polemics" by pre- 
senting a detailed course structure and 
asking the students to react to it. "No 
one said anything until the end of 
class," Steingesser recalls. "When one 
boy looked like he was falling asleep, 
I asked him what was the matter and 
he said that the course was not at 
all like he thought it would be and he 
was getting out. I asked him if the 
problem was with the course plan 



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i 




Modes of Thought 23 : Genetics and 
Man: The development of a scientific 
discipline and its influence on modern 
society. 

Genetics has had a profound 
effect on biolog,ical, sociological, and 
anthropological thinking influencing our 
concepts of the nature of life, organic 
evolution, and the origin, nature and 
improvement of human races. The 
development of the modern theory of 
inheritance serves as an excellent example 
of the close relationship between theory 
and experiment and the use of inductive 
inference in science. In the course, 
genetics is to he used as a model of the 
development of a scientific discipline. 
Consideration will he given to i) early 
theories of inheritance, 2) Mendel's 
work, its rediscovery and extension, 
?) the genetic basis of organic evolution 
and 4) current ideas of the nature of the 
genetic material. Integrated into the 
consideration of the development of 
genetics as a science will be an 
examination of its social consequences 
such as 1) the concept of race, 2) man's 
view of his nature, 3) eugenics move- 
ments and 4) modern technology and 
the genetic future of man. 



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and he said that it was. Then other 
students, who had been silent, spoke 
up and said that the program was far 
too rigid and totalitarian. So now we 
are reading much less systematically 
than I had thought we would." 

One of the purposes of MT 
courses is to encourage students to 
explore fields outside their area of 
concentration and in this respect the 
results so far have been disappointing. 
A number of professors, especially 
in the hard sciences, worked to 
devise courses that would attract 
non-majors, only to be confronted on 
the first day of class with 20 budding 
mathematicians or engineers. 

John Lew, who taught "The 
Application of Matrices to Problems 
in Geometry, the Natural Sciences 
and the Social Sciences," expected a 
much more diversely motivated group 
of students than those who en- 
rolled. "I had hopes," he wrote in his 
course evaluation, "not necessarily for 
a salon of poets, but at least for a 
mixed bag of poetasters, moderate 
activists, master con men in embryo, 
future pillars of the Establishment 
and other sub-species, most of 
them skeptical as to the value of 
mathematics but willing to consider 
its claims. 

"Instead, owing perhaps to the 
somewhat technical title of my 
course, I drew a group of 18, nearly 
all of whom had some prior motiva- 
tion in mathematics and the natural 
sciences; a group to whom even 
economics and sociology were peri- 
pheral interests. 

"Thus I found myself, through- 
out the semester, going against the 
student grain, bringing in examples 
from outside their general background 
in order to broaden the scope of the 
course. During this process, which I 
enjoyed but had not anticipated, 
almost everything from Plato to 
yesterday's newspaper made a brief 
diversionary appearance; but for the 
students the result was still not 
necessarily an encounter with a fresh 
area of experience." 

Applied math professor Frederic 
Bisshopp taught a course on 



principles of symmetry and pattern 
recognition which he called "The 
Conquest of Granada." This was one 
of the few science courses which 
attracted liberal arts majors in any 
numbers, partly, Bisshopp feels, be- 
cause of a rather fanciful course 
description, which reads in part: 

"For some 6,000 years (that we 
know of) men have been concerned 
with symmetry: at first in the decora- 
tive arts, and, more recently, in the 
sciences, including mathematics, 
physics, linguistics, chemistry, psy- 
chology and biology . . . 

"At the Alhambra in Granada 
and, more generally, upon the walls 
of many buildings of Arabic origin 
there are to be found a great variety 
of decorative patterns, representing, 
some will say, the culmination of the 
geometric art of ornamentation. 
These were produced long before the 
mathematicians invented group 
theory, long before it was found that 
there are exactly 17 distinct ways a 
wall can be decorated with a periodic 
array of geometrical figures, and it is 
said that the Arabs missed none 
of them." 

Other professors in scientific 
disciplines plan to follow Bisshopp's 
lead in the future and gear the 
advertising for their MT courses more 
directly to liberal arts majors. 

Despite the flaws and uncertain- 
ties almost inevitable in any 
new program, most MT instructors 
surveyed say they would like to 
try it again sometime. The Modes of 
Thought committee, following faculty 
suggestions that a sprinkling of 
upperclassmen would improve the 
quality of class discussions, has 
authorized the use of undergraduate 
teaching assistants for next year. 
The MT committee is also 
working on the most common student 
complaint about the courses — that 
there are not enough of them. First 
semester 37 MT courses were offered; 
second semester the number dropped 
to 15. This was partly the result of a 
conscious effort to encourage every- 
one who planned to offer an MT 



course during the year to do so in the 
first semester. 

Although the decline in the 
number of courses second term was 
anticipated, it was hoped that next 
fall's offerings would climb back up 
to 50 or so. Members of the MT 
committee plan to visit everyone 
who has expressed even the slightest 
interest in teaching an MT course to 
encourage them to submit a course 
proposal. The committee also hopes 
to see the course offerings more 
evenly distributed throughout the 
various disciplines. So far, most of 
the courses have been from the 
humanities or hard sciences, with very 
few from the social sciences. 

At this writing, the committee's 
success in soliciting a large number 
of course proposals for next fall is 
uncertain and many of those most 
strongly committed to the concept of 
the Modes of Thought program are 
also the most pessimistic about its 
probable future success. They were 
around to watch it start off with a 
bang; they don't want to see it end 
in a whimper. 

There are a few optimistic 
glimmers that what began so grandly 
will not disappear and be lost in a 
maze of University financial problems 
and faculty apathy. Says MT com- 
mittee chairman Edward Kornhauser: 

"There is a general disenchant- 
ment with the kind of academic 
scholarship that has gone on for 
many years in universities, which is 
reflected in the decreased level of 
federal support for research programs. 
This means that a larger proportion 
of the expenses will have to come 
from the University budget and, 
traditionally. University money pays 
for teaching, while government 
money pays for research, especially 
in the sciences. 

"A change of emphasis is taking 
place, not only at this University, 
toward undergraduate teaching. The 
enthusiasm and demand for attention 
that has characterized undergraduate 
students during the last couple of 
years has built up to a pressure that 
just can't be ignored." A. B. 



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Modes of Thought 28 : Technology and 
the Natural Environment. 




The twin factors of population 
growth and increased power consumption 
per head have led us to the point 
where the natural environment is in 
danger of being changed permanently. 
To many people these changes are 
regarded as disasters and in some way 
they are blamed on engineering 
technology. The course will study 
examples of technological impact on the 
natural environment to show what kind 
of decisions are involved in several areas. 
Specifically, some of the considerations 
involved in the location of electrical 
power generation plants and the selection 
of type of plant will be considered. A 
second problem, not entirely unconnected 
with the first, is the question of waste 
disposal in the widest sense, involving 
not only material waste hut waste heat 
and noise. Finally, the changes arising in 
beaches and coasts due to technological 
intervention will be considered. 



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■>-H 



The painful 
birth of 
black studies 



It is sometimes 
like trying to hold 
together the confederation 
of the Holy 
Roman Empire.' 



Copies from originals by Woodley Wright 
of the John Carter Brown Library 



Early in the 1960s when there were only a few black 
students at Brown, there was a standard joke among 
them that went something like this: 

"Don't stand around together like this, man. If a 
bomb drops, they've got all of us." 

At the start of the 1970's, that line isn't used much 
anymore. Brown, like the seven other Ivy League institu- 
tions and the Seven Sisters as well, accepted record 
numbers of black students last fall. In making this historic 
move, all of the schools played variations on the same 
theme: Education is a keystone in providing long overdue 
equal opportunity for black Americans. 

Only a few colleges and universities in the nation 
have mistaken increased black enrollments for a solution; 
a new era has begun and most realize the end of it is not in 
sight. Old ethnic jokes are gone, and in their place is a new 
black assertion that speaks not only for a quality edu- 
cation but also asks the question: "Education for what?" 
Carter G. Woodson, writing 34 years ago in African 
Background Outlined, spelled out the problem in a manner 
that is perhaps prophetic of some of the controversy on 
the campuses today: 

"Up to our time . . . we must regard the present 
condition of the Negro in the world as evidence that his 
education has little bearing on his problems. He has been 
educated from himself rather than to himself. He has 
learned to understand others, but not the people with 
whom he has to do. He is studying the possibilities of 
others, but not the possibilities of the Negro. The longer 
the Negro is thus educated, therefore, the worse off he is. 
He is like the man traveling through a strange country 
and, at the fork of the road, he takes the wrong way. The 
longer he travels, then, the worse off he is." 

Fueled by growing black enrollments and the sub- 
sequent call by black students to know, as one writer put 
it, what happened "between Ghana and Georgia," led 
many colleges last year to institute new courses and 
programs to begin to fill that gap. A year later, it seems 
clear that black studies have suffered from growing pains, 
that the need which brought them about has not yet been 
met, and that the educational establishment will have to 
go a good deal further than last year's stopgap measures 
that grew largely out of campus unrest. 

When black students at Brown asserted themselves 
during the past two years over such issues as increased 
black enrollment and the University's position on pro- 
viding more jobs for minority groups, they did not raise 
openly the matter of Afro- American studies. The Uni- 
versity acknowledged, in a number of ways, that it had 
not moved quickly enough on black enrollment and equal 
opportunity employment. It had, however, begun the 
process of finding a place for black studies in the Brown 
curriculum before the tempest began. 

Today, an Afro-American Studies program is under- 
way. It has also suffered birth pains, and what has evolved 
at Brown satisfies no one at this point. Yet clearly-defined 
goals are beginning to emerge that suggest the University's 



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'The intention is not to deal 
in the black mystique 
but to disseminate 
long-ignored information.' 



This is a Pierre Jacques Benoit lithograph 
of a slave market in Surinani, South 
America. The lithograph, now in the John 
Carter Brown collection, is from a plate 
made for Benoit's book Voyge a 'Surinam. 



continued insistence upon an academically sound pro- 
gram with permanence. It is no secret that black students 
are watchfully waiting to see if those goals can be realized. 

Not unlike the wider controversy over black studies, 
the beginnings of the Brown program are caught in 
familiar cross-currents of white and black perspectives. 
But the voices thus far are muted, and rhetoric — black 
students have a less euphemistic word for it — is at a 
minimum. They know, as do those within the adminis- 
tration, that it is too soon to tell in which direction the 
black studies program will go, however lofty and idealistic 
its goals may be. The battles over form and content 
have not yet been fought. 

Indicative of what has been said publicly are two 
comments made here within recent months. Senior Phil 
Williams, who serves on an all-black faculty-student 
committee that makes recommendations on black studies, 
was quoted in the January issue of Time as having said 
of the program: "It is an insult to black students." At a 
recent panel discussion for alumni. Dr. Charles H. Nichols, 
director of the new interdisciplinary Afro- American 
Studies, was asked what he meant when he described the 
program as "unique." Said he: 

"The intention is not to deal in the black mystique 
but to disseminate long-ignored information. The ideolog- 




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ical consideration — how the information is used — will be 
up to the students." 

In two sentences. Dr. Nichols summed up, however 
obliquely, a key issue in the larger controversy. Is it 
enough, some blacks have asked, to set up an academically 
strong program that will deal with, and help create, knowl- 
edge of the black man's history and culture? Shouldn't 
black studies be action-oriented, the universities using 
the information to encourage social change within 
the community? 

The answer from those on the Brown faculty and in 
the administration who have been most closely identified 
with the evolving program is that Afro-American studies 
belong in the classroom. The thrust is not towards a single 
department for Afro- American Studies but a concentra- 
tion that is interdisciplinary in nature and fits the 
particular academic strengths of Brown now and in the 
future. At this moment in time, that position seems to 
have the tenuous support of such students as Monte 
Bailey '71, coordinator of the Afro-American Society. 

"We are waiting to see what develops. We want a 
strong academic program; we do not need the University 
to get us involved in the community. We're already 
doing that." 



Bailey's feelings in support of an academic, rather than 
action-oriented, Afro- American Studies program is 
not the first time a black associated with Brown has 
expressed that need. Writing in the September, 1969 
issue of Esquire, Barry Beckham '64, who recently 
attracted critical acclaim with his first book My Main 
Mother, had this to say about his years at Brown: 

"I used to note with pride that Brown is the only 
college in the country offering a concentration program 
in Egyptology. The lamentable fact that not one course 
required the reading of W. E. B. DuBois or Frederick 
Douglass or Richard Wright wasn't so lamentable to me 
. . . And none of us bothered to ask why, none of us 
demanded that all the chips — not red or white or blue, 
but black — be put on the historical table. 

"As far as I was concerned, black history, in the 
words of that famous industrialist, might be the bunk. 
Having had no encouragement to think otherwise, through 
14 years of schooling, how was I to have the unusual 
acumen to perceive that our contributions to history had 
been neglected? How were we to know two Negroes were 
in that boat when George Washington crossed the Dela- 
ware, or that whites weren't the onh/ abolitionists or that 
Thomas Jefferson had freed only a few of his slaves and 
had kept more than a hundred on his plantation? 

"It didn't even seem strange to me to read this sen- 
tence in my History 52 senior-year text: 'In the years 
between 1820 and 1869, Americans made it quite clear 
that theirs was to be an equalitarian and open society.' " 

Last year, W. E. B. DuBois did become required 
reading in a black literature course taught at Brown 



during the first semester by Dr. Nichols, then a visiting 
professor from his position at the Free University 
of Berlin. Although he went on to Grinnell College the 
second semester as a visiting professor, Dr. Nichols agreed 
in late spring to head Brown's new Afro-American 
Studies Program along with his main appointment as 
professor of English. Said he at the time: 

"The thing that concerns me most is that we must 
make this new program intellectually firm and solid. I am 
reminded of the beginnings of American studies programs 
which sometimes become refuges for students who can't 
succeed elsewhere. It will be a great pity if the Afro- 
American Studies program becomes this. We are deter- 
mined to set this up with scholarly apparatus, research in 
materials, and to structure the courses on the humanities 
and the social sciences . . . We need knowledge and we 
have come to realize that there is a vast history that needs 
to be recognized." 

The Afro-American Studies Program began modestly 
with a seminar during the spring of 1968-69 planned by 
a faculty committee under Dr. Charles H. Philbrick II '44. 
Outstanding speakers were invited to speak on black 
assertion, but another phase in establishing the program 
began with a newly-appointed committee under Dr. 
Nichols' direction. The planning committee consisted of 
black students and faculty members and it began a 
systematic study of plans and programs at other institu- 
tions. Committee members attended various conferences 
which dealt with the problem of creating such a program. 
Literature in the field of black studies, now available in 
considerable proportions, was also studied. 

While the planning committee was at work, two 
other committees developed to deal with the same subject. 
One was formed by the Afro- American Society, the other 
by the faculty. An interdisciplinary concentration was 
built mostly from already existing courses, but during the 
first semester of the current academic year, two courses 
in Afro- American Studies were offered: "Afro-American 
Literature Since the Harlem Renaissance," taught by Dr. 
Nichols and Mrs. Michele Russell, a teaching associate in 
literature; and "Politics in Southern Africa," taught by 
Associate Professor Newell M. Stultz, who is white. 
Professor Nichols' course attracted 240 students. Pro- 
fessor Stultz' 125. White, as well as black students, are 
enrolled, which confirms the University's position for 
the future of Afro-American Studies. Said Professor 
Nichols recently: 

"As long as I am chairman, I insist that what is 
offered in our program be offered to all students." 

During the current semester, nine courses related to 
Afro- American Studies are being offered on an inter- 
departmental basis. The courses are associated with the 
departments of English, history, political science, soci- 
ology, anthropology, French, and music. Their course 
titles indicate a broadening of the program: "Afro- 
American Biography," "Problems in American Negro 
History," "Modern African Political Systems," "Civil 



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'Most of the good black 
professors do not 
want to teach solely in a 
black studies program.' 



Abraham Brunias did this engraving 
in London about 1779 to depict the 
Negro dance in the West Indies, island 
0* Dominica. 




Liberties in the United States," "Race and Minorities/' 
"Religion of Non-Literate Peoples," "The Economic Life 
of Non-Western Peoples," "Black Literature in the French 
Languages," and "World Music Cultures." 

Along with formal course offerings, the planning 
committee has arranged a number of lectures and informal 
seminars with speakers from other universities and from 
the Providence community. The guests have included 
black professors from Cornell and Federal City College, 
Harvard Psychiatrist Dr. Chester Pierce, an art historian 
who used slides in a lecture on black artists in America, 
author James MacPherson, Lee A. Kearce, Jr., '65, who 
participated in the English department's recent conference 
on the novel, and Rhody McCoy, unit director and 
administrator for the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Educational 
District of New York. 

Professor Nichols says that some 20 courses are 
planned for 1970-71 and all but an Afro-American 
Studies seminar involving various community leaders 
continue the interdisciplinary nature of the program. 

Three of the courses for next year are in anthro- 
pology and concern pluralism in complex societies, 
religion in non-literate people, and the people of Sub- 
Saharan Africa. There will be an economics course related 
to urban problems, sociology will offer "Races and 
Minorities," and philosophy "The State and Revolution." 
History will offer a course related to problems in American 
Negro history, the French department will again present 
black literature in the French language, and music will 
make available courses in "World Music Cultures" and 
"Folk Music of Europe and America." 

English and political science will offer those in- 
terested in Afro-American Studies the largest number of 
courses. It is anticipated that the English department will 
present the following: "Versions of the Picaresque in 
Black Literature;" a repeat of the Afro- American literature 
course offered for the past two years; Afro-American 
Biography, and a choreography course related to ethnic 
dance. Political science courses will deal with politics in 
South Africa, modern African political systems. East 
Africa, urban areas, and civil liberties in the United States. 

While progress has been made in utilizing a number 
of courses already offered and in adding additional courses 
designed for Afro-American Studies, the program has 
obvious needs and problems associated with the lack of 
personnel, the interdisciplinary nature of the program, 
and, perhaps most significantly, the urgent need not only 
to add programs but to contribute to the body of knowl- 
edge of such a program, not only at Brown but in all 
American colleges and universities. 

"Let's face it, no program is satisfactory although I 
think what we have begun to do is good," says Professor 
Nichols. "New programs do not become satisfactory 
overnight and our problem is now that what we have is 
largely on paper and not yet activated. As director, I must 
sometimes satisfy radically different elements and I 
often feel like a roving ambassador among sovereign 



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states. My job is to hold together the Confederation of 
the Holy Roman Empire and to develop a program I 
know can be academically sound." 

Yet in spite of the problems peculiar to interdiscipli- 
nary programs, it seems clear that the University's posi- 
tion will continue in this direction rather than to create 
an Afro- American "department," as has been done at 
some other universities. 

"We are assembling the black studies program from 
what we have and have added other courses, most of 
them associated with one of the disciplines," says 
Associate Provost Paul F. Maeder. "There has been 
considerable pressure to create a department; we have 
resisted this because we do not believe in black studies as 
a single discipline. 

"There is a sound base for an interdisciplinary 
program and we are also convinced that most of the good 
black professors we want to attract to Brown do not want 
to teach solely in black studies but are interested in 
becoming associated with one of the disciplines. Interview 
after interview with prospective black faculty members 
this year has strengthened that view, and it is significant 
to note that a number of universities are dropping the 
'department' concept for black studies." 



At the same time Maeder says there are a number of 
important contributions Brown can make in the 
development of Afro-American Studies and the history 
and culture of black people. One of those speaks to the 
creation of an Afro- American Research Center, an idea 
which has developed from a number of sources and 
which has attracted interest at Brown because of its 
library resources. 

"There is a large body of knowledge about blacks that 
has not found its way into the various disciplines," says 
Dr. Maeder. "The resources on this subject within the 
Brown libraries cut across departmental lines. The need 
is there because we know Afro-American studies do not 
yet rest on a solid foundation of accumulated knowledge. 
We believe that Brown has a great deal to offer. An Afro- 
American Research Center will not answer the immediate 
needs of undergraduates, but in the long run having 
scholars utilize our library resources to give black studies 
the sound underpinnings they need is an intriguing idea 
and a desirable goal that will help undergraduates in 
the future." 

The resources to which Associate Provost Maeder 
refers are in the extensive collections of the John Carter 
Brown, John Hay, and John D. Rockefeller libraries. 
The special emphasis of the JCB — which has one of the 
definitive collections of the American colonial period 
in the world — also covers the history of the Negro's entry 
into the New World. The broad perspectives of JCB 
librarians during the last century extend the information 
available to black scholars beyond the shores of the 



United States to such key places in black history as the 
West Indies. 

Indicative of the use that can be made of the John 
Carter Brown is the fact that Winthrop Jordan, whose 
book Wliite Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the 
Negro 1550-1812 won the 1969 National Book Award 
for History and Biography, spent a great deal of time in 
the JCB doing research. A large segment of the first half 
of his book is based on source materials in the JCB. 
The full perimeters of the story of the black man in the 
New World have not been established and, in a formal 
sense, would never be complete. Yet Dr. Jordan's formida- 
ble list of sources is a start, for he dramatically extended 
the concept of the raw materials found in the JCB and 
other libraries by the way in which he used them. 

The JCB collection has important materials related 
to the slave-trading companies, the abolition movement in 
England and France, and the Negro's role in the West 
Indies and Brazil, all of which grows out of the library's 
interest in the relationship between Europeans and 
alien races, including the African Negro and the 
American Indian. 

Within the John Hay's special collections, those who 
see the possibilities of a research center for Afro- American 
studies at Brown stress a number of materials including 
the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays from 
the Seventeenth Century to the underground writers of the 
Sixties. For the scholars who seek to document in fact the 
cultural background of the Negro, there are the printed 
works from Phyllis Wheatley in the early Eighteenth 
Century to current playwright and author Le Roi Jones. 
The collection's special emphasis on sheet music offers 
background in American music, particularly spirituals, 
folk songs, and jazz. 

Because of its broad nature, the Rockefeller will be 
important to Afro- American Studies whether or not a 
research center is established. Librarians say the Rocke- 
feller has sufficient material already to satisfy most 
undergraduate and master's degree requirements in Afro- 
American history, literature, sociology, ethnography, and 
economics, plus a number of other related areas. 

Whether the Afro- American Research Center can 
move from the theoretical stage to reality now seems to 
rest on a number of factors, the most important of which 
is funding. As the University looks ahead to pressing 
financial problems, it seems evident that it will not be in a 
position to initiate the project alone. Yet like the infant 
Afro-American Studies Program, the idea of a research 
center has two important factors on which its future rests : 
there is a need for it and its basic justification is founded 
in the creation of knowledge. 

"We are hopeful of foundation support because of 
the specific educational contributions Brown can make," 
says Dr. Maeder. "We do not yet have the answers, but I 
have some confidence we can make a beginning if this 
nation is serious about solving the problems of black 
America." R.A.R. 



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The headlines in the British press of recent weeks have 
been all too familiar for an American accustomed 
to brisk confrontations on campus in the image of the 
great Columbia Bust or the Battle of Berkeley. "Agitators 
Move In On Oxford" growls the Sunday TdcgmpJi. 
"Student Militancy Sweeps Country" grumbles The 
Guardian. "Row Over Confidential Files" intones 
The Observer. 

Clearly the British college student, long smugly 
content just to be at University and therefore auto- 
matically among the elite of The Establishment and light- 
years ahead of his less educated fellow citizens, is taking a 
leaf from the copy books of American and French under- 
graduates at the barricades, cocking a snoot at deans, 
provosts and every other Mr. Chips he can find to insult. 

Is all of this an American import? Are student radi- 
cals from the USA, now studying at British universities, 
responsible for the recent surge of SDS-like activity 
among young Britons? The search for the answer to this 
question took this journalist recently to Balliol College, 
Oxford, for a chat with one of the more widely headlined 
rebellious American undergraduates of recent years, 
curly-haired, slender, intense Ira Magaziner, an Ivy 
Leaguer (Brown University, Class of '69) now in residence 
on the banks of the Thames, 55 miles northwest of 
London, studying on a Rhodes Scholarship. 

Magaziner, as many in U.S. ncademia know, compiled 
an amazing record at Brown. The loose-limbed Long 
Island, N.Y. lad was president of his undergraduate class 
for four straight years, helped ramrod through the Brown 
administration a massive overhaul of the college's total 
curriculum, and was the subject of a glowing article in the 
education section of Time Magazine. When nationwide 
TV covered the U.S. astronauts' first landing on the moon, 
Ira was recruited to tell the student's views of the great 
space endeavor to a world-wide audience of millions. 

"I don't think many people liked what I said," Ira 
muses today. "I feel — and said — that a lot of the money 
spent to put man out there could have been better 
employed to solve some of our problems at home here 
on earth. And that Time story. The man who interviewed 
me was a friend, and he got it right. But then they changed 
it all when the editors got hold of it in New York." 

Even the University's Ahtmni Monthly is not without 
fault, in Ira's eyes, for giving readers a false impression 
of what he has really said and done. "There was a letter in 
there a few months ago," he sighs patiently, "making 



fun of my speech during Commencement Week (BAM, 
July, 1969) for lapses in grammar and syntax, the 
letterwriter suggesting I wasn't educated well enough, 
apparently, to lead anyone or anything. What the Monthly 
failed to point out was that the 'speech' was merely a tape 
of remarks that I made, completely without notes or 
script. All adlib and impromptu. I doubt whether anyone's 
syntax is perfect under those circumstances." 

In any case, Ira Magaziner is alive and well and living in 
Balliol College, Oxford, thank you very much. Slouch- 
ing about in sunglasses, muffler, topcoat, scuffed shoes, 
he's hardly the picture of the proper British gentleman or 
the typical U.S. collegian. And he's not leading any 
campus revolutions today. 

"No, I haven't given up thinking that the things that 
are wrong in our society can be changed," Ira says. "But 
I didn't like what was happening to me. I think I might 
have begun liking to change things just because my ego 
was pleased at being able to shape the changes, and not 
because everything I was doing was really that valuable. 
Acton was right about power being corruptive. Better I 
ease off for a while, get a few things sorted out in my life 
and my mind, then start again." 

If ever there was a place to mold a new course in life, 
Oxford's the perfect locale. Bertrand Russell said it was 
among the "last medieval islands." "The city of dreaming 
spires," one writer called it. Its venerable buildings make 
Brown's University Hall, ancient by American college 
standards, look like a nouveau structure from Expo '70. Ira 
reads and studies in structures, vaulted and beamed, dating 
back to the 1400's, built before Columbus even dis- 
covered that something called America was to the west 
of him to keep sailing ships from falling off the edge 
of the world. 

A river fording place for oxen centuries ago, Oxford 
probably first played host to scholars and students in 
the mid-1100's. It's a feudal-like intellectual monarchy 
still, an academic fairy land in the middle of England. A 
little over 10,000 students labour within its very, very 
ivied walls today, about 10 percent of them students from 
overseas. Interestingly, Brown has another son also at 
Oxford, young Tom Bose, an engineer, taking business 
administration courses on the same sort of a Rhodes 
Scholarship as Ira. Both are handling Oxford very well, 
not always easy, even for an Englishman. Britain's Prime 
Minister Wilson recalls, "I was very sensitive to the fear 



Ira Magaziner and Tom Bose: 

Alive and well at Oxford 



by Arturo F. Gonzalez, Jr. '52 



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of derision at Oxford — what to do at sherry parties and 
that sort of thing." 

Ira and Tom are a fascinating study in contrasts, 
representing both ends of the spectrum of student 
thought, action and appearance in America, both now 
being absorbed and enveloped completely by the total 
educational experience that is Oxford. 

Tom is the typical U.S. Joe-college "straight arrow": 
neat, tidy-haired, fraternity, athletics-minded. "White 
shoe" he would have been called in my days as an under- 
graduate. He's fitting in beautifully at Oxford, donning 
his black mortarboard and robe for official matriculation 
ceremonies, trying to master a wing position on a local 
rugby team, getting up dutifully each morning when his 
"scout" — the Oxford term for its rheumy dorm-hall 
porters — rouses him. Just about the only thing that's 
thrown him is the Oxford tradition of students in the huge 
hammer-beamed dining hall walking across the tops of 
their dining tables during meals to get to and from the 
long benches lined up against the walls. 

Ira, on the other hand, is still the maverick. He com- 
pletely missed Matriculation, doesn't own a robe. He's 
fought a running battle with his maids and scouts, 
refusing to get out of bed until almost noon, preferring 



to read until 3 or 4 in the mornings. And instead of facing 
the table walkers in the dining halls, he does an amateur 
Julia Childs, preparing exotic dishes on a small hotplate 
down the hall and bringing them back to his room to be 
consumed. While Bose's two-room suite ("I never had 
quarters as large as this at Brown") is orderly with his 
rugby gear drying over a handy clothes line and his foot- 
locker serving as a neat little coffee table, Ira's room looks 
as if an SDS bomb had gone off in it, half-opened packets 
of matzos, gourmet sauces and Chinese noodles littering 
the bureau and table. "I think I've finally beaten down 
the scouts," he muses, looking at the carnage, "they don't 
come in here very much anymore." 

One suspects that Oxford knew it was getting a 
maverick when it brought Ira over. Down on the 
ground floor of his student residence is a list of names of 
the occupants and their room numbers. The name after 
"First Floor-Room 38" is "MAGAZINER", painted in 
capital letters about twice the size of the rest of the names 
on the list. The courses he insisted on taking are so 
varied the university has practically had to create a new 
curriculum for him. His lecture attendance is minimal; he 
obviously agrees with Oscar Wilde that "education is 




At Oxford, Ira Magaziner talks about his experiences in England, 
Arky Gonzalez '52 and photographer Tom Picton are both associated 
with Time-Life's London office and Iiave previously appeared in 
this magazine. 



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an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time 
to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." 
It Ira and Tom were ever fearful of forgetting about 
Brown and the Ivy League, there are constant reminders 
to keep U.S. memories fresh. Oxford, for instance, boasts 
the original Pembroke College, founded in 1624 and 
named for the 3rd Earl of Pembroke, Shakespeare's 
patron. Pride and joy of the College is Samuel Johnson, 
its most famous graduate; his desk, dictionary and teapot 
are all carefully preserved on the premises. 

William Penn's picture is also around — he was tossed 
out of Oxford centuries ago for nonconformity. Then 
there's Radcliffe Square close by the Bodleian Library — a 
book repository, by the way — that pales even Brown's 
John Hay Library. A "library of deposit," the Bodleian is 
entitled to a free copy of every book printed in the UK, 
boasts two million volumes including 40,000 volumes of 
manuscripts. A bell sounds daily as it opens and closes, 
and a reader intending to study there must produce a 
written recommendation from "some trustworthy person." 

Bose is in University College, known as "Univ" 
among the students. It's on Oxford's High Street, a lovely 
boulevard which once prompted Wordsworth to poetically 
praise the "streamlike windings of that glorious street." 
Hawthorne called it "the noblest street in England." 
Some say Univ was founded by King Alfred, and the 
College crest bears his arms, but accurate records indicate 
it got its first endowment in 1249. Whether it or Merton 
College is the oldest in Oxford is enough to bring some 
Old Boys to blows at drunken Oxford reunions. 

Ira's College, Balliol, was founded in 1282 by John 
de Balliol and his wife, Devorguilla. A lot of Scots attend 
Balliol and it has a reputation for producing leaders, as 
well as being intellectually liberal — "which is why I chose 
it," says Ira. Adam Smith, Matthew Arnold and Harold 
MacMillan were all Balliol Old Boys. A quarter of 
Wilson's Cabinet are ex-Balliol boys. "Life is one Balliol 
man after another" Lord Samuel once said; men like Ted 
Heath, Arnold Toynbee and Graham Greene. Plus, 
eventually, Ira Magaziner. 

The man who brought both Magaziner and Bose 
to Oxford is, in the last analysis, Cecil Rhodes, an 
imperialist of almost 70 years ago who, ironically, prob- 
ably represents many of the old traditional values which 
Ira, today, would like to purge completely from society. 
Rhodes matriculated at Oriel College after a very in- 
different university career during which he had to be 
constantly admonished to attend classes. He then set out 



Still very much 'Toe College', Tom Bose 

fmds himself at home at University College 

and points toward a corporate career. 



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to mold all of Africa in the British image and capped 
his career by setting up a trust of £300 annual scholar- 
ships so that boys from the Commonwealth and from 
every U.S. state and territory could attend Oxford. 

"The selection process is all over in about six weeks, 
which is merciful," Ira recalls. "From time of application 
to when you're told whether you're in or out." Seldom 
does one university send two boys in one year; quite a 
kudo for Brown that both Ira and Tom qualified. 
They were competing from different regions so there was 
no chance for one to eliminate the other in the final 
run-offs. About 200 Rhodes Scholars are at Oxford and 
their affairs are administered from Rhodes House, a 1920's 
monstrosity on the university campus. 

Ask Bose what he plans to do after his English graduate 
studies are over and the young man reveals pretty 
firm plans. With an engineering background and a busi- 
ness administration degree from Oxford, he feels he 
can step into the corridors of power in the corporate 
world without too much trouble. 

Ira just isn't sure where he'll be going. "I didn't like 
what I saw Government doing to people when I was in 
Washington last summer," he says. "Also I'm pretty sure 
I don't want to go into the business world. I like some 
of the things that Ralph Nader is trying to do, and how 
he's going about it. But where I'll end up, I'm not sure. For 
the moment, I'm just getting caught up on my reading, 
stretching my mind, doing a lot of the deep thinking 
I should have been doing at Brown." 

In short Ira is following Sir Eric Ashby's advice to 
"crawl along the frontiers of knowledge with a hand lens." 
Not that's he's dropped out completely from shaking 
things up. His typewriter bangs out letters constantly to 
Brown's current student leaders and to mavericks on other 
campuses trying to reform curriculums and administra- 
tions. And he helped drum up U.K. support for the 
anti- Vietnam war "Mobe" in the fall. But Ira holds no 
brief for the English student revolutionaries. "All they do 
is paint walls," he says, pointing to a chalked "matricu- 
lation makes you blind" graffiti on the side of a building. 

Looking far down into the future one can almost 
imagine Bose and Magaziner meeting one distant day at 
the barricades. Bose helping to lead the Establishment, 
Magaziner still allied with the forces of Revolution. They 
recognize each other through the cannonsmoke and 
suddenly the conflict is over as the two Old Boys from 
Brown and Oxford sit down to work things out. 



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Brown Books 



Edited by Elmer M. Blistein '42 



Expansion And Coexistence: The History 
of So\iet Foreign Policy 1917-67. By Adam 
B. Warn '43. 775 pages. Praeger. $12.95. 

There have been scores of books on the 
foreign policy of the Soviet Union but most 
of them without scholarly value. This book, 
written with clarity and verve, is the first 
history to cover Soviet foreign policy from 
the Bolshevik seizure of power to the 
fiftieth anniversary. It is the best study 
on this grand and difficult subject known 
to the reviewer. 

Besides the difficulty of remaining 
impartial on a subject which provokes 
strong emotions, there is a formidable 
technical difficulty: Soviet statesmen have 
never — except for Khrushchev — given the 
insights into their thinking that abound in 
other countries' leaders via memoirs, diaries, 
letters and interviews. For events after 
1928, the historian must use as sources 
either official statements or defectors' 
revelations. This has obliged Ulam to use 
hypotheses and conjectures, and he has done 
so with consummate skill and sophistication. 

The great theme of this work, never 
stated, but implicit in the presentation, is 
one of classical tragedy: the limitations of 
men, even when possessing unlimited 
powers; their domination by memories; 
their inertia in the face of new and 
unforeseen challenges. The non-Bolshevik 
left, so often blamed for not foreseeing 
Bolshevism's intolerance, ruthlessness and 
fanaticism, is excused because of its 
memories of Tsarist oppression; no wonder 
that they could not imagine a left dictator- 
ship (though Ulam finds inexcusable their 
not realizing that anarchy must lead to 
dictatorship). He is more charitable than 
George Kennan toward the Allied statesmen 
in World War I who, it is obvious in 
retrospect, should have made a compromise 
peace with Germany before Russia collapsed 
from the intolerable burden. 

Ulam's understanding for historical 
personages comes from his detailed 
knowledge of each period and the great 
role of chance in history. While fully aware 
of Lenin's genius — the pages on his 
leadership are excellent — the author is 
impressed by "the miraculous sequence of 
good luck the Bolsheviks enjoyed, the 
amazing number of contingencies where a 
slightly different twist could have spelled 
the irretrievable ruin of their cause." 

One of the best chapters is on the 
foreign policy of the USSR during the first 
Five-Year Plans and the purges. Ulam 
demolishes the traditional view that Stalin 
rushed through collectivization and indus- 
trialization because he feared imminent war. 
But on the contrary he knew he must have 
foreign technicians and tools and could 
resort to maximum terror precisely because 
there was not a threat of war. The accession 
of Hitler to power caused, for over a year, 



no concern but rather anticipation. By 
careful analysis of Litvinov's speech of 
December, 1933 — Ulam analyzes documents 
with wit, freshness, and acumen — the 
author shows the seeds of the 1939 
Ribbentrop-Molotov agreement that came 
as such a bombshell to the West. 

The genesis of that infamous pact is 
attributed not to Stalin's greed for territory 
but to his desire to avoid a war with 
Germany at all costs, although it is not 
made clear at what point the Soviets 
decided a pact with the West was unde- 
sirable. Perhaps this can never be 
established. The war was to be feared not 
only for the destruction of the country, 
but because the Communist regime would 
fall as had the Tsarist one. Memories of 
1917 are also seen as the key to the 
grotesque purge trials of the 1930's: they 
were to eliminate any possibility of a 
repetition of 1914-17 when defeats gave 
the extreme opposition — tiny but 
disciplined — supreme power. 

Ulam's hypothesis on Khrushchev's 
"grand design" is bold and convincing. He 
sees the colorful dictator's foreign policy 
adventures based on an imaginative attempt 
to solve interrelated problems — to "prove" 
Marxism-Leninism still dynamic and thus 
assure Party rule at home, to force the West 
into neutralizing Germany, and to cajole 
China into foregoing nuclear weapons. The 
great gamble of introducing nuclear missiles 
into Cuba a month before he was to 
address the UN — and perhaps solve all his 
problems at once — failed, but it represented 
the kind of grand conception which his 
successors cannot imagine. 

It is impossible to summarize the riches 
of this large yet concise book, but the flavor 
of it may be seen from a quotation: 

"An observer in 1967 might well have 
thought that each of the superpowers was 
pursuing policies which, apart from any 
moral or ideological considerations, were 
anachronistic. In the main the Soviet 
Union was still behaving ... as if accession 
of yet another country to the Communist 
bloc would represent a gain in real power. 
By the same token the United States, 
though her leaders now appreciated the 
existence of divergent strains in world 
Communism, considered prevention of the 
Communist takeover of a small Southeast 
Asian country of such decisive importance 
that she was pouring into the task men and 
resources on a scale surpassing her effort 
in the Korean War. Each Great Power was 
becoming a slave to its past commitments, 
to a rhetoric that no longer corresponded 
to its national interests rationally defined 
. . . "(pp. 740—41.) 

Only rarely and indirectly does the 
author pass from description to possible 
prescription, as in the conclusion of the 
above cited paragraph: 

"It was surely exquisite irony that only 
from Peking came voices alleging that, if it 
existed, would be a rational policy: united 



by their fear of China, the Chinese said, 
Soviet revisionists and American imperi- 
alists were in collusion to end the war in 
Vietnam and isolate China." 

It is to be hoped that this work of 
distinguished scholarship and absorbing 
interest will find a wide readership not 
only among scholars but with the general 
public. 
ALLEN McCONNELL '44 

Both Adam Ulam and Allen McConnell are 
professors of Russian Studies. The former is 
at Harvard and the latter is at Queens. 



Jewish Americans: Three Generations in a 
Jewish Community. By Sidney Goldstein 
and Calvin Coldscheider. 274 pages. 
Prentice-Hall. $5.95 cloth; $3.50 paper. 

This book represents a singular con- 
tribution in the Sociology of Religion. With 
the exception of Lenski's The Religious 
Factor and the more recent work of Block 
and Stark {American Piety), well planned 
and executed scientific studies of religion 
in America have been rare. Goldstein and 
Goldscheider bring to their study of the 
Providence Jewish community the well 
honed tools of the demographer combined 
with the insights gained by being members 
of the community under study. 

The major focus of the volume is the 
change that has taken place in the structure 
of the Jewish community over three 
generations. Changes are inferred by com- 
parisons of first generation immigrants 
with the native-born second and third 
generations. The data came from interviews 
conducted with adults in 1,420 Jewish 
households during the spring of 1963, a 
number representing approximately 25 per 
cent of the households in the community. 

One of the strong points of the study 
is that the authors combed the membership 
lists of all known Jewish organizations in 
the community, both religious and secular, 
in constructing their initial list of Jewish 
families. Although some people identifying 
themselves as Jews may have been missed. 



JEWISH 

AMERICANS 

Three Generations 
in a Jewish Communit) 



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CTHNIC GBOUPS IN AMOIICAN LIFE SERIES 



it is more likely that persons omitted were 
those who had ceased to identify themselves 
or be identified by others as Jews. 

In 11 very readable chapters, Goldstein 
and Goldscheider describe the educational 
and occupational structure of the com- 
munity, marriage and fertility patterns, 
intermarriage and conversion, and religious 
behavior at synagogue and at home. 

They find that although the Jewish 
community has become more integrated into 
the larger community over three genera- 
tions, this integration does not mean that 
its sense of identity or community has 
weakened. For example, the rate of inter- 
marriage is higher among the young, the 
third generation, and suburbanites. 
However, the rate of conversion of 
the non-Jewish spouse and the proportion 
of children of such marriages being raised 
as Jews are higher for these same groups. 
Overall, the direction of changes, say the 
authors, "appears to be the adjustment of 
American Jewry to the American way of 
life, creating a meaningful balance between 
Jewishness and Americanism." 

It is in their discussion of intermarriage 
that the authors make an inference that 
their data do not really support. "Among 
those (males) 40 to 59, almost 25 per cent 
of all those married more than once were 
intermarried, in contrast to only four per 
cent of those married only once. Obviously, 
instability of marriage is very much asso- 
ciated with intermarriage." Without 
knowing either the religion of the partner 
in the first marriage or how the marriage 
was terminated (death or divorce), this 
statement seems a bit strong. 

Readers who are technically oriented 
will be somewhat disappointed to find that 
the numbers upon which many percentages 
are based are not provided, and those that 
are appear in appendix tables. However, 
the authors volunteer to provide additional 
data to anyone requesting it, and their 
method of presenting the data makes their 
discussion much easier to follow. 

Sociologists and non-sociologists alike 
will find in Jewish Americans a fascinating, 
well-written portrait of the Providence 
Jewish community. It is hoped that other 
scholars will see this work as a model for 
the study of other religious or ethnic 
communities in America. 

STEPHEN L. FINNER, Ph.D. '68 

Professor Goldstein is chairman of Brown's 
Department of Anthropology and Sociology: 
Professor Goldscheider, AM. '63, Ph.D. 
'64, a faculty member at the University of 
California in Berkeley, is visiting professor 
at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. 
Professor Pinner teaches at the University 
of Delaware. 



The Growth of a Party System in Ceylon. 

By Calvin A. Woodward, Ph. D. '67. 
Brown University Press. 338 pages. $8.50. 
If Ceylon were a larger country and 
were not so isolated geographically, it would 
clearly be one of the wonders of the 
so-called Third World. In terms of its 



political development it is one of the few 
newly independent countries within 
the Commonwealth, not to mention the 
developing countries, which has remained 
more or less true to the general British 
parliamentary democracy concept. 

Since one is prone to think of the 
British having left behind at the time of 
independence in 1948 a fully implemented 
and smoothly functioning system, which 
was not the case, the achievement is even 
more significant. Professor Calvin 
Woodward has contributed a valuable 
scholarly effort on how this praiseworthy 
parliamentary democracy has been 
functioning in its first two decades of 
existence. 

Since the next general elections will 
take place before the summer of 1970 — the 
campaign is already under way as this 
review is being written — it would seem 
incumbent on Prof. Woodward to bring out 
at least a monograph on the significance of 
the 1970 general election results once they 
are in. The basic reference work which is 
contained in this book should endure for 
some time, and the sort of periodic updating 
suggested above should be available to 
students of Ceylon, rather than having 
them wait 10 years or so for a scholarly 
updating of overall developments. 

In chronological order and then in a 
most useful "Conclusion" section, the basic 
dynamics of Ceylon's party system 
solidification are discussed, and the end 
results he praises so much are all the more 
plausible because Prof. Woodward is not 
prone to over-emphasize the accompanying 
"economic strains" as one often finds being 
done. To him it has been the process of 
moving from "notable-determined" to 
public-molded parties, with voters 
using mass franchise "purposely to 
control parties." 

The result is parties whose overall 
programs are more important than the sum 
total of personal influence and which have 
been quick to learn the lessons of defeat. 
While the "notables" are mainly those of 
20 years back (one can even include Mrs. 
Bandaranaike as heir to her husband), they 
are now less hostile to one another, social 
integration has been aided, and both major 
parties have even been wooing the Tamils 
more of late. 

There would seem to be one omission 
in the coverage of Ceylon politics, i.e., 
where do local elections and municipal 
government fit into the picture? Prof. 
Woodward has given well documented 
evidence to show that legislative means have 
been used since 1948 to strengthen the 
trend toward major party domination of 
politics, a key factor being the discrimina- 
tion against non-party independent 
candidates, who are forced to put up a 
much larger monetary "deposit" when 
contesting parliamentary seats. But one 
does not know if this applies to local 
elections (in India, for example, deposits 
are required for all elections but there is no 
discrimination between party and 
independent candidates). 



Perusing some newspapers from Ceylon 
recently I noticed that in a series of recent 
municipal elections (including Colombo), 
independents got an average of 15 percent 
of the popular vote. While this need not 
surprise us nor need it necessarily erode 
Prof. Woodward's basic contentions and 
theories on "national" politics, some mention 
of local politics should have been included 
in his account, to round out the picture. 

One can rightfully say that Prof. 
Woodward predicted the United National 
Party and Dri Lanka Freedom Party 
dominance which is taking place in these, 
the first general elections since 1965. 
From press reports the two one-party 
dominated coalitions seem stronger than 
ever, and the trend he highlighted toward 
a predominance of straight two-way 
parliamentary seat contests is also more 
marked, with the United National Party 
and Sri Lanka Freedom Party both 
contesting more seats themselves. This 
is not to say that this will continue 
indefinitely, but even if Ceylon were to vote 
itself a swing to the democratic left, the 
chances for roughly the same type of 
repeat contest the next time around seem 
fairly certain. Even the long mooted move 
to republic status could be taken in stride. 

The observer in India cannot help but 
note a longing towards a more stable, 
polarized political spectrum, and Ceylon is 
seen by many as a miniature India with 
relatively similar economic, communal, 
linguistic, educational and social problems. 
It is clear that more comparative work is 
needed in the basic prerequisites to steady 
development of democracy in a country 
given almost all the framework but little 
of the content upon independence. In short, 
could we not have more Ceylons? 

KENNETH A. KURZE '58 

Calvin A. Woodward is Assistant Professor 
of Economics and Political Science at the 
University of New Brunswick. Kenneth A. 
Kurze is American Consul in Bombay, India. 



Briefer Mention 

Profesor Hyatt H. Waggoner of 
Brown's English department, chairman of 
the Committee on American Civilization, 
has brought out the third edition of his 
Hawthorne: Selected Tales and Sketches. 
Although this edition has a new Introduc- 
tion, Prof. Waggoner has fortunately 
reprinted his seminal introduction from 
the first edition (1950). Holt, Rinehart 
and Winston. 

Prentice-Hall has just published 
Computer Data Processing and Program- 
ming, by Thomas R. Gildersleeve '52. 
Vice-President of Newkirk, Gildersleeve, 
Prendergast and Associates, Inc., an 
information-services education and 
consultation organization. Gildersleeve is 
also co-author of System Design for 
Computer Applications (1963). 



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The sports 
scene 



Hope springs, as they say 

It you listen to the coaches, there will 
be a number ot pleasant afternoons this 
spring for Brown athletic teams. Hopes are 
especially high in baseball, where second- 
year coach Bill Livesey is coming off a 
16-13-1 season, and in lacrosse, where Cliff 
Stevenson has an Ivy League title to defend. 

Livesey will welcome back with open 
arms three of last season's starting hurlers, 
Bob Thorley, Bob Flanders, and Fred 
Armenti. There are other veterans back, 
including Bryan Marini at third, Dick 
MacAdams at second. Dean Hoag behind the 
plate and Billy Kahn, last year an outfielder 
but perhaps a first baseman this spring. 

Normally, a coach would be sitting on 
cloud nine with this sort of situation. But 
Coach Livesey feels that there are some 
problems. For example, the pitching isn't 
that deep for a team playing a 34-game 
schedule in six weeks. 

Then, too, there isn't very much talent 
coming up from the 4-6 Cub team to 
replace such players as Dan Stewart, who 
led the team in home runs and runs- 
batted-in, John Rallis, a three-year veteran 
at first base, and shortstop Hal Phillips, 
who made only four errors all season. 

Perhaps the outstanding sophomore 
prospect is Bob Wieck, who played the 
outfield last year. Wieck was an infielder in 
high school, and he may be shifted to 
short this season to fill Phillips' shoes. He's 
a switch hitter with good size, speed, 
and power. 

But someone once said that baseball is 
75 percent pitching, and this is where the 
success of this year's Bruin team may rest. 
Thorley was 4-3 last year with a 2.80 
earned run average and a club high of 
55 strikeouts. Armenti was 4-2 with a 3.00 
ERA, while Flanders, also an outfielder, was 
3-3 and had a 3.59 ERA. 

Additional help is expected from Rick 
Shainker, who is back after missing a sea- 
son. He fires hard, has good control, and 
could help. The Cubs are sending along 
Al DeCuir and Mike Werner. 

One of the major changes in the Ivy 
League baseball schedule this year is the 
introduction of doubleheaders on Saturdays. 
As a result, each team will play 14 
games within the league instead of the 
previous nine. 

Coach Livesey is frank to give credit for 
this innovation to former Bruin baseball 
coach, Stan Ward. 

"Knowing what the basketball coaches 
had done to better their league, Stan was 



instrumental in having the league's baseball 
coaches get together on an annual basis," 
Livesey says. "He made this move five 
years ago, and the results of these meetings 
are reflected not only in this revised 
schedule but also in a number of other 
long-needed refinements." 

Ward, along with Tony Lupien of 
Dartmouth, was the one who worked out 
a very complex rotating schedule, one which 
will make the league more enjoyable for 
the participants and prevent a team from 
winning the championship with a single 
outstanding pitcher. 

The new schedule has been introduced 
with no loss of class time and a minimum 
of added expense. Single games still will 
be played on Friday, with doubleheaders 
played Saturday. Each season, a team will 
drop one double-header opponent and pick 
up a new one. At the start of the fifth year, 
the teams will revert back to the original 
1970 schedule and begin all over again. 

According to Coach Livesey, the 
freshman baseball team will be much 
stronger this season. Pitching help is 
expected from Bob Lukas, a 6-2, 195-pounder 
from Long Island, where he was All-Nassau 



Coach Bill Livesay: Waiting to see how 
the pitching holds up 



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County and A\l-Daily News City, and Dave 
Skowronski, also from the Island. Dan 
Swartz, first baseman-outfielder, was a 
former Hearst All-Star from Massachusetts. 

Last spring. Coach Cliff Stevenson 
earned a share of the Ivy League lacrosse 
crown. This season, he'd like it all to 
himself. 

One of the reasons for Stevenson's 
optimism is the exceptionally strong front 
line of seniors Bob Anthony and Rick Buck 
and junior Bob Scalise. Anthony had 54 
points as a sophomore and 40 last year and 
ranks fifth on Brown's all-time scoring list. 
Buck led the team in assists last year with 
25 and Scalise paced the club in goals 
scored with 28. 

The top midfield unit of juniors Dean 
Rollins and Rupert Scofield and sophomore 
Jeff Riley also is strong. However, the team's 
main strength is at defense, where 
Stevenson has seniors Bruce Pitt and Dale 
Winzer, junior Marc Jacobs, and three 
hungry sophomores pushing for positions. 
Junior Bill Abraham in the goal is rated 
highly by Stevenson. 

The steady stream of strong freshman 
clubs should continue. Some of the men to 
watch on the Cub team include Stephen 
Russo (attack) and Len Pepi (midfield) 
Massapequa, N.Y.; Bob Thunell (midfield) 
Levittown, N.Y.; Jeff Wagner (midfield) 
Northwestern High in Baltimore; Bill Spence 
(midfield) Montclair, N.J.; John Maglandery 
(defense) Oilman School, Baltimore; and 
goalie Jim Hahn of Dundalk High in 
Baltimore. 

Coach Vic Michalson had his varsity 
crew in the new indoor tank starting with 
the second semester and in the water since 
late February. He's been pushing the men 
exceptionally hard because the group, 
although quite green, does appear to have 
some potential. 

Eric Benson, who stroked the varsity 
in 1968 but sat out the 1969 season, is the 
only senior on the team. For the first time 
in several years there will be depth at 
stroke. In addition to Benson, the position 
includes junior Bill Haggerty, who stroked 
last year's varsity boat; sophomore Todd 
Craun, and Nick Lamphere up from the 
JV boat. 

There are only four men back from the 
boat that finished the 1969 season. In 
addition to Haggerty at stroke, this group 
includes Capt. Phil Walker, Steve Stage, and 
Ron Boemker. Also returning is coxswain 
Al Coulman, who made the varsity boat for 
the last race of the year at Syracuse. 

"We have depth at stroke, a critical 
seat, and we do have some competition for 
positions for the first time in a few years," 
Michalson says. "The chances are fair for 
a good season." 

The Bennett brothers, of hockey fame, 
will be the backbone of the tennis team, 
along with junior Don Smith. Last year's 
doubles combination of Curt Bennett and 
Smith proved to be one of the strongest in 
New England. Co-Capt. Jeff Kaplan, junior 
Pete Gutterman, and sophomore Chuck 
Johnson also will play a leading role in 
what could be a slightly improved 
tennis team. 



If Coach Allan Scares could play 
freshmen, he'd have one of the finest golf 
teams in the East. Among the members of 
the freshman class are Dick Stevens of 
Watertown, Conn. (Taft School) and Tyler 
Chase, son of Ben Chase '38 of Orange, 
Conn. Stevens won the Eastern Inter- 
scholastics 1968 and Chase duplicated this 
feat last spring. 

Unfortunately, this year's varsity won't 
have the manpower to post a winning 
record. The three leading players are Capt. 
Jim Pagos, junior Andy Robertson, and 
sophomore Bill Rolland. 

"If I could only stay around one more 
year, I'd suddenly blossom forth as a great 
golf coach," says Soares, who will be 
dropping his golfing duties when he 
becomes head varsity hockey coach. 

Bennett All-American 

Curt Bennett, one of Brown's all-time 
hockey greats, has been named to the 
All-American first team as selected by the 
American Hockey Coaches Association. 

The 6-2, 180-pounder from Cranston 
thus becomes the fourth Bruin to gain 
All-American recognition in the post-World 
War II period. He follows in the footsteps 
of Bobby Wheeler '52, Bob Gaudreau '66, 
and Wayne Small '68. 

Bennett's 135 career points place him 



fourth on Brown's all-time scoring list, 
behind Don Sennott '52 (159), Wheeler (149), 
and Small (144). During the 1969-70 season, 
Bennett led the Ivy League in scoring with 
30 points and was the second leading 
scorer in the East. 

The high standing that Bennett achieved 
in career scoring is especially remarkable in 
that he played at defense during his first 
two varsity seasons. 

There were other honors this spring 
for Bennett and senior goalie, Don 
McGinnis. Both men were named to the first 
teams in the All-Ivy and All-East selections. 
Bennett was a repeater on the All-Ivy team, 
while McGinnis made the top unit for the 
first time. 

Known as "The Cat," McGinnis had 
767 saves in 24 games for a 3.29 goals- 
against average. He had 60 saves against 
Dartmouth and 56 in the game against 
Cornell at Ithaca. 

FuUerton dinner planned 

Sharpe Refectory will be the scene of 
a dinner honoring retiring hockey coach 
Jim Fullerton on Friday, May 1. The affair 
is being sponsored by the Brown Hockey 
Association, the Brown Club of Rhode 
Island, and the Associated Alumni. 

Westcott E. S. Moulton '31, a two-time 
All-American at Brown and currently 



As a finale to everything else Curt Bennett did for Brown hockey this year, he was named 
to the coaches' All-American team — the fourth Bruin to win that honor. 




alumni secretary at Williston Academy, 
will serve as toastmaster. The speakers 
will include former President Barnaby C. 
Keeney, representing Brown's hockey 
fans; Bob Gaudreau '66, representing the 
players; Rod McGarry '61, representing the 
Hockey Association; and a fellow member 
of the Ivy League coaching fraternity. 

There will be a social hour prior to the 
dinner on the grounds at the rear of the 
new Alumni House at 159 George St. In 
the event of inclement weather, this event 
will be held in the Arnold and Bigelow 
Lounges in the West Quadrangle. 

William E. Corrigan, Jr., '58 is chairman 
of the dinner committee. He is assisted by 
Jake Russo of the Hockey Association, Gus 
Saunders '42 and Ed Bromage '27 of the 
Brown Club of Rhode Island, and Paul 
Mackesey '32 and Dave Zucconi '55 of the 
Associated Alumni. 

Reservations may be made by con- 
tacting the Alumni Office, 159 George St., 
or through members of the committee. 



Remembering 1969-70 

With 11 victories in the last 12 games, 
the hockey team nailed down second place 
in the Ivy League and gained the sixth- 
seeded berth in the Eastern College Athletic 
Conference playoffs. 

Brown's overall record was 16-8-1, 
the third best mark in Coach Jim Fullerton's 
15-year career on College Hill. Only the 
21-9 NCAA team of 1964-65 and the 16-7-1 
club of 1962-63 had better records. And the 
second place Ivy finish was Brown's sixth 
in the last 15 years, to go along with the 
Ivy crown won in 1964-65. 

For Coach Fullerton in his final season 
at Brown, 1969-70 provided a fitting finish 
to a brilliant career. Even the fact that the 
Bears were eliminated from the ECACs by 
Clarkson in a 6-5 overtime thriller could 
take nothing away from the luster of the 
campaign just concluded. 

Brown hockey buffs had many moments 
to remember from 1969-70. Perhaps the 
most poignant came just before opening 
face-off on March 7, the night of the final 
home game. The SRO crowd roared its 
approval as the Bruin seniors were 
introduced, individually, for the final time. 

The applause was especially loud and 
long for two of Meehan's favorites, Don 
McGinnis, one of the East's finest goalies, 
and Curt Bennett, a sure-fire All-American. 

But the loudest cheers came when 
Fullerton, honored by the Brown Hockey 
Association and the Dartmouth squad, 
stepped on the ice and, turning slowly, 
waved his farewells to all four sections of 



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the rink. The ovation lasted a full four 
minutes. 

On such a night, the game itself can 
sometimes be an afterthought. The 7-5 
victory over Dartmouth was anything but 
that. 

Curt Bennett, in his Meehan swan 
song, had four goals and two assists, 
bringing him from seventh to fourth on the 
all-time scoring list. This is an amazing 
record since Curt played his first two years 
as a defenseman before being shifted to 
center for his senior season. 

All together, the Bennett brothers 
accounted for six of Brown's seven goals. 
Sophomore John Bennett, an excellent 
hockey player, chipped in with two goals 
and three assists in his final performance 
on the same line with his brother and Rich 
McLaughlin, another Cranston East 
teammate. 

A legitimate "hat trick" in hockey is 
three consecutive goals, by original 
definition. Although in recent years the 
designation has gone to anyone scoring 
three goals in a game. Curt Bennett had his 
final collegiate hat trick against the Indians, 
with his three straight goals coming in the 
first period. 

Clarkson, Brown's quarter-final foe, 
was 21-6 on the season and is a team 
traditionally tough on its small home rink 
in Potsdam, N.Y. 

Although Brown dominated the action 
in the opening period, Clarkson took a 2-1 
lead, which it upped to 5-2 at the end of 
two periods. 

Then the Bruins, making a final effort 
to get back in the game, struck for three 
goals in 39 seconds to tie it, 5-5. Curt 
Bennett scored on a breakaway at 10:42; 
John Bennett deflected home Curt's cross-ice 
pass at 10:50; and Frank Sacheli scored on 
a face-off in the Clarkson end at 11 :21, 
knotting the count at 5-5. Clarkson's 
winning goal at the 12 second mark of 
overtime came when a Bruin defenseman 
couldn't control a bounding puck and 
McGinnis was left helpless in the cage. 

For the season. Curt Bennett had 26 
goals and 37 assists for 63 points. His 
brother John was 24-19-43 and McLaughlin 
was 6-27-33. Junior Connie Schmidt had 27 
points on nine goals and 18 assists. 

Allan Soares, who will move up to 
replace Fullerton next winter, had an 8-8-1 
record in his final season as Cub coach. 
However, the club was not especially strong 
and didn't post an Ivy victory. 

Soares feels that he has some scoring 
help coming up in the persons of Dick Lay 
(14-12-26), Ray Tiernan (9-17-26), and 
Mike Powers (11-12-23) and some defensive 
strength from Capt. Dick Stevens and Doug 
Allworth. Another good prospect is Pete 
Menard, who scored 12 points in half a 
season. He is the son of former hockey 
great, George Menard '50, currently coaching 
at St. Lawrence. 

Ivy League hockey should be much 
stronger next season, according to Soares. 



Yale loses one man and had a 14-7 freshman 
team. Penn graduates two and had a 
freshman team that lost only once to 
Harvard. The Dartmouth freshman were 
18-3 and the varsity graduates only four. 
The Harvard freshman lost only once, 
Cornell was undefeated, and Princeton's 
freshman team was 14-4. 

Coach Gerry Alaimo's first year as 
basketball coach wasn't nearly as successful 
as Fullerton's final year as hockey mentor. 
The overall record was 6-20 and the Ivy 
mark 3-11, good for seventh spot in the 
league. 

Despite the fact that he had only six 
varsity players for the final month of the 
season. Coach Alaimo guided his team to 
a 79-72 decision over Harvard and forced 
Providence College (68-66) and URI (69-66) 
down to the wire. Both the Friars and 
Rams were rated among the top four teams 
in New England and had vastly superior 
personnel. 

Looking to next season. Coach Alaimo 
hopes to have a more representative team, 
with the holdovers from this season 
supplemented by some good prospects up 
from the strong 11-9 Cub team. 

Three of the men Alaimo will have back 
next winter are outstanding basketball 
players by Brown standards. Arnie Berman, 
the 6-7 sophomore, scored 469 points, an 
average of 18 points a game. He led the 
team in rebounding with 286 and was 
among the top 10 nationally with an .848 
foul shooting percentage on 189 of 223. 

Bill Kolkmeyer, another 6-7 sophomore, 
was perhaps the most versatile player on 
the team. At 6-7 he was quick enough to 



play effective defense on the small man and 
strong enough to play the big forward 
inside. He is a fine shooter from 15 to 18 
feet out, a good rebounder, and he has the 
ball-handling ability to bring the ball up 
court or act as a middle man against the 
zone press. 

Kolkmeyer was especially effective as 
a defensive player, drawing the opponent's 
top offensive player in each game. He held 
Petri of Princeton to single figures in both 
games, but perhaps his finest performance 
came in Brown's finale when he held John 
Fultz, the third leading scorer in URI 
history, to two shots and one basket in the 
first half. 

Rusty Tyler, a 6-4 junior guard, had 
388 points for a 14.9 average, but over the 
final half of the season he averaged close 
to 20 points per game. He became one of 
the most feared one-on-one offensive guards 
in the Ivy League and should have an 
outstanding senior season. 

Coach Alaimo will get at least two good 
guards from his freshman team to team 
with Tyler and Oscar Colvin, who played 
briefly this winter. Bob Nelson showed a 
fine shooting touch from outside and led the 
Cubs in scoring with 296 points. Nelson 
stands 6-4, while his running mate at guard. 
Bob Hansen, is 6-3. Hansen, who came 
strong at the end of the season, scored 209 
points and, perhaps more important, showed 
a take-charge attitude that next year's 
varsity will need. 

Roy Stiff, a 6-9 center, will play a great 
deal next winter, although he is perhaps 
another year away. Ernie Roenbeck is also 
a possibility at center, where Brown needs 



The freshmnn 400-yard freestyle team that set a Cub record of 
3:19.77 incbides, left to right, Eric Schrier, Jeff Shirjn, John Colnon, 
and Lance Keigwin. Coach Joe Watmough says that Schrier and 
Keigwin have exceptional potential and are of Olympic caliber. 




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some offensive help. Rich Cureton, a quick 
6-6 cornerman who was the second leading 
scorer with 234 points, should help the 
varsity's forward line considerably. He led 
the Cubs in rebounding with 155. 

Although the swimming team ended 
with a disappointing 3-8 record and an 11th 
place finish in the New Englands, senior Cy 
Miller placed second in the 100-yard 
butterfly in the post-season competition. 
Gary Haag of Amherst won the 100-yard 
butterfly in the New Englands in 53.51, 
while Miller was a touch behind at 54.55. 

In the same meet, two Brown freshman 
teams set Cub records. A medley relay unit 
of Lance Keigwin, Tim Clements, Jeff 
Shinn, and Eric Schrier finished second in 
the 400-yard medley relay in 3:53.01, which 
broke the Cub record of 4:01.5 set in 1966. 

A team of Schrier, John Conlon, Shinn, 
and Keigwin won the 400-yard freestyle 
relay in 3:19.77, breaking the Brown 
freshman record of 3:24.37. 

The wrestling team, coached by Mike 
Koval, finished with four straight victories 
to bring the final record to 6-9. In the New 
Englands, the Bruins were sixth. 

Junior Serge Brunner at 123 and 
sophomore Frank Walsh at heavyweight 
each ended the regular season with 12-3-1 
records. Capt. Rob Davidson (134) was 
10-2-1, while junior Steve Batty (177) was 
10-7. As has been the case in recent years, 
the problems with this year's varsity was a 
lack of manpower. Several meets were lost 
when the Bruins were forced to forfeit 
between 15 to 20 points because there was 
no one available to take the mat. 

Frank Walsh went to the finals of the 
New Englands before losing to Randy Hooks 
of UConn. He pinned two opponents on his 
way to the finals. Brunner and Mike Pera 
(118) each took a third place. 

Tim Hough (134) from Coram, N.Y., 
had a perfect 8-0 record for the freshman 
wrestlers. Steve Schuldt (177) of Mentor. O., 
and Dave Milam (191) from Indianapolis 
each finished 10-2. 

The situation in track didn't improve 
much last winter, with the varsity finishing 
3-6 and the Cubs 3-7. 

Senior Greg Ouellette, one of the top 
men in the East in the long jump, went 
undefeated in that event during the winter 
and earned a fifth place finish in the IC4A's. 
His leap of 23-6 in that meet shattered his 
own Brown mark for the third time this 
season. 

Jim Robbins, the school recordholder 
in the high hurdles, captured a sixth place 
in the Heps. Sophomore Doug Price 
established a new Brown record for the 
shot put with a toss of 54-1V2. 

At the freshman level, Bruce Miller 
from Wayne, Pa., set a new high jump 
record with a leap of 6-6. He also entered 
in the high hurdles, mile relay, and shot 
put events. Walt Haggstrom from Raynham, 
Mass., is considered a good prospect in the 
long jump, where he consistently exceeded 
20 feet. But overall, the Cubs didn't appear 
to have either the quantity or quality to 
make any substantial change in the fortunes 
of Brown track. J. B. 



Ivy League standings 

Hockey 





W 


L 


T 


Pts. Cf 


GA 


Cornell 


12 








24 87 


23 


Brown 


8 


3 


1 


17 63 


41 


Harvard 


8 


4 





16 67 


33 


Dartmouth 


4 


8 





8 52 


77 


Princetori 


3 


8 


1 


6 40 


71 


Penn 


3 


9 





6 38 


67 


Yale 


3 


9 





6 37 


69 




Basketbal 








W 




L 


PP 


PA 


Penn 


14 







1154 


918 


Columbia 


11 




3 


1053 


863 


Princeton 


9 




5 


978 


892 


Dartmouth 


7 




7 


1036 


1082 


Yale 


7 




7 


1031 


1049 


Cornell 


4 




10 


928 


1047 


Brown 


3 




11 


859 


1015 


Harvard 


I 




13 


1035 


1208 




Wrestling 






W 


L 




Pts. PF 


PA 


Princeton 


6 







12 150 


56 


Penn 


5 


1 




10 132 


71 


Cornell 


4 


2 




8 121 


96 


Yale 


3 


3 




6 109 


104 


Harvard 


2 


4 




4 100 


113 


Columbia 


1 


5 




2 85 


127 


Brown 





6 




55 


175 



Sports Shorts 



Joseph Faragalli, former football 
captain at Villanova, has been named to 
Coach Len Jardine's staff, replacing Jim 
Colletto as offensive line coach. 

A 1954 graduate of Villanova, with a 
B.S. in education, Faragalli was named to 
the All-East team in 1952 as a tackle. 
From 1957 to 1961, he was head football 
coach at St. Thomas More High School in 
Philadelphia. He served as line coach at 
Villanova from 1962 to 1966, and for the 
past two seasons he was the line coach for 
the Canadian Football League's Winnipeg 
Blue Bombers. He is married and is the 
father of three children. 

In another coaching appointment. 
Athletic Director Jack Heffernan announced 
that Jack Ferreira will become the new 
freshman hockey coach, effective July 1. He 
replaces Allan Soares, who was named 
varsity hockey coach earlier this spring 
when Jim Fullerton retired. 

Ferreira was an All-American goalie 
at Boston University, where he also earned 
All-New England and All-East honors 
several seasons. He still holds the ECAC 
record for shutouts in a single season with 
eight. 

The former La Salle High School star 
from Providence received a B.S. in secondary 
education from B.U. in 1966 and served as 
assistant hockey coach the following year. 

Ferreira entered the service in 1967, 
and while stationed at West Point he piloted 
the Plebes to a 12-4-1 record and 



coordinated all aspects of the recruiting 
program. This year he has been at Princeton, 
where his freshman team had a 10-5 record. 

Jack Dillon '60, who had been head 
football coach at Rhode Island's Hendricken 
High the last three years, also is joining 
Coach Jardine's staff. During his brief high 
school career, Dillon's teams were 18-8-1. 
In 1968, Hendricken won the Class A 
championship with an 8-1 record, while last 
fall his club finished second with a 7-2 
mark. 

The varsity swimming team set two 
school records in the New England 
Swimming Championships at Springfield 
College this spring. A team of Larry 
Rosenberg, Marc Christman, Cy Miller, and 
Steve Thomas was clocked in at 3:50.3 in 
the 400-yard medley relay, cutting 1.6 
seconds off the old record set a year ago by 
Christman, Miller, Thomas, and Vance 
Salter. Earlier, Dave Speth, Pete Czekanski, 
Rich Davidson, and Steve Thomas had set 
a new Brown record of 8:05.4 in the 
800-yard freestyle event. 

Sophomore Arnie Berman shattered Ed 
Tooley's 1955 record of 168 free throws 
(272 attempts) this winter by converting 
189 of 223 tries to finish ninth nationally. 
The 6-7 cornerman scored 20 points or more 
on 12 occasions, and his 469 points is the 
third highest season mark in Brown history. 
Mike Cingiser '62 had 492 points as a senior, 
while Joe Tebo '58 had 541 points during his 
sophomore season. Berman was the Ivy 
League's leading free throw shooter, second 
leading rebounder, and sixth highest scorer. 
He was an honorable mention choice on the 
All-Ivy team. 

Baaron B. Pittenger, director of sports 
information at Harvard since 1959, has been 
promoted to the position of associate 
director of athletics effective July 1. An 
honorary member of the Class of 1950 at 
Brown, "Pitt" served as DSI on College 
Hill for four years before moving on to 
Harvard. 

Last spring, the baseball team came up 
with a portable indoor batting cage for use 
in Marvel Gym. This year. Coach Bill 
Livesey added another element to his 
pre-season indoor training equipment — a 
batting practice machine which doled out 
fast balls and curves with remarkable 
accuracy. 

The Brown Daily Herald released a 
hockey team of the decade this past winter, 
a team that includes some of the finest 
players in Brown's hockey history. The idea 
for the team came from Ed Caha, senior 
member of the sports staff, who sent ques- 
tionnaires to selected members of the 
faculty, administration, and alumni who 
have been close to the hockey scene. 

The forward line on the decade team 
includes Terry Chapman '65, Dennis Macks 
'67, and Wayne Small '66. The defensemen 
are Bob Gaudreau '66 and Curt Bennett 
'70 and the goalie is Rod McGarry '61. 
Any complaints? 



45 



Brown Clubs 



Nostalgia was the theme of the 8th 
annual family basketball dinner held before 
120 alumni and friends at the Brown Faculty 
Club and sponsored by the Brown Club of 
Rhode Island. 

The popular Bob Morris, who coached 
at Brown from 1947 to 1954, was the guest 
of honor, and many of his former players 
made the journey back to Brown to pay 
tribute to their former mentor. 

Among those returning were Frank 
"Moe" Mahoney '50, one of Brown's all-time 
greats; Fred Kozak '50, Ernie Corner '47, 
Jim Tyrrell '48, Ned Corcoran '50, Dave 
Thurrott '52, Zeke Creswell '52, Manager 
Harold Demopulos '46, and Earl Shannon, 
who played for Coach Morris at Pawtucket 
High before going on to an illustrious 
career at the University of Rhode Island. 

Speakers included Alumni Secretary 
Paul F. Mackesey '32, Athletic Director 
Jack Heffernan '28, and Mahoney. 
Toastmaster Jay Barry '50 read letters from 
two of Coach Morris' former pupils who 
were not able to return — Lou Murgo '54, 
Brown's third leading career scorer with 
1,147 points, and Joe Paterno '50, head 
football coach at Penn State. 

Chairman Jack Marshall presented the 
guest with a large silver bowl suitably 
inscribed, while assistant chairman Gus 
Saunders '42 made a special presentation to 
Mrs. Morris. 

The Brown Club of Rhode Island's 
annual dinner and golf outing will be held 
Thursday, May 21, at the Metacomet 
Country Club in East Providence. Chairman 
Harold Demopulos has announced that the 
Williams Trophy, donated by the late 
Howard D, Williams '17, will be competed 
for this year for the first time at this outing 
by the two top foursomes from the Brown 
Club of Rhode Island and the South Shore 
Brown Club. 

The annual track dinner, also spon- 
sored by the club, was held on March 21 at 
the Turks Head Club in Providence. Dave 
Farley '64, former Bruin captain, served as 
master of ceremonies for Chairman Ed 
Bromage, Jr., '27. 

The Old Timers Baseball game will be 
held on Saturday afternoon of Commence- 
ment week-end as part of the Alumni Field 
Day. Co-Chairman Walt Jusczyk '41 and 
Andy Anderson '50 have promised to 
try and bring in a pair of former major 
league hurlers to bolster their respective 
aging squads. 



On March 24, members of the Boston 
Brown Club turned out in large numbers 
for the spring luncheon, featuring three 
Brown undergraduates discussing "What's 
Going On At Brown and Pembroke?" 

Included in the group was Beverly 
Hodgson P'70, former editor of the Brown 
Daily Herald, G. Douglas Hurley '71, vice- 
president of the Cammarian Club, and 
William Soriano '71, a fullback on last 
fall's football team. 

Vice-President Ron Wolk took a short 
trip through Florida in late March, visiting 
three Brown Clubs in a four-day swing. 

Wolk's first stop was St. Petersburg, 
where he addressed the Florida West 
Coast Brown Club on March 23. From 
there, the vice-president moved to a 
meeting of the Southwest Florida Brown 
Club in Naples on the 25th and one in 
Fort Lauderdale on the 26th, the latter a 
joint session of the Gold Coast Brown and 
the Palm Beach County Brown clubs. 

At each of his stops, Vice-President 



Wolk answered questions about Brown's 
new president, Donald F. Hornig. He also 
spoke about the progress of the Program 
for the Seventies Capital Gifts Campaign. 

Starting April 10, the Brown Club of 
Philadelphia has reserved a weekly table at 
Poor Richard's Club, 1319 Locust St., 
Philadelphia, for any alumnus who wishes 
to join classmates and friends there for 
lunch. The informal Friday luncheons 
start at 12 noon. 

Ihe Brown University Club in New York 
has welcomed Beth Harrington P'61 as its 
new executive secretary. She came from 
New Haven, where she had been a bridal 
consultant, to keep the Gotham Club 
functioning and to expand its activities 
and membership. 

For the second year in a row. Brown 
trounced Yale in the New York Ivy League 
bridge competition. Paul Abramson '49 
served as captain of the team. 



Coach Bob Morris, right, gives last-minute instructions to 
three of his former pupils at the Brown Club of Rhode Island's 
annual basketball dinner. Left to right are Dave Thurrott '52, 
Earl Shannon URI '46, and Frank "Moe" Mahoney '50. 



46 




Nine seek alumni trustee nominations 



Ballots have been distributed to 26,300 
alumni who are asked to nominate two 
alumni and one alumna as candidates for 
the position of alumni trustee. 

The ballots also will offer alumni the 
opportunity to vote for such other key 
positions within the Associated Alumni as 
regional director and representative on the 
athletic advisory council. 

Actually, the alumni body nominates 
the three trustees and the Corporation 
considers the nominations at its June 
meeting to make the election official. 

For the benefit of alumni who are about 
to fill in their punch cards, the Monthly 
provides the following brief biographical 
sketch of the candidates competing for 
nominations as alumni trustees. 

Bette Lipkin Brown P'46 

The wife of Howard G. Brown '39, Mrs. 
Brown is chairman of the Providence 
Alumnae Solicitation Committee for the 
Program for the Seventies and vice- 
president of the Rhode Island Philharmonic 
Orchestra. In the past, she has served as 
co-chairman of the Brown-Pembroke 
Commencement Pops Concert Committee, 
chairman of the Pembroke Central Scholar- 
ship Committee, and chairman of the 
Children's Concert Committee of the R.I. 
Philharmonic. 

Alexander A. DiMartino '29 

A businessman, DiMartino is president 
of Plantations Steel Co., Providence. He 
also is president of General Engineering Co., 
and secretary-treasurer of ,€tna Bridge Co. 
Active in his community, DiMartino is 
board chairman of the R.I. Heritage Hall of 
Fame and chairman of the Narragansett 
Redevelopment Agency. At the University, 
he is a past president of the Associated 
Alumni, past president of the Brown Club 
of Rhode Island, founder and director of the 
Naples (Fla.) Brown Club, and a director of 
the Brown Football Association. 

Robert A. Fearon '51 

Fearon is president and creative 
director of Friedlich, Fearon and Strohmeier 
of New York. He is a former corporate 
advertising manager with IBM and a former 
international promotion director of Time. 
Several years ago, Fearon produced the 
major fund raising booklet for the John 
F. Kennedy Memorial Library. He is a 
vice-president and director of the Fairfield 
County Brown Club and a former director 
of the Associated Alumni. Fearon has been 
especially active in the Brown University 
Fund and in the Alumni Secondary Schools 
Program. 

Harry R. Hauser '53 

Vice-President, secretary, and general 
counsel for the Hotel Corporation of 
America, Hauser had been an attorney with 
Sperry Rand Corp., 1959-61. Active in the 



Brown Club of Boston, he has served as 
executive vice-president and director of its 
Alumni Secondary Schools Program. Hauser 
has served as a member of the board of 
directors of the Associated Alumni, team 
captain for the Program for the Seventies, 
and as vice-president of his class. 

Elliot E. Maxwell '68 

Maxwell is assistant director of 
admissions and financial aid at Hampshire 
College, Amherst, Mass. During his 
undergraduate days, he was a Francis 
Wayland Scholar, a member of Phi Beta 
Kappa, and winner of the Samuel T. Arnold 
Fellowship for study in England. He was a 
member of the University Curriculum 
Committee, class marshal, and co-chairman 
of the Brown Summer Intern Program. He 
was co-author, with Ira Magaziner '69, of 
the so-called Maxwell-Magaziner report on 
curriculum reform which served as the basis 
of the changes made in the curriculum by 
the faculty last spring. 

Jean E. Miller P'49 

Long active in educational circles. Miss 
Miller has been headmistress at St. 
Timothy's School in Stevenson, Md., since 
1964. She also serves as a member of the 
board of directors of the National 
Association of Independent Schools. Prior 
to accepting her current position, she was 
assistant to the headmaster of the Masters 
School, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. She is a former 
member of the Washington, D.C., and 
Westchester Pembroke College clubs. 

John O'L. Nolan '36 

Dr. Nolan is chief of surgery at 
Connecticut Veterans Hospital, visiting 
surgeon at St. Francis Hospital, Hartford, 
and consulting surgeon at the Institute of 
Living, Hartford. He is a past president of 
the Connecticut Chapter, American College 
of Surgeons. Dr. Nolan is the founder and 
president of the Pee Wee Hockey program 
in Hartford. He served as president of the 
Brown Club of Hartford from 1965 to 1967 
and as a regional director of the Associated 
Alumni from 1965 to 1969. 



Stephen H. Romansky '66 

A candidate for an M.A. in urban 
planning and metropolitan government at 
George Washington University, Romansky 
is also the program specialist for New 
Town Development, Community and 
Environmental Affairs Division, Office of 
Economic Opportunity in Washington, D.C. 
He had been a research assistant and 
associate to the publisher of The New 
Republic magazine. As an undergraduate 
Romansky was president of his class, 
president of the Faunce House Board of 
Governors, and chairman of the Brown 
Student Bicentennial Committee. 



Carol Kilbourne Sauers P'54 

Dr. Sauers is assistant professor in the 
department of chemistry at Douglass 
College, Rutgers University. Her doctorate 
came from the University of Illinois. As an 
undergraduate, she was a member of 
Brownbrokers Board and Phi Beta Kappa. 
Active in community affairs. Dr. Sauers has 
served as president and treasurer of Pine 
Grove Manor Cooperative Nursery School, 
taught in children's programs, and served 
as a member of the Unitarian Society of 
New Brunswick. She has written 15 
scientific articles and patents. 



Candidates for Alumni Trustee, top row: 
Bette L. Brown, Alexander A. DiMartino, 
Robert A . Vearon; middle row: Harry R. 
Hauser, Elliot E. Maxwell, Jean E. Miller; 
bottom row: John O'L. Nolan, Stephen H. 
Romansky, and Carol K. Sauers. 




47 



Brunonians 
far and near 

^f\/l Joseph L. Wheeler is back in 

v/l7 N'ermont, after spending the better 
part ot the winter in Beaumont, Tex. While 
there he stayed with his youngest son, who 
teaches geology at Lamar State Tech. 
Joe expects to resume his work as part-time 
reference librarian at the State College, 
just 15 miles from his home. "Maybe I'm 
craz>'," he writes. "But I continue to work 
10 to 12 hours a day, every day, and I 
feel fine. May have to come to Commence- 
ment this spring on my roller skates, 
since I had to quit driving last year." 

Charlie Jones reports that he still 
drives, is a bargain hunter, and does plenty 
of shopping. "One thing I learned at 
Brown years ago," he says, "was to be broke 
and happy at the same time. One summer 
some 70 years back I was caddy at Buzzards 
Bay Golf Course on Cape Cod. During 
the summer vacation I had charge of Grover 
Cleveland's railroad station at Gray 
Gables, just below Buzzards Bay. I had to 
flag the crossing, check the luggage, and 
flag the trains if I had passengers. I was 16 
at the time and rode my bike nine miles 
each day, rain or shine, to flag the first train 
at 7 a.m. Mrs. Cleveland, who was very 
gracious, came to the station often. At the 
end of vacation, she sent me her card, 
along with a $3 tip." 

Walter Briggs sends along a copy of 
the New York Sunday News for Feb. 18 
which included a picture of his grand- 
daughter, Lydia Richardson Briggs Poole, 
who was president of her Pembroke 
class of 1966. She is currently serving as a 
garden guide at the Ford Foundation. 



'16 



H. Stanford McLeod has been 
reelected a director of Title 
Guarantee Company of Rhode Island. 



'** ^W Raymond B. Ward is a partner with 

JLy Ray Ward & Son, general 
contractors. El Paso, Tex. 

'"J <3 Marty Donovan, former football 

JLw coach at Salem (Mass.) High 
School, celebrated his 78th birthday on 
March 21. On that occasion, many of the 
former high school players who performed 
under him between 1926 and 1941 and in 
1949 returned for a birthday party. 

Ralph Gordon, one of the greatest 
punters and field goal kickers in Brown's 
history, is enjoying his retirement in 
Florida. 



'19 



William H. Edwards served as 
toastmaster last month when the 
Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra held 
a dinner dance to celebrate the orchestra's 
25th anniversary and to honor its music 
director for that entire period, Francis 
Madeira. Bill also has been elected a 
member of the board of directors of 
Planned Parenthood of Rhode Island. 

' ^ f\ A reunion flyer has been sent to 
md\J all classmates as a reminder to 
those planning to attend the 50th reunion 
Memorial Day weekend. 

Lou J. Balatow is working in San 
Antonio, Tex., as manager and secretary- 
treasurer of H. Steele & Co., exports 
and imports. 



'21 



The Rev. Edwin L. Thornton 
says that after a pastorate 
of more than 15 years, he has closed his 
work in Middletown, N.Y., to begin a 
pastorate with the United Baptist Church 
of Providence, R.I. 



C^^ In '^if annual class competition for ^ ^ 

\J J the Brown University Fund, the ^^ 

class of '07 was the winner in the Veteran's 

Group with 100 percent participation. 

Walter C. Slade was head class agent. 
Herbert B. Keen has moved to 

7 Bailey Hollow Rd., Stoney Brook, N.Y. 

"% ^\ Keith Mercer sends along a new 

J-x/ address: c/o Keith Mercer 
Affiliates, Westmount P.O. Box 37, 
Westmount, Montreal 217. 

'"% ^ Louis I. Newman is the author of a 

\.>J libretto for the opera Tamar and 
Judah, the music for which was written by 
the late Marc Lavry, a distinguished Israeli 
composer. The opera, which is being 
presented this spring in New York City 
under the auspices of the Jewish Arts 
Festival committee, is based upon Rabbi 
Newman's play derived from Genesis 38 of 
the Bible, entitled "The Woman at the Wall." 



Stuart H. Tucker, a member of the 
Rhode Island Society of the Sons 

of the American Revolution, has been 

elected a trustee of the national society. 
Tommy Corcoran is on a committee 

in Washington, D.C., raising funds for the 

Everett M. Dirksen Library. 



J ^ Willard F. Johnson is pastor 
Jmt^ emeritus of Westminster Con- 
gregational Church, Spokane, Wash. 

Chet Worthington served as toastmaster 
last month when Brown held the first in a 
series of kickoff dinners for its "Program 
for the Seventies" fund drive at the 
Hearthstone Inn in Seekonk. In his usual 
fashion, Chet kept the tone light and moved 
the program along in good fashion for 
the 672 persons present. 

^ /t John J. McDonald retired two years 
^m^t ago as president and treasurer 

of F. B. Talbot's Express, Inc., Providence. 

He had been general manager for 40 years 

of General Trucking. 



' ^ PJ Robert C. Hunt has stepped down 
Jmt ^ as proprietor of Hunt's Book Store 
in Huntington, Long Island. He and his 
wife, Doris, first opened the doors of their 
book shop Dec. 8, 1948 when their 
children were through college and they were 
"rattling around" in a large house looking 
for something they could do together and 
enjoy. Next on the agenda for the Hunts 
will be some traveling. 

Hugo E. Levander is "just enjoying 
retirement, since January of 1966, after 
40 years of teaching foreign languages in 
the Providence high schools." 

W. Easton Louttit has been reelected a 
director of Title Guarantee Company of 
Rhode Island. 

Richmond H. Sweet has been elected 
secretary of the Rhode Island Society of the 
Sons of the American Revolution. 



'26 



More than 170 of our classmates 
' are richer by six cents than they 
were a month ago. Why? Because they have 
pocketed the stamped return envelope 
sent out by your class secretary. Please join 
the 91 who replied! 

Our 44th Reunion plans are basically 
set. The class cocktail party will be Friday 
evening at 5 p.m. in Littlefield Lounge. 
We'll attend the Alumni Dinner Friday 
night and the Pops Concert on Saturday. 
Tickets for the Pops should be ordered 
through the Alumnae Office at Pembroke. 

Gordon Dewart was hung. His picture, 
that is, was hung in the Brattleboro Outing 
Club, in honor of his services to that 
group and to the sport of tennis. He also 
makes the public press quite often on the 
editorial page, in addition to serving his 
church and community. 

William G. Chace is a boating 
enthusiast in Punta Gorda, Fla., where he 
teaches various boating courses for the 
U.S. Power Squadron. He also lectures for 
Photo Data Institute on high-speed 
photography and X-rays. Bill also does 
a great deal of traveling with his trailer. 

John H. Muller has been honored as a 
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and 
Electronics Engineers. Dutch went to the 
Philippines last winter on a three-month 
assignment with the International Executive 
Service Corps, working with a communi- 
cations outfit. 

R. J. Payor, now a member of the 
Institute of Management Consultants, 
Inc., spends a great deal of time traveling. 
Bub also is senior warden of his church. 
His consulting firm. The Winter Co., is 
located in Huntington, Ky. 

Ralph R. Crosby, after retirement as 
chairman of the board of the Old Colony 
Co-Operative Bank in Providence, has 
been appointed honorary board chairman 
and will continue as a director. Ralph 
was named chairman of the board in 
1962 and retired as an active officer of 
Old Colony in 1969, after 40 years of 
distinguished service to the institution 
including 14 years as president, from 1947 
to 1962. 



'27 



Edwin A. Whitehouse retired six 
years ago from E. R. Squibb &. Sons 



48 



i 



in New York and is now living in Marion, 
Mass., with a view of the harbor and 
Buzzards Bay. He is actively interested 
in town government and other local 
organizations. 

Late last year when this magazine 
printed an obituary on Thornton Codington 
Land, it was stated that there were no 
known relatives. It has been brought to 
our attention that a number of survivors 
do exist, including three children: Thornton 
R. Land of Newfoundland, N.J., who is 
associated with Royal Globe Insurance Co.; 
Michael S. Land of Morristown, N.J., associ- 
ated with Manufacturers Trust of New York 
City; and Mrs. Arthur M. Langey of Rayn- 
ham, Mass. He's also survived by a sister, 
Mrs. Thomas Rounds of Danbury, Conn. 

' ^ rt Stuart A. Woodruff, president of 
^^O Newman-Crosby Steel Company, 



Pawtucket, R.I., since 1963, has been named 
chairman of the board. He has been with 
the firm since graduating from Brown. 

Robert M. Pike is professor of 
microbiology at the University of Texas 
Southwestern Medical School, Dallas. 

Edgar M. Grout is employment manager 
at Bird & Son, Inc., East Walpole, Mass., 
and is also editor of the firm's publication. 
The Bird Review. 

' ^/^ Raymond G. Chaplin is superin- 
*y\J lendent of the flexible packaging 
division of Nashua (N.H.) Corp. 

Earl W. Morgan is owner and manager 
of Aunt Tempy's Inn at 234 Parker Rd., 
Osterville, Mass., on Cape Cod. 

' ^"T Douglas Stewart is a scuba diver, 

w JL and on a vacation trip to Mexico he 
found many artifacts while diving for the 



Rufus Dyer: At 81, his 'monuments' are 
70 acres of prize woodlands in Maine 



There are 811 free farmers in Maine, 
men enrolled in a national program spon- 
sored by the American Forest Institute. 
One of the 811 is Rufus A. Dyer '15, who 
celebrated his 81st birthday last Sept. 1. 

To Dyer, his 70-acre woodlot is merely 
an extension of his home grounds. His 
pines, spruces, and cedars receive from 
him the same loving care as the flower 
gardens that surround the farm house in 
Corinna where he and his wife live. 

Working in the woods is nothing new 
to Dyer. His father moved to Langtown in 
Franklin County in 1894 to cut timber, and 
the young boy frequently accompanied 
his dad on these day-long jourtjeys. 

While in his teens. Dyer got a job as a 
cook's helper in a lumber camp, and one 
spring he went on a log drive down Stratton 
Brook and the Dead River to The Forks. 
His apprenticeship in lumbering was 
thorough, but in those days there was no 
thought of managing timber as a crop. 

After attending Brown, Dyer settled 
in the Boston area. He spent 37 years 
there, first with the Franklin Motor Car 
Company arid then as a machinist zoith 
American Gear. When he retired in 1953, 
the Dyers got back to Maine just as fast as 
they could. 

The Dyers chose as their retirement 
home the old farm in Corinna which had 
been in Mrs. Dyer's family since 1855. At 
first. Dyer had no thought of doing any- 
thing with the trees on the place. Then one 
day in 1954 Elwin Macomber, state serzyice 
forester, stopped by. 

"He asked me what I zvas doing with 
my pines," Dyer says. "I told him I was 
letting them grow. But I guess that wasn't 
a good enough answer. He took me out 
and explained zvhat a little thitzning and 
pruning could do, and what he had to say 
made sense." 

Taking the advice of the forester. Dyer 
went to work zngorously in his woodlot 
with saw and axe. By 1957 he felt sufficient 



confidence in his work to enter the B. C. 
]ordan contest for excellence in the culti- 
vation of forests within the State of Maine. 
By 1958 his zooodland qualified and was 
accepted into the Tree Farm Program. And 
in 1966 the Dyer tree farm received addi- 
tional recognition when it zoas awarded first 
prize in the B. C. Jordan contest. 

Dyer had pruned all of the trees on his 
prize-winning lot and thinned the stand to 
keep his pine growing rapidly. Not one to 
waste azzything, he uses pine boughs and 
pine needles to mulch his flower beds. In 
the forest, blackberries flourish in the cool 
mat of pine needles beneath the carefully 
spaced and pruned trees. Some years. Dyer 
and his wife sell as mazzy as 800 quarts 
of the frziit. 

In additiotz to doing all the cutting and 
pruning on the tree farm himself. Dyer 
has plazzted 13 acres with pine and sprzice 
seedlings. And these trees get the same 
amount of attention as the others. 

Someoize once asked Dyer why he 
bothered to prune young trees from zvhich 
he would never see any direct benefit. 

"Well," he replied, "I guess you could 
say that I'll hazw lots of monuments." 

Rufus Dyer: How straight trees are grown 




wreck of the Mantanceros, sunk in 1741. For 
11 days he was with a group of 23 scuba 
divers plus one, his wife, Louise. 

Benjamin Ackerman is president of 
Barry Housewares Corp., Houston, Tex. 

Richard A. Bowen is treasurer of 
Planned Parenthood of Rhode Island. 

' ^ ^ John J. O'Shaughnessy, Jr., has 

w ^M been installed as temporary Clerk 
of Courts in the First District Court of 
Southern Worcester County, Mass. 

' ^ ^ Walter J. Matthews, president of 
w w Public Service Indiana, recently 
headed the Farm Electrification Council, 
which unites all segments of the utility 
industry in promoting farm use of electric 
energy. 

Judge Daniel H. Rider has been 
confirmed by the executive council as 
presiding justice of the Dedham District 
Court. He had been serving as a special 
judge of the Massachusetts court. Dan 
served in the state legislature from 1957 to 
1967 and has served as chairman of the 
school committee in Needham. 

Paul Maddock owns one of the most 
historical estates in Palm Beach, Fla. 
Included in the Maddock compound is 
"Duck's Nest," the oldest house in Palm 
Beach, which currently is leased to 
Governor Kirk. The property, which 
extends to Lake Worth, retains the charm 
and flavor of old Palm Beach when it 
was a lush tropical island. 

^ ^ A Henry C. Carpenter, Jr., is a stock 

W TX broker with Reynolds & Co., 
Hollywood, Fla. 

John G. Milligan is senior project 
chemist with Jefferson Chemical Co., Inc., 
Austin, Tex. 

' ^ IJ Malcolm C. Ball is with American 

W^ Mutual Liability Insurance 
Company as Southern Division claim 
manager and attorney. His offices are at 
1 Executive Park East, Atlanta, Ga. 

' ^ /^ Dr. Joseph A. Yacovone is a 

^ V lecturer in dental public health 
at the Salve Regina School of Nursing, 
Harvard School of Public Health, U.R.I. 
Schools of Nursing and Dental Hygiene, 
and the R.I. Junior College dental assisting 
program. 

Earl Fleisig reports that after selling 
Enco National and Parksmith of New York 
City, they have become divisions of Uni- 
versal Marion Corporation of Jacksonville, 
Fla. He still remains as vice-president of 
the two divisions. 

Whitney E. Easton has changed his 
business address to Bowen Oil Co., 
66 Market St., Warren, R.I. 

John H. Morrison, Jr., is president of 
John H. Morrison Associates, Dallas, 
manufacturers' representatives. 

Robert W. Brokaw is a coordinator 
for export sales with the Gorham Co., 
Providence. 



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^Cl Edmund H. Longfellow has been 
w • an engineer-partner for the past 

11 years with R. L. Weiss & Son, general 

contractors, Knoxville, Tenn. 

Alfred N. Kay is working in Dallas 

as assistant regional commissioner of the 

Internal Revenue Service. 

'^/^ Dr. Robert T. Handy, one of 
^^^ the nation's foremost church 
historians, recently gave a lecture at the 
Covina campus of the American Baptist 
Seminary of the West. He has been 
professor of church history at Union 
Theological Seminary in New York City 
since 1950. 

Dr. Laurence E. Strong (GS), professor 
of chemistry and associate dean for 
educational development at Earlham 
College, has been elected chairman of the 
American Chemical Society's division of 
chemical education. 

Eric L. Schulbach of Warren, N.J., 
is a sales representative for the Charles B. 
Clark Co. 

Robert B. Perry is president of Wash- 
ington Trust Co., Westerly, R.I., which 
celebrated its 170th year in February. 
Founded in 1800, Washington Trust is 
Westerly's oldest bank and the ninth oldest 
in the nation. 

A"^ John R. Mars of Culver (Ind.) 
^K JL Military Academy has been named 
to the reading committee of the 1970 
Advanced Placement Spanish Examination. 
This committee, selected by the Educational 
Testing Service of Princeton, N.J., is 
responsible for the evaluation of all the 
Spanish advanced placement examinations 
to be given in May throughout the country. 
John has been chairman of Culver's foreign 
language department since 1964. He is 
also serving as executive assistant to the 
dean of the Academy and its acting 
superintendent, Ernest B. Benson. 

William M. Lanham (GS), a research 
chemist, is a group leader with Union 
Carbide Corp., South Charleston, W. Va. 
C. Wallace McNutt (GS) is professor 
of anatomy at the University of Texas 
Medical School at San Antonio. 



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President Bernie Bell wants all 
classmates planning to return for 
the 28th Reunion to know that a special 
class event will be scheduled at some point 
during the four-day weekend. Details will 
be available in this column in the May 
issue of the magazine. 

Norman P. Ross, who has served as the 
first managing editor of Time-Life Books, 
helped commemorate its 10th anniversary by 
presenting to Yale University Library the 
entire body of work published to date. 

Dr. Leland W. Jones is serving as 
president of the Rhode Island Heart 
Association. Starting in September, the 
associaton will sponsor a mobile heart 
attack detection unit which will be sent 



to Rhode Island business firms to test 
for potential victims of heart and blood 
vessel diseases. 

William C. Giles, Jr., has been elected 
vice-chairman of the board of trustees 
at American International College. He is 
also chairman of the board of directors 
of Monarch Life Insurance Co., which 
he joined in 1952. 

Thomas E. Morton is sales manager 
with Parmatic Filter Corp., Livingston, N.J. 

Prof. Arnold Soloway was a recent 
guest at Temple Beth David, where he spoke 
on "United States-Israel Relationships." He 
is a consultant to the Economic Development 
Commission, a member of the American 
Professors for Peace in the Middle East, 
and chairman of the program committee of 
the Anti-Defamation League. 

Peter R. Brown is district sales 
manager with Louis Allis Division of Litton 
Industries, Cleveland, O. 

/f ^L David Curtis, president of Kenyon 
^t*J Southern Inc., has been renamed 
chairman of the aeronautics committee of 
the Greater Chattanooga Chamber of 
Commerce. 

A /t Robert B. Lynch is president of the 
jK jC Cranston Historical Society, which 
last winter won an award of merit from the 
American Association for State and Local 
History. Only three such awards were given 
in New England this year. The Cranston 
group was cited for its work in saving and 
restoring the Sprague Mansion. 

Sherwood G. Moe, with UNICEF as 
special assistant to the executive director, 
spent two weeks in Nigeria last month. He 
reports that Phyllis has her Ph.D. and is 
teaching at Hunter College. 

Arthur Marx, Jr., is working on Wall 
St., New York City, as a partner with 
Andrews, Posner & Rothschild. 

^ A tZ Charles W. Briggs, Jr., a member 

M ^ of the Rhode Island Society of the 
Sons of the American Revolution, has been 
elected a member of the group's board 
of managers. 

William F. Case is working in Chicago 
as assistant manager with National 
Biscuit Co. 

Roger D. Williams, president of S. S. 
Pierce Co., Boston, has announced the 
acquisition of three California companies, 
bringing to five the number of West Coast 
operations to come under the Pierce name 
this year. The latest transactions include the 
purchase of Dave Walsh Co., Inc., and Cline 
Farms of Oxnard (Ventura County) and 
Otsuki Brothers of Salinas. 

^^/^ Fowler Blauvelt is working in 

^»^^ Toledo, O., as group vice-president 
with the textile and industrial group of 
Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. 

Robert T. von der Lieth is in Milano, 
Italy as managing director of Home 
Products Italiana S.P.A. 

Major Paul E. Peckham, will be 
released from active Army duty on May 1. 

Edward J. Murphy, Jr., state department 



commander of the American Legion, was 
guest of honor at a testimonial dinner held 
in Riverside, R.I. 

Dr. George H. Handelman (GS) is a 
member of the department of mathematics 
at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 

/t^T Dr. E. Parker Johnson (GS), dean 
^» y of the faculty at Colby College 
since 1960, has been named chairman of the 
American Conference of Academic Deans. 
Dean Parker recently announced his 
intention to seek a seat in the Maine 
State Senate. 

Dr. James E. Coffman is with 
Christoffersen, Coffman & Kelly, Las 
Vegas, Nev. 

George S. Gordon is president of the 
Trans Leisure Co., New York City, 
wholesale travel and leisure packaging. 

Ambrose McCoy is general manager of 
the Imperial Division of ITE Imperial 
Corp., Chicago. 

Robert J. Janes has been elected a 
director of Providence, Inc. He remains a 
member of the school committee in 
Barrington. 

^ AQ Marvin Holland, Rhode Island 

^tO attorney, was one of the coordina- 
tors of a testimonial dinner held for 
Governor Frank Licht '38 last month. 

John M. Vander Voort is administrator 
at St. Petersburg General Hospital, St. 
Petersburg, Fla. 

' yf rt Frank J. Pizzitola has been named 

■4 3^ executive vice-president and chief 
operating officer with Jim Walter Corp., 
Tampa, Fla. He had been an executive with 
Celanese Corporation before accepting this 
offer. Frank also has been elected a director 
of the $600 million a year company, with 
interests that include building materials, 
home building, mortgage financing, pipe 
products, sugar, oil, gas, paper, and the 
savings and loan business. 

Edward H. Glenney has been 
named a corporator of the Savings Bank 
of Manchester, Conn. Ed heads the 
W. G. Glenney Company in Manchester. He 
also is a member of the board of trustees 
of the Manchester Memorial Hospital 
and is a past president of the Connecticut 
Lumber Dealers Association. 

Earl Noblet is assistant manager for 
commercial development with Arco 
Chemical Co., in Philadelphia. 

Donald B. Dietz is working in Midland, 
Mich., as sales manager with Dow 
Chemical Co. 

A. Russell Webster, vice-president of 
the materials division of M. A. Gammino 
Construction Co., conducted two seminars 
for the annual meeting of the National 
Crushed Stone Association held in Chicago. 

John E. Lombardo has been appointed 
secretary in the new business division of 
the group department at Travelers Insurance 
Companies in Hartford, Conn. 

Robert F. Brownell, Jr., is at Phillips 
Exeter Academy as a teacher and acting 
dean of students. 



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' EJ/^ John E. Szatai has been named 

4^ V/ vice-president of Union Carbide 
Petroleum Corporation in New York City, 
and is in charge of the firm's world-wide 
explorations for oil. After living in Europe 
and Africa for 10 years, he and his family 
have returned to the States. John thinks the 
travel was rewarding for the children 
because his two boys speak five languages 
and his daughter speaks three. Recently, he 
donated to Brown's art department a part 
of his Ming porcelain collection. 

Ben Integlia is vice-president of Niantic 
Rubber Co. and corporate director of 
systems selling for the parent International 
Supply Co., Cranston, R.I. He was guest 
speaker at a meeting of the American 
Institute of Plant Engineers held in 
Smithfield, R.I. 

Jonathan S. Tobey was the speaker at 
the Vermont Bankers Association mid- 
winter meeting in Montpelier, Vt. He is 
technical director of agriculture with the 
Chase Manhattan Bank in New York. 

Henry Bialecki, formerly vice-president 
of Electronic Futures, Inc. of North Haven, 
Conn., has been chosen president of KMS 
Industries Division in New Haven. Rubber- 
craft is one of the nation's leading manu- 
facturers of inflatable and non-inflatable 
survival equipment for aerospace, military 
and commercial markets. 

Robert N. Pollock, senior group con- 
sultant in the Rochester, N.Y., office of 
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co., 
has been presented the 1969 group produc- 
tion leader award. He joined Massachusetts 
Mutual in 1957 after seven years in group 
insurance sales with another company. 

John F. Dator, a selectman in Somerset, 
Mass., is a self-employed insurance agent 
and realtor. John is president of the Greater 
Fall River United Fund, president of the 
Thomas Crew Memorial Boys Club, and 
vice-president of the Fall River area 
Chamber of Commerce. 

Richard L. Archer has his own life 
insurance brokerage business and is 
Southern Rhode Island field representative 
for Sun Life Insurance Company of Canada. 
"Have six children blanketing the ages 2 
to 18 quite nicely," he says. 

John P. Boyce, former assistant sec- 
retary of Automobile Mutual Insurance 
Company of America, has been elected an 
assistant vice-president. 

Dr. Thomas L. Philbrick is professor 
of American Literature at the University 
of Pittsburgh. 

William J. Cochrane, Jr., has been 
elected a trustee of the Pawtucket Institu- 
tion for Savings. Bill is executive vice- 
president of the savings bank and its 
commercial banking subsidiary, Pawtucket 
Trust Co. 

Herbert E. Torberg has been named 
president of the Electro-Optical Division of 
Koollmorgen Corp., Northampton, Mass. 
He has been associated with the firm since 
1952, most recently as the division execu- 
tive vice-president. 

Robert W. Waterman is vice-president 
and treasurer of Huffo Waterman, Inc., 
Madison, Wis., an advertising firm. 



William C. Peckham, executive vice- 
president of Peckham Industries, Inc., has 
been elected president of the New York 
State Chapter of the Associated General 
Contractors of America. Peckham Industries 
is engaged in highway building, heavy 
construction, and building materials. 

Lawrence E. Conlon is group supervisor 
of manufacturing and technology with 
Monsanto Co., Addyston, O. 

Deverne Danburg, Jr., a supervising 
credit examiner, is with First Bank System, 
Minneapolis, Minn. 

Bruce E. Hamlett has his own firm, 
Hamlett Engineering Sales Co., New Buffalo, 
Mich. He had been with the Hays Corp., 
Michigan City, Ind., for the past six years, 
serving most recently as vice-president of 
marketing. Bruce has five children, the 
oldest of whom is a student at Indiana 
University. 

John K. Thomas is an instructor in the 
department of psychiatry in the School of 
Medicine at Temple University. 

Jay Barry's weekly humor column in 
the Warren Times was judged one of the 
three best in the annual newspaper contest 
sponsored for members of the New England 
Press Association. Competition came from 
more than 200 weekly and daily newspapers 
from the six-state region. 

Lt. Col. Kenneth A. Clark has been 
named vice-commander of 388 Combat 
Support Group of Korat Air Base, Thailand. 
The 22-year Air Force veteran had been in 
charge of the 450Cth Air Base Wing pro- 
curement office since 1964. 

David H. Hawkins is manager of the 
computing system department with Avco 
Computer Services, Avco Corp., Wil- 
mington, Mass. 

Jose M. Silva, Jr., has been appointed 
principal of the new middle school in Fall 
River, Mass. He had been vice-principal at 
the Henry Lord Junior High in the same city. 

' CJ-J Dr. Joel S. Isenberg (GS) has 

^ JL been named adjunct professor of 
engineering mechanics on the faculty 
of the University of Denver's College of 
Engineering. He is president of Tech- 
nology Enterprises Corp., a one-year-old 
Denver company concerned with orig- 
inating and developing new companies based 
on technological innovation. 

Richard B. Walsh is working in 
Dayton, O., as assistant to the general sales 
manager with Monarch Marking Systems. 

John B. Mills is supervisor of produc- 
tion design engineering with General 
Electric Co., Portsmouth, Va. 

Dr. Robert S. L. Kinder has been 
named chairman of Moses Brown School's 
1970 annual giving fund. 

Garrison G. Lotz has been advanced to 
assistant trust officer in National Newark 
& Essex Bank's Brick Church Office, 
Kearny, N.J. 

George A. Tingley has been appointed 



manager of SWISSAIR'S Operations 
Research home-based in Zurich, Switzerland. 

Ralph Gerstle for the past few years 
has worked as cameraman, writer, and editor 
in the field of documentary films. 

Lewis A. Waterman is the new treas- 
urer of the Rhode Island Society of the 
Sons of the American Revolution. 

C ^ Louis E. Fischer has been appointed 
W ^U senior vice-president of admin- 
istration for Levitt & Sons, Inc., international 
home and community building firm. 
The firm is a subsidiary of International 
Telephone and Telegraph Corp. 

Guy P. Livingstone, Jr., involved in 
school publishing, is executive editor 
of D. C. Heath & Co., Lexington, Mass. 

Allen F. Owen, a designer, is vice- 
president and a partner with Alan Jewelry, 
Providence. 

Cdr. Joseph H. Bosse, Jr., is an 
executive officer with the Naval Communi- 
cations Training Center, Pensacola, Fla. 



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Paul A. Goldman is executive 
vice-president of Detektronic 
System, Inc., Newark, N.J., developer of an 
anti-theft system which silently sends 
signals to a monitoring office when a truck 
is being broken into and which tracks 
hi-jacked equipment. The film of this new 
piece of equipment was shown at the 
American Trucking Association's convention 
held in San Francisco, Calif. 

Angelo Dell'Erario has been named 
supervising examiner of the claims 
department of the Boston home office of 
Liberty Mutual Insurance Companies. 

Norman A. James is technical super- 
visor and field service administrator of 
plastics sales service with E. I. DuPont de 
Nemours & Co., Wilmington, Del. 

Nick Gabardina is a teacher and head 
coach of football at Manchester (N.H.) 
West High School. He's also had two 
American Legion baseball teams that have 
reached the finals in Orangeburg, S.C, 
and Memphis, Tenn. 

' g" >| Gregory J. Sullivan has been with 
^ TC the Irving Trust Company in New 
York since 1958 and is currently a vice- 
president in charge of the Wall Street office. 
His duties include commercial banking and 
responsibility for industrial transportation 
and insurance business in that district. 
He is Ho-Ho-Kus Community Chest chair- 
man for 1969-70 and a member of the 
Community Chest board of managers. 

C. Mansfield Whitney, a resident of 
Lakeville, Mass., is a member of the 
Republican town committee there and is 
a part owner of the W. H. Dimali Trans- 
portation Company and the Tri-A Sporting 
Goods store. 

Peter VanC. Shaw has been elected 
an assistant vice-president of the Rhode 
Island Hospital Trust National Bank. 

Reginald P. Patota has been appointed 
advertising director of Signature magazine, 
a monthly publication of Diners Club. 
He was associated with the Curtis Publishing 
Company in New York — and with 



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Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, in 
New ^ork and Boston, before joining 
the staff of Signature last September. 

Charles W. Burdick, Jr., has received 
the Boy Scouts arrowhead award for 
giving a series of training lectures to district 
adult leaders. 

Cdr. Albert A. Gallotta, Jr., USN, is 
still in Spain and is an executive officer 
of the Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron. 
He is slated to become commanding 
officer about July, 1970. 

EC Alan L. Lauber has been appointed 
*i' ^i' general manager of Hoffman-La 
Roche, Inc., Nutley, N.J. HLR Service Cor- 
poration is a newly organized subsidiary 
which will develop and support new financ- 
ing and servicing techniques in the fields 
of medical electronics and health education. 
Alan had been budget director at Roche 
prior to his new appointment. 

Allan \V. Halladay, Sr., whose father, 
Milton R. Halladay was for 46 years 
the dean of editorial cartooning at the 
Providence JoKrnal-BiiUetin, has had 
a show at the Providence Art Club. Allan 
followed his father at the paper as staff 
artist and sports cartoonist, serving for 17 
years. With his son, Allan VV. Jr., he 
now operates Halladay Advertising, Inc., in 
East Providence, R.I. 

Lou Murgo is a teacher-coach at 
Aragon High in San Mateo, Calif. His home 
address appropriately carries a Brown 
flavor: 316 Courtland Dr., San Bruno, Calif. 

Daniel B. Hoik is serving as special 
assistant to Governor Walter Peterson of 
New Hampshire. 



Buffalo priest 
seeks election 
to Congress 



' J" /^ Barry Gottehrer, executive assistant 

^ ^7 to Mayor Lindsay of New York 
City, gave the Blazer Lecture at the Uni- 
versity of Kentucky. Barry also is co- 
ordinator of the Summer Program for Young 
People in New York and is a member 
of the Board of Mediation for Community 
Disputes. 

A. Leonard Parrott has been named 
chairman of the Century club division 
in the Fairfield YMCA partner-member 
enrollment drive. Vice-president of the 
Fairfield (Conn.) Land and Title Co., he is 
active in civic affairs in the Fairfield area. 

Dr. Seymour S. Goodman (GS) has 
been appointed to the faculty of the Tulane 
University Graduate School of Business 
Administration, where he will serve as asso- 
ciate professor of economics. Dr. Goodman 
is a specialist in international economics and 
income distributions and has written a 
textbook and several articles on these 
subjects. 

James C. Fry, whose firm holds seven 
Burger Chef franchises, one of them in 
Rhode Island, and does all the real estate 
work and building for the system within 
the state, has been asked if success is spoil- 
ing the fast-food business. Jim says, "It 
is tough to pin down how you'll find a good 
location. I've been in it for 10 years and 
I can sort of feel them." 

Sumner Campbell is a teacher at Nauset 
Regional High School, Orleans, Mass. 

Keith W. Charles is playing the role 
of Nick Kane on the television serial, 
"The Silent Storm." 

William P. Cronin is special projects 
manager with Cooley, Inc., Pawtucket. 



On Dec. 26, 1776, George Washington 
crossed the Delaware. On Feb. 5, 1970, the 
Rev. Hugh C. Carmichael '60 crossed the 
Buffalo River to announce his candidacy for 
the Democratic nomination for Congress 
in the 41st District. 

Washington's crossing almost 200 years 
ago was highly successful. Father Car- 
michael won't know until primary day on 
June 23 whether or not his efforts to 
unseat six-term incumbent Thaddeus 
Dulski will he equally successful. In the 
41st District, the winner of the Democratic 
primary is almost assured of winning the 
election in November. 

The 31-year-old clergyman, canon 
of St. Paul's Cathedral and vicar of St. 
Thomas' Episcopal Church, made his 
declaration standing in a rowboat. The 
unusual announcement was done to 
dramatize Father Carmichael' s views on 
pollution. In his hand he held a large plastic 
container half-filled with violet-colored 
water from the river. Near the boat were 
patches of sludge and other solid wastes. 



Amid the sludge, Carmichael 
announces a candidacy 



Paul H. McKay is a trust officer with 
the State National Bank of Connecticut. 
He and Linda and their three children reside 
in Danbury. 

Chuck Ray is manager of applications 
development with Information International, 
Los Angeles. 

Cdr. David H. Griffin, U.S. Navy, is 
serving as flag secretary and aide to the 
commander of the Seventh Fleet. 

Noel M. Field, Jr., is serving as a 
vice-president of Planned Parenthood of 
Rhode Island. 

C ^T Robert W. Minnerly has been 
^ J appointed fifth headmaster of 
Berkshire School, Sheffield, Mass. He will 
assume his new position in September. 
Bob served for five years as a Navy lieuten- 
ant and then taught English and Latin at 
Rumsey Hall School for two years before he 
was appointed to the English Department 
at Berkshire School. During his six years at 
the school, he served as teacher, associate 
director of athletics, advisor to the junior 
class, and coach of football, junior hockey, 
and baseball. For the past two years. Bob 
was assistant to the headmaster. 

Alfred B. Van Liew, II, has been 
appointed special gifts chairman for the 
1970 Episcopal Charities Fund Appeal 
in Providence. Al is head of the personal 
planning department at Rhode Island 
Hospital Trust National Bank. 

Fred W. Jeans (GS) is professor and 
chairman of the department of foreign 
languages at Lambuth College, Jackson, 
Tenn. 

James R. Cerasoli has been named 



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director of ophthalmology at Denver 
General Hospital. 

Robert J. Giordano has been promoted 
personnel director of field sales with Lehn & 
Fink Products Co., a division of Sterling 
Drug, Newark. 

Stephen D. Cutler is vice-president and 
director of investments for the Massa- 
chusetts Company group of mutual funds. 

^ (Z Q '-'''• Joseph M. Proud, Jr., has been 

w O appointed vice-president of 
research by IKOR, Inc., Burlington, Mass. 
IKOR designs and produces electronic 
data keyboards and data handling systems. 
The company has also developed new 
techniques in the microwave field aimed at 
high power, high resolution radar. 

Robert A. Axley has been promoted 
to assistant vice-president of the Bank 
of New York. Bob is in the metropolitan 
banking division, where he concentrates 
on new business and commercial loans. 

Charles D. Krug, an airline pilot, 
is captain with American Airlines, Inc. 

Lionel P. Etscovitz is at Drexel 
University as assistant professor of human 
behavior and development. 

Reese H. Harris, III, has been named 
to the board of directors of the Greater 
Hartford Council on Alcoholism. He is a 
vice-president of the Fenn Manufacturing 
Co., Newington, Conn. 

William H. Chadwick has been elected 
an assistant vice-president of the Con- 
necticut Bank & Trust Co., Hartford. He is 
with the corporate department of the 
main office loan division. Active in profes- 
sional and civic groups. Bill is on the 



credit committee of the Connecticut Bankers 
Association, the Hartford Chapter of the 
American Institute of Banking, the zoning 
board of appeals for the town of Windsor, 
Conn., and the Windsor Republican Town 
Committee. 

' fZ ^k John D. Bagnall has been named 

w ^ a New York-based vice-president of 
the investment counseling firm Van 
Strum & Towne, Inc., with special responsi- 
bility for pension and profit-sharing 
accounts. 

Carl G. Hokanson has left Lear-Siegler, 
Inc., as vice-president of marketing of an 
aerospace products division to pursue an 
M.B.A. at Harvard Business School. 

James H. Cassedy (GS) has written a 
book entitled Demography in Early America, 
Beginnings of the Statistical Mind, 
1600~1S00, which was recently published 
by the Harvard University Press. He is 
also the author of Charles V. Chapin and 
the Public Health Movement. 

W. Scott Bearce, an engineer, is 
secretary-treasurer and a partner with 
Orwin Associates, Inc., West Babylon, N.Y. 

John H. Hemmeter is working in 
Detroit as media supervisor with Campbell- 
Ewald Co. 

Dr. Alan W. Robbins is a lieutenant 
commander in the medical corps of the 
USNR, currently assigned as a surgeon on 
the USS John F. Kennedy. 

Kent B. Savel is working in Brockton, 
Mass., as vice-president and plant manager 
with Mayflower Coat Mfg, Co., Inc. 

Tracy L. Simpson is at the University 
of Hartford as associate professor of biology. 



John J. Orr, II, president of John J. 
Orr & Son, Inc., Providence, is serving as 
second vice-president of the North 
Atlantic Ports Association. 

Francis E. Lindon and Stephen B. Duke 
'60 have formed Duke, Lindon & Co., 
Jacksonville, Fla., a member of the National 
Association of Security Dealers, Inc. The 
firm's primary business is working on 
underwritings for young companies. 

Zi/'\ Jack E. Bellavance has been 
^'V/ appointed sales planning specialist 
for the personal appliance department of 
General Electric's housewares division in 
Bridgeport, Conn. He became associated 
with the houseware's division in Bridgeport 
in 1964 as a trainee, subsequently serving 
as district trainee in St. Louis from 1965 to 
1969 and in Chicago for a year. 

Alvin S. Curran received his master's 
in music from Yale in 1963 and took 
part in a Ford Foundation artist-in-residence 
program in Berlin. This spring he has 
been on tour with what he calls MEV, 
Musica Elettronica Viva, Italian for Living 
Electronic Music. The six-member group 
did one performance at Sayles Hall on the 
Brown campus. 

Richard T. Barber is director of 
oceanographic program and associate 
professor of zoology and botany at 
Duke University. 

Richard E. Benson has been elected a 
vice-president with Citizens Trust Co. He 
joined the bank in 1964 after serving at the 
Guaranty Bank & Trust Co., Worcester. 

William Taylor of Worcester, Mass., 
last year directed "Chamber Music," winner 



Father Carmichael intends to stress 
more than pollution in his campaign. One 
of his main issues in the early going was 
a call for a re-direction of national priori- 
ties — at the expense of the defense budget. 

"Today we have to focus on health 
services, needs of the elderly, and ecology," 
he says. "In short, we have to decide 
where we are going as a people. And all 
this is especially important in a city such 
as Buffalo, with its factories, crowded living 
conditions, and low-income families." 

Father Carmichael has been hitting 
hard at his opponent in other areas, includ- 
ing getting the jump ori Rep. Dulski on 
the "Vote 18" issue. The Episcopal priest 
also took the offensive by pushing in the 
press for a series of ptiblic debates. The 
net result ivas that when Rep. Dulski an- 
nounced his re-election candidacy he 
committed the unpardonable political sin 
of spending more time talking about 
Carmichael than about his own electioit bid. 

At the moment. Father Carmichael feels 
that being a clergyman will riot have an 
adverse effect on his campaign. However, 
he admits that there may be some problems. 

"A feio people are sure to raise the old 
church-state issue," he says. "But, I have 
the full support of the bishops in the area. 
Then, too, there is a certain trust-level 
associated with the clergy, a feeling thai a 
man in this position has no tdterior motive 



in running for office and is totally com- 
mitted to serving the people of the district. 
This is a plus factor." 

In one fashion or another, Carmichael 
has been serving people most of his young 
life. During his undergraduate days at 
Brown, he was president of the senior 
class, president of the Brown Rowing 
AssociatiotJ, chairman of the Campus 
Affairs Committee, and a member of var- 
sity crew, the Brown Key, and Alpha Delta 
Phi fraternity. 

He spent the summer of 1960 in a 
World Council of Churches workshop out- 
side Johannesburg, Union of South Africa, 
where he met his wife, the former Marie 
Nelson, of Monroe, La. Carmichael also 
spent a summer in Beaver, Alaska, serving 
the church in that Indian village on the 
Yukon. During these years, he trained for 
the ministry at Episcopal Theological 
School, Cambridge, Mass. 

While at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 
Columbus, O., from 1963 to 1967, Father 
Carmichael made quite an impact on the 
community. He enlisted 166 youngsters 
from different racial, religious, and social 
backgrounds to clean up the city, initiated 
a program to bring 15 volunteers of VISTA 
to the city to attack delinquency, and 
sponsored a creative art project, exterior 
building inspections, voter registration, and 
presentation of plays for teenagers. As a 



residt of his efforts, the editors of the 
Columbus Journal named him as one of 
the city's "10 Top Men" for 1966. 

During his three years in Buffalo, 
Father Carmichael has been a leader in 
community action and civil rights move- 
ments. He and Marie and their two chil- 
dren, Katharyn 6 and Nelson 4, live near 
St. Thomas' Episcopal Church, which is lo- 
cated in the city's depressed Old First Ward. 



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of the New England Theater Conference 
Festival, which represented the United States 
at the AITA Festival in Monaco. 

Kenneth A. Bell, III, has been elected 
a vice-president of United California Bank 
in Los Angeles, Calif., where he serves 
in the headquarters national division. 

Richard S. Press has been appointed 
vice-president of investments with Scudder, 
Stevens & Clark, investment counsel, in 
their New \brk office. Scudder, Stevens & 
Clark is one of the largest independent 
investment counsel firms in the country. 

Dudley Voorhees, Jr., is vice-president 
with the Whitehead Group, management 
consultants, located in New York City. 

George R. Coughlan is working in 
Glen Falls, N.Y., as account executive with 
Spencer Trask & Co., Inc. 

Robert M. Long is district manager on 
the West Bay of Northern California for 
Long Drug Stores. 

Dr. Francis C. Fung was graduated in 
February from the University of Notre 
Dame department of aerospace and 
mechanical engineering. He has accepted 
an appointment as assistant professor 
in the department of mechanical engineering 
at the University of Nebraska. 



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Dr. P. Andrew Penz is a senior 
research scientist in the physics 
department of the Ford Motor Company 
Scientific Laboratory. The laboratory is 
heavily involved in air pollution research 
and magnetic vehicular suspension. 
The latter would be applied to high speed 
transportation between such points as 
New York and Boston. It is likened by Dr. 
Penz to digging a long trench in the 
ground, installing a large tube, withdrawing 
the air to create a vacuum to allow 
vehicles, such as a train, to travel at 500 
to 600 miles an hour on a cushion of air, 
same as a space ship. 

William J. Packer has been named to 
the Redevelopment Agency in South 
Kingstown, R.I., for a five-year term. He 
also is a member of the Citizens Advisory 
Committee for the town. Bill is in sales 
management with Taco, Inc., Cranston. 

Wendell "Buzz" Barnes, Jr., has been 
transferred from Portland, Ore., to 
Honolulu. He is still with McCann-Erickson 
Advertising Agency. 

Martin A. Wenick has been promoted 
to Class 4 in the Foreign Service. Since 
entering the Foreign Service in 1962, he has 
been stationed in Kabul and Prague and 
is presently assigned to the Department of 
State's Office of Eastern European Affairs. 

Robert F. Kline has been appointed 
director of quality control for the American 
Broadcasting Co., a division of American 
Broadcasting Companies, Inc. Bob joined 
ABC in 1969 from Mobil Oil Corp., where 
he had been product control supervisor. 

Jonathan Kapstein joined Business 
Week in August to become Latin American 
bureau chief. He and his wife, the former 
Nancy Sherer P'61, arrived in Rio de Janeiro, 
where he has his office, in October. Since 
that time he has reported from Ecuador, 
Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, and Brazil. 

Angelo J. Sinisi is midwest regional 



sales manager with Speakman Co., 
Wilmington, Del. He's living at 116 Keeney 
St., Evanston, 111. 

Dr. Rodrique M. Sutherland (GS) has 
been chosen to deliver one of the major 
scientific papers at the annual meeting of 
the American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science to be held in Boston, 
Mass. He is chairman of the division of 
natural sciences and mathematics at 
Assumption College. 

Thomas M. Jones (GS) has changed 
his position from personnel and student 
financial aid officer to registrar of Roger 
Williams College in Bristol, R.I. He also 
had been a member of the college history 
faculty. 

/L ^ Barry N. Behn has taken a job as 
V^U sales manager for the Massilite Co., 
Plainville, Mass., producers of an expanded 
shale lightweight aggregate used in the 
making of concrete and concrete blocks for 
high-rise buildings. Barry had been with the 
Lehigh-Portland Cement Company for the 
past six years, most recently in Wash- 
ington, D.C. His new address: 17 Charlotte 
Rd., Waltham, Mass. 

Philip J. Schwarz is at Cornell, where 
he is studying for his Ph.D. degree in 
American history. 

Carl W. Hally has been elected 
president of Wilson Floors Co., a floor 
covering sub-contractor and retailer 
serving Central Ohio. 

K. Robert Keiser is assistant professor 
in the department of political science at 
San Diego State College. 

David A. Bingemann is with Eastman 
Kodak Company in Rochester as admin- 
istrative assistant and packaging supervisor 
in the Film Finishing Division. 

Leon J. Dalva, an art dealer, is vice- 
president of Dalva Brothers in New 
York City. 

Richard R. Laine, a graduate of Portia 
Law School, has his office at 460 West 
Broadway, South Boston. 

Robert H. Lane is a self-employed real 
estate man with offices at 1300 Boylston St., 
Chestnut Hill, Mass. 

Gaetano Lombardo is working in 
Cambridge, Mass., as a management 
consultant with A. D. Little Co. 

Paul D. McLaughlin is manager and 
part owner of the Treehouse for Steak, 942 
Arlington Rd., Jacksonville, Fla. 

Robert C. Wachter is in Detroit, where 
he is treasurer with Eastern Box Co. 

Dr. Earl A. Pope (GS), associate 
professor of religion at Lafayette College, 
has presented the third in a series of four 
Jones Faculty lectures during the 1969-70 
school year. 

Robert R. Green has been promoted to 
manager of sales service at Geigy Agri- 
cultural Chemicals, a division of Geigy 
Chemical Corporation in Harrison, N.Y. 

Robert L. Dillmeier of New York has 
been named vice-president of corporate 
finance by Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis, 
nationwide investment firm. 



David B. Kauffman has left his family 
retail furniture store, Kauffmans, and is now 
engaged with a new company promoting 
an entirely new concept. Quad-I, Inc., 
located in Philadelphia, is a network of 70 
national offices using an EDP system 
for the rapid exchange of information to 
efficiently serve inventors, industry, 
and investors. Dave, now vice-president 
and business consultant of this new 
company, explains that the clearing house 
features of a national system offering 
these services has never been available 
until now. 

Richard Holbrooke has been promoted 
to Class 4 in the Foreign Service. Since 
entering the Foreign Service in 1962, he has 
been stationed in Saigon and Paris. He 
is presently assigned as an N.I.P.A. fellow 
for 1969-70 at Princeton University. 

Robert J. Myles is a special consultant 
on youth guidance and a team leader 
with Mayorb Special School Task Force, 
New York City. 

Charles S. Switzer is working in 
Chesterfield, Mo., as assistant to the 
president with International Jetstream Corp. 

Kurt Hecht (GS) is a planning con- 
sultant with Harold F. Wise & Associates, 
Washington, D.C. 

^ /I ^ William C. Hetzel, after more than 

^? W six years in the Navy, is associate 
director of the computation center at the 
University of North Carolina and working 
on a Ph.D. in computer and information 
science. He and his wife, Nancy, who is a 
special educational consultant for the 
North Carolina educational computing 
service, would enjoy getting together 
with classmates. Bill's address is Yorktown 
Dr., Chapel Hill, N.C. 

Dr. Vahan Barooshian (GS) has been 
promoted to associate professor of Russian 
at Wells College. 

David H. Katzive, curator of the 
Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, 
111., was one of two jurors for the 14th 
annual art fair in Park Forest, III. He also 
serves as art coordinator and lecturer in 
the fine arts at the University of Chicago. 

Dr. David A. Bailen is a senior resident 
in medicine at University Hospital, Boston. 

Laurence D. Cherkis is an associate with 
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, 230 
Park Ave., New York City. 

Capt. Robert G. Goering has been 
graduated from the Air University's 
Squadron Officer School at Maxwell AFB, 
Ala. He has been reassigned to Malm- 
strom AFB, Montana, as a missile staff 
officer. 

J. David Cummings was released from 
the Army last August and is now a 
stockbroker with W. E. Hutton & Co., 
Cincinnati. 

Clement A. DeLucia, Jr., is at Brown 
as a technical assistant in the psychology 
department. 

Dr. Jonathan H. Fish is an on-the-job 
trainee in radiology at the U.S. Army 
Hospital at Fort Jackson, S.C. 

Charles A. Manaster, II, a management 
consultant, is with Donald R. Booz &. 
Associates, Inc., Chicago. 



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^A, L'oyd R. George has been 
^^ jt commissioned as a Foreign Service 
officer. From 1965-67 he served as a 
Peace Corps volunteer in Turkey and was 
with the U.S. Agency for International 
Development in Vietnam from 1968-69. 

James H. Sutton, a candidate for a 
doctorate at the University of Iowa, has 
been elected executive vice-president of the 
National Student Association. The election 
came at the 22nd annual NBA congress held 
in El Paso, Texas. In his new job, Jim will 
be working to create a student-owned and 
managed cooperative to provide such 
services as housing, books, food, and records. 
He also will be administering foundation 
grants and submitting proposals for funding 
agencies. 

A. Thomas Levin has moved to 145 
Powell Ave., Rockville Centre, N.Y., and has 
also resigned his position as senior 
deputy county attorney in charge of appeals 
in the office of the county attorney of 
Nassau County, N.Y. He has accepted an 
appointment as law secretary to Justice 
Bertram Harnett of the New York Supreme 
Court. 

Alan I. Brenner is a resident in medicine 
at Tufts New England Medical Center, 
Boston. 

Frank M. Cook, an attorney, is with 
McHale, Cook & Welch, Indianapolis, Ind. 

Dr. Gerald G. Naylor is chief of the 
dental department at the UHPHS Outpatient 
Clinic, Cincinnati. 

John Hoover served as guest editor of 
The Sealite, quarterly publication of Sealol, 
Inc., of Rhode Island. John is a sales 
engineer with the firm's Western Division, 
working directly with the nation's 
top aerospace designers and parts 
manufacturers. 

Francis P. DiBella has received his 
Ph.D. degree in biochemistry and is now a 
post-doctoral fellow at the University of 
Pennsylvania. 

Joseph C. Caporossi is supervisor of 
industrial hygiene and safety with 
American Cyanamid Central Research 
Laboratory, Stamford, Conn. 

Dr. Gordon H. Hamilton is medical 
resident in the department of medicine at 
University Hospitals, State University 
of Iowa. 

Bernard J. Kant is serving as stage 
manager of the Broadway show, "Three Men 
on a Horse." He's also production coordi- 
nator and associate producer at Budd Filippo 
Attractions, Inc., New York City. 

Marc C. Raclin is Midwest regional 
representative with Wright Investors 
Service, Bridgeport, Conn. 

Richard W. Whitfield was graduated 
from Duke University School of Medicine 
in January of 1969 and completed his 
internship in pediatrics a year later at 
Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. 
He's currently taking his residency at Baylor. 



Dr. David C. Rollenhagen received 
his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from 
the University of Illinois in October of 
1969 and is associated with General Electric 
Co., Syracuse. 

David C. Chisholm, a systems analyst, 
is with ITT Data Services, Virginia Beach, 
Va. 

James C. Deveney is a teacher and 
coach at Lawrence Academy, Groton, Mass. 

Wesley C. Green, Jr., received his 
M.A. in theology from the University of 
Chicago last June and now is continuing 
work for his Ph.D. 

Ronald W. Mardula is vice-president 
and part owner of Craft Corrugated 
Box, Inc., Fall River, Mass. 

Guy Collin Strong is a third-year 
medical student at Albany Medical College, 
Union University, Albany, N.Y. 

Albert R. Vandam is communications 
manager with State Street Bank & Trust 
Co., Boston. 

'/l tZ James J. Dunda, a graduate of 

V ^ New York University Law School, 
is with Marshall, Bratter, Greene, Allison & 
Tucker, 430 Park Ave., New York City. 

John A. Weber, Jr., was graduated from 
Boston University School of Law last June 
and was admitted to the Massachusetts 
bar in the fall. He has his office at 5 Central 
Square, Stoneham, Mass. 

Stephen P. Lightman, who earned his 
master's degree at Northwestern, is in the 
investment field with Reinholt Gardner in 
Memphis, Tenn. 

Frank G. K. Jones is attending 
graduate school at the University of Keele, 
Keele, England. 

David J. Krafchik is teaching 
mathematics at Nanticoke (Pa.) Area 
High School. 

'/^ /I David Wyler is spending three 

V V months of his elective period at 
Harvard Medical School in Africa, where 
he is studying tropical diseases and 
organization of medical care in Tanzania. 
"Am also helping out the micro-size faculty 
by teaching third-year students. We're 
beginning some research in the immunology 
of so-called "big-spleen syndrome," a 
common but poorly understood sequel to 
malaria." Dave expects to be graduated from 
Harvard Medical in June, after which he 
will start an internship in internal medicine. 

M. Charles Bakst, a reporter for the 
Providence Joiirnal-Btilletin, has won a 
second prize and an honorable mention in 
an annual competition for writing in the 
field of education by the Education Writers 
Association. Charles is a graduate of 
Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. 

Randolph S. Klein is at Wisconsin 
State University as assistant professor 
of history. 

Terrence D. Marr is serving as athletic 
director, teacher, and coach at The 
Winchendon School, Winchendon, Mass. 

Capt. John H. Warton, Jr., U.S. Army, 
is special forces military advisor in Thailand. 

David Dove, Jr., is supervisor of 



accountants payable of the General 
Electric Co., Lynn, Mass. 

Francis W. Bogaczyk is associate 
engineer with IBM in Endicott, N.Y. 

Peter R. Hartogensis finished his active 
duty with the Army Reserves in December, 
the same month in which he passed the 
Maryland bar. He's currently associated 
with the firm of Wheeler, Korpeck, and 
Nadonley of Silver Springs, Md. 

Richard J. Hiller is a staff attorney with 
Queens Legal Service Corp., Long Island 
City, N.Y. He was graduated from Columbia 
Law in June. 

Jon E. Kent, a June graduate of Boston 
University Law School, is associate attorney 
with Davies, Hardy, Loeb, Austin & Ives, 
2 Broadway, New York City. 

Alexander S. Kritzalis, who was 
graduated from the University of Virginia 
Law School last June, is associated with 
Burlingham, Underwood, Wright, White & 
Lord, 25 Broadway, New York City. 

Stuart M. Bumpas, a graduate of Texas 
Law School, is with the Internal Revenue 
Service, Washington, D.C. 

Leonard A. Harrison is a graduate 
student in the Classics Department at the 
University of California at Berkeley. 

Gerald E. Shugrue, a June graduate of 
Georgetown Law, is an attorney with 
the firm of Burwick & Burwick in 
Worcester, Mass. 

C^7 Bruce A, Mcintosh is teaching 
V / graphic design at the Kansas City 
Art Institute. He's also joined with another 
member of the design faculty to form his 
own design studio. The Whiz Kids, 221 
East 39th St., Kansas City, Mo. Bruce has 
had two spreads from a publication he 
designed at Yale accepted for inclusion in 
the 49th annual New York Art Directors 
Club exhibit and publication. 

Alan Scarritt, instructor in drawing, 
sculpture and design at Mercersburg 
Academy, has had a one-man show of 
paintings and drawings. He also studied 
with Bruce Hobbs at the Rhode Island 
School of Design and took advanced 
painting with Robert Bechtle at California 
College of Arts and Crafts on a study 
grant from Mercersburg Academy. 

Pvt. David Q. Hawk, USA, has been 
assigned to the field force near Nha Trang, 
Vietnam, as a clerk typist. 

David S. Mowday is enrolled in Boah 
Hall School of Law at the University of 
California and expects to receive his J.D. 
degree in June, 1970, and his M.C.P. degree 
the following June. He also is working 
part-time in San Francisco for the San 
Francisco Bay Conservation & Development 
Commission, recently set up by the state 
to control filling and to plan regional 
development on the shores of the Bay. 

William D. Baird, Jr., has been 
named a representative in the National 
Division of Chemical Bank, New York 
City. He has responsibility for corporate 
and correspondent bank accounts in 



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Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and the 
District of Columbia. 

Craig R. Humphrey (GS) is at 
William & Mary as assistant professor 
of sociology. 

Dennis E. Murphy (GS) is at Drake 
University as assistant professor of English. 

Z^ Q William D. Gibson is serving with 
V O the Army in Europe, where he is 
the youngest member of the Inspector 
General's team. "My experience as a security 
inspector has enabled me to play a close 
advisory role in the formation of a military 
security regulation applicable to one of 
the Corps units in Germany," he says. 

1st Lt. John A. Bohn was graduated 
from pilot training at Webb Air Force Base 
in December and has returned to the 
Marine Corps to fly A-4 Skyhawks. 

John D. Lyon, who received his M.A. 
from ^ale in June of 1968, is a graduate 
student and leaching assistant in Yale's 
French department. 

David T. Mazanec was commissioned 
a second lieutenant upon graduation from 
Officer Candidate School at the Army 
Artillery and Missile Center, Fort Sill, Okla., 
last month. 

Martin J. Michel is a research assistant 
with the Department of Computer Science 
at the University of Illinois. 

Paul C. Hans is working in the advanced 
planning department of Pratt-Whitney 
Aircraft. "Will be heading back to school 
in the fall to pick up an M.B.A." 

2nd Lt. Christopher Klein, USMC, has 
been assigned to Vietnam as an artillery 
officer. 

Richard E. Brodsky, a second-year 
student at Harvard Law School, worked 
last summer as an investigator for Ralph 
Nader, with six other law students from 
Harvard and University of Pennsylvania. 
They studied the Interstate Commerce 
Commission and have just finished a report 
on the ICC which will be presented to the 
Senate Commerce Committee's Sub- 
committee. This summer he will work for 
a law firm in California and part-time on 
the Tunney for Senate campaign. 

Steven L. Meltzer, after having served 
four months of active duty in the Army, is 
now employed as a law clerk for the firm 
of Steptoe & Johnson in Washington, D.C. 
In September, 1970, he will continue his 
studies at the Harvard Law School. 

Stephen R. Bucklin, III, (GS) is principal 
of the United States Dependents Schools, 
European Area. His address: Vilseck 
Dependents School, APO, N.Y. 09114. 

Donald C. Hood (GS) is assistant 
professor of psychology at Columbia 
University. 

Terence A. Harkin has reported to the 
Aerospace Audio-Visual Center, Norton 
AFB, San Bernardino, Calif., for work as a 
film editor. 

/I rt Paul J. Knueven is a systems 
V 37 programmer for the Digital 
Equipment Corp., Maynard, Mass., a major 



manufacturer of computers and computer- 
related products. 

James Greenfield is attending Columbia 
University in a combined LL.B. and 
M.B.A. program. 

Samuel Rotondi is a first-year law 
student at Suffolk Law School. 

Dr. L. C. Upadhyayula is a member of 
the technical staff in the microwave 
research laboratory at RCA, David Sarnoff 
Research Center, Princeton 

Dr. Thomas J. Mathieu is serving with 
the Air Force in Mountain Hope, Idaho. 

Stephen D. Ress is a law student at 
the University of Florida. 

John H. Isom is attending the College 
of Law at the University of Illinois. His 
wife, Harriet, is in the microbiology 
graduate school. 

Frederick A. George is vice-president 
with G&L Cone Co., Sharpsville, Pa. The 
firm manufactures ice cream cones. 



Marriages 



1908 — Norman L. Sammis and Mrs. 
Ellen M. Huling of Cranston, R.I., Sept. 27. 

1935 — Russell M. Brown and Eunice 
Flink Riner P'38, on Dec. 31. 

1957 — George A. Pliakas and Georgia 
P. Kasemeotes, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Paul N. Kasemeotes of Springfield, 
Mass., Aug. 31. At home: lllD North 
Broadway, Rumford, R.I. 

1962 — James A. Foote and Angela S. 
Pozzi, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Angelo J. 
Pozzi of Bristol, R.I., Feb. 28. 

1962— Phillips S. Davis and Laurel A. 
Yeo, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert 
H. Yeo of Reading, Mass., Feb. 14. 

1965 — Donald G. Rising and Gloria M. 
Serra, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nerino P. 
Serra of Springfield, Mass., Jan. 31. 

1966 — David Dove, Jr., and Mona 
Drummond, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
William J. Drummond of Jensen Beach, Fla., 
Feb. 15. At home: 73 No. Central St., 
Apt. 4, Peabody, Mass. 

1966— Lt. (j.g.) Paul Eisenhardt, USN, 
and Kathleen M. Kennedy P'69, daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. William J. L. Kennedy of 
Winchester, Mass., Dec. 28. 

1966— Lt. Daniel C. Sullivan, USNR, 
and Cathy E. Tracewell, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Gordon B. Tracewell of Parkers- 
burg, West Va., Dec. 27. Louis Strong 
'66 and Louis Vito '66 were ushers. At 
home: Apt. 63, UVM, Ethan Allen Ave., 
Winooski, Vt. 

1968GS — Stephen Bancroft and Claire 
F. Eccleston, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Donald J. Eccleston of Ridgefield, Conn., 
Jan. 24. 

1968 — George W. Berko and Susan 
K. Grouse, Nov. 22. 

1968 — Ralph A. Harris and Sharon 
Jamieson P'68, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
George R. Jamieson of Oak Ridge, Tenn., 
June 3. At home: 159 Elsinore St., Apt. 4, 
Concord, Mass. 

1968— 2/Lt. Christopher Klein, USMC, 
and Judith Perley on Dec. 31. 



1968— Patrick Migliore and Helena 
Robertson P'68, daughter of Col. and Mrs. 
Edward H. Robertson of Alexandria, Va., 
Apr. 12, 1969. At home: 325 W. 5th St., Apt. 
226, Mesa, Ariz. 

1968 — Joseph J. Serritella and An- 
toinette Ralbousky P'68, daughter of Dr. 
and Mrs. William Ralbousky of Johnstown, 
N.Y., Nov. 15. 

1968— Thor F. Wilcox and Marjorie P. 
Cummings, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Benton P. Cummings of Newton, N.J., 
Jan. 31. 

1968— Robert D. Woodcock and 
Jeanne Vernier, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Edward Vernier of Woodstock, Conn., 
Aug. 31, 1968. At home: 60 Niles St., 
Hartford, Conn. 

1969— Bobby W. Clark and Grace E. 
Coffey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry 
Coffey of Holden, Mass., Feb. 7. Marc 
Snyder '70 was best man, and William J. 
Patch '69 and Bernard Plovnick '69 were 
ushers. At home: 25 Stone Ave., Somerville, 
Mass. 

1969 — John H. Isom and Harriet F. 
Coblentz in Haddonfield, N.J., Jan. 24. At 
home: 2081-D Orchard St., Urbana, 111. 

1969 — Ensign Thomas G. McKlveen, 
USCG, and Jean L. Mountain, of Des 
Moines, la., Jan. 31. At home: 639 Dunedin 
Rd., Apt. H, Portsmouth, Va. 

1969 — Robert J. Potrzeba and Margot L. 
Freinberg P'70, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. 
Norman Freinberg of Valatie, N.Y., Jan. 27, 
1968. 

1969— Frank M. Ward, III, and Andd 
Becker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward G. 
Becker of Worcester, Mass., Feb. 14. 



Births 

1949— To Mr. and Mrs. Harold B. 
Bernstein of Cincinnati, O., their second 
child and second daughter, Alison Edith, 
Jan. 16. 

1954 — To Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. 
Burdick, Jr., of Gibsonia, Pa., their second 
child and first daughter, Jennifer Leigh, 
June 29. 

1954— To Dr. and Mrs. William R. 
Goff of Branford, Conn., their third child 
and second son, Timothy Charles, Aug. 23. 

1959— To Lcdr. Richard D. Haskell, 
USN, and Mrs. Haskell of Monterey, Calif., 
a son. Marc Alfred, Oct. 23. 

1961 — To Mr. and Mrs. David Rocha 
of New Bedford, Mass., a son, Sean 
David, May, 1969. 

1962 — To Mr, and Mrs. G. Sanford 
Gladding of Bel Air, Md., their second child 
and first daughter, Jennifer Lynn, Oct. 16. 

1962— To Mr. and Mrs. David B. 
Kauffman of Bala-Cynwyd, Pa., their first 
child, a daughter, Debra Ruth, July 12. 

1963GS— To Dr. and Mrs. J. Nathan 
Gayles, Jr., of Atlanta, Ga., a daughter, 
Monica Saliyeka, Oct. 2. 

1963— To Mr. and Mrs. David B. Gubits 
of Walden, N.Y., their second son, Daniel 
Benjamin, June 7. 

1963— To Mr. and Mrs. William J. 
Zisson of Scarsdale, N.Y., a son, Henry 
Alexander, June 1. 



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1964 — To Mr. and Mrs. Timothy D. 
Jaroch of Newton, Mass., their first child, 
a son, Christopher Devin, Feb. 9. 

1964— To Dr. and Mrs. David C. 
Rollenhagen of Syracuse, N.Y., their first 
child, a son, David Devereux, Jan. 6. 
Maternal grandfather is Robert D. Eddy '35. 
Mrs. Rollenhagen is the former Deborah 
Eddy P'64. 

1964— To Dr. and Mrs. Richard W. 
Whitfield of Houston, Tex., their first child, 
a son, Richard Wriston, Jr., May 2. 

1966 — To Mr. and Mrs. Peter F. Keating 
of Yonkers, N.Y., a daughter, Coryn de 
Cou, Dec. 14. 

1966 — To Mr. and Mrs. Gerald E. 
Shugrue of Whitinsville, Mass., their first 
child, a son, Brendhan Scott, Nov. 10. 

1967 — To Mr. and Mrs. Dennis M. 
Tracey of Providence, their first child, a son, 
Shawn, Sept. 6. 



Deaths 

DR. JUSTIN HOMER BACON '96, A.M. '97 
in Kalamazoo, Mich., Feb. 2. He retired in 
1944, as professor emeritus of French after 
37 years of teaching at Kalamazoo College. 
The lifelong educator was the college's 
oldest emeritus faculty member, and he was 
its first and only registrar until his retire- 
ment. During the college's centennial 
celebration of 1933, he was awarded an 
honorary degree of Litl.D. In addition 
to teaching modern languages and serving 
as registrar. Dr. Bacon was secretary of 
the faculty for many years. He helped to 
develop the college's athletic program 
and served from 1911 to 1931 as a represen- 
tative to the Michigan Intercollegiate 
Athletic Association. He formerly had been 
a teacher of French and German at Brown, 
the Franklin School in Cincinnati, and Ver- 
mont Academy in Saxton's River, Vt. He 
was a member of Alliance Francaise. Phi 
Beta Kappa. His daughter is Miss Marjorie 
L. Bacon, 241 North Harrison, Apt. 202, 
East Lansing, Mich. 

DR. HARRIS ELWOOD STARR '97 
in New London, Conn., Jan. 29. He was 
assistant editor of the Dictionary of Ameri- 
can Biography from 1926 to 1936 and its 
editor and director from 1936 to 1954. He 
received an A.M. degree from Harvard 
University in 1899 and B.D. and Ph.D. 
degrees from Yale University in 1910 and 
1922 respectively. Dr. Starr also received 
an honorary Litt.D. degree from Brown in 
1937. During World War I, he was ap- 
pointed a YMCA secretary and thereafter 
was a chaplain in the U.S. Army. Following 
the war. Dr. Starr was promoted to the 
rank of major in the U.S. Officers Reserve 
Corps and in the Connecticut National 
Guard. He was editor-in-chief of Army 
Chaplain, the official magazine of the Chap- 
lain Association from 1929 to 1934, and 
was the author of more than 300 articles in 



the Dictionary of American Biography. 
Ordained to the congregational ministry in 
1902, he served pastorates in Congregational 
churches in Storrs and Mount Carmel, 
Conn., and the Pilgrim Congregational 
church in New Haven. He was a member 
of the National Council of Associated 
Churches from 1918 to 1922, a trustee of the 
Congregational Church Fund for Ministers 
from 1918 to 1926 and a long-time member 
of the New Haven Colonial Historical 
Society, serving as its president several 
times. Dr. Starr also was a member of 
Sons of the American Revolution and of the 
Founders and Patriots of America. Delta 
Upsilon. Phi Beta Kappa. His niece is Mrs. 
John Gadbois, 22 Black Point Rd., 
Niantic, Conn. 

CHESTER CARR GREENE '05 
in Warwick, R.I., Feb. 17. After graduation 
from Brown, he joined the Gorham 
Manufacturing Company, Providence 
manufacturers of silverware and bronze 
goods, where he worked for 48 years, 
retiring in 1953 as its purchasing agent. He 
was vice-president of his class. His widow 
is Sarah T. Greene, 32 Parkside Dr., 
Providence. 

BENSON RALPH FROST '08 
in Rhinebeck, N.Y., Jan. 27. An attorney, 
he was a partner in the law firm of Frost & 
Frost in Rhinebeck. He received LL.B. 
and A.M. degrees from Columbia University 
in 1914, and he was admitted to practice 
in New York State in 1916 and to the U.S. 
District Courts in 1918. For many years 
Mr. Frost had maintained offices at Rhine- 
beck, Red Hook, and Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 
During World War I, he served as a draft 
board appeal agent. Mr. Frost was widely 
known for his civic interests and was a past 
president of the Dutchess County Fair, 
which he helped to bring to Rhinebeck in 
1919. He also was a past president of 
the Northern Dutchess Hospital, which he 
served from the early 1920's, the Dutchess 
County Council of Boy Scouts of which he 
was a charter member, and of the Dutchess 
County and New York State bar associations. 
He was a director of the First National 
Bank of Rhinebeck and for a short period 
served as its president. He also served 
for 40 years as a member of the board of 
trustees of the Rhinebeck Savings Bank. 
He was attorney for both banks and of 
many of the organizations to which he 
belonged and at one time served as attorney 
for the town and village of Rhinebeck 
and for the Rhinebeck Central School Dis- 
trict. Mr. Frost had been president of the 
Class of 1908 since college. Phi Delta Theta. 
His son is Benson R. Frost, Jr., '41, 21 
Chestnut St., Rhinebeck. 

LEWIS ARNOLD EADIE '09 
in Elsmere, Del., Feb. 10. He retired in 1952 
as personnel director for Federal Electric 
Products Co. of Hartford, Conn. A graduate 
of Amherst College in 1910, he also had 
been general credit manager of the Certain- 
teed Products Corporation in New York, 



and personnel director of the Holo Krome 
Screw Company and for the Sinourney 
Tool Co., both in Hartford. During World 
War I, he served as chief yeoman with 
the U.S. Navy. His half-brother is Douglas 
D. Eadie, Martha Dr., Valley Park, Mo. 

STEPHEN DAVID PADDOCK '10 
in Providence, R.I., Feb. 11. He was a 
longtime attorney in Providence. He re- 
ceived an LL.B. degree from Harvard Law 
School in 1913, and was admitted to the 
Rhode Island Bar the same year. Mr. 
Paddock joined the law firm of Greenough, 
Easton & Cross in Providence until he 
opened his own law firm two years later. 
During World War I, he served with the 
intelligence department of the U.S. Navy. 
Following the war, Mr. Paddock returned 
to law practice, sharing offices with the late 
U.S. Senator Felix Hebert and the late 
Ralph Barnefield. He then became active in 
politics, serving as a Republican member 
of the First Ward committee in Providence, 
the GOP city committee and, at one time, 
he was clerk of the Senate judiciary commit- 
tee. He was a member and former secretary 
of the Rhode Island Society of Mayflower 
Descendants, honorary life member of the 
Rhode Island Bar Association, Sons oi 
the American Revolution, and Businessmen's 
Post, American Legion, of Providence. 
Phi Beta Kappa. He is survived by several 
nieces and nephews. 

THE REV. HERMAN LLOYD NOYES '19, 
A.M. '29 

in Penney Farms, Fla., Jan. 25. He resigned 
in 1964 as pastor of First-Calvary Baptist 
Church in Vineyard Haven, Mass. The Rev. 
Mr. Noyes received his A.B. degree from 
William Jewell College in 1922 and attended 
Newton Theological School for a year. 
During World War I, he served with the U.S. 
Navy, and from 1943 to 1944 he was 
president of the Western Maine Brown Club. 
He served pastorates in Rhode Island, 
Maine, Massachusetts and Connecticut, and 
was active in denominational and inter- 
denominational and community affairs 
throughout his ministry. He was a trustee of 
the Lawrence (Mass.) Home for Aged 
People, a past president of the Greater 
Lawrence Minister's Association, former 
chaplain of the Institute of Denominational 
Young Adult Camp at Block Island, R.I., 
and a devotional leader for statewide Baptist 
youth groups. At Penney Farms, the Rev. 
Mr. Noyes served as president of the Me- 
morial Home Community and moderator 
of the Penney Memorial Community Church. 
Lambda Chi Alpha. His son is Lloyd L. 
Noyes '45, and his widow is S. Esther H. 
Noyes, Memorial Home Community, 
P.O. Box 513, Penney Farms. 

EARLE LINWOOD SWIFT '19 
in Boston, Mass., Feb. 4. He was retired 
as New England sales manager of Reming- 
ton Rand division of Sperry Rand Corp., 
Boston. A graduate of Boston University, he 
had retired to Venice, Fla., where he was 
active in community and philanthropic 
projects. At the time of his death, he was 
first vice-president of Happiness House, 



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an organization serving crippled children 
and adults. He was also a director of 
Gulf Gate National Bank, Venice Hospital, 
and a former city councillor of the City 
of Attleboro, Mass. Delta Kappa Epsilon. 
His widow is Louise C. Swift, 425 Bayshore 
Dr., Venice. 

DANIEL BOYLE MURPHY '21 
in Albany, N.Y., Nov. 24, He was business 
manager of the Albany Institute of History 
and Art in Albany, N.Y. After graduation, 
he taught in two high schools in New York 
City until he joined the Packard Motors 
Export Corporation. During World War I, he 
served with the ROTC at Brown and 
during World War II he was a machine gun 
trainer with the U.S. Army. He previously 
had been an insurance underwriter for 
Connecticut General Life Insurance Com- 
pany in Schenectady, N.Y., where he 
remained until he suffered a heart attack 
in 1956. Mr. Murphy then resigned to 
become business manager of the Albany 
Institute of History and Art. Delta Upsilon. 
His brother is Robert C. Murphy '11, and 
his widow is Leah M. Murphy, 444 Kenwood 
Ave., Delmar, N.Y. 

JOHN BOWMAN DICK '22 
in Boynton Beach, Fla., Feb. 17. He retired 
in 1965 as technical and research director of 
the Pond Lily Co. in New Haven, Conn., 
textile finishers. He previously was super- 
intendent of the Norwich, Conn., branch 
of the U.S. Finishing Co. He was the author 
of The Utility of Chromium Plating in 
Calico Printing, published in American 
Dyestiiff Reporter, a trade magazine of 
the American Association of Textile 
Chemists and Colorists. For many years he 
was an active member of the American 
Chemical Society and the American Asso- 
ciation of Textile Chemists and Colorists. 
Phi Gamma Delta. His widow is Natalie C. 
Dick, 102 N. W. 7th St., Delray Beach, Fla. 

HARRY ORRIN KENT '22 
in South Bend, Ind., Feb. 5. His widow 
is Ann C. Kent, 3728 Woldhaven Dr., 
South Bend. 

ARTHUR JOHN PHELAN '22 
in Georgetown, D.C., Jan. 23. He retired 
in 1965 as a partner in the law firm of 
Hogan and Hartson. During World War I, 
he served with the U.S. Navy. Mr. Phelan 
received an LL.B. degree from the George- 
town University Law School in 1925, and 
joined the firm of Hogan and Hartson. In 
1938, he was named a full partner. He was 
a former president of the Montgomery 
County, Md., Community Chest and a 
trustee of the Mount Vernon Seminary and 
the Boys' Club of Washington, D.C. He 
also was an advisor to the American School 
in Lugano, Switzerland, and a member of 
the Metropolitan, Barristers, and the 
Lawyers clubs. Phi Kappa. His widow is 
Elton T. Phelan, 6300 Brookville Rd., 
Chevy Chase, Md. 



Spike Staff: Even at 77, there 
was a feeling of physical power 



For the better part of 55 years. Dr. 
Edgar ]. "Spike" Staff '15 had stayed close 
to his Alma Mater, attending numerous 
events on College Hill, athletic, academic, 
and social. During Alumni Council 
Week-End in February, he stopped at 
Alumni House for a chat, but also to rest 
before heading home. He admitted to being 
"a bit under the weather." 

Two weeks later, on Feb. 14, Spike 
Staff suffered a heart attack at his home 
and died at Roger Willianis Hospital. The 
77-year-old bacteriologist headed the health 
department laboratories in Rhode Island for 
28 years and was a guard on the 1915 Brown 
team that met Washington State in the first 
annual Rose Bowl game. 

It seemed a gross misnomer for Dr. 
Staff to bear the nickname of "Spike," a 
carry-over from his gridiron days at Brown. 
Certainly, for the rest of his life, his 
softspoken dignified manner belied any such 
appellation. Yet, at age 77, he still gave the 
impression of physical power. 

During his collegiate career. Spike 
played against some of the top players of 
the era, including the fabulous Jim Thorpe 
of Carlisle. 

"Jim was a wonder," Dr. Staff recalled 
at a football luncheon last fall. "One day 
I saw him punt the ball 82 yards in the rain, 
and in the same game he carried a tackier 
nearly 40 yards on his back. There was no 
stopping him." 

Spike's football career extended beyond 
college. He played for the Providence 
Steamrollers for 10 years and became the 
team's first captain. His longest run for a 
touchdown was 70 yards after recovering a 
fumble against the New York Giants in 
1924. That was near the end of his playing 
career, and Spike sometimes would grin and 
say that this long jaunt ivas the play that 
brought his career to a close. 

From 1920 to 1933, Spike served as 
coach at Broivn, ivorking under Coach 
Edward North Robinson and then Tuss 
McLaughry. Three of Brown's finest teams 
were produced during those years, the 
undefeated Iron Men of 1926 and the 
powerful elevens of 1928 and 1932. Spike 
also did some scouting at Providence 
College for Coach foe McGee, an old 
Steamroller teammate. 

During his senior season at Brown, 
Spike worked as an assistant bacteriologist 
for the City of Providence. After graduation, 
he worked as a bacteriologist for the city's 
milk department before he entered the 
service in 1917. 

Lt. (j.g.) Staff worked at base hospitals 
in Ireland and Scotland and on the side did 
some machinegxtnning from a destroyer 
that escorted minesweepers. Upon his 
return, he became director of the Chapin 
Hospital laboratory in 1920 and took charge 



of the private Burgess-Potter laboratory 
four years later. 

In 1928, he began work in the state 
health department laboratory, where he was 
to continue for a quarter of a century. He 
became chief of the state health department 
laboratory in 1936 and served in that 
position until his retirement in 1964. Spike 
received his master's from Brown in 1916 
and a doctorate from MIT in 1944. 

While serving as a lieutenant colonel 
during World War /!, Dr. Staff received the 
Army Commendation Ribbon for service 
as chief of laboratory at Camp Edwards, 
Mass., and later as commanding officer of 
the First Service Command laboratories at 
Jamaica Plain, Mass. 

When Spike retired in 1965, Journal- 
Bulletin cartoonist Frank Lanning pictured 
liim sitting contentedly in a rowboat and 
wrote: "It won't be long now before Spike 
will have to straighten out the tackle box 
and refurbish his lures in preparation for 
some freshwater fishing. Ever popular and 
sociable, he has a million stories. He 
brightens his corner just by being there." 
His retirement also gave Spike more 
time for his many organizations, a list which 
included Brown Club, Brown Navy Club, 
Brown Football Association, Providence 
Gridiron Club, Class of 1915 (vice- 
president), American Public Health 
Association, the MIT Association of Rhode 
Island (past president), and the American 
Society of Microbiologists. His fraternity 
was Theta Delta Chi. 

Spike was born in Brockton, Mass., 
March 13, 1892. He had lived at 18 Williams 
St., Cranston. His wife, the former Edith 
Farnum Staff, died in 1959. 

Dr. Staff is survived by a son, Edgar 
E. Staff '53 of Cranston: a daughter, Mrs. 
Harold E. Miller P'46 of East Greenwich; a 
brother Arthur Staff '11 of Brockton, and 
two grandchildren. 

Dr. Staff headed the state's health lab- 
oratories for 28 years. 



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DR. ANGELO GEORGE VALENTINO '22 
in Providence, R.I., Feb. 9. He was a 
practicing physician in Providence for 41 
years. During World War I, he served 
with the S.A.T.C. program at Brown. He 
received his M.D. degree from Harvard 
Medical School in 1926 and interned at St. 
Vincent's, Bellevue, and The Foundling 
Hospitals, all in New York City. In 1929 he 
began a private practice in pediatrics. 
Dr. Valentino was on the staff of Chapin 
Hospital and was examining physician 
for the Providence schools for 34 years. He 
also was active in Boy Scout work and was 
examining physician for many troops in the 
Providence-Cranston area. Dr. Valentino 
was a member of the Rhode Island and 
Providence Medical Societies. His widow is 
Hilda C. Valentino, 56 Ralls Dr., Cranston. 

OSCAR HAROLD ENGSTROM '23 
in New Rochelle, N.Y., Feb. 10. A retired 
management consultant, he entered the 
industrial engineering field and was one of 
the earliest to develop synthetic production 
standards. He also attended Trinity College 
and Long Island College of Medicine, 
and he taught industrial engineering at 
Columbia University and management 
at New York University. Mr. Engstrom 
worked for the Bendix Aviation Corpo- 
ration, American Home Products, Sylvania 
Electric Products, Inc., and the Sonotone 
Corporation as a chief engineer or plant 
manager before setting up his own consult- 
ing firm, Engstrom Associates, about eight 
years ago. He also did arbitration work for 
the American Arbitration Association. 
Mr. Engstrom was a past president of the 
Baltimore chapter of the Society for the 
Advancement of Management and was the 
recipient of the Gilbreth Medal awarded 
by the Society for his achievements in his 
field. Sigma Nu. His widow is Cecilia W. 
Engstrom, 105 Iden Ave., Pelham, N.Y. 

JOHAN ROBERT BERGH '26 
in New Canaan, Conn., June 4. He retired 
in 1968 as instructor in English, Latin and 
drama at the New Canaan Country School 
after more than 24 years. He received his 
A.M. degree from Harvard University in 
1930, and he served from 1930 to 1934 as an 
instructor of German and Swedish at 
Brown University. He also had done 
extensive study in languages at Columbia 
and the universities of Berlin and 
Gothenburg. At one time he was an assist- 
ant headmaster and an instructor in 
English, Latin and dramatics at St. Dun- 
stan's School in Providence. In 1969, he 
served as an instructor for a back-to-college 
course held at the University of Connecti- 
cut, teaching study and exercise in language 
usage, writing, research techniques, and 
reading comprehension. Before coming to 



New Canaan, he had had a wide variety 
of teaching experience as well as work in 
dramatics and the dance and extensive 
travels. Delta Tau Delta. Phi Beta Kappa. 
His widow, Kaja E. M. G. Bergh survives. 

ARNOLD KAYWOOD BROWN '27 
in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Feb. 11. At the 
time of his death, he was an official with 
Newth Properties, Inc., of Pompano Beach, 
Fla. He was a former executive with the 
Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Co. and the 
American Machine and Foundry Co. Mr. 
Brown joined Brown & Sharpe after 
graduation and was on the sales force of 
the Chicago office from 1929 to 1932. 
He worked on various assignments in the 
company's Providence works for five years. 
In 1937, he was placed in charge of the 
New York office and in 1938 he returned to 
Providence as manager of the small tool 
and gauge division. Mr. Brown was named 
secretary of the firm in 1941, a director 
in 1942, and vice-president and director of 
all subsidiaries a year later. In 1951, he 
ioined American Machine and Foundry as 
its executive vice-president and a director, 
remaining with the firm until 1955 when 
he became associated with Newth Properties. 
Mr. Brown was a former member of the 
National Industrial Conference Board, a 
director of the Greater Providence YMCA, 
Providence Chamber of Commerce, and the 
Rhode Island Hospital Trust Co. He also 
was an associate member of the American 
Society of Mechanical Engineers. Delta 
Upsilon. His son is Arnold K. Brown, Jr., 
79 Middle Highway, Barrington, R.I. 

FREDERIC RUNDIO STEWART '27 
in Largo, Fla., Jan. 10. For the past nine 
years he had been a St. Petersburg, Fla., 
representative for Bache & Company, Inc., 
stockbrokers and members of the New 
York Stock Exchange. He formerly was a 
bond salesman for Estabrook & Company 
and Kean Taylor & Co., both concerns in 
New York. Mr. Stewart was a direct de- 
scendant of Lt. Samuel Stewart, Aide- 
de-Camp for General George Washington at 
Valley Forge, and he was a member of 
the Sunshine City Kiwanis Club, St. 
Petersburg. Psi Upsilon. His son is Paul R. 
Stewart, 69 Chestnut Ave., Closter, N.J. 

ARTHUR GRAY ADAMS '29 
in Paramus, N.J., Jan. 29. He was in the 
electrical industry and operated his own 
electrical manufacturers representative 
agency for many years. At one time he had 
been a district representative for Sylvania 
Electric Products, Inc., and Greist Manu- 
facturing Co. While at Brown, he was 
one of the founders of the Lambda Chi 
Alpha chapter and editor-in-chief of the 
1928 Liber. He was a member of the 
Illuminating Engineering Society. Lambda 
Chi Alpha. His son is Arthur G. Adams, 
Jr., '57, and his widow is Josephine J. Adams, 
116 Deerfield Ter., Mahwah, Ramsey 
R.D., N.J. 

HILLES MEEKER BEDELL '37 
in Pasadena, Calif., Jan. 21. He was presi- 
dent of the Home Laundry and Dry 



Cleaning Company, which his father 
established. He also was a former member 
of the Pasadena Board of City Directors, 
and, in 1964, was president of the Tourna- 
ment of Roses. He joined the Tournament 
of Roses Association in the early 1940's and 
worked up through the committees to 
become president during its diamond 
jubilee year. Mr. Bedell attended the 
American Institute of Laundry in Joliet, 
111., and was a past president of the 
American Institute of Laundry, a member 
of the National Institute of Dry Cleaners, 
and he was a past director of the California 
State Launderers Association. He was 
involved in numerous civic activities includ- 
ing working with the South Pasadena 
Redevelopment Agency and service as a 
director of the Huntington Memorial 
Hospital Clinic Auxiliary and the Salvation 
Army. Alpha Delta Phi. His widow is 
Dorothy W. Bedell, 660 S. Orange Grove 
Blvd., Pasadena. 

ANGELO MURCHELANO A.M. '37 
in North Providence, R.I., Feb. 22. He had 
been a Latin teacher at Classical High 
School for the last 35 years. He received his 
A.B. degree from. Providence College in 
1929 and started his teaching career in 1932 
at the Nathanael Greene Junior High 
School. He had taught Latin since 1936. His 
son is Robert Murchelano '55, and his 
widow is lole L. Murchelano, 1225 Charles 
St., North Providence. 

LT. COL. NORMAN DRAVO 
McCUTCHEON, JR., USAF, '41 
in Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 4, 1969. Before World 
War II, he worked as a candy salesman 
for the New England Confectionery Sugar 
Company in Cambridge, Mass. Delta 
Kappa Epsilon. His widow is Dorothy B. 
McCutcheon, and his mother is Mrs. 
Norman D. McCutcheon, 29 Gammons Rd., 
Waban, Mass. 

WILLIAM THOMAS OVERTON '50 
in North Dallas, Tex., Feb. 4, when he and 
his wife were found shot to death in their 
apartment. He was president and director 
of the Dallas, Texas Corp., the owner 
and developer of One Main Place. He had 
been in the real estate and development 
business in Dallas since 1950. In 1964, Mr. 
Overton and another business man formed 
the Addison Airport Corp., the nation's 
largest privately owned and operated air- 
port. He was a member of the Dallas 
Citizens Council, the Greater Dallas Plan- 
ning Council, the Dallas Assembly, and 
the Dallas Chamber of Commerce's con- 
vention committee. Mr. Overton was 
often hailed as one of the youthful leaders 
of a dynamic team of men widely 
experienced in real estate development and 
downtown planning. Besides his connec- 
tions with the Dallas, Texas Corporation, 
Mr. Overton was president and director 
of W. W. Overton & Co., Inc., the Down- 
town Investment Company and was a 
director of the Texas Bank & Trust Co. His 
father is William W. Overton, Jr., 4830 
Cedar Springs, Dallas. 



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On Stage: 

Black Arts Festival: Better as it went along 



Listening to people talk about what happened at the third 
Black Arts Festival is like hearing the proverbial blind men 
describing an elephant. Depending on who's talking and which 
of the four days of events he caught, the festival was political, 
apolitical, radical, moderate, organized, disorganized, and a 
host of other contradictory adjectives. The one thing that most 
of the steady audience agreed on : the weekend got better 
as it went along. 

The Thursday night that the festival opened, it looked like 
Murphy's Law — anything that can go wrong, will — was 
operating with a vengeance. Jeff Donaldson, who was to have 
lectured on black art Thursday afternoon, couldn't come at 
the last minute and neither could LeRoi Jones, scheduled 
for Thursday night. 

Poet Sonya Sanchez was to speak in Jones' place, but her 
plane was late and at 9:30, an hour-and-a-half after the 
program was supposed to have started, she still hadn't arrived. 
The crowd was patient and cheerful, and many wandered over 
to the Gate for ice cream cones while they waited. But with 
so many organizational problems, Afro-American Society 
President and Festival Chairman Monte Bailey was feeling 
harassed. He was going on one hour's sleep, he said, and there 
had been no time to change into a coat and tie as he had 
intended. 

At 9:40 p.m. Sonya Sanchez arrived and read her poetry 
for 45 minutes. She is an accomplished dramatic reader and 
the crowd's response was enthusiastic. Many of her poems 
were about black martyrs. One to Malcolm X, one to an unborn 
Malcolm. Most were to people with unfamiliar names — black 
men whose deaths had been unremarked in the Times. There 
were plenty of loaded words in the poems — crackers, honkies, 
and others not printable here — but that was not unexpected, 
and Miss Sanchez is a poet. She was reading poetry, not leaflet 
rhetoric with pauses in odd places. And poetry, one learns in 
school, allows for metaphor, exaggeration and poetic license. 

After Miss Sanchez finished reading, Bailey introduced 
a speaker who had been added to the program at the last 
minute, Willy Ricks from SNCC. Rick's message was simple: 
retribution. Variations on the theme demanded an eye-for-an- 
eye and a tooth-for-a-tooth. Eventually his attention turned to 
the white people in the audience. "I was hoping and praying," 
he said, "that I wouldn't see a white person in this room." 
Ricks noticed aloud that several whites in the audience were 
taking notes. Writing about the festival, he said, was just 
another way of exploiting black people. 

Apparently several audience members agreed, and two 
attempts were made to tear up white reporters' notebooks. One 
set of notes actually was torn up. The gesture was more 
theatrical than effective, since, with Ricks saying things like, 
"How can you sit here with these crackers in this room?" 
one didn't need to write it down to remember it. 

Later Monte Bailey characterized Ricks' talk as "entirely 



out of context with the rest of the festival." Ricks, he said, was 
supposed to have given a commemoration of the Sharpesville 
massacre in South Africa. As it happened, Sharpesville was 
never mentioned and the atmosphere, Bailey said, was more 
like a Saturday matinee than a political speech. "I don't 
condone that sort of corny emotionalism at all," he added. 

The rhetorical level of the rest of the festival was notice- 
ably lower. Friday afternoon Cannonball Adderley and his 
quintet gave a lecture and demonstration of black music at 
Sayles Hall. Adderley answered questions from the floor and 
played different styles of music on request. The audience was 
responsive, but there was no getting around the fact that Sayles 
Hall was not the ideal place to hold a jam session. After it was 
over, Adderley's manager said the group would have played 
an hour longer, but in that environment, they couldn't really 
get anything going. 

Valerie Grey Ward followed Adderley with a rousing 
audience-participation poetry recital. She walked on stage in a 
flowing African robe and singing an African chant. The 
crowd was immediately catalyzed around her. Several students 
— black and white — called her performance the high point of 
the weekend. Says Bailey: "She made the black people in 
the audience, whether they were Wellesley students or residents 
of South Providence, realize that they had a common back- 
ground, a common experience. She asked how many people 
knew the spiritual 'Take my Hand, Precious Lord.' Everyone 
said yes and started singing. It was really a warm feeling to 
know that this is something we all shared." 

Other high spots of the festival were talks by Dick 
Gregory and James Forman, a talk and poetry reading by Don 
Lee and a concert of black spirituals. 

Gregory gave his usual incisive performance covering 
topics from the black revolution to women's liberation to the 
Chicago conspiracy trial. Referring to the way the trial was 
conducted, he said, "If this could happen with the world press 
watching, can you imagine what's happening in other court- 
rooms where no one is watching?" 

James Forman made a systematic presentation, historically 
tracing the political, economic and cultural oppression that 
black people are under. He said events like the black arts 
festival would become meaningless exercises in rhetoric unless 
those present followed up the words with action. Forman's 
speech had an academic tone, "Like something you might hear 
in a lecture hall at Brown," one audience member said. 

It varied during the course of the weekend, but for most of 
the events, the audience was predominately black and 
included many people from the Providence community and 
other colleges in the vicinity. According to Monte Bailey, the 
festival was successful in affirming the worth of black culture 
for the black community, but "the concept of the festival as a 
way to educate whites will have to be reexamined, since not 
many white people came." A.B. 



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Brown-Pembroke 

Commencement Pops Concert 

Saturday, May 30, 1970 




Gordon MacRae, nationally-known vocalist, will be featured at the 6th 
annual Commencement Pops Concert, one of the University's most attrac- 
tive social events. Sponsored by the Brown Club of Rhode Island and the 
Pembroke College Club of Providence, the Pops will also feature the Rhode 
Island Philharmonic Orchestra, Francis Madeira conductor. 

Tickets are $6 per person or $60 for a table of 10. Patron subscriptions, 
which sell for flOO, include 10 tickets and a table in a preferred location. 
Checks should be made payable to Brown Club of Rhode Island and mailed 
to Commencement Pops Concert, Pembroke Alumnae Office, Pembroke 
College, 185 Meeting St., Providence, R.I. Tickets may also be purchased at 
the Pembroke Alumnae Office.