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Alumni Monthly November 1971 






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Daniel Gibson Knowlton is a skilled practitioner of a craft that 
has changed little since the 16th century, for more about Brown's 
master bookbinder, turn to page 22. 



Brown 



Brown Alumni Monthly November 1971, Vol. 72, No. 2 



In this issue 




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10 New Landmark on College Hill 

The Rhode Island capitol now has some competition for the 
most eye-catching landmark in Providence. The Albert and 
Vera List Art Building, a five-story structure designed by the 
distinguished architect Philip Johnson who called it a "gate- 
way," was dedicated last month and is now in use by students 
and faculty. 

16 The Place of Art History in Education 

British Art Historian Kenneth Clark, England's unofficial "min- 
ister of culture" and the creator of the celebrated television 
series, "Civilisation," gave a public address and received an 
honorary degree as part of the ceremonies dedicating the List 
Building. His address is reprinted here. 

22 The Bookbinder in the Basement 

At the far end of a labyrinth of concrete corridors in the 
Rockefeller Library basement is a workshop filled with old- 
fashioned-looking equipment that seems out of place in such 
modern surroundings. It is here that Brown's master bookbinder, 
Daniel Gibson Knowlton, practices his craft. 

24 'If the White House Didn't Have a Chuck Colson, They Would 
Have to Create One' 

Charles W. Colson '53 left a $150,000-a-year law practice to 
take on a 14-hour-a-day job helping protect President 
Nixon's political flank. He's now one of the President's top 
aides, and despite the long hours, he's "never enjoyed any- 
thing more." 

30 The Sound of Dulcimers 

A dulcimer is a "stringed mountain instrument with the wild- 
ness and harmony of the bagpipes." Last month, in a workshop 
sponsored as part of a class in folk music, 75 members of the 
Brown community found out how to make dulcimers, lyres, 
Irish harps, and guitars. 



Departments 

2 Under the Elms 
9 Carrying the Mail 
34 Brown Books 

60 On Stage 



36 The Clubs 
38 The Classes 
54 Sports 



The cover: During a performance last month as part of a "fall 
festival of the arts," the University's Modern Dance Croup 
under the direction of Mrs. Julie Strandberg found new uses 
for the windows and lights of the List Art Building. (Photo by 
Uosis Juodvalkis) 



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Robert M. Rhodes 

Associate Editors 

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Students can vote in 
Rhode Island — maybe 

After a long wait, Rhode Island At- 
torney General Richard Israel '51 has 
handed down a ruling on student voter 
registration that could be just vague 
enough to raise more questions than it 
answered. A student may register at his 
college address, said Israel last month, 
only if he has "an intention to maintain 
his place of abode in the city or town for 
an indefinite period." If challenged, a 
student must supply proof that he in- 
tends to remain a resident. 

The ruling came in the form of an 
advisory opinion to the Board of Elec- 
tion in South Kingstown, where the Uni- 
versity of Rhode Island is located. Al- 
though the ruling is binding only on 
South Kingstown, it is likely that the 
opinion will set a precedent for all local 
canvassers in the state. 

The effect of Israel's ruling is that 
students in Rhode Island colleges who 
definitely plan to leave the state when 
they graduate will not be eligible to vote 
locally. Israel did not offer any specific 
answer to how a student's "intention" 
may be determined or what constituted 
an "indefinite" period of time. 

"Students . . . over the age of 
18," Israel wrote, "may not be subjected 
to any requirements as to registration 
and voting different from those imposed 
on any other person who seeks to regis- 
ter and vote. . . . The fact that a pro- 
spective voter is a student is not a valid 
reason for conducting any special in- 
quiry or imposing any unusual burden 
as to proof of domicile." 

Governor Frank Licht '38 indicated 
he was satisfied with the ruling and that 
he did not feel it necessary to seek any 
immediate judicial advice from the 
Rhode Island Supreme Court. 



Doug Hurley '71, a former Cam- 
marian Club president who worked on 
a voter registration project last summer, 
is satisfied with the ruling in only one 
regard: it does not rule out dormitories 
as legal residence. "Otherwise," says 
Hurley, "it's not only imprecise, but un- 
constitutional, for reasons that Israel, 
himself, states: you can't subject any 
particular group of people to additional 
requirements for voting and that is just 
what the ruling does. 

"An ordinary person in Rhode Island 
has three things to satisfy before he can 
register. He has to be 18, he must have 
lived in the state for a year and his town 
for six months. All this other business of 
where your car is registered and so 
forth, that's all just irrelevant." 

Hurley is concerned that students 
who want to register will be confronted 
with "legal harassment," but he con- 
cedes that so far there is no great wave 
of Brown students ready to swamp the 
voting rolls in Rhode Island. In an effort 
to stir up some interest, he has composed 
a sarcastic statement he plans to dis- 
tribute on campus, starting off as fol- 
lows: 

"Notice: To the 18.3 per cent of 
Brown students who do not go into 
hysterics at the mention of electoral 
politics, you can now vote in Providence. 
Go and register. Stranger things have 
happened." 

The saga of the organist 
and the Labrador retriever 

It's not likely that Lionel Rogg will 
soon forget his trip to Brown last month. 
The organist came to the campus to pre- 
sent the annual Edgar John Lownes Me- 
morial Organ Recital, and just about 
everything that could go wrong did. 

The first problem arose in the after- 



noon. Professor William Dinneen, the 
University organist who arranges these 
concerts, thought he had reserved Sayles 
Hall for an afternoon rehearsal. The 
Secretary's Office, which allocates space 
for such events on campus, didn't have 
any record of such a reservation, how- 
ever; so when Rogg arrived at Sayles — 
two hours late, because of train delays — 
he found John Froines, one of the Chi- 
cago Seven, speaking to a small group 
there. 

To solve that problem. University 
Secretary Howard Curtis was called out 
of a United Fund meeting in downtown 
Providence and back to the campus to 
find another place for Froines. 

A further indication that this was 
not to be Rogg's night came a little 
later. The four students who had been 
signed up to serve as ushers were away 
from the campus during the day and 
were returning to Providence in the 
same car. But the car broke down, so 
there were no ushers. 

At the last minute, the page-turner 
decided she wasn't up to the job, so a 
student had to be drafted from the audi- 
ence to do the job — without any practice 
time with Rogg, of course. 

But the concert got underway, and 
things proceeded fairly well for a time. 
Edwin Safford, the music critic of the 
Providence Journal, complained in his 
review about students smoking during 
the concert. He also commented that 
"perhaps owing to unfamiliarity with his 
instrument, Rogg did not entirely come 
to life" during the early numbers of the 
concert. But he did during the final num- 
ber, Franz Liszt's "Fantasia and Fugue 
on the Chorale, 'Ad nos, ad salutarem 
undam.' " 

The only problem was that a mem- 
ber of the audience came to life, too. 
Casper, a black Labrador retriever well- 
known about the campus, had been ly- 



ing peacefully on the floor during the 
concert up to that point. But he woke up 
when the Liszt work was begun and 
shortly after began to howl. That was 
too much for Organist Rogg, who may 
not be used to dogs in the audience at 
the University of Geneva in Switzer- 
land. He told the Sayles audience that he 
did not play for dogs and walked off. 

At that point, most of the audience 
got up and left, too. But the young man 
who had been drafted as page-turner felt 
there was something that Mr. Rogg 
should know. He ran after the organist 
and explained: "Casper comes to all the 
concerts. It's just that he doesn't like 
Liszt." 

After a line like that, even the upset 
organist couldn't resist the young man's 
urgings, so he returned to Sayles and 
finished the concert. 

Someday, perhaps, Mr. Rogg will 
be able to look back and smile about the 
whole messed-up day. But probably not 
just yet. 

The child care center gets 
a step nearer to reality 

When the faculty, last December, 
deliberated the question of what might 
be done to improve the status of women 
at Brown, it was decided to establish a 
committee to investigate the possibility 
of a child care center. The committee, 
chaired by Psychology Professor Lewis 
Lipsitt, presented a report on June 1 rec- 
ommending that a cooperative Brown 
Child Care Center be established as soon 
as possible. 

The kind of center envisioned by 
the committee would care for children 
aged two months to six years. It would 
be open to families in the surrounding 
area as well as those directly connected 
with Brown. The report stresses that 
"the inclusion of community members, 
particularly those who live in some of 
the working class and low-income neigh- 
borhoods near the University, would 
better the University's relationship with 
these neighborhoods as well as provide 
the opportunity for children and adults 
of all backgrounds to work together." 

The report also states that "if a 
child care center is to be more than a 
storage place for children, parents should 
take an active role in setting policy." 
The parent volunteer program, the re- 
port suggests, should be designed to en- 
courage the participation of both par- 
ents, so that "fathers will be able to take 



a more central role in the lives of their 
young children than they may be able 
to take at present." 

One of the benefits to children of a 
high-quality child care center, says the 
report, is that "the child has an oppor- 
tunity to learn to trust and relate to a 
variety of adults. If a center is staffed 
by both male and female professionals 
and volunteers, a child will have a vari- 
ety of role models. A child care center 
breaks down the isolation of the nuclear 
family and exposes the child to a broader 
range of personalities and points of 
view." 

The committee report justifies the 
need for establishing a center because 
"quality day care for infants and pre- 
school children is an essential compo- 
nent of opening up equal opportunities 
for women." The proposed center would 
also serve as a laboratory and teaching 
facility for learning experiments, subject 
to the customary restrictions on human 
research. Professor Lipsitt, who is di- 
rector of the Child Study Center, says 
that he hopes the center "would provide a 
setting where experiences there would 
fold in to certain course work. We have 
no place now to take students and say, 
here is a four-year-old behaving like a 
four-year-old." 

Professor Lipsitt also points out 
that child care centers are common at 
universities in France and other Euro- 
pean countries. "In this country," he 
says, "a lot of guilt has historically been 
associated with the idea of a mother 
abandoning her child to an institution. 
Interestingly enough, this guilt has never 
been associated with fathers going off 
to work." 

The report asks that Brown provide 
space and some services for the pro- 
posed center. Other funding, it is hoped, 
will come from private foundations and 
government grants. If the child care cen- 
ter is set up to meet the requirements of 
a research facility. Professor Lipsitt be- 
lieves that some money from the Child 
Study Center grant can be diverted to 
the project. The people using the center 
would pay a sliding scale fee which 
would cover part of the costs. 

President Donald F. Hornig, who 
appointed the committee, has endorsed 
the child care center in principle and 
agreed to donate University space if a 
suitable building can be found. The 
members of the committee are now in 
the process of looking for a site on cam- 
pus to house the proposed center. 



Oberlin's Richard Seaman 
named development director 

Richard F. Seaman, a key official at 
Oberlin College for more than a decade, 
has been named associate vice-president 
and director of development at Brown. 

In his new position. Seaman replaces 
Daniel W. Earle '34, who resigned last 
spring to enter private business. Earle 
had held the position since the mid- 
1950s. 

Seaman, who will take office Dec. 1, 
has been director of development at 
Oberlin, with primary responsibility for 
all phases of the college's fund raising 
efforts. 

The 38-year-old director will co- 
ordinate both the Annual Fund and the 
University's Program for the Seventies, 
the national capital campaign aimed at 
raising $92 million from private sources 
during the decade. 

Prior to being named director of de- 
velopment at Oberlin, Seaman served 
from 1960 to 1963 as assistant to the 
president and as executive assistant to 
the president. He earned his A.B. from 
Oberlin in 1955 and received his A.M. 
degree in education from Western Re- 
serve University in 1966. 

Expressing pleasure with the ap- 
pointment, Vice-President Ronald A. 
Wolk had this to say: "At a time when 
the nation's colleges are struggling to 
keep their heads above water financially. 
Brown is fortunate indeed to gain the 
services of a fund-raiser of Dick Sea- 
man's caliber. His expertise will help se- 
cure the support so badly needed to in- 
sure a continuation of Brown's tradition 
of academic excellence." 

Seaman is married to the former 
Susan M. Curtis and is the father of 
two sons and a daughter. 

Ivy League athletics: 
'a scholarly show' 

As Sports Illustrated pointed out 
recently, the Ivy League has done fairly 
well for a conference that doesn't award 
athletic scholarships. Penn made the 
regional finals of the 1971 NCAA bas- 
ketball tournament. Cornell won the 

1970 national hockey championship and 
the 1971 lacrosse title and a graduate. 
Ken Dryden, was selected MVP in the 

1971 Stanley Cup playoffs. 

Columbia tied for this year's NCAA 
fencing title. Harvard went to the na- 
tionals in soccer the last two years. Dart- 



mouth was fifth in the NCAA baseball 
tournament, and a Big Green graduate, 
Pete Broberg, jumped from the campus 
to become a winning pitcher in the 
major leagues. 

"In all, quite a scholarly show," 5/ 
noted. 

Where else can you eat 
well for $10 a week? 

The front room of the big house on 
Charlesfield Street looks as if it could 
belong to any average family. Comfort- 
able, slightly-battered furniture rests on 
green wall-to-wall carpeting. A Van 
Gogh reproduction hangs on the wall; 
pots of flowers and chess trophies are 
scattered around the room. 

Back in the kitchen, Richard Geer 
'71, sits at a table made from a college 
construction sign while he waits for his 
cooking partner for the evening. "I hope 
he comes soon," says Geer, "because I'm 
not an expert at cooking. Especially not 
for 20 people." 

Geer is a resident of one of the two 
new co-operative houses at Brown, both 



on Charlesfield Street. The 20 students 
who live in each house do all the reno- 
vations and upkeep themselves and pay 
the University $1 a year for rent. Money 
for appliances and supplies comes from 
a University loan, which the students 
are repaying from a $500-a-year-per- 
person fee. The savings in rent over a 
dormitory amounts to about $100 a 
year and the food savings are even more. 
In exchange, members of the houses 
devote about ten hours a week to oper- 
ating the co-op, switching jobs on a ro- 
tating basis. Except for plumbing and 
electrical work, the co-op residents have 
done all the construction and carpentry 
work themselves. "One good thing 
about it," says Geer, "is that you learn 
how to do a lot of physical things that 
are useful to know, like spackling and 
sanding and painting." Not to mention 
cooking. Students pay $10 a week for 
food, and the consensus is that the food 
is better than University meals. Geer 
reeled off the menus for the three nights 
he was on cooking duty. "Friday night 
we're having fish, Saturday a vegetarian 
meal and turkey on Sunday. What we 



try to do," he added, "is to pair up a 
decent cook with someone who's just 
starting. That way there aren't too many 
failures." 

Financial and gastronomical consid- 
erations are not the most important 
benefits of living in the co-op, according 
to Geer. "We all eat and work together, 
so I think we're much closer to one an- 
other than people in regular dorms. We 
get together for all kinds of things — to 
sing and play the guitar or to meditate." 

Geer is the self-appointed house 
astrologer and he helps out by trying to 
determine auspicious dates for parties, 
work days, and other communal events. 
"The only bad thing about it for me," 
he says, "is that I'm used to saying yes 
when someone asks me to do something 
besides study, and here, there's always 
something else going on." 

A conference on China 
provides some sparks 

When any American government 
official involved in foreign policy comes 
to a college campus these days, he can 



The dining fable at the Charlesfield Street co-op house was once a University construction sign. 




expect to find opposition — some of it 
reasoned and reasonably stated, some 
of it from hecklers who are as often as 
not obscene. 

So William H. Sullivan '43, who is 
deputy assistant secretary of state for 
East Asian and Pacific affairs, was prob- 
ably not surprised when he found some 
of both on a trip to Brown last month. 

The occasion was a Sunday after- 
noon conference on "The New Interna- 
tional Role of China," sponsored by the 
John Hay Society for Foreign Affairs at 
the University and the World Affairs 
Council of Rhode Island and co-spon- 
sored by various civic groups. Sullivan 
was the keynote speaker. 

The stage was set for a confronta- 
tion by a letter which appeared in the 
Brown Daily Herald two days before the 
conference. Signed by Philip Lu '72, pres- 
ident of the Asian-American Student 
Association; Dean Yager, assistant pro- 
fessor of psychology; and Eric Wid- 
mer, assistant professor of Asian his- 
tory, the letter said that Sullivan, who 
was ambassador to Laos from late 1964 
to early 1968, was "the architect of our 
secret war there and since then has acted 
as the principal government spokesman 
for this war [and] has prevaricated before 
Congressional committees. . . . Brown 
will entertain not only a master of tall 
stories but a man who, more than any 
other, is accountable for the crime of 
having made Laos the most heavily 
bombed nation in the history of war- 
fare." 

At the conference itself, Sullivan 
was introduced by the honorary chair- 
man of the meeting, Rhode Island's Sen- 
ator Claiborne Pell, who called him "a 
man I really admire, a man who carried 
out his orders and his job, a man who 
should be respected and listened to." 

In his address, Sullivan called the 
leaders of Communist China "true ro- 
mantic revolutionaries." They think, he 
said, that they have "found the real an- 
swer" and they "assume that truth is 
revealed in Mao's little red book." The 
leaders developed a "xenophobia" to- 
ward the world and since 1949 have 
lived in a "self-imposed state of in- 
wardly-directed isolation." They chose 
isolationism in "its most extreme form," 
he said. 

Now, he continued, China "is not 
the monolith it appeared to be in the 
1950s and not the monolithic state its 
leaders wanted it to be." The Great Leap 
Forward and the Cultural Revolution 



were actually giant steps backward. Ad- 
ditionally, China's relations with the So- 
viet Union have changed drastically and 
Japan has become the world's third larg- 
est industrial force. What China's re- 
action to all this will be "we don't 
know," Sullivan said, "but we are en- 
couraged by their invitation to President 
Nixon and by their interest in U.N. 
membership." 

The role of U.S. diplomacy, Sulli- 
van said, "is to see that China is brought 
into the world community so that all 
of China's intelligence and culture can 
be utilized in the world." 

Two Brown faculty members who 
were on the panel with Sullivan dis- 
agreed with much of his assessment of 
U. S. policy. Ying-Mao Kau, assistant 
professor of political science, maintained 
that Chinese isolationism was not en- 
tirely self-imposed. He cited the pres- 
ence of the U.S. Seventh Fleet off the 
coast of China for many years. He also 
said that he would like to see a basic 
change in the cornerstone of U.S. for- 
eign policy, which for many years has 
been to contain communism around the 
world. 

Akira Odani, an assistant in East 
Asian history, criticized the U.S. policy 
of trying to bring American-style de- 
mocracy to Asia. "You're trying," he 
said, "to export American ideas of indi- 
vidual freedom and material wealth, but 
Asian people do not want these things." 

When the meeting was opened to 
questions from the floor, Brian Shima- 
mura, minister of records for the Asian- 
American Students Association, read a 
statement condemning Sullivan as the 
man who "runs the secret war in Laos" 
and calling him a war criminal. Senator 
Pell hurried to the platform at that point 
to say that such questions had already 
been answered in testimony in Wash- 
ington, but the senator's intervention 
was greeted with obscenities from a 
group of about a dozen young people. 

Later, another questioner asked Sul- 
livan, "How can you sleep at night, 
knowing you are a war criminal?" Po- 
litical Science Professor Whitney Per- 
kins, who was moderating the session, 
conferred with Sullivan and then re- 
plied, "He feels his conscience is clear." 

After the conference, Sullivan talked 
with several of the hecklers. Not sur- 
prisingly, neither side had changed its 



Recognition in Britain for 
two Brown faculty members 

The highest accolade for scholar- 
ship given in Great Britain has been be- 
stowed on two members of the Brown 
faculty. 

Prof. Richard A. Parker of the de- 
partment of Egyptology and Prof. 
Emeritus Otto E. Neugebauer of the his- 
tory of mathematics have been elected 
Corresponding Fellows of the British 
Academy. 

Each year, the British Academy for 
the Promotion of Historical, Philosophi- 
cal, and Philological Studies elects a 
number of distinguished scholars in the 
humanities and social sciences as Cor- 
responding Fellows. Prior to this year's 
election, there were 123 such Fellows, 
drawn from more than 30 countries. 

Professor Parker received his B.A. 
at Dartmouth in 1930 and his Ph.D. at 
the University of Chicago. He taught at 
the University of Chicago and completed 
considerable field work in Egypt prior 
to coming to Brown in 1949. Since that 
time he has headed, until this year, one 
of only five departments of Egyptology 
in the country and has written or col- 
laborated on ten volumes in his field. 

Prof. Neugebauer is an interna- 
tionally-renowned scholar on ancient 
mathematics and astronomy. He was 
chairman of the University's history of 
mathematics department from 1947 un- 
til his retirement in 1969. He was 
awarded an honorary degree by Brown 
last June. 

Between 1942 and 1969, Professors 
Parker and Neugebauer worked together 
— first at long range and later as col- 
leagues — on a three-volume study en- 
titled Egyptian Astronomical Texts, 
published as part of the Brown Egypto- 
logical Studies. 

Another merger: The Brown 
University Annual Fund 

Last spring, Daniel W. Earle '34, 
then the director of development at the 
University, sent a memo to the members 
of the Brown University Fund Cabinet 
which began, "The time has come to 
take a good look at the future of the An- 
nual Fund operation for the University." 
One reason for such a look, he said, was 
the merger of Brown and Pembroke. 

At its regular meeting during the 
Commencement weekend last June, the 
Cabinet took a good look — and as a re- 



suit, came up with a reorganization re- 
flecting the merger. For instance: 

• Instead of separate annual funds 
for alumni and alumnae, there is now 
one Brown University Annual Fund. 

• The former Brown University 
Fund Cabinet served as a nucleus for a 
new Steering Committee which provides 
the volunteer leadership and guidance 
for the Fund. This new group includes 
chairmen for specific areas (such as spe- 
cial gifts) within the Fund operation. 

• Reflecting the merger, national co- 
chairmen have been named for the Fund. 
They are Richard J. Ramsden '59, Dar- 
ien. Conn., and Edythe Wiedeman Smith 
'53, Annandale, Va. 

The co-chairmen have been active in 
the University's fund-raising activities 
for several years. Ramsden, a partner in 
the New York City investment firm of 
Brokaw, Schaenen, Clancy & Co., was a 
White House Fellow in 1969-70, serving 
as special assistant to Donald Rumsfeld, 
then the director of the Office of Eco- 
nomic Opportunity. Mrs. Smith is a for- 
mer national chairman of the Pembroke 
College Fund and is now a member of 
the national steering committee of the 
University's Program for the Seventies. 
She was area chairman for the fund-rais- 
ing phonothon in Washington, D.C. last 
year, the first of two experimental tele- 
phone campaigns last winter. 

They will be joined on the executive 



committee of the Steering Committee by 
the following chairmen for specific areas: 

Joel Davis '56, New York City, spe- 
cial gifts; D. Barr Clay son '58, Weston, 
Mass., reunion giving; Chester C. Goss, 
New York City, parents; Ralph H. Sei- 
fert '50, Mansfield, Mass., phonothons; 
Ruth Proctor Roseman '49, '65 GS, Cran- 
ston, R.I., graduate school; Ann Thorn- 
dike '58, Providence, alumnae; Arthur A. 
Anderson '61, New York City, alumni; 
Frederick Lippitt, Providence, friends; 
and Mrs. Kent F. Matteson, Providence, 
widows. 

The Steering Committee met on the 
campus in September to talk about ways 
to increase the support the University re- 
ceives from its alumni, alumnae, parents, 
and friends, which last year totaled more 
than $2.1 million. 

The need for increasing the Univer- 
sity's "bread-and-butter" support from 
these groups was pointed up by Presi- 
dent Hornig in his address to the opening- 
day convocation just a few days before. 
"Our financial resources," he said, "are 
not adequate to our aspirations; indeed 
they are not adequate to sustain our cur- 
rent operations without a deficit. We 
may face temporary setbacks while we 
balance our progress against our re- 
sources; we will face painful choices; but 
our vision is one of excellence and qual- 
ity, and we will pursue it." 

In the effort to increase the Annual 




The co-chairmen for the merged Brown 
University Fund — Richard Ramsden . . 



and Edythe Wiedeman Smith — at a 
September meeting on College Hill. 



Fund totals, the Steering Committee and 

the University's development staff will 
utilize the traditional methods of direct 
mail and personal solicitation. They will 
also expand the use of the phonothon 
and for a very good reason: three- 
fourths of the alumni contacted in the 
two phonothons in Washington and 
Providence last winter contributed to 
the Fund. This fall the telephone cam- 
paigns are scheduled in 16 major cities. 

The phonothons offer several ad- 
vantages. For one thing, they give alumni 
who want to do something significant 
for Brown a chance to gather in a central 
location and concentrate their efforts by 
making many phone calls in a single 
evening. For another, the phonothons 
are an effective vehicle for reaching more 
alumni and giving them an opportunity 
to talk about activities at the University. 
Finally — and not the least of the ad- 
vantages — the alumni who have been 
doing the telephoning are enthusiastic 
about the program. 

"Maybe," says one development 
officer, "we've discovered something that 
makes fund-raising fun." 

AIESEC: Working for better 
student-business communication 

If the hopes of a group of Brown 
students are realized, channels of com- 
munication between the student body 
and the local business community may 
be improved in the immediate years 
ahead as the result of a program that 
had its start some 22 years ago. 

The program is called AIESEC 
(pronounced eye-sec), and it concen- 
trates on obtaining trainee positions for 
foreign students in this area and select- 
ing qualified American candidates for 
reciprocal positions abroad. 

The name AIESEC is a French ac- 
ronym for the International Association 
of Students in Economics and Manage- 
ment. At the moment, there are 22,000 
members in more than 350 universities 
in 53 countries throughout the world. 
There are 70 chapters in the United 
States, including the one at Brown. 

AIESEC is strictly a student-run 
program. Student groups, similar to the 
25-member unit at Brown, go into the 
local community and solicit sponsoring 
firms. For each sponsor the committee 
enrolls in the program, it is allowed to 
send one of its members abroad as a 
trainee. 



Each sponsoring firm pays an ad- 
ministrative fee of between $200 and 
$250 and provides a living stipend for 
the trainee it sponsors, ranging between 
SSO and $120 per week. Normally the 
traineeships last from eight to 10 weeks, 
although a few may last up to 18 
months. 

After the business firm specifies the 
qualifications it expects the trainee to 
have, AIESEC steps in and acts as liaison 
in ensuring that the firm gets the trainee 
it wants and that the student gets the 
job he or she wants. 

Among the details handled by 
AIESEC are securing visas and assisting 
in arranging transportation, housing, 
and insurance. Local groups arrange ed- 
ucational, social, and cultural activities 
and sponsor tours and seminars which 
supplement the experience the firm pro- 
vides. 

"Our basic purpose is to provide a 
summer work program in management 
training for students in more than 50 
countries of the world," says Philip 
Blackberry '72, past president of the 
Brown chapter. "Hopefully this pro- 
gram will also help to promote better 
business leaders for the future and will 
promote close and friendly relations 
among nations without regard to color, 
race, or religion." 

The Brown president said that liv- 
ing-in permits an American to learn 
how people in other countries regard 
this nation. Foreign trainees also get a 
different view of America for the same 
reason. 

He described a special study proj- 
ect worked out with Citizens Bank in 
which its trainee, a female Swedish 
economics student, became directly in- 
volved in the American racial problem. 
The student was selected by the bank 
through the AIESEC program specifically 
for this study project because she came 
from a country that has no black mi- 
nority and because she had never had 
any association with blacks. 

The girl was asked to determine the 
extent of racial prejudice, if any, in the 
Providence community and the attitude 
of black employees toward the employ- 
ment of blacks in the bank. The student, 
who was working for her master's in 
economics at the Stockholm School of 
Economics, spent about two-thirds of her 
time interviewing members of the black 
community and came up with a 20- 
page report. 



AIESEC has a growth rate of 20 
percent annually. In recent years even 
some of the Communist countries have 
become involved, with Poland a prime 
example. Two years ago there was only 
one AIESEC exchange with Poland. This 
year there will be about a hundred from 
all parts of the world. An observer from 
Russia attended the group's most recent 
annual meeting at The Hague and ex- 
pressed an interest in the program if 
the matter of visas could be worked out. 

Governor Frank Licht '38 of Rhode 
Island is among those who have spoken 
out publicly in support of the AIESEC 
program. Richard D. Hill, president of 
The First National Bank of Boston, 
praised AIESEC, saying: 

"When I first became acquainted 
with AIESEC, I wondered how they 
could operate with their limited financial 
resources and a management turnover 
of 95 percent every two years. But now 
I'm convinced that AIESEC's success 
will continue because of the acute need 
we have today to promote better un- 
derstanding among peoples of the world 
and to provide the practical experience 
necessary to train future leaders as a 
complement to their formal education." 

"Students belonging to AIESEC- 
Brown get a great deal of practical ex- 
perience out of soliciting sponsors," 
Blackberry says. "Resources must be 
managed, sales and publicity programs 
must be undertaken, and social and cul- 
tural programs must be established for 
foreign trainees in local firms. 

"But there may be an even greater 
by-product of the AIESEC program. 
Frankly, there has been in recent years 
a block of some sort between college 
students and the business world. I think 
that this is unfortunate because there 
is much today that each group can learn 
from the other. This year we hope to 
introduce a program whereby members 
of the Providence business community 
will be asked to speak at the University 
and to engage in question and answer 
bull sessions with the student body. A 
better understanding may result." 

Among other plans for 1971-72, 
AIESEC hopes to persuade the Univer- 
sity to sponsor a traineeship and intends 
to work with the students at Bryant 
College in the formation of a chapter at 
their new Smithfield (R.I.) campus. 

Seven Brown trainees went abroad 
last summer to such countries as Nor- 
way, Italy, France, Spain, and Finland. 



Altogether, 12 traineeships were secured 
from the following Rhode Island firms: 
Industrial National Bank (2), Rhode Is- 
land Hospital Trust National Bank, Out- 
let Co., Lebanon Knitting Mills, Sears 
Roebuck & Co., The Providence Journal 
Co., B. A. Ballou, E. A. Adams & Sons, 
A. T. Cross Co., American Hoechst, 
and IBM. 

Four from Brown inducted 
into Heritage Hall of Fame 

Three alumni and a former Brown 
coach were among ten persons inducted 
into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of 
Fame last spring. 

The alumni installed included the 
late Senator Theodore Francis Green '87, 
the late Louis A. R. Pieri '20, former 
owner of the Rhode Island Reds hockey 
team, and Dr. Alex M. Burgess '06, di- 
rector of medical education at the Mir- 
iam Hospital and the dean of the state's 
medical community. 

Also installed was D. O. Tuss Mc- 
Laughry, who coached football at Brown 
from 1926 through the 1940 season. His 
first team was the famous Iron Men, 
Brown's only undefeated football team. 
In 1939 Tuss McLaughry's son, John '40, 
served as captain of the Bruins. 

With this year's inductions, the 
Heritage Foundation has raised to 95 the 
number of persons who have been ad- 
mitted into the Hall. 

A note to Pembroke alumnae 
married to Brown men . . . 

If you are a Pembroke alumna and 
are married to a Brown man . . . read 
on. 

If you are wondering why the only 
copy of this magazine to be delivered to 
your home carried your husband's name 
and not yours, there is a logical explana- 
tion. 

The alternative to mailing duplicate 
copies of each issue to the same address 
(a costly procedure) is to use only one 
address plate. The decision to use the 
husband's mailing label was made after 
consultation with the University's data 
processing office showed this to be the 
most economical approach. But this is 
not a permanent solution; as soon as pos- 
sible, the mailing plate will be changed 
to read "Mr. and Mrs. . . ." 

The editors ask you to bear with us 
until this change can be made. 



Carrying 
the mail 



Letters to the editor are welcome. 
They should he 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, 
hut 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 reipiest that 
the author's name be withheld. 



A familiar topic: football 

Sir: When a football team is struggling 
to break out of a losing tradition, it can 
take comfort from the fact that some team, 
somewhere, appears to have problems worse 
than its own. 

I am enclosing an article I read today 
in the Louisville paper that may soothe 
the egos in the manner described about 
University of Kentucky fans and alumni, 
but can do little for us from Brown. 

LT. JEFFREY W. ALCORN '66 
Fort Knox, Ky. 



The article mentioned is a sports column 
from the Louisville Times which repeats 
the predictions of "sports columnist" Steve 
Harvey as to the worst teams in the coun- 
try this season. The worst team, Harvey 
predicted, zvould he Washington State, fol- 
lowed by Maryland and Brown. The Uni- 
versity of Kentucky was fourth. — Editor 

Sir: Last year I wrote you suggesting 
that Brown drop out of the Ivy League in 
football. Several alumni were quite an- 
noyed. I renew my suggestion in view of 
the record of the team to date. (When 
Rhode Island beats us, the season is auto- 
matically over.) 

It isn't the fault of the coach, al- 
though he is certain to be blamed. Or the 
players, although they have been carefully 
chosen and ballyhooed by the alumni in- 
terested in promoting Brown football. There 
seems no rational explanation for our sorry 
state — a condition that has existed for 
many years. Why don't we quit the Ivy 
League? Those other teams are too good 
for us. Oh, maybe by only seven points — 
but still we lose — again we lose. 

Let's stop kidding ourselves. Playing 
the present schedule, we have about as 
much chance of a championship season (or 
even a good season) in Ivy League foot- 
ball as the Irish Republican Army. In fact, 
considering their cunning, the IRA might 
be able to field a football team that would 
lick us too. 

GEORGE KENNEDY '41 
Arlington, Va. 

Sir: It is totally unfair to Brown's foot- 
ball players and coaches to have to play 
their first game against URI, as long as URI 
has spring practice, a first game before the 
Brown gam;, and an earlier start in fall 
practice. 

Future schedules should be adjusted 
accordingly to avoid damaging results to 
team morale with defeat. 

LOU FARBER '29 
Tucson, Ariz. 



And another familiar topic — 
the half-time shows 

Sir: 1 would like to share with you my 
concern as an alumnus about the vulgari- 
ties perpetrated at half-time at virtually 
every Brown home game, by persons hiding 
in "bear" costumes, by anonymous "au- 
thors" of what are presumably "skits," 
and by an unidentified voice at the micro- 
phone. Maybe the band leadership, too, 
needs criticism from within the University 
family. 

These individuals seem to proceed un- 
der the impression that, having a captive 
audience on university property, anything 
the band and cheerleaders want to do goes. 
Or that the vast majority of spectators — 
made up of alumni of the opposing uni- 
versities, parents of players. Providence 
football fans, and the like — should be de- 
lighted at the chance given them to hear 
and see such remarkable wit and clowning. 

Somebody should tell somebody that 
the regular football half-time dribble is 
raunchy, sick, and an outrage to non- 
Brown-student ears, and detrimental to the 
best interests and good reputation of 
Brown University. Surely if the "bears" who 
simulated the sex act at midfield on Oc- 
tober 9 cannot, on reflection, see that — 
they should be separated from the Univer- 
sity as of tomorrow morning. 

The situation is not new. I stopped 
bringing my wife and younger members 
of our family, my relatives, and my neigh- 
bors' sons to Brown games five years ago. 
It is tough enough to take consistent de- 
feats at the hands of our Ivy League 
friends. It is insufferable to watch Brown 
be made to look like a grubby third-class 
institution by students of the University I 
proudly attended. 

I think the whole sick bit could be 
stopped by requiring the announcer to state 
at the beginning or the end of each skit 
who wrote it, who is playing Nixon (or 
whomever), and who the "bears" are, and 
require him to identify himself. Surely it 
is worth a try. If the perpetrators aren't 
willing to let themselves be identified, they 
do not deserve the freedom of the air and 
the freedom of the stage that belongs to 
the game proper. 

DAVID H. SCOTT '32 

Neu) York, N.Y. 



The "bears" in question were apparently 
Yale students. — Editor 




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Photographs by UOSIS JUODVALKIS 




New landmark 
on College Hill 

The architect calls 
it a gateway' 





Rhode Island's wedding cake of a 
statehouse is no longer without 
competition as the most eyecatching 
landmark in Providence. The new Al- 
bert and Vera List Art Building at 
Brown is just as monumental and al- 
most as visible. The $3 million build- 
ing stands on a sloping lot behind 
the John Hay Library (left, center of 
the picture) and overlooking down- 
town Providence. Philip Johnson, who 
designed the structure, described it 
as "a gateway; an announcement that 
we're getting somewhere." 

The five-story building is named 
for the principal donors, Mr. and 
Mrs. Albert A. List of Byram, Conn., 
and houses facilities for the study, 
practice, and exhibition of art under 
a single roof. During the dedication 
ceremonies on October 8, Juergen 
Schulz, chairman of the art depart- 
ment, said that the occasion marked 
the first time in a departmental life of 
over half a century that the art de- 
partment was all together in one 
building. He noted the building's ex- 
cellent location, near both the Rocke- 



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feller Library and the Rhode Island 
School of Design Museum, and he 
praised the new office facilities. The 
practicing artists now have studios 
attached to their offices and, in 
Schulz's words, the art historians 
"finally have office space for both 
themselves and their books, relieving 
the necessity for a Solomon-like de- 
cision between the two." 

In addition to classrooms, stu- 
dios, and offices, the List Building 
contains a 225-seat auditorium, a lec- 
ture room with seating for 100, and a 
2,500-square-foot exhibition gallery. 
The David Winton Bell Gallery is a 
gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Bell 
of Minneapolis in memory of their 
son and of Lucy Bell Hartwell of 
Wayzata, Minn., in memory of her 
brother, David W. Bell, a member of 
the Class of 1954 at Brown. 

The inaugural exhibition at the 
Bell Gallery featured two dozen con- 
temporary works from the List fam- 
ily collection, including such artists as 
Louise Nevelson, Jaspar Johns, Andy 
Warhol, George Segal, and Robert 
Rauschenberg. 

Another highlight of the dedica- 
tion ceremonies was the presentation 
of an honorary Doctor of Letters de- 
gree to Art Historian Kenneth Clark, 
England's unofficial "minister of cul- 
ture," by President Donald F. Hornig. 
Lord Clark, creator of the television 
series, "Civilisation," later delivered 
a public address on "The Place of Art 
in Education" (see story following). 

John Nicholas Brown, senior fel- 
low of the Brown Corporation and 
chairman of the University's building 



In the photo at the top of the page oppo- 
site, Vera Claser List has just unveiled the 
plaque at the entrance to the Albert and 
Vera List Art Building. Watching is English 
Prof. George Anderson, a martial at the cere- 
mony. . . . The David Winton Bell Gal- 
lery (lower picture, opposite) occupies 2,500 
square feet on the building's first floor. 
The exhibition is from the Lists' personal 
collection. . . . In the photo at left, the 
building's architect, Philip Johnson, talks 
to a guest at the dedication. 



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committee, also spoke at the dedica- 
tion, referring to the complicated 
process of acquiring a new University 
facility, which he termed the "pres- 
sure cooker" approach. He paid trib- 
ute to architect Johnson, saying, "on 
the most difficult yet promising of 
sites, he concei\ed a structure that 
lifts our spirits to the heights." John- 
son, in turn, praised the fine work of 
coordinating architect Samuel Glaser 
and the building contractor, the Di- 
meo Construction Company. 

The silver gray, reinforced con- 
crete exterior of the List Building fea- 
tures jagged rooftop skylights and a 
series of huge foundation piers that 
give the structure a distinctive visual 
impact that leave few viewers neutral. 
Campus reactions to the new building 
have ranged all the way from one 
observer's comment that it reminded 
him of the Maginot Line to an ec- 
static review in the Brown Daily Her- 
ald by Stephen Glassman '72. The List 
building, wrote Glassman, "entangles 
light, reflections and free expressive 
forms in an active but poised inter- 
play of persistent vertical lines. . . . 
It is a majestic portrait, radiating a 
kind of internal, natural strength that 
looks to withstand the assault of a 
world in flux." A.B. 



One of the outstanding features of the 
Albert and Vera List Art Building is what 
Kenneth Clark called "that beautiful, lumi- 
nous studio at the top." In the photo at far 
right: Prof. John Udvardy and one of his 
students. 




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By Kenneth Clark: 

The Place of Art History in Education 

The address by the distinguished British art historian and author of Civilisation at the dedication 
of the Albert and Vera List Art Building. 



When your president invited me to speak at the 
dedication today of the Albert and Vera List Art Build- 
ing, he suggested that I should say something about the 
place of art in education. He seemed to me to imply that 
I should be speaking in front of the building, and that my 
address xoould be closely concerned with the occasion. 
And so what I have prepared was not a lecture, but a 
speech of dedication, and it may, I fear, seem inappropri- 
ate in the present after-dinner atmosphere. You must try 
to imagine me speaking in the sun with Philip Johnson's 
magnificent piers soaring above my head, the city of 
Providence beyond me. It woidd have been much nicer in 
many ways, but we all would have gotten rather cold, I 
think, by the end of the evening. I agreed to try to talk 
about the place of art in education. The subject is really 
too big, and lohat I am talking about is the place of art 
history in education. 



rducation, I suppose, involves several things: learning 
■^ to concentrate — the boredom of childhood is due to 
the diffusion of energy; gathering information which 
will make our subsequent lives more interesting; learn- 
ing to analyze the meaning of words so that we are not 
taken in by commercial or political cant. All these we may 
achieve without knowing anything about art. But educa- 
tion also means increasing the power of self-fulfillment, 
stretching our human capacities to their limit; and it 
means getting to know about human beings both indi- 



vidually and collectively. And in these aims of education, 
an understanding of art and a knowledge of its history 
are extremely important. 

No one has ever doubted that the arts spring from 
very deep human impulses. They are, I believe, man's 
greatest challenge to death; they are an attempt to make 
the transitory permanent and the chaotic orderly. Death 
and transience are part of man's physical nature, and the 
unique value of the arts is that they educate man's physi- 
cal responses as nothing else in a university curriculum 
can do. Nowadays most of us agree that mind and body 
are one and indivisible. It has become a cliche. But what 
do we do about it in education? We split the two as 
drastically as possible, consigning the life of the body to 
displays of violent physical force, and the life of the mind 
to scientists and philologists whose whole training is de- 
signed to prevent their emotions from interfering with 
their judgments. There used to be a comical example of 
this divorce in the English education of my youth. From 
our earliest years at school, we were taught to translate 
the Odes of Horace, and at a slightly later date — at the 
susceptible age of 13 or 14, 1 suppose — the poems of 
Catullus. This was purely a philological exercise. It 
never occurred to our teacher, or to us, to consider the 
subjects of those poems, still less to act upon their advice 
and example. The cynical hedonism of Horace and the 
poignant eroticism of Catullus belonged to the realm of 
art and the body, with which we were not concerned. 
I suppose that the long opposition to teaching art 



At left, Kenneth Clark (center) with President Hornig and John Nicholas Brown. 



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historv, which lasted in England until the founding of the 
Courtauld Institute in the 1930s, and in Oxford till after 
the last war, was aroused by two fears; one that anything 
primarily dependent on the senses — and after all the very 
word aesthetics means that which is perceived by the 
senses — could not be made a tough enough subject to 
compare with the other branches of the curriculum; and 
the other that what we absorbed through the eye was less 
educative, because less capable of analysis, than what we 
absorbed through the printed page. 

Now both these fears are groundless, as has been 
demonstrated already by your own art department. The 
study of works of art as an expression of human needs 
and beliefs is a most exacting discipline — if we ask the 
right questions. Let us say that visual art in its earliest 
stages arises from three different, but related instincts: 
the instinct to make patterns, the instinct to imitate, and 
the instinct to express beliefs through the creation of 
images. Now, think of the enormous task that lies ahead 
of the student w^ho traces the course of any one of those 
instincts, to say nothing of all three. He must enter the 
uncharted realm of primitive culture, where he will have 
to weigh the evidence put forward by more conflicting 
schools of thought than in almost any other field. He 
must try to answer questions such as why the primitive 
fertility figures as fat ladies, such as the one from La- 
Plage, are based on a system of geometric proportions as 
clear and strict as Durer's Eve. He must try to find out 
why the symbols on a Nigerian drum are identical with 
those on a bronze pot found in a Danish peat bog. 

Has there been some communication between these 
remote cultures, or are there certain shapes and images 
that have an obsessive effect on the mind wherever hu- 
manity has reached a certain point of evolution. There is 
no doubt, I think, that from the earliest times certain 
shapes, or combinations of shapes, have had an effect on 
the mind which is extremely hard to analyze, but which 
was still felt by a man as evolved as Goethe. Some of you 
may remember that he used, as the frontispiece to his 
Faust, Rembrandt's etching of a philosopher contemplat- 
ing the apparition of a magical sign, a geometrical sign. 
Rembrandt and Goethe both felt that certain shapes are 
magical. And so do we — all the time without knowing it. 
When we admire the beauty of a Chinese pot, we cannot 
give any reason for our feeling, but it has a magic for us. 

Well, ideally the art historian should find his way 
back to these mysterious depths of the human psyche. 
But the repetition and arrangement of signs can be form- 
alized so that they convey information and even ideas. 
They turn into Egyptian hieroglyphs and Chinese ideo- 
grams, and I suppose that the perfect art historian would 
have a fair knowledge of both these forms of communica- 
tion, because it is at this point that art and language co- 
incide. However, the history of written language does 
seem to me beyond our present powers of exposition, and 
the art historian may be excused if he concentrates on 
those signs which have become images. One of the first 



of these, and the most complex, is the signs of the zodiac, 
which are man's most sustained attempt to find symbols 
for the deep-rooted and continuous human belief that 
our life is ruled by the influence of the planets and the 
calendar. To study the ways in which those signs are hu- 
manized, and then made abstract, and then rehumanized, 
is a perfect exercise for the art historian, and in fact oc- 
cupied the labors of an art historian of genius, Aby War- 
burg, and one of immense talent, Fritz Saxl; and yet it 
remains baffling and obscure. 

Rather more manageable are those images that depict 
incidents which seem to have a special importance to the 
human imagination. Very early, man recognized that 
his destiny involved a conflict — a conflict of life and death, 
of good and evil, of creation and destruction. This is the 
subject of the earliest figurative objects that have come 
down to us on the cylinder seals of Mesopotamia. We see 
the conflict of a man and a monster that was to continue 
for almost 4,000 years in representations of Hercules and 
the Nemean lion. And the extraordinary thing is that for 
2,000 years, in very different cultures, these two antago- 
nists have almost exactly the same relation to each other. 
They are almost as formalized as a hieroglyphic, and yet 
they never quite lose their magic power. 



But even at this very early date, there are images 
which are far more complex than the mere con- 
frontation of a man and a monster. Let me give you a 
concrete example: the image of a lion leaping on the back 
of a horse or doe and devouring it. This can be found on 
a Sumerian relief of about 2300 B.C.; and it appears 
sporadically, with hardly any alteration, in Babylonian, 
Assyrian, Persian, Hellenistic, and Scythian art over a 
period of 2,000 years. Sometimes the victim is a horse 
instead of a stag, but the general design is almost identi- 
cal. Is it a part of Eastern religion? Well, the same motif 
appears, with practically no variation, at the corners of 
Roman Sarcophagi. And finally, it is used in Christian art 
as the base of the columns of Romanesque pulpits. Not 
only is the whole character of the motif retained, but the 
details never vary — the lion's straight leg, the horse's 
crooked knee, the lion's frontal head, the horse's head 
twisted pathetically backwards. All these elements are re- 
peated as closely as the components of an ideogram. 
Obviously this image, in compressed and memorable lan- 
guage, says something of great importance, which has 
been comprehensible to human beings for over 3,000 
years. 

But what does it say? What is this message which 
has seemed so necessary to the war-like Assyrians, the 
wandering Scythians, the stoic Romans, and the con- 
temporaries of Dante? We have not a scrap of written 
evidence. No iconographer refers to it, no archaeologist 
attempts to explain it — yet it was still strong enough to 
inspire George Stubbs and Delacroix, and even to be- 
queath some of its elements to Picasso. The idea that we 



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must destroy in order to create, that energy is of the spirit 
and apathy of the body, that eating is a kind of prose- 
lytizing, or even a sort of consummation of love, is a 
very complex idea; but the history of art shows that it 
was felt by man very early and that he expressed it in a 
symbol which has recurred inscrutably, like one of those 
geological seams that go underground in the Isle of Skye 
and reappear in Newfoundland. 

I have taken these examples of the art historian's 
field of inquiry from subject matter, because what are 
called iconographical problems are at present in fashion. 
But I believe that the old formalist, or stylistic, approach 
is quite as important, and an equally good training for 
mind and eye. I was brought up to think that the art his- 
torian's duty was to say who painted which picture. It 
seems an unworthy aim to us today. That partly is be- 
cause it became associated with certificates of authenticity, 
and the more questionable side of art dealing; and partly 
because connoisseurship, as it was called, had made 
such enormous advances that it reached a kind of sterile 
plateau, from which it does not invite further exploration. 
Certain problems remain debatable and perhaps insolu- 
able; Giotto as Assisi, Giorgione, and Titian — Rem- 
brandt's drawings, maybe. If you are going to write 
about painters, it is really quite important to know what 
they did or did not paint, and it is only in my lifetime — 
or rather in my work-time — that some sort of agreement 
has been reached. 

Mr. Berenson, who did more than anyone to achieve 
our present status quo, included as the only illustration of 
his Florentine painters Pollaijuolo's profile portrait of a 
girl in the Poldi Pezzoli Museum, calling it a Verrocchio, 
and in the same edition also included as a Verrocchio 
Leonardo da Vinci's Annunciation and Ginevra dei Benci. 
A first-year student in your school of art history would 
not make those mistakes, and would assume that these 
attributions had always been known. Only after the war 
were a group of Michelangelo's drawings — some of the 
greatest works of art in the world — given back to him, 
after Wickhoff and Berenson had attributed them to Se- 
bastiano. I give these rather specialized examples to show 
that stylistic analysis may, and has recently, changed our 
conceptions of the greatest artists in history, Leonardo da 
Vinci and Michelangelo, which is, or should be, a matter 
of concern to us all. 



nPhese are ultimately value judgments, and are largely 
■*• dependent on intuition. They are achieved by a com- 
bination of memory, analysis and sensibility, which is an 
excellent discipline for both mind and eye. The nearest 
analogy is the textual criticism which was considered the 
ultimate end of classical scholarship in England or all 
over Europe from Bentley to Housman. No one com- 
plained that these great scholars were wasting their time 
when they emended, once again, the text of a third-rate 
author like Manilius. They were not even judged by the 



correctness of their emendations, but rather some combi- 
nation of memory, patience and elegance of mind which 
gave these minute revisions a quality of intellectual 
beauty. 

In connoisseurship, memory of facts and documents 
is replaced by visual memory, not only of the Morellian 
criteria of ears and fingernails, and of draperies and so 
forth, but of spatial and compositional elements, tone and 
color; all of which must be related to what was happening 
in the rest of European art at the time and even to mere 
fashion. It is really an exacting discipline. There is also 
the sensibility to quality, to the almost indescribable way 
in which a line evokes a form, and to equally mysterious 
relationships in tone and color. 

And this leads me to a question which is made all the 
more vivid in your beautiful new building by the mag- 
nificent painting studio at ihe top. Should the art historian 
try to practice art? It rather depends on the kind of art. I 
do think it was of immense value to the 19th century art 
historians that they could draw natural forms and archi- 
tecture. Ruskin of course drew beautifully, and his mar- 
velous powers of analysis were manifested in and per- 
haps sharpened by his drawings of detail. But even Jacob 
Burckardt's rather prosaic drawings of architecture and 
Cavalcaselle's rough drawings of pictures were of great 
benefit to them. And the fact that a later generation of art 
critics could not draw has sometimes led them to make 
mistakes which no one would have made who had had the 
experience of trying to render a solid form onto a flat 
surface. Perhaps I have a vested interest in this because 
I was brought up on perspective and drawing from 
the antique just as a young Florentine was in the year 
1520. Whether modern art training would have the same 
advantages, I don't know, simply because I don't know 
what's going on up in that beautiful, luminous studio at 
the top of the art building. If it is sufficiently technical, it 
will be valuable to art historians. If it is only self-expres- 
sion, then it has only a therapeutic value. 

A serious judgment of authenticity involves one's 
whole faculties. It also keeps alive or revives the enjoy- 
ment of a work of art, which is the most defensible pur- 
pose of all criticism. The first aesthetic shock lasts only a 
few seconds, and in order to discover in a picture a frac- 
tion more of what the artist put into it, there must be 
some ritual, some telling of beads or reciting of Sutras, 
which keeps one's attention fixed on the work till one's 
powers of appreciation revive. Perhaps iconological stud- 
ies may achieve this, but insofar as they are concerned 
with subject and not form, and may be pursued as well 
from a line engraving as from the original, they are 
surely less rewarding than stylistic analysis. 

However, neither iconological nor stylistic studies 
give the whole reason why a liberal education should 
include the study of art history. That is implied in the 
words of Ruskin that I quoted in a recent series of televi- 
sion programs where he says that "great nations write 
their autobiographies in three manuscripts: the book of 



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their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of 
their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless 
we read the two others, but of the three the only quite 
trustworthy one is the last." He goes on to say, in a 
passage which then seemed too long and too rhetorical for 
television, "The acts of a nation may be triumphant by 
its good fortune, the words mighty by the genius of a 
few of its children; but its art only by the general gifts 
and common sympathies of the race." Well, of course, it's 
not entirely true — rhetoric never is. It derives from Her- 
der's view of the volk as the only sources of art, and in 
fact the art of a nation is almost as dependent as its lit- 
erature on what Ruskin called "the genius of a few of its 
children." Almost, but not quite — because the change 
and evolution of styles in art, particularly in architecture 
and the decorative arts, is to some extent due to changes 
in what Ruskin called the common sympathies of the 
race. And if we want to understand those common sym- 
pathies, those mysterious compulsions that make or de- 
stroy a society, we must indeed study the art history, and 
try to relate what we find to the histories of religion, 
philosophy, economics, and ordinary social life. 

This too is an exacting form of study, and one full 
of pitfalls. It suffers from a too ready acceptance of the 
obvious, and produces the colored supplement article, in 
which trivial artifacts are accepted as evidence, and 
pushed into a social context. Art is related to society but 
at a deeper level than some popular writers suppose. First, 
and on the whole the greatest example of this approach, 
Ruskin's Stones of Venice, which might have been one 
of the best books on art ever written if Ruskin had not 
been obsessed by an almost insane hatred of Renaissance 
architecture, which led him to interpret Palladio's archi- 
tecture, that triumph of reason, harmony and what the 
Victorians would have called manly spirit, as a symptom of 
decadence. That was an error of the first order, an error 
of genius. But the misuse of works of art in the interpre- 
tation of history has also been done dishonestly, in sup- 
port of social and economic theories, so that I am some- 
times tempted to wish that Ruskin had never invented it. 

Well, one must not yield to that temptation because 
the fact is that we must use every scrap of evidence to 
understand the history of the human spirit. How are we 
going to make our way through the very rough waters in 
which we find ourselves today without the help of our only 
chart, our only record of how people have behaved under 
similar stresses in the past. Of course our predicament 
is not precisely similar; with the growth of urban popu- 
lations and the development of science, circumstances 
have changed enormously. But human feelings, passions, 
desires, aggressive instincts, loyalty, capacity for sacri- 
fice — these have not changed. Nor has that impulse which 
I mentioned earlier, the impulse to make something which 
will survive, the impulse to defy transience and death. 
I met this afternoon some very intelligent young people 
who told me that it was a ridiculous and out-of-date idea. 
Permanence was no longer a possible aim for art. And 




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Uosis Juodvalkis 



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in any case permanence can best be achieved by a plastic 
container, and art need have no more durabiUty than a 
good meal. I believe the views are widely held. But they 
are the forgeries of materialism. It's quite right to have a 
pot-shot at high-flown sentiments. But this simply shows 
me that I have not flown high enough. 

When we say that mind and body are one, that the 
role of art in education is to prevent their separation, we 
in no way imply a doctrine of materialism. Although we 
are all afraid, and rightly afraid, because it has been so 
much abused, of the word "spiritual," in the end we 
cannot talk about art without using it. We must believe 
in a distinction between a material and a spiritual out- 
look, which is something quite different from a distinction 
between body and mind. Art has two attributes which 
are part of our non-material life. It is done with love and 
it aims at perfection. In this way even the humblest ob- 
jects can be works of art. I have in my pocket a pipe- 
stopper done by an unknown craftsman in the seven- 
teenth century; it is a work of art. I go to a gallery and 
see large oil paintings done without love, done for gain, 
done to please a public. They belong to the realm of matter. 



Somebody I'm sure is longing to interrupt me to say, 
how do I know this? And the answer is, I don't 
know — I feel and 1 believe. The basis of our response to 
art is not reason but intuition. But given the initial act of 
faith, our responsiveness and our sense of values must be 
educated. If art has a place in education, education has a 
place — an enormous place — in our appreciation of art. 
The student of art history who has no aesthetic responses 
has taken up the wrong profession, like a keeper in the 
zoo who isn't good with animals; he can't even be trusted 
with a catalog. But the aesthete who goes around in ec- 
stacies, without the faintest idea of how works of art are 
related to one another, or why they take a particular 
form, he isn't much use either, and he falls an easy victim 
to fraud. So a school of art history will not only tell us a 
lot about human life that we wouldn't find out in any 
other way, but will help us to derive much more from 
the peculiar experiences aroused by works of art. 

What do we hope to derive? First of all a kind of 
exalted happiness, which the great romantic poets — Blake, 
Coleridge, Wordsworth — referred to as joy, and valued 
beyond anything else in human life — joy in nature, joy in 
human contacts, joy in art — the faculty of joy. It was 
the loss of this faculty that froze the marvelous powers of 
Coleridge, and which he describes so touchingly in his 
letter to Sara Hutchinson, afterwards remodeled as the 
Dejection Ode: 

"Thou need'st not ask of me 

"What this strong music in the Soul may be, 

"What and wherein it doth exist, 

"This Light, this Glory, this fair luminous Mist, 

"This beautiful and beauty-making Power! 

"Joy, Sara! is the Spirit and the Power, 



"That wedding Nature to us gives in Dower 

"A new Earth and new Heaven, 
"Undreamt of by the Sensual and the Proud! 
"Joy is that strong Voice, Joy that luminous Cloud" 

And since joy illuminates the mind, all that we learn 
in a state of joy becomes part of ourselves, is absorbed 
into our tissues; whereas all that we learn with pain and 
frustration passes through us and is forgotten like a bad 
meal. Studying the history of art should be a series of 
joyful experiences so ordered and related to one another 
that they affect our characters and direct our minds. Per- 
haps only the study of philosophy is equally formative; 
and since there are many people — I am one of them — who 
are incapable of thinking metaphysically, so there must 
be many people who take no joy in works of art. Let 
them avoid the subject of art history. They will be wast- 
ing their time. But for students who do take joy in works 
of art, and they are a growing number, this beautiful new 
building that was dedicated today, itself a work of art, 
will be an inspiration that will enhance the already excel- 
lent teaching that you receive at Brown University. 

Finally, may 1 add my word of congratulation to all 
who have contributed to its creation. To the donors, to 
John Nicholas Brown, the tireless collector of architects, 
and to Philip Johnson, the brightest jewel in his collection. 
President Hornig, I am indeed proud to be here and 
grateful for the honor which you have done me. 



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The Bookbinder in the Basement 



The carved wooden sewing frame 
that Brown's master bookbinder 
Daniel Gibson Knowlton (photo, left) 
uses in his work is only about 150 
years old. But the design of the in- 
strument, to Knowlton's great satis- 
faction, has not changed since the 
16th century. The painstaking craft 
of hand-binding rare books has little 
use for advances in technology and 
no use at all for short cuts or hurry. 

Knowlton's workshop, at the 
far end of a labyrinth of concrete cor- 
ridors in the Rockefeller Library base- 
ment, is filled with heavy, old-fash- 
ioned-looking equipment that seems 
anomalous in such modern surround- 
ings. Knowlton himself is perfectly 
at home in the practice of a craft that 
changes little from one century to an- 
other. For 11 years, when bookbind- 
ing was still only his hobby, he 
worked in a bank, and that, he says, 
was "a great rat race, phone ringing 
all the time." One of the things that 
pleases him most, as he shows vis- 
itors around his bindery, is that 
"there is no rushing here." Every 
book receives the amount of thought 
and effort it needs. There is time to 
attend to the smallest details. 

Though the library has a semi- 
automated bindery for newer and less 
delicate materials, Knowlton himself 
rarely handles anything published 
after 1800. When he first came to 
Brown in 1956, he spent five years 
in the Annmary Brown Library work- 
ing on books so valuable that to re- 
move one of them from the build- 
ing requires permission from the 
president of the University. Those 
volumes, which represent the work 
of the earliest printers in Europe, 
were usually bound in leather-covered 
wood, with leather thongs holding 
the pages in place. These medieval 
bindings, Knowlton discovered, gen- 
erally hold up much better than re- 



placements made several centuries 
later. 

Now that the Annmary Brown 
collection is "pretty well under con- 
trol," Knowlton works with later 
books from other special collections 
in the University. He tries to dupli- 
cate the original binding as closely as 
possible, using materials that are 
both authentic and resistant to disin- 
tegration. The first step in the restora- 
tion process is called "taking a book 
down," which consists of removing 
the worn covers and glue from the 
spine and cutting the stitches to sep- 
arate the sections. Any torn pages are 
mended with Japanese tissue and 
flour paste. The book is then re- 
stitched on the sewing frame, using 
linen thread and nylon cord. The 
spine of the book is given a curved 
shape with the use of a cobbler's 
hammer and a backing press. 

The leather used for covering 
books is Nigerian goatskin which 
has been tanned and dyed in England. 
This, Knowlton explains, is especially 
important, because the special skins 
have a low acidity content which 
make them much more resistant to 
crumbling with age. Most of the end 
papers Knowlton uses are ordered 
from England and France. Occa- 
sionally, he experiments with making 



his own marbleized paper — a process 
which involves swirling around a 
mixture of water, enamel paints, and 
turpentine until it makes a pleasing 
pattern. "You never know what 
you're going to get," says Knowlton, 
pointing to some delicately colored 
paper which he considers a failure. 
"Too muddy," he says. "Most of the 
nice ones Lve already used up." 

The final step of rare book bind- 
ing is hand tooling and embellishing 
the cover, usually with gold leaf. For 
this, Knowlton has an entire cup- 
board filled with brass stamping in- 
struments, carefully labeled as to pe- 
riod. It's important, he explains, to 
know the history of bookbinding, 
since it wouldn't do to decorate a 
Victorian book with an Art Noveau 
border motif. 

Knowlton's interest in bookbind- 
ing dates back to when he was 15 
and started an after-school appren- 
ticeship to Washington, D.C., book- 
binder Marion Lane which lasted six 
years. Since then, he has taken his 
own students, including some star 
pupils who have gone on to become 
professional bookbinders. Knowlton 
now teaches bookbinding in the 
Brown Extension Division and at his 
own bindery at the family home in 
Bristol, R.L A.B. 




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'If the White House didnt 
have a Chuck Colson, 
they would have to create 



one 




In sports lore, the "Four Horsemen" 
were Stuhledreher, Miller, Crowley, 
and Layden, and they helped put Notre 
Dame on the sports pages of the nation. 
In Washington, D.C., a few months 
back, there was another foursome, 
known as Haldeman's Horsemen. Their 
names were Mollenhoff, Chotiner, Dent, 
and Colson, and their job at the White 
House was to fix things when they broke 
down — political things. 

This quartet of versatile, seasoned, 
and aggressive advisors came by their 
name because they were attached to 
H. R. "Bob" Haldeman, President Nix- 
on's chief of staff. In the summer of 
1970, all four were special counsels to 
the President, sharing the same basic as- 
signment, which was to protect Mr. Nix- 
on's political flank. "Too many things 
were falling between the cracks," one 
White House official said recently. "The 
Administration needed some good, 
tough, political handymen to plug the 
holes." 

Then, late that summer, Haldeman's 
Horsemen began to ride in different di- 
rections. Clark R. Mollenhoff abruptly 
left and went back to the newspaper 
business. Some months later, Murray 
Chotiner, Mr. Nixon's long-time trouble 
shooter, deserted Washington in favor 
of his private law practice. 

Harry S. Dent has remained as a 
Special Counsel to the President, but it 
is Charles W. Colson '53 who has 
emerged as one of the quarterbacks of 
the Nixon Administration, the do-it-all 
strongman of the palace guard. At one 
of the most critical times in the nation's 
history. Chuck Colson is among the 
select handful of men who have the ear 
and the confidence of the President of 
the United States. 

When Newsweek ran a fall profile 
on Colson, it quoted a White House in- 
sider who had devised what he called 
the In-Box Gauge of Personal Clout in 
High Places. 

"When you see a man with an 
empty in-box in one office while the guy 
in the next office has a desk piled high 
and the phone ringing off the hook," the 
insider said, "then you have the differ- 
ence between the man for whom govern- 
ment service is a leisurely experience 
and the man who is needed." 

The word is out: Colson's in-box 
in the Executive Office Building in the 
White House complex is always burst- 
ing at the brackets. Neiosweck made it 



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clear that all other gauges of White 
House influence regarding the hard- 
working and sometimes controversial 
Colson also are bullish. The signs of 
power are there. 

There are little telltale signs — and 
in Washington's political jungle little 
things mean a lot. For example, mem- 
bers of the press were quick to note and 
make much of the fact that when the 
President walked from his Oval Office 
to his helipad to begin his August trip 
to San Clemente, the man matching 
strides with Mr. Nixon and talking rap- 
idly in his ear at each step was Colson, 

Earlier this year, Mr. Nixon con- 
ferred principally with four men before 
announcing the temporary suspension of 
a federal law that forces the government 
to pay prevailing wage rates to construc- 
tion workers on federal projects. It 
seemed in order that Mr. Nixon huddled 
with Labor Secretary James Hodgson 
and George Shultz, director of the Office 
of Management and Budget and a for- 
mer Labor Secretary. It surprised no one 
that the third man was John Ehrlichman, 
the President's top domestic affairs aide. 
However, more than a few eyebrows 
were raised when it became known that 
Colson rounded out this group. 

Commenting on Colson's presence 
at this meeting, one White House aide 
said: "Colson was present at this im- 
portant meeting because he's a doer, a 
tough-minded, ambitious man who gets 
things done. He was there because the 
President wanted him there." 

Last August when George Meany 
barked loudly at the President's eco- 
nomic freeze, the White House issued a 
statement saying that the president of 
the AFL-CIO was "sadly out of step 
with the needs and desires of the Ameri- 
can workers." Mr. Meany didn't quite 
agree with this statement, and the fur 
began to fly. The three men credited 
with having a hand in this controversial 
remark were President Nixon, Secretary 
of the Treasury John Connally, and Col- 
son. 

Another sure sign of Colson's climb 
to political power is that Washington 
hostesses now include his name on their 
most wanted lists. "The mere mention 
of his name makes the tensions come in 
like sheet rain," said one government 
wife in what, hopefully, was one of her 
more melodramatic moments. But that's 
the kind of image Colson has been 
building the past six months. 



When Colson first arrived at the 
White House in November of 1969, he 
was officially listed as Special Counsel 
to the President. Actually, his duties 
have always been much broader than 
that. He joined the White House family 
at a point in time when President Nixon 
— sensitive to charges of Presidential 
isolation — wanted to broaden his lines 
of communication with organized con- 
stituencies. The President needed a 
broker between outside lobbying groups 
and inside policy makers — and the then 
38-year-old Bostonian was his man. 

Basically, Colson's job has been to 
cultivate ties with these outside inter- 
ests, keep them updated on government 
action involving their sphere of activity, 
and then use the special resources of 
these interest groups. This is a happy 
political arrangement in which everyone 
gets a slice of the cake. On the one 
hand, the private sector has a forum at 
the highest level of government. At the 
same time, by inviting the private groups 
into the policy-making process and win- 
ning their support, the White House 
gains political leverage to help mold 
public opinion and attract congressional 
votes. 

"I deal with any and all organized 
groups," Colson says. "This includes 
some strange bedfellows, such as hard- 
hats, wildlife societies, veterans, union- 
ists, and even the League of Women 
Voters. I guess you could say I'm the 
main liaison for the President with the 
outside world." 

Colson's present base of power came 
directly from the meetings with 
these outside groups, since he was usu- 
ally present when pertinent information 
was relayed to the President. Colson was 
in a position to be seen constantly by 
the President, Mr. Nixon liked what he 
saw, and gradually the Special Counsel's 
assignments began to come right from 
the top. 

"Chuck is in with the President as 
much as anyone," says Henry C. Cashen, 
II, '61, who works under Colson as 
Deputy Counsel to the President. "He's 
always forthright, prepared, speaks his 
mind, and, most important, doesn't 
waste time. The President admires all 
of these qualities. He feels very comfort- 
able with Chuck and appreciates his 
judgments. 

"There's something else. Chuck has 
a great mind for the quick grasp of is- 
sues. He is able to tell right away 



whether or not a thing is feasible from 
the business or practical point of view. 
There are lots of people in government 
who dream. There are many who can 
put things on paper. But, in many cases, 
these are not practical individuals. 

"People enjoy working with and for 
Chuck. He delegates authority and re- 
sponsibility — and then leaves you alone, 
although it's his neck in the wringer if 
anything goes wrong. On the rare occa- 
sions where there have been problems. 
Chuck stands up and takes the blame. 
But when things go well, he makes a 
point of letting the President know 
which of his staff accomplished the good 
work. 

"Chuck's personality is ideally 
suited for Washington's merry-go-round. 
He can be gentle or tough, depending 
on whom he is working with. I guess 
you'd say he is a no-nonsense guy who 
has a big job to do and spends about 14 
hours a day doing it." 

Among Colson's other admirers is 
Massachusetts Congresswoman Mar- 
garet Heckler. "He can be unbelievably 
persuasive," says Mrs. Heckler. "And 
he ties a knot in the loose ends very 
fast. You may not like the knot, but 
there it is." 

Colson has even managed to come 
off looking fairly good in the press, al- 
though much of its praise is given grudg- 
ingly. "His drive and directness never 
fail to impress the President," News- 
week noted, but then added: "His man- 
ner can be abrasive, and even his fans 
admit that people seem either to admire 
him or detest him." 

John Pierson, writing last month in 
the Wall Street Journal, called Colson a 
"hatchet man," but then went on to 
imply that perhaps he wears a white 
hat while honing the blade. Pierson 
brings out that each President has an 
insider who does the dirty work for the 
public figure, noting that FDR had Louis 
Howe, Ike had Sherman Adams, JFK 
used Kenneth O'Donnell, and Lyndon 
Johnson's man was Marvin Watson. 

Pierson didn't go so far as to per- 
sonally say something nice about Colson. 
But he did quote Carl Shipley, Republi- 
can national committeeman for the Dis- 
trict of Columbia, as noting that Colson 
is "highly professional, practical, tough, 
bright, balanced, and moderate." 

In the same story, Pierson also 
gives light of day to the remark of 
Daniel Hofgren, ex- White House aide: 



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Colson (far left) makes notes as President 
Nixon talks during a White House meeting 
in the Oval Room. In the left foreground 
is Secretary of Transportation John Volpe. 



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"If you didn't have a Colson, you'd 
have to create him. Time and time again 
Chuck is in there knowing where to 
press the button." 

Colson has been pressing the political 
buttons for some time. Coming to Brown 
from Brown & Nichols School in Cam- 
bridge, he became deeply involved in the 
affairs of the campus. He was secretary 
of the Cammarian Club, chairman of the 
Debating Union, company commander 
of the NROTC unit, and chairman of 
rushing for his fraternity. Beta Theta Pi. 
He was also an honor student. And 
when the alumni secretary decided it 
would be a good idea if the Class of 
1953 produced a movie of its activities. 
Chuck Colson suddenly found himself 
wearing three hats as director, producer, 
and distributor. 

Colson's first two years out of col- 
lege were spent as a captain in the Ma- 
rines, where, at age 22, he became the 
youngest company commander in the 
history of the Corps. After a brief tour 
in the administrative office of the De- 
partment of the Navy, Colson joined the 
staff of U.S. Senator Leverett Saltonstall, 
Massachusetts Republican. By 1958, at 
age 27, he had become the youngest ad- 
ministrative assistant to a U.S. senator. 
While working for Saltonstall, Colson 
attended George Washington Law School 
at night, receiving his degree in 1959. 

Old-line Boston politicians are still 
talking about the political coup Colson 
pulled off in the 1960 election. As man- 
ager of Saltonstall's campaign for reelec- 
tion, he helped persuade eight prominent 
Irishmen, all of whom were strong sup- 
porters of John F. Kennedy, to send a 
letter to Massachusetts' 400,000 reg- 
istered Irish-Democrat voters the day be- 
fore the election urging them to split 
their ticket in favor of "this fine bi-par- 
tisan team of Saltonstall and Kennedy." 
The letter had been cleared with Nixon 
campaign aides, who despaired of carry- 
' ing Massachusetts against JFK in the 
presidential election but wanted to sal- 
vage Mr. Saltonstall's Senate seat. When 
the results were in, Kennedy had taken 
the Bay State in a landslide — but Sen- 
ator Saltonstall also won by a fairly 
healthy 300,000 votes. 

The political flair with which Col- 
son ran that 1960 campaign impressed 
the astute political observers, many of 
whom then predicted bigger and better 
things for the Bostonian. Among those 
impressed was GOP Representative 



Bradford Morse of Massachusetts, who 
preceded Colson in the Saltonstall staff 
job. He described Colson as "one of the 
three or four most talented human be- 
ings I've ever encountered." 

Another Saltonstall aide was less 
kind, saying that Colson would walk 
over his grandmother if he had to. "Not 
true," said Colson. "She was a very 
wonderful woman. I'd have walked 
nrnund her." 

In 1961, Colson helped form the 
Boston-Washington law firm now known 
as Gadsby and Hannah, which special- 
izes in corporate clients who deal with 
the federal government. Edward N. 
Gadsby is the former (1957-61) chair- 
man of the Securities and Exchange 
Commission in the Eisenhower Admin- 
istration. The law firm obtained many 
important clients, among them Uniroyal, 
Inc., and Grumman Corporation. Colson 
gets the lion's share of credit for secur- 
ing for Grumman the contract for the 
Navy version of the F-11 fighter plane. 

When the 1968 election came along, 
Colson left the law firm to become coun- 
sel to Mr. Nixon's Key Issues Commit- 
tee. Composed mainly of Republican rep- 
resentatives, senators, and governors, 
this committee prepared background and 
position papers on various national is- 
sues for candidate Nixon. 

Through the heavy fire of the cam- 
paign, Colson came in contact with 
many special interest groups from all 
parts of the country, and he acquired a 
detailed knowledge of their strengths 
and weaknesses. A year later when the 
White House went searching for an aide 
to deal with special interest groups, it 
was almost automatic that the search 
led directly to Colson. 

Right from the start, Colson has 
been a controversial figure in the Wash- 
ington scene. He pulled together a strong 
lobbying force on behalf of the anti- 
ballistic missile, but he fell short in a 
similar effort for Judge G. Harold Cars- 
well. 

It was Colson who wrote the memo 
on the constitutional power of the Pres- 
ident regarding Supreme Court appoint- 
ments, a memo that was the basis of a 
letter written by Mr. Nixon and sent to 
Senator William B. Saxbe (R-Ohio) de- 
fending the nomination of Judge Cars- 
well to the Court. James Reston of the 
New York Times said the letter was 
"full of bad history and bad law." 

Colson was quick to sense the reac- 
tion to the President's decision to move 



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American troops into Cambodia in the 
spring of 1970 and took the initiative to 
mobilize a demonstration of support for 
Mr. Nixon's position. Calls seeking this 
support were made to leading Republi- 
cans around the country and to groups 
Colson felt would be friendly, all of 
which prompted thousands of telegrams 
and letters supporting the President's 
policy. 

During the 1970 off-year elections, 
Colson is said to have been the man be- 
hind the scenes responsible for a series 
of hard-line newspaper ads linking lib- 
eral Democratic candidates for eight key 
Senate seats with radicals and extremists. 

When Life magazine ran an article 
charging that the then-Senator Joseph 
Tydings (D-Md.) had used the prestige 
of his office to win a foreign aid contract 
benefitting a company in which he had 
stock, Colson was credited by some with 
supplying the background information 
to the magazine. Tydings lost. 

It was Colson who arranged the 
now famous meeting at the White House 
between the President and a group of 
pro-Vietnam War hard hat construction 
workers from the Building and Con- 
struction Trades Council of New York. 
At the meeting, Peter Brennan, head of 
the trades council, presented Mr. Nixon 
with a hard hat, a presentation that did 
not go unphotographed. 

Colson admits that he was "up to 
my eyeballs" in a 1970 discussion be- 
tween the President and Catholic paro- 
chial school leaders. As a result of this 
get-together, Mr. Nixon ordered "action 
now" on a doubling of funds for Cath- 
olic school libraries. He subsequently 
put together an ambitious program of 
Federal help for parochial schools, a pro- 
gram that was largely voided last sum- 
mer by the Supreme Court. 

Colson played one of his most stra- 
tegic roles during the postal crisis of late 
1969 and early 1970 when he salvaged 
Mr. Nixon's postal reform package from 
almost certain death in the House. In 
early December, when the Administra- 
tion and the postal union were at an im- 
passe, Colson telephoned James H. Rade- 
macher, president of the National Asso- 
ciation of Letter Carriers, and invited 
him to have lunch at the White House. 
After this cordial meeting, the two men 
stayed in close contact, and later that 
month Colson took Rademacher into the 
President's office to speak personally 
with Mr. Nixon. 

During subsequent meetings, Col- 



son and Rademacher worked out a pack- 
age that was palatable to the major pos- 
tal unions. The basis of the agreement 
was Rademacher's support of a quasi- 
corporate post office in return for the 
Administration's support of postal pay 
increases. 

"The President knew that the Post- 
master General (Winton M. Blount) and 
I could never have reached an agreement 
in a year," Rademacher recalls. "It took 
someone like Colson to break the ice. He 
has a way of dealing with people second 
to none." 

All of Colson's efforts are not as dra- 
. matic, nor are the results all as 
highly successful. The trim six-footer 
even strikes out once in a while. But his 
batting average is amazingly high for a 
man who in two years has shepherded 
close to 200 organizations into the White 
House. 

"I get frosted when I continually 
read that the President is isolated," Col- 
son says. "It just isn't so. Mr. Nixon is 
probably more accessible to individuals 
and groups than any President in recent 
history." 

Colson becomes something on the 
frigid side of frosted when he talks 
about the treatment the President has 
received from the news media. He claims 
that between 85 and 90 percent of the 
press corps is anti-Nixon and he cites 
two basic reasons. 

"A large percentage of the people 
who make up the working press ideo- 
logically just don't believe in what this 
President believes in," he says. "Some 
try to be fair and overcome this built-in 
bias, but they find it hard because of 
their convictions. 

"More important, I don't believe 
that there is a press man in the United 
States who in 1962 didn't write off Mr. 
Nixon as politically dead. So, the posi- 
tion they are in now is that as he suc- 
ceeds they find themselves eating crow. 
And the greater his success, the more 
crow consumed. We try to get around 
this, but it is very difficult. The writers 
and commentators are almost forced to 
substantiate their convictions." 

If Chuck Colson sounds like a party 
man, that's because he is — even to the 
point of frequently appearing in the of- 
fice wearing a blue tie conservatively 
sprinkled with white elephants. On Col- 
son's tie, at least, all the elephants seem 
to be smiling. 

Since 1956, Colson has been con- 



vinced that Mr. Nixon would someday 
be President. He terms Mr. Nixon a man 
of "superior intellect" and stoutly claims 
that he is the only great statesman in 
the world today in the mold of a Roose- 
velt, Churchill, or DeGaulle. 

"I always considered myself some- 
thing of a hot shot," Colson says. "But 
I've met my match in Mr. Nixon. He has 
a brilliant mind, is completely dedicated, 
and possesses total recall. A few months 
ago while we were discussing the ABM, 
the President remarked that the situa- 
tion was somewhat different than it had 
been when I had written him a memo 
on the subject eight months before. He 
then started telling me what I had said. 
I came back to the office later that night, 
dug my memo out of the file, and found 
that Mr. Nixon had been quoting me al- 
most verbatim. 

"I'll admit I've found it exciting to 
be exposed day after day to someone 
who thinks in broad, long-range terms. 
Most of us live our lives from day to 
day, but the President is constantly 
thinking in terms of what is important 
to the country and the world, not just 
today, but ten or 20 years from today. I 
worked among 100 senators while I was 
in Senator Saltonstall's office, JFK in- 
cluded, and there wasn't one of them 
who had either Mr. Nixon's intellectual 
depth or his ability to look ahead. We 
are fortunate that a man of his percep- 
tion is President at this time." 

According to Colson, the President 
is also a generous and forgiving man. 
After doing some work for Mr. Nixon 
in 1963, Colson sat down and wrote him 
a series of memos citing why he should 
run for President in 1964. 

The Colson thinking, as expressed 
in the memos, went something like this: 
Mr. Nixon could win in 1964. If he 
didn't run, either Rockefeller or Gold- 
water would run, and probably lose. 
Johnson would be elected in 1964, would 
build himself a political power structure, 
and would be unbeatable in 1968. By 
1972 Mr. Nixon would be 60, too old to 
run. Therefore, he had to run in 1964. 

"Hell, that was the worse advice I 
ever gave anyone," Colson says with a 
chuckle. "When he brought me in to 
work for him in 1969, I told the Pres- 
ident that he was the most generous 
client I'd ever had. If I had ever given 
anyone else such bad advice, they would 
never have rehired me." 

Colson has a theory as to why the 
President is such a staunch sports fan. 



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He claims that it is the spirit of compe- 
tition that intrigues Mr. Nixon, as well 
as the pure spectator enjoyment. Accord- 
ing to Colson, Mr. Nixon believes that 
the nation must be competitive, that 
people must be competitive, and he sees 
sports as a symbol of this competition. 

Sports are also a form of relaxation 
for the President, but it's hard to get a 
reading on how Chuck Colson relaxes. 
"He doesn't," says Mrs. Joan C. Hall, 
his vivacious Girl Friday who patrols the 
traffic in the suite of offices located in 
the Executive Office Building overlook- 
ing the West Wing of the White House. 
"Mr. Colson tells people that he reads 
for relaxation, but I'm afraid that his 
at-home reading is limited to the latest 
political books and the paper work he 
didn't get to during the day." 

Henry Cashen, who is a close per- 
sonal friend as well as a fellow Bruno- 
nian, says that the only form of relaxa- 
tion his boss enjoys is a weekend bull 
session with friends at his home in the 
fashionable Spring Valley section of 
Washington. But even here Colson takes 
a busman's holiday. The topic is usually 
politics. 

Cashen bristles when people sug- 
gest to him that Colson has no sense of 
humor. "Chuck has a great sense of 
humor," he says. "When he has time." 

Actually, Colson is a confirmed 
practical joker. When James Doyle of 
the Washington Star wrote an unflat- 
tering piece about him, Colson wrote 



Mr. Doyle, threatening to "break your 
goddamned jaw." He never sent the let- 
ter, but he did send a copy of what he 
had written down the hall to White 
House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler. The 
result was predictable. Within minutes 
an anguished Ziegler was on the phone 
to remonstrate with Colson. 

But a man can't be expected to be 
too humorous when he spends six days 
a week at the office, usually from 7:30 
a.m. to 8 or 9 p.m. Colson has things 
relatively easy on Sundays, except for 
the usual 12 to 15 phone calls on things 
that have to be done immediately. 

A dispenser of antacid tablets rests 
on Colson's desk, well within reach. 
"He chews on them all the time," says 
Cashen. "I've been trying to get him to 
switch to cigars." 

When Colson arrived in Washing- 
ton in 1969, he had one secretary. Now 
he has six aides, three secretaries, and 
Mrs. Hall. He works at a clean desk in 
a high-ceiling office. Scattered on the 
wall are pictures of Mr. and Mrs. Nixon 
and of key moments in Colson's politi- 
cal career. And in a White House dom- 
inated by UCLA and USC, Colson still 
hangs his Brown diploma and an early 
print of the University. 

"The Ivy League holds its own at 
the daily 8:15 staff meetings," Colson 
says. "We have George Schultz, Peter 
Flanagan, and Don Rumsfeld from 
Princeton, Clark MacGregor from Dart- 
mouth, Henry Kissinger from Harvard, 



and myself." 

Hank Cashen has the office on Col- 
son's south flank. On Colson's other side 
is an office used by President Nixon for 
the moments when he wants to get away 
from the White House. "My boss and 
Mr. Nixon could talk to each other by 
morse code on the walls if they wanted 
to," says Mrs. Hall. "So far they have 
restrained themselves." 

Colson isn't sure he could continue 
another four years, at least not at the 
same pace. He's afraid he'd burn himself 
out. "The job is a close race between 
total physical exhaustion and keeping 
going," he says. "The pressure is intense 
— but I've never enjoyed anything more. 

"Fairly soon I'm going to have to 
make a gut decision," says the man who 
was estimated to be earning $150,000 at 
his law practice. "I've got three kids, 
one entering college next fall and two 
in prep school. 

"But if the choice were doing what 
the President wanted me to do and go- 
ing to the poor house in the process, or 
leaving here and making more money, 
I'd go to the poor house. It's a tough 
decision that I'm going to have to face 
shortly because I'm convinced that Mr. 
Nixon will be back at the White House 
for another four years." 

As he sat back in his large chair 
contemplating this decision, Colson care- 
lessly tugged at his blue tie. The white 
elephants were still smiling. They must 
know something. J.B. 




Colson (center) and his deputy, Henry 
Cashen '61 (second from left), sit in on n 
Presidential meeting with James H. Rade- 
macher, president of the National Associa- 
tion of Letter Carriers, during the postal 
crisis of late 1969 and early 1970. At left 
is John Ehrlichman, the President's domes- 
tic affairs chief. 



white House Photograph 



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The Sound of Dulcimers 



A' soon as you build a dulcimer/' 
says Virgil Hughes, "it's part of 
you, like a child." Hughes is a soft- 
spoken, patient man who travels 
around the country conducting week- 
long workshops in making dulcimers, 
which he describes as "a stringed 
mountain instrument with the wild- 
ness and harmony of the bagpipes." 
In early October, Hughes drove his 
equipment-laden van to Brown, where 
for the next week, he supervised the 
construction of 132 musical instru- 
ments, mostly dulcimers. 

The workshop was sponsored by 
assistant professor of music Fred Lie- 
berman, who presented it as part of 
his class in folk music. "Most peo- 
ple," says Lieberman, "have only the 
vaguest idea of what an instrument 
consists of or how it is tuned. These 
are things we talk about in the course, 
so I wanted the class to have a chance 
to build an instrument instead of just 
listening or talking about it." Al- 
though the project was optional, the 
majority of the 75-member class 
chose to make an instrument. 

To introduce the workshop, 
Hughes gave a lecture-demonstration 
the night he arrived. He lectured on 
the history and sound of the various 
instruments that his company sells 
kits for, including several kinds of 
dulcimers, a lyre, an Irish harp, and 
an African finger piano called the 
mbira. The original three-stringed 
dulcimer, Hughes explained, was 
thought by the Appalachian moun- 
tain people to be a wicked instrument 
because of its resemblance to the 
devil's pitchfork which has three 
tines. Thus, according to Hughes, a 
fourth string was added to some dul- 
cimers and these were used to sere- 
nade ladies toward whom one had 
honorable intentions. 

Hughes imparted other moun- 
tain dulcimer lore: a turkey feather 
is traditionally used as a pick. Dou- 
ble dulcimers were played by court- 
ing couples and no chaperone was 
needed as long as the sound of the 




dulcimer was heard. He also demon- 
strated "Hey, Jude" on an electric 
dulcimer, saying that while he did 
not entirely approve, some people 
liked the sound. 

The trade of dulcimer making, 
says Hughes, is so unknown that 
when he tells people that is his occu- 
pation, they often assume he is being 
funny. He has an A.B. in science edu- 
cation and an M.S. in chemistry, and 
he was teaching science when he got 
his start as a dulcimer maker. A mu- 
sic teacher colleague asked him to 
conduct a demonstration on the sci- 
ence of a vibrating string. "Since the 
dulcimer is an excellent demonstra- 
tion instrument," he says, "I used one 
to show the octave relationship, but 
teachers kept buying my demonstrat- 
ors. The woodworking aspect of in- 
strument making is almost a habit 
with me, since I come from a family 
of Welshmen who regard not being 
a carpenter as somewhat immoral. 
You first become a carpenter, then 
decide what you would like to do." 

What started out as a hobby has 
now become the Hughes Company 
of Denver, Colo., which keeps 46 
people busy and sells 100,000 instru- 
ment kits a year. The workshops are 
free to anyone who buys a kit; 
Hughes supplies tools, equipment. 



and advice. The fish-shaped dulcimer 
kit, which Hughes recommends as a 
starting instrument, sells for $12. 

The workshop at Brown was 
held in the old art building. Students 
and interested community members 
(the workshop was open to everyone) 
labored off and on for a week with 
sandpaper, files, coping saws, and 
other hand tools. Hughes estimates 
that the simpler dulcimer kits take 
about ten hours to complete, but that 
depends on how much of a perfec- 
tionist the builder is — or how inept. 
At his opening demonstration, Hughes 
claimed that dulcimer playing is eas- 
ily learned in ten minutes (15 for the 
exceptionally backward) and that kits 
can be constructed by ten-year-olds. 
Now he can change that to eight- 
year-olds. Or at least some eight- 
year-olds. 

Second-grader Alexander Swartz, 
son of philosophy faculty member 
Robert Swartz, joined the workshop 
and he now has a dulcimer to show 
for it. Alexander first heard about 
dulcimers during a summer visit to 
Nova Scotia, where he met, "this kid, 
about 16, who knew how to make 
dulcimers and other musical instru- 
ments. He told me about it, so when 
I heard about the workshop at my 
school I was interested." According 
to Alexander, the hardest part of 
making the dulcimer was cutting out 
the tone hole. The songs he most 
wants to learn to play are "The Nut- 
cracker" and "99 Bottles of Beer on 
the Wall." 

Although the most popular items 
at the workshop were the small dul- 
cimers, a few more ambitious people 
built lyres, Irish harps, guitars, and 
double dulcimers. With this sudden 
growth in the musical instrument 
population at Brown, the question 
now, says Fred Lieberman, is what to 
do with it. "Maybe we'll have a con- 
cert. We could fill a small auditorium 
with players and there wouldn't be 
any room left over for spectators." 

A.B. 



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Photographs by U05IS JUODVALKIS 



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The friendly, informal atmosphere of the dulcimer 
workshop made the difficulties encountered in building 
an instrument less discouraging. If morale was waning, 
there was always the chance to take a break and play 
one of Hughes' already-completed instruments or to 
admire the smoothness of someone else's sanding job. 





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Brown Books 

Edited by Barton L. St. Armand '65 

There is an establishment' in poetry, too 



Possibilities of Poetry, edited by Ricliard 
Kostelanetz '62. Delta. 526 pages. $3.95. 

The modern age will not be satisfied 
until it can define and anthologize all things 
neatly and efficiently, so it is with some 
misgivings (what? another one?) that I turn 
to this present anthology of contemporary 
American poetry. \et I feel somewhat like 
Hart Crane approaching his grandmother's 
letters in an old trunk: "Over the greatness 
of such space / Steps must be gentle. / It 
is all hung by an invisible white hair. / It 
trembles as birch limbs webbing the air." 

Most anthologies do not tremble, much 
less show any sign of life, but this one is 
better than most. Any anthology forces art 
into a particular mold: the editor has some 
particular attitude or theme he wishes to 
convey to the reader. Kostelanetz's "white 
hair" is not at all invisible but refreshingly 
obvious: he wishes to suggest the "new- 
ness" of modern American poetry, the pos- 
sibilities inherent in the new "pluralism." 
How else could Robert Lowell, John Cage, 
and Liam O'Gallagher all have been bun- 
dled together? I was told recently of an 
anthology of short stories based on pollu- 
tion as its major thread. Kostelanetz's inter- 
est in poetry is at least a genuine one, au- 
thentic and not contrived. 

It would be impossible to concern our- 
selves with the individual poems here. 
There are 44 poets represented, divided into 
eleven chapters according to "camps" or 
styles. A bibliography of each poet is con- 
veniently included. What may be examined 
is Kostelanetz's introductory remarks, which 
constitute the obvious justification for the 
anthology itself. 

Kostelanetz spends much time review- 
ing the present history of modern American 
verse. He documents the shrinkage of the 
Eliot-Pound fiefdom and discusses the im- 
portance of Charles Olson and the Black 
Mountain poets, the change from a poetry 
of irony and "verbalism" to a new "per- 
sonalism" in so-called "projective verse." 
By now much of Eliot's work has been rele- 
gated to the academic attic, assuring its de- 
cline and loss of contemporary "relevance" 
and suggesting how quickly outmoded po- 
etic forms can easily become the canned 
goods of intellectuals. 

I would quibble a bit with some of Mr. 
Kostelanetz's remarks and techniques. He 
writes, for instance, that until Eliot, the 
city did not have a place in American po- 
etry. I would suggest he read more Whit- 
man. There is evident here a lack of his- 



torical perspective, an inability to link the 
newer projective verse with the language 
experiments of Emerson and Whitman. 
Newness is the key, but novelty without 
sufficient "roots" can perish all too easily. 
One cannot describe the new poetry with- 
out at least acknowledging Matthiessen's 
Renaissance men of the American 1840s 
and '50s. 

Kostelanetz defines the new era of po- 
etry as one of "pluralism." He does sug- 
gest that for reasons unknown the new era 
has yet to produce a masterpiece. Perhaps 
this is inherent within the continued ex- 
perimentation itself, the desire for the 
"new" outweighing the need or the desire 
to speak one to another. Much of "con- 
crete" poetry is clever and technically ex- 
pert, but whether it is "poetic" or not is 
hard to say. The work of O'Gallagher, 
Nichol, Solt, and Kostelanetz seems to re- 
duce metaphor (the fountainhead of all po- 
etry) to its purely visual manifestations, 
thus limiting the poetic experience or eradi- 
cating whatever "spiritual dimension" there 
may be. To read Lowell or Jarrell (who 
come early in the book) and then to read 
Schwerner or Stern (who are nearer the fi- 
nale) may suggest that order has been re- 
placed by chaos, that technique has tri- 
umphed over "soul," that the possibilities 
of poetry are growing more "minimal" each 
day. 

Kostelanetz includes a chart of poetic 
"schools" and tastes in his introduction. 
Such an attempt may be laudable, but it 
seems to carry the anthologizing fever to 
an absurd end; the white hair can stand 
only so much stress. The chart, well-divided 
into different classifications, suggests that 
most of the poets included within its bor- 
ders are generally unclassifiable. There are 
so many categories that the task smacks of 
a "put-up job" and collapses under its own 
weight. Such an extremely anti-poetic im- 
pulse may indicate why ours is a critical 
and not a creative age or why, in our rush 
to classify the poets, we may have over- 
looked the possibility of poetry's continued 
existence. 

When Kostelanetz does discuss the 
present-day groups and "camps" in the po- 
etic establishment, however, he reveals his 
expert knowledge of their existence with a 
keen awareness. His comments on the 
poet's connection with the academic world 
are very perceptive and suggest perhaps 
an "unholy alliance" that may have con- 
tributed to the markedly anti-intellectual 



trend of the best of modern verse. The very 
existence of such an "establishment" cre- 
ates its own limitations and gives rise to 
the wave of "new" anthologies. 

Too many intellectual definitions would 
obviously undercut the various possibilities 
that Kostelanetz has set before us. He has 
not come to judge these but merely to set 
them before us so that we can observe what 
is being done. He has done this well. His 
anthology contains the broadest spectrum 
of modern American poetry that I have 
seen recently and though we may quibble 
with his celebration of "newness" for its 
own sake, perhaps this is precisely the qual- 
ity that we do need now in poetry and pre- 
cisely that quality which most poetry today 
lacks. The techniques may be new but the 
sentiments seem to be often stale and nos- 
talgically bankrupt. 

What seems to be missing in modern 
American verse is precision, the precision 
of metaphor and of language, that sense of 
"earned vision" which James Dickey has 
seen in Theodore Roethke's verse, or even 
the sense of poetry which Pope celebrated, 
"What oft was thought but ne'er so well 
expressed." Emily Dickinson said that she 
wrote poetry because she, like the boy 
walking by the cemetery, was afraid and 
had to whistle to keep the darkness at bay. 
Modern poetry lacks the whistle: it does 
not catch in the mind; it does not cling 
to that love of language and ceremony 
which Jung identifies in the collective 
unconscious. It passes us by like so many 
television commercials, like so much raw 
material which remains undigested and un- 
dernourished. In places of precision we 
seem to find simplicity, the simple empty 
lines of Rod McKuen capitalizing on that 
vague sense of sentimental unrest and lone- 
liness that reduces the human spirit and 
sends it begging with a limp tear. 

We are told, and it is suggested here, 
that the possibilities for all things are un- 
limited: we can go to the moon, we can 
write poetry of any kind. All we need do 
is dare to be "new" and we have found the 
gold ring. Such unlimited freedom, how- 
ever, seems to have produced only a numb- 
ness of spirit, a lack of precision, and a 
dwindling of spiritual resources. In such a 
light Kostelanetz's anthology is bitter- 
sweet, for it seems to document the diminu- 
tion of poetry, man's fall again from grace 
and his return to the Old Night that 
threatens not to engulf us (we are beyond 
the exhausted apocalypse of Eliot's IVnsfe 



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Land) but only to lull us into a faltering 
faith in the "new" and a vague belief in 
our own belittled immortality. 
SAM COALE 

Richard Kostelanetz is a free-lance writer. 
Samuel Chase Coale, V, received his Ph.D. 
from Brown in 1970 and is now an assist- 
ant professor of English at Wheaton Col- 
lege, Norton, Mass. 



No burials in 
* this Festschrift 

The Drama of the Renaissance: Essays for 
Leicester Bradner. Edited by Elmer M. Blis- 
tein '42. 199 pages. Brown University 
Press. $7. 

"Who would want to bury an article 
in a Festschrift?" I once heard someone re- 
mark. The distaste for this form of pub- 
lication seems to stem from the relative 
inaccessibility of such works, a limitation 
which in turn is often the result of a pa- 
rochial preference on the part of the editor 
for essays by former students, if not dis- 
ciples, of the person being honored. Then, 
too, a Festschrift is often a hodge-podge of 
topics held together by nothing but the 
book-binding. The editor of the present 
volume has not only departed radically 
from the first 'tradition,' but has also man- 
aged to impose some limits on the subject 
matter, restricting it to Renaissance drama. 
If within the defined range the variety of 
topics is great (ranging from Renaissance 
Latin drama and Shakespeare to Spanish 
and Italian drama), such diversity is in 
keeping with Professor Bradner's own 
broad range of interests, attested to by 
the list of his publications appended to the 
book. 

The essays vary in critical approach 
to their subjects, although some of the best 
of them gravitate toward what may be 
called a "structural" approach; that is, they 
show how the particular element under con- 
sideration relates to other elements of the 
play as a play. Fredson Bowers, for exam- 
ple, calls his essay "Theme and Structure 
in King Henry IV, Part I." He shows that 
Hal detaches himself much earlier and 
much more clearly from his tavern com- 
panions than has been traditionally as- 
sumed. Shakespeare has him rally to his 
father's side on his own accord, thus mak- 
ing him typify the virtues of the centralized 
monarchy in opposition to his antagonist 
Hotspur, who typifies the virtues of feudal 
society. But if Hal is the agent of his own 
"conversion," Bowers observes, the inter- 
view with his father remains climactic: it 
allows the audience to transfer its sym- 



pathy from Hotspur to Hal, who now 
changes from a potential force into an ac- 
tual protagonist. 

In her essay "lago's 'if: An Essay on 
the Syntax of Othello," Madeleine Doran 
uses Leo Spitzer's method of putting several 
linguistic observations together, reducing 
them to their common denominator and 
using them as a lever to get at the center 
of the play. Spitzer called the sensation 
one feels when various elements suddenly 
seem to relate and become a key to a work 
"the click." Madeleine Doran may not be 
quite original in calling attention to the 
frequent use of the conjunction "if" in the 
play, but she analyzes the fine shades be- 
tween assertion and condition-contrary-to- 
fact so masterfully that this reader could 
not help joining in the clicking. 

Roy W. Battenhouse, in "The Signifi- 
cance of Hamlet's Advice to the Players," 
argues that Hamlet's rather neo-classical 
sounding advice to the players is only his 
(Hamlet's), not Shakespeare's. Battenhouse 
reads it as having a dramatic perspective 
and shows how his reading makes sense 
in the rest of the play. Hamlet emerges 
as someone who would like to be a stoic 
but "finds himself falling into antic actions 
which he half regrets but half resigns him- 
self to." Battenhouse knows that he is thus 
disagreeing with the majority of Shake- 
speare scholars ever since the great Georg 
(not George!) Brandes. Therefore, he may 
not be surprised if he does not manage to 
convince every reader. A reader clinging to 
his old ways may point out that there are 
some parts of Hamlet's advice (such as his 
comment on clowns, who should not impro- 
vise) which seem to resist a "dramatic" 
interpretation. 

Some more generally descriptive essays 
explore various plays and their positions 
on the scale between academic rules and 
popular taste. J. W. Binns in "William 
Gager's Meleager and Ulysses Redux" 
quotes the author's wish "to be judged 
not on the exact goldsmith's balance, as it 
were, of the Art of Poetry, but on the 
scales of popular judgement." He looks at 
Gager's sources, but only insofar as they 
shed some light on the academic drama- 
tist's accomplishments: his uses of dramatic 
irony, his command of poetry, which en- 
hances the balance and coherence of the 
two Latin plays, his skillful handling of 
the large numbers of characters, who be- 
long really to Elizabethan drama rather 
than to Homeric epic. Bodo L. O. Richter 
shows how the anonymous La Venexiana, 
a comedy written in Venetian dialect with- 
out concern for the unities of time and 
place, sometimes comes close to disregard- 
ing hienseance as well. His survey of the 
most recent scholarship on this lively and 
long-neglected play leads him to believe 
that the play was not written by a "reac- 
tionary" within the medieval tradition of 



the novella, but was written in the third 
decade of the 16th century, that is, after 
the triumph of the commedia erudita. C. A. 
Jones in a brief essay on "Tragedy in the 
Spanish Golden Age" comments on Lope's 
and Calderon's mistrust of the term tra- 
gedia (Calderon ignored it altogether), 
which was too closely associated with a 
classical formula to suit them. They were 
more "concerned with the audience's reac- 
tion than with the rules of drama." Instead 
of deploring the absence of "tragic pleas- 
ure," Jones, like other recent critics, urges 
the reader to sense the tragic elements in a 
drama he considers broader (because less 
one-sided) than tragedy. Kenneth Muir, 
who contributed an article on Calderon's 
comedies, does not need such advice. He is 
only marginally concerned with such rules 
as the unity of place (and its violation). 
Instead he illustrates the ingenuity of Cal- 
deron's plotting and the liveliness of his 
dialogues, in each case finding interesting 
parallels in Shakespeare's technique. In an 
essay on Shakespeare's comedies, M. A. 
Shaaber argues that most commonly Shake- 
speare's romantic lovers are exposed to ridi- 
cule by their romantic susceptibilities, as 
in Rosalind's indictment of Orlando's love 
in As You Like It. Romantic love is the 
prime joke in these plays, and if we call 
them romantic comedies, the stress is on 
the noun rather than on the adjective. The 
article is one of the most stimulating of 
the book, although it seems that some of 
the proof texts need sifting. Part of the 
"joke" in As You Like It is that Rosalind 
is not speaking seriously, but in disguise 
as "a saucy lacky" (III, ii, 315). 

Each of the two remaining essays takes 
an approach different from that of any of 
the others in the collection. Paul A. Jorgen- 
sen's admittedly tentative essay "Shake- 
speare's Dark Vokabulary" is a study the 
linguist would call "onomasiological," but 
which is not any more scientific for that. It 
is not clear to me what can be learned 
through a technique of counting up words 
that ignores their variant (sometimes fig- 
urative) meanings in specific contexts. S. 
Schoenbaum's enlightening study of the 
history of the concept of "Shakespeare the 
Ignoramus" shows how certain doubtful 
assumptions and mistaken speculations 
have been spun into a yarn, which he un- 
ravels very skillfully. 

Most of these essays, I am sure, will 
not be "buried" in this Festschrift. Their 
quality is a tribute to one of Brown's most 
respected scholars and teachers. 
WINFRIED SCHLEINER 

Shakespearean Scholar Elmer M. Blistein 
is professor of English at Brown. Win- 
fried Schleiner received his Ph.D. from 
Brown in 1968 and is assistant professor 
of English at Rhode Island College, 



35 



The Clubs 



Filling a need that has existed for 
many years, the old Pembroke Field House 
has been completely renovated and will 
officially re-open on December 1 under its 
new name, the Brown Club of Rhode Island 
Alumni Center. 

The focal point of the December 1 
gathering will be the Brown-Boston Uni- 
versity hockey game at Meehan Audito- 
rium, just a block away. All alumni, alum- 
nae, and their relatives and friends are 
invited to stop in at the Center that eve- 
ning for a drink and a snack, both before 
and after the game. 

The Brown Club of Rhode Island en- 
tered into negotiations with the University 
over the possibility of a long-term lease of 
the old Pembroke Field House last winter. 
An agreement was reached late last spring 
whereby the Brown Club agreed to finance 
the restoration of the building and to fur- 
nish it in return for the right of first rejec- 
tion on dates throughout each academic 
year. 

In announcing this agreement, Brown 
Club President Bernie Buonanno, Jr., '60, 
stressed that the use of the building by 
other University-oriented groups would 
not be restricted by the new agreement. 

"Actually, the new Brown Club build- 
ing will be used much more extensively by 
all campus groups than it was ever used 
in the past," Buonanno says. "Early this 
fall, when the building opened on a part- 



time basis, it was extensively booked by a 
wide variety of organizations. The Brown 
Club's use of the building will definitely 
not be so extensive that other groups will 
be frozen out." 

At its board meeting in June, the 
Brown Club voted to appropriate up to 
$40,000 for the restoration and for new 
furnishings. Ground was broken in late 
July and except for some work with the 
heating plant the job was completed by 
early October. 

The Brown Club of Rhode Island 
Alumni Center will include a pine-paneled 
board room on the first floor along with 
coat rooms and rest-room facilities. The 
board room is large enough to accommo- 
date small social hours. 

The rustic charm of the large second- 
floor room was left unchanged. However, 
the lighting was improved, the bricks were 
repainted, and new furniture was supplied. 

The first-floor board room opens on a 
newly-installed patio, which runs along 
the east side of the building. On the south 
side the patio dips down into a barbeque 
pit, which is tied into the large fireplace. 

"We expect that the barbeque pit will 
be a popular feature at the club in spring 
and fall," Buonanno says. "I'm enthused 
about the 'new' building. We have needed 
an Alumni Center near Brown for some 
time now, a place returning alumni and 
alumnae can go to when they are in Provi- 



President Hornig swings a symbolic first blow to begin the renovation of 
the Pembroke field house into a Rhode Island Brown Club Alumni Center. 
The viewers are club vice-president ]oe Brian '47, president Bernie Buonanno, Jr., 
'60, and Jack Marshall '57, who was the club's liaison with the contractor. 




36 



dence. Our building will satisfy those 
needs." 

• President Hornig will visit three 
cities at the end of this month. On Tues- 
day, Nov. 30, he will be the featured 
speaker at a dinner meeting of the Brown 
Club of Indiana, which will be held at The 
Woodstock Club in Indianapolis. 

The president will then move on to 
Texas for two more dinner meetings, speak- 
ing in Houston on Dec. 1 and at The City 
Club in Dallas on Dec. 2. 

• A few years back the University 
came up with a popular format, an Alumni 
College on the road. After a lapse of three 
years the programs have been reactivated. 
One-day Alumni Colleges are scheduled for 
the Brown Clubs in Fairfield County and 
Westchester County on Jan. 29; Boston, 
March 18; Albany-Pittsfield, March 25; and 
Philadelphia on April 8. 

According to Alumni Executive Officer 
Paul F. Mackesey '32, a week-long Alumni 
College may be held on campus next sum- 
mer if alumni interest seems to warrant 
the effort. 

• The Pembroke Club of Fall River 
has been active this fall. On Thursday, 
Nov. 18, the club is joining with the Fall 
River Brown Club to sponsor a dinner 
meeting at White's Restaurant. Prof. Elmer 
Cornwell of the political science depart- 
ment will be the main speaker. Reservations 
may be made through Arline Goodman 
Alpert 'SO at 45 Highcrest Road, Fall River. 

Mrs. Alpert, who is president of the 
Fall River Club, held a meeting at her home 
Oct. 14 at which three students gave an 
informal report on what is happening on 
the campus. 

• The Pembroke Club of Worcester is 
planning a meeting f.or Nov. 17 at the 
Holden (Mass.) home of Virginia Chivers 
Greis '49. The speaker from the campus 
will be Professor Charles Shapiro of the 
English department, whose topic will be 
"Minority Groups in Contemporary Ameri- 
can Fiction." 

• The Pembroke Club of Philadelphia 
is headed this year by Janice Peterson 
Michael '50. In her newsletter to members 
this fall, she noted that $700 had been con- 
tributed to the Pembroke Scholarship Fund 
as the result of the recent bulb sale. 

On Sept. 8, the Philadelphia Club held 
one of its biggest and best Freshman Send- 
Off picnics, combining their efforts with 
those of the local Brown Club. A total of 
38 men and women students attended and 
heard from Professor John Rowe Workman 
of the classics department. 

Other events planned this year by 
the Philadelphia Club, according to Mrs. 



Michael, include a late November or early 
December Hour with the Faculty, a social 
hour prior to the Brown-Penn hockey game 
on Feb. 5, and the annual dinner in early 
March, with the nationally-famous auto 
racer, Mark Donohue '59, as the main 
speaker. 

• President Donna Reinsch Wittmer 
'60 has announced an ambitious program 
for the Hartford Pembroke Club. The 
group toured the Mark Twain and Harriett 
Beecher Stowe Houses in Hartford on Sun- 
day, Sept. 26, as the first official event of 
the year. 

The winter program will include an 
Hour with the Faculty in December and a 
late January session in which Ralph Matt- 
son, headmaster of The Masters School in 
Simsbury, Conn., will discuss "A New and 
Creative Approach in Child Education." 

Then in March the Hartford Pembroke 
Club will hold an Undergraduate Drama 
Night, an evening in which Brown's un- 
dergraduates will perform in the round, 
using drama as therapy. This will be a joint 
meeting with the Hartford Brown Club. 

The annual luncheon is scheduled for 
Sunday, May 7, with a special effort to be 
made to attract husbands and guests to 
this affair. 

• In New York, the Pembroke Club is 
starting a series of mini-meetings to ap- 
peal to small groups with special interests. 
Those interested in more information on 
this experiment should contact Peggy Weill 
Sonder '46 at EL 5-4594. 

• The Pembroke College Club of Prov- 
idence has achieved a first. Its recent dona- 
tion of $5,000 to the Program for the Seven- 
ties, to be applied toward the contemplated 
performing arts building, is the largest do- 
nation yet received from any club toward 
this campaign. 

The Providence group has a meeting 
scheduled for Dec. 6, at which time the 
women will hear from James Rogers, direc- 
tor of admissions. The meeting will be held 
in the Crystal Room of Alumnae Hall. Leo- 
nora Pockman, director of placement and 
career planning at Brown, will also speak 
at the same location on Feb. 9. The Annual 
Bridge has been set for April 8. 

• Things in the Washington area are 
still humming. The Brown basketball team 
will be playing the University of Maryland 
on Dec. 1 and a reception and trip to that 
game are being supported by the local 
alumni and alumnae. 

In January, things become a bit more 
cerebral. The club is planning an evening 
at the Kennedy Center for the Performing 
Arts. A team of students from Brown will 
discuss "changing lifestyles" at a March 
meeting, and Dr. and Mrs. Hornig have 



been invited to visit with the Washington 
Club in May. 

• The Brown Alumnae Club of Fair- 
field County was among those holding 
Freshman Sendoff parties in September. 

A total of 39 young men and women from 
the area attended the affair, which was 
held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Russell 
B. Pierce '53 (Anne Guerry '58). 

The Fairfield Brown Club officers for 
the 1971-72 academic year have been an- 
nounced. Stephen K. Liebmann '60 is the 
president, assisted by Vice-President John 
B. Lee '46, Treasurer Carl H. Keller, Jr., 
'54, and Alumni Secondary Schools Chair- 
man Roy O. Stratton, Jr., '52. 

• William H. Chadwick '58 is the new 
president of the Hartford Brown Club. His 
slate includes the following: first vice- 
president, John B. Nolan '65; second vice- 
president, Martin J. Moran, Jr., '58; sec- 
retary, Cyrus G. Flanders '18; and treas- 
urer, Clarence F. Roth, Jr., '46. 



37 



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The Classes 



f\^ Dr. Harold G. Calder has retired 
\Jjit and is living at 80 Cydot Drive, 
North Kingstown, R.I. 

Judge and Mrs. Albert L. Saunders 
were guests this fall at a reception given in 
honor of their 65th wedding anniversary. 
The program, which was put together by 
their children, was held in West Medway, 
Mass. 

»* ^ Father George J. Cairns had a day 
JH3 for himself in Royal Oak, Mich., 
recently. The pastor emeritus of St. Mary's 
Church was honored for his years of serv- 
ice to the church, city, state, and country. 
Mayor James P. Cline made things official, 
proclaiming it Father George J. Cairns Day. 
A priest for 46 years. Father Cairns served 
St. Mary's as pastor for 23 years before re- 
tiring in 1961. Even then he couldn't pull 
away and he agreed to stay on as pastor 
emeritus for a term that eventually reached 
ten more years. Among his accomplish- 
ments at St. Mary's — and his accomplish- 
ments were not limited to the church — were 
the completion of a $l-milIion church in 
1954, a $200,000 rectory in 1959, and a 
playground for Royal Oak children which 
bears his name. 

•* f"r Last June at the class meeting, the 
J.y following slate of officers was 
elected: chairman of the board — Dr. E. M. 
Knights; president — Frank C. Cambio; vice- 
president — Raymond J. Walsh; secretary — 
Carlos G. Wright; treasurer — Ralph A. 
Armstrong. 

Irving Eraser is off again on another 
European trip, this time to Switzerland and 
surrounding territories. 

Helen Cohen Hirshland is happy to 
announce to her classmates that her grand- 
son, David Lee Hirshland, is enrolled at 
Brown in the freshman class. 

Bruce Jeffris says that he is semi-re- 
tired. But he stays somewhat active as a 
director of the Parker Pen Company and 
the Merchants Savings Bank of Janesville, 
Wise. He spends his winters in Pompano 
Beach, Fla., where he enjoys some of the 
splendid fishing of that area. 

Henry Kenyon, retired for a year now, 
enjoys gardening but says that there is lit- 
tle exciting to report. He is happy to have 
his three grandsons nearby, but he's finally 
given up on his golf game. 

George Northup, Jr., retired Jan. 1, 



1969 from the Verona Dyestuffs Company 
of Clifton, N.J. He is an avid fisherman, en- 
joying most the salt-water, striped bass 
fishing. In other waters he enjoys fly cast- 
ing for trout. As a gardener George special- 
izes in large chrysanthemums. One grand- 
daughter is at Brown and another at 
Princeton. A classmate. Bill Wedemeyer, 
lives not far from George and they get to- 
gether occasionally for cocktails. 

Dr. Isaac Y. Olch, retired for the last 
three years, is still very much interested in 
music. His forte is playing the cello, which 
he enjoys daily. He's also trying to catch 
up on all the reading he missed while 
teaching surgery at Washington University 
and the University of Southern California. 
Dr. Olch makes his home in Beverly Hills. 

John Peterson spent some time last 
summer in the south of France and then 
visited with his old friend and classmate. 
Bill Reese, in Gazeran, about 18 miles South- 
west of Paris. Bill has a beautiful home 
there in a rural setting. He had an old 
country home restored, keeping the fine 
old oak beams and thus giving the place a 
feeling of age, grace, and beauty. John has 
been retired ten years now. During his last 
four years of work, he lived in Switzerland 
and directed a chain of international com- 
panies around the world. In 1964 he and 
his wife enjoyed a trip of three months 
around the world. They spend some time 
each year in Delray, Fla., where they gen- 
erally see Tom Appleget. 

Herbert T. Tinker retired in 1960 after 
being in the textile business for 40 years. 
One of his specialities was color matching 
at the Nashua (N.H.) Corp. He's been ac- 
tive in the Methodist Church of Nashua for 
many years, serving as steward, trustee, and 
financial secretary. Herb follows the UMass 
football team closely to see how one of 
his grandsons is doing at halfback. 

William P. Trask retired in 1970 after 
34 years as a director and vice-president of 
the Peabody (Mass.) Co-operative Bank. 
Prior to that he had been active in the 
leather business. Bill was a member of the 
Selective Service Board for 38 years and 
chairman the last ten. He enjoys his gar- 
dening and the days on the golf course at 
the Salem Country Club. 

Victor Le Valley is living with his son 
and daughter-in-law in Long Branch, N.J. 
He retired in June of 1968 after serving 



as chief clerk of the Monmouth County 
Prosecutor's Office for 35 years. 

«* rt Walter Adler attended the 50th re- 
JLO union of his class at the Harvard 
Graduate School of Business Administra- 
tion. He has been in charge of fund raising 
for the school in the Rhode Island area and 
is bequest chairman of his class. Walter 
continues to carry on an active law practice 
in Providence. 

John Chafee had to miss the Alumni 
Dinner in June because he and his wife 
were invited to be with their son (Secretary 
of the Navy John Chafee) at the launching 
of a submarine at the shipyard in Groton, 
Conn. John's daughter-in-law christened 
the ship. 

Horace Jeffers has completed 50 years 
of practice as an attorney in Morristown, 
N.J. 

Jimmy Jemail is celebrating 50 years as 
the Inquiring Fotographer for the New 
York Daily News. Jimmy doesn't plan to 
retire. He says he'll be snapping the lens 
a while longer. 

Irv McDonnell has been in the securi- 
ties business in Providence for 52 years. 

•* ^* Bill Eraser probably holds the long- 
JLz7 est tenure at Brown of any class- 
mate. Since his "retirement" from his life- 
time career. Bill has spent the last six years 
in the biological laboratory at Brown pur- 
suing significant research. He hopes in a 
few more years to get another degree. 

^ f\ Dr. Cono Stifano has retired from 
^v/ fhe State Department of Health in 
Rhode Island after 36 years. 

^ ^ Judge Edward W. Day has stepped 
^mt^mi down as chief judge of the U.S. 
District Court in Rhode Island but plans to 
remain on the federal bench. "At this time, 
I have no intention of retiring from active 
duty," he says. 

C. Manton Eddy of West Hartford, 
past president of the Health Insurance As- 
sociation of America, has been elected 
president of the Connecticut Hospital As- 
sociation. 

^ ^ Mirian Dick Flores has retired 
^^ from the faculty of Stonehurst 
Hills School, Media, Pa. 



39 



When John J. O'Brien was released from 
the Navy after World War I, he was placed 
on the inactive list and was told to keep 
his uniform in readiness and to keep the 
Commandant of the Second Naval District 
advised at all times of any changes of ad- 
dress. That paper was the last word John 
ever heard from the Navy. After 53 years 
he felt it was time to check and see what 
the Navy had in store for him, and so he 
wrote to Secretary of the Navy John H. 
Chafee. Within a matter of days, Chafee 
replied: "I want you to know how much 
we appreciate your standing by daily since 
1918, ready for duty at the drop of a hat. 
Unfortunately, discharge processes are ex- 
tremely complicated. However, I am happy 
to report that we have just finished process- 
ing the discharges of the 'L's' from World 
War I, and I can assure you that we will 
be well along with the 'O's' by 1973!" 

R. Einar Soderback, long-time super- 
intendent of public buildings in the City 
of Providence, retired in June — but only 
because he had no choice. The man who 
personally supervised $75 million worth of 
building construction in Providence is no 
quitter. It was just that the native of Nor- 
way reached his 70th birthday June 8 and 
was forced to leave his city post. Our class- 
mate's career with the city's public build- 
ings department spanned 40 years, inter- 
rupted by seven years of wartime civilian 
service. His monuments are everywhere. 
They include both Mount Pleasant and 
Hope High Schools and all of the newer 
schools built since those were erected in 
the 1930s. His biggest single job was super- 
vising the construction of the multi-million 
dollar James L. Hanley Education Center 
that includes a new Classical High School 
and an expanded Central High. 

^ g" Richard H. Anthony has been 
J^^ elected president of the Southern 
New York State Division of the United Na- 
tions Association of the United States. He 
had served the group for six years as treas- 
urer and vice-president. 

Roger Cummings, retired from the De- 
partment of State's Agency for International 
Development, is a consultant for the Inter- 
national Training Programs in Laguna Hills, 
Calif. 

Carleton L. Staples, director of Yar- 
mouth (Mass.) Welfare Service, has retired 
after 11 years. He previously had served as 
a welfare agent in Vineyard Haven, Mass. 

Albert H. Wood has moved from Cali- 
fornia to Shawnee Mission, Kan. He has 
accepted a position as vice-president of 
public relations with Medallion Insurance 
Group, Kansas City, Mo. 

*y ^ Dr. Frank Fowler, who was born 
^2lf? i" England, came to Santa Bar- 
bara, Calif., in 1949, where he established 
the Alhecama Players as a part of the City 
School's Theater Arts Program. He coordi- 
nated segments of several dramatic groups 
into an organization which, under his adept 
guidance, has received wide acclaim and 
has built up a following which includes 
many out-of-town as well as local theater 
fans. After receiving his doctorate in speech 



from Columbia, Dr. Fowler for several 
years headed the drama division of the 
University of Kentucky and directed the 
Guignol Players in Lexington, organizing 
the first University-Civic Theater in the 
nation. In addition to writing for the thea- 
ter, he has appeared on the stage and 
screen with some of the best-known stars 
of the theater. 

«% fw Alverda Sammis Beck has retired 
jit/ as a cataloguer at Brown's John 
Hay Library. 

Eugene M. Fahey, assistant manager of 
industrial and commercial sales of the Pub- 
lic Service Electric and Gas Co., East Or- 
ange, N.J., has retired after more than 42 
years of service. 

Arthur C. Hayes has retired as asso- 
ciate professor of textile chemistry at North 
Carolina State University, where he taught 
dyeing and finishing for 35 years. 

Francis D. Miller has retired as direc- 
tor of the transportation section of the 
Port of New York Authority. 

Lawton P. G. Peckham has retired 
and become professor emeritus of French 
at Columbia University. 

^ rt Arline Dyer Beehr and her hus- 
J^^y band, Wesley, recently celebrated 
their 35th wedding anniversary. He is a 
programmer for Cabot Corporation, Boston. 

Brackett H. Clark has resigned as presi- 
dent of Rapidac Machine Corporation, 
where he is chairman of the board and 
treasurer of the company. He continues to 
serve as a director of the Marine Midland 
Bank, Rochester, N.Y. 

Maynard Cohen has been named man- 
ager of Kimball Travel Center, Salem, Mass. 
He joined Kimball in 1952, most recently 
serving as office manager. The Center is 
part of a network of travel agencies op- 
erated by the Colpitts Travel Group in the 
northeastern part of the country. 

Franklin S. Huddy was married to 
Mary V. O'Neil '28 on March 13. She has 
retired as head librarian of Elmwood (R.I.) 
Library. They are living at 53 Brookwood 
Road, Cranston, R.I. 

Helen A. Mowry, retired biology pro- 
fessor at Skidmore College, and an usher 
almost nightly at the Saratoga Springs 
(N.Y.) Performing Arts Center, was recently 
honored by her fellow ushers, dancers of 
the New York City Ballet, and members of 
the ballet orchestra on her 75th birthday. 

Dr. J. Saunders Redding is professor 
of American Studies and Humane Letters 
at Cornell. He has served for ten years on 
the editorial board of American Scholar 
and twice has received a Guggenheim Fel- 
lowship. 

Philip H. Van Gelder has been serving 
as international representative of the In- 
ternational Association of Machinists, AFL- 
CIO. After 18 years on the job, chiefly in 
Baltimore, he expects to retire next year. 
He's now chairman of the Health Mainte- 
nance Committee, Inc., a coalition of or- 
ganizations in the health field. The group 
was recently awarded a $250,000 federal 
grant for planning of a new pre-paid group 
practice health care system in Baltimore. 



^ rt William J. Mack is head of the 
iu7 English department of the Ken- 
nedy High School in Waterbury, Conn. 

A. Wilson Whitman, a Latin instructor 
at B.M.C. Durfee High School in Fall 
River, Mass., has retired. He expects to 
work part-time in his wife's travel agency. 
Travel Inc. of Newport. 

^f\ Carroll H. Rickard has been named 
»^\J head of a new division of Creamer, 
Trowbridge, Case & Basford, Inc., Provi- 
dence. The firm will specialize in market- 
ing studies. 

^»* Edith Kenny Dias and her hus- 
^JL band. Earl, have returned from 
Europe where they attended some of the 
world's outstanding musical and dramatic 
productions. She retired in June from her 
position as Latin teacher at Fairhaven 
(Mass.) High School. Her husband is music 
and drama critic and columnist for the 
Standard-Times of New Bedford, Mass. 

Arthur L. Gaskill, formerly New Eng- 
land representative for NBC newsfilm, has 
retired from the National Broadcasting 
Company. 

^ ^ Patrick J. James, chairman of Man- 
tj mU sett Corporation's investment com- 
mittee since last November, has been 
elected a director of the Rhode Island in- 
vestment firm. He is a former treasurer of 
Brown and a former vice-president and 
senior investment consultant for Chase 
Manhattan Bank. 

H. William Koster has been promoted 
to director of broadcasting and CATV of 
WEAN, Providence. His responsibilities 
now include general supervision of Journal- 
Bulletin radio stations WEAN and WPJB- 
FM and of Colony Communications Inc., a 
wholly-owned subsidiary of the Journal 
Company with interests in several CATV 
companies. 

Charles B. Krebs is office manager of 
National Employers Counsel, Inc., Los An- 
geles. 

^ ^ Jennie Curtis Fish, chief of social 
J J service for the screening unit of 
the Rhode Island Institute of Mental 
Health, has been interviewed by the Provi- 
dence Journal-Bulletin on the long-term 
effects on individuals of psychiatric hos- 
pitalization. 

Bella Skolnik Krovitz is active as a 
social worker, presently pursuing the up- 
grading of housing standards for elderly 
citizens in Quincy, Mass. 

Lillian Kelman Potter has appealed 
through the "letters to the editor" page in 
Saturday Revieiu to readers who are rela- 
tives and friends of victims of assassination 
to join her in a grass-roots movement for 
tighter control of the sale of hand-guns. 

/* M Maurice L. Clemence has been 
^'Jt elected chairman of the board of 
trustees of Wheaton College. He has been a 
Wheaton trustee since 1958 and has served 
as treasurer since 1963. He is vice-presi- 
dent, treasurer, and director of the Kendall 
Company, Boston. 

Richard Hapgood, representing the 



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Mexico City Navy League Council, recently 
attended the 69th annual National Navy 
League Convention in San Diego. He re- 
ports that H. L. "Bucky" Harris is also a 
member of the Mexico City Council. 

James L. Knight, newspaper executive, 
has given $3 million to the University of 
Miami for a center for continuing educa- 
tion. The grant, which came through the 
James L. Knight Charitable Trust, makes it 
possible for more than 100 continuing edu- 
cation projects to come under one roof in 
a new building to be erected on the Univer- 
sity of Miami campus in Coral Gables. The 
James L. Knight Center for Continuing 
Education will include conference rooms, a 
600-seat auditorium, seminar rooms, and 
television studios. 

Carl E. Mau, publisher and radio com- 
mentator, is president of the Mau Publish- 
ing Co., Media, Pa. 

Richard A. Musson is a field audit 
manager with Travelers Insurance Co., 
Seattle, Wash. 

^ g" Richard M. Beers has been ap- 
^y ^ pointed vice-president of market- 
ing with Stone Conveyor, Inc., Honeoye, 
N.Y. 

The Rev. John S. Cuthbert continues 
as rector of St. Peter's Episcopal Church in 
Ashtabula, Ohio. 

Joseph Cyckevic, Jr., has been cited 
for "outstanding leadership" in initiating 
training programs for women workers at 
Fort Lee, Va. Joe, who is deputy comptrol- 
ler for Fort Lee, has been awarded a De- 
partment of the Army certificate of com- 
mendation for his distinguished service in 
the field of equal employment opportunity. 

Richard Erstein is working in Washing- 
ton, D.C., as deputy chief of research with 
the U.S. Information Agency. 

Frank S. Read has been elected to the 
Lake Forest College board of trustees. He is 
president of the First National Bank of 
Lake Forest and the Lake Forest National 
Bank, as well as a director of the First 
National Bank of Lake Bluff. Frank has 
been chairman of the City of Lake Forest 
planning commission for the p- t 16 years. 

^ /I Theodore Bedrick has b.tn ap- 
^yi^ pointed registrar and proressor of 
Latin at Wabash College. 

^^f Philip Shaulson has joined L. A. 

^ J Mathey, Diamond, Douglas & Co., 
Providence, as a registered representative. 

Thomas J. Watson, Jr., has stepped 
down as chairman and chief executive 
officer of IBM Corporation and has become 
chairman of its executive committee. 

^ rt Dr. Samuel H. Rubin is associate 
^O dean of New York Medical Col- 
lege and director of medical education. He 
plans to continue his clinical teaching there 
as professor of medicine. 

William K. White, Jr., is sales manager 
at Grinnell Corporation in Wrightsville, Pa. 

^ ^% Thomas B. Peckham has been 
^^^ promoted to underwriting officer 

at the Allendale Mutual Insurance Co., 

Providence. 



Arthur Staff: Back in the gym 
again- the Arthur Staff Gym 



Arthur Staff '11, one of the most suc- 
cessful high school basketball coaches 
in Massachusetts history, was back in the 
gym again last winter. But this time the 
gym had superb lighting, a floating floor, 
2,500 seats — and was named in his honor. 

The gym is in the new $19 million 
Brockton High School, where Arthur Staff 
is still remembered as the father of Brock- 
ton basketball. In a career that spanned 38 
years, his teams posted a 466-179 record 
on the court. And in 1965 when Massachu- 
setts established an Athletic Hall of Fame 
for basketball coaches. Staff was the first 
man honored. 

"Brockton High didn't have a basket- 
ball team when I arrived in the fall of 
1913," Staff says. "I was convinced of the 
future of the game, but the headmaster was 
not. Finally I won him over to my side, 
and we had a 9-4 record that first year." 

That was the start of a career that in- 
cluded three Massachusetts Tech Tourna- 
ment crowns, two New England champion- 
ships, and a consolation championship in 
the Nationals. 

The 1929 team was Staff's finest. After 
winning 23 straight, Brockton beat Arling- 
ton, 28-21, for the state title, a far cry 
from the race-horse scores seen in basket- 
ball today. That's the team that went to 
the Nationals in Chicago, where it was up- 
set by Granite High of Salt Lake City, 
Utah, by three points. However, Brockton 
went on to capture the next five games and 
take the consolation title, ending the sea- 
son with a 29-1 record. 

Henry McCarthy, director of the Mas- 
sachusetts Tech Tourney, met Staff 45 years 
ago. The first meeting was slightly stormy, 
but the two men eventually became close 
friends. 

"Art's Brockton team was playing Mai- 
den in the 1926 Tourney," McCarthy re- 
calls. "The game was scheduled for the old 
MIT hangar, and Art was upset because 
the sunlight was coming in one of the 
windows right in the eyes of his players. 
He wouldn't let his team take the floor until 
I sent out for wrapping paper to cover the 
windows. 

"Of course. Art was right. He's always 
been a quiet gentleman, one who got the 
message across to his players without much 
noise or fuss. And he's no different today — 
still a gentleman. His long association with 
basketball is one of the bright chapters in 
New England school sports annals." 

Staff was prominent in football and 
baseball at Brockton High, where he grad- 
uated in 1905. He spent two years at Wil- 



liston Academy, starring in football, bas- 
ketball, and serving as captain of the base- 
ball team. While on College Hill he played 
football for Coaches Daff Gammons and 
Edward North Robinson, was a center on 
the basketball team, and was a pitcher-out- 
fielder during the baseball season. 

After graduation. Staff coached at 
Quincy High for a year. One day his bas- 
ketball team defeated Worcester High, 115-0. 
"Worcester wasn't too strong," he says. 
"They started slowly that day and then 
gradually tapered off." Staff handled bas- 
ketball and baseball one year at Williston 
before returning to Brockton High, where 
he coached baseball, organized basketball, 
had a hand in soccer, and worked with the 
freshman football squad. 

In addition to being a fine coach (he 
had a baseball record of 204-82), Staff was 
an ambassador of good will for Brown at 
Brockton High. Among the athletes he sent 
to Brown were two of the 1926 Iron Men, 
Orland Smith '27 and Roy Randall '28, who 
played for his 1922 New England champion- 
ship basketball team. Other proteges were 
Howie Floren '35 and the late Adolph 
Sharkey '38, two fine basketball players, 
and the late Irving "Shine" Hall '39, one of 
Brown's finest running backs. 

Retired since 1961, Staff has lived with 
his daughter, Dorothy Dinnie, and her hus- 
band, Robert '49, in Somerset, Mass., since 
his wife died four years ago. He has two 
sons, Arthur '38 of Brockton and Dr. Rob- 
ert Staff '40 of Solvang, Calif. j.B. 




Arthur Staff: wearing a familiar cap. 



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/t f\ William ]. Amberg has been ap- 
't\J pointed secretary of Insilco Corpo- 
ration in Meriden, Conn. In his new post 
he will assume responsibility for further 
development of Insilco's corporate image 
in the financial and investment community. 

James M. Carmark has joined the 
staff of the Marshfield (Mass.) office of 
Marden Realty, Inc. He formerly was asso- 
ciated with Walter Hall Agency. 

Donald A. Jones has been promoted to 
vice-president of the Allendale Mutual In- 
surance Co., Providence, and will also con- 
tinue as company controller. 

The Rev. Daniel Partridge has accepted 
a pastorate in the United Methodist Church 
in Springfield, Mass. 

jt »* Dr. Gilbert S. Panson has been 
■Jti named acting dean of Rutgers Uni- 
versity's Newark College of Arts and Sci- 
ences. He has been a member of the NCAS 
faculty for 26 years and is now chairman 
of the chemistry department at the univer- 
sity's Newark campus. 

A ^ Mary Lewis Chapman is a staff 
4^ nurse on the EENT unit of Wash- 
ington Hospital Center, Washington, D.C. 

Dr. Jonas Robitscher has been ap- 
pointed Henry R. Luce Professor at Emory 
University, the first occupant of the newly- 
created chair. A rare combination of lawyer 
and psychiatrist. Dr. Robitscher combines 
teaching at the University of Pennsylvania 
Medical School and at Villanova University 
School of Law with his private practice of 
psychiatry in Bryn Mawr, Pa. He will as- 
sume the new chair in July. 

/• ^ Dr. Richard P. Gosselin is a pro- 
^t w fessor of mathematics at the Uni- 
versity of Connecticut. 

Dr. June Moss Handler has been named 
chairman of the department of early child- 
hood at Newark State College. She has 
been on the faculty since 1965 and is the 
author of An Attempt to Change Kinder- 
garten Children's Attitude of Prejudice To- 
wards the Negro. 

Thomas F. Hefner has been promoted 
to assistant vice-president of the Allendale 
Mutual Insurance Co., Providence. 

jt M Donald W. Baker is spending a 
■jt"t sabbatical year at Bass River, 
Mass., and in London and other British 
and continental cities. In 1972, he plans to 
return to Wabash College as professor of 
English. 

Edward M. Dolbashian, Portsmouth at- 
torney, has been elected to the corporation 
of the Savings Bank of Newport. 

Dorothea G. MacFarlane was married 
to Arthur W. Blackman, Jr., on Oct. 3, 
1970. She is employed by the State of 
Rhode Island as a social caseworker. 

Stanley E. Snyder is working in Pitts- 
burgh as administrator of Western Restora- 
tion Center, a social agency handling eval- 
uation, social and health restoration, and 
placement in appropriate living arrange- 
ments of elderly and chronically ill people. 

David M. Tracy has been appointed 
president of the Fieldcrest Division of Field- 



crest Mills, Inc., New York. He began his 
career with Fieldcrest in 1948. 

M P" Charles D. Burpee has retired from 
■Jt^ A. C. Lawrence Leather Company 
in Peabody, Mass., and moved to Fort Lau- 
derdale, Fla., where he will be a sales man- 
ager for Striker Aluminum Yachts. 

Edward W. Holmes has been promoted 
to Class 2 in the Foreign Service. He re- 
ceived his master's degree from Fletcher 
School of Law and Diplomacy in 1946, the 
same year he entered the Foreign Service. 
He currently is Consul General in Durban, 
South Africa. 

/I /^ Henry D. Epstein, an assistant 
^Xl3 vice-president of Texas Instru- 
ments, Inc., Attleboro, Mass., has been 
named manager of the control products di- 
vision with responsibility for TI's electri- 
cal controls business in the United States. 

James Hines has been appointed dis- 
trict superintendent in the First Supervisory 
District of Suffolk County, Catskill, N.Y., 
and executive officer of the Board of Coop- 
erative Educational Services. 

Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas S. Velles of 
New London, Conn., have announced the 
birth of their third child and second daugh- 
ter. Flora Anne, on June 11. 

A ^ Dr. John K. Bare (GS), professor 
"t / of psychology at Carleton College, 
has been honored by the American Psy- 
chological Association at its annual meet- 
ing in Washington, D.C. He was named 
president-elect of the Association's Division 
of the Teaching of Psychology and is 
serving a one-year term through September 
of 1972. 

Albert R. Dow was married to Terry 
A. Eagles of Louisville, Ky., on June 10. 

R. Clinton Fuller has been appointed 
head of the department of biochemistry at 
the University of Massachusetts. 

Robert C. Hayes has been appointed 
assistant division manager-marketing of the 
Industrial Piping Division at Grinnell Cor- 
poration, Providence. He will be responsible 
for sales and estimating functions. 

Robert Irving reports a good year. He 
is employed in the aerospace industry with 
the Hughes Aircraft Company. A patent 
which had been pending for nearly five years 
was granted. He was awarded a certificate 
by the National Contract Management 
Association as the outstanding graduate 
for 1970 in the UCLA extension program 
in professional designation for govern- 
ment contract management, and he was 
elected a fellow in the American Associa- 
tion for the Advancement of Science. Bob 
is attending San Fernando Valley State 
College, working toward a master's degree 
in business administration. 

Frances Sherman Jencks is doing med- 
ical research at the West Virginia Univer- 
sity Medical Center, Morgantown. She and 
her husband have two children, Leroy, 13, 
and Jonathan, 11. 

Jt Q Carolyn Biggs Betz is a reading 
"to consultant at the Mary C. Wheeler 
School, Providence. 

Maury R. Brown has been named ex- 



ecutive vice-president of operations of the 
Colonial Board Co., a subsidiary of Lydall, 
Inc., Manchester, Conn. Maury is a director 
of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce. 

Russell C. Holt, vice-president of Met- 
calf & Eddy, Inc., of Boston, has been grad- 
uated from the advanced management pro- 
gram of the Harvard Graduate School of 
Business Administration. 

Lotte van Geldern Povar is a travel 
consultant with Colpitts-T. W. Rounds, 
Providence. 

/% O Raymond R. Cross has been ap- 
Tt37 pointed a special justice of the 
Hampshire District Court in Northampton, 
Mass. An attorney, he is also a professor 
of municipal law at Western New England 
Law School at Springfield, Mass. 

Frank W. Green has been elected presi- 
dent and chief operating officer of Lanvin- 
Charles of the Ritz, Inc., New York City. 
He had served for almost 20 years with 
Fieldcrest Mills, Inc., where he rose from 
sales representative to president and chief 
operating officer. His appointment was an- 
nounced by a fellow Brown man, Richard 
Salomon '32, chairman, president, and 
chief executive officer of the fragrance and 
cosmetic company. 

Charles L. Ill has been named Assist- 
ant Secretary of the Navy for installations 
and logistics. For the last two years he has 
been special assistant to the Secretary of 
the Navy, working on ship building and 
environmental control problems. 

Joseph T. Mullen has been elected a 
vice-president of the Providence investment 
firm of Hoppin, Watson Inc. He had been 
a municipal securities officer at Industrial 
National Bank. 

Sherwood W. Northrop has been pro- 
moted to underwriting officer at Allendale 
Mutual Insurance Co., Providence. 

jj"^^ Charles R. Bragg has been pro- 
^\J moted to vice-president of public 
affairs with Northeast Utilities Service Co., 
Wethersfleld, Conn. He will be responsible 
for directing the advertising, employee in- 
formation, and public relations programs 
for the firm. 

Lt. Col. George Chapin has relin- 
quished command of the 34th Medical Bat- 
talion and assumed his current assignment 
as director of personnel at Martin Army 
Hospital, Fort Benning, Ga. He recently 
served as evaluator of the 324th General 
Hospital, U.S. Army Reserve, in Miami, 
Fla. "A very fine organization," Chapin 
says, "commanded by a very fine physician, 
officer, and Brunonian, Col. Chauncey M. 
Stone, M.D., '38. We learned about our 
Brown connection while kidding ourselves 
about our Yankee accents at a get-ac- 
quainted affair." 

Robert C. Herklots, CLU, has been 
elected president of Berkshire Equity Sales, 
Inc., wholly owned subsidiary for market- 
ing mutual funds of Berkshire Life Insur- 
ance Co., Pittsfield, Mass. He has also 
been elected a director of the film. 

Dr. Thomas W. Hutton is senior re- 
search chemist for Rohm & Haas Co., Inc., 
Spring House, Pa. 

Fred Kozak, a Division I football offi- 



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cial for the ECAC, served as field judge 
for the Harvard-Holy Cross game at the 
Stadium Sept. 25 and followed that by 
working the Yale-Colgate game in the Bowl 
a week later. One of his colleagues at Har- 
vard Stadium was Ron Abdow '54, who 
served as umpire. Kozak had a 1950 reun- 
ion at King Point during the summer, 
meeting George Paterno, who is head foot- 
ball coach there, and Marty Gresh, a for- 
mer teammate he hadn't seen in 20 years. 

Denton S. Layman is vice-president of 
Candeub Fleissig & Associates, a nation- 
wide consulting firm in the field of urban 
planning. 

Dr. Paul Lipsitt was married to Brooke 
Kruger '63 on Jan. 1, 1971. 

Robert B. Lownes is located in Los 
Angeles, where he is vice-president and 
controller of Habitation Resources, Inc., a 
home furnishing firm. 

Gordon S. Macklin, Jr., is president of 
the National Association of Securities Deal- 
ers in Washington, D.C. 

Curvin J. Trone, Jr., formerly group 
vice-president for finance and consumer 
products of Allis-Chalmers, has joined 
Penn-Pacific Corporation as executive vice- 
president. 

Robert E. Vivian has been promoted to 
vice-president of Allendale Mutual Insur- 
ance Co., Providence, and will continue as 
underwriting group manager. 

A pair of classmates, Peter G. Frad- 



ley and Jim DiDomenico, are writing 
weekly columns for The Leisure section of 
the Providence Sunday Journal. Fradley's 
subject is camping and the great outdoors, 
while DiDomenico writes about chess. 

g"-* John W. Clark, CLU, has been 
^ JL named associate director in the 
policy issue department of the Massachu- 
setts Mutual Life Insurance Co., Spring- 
field, Mass. 

Jack Cooper is now vice-president of 
Interax, Inc., Philadelphia, a computer- 
based data management systems company 
handling medical records for hospitals. 

Gordon Fallow has been made man- 
ager of the Sears store in Augusta, Maine. 

G. William Filley is a partner in the 
law firm of Bishop, Barry & Filley, with 
offices in San Francisco and San Rafael, 
Calif. 

John H. Hilpman is with General Elec- 
tric Technical Services Company in Beirut, 
Lebanon. 

Adelaide Alsop Tanner and her hus- 
band are managing the Flamingo Bay land 
development company on the island of 
Great Exuma, in the southern Bahamas Out 
Islands. They live aboard a yacht and have 
"found a new life" there. 

jj" ^ William Butting is located in the 
^^■1 Baltimore-Washington area, where 
he is district manager for the Chesapeake 



sales district, lamp division, of General 
Electric Co. 

Sally Hill Cooper's son, Douglas, is a 
freshman at Brown. 

Thomas P. Dimeo has been elected a 
trustee of Old Stone Savings Bank, Provi- 
dence. 

Arky Gonzalez is covering Germany 
for Europa Magazine, doing four or five 
articles a month on leading figures in Ger- 
man business, industry, and politics. 

Russell C. Gower has established the 
real estate firm of Gower and Co., Provi- 
dence. 

Thelma Goldberg Kantorowitz's daugh- 
ter, Joann, is a freshman at Wellesley. 

Dr. Donald Manly has been appointed 
director of corporate research with Air 
Products & Chemicals, Inc., Allentown, Pa. 
He is the author of a number of technical 
papers and holds 12 patents in the fields 
of catalysis, synthetic materials, and spe- 
ciality chemicals. 

Noel L. Silverman and his wife of New 
York City have announced the birth of a 
son, Evan Mitchell, on July 9. 

jj" ^ Alan H. Bauer has been appointed 
^ ^7 general manager of the Superma- 
rine Products Co., a new division of Color- 
guard Corporation, Raritan, N.J. The firm 
is producing and distributing a new type 
of lobster trap and several products for 



Sidney Cohn: Not bound by dental tradition 



Dental tradition holds that teeth are 
held in place by short fibers extend- 
ing from the roots to just beneath the sur- 
face of the surrounding bone. Dr. Sidney A. 
Cohn GS'51, a man who isn't necessarily 
bound by tradition, has come up with a 
theory that may force dentists to reevaluate 
their methods of human dental care. 

As a result of his work with mice. Dr. 
Cohn has found that the fibers do not ter- 
minate just beneath the surface of the bony 
socket. Instead, they pass through inter- 
vening bone to the next tooth. This fact 
may indicate that the individual tooth is 
not an independent structure but, rather, a 
part of a continuous tooth-bone fiber sus- 
pension system connecting teeth throughout 
the jaw. 

Dr. Cohn's preliminary studies have 
shown that this condition is also true with 
squirrel monkeys. If his theory can be 
proven for human teeth, some very per- 
plexing problems relating to orthodontic as 
well as periodontic treatment will finally 
have some answers. 

"If my research can be applied to hu- 
mans, we all may have to do some more 
thinking on the movement of teeth," says 
Dr. Cohn, who is professor of anatomy at 
the University of Tennessee Medical Units. 

"In the field of orthodontia, for ex- 
ample, if a child is having teeth straight- 
ened, dentists know they sometimes have 



to over-compensate for some corrective 
processes because after the braces are re- 
moved the teeth tend to partially return 
to their original positions. 

"Orthodontists do not know exactly 
why this happens. The new theory explains 
it. If the teeth are interconnected, the 
braces would twist the teeth and these con- 
necting fibers. When the braces are re- 
moved, the taut fibers would try to move 
the teeth back to their original positions." 

According to Dr. Cohn, his theory may 
also be of major significance in the treat- 
ment of certain diseases of the gums, dis- 
eases which can cause healthy teeth to 
loosen and eventually drop out of their 
sockets. 

His preliminary findings have been 
presented to the faculty of the University 
of Tennessee College of Dentistry and the 
International Association for Dental Re- 
search. Further supportive evidence will be 
needed by these groups. 

Dr. Cohn first began developing his 
theory three years ago while attempting to 
learn why a tooth will loosen and some- 
times drop out of its socket when the op- 
posing tooth is removed. 

A graduate of the University of Con- 
necticut with a B.S. in 1940 and M.S. in 
1948, Dr. Cohn earned his Ph.D. from 
Brown in the field of biology. J.B. 




Dr. Cohn in his Tennessee laboratory. 



43 



pleasure boating, including a compass-bear- 
ing binocular. 

Bruce C. Blage is the new office man- 
ager for Merrill Pierce, Fenner & Smith, 
Inc., Corpus Christi, Texas. He had been 
ser\ing as an account executive for the 
stock brokerage tlrm in Dallas. 

Lawrence \V. Lundgren, professor of 
geological sciences at the University of 
Rochester, has been appointed chairman of 
the department. 

Charles W. Merriam, III, former pro- 
fessor of electrical engineering at Cornell, 
has become professor and chairman of the 
department of electrical engineering at the 
University of Rochester. 

Ann Peterson was married to Bernard 
Zablocki on Aug. 28. She is a teacher at 
St. Hilda's and St. Hugh's Academy in 
Jamaica, N.V. 

John A. Sisto, a vice-president of Ir- 
ving Trust Company, New York, has been 
chosen to head the bank's new subsidiary, 
the Irving Interamerican Bank in Miami. 
The new foreign banking corporation will 
provide financing, foreign exchange, ex- 
port-import assistance, and other interna- 
tional banking services. 

g /I Dr. Gordon S. Bigelow has been 
^ "Jt appointed vice-president for stu- 
dent affairs at the University of Maine. He 
will be responsible for student placement, 
housing, counseling, financial aid, and other 
areas directly related to student life. 

John J. Henningson has been promoted 
to the rank of commander in the U.S. 
Naval Reserve. He's serving as command- 
ing officer of Surface Division 131 in 
Worcester, Mass. John works as division 
personnel manager at the Massachusetts 
Electric Company and New England Power 
Company. 

Robert I. Kramer is associate professor 
of pediatrics at the University of Texas- 
Southwestern Medical School, in addition to 
his private practice. He is president of the 
medical staff at Dallas Children's Medical 
Center, retired chief of pediatrics at St. 
Paul's Hospital, and president of the Brown 
Club of Dallas. 

Barry Alan Richmond is directeur- 
general of the Theatre du Grand Guignol 
de Paris, the premier national theater of 
Montmartre and one of the six most famous 
theatres in the world. Barry joined the The- 
atre in 1961 and became its head three 
years later. Trained as a biologist at Brown, 
Barry studied theater while teaching biology 
at Brandeis and at Columbia, where he 
also studied architecture. 

Geoffrey W. Riker recently married 
Jennie W. Evans of Laguna Beach, Calif. 

Robert P. Watelet joined Orange Hunt 
Co., Orange, Mass., as chief engineer of 
the textile machine division. 

gj gj Carol Orkin Agate has entered the 
^ ^ University of Connecticut Law 
School. 

Harris J. Amhowitz is general counsel 
to Lybrand, Ross Bros. & Montgomery in 
New York City, one of the largest account- 
ing firms in the world. 

Norman M. Bouton has been promoted 
to Class 4 in the Foreign Service. A mem- 



ber of the Foreign Service for nine years, 
he has been stationed in Washington, D.C., 
Brazil, and Italy. He's presently assigned to 
the American Embassy in Nicosia, Cyprus, 
as an economic-commercial officer. 

Richard M. Beers has been appointed 
vice-president for marketing of Stone Con- 
veyor, Inc., Honeoye, N.Y. 

Judith Jackson Carroll and her hus- 
band, Richard, have announced the birth 
of their fifth child and second son, Stephen 
Glenn, on March 12. 

Howard S. Collins (GS), a missionary 
teacher for nine years, is with the Episco- 
pal Church in Manila, Philippines. Five of 
those years were spent in Africa. 

Stuart Erwin, Jr., was married to tele- 
vision and movie actress Julie Sommars on 
Sept. 17. The ceremony was held on a sea- 
borne chapel off the Southern California 
coast. He is a Universal TV executive, 
and son of the late Stuart Erwin of motion 
picture fame. 

Judith Karelitz's sculpture, which is 
being made in a limited edition, will be 
sold at the Museum of Modern Art, The 
Richard Feigen Graphics Gallery in New 
York, and the Museum of Contemporary 
Art in Chicago. The work is called the 
Karelitz Kaleidoscope and is made com- 
pletely of plexiglas. 

Stanley Kroll was married to Jarrett S. 
Parker of Indianapolis, Ind., on Sept. 11. 

Martin A. Schwalberg is now associ- 
ated with National Cup Company in Dover, 
Pa. 

Charles O. Swanson (GS) is affiliated 
with Lowell (Mass.) Gas Company as as- 
sistant to the president. 

Dr. Mack E. Thompson has been 
named dean of the division of undergradu- 
ate studies at the University of California, 
Riverside. Prior to joining the University 
of California, Dr. Thompson was a faculty 
member at Brown and California Institute 
of Technology. 

jj" /^ Donald M. Crann has been named 
^^7 manager of marine planning in the 
transportation planning unit of Mobil Oil 
Corporation. He has been with Mobil seven 
years, including a two-year assignment as 
the firm's German affiliate in Hamburg. 

James DeMund of Dow cSc Co., Hart- 
ford, has passed a written examination to 
qualify for membership in the Society of 
Industrial Realtors. 

John C. Donaldson, Jr., has been named 
manager of the Buick Motor Division's 
Buffalo zone, with headquarters in Wil- 
liamsville, N.Y. 

Dwight M. Doolan has been appointed 
first vice-president and voting stockholder 
of Shearson, Hammill & Co., Inc., New 
York, a nationwide securities brokerage and 
investment banking concern. 

J. Kenneth Colder has been promoted 
to auditor on the comptroller's staff of 
the Prudential Insurance Company's west- 
ern regional home office in Los Angeles. 
He had been a senior expense analyst in 
the corporate home office in Newark. 

Bernard Iser has been appointed act- 
ing business manager of Queens College 
of the City University of New York. 

Carl E. Krumpe, Jr. (GS), a member of 



the Phillips Academy faculty since 1960, 
has been appointed chairman of the classics 
department there. 

Dan Morrissey is on the staff of the 
assistant commissioner for planning and 
evaluation in the United States Office of 
Education. He is one of five members of the 
department handling higher educational 
planning and evaluation at the Washington, 
D.C., office. 

Peter S. Philippi has been named vice- 
president and general manager of Magna- 
vox Systems, Inc., Fort Wayne, Ind. He has 
been with the firm since April. 

William S. Romano has been appointed 
a research and development officer of Ma- 
rine Midland Bank of New York, where he 
has been assigned to the research and de- 
velopment section of the operations de- 
partment. 

Carl H. Seligson, an investment banker, 
is vice-president of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, 
Fenner & Smith, Inc., in its New York 
office. 

Richard A. Shanley has been ap- 
pointed manager of the Canaan, Conn., 
business office of Southern New England 
Telephone. 

Gary H. Stahl (GS) has been appointed 
chairman of the department of philosophy 
at The University of Colorado. 

fZ^ Richard C. Barker has joined Cap- 
^ J ital Guardian Trust Company as a 
vice-president and portfolio manager, with 
offices in Los Angeles. 

Arthur Bartlett has been promoted to 
editor-in-chief of W. A. Benjamin Publish- 
ing Co., a recent acquisition of Addison- 
Wesley Publishing Co., for whom he 
worked the last seven years as executive 
editor of the science department. He's now 
living in Portola Valley, Calif. 

Robert A. Bird has been named gen- 
eral manager of the new K-Mart discount 
department store in the Randolph Turnpike 
Plaza in New Jersey. The K-Mart division 
is part of the S. S. Kresge Co. 

Dr. Rosemary Carroll has joined the 
history department of Coe College in Cedar 
Rapids, Iowa, as an assistant professor. She 
had been visiting professor at Denison 
University for the past year, and previously 
was an assistant professor at Notre Dame 
College. 

Steve Cutler and his wife announce the 
birth of their third child and second daugh- 
ter, Nancy Lynn, on Aug. 3, 1970. 

The Rev. William R. Fortner has been 
named a member of the New Jersey Devel- 
opmental Disabilities Council by Governor 
William T. Cahill. Bill is a member of the 
executive committee of the national board 
of the United Cerebral Palsy Association 
and is first vice-president of the New Jer- 
sey UCPA. 

Charles Hill has been promoted to 
Class 4 in the Foreign Service. He holds 
both a master's and J.D. degree from the 
University of Pennsylvania. He is presently 
assigned to the American Embassy in Sai- 
gon, South Vietnam. 

Dr. Fred Humeston is a pediatrician in 
private practice in Hayward, Calif. He and 
Mrs. Hayward announce the birth of a 
daughter on May 26, 1970, thus making 



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two boys and two girls in the family. Fred 
has been working regionally in the Pro- 
gram for the Seventies. 

John S. Newhouse, Jr., is chairman of 
the board of Koehler Surgical Instrument 
Co., St. Louis, Mo. 

Bruce Rideout has moved into "God's 
country" in Paris Hill, Maine, where he is 
working for H. O. Cornwall Co., a gift store 
featuring wood products. 

John J. Roe, III, is the tenth president 
of the Bellport (L.I.) Rotary Club, serving 
from July 1, 1971 to June 30, 1972. He spent 
three weeks in Australia last spring. 

Stephen Twaddell has been named 
vice-president of corporate systems for 
Blue Cross and Blue Shield with offices in 
Concord, N.H. 

Elizabeth Alexander Walters has or- 
ganized the "Backroad Baroque," a chamber 
group which presents programs for schools, 
nursing homes, and other groups. She plays 
cello, viola, and keyboard. Her daughter 
Holly, 15, plays violin with the group and 
also was one of five young soloists with the 
Vermont Youth Orchestra this past spring. 

JJ Q David W. Clough has been named 
O w general sales manager for the 
Newport Harbor Treadway Inn and Blue 
Porpoise Tavern, which opened in New- 
port (R.I.) in June. 

Charles C. Eden was married to Anne 
Thielens of Litchfield, Conn., on Nov. 7, 
1970. At home: 1507 W. Flournoy St., Chi- 
cago. 

Paul H. Johnson has joined the Con- 
necticut Savings Bank, located in New Ha- 
ven, Conn., as executive vice-president. He 
joined Connecticut Savings after ten years 
at the First New Haven National Bank, 
where he most recently served as a vice- 
president and secretary- 
Thomas Jones is assistant director of 
marketing services for Argus Research, a 
securities research firm. He and his wife 
Elaine reside in Ridgewood, N.J., with their 
three children — Julie, 11, Mike, 8, and 
Ken, 5. 

Lauren L. McMaster, III, and his wife, 
Joan Hoost McMaster '60, have announced 
the birth of their third child and first son, 
Gregory Allen, on Aug. 17. 

King Patterson, local sales manager 
in Detroit for Kaiser Broadcasting, has 
been promoted to general sales manager. 

Frank E. Schueler has been named 
president of the Melrose (Mass.) Free Press, 
Inc., a printing and newspaper publishing 
firm. 

Radley D. Sheldrick and his wife of 
Westborough, Mass., have announced the 
birth of a son, Radley Christopher, on 
June 18. 

Dr. Emil Soucar is the new school psy- 
chologist for the Chesterfield Township 
School District in New Jersey. Dr. Soucar, 
who is an assistant professor of educa- 
tional psychology at Temple University, 
will be handling the school job on a part- 
time basis. 

Ann Thorndike is serving as secretary 
of the Providence Society, Archaeological 
Institute of America. She writes that the 
January issue of Archaeology contained a 
reference to classmate Martha Sharp Jou- 



kowsky, who has been credited with count- 
ing and tabulating according to type the 
pottery fragments found in a bedrock in a 
field of Sarafand, Lebanon. 

Charles H. Turner is Assistant United 
States Attorney with the Department of 
Justice, Washington, D.C., on a one-year 
assignment. He is one of two assistant 
U.S. attorneys from Oregon who are part 
of an eight-man task force studying pro- 
posed revision of the federal criminal code 
for the Department of Justice. 

Rufus S. Wilson, Jr., and his wife of 
Weston, Mass., have announced the birth 
of their first child, a daughter. Amy Pres- 
cott, on Sept. 21. 

C ^) Wallis H. Darnley has accepted 
^7^7 the principalship of the Taft 
School in Uxbridge, Mass. For the past 
twelve years he had been principal of the 
elementary schools in Charlton, Mass. 

Mark Donohue brought American Mo- 
tors Corporation its first auto racing cham- 
pionship this fall when he won the Wolv- 
erine Trans-Am at Michigan International 
Speedway in a Roger Penske Javelin AMC. 
Along with several other sporting figures, 
Mark was the guest of President Nixon at 
the White House this fall. 

Eugene Kay is serving as president of 
the Denver (Colo.) Jaycees and is on the 
board of governors of the Metro Denver 
Urban Coalition. He is president of Tab 
Products of Colorado, manufacturers repre- 
sentatives in records management, and of 
Tab Records Detention Center. 

David Nadell has been appointed an 
assistant professor of business administra- 
tion in the School of Professional Arts and 
Sciences at Montclair (N.J.) State College. 

Stanley T. Plumer, Jr., has received a 
second graduate degree in counselor educa- 
tion and has accepted a position as high 
school counselor in Las Cruces, N.M. 

William P. Suter is vice-president and 
director of Sanford C. Bernstein Co., New 
York City. 

/lf\ Joseph A. Amato has been pro- 
f7\y moted to full professor at the 
State University of New York Agricultural 
and Technical College at Alfred. 

Richard A. Ananian was married to 
Roberta Gauthier of Amesbury, Mass., on 
Aug. 29. 

Jean Chase was married to Jeremiah J. 
McCarthy of Natick, Mass., on June 26. 
She is teaching at Dana Hall School in 
Wellesley, Mass. 

Paul J. Choquette, Jr., has been elected 
a vice-president of the Gilbane Building 
Co., Providence. He has been general coun- 
sel for the company since mid-1969 after an 
earlier association with Edwards & Angell. 

Tomas Feininger (GS), after completing 
a year's post-doctoral fellowship at the 
Department of Mineral Sciences, Smith- 
sonian Institute, has moved to Ecuador, 
where he is currently chairman of the de- 
partment of geology, mines, and petroleum 
of the Escuela Politecnica Nacional, Quito. 

Virginia Perrotti Foley for the past 
two years has been circulation assistant at 
the Providence College library. Her hus- 
band, William, received his doctorate in 



engineering at Brown in June. They are 
moving to Columbus, Ohio, where Bill has 
received a post-doctorate award for the 
academic year from Ohio State University. 

Richard Fox has become a senior execu- 
tive officer of Dartmouth College as direc- 
tor of development for the Tucker Founda- 
tion. The Foundation works with high 
school students from minority background 
urban ghettoes, provides out-of-class expe- 
riences for Dartmouth undergraduates, and 
trains Peace Corps candidates. 

Dr. Paul N. Gandel has begun practice 
in internal medicine and cardiology in 
Hartford, Conn. 

Will Mackenzie, who has had a big 
year in the TV commercial field, has been 
signed to star in a road company of the 
musical. Promises, Promises, which will 
have performances at Veterans Auditorium, 
Providence, Feb. 4-5. Will plays the part of 
the young business executive who tries to 
get ahead by passing his apartment key 
around to his bosses. Jack Lemmon played 
the role in the 1960 Billy Wilder movie. 
The Apartment. 

Peter S. Oberdorf has been named a 
vice-president of Iselin-Jefferson Financial 
Company, Inc., New York City, a subsidiary 
of Dan River, Inc. 

Bill Simmons is an associate professor 
of anthropology at the University of Cali- 
fornia in Berkeley. 

Carl A. Wattenberg, Jr., has joined 
with others to form the firm of Klamen, 
Summers, Wattenberg and Compton, St. 
Louis, Mo., for the general practice of law. 

/I'l Gale D. Adams is engineering 
I7JL manager with Vitro Labs, Silver 
Spring, Md. 

Dr. Gary Aspelin is senior research 
scientist in chemistry with Johnson & John- 
son, New Brunswick, N.J. 

Phebe Schade Baker is teaching Eng- 
lish at the Shawnee High School, Medford, 
N.J. 

Bruce H. Bates is working in Rhode 
Island as an account representative with 
Information Services, Inc. 

David W. Beach is assistant professor 
of music at Yale and editor of the Journal 
of Music Theory. 

Jeffrey A. Belkin is an attorney with 
the Cleveland law firm of Belkin, Belkin & 
Goldstein. 

Peter B. Clark has moved to Washing- 
ton, D.C., where he is a trial attorney in 
the division of trading and markets of the 
Securities and Exchange Commission. 

Joseph C. Crocker is marketing and 
sales manager of Twin City Monorail Co., 
Minneapolis. 

John R. Crowley is the district sales 
manager in New England (working out of 
Enfield, Conn.) for Tremco Manufacturing 
Company. 

Peter D. Dorr, a college field repre- 
sentative with Prentice-Hall, Inc., Engle- 
wood Cliffs, N.J., has 30 colleges in south- 
ern California as accounts. He's still active 
as a lieutenant-commander in the Naval 
Reserve. 

Gordon Fay is running a traffic con- 
sulting business in Winchester, Mass. 

Fred Foy is on the editorial staff of 



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Editorial Service at Dalhousie University 
in Halifax, Nova Scotia. 

Dean K. Frederick (GS) is associate 
professor in the systems engineering divi- 
sion at RPI, returning to his college post 
after a one-year leave of absence with 
Humble Oil in Linden, N.J., on an ASEE 
Ford Foundation Engineering Residency. 

Lewis L. Gould has been promoted to 
associate professor of history at the Uni- 
versity of Texas at Austin. 

Lt. Cdr. Douglas M. Hackett, Naval in- 
telligence, has received a Bronze Star for 
intelligence work in Vietnam and a Navy 
Commendation Medal for intelligence work 
on the Pueblo incident. 

Beth Burwell Harrington was married 
to William T. Griffiths of Woodbridge, 
Conn., on Aug. 19. Christine Dunlap '48 
was an attendant. At home: 45 Hillpark 
Ave., Great Neck, N.Y. She is executive 
secretary of the Brown Club of New York. 

Thomas W. Henderson is an attorney 
in Pittsburgh, associated with the law firm 
of Koegler & Henderson. 

James A. Holloway, Jr., is a staff as- 
sistant with the Pittsburgh Steel Corpora- 
tion. 

James A. Hug is a securities analyst 
with Adams & Peck in New York City. 

Stephen L. Isaacs, an attorney, has been 
serving for the past three years in Bang- 
kok as a program officer for the Agency 
for International Development. 

Thomas M. Jones (GS) has been named 
dean of admissions and registrar of Roger 
Williams College, Bristol, R.I. He has been 
on the staff since 1968, when he was ap- 
pointed director of financial aid. 

Capt. Paul Kechijian (M.D.) is chief of 
the preventive medicine division, U.S. 
Army, Fort Lee, Va. 

Steven P. Kent has been appointed a 
vice-president of William B. May Co., Inc., 
one of the oldest real estate firms in New 
York. He will serve in its investment sales 
division. 

David W. Lee, Jr., is trust officer of 
the United Bank of Arizona in Phoenix. 

John F. Lewis is regional sales man- 
ager for the northeast with Keene Cor- 
poration, St. Louis. 

Paul R. Maguire is a senior project en- 
gineer with Scott Paper Company, Philadel- 
phia. 

Dwight N. Mason is a foreign service 
officer with the Department of State, work- 
ing out of Washington, D.C. 

John A. Morose is district manager 
with Pacific Northwest Bell in Longview, 
Wash. 

Andrew P, Penz is a physicist with the 
Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Mich. 

J. Baird Pittman is marketing manager 
of the Armstrong Cork Company, Ltd., 
Middlesex, England. He's our class agent. 

Dr. Arthur Rosenberg is working for 
six months at the Spencer Eye Hospital in 
Karachi, Pakistan. He is a resident in 
ophthalmology at University Hospital of 
Cleveland. 

Jack S. Scheiffler has become a partner 
and swimming pool dealer with Summer 
Set Pools, Jackson, Mich. 

A. Courtenay Shepard has joined RJR 
Foods, Inc., as brand director for Patio 



Mexican Foods. He came to RJR Foods from 
Phillip Morris, where he had been group 
marketing director. 

William A. Slusarchyk is a research 
organic chemist with E. R. Squibb & Sons, 
New Brunswick, N.J. 

James D. Smith has been promoted to 
associate professor of oceanography and 
geophysics at the University of Washing- 
Ion. 

Arthur Solomon has been awarded a 
doctorate in economics and urban planning 
by Harvard University. He is an assistant 
professor of urban studies at MIT and a 
research associate at the Harvard-MIT 
joint center for urban studies. In addition, 
he is a staff associate at Arthur D. Little, 
Inc., international management consultant 
firm in Cambridge, Mass. 

Dr. W. Charles A. Sternbergh, Jr., is a 
neurosurgeon at Southwestern Medical 
School, Dallas, Texas. 

Frederic M. Taggart is an instructor in 
the department of economics at Cleveland 
State University. 

Richard G. Unruh, Jr., is assistant vice- 
president of sales with Kidder, Peabody & 
Co., Inc. 

Martin A. Wenick is a foreign service 
officer with the Department of State, cur- 
rently stationed at the U.S. Embassy in 
Moscow. 

/^ ^ Allan Ashman, formerly director 
17 ^U of research and special projects of 
the National Legal Aid and Defender As- 
sociation, has joined the staff of the Amer- 
ican Judicature Society as assistant director. 

Carl Bradford, a financial analyst, is a 
global credit trainee at Chase Manhattan 
Bank, New York City. 

Linda Disston was married to Robert 
B. White on July 7. 

Bradley G. Easterson has been ap- 
pointed associate systems director of Trav- 
elers Insurance Co., Hartford, Conn. 

Dr. Stephen A. Ernst is with the de- 
partment of zoology at the Temple Univer- 
sity School of Medicine in Philadelphia. 

Harold J. Frank is eastern regional 
sales manager of the film division of Dia- 
mond Shamrock Corporation, New York 
City. 

Dr. Steven Hershenow and his wife of 
Chestnut Hill, Mass., have announced the 
birth of their first child, a son, Barry Da- 
vid, on Sept. 9. Dr. Hershenow is complet- 
ing his residency in medicine at the New 
England Deaconess Hospital in Boston. 

Vincent J. Hudzikiewicz, Jr., has ac- 
cepted a position as chief mental health 
program coordinator with the Massachu- 
setts Department of Public Welfare in 
Boston. 

David C. Johnson is a credit analyst 
with American Express in its international 
banking division in New York City. 

David B. Kauffman has been named 
sales director for the new Academy House 
condominium apartment development to be 
built in Philadelphia. Dave is treasurer of 
the Brown Club of Philadelphia. 

R. Eugene Kopf has been appointed 
director of employee relations by B-I-F, 
Providence, a unit of General Signal Cor- 
poration. 



Richard G. Levy, president of Senak, 
Inc., has been named to the board of di- 
rectors for Rhode Island's newest commer- 
cial bank, the First Bank & Trust Co. 

Stephen M. Pizer is teaching computer 
science at the University of North Caro- 
lina, where he has been promoted to asso- 
ciate professor. He also has a research po- 
sition at Massachusetts General Hospital 
in Boston. During the summer he took a 
two-week trip to Austria, Italy, and Yugo- 
slavia, where he presented a paper at the 
Triennial Congress of the International 
Federation for Information Processing, the 
international computer organization. 

Z' ^ Dr. Richard S. Bakulski and his 
17^ wife have announced the birth of 
their second child and first son, David 
Richard, on Sept. 10. 

Brian Bigney is manager of the Bar- 
rington office of Rhode Island Hospital 
Trust National Bank. 

Walter E. Farnam has been promoted 
to associate actuary in the casualty and 
surety division at Aetna Life & Casualty, 
Hartford. 

Dr. Jonathan H. Fish is in his first- 
year residency in radiology at Mt. Zion 
Hospital, San Francisco. 

Dr. Michael S. Greenwood, assistant 
professor at Middlebury College, is on 
leave for the current academic year and is 
at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. 

Janice Fernald Huang and her hus- 
band of Johnson City, Tenn., have an- 
nounced the birth of a son, Steven Henry, 
on June 10. 

Richard P. Miller was married to Pa- 
trice Parrish on Aug. 21. At home: 1194 
North Green Bay Road, Lake Forest, 111. 

James M. Seed and his wife of East 
Greenwich, R.I., have announced the birth 
of their second child and first daughter, 
Ilrid Christina, on March 18. 

/I A Joseph E. Bacci was married to 
Orr Betsy T. Rutter of Marblehead, 
Mass., on Sept. 11. 

Albert E. Booth, II, is assistant vice- 
president of mergers and acquisitions for 
Checchi and Company, Washington, D.C. 
He has been involved in a multi-million-dol- 
lar investment in a foreign company, real 
estate development projects, and housing 
and franchising consulting studies. 

David M. Brodsky and his wife (Bar- 
bara Banks '64) of Brooklyn Heights, N.Y., 
have annonced the birth of their second 
child and first son, Peter Samuel, Nov. 12, 
1970. 

Michael C. Cerullo, Jr., has joined 
Flick-Reedy Corporation, Bensenville, 111., 
as corporate marketing director. 

Marc P. Chaikin is an institutional 
salesman with the brokerage firm of Hop- 
pin, Watson & Co., New York City. 

George A. Davidson is an associate 
attorney with the law firm of Hughes, Hub- 
bard & Reed, New York City. 

Judith Brenner Delman has two chil- 
dren, Michael, 4, and Deborah, 2. At the 
present time her husband is finishing sev- 
eral years of military duty. 

John M. Dutton is vice-president of 



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F. S. Moseley & Co., Boston, Mass., an 
investment banking firm. 

George M. C. Fisher (GS) has been 
promoted to head of the Speakerphone and 
Touch-Tone Department at Bell Labora- 
tories in Indianapolis, Ind. 

Alan D. Freeman has been named as- 
sociate professor of law at the University of 
Minnesota Law School. 

Bradford S. Gile, an actuarial student 
in the life actuarial department at Aetna 
Life & Casualty, has become an associate 
of the Society of Actuaries. He holds a mas- 
ter's from the University of Wisconsin. 

Carl Richard Hendrickson, with a mas- 
ter's from Rutgers in 1966, has earned his 
doctorate in psychology at Emory Univer- 
sity. 

Michel Y. Jaffrin (GS) is associate pro- 
fessor of mechanical engineering at MIT. 

Edward M. Kaminski is a systems an- 
alyst with Planning Research Corporation, 
McLean, Va. 

Edward K. Kaplan and his wife of Am- 
herst, Mass., have announced the birth of a 
son, Jeremy Joshua, on May 20. 
I Joel M. Klompus has completed two 

years with the Public Health Service in 
Seattle, Wash., and has begun his residency 
in internal medicine at Presbyterian Medi- 
I cal Center in San Francisco. 

James L. Knoll is an associate with 
Bullivant, Wright, Johnson, Pendergrass & 
Hoffman in Portland, Ore. 

Michael S. Koleda is on leave from the 



University of Pittsburgh to take part in 
the Brookings Institution Economic Policy 
Fellowship Program. During the academic 
year he will be special assistant to the 
Deputy Under Secretary at the Department 
of Health, Education and Welfare. He and 
his wife have announced the birth of their 
fourth child and third daughter, Nancy 
Powers, on July 5. 

William A. Lemire has been appointed 
sales manager for the Chembest Division of 
Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation, with 
present offices located in St. Louis. 

Dean A. Lundgren was married to Jill 
K. Johnson of Rockford, 111., on Aug. 14. 

Dr. W. James McCoy (GS) is assistant 
professor of ancient history at The Uni- 
versity of North Carolina. 

Daniel T. Rodgers left Yale graduate 
school this fall to become an instructor in 
the history department at the University of 
Wisconsin. 

Edward L. Sunderquest, III, a senior 
analyst, is a training specialist for The 
Travelers Insurance Co., Hartford, Conn. 

William A. Wilde, III, is assistant di- 
rector and divisional officer of Mutual of 
New York in New York City. 

/^ g" David L. Berube (GS) is a history 
17^ teacher at Lahser High School, 
Bloomfield Hills, Mich. 

Joseph A. Boisse (GS), a library ad- 
ministrator, is director of extension service 
for the Vermont Department of Libraries. 



Jeffrey P. Buzen received a Ph.D. de- 
gree from Harvard in June and is now a 
lecturer in computer science there and a 
systems analyst with Honeywell Informa- 
tion Systems in Billerica, Mass. 

Virginia Anicka Camp appeared re- 
cently as a member of the cast in a produc- 
tion of The Boy Friend in Naples, Fla. She 
also has appeared in the community's pro- 
ductions of Pirates of Penzance, Mary, Mary, 
and The Torchbearers. 

Charles L. Donahue, Jr., was married 
to Nancy L. Turner of Wakefield, Mass., 
Aug. 15. 

William B. Donley is working on a 
Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at 
Purdue. 

Jean Elliot Fader and her husband have 
announced the birth of a son, Walter Mc- 
Cray, on April 27. Her husband has been 
appointed executive director of the Wy- 
oming Valley chapter of the Red Cross. 

Robert P. Gallagher has been assigned 
to the Export-Import Bank, Washington, 
D.C. 

Dr. Christopher J. Hewitt (GS) is an 
assistant professor of sociology at Clark 
University. 

Daniel L. Kurtz is associated with the 
law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher 
& Flom, New York City. 

Jeffrey G. Liss was married to Patricia 
E. Allison of New Orleans, La., on June 12. 

The Rev. Bruce Pehrson has been ap- 
pointed pastor of the Whitefield (Mass.) 



Ann Leven: 'Money 
management' at the 
Metropolitan 

Ann Leven '62 majored in art at Brown 
^ and did well enough to win the Min- 
nie Helen Hicks Prize in art in 1961. But 
when it came to making a commitment to 
the life of a struggling artist, she realized 
that "I was never cut out for living on 
$2,000 a year and all the bread I could 
steal." That decision led her to enroll in 
the Harvard Business School where she re- 
ceived her M.B.A. and concurrently partici- 
pated in a course in Museum Administra- 
tion given by the graduate school. 

Miss Leven is now assistant treasurer 
of New York's Metropolitan Museum of 
Art, balancing a yearly budget of $13 mil- 
lion. She describes what she does as money 
management. "I'm involved in how the 
Museum spends money, both for operations 
and acquisitions, primarily in a planning 
sense. Traditionally," she adds, "museums 
were never very business oriented, but in 
the current economic crisis, it becomes im- 
perative." Her job is satisfying to her be- 
cause "maybe each day one person comes 



in here and learns something because we've 
figured out a way to keep the doors open." 

In 1967, Miss Leven came to the Mu- 
seum as an administrative assistant in the 
Costume Institute, with both curatorial and 
fund-raising responsibilities. A year later 
she was promoted to financial assistant to 
the vice-director for finance, and in that 
position, she authored the financial section 
of an application to the New York State 
Council on the Arts, resulting in a grant 
of $410,000. 




Ann Leven: Also working for Brown. 



Non-profit organizations are both Ann 
Leven's vocation and avocation. In her 
spare time, she raises money for the Fed- 
eration of Jewish Philanthropies and Brown's 
Campaign for the '70s. She is also on the 
board of Camp Rainbow, a camp for emo- 
tionally disturbed children. That involve- 
ment stems from her time at Pembroke 
when she taught arts and crafts at the 
Jewish Community Center. In her class 
were two children who couldn't participate 
in the usual way and she became interested 
in their problems and what could be done 
for them. 

Miss Leven is now a New Yorker of 
seven years standing and, except for the 
shortage of trees and green grass, she loves 
it. The popular image of the New York 
career girls, she explains, has little bearing 
on reality. "It isn't necessary to visit sin- 
gles bars or haunt Bloomingdale's," she 
says. "When I first moved to New York, I 
felt I should try to dress in a certain way, 
but I've long since gotten over that. Now 
I wear blue jeans a lot of the time when 
I'm not at the Museum." 

The difficulties and hazards of New 
York life that out-of-towners are so fond 
of pointing out are, to Ann Leven, a posi- 
tive challenge. All the problems, she says, 
simply bring people in New York closer to- 
gether. "It stretches your inventiveness to 
live here and I really like that. It brings 
out your pioneering spirit." j^jg 



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United Methodist Church. He previously 
worked for the Connecticut State Welfare 
Department and Child Protection Services, 
investigating reports of abused and neg- 
lected children. He was married to Karen 
5. Morris of Batavia, N.V., on Aug. 1. 

Laurence A. Read, who earned an 
M.B.A. degree from Harvard last June, is a 
corporate budget manager with The How- 
ard Johnson Company in Braintree, Mass. 

Dr. N. Burgess Record, Jr., is a second- 
year medical resident at Yale-New Haven 
Hospital. He and Mrs. Record have an- 
nounced the birth of a daughter, Deborah 
Leigh, on Aug. 6. 

Joan Samuelson was married to Arthur 
D. Snider of Tampa, Fla., on Oct. 23, 1970. 
She is a graduate student of psychology at 
the University of South Florida. 

Dr. Harvey Switzky (GS) has been ap- 
pointed to the Institution on Mental Re- 
tardation and Intellectual Development at 
the Kennedy Center at George Peabody 
College and to the department of psychol- 
ogy as a research assistant professor. 

/^ /^ Stephen VV. Armstrong has been 
OO named lead articles editor of Law 
and Policy In International Business, a law 
journal of Georgetown University Law 
Center in Washington, D.C. From 1966 to 
1969, Steve served with the Peace Corps in 
Thailand. At Georgetown he has been 
president of the Law Club and was a 
quarter-finalist in the Beaudry Cup Compe- 
tition in oral advocacy. 

Elissa Beron Arons, having finished 
her internship in pediatrics at Children's 
Hospital, Boston, is a resident in psychiatry 
at Massachusetts Mental Health Center at 
the Harvard Medical School, Boston. 

Deborah Brown was married to Dennis 
P. Fife on Aug. 1. At home: 426 Escuela, 
Apt. 1, Mountain View, Calif. 

James D. Bucci is an assistant national 
sales trainer for Hallmark Cards, Kansas 
City, Mo. 

Robert I. Eber is a law assistant to the 
Court of Yonkers, New York. 

Pasco Gasbarro, Jr., is an attorney in 
the corporate legal department of the New 
England Power Service Co., the service 
company of the New England Electric Sys- 
tem. 

Esta Shaftel Grossman is an instructor 
in biological sciences at Mount San An- 
tonio College in Walnut, Calif., while her 
husband is a post-doctoral fellow in the 
division of biology at the California Insti- 
tute of Technology. 

Earl W. Harrington, III, and his wife 
of Madison, Wis., have announced the 
birth of a daughter, Jennifer Robin, on May 
17. Both Earl and his wife received their 
master's in special education from the Uni- 
versity of Wisconsin last January. 

Dr. Robert W. Johnson is a research 
chemist with E. I. du Font de Nemours in 
Wilmington, Del. 

Lt. Herbert W. Karg, Jr., was married 
to Cheryl L. Burns of Santa Catalina Is- 
land, Calif., on June 22. 

Joseph D. Livelli (GS) was married to 
Kathleen O'Boyle of Glen Rock, N.J., on 
July 10. 

James C. Lyons, III, was married to 



Jill Morton '71 of Providence, on Aug. 28. 
Lisa Schnall Ross '71 was an attendant, and 
Robert H. Horton '72, Edward J. Cundy '68, 
and Ross W. Fenton '69 were ushers. The 
bride's father is Dr. Frank H. Horton '45. 
At home: 430 Morris Ave., Providence. 

Dr. William J. MacDonald is a medical 
intern at the Hospital of the University of 
Pennsylvania. 

Dr. Jonathan C. McMath has com- 
pleted his internship at Presbyterian Medi- 
cal Center in Denver, Colo., and begun his 
residency at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical 
Center, New York City. 

Dr. Albert Milanesi has received a 
Ph.D. degree in physiology from Rutgers 
University and is serving as an assistant 
professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University 
School of Dentistry in Teaneck, N.J. 

Ronald J. Quirk (GS) has been pro- 
moted to assistant professor of modern 
languages at Trinity College, Hartford. 

Clifford A. Rogers (GS) is assistant 
director of admissions at Tufts University. 

Bruce B. Ross, who received a Ph.D. 
degree from Princeton, has joined Geophys- 
ical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory as a re- 
search scientist in oceanography and me- 
teorology. 

Johanna Carlson Santucci and her hus- 
band have announced the birth of their sec- 
ond daughter, Patricia Anne, on April 26. 

Rodger S. Smith is a staff accountant 
with Lybrand Ross Bros. & Montgomery, 
Boston. 

Robert T. Souers, former assistant di- 
rector-trade book publicity at Prentice-Hall, 
Inc., has been appointed an account ex- 
ecutive at Ray Josephs Public Relations, 
Ltd., New York. Bob also is a freelance 
writer and publicist. 

Paul M. Tukey was married to Mari- 
anne J. Hoffman of Lawrenceville, N.J., on 
June 18. 

Bruce G. Van Voorhis is taking a 
leave of absence from the General Electric 
Company to enter the M.B.A. program at 
Columbia Graduate School of Business. He 
holds an M.S. in mechanical engineering 
from Northeastern. 

Dr. Gilbert M. Wilcox has received an 
M.D. degree from Tufts University School 
of Medicine and is interning at Cleveland 
Metropolitan Hospital, which is affiliated 
with Western Reserve School of Medicine. 

/irr Bart Alfano has received his M.D. 
13 / from Tufts and is serving his in- 
ternship at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Bos- 
ton. 

George D. Armiger is a management 
trainee with Manufacturers Hanover Trust 
Company, New York City. 

William D. Baird, Jr., and his wife of 
Chatham, N.J., have announced the birth of 
their first child, a son, William Denise, III, 
on Aug. 20. 

Albert A. Barden, III, has become cu- 
rate at Christ and Holy Trinity Episcopal 
Church in Westport, Conn. 

James T. Bartis is a graduate fellow in 
chemical physics at MIT. 

William J. Burch, Jr., teaches mathe- 
matics and science at the Georgetown 
(Mass.) High School. 

Guy C. Cartwright is doing produc- 



tion control work at William Feather Print- 
ing Co., Cleveland. 

Jim Castellan, representing Philadel- 
phia's Fairmount Boat Club, won the sen- 
ior singles event in the National Rowing 
Championships at Orchard Beach Lagoon, 
New York, last August. 

C. William Cole is located in Rhode 
Island, where he is assistant to the vice- 
president of Textron. 

Dr. Alexander Filipp, who received an 
M.D. degree from Albany Medical College, 
is serving as a rotating intern at Albany 
Medical Center Hospital and plans to start 
an ophthalmology residency at Albany 
Medical Center Hospital in 1972. 

Dr. Jackson E. Fowler, Jr., has received 
an M.D. degree from the University of 
Virginia Medical School and is interning in 
surgery at the Hospital of the University 
of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. 

R. Bruce Gillie, a graduate student at 
the University of Utah College of Medi- 
cine, expects to get a Ph.D. degree in 
anatomy by the end of the year. 

Following graduation from the Harvard 
University School of Medicine this spring, 
Robert M. Gould has begun his internship 
at University Hospital of Cleveland. 

Roland L. Guyotte, who received his 
master's from Northwestern in 1969, re- 
ceived the Faculty of the Year award given 
by the student body at the University of 
Minnesota for contributions to academic and 
campus life. Roland, who was managing 
editor of the Brown Daily Herald in 1966- 
67, is a history instructor at Minnesota. 

Jeffrey L. Heidt is serving as an associ- 
ate in the law firm of Choate, Hall & Stew- 
art, Boston. 

Lt.(j.g.) Philip A. Helgerson, SC, USNR, 
has been assigned to duty in the ASO Pur- 
chase Division at the Naval Aviation Sup- 
ply Office, Philadelphia. 

Jay A. Jacobs is product manager in 
bath fashions for Fieldcrest Mills, New 
York City. 

Charles M. Johnson was married to 
Mary A. Stahley of Allentown, Pa., Aug. 
21. At home: 4905-A Schuyler St., Phila- 
delphia. 

Carl J. Klunder is a candidate for an 
M.B.A. degree at the University of Hawaii. 

Mark B. Lefkowitz is a clinical psy- 
chology intern with the Ohio State Univer- 
sity Medical Center in Columbus. 

Matthew Medeiros has completed his 
judicial clerkship with Judge Raymond Pet- 
tine of the U.S. District Court for Rhode 
Island. As of Sept. 1 he began an associa- 
tion with the Washington, D.C, law firm 
of Covington & Burling. 

Neil I. Miller is pursuing an A.M. de- 
gree in English literature at Hebrew Uni- 
versity in Jerusalem, Israel. 

George T. Morrow, II (GS), was mar- 
ried to Joan H. Schieferstein of Somerville, 
N.J., on April 7. 

James J. Naughton, who starred in the 
revival of Long Day's Journey Irito Night 
on Broadway last season, is starting on 
film work this fall. In his recent Broadway 
appearance, Jim (co-starred with Geraldine 
Fitzgerald, Robert Ryan, and Stacy Keach) 
portrayed Edmund Tyrone, the young Eu- 
gene O'Neill in the playwright's autobio- 



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graphical work. Jim is a graduate of the 
Yale Drama School. 

Thomas C. O'Keefe, III, is engaged in 
the general practice of law in Wellesley, 
Mass. 

David Ott received his M.D. from the 
University of Michigan in June and is an 
intern at Bowman Gray School of Medicine, 
Winston-Salem, N.C. His wife, Susan 
Becker Ott '67, is a social worker at the 
Child Guidance Clinic of Forsyth County. 

Dr. Richard A. Patt, recent graduate of 
the Medical College of Wisconsin, has re- 
ceived the William H. Millman, M.D. award 
for "the student who gives promise to bring 
to the practice of medicine the high ideals 
of the award's namesake." He will serve a 
medical internship at Boston City Hospital. 

Dr. W. Steves Ring, III, is a surgical 
intern at Duke Medical Center, Durham, 
N.C. 

David A. Robinson, recently discharged 
from the U.S. Air Force, is a graduate stu- 
dent at Northeastern University. 

Scott Sanders has completed his Ph.D. 
at Cambridge University and has been ap- 
pointed assistant professor of English at 
Indiana University. 

Shawn K. Smith is a stockbroker in the 
institutional bond department of Kidder, 
Peabody &. Co., Inc., Boston. 

David R. Strawbridge has received a 
J.D. degree from Villanova University and 
is an attorney with Nissenbaum and Nis- 
senbaum in Philadelphia. 

Dr. Stephen F. Sullivan is beginning a 
rotating internship at Mount Auburn Hos- 
pital, Cambridge, Mass. 

Edward R. Van Vliet (GS) has been 
appointed an assistant professor of French 
and linguistics at Elizabethtown (Pa.) Col- 
lege. 

Raymond G. Viault is associate prod- 
uct manager for General Foods in White 
Plains, N.Y. 

Dr. C. Eric Walburgh, who received an 
M.D. degree from the State University of 
New York Upstate Medical Center, is in- 
terning at the University of Virginia Hos- 
pital in Charlottesville. 

Neal S. Weinstock received a J.D. de- 
gree from Boston College School of Law 
in 1970 and is attorney for the First Realty 
Company of Boston. 

Barbara Witten, after four years in 
the working world, has entered Penn State 
University to pursue a master's degree in 
rehabilitation counseling. 

/^ O John W. Aldrich (GS) is now an 
17 ^J assistant professor in the College 
of Engineering at Boston University. 

Victoria Aldridge was married to Alan 
R. Taylor on July 31. At home: 23305 98th 
Ave. South, Kent, Wash. She is an urban 
planner with General Services Administra- 
tion in Kent. 

David A. Barry has received an M.B.A. 
degree from Harvard Business School and 
is an associate in the corporate finance de- 
partment of Hornblower & Weeks-Hemp- 
hill, Noyes in New York City. 

Alan J. Bogdanow, a June graduate of 
the Columbia University Law School, is 
associated with the law firm of Davis Polk 



& Wardwell in New York City. 

Frederick R. Brack is a computer soft- 
ware consultant and systems engineer for 
IBM in Waltham, Mass. 

Franklin M. Cohen is a French teacher 
at Lawrence High School, Trenton, N.J. 

Ann C. Colborn was married to Daniel 
A. Herrick, III, on July 10. Deborah Col- 
born Frum '60 was matron of honor. 

William M. Corrao, Jr., is in his fourth 
year at the University of Rochester Medi- 
cal School. 

John J. Dystel has received a J.D. de- 
gree from Yale and is a law clerk for Judge 
Alfred T. Goodwin, Portland, Ore. 

Robert M. Eddy was married to Vic- 
toria M. MacLean of Barrington, R.I., on 
Sept. 4. The groom's father is William B. 
Eddy '34. At home: 51 Morton St., Waltham, 
Mass. 

Stephen Finner has been promoted to 
associate professor of sociology at the 
University of Delaware. 

Hubert E. Harber, Jr., is associate pro- 
fessor of astronomy education at West 
Chester (Pa.) State College. 

Stephen D. Jeffries is a candidate for 
a Ph.D. degree in philosophy at Cornell 
University. 

Diana Lamb was married to Charles L. 
Bain on Feb. 10. She is a systems designer 
with IBM in Ellicott City, Md. 

Janet S. McClendon has enrolled as a 
freshman in the law school of the Univer- 
sity of Texas. 

Martin J. Michel has taken a one-year 
leave of absence from his duties at the 
computer science department at the Uni- 
versity of Illinois. He and Prof. Abdries 
Van Dam of the applied math department 
at Brown will work on computer graphic 
system design projects at the Faculty of 
Mathematics, Catholic University, Nijme- 
gen, the Netherlands. 

Lt. Oswald L. Mikell, USN, is teaching 
NROTC at Savannah (Ga.) State College. 

Sgt. Arthur A. Palmunen, USA, was 
married to Karen S. Frank (GS '70) of 
Glens Falls, N.Y., on Aug. 14. C. William 
Cole '67 was an usher and Marlena Belviso 
(GS '69) was a bridesmaid. 

Lt. Richard E. Payne, USN, was mar- 
ried to Christine E. Quinton of East Green- 
wich, R.I., on Aug. 21. Todd D. Johnston 
'68 was an usher. 

Barry K. Rogstad (GS) has been pro- 
moted to principal, highest rank on the 
technical staff at PRC Systems Sciences 
Company in McLean, Va. 

Steven J. Shapiro, composer and musi- 
cian, is co-owner of Blue Sound Production 
in Brooklyn, N.Y. 

1st Lt. Charles M. Sublett, USAF, has 
completed a 13-month tour in Southeast 
Asia, where he flew 280 missions in the 
F-100. He was assigned to the 35th Tac- 
tical Fighter Wing, Phan Rang AB, Viet 
Nam. He flew a 100 back to the U.S. and is 
now stationed at Mather AFB, Calif. 

James R. Wich, who formerly served 
in the Peace Corps, is teaching ninth and 
tenth grade students at Sparrows Point 
Senior High in Baltimore County. His plans 
for the year include coaching track and 
forming a Spanish Club. 



David A. Wiener was married to Mary 
O'Connell '69 of Providence on Sept. 18. 
John C. Hall '68 was best man and Robert 
Eastman '66 was an usher. At home: 200 
R Olney St., Providence. She is a teacher 
at the Rhode Island School for the Deaf, 
and he is a sales applications engineer at 
Brown & Sharpe, Kingston, R.I. 

Ronald P. Zinno has entered his fourth 
year at the University of Pennsylvania 
Medical School. 

/%£! Bsi'tara Cooke Angenblick has re- 
^?^7 ceived a master's degree in his- 
tory and a certificate in restoration and 
preservation of historic architecture from 
Columbia University. She and her husband, 
Mark '68, are living in Washington, D.C., 
where Mark is an attorney with Shaw, Pitt- 
man, Potts and Trowbridge. 

Ann T. Brice, who received an M.S. de- 
gree in urban teaching from Simmons 
College, is a VISTA volunteer teaching in 
a rural school in Puerto Rico. 

Watt Y. Chin has been discharged from 
the Army, where he served as a preventive 
medicine specialist in Hawaii and Thailand. 
He plans to join Industrial National Bank 
of Rhode Island this fall. 

Robert C. Devaney has been appointed 
commercial assistant in New England Tele- 
phone's Manchester (N.H.) business office. 
He did graduate work at the University of 
Alberta in Canada for two years and has 
served as manager and coach of a hockey 
team in Switzerland. Bob was married to 
Elizabeth J. Martin of Concord, N.H., on 
Sept. 18. 

Richard A. Dreifuss has completed 
his tour with the Peace Corps and has re- 
turned to graduate work at Western Mich- 
igan University. 

Wendy Fishbein Drezek, who received 
a master's degree in special education from 
Southern Connecticut State, is in a pre- 
school special training program at the Uni- 
versity of Texas. 

Michael V. Elsberry, having completed 
22 months as an officer in the U.S. Navy, 
has entered Emory University School of 
Law. 

William B. Forbes is with the Peace 
Corps in Upper Volta, West Africa. He has 
helped to build schools, shown the natives 
how to use fertilizers, and helped dig about 
100 wells. 

John W. Gibson, Jr., was married to 
Lawrie E. Audrain of New Haven, Conn., 
on Aug. 28. David Gibson '70 was best 
man, and Thomas Jennings GS'67 and El- 
liot Perlman '69 were ushers. 

Richard A. Higginbotham has been 
named manager of the Washington High- 
way branch office of Industrial National 
Bank, situated in Lincoln, R.I. 

John A. Irick was among 23 Naval Re- 
serve Officer Training Corps candidates 
who participated in a goodwill and orien- 
tation cruise aboard two Japanese destroy- 
ers last summer. The midshipmen boarded 
the destroyers at a Japanese naval base 
near Tokyo, spent two days at sea enroute 
to the Japanese naval officer candidate 
school near Hiroshima, three days at the 
naval school, and then two days aboard 



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the destroyers for the return trip. 

Howard \V. Johnson was married to 
Marcia Tilton of Melrose, Mass., on Sept. 
17. 

John A. Klaffky was married to Anne 
A. Phillips '70 of Fort Hood, Texas, on 
Aug. 14. 

Thomas K. Lindsey is employed as 
an inventory management specialist in the 
Naval Aviation Supply Office, Philadelphia. 

Theodore E. Lobman, III, is a graduate 
student in the Graduate School of Business, 
Stanford University. 

Dennis C. Morrill, a member of the 
faculty of Wachusett Community College, 
recently earned a master of arts degree in 
English at Clark University. 

Julie Lyon Newton is an analyst with 
Employers Commercial Union Co., Boston, 
an insurance firm. 

Stephen P. Nugent was married to 
Mary P. Ford of Winchester, Mass., on 
Aug. 28. At home: 15 Collision Road, 
Brookline, Mass. 

Francis J. Szczepaniak, Jr., was married 
to Jean Deignan of Warwick, R.I., on Sept. 
26. James R. Deignan '66 was an usher. 
The bride's father is Edward J. Deignan '39. 

Leslie E. Twible and his wife of Bris- 
tol, Conn., have announced the birth of 
a daughter, Jennifer April, on Aug. 18. 

Lawrence J. Walker, Jr., was married 
to Margaret Chastain of Liberty, S.C., on 
March 20. Wallace Baker '69, William Kao 
'69, and William O'Connor '69 were ushers. 
Larry is an ensign in the U.S. Navy and 
is serving as a supply officer aboard the 
USS Bordelon, which is currently on a 
goodwill tour around South America. 

^ f\ Thomas Bishop was married to 
/ 1^ Carol Cutshall '73 of Portland, 
Ore., on Aug. 28. At home: 6108 Meridian 
N., Seattle, Wash. 

Frederick R. Buck was married to Bar- 
bara A. Storrier of Pittsford, N.Y., on July 
31. John Spencer '69 was an usher. 

Duane L. Cady (GS) has been named 
an assistant professor of philosophy at 
Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, 
Minn. 

Malcolm N. Carmichael was married 
to Linda J. Hayes of Barrington, R.I., on 
Aug. 27. James Silverthorn '70, Larry 
Weissman '70, and The Rev. Richard 
Crocker '69 were ushers. 

Raymond C. Clark (GS), a staff mem- 
ber at the School for International Train- 
ing since 1966, has been appointed director 
of its master of arts in teaching program 
in Brattleboro, Vt. 

Jonathan S. Klein has been appointed 
to the faculty of the Berklee College of 
Music in Boston. Since leaving Brown, he 
has pursued special studies in theory, ar- 
ranging advanced composition, saxophone, 
French horn, and piano at Berklee. This 
fall Jon is teaching a course dealing with 
the techniques of jazz-rock, a course which 
he was instrumental in developing. 

Helena Formal Lehrer and her hus- 
band, Norman, have announced the birth 
of a son, Michael Stephen, on July 6. 

Mark E. Levine has entered the Har- 
vard School of Dental Medicine. 



Kipton J. V. Lundquist was married to 
Martha P. Dugas of Minneapolis, Minn., 
oti Sept. 3. Robert G. Zapffe '70 was best 
man and Earl R. McWilliams '69 was an 
usher. 

Thomas S. Natale, Jr., has enrolled in 
the College of Medicine at the University 
of Cincinnati. 

Mark Pozefsky was married to Diane 
Shecter '71 on April 6. 

Kenneth E. Prager is working as a 
computer programmer for Grumman Data 
Systems in Bethpage, N.Y. 

Robert D. Rosenberg was married to 
Leila Novak '71 of Lincolnwood, 111., on 
Sept. 8. Patricia Lytle Rickly '71 was ma- 
tron of honor. The groom's father is How- 
ard Rosenberg '45. At home: 2074 Bronx 
Park East, Apt. 31, Bronx, N.Y. He is a 
second-year student at Columbia Dental 
School while she is teaching science at the 
Hewitt School in Manhattan and attending 
Columbia Teachers College as a half-time 
student. 

Jamie Ross was married to Mark Gus- 
tafson on Sept. 3. Ann Bromberg '70 was 
maid of honor. At home: 215 Herrick Road, 
Box 95, Newton Centre, Mass. She is work- 
ing toward a master of education degree 
at Andover Newton Theological School. 

Gardiner H, Shattuck, Jr., was married 
to Monica O'Gara '71 of Rockville Centre, 
N.Y., on Sept. 4. The groom's father is The 
Rev. Gardiner H. Shattuck, Sr. '33. 

George T. Shankland was married to 
Mary Hiley '73 in Washington, D.C., on 
June 19. Jane Littell '72 was an attendant. 
At home: 276 Fleming Road, Cincinnati, 
Ohio. 

Steve Wilbur is working with the 
Peace Corps as a cooperative advisor in 
the Marshall Islands. 

piv>« Michael A. Rubel is president of 
/ X the class, with Scott P. Howell 
serving as vice-president. Eli Hirschfeld is 
treasurer and Mrs. Helen (King) Higley is 
secretary. Her address: 17 Walnut St., New- 
port, R.I. 02840. 

Joan Schmukler Atherton has accepted 
a position as an employment interviewer 
with the Virginia Employment Commission 
in Norfolk, Va. 

Beth S. Barrett is attending the Har- 
vard School of Public Health in Boston. 

Marie Tinsley Barylick is an English 
teacher at Madison (N.J.) High School. 

Ralph J. Begleiter, well known on the 
Brown campus since he joined WBRU-FM 
in his freshman year as a reporter, news 
writer, editor, and newscaster, is attending 
the Columbia University School of Journal- 
ism. 

Kathy A. Bennett is assistant to the 
executive director of the Geo-Transport 
Foundation, Providence. 

Susan Cameron Bennett, a singer, will 
do radio commercials in Boston. 

Joan L. Beranbaum has started her first 
year at the New York University School of 
Law. 

Susan Smith Berenzweig is *5 research 
assistant in the department of psychiatry 
at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. 

Barrie Atkin Bergart is attending the 



University of Pennsylvania's Graduate 
School of Education in pursuit of a mas- 
ter's degree in science education. 

Carol Bingham is a research assistant 
with R.I. Health Services Research, Inc., 
Providence. 

Raymond L. Boggs (GS) has received 
an appointment to teach English in Marl- 
borough (Mass.) High School. 

Joanna B. Burstein is a graduate stu- 
dent and teaching assistant at the Univer- 
sity of California, San Diego. 

Linda M. Chagnon is a medical student 
at Johns Hopkins University. 

Diane Larrabee Chartrand has accepted 
an associate teaching position at Castleton 
(Vt.) Elementary School. 

Andrew J. Chlebus was married to Su- 
san J. Davis of New Bedford, Mass., on 
Aug. 21. Richard E. Ellis '69 and David J. 
Pratzon '72 were ushers. 

Shirley S. L. Chow is a research as- 
sistant at the World Bank, Washington, 
D.C. 

Martha J. Clark has accepted a posi- 
tion as an administrator with the Bankers 
Trust Co., New York. 

Roberta Cohen has joined Southern 
Railways in Washington, D.C, as an eco- 
nomic research assistant. 

Janet Corson is the youngest house 
manager to be appointed at the University 
of Rhode Island. 

Noralie V. Cox, employed as a secre- 
tary-receptionist in the social service de- 
partment at Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, 
will study social planning at Boston Uni- 
versity. 

Jeffrey W. David was married to Karen 
L. Berg of East Weymouth, Mass., on Aug. 
21. He is attending the University of Cin- 
cinnati Medical School. 

Joan C. Davidson is a graduate stu- 
dent at the University of Chicago Law 
School. 

Donna J. Davis is teaching English at 
East Providence High School. 

Robert P. Davis was married to Kath- 
arine H. Pietsch of Paris, France, on Aug. 
21. He plans to continue his studies at 
Boston University. 

Adrienne Dominguez, a communica- 
tions consultant with the Puerto Rican Re- 
search and Resources Center in Washing- 
ton, D.C, plans to begin graduate school 
in anthropology part-time in January. 

Deborah Dougherty is employed as a 
service representative of the New England 
Telephone Company, Cambridge, Mass. 

Linda L. Farrin has accepted employ- 
ment as a research assistant at the Hebrew 
Rehabilitation Center for the Aged in Ros- 
lindale, Mass. 

Susan Gibson Ferguson is a hostess, 
tour guide, and membership secretary at 
the Rhode Island Historical Society, Provi- 
dence. 

Patricia L. Gerbarg is attending the 
Harvard Medical School. 

Mady Gilson is a VISTA volunteer in 
the Great Lakes Region. 

Nancy J. Goulet is a computer pro- 
grammer at Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., 
Boston. 

Lynne B. Gozonsky is a linguist at the 



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Rhode Island School for the Deaf, Provi- 
dence. 

Susan E. Graber was married to Ron- 
ald D. Slusky on Aug. 22. Janet Levy '71 
and Maurene Fritz Flouer '71 were attend- 
ants. Susan is a graduate student in phy- 
sics at the University of Pennsylvania. 

Mary E. Greer has accepted a position 
as production manager of Wilson E. fiamil- 
ton & Associates, Washington, D.C. 

Barbara M. Hamaty is a mathematics 
teacher at Jamaica Plain High School, Bos- 
ton. 

Gerald F. "Jerry " Hart, captain and 
fullback on last fall's Brown football team, 
has been named head coach at Hopkinton 
(Mass.) High School. He replaces another 
Brown alumnus, Aubrey Doyle '54, who re- 
tired from coaching to devote full time to 
his duties as athletic director and head of 
the math department. 

Robert C. Herrick was married to Ger- 
aldine Hraban in Stony Brook, N.Y., on 
June 11. At home: 447 Fifteenth Ave., Apt. 
3, San Francisco. 

Deborah A. Hill is working as a psy- 
chiatric attendant at Butler Hospital, Provi- 
dence. 

Patricia L. Huff has completed an 
eight-week training class and has accepted 
a position as a computer programmer with 
the Social Security Administration in Bal- 
timore, Md. 

Judy Wisnieski Hunter is an English 
teacher at Hunterdon Central High School, 
Flemington, N.J. 

Deborah Kapp is a first-year bachelor 
of divinity student at Union Theological 
Seminary. 

Jenny Littlepage is a social worker 
with Planned Parenthood in Washington, 
D.C. 

John Lydic has joined Mutual Life 
Insurance Companv in its offices at Syra- 
cuse, N.Y. 

Richard J. Marshall has been named 
an assistant to the registrar at Brown. 

Elizabeth Coffin McMahon is a trust 
administrator at Chemical Bank, New York 
City, and is working toward an M.B.A. de- 
gree at New York University. 

Karen I. Meyers has accepted a posi- 
tion as a research assistant at the Newing- 
ton (Conn.) VA Hospital. 

Nancy E. Michel is a library assistant 
at The Providence (R.I.) Athenaeum. 

Linda Morley is a graduate student at 
the New York University Law School. 

Roberta Morris has joined Chase Man- 
hattan Bank in New York City as a cost 
analyst. 

John G. Moser is an instructor of Latin 
and ecclesiastical history in St. Rose High 
School, Belmar, N.J. 

Muriel Johnson Murray is a teacher's 
aide at the School for Contemporary Edu- 
cation in McLean, Va. She has applied for 
admission in 1972 at American University. 

Carol L. Newman is a box office as- 
sistant at Arena Stage, Washington, D.C. 
She plans to attend law school in 1972. 

Helen Howard Nowlis, research con- 
sultant for student affairs at the University 
of Rochester, has been appointed the first 
director of a new drug abuse education 
program in the U.S. C3ffice of Education. 



She will be on leave from her UR post this 
year. 

David G. Pires was married to Fatima 
Hassan of New Bedford, Mass., on Aug. 
14. Edward Silva '71 was best man, while 
Ronald Pires '73 and David Bernstein '72 
were ushers. 

Philip P. Pry was married to Suella 
Pipal '70 on June 8. She is placement direc- 
tor with the District of Columbia Bar As- 
sociation, and he is an A.S.A. defense lan- 
guage instructor in the Russian program. 

Jane M. Rice is a graduate student in 
the MAT program at Colorado College. 

Catherine M. Ronan is a legislative 
correspondent with Congressman Fernand 
J. St. Germain in Washington, D.C, and a 
part-time student at Georgetown Univer- 
sity's graduate department of philosophy. 

Lisa Schnall Ross has been appointed 
assistant registrar and cataloguer at the 
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence. 

Itzhak A. Rosner was married to Julia 
Goldner on June 20. At home: 2568 Over- 
look Road, Cleveland Heights, Ohio. 

Anthony Santomero was married to 
Marlena Belviso (GS '69) on Aug. 21. 

Ruby Shang is a teacher of Japanese at 
the Berlitz Language School in Rockefeller 
Center, New York City. 

Edward L. Silva was married to Bea- 
trice Rodrigues of New Bedford, Mass., on 
Oct. 4. David Pires was an usher. 

Carolyn R. Smith is a broadcast trainee 
with the USSR division of the Voice of 
America, Washington, D.C. 

Anne Stites was married to Alan R. 
Hausrath on Aug. 17. At home: 5863 Nich- 
olson St., Pittsburgh, Pa. 

David T. Thayer was married to Donna 
J. Davis of Riverside, R.I., on Sept. 4. Rob- 
ert Thayer '63 was best man, and William 
Abraham '71 and David Holloway '71 were 
ushers. The groom's father is Paul L. 
Thayer '31. 

Susan Vanderkulk is a reporter with 
the Sun-Bulletin in Binghamton, N.Y. 

James M. Vigorito is a first-year grad- 
uate student in psychology at Yale. 

Cynthia Wales is a graduate teaching 
assistant in the experimental program at 
the University of Vermont, where she is 
also studying European history. 

Marilyn L. Wallace is teaching mathe- 
matics at the Perry Junior High School, 
Providence. 

David J. Weil is a first-year student at 
the Washington University School of Medi- 
cine. 

Sharon L. Weilbaker has accepted a 
position as secretary to the editor of Books 
for Young Readers at Doubleday & Co., 
Inc., New York City. 

Linda I. Weiler is a research associate 
at Rhode Island Hospital, Providence. 

Daryl Dodson Wilson is a graduate 
student in anthropology at Wesleyan Uni- 
versity. 

Sherry Yee is a candidate for an 
M.A.T. degree in social studies at Harvard. 

Robert Zarcaro (GS) and his wife of 
Cranston, R.I., have announced the birth 
of a daughter, Michele Lee, on Aug. 6. 



Deaths 



EDDY PHILLIPS HOWARD '99 
in New Bedford, Mass., Aug. 24. He retired 
in 1945 as an instructor in chemistry from 
the New Bedford High School. Mr Howard 
taught in several schools in Rhode Island 
and Connecticut before joining the New 
Bedford school system in 1918, where he 
taught general science for four years before 
becoming an instructor in chemistry. He 
was the founder and former president of 
the New Bedford Teachers Union. In 1958, 
he and his wife donated more than 400 
books to New Bedford Institute of Tech- 
nology, many related to his former teach- 
ing career. His daughter is Mrs. Barbara 
Beyer, 49 Longwood Ave., North Dart- 
mouth, Mass. 

GEORGIE SMITH WALLING '00 
in Nantucket, Mass., Aug. 25. A former 
resident of Pawtucket, R.I., she had lived 
in Nantucket more than 50 years. Mrs. 
Walling was a member of the Daughters 
of the American Revolution. Her daughter 
is Mrs. Nancy W. Sims of Lexington, Mass. 

MARGUERITE REID WETMORE '02 
in East Providence, R.I., Sept. 8. A former 
librarian in the foreign department of the 
Providence Public Library, she was active 
for more than 65 years in the affairs of 
Pembroke College. Mrs. Wetmore was a 
member of various committees at Pembroke 
and was instrumental in establishing the 
Academic Committee, which still functions 
at the college. She also established in 
1954 the Wetmore Fund for Literature and 
in 1967 money from the fund financed the 
famed British poet Stephen Spender's visit 
to Pembroke. She also established a fund 
for the purchase of special volumes for the 
Pembroke Library, with bookplates in the 
names of the parents. In 1967, Mrs. Wet- 
more received the Pembroke College Alum- 
nae Award, citing her for 65 years of serv- 
ice to the college and for establishing the 
Wetmore Fund. A former member of the 
American Association of University Women, 
she was a member of and advisor to the 
Providence Americanization Department, 
where she taught and assisted immigrants 
in Rhode Island. She also was active in 
many other civic activities and was class 
secretary. Phi Beta Kappa. Her niece is 
Mrs. Paul E. Bentsen of East Greenwich, 
R.I. 

WILLIS FRANK AVERY '04 
in Akron, Ohio, Aug. 28. A scientist, edu- 
cator, lawyer, and business executive, he 
was a retired secretary and general coun- 
sel of the B. F. Goodrich Company in Ak- 
ron. Mr. Avery also attended the Univer- 
sity of Maine, and received an LL.B. de- 
gree from American University College of 
Law in 1920. After government service 
during World War I, he joined the law 
department of Westinghouse in 1920 and 
the law department of B. F. Goodrich in 
1924. Since 1950, Mr. Avery had been en- 
gaged in private law practice, largely as 
advisor to a number of companies. He was 
a member of three bar associations and nu- 



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merous other organizations. His daughter is 
Mrs. Dorothy A. Campbell, 64 Waldorf 
Drive, Akron. 

HOPE MASON' BUBIER '04 
in Providence, Sept. 27. Mrs. Bubier served 
as secretary for the Pembroke Class of 1904 
from 1914 until 19o8. She was active in 
various societies at the Central Congrega- 
tional Church, including its former Portu- 
guese Mission and the clubs now combined 
under the name of Women's Missionary 
Association. A member of Central Congre- 
gational Church since 1893, and its senior 
living member, Mrs. Bubier also was a sen- 
ior member in a number of organizations. 
She held membership in the Rhode Island 
Society of Mayflower Descendants, and was 
a charter member of the Rhode Island 
Chapter of Colonial Daughters of the Sev- 
enteenth Century. Her daughter is Made- 
laine M. Bubier C5 '28, and her son is C. 
Warren Bubier '36, 40 Hope St., Rumford. 

CHARLES STUART MITCHELL '05 
in Xorwalk, Conn., Aug. 19. He was head 
of the English department at the Brooklyn 
(N.Y.) Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day 
School for 40 years until his retirement in 
1955. Mr. Mitchell also was head of the 
English department at the Peddie School in 
Hightstown, N.J. He was a member of the 
Columbia Scholastic Press Association and 
the College Review Board. Phi Gamma 
Delta. His son is C. Stuart Mitchell, Jr., 125 
Braeburn Drive, New Canaan, Conn. 

SARAH SHAPIRO GROVER '07, A.M. '09 
in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Aug. 6. The widow 
of Dr. Joseph I. Grover '07, she was a for- 
mer president of the Boston Brown Alum- 
nae Association. Her son is Myles L. 
Grover '38, and her daughter is Mrs. 
George E. Simonds, 5910 N.E. 17th Road, 
Fort Lauderdale. 

DR. WALTER EDWARD SULLIVAN A.M. 
'09, Ph.D. '12 

in Claremont, Calif., Aug. 24. He was pro- 
fessor emeritus at the University of Wis- 
consin. Mr. Sullivan received his A.B. de- 
gree from Bates College in 1907. His widow 
is Mrs. Walter E. Sullivan, 2406 Harbor 
Blvd., Apt. 107, Costa Mesa, Calif. 

SYDNEY WILMOT '09 
in Buskirk, N.Y., Aug. 26. He was editor 
of professional journals for the American 
Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) from 
1923 until his retirement in 1953. Following 
an early engineering career on such proj- 
ects as the Catskill water supply system 
for New York City, the New York subway 
system, and the Panama Canal, Mr. Wilmot 
was assistant professor of civil engineering 
at Brown from 1918 to 1923. He was 
named a fellow of ASCE in 1959 in recog- 
nition of his editorial direction of ASCE's 
journal. Civil Engineering. While on the 
Brown faculty he was a leader in founding 
the Providence section of ASCE. Mr. Wil- 
mot was active in originating the Brown 
Engineering Association, serving two terms 
as president. When he received the Brown 



Bear Award in 1954, the citation recognized 
that he was "largely responsible for the 
formation of the Brown Engineering Asso- 
ciation, which had been of signal service 
to the University in many ways." Mr. 
Wilmot served on the national board of 
the American Baptist Foreign Mission So- 
ciety for 12 years and was president 
of the Jennie Clarkson Home in Valhalla, 
N.Y., serving under-privileged children for 
almost a decade in the 1940s. One of the 
large dormitories was renamed the Wilmot 
Cottage in recognition of his services. He 
was the author of Pos^ihility of Preferred 
Numbers in Civil Engineering nnti Con- 
fracting. Following his retirement, he con- 
tinued his activities as a consultant on 
special problems concerned with editing 
and publication of technical papers and 
reports. Sigma Xi. His sons are David N. 
Wilmot '39 and Robert S. Wilmot '41, and 
his widow is Alice B. Wilmot, Belle Road, 
Buskirk, N.Y. 

HANNAH NICHOLSON BENSON '11 
in Pawtucket, R.I., Sept. 24. The widow of 
the late Professor Adolph B. Benson, she 
was, before her marriage, an English and 
history teacher. She assisted her husband 
with his many publications. She was presi- 
dent of the New Haven branch of the 
Alumnae Association's Pembroke College 
Club when it was started and was a for- 
mer member of its scholarship committee. 
She also was active in YWCA work, and an 
artist member of the Connecticut Academy 
of Fine Arts and the New Haven Paint 
and Clay Club. 

THE REV. WILLIAM IRVING HASTIE '11 
in Topeka, Kan., Sept. 12. He was retired 
as associate pastor of the Linwood Boule- 
vard Methodist Church in Kansas City, Mo. 
A graduate of Fairmount College, Wichita, 
Kan., he was ordained in the Methodist 
ministry in 1925. During World War I, he 
served as a YMCA secretary with the U.S. 
Army in France and was engaged in reli- 
gious work in Czechoslovakia, London, and 
Glasgow, Scotland. His first pastorate in 
the midwest was the College Hill Metho- 
dist Church in Wichita and other assign- 
ments included churches in Kansas and 
Missouri. In 1959, he took his final assign- 
ment as minister of membership in the 
Linwood Boulevard Methodist Church, from 
which he retired in 1968. Mr. Hastie had 
been active in Boy Scouting (with Silver 
Beaver rank) and had done considerable 
writing, preaching, and speaking at school 
functions and in radio and television. His 
daughter is Mary M. Hastie, Methodist 
Home, 1135 College Ave., Topeka. 

EDWARD ALOYSIUS TOOMEY '12 
in 1969. He was a former chemist for the 
R. L. Watkins Division of Sterling Drug, 
Inc., Rahway, N.J. Mr. Toomey also was a 
control chemist for Menley & James Ltd., 
Jamaica, N.Y., and manager of the Africa 
and Australia department of. the American 
Trading Co., New York City. During World 
War I, he served as an officer with the U.S. 
Navy. Mr. Toomey was a member of the 



American Chemical Society. His daughter 
is Jeanne Toomey, Gondola Gardens, North 
Sea Road, Southampton, N.Y. 

THE REV. JAMES RUSSELL CASE '13 
in Vergennes, Vt., Aug. 26. A retired Bap- 
tist minister, he had also been a night su- 
pervisor at Weeks School, Vermont State 
School, Vergennes, retiring in 1959. Mr. 
Case received a B.D. degree from Newton 
Theological Institute in 1916 and had 
served a term as a missionary of the 
American Baptist Missionary Society in 
Pyinmana, Burma, returning in 1923 to 
the United States where he served parishes 
in Bucksport, Maine, and Tunbridge and 
East Charlotte, Vt. His son is Albert Case, 
1805 Princeton Place, Merrick, L.I., N.Y. 

FRANCIS CHAPIN BRECKENRIDGE '15 

in Chevy Chase, Md., Aug. 11. An engineer- 
ing physicist, he had been head of the Avi- 
ation Lighting Group of the National Bu- 
reau of Standards, where he worked from 
1926 to 1963. Mr. Breckenridge received an 
M.S. degree in physics from Wesleyan Uni- 
versity in 1916 and an A.M. degree, also 
in physics, from Harvard in 1920. He had 
been active in the development of airway 
beacons, approach and runway lights, air- 
craft wingtip lights, and other aviation 
lighting devices. He previously had been an 
inspector and scientific assistant to the 
Chief of Instrument Section of the New 
York District Office, Bureau of Aircraft Pro- 
duction. Considered one of the leading 
United States authorities on the use of 
color in signal lights, Mr. Breckenridge was 
the author of numerous scientific papers 
and held several patents in his field. He 
was a fellow of the Illuminating Engineer- 
ing Society and of the Washington Acad- 
emy of Sciences, a past member of the 
American Physical Society, and both a 
scientific member and an associate fellow of 
the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences. His 
widow is Ida S. Breckenridge, 5301 Broad 
Branch Road, Chevy Chase. 

DR. STEPHEN SOLOMON WHITE A.M. '16 
in Kankakee, III., March 21. A retired min- 
ister, teacher, and journalist, all in the 
field of religion, the Rev. Mr. White was 
professor emeritus of philosophy and the- 
ology at Olivet Nazarene College in Kan- 
kakee after retiring in 1966. He was also 
a graduate of Penial (Texas) College (B.A.), 
Drew Theological Seminary, now Drew 
University (B.D.), and the University of 
Chicago (Ph.D.). He taught at Pentecostal 
Collegiate Institute and Penial College and 
was pastor of a Methodist church in Aulne, 
Kan., before coming to Olivet. He later 
served as president of Treveca College, 
Nashville, Tenn., and Bethany-Penial Col- 
lege. The Rev. Mr. White was one of the 
first members of the faculty at Nazarene 
Theological Seminary in Kansas City when 
it was begun in 1945. In 1948, he became 
editor of Herald of Holiness, the official 
organ of the Church of the Nazarene, con- 
tinuing in the position for 12 years. He also 
taught at the seminary during those years. 
He was the author of four books and many 



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pamphlets. His son is Stanton M. White, 
The Daily Times, 110 W. Jefferson St., 
Ottawa, 111. 

MARIE BLANCHE FREGEAU '18 
in New Bedford, Mass., Aug. 24. She re- 
tired in 1961 from New Bedford High 
School where she taught for 45 years in 
the French department. Miss Fregeau was 
a former corresponding secretary and treas- 
urer of the New Bedford Pembroke Club. 
Her niece is Mrs. Alice Mello, 151 Birch 
St., New Bedford. 

BRADFORD VAN RENSSALEAR MOORE 
'19 

in Tucson, Ariz., Sept. 23. He was a broker 
with Walston & Co., Inc., Tucson. During 
World War I, he served as a captain with 
the 103rd field artillery of the Rhode Is- 
land National Guard, and received the Sil- 
ver Star. In 1960, Mr. Moore presented 
Brown University with a 27" by 23" oil 
painting of Abraham Lincoln painted in 
1864 by William Cogswell, a canvas owned 
by the Moore family since 1869. Mr. Moore 
previously was assistant to the president 
of the Pepsin Syrup Company in Monti- 
cello, 111. Psi Upsilon. His widow is Jane H. 
Moore, 3012 E. Sixth Ave., Apt. 17E, Tuc- 
son. 

EVELYN SALMON DANA '20 
in Tunkhannock, Pa., Aug. 3. 

GEORGE EARL WILSON '21 
in Wakefield, R.I., Aug. 30. He had been 
president of the G. E. Wilson Co., a Provi- 
dence chemical firm, since 1932. Mr. Wilson 
served as a second lieutenant in the U.S. 
Army Reserves during World War I. He 
had played semi-professional baseball and 
had been a chemist and partner in Sunlight 
Chemical Co., Providence. Beta Theta Pi. 
His widow is Margaret L. Wilson, Chase 
Point, Little Compton, R.I. 

SISTER MARY BARBARA (Mary Elmira 
Schroeder) '23 

in Mendham, N.J., Aug. 2. She was head- 
mistress of St. John Baptist School, a sec- 
ondary girls' boarding school in Mendham 
for 25 years. Sister Mary Barbara was ele- 
vated to Mother Superior in 1944, and had 
previously served as a nurse in St. An- 
drew's Convalescent Hospital in New York 
City. Phi Beta Kappa. 

MARGARET CUMMINGS McHENRY '23, 

A.M. '24 

in Providence, Aug. 11. Her son is John L. 

McHenry, Jr. '51, 9 Cliffside Drive, Lincoln, 

R.I. 

THE REV. GEORGE DAWLEY WILCOX, 
II '25 

in Providence, Sept. 1. He had been rector 
of Grace Episcopal Church in Stafford 
Springs, Conn., for many years until his 
retirement in 1968, when he moved to 
Providence. Mr. Wilcox received a B.D. de- 
gree from Nashotah Theological Seminary 
in 1923. He also had served for 43 years 
as chaplain at the Mansfield (Conn.) State 
Hospital and conducted a church school 
class there. For the past three years he had 



been assisting at the Church of the Trans- 
figuration in Edgewood, R.I. His widow is 
Maybelle E. Wilcox, 18 Euclid Ave., Provi- 
dence. 

LORIN BAKER JOHNSON '31 
on July 25, 1960. He was a former teacher 
in the Braintree (Mass.) school system. 
There are no known survivors. 

JOSEPH PADERS '32 
in Waco, Texas, July 13. He was Waco's 
sales representative for the International 
Correspondence Schools until he retired in 
November, 1969. Mr. Paders previously 
was a chief mate in the Merchant Marines 
until 1949, when he resigned and moved to 
Waco. His widow is Esther K. Paders, 3509 
Leland St., Waco. 

JOHN ANTHONY WATERS '32, A.M. '39 
in Providence, Aug. 31. He retired in 1963 
as a printing teacher at Nathanael Greene 
Junior High School in Providence, after 30 
years' service. Mr. Waters also taught 
printing at Esek Hopkins Junior High 
School in Providence and carried on his 
own printing business. He is survived by 
four sisters. 

ALFRED LAWRENCE GRIFFITHS '33 
on July 23, 1956. There are no known sur- 
vivors. 

DONALD CHAMBERS MacLEOD '33 
in Brewer, Maine, Sept. 16. At one time 
he had been associated with the Kimble 
Glass Company of Vineland, N.J. Mr. Mac- 
Leod also attended the University of Ala- 
bama and was a graduate of the Bryant & 
Stratton School in Boston. During World 
War II, he served as an American Red 
Cross assistant field director in North Af- 
rica. He also had been a superintendent for 
the T. C. Wheaton Co., Millville, N.J. Sur- 
viving are two daughters. 

FRANCIS TOURTELLOT '36, A.M. '38 
in Howard, R.I., Sept. 21. He was owner of 
the Trinity Bookshop in Providence until 
1958 when failing health forced his retire- 
ment. While an undergraduate at Brown, 
he won a year's scholarship to the Uni- 
versity of Munich in Germany. He taught 
in the German department at Brown while 
studying for his master's degree, and taught 
classes in German when pursuing his Ph.D. 
degree at the University of Wisconsin. Dur- 
ing World War II, he served as a staff ser- 
geant with the U.S. Army, and processed 
German prisoners of war in this country, 
meantime conducting classes in German 
for American soldiers assigned to similar 
duties. He also was a youth educator for 
7,000 German boys between the ages of 12 
and 17 at a PW camp in Germany called 
"Baby Cage." His sister is Mrs. George E. 
Howarth, Gleaner Chapel Road, North 
Scituate, R.I. 

CLARK TRUMBULL FOSTER '40 
in Hackensack, N.J., Aug. 21. He was vice- 
president and director of Johnson & Hig- 
gins. New York City insurance brokers. He 
also was treasurer of Johnson & Higgins 
Equity Corporation. During World War II, 



Mr. Foster served with the Army Air Corps 
in the China-Burma-India theater as a 
weather-radar officer, and later with the 
military government in Korea. He joined 
Johnson & Higgins in 1948 as an actuary. 
Previously, Mr. Foster had been associated 
with the Prudential Insurance Company of 
America for eight years. He was president 
of the Actuary Club of New York and a 
fellow of the Society of Actuaries. He was 
New Jersey Special Gifts Chairman for 
Brown's Program for the Seventies. Delta 
Phi. Phi Beta Kappa. Sigma Xi. His brother 
is Harry C. Foster '46, and his widow is 
Dorothy B. Foster, 133 Lawrence Road, 
Mahwah, N.J. 

HAROLD WINSLOW PAINE '44 
in Pompton Plains, N.J., Aug. 13. A regis- 
tered professional engineer, he was a for- 
mer vice-president of engineering at New 
Era Manufacturing Co., Hawthorne, N.J. 
Mr. Paine received a Sc.M. degree from 
Newark College of Engineering in 1955 and 
had served as a mechanical engineer with 
Eastern Aircraft, Trenton, N.J., Western 
Electric in Carney, N.J., and Republic Avia- 
tion in Farmingdale, L.I., N.Y. Sigma Nu. 
His widow is Norma F. Paine, 64 Kitchell 
Lake Drive, R.D. #3, Newfoundland, N.J. 

EDNA ANAHID THOMASIAN '47 
in Providence, Aug. 17. She was a chemist 
with the Geigy Chemical Company, Crans- 
ton, for two months. For the previous 12 
years. Miss Thomasian was a chemist at 
the Air Force Cambridge Research Labora- 
tories, Hanscom Field, Bedford, Mass. She 
also taught chemistry in the Warwick and 
Providence school systems. Her sisters are 
Catherine Thomasian Fromme '51, 832 
East Broad St., Westfield, N.J., and Rose 
Thomasian Antosiewicz '54, and her mother 
is Mrs. Satenig H. Thomasian. 

MATTHEW HENRY CHAMBERLAIN '49 
in Raynham, Mass., Nov. 17, 1970. He was 
a field and office engineer for Fay Spoffard 
& Thorndike, Inc. of Boston, consulting 
engineers. During World War II, he served 
as a second lieutenant with the Army Air 
Force. His widow, Marilyn D. Chamberlain, 
185 Judson St., Raynham, survives. 

DAVIS ISAAC FLANZBAUM '49 
in Providence, Sept. 10. He was a sales en- 
gineer for Senco New England Co., Inc., 
Bedford, Mass., dealers in pneumatic sta- 
plers. Mr. Flanzbaum previously was a man- 
ufacturers representative with the Conti- 
nental Furniture Manufacturing Co., Provi- 
dence. During World War II, he served 
with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. His 
brother is William K. Flanzbaum '52, and 
his widow is Muriel S. Flanzbaum, 36 Dex- 
terdale Road, Providence. 

BARRY HENRY WHITE '65 
in Boston, Mass., Aug. 27. He was a for- 
mer laboratory technician for the cryogenic 
division of the U.S. Philips Corporation of 
Lincoln, R.I. Mr. White had also served 
with the U.S. Army in Germany. His par- 
ents are Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. White, 24 
Livingston St., Lincoln. 



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54 



The frustration of the near- miss 



Sitting in his office last summer look- 
ing ahead to the 1971 football season. 
Coach Len Jardine saw substantial hope 
for improvement. No longer, he felt, was 
anyone going to push the Bruins around. 

Well, no one has pushed Brown around 
on the gridiron in 1971. But after four 
games, the record stood at a disappointing 
0-4. The Bruins are vastly improved and 
Jardine's claim that this is his best team 
goes unchallenged. But the improvement 
has not been quite enough to put an end 
to the football drought at Brown. 

Brown got off on the wrong foot, los- 
ing to Rhode Island, 34-21. The Bears then 
dropped the next three Ivy games by a 
total of 11 points: Penn 17-16, Yale 17-10, 
and Dartmouth 10-7. 

It was a frustrating experience for the 
coaching staff and for the players. The 
amazing thing was that there were no 
dropouts, the spirit of the players remained 
high, and each game was looked upon as 
the start of a new season. 

The irony of the matter is that last 
year the offense was fairly effective but 
the defense was weak. This year, with the 
defense much improved, the offense hasn't 
carried its share of the load. 

In 1970, Brown's defense gave up an 
average of 230 yards a game rushing and 
136 passing, for a total offense by the op- 
position of 369 yards. Through the first 
four games this fall. Brown allowed only 
153 yards on the rush and 136 yards 
through the air for a total offense of 289 
yards. 

Last year Brown had one of the best 
running attacks in the nation, winding up 
with 1,823 yards or an average of 203 yards 
per game. But the passing game from the 
Wishbone attack was very weak, account- 
ing for only 525 yards in nine games or 
about 58 yards a game. 

"We've got to get more balance in our 
offense in order to win," Jardine said at 
the close of the 1970 campaign. "We have 
to have an effective passing game to really 
make the running attack go." 

In an effort to accomplish this goal, 
Jardine and his staff last spring abandoned 
the Wishbone offense and decided to go 



with an "I" version of the old Wing-T. 

The move was a partial success. 
Through the first four games. Brown aver- 
aged 108 yards a game passing, as com- 
pared to the 58 yards a game last year. 
The rub comes when you check the rushing 
statistics. Where Brown was averaging 203 
yards a game in 1970, the 1971 output aver- 
aged just under 150 yards per game. 

The Bears have been in every game. 
They had URI on the ropes and let them 
get away. They pushed Penn all over the 
field in the second half and lost when a 
two-point conversion just missed. They 
played perhaps their poorest game of the 
year against Yale, their weakest opponent 
thus far — and still almost won. Then the 
Bruins put on a spirited defensive show 
against Dartmouth, New England's finest 
team and last year's Lambert Trophy win- 
ner, only to lose by a field goal. 

There have been flaws in Brown's per- 
formances. Some of the "little things" occa- 
sionally go wrong. For example, poor punt 
coverage set up ten of Penn's points in 
the 17-16 game and handed Dartmouth a 
field goal in the 10-7 loss. 

And there seems to be an occasional 
breakdown between the man carrying in 
the plays and quarterback Bob Zink, who 
then feels obliged to take a time out to 
come to the sidelines and straighten things 
out. Zink went into the final period of the 
Penn game without a time out left, a move 
that proved costly. He also got into time- 
out problems against URI and Dartmouth. 

Some critics have claimed that the of- 
fense is too conservative, that the "big" 
plays that will shake a man loose and 
break open a game are missing. 

One thing is sure. Zink, the senior 
quarterback from Crosse Pointe, Mich., came 
to play football this fall. Rated only a fair 
quarterback on the basis of his perform- 
ance with the 5-1 Cubs of 1968 and his 
two years mainly on the bench, Zink made 
his mind up last winter that he was going 
to be ready if and when he got the call. 

"Bob and our other quarterback, Nino 
Moscardi, worked real hard all last winter 
and through the spring," Jardine says. 



"They worked on conditioning and on 
their passing and ball handling. Both boys 
knew that the team depended on them this 
fall and they wanted to be ready to grab 
the opportunity." 

Zink was ready against Rhode Island 
in the opener, connecting on ten of 19 
passes for 150 yards. And for the first 20 
minutes of action it looked as though the 
Brown team was ready. 

At that point. Brown led, 7-0, and was 
perched on the Rams' one-yard line with a 
third and goal. Two plays later, URI had 
the ball, the momentum, and, as it turned 
out, the ball game. 

Brown's secondary, manned in this 
game by three sophomores and a senior 
who hadn't played defense since his fresh- 
man year, was vulnerable to the pass. Bob 
Ehrhardt, a good faking quarterback with 
a sling-shot arm, picked the Brown de- 
fense to pieces by completing 16 of 24 
passes for 210 yards. 

The game at Franklin Field was a 
beauty, with the Quakers taking a 17-7 
halftime lead and then hanging on for their 
lives. The key play came when Brown 
scored and made it 17-16 with four minutes 
left. The Bruins gambled and went for the 
two points only to have Zink's somewhat 
late pass go just off the finger tips of split 
end Chip Regine in the corner of the end 
zone. 

Yale came to Brown Stadium with a 
team that will never be compared with 
those clubs of Heffelfinger, Hinckley, Frank, 
or Kelley. The Elis fumbled on the first 
running play. Brown recovered on the 29, 
and five plays later, it was 7-0. 

Later, in this Alphonse-Gaston game, 
Brown fumbled the ball away at its 30 and 
at its 10 to provide Yale with ten points. 
But the big difference was that Yale had 
18 third-down plays and converted 12 of 
them into first downs. Brown had 15 third- 
down plays and converted only five. 

Coach Jardine says that seldom has he 
seen a group of kids who wanted a game 
as badly as the Bears wanted the victory 
over Dartmouth. It's been a long time since 
Brown has defeated the Big Green — 1955 to 
be exact — but it was a close one this year. 



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The first period was not an indication 
of what was to come. Poor punt coverage 
set Dartmouth up for a field goal at 3:03 
and then the Indians went 69 yards for a 
touchdown and a 10-0 lead at 12:02. It 
looked like another long afternoon. 

But then the Bears bounced back. 
Sparked by sophomore Len Cherry, subbing 
for the injured Gary Bonner, the Bruins 
made it 10-7 on the first play of the sec- 
ond period. Cherry going the final 22 yards 
on a pretty, broken-field run after he had 
set the drive in motion with a 25-yard 
scamper. 

Later in the same period, from his 29, 
Cherry broke off tackle and raced to the 
Dartmouth 28. One more block and he 
would have gone all the way. 

With two minutes to play in the game, 
Brown had a first down at the Dartmouth 
30, but this drive fizzled when sophomore 
Bruce Watson was piled up at the line of 
scrimmage on a fourth and two situation. 

Cherry emerged from this game with 
115 yards on 15 carries for a 7.7 average. 
The 5-10, 195-pounder is from Lanham, 
Md., where he averaged 7.3 yards per carry 
his senior year on the 10-0 Archbishop 
Carroll team. 

Through the first four games, Bonner 
was the rushing leader with 261 yards (3.5), 
followed by fullback Tom Spotts (158—4.1) 
and Cherry (127—7.1). 



Zink threw 74 times in the first four 
games, completing 36 passes for 431 yards. 
On the receiving end. Chip Regine, son of 
former Bruin captain Lou Regine '47, had 
pulled in 14 for 206 yards, and senior Nick 
Albertson had 12 for 140. 

Bonner was the scoring leader with 
four touchdowns for 24 points, followed by 
junior Tyler Chase with ten points on two 
field goals and four of five conversion at- 
tempts. 

For the soccer team, 
Miami looks a long way off 

Last month, we quoted Cliff Stevenson 
as saying that he had high hopes of taking 
his soccer team to Miami for the NCAA 
finals in December. 

If the performance through the first 
seven games is any indication, Stevenson 
will be lucky to make it to Olneyville. The 
Bruins had a 4-2-1 record at that stage, 
but the key point is that this was not a 
typical Stevenson team. 

An indication that maybe this wasn't 
going to be Brown's year came in the 
opener against the University of Rhode 
Island, an improved team but not an ex- 
plosive one. The Bears had to pull all the 
stops before winning it, 5-3. 

The thing that bothered some of the 
soccer buffs was that Stevenson's men had 



given up three goals to URL In the entire 
1970 season Brown had only allowed 12 
goals in 14 games while posting a 10-3-1 
record. 

Brown got past Boston University, 5-0, 
but the roof fell in at Philadelphia when 
the Quakers poured it on the Bears, 6-1. 
This was the worst defeat for a Stevenson 
team since his first year at Brown. Teams 
just don't score six goals against the old 
master of the defense. 

There were more telltale signs the 
next week when Yale played Brown to a 
scoreless tie, even though the Bruins out- 
shot the Elis by a seven to one margin. 
The thing that amazed the insiders — the fans 
who have followed Stevenson's teams 
closely the past decade — was that for the 
first time within memory the Bruins were 
out-muscled. 

There have been two trademarks to the 
Stevenson teams: a tight defense and plenty 
of muscle. The muscle was lacking against 
a Yale team that played for a tie — and got 
it. From the whooping and hollering on the 
Yale bench after the game, you'd have 
thought the Elis had just won the Ivy title. 

In its next three games. Brown lost to 
Springfield, 3-2, and defeated Dartmouth, 
7-2, and Connecticut, 2-0. 

Stevenson feels that there are several 
reasons for the relatively slow start. One 
is lack of experience in the goal, which 



The first touchdown of the season: Cnry Bonner scores against Rhode Island. 




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was handled the past few years in expert 
fashion by John Sanzo. Paul Neary, son of 
Robert Neary '47, had an outstanding sea- 
son with the Cubs and has great potential. 
But he obviously needs experience. And 
Gene Colice, who seldom played under 
pressure while Sanzo was guarding the 
cage, was almost in the same boat. 

Another problem was attempting to 
blend in the sophomores with the upper- 
classmen. There were four or five good 
sophomores on the squad, but no great 
ones. And Stevenson's need of the past 
four years still wasn't filled — a center 
forward who could put the ball in the cage. 

Normally Brown teams under Steven- 
son finish strong. No one was completely 
writing off the 1971 season. But after seven 
games, Miami looked a long way off. 

Some tough competition 
for hockey and basketball 

There should be improvement this 
winter on both the basketball and hockey 
fronts, but whether this improvement will 
be reflected in the records is another mat- 
ter. 

The reason that those close to the 
scene have some reservations is that both 
squads are slated to play back-breaking 
schedules. The basketball team will be tak- 
ing on such national powers as Maryland 
and Ohio State and the hockey squad will be 
tangling with the likes of national cham- 
pion Boston University, Cornell, Harvard, 
and St. Louis. 

The schedules are as follows, with all 
games at home unless otherwise noted. 

Basketball: Dec. 1 — at Maryland. Dec. 
4 — at Providence. Dec. 8 — Yale. Dec. 11 — 
at URI. Dec. 15— at Yale. Dec. 20— at Ohio 
State. Dec. 22— at Xavier. Dec. 28-30— 
Hall of Fame Tourney at Springfield. Jan. 7 
— Columbia. Jan. 8 — Cornell. Jan. 14 — 
George Washington. Jan. 29 — at Furman. 
Feb. 4 — at Cornell. Feb. 5 — at Columbia. 
Feb. 11 — Dartmouth. Feb. 12 — Harvard. 
Feb. 18 — at Penn. Feb. 19 — at Princeton. 
Feb. 25— at Harvard. Feb. 26— at Dart- 
mouth. March 3 — Princeton. March 4 — 
Penn. March 7 — URI. March 9 — Providence. 

Hockey: Nov. 26 — at St. Louis. Nov. 
28 — at St. Louis. Dec. 1 — Boston Univ. 
Dec. 4 — Cornell. Dec. 7 — at Boston Coll. 
Dec. 11— at RPL Dec. 15— Princeton. Dec. 
20-21 — at ECAC Holiday Tourney in Madi- 
son Square Garden. Jan. 5 — at Harvard. 
Jan. 8 — at Yale. Jan. 12 — Penn. Jan. 15 — 
Dartmouth. Jan. 29 — St. Nick's. Feb. 2 — 
at Providence. Feb. 5 — at Penn. Feb. 9 — 
Yale. Feb. 12 — at Army. Feb. 16 — at Prince- 
ton. Feb. 19 — Providence. Feb, 22 — North- 
eastern. Feb. 26 — at Dartmouth. March 1 
— Harvard. March 4 — at Cornell. 



97 named to new 
Athletic Hall of Fame 

About a year ago, an eight-member 
committee was created and presented with 
an unenviable task to perform. With the 
approval of the Athletic Advisory Council, 
an Athletic Hall of Fame had been created. 
The committee's assignment: to research 
the records and come up with the first set 
of inductees. 

Before the committee started its home- 
work, some ground rules were established. 
The search would cover the entire sports 
spectrum, from the origin of athletics at 
Brown down to the present. All varsity 
sports were to be included, plus men in 
other sports whose achievements brought 
national recognition to Brown. 

It was agreed that eligibility for in- 
duction would be based mainly on the 
man's performance at Brown, but that some 
consideration would be given to what he 
did in athletics after leaving college. To 
allow for perspective, there would be a 
waiting period for induction of five years 
after a man graduates or a coach retires. 

The committee was unanimous in its 
feeling that the vehicle for presenting the 
inductees should be a campus-based din- 
ner, preferably on Homecoming Weekend. 
Subsequently, Friday, November 12, was 
selected as the date for Brown's first in- 
duction dinner. 

The general reaction of the eight-mem- 
ber selection committee was that the first 
group of inductees should represent all 12 
varsity sports and should cover the 125 years 
athletics have been played on College Hill. It 
was recognized at the start that this would 
mean taking in a larger number the first 
time around than would normally be de- 
sired. 

Starting in December, each member of 
the selection committee was assigned re- 
sponsibility for researching two sports. 
The group came together on a monthly 
basis to compare notes and screen out can- 
didates. Then it was back to the libraries 
and dusty scrapbooks. 

By June the work was done and the 
final selections were approved. Elected for 
induction were 97 individuals, including 
five specials. In addition, it was decided 
that one team would be honored, a practice 
that will be continued from time to time. 
For the first year, the team to be honored 
is the Brown Iron Men of 1926, the Uni- 
versity's only undefeated football team. 

Of the 97 individuals selected for the 
Hall, 66 are living and 31 are deceased. 
The oldest inductee is J. Lee Richmond '80, 
who pitched the first perfect game in the 
major leagues. The youngest, as far as 
class is concerned, are Bob Hall, who held 
IS Brown and Ivy football records, and 
Bob Gaudreau, a two-time AU-American 



in hockey. Both are in the Class of 1966. 

Football leads the way with 29 induc- 
tees, followed by baseball with 24. The 
numbers selected from the other sports are: 
track 7, basketball and hockey 6, swimming 
and the special category 5, wrestling 4, la- 
crosse, soccer, and tennis 3 each, and one 
each for golf and crew. 

Induction dinners will be held on an 
annual basis, but in the future a much 
smaller group will be inducted, probably 
no more than ten to 15 a year for all sports. 
An old-timers category will be established 
to cover the athletes who played for Brown 
from the earliest days up through 1925. 

With the selections completed and the 
date of the induction dinner set, the Hall 
of Fame committee went shopping for some 
memento that would be appropriate to the 
occasion. Plaques were out. The committee 
wanted something more original and sig- 
nificant than that. 

Early last summer, Horton, Church & 
Goff, a Providence advertising agency, came 
to the rescue. Taking on the assignment 
"as a contribution to the Hall of Fame," 
the firm assigned Peter T. Barstow '57, 
radio and TV director, the task of cre- 
ating a suitable memento. 

Barstow did his homework well. He 
re-read Bronson's History of Brown, spent 
time in the archives, and talked to a num- 
ber of people familiar with the history of 
sports at the University. 

"There was one criteria," Barstow says. 
"The symbol should be extremely simple, 
three-dimensional, and have lasting visual 
value. After much physical searching, and 
soul searching as well, I decided the Uni- 
versity Hall bell would be an appropriate 
symbol for the Hall of Fame. This bell 
has been a focal point of student activity 
on College Hill since 1791, and on special 
occasions it has rung out loud and clear to 
celebrate an athletic victory." 

The selection committee accepted Bar- 
stow's plan, at which point a rough sketch 
was executed by an artist at the agency 
and submitted to L. G. Balfour Company 
of Attleboro, Mass. 

The actual Hall of Fame memento will 
be iVz inches tall, and 4" by 4" wide, an 
almost perfect cube. An antique bronze 
bell, a perfect replica of the existing bell 
in the cupola of University Hall, will be 
suspended within the clear lucite cube, 
which will be mounted on a brown seal 
base. Inscribed in gold on the base will be 
the man's name, class, and the sport for 
which he is being inducted. 

Commenting on the memento. Dr. 
Walter Jusczyk '41, chairman of the selec- 
tion committee, says: "We hope that the 
beauty and simplicity of this Hall of Fame 
memento will give lasting value and true 
perspective to the high place of honor that 
the current group of inductees has achieved." 

The men being inducted this fall do 



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hold a high place of honor in Brown's ath- 
letic history. The football list, for example, 
includes the names of such legendary 
greats as Fritz Pollard '19, the first Negro 
to make Walter Camp's Ail-American back- 
field, and Bill Sprackling '12, one of the 
nation's few three-time All-Americans. 
Both men are in the National Football Hall 
of Fame. 

Tuss McLaughry, who coached at 
Brown from 1926 through 1940 and turned 
out the Iron Men in his very first year, 
will be inducted and so will his son, John, 
who was captain of Brown's 1939 football 
team. 

Another coach to be honored in the 
special category is Wally Wade '17, who 
played on the Brown Rose Bowl team of 
1915 and then took a number of Alabama 
and Duke teams back to Pasadena in a pe- 
riod when he was recognized as one of 
America's greatest coaches. 

Among the baseball players to be in- 
ducted is Irving "Bump" Hadley '28, the 
ace relief pitcher with the New York Yank- 
ees of the Joe McCarthy era. Also going 
in is Fred Tenney '94, who played 17 years 
in the major leagues with a lifetime bat- 
ting average of .294. He is credited with 
revolutionizing first base play pitch, as it 
was then known, by playing back and off 
the bag. 

Other men to be honored include John 
Spellman '24, who became Brown's first 
Olympic champion; Norm Taber '12, one 
of the nation's finest milers; Moe Mahoney 
'50, one of the University's finest all-around 
athletes; and Dr. Frederick W. Marvel '94, 
long-time athletic director. 

Dr. Vernon R. Alden '45, former presi- 
dent at Ohio University and currently chair- 
man of the board of the Boston Company, 
will be the featured speaker at the induc- 
tion dinner. The master of ceremonies will 
be Chet Worthington '23, former editor of 
the Brown Alumni Monthly. 

Here listed by sports, are the first set 
of inductees for the Hall of Fame. An as- 
terisk next to the man's name indicates that 

The Hall of Fame memento: 
an artist's sketch. 




he is deceased. 

Football: Edward North Robinson '96*, 
David L. Fultz '98*, Willie Richardson '99*, 
Russ McKay '11*, Brent Smith '11, Bill 
Sprackling '12, Mark Farnum '18*, Fritz 
Pollard '19, Josh Weeks '19», Curley Oden 
'21, Mike Gulian '23*, Dolph Eckstein '25*, 
Jack Keefer '25*, Orland Smith '27, Hal 
Broda '27, Paul Mackesey '32, Bob Chase 
'33, Bill Gilbane '33, Joe Buonanno '34, 
Shine Hall '39*, Tommy Nash '40*, John 
McLaughry '40, Bob Margarita '44, Don 
Colo '50, Jim McGuinness '56, Don War- 
burton '59, Frank Finney '59, Paul Cho- 
quette '60, and Bob Hall '66. 

Baseball: J. Lee Richmond '80*, Fred 
Woodcock '91*, Frank Sexton '93*, Tom 
Dowd '93*, Fred Tenney '94*, Bill Lauder 
'98*, Daff Gammons '98*, Mike Lynch '03*, 
Harry Pattee '06*, Chet Nourse '09*, Chick 
Raymond '09, Joe Conzelman '12, Ken Nash 
'12, Wally Snell '13, Claude Davidson '19*, 
Art Merewether '22, Hal Neubauer '25*, El- 
mer Duggan '26, James Trumbower '26, 
Bump Hadley '28*, Haskell Billings '29, 
Amby Murray '36, Walt Jusczyk '41, and 
Bob McConnell '52. 

Basketball: Oscar Rackle '06*, Jack 
Heffernan '28, Harry Piatt '40, Woody 
Grimshaw '47, Moe Mahoney '50, and Mike 
Cingiser '62. 

Hockey: Wes Moulton '31, Jack Skill- 
ings '37, Don Whiston '51, Don Sennott '52, 
Bobby Wheeler '52, and Bob Gaudreau '66. 

Track: Norman Taber '12*, John Col- 
lier '29, Tom Gilbane '33, Ken Clapp '40, 
Bob Bennett '49, Dick Phillips '50, and Gil 
Borjeson '51. 

Swimming: Davey Jones '24, Mark 
Coles '26, Ray Hall '31*, Frank White '33, 
and Carl Paulson '46. 

Lacrosse: Tom Draper '64, Mike Healy 
'64, and Bill Lemire '64. 

Soccer: William Margeson '37, Rod 
Scheffer '50, and Alan Young '64. 

Wrestling: Bert Shurtleff '22*, John 
Spellman '24*, Al Cornsweet '29, and Dana 
Eastham '53. 

Tennis: L. Malcolm Chace '96*, Art 
Palmer '45, and John T. Houk '55. 

Golf: Brad Oxnard '25. 

Crew: William Engeman '61. 

Specials: Tuss McLaughry (1926-40), 
Wally Wade '17, Dr. Frederick W. Marvel 
'94*, Jim Donaldson '51*, Len Romagna '42, 
and the Brown Iron Men of 1926. 

Something new at the stadium — 
an all-weather track 

Something new has been added at 
Brown Stadium and already the results are 
beginning to pay off. In a five-week period 
early last summer, a six-lane rubberized 
track was installed around the football 
field at an estimated cost of $40,000. 

With the addition of this track, two 
things have happened. Brown has received 



the OK to stage both the New Englands 
and the Heps at the Stadium in the spring 
of 1973. 

Plans for modernizing the old four- 
lane cinder track have been on Coach Ivan 
Fuqua's desk for some years. But it took a 
gung-ho fund raising effort last spring by 
two alumni to get the show on the road. 

Allan W. Sydney '49, a former track 
man, and Gus Saunders '42 spent six weeks 
holding meetings, huddling with key 
alumni, and making phone calls. At the end 
of that time they had raised in funds and 
pledges about $30,000. The green light was 
flashed and construction started. 

The new track has an asphalt base and 
a smooth iVi-inch rubber surface, which 
slopes two inches toward the infield to en- 
able the water to run off. 

Where the width of the former track 
was 19 feet on the backstretch, 17 feet on 
the curves, and 20 feet on the straightaway, 
the new installation is a uniform 22-6 all 
the way around, except on the straightaway 
which is slightly wider to accommodate a 
seventh lane for sprints. 

"It was a long time coming, but it 
sure is beautiful," Coach Fuqua says. "I 
couldn't have received a better present to 
celebrate the 25th anniversary of my com- 
ing to Brown. 

"I can't say enough about what Allan 
and Gus did for the track program. While 
other people were talking about it, these 
two men got out and did something about 
it. They were great." 

According to Fuqua, there is a strong 
possibility that the Brown Interscholastic 
Meet, the oldest in the nation, may now be 
revived. It was dropped six or seven years 
ago because the condition of the old cinder 
track was so poor and the size so inade- 
quate by present-day standards. 

The new track was officially dedicated 
between halves of the Brown-Yale football 
game, at which time Coach Fuqua stated 
that he "accepted" the track. 

"I'm glad he took that approach," 
someone in the press box said. "If he had 
turned it down now we'd really have some 
problems." 

Sports shorts 

Athletic Director Andy Geiger and 
Crew Coach Vic Michalson have been as- 
signed positions of responsibility for su- 
pervising America's rowing program in 
preparation for the Olympic games in Mu- 
nich, Germany, this summer. 

Both Michalson and Geiger have been 
named to a six-member advisory board 
which will, in the words of Michalson, "as- 
sist the Olympic committee in implement- 
ing the proposal we are going to send to 
them for developing our Olympic team." 



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The Olympic committee met this fall at 
Brown's Hunter Marston Boathouse and 
agreed on the plan which was subsequently 
submitted to Olympic House in New York 
for consideration by that organization's 
board of directors. 

• With sponsorship from the Brown 
Club of Rhode Island and the Brown Foot- 
ball Association, Rhode Island Collegiate 
Football Day was a great success on Sept. 
25, the day of the opener with URI. 

Included in the features that day were 
Brown's first High School Band Day, a 
post-game dinner attended by 500 at Mar- 
vel Gym, the return of five of Brown's liv- 
ing head coaches, and reunions for both 
the 1946 and 1921 teams on their respective 
anniversaries. 

Among the coaches who returned were 
Tuss McLaughry (1926-40), Rip Engle 
(1944-49), Gus Zitrides (1950), Al Kelley 
(1951-58), and John McLaughry (1959-66). 
Returning for the 1921 team were Pat Say- 
ward '25 and Duffy Myers '25. Back from 
the 1946 squad were Bill Hair '50, John 
Petropoulos '46, Tommy Dorsey '47, and 
Capt. Jim Lalikos '47. 

The affair was run by Lou Regine '48, 
captain of the 1947 Bruins under Rip En- 
gle, and Jay Barry '50 of the BAM. 

• Jim FuUerton, who retired last year 
as head hockey coach at Brown, has agreed 
to coach the United States hockey team in 
the World University Sports Games sched- 
uled for Lake Placid, N.Y., Feb. 25 to March 



5, 1972. Fullerton is now assistant alumni 
executive officer at the University, working 
out of Alumni House {BAM, March 1971). 

• Robert Wahlberg, a vice-president of 
Bowerman Brothers, Inc., of Providence, is 
the new president of the Brown Hockey 
Association. He was elected at the group's 
annual banquet at the Rhode Island Coun- 
try Club. 

Serving with President Wahlberg are 
Dr. Joseph Dowling, Jr., '47, first vice-presi- 
dent; Robert Borah '55, second vice-presi- 
dent; Foster B. Davis, Jr., '39, secretary; 
and Bill Corrigan, Jr., '58, treasurer. 

• Bob Flanders, who played three years 
of football and baseball at Brown, was the 
winner of the Class of 1907 Trophy this 
spring. 

Other awards went to Rusty Tyler and 
Dean Hoag. Tyler won the coveted Fritz 
Finkler Award given for "outstanding con- 
tribution to athletics at Brown" and named 
in honor of a former Bruin hockey manager 
who was killed in a car crash. Tyler was 
the captain and high scorer for the Brown 
basketball team. Hoag, an outstanding 
catcher on the baseball team for three 
years, won the Ed Weeks Trophy, named 
in honor of one of Brown's finest ball play- 
ers of the 1890's. 

• Arnie Berman '72, high-scoring for- 
ward on the basketball team, has been 
named R.I. Jewish Athlete of the Year. This 
is the second straight year a Brown athlete 
has won the award, as Berman follows 
classmate Marty Luftman of the track team. 



five of Brown's former football coaches and members of the 1921 and 1946 
teams were honored guests at the Rhode Island game. Here Duffy Myers '25 
(dark suit) greets {from left) Gus Zitrides, Rip Engle, Tuss McLaughry, 
and Al Kelley at halftime ceremonies. 



Fall Scoreboard 

(Sept. 25-Nov. 6) 

Football 

Varsity (0-7) 
URI 34, Brown 21 
Penn 17, Brown 16 
Yale 17, Brown 10 
Dartmouth 10, Brown 7 
Colgate 42, Brown 32 
Princeton 49, Brown 21 
Cornell 21, Brown 7 

Freshman (1-3) 
Yale 32, Brown 28 
Boston College 42, Brown 
Brown 55, Holy Cross 6 
URI 23, Brown 7 



Soccer 

Varsity (5-4-2) 
Brown 5, URI 3 
Brown 5, Boston University 
Penn 6, Brown 1 
Brown 0, Yale 
Springfield 3, Brown 2 
Brown 7, Dartmouth 2 
Brown 2, UConn 
Army 1, Brown 
Brown 4, Trinity 1 
Brown 2, Princeton 2 
Cornell 2, Brown 1 

Freshman (4-1) 
Brown 3, Yale 1 
Dartmouth 1, Brown 
Brown 4, West Essex H.S. 
Brown 2, UConn 
Brown 2, Boston Univ. 1 




Cross Country 



Varsity (0-7) 
Yale 17, Brown 43 
Harvard 15, Brown 47 
Dartmouth 15, Brown 50 
URI 23, Brown 32 
Providence 15, Brown 50 
Fordham 27, Lafayette 33, Brown 75 



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On Stage: 

Beating the machine at the Human Learning Laboratory 



Even in these hard times, there are easier ways of earn- 
ing 51.50 an hour than being the subject in a psychology ex- 
periment. It doesn't sound that difficult to participate in a Hu- 
man Learning Laboratory experiment — no worse than, say, 
being a contestant on TV's "Concentration" game show. But 
if you succeed at "Concentration," a mink stole or a two-week 
paid vacation in Puerto Rico might be yours. The only reward 
for good performance in the Human Learning Lab's isolation 
booth is the $1.50 an hour and the satisfaction that comes 
from beating the machine. 

The worthwhile cause that the experiments seek to help 
is no less than discovering how people learn. One project cur- 
rently underway at the lab is an experiment in concept identi- 
fication masterminded by psychology graduate student Isaac 
Colbert and professor and lab director Richard Millward. 
When asked to explain their work in simple, everyday lan- 
guage accessible to the average layman, both Colbert and 
Millward declare themselves at somewhat of a loss. 

Colbert tries a one-sentence description: "The experiment 
deals with verbal concept learning, in which subjects have to 
classify verbal stimuli consisting of matched pairs of words." 
The purpose, he explains, is to try to find out how subjects 
organize stimuli for testing. 

The mechanics of the experiment were revised somewhat 
after the first trial run, but the basic plan has subjects in 
booths in a darkened room away from the noisy computer 
terminal. Each booth has a small television screen which 
flashes random pairings of words, which the subject must 
test and assign values of red or green, by punching the ap- 
propriate key on a keyboard. After 12 correct trials, the sub- 
ject proceeds to a new problem, presumably improving his 
efficiency as he goes along. 

Colbert's roommate, Stephen Albright, volunteered as a 
shakedown subject and pronounced the experience "boring to 
the point of numbness." The tedium of watching the screen 
and trying to punch the right buttons was relieved only by 
the computer blowups, which are standard for any first-run 
program. 

Ike Colbert acknowledges that the day-to-day work of 
experimental psychology often is boring. "It's easy," he says, 
"to sit down and read about all the exciting findings in the lit- 
erature, but the lay public generally doesn't hear about the 
every-day drudgery involved in running an experiment. And 
sometimes," he adds, "you can run two or three experiments 
in a row and not come up with anything useful." 

Still, Colbert admits that running experiments on human 
learning is not as agonizingly slow a process as working on 



monkeys. When Colbert first came to Brown, he worked in the 
primate lab studying learning in Rhesus monkeys. He switched 
to humans partly because the monkeys were so slow. "It takes 
months," he says, "to train them for even the simplest studies, 
when you could get comparable data from humans in just a 
couple of hours." 

Colbert also decided that he didn't want to generalize 
about human learning from what monkeys did. "I figured," he 
says, "that if I was interested in learning, I might as well 
study the big monkeys — people. There is one advantage of 
working with Rhesus monkeys over humans," Colbert says 
wryly. "The monkeys don't complain that performing the ex- 
periment is too boring." 

In casting around for a real-life analogy to the experi- 
mental situation he poses in the lab, Colbert offers the prob- 
lem of trying to find a library book in a given area. The obvi- 
ous answer, he says, is how you classify the books to make 
your search easier. If you have a strategy based on a knowl- 
edge of classification, it's much simpler to find the right book. 

"What we're trying to do," says Colbert, "is to watch the 
development of the organization of a search. The larger pic- 
ture is to find out how people learn concepts. You can learn 
things more efficiently if you have a strategy (a generalized 
procedure or a rule). We don't yet know how people solve 
problems. The concept identification experiment should be 
able to tell when people discover what rule applies, whether 
or not they use it consistently, what makes them decide to 
throw it out when it isn't working. 

"If, through this kind of work, we can specify an optimal 
strategy for attacking general classes of problems, we will have 
done education a good service, because these strategies can be 
taught." 

Colbert is in his fourth year as a graduate student and he 
plans to use the work he is doing now as the basis of his 
Ph.D. thesis. He also hopes the results will be publishable. "I 
fully expect," he says with a grin, "to enter the publish or 
perish rat race and I might as well get started early." A.B. 



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