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Alumni Monthly October 1970 




Brown 



Brown Alumni Monthlv October 1P70, Vol. 71, No. 1 



In this issue 




Seven years with Tom Sawyer 

12 In 1962, Brown began a study to determine if new bases 
could be developed for making "risk" decisions in 
admissions. That study is completed, and former Admission 
Director Charles H. Doebler writes about some of its 
surprising developments. 

Haffenreffer Museum 

18 The trouble with most museums is that children get 
glassy-eyed from looking through showcases, say those 
who are guiding Brown's Haffenreffer Museum, where 
thousands of children now visit. 

Community organizing 

24 Agitation of a kind that pours salt in the wound, is the 
basis for new community action programs developing in the 
nation. Three Brown students talk about their travels in 
organizing block clubs in Providence. 

Fritz 

30 The memories now are happy ones, but Bruin All-American 
Fritz Pollard '19, one of the first blacks to play college 
football, seems glad things aren't what they used to be 
when he came to Brown. 



Departments 

2 Under the Elms 
10 Letters 
34 Brown Books 



36 Sports scene 

43 Brown Clubs 

44 Class notes 




64 On Stage 



(Cover: Michael Boyer's early morning photograph of the 
Haffenreffer tract on Mt. Hope Bay is tranquil, but there arc 
rustlings at the Brown Museum there. See Page 18.) 



Editor 

Robert A. Reichley 

Associate Editor 

lohn 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 '50 
I. J. Kapstein '26 
Stuart C. Sherman '39 
Richard J. Tracy '46 



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Under the Elms 



By the Editors 



Neutrality — not the big 
issues but subtle ones 

Neutrality, tiiat elusive virtue univer- 
sities say they must keep and skeptics say 
they never had, may become an even greater 
issue on the campus in the months ahead. 

What is developing is a greater 
awareness on the part of diverse groups 
that university neutrality may be lost not so 
much on the big issues — like taking a 
public stand on the Vietnam War or selling 
university stock invested in war-related 
industry — but in more subtle ways. Like 
who uses university facilities for what 
purpose. 

And if one incident during the summer 
is any indication. Brown seemed to be 
drawing some straight lines that may be 
applicable to other situations in the 
ensuing year. 

The incident developed in relation to 
National Women's Strike Day in August. 
A day or so in advance of the "strike" 
commemorating the 50th anniversary of 
women's suffrage, a story in a local news- 
paper announced that Sayles Hall would be 
used by the Young Socialist Alliance as a 
day-care center for children of mothers 
taking part in women's liberation activities. 

Additionally, YSA announced two 
informal discussion groups would meet in 
Sayles and that among those present in the 
day-care center would be Joseph Traugott, 
Socialist Worker Party candidate for 
lieutenant governor, John Powers, SWP 
candidate for governor, and Brown Graduate 
Student Daniel Fein, Socialist candidate for 
the U.S. Senate. Traugott, according to 
newspaper accounts, also described the 
space in Sayles Hall as SWP headquarters. 
Not so, said the University. 
It'll be used anyway, said the Young 
Socialist Alliance. 

Will not, said the University. 
"I don't think there is anything Brown 
can do about it," Powers was quoted as 
having said by the Providence Journal. 

On Aug. 26, when the children arrived 
on campus to attend the day-care center, 
they and others found the doors locked at 
Sayles Hall. Furthermore, the locks had 
been changed. A terse University announce- 
ment explained the action: 

"Contrary to published announcements 
the campaign headquarters for the Social- 
ist Worker Party is not located at Brown 
University, and the University has not 
granted permission for use of Sayles Hall 
as a day-care center on August 26. 

"The space in Sayles Hall has been 
assigned to an official student organization 
and is not available for off-campus 
political activities." 

The news release ended there with the 
usual finish marks carried by news releases, 
and then a paragraph was added: 

"Sayles Hall will not be used for a 



day nursery or for any outside political 
activity." 

The campus — including anything 
University spokesmen or YSA officials 
might have to say — was strangely quiet 
after that. Sayles Hall remained locked and 
the children spent the day at the Roger 
Williams Park zoo. 

But the last word has not yet been 
spoken on the subject, for the problem is 
more complicated than the brief verbal 
encounter with the Socialist Worker Party 
last August. The Young Socialist Alliance is 
a recognized student organization approved 
by the Cammarian Club for office space 
on the campus just like a number of other 
student political organizations such as the 
^'oung Republicans. 

And though the definition of what is 
and what is not "outside" political activity 
may be increasingly difficult to make, the 
University appeared to say this summer that 
it would attempt to define it. 

Rash enough 

to face the freshmen 

When Brown's 14th President, Donald 
F. Hornig, was preparing his remarks to the 
class of '74 during Freshman Week, he 
decided to check the precedents to see what 
other Brown Presidents had said on similar 
occasions. ("In principle, I am against doing 
things by precedent," said Dr. Hornig, "but 
it does make things easier sometimes.") 

As it turned out. Dr. Hornig told the 
students who had assembled in Meehan 
Auditorium to hear him there was no prec- 
edent to check. Apparently no other 
President had been "rash enough" to address 
the freshman class until the academic year 
was well under way. 

"You're having problems this week," 
Dr. Hornig said, "and so am I. We're both 
new here." Noting that universities were 
often characterized by too many speeches 
and too little communication. Dr. Hornig 
promised that he would soon open the 
session to discussion. "But first," he said, 
"let me tell you a little bit about yourselves." 

The class of '74, as the President pro- 
filed it, represents 41 states and 14 foreign 
countries. Of the more than 800 men in the 
class, 249 have stated that they will be Sc.B. 
candidates; the rest are headed for the 
A.B. degree. Dr. Hornig told the class that, 
"although you probably pride yourselves on 
not being intellectuals, many of you ranked 
high in your class." Freshman test scores, 
he noted, were also good. 

Dr. Hornig reminded the class members 
that they were not chosen only on the basis 
of academics and he emphasized that the 



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selection was a two-way process. "This 
mutual selection," he said, "Brown's selec- 
tion of you and your selection of Brown, 
implies a mutual obligation to make it a 
happy marriage. We'll see." 

"You may be asking what kind of place 
is Brown," said the new President. "I also 
was selected by and selected Brown, so I've 
been doing a lot of thinking about that." 
Some descriptions that Dr. Hornig suggested 
were appropriate were "diverse, active and 
evolving." As an instance of the evolution. 
Dr. Hornig cited the new curriculum. Some 
of the freshmen, he noted, have complained 
that there are not enough Modes of Thought 
courses. "Well, I don't think there are 
enough either," he said. "But there are still 
more than there were before. We still are 
learning what Modes of Thought courses are 
and should do." 

Part of the evolution process, said Dr. 
Hornig, will consist of continually improving 
the teaching at Brown. "But we also want 
the scholarship to improve. I don't think 
that good teaching and good scholarship' 
are antithetical." Urging students to explore 
new ways to participate actively and use- 
fully in the evolution of the University, Dr. 
Hornig noted that there are three segments 
involved in institutional change: faculty, 
students and supporters of the University. 
Each of these groups, or special interest 
factions within these groups, he said, has 
the veto power to stop the University. "It's 
easy to generate the power to stop things," 
said Dr. Hornig. "What is more difficult is to 
assemble the informed consensus to get 
things done." 

During a brief question and answer 
session following his remarks, the President 
observed once more that the University, as 
an institution, cannot take political stands. 
The University's responsibility, he said, is 
to protect differing individual viewpoints 
within its structure. 

In response to other questions, Dr. 
Hornig commented that he did not believe 
that athletes were recruited more enthusi- 
astically than other students. He also 
stressed that efforts to improve the science 
offerings at Brown would not be at the 
expense of the arts. 

Dr. Homig's speech to the freshmen 
was the first of three talks he would give in 
the early weeks of the semester leading up 
to his inauguration on Oct. 4, when he was 
scheduled to deliver a major address. 



1974 — A bigger class 
from fewer locales 

A mood of untrammeled optimism 
does not prevail in the admission office this 
year. True, the applicant pool for this year's 
freshman class was the largest ever (7,165 
applicants for about 820 places) and the 
median college board scores continue to be 
in the middle 600s, but Admission Director 
James H. Rogers has spotted a few nagging 
trends which he hopes will not continue. 

Because of the economic recession, 
there is a growing category of students who 
are not poor enough to qualify for financial 
aid and not rich enough to pay Brown 
tuition without causing family hardship. 
Rogers feels that many such students from 
outside New England who might have 
attended Brown have chosen schools closer 



to home, with the result that the geograph- 
ical distribution of the class of '74 is not as 
wide as in previous years. Rogers emphasizes, 
however, that mere locality is not a crucial 
factor in admissions. 

"We're not so concerned with what state 
someone comes from," he says. "We are 
interested in what his environment has 
been. We get a large number of middle class 
suburban applicants, and someone who 
grew up in Pasadena has probably 
experienced an environment similar to a 
boy from Scarsdale. If we had an applica- 
tion from a boy who was raised on a 
ranch in Montana, we wouldn't admit him 
on the strength of it, but we would be 
interested." 

Rogers is more concerned about what 
he sees as a decline in alumni interest in 
recruiting high school students for Brown. 



In the early going, President Donald F. Hornig seemed at home 
in close discussion with students. 




"There seems to be a disenchantment with 
liberal education among alumni in general, 
not just of Brown. When a man reads in the 
Times about the disturbances at, say, Santa 
Barbara, there is a negative transference 
to his own alma mater, even when nothing 
of the kind has occurred there. And some 
alumni are turned off when they go to inter- 
view the five top students at a high school 
and three of the five turn out to have 
long hair." 

Rogers also expresses some disappoint- 
ment that more of the black students who 
were accepted did not come to Brown. There 
are 70 black students in the class of '74, 
a figure which represents about 43 percent 
of the total number of blacks accepted. 

For the class as a whole, 61 percent of 
all students accepted chose Brown. The 
lower matriculation percentage for black stu- 
dents, says Rogers, is an indication of the 
tremendous competition for qualified black 
students and their increased accessibility 
to private schools. 

The sheer numbers of the freshman 
class have intensified another problem at 
Brown: the housing squeeze. Not only is 
the class of '74 substantially larger than 
the class which just graduated, but Brown 
has also made an informal commitment to 
the community to stabilize the number of 
undergraduates permitted to live off campus. 
To alleviate the overcrowding, several 
former storage rooms, reading rooms and 
little-used lounges have been converted into 
living space. Plantations House at 20 
Benevolent St., which was previously the 
center for off campus students, has been 
converted to a dormitory. 

Coeducational housing has also in- 
creased, with 117 men living at Pembroke 
and 170 women housed at Brown. The fresh- 
man class at Pembroke will number 330, of 
whom 51 are black students. 

Financial aid: Calm 
before the storm 

It may be the calm before the storm, 
says Financial Aid Director Lloyd W. 
Cornell, but the country's economic hard 
times have yet to hit his office in a big way. 
I'm not as pessimistic as many people 
in the field," says Cornell, "but we have 
sensed the recession in several ways." 

Cornell, whose office uses the methods 
of the College Scholarship Service to de- 
termine need, notes more unemployment 
among parents, including professional 
people, than in previous years. He is also 
beginning to get reports of students having 
difficulty getting educational bank loans. 

A number of students have written in 
to say that they didn't get a summer job, or 
not the high paying one they expected. A 
student on financial aid is expected to earn 
$400 his first summer, plus $50 more each 



summer thereafter. Since this figure is 
rather low, Cornell explains, most students 
who find work at all are able to meet it. 

Still, the dearth of good summer jobs 
has made itself felt. One boy who had 
previously earned $1,000 in a summer work- 
ing for a large corporation, reported that 
this past summer he had earned less than 
half that as a janitor in a Boston hospital. 

The $300 tuition increase and the $90 
room and board increase has also had its 
effect. Cornell is getting applications from 
middle income families who never would 
have thought of asking for aid before. 
"Years ago," says Cornell, "if we saw an 
income of over $10,000 we'd shy away." 
Now, with the total yearly cost of a Brown 
education estimated at $4,500, not including 
travel, a number of middle income families, 
especially those with other children in 
college, are receiving at least partial aid. 

So far, Cornell has not noticed that any 
significant number of students have trans- 
ferred or dropped out of school for financial 
reasons, but he says that the second 
semester is always more critical than the 
first in this regard, since by that time, sum- 
mer earnings may have been used up. 

A question now under review is how 
much money will be available for financial 
aid in the future. At this point, about 35 
percent of the students are receiving finan- 
cial aid from the University, including 
$1,900,000 in scholarships from special gifts, 
endowment income and appropriations. 
Since there has recently been a decrease in 
corporate giving for scholarships, a larger 
proportion of scholarship funds have come 
from appropriations. And when the Uni- 
versity is operating on a deficit (approxi- 
mately $3 million for the current year), 
Cornell says, expenditures in all areas must 
be reviewed. 

BAM among top 10 
in the nation 

The Brown Alumni Monthly was 
named one of the 10 best alumni magazines 
in the nation and won eight other awards 
for journalistic excellence in the 1970 
publications competition of the American 
Alumni Council. 

It was the second year in a row that the 
BAM placed among the 10 best. Other 
magazines in the top 10 this year repre- 
sented: Caltech, Chicago, Cornell, Harvard, 
Lafayette, Princeton, Simmons, Swarthmore 
and Yale. The Robert Sibley Award as 
the nation's No. 1 magazine, an honor won 
by the BAM in 1969, was awarded to the 
Harvard Bulletin at the AAC's national 
meeting in July. 



Along with its top 10 award, the BAM 
also was honored for the following: 

Chosen one of six finalists in The 
Atlantic Magazine competition for excel- 
lence in staff writing. First place went to 
the Colorado College Magazine. 

Distinguished merit award for in- 
stitutional coverage. 

Honorable mention awards in the four 
other areas of coverage — alumni, stu- 
dents, continuing education and faculty. 

One of the year's best covers for the 
December issue designed by Don Paulhus of 
Providence, the magazine's design con- 
sultant. The cover featured a piece of 
Chinese art from the collection of John M. 
Crawford, Jr. '37. 

One of the year's best photographs, a 
picture taken in Sicily as part of an essay 
on Europe by Graduate Student Joel 
Simpson (January issue). 

The Pembroke Alumna won four 
awards from the AAC's panel of inde- 
pendent judges: distinctive merit awards 
for institutional coverage and editorial 
comment, an honorable mention in the 
alumni category, and honorable mention in 
The Atlantic contest. 

In other judging, the newsletter of the 
Maryland Institute, College of Art, edited 
by Marion Wolk, wife of Brown Vice 
President Ronald A. Wolk, won national 
awards for the fifth time. Contact was 
awarded runner-up honors in the Newsweek 
contest for newsletters. 

After Tom Paine, 

what of the third decade? 

"I really hope to see that the NASA 
program in the second decade really 
outperforms the accomplishments of the 
first decade." 

So spoke Thomas O. Paine '42 when he 
accepted the post of administrator of the 
National Aeronautics and Space Admin- 
istration in March, 1969. When he left the 
job last month to return to General Electric, 
Tom Paine had done just that. Two success- 
ful moon landings later, NASA's second 
decade had outperformed the first. The 
question that arose as Paine suddenly left 
the job he had begun as deputy admin- 
istrator in 1968 was what would happen in 
space's third decade. 

Paine, who received an honorary degree 
at Brown's Commencement in 1969, denied 
that Nixon Administration cuts in the 
budget amounting to $500 million in 1971 
had anything to do with his resignation. Dr. 
Paine said he thought it a good time to 
change leadership in the space agency 
because the lunar landings had been made 
and the post-Apollo strategy charted. Yet 
he added in a letter to NASA employees: "I 
hate to leave. My heart will always be with 
NASA." 

Though Dr. Paine said the offer from 



General Electric was too good to turn down, 
his associates told the New York Times 
his reasons for leaving were diffuse. He 
had, they said, a vague dissatisfaction with 
the social and intellectual atmosphere in 
Washington. Added the Times: "Coupled 
with a feeling that his value to the space 
agency had waned since the lunar landings, 
and that there were challenges elsewhere." 

Writing in the November, 1969 issue 
of the BAM not long after the moon 
landings. Dr. Paine talked about the sig- 
nificance of the accomplishment in space 
and some of the criticism it elicited. Said he: 

"I hope the message from Tranquility 
Base that men have set foot on another 
world will embolden us to raise our 
aspirations here on Earth. I believe that 
space travel has opened the possibility of an 
entirely new destiny for man — and, indeed, 
for terrestrial life. Men of good will working 
together with the tools of modern tech- 
nology can extend man's domain throughout 
the solar system. 

"The Apollo mission to the Moon 
initiated a new chapter in the evolution of 
life as significant as the emergence onto 
land of primitive organisms from the sea 
hundreds of millions of years ago. A new 
and endless frontier now opens before 
mankind. Equally significant: the technical 
and managerial excellence that was devel- 
oped to achieve success in space should 
embolden us to raise our human aspirations 
here on the good Earth." 

When he returned to General Electric 
late last month. Dr. Paine said he would be 
working on important national and tech- 
nical problems outside the aerospace area. 

On campus speakers, 
a polite but firm reply 

When Congressman Richard H. Ichord 
(D-Mo.) wrote 179 colleges and universities 
to ask that they provide the names and the 
amount of honorariums paid to campus 
speakers during the past two years, it 
produced a nervous flutter among admin- 
istrators and other educators as well. 

Congressman Ichord is chairman of the 
House Committee on Internal Security, 
and his letter did not disguise why his 
committee wants the information. Said he 
in his letter: 

"As directed by the House of Repre- 
sentatives, our committee is charged with 
the responsibility of making inquiry into 
those organizations, who by their activities, 
would effect changes in our Government or 
Administration of our Government by 
force, violence or other unlawful means. 

"Preliminary data available indicates 
that guest speakers representing such 
organizations have made numerous appear- 



ances on many college and university 
campuses, and have received honorariums 
which could be of significance in funding 
their activities. 

"The means by which such organiza- 
tions are financed is a matter which is 
under inquiry by this Committee." 

The Ichord letter stressed that the 
committee was not interested in acad- 
emicians and lecturers in connection with 
courses of instruction. 

Understandably, the request set off a 
fair-sized flap. Most of the reaction came 
from a variety of people seriously concerned 
over infringement of academic freedom. 
And Ichord received some of the static 
from within his own committee: Ichord 
emphasized that the survey was voluntary, 
and Rep. Louis Stokes (D-Ohio), a com- 
mittee member, advised colleges and 
universities not to comply. 

Brown, the University of Rhode Island, 
and Rhode Island Junior College were 
among the 179 from which information is 
being sought by Ichord's committee, which 
formerly was the House Un-American 
Activities Committee. URI asked the state 
attorney general for advice, RIJC responded 
immediately that it had booked none of 
the type of speakers in which the com- 
mittee was interested, and Brown replied 
with a polite, firm, and qualified answer that 
it would comply with the names but not 
with the financial information. 

The University said that the names of 
speakers and sponsoring organizations are 
a matter of public record and are published 
in the weekly bulletin. Speakers are 
invited by a great many different organi- 
zations and Brown "does not exercise any 
censorship," said the formal reply. However, 
the University would compile a list from 
the weekly bulletin if Ichord's committee 
wanted it. 

But on the financial information, the 
University issued a polite no. It said that 
Brown is required by law to report to the 
Internal Revenue Service fees paid to 
speakers in excess of $600, that it does so, 
and that it would not disclose financial 
information beyond that. 

The response was made in late July 
and no further announcements have been 
made by Congressman Ichord since then. 

Homecoming: This year, 
there are two 

An address by President Donald F. 
Hornig will be one of the features of 
Homecoming Week-End, Oct. 30-31. The 
two-day affair may take on a slightly 
different flavor this fall since present plans 
call for the students to hold their 
Homecoming-related events the following 
Saturday due to the two-week recess prior 
to the November elections. 



Actually, Brown's formal Homecoming 
program will get underway Friday after- 
noon, Oct. 30, when the Brown freshman 
football team entertains Holy Cross at 
Brown Stadium. At 8 p.m. Friday there will 
be a social hour with the coaches at 
Pembroke Field House. 

Saturday morning Brown will meet 
Princeton in an Ivy League soccer game at 
Aldrich-Dexter Field. There will be be tail- 
gating at A.D. and also at Brown Stadium 
prior to the football game between the Bears 
and the Tigers. 

Following the game there will be the 
Victory Tent at the field, the Homecoming 
Buffet at Sharpe Refectory, and then a 5th 
Quarter party back at Pembroke Field 
House. The traditional buffet, which will 
run from 5:30 to 7:30, will feature a New 
England Saturday night supper. The price 
is $2.25. 

Alumni who have come to view the 
crowning of the queen as one of the Satur- 
day afternoon features of the Homecoming 
program will have to return Nov. 7, when 
Brown entertains Cornell. 

Anthropology: Finally 
on its own 

At the turn of the century Brown had 
a short-lived program in anthropology, and 
the study was re-introduced by the late 
Professor J. Louis Giddings 15 years ago 
as part of the department of sociology and 
anthropology. 

This fall, anthropology was finally 
on its own. Sociology and anthropology 
were split into two separate departments 
as the result of the establishment of a new 
department of anthropology in a move 
prompted by the rapid increase of faculty 
and students in that field following the 
initiation of a Ph.D. program in anthro- 
pology in 1967. 

There are 11 faculty members and 
25 graduate students in the new department, 
as well as close to 60 undergraduates 
concentrating in anthropology. 

Dr. Philip E. Leis, associate professor, 
has been appointed chairman of the de- 
partment of anthropology. A native of 
Walden, N.Y., he received his A.B. degree 
from Antioch College in 1954 and his Ph.D 
from Northwestern University in 1962. A 
student of African tribal culture, he has 
been at Brown since 1962. 

Dr. Alex F. Ricciardelli, associate pro- 
fessor, continues as director of the Haffen- 
reffer Museum in Bristol, a position he has 
held since arriving at Brown in 1968. He 
is a leading anthropologist and an authorityi 
on the North American Indian. Last year 



he served as acting chairman of the 
department. 

"In effect, we have had our own 
program in anthropology at Brown for 
some time," Prof. Ricciardelli says. "The 
hiring of staff and all administrative work 
was being done on a department basis. We 
even had our own Ph.D. program for 
the past four years. 

"But the move to a separate depart- 
ment, in name as well as fact, was 
inevitable. One of the results of World 
War II was an acute awareness of other 
peoples around the world. An attempt to 
develop an understanding in this area is 
something that anthropology has been 
dealing with for years. As a result, the 
study of anthropology has become an 'in' 
thing and has been growing fast at colleges 
around the country." 

Prof. Ricciardelli pointed out that at 
most colleges, anthropology started as it did 
at Brown in joint partnership with sociology. 

Dr. Sidney Goldstein, professor of 
sociology, has been serving as chairman of 
the joint programs since 1963. He will 
continue as chairman of the department 
of sociology. 

Kelsey Murdoch — Try to 
finish in two minutes 

At New Orleans last summer, 900 
of the faithful who were attending the 
American Alumni Council's national con- 
ference, looked suspiciously at the head 
table. There, at the final dinner of the 
conference, were 29 people, all of whom 
appeared ominously to have something to 
say. Bourbon Street, Preservation Hall, and 
other New Orleans folkways awaited, but 
the prospects were dim. 

Most of those 29 people did say some- 
thing, but in a machine-gun fashion that 
few conventions ever see. They said their 
piece and sat down — each consuming a 
curiously short two minutes. The keynote 
speaker was University of Tennessee 
President Andrew D. Holt. He took longer 
than two minutes — but he was funny. And 
you don't find many humorous university 
presidents these days. 

"That banquet was the swan song for 
Kelsey Murdoch — if it went well, you tell 
him," said AAC President Warren Gould. 
Murdoch was leaving his post as the 
AAC's director of alumni administration to 
join Brown University as assistant to 
President Donald F. Hornig. Said one 
veteran AAC conference-traveler: 

"That dinner had to be a hallmark in 
conference planning. Kelsey put notes 
before each speaker that read: 'You are 
scheduled to speak at 7:45. The next 
speaker is scheduled to begin at 7:47.'" 

Kelsey Murdoch joined Brown as 



President Hornig's assistant after five years 
on the national office staff of AAC. He 
coordinated service projects for alumni 
administrators, including the annual train- 
ing institute, special conferences, awards 
and publications. He also assisted President 
Gould in areas of internal management of 
AAC's national office in Washington. Said 
Gould, upon Murdoch's appointment at 
Brown last month: 

"Kelsey's professional career has been 
dedicated to higher education, the alumni 
movement, and civic advancement. He was 
instrumental in AAC efforts to upgrade 
the quality of alumni programs at AAC- 
member institutions in the U.S. and Canada. 
He had constant experience of working 
with people in our internal organization and 
with external volunteers as well. 

"I found him excellent. Our train of 
thought was close together. He assumed 
great responsibility. The result was the 
kind of quality I wanted." 

Murdoch is an alumnus of the Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania and from 1961 to 
1964 served Penn as alumni field secretary, 
charged with planning, arranging and super- 
vising events sponsored by the General 
Alumni Society. From there he went to Hart- 
ford as special assistant manager of the 
Hartford Symphony Orchestra where he 
was responsible for developing fund- 
raising programs. 

When Kelsey Murdoch left the AAC's 
national office to join Brown early last 
month, the board of directors drew up a 
proper resolution and the staff bought him 
two tickets to the Providence series of the 

Kelsey Murdoch: First appointment in a 
new administration. 




Boston Symphony Orchestra as a going- 
away gift. 

"Everyone in the AAC office likes him/' 
said one staffer. "He listened to everyone's 
problems, held everyone's hand." 

Which should eminently qualify him to 
be assistant to a university president. 

Transitional Programs- 
a changing emphasis 

"Say a student wants to study engi- 
neering at Brown and his high school didn't 
offer a calculus course. He's going to be 
behind from the start, even though he 
might have graduated first in his high 
school class." 

Richard A. Nurse, admission officer, is 
talking about the need Brown's Transitional 
Program fills for minority group students 
who have the potential to succeed, but 
whose high school preparation has been 
less than first rate. The program, which is 
in its second year at Brown (BAM Oct. 69), 
attempts to ease the adjustment and fill in 
the gaps for students who have some 
handicaps in prior education. 

Nurse, who directed this summer's 
program, explains that a number of changes 
were made in response to suggestions 
from those who participated last year. For 
one thing, all the students who enrolled in 
the six-and-a-half week program this 
summer were already admitted to Brown 
and Pembroke. Last year, the transitional 
students were divided into two groups: 
those who were admitted to Brown and 
Pembroke in the fall and those who 
remained in a transitional program through- 
out the academic year. 

Also, participation in this year's 
program was made voluntary, although 
only a few of the invited students did not 
attend. Governance of the program has 
become the responsibility of a faculty com- 
mittee, headed by Thomas F. Banchoff, 
assistant professor of mathematics. Two 
students from the transitional program are 
included on the committee. 

The 28 students who enrolled in the 
program took courses in language expres- 
sion, general math, calculus, computer math, 
reading improvement, literature, philos- 
ophy, and problems of the city. 

Professor Jesse McDade, who taught 
the philosophy class, feels that the program 
helped the students, "because they are in a 
better position to make a self-evaluation of 
their strong and weak areas based on their 
summer performance. I think Brown is to 
be commended for having the program and 



expressing this kind of concern for disad- 
vantaged students." Both McDade and Mrs. 
W. Nelson Francis, who taught language 
expression, stress the need for thorough fol- 
low up counseling during the academic year. 

Mrs. Francis' teaching emphasized self- 
knowledge and self-expression, using oral 
and writing skills. To keep up with what 
her students were learning in other courses, 
Mrs. Francis attended class with them and 
assigned topics that would be relevant to 
the other course work. Prof. Banchoff, in 
turn, sat in on Mrs. Francis' class and 
"he was usually the first one to hand in the 
written work." 

Mrs. Francis felt some frustration at 
the end of the summer when the program 
was over, just as she saw her students 
beginning to make real progress. "But still," 
she says, "they are very fortunate. I wish 
I'd had this kind of introduction to college." 



Welles Hangen: A talent 
for going with the action 

Throughout his career as a news 
reporter, Welles Hangen '49 had a reputa- 
tion for going where the action was. Last 
June, the action was in Cambodia — and 
Hangen was there. 

As Hong Kong bureau chief, he 
headed an NBC television team which 
included a French cameraman, Roger Colne, 
a lifelong resident of Phnom Penh, and 
Yoshiko Waku, a Japanese sound man. 

On June 2, pro-Communist forces sur- 
rounded the jeep being driven by Hangen's 
party and also a car occupied by five CBS 
television crewmen. Viet Cong snipers pre- 
vented Cambodian troops and fellow 
newsmen from reaching the vehicles. Later, 
both cars were found abandoned. 

From the time Welles Hangen was 
graduated from Brown with a Phi Beta 
Kappa key at the age of 18, he has been 
newsgathering around the world. He made 
extensive tours through most of the world's 
major trouble spots — Thailand, Laos, 
Vietnam, and Indonesia. 

In preparation for this work, he took 
courses in Far Eastern area relations at 
Columbia University on a fellowship from 
the Council on Foreign Relations. Prior to his 
recent assignment as NBC's chief Far Eastern 
correspondent, he headed NBC's New 
Delhi bureau. 

Hangen began his journalistic career in 
1948 at the age of 18 as a reporter for the 
Paris Edition of the New York Herald 
Tribune. In 1949, he returned to the United 
States to join the New York Times. He 
traveled more than 12,000 miles through 
Russia as the newspaper's Moscow cor- 
respondent and in September of 1955, at 



the age of 25, he headed the Times' Moscow 
bureau. 

In December of 1956, Hangen joined 
NBC News as head of its bureau in Cairo, 
where he covered the Lebanese disturbance 
of 1958 and the Congo uprisings of 1960 
and 1961. 

Hangen was born in New York City in 
1930. He attended Manhattan's Trinity 
School and the University of Virginia 
before entering Brown in 1946. While in 
Europe on assignment in 1948-49, he com- 
pleted credits towards his A.B. by taking 
courses at the University of Geneva and then 
at Columbia. He was graduated from Brown 
summa cum laude and was a Francis Way- 
land and James Manning Scholar. 

One week after his jeep was attacked 
at Phnom Penh, Hangen and his two 
associates were reported safe by a Cam- 
bodian army spokesman. The men were 
reportedly taken by the Viet Cong to a 
mountain hideout 50 miles southwest of 
Takeo for additional interrogation. 

Then, in early September, the National 
Broadcasting Company said that it had 
received an unconfirmed report that Hangen 
had been killed by his captors. Later, Mrs. 
Hangen said the report was untrue. At 
press time, there was no further word. 



When it comes to strikes, 
this was the real thing 

Students last spring ended normal 
academic activities in protest to the Cam- 
bodian incursion and the deaths at Kent 
State. They called the action a "strike," but 
most everyone agreed the word wasn't 
appropriate to describe what was taking 
place. 

At hundreds of college campuses — and 
at Brown — the word "strike" was dis- 
avowed. But it hung on like an old refrain, 
unsettling particularly those who applied 
the old meaning of the word to events 
on the campus. 

Then, not long after the students went 
home, the word "strike" appeared again. 
And this time it was the real thing. For the 
first instance in 28 years of union presence 
at Brown, members of Local 134, Service 
Employees International (AFL-CIO) struck 
the University. 

Local 134 includes employees in the 
maintenance and custodial services and 
about 260 of Brown's 355 maintenance 
workers have union dues deducted from 
their paycheck. What resulted in a 17-day 
strike began July 1, when the old contract 
expired and negotiations on a new one 
reached a stalemate. 

While the strike caused inconvenience 
— everyone emptied his own wastebasket — 
its effect was minimized by the fact that 
the contract expired over the summer 
months when students were not on the 



campus. The University's building repairs 
and renovations, which usually get done 
with some vigor over the summer months, 
stopped. Some serious problems developed 
when members of other unions — like the 
Teamsters — wouldn't cross Local 134's 
picket lines to make deliveries. Of those 
incidents, the most serious came with the 
non-delivery of oil to run such equipment as 
air-conditioners in buildings where research 
depends upon temperature control. 

The matter of wages was one of two 
items in dispute among 28 items in the 
contract proposal. Under the new contract 
accepted July 17, custodial and maintenance 
workers will receive increases ranging 
from $11.60 to $31.20 per week, depending 
on job classification in the first year of the 
contract. The increase is based on a 
40-hour week. For the second year, increases 
will range from $6 to $12.40. Under the old 
three-year contract, wages ranged from 
$72.40 to $160 for a 40-hour week. 

The other item that brought about the 
stalemate was a union demand for a union 
shop. Both sides agreed to a modified union 
shop under which new employees would 
become members of the union as a condi- 
tion of employment. Those employees 
who worked during the strike, and those 
with at least 10 years service, are free to 
decide whether they want to become 
union members. 

The 26 points agreed upon before the 
strike began involved such fringe benefits 
as increased insurance and improved 
vacation schedules. 

Though the strike was the first in a 
quarter century at Brown, the University 
was not the first to face a precedent- 
breaking shutdown by a union. The sobering 
thought is that it is not likely to be the last. 



A summer experiment 
again makes the grade 

For the second successive summer, 
nearly 100 Greater Providence high school 
students spent four extra weeks in the 
classroom under a tuition-free enrichment 
program sponsored jointly by Brown and 
the Providence public schools. 

Emphasis in the program is placed on 
new approaches to curriculum and teaching 
methods. Independent study in areas of 
special interest to students is encouraged 
and audio-visual aids are used extensively. 
A ratio of one teacher to every four stu- 
dents enhances the teacher-student rela- 
tionship and encourages individual student 
initiative. 

All of the students in this year's 
program entered the 10th grade this fall. 
The teaching staff was comprised of Rhode 



Island high school teachers who are also 
teaching associates at Brown, graduate 
students who are candidates for the Master 
of Arts in Teaching degree at the Univer- 
sity, and faculty members from Brown's 
education department. 

Course offerings for the program 
included modern literature and language, 
American history, French, and modern 
math. In an effort to promote a more free- 
wheeling approach to the various subjects, 
no grades were given. 

The program was an encouraging 
example of a continuing relationship 
between Brown and the City of Providence. 
The school department provided the space 
(Classical High School) and certain 
materials. Brown provided the instructors. 
The only cost to the high school pupils was 
for books, a charge that came to less 
than $10 for two courses. 

Professor Reginald D. Archambault, '52 
chairman of Brown's education department, 
said that the program had a two-fold 
purpose. 

"Frankly," he said, "one of the purposes 
is a selfish one. This program gives us a 
realistic setting to introduce our MAT 
people to the problems of teaching. This is 
certainly not a substitute for regular 
practice teaching, but it does represent a 
chance for the regular MAT candidates to 
get a taste for what is ahead, for theory to 
become enlightened by practical experience. 

"Secondly, the program gives some 100 
pupils from Providence and the surrounding 
communities an opportunity to take an 
enrichment program substantially different 
from what they would encounter in their 
home towns. The boys and girls are exposed 
to young, lively, and talented MAT's as 
well as a highly innovative curriculum." 

Stephen R. Birrell, of Brown's education 
department, served as coordinator of the 
program. He said that in selecting the 
summer class the primary qualification for 
enrollment was a motivation on the part of 
the student to try a different kind of 
school experience. 

"So far, the response from the students 
has been excellent," Dr. Archambault 
reports. "We find that many children get 
bored in the summer and like to do some- 
thing, just so long as it's interesting and 
challenges them." 

How lively the discussions were came 
with one example. 

One of the MAT's was discussing with 
her class the problems the farmers faced 
in the 1870's because of unequal railroad 
rates, their dependence upon the cities, and 
the crop surpluses. She said to the pupils: 

"Pretend you are all farmers back in 
1870 and these are your problems, and 
boy are you mad!" 

The pupils then split into small groups 
to discuss on their own what forms of 



protest they might have used to combat 
the problems. In one group, the conver- 
sation went something like this: 

Boy: "You've got to form a labor 
union." 

Girl: "The most effective way is 
to boycott." 

Boy: "Burn up all the grain elevators." 

Later, the class came together and the 
pupils polled all their ideas. Other plans 
were suggested — crop-burning and legis- 
lation for rate regulations on the railroads. 
The instructor then explained to her class 
that many of the ideas had been tried by 
the farmers. She also reviewed some of 
the Supreme Court cases that resulted from 
legislation in this field. 

According to Dr. Archambault, Brown 
plans to continue the summer program. 

"As long as we can stir the imagina- 
tion of these youngsters, the effort seems 
ivcll worthwhile," he says. 

Beanies: Gone like 
the Pony Express 

One's reaction on noting that Brown 
has just dispensed with the traditional 
freshman beanie is like discovering that 
the Post Office recently retired its last Pony 
Express team: surely such anachronisms 
disappeared long ago. 

But in fact, the beanies survived up 
through the class of '73, not because of any 
nostalgia for the Dink Stover era; it was 
the $2.75 income from each beanie sold that 
kept the custom alive well past its natural 
life span. 

The money from beanie sales and from 
freshman outing tickets was used to sup- 
port freshman week activities. Not that 
freshmen were told that they had to pur- 
chase a beanie or an outing ticket, but they 
weren't told they didn't have to either. 

This year's freshman week committee 
decided that the hawking of beanies and 
tickets during registration smacked of crass 
commercialism. More appropriate, they 
thought, would be to assess each freshman 
$5 for freshman week costs, and all activities 
during the week would be free. So the 
class of '74 paid the money and was spared 
the beanies. 

In other sweeping freshman week 
changes. Brown and Pembroke got together 
and decided it was sensible to print only 
one orientation booklet, for both men and 
women. The booklet listed a backbreaking 
schedule of activities for the week and 
opened with a friendly introduction de- 
scribing what to expect: "Freshman week 
is many things," it said. "It's learning to 
live with a roommate who chain smokes, 
plays loud music and never goes to bed 



before 2 a.m. It's bull sessions lasting into 
the wee hours of the morning. It's trying 
to figure out how to take the eight courses 
you're interested in when three of them 
meet at the same hour. . . ." 

Brown and Pembroke freshmen, who 
registered together — also for the first time 
this year — were offered 30 or so "mini- 
colloquia," providing a chance to meet and 
exchange ideas with faculty members. 

The traditional activities sign up night 
in Meehan Auditorium presented a mind- 
bending 72 tables' worth of organizations 
trying to entice new members. The karate 
club put on a demonstration for the benefit 
of interested freshmen and the Flying Club 
set up a full-sized glider near its table to 
drum up business. 

In the event that the scheduled activi- 
ties during freshman week weren't enough, 
an ad hoc group of faculty and upper- 
classmen put on a "disorientation" session 
designed to tell freshmen "everything you 
want to know about Brown that Brown will 
never tell you." 

By the end of the week, it seemed likely 
that the freshmen had already been told 
more about Brown than they really cared 
to know. 

BAM offices moved 

Life on the campus is sometimes like 
musical chairs, especially when it comes to 
relocating offices. And the Brown Alumni 
Monthly offices are no exception: they have 
been moved to the third floor of Nicholson 
House at 71 George Street. 

Last month the BAM moved into 
refurbished offices formerly occupied by 
the Brown University Press. The Monthly 
staff, together with personnel of the Alumni 
Office, were formerly located at 59 George 
Street, where both offices had been 
since 1956. 

In its new quarters — the largest the staff 
of the magazine has ever occupied — the 
Monthly no longer shares a building with 
the alumni staff. Last March, the official 
"Alumni House" became the former Dr. 
William P. Buffum residence at 159 George. 

The BAM's telephone number has 
also changed. For those who don't care to 
negotiate three flights of stairs — 54 steps 
to be exact— call us at (401) 863-2873. 



Carrying 
the mail 



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



Absence of strife 

Sir: I have had numerous occasions 
to be proud of Brown since I first attended 
in 1948. Of the many areas where a Brown 
graduate may take particular pride there is 
one in which, to me, the University excels 
above all others and that is the ability to 
intelligently react to changes in the social 
and political environment. 

During the three years of my attend- 
ance, I recall several instances that clearly 
demonstrated this attitude. "McCarthyism" 
was the source of intimidation to many uni- 
versities at that time. Brown continued its 
prior policy of making its facilities avail- 
able to those of all political persuasions. 

Also during the presidential election of 
1948 and the emergence of the Progressive 
Party, one of the faculty played a prominent 
role in leading it, much to the concern of 
certain alumni. Dr. Wriston's support of 
Professor Ducas at that time was outstand- 
ing. With such examples, the students 
could react to these conditions as their 
consciences dictated and the feeling of strife 
was completely absent. 

Through my oldest son I have learned 
of the action taken in May to suspend 
classes to actively oppose the expansion of 
the War into Cambodia. The responsible 
manner in which this decision was imple- 
mented was once again a tribute to the 
school. 

I am sure that the President's decision 
will be vindicated. In the days and months 
ahead those students who sincerely try to 
understand the problems confronting our 
nation will find a growing respect for the 
President. I am most grateful you are 
offering them an environment in which they 
can fully analyze the issues and to take 
their place as responsible citizens to 
influence the future progress of our country. 

A E GIBSON '51 
Maritime Administrator 
Washington, D.C. 

Two weeks off the job 

Sir: Why do parents send their children 
to college? What do they feel is so important 
about a college education that they are 
willing to make big financial sacrifices so 
that their sons and daughters will have a 
college education? 

We can't speak for other parents, but 
this is what we hoped college would mean 
to our children: We expected that college 
would provide four years of mental and 
emotional growth in which the students 
would learn to think objectively, to analyze 
references, to study and evaluate materials, 
and so to reach fair and dispassionate con- 
clusions. Although my husband attended an 
engineering college while I took a liberal 
arts course, both of us emerged from our 
studies better able to reason, and we feel we 
are better able to work constructively in our 
community because of the training we had. 

Now we have two children in college, 
one at Pembroke. We have been very 
disturbed because they do not seem to be 
getting the chance we had for mental and 



emotional growth. They have been subjected 
to a great deal of emotional oratory and 
have been prodded to take stands on contro- 
versial issues without being given all the 
facts in an impartial, balanced way. The 
latest concept, the Princeton Plan {BAM, 
July) will give the students two weeks off 
before the November elections so that they 
and the faculty can campaign. What will 
they learn from this experience? 

It seems to us that they will learn, first 
of all, that politics warrant taking two weeks 
off from their regular job. Is that responsible 
citizenship? It happens that both my hus- 
band and I were circulating political 
petitions in May, but we did this on our own 
time — we didn't ask our employers for time 
off from work. 

Secondly, it encourages them in the 
myth that college-age people, who have 
never supported a family, who have never 
paid taxes, who haven't experienced the 
gamut of responsibilities shouldered by 
adults, are qualified to tell adults how to 
vote. 

Thirdly, at a time when they should be 
free of decision-making in order to learn 
how to make decisions, they are being 
subjected to very one-sided, emotional pres- 
entations of controversial issues. Are they 
going to stop thinking because of so much 
pressure to act? 

For all these reasons, it seems to us that 
the colleges are failing to provide the kind 
of education that we expected our children 
to receive. We hope that all parents and the 
faculty and administrations of our colleges 
will do all they can to provide sound train- 
ing in objective thinking to today's students. 

MRS. KENNETH LAWRENCE 

North Granby, Conn. 

(The Brown faculty, as reported in the 
July issue, voted in May to rearrange the 
1970-71 calendar to provide for a two-week 
recess between Oct. 21 and Nov. 3. The 10 
days that the University will be closed will 
be made up by eliminating the Columbus 
Day holiday and by shortening Christmas 
recess and the final examination period. Ed.) 

Not as violently 

Sir: I was interested to see a letter from 
a classmate, George C. Oliver, headed your 
column in July. 

While not so violently opposed to the 
present student generation as he seems to 
be, I still do have a certain sympathy for his 
point of view. I also sympathize with those 
who do not want to go to Vietnam and who 
feel that the war there is pointless and futile. 
At least the demonstrators are taking action 
to show their feelings to the world, which 
most of us older ones cannot or will not do. 

Please forward the enclosed small 
check to the Development Office to be 
earmarked for the new athletic complex. I 
was never an athlete, just a band member, 
but I have recently felt strongly the need 
for adding to our mediocre athletic facilities. 

DAVIS P. LOW '33 

Brockton, Mass. 



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For all the noise . . . 

Sir: It is with deep shame for Brown 
that I looked at the page of Life which 
shows a Brown Commencement demon- 
stration of a mock funeral with tombstones 
bearing the names of slain Americans. My 
shame is not with the demonstration per 
se — for what college today has not had its 
share — but for the naivete, the lack of logic 
or reason, the basic meaninglessness of the 
demonstration, which reflects poorly on the 
quality of a Brown education. 

One can assume that the whole point 
of the student demonstration was to indicate 
their "distress" over the evils of the world. 
If a huge wail for the sins of humanity is 
the most educated and constructive output 
of four years on "The Hill," then a Brown 
education is hardly worth the time and 
money. Those students are no more prepared 
to cope or improve life on this planet than 
any other generation — for all their noise 
and flap. 

MRS. SYLVIA ROSEN BAUMGARTEN P'55 

Far Rockawny, N.Y. 

Moved and impressed 

Sir: I had the pleasure of visiting Brown 
and Pembroke in the spring, one week 
before graduation. Although a member of 
the Pembroke Class of 1950, I was unable 
to attend the festivities of my 20th reunion 
and visited, instead, on the previous 
weekend. 

I was very moved and impressed by the 
relationship between the University and 
the faculty and students during the strike — 
a strike which I support. 

Violence, repression, no communication 
have characterized the contemporary scene 
on so many campuses in recent years and 
yet Brown has wisely and skillfully avoided 
these pitfalls. I spoke at length to some 
of the strike leaders and I was very im- 
pressed with their commitment and the 
sensible and flexible manner in which they 
were conducting the strike. They spoke 
with respect and understanding of the 
Administration and its problem with the 
board and the alumni. A sense of coopera- 
tion and concern, in its broadest sense, 
was obvious. 

RITA SILBERBERG ULRICH P'50 
Englewood, NJ. 

Bachelor of Politics? 

Sir: In our democracy everyone has the 
right to dissent, but when an academic 
institution gives academic credit and time to 
dissent to its students, it becomes not aca- 
demic but political. 

A situation in which a college faculty 
is led to a hasty decision of this sort (BAM, 
May) following an inflammatory speech to a 
group of students, is ridiculous. It shows a 
lack of judgment and anti-Americanism 
which I deplore and cannot support. 

Why not a degree of Bachelor of 
Politics instead of the usual degree for those 



who prefer the sound of their own voices to 
any others? 

HERBERT B. JOHNSON, M.D. '32 
Boai Riiton, Fin. 

Dimming diamonds? 

Sir: What is happening, academically, 
in our great universities? A great many 
of them are adopting substantial pass/fail 
systems, and Brown is said to be the most 
prestigious of the major universities to do 
so. In due course, such systems should lead 
to an educational establishment of relative 
mediocrity best suited to those who do not 
care much for work or the pursuit of excel- 
lence, but who do not want their deficiency 
in achievement to be exposed. Over the 
years, it should put a superficial polish on 
a multitude of pebbles and dim a host 
of diamonds. 

And what of Phi Beta Kappa? The press 
currently reports that in our universities 
some students are refusing election or 
accepting it with reluctance. One student, 
not at Brown, is said to have "resigned 
in irritation" because his views on campus 
reform were not heeded. Another vehement 
soul, in a West Coast university, is reported 
to have accepted election, but with "shame 
and guilt" — rather like eating one's cake and 
regurgitating it too. This sort of thing 
strikes me as a form of inverted exhibition- 
ism. I hope Brown has not caught the 
infection. 

lOHN A. WILSON '23 
Tennfly, NJ. 

Sir: I want to congratulate Brown Uni- 
versity and Pembroke College in general, 
and the Brown Ahimt^i Monthly specifically, 
for the excellent description by Dr. Jerome 
B. Grieder in the July, 1969 issue concern- 
ing the new curriculum. 
WILLIAM L. BOWDEN 
President 
Sotithwestern at Memphis College 

Shrugging it off 

Sir: I acquired a deep respect for Brown 
during the 10 years I was with the Rhode 
Island Community Chest, and my feeling 
for the institution was generated largely by 
the quality of Brown alumni whom I had 
occasion to work with in the state. For, after 
all, it is the quality of the product that 
defines the quality of the institution. 

After that, I became the development 
officer of the University (but with a different 
title) for a brief period during which funds 
for the "Wriston Quadrangle" were ob- 
tained. Since then, I have been in fund- 
raising for educational institutions in one 
form or another. 

During the last seven years, I have 
been on the Cornell and Columbia accounts 
successively and have been through all the 
interruptions occasioned by dissident stu- 
dents and others. It has been my impression 
that Brown has handled this situation 
rather well; certainly better than a number 
of other Ivy institutions. 



In spite of all this. Brown has not, in 
recent years, been able to enjoy the reputa- 
tion which it deserves. 1 have wondered 
many times whether the miserable results 
of some of its athletic teams have been, in 
part, a cause of this attitude. Perhaps it is 
due to the fact that the University is not 
located in a major population area or near 
enough to capture the interest of the re- 
gional press. 

Unfortunately, as I get around to other 
educational institutions, I find that Brown is 
still regarded by some as "low man on the 
totem pole." This will be shrugged off by 
anyone who knows of the quality of the 
institution, but it makes uphill going when 
it really is not necessary. 

1 trust that an active program designed 
to change this point of view is being under- 
taken. Certainly Brown's morale and that 
of its alumni will have an important influ- 
ence on your $92 million campaign for 
the 1970's. 

ROBERT O. LOOSLEY 
New York City 

On coming awake 

Sir: The July issue is wonderful. 
You, apparently, have come awake, as 
has the University. 

MAURICE H. HILTON '27 
New York City 

If not now, when? 

Sir: In your April issue on page 13 
there is this sentence: "Most of all, it 
seemed realistic to hope that Brown could 
move from being a fine university to being 
a great university." There are those among 
us who have the impression that Brown 
attained greatness in the field of education 
somewhere along the line from her colonial 
origin of long ago. 

What are the criteria for a great uni- 
versity? In 40 years, Charles W. Eliot 
changed Harvard from a run of the mill 
New England college to a great university. 
If Brown has yet so far to go to achieve 
greatness, more power to the 14th President. 
AUGUSTINE C, WEBB, M.D. '18 

Lake Geneva, Wis. 



A conscious act 

Sir: You commented {BAM, April) that 
only seven percent of men graduate students 
voted for alumni trustees in 1969. As a 
member of the 93 percent majority, I would 
like you to know that failure to return my 
ballot in 1970 was a conscious act, not a 
result of apathy. 

In all the years I have been receiving 
a ballot, I have failed to notice a single 
candidate for alumni trustee with a Ph.D. 
degree, and only one or two with any 
advanced degree. Since my own personal tie 
to Brown is through its graduate program, 
I see no purpose in affiliating myself with 
a group which apparently holds advanced 
degrees in such low esteem. 

PHILIP C. HODGE, JR. GS'4<> 
Illinois Institute of Technology 



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In the spring of 1962, the President of Brown and the 
vice president of the Ford Foundation met on a plane. 
They exchanged pleasantries, probably prevarications 
about the size of the fish they had caught, and gossip about 
the state of admission to selective colleges. 

The year 1962 should mark a period of blessed mem- 
ory for the private colleges — applications were numerous, 
students were washed and respectful, and tuitions had not 
yet reached the point where they were causing economists 
to make dire predictions. 

Business was in fact so good that Alvin Eurich of the 
Ford Foundation expressed to President Barnaby C. 
Keeney the fear that colleges like Brown had too much 
choice, that perhaps they were turning down better hu- 
mans in favor of better test scores. Keeney disagreed; 
Brown, he felt, took some chances and they turned out 
well. Eurich was pleased at the information and suggested 
that a study to find out how well these "chances" turned 
out would be in order. In essence, the Ford Risk program 
was born at that moment. 

President Keeney consulted with his director of admis- 
sion the next day, learned to his pleasure that the informa- 
tion he had passed on to Eurich was indeed true, and 
turned the formulation of a grant proposal and subsequent 
study over to him. 

Borrowing heavily on a limited Biblical knowledge, 
the proposal began pretentiously: "In the belief that the 
race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the 
strong . . ." and went on to propose a means, not just to 
investigate the academic success of risk students in college, 
but also to assess the long-term ramifications of admitting 
risk students. To do this, we decided to go back to the 
period immediately following World War II, the only 
other time in recent academic history when there had 
been a crush in college admission. Although this was 
not a perfect parallel for the crush of the sixties, it was 
close, and enough time had passed to provide the proper 
perspective. 

The grant proposed to study the admission credentials 
of the classes of 1950-52 (entering college in 1946-48) 
to see which of these might have been risks, and then to 
determine what happened to them in college and subse- 

Charles H. Doebler, IV, '48 was director of admission 
at Brown for 14 years before he resigned last year to join 
Barton-Gillette Company. 

His article about the Ford Risk program and what 
came out of it was written in as non-technical language as 
possible. Like many versions of scientific reports, it tends 
to oversimplify the findings in the process of translating 
them from the technical language in which they were 
originally couched. Readers interested in learning more 
precisely about the Ford Study findings are referred to 
Dr. Everhard Nicholson's report or Mr. Doebler' s accom- 
panying digest from which this article loas taken. Further 
information is available by contacting Dr. Nicholson at 
Box 1912, Brown University. 



quently. We hoped that a pattern might emerge which 
would enable us to identify the student, who, though 
risky, got through college and was successful later, as well. 

If such a pattern did show up, it would then be im- 
posed to current classes at Brown to see if the identifying 
characteristics still held true a decade later. If they did, 
then from this pattern we hoped to make new bases for 
making risk decisions; they could be made on the basis of 
proved criteria rather than on intuition, which the Brown 
admission office cheerfully had been using for some 
decades. 

Finally, the grant proposal said that since about 10 
per cent of every class at Brown had been long shots, that 
Brown would continue to maintain this same latitude and 
during the seven years that the study was to run, a class 
would always have a 10 per cent risk population. Since 
risk was defined as a "student whose academic qualifica- 
tions were less than first rate," this gave us a great deal of 
room to work in. 

Nevertheless, the damage was done. Happy alumni 
saw the announcement of a specified risk population 
as the means of new athletic successes, mothers brought in 
semi-literate sons, and the Providence Journal capped it 
with a headline that read: "Brown Seeks Unqualified Stu- 
dents." Time magazine, temporarily abandoning the affairs 
of Yale, catapulted the study into the big time, ending its 
article portentously: "thus do the Lord and Barnaby 
Keeney provide for the Tom Sawyers of the land." The 
name stuck, and nearly every Brown freshman thereafter 
was sure that he was a Tom Sawyer. 

Once the grant was made, our troubles had only be- 
gun. We had to define risk and success, to find ways of 
gathering information on classes out 15 years, and to put 
the whole study together into a package which would 
yield results. The very size of the grant, $155,000, indicates 
the degree of responsibility and the expectations of im- 
portant findings. 

We experimented with a variety of methods, including 
a bulky, exhaustive and exhausting questionnaire which 
attempted to establish undergraduate attitudes of alumni 
out of college 15 years. (As I remember, it was so long 
and inquisitive that the director himself never got around 
to answering it). 

Eventually we adopted the present design and the 
present technical director. At this time we developed the 
"official" description of risk: a student who presented a 
score on the Scholastic Aptitude Verbal test of 500 or 
below. For later classes 1966-68, the cut-off was 620. 

Right away the study is in danger of being disregarded 
because we are dealing with such good scores. Even though 
the difference between earlier classes and the later is 
dramatic by the improvement which came about, a score 
of 500 on the SAT verbal is considered solid middle by 
many good colleges, and 620 is in the upper percentiles of 
any population. What does such an elevated description 
of risk prove? 



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The answer is that even a student of high abiUty is a 
risk when the bulk of those he competes against are of 
even higher abiHty. Lest the reader get a totally wrong 
impression, in the Class of 1966-67, many of the risks had 
verbal scores under 600, and just short of 12 per cent 
scored under 500. There are complicated statistical reasons 
for putting the cutoff score where it was; the real risks (as 
I defined them intuitively) were not just students with low 
verbal scores, but it was necessary to stabilize the descrip- 
tion and later move on to variations of it. 

Once risk was defined, it paved the way for a still 
knottier problem: how to define success? Once we decided 
that we were concerned about the ultimate success of risk 
students, it was necessary to define success as precisely 
as we had "risks," otherwise we could not determine who 
had or had not achieved it. We finally decided on three 
measurements: graduation from college, achievement of 
an advanced degree, and finally, reputation for success. 

The first is important pragmatically to the college. 
Students who graduate are more likely to pay tuition bills 
for four years than those who flunk out or drop out. 

An advanced degree is directly connected with aca- 
demic success, but it is also the stepping stone to fame and 
fortune in many of the professions. Distinction in many 
of the professions is doubtful without the achievement of 
an advanced degree. 

Reputation for success is somewhat more difficult to 
pin down, but in general, we came to the conclusion that 
when someone is considered a success, he probably is. We 
wished particularly to get away from such overly obvious 
measures of success as income to determine which mem- 
bers of the Classes of 1950-52 had accomplished enough 
to be thought successful by their classmates or the world. 



(Only the 50-52 Classes were judged in this way. Clearly 
the 66-68 classes had not been in the world long enough 
to be judged on any except the first two measures of 
success.) 

Having established the criteria, the work of the study 
could begin in earnest. One of the first chores was to 
extract all the information possible from the applications 
which the earlier classes had filled before their entrance to 
Brown. These had such potentially useful items as parents' 
education, extra-curricular activities in high school, school 
record and recommendation, and so on. Fortunately for the 
study, Brown University is attic-minded and apparently 
is reluctant to throw anything away which might be useful. 
(One admission officer browsing in the treasured archives 
stored in a vault in University Hall found a permission 
slip from Dean Arnold allowing him to be absent from 
classes the Monday after Thanksgiving!). 

Any information which might be of use was coded on 
IBM cards for later sorting and analysis. The same was 
done for later classes under study (1966-69) and the aca- 
demic records of the College, alumni records, and individ- 
ual questionnaires (another, simpler set) were used to add 
to the store of information we collected about each student. 

With this information we had three major sources of 
information which might have some bearing on the prob- 
lem of predicting success — the comments of the school and 
the degree of enthusiasm they expressed about the appli- 
cant; the background of the applicant-parents' education, 
what kind of school he went to, what size town he lived in, 
etc.; and the activities of the applicant in high school. 
These three areas were developed into four different scales 
of measurement tested by multiple discriminant analysis 



Seven years with 

Tom 
Sawyer 

by Charles H. Doebler, IV '48 




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to determine if they could make predictions. The results 
were highly gratifying. 

Using these four new predictors in a prediction 
equation, we discovered that it was able to make better 
predictions about which risks graduated and which would 
drop out than the old faithfuls: College Board Aptitude 
and Achievement tests. 

What are these new predictors, and where do we get 
the information to form them? They are "non-academic" 
measurements because they do not rely directly on the 
academic measurement or scholastic records of the stu- 
dents, but rather on observations of the student, his back- 
ground, or the kinds of non-academic activities he takes 
part in. 

The most effective and interesting of the four "new" 
criteria is the scale we call the Admission Index. This is 
derived from the school record form on which the coun- 
selor, the principal, or a student's teachers were asked to 
indicate the degree of their enthusiasm for the students as 
an applicant to Brown. The current record form asks for 
an evaluation of the student in terms of his motivation 
and for an overall recommendation of the applicant as a 
student and as a person. Since these were on a scale to 
which numerical values could be easily assigned, there was 
no difficulty in coming up with numbers which reflected 
the school's evaluation of the applicant. 

In the same way, the records of the Classes of 1950-52 
were made into a similar index. Although the forms had 
changed considerably, the basic concept of a scale of 
enthusiasm had been used and a numerical scale was again 
easily established. The results show that counselors did 
and do an unusually fine job of predicting success for their 
students. 

In the study of these earlier classes, the Admission 
Index made good predictions on those who would gradu- 
ate; it predicted those who earned graduate degrees. And, 
perhaps most eerily, it was able to look ahead to predict 
those who were rated successful 15-17 years after 
graduation. 

When the study was moved up to the later classes, 
the Admission Index continued to perform and correctly 
predicted who would graduate and who would enter 
graduate school. 

The real purpose of this study was to determine the 
success of risks, and here again, the Admission Index 
proved its worth. In dealing with verbal risks only, the 
Admission Index provided significant prediction about 
those risks who would graduate and those who would 
later earn advanced degrees. This was true both for the 
early and later classes. 

It was in the area of long predictions that the Admis- 
sion Index began to show its uncanny clairvoyant powers. 
The risk sample of the 50-52 Classes was divided accord- 
ing to occupational groups: science-technology, general 
culture (teacher, artist, lawyer), and business. The science 
group had the highest Admission Index scores, culture 
next, and business at the bottom. Considering that a career 



in science requires advanced degrees and that the Admis- 
sion Index is really a measure of academic motivation (as 
observed by someone else), this scaling is not surprising. 
However, when each of these occupational groups was di- 
vided to measure the levels of success accomplished in 
each group, those with the highest professional ranking 
had also been given the highest ratings by their high 
schools at the time of admission to college. 

An index based on the student's background was the 
basis for the second of the new criteria. A family- 
school-home-community questionnaire was devised using 
items from our own experience and from a form developed 
by the Educational Testing Service. These questionnaries 
were given to students after they entered Brown, but a 
shortened form was developed which could be included in 
the admission application. 

For the earlier classes, an abbreviated index was de- 
veloped for the 50-52 Classes. Made into an index and 
applied against the records of the earlier classes, it per- 
formed in much the same way as the Admission Index. It 
was able to make predictions on who would graduate, who 
would get advanced degrees, and who would be successful 
years later. In applying this index to the risks specifically, 
the pattern held good except that it did not work on the 
veterans of the earlier classes. 

Brought up to the present, the Environmental Index 
separated the graduates from the non-graduates, and 
those who went to graduate school from those who did not. 

The overall implications of this scale are not surpris- 
ing — the more fortunate the background of a student, the 
more likely he is to be successful, in college and in life. The 
fact that the veterans did not yield to this pattern is a 
happy Cinderella note. 

Ever since admission became a problem to worry about, 
schools, parents, alumni, and students have worried 
about the effect of extra-curricular activities on the admis- 
sion decision. 

It has long been a favorite theory of mine that the 
kinds of activities, athletic and otherwise, that a student 
takes part in are a clue to his character and temperament. 
This proved to be the case, but with some surprising twists. 

Studies of this sort have been done before, but they 
had not separated activities according to type. There are, 
it seemed to us, two major kinds: "Active" (athletics, 
school politics and the like); "passive" (acting, editing, 
and so on.) It was reasonable to guess that active students 
were less likely to be studious, and that passive students 
were more likely. On this basis, scales were drawn up. 

The first scale was called LAS, an acronym for activi- 
ties in the Leadership, Athletic, and Social sphere. The 
second was called LOMAS — derived from Literary, 
Oratorical, Musical, Artistic, and Scientific activities. In- 
formation about the later classes was obtained from a 
questionnaire sent after entrance to Brown. 

In the earlier classes such complete information was 
not available, but on the basis of information which came 



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from their applications, a parallel scale was devised which 
provided enough information to be valid. 

The results were hardly encouraging to the many 
alumni who argue that today's athlete is more likely to be 
tomorrow's business tycoon who will rebuild the campus. 
For the total classes 50-52, the "athletic" scale (LAS) was 
able to perform as a predictor. In general, those who 
graduated, went to graduate school, or were successful 
years later were those less involved in high school athletics. 

In the later classes, the LAS scale showed that non- 
athletic students were more likely to go to graduate school, 
but it had little effect on whether or not a student would 
graduate. 

For the risks of 1950-52, the general import of the 
study is that the less athletic student is more likely to 
graduate and get an advanced degree. Interestingly, the 
results on later success for this group is not significant 
(Perhaps athletes xoill vindicate the alumni in the long 
run!) Athletic verbal risks in recent classes are less likely 
to go to graduate school, but again, the effect on gradua- 
tion is not significant. 

When the risks in the earlier classes were divided 
according to occupations, high school athletic activity 
was lowest for those in science and highest for those in 
business. Further, those who reached the highest levels of 
success in each of the occupational areas, including 
business, were those who had been least involved in high 
school althletics. 

In the "scholarly" activities (LOMAS) a point of 
particular interest to admission officers emerged. Although 
higher scores on this scale were associated with an 
advanced degree and later success, higher scores also 
showed up for non-graduates in both the earlier and later 



classes. The implications are clear: an applicant to college 
who collects activities to make his application look good 
but is not genuinely involved in them is apparently an 
academic fake as well as an activities fake. Admission 
officers have known for years that anxious students are 
likely to sign up for "roster" activities just to make 
their applications look better. The study shows that a 
student with smaller numbers of genuine activities is more 
likely to graduate. However, once graduation is achieved, 
a previous record of more activities predicts greater 
"success." 

There is another possible explanation: the student 
with many activities may have a low attention span and 
lacks interest in any one. Hence, he does not graduate 
from the college because it demands too much consistent 
effort. 

When this study was designed, we decided that one 
mark of a successful risk was his graduation from 
college. That is, if we invest a place in the class for 
a risk, we do not expect him to produce a Summa average, 
but we do hope he will get through. The interesting 
by-product of looking at classes to see who graduates 
rather than who has the highest averages is that a brand 
new group appears — the drop-out. 

When success in college is judged by academic 
average, you would assume that there would be a steady 
downhill trend in grades from top to bottom, and the 
group at the bottom, having poor grades, would not 
graduate. 

The fascinating fact is that the drop-out comes into 
college with school records and tests that put him in 
the middle of his class, and considerably better than the 




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students who just barely graduate. Moreover, drop-outs, 
as a group, have a pattern of activities, school recommen- 
dations, and background which make them identifiable. 

Like all statistical measures, this pattern cannot be 
applied specifically to one student, but it can be said: "He 
looks like the kind of student who drops out." 

The same is true for risk students. Each of the new 
criteria discussed here can be combined to form virtually 
a new dimension in prediction. In comparing these new 
measurements against those which admission officers have 
used for years, three of the new scales were found to be 
more effective than any of the other prediction devices — 
including class rank which had been the most effective 
in making predictions at Brown. This was true not 
only for risks, but for the general student population 
as well. 

To return to graduation as a form of success. This study 
shows that it is not only success in its own right 
(and success for the admission officer who chose a suc- 
cessful risk) but that success follows success. In the 
earlier classes, a much higher percentage of the class that 
was later rated successful had graduated. Put another 
way, if you did not graduate from Brown, your chances 
of being successful later were distinctly diminished. The 
interesting point is that the fact of graduation is a great 
leveler. It did not matter whether a student was a risk 
or not, once he graduated, his chances for future success 
were the same as those of any other graduate in his 
class. The degree had equalized the risk. 

The second measure of success was earning an 
advanced degree. Like the first, this is an academic 
achievement, and it is not remarkable, therefore, that the 
best predictor is the same as that for success in college 
— that is, the scale derived from the counselor's ratings, 
the Admission Index. Thus a school's evaluation of a 
high school senior stays valid through college and gradu- 
ate school. For this group, patterns of motivation are 
set early and remain constant. 

The third and final measure of success was found 
in an attempt to make objective scales for the everyday 
definition of the word. As described earlier, juries of 
alumni commented on their classmates, major biograph- 
ical references were consulted, and the alumni sections 
of the Brown Alumni Monthly for the five years previous 
were read so that the rise to eminence of any members 
of the classes of 1950-52 would be recorded. The criteria 
(which were not ironclad) were: academic or research 
accomplishment (including books, inventions, etc.); 
employment status; status in the local community; status 
on the national level; income (or the reputation for it), 
contributions to Brown (an involuted form of success, but 
no less important to the University); and a catch-all, 
general reputation, which was designed to take care of 
alumni of note who did not fall into any of the other 
categories — actors, for example. 



TAThen the results were tabulated, a pattern of success 
' ^ emerged which was surprising in some of its aspects. 
For example, the best indicators for success nearly 20 
years in the future were the Environmental Index before 
admission (them what has, gets). The best predictors 
of long term success after the student has entered college 
are his grades at the end of the first semester; by then 
risks and non-risks who will achieve later success have 
identified themselves through academic achievement. 

As described before, the graduates were divided into 
three groups according to their occupations, and these 
occupational groups were divided according to the level 
achieved in each. Some of the findings were: 

Businessmen tended to develop from stu- 
dents with lower verbal abilities. 

Scientists get to the top levels more quickly 
than any others. (It is often said of chemists 
that if they don't make their big splash in their 
twenties, they probably won't make it.) 

Success in business comes at a much more 
sedate pace than in the other two classifications. 
For that reason, it is quite possible that the time 
span of this study was not long enough for 
those in business really to reach their peak — per- 
haps 25 years after graduation is the optimum 
time to make these judgments. 

The achievement of an advanced degree 
does not seem to increase the probabilities for 
success of the "culture" group. 

Success in business does not depend at all 
on an advanced degree. 

The scientists, as a group, were not so 
athletic in high school as their contemporaries 
who came to Brown. 

The businessmen, as a group, had been more 
athletic in high school than their Brown class- 
mates. 

Scientists were students with the highest 
promise of academic success in high school; 
businessmen were students who showed the least 
academic promise. It should be remembered 
that "the least promise" does not mean in the 
entire high school, but of those who entered 
Brown and were compared with the rest of their 
classmates at Brown. 

Now that the formal part of the study is over, it 
is clear there are still many questions unanswered. For 
example, can measurements which were developed for 
the Brown population be used to help all other colleges, 
or just those with populations approximating Brown? 
The designer of the study, Everard Nicholson, feels 
that the new measures will be even more success- 
ful in other colleges which have more variety in their 
populations. 

A further question: does this study really eliminate 
the need for some sensitive and intuitive handling of 



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admission applications? Since every good admission 
officer firmly believes in this approach, the study was not 
intended to do this, but only to aid him. 

In part the answer comes from a brief further 
description of what the study covered. After establishing 
one kind of risk (the verbal variety) the study went on 
to pick out several more: the under- and over-achievers 
and the "split" scores, high scores in the verbal area 
on the College Board tests, but low in math, and vice versa. 

The study proved out what most admission officers 
know by experience: students who test poorly but who 
have done well in school — the "over-achievers" — are 
good students to bet on. Students with good scores and 
records which are not so good are poor bets. The im- 
portant point is that while most admission officers 
identify these kinds of risks by sight, and in so doing miss 
some, the machine will bring them out in the open. They 
can then be subjected to the intuitive wisdom of the 
admission officer. 

It is an interesting circular situation. Objective 
measurements can support the intuition born of experi- 
ence. It was no surprise to learn that "over-achievers" 
perform better as science students, and that students 
with very high mathematical aptitude scores and low 
verbal scores do not perform remarkably well as science 
students. This study verified this intuition and it can 
now be part of the equipment available to the admission 
officer. 

What these new instruments may do best is to aid in 
longer-range planning that few colleges have 
embarked on. There are urgent questions in admission 



which have to be considered: open admission, no grades 
in college, no grades or class rank from secondary 
schools, the critical need to find students who can pay 
their way and who will stay in college. All of these can 
be examined more rationally by the results of this study, 
and appropriate admission policy decisions can be made. 

But there are still more important questions which 
go beyond the immediate problems of admission to the 
current class and the classes of the next five years. 
What kind of graduates does a college want for itself 
25 years from now? Will students admitted now have 
the influence to help Alma Mater, or the interest to do so? 

While it would be hubristic to say that we can now 
predict the future, we do seem to have the means to peer 
further into the future of an alumnus than anyone has 
had in the past. Since this is so, it seems reasonable to 
suggest that colleges make five, 10, and even 25 year 
projections of the kind of students they want, using the 
same means to project this as are now used for financial 
projections. Surely the long-range educational aims of 
a university are no less important than how to finance 
those aims, but more is needed than broad statements 
about "the best possible education." The tools which this 
study has devised are possible beginnings of an entirely 
new line of attack on a fascinating problem. 

With the right combinations of cooperation, con- 
tinuing research may make it possible for admission to 
become a science of coruscating prescience. 

In the meantime, the best admission officers will 
combine science with their special brand of extra- 
sensory perception. It drives the statisticians wild, of 
course, but the best admission officers expect that. 




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Serene niid heanliful, ll 



,c l.htorical Haffenreffer site is now used by thousands of school children each year. 



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Haffenreffer Museum: 

You make things, 
you touch things, 
you do things 





Late in the summer of 1676, an Indian who took the 
Christian name of Alderman toured the white settle- 
ments of southern New England. With him he lugged a 
heavy bucket filled with rum and vinegar. At each stop, for 
a price, he'd proudly pull from that bucket the pickled hand 
of King Philip, late chief of the Wampanoag tribe. 

Philip had been ambushed and killed by Alderman 
on Aug. 12 at the chief's summer retreat on Mount Hope, 
now a part of Bristol, R.I. Legend has it that Alderman 
did a brisk business by displaying Philip's hand, for the 
settlers were more than anxious for any proof that Philip 
was dead and that the bloody Indian war was ended. 

In proportion to population, the two-year struggle 
known as King Philip's War inflicted greater casualties 
upon the people than any war in history. Several thousand 
persons lost their lives, families were scattered, and set- 
tlements as far west as Deerfield, Mass., were destroyed. 
With the conclusion of the war, the power of the Indians 
in southern New England was crushed forever. 

War-whoops, however, still echo across the gentle 
slopes of Mount Hope. Sharply-pointed arrowheads are 




Participation is a byword at Haffenrejfer. Here children grind corn 
on a metate. 



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made, and fish are cooked in water brought to a boil by 
heated stones. All of this is part of a new and exciting edu- 
cational program conducted under the auspices of Brown's 
department of anthropology on the very ground once 
occupied by the Wampanoags. 

Close to 3,500 elementary and junior high school 
children from Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, 
and New Hampshire came to Mount Hope last year. The 
students were exposed to a first-rate collection of Ameri- 
can Indian artifacts and tribal arts from throughout the 
world, with some of the material dating back to the Stone 
Age. The students also were caught up in the enthusiasm 
and warmth of a staff that has devised a forward-looking 
program aimed at making the culture of the Indians come 
alive again. 

"Our program is mostly a matter of communication," 
says Mrs. J. Louis Giddings, curator of Brown's Haffen- 
reffer Museum of Anthropology at Mount Hope. "We 
try to involve the children and to instill in their hearts a 
feeling for the Indians and their culture. We try to teach 
the children to respect another culture and not to resent 
that culture just because it happens to be different." 

Alex F. Ricciardelli, appointed last year as director 
of the Haffenreffer Museum, is enthusiastic about the work 
being carried on there by Mrs. Giddings and her staff. 
"We have a small but excellent museum in Bristol actively 
involved in three basic areas — exhibits, research, and the 
public education program that is attracting so much atten- 
tion throughout New England. When Brown is searching 
for something positive to say about its relations with the 
community, the museum and the educational program 
carried on there provide an area where we can carry our 
heads high." 

' I ■ he story of how Brown University became involved in 
■*• Mount Hope and the Haffenreffer Museum dates to 
1917. That was the year Rudolf F. Haffenreffer, II, pur- 
chased the large Bristol estate called Mount Hope, an un- 
spoiled area of woods, paths, and shore that had changed 
relatively little in the 250 years since King Philip lived, 
fought, and died there. 

Haffenreffer soon found himself collecting the arrow- 
heads, gouges, and other Indian artifacts which were 
turned up on the property. As the collection grew, he 
branched out and acquired materials from other areas. 
At the time of his death in 1954, Haffenreffer had amassed 
an outstanding collection of Indian objects from North, 
Central, and South America. 

In December of 1955, Mrs. Haffenreffer and her sons, 
Carl and Rudolf, III, gave Brown approximately 500 acres 
of the Mount Hope estate, the bulk of the Indian collection, 
and a museum which had been erected in 1928 on the 
northeastern slope, overlooking Mount Hope Bay. 

This was no ordinary museum. Known as the Haffen- 
reffer Museum of the American Indian, it housed one of 
the finest private collections of Indian materials ever as- 
sembled. However, courses in anthropology had never 



been taught at Brown, and the University suddenly found 
itself in the embarrassing position of having a museum but 
no program and no staff. 

Brown's answer to this problem was to reach out to 
the University of Pennsylvania and bring to the campus 
J. Louis Giddings, an authority on early man in the north- 
ernmost areas of the North American continent and one of 
the eminent men in his field. As associate professor of 
sociology at Brown and director of the museum. Dr. Gidd- 
ings' task was to develop the museum as a teaching and 
research center and to make its Indian collection available 
for viewing to the public. 

Under Dr. Giddings, the museum at Mount Hope 
expanded its exhibits to include ethnographic materials 
from many parts of the world, including Africa, Thailand, 
the Artie, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. Because 
of this diversification, the name of the museum was 
changed to the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology. 
Regular visiting hours for the general public were estab- 
lished and a program of guided tours for school children 
was initiated. 

Brown and the world of anthropology suffered a great 
loss in 1964 when Dr. Giddings died as the result of injuries 
suffered in an automobile accident. His widow stayed on as 
curator of the museum, serving both as administrator and 
principle lecturer. But, even before her husband's death. 
Bets Giddings had never been completely satisfied with the 
museum program as it related to the eager youngsters 
who filed through the various rooms, dutifully looking at 
all the objects in the display cases. 

"It's not good to have objects behind glass," she says. 
"Children get glassy-eyed. It's so much better to let them 
touch things, hold things. Then everything takes on a 
greater meaning. I often thought of all the new and im- 
portant things we could do in this beautiful and historic 
place if only we had more money and more staff." 

Mrs. Giddings got her wish for a larger budget and 
additional staff during the summer of 1968. The 
University filled the position of museum director, vacant 
since the death of Dr. Giddings, with the appointment of 
Alex F.Ricciardelli, a leading anthropologist and authority 
on North American Indians. Prof. Ricciardelli had studied 
under Dr. Giddings at the University of Pennsylvania, the 
two men had explored the Arctic region together one sum- 
mer, and the new director was the perfect ally to help his 
curator fight the battle of the budget. 

Through the efforts of Prof. Ricciardelli, sufficient 
funds were secured from the University for two staff 
people and an expanded program. Mrs. Giddings promptly 



The Mexican penata ceremony is one of the delights of children 
visiting Haffenreffer. As with the Mexican Indians, the penata is 
broken open and the gifts inside it are distributed. 



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hired as educational assistants Mrs. Barbara Hail P'52, 
wife of Brown admission officer Edward G. "Ted" Hail 
'49, and Mrs. Ellen Wilson ?'51, wife of Richard A. 
Wilson, Jr., '50. Both women had extensive teaching 
experience. 

"When the three of us sat down in the summer of 
1968 to plan our new program, we were in agreement on 
one basic point," Mrs. Giddings recalls. "We wanted to 
make the museum a more wide-awake experience for the 
youngsters. Rather than having the school children spend 
their hour or so with us looking at hundreds of objects 
and going back to their buildings slightly bewildered by 
it all, we wanted a program in which the youngsters could 
immerse themselves in a particular culture. 

"We wanted them to eat the food, feel the tools and 
weapons, talk the sign language, and do the dances of that 
Indian culture. In short, we wanted them to leave the 
museum thirsting for more knowledge on the subject." 

Another point of agreement was that the classes 
should be small — no more than 30 children at each session. 
This meant that more staff help was needed. And since 
no budget was available for additional help, it meant that 
volunteers would have to be sought. 

The volunteers, or docents, as they are called, were 
recruited by word of mouth. Mrs. Giddings and others 
talked to numerous women's organizations, but the stand- 
ards were high and volunteers were slow to come forth. 
Only one docent had been recruited by the time the new 
program went into effect in the fall of 1968. By spring, 
there were five, and during 1969-70 the staff worked 
with 10 docents, almost all of whom had some teaching 
experience. 

"You have to be a certain type of person to be a 
docent," Mrs. Giddings notes. "You have to be willing to 
roll up your sleeves and get sweaty. You have to be willing 
to sit on the grass, put on wigs, and get all messed up. 
And, certainly, you have to love children. Also, we want 
soft-spoken people, women who have soft Indian voices 
and do graceful things. If a docent has a small group of 
children sitting around a warm fire in a tepee and she 
speaks to them in loud, strident tones, then the spell is 
broken; the moment is lost." 

Each fall the new volunteers are required to partici- 
pate in a training course, where the girls are instructed in 
the various Indian cultures taught in the educational pro- 
gram and are informed how the staff wants this informa- 
tion presented to the children. During the month of 
February, while the museum is closed, each docent is given 
a specific project to research: arrow-making, sign language, 
etc. By making in-depth studies, the volunteers are then 
able to teach each other and work up new programs or 
modifications for existing programs. 

"Without exception, the women are talented and dedi- 
cated people," says Mrs. Wilson. "Most come one day a 
week throughout the year, while a few come twice a week. 
And these volunteers are not necessarily all teachers. One 



of the girls majored in crafts at the University of New 
Hampshire and contributes in that area. A School of De- 
sign student has put together for our new educational 
program a Mayan wattle-and-daub model house with a 
thatched roof. The education program has involved people 
from the entire community and has become a real town 
and gown relationship." 

The educational program operates two days a week — 
Tuesday and Thursdays — and concentrates on the North- 
east Indians, Plains Indians, Eskimos, and Mexican 
Indians, the areas of the museum's special strength. A 
culture is taught for a period of five or six weeks, and then 
the staff switches to the next one. Hours for the classes 
are 9:30 and 11 :00 a.m. and are by appointment only. The 
first 45 minutes consists of a group talk, supplemented 
by slides and an opportunity to view the cases. The second 
45 minutes is spent in craft skills. This is the part of the 
program that the children like best. 

"The children may try on the clothing and eat the 
food of the Eskimos, sit in a real wigwam or tepee and 
handle actual artifacts used by people of another culture 
and another century," Mrs. Hail explains. "They may 
learn to hurl a spear with an Eskimo ataltl, practice scrap- 
ing skin from a freshly killed deer, or try their hand at 
weaving a reed mat or painting a pictograph on skin. These 
are the moments that excite their imagination." 

¥A7hen children are excited, they make noise. Mount 
■ ' Hope today is a noisy place. Outside a wigwam com- 
mon to the Northeast Indian, a docent beats a drum and 
her small group of children breaks into a war dance, punc- 
tuated with all the appropriate war cries. Near a hillside 
the docents, dressed in the costume of the Mexican Indians, 
teach the youngsters the "Mexican Hat Dance." And when 
the instructor tells the group that the boy who catches the 
hat must kiss the girl who threw it, there are embarrassed 
oh's and ah's and then, inevitably, the young braves break 
ranks and seek the safety of the steep hill, while some of 
the girls make mock effort to chase them. 

Throughout the year, no matter what culture is being 
taught, the children are urged to use their imagination. 
Inside a tepee one section sits on furs and is impressed with 
the solemnity of the peace pipe ceremony. The class learns 
that the skin tepees were made by the Indian women and 
that the men decorated them with paint. Boys are shown 
how to make headbands and girls create colorful bead 
rings. Some children grind corn on a metate while others 
make necklaces from chicken bones, clamshells, corn, and 
wampum. 

All of the courses of the museum are geared to supple- 
ment the schools' social studies curriculum. Last year Mrs. 
Giddings added an African unit, which ties in with the 
material now being taught in the schools on black history. 
This program was made possible by Joel Teitelbaum '61, 
who went to Africa with a small fund and bought the en- 
tire house furnishings from a member of a Kenyan tribe. 



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Mrs. Giddings is excited about this purchase. "It in- 
cludes all the household utensils — gourds, beaded dance 
skirts, brass rings, facial tweezers to pluck hair, earrings, 
a musical instrument called a kalimba, tooth brushes made 
of twigs, and combs. It even includes the beehive that hung 
from the tree outside the house. The beehive is very im- 
portant to the Africans because they are able to make beer 
from the honey. 

"We have a lot of fun with this unit. The children 
sit around the floor, with Mrs. Hail in the middle, and 
they can beat the drum, play the kalimba, maybe do some 
tie-dying, and even try plucking out a few hairs. The 
power of suggestion is very strong! The native who sold 
this household intact was also pleased with the transaction. 
When Joel left him, the African pored over a Sears-Roe- 
buck catalogue, picking out some modern furniture for 
his home. 

To help defray the expense of craft materials, cos- 
tumes, film, and food, the directors have instituted a small 
charge of 25 cents per child for those classes visiting the 
museum. When, for some reason, a school is not able to 
send its children to the museum, Mrs. Giddings or a mem- 
ber of her staff will take a kit to the school where the 
youngsters may try on costumes, handle artifacts, and 
look at slides. The flat charge for this is $10. 

Looking to the future, Mrs. Giddings hopes to enlarge 
I the scope of the educational program to cover the 
other Indian cultures of the United States and South 
America. She wants to do more with the tradition of King 
Philip, showing the children the spring near which he 
was shot as well as King Philip's "Chair," a rock forma- 
tion located high in the hillside overlooking Mount Hope 



Bay. There are plans to get the children involved before 
they arrive at the museum by sending prepared materials 
to the schools a week or so in advance. 

Prof. Ricciardelli, in time, would like to see an Indian 
village constructed on the site. "Mount Hope is a place of 
great historical significance because of its association with 
King Philip, one of the leading figures in the first century 
of American history. Right now we have an excellent mu- 
seum and educational program. But with all this land 
available, we have merely scratched the surface of what 
we can do here. The addition of an authentic Indian village 
— done with the same good taste as Plimoth Plantations' 
recently re-created Pilgrim Village of 1627 — would give 
Brown a total program in Indian culture second to none. 
However, unless we are suddenly endowed, these plans, 
as exciting as they may be, will have to wait." 

Right now, the directors are concerned with more 
immediate matters like getting the dirt entrance road to 
Mount Hope paved, seeking out hunters who will contrib- 
ute deerskins for this year's program, and converting an 
old barn next to the museum to storage, work, and labora- 
tory space. 

These are mundane matter, perhaps, but they are an 
extension of the vision of Dr. Giddings, who saw Mount 
Hope and the museum as a place "where people can come 
for fun." Hundreds of letters received from children par- 
ticipating in the educational program there indicate that 
people are having fun at Mount Hope. 

"I like it so much that I may go back there some- 
day," one youngster wrote. Said a Warwick, R.I. 10-year- 
old: 

"You make things, you touch things, you do things. 
That is why I liked it." J. B. 




Part of the joy of visiting the Haffenreffer site are the treasures children find there. And treasures can he driftwood and the shell of a crab. 



23 



Community organizing: 

'Middle class hang-ups 
about avoiding a scene 
only get in the way 



Tom Acosta '71, rings a doorbell in Pavilion St. "A 
salesman here to see you, Mom," yells the boy who 
answers the door. "Oh no," Tom laughs, "not a salesman. 
Definitely not a salesman." Not of encyclopedias, no. But 
in a sense, Tom Acosta is selling something — the possibil- 
ity of community power and self-determination — and he 
does it in an easy and convincing manner that would be 
the envy of your average Collier's door-to-door man. 

Acosta is one of three Brown students who were hired 
as summer interns by the Community Organization of 
Providence (CO-OP), an outfit devoted to convincing 
people in the urban decay areas of Providence that, by 
working together through neighborhood block clubs, they 
can become an effective pressure group. 

The terse maxims of the organizers flow naturally 
through Tom's conversation: Find out what the issues are. 
Be specific. Point out victories. Organize for immediate 
and realizable goals. 

The lady in Pavilion St. didn't come to the last block 
club meeting, so Acosta fills her in : a building around the 
corner has been torn down but the rubble in the cellar 
hasn't been cleaned out. The other day a kid threw a lead 
pipe he found there out in the street and "it's only a matter 
of time until someone starts throwing the rocks." The land- 
lord has agreed to pressure the contractor to finish the 
job. In the meantime, people are calling the landlord to 
make sure he doesn't forget. 

The lady agrees to make a phone call, but the block 
club meetings, well, she hardly has time. She is so busy 
with all the work that is being done on her house. "But 
you can fix up the place," says Tom, appealing to her self 
interest, "and it won't do any good if the property values 
deteriorate . Individually, not much can be done, but if 
people work together. . . ." Then he says, pointing out past 
victories, "there were nine people at the last meeting. 
That's not the kind of turnout that got the street lights 
on the block." The woman agrees and adds another issue 
to the ones Acosta has mentioned. One of her children 
found a hypodermic needle in a vacant, burned-out build- 
ing nearby. Yes, she decides, she will manage to come to 
the next meeting of the block club. 

Other calls on the street are not so productive. One 
woman can't take the neighborhood anymore and is 
moving her family to the suburbs. A man agrees there are 
problems; his solution is to build a formidable barbed 
wire fence around his house. He resists any suggestion that 
maybe the children from the nearby project throw rocks 
because they haven't any place nice to play and the block 
club might work on a recreation area for them. The life of 
an organizer, says Tom Acosta, is one of peaks and valleys, 
euphoria and despair experienced many times a day. 



TP he Thursday night staff meeting of the community 
•*■ organizers gets underway in a rather unorganized fash- 
ion at 11 p.m. "Only an hour late," someone says, "that's 
pretty good." The nine staff members present share french 



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.v.*-/.;'.- t. 



Community organizing means long hours of canvassing neighborhoods. Here, Tom Acosta encourages a woman to come to 
the next block club meeting. 



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fries and doughnuts around a large U-shaped table, while 
Stanley Holt, a Presbyterian minister who is director of 
CO-OP, stands at a black board and asks for progress 
reports. The last staff meeting was only two days ago, but 
it is clear that in 48 hours, some progress is expected. 

As the staff members report on what they have been 
doing, it develops that one measure of organizational pro- 
gress is the number of condemned buildings torn down. 
There is much talk of inspection tours and show-cause 
hearings. "Why is it taking so long to get these buildings 
to court?" Stan Holt wants to know. "Every time you call 
City Hall you get a different story. We're getting messed 
over on this," he tells his organizers, "and you're not 
letting the people know they're getting messed over." 
"The people" are the community residents of the 
blighted areas of Providence; they include blacks and 
whites, job holders and welfare recipients, property owners 
and renters. In common, they live in neighborhoods that 
aren't as good as they once were and are steadily getting 
worse. The signs are broken or boarded up windows, 
abandoned buildings, rotting porch steps. 

If only one person asks, the rotting porch steps could 
stay there forever. If 30 block club members visit the land- 
lord at his home to impress upon him that the condition 
of the steps is unacceptable and dangerous to children, 
there may well be workmen out the next day. 

From the point of view of the CO-OP, repaired steps 
or demolished buildings are second in importance to the 
fact that 30 neighborhood people organized to achieve an 
immediate goal. "Problem solving" and "social working" 
are two phrases that Stan Holt invokes in a disparaging 
tone whenever he thinks that a staff member is wasting 
time approaching an individual problem in isolation or 
"getting people goodies." 

Holt came to Providence in January to direct the 
CO-OP program, which is scheduled to run for three years 
and is funded with $90,000, mostly contributed by the 
Catholic Diocese of Providence. The area being organized 
by the CO-OP is home for about 40 percent of the city's 
voters. Its population is approximately 30 percent black 
and 70 percent white. "The future of our cities," says 
Holt, "lies in forging new power alliances between the 
blacks and ethnic whites in order to take the decision mak- 
ing of their communities into their own hands . . ." The 
CO-OP employs methods pioneered by Chicago-based 
organizer Saul Alinsky. 

A community organizer, says Holt, has to unlearn 
nine-tenths of what he knows. Middle class hang ups 
about being polite to people and avoiding scenes only get 
in the way. Holt describes the CO-OP as "a mass based 
organization dedicated to the principles of: rubbing raw 
the sores of discontent; moving people on the basis of 
their self interest . . . and winning through conflict, nego- 
tiation and compromise with visible reactionary adver- 
saries." A reporter working on a story about the CO-OP 
is told to "make us sound mean," the better to intimidate 
absentee landlords. 



Abandoned cars like this one are dangerous to children. A frequent 
chib project is fretting the junk cars hauled away. 




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Nice guys, in other words, don't make good organiz- 
ers, and Bob Jones '72, who turned down an offer from the 
Human Relations Commission in Boston in order to 
work for CO-OP, is not at all certain he is temperamentally 
suited for the job. Although people are organized on the 
basis of their own self-interest, Jones explains, a successful 
organizer has to be prepared to bully or embarrass them 
into coming to the block club meetings. The job involves 
long hours of canvassing the neighborhood — ringing 
doorbells, trying to convince people resigned to power- 
lessness that what they do can make a difference. Getting 
a door slammed in your face is not unknown. "Stan Holt 
says that you eventually develop a shell against being 
rejected," Bob Jones says in a voice that's just above a 
whisper, "but I'm still waiting." 

One of Jones' responsibilities is a new block club in 
South Providence. The clubs are encouraged to tackle one 
issue at a time, and the people who came to the first meet- 
ing of the Comstock Avenue block club decided to start 
with the problem of speeding traffic. They wrote to the 
traffic engineer requesting a speed limit sign and got one. 
To lay groundwork for another meeting. Bob has been 
handing out flyers stressing the initial success: "Working 
together the block went after a street sign and got itlf 
A victory for Comstock. Acting as a group we can work 
in other improvements such as building repairs — or 
clean ups — better law enforcement. Come to this im- 
portant meeting and speak about the problems that 
concern you." 

Ten people — a disappointing turnout — gather in the 
cheerful living room of Mabel Scott. Mrs. Scott has 
provided Kool-Aid punch and Fritos and the atmosphere 
seems almost like a social gathering. An elderly woman 
starts out by complaining about the roving bands of kids 
on bicycles. They ride around at night without any lights 
and they could get killed. There is talk about other neigh- 
borhood problems — a vicious dog, a vacant lot with junk 
cars — but eventually the conversation returns to the old 
complaint of speeding cars. The speed limit sign has — 
predictably — not done much good. Mrs. Scott says her 
house has been hit by cars trying to make a corner too fast 
three times in the last 18 months. If there had been children 
playing out front at the time, they might have been killed. 

Bob Jones outlines actions the club can take: they 
can go to the police station in a group and speak with the 
traffic engineer or they can write a letter inviting the police 
public relations officer to their next meeting. It is decided 
to start by inviting the public relations officer to hear their 
grievances; if that doesn't work they will visit the traffic 
engineer. 

Jones hasn't said much during the meeting, and later 
he admits he is disappointed about the way things went. 
He had hoped the group would decide to focus on getting 
houses repaired — something more immediately realizable 
than the hard-to-remedy problem of speeding cars. So far, 
he allows, the group's low key style would not make much 
of an impression on a negligent landlord. 



Brown student Boh Jones wishes that block club discussions would 
center more on the hazards of vacant houses. 




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A block club organized in the west end by Marjorie 
(Mac) Churgin '72 presents a very different picture. 
Thirty people gather in a local parish hall to confront two 
absentee landlords who have been invited to discuss 
housing code violations on their property. Angry voices 
all start talking at once. There is no mistaking this meeting 
for a social occasion. The first man on the firing line is the 
owner of a burned-out market that neighborhood kids 
have been climbing into. 

As a visual aid, the block club displays a poster featur- 
ing Polaroid photographs of the abandoned market and the 
legend, "Our children could get killed in a place like this." 
The owner should have the place cleaned out and boarded 
up immediately, the people tell him. It seems from the 
beginning that he will agree, but not without some ritual 
digression first. After talking about the impossibility of 
getting insurance and mentioning parental responsibility 
to control children, the market owner says he will have 
the work done the following week. 

"On paper," someone shouts, and, complaining about 
lack of trust, the owner signs an agreement. 

The second man to come before the group is the owner 
of an occupied building that everyone, including the land- 
lord, agrees is in a shambles. Windows are broken, rubbish 
has accumulated in the yard, the basement is in such bad 
condition that men from the gas company refuse to enter 
it to read the meter. One of the tenants in the building 
blames the mess on the family downstairs and refuses to 
come to the block club meeting because, "I don't believe 
in harassing landlords." 

People at the meeting have no such reservations. They 
agree that the building's tenants are at least partly respon- 
sible. (One woman says she has seen kids attacking the 
place with hammers the day after the landlord has fixed 
it up.) Nevertheless, the house is, as one persistent front 
row heckler calls it, "a sore-eye." It should be repaired 
and, if necessary, the problem tenants should be evicted. 

The landlord, who owns 15 buildings in South Provi- 
dence, has done his homework and come to the meeting 
armed with a number of blueprints which, it turns out as 
he unrolls them, are the wrong ones. Undaunted, he begins 
to explain his plans for the house. The rickety porch will 
be demolished and replaced with a concrete stoop. The 
yard will be paved. The house will have new siding and 
the trim will be repainted. There will be new weather- 
stripped windows and doors. The rubbish will be cleaned 
up for the 9,000th time. A chain link fence will be erected 
around the property. 

This sounds too good to be true and the block club 
members are momentarily nonplussed. "When?" they want 
to know. The landlord explains that he is applying for an 
FHA-guaranteed loan to renovate all his properties under 
a federal program. The work is to begin as soon as the 
proposal is approved. The people are dubious. Anything 
connected with the government, they know, takes a long 
time, maybe forever. When is the house going to look 
decent? "If you're just interested in boarding up windows," 



Marjorie Churgin follows up n personal contact ivith a phone call, 
but most of her time was spent talking with people in the 
neighborhoods. 




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the landlord answers, "I'll say tomorrow. But if you're 
interested in having a house that you can walk by and be 
proud it's in your neighborhood, that will take a little 
time." 

The people tell him thev are interested in both, and 
how soon? "Well," he says, getting angry now, "we should 
all just go out and build our own homes; what's the use of 
owning property if not to make a profit?" The man says 
that he has a stake in the neighborhood too and he would 
like to join the block club. "You keep separating me from 
the people. Aren't I one of the people too?" He was bom 
in South Providence, he tells the group, and his father still 
lives in the area. 

Finally it is agreed that he will sign a statement saying 
that the broken windows will be replaced within a week 
and the major repairs will be started in a matter of months. 
The residents still have a few more questions for each 
other. "Say he puts in new windows. What's to stop the 
same vandals from breaking them again?" A black minister 
expresses concern for the problem tenants as human 
beings, but most of the people seem glad to hear that they 
will have to move out before the renovation can begin. 

Later, back at the Catholic Inner City Center, head- 
quarters for the CO-OP, someone asks Mac Churgin how 
the meeting went. Great, she says. We had two victories. 

■ I 'he students who work as community organizers are 
■^ constantly reassessing what they are doing. They have 
already considered the philosophical and ideological impli- 
cations of community organizing. Sometimes the effort 
seems right and worth it. Other times doubts crowd in. 

"Alinsky-type organizing," says Tom Acosta, "is 
based on the premise that what is wrong with society is 
that there is an inequitable distribution of power. I believe 
that, but I don't think you can stop there. Because to say 
that and to organize as a panacea, as a way of redistrib- 
uting power equitably, is to indulge yourself in a fantasy. 
You have to ask yourself where the power is and how 
resistant are those who have the power to relinquishing it. 

"You organize people so that they can flex their 
muscles. It evolves from one of the premises that people 
commonly hold as being basic to democracy: that pressure 
and divisiveness and conflict resolution are vital vehicles 
in a democratic society, so that if people come together to 
organize and pressure, they will make inroads and get 
results from the establishment. This is partly true, but we 
aren't redistributing the power, at least not at this stage." 

One of the prime orthodoxies of community organiz- 
ing is that "the program come from the people." Yes, in a 
way. But still there is a sense of a hidden agenda in the 
rhetoric gap between the organizers and the people being 
organized. The CO-OP organizers, at staff strategy ses- 
sions, talk in terms of realigning the power structure. They 
talk about the necessity for getting people mad all over 
again for every issue; they speculate on who might come 
on the most militant in a confrontation situation. In con- 



trast, block club conversation centers around hazardous, 
burned out buildings, the lack of street lights, malfunc- 
tioning plumbing, junky vacant lots. 

This contradiction is not lost on Acosta. "It's some- 
thing that I feel differently about on different days of the 
week," he says. "You work on the premise that one of 
the biggest problems is that people have never been 
allowed to do things for themselves. Rather than allow the 
people to write their own programs, government experts 
wrote programs for them. But in a way we're doing the 
same thing when we sit back at staff meetings, making 
certain decisions about how we're going to approach a 
problem and how we're going to convince the people to 
approach that problem. It's duping them, in a way. I get 
very depressed sitting at staff meetings because it heightens 
that whole sense of arrogance and manipulation." 

"What you have to reconcile, to have some peace of 
mind, is that it's manipulation only insofar as you provide 
certain schemes, certain approaches to a problem that 
affects the people that you're organizing. That mitigates 
the sense of manipulation. It becomes one more way of 
just helping people, in a very marginal way. 

"One of the things that encourages us to go on is the 
fleeting wisp of a sense of power that people feel once 
they've achieved a victory. It develops, it becomes organic 
for a few minutes, and that's what energizes you." 

Last November, Acosta was organizing peace demon- 
strations for tens of thousands of people. Now, his energies 
are focused on a few blocks. He no longer plans to engage 
in campus politics or protests which, he has come to feel, 
are often gratuitous and obsessed with ideological purity. 
But he cannot escape the overwhelming awareness of the 
magnitude and multitude of society's problems. "Some- 
times, when I am engrossed in what I am doing, I become 
almost impervious to the other problems. At other times 
they become so heightened that it seems insignificant and 
almost absurd to be doing things on such a small scale." 

Acosta will continue to work for the CO-OP part-time 
during the school year. After he graduates, he plans to 
teach in East Harlem, his home. He is not certain of the 
final result of the three-year organizing program. 

"What I can see coming out of this is that people will 
have exercised enough of their own power so that they 
won't be content with sitting back and being acted upon." 
Already, block clubs are joining together to work on area- 
wide issues and there is talk about a broad-based conven- 
tion of groups with similar interests to"forge new power 
alliances." 

One possible danger that the organizers foresee is that 
the block clubs will be used for political aggrandizement. 
Acosta believes that has already started to happen. But to 
worry much about it, Tom says, is to once again fall into 
the trap of assuming that the people won't be able to dis- 
tinguish between what's good for them and what isn't. A.B. 



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FRITZ 

He's easy and loose now. 
No bitterness. But sometimes 
scar tissue forms in the memory. 



Frederick "Fritz" Pollard '19 became a football legend at 
Brown more than a half century ago. Today, at 76, he is 
in good health and living in New Rochelle, N.Y. There 
is ample time now for reminiscing, and most of his 
memories are happy ones. Pollard was one of the first 
Negroes to play collegiate football. The experience left its 
scars, but Pollard talks about those days easily and 
without bitterness. 

And Fritz Pollard has a lot to talk about. 

Whenever football historians get around to selecting 
an all-time Brown football team, they start with Pollard 
at left halfback and then go shopping for the other 
10 men. 

As a freshman. Pollard was the star of the 1915 team 




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th.it met Washington State at Pasadena in the first Rose 
Bowl game. The following fall he became the scourge of 
the Eastern gridirons, leading what many still regard as 
Brown's finest team to an 8-1 record, including decisive 
victories over Yale and Harvard on successive weekends. 

In Brown's 21-6 decision over previously undefeated 
Yale, the 5-8, 160-pound Pollard scored two touchdowns, 
one on a weaving 60-yard punt return, and accounted 
for 307 yards of the 431 yards in total offense rolled up 
by the Bruins. Against Harvard, Pollard scored once, set up 
two additional touchdowns, and gained 254 of Brown's 
461 yards as the Bruins posted their first victory over the 
Crimson by a 21-0 score. 

Walter Camp, the former Yale player and coach, was 
choosing his All America teams in those days and a place 
on his elite squads was a sure step to football immortality. 
After watching Pollard against Yale and Harvard, Camp 
described the Brown sophomore as "one of the greatest 
runners these eyes have ever seen." 

That fall Pollard became a Walter Camp immortal, 
the first black man ever to be selected to an Ail-American 
backfield. There were a number of other firsts in Pollard's 
exciting life. He was the first Negro to play in the Rose 
Bowl, the first to coach a professional team, and he was a 
player in the first organized professional league in 1920. 

"There were only a few Negroes playing college 
football before World War I," Pollard says. "It's hard 
today to have perspective, to create an image of what it 
was like some 60 years ago, but it was a rare thing to see a 
Negro playing college football in those days. We just 
weren't very well accepted. 

"When I was a sophomore at Lane Tech High in 
Chicago, our team was scheduled to play a road game. I 
got to the railroad station on schedule but was told that the 
team had left an hour earlier. So I took the next train. 
When I arrived, my coach took me to one side and told me 
that our opponents didn't want me to play in the game. 
The coach didn't know how to tell me so he just had the 
entire squad take an earlier train. 

"My brother, Leslie, played at Dartmouth between 
1907-1909. He was the only black man on the team. One 
year, Princeton put in a protest to Dartmouth because they 
didn't want to play against a black man. So, I knew what 
I was getting into when I decided to go to college. But my 
dad taught me to hold my head high, mind my own busi- 
ness, and produce in whatever I did." 

Pollard nearly didn't make it to Brown. Initially he had 
enrolled at Northwestern. He was, by his own admis- 
sion, a smart aleck kid who was an All-Cook County 
halfback for three years and who knew nothing else but 
football. The dean came along one day early that fall 
and asked him why he was at Northwestern. "To play 
football," Pollard replied. The dean 'aid in that case 
Northwestern was not the place for him, and Pollard 
would have to leave. "I was so dumb that I didn't even 



know he had insulted me," Pollard says. 

"Then there was a man named Elmer T. Stevens ('04), 
owner of a big Chicago store, who had gone to Brown. 
My mother used to buy clothes for the kids there and he'd 
talk to her about Brown. She got interested, and then I 
got interested. So, I packed my trunk, hopped a train, and 
headed for Brown. Never bothered to send in an appli- 
cation or anything. I just went. 

"I arrived in February of 1914 but found that I didn't 
have enough credits in three subjects to get in. But 
President Faunce and Dean Randall said they'd let me in 
as a special student and I could try to make up the credits 
so I'd be a regular student in the fall. Guess they took 
pity on me and didn't want to turn me out in the cold." 

Pollard buckled down to the books, took a six-week 
summer course at Columbia, and then missed making 
the grade at Brown in the fall when he failed to pass a 
Spanish exam. 

"I was discouraged and disgusted. So, I headed for 
Dartmouth and I was practicing football up there before I 
had registered as a student. They were waiting for the 
transcripts of my marks from Lane Tech. I hadn't said 
anything about being at Brown. In a couple of days the 
dean called me in and asked me why I hadn't mentioned 
that I'd been at Brown. I said I hadn't thought it was 
necessary. He got mad and turned me out. 

"Then I came down to Harvard. Again I was out for 
football without having registered, while they were 
waiting for my marks. I was sitting on the Harvard bench 
while they were playing Bates when one of the Bates 
coaches I had known in Chicago came up to me. He said 
I'd be better off at Bates, a small college where I'd have 
more chance to play. So, off I went to Bates. But that's 
a cold country up there, too cold for me. I'd been there 
only a little while when I borrowed $10 from the president 
and came back to Boston." 

There Pollard met a group of his brother Leslie's 
friends, Boston professional men who took an interest in 
him. They criticized his football travels. What was he, they 
wanted to know, a tramp athlete? One of them, a doctor, 
let him sleep overnight on his operating table while Pollard 
waited for money to come from home. But the next day 
they decided that maybe he wasn't hopeless after all. They 
told him the only thing he could do was return to high 
school, pick up the credits he was lacking, and then go 
back to Brown. Pollard went to high school in Springfield, 
Mass., and in the fall of 1915 passed his entrance 
exams at Brown. 

When Pollard reported for football that fall he was 
told that the last practice suit had been given out. Later, 
after Athletic Director Dr. Frederick W. Marvel '94 
stepped in and saw to it that he was issued equipment, 
Pollard drew the oldest uniform in the gym and a pair of 
shoes at least two sizes too large. 

"That first day they gave me a ball and told me to 
go over to one side and practice punting. At dusk we quit 



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and 1 trailed tlie rest of the players into Marston Field 
House. But when I walked into the shower room my team- 
mates moved out. I showered alone. And I thought to 
myself, 'These are good boys and they'll come around 
when they see me run.' There was a little shuttle car that 
took us back and forth from Andrews Field on Camp 
Street to the campus. When I got on the car that night, 
most of the other players jumped off," Pollard recalls. 

"Coach Robinson was a good man. He let me work 
out with the team once in a while. But mostly they had me 
off by myself punting. 'Work on your kicking game,' 
they'd say. But, heck, I never was a very good punter. The 
few times I ran with the ball I did pretty good. On opening 
day I slipped into the field house early to pick up my 
game uniform. But I found that they hadn't assigned me 
one. I can still remember that I went over behind some 
lockers, sat down by myself, and cried." 

As Pollard tells it, the next morning Buck Whittemore, 
an assistant coach, went to his room and told him 
that he would have to show what he could do if he wanted 
to play on the varsity. The scrub team was going to 
Worcester that afternoon to play Worcester Academy. 
Whittemore wanted Pollard to make the trip. The man 
who some 20 years later would be listed by Grantland Rice 
in an all-time college backfield with Jim Thorpe, Red 
Grange, and Bronco Nagurski, made the train trip to 
Worcester with the scrubs, trembling at the thought that 
he might fail this precious opportunity to show what he 
could do. 

The game with Worcester Academy ended in a 
scoreless tie, hut Pollard impressed the Brown coaches 
and the Worcester fans with his speed and his low, bob- 
bing style of running. The next day Pollard scrimmaged 
with the second team against the varsity. John C. Butner 
'18, the varsity left end, recently told this story about 
the scrimmage. 

"We lined up and I said to Coach Robinson, 'Send 
that little black so-and-so around me.' Sure enough, here 
came Pollard. I grabbed for him but he wasn't there. When 
I looked up, he was in the end zone. When the scrubs got 
the ball back I yelled for Robbie to send Pollard my way 
again. This time I was sure I had him cornered near the 
sideline — but I got an armful of air and Pollard got 
another touchdown. At this point, I turned to the varsity 
players and said, 'O.K., boys, let's let this guy join us.' " 

Pollard likes to tell this story himself. There's never 
any bite in it, only humor. But from that day on. Pollard 
was accepted by his teammates as a man and as a solid 
football player. It was hard for the Brown campus not to 
take to Pollard. He had an outgoing personality, an easy 
smile, and he was slowly building a reputation as one of 
the shiftiest runners in the East. 

Among other things. Pollard operated a very suc- 
cessful clothes-pressing business on campus. It was located 
in Hope College and was called the Pollard Varsity Press- 



ing Club. For $1 he'd press any piece of clothes. As a result 
of his business venture, Pollard became the best dressed 
man on campus. Frequently a customer would go to a 
dance and see his suit moving gracefully around the dance 
floor — on the back of Fritz Pollard. 

This was 1915, and Fritz Pollard, a Negro, had 
become completely accepted by the Brown community. But 
the battle had not yet been won; many people still didn't 
accept the presence of a Negro on a college team. Several 
times that first season. Pollard had to shut his ears to the 
slurs and cat-calls hurled at him from the stands when- 
ever Brown played away from home. The Yale Alumni 
Magazine last January printed excerpts from an unpub- 
lished autobiography by William Ashby, '16 B.D. These 
excerpts convey the flavor of an era — a place in time — 
as experienced by Ashby, himself a black man. One of the 
excerpts concerns Pollard. 

"The Brown football team came to New Haven to 
play Yale. On the team was Fritz Pollard, who couldn't 
have weighed more than 150 pounds. We were depressed, 
literally and honestly scared to death. We knew the size 
of the men on the Yale line. They would murder this 
little man. 

"Pollard mastered to a degree seldom equalled one of 
the essentials of football. It was that of handling a punt. 
Such was his confidence in himself that he played very 
deep. The moment the ball was kicked, he took off at full 
speed, as does a center fielder when coming in after a 
Texas Leaguer. When Pollard caught the ball he was 
going as fast as he would ever go. Unless the opponents 
grabbed him the moment the ball was caught, there was no 
way to stop him short of a gain. 

"The ball was kicked to him. He began to circle 
toward the right sideline. The Yale stands arose. 'Catch 
that nigger. Kill that nigger,' they screamed. I jumped up 
and yelled, 'Run, nigger, run. Go, Fritz, go.' Sheldon, the 
left tackle on the Yale team, a burly fellow from Atlanta, 
took out for him on a lateral course. Bingham, the 
quarterback, was coming up with a burst of speed. They 
would make a pincer tackle on Pollard. They would 
kill him. 

"Pollard kept running. As he reached the sideline 
he jumped off the field and landed on the Yale bench. 
Sheldon and Bingham had left their feet simultaneously 
for a flying tackle. They grabbed at a slick Pollard who 
was not there and collided. A stretcher was brought out to 
take them off the field. 

"I was in the gym after the game hoping to shake Pol- 
lard's hand when Sheldon burst in. 'Where is he? Where 
is he?' he was calling. Pollard, having taken a shower, 
stepped out of a cage where he was dressing. 'You're a 
nigger but you're the best goddamn football player I ever 
saw,' blurted Sheldon, thrusting his hand out to Pollard." 

Largely on the basis of the 3-0 victory over Yale in 1915, 
along with the sensational play of Pollard, Brown's 



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5-3 eleven was invited to meet Washington State in the 
Rose Bowl. There were several incidents on the train 
trip to California that Pollard recalls. A waiter in the 
Pullman car refused to serve Pollard, but changed his 
mind when the rest of the Brown team threatened to walk 
out in protest. A clerk in the Hotel Raymond in California 
made it clear that Negroes didn't stay there. Coach Rob- 
inson and his assistant. Bill Sprackling '12, made it equally 
clear that Pollard would stay or the Brown delegation 
would go elsewhere. Pollard stayed. 

There was more of the same when Pollard turned pro 
in 1920. As a member of the undefeated Akron team of 
the American Professional Football Association, he tried 
to register at a hotel in Dayton, O., but was told that 
there were no more rooms. The entire squad, which 
included a number of southern boys, walked out. 

On another occasion, Akron scheduled a game in 
the hills of Pennsylvania. Most of the fans had never seen 
a black man before. As Pollard ran on the field, they 
showered him with bricks and bottles, along with a stream 
of verbal abuse that. Pollard says, hurt much more deeply. 
In another game in the same district. Pollard scored the 
winning touchdown on a trick play. The fans were in- 
censed and some of them followed the Akron team to the 
station and shot out the windows of the train as it pulled 
away. 

Pollard made a major contribution to pro football in 
its early days and for years ■vft'as one of the most feared 
backs on the professional field. The Football Encyclopedia 
lists him as the first black professional head coach with 
the Hammond (Ind.) Pros of the National Football League 
from 1923-25, but he claims to have coached two teams 
before that. 

"I really was the coach of Akron in 1920, even though 
the book lists Elgie Tobin as coach," Pollard says. "When 
I got there, they were using a lot of old-fashioned plays 
and I showed them some of the plays Robbie had used at 
Brown, such as the unbalanced line and reverses. That was 
the Akron team that won 10 straight, all shutouts." 

Pollard was asked in 1922 to help organize and coach 
the Milwaukee team. From there, he went to Hammond, 
where he coached three years before returning to Akron as 
player-coach. At his peak. Pollard was earning $1,500 
a game. He bowed out of the N. F. L. in 1926. One of his 
last games was with the Providence Steamrollers against 
the Chicago Bears, featuring Red Grange. 

After leaving pro ball. Pollard established the 
country's first black investment banking firm in New 
York City. The firm was doing well until the 1929 crash. 
Almost overnight. Pollard was financially ruined. During 
the early 1930's he tried the coal business and a number 
of other ventures, anything to make a living. Then in 1935 
he became publisher of the Independent News, a Harlem 
weekly tabloid which was printed until 1942. This led him 
into another field as booking agent for Negro talent on 
radio and TV and in the movies. At times this was a frus- 
trating experience. 



"I'd go around to the key nightspots in New York, 
Chicago, and Philly and talk to the head men, most of 
them acquaintances I'd made while playing pro ball," Pol- 
lard says. "They'd always talk straight to me, no bull. 
'We've never had Negro talent here,' they'd say. 'Well, 
why don't you try it?' I'd ask. We'd sit around, I'd play the 
piano, and we'd talk. Most of the time they'd help me out, 
and my agency booked a lot of talented young blacks in 
those depression days." 

Pollard supplied most of the Negro talent for the 
movie, "The Emperor Jones," featuring Paul Robeson. 
Pollard and Robeson, a Rutgers football star, had played 
against each other in 1916 when the Bears won a brutal 
game at Andrews Field, 21-3. In 1921, Pollard had taken 
Robeson to the Cafe Zanzibar in the old Winter Garden 
Theater in New York City to introduce him to Florence 
Mills. She gave Robeson his chance during the floor show, 
directly launching his singing career. 

In recent years. Pollard has been a movie producer 
and a tax consultant. He spent $350,000 in 1956 making a 
film in New York City called "Rocking the Blues," an 
all-Negro production. He retired two years ago. 

All this time Pollard remained close to athletics. In 1935 
he organized and coached an all-black team called 
the Brown Bombers. The team was successful (8-1) but 
was more famous for its showmanship. In 1942 Pollard 
was vice-president of the newly formed Negro Major 
Baseball League of America, a venture that provided an 
outlet for some of the top Negro stars in the country who 
were then frozen out of the major leagues. This was five 
full years before the Jackie Robinson break-through 
in Brooklyn. 

Fritz Pollard also stayed close to Brown University. 
He returned to the campus in 1954 when he officially was 
inducted into the National Football Hall of Fame — the first 
Brown player selected. He spent some time on campus 
again in 1967 when he became a member of the Rhode 
Island Heritage Hall of Fame. In spring 1969 he was 
a class marshal at his 50th reunion, and last June Pollard 
made a substantial gift for a coaches' room in the new 
athletic complex. 

But Fritz Pollard is looking forward to another trip to 
Providence. It is one, he says, that is more important to 
him than any other. Fritz Pollard 3rd wants to enroll as a 
member of the Class of 1975. He is the son of Fritz, Jr., '37 
who competed in football and track for a short time at 
Brown before gaining Little All America honors at North 
Dakota and a spot on the U.S. team in the 1936 Olympics. 

i'Young Fritz is a good athlete and a top notch 
student. If he enters Brown, it will be the happiest day 
of my life." 

Who knows, asks Pollard with that easy way of his. 
Maybe young Fritz will make them forget about his 
grandfather. J.B. 



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Brown Books 



Edited by Elmer M. Blistein '42 



Geology Of The Moon, A 
Stratigraphic View. 

By Thomas A. Mutch. Princeton University 
Press 324 pages. $17.50 

This handsome book by an authority 
in the field will fascinate the natural philoso- 
pher interested in earth science, astronomy, 
and man's current exploratory thrust into 
space. It is unique in its beautifully illus- 
trated presentation of the moon's striking 
features in relation to their geological 
counterparts on earth. 

Despite NASA's well reported lunar 
missions, many people still regard the moon 
as a distant and mysterious body of interest 
only to a few trained specialists, baying 
hounds, and young lovers. Some down-to- 
earth types feel that the airless moon is so 
exotic and remotely related to earthly 
phenomena that there is little to be gained 
from its exploration. 

This new work by Professor Thomas 
A. Mutch, chairman of Brown's Department 
of Geological Sciences, clearly dispels such 
a superficial view. Well written in under- 
standable terms, the book delineates the 
common geophysical phenomena underlying 
lunar and earthly features, and relates them 
to the history of our earth-moon system. He 
emphasizes the importance of understanding 
both bodies if man is to understand the 
earth and its origin and early history in the 
solar system. 

The many excellent drawings and 
photographs represent one of the best 
selections of pre-Apollo spacecraft pictures 
available to the public. The final chapter 
includes the preliminary findings from the 
moon rocks brought back by the Apollo 11 
and 12 astronauts. The lunar pictures are 
augmented by equally impressive photos 
and drawings of terrestrial features that 
resemble, and hence may help account for, 
their lunar counterparts. The references are 
not intended to be all-inclusive, but are suf- 
ficient to enable the curious reader to delve 
more deeply into his particular interests. Of 
obvious value as an introductory college 
text in lunar geology, the book's readable 
style will appeal to anyone interested in 
the moon, although the experienced lunar 
scientist may find the geological discussions 
of earth features somewhat elementary. 

The 324-page book begins with a 
concise history of lunar studies and a 
description of the moon's shape and motion. 
Modern remote sensing techinques are 
described, with emphasis on earth-based 
telescope studies and the highly successful 
Lunar Orbiter spacecraft system. Ensuing 
chapters discuss in logical order specific 
lunar features, their possible modes of 
origin, and their geological (or for the purist, 
selenological) histories. 

Lunar craters are compared to such 
earth features as Meteor Crater, Arizona 
(an impact crater); Sedan Crater, Nevada 
(a nuclear explosive crater); and Mauna Loa, 



Hawaii (a volcanic crater). The similarities 
between the dark lunar maria floors and 
terrestrial lava and ash flows are obvious 
and generally agreed upon by most lunar 
scientists. However, the author, in common 
with others, is hard put to account for the 
prominent sinuous rills that bear so much 
resemblance to earthly meandering stream 
beds but occur on a planet where all 
evidence points to a present and historical 
absence of water. 

Prof. Mutch's approach to the origin 
of lunar surface features reflects his broad 
objectivity and illustrates the maturity 
developing in our space exploration program. 
Until recently, the origin of lunar surface 
features was the subject of intense dispute 
between two schools of thought — those who 
believed that nearly all the features were 
volcanic, and those who believed they were 
the result of impact. This new book reflects 
the present view of most lunar scientists 
that both processes are required to explain 
the observed features. The large rimmed 
craters with major ejecta fields were almost 
surely formed by impact, but many of the 
small dark domes and certain classes of 
smaller craters are probably of volcanic 
origin. A large area of features lie between 
and cannot, at this time, be clearly assigned 
to either process. 

Because it is the author's speciality, 
lunar stratigraphy is strongly emphasized 
and discussed. This is invaluable for the 
stratigrapher, although other scientists and 
the general reader may wish for a somewhat 
broader view of the moon. For example, 
some discipline areas, such as seismometry, 
the lunar interior and broad scale structural 

This is an oblique view of the hmar far 
side from Apollo 11. 




characteristics, are given rather light 
treatment. 

Prof. Mutch points out that earth geology 
has had several centuries to profit from 
earlier errors in observation and interpre- 
tation, and that we should profit from this 
in our lunar exploration program by review- 
ing the principles of terrestrial geology and 
applying them to our lunar exploration and 
interpretation programs. This observation 
is certainly timely now that we are analyzing 
data and samples from Apollo 11 and 12 
and planning future Apollo lunar missions. 

The terrestrial geologist can afford the 
luxury of returning to the field to make 
additional critical observations or clarify 
conflicting data. This is impossible on the 
moon; we must be right the first time. Our 
space program needs the counsel of out- 
standing earth scientists like Prof. Mutch, 
and up-to-date books like this to contribute 
to the growing lunar literature. 

This richly illustrated and well written 
book has sections of great fascination and 
value for anyone interested in lunar and 
planetary science and exploration. It clearly 
depicts the results achieved by the auto- 
mated spacecraft precursors to Apollo 
(Ranger, Surveyor, and Lunar Orbiter), and 
provides a logical framework for the vast 
amount of new data being collected by the 
Apollo astronauts. 

Perhaps most useful of all, it summa- 
rizes the growing quantity of lunar topo- 
graphic data, some of it barely studied as 
yet. This may hopefully encourage students 
and scientists not yet active in lunar and 
planetary programs to turn their interest 
to the moon, and to participate in the 




excitement of this great new era of human 
exploration. 

THOMAS O. PAINE '42 

Dr. Paine received an Honorary Doctor of 
Engineering Degree at Brown's 1969 Com- 
mencement. The honorary degree comple- 
ments his earned doctorate. He has just 
returned to General Electric after distiri- 
guished serince as Administrator of National 
Aeronautics and Space Administration. 

Scotch Whisky: Its Past and Present. 

By Daznd Daiches. 

168 pages. Macmillan. $9.95. 

The author, professor of English 
literature at the University of Sussex and 
doctor of humane letters from Brown, 1964, 
presents the facts and faiths of Scotch 
whisky. The reviewer, a partisan of bour- 
bon, was conscripted by Professor Elmer 
Blistein in the conviction that therapy was 
essential. Thanks, Doctor, I'm feeling bet- 
ter already. 

The book has, but does not fall into, 
three parts: history and technology; evolu- 
tion, under the spur of governments and 
economics, from innumerable small pro- 
ducers to family firms and combines; the 
author's judgments and suggestions about 
enjoying Scotch. It is lavishly illustrated, 
with old photographs, older engravings, 
cartoons from Punch, color photographs 
taken by the author's son Alan, and flow 
charts of the distilleries. 

For half a millenium, the true, the 
blushful has been Pot Still Malt Scotch 
Whisky, Highland (chiefly) or Lowland, far 
or near. (The capitals indicate respect, not a 
brand name.) Barley, peat, water, and skill 
are the essential ingredients. The barley is 
malted, dried (at least partly over peat 
fires), and brewed into a sort of beer. Two 
distillations in pot stills yield the new 
whisky at 115°-120° proof (British — 
multiply by 1.142 to get U.S. proof). 

After some dilution the product is aged 
in oak casks. One suspects that in earlier 
days the aging often approximated the time 
to cool down, but since 1915 the legal 
minimum has been three years; Professor 
Daiches suggests eight years as an esthetic 
minimum. Thereafter the whisky may be 
bottled, diluted to suit the market, but 
most of it is used for blending. 

In 1830 the austere progress of malt 
whisky was shattered by invention of 
Coffey's patent still, which could produce 
vast quantities of "Scotch grain whisky," 
cheaply and continuously from any cereal 
and any water, without use of peat. The 
distillate approximated neutral grain spirit, 
nearly pure alcohol but with some flavor, 
good or bad. 



Decades of controversy followed: Was 
this liquid (after dilution) "Scotch," or 
"whisky," or even suitable for drinking? 
In complex fashion, a compromise was 
reached by the introduction of blending 
a lesser portion of pot still malts with 
a greater portion of grain whisky. Prof. 
Daiches makes his own views clear. True 
malt whiskies are excellent; many blends 
are honest and pleasant; some blends are 
neither; grain whisky runs a bad last. Re- 
flecting on developments since 1830, we 
must admire the prescient comment attrib- 
uted to a much earlier Caledonian (often 
misquoted on the stage) : "We have snak'd 
the Scotch, not kill'd it." 

The development of blending was also 
related to the slow success of governmental 
(London) tax policies, which suppressed 
the myriad local benefactors in favor of 
fewer and larger firms, easily watched and 
taxed. Naturally these firms aimed at bulk 
sales, and grain whisky provided bulk. 
Other sociological factors played a part. 
Until the latter 1800's, most Scotch whisky 
— malt or grain — sold to England was cal- 
lously redistilled to yield alcohol for conver- 
sion of the lower classes' gin. The English 
gentry had long known malt whisky as 
a tissue restorer after a hard day's shoot- 
ing over the moors; but at home they drank 
brandy. 

Disasters in the French vineyards, 
beginning about 1865, by 1890 and for 
some time thereafter reduced the supply 
of cognac to a trickle and its quality to 
near zero. In this crisis, vigorous salesman- 
ship established the new Scotch blends as 
England's favorite spirit. It so remained, 
and the same salesmanship by now sends 
nearly 80 per cent of the annual yield as 
a boon to foreigners (especially, of course, 
Americans). 

Bradford Swan, reviewing this book for 
the Providence Sunday Journal, indicated 
that he had prepared (and perhaps post- 
pared) himself by testing the author's 
advice. I have not progressed so far but, as a 
gesture toward impartiality, I have also read 
Gerald Carson's The Social History of 
Bourbon. It is sprawling, chatty and anec- 
dotal, quite different from Prof. Daiches' 
scholarly book. The similarities in historical 
evolution are striking (with the American 
frontier substituted for the deprived English 
gentry). I am still fighting, but the tea-m 
of Daiches and Blistein has very nearly won 
out. It now remains to mail back the lent 
(imperative of "borrowed") Carson to Dean 
John Dillon (Sc. M. '49, Ph.D. '54) at the 
University of Louisville. This old friend and 
erstwhile colleague will not lightly forgive 
my wavering. 

A. O. WILLIAMS, Jr., Sc.M. '36 Ph.D. '37 

Prof. Williams of Brown's Physics depart- 
ment knows more about wines, whisky, 
and fine foods than he ought to. 



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The sports 
scene 



'To win you have to have 
the horses. And, pardnuh, that 
means you have to ride 
the range.' 




Let's face it — 
we recruit 

When Yale was searching for a new 
head football coach in 1965, a five-member 
selection committee interviewed Joe Paterno 
'50, then assistant to Rip Engle at Penn 
State. 

As the men sat around a long ma- 
hogany table to interview the candidate, 
the chairman cleared his throat and got to 
the key question. 

"Mr. Paterno," he said, "you have an 
extraordinary reputation for developing fine 
quarterbacks at Penn State. Would you 
mind taking a few minutes and telling us 
exactly how you do it?" 

"Not at all, sir," Paterno replied in his 
best Brooklynese. "I recruit." 

For the last 15 or 20 years that has been 
the name of the game — recruit. More fre- 
quently since World War II, the job of 
football coach has taken on this new 
dimension. "You can't win without the 
horses," is a coaching cliche. And you sure 
can't do that unless you ride the range, 
which in football parlance means scout the 
country for untapped football talent. 

Once, in the relatively tranquil days of 
Fielding "Hurry-Up" Yost, Knute Rockne, 
Pop Warner, Amos Alonzo Stagg and 
company, a successful football coach was 
assumed to have two qualities: a knowledge 
of the game and the ability to impart that 
knowledge to his players. Today, if he 
wants to win, the coach must assume a 
third job, that of recruiter. 

Sit around in a late-evening bull 
session with a group of coaches and they'll 
admit that football coaching is a young 
man's game. Stamina is needed to travel 
thousands of miles around the country in 
search of the high school youngster who can 
do the 100 in 9.8, with a football under his 
arm, and who has looked inside a book. 

A young man's stomach is definitely 
needed to survive quick meals gulped 
down at roadside stands or between planes 
and to adjust to the variety of cooking 
proudly served on lace-covered tables by 
the mothers of the sons who can do the 100 
in 9.8, with a football under their arms. 

And, frankly, a young man's resiliency 
is needed to cope with the cat-and-mouse 
game occasionally engaged in by some of 
the top student-athletes who like to play 
one college off against another right up to, 
and sometimes beyond, the spring deadlines 
for acceptance. 

Most coaches don't like the recruiting 
game — living out of a suitcase and wheeling 
and dealing with precocious 17-year-olds. 
But that phase of the game has become 
S.O.P. "Grin and bear it," say the kindly 
athletic directors. 

Most coaches who are effective at re- 
cruiting still rate it no higher than a neces- 



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5ary evil. Then there are coaches who 
know the game and how to coach it, but 
simply can't recruit. These men usually 
don't win. For both groups, much of the 
fun has gone out of the game in recent 
years as football coaches have been acting 
less and less like football coaches and more 
and more like traveling salesmen. 

After the Green Bay Packers had 
wrapped up the National Football League 
title three years ago with a dramatic victory 
over the Dallas Cowboys, one of the TV 
reporters asked Vince Lombardi what he 
liked best about coaching in the NFL. "The 
fact that I don't have to recruit," he said. 



Jf ourth-year Brown Coach Len Jardine, at 
32, is one of the new breed — a young man 
with a surplus of stamina, a cast-iron 
stomach, and the enthusiasm to weather the 
exigencies of the recruiting game. 

Jardine knows football, loves football, 
and appears to get along with the young 
men on his teams. He's also a man who has 
lost two top assistants because they decided 
that their families came before recruiting. 

In an average year. Coach Jardine 
makes contact with approximately 4,000 
high school boys. The contact is made by 
late spring of the boy's junior year or during 
the following summer. 

The names of these boys come to 
Brown from alumni and from Jardine's 
contacts among high school coaches in every 
state. Although Brown recruits in all sec- 
tions of the country, the heaviest action 
takes place in the East, Midwest (as far as 
Missouri), and the West Coast. 

"We make contacts in the South, too," 
Jardine says, "but unless we have a key 
alumnus down there to work personally on 
a boy, we seldom have much success. I find 
that many of these youngsters have a fierce 
pride aboijit their home region. Southern 
alumni fight hard to prevent big stars from 
getting away." 

Jardine writes each of the 4,000 boys 
on the list to cite Brown's advantages as an 
Ivy League university and to urge the boy 
to look into the school further. The recruit 
is also asked to complete an academic- 
athletic questionnaire. 

About 3,000 of the athletes on Jardine's 
list respond. Based on the replies, between 
35 and 50 per cent are eliminated from 
active recruiting by Brown and are placed 
in the inactive file. Poor grades, the boy's 
physical size, or his reluctance to play 
college football are the main reasons many 
are eliminated. 

By October, the coaches have about 
1,500 active names — the ones the staff 



feels might make it at Brown, both aca- 
demically and athletically. Additional 
information is sent to the boys including 
copies of the football brochure and the 
Football Association's newsletter. A visit to 
the campus is encouraged. 

At about the same time, the names of 
the applicants from various areas are dis- 
tributed to alumni working in Brown's 
Secondary Schools activities around the 
country and to key alumni who work 
closely with the football staff. Many of 
these men take the time to visit with 
guidance directors and coaches to deter- 
mine if the boys will be recommended 
academically and personally to Brown. 

Alumni are encouraged to maintain 
personal contacts with prospective candi- 
dates while the coaches are still involved 
with the daily demands of their nine-game 
season. Alumni follow-up, or lack of it, 
frequently determines whether or not the 
boy will choose Brown. 

"Of the 1,000 high school players we 
still have under consideration in late fall, 
not all are top-flight high school players 
who will turn into big stars on the campus," 
Jardine says. "But almost all of those who 
come to Brown are above average or better 
— good solid kids, the kind Brown will be 
proud to call alumni in the years ahead. In 
this sense, our extensive recruiting program 
helps the Admission Office by providing it 
with an additional group of kids from 
which to choose its class." 

The echo of the final gun in Brown's 
closing game has hardly died away when 
Jardine and his staff start their five-month 
road show. Their objective is to take the 
list of 1,000 boys who have applied and 
to reduce it to a much smaller group of 
candidates. 

Each coach has responsibility for a 
certain section of the country, and personal 
evaluations are done on each boy within the 
coach's area. He talks to the high school 
coach, sometimes an opposing coach, foot- 
ball officials, and finally, the boy himself. 

Coaches have pared the list to about 350 
prospects by late winter. All of these boys 
have completed admission applications to 
Brown — and most are being courted by 
other colleges. 

At this stage the coaches try to have as 
many as possible of these boys visit the 
campus. They meet students, room with 
members of the varsity squad, attend classes 
in their field of interest, meet professors, 
talk with a member of the Admission 
Office, and maybe take in a hockey or 
basketball game. 

When admission decisions are an- 
nounced in April, between 125 and 150 of 
the 350 boys will have been admitted to 
Brown. In recent years, final lists have 
included high school All-Americans, all- 
staters, and a host of all-country and all- 
league selections — boys of a caliber desired 



by Brown but also accepted by many other 
schools. But the list also includes some of 
lesser athletic ability. 

At this point, those who have been 
accepted have two weeks to make up their 
minds which college they will attend. During 
this crucial period. Coach Jardine is on the 
road again, trying to visit as many of the 
young men as possible before they make 
their decision. 

Within the Ivy League, Brown's strongest 
competition comes from the Big 3 — Harvard, 
Yale, and Princeton — and Dartmouth. The 
Big 3 attracts some athletes on prestige 
alone. Dartmouth is tough because of its 
well organized and enthusiastic alumni and 
its winning football tradition. 

"Of the 125 or 150 accepted," says 
Jardine, "Brown will enroll about half and 
lose the rest to other schools. Exactly how 
many and of what caliber we get determines 
what kind of a freshman team we have in 
the fall. Many times, boys tell us that Brown 
is their first choice," Jardine says. 

"On that basis, we take a more active 
interest in their application. Frequently they 
end up on the list of 125 to 150 admitted. 
But these students usually are admitted at 
other colleges, and in some cases we sud- 
denly find out that Brown wasn't their first 
choice after all. This type of attrition leaves 
us with about 75 entering prospects." 

There are several reasons why high 
school students are especially interested in 
Brown according to Jardine. High on the 
list is the new curriculum installed in the 
fall of 1969. Its flexibility and challenge has 
a special appeal for today's youth, he says. 
Another factor is that the good athlete 
knows Brown is on the way back in football 
and that he'll get ample opportunity to 
play. Brown's strong standing academically, 
and its location, are also plus factors with 
many boys. 

But Coach Jardine admits that there 
are a number of reasons why it is difficult 
for the staff to recruit the top athlete. He 
cites the lack of a winning tradition, the 
absence of first-rate facilities, and an alumni 
organization that is only recently trying to 
catch up to the rest of the league in 
effectiveness. 

Jardine and his staffs have recruited 
two freshman teams, a good one (5-1) in 
1968 and a weak one that did not win a 
game in 1969. The year ahead is crucial, 
and no one knows better than Jardine that 
Brown's success in the immediate future 
may have been won or lost in the battles 
fought last winter and spring. 

For comments by six high school 
seniors who did — and did not — 
choose Brown, please turn page. 



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Three high school prospects: 

Why they decided on Brown football 



Bruce Watson had an exceptionally 
fine season for Milford High last fall. The 
6-0, 185-pound halfback led the State of 
Delaware in scoring with 22 touchdowns and 
was named to the high school All-American 
second team. Brown's competition was Penn 
State and Delaware. 

"I visited all three colleges," Watson 
says. "Penn State has a fine football pro- 
gram but the place is too big for me. Dela- 
ware was OK, but that seemed loo much 
like staying home. At Brown I knew I could 
play football and get one of the best educa- 
tions in the world, all at the same time. 

"Brown seemed more personal than the 
other two colleges. Its location also was a 
factor. It's near Boston and not too far from 
New York. And even though Brown is in the 
city, it's not a real city college. On my visit 
to the campus, I had a feeling of being 
away from it all." 

Watson admits that the new curriculum 
was a big factor in his decision to attend 
Brown. He likes the fact that under this 
curriculum he can avoid academic areas 
where he is weak and concentrate instead 
on the subjects that most interest him. 

In the case of Bruce Watson, the Brown 
coaching staff received an assist from Tom 
Draper '64, at one time a promising halfback 
on College Hill. When injuries slowed his 
football career. Draper concentrated on 
lacrosse, where he became an All-American. 

"I'm not sure I would have seriously 
considered Brown if it hadn't been for Mr. 
Draper," Watson says. "He was the man 
who first brought Brown to my attention. 
He talked to me early last fall and kept in 
close touch right through the spring. Mr. 
Draper made me feel I was wanted at 
Brown." 

Bruce Watson: Not xoithout the help of 
an aUi}7intts. 





Doug Jost of Eugene, Ore., is a National 
Merit Scholar and a 6-2, 185-pound quarter- 
back who averaged better than two touch- 
down passes per game last fall at South 
Eugene High. His activity on the gridiron 
earned him a place on the All-State team 
and his all-round ability brought him close 
attention from Princeton, Williams, Oregon, 
MIT, and Brown. 

"I knew the name of Brown because 
I followed the Ivy League in Sports Illus- 
trated, but I didn't even know where the 
college was located until last December," 
Jost says. "One day (Associate Alumni 
Executive Officer) David Zucconi came to 
my school, got me out of class, and talked 
for a half hour on why I should apply to 
Brown. He left me some reading material 
about Brown; he also left me rather ex- 
cited about the prospect of going to Provi- 
dence for my college education. 

"Shortly after Mr. Zucconi's visit, I 
received an invitation to have dinner with 
another Brown man (William Batty '63, 
former admission officer). He and his wife 
are very enthusiastic people, and they kept 
in touch the rest of the school year. A little 
later. Coach James Colletto contacted me 
and arranged for a visit to the campus. All 
this happened while I was still considering 
other colleges, but gradually Brown was 
becoming number one." 

When he received his six acceptances 
it was time to make a final decision. Jost 
ruled out MIT because it had no intercol- 
legiate football program and Princeton 
seemed "too stuffy." That left Williams and 
Brown. One of his high school coaches was 
a Williams graduate and he was pushing 
hard. 

"When I left home to visit these schools 
my parents stressed that the final decision 
would be my own," says Jost. "I stayed at 
Brown three days and then visited Williams. 
I was only kidding myself. My decision was 
predictable. I had been sold on Brown since 
December." 

Doug ]ost: The final decisiotj was mine, 
and 1 wanted Brown. 




Leonard Cherry was a much sought 
after halfback last winter. Playing at Arch- 
bishop John Carrol High in Washington, 
D.C., the 5-10, 195-pounder scored nine 
touchdowns, averaged 7.3 yards per carry, 
caught 18 passes for 465 yards and was a 
second team high school All-American. 
Brown's competition for him was Penn, 
Holy Cross, and the University of Louisville. 

"Originally, I was thinking in terms 
of Michigan State. But then Penn and Brown 
contacted me in my junior year and I 
started to give serious consideration to the 
Ivy League. After I visited Penn, I crossed 
them off my list. A city school is not for 
me." 

John Arata '62, a former tackle at 
Brown was Cherry's first alumni contact. 
Others who helped in the recruitment of the 
Lanham, Md., native included former foot- 
ball captain Nick Spiezio '63 and Tony 
Gould '64. Cherry described these three 
young alumni as "frank and no bull." 

Cherry admits that recruiters from 
other colleges told him of Brown's recent 
problems on the gridiron. "This lack of a 
winning tradition didn't bother me," he 
says. "I liked Mr. Jardine and Coach Healey. 
The program is moving ahead. We'll start 
our own winning tradition." 

Cherry was impressed by the fact that 
Brown is ahead of most colleges in its 
social life for blacks. During the past sum- 
mer, he lived in Hope College and took part 
in Brown's Transitional Summer Program. 

"I've got to admit that the new curric- 
ulum had a profound bearing on my de- 
cision to come to Brown. There's more 
freedom in it. I can skip math and science, 
my two weak subjects, and concentrate on 
the things I like best. 

"You could say that Brown's social life 
gives me more individual flexibility and the 
new curriculum gives me academic flexibil- 
ity. That's a nice parlay, and that's largely 
why I decided to come to Brown." 

Leonard Cherry: Brown is ahead of most in 
its social life for blacks. 



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Three high school prospects: 

Why they'll play somewhere else 



The competition for Dick Russo of 
Aquinas Institute in Rochester, N.Y., was 
fierce. An outstanding halfback, he earned 
second team Ail-American honors last fall. 
He is also an excellent baseball player, one 
who had offers to turn pro. In his spare time, 
Russo likes boxing. 

"Through my senior year in high 
school, I had contacts from colleges in all 
sections of the country," Russo says. "But 
I boiled it all down to Brown, Cornell, 
and Princeton. My parents didn't interfere 
with my final decision. They figured that 
all three schools were basically the same 
academically." 

Russo admits that he received plenty 
of advice from his classmates and friends. 
Many of them strongly suggested that he 
attend Princeton. 

"The difference in the caliber of football 
had very little to do with my decision to 
attend Cornell. Coach Healey of Brown was 
frank with me. He said that Brown was just 
starting the long road back in football. 
That didn't bother me. No matter where 
you go, you have to beat someone out to 
play. If I were just thinking of being on a 
winner, I'd have gone to Princeton." 

At one point. Brown seemed to be 
Russo's number one choice. Until the last 
few days, his parents thought that he'd be 
heading for Providence this fall. One of the 
things that may have had a bearing on 
Russo's final decision was the lack of alumni 
follow-up. "There was no alumni contact 
from Brown at all," Russo says. 

But the biggest factor, according to 
Russo, was the distance. Cornell is only iVz 
hours away, while he'd have to fly to get 
to Brown. 

"Some boys like to get away from 
home when they go to college. Others prefer 
to attend a nearby college where their family 
and friends can see them play. I guess I'm 
one of those who like to stay close to 
home." 

Dick Russo: There was no alumni follow-up 
from Brown. 




Frank Jackson, a 6-2, 200-pound 
linebacker from Westfield (N.J.) High is 
attending Yale this fall because of the 
exceptionally effective efforts of a Yale 
alumnus in his hometown. 

Through his junior year in high school, 
Jackson had been thinking of attending 
Syracuse; the Ivy League was not in con- 
sideration. In December of his senior year, 
after he had been named to the All-State 
team, Jackson suddenly found himself the 
center of attraction. 

"A number of colleges contacted me 
last winter," Jackson says. "Yale was first 
and Brown second. Frankly, I was as happy 
as any kid could be. My ambition is to 
attend law school, and an Ivy League 
education seemed to be a good preparation. 

"Coach George talked to me and 
arranged for a visit to the campus. And an 
alumnus, Donald Van Heest ('49) saw that 
I got all the necessary literature from the 
admission office. Both men were very 
pleasant and I liked what I saw of Brown on 
my visit. 

"But the Yale alumnus who lived in 
my town stayed right with me. He was 
persistent without being overly aggressive. 
He'd check with me every once in a while 
to see if there was anything he could do. 
He even showed up at one of my wrestling 
matches. He never intruded. He was just 
there. 

"My mother wanted me to get the best 
education possible. She and I realized that 
there was little to choose between Yale and 
Brown. I guess you'd have to say that Yale 
just got there first." 

Frank Jackson: 'A Yale alumnus stayed 
with me. He was just there.' 




Tim Manna was an outstanding athlete 
at Horace Greeley School in Chappaqua, 
N.Y. He was captain and star tackle on the 
football team which was 8-0, outscoring its 
opposition 264-46. He was All-County, 
All-League, and All-Metropolitan. He also 
was a wrestler of some distinction. 

Through the years. Manna has thought 
of nothing but an Ivy League education. As 
an eighth-grader, he dreamed of attending 
Yale and playing in the Bowl. While in high 
school, he added Dartmouth, Princeton, and 
Brown to his list of possibilities. 

"Harvard was the first Ivy League 
school to contact me in December of my 
junior year," he says. "Brown made a con- 
tact, also, through Coach Jack George. He 
asked me if I'd like to visit Brown and I 
guess my eyes nearly popped out. I was 
becoming interested in pre-med, and some- 
one had told me that Brown was outstanding 
in this area. 

"One year later I was invited to Brown, 
and I liked it there. But between December 
of 1968 and December of 1969 I had heard 
almost nothing from Brown — only a brief 
phone call from an alumnus. In the 
meantime. Harvard did follow-up through 
a local alumnus. We became good friends. 
He took me to Cambridge for a week-end 
visit, and then, later, he arranged for me to 
go back by myself to stay with some of the 
Harvard players." 

Manna says that five or six of his high 
school classmates are coming to Brown this 
fall and only one to Harvard. This drew him 
somewhat to Brown. But he decided on 
Harvard. 

"In my mind, both schools are even 
academically. In the final analysis I guess I 
leaned to Harvard for two reasons. Harvard 
is one of the Big 3, the so-called prestige 
colleges. Also, I felt that I had at least a 
moral commitment to the Harvard alumnus 
who had done so much for me during the 
previous year and a half." 

Tim Manna: 'I felt I had a moral commit- 
ment to a Harvard alumnus.' 




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Football: On opening day, 
five were missing 

The hair length and sideburns were a 
bit longer than in the past, the cry of the 
Bear Rebellion had been silenced until a 
more appropriate time, and potassium had 
replaced Bruinade as the new wrinkle in the 
daily menu when 69 football players re- 
ported to Coach Len Jardine on Sept. 1. 

But, at Brown some things never change 
on the football front. One of these constants 
is the lack of depth among the front-line 
players. This problem was in evidence once 
again on opening day when Jardine reported 
that at least five of the 22 men tentatively 
listed last summer as offensive and defensive 
starters might be among the missing. 

Two key veterans definitely won't play 
football for Brown this fall. Co-Captain 
Bill O'Donnell, who was to be switched 
from defensive back to split end, injured a 
disc near the neck while lifting weights last 
winter and is out of collegiate football for 
good. Tom Moser, a 6-5, 230-pound junior 
tackle, has transferred to the University 
of Texas. 

O'Donnell, one of the fastest runners 
on the team, set a pass receiving record 
when he played flanker back with the Cubs 
and had all the tools to be a fine split end. 
Jardine had planned to use Moser as a 
defensive end this fall in his new 4-4 
alignment. 

The other potential starters who had 
not reported by the end of the first week of 
triple drills were defensive backs Bob Wieck 
and Chuck Petty and punt specialist Bob 
Warren. 

Altogether Jardine guessed that there 
were about 25 young men who came to 
Brown expressing a desire to play football 
who have had second thoughts on the value 
of the game. 

"Even those from this group who were 
slated to be subs this season were important 
to our program," Jardine says. "They are 
the ones who give the starters the push they 
need. And in Brown's program, it's always 
possible to be a sub one week and a starter 
the next. In a way I can understand some of 
the subs quitting. But," he said, shaking his 
head, 'T'll just never understand why those 
who would be starting drop out." 

There was some good news mixed in 
with the bad during the first week of drills. 
Gary Bonner, the 6-1, 190-pound halfback, 
is back in school, apparently eager to get 
back into action. On the 5-1 freshman team 
two years ago, Bonner showed the potential 
to be one of the best running backs Brown 
has had in some time. 

"I still think we can be a good football 
team if we stay healthy and don't have any 



more attrition," Jardine said. "But the loss 
of those five men hurt, coming at a point 
where we thought that we had the right 
combinations ready for 1970. Now it means 
shifting personnel all over again. Naturally, 
this will hurt what depth we did have at 
some positions." 

One of Jardine's first major moves was 
to switch Jim Rianoshek from the offensive 
to the defensive backfield. The versatile 
junior also may see service on punt and 
kickoff returns. 

In a move midway in pre-season drills, 
Jardine switched last year's starting quarter- 
back Bryan Marini to the defensive back- 
field and replaced him in the I-V formation 
offense with Bob Flanders, a hard-running 
halfback in his two varsity seasons. Marini 
was an outstanding defensive player at 
Weymouth (Mass.) High. Flanders played 
quarterback at Chaminade High on Long 
Island and asked for a chance at the position 
on the opening day of Brown football 
practices. 

The switch was made possible by 
Brown's improving supply of good running 
backs, including Bonner, junior Tom 
Spotts, and sophomore Walt Haggstrom. 

Other good runners include Co-Captain 
Gerry Hart, who led the team in rushing 
last season with 370 yards and a 4.8 average 
from his fullback slot, and junior Kurt 
Franke, a wingback. 

Less effective as an offensive weapon 
last season was Brown's passing game. 
Where the Bruins outrushed their oppo- 
nents 1,579 to 1,435, they were on the short 
end of the passing game, 1,089 to 618. 

"There's no doubt that we've placed a 
heavy emphasis on our passing game this 
fall," Jardine says, "We need to complement 
the running game with a strong passing 
game to make the total offense click." 

There was a major shake-up in the 
coaching staff over the past year. Tom 
Urbanik now is handling the offensive 
backfield, Gary Blackney the defensive 
backfield, and Joe Faragalli the offensive 
line. Jim Healey is starting his second 
year as defensive line coach, while Alex 
Nahigian, Providence College baseball 
coach, is starting his 22nd year as a 
member of the Brown football staff. 

New coaches named 
for football 

Tom Urbanik of Charleroi, Pa., and 
Gary Blackney of Mansfield Center, Conn., 
have been appointed assistant varsity 
football coaches. 

Urbanik is coordinating the offensive 
backfield, while Blackney supervises the 
defensive backs. Urbanik assumes the 
duties performed by Jack George, who 
became head freshman coach this fall. 
Blackney replaced Dick Selcer, who left to 
become head football coach at Xavier. 



In another move within the coaching 
staff. Bill Gourley resigned as head freshman 
coach to accept a position as head coach 
at North Park College in Chicago, which is 
moving into the collegiate football picture 
for the first time. 

Urbanik is a 1964 graduate of Penn 
State, where he earned U.P.I. Ail-American 
mention as a fullback. He was a first team 
All-East selection and played in the 
North-South AU-Star game. Urbanik re- 
cently was selected on Penn State's all-time 
football team. He played one season of 
professional football with the Washington 
Redskins before joining the Winnipeg Blue 
Bombers of the Canadian Football League 
for the 1966 season. He holds a master's 
degree in health, physical education, and 
recreation from Temple University, where he 
has been assistant varsity coach for the 
last two years. 

Blackney attended Wesley College 
from 1962 to 1964, where he was captain 
and most valuable player. He transferred to 
the University of Connecticut and was 
graduated in 1967. He earned his master's in 
physical education from UConn in 1968. 
He has been assistant freshman coach at 
the University of Connecticut for the past 
three years. 

Soccer prospects better 
because of sophs 

The first thing that Cliff Stevenson got 
across to his 35 soccer players when they 
reported Sept. 8 was that all the positions 
except three were strictly up for grabs. 

The three men who had positions nailed 
down were senior goalie and co-captain 
John Sanzo, junior halfback Jim Ohaus, and 
junior fullback Chip Young. The latter 
won All-Ivy honors as a sophomore and 
has the potential to be an All-American. 

Brown was 9-4-2 last year and par- 
ticipated in the NCAA playoffs for the 
second straight year. But the season was 
not up to recent Brown standards and it was 
no secret that Coach Stevenson was un- 
happy with the general performance of his 
front line. There was a lack of consistency 
at the wings, and center forward remained 
a trouble spot. 

Stevenson feels that Brown will be 
improved this fall if only because of the 
competition for positions provided by the 
talent in the sophomore class. Under Cub 
coach George Gerdts '68, these men were 
8-1-1 a year ago. 

George Kapner, Rudy Zeller, and Dick 
Lay are rated highly as front line prospects. 
Kapner, an All-County choice from Valley 
Stream, N.Y., led the Cubs in goals with 14. 
Lay, a Rhode Island boy, had nine goals 
for the season. 



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Halfbacks Andy Kislevitz and Bob 
Gorgone and fullback Jim Miller also move 
up to the varsity with good credentials. 

Coach Stevenson will be assisted by 
Don Smith '68 and John Verhoeff, while 
Gerdts will continue with the Cubs. Early 
indications were that Brown's freshman 
team would be exceptionally strong this fall. 

Champion frosh crew 
to push veterans 

Before the turn of the century, the 
1896 baseball team of Dave Fultz, Daff 
Gammons, Edward North Robinson & 
Company posted a 20-5 record and jour- 
neyed to Chicago to defeat the Univer- 
sity of Chicago in a series that determined 
the national championship. 

Since then, no Brown varsity team has 
won a national title — until last June when 
the freshman crew rallied over the last 
500 meters and won the championship in 
the 68th Intercollegiate Rowing Association 
Regatta on Lake Onondaga in Syracuse. 

The victory highlighted the greatest 
day Brown oarsmen have ever had in the 
IRA, and while Coach Vic Michalson 
isn't predicting championship Bruin crews 



for the future, he admits the success of 
the freshmen boat is producing some opti- 
mism for the future. 

"Peter Amram did a fine job of bring- 
ing this group of freshmen together. The 
freshmen crew is the largest Brown has 
ever had at that level, and since we lost only 
two men by graduation from our entire 
varsity squad, the competition for seats on 
both the varsity and junior varsity squads 
this season promises to be intense." 

Amram, who rowed at Brown as an 
undergraduate and then helped coach the 
Cubs during the 1961-62 season, became 
head freshman coach of the Bruins in 
1963-64 before moving to Mount Hermon. 
He ran the crew there for four years, then 
returned to Providence as a teacher at Lin- 
coln School and as a freshman crew coach 
at Brown. 

As Michalson said, Amram did bring 
the Cubs together, for before their victory in 
the IRA's, the frosh oarsmen won all five 
races during the regular season, including a 
two-length decision over Harvard — the 
Crimson's second loss in eight years. The 
Cubs finished third behind Harvard and 
Navy in the Eastern Sprints at Worcester. 

At Syracuse, Coach Amram's freshman 



boat won its qualifying heat, defeating 
Cornell and undefeated Washington, recent 
winner of the West Sprint Championship. 
Cornell had been in the lead with 300- 
meters remaining when Brown started to 
click and won the race by four seconds. 

The ability to turn it on late in the race 
was a trademark of Coach Amram's strong 
young crew. And this script was followed 
in the finals. 

Navy and Harvard had set the early 
pace, only to give way to Washington with 
500-meters left. The Cubs were fourth at 
the 1,000-meter mark and second with 
500 meters to go, still a length behind 
Washington. 

Gaining with each thrust of their 
oars as the large crowd roared its approval. 
Brown caught Washington with 150 meters 
to go and flashed across the finish line with 
a quarter-length lead. Navy was third. 

The Steward Cup, which has been in 
IRA competition since 1900, was presented 
to Coach Amram on the dock in front of 
the grandstand before more than 12,000 
spectators and each member of the crew 



Brown's freshman boat crosses the finish line ahead of Washington to win the IRA championsh 




41 



received an IRA championship medal. 
Brown will keep the Steward trophy until 
next year's IRA. 

Brown's crew was a large one, aver- 
aging 6-2 and 194 pounds. The IRA lineup 
included: Coxswain, Joe Delle Fave of 
Greenville, R.I.; stroke. Bob George of Falls 
Church, Va.; No. 7, Pete Falk, Branford, 
Conn.; No. 6, Steve Dull, Palm Beach, Fla.; 
No. 5, Jim Ulrich, Arlington Heights, 111.; 
No. 4, George Taylor, Pittsfield, Mass.; No. 
3, Marc Bergschneider, Brookline, Mass.; 
No. 2, Mark Heffenreffer, Wellesley, Mass.; 
Bow, Dick Mounce, Chatham, N.J.; Bob 
Checkoway of Washington, D.C., was a 
front-line sub. 

Brown's varsity finished sixth in the 
IRA's and the jayvees were fifth. It was 
the first time that Brown had qualified all 
three crews for the final, and the combined 
showing put the Bruins in third place in 
the overall standings behind Washington 
and Penn. 

Prior to last June, Brown made its 
best overall IRA showing in 1965 when 
Coach Vic Michalson's varsity was fifth and 
the jayvees and freshmen were seventh. 
The best previous showing by an individual 
crew was the second gained by the Cubs 
in 1964. 

There were no loud 
noises with Miss Brownell 

When Louise Brownell retired last 
June as office manager at Marvel Gym, 
Athletic Director Jack Heffernan had his 
to say: 

"Louise has been the backbone of the 
ticket department for many years. With her, 
there was no loud noise, just everything 
efficient." 

A graduate of Dean Academy and 
Bryant College, Miss Brownell came to 
work for Brown in 1930 under Athletic 
Director Dr. Frederick W. Marvel '94. Her 
first job was in the sports publicity office 
under Joe Nutter '24. Later she served as 
secretary to Dr. Marvel and the coaches, 
handled ticket applications, and finally 
became ticket manager in 1941. 

During her 40 years at Brown, Miss 
Brownell worked for eight athletic directors: 
Dr. Marvel, Tom Taylor '25, Dr. Bruce 
Bigelow '24, Wally Snell '13, Paul MacKesey 
'32, Dean Edward Durgin, Dick Theibert, 
and Heffernan. 

For the most part. Miss Brownell 
worked a six-day week and, frequently, a 
12-hour day. In the fall, there were football 
games to fake up the crisp Saturday 
afternoons. Then, during the winter season, 
hockey and basketball often kept her in 
the city long after the official closing hour 
at Marvel Gym. And on Saturdays there 
were sometimes doubleheaders, wrestling 
in the afternoon and either basketball or 
hockey in the evening. 



Yet, for a person who was such an 
integral part of the Brown sports scene. 
Miss Brownell seldom saw a complete game. 
She's under Brown Stadium counting her 
receipts until well into the fourth quarter 
and occasionally she makes it to the press 
box at Meehan, "just for a donut and a cup 
of coffee," as she'd say. 

Equal to Brown in Miss Brownell's 
affection is her home town of Little 
Compton. When they talk about the 
"natives" of this quaint Rhode Island 
community, they are talking about Louise 
Brownell. She once described it as the only 
place she'd ever live. 

At her farewell party last June, there 
were the usual gifts. But, two seemed 
especially appropriate. The hockey team 
presented her with a Victory Trophy for 
her service to hockey, 1930-1970. 

And her friends gave her a three-speed 
English bike — just the thing for winding 
her way around the Common or along 
those elm-shaded streets of Little Compton. 

Replacing Miss Brownell as ticket 
manager is Richard Sardella, a 1970 
graduate of Bryant College. The 24-year- 
old Jersey City, N.J., native served as 
freshman baseball coach while at Bryant. 

"I feel that the most important part of 
this job is promotion," Sardella says, 
pointing to the $13,000 increase in last 
year's income as the result of the Bear 
Rebellion. 

In an effort to beef up Brown's football 
promotion, Sardella plans to use extensive 
radio and television advertisement, dis- 
tribute window posters and bumper stickers 
throughout the state, and work with a 
chain store in the state on a discount 
ticket program. 

Sports shorts 

Three members of last spring's 
lacrosse squad have been named to the 
Ail-American team. Bob Scalise '71, an 
attackman from Uniondale, N.J., who led 
the nation in goals scored with 47 goals, 
was selected to the second team. Seniors 
Bob Buck of Baltimore and Bob Anthony, 
both attackmen, were named to the second 
and third teams respectively. 

Coach Cliff Stevenson's lacrosse team, 
which was 6-0 against New England op- 
position, was named New England champion 
for 1970. It was Brown's fourth New 
England crown since 1964. 

Brown also led all schools with five 
players on the All-New England teams. In 
addition to Anthony, Scalise, and Buck, 
the list included midfielder Dean Rollins 
'71 and defenseman Bruce Pitt '71. 

Second on Brown's all-time lacrosse 
scoring list with 145 points, Anthony was 



selected to take part in the annual North- 
South Senior All-Star game. 

The composite Ivy League lacrosse 
standings since 1964 list Brown in third 
place behind Cornell and Princeton with a 
25-17 record for 50 points. Cornell is 30-12 
and Princeton 26-15. Trailing Brown are 
Yale (22-19), Penn (17-25), Harvard (14-28), 
and Dartmouth (12-32). 

Robert O. Read, who helped to re- 
establish crew as an organized sport at 
Brown in 1949, died in Providence in 
August after a prolonged illness. A Prince- 
ton graduate and Providence businessman. 
Read served as volunteer coach for most 
of the years from 1949 through 1958 when 
crew was a club sport at Brown. 

Ben Brewster '69, former Bruin captain 
and All-Ivy soccer player, saw action 
with the Boston Astros during the early 
part of the summer. In August he left to 
work out with the Manchester United in 
England — "to improve my game." Brewster 
is pointing for the Munich Olympics. 

Last spring, sophomore Bob Wieck set 
a modern Brown season record by blasting 
five home runs. The Bruin second baseman 
was later selected to the second team on 
both the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball 
League and All-New England squads. 
Coach Bill Livesey believes that Wieck, a 
6-2, 195-pounder from Florence, Ky., has 
major league potential. 

The baseball team will have tri- 
captains this spring. The club will be led 
by seniors pitcher-outfielder Bob Flanders, 
shortstop Bryan Marini, and catcher Dean 
Hoag. 

Former hockey coach Jim Fullerton 
has accepted an invitation to serve as a 
leader for a People-to-People team some- 
time during 1971. For 10 years, the People- 
to-People Travel Programs have been 
sending American teams to all areas of the 
world to help create international under- 
standing. Since retiring as hockey coach in 
March, Fullerton has been working at 
Alumni House as the University's alumni- 
athletic liaison officer. 

Francis "Sonny" Pittaro '60, former 
Brown baseball captain and shortstop, has 
been named head baseball coach at Rider 
College in Trenton, N.J. After graduating 
from Brown, Pittaro played professional 
baseball for three seasons in the Minnesota 
Twins organization before leaving to earn 
his master's degree in the psychology of 
reading at Temple. He was associated with 
Independent Educational Services of 
Princeton, N.J., as director of testing before 
accepting his new position. 



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Brown Clubs 



Three Brown Clubs will welcome 
President Donald F. and Mrs. Hornig at 
major dinners this fall. The dates: New 
York, Oct. 21; Rhode Island, Oct. 30; 
Boston, Nov. 4. 

The Hotel Commodore will be the 
scene of the New York dinner, which is 
being sponsored jointly by the Brown Club 
in New York, University trustees, and the 
Brown and Pembroke Clubs of the New 
York, New Jersey, and lower Connecticut 
areas. 

"We hope to have a record gathering 
and to provide a warm welcome to the 
Hornigs," said Lyman G. (Bill) Blooming- 
dale '35, newly-elected president of the 
New York Brown Club. "We want to make 
this a pleasant, informal homecoming for 
the Hornigs, who were members of the 
Brown family from 1946 to 1957." 

Frank C. Prince '56, dinner chairman, 
has announced that dress will be informal 
and that the dinner will be $10 per person. 
A reception at 6 will precede the dinner at 
7 p.m. 

Working closely with Chairman Prince 
is Norma C. Munves P'54, president of the 
Pembroke Club of New York. She heads the 
hostess committee. 

The Brown Club of Rhode Island's 



night for Dr. and Mrs. Hornig on Oct. 30 
will be a dinner-dance at the Biltmore Hotel. 
It will be one of the features of the 
Homecoming weekend. Jack Schreiber '50, a 
member of the Club's board of directors, 
is general chairman. 

Ralph Stuart's orchestra will play for 
the dinner-dance, which will be semi-formal. 
There will be a reception in the Biltmore at 
6, with dinner following at 7:30. The price 
is $25 per couple and $12.50 per person. 
John R. Workman, professor of classics, 
will serve as toastmaster. 

Chairman Schreiber's committee in- 
cludes Eugene F. Tortolani '52, Louis J. 
Regine '48, Stanley F. Mathes '39, Gus Saun- 
ders '42, Dr. Walter Jusczyk '41, Allan Syd- 
ney '49, Dave Zucconi '55, and Bob Goff '24. 
Mrs. Lucile B. Keegan P'39 is serving as 
liaison with the Pembroke College Club of 
Providence. Serving with her are Mrs. Lucy 
Tortolani P'55, E. Susan Weatherhead P'42, 
Mary C. O'Brien P'60, and Mrs. Seena 
Dittelman P'51. 

John Kaufmann '63 is chairman of the 
Boston Brown Club's Centennial Dinner, 
which honors Dr. Hornig on Nov. 4. The 
affair will be held at the Peter Stuyvesant on 
Pier 4. Claude Branch '07 will serve as 
toastmaster. 

The club has a full program through the 
academic year. On Oct. 22, Coach Len 
Jardine will be the speaker at the first of 
the monthly luncheon programs. Alexander 
Kantor '38 is in charge of arrangements. 

Arthur Love, Jr., '56 is handling plans 
for the cocktail party at Carey Cage follow- 
ing the Brown-Harvard football game Nov. 
14. The annual hockey night will be held 
Dec. 12, with Peter Mackie '59 in charge. 
William Braucher '64, chairman of the 
Boston club's annual sports night program, 
has announced some changes. Instead of one 
sports night with all the coaches and sub- 
freshmen attending at a given location, there 
will be a series of such programs in the 
month of January for the various sports. 

'Fhe social highlight of the year for the 
members of the Michigan Brown Club 
will be the visit of the Brown hockey team 
to Detroit during the Christmas holiday. 
The Bruins are scheduled to meet the 
University of Michigan on Dec. 29 and 
Michigan Tech on the following evening. 
A club program in honor of this event was 
being planned this summer. 

In other recent action, the club has 
voted to include Pembroke alumnae in club 
functions. Eventually a joint club may be 
formed. However, Secretary P. Andrew 
Penz '61 hastens to add that the decision 
was in no way influenced by the recent 
Women's Liberation movement. 

"Actually, we anticipated Women's Lib 
by at least 47 days," he adds. 

The new president of the Michigan 
Brown Club is Eugene W. Lewis, III, '62, an 



associate in the Detroit law firm of 
Dahlberg, Mallender, and Gawne. 

The new slate of officers elected this 
summer also includes the following: Vice- 
President Post Fordon '53, Secretary Penz, 
Treasurer Colman Levin '55, Schools Chair- 
man John Nicholson '63. 

TThe new board of directors of the New 

Haven Club lists Benjamin A. Chase '38, 
Webster P. O'Neil '28, Reginald Poland 
'14, William Prifty '55, and WilHam P. 
Simon '54. 

In Tucson, Frederick G. Fernald '57 has 
taken over as president of the Brown Club. 
He's a research assistant at the University 
of Arizona. Dr. William J. Bakrow '46 is his 
vice-president and Mrs. Gail Humphrey 
Fernald P'57 is the secretary. 

Thomas F. Jones, Jr., '55, vice-president 
in the trust department with Harris Trust 
and Savings of Chicago, is the new presi- 
dent of the Brown Club of Chicago. 
Allan Kerr '50 is first vice-president, 
Robert Fitzgerald '55 second vice-presi- 
dent, and Jordan H. Peters '65 is treasurer. 
The new secretary is Jeffrey G. Liss '65, 
who can be reached at 5733 North Sheridan 
Rd., Apt. 12D., Chicago. 

The Brown Club of Colorado has a new 
secretary. He's Richard F. Mauro '67, who 
works at First National Bank Bldg., Denver. 

pollowing up on the request of alumni in 
•'■the Long Island area. Associate Alumni 
Executive Officer David J. Zucconi '55 
attended an organizational meeting at the 
home of Bert N. Schaller '43. 

The seven alumni who met with Zucconi 
felt that the Club could and should do more 
to spread the name of Brown in that area. 
This was especially true in the area of 
secondary school recruiting. 

In addition, the alumni present talked 
in terms of setting up monthly activities 
October through June. These would include 
a fall send-off party for incoming freshmen, 
a football day when Brown meets Columbia 
at Baker Field, group interviewing sessions 
with applicants, visits from University offi- 
cials, an annual dinner, and a summer 
picnic. 

Attending the meeting at the Schaller 
home were A. Thomas Levin '64, Michael 
S. Kupersmith '64, Mattis I. Fern '55, Mrs. 
Sue Fern, Harvey R. Nanes '37, and James 
H. Sherman '39. 

Early this fall, representatives of the 
Monmouth County, Lackawanna, and Tren- 
ton Brown Clubs met with Dave Zucconi to 
discuss a restructuring of the boundary 
lines of the three clubs. The move would 
re-define and increase each club's area, with 
the hope that the Alumni Secondary Schools 
Program would receive more complete 
coverage. 



43 



Brunonians 
far and near 



f\^ A new physics building at Kent 
x^JL State University has been named 
for the late Roy H. Smith, who was a 
member of the community there from 1914 
until his death in 1963. He came to Kent as 
generaj manager of the Falls Rivet Company 
and later served as president when that firm 
merged with Lamson and Sessions Co. He 
was mayor of Kent in 1930-31 and president 
of the Rotary Club and Wranglers' Club. 
Always a strong supporter of education, he 
was a member of the Kent State University 
Board of Trustees from 1935 to 1940 and 
was later awarded an honorary degree of 
Doctor of Engineering there. Brown also 
honored him with a Doctor of Laws degree. 
The late Dr. Albert L. Midgley, pioneer 
in dental education and a founder, secretary, 
and president of the American College of 
Dentists, was one of 11 persons recently 
named to the Rhode Island Heritage Hall 
of Fame. A prominent oral surgeon. Dr. 
Midgley died in 1967. 

f\ C The class has presented a check 
\J^ for $1,338 to the University. The 
check represents the balance which re- 
mained in the class fund. 

Clarence W. Holmes is living in New- 
port, N.H., where he celebrated his 92nd 
birthday Jan. 11. Alert and active, he still 
drives a car, plays the piano, reads avidly, 
plays chess, and has a keen sense of humor. 

f\^L Steve Wright and Henry Carpenter 
\J\^ represented the class at the Alumni 
Dinner during Commencement week-end. 
On Saturday, Alex Burgess, Walter Briggs, 
Sid Bellows, and Joe Smith were the 
luncheon guests of Class President Doug 
Mercer at the Refectory. Monday morning, 
Harold James and Sid Bellows were on hand, 
and later inspected the Marston Boat House. 
The class is looking forward to its 65th 
Reunion next spring. 

'f\n^ Shan Clark and Cliff Slade met at 

^J J the University Club during the 
reunion week-end and drank a toast from 
the 1907 Cup to the 63rd Reunion, and, 
more particularly, to the memories of those 
reunions that have gone before. Because 
the Class of '07 has been coming to the 
University Club so long for these traditional 
toasts from the Class Cup, Tony DiFelice, at 
the University Club acknowledged that 
this year the champagne would be on 
the house. 

At the annual meeting of the Providence 
District Nursing Association, President 
Clark was cited for 45 years of outstanding 
service as a member of the board of 
managers. Shan served five years as 
treasurer and 20 years as president. 



09 



Dr. Robert Whitmarsh was one of 
13 former chiefs of staff at Roger 
Williams General Hospital honored recently 
at a "Hail to the Chiefs Night." Bob is a 
nephew of the hospital's founder. 



has been elected secretary and treasurer of 
the Mutual Savings Bank Association of 
Rhode Island. 

"% "t William Hastie reports that he 
J-JL is "happily ensconced" in the 
Methodist Home in Topeka, Kan. "My 
daughter and I have an apartment and are 
well situated. My wife died in January of 
1969, seven months after we arrived here. 
My daughter has been in a wheelchair for 
35 years. To keep busy, I have started a 
twice-monthly newspaper. The Home Herald, 
which I write, edit, and mimeo. I also gather 
the news of our retired ministers of the 
Kansas East Conference and get out a 
quarterly to all of them. In addition, it has 
been my pleasure to have been selected a 
member of the Counselling Group for the 
Washburn University Continuing Education 
Department. The department recently put 
on a 13-episode TV series and asked me to 
be the host for the entire series." 

'*¥ ^t John E. Rouse, rancher and owner 

JLw of One Bar Eleven Ranch, has 
800 Aberdeen Angus cows on his 7,500-acre 
ranch in Saratoga, Wyo. About once a year 
he and his wife, Roma, climb aboard a 
jetliner and head for foreign countries — 
to look at cattle. After graduation he got 
a job firing an old still for Standard Oil 
Co. About 45 years later he retired as 
vice-president in charge of operations for 
Stanolind Oil and Gas Co., a Standard 
subsidiary. But John didn't retire, he just 
began another pursuit — Aberdeen Angus 
cows. 

'"% /t During Commencement week-end, 
^^K Elmer MacDowell and Ed Brackett 
attended the Alumni Dinner, while Brackett, 
Charles Woolley, Reg Poland, Norris 
Woodbury, and Leroy Spooner marched 
down the Hill. 

Ziggie Czubak sends thanks to those 
classmates who sent cards his way at the 
rest home. He has hopes of being back in 
circulation this fall. 

Pulver Cook didn't make it to Florida 
last winter, but he's feeling well enough 
now to be discussing plans for this year. 

Bob Holding reported in June the 
arrival of a grandson, Robert Preston 
Tunsill, born at Oyster Harbor. Grandfather 
is doing well. 

Dr. Reginald Poland has consented to 
take over the chores as head class agent. 
This is in addition to his painting, writing, 
and sculpturing at his studio in Guilford, 
Conn. 

'"% JJf Edward W. Hincks is serving as 

■L^ president of the Cape Coral Civic 
Center, Inc., Cape Coral, Fla. The Gulf 
American Corporation recently announced 
that it had deeded a tract of land totalling 
I5V2 acres to the center. 

Roland E. Copeland has retired from 
the Copeland Co., Inc., Cheshire, Conn. His 
son, Larry '50, is now at the helm. 



'»* ^-k Charles A. Post, chairman of the 
I % J board of the Citizens Savings Bank, 



44 



'"% /^ The class met during the reunion 

■JL%7 week-end at the home of Stan and 
Ruth McLeod for cocktails prior to the 
Alumni Dinner. And, for a group 54 years 
out of college, there was a good turnout 
with 25 persons present. The list of those 
attending the social hour includes Mr. and 
Mrs. Lincoln R. Arnold, William A. Graham, 
Francis J. O'Brien, Mrs. Jack Moore, Mrs. 
Frederick A. Ballou, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. H.S. 
McLeod, Dr. and Mrs. William N. Hughes, 
Professor and Mrs. Emanuel Ekstrom, Mr. 
and Mrs. Frank E. Paine, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. 
John J. Cashman, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford D. 
Heathcote, Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Hill, and 
Mr. and Mrs. Francis J. Brady. 

"T ^ Hugh W. MacNair was one of those 
•M./ people who found out early in life 
that he couldn't draw a straight line. Later, 
it was a great discovery to find that he didn't 
have to draw straight to be an artist. So, 
in the high speed business days of the 
19S0's the paintings began. Tensions were 
calmed with dosages of pigment and linseed 
oil on the end of some pig bristles. His 
paintings depict landscapes and venture 
into the representational, inspired by the 
French and Vermont scene. Last spring a 
one-man showing of his works was held at 
the Billage Gallery of the Southern Vermont 
Art Center in Manchester. Hugh retired 
some years back as district manager of 
the New York Telephone Company in 
Manhattan and immediately moved to 
Dorset, Vt. 



Clarence Holmes: At 93— chess, 
piano and a keen sense of humor 



'18 



Several members of the class met 
informally in the Quadrangle out- 
side the Refectory prior to the Alumni 
Dinner, in our only official off-year reunion 
activity. Included in this group were Paul 
Grimes, Mason Hill, Mai Phillips, Bill 
Russell, Zene Bliss, Tom Hall, and Walter 
Adler. Several of the men mentioned above 
attended the Pops Concert and participated 
in the Commencement Procession. 

Clark Belden, a retired association 
executive, is living at Apt. 1206 South, 
Watergate East, 2500 Virginia Ave., N.W., 
Washington, D.C. 

Isaac and Helen Smith celebrated their 
50th wedding anniversary May 31. They 
reside at Buttonwood Farm in Westerly, R.I. 

"% rt Dr. Sidney A. Fox continues in 
-^ -^ demand for lectures on his special- 
ity of ophthalmology, with recent dates in 
Puerto Rico, Pennsylvania, and Yellowknife, 
N.W.T., Canada. 

Colonel Harry R. Dutton, a hotel con- 
sultant, reports that he is now operating 
"in Paradise (Hawaii)." 

William H. Edwards, retired from his 
active law practice, conducted a lecture 
series on current events at Central Congre- 
gational Church, Providence. His book 
reviews appear regularly in the Providence 
loiirnal. Bill and classmate Arthur J. Levy 
also do book reviews for The American Bar 
Association Journal. 



Clarence W. Holmes of Newport, N.H. 
recently passed his drivers re-examination, 
which will allow him to drive the family car 
for another two years. Unusual? Only in 
that Holmes, a member of the Class of '05, 
will be 93 years of age in January. 

The former high school principal may 
be one of the "youngest" 93-year-olds in 
the country. He plays the piano, reads 
avidly, gives his wife a handicap when they 
play chess (just to keep her interest), and 
has a keen sense of humor. 

One of eight children. Holmes was 
born in the foothills of the White Moun- 
tains of New Hampshire, where his father, 
a methodist minister, preached to worship- 
ers in the small country towns. Holmes was 
a studious child, and his parents set their 
sights on him getting a college education. 

"When I was a small boy, I used to sit 
around and read the classics," Holmes re- 
calls. "My older brother, who had to work 
the farm all day, took a somewhat dim 
view of this situation." 

College may have been on the horizon, 
but Holmes had a difficult time getting 
through high school. Everytime his mother 
had another baby he stayed out of school 
to do chores. 

When he enlisted in the Spanish- 
American War as a member of the 1st New 
Hampshire Volunteers, he was sent to 
Chickamauga, Ga. "The conditions there 
were intolerable," he says. "More people 
died in camp than in actual battle." 

Barely more than a skeleton himself. 
Holmes was sent home after eight months 
and completed his final term at Whitefield 

At chess, Mrs. Holmes gets a handicap 



Academy. The family doctor, recognizing 
Holmes' academic potential, offered to loan 
him funds to attend college. 

"I had written a story for the local 
newspaper and had won a $5 prize, so I 
sent a copy of the story with an application 
to Brown. Despite my rather scanty aca- 
demic background, I was admitted. I always 
said that it was because they wanted to 
study a curiosity from the backwoods of 
New Hampshire." 

Holmes had to hurdle one more ob- 
stacle before he reached Brown. During 
that summer he worked as a bell boy at the 
old Crawford House in Concord. Appar- 
ently it was a good season at the Crawford 
House and the manager was reluctant to 
let his bell boys leave. Holmes finally ar- 
rived at Brown one month late and with 
only $40 in his pocket. 

Four years later, after working his 
way through college. Holmes owed less 
than $200. He entered the educational field, 
teaching in Puerto Rico and in several 
school systems through New England before 
settling in East Douglas, Mass. In 1948, he 
retired as principal of East Douglas High 
after 30 years of service. 

Looking back through the years. 
Holmes feels that Teddy Roosevelt was one 
of America's few great presidents. He says 
that he voted for Richard Nixon "hope- 
fully," and he supports the country's posi- 
tion in Viet Nam. 

The boy who used to sit and read the 
classics some 80 years back, still likes to 
read. He has just started on the Bible — for 
the third complete reading. 




45 



James L. Jenks, Jr., is publisher of 
Praying Hands, a bi-monthly publication in 
the field of religion in industry. A retired 
business executive and founder of Praying 
Hands Charitable Trust, Jim is located at 28 
Church St., Room 14, Winchester, Mass. 

^ ^"1 Warren J. Freeman, chairman of 

^ JL the board of the American Cancer 
Society, Nassau division, has been presented 
the division's Humanitarian Award. Warren, 
who is consultant-director of General Bronze 
Corp., was honored for his more than a 
decade of service in the crusade against 
cancer. 

' ^ ^ Jesse Dubois carries on the Dubois 

^^ Travel Agency in New Paltz, N.Y. 
He and Ruth spent March and April in 
Genoa, Naples, and Taormina. He reports 
having recently met Chapin Newhard at the 
airport in St. Louis and has been in touch 
with Jim Serven. 

Robert V. Jones has been elected 
selectman of the town of Arlington, Vt. He 
find it quite an active "retirement" job, 
in addition to his own self-employment as 
a consulting engineer. 

Clark Forstall continues as a morning 
appraiser and consultant for the Amsterdam 
Savings Bank. Afternoons are for whatever 
needs to be done around the place. 

' ^ ^ Albert N. Sherberg is serving part- 

^ w time as assistant minister of the 
historic First Church of Christ in Wethers- 
field, Conn, where he and Anne purchased 
a home for retirement. Albert was a happy 
man last spring when he learned that 
the oldest of six grandchildren had been 
accepted for the fall freshman class at 
Loomis Institute. 

Kilgore Macfarlane, Jr., is back from 
South Africa, where he played on the U.S. 
senior golfing team. He personally played 17 
courses in matches against different South 
African seniors. He claims he played like the 
Brown football team — won 5, lost 5, tied 2. 

George Decker and his wife Elsie 
returned from a trip to England, Scotland, 
and the Scandinavian countries just in time 
for the annual reunion. 

Carl A. Green has retired from the 
Burlington Hosiery Company in Pomona, 
Calif. 

Francis Sprague is in the Oak Hill 
Nursing Home at 544 Pleasant Street, Paw- 
tucket, R.I., and would enjoy hearing from 
classmates. 

George Thibodeau wasn't able to get 
back for the reunion last spring because he 
and his wife were on a trip to Canada. For 
the Thibodeaus this was going from one 
extreme to another. They spent the winter 
in Sarasota, Fla. 



^ ^ /t Clarence C. Chaffee, or "Chafe" 
^TK as he is known on the Williams 
College campus, retired in June as coach of 
soccer, tennis, and squash. A successful 
coach in all three sports, he led this year's 
squash team to a third place finish in the 
national collegiate championships. At 
graduation exercises in June, Chafe received 
an honorary degree from Williams, which 
read in part: "For more than three decades 
as an exceptionally successful varsity coach 
in three sports and as director of physical 
education at Williams, you have represented 
here and in the world of collegiate sports 
qualities of coaching, teaching, and leader- 
ship in which this College deeply believes 
and set a standard for long years to come." 

'^ C Herbert W. Spink retired in June 

^ W after 23 years as headmaster of St. 
Andrew's School in Barrington, R.I. He and 
Mrs. Spink received gifts from the gradu- 
ating class of the school. 

Philip L. Voelker has retired from BIF 
Industries after more than a quarter century 
of service. Refusing to retire completely, 
Phil is a specification writer with Charles 
A. Maguire & Associates, Inc., Providence. 

George E. Andrews has been elected 
first vice-president of the Providence 
Engineering Society. 

The new cobalt therapy unit at Brooke 
General Hospital, Fort Sam Houston, Tex., 
has been dedicated to the memory of the 
late Col. John A. Isherwood, who organized 
the first radioisotope clinic to be established 
in the San Antonio area. A native of 
England, Col. Isherwood joined the Army 
Medical Corps Reserve in 1929 after receiv- 
ing his M.D. degree from Harvard. Following 
his retirement in 1961, Col. Isherwood 
became a member of the radiology staff at 
Santa Rosa Medical Center in San Antonio 
until his death in 1964. 

^ Z^ Edward Kip Chace, now retired as 

«V/ superintendent of schools in 
Bridgeton, N.J., is continuing as a consultant 
to the Board of Education through Decem- 
ber. Our classmate became a grandfather in 
April when his daughter, Elizabeth Sned- 
don, gave birth to a daughter. 

Domenico A. lonata has been reap- 
pointed to another five-year term as a 
member of the Buildings Board of Review 
in Providence. 

Arthur E. Jansen, who became professor 
emeritus of English at Dartmouth in 1969, 
doffed two more hats this July when he 
retired as director of the senior fellowship 
program and as coordinator of the bicenten- 
nial program. 

' ^ pr Robert A. Stoehr, Jr., has become 

JU J chairman of the board of the family 
company, Cincinnati Floor Co. His nephew, 
James '51, is president and his son, Robert, 
is executive vice-president. 

Charles D. Kenney continues as vice- 
president of sales with Kenney Manufactur- 
ing Co. "Am semi-retired but seem to be 
working as hard as ever," he says. "My 
main hobby seems to be raising a few roses 
for the Japanese beetles to feed on." 



Ralph G. Kenney retired from the 
Grinnell Company in June, following more 
than 40 years with the same firm. If present 
plans materialize, he and Ingrid will move 
from Warwick to Gulf Harbors, Fla., some- 
time this fall. 

Nathaniel T. Griffiths reports that 
after attaining the customary retirement 
milestone, and after surviving five mergers 
and takeovers, he retired from Baldwin- 
Lima Hamilton Corporation to embark on a 
new career. He's now a technical consultant 
to and U.S. resident representative of 
Sasakura Engineering Co., Osaka, Japan. 
"Have a full quota of nine grandchildren," 
he says. 

Weston M. Stuart, retired attorney, is 
living in Tenafly, N.J. Hobbies for our 
classmate include reading, golf, writing 
one-act plays and short stories for children 
and old friends, and relaxing with a "wee 
drop." He reports that his travels have taken 
him to every state in the U.S., except Alaska. 
Wes also has been in South America and 
the Caribbean. He has served as a Navy 
lieutenant commander in World War II, 
president of the Brown Club of New York, 
regional director of the Associated Alumni, 
and a member of the board of governors of 
the Northeastern New Jersey Brown Club. 

R. Allan Johnston for the past eight 
years has been teaching reading improve- 
ment to all level of high school students at 
Phoenix Union High School. The school is 
composed largely of blacks and Mexican- 
Americans. "Plan to retire after next 
academic year," he says. "There will then 
be more time for the children and 10 
grandchildren." 

Harold B. Master received the Meri- 
torious Service Award from Secretary of 
the Treasury David M. Kennedy. Our class- 
mate is coordinator of banking and volun- 
teer activities with the U.S. Savings Bonds 
Division of the Department of the Treasury. 
The citation read, in part: "Harold B. Master 
has made outstanding contribution to the 
U.S. Savings Bonds Program and the Treas- 
ury Department. He has, in a superior 
manner, developed and sustained an active 
and productive Savings Bonds Volunteer 
organization throughout the nation." 

Leslie O. Byrne has informed the 
Alumni Office that he has retired. He is 
living at 1040 S.E. 4th Ave., Deerfield Beach, 
Fla. 

Charles W. Provonchee has been 
promoted to the new post of senior vice- 
president of the Providence Gas Co. Charles 
has been active in Family Service, Inc. of 
Providence, with a term as president, and 
in the Red Cross, Council of Community 
Services, and Chamber of Commerce. 

Edgar F. Bennett is president of 
Bennetts, Inc., interior designers, Toledo, O. 

'^ O Paul Bonynge, Jr., has retired from 

^O the Bankers Trust Company in 
New York and has moved to Temple Rd., 
Wilton, N.H. 

Dr. J. Saunders Redding, professor of 
American Studies at George Washington 
University and consultant at the National 



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Endowment for (he Humanities, received an 
honorary degree of Doctor of Literature at 
the 107th Dickinson College commencement. 

"Jil On the subject of money, those 
of you who were not at the class 
meeting might be interested in the results of 
our fund-raising effort of 18 months ago. 
We received voluntary contributions ranging 
from $1 to $10 from 59 members, totalling 
$492. It makes us a comparatively wealthy 
class and permits us to finance the 40th 
reunion comfortably. There was some 
discussion about an off-year reunion with 
our friends from the classes of 1929 and 
1931, probably in 1972 or 1973. We'll 
explore it. 

^"1 George R. Coughlan, Jr., vice 
^^ •*• president of claims, nationwii 
Glen Falls (N.Y.) Insurance Co., has been 
named by the State Board of Regents to 
serve on the Retirement Board of Glens 
Falls. George, who holds a J.D. degree 
from Harvard Law School, is a member of 
the Warren County, New York State, and 
American Bar associations. His father was 
Brown '97, and his eldest son, George R. 
Coughlan, III, is in the Class of 1960. 

Richard P. Breaden is librarian at St. 
Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers, N.Y. 

Dr. Eugene A. Field, chief of the depart- 
ment of radiology at Union Hospital, Fall 
River, Mass., recently lectured on Jewish 
contributions to American civilization in 
Adas Israel Synagogue. Dr. Field is an 
associate visiting professor of radiology at 
Haifa Medical School, Israel. 

T. Robley Louttit has been elected a 
member of the executive committee of MFB 
Mutual Insurance Co., Providence. 

James B. Brown, secretary-treasurer of 
the Puritan Life Insurance Co., recently 
marked his 40th anniversary with the firm. 
He is a member of the Actuaries Club of 
Boston and is active on the United Fund 
Panel Service. 

' '1 ^ Dr. S.M. Nabrit (GS), executive 

^ ^ director of the Southern Fellowship 
Fund of Atlanta, has been named by the 
board of trustees to the advisory council of 
Furman University. The native of Macon, 
Ga., becomes the first black member of the 
Furman advisory council. 

Robert G. Tyrrell is a senior wage 
analyst for Corning (N.Y.) Glass Works. 

George W. Jensen's daughter, Deborah 
Holbrook, was graduated with highest 
honors in the accelerated liberal arts curric- 
ulum at East Providence High School in 
June. She was selected 1969 girls' state 
representative to Rhode Island College for a 
five-day government colloquium, was for 
two years a delegate to the R.I. Model 
Legislature at the State House, was co-editor 
of the yearbook, and received awards in 
creative writing. Deborah entered Pembroke 
this fall, where she hopes to play hockey on 
the Pembroke Pandas. 



' ^ ^ Wyndham J. Roberts has a num- 

*^*^ ber of hobbies. One of them is 
weather forecasting, and he has appeared on 
WCIA-TV in Illinois for the past 16 years. 
Another hobby has been delving into un- 
usual aspects of water supply. Roberts was 
engaged in water consulting prior to World 
War II, when he taught meteorology in the 
Army Air Force. Since 1945, he has con- 
ducted hydrologic research at the Illinois 
State Water Survey. For the past two years, 
Wyndham has served on a National Re- 
search Council task group concerned with 
hydrological network planning and design. 
He and Helen have two children, both 
graduates of the University of Illinois. 
Dr. William E. Holland (GS) is a 
chemical consultant for Foster D. Snell, Inc., 
Florham Park., N.J. 

"1^ Edward W. Thomas informs us that 
^ ^ he has retired after 31 years with 
Atlantic Richfield Co., mostly as area 
industrial lubrication engineer for New 
England. He will devote his time to hunting, 
fishing and conservation work. In the next 
year or two, Ed will leave Massachusetts for 
permanent residence in Florida and will 
divide his time between there and his hunt- 
ing camp in Vermont. 

William J. Broadhurst is a senior 
caseworker with the New York City De- 
partment of Social Services. He lives at 880 
Fifth Ave., New York City. 

John Quattrocchi, Jr., is a candidate 
for the office of the Senate from Rhode 
Island, a post held by John O. Pastore. 

David R. Allen is assistant superinten- 
dent of inspections with Factory Insurance 
Association of Hartford, Conn. 

Kenneth Hampson, a personnel execu- 
tive, is vice-president of Futovian Manufac- 
turing Corp., New Albany, Miss. 

^ C Irving Brodsky has been elected a 
^ ^ director of First Savings and Loan 
Association of Providence. A member of 
the law firm of Booth & Brodsky, he has 
been a Rhode Island special assistant attor- 
ney general since 1960. 

Vincent DiMase, director of the depart- 
ment of building inspection. Providence, has 
been elected vice-president of the Buildings 
Officials Conference of America. 

Amos Landman has been appointed 
a senior vice-president at the New York- 
based office of Ruder & Finn, Inc. A former 
foreign correspondent, Amos and his wife 
collaborated on a book. Profile of Red China, 
based on their experiences in the Far East. 

Edward H. P. Gilman, sales representa- 
tive for Investors Diversified Services, Inc., 
and its subsidiary. Investors Syndicate Life 
Insurance and Annuity Co., recently opened 
an office in Montclair, N.J. 

^^ Dr. Wesley Haines, president of 
^^^ Franklin College, is more than a 
little pleased with his pool prowess. In fact, 
when he issued a challenge to his student 
body last spring, he warned them that he had 
worked his way through Brown 35 years 
earlier by tending the college pool hall. 
Apparently one of the students was not the 



least bit impressed. He trounced the prexy, 
25-11. An ice cream sundae was wagered on 
the game, and Dr. Haines paid off in the new 
campus center snack shop. On the way out, 
he turned to the assembled students and 
said, "Tennis anyone?" 

Leon M. Payne has been elected to the 
board of directors, of Wilson Industries, Inc., 
a Houston, Tex., pressure vessel, heavy 
equipment manufacturing and supply firm. 
Leon is a partner in the law firm of An- 
drews, Kurth, Campbell & Jones, and has 
been associated with his present firm since 
he received his law degree in 1939 from 
the University of Texas. He became a 
partner in 1947. 

The class extends its sympathy to Louis 
P. Willemin, whose mother, Mary Louise 
(Rocne) Willemin, widow of Louis P. Wil- 
lemin '09, died in Silver Springs, Md., on 
April 15. 

Dr. Joseph A. Yacovone has been 
appointed a lecturer in the department 
of social dentistry at Tufts University 
School of Dental Medicine. Dr. Yaco- 
vone is also a visiting lecturer at several 
health institutions. 

Charles A. Summerfield, president of 
City National Bank & Trust Co., New York 
City, has announced, following the silver 
anniversary celebration, that the firm will 
build a $300,000, 9,000-square-foot two- 
story addition as the first step in a 10-year 
expansion program. Charles said the pro- 
gram is aimed at meeting anticipated 
growth of the bank by 1980. 

^lyT Peter J. Purcella, vice-president of 
*^ y Vernon Court Junior College, has 
received the outstanding faculty award for 
1969-70. He also is dean of the faculty, 
dean of the school of Liberal Arts, and 
chairman of the history department at 
Rhode Island College. 

Fred T. Leighty is executive vice- 
president of Dancer, Fitzgerald-Sample, 
Inc., a New York City advertising agency. 

^ Q Walter H. Covell, program director 
*?0 of WSBE-TV, Rhode Island's edu- 
cational station, is one of 14 persons named 
to the new diocesan board of education 
selected by the Most Rev. Russell J. McVin- 
ney, D.D., bishop of Providence. 

John S. Fiore has been named sales 
manager of Paine, Webber, Jackson & 
Curtis in its Providence office. He has been 
in the securities business for 12 years. 

Edward L. Palmer, chairman of the 
executive committee of First National City 
Bank, New York, has been elected to the 
board of trustees of the Community Service 
Society of New York. Ed was also named 
chairman of the CSS board's finance and 
real estate committee and a member of the 
administrative committee. 

^ Q Howard G. Brown, a Providence 
^^ ■^ textile man and long an active 
figure in Rhode Island civil affairs, has been 
elected president of the voluntary Health 



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Planning Council. In this position, he suc- 
ceeds a fellow Brown man, Superior Court 
Judge Joseph R. Weisberger '42. 

James B. Hawley, who completed his 
25th year in the educational field in June, 
is currently teaching French and history at 
Gaylord (Mich.) Community School. His 
daughter, Margaret, is 17 and getting ready 
for college; James, II, is 14 and will enter 
high school in the fall, while Donald, age 5, 
has started kindergarten. Jim lives at 716 
Clinton St. Adrian, Mich. 

Sherwin I. Kapstein and his wife, 
Gladys, spearheaded a Brown and Pem- 
broke alumni group in soliciting signatures 
from other alumni during Commencement 
activities to support the University's con- 
duct throughout the May student strike. 

Riley Hughes (GS) is associate profes- 
sor of English at Georgetown University 
and director of the Georgetown University 
Writers Conference. 

^ /tf\ Dr. James W. Holt, Jr. is chairman 

^Vl of the Tiverton (R.I.) Conservation 
Commission and also serves as a member 
of the state's Air Pollution Advisory Com- 
mission. He is currently writing a book on 
Tiverton's Fort Barton, the Battle of Rhode 
Island and the life of Col. William Barton. 
Dr. Bertram H. Buxton, Jr., has been 
elected president of the Providence Country 
Day School's board of trustees. Bert, an 
obstetrician, is a 1936 graduate of the school. 

The Rev. John V. Evans is rector of St. 
Luke's Church in Charlestown, N.H., and 
Union Church in West Claremont, N.H. 
Union Church is the oldest standing Epis- 
copal edifice in the state and will celebrate 
its bi-centennial in 1971. 

Gerald Oster is professor of biophysics 
at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New 
York City. He is the author of nearly 200 
scientific papers covering a variety of sub- 
jects, including photochemistry of polymers 
and lininescence and optics. 

The sympathy of the class is extended 
to Henry H. Smith whose mother, Mrs. 
Isabelle G. Smith, died June 9. Sympathy is 
also extended to her other sons, Donald B. 
Smith '42 and Robert P. Smith '45. 

Rev. Herbert G. Nahas is pastor 
St. Mary's Orthodox Church in Wilkes- 
Barre, Pa. 

Dr. Joseph J. Parnicky is a professor 
at Ohio State University, while his college 
roommate, John R. Bailey, is owner and 
operator of Dillon Marina, Inc., Dillon, Colo. 



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William P. Sheffield has been 
named president of Universal 
Engineering Division, Frankenmuth, Mich., 
a subsidiary of Houdaille Industries, Inc., 
Buffalo. Prior to joining Houdaille, Bill was 
general manager of the Goddard & Goddard 
Company and was responsible for the man- 
agement and operation of its plants in 
Detroit, Springfield, Tenn., and Cleveland. 
William H. Collins, Jr. has been named 
by Bethlehem Steel Corporation as general 
manager of the Sparrows Point, Md., Ship- 
yard. Bill has been with Bethlehem since 
1941, except for a four-year period during 



World War II when he served with the 
U.S. Navy. 

Dr. Arthur I. Holleb, one of the nation's 
most noted surgeons, gave up his surgical 
practice in 1968 to devote full time to the 
American Cancer Society's medical pro- 
grams and to encourage more "patient- 
oriented" scientific research. As senior vice- 
president for medical affairs of the society 
he recently visited cancer officials and physi- 
cians in Utah. Art specialized in breast 
cancer surgery. 

Dr. Frederick H. Jackson, who resigned 
last year as president of Clark University, 
has been named chief administrator of the 
Committee on Institutional Cooperation, 
an association of the Big Ten Universities 
and the University of Chicago. 

C. Harrison Meyer sent the following 
Christmas card greeting to an associate 
last year: "May your year ahead — and the 
years beyond — bring you health, happiness, 
and prosperity." Our classmate's reference 
"to the years beyond" really isn't so un- 
usual. He's a life insurance salesman. 

^ A^ Ponzi A. Angelone is manager of 

rX^ the new Cranston, R.I. office of the 
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. He has 
been elected a director of the Life Under- 
writers Association of Greater Providence. 

Harrison H. Goff of Newport, an MFB 
Mutual Insurance Company vice-president, 
has been moved up to the corporate rela- 
tions vice-presidency. The post received 
corporate recognition in the MFB executive 
echelon for the first time. He joined Fire- 
men's Mutual Insurance Co., one of the three 
companies which consolidated in 1968 to 
form MFB, in 1942. Harrison also is a vice- 
president of Appalachian Insurance Co., a 
wholly-owned MFB subsidiary. 

William B. Remington has been named 
advertising manager of the New York-based 
The Architectural Varum, Whitney Publi- 
cations Company. Bill served as the publica- 
tion's western advertising manager since 
1967, and as eastern advertising manager 
from 1965 to 1967. 

Dr. Joseph C. Trantham (GS), senior 
secondary recovery engineer for the Phillips 
Petroleum Co., Bartlesville, Okla., has 
been named a member of the Baylor Uni- 
versity Council for Institutional Develop- 
ment. The council, which is composed of 
prominent individuals from across the 
United States, acts in an advisory capacity 
to the world's largest Baptist university. 

Jack E. Awde, Rhode Island district 
manager of the Providence Life and Acci- 
dent Insurance Co., has been elected presi- 
dent of the Life Underwriters Association 
of Greater Providence. 

Leo Dunn has been appointed general 
campaign chairman for the 1971 Combined 
Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston. 
A partner in the law firm of Barron, Feld- 
man, Dunn and Rachlin, Leo was chairman 
of CJP's trade and professions division 
for the 1969 and 1970 campaigns. 

Dr. Thomas O. Paine, administrator 
of the National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration (NASA), was commence- 
ment speaker and recipient of an honorary 



degree at Worcester Polytechnic Institute 
in June. 

Desmond L. Simmons has been ap- 
pointed director of architecture and engi- 
neering in the building and office services 
department of Prudential Insurance Co. 

Williard "Ace" Parker continues his 
association with the Great American In- 
surance Companies as manager of the 
Washington, D.C. (Silver Spring, Md.) 
office. He's also owner of the Willard Case 
Parker Stable of trotting horses. A side 
enterprise with Ace is Willard Case Parker 
Promotions, advertising, publicity, and pub- 
lic relations exclusively for the harness 
racing people. 

Norman P. Ross took a leave of absence 
from Time, Inc., to become visiting pro- 
fessor in history at Yale in 1968-69. He 
found the position so rewarding that he 
stayed on for 1969-70 as well. The founding 
editor of Time-Life Books and resident of 
New Caanan, Conn., presented the Yale 
University Library the entire body of work 
published to date by Time-Life Books for 
permanent preservation at the University 
Library. 

William E. O'Connor has received his 
Ph.D. in international studies from the 
School of International Service at American 
University in Washington, D.C. This event 
took place May 31, the same day he was 
admitted to the National Honor Society, 
Phi Kappa Phi. 

Richard R. Baxter of Cambridge, Mass., 
is one of four Americans selected by the 
Secretary of State for membership on the 
Permanent Court of Arbitration. He is pro- 
fessor of law at the Harvard Law School. 

^ /t^ Lester J. Millman, Providence 

TXw architect, has announced his candi- 
dacy for the Republican nomination for 
mayor of Providence. In his opening state- 
ment, he stressed the need for more housing 
and a better educational system. He is cur- 
rently an associate professor of architecture 
at Rhode Island School of Design. Lester 
was instrumental in forming the Com- 
munity Design Center at the School of 
Design, which has undertaken many civic 
projects, including the Progress for Provi- 
dence Neighborhood Center. Some sig- 
nificant buildings designed by our classmate 
include the Adams Library at Rhode Island 
College and the Art Center of the University 
of Rhode Island. 

Seth K. Gifford, Providence attorney, 
has been elected chairman of the Action 
Committee on School Health, an organiza- 
tion formed to help promote health edu- 
cation programs in Rhode Island schools 
and colleges. 

John R. Hess, III, recently purchased 
the Giffordline Chemical Co., Inc., of Cran- 
ston, R. I., and has changed the name to 
John R. Hess and Sons, Inc. The company 
distributes industrial chemicals for the tex- 
tile, jewelry, metal, paper, plastics, elec- 
tronics, chemical, and other industries in 
southern New England. 



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Kingsley N. Meyer has been elected 
vice-president of the Providence Country 
Day School's board of trustees. 

Robert VV. Radvvay, vice-president of 
Rhode Island Hospital Trust, has been 
appointed to a two-year term as a member 
of the American Banking Association's 
executive council. 

George B. Flynn is president of Pamco, 
Inc., West Hartford, Conn., machine tools. 

Dr. James E. Whitney, manager of 
coffee research and development with 
the Foods Division of Coca Cola Co., 
Houston, Tex., has been named a director 
of the Instrument Society of America, 
Pittsburgh. He is in the industries and 
sciences department. 

^L^L Louis V. Jackvony, Jr., has been 
^'^^ elected a director of National 
Columbus Bancorp Inc., the one-bank 
holding company for Columbus National 
Bank. He is a partner in the law firm of 
Jackvony & DeConti, established by his 
father. 

Dr. James Metcalfe, professor of medi- 
cine at the University of Oregon Medical 
School, has been elected to the council 
of the American Association of University 
Professors. For the next three years he will 
participate with 39 other council members 
chosen from the faculties and colleges 
throughout the nation in determining poli- 
cies and programs for the 89,000-member 
association. 

John D. Baer, a management consult- 
ant, is president of Langsen Baer & Asso- 
ciates, Atlanta, Ga. 

C. Robinson Fish, III, C.L.U., North- 
western Mutual Life of Boston, has been 
nominated for the position of secretary in 
the Million Dollar Round Table. In addition 
to his reputation as a recognized expert in 
the field of life insurance sales, he has 
gained nationwide recognition for his in- 
terest in and support of the Medic Alert 
program. He and Shirley (P'44) have three 
children. 

/% C Dr. Walter Cotter, assisted by 
"^ a fellow Brown man. Dr. William 
Sammartino, recently performed the first 
hemispherectomy ever done in Rhode 
Island. Their patient, a 14-year-old girl, had 
uncontrolled epilepsy. In the operation, per- 
formed at Miriam Hospital, half the brain 
was removed. "The operation is designed 
to take away the little epileptic seizures no 
one notices but which are going on all the 
time and slows down the chance for a 
seizure to develop in the normal side of 
the brain," Dr. Cotter says. 

Edwin F. Gamble of Topsham, Me., 
has had an exhibition in the Humanities 
Lounge of the Rockefeller Library. The 
exhibition, consisting of sculpture and 
drawings, included some 20 pieces of 
sculpture, cast in bronze and aluminum, 
and silver. The drawings were in pen and 
ink. The general theme of the exhibition 
was birds. 

James Geehan is editor of the San 
Bernadino (Calif.) Sun-Telegram, a Gannett 
newspaper. During the summer he served 



as a panelist for the newspapers in the 
70'5 workshop at Theta Sigma Phi's national 
meeting in San Diego. 

Dr. Vernon R. Alden, former president 
of Ohio University, received an honorary 
degree of Doctor of Letters from Bethany 
College, where he was commencement 
speaker. 

Robert E. Rounds has been elected an 
assistant vice-president of Starkweather 
& Shepley, Inc., a Providence insurance 
agency. 

Lewis H. Mammel is supervisor, physi- 
cal design group, data communications 
development at Bell Telephone Laboratories. 

Norman C. Taylor is president of 
Stemmler Archery, Inc., Middlebury, Conn. 

Peter R. Coffin is chairman of the 
department of philosophy at Cedar Crest 
College, Allentown, Pa. 

R. Harper Brown has been elected to 
the board of directors of Container Corpora- 
tion of America. As senior vice-president 
of Container, he has responsibility for 
domestic carton fabricating operations. 

/t(^ Ralph Cutillo made headlines last 
^»^^ summer when he helped to put 
Rhode Island summer theater back under 
canvas. The newcomer to the straw hat cir- 
cuit made his pitch at the junction of 
Routes 138 and 24, Portsmouth, where he 
hoisted a $6,000 green and white tent right 
across the highway from his new $1 million- 
plus Ramada Inn. The Portsmouth Summer 
Theater opened in June and had a suc- 
cessful 13-week season. 

Hugh B. Allison, president of Chemical 
Products Corporation of East Providence, 
has announced the acquisition of the 
C. W. Haynes Laboratories, Inc., of Chic- 
opee, Mass. Hugh will be president of this 
new wholly-owned subsidiary. 

George L. DeWolf is a senior engineer 
with NCR Advanced Engineering, Cornell 
University Research Park, Ithaca, N.Y., and 
is living at 1913 Slaterville Rd., Ithaca. 

Luther B. Francis is vice-president of 
Bradish-Young, Inc., Portland, Me., an 
insurance agency. 

Milton A. Phillips has been appointed 
vice-president and general manager of 
Fram Corp., in the company's industrial 
division, Tulsa, Okla. 

Dr. William Bakrow is president of 
the Motorola Executive Institute, established 
in 1967 at the former Rancho del Largo 
at Vail near Tucson, Ariz. Recently, plans 
have been completed for a campus there, 
including an advanced design combination 
classroom and seminar building, dormi- 
tories, library, and recreation center. 

/%^7 Robert J. Janes has been appointed 
^t # vice-president in charge of mar- 
keting with Insurance Underwriters, Inc., 
Providence. He had been with Starkweather 
c& Shepley for the past nine years. Bob is 
chairman of the Barrington School Com- 
mittee, a trustee of St. Andrew's School, and 
is a member of the board of governors of 
the University Club. 

Dr. George C. Smith has moved from 
Miami, Ariz., where he was a practicing 



physician, to Clinton, Conn. His new 
address there is 23 May Mac Loop. 

Thomas Kavazanjian reports that 
after serving for six years as director of 
counseling, testing and advisement at 
Nassau Community College, Garden City, 
N.Y., he has returned to the classroom 
as a full professor of psychology at the 
same institution. 

Robert D. O'Brien, an attorney, is 
international trademark counsel for Bristol- 
Myers Co., New York City. 

Rev. James B. Parsons is pastor of First 
Reformed Church in Nyack, N.Y. 

Cole A. Lewis has been promoted to 
associate director, community affairs, in 
the public relations and advertising depart- 
ment of the Prudential Insurance Co. 

'^Q Col. Edward J. Campbell, USAF, 
^*^ has been graduated from the U.S. 
Army War College, Carlisle Baracks, Pa. 
He is scheduled for assignment with 
the 8th Tactical Fighter Wing near LJbon, 
Thailand. 

Edward F. Almon, treasurer of Nichol- 
son File Co., has been elected president of 
the Rhode Island Association of Credit 
Management. 

J. Thomas Kershaw, Jr., has been 
elected an assistant vice-president of 
Starkweather & Shepley, Inc., a Provi- 
dence insurance agency. He also has been 
reelected to his position as the company's 
secretary. 

Alfred S. Reynolds, of Rhode Island 
Hospital Trust National Bank, has been 
elected first vice-president of the Rhode 
Island Association of Credit Management. 

Marvin S. Holland served as chair- 
man of the 25th anniversary meeting of the 
General Jewish Committee of Rhode Island. 

Dr. William F. Garrahan is the new 
president of the Rhode Island Orthopedic 
Society. 

^1 (j Lincoln F. Ladd, who joined the 
~ -^ faculty of the University of North 
Carolina in 1965, is working on his doctoral 
dissertation, 18th Century Critical Attitudes 
Toward Virgil's Pastorals. 

Louis Moretti is executive vice-presi- 
dent of Amcon Industries, Inc., New 
Bedford, Mass. 

Gordon A. Gaskill (GS) is librarian 
and a director of the Waltham (Mass.) 
Public Library. 

Joseph T. Mullen, a municipal securi- 
ties officer at Industrial National Bank 
of Rhode Island, has been named by T. L. 
Watson & Company to start a municipal 
bond department at the investment firm's 
Providence office. 

Alexander F. Lippitt, vice-president 
of the First Wisconsin National Bank, has 
been named Wisconsin membership chair- 
man of the Foundation for Full Service 
Banks. He will be responsible for member- 
ship recruitment and liaison activities 
in Wisconsin. 

William F. Long, Jr., has announced 



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his candidacy for the office of Bristol 
County, Mass., county commissioner. He 
is a trial lawyer with more than 17 years 
of experience. 

William H. Creamer, Jr., has been 
appointed sales vice-president of Cardinal 
Mailing Services, Ltd., Honolulu's largest 
and oldest direct mail and marketing 
service agency. 

Case Western Reserve University has 
announced the appointment of Dr. Simon 
Ostrach (GS) to the Wilbert H. Austin 
distinguished professorship in engineering. 
For almost 10 years Dr. Ostrach has been 
head of the Division of Fluid, Thermal 
and Aerospace Sciences in the University's 
School of Engineering. 

Ted Low, president of Sims Corp., 
Providence, is serving as a member of 
Planned Parenthood of Rhode Island. 

Dr. Leonard H. Lerner of Warwick, 
R.L, has been appointed to the Rhode 
Island board of examiners in podiatry. 

C^^ Anthony P. Travisono has been 
^\^ named by Governor Frank Licht 
'38 as the head of the new Department of 
Mental Health, Retardation, and Hospitals. 
This is one of two new Rhode Island de- 
partments created to replace the Depart- 
ment of Social Welfare. Tony had been 
director of social welfare for 18 months. 

Harry S. Westcott has been elected 
secretary of the Rhode Island Association 
of School Superintendents. He is super- 
intendent of schools in Scituate. 

Fletcher W. Ward of Dallas has been 
elected a vice-president of A.R.A. Services, 
Inc., with corporate headquarters in Phil- 
adelphia. Fletcher and Sally and their four 
children continue to live in Dallas. 

Dr. William B. Crafts has been dean 
of students at Monmouth College since 1965. 

Robert J. McVicker, Jr., has left J. Wal- 
ter Thompson to handle corporate com- 
munications for Teledyne, Inc., at Century 
City in Los Angeles. His new home ad- 
dress is 11687 Montana Ave., Apt. 305 
Los Angeles. 

Carl W. Otto, a chemist, is regional 
engineering services manager of Air Reduc- 
tion Co., Wellesley, Mass. 

Bruce M. Senior is assistant general 
manager and director of marketing at 
Armstrong-Nylex Pty., Ltd., Braeside 
Victoria, Australia. 

Robert A. J. Gildea (GS) is informa- 
tion processing specialist and a member 
of the technical staff of the Mitre Corp., 
Bedford, Mass. 

Gordon E. Noble has been elected execu- 
tive vice-president of California Compen- 
sation and Fire Company, San Francisco. 
Gordon also has been elected vice-president 
of the Hanover Insurance Company, with 
which Cal-Comp became affiliated in April, 
1969. He will be the senior Pacific Coast 
executive for both Hanover and Cal-Comp. 

Herbert E. Francis, Jr., (GS) is a pro- 
fessor of English at the University of 



Alabama at Huntsville, and lives at 101 
Calhoun St., N.E., Huntsville, Ala. 

Dr. Floyd Ratliff (GS) is a professor at 
the Rockefeller University, New York City. 

Lawrence G. Copeland is president of 
Copeland Co., Inc., Cheshire, Conn. 

' fZ't Richard J. Israel, who has been 

^JL serving as assistant attorney 
general in Rhode Island under his class- 
mate, Herbert F. DeSimone, has announced 
his candidacy for the Republican nomi- 
nation for attorney general. Earlier this 
year, he successfully prosecuted Raymond 
L. S. Patriarca and four other men on con- 
spiracy to murder charges in a case des- 
cribed as a strong blow against organized 
crime in Rhode Island. Dick's law degree 
is from Yale. 

Donald Swindells has been named 
director of marketing for Davis Electric Co., 
subsidiary of Sterling Extruder Corp., 
Wallingford, Conn. He had been employed 
in the wire and cable industry since 1956 
and was general manager of the Entwistle 
Company before joining Davis Electric. 

Thomas F. Brady of Old Colony Co- 
operative Bank, Providence, has been elected 
a director of the American Savings and 
Loan Institute of Rhode Island. 

Paul Andrews has been elected vice- 
president and operations manager of Cove- 
nant Life, Hartford. 

Alex Robinson is a busy man. During 
the summer he serves as general manager 
of the K. C. Jones Basketball School in 
Willsboro, N.Y., in the fall he handles pub- 
licity for the Lowell Giants of the Atlantic 
Coast Football League, he is a part-time 
basketball official for the NBA during the 
winter, and he makes plans for his hiking 
camp in the Adirondacks when spring time 
arrives. In "real life," Alex is a salesman 
for Wagner-Lambert Pharmaceutical Co., 
Morris Plains, N.J. He and Pat and their 
children live at 11 Robin Hill Rd., Chelms- 
ford, Mass. 

Douglas M. Watson has been named a 
director of the First Valley Corp., Bethle- 
hem, Pa. He is senior vice-president of the 
bank, which he joined in 1967 as vice- 
president and trust officer. 

August Miale, Jr., (GS) is associate 
professor of radiology, and chief of the 
nuclear medicine service at the University 
of Miami. 

Earned L. Kent is manager, commercial 
lines, casualty property department, of the 
Travelers Insurance Co., Dayton, O. 

Robert L. Warsh is not only president 
of Uniforms Unlimited, Inc., but president 
of Little Folks Shops Inc., and secretary 
of Guardian Uniform Co., Inc., New York 
City. The company retails children's wear. 

Harold C. Fisher, Jr., has been pro- 
moted to vice-president at John P. Chase, 
Inc., Boston. His primary job is investment 
counselling. Harold lives in Hingham, 
Mass., with his wife and three children. 

Allan M. Russell has been named pro- 
vost and dean of the faculty at Hobart 
and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, N.Y. 

Charles J. Cooper is associate general 
counsel and assistant secretary of ARA 
Services, Inc., Philadelphia, Pa., a law firm. 



Sidney M. Johnson informs us that he 
is an assistant mechanical maintenance 
superintendent of Scott Paper Co., Wins- 
low, Me. 

John H. Lindsey is a social science 
and history teacher at Wayland, Mass. 
High School. 

Cdr. Frederic C. Caswell, Jr., USN, has 
been assigned as commanding officer of 
the USS Lowry and expects to remain 
aboard until about June of 1971. 

fZ^ David J. Brodsky, treasurer of 
^ ^ Educational Testing Service 
since 1965, has been appointed as vice- 
president of the Princeton, N.J., firm. He 
joined the staff of ETS in 1955, became 
controller in 1959, and was named assist- 
ant treasurer in 1963. 

Robinson C. Trowbridge, president of 
Creamer, Trowbridge, Case & Basford, Inc., 
advertising and public relations firm of 
Providence and Boston, has been elected to 
the board of directors of Community Work- 
shops of Rhode Island, Inc. 

J. Gordon Schontzler has been ap- 
pointed vice-president and general man- 
ager of the Data Systems division of 
Photophysics, Inc., Mountain View, Calif. 

George A. Wilcox is a divisional 
manager of the Associated Spring Corp., 
Milwaukee, Wis. 

William J. Kissell, Jr., has joined the 
Mennen Company as vice-president and 
marketing director, with responsibilities for 
product management, market research, 
sales and sales promotion. 

Dr. Peter P. Gillis has been awarded 
a Fulbright Foundation grant for a year's 
study in the physics and engineering lab- 
oratory at Lower Hutt, New Zealand. He 
will be there until July, 1971. Peter is asso- 
ciate professor of materials science at the 
University of Kentucky. 

Stephen H. Maclachlan is vice-president 
of the First Pennsylvania Banking & Trust 
Co., Philadelphia, where he is responsible 
for Caribbean subsidiaries. 

Dr. Martin E. Felder has been elected 
secretary of the Miriam Hospital Staff 
Association, Providence. 

' C ^ Frederick Knecht, Jr., has been 

w W awarded an honorary degree 
of Doctor of Juridicial Science by the East- 
ern Nebraska Christian College, Valley, 
Neb. Fred is with the law firm of Knecht, 
Greenstein & Berkowitz, Wilmington, Del. 

Paul A. Goldman is vice-president of 
Markel Services, Inc., the country's largest 
specialty insuror of bus and trucking com- 
panies. He's also vice-president of Detek- 
tronics Systems, Inc., of New Jersey. 

Dr. Kenneth G. Knowles has been 
elected secretary-treasurer of Rhode Island 
Orthopedic Society 

Dr. Francis X. Russo, a member of the 
University of Rhode Island faculty since 
1966, has been appointed associate dean of 
the College of Arts and Sciences at URL 

Walter L. Molineux has been appointed 
district manager for New Jersey Bell's New 
Brunswick district. He is responsible for 
the accounts of 111,000 business and resi- 



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dence customers in the major portion 
of Middlesex County. 

Walter E. Cowan, Jr., who received an 
M.S. degree in mathematics at Case In- 
stitute in 1962, and an M.D. degree from 
the University of Louisville Medical School 
in 1969, is interning at Grant Hospital 
in Chicago. 

Dr. George F. Smith, head of the 
science department at South Hadley (Mass.) 
High School and chairman of the South 
Hadley Science Curriculum Committee, 
has earned a Ph.D. degree from Cornell 
University. 

Howard A. Farrands is associate 
professor of history at Bloomfield (N.J.) 
College. 

James M. Fernald is a diplomat and 
second secretary of the embassy at Am- 
man, Jordan. 

E. Howard VVenzel, Jr., is chief execu- 
tive officer of Viviendas Nacionales, which 
is involved in the planning, financing and 
construction of large scale low-cost hous- 
ing projects in Panama, Colombia and Peru. 

' C ^^ Dr. Jacques Lipetz, a research 

^^ Tt biologist, has been appointed an 
associate member and head of the electron 
microscope laboratory at the Walter In- 
stitute in Philadelphia. 

Stanford Miller is president of Rosco 
Laboratories, Inc., Harrison, N.Y. He re- 
sides at 102 Knickerbocker Ave., Spring- 
dale, Conn. 

James M. Stuart is a managing partner 
in the firm of Stuart Brothers, New York 
City. 

John L. Dodge is associated with U.S. 
Plywood-Champion Papers, Inc., Hamilton, 
O., in business planning. His new address 
is 775 Hedgerow Lane, Glendale, O. 

J. Gerald Sutton, a veteran personnel 
administrator, has been named director 
of corporate personnel for Zayre Corp., a 
chain of 156 department stores. Gerald will 
be responsible for corporate manpower 
planning and control along with other 
duties involved in his promotion. 

Frank H. Meyer is vice-president and 
manager of data processing at Connecticut 
National Bank in Bridgeport, Conn. 

' C C The Rev. Clifford E. Kolb, Jr., has 
^ ^ been appointed to the Department 
of Youth Publications, division of cur- 
riculum resources. General Board of Edu- 
cation in Nashville, Tenn. He had been a 
member of the northern conference for 
14 years. 

Peter C. Schlotman is associate manager 
of the Prudential Insurance Co., San Diego, 
Calif. Pete's new address is 12503 Montero 
Ct., San Diego. 

Paul R. Tobias reports that IBM has 
transferred him to the Houston Scientific 
Center. His research is in image processing, 
particularly the use of pseudocolor for en- 
hancement. He is still on the staff of USC's 
Aerospace Management Institute. 

Dr. Richard Zavarine is with the Court 
Street V.A. Mental Health Unit, Boston. 

Dr. Eliot B. Barron, a psychologist, has 



Politics and physical fitness- 
Norm Silk's secret to success 



Running for public office is as close as 
many politicians ever get to exercise. 
Norman B. Silk '49, selectman in Randolph, 
Mass., is the exception to the rule. 

Back in 1961, when he was elected to 
the first of his four three-year terms. Silk 
adroitly mixed physical fitness with poli- 
ticking. Riding a bike through the town of 
19,000, he knocked on as many doors as 
time would allow. He upset one incumbent 
and defeated a former incumbent. 

"My wife really enjoyed that cam- 
paign," Silk recalls. "It gave Martha a 
chance to have the car. Occasionally, my 
two little girls — Deanne and Steffi — would 
come along, but I usually lost them at a 
variety store which sells candy." 

During each campaign. Silk has come 
up with a gimmick or two. In 1964 he used 
a pedometer and walked 62 miles in his 
door-to-door personal approach. The morn- 
ing after the election, the Patriot-Ledger of 
Quincy announced in a headline: "Silk 
Wins In Walk." 

Jogging was one of the gimmicks in 
1967, when Silk announced that he would 
"run" for office. There were other things, 
too, such as renting the marquee on the 
Randolph Theater and inserting in large, 
bold letters: "Please Vote Today — Norm 
Silk." 

And then there were the messages from 
his children. In a paid newspaper ad, 
Deanne wrote: "My daddy is knocking 
doors, not other candidates." Steffi's contri- 
bution: "Our candidate hoped to knock on 
every door but didn't quite make it. If he 
missed yours in the 90 miles he walked, 
think of it this way — at least he didn't 
track snow in on your floors." 

David, who is only six, hasn't cut his 
political teeth yet. Presumably he'll be 
heard from in future campaigns. 

Silk led all voters in the eight-man field 
in 1967, as he did again last spring. He stuck 
to his door-to-door approach, walking 127 
miles and visiting about 6,000 homes during 
the six week campaign. 

But a man needs more than gimmicks 
to win four consecutive elections in any 
community. Silk combines a shrewd political 
sense with a winning personality and a sin- 
cere desire to help the people of his district. 
Silk was graduated from Brown summa 
cum laude. Phi Beta Kappa, and a Francis 
Wayland Scholar. While an undergraduate, 
he served as music editor of the Brown 
Daily Herald, executive secretary of Tower 
Club, and election correspondent of the 
Providence Journal-Bulletin. 

Upon his graduation. Silk was ap- 
pointed to the Brown faculty as a member 
of the political science department. He 
was graduated from Harvard Law School 
in 1952, served three years as a judge advo- 
cate in the Air Force, and then became 
associated with the Boston law firm of Ely, 



Bartlett & Brown. He also maintains an 
office at 233 North Main Street in Randolph. 

Silk, who says he has no political 
ambitions beyond Randolph, agrees that 
door-to-door campaigning can have its 
advantages. For example, there was the time 
a lady came to the door holding a robe in 
front of her, and nothing else. She might 
have gotten away with this move except 
that there was a full-length mirror located 
directly behind her, 

"The end result was that I spent an 
over proportionate amount of time ex- 
plaining my election platform to her," 
Silk recalls. 



127 miles later, Norman Silk won the 
election in a walk. 




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been appointed clinical c)irector of Butler 
Hospital, Providence. 

Warren F. llcliman is an associate pro- 
fessor of political science at the University 
of California at Berkeley. 

David B. Van Hulsteyn is an assistant 
professor in the department of electrical 
engineering at the University of Texas. 

Leroy F. Aarons is West Coast cor- 
respondent of the Washington Post, work- 
ing out of Los Angeles. 

C^ Dr. Peter A. Rona served last 
^^ summer as chief scientist when 
an American expedition probed the bottom 
of the North Atlantic between North 
America and Africa. Oceanographers of 
the Commerce Department's Environmental 
Science Services Administration obtained 
a continuous record of the ocean bottom 
and subbottom in a 3500-mile-long strip 
extending from Cape Hatteras, N.C., to Cap 
Blanc, Mauretania, in northwest Africa. 

Dr. Robert E. McCarthy (GS) has been 
named associate professor of medical mi- 
crobiology at the University of Nebraska 
Medical Center. He has recently been 
associated with Harvard Dental School. 

Charles R. Flather is commanding officer 
of the Navy's USS Trigger (SS-564). 

Philip J. O'Brien has been awarded a 
resident research associateship by the 
National Research Council. He will con- 
duct research in the Terrestrial Sciences 
Laboratory of the Air Force Cambridge 
Research Laboratories, Bedford, Mass. 
This year he will receive a Ph.D. degree 
from Pennsylvania State University, where 
he has been studying on a National Science 
Foundation graduate fellowship. 

James R. Finnegan, an attorney, is 
assistant group executive with American 
Machine & Foundry Co., Houston. 

James P. Gregory is assistant secre- 
tary and assistant general counsel for the 
Perkin-Elmer Corporation in Norwalk, 
Conn. 

David P. Jackson has been appointed 
publisher of National Fisherman, Camden, 
Me. Dave has held the position of assistant 
publisher since 1967. He previously was 
associated with the advertising agency of 
Horton, Church & Goff, Inc. of Providence. 

James Kelley, assistant dean of the 
College and dean of freshmen at Brown, 
was the principal speaker last June when 
Providence Country Day School held its 
graduation ceremonies. 



Roger Bowen finds the theater 
—not TV— suitable for satire 



One of the wackiest games of foot- 
ball in moving picture history takes place 
in "M-A-S-H," 20th Century Fox's wild 
comedy with a Korean War background. 
The coach of this alleged football team 
is Roger Bowen '54, who is the bewildered 
CO of a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital 
(MASH). 

Actually, Bowen's forte is satire, going 
back to the days when he wrote and per- 
formed in some lively scripts for WBRU. 
While on College Hill, he also was editor-in- 
chief of Brttnonia, president of the Debat- 
ing Union, and winner of the coveted 
Gaston prize for excellence in oratory. 

After "M-A-S-H" there are four un- 
published fiovels. 




The Providence native says that he first 
began to see sparks of satire through the 
solemnity of debating sessions while he was 
presiding over the team. Bowen also has 
a theory on why satirical humor is so 
popular today. 

"Public relations and advertising have 
entered every area of American life, even 
the recent campaign for the presidency. 
Everything has its image, and yet things 
really aren't what they seem to be. People 
suspect this and it makes them uneasy. 
Satire offers a way of release." 

When he was first on the Brown debat- 
ing team, Bowen recalls that he was in- 
clined to take things seriously. But the more 
he debated, the more he saw how things 
could be turned to one side or another by 
the twist of a phrase. This bit of cynicism 
stayed with him when he went to Chicago to 
further his career as a fiction writer. 

Bowen will admit, with a chuckle, that 
he still has a love for fiction writing — he has 
written four unpublished novels with a 
fifth novel in the works — but he also likes 
to eat. As a result, when he first went to 
Chicago he became involved in writing and 
acting in sketches for the Compass Theater. 
Among his co-workers were Mike Nichols 
and Elaine May and Barbara Harris. 

To make ends meet in Chicago, Bowen 
served as a teacher, clerical worker, gar- 
dener, and wrote book reviews for the 
Chicago Tribune. He also became involved 
in "Second City," and when that group 
opened on Broadway some of his sketches 
were in the repertoire. 

Moving to New York in 1959, Bowen, 
who bears a resemblance to Steve Allen, 
became co-founder of Second City Theater, 
where he performed until 1966, when he 
moved to San Francisco to work with 
The Committee, a noted improvisional 
theater group. 

Bowen was cast as the college pro- 
fessor in his first movie, "Funnyman," that 
same year. He's since averaged one film a 
year, including the role of Shirley Knight's 
husband in "Petulia," starring George Scott, 
Julie Christie, and Joseph Cotton. 

Television is also on Bowen's agenda. 
He's done a number of spot commercials 
and will appear in "Arnie" this season. 

"I'm afraid that TV just isn't the best 
medium for satire," he says. "There are 
so many subjects it's hard to deal with be- 
cause the networks are very afraid of 
offending people. There is always the pres- 
sure to tone it down. Much more freedom 
exists in theaters and cabarets." 

Bowen is married to Ann Raim, a 
theatrical director. Their San Francisco 
home includes three children, Michael 11, 
by his wife's previous marriage, Katie 6, 
and Daniel 5. 

Brunonia's former editor-in-chief still 
has one main ambition in life — to have 
one of those five novels published. 



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' CIT The Rev. Arthur H. Williams, Jr., 

^ ' former acting rector of Grace 
Church, Detroit, is associate director of 
program for the Diocese of Michigan. In 
his new position, the Rev. Mr. Williams' 
prime responsibility will be in urban affairs, 
specifically for interpreting to the diocese 
as well as to parishes and missions the 
opportunities and challenges facing the 
church in urbanized society. 

Richard J. Kostecki was promoted to 
major in March 1969 and is currently finish- 
ing his two-year Army tour of duty. While 
in the service he received his board cer- 
tification in general and plastic surgery, and 
he is presently assigned in the department 
of plastic surgery at Madigan General 
Hospital, Tacoma, Wash. His immediate 
plans call for a one-year plastic surgery 
fellowship in Nairobi, Kenya, with the 
Africa Medical and Research Society. Fol- 
lowing the fellowship he hopes to begin 
private practice of plastic surgery some- 
where in the northeast. 

Robert M. Press is division manager 
of sales with Schenley Imports Co., Met- 
airie. La. 

Robert K. Eckert has been named senior 
account executive by Reynolds &: Co., at 
its Lancaster, Pa., office. He became asso- 
ciated with Reynolds in 1961. 

Emerson J. Melaven is a foreign service 
reserve officer with the Agency for Inter- 
national Development. After a one-year 
study grant at Syracuse University he 
returned overseas in July. 

Richard A. Fusco has become the 
executive director of the Morris County 
United Fund and Council, headquartered in 
Morristown, N.J. 

Sandy Waters specializes in bathroom 
and home furnishings advertising with 
Daniel & Charles, an agency in New York. 

Bob Rosenblatt has recently been certi- 
fied by the American Board of Obstetrics 
and Gynecology. 

John P. Hills lives in Memphis, where 
he is working for the law firm of Dann, 
Hills & Blackburn. He spent the summer 
vacationing on Cape Cod and sailing in the 
North American championships. 

Ron Baker came home last spring from 
New Zealand and Australia, where he had 
been with a Rotary Study Team. When July 
came, he was off again, this time for a 
two-month trip to Tokyo. 

Duke Holt, who is in architecture, 
was job captain in charge of the renovation 
at Philharmonic Hall at Lincoln Center. 
He works for American Airlines in long 
range planning. 

Pete Roe is a Boy Scout executive in 
Suffolk County, N.Y. 

F. L. Humeston is at St. Rose Hospital 
in Hayward, Calif., where he is chief of 
pediatrics. He also has three children. 

Ed Allin is making a move and would 
like to hear from all Brown alumni (if any) 
in Bangkok. 

John Brandli is vice-president and 
director of a brokerage firm, the First 
Albany Corp. 

Bob Grafton reports that he will be 



visiting lecturer at Leicester University 
in England. 

Arthur C. Bartlett works in educational 
textbook publishing in Menio Park, Calif. 
Stanley F. Gillmar is a partner in the 
law firm of Messrs. Graham & James, 
San Francisco. 

John P. Gould has taken a new position 
as vice-president of Programmed Printing 
Corp., Woodstock, 111. 

Martin H. Imm, Jr., has been promoted 
to senior investment analyst in the com- 
mercial and industrial loan department at 
the regional office of Prudential Insurance 
Co. in Minneapolis. 

David A. Sturdy is vice-president of 
Cheever, Tweedy & Co., Inc., manufacturing 
jewelers in North Attleboro, Mass. 

Ronald E. Baker has been appointed 
manager of the organic chemicals and pig- 
ments department with Cyanamid Inter- 
national Corp., Rotterdam. His home 
address: Bloemcamplaan, 42, Wassenaar, 
Netherlands. 

Al Shalita is a fellow in dermatology 
at New York University Medical Center. 

Norm Brown is teaching at Laurelerest 
Prep School in Bristol, Conn., where he is 
head of development reading and teaches 
English literature. 

Palmer Sparkman purchased a new 
Olympic yacht, which he intended to sail 
in the North American championships at 
Milwaukee in August. 

Bob Norman was graduated from the 
U.S. Army Command and General Staff 
College in June of 1969. 

Lew Kay has been made editor of 
Outlook, the dental journal for the South- 
ern Dental Society of New Jersey. 

Val Pelletier is a resident in neurolog- 
ical surgery at Albany (N.Y.) Medical 
Center Hospital. 

Steve Mintzer has entered the private 
practice of obstetrics and gynecology in 
Oakdale, N.Y. 

Hal Autphen is commanding officer of 
the USS Endurance, while George Quint 
is selling real estate in suburban and rural 
areas of Syracuse. 

William A. Hayes has joined the ITT 
Corporation in New York City. 



C Q Although there was no reunion 
*^*^ activity for the class last spring, '58 
was represented at the major events by its 
secretary, Larry Delhagen, and his wife 
Sheila P'60, who was attending her 10th. 
Next year, if enough classmates contact 
Secretary Delhagen, the class will secure 
tables for the Campus Dance and Pops 
Concert. 

The Rev. Stephen H. Gushee has 
accepted a call to become rector of the 
Trinity Episcopal Church in Newtown, Conn. 
He previously was assistant rector at St. 
Peter Episcopal Church in Cheshire, Conn. 
Chemist Harold Mark is in the sales/ 
marketing division of Argus Chemical Co., 
subsidiary of Witco Chemical Co., Brooklyn, 
N.Y. 

Robert C. Wood, executive vice- 
president of People's Savings Bank, has 
been elected president of the Rhode Island 



Bankers Association. Bob will also be a 
member of the American Banking Associ- 
ation nominating committee. 

Stephen K. Bierman is an account 
executive in advertising for J. Walter 
Thompson, New York City advertising firm. 

David B. Peterson is a data reduction 
analyst "C" in RCA Autec Project. His 
address is P.O. Box 341, Fleet Post Office, 
New York, N.Y. 

Bruce A. Van Auken is a section 
manager in the systems software department 
of the Bedford Labs with Raytheon missile 
systems division. 

Woodrow J. Hansen (GS) is chairman 
of the department of social sciences at 
Quinsigamond Community College in 
Worcester, Mass. 

Sheldon Hearst is president of Super 
Market Communication System, Watertown, 
Mass. 

CO Salvatore F. Arena has been ap- 
^ ^ pointed the Middlesex County Bar 
Association 1970 Law Day chairman. Sal is 
a director and immediate past president of 
the Portland (Conn.) United Fund and 
director and vice-president of the Middlesex 
County Legal Assistance Association, Inc. 
He is self-employed in the private practice 
of law. 

Frederick N. Teuscher is branch man- 
ager of sales of drafting and engineering 
equipment with Keuffel & Esser Co., San 
Antonio, Tex. 

Michael A. Ginsberg is a buyer for 
infants and toddlers wear with Mammoth 
Mart, Inc., West Bridgewater, Mass. 

Alan R. Harvey is senior staff engineer 
with Rocket Research Corp., Redmond, 
Washington. 

Donald A. Stouffer is commanding 
officer of the USS Acme. 

David H. Talbot, formerly associated 
with Benton & Bowles, is a security analyst 
with F. Eberstadt & Co., New York City. 

J. Bruce Brackenridge (GS), who col- 
laborated with Robert Rosenberg for five 
years to produce the book The Principles of 
Physics and Chemistry, reports that the 
response to the publication has been encour- 
aging. If is the first textbook ever published 
for a combined course in physics and 
chemistry for science majors at the calculus 
level. 

Dr. David L. Bryson is director of the 
behavioral science division of Westinghouse 
Learning Corp., New York City. 

Wallis H. Darnley is an elementary 
principal of the Charlton Elementary School 
in Charlton, Mass. 

James F. Baird, who received a J.D. 
degree from Boston University Law School 
in June, will join the Worcester (Mass.) 
firm of Bowditch, Gowetz and Lane later 
this year. 

Robert P. Kasper is a process devel- 
opment chemical engineer with Geigy 
Chemical Co., Cranston, R.I. 

Elmer J. McVey, Jr., an airline pilot, is 
affiliated with American Airlines, based in 
San Francisco. 

Mark Donohue is a perfectionist. For 
that reason, he wasn't satisfied with his 



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performance in the Indianapolis 500 on 
Memorial Day, when he finished second to 
Al Unser. After the race, someone asked 
him if congratulations were in order. 
"Definitely not," he said. "I finished 32.19 
seconds too late." Still, he did manage a 
smile when presented with the second place 
check of $86,427. A year ago, Mark finished 
seventh in the Indianapolis 500 and won 
rookie-of-the-year honors. 

David C. Kline has been named assist- 
ant counsel in the law department at /ttna 
Life & Casualty. His law degree is from the 
University of Michigan. 

Eugene F. Roberts has been promoted 
to the position of Newark district manager 
with Scott Packaged Products Division. He 
had been district manager in Hartford, 
Conn. 

Robert Rogers is principal conductor of 
the Harkness Ballet, which recently returned 
from a tour to the West Coast, Alaska, Paris, 
London, and Barcelona. "Hope to have 
a season on Broadway," he says. 

'Zl/^ William S. Krafchik, who has been 
Vv/ associated with First National City 
Bank in New York, has joined the staff of 
the Connecticut National Bank, where he 
will be director of corporate planning and 
report directly to the president. 

Robert J. Connelly, Jr., has been ap- 
pointed deputy clerk of the first division of 
the District Court of Warren, R.I. He re- 
ceived his J.D. degree from Suffolk Univer- 
sity in June. 

Rockwell Gray, Jr., is an English 
teacher at Northeastern Illinois State 
College, Chicago. 

Robert P. Pearson is a doctoral candi- 
date at the Center for International Educa- 
tion, University of Massachusetts. 

Dr. Stephen M. Seltzer is chief of 
internal medicine at the USAF Regional 
Hospital, Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona. 
Frederick S. Katz is a general partner 
with D. H. Blair & Co., New York City, 
investment bankers. 

Donald K. Anderson is director of 
group sales and special risks with Hawaiian 
Life Insurance Co., Ltd., Honolulu. 

John D. Milner, with a degree in archi- 
tecture from the University of Pennsylvania, 
was the architect for the restoration of 
Goundie House in Bethlehem, Pa., which 
was bought in 1968 by Historic Bethlehem, 
Inc. 

Dr. Nicholas E. Claditis has been ap- 
pointed director of personnel for Broan 
Manufacturing Co., Hartford, Wis. For the 
past four years, he had been a staff psy- 
chologist with Rohrer-Hibler and Replogle 
of Milwaukee. 



/ Z* -| Class President Flavil Q. Van Dyke 

W JL reports that Roger B. Simon of 
Buffalo has assumed the position of chair- 
man of our 25th Reunion Fund. He had been 
serving as vice-chairman. 

Robert E. Gorman is associated with 
the First Greenwich Co., Greenwich, Conn., 
as vice-president and assistant portfolio 
manager with the investment counseling 
firm. 

Adrian Perachio, who earned his Ph.D. 
at the University of Rochester, is director of 
the Yerkes research laboratory at Emory 
College. He also does research with the 
NASA space program. 

Thomas N. Gardner has accepted a 
position with Corning Glass Works as a 
senior market analyst. He received a MBA 
degree from the University of Dayton last 
December. 

Wendell B. Barnes, Jr., has moved to 
Hawaii, where he is in account services with 
McCann-Erickson, Inc., 1370 Kapiolani Blvd., 
Honolulu. 

Tom Guinn is project officer with 
Grumman Aircraft, which was assigned to 
the LEM used on Apollo 13. He spent the 
last year or so with equipment which was 
instrumental in bringing back the astronauts 
safely. 

After 18 months in Paris doing research 
v;ork on a Fulbright grant, J. Philip Schuyler 
is completing writing his Ph.D. dissertation 
at the University of Rochester. 

Allyn I. Freeman is an account executive 
with Doyle, Dane, Bernbach, New York City. 

Robert T. Parry is vice-president of 
Security Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles. 
Alien A. Smith, who received his Ph.D. 
degree in biology at the University of Ore- 
gon Medical School in June, 1969, is a post- 
doctorate fellow at the University of Tel 
Aviv. 

Samuel D. Sonnabend is product man- 
ager in marketing with CPC International, 
Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.J. 

James C. Thompson is the newly- 
appointed controller of Security Homes 
Manufacturing, Inc., Boise, Ida. He previ- 
ously was employed in the financial planning 
section of Boise Cascade. 

Francis H. Monahan, a registered rep- 
resentative, is vice-president of G. A. Saxton 
& Co., Inc., New York City. 

Gale D. Adams is an engineer on the 
Tartar Project Head, Vitro Laboratories, 
Silver Spring, Md. 

Thomas C. Byron, Jr., is development 
superintendent with >Etna Life & Casualty, 
Hartford, Conn. 

Alan H. Minter informs us that he is 
leaving his position as assistant attorney 
general of Texas to enter private practice of 
law in Austin, Tex. 

F. William Abbate is a staff scientist 
with Gilmore Research Labs in North Haven, 
Conn. His new address is 1302 Deer Run 
Circle, Cheshire, Conn. 

Felix Czech is a flight engineer with 
TWA at the John F. Kennedy Airport in 
New York City. 



^ /I'y Capt. Thomas W. Noy, USAF, has 

V^ returned to the States from a 
two-year tour of duty in Germany, where 
he was chief of the air traffic control evalu- 
ation section of the Radar Evaluation Squad- 
ron. In this capacity, he traveled through 
Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. He was 
in Libya at Wheeler AB one week prior to 
the coup in September of 1969 and a month 
later he was in Cario and Beirut during the 
Arab crisis. After spending some time at 
Lowry AFB, Denver, Capt. Noy left in 
August with the 7th Airborne Command 
and Control Squadron for Thailand. 

Wendell R. Davidson is serving as 
general fund drive chairman for the YMCA 
building program in Kennebec Valley, Me. 
A graduate of Boston University Law School, 
he is assistant attorney general in Augusta. 

Kenneth D. Burrows, a June graduate 
of the Fordham School of Law, has joined 
the New York City firm of Phillips, Nizer, 
Benjamin, Krim & Ballon as an associate. 

Richard Tatlock, who last year formed 
his own company. Coastal Research Corpo- 
ration in Boston, is president and head of 
aerial survey-oceanographic research. The 
firm is engaged in the field of aerial 
photography and thermol mapping. They 
also do coastal planning studies. 

Willard P. Yeats has been named assist- 
ant counsel in the law department of ,4:tna 
Life & Casualty, Hartford, Conn. Yeats, a 
graduate of Dickinson Law School with a 
degree in taxation from Boston University 
Law School, joined ALtna in 1966 as an 
attorney. 

Dr. H. Searl Dunn (GS) is an associate 
professor in teaching and research at the 
University of Rochester. 

Anthony R. Thompson has been named 
sales manager of music radio 74-WCAS in 
Cambridge, Mass. He had had previous sales 
promotion experience at WKBG-TV in 
Boston and KTVK in Phoenix, Ariz. 

Steven M. Foote is a designer with the 
architectural firm of David Evan Glasser, 
New York City. Steven received his archi- 
tectural degree from Columbia University 
in June. 

John H. Lifland is a resident physician 
at the Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. 
Richard G. Levy has been named to the 
board of governors of Gordon School, 
Providence. 

Roger C. Wade has been elected assist- 
ant secretary of the board of directors of the 
Insurance Company of North America in 
Philadelphia. 

Capt. Robert G. Murphy, USAF, has 
been awarded the Air Medal at Chuan Kang 
AB, Taiwan. He is a C-130 Hercules cargo- 
troop carrier pilot. 

Dr. Earl A. Pope (GS) is associate pro- 
fessor of religion at Lafayette College, where 
he recently was the recipient of the Jones 
Faculty Award for superior teaching. 

Donald B. Gibson (GS) is professor of 
English at the University of Connecticut. 
Alfred P. Hallstrom (GS) is assistant 
professor of mathematics at the University 
of Washington. 

James G. Valeo has been elected assist- 
ant vice-president of A. G. Becker & Co., 
investment bankers in New York City. 



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Archie Q. Frost is president of Manage- 
ment & Recruiters, Inc. of Cincinnati. 

Stephen M. Pizer is assistant professor 
of computer and information science at the 
University of North Carolina. 

Jeffrey A. Stritar is assistant professor 
of chemistry at Temple University. 

Henry G. Coe has joined the staff of the 
New Hampshire-Vermont Development 
Council, Inc., of Hanover, filling the recently- 
created position of project coordinator. He 
will be concerned with the council's eco- 
nomic development activities in northern 
Vermont. 

Arthur J. Wall, Jr., who worked in the 
data processing systems engineering and 
marketing areas at the Philadelphia office of 
IBM, has been appointed systems engineer- 
ing manager in Reading, Pa. 

Michael T. Fitz Gibbon is a consultant 
with the firm of Burke & O'Brien Associates, 
New York City. 

Thomas F. Lasko, vice-president of 
W. T. Grimm & Co., Chicago, informs us of 
his new address at 2219 Central St., Evaston, 
111. 

Cyrus M. Hoffman has been promoted 
to the rank of assistant professor in the 
physics department at Princeton University. 

Louis Goldring is vice-president of 
Franklin Finance Co., St. Louis. 

John R. South has been granted a leave 
of absence from Branson Sonic Power 
Company, subsidiary of Smith, Kline & 
French Labs, to seek his MBA. He started 
classes this September at the Amos Tuck 
School at Dartmouth. 

f^ ^ Richard Hirsch has been elected 
^^ ^ president of Welbilt Corp., Mas- 
peth, N.Y., manufacturer of domestic gas 
and electric ranges, air conditioners, fur- 
naces, and commercial cooking equipment. 
Also selected as a new officer was classmate 
Lawrence R. Gross, who becomes executive 
assistant to the president. 

Axel Kornfuehrer has left Alma College 
after three years of teaching Russian and 
modern history. "Will go unemployed for 
one year," he says, "during which time I 
hope to be able to complete my Ph.D. 
dissertation." 

Charles J. Negaro was moderator of a 
forum sponsored by the Council of Recre- 
ation Agencies. Its subject was "Urban 
Decay and How it Affects People." While 
attending Fordham Law School, he was 
managing editor of Fordhnm Law Review in 
1966 and 1967 and was admitted to the 
Connecticut bar in 1969. 

Sheldon Stiefeld (GS) is a teacher for 
the New York City Board of Education in 
Brooklyn, N.Y. 

Allen R. Marchant is an analytical 
chemist with Upjohn Co., North Haven, 
Conn. 

J. Webb Moniz received his J.D. degree 
from Columbia Law School in June, and 
Richard M. Rosenberg is a computer pro- 
grammer with General Motors Acceptance 
Corporation in New York City. 



S. Lawrence Prendergast, a computer 
consultant, is vice-president of NGP Asso- 
ciates in Riverside, Conn. His new address 
is 10 Nutmeg Ridge, Ridgefield, Conn. 

Douglas M. Barnes, a management 
consultant, is associated with Crosby M. 
Kelly Associates, Ltd., New York City. 
Doug formerly was in public relations work 
with Benn & Mac Donough, Inc., New York. 

Walter J. Olson, Jr., is working for the 
U.S. Government and living at 4401 Lee 
Highway, Apt. 65, Arlington, Va. 

S. Davidson Brewster is a designer with 
Architectural Graphics Association, New 
Canaan, Conn. 

Barry R. Bainton, an anthropologist, is 
with the Papago Legal Services in Sells, Ariz. 

Geoffrey N. Burnham is a teacher in 
Nice, France, and Charles J. Caperonis is 
assistant product manager in marketing for 
Lever Bros. Co., New York City. 

Robert P. Thayer is a guidance coun- 
selor at the East Providence Senior High 
School. 

Joel I. Cohen, director of "Comerata" 
at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, is a 
lecturer in the music department of Brandeis 
University. 

Richard E. Garabedian is assistant 
product manager of Lever Bros. Co., New 
York City. 

C. Martin Lawyer, III, who received a 
J.D. degree from Vanderbilt University Law 
School in May, expects to practice law with 
the Delano S. Stewart law firm. 

Robert Tortolani began a medical 
residency in Burlington, Vt., the middle of 
July. His new address is 169 Killoiney Dr., 
Burlington. 

G. Victor Johnson, II, CPA, is with 
Arthur Young c& Co., Chicago. 

Gerald E. McDowell is a special trial 
attorney in the organized crime and racket- 
eering section of the U.S. Department of 
Justice in Providence. 



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M. Mitchell Morse thrives on his 
rial law practice with Jacobs, 
Jacobs, Goldberg & Clifford in New Haven. 
During the spring crisis in New Haven, 
he spent several days talking to students 
about criminal process. 

Neil F. Waldman, after working for 
two years as a staff assistant for Peat, 
Merrick, Mitchell & Co., a public accounting 
firm in Boston, has formed his own com- 
pany. Industrial Control Panels, Inc., to 
start making graphic or non-graphic process 
control consoles. Neil is president of the 
company located in Pawtucket, R.I. 

James R. Davis is an industrial sales 
representative in industrial coated abrasives 
with 3-M Co., Highpoint, N.C. 

Michael Cagan, captain in the U.S. Air 
Force, is a flight surgeon at Da Nang, 
Vietnam. 

William P. Aldrich is a graduate student 
at Teachers College in Columbia University, 
and John H. Hartman has been discharged 
from the U.S. Marine Corps and has entered 
the Syracuse University Law School. 

John T. Marrack is senior staff assistant 
in accounting with Haskins & Sells, 
Honolulu. 



Michael Diamond is serving on a two- 
year appointment as law clerk to Stanley 
Fuld, chief judge of New York State. 

Laurence T. Sorkin is an associate in 
the law firm of Cahill, Gordon, Sonnett, 
Reindel & Ohl, New York City. His new 
address is 60 East 12th St., New York City. 

Douglas G. Beattie writes that he and 
his wife, Jeannette, have been in Syracuse 
for three years, where he has been assistant 
pastor at the Pebble Hill Presbyterian 
Church in DeWitt, N.Y. On July 1 he began 
a new job as associate pastor at the First 
Presbyterian Church of Binghamton. 

Samuel T. Cowling, III, (GS) is an 
instructor in the department of English at 
Sweet Briar College, and expects to receive 
a Ph.D. degree from Michigan State Univer- 
sity in late 1970 or early 1971. 

Albert E. Booth, II, who graduated from 
Harvard Business School in June, will be 
working for Checchi & Company in Wash- 
ington, D.C., as assistant vice-president for 
Mergers & Acquisitions. The company is an 
international management consulting firm 
and has subsidiaries in Italy, Virgin Islands, 
Philippines and Australia. 

Richard M. Cadwgan received an A.M. 
degree in geology from the University of 
Texas in June. 

Terence E. Base (GS) has taken a posi- 
tion as assistant professor in engineering at 
the University of Western Ontario. His new 
address is 33, Queen Mary Cres, Oakridge 
Park, London, Ontario, Canada. 

Nicholas A. Califano, who received his 
M.D. degree in June from the University of 
Rome, will intern there until January, 1971. 

Dr. Henry W. Eisenberg is a surgical 
resident at University Hospitals in Cleve- 
land, O., and Dr. Richard P. Fried is a 
physician at St. Luke's Hospital, New York 
City. 

Robert S. Olsen, a marketing represent- 
ative in the Armstrong Cork Company Floor 
Division's Minneapolis District office, has 
been named an assistant manager for the 
division's Bureau of Marketing Services in 
Lancaster, Pa, He will work in the develop- 
ment of new programs for retail floor 
fashion centers. 

Dr. Donald H. Stanford is associated 
with Mt. Zion Hospital in San Francisco. 

Alan L. Stanzler is affiliated with the 
law firm of Pollock, O'Connor and Jacobs, 
Boston. 

Capt. Carl B. Arlanson, USAF, is com- 
pleting a 15-month tour of duty at Ching 
Chuan Air Base, Taiwan. Following gradu- 
ation from Boston University Law School, 
he became a judge advocate with the Air 
Force. "Being a New England boy all the 
way, the Orient at first was a shock, with its 
filth and all. But in toto I have learned and 
have gained a much better perspective on 
values as a result of my tour of duty. The 
more you see of the world, the more you 
realize the greatness of the U.S.A. and the 
more I personally treasure my experience 



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and education at Brown." Carl says that 
when he is discharged this fall he will be 
looking for a job with a law firm somewhere 
in the New England or New York area. 

David F. Addis was awarded his Ph.D. 
at Rutgers in June. He received his master's 
from Rutgers, where he is currently a mem- 
ber of the faculty. 

John M. Tucker is manager of account- 
ing at Sprague Associates, Inc., Boston. 

David V. DeLuca has become an associ- 
ate in the law firm of Easton & Bittker, 
Rochester, N.Y. 

Dr. Edward K. Kaplan, holder of M.A. 
and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia, is on the 
French faculty of Barnard College. 

'/2 C Dr. Joseph Tarantolo, Jr., received 
V^ his medical degree from the Mount 
Sinai School of Medicine of the City Uni- 
versity of New York. While there, he re- 
ceived the Harold Elster Memorial Prize for 
the highest academic standing at Mount 
Sinai and was elected to charter membership 
in the newly-organized New York Lambda 
chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha, medical 
honor society. His internship will be at 
Boston City Hospital. 

Mark A. Schrager has been graduated 
from the Georgetown University School of 
Medicine. In addition to receiving his degree 
in medicine. Dr. Schrager received top 
awards in pharmacology and neurology 
and the Lange Book Award for scholastic 
achievement. 

Eric F. Lane was graduated from Ford- 
ham Law School in June and spent the 
summer managing the campaign of the 
Democratic candidate for the 4th District of 
New York. 

Joel S. Pasternack has accepted a 
position as instructor of mathematics at the 
University of Washington, Seattle, Wash. 
Joel received a Ph.D. degree from Princeton 
University last spring. 

Thomas H. Pitts is a marketing analyst 
with Crown Zellerbach Corp., San Francisco. 

Philip A. Alpert is a sales executive with 
National Fiber Supply in Chicago. The firm 
is waste paper broker to the paper industry. 
Phil thought he would be nothing but a 
glorified junk man, but the current hue and 
cry about ecology and pollution has changed 
the image of recycling waste to a glamour 
industry. 

Courtney F. Baker has received an M.D. 
degree from Hahnemann Medical College 
and will intern at the Monmouth Medical 
Center, Long Branch, N.J. He then plans to 
do a three-year residency in psychiatry. 

James R. Herington is a staff accountant 
with Haskins & Sells, CPA, Phoenix. Jim 
was released from the Air Force in March. 

James S. Bingay is an associate in the 
corporate finance department of the invest- 
ment banking firm of E. F. Hutton & Co., 
Inc. 



David J. Gray is a loss control rep- 
resentative and safety engineer for the 
Hartford Insurance Group, Kansas City, Mo. 

Dirk C. Hoffius is an attorney with 
Varnum, Riddering, Wierengo & Christian- 
son in Grand Rapids, Mich. He received his 
LL.B. degree from the University of Virginia 
in 1969. 

Stephen J. Morin, who received his 
master of science degree from MIT in 1967, 
is with NASA, Electronics Research Center, 
Cambridge, Mass. 

Edward J. Kovac, Jr., with his Ph.D. 
degree from the University of Michigan, is 
a research scientist with Bell Telephone 
Laboratories in Baltimore. 

Richard W. Holt is a surgical intern at 
University Hospital, Iowa City. 

Price M. Chenault is a first year assist- 
ant resident in general surgery at Vanderbilt 
University Medical Center. His new address 
is : 3106 West End Cir., Nashville, Tenn. 

Albrecht W. Hofmann is a research 
fellow and geochemist at Geophysical 
Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Wash- 
ington in Washington, D.C. 

Luigi G. Marzilli has joined the faculty 
at Johns Hopkins as assistant professor of 
chemistry. 

James M. Stewart is an associate with 
Morgan Stanley & Co., New York City. 

George A. Raymond (GS) is an assistant 
professor and experimental psychologist and 
teacher at Providence College. 

Daniel B. Palko received his M.D. de- 
gree from Duke University in June and is 
interning at St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix. 
His new address is 525 West Earll Dr., 
Phoenix, Ariz. 

' /I Zi Bruce A. Bristow is working as a 
V V retail assistant for Sears Roebuck 
after earning an MBA degree from North- 
western University in 1968. A member of 
the Army Reserve, he spent last summer on 
active duty at forts Leonard Wood, Meade, 
and Benning. He and his wife have just 
purchased a new home at 315 Lakeside 
Drive, Roselle, III. 

James T. Minuto has been named prin- 
cipal planner with the Cranston (R.I.) 
Planning Commission. He holds an M.A. 
from the Graduate Faculty of Political and 
Social Sciences at the New School for Social 
Research in New York City. His address: 
630 Oaklawn Ave., Apt. 213, Cranston. 

John M. Cross, after 11 years in Wash- 
ington as a reporter in the McGraw-Hill 
bureau, has been transferred to Business 
Week's San Francisco bureau as assistant 
bureau chief. He left the "sweltering banks 
of the Potomac" for his new post July 13. 

Dr. Anthony Falbo has been accepted 
for internship at Mary Hitchcock Memorial 
Hospital and the affiliated Veterans Admin- 
istration Hospital in White River Jet., Vt. He 
was graduated in June from Albany Medical 
College. 

Ens. Donald Phillips Somers will be 
stationed in Japan for the next three years. 
"Not a bad assignment, one that will be 
made even better by the fact that my wife 
will be with me," he writes. 

Roy Cioletti was graduated from the 



New Jersey College of Medicine in June. On 
July 1, he started serving his internship in 
pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of the 
District of Columbia. He's living at 7555 
Spring Lake Dr., Apt. 81, Bethesda, Md. 

Fred Hyer also was graduated from the 
New Jersey College of Medicine in June. 

Alexander D. Newton, who received a 
J.D. degree from Duke Law School in 1969, 
is a Peace Corps volunteer in Guatemala, 
and Charles W. Paine is a Peace Corps 
volunteer and computer scientist in Tehran, 
Iran. 

Richard A. Levy is battalion legal clerk 
with the U.S. Army in Pleiku, South Viet- 
nam, and Harris R. Sloane is a marketing 
planning associate with the Chemical Bank 
in New York City. 

James A. Mann writes that he is 
presently western regional sales administra- 
tion manager for Alcan cable division of 
Alcan Aluminum Corporation working out 
of Sunset-Whitney Ranch, Calif. Jim's new 
address is 4964 Diablo Dr., Sacramento, 
Calif. 

Robert L. Diaz is assistant judge advo- 
cate with the U.S. Air Force in Forbes, Kan., 
and Richard M. T. Fee is associated with 
Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., in New York 
City. 

Robert J. Kudless has been named 
associate director of the Greater Paterson 
(N.J.) Chamber of Commerce. He was pre- 
viously employed as an advertising space 
salesman in the Newark office of the New 
York Times. 

David G. Wetterholt is an intern at 
Reading (Pa.) Hospital. 

Alan B. Miller is training for a position 
as group insurance representative with the 
Prudential Insurance Co. in Jacksonville, 
Fla., and went to Newark, N.J., for further 
schooling during the summer. 

A. Donald Moldover is working as an 
associate systems engineer with IBM in 
New York. 

Capt. Bernard R. Adams, USA, is an 
instructor in the Judge Advocate General's 
School in Charlottesville, Va. 

Ronald A. Dwight, who received an 
MBA from Columbia Law School in June, is 
associated with Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam 
& Roberts in New York. 

C. Edwin Goldkamp is a tax law special- 
ist with the Internal Revenue Service in 
Washington, D.C. 

Merlin M. Renne is a special represent- 
ative with Jefferson Standard Life Insurance 
Co., Virginia Beach, Va. 

William F. Tomeny is an operations 
manager, consumer retail credit department, 
at First Trust & Deposit Co., Syracuse, N.Y. 

Jerome L. Coben, who received his J.D. 
degree from New York University Law 
School, is affiliated with the law firm of 
Marshall, Brattar, Greene, Allison & Tucker, 
New York City. 

Jon S. Huseby received an M.D. degree 
from the George Washington University 
School of Medicine in June and will serve 
his internship at the University of Washing- 
ton Affiliated Hospitals, Seattle. 



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Lt. Paul F. Kelly, USMC, has completed 
a tour of duty at Marine Corps headquarters, 
Washington, D.C., where he attended the 
Defense Language Institute for a year of 
instruction in Chinese Mandarin and the 
U.S. Army Intelligence School at Ft. Hola- 
bird, Md. 

Jeffrey W. Alcorn, who is working on 
his master's thesis in his spare time, is a 
lieutenant in the Army signal corps. 

Ackley E. Blocher is a district sales 
supervisor in the Jello division of General 
Foods Corp., Clifton, N.J. 

Paul F. Gleeson, Jr., is a research assist- 
ant in the department of anthropology at 
the University of Tennessee. 

Robert A. Spencer, foreman on con- 
struction of pipelines for Olin Construction 
Co., Inc., Camilhis, N.Y., also is an estimator 
for bidding purposes on new contracts and 
preliminary workups. 

Martin Tropp is an instructor of English 
at Northeastern University and Dr. Louis 
Vito, Jr. is an intern at Georgetown Univer- 
sity Medical Center, Washington, D.C. 

^rr Bruce Mcintosh of Kansas City, 
^^ ' Mo., has received recognition in a 
number of internal graphic design compe- 
titions. He's currently on the staff of the 
Kansas City Art Institute and has formed 
a design studio partnership called The 
Whiz Kids. In the annual Kansas City Art 
Directors Club show recently. The Whiz 
Kids partnership received two of three gold 
medals, one of three silver medals, and 12 
awards of distinctive merit, and two special 
awards, one for calendar and window display 
graphics and one for cinemetography. 

Richard Bollow was graduated in June 
from the College of Law at the University 
of Illinois. Dick was named to the Order of 
the Coif for his high scholastic attainment. 
He's currently working in the office of Chief 
Justice Underwood of the Illinois Supreme 
Court. 

Larry Martel, a third-year student at 
the Harvard Medical School, had an honor- 
able mention paper in the Soma Weiss 
Award contest for excellence in undergrad- 
uate research. 

Michael 1. Keene has earned his M.S. 
degree in zoology from the University of 
Rhode Island and is employed by the 
division of fishes at the Smithsonian 
Institute. 

Sanford Ullman, Harvard University 
Medical School student, has been awarded 
the 1970 Rose Seegal prize "for scholarly 
contribution in the area of social and 
community medicine." The prize, carrying 
an honorarium of $500, was awarded in 
recognition of Sanford's paper on the Ke\a- 
tion of the Medical Profession to the 
Community. 

D. Patrick Maley, III, received an A.M. 
degree from Johns Hopkins University 
School of Advanced International Studies 
and will be studying advanced Arabic at 
American University in Cairo, Egypt. 

Laurence Schenck is working as an 
instructor pilot at Reese AFB, Texas. He 
tells us Dick Yost ' 69 is a student pilot 
undergoing training in his flight. 



For Norm Miller, the mountain 
was the place to begin a decade 



While the rest of the country was 
celebrating last New Year's Eve with 
champagne, Norman R. Miller '68, was 
eating gumdrops. 

Miller was part of a 22-man expedition 
attempting one of the few winter climbs 
of Grand Teton Peak (elevation: 13,766 
feet) in western Wyoming. The group dis- 
covered that gumdrops had a freezing 
point well below any of the other food. 
According to a journal Miller kept during 
the climb, "gumdrops were popular and 
became the subject of much discussion 
and amazement." 

Miller, who is a computer programmer 
for Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murry 
Hill, N.J., spent seven days on the mountain 
and was one of the 11 climbers who made 
it to the top of the peak. The rest of the 
expedition was turned back by the 60 mile 
per hour winds and poor visibility. 

Miller's group climbed to the lower 
saddle of the mountain at 11,500 feet and 
stayed there for two days waiting for a 
break in the weather before trying the 
dangerous climb to ihe summit. The men 
spent most of the time in their sleeping 
bags in an unheated aluminum quonset hut. 

"It was so cold that our breath con- 
densed on the roof of the hut and covered 
the ceiling with ice crystals," Miller said. 



At 4 a.m. on New Year's Day the men 
started the last leg of the climb and made it 
to the summit by noon. Miller describes 
the final part of the climb in his journal: 

"First came what is called the belly 
roll. It is a large outcropping of rock from 
the face that has good hand holds, a large 
fissure, but no foot holds. You just put your 
arm or elbow in the crack and swing 
around . . . Then came the two chimnies. 
These are three-sided vertical shafts about 
15 feet high. You put your feet against 
one and your back against the other and 
inch up. 

"After a little scrambling, we came to 
the catwalk. This is a narrow walkway with 
nothing to hang onto. It was covered with 
snow and is slippery. At one point I felt 
myself sliding, and so having nothing to 
hang onto, I jumped to what seemed to be 
a firmer footing. It was." 

When the climbers reached the summit. 
Miller says, the feeling of pride and kin- 
ship with others and with the mountain 
was tremendous. "It was a fitting place to 
begin the new decade." 

The party spent two days climbing 
and skiing down the mountain to the base 
where reporters and photographers met 
them with belated bottles of champagne. 




At the top, there loas an unusual kinship with others 



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John White, II, is a Latin teacher of 
Dade County (Fla.) Schools, and Robert G. 
Sherer, Jr., (GS) is assistant professor of 
American Studies at Stetson University. 

Charles W. Binder is a securities analyst 
in investment research for the Harris Trust 
and Savings Bank, Chicago. 

Kenneth M. Brown, who received his 
MBA degree from the University of North 
Carolina in June, will be working for Chase 
Manhattan Bank in New York City. 

Daniel Lewis received a J.D. degree 
from the University of Pennsylvania 
and will be associated with the New 
York County office of the district attorney 
as assistant district attorney. 

Robert J. Rubenstein, a medical school 
student at the University of Cincinnati, took 
an elective in psychiatry at Guy's Hospital 
Medical School in London, England, from 
July to September. He will return to the 
University of Cincinnati in January. 

Donald L. Kaiser is a merchandising 
manager with the Scientific Products Div., 
American Hospital Supply Corp., Wash- 
ington, D.C. 

Allen F. Browne has been accepted to 
the Army Medical Corps senior year pro- 
gram for 1070-71. He had been president of 
the George Washington University School 
of Medicine Student American Medical 
Association chapter. 

Thomas G. Ramsey is a salesman with 
the Equitable Life Assurance Society 
residing in Honolulu. His home address is 
1719 Poki St., Apt. 3, Honolulu. 

Fred A. Rappoport is employed as a 
television executive with the American 
Broadcasting Co., New York City. 

Robert G. Kotanchik is a graduate 
student in English at Wake Forest Univer- 
sity. His new address is 2810-J Carriage Dr., 
Winston-Salem, N.C. 

Robert F. Hargraves, Jr., (GS) is an 
assistant professor of mathematics and an 
associate director of Kiewit Computation 
Center at Dartmouth College. 

John L. Bagwell is a first lieutenant in 
the U.S. Air Force and assigned to the Office 
of Plans and Programs as assistant director 
for science and technology. Fort Meade, Md. 
After duty hours he owns and operates 
Photographic Associates, a portrait photo- 
graphic service based in College Park, Md. 

David F. Hopkins is an ensign in the 
USNR and mess treasurer for B.O.Q., Gulf- 
port, Miss. 

' /I O Walter Gross writes that he is a 

Vw "woodsman-pioneer." Last summer 
he headed into the Sierras as a woodsman, 
travelling with only a minimal amount of 
equipment in order to return to contact 
with nature. He claims nature has been 
paved over with concrete in our industrial 
society. 

John Q. Coburn is a lieutenant (j.g.) 
with the U.S. Navy aboard the USS Chipola 
(AO-63). 

Lt. (j.g.) James A. Kovac is a supply 
officer in the USNR. After serving aboard 



the cruiser USS Galveston in the Mediter- 
ranean, he is now on shore duty at the 
satellite tracking station in the Bahama 
Islands. 

John P. Fowler is a mortgage and real 
estate investment analyst with John Hancock 
Mutual Life Insurance Co., Boston. 

Robert Rosenblum is a teacher with the 
Peace Corps in Ethiopia. 

John A. Whiteside is a second-year 
graduate student in the department of 
psychology at the University of Rochester. 

Jon A. Peterka (GS) is a research 
mechanical engineer at propulsion labora- 
tory, Redstone Arsenal, Ala. 

Edward Fraioli has been employed as 
an auditor with Arthur Young & Company 
in its Boston office. Arthur Young is a 
national public accounting firm. 

Second Lt. Ronald G. Green, U.S.A., is 
a staff officer in the transportation corps. 
His new address is 819 South Royal St., 
Alexandria, Va. 

Second Lt. loel F. Moorhead, USAR, 
is in military intelligence at Ft. Holabird, 
Md. 

Pfc. lohn M. Wolcott, has been sent by 
the Army to Fort Devens, Mass., where he 
is playins with the 18th Army Band. He was 
graduated from the Naval School of Music 
in Norfolk, Va. "Our function is to promote 
public relations in the New England area," 
lohn says. "It's about as good as anything 
the Army has to offer, and I'm enjoying it." 

Timothy C. Marschner is employed as 
a representative for IBM Corp., Worcester, 
Mass. 

Conrad 5. Quinlan (GS) is an assistant 
professor of chemistry at Manchester Com- 
munity College. 

Louis F. Boxleitner, who received an 
MBA at Northwestern University in June, is 
living at 195 Mt. Lebanon Blvd., Pittsburgh. 
Whittlesbey B. Bernie left in the spring 
for Canada "with cameras and back pack 
to work on sailboats and play with 
photography." 

Jonathan R. Phillips is home from 
Vietnam, where he served 14 months as a 
sergeant in the First Air Cavalry Division. 
His address: 52 Irving St., Apt. 3, Boston. 

'/I rt Richard A. Yost has been commis- 

V7 sioned a second lieutenant in the 
U.S. Air Force upon graduation from Officer 
Training School at Lackland AFB, Tex. He 
is being assigned to Reese AFB, Tex., for 
pilot training. 

Wan-Lee Yin (GS) is a post-doctoral 
fellow in the department of mechanics at 
Johns Hopkins University. 

Robert J. Potrzeba is a student at the 
State University of New York at Albany, 
N.Y. 

Paul J. Knueven is working as a systems 
programmer for Digital Equipment Corpora- 
tion in Maynard, Mass. Since his recent 
marriage he is living at 63 Cottage Lane, 
Concord, Mass. 

David C. Scott, Jr., is serving as a 
weather observer in Detachment 2, 5th 
Weather Wing of MAC at Langley Air 
Force Base, Va. 

Stephen J. Newton graduated second in 
his motor management officer course class 



at Chanute AFB. He is presently a supply 
officer at Seymour Johnson AFB, Goldsboro, 
N.C. 

Stephen S. Mueller is a social case- 
worker for Child Welfare Services in Provi- 
dence, R.I. 

Gregory C. Kontos is a systems engineer 
with RCA computer division of the National 
Life Insurance Co., Montpelier, Vt. 

Vernon B. Mountcastle, III, is an equip- 
ment design engineer in the residential 
distribution transformer department of 
General Electric in Hickory, N.C. 

Donald S. Berns is a radio announcer 
and disc jockey for WTRY, Troy, N.Y. His 
new address is 410 Devonshire, Crescent 
Village Apts. Rexford, N.Y. 

Gregory T. Mormile (GS) is an oper- 
ations research analyst at the Research Anal- 
ysis Corp., McLean, Va. 

Michael DiLorenzo is chief programs 
consultant for Public Affairs Associates. 

Barry Parker is starting his second year 
of law school at the University of Maryland. 
During the summer, he worked in Baltimore 
with a law firm. A fraternity brother and 
classmate, Randy Cooper, also a University 
of Maryland law student, shared an 
apartment. 

Steven Zwicker (GS), assistant professor 
of English at Washington University, has 
been awarded the first Charles Phelps Taft 
Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of 
Cincinnati. While there during the 1970-71 
academic year, he plans to undertake a 
book-length study of the relationship be- 
tween public poetry and sacred history in 
17th century England. 

Brian Page Watson is a graduate stu- 
dent and teaching assistant in the depart- 
ment of physics at Rutgers University. 

'^ f\ Grant D. Dulgarian has declared 
/ V/ his candidacy for the Republican 
nomination for state representative. Fifth 
District in Rhode Island. In declaring his 
candidacy, Dulgarian stated the main thrust 
of his campaign will be "environmental 
quality and political and social reform." 

Cadet Walter C. Newcomb has received 
a six-week practical application in military 
leadership at the Army Reserve Officer 
Training Corps' basic summer camp at 
Fort Knox, Ky. 



Marriages 

1934 — William J. Broadhurst and Mrs. 
Betty Newell Gerhard of New York City, 
May 14. 

1934 — John M. Gross and Mrs. Jeanne 
B. Bunkley of Jamestown, R.I., June 27. 

1943— Dr. Frank B. Correia and Alice 
R. Fazio, daughter of Thomas J. Fazio of 
Somerset, Mass., and the late Mrs. Fazio, 
May 16. At home: 33 Harbour View Dr., 
Bristol, R.I. 

1958 — Jeffrey L. Stern and Gloria J. 
Kafer of Arlington, Va., May 7. 

1961 — Richard F. Santopietro and 



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Mary-Charles Smith, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Walter E. Smith of Wilmington, 
Del., May 23. Ming-Hsien Wu GS '65 was 
an usher. 

1962— Alan J. Grace and Debora D. 
Cutler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander 
B. Cutler of Old Town, Me., May 31. Dr. 
Norman Grace '57 was best man. 

1962 — Berge Gregian and Mrs. Sonya 
Sarookanian Shakarjian, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Aram Sarookanian of St. Cath- 
arines, Ont., Can., June 6. At home: 43 
Drowne St., Cranston, R.I. 

1962— Albert W. Overby, Jr., and 
Sandra V. Eggleston, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Ernest I. Eggleston of Orange, N.J., 
May 16. Dr. John Garrison '62 was best 
man, and Gregory E. Heath '62, Richard 
A. Nurse '61, and William Wood '62 
were ushers. 

1963 — Edward Berman and Cheryl 
Isaacson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Irving 
Isaacson of Quincy, Mass., June 7. Dr. 
Elliot Berman '51 was best man. 

1963 — John D. Cummings and Claudia 
Gilmore, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter 
D. Gilmore of Cincinnati, May 2. Archie 
A Frost '62 was best man, and Albert 
Suttle, Jr., '64, Jackson W. Robinson '64, 
Albert E. Labouchere '64, and Robert E. 
Dineen, Jr., '63 were ushers. 

1963 — Lawrence R. Gross and Ellen R. 
Kohn of New York City, June 14. 

1963— Robert J. Hurley, Jr., and Linda 
C. Kirchner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Edwin J. Kirchner of Keokuk, la., June 6. 
At home: 55 West Chestnut St., Chicago. 

1964— David H. Gallogly and Nancy F. 
Reed, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph 
G. Reed of East Greenwich, R.I., June 20. 
Gregory McLaughlin '63 was best man. 

1966— Lt. Paul F. Kelly, USMC, and 
Julia E. Bateman, daugher of Mr. and Mrs. 
C. J. Bateman of Chesapeake, Va., Oct. 
18, 1969. Robert J. DeLuca '66 and Jon C. 
Keates '66 were ushers. 

1966 — Donald P. Somers and Jean R. 
Holzinger in Bethlehem, Pa., May 30. 

1966— Dr. Walter M. St. John and 
Laura V. Poole, daughter of Mrs. Loy Poole 
of Charlotte, N.C., and the late Mr. Poole, 
June 7. 

1967— Lt.(j.g.) Robert A, Far, USN, 
and Sheila E. Bruce, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Robert F. Bruce of Exeter, N.H., April 
25. Linton A. Fluck '65 and Terrence Boyle 
'67 were ushers. 

1967— Richard G. Honig and Betsy J. 
Callaham, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Claude 
W. Callaham of Winchester, Mass., June 
21. Samuel D. Halpert '67 was best man. 

1967 — Jeremiah S. Hubeny and Linda 
R. Van Pelt in Tenafly, N.J., June 27. Donald 
S. Berns '69 was an usher. 

1967— PO 1/c Jeffrey R. Jones, USN, 
and Carmel D. Barone, daughter of Dr. 
and Mrs. Vincent J. Barone of Elmhurst, 
N.Y., June 6. 

1967— D. Patrick Maley, III, and 
Nancy Turck P'68, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Elbert M. Turck of Cresskill, N.J., 
May 23. At home: American University- 
Cairo, 113 Sharia Kasr El-Aini, Cairo, 
United Arab Republic. 



1967 — Richard J. Meiners and Nancy 
E. Luce, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin A. 
Luce of Brighton, Mass., May 2. Neil D. 
Sklarew '67 was an attendant. 

1968 — Norman M. Appleyard, III, and 
Barbara J. Abbott, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Harry A. A. Low of Weston, Mass., 
June 27. Rodney Ficker '68 and Alan J. 
Bogdanow '68 were ushers. 

1968— David A. Barry and Nancy K. 
Burrough, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold 
H. Burrough of Falmouth, Mass., June 6. 
John P. Fowler '68, William D. Gibson '68, 
and Howard B. Ginsberg '68 were ushers. 

1968— Robert H. Cooper and Lynda S. 
Brackman, daughter of Mrs. Arthur Brack- 
man of Lawrence, N.Y., and the late Mr. 
Brackman, June 14. Martin S. Cooper '65 
was best man, and Marc E. Hecker '68, 
Robert M. Cohan '68, and John L. Cohn 
'68 were ushers. At home: 69-35 A 186th 
Lane, Apt. 2B, Flushing, N.Y. 

1968 — Gregory W. DiMartino and 
Alexis A. St. Germain, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. C. Henry St. Germain of Narragan- 
sett, R.I., June 20. The groom's father is 
Alexander A. DiMartino '29. 

1968— David W. Gustafson and Ali- 
son J. Ray P'70, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. 
Leonard N. Ray, Jr., of Lancaster, Pa., June 
13. Robert G. Martin '68 was best man, 
and John B. Keane '68 was an usher. 

1968— Todd D. Johnston and Lesley A. 
Loser, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas 
N. Loser of Yardley, Pa., June 14. John 
Speaker '69, Grant R. Miller '68, and Rich- 
ard E. Payne '68 were ushers. 

1968 — Timothy Marschner and Sarah 
H. Lamm, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles 
E. Lamm of Darien, Conn., June 6. The 
groom's father is Dr. Donald C. Marsch- 
ner '29. 

1968— Richard B. Trull and Ann 
Capodilupo, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Law- 
rence Capodilupo of Winchester, Mass., 
June 28. Kenneth R. Fitzsimmons, Jr., '68 
was best man, and Robert Davis '68 was 
an usher. 

1969 — Peter F. AUgeier and Marsha 
N. Uehara P'70, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Masaru Uehara of Honolulu, Hawaii, June 3. 

1969 — A. Santa Barbara and Barbara 
R. Davies P'69, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
William St. C. Davies of Malverne, N.Y., 
May 31. Bruce M. Lloyd '69 was best man 
and A. William Davies '72 was an usher. 
The bride's father is '36. At home: 400 W. 
119th St., New York City. 

1969 — G. Edward Brayman and Bar- 
bara A. Wilbur, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Arthur L. Wilbur of Pawtucket, R.I., June 
13. At home: 16 Johnson St., Pawtucket. 

1969 — H. Theodore Cohen and Cynthia 
Breitberg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Philip 
Breitberg of East Rockaway, N.Y., June 28. 

Peter E. Davies and Ann Hathaway, 
daughter of Mrs. Neal Hathaway of Weston, 
Conn., June 27. Bernard Plovnick '69, C. 
Terry Hauck '68, Allen Dyer '67, and Eric 
Hertfelder '69 were ushers. 

1969— David K. Duffell and Margaret 
M. Mercer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John 
A. Mercer of Pawtucket, R.I., June 13. 
Alan Grenier '68, David Whitaker '70, and 
Donald D'Antuono '72 were ushers. 



1969 — John B. Ferguson and Jane 
Hough, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert 
R. Hough of Janesville, Wis., June 28. 

1969— Donald B. Fletcher, Jr., and Joan 
E. Mitchell P'70, daughter of John H. 
Mitchell of New York City, and the late 
Mrs. Mitchell, June 13. Robert C. Sloan, 
Jr., '69 was best man, and Michael J. Mal- 
lory '69 was an usher. 

1969 — Robert M. Ginns and Marlene 
G. Bellamy, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. 
Joseph Bellamy of Hudson, N.Y., June 28. 
James Burris '69 and Robert Pucci GS 
'69 were ushers. The groom's mother is 
the former Flora Lazarus P'43. 

1969 — Robert E. Hopkins and Linda 
Bacon P'69, daughter of Mrs. Janet Bacon of 
Winnetka, 111., and Dr. Glenn A. Bacon, 
May 29. At home: 4414 Sansome St., 
Philadelphia. 

1969 — Roy E. Johnson and Georgiana 
White P'70, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
George White of Woonsocket, R.I., Sept. 
6, 1969. 

1969 — David I. Kertzer and Susan Dana 
P'70, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Jacob Dana 
of Gardiner, Me., May 24. Jonathan Kertzer 
'72 was best man. 

1969 — Paul J. Knueven and Nancy J. 
Anderson P'69, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Ralph B. Anderson of New Sweden, Me., 
May 16. Roy E. Johnson '69 was best man. 
At home: 63 Cottage Lane, Concord, Mass. 

1969 — Ronald A. Leax and Susan S. 
Waller P'70, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
David J. Waller of Georgetown, Me., June 
13. Paul F. Levine '69 was an usher. 

1969— David A. Malone and Ellen G. 
Driscoll, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James F. 
Driscoll of Snyder, N.Y., June 5. At home: 
1700 Stone Rd., Rochester, N.Y. 

1969— Barry P. Neagle and Mary L. 
Halloran, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred 
J. Halloran of Holden, Mass., June 13. 

1969— Lt. Stephen J. Newton, USAF, 
and Barbara E. McCabe, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Frank A. McCabe of Rumford, 
R.I., June 13. 

1969— John D. Read and Nancy E. 
Haseltine, daughter of Mrs. Shirley P. 
Haseltine of Haverhill, Mass., June 21. 

1969 — Richard N. Schmidt and Susan 
E. Klein, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert 
W. Klein of Norwalk, Conn., June 13. Mac- 
Rae A. L. Ross '65 and Robert Batts '69 
were ushers. 

1970 — James G. Bruen, Jr., and Carol 
M. Booma, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert 
S. Booma of Newington, Conn., June 6. 

1970 — Stephen C. Burnham and Martha 
L. Stebbins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Charles D. Stebbins of Winchester, Mass., 
June 20. The groom's father is David W. 
Burnham '43. 

1970— William R. Duncan, III, and 
Leslie A. Martin P'70, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Edward C. Martin of Darien, Conn., 
June 19. The bride's father is '40. 

1970 — James A. Fellows and Raye M. 
Roberts P'70, daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. 
William Roberts of Lexington, Ky., Jan. 24. 
1970 — Richard F. Fullerton and Jane 



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M. Lincourt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wil- 
liam R. Lincourt of Newport, R.I., June 13. 

1970 — Roy K. Gottfried and Mari- 
anne Hirsch, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Carl 
Hirsch of Providence, R.I., June 7. 

1970 — Gordon Hollingsworth and 
Susan Marcotte P'72, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Robert L. Marcotte of Penfield, N.Y., 
June 6. Allen Adair '69 was an attendant. 

1970 — Robert J. Keenoy and Greta 
Glavis P'70, daughter of Mr. Louis R. Glavis 
of Houston, Tex., and Mrs. Felix Herrick 
of La Jolla, Calif., May 29. The bride's 
father is '44, and the bride's mother is P'45. 

1970— Ens. Russell W. Krey, USN, and 
Michaelene B. Robinson, daughter of Col. 
and Mrs. Vincent J. Robinson, USA, May 31. 

1970 — James R, Leith and Karen R. 
Pezza, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry 
Pezza of Cranston, R.L, June 6. Donald R. 
Williams '70 and David Myerson '70 
were ushers. 

1970 — Thomas R. McMillan and Susan 
G. DiNorscia P'70, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Gaetano A. DiNorscia of Woodbridge, 
Conn., June 6. Eric Lund '70 was best man, 
and Charles Partington '70 and Jon Purnell 
'70 were ushers. 

1970— Thomas S, Natale, Jr., and Anne 
M. Salvadore, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Amleto V. Salvadore of Cranston, R.I., June 
10. Michael Leach '70 and Dennis Butcher 
'72 were ushers. At home: 77 Pitman St., 
Providence. 

1970— Robert M. Zirin and Ellen S. 
Epstein, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Philip 
D. Epstein of Marblehead, Mass., June 21. 
Henry D. Epstein '46 was an usher. 

B. Robert Meyer, Jr., and Kathryn 
C. Baum P'70, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Warren C. Baum of Bethesda, Md., Aug. 
16, 1969. 

1971— Alfred K. Potter, II, and Linda 
W. Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kent 
W. Smith of Nashua, N.H., June 6. Malcolm 
B. Niedner '71 was best man, and Bruce 
Lloyd '69, Daniel Sundt '70, and Edward 
Szymanoski '71 were ushers. 



Births 

1948 — To Mr. and Mrs. Frederick 
W. Lohse, Jr., of Attleboro, Mass., their 
second child and first daughter, Gwen- 
dolyn, April 30. 

1952— To Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Gaff- 
ney of Riverside, Calif., a son, Ryan K., 
April 21. 

1956— To Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. 
Corning of New York City, a daughter, 
Stephanie Deak, Nov. 23. 

1959— To Mr. and Mrs. Neil B. Hirsch- 
feld of Rockville Centre, N.Y., their third 
child and first son, James Matthew, Nov. 5. 

1959— To Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Hollos 
of Wayne, Pa., a daughter, Kate Stilwell, 
May 12. 

1960 — To Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. 
Connelly, Jr., of Central Falls, R.L, a son, 
John Francis, III, May 17. 



1960— To Mr. and Mrs. Paul D. Peter- 
son of Richmond, Ind., a daughter, Brenda 
Ann, Nov. 28. 

1961— To Mr. and Mrs. Donald T. Bliss 
of Attleboro, Mass., a daughter, Rebecca 
Thayer, April 27. 

1961— To Mr. and Mrs. Peter D. 
Connet of Toledo, O., a daughter, Rachel 
Kristina, Oct. 16, 1969. 

1961 — To Mr. and Mrs. Peter D. Esser 
of Smithtown, L.I., N.Y., their second child 
and second son, Jeffrey Peter, May 12. 

1961 — To Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Kap- 
stein of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, their first 
child, a daughter, Helen Sarah, May 6. Mrs. 
Kapstein is the former Nancy Sherer P'61. 
Paternal grandfather is Prof. I. J. Kap- 
stein '26. 

1961 — To Mr. and Mrs. James W. Shir- 
cliff of Lynchburg, Va., their fourth child 
and third daughter, Catherine, April 27. 

1961 — To Mr. and Mrs. Elkan Abramo- 
witz of New York City, their first child, a 
son, Andrew Herbert, July 2. 

1962 — Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus M. Hoffman 
of Princeton, N.J., announce the adoption 
of a daughter, Julie Elise, born Jan. 3. 

1962 — To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. 
Lasko of Evanston, 111., their first child, a 
daughter, Ellen Claire, April 30. 

1962 — To Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. 
Spacagna of North Providence, R.L, a son, 
David Charles, June 11. 

1963 — To Mr. and Mrs. James S. Fer- 
guson of Pittsford, N.Y., a daughter, Kris- 
ten Nancy, Jan. 7, 1969. 

1963— To Dr. and Mrs. R. Mark Kirk 
of Columbia, Mo., a daughter, Laura Ann, 
April 21. 

1964 — To Mr. and Mrs. Michael Dia- 
mond of Haverstraw, N.Y., their second 
son, Cory, Nov. 11. 

1964 — To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas 
E. MacDermott of Warwick, R.L, their 
second child and second son, Brian Joseph, 
March 27. 

1964— To Dr. and Mrs. Robert L. 
Martin of Brookside, N.J., their first child, 
a daughter, Juliet Ann, May 18. Mrs. Martin 
is the former Ann M. Redman P'64. 

1964— To Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. 
Pearce, Jr., of Cranston, R.L, a daughter, 
Wendy Lynne, June 19. 

1964 — To Mr. and Mrs. Arthur S. 
Priver of Cambridge, Mass., a daughter, 
Rebecca Francine, May 20. 

1965— To Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Roth- 
enberg of Greenbelt, Md., their first child, 
a son, Jason Michael, May 15. 

1965 — To Mr. and Mrs. Leonard J. 
Santopadre of Cranston, R.L, a daughter, 
Carren Lynn, May 16. 

1966— To Dr. and Mrs. Nicholas J. 
Esposito of Cortland, N.Y., their first child, 
a daughter, Victoria Magee, May 16. 

1966 — To Mr. and Mrs. James A. Mann 
of Sacramento, Calif., their first child, a 
son, Jami Scott, Feb. 19. 

1966— To Mr. and Mrs. Alan B. Miller 
of Jacksonville, Fla., their first child, a 
son, David Todd, July 21, 1969. 

1967— To Mr. and Mrs. Neil B. Bram- 
berg of Newark, N.J., a daughter, Ingrid, 
Aug. 12, 1969. Mrs. Bramberg is the former 
Susan Kahn P'68. 



Deaths 



Dr. ERNEST KINSEY THOMAS '13 
in Providence, R.L, June 12. Since 1938, he 
had been executive secretary of the Rhode 
Island Horticultural Society. A horticul- 
turist himself. Dr. Thomas served as super- 
intendent of Providence parks and later 
as chief of the former state division of 
forests and parks and parkways. He served 
as chief of the Providence parks system 
when Triggs Memorial golf course was built, 
and other improvements, including the 
Japanese Gardens in Roger Williams Park, 
were made. Dr. Thomas graduated from 
the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, Eng- 
land, in 1907, and at one time was in charge 
of botanical gardens at the University of 
Pennsylvania. He became professor of horti- 
culture at the University of Rhode Island, 
where he also served in the college's exten- 
sion service. He received an honorary 
Sc.D. degree from Bryant College in 1952. 
Dr. Thomas was a world traveler and 
conducted tours throughout the East and 
Europe, visiting the world's famous gar- 
dens. His son is Stanley B. Thomas '50, 
10 Rhode Island Ave., Providence. 

FRANK EDWARD McDUFF '14 
in Providence, R.L, July 6. He was president 
for 40 years and treasurer of McDuff Coal 
and Lumber Co., a Pawtucket, R.L firm that 
eight years ago affiliated with the Warren 
Petroleum Co. of Providence. He was a 
member of the Pawtucket Rotary and the 
To Kalon clubs and the Rhode Island 
Fuel Dealers Association. Phi Kappa. His 
son is Robert J. McDuff, 39 Lafayette 
St., Pawtucket. 

HAROLD CLARENCE KINNE '15 
in St. Petersburg, Fla., June 29. He retired in 
1967 as a self-employed manufacturers 
representative in sporting goods and toys. 
He also was a sales manager with Hanover 
Sports, Inc., and eastern sales manager 
for Munro Sales, Inc., both in New York 
City. During World War I, Mr. Kinne 
served as a second lieutenant in the U.S. 
Air Service. He had been a member of the 
National Sporting Goods, Manufacturers 
Representative, and Eastern Tackle Rep- 
resentative associations. Theta Delta Chi. 
His sons are Col. Harold C. Kinne, Jr., 
USA, '49 and Russell C. Kinne '50, and his 
widow is the former Mildred E. Cutler P'14, 
1636 18th Ave., North, St. Petersburg. 

LELAND SCOTT McLEOD A.M. '15 
in Cleveland, O., May 19. He was a retired 
sales executive of Westinghouse Electric 
Corporation in Metuchen, N.J. Prior to 
World War I, when he served as a first lieu- 
tenant in the U.S. Air Service, he taught 
Latin and Greek at Lake Forest (111.) Acad- 
emy. Mr. McLeod learned to fly before he 
learned to drive a car, and he served as 
a flying instructor in California during his 
years of service. He spent most of his 
business career as a sales executive with 
Brunswick Corporation, Stewart-Warner, 
and Westinghouse Electric Corporation. 
Mr. McLeod retired from Westinghouse in 
1960 as field sales manager of the television- 



radio division. He was a past president of 
the Cleveland Aviation Club, a member of 
the Sons of the American Revolution, and 
a charter member of the Air Force Asso- 
ciation. His widow is Carmeta S. McLeod, 
3698 Glencairn Rd., Shaker Heights, O. 

ARTHUR LESLIE REYNOLDS A.M. '15 
in Bethlehem, Conn., June 1. He retired in 
1955 after many years on the faculty of 
Wilby High School in VValerbury, Conn. 
Mr. Reynolds received an Sc.B. degree from 
Rhode Island State College, now Rhode 
Island College, and he was a physics 
teacher. His son, Louis Reynolds, survives. 

LESTER WARE PRESTON '17 
in Brevard, N.C., Aug. 25, 1967. He was the 
retired president and treasurer of Wil- 
mington (N.C.) Cold Storage Co. During 
World War I, Mr. Preston served as an 
officer with the U.S. Navy submarine serv- 
ice. He formerly was employed by the 
Anheuser-Busch Ice Sn Cold Storage Co., 
Norfolk, Va. Sigma Nu. His son is Macon 
A. Preston '51, and his widow is Cora A. 
Preston, 1410 Westover Ave., Norfolk. 

CHARLES EMERSON DAVIS '21 
in Stuart, Fla., April 6. He was president 
of W. E. Davis Company, Providence auto- 
motive parts and supplies, for 35 years 
until he moved to Florida in 1956. During 
World War I, he was a member of the 
R.O.T.C. unit at Brown. Mr. Davis also 
was affiliated with Sun Realty Company in 
Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Pratt & Whitney 
Aircraft in West Palm Beach, until he 
retired in 1969. Delta Phi. His widow is 
Frances G. Davis, Lakeside Village, Rt. 1, 
Box 283, Hobe Sound, Fla. 

ARTHUR DICKINSON COLBURN '23 
in Norwood, Mass., April 12. An employee 
of Bird & Son in East Walpole, Mass., for 
42 years, he was superintendent of the box 
shop before retiring in 1968. Mr. Colburn 
was a member of the Walpole Rotary Club 
and a director of the Neponset Credit Union. 
Delta Phi. His widow is Margaret McF. 
Colburn, 87 Lewis Ave., Walpole. 

EDWARD MANTON SMITH '24 
in Providence, R.I., May 22. Mr. Smith 
retired in 1949 as vice-president of Asa 
Peck & Co. His daughter is Mrs. Kenneth 
S. Seibert, II 87 Whitman Ave., West 
Hartford, Conn. 

THE REV. CLIFFORD CHADWICK '27 
in Boston, June 12. He had been associate 
clergyman of Emanuel Church in the Back 
Bay section of Boston since 1962. The 
Rev. Mr. Chadwick received a B.D. degree 
from Virginia Theological Seminary in 
1930, and until 1935 served as rector of St. 
Columba's Church in Middletown, R.I. 
He became rector of Trinity Church in 
Hamilton, O. until he was inducted in the 
Army in 1940 as chaplain of the 145th 
Infantry Regiment. He served for seven 
years as an Army combat chaplain and 
received the Legion of Merit for excep- 
tional meritorious service on Guadalcanal. 
The Rev. Mr. Chadwick left the Army in 
1947 and took advanced courses in the 
Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, 



At retirement, John Winterich 
recalled 'it is time to be old' 



John Tracy Winterich '12, former 
managing editor of the Saturday Review of 
Literature, frequent contributor to the New 
Yorker magazine and an author who once 
dedicated a book to the Providence Gas 
Company, died Aug. 16 in Springfield, Mass. 
He was 79. 

Winterich's book entitled Another Day, 
Another Dollar, published in 1947, is the 
author's amusing recollections of various 
jobs he held as a boy in and around Provi- 
dence in that legendary pre-World War I 
period when a dollar brought a fair amount 
of the world's goods and a strike referred 
only to the swing of a baseball bat. 

The idea of writing this book came to 
Winterich when, at the beginning of his 
service in World War II, he was confronted 
by an Army form which called for a 
complete list of his civilian occupations. 
One memory led to another and resulted in 
a mirthful and ironic chronicle of money- 
making adventures that included experi- 
ences as a house-to-house salesman, meter 
reader for the Providence Gas Company, 
trolley conductor for the Rhode Island 
Company, census taker of horses and people, 
and valued employee of the cleaning room 
of the Providence Public Market. They were 
times of financial hardship, for which the 
characteristic Winterich humor and high 
spirits were more than a match. 

In his days at Brown, meter reading 
was a part-time job and in his book Another 
Day, Another Dollar he wrote, "Had it not 
been for the Providence Gas Company, I 
could not have had a college education." 
When the book was published, Frederick 
Freeman, then president of the gas company, 
joked with Winterich about the dedication 
of the book to the utility and said he had 
bought a copy for each of the company's 
directors. "You ought to have more di- 
rectors," the author quipped. 

After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from 
Brown in 1912 and spending a year as an 
assistant in the English department, 
Winterich left Providence. He entered 
newspaper work with the Springfield (Mass.) 
Republican as a reporter, editor, and 
feature writer, which was interrupted by his 
enlistment as a private in the Army in the 
first World War. 

Sent to France almost immediately, 
John Winterich became a member of the 
famous staff of Stars and Stripes, official 
newspaper of the first AEF. He was associ- 
ated with Harold Ross, editor of the New 
Yorker, and later cooperated with Ross in 
various publishing projects. 

Winterich was the author of numerous 
books including Collector's Choice, Books, 
and the Man, An American Friend of 
Dickens, and Twenty-Three Books. 

Reentering the Army as a colonel in 
World War II, Winterich served in the 
Pentagon. In 1945, he was named managing 



editor of the Saturday Review, and in 1946 
he became a contributing editor of the 
magazine, a position he held until a few 
months ago. 

One of the foremost American bibli- 
ophiles and authorities on book collecting, 
John Winterich's numerous works on the 
subject include Early American Books and 
Printing and A Primer of Book Collecting. 
He was a fellow of the Bibliographical 
Society of American Historians, and also, 
by his own account, founder and president 
of the Society for the Retardation of Re- 
volving Doors. In 1957, Brown awarded him 
an honorary LL.D. degree, and he was a 
member of the Board of Editors of the 
Brown Alumni Monthly for many years. 

When John Winterich retired, he 
quoted Emerson: "It is time to be old." 

Winterich lived in Ossining Park, N.Y., 
until he returned to Springfield, Mass., three 
years ago. In addition to his widow, Emily 
H. Winterich, who lives at 215 Fort 
Pleasant Ave., Apt. D8, Springfield, he is 
survived by a sister, Mrs. Edith W. Feole 
of Providence. 



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Mass. He served as dean's associate at the 
Cathedral of St. John in Providence in 1948, 
and as canon at the cathedral in 1949. 
Between 1949 and 1962 he served several 
Massachusetts parishes. His widow is Lucia 
W. Chadwick, 65 Commercial Wharf, 
Apt. 2, Boston. 

LEWIS VAN NORDEN WILSON '27 
in Mt. Kisco, N.Y., April 25. He was a 
sales representative for Bedford Hills 
(N.Y.) Concrete Products Corp. Mr. Wil- 
son received an Sc.B. degree from Colby 
College in 1928 and began his business 
career as an accountant for First Mortgage 
Guaranty & Title Co., New York City. He 
also was an investigator for Hooper Holmes 
Bureau, Mt. Vernon, N.Y., and he was a 
salesman with Green Brothers Supply Co., 
Inc., Goldens Bridge, N.Y. Zeta Psi. His 



daughter is Mrs. Brenda W. Wakefield, 23 
Maple Ave., Armonk, N.Y. 

LEONARD MELVIN BROWN '30 
in Springfield, Mass., June 4. He was owner 
of Leonard Brown Insurance Co., Spring- 
field. Mr. Brown was treasurer of George 
Ezekiel, Inc., a Springfield insurance agency. 
He had been a member of the city council 
and chairman of the board of aldermen 
from 1938-42. He was acting mayor when 
Presidential candidate Wendell Wilkie 
paid Springfield a visit. Pi Lambda Phi. His 
brother is Harold I. Brown '30, and his 
widow is Jeanette L. Brown, 7 Crescent 
Hill, Springfield. 

DR. ANGUS MacIVOR GRIFFIN '31, 

A.M. '33, Ph.D. '38 

in Falls Church, Va., June 24. He was asso- 



ciate dean of the George Washington 
School of Medicine. Dr. Griffin served 
as bacteriologist and serologist at Mary 
Imogene Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, 
N.Y., in the 1930's, and later as an analyst J 
for the Providence Medical Milk Com- | 

mission. He also served on the biology 
faculty at Brown. Dr. Griffin joined George 
Washington University in 1940 and was 
a key member of the faculty team respon- 
sible for developing the educational build- 
ings for George Washington's medical 
curriculum. He was the author of approx- 
imately 40 publications and reports in 
professional journals in the fields of micro- 
biology, parasitology, and immunology. Dr. 
Griffin was a former president of the J 

George Washington chapter of the Society ^ 
of Sigma Xi, and his professional mem- 
berships included: The Association of 



Ray Hall: Work 
with the sleeves 
rolled up 




Raymond Hall (right) was decorated by 
Prince Bernhardt in Holland in 1969. 



The man who became known as the 
"Parachute Parson" of the 101st Airborne 
Division, and was the first Army chaplain 
to earn his paratrooper wings, is dead. 
The Rev. Raymond S. Hall '31 died 
June 21 in Bridgton, Me., after a long 
illness. In 1944, Lt. Raymond S. Hall was 
among the American paratroopers who 
jumped on D-Day to begin the allied 
invasion of Europe. 

During the summer of 1941, the Rev. 
Mr. Hall, rector of St. John's Episcopal 
church at Lowell, Mass., made a decision. 
He applied for a chaplain's commission in 
the reserve corps with no idea where he 
might be sent. He was assigned in January, 
1942, to the Provisional Parachute Group at 
Fort Benning, Ga. 

After a week at Fort Benning, Chaplain 
Hall figured what was good enough for 
his parachute jumping charges was good 
enough for him. Army officials went into 
a huddle and finally agreed to Hall's appli- 
cation to enter the regular five-week para- 
troop training course. 

When the time came to jump. Hall 
rode the first airplane he'd ever been 
aboard. His jump started him on the career 
as a "parachute parson," one which made 
him nationally famous. Asked why he 
chose parachute jumping. Hall simply said: 
"It increases attendance at church. And 
the men can talk to me now." 

Following the precedent set by Chaplain 
Hall, other chaplains took up the task. One 
of these men, making his first jump, paused 
at the plane door and said, "I hope the 
boss isn't mad with me this morning," 
then leaped. The "boss" wasn't mad. He 
made it. 

In Normandy, after the D-Day jump. 
Chaplain Hall stayed in the front line 
giving comfort and aid to the wounded 
under sniper fire from the Germans. Later 
he said, "Their aim was bad." 

Nevertheless, in July he was wounded 
and sent to England to recuperate, rejoining 
his unit about six weeks later when it in- 
vaded Holland. Because of his eye injury, 
Capt. Hall had to go in by glider. Within 
days, the battalion aid station where Hall 
was working was captured during a German 



counterattack. They evacuated the wounded 
but the medics stayed on. Since they were 
all unarmed, there was nothing to do but 
surrender. Capt. Hall was taken prisoner 
and sent to a German prison camp deep in 
Poland. 

Hall escaped the Nazi camp in January 
as the Russian Army approached in its 
great drive from Warsaw. After making 
contact with the Russians, he found his 
way to American authorities in Odessa 
and returned to the United States. He was 
discharged as a major in 1946. 

Later that year he was appointed di- 
rector of the Seamen's Club of Boston 
and the following year he became assistant 
director of the Seamen's Church Institute 
of New York, assuming directorship shortly 
thereafter. 

Father Hall described the Seamen's 
Church as "the church at work with its 
sleeves rolled up." The 13-story institute, 
at the tip of Manhattan, was the largest 
shore home, hotel and club for merchant 
seamen in the world. It was established by 
the Protestant Episcopal Church, and one 
of the famous features of the Institute was 
its marine museum, displaying, among 
other things, dozens of beautiful models 
of virtually every type of ship. 

In 1960, the Rev. Mr. Hall moved to 
Portland, Me., to serve as rector of the 
Trinity Episcopal Church, retiring in 1963. 

Hall was a noted athlete during his 
undergraduate days at Brown. He was a 
consistent winner and an All-American 
choice on the swimming team, of which 
he was captain. Father Hall was vice-presi- 
dent of his class and a member of Delta 
Tau Delta fraternity. He was honored by 
Brown with an honorary D. D. degree in 
1947. 

For one who tried all his life to sell 
democracy and the American way of life, 
Raymond S. Hall followed the life he 
preached. When he spoke at Brown's winter 
commencement exercises in 1946, he said: 
"The world changes, but the commandment! 
of God are sure. They stand fast forever." 

His son is A. Benjamin Hall '61, and 
his widow, Mary F. Hall, lives at Hancock 
Lane, Douglas Hill, Me. H. G. 



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American Colleges, American Society for 
Microbiology, American Association for 
the Advancement of Science, and the Cos- 
mos Club. Beta Theta Pi. Sigma Xi. His 
widow is Ruth C. Griffin, 2916 Cleave 
Dr., Falls Church. 

JOHN EVERARD DOWSING, JR. '32 
in Redondo Beach, Calif., April 11. He was 
a wardrobe coordinator for the motion 
picture industry for many years. Later he 
owned his own bookshop and worked 
as a professional artist in painting. Delta 
Kappa Epsilon. His widow is Frances 
Dowsing, 626 Calle De Arboles, Redondo 
Beach. 

DR. JAMES ANDREW CLARKSON 
A.M. '33, Ph.D. '34 

in Rockland, Me., June 6. He was the retired 
chairman of the Tufts University mathe- 
matics department. A Robinson professor 
of mathematics, he received his A.B. degree 
from Dartmouth College in 1929. Before 
joining the Tufts faculty in 1948, the same 
year in which he was appointed depart- 
ment chairman, he was a member of the 
faculty of the University of Pennsylvania 
from 1936 to 1948. During World War II, he 
was a civilian member of a government 
commission in England credited with im- 
proving the accuracy of bombers. Dr. Clark- 
son was a former member of the board of 
trustees for the Medford (Mass.) Public 
Library and he served as chairman of the 
board during the construction of the new 
library. His widow is Jessie M. Clarkson, 25 
Sagamore Park, West Medford, Mass. 

GORDON EDWARD WALLS '37 
in Lebanon, N.H., June 14. He was Bos- 
ton distirct engineer for Johns-Manville 
Sales Corp. Mr. Walls also had been super- 
intendent of yarn at the American Woolen 
Co., Dover, N.H., assistant plant manager 
of Kenwood Mills, Inc., Cavendish, Vt., 
and he was a sales representative in textiles 
with F. C. Huyck & Sons, Rensselaer, N.Y. 
His brother is Alden R. Walls, '31, and his 
widow is Mary H. Walls, 53 Juniper 
Rd., Andover, Mass. 

ROBERT FLAGG WESSMAN '39 
in Springfield, Mass., May 18. He was a 
mathematics teacher at Classical High 
School in Springfield, and head of the de- 
I partment for 12 years. Mr. Wessman 
I received an Ed.M. degree from Springfield 
I College in 1948, and he was the recipient 
I of two National Foundation grants for 
advanced studies in mathematics at Holy 
Cross College. During World War II, he 
served as a first lieutenant with the U.S. 
Army Quartermaster Corps. He had also 
been employed by the Millers Falls Tool 
Co., Springfield. Mr. Wessman was a mem- 
ber of the American Veteran's committee 
and did volunteer work at Leeds Veteran's 
Hospital in Northampton, Mass. He was 
a supervisor in the Neighborhood Youth 
Corps and a lay leader at Old First Church. 
Phi Sigma Kappa. His widow is Jeanne McC. 
Wessman, 45 Magnolia Terr., Springfield. 

ROBERT BRADFORD LYNCH '43 

in Montclair, N.J., May 16. He was a project 



engineer with Curtiss-Wright in Fairfield, 
N.J., propeller manufacturers, for 24 years. 
Mr. Lynch received an Sc.M. degree in 
electrical engineering from Newark Col- 
lege of Engineering in 1967. During World 
War II, he served with the U.S. Army 
Signal Corps. Mr. Lynch was a member 
of the American Institute of Electrical 
Engineers and was a senior member of the 
Institute of Environmental Sciences. His 
widow is Mary Jo C. Lynch, 619 Upper 
Mountain Ave., Upper Montclair. 

EDWARD REGINALD DOYLE '44 
in Pawtucket, R.I., July 5. Before his retire- 
ment four months ago, he was employed as 
a chemical mixer for the Sayles Finishing 
Plants, Inc., Lincoln, R.I. During World 
War II, he served with the U.S. Marine 
Corps. His widow is Claire M. Doyle, 412 
Smithfield Ave., Pawtucket. 

WILLIAM EVERETT MUNROE '47 
in Providence, R.I., June 10. He was a 
general agent for the Washington National 
Insurance Co., Cumberland, R.I. and form- 
erly had been with the Prudential Insur- 
ance and Mutual Trust Life Insurance 
companies. During World War II, he served 
with the Army's 5th Ranger Infantry Bat- 
talion. Mr. Munroe received an A.B. degree 
from Emerson College in 1950, and in 
1951 became Emerson's public relations 
director after having served as its assistant 
director. He also was a part-time radio 
station announcer on WWON, Woonsocket, 
R.I. Mr. Munroe was a former member of 
the Cumberland Kiwanis Club and a mem- 
ber of the Providence Life Underwriters 
Life Association. His widow is Theresa M. 
Munroe, 91 Boardman Ave., Cumberland. 

GEORGE STONE BOOTHBY '48 
in Brockton, Mass., May 28. A former 
teacher-coach at Rockland High School, 
Abington, Mass., for 11 years, he taught 
civics and general science and was head 
football coach. He retired in 1960. Mr. 
Boothby also taught at Braintree (Mass.) 
High School prior to going to Rockland 
High. He had attended Boston College and 
served with the U.S. Navy during World 
War II. He was a member of the Lewis V. 
Dorsey Post No. 113, American Legion. Phi 
Kappa Psi. His cousin is David B. Boothby 
'50, and his mother is Mrs. George Boothby, 
199 Spruce St., North Abington, Mass. 

JOHN CARRINGTON FERNANDEZ '59 
in New York City, Sept., 1968. He formerly 
was associated with the insurance firm 
of Brown & Herzog Agency, Inc., Buffalo, 
N.Y. While in the U.S. Army, Mr. Fernandez 
served as a private and was stationed in 
Buffalo, N.Y. Zeta Psi. His widow is Cynthia 
S. Fernandez, c/o Mrs. Mario Fernandez, 
320 East 72nd St., New York City. 

JOHN ANTHONY RUOZZO '61 
in Providence, R.I., May 30. He also at- 
tended graduate school at Rhode Island 
College. His parents are Mr. and Mrs. 
Anthony Ruozzo, 45 Victoria St., Provi- 
dence, and a cousin. Dr. M. Philip Neri 
'SO, also survives. 



GRANT ROBERT MILLER '68 
accidentally in Providence, R.I., July. 21. He 
had been an admission officer at Brown 
for about a year. Grant Miller was a five- 
year student at Brown and earned an A.B. 
degree in art and an Sc.B. degree in en- 
gineering in 1968-69. He was awarded the 
first Gilbert Stuart prize in art in 1968 and 
was a talented and promising artist. Mr. 
Miller had shown his works at various 
exhibits including the Ivy League exhibit 
at Princeton. While at Brown, he was on the 
Liber Brunensis staff for four years and 
served as its editor-in-chief in 1968. He also 
was house manager and president of his 
fraternity. Phi Delta Beta. A memorial 
service was held in Manning Chapel at 
Brown at which time James H. Rogers, di- 
rector of admission, gave the eulogy which 
read in part: "It is entirely appropriate 
that this service be held here in Manning 
Chapel, for Grant Miller loved Brown. With 
his breadth of interest, there seemed to 
me a certain inevitability that he should 
stay at Brown as an admission officer. He 
represented everything that Brown wants in 
a student, as an alumnus, as an adminis- 
trative officer. He loved people and sought 
to be of service to them. He hated all that 
negated his pervasive love: violence, ugli- 
ness, war, and any inhumanity." A reading 
also was given by Chaplain Charles A. 
Baldwin. Memorial contributions may be 
made to the Development Fund, Brown 
University. His parents are Mr. and Mrs. 
Grafton C. Miller, 2405 Hawthorne Dr., 
Yorktown Heights, N.Y. 




Grant Miller '68 



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On Stage: 

'You still look like a bum in that hat' 



There was a time when Ivy League could as well mean a 
style of dress as a group of colleges. No more. Today shopping 
trips for a college wardrobe may be to the Salvation Army or 
an Army-Navy surplus store, and the College Hill merchants 
who used to clothe the young gentlemen from Brown now dream 
about the days 10 years ago when it was nothing unusual for a 
freshman to come in and buy two suits, two sport coats and 
a dozen shirts. 

Philip Lapides '46, of Harvey Ltd., says students are just 
not clothes conscious anymore. "We started as a university 
store 20 years ago when the natural shoulder clothing was just 
becoming popular. Today we'd be better off downtown. If we 
had to rely on the University community, we'd starve." 

Arthur Palmer '48, whose Thayer Street store for men's 
and women's clothes is more trendy than conservative, still has 
a number of undergraduate customers, but he also has noticed 
a change in their buying habits. Three years ago, almost all the 
men's pants he sold were regular cut; now, bell bottoms 
account for about 50 percent of his sales. 

"Men are much more self-assured now," says Palmer, "and 
much less hung up about their male virility, which used to be 
equated with white button-down shirts, narrow ties and Bass 
loafers. The Brown undergraduate will never completely change 
his buying habits, though. According to Palmer, "they are too 
ingrained from years of shopping with their mothers in small 
New England towns." 

In the ladies' division of the store, Palmer has weighed 
the midi-mini dilemma and stuck with short skirts for 90 
percent of his stock. "Midi dresses might become popular with 
the thousand richest women in New York," says Palmer, "but 
I doubt if they'll catch on here. Young girls have a different 
style of life now, and I don't think they'll wear anything that 
would constrain their freedom of movement." 

Palmer says that most males ages 15 to 50 are quite fond 
of ladies in short skirts and he personally would be delighted if 
the whole midi thing fell on its face. But he is not issuing any 
guarantees that it will. For one thing. Providence styles are 
usually one to three years behind New York. And Pembrokers, 
he says, despite claims to originality, do have a certain 
herd instinct. 

Palmer's aversion to midis is echoed by most men around 
the campus. "They are godawful," says Glen Young '73. "I saw 
my first midi being worn in Bloomingdale's last week and it 
hit me with a sickening thud. Fortunately, I don't think most 



Pembrokers would be buried in one." 

Michael Boyer '68, University photographer, believes that 
midis are being "perpetrated by certain dress designers for the 
sake of achieving total fashion change in spite of and over the 
objections of most women and their male admirers." 

One Blue Room habitue, who characterized himself as a 
leg man, says that the midi conspiracy is manipulative and a 
real setback for women's liberation, not to mention legs. 

Surprisingly, even some men who are most vehemently 
opposed to midi-skirts have nothing against the unisex look, 
with both men and women in pants. So much have the times 
changed that an off-hand sampling of undergraduates reveals 
that, the cheaper and older one's clothes, the greater the cachet. 
("My jacket? Oh yes, I found it at Goodwill for $3. It's a World 
War II flak jacket.") The theory that an article of clothing 
has no character until it has aged at least 10 years is a happy 
note for parents who are no longer asked to shell out out- 
rageous sums for status label wardrobes. Still, one hears 
complaints like. "You look like a bum in that hat." 

Salvation Army scruffy is what one East Side merchant 
calls the style, and he explains it by saying that other social 
expenses have risen so high that there is no money left for 
clothes. And since patched jeans and a Tee shirt are acceptable 
outfits for both men and women, why go to any more trouble? 
One of the beneficiaries of the second hand clothes boom, 
Mrs. Gerhardt of the Council Thrift Shop, is hard put to explain 
the trend, and chalks it up to general student oddity. "Students 
are coming in more and more now," says Mrs. Gerhardt. 
"What do they buy? Well, imagine what a normal person 
would wear; and they buy just the opposite. Women buy men's 
tails to wear as coats for instance." 

Second hand capes are big sellers with Army-Navy and 
thrift stores. So are ratty furs. And pacifist inclinations not- 
withstanding, any authentic surplus military gear is the hottest 
student item since the Whole Earth Catalogue. 

Which is not to say that every undergraduate looks like a 
refugee from The Beggar's Opera. There are still Peter Pan 
collars and cardigan sweaters around. One still sees color 
coordinated outfits at football games. It is even possible to spot 
an occasional coat and tie on an undergraduate headed for a 
draft board appearance or a job interview. 

But the days when any freshman could recite the litany of 
acceptable clothes labels from the Gant shirt to the Bass 
loafers are gone. And a good thing. A. B. 



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Fall 1970 



A PRODUCTIVE MONOPOLY 



SATRIANUM 

R. Ross Holloway 

A record and Interpretation of excavations that 
have established nevi/ boundaries for Greek 
penetration Into southern Italy In the sixth century 
B.C. Full-color frontispiece and 150 pages of 
black-and-white illustrations 

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THE BLATHWAYT ATLAS I: THE MAPS 

Jeannette D. Black, ec//(or 

The first volume of a two-volume annotated 
facsimile edition of a cartographical treasure in the 
John Carter Brown Library — 48 manuscript and 
printed maps brought together In the seventeenth 
century for the use of the Lords of Trade and 
Plantations, and in effect the first atlas of the 
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MECHTA I MYSL' I. S. TURGENEVA 

M. O. Gershenzon 

A long-unavailable analysis of Turgenev's vision 
and thought that has remained In the front rank of 
Turgenev studies since Its publication in Moscow 
in 1919. Brown University Slavic Reprint VIII 

September SBN 87057-124-9 Paper $4.00 

IMAGE AND IMMORTALITY 

William V. Holtz 

A provocative work of literary criticism that 
measures Tristram Shandy by Sterne's own pictorial 
metaphor and discovers a new perspective from 
which to view that intriguingly modern book of the 
eighteenth century. 8 plates 

October SBN 87057-121-4 $7.00 

CAUTANTOWWIT'S HOUSE 

William Scranlon Simmons 

An anthropological study of Narragansett tribal 
beliefs and practices based on recent excavations at 
famestown, Rhode Island, where 59 seventeenth- 
century Narragansett graves and 7 other graves 
antedating them by three thousand years were 
uncovered. 116 illustrations 



William Leonhard Taylor 

A major contribution to transportation history using 
hitherto untapped sources to examine the opera- 
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1870 to 1916 and to assess the effect on them of 
railroad control. 8 pages of illustrations, 4 maps, 
and 21 tables 

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JOSEPH ADDISON'S SOCIABLE ANIMAL 

Edward A. Bloom and Lillian D. Bloom 

A critique of Addison's ideas on economics, politics, 
and religion that draws on all his writings, not only 
the Tatler and the Spectator, and considers 
these Ideas within the context of his time 

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THE LEGEND OF THE WANDERING JEW 

George K. Anderson 

"Will long remain the definitive work on the subject 
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THE EXACT SCIENCES IN ANTIQUITY 

O. Neugebauer 

"One of the most significant books 

on the history of ancient science to appear 

In this generation" — Archaeology 

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