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Brown Alumni Monthly June 1972, Vol. 72, No. 8 



In this issue 




page 18 




10 'I Didn't Come Here to Gel a Husband' 

Five Brown women students talk about how their lives at the 
University have been affected by the merger of Pembroke and 
Brown and by changing expectations for women in society. 



14 'In 1968 Pembroke Was a Mystical Place' 

Senior Eileen Rudden, one of the five women on the panel for 
the article above, adds some particular thoughts of her own on 
the changes in the role of women at the University during her 
four years on College Hill. 



18 It's Now the 'Pembroke Campus' 

Jean Braucher, a senior who lived in Pembroke dormitories the 
first three years she was at Brown, took a walking trip 
around the Pembroke campus recently and found herself feeling 
the first faint workings of nostalgia. 



22 It Happens Every Spring 

"It" is Spring Weekend, a two-day bacchanal with equal parts 
of rock music, sun-bathing, people-watching, and beer. 



26 Lacrosse: A Came of Movement 

Michael Boyer's photo essay vividly depicts the movement and 
physical contact which make lacrosse an exciting game to 
watch — and to play. 



Departments 

2 Carrying the Mail 
4 Under the Elms 
32 Sports 



36 The Classes 

47 The Clubs 

48 On Stage 



page 22 



The cover photograph is by Michael Boyer 



Editor 

Robert M. Rhodes 

Associate Editors 

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

Assistant Editor 

Hazel M. Goff 

Design Consultant 

Don Paulhus 

Board of Editors 

Chairman 

Garrett D. Byrnes '26 

Vice-Chairman 

Victoria Santopietro Lederberg '59 

Robert G. Berry '44 
Elmer M. Blistein '42 
Cornelia Dean '69 
James E. DuBois '50 
Gladys Chernack Kapstein '40 
Joanna E. Rapf '63 
Douglas R. Riggs '61 
Helena Hogan Shea '30 



© 1972 by Brown Alumni Monthly. 
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Letters to the editor are welcome. 
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to readers of this magazine with emphasis 
on an exchange of views and discussion 
of ideas. All points of view are welcome, 
but for reasons of space, variety, and 
timeliness, the staff may not publish all 
letters it receives and may use excerpts 
from others. The magazine will not print 
unsigned letters or ones that request that 
the author's name be withheld. 



The Navy and the Air Force 
can manage quite well . . . 

Sir: Your recent article on the ROTC 
at Brown resurrects what I had thought 
was a settled issue. 

Professor Cornwell's remarks concern- 
ing that issue convey the same logic he 
confronted me with some years ago, and it 
is gratifying to know that such individuals 
still exist at Brown. But I cannot help but 
marvel at the vacillation evident in Brown's 
posture with regard to the ROTC question. 

It appears that those who bear the 
liberal ethic's standard at Brown are in 
such disarray that they have lost their 
ability to crusade, and now cannot live 
with the consequences of past decisions. 
Perhaps, as you suggest, the motivation for 
renewed interest in ROTC at Brown rests 
on the old incentives of coin in hand. 

While it is unfortunate that students 
might not enjoy the option of ROTC at 
Brown, they are, of course, free to pursue 
studies elsewhere, and it is reasonable to 
assume that the United States Navy and 
Air Force could manage quite well without 
the inputs from Brown University. 

The recent accommodation at Prince- 
ton should mollify Brown's liberal chame- 
leons. It reflects the fact that the Depart- 
ment of Defense has not accepted the 
recommendations of the chairman of the 
House Armed Services Committee concern- 
ing institutions which have made their 
opposition to ROTC a matter of public 
record. 

MAJ. JOHN A. B. RIDDIFORD '58 
State College, Pa. 

'Without a whimper' 

Sir: I've recently had the great dis- 
pleasure of hearing about the Brown faculty 
vote that would, if implemented, ban the 
Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps from 
campus . . . 



It was equally disconcerting to learn 
that although the vote is not binding upon 
the University administration, the latter 
stalwart body will go along without a 
whimper. I assume this means that the 
administration is as ready to take over the 
teaching as the faculty is to take over the 
administering. 

The participants in this shameful vote 
are all too representative of the growing 
numbers in this country who are their own 
worst enemies and who, if they're unde- 
servedly lucky, will live to regret the day 
they gave voice to such fur-brained "think- 
ing." 

Over recent years it's become increas- 
ingly difficult to conjure up any empathy 
with my alma mater, and with the breaking 
point now having been reached I request 
that you henceforth save yourselves the 
time and expense involved in keeping me on 
your mailing list — effective immediately. 
Just don't want the postman — or the trash- 
man — to know that I attended Brown. 

DAVID B. BULLOCK '55 
Scituate, Mass. 

Where liberal thinking 
can lead 

Sir: I have found the recent debate 
about the possibility of allowing the U.S. 
military to reinfiltrate the campus in the 
form of ROTC quite interesting. 

As Professor Cornwell states, it's il- 
liberal to limit the options of students who 
wish military training. I therefore find that 
it would be inconsistent with Brown's 
policies of liberalism and academic freedom 
to limit a student's possibilities to courses 
run by such a biased and politically-in- 
volved organization as the U.S. military. 
Not only does ROTC teach military science 
from a perspective limited by the goals of 
U.S. military imperialism, but the U.S. 
military is also an active political lobbyist 
in the Congress. 

If Brown is to expand its liberal edu- 
cation to include courses sponsored by 
military and lobbyist organizations, the 
U.S. military and ROTC can be considered 
only one of many. Indeed, since military 
training of the style taught by the U.S. 
military is available to everyone by simply 
walking to the nearest recruiting office, my 
own personal preference would be for 
Brown to sponsor courses in guerrilla and 
revolutionary warfare. Perhaps the apoliti- 
cal atmosphere which Brown of course 
offers would allow the hiring of appropri- 
ate instructors from Cuba or North Viet- 
nam. 

Yes indeed, I certainly do find it inter- 
esting to see where the logic of liberal 
thinking can lead one. 

JOE P. RICHMOND '66 
Cambridge, Mass. 



Picture captions 

Sir: "Confusion seemed to be the order 
of the day when the Grizzlies met the 
Pandas" was the caption for a picture of 
disorganized and clumsy women hockey 
players in BAM, March 1972. Is this truly 
a random sample of the game? Would 
the caption be the same for relatively in- 
experienced male teams? Or could it be that 
the women's appropriately undeveloped 
skill is as beloved by your staff as a Sunday 
School class' inability to sing on key is 
beloved by its patronizing parents? 

JOYCE HANSON SCHAEUBLE '66 
Sacramento, Calif. 

Widmer's 'magnificent' article 

Sir: Congratulations on your increasing 
success with the Brown Alumni Monthly. 
Each issue seems better than the one be- 
fore. In the March issue the article by Prof. 
Eric Widmer was magnificent and should 
be preserved forever. In fact, the March 
issue almost made me burst with pride that 
in 1915 I had graduated from the Women's 
College in Brown University. 

My class should be able to think 
Brown because we as seniors in the aca- 
demic year of 1914-15 so much enjoyed 
being included in Brown's festivities to 
celebrate her 150th anniversary. We were 
even allowed to march through the Van 
Wickle gates with the men en route to the 
First Baptist Meeting to see great digni- 
taries invited to get honorary degrees. At 
our commencement we were herded down 
the back way to the Meeting House, but we 
had had our days of glory in our senior 
year, and had been recognized as the Wo- 
men's College in Brown University. 

MARION P. HARLEY '15, A.M. '18 
Pawtucket, R.I. 

The state's responsibility 
to the medical program 

Sir: "The word is go." I have read in 
the last several issues concerning the prog- 
ress of decision-making by the Brown 
administration for a full M.D. program, and 
I have had a continuing underlying feeling 
of opposition. The March issue lays before 
us all the stipulations of the Corporation, 
which are most important and show the 
results of careful consideration. Conditions 
Itl and ff2 must be constantly observed, 
for the cost of a medical education pro- 
gram without substantial state aid is too 
great for an endowed private university 
to bear. 

I live but one mile from the new Uni- 
versity of Connecticut Health Center, which 
now might be completed in 1973 at a cost 
to the taxpayers of Connecticut of 
$100,000,000. An estimated annual budget 



of about $20,000,000 is anticipated to be 
necessary for full operation. This must not 
happen to Brown! 

For emphasis, I should like to quote 
from the remarks of the Brown Corpora- 
tion: "The medical program must add to 
the strength of the University and not en- 
danger existing education programs or our 
deep commitment to excellence; the pro- 
gram itself must be of the highest quality." 

I must also commend the liaison be- 
tween the University program and the ex- 
cellent community hospitals — a most im- 
portant bond. 

Let us hope that the state of Rhode 
Island will recognize its responsibility and 
live up to it. Otherwise, failure is inevita- 
ble. 

MAURICE M. PIKE, M,D. '21 
Parmington, Conn. 

An 'exhilarating' experience 

Sir: Last week I received a letter from 
the admissions office at Brown which 
made me sit back and reflect a bit. 

It was three years ago that college 
alumni of my generation (mid-1950's) 
were turning in their old diplomas. Tradi- 
tional college ways were visibly changing, 
and it was simply too much for many to 
accept. Nasty letters were fired off and 
financial support was often withdrawn. 

Of course, it was the time our schools 
needed the most vigorous and courageous 
support of alumni, and it was also a time 
for imaginative administrative planning. 
I confess to being turned on by Brown at 
that time, but many of my old friends were 
clearly turned off. As a result, I decided 
to extend myself in a modest way, and the 
net result has been three wonderfully stim- 
ulating years. 

In any case, I decided that I knew 
little about the current college-bound peo- 
ple in my own community, and since 1 
had three young children there had to be 
some real value in seeing what was going 
on. I decided to combine the two objectives 
— help Brown and open my eyes to the 
younger people in my community. 

For three years, I have been interview- 
ing prospective Brown students from Byram 
Hills High School in Armonk, N.Y. I have 
met so many high school students now, all 
in my own home, and have been so exhil- 
arated by the experience that I felt com- 
pelled to write and mention it for the 
benefit of others. 

Why did the letter from the admissions 
office set me off at this moment? It men- 
tioned the ten Byram Hills High School 
seniors I had met and spoken to this past 
winter. It was clear that I had met an 
extraordinary group of people from whom 
four were invited to join the Brown Class 
of 1976. It was a record admissions year 



for Brown and Byram Hills and a genuinely 
proud feeling for me. 

I recommend the experience for every- 
one. 

STEPHEN ROGERS '56 
Armonk, N.Y. 

'Good books will get published' 

Sir: In the March issue of BAM, there 
was a short piece titled "A Book No Pub- 
lisher Wanted Becomes a Best-Seller." It 
tells about the Almanac of American Poli- 
tics produced by Grant Ujifusa et al. 

Book publishers like to claim that no 
"good" book would go without a publisher 
in this modern day. I do believe this is 
true for all practical purposes. How far do 
you have to look for a publisher? 

Well, I'd say there are 45 or so sub- 
stantial trade publishers in America. If 
a book were submitted to all of them and 
they all said nay, then I'd agree with the 
phrasing that it's "a book no publisher 
wanted." 

The Almanac of American Politics was 
not rejected by 45 publishers. St. Martin's 
Press, for one, never saw it. I don't point 
this out in order to defend St. Martin's 
and claim that clever people like us would 
never have overlooked the book's value. 
Instead I mean to tell potential writers 
of good books that the situation is not so 
bleak as the BAM headline would suggest. 
Good books, we maintain stoutly, will get 
published. Of course there's no litmus 
test of "good" books, so let's say that any 
book you and I — two tender sensibilities 
there — agree to call "good" will get pub- 
lished. 

TOM McCORMACK '54 

New York, N.Y. 

The writer is president of St. Martin's 

Press in New York City. — Editor 

Unmentionable word 

Sir: The struggle in merging tradition- 
ally separate men's and women's colleges 
has seemed odd to me, as all my formal 
education before entering Brown as a junior 
had been coeducational. That word, appar- 
ently, was considered unmentionable; for, 
when war conditions made consolidation 
necessary, the relation was called coordinate 
by some institutions before finally suc- 
cumbing to the fact. The only reason that 
came to mind was determination to remain 
different from the masses. Or could it have 
been male unwillingness to face female 
competition? 

In 1909, at Brown, the tradition of 
strong opposition to the presence of even 
separate classes for women within the Uni- 
versity was still evident; as I was told of 
putting any undergraduate under the pump 
for dating a "Pembroker"; though no ac- 



tual application of such a penalty was 
related. Can any extant insider from those 
ancient days inform us? 

Presumably, no one (so long before 
"Lib") had been bold enough, or had 
wished to be judged so immoral, as to 
have suggested "coed housing." By now, 
however, the students undoubtedly do not 
find the association too unpleasant; es- 
pecially since nearly "everybody's doin' it." 

MARK MOHLER '11 
Saratoga Springs, N.Y. 

Ready with his $1,000 

Sir: As for the Athletic Complex, I 
agree completely with Pete Tyrrell. Let's 
build it now, complete. 

Not only are we behind the rest of the 
league in facilities but the current two-stage 
program could take years to conclude. 

The administration should give the 
alumni the dollar figure required (contribu- 
tions and pledges) to complete the Athletic 
Complex now. We might just make it. 

For 1972 my $1,000 is already in the 
Brown bank, and more will be forthcoming 
if 500 or 1,000 other alumni will pitch in. 

RICHARD N. SHAW '37 
Ridgewood, N.f. 



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By the Editors 



President Hornig suffers 
a heart attack at his desk 

President Donald F. Hornig suffered 
a heart attack at his desk May 24 and, 
as the BAM went to press, remained in 
Rhode Island Hospital where, according 
to his doctors, he is making "excellent" 
progress in his recovery. Dr. Malcolm 
Cutts, Mr. Hornig's personal physician, 
described the attack as "moderate." 

It is expected that the president will 
be released from the hospital about mid- 
June. The doctors also expect him to be 
back to full-time University duties by 
the opening of the fall semester. 

ROTC: The faculty decides 
not to change its mind . . . 

The issues had been debated and re- 
debated and then debated some more 
(BAM, March, 1972). Students had dem- 
onstrated. The Brown Daily Herald had 
editorialized. Faculty committees had is- 
sued reports and minority reports. The 
lines of opinion were clearly drawn. So 
it came as something of an anti-climax 
when the faculty decided at its May 
meeting not to change its mind about 
Naval ROTC. 

In March, 1969, the faculty passed a 
resolution calling for a three-year phase- 
out of NROTC if seven guidelines for 
its continuance were not met. Included 
in these terms were stipulations that any 
ROTC program be extracurricular and 
that no faculty status be accorded of- 
ficers in the program. Since federal law 
governing ROTC programs precluded 
meeting those two conditions, it was 
generally understood that the issue had 
been resolved. However, in recent 
months, the University and the Navy 
had entered into negotiations (BAM, 
December, 1971) aimed at reinstating 
the NROTC program if the contract 
could be worded in such a way as to 
satisfy the 1969 faculty guidelines. Un- 
der the proposed contract worked out by 
President Hornig, NROTC courses could, 
under certain circumstances, carry de- 
gree credits, and the head of the NROTC 
unit would be "accorded all rights and 



privileges of a visiting professor at 
Brown University." 

The majority view of the Ad Hoc 
Committee to Advise the President on 
Negotiations on ROTC Programs was 
that "the proposed contract violates the 
basic spirit or theme of the 1969 terms, 
namely, that NROTC would be accept- 
able only on an extracurricular basis." 
This committee, with faculty, student, 
and Corporation members, reported on 
May 1. The next day, the faculty voted 
148 to 54 that NROTC shall not con- 
tinue at Brown after June, 1972, because 
"the proposed contract does not meet the 
terms" of the earlier faculty resolution. 

The full resolution of the faculty 
on May 2 follows; 

"It is the sense of the faculty that 
the proposed NROTC agreement does 
not meet the terms of the faculty set in 
the Resolution of 18 March 1969. 

"Therefore, be it Resolved 

"1. That NROTC shall not continue 
at Brown after June 1972. 

"2. That Brown University will not 
reopen negotiations for the reinstate- 
ment of the NROTC program until the 
federal law and Navy Department policy 
are changed, so that the program may 
satisfy the faculty terms as stated in 
the Resolution of 18 March 1969." 

. . . and the Corporation 
urges continued negotiations 

The faculty decision brought a 
heavy volume of mail to the University, 
most of it disagreeing with the faculty 
position. It also made ROTC a contro- 
versial item on the agenda for the regu- 
lar Commencement meeting of the Cor- 
poration June 3 (as this issue was going 
to press). 

After what one UH spokesman de- 
scribed as a "long and at times heated 
discussion," the Corporation issued a 
statement endorsing the presence of the 
NROTC program on Brown's campus. 
The statement also said the faculty ex- 
ceeded its authority in "admonishing" 
the administration not to negotiate fur- 
ther with the Navy until the faculty 
specifications were met. 

The full Corporation statement: 



"This Corporation endorses the 
presence of a Naval Reserve Officers 
Training Corps on the Brown University 
campus. 

"We believe that Brown students 
should have the opportunity and the 
right to choose for themselves whether 
they wish to participate in the NROTC 
program. 

"We further believe that it is in the 
best interests of the nation that a steady 
supply of military officers come from in- 
dependent liberal arts universities like 
Brown. 

"The faculty has voted on educa- 
tional grounds to end Brown's NROTC 
program on the basis that existing legis- 
lation stipulates 

"1) That NROTC courses be part of 
the University curriculum, and 2) that 
the director of NROTC have the rank of 
professor. 

"It should be noted that final deci- 
sions regarding curricular matters rest 
with the Board of Fellows, and the ulti- 
mate authority to appoint faculty rests 
with this Corporation. Nonetheless, we 
recognize that long tradition has vested 
in the faculty the right and responsibility 
to scrutinize and recommend all formal 
courses and curricular modifications and 
to evaluate and recommend faculty ap- 
pointments. 

"In voting to require that the 
NROTC programs conform to estab- 
lished academic standards, the faculty 
acted legitimately. The faculty has ex- 
ceeded its proper role, however, in ad- 
monishing the president not to negotiate 
further to maintain Brown's NROTC 
program until the legislation and serv- 
ice regulations have been changed. To 
impose such a restriction upon Brown's 
president is not the prerogative of the 
faculty. 

"This Corporation, therefore, urges 
the president to continue his attempts to 
resolve the conflicts between the faculty 
guidelines and the existing legislation 
and service regulations and specifically 
urges him to pursue his discussions with 
the appropriate Naval authority toward 
the end that NROTC be reestablished 
at Brown." 



An award for the special 
programs for alumni 

Few commencement speakers let 
the opportunity pass without instructing 
their audience that one's education 
should not come to an end on graduation 
day. The message is that the world is 
changing too fast and anyone who 
doesn't want to be left behind must keep 
right on learning. Individual graduates 
might have benefited from this advice; 
in general, universities have been slower 
to heed. Continuing education and the 
notion that a university has a long-term 
responsibility for the intellectual life of 
its alumni have just recently caught on 
in a substantive way. 

In the past year. Brown has de- 
veloped a series of projects designed to 
uplift, enlighten, and educate its alumni 
on current topics. So far, the program 
has been a success both in popular and 
critical terms. The American Alumni 
Council has just given Brown a national 
merit award for excellence in special 
programs for alumni, and some of the 
events have attracted four times the es- 
timated response. 

The award-winning series included 
commencement forums, all-day academic 
seminars in four cities, two seminar 
series for Providence area alumni, and 
an alumni college scheduled for this 
summer. All of the programs were run 
by the University through the office of 
Associate Vice President Robert A. 



Reichley and were administered by Sal- 
lie Kappelman Riggs '52, a University 
relations officer. Reichley is former 
editor of the Brown Alumni Monthly 
and Mrs. Riggs was editor of the Pem- 
broke Alumna. 

In its alumni seminar programs. 
Brown sent visiting teams of faculty 
members to Boston and Albany to dis- 
cuss China; to the Fairfield, Conn., and 
Westchester County, N.Y., area for a 
seminar on the quality of life in sub- 
urbia; and to Philadelphia, where politics 
was the topic of discussion. 

The Providence area seminars drew 
over 350 alumni, many of whom had 
never participated in the more traditional 
alumni activities. Forums on various is- 
sues and academic problems at Brown 
were held during Commencement week- 
end last year and were attended by more 
than 1,000 alumni and parents. 

Other programs that contributed 
to the AAC award to Brown were edu- 
cational tours to London and Rome and 
a long-range study being done by a 
committee on continuing education that 
will recommend broader alumni pro- 
grams for the future. 

The last project for this year is the 
week-long alumni college entitled "Sum- 
mer of '72." Nine Brown faculty mem- 
bers will conduct courses for 70 alumni 
in the arts and in contemporary prob- 
lems in American society. The sum- 
mer college will run from June 25 to 
June 30. 



Audience reaction at the fairfield-Westchester alumni seminar. 




Bryce Lyon elected 
a fellow of the AAAS 

Bryce D. Lyon, Barnaby Conrad 
and Mary Critchfield Keeney Professor 
of History at Brown, has been elected a 
Fellow of the American Academy of 
Arts and Sciences. He was among 129 
outstanding scholars, scientists, writers, 
and public figures elected to the pres- 
tigious society at its 192nd Annual Meet- 
ing in Boston this spring. 

A graduate of Baldwin-Wallace 
College, Dr. Lyon earned his Ph.D. at 
Cornell. He taught at Harvard, Illinois, 
and the University of California before 
coming to Brown in 1965. A noted 
medieval historian, he has been chair- 
man of the history department at Brown 
since 1969. 

Professor Lyon has served as chair- 
man of the nominating committee of 
the American Historical Association and 
as a member of the board of editors of 
the American Historical Review. He has 
published extensively in his field. 

Earlier this spring. Dr. Lyon was 
awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. He 
plans to travel in France, Belgium, and 
England conducting research on finan- 
cial institutions of Northern Europe 
during the 13th and 14th centuries. 

Everything from street signs 
to annual reports 

Brown's Office of University Publi- 
cations was founded not quite three 
years ago, the University having gotten 
along without one, for better or worse, 
for over two centuries. According to 
Conrad Kulawas, director of publica- 
tions, the office was conceived as a 
low-budget effort to provide "immediate 
remedial assistance" in the production of 
administrative publications. Apparently 
the remedy took, because Brown was 
recently honored by the American Col- 
lege Public Relations Association for its 
total publications program. Three indi- 
vidual publications also won awards 
in a related design contest. 

For director Kulawas, the awards 
were just that much more confetti. As 
editor of the University of Chicago 
Magazine for four years, he placed the 
magazine in the Top Ten alumni maga- 
zines in the country and won 37 indi- 
vidual awards. Since he has been at 
Brown, Kulawas has designed everything 
from street signs (directing motorists 



from the expressway to the campus) to 
the University's annual report. Kulawas 
is suspicious of do-it-yourself surveys 
to evaluate the effectiveness of publica- 
tions, but he does acknowledge a few 
informal indications. One striking red, 
white and blue poster he designed 
for a symposium on Presidential com- 
missions and social change was paid the 
ultimate tribute of being stolen from 
bulletin boards almost as fast as it was 
posted. 

Although his bold approach to 
graphic design is distinctive, Kulawas 
insists that his work has no special 
"look." "No one who has aspirations to 
be creative likes to be typed," he says. 
"I love a typeface called Helvetica, 
but a lot of people who are neo-Bauhaus- 
oriented love it, so that's no distinction." 
There is a convention in the field of 
university publications, Kulawas ex- 
plains, which holds that an institution's 
publications should have a family re- 
semblance. "I think that's a crock of 
shibboleth," he says. "It steals your 
motivation to come up with an imagi- 
native, original design each time you do 
something." Pre-Kulawas publications 
at Brown tend to bear out this theory, 
with the graphic concept often beginning 
and ending with a heavy reliance on the 
color brown. 

Kulawas' office doesn't handle all 
the publications that emanate from the 
University. "We'd have to hire ten more 
people to do that," he says. Most of his 
work is for the University relations office 
and involves external communications 
for such things as Commencement, the 
alumni college, and special programs. 
However, when he is not otherwise 
committed, Kulawas runs his operation 
like a clinic. Anyone at Brown who 
needs something printed up can come in 
for help, advice, or at least commisera- 
tion. During his less busy moments, 
Kulawas has designed everything from 
a logo and press cards for the student 
radio station to telephone stickers for a 
drug information program. 

With his experience in writing, 
editing, and design, Kulawas is a one- 
man-band of publications. He has a 
thorough technical knowledge of print- 
ing and he reserves his finest wrath 
for such printing sins as grey halftones 
or inexact binding. "Some printers," he 
says, "dislike having their secret realm 
penetrated by a layman. But it's just not 
possible to wring out the last drops of 
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The Office of Publications' prize-winning poster: 
it was paid the ultimate tribute. 




Professor James Barnhill played the leading role in the 
production of The American Fantasies in New York City. 



job without having an understanding of 
the medium at least equal to, and prefer- 
ably greater than, that of the printer's 
salesman." 

One of the most important ways 
that Kulawas has sparked Brown's tired 
graphic image is through the forceful 
use of good photography. "The little 
photography that was used in the past," 
he says, "tended toward static postcard 
compositions of outdoor scenes and 
flashbulb-frozen, grinning countenances 
indoors. An abiding impression of dark- 
ness and gloom seemed to be the princi- 
pal result." The Office of University 
Publications now employs a full-time 
creative photographer who eschews 
flashbulbs. As Kulawas explains it, the 
specific strategy of the photographic 
revolution at Brown is to "emphasize 
the fundamental humanity of the campus 
with candid close-ups of people and 
faces; use available light, and literally 
flood our photographs with it; find fresh 
and dynamic ways to portray the cam- 
pus' natural and architectural beauty." 

The theatrical equivalent 
of a bowl game 

Never mind the excellence of re- 
gional repertory companies or the trend 
toward decentralizing the arts — for 
contemporary theater people. New York 
is still Parnassus. So when Brown Uni- 
versity Theatre and the Rhode Island 
Dance Repertory Company were invited 
to perform at New York's Cafe La Mama, 
it was an occasion of some note. Very 
few colleges have ever been asked to 
perform at the internationally-known 
experimental theater club, and one Provi- 
dence critic termed it the theatrical 
equivalent to being invited to play in a 
bowl game. 

The Brown troupe presented The 
American Fantasies, by James Schevill, 
professor of English at Brown. Schevill 
describes Fantasies as "a mosiac play 
about a journey through central Ameri- 
can experiences from the crisis of Amer- 
ican power in the world today to the 
Western frontier. The play uses several 
performance-poems and one-act plays 
in a unified context with actors, singers, 
and dancers." 

The production was an interdisci- 
plinary effort directed by John Emigh, 
assistant professor of English. Gerald 
Shapiro, who is on the music department 
faculty, composed the score and Julie 



Standberg, an instructor in dance and 
director of the Rhode Island Dance Rep- 
ertory Company, did the choreography. 
The lead actor was James Barnhill, direc- 
tor of theater at Brown. The five mid- 
April performances were made possible 
by a grant from the Richard Rodgers 
Foundation. 

The 'monkey house' at 
Hunter Psychology Laboratory 

Back in the 1930's, movie comedian 
Lew Lehr would open his short subject 
features by saying, "Monkeys is the 
cwaziest people." Dr. Allan M. Schrier, 
professor of psychology at Brown, is 
of the opinion that monkeys deserve a 
different reputation today. 

Like their human primate cousins, 
monkeys have their share of ups and 
downs in this hectic world. According 
to Dr. Schrier, who conducts learning 
experiments with monkeys and cur- 
rently oversees a colony of more than 
100 of the animals on the campus, at 
least some of them are no longer the 
happy, banana-munching creatures of a 
few years back. In short, monkeys have 
gotten caught up in the rat race. 

The fourth floor of Hunter Psy- 
chology Laboratory was renovated in 
1963 especially as a "monkey house" 
and has accommodations for 125 to 150 
of the animals. The most common visitor 
is the rhesus monkey, which Dr. Schrier 
obtained from India. 

The rhesus is still by far the most 
imported monkey. His contributions to 
science have been many and his repu- 
tation remains high. For example, the 
rhesus is susceptible to polio, while many 
other animals are not, and the use of 
the rhesus as a model for man helped 
make possible the development of polio 
vaccine. 

Recently, Dr. Schrier noticed that 
the rhesus monkey had become harder 
to train. Where it used to take only a 
week or two, now the training period 
takes up to a month. Some can never be 
trained. The Brown psychologist began 
to think that there was something wrong 
in India. 

As a counter move. Dr. Schrier 
started to purchase younger animals, 
<vuh the hope that he might be able to 
-jrrect this problem before it started. 
His luck was no better. 



The rhesus training problem be- 
came so acute that Dr. Schrier wrote an 
article on the subject for the Laboratory 
Primate Newsletter, a publication that 
goes to 2,000 scientists all over the 
world and is supported by the Public 
Health Service. Dr. Schrier is the founder 
and editor of this publication. 

At about the same time, an article 
appeared in Scientific American writ- 
ten by an Indian and reporting on a 
difference in behavior between urban 
and rural monkeys in India. According 
to this story, urban monkeys were less 
emotional, less afraid, more familiar with 
humans, and more curious and investi- 
gative. 

Dr. Schrier was certain that this was 
the answer to his training problems. He 
checked with the importers and found 
that as the Indian monkeys were getting 
scarcer, the hunters had to move farther 
out into the country to obtain them. As 
a result. Dr. Schrier was getting rural 
monkeys, ones who were unused to peo- 
ple and all the machinery that goes with 
civilization. 

As a result of this information. Dr. 
Schrier has switched from the rhesus 
to the stumptail monkey for his research 
at Brown. The stumptail can be trained 
in as little as seven days. And he's tame 



from almost the first day he arrives at 
the lab. 

Dr. Schrier's main interest in his 
monkey experiments is in the field of 
visual discrimination, such as the ability 
to tell where food is on the basis of 
differences in colors or forms of things 
they see. 

Because there is a general assump- 
tion among investigators that there is 
really no clear-cut difference in the 
learning processes between man and the 
lower primates, the psychologist says 
we can learn much about the learning 
process in man by studying animals. 

It is the hope of Dr. Schrier that 
his research could have a strong future 
bearing on practical applications of his 
test results. He cites as examples such 
educational techniques as the develop- 
ment of the "teaching machine," and 
the field of behavioral psychotherapy, 
which are based on principles discov- 
ered in work with animals. 

A present line of research with 
monkeys involves recording the move- 
ments of the monkey's eyes during 
learning of visual tasks by a computer- 
operated system. This project is being 
conducted by Dr. Schrier under an 
$80,800 grant from the National Science 
Foundation. 



Dr. Schrier and one of the 100 monkeys in the Hunter Lab colony. 




1 didn't come here to find a husband' 



An interview with five Brown women 




On the College Green: (from left) Alison Conant, Deborah 
Awde, Nan Bailey, Eileen Rudden. 



Listening to senior women at Brown 
reminisce about "the old days" 
when they were Pembroke freshmen is 
to hear stories of a bygone era. Was it 
really only four years ago that entering 
women were advised that hats and 
gloves were the proper attire for Pem- 
broke teas? That the College took an 
official interest in a girl's posture? That 
a girl was required to wear skirts to 
dinner? Yes it was, and there are seniors 
who remember it well. (Three of the 
four classes of women now at Brown 
applied to Pembroke, the coordinate 
college.) 

The Brown Alumni Monthly re- 
cently brought five women students 
together to talk about how their lives at 
Brown had been affected by the merger 
and by changing expectations for women 
in society. The students — Marjorie 
"Mac" Churgin and Eileen Rudden, sen- 
iors; Alison Conant, a junior; and Debo- 
rah Awde and Nan Bailey, freshmen — 
are not a random or representative 
sampling of undergraduates. They have 
all been affiliated with Women of Brown 
United, a student group which has 
worked for equal admission and better 
counseling for women. 

The first question was asked of the 
freshmen: 

Eileen: I'm interested in why you 
came to Brown. Did you think it was a 
coed institution? 

Debbie: I thought it was a lot more 
coed than it is. 

BAM: What kind of literature did 
they send you? What impression did you 
get from it? 

Debbie: The only thing they sent 
that gave me any indication that it was 
going to be a lot different ... is the 
fact that they kept sending me all this 
propaganda about the sciences — detailed 
outlines of all the different science 
majors — and I never heard about any 
other kind of interest. And in Bear Facts, 
the handbook, I opened it up to adver- 
tisements from shops saying "we have 



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catered to Brown men for all these 
years." There was also a list of nearby 
girls' schools and phone numbers. I 
didn't receive any kind of literature that 
indicated that I was a woman. For a long 
time I thought it was a mistake. I 
thought eventually they would get to 
something that would concern me as a 
woman, even if it was just a list of other 
interests. 

Nan: I didn't think I was coming to 
a coed university; I just thought it was 
Pembroke and Brown. I was torn about 
the merger because before I came here I 
went to a girls' boarding school and my 
headmistress graduated from Pembroke. 
She always encouraged us to come 
here because she thought a lot of Pem- 
broke and I used to think a lot of her 
too. When she got her literature about 
the merger, she was really against it. She 
explained how the quality of women 
who would come here would be at a 
lower level than it was and that's why 
she didn't approve. She thought that 
anyone who was a consistent feminist 
would be for separate colleges because 
that way women could preserve what 
they had — which was on a higher level 
than anything that the men had. So I 
was kind of wavering back and forth. 

BAM: What were the things that 
made you aware of women's issues? 

Mac: I can start with high school, 
when my parents' aspiration for me was 
to go to the University of Maryland and 
become a teacher and earn back part of 
my tuition by teaching in Maryland 
for two years. That was seen as defi- 
nitely a step up for me. But I decided to 
come here, and I got money to come. 
In order to stay, I had part-time jobs 
and I kept asking myself. Why am 
I doing this? I'm not going to be pre- 
pared when I graduate to do anything 
other than be a secretary; I'll type more 
advanced copy maybe for somebody 
who's in a different position from, say, 
the post office where I was working 
then. But I'd really be no better off. And 
it wasn't what I wanted. Nor did I come 
here to find a husband. 

I think one of the things that the 
women's movement has done for women 
is to make them realize that their feel- 
ings and reactions are not isolated, but 
that there are other people who share 
those experiences which derive from the 



fact that they're women. For example, 
I can recite things that happened to me 
here that, at the time they happened, I 
had no way of putting in perspective. 
For instance, I went to my academic 
advisor my freshman year to talk about 
majoring in psychology. We had a 
long talk about experimental psychology 
and the direction of the department 
here, and I was upset that they didn't 
have what I wanted here. At the end of 
the interview, I stood up and said, 
"Thank you for your time." So he said, 
by way of a pat on the back to me, 
"Well, I wouldn't worry about it if I 
were you. You're a very attractive woman 
and I'm sure you'll find a husband 
and you'll be very happy." And that just 
wasn't what I wanted to hear. Other 
things like that would happen. For ex- 
ample, when I was on faculty student 
committees, the male professors would 
refer to getting "the girls" to do this 
work or that work. And my identifica- 
tion was always with the secretaries who 
were going to do the work. 

Nan: There are a lot of complicated, 
emotional things about my identification 
with the women's movement. One thing 
that was really crucial was my being at 
a girls' school in high school, because 
up to that point the boys had always 
taken leadership positions in everything 
in elementary school and junior high 
school, even when we'd form little clubs. 
Going to that girls' school, even though 
there were many negative things about 
it, gave everyone there a chance to take 
those kind of leadership roles because 
there weren't any men around. It was 
important to show myself that I could 
do things. That opportunity developed 
more of my confidence than I ever had 
before. 

Eileen: I went to a girls' high school 
too, but I think there's a big difference 
between high school and college. I agree 
that there were opportunities for girls 
to assert themselves, but in certain emo- 
tional and social ways, we were stunted. 
But college is much more the real world. 
We're adults, you know, we're not chil- 
dren anymore. And in the real world 
there are men and women and we can't 
be sheltered forever. We're really past 
our formative years. I think it would 
be detrimental to assume that on a col- 
lege level a female institution would help 
women more than it would hinder them. 



Also, I think the social aspects are more 
important at this age. I don't think I 
could bear to be in an all-female en- 
vironment like I was in high school, 
because I feel so behind as it is in my 
relationships with men. People learn 
how to associate with men on a day-to- 
day level when they're in a public high 
school and I never had a boy as a friend 
until I came to college. And I never 
knew anyone who wasn't Catholic until 
I came to college. 

Debbie: I went to a public high 
school and I was considered sort of ob- 
noxious because I wasn't passive and I 
expressed the way I felt about every- 
thing. I was often told that I would 
probably be a lot better off in terms of 
boys if I would tone myself down a 
little bit. But I just had something inside 
of me that said I didn't want to do that. 
... I came to Brown, although I knew 
it was a male-dominated institution, 
because I just had a hope that with in- 
telligent people, men included, maybe 
some of those barriers and some of those 
feelings that had been expressed toward 
me and women like me in high school 
wouldn't exist. Since I got here I've been 
more disillusioned. The attitudes I met 
in high school that I could somehow 
just put aside and think that they were 
coming from people who were immature 
are now coming from people who are 
older than me and supposedly more 
intelligent. 

Mac: I can remember starting my 
freshman year and going to SDS meet- 
ings. Here were these radical men who 
really wanted to change things. I remem- 
ber the first meeting I spoke at; the 
looks I got were worse than anything I 
can remember getting in any class 
among any group. It was expected that 
a woman's only role was going to be 
typing up the flyers. I get angry at po- 
litical meetings when I look around and 
see male professors there, usually peo- 
ple that I know, and I think. What are 
you doing here, where are your wives? 
Are they home babysitting with your 
kids while you're off making these grand 
statements about this or that. Somehow 
even with the male professors that I 
like, I just always have this pit of hos- 
tility in my stomach, because I don't 
identify with them when I'm at those 
meetings; I identify with the women 
who have been left home to take care 



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of the kids. It's a reaction I've always 
had since I've been here and it's one 
thing that's always kept me alienated 
from Brown. Especially since I want to 
have children and I don't see myself as 
an academic career woman. 

BAM: How do you see yourself ten 
years from now? 

Eileen: Do any of us intend to get 
married? (Chorus of no's except for 
Mac.) 

Mac: I think there are really good 
reasons for getting married. I see myself 
as being engaged in political activities, 
no matter what they are, whether you 
define them as campus kinds of things 
or just taking a political view of teach- 
ing. I really want to have children and I 
feel really shaky about how you can go 
about doing that and still work, because 
I really enjoy working. 

Eileen: The way I feel about chil- 
dren is that it's very hard to decide how 
to raise them, what kind of school you're 
going to send them to, whether you 
want to send them to a child-care center 
or give them your undivided attention 
for the first five years of their lives. It 
would seem to be a lot easier not to 
have children. I've always thought that 
not having children on the part of two 
people who are committed to each other 
was really selfish, so I'm really surprised 
at myself now to be thinking, "Oh, it's 
just too much trouble. I don't want to 
think about it." 

Mac: In the last two years I've 
been here I've had a lot of contact with 
older people in Providence who have 
kids and that has really changed my 
view of what I want to do. I think a 
university setting in some ways is so 
atypical because you're with kids your 
own age who reinforce a certain pattern 
of living. When you get out there and 
begin to meet people of all ages, you 
begin to think a httle differently about 
those kinds of life choices. . . . It's 
very easy now to have someone around 
to talk to, because in a university setting 
people supposedly have some of the 
same concerns. But when you take a job 
somewhere or you're living in a neigh- 
borhood that has certain mores and 
you want to be a part of that commu- 
nity, I think you have a different view 



of your own personal life and what you 
want it to be like. 

Alison: I can see making certain 
sacrifices in various areas just to do 
what I want to do. I wouldn't be deliber- 
ately alienating, but . . . 

Mac: If I hadn't met somebody 
whom I could commit myself to, I might 
feel differently. 

Eileen: That's why it's easy for me 
now to say, "Oh, I don't think I could 
ever get married, there are too many 
problems," but I know that if I ran into 
somebody whom I really loved, the 
whole situation would change, especially 
because I have political goals also. If I 
just was content to live a bohemian life 
and not care what people thought about 
me, then I probably would never get 
married. But I do want to engage in 
political activity in the community where 
I live, and I realize that it's really a 
serious factor to alienate people by liv- 
ing with someone you're not married to. 

Alison: There are some things you 
just cannot compromise. I'm going to 
draw the line somewhere and I'll just 
have to explain myself to people, but 
right now I don't think I would get mar- 
ried to make things legitimate. As a 
matter of fact, I might even have kids 
and not be married, which would really 
be a dangerous thing to do. ... I can't 
really imagine myself in ten years, but 
after I get out of school, I'll probably 
do something involved with the women's 
movement. . . . 

Debbie: I can't imagine what I'll 
be doing in ten years; I'm having trouble 
figuring out what I'm going to be doing 
next year. I'm taking a year off from 
Brown. A very close friend — a woman — 
and I are going to take off on our bikes 
this summer and end up wherever we 
end up. ... I live in Barrington, and 
Brown is an extension of what Barring- 
ton is. It scares me that during these 
years when I'm trying so hard to decide 
what I am and what I'm going to be 
capable of doing that I'm being shaped 
in an atmosphere which is so set in cer- 
tain ways and so much a part of what 
my past has been. Part of me wants to 
plan what I'm going to do next. It's 
the part of me that's very achievement- 




Senior Marjorie "Mac" Churgin 



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oriented, and it says, "What are you 
going to accomplish? What are you 
going to learn? Why don't you find a 
women's group or find a factory you 
can work in or find something and then 
you'll definitely learn something." But 
another part of me says, "That's just ap- 
proaching the problem the way I've 
always approached it." I'll be in some 
other city, but I'll still be looking at 
everything the same way. Part of me 
feels so young, because I'm trying so 
hard to figure myself out and I have so 
far to grow. Another part of me gets 
scared because I think I'm so old and so 
many things have already taken hold of 
me. And another part is th^t I don't 
even know what I'm trying to fight off, 
and I don't know what I'm trying to aim 
towards. So I'm taking next year off, 
because I don't think I can make those 
steps toward growth by staying here. 

Nan: I'm hoping to take first semes- 
ter off next year and come back the 
second. I hope to do whatever I want to 
do — something that I've never done. 
I've always had restrictions, especially 
going to a girls' school. I don't think 
I've ever had any time without pressure. 
One of my big aspirations for the future 
was to adopt 20 or 30 kids and live on a 
big ranch, because I know there are 
really good things I coiild do for chil- 
dren. But because of my political beliefs, 
there are other questions I'm trying to 
answer. There's a whole spectrum of 
things beyond but including the women's 
movement that I can't ignore. And be- 
cause they're political, they're important 
to me. I know that I'm going to continue 
to do political work — to work for a so- 
cialist America. That's the rhetoric that 
sums up what I'm looking forward to. 

Eileen: Something that is important 
is the question of having a planned ca- 
reer versus just letting ourselves go 
and seeing where we wind up. We're 
women and we want to take our place 
now as equals with men. But we find 
ourselves in a society in which men have 
been encouraged to pursue a linearly- 
directed career — climbing the corporation 
ladder. So at the same time we are de- 
ciding we're equal with men we don't 
want to be part of the society men have 
made. But it's really hard to give up 
the idea that we should always be plan- 
ning and having a specific idea about 
what we're going to be doing. It's hard 



for me especially not to always be 
planning for myself, so that I can say 
"I'm a journalist." Or "I'm a mathema- 
tician." Some of the men are now break- 
ing away from the planning-a-career- 
fitting-yourself-into-a-slot-in-society 
mold, and it's easy for them to do. Me — 
I'm trying to show that I'm equal with 
a man. So for me to throw over the 
whole thing and say I'm not going to 
plan is to do something that is identified 
with women: not being able to make 
up their minds and not ever having to 
fit into the real world. 

Debbie: Part of me says, be a doc- 
tor, be a lawyer. Part of me just wants 
to be able to say, "Look, I'm a woman 
and I made it." 

Mac: But if you do that you're 
going back to defining yourself by male 
definitions. I was channeled to teach 
because my mother is a secretary, and I 
was supposed to do one better than she 
and become a school teacher. Now the 
way I am going about teaching is differ- 
ent from what it was supposed to be, 
because of my attitudes toward teaching 
and the possibility of pohtical work 
within that. But there are times when 
a male professor asks me what I'm doing 
and I say I'm teaching, and I see that 
whole image — click, click, click — in his 
mind. I feel this sense of outrage, but 
I don't say anything because to react 
would be to say that I'm going by his 
definition of what a successful person 



Alison: It's hard for me when I 
meet people and they ask, "What are 
you going to be?" And I say, "I might 
be a teacher" and they say, "Well, yeah, 
that's nice." I feel like saying, "I'm going 
to be a teacher because I want to be a 
teacher; I could have been anything 
else." 

Eileen: Many times when I told 
people I was majoring in math, they 
would say, "What are you going to do? 
Teach?" And I would say, "No, never. 
I won't teach." Then I finally realized 
that one of the best things I could do 
would be to teach. 



1 realized that 
one of the best 
things I could do 
would be to teach' 



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In 1968, Pembroke 
seemed like a mystical place' 



By Eileen Rudden '72 



I anticipated being a part of that mys- 
tical place, Pembroke, all during the 
summer of 1968, even though I had 
previously spent six weeks at Brown in 
a National Science Foundation Summer 
Program. That was Brown — I would 
attend Pembroke, which was somehow 
"Other." Inklings, the handbook for 
sub-frosh, shaped my expectations of 
the Pembroke College Experience. My 
mother and I made sure that I had a 
woo! suit, the prescribed attire for foot- 
ball games, and I sewed name tags into 
all of my clothes. I looked forward to 
"study dates" in the Rockefeller Library. 
In September, without ceremony, my 
parents deposited me at East Andrews 
Hall. 

During our Freshman Week we 
were all kept busy worrying about distri- 
bution requirements, language require- 
ments, gym requirements, and posture 
pictures. We speculated on the possibil- 
ity that those files of semi-nude pictures 
of all Pembrokers might be stolen from 
their repose in Sayles Gym, and won- 
dered about the prospects that any 
Brown boys would break into the dorm 
during the traditional panty raid. 

We melted into the rhythms of 
college life as quickly as we mastered 
the operation of the intercom systems in 



our rooms. The "buzzer," by which the 
Andrews desk notified us of any tele- 
phone calls or male callers, became the 
key to our happiness and sadness for the 
better part of freshman year. It certainly 
was a strange reward, after hearing 
those golden words, "You have a caller," 
to walk down to the lobby without any 
idea whom it was who would be there. 

Of course we entered a well-struc- 
tured system of curfews and pari- 
etal hours, guides for our social habits. 
But we all learned to juggle the rules 
early: simply don't record the male guest 
in the parietals book and no one will 
ever know he's there; after curfew, 
come in the back door. Living near the 
back door, I became the steward of 
late-comers, who threw rocks at my 
window to wake me up. This practice 
soon lost its popularity: people learned 
that it was easier to stay out all night. 

We spent the fall in loafers, co- 
ordinated skirts and sweaters, and round- 
collared blouses, discussing the perennial 
problem, "Are Pembrokers actually 
smarter than Brown men?" — which is 
easily paraphrased, "Are all Pembrok- 
ers ugly grinds and all Brown men dumb 
jocks?" That Brown freshmen had prim- 
itive social practices was confirmed for 



us by their notorious weekend activity 
of "streetmeeting." Roaring drunk, the 
boys would go down to Thayer Street 
and pick up "townies" to "have a good 
time." I guess there just weren't enough 
of us Pembrokers to go around. 

The Gate, the homey snack bar 
in Alumnae Hall, was our hangout. 
Whether it was hot fudge sundaes as 
a study break or a tuna-fish sandwich 
when the dining halls served veal parmi- 
giana, we could relax and chat there. The 
Ivy Room, the Brown snack bar, could 
have been the North Pole then. We had 
only heard a discouraging rumor that 
one couldn't go there without a date. 

Sometimes that first semester I 
thought I would never get out of the 
library. There was always another cal- 
culus problem, another religious studies 
or political science text, another physics 
lab waiting for my slide rule. Besides my 
own rooms, I'm sure I've spent more 
time in the Rock than in any other place 
on campus. 

After a brief plunge into the social 
whirl, I was fed up with dating by win- 
tertime. I hated having to decide what I 
was going to do on Tuesday for the 
following Friday (the accepted time- 
table for dates) only less than I hated 
having the boy decide what we would 



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The author on the College Green. 



15 



do. Pembroke's Christinas dance. The 
Holly and the Ivy, was the girls' big 
chance to reverse the dating process. 
But despite our invitations, the pretty 
dresses and flowers, our suited or tux- 
edoed escorts, and the ice sculpture in 
Alumnae Hall, we couldn't dispel our 
dissatisfaction with the formality of it 
all. There weren't even any women's 
liberationists then to protest the election 
of a queen of the dance from the nomi- 
nees of each class. 

Christmas vacation was the turning 
point of freshman year; the girls broke 
up with their high school boyfriends and 
came back to school with blouses with 
pointed collars. The cold weather put us 
into pants, and I don't think we've ever 
come out of them since. I remember dis- 
tinctly the day I bought my first pair of 
bell-bottom blue jeans. Phyllis and I ran 
all the way up the hill from the army- 
navy store in order to get to dinner on 
time. (During those days of sit-down, 
served dinners we would crowd at the 
doors of the Andrews dining hall until 
they opened at 6:07; silent grace at 6:15; 
if you were late — no dinner.) 

Soon after that incident, exchange 
dining between Brown's Refectory, the 
"Ratty," and Pembroke was begun. We 
trekked to the Ratty for lunch, to be 
greeted by the silent stares of a sea of 
male faces. I don't know if Brown will 
ever realize how its men's clubbish 
qualities intimidate its women. I seri- 
ously considered re-securing myself in 
the female enclave of Pembroke, rather 
than subjecting myself to such a look- 
ing-over again. 

We soon discovered, however, that 
the Ratty was a great place to "run into" 
boys one wanted to see. In fact, the 
whole pattern of social relationships 
gradually shifted from dating to relaxed 
activities spontaneously planned after 
"running into" someone. Of course, 
planning a coincidental meeting was the 
girl's prerogative. 

Walking back to Pembroke from 
classes that year, we had to pass the Bio- 
Med building, still under construction. 
At noontime the construction workers 
would sit in a line along the street and 
make comments about the girls passing 
by. It was an uncomfortable, humiliating 
experience, not unlike the feelings I had 
walking into the Ratty or being the only 
girl out of 50 students in my Economics 
121 class. That strange feeling of being 
surrounded by so many men was some- 
thing the Pembroker had to adjust to. 



It was spring: I stopped setting my 
hair in a flip, went to rock concerts on 
the Green and baseball games on Sun- 
day afternoons, and found a boyfriend 
with whom I had a relaxed, spontaneous 
relationship. Brown was electric with 
change; we got rid of ROTC (or thought 
we did) and inaugurated the New Cur- 
riculum. After evenings spent collating 
Magaziner reports, after hours spent 
canvassing faculty members, after weeks 
rallying on the Green for education re- 
form, and after a three-day faculty meet- 
ing, it was finally a reality. I was sorry 
to see the spring fade into summer. 

Having served my time as a waitress 
at a Rhode Island resort, I returned 
to Brown in September, anxious for 
school to start. My roommate Phyllis 
and I had decided not to live in the ex- 
perimental coed dorm in the Wriston 
Quad, opting instead for the quiet at- 
mosphere of 99 Brown Street. At 99 no 
parietals or curfews were enforced, and, 
with only 35 girls, it was a home instead 
of a dorm. We had balked at the idea of 
being among the 40 girls in the "Coed 
College" amid the innumerable boys in 
the quad. Would it ever be quiet enough 
to study in that zoo? The Coed College 
did bring unforeseen benefits to all girls, 
besides the beginning of the spread of 
coed living. No longer need any girl feel 
embarrassed walking around the quad 
early on a weekend morning — after all, 
girls lived there. 

That fall the Pembroke Study Com- 
mittee was formed. We women students 
had quickly discarded the idea of Pem- 
broke as "Other"; the coordinate college 
system seemed merely a way of keeping 
women out of the high levels of deci- 
sion-making in the University. Now that 
women could live and eat at Brown, as 
well as study there, Pembroke seemed 
merely a geographical entity. We'd all 
even gotten into the habit of telling 
people we went to school at Brown, 
never mentioning Pembroke. Maybe the 
old Pembroke died before I got there. At 
any rate the lingering "separate but 
equal" institutions were disappearing 
fast. That year the Pembroke Record, 
the twice-weekly newspaper, had a male 
editor, while over at the Brown Daily 
Herald, the editor was a woman. Both 
the Record and Brun Mael, the Pem- 
broke yearbook, folded at the end of 
the year. 

Sophomore year I stopped wearing 
a bra, and my blue jeans awaited me 



each day as faithfully as my high school 
uniform had. Women's Liberation en- 
tered the scene; suddenly my friends 
talked of consciousness-raising, Betty 
Friedan, Simone de Beauvoir. Women's 
Liberation became for me an articulation 
of my inner conflicts as a woman and a 
positive statement of my right to life 
and work of my own choosing. It is im- 
possible for me to pinpoint any specific 
incident which triggered my "conver- 
sion" to the ideas of the women's move- 
ment. Instead, it seemed to be a logical 
petal in the unfolding of my life. 

My parents had always encouraged 
me to have a career, giving me chemistry 
sets, microscopes, and books along with 
the traditional girlish playthings. Yet I 
felt a constant conflict between my ag- 
gressive personality and my feminine in- 
tuition, which warned me to be coy and 
passive. I noticed I acted scatterbrained 
around boys, but not around girls. 
Women's Liberation became for me a 
way to deal with the conflicts between 
my capabilities and ambitions and my 
socialization as a woman. Gradually I 
sympathized more and more with the 
platform of the radical feminists, as a 
counterpart for my own political beliefs. 
Women's Liberation became a profound 
political, as well as personal, struggle for 
me. 

After my boyfriend and I broke up, 
I found diversion fooling around with 
the crowd, and learned to be more inde- 
pendent and self-confident. Many of my 
friends have gone through a similar 
process at other times in their college 
careers. My interest in film emerged. In 
May I plunged wholeheartedly into 
the strike. 

The strike — the cessation of our Uni- 
versity activities in protest against 
the invasion of Cambodia, the war, and 
the killings at Kent and Jackson State — 
was a crucial experience in our college 
careers. Rounds of canvassing, demon- 
strating, leafletting, and seminars on 
Asian history replaced the normal class 
routine. We were caught up in an in- 
tense moral fervor, and many of us were 
left emotionally drained. After the ex- 
haustion of that spring, a sense of pow- 
erlessness engulfed us. All the energy 
we had expended, all the hopes we had 
believed — and the war still continued. 
The experience left many of my class- 
mates permanently disillusioned with 
the possibilities of political action. Those 
who weren't totally disaffected realized 



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it would be a much longer, much harder 
struggle. 

Phyllis and I moved to a coed dorm 
in Wriston Quad junior year, joining the 
exodus from Pembroke. It was a confus- 
ing time — things that seem silly to us 
now assumed inordinate importance dur- 
ing our settling into a former fraternity. 
Who should open the doors? Who 
should carry the luggage? When I moved 
out at the end of the year, I was awfully 
sorry no one volunteered to carry out 
my heavy things for fear of offending 
me. 

I went through the trauma of 
changing my major that fall. Until then 
I had been one of those rare birds, "a 
woman in the sciences." Although many 
of my friends had encountered discour- 
agement and prejudice from their male 
science professors, mine were so busy 
encouraging me to be a mathematician 
that I had never really considered study- 
ing anything else. But when I tried to 
picture myself as an econometrician, a 
professor of applied mathematics, or a 
computer programmer, my mind went 
blank. I could not imagine what a pro- 
fessional woman mathematician would 
be like. In the void, she became creepy, 
weird, and ugly. 

Whenever I had an English course 
and a math course at the same time, I 
had always devoted myself to the Eng- 
lish course first because it was more 
enjoyable. I was proudest of a paper I'd 
written on the works of Nathaniel Haw- 
thorne. Prodded by my life-long love of 
American literature, I gradually decided 
to become an American Civilization con- 
centrator, although I was a scant two 
courses away from fulfilling my math 
major. I had my first woman professor 
in a literature course the next semester. 
It was enough to convince me my choice 
had been correct. Try as I might, I still 
can't picture what a woman professor of 
applied mathematics would be like: 
there simply aren't any here to know. 

My garb last year was work boots, 
work shirts, and formless flannel shirts 
three sizes too big for me. I made a very 
special friend, a boy, and became in- 
volved in campus politics. The Corpora- 
tion formally dissolved Pembroke in 
January. "Pembroke Dead at 79" read 
the headline in the Brown Daily Herald. 
And we weren't sorry to see it go. I 
know it may seem strange to women 
who had very little contact with the 
larger Brown when they went to school 
here, but to us the death was long over- 



due. The institution of Pembroke had 
become a symbol of the second-class 
status of women in the University, and a 
way of limiting the number of women 
students. Of course. Brown hasn't yet 
taken the steps to equalize the male- 
female ratio. 

During the summer I made the 
popular student pilgrimage to Europe, 
traveling with friends for six weeks and 
alone for five. I hitchhiked alone, with 
some anxiety but no serious lumps. Re- 
lieved to have left the southern Euro- 
pean men, I returned home to the United 
States. My first night back at the Grad 
Center Bar, someone pinched me. Oh 
well. 

Now here I am, a senior. The freshmen 
no longer have curfews, and they 
receive Bear Facts as a handbook. Ink- 
lings has probably been relegated to the 
archives as a relic of a past age. The 
admissions jargon is now concerned 
with the New Curriculum rather than 
the advantages of a coordinate college. 

I live in an off-campus apartment 
with Alison and Deborah and one fe- 
male cat. Sexy Sadie — we call it our 
women's collective. My days are spent 
at my carrel in the Rock writing a senior 
thesis on Herman Melville; I take study 
breaks at the Blue Room. I cut my hair 
and played basketball twice a week dur- 
ing the winter with lithe freshmen and 
some other seniors who are feeling old 
and out of shape. Sometimes I like to 
think of myself as a combination of 
those old stereotypes : the Pembroke 
grind and the Brown jock. 

This spring, instead of a rash of en- 
gagements and weddings, it seems that 
all the old couples are breaking up, or 
just going somewhere together. Even 
Spring Weekend, the Big Date of the 
year, has lost its importance. I'm home 
writing this piece, and my two room- 
mates have gone to attend the festivities 
together. I've grown tired of rock con- 
certs and wild partying — maybe I'm just 
settling down for my imminent entrance 
into the "Real World." 

Indeed, the Real World, the world 
outside of Brown, is a spectre looming 
before me and my classmates. Besides 
those who have signed up for another 
hitch — three or four years of graduate or 
professional school — I know of only one 
person who has a job. It's not that we've 
abdicated our responsibility to use our 
education, or even that we're lazy. There 
aren't many jobs available for someone 



who wants to change the world, or 
someone who just doesn't want to climb 
the corporate ladder. The strike may 
have left the majority of students with 
the feeling that the powers that be are 
too big to change, but the students 
aren't complacent. A lot of students 
today are just as happy painting houses 
or waitressing for a while, as long as 
they're not compromising their princi- 
ples. Many of my friends will probably 
stay around Brown for a while, until 
they can find jobs in child-care centers, 
with family-planning agencies, or abor- 
tion-counseling services. 

And me — I'm heading to Massa- 
chusetts to do community organizing for 
a while. I hope it won't be equivalent to 
a two-year stint in the Peace Corps or 
VISTA before taking a "real" job. The 
forces that need to be changed seem so 
great, and my efforts so small. But I'm 
an optimist, and I'm willing to try. 

Eileen Rudden served as a student mem- 
ber of the Educational Policy Committee 
and last year helped organize a drive for 
equal admissions for women at Brown. 
In her spare time, she enjoys bicycling 
and hiking in the Rhode Island country- 
side. 



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It's now called the Pembroke 
Campus 



By Jean Braucher 



Photographs by UOSIS JUODVALKIS 



Surprisingly, even after the merger, 
Pembroke has an identity of its own 
— not as a separate college, but as a 
living quadrangle. 

Now it's Pembroke Campus, one of 
the four residential areas — Wriston and 
West Quads and the East Campus (Bry- 
ant) are the other three. 

There is still a vestigial atmosphere 
of gracious living at Pembroke. I lived in 
Pembroke dorms for three years before 
moving to an off-campus apartment this 
year as a senior, and when I went back 
this spring and wandered through the 
Pembroke Library, the Gate, the Crystal 
Room, Sayles Gym, and the dormitories, 
I already felt like an alumna, viewing 
the place with faint nostalgia. 

I stopped and rested my feet by 
sitting in an easy chair in the then- 
empty West Andrews Fireside Lounge. 
It's the sort of room one would entertain 
gentlemen callers in, which is probably 
why it was empty. With social life more 
informal these days, it's not in much 
use. Amid the overstuffed furniture, 
Victorian furnishings, and faded, thick, 
rust-colored carpeting, one feels back in 
a more genteel era. 

Tucked away on a shelf in the Fire- 
side Lounge, I found a wooden trophy 
board with a gold plate engraved with 
the heading, "Pembroke Freshman 
Dormitory Poster Contest Winners." 
Below this plate were 12 smaller plates. 
The first had the winner for 1959 en- 
graved on it — Sharpe House (no longer 
a dorm) — and below it were 11 blank 
plates. Evidently the freshman poster 
contest went out of fashion in 1960. 

On the wall next to the trophy 
board was another relic of Pembroke — 
an abominably bad landscape painting 
of a waterfall, "presented by the Class 
of 1923." I peered closely at the mon- 
strosity and discovered a bit of grafitti 
written in pen on one of the rocks in 
the painting: "D.B. & R.H." It was the 
sort of desecration the picture deserved, 
and it indicated the lack of reverence 
students have for sentimental institu- 
tions like class gifts of bad paintings. 

Every kind of living arrangement is 
available in the Pembroke dormitories. 
Miller and Champlin are all male, Met- 
calf and Morris are all female, and the 
other dorms are coed. A janitor in An- 



drews, which is coed, said there isn't 
much difference in the rubbish and noise 
of male and female occupants. 

The single difference on the campus 
now is more men everywhere. But even 
in Miller Hall, an all-male dorm, there 
is a hush in the corridors. Chick Ryback 
'73, whom I stopped in the hall, ex- 
plained why he chose to live there: "It's 
quieter here, and I wanted a single room 
and didn't care one way or the other 
about living in a coed dorm. It's nice 
having The Gate to go to." His hall is 
composed entirely of junior men living 
in single rooms. 

Sayles Gym is in almost constant 
use. Janet Lutz, acting chairman of the 
Women's Physical Education Depart- 
ment, says the men make more use of it. 
"The gym is now a recreational facility 
when we're not using it for instructional 
classes," she said. 

There's always someone playing 
basketball or using the bowling alleys 
and ping-pong tables. For much of the 
year, the gym was opened at night for 
recreation. "Our program has jumped by 
leaps and bounds, and I think it's great," 
said Miss Lutz. 

The only department as yet un- 
merged, the women's physical education 
division will be administratively com- 
bined with the men's athletic division 
under the new name. Division of Ath- 
letics and Physical Education, as of July 
1. Budget and job titles still have to be 
worked out. 

In Pembroke Hall, the 1,107 base- 
ment mail slots are all empty. The post 
office boxes are now all over at Faunce 
House. On the first floor, which once 
held the Pembroke administrative offices, 
there is one united Placement Office, with 
services for men, women, undergradu- 
ates, and graduate students. The old 
second-floor admissions office is also 
used by placement for recruiting meet- 
ings. 

The third-floor Pembroke College 
Library is still in full operation, now 
under the name Pembroke Campus Li- 
brary. There is presently no plan to 
move or close the library, which is "very 
adequately" endowed, according to Pem- 
broke librarian Agnes E. Little. 

Mrs. Little said the total use of 
the library has increased, as has use by 



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men students. "I used to claim that this 
library was used by a more responsible 
kind of student, because our lost [stolen] 
record was so low. But it's way up this 
year, so I don't make that claim any 
more." She didn't attribute the increase 
in stealing to the presence of more men, 
but sighed, "We're just following the 
crime pattern of the general society." 

The library has two special features 
which add to its popularity : a large, ex- 
cellent record collection, which includes 
much jazz music, and the Pembroke 
temporary collection. 

The temporary collection is made 
up of new fiction and non-fiction books, 
many of them best-sellers, which are on 
the shelf "by the time the review ap- 
pears in the New York Times Book 
Review," said Mrs. Little. 

The Pembroke Library has limited 
space, so some of its book-buying funds 
have had to be turned over to the Rocke- 
feller Library. 

"We'd like to have a first-floor lo- 
cation" was Mrs. Little's main complaint. 
The Andrews Dining Hall, now closed 
except for special functions, is one pos- 
sibility. Vice President Malcolm Stevens 
said possible future uses of the dining 
room are for the library, athletic space, 
or student social use. 

The Gate, the snack bar in the 
basement of Alumnae Hall, is getting 
more business from men this year. 
"Sis" O'Connell, who has worked be- 
hind the counter there for seven years, 
says, "The boys are our best customers. 
They've helped our business during the 
day." She says the merger hasn't made 
much difference to her, "except we have 
to listen to the alumni complain about it 
to us. The recent ones don't care so 
much." As I left, she yelled after me, 
laughing, "Tell them, we like the boys. 
We like men." 

The Crystal Room in Alumnae Hall 
is perhaps the most striking vestige of 
the era that was Pembroke College. It is 
a monument to the defunct institution. 
Portraits of the Pembroke deans, each 
one with its own display light, encircle 
the room. Like the institution it has 
come to symbolize, it was renovated last 
year — new upholstery, rugs, curtains, 
and refinished crystal — and to preserve 
its pristine charm, no smoking and 
drinking are allowed there during the 
lectures and functions for which it is 
used. The Pembroke deans mav rest in 
peace. 



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Text by Peter Perl '72 
Photographs by Lewis Kostiner '72 

The team of Perl and Kostiner ititroditced 
the ladies of the College Green to BAM 
readers last November. Peter Perl also wrote 
the article on Sculptor Richard Fishman 
for the February issue. Lewis Kostiner's 
prize-winning photo essay on Brown's mod- 
ern dance group appeared in the BAM in 
April, 1971. 



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Robert! Hey Robert!" The moustach- 
ioed undergraduate shouted out 
across the vastness of the crowd that 
thronged the College Green, calling to an 
unknown and unknowing Robert. 

"Rawbit! Hey Rawbit!" The mous- 
tachioed undergraduate's date chimed 
in. She was a native Rhode Islander. The 
accent was either Cranston or perhaps 
Warwick, but she had been drinking a 
bit and it was now hard to discern the 
more subtle nuances of her accent. In 
any event, the added volume of her shrill 
voice was still not enough to attract 
Robert's attention. He did not hear. Rob- 
ert existed, somewhere out in the vast- 
ness of the noisy and expectant Friday 



afternoon-Spring Weekend-Rock Concert 
crowd, unaware that he was the object 
of such a Herculean vocal effort. 

"Unffh. Unffh. R-r-unffh." Finally, 
as a desperation measure, the couple's 
mottled brown dog had begun to bark. 
The dog, a local boy himself, also had 
trouble pronouncing this tricky name. In 
any event, before this last attempt could 
be deemed success or failure, the crowd 
roared as the first drum-beat pounded, 
the electric guitar screamed, and a 
shaggy-haired singer barked an inaudi- 
ble phrase into the microphone. Spring 
Weekend 1972 had begun, and Robert 
was lost forever. 

The ostensible reason for the exis- 



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tence of the phenomenon known as 
Spring Weekend is to provide the Uni- 
versity and the Providence area with a 
variety of musical concert offerings. 
The 1972 Spring Weekend Committee, 
a student group, organized a program 
which included five well-known groups 
representing a wide spectrum of musical 
styles, from rock to jazz to blues to 
country to soul. 

In addition, there was a variety of 
non-musical attractions, including fre- 
quent showings of the movie Woodstock, 
a continuous "Underground Television" 
show, a late-night appearance by Com- 
edian Dick Gregory, and, of course, the 
Great Bigelow, a modern-day Houdini 
who performed death-defying escape 
tricks before a stunned and amused 
crowd of slightly inebriated, sunbathing 
onlookers. 

Since its inception in 1967, Brown 
Spring Weekend has been intended to 
be a major musical "happening" which 
would attract crowds from all over the 
East. And while the Weekend remains 
one of the biggest musical events in the 
area, it is ultimately a University func- 
tion. For now, in 1972, Spring Weekend 
is no longer a "miniature Woodstock" 
as once intended; it is merely a chance 
for the people of the University com- 
munity to welcome in the spring to- 
gether. 

The normal pattern of University 
life involves different people doing dif- 
ferent things, all moving in different 
directions. But here, for the first and only 
time during the entire academic year, for 
these three days, almost all of Brown 
was doing the same thing. Everyone was 
together, and they seemed to be enjoying 
that very fact, even more than they en- 
joyed the music. 

Following the first burst of hot, 
electronic sound, which caused not a 
few onlookers to cover their ears, the 
lead singer sidled up to the microphone 
and, amidst the ever-growing din of his 
"accompaniment," coughed out, "Oh, oh 
. . . place to hide . . . bring in the 
day . . . wha, wha, wha whatcha gonna 
do-o-o? . . . whatd'ya see-e-e? . . . 
find a place to hide . . . yeah." 

These lyrics obviously had a deep 
and significant meaning, and one could 
see many in the audience (especially the 
philosophy majors) scratch their heads, 
deep in thought. A few, it was observed. 



jotted down the cryptic lyrics for later, 
more careful scrutiny. Ah, the profound. 

Much of the weekend music was 
excellent and well-received by crowds 
that averaged about 3,000. From the 
discordant, powerful jazz of John Mc- 
Laughlin and the Mahavishnu Orchestra 
and electrifying performances by Billy 
Preston and Ike and Tina Turner to the 
more smooth and mellow sound of The 
New Riders of the Purple Sage and 
The Youngbloods, the audience was 
always very much in tune with the per- 
formers and clamored for encores. But 
the crowd, ultimately, seemed more inter- 
ested in itself than in the performers. 

Throughout the festival, the assem- 
bled onlookers were looking more at 
the other onlookers than anything else. 
Before each live show, taped music, fea- 
turing the "old" Beatles, was played 
over the sound system. Rather than 
restlessly awaiting the start of the show, 
the crowd seemed consistently content 
to just sit before an empty stage and 
enjoy the day, everyone satisfied to look 
at the person next to him looking back 
at him. Mother Nature, of course, ex- 
tended her full cooperation to the Spring 
Weekend Committee by providing three 
spectacularly bright, sunny days, follow- 
ing a week of those patented Providence 
rainy grays. This miracle of the sunny 
weekend has happened for four years 
in a row now, and some say it is the 
result of a private arrangement between 
former Cammarian Club President Ira 
Magaziner and God. 

So, everyone looked at everyone 
else, all weekend, and there was quite 
a lot to be seen, all over the University. 
It was a chance for everyone to show 
his style. The fraternities were ready 
for action and they got prepared in dif- 
ferent ways. A cocktail party, with all 
the trimmings, was being set up on the 
patio of one fraternity, an unusually 
well-dressed cluster of Brown men and 
their well-dressed dates busily straight- 
ening tablecloths and arranging glasses. 
Meanwhile, just across the quad, another 
group, with an entirely different ap- 
proach, was in the process of filling 
their entire patio with water, creating, 
with the aid of some brilliant Brown 
engineering, a rather shallow, but large 
built-in swimming pool. This impromptu 
body of water was not merely for show, 
as later that night, a group of flying 
daredevils — in a rather advanced state 



of intoxication — dove, time and again, 
into the three-foot depth and emerged 
remarkably unhurt (or too numb to be 
aware of their bodily pain). 

Yes, the styles were different all 
over. One group of students was busily 
cleaning windows and hanging clean 
curtains in the lounge, while another 
fraternity found it much more important 
to commission four of its members to 
fill a ten-gallon plastic jug with a mixture 
of club soda, tomato juice, and vodka 
(heavy on the last ingredient). The 
happy quartet had been tasting as they 
filled the jug and kept forgetting which 
bottles had club soda and which the 
vodka. When one of these skilled tasters 
was asked to pose for a photograph, he 
reluctantly agreed, but laughed and 
said, "God, don't let my mother see 
this!" Ah, but Mom was young once 
too, and maybe she likes vodka anyway. 

April became August, and the 
College Green became a crowded sum- 
mer beach, with thousands of couples 
making their barefoot way to the con- 
cert area, each bringing their private 
cache of supplies. Food and drink and 
cigarettes. Peanuts, popcorn, cracker- 
jacks. Soda. Hamburgers and French- 
fries. An enterprising group walked 
among the crowd selling watermelon 
chunks for a quarter. The Brown Stu- 
dent Agency did a whopping business, 
its employees in carnival straw hats 
doling out food and drink to those who 
didn't bring their own. There was a 
health-food stand in front of Rogers 
Hall, but who eats dried apricots at the 
beach? The "unhealthy" foods carried 
the day, the potato chip reigned su- 
preme. 

The sunbathers got thirsty, and 
both sun and thirst lasted late into the 
afternoon. They drank soda, but they 
also drank beer. Beer. And more beer. 
And still more. Most people brought 
their own six-packs, quarts, and coolers 
full of beer. In addition, the BSA re- 
ported selling enough beer to fill 3,700 
of its half-gallon beer jugs. And of 
course, many of the sunbathers smoked 
cigarettes — all the usual brands — and, in 
addition, many had brought the funny- 
looking cigarettes you roll yourself, 
with the funny-smelling tobacco. A good 
time was had by all. 

The weekend was not without its 
snags. On Saturday afternoon, a large 
crowd of people, including both Brown 



students and locals, massed outside the 
wooden fences which the Spring Week- 
end Committee had erected to seal off 
the College Green from "crashers." 
Earlier in the week, a dean's office mem- 
orandum to all students had declared 
in bold letters, "TOTAL SECURITY 
WILL BE MAINTAINED THIS YEAR 
ON THE COLLEGE GREEN. ONLY 
TICKET HOLDERS WILL BE AL- 
LOWED ON THE GREEN." Alas, this 
was not to be. After an hour-long stand- 
off (both verbal and physical) with the 
additional security guards hired for the 
weekend, the rather angry throng of 
those who chose not to pay either the 
$18 admission fee per couple for the 
entire five-concert weekend or the $4 
single Saturday afternoon ticket finally 
charged the fence and broke it down. 
The concert's promoter, a private 
agent who had made all the "arrange- 
ments" (a process which involves mak- 
ing phone calls, yelling at people to 
get off the stage, and looking very, very 
harried), had announced that the con- 



cert would be called off if the fence was 
broken down. But, much to the pleasure 
of the now-larger crowd, the show went 
on, as it must go on. 

The weekend spirit was pretty much 
universal. Bright faces, both the sun- 
burned and those flushed with the glow 
of a beer or two, bright clothes (one 
fraternity had bright orange "Spring 
Weekend 1972" T-shirts made up for 
the occasion), bright smiles and music. 
The Brown student strike, which was 
called just a week earlier to protest the 
renewed bombing of Southeast Asia, 
seemed to have been long, long ago. A 
tiny "Stop the War" sign fluttered, un- 
noticed, high on Sayles Hall. A large 
banner, proclaiming "Stop the Bombing. 
March on N.Y.C.," remained unseen 
behind the wooden stage-platform in 
front of Faunce House. Beer, Brightness 
and Balloons — thoughts of Bombing 
were far away, somewhere else. 

Brown seemed, as it often does, 
untouched by time. Yes, the music was 
contemporary, the hair was longer, and. 



for some, beer was not the only stim- 
ulant. It was obviously 1972, but 
amongst the crowds at both Meehan 
Rink for night concerts and the Green 
during the day. Brown remained Brown, 
timeless Brown. And so it was beer and 
talk about frat parties, beer and talk 
about courses ("Psych 113 is sure a 
'gut' "), beer and talk about exams. One 
guy was actually singing the Brown 
Cheer. . . . "We are ever true to Brown, 
for we love our college dear. . . ." He 
later expressed a desire to hear Ozzie 
and Harriet sing, so perhaps his tastes 
and habits are not quite indicative of 
University preference. 

The University is change. But it is 
also constant. There is much different 
about Brown today, but there is much 
that will probably always remain the 
same as before. In any event, you will 
be pleased to know that the moustach- 
ioed undergraduate, his date, and their 
mottled brown dog loere reunited with 
Robert during an intermission. He turned 
out to be their other dog. 




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Lacrosse 



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'hotographed by MICHAEL BOYER, '68 



The cage is where the action is . . . 



So measure the creases ready 

And put the nets in place; 
The teams are padded and steady. 

And the ball is there to face. 
I'll be out to do my darndest 

If I'm only an "also ran." 
For this is the sport of Canada 

— a game that takes a man. 

Lacrosse may still be a sport that 
"takes a man," as Fred Jacob pointed out 
long ago in this poem, but there are 
those today who would debate the con- 
tention that the game is still the ex- 
clusive property of Canada. 

Now rapidly sweeping across the 
United States, lacrosse is one of the na- 
tion's fastest-growing sports, after hav- 
ing been entrenched for more than half 
a century in the colleges and prep schools 
of New England and the Middle Atlantic 
States. Leagues are springing up for the 
youngsters, and in some areas, lacrosse 
is even forcing Little League baseball to 
take a back seat. 

Originally, lacrosse was an Indian 
game, known as baggataway. The pio- 
neer French-Canadians, when describing 



the sport, talked about "lacrosse" — the 
stick — because the club was webbed and 
reminded them of a bishop's crozier or 
cross. On June 4, 1763, the sport con- 
tributed to the worst massacre in Ca- 
nadian history. 

To celebrate the birthday of King 
George, the Chippewas and Sacs ar- 
ranged to play a game just outside the 
walls of Fort Michil Mackinac. The Brit- 
ish garrison was invited to come out to 
watch — and did. Whereupon the Indi- 
ans — without even calling time out — 
grabbed their tomahawks and killed 
nearly every white person in sight. 

This incident did little to endear 
the British to lacrosse, although 104 
years later, by an official act of Parlia- 
ment, lacrosse became the official Ca- 
nadian game. 

Down through the years, the game 
has earned the reputation of being a 
cross between a Redskin scalping party 
and an Irish pub brawl. Under today's 
rules, lacrosse matches are somewhat 
less deadly — and usually spare the spec- 
tators. 



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But first you have to get there . . . 



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29 




And sometimes it gets a little rough. 



Although in appearance lacrosse is 
old fashioned, with the players wearing 
shorts and pads and the scrimmage line 
looking like something out of an 18th 
century lithograph, the sport is in high 
favor with today's youth. The appeal of 
lacrosse may be the appeal of football 
and hockey — controlled violence. 

Lacrosse contains much of the 
roughness of hockey with some of the 
give-and-go of basketball. High-speed 
collisions are frequent, and the referees 
are generous with their penalties — just 
to keep the players honest. The old In- 



dian technique of knocking out an op- 
ponent with the stick across the head is 
generally frowned upon, but today's 
players still have good reasons to wear 
helmets and face masks. 

Lacrosse made its bow at Brown in 
1926, was dropped in 1937 during the 
depression, and regained varsity status 
again in 1962 under Coach Cliff Steven- 
son. Since then, everything has been 
coming up roses. 

The record during the Stevenson 
era shows 118 victories and 45 defeats, 
along with six New England titles, four 



of them in a row. There have been 18 
AIl-Americans, a share of the Ivy League 
title in 1969, and national rankings in 
1966 (5th) and 1971 (7th). 

Coach Stevenson describes lacrosse 
as "mayhem with a crooked stick" and 
adds: "The game is played in a mood 
of composed frenzy, but it's like a dis- 
ease. Once a boy starts playing he can't 
give it up." 

One thing is for sure: lacrosse is 
the "in" sport during Brown's spring 
season. J.B. 



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31 



The 

sports 

scene 



When Bob Rothenberg '65 was run- 
ning track for Brown, he used to kid 
with his coach, Ivan Fuqua. "Someday, 
coach," he'd say, "I'm going to recruit 
you a runner who will make them all 
forget Bob Rothenberg." 

About 18 months ago Rothenberg, 
now a high school teacher in Greenbelt, 
Md., picked up the phone and dialed 
Fuqua's number. "Coach," he said, "I 
think I've found you a good one." 

The "good one" he referred to is 
now a 19-year-old Brown freshman, Jim 
Rudasill by name, who is the owner of 
a long, pretty, reaching stride. He's also 
the owner of several Brown records and 
has been stamped by Coach Fuqua as the 
"fastest human" in Brown's long track 
history. 

In the Heptagonals at Penn in May, 
Rudasill was the only double winner, 
taking the 100 in 9.5 and the 220 in 
21.2, both new Brown records. This per- 
formance took him several strides closer 
to his two current ambitions — to make 
the U.S. Olympic team and to run a 8.9 
100-yard dash. 

"As far as athletics are concerned, 
the big ambition in my life is to do 
what no one has ever done before, break 
the nine-second barrier for the 100," 
Rudasill says. "That mark is going to 
fall some day, just as the four-minute 
mile did. I just hope nobody beats me 
to it." 

Rudasill did his running at McKin- 
ley High in Washington, D.C., and for 
the D.C. Striders, an inner-city club 
formed by Glenda Moody. Only in her 
20's, Miss Moody has the well-earned 
reputation of being able to coach track 
better than many of the men in the pro- 
fession. It was through Miss Moody that 
Rothenberg first heard of Rudasill and 
started selling him on the advantages of 
a Brown education. 

There were several Harvard alumni 
who preferred that Rudasill secure his 



education in Cambridge, Mass. For a 
while it was touch and go as to what the 
final decision would be. 

As Rudasill tells it. Harvard lost 
him because they seemed to be saying 
that Harvard would be good for him. 
On the other side of the coin, the empha- 
sis from Rothenberg, Coach Fuqua, and 
others was that he would be good for 
Brown. 

A pleasant, talkative young man 
with an easy-going style, Rudasill is se- 
rious about his education and about 
track. He knows what he has to do to 
achieve greatness and he's prepared to 
make the necessary sacrifices. 

"Running a 9.5 in the Heps was a 
thrill," he says, "but there are probably 
150 people in this country alone who 
can run the 100 between 9.6 and 9.4. 
What I do to try and improve that time 
is the important thing. 

"I wasn't a super runner in high 
school, but I did have a timetable. I was 
selected to run in the high school All- 
American meet in Chicago last summer 
and I thought that I was right on sched- 
ule. Then, in front of 32,000 people and 
the local television audience, I embar- 
rassed myself by finishing fifth. But this 
woke me up. I realized that I wasn't 
working hard enough. Now I am." 

After a good indoor season, Ruda- 
sill blossomed forth this spring with a 
9.6 clocking in the 100 against Dart- 
mouth. This was Brown's fastest time 
for that event, but a favoring wind kept 
it out of the record books. In the same 
meet he did a 21.9 for the 220, six- 
tenths of a second off the record time of 
21.3 he set earlier in Florida. 

"This kid is a good one," Coach Fu- 
qua says. "He's for real. But he's the 
kind of person who will be just as good 
for Brown on the campus as he is on the 
track. He has a good personality, shows 
qualities of leadership, and has a good 
head — plus a pair of pretty good legs. 

"To win the 100 at the Heps, Jim 
had to beat Dedmond of Army, the 
IC4A outdoor champ last spring and 
indoor title-holder this winter. And in 
taking the 220, Jim edged Collins of 
Penn, one of the greatest athletes in that 
school's history, a boy who carries a 
good bag of credentials." 

There was other important news 
from the Heptagonals this year. Doug 
Price set a meet record with a 59-2 in 
the shot. This was a half-inch off his 
Brown mark and almost 11 inches better 
than the former Hep record of 59-3y4 



set by Mike Berkowitz of Navy in 1964. 

As a team. Brown finished fourth, 
its best ever in the Heps. Host Penn, the 
defending champion, came in first with 
86 points, followed by Navy (70), Prince- 
ton (31 Vz), and Brown (30). Brown's 
best previous finish was seventh in 1949. 

Brown also got points in the Heps 
from Marty Liftman with a fifth-place 
toss of 180 in the hammer and from 
Price and Sam Washington, who were 
second and fourth, respectively, in the 
discus. The Bruins also came up with 
thirds in the mile and 440 relays. 

On the season. Brown went unde- 
feated in three dual meets and finished a 
strong third in the Boston College Re- 
lays. In that event, Bruce Miller won the 
decathlon while placing first in the 100- 
meter dash, high jump, long jump, and 
shot put. 

At the Penn Relays, Miller, who is 
from Wayne, Pa., finished seventh, and 
the 440-yard relay team of four fresh- 
man sprinters set a Brown record of 42 
seconds flat while finishing fifth. The 
group included Neil Steinberg (West 
Haven, Conn.), Lew Chitsulo (Atlantic, 
Iowa), Hal Collins (Washington, D.C), 
and Rudasill. And in the dual meet with 
Dartmouth, Price set a Brown record 
with the shot, heaving it 59-2 V2. 

n With 750 meters to go in the 
Eastern Sprints at Worcester, the experts 
were sitting back smugly, just waiting 
for the final times to be announced to 
make Harvard's victory official. At that 
point the favored Crimson crew was 
leading and appeared to be rowing well. 
Penn was second. Northeastern third, 
and unseeded Brown fourth. 

Then, very quickly the situation 
changed, as both Harvard and Penn 
seemed to tire under the pace. Almost 
before some of the spectators could get 
their attention back on the tace. North- 
eastern and Brown began to move up in 
tandem. 

The finish line was only 500 meters 
away when the Huskies went into a 
power 30 and pulled ahead of Harvard. 
Rowing in their new shell, the Joseph 
Freedman ('26), the Bruins also moved 
up rapidly and passed the Crimson on 
almost their last stroke to gain second 
place. Only once, in 1966, had Brown 
done as well in the Easterns. The victory 
was especially sweet since the Bruins 
beat all seven Ivy League rivals. 

Brown's showing came as some- 
thing of a surprise, since the crew had 



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won only two of four races during the 
spring season and wasn't even seeded in 
Worcester. But Coach Vic Michalson is 
noted for bringing his boat along to a 
peak in time for the Easterns and the 
IRA. 

In the morning trial heat. Brown 
finished first, well ahead of Northeastern, 
which wasn't going all-out. And in the 
finals. Brown's time of 6:15.8 was only 
slightly off the pace set by the Huskies 
of 6:11.5. Harvard, in third place, fin- 
ished at 6:16.1. It has been nine years 
since Brown beat a Harvard crew. 

"Physically, this is the strongest 
crew I've ever had," Coach Michalson 
says. "This is a dedicated group, with 
all of the men working hard on their 
own, in addition to the time they put in 
on the river." 

The Brown JV boat also won its 
morning heat, beating Harvard by two- 
tenths of a second, and then finished 
fourth in the finals. The freshman boat 
failed to qualify for the finals but did 
finish second to Syracuse in the consola- 
tion run. 



At the annual Rowing Association 
banquet at the Refectory the next night, 
John Delia Fave, a junior from Green- 
ville, R.I., was elected captain of next 
year's crew. A graduate of Classical 
High, he was coxswain of the freshman 
crew that won a national championship 
in the IRA's two years ago. 

D One of the top pitching duels of 
the season was scheduled for Aldrich- 
Dexter Field on Friday, May 12, with 
Brown's ace. Bob Lukas, going against 
Harvard's Roz Brayton. The Crimson 
southpaw entered the game with a 7-0 
record and a perfect earned-run average 
of 0.00 for 55 innings. 

Brown was out of the Ivy League 
race by then, but Harvard needed a vic- 
tory to gain at least a tie for the title. 
Paced by sophomore Ted Schoff, Brown 
touched up Brayton for eight hits and 
won the game, 5-3. The key blow was 
a sixth-inning home run by Schoff, the 
first earned run allowed by Brayton in 
1972. 

The next day, Dartmouth, leading 



the Ivy League with a 8-3-1 record, came 
to town for a double-header. The In- 
dians also had an undefeated pitcher to 
throw at the Bruins, Jim Metzler, who 
was 6-0. With right fielder Schoff knock- 
ing in two runs and with sophomore Don 
Huot pitching himself out of a series of 
jams, the Bears won, 4-1, a victory that 
cost Dartmouth the Ivy League title. 

In his first year at the helm. Coach 
George "Woody" Wordworth had his 
Bruins in contention through most of 
the season. Then on successive week- 
ends Brown dropped doubleheaders to 
Cornell and Yale, with three of the de- 
feats coming by one run. That finished 
Brown's chances for this year. The 
final Ivy record was 6-6 and the overall 
mark, 16-13. 

Schroff, who alternated between the 
outfield and first base, paced the club in 
hitting with a .365 average. He also led 
in hits (31), doubles (9), and runs batted 
in (19). Scott Bingham had a .333 av- 
erage and sophomore Mark Gittler hit 
.309. Another second-year man, catcher 
Steve Richter, had three homers. 



Jim Rudasill breaks the wire to win the 100-yard dash in the meet with URL 




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In the pitching department, Lukas 
{BAM, April 1972) had nine complete 
games in nine starts and posted a 6-3 
record. In 70 innings he allowed 50 hits, 
12 earned runs, walked 25, and struck 
out 72. His earned run average was 1.54. 

Bill Livesey, the man who recruited 
Lukas and who coached him in the Cape 
Cod League last summer, was on hand 
to watch the big Bruin right-hander beat 
Harvard. When it came to the late inn- 
ings, Livesey said: "Watch Luke now. 
He smells the victory and he's really 
going to pour it on." 

On the freshman front. Bill Almon, 
the highly-regarded infielder from War- 
wick, batted .536 in leading his team to 
a 10-2 season. Almon passed up the ma- 
jor league draft to attend Brown. 

The Cubs had several other fine var- 
sity prospects, including George McNa- 
mara, a .406 hitter who led the team in 
doubles, triples, home runs (3), and runs 
batted in (17); and John Monsees, who 
batted .380. The team had a number of 
good pitching prospects, with Steve 
Grant from East Providence pacing the 
staff with a 4-0 record and a 0.85 ERA. 

D For the fourth straight year. 
Coach Cliff Stevenson's lacrosse team 
captured the New England title, beating 
UMass in the key game, 10-6. But the 
loss of high-scoring Steve Russo hurt the 
team down the stretch in Ivy competi- 
tion. The Bruins were upset, 8-6, by Penn 
and then dropped a 14-7 decision to Cor- 
nell in the final game of the year to end 
4-2 among the Ivies. 

Russo, a junior attackman, led the 
team in scoring with 33 points. After his 
injury, the scoring slack was taken up 
by sophomore Dave White and senior 
Joe Dougherty, each with 25 points, and 
senior John Pearson with 23. Pearson 
was particularly effective in the late-sea- 
son loss to Penn, coming up with four 
goals. 

The freshman team ended with a 9-2 
record. Chuck Hoff (Baltimore, Md.) 
scored well for the Cubs, picking up 14 
goals in a one-week span as the fresh- 
men defeated UConn and the Army 
Plebes. 

n Golf enjoyed another successful 
season on College Hill, as the Bruins 
equalled last season's 9-3 mark. Brown 
was fourth in the EIGA championships 
at Yale and finished that tournament as 
the top New England team. The four 
low scores that counted for the Bruins 



were 78-76-154 by Lee Martinson (Wyc- 
koff, N.J.), 77-78-155 by Tyler Chase 
(Orange, N.J.), 78-83-160 by Dick Stev- 
ens (Waterbury, Conn.), and 81-80-161 
by Capt. Bill Roland (Providence). 

n The tennis team closed fast, win- 
ning six of its final seven matches, and 
then came in a strong third in the New 
Englands. The Bruins surprised by com- 
piling 40 points, just two behind Har- 
vard and Dartmouth, who tied for first. 

An unseeded freshman, Dave Miller 
of New York City, came out of nowhere 
to advance to the finals of both the sin- 
gles and doubles competition. 



Final 
Spring Scoreboard 

(Apr. 22 to May 15) 



Baseball 





Varsity (16-13) 


Brown 


12, Princeton 11 


Brown 


4, Columbia 2 


Colum 


7ia 6, Brown 3 


Brown 


3, UConn 2 


Brown 


4, Army 3 


Cornell 3, Brown 2 


Cornell 4, Brown 3 


Provid 


ence 6, Brown 


Browii 


11, Providence 4 


Yale 2, 


Brown 1 


Yale 6, 


Brown 2 


Brown 


4, URI 1 


URI 3, 


Brown 


Brown 


5, Harvard 3 


Brown 


4, Dartmouth 1 


Dartmouth 3, Brown 




Freshman (10-2) 


Brown 


5, Worcester Acad. 1 


Brown 


11, Bishop Hend. 1 


Brown 


13, Bishop Hend. 2 


UConr 


]V 4, Brown 


Brown 


18, Yale 4 


Brown 


14, Attleboro 


Brown 


16, Northeastern 2 


Brown 


3, Pilgrim High 2 


Brown 


7, Pilgrim High 4 


Brown 


6, R.I. Jr. Coll. 


Harvard 3, Brown 1 


Brown 


17, Leicester Jr. 2 



Brown 8, Princeton 5 
Brown 15, UConn 4 
Penn 8, Brown 6 
Cornell 14, Brown 7 

Freshman (9-2) 

Farmingdale 11, Brown 8 
Brown 7, Yale 6 
Brown 13, Harvard 8 
Brown 12, Dartmouth 3 
Nassau C.C. 10, Brown 4 
Brown 13, Andover 6 
Brown 18, Mass. La. Club 1 
Brown 21, UConn 1 
Brown 15, Army Plebes 6 
Brown 12, Tabor 7 
Brown 18, UMass 9 

Track 

Varsity (3-0) 

Brown 91, Holy Cross 63 
Brown 98, URI 56 
Brown 92, Dartmouth 61 
4th — in Heps 



Golf 



Lacrosse 

Varsity (9-4) 

Brown 13, Harvard 2 
Brown 10, UMass 6 



Varsity (9-3) 

Brown 5, UConn 2 
Brown llVz, Amherst lOVz 
Brown lOVi, Middlebury 2% 
Brown 413, Dartmouth 434 
Harvard 394, Brown 396 
Brown 389, Boston Coll. 395 

Tennis 

Varsity (6-7) 

Harvard 7, Brown 2 
Princeton 7, Brown 2 
Columbia 6, Brown 3 
Brown 8, URI 1 
Brown 9, Army 
Brown 6, Cornell 3 
Brown 8, MIT 1 
Yale 5, Brown 4 
Brown 7, Providence 
Brown 9, UConn 
3rd in N.E.'s 

Crew 

Varsity (4-2) 

Harvard 6:34, Brown 6:42 

Northeastern 6:01, Brown 6:02.8, Columbia 

6:37.5 
Brown 7:19, Syracuse 7:30 
2nd in Easterns 

Junior Varsity (3-2) 

Harvard 6:52, Brown 6:57 
Northeastern 5:52.6, Brown 6:01.2 
Brown 7:20.6, Syracuse 7:36.6 

Freshman (3-1) 

Harvard 6:47, Brown 7:07 
Brown 5:50.6, Northeastern 5:50.9 
Syracuse 7:16.1, Brown 7:23.6 



34 



On the Sidelines 



Written by Jay Barry 



To play or not to play 

For the past 13 years, one of the 
country's most prestigious college bas- 
ketball tourneys has been the Quaker 
City Festival. But in recent seasons the 
City of Brotherly Love has shown a lack 
of affection for the Festival. Result: a 
move from Philadelphia to the new 
Civic Center in Providence in December, 
1974. 

Coach Gerry Alaimo's Bruins will 
be included in the eight-team field that 
will compete in this ECAC-sponsored 
event. Also in competition will be Holy 
Cross, St. Johns, Assumption, Drake, 
South Carolina, Providence College, and 
URI. 

The 1975 Festival is also committed 
to Providence, and there is a feeling 
that the Festival Committee would be 
happy to see the tournament stay at the 
11,000-capacity Civic Center for a while. 
But there is one small problem. To as- 
sure the tournament of at least a modi- 
cum of financial success, the ECAC feels 
that the three local teams — Brown, PC, 
and URI — will have to compete annually. 
And so far, the local schools haven't 
made that commitment. 

It all centers around the pesky prob- 
lem of recruiting. Providence College will 
play all its home games at the Civic Cen- 
ter starting this winter. URI and Brown 
will play some of their games there. It's 
only natural that PC — and to a lesser 
extent, URI — will want to build teams 
that will fill the Civic Center. This means 
that their intensive recruitment programs 
must at least be maintained, if not ex- 
panded. And one of the ways you recruit 
is to send your basketball team out on 
the road, especially during the Christmas 
season, when the Civic Center Festival 
will be taking place. Brown has also sent 
its team on the road during the holidays, 
but mainly to get the players in front 
of alumni groups in various parts of the 
country. 

"If we played in the Civic Center 
Festival every year, we'd be facing some 
of the best teams in the East," Coach 
Alaimo says. "This appeals to me. But 
my preference is to travel every few 



years during that Christmas break. For 
one thing, it's good exposure to alumni 
who might otherwise never see their 
team in action. 

"And, let's face it. We recruit, too!" 

Honors for two Bruins 

Words Unlimited, a group of Rhode 
Island newspapermen and sportscasters, 
has been holding awards dinners for 26 
years, during which time a number of 
Brown athletes and coaches have been 
among those honored. Two Bruins were 
recognized at this year's banquet. Rusty 
Tyler '71 and Billy Almon '75 of War- 
wick, R.I. 

Tyler received a "special achieve- 
ment" award, which was a kind way of 
saying that he had been nosed out by 
Ernie DiGregorio of Providence College 
in the voting for Rhode Island athlete of 
the year. There were some who were sur- 
prised at the result of the vote. Tyler, who 
averaged 22.7 points for Coach Gerry 
Alaimo's basketball team, set six Brown 
records, scored 46 points in his swan 
song against URI, and was named by the 
Basketball Writers of Rhode Island as 
the outstanding player in the state. 

Almon, who played at Veterans Me- 
morial High in Warwick, was honored as 
Rhode Island's schoolboy athlete of the 
year. He was the state's leading scorer in 
basketball (second in New England) and 
was so highly thought of as a baseball 
player that he was drafted number one 
by two major league clubs. 

Jack Kvancz, the former Boston Col- 
lege basketball great who is assistant 
basketball coach at Brown and head 
freshman baseball mentor, speaks highly 
of Almon, who passed up the big base- 
ball bonus money to come to Brown. 

"Bill had an outstanding season this 
winter with our great freshman basket- 
ball team," Kvancz says, "and he's 
shown his class on the baseball diamond 
this spring. He could be the best all- 
around athlete in college. 

"It's just too bad that a boy with 
the physical ability to be playing against 
the New York Yankees right now finds 
himself instead playing against teams 
like Quonset Point and Pilgrim High 
School." 

A quick look at the Cross 

Those who had been waiting anx- 
iously to see Holy Cross back on the 
Brown football schedule had better get 



to Brown Field early on Sept. 23. These 
old rivals haven't met since 1953 and 
now, because of a schedule snafu, this 
year's game will probably be the last 
meeting until at least 1976, possibly 
1978. 

The Crusaders were scheduled to 
replace Colgate on the Brown schedule 
the last Saturday in October. However, 
when the contracts were drawn up the 
date settled on was the third Saturday in 
October. That meant that Brown would 
either have to play a double header — 
Dartmouth in Hanover and Holy Cross 
in Providence — or re-schedule the game. 

When you're a member of the Ivy 
League, changing a football schedule can 
sometimes be difficult. The Ivy League 
agreement says that teams may not open 
the season until the last Saturday in 
September. To have an exception granted. 
Athletic Director Andy Geiger had to se- 
cure the permission of the League's 
other athletic directors, then the deans, 
and finally the eight Ivy presidents. 

Unfortunately, Holy Cross can't 
continue to play Brown on that third 
Saturday in September — at least not un- 
til 1976. 

Things could have been worse. The 
scheduling mistake — which was made 
a number of years back — might not have 
been discovered until next Oct. 21. 

Comments 

Woody Woodworth, first-year base- 
ball coach, on the eve of his team's trip 
to Florida for spring training: "There 
are two jobs that I'm sure of as we go 
south. One of them is mine." 



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The Classes 



f\/l Seven loyal members of the class 
\/(7 met several times during the spring 
season, both to plan the June reunion and 
to check on the progress of the '06 Fund. 
Present at the Wayland Manor round table 
were Class Agent Sid Bellows, Walter 
Briggs, Alex Burgess, Henry Carpenter, 
Harold James, Joe Smith, and Steve Wright. 

'* ^ Clarence E. Ayres recalls that dur- 
JLmU irig his freshman year he had ac- 
cumulated something in excess of 40 chapel 
cuts and was ordered to see Dean Meikle- 
john. "When my turn came," he says, "I 
pushed open the dean's door rather diffi- 
dently. The dean's voice rang out, 'Come 
right in, Mr. Ayres.' I was dumb struck that 
he knew my name, since this was my first 
contact with Dean Meiklejohn. His was the 
most acute intelligence that 1 have ever 
known. However, many years later he told 
me that he used to attend chapel regularly 
and sit on the platform identifying faces 
with a seating chart. Incidentally, he ex- 
cused my cuts." 

leroy F. Burroughs has been a partner 
with Miller & George, investment securities, 
in Providence since 1923. He bought a 250- 
acre farm near Kingston, R.I., in 1931, one 
part pasture and one part woods, %vhere he 
and his wife spend the summer months. 
Roy served for 20 years as president of the 
South County Art Association. For the past 
32 years he has been married to Marjorie 
Phillips Wood '11. 

Edgar C. Buzzell and Virginia are liv- 
ing at the Congregational retirement home 
in Whitewater, Wise. He was active as an 
undergraduate in Sock & Buskin and the 
Brown Daily Herald. Living in Delavan, 
Wise, he served as town treasurer for 26 
years and as a member of the zoning board 
and fire department. 

William H. Dinkins, president of Selma 
College from 1935 to 1950, is currently 
writing a weekly column in the Selma Sun- 
Post, a weekly Negro newspaper. He has 
fond memories of the daily chapel services 
while he was an undergraduate, especially 
those at which President Faunce spoke. 

Jerry Donovan is a partner with the 
New York law firm of Sullivan, Donovan, 
Hanrahan, McGovern and Lane. A major 
in the field artillery during World War I, 
Jerry has had a distinguished law career. 
He has served as an attorney for the Mu- 
seum of Modern Art and a director of the 
New York University Law Alumni Associa- 
tion. During his undergraduate years, Jerry 
lived near Andrews Field, as did the foot- 
ball trainer, Charlie Huggins. "While foot- 
ball was in progress, Charlie would start 
toward the campus at 7:30 each evening to 
forestall any carousing by the members of 
the squad," Donovan says. "Several times 
he met me going in the opposite direction. 
Finally, one night he said, 'For God's sake, 
Jerry, do you have to see her every night?' 
I said, 'Wait a minute. Hug. I teach night 
school at Branch Avenue and then come 



right home.' Profuse apologies from Charlie 
followed." 

Ill since December, Ken Nash wasn't 
able to make the reunion. He did join in 
the general reminiscing, however, recalling 
the days residing in University Hall during 
his freshman year with his three roommates 
— Earle Bates, Artie Staff, and Del Orcutt. 
He remembers the two separated halves of 
the table which had to be propped on one's 
knee for study and the toilet facility three 
flights down and its "substitute" used on 
special occasions. 

Arthur Newell, a senior lecturer with 
the British-American Associates in London 
for 40 years until his retirement in January 
of 1971, has done some reminiscing about 
his 60th Reunion from England. He re- 
members vividly some of the horse-play of 
the annual freshman-sophomore night, in- 
cluding the chase "over back yards" some 
of his freshman cohorts gave Charlie Sisson 
'11, later the governor of Rhode Island. 
"One of Brown's greatest contributions," he 
says, "was giving me a host of firm friends 
from every walk of life. Too many have 
passed on — but the memories are still 
strong." 

Bill Sprackling, who has been enjoying 
the pleasant California weather for several 
years now, reports that he and Mrs. Sprack- 
ling have moved to 1201 Delresto Drive, 
Beverly Hills, Calif. 

R. Stanley Thomas spent his life in 
teaching, serving on the faculty at Brown, 
Ohio, Michigan, and Russell Sage College. 
He was at the latter school 25 years, retir- 
ing in 1954. He and his wife have lived in 
Princeton, N.J., for the past 17 years. They 
travel a great deal and have two round-the- 
world trips to their credit. 

•^ /^ Oxford Press has just released 
^17 Edith Edwards Waldron's second 
collection of poems, entitled Daily Resur- 
rections. A copy of the book has been 
given to the John Hay Library. 

»* f^ Dr. Ralph DiLeone remains busy as 
\_/ a Providence physician, although 
he does curtail some of his appointments 
on occasions to enjoy things such as sailing 
with his son and doing some gardening. He 
and Mrs. DiLeone have five grandchildren. 
A memorial to the late Earl M. Pearce 
and family, devoted members of St. Mar- 
tin's Episcopal Church of Providence, has 
been installed in the church. The memorial 
consists of six small stained-glass lights in 
the doors at the entrance to the church. 

»* ^% Arthur J. Levy, a partner in the 
Jl,Z7 Providence law firm of Levy, Good- 
man, Semonoff, and Gorin, has been ap- 
pointed to a three-year term as a member 
of the National Alumni Council of Boston 
University. 

^ f\ ^Villiam L. Dewart sends along a 
^miXJ new address: 904 Allegheny, Ma- 
sonic Homes, Elizabeth Township, Pa. 



^ ^ Kathleen V. Boyd has been ap- 
mAmi pointed state director for Rhode 
Island of the National Retired Teachers As- 
sociation. 

Dr. Lawrence Whitcomh has been 
named an honorary member of the Penn- 
sylvania Academy of Science for his out- 
standing contributions in the field of ge- 
ology. Dr. Whitcomb was an associate pro- 
fessor of geology at Lehigh when he re- 
tired in 1965 after 35 years of service to 
the university. A specialist in Paleozoic 
stratigraphy. Dr. Whitcomb is a past presi- 
dent of the Pennsylvania Academy of Sci- 
ence and a fellow of the Geological Society 
of America and the American Association 
for the Advancement of Science. In 1964, 
Dr. Whitcomb received the $1,000 Lindback 
Foundation Award for Senior Staff, which 
honors distinguished teaching by a senior 
member of the Lehigh faculty. 

^ ^ Charles Soforenko, an active trial 
^U w lawyer for 35 years and long iden- 
tified with community sports activity, has 
been named special counsel and collective 
bargaining agent in Fall River, Mass., by 
Mayor Wilfred C. Driscoll '49. During the 
1940's, Charlie owned and financed local 
semi-professional baseball and basketball 
teams and played an important role in fos- 
tering interest in both sports. 

^ /I ^0'^'"^ N . Fowler, editor of the 
^"X Mansfield (Mass.) News, has been 
honored by the New England Press Associa- 
tion. He received the Outstanding Achieve- 
ment Award before 500 editors, publishers, 
and newsmen at the annual awards dinner 
of the NEPA at the Sheraton-Boston Hotel. 
His award said, in part: "For outstanding 
and significant contributions to community 
journalism for more than 50 years. During 
this period, you have given dedicated serv- 
ice to your fellow man and to your com- 
munity. As an editor, journalist, and leader, 
you have earned recognition, respect, and 
affection attained by few men." 

^ y' The Class of 1926 has invited the 
^O Pembroke Class of 1926 to be its 
guest at a cocktail party on Friday, June 2, 
at 5:30 p.m. in the lounge of Littlefield Hall. 
The women will go from there to their last 
Alumnae Dinner and the men will attend 
the Alumni Dinner at Sharpe Refectory. 



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Samuel J. McCormick is resident 
manager of the Simmons Division 
or josten's in Attleboro, Mass. 

Anthony V. O'Malley has retired from 
the Metropolitan (Massachusetts) District 
Commission as head construction engineer 
after more than 45 years of state service. 
He began his career in 1926 with the 
Metropolitan Water Supply Commission 
and became head construction engineer in 
1951. 

The Rev. W. Wyeth Willard has been 
elected moderator of the Boston Presbytery, 
United Presbyterian Church. He is pastor 



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of First Presbyterian Church, Waltham, 
Mass. As a U.S. Marine Corps chaplain dur- 
ing World War II, he won two Presidential 
citations and the Legion of Merit. 

Theta Holmes Wolf has been promoted 
to full professor at the University of Illi- 
nois, Chicago, where she has been on the 
psychology staff for six years. 

<^ ^ Dr. Julinn L. Solinger, who is chair- 
^£ Jj man of the biology department at 

Simmons College in Boston, retires in June 

after 33 years at the school. 

^ y^ Albert Goldstein has been elected 
^Jl^' t° 3 one-year term as chairman of 
the board at Southeastern Massachusetts 
University. He is manager of Kaplan Fur- 
niture Company, New Bedford, Mass. 

Allen L. Simmons has retired as vice- 
president and senior trust officer of the 
Merchants and Savings Bank in Janesville, 
Wis. He came to the M & S Bank in 1950 
after serving a number of years with Chi- 
cago banks. At the time of his retirement, 
Allen was in charge of the bank's trust de- 
partment. 

^f\ Donald S. Flynn and his wife, 
^\J Anne Crisko Flynn, have retired 
and are living at 451 Rudder Road, Naples, 
Fla. 

Verna Follett Spaeth and her husband, 
John, have moved to 39 Chestnut Court, 
Cromwell Hills, Conn., after 41 years in 
Middletown. Their seventh grandchild, John 
Holden Spaeth, was born last June 30. 

Irene Mitchell Wright, living in Naples, 
Fla., with her husband, Thomas, entertained 
the American Association of University 
Women at its Christmas luncheon with her 
stories of "Christmas in Other Lands." 

^•* Edward C. Ahem, former territory 
^7 JL manager in Rhode Island for Mobil 
Oil Corporation, retired last January. 

^ ^ G. Kenneth Eaton and his wife, 
^^ Mary Manley Eaton, have a spe- 
cial interest in the 1972 Commencement. 
Their son, Gerald, is a member of the Class 
of 1972, the last of four Eaton children to 
graduate from Brown during the past 13 
years. 

^ M John J. Cosgrove, Jr., is a self-em- 
^ "X ployed C.P.A. in Phoenix, Ariz. 

Caesar M. Danesi is a consultant with 
Stone and Webster Engineering Corpora- 
tion in Boston. 

Governor Sargent has nominated 
Paul A. Tamhurello to the Massachusetts 
Superior Court. He had served as city so- 
licitor in Pittsfield and town counsel for 
Lenox, both in Massachusetts. 

^ P" Miller Simon is an associate TV 
^ ij producer with WNET/13, Educa- 
tional Broadcasting Corporation, New York 
City. 

^ /^ Helen Johns Carroll, whose hus- 
^ V band died last year, is supervisor 

of 71 special education classes in School 

District #17 in Sumter, S.C. 

Charles L. Drury has been elected vice- 



president of advertising of Eaton & How- 
ard, Inc., Boston. 

Joseph Cerstl, a pharmacist, is presi- 
dent and treasurer of Gerstl's Pharmacy, 
Inc., in Bridgeport, Conn. 

^^¥ Felix J. Freeman, Jr., is director of 
>J £ foreign operations for J. Aron & 
Company, Inc., in New York City. 

^ rt Vincent L. Bentotj has been named 
^O general sales manager of Dayco 
Corporation in Dayton, Ohio, and will work 
in the firm's automotive replacement sales 
division. Vin has had 27 years of sales and 
marketing experience in the automotive re- 
placement industry. 

Roderick M. Chisholm, professor of 
philosophy and Romeo Elton Professor of 
Natural Theology at Brown, has been 
elected president of the Metaphysical So- 
ciety of America for the coming academic 
year. He has been a member of the Brown 
faculty since 1947. 

^ ^J Stuart S. Golding has been elected 
^Z^ 3 director of the Bank of Seminole, 
Seminole, Fla. He is responsible for all com- 
mercial development of the U.S. Home Cor- 
poration and is a partner in Seminole Mall. 
Long active in shopping center development 
and management, Stuart entered the field 
in Boston in 1955 and has developed 12 
shopping centers in Florida. 

Riley Hughes (GS) is associate profes- 
sor of English at Georgetown University, 
where he also serves as university editor 
and director of the Georgetown Writers 
Conference. His older daughter, Winifred, 
is now attending graduate school at Brown. 

Dr. Robert V. Lewis, a Providence in- 
ternist, has been installed as the 113th pres- 
ident of the Rhode Island Medical Society. 
He succeeds a fellow Brown man. Dr. Wil- 
liam J. MacDonald '40. 

/t •* William F. Allen, Jr., has been 
^t JL elected president of Stone & Web- 
ster Engineering Corporation in Boston. 
Bill joined the company in 1948, becoming 
a vice-president in 1968 and a director in 
1969. 

Carl Barus has been promoted to full 
professor in the engineering department at 
Swarthmore College. Carl, who joined the 
Swarthmore faculty in 1952, held a Na- 
tional Science Foundation grant from 1958 
to 1963 and served as a visiting professor 
in Nigeria in 1963-64 under a Ford Founda- 
tion program. 

Dr. Gilbert S. Panson, chairman of the 
chemistry department at Rutgers Newark, 
has served this year as acting dean of the 
Newark College of Arts and Sciences. He 
is completing his twenty-sixth year on the 
NCAS faculty, the last eight as head of the 
chemistry department. 

Mark Nickerson (GS) is chairman of 
the department of pharmacology at McGill 
University in Montreal. 

John Shartenberg, Rhode Island district 
manager for the Bureau of Business Practice 



Division of Prentice-Hall, Inc., has been 
honored for attaining a spot in the top five 
percent group in sales throughout the na- 
tion during 1971. 

R. James Smith, Jr., has been promoted 
to vice-president of the recently-opened 
Reed & Prince Manufacturing Company in 
High Point, N.C. 

Dr. Walter E. Thompson (GS) has ac- 
cepted a position as head of analytic re- 
search at the Penick Laboratory of Corn 
Products International in Orange, N.J. 

A ^ John W. Church, a retired Naval 
'Jk^mi flying officer, is a real estate broker 
with Aqua-Terra Enterprises in Camden, 
Maine. 

Barbara Wiley Morley and her hus- 
band, James, have bought an old (circa 
1800) Dutch farm in Closter, N.J. Her hus- 
band is professor of government at Co- 
lumbia University and director of the East 
Asia Institute. Barbara is doing work with 
a Japanese-American women's group and 
teaching English to a group of Japanese 
and Korean women. 

jt ^ Eugene G. Balassie has been elected 
■ft^ executive vice-president and chief 
operating officer of The Valspar Corpora- 
tion in its Minneapolis (Minn.) office. He 
joined the company in January and will be 
responsible for all of the firm's line divi- 
sions. 

Laurel Raymond Hoffmann is serving 
her first year as a member of the board of 
trustees of the Fullerton Union High School 
district in Whittier, Calif., the fourth larg- 
est high school district in the state. In her 
campaign, she defeated three male oppo- 
nents in what the newspapers called a "land- 
slide victory." 

John B. Price has been named business 
manager of finance at Brown. His area of 
responsibility includes the controller's office, 
purchasing, the office of grant and contract 
services, and administrative data processing. 
He will also work closely with the treas- 
urer's office on financial matters involved in 
Brown's internal operations. 

jf M Werner E. Klemmer, president and 
'Jt^t chief executive officer of the Frank- 
lin Bank, Paterson, N.J., is currently serv- 
ing as president of the Passaic County 
Bankers' Association. 

jf g» Janet Cameron Claflin, recently 
■jfc ^ appointed secretary of the League 
of Women Voters of Michigan, will be at- 
tending the national convention of the LWV 
as a delegate from the Kalamazoo area. She 
sang with the Kalamazoo Bach Festival 
Chorus this past winter. 

Denyce Hadley Sampson is working for 
the Los Angeles (Calif.) Probation Depart- 
ment preparing juvenile and adult court 
reports. She also is a volunteer co-leader of 
a weekly multi-family counseling group. 
Her son, Thomas, is a student at Harbor 
Junior College in Los Angeles, and her 
daughter, Ellen, is a student at San Fran- 
cisco State College. 



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M />" Hugh B. Allison has been elected a 
^tl^ director of the Providence Gas 
Company. He is president of the Chemical 
Products Corporation of East Providence. 

Philip Lapides, president of Harvey 
Ltd., Providence, and Harvey Ltd. of St. 
Louis, reports that he and his brother, Har- 
vey '50, have completely renovated and ex- 
panded the East Side shop. Well known for 
its men's fashions, Harvey Ltd. started in 
1949 as a university shop, catering to stu- 
dents. Since then, there have been three 
expansions and an expanded clientele. 

Dr. Raymond E. Moffitt, medical direc- 
tor of the Cedar Crest Nursing Center in 
Cranston, has been appointed chairman of 
the Extended Care Facilities Conference for 
the State of Rhode Island by the State 
Nursing Home Association. 

yt p» Leonard S. Hermann has been ap- 
^t / pointed corporation counsel for the 
city of Norwalk, Conn., where he resides 
and where he has been practicing law for 
the past 17 years. He continues as a part- 
ner in a local law firm and handles the post 
of city attorney on a part-time basis. 

Dr. Charles H. Watts, II, president of 
Bucknell University, has been named to the 
board of corporators of The Peddie School. 

Jt rt Edward H. Cafferty has had 30 
~Jt^y years of service with New England 
Telephone and is now division equipment 
installation manager in Boston. 

Ceorge E. Cregson, Jr., has received an 
A.M. degree in education from Southern 
Methodist University in Dallas and is teach- 
ing in a high school there. 

James D. Kilpatrick heads The Tillman 
Survey, Inc., Providence-based investment 
advisory service. 

Dana C. Leavitt is a group vice-presi- 
dent of Transamerica Corporation in San 
Francisco. 

A Q Robert T. Calkin, his wife, Wini- 
■Je37 fred Blacher Calkin '52, and their 
three daughters, including Ellen '75, recently 
returned from a trip to Egypt, Lebanon, 
Cyprus, and Israel. Bob is a director and on 
the executive board of the Providence Cor- 
poration, a private non-profit anti-poverty 
agency. 

Richard A. Markey is an account ex- 
ecutive with the stock brokerage firm of 
CBWL-Hayden Stone Inc., Greenwich, 
Conn. 

William A. Taylor has been appointed 
vice-president for marketing of the Con- 
sumer Products Division of Heublein, Inc., 
Hartford. He has responsibility for the 
division's product planning, advertising, 
and general marketing activities. 

Arthur Urrows is a principal with Ur- 
rows Associates, a public relations firm 
specializing in financial relations and medi- 
cal and technical public communications. 
Its offices are at 120 East 56th St., New 
York City. 

tlTf\ Donald Aronson, a certified public 
^\J accountant, has been appointed 

town representative to the Great Neck 

(N.Y.) Planning Council. 



Randall W. Bliss, Providence attorney, 
served as 1972 Cancer Crusade chairman in 
Rhode Island. 

Theodore B. Brown has been elected 
resident vice-president of the Hartford 
branch of Automobile Mutual Insurance 
Company of America. He had been branch 
manager of the firm, which has its home 
office in Providence. 

Stephen F. Burke, Jr., is president of 
Coordinated Financial Planning, Inc., a Bos- 
ton insurance firm which is the general 
agent for Manhattan Life Insurance Com- 
pany. 

James V. Deforest, vice-president of 
the northern division of Peckham Indus- 
tries, Inc., of White Plains, N.Y., has been 
elected a member of its board of directors. 

Donald W. Heiferman has been named 
administrative assistant and assistant man- 
ager of American National Bank and Trust's 
Boonton (N.J.) office. 

Charles C. Madigan has joined First 
Jersey National Bank as a vice-president 
in charge of the bank's business develop- 
ment program in Morris County, N.J. The 
bank is scheduled to open a new branch 
shortly in East Hanover, N.J., and Charles 
will be based at this facility. 

jJJ»* Perry S. Herst, Jr., has been elected 
^ ^. senior vice-president of Tishman 
Realty & Construction Company, Inc., in 
Los Angeles, Calif., a nationwide real es- 
tate investment and building firm. In charge 
of Tishman's West Coast operations since 
1968, he will continue to direct all new 
property development as well as leasing and 
management for the firm's 12 major high- 
rise office buildings in Los Angeles and San 
Francisco. 

Alice Lecht Koret has received an A.M. 
degree in philosophy at the University of 
Rochester. Her husband, Sydney, is director 
of the Convalescent Hospital for Children 
in Rochester. They have two children, 
Richard, 13, and Peter, 12. 

jj" ^ Ceorge N. Diederich is working on 
^ ^al the Anheuser-Busch account at 
Gardner Advertising in St. Louis, with spe- 
cial responsibility for corporate affairs. He's 
involved in the marketing of advertising for 
Busch Gardens, A-B's entry info the family 
entertainment business. 

William E. Downey, Jr., is back in 
Rhode Island, serving with his wife as co- 
pastor of the Edgewood Congregational 
Church, Cranston. Bill is also working on 
his doctorate in theology at Boston Univer- 
sity, with orals due this month. He hopes 
to do his dissertation in some subject re- 
lating developmental psychology and theol- 
ogy- 

Roland Dunn has been serving since 
August as director of purchasing for all 
operations of Swindell-Dressier Company, a 
division of Pullman, Inc., of Pittsburgh. 

Winifred Blacher Calkin and her hus- 
band. Bob '49, and their three daughters, 
including Ellen '75, recently returned from 
a trip to Egypt, Lebanon, Cyprus, and Is- 
rael. 

Daniel M. Garr is president of the 
newly-formed corporation called Greene- 
Douglas Maintenance Industries, Inc., in 



Rochester, N.Y., with branches in Syracuse, 
Geneva, and Wayland, N.Y. 

/. B. Huston, Jr., has been assigned to 
Maine as branch manager with Pitney 
Bowes in its Portland office. 

James L. Muller is a partner in the law 
firm of Melnik, Muller, Morgan & Wein- 
berg, with offices in Haddonfield, N.J. He 
has two sons, David and Eric. 

John H. Norberg, Jr., is the new man- 
ager of truck station marketing for the 
eastern area of the Atlantic-Richfield Com- 
pany, with headquarters in Philadelphia. 
He joined the firm as a retail specialist in 
1955 and most recently served as district 
sales manager in Alexandria, Va. 

g ^ Ceorge A. Bender has left Loomis, 
^ ^J Sayles & Company to become vice- 
presiaent and resident manager of the Los 
Angeles (Calif.) office of Alliance Capital 
Management Corporation. 

The Rev. John J. Corcoran, M.M., has 
been appointed to a five-year term as re- 
gional superior of the MaryknoU Missioners 
in South Korea. He will have responsibility 
for more than 60 MaryknoU priests and 
brothers in 30 parishes. Father Corcoran is 
a veteran of nine years in the Korea mis- 
sions. 

g jf William M. Brigden and his wife 
^"Jt of Pound Ridge, N.Y., have an- 
nounced the birth of a son, Nicolas Wil- 
liam, on June 19. Bill has been named a 
vice-president of Coordinated Communica- 
tions, Inc., in New York City, and will 
supervise the Continental Can Company 
account at CCI. 

Haven P. Cammett is a computer sys- 
tems analyst with the Florida National Bank 
in Jacksonville. He's also a data processing 
consultant to the council auditor in Jack- 
sonville. 

Edward W. O'Malley of the Pittsburgh 
group office of Massachusetts Mutual Life 
Insurance Company has been selected, for 
the second year in a row, as his company's 
regional Group Man of the Year. 

Alfred J. Petteruti, president of Ocean 
Data Equipment Corporation, has moved 
his operations from East Providence to 
Warwick, R.I. 

Guy Volterra, an assistant public de- 
fender for Bristol, Dukes, and Nantucket 
Counties in Massachusetts, has been named 
an assistant district attorney for the south- 
ern district of the state. 

Jean MacPhail Weber, director of the 
Parish Art Museum in Southampton, N.Y., 
is the recipient of a State Council grant 
through the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 
After a workshop seminar in May at the 
International Council of Museums in Paris, 
she planned to travel to Amsterdam, Ley- 
den, Prague, Oxford, and London for inde- 
pendent research. Jean is married to Dr. 
Richard Weber, associate professor of his- 
tory at Southampton College, and has three 
children. 

g g Thomas N. Casselman and his 
^ W wife, Barbara Cohen Casselman, 
and their children, Tobi, 14, and Mark, 10, 
live in Minneapolis, Minn., where Tom is a 
computer scientist with Minneapolis Honey- 



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well. Barbara is active with the League of 
Women Voters, currently working on its 
ecology program. 

Dr. William R. Ferrante (GS) has been 
appointed vice-president for academic af- 
fairs at the University of Rhode Island. He 
had been dean of the graduate school at 
URI. 

Elizabeth Ei'ans Hamilton and husband, 
Barry, and their three children, Lucy, 15, 
Julie, 12, and Betsy, 10, are in Hawaii while 
Barry finishes his tour of duty. He is com- 
manding officer of the USS Nathan Hale, a 
Polaris submarine. 

Elizabeth Wirth Hardwick and her hus- 
band, Leo, have announced the birth of 
their second child, a son, James Leo, on 
Sept. 11. 

Artemis W. Joukowsky has been ap- 
pointed president of American International 
Underwriters, Ltd., in Hong Kong. He had 
most recently served as vice-president and 
general manager of AIU Mediterranean, 
Inc., with headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon. 
American International Underwriters is a 
part of American International Group, Inc., 
whose members are representatives for 
property, casualty, and life insurance in the 
U.S., Canada, and 130 foreign countries. 

James O'Hara, who had been public 
relations supervisor at GOP state headquar- 
ters in Hartford for the past four years, has 
resigned to take a public relations position 
in the Connecticut State Labor Department. 

S/1 Nancy Turner Bowers is employed 
^ ^/ as office manager for the League 
of Women Voters of Florida. Her address: 
6315 Lenneal Beach Drive, Orlando, Fla. 

Edwin F. Lewis, Jr., and his wife, Jac- 
queline, of Sherborn, Mass., have an- 
nounced the birth of a daughter, Amanda 
Jane, on March 18. 

Edward V. Randall, Jr., senior vice- 
president of Pittsburgh National Bank, 
has been appointed head of the retail bank- 
ing division. With the bank since 1964, he 
had been head of marketing, personnel, 
public relations, and urban affairs. Ed is a 
director of the Psychological Service of 
Pittsburgh and the Vocational Rehabilita- 
tion Center of Allegheny County, a trustee 
of the Negro Educational Emergency Drive, 
and a member of the advisory committee 
for the Urban Youth Action Program. 

tZ^ '-'''■ /"'"^s R. Cerasoli, director of 
^ / the ophthalmology service at Den- 
ver (Colo.) General Hospital, has been pro- 
moted to assistant professor of ophthalmol- 
ogy at the University of Colorado School 
of Medicine. 

Dr. Richard H. Condon (GS), professor 
of history at the University of Maine, is 
currently serving as chairman of the de- 
partment. 

Charles F. Cordon, Jr., has been named 
manager of the metropolitan division for 
Johnson & Johnson's patient care division, 
with headquarters in Cranford, N.J. 

Cdr. Ceorge B. Newton, Jr., has become 
commanding officer of USS Tinosa (SSN- 
606), coming to his new command from 
another nuclear-powered, fast-attack sub- 
marine, the USS Trepang (SSN-674), where 



Arlan Coolidge in the spotlight: 
Not his customary place 



This month, Professor Emeritus Arlan 
R. Coolidge '24 was cast in an unusual role. 
As honorary chairman of the 8th annual 
Commencement Pops Concert he was 
squarely in the spotlight. For Arlan Cool- 
idge, that's unfamiliar territory. 

Quiet and unassuming. Professor Cool- 
idge was a part of the Brown community 
as student and teacher for almost half a 
century prior to his retirement from the 
music department in 1967. During this 
time, few professors on College Hill had 
wider or warmer friendships with undergrad- 
uates and alumni or did more to promote 
Brown University. Yet, Arlan Coolidge 
wasn't a man to project himself. Professor 
Francis Madeira, director of the Rhode 
Island Philharmonic, speaks to this point: 

"Arlan has done more for the advance- 
ment of good music at Brown and in the 
community — with less recognition — than 
anyone I know. He was always in the fore- 
front when it came to offering his time, en- 
ergy, and ideas. But he remained in the 
background when it came to things con- 
cerning himself. Arlan is a completely self- 
less person." 

After graduating from Brown, Coolidge 
played with the New York Philharmonic 
and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestras. 
He held a fellowship at the Juilliard School 
of Music from 1927 to 1929 and spent the 
following year as an exchange fellow at the 
State Academy for Music and Dramatic Art 
of the University of Vienna. 

Joining the Brown faculty in 1930, he 
became chairman of the department two 
years later, holding the position until 1963. 
Five years after he became chairman, the 
department of music offered its first bache- 
lor's degree program, adding a correspond- 
ing master of arts degree in 1950. As the 
result of his gentle prodding, music was in- 
cluded when the University established the 
curriculum for its master of arts in teaching 
program. 

Dr. Coolidge gave both introductory 
and advanced courses, with his speciality 
in the area of American music. He also 
had a strong background in 19th- and 20th- 
century music generally. Among his peers, 
Professor Coolidge's reputation was na- 
tional. In 1937, for instance, when the Asso- 
ciation of American Colleges was looking 
for a man to tour the country as a visiting 
faculty artist, their search ended at Brown. 

Competing with his campus activities 
for his time have been a wide variety of 
professional organizations. The list, which 
would fill this column, included such items 



as a five-year term as president of the 
Rhode Island Fine Arts Council and a term 
as chairman of the executive committee of 
the Rhode Island Chamber of Music Con- 
certs. He also served as chairman of sev- 
eral Governor's Commissions concerned 
with the fine arts. 

The official record states that Professor 
Coolidge retired in 1967. So much for the 
record. During the past five years he has 
worked a five-day week as executive di- 
rector of Arts Rhode Island. He's also been 
deeply involved in an innovative curricula 
in the arts for secondary schools, a project 
of the National Council of Arts in Education. 

It isn't exactly common for men in Dr. 
Coolidge's age bracket to continue to make 
contributions on the national scale. But 
nothing he does surprises classmate Jack 
Monk. 

"Arlan is one of the most charming 
and delightful chaps I've ever known," he 
says. "In addition to energy and imagina- 
tion, he has perennial youth. I don't think 
Arlan will ever grow old." J.B. 



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he served as executive officer. He and his 
wife, Margaretha, have two children, 
George, III, and James. 

Robert F. Schiffer has been elected a 
vice-president of Huntoon, Paige & Com- 
pany, Inc., nationwide mortgage brokerage 
firm dealing in FHA, VA, conventional resi- 
dential mortgage loans, income property 
loans, and GNMA mortgage-backed se- 
curities. Formerly a partner with Goodby & 
Company, Bob joined Huntoon, Paige in 
1971. He will continue to serve from the 
firm's New York office. 

Palmer D. Sparkman has been elected 
chairman of the board of Johnson & Hig- 
gins of Texas, Inc., an international insur- 
ance brokerage organization. He is a resi- 
dent of Houston, Texas. 

frank E. Toole, Jr., has been appointed 
a senior vice-president and management 
representative of Spitzer, Mills & Bates 
Ltd., in Toronto, Canada. 

g" Q Dr. Willinm E. Brady (GS) is pro- 
^ O fessor of English at Knox College 
in Galesburg, 111. He teaches Elizabethan 
and Renaissance literature, including an 
annual course in Shakespeare. 

James W. Manner has been named to 
the new position of assistant director for 
legislative services of the New York State 
School Boards Association in Albany. 

Michael E. Strem is district sales man- 
ager for Outboard Marine Corporation in 
Hudson, N.H. 

gjrt Charles E, Aughtry (GS), former 
^ 3^ associate dean and professor of 
English at Wheaton College, has been pro- 
moted to acting dean. 

James F. Baird, a graduate of Boston 
University Law School, is serving as town 
counsel in Ware, Mass. He has his own 
law practice in West Brookfield. 

Eileen Brophy Bloch and her husband, 
both librarians, have worked in Iran, Ethi- 
opia, Colombia, and Nicaragua. They have 
adopted two Ethiopian children. Her new 
address: Biblioteca, Universidad Centro- 
americana, Apartado Postal 69, Managua, 
Nicaragua. 

Doris Steam Donovan, an instructor at 
Rhode Island College last year, has been 
appointed a planner for research and eval- 
uation at Central High School in Provi- 
dence. 

Peter C. Doyle has been serving as a 
member of the Fairfield (Conn.) Tax Review 
Board since 1967. Pete, who operates an 
insurance agency, is serving as a member 
of the Riverfield School Building Commit- 
tee. 

Peter Cray has been appointed man- 
ager of the Massachusetts merchandising 
underwriting department of Commercial 
Union Companies in Boston. 

Roger K. Morrison, a broadcast special- 
ist, has been named director of broadcast 
advertising for Eastman Kodak Company 
in Rochester, N.Y. 

/l£\ Frederic M. Alper has been elected 
W\/ president of Morris Alper & Sons, 
Inc., Brookline, Mass. He holds an M.A. in 
philosophy from the University of Wash- 
ington and an M.B.A. from the Harvard 



Graduate School of Business. He had been 
serving as vice-president and assistant to 
the president with the firm. 

Christopher S. Biddle is a senior budget 
examiner in the international division of 
the U.S. Government's Office of Manage- 
ment and Budget in Washington, D.C. 

Stanley A, Bleecker has been named a 
member of the Providence law firm of 
Tillinghast, Collins & Graham. 

Ronald S. Brand (GS) is professor of 
mechanical engineering and head of that 
department at the University of Connecti- 
cut. 

James C. Conzehnan, Jr., has been 
elected a vice-president of Donaldson, 
Lufkin & Jenrette, a New York City asset 
management services firm. 

Nancy Wolens Cook is an instructor in 
the art department at the College of Lake 
County in Grayslake, 111. 

Dana McK. Newbrook, AIA, is with the 
Providence architectural firm of Robinson, 
Green and Beretta. He was the architect 
who drew the plans for the reconversion of 
the old Pembroke Field House into the new 
Brown Club of Rhode Island Alumni Cen- 
ter. 

Dr. James M. Smith (GS) is chairman 
of the philosophy department at Fresno 
State College in California. 

/I't Edwin B. Cndy, Jr., is treasurer of 
17 JL Green Diamond Forestry Service 
in Belchertown, Mass. 

Dr. Robert J. Echenberg, formerly with 
the U.S. Army Hospital in Bangkok, is cur- 
rently an obstetrician and gynecologist at 
Valley Forge General Hospital in Phoenix- 
ville, Pa. 

Dr. Morey Filler will complete his mili- 
tary obligation as chief of obstetrics and 
gynecology at Hamilton Air Force Base in 
California in June. He and his wife and 
three children will then move to San Fran- 
cisco, where Morey will begin his practice 
in his speciality at the University of Cali- 
fornia School of Medicine. 

Dr. Robert K. Gould (GS) is chairman 
of the physics department at Middlebury 
College, where he teaches undergraduate 
courses and does research in acoustics. 

Roger A. Hudson has been appointed 
director of operations planning for Armour- 
Dial, Inc., Phoenix, Ariz, He and Jill have 
announced the birth of their second child, a 
daughter, Anne Carol, on Sept. 29. 

Dr. Melvin D. Levine has been ap- 
pointed to the staff at North Shore Chil- 
dren's Hospital, Lynn, Mass., where he 
serves as associate attending physician in 
pediatrics and in adolescent medicine. Dr. 
Levine is also an instructor in pediatrics 
and tutor in medical science at Harvard 
Medical School. 

Ellen Shaffer Meyer and her husband, 
Robert, of Wilmington, Del., have an- 
nounced the birth of a second son, Matthew 
Stephen, on Sept. 29. 

David S. Milton has been appointed 
manager of field office administration by 
State Mutual of America in its Worcester, 
Mass., office. He is a trustee of Bancroft 
School and director and treasurer of the 
Princeton, Mass., Taxpayers Association. 

Francis H. Monahan and his wife of 



Wyckoff, N.J., have announced the birth of 
their second child, a son, Kevin Andrew, 
on Feb. 1. 

Nestor M. Nicholas has become a part- 
ner in the Boston law firm of Peabody, 
Brown, Rowley and Storey. He has been 
with the firm about a year. 

Marjorie Gaysunas Pett and her hus- 
band, Arthur, of Santa Fe, N.M., have an- 
nounced the birth of a daughter, Una Ethel- 
ine, on March 17. 

Edmund A. Schaffzin has accepted the 
position of secretary and assistant general 
counsel of International Basic Economy 
Corporation in New York City. 

Jane Pett Semmel and her husband, 
Kenneth, of Montclair, N.J., have announced 
the birth of a son, Matthew, on March 15. 

/f ^ Liyxda Kiley Davis and her hus- 
V^ band, Gerald, are the parents of a 
son, Michael Thomas, born on May 18, 1971. 

Joan Baker Gonzalez and her husband, 
Ralph, have announced the birth of a son, 
Evan Fidel, on Sept. 30. 

Dr. Edward M. Holmes (GS) is a mem- 
ber of the English department at the Uni- 
versity of Maine. A Dartmouth graduate, 
he has an impressive list of published short 
stories to his credit in such magazines as 
Yankee, Down East, and The National Fish- 
erman. 

Paul N. Jarvinen has been active in 
school affairs in his home town of Rock- 
land, Mass. He is chairman of the perma- 
nent school building committee and is 
completing six years as a member of the 
school board. He recently served as the 
board's representative at the National 
School Board Convention in San Francisco. 
Paul is manager of the Onni Jarvinen 
Trucking Company. 

Priscilla Parmakian Kirshhaum and her 
husband, Howard, have announced the 
birth of a son, Andrew William, on June 19. 

Robert P. Lambert has been named 
news editor for Connecticut for United 
Press International. He moved to UPI's 
Hartford Bureau from Concord, N.H., 
where, for the past three years, he has 
managed UPI's New Hampshire operations. 

Steven H. Lesnik, recently appointed 
assistant to the president for public affairs 
of the Kemper Insurance Group in Wash- 
ington, D.C, will move to Kemper's new 
corporate headquarters in Long Grove, 111., 
this summer. 

Barton L. Lilly is director of marketing 
with Pitkin Images, Inc., an advertising 
agency in Denver, Colo. 

Douglas J. Mcintosh, who has been 
with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Rhode 
Island since 1966, has been named vice- 
president of Blue Shield programs. 

Julian E. Minard, who was married last 
June to Christine Walker, whom he met 
while serving with the Navy in Sasebo, 
Japan, is a lieutenant-commander studying 
oceanography at the U.S. Naval Postgradu- 
ate School in Monterey, Calif. 

John E. Payne, an audio engineer, is 
teaching electronic music and technological 
art at California Institute of the Arts in 
Valencia. 

Capt. Stuart Sargisson recently partici- 
pated in the Strategic Air Command (SAC) 



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missile combat competition at Vandenberg 
AFB, Calif. During the annual m?et, combat 
crews matched their skills in electronic, 
computerized simulators which are virtually 
identical to operational launch control cen- 
ters at SAC missile bases. 

F. David Trickey has been elected as- 
sistant secretary of TRW Inc., a diversified 
company with headquarters in Cleveland, 
specializing in high-technology products 
and services for worldwide electronics, 
aerospace, and industrial markets. 

^* ^ Kenmore Commoss, Jr., and his 
1^^ wife, Patricia, of Marblehead, 
Mass., have announced the birth of their 
first child, a son, Kenmore, III, on April 7. 
Ken received an M.B.A. degree from Boston 
University in December. 

Karen Nugent Dakan and her husband, 
Stephen, of Sarasota, Fla., have announced 
the birth of a son, Richard Alan, on Jan. 
30. Her husband is county judge. 

Steve Dashef is the chief resident in 
the department of psychiatry at the Univer- 
sity of Colorado. He will be moving in Au- 
gust to Bethesda, Md., where he'll be a psy- 
chiatrist at the National Naval Medical 
Center for the next two years. Steve and 
Carolyn have two daughters. 

Elizabeth Hammett Halves and her hus- 
band, George, of Blooming Grove, N.Y., 
have announced the birth of their second 
child and first son, Andrew William Park- 
man, on Jan. 6. 

Robert H. Morris is assistant manager 
of national sales for First Boston Corpora- 
tion in San Francisco, Calif. 

Robert ]. Salter is a consulting staff 
geologist at F. Beach Leighton & Associates 
in La Habra, Calif. 

Joan Barry Wood and her husband, 
David, of Houston, Texas, have announced 
the birth of a daughter, Kimberley Dale, on 
Oct. 22. 

William J. Zisson and his wife, Nancy 
Steinhaus Zisson '65, of Scarsdale, N.Y., 
have announced the birth of a daughter, 
Robin Leigh, on July 1. Grandmothers are 
Beatrice Bloomingdale Steinhaus '33 and 
Gertrude Rosenhirsch Zisson '30. 

y^ /f Michael A. Broomfield was married 
^7^X to Pamela S. Bunbury of Madison, 
N.J., on April 16. He is associated with 
Fried, Frank, Harris, Schriver and Jacobson, 
a New York City law firm. 

Robin Veeder Dailey and her husband, 
James, of Arlington, Mass., have announced 
the birth of their second child and first son, 
Peter Austin, on March 18. Jim expects to 
complete his Ph.D. requirements in civil 
engineering at MIT in June. 

Nancy P. Crove is a service club direc- 
tor in Vietnam on a one-year assignment. 
Her mailing address: Nancy P. Grove 
144-34-6227, United World Service Club, 
U.S. Army Depot, APO San Francisco 
96349. 

Rosemary Davis Pierson and her hus- 
band, Geoffrey, of Cambridge, Mass., have 
announced the birth of their daughter, Abi- 
gail, on Sept. 9. Geoffrey expects to receive 
a Ph.D. degree in education from Harvard 
this year, and Rosemary is teaching at Sim- 
mons College in Boston. 



David C. RoUenhagen and his wife, 
Deborah Eddy RoUenhagen, of Syracuse, 
N.Y., have announced the birth of a daugh- 
ter, Julianne Elizabeth, on Feb. 28. 

Richard J. Talbot, a 1967 graduate of 
Boston University Law School, has been 
elected a director of the Cheshire National 
Bank in Keene, N.H. Dick, who is engaged 
in the practice of law in Keene, is serving 
as moderator of the Monadnock Regional 
School District. 

Peter R. Timms was married to Ro- 
mayne Dawnay of Suffolk, England, on Jan. 
8. They are living in a small village in the 
southwest of France, where Peter is con- 
tinuing work on his thesis on The Mid- 
dle Palaeolithic. 

Charles W. Stiver (GS), professor of 
economics at St. Martin's College in Olym- 
pia. Wash., is serving as chairman of his 
department. 

Dr. Jack E. Yoffa has been appointed to 
the State Health Resources Commission in 
New York by Governor Rockefeller. 

/^ jjj Samuel J. Alessi, Jr., is chairman 
17^ of the mathematics department at 
Bennett High School in Buffalo, N.Y. He 
also teaches a programming course at 
Canisius College and is completing his dis- 
sertation for a doctorate in curriculum 
planning at The State University of New 
York at Buffalo. 

Michael A. Allara is working in the 
counseling division of Fidelity Management 
and Research Corporaton in Boston. His 
wife, Pamela Edwards Allara, is teaching 
part-time at Massachusetts College of Art. 
They have two children, Mark, 4, and Ann 
Marie, 1. 

James S. Bingay, Jr., who bought a 
house in Chappaqua, N.Y., this past sum- 
mer, is temporarily covering the West 
Coast as a lending officer in the corporate 
banking group at First National City Bank 
of New York. 

James C. Brod and his wife, Christine 
Cassady Brod '68, of Boulder, Colo., are 
the parents of a daughter. Amy Kristen, 
born on March 11. 

Leon C. Bryant and his wife, Bonnie, of 
Fort Lauderdale, Fla., have announced the 
birth of a daughter, Sara Jane, on March 
20. Leon is teaching at Pine Crest Prepara- 
tory School in Fort Lauderdale. 

F. Dane Buck, Jr., is associated with 
the law firm of Thacher, Proffitt, Prizer, 
Crawley & Wood in New York City, a firm 
specializing in trusts and estates. 

John H. Chapman, a member of the 
corporate staff of Xerox Corporation in 
Stamford, Conn., has been assigned as a 
patent attorney to the West Coast opera- 
tions. His address: 2639 Via Carrillo, Palos 
Verdes Estates, Calif. 

Lt. Price M. Chenault, Jr., is a medical 
officer on the USS Thomas A. Edison (SSBN- 
610), an atomic-powered submarine which 
carries Polaris missiles. He is making his 
second and final deterrent patrol with the 
crew of 140 officers and enlisted men this 
spring. He will then be assigned to the 
Submarine Medical Center at Groton, 
Conn., for about a year. 



Barclay A. Churchill, with Sears Roe- 
buck since graduation, has been promoted 
from personnel manager at the Saugus 
(Mass.) store to merchandise manager at 
the firm's new Auburn (Mass.) location. 

Richard H. Chused is associate profes- 
sor of law at Rutgers Law School in New- 
ark, N.J., teaching mostly clinical courses 
with students acting as attorneys. 

Roger M. Deitz has been appointed 
special counsel to the Securities Exchange 
Commission at its New York regional 
office. 

Dr. Michael W. Dennis is currently a 
second-year resident in neurosurgery at 
George Washington University Hospital in 
Washington, D.C. 

Bruce E. Goldstein, who married Ruth 
V. Lehr on Jan. 17, 1970, has received a 
Ph.D. degree in mathematics from MIT 
and is presently employed by Jet Propulsion 
Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. 

Alan R. Goodman was married to Syl- 
via Levine on Dec. 19, with Stanley Bern- 
stein as best man and William Levine '64 
serving as an usher. Alan is employed by 
the Boston Legal Aid Society. 

Edward H. Gross is vice-president and 
treasurer of Harding & Gross, Inc., Maiden, 
Mass., which is a subsidiary of Lewis Re- 
frigeration Company in Woodinville, Wash., 
an industrial refrigeration and contracting 
concern. 

Richard L. Huffman has been admitted 
to the New York state bar and is director of 
community development for Brooklyn 
(N.Y.) Legal Services. 

Richard Hyman, a city planner with 
Raymond, Parish & Pine, Inc., New York 
City, is working on urban renewal in sev- 
eral cities, including Plainfield and Eliza- 
beth, N.J., and Pittsfield, Mass. 

Barbara ]. Katz has joined The Na- 
tional Observer, the national weekly news- 
paper published by Dow Jones & Company, 
Inc., as a staff writer in Silver Spring, Md. 
Before joining the Observer, Barbara was a 
reporter with United Press International in 
Boston and prior to that she spent two 
years as a speech writer for Senator Birch 
Bayh of Indiana. 

Dr. John J: Kelly, Jr., after a year's 
residency in internal medicine, is now with 
the Indian Health Service on the Sioux res- 
ervation in Poplar, Mont. He and his wife, 
Pat, have two daughters, Maura, 3, and 
Meegan, 1. 

Donald C. Lang is the new home office 
supervisor for accident and health claims 
of the Hartford Insurance Group. 

Hugh G. Larsen and his wife of Bur- 
lington, Vt., have announced the birth of a 
son, Jacob Hugh, on March 17. 

John P. Leistritz is an assistant pro- 
duction manager at WJAR-TV in Provi- 
dence. He and his wife, Sandra, have a six- 
month-old daughter, Michelle Kay. 

Thomas F. McWilliams was recently 
promoted to vice-president of Citicorp 
Leasing, Inc., an affiliate of First National 
City Bank in New York City. 

Robert D. Meringolo, after returning 
from an assignment in Vietnam, has been 
transferred to the National Health Corps, 
a new division of the U.S. Public Health 



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Service. He is working in the South Bronx 
in New York City, and will begin a resi- 
dency in infernal medicine at St. Luke's 
Hospital in New York City in July. 

William Morrow has resigned from the 
District Attorney's office in Montgomery 
County, Pa., and joined Irwin Rosenzweig 
in the practice of law in Philadelphia. 

Maurice ]. Mountain, Jr., is presently 
an associate with the Washington, D.C., law 
firm of Vom Baur, Coburn, Simmons and 
Turtle, where he had served as a clerk 
prior to his graduation from Georgetown 
Law School in 1970. His firm's practice is 
concentrated primarily in the area of Navy 
and commercial shipbuilding, which takes 
him from coast to coast. 

Dr. R. Craig Nielsen, presently in the 
family practice residency program at York 
(Pa.) Hospital, manages to find time to play 
soccer with the York Club in the Central 
Pennsylvania Soccer League. 

James L. O'Neill and his wife, Karen, 
are the parents of a son, J. Patrick, born 
Jan. 14, 1971. 

Jordan H. Peters, a law clerk for Judge 
Henry L. Burman of the Illinois Appellate 
Court in Chicago, also is a part-time in- 
structor at the John Marshall Law School 
there. He expects to enter private practice 
in 1974 when his clerkship ends. 

Paul D. Pinsky, having completed his 
Ph.D. requirements for a degree in opera- 
tions research at Stanford University, is a 
consultant in the use of computers in edu- 
cation in Palo Alto, Calif. 

Ralph M. Pollack is assistant professor 
of chemistry at the University of Maryland. 

Wayne E. Pominnsky has been trans- 
ferred by Uniroyal Inc., from its Provi- 
dence plant to Mishawaka, Ind., where he 
is manager of conservation products. 

William D. Prodgers and his wife of 
South Yarmouth, Mass., have announced 
the birth of a son, Michael Robert, on 
Aug. 6. 

Charles J. Reilly is director of public 
relations at Pacific Oaks College in Pasa- 
dena, Calif., a small liberal arts college spe- 
cializing in the field of early childhood edu- 
cation. 

Richard M. Rieser, Jr., left his law prac- 
tice in 1971 to join Amalgamated Bank in 
Chicago as a vice-president with responsi- 
bilities in areas of lending, trust depart- 
ment, corporate planning, and marketing. 

Dr. A. James Segal will begin an 
ophthalmology residency at the Washington 
(D.C.) Hospital Center in July. 

W. Dixon Shay, Jr., and his wife, An- 
drea, of Denver, Colo., have announced the 
birth of their second child and first son, 
William Dixon, 111, on July 24. An attorney 
for Atlantic Richfield Company in Denver 
since November, 1968, Dixon specializes in 
credit and collection, labor law, and mar- 
keting and antitrust law. 

Jonas B. Siegel and his wife of Yonk- 
ers, N.Y., have announced the birth of their 
first child, a daughter, Michele Eve, on Dec. 
14. He is employed as a senior accountant 
with Lybrand, Ross Bros. & Montgomery in 
New York City. 

Stuart D. Smith is working for the 
Philadelphia Department of Public Health 



and living in a "36' x 80' factory loft" in 
North Philadelphia. 

Mark A. Stull has received a Ph.D. de- 
gree in astronomy from the University of 
Michigan and is a visiting scientist at Radio 
Astronomy Institute of Stanford University. 

Dr. Mark Tafeen, a resident in pedi- 
atrics at the Children's Hospital in the Dis- 
trict of Columbia, will be chief resident 
next year. 

Gordon A. Thomas has received a 
Ph.D. degree in physics from the Univer- 
sity of Rochester, where he is a research 
associate in physics. 

Stephen J. Tillman and his wife of 
Kingston, Pa., have announced the birth of 
their second son, Aaron Shawn, on March 
14. 

While Enamidem U. Ubok-Udom is 
working on his dissertation for a Ph.D. de- 
gree in mathematical economics at the Uni- 
versity of Connecticut, he is completing his 
third year of teaching at Eastern Connecti- 
cut State College and his second year as 
assistant professor of economics there. 

Dr. James B. Walker (GS) has been 
appointed a senior research engineer in 
the Dupont Company's plastics department. 
He's located at the Experimental Station 
near Wilmington, Del. 

O. Cooper Winston, Jr., and his wife, 
Susan, of New Haven, Conn., have an- 
nounced the birth of their first child, a 
son, Ian Cooper, on Dec. 23. 

Nancy Steinhaus Zisson and her hus- 
band, William '63, of Scarsdale, N.Y., have 
announced the birth of a daughter, Robin 
Leigh, on July 1. Grandmothers are Beatrice 
Bloomingdale Steinhaus '33 and Gertrude 
Rosenhirsch Zisson '30. 

/I /I Edward W. Bernet and his wife, 
OO Susan, of North Caldwell, N.J., 
have announced the birth of their first 
child, a daughter, Suzanne Barbara, on 
Nov. 19. 

Robert C. Bruce is a security analyst 
with H. C. Wainwright & Company in 
New York City. 

Dr. James L. Farmer (GS) is an assist- 
ant professor of zoology at Brigham Young 
University, Provo, Utah. 

John C. Given, who expects to receive 
an M.S.J, degree in June from Northwestern 
University, is covering Capitol Hill for Den- 
ver's KBTR-TV and Salt Lake City's KCPX- 
TV as part of the program for a master's 
degree. After he receives his degree, he 
plans to freelance in Japan as an Asian 
correspondent. 

Stephen P. Hurley, who will graduate 
this year from the New England Conserva- 
tory of Music, plans to continue graduate 
study in the United States and in Europe. 

Dr. John J. Macisco (GS) is located at 
Georgetown University, where he is asso- 
ciate professor of sociology. 

Suzanne Mays Nash and her husband, 
William, of Fort Bragg, N.C., are the parents 
of their second child and first son, William 
Lafayette, III, born on March 27. 

Victor Peppard and his wife, Jane Lam- 
son Peppard '67, have announced the birth 
of a daughter, Lara Joann, on March 16. 

Joe P. Richmond is a second-year post- 



doctoral fellow at Harvard University, 
having received a Ph.D. degree in chemistry 
at MIT. 

Donald A. Smith was married to Sara 
A. Wood of Providence on April 4. Don is 
a teacher in Buchenau, West Germany. 

Alexandra Zaroodny was married to 
Philip M. Keith on June 5. 

/2^ Peter D. Adams and his wife of 
Vy Lakeville, Conn., have announced 
the birth of a son, Alexander Demarest, on 
Dec. 17. 

G. Willis Asher, Jr., has accepted a po- 
sition as an applications engineer with 
Rolm Corporation in Cupertino, Calif. 

Lt. Brian J. Barhata has spent the last 
three years working with Underwater Dem- 
olition Team 21 in the West Indies, Europe, 
and Africa. He's now back in Virginia 
Beach in charge of the team's swimmer de- 
livery vehicles, or mini-subs. 

David A. Bell (GS) was married to 
Anne Key of Houston, Texas, on March 31. 
At home: 1500 Castle Court, Apt. 20, Hous- 
ton. 

S. Jane deSolms has received an M.S. 
degree in chemistry from St. Joseph's Col- 
lege and is a research chemist with Merck, 
Sharp & Dohme Research Laboratories in 
West Point, Pa. 

Jeffrey C. Poster and his wife, Muriel 
McCormick Foster, of Chester, N.J., have 
announced the birth of a daughter, Karen 
Amy, on Oct. 27. 

Freda Kantor Chozeil and her husband, 
Isaac, are the parents of a son, Daniel J., 
born on Sept. 16. 

Rudolph Hanzsek, Jr., has been released 
from the U.S. Army and is purchasing agent 
and traffic manager for Easton (Pa.) Car 
and Construction Company, a designer and 
manufacturer of heavy materials handling 
equipment and industrial transportation 
equipment. 

John D. Hushon and his wife, Judith 
Minno Hushon, of Reston, Va., have an- 
nounced the birth of a son, Jeremy Ambler, 
on Oct. 7. 

Nancy Levine Kopecky and her hus- 
band, Kenneth (GS '70), of Columbus, Ohio, 
have announced the birth of a son, David 
John, on Feb. 14. Their new address; 1769 
Willoway Circle N., Columbus. 

Leslie A. Kurtz has received a master 
of arts degree from New York University's 
School of Arts and Sciences and is com- 
pleting her first year at Columbia Law 
School. 

Susan L. Moroz was married to A. 
John Menichetti on March 4. Janet E. Ruh- 
len was a bridesmaid. Susan is an assistant 
administrator at the hospital of the Medi- 
cal College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, 
and her husband is assistant vice-president 
of the Germantown Dispensary and Hos- 
pital, also in Philadelphia. 

Thomas C. O'Keefe, 111, is a partner 
in the AUston (Mass.) law firm of Artesani 
& O'Keefe. 

Jane Lamson Peppard and her husband, 
Victor '66, have announced the birth of a 
daughter, Lara Joann, on March 16. 

Victoria Gould Petzal, who received 
her master's degree at New York Univer- 
sity, is currently working at Harold Matson 



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Company, a literary agency in New York 
City. 

Pauline Hutnik Phnrr and her husband, 
Walter, of Randolph, Vt., have announced 
the birth of a son, Simon Peter, on March 
26. Pauline is a Chinese language and ori- 
ental history teacher at the Woodstock 
County School in Randolph. 

Alan Scarritt has completed his master 
of fine arts degree in painting at the Cali- 
fornia College of Arts and Crafts, where he 
has been engaged to teach painting next 
year. His wife, Diane Boone Scarritt '69, is 
completing her graduate work in social wel- 
fare at the University of California, Berke- 
ley. 

John E. Schmidt has moved to Califor- 
nia, where he is an associate programmer 
with IBM's Advanced Systems Development 
Division in Los Gatos. 

Robert K. Seston is an assistant man- 
ager and commercial lending officer at the 
London branch of The Northern Trust Com- 
pany, Chicago. His address: 21 Sylvester 
Ave., Chislehurst, Kent, England. 

Carlyle A. Thayer is in the department 
of international relations. Research School 
of Pacific Studies of the Australian National 
University on a three-year Ph.D. research 
scholarship. He has been awarded a depart- 
mental field-work grant which will enable 
him to take an around-the-world trip to 
Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, 
Laos, France, Britain, and the United States 
for the purpose of researching his thesis 
on the origins of the National Liberation 
Front of South Vietnam, 1954-60. 

Edward F. Turco has completed degree 
requirements for the master of arts degree 
in English at Brown and will receive his 
diploma this June. He has also gone into 
the sound recording business under the 
name of Audio Scriveners in West War- 
wick, R.L, recording concerts and plays in 
Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecti- 
cut. 

/f rt Christine Cassady Brod and her 
17^) husband, James '65, of Boulder, 
Colo., have announced the birth of a 
daughter. Amy Kristen, on March 11. 

The Rev. Jeffrey D. Jones is an associ- 
ate minister at the Roselawn Community 
Baptist Church in Cincinnati. 

G. Anthony Lang (CS) is doing feature 
writing and editing with the Cincinnati 
Enquirer. 

Denis Opsahl will graduate in June 
from Georgetown Law School. He spent the 
spring studying for his bar exams and cam- 
paigning for Senator George McGovern. 

Alexander P. Reishord (GS) is serving 
with the Peace Corps in Nairobi, Kenya, un- 
til August, 1973. 

Richard G. Verney and his wife have 
announced the birth of a daughter, Eliza- 
beth Ingham, on March 5. 

Lt. Paul A. Williams, 11, is aboard the 
USS Providence (CLG-6), based in San 
Diego, Calif. He plans to leave the Navy 
in June and attend business school in the 
fall. 



Nancy Tiirck: A TV news producer 
with an affection for newspapers 



One of the more important events in 
the life of Nancy Turck '68 was a confer- 
ence on the Middle East held at Brown in 
1967. She co-chaired the conference with 
Patrick Maley '67, who is now her husband, 
and she met the New York Times cor- 
respondent for the Middle East, who sug- 
gested that she apply for a Times summer 
internship. She did, was turned down for 
that summer, but a year later was asked by 
the Washington, D.C., bureau of the Times 
if she were still interested. Ms. Turck said 
yes, and two days later bureau chief Tom 
Wicker called her at Andrews Hall to con- 
firm her appointment. 

At the Times, Ms. Turck, who uses her 
maiden name in her profession, worked 
mainly with State Department correspond- 
ents. (Her major interest is in foreign af- 
fairs; her combined A.B. and M.A. at Brown 
is in political science.) Later she left the 
Times to work for a research company 
where she wrote handbooks on Tunisia, Jor- 
dan, and Turkey. 

When President Nixon was elected, Ms. 
Turck decided to try for a White House 
press job. "I thought it would be impos- 
sible to get a job on the President's press 
staff," she says, "because I hadn't worked 
on the campaign. So I wrote to Mrs. Nixon, 
asking if she had an opening on her staff." 
The answer was no, but Mrs. Nixon's press 
office suggested she try the President's press 
office. There she was interviewed by Ron- 
ald Ziegler and, a month later, hired as a 
staff aide. Her job was to prepare back- 
ground information for the daily press con- 
ferences held with newsmen. "It was excit- 
ing," she says, "but it was also long hours 
and incredibly hard work." Her office was 
in what used to be the hallway to the Oval 

Nancy Turck and her husband, Patrick Maley. 




Room, so important personages were always 
passing through. 

When the White House staff moved to 
San Clemente, Calif., for a month, Ms. 
Turck went along. "I brought my tennis 
racket," she recalls, "but I never had a 
chance to use it. I had one weekend off and 
that was the only chance I had to see San 
Francisco." 

She left her White House job when 
she married. Her husband had just gradu- 
ated from the Johns Hopkins School of 
Advanced International Studies and had 
received a grant to live in Egypt and per- 
fect his Arabic. "We got married at a church 
just across the street from the White House, 
then we packed all our belongings in a 
U-haul-it, stored them at my parents' house, 
and, four days later, flew to London." 

After traveling in England, Paris, and 
Greece, Nancy and Patrick Maley settled in 
for a year in Cairo. "It took a while to get 
used to living there," she recalls, "and it 
was lonely at first because we tried to 
avoid the colony of Americans in Cairo and 
live off the local economy." While she was 
in Egypt, Ms. Turck worked as a free-lance 
correspondent for the Washington Star and 
the Philadelphia Bulletin, doing feature 
stories not covered by the wire services. 

The Maleys are now back in Washing- 
ton, where Patrick works as a political 
economist for a private consulting firm. 
Nancy is an associate news producer at 
WTOP-TV. She is responsible for three 
weekly public affairs discussion programs 
which cover both the national and the local 
scene. She also produces the 1 o'clock news 
show several days a week. 

Although Nancy Turck enjoys her job, 
she confides that her real desire is to get 
back into newspaper work. "But it's just im- 
possible to get a news job here," she says. 
"There are too many qualified newspa- 
permen in this town." In the meantime 
she keeps her hand in at writing by doing 
free-lance articles, including a recent one 
in The Washingtonian on local farmers' 
markets. A.B. 



43 



/ZCi MarffiH Hansen Bush is an editor- 
O • ial assistant in the environmental 
systems program at Harvard. 

Dr. Robert H. Chambers, III, (GS), 
dean of Davenport College and assistant 
professor of English at Yale University, has 
received an administrative leave for 1972-73 
and plans to spend time in Cambridge, Eng- 
land, while he completes work on a book 
about Robert Penn Warren. 

James M. CoUier, ]r., has been released 
from the U.S. Army and plans to enter the 
M.B.A. program at Columbia University in 
the fall. 

Andrew S. Fisher is director of urban 
affairs for television station KWTV in 
Oklahoma City, Okla. 

Lt. Ronald C. Haas and his wife, Ginny, 
and their daughter, Lori, are living in Lin- 
denwold, N.J., while Ron is serving his last 
year with the Navy at the Naval Shipyard 
in Philadelphia. 

M. Virginia Doyle Kennedy is working 
at the Old Queens Gallery in Piscataway, 
N.J. Her husband, Tom, who will receive 
his Ph.D. degree from Brown in June, has 
a position in the physics department at 
Rutgers. 

Jeanne Ziobrozvski Magiiire is teaching 
four-year-olds in the Presidio Pre-School 
Nursery in San Francisco. She is also doing 
graduate work at the University of Califor- 
nia at Berkeley to earn her California cre- 
dential in early childhood education teach- 
ing. 

Dr. David T. Moran (GS), recently a 
post-doctoral fellow in cell biology at the 
University of Colorado Medical Center, has 
been appointed an assistant professor of 
anatomy in the University of Colorado's 
School of Medicine. 

Paul L. Norris was married to Kathryn 
L. Kindl of Philadelphia, Pa., on March 11. 
Paul is a Ph.D. candidate at the University 
of Pennsylvania, and Kathryn is employed 
by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadel- 
phia. 

Joseph W. Perley has been named man- 
ager of media and marketing services with 
the Providence advertising agency of Hor- 
ton. Church & Goff. His M.B.A. is from 
the Chicago Graduate School of Business. 

Dorothy R. Roberts is a student at the 
School for International Training in Brat- 
tleboro, Vt. She also is working for a five- 
month internship period with the Commis- 
sion for the Improvement of Isolated Com- 
munities in Puerto Rico. 

Diane Boone Scarritt is at the Univer- 
sity of California, Berkeley, completing her 
graduate work in social welfare. 

Peter Swift and his wife, Janet Branson 
Swift, have been living in Providence, where 
Janet has been working as a reference li- 
brarian at the Rockefeller Library. Peter 
has been on active duty with the Navy on 
board the aircraft carrier USS Wasp in 
Quonset, R.I. He will attend Harvard Busi- 
ness School in the fall. 

Dr. Joseph A. Tetlow (GS) is serving 
as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences 
at Loyola University in New Orleans. 

Ralph £. Thompson and his wife, 
Becky, announce the birth of a son, Peter 
Andrew, on Feb. 12. They will be moving 
to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, shortly. 



John F. Wilkinson, Jr., was married to 
Jenny Littlepage '71 on April 8. Thomas F. 
Hogg was best man, and Daniel Stone, Dan- 
iel N. Sundt '70, Glenn F. Manning '71, and 
James N. Lukin '71 were ushers. Matron of 
honor was Penny Rosen Lukin '71. 

^Tf\ ^"^ Oppenheimer Bogdanow is a 
y \J merchandise distributor at J. C. 
Penney Company in New York City. 

Seaman Stephen D. Burgard is on two 
years of active duty with the USS Little 
Rock, currently in the Mediterranean with 
the Sixth Fleet. Steve works in the ship's 
public affairs office, where he is responsible 
for daily newspapers, at-sea press releases, 
and closed circuit television on the ship. 
He has made several interviews on video 
tape with visiting State Department officials. 

Christopher N. Burgess was married to 
Kathleen A. Torrance of South Weymouth, 
Mass., on April 16. Joseph A. Cox, III, was 
an usher. 

B. Kenneth Clark, Jr., is teaching French 
and mathematics at Hialeah-Miami Lakes 
Senior High School in Miami, Fla. 

Carole Collins is a social worker at 
Rhode Island Hospital in Providence. 

Jean Ehrenkranz was married to Nich- 
olas W. LeGrand on March 19. At home: 
7447 South Shore Drive, Apt. 33-E, Chicago. 
She is a linguistics student at the University 
of Chicago, and he is a lawyer with the 
First National Bank of Chicago. 

Sandra Cabrilove, who has been work- 
ing at the U.S. Attorney's office for the 
southern district of New York in the civil 
division one day a week, will be working 
there full-time during the summer as a 
legal intern. She is a second-year student 
at New York University Law School. 

Priscilla A. Griffiths was married to 
William B. Russel of Houston, Texas, on 
March 25 with Nancy Lehmann serving as 
bridesmaid. Bill expects to receive a Ph.D. 
degree in chemical engineering from Stan- 
ford University this December. Priscilla, 
who is teaching Spanish in Woodside, 
Calif., and her husband reside at 131 Haw- 
thorne Ave. E., Palo Alto, Calif. 

John R. Hammett was recently com- 
missioned an ensign upon graduation from 
Naval Officers Candidate School in New- 
port, R.I. Graduating as a company com- 
mander with distinction, he will serve on 
the USS Farragut out of Newport. 

Lt. John VV. Hayn has graduated from 
the U.S. Army Infantry Officer Candidate 
School in military intelligence and has been 
assigned to the National Security Agency 
in Washington, D.C. 

Kenneth J. Kopecky (GS) and his wife, 
Nancy Levine Kopecky '67, of Columbus, 
Ohio, have announced the birth of a son, 
David John, on Feb. 14. Their new address: 
1769 Willoway Circle N., Columbus. 

Dr. Stanley A. Lang, Jr. (GS) is a re- 
search chemist with Lederle Labs, Pearl 
River, N.Y. 

Robert W. Marble is an anti-war or- 
ganizer and draft counselor with the North- 
ern California Peace Action Coalition in 
San Francisco. 

Harry Martens, III, has been appointed 
vehicle merchandising specialist for Volvo 
Capitol, Inc., a new Volvo automotive dis- 



tributorship located in Columbia, Md. He 
and his wife Wendy are living in McLean, 
Va. 

James N. Plotkin expects to receive his 
M.B.A. from Columbia in June, after which 
he will spend the better part of July in 
Europe on a wedding trip. He will spend 
some time upon his return in San Diego 
learning the real estate business. 

Joyce Reback is teaching English at 
Brockton (Mass.) High School and living at 
16 Saunders St., Brockton. 

David M. Tardy is a teacher at Mel- 
bourne College of Textiles in Victoria, 
Australia. 

Paul L. Zimmering is a social studies 
teacher at the George Mason Junior-Senior 
High School in Falls Church, Va. 

T^-t Edward M. Alt, after a year play- 
/ A. ing rugby with the Chicago Lions, 
is a trainee at the First National Bank of 
Chicago. He's also studying evenings for an 
M.B.A. degree at the University of Chicago. 

Linda Saltzman Anderson is working 
as a counselor and social services assistant 
for the Fort Bliss (Texas) Halfway House 
for drug and alcohol abuse. 

Jenny Littlepage was married to John 
F. Wilkinson, Jr., '69 on April 8. Thomas F. 
Hogg '69 was best man, and Daniel Stone 
'69, Daniel N. Sundt '70, Glenn F. Manning, 
and James N. Lukin were ushers. Matron 
of honor was Penny Rosen Lukin. 

Dr. Luther S. Luedtke (GS) is assistant 
professor of English at the University of 
Southern California, where he also serves 
as co-director of the American Studies 
Program. 

Johri W. McClain, Jr. (GS) is studying 
for a second master's degree at Boston Col- 
lege. 

Carol L. Newman, currently a person- 
nel clerk at Amtrak in Washington, D.C, 
will be attending law school in the fall. 

Christine A. Riley is a graduate stu- 
dent in psychology at Princeton. 

Harry L. Watson is working toward a 
doctorate in American history at North- 
western University. 

Peter J. Whitehouse was married to 
Jenny M. Hardy in Baltimore, Md., on June 
12. 



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Deaths 



GERALDINE STREET COLTON '03 
in Warwick, R.I., March 20. She had taught 
in Cranston, R.I., and was a former prin- 
cipal of Fruit Hill High School in North 
Providence. Mrs. Colton was the widow of 
Thomas E. Colton. There are no known 
survivors. 

ABBIE HOWARD KEITH '08 
in Putnam, Conn., March 24. She was an 
English teacher at Putnam High School for 
42 years. Miss Keith was named dean of 
girls in 1930 and was head of the English 
department of Putnam High when she re- 
tired in 1952. She began her teaching career 
in 1908 at the Wilmington (Mass.) High 
School, moving to Putnam High two years 
later. Miss Keith was chairman of the 
building committee of the new town library 
and, at the time of its dedication in 1965, 
was presented the first copy of the town 
report which had her picture on the cover. 
She was a charter member and past presi- 
dent of the Putnam Woman's Club and 
was a former regent of the Elizabeth Put- 
nam Chapter of the Daughters of the 
American Revolution. Phi Beta Kappa. A 
niece, Mrs. Arthur Keith, and a nephew, 
Allen L. Keith, both of Putnam, survive. 

LAWRENCE NORMAN WIGHT '08 A.M. 
in Peterborough, N.H., Feb. 19. After retir- 
ing from Penn Charter School in Philadel- 
phia, Mr. Wight taught in the Dublin (N.H.) 
schools for four years. He received an A.B. 
degree from Bates College in 1907. Mr. 
Wight was interested in wildlife and con- 
servation and in retirement made and sold 
equipment for falconry. His son is Norman 
B. Wight, Box 105, Dublin. 

HARRY FRANCIS COOK '09 
in Hyde Park, Mass., April 3. A retired Bos- 
ton social worker, Mr. Cook received an 
A.M. degree from Columbia University in 
1910 and had served as a superintendent of 
maintenance at Newman Preparatory School 
in Boston. He also was a supervisor of 
recreation at Newport (R.I.) during World 
War I and supervisor of employees' activi- 
ties at the Gilbert & Barker Manufacturing 
Company in Springfield, Mass. Phi Kappa. 
His sister, Mrs. Mabel C. Carry of Boston, 
survives. 

WALTER CHESTER CAMERON '10 
in Framingham, Mass., Feb. 21. He was 
principal of the Lincoln Street Junior High 
School in Framingham for 30 years until 
he retired in 1957. Mr. Cameron received an 
Ed.M. degree from Harvard University in 
1929. He served as principal of Mclndoes 
(Vt.) Academy for two years following his 
graduation from Brown and then was called 
to Windsor Locks, Conn., to serve as prin- 
cipal. After a year in this post he became 
principal of Cranston (R.I.) Junior High 
School, where he remained from 1913 to 
1927. Mr. Cameron was a member of the 



Massachusetts School Masters Club and the 
National Society for the Study of Educa- 
tion, and a charter member of Beta Chapter 
of the Junior High School Principals group 
organized in 1934. His widow is Alice H. 
Cameron, 104 Church St., Watertown, Mass. 

MERRITT MANVILLE MEREDITH '10 
in Atlantic, Iowa, March 5. Retired owner 
of Lloyd & Meredith in Atlantic, he had 
been in the hardware and implement busi- 
ness for many years. Mr. Meredith received 
an LL.B. degree from Harvard Law School 
in 1913 and was a life-long member of the 
Iowa Bar Association. He also was in the 
farming and cattle feeding business in 
Griswold, Iowa, for many years. Kappa 
Sigma. His grandson is StepJien O. Mere- 
difli '74, and his widow is Vera A. Mere- 
dith, 1200 Brookridge Circle, Atlantic. 

JOHN KENT STARKWEATHER '13 
in White Plains, N.Y., March 29. A retired 
investment banking executive, he began 
his financial career with William E. Sweet 
& Company in Denver, Colo. Mr. Stark- 
weather later joined Harris Forbes & Com- 
pany in Cincinnati and after working in 
its various offices was transferred to New 
York in 1929. In 1931 he was named a vice- 
president of the firm, the youngest sales 
manager the firm ever had. In 1933, he 
formed his own investment banking firm. 
Starkweather & Company in New York 
City, serving as its president until 1937 and 
then as senior partner until its dissolution 
when he retired in 1968. He was a governor 
of the New York Stock Exchange from 1940 
to 1944 and mayor of Scarsdale, N.Y., from 
1942 to 1945. In 1938 he was elected presi- 
dent of the Bond Club of New York. Mr. 
Starkweather was a trustee of the Berkshire 
Farm for Boys in Canaan, N.Y., and the 
White Plains (N.Y.) Hospital. Psi Upsilon, 
Phi Beta Kappa. His son is James O. Stark- 
weather '45, and his widow is Blanche M. 
Starkweather, 23 Autenrieth Road, Scars- 
dale, N.Y, 

STEWARD TILTON McNEILL '16 
in Howard, R.I., March 30. In 1967, after 
25 years of service, he retired as export 
manager of Anson, Inc., of Cranston, R.I., 
a jewelry manufacturing firm. During 
World War II, Mr. McNeill was an office 
manager at Anderson Tool & Die Works of 
Providence. He formerly was a bond sales- 
man with a number of investment security 
firms including C. A. Kilvert & Company 
and Hornblower & Weeks, both in Provi- 
dence, and Baker, Young & Company and 
Worthen & Company of Boston. Theta 
Delts Chi. His son is Steward T. MacNeill 
'43, and his widow is Gladys T. McNeill, 
c/o Chandler, 44 Cheswick Road, Auburn- 
dale, Mass. 

LT. COL. JOHN ROBERT WHEATON 
HALL, USA (ret.) '17 

in Lake Worth, Fla., March 18, following a 
short illness. During World War I, Hall 
was at the first Army camp at Platts- 
burgh, N.Y., later serving with the artil- 
lery in France. He remained in rehabili- 
tation work for a year, being discharged in 



1919. During the next 15 years. Hall was 
engaged in business and in sales promotion 
work for the Providence Journal. He re- 
turned to the Army in the 1930's and served 
as a captain with the CCC troops. During 
the late 1930's, Hall was one of the pioneers 
in developing recreational skiing at Stowe, 
Vt., and for several years he promoted 
weekly ski trains from New York City to 
Stowe. Again in the Army during World 
War II, he served as commanding officer 
of the 7th Battalion Field Artillery Replace- 
ment Center in New York. After retiring 
from the Army in 1944, Colonel Hall pur- 
chased an extensive piece of property in 
Waterbury, Vt. He was one of the founders 
of the Green Mountain Chapter of the Re- 
tired Officers' Association and served on its 
board of directors. Theta Delta Chi. He is 
survived by his widow, Margaret Morrison 
Hall of Waterbury, and two children, Rob- 
ert and Jeanne. 

VINCENT ALOYSIUS GALLAGHER '19 
in Albany, N.Y., Feb. 10. He was a retired 
heavy construction foreman. During World 
War I, Mr. Gallagher served with the U.S. 
Army Corps of Engineers. His widow is Al- 
berta S. Gallagher, RR 1, Box KD3, Ker- 
honkson, N.Y. 

LELAND AMIDON WILDES '19 
in Winter Park, Fla., Feb. 28. He was a for- 
mer supervisor with Colonial Beacon Oil 
Company, Inc., in Everett, Mass. During 
World War I, Mr. Wildes served with the 
U.S. Army. Phi Delta Theta. His widow is 
Irene Wildes, Whispering Waters 6-12, 
Winter Park. 

ANGUS BAIN McLEAN '22 
in Beverly, Mass., Feb. 2, 1970. He was a 
former night superintendent at the Great 
Northern Paper Company in Millinocket, 
Maine. His daughter is Mrs. M. McNamara, 
59 Great Oak Road, Shelton, Conn. 

HERBERT ERWIN VanHOESEN '23 
in Cranston, R.I., April 3. He was a retired 
estimator and planner of the J. C. Hall 
Co., Pawtucket, a printing and bookbinding 
firm. His widow is Irene P. VanHoesen, 
Laurel Foster Home, 51 Laurel Ave., Coven- 
try. 

DR. HERBERT FRANCIS MILLS '24 
in Lynn, Mass., Oct. 1, 1970. Zeta Psi. His 
widow is Lillian F. Mills, 27 Eutaw Ave., 
Lynn. 

MARY LOMAX CLEARE '25 
in Fall River, Mass., March 18. A retired 
school teacher, Mrs. Cleare began her 
teaching career at Saxonville Junior High in 
Framingham, Mass. In 1928, she became a 
Latin teacher at Durfee High School in Fall 
River, retiring from Durfee at the time of 
her marriage in 1929. In 1952, Mrs. Cleare 
resumed her language teaching career at 
the Academy of the Sacred Hearts and sub- 
sequently taught at both Henry Lord and 
Morton Junior High Schools in Fall River 
until retiring in 1965. She was a member of 
the Bristol County and National Retired 
Teachers Associations and was a Girl Scout 



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leader for the Fall River Girl Scout Council. 
Her sister is Katherine F. Lomax '26, and 
her husband is William M. Cleare '17, 1455 
President Ave., Fall River. 

ROBERT LLOYD FAIR '25 
in Kalewood, N.J., Nov. 19. He retired in 
1970 as secretary and treasurer of the Edi- 
son Savings and Loan Association of New 
York City after 45 years of service. Mr. Fair 
was a past president of the Brown Club of 
Northeastern New Jersey. His widow is 
Harriet B. Fair, 663A Plymouth Drive, Lake- 
wood. 

JOHN HENRY SEE '26 
in Barrington, R.I., March 24. He retired 
in 1968 as executive vice-president of Auto- 
mobile Mutual Insurance Company of 
America (Arnica) and the Factory Mutual 
Liability Insurance Company of America, 
after 40 years of service with the two com- 
panies. Mr. See joined Amica in 1928 as a 
claims adjuster. In 1930 he was named su- 
pervisor of the rating and claims depart- 
ments, later became head of the underwrit- 
ing department, and in 1939 was elected an 
assistant secretary. In 1946 he was elected 
a vice-president of the company. He was 
president of his class and a past-president 
of the Brown Economics Club and also was 
active in forming the Brown Band. Mr. See 
was a past president of the Rhode Island 
Fish & Game Protective Association and a 
past vice-president of the Federated Rhode 
Island Sportsmen's Club. Kappa Sigma, Phi 
Beta Kappa. His widow is Marion S. See, 
15 LeBaron Way, Mattapoisett, Mass. 

SHERWOOD BRADLEY DAVIDGE '27 
in Clearwater, Fla., Aug. 29. At the time of 
his death, he was a partner in and chairman 
of the board of the New York City stock 
brokerage firm of Moore & Schley. Mr. Da- 
vidge was a member of the New York Stock 
Exchange. Delta Kappa Epsilon. His widow 
is Mary P. Davidge, 140 Willadel Drive, 
Belleair, Clearwater. 

EDWARD FREDERICK HARMON '27 
in Winchester, Mass., March 20. He was a 
retired sales representative for S. A. Felton 
& Son Co., in Manchester, N.H. Mr. Har- 
mon received an LL.B. degree from Harvard 
Law School in 1930 and was a former as- 
sociate in the Boston law firm of Stone & 
Jones. From 1939 to 1947, he was employed 
with the United Shoe Machinery Corpora- 
tion in Boston, and during World War II, 
served as an associate administrator of the 
war savings bond staff of the U.S. Treasury 
Department in Boston. Psi Upsilon. His 
widow is Deutzia C. Harmon, 54 Swan 
Road, Winchester. 

RALPH GORDON KENNEY '27 
in New Port Richey, Fla., April 13. He had 
been employed as an engineer at the Grin- 
nell Company, Providence, for 42 years 
prior to his retirement last year. At one 
time he was affiliated with General Fire Ex- 
tinguisher Company in Auburn, R.I. Mr. 
Kenney was a past president of the War- 



wick (R.I.) City Council and a past member 
of the police commission of Warwick. His 
widow is Ingrid E. Kenney, 6 Dory Drive, 
Gulf Harbors, New Port Richey. 

DR. FREDERICK BEHRENDT '28 
in St. Michaels, Md., March 9. A retired 
dentist and U.S. Navy captain, Dr. Behrendt 
received a D.D.S. degree from the Univer- 
sity of Pennsylvania School of Dentistry in 
1934 and began his practice in New York 
City. He also practiced in Millington, N.J., 
for many years until he moved to Maryland 
three years ago. During World War II, Dr. 
Behrendt served as a dental surgeon with 
the U.S. Navy. He was a member of the 
Association of Military Surgeons of the 
United States. Phi Sigma Kappa. His widow 
is Betty Behrendt, Drum Point, St. Michaels, 
Md. 

ANTHONY JAMES ARUTE '29 
in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Dec. 3. He was 
financial vice-president of Cia Auxiliar de 
Empresas Electricas in Rio de Janeiro. Mr. 
Arute previously had been assistant treas- 
urer and resident director of Cia Forcae Luz 
Nordeste Do Brazil and Pernambuco Tram- 
ways & Power Company, Ltd., subsidiaries 
of American and Foreign Power Company 
of New York. Phi Kappa. His son is Wal- 
ter E. Arute '53, and his widow is Estelle C. 
Arute, Avenida Atlantica 804, Apt. 1101, 
Rio de Janeiro Z C-07 GB, Brazil. 

JAMES PORTER HOWELL '29 
in Hinsdale, 111., March 4. He was a depart- 
ment chief for Western Electric Company 
in its Chicago office. Mr. Howell had been 
with the company since graduation, first as 
a telephone interviewer and later in per- 
sonnel placement before he became depart- 
ment chief. Phi Gamma Delta. His widow is 
Mary P. Howell, 2900 Maple, Apt. 2lB, 
Downers Grove, 111. 

ROBERT JOSIAH ROYCE '29 
in Matawan, N.J., Dec. 8. He was a design 
engineer with the Potter Aeronautical Cor- 
poration in Union, N.J., and was a former 
treasurer and plant manager of the Royce 
Chemical Company in Carlton Hill, N.J. 
During World War II, he served as an in- 
strumental designer with the U.S. Govern- 
ment's Office of Scientific Research and 
Development. His daughter, Mrs. Barbara 
J. Royce Chatman, survives. 

ARTHUR KEATS PERRY '30, '32 A.M. 
in Provincetown, Mass., March 27. He 
was a former French instructor and dra- 
matics coach at McBurney School in New 
York City. Mr. Perry, after graduating from 
Brown, went to the Sorbonne in Paris and 
did graduate work on a fellowship. He 
taught for ten years at the Provincetown 
(Mass.) High School before he joined the 
faculty of Milford (Conn.) High School as 
head of the English department and director 
of dramatics, journalism, and the English 
seminar. He also taught at the Hermon 
(Maine) and Tilton (N.H.) High Schools. 
There are no known survivors. 



DR. FRANK BARRY SMITH '30 A.M., 
'34 Ph.D. 

in Midland, Mich., April 10, 1969. He was 
a patent administrator for the corporate 
planning department of Dow Chemical 
Company, International, in Midland. Mr. 
Smith received a B.S. degree in chemistry 
from Kalamazoo College. He had been with 
Dow since 1935 and had served in organic 
research and technical service and develop- 
ment prior to joining Dow International in 
1952, where he became manager of techni- 
cal service in chemicals sales. His widow is 
Kathleen G. Smith, 4108 Oak Court, Mid- 
land. 

DANIEL RHEE '31 

in Newport, R.I., June 27. He was the re- 
tired chairman of the board of the Rhee In- 
dustries division of Rohm & Haas Company 
in Warren, R.I. A prominent chemical en- 
gineer, Mr. Rhee worked first as a control 
chemist for the U.S. Rubber Company and 
the Carr Corporation in Rhode Island. Dur- 
ing World War II, he served the govern- 
ment as a consulting engineer, and in 1944 
founded the Rhee Elastic Thread Company 
of Warren. Mr. Rhee was a member of the 
American Chemical Society and the Ameri- 
can Association for the Advancement of 
Science. His widow is Vonnie F. Rhee, and 
his son is Michael J. Rhee '55, 500 Indian 
Ave., Middletown, R.l. 

DR. RICHARD RICE '34 
in Warwick, R.L, April 16. An eye, ear, 
nose and throat specialist in Warwick, Dr. 
Rice received an M.D. degree from Tufts 
College Medical School in 1940. During 
World War II, he served as a flight sur- 
geon with the U.S. Army Air Force. Later 
he specialized in otolaryngology at Harvard, 
then practiced in Providence from 1950 to 
1963 and in Warwick from 1963 until his 
death. Dr. Rice was on the staff of Rhode 
Island, Kent County, Butler, and Miriam 
Hospitals. He also was on the staff at the 
Rhode Island Medical Center. Theta Delta 
Chi. His father is Dr. William O. Rice '03, 
his sister is Virginia Rice Saunders '35, his 
brother is William Rice '38, and his widow 
is Norma L. Rice, 31 King Philip Circle, 
Warwick. 

ELEANOR HOPKINS SHANNON '35 
in Montclair, N.J., March 13. She had been 
employed at the American National Bank & 
Trust of New Jersey in Montclair. Mrs. 
Shannon, who attended Katharine Gibbs 
Secretarial School in New York City, pre- 
viously had been a secretary at Western 
Electric Company in Kearny, N.J. Her hus- 
band, Floyd, died in 1971, and there are no 
known survivors. 

LT. MATTHEW LAURENCE THOMAS, 
USN (ret.) '47 

in Boston, Mass., Feb. 24. Lt. Thomas re- 
tired in 1959 after serving 17 years with 
the U.S. Navy supply corps. He was a 
member of the Retired Officers Associa- 
tion and the Veterans Association of Mul- 
tiple Sclerotics. Lambda Chi Alpha. His 
widow is Jean Grady Thomas, 20 Ellis Cir- 
cle, South Weymouth, Mass. 



46 



The Clubs 



No question about it — the Brown 
Club of Rhode Island has struck gold with 
its newest program, the guided tours. The 
trip to England last October was highly 
successful, and the junket to Italy this 
spring was equally well received. 

On the 11-day trip (April 26 to 
May 5), 60 Brunonians toured Rome, 
Pompeii, Sorrento, Florence, and other 
Italian scenic spots. Also making the trip 
as guest of the Brown Club was Prof. 
John Rowe Workman of the classics 
department. 

"Professor Workman was just out- 
standing," says David J. Zucconi '55, 
associate executive alumni officer and the 
man who helped to arrange the trip 
through Church Travel Agency of Provi- 
dence. "John was scheduled to give six 
lectures during our stay in Italy. He 
ended up giving eight. And Professor 
Workman was equally at home lecturing 
in the hotel lounge, the dining room, 
on the side of a hill, or in a lurching bus. 

"It was the unanimous opinion of 
our group on its return trip that both 
the information and personal charm con- 
tributed by John Workman turned a 
good trip into a great one. They loved 
him." 

In this new tour program, it is the 
policy of the Brown Club to send a fac- 
ulty member — one familiar with the 
country being visited — on each journey. 
Prof. Elmer M. Blistein '42, a Shakes- 
pearean scholar, went to England on the 
Club's first tour in October. 

Several members of the Brown Club 
party enjoyed a lagniappe on their last 
night in Italy. While dining at the lux- 
urious Hostaria Dellorso, they were sur- 
prised to see Elizabeth Taylor and Aris- 
totle Onassis enter the room. 

When a photographer showed up 
with his camera clicking, Liz ducked un- 
der a table and Aristotle let fly with his 



glass of champagne. The contents of the 
glass missed the photographer but landed 
on the gowns of Mrs. Bernard V. "Joie" 
Buonanno and Mrs. Joan Sammartino. 

"The girls were so thrilled," says 
Zucconi, "that they immediately — well, 
almost immediately — donated their 
gowns to the Brown Club of Rhode Is- 
land's Tour Museum." 

The trip to Rome also included the 
presentation of an "honorary degree" 
to Luciano Bergamini, the driver of the 
48-passenger bus, a man who had just 
carefully navigated the Brown party 
over the precarious Amalfi Drive, with 
its breath-taking hairpin turns some 300- 
feet above sea level. 

With great ceremony, the citation 
was read in Latin by Professor Work- 
man, in English by Zucconi, and in Ital- 
ian by the group's official tour guide. 

At least two more tours are planned 
by the Brown Club of Rhode Island for 
the 1972-73 academic year. The destina- 
tion in late October or early November 
will be Lisbon and Madrid, with a visit 
to Greece — with Professor Workman 
back for an encore — slated for the spring. 

D During the past month, a number 
of successful meetings were held around 
the country by Brown and Pembroke 
Clubs. More than 100 alumni, subfresh- 
men, and parents attended a meeting in 
Detroit at which President Hornig spoke. 
Andrew Penz '61 handled the arrange- 
ments. In Cleveland, Ted Selover '52 
was in charge of a sell-out" affair when 
Vice-President Ronald A. Wolk came to 
town. 

Lee L. Verstandig, assistant dean of 
academic affairs, was the guest speaker 
at the annual dinner of the Brown Club 
of Cincinnati. Sixty alumni and alumnae 
were on hand to hear the dean discuss 
"Brown Today." Arthur E. Murphy '50, 
vice-president of the Club, was dinner 
chairman. D. Michael Holbrook '67, club 
president, introduced the speaker. 

Performing arts students from 
Brown presented a theater-dance pro- 
gram to alumnae in the Fairfield County 
area at the Club's annual spring meeting. 
The production was under the supervi- 
sion of Julie Strandberg, director of 
dance, and James Barnhill, director of 
theater in Brown's performing arts 
program. Several high school students 
who will enter Brown this fall were in 
attendance. 



The Pembroke College Club of New 
York raised money for its scholarship 
fund with a unique program in April. 
Walter Hoving '20, trustee emeritus ajid 
chairman of Tiffany's, hosted a "Break- 
fast at Tiffany's." Co-chairmen of the 
benefit were Lydia Briggs Poole '66 and 
Christine Dunlap '48. 

The Worcester County Brown Club 
had a good turnout for its spring meet- 
ing, entitled "An Evening with Prof. 
Elmer E. Cornwell, Jr." The former chair- 
man of the political science department 
at Brown was featured as part of the 
Club's Off-Campus Continuing Educa- 
tion Program. 

Three undergraduates from College 
Hill were the guests at the spring meet- 
ing of the Brown and Pembroke Clubs 
of Boston. Arnie Berman spoke on ath- 
letics, Sally Metz on student involvement, 
and Dave Crimmin on student life styles. 
Dr. David C. Lewis '57 handled the ar- 
rangements. 



47 



On Stage: 



A non-event becomes a major campus story 



During an academic year that has had its share of im- 
portant, and continuing, news stories — the decision on ex- 
panding the medical program, the faculty vote on ROTC, and 
the so-called tenure crisis, just to mention three — one of the 
biggest stories was about something that did not happen. On 
May 23, Dean of Academic Affairs Jacquelyn Mattfeld re- 
vealed that she had decided not to accept the presidency of 
Swarthmore College. The decision says a great deal about 
Jackie Mattfeld, and it also says something about Brown. 

It has been barely a year since the University announced 
that Dr. Jacquelyn Anderson Mattfeld, provost and dean of 
the faculty at Sarah Lawrence College, was leaving that job to 
come to Brown as dean of academic affairs and associate pro- 
vost (BAM, July 1971). Announcing her appointment. Presi- 
dent Hornig said Mrs. Mattfeld would be "the principal officer 
responsible for the development and operation of the curricu- 
lum, with a special responsibility for extra-departmental pro- 
grams such as modes of thought courses for freshmen, group 
study courses, and University courses." The president added 
that she would be the primary administration contact with 
faculty groups and will generally "supervise the dean's office, 
which has as its principal responsibility the academic counsel- 
ing of undergraduates." Not the least of her duties, the presi- 
dent said, would be to "serve as the conscience of the Uni- 
versity" in matters of concern to women. "She will look after 
the interests of women in all departments of the University," 
Mr. Hornig said. "This includes the support of departments in 
recruiting women faculty and the welfare of present women 
faculty." 

It was a rather large order, but on the evidence this year. 
Dean Mattfeld seems to be quite capable of handling it. 
The Brown Daily Herald, commenting at year's end that Mrs. 
Mattfeld is "charged with looking after everything that every- 
body within the University, both within and outside of Uni- 
versity Hall, should be doing all the time," went on to say that 
she "is one of Brown's greatest assets. She is an able and re- 
sponsive administrator as well as a sensitive and understand- 
ing human being." She has also been an effective spokesman 
for the University administration. Her speech to the Alumni 
Council last February, during which she spoke thoughtfully 
and articulately for about 20 minutes without a single note, 
left the men who had heard it shaking their heads in admira- 
tion. 

Fulfilling her "special responsibility" for the development 
of the New Curriculum, the dean wrote a perceptive paper 
to the Faculty Policy Group last winter (BAM, February 
1972) in which she discussed some of the reasons for a grow- 
ing dissatisfaction with progress on Brown's innovative 
curriculum. She went on to say this: "The opportunities for 
Brown to 'assert leadership in the world of higher education' 
are if anything even greater than when the assertion was made 
[at the time of the adoption of the New Curriculum in 1969]. 



But if Brown is to assume leadership outside, we — the faculty 
and students within — first have to rally our energies and 
courage. We shall have to agree to turn our most rigorous 
experimental attitudes, standards, and methods in turn upon 
each aspect of the graduate and undergraduate education we 
offer. Faced with prolonged and perhaps increasing [financial] 
stringency, we must at the very best wrestle with our preju- 
dices about liberal and professional education, we must require 
of ourselves that we define our often unconscious goals for 
our students, face the implications of our preferences for 
certain kinds of students, and test the validity of all our un- 
challenged assumptions about the efficacy of specific styles of 
teaching ." 

Looking back, no one at Brown should have been sur- 
prised — given Mrs. Mattfeld's abilities and her rapport with 
students, faculty, and alumni — that her name began to pop 
up when college presidencies were mentioned. After all, as the 
Herald somewhat inelegantly put it, she "is one of the hottest 
properties in American higher education today." In mid-winter, 
campus rumors had her linked with the vacant presidencies 
at Wellesley and at Radcliffe. Then Swarthmore was added to 
the list. First Wellesley and then Radcliffe filled their spots. 
She was, according to one tip, one of the top two being con- 
sidered at Swarthmore. 

Then on May 19, the Herald broke the story: Jackie 
Mattfeld had been offered the Swarthmore presidency and 
would announce her decision within a few days. Should she 
take the position, she would become the first woman presi- 
dent of a prestigious, coeducational liberal arts college in the 
nation. Few people around College Hill thought she would 
spurn such an offer. But she did. 

On the 23rd, she announced her decision to stay at 
Brown. "I am fully aware," she said, "that my decision will 
be subject to all kinds of misinterpretation by most outsiders 
and some friends. However, I'm not interested in size and 
prestige, but effectiveness." She said that she was primarily 
interested in making "the educational resources of the Uni- 
versity available to people of all ages, sexes, and races" at the 
graduate and undergraduate level and in how the University 
can be of service to the outside community. "What I care most 
about in higher education," she said, "is likely to be forwarded 
at Brown." 

The sigh of relief could be heard from one end of Uni- 
versity Hall to the other. Mr. Hornig — "overjoyed" — said, 
"We will strengthen her ability to do some of the things she 
wants to do," mentioning in particular more aid for the New 
Curriculum and for women's programs. 

And Jackie Mattfeld, her decision made and announced, 
went home that evening and did what she does many another 
evening: she informally entertained a few students. 

R.M.R. 



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Gifts this year by alumni/ ae, parents, and friends through the Program for the 70's and the 
Brown University Annual Fund have already exceeded the levels achieved during the entire 
1970 71 academic year. 

This is one way we have of expressing our thanks to each of you who is helping Brown 
so significantly through your gifts and your volunteer service. 

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