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Alumni Monthly July 1971 






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The 203rd Commenccuwnl lon^i ilic 

first for Donnld F. Hornig as Brown's President. 



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Brown Alumni Monthly July 1971, Vol. 71, No. 9 






In this issue 



16 Jacquelyn Mattfeld: She Won't Be the Token Woman 

In the reorganization following the merger of Brown and Pem- 
broke, the University has appointed the provost of Sarah Law- 
rence as dean of academic affairs, the highest administrative 
post ever held by a woman in the Ivy League. 

20 Seven Who Didn't Go info Insurance 

Partly out of desire and partly out of necessity, increasing 
numbers of recent graduates are forsaking the ancient and 
honorable professions. Here are seven who decided "to do 
something different." 

28 Experiment at Hope High 

The talents of the Brown faculty and the enthusiasm of stu- 
dents at Providence's Hope High were combined over the past 
year to create a unique program of elective courses for the 
high school. 

32 One Man's 35th 

What prompts a man to travel 3,000 miles to attend his 35th 
class reunion? And what are his reactions to Brown after 35 
years? A BAM writer-photographer team spent the Commence- 
ment weekend finding the answers. 

66 'Nobody Is Going to Push Us Around' 

That confident statement comes from Coach Len Jardine when 
he talks about the 1971 Brown football varsity. And if the 
quarterback problem can be solved. . . . 



Departments 

2 Under the Elms 46 Reunion Roundup 

14 Carrying the Mail 52 Class Notes 

44 Brown Books 68 Sports Roundup 

72 On Stage 

Cover photograph by George Henderson. 



Editor 

Robert M. Rhodes 

Associate Editors 

John F. Barry, Jr., '50 
Ann Banks 

Assistant Editor 
Hazel M. Goff 

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 
Elliot E. Maxwell '68 
Stuart C. Sherman '39 
Robert G. Berry '44 



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A more relaxed 203rd 
Commencement 

Brown's 203rd Commencement was 
held in an atmosphere that was more re- 
laxed than at any time in the last three or 
four years. The weather was also perfect — 
which is nothing unusual — for the cere- 
monies during which 729 bachelor's degrees, 
286 master's degrees, and 159 doctorates 
were awarded. 

The class of 1971, James Reston wrote 
recently, are the graduates of the unsettled 
generation. They were born during the 
Korean Conflict, grew up in the shadow of 
Vietnam, and attended college in an era 
of upheaval and changing values in Amer- 
ican society as well as on the college cam- 
puses of the nation. 

During their four years on College 
Hill, the Brown graduates of 1971 saw the 
birth of a new curriculum, the death of 
ROTC, the arrival of coed housing, the 
merger of Brown and Pembroke, and the 
administration of three University presi- 
dents. 

In spite of all this change — or maybe 
because of it, the Commencement proceed- 
ings were pretty much back to normal. At 
recent Commencements, some of the grad- 
uates have marched with armbands, some- 
times white and sometimes black, turned 
their backs on certain speakers or recipients 
of honorary degrees, and staged guerrilla 
plays on the campus. 

But this June, tradition was honored, 
as was the solemnity of past academic 
rituals — and yet there were changes. For 
the first time, students and faculty made 
recommendations to the Board of Fellows 
on honorary degree recipients. The indi- 
vidual distribution of degrees on the Col- 
lege Green was cancelled on a vote of the 
senior class. Instead, three students sym- 
bolically accepted diplomas for their class- 
mates. 

Dress in the Commencement Proces- 
sion was almost back to normal. Only one 
anti-war armband was spotted. One Pem- 
broker carried a daisy while another held 




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an iris in her hand. And 25 or so chose not 
to wear the cap and gown. 

Presumably for the first time in the 
history of Brown University, members of 
the Commencement Procession were seen 
holding hands. This resulted from the new 
policy allowing the Brown men and Pem- 
brokers to march together and without the 
restriction of proceeding down the Hill al- 
phabetically. 

Part of the struggle 
'to make people whole' 

If it seems to the older generation that 
there has been a decade of almost unbe- 
lievable change in American society, to the 
college generation there must be much more 
— and quickly. That was the message deliv- 
ered by Brown's two senior orators, Monte 
Bailey and Laura Geller. 

"Educational institutions like Brown," 
Bailey said, "have been set up to preserve 
what is and what has been America and are 
not necessarily set up to make America 
what it ought to be. But students at Brown 
saw this. We started to question what 
America has been, is, and where it's going." 

He mentioned the black walkout of De- 
cember, 1968, and the student strike in the 
spring a year ago as examples of the stu- 
dent awakening. But "many students" at 
the University still act as if they cannot see, 
he said. "So many of us have been so busy 
partying, playing bridge and poker, being 
caught up in sex games and drugs here on 
College Hill. We're so preoccupied with ro- 
manticizing our existence. We destroy the 
College Green, abuse University property, 
and in general, act insane (for example, 
interfraternity brawls) and our acts are 
justified with little more than the fact that 
when at college 'boys will be boys'. Then 
we turn around and act indignant because 
blacks are rioting and looting. . . . 

"As we leave Brown, let us not," he 
pleaded, "get caught up so much in shout- 
ing about America the beautiful that we 
forget America the ugly. We live in a coun- 
try that reminds one of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. 
Hyde. Our mission in life is to erase Mr. 
Hyde from the American pageant. But we 
will not change anything by just criticizing 
and doing nothing. Along with the right to 
criticize goes the responsibility of doing 
something to correct the problems confront- 
ing us. America must be made beneficial 
not only to nil her citizens, but for other 
people of this world. Let us make America 
the example of the entire world, not just of 
the 'free world'. This must be done to in- 
sure the survival of America — and the rest 
of the world. We must make sure that our 
survival is based on a proven humanism 
and not on oppression, hypocrisy, and ex- 
ploitation. This must be our dream — and 
this must be our goal. . . ." 

Laura Geller's opening comment was 



that the word "alumna" brings to her mind 
a lot of images with which she is uncom- 
fortable. "It has always," she said, "made 
me a little sad to read in the class notes 
section of the alumnae magazine that Penny 
Pembroker's husband Bill is president of 
something or other. Why should it be that 
Penny's description of herself is always a 
description of her husband?" 

She criticized the University for gradu- 
ating two and a half times as many men as 
women. That "seems to indicate," she said, 
"that to Brown and to the larger society 
that Brown represents, it is more than twice 
as important to educate men as women. The 
implications of that ratio are devastating 
to me. . . ." 

Those women students who supported 
the merger of Brown and Pembroke did so, 
she said, "in the hope that by becoming 
students of one institution instead of stu- 
dents peripherally involved in two institu- 
tions, women would have more power in 
controlling their own lives and in making 
decisions that affected them within the 
University. But all we have to do is to look 
around us to see that the goals behind the 
merger have not been realized." She men- 
tioned the small number of women in ten- 
ured positions on the faculty and the small 
number in the administration, and asked 
why there are more male admission officers 
than female. 

"The implications for society of say- 
ing that it is just as important to educate 
women as men are incredibly far-reaching," 
Laura said. "It doesn't mean that women 
can be productive members of society if 
they want to, after the dishes are done. 
Rather it means that women onglit to be 
productive, that women must take an ac- 
tive role in the world in which they live." 

The women's movement, the black 

Senior orators Laura Geller, Monte Bailey- 




movement, the anti-war movement are all 
part of the same struggle, she said — "the 
struggle to reshape our society so as to 
make people whole." 

Honorary degrees: 
the students had a say 

For the first time this year, students 
had a say in choosing honorary degree re- 
cipients, with results that were far from 
drastic. Dire jokes to the contrary, the list 
was not composed of rock stars or people 
currently under indictment. In fact, the stu- 
dent-faculty selection committee proposed 
a roster of honorees that was as tame as it 
has ever been. During the degree-conferring 
ceremonies, the BAM unofficial applause 
meter registered the longest ovations for 
Judge Constance Motley and journalist I. F. 
Stone, though all the recipients were 
warmly applauded. 

The eight men and three women who 
received honorary degrees were: 

Germaine Bree, a professor at the In- 
stitute for Research in the Humanities at 
the University of Wisconsin since 1960. She 
is the author of 16 books and is a decorated 
veteran of the French army. From 1954 to 
1960, she was head of the romance lan- 
guage department, Graduate School of Arts 
and Sciences, New York University. "In an 
age that is preoccupied with technology and 
materialism, you- stand out as a great hu- 
manist. Your brilliant literary scholarship 
has become a touchstone for those who 
follow you-" Professor Bree received an 
honorary Doctor of Letters degree. 

Minot Packer Fryer '36, M.D., practices 
plastic surgery and is a professor of clinical 
surgery and clinical maxillofacial surgery at 
Washington University Medical School and 
Washington University Dental School. A 
native of Willimantic, Conn., Dr. Fryer 
served on the staffs of eight St. Louis area 
hospitals from 1947 to the present. "As an 
eminent practitioner of the ancient craft of 
plastic surgery and an enthusiastic exponent 
of its modern scientific grounding, you have 
spent a lifetime perfecting surgical tech- 
niques- Many hundreds of victims of 
trauma, disease, and birth defects can testify 
to your skillful and humane surgery." Dr. 
Fryer received an honorary Doctor of Sci- 
ence degree. 

William Henry Hastie, chief judge of 
the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Third 
District in Philadelphia, was governor of 
the Virgin Islands from 1946 to 1949. He 
served as dean of the Howard University 
Law School from 1936 to 1946, where, un- 
der his leadership, the legal strategy of 
desegregation was developed. In 1942, he 
resigned as civilian aide to the Secretary of 
War to dramatize the plight of the black 
man in uniform. "You are scholar, teacher, 



public seriiant, and civil rights leader, but 
above all you are an outstanding jurist. You 
have always had the wisdom to weigh the 
evidence and the courage to act on it." 
Judge Hastie received an honorary Doctor 
of Laws degree. 

Alfred L. Hawkes, executive director 
of the Rhode Island Audubon Society since 
1959, is a leading champion of wildlife and 
ecology in the state. A graduate of the Uni- 
versity of Massachusetts, he was an in- 
structor in biology at Rhode Island College 
in 1954-55, then became a demonstration 
teacher and education specialist for the 
Audubon Society. "In an era when the 
quality of life finally is a national issue, you 
are fighter, watchdog, teacher, scholar, con- 
servationist, and eloquent spokesman for all 
of the causes that may yet preserve this 
planet." Mr. Hawkes received an honorary 
Doctor of Science degree. 

Constance B. Motley, U. S. District 
Court Judge for the Southern District of 
New York since 1966, was the first woman 
to be elected borough president in Manhat- 
tan, serving from 1965 to 1966. Judge Mot- 
ley also served on the New York State 
Senate and was chief counsel for James 
Meredith in his fight to enter the Univer- 
sity of Mississippi. From October, 1961, to 
December, 1964, Mrs. Motley argued ten 
civil rights cases in the United States Su- 



preme Court and won nine of them. "We 
honor you for all your splendid achieve- 
ments as attorney, political leader, judge, 
wife, mother, and outstanding woman." 
Judge Motley received an honorary Doctor 
of Laws degree. 

Otto E. Neugebauer, professor emeritus 
at Brown and chairman of the history of 
mathematics department from 1947 to 1969, 
is a scholar of ancient mathematics and 
astronomy. Born in Innsbruck, Austria, he 
earned an international reputation by de- 
ciphering previously incomprehensible 
cuneiform texts. Since 1954, he has also been 
associated with the School of Historical 
Studies and the School of Mathematics at 
Princeton. "We recognize the leading role — 
frequently that of the pioneer entering an 
uncharted wilderness — that you have played 
in advancing our knowledge of the mathe- 
matics and astronomy of antiquity and 
the Middle Ages." Professor Neugebauer re- 
ceived an honorary Doctor of Science de- 
gree. 

Georgia O'Keeffe is an American artist 
whose works hang in over 40 museums. A 
resident of Abiquiu, New Mexico, she be- 
gan her career as a commercial artist in 
Chicago in 1909. Following a position as 
head of the art department at the West 
Texas State Normal College from 1916 to 
1918, she has confined her activities to 



painting. "The galleries of distinguished 
museums from coast to coast are graced 
with your legacy of barns, roads, flowers, 
shells, bones, and clouds. Your tightly- 
structured unsentimental paintings speak to 
us of strength, truth, and insights." Miss 
O'Keeffe received an honorary Doctor of 
Fine Arts degree. 

Roy Pearson, president of Andover New- 
ton Theological School since 1965, served 
several pastorates around New England be- 
fore going to Andover Newton as a lecturer 
in 1951. For several years he was regular 
preacher on the Boston radio program, 
"This I Know." He has served as chairman 
of the Congregational Christian Council of 
Theological Schools and as an Army chap- 
lain. "As lecturer, dean, and now president 
of Andover Newton Theological School, and 
in your many assignments for the United 
Church of Christ, you have worked tire- 
lessly to preserve the strengths and increase 
the flexibility of our religious institutions." 
Dr. Pearson received an honorary Doctor of 
Theology degree. 

James A. Shannon, M.D., former di- 
rector of the National Institutes of Health 
(NIH), has been a professor and special as- 
sistant to the president at The Rockefeller 
University in New York since 1970. He is a 
prominent medical investigator and has 
served as chairman of the Malaria Study 



Judge Constance Baker Motley receives an honorary degree from President Hornig. 




Section of the NIH and as director of the 
Squibb Institute for Medical Research. 
"Under your wise guidance the National In- 
stitutes of Health grew and flowered. 
Through the program you built and admin- 
istered, man has made more progress dur- 
ing the past quarter century in gaining the 
knowledge he needed in his battle against 
disease than in all of the previous cen- 
turies." Dr. Shannon received an honorary 
Doctor of Laws degree. 

Irwin W. Sizer '31 is dean of the grad- 
uate school and professor of biochemistry 
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technol- 
ogy. He received his Ph.D. from Rutgers in 
1935. Dr. Sizer's research has been con- 
cerned with enzymes. "Under your inspired 
leadership . . . you brought to MIT many 
of the outstanding biological scientists in 
the world, and your institute became a 
world-renowned center for scholarship in 
molecular biology." Dr. Sizer received an 
honorary Doctor of Science degree. 

I. F. Stone, journalist and author, has 
edited 7. F. Stone's Weekly from Washing- 
ton since 1953. The Weekly immediately 
distinguished itself for its biting criticism 
of McCarthyism, then in its heyday, leading 
historian Henry Steele to refer to Mr. Stone 
as "a modern Tom Paine." Mr. Stone is also 
the author of a number of books, the latest 
of which is entitled The Killings at Kent 
State (How Murder Went Unpunished). 
"Your Bi-Weekly has become an institution 
— loved by many, hated by some, but un- 
known to only a few. Your viewpoints are 
often a primer for other correspondents 
who have lost their way. Your many books 
have made you one of the most prolific of 
the Washington press corps. Peace has long 
been your preoccupation, injustice and hy- 
pocrisy your worst enemies." Mr. Stone re- 
ceived an honorary Doctor of Letters de- 
gree. 

A drastic drop in alumni 
reunion attendance 

"Better than ever" is the phrase usually 
given to alumni reunions. The reunions at 
Brown this year were great fun, but there 
was one disappointing side to them: alumni 
attendance was down drastically — close to 
50 percent, according to David J. Zucconi, 
associate alumni executive officer. 

"There were probably three reasons 
for the drop-off in attendance," says Zuc- 
coni. "There are alumni of all colleges. 
Brown included, who have been somewhat 
disenchanted with the college scene in re- 
cent years. On top of that came last spring's 
student strike at Brown and the resulting 
negative publicity. Many of our alumni felt 
that they might run into more of the same 
this spring and just didn't make plans to 
come back. 

"Also, the fact that we didn't have a 
25th Reunion this year (a 1944-45-46 25th 



was held a year ago) probably lost us about 
300 people, including wives. Then, too, gen- 
eral economic conditions in the country had 
to be a factor, especially for the younger 
classes. 

"Those alumni who did return to Brown 
were extremely pleased with the four-day 
program. It's my hope that they will spread 
the word and that alumni attendance will be 
back to normal by 1972." 

The Alumni Dinner provides an excel- 
lent example of the drop-off in attendance 
this June. In its peak years, this affair has 
attracted 1,100 alumni and guests. This year 
the attendance was about 650. 

However, the Alumni Dinner was the 
occasion for one of the highlights of the 
weekend — the announcement by the Class 
of 1921 that its 50-year gift to the Univer- 
sity was $517,000, a new record. A talk by 
President Hornig and the traditional presen- 
tation of Brown Bear Awards also featured 
this event. 

A year ago the Campus Dance was 
dropped by the senior class, creating some- 
thing of an uproar from alumni. This year 
the dance was back, sponsored by the Asso- 
ciated Alumni, and supervised by former 
hockey coach Jim Fullerton. 

All the trimmings were there: the 
dance band in front of UH, the rock band 
(it used to be a jazz band) in Sayles Hall, 
the senior sing on the steps of Sayles. It 
was a delightful event and once again 
seems to have a permanent place on the 
reunion agenda. 

Not so long ago returning alumni had 
no fixed programs to attend on Saturday. 
Then the Alumni Field Day was added in 
1958, the Pops Concert in 1965, and, in 
1970, panel discussions Saturday morning 
between alumni, students, faculty, and ad- 
ministration. The panels, which were an off- 
shoot of the student strike, were so popu- 
lar last year that they were scheduled again, 
drawing large and enthusiastic audiences. 
The topics included criminal justice in 
America, University governance, student 
life-styles, and the future of Brown's medi- 
cal program. 

The Alumni Field Day Saturday after- 
noon was a colorful, and tuneful, affair. In 
addition to Ed Drew's Old Timers and their 
ragtime music, the Field Day featured this 
year the Brown Orchestra, 60 pieces strong. 
One of the features of Field Day is the 
annual Old Timers baseball game, pitting 
the odd-year classes against the evens. 
Twenty-five players participated, including 
Trustee Vern Alden and his brother, Don, 
and Trustee Jay Fidler. Lou Sigloch '40, one 
of Brown's finest catchers, was behind the 
plate again, and Walt Jusczyk '41 struck 



A study in concentration: Senior 
Fellow John Nicholas Brown and former 
Fellow and Trustee Claude R. Branch '07. 




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out the side in his one inning on the mound. 
The odds prevailed, 5-2. 

In the annual rugby game, the alumni 
poured it to the undergraduates, 34-12. Two 
alumni, Dave Deutsch '66 and Reg Marden 
'69, each had three tries for the winners. 
Dave Zucconi '55 raced 30 yards for an ad- 
ditional try. 

In the past seven years, the Commence- 
ment Pops Concert, sponsored by the Brown 
Club of Rhode Island and the Pembroke 
College Club of Providence, has proved to 
be one of the University's most popular so- 
cial events. This year was no exception, as 
singer John Gary entertained an audience 
of 2,400 alumni, alumnae, and friends of 
the University. He was ably backed by the 
Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra, con- 
ducted by Francis Madeira. 

There were other highlights to reunion 
weekend. Some were personal, such as Mor- 
ton S. Grossman '48 serving as class mar- 
shal the year his son and daughter (twins) 
were graduated. And some were poignant, 
such as ten alumni from the Class of 1906 
holding their "final reunion" after 65 years 
of devoted service to Brown. 

An energetic man for an 
energy-consuming job 

Dr. Thomas F. Banchoff was recently 
described by one of his colleagues as a man 
with "a tremendous amount of energy." No 
doubt he will need every particle of it in his 
new job. Dr. Banchoff, an associate profes- 
sor of mathematics, was recently appointed 
acting dean of student affairs under the re- 
structured administrative alignment brought 
about by the merger of Brown and Pem- 
broke. 

The staff of the student affairs office 
will include William A. Brown, associate 
dean, and Mrs. Anne S. Dewart and James 
S. Dougherty, assistant deans. Under the 
old administrative structure there was a 
dean of The College for undergraduate men 
and a dean of Pembroke. Both Dr. F. Donald 
Eckelmann, dean of The College, and Dr. 
Rosemary Pierrel, dean of Pembroke, re- 
signed to return to teaching on a full-time 
basis. 

Dr. Banchoff plans to continue to teach 
at least one course in his principal field of 
geometry and to lecture in a freshman sem- 
inar during his deanship. He is currently 
teaching courses in the transitional program 
for educationally disadvantaged students 
who will enter Brown in September. 

Recently, Dr. Banchoff returned from a 
mathematics conference supported by the 
National Science Foundation at the Univer- 
sity of Missouri-Rolla, where he was a sen- 
ior lecturer. Later this summer, he is 
scheduled to participate in an international 
symposium in Brazil. 



He received his bachelor's degree from 
the University of Notre Dame in 1960, and 
his Ph.D. from the University of California 
at Berkeley in 1964. He was a Benjamin 
Peirce instructor at Harvard University in 
1964-66 and research associate under a Ful- 
bright travel grant at the University of 
Amsterdam in 1966-67. He also has been 
awarded Woodrow Wilson and Danforth 
Fellowships. 

Dr. Banchoff joined the Brown faculty 
in 1967 as an assistant professor and was 
made associate professor in 1970. Especially 
active on the campus, he is chairman of the 
faculty committee on the transitional pro- 
gram, member of the faculty committee on 
governance of the University, member of 
the University housing committee, fresh- 
man-sophomore counselor, associate resi- 
dent fellow, secretary of the Brown chapter 
of the American Association of University 
Professors, secretary of the Rhode Island 
conference of AAUP chapters, and Dan- 
forth Fellow liaison officer. 

His research at Brown includes joint 
work with Professor Charles Strauss of the 
Division of Applied Mathematics on com- 
puter-animated geometry films. He contin- 
ues to do research in geometry with support 
from the National Science Foundation. 

He is the author of a dozen papers, 
mainly in the geometry of polyhedra and 
has done editorial consulting for mathemat- 
ics textbooks for three publishing compa- 
nies. 

In 1970 students selected Dean Ban- 
choff as one of Brown's excellent teach- 
ers, commenting in the yearbook: ". . . his 
educational interests reach beyond math, 
and Brown has given him the opportunity 

Tom Banchoff: most of nil, 
he enjoys meeting people. 




to work with the faculty of other depart- 
ments — both in a teaching capacity and in 
committee work. What Professor Banchoff 
values most about Brown ... is its size, 
which affords him the opportunity to do 
what he enjoys most — just meeting people." 

The Corporation elects two 
fellows, six trustees 

At its regular meeting during Com- 
mencement weekend, the Corporation 
elected two new fellows and six new trus- 
tees. The fellows are Vernon R. Alden '45, 
Brookline, Mass., and Bancroft Littlefield 
'34 of Providence. The new trustees are 
Paul G. Benedum, Jr. '54, Pittsburgh and 
Naples, Fla.; Michael A. Gammino, Jr. '45, 
Providence; Dr. Augustus A. White, III '57, 
West Haven, Conn.; Sophie Schaffer Blis- 
tein '41, Providence; Knight Edwards '45, 
Providence; and Elliot E. Maxwell '68, Am- 
herst, Mass. The latter three were nomi- 
nated by alumni of the University. 

In the original announcement of the 
new trustees at the Alumni Dinner during 
Commencement weekend and in the Uni- 
versity's news release. Maxwell was listed 
as a new alumni trustee. A few days after 
Commencement, an error in recording of 
the voting totals was discovered, indicating 
that the nominee of the alumni should have 
been Frederick Bloom '40, of Boston. Upon 
hearing of the error, Maxwell, who had 
not yet been sworn in, wrote John Nicholas 
Brown, secretary of the Corporation, asking 
that his name be withdrawn. In his gra- 
cious letter. Maxwell said that he was 
deeply honored by his nomination and 
pledged his continuing support to Brown. 
Bloom's name will be presented to the Cor- 
poration at its October meeting. 

The two new fellows have both been 
serving the University as trustees. Alden is 
chairman of the board of The Boston Com- 
pany, a holding company consisting of 18 
self-sustaining, mutually reinforcing organ- 
izations which manage the resources of in- 
stitutions and individuals. He was presi- 
dent of Ohio University from 1962 to 1969 
and, prior to that, had been associate dean 
of the Harvard Business School. He has 
been a member of the Corporation's Ad- 
visory and Executive Committee. 

Littlefield, a partner in the Providence 
law firm of Edwards and Angell, has been a 
trustee since 1966, serving as chairman of 
the bequest and deferred giving committee 
and for the past four years on the A&E 
Committee. Highly active in community 
affairs, he is chairman of the Rhode Island 
Commission for Higher Educational Facili- 
ties. 

Benedum is executive assistant presi- 
dent of Benedum Interests. He previously 
was vice president of Hiawatha Oil and 
Gas Co. He has been an active worker in 



Brown development and as president of the 
Southwest Florida Brown-Pembroke Club. 

Gammino is president and chief execu- 
tive officer of the Columbus National Bank 
of Providence. He also has held various 
administrative and financial positions with 
the M. A. Gammino Construction Co. and 
the Gammino Realty Co. 

Dr. White is a member of the faculty in 
orthopedic surgery at Yale's School of 
Medicine. A graduate of Stanford's medical 
school, he was president of the student 
body there in his senior year. A year ago 
he was named by the U. S. Junior Chamber 
of Commerce as one of the Ten Outstand- 
ing Young Men in the country. 

Mrs. Blistein, the wife of English Pro- 
fessor Elmer Blistein, is an adoption case 
worker with Children's Friend and Service 
in Providence. She is immediate past presi- 
dent of the Pembroke College Alumnae As- 
sociation and served on the Pembroke Study 
Committee. Long active in alumnae affairs, 
she was alumnae chairman for Pembroke's 
75th Anniversary Committee in 1965-67; 
chairman of the study committee for alum- 
nae trustees in 1964-65; and chairman of 
the Alumnae Association Study Committee 
from 1958 to 1964. 

Edwards, also a partner in the law firm 
of Edwards and Angell, is active in civic 
affairs and in alumni affairs, having served 
as a director of the Associated Alumni and 
of the Brown Club of Rhode Island. He has 
been an associate resident fellow at the 
University since 1965. 

Bloom is vice president of Two-Ten 
Associates, a national philanthropic founda- 
tion in Boston. He has served as president 
of the Boston Brown Club, director of the 
Associated Alumni, national chairman 
of the Alumni Schools Program, and is now 
captain of the Special Gifts Committee of 
the Program for the Seventies. 

Associated Alumni elect 
treasurer, regional directors 

A certified public accountant from 
Cheshire, Conn., and an automobile dealer 
from Providence were elected to key Uni- 
versity posts as a result of voting by the 
alumni this spring. 

Ralph R. Crosby, Jr., '52 is the new 
treasurer of the Associated Alumni, replac- 
ing Robert H. Goff, Jr. '57, whose term 
expired in June. Crosby is partner in charge 
of the New Haven office of Lybrand, Ross 
Bros. & Montgomery, an international firm 
of public accountants. 

As an undergraduate, Crosby was 
president of the Cammarian Club, presi- 
dent of Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity, and 
secretary of his class. 

He has remained equally active during 
his alumni years. The record shows three 
years as head class agent, membership on 



the Associated Alumni board, and officer of 
Brown Clubs in Pittsburgh and Hartford. 
Currently, he's treasurer of the New Haven 
Brown Club. 

Crosby is part of a Brown family. His 
father, Ralph, is a prominent member of the 
Class of 1926 and his wife is the former 
Joan Hastings P'52. 

Louis J. Regine '48 won election to the 
University's Athletic Advisory Council. He 
replaces the late William T. Broomhead '35, 
who died Jan. 9. Regine is president of 
Regine Pontiac, Inc., one of Rhode Island's 
largest car dealers. 

An All-State football center at La Salle 
Academy in Providence, Regine entered 
Brown with the Class of 1945. He earned 
honorable mention AU-American in 1942 
and completed his football career in 1946 
and 1947 following service with the Armed 
Forces during World War II. He was cap- 
tain of the 1947 team coached by Rip Engle. 

An active alumnus, Regine is chairman 
of the Parents and Friends Committee in 
the Program for the Seventies. He's also a 
director of the Brown Club of Rhode Island 
and a member of the Brown Football Asso- 
ciation and the Friends of Brown Basket- 
ball. 

Regine married the former Elaine 
Laudati P'45. Their son. Chip, is a member 
of the Class of 1973 and last fall was start- 
ing split end on the varsity football team. 

In other balloting, seven Regional Di- 
rectors of the Associated Alumni were 
elected. Each man will serve a two-year 
term. Those elected are: 

Rhode Island — E. Colby Cameron '63 
of Warwick, an attorney with the Provi- 
dence law firm of Edwards & Angell. New 
England — Arthur M. Love, Jr. '56 of 
Wellesley, Mass., a sales representative 
with George H. Dean & Co., Boston print- 
ing firm. 

North Atlantic Midland Region — 
Gerald H. Markowitz '53 of White Plains, 
N.Y., an attorney and past president of the 
Brown Club of Westchester County. South 
Atlantic Midland — Robert W. Goodwin '52 
of Jacksonville, Fla., executive vice-presi- 
dent of Insurance Management Service and 
president of the Brown Club of North 
Florida. 

North Central Region — Thomas F. . 
Jones '55 of Winnetka, 111., vice-president 
of Harris Trust and Savings Bank of Chi- 
cago and president of the Brown Club of 
Chicago. South Central Region — Dr. Robert 
J. Kramer '54 of Dallas, where he is presi- 
dent of the Brown Club of Dallas. Western 
Region — Dana G. Leavitt '48 of Orinda, 
Calif., president of Transamerica Title In- 
surance Co. 



For the first time, a woman 
wins an Arnold Fellowship 

"Wanted: graduating senior to study 
topic of own choosing during a year of for- 
eign travel. Remuneration, $5,000." 

In the past, such an ad for Brown's 
prestigious Samuel T. Arnold Fellowship 
might also have included the phrase, "no 
women need apply." This year, however, 
the barriers tumbled when Barbara J. Reis- 
man of Silver Spring, Md., became the first 
woman student to win one of the coveted 
Arnold Fellowships. Miss Reisman will use 
her grant to study government-sponsored 
or sanctioned child-care centers in France, 
Sweden, the Soviet Union, and Israel. She 
intends to examine these centers "to try to 
understand how they function in the con- 
text of their own societies, and to try to in- 
corporate this understanding into a pro- 
posal for child care in the United States." 

Miss Reisman, who recently was initi- 
ated into Phi Beta Kappa, believes that 
women should not be tied by necessity to 
the home. She hopes to research the his- 
torical and ideological origins of the centers 
she visits as well as their day-to-day opera- 
tions. 

During her four years at Brown, Miss 
Reisman was a member of a number of 
organizations, including the Cammarian 
Club, the Pembroke Study Committee, and 
a University committee to study science 
research funding. She also was active in 
planning a series of forums on women in 
society and she participated in "the usual 
anti-war activities." Miss Reisman's human 
studies concentration was entitled "The 
impact of scientific thought and technologi- 

Barbara Reisman: studying 
child care centers. 




cal development on man's self-image." 

The other three Arnold Fellows for 
1970-71 are: Andrew L. Arnault, David A. 
Bearman, and David W. Bloom. The fellow- 
ships were established by Thomas J. Wat- 
son, Jr., '37, chairman of the board and 
chief executive officer of IBM and a member 
of the University's Board of Fellows, in 
memory of the late Samuel T. Arnold, dean 
at Brown from 1929 to 1949 and later 
provost of the University. 

The Class of '21 breaks 
a record — and how! 

Under the picture of Harold Stanton 
Smith in the 1921 Liber it says, "When at 
any time in our hectic four years as under- 
graduates we had to elect any committee, 
and that committee had to have a chairman, 
it just seemed natural to let the toga rest on 
him. There isn't a job he has taken but has 
been carried through and finished tri- 
umphantly." 

In the last 50 years, things haven't 
changed very much as far as the Class of 
1921 is concerned. Just over a year ago the 
class was faced with one of its most im- 
portant jobs — raising funds for the 50- 
year gift to the University. So what hap- 
pened? H. Stanton Smith was named 
chairman of the fund-raising committee. 

The results of the efforts were an- 
nounced at the Alumni Dinner — an all-time 
record gift of more than $521,000. This 
accomplishment gains additional perspective 
when it is noted that the previous high for 
a 50-year gift was $291,000, raised in 1970 
by the Class of 1920. 

The announcement by William W. Hall, 
head class agent, drew a standing ovation 
from the 650 alumni and wives attending 
the Alumni Dinner. President Hornig, 
beaming from ear to ear, shot out of his 
chair and congratulated Hall, pumping 
his hand repeatedly. 

The impetus for this record-breaking 
gift was the Class of 1921 Scholarship Fund, 
established in 1943. This was the vehicle 
around which the class built its fund-rais- 
ing campaign. 

The half-million dollars was collected 
in a period somewhat in excess of one year. 
The total amount included gifts to the Pro- 
gram for the 70's, both restricted to indi- 
vidual items of interest and unrestricted; 
donations to the Brown University Fund, 
the Class Scholarship Fund, and to specific 
named funds such as life income. 

The extreme generosity of several 
anonymous members of the class was in- 
strumental in helping the group put the 
drive well over the top. 

In addition to Chairman Smith and 
Head Agent Hall, other members of the 
committee included Harold L. Tinker, Wil- 
liam T. Brightman, and Mars P. Bishop. 



Five facuhy and three 
staff members retire 

Five members of the faculty and three 
members of the administrative staff retired 
last month. The list includes George L. 
Church, Harold E. Clark, Stephen T. Crary, 
Christine Hathaway, John M. Heffernan, 
Hunter Kellenberger, Robert W. Kenny, and 
W. Freeman Twaddell. 

Dr. Church was appointed to the 
Brown faculty in 1928, having earned a 
B.S. from the University of Massachusetts 
and A.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard. 
During his 43-year association with the 
college. Dr. Church served as Stephen T. 
Olney Professor of Natural History, curator 
of the University Herbarium, and as chair- 
man of the department of botany from 
1958 to 1966. His son, Robert, is a member 
of the Class of '59. 

Harold E. Clark was graduated from 
Colby College in 1928 and received his 
B.L.S. from Columbia in 1933. He came to 
Brown in 1946 as a cataloger, was promoted 
to head of the order department in 1948, 
and had served as chief order librarian 
since 1963. 

Stephen T. Crary joined the faculty in 
1957 as an associate professor in the re- 
ligious studies department. He was chair- 
man of the department from 1957 to 1964 
and was appointed a professor in 1959. 
Dr. Crary holds the B.A. and Ph.D. degrees 
from Yale, where, while earning his gradu- 
ate degree, he became a Kent Fellow. He 
earned a B.D. degree in 1939 from Union 
Theological Seminary. Professor Crary came 
to Brown from Smith College, where he had 
served as associate professor and chaplain. 

Singer John Gary was the featured soloist 
for the 7th Annual Pops Concert which 
drew 2,400 persons to the College Green. 




Mrs. Hathaway had been at Brown 47 
years, arriving as a typist and retiring as 
special collections librarian, one of the key 
posts in the University's library system. 
During her 47 years at Brown, Mrs. Hath- 
away served as secretary to three head li- 
brarians — Harry L. Koopman, Henry B. Van 
Hoesen, and David A. Jonah. Because of 
the special interest she took in the archives 
and history of the University, President 
Wriston once described her as a person 
who had "made a life beyond a living." 
John M. "Jack" Heffernan '28 came 
back to Brown in 1949 as director of physi- 
cal education and coach of freshman foot- 
ball, basketball, and baseball. He was 
named interim director of athletics in June 
of 1968 and director of athletics in No- 
vember of the same year. 

A native of Lynn, Mass., Heffernan 
won letters in baseball and basketball at 
Brown, serving as captain of the hoop 
team his junior and senior seasons. He was 
a teacher-coach at Troy Conference Acad- 
emy in Poultney, Vt., and director of ath- 
letics and coach at Green Mountain (Vt.) 
College. 

After World War II, Heffernan served 
as athletic director and head football coach 
at Norwich University before joining the 
Brown staff. During his Brown years, Hef- 
fernan served as president of the National 
Intramural Association and received that 
organization's Honors Award in 1965. 
Hunter Kellenberger, professor of 
French, had been a member of the faculty 
since 1938. He received his A.B. from 
Kenyon College in 1925 and his M.A. and 
Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University in 
1928 and 1931. While at Brown he served 
as chairman of the division of modern 
languages from 1946 to 1960, when the di- 
vision was expanded into five separate de- 
partments. He was then named chairman 
of the department of French (1960-64) and 
chairman of the new council on languages 
and literature (1960-63), a coordinating 
body among several departments. 

Professor Kellenberger specialized in 
French stylistics and 17th and 18th century 
literature. He is the author of one book 
and numerous articles in his field. At 
Brown, he was promoted to associate pro- 
fessor in 1945 and professor in 1947. 

Dr. Robert "Pat" Kenny was graduated 
from Brown in 1925, earning his M.A. here 
in 1926 and his Ph.D. in 1933. He was a 
member of the English department from 
1928 to 1941, when he entered the service 
as captain in the 43rd Infantry Division. 
Pat participated in four campaigns in the 
Pacific Theater and rose to the rank of 
lieutenant-colonel. 

Returning to Brown in 1946, he became 
professor of English in 1950. In the late 
1940's he served as dean of students and 
then dean of the College. After the death of 



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Nancy Duke Lewis and prior to the ap- 
pointment of Rosemary Pierrel, Dr. Kenny 
served as dean of Pembroke. 

W. Freeman Twaddell, professor of 
linguistics and German and an authority 
in the field of language study, has been a 
member of the Brown faculty since 1946. 
Since 1960, when the 19-year-old division 
of modern languages was expanded into 
five separate departments, he had been 
chairman of the department of linguistics 
and a member of the languages and litera- 
tures council. 

A 1926 graduate of Duke, Professor 
Twaddell earned the M.A. degree in 1927 
and the Ph.D. degree in 1930, both at 
Harvard. He was chairman of the German 
department at the University of Wisconsin 
prior to coming to Brown. In 1954-55 he 
was a Fulbright lecturer at Ain Shaims Uni- 
versity in Egypt. He returned to the United 
Arab Republic several times under a Rocke- 
feller Foundation program to improve the 
country's methods of teaching English. He 
has been a consultant to the U.S. Office of 
Education on the Language Development 
Program and a member of the advisory 
board of the Center for Applied Linguistics 
in Washington, D.C. 

The 25th Reunion Gift Fund — 
very much alive again 

In these days of loudly-proclaimed dis- 
affection with the college of their choice on 
the part of many students, it might be hard 
to believe that a group of Brown seniors 
spent a sizable amount of their spare time 
during their last semester on the Hill rais- 
ing money for the University. 

Yet that is exactly what they did. 
What's more, they did it so well that, with 
prudent investment, the 25th Reunion Gift 
Fund of the Class of 1971 will be in excess 
of $300,000. 

The idea for a 25th Reunion Fund origi- 
nated with the Class of 1959. "The idea 
was a simple one," Richard J. Ramsden, a 
member of the class, wrote in the BAM 
two years ago. "By having each member 
of a graduating class contribute $10 a year 
for 25 years to a fund which would be in- 
vested in mutual funds, it was hoped that 
we could accumulate a significant gift for 
the University at the time of our 25th re- 
union. ... A considerable effort also was 
made to encourage the classes which fol- 
lowed 1959 to adopt such a program. In 
this manner we hoped to establish a tradi- 
tion of vigorous and significant 25th reun- 
ion giving at Brown." 

As a matter of fact, the class did start 
such a tradition. Every class since 1959, 
with one exception, has campaigned for a 
25th reunion gift, and some of the figures 
are pretty impressive. 1959, for instance, 
has pledges (as of this past March 31) to- 



taling $100,524. Four hundred thr^e mem- 
bers of the class (66.2%) have made 
pledges. The Class of 1960 had, until this 
year, the largest pledge: $109,591 from 405 
members. No class through 1968 has pledged 
less than $82,000. 

The last two years, the plan ran 
into trouble. The class officers of 1969 
nixed the idea of a campaign; the 1970 
drive ran smack into the student strike of 
that spring, and only $33,577 was pledged 
by 133 members (23.9%). 

Given the problems of the past two 
years, the officers of the Class of 1971 
weren't sure what to expect this year. Class 
president Michael A. Rubel appointed Alan 
Reider, Providence, and Joanna Burstein, 
Narberth, Pa., co-chairmen of the steering 
committee of 1971's 25th Reunion Fund. 
The vice chairmen were Marcia Allara, 
Stamford, Conn., Louis Grossman, Brook- 
line, Mass., Eli Hirshfeld, New York City, 
Stephen Littell, Bronxville, N.Y., Jean Lu- 
ther, East Greenwich, R.I., William Soriano, 
Bloomfield, N.J., and Clark Williams, Mem- 
phis, Tenn. 

The campaign got underway at the be- 
ginning of the second semester. In a letter 
to the class, Mike Rubel wrote that Brown, 
"for all its liabilities and despite our not 
infrequent complaints, has been a reward- 
ing experience." He reminded his classmates 
that 30% of their education was financed 
by sources other than tuition, one of those 
sources being the 25th Reunion Class Gift. 
The class committee had decided, he said, 
to invest the gifts received in Vantage Ten- 
Ninety Fund, Inc., a diversified, open-end 
mutual fund, and he urged his classmates 
to "participate in the tradition of Brown 
men and women who recognize their debt 
to the past and their obligation to future 
generations." 

The campaign workers spent the month 
of March in personal contact, complicated 
by the fact that about one-half of the 
class lived off-campus this past year. The 
campaign closed after three evenings of 
phonothons during the reading period in 
May. 

When all the figures were in, 766 sen- 
iors (81% of the starting list of 940 fur- 
nished by the registrar's office) had been 
contacted. Two hundred twenty-nine (23%) 
refused to make a pledge. But 484 (52%) 
pledged a total of $123,075, the largest 
pledge yet. 

There is a footnote to the story. The 
University's development office knows a 
good man when it sees one. Al Reider has 
been tapped as 1971's head class agent. 



Brown Bear Award winners — 
Brown, Burton, Weisbecker 

The coveted Brown Bear Award was 
presented last month to three alumni who 
have been active and enthusiastic workers 
for the University for many years. 

As part of the annual Alumni Dinner 
program, Associated Alumni President 
Richard J. Tracy '46 presented the highest 
honor given by this alumni organization to 
Harry F. Burton '16, F. Abbott Brown '26, 
and Charles Weisbecker, III '41. 

In making the presentations, Tracy was 
performing his final act after two years as 
president of the Associated Alumni. Later 
in the meeting he turned the gavel over to 
his successor, Robert G. Berry '44 of New 
York. 

Burton has served Brown as trustee, 
chairman of the Brown University Fund, 
director of the Associated Alumni, vice- 
chairman for Southeastern New England, of 
the Fund for Medical Education, and as a 
member of the building committee for 
Meehan Auditorium. 

He was civilian aide for Rhode Island 
to the Secretary of the Army during the 
Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson Admin- 
istrations. Burton is vice-president and 
trustee of Rhode Island Hospital and a di- 
rector of the Rhode Island Blue Cross. He 
served as chief marshal in the Commence- 
ment Procession in 1966. A former presi- 
dent of the Lonsdale Company, he is also 
former vice-president, director, and commit- 
tee member of Textron, Inc. 

As an undergraduate, Abby Brown be- 
came imbued with the spirit and tradition 
of Brown University. He has served as 
president and secretary of the Brown Club 
of Chicago, vice-president of the Associated 
Alumni, leader in Alumni Fund and Devel- 
opment Fund campaigns, and as "Mr. 
Brown" in Chicago for many years. 

Brown pioneered the Ivy League Golf 
Tournament in Chicago and, in recent 
years, the Ivy League Curling Bonspiel. 
His two children became a son and daugh- 
ter of the University. 

Charlie Weisbecker has been one of the 
University's most effective workers in the 
Alumni Secondary Schools Program. While 
living in Atlanta, Ga., he was responsible 
for increasing the "succession of men" on 
campus from Greater Atlanta from three to 
28. 

This has been the story no matter 
where his duties take him as an executive 
with Ford Motor Co. He has served the 
University as president of the Brown Club 
of Philadelphia, Alumni Schools Chairman 
in Jacksonville and in Detroit, as regional 
vice-president of the Associated Alumni, 
and as a member of the National Steering 
Committee of the Alumni Schools Program. 



11 



The debate about 
"the male-female mix" 

There never was an issue on which so 
many people agreed in principle but dis- 
agreed in practice. The principle: women 
should be admitted to Brown on an equal 
basis with men. The practice: but not yet. 
The "male-female" mix debate intensified 
during the spring as the official date for the 
merger drew near and has been the subject 
of several stirring exchanges: 

"Education at Brown will remain un- 
satisfactory for women until an equal num- 
ber of men and women are enrolled here" — 
Laura Geller '71, senior orator. 

"This idea needs more study. We do not 
know all the implications. We don't know 
what the housing requirements would be. 
We don't know the effect on financial sup- 
port of the University. We simply cannot 
undertake new commitments without know- 
ing all the financial implications" — Robert 
A. Reichley, associate vice president for 
University relations. 

The long-range obstacles to admitting 
equal numbers of men and women un- 
dergraduates center around two factors: 
Brown's commitment to the sciences and 
the possible financial consequences of a 
one-to-one ratio. Those who say "not in 
the near future" to demands for an equal 
ratio point to the proportionately smaller 
size of the Pembroke applicant pool and the 
relative lack of experience in recruiting 
women. 

At this stage of guesswork, the most 
serious problem appears to be the implica- 
tions for Brown's science program. There 
is a strong commitment to existing faculty 
and facilities in traditionally male-domi- 
nated fields such as engineering and phys- 
ics. Although there is a faction on campus 
which considers the high science priority to 
be misguided in this day of vanishing fed- 
eral support, there are few who would want 
Brown to admit a class of all male science 
concentrators and all female humanities 
students. 

The obvious solution — to recruit more 
women who wish to study science — is easier 
said than done. If women were encouraged 
to become scientists, more of them un- 
doubtedly would do so. There is, however, 
apprehension that a special recruiting cam- 
paign in this direction might generate 
"phony" applications — that is, women ap- 
plicants would declare an intention to con- 
centrate in science merely because it would 
improve their chances of acceptance. Prob- 
ably there is already some incidence of this 
among male applicants. And there are also 
many declared science concentrators who 
simply change their minds after they enroll 
and migrate into the social sciences or hu- 
manities. When newspapers are full of stor- 
ies about the legions of unemployed engi- 



neers and physicists, it does not encourage 
anyone — male or female — to aspire in that 
direction. 

Aside from the problem of filling the 
science quota, the other long-range objec- 
tion to admitting a much higher number of 
women is the question of financial support. 
Studies have shown that women do not 
contribute as much to their alma mater as 
men. This has been the pattern at Brown 
and Pembroke as well, and in light of the 
University's financial situation, it is some- 
thing to be considered. However, as several 
administrators have pointed out, the winds 
of change are already rustling and it is 
dangerous to generalize about future giving 
patterns from what has happened in the 
past. 

A sub-committee report of the Com- 
mittee on Admissions and Financial Aid 
had this to say about financial support: 
"The question of aluirmi vs. alumnae giving 
is a real issue only so long as women do not 
assert their rights within a marriage to 
equal distribution of the wealth including 
the part allocated to gifts to colleges of 
their choice." 

The strongly worded sub-committee re- 
port, which has not yet been acted upon, 
recommends that Brown commit itself to 
working toward a 50-50 male-female ratio. 
The report urges the University to set an 
example of social justice and to reject poli- 
cies which are wasteful of the human re- 
sources of half of the population. 

Other areas of concern to the admin- 
istration include possible alumni sentiment 
to keep Brown mostly male. The strength 
of such sentiment will probably depend in 
part on whether an increase in women stu- 
dents would have to mean a decrease in the 
number of men admitted. At this point, the 
University's projected enrollment increase is 
not certain, because of unsettled problems 
regarding student housing. 

Whatever the difficulties involved in ad- 
mitting equal numbers of men and women, 
there is an active lobby — including male 
and female students — in favor of it. A 
group of students have formed themselves 
into an ad hoc committee which is working 
over the summer to present some specific 
proposals regarding admissions literature, 
the male-female composition of the admis- 
sion office staff, and special recruiting pro- 
grams for women. 

At the present time, there is no an- 
nounced policy, one way or another, about 
how the merged admission office will deter- 
mine the male-female student ratio. It is 
probable, however, that some action will 
be taken in the fall, when the issue is slated 
to come before the faculty and the Corpora- 
tion. 



Jim Rogers will head the 
combined admission office 

The director of the University's merged 
admission office — the man who will try to 
find the answer to the equal admission 
question — was announced last month. He's 
James H. Rogers '56, who for the past two 
years has been director of admission for 
undergraduate men. His appointment as di- 
rector of the merged operation became effec- 
tive July 1. 

Rogers alluded to the equal admission 
debate in a statement at the time of his ap- 
pointment. The new admission office, he 
said, will operate on a policy of equal op- 
portunity and "will accept applicants with- 
out regard to sex, bearing in mind the Uni- 
versity's commitments in faculty and facili- 
ties." 

He also said that while the admission 
staff is composed of men and women, 
whites and blacks, humanists and scientists, 
each will perform the same functions. "Men 
will interview women applicants," he said, 
"women will interview men applicants, and 
everybody will interview blacks. Naturally, 
we have people with a certain expertise and 
we'll want to use them, but there will be no 
such regimentation as to limit who will in- 
terview men, women, blacks, debators, foot- 
ball players, or seven-foot-tall, green-haired 
piccolo players." 

Rogers said the combined admission 
office will have three assistant directors and 
seven admission officers. Two assistant di- 
rectors have already been named: Richard 
A. Nurse '61, admission officer since 1968, 
and Robert L. Girouard, admission officer 
since 1969. The third assistant director, to 
be a woman, will be named soon. 

Want to go to England? 
Here's your chance 

Want to go to England? Want to tour 
Stratford-on-Avon with your favorite pro- 
fessor? Want to do your traveling with 
fellow Brown men and women? 

If your answer to these questions is 
yes, you might envy the alumni and alum- 
nae in Rhode Island who have the opportu- 
nity to do just this in a pilot program ini- 
tiated by the Brown Club of Rhode Island 
this fall. 

On Oct. 16, the club will sponsor an 
eight-day, seven-night tour of England 
specifically designed for the busy alumnus 
who would like to get away from it all for 
a short while at a low price. 

For $299 per person, plus 10% for tax 
and service, those making the trip will en- 
joy a regularly-scheduled flight on BOAC, 
a room at a deluxe hotel, daily breakfast, 
some dinners, and a bon voyage cocktail 
party. Shakespearean Scholar and English 
Professor Elmer Blistein '42 will make the 
trip with the alumni and provide educa- 



tional — as well as anecdotal — background. 

The trip, which leaves from Logan Air- 
port, is scheduled so that alumni will have 
an opportunity to attend the Brown-Dart- 
mouth football game at the Stadium before 
departure by chartered bus for Boston. 

Working with the Brown Club of 
Rhode Island in setting up this pilot pro- 
gram is Bob Engles '40, president of Church 
Travel Agency, Providence. Handling the 
details for the club are Richard P. Clark 
'57 and David J. Zucconi '55, the latter 
working out of Alumni House. 

Future plans call for trips to Mexico 
City-Acapulco and Hawaii. It is the hope 
of University officials that other Brown 
clubs around the country will take the lead 
from the Rhode Island club and sponsor 
similar educational-holiday tours from their 
areas. 

Ann Banks promoted 

to associate editor of the BAM 

Ann Banks joined the staff of the BAM 
as assistant editor in the summer of 1969. 
Since that time, readers of the magazine 
have come to know that the initials A.B. 
at the end of an article are a good reason 
to read it. 

Ann's contributions have been as varied 
as they have been well-written: She has 
lived in a coed dorm before writing about 
it. She has interviewed members of the 
Brown community who are collectors. She 
has reported on the New Curriculum and 
examined the Group Studies Program. She 
has written about the campus clergymen 
(so well, in fact, that another alumni mag- 
azine editor lifted her lead for his story). 
For this issue, she did a series of interviews 
with young alumni who have unusual oc- 
cupations. 

It is not surprising, therefore, that Ann 
is no longer assistant editor. Effective with 
this issue, she has been promoted to asso- 
ciate editor of the BAM. 

Air Force ROTC 
graduates its last class 

Ten Brown seniors were commissioned 
lieutenants in the Air Force Reserve on 
June 7 as members of the last officer-gradu- 
ate class at the University. The Air Force 
ROTC has been phased out at Brown fol- 
lowing decisions made in the spring of 
1969. 

The June ceremonies, which were con- 
ducted in Alumnae Hall, Pembroke, were 
held jointly with the Navy ROTC, which is 
still negotiating its future on the Brown 
campus. Fourteen seniors became Navy en- 
signs. 

When the Air Force ROTC was estab- 
lished at Brown in 1951, it was one of the 
first ten such programs in the nation. 



Merger plans: the two 
student recruiting groups 

High on the priority list of organized 
alumni-alumnae activities during the past 
decade has been the sub-freshmen work 
carried on throughout the country. More 
people are actively, and enthusiastically, in- 
volved in this work than in any other 
University program. 

In the 1970-71 academic year. Brown 
sponsored 90 Alumni Schools Committees, 
numbering 1,200 workers. At the same 
time, Pembroke had 30 Student Relations 
Committees, with 200 women interviewing 
in the field. 

With the final merger of Brown and 
Pembroke, the complexion of these two 
groups will change. Vice-President Ronald 
A. Wolk had this to say on the subject: 

"Student recruiting is one area where 
the merger has an immediate and direct 
effect. This fall there will be one entering 
class, male and female. The Pembroke and 
Brown admission officers have been com- 
bined into the Brown University Admission 
Office. 

"Men and women staff members will 
be recruiting, interviewing, and evaluating 
students of both sexes. Since alumni and 
alumnae recruiting efforts are so closely 
related to the admission office, it is im- 
portant that they, too, be consolidated." 

There are several options available to 
individuals, groups, and clubs as this 
consolidation takes place. In areas where 
a Pembroke alumni schools operation has 
existed and a sufficient number of women 
have been operating, the University recom- 
mends that the Brown and Pembroke com- 
mittees be meshed and that co-chairmen 
head the combined Alumni Schools Com- 
mittee. 

In areas where a Pembroke operation 
exists but where the supply of workers is 
short, an effort will be made to contact the 
Pembroke graduates in the area. Each 
alumna will be invited to assist in the Uni- 
versity's recruiting efforts. 

There will be areas of interest to the 
University where no Pembroke operation 
exists and where little Brown help is avail- 
able. In such cases, the University plans to 
solicit the help of the alumni and alumnae 
living in the area. 

"In some areas, we may find it advis- 
able to have co-chairmen, new chairmen, 
or a woman chairman of the combined 
program," says David J. Zucconi '55, asso- 
ciate alumni executive officer. 

"One thing is basic," Zucconi adds. 
"We don't want women to be confined to 
working with sub-freshman girls and men 
dealing strictly with sub-freshman males. 
This has got to be a joint effort right down 
the line." 

Zucconi admits that the combined op- 



eration may not seem at first glance to be 
entirely compatible with recruiting of 
athletes. 

"In most cases, our athletic representa- 
tives will make the final contacts. On the 
other hand if we attract a sufficient number 
of young Pembrokers to our new program 
I can see the day when the final contact 
on certain key athletes may well be made 
by the distaff side." 

Merger plans: the BAM 
and the Pembroke Alumna 

Back in the 1950's, the line "Sent by 
the University to All Brown Men" appeared 
on the cover of this magazine. The phrase 
has long since been dropped from the cover, 
but the University has continued to send 
the BAM to "all Brown men." 

Beginning with the October issue, the 
line could be amended to read: "Sent to All 
Brown Men and Women." The Pembroke 
Alumna is being merged with the BAM, 
and the first issue in the fall will be the 
first to be sent to all graduates of Pem- 
broke. 

Although the Brown Corporation, in 
its vote to merge Pembroke with Brown, 
did not mention the alumni magazines (it 
said, rather, that such administrative func- 
tions at Pembroke as "admissions, financial 
aid, placement, housing and counseling" 
would be "combined" with those at Brown; 
and that "administrative responsibility" for 
the Pembroke Alumtm would be assigned to 
the Vice President responsible for external 
affairs), it was perhaps inevitable that the 
two magazines would be combined. 

The Board of Editors of the BAM and 
the Editorial Board of the Pembroke Alumna 
began meeting in April to talk about the 
possibilities of merger. A sub-committee 
representing both groups was appointed, 
met several times, and worked out a plan 
which has been approved by both boards 
and goes into effect with the October issue 
of the BAM. 

The two boards will be merged into 
one board, comprised of four men and four 
women, plus one person who holds only a 
graduate degree from Brown. This new 
board will have responsibility for one 
magazine which will be published for all 
alumni and alumnae of Brown University. 
The present staff of the BAM will continue 
to be the staff for the combined magazine. 

The October issue of the magazine 
will, obviously, have more to say about our 
new responsibilities. 

Until then, when we greet old and new 
reader alike . . . have a good summer. 



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Carrying 
the mail 



Letters to the editor are welcome. 
They should be on subjects of interest 
to readers of this magazine with 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 receives and may use excerpts 
from others. The magazine will not print 
unsigned letters or ones that request that 
the author's name be withheld. 



Be proud of 'a damn 
fine institution' 

Sir: After reading your article on Mark 
Donohue in a past issue of the Brown 
Alumni Monthly, I thought you might be 
interested in the attached article [about 
Donohue at the Indianapolis 500] from the 
Los Angeles Times, May 28. As a Brown 
graduate and a formula car driver (SCAA), 
I was quite happy to see Brown's name in 
the news, particularly in connection with 
automobile racing. However, while the ar- 
ticle speaks highly of Mark Donohue, it 
does not give Brown much other than the 
back of the hand. 

At a time when automobile racing is 
improving its image and popularity with 
Grand Prix-type racing and college edu- 
cated executives turned drivers, as opposed 
to the traditional image of dirt tracks, 
grease pit graduates, and a general "other 
side of the tracks" image, I feel it is time 
that Brown shake itself of its traditional 
image, namely the place where the Ivy 
League rejects end up, and allow its alumni 
to be proud of a damn fine institution. 



JOSEPH E. GRIESEDIECK, JR. 

Snn Jose, Calif. 



'66 



The article referred to is by Jim Mur- 
ray, a columnist for the Los Angeles 
Times whose column is syndicated to other 
papers several times a week. These excerpts 
give an idea of the tone of the column: 

"Brown University is where boys go 
who can't get into Yale, Harvard, Princeton, 
or Cornell. Harvard turns out the Supreme 
Court, Cornell turns out room clerks, Yale 
turns out regional vice presidents in charge 
of marketing, and Princeton turns out spies. 
No one has ever been able to figure out 
what Brown turns out. They disap- 
pear. . . ." 

In an earlier column about the 500, 
Murray had Donohue attending Cornell. 
One wonders whether, had Murray not 
corrected his error, the first sentence quoted 
above would have read, "Cornell University 
is where boys go who can't get into Yale, 
Harvard, Princeton, or Brown." 

As mentioned above, Murray writes 
several columns a week. It's difficult to 
be funny several times a week. — Editor 



An 'insane venture' which would 
change Brown's entire nature 

Sir: The article, "Where does Brown's 
medical program go from here?" in the 
May BAM accurately describes, documents 
the fantastically dangerous pathway upon 
which we and our University have em- 
barked. I particularly liked the first five 
paragraphs. In these paragraphs the "is- 
sues" were delineated. 

Paragraph five then goes on to reiterate 
that terrible law of man's nature, the law of 
the dinosaur, the law clarified by C. North- 
cote Parkinson, that everything which 
comes into being, by whatever circumstance, 
is doomed to get bigger and bigger, until it 
collapses of its own weight and sinks into 
the timeless mire. 

Paragraph five says, "on the face of it, 
the second alternative seems unthinkable. 
. . ." The second alternative would be to 
acknowledge that the marvelous good in- 
tentions (carefully documented throughout 
the rest of the article) which have led us 
into this insane venture are not sufficient 
basis for us to continue this program and 
to chuck the whole thing before it con- 
sumes the rest of the University. 

As a physician, I feel comfortably 
knowledgeable about medical education, the 
delivery of medical services, and many of 
the other issues that are being used to 
justify this misadventure. I must admit that 
up until the past year, I was enthusiastic 
about Brown's entrance into the field of 
medical education. I believed that the pro- 
gram offered some new alternatives, some 
new stimulation, that it added something 
to the scene which could be of broad value. 
I obviously no longer feel that way. 

I feel now that we are in the grips of 
a vastly unconscious process which will 
unquestionably change the entire nature of 
Brown University. Only the rich history of 
the University and its strong roots in tradi- 
tion help me to believe that something of 
genuine merit will survive this process. 

One of the images that appeals most to 
me in comprehending what we are doing to 
ourselves is that of Johns Hopkins. We are 
going to turn our liberal arts masterpiece 
into a tolerated appendage of our material- 
istic, rationalistic, scientific, and basically 
power-oriented center which will be a 
medical school. 

Medicine attracts people, like myself, 
who hunger for power. What is diabolical 
is that our society not only validates this 
but encourages it. In the grips of our god- 
less technology, we must have priest-phy- 
sicians who are true representatives of what 
we imagine to be the healing forces. I 



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merely ask yoii to conjure up your most 
negative feelings about doctors and then 
see that this is what we are now acknowl- 
edging that we wish to have as the focal 
center of our University. 

DONALD D. LATHROP '50 
Pacific Pnli^adef, Calif. 

A 'gauche anachronism' 
about 'irrelevant activities' 

Sir: Like hundreds, or I suppose thou- 
sands, of other alumni, I received a shock- 
ingly callous letter from Brown dated, in- 
credibly. May 1, 1971. Had the letter been 
written in 1951 (or even 1961) it might 
have been possible to respond to it or 
quietly drop it in the wastebasket. It seems 
incredible that any part of the University 
should be unaware of what has transpired 
in the last decade. 

This gauche anachronism begins, "Dear 
Former Athletes: I am certain you will 
agree with me that we need to continue 
an all-out effort to bring all of our varsity 
athletic teams to the forefront of the Ivy 
League." One of the things that no univer- 
sity needs "an all-out effort" to do in the 
early 1970's is to bring its varsity athletic 
teams to the forefront of anything. First, 
now as in the past, the role of athletics at 
a liberal university has nothing to do with 
being in the forefront of leagues; instead, 
athletics is an important part of the educa- 
tion of some young men and women. Sec- 
ond, it is not the business of a great uni- 
versity to recruit athletes; it is the busi- 
ness of a great university to offer athletic 
experience to young men and women who 
are admitted to the community of learning 
for their ability to benefit from and con- 
tribute to the educational process. Third, 
there are things for which "an all-out ef- 
fort" is appropriate now at any university: 
reappraising and perhaps changing its 
structure of control, perceiving ways of 
making its role as a depository of accumu- 
lated human wisdom significant and ex- 
citing to the brilliant and concerned gen- 
eration of students at hand, participating 
wisely without abandoning the principles 
of academic freedom and integrity in the 
turbulent society beyond the campus gates, 
to mention only three. 

If ever there were a communication de- 
signed to validate the irrelevance of some 
contemporary activities of universities, 
Ithisl letter of the 1st of May is it. 
ALLEN R. FERGUSON '41 
Bethesdn, Md. 



The new athletic director: 
'he'll do a great job for Brown' 

Sir: I was most interested in the letter 
signed by Lawrence R. Delhagen '58 in the 
March edition of the Monthly, because I 
think it pointed up something which is re- 
sponsible for many of our problems today. 
People issue opinions in areas in which 
they are not very well informed. 

I gather from Mr. Delhagen's letter that 
he was bucking for someone presently at 
Brown to become athletic director. I do not 
know to whom he refers, but I do think he 
shows a good feeling of loyalty to a man 
who is, perhaps, a personal friend of his. 
So far, so good. 

But I wonder what he knows about 
Andy Geiger. I know a great deal about 
him. I knew him as a small boy in Syra- 
cuse, when he went to school with my son 
David (Brown '61). For the last three or 
four years I have been a member of the 
Regatta Committee in Syracuse, which was 
run entirely by Andy Geiger, then assistant 
director of athletics at Syracuse University. 
He is a capable, personable, "on-the-ball" 
young man who will do a tremendous job 
for Brown, and who will be a worthy suc- 
cessor to Jack Heffernan. When Mr. Del- 
hagen gets to know him, and about him, he 
will agree with me. 

In the meantime. Congratulations, 
Brown! You've done it again! 
HARRY G. REMINGTON '27 
Fnnuington, Conn. 

The BAM has a mystery 
about it, too 

Sir: I enjoyed your reproduction of 
Daniel Altieri's Chinese-style painting in 
the May issue. The artist is quoted as 
having chosen to study China "because 
there's a mystery about it." He is, however, 
making things more mysterious than neces- 
sary when he attempts to copy out, in 
Chinese, the opening line of Chang Hsu's 
poem. 

The mysterious flying object, both in 
the original poem and in the supplied Eng- 
glish translation, is a mere bridge. But Al- 
tieri's own Chinese inscription boldly states 
that it is not a bridge (ch'iao) but a moun- 
tain (shnn). 

Incidentally, the left-hand side of the 
last graph in Altieri's title of the poem is 
incorrectly written. But I think your own 
proofreader, rather than the painter, may 
have to take the blame for urging us to 
look for some "indefinite forms of threes" 
in the lower half of the painting. I like to 
read the Broivn Alumni Montlily because, 
as someone once said, there's a mystery 
about it. 

MAYLON H. HEPP 39 GS 
Cranville, Ohio 



At the Ladd Observatory: 
an octant, not a sextant 

Sir: Enjoyed your article on The Ladd 
Observatory in the May Brown Alumni 
Monthly. 

During my years at the University, the 
observatory was a place that everybody 
knew about, but nobody visited. I'm sorry 
I missed it and its valuable antiques. 

However, I must take issue with your 
identification of the navigational instru- 
ment on page 24. In 1859, John Barstow 
presented the University not with a sextant, 
but an octant. The octant was an earlier 
instrument usually made of ebony, ivory 
and brass; just like the one pictured. 
KENT B. SAVEL '59 
Sharon, Mass. 



IS 




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Jacquelyn 
Mattfeld 

She won't be the 
'token woman' 



Dr. Jacquelyn A. Mattfeld's re- 
cent appointment as dean of 
academic affairs and associate provost 
at Brown was heralded by a four- 
column headline in the New York 
Times: "Woman Advances at Ivy 
League College." Rare news, indeed. 
Given the scarcity of women at the 
higher reaches of Ivy League admin- 
istration. Dr. Mattfeld's (photo, op- 
posite) new position makes her some- 
thing of a pioneer — a circumstance 
she is inclined to downplay. 

The last thing Dr. Mattfeld 
wants to be considered is a token 
woman in the administration. Before 
she accepted the position, she took 
care to satisfy herself that it was not 
being created "only as a sop to the 
Pembroke alumnae," but would en- 
tail real responsibility. That it will. 
The duties attached to the new post 
seem many and varied enough to fill 
out three people's job descriptions. 

In announcing her appointment. 
President Hornig said that Dr. Matt- 
feld will serve as "the conscience of 
the University" in matters of concern 
to women. "She will look after the 
interests of women in all departments 
of the University," the president said. 
"This includes the support of depart- 
ments in recruiting women faculty 
and the welfare of present women 
faculty. She also will work with the 
director of the extension division on 
special women's programs as well as 
oversee programs for women within 
the University." 



As dean, Mr. Hornig said. Dr. 
Mattfeld "will be the principal officer 
responsible for the development and 
operation of the curriculum, with a 
special responsibility for extra-de- 
partmental programs such as modes 
of thought courses for freshmen, 
group study courses, and University 
courses. It will also be her responsi- 
bility to keep in close touch with de- 
partment chairmen and the faculty in 
the development of departmental pro- 
grams." The president added that Dr. 
Mattfeld will be the primary admin- 
istration contact with faculty groups 
and will generally "supervise the 
dean's office, which has as its princi- 
pal responsibility the academic coun- 
seling of undergraduates." 

The protean abilities necessary 
for such a job are nearly as scarce as 
unicorns and the various search com- 
mittees looked long and hard for the 
right person. In Jacquelyn Mattfeld, 
they discovered someone whose in- 
terests and experience are an almost 
perfect match for the requirements of 
the job. 

Dr. Mattfeld comes to Brown 
from Sarah Lawrence College, where 
she has been provost and dean of the 
faculty for the past two years, after 
spending four years as dean of the 
college and teaching member of the 
music history faculty. As top educa- 
tional officer at Sarah Lawrence, Dr. 
Mattfeld guided a small, predomi- 
nantly women's college which was 
noted for progressive, individualized 



education long before the new cur- 
riculum at Brown was a gleam in any- 
one's eye. 

Enthusiastic as Dr. Mattfeld is 
about experiments in progressive cur- 
ricula, she does not see them as the 
only mode of good education. "I 
really do understand that there are 
many kinds of excellence," she says. 
"And I am interested in seeing to it 
that Brown emphasizes superb teach- 
ing. The scholar who is a good 
teacher is not as rare a beast as peo- 
ple would like us to think. But it does 
take conscious search to find the 
scholar who is also interested in 
teaching. All of this reform move- 
ment depends upon faculty who are 
willing to spend a lot of time with 
students and who want to commu- 
nicate more than an explanation of 
the textbook and a lecture. It's really 
the quality of the faculty which 
makes or breaks an education, not 
which mode you use." 

Dr. Mattfeld is reluctant to com- 
mit herself to any specific course of 
action regarding the new curricu- 
lum until she has had time to get to 
know Brown. But she does venture 
to express a hope that extradepart- 
mental programs will have a line in 
the budget. In her final convocation 
speech at Sarah Lawrence, Dr. Matt- 
feld spoke about her philosophy of 
unstandardized education. "It re- 
quires more time, more thought, more 
talk, to make sound judgments for 
each person," she said, "than to drape 



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on a student the cumulative weight of 
regulations. But high standards and 
flexibility are not incompatible." 

There are many experiences in 
Dr. Mattfeld's background which 
qualify her for the role of "conscience 
of the University" regarding women. 
Before coming to Sarah Lawrence, she 
was associate dean of student affairs 
at M.I.T., where she had primary 
academic responsibility for under- 
graduate women. When she arrived 
at M.I.T., only 15 women were ad- 
mitted to the freshman class — not 
because of any discrimination, she 
was told, but because there wasn't 
enough dormitory space for more. 
"By the time I left," she says, "we 
had a commitment from the corpora- 
tion that within the next five years, 
they would accept ten percent women 
in each class. That's not a great many 
women, but it's enough to create a 
sense of esprit and so that you didn't 
feel like a total freak when you discov- 
ered that you were the only woman in 
a lecture class of 200." 

Dr. Mattfeld also has first-hand 
experience of what it feels like to be 
the lone woman student. When she 
took her graduate work in music his- 
tory at Yale, she was the only woman 
in an Elizabethan drama course. "The 
professor kept making cracks about 
how I had ruined the class because he 
couldn't tell any of his dirty jokes," 
she remembers with a wry smile. 
Another recollection from those 
days is that women could not be 
teaching assistants because they 
weren't allowed to teach male under- 
graduates. 

Before going to M.I.T., Dr. Matt- 
feld was associate dean of in- 
struction and dean of East House at 
Radcliffe from 1960 to 1963, and, 
concurrently, a lecturer in music at 
Harvard's Graduate School of Arts 
and Sciences. From 1958 to 1960, she 
was director of financial aid at Rad- 
cliffe. According to Radcliffe Presi- 
dent Mary I. Bunting, Dr. Mattfeld 
was distinguished there by her warm, 
capable style of administration. Presi- 
dent Bunting, who has known her 



since she was at Yale, points out that 
Dr. Mattfeld's familiarity with the 
problems of academic women was no 
doubt enhanced by her personal ex- 
perience of combining an education 
with taking care of a family. ("I took 
my doctoral examination in December 
and had my first child in February," 
Dr. Mattfeld recalls.) 

In light of the problems of 
women with family commitments. Dr. 
Mattfeld rates the legitimization of 
part-time work and study as "one of 
the things I am most hot on." She is 
proud of Sarah Lawrence's willing- 
ness "to see the total activities of a 
man or woman as 'full-time'." As she 
emphasized at her convocation speech 
there, ". . . one need only talk to 
the women at the Center for Con- 
tinuing Education or examine their 
academic and professional records to 
remind oneself of the excitement, the 
motivation, and the dedication to 
study and service these 'part-time' 
students share with their 'full-time' 
counterparts. We must reaffirm what 
this college has quietly demonstrated 
for years — that it will not withhold 
its gifts from any student because of 
age, race, or sex by however subtle a 
subterfuge." 

Dr. Mattfeld believes, and she 
tells her women students, that "a 
woman can have it all, but you can't 
have it simultaneously and you can't 
expect the design of your life to look 
like the design of a man's life. But 
that doesn't mean that over a 75- or 
80-year life expectancy, you won't 
have had the entire spectrum of ex- 
perience, because you will. If that's 
what you want. You have to give up 
measuring yourself against a standard 
that is essentially provided by a male 
pattern of existence, which is quite 
different, in our society at least." 

"I'm not talking about the qual- 
ity of what you do," she adds. "There 
is only the expectation that you work 
the nearest you can come to perfec- 
tion, whether you're a man or a 
woman. But I think, without our 
realizing it, people do set very arbi- 
trary definitions of what constitutes 
full-time work, let's say. At one 



point, the work week was 60 hours; 
now it's 35, but it's always based on 
a male standard." 

The college years. Dr. Mattfeld 
believes, are really too late to begin 
encouraging high aspirations in 
women students. But to provide an 
environment that is supportive to 
those aspirations, there should be as 
many models around as possible. 
"There must be visible," she says, "a 
great many gifted women. They 
should be brought on campus for 
everything from coffee hours to pub- 
lic lectures." 

A woman student in search of a role 
model would do well to consider 
Dr. Mattfeld's own accomplishments. 
Aside from her career in university 
administration, she has strong creden- 
tials as a scholar and musician. She 
was awarded a piano scholarship at 
the Peabody Conservatory of Music. 
She received her bachelor's degree 
from Goucher College and her Ph.D. 
from Yale, where she was awarded 
several fellowships. Her memberships 
include the American Musicological 
Society and Phi Beta Kappa, among 
others. In the summer of 1964, she 
received a research grant from the 
Radcliffe Institute for Independent 
Study. 

She has been director of music 
theory in the preparatory department 
of the New England Conservatory of 
Music, a music therapist at the Chil- 
dren's Center in Hamden, Conn., and 
supervisor of music at Bethany Com- 
munity School in Bethany, Conn. 

The breadth of Dr. Mattfeld's 
competence is evidenced by a partial 
list of her publications. She has writ- 
ten about "A Thirteenth Century 
Ivory Madonna in the Yale Collec- 
tion" for the Yale Art News. She has 
read a paper at the Harvard Divinity 
School on "The Role of Music in 
Worship." The Harvard Education 
Revieio published her thoughts on 
"Financing Higher Education 1960- 
1970." For the M.I.T. Symposium on 
American Women in Science and En- 
gineering, she wrote about "Women 
in the Scientific Professions." 



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Dr. Mattfeld claims not to keep 
up with her field of music history 
very much anymore, but, she says, "I 
still keep my finger in the pot and 
lick it off every now and then." When 
interviewed at Sarah Lawrence, she 
was engaged in preparing a paper on 
j Josquin des Pres, about whom she has 
written previously for the Journal of 
the American Musicological Society. 

Dr. Mattfeld comes to Brown 
with such sterling advance notices 
that one almost expects to see palm 
branches lining her path. Friends and 
acquaintances tend to call on a nar- 
row range of adjectives to describe 
c her — all the way from outstanding to 
I remarkable. "Why don't you just 
§■ say she's wonderful and let it go at 
I that?" says one friend, not very help- 
? fully. 

Patricia Arant, associate profes- 
sor of Slavic languages at Brown and 
member of one of the committees that 
interviewed Dr. Mattfeld, remembers 
her from when she was dean of East 
House at Radcliffe. "I was delighted 
when I heard she was being consid- 
ered," says Professor Arant. "She will 
be absolutely splendid. She takes the 
time to sit down and talk to people 
and she is very honest and frank in 
her opinions." Professor Arant re- 
members that Dr. Mattfeld effectively 
took charge of her interview here. 
"When there was the least bit of 
silence, she knew what to anticipate 
as the next topic and she moved on 
to it, making us think it was our 
idea." 

TP he students on the interview com- 
•*■ mittee, usually a skeptical bunch, 
were equally impressed with Dr. 
Mattfeld. "There were really some 
tough cookies asking her questions," 
says Peter Warren '71, "and she came 
off very well." The student committee 
members called more than a dozen 
Sarah Lawrence students to get their 
candid opinions of Dr. Mattfeld, "and 
not one of them had a bad thing to 
say," Warren recalls. One girl at 
Sarah Lawrence said, "I don't want to 
tell you anything good about her be- 



cause then you might take her away 
from us." 

Certainly Dr. Mattfeld will be 
missed at Sarah Lawrence. The reac- 
tions there, when it was learned that 
she would be leaving, seem like flash- 
backs to another era — a less dis- 
cordant time when college deans 
could be described as "universally 
loved" and when the departure of a 
favorite was the occasion for collec- 
tive and extravagant tribute. The 
senior class valedictorian devoted her 
entire speech to praise of Dr. Matt- 
feld and the two student speakers at 
a convocation dwelt on her accom- 
plishments. The students presented 
her with an inscribed Victorian silver 
cheese dish, which they had pur- 
chased even before it was known she 
would be leaving. 

Such high recommendations as 
Dr. Mattfeld has received encourage 
equally high expectations of what she 
will be able to do. She expresses some 
concern that students are hoping for 
a miracle worker. "The things I care 
about," she says, "are such long pulls 
that there aren't going to be any 
miracles. One of the things I kept try- 
ing to say to the students I met at 
Brown is that they mustn't expect 
that it will be like a magician waving 
a wand or a fairy godmother. Tre- 
mendously important social issues are 
involved and they take decades, not 
months, to achieve. . . ." 

As for her own expectations. Dr. 
Mattfeld does not anticipate that her 
job at Brown will be easy. "One of 
the things about being middle aged," 
she says, "is that you've lived long 
enough and had a variety of experi- 
ences so that you have a pretty clear 
sense of where the problems are go- 
ing to be before you even tackle them. 
And it doesn't come as any surprise 
when you discover that human nature 
is not different from one institution to 
another. So I'm not expecting heaven; 
on the other hand, I like things that 
are a challenge. I just get excited 
about the possibility of working in 
such a good school where people 
really do care about education." A.B. 



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Seven who aren't 
'selling insurance' 

Or, my son the puppeteer 



W 



hen Bruce Margolius first came to Brown five 
years ago, he was subjected to the usual number 
of speeches during freshman week. One of the speakers 
— Margolius has since forgotten whom — ventured a 
prediction about the future of the audience. "In 14 
years," the freshmen were told, "when you return to 
Brown for your tenth reunion, half of you will be selling 
insurance and the other half will be buying it." 

On the following pages are seven former students, 
none of whom is selling insurance. On the whole, they 
are not flush with what used to be known as "prospects" 
in a career. There is not a single office job in the group. 
Four of the seven are self-employed; one is currently 
unemployed. Some of them worry about where the rent 
money is coming from, but several others are well on the 
way to hip capitalism. Most of the seven happened onto 
their line of work from earlier, more conventional ambi- 
tions. The puppeteer had it in mind to be a lawyer. The 
foundry worker planned a career in medicine. The bell 
maker came to Brown intending to be an economist. The 
unemployed actor started out in engineering. 

Nobody's shedding any tears over these abandoned 
professional goals. If certain of the parents were initially 
reluctant to give up visions of "my son, the doctor," all 
are now reported to be adjusting gracefully. A.B. 



Photographs by MICHAEL BOYER 



20 



Carol Bratley 



Unemployment, to coin 
a phrase, is the mother of in- 
vention. Seven months ago, 
Carol Bratley 's job as con- 
sultant on historic burying 
grounds to the Boston Parks 
Department fell victim to a 
municipal austerity program. 
Newly out of work, Carol '66 
decided it was time for a stock- 
taking. She thought over what 
she knew about and could do 
and concluded that she ought 
to start her own business. The 
result was Stonework Designs, 
an enterprise which features 
Carol spreading the word 
about old graveyards, a long- 
standing passion of hers. 

The Stonework Designs 
brochure, decorated with a 
handsome rubbing of an an- 
gel's head, lists the services 
that Carol has to offer: an il- 
lustrated lecture on "Grave- 
stones as Historic Docu- 
ments"; personalized rubbings 
of ancestral New England 
gravestones; poster reproduc- 
tions and postcards of grave- 
stone designs. 

Stonework Designs is not 
yet a thtiving concern, but 
Carol is confident of potential 
widespread interest in old New 
England gravestones and their 
Puritan folk art carving. "I 
don't think this is going to be 
a huge success right now," she 
says. "It will take time, but I 
think by 1975, it's going to 
catch on." 

Meanwhile, Carol is di- 
versifying. Her kitchen table 
is spread with paper samples 
for the Christmas cards and 
note paper she designed using 
gravestone rubbing motifs. A 
wonderfully grim-looking rub- 
bing of a death's head is being 
considered for silk screening 
on tee shirts. Carol isn't sure 
if any of these items will sell 
and she keeps reminding her- 
self not to get grand notions. 
"At first," she says, "I used 
to sit down and calculate, 'now 



if 3,000 people bought this, 
then I'll have that much 
money.' But then I thought, 
who am I trying to fool? I 
started the business with un- 
der $1,000 and I have to work 
small at first." 

Pleasant as entrepre- 
neurial fantasies may be, Carol 
is not about to let them run 
away with her. The central as- 
pect of her interest in historic 
burying grounds is as a 
scholar and preservationist. 
Carol feels that the old bury- 
ing grounds and gravestones 
preserve a strong sense of the 
Puritan culture. It's possible, 
she believes, to trace religious 
thought and economic and 
political developments from 
the 1650's to the 1850's 
through the changing design 
of the gravestone carvings. 

Last winter, Carol had a 
show of her rubbings at Bos- 
ton City Hall and much of her 
research on old gravestones 
was included in an essay she 
wrote for the exhibition cata- 
logue. The essay is full of 
fascinating information, in- 
cluding the following explana- 
tion of how graveyard sites 
were determined : "In rural 
areas, you will generally find 
old burying grounds on the 
eastern side of town, to allow 
the soul of the deceased to re- 
turn directly to the Holy Land 
without passing back through 
town and getting into mischief 
on the way." 

Carol's concern about the 
neglected condition of some of 
the old Boston cemeteries led 
her to found, with an M.I.T. 
professor. Friends of Historic 
Boston Cemeteries, a citizens' 
group which is at work photo- 
graphing and conserving the 
old gravestones. She has writ- 
ten a proposal for the Bicen- 
tennial Commission, which 
would combine preservation 
and educational programs. 

One of Carol's special 




talents is an ability to enlist 
enthusiastic support for her 
projects. A chemistry profes- 
sor of her acquaintance knows 
about stone preservation and 
has agreed to help save the 
cemeteries. A friend who 
visited London consulted with 
experts there about the most 
effective methods of restoring 
and maintaining old grave- 
stones. And if the Bicentennial 
Commission doesn't fund her 
program, Carol has an idea 
that certain commercial organ- 
izations might be interested. 
The undertakers association, 
for instance? 

Carol is the first business 
woman in her family and they 
are delighted about it, even 
though it might seem like an 
unusual choice for a Phi Beta 
Kappa who majored in Latin 



and Greek. But her academic 
background comes in handy in 
her meanderings around the 
old graveyards. The languages 
are sometimes useful in de- 
ciphering inscriptions and the 
year Carol spent at the Amer- 
ican School of Classical Stud- 
ies in Athens helped her un- 
derstand iconography. 

Still, Stonework Designs 
is a long way from Carol's 
undergraduate ambition to be 
a renowned medieval scholar. 
"All I knew was academics," 
she says, "So I thought that 
was what I wanted. It's a 
common error, since from the 
time you are five years old, 
you do nothing but go to 
school." 



21 



Marc Kohler 



Linda, age 7, used every 
color in the crayon box to ex- 
press her appreciation to pup- 
peteer Marc Kohler. "Dear Mr. 
Kohler," she wrote, "I felt 
wonderful and so was my 
teachers. P.S. Write back." 

Ten-year-old Vincent 
wrote: "I really enjoyed the 
puppet show. I think it's great 
the way you change your 
voice. I had a puppet show in 
the summer. I made a dollar 
five. The puppets names were 
Mr. Toad, Mr. Sock, Mr. and 
Mrs. Jack O'Lantern and big 
Joe Green the big bully." 

Jayne, 12, especially liked 
Judy from the Punch and Judy 
show "because she was with 
it. She knew that women want 
to be equal and I think she 
looked COOL." 

Fifth-grader David thought 
that "the best was when the 
girls kissed the frog and when 
you talked." 

Marc Kohler '70, lives in 
a large, cluttered house in 
Providence where he makes 
his puppets, practices routines, 
and works on his thesis on 
puppetry for the master's pro- 
gram in creative writing at 
Brown. He is employed as a 
puppeteer by the Providence 
Recreation Department. In the 
past year, over 25,000 school 
children have seen his puppet 
show — and judging by the 
stacks of fan mail — loved it. 

Like some of his young 
admirers, Kohler started work- 
ing with puppets while he was 
still in grade school. His father 
built him a puppet stage when 
he was 11, and he began per- 
forming for neighborhood par- 
ties for $3 a show. A few 
years later he started making 
his own puppets and the sum- 
mer after high school gradua- 
tion, he worked as assistant 
puppeteer to a man who was 
running a visual arts display 
at a savings and loan associa- 
tion. Kohler has fond memo- 




ries of that apprenticeship 
because it was his first experi- 
ence in doing Punch and Judy 
and the puppets he worked 
with were over 40 years old. 

Kohler came to Brown in- 
tending to be a lawyer. The 
puppet shows he did for par- 
ties were just to keep his hand 
in and to earn a little extra 
money. But gradually his in- 
terest in theater and puppets 
took over. The spring semester 
of his senior year, he says, "I 
went berserk and was making 
new puppets every week." By 
now, Kohler says, the puppets 
have set up permanent resi- 
dence in all areas of his life. 
The routines Kohler writes for 
his puppet shows will be part 
of his master's thesis, along 
with a historical survey of 
puppetry. His work with the 
recreation department fulfills 
his alternative service require- 
ment for his conscientious ob- 
jector's status. 



Though most of Kohler's 
puppet routines are very 
funny, he is in the process of 
working out some serious 
theories about puppet theater 
which eventually he hopes to 
incorporate into a book. "Pro- 
found things happen when 
you're working with puppets," 
he says. "It's a tribal art. I 
think on many levels that the 
puppet should somehow be 
the image for our demons." 

This spring Kohler wrote 
and directed a large puppet 
show for adults called Denth 
March, which he describes as 
"a pageant, ritual puppet show 
for 50 performers." Kohler 
compares the personal anti- 
war statement of Deatli March 
to an autobiographical novel, 
and he concedes its stylistic 
debt to Peter Schumann's 
Bread and Puppet Theater. 

Kohler would like to do 
more adult shows eventually, 
but for now he plans to con- 



centrate on working with chil- 
dren. Next to the Bread and 
Puppet Theater, Sesame 
Street's Muppets have influ- 
enced him the most heavily. 
He envisions himself working 
for another year perfecting the 
show and then perhaps taking 
it to Europe. Or even better, 
he says, "the fantasy thing 
would be to travel around this 
country in a van saying Puppet 
Workshop. We'd arrive in a 
community and set up a tent 
like the circus. We'd have a 
band playing and we'd do kids' 
shows during the day and 
serious drama for adults at 
night." 



22 



Bob Kingsland 



Bob Kingsland '71 only 
switched undergraduate con- 
centrations once. After his 
first semester at Brown, most 
of which he spent constructing 
an elaborate wire sculpture on 
his desk top, Kingsland de- 
cided that he did not, after all, 
want to be an economist. Dur- 
ing a year's leave of absence, 
he went back and forth across 
the country four times and 
hitchhiked around Europe. 
After that experience, a life 
without the possibility of 
travel did not seem to promise 
much. So, back at Brown, he 
chose anthropology on the 
basis that the field work takes 
you out to remote places and 
the writing can't be that diffi- 
cult. 

The summer after gradua- 
tion, Kingsland had no par- 
ticular plans so he drove to 
Guatemala to do some under- 
water excavation at an archeo- 
logical dig. Back home in Mis- 
souri, he met up with an old 
friend who suggested that they 
fly to California in a Piper 
Cub. That's not the sort of 
invitation Kingsland is likely 
to turn down, so off they flew, 
following the roads at 200 feet 
in altitude. 

Kingsland went directly 
to San Francisco, where he 
visited every one of the 40 film 
companies listed in the Yellow 
Pages. "I had some idea that I 
wanted to make films," he 
says. "It's everyone's dream, 
so I thought I'd check it out." 
No luck there, so Kingsland 
decided to apply to film school 
at San Francisco State. 

When he learned that he 
had to submit samples of some 
kind of creative endeavor, 
Kingsland remembered several 
of his welded sculptures sit- 
ting in the attic of a family 
house in Cohasset, Mass. Back 
across the country in four 
days, Kingsland photographed 
the sculptures, put the pictures 



in the mail, and waited to hear 
from San Francisco. 

Meanwhile, having some 
time to kill, he began working 
with neighbor Richard Fisher 
making hand-crafted bells. By 
the time he learned that his 
application to film school had 
arrived two days past the 
deadline, he was so busy weld- 
ing bells that it didn't matter. 
Kingsland learned to weld at 
Brown, where he took an occa- 
sional art course. "I enjoyed 
it," he says, "but I never 
thought seriously about art as 
an occupation because I could 
never see myself as a starving 
artist. Then I stumbled onto 
bells and discovered it was 
easy not to starve." 

U. 5. Bells, the company 
formed by Kingsland and part- 
ner Richard Fisher, was an al- 
most immediate success. At 
first, the bells were marketed 
only through the pushcart 
(left) designed by Fisher and 
trundled around downtown 
Boston a couple of days a 
week. "That was the most fun 
about the whole thing," says 
Kingsland, "I learned a lot 
about selling, like you can't 
look too prosperous, and it's 
best not to wear dark glasses 
because people like to look 
you in the eye." 

Fun or not, Kingsland and 
Fisher recently retired the 
pushcart and started placing 
their bells in stores around 
New England. "We just de- 
cided we didn't want to be 
street-corner peddlers all our 
lives," says Kingsland. "We 
want to make a reputation as 
craftsmen." The purpose of 
turning out the very saleable 
bells is to finance a studio to 
do metal sculpture, which 
Kingsland eventually would 
like to spend all his time on. 

Until then, the plan is to 
work five days a week making 
and selling the bells and two 
days doing metal sculpture. So 




far, that schedule hasn't 
worked out too well and 
Kingsland feels guilty that his 
sculpture is getting short- 
changed. "I know that within 
a certain amount of time I can 
turn out $75 worth of bells, 
so it's hard to tear myself 
away from that," he says. 

The instant success of 
U. S. Bells has brought its own 
temptations. Family friends 
offer to invest and suggest that 
the outfit turn itself into a fac- 



tory. "We could hire ten 
people in the studio and a full- 
time salesman," says Kings- 
land. "We could blanket the 
whole New England area with 
our bells and probably make a 
lot of money. It wouldn't be 
worth it, though. We make 
enough money to live on al- 
ready." 



23 



Barbara Jacobskind 



Barbara Jacobskind has 
a Ph.D. in English and Amer- 
ican hterature and she can dis- 
cuss the Emersonian tradition 
with ease. She also is at home 
in a racing stable, where she 
understands the strategies of 
a claiming race and knows 
that if someone says he's go- 
ing to look for a croaker, he 
will come back with a veteri- 
narian. 

Barbara received her 
Ph.D. from Brown in June, 
1970, and, like everyone else, 
had trouble finding a full-time 
teaching job. She mentioned 
her problem to the owner of 
the store where she was buy- 
ing supplies for her two 
horses, and he suggested that 
she work for the summer 
ponying horses at the race 
track. Looking back on her 
ignorance of the racing world, 
Barbara is amazed at how 
casually she got involved. She 
was a good rider and she 
needed money, so why not? 
Within a few weeks, she had 
bought herself a lead pony and 
was in business as a free-lance 
pony girl at Lincoln Downs. 
"It was fun," says Barbara. 
"You just ride around the 
stables until somebody yells, 
'Hey, pony.' You're paid two 
or three dollars for leading a 
race horse once around the 
track on your pony." 

Free-lance ponying lost 
some of its charm for Barbara 
when she discovered that she 
was getting all the worst 
horses and she was having 
trouble collecting her bills. So 
she went to trainer Howard 
Munk, who agreed to try her 
out as an exercise girl for his 
horses. In the racing hierarchy, 
exercising is one step up from 
ponying because it means rid- 
ing the horse around the track, 
rather than leading him. Gal- 
loping, Barbara says, requires 
constant strength, since race 
horses are trained to run 




against the bit. It's also a great 
responsibility. "The trainer 
says, 'Take care of this horse. 
I just paid $15,000 for him,' 
and you know that one little 
mistake could ruin all of the 
horse's training," Barbara ex- 
plains. 

A couple of times, when 
she was first working for 
Munk, horses Barbara was 
galloping ran away with her. 
"I had to call for the outrider," 
she says, "who is employed by 
the track to catch runaway 
horses. It was a real cowboys 
and Indians scene. We dis- 
covered there were a few 
horses that I just wouldn't be 
able to handle so I stopped 
riding them." 

In September, Barbara 
started two part-time teaching 
jobs — one at Brown and one at 
Southeastern Massachusetts 



University. Her work at the 
stables began at 5 a.m. and she 
had to be there early to make 
the coffee. ("Even on the track, 
that's a woman's job.") By that 
time, she had acquired five 
horses of her own and they 
needed taking care of. And 
there were chores around the 
Burrillville, R.I., farm where 
she lives. 

Eventually the schedule 
got to be too much, even for 
Barbara's energy level. So 
when the season at Lincoln 
Downs ended in mid-winter, 
she stopped exercising race 
horses in favor of doing odd 
jobs around Howard Munk's 
farm where she stables some 
of her horses. 

This fall Barbara will be- 
gin teaching full-time at SMU, 
but she still has lingering re- 
grets about leaving the racing 



world. "It's a very close com- 
munity," she says. "I've 
walked around Brown for five 
years and I haven't had as 
many people smile and wave 
as they do at the track." Some 
day Barbara would like to own 
and train her own racehorse, 
an endeavor which she thinks 
will combine nicely with her 
academic career. 

"Working at the track," 
she says, "gave me a new per- 
spective on teaching. Before 
that, I'd only really gone to 
school where things are talked 
about theoretically. Having to 
communicate with people at 
the track has made me much 
more pragmatic. You have to 
get results. Either a thing 
works or it doesn't, and if it 
doesn't, you try to find out 
why." 



24 



Bruce Margolius 



There is an old Brown 
legend to the effect that any- 
one who drinks water from 
the carved stone fountain near 
the Atheneum will be com- 
pelled to return to Providence. 
Bruce Margolius '70 once 
drank from the fountain "in a 
weak moment" and has since 
found himself unable to depart 
from Providence for more 
than a few months at a time. 
Though he finished taking 
courses at Brown a year ago, 
Margolius didn't officially 
graduate till this June because 
of some incompletes that he 
needed to make up. 

In his first year out of — 
if not away from — school, 
Margolius has worked at more 
jobs than some men have in a 
lifetime. First he was an ap- 
prentice potter. "When I fin- 
ished going to school," he 
says, "I drifted in to Cam- 
bridge, N. Y., where the sister 
of a friend of mine has a pot- 
tery factory. It's more like a 
commune than a real factory. 
I worked there as an appren- 
tice potter and handyman. 
Then I came back to Provi- 
dence to be in the summer 
theater but the play was can- 
celed so I drove around a lot 
after that and then I went to 
Houston for a while." 

Houston didn't work out, 
so back in Providence again, 
Margolius did some substitute 
teaching. "I taught every- 
thing," he says, "engineering, 
shop, gym; every class turned 
out to be a circus. I hated it." 
Over the holidays, Margolius 
went into business for himself, 
selling Christmas trees from a 
friend's land in Vermont. 

In January, he auditioned 
for theater graduate school in 
New York and decided to stick 
around there for a while and 
do some more auditions for 
Off-Broadway plays. After the 
Christmas tree money ran out, 
he supported himself by work- 



ing as a telephone advertising 
solicitor for the Jewish Post. 
The hard-sell pitch, which he 
still has by heart, earned him 
enough in commissions, but 
the auditions were unsuc- 
cessful and the place he was 
staying had cats, to which he 
is allergic. "I was sneezing all 
the time, so rather than look 
for another apartment, I came 
back to Providence for a 
while." 

That was when he did the 
unemployed actor's classic 
stint of driving a cab. It didn't 
pay much, but it turned out to 
be a good experience for sub- 
sequent work as a subject of 
an HEW-sponsored study of 
marijuana. The research proj- 
ect involved operating a driv- 
ing simulator while under the 
influence. "You got $2 an hour 
plus lot* for every car you 
passed, and you were fined 



sot* for every simulated acci- 
dent you got into. I had four 
accidents but I also had an un- 
usually high score in passing 
cars, thanks to my practice 
from driving cabs." 

After that, Margolius 
found more seasonal employ- 
ment as an Easter bunny. "I 
wore a bunny mask, fluffy 
slippers, and pajamas. My job 
was to dance around Warwick 
Mall passing out balloons. The 
little kids were terrified and 
the big kids pulled my tail, 
which was annoying." 

One year and seven jobs 
out of school, Margolius now 
has a somewhat clearer picture 
of the future. First among his 
realizations is that he needs to 
get older. His ambition is to be 
a character actor, and the com- 
mercial potential of 22-year- 
old character actors is limited. 
So he has applied to several 



theater graduate schools out 
West, where he would like to 
act in a university setting until 
he has aged enough to try 
New York auditions again. He 
has reluctantly given up an 
earlier desire to go to Ringling 
Brothers' clown school because 
his parents are against it. 

He has also come to the 
end of doing temporary, dead- 
end jobs just for the sake of 
eating. "If I have to work in a 
gas station to put myself 
through school, fine, but not 
just because I have nothing 
else to do. Not any more. Still, 
I've learned a lot about myself 
in the last year. If I had gone 
to graduate school immedi- 
ately, I wouldn't have learned 
so much about my own re- 
sources. I'm much more seri- 
ous about wanting to go to 
school now." 




25 



Andrea Aranow 



A man walks into Dakota 
Transit, an elegant leather 
clothes boutique in New 
York's East Side. "Is the owner 
in?" he asks. "No," says the 
owner. "May I help you?" 
Andrea Aranow '67 does not 
acknowledge to just anyone 
who comes in the door that 
she is the shop's owner and 
since her blue jeans and tee 
shirt outfit is somewhat less 
striking than the fashions for 
sale, it isn't easy to guess. 

Not that Andrea doesn't 
wear her own designs. In be- 
tween answering the phone 
and making sure that her car 
isn't being towed away, she is 
engaged in sewing the last 
buttons on a navy snakeskin 
jacket with big red appliqued 
flowers on the back, which 
she designed and made for 
herself. "It's sort of ugly in a 
way," says Andrea, "but it's 
fun to wear when you're in a 
certain kind of mood." 

That may be the first 
time the word ugly has ap- 
peared in the same sentence 
with Andrea's creations. Ever 
since she opened the doors of 
Dakota Transit I two years 
ago on East Ninth Street, 
Andrea's leather clothes have 
stampeded fashion writers into 
a run on the superlatives mar- 
ket. Her designs have been 
featured in Harper's Bazaar, 
Vogue, the Village Voice, 
Rags, and the New York 
Times. Her winter collection, 
which includes fur bloomers 
with fur spats, will be photo- 
graphed in Alaska for a spread 
in Look. Soon after the up- 
town branch of Dakota Transit 
opened, Nexu York Magazine's 
Best Bets section added its 
voice to the rhapsodizing, call- 
ing the shop "a grotto of 
gentle fantasies. Andrea's col- 
lages in leather, often with 
feathers, are as much an ap- 
preciation of nature as they are 
of clothes," said the writeup. 



An accompanying photograph 
showed a model wearing An- 
drea's coral sueded snakeskin 
bloomer suit, priced at $200. 

The list of Dakota Trans- 
it's famous clients is as im- 
pressive as the magazine cov- 
erage. According to New York 
Magazine, Andrea achieved in- 
stant fame in the late '60's 
with the snakeskin collage 
clothes she designed for Jimi 
Hendrix. "It was inevitable," 
says Andrea. "When I first 
started doing snakeskin 
clothes, people wouldn't wear 
them on the street, so I had 
to work for entertainers." An- 
drea's creations are certainly 
not for the timid. Or the poor. 
She once designed a $1,500, 
floor-length cape for Miles 
Davis and the least expensive 
item in the shop is a pair of 
plain snakeskin shorts for $80. 

Andrea first started work- 
ing with leather in high 
school because she loved 
suede clothes and couldn't 
afford to buy them. Later, at 
Pembroke, she earned spend- 
ing money by making a few 
things for classmates. One 
summer vacation she worked 
in the corner of a sandal shop 
on Cape Cod, making suede 
dungarees and leather coats to 
order. 

After graduation Andrea 
spent nine months working as 
a copy editor in a New York 
publishing house. It was a 
deadly job, she remembers. 
The company specialized in 
dry translations, and, as a 
copy editor, Andrea never 
dealt directly with the author. 
"I could rewrite a sentence," 
she says, "but not a whole 
paragraph, because that was 
the editor's job. I thought I'd 
like to edit history books for 
high schools, but I saw that 
I wasn't going to do it by 
climbing the ladders of pub- 
lishing because it's so regi- 
mented." 




The East Village branch 
of Dakota Transit was opened 
two years ago with $800 that 
Andrea had saved from her 
$100-a-week publishing job. 
"If I'd known what I was 
getting into," she says now, 
"1 would have known that it 
was totally impossible." Luck- 
ily, Andrea didn't realize that 
her underfunded business was 
bound to fail, so she plunged 
in and succeeded. 

She started out doing 



only made-to-order clothes 
and soon had enough work to 
hire five helpers. The decision 
to open an uptown retail 
branch of Dakota Transit was 
spurred by Andrea's only 
major bad luck since she 
started her business. Last year, 
the East Ninth Street store had 
two robberies and Andrea lost 
about $13,000 worth of mer- 
chandise, including most of 
her own wardrobe. 



26 



Gary Brighton 



"Most people that I know 
here have no idea where 
they're going or what they 
want to do," says Gary Brigh- 
ton '70. "Many of them are 
going back to graduate school 
just to stabilize themselves." 
Brighton isn't positive what 
his own future holds, but he 
does know that he has a job he 
likes for as long as he wants 
it. The Paul King Foundry, 
where Brighton works with 
two other people, handles 
small casting jobs — trophies, 
plaques, sculpture. It's the 
perfect place to learn the in- 
tricate casting methods, and 
when Brighton took the job 
last summer, he agreed to stay 
at least two years, because 
otherwise it wouldn't be worth 
training him. 

Eventually Brighton hopes 
to save enough money to put 
his experience to work in cast- 
ing his own sculpture in 
bronze. Meanwhile, he spends 
some of his spare time making 
pewter pots, which he hopes 
to sell at the Bennington crafts 
show. 

Brighton's decision to try 
life as an artist/craftsman is a 
recent one — made after three 
years as a pre-med student at 
Brown. "I just decided that I 
didn't want to spend that much 
time going to school," he says. 
"I had taken art courses in 
high school and I liked them, 
so my senior year I took all 
my work in art." After gradua- 
tion, Brighton thought he 
would like to teach art, so he 
applied for jobs at several pri- 
vate schools before deciding 
that the atmosphere was "too 
preppy and depressing." 

Then he heard about the 
opening at the Paul King 
Foundry from Brown sculptor 
Richard Fishman, who was 
having some pieces cast there. 
The Johnston foundry is sur- 
rounded by five acres of land, 
which Brighton and his co- 



workers use for various spare- 
time pursuits, like growing 
vegetables, keeping bees, and 
raising pigs. 

When the temperature in- 
side the foundry reaches 130 
degrees — which it often does 
during the summer — Brighton 
cools off by weeding the let- 
tuce patch or tending to his 
pig, a timid creature named 
Stanley. And in the short time 
since the bees arrived from the 
mail order house (12 pounds, 
at 2,000 bees per pound), he 
has learned almost as much 
about bee-keeping as about 
casting. 

In what he hopes won't 
turn out to be an excess of 
confidence, he now works with 
the hives without protective 
clothing. "We started out 
wearing gloves, two shirts, 
and netting," he says, "but the 
bees didn't do anything so we 
don't bother anymore." 

For someone who, at dif- 
ferent times, considered both 
cooking school and forestry 
school, the opportunity to 
work outdoors and grow things 
is important to Brighton. It 
makes working in the small, 
unregimented foundry more 
fun than most jobs. But he still 
has hopes of being able to de- 
vote all his time to his sculp- 
ture some day. "I do small, 
geometric shapes," he says. 
"No, I haven't sold any pieces 
yet, or even had anything in a 
show. Just when people come 
to my house, I show them my 
work and watch to see if they 
like it." 




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Experiment at Hope High 

'Some of the students never expected to see a college 
professor-if they thought about college at all' 



THE talents of the Brown faculty 
and the enthusiasm of students 
at Hope High School, located on the 
East Side of Providence, were com- 
bined over the past 15 months to 
create a unique program of elective 
courses for the secondary school. 

The cooperative effort allowed 
the students at Hope to select courses 
they would like to have taught to 
them by members of the Brown fac- 
ulty. At the same time, certain mem- 
bers of the Brown staff, strictly on a 
voluntary basis, agreed to set up lec- 
tures and workshop sessions at the 
local high school. 

"Both parties are now evaluating 
the program," says Frank C. Acker, 
associate director for University rela- 
tions. "The initial reaction from 
everyone concerned has been highly 
encouraging and this liaison program 
may well take its place as a perma- 
nent Brown contribution to the local 
high schools." 

Acker hinted that the program 
may be expanded to include several 
additional city schools this fall. The 
program also may be expanded in 
scope, depending on the detailed eval- 
uations of the Hope High experi- 
ment being carried on this summer. 
Among the points being considered is 
whether the faculty would be willing 
to have the high school youngsters 
come to Brown for various combina- 
tions of credit or non-credit courses. 

Brown's involvement with Hope 
High School does not represent the 
University's first efforts at creating 
programs that benefit the public 
schools. In fact, over the past 12 
years. Brown has made a substantial 



contribution to public school educa- 
tion throughout southern New Eng- 
land. 

"The most meaningful news 
about public education in Rhode Is- 
land in several decades" was the way 
the Providence Bulletin editorially 
heralded the news that the University 
and the Warren (R.I.) School Depart- 
ment were about to cooperate in a 
pilot study aimed at improving the 
town's public school system. Al- 
though this 1959 venture was the 
initial attempt locally at cooperation 
between a university and a public 
school system, it was the forerunner 
of similar efforts by Brown and other 
Rhode Island colleges in the years to 
come. 

It wasn't by chance that Brown 
and other centers of higher learning 
around the country suddenly started 
to take an interest in secondary edu- 
cation in the late 1950's. Rudely 
shocked by the news that Russian 
scientists had shot the first space 
satellite into orbit, the American pub- 
lic in 1957 took a second look at the 
caliber of its public school education. 
For the most part, it didn't like what 
it saw, and various programs were 
rapidly suggested to enable this coun- 
try to "catch up" to the Russians. 

Locally, it was the Brown-War- 
ren Educational Project that came first 
and made the biggest impact. This 
project was launched by the Univer- 
sity and town officials as a means of 
joining professors and public school 
teachers in an effort to improve the 
quality of instructional programs be- 
ing offered in the 1,800-pupil Warren 
school system. 



In a sense, both groups were in 
agreement with the thinking ex- 
pressed by James M. Koerner of the 
Council on Basic Education, when he 
said: "In our time we have witnessed 
the almost complete disappearance in 
public school affairs of the liberal arts 
professor, the scholar, the humanistic 
man of learning, and the scientist — 
thus denying to the schools the serv- 
ices of many accomplished men and 
women who could speak about educa- 
tion from a depth of accumulated 
knowledge and matured thought." 

Encouraged by the success of the 
Brown-Warren Project, the Univer- 
sity entered into agreements with a 
number of other public school sys- 
tems. One of the most impressive was 
the Brown-Bridgewater Project of 
1960-61, in which the Brown Depart- 
ment of Education cooperated over a 
12-month period with the school sys- 
tem of Bridgewater, Mass., and 
helped to create the first "middle 
school" in New England. 

In addition to these University- 
sponsored programs, individual 
Brown professors for many years 
now have taken it upon themselves to 
work with local high schools. During 
the past academic year Walter E. 
Massey, associate professor of phys- 
ics, took some of his freshman and 
sophomore students — those who plan 
to become teachers — and went with 
them into the high schools to set up 
lab experiments and demonstrations. 
As a part of his program, some of the 
high school students were later 
brought into the labs at Brown. Tu- 
toring was also provided in such sub- 



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jects as physics, chemistry, and biol- 
ogy. According to Professor Massey, 
the program will be continued in 
1971-72, this time with a National 
Science Foundation grant. 

Three professors in the music 
department also came up with an in- 
teresting program last year, one that 
was called Arts in Education and was 
sponsored by the Rhode Island State 
Council on the Arts. Professors Ron 
Nelson, Paul Nelson, and Gerald M. 
Shapiro worked for four months with 
music and drama teachers and their 
students at four Rhode Island high 
schools and two junior highs. 

Despite Brown's contributions to 
public school education in the past, 
there were a number of things that 
made the new program with Hope 
High School somewhat unique and 
drew to it the attention of educators 
from other sections of New England. 

The story of how the Hope pro- 
gram started goes back to February of 
1970 when large numbers of Provi- 
dence high school students staged a 
demonstration to protest a ruling that 
their vacation periods would be can- 
celled in order to make up days lost 
during a teacher strike at the start of 
the academic year. 

Rhode Island law requires a 180- 
day school year, and Dr. Richard C. 
Briggs, then the superintendent of 
schools in Providence, told the stu- 
dents that the only alternative to can- 
celling the vacation periods would be 
to extend school sessions into the 
summer. This alternative was received 
by the students with about as much 
enthusiasm as one might expect. 

It was finally agreed that the 
"lost" days would be made up during 
the spring vacation. However, Dr. 
Briggs promised that the regular cur- 
riculum would be set aside during the 
week of April 20-24 in favor of a 
kind of "free" school with a totally 
different curriculum. Some of the 
high school students who had been 
meeting with Dr. Briggs on this issue 
suggested that the school department 
should try to enlist the services of 
Brown faculty members as partici- 
pants in the week-long free school. 



At this point. Dr. Briggs and 
Louis I. Kramer, assistant school su- 
perintendent, met with Brown's com- 
munity relations subcommittee on 
education, chaired by Prof. William 
McLoughlin, and mentioned the idea. 
The Brown group was enthusiastic 
about the proposal right from the 
start and distributed a memo to the 
faculty asking for project volunteers. 
More than 100 professors responded, 
and spent a week discussing such 
topics as the moon probe, the popula- 
tion explosion, and the biological rev- 
olution with 6,000 high school stu- 
dents at the city's four public high 
schools. The professors did not re- 
ceive any compensation and the 
week-long program didn't cost the 
city of Providence a penny. 

"I was particularly surprised 
and a bit amazed at the overwhelm- 
ing response by the Brown commu- 
nity," Dr. Kramer says. "I was also 
gratified by the result of the quickly- 
put-together program. As time goes 
by I hope we can develop a commu- 
nity talent bank comprised of people 
from Brown and other colleges who 
could participate in the school cur- 
riculum at different times during the 
year. The time has come when we 
must remove the walls from colleges 
and involve them more with the com- 
munity at large." 

T f the Providence School Department 
■*• was pleased with the program, 
so was Brown's Community Relations 
Committee, headed by Vice-President 
Ronald A. Wolk. He instructed his 
education subcommittee — a group 
composed of faculty, administration, 
and students — to meet through the 
summer and fall in an effort to come 
up with a more detailed program, but 
one based on the general principles of 
the emergency April experiment. 

Prof. Reginald Archambault '52, 
chairman of the education department 
at Brown, was a member of this sub- 
committee and served as its chief 
liaison with the public school system. 
His group agreed that if a permanent 
program was the objective, it might 
be wise for Brown to start with one 



school for the 1970-71 academic year 
and then possibly expand at a later 
date. 

Hope High was picked. Professor 
Archambault says, for two reasons: 
its proximity to Brown and the fact 
that the school had been torn by 
racial strife at various points during 
the past two years. The Brown group 
wanted to help create a different edu- 
cational environment in the school for 
a brief period of time. 

In December, Dr. Archambault 
conferred with Hope High adminis- 
trators in an effort to determine the 
sort of program that could best serve 
the high school. He made it clear at 
that time that in no way did Brown 
wish to impose a prescribed program 
on the school. Instead, the Archam- 
bault committee preferred that the 
Hope officials assess the school's 
needs and then come to Brown with 
recommendations on the type of pro- 
gram that should be implemented. 

Early in the fall the Brown fac- 
ulty was surveyed to determine the 
number of hours it could contribute 
and the number of subjects it could 
teach. More than 100 professors ex- 
pressed a desire to participate on a 
voluntary basis, although not all were 
able to adjust their schedules. The 
results of this survey were forwarded 
to Hope so that the teachers and stu- 
dents could see which professors were 
available and select the courses in 
which they had the greatest interest. 

In February, Hope High sent to 
Dr. Archambault a list of the areas of 
interest. Brown, in turn, assigned pro- 
fessors from the list of volunteers 
that had been compiled in the fall. 
By March 1, the Brown-Hope Project 
was underway. 

During the spring, additional re- 
quests were forwarded to Brown. 
When possible, the requests were 
met. A total of 30 supplementary lec- 
tures, discussions, and workshops 
was provided by 45 members of the 
Brown faculty. 

Individual students at Hope 
High were allowed to pick and choose 
among the offerings so that any one 



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lecture might include a combination 
of sophomores, juniors, and seniors. 
Subjects selected included Electronic 
Music, Women in American Society, 
Black Writers Workshop, Draft vs. 
Volunteer Army, Soviet Foreign Pol- 
icy, and, of all things. Continental 
Drift. 

The lectures varied from one or 
two-shot presentations to continuing 
seminars, such as one on fiction writ- 
ing. Above all, the program stressed 
flexibility. Two Hope students who 
were conducting their own study of 
surgery were allowed to dissect a lab- 
oratory mouse at Brown. Most of the 
offerings were in social studies and 
English, with some in music and art. 

"What we did at Hope was all 
supplementary to what was going on 
in class," Professor Archambault 
says. "We made a special effort not to 
impose ourselves on them. I'm ex- 
tremely pleased with the program 
thus far. I happen to believe that a 
university has three functions — 
teaching, research, and community 
service. The Brown-Hope Project is 
an excellent example of the best way 
we can provide community service 
since the program was based on our 
two strengths — research and teach- 
ing." 

Joseph DiPalma, Hope High 
principal, also was enthused with the 
results of the program. "The 50 per- 
cent of our students who participated 
in the program benefited from it and 
were matured by it," he says. "A 
minor miracle was that the lectures 
and workshops were dovetailed into 
the Hope High schedule without dis- 
rupting the regular curriculum — and 
without making the Hope teachers 
feel that they were being upstaged 
by the Brown faculty." 

Assistant Principal James G. 
Dolan was Hope's coordinator for the 
program. He spoke of the opportunity 
for the participating students to un- 
derstand the college picture more 
closely and to see professors "as hu- 
man beings and not as Gods from 
Mount Olympus." He said that some 
of the students probably thought that 
they'd never get near a college pro- 



fessor, if they thought of college at 
all. 

"You can't measure the effect 
this program may have had on this 
particular type of high school stu- 
dent," Dolan says. "But it had to be 
positive." 

The students at Hope weren't 
the only ones to benefit from the edu- 
cational program. The professors, for 
example, were excited by the poten- 
tial in this sort of liaison with the sec- 
ondary schools and they personally 
profited from the change of pace it 
provided them in their daily routine. 
In addition, the professors became 
more aware of the problems of the 
secondary schools, such as heavy 
work loads and frustratingly high 
teacher-pupil ratios. The program 
was one of "reverse enrichment" for 
the faculty. Professor Archambault 
says. 

TP here was one other by-product of 
•*• the Brown-Hope Project. Both the 
chairman of the education department 
and Frank Acker freely admit that 
many colleges across the country. 
Brown included, have had a bad press 
the past three or four years. The two 
men most closely associated with 
Brown-Hope see the program as a 
step toward creating better town- 
gown relationships and restoring 
some of Brown's lost good will. 

"There will always be a natural 
misunderstanding between a univer- 
sity and its host community," Dr. 
Archambault says. "Much of this 
misunderstanding results from each 
group not knowing enough about the 
other. With Brown-Hope on the 
books, the Providence School De- 
partment and the students and staff 
at Hope High have gained a new re- 
spect for the Brown faculty. These 
people now know that the Brown 
professors have a concern for the 
community that surrounds them." 

There is every indication that 
Brown plans to expand its coopera- 
tion with the local schools. During the 
spring, the University community re- 
lations subcommittee on education met 



with Dr. Kramer. Out of the discus- 
sion came an agreement that Brown 
professors who could not adjust their 
schedules to the Hope High program 
would conduct similar sessions in- 
stead at Central High, another Provi- 
dence school that has had internal 
troubles. Before the close of the aca- 
demic year, 15 lectures were offered 
at Central and there are hopes for a 
more detailed program this fall. 

Educators generally agree that 
there is still a question as to whether 
we have reached the moment in time 
where the walls separating the col- 
leges and the communities are ready 
to come tumbling down — as Dr. 
Kramer suggests. But one thing is 
sure — starting with the Brown-War- 
ren Educational Project of 1959, the 
University has made a substantial 
contribution to the achievement of 
this goal. JB- 



One of the faculty members participating 
in the high school project a year ago was 
Philosophy Professor Vincent Tomas, who 
lectured at both Central and Mount Pleas- 
ant high schools (opposite). 



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31 



One Man s 



35th 



For many alumni there is a certain mystery — a sense of 
excitement — when preparing to return to their college 
for a major reunion. To record some of the activities that 
prompt a man to travel several thousand miles to attend 
his reunion, the editors assigned a photographer to fol- 
low Dr. Charles B. David, a Berkeley, Calif., psychiatrist, 
during the four-day Commencement weekend. In Dr. 
David's case, there was more than the usual amount of 
anticipation as he returned to Brown for his 35th. 

For one thing, he had never been back for a reunion. 
There was the added appeal of seeing old classmates, most 
of them for the first time since graduation. Then, there 
was the honor of serving as a class marshal, a position he 
earned as a result of his active work for the University on 
the West Coast. But the greatest incentive for his return 
to Brown was to see his son, Fred, graduate on June 7 as a 
third-generation Brown man. 

Charles David was graduated from Lake View High 
School in Chicago in 1931, worked a year, and then en- 
tered Brown in the fall of 1932. One of the outstanding 
members of his high school class, he had excelled aca- 
demically, participated in sports and dramatics, and had 
written for his school paper. His father, Jacob David '99, 
was a Presbyterian minister. 

The years at Brown were equally busy for David, a 
pre-med major who lived in Hope College. He won fresh- 
man numerals in football and basketball, was a member 
of the Brown Christian Association as a sophomore, made 
the Dean's List the next year, and served on the Class 
Day Committee his senior year. 

But for Charles David the college years were also the 
depression years. Most students at that time found it nec- 
essary to work their way through college — and he was no 
exception. As a result, he never had the time to become as 
deeply involved as he would have wished in the extra- 
curricular and social life of the University. 

At the start of his sophomore year, David received 
permission from Sam Arnold, dean of the College, to take 
over from Dean Coffin '33 the concession of selling milk. 



sandwiches, and soda. Each afternoon he'd go to the base- 
ment of Slater Hall, make up his sandwiches, get his ap- 
ples and milk together, and make the rounds of the dorms. 
This wasn't much of a job, but this was the era when 
some Brown students stood at the corner of Thayer and 
Waterman Streets, checked the tires of cars that stopped 
at the light there, and reported the license numbers of 
those that needed new tires to a dealer who provided a 
commission — if he made a sale. 

In 1936, when Sir Norman Angell, a pacifist and 
Labor member of the British Parliament, came to Brown 
and spoke at a convocation, David was among those who 
signed a pledge not to go to war. Five years later — after 
earning his medical degree in 1940 from Loyola — he was 
in uniform. Called to active duty by the Navy in August 
of 1941, he served with the Marines for four months and 
then reported to his ship at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 5; he 
sailed the following morning, missing the Japanese attack 
by only a matter of hours. Commander David served five 
years with the Navy as a medical officer, including a tour 
of duty as chief psychiatrist at the Camp Forrest induc- 
tion center. 

In addition to his private practice in psychiatry and 
psychoanalysis in Berkeley, Dr. David serves as an in- 
structor in psychiatry at the University of California 
Medical School. He is a past president of the Brown Club 
of Alta California and a past regional director of the As- 
sociated Alumni. He's an active worker in the Alumni Sec- 
ondary Schools Program. 

In 1944, Dr. David married Catherine Nelson, a 1941 
graduate of San Diego State College. The couple has three 
children — Judy Ann (26), Fred Charles (22), and James 
Edward (20). His wife was with him for the entire week- 
end, with Judy and Jim arriving in time for the Com- 
mencement ceremonies on Monday. 

After the ceremonies. Dr. David sat down with Asso- 
ciate Editor Jay Barry and a tape recorder and talked 
about his reactions to his 35th Reunion. The words on the 
following pages are his. 



Photographs by MICHAEL BOYER 



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" A fter being away for 35 years, the 
*M. opening cocktail party at Jerry 
Dunn's home started out as an embar- 
rassing experience. Frankly, I had a hard 
time remembering names. But, it's amaz- 
ing how Httle faces change, and the sea 
of faces in that room brought back 
memories of things I thought I'd long 
forgotten — such as Wendell Lund as a 
very serious student with a briefcase full 
of books who went from class to class 
not talking to many people; or Lou No- 
vak, who was a drummer, always run- 
ning to his car after the day was over, 
checking his drums, and then driving to 
Boston; and Mickey O'Reilly beating me 
out for quarterback on the freshman 
team and then the next year muscling 
in on my territory with the sandwich 
and milk concession." 



//•w A Te were the depression babies in 
VV 1936. Dr. Barry Mongillo and I 
roomed in the same dorm in college, 
and at the Pops Concert we chatted 
about how tough it was then and joked 
about how easy things are today. But, 
you know, it's all relative. When we 
think in financial terms it might be a bit 
easier today. In other ways it isn't. At 
least we had a little more to look for- 
ward to in 1936. No matter how tough 
things were, we had the hope of the fu- 
ture." 



The first formal event for 1936's 35th 
was a cocktail party at the home of Jerry 
Dunn in Providence (opposite). The Davids 
are in the center-right of the photograph 
(Mrs. David's dress has a white collar). 
The next night, Dr. David and Dr. Barry 
Mongillo had a chance to talk at the 
Pops Concert. 



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36 



" TP he panel sessions Saturday were var- 
X ied, covering everything from coed 
housing, drugs, and the sexual revolu- 
tion to the need for a medical school at 
Brown. At so many of the sessions they 
kept talking about the polarization be- 
tween the generations. Well, I think this 
war has polarized us to a certain extent. 
But I think there should be a generation 
gap. History will tell you it's always 
been there. It's just that the gap shouldn't 
become a canyon. I think young people 
have a right to their own lifestyles just 
as do the adults. Real problems arise 
only when people get too reactionary — 
on either side of the issue — and can't 
talk to each other." 



// ^J eminiscing comes easy at a college 
JV reunion. It's fun to reminisce, and 
it's interesting to discuss the complex is- 
sues of the day. But there comes a time 
when you have to get out and flex the 
muscles a bit. I hit my tee shot at the 
Wannamoisett Country Club right down 
the middle, my only good drive of the 
day. Some of my classmates who were 
standing around applied the needle, ask- 
ing when I found time to practice medi- 
cine. For men 35 years out of college we 
were doing reasonably well on the golf 
course until one of the group) — there has 
to be a joker in every crowd — walked up 
to the ninth tee, paused, and said, 'Oops, 
I'd better go back. I forgot my heart 
pacer.' At that point, the pace [no pun] 
got a little slower." 




Dr. David attended several of the Saturday 
morning panel discussions. He is in the 
foreground of the picture, opposite. Later 
he eagerly picked out some clubs for the 
golf outing at Wannamoisett Country Club. 



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38 




There is something very special about 
a Brown Commencement Weekend, 
especially that long march down the Hill 
with alumni, students, and friends of the 
University all coming together. It repre- 
sents not just pomp and circumstance 
but also tradition and stability. Partly 
because of this I think the Brown Com- 
mencement will survive the coming 
times in its basic form. Oh, some changes 
may be inevitable. But I don't think 
Brown's format will change that much. 
Although young people are demanding 
more change, quicker change, I'm not 
really convinced that they want many of 
these changes. The fact that in their 
dress and hair styles, for example, they 
are going back to the ways of their 
grandparents indicates to me that they 
are looking for something more stable 
than today's existence. The young feel 
that something in the past was more 
secure and they are groping for it." 



Dr. David was a class marshal for the 
Commencement Procession on Monday 
morning, the first he has walked in since 
his graduation day. President Hornig is 
visible at the far left of the photograph. 



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// Y was busting out all over watching 
I my son graduate. He worked hard, 
did it with a purpose, and I was very, 
very proud. He and I were walking past 
Harvey's after Commencement and Fred 
looked in the store window and said, 
'Oh, Fathers' Day is coming up. I'd better 
think of something.' And I said, 'You 
don't have to, son. You've already done 
it.' " 



The happiest moment of the weekend for 
Charles David was greeting his son after 
Fred David had become a third generation 
Brown man. After the Commencement 
ceremonies, he and Mrs. David were in- 
vited to the president's luncheon for special 
guests. In the photograph below, he talks 
with Mrs. Hornig in the receiving line. 



"O 



ne of the reasons I'd never been back 
to a 1936 reunion is that I wasn't 
part of the social scene at Brown and I 
always imagined that a reunion would 
be just an extension of the social life 
way back then. The stereotype of a class 
reunion has someone standing isolated 
at the edge of the group with classmates 
politely making conversation by asking 
him who he is and what he's doing. Ac- 
tually, it's nothing like that. My son 
once asked me why I've been so active 
in sending West Coast boys to Brown 
if my experience here wasn't a happy 
one. Well, to me this is an entirely dif- 
ferent matter. Brown has so much to 
offer today that if a boy living in Cali- 
fornia wants a top-flight education and 
has the spirit of adventure he can truly 
benefit from four years on College Hill. 
And though my years at Brown were 
somewhat disappointing from a personal 
standpoint, I look back on college as the 
most maturing experience of my life." 




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//^"^ne of the things that kept coining up 
\^ in discussions, no matter where I 
went, was the drug problem. It concerns 
everyone, both young and old. I've been 
associated with the Berkeley students for 
25 years, and I'll have to admit that I 
find the young people exciting and stim- 
ulating — and, occasionally irritating. It 
all started in Berkeley in 1964 — this 
youth culture — and now in Berkeley I 
see a swing away from activism to a 
more serious approach to life. This in- 
cludes a swing from drugs. One of the 
motivating factors behind the use of 
drugs by young people is that they 
wanted something that they could claim 
as their thing. And, you know, they be- 
came somewhat annoyed when some 
adults started taking pot, too. 'You have 
alcohol. Leave this to us,' they seemed 
to say. I saw recently in the Wall Street 
Journal where the college students are 
beginning to discover beer and wine. So, 
maybe we've come full cycle." 



//AS I left Brown, my mind wandered 
^\_ back over those four college years 
in the mid-1930's and then over the 
events of this four-day reunion. Gradu- 
ation for me was not a very happy time. 
In high school I had been a 'big' man 
— academically, athletically, and socially 
— and I just never reached that level at 
Brown. At my graduation I was frus- 
trated at not having achieved all that I 
wanted to in those four short years. I 
still hadn't been admitted to medical 
school, so I was leaving Brown not 
knowing where I was going. But, as I 
sat at this graduation, 35 years later, I 
was overwhelmed by the emotion of it 
all. I felt joy in participating, but at the 
end I was fighting back the tears. There's 
a great deal of sentiment to a Brown re- 
union — and I'm afraid that at least one 
old grad left College Hill with eyes that 
were damp." 



At the presidential luncheon, Dr. David 
sat next to the distinguished artist Georgia 
O'Keeffe, who had just received an hon- 
orary degree from the University. After 
the luncheon, the Davids walked slowly 
down Brown street toward their car and 
departure from Providence. 



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and commissions on drug abuse and drug 
education. His credentials both from the 
technical and from the human side are out- 
standing. 

Each book opens with an introductory 
note addressed to the student, followed by 
some objective description of the nature of 
the substance, and what it does. There then 
follows a discussion of the risks of the use 
and the legal aspects of that particular sub- 
stance. Most importantly, there is a clear 
orientation toward the people who use 
these substances as to why they use them, 
whether they can stop, what addiction is, 
what dependence is, etc. 

There are also a series of pre-tests to 
indicate the level of sophistication of the 
student population. Too often educators as- 
sume incorrectly that because students have 
had some exposure to the drug scene that 
they are thus quite knowledgeable. To some 
extent, student knowledge of peer behavior 
while under the influence of certain sub- 
stances is, of course, more extensive than 
that of the teacher, but it may not be nearly 
as extensive or as broad-based as one would 
like to think. Rather it may be that the re- 
action of a particular student to what was 
allegedly Drug X was not due to that sub- 
stance, but had a very great deal to do with 
the personality of the user rather than the 
chemical attributes of the substance. 

The titles of the books themselves give 



some key to Lewis' approach. The books 
need not be approached in any specific 
order, since each is self-contained. They are 
titled : 

1. Psychedelics: LSD, Marijuana, Mes- 

caline and Others 

2. Opiates: Opium, Morphine, Heroin 

3. Stimulants: Amphetamines, Caffine, 

Cocaine 

4. Cigarettes, Clue and Other Inhalents 

5. Alcohol, Barbiturates and Tranquil- 

izers 

To those of us who spend a great deal 
of time relating to the college drug scene, 
there would seem to be relatively little to 
be optimistic about. The hazards of a sub- 
stance are no deterrent to its use in any age 
group. If they were, the sales and profits of 
the tobacco companies would not be con- 
tinuing to rise in spite of the widespread 
dissemination of information about the 
hazards of cigarettes coupled with the ban- 
ning of cigarette commercials on TV. One 
does not equate cigarette use with the il- 
literate or the intellectually inferior. A 
cigarette smoker reasonably defends his be- 
havior on the somewhat dubious premise 
that he alone is harmed by the adverse ef- 
fect. That a devoted widow and sorrowful 
children survive the 50,000 lung cancer 
deaths in this country every year (and the 
multiples of this number who die from 
cigarette-related cardiovascular diseases) 
might be construed as "harmful ". 

The "drug problem" has intrigued en- 
forcement officials, politicians (regardless 
of their stature), well-intentioned but piti- 
fully naive educators, and others. 

The horrors of the rising rate of heroin 
addiction in New York City have been 
widely publicized, but latest figures show 
there are more than four times as many 
addicts to alcohol in that city as there are 
to heroin. There are more than four times 
as many deaths from alcohol as there are 
from heroin, and yet the funds devoted to 
heroin treatment are 30 times greater than 
funds available for alcohol programs. It 
has been estimated that only one in 20 al- 
coholics in New York City has any facility 
available for significant regular therapy. 
This is in no way meant to relate to dis- 
cussion about the relative hazards of the 
substances. It is meant to imply that our 
problem is not drugs; that is why so many 
of the course curricula and other programs 



that have been pursued with such enthusi- 
asm have had so little effect over the past 
few years. 

Dr. Joel Goldstein of Carnegie-Mellon 
University recently testified before a Senate 
committee that one of the biggest problems 
in any of our so-called "drug education 
programs" is that nobody has ever done 
any hard-nosed, post-program evaluation of 
the effectiveness, and that he has a sus- 
picion that there are some programs that 
possibly could encourage drug use rather 
than discourage it. The writer thoroughly 
agrees with this concept. 

Drugs, in and of themselves, are not 
dangerous; it is only when these substances 
are ingested by people that the risks to self 
and others may become apparent. It is in- 
deed time that we abandon the lecture con- 
cept by older "authorities" and, at most, 
delegate to such persons only the most 
cursory of introductory remarks on the 
chemical nature of the substances involved. 
The question to be discussed and the an- 
swer we would like to find is, "What is 
there about people, or the society in which 
they live, that creates in them a need for 
the substances which will give them a 
flight from reality?" It is all right for "us" 
to point at "them" and decry the responsi- 
bility. But every reader of this article, re- 
gardless of age or economic status, knows 
in his own company or social group people 
who are psychologically addicted to tran- 
quilizers, sedatives, amphetamines, or al- 
cohol, and — not as infrequently as it might 
seem — to all four. 

Two keys to success in drug education 
are the occasional utilization by peer groups 
of "authorities" (not authoritarians) and a 
continuing program. One night stands are 
of no value to anyone. 

Lewis' coverage of the cannabis issue 
is excellent. It is low key, and well docu- 
mented. It has long been common knowl- 
edge among those of us dealing every day 
with the problem that the infrequent user 
of marijuana seldom got into any significant 
difficulties, but that the person who used it 
several times a week did. Part of the diffi- 
culty in assessing this fact is trying to de- 
cide how much of a personality problem 
there is that makes the individual embark 
on a heavy and frequent use of cannabis. 

As the author says, "This concern about 
personality change underlies much of the 
medical thinking about marijuana's long- 



term effects. What is needed now is actual 
information to support or refute this con- 
cern." 

Since the publication of these books. 
Dr. Julius Axelrod and his co-workers at 
the National Institutes of Health have given 
us some medical research to show that the 
harmful effects of frequent and heavy use 
of marijuana are due to its very slow excre- 
tion from the body. It has a half-life of 
about 56 hours and with appropriately 
radioactive-labelled cannabis, it could be 
detected as traces in the urine for as long 
as a week after smoking. 

There can be no doubt about the fact 
that marijuana, when abused, can have 
serious psychological effects. There is much 
that we do not know about the psycho- 
pharmacology of these substances, about 
our inability to identify either LSD or can- 
nabis in the blood by readily available 
techniques, about the thoroughly confused 
state of the teratogenic effects. Even for us 
who feel that alcohol is the most dangerous 
drug of all, there is no reasonable justifica- 
tion at present for the legalization of mari- 
juana, but there is a crying need for the 
reduction of penalties which characterize 
as a felony what might more reasonably be 
classified as personal risk-taking behavior. 

Lewis' books are not meant merely to 
be read as "drug books" but to provide an 
educational format for a workable program. 
He is not an educator in the classic sense, 
yet he has produced the most viable pro- 
gram on drug education which is publicly 
available at present. Peer concern, with 
older consultants as invited, currently seems 
the best approach in deterring drug use. 
Evaluation of these and other programs is 
an absolute must. Good will, enthusiasm, 
stricter law enforcement, and political plati- 
tudes have been notable failures. Lewis' 
plan deserves serious consideration. 
ROSWILL D. JOHNSON, M.D. 

Roswell Johnson is director of the health 
service at Brown. His article, "Box Seats at 
the Drama," appeared in the December 
1969 issue of the BAM. 



Any word from 
Merlin lately? 

Doctor Cobb's Game. By R. V. Cassill. Ber- 
nard Ceis Associates, New York. 533 pages. 
$7.95. 

The requirement of originality has 
rested heavily on the realist novelist, im- 
prisoning him too often within the neces- 
sarily narrow limits of his own direct ex- 
perience. The reasoning must go as follows: 



only by writing of what I have myself 
known can I be authentic, and only within 
myself can I find what it is that makes one 
man's vision different from another's. But 
autobiography is a spring soon drained, 
and the writer who has reached bottom is 
faced with bitter options: he can fall silent, 
or he can repeat himself in eventual self- 
parody, or he can give up his life to his art, 
trying over and over to make himself the 
new hero of his next book. The costs, both 
literary and human, of devotion to this 
conception are very high, as the careers of 
Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and 
Ernest Hemingway illustrate. 

The way out of the trap has always 
been there: to put aside the demand for 
originality of plot and character, providing 
or demanding only a voice that is new. 
That, after all, is as much as we ask of a 
poet, and that is enough; we should expect 
no more of writers in other forms. Classic 
precedents abound: Chaucer, Shakespeare, 
and Milton may never have invented a 
single plot, and their lives were the lives of 
writers, not of models for fictional heroes. 
So when serious writers of fiction like 
William Styron, Truman Capote, and Nor- 
man Mailer turn to received materials in 
their more recent works, it may be a sign of 
health in the genre, evidence of escape from 
autobiography, from the prison of the self 
and the consuming role of hero. 

In Dr. Cobb's Came, R. V. Cassill has 
taken the rough stuff of his fiction from 
England's Profumo case, which excited 
readers of tabloid newspapers and scandal 
magazines In the early '60's. The book thus 
has for sure the sensational attractions of 
sex and politics, more of. the first, be it 
observed, though there is the necessary 
cabinet minister among the call-girls, 
pimps, writers, artists, and the idle aristo- 
crats who make up the rout that capers 
about Cassill's Comus, the Doctor Cobb of 
the title. 

Comus, like his mother Circe, changed 
men into beasts. Dr. Cobb aims at a reverse 
magic that will convert a notably unsympa- 
thetic group of people, all in some measure 
psychic cripples, into men and women of 
vision and energy who will lead England 
out of its aimless decline, its "failure to 
imagine a reason for its own existence," 
into a Lawrentian utopia, where, according 
to one discipline, "the only mass commu- 
nication is by gossip. The transportation 
will be by pony cart, carriages made by 
craftsmen, and sidewheel steamers. The 

holidays will be for public f . The 

mills will be powered by over-shot wheels." 

All this is to be accomplished, some- 
how, by sex. Cobb finds a connection, 
though the reader will be hard pressed to 
do so: "It had come to him, little by little, 
that the political and sexual revolution — 
if they mean anything — have to be the 



same thing." By "awakening" his cabinet 
minister "to what it means to be a fully 
sexual human being" he hoped to "change 
the complexion of a military system that is 
getting less human with every technological 
advance." 

It does not work, of course. Cobb 
claims the Faustian sin, sees his failure as 
the result of going "too far into secret 
matters best left unexamined." Before his 
trial he tries himself. Alone in a country 
cottage, dosed for days "with scopalomine 
and probably mescaline," he pours out onto 
tapes a bizarre inquisition in which, in 
archaic language, he transforms his in- 
trigues into witchcraft and devil-worship. 
But there is nothing in the novel to suggest 
that the magic is other than in his own 
mind and in those of a few susceptible dis- 
ciples, and he is brought to earth, not by 
avenging angels or by demons hungry for 
souls, but by the greed, the lust, the vanity, 
the fears of the human beings with whom 
he has involved himself, and by the callous 
exploitation of a press in search of scandal. 

It is an important theme right now. 
Disillusioned with reason, sick of the nasty 
world we've made with our technology, we 
cast about for irrational or, to be more 
charitable, extra-rational simplicities. Nor- 
man Mailer sniffs after magic in NASA, 
the very tabernacle of technique. Astrology, 
numerology, Zen, grass, and acid — all are 
short-cuts to enlightenment or evasions of 
the mundane. But any powers we release 
are not powers of healing and order. "The 
mind encountering chaos is transformed 
into a part of chaos," as one of Cassill's 
characters observes, and the mind that 
evades reality becomes a blank or a witches' 
sabbath of absurd hallucinations. 

We should not cosset ourselves by 
thinking that we are living through the 
transition into some strange new age of 
faith. It is not just that we do not know 
what rough beast is slouching toward its 
Bethlehem; rather, it is likely that there 
will be no beast at all, and that our appetite 
for the irrational, our longing for magic, is 
another cop-out, a poetic excuse for turning 
aside from the perhaps insoluble complexity 
of our strictly human situation. Everyone 
loses in Dr. Cobb's game; that, at least, we 
can learn from R. V. Cassill's uncomforta- 
ble fable. 
EDWIN BRIGGS 

Edwin Briggs is chairman of the Department 
of English at Wheaton College, Norton, 
Mass., and reviews regularly for the Boston 
Globe. Verlin Cassill is art active member 
of the creative writing group of Brown's 
English department. 



45 



Reunion 
roundup 

Edited by Jay Barry and Hazel Goff 



Perhaps the real flavor of a Brown Re- 
union is captured in the reports of the five- 
year groups, for each group had its own 
plans, programs, and traditions. 

The reunion reports for 1971 follow. In 
the listing of names of those attending, an 
asterisk indicates that a man's wife was 
also present. 

f^ A Down through the years, the class 
\xTt has enjoyed the tradition of an an- 
nual reunion rather than the usual five-year 
get-together. That practice was continued 
in 1971, although our numbers continue 
to dwindle. Nevertheless, Elisha (Lish) C. 
Mowry, the Rev. George A. Humphries, 
and Joseph C. Bailey and Mrs. Bailey re- 
turned to College Hill for various activities 
throughout the four-day weekend. The 
numbers were small but the affection for 
Alma Mater remained strong. 

f\/^ The weekend of June 4-7 was the 
\y|^ occasion for our "last formal re- 
union." Ten members of the class, which 
numbered 229 men in 1902, returned to Col- 
lege Hill for the class luncheon at Sharpe 
Refectory on June 5. This was a good per- 
centage of the 25 men still living. 

Henry G. Carpenter and Stephen E. 
Wright were co-chairmen of the affair. 
Others who were present included Paul 
Matteson, Judge Walter A. Briggs, Dr. Alex 
Burgess (president of the class), Robert F. 
Field, Harold W. James, Sid Bellows (class 
treasurer), Joseph Smith, and W. Clayton 
Carpenter. 

Most of the men who returned were 
from the southern New England area. How- 
ever, Clayton Carpenter, who is not related 
to the co-chairman, came all the way from 
Denver. 

At the class luncheon, Walter Briggs, 
a retired judge, served as toastmaster. Mrs. 
Douglas Mercer, widow of the man who 
served as president of '06 since its freshman 
year, was a special guest and spoke briefly 
to the group. Her husband died earlier in 
the spring (page 65). 

•* f^ Five classmates, four of them with 
i\^ their ladies, were in attendance 
Saturday afternoon, June 5, at the home of 
Charlie and Mrs. Post along the Barrington 
River. The pace of the 61st Reunion was 
moderate — but the memories of past re- 
unions were strong. Those attending in- 
cluded Ralph M. Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. Wil- 
liam B. Freeman, Mr. and Mrs. Lester A. 
Round, and Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Spicer. 

UThe Agawam Hunt Club was the 
scene of our 60th Reunion. The 
group gathered there Sunday afternoon, 
with wives, for general discussion, some 
pleasant reminiscing, and the class dinner. 



Five of our classmates managed to make 
the long march down the Hill Monday 
morning. This group included Phil Curtis, 
Howard Hubbard, Robert C. Murphy, Rob- 
ert F. Skillings, and Arthur E. Staff. Special 
guests at our dinner on Sunday included 
Mrs. Earle B. Arnold, Mrs. Judah Semenoff, 
and Mrs. Charles P. Sisson. 

Those back for the reunion: Curtis, 
Hastie, Heydon, Hubbard*, Kenyon, Mur- 
phy*, Saacke, Skillings, Brent Smith*, 
Swanson, Staff, and Yatman. 

»* jf There was no special reunion on 
JL"1I this off-year for '14. However, 
some of the classmates did return to the 
Hill for one or more of the reunion activi- 
ties. This group included Elmer G. Mac- 
Dowell, Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Brackett, 
Maurice A. Wolf, Leon N. McKenzie, and 
Charles L. Woolley. 

"1 C ^ Friday afternoon reception for 
J.^ seven classmates at the Hope Club 
was the highlight of our off-year reunion. 
George W. Waterman arranged the pro- 
gram, which included the annual meeting 
and the Alumni Dinner. Those returning in- 
cluded : L. Campbell, Copeland, Dyer, 
Fagan, Hall, MacLeod, and G. Waterman. 

»* /^ On its 55th Reunion, the class met 
JLO fo'' 3 cocktail party at the home of 
Stan and Ruth McLeod prior to the Alumni 
Dinner. The following members were pres- 
ent: Prof. C. Emanuel Ekstrom and his wife. 
Bill and Pauline Hughes, Herman and Fan- 
nie Davis, Mr. and Mrs. John J. Cashman, 
Frank E. Paine, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Gus Hout- 
man, Mr. and Mrs. McLeod, Mr. and Mrs. 
Francis J. O'Brien, Lincoln Arnold, Bill 
Graham, Steve McNeil, Leon Brower, Her- 
man Feinstein, Mr. and Mrs. Amasa Willis- 
ton, Clif Heathcote, Franklin Smith, Dr. 
Maurice Adelman, Harry Burton, and Maj. 
Gen. William C. Chase and Mrs. Chase. 

The Alumni Dinner was a very special 
event for '16 this year since our Harry 
Burton received a Brown Bear Award. He 
was escorted to the platform by Francis J. 
O'Brien. The latter distinguished himself 
on Monday by serving as a class marshal. 
Among those who marched down the Hill 
were Adelman, Chase, Graham, and Fein- 
stein. Attending the Pops Concert and the 
luncheon for the 50-plus classes were the 
team of Graham and O'Brien, which has 
the ring of something out of vaudeville. 

»* f^ Nine classmates ventured back to 
JLy College Hill for the 54th Reunion. 
Arrangements were made by Dr. E. M. 
Knight who was unable to attend because 
of illness, and Secretary Carlos G. Wright. 
Those who returned included Thomas B. 
Appleget, Frank C. Cambio, Howard D. 
Corkum, Irving S. Eraser, William N. 
Fritsch, Dr. Samuel Morein, Wayland W. 
Rice, Raymond J. Walsh, and Carlos G. 
Wright. 

»* rt Members of '18 held an informal 
^ Jj reunion in June, attending the 
Alumni Dinner and the Pops Concert and 
participating in the Commencement Pro- 



cession and the luncheon that followed. 
Those back on the Hill were: Bennett, Bliss, 
Chafee, Kimball, Grimes, McDowell, and 
Adler. 

»* ^% With the plans handled by a re- 
jLz7 union committee headed by Roger 
T. Clapp, the class enjoyed a nostalgic 
weekend on College Hill. Friday afternoon 
the men and their ladies enjoyed cocktails 
at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Joseph C. 
Johnston, 70 Laurel Ave., and then jour- 
neyed together to the Alumni Dinner. The 
class dinner was held at the Rhode Island 
Country Club in Barrington on June 6. For 
an off-year we did well, with 13 men and 
eight women at the Alumni Dinner and 19 
men and 13 ladies on hand for the Sunday 
festivities. Thomas F. Black is serving as 
president of the class, with William H. 
Edwards as vice-president; Arthur J. Levy, 
secretary; and H. Raymond Searles, treas- 
urer. 

^ f\ Eleven classmates, some of them 
^at\J with their ladies, attended a vari- 
ety of reunion activities between June 4-7. 
The group journeyed to the Squantum Club 
for cocktails on Friday, returning to the 
campus in time to take in the Alumni Din- 
ner. Those returning: Dr. Lawson*, Dr. 
Fulton*, Bogle*, Ratigan, L. Smith, Barlow, 
Lovenberg, Sinclair*, Lownes, Jenckes*, and 
Lawton. 

^ »* Using Poland House in the West 
^U\. Quadrangle as headquarters, 42 
classmates returned to the scene of their 
youth to celebrate the 50th Reunion. The 
highlight of the four-day affair was the 
presentation to the University of the class 
gift of $517,000, the largest such gift ever 
given to Brown. 

With Bill Brightman serving as reunion 
chairman, assisted by Bentley Mackintosh 
and Fred Itschner, a beautifully paced four- 
day program was arranged. Perhaps the 
social high point came Saturday when the 
members of the class, together with their 
ladies, attended the class dinner at Squan- 
tum Club and then drove back to the cam- 
pus for the very lovely Pops Concert. 

Bill Brightman was elected president of 
the class for the next five years, with Wil- 
liam Hall as secretary and Bentley Mackin- 
tosh as treasurer. The executive committee 
includes the officers and Carlton L. Dun- 
ham, Dr. Maurice M. Pike, and H. Stanton 
Smith. 

Those returning: Andersen*, Dr. Bald- 
ridge, Black, Brightman*, Buerhaus, Bush*, 
Caputi*, earmark*, Colby*, Connelly, 
Crawford*, Csepely, Dunham*, Faulkner, 
Faunce, Dr. Fish*, Guillemette, Col. 
Gywnne, Hall*, Itschner*, Knight*, Mack- 
intosh*, Magnuson*, Marks*, Dr. Mas- 
saniso*, McKenny*, Dr. Pike*, Coe Mills, 
Minard*, Muccio*, Oden*, Sheldon, Smith*, 
Stevens*, Sunderland*, Rev. Thornton*, 
Tinker*, Wilcox, Wilson, Dr. Windsberg*, 
Elmer Wright, Yeaton. 

<* ^ Our tradition of holding an an- 
^^^ nual reunion each spring was con- 
tinued. The program included cocktails at 



Uosis Juodvalkis 




Passing through the Van Wickle Gates 
on Commencement morning are Henry 
Carpenter '06, Arthur Staff '11, and 
Robert Cushman Murphy '11. 



47 



the Graduate Center Friday afternoon, with 
Ron and Clara Smith serving as hosts. The 
men then went to the Alumni Dinner while 
the gals adjourned to Clara's apartment for 
a buffet supper. 

There was another social hour at the 
Graduate Center Saturday evening, with 
Mr. and Mrs. Townes Harris the hosts. The 
class dinner followed, and then it was over 
to the College Green for one of the loveliest 
of the Pops Concerts. As usual, the class 
breakfast at the University Club Monday 
morning provided sufficient energy to en- 
able a good number of '23 men to march 
in the procession. 

Ronald Smith is president of the class, 
with Bob Litchfield, Stephen McClellan, 
and Chet Worthington as vice-presidents, 
Don Thorndike as secretary, and Townes 
Harris as treasurer. Thorndike served as 
reunion chairman for 1971. 

Those who attended: Brady*, Braitsch*, 
Decker*, Gregory*, R. Henshaw and guest, 
W. Henshaw*, Armstrong*, Jeffers*, Mar- 
tin*, McClellan, Summerfield*, Ronald 
Smith*, Thorndike*, Worthington*, Soder- 
bach*, Harris, Paasche, Mrs. Nat Chase, 
Mrs. John O'Neil, and Mrs. William Shields. 

0^ /t A small group of alumni and two 
^Jl^Jf very special guests gathered to 
celebrate our 47th Reunion by attending 
the Alumni Dinner on Friday evening and 
the Pops Concert a night later. The group 
included Arlan and Sylvia Coolidge, Ran- 
dolph and Settle Flather, Denny and "Pop" 
Greene, Bob and Nelia Goff, Jack and Ruth 
Lubrano, Jimmy Sims, and our guests, Lois 
Bigelow and Miss Alberta Brown, the latter 
completing her final year as director of 
admission at Pembroke. We were proud to 
see classmate Coolidge playing with the 
Rhode Island Philharmonic at the beautiful 
Pops Concert Saturday night. 

^ jT The 45th Reunion brought 44 
^ U classmates back to College Hill. In 
many cases, the old grads were accom- 
panied by their wives and other members 
of their families. Altogether, 80 people were 
on hand for the four-day gathering. 

What better way to start a reunion 
than with a social hour? Well, none that 
we can think of. After early afternoon reg- 
istration at Buxton House in the Wriston 
Quad, we traveled to the home of Anne 
and Joe Ress for generous libation. The 
men broke away to attend the Alumni 
Dinner, but the gals remained behind to 
savor Anne's buffet dinner. The sexes came 
together later, some at the Campus Dance 
and others in the relative comfort of the 
Buxton lounge. 

Bob Reichley, associate vice-president 
of the University, was our guest speaker 
Saturday during our luncheon at the Grad- 
uate Center. In a bow to posterity, the 
class picture was taken — and then we had 
the good sense to leave town. The good 
ship. Mount Hope, took the men and their 
guests on a delightful cruise on Narragan- 
sett Bay. The Pops Concert provided a de- 
lightful conclusion to Saturday, with guest 
artist John Gary in excellent voice. 

The theme for Sunday was 'Tun in the 




Forty-two members of the Class of 1921 were on hand for their 50th Rcnnwti, 
highlighted by the presentation of the largest 50th Reunion Gift to the 
University in its history and by the traditional Commencement Procession. 



Sun." The scene was the Great Island home 
of Florence and Walt Jpnes in Salt Pond, 
Point Judith. We're proud to say that the 
men of '26 were exceptionally well repre- 
sented in the traditional Commencement 
Procession Monday morning. 

The list of those returning is as fol- 
lows: C. Andrews*, R. Andrew*, Anthony*, 
Austin*, Bayerschmidt, Byrnes*, Abby 
Brown and his son, Abby, Jr., '56, Chap- 
man*, Chisholm*, Cruise, Libbitt Day 
(widow of Robert F. Day), Dee*, Pagan*, 
Farrow*, Field, E. Friedman*, Gelder*, 
Goff*, Hassell*. 

Also, Hecht*, lonata, Johnston*, R. 
Jones, W. Jones*, Kapstein*, Kaufer, 
Keach, Keigwin*, MacKay, Moriarity, Mul- 
ler, Norton-Taylor*, Nagle*, Olney*, Or- 
tolano*. Payor, Perry*, Ress*, Rogol*, 
Sciotti*, See* (plus son, Steve, and wife), 
Smira*, Spencer*, Thompson*, and Wid- 
nall*. 

«^ Q The 43rd consecutive reunion of 
^ Jj the Class of '28 was held Friday 
evening, June 4, at the home of Earl and 
Helen Bradley in Seekonk, Mass. A total of 
21 classmates was on hand for the reunion, 
16 of them with their wives. Following a 
social hour, a sumptuous buffet was served. 

During the short business meeting 
which followed, a letter from Bob Evans 
was read in which he announced his resig- 
nation as vice-president. A committee was 
named by Clint Owens to name a successor. 
Bob still has an avid interest in his class — 
but fishing, golfing, and the leisure life of 
Naples, Fla., has now claimed him. 

Those returning: E. Bradley*, Calder*, 
Cleaves*, D'Ugo*, Conlong, Eddy*, Goff*, 
Halewood*, Hodge, Hollingworth*, Howell*, 
Lisker*, Merchant, Mills, W. O'Neill*, 
Owen*, Paolino*, Parkhurst, Pett*, Scott*, 
and Woodruff*. 

'%'* To the Class of '31 on its 40th Re- 
^/ JL union went the honor of having 
the largest turnout in 1971. Our attendance 
of 94 included 51 classmates, 33 wives, and 
ten guests. 

The highlight of the four-day weekend 
came on Saturday, June 5. Two distin- 
guished guests, Chet Worthington '23 and 
Jim Fullerton, spoke to our group at the 
luncheon at Rhode Island Country Club. 
Chet did some reminiscing about the 1931 
graduation, using notes from the Alumni 
Monthly he edited so well for so many 
years. Fullerton, former hockey coach and 
now assistant alumni executive officer, 
spoke about the athletic situation at Brown. 

One of the world's best clambakes was 
offered that evening at Squantum Club in 
East Providence. A number of prizes were 
given out at this time, including the follow- 
ing: coming the greatest distance — Francis 
D. Gurll of Riverside, Calif., Ernest S. 
Hawkinson of Caracas, Venezuela, and 
Joseph M. McDonough of Manchester, 
N.H.; best golf score — Bernie Buonanno and 
Ed Osberg; earliest retirement — S. Abbott 
Hutchinson. 

Dave Edes regaled the group with a 
running narrative of how he survived eco- 
nomically at Brown from 1927 to 1931 by 



shining shoes and having the concession for 
renting caps and gowns at Commencement. 
Dave brought with him and exhibited his 
original pair of shoe-polishing brushes and 
polishing cloth — both still in good condi- 
tion. 

Those who returned: Allen*, Arnold, 
Bowen*, L. Briggs, Class Marshal Ralph 
Briggs, C. Brown*, J. Brown*, Brugge*, 
Buonanno*, Connor, Coughlan*, Crane, 
Cronan*, Del Sesto*, Demmler, Eddy*, Edes, 
Galkin*, Gasbarro*, Gerry*, Greenfield*, 
Gurll, Hawkinson*, Hindley*, Hood*, and 
Class Marshal S. Abbott Hutchinson*. 

Also, Kenny*, Laudati, Mackenzie*, 
Associate Chief Marshal Joseph H. Mahood, 
Jr.*, Main, Marshall, Mawney*, McDon- 
ough, Ray Nelson*, Sterling Nelson*, 
Novogroski*, Osberg*, Peterson, Richard- 
son*, Roche*, Sanek*, Schulz*, Schweikart, 
Dr. Irwin W. Sizer, who received an honor- 
ary degree, Sondheim and guest, Stevens*, 
Thayer*, Wenlworth*, Clint Williams, Max 
Zusman and guests. 

Paul F. Mackesey, alumni executive 
officer, was a guest of the class at various 
points throughout the weekend. 

^ <% With Chairman R. A. "Rip" Hurley 
^ ^1 making the plans, the men of '32 
enjoyed another fine reunion. The wives 
were included in our programs, both on the 
campus and at Wannamoisett Country 
Club. The following executive committee 
was elected: T. Dexter Clarke, Dr. George 
E. Kirk, William H. Koster, Dr. Leo V. 




Serving as clnss marshals was a family 
affair for Richard ]. Tracy '46 (who 
just served two years as president of 
the Associated Alumni) and his wife 
(Nan Bouchard P'46). 



Levins, and the Hon. William H. McSoley, 
Jr. 

The list of those back for our 39th is as 
follows: Canning, Cusick*, Ellis, Essex, 
Goldberg*, Glunts*, Hurley*, James, Kos- 
ter*, Mackesey*, McSoley*, Reiss, Ripley*, 
Salomon, Schreiner, Tillinghast, Waterman*, 
White*, Young*, and Zucker*. 

^ /t A steak cook-out at the home of 
^■jfc Alan K. DeWitt in Barrington fea- 
tured our 37th Reunion. The following 13 
couples attended: Dr. Fletcher*, Dr. Saw- 
yer*, M. W. Allen*, Buttner*, Caito*, 
Casey*, DeWitt*, Earle*, Flaxman*, Gross*, 
Herman*, Patton*, and Dr. Suesman*. 

'J /^ Close to 50 classmates returned for 
O V our Dixie Dugan Reunion. And a 
good one it was, too. Chairman Alfred J. 
Owens and his committee of Despres, 
Wilks, Cadwgan, Olney, Easton, Kenyon, 
and Dunn deserve a deep bow for a job 
well done. 

Jerry Dunn's house on Blackstone 
Boulevard was the scene of a cocktail party 
that had sufficient gusto to officially wel- 
come the 35th. Some of the classmates 
tripped the light fantastic at the Campus 
Dance later in the evening. Others relaxed 
back at Diman House lounge. 

Saturday was a full day, starting off 
with brunch at Wannamoisett Country 
Club and ending with the delightful Pops 
Concert. In between, members were free to 
golf at Wannamoisett, attend the Alumni 
Field Day, or just relax. All hands got to- 
gether for the dinner at the Hope Club. 

Officers for the next five years were 
elected. Leon M. Payne will serve as presi- 
dent, with Gordon E. Cadwgan as vice- 
president, Robert W. Kenyon as secretary, 
and Joseph Olney, Jr., as treasurer. The 
executive committee includes Jack Despres, 
Lucian Drury, Alfred J. Owens, Ernest C. 
Wilks, and Dr. John O. Nolan. 

Joe Olney proved a most generous host 
on Sunday when he entertained the group 
at a cookout at his Barrington home. 

The list of those returning is as fol- 
lows: Appleyards*, Cadwgan*, Barney*, 
Dunn*, J. Gallagher*, David*, Giles*, 
Drury*, Jack*, Lovell*, Wilks*, Olney*, 
Owens*, Bojar*, Rollins*, Carberry*, 
Easton*, Virgadamo*, Kenyon*, O'Reilly*, 
Winsor*, Holt*, and Despres*. 

Also, Margolies and guest, Gifford*, 
Bubier*, Pearce*, Nolan*, Lund*, Chucnin*, 
Moses*, Mongillo*, Nicholson*, Whitcomb, 
Ike Williams, Novak, Krause, Armington, 
Ziobrowski, Whyte, Gray, Slade, Summer- 
field, Burke, Johnson, Watson, J. Shepard, 
Wheeler, and Stevens. 

jt »* Taking advantage of the fine pro- 
■JB JL gram put together by Chairman 
Robert F. Parkinson and his nine-man com- 
mittee, 32 classmates got together for a 
wonderful four-day weekend. Diman House 
was a perfect setting for the reunion and 
the presence of the ladies gave the entire 
affair the added sparkle necessary to make 
the 30th a memorable event. 

Several events of the long weekend 



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stand out. The class dinner at Wannamoi- 
sett Country Club on Saturday evening, 
followed by the Pops Concert under the 
stars back on the College Green was a 
combination hard to beat. And the motor 
caravan to Walt and Eleanor Jusczyk's 
home on Sunday, with lunch co-hosted by 
Yat and Lilly Tow, was another memorable 
event. 

Some prizes were given out at the class 
dinner. John McWilliams of Long Beach, 
Calif., won honors for coming the longest 
distance; Jack Crosby for newest bride- 
groom (May of 1967); Paul S. Shelton for 
most grandchildren; and Walt Jusczyk for 
most children to attend Brown (2). 

Clifford S. Gustafson will serve as 
president of the class for the next five 
years. Working with him will be Walt 
Jusczyk as vice-president. Earl Harrington 
as secretary, and H. Eliot Rice as treasurer. 

The list of those back on the Hill is as 
follows: Blackmore*, Buffum*, Cohen*, 
Crosby*, Doherty*, Duesing*, Gustafson*, 
Hackett* (plus two children), Harrington*, 
Hopps*, Helgerson, Jusczyk*, Liebmann*, 
McDevitt*, McWilliams, and Newton*. 

Also, O'Leary*, Padden*, Palmer*, 
Parkinson*, Rapelye*, Reilly, Rice*, Shar- 
tenberg*, Shelton*, Jim Smith*, Sokol and 
son, Stinson* and son. Tow*, Udis*, and 
Weisbecker*. 

tTf\ Approximately 35 members of the 
^\J class and their ladies celebrated 
the 21st Reunion by attending the party at 
the home of Class Treasurer Bill Mayer on 
Poppasquash Road in Bristol. The social 
hour started at 5:30, followed by a casual 
buffet on the terrace overlooking Bristol 
Harbor. 

|JJ»* The 20th Reunion was one of the 
^ JL best. It started with a cocktail party 
and buffet dinner Friday evening at Arnold 
Lounge, followed by the Campus Dance, 
which was in turn followed by a dawn 
breakfast back at Arnold Lounge. This 
pretty well took care of Friday. 

Saturday afternoon the men of '51 
gallantly went forth to meet the challenge 
of '56 for a softball game at Alumni Field 
Day. Our fans will be pleased to hear that 
we won, 18-2. The class had a buffet under 
the tent at Aldrich-Dexter after the Field 
Day broke up and then all hands attended 
the Pops Concert. 

Sunday was equally entertaining. We 
went to Block Island by ferry, with clam- 
cakes and chowder at noon at Ballard's 
Inn. After a relaxing afternoon on the 
Island, we had a complete clambake on the 
beach before returning to civilization. Some 
classmates stopped off at Woody Leonard's 
Jamestown farm for a drink before return- 
ing to the campus. 

The class was well represented in the 
procession, both with marshals, aides, and 
marching members. 

Charlie Andrews was elected president 
of the class, to serve until the 25th. His 
staff includes Arthur Thebado as vice- 
president. Mason Williams as secretary, and 



Bill Surprenant as treasurer. The executive 
committee includes the officers plus Warren 
Galkin, Tom Brady, and others to be se- 
lected this fall. 

Mason "Pete" Williams was the chair- 
man in charge of what will be remembered 
for years to come as a wonderful reunion. 
Serving with him were Charlie Andrews, 
Bill Surprenant, Ernest Malo, Paul Brennan, 
Warren Galkin, and Win Wilson. 

Those men returning to the reunion are 
as follows: Ackroyd, Allen, Agresti, G. 
Andrews, C. Andrews, Arvedon, Bearse, 
Baird, Brennan, Brooks, Casey, Chatterton, 
Cooper, Eade, Edwards, Eisenberg, Fearon, 
Freedman, Galkin, Goldenberg, Holmes, 
Handy, Jaffin, Johnson, and Leveroni. 

Also, Leonard, Litchman, Little, Mack, 
A. Malo, Merolla, MacDowell, Maguire, E. 
Malo, Mozell, Podd, Rosenfeld, Russell, 
Sahulka, Swan, Saunders, Scott, Stafford, 
Surprenant, Thebado, Tillinghast, Walton, 
Wilson, Williams, Wolfson, and White. 
William Rogers '52 was a special guest. 

fjf /f Something old, something new, 
^ V something borrowed, something 
blue — that was the key to our 15th Re- 
union. 

The old represented the time-honored 
events that we have known since the days 
of our 5th and 10th Reunions — the Alumni 
Dinner, Campus Dance, Field Day, and the 
Pops Concert. These are good events, ones 
around which you can build an alumni re- 
union. 

The "new" in 1971 was represented by 
the forums Saturday morning. Those who 
attended these affairs found them both in- 
teresting and informative. Another some- 
thing new was that the men of '56 re- 
unioned with the gals from the Pembroke 
Class of '56. It was a delightful experience, 
one that should be continued in the future. 

The something borrowed was the idea 
of making this a family reunion. Several 
classes have tried this in recent years and 
found the formula pleasant, thanks in large 
part to the excellent housing conditions on 
campus. 

The only "blue" part to the weekend 
was that only 38 classmates were back. The 
number should have been much higher. 

Frank C. Prince served as reunion 
chairman, assisted by Harold Arcaro, Jim 
Kelley, Joel Davis, Gordon Parker, Noel 
Field, Jim Rogers, and Ed West. 

The officers for the next five years in- 
clude Prince as president, Rogers as secre- 
tary, and Kelley as treasurer. 

Those returning: Arcaro*, Alexandre*, 
Dacey, Davis*, DeMund, Diamond*, Dyer*, 
Field*, Greene*, Iser, Jerome*, Lary*, 
Lewry, Love*, Mcintosh, Packard*, Prince, 
Rider*, Romano*, Rogers*, Schwartz*, and 
Semel*. 

Also, Wilenzik*, West, Read, Cronin, 
Page, Robinson*, Howard*, Baird*, Clay- 
son*, L. Petterson*, Forman*, Redding, 
Brightman, Levesque, and Stowik. 

gjrr Bob Goff and several classmates 
^ J gathered on the Hill in informal 
fashion during the 14th Reunion. However, 
the conversation was about the 15th — now 



just 11 months away. An early meeting of 
the reunion committee is planned. 

^»* The 10th Reunion was a good one, 
f^ JL a weekend of fun and nostalgia 
that left most members asking for more. 
We had a fine time Friday with the cocktail 
party. Alumni Dinner, and Campus Dance. 
Saturday was more of the same, with sem- 
inars in the morning, the Field Day during 
the afternoon, and then the class dinner. 

Ah, the class dinner. It was a unique 
affair. It was the only dinner in the history 
of the University where the people in the 
audience did the speaking and those at the 
head table remained silent. After the thrill 
of hearing John Gary sing at the Pops, we 
organized our after-glow party back at 
headquarters and found ourselves enter- 
tained by a "choral group singing spirituals 
and choice selections from several operas." 

Those returning: McGarry*, Mullen*, 
Worthington*, Foy, Warner*, Aspelin*, 
Campolucci*, Lowe*, Widmann*, Cassel*, 
Hamilton*, Van Horn*, Birch*, Schmid*, 
Kirchberger*, Meister*, Katzive*, Van 
Dyke*, Adams*, and Hayden*. 

Also, Packard*, Hudson*, Usher*, 
Riggs*, Torrey*, Grant*, Cerutti*, Stan- 
ford*, Gooder*, Unruh*, Nurse*, Belkin*, 
Bates*, Hiland*, Anderson*, Casdin*, Fay*, 
Elkan Abramowitz*, Steve Abramowitz*, 
Parker*, Agel, Fleisig*, App, Gorman, 
Royce, Carpenter, and Pailey. 

Also, Lynch*, Hurley*, Walles*, D'En- 
tremont*, Blake*, Bender*, Wadleigh*, Si- 
mon*, Considine*, Jordan*, Maguire*, Fos- 
ter, O'Reilly*, Rotmer*, and Willard*. 

/T y| The class took advantage of the 
13 Tt Campus Dance on Friday and the 
Pops Concert on Saturday to schedule two 
informal gatherings during the reunion 
weekend. However, the feature event was 
the class cookout in Coventry Sunday. The 
following classmates attended: Marshall*, 
Dumas*, Cutcliffe*, Antifonario*, Garon- 
zik*, A. Ward*, Brines*, and J. Robinson*. 

/^ /^ Taking advantage of the many 
1717 University-sponsored events, the 
class held its 5th Reunion with pomp and 
circumstance. Forty-two alumni were back, 
many of them with their wives. 

During the weekend, John Campbell 
was elected president of the class. His slate 
includes David Deutsch as vice-president, 
John Pate as secretary, and S. Paul Ryan as 
treasurer. 

Those who returned: Rhoades*, Bopp*, 
McOsker*, McEntee*, Campbell*, McNeil*, 
Casabonne*, Simon*, Staley, D. Taylor*, 
Schuster*, Kinloch, Wallace*, L. Taylor*, 
P. Smith*, Munson*, Keates*, and Ryan*. 

Also Pfaff, Murdock, Baldino, White, 
Pate, Buohanno*, Johnson*, Henderson*, 
Quint, Carr*, Meckel*, Bogaczyk*, Roman- 
sky, Steinweg*, Theirien, Shier*, Falk*, Van 
Voorhis*, R. Jones, Savolainen, McCul- 
lough*, Neal*, Gaudreau*, and Hall*. 

The Phi Kappa Psi house was head- 
quarters for the 10th Reunion of 
the Class of 1961 (opposite). 



Uosis Juodvalkis 




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Brunonians 
far and near 



Chief Marshal for the 1971 Commencemerjt Procession 
was 1921's William T. Brightman, Jr. 



^^^ Dr. David C. Hall, St., celebrated 
Xjj, his 96th birthday on May 1. "He 
is hale and hearty and has just moved from 
our home to his own apartment at the Ken- 
ney Retirement Home in Seattle, Wash.," 
his daughter reports. She also reported that 
he walks several miles every day. 

d^dZ. Henry Carpenter and his wife, 
U|5 I vis, were at the Brown Club din- 
ner for Dr. Hornig in West Palm Beach this 
spring. A few days later, Henry attended a 
committee meeting in Coral Gables, Fla., 
where he was introduced as the "patriarch" 
of the group. "A dubious distinction, at 
best," says he. 

»* 0y Royal W. Leith reports that a 
X^ slipped disc has laid him up for a 
year. His mail should be addressed: 1 
Channing Rd., Dedham, Mass. 

^ f Robert E. Quinn, chief judge of 
JL5 the U.S. Military Court of Ap- 
peals, has received the Roger Williams 
Award of the Rhode Island State Society. 
The award is given annually to a Rhode 
Islander for outstanding service to the state 
and the nation. The former Rhode Island 
governor was honored in Washington on 
the occasion of the presentation, with about 
200 Rhode Islanders and close associates in 
attendance. Among those who sent mes- 
sages of congratulations were Harry Tru- 
man and Earl Warren. 

Last October, Cliff Higgins and his 
wife, Geneva, celebrated their 50th anni- 
versary. He reports that for the last seven 
years they have been spending their win- 
ters in Phoenix, Ariz. 

George E. Hebner is executive vice- 
president of Davis-Howland Oil Corpora- 
tion in Rochester, N.Y. He is also in his 
twenty-eighth year of teaching at Roch- 
ester Institute of Technology. He and his 
wife celebrated their 55th wedding anni- 
versary last August. 

The class has made a memorial gift to 
the Brown University Fund in honor of its 
deceased classmate, Sherman A. Strong. 

w M Arthur B. Homer remains active in 
1/ yachting as well as civic and edu- 
cational affairs. He also does a little fishing 
now and then. His last entry in the Ber- 
muda Race was in 1968, when the yawl, 
Salmagal III, sailed his colors. Mrs. Homer 
is very well, especially enjoying her gar- 
dening at this time of year. Arthur admits 
that when it comes to gardening his role 



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is strictly to admire. 

Jack Hall has been retired since 1944 
and has remained busy with his 800-acre 
farm in Waterbury Center, Vt. The Halls 
have sold all but 50 acres for vacation 
homes. 

Irving Fraser spent three weeks in 
April touring Italy and then enjoyed a few 
days in Paris before his plane trip home. 
His favorite spot in Italy was the Isle of 
Capri, where a friend gave him a sail in his 
power cruiser on the Mediterranean. 

•* rt Horace C. Jeffers celebrated his 
JL^) golden anniversary as an attorney 
this spring in Morristown, N.J. He began 
practicing law there in 1921 and was one of 
the founders of the firm of Mills, Jeffers, 
and Mountain. The graduate of New York 
University School of Law was assistant 
U.S. attorney general for New Jersey from 
1929 to 1931. Our classmate is a Civil War 
buff and has collected books and related 
items about the war. 

Cy Flanders and his wife celebrated 
their 50th wedding anniversary Apr. 19. 
On hand for the happy occasion were sons 
John '53, Urban '49 (from Cincinnati), Sam 
'50 (from Pittsburgh), and Glenn '49, plus 
daughter Maureen. It was the first time in 
more than a decade that the entire family 
was able to get together. 

Cmdr. Thomas W. Hall has been 
elected president of the Brown Navy Club. 

•* Q Col. Henry R. Dutton, manage- 
jLZ7 ment consultant for hotels, res- 
taurants, and private clubs, has been 
elected to honorary membership in the 
3,000-member Club Managers' Association 
of America "in recognition of his outstand- 
ing contributions toward the successful 
growth and development of that organiza- 
tion and the profession." Earlier in the 
year he was notified of being similarly 
designated by the Pine Lakes International 
Country Club at Myrtle Beach, B.C., where 
he supervised an extensive modernization 
program. Colonel Dutton, now located in 
Honolulu, is occupied in a consulting ca- 
pacity for his third resort hotel since com- 
ing to the Islands just over two years ago. 
While he was a student at Brown, his 
father was proprietor of The Green Inn at 
Narragansett Pier, R.I., and collaborated in 
the planning and opening of the Turks 
Head Club. 

H. Raymond Searles and his wife 
Dorothy and another couple took an eight- 
week trip to the West Coast in the spring. 

^ f\ Robert S. Macfarlane, chairman 
^\J emeritus and director of Burling- 
ton Northern of St. Paul, Minn., retired 
May 13 after a distinguished 37-year rail- 
way career. The Minneapolis native was 
graduated magna cum laude from the Uni- 
versity of Washington Law School and at 
the age of 31 was elected a judge of the 
Superior Court of King County, Seattle. He 
resigned in 1934 to become assistant west- 
ern counsel of the Northern Pacific Rail- 
way. On Jan. 1, 1951 he became Northern 
Pacific's twentieth president, serving in that 
capacity for almost 16 years. 



Walter H. Snell: "Retired," but still 
coming to Rogers Hall every day 



when this magazine paid tribute to Dr 
Walter H. Snell '13 of the botany depart- 
ment in 1959 it said, "It's hard to believe 
that Wally Snell will be retiring this year." 

Well, he still hasn't retired. At an age 
when many men prefer to view life from 
an arm chair, Wally remains active, spend- 
ing at least five and a half days each week 
at his office in Rogers Hall — sometimes 
even sneaking in on Sunday if his wife 
isn't watching too closely. 

Keeping him busy is his research on 
the boletes, tube mushrooms, which were 
the subject of his book, The Boleti of 
Northeast North America, published last 
June by J. Cramer in Germany. 

"I've got to keep active," Wally says. 
"I'd die if I didn't. Besides, there's still a 
lot of research to be done on the subject. 
The book has been out a year and already 
we're finding new information." 

Wally Snell has led an exceptionally 
active life. When he was at Andover, he 
captained the only undefeated basketball 
team in that school's history. At Brown he 
was a guard on the basketball team and a 
fullback on the 1910 football team that 
earned the Bruins their first victory over 
Yale. His scholastic achievements included 
membership in Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma 
Xi. 

Baseball was his favorite sport and he 
was an All-American catcher in his senior 

Wally Snell in his Rogers Hall laboratory. 




year before signing that summer with the 
Boston Red Sox managed by Bill Carrigan 
and featuring the famous outfield of Tris 
Speaker, Duffy Lewis, and Harry Hooper. 

In his first time at bat in the majors, 
as a pinch hitter, Wally sliced a single past 
Nap Lajoie at second base for Cleveland. 
He likes to say that at mid-season he paced 
the club in batting with a 1,000 average — 
1 for 1. For the year, Wally batted a re- 
spectable .375, but he'd also made the deci- 
sion that his future was in the academic 
field, not on the ball field. 

After earning his master's in botany 
at Brown, Wally traveled to the University 
of Wisconsin for his Ph.D. While working 
for his doctorate he did some coaching on 
the side at a small college just outside 
Madison. But he thought that he was 
through with baseball for good when he re- 
turned to Brown to teach botany in 1920. 

The catch was that his laboratory win- 
dow overlooked old Lincoln Field, now the 
Lower Campus but then the center of 
Brown's baseball activity. Every time he 
heard the crack of a bat against a ball he'd 
look up to see what was going on. It wasn't 
long before he found himself doubling in 
brass, coaching baseball in addition to 
teaching botany. 

During the next 20 years, Wally coached 
48 Brown teams in football, basketball, 
baseball, and soccer. He was head basket- 
ball coach in 1922 and 1923, head baseball 
coach from 1922-26, and assisted in football 
coaching and scouting from 1921-39 under 
Coaches Edward North Robinson and Tuss 
McLaughry. But by 1940 Wally was chair- 
man of the botany department, deep in his 
research, and he confidently predicted to 
friends that finally he was through with 
athletics. 

He may have been a great athlete, 
coach, and scientist, but Wally Snell was 
never much in the Delphic League. In Jan- 
uary of 1943 he became more deeply in- 
volved in Brown athletics than ever before 
when he agreed to take over as athletic 
director. He carried the load for four years 
in one of the most difficult periods imagi- 
nable, helping Brown to maintain an ath- 
letic program for its students during World 
War II by fighting the home-front athletic 
battle of finances, travel restrictions, and 
hotel accommodations. 

The years have been kind to Wally 
Snell. The twinkle is still in his eyes, the 
characteristic pipe is still burning, and that 
look of alert competence still gives the im- 
pression of a man who knows what he's 
doing and enjoys every minute of it. 



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nDr. Eske Windsberg continues as 
surgeon, chief grade, at Veterans 
Administration Hospital, Providence. 

^ ^ Don Thorndike, as secretary of the 
^ ^ class, would like fellow '23 men 
to send him material for inclusion in this 
column of the magazine. His address: 204 
University Ave., Providence. A camera 
buff for many years, Don filmed some of 
the action in the Brown-Cornell lacrosse 
game this spring. 

Chesley and Diana Worthington re- 
turned in May from six weeks abroad, with 
a fortnight in Iran as the highlight. A two- 
week Hellenic cruise, their second in two 
years, took them to archaeological sites in 
Turkey, Greece, Crete, Sicily, and the 
Italian mainland. A weekend in Canter- 
bury and London was more leisurely. 
Editing color slides is an aftermath of their 
enthusiasms. 

Clarence R. Day has moved from Sara- 
sota, Fla., to RD #2, Middlebury, Vt. 

Steve McClellan is still flying around 
in his light twin Beechcraft. He recently 
passed the mark of 14,000 hours' solo time 
and celebrated by passing a periodic flight 
physical and an instrument pilot check 
ride. 

Elsie and George Decker have pur- 
chased a condominium at Vista Pines, 
Stuart, Fla., where they spent the past 
winter. At present, they are back in Sharon, 
Conn., enjoying the summer months. 

*% Jt Jack Lubrano and his wife spent 
^"X several weeks at Indian Rocks 
Beach on Florida's West Coast this spring. 
In addition to surfing, sunning, and swim- 
ming. Jack pursued his calling as class 
agent for the Brown University Fund with 
customary energy and persistence. Class- 
mates may recall he was awarded a silver 
bowl for the highest percentage of donors 
in his group last year. He says he is out to 
break last year's record. Incidentally, the 
award to Jack was made by National Fund 
Chairman Mook Flather — and there was no 
chicanery either! 

Bill and Marian Dyer flew to Sarasota 
this spring for a week's stay at the Gulf 
and Bay Club, a stone's throw from your 
secretary's home. Bill wryly refers to it as 
the "Gulp and Pay Club." He was here as 
general manager of the Indianapolis news- 
papers at a labor gathering of big-city 
newspapers under the sponsorship of the 
American Newspaper Publishers Associa- 
tion. Bill says that Sarasota is a good place 
for this sort of meeting because the labor 
problems seem less important when you're 
a thousand miles or more from the scene 
of action. From your secretary's astute ob- 
servations, it is a neck and neck race be- 
tween G. Halsey Hunt and Bill Dyer for 
the lead in convention attendance and 
creamed-chicken-on-toast consumption. 

Your class had the largest class repre- 
sentation at the Florida West Coast ban- 
quet honoring Dr. Hornig on March 25 in 
Sarasota. Among those who made prior 
reservations for the affair were Eddie 



O'Brien, Bob Sturtevant, Phil Saunders, 
Jack Lubrano, and your secretary. 

We understand that Randolph Flather, 
along with Betty, sought surcease from his 
arduous duties as National Fund Chairman 
by taking a trip to England in May. The 
Flathers docked in Southhampton and from 
there toured Chichester, Canterbury, Knole, 
Turnbridge, Wells, old 1066 Hastings, the 
White Cliffs of Dover, etc. The trip was 
largely a boat ride, which Mook and Betty 
like better than anything else. 

Classmates will be pleased to know 
that Bob Soelner is back in good health 
after an extensive series of eye operations. 
His sight is improved sufficiently so that 
he can drive his car around the environs of 
Walnut Creek, Calif. 

Rear Admiral Robert Mazet, Jr., 
USNR (Ret.) has been elected a member of 
the Council of the Society of Colonial Wars 
in the State of California. 

^ g" Dr. Fredson Bowers, former dean 
JU ^ of the Faculty of Arts and Sci- 
ences at the University of Virginia and an 
internationally-recognized textual and lit- 
erary critic of Shakespeare and Elizabethan 
drama, is the 1971 recipient of the Thomas 
Jefferson Award for outstanding contribu- 
tion to the university. "Like Jefferson, Mr. 
Bowers masters thoroughly whatever in- 
terests him," the citation said. "He inspires 
all of us who learn and teach with his high 
and exacting standards of industry and ex- 
cellence." Dr. Bowers is Linden Kent Pro- 
fessor of English at the University of Vir- 
ginia, where he served as chairman of the 
department from 1961 to 1968 and dean 
from 1968 to 1969. Currently, he is prepar- 
ing the centenary edition of the works of 
Nathaniel Hawthorne and Stephen Crane. 

^ y' Sydney Chisholm has retired from 
^^17 Williams College, where he had 
been director of dining halls since 1952. 
He's now serving as a consultant for the 
Institutional Division of S. S. Pierce Co. 

Rowland Keach is still dancing himself 
into fame. Exhibition dancing up and down 
the Atlantic Coast has won him many 
medals, plaques, and great recognition in 
the field of ballroom dancing. Archery 
takes up much of his time, also. 

Art Hassell is professor and chairman 
of the department of marketing at the 
School of Business Administration, Univer- 
sity of Hartford. The Intercollegiate Mar- 
keting Simulation Tournament there has 
been named in his honor. 

Duncan Norton Taylor has retired as 
editor of Fortune Magazine and is living 
and writing in Oxford, Md., where he was 
elected town commissioner last year. 

Percy Bailey, professor emeritus from 
CCNY, is serving as guest professor in con- 
tinuing education at State University of 
New York at Stony Brook. 

Ron MacKenzie is president of the 
committee planning the 1972 Winter 
Games of the Federation Internationale 



Universitani Sportis, to be held at Lake 
Placid. He reports that Brown's Jim Fuller- 
ton will coach the American hockey team. 

Bill Meuse, retired manager of pas- 
senger sales with the Baltimore & Ohio 
Railroad, sailed on a freighter to Puerto 
Rico recently. All 50 female passengers, he 
says, were pregnant: 50 Holstein heifers. 

Chick Conklin reports a move from 
Wall Street to Easy Street: he's living in 
Whispering Pines, N.C. He had been active 
in the practice of law. 

William B. Avery has retired from 
Texaco, Inc., after 50 years with the com- 
pany, nine of which were spent in Rio de 
Janeiro, Brazil, five in San Juan, Puerto 
Rico, and six in New York City. Bill is 
living at 332 Rolling Hills Dr., Conroe, 
Tex. 

William A. Knipe has retired as a tax 
supervisor in the Alabama Department of 
Revenue in Montgomery, Ala. 

Dr. Reginald C. Farrow represented 
Brown at the inauguration of Dr. Ellis 
Phillips as fifth president of Ithaca College 
this spring. 

^ py William C. Horn retired in March 
JU / as manager of Brown Brothers 
Harriman & Co., bankers. New York City. 

George P. Richardson, Jr., is vice-presi- 
dent of advertising for Frank Baker & As- 
sociates, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. 

/% Q Thomas J. Paolino, associate jus- 
^^ ^y tice of the Supreme Court of 
Rhode Island, received an honorary doctor 
of laws degree from Saint Francis College 
in Biddeford, Me., this spring. 

We apologize for the discrepancy in in- 
formation given for Manuel J. Vieira, 
whose obituary appeared in the April is- 
sue. His LL.B. degree was granted from 
Boston University, not Brown. 

William F. Reiter, Sr., is recuperating 
from an operation and living temporarily 
with his son, W. F. Reiter, Jr., at 2142 
Tanglewood Dr., Toledo, Ohio. 

Reginald G. Lacount has retired as 
professor of physics and chairman of the 
department at Northeastern University. 

Charles H. Blumenfeld is executive as- 
sistant to the president of Oregon State 
University. 

T. Kenneth Tyson retired four months 
ago and is living at 14315 Moorpark St., 
Sherman Oaks, Calif. 

Robert L. Wadsworth has retired from 
Lane Bryant, Inc., New York City, and is 
living at 145 East 22nd St. 

^ ^* George M. Schlegel has been 
^Ji^y elected Georgia's Counselor of the 
Year. He was selected from ten nominees 
representing each of the state's congres- 
sional districts. The award includes a schol- 
arship to be given to a high school senior 
from his district. George is director of 
guidance in the public schools of Douglas, 
Ga. He was one of the founders of the 
Georgia Association of School Counselors, 
holding one of the first counselor's certifi- 
cates issued in the state. 

Leonard A. Feiner is a passport officer 
in Providence. 




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Faber. 



Nathan H. Gates is a partner in 
the New York law firm of Gates & 



One of the aides for the 
procession was 1926's Carry 
Byrnes, chairman of the BAM's 
Board of Editors. 



^•* Dr. Theodore G. Anderson retired 
^ jL last June as professor emeritus of 
clinical microbiology at .Temple University 
School of Medicine in Philadelphia. 

Kenneth S. Fisher, former branch man- 
ager of GMAC in Rutland, Vt., also has 
retired. 

Ernest S. Hawkinson is working for the 
International Basic Economy Corporation 
in Caracas, Venezuela. 

Dr. Willard V. Thompson is associate 
director of the department of graduate 
medical education of the American Medical 
Association, Chicago. 

A. Paul Brugge, president of Carl F. 
Brugge Co., Inc., in Pawtucket, R.I., has 
been elected president of the newly created 
Rhode Island Industrial Chemical Associa- 
tion. 

William R. Kinnaird is vice-president 
of marketing for the First National Bank 
of Des Plaines, 111. 

Melvin G. Lundstedt has stepped down 
as superintendent of Lynn (Mass.) parks 
and playgrounds, having served in the po- 
sition since 1960. As superintendent, Mel 
was in charge of Lynn's 29 playgrounds, 
the 2,500-acre Lynn Woods reservation, and 
the 18-hole Happy Valley golf course. 

Eugene B. Gerry is president and treas- 
urer of Affiliated FM Insurance Co., Provi- 
dence. 

>* 4« Charles H. Spilman has been pro- 
^ ^^ moted to executive editor of the 
Providence Journal and Evening Bulletin. 
Managing editor of the Journal since 1954, 
he will now be in charge of the news de- 
partment of the Journal-Bulletin. Charlie 
joined the Journal in 1934 as a reporter. 
During World War II he was war corre- 
spondent for the paper in the Pacific. 

Joseph C. Flynn runs the Casino and 
Surf Theaters and is president of Joseph J. 
Flynn, Inc., an outdoor advertising firm 
based in Lawrence, Mass. He served as a 
member of the Hampton Beach (N.H.) 
Chamber of Commerce for 25 years, in- 
cluding two terms as president. 

Paul F. Mackesey has been appointed 
chairman for Rhode Island of the U.S. 
Olympic Fund Raising Committee for the 
1972 Games. The local goal is $20,000. 

^ ^ Fred L. Hansen was one of two 
^ ^ Rhode Island representatives going 
on a "biz blitz" of Western Europe's in- 
dustrial centers this spring in an effort to 
get some jobs for the area by encouraging 
foreign companies to locate in New Eng- 
land. Fred is chief of the business and in- 
dustry division of the Rhode Island Devel- 
opment Council. 

Edgar Dannenberg is serving as vice- 
president of Steiner, Rouse & Co., Inc., a 
member of the New York Stock Exchange. 
The firm recently moved its offices to the 
Pan Am Bldg., 200 Park Ave., New York 
City. 



Robert H. S. Kaufman has retired from 
Carrollton Manufacturing Company and is 
living at Sierra Vista Farms, P.O. Box 325, 
Carrollton, Ohio. 

J. Morton Ferrier, Jr., has retired and 
been doing a bit of traveling. He recently 
bought a home in Santa Fe, N.Mex., to be 
near his daughter, son-in-law, and grand- 
children. 

^ Jt Alan J. Miller has sold I. Miller & 
^J Tt Sons and has started a new busi- 
ness. Miller Industries, in Pawtucket, R.I. 

Maurice L. Clemence has been elected 
a trustee of Wheaton College. He is vice- 
president of The Kendall Co., Boston. 

Dr. N. William Wawro is past presi- 
dent of the New England and the Con- 
necticut Cancer Societies. He's currently 
serving as a director of the American Can- 
cer Society. 

4« pm Dr. Victor M. Emmel is a member 
^ ^5 of the faculty at the University of 
Rochester Medical Center. He and his wife, 
a pediatrician, have three sons and a 
daughter, according to word from his sis- 
ter, Martha Emmel Bloor P'38. 

^ /^ Conrad E. Green recently took 
^ 13 par' in a two-week conference in 
Nairobi, Kenya, under the sponsorship of 
the American Institute of Architects. Con- 
nie is chairman of the board and executive 
vice-president of the Providence architec- 
tural design firm. The Robinson Green 
Beretta Corp. 

Robert S. Bromage has been elected 
president of the United Fund of Berlin, 
Conn. Bob is vice-president in charge of 
sales for the Connecticut Light and Power 
Co. 

'^ O Frederick A. Forbes is serving as a 
^^^ national vice-president of United 
Cerebral Palsy Association. He is public 
affairs officer and Congressional liaison offi- 
cer for the Office of Economic Opportunity, 
middle Atlantic region. 

Donald V. Vines has been appointed 
personnel director of production at Pfizer, 
Inc., New York City. 

Charles E. H. Williams has joined the 
staff of Second National Bank's Milford 
(Conn.) office as a business representative. 

T. Brenton Bullock is a member of the 
executive committee of the New England 
Trail Conference. 

Jt £^ Dr. William J. McDonald, a Provi- 
ng ^^ dence obstetrician and gynecolo- 
gist, has been installed as president of the 
Rhode Island Medical Society. Dr. Robert 
V. Lewis '39 of Providence is president- 
elect. 

Raymond E. Handley is temporarily re- 
tired as colonel from the U.S. Air Force. 
His address: 905 Garden Dr., Apt. 1, New 
Port Richey, Fla. 

Melvin B. Swartz is professor of psy- 
chology at Pace College, N.Y. 

Dr. Bertram H. Buxton, Jr., has been 



elected assistant vice-president of Provi- 
dence Country Day School. 

Gordon J. Brown retired from the U.S. 
Navy with the rank of captain on July 1 
after nearly 31 years of service. He plans to 
settle in Marble, Colo., as project manager 
of the development of a large new ski 
resort. 

M »* Dr. Allan S. Nanes still holds the 
■t JL title of specialist in international 
development in the Congressional Research 
Service of the Library of Congress, whose 
work has been upgraded and its impor- 
tance to Congress increased by the latest 
Legislative Reorganization Act. Allan is 
also co-authoring a book in the Barnes and 
Noble College Outline Series on European 
governments. 

Taylor G. Belcher, former ambassador 
to Cyprus, is ambassador to Peru, living in 
Lima. 

Dr. Sanford W. Udis has been named 
to the board of directors of the Fall River 
(Mass.) Trust Co. He is director of the de- 
partment of radiology at Truesdale Hospi- 
tal and clerk of the Corporation for Trues- 
dale Clinic, Inc. 

Robert M. Cramp is branch manager 
of Monroe International, a division of Lit- 
ton Industries, Richmond, Va. 

William A. Jewett, who joined the 
staff of Mount Vernon College of Washing- 
ton, D.C., two years ago, has been ap- 
pointed vice-president for financial affairs. 
He had been serving as controller. 

Emile A. LeGros is recovering from a 
stroke suffered in January of 1970 and is 
retired from Lever Brothers Company on 
an early disability. He had been with the 
firm for 24 years. 

M ^ Frederick C. Allgeier has been 
'^^U elected a vice-president of Sub- 
urban Propane Gas Corp. and subsidiaries, 
with headquarters on Route 10, Whippany, 
N.J. During his 20 years with the firm, 
Fred has been chiefly involved in the de- 
velopment and growth of the Data Proc- 
essing Department. 

Dr. Howard B. Lyman is associate pro- 
fessor of psychology at the University of 
Cincinnati. His recent book. Single Again, 
appeals to an ever-increasing segment of 
the American population, the recently 
widowed or divorced man or woman. 

Edward W. Proctor, an economist, is 
assistant deputy director for intelligence 
with CIA in Washington, D.C. 

James G. Lukens is manager of pro- 
duction engineering and quality control for 
PPG Industries, Inc., Springdale, Pa. 

Edward R. O'Shea, a former associate 
media director with Doremus & Co., New 
York City, is doing graduate work at C. W. 
Post College. 

Robert M. Wood, former management 
consultant with Ebasco Services, Inc., is 
now vice-president of Stone & Webster Se- 
curities Corp., New York City. 

Stephen H. Dolley is president of The 
Colwell Mortgage Trust in Los Angeles. 



M <5 Kingsley N. Meyer, executive vice- 
^jp^7 president of Horton, Church & 
Goff, Inc., Providence, has been elected 
president of Providence Country Day 
School. A classmate. Earl B. Nichols, has 
been elected assistant treasurer of the 
school. 

W. Austin McCabe has joined Original 
Bradford Soap Works, Inc., Long Island 
City, N.Y., as national sales manager. 

Steward T. MacNeill is recuperating 
from a hip operation and reports he has 
been on crutches for 11 months. 

William W. Keffer has been elected 
chairman of the Health Insurance Council, 
Hartford, Conn. 

Jt M William R. Ewald, Jr., planner and 
*t"jt development consultant for gov- 
ernment and industrial agencies, recently 
visited Waynesburg College as a Danforth 
Visiting Lecturer. He discussed future plan- 
ning in relation to our environmental 
needs. 

Burton E. Morris has left Delafield & 
Delafield and joined Janney, Montgomery 
Scott, Inc., Great Neck, L.I., N.Y. 

Richard C. Houck is vice-president and 
manager of the fire protection division of 
Alco Inc., Appleton, Wis., mechanical con- 
tractors. 

Robert E. Haynes has been appointed 
manager of AOLITE lens process develop- 
ment for the Optical Products Division of 
the American Optical Corp. in Southbridge, 
Mass. 

i# g" R. Harper Brown, senior vice- 
"t ^ president of Container Corpora- 
tion of America, Chicago-based packaging 
firm, now has responsibilities for the firm's 
composite can division. He continues in 
charge of domestic folding carton opera- 
tions. 

Vern Alden has been elected vice- 
chairman of the board of overseers of the 
Boston Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Alden, 
who was president of Ohio University from 
1962 to 1969, is chairman of the board of 
The Boston Co. 

Warren H. Chelline has been ap- 
pointed editor of Inter City News, New 
City Publishing Co., Independence, Mo. 
For 27 years he served as an appointee 
minister of the R.L.D.S. church, most re- 
cently as an editorial consultant. 

Dr. John D. Winslow has been named 
assistant hydrologist in charge for the 
U.S. Geological Survey, Mineola, L.I., N.Y. 

William A. Hoffman is store opera- 
tions manager for R. H. Macy's in Hunt- 
ington, N.Y. 

James J. Bryan, a senior accountant, 
has been named an associate in the Provi- 
dence certified public accounting firm of 
Ward, Fisher & Co. 

A /' Joseph H. McMullen has been ap- 
^tl3 pointed director of athletics at 
Marshall University, a position that has 
been vacant since last November, when a 
tragic airplane crash wiped out its football 
program. Previously, he served as head 
coach at San Jose State College. 

Clarence F. Roth, Jr., has been ad- 



vanced to second vice-president at Con- 
necticut General Life Insurance, Hartford. 

Clinton E. Piper has been appointed 
senior electrical designer at Common- 
wealth Associates, Inc., Jackson, Mich. 

John B. Henderson, former vice-presi- 
dent, general counsel and secretary of Tex- 
tron Inc., has been named senior vice-presi- 
dent and secretary. 

i« py George W. "Woody" Grimshaw 
■jty has resigned after 18 years as 
head basketball coach at Tufts University. 
He will continue as freshman football and 
varsity golf coach while assuming major 
administrative assignments in the depart- 
ment of athletics. 

The Rev. J. Walter Sillen (GS), a mem- 
ber of the executive staff of the ministers 
and missionaries benefit board of the 
American Baptist Convention, has assumed 
pastoral duties at First Baptist Church of 
Boston. 

George Groves, Campbell Sales Com- 
pany's Youngstown, Ohio, district repre- 
sentative, has been installed as president of 
the Grocery Manufacturers Representatives 
of Youngstown. 

A rt Leonard A. Jacobvitz has been ap- 
■J^J pointed chief counsel for the 
Atomic Energy Commission's Albuquerque 
Operation complex in New Mexico. He has 
been employed as an attorney in the Office 
of Chief Counsel in Albuquerque since 
1952. 

Warren L. Carleen has been promoted 
to assistant advertising manager of Denni- 
son Manufacturing Co., Framingham, Mass. 

Jack E. Rotman, a corporation execu- 
tive, is president of Industrial Marking 
Supply and treasurer of Action Label & 
Tape, both concerns in Bridgeport, Conn. 

Kenneth P. Blake is head librarian and 
associate professor at Colby College. 

Anthony N. Behr is associate professor 
of mathematics and chairman of its depart- 
ment at Queensborough Community Col- 
lege. 

jf Q Richard L. Briggs, president of 
■Jt3^ World Network Incorporated di- 
vision of Schenley Industries, has been 
named chairman of the outdoor advertis- 
ing committee of the Association of Na- 
tional Advertisers. Dick is a monthly col- 
umnist for Media Decisions magazine. 

John F, Prendergast, past president of 
the Boston Brown Club, has been pro- 
moted to general manager of Blanchard 
Lumber Co., Walpole, Mass. He has been a 
salesman for that firm for the past six 
years. As of July 1, the Prendergasts gave 
up the city of Boston for the country life 
in Walpole (4 Juniper Circle). 

Robert E. Adams is vice-president of 
engineering and a director of Gifford-Wood 
Inc., a division of Columbia Precision Inc., 
Hudson, N.Y. 

Elton H. Sanford has been appointed a 
registered representative of Waddell & 
Reed, Inc., national distributor of the 
United Funds group of mutual funds. He 
had been an English teacher in the Fall 
River (Mass.) School System since 1954. 



F. Edward Ehlers (GS), employed by 
The Boeing Co., Seattle, Wash., han 
changed his field with the company from 
aerodynamics to urban sciences. 

Norman E. Wright, a dealer in munici- 
pal securities, is vice-president of Gibbons 
& Co., Inc., New York City. 

Edward A. Angelone is president of 
Bruin Chemical and Plastics Co., Inc., 
Providence. 

Dr. Edward L. Wheeler, a chemist, is 
senior group leader at Uniroyal Chemical, 
Naugatuck, Conn. 

Stephen A. Greene, Jr., is coordinator 
of audio-visual aids and reading specialist 
for the East Greenwich (R.I.) School Sys- 
tem. 

Jean R. Plante has been named director 
of sales and marketing for NEGEA Service 
Corporation of New England Gas and Elec- 
tric System. 

Howard A. Fain, formerly of Good- 
body &. Co., is associated with the invest- 
ment banking firm of White, Weld & Co., 
Providence. 

William J. Cooney has joined Textile 
Chemical Laboratory as manager of re- 
search and development. The company is 
located in Chattanooga, Tenn. 

IJ"^^ Gene Billik, divisional sales man- 
^\J ager for New York and New Jer- 
sey of William Grant & Sons, Inc., New 
York City, has been named a vice-presi- 
dent of the company. He joined Grant 
& Sons, a liquor importer, in 1952 as a 
sales representative in New Jersey and was 



later appointed Metro New York sales 
manager. 

Miles Harrison has formed his own 
company. Miles Harrison, Inc., in Little 
Compton, R.I., and serves as president of 
the firm which manufactures and dis- 
tributes cloth towel cabinets for the rental 
laundry industry. 

George Menard has retired as hockey 
coach at St. Lawrence University, but will 
remain at the university as assistant di- 
rector of athletics. 

James A. Vendettuoli has been ap- 
pointed principal social planning analyst 
for the Detroit (Mich.) City Planning De- 
partment. 

Clayton T. Dietz is an assistant vice- 
president of the First National City Bank in 
New York City. 

Dr. William J. Osborn has resigned as 
clinical director of the Children's Study 
Home in Springfield, Mass., to accept a po- 
sition as clinical psychologist at the Area 
Mental Health Center, Holyoke, Mass. 

Robert T. Perdue is vice-president and 
director of marketing research in the South 
Carolina National Bank, Columbia, S.C. 

Jason C. Becker, president and chief 
executive officer of Frank Foods, Inc., New 
York City, has announced the purchase of 
all the outstanding stock of Vernors, Inc., 
of Detroit, the nation's oldest manufacturer 
of soft drinks. The acquisition of Vernors 
represents a doubling of Frank Foods' an- 
nual consolidated sales volume to approxi- 
mately $34 million. 

Charles R. Bragg has been elected vice- 



president of public affairs at Northeast 
Utilities Service Co. He and Jayne and their 
four children live at Stony Corners Circle, 
Avon, Conn. 

Henry W. Carignan has been named 
design engineer with the Wadco Corp., 
Richland, Wash. 

Stanley J. Fishman is vice-president of 
Rockdale Department Stores in Turners 
Falls, Mass. 

Don O'Brien has accepted a new posi- 
tion as vice-president of sales promotion at 
Jordan Marsh in Miami, Fla. 

q*»* Dr. Thomas H. Walnut, Jr., after a 
^7 J. sabbatical year spent in research 
in the department of anatomy at the Uni- 
versity of Michigan Medical School, has 
returned to his regular role as professor of 
physical chemistry at Syracuse University. 

Joseph M. Hilbish, Jr., has been ap- 
pointed general manager of the Schenec- 
tady, N.Y., container plant. He formerly 
was assistant general manager at Schenec- 
tady. 

Ivan Spangenberg, III, is an account 
executive with Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fen- 
ner & Smith, in its Stamford, Conn., office. 

David L. Thurrott, head of D. L. Thur- 
rott Co., Pawtucket, R.I., has been chosen 
treasurer of the newly formed Rhode Is- 
land Industrial Chemical Association. 

William T. Forsyth has resigned his 
teaching position at Watkinson School, 
Hartford, to become assistant professor at 
Central Connecticut State College in New 
Britain. 



The 1971 recipients of the Brown Bear Award, highest honor the 
Associated Alumni of Brown University can present, are (from left) 
F. Abbott Brown '26, Hnrrv H. Burton '16, and Charles Weisbecker '41. 




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Robert E. Remington, former assistant 
to the president and general manager of 
Remington Dairy, Inc., Hope, R.I., is a 
travel consultant and tour host with Chris 
Travel, Inc., Providence. 

Eugene E. Rogers, a manufacturers' 
representative, is president of Environmen- 
tal Associates in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. 

Richard K. Gage has been named man- 
ager of the aluminum can sheet sales at 
Aluminum Company of America, Pitts- 
burgh. 

Charles E. Trowbridge, Jr., has become 
personnel officer at the Industrial National 
Bank, Providence. 

Thomas F. Brady has been elected a 
vice-president of Old Colony Co-operative 
Bank, Providence. He had been manager of 
Old Colony's Pawtucket office since 1969 
and assistant vice-president since 1964. 
Tom served this year as co-chairman of 
the Commencement Pops Concert. 

Warren B. Coburn has been elected 
vice-president of construction for Con Edi- 
son. In his new position, he will supervise 
the installation of more than eight million 
kilowatts of new power facilities now un- 
der construction. 

#• ^ N. Darrell Harvey, III, is super- 
^ ^U visor of wood products sales for 
Weyerhaeuser Co., Cambridge, Mass. His 
new address: 10 Walcott Rd., Watertown. 

Robert L. Norgren has been appointed 
director and general attorney for Conoco 
Europe, Ltd., the European headquarters 
company for Continental Oil Co. 

James A. Bradley, Jr., former chairman 
of the mathematics department of The 
Berkeley Prep School, Tampa, Fla., has 
been named headmaster of The Independ- 
ent Day School, Tampa. 

John C. Andrews, Jr., has been elected 
an officer of The Paul Revere Life Insur- 
ance Co., Worcester, Mass. Prior to this, he 
was with the company's health and life un- 
derwriting departments. 

Alden F. Hays is the creative director 
of Owens/Lisec Advertising Marketing, 
Kansas City, Kan. 

James B. Huston, Jr., is branch man- 
ager of Pitney Bowes Inc., Allentown, Pa. 

gf ^ Lawrence Y. Goldberg was the 
^^ lone delegate from Rhode Island 
at the recently concluded world conference 
in Brussels on Soviet Jewry. He is executive 
vice-president of American Leisure Prod- 
ucts Co. 

Donald P. Zecher still manages the Old 
Country Store & Emporium in West Mans- 
field, Mass., which has been in business at 
the same site for over 100 years. 

Dr. Walter E. Cowan, Jr., is in the sec- 
ond year of his internship at Cook County 
Hospital, Chicago. 

Marshall W. Greene is production 
manager of the Sheppard Envelope Co., 
Worcester, Mass. 

Arthur Z. Eisen (GS) is a professor 
and head of the division of dermatology at 
the Washington LJniversity School of Medi- 
cine, St. Louis, Mo. 



Edward A. Johnson has resigned as as- 
sistant principal of Marblehead (Mass.) 
Junior High School to become principal of 
the Hanover (N.H.) School, a middle 
school. 

(■» J" Bill Arnold has been appointed 
^ ^ national field sales manager of the 
Morton frozen foods division of ITT Con- 
tinental Baking Co., Inc. He has been with 
Morton since 1961, serving since 1968 as 
Southeastern regional sales manager. 

Dr. Allen M. Granda (GS) has been 
promoted to full professor in the psychol- 
ogy department at the University of Dela- 
ware. He began his association with the 
university in 1965 after seven years as a 
research psychologist at the Walter Reed 
Army Institute of Research in Washing- 
ton, D.C 

Dr. Anthony J. Regine served as chair- 
man of the twentieth reunion of his class 
at Classical High School, Providence, this 
spring. 

Glenn A. Ballard has been named 
headmaster at The Hockaday School, Dal- 
las, Tex. 

Dr. Arthur L. Laferriere has been pro- 
moted to full professor of physical science 
at Rhode Island College. 

George V. Guinness is human factors 
consultant and senior scientist at Dunlop 
& Associates, Inc., Darien, Conn. 

Dr. Ceroid N. Borodach is staff anes- 
thesiologist and chief of inhalation therapy 
at Emerson Hospital, Concord, Mass. 

John G. Friend is president of the 
Marina Bank, Chicago, 111. 

ff /l^ Howard Elliott, Jr., has been 
^17 sworn in by Vice-President Spiro 
Agnew as a member of the Postal Rate 
Commission. A postal rate commissioner, 
he had been a member of the Public Serv- 
ice Commission in Missouri since 1967. 

Theodore Zinn is an associate editor 
in the life sciences department of Crowell- 
Collier and Macmillan, Inc., New York 
City. 

Dr. John Nazarian (GS) has been pro- 
moted to full professor of mathematics at 
Rhode Island College. Recently its Alumni 
Association honored him by naming him 
"Alumnus of the Year." 

Dr. Norman J. Cowen, a hand surgeon, 
is clinical instructor in orthopedic surgery 
at George Washington University. 

Jay Feder has been elected chairman 
of the board of Barclay Industries, Inc., 
Lodi, N.J. He continues as president and 
chief executive officer of the company, 
posts to which he was named in 1962. 

George L. Peck, an assistant manager 
of Time, Inc., New York City, is working 
in the public relations department of the 
public information center. 

Gerald G. Norigian has been appointed 
as special assistant attorney general of the 
state of Rhode Island. 

John H. Wood, Jr., has been appointed 
marketing director of retirement fund serv- 
ices at Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & 
Smith, Inc., New York City. 



Walter J. Weber, Jr., is professor of 
civil engineering and water resources at 
the University of Michigan. 

David S. Fishman is the newly ap- 
pointed president of the Connecticut Sci- 
ence Fair Association. He is a Hartford 
patent attorney and president of the Con- 
necticut Patent Law Association. 

Joseph B. Donahue has been appointed 
district sales manager for the Anaconda 
American Brass Co., with responsibility 
for southern Ohio, Kentucky, and Ten- 
nessee. 

Robert L. Zangrando has been named 
associate professor of history at the Uni- 
versity of Akron. He had been at Yale as 
history editor of the Yale Press and lec- 
turer in the history department. 

Gordon L. Parker, Jr., vice-president of 
Rhode Island Hospital Trust National Bank, 
has been elected secretary of Community 
Workshops of Rhode Island. 

j"»p» Arthur R. Taylor has been elected 
^ J an executive vice-president of In- 
ternational Paper Co., New York City. As 
chief financial officer of the firm. Art will 
be responsible for the operation of the of- 
fices of treasurer, controller, auditor, taxes, 
and corporate computer services. 

Howard Miller has joined McDonald, 
Shobar & Co., Inc., San Francisco securi- 
ties dealers, as executive vice-president. 
The firm now becomes McDonald, Shobar, 
Miller, Inc. Howard has lived in the Bay 
Area for the past nine years, presently re- 
siding in San Rafael with his wife, Barbara, 
and daughters Kimberly and Rhonda. 

A. Barry Merkin, president of Charter 
Communications, Inc., has joined with 
Simon & Schuster, Inc., to form Pocket 
Books-Ace Distribution Co. The new firm 
will act as the sales representative to the 
mass market for both Pocket Books and 
Ace News Co. The new firm is expected to 
be operational this month. 

Richard D. Godfrey, senior vice-presi- 
dent of Industrial National Bank, Provi- 
dence, has been elected vice-president of 
Community Workshops of Rhode Island. 

Donald G. Andrew has joined E. F. 
Hutton & Co., Inc., Santa Ana, Calif., as a 
commodity broker. 

Howland A. Fowler (GS) is a physi- 
cist with the National Bureau of Standards, 
Department of Commerce, Washington, 
DC. 

Stephen T. Twaddell has been named 
director of data processing at the New 
Hampshire-Vermont Blue Cross and Blue 
Shield Plans. He has been with the Plans 
since 1970 as director of the new Regional 
Health Information Systems (RHIS) and 
will continue in that capacity. 

Thomas G. D. Hesslein, former finan- 
cial analyst for Bessemer Securities, has 
accepted a position as a portfolio manager 
with Loomis Sayles & Co., New York City. 

Stuart M. Winkler has accepted a po- 
sition as portfolio manager with F. L. 
Salomon, New York City. 

Louis Montanaro, Jr., former sales and 
marketing executive with The Entwistle 
Co., has joined Federal Products Company 
of Providence as a sales engineer. 



Dr. Richard J. Kostecki has been a 
plastic surgeon on "medico assignment" 
with the African Research Medical Founda- 
tion. He will return to the states in August 
to start practice in Waterbury, Conn. 

Gerritt H. Vander Veer, Jr., is regional 
director of group pensions for the Metro- 
politan Life Insurance Co., Boston. 

g» rt David J. Mclntire, president of 
^/ ^y Dennis Mahoney & Sons, Inc., of 
Mattapoisett, Mass., has been elected a 
director of the National Bank of Fairhaven. 
He also is a member of the Mattapoisett 
town finance committee and served on the 
school needs and building committee. 

Walter S. Roberts has been named to 
the newly-created post of field sales man- 
ager by the Toiletries Division of The Gil- 
lette Co., Boston. Before joining Gillette in 
1960, he was an underwriter with the John 
Hancock Insurance Co. 

Ronald D. Agnes, president of Lopez 
Associates, Inc., North Providence, has 
been elected first vice-president of the 
Rhode Island Knights of the Grip. 

Henry M. Drake is a salesman for office 
machines and equipment with Brownell 
Business Equipment Co., Yorkville, N.Y. 

John Mazzanovich, III, former sales 
manager of Robert Maxwell Co., N.Y., has 
accepted a position with Sperry & Hutchin- 
son, also in New York. 

John H. Wolf, Jr., has been promoted 
to chief engineer at Bacharach Instrument 
Co., a division of Ambac Industries, Inc., 
Pittsburgh. 

Dr. Richard C. Hatch has been pro- 
moted to associate professor of chemistry 
at Muhlenberg College. 

David W. Clough has been named gen- 
eral sales manager for the Newport Harbor 
Treadway Inn and Blue Porpoise Tavern, 
which opened in Rhode Island in June. He 
had been sales manager for the Industrial 
Coatings Division of Kyanize Paints, Inc., 
Boston, for the past four years. 

Paul H. Johnson was a May graduate 
of the Program for Management Develop- 
ment of the Harvard University Graduate 
School of Business Administration. Paul is 
vice-president and secretary of the First 
New Haven National Bank. 

The Rev. Hays H. Rockwell, University 
of Rochester Protestant chaplain, has be- 
come dean of Bexley Hall, the Episcopal 
member of the Rochester Center for The- 
ological Studies. 

Lawrence R. Delhagen has been elected 
to the board of directors of Community 
Workshops of Rhode Island. He is an 
officer of Manhattan Life Insurance Co. 

Stephen T. Singiser has been named a 
senior investment officer in the Trust In- 
vestment Division of Chemical Bank, New 
York City, where he has been employed 
for the past ten years. 

William T. Redding has been named 
foundation director and publications edi- 
tor concerning animals and environment of 
Argus Archives, New York City. 

William F. Carroll, Jr., has resigned as 
economic opportunity coordinator for the 
state Department of Community Affairs 
and has joined the New England Occupa- 



tional Resources Center in Newton, Mass., 
where he will serve as director of staff 
training and development. 

Henry O. Johnston has been elected a 
vice-president of St. Louis Union Trust 
Co., where he will head the personal trust 
investment division. 

fv^ Dr. Philip J. DiSaia received the 
^ 3^ President's Award of the Ameri- 
can College of Obstetrics and Gynecology 
this spring during the group's annual 
meeting in San Francisco. He is a senior 
fellow in gynecologic oncology at the Uni- 
versity of Texas M. D. Anderson Hospital 
and Tumor Institute at Houston. Dr. Di- 
Saia has been investigating aspects of im- 
munology of cancer that may make pos- 
sible a test for the early detection of some 
types of cancer in women. 

H. Corbin Day has been elected to the 
board of directors of Suburban Trust Co., 
Short Hills, N.J. He is a partner in the in- 
vestment firm of Goldman, Sachs & Co. 

The Rev. Bruce W. Mosher is pastor of 
the Union Congregational Church, Avon 
Park, Fla. 

Karlis V. Rutins is director of corpo- 
rate systems and data processing at Ameri- 
can Hoeclist Corp., Somerville, N.J. 

James J. Holsing is working as a senior 
sales engineer for the electronics market- 
ing department of Hamilton Standard, 
Windsor Locks, Conn., selling computers 
and process controllers to aerospace and 
industrial firms. In his spare time he and 
his wife act as food and wine consultants 
in the New England area. He is still a con- 
tributing editor to the Pursglove Wine 
Letter plus acting as a tasting coordinator 
for Epicure Society International. 

Richard D. Haskell, a lieutenant com- 
mander of the U.S. Navy, is a student in 
M.S. operations analysis at the U.S. Naval 
Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif. 

William Silver, an American Exchange 
stock specialist and partner in Weiskopf 
Silver Co., has been elected to the Amex 
board of governors. He was elected to a 
three-year term in the floor governor 
category. 

J. Russell French, III, has accepted a 
position as Eastern area manager with 
Monolithic Memories, Framingham, Mass., 
and will coordinate all sales and marketing 
activities in the eastern U.S. 

Francis E. Lindon, an art dealer, is ad- 
ministrative manager with M. Knoedler & 
Co., New York City. 

David P. Helpern is a project architect 
with I. M. Pei & Associates, New York 
City. 

James E. Wright is president and treas- 
urer of Tennis of Maine, Inc., Falmouth, 
Me. 

Richard E. Grenier is an architectural 
representative for Corning Glass Works in 
Ambler, Pa. 

J. Stewart McLaughlin is a partner in 
the Bay Shore, N.Y., law firm of Hargrave, 
Williams, Wellersdieck & McLaughlin. 

John E. Bellavance, a sales planner and 
marketing representative for General Elec- 
tric, has been transferred to GE's Bridge- 
port (Conn.) plant. 



/lf\ Thomas P. Budrewicz has been 
|7\/ appointed assistant principal of 
Winchester (Mass.) High School. He for- 
merly was guidance department head for 
grades 7-12 and had previously served as a 
guidance counselor at the school. 

Blair J. Myers is branch manager of 
data processing for Computer Sciences 
Corp., Philadelphia. 

Dr. James T. Johnson is an assistant 
professor of religion at Douglass College, 
New Brunswick, N.J. 

Timothy M. Hennessey is an associate 
professor of political science at Michigan 
State University. 

Ezra R. Harris has been promoted to 
assistant vice-president at Connecticut 
Bank & Trust Co., Hartford. 

Richard L. Abbott is an attorney with 
Esso Chemical Co., Inc., New York City. 

Stephen J. Schulte is a partner of Baer 
& McGoldrick, New York City. 

^»* Peter H. Hurley, who is assistant 
15 JL to the president of R. A. Hurley 
Real Estate, Providence, has been gradu- 
ated from the Program for Management 
Development of the Harvard Graduate 
School of Business Administration. 

Peter M. Watts has been appointed a 
trust officer with the Palmer First National 
Bank and Trust Co., Sarasota, Fla. 

Howard A. Coffin, II, is editor of the 
Today Magazine of the Philadelphia (Pa.) 
Inquirer. 

Charles A. Peterson (GS) has accepted 
a position as sales representative for Xerox 
Corp., Anaheim, Calif. 

Foster H. Ballard, former business ana- 
lyst at Pet Milk Co., St. Louis, Mo., has 
joined Frein Dental Laboratories in Brent- 
wood, Mo. 

Dr. J. George O'Keefe (GS) has been 
promoted to professor of physical science 
at Rhode Island College. 

David Bender is a member of the law 
firm of Malcolm A. Hoffman, New York 
City. 

Thomas W. Henderson is an attorney 
with Waltenbaugh & Koegler, Pittsburgh. 

Dr. Gary P. Aspelin is senior research 
scientist at Johnson & Johnson, New Bruns- 
wick, N.J. 

Peter F. Knopp, former law clerk with 
Bigham, Englor, Jones & Houston, has ac- 
cepted a position as editor of law publica- 
tions with the Life Insurance Association 
of America, New York City. 

Robert F. Lowe, Jr., an investment 
banker, is vice-president of Paine, Webber, 
Jackson &. Curtis, Inc., New York City. 

Walter L. Brothers is staff intelli- 
gence officer, headquarters. Strategic Air 
Command, stationed in Omaha, Neb. 

Stephen L. Brown is vice-president of 
corporate development at Sassoner, Jacobs 
& Schneider, New York City investment 
bankers. 

Richard B. Grant is president of Amer- 
ican Arts, Charlestown, Mass., manufac- 
turers of educational materials. 



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James A. Holloway, Jr., is a resident 
representative for Wheeling Steel Corp., 
Mount Lebanon, Pa. 

Dr. Richard L. Morrill is assistant pro- 
fessor of philosophy and religion at 
Chatham College, Pittsburgh. 

Jonathan A. Veeder has been ap- 
pointed assistant secretary at The Northern 
Trust Co., Chicago. 

/^ «* Donald R. Friary has been 
J^ Jal awarded a Ph.D. in American 
Civilization from the University of Penn- 
sylvania. He continues as assistant profes- 
sor of history at State University College 
in New Paltz, N.Y. Don also is head tutor 
of the Heritage Foundation Summer Fel- 
lowship Program in Deerfield, Mass. 

Kenneth E. Hogberg, vice-president of 
the business development department for 
Citizens Savings Bank and Citizens Trust 
Company of Providence, was graduated 
this spring from the Program for Manage- 
ment Development of the Harvard Univer- 
sity Graduate School of Business Adminis- 
tration. 

Richard A. Boardman is information 
officer of the American Embassy in Kuala 
Lumpur and the proud owner of "Be- 
thesda," a four-and-a-half-year-old gelding 
who is racing well in K.L., Singapore, and 
Penang. 

Matthew P. Fink is assistant counsel 
for the Investment Company Institute, 
Washington, D.C. 

Stephen D. Shatkin (GS) is assistant 
professor of education at Boston University 
School of Education. During the summer 
he owns and directs Camp Samoset, II, 
Casco, Me. 

Neil D. Maurer recently had a show of 
black and white photographs, which were 
taken in 1969 in Ecuador while he was on a 
scholarship from The Inter-American Press 
Association. He is an ex-Peace Corps vol- 
unteer with service in Peru. 

Lynn J. DiPaola is a college employ- 
ment supervisor with New York Tele- 
phone, New York City. 

Gerald H. Efinger, an oceanographer 
and photographer, is president of Seamark, 
Inc., La Jolla, Calif. 

R. Peyton Howard is an historian for 
the U.S. Government's Department of 
Transportation, Washington, D.C. 

Anthony R. Thompson has accepted a 
position as sales manager of KBSC-TV, 
Los Angeles, Calif. 

Arthur J. Wall, Jr., has been appointed 
manager of systems engineering with IBM 
Corp., Reading, Pa. 

John K. Lane has been named assistant 
vice-president of the Bank of the Com- 
monwealth, Detroit, Mich. 

Dr. Ronald L. Duty (GS) is a senior 
engineer with IBM in the federal systems 
division at Huntsville, Ala. 

John E. Fischer (GS) is an assistant 
professor of classics at Wabash College, 
Crawfordsville, Ind. 

Robert N. Gee, III, is inventory control 
manager of the machine tool division of 
Brown & Sharpe Mfg. Co., N. Kingstown, 
R.I. 



Harvey Selib (GS) is a research mathe- 
matician and systems programmer with 
Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory in Buf- 
falo, N.Y. 

^ ^ Tom Generous has received his 
1^^ Ph.D. in American history at Stan- 
ford and has been appointed to the faculty 
of The Choate School, Wallingford, Conn. 
He will be teaching American and Euro- 
pean history, coaching baseball and maybe 
hockey, and "mastering" one of the boys' 
dorms. After four years with the Pacific 
Fleet and four more at Stanford, Tom is 
looking forward to renewing his Brown 
and Pembroke ties. 

Douglass M. Barnes has been ap- 
pointed director of investor relations at 
Garlock, Inc., Rochester, N.Y. He formerly 
worked as a consultant to corporate man- 
agement in communications and develop- 
ment, specializing in financial public rela- 
tions at Crosby M. Kelly Associates, Ltd., 
New York City. 

Stanley M. Welsh, who has an M.S. in 
chemistry from Tufts, has been employed 
the last few years by the Wyomissing 
Corp., Reading, Pa. In the fall he will re- 
turn to school, taking up the study of law 
at the John Marshall Law School in Chi- 
cago. 

Richard E. Francoeur is a supervisor of 
software and programming with Mobil Oil 
Co., Steinstrasse, West Germany. 

William C. Hetzel is associate director 
and supervisor of applied programming at 
the University of North Carolina's com- 
putation center. He also is a candidate for 
a Ph.D. degree in computer science. 

Jeffrey P. King has been named senior 
programmer at Bendix Field Engineering 
Corp., Moffett Field, Calif. 

Frank O. Antonsanti is editor of the 
international division of Addison-Wesley 
Publishing Co., Reading, Mass. 

Steven J. Gomen is with the law firm 
of Snyder, Tepper & Berlin, Boston. 

Stewart B. Hauser, a custom house 
broker and foreign freight forwarder, is 
president of D. Hauser, Inc., New York 
City. 

David A. Pitassi, an electronic systems 
engineer, is manager of the computer sys- 
tems department of Raytheon Co., Ports- 
mouth, R.I. 

Michael S. Greenwood, assistant pro- 
fessor of biology at Middlebury College, is 
on leave during 1971-72 to attend the Uni- 
versity of Glasgow, Scotland. 

Dr. Rolf K. Adenstedt is an assistant 
professor at the Center for the Application 
of Mathematics at Lehigh University. 

Jeffrey C. Wilson is a graduate student 
at Yale Divinity School. 

Dr. Stanley A. Terman is assistant pro- 
fessor in the zoology department of the 
University of Iowa, doing research in mo- 
lecular biology and basic aspects of cancer. 

yf jf Richard K. Goeltz has been ap- 
13^4 pointed assistant treasurer in 
charge of banking affairs for Joseph E. 
Seagram & Sons, Inc. After leaving College 
Hill, Dick attended the London School of 
Economics and received his M.B.A. from Co- 



lumbia University Graduate School of 
Business. His new assignment will include 
banking relationships in the U.S. and in- 
ternational and asset management. 

Lee Berk, vice-president of Berklee 
College of Music, Boston, is legal advisor 
to the National Association of Jazz Educa- 
tors. Lee has a new book on the market 
called Legal Protection for the Creative 
Musician. 

Michael L. Freedman has completed a 
two-year post-doctoral appointment at Ar- 
gonne National Laboratory and presently is 
assistant professor of oral radiology at the 
University of Connecticut Health Center. 

Chuan-Cheng Chen (GS) has been 
working since 1970 as a research scientist 
with Systems, Science & Software, La 
Jolla, Calif. He expected to receive a Ph.D. 
degree from the University of California in 
June. 

Larry A. Rand is vice-president of 
Kekst and Co., Inc., New York City, finan- 
cial consultants and corporate relations 
counsel. 

Clifton V. Rice has been appointed di- 
rector of community relations for The 
New England Home for Little Wanderers. 
He will coordinate public information, 
community relations, and development 
functions for The Home, which provides 
residential treatment for children, foster 
home care, adoption, and other services to 
the Boston community. 

Robert W. Buehler, who received an 
M.B.A. degree from New York University 
in 1970, is an instructor in business admin- 
istration at Thomas More College, Fort 
Mitchell, Ky. 

Jeffrey N. Siegel is with the New York 
law firm of Golenbock & Barell. 

Kenneth E. Linker has been appointed 
assistant vice-president and director of sys- 
tems development of Crocker Bank, San 
Francisco. 

G. Dewey Moser, III, former registered 
representative with Paine, Webber, Jackson 
& Curtis, has accepted a position with 
Lombard, Vitalis, Paganucci & Nelson, 
New York City. 

Michael A. Bell is now manager of 
Midwest region facilities planning for 
Xerox Corp., Des Plaines, 111. 

Gregory M. Eramian is assistant pro- 
fessor of Russian at the University of West- 
ern Ontario, London, Ont. 

David J. Field, Jr., is regional opera- 
tions superintendent of Matson Navigating 
Co., San Francisco. 

Gordon H. Hamilton is a medical of- 
ficer on the USS St. Louis, one of the new 
fast amphibious cargo ships participating 
in Vietnam evacuation operations. 

Howard B. Hile has accepted a position 
as administrative assistant to the senior 
vice-president of National Bulk Carriers, 
New York City. 

Michael S. Kupersmith has moved 
from New York City to become staff at- 
torney with Vermont Legal Aid, Inc., Bur- 
lington, Vt. 

Jan R. Moyer is assistant to the vice- 
president in merchandising for Far Mar 
Co. Inc., Hutchinson, Kan. 



Theodore J. Thelin has started his final 
year in training as chief resident in ob- 
stetrics and gynecology at the University of 
Kentucky Medical Center. 

/^ g» David Sanborn Page has been ap- 
1?^ pointed assistant professor of 
chemistry at Bates College, effective Sept. 
1. An instructor of chemistry at Purdue 
from 1966-70, he received his Ph.D. there 
last June. During the past academic year, 
Dave served as a visiting assistant profes- 
sor at Purdue. 

Thomas J. Croke, an admission officer 
at Brown, has been named director of the 
Taunton Municipal Drug Commission. He 
will be responsible for programs in drug 
abuse prevention, drug education, and re- 
habilitation in the greater Taunton area. 

Anthony J. Beck is working for IBM's 
systems development division in Pough- 
keepsie, N.Y. Earlier this year he completed 
his tour of duty with the Army in Ger- 
many. 

Robert J. Carlson has been named a 
systems analyst in the software department 
of E. I. du Pont in Orange, Tex. 

Randall G. Drain for the past eight 
months has been doing research for his dis- 
sertation for his Ph.D. in international 
economics. His research is being done on a 
grant in Brussels, England, France, and 
Africa. He expected to return to the states 
in May to begin writing his dissertation, 
having completed all other studies for his 
Ph.D. 

Dr. Edward B. Fink is interning in psy- 
chology at Montefiore Hospital, New York 
City. 

William G. Stone, Jr., is pursuing a 
master's degree in education at Alfred Uni- 
versity. 

George Peterson (GS) is a third-year 
graduate student in the biochemistry de- 
partment of Tufts University School of 
Medicine, Boston. 

William V. Routch is an instructor in 
Italian at the New England Conservatory, 
Boston, and executive assistant to its presi- 
dent. 

Michael Weir is assistant professor of 
history at Chatham College, Pittsburgh. 

Walter R. Becker is with Programming 
Methods Inc., New York City data proc- 
essing consultants. 

Peter H. Lipman has accepted a posi- 
tion as research mathematician with Stan- 
ford Research Institute, Menio Park, Calif. 

^L£L Capt. Perry C. Abernethy reports 
^?^? that his service time has been ex- 
tended to July 31, 1972. In addition, he 
has been reassigned to another theater of 
operation. His address: 46th Special Forces 
Company (Airborne), 1st Special Forces, 
APO San Francisco 96261. Perry says that 
he forgives the "culprit" who inadvertently 
turned him into a "Cpl." in the March issue 
of this magazine. "Wish I were," he says. 
"I'd be out sooner." 

Thomas M. Jeffris, II, is working for 
Parker Pen Company in domestic market- 
ing. A resident of Janesville, Wis., he has 
just been elected GOP chairman in his 
community. 



David C. Deutsch has been promoted 
to vice-president in charge of marketing 
with Medical Analytics, Inc., in New York 
City. 

John G. Manning is an associate law- 
yer with Mudge, Rose, Guthrie & Alex- 
ander, Washington, D.C. 

Leonard A. Caldwell has accepted a 
position with the First Pennsylvania Bank- 
ing and Trust Co., Bala-Cynwyd, Pa. 

Charles E. Katsanos has been named 
chief chemist and supervisor of quality 
control with Reeves Rubber, Inc., Albert- 
ville, Ala. 

Stephen T. Veiner is assistant to the 
president of Belle-Mac Inc., Lewiston, Me. 

Dr. Nicholas J. Esposito is assistant 
professor of psychology at the State Uni- 
versity of New York. 

Herbert J. Johnson, III, a research ana- 
lyst with the U.S. Defense Department, 
Washington, D.C, is writing his Ph.D. dis- 
sertation in Slavic linguistics at Harvard 
University. 

Dr. Thomas B. Peterson, who received a 
Ph.D. degree from the University of Wis- 
consin, is an instructor in economics at the 
college. 

Richard E. Plenge has received an A.M. 
degree from Harvard University. 

Dennis C. Buss (GS) is assistant pro- 
fessor of secondary education at Rider 
College, Trenton, N.J. 

Dr. Irving Werner (GS) has been ap- 
pointed assistant professor of biology at 
Fitchburg College. 

Richard R. Frost is a technical ac- 
counts manager and marketing representa- 
tive for General Electric Co., Bethesda, Md. 

Patrick H. Kareiva has been named a 
systems engineer of data processing for 
sales and consulting at Memorex Corp., 
East Syracuse, N.Y. 

Richard F. Woodward, a CPA, is a 
supervisor at Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & 
Co., Providence. 

James R. Berns has been named an as- 
sistant director of business affairs at Com- 
munity Television of Southern California 
in Los Angeles. 

Robert G. Bruce is a security analyst at 
H. C. Wainwright & Co., a New York in- 
stitutional brokerage firm. 

Jonathan D. Rahn, a CPA, is treas- 
urer and director of Capital Planning As- 
sociates, Inc., Philadelphia. 

Stephen J. Brinn is a sales representa- 
tive for American Academic Environments 
in Baltimore,' Md. 

John G. Butcher has received a mas- 
ter's degree in rural sociology from the 
University of Wisconsin and is continuing 
his studies there to prepare him to study 
southeast Asian history at the University 
of Hull, England, in September. 

William G. Droms received an M.B.A. 
from George Washington University, where 
he had been a graduate teaching fellow 
this past year. 

/If^ Lt. Richard W. Stidsen, USAF, 
V<r has been awarded the Distin- 
guished Flying Cross for aerial achievement 
in Vietnam. Lt. Stidsen provided close air 
support and illumination for an Army unit 



near Quang Ngai, under attack by a large 
enemy force, and silenced four automatic 
weapon sites and halted the attack. 

John B. Crosby, Jr., started work last 
month at Chase Manhattan Bank in the 
global credit division. He was released in 
April from active duty in the U.S. Navy, 
where he was an anti-submarine warfare 
officer on the USS Julius A. Fuer (DEG-6). 

Herschel Bird has received his M.D. 
degree from Upstate New York Medical 
Center in Syracuse and started his intern- 
ship July 1 at Long Island Jewish Medical 
Center, Hyde Park, N.Y. 

Robert C. O'Day is field director for 
the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, 
Inc., with offices on Tremont St., Boston. 

D. Michael Holbrook is director of ad- 
mission for the College of Arts and Sci- 
ences at the University of Cincinnati. 

Harris J. Finberg, a graduate of Har- 
vard Medical School, will intern in medi- 
cine at Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Mo. 

Lynn K. Davis has been awarded a 
$1,000 Pfizer scholarship for the academic 
year by the University of Connecticut 
School of Medicine, where he is a member 
of the class of 1972. 

James D. Bell has been released from 
the Navy and is enrolled in the Boston 
University School of Law. 

David Gale has been appointed a 
mathematics teacher at the Athol-Royalston 
Regional High School in Athol, Mass. 

Jones B. Shannon, Jr. (GS), has been 
appointed personnel supervisor at Straw- 
bridge & Clothier, Cherry Hill, N.J. 

Gerald D. Brody is president of the 
employment bureau. Personnel Collabora- 
tive, Boston. 

William B. Harley, who received his 
A.M. degree last December, has been ap- 
pointed a teacher at the Breck School, 
Minneapolis, Minn. 

Michael J. Burke has taken a position 
with Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, a San 
Francisco law firm. 

C. Stewart Gaddin has accepted a po- 
sition as an international economist with 
the Office of the Assistant Secretary for 
International Affairs, Washington, D.C. 

William H. Wentz, a lawyer, is with 
the Office of General Counsel, Federal 
Trade Commission, Washington, D.C. 

Thomas F. Gaffney is a financial sys- 
tems analyst with Alberto Culver, Mel- 
rose Park, III. 

Gary W. Kaufmann has been named 
an electrical estimator with Baldwin-Stew- 
art Electric Co., Hartford, Conn. 

Thomas A. Mennell is an administra- 
tive assistant at the Pittsburgh (Pa.) Na- 
tional Bank. 

/^ Q Richard E. Brodsky was graduated 
vO from Harvard Law School in June 
and has joined the staff of Commissioner 
Nicholas Johnson of the Federal Com- 
munications Commission as a legal as- 
sistant for the next year. 

Stephen A. Houze is at Vanderbilt 
University, where he is a second-year law 
student. 



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Dr. Stephen L. Finney (GS) is associate 
professor of sociology at the University of 
Delaware. 

Peter J. Gates is a third-year medical 
student at the New York Medical College, 
New York City. 

Frederick W. Arnold, Jr., is senior trust 
administrator in the trust department of 
Chemical Bank, New York City. 

Peter S. Voss has been promoted to 
trust officer at The Rhode Island Hospital 
Trust National Bank, Providence. He 
joined the bank in 1968. 

Eugene D. Nelson has accepted a po- 
sition as senior systems analyst with Amer- 
ican Express, New York City. 

David F. Singer (GS) is assistant pro- 
fessor of history at Chicago State College. 

Robert R. Davis is an assistant man- 
ager in the dental department of Maryland 
Blue Shield, Inc., Towson, Md. 

Ronald J. Gerts is a child development 
program coordinator, responsible for set- 
ting up an administrative network for 
child care programs in Ohio, Indiana, 
Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minne- 
sota. 

Robert A. Busick, III, is a planning en- 
gineer with Western Electric Co., Inc., N. 
Andover, Mass. 

Dr. Abdul-Majid K. Nusayr (GS) is 
assistant professor of mathematics at 
Riyad University in Saudi Arabia. 

Daniel M. Cain is a graduate student 
at Columbia University School of Business. 

C. Leonard O'Brien, Jr., is assistant 
director of the greater Providence chapter 
of the John E. Fogarty Center for Retarded 
Children. 

Since July, Richard R. Reisman has 
been working at the Western Electric Cor- 
porate Education Center in Princeton, N.J., 
as a fellow under the Lehigh Masters Pro- 
gram in operations research. 

/Z,^k David W. Morf has been pro- 
^yz7 moted to SP/4 at the Edgewood 
Arsenal, Md., where he is assigned to the 
personnel data support center, production 
control branch, as a management informa- 
tion specialist. He achieved this rating 
without Army training. Instead, it was 
based on skills acquired at Brown and at 
Stanford Business School, as well as sum- 
mer work for the Navy. 

Robert J. Rothstein has been trans- 
ferred by the Digital Equipment Corpora- 
tion to Brussels. His new position is as 
applications engineer specializing in lab- 
oratory computers, where he will be respon- 
sible for life sciences applications for all of 
Belgium and Luxembourg. His new bride 
will be with him. 

William M. Linehan has completed his 
second year at the University of Oklahoma 
Medical School. 

^7 f\ Dale R. Winzer, commissioned a 
/ \J second lieutenant upon graduation 
from OCS at Lackland AFB, Tex., has been 
assigned to Craig AFB, Ala., for pilot 
training. 

Thomas C. Burne is a graduate student 



at Columbia University. 

Ralph W. Alewine, III (GS), who labels 
himself a perennial graduate student, is at 
the Seismological Laboratory at the Uni- 
versity Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 
Calif. 

Marvin W. Keenan is a member of the 
physics department at Indiana University. 

Richard R. Rantilla (GS) is an engi- 
neering analyst with General Motors of 
Brazil in Sao Caetano, Brazil. 

George S. Masnick (GS) is assistant 
professor of sociology and director of the 
Population Studies Center, at the University 
of Pennsylvania. 

Ens. Harold A. Henderson is stationed 
at the Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi, 
Tex. 

Ens. William Turrentine has been sta- 
tioned in Hawaii since his graduation from 
OCS this spring. 

py-* Class president Michael Rubel 
/ JL sends this message to the men and 
women of '71: "Please forward word of 
what you are doing and your present ad- 
dress to Helen King, secretary of '71, care 
of the Student Activities Office. Also please 
keep us up-to-date with any changes." 



Marriages 



1951 — Dr. Roy B. Sherman and Anne 
B. Greb-Lasky, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
George E. Greb-Lasky of New Britain, 
Conn., March 12. 

1951 GS— Dr. Thomas H. Walnut, Jr., 
and Lois Bates, of Ann Arbor, Mich., Aug. 
22. At home: 307 Halton Rd., DeWitt, N.Y. 

1959 GS — Joseph R. Salvatore, II, and 
Pauline G. Bettez, daughter of Mrs. Armand 
Bettez of Warwick, R.I., and the late Mr. 
Bettez, April 16. 

1961 — Charles B. Swartwood, III, and 
Judith K. Farrington, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Robert K. Farrington of Shaker 
Heights, Ohio, April 3. 

1962 — Z. Hershel Smith and Claudia A. 
Mills, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sanford 
Mills of Warwick, R.I., April 18. 

1963 — A. Dean Abelon and Nancy J. 
Zbikowski, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wa- 
claw Zbikowski of Bradley, 111., Feb. 21. 

1963— Lt. Cmdr. Paul Sydlowski, MC, 
USN, and Barbara Saccoccio, daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. August Saccoccio of Cran- 
ston, R.I., April 17. Norman C. Alt '63 was 
best man. 

19o3 — Jeffrey C. Wilson and Mrs. Bar- 
bara DeForest Adams, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Robert T. DeForest of Darien, Conn., 
April 3. At home: 32 Commerce St., Clin- 
ton, Conn. 

1964 — George N. Love, III, and Lois G. 
Balle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Balle 
of Dallas, Tex., March 12. At home: 3430 
Rankin, Dallas. 

1964 — Edward L. Joseph and Ellen G. 
Meyer, daughter of Mrs. Nathan Meyer of 
Portsmouth, Va., and the late Mr. Meyer, 
April 3. 

1965 — Christian E. Yegen, Jr., and 



Lonna Kane, July, 1970. 

1966 — John G. Manning and Ingrid 
Quarck P'66, June 21, 1969. 

1967 — Thomas Gaffney and Donna L. 
Gottfried, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harley 
D. Gottfried of Menasha, Wis., April 17. At 
home: 555 Cornelia, Chicago, 111. 

1968 — Paul A. Blomquist and Denise 

B. Blanding, daughter of Mrs. Wilbert J. 
Emigh of Wellesley, Mass., Feb. 14. Thomas 
Ahem '69 was best man, and Steven Chil- 
ton '68 was an usher. 

1968 — Charles J. Hindley and Patricia 

C. Filip, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Hypolit 
K. Filip, Jr., of Jackson, Mich., Feb. 26. 
Thomas Rodgers, III, '66 was an usher. 

1968— Peter B. Holden and Dorothy L. 
Gallagher, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Thomas E. Judd of Sparks, Nev., Jan. 24. 

1968 — Robert M. Cohan and Joni Gel- 
lin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Gellin 
of Houston, Tex., May 16. Ronald M. Senio 
'66 and Robert Cooper '68 were ushers. At 
home: 1504 B Braes Ridge Dr., Austin, Tex. 

1969 — Dante E. Boffi, Jr., and Suzanne 
J. Champagne, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Victor A. Champagne of Woonsocket, R.I., 
May 15. At home: 454 Admiral St., Provi- 
dence. 

1969 — Mark J. Handler and Virginia 
Kerensky P'71, June 3, 1969. 

1969 — William Russo and Susan M. 
Fowler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carlton 
S. Fowler of Marlborough, Mass., April 17. 

1969 — Kevin A. Seaman and Diane M. 
Mullin, in Huntington, N.Y., Jan. 29. 

1970 — Paul A. Souza and Patricia 
Heath P'71, June 6, 1970. 

1971 — Edward G. Doucette and Nancy 
K. Percesepe, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Henry O. Percesepe of Yonkers, N.Y., 
April 3. 

1971 — Ernest D. Moritz and Barbara K. 
Foote, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Howard 
Foote of Doylestown, Pa., Jan. 30. Timothy 
J. Manor '71 and Michael A. Rubel '71 were 
ushers. 

1971 — Eric T. Reenstierna and Anne 
M. Caroselli, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Remus F. Caroselli of Cumberland, R.I., 
April 24. Vaughan Hennum '69 was an 
usher. 

1971 — Mark Worcester and Mary Bul- 
lock P'71, Aug. 23, 1969. 



Births 

1948 — To Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Dunn 
of New York City, a son, Adam Pike, 
May 1. 

1953— To Mr. and Mrs. David I. 
Kramer of New York City, a son, Douglas 
Eric, April 23. 

1955 — To the Rev. and Mrs. William F. 
Barrett of Artesia, New Mexico, their 
fourth child and first son, Brian Fergus, 
Dec. 15. 

1955 — To Mr. and Mrs. Irwin L. Syd- 
ney of Newton Centre, Mass., their first 
son, Jacob Theodore, April 21. 

1956 — To Mr. and Mrs. Arnold G. 
Frank of North Bayerx, Germany, their 



fourth child and first daughter, Cathrine 
OUvia-Marie, Jan. 4. 

1956 GS— To Mr. and Mrs. Roger W. 
Nani of Providence, a son, Stephen Roger, 
May 7. 

1958— To Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth P. 
Borden of Scituate, R.I., their first child, a 
daughter, Allison Higgen, March 27. 

1958— To Mr. and Mrs. Harold A. 
Taylor, Jr., of Arlington, Va., their third 
child and second son, Jonathan Louis, 
March 12. 

1959— To Mr. and Mrs. Ronald B. Har- 
rison of Hartsdale, N.Y., their second child 
and first son, Bradford Stone, Sept. 5. 

1959 — Mr. and Mrs. L. Aaron Mendel- 
son of Longmeadow, Mass., announce the 
adoption of a son, Andrew, born in August, 
1969. 

1959— To Mr. and Mrs. Karlis V. 
Rutins of Chatham, N.J., a son, Erik Karlis, 
Nov. 13. 

1963 — To Mr. and Mrs. Michael S. 
Greenwood of Salisbury, Vt., their second 
son, Davis, Jan., 1970. 

1963— To Mr. and Mrs. A. Allen 
Mongeau, Jr., of Narragansett, R.I., their 
first child, a son, Scott Allen, April 29. 

1963— To Mr. and Mrs. William L. Pal- 
misciano of North Kingstown, R.I., a son, 
James Heelan, March 31. 

1963 — To Mr. and Mrs. Bruce P. Saypol 
of Silver Spring, Md., a son, Joshua Mi- 
chael, Feb. 20. 

1963— To Dr. and Mrs. Michael E. 
Starzak of Vestal, N.Y., their first child, a 
daughter, Jocelyn Ann, July 22, 1970. 

1963 — To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. 
Walker of Sao Paulo, Brazil, their second 
child and second son, Carlos Andrew, April 
22. 

1964— To Mr. and Mrs. Richard R. 
Pannone of Warwick, R.I., a son, Kevin 
Arthur, April 11. 

1964 — To Mr. and Mrs. Larry A. Rand 
of Brooklyn, N.Y., a son, Joshua Daniel, 
April 6. 

1965— To Dr. and Mrs. Price M. 
Chenault, Jr., of Nashville, Tenn., their first 
child, a daughter, Catherine Stryker, May 10. 

1965— To Mr. and Mrs. William M. 
Jackson of Everett, Mass., their first child, 
a son, Andrew William, Jan. 23. Mrs. Jack- 
son is the former Jane Benedict P'66. 

1968— To Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. 
Minifie of Bloomfield, Conn., a son, Charles 
David, Dec. 4. 

1968 — To Mr. and Mrs. Eugene A. Sevi 
of Key West, Fla., a daughter, Rachel, May 
20, 1970. 

1969 — To Mr. and Mrs. James E. 
Breuer of Pownal, Me., a son, Jesse James, 
April 10. 

1970 GS— To Mr. and Mrs. George S. 
Masnick of Philadelphia, a son, Joshua, 
Nov. 10, 1969. 



Deaths 

FREDERICK BUTLER THURBER '05 
in Providence, R.L, May 20. He was long- 
time president and chairman of the board 
of Tilden-Thurber Company, Providence, 



and a noted Rhode Island yachtsman. Mr. 
Thurber had been associated with the 
family jewelry store company since 1894. 
His greatest experience at sea was sailing 
the Atlantic in 1911, when he was one of a 
three-man crew attempting the crossing in 
the Sea Bird, a 25-foot yawl. Leaving in July, 
they completed the trip in 20 days. So far 
as is known it was the first time that a 
small yacht had been sailed across the 
Atlantic Ocean entirely by amateurs and 
it was the first time that any vessel leaving 
the United States had made the port of 
Rome, Italy. During World War I, Mr. 
Thurber served as a commander in the 
mine sweeper force, U.S. Navy. He was a 
charter member of the Gemological Insti- 
tute of America, founded in 1932, and was 
the first jeweler in the United States and 
Canada to complete a three-year course 
dealing with gems. He held diploma num- 
ber one as a certified gemologist of the 
American Gemological Society. In 1965, Mr. 
Thurber published privately a booklet cov- 
ering episodes of his life titled Memoirs of 
an Ancient Marit^er. He was a member of 
the Circumnavigators Club, charter member 
of the Cruising Club of America, and the 
Yacht Racing Association. A former secre- 
tary and treasurer of the Class of 1905, he 
was a member of many clubs and societies. 
Psi Upsilon. His brother is William G. 
Thurber '15, his grandson is Tracy G. 
Thurber '50, and his daughter is Mrs. 
Nancy Thurber Sedgwick of Providence. 

EDWIN AHIRA KELLEY, SR„ '06 
in Bradenton, Fla., Jan. 8. He was a retired 
assistant director of procurement with the 
Remington-Rand division of Sperry Rand 
Corp., New York City. Mr. Kelley had 
worked with the company for 30 years, 
serving in various parts of the country from 
New York to Louisiana. He also was pur- 
chasing agent for Hershell-Spillman Motor 
Co., North Tonawanda, N.Y., and was a 
former draftsman with the New York Cen- 
tral Railroad. Mr. Kelley was a member of 
the National Association of Purchasing 
Agents. His son is Edwin A. Kelley, Jr., 
4415 60th St. W., Bradenton. 

ROBERT PIERCE WETHERELL '06 

in Attleboro, Mass., Oct. 9. His widow is 

Andree Wetherell, 11 Payson St., Attleboro. 

DONALD GRANT HOWE '10 

in Randolph, Vt., Oct. 4. His widow is Mrs. 

Donald G. Howe, 5 Elm St., Randolph. 

WILLIAM HENRY McCARTHY '10 
in Lawrence, Mass., Dec. 22. Before his re- 
tirement he was employed in the aircraft 
division of General Electric Co., West Lynn, 
Mass. Mr. McCarthy previously was treas- 
urer and manager of Henry P. Doe Co., a 
retail jewelry store in Lawrence, Mass. Phi 
Kappa. His widow is Gertrude S. McCarthy. 

CHARLES HIRAM MOORE '13 
in Brighton, Mass., May 26, 1970. From 
1935 until his retirement in 1959, he was 
credit manager of Jenney Manufacturing 
Co., Chestnut Hill, Mass. Mr. Moore re- 
ceived an A.B. degree from Harvard Uni- 



versity in 1913, an M.B.A. from its School 
of Business in 1917, and an LL.B. degree 
from Suffolk Law School in 1930. During 
World War I, he served as an ensign junior 
grade, USNR. Mr. Moore formerly was a 
credit investigator for Old Colony Trust 
Co., Boston. His widow is Marguerite U. 
Moore, 615 Washington St., Brookline. 

EDWARD WASHINGTON HILL '15 
in New York City, Nov. 29. He was vice- 
president of Majestic Iron-Steel Corp., 
North Branch, N.J. During World War I, 
Mr. Hill served with the U.S. Navy and 
was aboard the U.S.S. President Lincoln 
when it was sunk off the French coast. He 
also was general manager of Carnegie- 
Illinois Steel Corp., Clairton, Pa., and 
Loftus Engineering Corp., Pittsburgh. Delta 
Phi. His widow is Ethel O. Hill, 145 E. 92nd 
St., New York City. 

ARTHUR MICHELINI '15 
in Boston, Mass., June 21, 1970. He was 
self-employed as a civil engineer and con- 
sultant. Mr. Michelini also was a former 
assistant manager of Calderwood Yacht 
Yard, Inc., Manchester, Mass. Theta Delta 
Chi. His widow is Helen N. Michelini, 6 
Bridge St., Manchester. 

JOHN CLARK HAZLETT '16 
in Seattle, Wash., March 31, 1969. During 
World War I, Mr. Hazlett served as a 
captain with the U.S. Army. His widow, 
Lynette F. Hazlett, survives. 

STANLEY PEARCE BRADISH '17 
on April 14, 1944. He received an LL.B. 
degree from Yale University School of Law. 
There are no known survivors. 

WARD ELSMERE BUTLER '17 
in Cranston, R.L, May 17. He had been a 
self-employed carpenter until he retired 
15 years ago. During World War I, Mr. 
Butler served as a fireman 1/c, U.S. Navy. 
Theta Delta Chi. His widow is Marion F. 
Butler, 119 Wentworth Ave., Cranston. 

GEORGE WASHINGTON KOWALSKI '19 
in Ogden Dunes, Ind., March 3. He was an 
account executive for the General Outdoor 
Advertising Co., Chicago, for 40 years be- 
fore retiring in 1964. Mr. Kowalski was a 
member of the American Red Cross volun- 
teer ambulance corps before the United 
States entered World War I and later trans- 
ferred to the American air force. He also 
had been an advertising manager with J. F. 
Myers Co., Chicago, later known as the 
Chicago Poster Advertising Co. It was 
merged into the General Outdoor Adver- 
tising Co. Mr. Kowalski was a member of 
the Chicago Federated Advertising Club, 
was a past president of the Brown Club of 
Chicago, and chairman of the Chicago Lake 
Shore Club. Phi Kappa. His sister. Miss 
Florence Kowalski, survives. 

DONALD MILLER AUMACK '20 

in Bound Brook, N.J., March 27. A retired 

chemist, he was department manager with 



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American Cyanamid's Calco Chemical Divi- 
sion, Bound Brook, and had been with the 
company since graduation. Sigma Nu. His 
widow is Margaret S. Aumack, 610 Wat- 
chung Rd., Bound Brook. 

KNOWLTON MEAD WOODIN '21, A.M. 
'23 in West Boothbay Harbor, Me., April 

10. He retired in 1964 from Colby College's 
biology department. During World War I, 
Mr. Woodin served as a second lieutenant 
in the U.S. Army, and during World War 

11, as a major in the Army. Mr, Woodin 
also taught biology at Simmons College, 
Norwich University, and Colby Junior Col- 
lege. He was a member of the Society of 
American Bacteriologists. Alpha Tau 
Omega. Sigma Xi. He is survived by a son. 

LT. COL. CHARLES WILLIAM YERKES, 
USAF (ret.) '24 in Sacramento, Calif., June, 
1960. During World War II, he served with 
the U.S. Air Force. Col. Yerkes was a for- 
mer secretary and treasurer of the Oakes 
Brokerage Co., Maplewood, N.J. Alpha 
Delta Phi. His son is William S. Yerkes, 
P. O. Box 4161, South Daytona, Fla. 

JOHN EVERETT CONKLIN '25 
in Caldwell, N.J,. March 22. He was retired 
as a toolmaker for Unimatics Corp., Fair- 
field, N.J. Mr. Conklin received an A.M. 
degree from Montclair State Teachers Col- 
lege in 1936, and had taught social studies 
and history at the Newton and Roselle 
(N.J.) High Schools. An excellent tool and 
dyemaker, he also had been employed as 
a toolmaker for Calculagraph Co., East 
Hanover, N.J., G. M. Giannini & Co., Inc., 
Caldwell, N.J., and the Rajah Co., Bloom- 
field, N.J., manufacturers of control in- 
struments for rockets, planes, and missiles. 
His widow is Juanita L. Conklin, 11 Flor- 
ence PL, Caldwell. 

PETER JOSEPH COMI '26 
in North Providence, April 21. A teacher 
for 47 years before his retirement in 1964, 
he was head of the drafting department at 
Central High School in Providence. He was 
also a graduate of Rhode Island School of 
Design and received an M.S. degree in edu- 
cation from the University of Rhode Island 
in 1935. During his teaching career in 
Rhode Island and Connecticut, he was a 
member of Brown's engineering faculty. 
Mr. Comi also was a licensed surveyor in 
the state of Rhode Island and a veteran of 
World War I. His widow is Louise K. Comi, 
71 Applegate Rd., Cranston, R.I. 

ISAAK DAKIN ORLEANS '26 
in Silver Spring, Md., March 27. He was 
a research psychologist and senior project 
director with the U.S. Army Behavior and 
Systems Research Laboratories, a part of 
the office of the Chief Research and De- 
velopment headquarters in Arlington, Va. 
Mr. Orleans received his master's degree in 
education from CCNY, and had been an 
assistant professor of English at Sampson 
College. He als > was chairman of the Eng- 
lish department at Talmudical Academy of 
Yeshiva College, New York. Mr. Orleans 
had worked with the organization since 



1958 on research to improve army person- 
nel tests for enlisted men and officers. From 
1952 to 1958 he developed personnel tests 
for Air Force enlisted men with the Test 
Development Center at Mitchell AFB. His 
widow is Myra K. Orleans, 9304 Piney 
Branch Rd., Silver Spring. 

EDWARD PFLUGI MORSE '27 
in Toronto, Canada, July 7, 1970. He re- 
tired in 1967 as proprietor of the Industrial 
Distributing Co., manufacturers' agents, a 
company he had been associated with since 
1931. Mr. Morse was a member of the 
America Men's Club of Toronto. Sigma Nu. 
His widow is Helen B. Morse, 30 Fonteney 
Ct., Apt. 1204, Islington, Ontario, Canada. 

JOHN JOSEPH ORTH '27 
in Los Angeles, Calif., April 16. Since 1964, 
he had been express representative for 
Western Greyhound Lines, Los Angeles. 
Mr. Orth also did graduate work at New 
York and Michigan State Universities. He 
previously was tour manager of North Star 
Lines, Inc., Grand Rapids, Mich., manager 
of the major medical expense department of 
Federal Life and Casualty Co., Battle Creek, 
and with Royal-Liverpool Group Insurance, 
Grand Rapids. Kappa Sigma. His widow is 
Marjorie W. Orth, 8306 Georgetown Ave., 
Los Angeles. 

MADISON CURRY HUTCHINSON '28 
in Franklin, Ohio, March 5. He was owner 
and publisher of the franklin Chronicle, a 
weekly newspaper established in 1875. 
After graduating from Brown he went to 
work for the Western Star at Lebanon, 
Ohio, as news editor, a post he held until 
1938. He bought the Franklin Clironicle 
that same year, and devoted the major part 
of his adult life to Franklin and its news- 
paper. Mr. Hutchinson held a 32-year per- 
fect attendance record in the Franklin Rotary 
Club, and he was a member of the Ohio 
Newspaper and the National Editorial As- 
sociations. Phi Gamma Delta. His widow is 
Sarah D. Hutchinson, 218 Park Ave., 
Franklin. 

HARRY TASHAMKA DAVIS '29 
in Providence, R.I., Jan. 10, 1970. He was a 
practicing dentist. In 1934, Dr. Davis re- 
ceived a D.D.S. degree from Dalhousie 
University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. 
He was a member of the Rhode Island 
Dental Association. His widow is Mrs. 
Harry T. Davis, 369 Cole Ave., Providence. 

HARVEY JOSEPH O'HARE '29 
in Wappingers Falls, N.Y., March 8. Prior 
to his retirement in 1968, Mr. O'Hare had 
been affiliated with the Millpond Park 
Sedge Realty Corp., Yorktown Heights, 
N.Y., builders, as a sales manager. During 
World War II, he served with the U.S. Air 
Force. Mr. O'Hare formerly was plant 
manager of Consolidated Laundries in its 
Westchester (N.Y.) Diaper Service, assistant 
manager of New York Linen of Consoli- 
dated Laundries, New York City, and Ideal 
Laundry, West New York, N.J., and owner 
of Formalee (Revekes) Cleaners, Dobbs 
Ferry, N.Y. Kappa Sigma. His widow is 



Margaret K. O'Hare, 26C Chelsea Ridge 
Apts., Winthrop Ct., Wappingers Falls. 

THE REV. BERTRAM ELIJAH HUMPHRIES 
'34 in Utica, N.Y., April 3. He was pa^or 
emeritus of the First Presbyterian Church 
in Holland Patent, N.Y. Retiring last De- 
cember, his was the longest pastorate in 
the history of the church and the 28 min- 
isters who had preceded him. Signed by the 
New York Yankees when he was a senior at 
Brown, Mr. Humphries earned his way 
through Union Theological Seminary by 
pitching for the minor league teams of the 
Yankees and later the St. Louis Cardinals 
and was affectionately known as the "pitch- 
ing and painter pastor." He received his 
B.D. degree from Union in 1939, and spent 
two years in graduate study at Drew Sem- 
inary and the Rhode Island School of De- 
sign. Mr. Humphries also had served 
churches in Baldwinsville and East Orange, 
N.J. He was a former moderator and trustee 
of the Utica Presbytery and for 20 years 
was a member of the national board of 
the Lord's Day Alliance with special em- 
phasis on legislative action in Albany. Zeta 
Psi. His widow is Myra B. Humphries, 30 
Sherrill Lane, New Hartford, N.Y. 

WILLIAM DENNETT REYNOLDS '37 
in Providence, R.I., May 17. Former presi- 
dent and treasurer of the Warren Teaming 
Co., Providence, he had been a real estate 
broker and owner of D. W. Reynolds & 
Associates in Barrington, R.I., since 1967. 
He headed the teaming company for 20 
years. During World War II, he served 
as a private with the U.S. Army. Mr. Rey- 
nolds was a former director of the Rhode 
Island Truck Owners Association and Com- 
mercial Haulers of Rhode Island and former 
secretary of the Brown Club of Rhode Is- 
land. Theta Delta Chi. His brother is 
Charles A. Reynolds '39, and a son is 
William W. Reynolds '68, 86 Waterman St., 
Providence. 

MANSUET JOHN GIUSTI, JR., '38 
in Providence, R.I., May 12. He was a 
resident project engineer in the State of 
Rhode Island's department of administra- 
tion. Mr. Giusti formerly was regional 
manager for the Fruehauf Trailer Co., 
Cranston, and had also been employed by 
the International Harvester Co., Providence. 
He was active in the Republican party and 
had held two state positions in the Chafee 
administration. In 1965, he was named 
safety responsibility chief for the Registry 
of Motor Vehicles and held the post until 
1969. His widow is Carrie C. Giusti, 32 Bi- 
centennial Way, North Providence. 

MEYER GREENBERG '38 
in Boston, Mass., April 2. He was president 
of Adasko's Inc., Salem, Mass., a merchan- 
dising shop. Mr. Greenberg was a member 
of Temple Emmanu-El, Marblehead, Mass. 
Pi Lambda Phi. His widow is Laura A. 
Greenberg, 137 Humphrey St., Marblehead. 

WILLIAM ROCKWELL BRENNAN '49 
in Tucson, Ariz., March 20. He was a for- 
mer advertising executive for some of the 



nation's largest magazines, including Time, 
Life, and Forfune. Mr. Brennan moved to 
Tucson in 1969, after working as adminis- 
trative assistant to the advertising manager 
of Fortune magazine. During World War 
II, he served as a sergeant with the U.S. 
Air Force. Delta Kappa Epsilon. Phi Beta 
Kappa. His widow is Dolores Y. Brennan, 
6534 E. Speedway, Tucson. 

PHILIP DUNHAM MUHLENBERG '53 
in Cranbury, N.J., March 28. He was as- 
sociated with John Wiley & Sons, New 
York City. Following graduation, Mr. 
Muhlenberg served for two years with the 
U.S. Navy. He also had attended the Uni- 
versity of Vermont. Mr. Muhlenberg for- 
merly was a vocational instructor with 
Federal Electric Corp., Edison, N.J. Delta 
Tau Delta. His widow is Anne H. Muhlen- 
berg, 16 South Main St., Cranbury. 

BRUCE FAIRCHILD PORTER '56 
in Sacramento, Calif., Feb. 22. He was 
senior rehabilitation counselor for Build 
Rehabilitation Industries, North Hollywood, 
Calif., a transitional workshop to help the 
emotionally disturbed. Following gradua- 
tion, Mr. Porter served for two years with 
the U.S. Army. He later taught English at 
Amity Regional High School, Waterbury, 
Conn. He also had been a rehabilitation 
counselor for the California Department of 
Rehabilitation in Van Nuys, and a trainee 
for the California Department of Employ- 
ment in North Hollywood. Mr. Porter was a 
member of the Professional and Industrial 
Relations and the California State Employes 
Associations. Kappa Sigma. His widow is 
Jerri R. Porter, 14317 Burning Tree, Vic- 
torville, Calif. 

WILLIAM SLOAN SMITH '60 
in a two-car accident in Canaan, N.Y., May 
3. He was manager of financial services for 
Reynolds, Barnes & Hebb Inc., an insurance 
company in Pittsfield, Mass., and was for- 
merly associated with Paul Revere Life In- 
surance Co. of Worcester and Paul Revere 
Variable Annuity Co. as district manager 
for western Massachusetts. He also was a 
teacher-coach at Morgan Park Academy in 
Chicago, 111. During his years at Brown he 
was tenor soloist with the glee club, a 
member of the Bruinaires, and a member 
of the varsity lacrosse team. Mr. Smith 
later was active as a member of the New 
England Lacrosse Officials Association and 
participated in YMCA work. He also was a 
director of Western Massachusetts Health 
Planning Council. Phi Kappa Psi. His widow 
is Suzanne W. Smith, Chimney Corners, 
Becket, Mass. 

MAJOR ROBERT GILL JONES, USMC, '61 
in Oceanside, Calif., Jan. 30, following an 
automobile accident. He was a career officer 
in the Marine Corps and had served in 
Vietnam, receiving his major's commission 
while there. Major Jones was formerly a 
computer programmer with the Florida Re- 
search & Development Center in West 
Palm Beach. His father is Robert V. Jones 
'22 and his widow is Helen K. Jones, 219 
Skip Jack Lane, Oceanside. 



Doug Mercer: Few Brunonians were 
more effective in their active loyalty' 



Charles Douglas Mercer '06, retired 
president of Willcox & Gibbs Sewing Ma- 
chine Co., New York City, and former 
trustee of Brown, died at New England 
Deaconess Hospital in Boston on April 20. 

Early in his career, Mr. Mercer had 
been a management consultant, serving a 
number of important businesses. Called on 
to investigate the operations of Willcox & 
Gibbs, he made his report there in 1937 
and stayed on with the firm. He was first 
treasurer, later president, and then chair- 
man of the board and chief executive officer 
of the company, one of the big three in the 
field, specializing in industrial sewing ma- 
chines. (The original growth of Brown & 
Sharpe Manufacturing Company of Rhode 
Island was based on work done by Willcox 
& Gibbs.) He also was a director of Willcox 
& Gibbs, Ltd., London, part of the world- 
wide operations. 

While a student at Brown, Mr. Mercer 
won the Rhode Island state golf champion- 
ship in 1904, and had continued to play the 
sport in Paris, Me., where his summer 
home was located. He was a former presi- 
dent of the Paris Hill Country Club. 

He was still president of his class in 
1956 when it observed its 50th anniversary 
and served as chief marshal of Commence- 
ment. While serving as a trustee of the 
University, he was a leader in the campus 
housing and development campaign and 
worked on various Corporation committees. 




including its Advisory and Executive Com- 
mittee. 

In 1965, Doug Mercer received the 
coveted Brown Bear Award from the Asso- 
ciated Alumni. In part, the citation read: 
"Upon your retirement from business in 
1958, it was said of you, 'Few Brunonians 
have been more effective in their active 
loyalty.' To a conspicuous degree, but 
wholly without ostentation, you have de- 
voted yourself through many years to the 
welfare of your Alma Mater." 

He had been a past president and gov- 
ernor of the Brown Club of New York, 
chairman of its 75th annual dinner, and 
toastmaster for the 90th. He also served as 
chairman of the University's Athletic Ad- 
visory Council. 

Mr. Mercer was a former president of 
the Sewing Machine Trades Association 
and its executive committee chairman. 
Other affiliations included the Union 
League Club and Century Association, both 
in New York, the Union Club of Boston, 
and the Yeoman's Hall Club of Charleston, 
S.C. His fraternity was Alpha Delta Phi. 

In addition to his widow, Marion 
(Everett) Mercer, who lives at 327 Clinton 
Rd., Brookline, Mass., there are two sons, 
George E. Mercer of Wellesley Hills, Mass., 
and Douglas Mercer of Weston, Mass., and 
a daughter, Mrs. John W. Nason of Keene 
Valley, N.Y. H.G 



Doug Mercer was Chief Marshal for the 1956 
Commencement, his 50th reunion. 



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'Nobody is 
going to push 
us around' 



When Len Jardine signed on as head 
football coach at Brown in January 
of 1967, the 29-year-oId assistant coach of 
Purdue's Rose Bowl champions spoke of in- 
stilUng pride in his players and achieving 
success on the field. 

But it's difficult to instill pride in a 
group of men when you're not winning 
football games. Victories on the gridiron 
have been few and far between for Brown 
coaches for quite some time. 

There were those who claimed that the 
atmosphere at Brown wasn't conducive to a 
winning football program. These observers 
pointed to the fact that John McLaughry 
'40 returned to his Alma Mater in 1959 an 
accomplished head coach with a career 
record of 61-29-5. Yet, eight frustrating 
years later he resigned, unable to get the 
job done within the framework of the 
Brown program. 

In his first four years at Brown, Jar- 
dine had a disappointing 8-27-1 mark. Even 
his youthful enthusiasm was beginning to 
wane. At the conclusion of the 1970 cam- 
paign, the Bruin coach had a meeting with 
President Hornig. 

Jardine sees this meeting as a possible 
turning point in Brown football. He spoke 
on the subject at a June gathering of the 
Brown Football Association. 

"The president asked me what was 
needed to get the job done," Jardine says. 
"I told him that within the framework of 
the Ivy League code we needed an all-out 
effort by the entire University community. 

"I suggested that we needed both the 
understanding and cooperation of the presi- 
dent, deans — and everyone on down the 
line. I think that we now have that under- 
standing and I'm confident that Brown foot- 
ball is on its way back." 

The full effect of the new administra- 
tive attitude won't be felt for at least a year 
at the varsity level. However, Jardine feels 
that enough things have fallen into line to 
provide the fans with some good football 
this fall. 

Of the 22 lettermen returning, Jardine 
will have eight starters from the offensive 
unit that was twenty-first in the nation in 




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rushing a year ago. The Bruin mentor pre- 
dicts that if the team can improve its pass- 
ing game it could show the most potent 
offensive punch in the Ivy League. 

The eight offensive starters who return 
are split end Chip Regine (6-0, 200), tight 
end Nick Albertson (6-1, 205), tackles Dave 
Siegfried (6-3, 230) and Jay Bartley (6-2, 
230), guard Frank Walsh (5-11, 240), center 
Mike Marino (6-2, 212), running back Gary 
Bonner (6-0, 185), and fullback Tom Spotts 
(6-1, 205). 

Jardine terms Walsh the finest offen- 
sive lineman he has coached and rates 
him a definite candidate for All-American 
honors. Bonner gained 674 yards rushing 
in 1970, just 24 yards short of the all-time 
Brown season rushing record. 

Spotts, a natural fullback, played be- 
hind Bonner at left half much of the sea- 
son. Switching to fullback when Co-Capt. 
Gerry Hart was injured, Spotts gained over 
100 yards rushing against both Harvard 
and Columbia. Jardine looks for the prep 
school All-American from Park Ridge, 111., 
to have an outstanding season. 

Brown may have more talent and depth 
in the backfield than at any time in the past 
30 years. Sophomores Curt Zingaro, Len 
Cherry, Bruce Watson, Don Walus, and 
Bob Watt all come with sound credentials. 
Two of last fall's backs, Kurt Franke and 
Walt Haggstrom, have been shifted to 
the defensive unit to help shore up a prob- 
lem there caused by the graduation of 
Bryan Marini, Bob Thorley, and Mark 
Lahey. 

Despite all this offensive potential, the 
key to how successful the Bruins will be is 
at quarterback. In 1970, Brown rushed for 
1,823 yards, but picked up only 525 through 
the air. 

"Without doubt, quarterback is the 
most crucial position on the team," Jardine 
says. "Senior Bob Zink who guided the 
team to its victory over Columbia, has the 
first shot at the job. But things are wide 
open, and junior Nino Moscardi will get 
his chance, as will sophomores Steve Wil- 
son and Don Bogan. The man who sticks 
his head up and shows he can move the 
club both in the air and on the ground is 
the one who is going to start." 

In addition to having a potentially 
potent offense. Coach Jardine's Bruins 
should be stronger defensively than they 
have been in years. Four of the top front 
five will be returning, as will all three line- 
backers. Only in the defensive backfield 
were the Bruins hurt by graduation, 

Mike Maricic (6-2, 212) and Chris 
Kunzi (6-0, 210) will be back at the end 
positions, with competition from sophomore 
Dan Willis (6-2, 205) and senior Ralph 
Vuono (6-2, 235). The coaches are particu- 
larly high on Maricic, who showed great 



strength and lateral movement when in- 
serted into the lineup midway through the 
season. Vuono, star end on the 5-1 Cub 
team of 1968, has not played since his 
sophomore year. 

Jack Thompson (6-3, 235) and Joe 
Cocarro (6-2, 240) are returning starters at 
tackle. Juniors Ken King (6-3, 236) and 
Mark Dwyer (6-5, 245) and highly touted 
sophomore Steve Frager (6-3, 245) fill out 
this position. 

The loss of Lou Schepp, an honorable 
mention All-American, leaves the middle 
guard position wide open. Juniors Bob 
Pangia (6-0, 219) and Joe DiGeronimo (5-11, 
183) will try to fill the gap. 

Co-Capt. Steve Bennett (6-1, 195) and 
junior Ken Cieplik (6-0, 196) give Brown 
two of the best linebackers in the league. 
Teaming with them this season in what at 
times could be a 4-3-4 defense will be 
senior Rob Cohen (5-10, 190) and sopho- 
more Paul Henry (6-0, 205). The latter was 
outstanding with the Cubs. 

In being transferred to the defensive 
backfield Franke and Haggstrom will team 
with senior Jim Rianoshek, the only ex- 
perienced defender still on the squad. Sev- 
eral sophomores may help at these key 
positions, including Ty Kashmiry (6-0, 190), 
Jim Kiernan (5-11, 180), and Doug Jost (6-1, 
190). 

The punting duties this fall will be 
handled by Jim Colby, who ranked among 
the Ivy leaders a year ago. The extra points 
and field goals will fall to Tyler Chase, 
who was 10-10 on conversions and three 
of five on field goals in his sophomore year. 

There will be a few changes in the 
offense. Most noticeable to the fans will be 
the switch in the duties of the flanker back, 
who will be a runner and blocker this sea- 
son as well as a receiver. 

"We are going into the 1971 season 
more hopeful than we have ever been be- 
fore," Jardine says. "Our top 22 people 
should give us a good football team. 

"Another point is that our seniors 
played on a well-publicized 5-1 freshman 
team and haven't tasted success since. 
They're hungry. Pressing these veterans 
hard will be an equally effective, if less 
publicized, group of sophomores up from a 
spirited 3-2 team. Six or seven of these 
men are going to help immediately. 

"We're going to be a competitive foot- 
ball team in 1971. No one is going to push 
us around. Brown will be an interesting 
team to watch, and if our quarterback situ- 
ation resolves itself — well, there's no telling 
how far we could go." J.B. 



Blue-chip quarterback? 
There's oiie coming 

This fall's freshman class will include a 
number of outstanding athletes. Football, 
basketball, and baseball did exceptionally 
well. 

Coach Len Jardine's pressing need the 
last few years has been a blue-chip quarter- 
back. In Pete Beatrice, a 6-2, 200-pounder 
from Swampscott, Mass., Jardine feels that 
he has found the answer to his problems. 

An outstanding passer and dangerous 
runner, Beatrice has never played in a los- 
ing football game either in high school or 
at Milford (Conn.) Academy. In high school 
he completed 134 of 198 passes for 2,250 
yards and 21 touchdowns, and he rushed 
for an additional ten touchdowns. He took 
Milford to the Northeast prep school cham- 
pionship last fall by hitting on 60 percent 
of his passes for 1,493 yards and 16 touch- 
downs. He also was graduated first in his 
class academically. 

Jardine reports that he has two other 
good quarterbacks and a host of good run- 
ning backs. One of them is Peter Cheviat, a 
6-1, 210-pound halfback from Amityville, 
L.I. He made first team All-State and runs 
the 100 in 10.1. Cliff Robinson (6-2, 195) is 
a New Jersey sprint champion recruited by 
Fritz Pollard '19. 

There are some excellent offensive and 
defensive linemen, including 6-3, 225-pound 
Bruce Johnson, the only player in New 
Jersey named to the All-State offensive and 
defensive teams. Jardine believes that Gary 
Cavalli, a defensive end from Nutley, N.J., 
has pro potential. He's 6-5, 215. Defensive 
backs are another need at Brown. Jardine 
says he has four good ones. 

"This is by far the best freshman 
group I've had at Brown, in both quality 
and quantity," Jardine reports. "For the 
quarterback, running back, and tackle posi- 
tions we went after players of Big 10 cali- 
ber — and we got them. To get Beatrice, for 
example, the final two schools we had to 
beat were Alabama and Minnesota. If we 
back this freshman team up with another 
one like it next fall. Brown football will 
have turned a corner." 

When the major league baseball clubs 
held their annual college draft in June, 
Bill Almon, a 6-3, 170-pound shortstop from 
Warwick (R.I.) Vets High was high on the 
list of all 24 clubs. Both San Diego and 
Milwaukee rated him number one. Thanks 
to the efforts of Coach Bill Livesey, Almon 
will be entering Brown. 

"This kid has it all — speed, arm, glove, 
and hitting power," says Livesey. "Lefty 
Lefebvre, the former Brown coach and cur- 
rent scout for the Red Sox, tells me that 
Almon is the best infielder he has seen in 
Rhode Island within memory." 

An all-around athlete, Almon also ex- 
cels at basketball. He was the leading scorer 



in Rhode Island last winter and the third 
leading scorer in New England. 

In addition to Almon, Coach Gerry 
Alaimo will have some other fine basketball 
players entering Brown this fall. Ed Morris 
of Charles Evans Hughes High in New York 
City is an outstanding back-court man, as 
is Vaughan Clarke, a 6-3 shooter from Fay- 
etteville, N.Y. Alaimo didn't get the big 
6-10 center he has been after. That's his 
objective for 1972. 

Hockey did not experience a banner 
year, at least not in numbers. However, 
there are a few good ones, including Dave 
Stevenson, son of the Brown soccer and 
lacrosse coach. Others rated highly are 
Dick Heimbach, a center from Taft School; 
Jim Madich, an all-star goalie from Minne- 
sota; and Bob Thornton, an all-scholastic 
from Norwood, Mass. 

The fall sports schedules 

Coach Len Jardine's football team will 
both open and close its 1971 season at 
home, meeting URI in the opener on Sept. 
25 and concluding the campaign by hosting 
Columbia on Nov. 20. 

There will be five home games in the 
nine-game slate, including Ivy League con- 
tests with Yale, Dartmouth, Harvard, and 
Columbia. Brown will play at Colgate for 
the first time since 1962 in what will be the 
final game of this traditional series under 
present contract arrangements. Holy Cross 
will replace the Red Raiders on the Bruin 
schedule starting in 1972. 

There have been several changes in the 
freshman football schedule. The number of 
games has been reduced from six to five, 
with Dartmouth and Columbia dropping off 
and Boston College being added. 

The soccer team, runner up to Harvard 
last year, will play a 13-game schedule, with 
eight of the games at Aldrich-Dexter Field. 

The schedules follow, with games to be 
played at home unless otherwise noted: 

Varsity football: Sept. 25— URI. Oct. 2 
—at Penn. Oct. 9— Yale. Oct. 16— Dart- 
mouth. Oct. 23— at Colgate. Oct. 30— at 
Princeton. Nov. 6 — at Cornell. Nov. 13 — 
Harvard. Nov. 20 — Columbia. 

Freshman football: Oct. 8— Yale. Oct. 
17— at Boston Coll. Oct. 29— at Holy Cross. 
Nov. 5— URI. Nov. 12— at Harvard. 

Varsity soccer: Sept. 25 — URI. Sept. 28 
—Boston Univ. Oct. 2— at Penn. Oct. 9— 
Yale. Oct. 13 — at Springfield. Oct. 16 — 
Dartmouth. Oct. 19— UConn. Oct. 22— at 
Army. Oct. 27 — Trinity. Oct. 30 — at Prince- 
ton. Nov. 6 — at Cornell. Nov. 13 — Harvard. 
Nov. 20 — Columbia. 

Freshman soccer: Oct. 8 — Yale. Oct. 16 
—Dartmouth. Oct. 19— UConn. Oct. 27— at 
Boston Univ. Nov. 2 — at Springfield. Nov. 
12 — at Harvard. 



The best spring 
in Brown's history 



The spring of 1971 was a season to 
remember for the Brown sports buffs. It 
may have been the best spring sports sea- 
son in Brown's history. 

All six varsity teams finished in the 
black, something that hasn't been accom- 
plished since 1950. The accumulative record 
was 53-29-2 for a winning percentage of 
.651. 

Things on the freshman front were 
equally encouraging. The Cubs were 28-10 
(.737), with only track (0-1) ending in the 
red. 

Lacrosse: The recent pattern has been 
for Coach Cliff Stevenson's lacrosse team to 
lead the way in the spring. This year was 
no exception. The Bruins were 11-3 over- 
all, 5-1 (second place) in the Ivy League, 
captured their third successive New England 
title and fifth since 1964, were rated seventh 
nationally, and were one of eight teams 
competing in the first NCAA playoffs. 

Brown's opening round opponent in 
the NCAA's was Cornell, 12-4 victor over 
Brown in the game that determined the Ivy 
title. The NCAA selection committee raised 
a few eyebrows when it arbitrarily assigned 
the game to Ithaca without conducting the 
required coin-flip for home-field advantage. 

The Bears gave Cornell one of its 
toughest games of the year, taking an early 
2-1 lead and trailing by only 5-4 at half- 
time. !t was 9-8 in favor of the Big Red 
with seven minutes left, at which point a 
costly off-side penalty against Brown led to 
an extra-man goal and a 10-8 decision for 
the home team. 

Cornell went on to win the national 
title, upsetting Maryland, 12-6, in the 
NCAA finals. After a one-goal loss to Vir- 
ginia in the season's opener, the Big Red 
won 13 straight. 

Bob Scalise ended with 46 goals and 
12 assists for 58 points, bringing his three- 
year total to 137 points. This places him 
third on the all-time scoring list behind 
Tom Draper '64 (162) and Bob Anthony 
'70 (145). 

Other leading scorers were sophomore 
Steve Russo (18-29-47), junior Kevin 
Cleere (16-25-41), junior Dave Owens (3-21- 
24), junior Joe Dougherty (17-4-21), junior 
Paul Harper (13-7-20), and senior Rupert 
Scofield (16-3-19). 

Three of Brown's players were voted to 
the USILA University Division All-Ameri- 
can team. Scalise and junior defenseman 
Bill Kavan received second team berths 
while midfielder Scofield was selected to the 
third team. 

In other post-season honors, seven 
Bruins made All-Ivy and six All-New Eng- 
land. Selected to the All-Ivy first team were 
Scalise and Kavan, while the second unit 
had Cleere, Scofield, Russo, senior mid- 



fielder Dean Rollins, and junior defenseman 
Joe DeDonato. The All-New England first 
team included Scalise, Kavan, Rollins, and 
junior goalie Doug Spiro, with Scofield and 
DeDonato making the second unit. 

Baseball: Coach Bill Livesey's baseball 
team was 14-14-2, with five of the defeats 
administered by Florida State, the nation's 
number two college team in 1970. In the 
EIBL, the Bruins were 5-7-2. 

Bob Thorley ended with an 8-1 record 
and a flossy 1.70 earned run average, be- 
lieved to be the best in modern Brown his- 
tory. In 90 innings he allowed 70 hits, 
struck out 78, and walked only 37. Sopho- 
more Bob Lucas, a hard-throwing right- 
hander, finished strong with a 2-0 victory 
over Penn and a 2-0 one-hitter against 
Providence College. 

Brown's problem was the lack of hit- 
ting to back up good pitching by Thorley, 
Lucas, and Bob Flanders. The latter was the 
team's leading hitter at .303, with catcher 
Dean Hoag second with a .277 average. 
Junior Bob Wieck, who set a modern Brown 
record with five home runs a year ago, 
failed to hit one out of the park this season 
and slumped to a .275 average. As a team. 
Brown had a .211 batting average. 

Thorley 's performances on the mound 
had the old timers comparing him to Amby 
Murray '36, Walt Jusczyk '41, Bill Hayes 
'51, and Dave Manson '60. The Bruin senior 
right-hander was named to the EIBL first 
team, with Flanders and Hoag gaining 
berths on the second unit. The NCAA All- 
District I team included both Thorley and 
Flanders. 

Track: The track team, coached by 
Ivan Fuqua with assistance from Ed Flan- 
agan, finished the spring season undefeated 
in dual meet competition with victories over 
URI, Dartmouth, and Holy Cross. The 
Bruins were fourth in the B.C. Relays and 
the New Englands and eighth in the Heps. 

Actually, Brown made its best showing 
in the 22-year history of the Heps, scoring 
19 points. Senior Lee Thompson (see story 
following) and junior Doug Price won in- 
dividual titles, the former defending his 
championship in the 440-yard run with a 
clocking of 47.2 and the latter capturing 
the shot put with a heave of 56 feet 11 
inches. 

Price, a 280-pounder from Tampa, Fla., 
gained additional honors in the New Eng- 
lands. He won the shot (55-2), came in 
second in the discus (152-2), was the meet's 
top scorer with ten points, and was voted 
the day's outstanding weight man. Later, in 
the IC4As, Price took a second in the shot 
put. 

Sophomore Daryl Hazel, who wasn't 
even seeded, pulled a major upset in the 
New Englands by winning the 440 inter- 
mediate hurdles. Thompson, running in 



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seven races that afternoon, had a second in 
the 440j Senior Tim Cosgrove was fourth in 
the mile at 4:14 and junior Bob Bergman 
had a fourth in the long jump. 

Tom McCaffrey, a former star at Clas- 
sical High in Providence, developed into the 
finest pole vaulter in Brown history this 
spring. He set a new school record of 14-5 
against Dartmouth and later had a 14-8 for 
a fourth place finish in the Heps. 

Price, Thompson Cosgrove, and Mc- 
Caffrey were named to the All-Ivy first 
team. 

Golf: For the first time in its history a 
Urown golf team participated in the NCAA 
championships, which this year were held 
in Tucson, Ariz. Coach Mike Koval's team 
finished 9-3, the best record since the New 
England champions of 1949 were 11-3. 

This year the Bruin linksmen lost only 
to URI in an extra-hole match. Holy Cross, 
and Dartmouth. Coach Koval's men, who 
defeated Yale in regular-season play, were 
second to the Elis in the New Englands and 
finished fifth in the Easterns. 

Capt. Andy Robertson, the only senior 
on the team, was the best shotmaker. The 
native of Pasadena, Calif., had an average 
of 77 per round while playing the number 
one position during dual matches. 

Others who made the trip to Tucson 
were juniors Tom Cookman, a defenseman 
on the hockey team, and Bill Roland and 
sophomores Dick Stevens and Tyler Chase. 
Cookman had a season's average of 78 and 
finished fifth in the Easterns. Chase, whose 
field goal helped defeat Columbia in No- 
vember, won the Eastern Interscholastics in 
1969, succeeding Stevens, the 1968 Easterns 
champ. Robertson and Cookman took down 
first-team All-Ivy honors. 

Tennis: Winning all five matches 
against non-EITA opponents, the tennis 
team ended 8-6 overall (its first winning 
season in five years) and 3-6 in the league. 
The highlight of the campaign was the 7-2 
victory over Yale. 

Playing in the number one position, 
sophomore Mike Powers had a 6-8 record, 
Co-Captains Don Smith and Peter Cuter- 
man were 8-6 and 9-5, while sophomore 
Dick Lay was 10-4 at the number four posi- 
tion. 

Crew: Over the years. Brown crews 
have done fairly well in the Eastern 
Sprints at Worcester. But, until this spring, 
no Brown eight had won a championship 
there. 

This year's Easterns seemed to be more 
of the same, a respectable showing but 
nothing too exciting. The varsity disap- 
pointed by failing to qualify for the after- 
noon finals and then blowing an open-water 
lead and losing to Northeastern in the con- 
solation race. The Cubs did better, defeating 
Penn and Wisconsin to capture the morning 



heat and then finishing fifth in the finals 
with a 6:45.5. 

The Jayvee race was something else 
again. With 1,000 meters to go, the Bruins 
were still way back in the pack. But then, 
stroked by Nick Lampshire, the senior- 
sophomore boat suddenly turned it on. 
With 500 meters left the Bruins finally 
caught Navy and flashed across the finish 
line first. 

The Midshipmen swept the remaining 
varsity and freshman events and easily won 
the Rowe Cup for total team points. Brown 
was a respectable third as a team on the 
basis of the JV victory and the fifth place 
finish by the Cubs. 

Racing over the 2,000-meter Lake 
Onondaga course before 12,000 fans a 
month later, the varsity crew finished fourth 
in the finals of the Intercollegiate Rowing 
Association championships at Syracuse. 

In the six-boat finals. Brown trailed 
the championship Cornell crew, which ran 
the course in 6:06, Washington (6:06.8), and 
Penn (6:10.5). The Bruin eight, which had a 
6:11 clocking, finished ahead of Rutgers 
(6:13.2) and Navy (6:13.5), the Eastern 
Sprints champion. 

The fourth place finish equalled 
Brown's best effort in the IRAs: the Bruins 
were fourth in 1960 and again in 1966. 

In the opening races of the 16-boat 
competition, Brown was in a heat with 
Cornell, Navy, Dartmouth, and Penn. The 
winners of these various heats automati- 
cally qualified for the finals, with the losers 
getting a second chance in a repechage the 
next day. 

Coach Vic Michalson's crew finished 
second to Penn on opening day, but ahead 
of Cornell, Dartmouth, and Navy. It was 
obvious that Michalson had finally found 
his strongest combination after a season 
of trying to blend his upperclassmen in 
with the sophomores up from the unde- 
feated Cub crew which had won the IRA 
freshman championship in 1970. 

In the repechage. Brown posted the 
best time of the three-day competition, 
posting a 6:05.7 and beating Princeton, Co- 
lumbia, UCLA, and Georgetown. That set 
the varsity boat up for the finals and the 
eventual fourth-place finish. 

Lee Thompson: He runs 
to beat himself 

Lee Thompson '71 is a man who runs 
for fun. The spring season must have been 
a real side-splitter for the native of River- 
side, Conn. 

The 5-8, 155-pounder accumulated 26 
firsts and scored a total of 46y2 points this 
spring as the Bruins went 3-0 in dual meet 
competition. His total of 216 career points 
is one of the most impressive in Brown 
track history. 



Thompson holds three all-time Brown 
records in outdoor track: a 47.2 in winning 
the 440 at the Heps in 1970; a 21.4 clocking 
for the 220-yard run at this year's Heps; 
and as a member of the mile relay team 
which established a 3:17.1 standard in 1969. 
During this past winter, Thompson was un- 
defeated in the 600-yard run. 

Versatility is one of the keys to 
Thompson's success. In the 95-59 victory 
against Dartmouth this spring, he won the 
440 (49.4), the 220 (22.2), and the 440-yard 
intermediate high hurdles (55.7). 

Brown's three-time Heptagonal cham- 
pion was favored to capture the 440 in the 
New Englands. He'd never won a N.E. title 
— and this had become a personal goal. 

But on the day of the meet it became 
obvious that Brown had an outside chance 
at the team championship. So, to help score 
important points Thompson ran seven 
gruelling races — three 220's, two 440's, and 
the relays. The net result was that he didn't 
have quite enough left for his speciality, 
finishing second in the 440, a split second 
behind the winner. 

"Lee Thompson is a great inspiration 
to any athlete in any sport," says Coach 
Ivan Fuqua. "His team effort in the New 
Englands was only another example of the 
things he did for Brown during his career 
here." 

Assistant Coach Ed Flanagan put it this 
way: "In 40 years of coaching all kinds of 
boys, including Olympic champions, Thomp- 
son is one of the most outstanding athletes 
and the finest individual with whom I've 
been associated. He's a gentleman all the 
way." 

Lee Thompson began running at school 
field days when he was in the fifth grade. 
He continued as a track man in junior and 
senior high school, enjoying the sport but 
telling himself that when running became 
work he'd quit. 

When Thompson went out for soccer 
in high school, the coach put him in the 
goal to take advantage of his agility and 
cat-like reactions. But the game wasn't 
taken too seriously at that level, and 
Thompson says that he was amazed to find 
30 boys in his freshman class at Brown 
who had been recruited for soccer. 

Thompson played four years of soccer 
at Brown, mostly as an inside. He was 
effective, due largely to his exceptional 
speed. Coach Cliff Stevenson feels that if 
Thompson had mastered the basic soccer 
skills at an earlier age he could have been 
a great one. 

"I looked upon college soccer as a chal- 
lenge," says Thompson. "I could always 
run. You just keep putting one foot down 
after the other. But in soccer I soon realized 
how far behind the other players I was in 
the basic skills of the game. So, I dedicated 
myself to developing these skills." 

Another challenge for Thompson was 



budgeting his time so that he could play 
soccer in the fall and also run winter and 
spring track. He's a member of Brown's 
five-year engineering program, with an A.B. 
in sociology, and the academic demands on 
his time were many. 

"Competing in athletics makes you 
budget your time in college," Thompson 
says. "I know I lost a lot of Friday night 
parlies. And I sure saw a lot of the library 
on Sundays. But it can be done — if you 
want to pay the price." 

Thompson had a somewhat unique 
theory about running. He ran not so much 
against his opponents as against himself — 
his own time or distance. His philosophy 
was that if you run to beat yourself — and 
are successful — you will beat everyone else. 

At the close of his athletic career at 
Brown, Thompson had but two regrets — 
the soccer team's loss to Harvard in the 
NCAA playoffs last fall and the fact that 
his 47.2 clocking in the 440 just missed the 
cutoff time of 46.9 for the Nationals. 

This summer, Thompson is teaching at 
Phillips Exeter Academy. After he completes 
his fifth year at Brown he hopes to enter 
the field of city planning — where his inter- 
est is in buildings, and people too. 



Sports shorts 




Lee Thompson: a mnn who runs for fun. 



Playing in only his second game after 
being called up from the Kansas City farm 
club. Curt Bennett '70 scored two goals, 
including the winning tally, as the St. 
Louis Blues of the National Hockey League 
defeated Pittsburgh, 4-3, late in the season. 

The former Bruin All-American played 
in four games at the end of the regular 
season and then played a regular shift in 
five of the six playoff games between St. 
Louis and Minnesota. Bennett was out- 
standing at Kansas City, scoring 16 goals 
and adding 22 assists for 38 points. 

• Freshmen will be permitted to play 
ten varsity sports next fall, according to a 
ruling by presidents of the eight Ivy League 
institutions. The presidents met in New 
York this spring and approved freshman 
eligibility for varsity competition in cross 
country, fencing, golf, sailing, skiing, 
squash, swimming, tennis, track, and 
wrestling. 

Although Ivy institutions are not re- 
quired to use freshmen. Brown officials 
have decided to accept fully the terms of 
the agreement. This would mean that the 
only sports where freshmen would not be 
eligible are football, basketball, hockey, 
baseball, lacrosse, soccer, and crew. 

At a meeting earlier this year, the Ivy 
League athletic directors voted 8-0 to rec- 
ommend to the presidents that freshmen 
be made eligible for all sports except foot- 
ball, basketball, hockey, and crew. There 
was particularly strong sentiment to make 
freshmen eligible for baseball, a move that 
was rejected by the presidents on a split 
vote. 



Final Spring 

Scoreboard 

Baseball 

Final Varsity (14-14-2) 
Brown 5, Princeton 5 
Columbia 5, Brown 4 
Columbia 3, Brown 2 
Brown 4, Navy 3 
Brown 2, Penn 
Brown 2, Penn 2 
Brown 4, Providence 3 
Brown 2, Providence 

Final Freshman (12-2) 
Brown 17, Yale 1 
Brozon 8 East Prov. High 2 
Brown 4, Attleboro H. 1 
Brown 9, R.I. Jr. Coll. 6 
Brown 3, Worcester Acad. 
Brown 24, Quonset 6 
Brown 7, Durfee M.S. 
Durfee H.S. 7, Brown 4 



Lacrosse 

Final Varsity (11-3) 
Brown 16, Dartmouth 3 
Broxon 19, UConn 6 
Cornell 12, Brown 4 
Brown 8, UMass 4 
Brown 25, Holy Cross 
Cornell 10, Brown 8* 

Final Freshman (9-1) 
Brown 14, Dartmouth 6 
Brown 11, UConn 1 
Brown 15, UMass 9 
Brown 18, Mass. L.C. 4 



Golf 



Final Varsity (9-3) 
Brown 389, Amherst 397 
Brown 4, Providence 3 
Brown 394, Harvard 414 
Dartmouth 373, Brown 380 



Tennis 

Final Varsity (8-6) 
Brown 8, Army 
Brown 7, Cornell 2 
Broivn 7, MIT 2 
Broivn 8, UMass 1 
Brown 7, URl 2 
Dartmouth 5, Brown 4 

Final Freshman (4-3) 
Brown 6, MIT 3 
Dnrttnouth 7, Brown 2 



Track 

Final Varsity (3-0) 
Brown 95, Dartmouth 59 
Brown 88, Holy Cross 66 

4th B.C. Relays 

4th New Englands 

8th Heps 

Final Freshman (0-1) 
Dartmouth 102, Brown 22 



Crew 

Final Varsity (8-3) 
Brown 6:31.8, Syracuse 6:35.9 

Final Junior Varsity (4-0) 
Brown 6:31.8, Syracuse 6:37.6 
JVs first in Easterns 
]Vs fifth in IRAs 

Final Freshman (3-3) 
Syracuse 6:49.1, Brown 6:51 

* NCAA quarterfinals 



71 



On Stage: 



The admissions interview: it's best when it's not an interview 



In the lore that high school seniors trade about college 
admission procedures, the interview is featured as a trial by 
fire. From the applicant's point of view, the idea obviously 
is to put the best foot forward. But what does that mean? 
Should one toot one's own horn or be modestly reticent? What 
about clothes? Have admission officers accepted youth culture 
dress styles or do they still expect promising male applicants 
to appear in coats and ties? Does it make a better impression 
to be decisive about future vocational plans or is it OK to 
admit that you haven't the vaguest idea? Such uncertainty is 
almost enough to drive a 17-year-old to tranquilizers. 

Brown does not require an on-campus interview, but the 
admission office is happy to oblige all those who want one, 
which amounts to about one-third of the male applicants. 
(There are no comparable figures for female applicants yet.) 
According to admission officer Douglas Langdon '70, the inter- 
view shouldn't make anyone nervous. The purpose, he says, is 
to allow for questions about Brown and to give the applicant 
a chance to shine in areas not covered in the written record. 

"There's no reason," says Langdon, "why any kid should 
leave here without feeling good. If he's nervous, I start by 
building him up, trying to make him feel at ease." Usually 
the admission officer goes into the interview knowing nothing 
about the applicant except his name and home town. To keep 
the tension level low, Langdon carefully avoids asking ques- 
tions about academic record or college board scores. The idea, 
says Langdon, is to get the kid talking about whatever inter- 
ests him, whether it's sailing or molecular biology. Langdon 
looks back on his own interview at Brown with considerable 
favor. He and James Rogers, now director of admission, spent 
an hour talking about Langdon's high school girl friend and 
the farm he grew up on. "It was very casual and low key," he 
says now, "and I really appreciated it." 

Some of Langdon's fellow admission interviewers don't 
agree with him about the desirability of avoiding such topics 
as grades and college board scores. Each interviewer is free to 
develop an individual style and they vary widely. There does, 
however, seem to be a consensus that the most successful in- 
terview is the one that least resembles an interview. 

"It shouldn't be questions and answers for a whole hour," 
says admission officer Patricia Hodges. "I start out that way, 
but then I keep bumping around to various topics until I find 
something that sparks." Sometimes, because of nervousness or 
boredom or an unlucky interviewer-interviewee match, noth- 
ing does spark and it is then that the interview becomes really 
heavy going. 



For applicants who are difficult to draw out, David Bloom 
'71, is apt to try, by turns, playing devil's advocate or feigning 
ignorance about a topic. Bloom is one of the two summer in- 
terviewers working in the admission office and his interview 
style tends toward the intellectual or theoretical. "I like to 
place kids in a situation where they can demonstrate their 
imagination," says Bloom. To one applicant, who discussed 
the troubles of his private school, Bloom asked what he would 
do if he were given $100,000 to found a school. From a girl 
who has participated in amateur theatricals. Bloom wants to 
know what part she would most like to play and why. An ap- 
plicant from Manhattan is asked about his emotional reaction 
to the recent bridge tenders' strike and New York labor dis- 
putes in general. 

Each of Bloom's interviews shapes up differently, accord- 
ing to who is being interviewed. But since Bloom is fond of 
literature, the closest he has to a stock question is, "What did 
you study in your English course last year?" One hapless ap- 
plicant found himself being asked to discuss the motivations 
for suicide of a character in The Heart of the Matter. 

The only question that is almost a sure bet, no matter 
who is doing the interview, is "Why are you considering 
Brown?" "Because it offers a good education," one girl told 
Bloom, only to find herself discomfited at then being asked to 
define a good education. Not all the responses to that ques- 
tion are so predictable. The admission interviewers are still 
laughing about the boy who said he was applying to Brown 
because he had been told by someone at Princeton that Brown 
had a rolling admission policy, that is, the class was admitted 
on a first-come, first-served basis. 

The discovery process during the interview is not all one 
way. Applicants are encouraged to ask questions about Brown 
and to take the campus tour. If an applicant is particularly in- 
terested in a certain field, the interviewer tries to arrange for 
him to meet a professor in that department. One recent appli- 
cant informed his interviewer that he had developed his own 
rating system. The colleges he was applying to were awarded 
points on the basis of the distance from the nearest large city, 
the elegance of the swimming facilities, and so forth. The in- 
terviewer, who made a point never to take notes during an in- 
terview on the theory that it was too nerve wracking, was 
somewhat taken aback when the applicant said he would like 
to take notes if it wouldn't make the interviewer too nervous. 

A.B. 



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