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Alumni Monthly February 1973 




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Brown Alumni Monthly February 1973, Vol. 73, No. 5 



In this issue 





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2 Under the Elms 

The Ivy universities have issued a joint statement on admis- 
sion policy . . . Brown's tuition will go up another $200 . . . 
White House aide Charles Colson '53 calls the Watergate af- 
fair "stupid" in a speech in Sayles. . . . The Hotplate Crisis 
has been resolved. 

10 Joy and Concentration in an Expanded Extension Program 

Six hundred and fifty-five people of various ages and profes- 
sional and educational backgrounds were enrolled last semes- 
ter when 50 courses were offered. 

18 'Deadly Meeting' 

The Modern Language Association is the 89-year-old society 
of college and university teachers of English and foreign lan- 
guages. Its annual meeting has become the place for new 
Ph.D.'s to seek a job. 

22 Calculus, Hah! 

The expanding core of feminist students at Brown who have 
been trying "to learn about women" have an opportunity this 
year: a new course in women's history. 

28 Kissinger's Man in Paris 

Pictures of Henry Kissinger in Paris during the recent peace 
negotiations usually showed a white-haired man — William H. 
Sullivan '43 — at his side. 



Departments 

9 Carrying the Mail 
30 Sports 



35 The Classes 
48 On Stage 



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The cover design is by Don Paulhus. The photograph (of Alpha 
Beta sorority) is one of several from the University's Archives 
ivhich supplement the story on women's history (page 22). The 
inset photos (by Hugh Smyser) were taken at two Extension 
courses (page 10). 



Editor 

Robert M. Rhodes 

Associate Editors 

John F. Barry, Jr. '50 
Ann Banks 

Assistant Editor 

Hazel M. Goff 

Editorial Assistant 

Christine Bowman '72 

Design Consultant 

Don Paulhus 

Board of Editors 

Chairman 

Garrett D. Byrnes '26 

Vice-Chairman 

Gladys Chernack Kapstein '40 

Anthony L. Aeschliman '65 
Robert G. Berry '44 
Cornelia Dean '69 
Doris Stearn Donovan '59 
James E. DuBois '50 
Ruth Burt Ekstrom '53 
Beverly Hodgson Leventhal '70 
Douglas R. Riggs '61 

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Under the Elms 



By the Editors 





A joint Ivy admissions statement 



In a heartening example of intra- 
mural cooperation, the eight Ivy League 
colleges, along with the Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology, have agreed 
once again on common admission pro- 
cedures. The statement on the new poli- 
cies, issued jointly by the Ivy Group 
presidents, explains the need for a more 
uniform admission process. 

"It is our hope," the statement says, 
"that by outlining carefully the proce- 
dures under which we are operating and 
by clearly specifying not only what an 
applicant's obligations are to us but also 
what our obligations are to him or her, 
we can help students pursue their college 
interest free of unnecessary confusion 
and pressure." 

The major item of "news" in the 
statement is the announcement of an 
early evaluation procedure. Under this 
plan all Ivy applicants will be notified 
between late fall and Feb. 15 of their 
chances for admission. The tentative as- 
sessments will be expressed in terms 
such as "likely," "possible," or "un- 
likely," and they will not be binding on 
the college. 

James Rogers, Brown's director of 
admission, is enthusiastic about the early 
evaluation plan. "The more we can do," 
he says "to give the student an early and 
realistic appraisal of his or her chances 
for admission, the better." This will not 
only benefit applicants, Rogers says, but 
it will also be a boon for those smaller 
but good schools which tend to fill their 
classes with students who are not ac- 
cepted by Ivy League colleges. A student 
who is told that the probability of his 
acceptance by a certain Ivy League school 
is "unlikely" can then, with increased 
vigor, pursue his admission to what 
otherwise may have been his second- 
choice colleges. 

Rogers warns, however, that these 
ratings will not serve their intended 
purpose unless they are standard from 
year to year and from school to school. 
I He hopes that the reliability of the 






Brown evaluations will be good enough 
so that over 95 percent of those appli- 
cants who receive a "likely" rating will 
be admitted. He expects that less than 
three percent of those whose chances are 
deemed "unlikely" will get into Brown. 
The acceptance percentage of applicants ,f 
who are told that their acceptance is 
"possible" will vary according to the 
size of the applicant pool and the fresh- 
man class. 

At Brown, the ratings will be de- 
termined after two admission office read- 
ers have studied each folder and rated 
the candidate on academic and non- 
academic potential. 

Other aspects of the recently an- 
nounced common admission procedures 
do not represent any policy changes for 
Brown. Under the new standardized 
process, all nine of the cooperating col- 
leges have agreed on a common notifica- 
tion date in mid-April for informing ap- 
plicants if they have been accepted or 
rejected for admission. The joint policy 
statement also deals with the early de- 
cision plan, in which Brown already 
participates. "Early decision" candidates 
— those who list a particular college as 
their first choice — will be notified of their 
fate no later than Dec. 15 of each year. 

Each college will continue to make 
individual decisions on admissions, but 
those students who are admitted under 
the early decision plan will be required to 
accept that offer of admission and with- 
draw all applications to other colleges 
and universities. 

In a separate but related statement, 
the Ivy Group also reaffirmed its policy 
that financial aid for all students, includ- 
ing athletes, be based solely on need. 

Next year, it will cost 
$3,250 to enroll at Brown 

For editors of university alumni 
magazines, some stories are as predicta- 
bly perennial as "First Groundhog 
Sighted." Frankly, we have exhausted 
our supply of snappy lead sentences on 
the subject of Brown's almost yearly tui- 



tion increase. So here it is — a simple an- 
nouncement. 

Tuition at Brown will increase by 
S200 to a total of $3,250 a year, effective 
June 15, 1973. Room and board costs 
also will increase to cover the effects of 
inflation in these areas. The standard 
room fee will go up by $20, from $650 to 
$670 a year, while board costs will be 
raised from $750 to $780 a year for the 
full meal contract which provides 20 
meals each week. 

Other, less expensive meal plans 
also will be offered, and plans to improve 
the quality of residential life at Brown 
by increasing services in both the hous- 
ing and food areas are currently under 
discussion. 

The cost of health and accident 
insurance for all students will be in- 
cluded in the new tuition rate for the 
first time this year, according to Paul F. 
Meader, vice president for finance and 
operations and associate provost. In past 
years, there has been a separate $40 
charge for this insurance. 

A separate student activities fee of 
$30 for undergraduates and $10 for 
graduate students will be assessed along 
with the tuition increase. The purpose of 
this fee, said James E. Dougherty, act- 
ing dean of student affairs, is to put all 
the funds allocated to various student 
organizations and clubs by the student 
government into a single, easily identifi- 
able fund. Students will know exactly 
how much money is in this fund and 
how it is being allocated, Dougherty 
added. 

In a letter to students and their 
parents concerning the tuition and other 
fees increases. President Donald F. 
Hornig said that because of inflation and 
the financial crisis in higher education, 
"we are confronted with a most difficult 
dilemma: either to increase tuition or 
cut back on faculty and the educational 
programs which we offer. 

"We have taken all possible steps to 
reduce expenditures in the year ahead," 
Mr. Hornig added. "However, in balanc- 
ing the budget we must also protect the 
academic quality which attracted our 
students in the first place and which 
justifies Brown's existence." 

President Hornig also said that no 
student who qualifies for financial aid 
would be forced to leave school because 
of the fee increases. 



Teaching the fine art of how 
to get government money 

Grantsmanship is the fine art of 
writing and manipulating proposals so 
as to convince foundations and govern- 
ment agencies to part with some money. 
It is a skill that colleges cannot afford to 
do without in these hard times. Early 
this year the staff of Brown's academic 
program development office conducted a 
workshop on proposal writing for se- 
lected members of the faculty of Toug- 
aloo College in Mississippi. Tougaloo is a 
small, predominantly black liberal arts 
college with an enrollment of about 750 
students and 54 full-time faculty mem- 
bers. Nine years ago, Tougaloo joined 
with Brown in a cooperative program 
which provides for an exchange of stu- 
dents and faculty and for a sharing of 
resources available at Brown for projects 
that might benefit Tougaloo. 

The proposal-writing workshop was 
one such project. The seven-day crash 
course in fund-raising techniques was of- 
fered to five Tougaloo faculty members 
and held on the Brown campus. "The 
aim of the workshop was to dwell on the 
fundamentals involved in writing effec- 
tive proposals so that the participants 
could return to Tougaloo and do this 



kind of work and perhaps teach others 
to do it," said Berton F. Hill '48, directo: 
of federal programs at Brown, who su- 1 
pervised the workshop. 

Although richer colleges usually us 
professional fund raisers to do most of 
the proposal-writing chores, Tougaloo 
cannot afford this solution. The Touga- 
loo development staff consists of one 
full-time professional who is also direc- 
tor of public relations and who must sp 
his time between his office in New Yorl 
City and the College campus, 1,500 
miles away. The alternative arrangemei 
was to teach Tougaloo faculty members 
the ins and outs of academic fund raisii 
so that they could return to their cam- 
pus and form a nucleus in each academ 
division for proposal writing and prepai 
ration. i 

The five Tougaloo faculty member! 
who participated in the workshop wer: 
Dr. Betty Patton, associate professor oj! 
education and chairman of the educatic, 
department; Miss Patricia Freeman, [ 
instructor in economics; Dr. James ' 
Kinsinger, assistant professor of chem-' 
istry; Elijah Slaughter, director of the , 
Upward Bound program; and Jerry 
Ward, Jr., assistant professor of Englis; 

Each of the participants wrote six, 
proposals during the week-long work- 



Berton F. Hill, director of federal programs at Brown, leads a seminar 
for the visiting faculty members from Tougaloo College. 




sip, with a day left over for rewriting 
01 of the proposals after hearing criti- 
dn from the staff. All of the proposal 
tcics were chosen by Tougaloo officials 
af they focused on real needs of the 
ccege. 

The proposals sought foundation 
si.port for such things as a faculty 
d^elopment and teaching program, con- 
vn^ion of an existing building to an arts 
ce-,:er, a mobile counseling unit for on- 
th spot student recruitment, and a pilot 
pr ect involving a new freshman year 
pr;ram at Tougaloo. All of the pro- 
pyls were prepared just as though they 
w e to be submitted to foundations or 
agicies which award funds to colleges 
fosuch purposes, and a number of 
pi70sals written during the workshop 
w be submitted. 

The proposals were evaluated and 
a qued by specialists on Brown's 
aclemic program development staff, 
th Tougaloo faculty members them- 
se es, and by a panel of five Brown 
fa Ity members with experience in re- 
vicing proposals for foundations and 
ot r agencies. 

Another aim of the workshop was 
to jUy acquaint the Tougaloo faculty 
mnbers with all of the various sources 
of ipport for higher education, both 
sp lalized and general. 

"It's not only the money that's im- 
"int in preparing these proposals," 
Mary I. Stephens, director of aca- 
je c program development at Brown, 
it, also the opportunity to sit down 
.anithink about the priorities of an in- 
'ti'tion like Tougaloo, the things the 
.0 ge really needs." Dr. Stephens, a 
foi.er program officer with the National 
.Enowment for the Humanities, lectured 
»an(evaluated proposals during the 
-hop. 

The Tougaloo faculty members 
J the seven days of intensive work 
-e!j valuable. "The schedule looked a 
jilitf[ frightening at first glance since on 
inc days we worked from 9 a.m. to 
' ■■ 1," said Dr. Patton. "But the whole 
worked out very nicely. It gave us 
,i..in to really think about what we were 
5 away from the interruptions of our 
ar administrative and office work." 
'The professional advice, supervi- 
and knowledge we received during 
/orkshop will enable us as a group 
'• back to Tougaloo and write more 
e|H-'ve proposals for the college," 



Slaughter said. "We don't expect to go 
back and set the world on fire, but all of 
us feel that the workshop was extremely 
worthwhile." 

Hill had high praise for the efforts 
of the Tougaloo faculty members during 
the week. "Each of the participants 
started the week at a different level and 
by the close of the workshop all of them 
were capable of writing proposals for 
formal submission," he said. 

Phil Taft: In retirement, 
work is still his life 

Three decades have passed since the 
day a student sat down beside Philip 
Taft at breakfast and told him his stu- 
dents thought he was a communist be- 
cause of his strong pro-labor sentiments. 

The snowy-haired, bespectacled pro- 
fessor emeritus of economics at Brown 
hasn't changed his views with time. A 
chronicler of the labor movement in the 
U.S. since his undergraduate days at the 
University of Wisconsin in the early 
1930's, he remains a strong believer in 
labor. The years have strengthened his 
conviction that the labor movement is 
good for the nation, and he terms labor 
one of the "most stable and reliable" 
groups in the community. 

"Unions do not engage in violent 
political demonstrations and they can 
be counted on to support the govern- 
ment when the chips are down," Profes- 
sor Taft says. In a situation such as the 
Cuban missile crisis, he adds, "labor by 
and large would be absolutely reliable in 

Phil Taft: Just like any workman. 




its support for the government's policy. 
I know an argument can be made that 
such unquestioning loyalty is not always 
a good thing, but that's the way it is." 

The most significant changes in the 
labor movement in recent years have 
been greater political involvement by un- 
ions and the large number of white-col- 
lar workers who have joined unions. 
Professor Taft says. "The labor move- 
ment changes, but its goals don't ever 
really change." 

Phil Taft is a man who believes in 
getting down to basics. No frills, no 
fancy talk. And for someone who has 
been around the campus for nearly 50 
years, he sounds more like a blue-collar 
worker than an intellectual. His feelings 
about the unrest that has disrupted 
many campuses in recent years are a 
reflection of this. 

"The universities failed the only 
real test they've ever been confronted 
with," Taft says. "In my opinion they 
let the situation get out of hand and 
ought now to go through a period of 
penance and to practice that misused 
word, humility. I was never anti-student, 
and I don't believe in beating anyone 
over the head. But I'm convinced that if 
it had been factory boys who had been 
rioting, they would not have been treated 
so gingerly. You would not have heard 
leading lawyers and others telling you 
that you can't beat your own children. 
Of course you can." 

Taft's intimate knowledge of the la- 
bor movement has not been accrued 
from a seat in an ivy-covered tower. The 
Brown economist was an associate econ- 
omist for the Social Security Board be- 
fore coming to College Hill in 1937, and 
he has served on numerous local and 
national commissions concerned with 
labor and consumer issues. 

One of the people he has dealt with 
personally during his long career is AFL- 
CIO President George Meany, for whom 
Professor Taft has high praise. "George 
Meany has a mind like a steel trap," he 
says, "but he is not a difficult man to 
deal with. The way to deal with him is 
to have your facts and be straightfor- 
ward. Do not assume that Meany is in- 
capable of logical analysis. He may not 
have studied Euclidian logic, but he 
knows how to use it." 

Professor Taft is objective in his 
constant scrutiny of the labor movement. 
An example of his criticism of union 



policies is the battle over the years be- 
tween the printers union and the New 
York City newspapers. "The behavior 
of the New York printers is self-defeat- 
ing in the sense that they could drive 
the book and job printers out of the 
city/' he says. "I also believe a wiser 
policy on the part of the printers might 
have kept the Herald-Tribune alive." 

Phil Taft retired from active teach- 
ing at Brown over four years ago. But 
old habits don't break easily, and he still 
gets up around 5 a.m. every morning 
and works five or six hours before noon. 
His work is still his life. "When I work 
on a project I work everyday, Saturdays, 
Sundays, and holidays." 

His research and writing over the 
years have earned him a reputation as 
one of the nation's foremost labor his- 
torians. The research he does continues 
to be both a challenge and a source of 
enjoyment. "I'm not driven by work," 
he says. "People who think I'm OK 
aren't going to change their minds even 
if I did nothing, and those who think 
I'm no good aren't going to change their 
minds either." 

Professor Taft is the author of TJie 
Structure and Government of Labor Un- 
ions (1954), The AFL in the Time of 
Campers (1957), Organized Labor in 
American History (1964), and Labor Pol- 
itics, American Style (1968). Another 
book tracing the activities of the major 
labor federations in foreign affairs is 
currently being edited for publication. 

Since his retirement in 1968, Taft 
has maintained an office in Robinson 
Hall and has taken advantage of his 
emeritus status to expand the scope of 
his activities. He is presently in Austin, 
Texas, for two and a half months teach- 
ing a seminar in labor history at the 
University of Texas. Later, he will be at 
the University of Alabama working on a 
research project. 

"I have a pride in my work," Phil 
Taft says. "I'm like any workman who 
has a skill and enjoys using it." 

Chuck Colson: Defending the 
Nixon Administration in Sayles 

When Charles W. Colson '53, spe- 
cial counsel to President Nixon, returned 
to Brown earlier this month as a speaker 
in the Charles Evans Hughes Lecture 
Series, someone pointed out to him that 



just three short years ago no member of 
the Nixon administration would have 
dared to appear on a college campus. 

Acknowledging this point, Colson 
said that he felt the country had "ma- 
tured" a great deal during the past three 
or four years, and added, "I would hope 
I'd always be welcome at my Alma 
Mater." And he was, being applauded 
politely, if not with great warmth, by the 
500 students in Sayles Hall. Most of 
the questions in the 55-minute give-and- 
take session that followed his talk had 
an anti-Administration bite but all were 
posed in a respectful fashion, a sharp 
contrast to similar scenes at Brown and 
other campuses in the late 1960's and 
early 1970's. 

"Actually, I came here to win a bet," 
Colson told the students. "When Henry 
Kissinger was on campus to receive an 
honorary degree in 1969, many of the 
seniors stood and turned their backs on 
him. 'They'll do the same thing to you,' 
he told me. 'No, no,' I said, 'they turned 
their backs on you, Henry, because you 
went to Harvard.' " 

Colson answered a barrage of 
questions, many of them predictable, 
during the press conference and follow- 
ing the Sayles Hall speech. He told the 
press that he believes that this President 
has made "enormous gains" in pro- 
moting stability between nations and 
that the chance for a lasting peace "is 
greater than ever before in my lifetime." 

Asked to reflect on nearly four years 
in the White House and to describe the 
man he had worked for, Colson had this 
to say: "Mr. Nixon is the most de- 

Chuck Colson: Watergate was 
"a stupid move." 




termined, self-disciplined man I have 
ever known, one with a quick, sharp, 
alert mind. We all aspire to things in o 
life. He aspired to be President. No on 
gave him a chance after 1962 and yet 
ten years later, almost to the day, he 
gained a landslide victory, one of the 
greatest in the nation's history. 

"President Nixon is demanding tc 
work for, but he's a kind and com- 
passionate man. He's 'up' when things 
are the toughest and he always refuse 
to settle for the short view of things." 

As evidence of this point, Colson 
pointed out that even while the Vietna 
war remained a "national obsession," 
President Nixon was "watching and 
playing the bigger game of ending the 
Cold War." 

Colson strongly defended the De-'" 
cember bombing, saying that this mo\ 
very definitely brought the North Viet 
namese back to the peace table and led 
to the January settlement. He also re- ' 
vealed for the first time his participati( 
in the decision not to take this case to 
the American people. 

"I strongly urged the President nc 
to make a public statement on the borr- 
ing," Colson said. "Such a statement 
would have hardened the attitude of tP 
North Vietnamese and would have mai 
it more difficult for them to come back 
to the peace table. A public statement , 
then, in my opinion, could have seriou ■ 
hurt the chances for peace." 

Taking this subject a step further 
Colson defended the Administration's 
decision not to involve Congress in the 
final days of the peace talks by saying 
that "you can't govern by consensus." 
He said that this had been tried in the 
Johnson Administration and had failed 

"Every man has his own style. Nc; 
of us is perfect. But the Nixon style hi 
the overwhelming support of the Ame: 
can people." 

Colson drew a chuckle from the 
audience when he quoted a fellow Brci 
man, Thomas G. Corcoran '22, a forme 
assistant to President Roosevelt. "Tomi' 
the Cork once said that a White House 
assistant should remain anonymous. 1 
this, I was spectacularly unsuccessful.' 

Explaining the duties of the Whit( 
House staff, Colson drew another 
chuckle that wasn't planned when he 
said, "One fellow takes care of Congre 
— I mean works with Congress." 

Earlier this month, Colson threat- 
ened Time magazine with a $2 millior, 



I 



Il suit unless it published regrets 
ft not running his denial of being linked 
tony conspiratorial eiTort to bug the 
Enocratic headquarters at Watergate, 
h, spoke forcefully on this point during 
fl question-and-ansvver period. 

"All members of the White House 
s i were questioned on this issue and I 
g e a private two-hour deposition to 
E'vard Bennett Williams, legal counsel 
f(i the Democrats. Now, I've worked too 
di'.in hard in my life — including four 
y rs of night school to earn my law 
d ree — to take any chances with per- 
ji ,-. 

"Very simply, I had nothing to do 
v\h the so-called Watergate case. And 
r tell you why. It was a stupid move — 
a ?ry stupid thing to do." 

Colson mentioned that he will be 
ti -eling to Moscow shortly on what 
h rermed an important economic trade 
rr sion for the President. "We might 
riit now be on the border of shipping 
. abur agricultural surpluses to the 
Si iet Union," he said. This will be Col- 
S( 's last official act as special counsel 
. tche President, as he is due to return 
tciis private law practice in Washington 
. scie time after March 1. 

In one of the more relaxed questions 
o!,he evening, one student asked Col- 
. sc about his grandmother. The ref- 
. eiice was to the BAM story on Colson 
ir November, 1972 in which he denied 

eport that he would "walk over" 
_ n.grandmother if he had to. "Not true. 
SI was a very wonderful woman. I'd 
hi,e walked around her," he said in the 

This comment, which was made 
vvi tongue in cheek, seemed to spread," 
C.son said. "Last fall someone in 
^ .vaukee came up with a 91-year-old 
wnan, identified her as my grand- 
nv.her, and said she was going to vote 
fcMcGovern. 

"I was slightly suspicious, mainly 
bduse both my grandmothers are 
dei. After the election we checked 
it Jt — and found out that the lady 

in't have voted for McGovern. She 
i^rrn't even registered." ...-c~ /Q 

;l4|e medical school gets a 
m for clinical affairs 

J Another step in the completion of the 
I: for Brown's new medical school has 
6ei taken with the appointment of Dr. 
St. iley M. Aronson as dean for clinical 
3' rs. Dr. Aronson, who is also path- 



ologist-in-chief and director of labora- 
tory medicine at Miriam Hospital, will be 
responsible for the coordination of pro- 
grams involving Brown faculty and 
students in the hospitals affiliated with 
the medical program. 

A New York native. Dr. Aronson 
received his B.S. degree from the College 
of the City of New York in 1943 and 
his M.D. degree from New York Uni- 
versity College of Medicine in 1947. 
The new dean started his academic 
career as an instructor at the Columbia 
University College of Physicians and 
Surgeons in 1951. He left that post as 
an associate in 1954 to become professor 
of pathology at the State University of 
New York. After serving as assistant 
dean at SUNY from 1960 to 1970, Dr. 
Aronson was a lecturer at Yale before 
coming to Brown as professor of medical 
science in 1970. 

Speaking of his new appointment. 
Dr. Aronson said: "Brown has a unique 
opportunity to combine and coordinate 
the resources of its campus with those of 
its affiliated hospitals in the creation of 
a consortium of teaching and patient care 
facilities. I hope to be able to facilitate 
this joint effort in behalf of medical 
education, both graduate and undergrad- 
uate, in the state of Rhode Island." 

Hotplates in dorm rooms 
become a burning issue 

"We marched on Washington! We 
marched on the State House! We'll 
march on the Ratty!" came the cry from 
someone in the crowd of several hundred 
students outside the Sharpe Refectory 
one evening in January. The students 
proceeded to force their way into the 
Refectory — without showing the neces- 
sary id's — by charging through barri- 
cades of tables, boards, and service em- 
ployees. 

The protest action came near the 
end of what has been called The Hot- 
plate Crisis, a conflict between students 
and administrators over whether stu- 
dents should be allowed to cook in their 
dormitory rooms. 

An unsigned pamphlet calling for 
students to "storm the Ratty en masse" 
had been circulating among students 
throughout the day. The pamphlet 
warned that University officials were 
making a systematic attempt to confis- 
cate all student hotplates in accordance 
with a housing regulation forbidding 



their use. The pamphlet's accusation: 
"They (University employees) were in 
your rooms while you were vacationing. 
They made a list (of hotplate owners) 
over Christmas. They've checked it 
twice. They've found out who's naughty 
and nice." 

Housing officers had, in fact, alerted 
students that hotplates would be confis- 
cated in compliance with safety regula- 
tions if students did not get rid of them 
during the Christmas break. That plan, 
however, was abandoned shortly before 
the Refectory protest. Members of the 
student residential council had requested 
in a memo to Robert Hill, director of 
housing, that he "postpone the ban on 
hotplates until some provisions are made 
to make up for the lack of student cook- 
ing facilities." Another letter condemn- 
ing the University's "lack of foresight" 
in the matter had reached the desk of 
Paul Maeder, vice president for finance 
and operations. 

In the meantime, the University has 
found an alternative to allowing students 
without meal contracts to cook on hot- 
plates in their rooms. Using $100,000 
of newly available funds, the administra- 
tion has approved the setting up of "hot- 
plate rooms," kitchenettes, and other 
appropriate facilities. 

The ice age cometh — 
but not for 10,000 years 

Everybody talks about the weather 
but nobody ever does anything about it. 
At least that's what Mark Twain is re- 
ported to have said. Well, if the research 
of a team of Brown geologists is correct, 
we'd better start planning to do some- 
thing about the weather because another 
ice age is on the way. 

There's no need to panic. Don't put 
this story down and rush out to purchase 
an extra electric blanket or a pair of 
ear muffs. The predicted Ice Age, if it 
comes, is still some 10,000 years away. 

As any historian is quick to admit, 
to understand the future it's first neces- 
sary to study what's happened in the 
past. And that's just what the Brown 
research team has been doing. The objec- 
tive is to discover what "triggers" vio- 
lent climatic changes on this planet, such 
as the ice age 17,000 years ago when 
glaciers covered Providence and New 
York City. 

George Popkin, feature writer for 



the Providence Journal-Bulletin, pointed 
out that the study to date has involved 
raising from the ocean bed microscopic 
skeletons of sea animals and plants that 
existed hundreds of million years ago, 
as well as the clay sediments in which 
they were buried. Metal pipes were 
dropped from research ships in the Car- 
ibbean to dig into the ocean bed. Some 
probes went as deep as 30 feet. 

The theory behind this phase of the 
research is that water temperature, 
which affects climate, can be traced by 
evidence of the movement of animal life, 
either south or north. 

The Brown team, which includes 
students, has been working in conjunc- 
tion with groups from Columbia Uni- 
versity and Oregon State University. 
Support — some $700,000 through 1972 — 
has come from the National Science 
Foundation. 

Signs that a drastic change in the 
planet's climate may be forthcoming in- 
clude the failure of the Russian wheat 
crop and the excessive rainfall this past 
year in Rhode Island. A more positive 
sign will be the migration southward of 
the Canadians. But that move won't 
happen until the year 5000. 

Heading the Brown team are Prof. 
Robley K. Matthews, chairman of the 
Brown geological sciences department, 
and Professors John Imbrie and Thomp- 
son Webb. 

Dr. Webb, who holds a Ph.D. in 
meteorology, has been examining fossil 
pollen in peat bogs and lake-bottom 
sediments, each of which respond to 
changes in climate. After recording pol- 
len grains, which accumulate layer by 
layer in bogs and lakes, Dr. Webb is 
having his research interpreted by com- 
puters. 

Here, briefly, is how the next ice 
age is expected to take place — in theory. 
On the East Coast, winter storms will 
hit further and further inland. Instead of 
the old fashioned northeast blizzards, 
southern New England will get south- 
easters — or rain storms. In our lifetime, 
most heavy snowstorms have passed out 
to sea. In the years ahead, if the theory 
proves correct, the storms will head in- 
land instead, dropping large quantities of 
snow up north. 

Taking this theory a step further, 
ice sheets will continue to build until 
they are of glacier proportions. Then, as 



the glaciers expand they will start their 
slide south, with Norway among the first 
countries to be affected. 

In the centuries ahead, the onus 
very definitely will be on the weather 
men and scientists to do something about 
this situation. Hopefully, a way will be 
found to control the weather, thus pre- 
venting the dangerous build-up of 
glaciers. Or perhaps the scientists will 
find a device — such as fusion heat blan- 
ket — to protect menaced areas. 

Dr. Webb believes that the research 
being done by Brown, Columbia, and 
Oregon State teams will lead shortly to a 
joint announcement of "startling" pro- 
portions. 

"But we do have an out," Dr. Webb 
hastens to add. "If the ice age doesn't 
materialize in 10,000 years, at least no 
one will be able to say to us, 'I told you 
so.' " 

LBJ at Brown: "A gracious 
and substantial address" 

In the fall of 1964 — before cam- 
pus militants made it virtually impossi- 
ble for him to visit the campuses of most 
of America's prestigious universities — 
Lyndon Johnson came to Brown to par- 
ticipate in the Bicentennial Convocation. 

In its November issue that year, the 
BAM reported: "Some 4,700 considered 
themselves fortunate to enter the Meehan 
Auditorium ... for the Academic Con- 
vocation. They were there longer than 
they had planned, for Dr. Lyndon B. 
Johnson was 100 minutes late in arriv- 
ing. In an election year, he ignored no 
one on his journey from the airport 
(save possibly his Secret Service guards), 
and the estimates were that 150,000 
Rhode Islanders had seen him en route 
to the non-political amenities in Meehan. 
But President Johnson's address was 
gracious and substantial. . . . 

"He was interrupted at least ten 
times as the audience applauded, most 
loudly when he supported the idea of 
setting up a National Foundation for the 
Humanities and when he pledged him- 
self to defend 'the freedom of conscience, 
the freedom of belief, and the spirit of 
free inquiry on which our American sys- 
tem stands.' " 

Here are other excerpts from the 
speech by the man who wanted to be 
remembered most as "the education 
President": 

"In all history, no other nation has 
trusted education, invested in it, or re- 



lied upon it as a means of national 
progress so much as we. I 

"A former great president of the I 
Republic of Texas once said that the I 
educated mind is the guardian genius (' 
democracy. It is the only dictator that 
free men recognize, and the only ruler 
that free men desire. Our partnership 
[between campus and country] has pa 
us priceless returns. From a backward 
position, American scholarship has flo ■ 
ished. Today, wherever our country 
leads, that leadership traces to the con 
tributions of the campus. . . . 

"At the desk where I sit, I have 
learned one great truth. The answer fo 
all our national problems, the answer ,r 
all the problems of the world, comes 
down to a single word. That word is 
education. Thus, I take a hopeful view 
and call on you of the campus to join 
with us who are entrusted with the af- 
fairs of the country to chart a hopeful 
course. . . . 

"A great nation (and a great civili 
zation) feeds upon the depth of its 
scholarship — as well as the breadth of s 
educational opportunity. In the science 
in the arts, and in our understanding 
of human behavior, our tools must be 
sharpened. Our public policies must e, 
courage further the spread of research 
and scholarship throughout the syster 
of higher learning. ..." 



Carrying 
ide mail 



Letters to the editor are welcome. 

icy should be on subjects of interest 
readers of this magazine with emphasis 
an exchange of views and discussion 
ideas. All points of view are welcome, 
t tor reasons of space, variety, and 

ncUness, the staff may not publish all 
ters it receives and may use excerpts 

im others. The magazine will not print 

isigned letters or ones that request that 

e author's name be withheld. 



lat football in its place 

Editor: Mr. Blazar may have some- 
(.ng when he says Brown students like 
■nners (BAM, December '72), but it is 
TC to the point to say that athletes like 
play for winners. I don't know what 
own can do about this except to think 
1 the Washington Redskins' good example 
.d try again. 

More than one of the BAM's corre- 
indents has suggested Brown drop out 
1 the Ivy League. The reason seems to be 
^ awful football team, which goes to 
nv what football does to men's sense of 
iportion. I always thought the Ivy League 

■ yed basketball, hockey, soccer, lacrosse, 
.d other sports as well as football. If 

jwn can make a respectable showing 
th the same opponents in other sports, 
lere is the sense in dropping out because 
' football team does poorly? For many 
ars, the Princeton crew has been three 
in in a claw-footed bathtub, but Lake 
1 rnegie is still there, and Princeton is 
:11 in the Ivy League. 

As one whose husband lives in the 
Isement watching football from October 
itil the Super Bowl is over, I have to ask 
ithe real solution to the problem is not 
:■ the Ivy League in concert to drop out 

■ football and take up jousting or kick- 
!-can as a varsity sport. When otherwise 

i'ional men are as dizzy as if Dick Butkus 
.d Bubba Smith had worked them over, 
time we put football in its place . . . 
newhere between midnight and 1 a.m. 
' alternate Tuesdays in November. 

! ZABETH REESIDE THATCHER '63 
Id Spring Harbor, N.Y. 



The cover was not a 
Koren drawing 

Editor: I am concerned that people will 
misunderstand the cover of the Brown 
Alumni Monthly of December, 1972. 

I feel that it should be explained in the 
next possible issue that this is neither a 
drawing by Koren nor a photograph of the 
works that Koren and I created, but is a 
somewhat misleading interpretation of the 
work by someone else. I assume that this 
cover was done by Don Paulhus. 

By comparing the photographs of the 
Koren animals on page 30 with the cover, 
it is easy to see that a great deal of char- 
acter and sensitivity has been lost. They 
are no longer Koren's. I find this distress- 
ing since that is obviously what it is all 
about. 

It is a pleasure to see that the general 
quality of the magazine has risen in the 
last couple years. 

HUGH TOWNLEY 
Professor of Art 

No misrepresentation was intended by 
the editors or designer Don Paulhus and 
we regret any misunderstanding. — Editor 

'Dismay and incredulity' 

Editor: It has been such a long time 
since I have found myself addressed as 
Miss that upon receiving this month's 
copy of BAM and noticing the use of the 
archaic Miss, I was overwhelmed by acute 
dismay and incredulity. Incredulity that a 
publication representative of a supposed 
liberal institution like Brown could be so 
seemingly unaware of the preferred form 
of address that has ceased to be an avant 
garde gesture and is now widely used by 
the more sensitive individuals and institu- 
tions, if not by the general populace. Dis- 
may that the lack of commitment to mere 
token efforts, e.g. the use of Ms., might 
overlie a more serious lack of commitment 
to the very basic issues raised by the wom- 
en's (and men's!) liberation movement. 

Even the small concession of address- 
ing its female readers as Ms. would be a 
significant contribution to an oft misunder- 
stood movement that is striving to free 
both sexes from damaging and limiting 
stereotypes. 

JOYCE L. ANDRIKS '72 
Hartford, Cont:. 

Minority groups at Brown 

Editor; This is the first time that I have 
written to the Brown Alumni Monthly, 
though I graduated from Brown 43 years 
years ago. I feel moved to write because of 
two things which appeared in the December 
'72 issue. The first was a letter by Robert 



W. Seijas of the Class of 1960. There is 
much truth in what he wrote and because 
of this I now try to gloss over the fact that 
I am a Brown graduate, although up until 
a few years ago I considered it a distinc- 
tion to proclaim myself as a Brown man. 

In the second place it was nice to learn 
from "Blacks at Brown — Four Years After 
the Walkout" that Brown now virtually has 
a quota system with regard to students, 
faculty, and administrators. I too, belonged 
to a minority group at Brown, which if I 
remember correctly, was represented by 
one faculty member and zero administra- 
tors. If we had used the tactics described 
in the above mentioned article. President 
Faunce and Dean Randall (who belonged 
to a much tougher breed than the present- 
day submissive university administrators) 
would correctly never even have considered 
the idea of surrendering to such demands. 

ARTHUR KAPLAN '29 

New York, N.Y. 



The 'terrible fate' of 
becoming brittle 

Editor: I am ashamed to say that I 
shared the Brown experience with Robert 
Seijas (BAM, December '72), and amazed 
that anyone could have invested four years 
of his time at Brown without coming face- 
to-face with one particular reality: the ne- 
cessity of never becoming brittle. An open 
mind is our only defense against this ter- 
rible fate, and the prognosis for Mr. Seijas 
avoiding such a terrible end is not good. 
In an environment as volatile as ours, the 
one reality that we can cling to is that 
things will, most certainly, change. And 
Brown has the obligation to do everything 
in its power to at least publicize this change 
and the forces bringing it about. 

It would be catastrophic to make the 
same mistake as Mr. Seijas by attempting 
to equate mental isolation with the main- 
tenance of "sanity." If this breed of sanity 
does, in the long run, prevail, all of our 
houses, particularly those which we trust 
and respect, will, most certainly, crash and 
burn. 

MARK S. KENNEDY '69 
Attleboro, Mass. 




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... in Brown's growing Extension Division 



By Roger Vaughn 

What did Indian women wear beneath 
their buckskin dresses? The ques- 
tion was asked at a most appropriate 
place. Brown's Haffenreffer Indian Mu- 
seum in Bristol, R.I., but no one present 
seemed to know. Barbara Hail '52, the 
assistant curator, didn't know. Neither 
did Ellen Wilson, the education assistant. 
The question came up when Aaron Lam- 
sky, who is in the trucking business in 
Mattapoisett, Mass., was showing his 
final project to 25 people enrolled in a 
semester-long course on the American 
Indian, one of the offerings of the Uni- 
versity's Extension Division. Aaron, who 
had made a handsome suede warrior 
jacket and matching leggings trimmed 
with feathers and beadwork, had stimu- 
lated the question by his description of 
the breechcloth worn by Indian men. 

Every Wednesday morning through- 
out the fall semester, the class met for 
an hour lecture, followed by an hour of 
crafts. "We alternated lectures and craft 
sessions to show people just how diffi- 
cult and time-consuming it is to weave, 
or do beadwork, or carve soapstone," 
Ellen Wilson said. "We wanted the class 
to develop a concept of the Indian and 
his crafts as a way of life." 

The class's output of craft objects 
was impressive. There were two deer- 
skin smocks, woven corn-husk masks 
and grass hot-mats, leather bags, wam- 
pum belts, and soapstone carvings. Sev- 
eral women in the class spoke of the 
difficulty of working on crafts at home 
with their young children around and, 
feeling empathy with Indian women, 
wondered if they too had discovered the 
concept of baby-sitting. 

The American Indian course is one 
of 50 courses offered each semester by 
the Brown Extension Division. Last se- 
mester, 655 people were enrolled in the 
courses, and while the novelty of exten- 
sion has unquestionably worn off — the 
all-time high was an enrollment of 2,000 
for 38 courses in 1892-93, the program's 
second year — the quality of education 
has probably improved. Charlotte Low- 
ney '57, who moved from her position 



as associate dean of Pembroke College 
to director of the Extension Division 
when Brown and Pembroke merged in 
1971, says that most of all she is pleased 
with the Brown faculty's re-involvement 
in extension. "A year and a half ago 
there were a few graduate students 
among our extension teachers," she says. 
"Now there are 40 Brown faculty mem- 
bers actively participating." 

The scope of extension courses is 
broader than one might expect. While 
practical subjects like "Advertising Tech- 
niques," "Functional Writing," "Labor 
Laws," "Basic Accounting," and "Digi- 
tal Computer Programming" can be 
found among the offerings, equal weight 
is given to subjects like "Humanistic 
Concerns of Medicine," "Free Schools 
and Open Education," "Biology and the 
Future of Man," languages, and "The 
Fascination of Computers." "We have 
expertise available to us in these areas," 
Charlotte Lowney says, "and I believe 
we should make it available to the com- 
munity." 

Half the extension students come 
from Greater Providence. The rest are 
from other Rhode Island and Massachu- 
setts communities. Half the enrollees al- 
ready have a formal degree of some sort 
and are taking courses for personal en- 
richment. Others enroll for professional 
advancement. 

Of last semester's group there were 
17 students, 29 Brown employees, a 
bank vice-president, a newspaper vice- 
president, eight newspaper reporters, 12 
librarians, 64 teachers, a beauty salon 
president, a shell fisherman, a chef, a 
motel manager, and a dietitian — to men- 
tion a few of the vocations represented. 

Extension courses do not count as 
degree work, and for that reason one 
might suspect they are taken somewhat 
lightly. Perhaps the fact that the courses 
are approached dutifully is because the 
per course rate was recently raised from 
$25 to $40 per semester. But attendance 
is excellent, and classwork is done de- 
votedly in most cases. Daniel Knowlton, 
Brown's master bookbinder who teaches 
beginners and advance bookbinding 
courses both semesters, tells of a doctor 
from Brown's biomedical department 
who threatened to rearrange biomed's 
entire schedule if Knowlton held the doc- 



tor's bookbinding class on an evening 
that conflicted with other work. 

Aside from it being a convenient 
way to moonlight, faculty members set 
to find extension work exciting. Robert 
Swartz, who recently left the Brown fa 
ulty to head the philosophy departmen 
at the University of Massachusetts at 
Boston, says that teaching extension w 
frightening at first. "In the University 
classroom, I got used to an academic oi 
entation; students had a homogeneity 
about them that has a certain dulling e 
feet on the nature of education going c 
When I first taught extension, I found 
it difficult to handle a class with such 
variation in age and attitudes. Now I 
love it. It's the variation that makes it 
fascinating." 

Brown art professor and painter 
Walter Feldman, who teaches extensio 
courses in drawing and collage, agrees 
"It's nice to come in contact with diffe 
ent people — a few adults," Feldman sa 
"Plus, I feel an obligation to the comm 
nity." 

Where the people are different, tli 
problems can be different, as Feldman 
found out in one of his classes. The | 
parents of a high school girl taking on{ 
of Feldman's extension courses forbadj 
her to return when they heard that a , 
nude male model had posed for her ch.. 
As it happened, Feldman's model plan 
for the following week included clothe| 
The student returned, her parents werj 
happy, and as Feldman recalls, "She dj, 
very well, she was very talented." 

For those who are interested, infc 
mation on the extension program is 
available by calling (401) 863-2397, o 
by writing the Brown University Exte 
sion Division, Box 1875, Providence, I 
02912. 



Photographs by 
HUGH SMYSER 



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Pamela Medeiros (page 10) is one of those 
who have been gathering two nights a week 
at Lyman Hall this past semester for the Ex- 
tension Division's classes in modern 
dance. The classes are taught by members 
of the Rhode Island Dance Repertory Com- 
pany. "Students come to dance for both 
exercise and dance interest," says Kathy 
Eberstadt '71, one of the instructors 
(she's in the center of the front row in 
the picture at left). "In a two-hour 
class, we teach one hour of technique and 
one hour of improvisation and composition. 
VJe try to teach a basic understanding 
of both the body and the technique." 




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Two studies in concentration at the 
course on bookbinding. In the photo above, 
Brown's master bookbinder, Daniel Krjowlton, 
is on the right. In the background is Dr. 
Robert P. Davis, professor of biomedical 
sciences, the determined man u'ith a hammer 
in the photograph on page 11. 



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17 



Deadly 
meeting' 



The Modern Language 
Association is an 
89-year-old society of 
college and university 
teachers of English and 
foreign languages. This year 
about one-third of the 
MLA's 30,000 members 
attended the annual 
meeting in New York City. 



As the setting for a sophisticated mur- 
L der mystery, the Modern Language 
Association annual convention has every- 
thing: professional jealousies and oppor- 
tunities for revenge; scores of parties of 
varying degrees of exclusivity and lav- 
ishness; rumors and political intrigue; 
reputations rising and falling on the lit- 
erary barometer; and a grim band of job 
seekers roaming the corridors determined 
to corner department chairmen who 
are equally determined to avoid being 
cornered. 

The murder mystery has already 
been written. In Deadly Meeting, author 
Robert Bernard (pseudonym of a Prince- 
ton professor) takes a cynical view of 
one of the oldest learned societies in the 
country and its annual meetings: 

"The original purpose of the Mod- 
ern Language Association had been to 
give literary scholars an opportunity to 
exchange their views in meetings, by 
papers and discussions. To a certain ex- 
tent this was still its aim, but over the 
80-odd years of its existence, the annual 
meetings had imperceptibly become 
equally important as the occasions for 
universities to hire junior faculty. 'Slave 
Market,' most of the younger men called 
it." 

The hero of Deadly Meeting, Bill 
Stratton — an eighteenth century scholar 
turned detective — is not inclined to take 
the learned discourses very seriously. Pa- 
pers, he says, are given either by "super- 
stars of the profession" or "earnest young 
men in a hurry who hoped for offers of 
better jobs elsewhere. . . ." Old MLA 
hand Stratton has discovered that one 
need only make "a token appearance at 
a paper on 'Phallic Imagery in Pride and 
Prejudice' and one was free for the mu- 
seums, theaters, or the more fleshly at- 
tractions of the city." 

Life improved on art at this year's 
post-Christmas MLA Convention in New 
York. Bill Stratton could have chosen for 
his token appearance a seminar called 
"Menstruation and Literature." Or "The 
Decline of Diacritical Marks in American 
Lexicography." Or "Further Thoughts on 
the Limited Duration of the Love Potion 
in Beroul's Tristan." Or any one of more 
than 200 papers on topics ranging from 
Esperanto literature to Marxist criticism. 

Although the meetings took place 
not long after the announcement of re- 
sumed bombing in Vietnam, dissident 
activity at the MLA was relatively muted. 
There were literature tables in the hotel 
lobbies loaded with tracts against the 



war, against racism, and against MLA I" 
elitism, but there were no radical up- 
heavals as there had been four years a; 
when MIT professor Louis Kampf wai 
arrested as he put up on the walls of tl| 
hotel a poster which read: "The tigers 
wrath are wiser than the horses of in- i| 
struction." 

If the wrathful tigers are subdua 
of late, the MLA still offers some inte; 
esting sideshows, especially for eaves- 
droppers. 



There were no murders at the ML' 
this year. (In Deadly Meeting a departu 
ment chairman was murdered — with pj 
soned Campari — at a party he throws 
his hotel room for the junior faculty h 
has just hired. The general feeling amc;jL 
his colleagues is that he deserves it be-,^ 
cause he refused to recommend raises ; 
anyone.) But on the first day of the a: 
tual convention, a small, ragged man ; 
robbed the MLA registration desk of ^^, 
several thousand dollars. Perhaps a di;^ 
gruntled assistant professor who was < 
denied tenure one too many times 



Whoever was responsible for mat 
ing MLA event with meeting room m 
have a sense of humor. The well-attem 
session on popular culture — otherwise 
referred to as trash art — was schedule 
into the Americana's Imperial Ballrooi 
a splendid example of fiotel Baroque, 
the audience filed in to hear the latest 
views of film critic Pauline Kael and a 
ing enfant terrible Leslie Fiedler, one ( 
the sponsors of the session handed ou 
flyers advertising The Journal of Popi 
Culture, a publication which lists amc 
its recent articles one called "The Sigi 
cance of 'Mother' Pillows in Americai 
History and Culture." 

Fiedler and Kael were their usual 
entertaining selves as they ad libbed e 
debate on "Aspects of Contemporary 
Film." Professor John Seelye, who mc 
erated the session, began by commenl 
on the un-preparedness of the partici-j 
pants. "Since I didn't know what we [ 
were going to say, I thought we migh| 
stage a happening and celebrate the i 
casion by saying nothing. But then I 
thought that if everyone who had nofj 
ing to say didn't, there wouldn't be 
Modern Language Association." Lou<| 
Laughter. 



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!„.,„„, 

j« for words. Miss Kael suggested that 
i/cnust revise our whole conception of 
rn as ephemera. "It is here to stay. It 

>t disposable," she said. "Future gen- 
r. ons may well know Faulkner better 
•y is movies than by his novels. I'm 
.ciaying this is good/' she added. Fied- 
aeemed less dismayed by the persist- 
n> of popular culture. His next book, 
.eleefully told the audience, would 
a • the valedictory title. What Was 
i, attire? 

Fiedler aired his conviction that all 
Ojlar art is subversive, citing as an 
X iple, a comic book \vhich depicted 
'r ident Nixon being eaten by can- 
ills. Miss Kael joined a member of the 
uence in disagreeing with Fiedler: if 
Rial culture is insane and violent, 

pular culture which follows the 
a .' lines is confirmation, not subver- 
k. Miss Kael added that in the last 
e' years she has seen more laudatory 
icnce in movies than ever before. Hol- 

od is terrified of R- and X-rated pic- 
iLi, she said, so in anticipation of a 



conservative Supreme Court, movie- 
makers have once more replaced sex 
with violence. 



The radical caucus of the MLA met 
every day of the convention, usually in 
the Buckingham Room, a genteel space lit 
by a crystal chandelier and decorated in 
a relentless flower motif which covered 
the walls, carpeting, and curtains. The 
meetings were occasions for strategy 
planning, petition signing, and, during 
the intervals, gossip. One young man 
who taught at a college on the Eastern 
Shore of Maryland traded laments with 
a friend about the trials of being a radi- 
cal professor at an Establishment univer- 
sity. "It's difficult to maintain a low 
profile," he said. "One either plays lib- 
eral or exposes oneself." Both men spec- 
ulated on the probable fate of a col- 
league at another university who had — 
foolishly, they thought — "stuck his head 
above the firing line" by publicly asso- 
ciating his name with a socialist journal 
about to commence publication. It wasn't 



likely, in their opinion, that he would 
ever get tenure. 



Mark Spilka, chairman of Brown's 
English department, was interviewing at 
the MLA for people to fill two job open- 
ings, one in film and one in eighteenth 
century literature. In an effort to spare 
his travel budget, Spilka booked a single 
room at the Taft Hotel — two blocks 
away from the convention centers at the 
Americana and the Hilton. It was a mis- 
take. The room was no bigger than a 
medium-sized sauna bath and had, for 
sitting space, two chairs and a small bed. 
Spilka had a full interviewing schedule 
and, true to the best democratic spirit, he 
had invited members of the new Film 
Council at Brown — a graduate student, 
an undergraduate, and two professors — 
to sit in on the film interviews. Con- 
fronted with that crowd, plus the occa- 
sional walk-through appearance of a 
hotel employee who was trying to fix 
the shower, the interviews must have 
been tough going for those candidates 



/iiKisf popular place in the hotel was a message board which also had nezvs about vacancies. 




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afflicted with claustrophobia or an al- 
lergy to cigar smoke. 

After conducting 18 interviews in 
three days, Spilka was feeling somewhat 
claustrophobic himself. As a department 
chairman, he was experiencing the re- 
verse side of the job crisis: so many good 
candidates that it was hard to choose 
among them. 



Job hunting at the MLA 

Two Stories: 

n A young woman is begging the 
room clerk at the Hilton Hotel to tell her 
the room number of a department chair- 
man she is certain is staying there. The 
clerk claims to have no knowledge of the 
man's whereabouts. "But he must be 
here somewhere," she says in a frantic 
voice. "I'm supposed to have a job inter- 
view with him." With a bored look, the 
clerk offers an explanation: "You aren't 
the only one asking for him, lady. He 
probably registered under an assumed 
name." 

D A crowd of unemployed Ph.D.'s 
surges around a job information bulletin 
board on which there are notices for 
only seven job openings in the teaching 
of English. A bearded man turns to his 
companion, "They're looking for some- 
one in your field in the Canal Zone." 
"The Canal Zone!" she snarls. "I'd 
rather drive a cab." 

She may have to. Although the 
market is expected to improve later in 
the year, according to December statis- 
tics, about 1,250 English Ph.D.'s are 
scrambling for 770 known jobs. If these 
grim odds don't, in themselves, com- 
pletely demoralize unemployed Ph.D.'s, 
the experience of hustling interviews at 
the MLA is a certain coup de grace. Like 
humble petitioners seeking an audience 
with His Majesty, the job seekers mill 
around the corridors anxiously trading 
information about one another's pros- 
pects. 

Those who are truly desperate (or 
appropriately aggressive, depending on 
your point of view) can be observed; 

n Checking the message center 
several times a day to see if someone 
with a job opening might be trying to 
get in touch with them. 

D Forming long lines at the house 
phones waiting to call an old professor 
who may know of a job lead. 



D Scribbling hasty, last-ditch notes 
to department chairmen asking if they 
might possibly be fitted into the inter- 
view schedule. 

D Summoning up the bravado to 
introduce themselves to complete stran- 
gers at the book publishers' exhibits. Who 
knows? Any contact might help. 

Although it is hard to credit, every- 
one who has been around the MLA for 
a while will tell you that the hiring proc- 
ess is now much more dignified and hu- 
mane than before. Until last year a job 
seeker had to depend on rumor and luck 
to discover which schools were hiring in 
what fields. It was common for a candi- 
date to send out several hundred letters 
of application on a scatter-shot basis in 
the hope that three or four of them 
would descend on those English depart- 
ments with an actual vacancy in his spe- 
cialty. Under the old system, the young 
hopefuls were also encouraged to file 
curriculum vitae (the academic equiv- 
alent of resumes) in a central spot 
at the MLA convention. Department 
chairmen looking for someone to hire 
could then riffle through these sheets, 
cull a list of likely prospects, and sign 
them up for interviews on the spot. From 
the candidate's vantage point, the proc- 
ess was about as dignified as the drug- 
store vigil of Hollywood starlets, waiting 
for a producer to come along and dis- 
cover them. 

In the fall of 1971, the MLA un- 
veiled its new Job Information List, in- 
tended to eliminate the hit-or-miss as- 
pects of the old job search procedure. 
The quarterly bulletin is described in an 
MLA brochure as follows: "Each List 
contains a small 'box' for every English 
or foreign language department in the 
country, in which chairmen describe 
their current hiring situation. In addition 
to announcing specific vacancies, chair- 
men have the opportunity of communi- 
cating to the entire profession whatever 
information they have: that they foresee 
no openings, that they hope to have va- 
cancies if their budgetary requests are 
met, the sort of opening that might de- 
velop in their department, etc." 

Candidates using the List are urged 
to "send letters of application only to 
departments that have expressed an in- 
terest in receiving letters from candidates 
with your qualifications. If a department 
reports that it has no vacancies, do not 
waste your time and the chairman's time 
by writing." Candidates are further 
warned from all sides not to come to the 



MLA convention expecting to arrange I 
interviews after they get there. 

Although the existence of the List 
may have cut the postage costs of job . 
hunting, it has not solved all of the ' 
other problems it was supposed to solv 
This year the December issue of the 
List was sent out so late that many de- 
partments didn't have time to respond 
letters of application or to arrange inte 
views before the convention. Job seeke 
were left in the same old spot of havin; 
to call up department chairmen they h; 
already written to in an attempt to so- 
licit interviews. (One graduate student 
from Brown who nerved herself to mal 
such a call was informed by the chair- 
man that "my faculty advisory commit 
tee advised me not to interview you.") 

Lawrence Kingsley, a graduate stu 
dent at the University of Wisconsin wl 
conducted a survey of job hunters, re- 
ports a frequent complaint about the /( 
Lists: "Candidates suspect chairmen ol 
denying openings in the List in order ti 
avoid the burden of a massive responsi 
It is felt that the better jobs will alway 
be procured on a who-you-know basis. 
That suspicion was reinforced by a ru- 
mor circulating at one MLA party to 
the effect that a certain Ivy League col- 
lege, known for its clubbiness, has fou 
vacancies, none of which it admitted tc 
in the Job Information List. Despite thi 
furor caused by new federal guidelines 
for equal opportunity employment, the 
"old boys' network" apparently contin 
ues to flourish. 

Skimming over the List, it's not 
hard to understand why graduate stu- 
dents don't exactly warm to it. The typ 
cal entry, with minor stylistic variatior 
reads: "We anticipate no vacancies for 
1973-74. Please do not write." Now an 
again there is some comic relief. One 7 
List item appeared as a filler in The Ni 
Yorker under the headline, "Departme 
of Oversimplification: A tight job situc 
tion at Dunbarton has been further coi 
stricted by a decision to close the collej 
in 1973." 

As one senior academic pointed oi 
in the MLA Newsletter, there is not a 
genuine oversupply of Ph.D.'s, "only a 
shortage of funds with which to hire 
them." Cold comfort for those who em 
up driving a cab. As Bob Dylan prophi 
sied: "Twenty years of schooling and 
they put you on the day shift." 



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Frtrait of a candidate 

The job panic, according to Michael 
3 igrue, director of the English pro- 
51m of the MLA, has been overstated. 
\' nv positions don't open up until 
; ing, he says, so it's a mistake to judge 
: market by December prospects. Nev- 
? leless, Joanna Rapf '63 (Brown Ph.D., 
- \ct employed) is worried. When she 
j:o\cred that it would cost $1 a page 
:. i.ue her 435-page thesis profession- 
u t\'ped, she took a sales job at Bloom- 
1 dale's to pay the bill. She was not 
■ ssLired by the number of Ph.D.'s she 
it among her co-workers. Nor by the 
? sonnel officer's comment that, in his 
Mencnce, out-of-work academics made 
; ellcnt sales help; they never use slip- 
; id grammar in talking to customers. 

loanna's graduate school career was 
I g and arduous. She spent as many 
^irs in apprenticeship for the college 
chmg profession as most medical stu- 
its spend learning to be physicians. 
nd who ever heard of an out-of-work 
:tor?) It's not surprising that the spec- 
of unemployment can be so devastat- 
■ to a new Ph.D. 

In 1964, Joanna entered Columbia 
a graduate student in English. She 
yed only a year — long enough to fin- 
the course work for her master's de- 
e — and then took a job as a fiction 
tor at the Saturday Evening Post. "I 
: graduate school," she says, "because 
'as very unsure of my intellectual abil- 
s. Columbia was quite a high-powered 
ce, full of resident geniuses, and I 
)ught, 'Why should I go into some- 
ng where I would be second best?' 
ice then, I've changed completely," 

says with a grin. "I don't mind be- 
; second best if I'm doing something I 

A year at the Saturday Evening Post 
ivinced Joanna that her true vocation 
s teaching. "I became terribly frus- 
ted," she says, "locked in my little 
.ce every day reading manuscripts, 
ist of which were awful. And I never 
i a chance to talk to the people who 
ote them which, I discovered, was 
at I really wanted to do." 

Joanna returned to graduate school 
Brown in 1966 and passed her pre- 
inary examinations two years later, 
en came the thesis. She had written 
• master's thesis on humor in the 
2try of Shelley so, for her doctoral 
■sis, she decided to expand that topic 
include humor in the entire Romantic 



period. It didn't work, but Joanna put 
in a year of research before she reluc- 
tantly came to that conclusion. 

At that point, no more fellowship 
money was forthcoming, so for 1970-71 
she taught a full load as an instructor at 
Brown and did little work on her thesis. 
By the fall of 1971, she had settled on a 
new topic which she describes as "a 
study of peasant poetry with reference 
to major writers." For rnost of last year, 
Joanna barricaded herself in the family 
beach house on Long Island and wrote 
all 435 pages of "The Constellation of 
the Plough: John Clare and his Circle." 
It took the entire month of October for 
the final draft of the thesis to be typed 
and Joanna spent two more weeks proof- 
reading it. On December 11, she made a 
successful oral defense of her thesis and 
it was all over. She was Joanna Rapf, 
unemployed Ph.D. 

For her assault on the job market, 
Joanna followed all the tips listed in the 
MLA job information brochure. She 
compiled her dossier containing the req- 
uisite three letters of recommendation 
for the files of the graduate placement 
office. She prepared a one-page vita 
sheet which outlined the pertinent facts 
of her academic and employment record. 
She consulted the MLA ]ob Lists and 
wrote only to those schools which listed 
openings in her field. She indicated that 
she would be available for interviews at 
the MLA convention. 

Of the 30 schools Joanna wrote to, 
seven didn't reply at all, and 15 an- 
swered with letters of regret that her 
qualifications didn't match their needs. 
The remaining eight schools were inter- 
ested enough to request a copy of her 
dossier. Representatives of two universi- 
ties (one in Hawaii and one in Califor- 
nia) eventually interviewed her at the 
MLA. At this writing, she has had no 
further word from either school. 

If neither of these possibilities pans 
out, Joanna will apply to junior colleges, 
which are not included in the MLA Job 
List until the spring issue. And if she 
still can't find a job? "I just don't know," 
she says. "At Brown I was so isolated 
from the outside world that I had no idea 
that there are just no jobs for intelligent 
people." A.B. 




Another Broxon Ph.D. candidate who was 
job-hunting at the MLA convention was 
Joel Simpson (here on the house phone at 
the Americana). He expects to finish his 
thesis and get his degree (in comparative 
literature) by the end of the summer. At 
the MLA convention, he had seven inter- 
views; as yet, he has not heard from any 
of the institutions. 



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A room full of women, and someone asks if this 
is Calculus something or other. Calculus, hah! 



By Beth Gerber 73 

First day of class: pouring rain. I make it to the Bryant 
classroom earlier than most. Others straggle in. Hair 
and jeans sloshing wet. Almost all women. The atmos- 
phere is excited, friendly. I feel involved though I know 
I will only audit the course. Teacher Mari Jo Buhle arrives. 
Wrings herself out. Someone makes a crack about the 
lengths we have to go to study women's history! Sense of 
togetherness, purpose. 

A few male heads pop in to ask if this is Calculus 
something or other. Even before we shake our heads, you 
can see them take in the room full of women and decide 
for themselves. More togetherness. Calculus, hah. We are 
taking a course never before offered at Brown: American 
Civilization 160. Mari Jo Buhle is at the desk, introducing 
herself. She seems open and together at the same time. 
Good. We look to her to make previously unfamiliar and 
closed-off ground — the history of women — academically 
approachable. 

Many of us were converging on the Bryant classroom 
that September day for the same reasons. In the past 
couple of years, an expanding core of feminist students at 
Brown had been trying to learn about women, and discov- 
ering that existing courses left women pretty much out of 
the picture. Women's studies meant a section on the suf- 
frage movement stuck into your American his-story 
course; or maybe, if you were lucky, a Group Independent 
Study Project in which students and teachers alike read 
research in the social sciences about women and splatter- 
ings of feminist polemics. Professors with the best of in- 
tentions, students with an overflow of interest and com- 
mitment — both were floundering. 

What was needed was more than a polite academic 
bow to the few famous females in history or a cram 
course in the logic of feminism, though these were useful 
first steps. Beyond the facile political generalizations and 
the biographies of the exceptional few, surely there was a 
disciplined way to study women as a group — and to mo- 
bilize our tremendous desire to know about ourselves. 
The acquisition of Mari Jo Buhle as "visiting lec- 
turer" by Professors John Thomas and George Monteiro 
of the American Civilization Department comes like the 
answer to a prayer. True, she is hired only for the year 
with, at the moment, no chance of coming back; but at 
least she is hired. Ms. Buhle, who got her B.A. in psychol- 
ogy at the University of Illinois in 1966 and switched to 
modern history for an M.A. from the University of Con- 
necticut, became interested in women's history as the 



f 



Women's Liberation Movement increasingly received n 
tional attention in 1968-69. Now working on her doctor 
dissertation in American history from the University of' 
Wisconsin, she has both published and taught in her ma 
field, which is American social history from 1820 to 192 
"with special emphasis on the condition of women and r 
form movements of all types." 

Ms. Buhle's carefully reasoned approach to women' 
history is like solid ground under our feet. One would 
never think to organize a course called men's history, sk 
remarks in her first lecture. To study women's history is 
to recognize that there is something setting women bott 
apart from men and together as a group. This recognize! 
however, feminists looking back to the past too often se 
women only as a caste or class forever dominated by me 
Such a static approach ignores the changing strengths 
and pitfalls of women's position through time: a colonia 
housewife, for example, for all her backbreaking duties, 
had legal rights and privileges her well-off counterpart i 
the nineteenth century did not have. "Our situation," sa 
Ms. Buhle, "appears to us as a moment in history rather 
than as a condition of history." 

Many historians study organizations such as the | 
abolition and suffrage movements in which women act i 
like men. But how did the bulk of women live? What waj 
the shape of their roles as mother, wife, worker, and stu 
dent? If men almost continually defined themselves by 
their work, women defined themselves, usually uncon- 
sciously, by a variety of roles and a web of everyday so- 
cial relations. This was the stuff of social history, which 
we would probe together. 

A few weeks later: class has moved to Churchill 
House on Angell Street, right next door to the ne 
McDonald's hamburger joint. In a greenish, old-fash- 
ioned schoolroom — dark on any but the sunniest of day: 
— we congregate twice a week in our wooden, one-arme 
desks. Around 20 come. We are all politically conscious, 
including the one male in the group, who considers him-| 
self a feminist. 

Mari Jo (as we now call her) sees her role as half lei{ 
turer, half resource person, and she alternates lectures « 
with seminar discussions. The first week, and every coup 
of weeks thereafter, we are handed a six-to-ten-page syb 
bus, overflowing with quotes, ideas, questions, bibliogra, 
phies that are exhausting merely to read, and injunction^ 
such as "Psychological interpretations are tricky to hand 



22 



jd involve another methodological problem. BE HIS- 
ORICAL!" 

Students respond to the challenge enthusiastically. 
Ve are an aggressive, articulate bunch, but we need Mari 
}'s guidance to keep us on the track. When using biogra- 
I ies, she brings up personal conflicts that reveal social 
; tions and expectations. Why did Angelina and Sarah 
1 imke, the famous abolitionists, leave the South? What 
pblems did marriage pose for them as feminists? What 
LI them, and middle class women like them, to beconie 
[iTiinists? (How frequently, for instance, did fathers edu- 
:te the daughters as well as the sons in families produc- 
.1 feminists?) 

Mari Jo's method is informal and provocative; as one 
udent puts it, she "wanted us to be just as much the 



teacher as she was." Her lectures are far-ranging and au- 
thoritative, but in discussions she expects us to raise and 
resolve questions inspired by the reading. She will throw 
out material that stays with and puzzles you — inviting 
speculation and evaluation, yet defying simple explana- 
tions. 

Item: In the 1700's, male settlers were forced to im- 
port women. Without women and families, the colonies 
wouldn't "stick"; men lacked the necessary socialized 
skills for keeping house. Women in America were in a 
unique situation: outnumbered, certain of economic sup- 
port, and as highly valued for their reproductive and do- 
mestic functions as men were for their farming. 

Item: Before the development of guilds and profes- 
sionalism, women published newspapers, managed tanner- 



1917, Rhode Island granted women the right to vote in Presidential 
'.ctions. Members of the Rhode Island Suffrage Association were present 
ien Governor R. Livingston Beeckman signed the new law. Directly behind the 
[senior is Elizabeth Upliaui Yates '13, a former president of the association. 




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Kappa Alplia Theta sorority at Brown, circa 1900. 

ies, ran taverns, exercised the right of attorney and man- 
aged estates in the absence of their husbands, acted as 
doctors and gynecologists under the heading of "mid- 
wives" — and altogether enjoyed an informal degree of 
freedom greatly abridged in the nineteenth century. 

Item: With the advent of industry, women lost their 
place as skilled craftspeople within the family. Their jobs 
were performed by machines requiring a minimum of skill 
to operate, and those who chose to work in factories 
worked for, and were supervised by, men. Women's do- 
mestic work, previously on a par with men's, was seen as 
inferior because it earned no wages. 

These items give some idea of the type and breadth 
of material we cover while looking at how women gained 
or lost from specific changes in history. Whenever pos- 
sible, Mari Jo isolates issues of strategy, such as "What 
do you think of Victoria Woodhull's running for the Presi- 
dency?" (Yes, she did — in 1872.) One day we tackle the 
ambiguous example of Catherine Beecher, the reformer 
who sought to give housework the dignity of a profes- 
sion and set up schools for women's domestic education. 
Our usually low-keyed discussion turns heated over the 
question of whether Beecher was a feminist, and why her 



ideas, and not those of her more radical contemporaries, 
caught on. 

Another time we appraise Susan B. Anthony's de- 
cision to use a typesetter's strike to train women workers 
in the printing trade — strike-breaking, essentially. What 
should women trying to break into a trade have done? . 
Students, who frequently seem in agreement because of 
their feminist enthusiasm, split into camps over the issue 
of women's rights versus labor rights. Here history turns 
into a complex game of situational ethics. 

Personal likes and dislikes are analyzed politically, 
as when we read the Declaration of Principles written at 
the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848. Some criticize this 
feminist document, an only slightly altered version of th( 
Declaration of Independence, for its purely legal concept 
of equality for women. Also disappointing is the implicit 
comparison of the oppression of women by men to that c 
the colonists by King George — an analysis unrelated to 
class structure or historical particulars. 

People enjoy the process of comparing social stereo- 
types and myths — The Lady and The Fallen Woman jn 
the nineteenth century, for example — with the complex 
and actual situation of most women. One class turns into 
a charged debate about the realities of prostitution in the 
1800's; some students see it as an "out front" job, others 



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lembroke's first 
judenl: government 

In 1901, Pembroke's first Student 
C vernment Association was formed, 
ad the executive board of that body 
g hered for this formal portrait. While 
I Association was perhaps a governing 
tly in name more than in fact — their 
ily emphasis was on administering at- 



tendance and behavior rules determined 
largely by the faculty — the desire to 
accept responsibility and exercise power 
was there. 

The first article contained in the 
Association's constitution reads: "The 
students shall have control of all matters 



pertaining to the social life and conduct 
of the students." The minutes of the 
executive board's first meeting indicate 
that all business would be conducted 
in secrecy, excepting only those resolu- 
tions to be brought before the student 
body at mass meetings. 



25 




An anatomy class in Rhode Island Hall in 1900. Prof. Ada Wing is fifth from the left in the third row. 



as the ultimate in alienated labor. Many are happy to dis- 
pel the notion of the "uniform oppression" of women, and 
to see instead positive as well as negative patterns emerg- 
ing from the past. 

Last day of class: Mari Jo brings in bakery cookies. We 
i go around the room, sharing our term-paper topics, 
and suggesting ways to get around Brown's inadequate li- 
brary facilities (like going to Radcliffe's Schlesinger Li- 
brary, devoted completely to material about women). 
Diaries, court records, "letters to the editor" columns in 
magazines and journals are recommended to get at wom- 
en's hidden history. Almost everyone plans to take the 
second half of the course, dealing with the late nineteenth 
and entire twentieth century. 

For many, this course has been a special experience 
in which the personal and academic meshed. "I feel so dif- 
ferent in that class," remarked one senior. "I'm among 
girls . . . I'm concerned . . . and I have something to 
contribute." Even writing research papers took on a per- 
sonal, committed aspect. "I just want to write a paper that 
will inform people," said one woman. "I mean, to hell 
with a grade." People talked excitedly about the feeling 
of exploring new territory. (One student is hoping that 
the papers are good enough to publish.) 

Yet coupled with a feeling of urgency ("We knew we 
were onto something big") was a sense of frustration with 
a lack of knowledge in a new and difficult field. "We 
all feel like beginners," said one student. Class members 
varied tremendously in background, ranging from gradu- 
ate students in American history to English majors who 
had never taken a history course before. At least a quarter 
of the class consisted of M.A.T., American Civilization, 
and American History graduate students. The group's 



unequal composition made the class unsettling for stu- • 
dents and teacher alike. 

Also trying was the experience of "cramming" two 
centuries of social history (from colonial times to the pre 
ent) into a two-semester course. Some complained that tlj 
course was too all-encompassing, and would have pre- 
ferred to do more concentrated, intensive work. 

Both problems could be solved by offering a wider I 
range of women's history courses, at different levels andl 
covering different topics. Introductory courses could thu' 
acclimate "beginning" students who are interested in 
women but relatively ignorant of American history. 

Several students wished there had been less consen- 
sus in the class, and more women and men with differen 
ideas (though others celebrated this same "basic com- 
munion"). The homogeneity seems to be partly the resul 
of poor publicity. Mari Jo was asked to teach at Brown i 
May. Her course didn't get approved by the Educational 
Policy Committee until October 1, however, precluding 
the possibility of official publicity. Thus, most of those 
in the class found out about it either through Women of 
Brown United or through friends. I 

Establishing a permanent program of women's stuc 
ies at any university is a difficult business. Talking with 
other women at the American Historical Association coi 
vention in December has deepened Mari Jo's fears that 
"departments are hiring women (professors) with the a; 
sumption that this is just a fad." To avoid such a trend ; 
Brown, several class members are working with the Feir 
nist Studies Committee, as Mari Jo is herself, in plannin 
a more comprehensive program of women's studies and 
at least a section on women's history for next year. The 
aim is to have women's studies included, not as an after 
thought, but as an integral part of Brown's curriculum. 



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Vomen's history: 
\ reading list 

ard, Mary. Women as Force in History. 
Critique of the "oppression model" 
for the study and writing of women's 
history. 

afe, William H. The American 
Woman: Her Changing Social, Eco- 
nomic and Political Roles, 1920-1970. 
opin, Kate. The Awakening. 
A novel written in the 1890's describ- 
ing a married woman's evolving sense 
of self and search for personal free- 
dom. 

I'tt Nancy F., ed. Roof of Bitterness: 
Documents in the Social History of 
American Women. 

A collection of writings from the 18th 
and 19th centuries, 
linnan, Richard. Rebel in Paradise. 
A biography of Emma Goldman. 
I'xner, Eleanor. Century of Struggle. 
The standard text on the women's 
rights movement. 

[edan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique. 
Exploration of the conflict between the 
image and the actual situation of the 
middle-class American woman, 
[irdon, Ann; Buhle, Mari Jo; Schrom, 
Mancy. Women in Aynerican Society. 
This pamphlet, written in 1971, in- 
rorporates the basic outhne of Mari 
■Jo Buhle's approach to women's 
history. 

[rner, Gerda. The Grimke Sisters. 
The Grimke sisters were the "first" fe- 
.Tiale public speakers on women's 
rights in the United States, gaining 
their notoriety through anti-slavery 
agitation. 

'jrgan, Robin, ed. Sisterhood is Power- 
ful. 

Anthology of recent writings from the 
►vomen's liberation movement, with an 
appendix of bibliographical and other 
nformation. Published in 1970. 
-ith, Sylvia. The Bell Jar. 
The famous poet's autobiographical 
lovel. 

»ineir, Miriam, ed. Feminism: The Es- 
•ential Historical Writings. 
\ collection of documents from the 
irst wave of feminism in the 19th 
':entury and later, 
'ilker, Margaret. Jubilee. 
<nown as "the black Gone with the 
■Vind," the story of a black woman as 
•lave before and during the Civil 
Var, and free during the reconstruc- 
ion. 




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Male feminists were even rarer a century ago than today. The author of the 1887 suffrage 
pamphlet shown above, Ezra Hervey Heywood, was one of the few. He had been an 
advocate of woman's rights since before 1856, the year he delivered the Commencement 
address to his classmates upon graduation from Brown. In "Uncivil Liberty," Heywood 
makes the unpopular argument: "The fact of sex — the crime of womanhood — dooms one 
to perpetual vassalage! . . . Whether suffrage is a right or priznlege, natural or conven- 
tional, its denial to woman is equally indefensible." An avid pamphleteer and platform 
speaker, Heywood met repeated attempts by his opponents to discredit him and imprison 
him. One such attempt prompted an "indignation meeting" of 6,000 well-wishers in Bos- 
ton's Faneuil Hall, as well as an executive pardon from President Rutherford B. Hayes 
following prosecution. A later charge of obscenity landed Heywood in jail for two years. 



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William Sullivan: 
Kissingers man 
in Paris 



During his undergraduate days, Wil- 
liam H. Sullivan '43 had every in- 
tention of becoming a foreign cor- 
respondent. He majored in political 
science, labored industrially on the staff 
of the Brown Daily Herald, and seemed 
to have his future clearly mapped. 

A professor at Brown felt that 
Sullivan's future lay in a different direc- 
tion, and he constantly nagged the bril- 
liant young student. "Why don't you 
consider shaping history instead of just 
writing about it?" he'd ask. Sullivan 
listened, changed directions from jour- 
nalism to the foreign service after World 
War II, and, instead of possibly writing 
about the Vietnam peace settlement in 
Paris last month, found himself playing 
a key role in the negotiations as Henry 
Kissinger's closest aide. 

For the past four years, Sullivan had 
worked behind the scenes in Washing- 
ton as deputy assistant secretary of state 
for East Asian and Pacific affairs, hand- 
ling the State Department's side of the 
/■ Paris negotiations. When the talks 
reached an apparent breakthrough in 
October, Sullivan accompanied Kissinger 
to Paris, serving as the liaison between 
the technical-level talks, where the 
supervisory protocol was hammered out, 
/ and the discussions between the princi- 
pals, Kissinger and North Vietnam's 
Le Due Tho. 

At the Oct. 28 news conference at 
which he proclaimed that "peace is at 
hand," Kissinger, appearing with Sulli- 
van at his side, pointed out that none of 
the issues involved in the negotiations 
was simple. "There is a very long and 
complex section on international super- 
vision (of the cease fire)," he said, 
"which will no doubt occupy graduate 
students for many years to come and 
which, as far as I can tell, only my col- 
league. Ambassador Sullivan, under- 
stands completely." 

After peace failed to materialize in 
December, Sullivan returned to Washing- 
ton. But he was the first high-ranking 
American official to fly back to Paris in 



January when talks resumed after the 
12-day bombing of the North. When the 
agreement was signed and a cease fire 
was achieved, it was the detail man, Sul- 
livan, who remained behind to make sure 
that the list of prisoners of war was re- 
ceived from the Communists. 

When he sat down with Kissinger 
in Paris, Sullivan was the only member 
of the negotiating team to have worked 
before with the Vietnamese. During 
the international convention on Laotian 
neutrality held in Geneva in 1961-62, the 
then 39-year-old Sullivan, a class-3 
foreign service officer, was picked out as 
deputy chief of the United States team 
by the delegation's head, W. Averell 
Harriman. 

"There were a lot of class-2 and 
class-1 foreign service officers who out- 
ranked Sullivan, but I picked him be- 
cause he had more on the ball than any- 
one else," Harriman told the Chicago 
Tribune recently. "There was some 
question whether this move would dam- 
age the prestige of the others, but I 
simply told them that if they felt they 
would lose prestige they could go home. 
Sullivan had earned the respect of the 
foreign delegation — and that's what 
counted." 

Malcolm MacDonald, the British 
chairman of the Geneva talks, said at 
the time that he was impressed by the 
Rhode Island man's skill at solving 
problems that seemed to be beyond res- 
olution. 

Harriman likes to tell how Sullivan 
handled himself in one particular face-to- 
face confrontation with the delegate 
from Communist China. As the 14-na- 
tion conference was drawing to a close. 
Communist China went for a bombshell, 
suddenly questioning United States sin- 
cerity in entering into the neutrality ac- 
cord. In Harriman's absence, Sullivan 
assumed the responsibility for replying 
to this charge. 

Staring straight at the Chinese dele- 
gate, Sullivan snapped: "When you go 
back to China, I want you to tell your 
leaders I do not believe the United States 
and the Soviet Union intend to fight a 
war in your behalf in Laos." 

Sullivan has traits not always found 
in one person — competence and affabil- 
ity. His quick Irish sense of humor is "^ 
infectious, but it is also a cover for a 
no-nonsense guy whose approach is al- 
ways direct and to the point. He's been 
described by one colleague as "an articu 
late diplomat with a caustic tongue." 



He's also been referred to as "a shaker, 
a mover, and a tireless worker." 

According to press reports, it sur- 
prised no one at the State Department 
last fall when Kissinger tapped Sullivan 
the department's number one expert ori! 
Vietnam, to assist him with the final 
negotiations in Paris. Since graduation 
from college, Sullivan's entire life seem; 
a preparation for his key role in helpin; 
to bring to and end what has been per- 
haps America's most unpopular war. 

As Brown Commencement speaker 
in February of 1943, the Cranston (R.I. 
native and Phi Beta Kappa graduate 
called upon Americans "to work and 
sacrifice in the face of international 
dangers." Having made this point, Sul- 
livan resigned as class secretary, enlisti 
in the Navy, and served three years as 
a line officer aboard destroyers and mil 
sweepers in the Atlantic, Mediterranea: 
and Pacific. 

After the war, Sullivan entered thf 
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy 
at Tufts University. He specialized 
chiefly in Latin-American affairs, was 
graduated in 1947, and joined the for- 
eign service. Then the State Departmer 
in one of those moves that seem to def 
logic, sent the Latin American expert o 
to Thailand. 

One thing did work out as planne 
at Tufts. Sullivan met and, after their 
graduation, married a fellow student, 
Mary Elizabeth Johnson of Mexico Cit; 
Their four children are milestones in 
Sullivan's foreign service career: Anne, 
24, was born in Bangkok; John, 21, in 
Tokyo; Mark, 19, in Naples; and Marj 
ret, 16, at The Hague. 

Sullivan served as personal advise 
to General Douglas MacArthur during 
the Korean War. After that came assig 
ments in Calcutta, Tokyo, Rome, The 
Hague, and (from 1964 to 1969) as an 
bassador to Laos. 

While in Laos, Sullivan acted to 
prevent the U.S. military from indiscr: 
inately bombing villages simply to der 
them to the Communists. And in 196/ 
he established contact with the North 
Vietnamese mission and participated i 
informal negotiations on selecting a si 
for what was then termed "pre-con- 
versations" on ending the war. 

Sullivan's verbal gifts are the cn\ 
of his colleagues. Reporter John Mac- 
Lean touched on this subject recently 
the Chicago Tribune. 



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"He has been known to call in his 
rretary during a meeting and dictate 
vord-perfect memorandum to the 
:3sident. Most foreign service officers 
ieat blood over Presidental memos, 
lich must bear the signature of the 
;:retary of state. 

I "While Sullivan was head of the 
^bassy in Laos, he had an opportunity 
lexpress a pointed wit," MacLean 
'itinues. "His cables became collectors' 
.Tis among Washington bureaucrats 
;;d to gray officialese." 

On occasions, Sullivan's cables also 
Tied a bite. When a Department of 
fense drudge authorized tourist-class 
iline tickets for a group of U.S. prison- 
: of war that North Vietnam had prom- 



ised to release, Sullivan wired back: "If 
you guys in the green eyeshades have 
so little regard for our American POW's, 
perhaps a change of places with them 
might be arranged." 

From time to time, the press has 
attempted to pin a label on Sullivan's 
public record on Vietnam. All efforts 
have failed. It's generally conceded that 
his approach is that of the hard-nosed 
professional in the field of statecraft — 
rather than hawk or dove. 

Sullivan has been called one of the 
new generation of American diplomats 
who have buried the myth about striped 
pants and cookie pushers. He is of the 
generation which is inclined to take a 
greater interest in the country or area in 



ite-haired William Sullivan follows Henry Kissinger out the door of the Communist 
a outside Paris during a recess in the peace >iegotiations in January. 




which it serves than was the case in 
the past. 

Although he is a man of energy and 
decisiveness — one who hates to waste 
time, Sullivan won the confidence of the 
Asians by his adaptability and under- 
standing. He learned quickly that in that 
part of the world a man in a hurry is 
considered to be rather boorish and his 
judgments are suspect. 

For his meetings with the North 
Vietnamese, many of whom pride them- 
selves on a Parisian accent, Sullivan was 
able to muster a fluent French. He also 
speaks Italian and Dutch, souvenirs 
of past assignments. 

An athletic man of medium build, 
Sullivan, at 50, has silver hair and bushy 
eyebrows that someone once said re- 
sembled question marks turned sideways. 
An ardent amateur athlete when time 
permits, he was able to indulge his boy- 
hood passion for ice skating in Geneva 
and, later, his equal love of swimming in 
the warm climate of Vientiane. 

In Washington, when his schedule is 
light, there is nothing Bill Sullivan likes 
better than a stroll around the reflecting 
pool and the Lincoln Memorial near the 
State Department. But recently his 
schedule hasn't been light. 

From October to January, he worked 
a ten-hour day, seven days a week. In 
both Washington and Paris he made it a 
point to be at the office by eight each 
morning, seldom leaving until after 6 in 
the evening. In Sullivan's day there 
were no chats or coffee breaks — and 
even lunch was reduced to a can of diet 
milk at his desk. 

Now that the Paris talks have been 
completed. Ambassador Sullivan may 
have a chance for a more leisurely lunch 
— at least until he gets a new assign- 
ment. But a call by a New York Times 
reporter to the Sullivan home in the 
Maryland suburbs of Washington the 
day of the cease fire didn't shed much 
light on the diplomat's future plans. 

Daughter Margaret told the caller 
that she did not know when her father 
was coming home, or even where he was 
staying. Said she: "He doesn't tell us 
anything." J.B. 



As the BAM went to press, 'y¥fei«mdw 
Sullivan was accompanying Dr. Kissinger 
on his trip to the Far East, which in- 
cluded stops in Hanoi and Peking. 



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Brown Sports ' 

Written by Jay Barry 

I 

The new football staflf: 'One of the finest in the Ivies' 



When John Anderson took over the 
head coaching job at Brown on Dec. 20, 
one of the first things he discussed was 
the selection of his staff. Giving this 
task top priority, he said that he wasn't 
going to rush — it was too important, but 
that he hoped to have things wrapped up 
no later than Feb. 1. 

"I want coaches who are good rep- 
resentatives of Brown, who are outstand- 
ing recruiters, who are winners, and who 
can relate to the players — both on and 
off the field," Coach Anderson said at 
the time. "I'm not looking for techni- 
cians," he added. "We can teach a coach 
the technical end of it. But you can't 
teach a man to relate to other human 
beings if he doesn't have it in him." 

Anderson said in December that his 
staff would include eight full-time peo- 
ple, an increase of one over the Jardine 
regime. Perhaps more important, he 
pointed out that the salary scale would 
be increased sufficiently for him to be 
competitive with the other Ivy colleges 
in hiring his assistants. "I would not 
have taken the job if this condition had 
not been met," he said. 

At 4:05 p.m. on Jan. 23, the search 
was complete. Coach Anderson ex- 
pressed himself as extremely pleased — 
and relieved. 

"My first three weeks on the job 
were spent hiring my six varsity and two 
freshman assistants," he said. "Now that 
the results are in, I feel that we have one 
of the finest staffs of any school in the 
Ivy League. They are personable, en- 
thusiastic, positive people who will be 
able to relate to players, parents, and 
alumni. 

"In my opinion, the key to a suc- 
cessful program is your staff, even more 
than the players," Anderson says. "If 
you have strong assistants, the blue chip 
players will follow. The reason Bob 
Blackman was so successful at Dart- 
mouth was that he always had an out- 
standing staff." 

As his offensive line coach, Ander- 
son has hired Bill Russo '69, the only 



member of the Jardine full-time staff to 
be retained. Russo was part-time assist- 
ant in 1969 and for the last three years 
was defensive coordinator for the fresh- 
man team. He also served as head var- 
sity scout last fall. 

A factor influencing Anderson's de- 
cision was the outstanding job Russo 
did last year in completely revising 
Brown's scouting system. Working with 
Jack Duffy, head of Brown's Computer 
Services, Russo put the entire scouting 
program on IBM computer for the first 
time. 

Russo was also the man who 
worked closely with the players in the 
weight-lifting program that was intro- 
duced last winter. His popularity with 
the players was a well-known fact, even 
before many of the players talked with 
Coach Anderson on the subject. Captain- 
elect Brian Ball speaks to this point: 

"Coach Russo was the person who 
really kept us together," Ball says. "Any- 
body who was associated with the man 
knew that he is a winner. We just love 
the guy, and I, personally, am delighted 
with his appointment." 

Andy Talley, who had been offen- 
sive backfield coach under Anderson at 
Middlebury the past three seasons, will 
hold the same position at Brown. A 1967 
graduate of Southern Connecticut Col- 
lege, Talley was a defensive halfback for 
the Eastern Football Conference cham- 
pions. 

While earning his master's in edu- 
cation at Springfield College, Talley 
coached the defensive secondary. This 
spring he was due to become varsity 
track coach at Middlebury. 

Coach Anderson is an exponent of 
wide-open football, with the forward 
pass playing an important part of his 
offense. In rounding out his offensive 
team, he has selected Hank Small to 
work with the quarterbacks and receiv- 
ers. 

A 1969 graduate of Gettysburg Col- 
lege, Small was freshman coach at Rut- 
gers for two years before moving on to 
Florida State, where he coached the quar- 



terbacks and receivers and served as as- 
sistant chief recruiter. 

Florida State has long had the repi 
tation of being a team that likes to 
throw the football. The 1964 team led 
the nation in passing, with Fred Tansi 
throwing to Fred Biletnikopf, now of tf 
Oakland Raiders. Over the next few 
years at least. Brown will have a quarte 
back who can throw the ball and a nuni 
ber of excellent receivers. On this basis. 
Coach Anderson felt that he wanted a 
man on his staff who was especially , 
versed in this phase of the game. ' 

According to Anderson, Small is i 
also an excellent recruiter. In his first i 
assignment for Brown, Small went badj 
to Florida, talked to the 22 players whc 
made All-State, and got 13 of them to : 
apply to Brown. i 

Handling the defensive line for th' 
Bruins next fall will be Joe Wirth, a i 
1960 graduate of West Virginia, where, 
he was co-captain of the football team. 
He played offensive center and defensii 
linebacker in college. 1 

After coaching high school footbai 
for several years, Wirth became defen-| 
sive coordinator at Holy Cross in 1968; 
For the past four seasons he has held t 
same position at Colgate. 

Dave Ritchie will be in charge of i 
the linebackers on Coach Anderson's 
staff. He played high school football ir. 
New Bedford, Mass., and then in Cin- 
cinnati, where he was All-State. At ths 
University of Cincinnati he was a full-, 
back and linebacker and was the leadiii 
punter in the Missouri Valley. 

Graduating in 1962, Ritchie serve, 
as a graduate assistant at his alma ma ' 
for two years and then became head 
coach at Greenbriar Military Academyl 
West Virginia. He came back to the U-( 
versity of Cincinnati as linebacker coa. 
in 1969 and earned his master's there ; 
1971. 

"When I went to Chicago for the 
NCAA meetings in January, everyone 
who knew I was trying to round up a 
staff told me to be sure to look up Da 
Ritchie," Anderson says. "We finally _ 
met on an elevator and I asked him tc 



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me up to my room to chat for a few 
tutes. The 'few minutes' turned into 
I) hours. Of the 30 members of the 
iversity of Cincinnati varsity last 
1 , Ritchie had recruited 22 of them." 

The defensive backfield coach un- 

Anderson will be Jim McKinley. A 
duate of Western Michigan, he has 
n coaching recently at Eastern Michi- 
i. "He's a fine coach," Anderson says, 
le who excels in defensive play." 

Coming to Brown as head freshman 
I ch will be Howard Vandersea, a 6-4, 
i-pounder who was an All-New Eng- 
:d lineman at Bates before graduating 
1963. He had tryouts with both the 
Acago Bears and Green Bay Packers, 
|nt two years as a first lieutenant in 
: Army, and earned a master's in edu- 
i on at Boston University. 

While working for his master's, 
'tdersea was an assistant coach at 

g Branch High in New Jersey and 
rn a graduate assistant at BU, where 
• landled the freshman offensive and 
'3nsive line. For the past four years he 

been defensive coordinator at Tufts. 

The assistant freshman coach for 
: Bruins will be Mike Goldberger, a 
i2 graduate of Middlebury who played 
: Anderson. A safetyman for Middle- 
ly, Goldberger has 16 interceptions 
Si senior, one short of the New Eng- 
li record. 

Last fall he served as varsity back- 
'i coach for Anderson, working 
inly with the defense. The Panthers 
^e fifth in the nation in pass defense, 
Iwing only 66 yards per game, and 
ilerson gives Goldberger much of the 
Hit for this showing. 

As various members of his new staff 
rpted their appointments in mid-Jan- 
. ,', Anderson brought them to Provi- 
t :e for a quick "crash course" on 
ijwn University and then sent them on 
hroad for recruiting purposes. The 
t: was due to come together at Brown 
if-eb. 16, at which point they will start 
3 reak down last fall's varsity and 
r hman films and make plans for the 
-3 season. 



Anderson did indicate that there 
would be one major change in policy for 
1973. The Brown quarterback will call 
the game on the field without benefit of 
plays sent in from the sideline. 

"We will run a very multiple of- 
fense, with the quarterback calling auto- 
matics at the line of scrimmage depend- 
ing on what he sees the defensive line 
and secondary doing," Anderson says. 
"Under this system the quarterback has 
to run the show. My job as head coach 
will be to prepare him during the week 
so that when he trots out on the field 
Saturday afternoon he is ready. During 
time outs we'll provide general informa- 
tion that is phoned down to us from the 
coaches up in the press box, but other 
than that, my quarterback will be the 
boss." 

Not having had an opportunity to 
break down the 1972 game films, Ander- 
son is reluctant at this point to talk 
about personnel. But he does feel that 
the material he will have in the fall, in- 
cluding the men up from the undefeated 
5-0 Cub team, will enable him to win 
some football games. 

"I'd be foolish to talk about an Ivy 
League title at this point," Anderson 
says. "But I do think it's realistic to talk 
about having a winning record next fall. 
That's our objective. And the job has 
started." 

A 'new look' in basketball, 
a disappointment in hockey 

It just didn't seem right. When the 
Ivy League released its basketball stand- 
ings at the semester break in mid-Janu- 
ary, there were the Bruins pressing Penn 
for the league lead with a 3-1 record. 

Brown has never won an Ivy bas- 
ketball title since the league was formed 
in the early 1950's. And the Bears have 
not made a practice of holding down 
second place in mid-January. But, then. 
Coach Gerry Alaimo had said that this 
was to be the year of the "new look" in 
Brown basketball. Maybe he was right. 

Still, there were some extenuating 
circumstances concerning Brown's climb 



to the top. In posting the 3-1 record, the 
Bruins had made hay against Cornell 
and Columbia, two of the league's weak- 
est entries this season, and had split with 
an average Yale team. The meat of the 
schedule was ahead. 

Between Feb. 2 and Feb. 24, Coach 
Alaimo's young Bruins were scheduled 
to face Penn, Princeton, Harvard, and 
Dartmouth — the league's four toughest 
clubs — twice each. By Feb. 24, the sched- 
ule will have separated the men from the 
boys — and the 1973 title will be pretty 
much decided. 

Coach Alaimo isn't predicting that 
his team will still be on top of things by 
the end of February. But he will make a 
stand on one point : it's going to be in- 
teresting. 

"This is a funny group of kids," 
Alaimo says. "Most of them are sopho- 
mores up from the 18-2 freshman team 
and they developed a taste for winning. 
Now they can't accept the notion of de- 
feat. 

"We opened with Maryland, a team 
that was picked to challenge UCLA for 
the national title this year. I thought 
some of the sophomores might be scared 
playing before 15,000 screaming Mary- 
land fans. Instead, I found myself with 
a different problem. My kids were 
cocky! 

"After we got plastered by Mary- 
land — and we were really bombed, 
127-82 — the kids sat around the locker 
room with their heads down trying to 
figure out what had gone wrong. They 
thought that they should have won." 

Sophomores filled seven of the top 
ten positions on the ball club, with five 
of them starting at one time or another. 
Phil Brown, the 6-5, 180-pound jumping 
jack, had the center position all to him- 
self from the opening day of practice. 
Vaughn Clarke (6-4, 185), Lloyd Des- 
vigne (6-2, 180), Eddie Morris (5-10, 
150), and Jay Regan (6-2, 165) enjoyed 
starters' roles, while Billy Almon (6-3, 
175) and Jim Busum (6-6, 195) played 
considerably as reserves. 

There were only three upperclass- 



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Against Columbia, the Bruins showed both a potent defense and offense. 



32 



J 



n on the club as the schedule got un- 
way: Capt. Rich Cureton (6-5, 190), 
i juniors Jim Burke (5-8, 155) and 
rk Flynn (6-4, 215). 

Looking at this situation last De- 
nber. Coach Alaimo put it bluntly: 

the sophomores go, so goes the sea- 

' Through the first 13 games (6-7) 
t was pretty much the way the book 
Dte. The second-year men provided 
ed, quickness, shooting ability, and 
ifidence. And on occasions they sup- 
d something else — sophomore mis- 
ss. 

Brown basketball 1973 reminded 
rie of the story about the little girl 
h the curl. On their good nights the 
lins were very, very good. And on 
ir bad nights, well — . 

One of the good nights came early 
he season when Brown surprised a 
hly favored Manhattan team, 61-54, 
vladison Square Garden. The Jaspers 
n won their next seven games in a 

Brown was both hot and cold at the 
metto Classic in Charleston, S.C., 
ing the holidays. Paced by the quick 
rris at guard, the Bears shot nearly 
percent from the floor (24-41) and 
percent from the foul line (19-20) in 
aating Citadel, 67-60, on opening 
ht. Morris had 18 points and Busum 
10. Junior guard Jim Burke came 
3ugh in the final minute with a key 
ound, a steal, and some fancy drib- 
ig to help wrap it up. 

Alaimo's men should have saved 
tie of their hot shooting for the cham- 
.nship finale with Wake Forest. Lead- 
• 46-43 with 11:23 left, the Bruins 
.it ice cold and couldn't buy a basket 
:just over eight minutes. The dry 
fll proved fatal and the Bears bowed 
:he Deacons, 65-59. 

It's never easy to go against Provi- 
I ce College, nationally ranked year in 
I year out since the mid-1950's. This 
jr, P.C. may have its best team of all 
■;, and Alaimo felt his run-and-shoot 
l/ers couldn't get away with that style 
|[ame. So he started out in his slow- 
wn 3-2 offense — and he found that 
1" wouldn't work either. The Friars 
i out to a 19-6 lead enroute to an 
.'i3 victory. 

When someone asked him to de- 
cae the game, Alaimo said simply, "It 
' a replay of Custer's last stand." 
^1 then he added, "But we're starting 



from scratch this weekend with Cornell 
and Columbia." 

The coach was so right. Granted 
both Cornell and Columbia are having 
off-years. But Alaimo's young team did 
put everything together by bombing the 
Big Red, 102-79, on Friday night at Mar- 
vel Gym and then toying with the Lions, 
86-68, in the team's first "home" game 
at the beautiful new Civic Center in 
downtown Providence. 

Center Phil Brown did a good job 
in a losing cause against Providence, 
scoring 13 points and pulling in 13 re- 
bounds. On the weekend he was im- 
mense. He had 14 points and 13 re- 
bounds against Cornell and was 20 and 
15, respectively, in the game with Co- 
lumbia. 

It was a 45-40 game, with Brown 
leading Cornell early in the second half. 
Then the Bears exploded for ten straight 
points to take complete command. In 
rolling up 102 points (two short of the 
team record). Brown shot 60 percent 
from the floor and set new team records 
for most field goals (47) and assists (31) 
in one game. Regan had his best varsity 
night with 20 points, all on long bombs 
from the corners, while Desvigne (20), 
Cureton (17), and Burke (10 assists) all 
contributed to the victory. Still another 
sophomore, Billy Almon, put the Bruins 
over the century mark with a basket 
from the corner in the final minute as 
the crowd roared. 

When Columbia played a wide zone 
to shut off Regan from the corners, 
Alaimo had both Regan and Brown 
sliding across the lane and shooting from 
the middle. Each was hot, with Brown 
getting 20 and Regan 17. 

"If we're not careful, we could win 
three in a row by beating Fairfield," 
Alaimo said. "But I don't know about 
these kids of mine. Sometimes they fool 
me." 

The Bruins took Coach Alaimo at 
his word. They fooled him and dropped 
a 79-69 decision to a fair Fairfield team. 

n To put it mildly, the hockey team 
was a disappointment through the first 
half of the season. At that point the rec- 
ord stood at 4-10 and the Bears seemed 
to be pointing for nothing but the con- 
clusion of the campaign on March 3. 

After losing eight of the first ten. 
Brown played three good games in a 
row, defeating Princeton, 5-2, and Yale, 
6-2, and then losing a tough 2-1 deci- 
sion to Penn. 



At this point. Brown went to Han- 
over with high hopes for a victory over 
an improving Dartmouth team. Instead, 
the Bears were bombed, 10-2, one of the 
worst defeats for a Brown hockey team 
in many years. 

In the taming of the Tiger, junior 
Brian Stapelton and sophomore goalie 
Jim Madich came up with big games. 
Stapelton, who comes from Fort Erie, 
Ont., had his first varsity hat trick, plus 
an assist. Madich (Chisholm, Minn.) 
turned back 31 Princeton shots, includ- 
ing two breakaways in the first period 
when the action was still close. 

Norm Howarth from Sarnia, Ont., 
was Brown's best offensive player during 
the first half of the season. He had a 
goal and two assists in the victory over 
Princeton and followed up with two 
goals and another assist against Yale. 
Rick Heimbach, who paced last year's 
fine freshman team in scoring with 53 
points, scored a big goal against Yale 
in the third period to break that one 
open. 

Keith Smith, junior defenseman 
from Burlington, Ont., continued to 
show the form that earned him the repu- 
tation as one of the East's best a year 
ago. A fine rushing defenseman. Smith 
had four goals and 12 assists to rank 
second on the team to Howarth (14-8- 
22) in scoring at the halfway point. 

Traveling to Cleveland for the Holi- 
day Hockey Festival, Brown split its two 
games, defeating Bowling Green, 5-4, 
and losing to Michigan State, 8-3. The 
Big 10 team scored seven of its eight 
goals while Brown was short-handed. 

n Brown's improved swimming team 
was still no match for Harvard, dropping 
a 72-39 decision at Colgate Hoyt Pool. 
Capt. Lance Keigwin won the 100 free- 
style and freshman Mark VanderFeltz 
took the 200-yard backstroke to break 
the Harvard string of victories. 

Coach Ed Reed feels that his 
swimmers (0-2) will end in the black. 
The final varsity meet at Colgate Hoyt 
Pool is scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 24, 
against the Coast Guard Academy. The 
Bruins will be in the new pool next win- 
ter. 

D The wrestling team remained con- 
sistent, dropping decisions to Harvard, 
40-12, and Dartmouth, 42-9. 



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Ten freshman skaters 
with a 'can't miss' label 

Coaches will tell you it's not the 
freshman records that count, it's the 
number of players with varsity poten- 
tial. On this basis, first-year freshman 
hockey coach, Dick Toomey, has the 
best of two worlds. He has stamped the 
"can't miss" sign on ten of his skaters, 
and at the semester break his Cubs were 
10-1. 

One of the keys to this year's fresh- 
man hockey team is its balance. The 
club has three strong defensemen, five 
forwards, and two goalies. The group 
will complement the varsity, where grad- 
uation will take two centers and an ex- 
perienced defenseman. 

The most exciting element to this 
Cub team is its explosive first line. Some 
hockey buffs who have seen them all 
since the sport was revived on College 
Hill after World War II rate this the 
best unit since the days of Don Sennott 
'52, Bobby Wheeler '52, and Tony Malo 
'51. In the first 11 games, the freshman 
line accounted for 59 goals and 63 as- 
sists for 122 points. 

Centering the unit is Jari Stromberg, 
a 6-1, 180-pounder from St. Mary's, 
Ont. He was the team's leading scorer 
after 16 games with 21 goals and 44 as- 
sists for 65 points. Stromberg was an 
All-Star for the past two years in one 



of Canada's top-rated Junior B leagues, 
and last season he tallied 31 goals and 
36 assists in 39 games. 

His two wings are Bob Mars, a 5-10, 
170-pounder from Duluth, Minn., and 
Steve Menich, 5-8, 155 from Kitchener, 
Ont. Mars was named to the All-City 
and All-District teams in his senior year 
and is considered a prolific scorer. He 
was 24-25-49 at mid-season. 

Menich is an outstanding prospect 
despite his lack of size. He scored 41 
goals and assisted 34 times in 40 games 
a year ago, when he captained a strong 
Kitchener Ranger B team. He is second 
only to Stromberg this season with 38- 
23-61 in 11 games. 

"All three of these men will score 
well at the varsity level," Coach Toomey 
points out. "The big, lanky Stromberg is 
top notch. He controls the play on the 
boards, uses his body well, and is a 
heady hockey player. Mars has blazing 
speed and is good on the break-away, 
while Menich puts 80 percent of his 
shots on the cage. All three move the 
puck well and one of them is always in 
good scoring position." 

Toomey is high on two other for- 
wards, Chris Bretoi and Greg Vezzosi. 
Coming to Brown from Palo Alto, Calif., 
by way of Phillips Andover Academy, 
the 5-10, 170-pound Bretoi can play both 
center and defense. Vezzosi (5-8, 155) is 
from Chatham Township, N.J., where 



The freshman forward line: Bob Mars, Jari Stromberg, and Steve Menich. 




he scored 55 points a year ago in 25 
games. 

The team's top two defensemen, 
Tom Colehour (5-10, 170) and Jack 
Ahern (5-11, 190) have played togethei 
all season and should be able to move 
up to starting berths with the varsity. 
Colehour is more the defensive defense 
man, one who doesn't get caught up io 
Ahern is a rushing defenseman and a 
solid checker who loves to dish it out c 
defense. 

Another defenseman with varsity 
potential is Mark Cavanaugh, a 6-1, 11 
pounder from La Salle Academy in 
Providence. 

The goalies are John Kehoe (6-1, 
170) from Burlington, Ont., and Jim 
Walworth (6-1, 175) from Erie, Pa. Co£i 
Toomey feels that both are of varsity 
caliber if they want to work hard and 
fight the competition. Each is a stand-i 
goalie and each plays the angles well. 

Winter Scoreboard 

(Jan. 16-Feb. 10) ' 

Basketball 

Varsity (8-10) 
Buffalo 98, Brown 87 

Penn 88, Broimi 60 , 

Princeton 76, Brown 52 
Brown 61, Dartmouth 58 
Brown 65, Harvard 60 



Hockey 



Varsity (7-10) 
Brown 8, St. Nick's 5 (exhib.) 
Brown 5, Providence 3 
Penn 5, Brown 3 
Brown 4, Army 3 

Swimming 

Varsity (1-3) 
Springfield 75, Brown 38 
Harvard 72, Brown 39 
UConn 61, Brown 52 
Brown 65, Columbia 47 

Track 

Varsity (3-5) 
Brown 65, Boston Univ. 44 
Northeastern 63, Brown 46 
Penn 81, Yale 34, Brown 33 
Brown 69, Columbia 49 
BC 54, Brown 521/2, HC 41V2 
UConn 86, Brown 32 



Wrestling 



Varsity (2-9) 
Princeton 34, Brown 10 
Brown 22, UConn 11 
Brown 42, Holy Cross 6 
Cornell 43, Brown 3 



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i 



'he Classes 



r/% Col. Henry R. Dutton of Hono- 
^3^ lulu, Hawaii, local hotel and eat- 
;i consultant, has been appointed "Bailli 
j; tem" by the U.S. branch of Confrerie 
i»,a Chaine des Rotisseurs for Hawaii, 
r.t particular society was founded in 
■nee in 122 A.D. 

William H. Edwards, Providence at- 
c'ley, has been elected to the governing 
icncil of the National Municipal League. 
}; is a former chairman of the Commis- 
;ii on the Revision of the State Constitu- 
i 1 in Rhode Island. 

*-f\ Avis M. Pillshury has returned 
t\J from a cruise covering Greece, 
r key, Lebanon, Egypt, Cyprus, and Israel 
nvhich she followed the path of the 
V)stle Paul into the areas where the 
lien Churches were established in the 
((inning of the Christian era. 

Dorothy Holt Simons, Rose Minkins, 
a Dorothy Bennett Vaughn attended the 
Imni/Alumnae Council held in Novem- 
II at which time Mrs. Simons, head class 
Unt, received a Brown University Revere 
ii;l in recognition of the class' high par- 
ioation in the Annual Fund. 

> »* Olive Briggs Harrington's hus- 
t A. band, Raymond, died on Oct. 26. 
i] continues to live in East Greenwich, 
I . on property inherited from her ma- 
E.al ancestors. 

» ^ George Dawson, Jr., has retired as 

I ^ chief engineer of Paragon Oil 
lipany. Inc., of Long Island City, N.Y. 

Margaret Perry Littlefield, treasurer of 

II class for 50 years, received a Brown 
Fversity Revere bowl in the special 

c evement award group at the Alumni/ 
Lmnae Council held in November. 

• g" Barbara McCarthy has, since her 
t^ retirement from VVellesley, been 
ing a course at Holy Cross on "Women 
iiJreek Literature." During this semes- 
e she is a visiting professor of clas- 
i at Brandeis, but plans to return to Holy 
)ss in the fall. Last summer, Barbara 
t t on another trip to Greece and Turkey. 

Elizabeth Simpson McCormick toured 
[la last summer. 

1 The husband of Charlotte Perry Phil- 
fdied in November in South Lincoln, 

a.s. 

Beulah Leathers Roensch and her hus- 
sd have left on an extended safari to 
1 ca. Last winter they enjoyed a 22,000- 
i freighter trip around South America, 
f ing many stops along the way. During 
Mummer they enjoyed shooting the 
.1 irado River rapids in the Grand Canyon. 



A. Samuel Sargeant retired in June as 
vice-president of the college division at 
L. G. Balfour Company in Attleboro, Mass. 

^ /^ Dr. Carl F. Bayerschmidt has re- 
Jml^ tired as professor of Germanic 
philology at Columbia University. 

^ Q At the Alumni/Alumnae Coun- 
^^^y cil, Ruth Paine Carlson was pre- 
sented a Revere bowl in recognition of her 
17 years with the Pembroke Alumnae Fund. 

Sidney Friedman retired January 1 as 
chairman of the board and chief executive 
officer of the National Bank of North 
America. The bank, located in New York 
City, has assets of more than $2.5 billion 
and is the twenty-sixth largest bank in the 
country. Sid will remain a director of the 
bank in his retirement. Last month he be- 
came chairman of the board of Integrated 
Resources, Inc., of New York City, a firm 
engaged in merchandising financial serv- 
ices, particularly insurance and real estate 
interests. Sid is secretary of the executive 
committee of Hofstra University in Long 
Island. 

William S. Litterick is a consultant 
and student at Andover-Newton Theologi- 
cal School. 

^ Q Dr. Philip T. Maker has retired as 
Jmt^ professor of mathematics at Bos- 
ton University. 

Joseph Zaparanick has retired as chief 
chemist of the Carlstadt (N.J.) plant of 
Nopco Chemical Company, a division of 
Diamond-Shamrock Chemical Corporation. 

'^f\ Milton Linden is president of Gla- 
^\J ser & Linden, Inc., wool manu- 
facturers in Natick, Mass. 

Samuel S. Tobe recently spoke on 
"Facts of Life for the Small Investor" at 
the Upper Moreland Free Public Library in 
Willow Grove, Pa. Sam is a retired engi- 
neer and an operations research analyst. 
He also tutors high school students in 
mathematics and physics. 

^•* Dr. Robert S. Sherman, a physi- 
^ JL cian and radiologist, is a corpo- 
rate consultant in the medical department 
of IBM in White Plains, N.Y. 

^ ^ M. Florence Krueger retired last 
<^ dU July as the library coordinator 
(1964-1972) and Title II Coordinator (1970- 
1972) of the Providence Public School De- 
partment after 38 years of continuous serv- 
ice as teacher, director of social arts, li- 
brarian, and coordinating-supervisor of the 
35 school library media centers. As the class 
president, Florence attended the Alumni/ 
Alumnae Council last November. She is a 
member of the Providence area special gifts 
committee of the Brown University Annual 
Fund drive, worked on the recent phono- 



thon, and is serving as class president rep- 
resentative on the board of directors of 
the Alumnae Association. 

Arthur A. Lewis teaches social studies 
and cultural anthropology at Tantasqua 
Regional High School in Sturbridge, Mass. 
Last year he participated in a federal 
project at Old Sturbridge Village, for which 
his Brown master's thesis on Early Ameri- 
can Songsters, 1800-1805, proved valuable. 
Arthur is participating as a supervising 
teacher at Clark University in Worcester, 
Mass., in a course called Advanced Field 
Studies. 

*> ^ The Rev. S. Read Chatterton, 

^ ^ minister of Edgartown (Mass.) 
Federated Church for the past 15 years, 
left in January to take up a new post as 
chaplain of the Masonic Home in Decoto, 
Calif. His wife also will be assisting in a 
social work capacity in caring for the large 
family of 480 men and women who make 
their home there. Read plans to be back 
for his 40th reunion this year. 

Lillian Kelman Potter, in a recent talk 
to representatives of the Rhode Island 
Council of Chambers of Commerce, urged 
stricter gun control laws. Lillian is active 
in national and local organizations promot- 
ing tighter gun controls and is co-chairman 
of the Rhode Island Emergency Committee 
for Gun Control and president of Hand 
Gun Alert, Inc. 

^ /t Dr. Irving R. Lyman has moved 
^"t to Ukiah, Calif., following the 
closing in July of the Mendocino State 
Hospital in Talmage, Calif., where he had 
been working. 

ly jj" William O. Wallburg has retired 
^ ^ from Baskin-Robbins Eastern Cor- 
poration in Boston and has moved to 
Wolfeboro, N.H. 

^ /f Charles E. H. Nauss is manager 
^V of personnel services for Grum- 
man Aerospace Corporation in Bethpage, 
N.Y. 

^ ^ Margaret J. Partridge is working 
^ y at the Yorkshire (England) Res- 
idential School for the Deaf. 

'^ rt James P. Krogh, Jr., is cashier, 
wO assistant manager, and corpora- 
tion secretary of Christ Cella, Inc., one of 
New York's most prominent steak houses. 

^O T^^s 1^73 edition of the R/iorfe 
^z7 /sZand Yenrfcoofc has a historical 
article about Block Island written by Kath- 
erine Tucker. The article includes pictures 
from the Rev. Samuel T. Livermoore's His- 
tory of Block Island, which is in the Rocke- 
feller Library. Katherine is president of the 
Rhode Island Story Club for 1972-73. 



35 



M g-^ Leonard M. Campbell has been 
^jj^^J elected vice-president of Insurance 
Company of North America, based in Phil- 
adelphia. He joined INA in 1957 and later 
that year transferred to INA's head office 
for Europe in The Hague as casualty man- 
ager. He returned to INA world headquar- 
ters in Philadelphia in 1960 as deputy un- 
derwriter in the international department. 

jt »* John K. Ellenbogen is vice-pres- 
4Jfc JL ident of Merling, Marx &. Seid- 
man. Inc., a New York City advertising 
firm. 

Anita Ramos Schaff has written 12 
Spanish, French, and English textbooks 
over the past five years, books that are 
now used in 25 schools and three colleges. 
In 1969, Anita was chosen to write the 
government-funded high school project, 
American English as a Second Language, 
for Mexican-Americans. Anita lives in 
Phoenix, Ariz. 

William P. Sheffield, III has been ap- 
pointed vice-president and general manager 
of the special products division of Sta-Rite 
Industries, Inc., a widely diversified man- 
ufacturer headquartered in Devalan, Wis. 
He was president and general manager of 
the Universal Engineering Division of Hou- 
daille Industries, Inc., at Frankenmuth, 
Mich., before coming to Sta-Rite. 

/t <% Irving ]. Casey has left the State 
4k^ University of New York at Cort- 
land to become chairman of the department 
of sociology at Russell Sage College, Troy, 
N.Y. His daughter is a member of the Class 
of 1975 at Brown. 

Calvin fisher has added new duties as 
Canadian sales manager for Industry Week 
Magazine. 

Russell R. Jalbert, assistant commis- 
sioner for public affairs of the Social Se- 
curity Administration in Washington, D.C., 
has been elected to the board of governors 
of Dag Hammarskjold College in Colum- 
bia, Md. The college, which opened its 
doors this past fall to 50 students, half of 
them from abroad, is devoted to "provid- 
ing a cross-cultural learning experience for 
students from many lands." 

Howard Johnson has incorporated his 
sales agency in New Jersey as Forge & 
Foundry, Inc., covering New York, New 
Jersey, and New England. His daughter, 
Betty, was graduated from the American 
College in Leysin, Switzerland, in June. 

Dieter Kurath sends regrets from La 
Grange, 111., on missing the 30th Reunion. 
Unfortunately, the reunion coincided with 
the wedding of the first of his four daugh- 
ters. 

Douglas E. Leach, professor of Ameri- 
can history at Vanderbilt University, has 
announced the forthcoming publication by 
the Macmillan Company of his latest book. 
Arms for Empire, a military history of the 
British Colonies in North America, 1607- 
1763. 

Dr. William O'Connor has retired 
from government service in Washington, 
D.C., and has joined the faculty, with the 



rank of assistant professor, at Embry-Rid- 
dle Aeronautical Institute in Daytona Beach, 
Fla. 

Leonard Romagna's son, John, was 
graduated magna cum laude from Brown 
in June and is now in Brown's M.A.T. pro- 
gram. 

y| /J Lester J. Millman has been ap- 
4 w pointed a member of the National 
Committee on Urban Planning and Design 
of the American Institute of Architects for 
a one-year term. Lester is associate pro- 
fessor of architecture at Rhode Island 
School of Design. 

Betty-Lou Wagner MchAahon was 
back on campus last June to attend the 
graduation of her son, Alexander T. Mc- 
Mahon '72, her first visit since her grad- 
uation during World War II. Her daughter 
Sarah is a junior at Wellesley, Elizabeth is 
a sophomore at Mount Holyoke, and Ann 
is 13 and in the eighth grade. Her husband, 
John, who had been president of North 
Carolina Blue Cross and Blue Shield since 
1968, was recently named president of the 
American Hospital Association, with head- 
quarters in Chicago. 

Theodore Pariagiotis is administrative 
officer of the Defense Mapping Agency in 
West Warwick, R.I. 

Harold H. Rafuse, executive director of 
the West Springfield (Mass.) branch YMCA, 
has resigned to accept a position as man- 
ager of the Pinnacle Ski Area and the Mon- 
tague Golf Club in Randolph, Vt. 

yf gj John J. Fraizer is a senior engi- 
■JtO neer with Raytheon Company in 
Bedford, Mass. 

jf ^ G. Frances Martin Costelloe's 
TtO daughter, Ann Patrice, is a fresh- 
man at Brown this year. Ann graduated 
cum laude last June from Miss Hall's 
School in Pittsfield, Mass., where she won 
the Margaret Witherspoon Award, the high- 
est honor the school can bestow upon a 
student. She is carrying on a Brown tradi- 
tion in the family. Kevin Costelloe '74 is 
her brother, Edward C. Martin '40 is her 
uncle, and Leslie Martin Duncarj '70 (wife 
of William Duncan, III '70) is her cousin. 

Harold Demopulos and his wife an- 
nounce the birth of a daughter, Abigail 
Mary, on Nov. 13. Harold has been ap- 
pointed probate judge of the town of Bris- 
tol, R.I., where he is also president of the 
Chamber of Commerce and program chair- 
man of the Historical and Preservation So- 
ciety. 

Marland C. Williams is owner of The 
Williams Company, a Providence advertis- 
ing firm. 

M rt Daniel B. Miller has joined Trin- 
^t^y ity Square Repertory Company in 
Providence as its business manager. He 
comes to his job from International Tele- 
phone & Telegraph Company and will com- 
bine a master's degree in philosophy with 
more than 20 years of managerial experi- 
ence. Dan will be responsible for the day- 
to-day business operations of the company 
in addition to doing long-range planning. 



y| Q Dr. J. Harry Hill is a research 
^Jf 3^ psychologist with the U.S. De- 
partment of Transportation in the trans- 
portation systems center in Cambridge, 
Mass. i 

Matthew R. Holiday has joined Armci, 
Steel Corporation in Middletown, Ohio, as) 
its manager in the international engineer- 
ing division. [ 

Raymond E. Russell is owner of Bo- I 
hannon Power Mowers, Inc., in Sarasota, I 
Fla., a wholesale outdoor power equipment, 
firm. I 

ffg^ Lester R. Allen, Jr., has been | 
!j\J named to the newly created 
position of director of communications, 
training, and administration for Associate* 
Spring Corporation in Bristol, Conn. He i 
had been with The Mitre Corporation, 
headquartered in Bedford, Mass., for 12 | 
years. , 

David R. Dodsuwrth is a special as- 
sistant to the vice-president of corporate ' 
planning at John Hancock Mutual Life In- 
surance Company in Boston. ; 

Amadeu Ferreira has been appointed 
group vice-president of the newly created; 
International Group at Becton, Dickinson | 
and Company in Rutherford, N.J. He joinS; 
B-D in 1950 in export sales and has served 
in various management positions in the , 
international area, including sales manage: 
of Becton, Dickinson Industrias Cirurgicaij 
S.A., Brazil, and most recently as presiden 
of the International Division. 

Richard H. McKenney is part-owner 
of Auburn Machine Company in Cranstor 
R.I. 

When Joe Paterno turned down a milj 
lion dollar-plus offer from the New Eng- i 
land Patriots to become head coach and ! 
general manager, he gave as his main rea! 
son a desire to remain at Penn State, j 

"where I can be more than just a football, 
coach." According to published reports, tl 
offer from the Patriots included stock in , 
the team and an annual salary of $200,OOC,' 
a year for five years. "I don't want to be 
just a coach who wins or loses football 
games," Paterno said after turning down : 
the offer. "At Penn State, I can influence 
not only football players, but the rest of , 
the student body. I like the college atmos-: 
phere." Since succeeding Rip Engle as hei 
coach at Penn State, Paterno has a seven- ■ ' 
season record of 63 victories, 13 de- 
feats, and one tie, the best major college 
coaching record in the nation. 

John A. Romano, running as a Reput 
lican, won election in November as state 
representative from East Greenwich, R.I. 
For the retired Navy captain, it was the 
first venture into politics. 

(--* Dr. Arthur C. Gentile (GS) left 

^JL the University of Massachusetts, 
in July to become dean of the graduate 
school of the University of Oklahoma. 

Alvan K. Custafson is vice-president 
and general manager of international op- 
erations with Raymond International, Inc 
in Houston, Texas. 

Anthony A. Malo is president of Nel 



36 



S iplies Limited in Montreal, Canada, a 
H^Iesale plumbing and heating firm. 
John R. Petty is a partner and director 

he Washington, D.C., office of Lehman 
BiS., investment bankers. 

I 

I' ^ Dr. Alan C. Eckert, Jr., is a physi- 
4 ^ cist and member of the technical 
s f of General Research Corporation in 
/iington, Va. 

Dr. Rogers Elliott is on sabbatical 
live from Dartmouth College for the 
a'demic year and is serving as professor 
Dosychology at Oxford University in Eng- 
Isd. 

LoMis E. Fischer is vice-chairman of 
rt board of The Larwin Group, Inc., in 
Berly Hills, Calif. 

Arky Gonzalez has been moving about 
E ope in recent weeks, reporting on the 
:1; ski scene at St. Moritz and the semi- 
;i ken condition of Venice for The New 
i k Times, the growth of Hitler-mania for 
[1 New York News, the boutiques of Am- 
ildam for Gentlemen's Quarterly, and the 
jl'et wars of Belfast for Parade and The 
R'.der's Digest. While in Belfast, he was 
n.led out of his car by a Tartan gang 
3 his press pass and a "suddenly achieved 
» for blarney" saved him from a beating. 

Williatn B. Halsted was married to 
E'lyn Lerch in New York City on Nov, 
[He is president of Omega Organization, 
W., a management engineering firm in 
V V ^ ork City. 

Conrad ]. Kronholm, Jr., served last 
:. as co-chairman of the campaign of 
r^mecticut Congressman William R. Cot- 
-.1' President of Kronholm & Keeler, Inc., 
5 -lartford, Conrad has been active in 
Z'ater Hartford business and civic affairs. 

Lewis R. Sheldon, Jr., is a nuclear 
3 iiev plant engineer engaged in the de- 
1/1 of radioactive materials treating and 
) cessing systems at Stone & Webster 
;",ineering Corporation in Boston. 

J' ^ Plans for the 20th Reunion were 
i^ being formulated early this win- 
( with a mailing due to go out to all 
:..smate5 shortly. The dates you should 
■e?rve are June 1 to 4. There will be one 
:/nge in the reunion plans for 1973 — we 
V. be joining with the Pembroke '53 group 
i')ur four-day weekend on College Hill. 
' Charles W. Colson, special counsel to 
^sident Nixon for the past three years, 
1' resigned to go back to private law 
Jctice. Between the election and his res- 
fation, which takes effect this month, 
.-son was very much on the job. Just a 
yk after the election he vigorously at- 
|<ed CBS and the Washington Post in a 
"ech delivered to the New England So- 
:: y of Newspaper Editors, terming their 

1 i-Nixon tactics similar to those em- 
> /ed by the late Senator Joseph Mc- 

.' thy in the early 1950's. During Decem- 

I . Colson was one of the five "Cabinet 
t<ers" who helped put together Pres- 
cit Nixon's new Cabinet. The other four 

II, according to columnists Robert No- 

' and Rowland Evans, were Nixon, H. R. 
" deman, John Ehrlichman, and John Con- 
1 y. When asked by a Boston reporter 



John Colby Myer: Combining 
Beethoven with chocolate souffle 



It's not unusual to come across a per- 
son who likes music with his meals. But 
the list boils down a bit when you start 
looking for a man who has Beethoven's 
"Egmont Overture" as background music 
while preparing a chocolate souffle. 

Dr. John Colby Myer '36 not only 
combines music and food, he does so on a 
weekly radio show, "Let's Cook," broad- 
cast over Nasson College's radio sta- 
tion, WNCY-FM, Springvale, Maine. Al- 
ready a physician, professor, musician, au- 
thor, artist, and ordained priest, Dr. Myer 
surprised no one by donning the chef's 
garb. 

A veteran of 30 years at the stove. 
Dr. Myer admits that he started on a 
small scale. "I led off with pancakes," he 
says. According to C. Scott Hoar, writing 
in the Portland Press-Herald, Myer made 
his way into the kitchen full-time shortly 
after he gave up his eye, ear, nose, and 
throat practice in Sanford, Maine, to join 
the Nasson College faculty in 1958. Grad- 
ually he assumed a greater and greater 
part of the family's cooking. 

He and his wife, the former Martha 
Hamhlin '35, travel extensively, adding to 
their knowledge of cooking. They have 
taken five trips to Europe in the past six 
years, mostly to Italy and Germany. 

Dr. Myer prefers to use materials that 
are available in season for his cooking. In 
the winter, for example, he likes to go 
with beans and salt cod. He feels that in- 
terest in a greater variety of foods and 
methods of preparation is gaining momen- 
tum and is resulting in the return of many 
items — such as water cress — to shelves of 

John Colby Myer in his kitchen. 




some markets. 

"I deplore the passing of the individ- 
ually owned store where so many things 
were available and where individual atten- 
tion could be given to cutting of meat," he 
says. "I also mourn the passing of the 
aromatic bakery. I'm looking forward to 
the time when interest in foods results in 
the availability of such items as rabbit, 
squid, quail, and fresh caviar." 

His first book. The Psychology of 
Western Culture, was published last fall by 
the Philosophical Library, New York City. 
But Dr. Myer is a man of many hats and 
he's equally at ease talking about his ex- 
hibit of scenic watercolors painted in Italy 
on a recent trip or his work as assistant to 
the rector of Our Church of the Redeemer 
at Rochester, N.H. Until five years ago, he 
also played double bass in the Portland 
Symphony Orchestra. 

After spending three years at Brown, 
Myer switched to Hahnemann Medical 
College in Philadelphia, graduating in 1939. 
He interned in Providence and set up prac- 
tice in North Berwick, Maine, in 1940. As 
a lieutenant commander, he saw service 
with the Fourth Marine Division on Sai- 
pan. He also received service training in 
eye, ear, nose, and throat and opened an 
office in these specialties in Sanford in 
1947. 

Two years later, Myer started private 
study of holy orders with the dean of St. 
Luke's Cathedral in Portland, being or- 
dained a deacon in 1952 and to the priest- 
hood of the Episcopal Church in 1969. He 
joined the Nasson College staff as college 
physician in 1958 and began graduate work 
in psychology at the University of New 
Hampshire, which he completed in 1971. 

His radio cook show has given Dr. 
Myer an opportunity to combine two loves 
— cooking and music. Each show has a com- 
plete musical background. "I discuss the 
preparation of the food and the music also," 
he says. "I also discuss the place of the 
particular dish in relation to the full meal, 
including wines." 

The emphasis, although on interna- 
tional cuisine, is on dishes which can be 
made with locally available items, dishes 
that anyone can prepare by carefully 
following instructions, just as in reading 
a cookbook. So far, the response is favor- 
able to the show. 

"After all," Myer says, "a cook who 
combines chocolate souffle and Beethoven's 
'Egmont Overture' can't be all bad." J.B. 



37 



why President Nixon lost Colson's home 
state of Massachusetts, Chuck Colson re- 
plied: "Because Massachusetts has a dis- 
proportionate share of kooks." 

Richard C. Dunham is executive vice- 
president of the investment banking firm 
of F. S. Smithers & Company, Inc., in New 
York City. 

Jack A. Fleiiridas is director of sales 
and marketing with Bonat Inc., West Pater- 
son, N. J. 

Joseph L. Tauro of Marblehead has 
been sworn in as a U.S. District Judge for 
Massachusetts. The Cornell Law School 
graduate was appointed to the federal 
bench by President Nixon on Sept. 12 and 
was confirmed by the U.S. Senate a month 
later. Judge Tauro had served since Jan- 
uary of 1972 as a U.S. Attorney for Massa- 
chusetts. Prior to his appointment as a U.S. 
Attorney, he was a partner in the law firm 
of Jaffee and Tauro, maintaining offices in 
Boston and Lynn, Mass., as well as in 
Washington, D.C. From 1965 to 1969 he 
served as chief legal counsel to then Gov- 
ernor John A. Volpe. 

J" /t Marshall H. Cohen, an economist 
O "JC with the U.S. Department of Ag- 
riculture, is a specialist on Scandinavia. A 
photography buff for many years, Marshall 
had an opportunity last fall to combine his 
hobby and his profession when he pre- 
sented a special program on WETA-TV in 
Washington entitled, "A History of Scan- 
dinavia Through Photography." 

Franklin Curhan is head of the pro- 
fessional development and management 
assistance branch, logistics, with the Fleet 
Support Group, Naval Air Systems Com- 
mand, Washington, D.C. 

Frederick Hinck, Jr., a physical plant 
administrator, is superintendent of build- 
ings and grounds at Concord (N.H.) Hos- 
pital. 

Robert R. Jenks has assumed a new 
position as dean of business administration 
at Grahm Junior College in Boston. 

Stanford Miller is president of Rosco 
Labs in Port Chester, N.Y., manufacturers 
of lighting materials. 

Louis H. Pastore, Jr., has been re- 
elected Rhode Island state senator from 
District 6, Providence. Now in his second 
term, he has been elected chairman of the 
Senate Special Legislation Committee. 

William Polleys is strategy and busi- 
ness manager for Texas Instruments' new 
copper-clad aluminum wire. He is working 
out of TI's Attleboro, Mass., plant. He's 
also serving as eastern chairman and a na- 
tional committeeman for USSA freestyle 
skiing. 

Myles D. Striar is on a leave of ab- 
sence from the Boston Public Schools to 
work on his doctorate in administration at 
Harvard's Graduate School of Education. 

jj" IJ" Dr. Andrew S. Blazar has moved 
^ ^ his office to the new Moshassuck 
Medical Center in Randall Square, Prov- 
idence. 

Fred Ceer has been appointed consult- 



ant and assistant to the president at Delta 
Properties, an Atlanta-based real estate in- 
vestment company. 

Michael L. B. Kaplan has been pro- 
moted to counsel for Mutual Of New York, 
one of the nation's largest insurers. He 
will assume expanded duties in the insur- 
ance operations area of the law department, 
including supervision of field compensa- 
tion, employee benefits, group productions, 
and certain corporate functions. Michael 
received his LL.B. degree from the Univer- 
sity of Virginia Law School. 

Caiman Levin is vice-president of How- 
ard L. Green & Associates, Inc., in Bloom- 
field Hills, Mich., a market research firm. 

Julia Chrystie Pitney continues to teach 
various forms of needlework and recently 
won awards for her work at the Embroider- 
ers' Guild exhibit held in New York City 
and at the Bryant Park Flower Show in 
New York. 

Cherry Collins Provost was elected 
president of the Montclair (N.J.) Adult 
School, which has an enrollment of 5,000 
students yearly and offers 115 courses per 
semester. Cherry has spent 12 years as a 
volunteer working in adult education. She 
is also vice-president of the Family Service 
Agency of Montclair. 

Sue Liinngston Sickle is serving her 
second term as president of the Chicago In- 
ternational Program, which brings youth 
leaders and social workers from all over 
the world to the Chicago area. The par- 
ticipants study and then work in field 
placement over the summer in jobs related 
to what they do in their home country. 

g" j^ Richard J. Arroll has been elected 
J 13 president of Delta Properties, an 
Atlanta-based real estate investment com- 
pany. 

Carl E. Nielsen, Jr., is an engineer and 
associate group leader at MIT in its Lin- 
coln Laboratory in Lexington, Mass. 

William D. Pringle, recently appointed 
manager of the Oakland (Calif.) office of 
Frank B. Hall & Company of California, 
has been named a senior vice-president 
and member of the board of directors. He 
joined Frank B. Hall & Company in 1964 
in its New York office and since Septem- 
ber, 1971 had been in the firm's San Fran- 
cisco office as a vice-president and account 
executive. 

J* py D. Jay Edwards announces the 
^ £ opening of the law offices of 
Young, Taggart and Edwards in Washing- 
ton, D.C. Jay and his family are living in 
Potomac, Md. 

Richard A. Fusco is executive vice- 
president of The United Way of Morris 
County in Morristown, N.J. 

Stephen Matthais has established a 
design studio in Baltimore (a partner runs 
a branch in San Diego) called "Design- 
bank." The firm handles architecture, plan- 
ning, ecosocial research, interior design, 
architectural graphics, and exhibits. Steve 
left the banking business in the 1960's to 
get a degree in architecture at the Univer- 
sity of Virginia. This was followed by two 
diplomas (sculpture and architecture) at 



the Ecole de Beaux Arts, Fontainebleau; 
work for several architect/planners; a fivi 
week stint as a civilian combat photogra- 
pher-artist in Vietnam; and five months a 
art director of Graphic Atelier in Hong 
Kong. In the latter job he tried to put to- 
gether a Far East version of Playboy. 
"Somehow," he says, "my humor didn't d 
anything for the Chinese." Steve and his 
wife went on a camping trip last fall with 
Martin Imm and his family, ending at the 
Imm home in St. Paul. 

John F. McDaniels is vice-president c 
First Boston Corporation in the investmer. 
banking concern's London, England, offic( 

C. Oscar Morong, Jr., is senior vice- 
president, chief investment officer, and a 
member of the executive committee of 
G. H. Walker & Company, Inc., in its Ne\ 
York City office. 

David F. Neil is assistant vice-pres- 
ident of Lombard-Wall, Inc., a New York 
City securities firm. 

Thomas S. Sweeney has accepted a p 
sition as director of mutuels for the This- 
tledown Racing Clubs, Inc., in Cleveland, 
Ohio. 

jj" ty Donald S. Carlisle is associate 
^ O professor of political science at 
Boston College and an associate in the R 
sian research center at Harvard. ' 

David J. Finkelstein, a specialist on 
China who has served as a government ii 
terpreter, has joined the Ford Foundation, 
in its international relations office in Nev 
York City. 

Dr. Gilbert E. Robertshaw is a surgli 
instructor and fellow in cardio-vascular 
surgery at the Medical College of Virgini 
in Richmond. 

Cordon F. Scott has been promoted 
comptroller at ITT Cannon Electric in Sa i 
Ana, Calif. During his career with Intern 
tional Telephone and Telegraph Corpora 
tion, he has served with ITT divisions in 
Costa Mesa and Glendale. Gordon holds 
M.B.A. degree from Columbia's Graduate 
School of Business. 

Richard A. Seid is professor of law . 
the University of Detroit Law School. 

CO ^^' C'""'''^^ ^- ^"Shfry (GS), V) 
^ Z7 was acting dean of Wheaton O 
lege last year, has returned to the class- 
room as professor of English. 

William D. Chappelle, an art depart 
ment associate at Antioch College, has 
been named to the new post of dean of 
community services. Before coming to A 
tioch in 1969, he was an urban develop- 
ment technician with the city of Cincin- 
nati. He has also been an economic assis 
ant for the Securities and Exchange Con" 
mission in Washington, D.C, and has 
worked for several other federal agencie 

Bruce L. Gregory is a second vico-pi- 
ident of Chase Manhattan Bank in New 
York City. 

Dr. Donald L. Kinley has been releaJ 
from the Air Force and is practicing ortl- 
pedic surgery in Brattleboro, Vt. 

Jeanne C. Mahon is instituting a bi- 
lingual class for non-English-speaking c- 



38 



In in an open classroom in San Fran- 

!C0. 

" David S. B. McCeorge, formerly a 
cher at William Penn Junior High School 
Fairless Hills, Pa., is teaching in the 
ftland (Vt.) Junior High School. 
' Alvin L, Stern is associated with Poles, 
blin, Patestides & Stratakis, a law firm 
New York City. 

. John S. Tomnsini is an industrial en- 
.eer with Times Square Stores Corpora- 
;a in Brooklyn, N.Y. 

Bowen H. Tucker has been appointed 
■istant counsel for PMC Corporation of 
'icago and will make his headquarters 
re. Before joining FMC, he was a senior 
orney at Caterpillar Tractor Company 
Peoria, 111. Bowen received his J.D. de- 
■e from the University of Michigan. 



/lf\ Margaret Durham Brown, who 
WV^ will be an area coordinator for 
legislature lobbying for the Massachusetts 
Civil Liberties Union, has two children, 
Elizabeth, 10, and Rob, 7. Her husband, 
Cary, is head of the economics department 
at MIT. 

Keith W. Eveland, a pedodontist, is in 
private practice in Portsmouth, N.H. 

Jane Webbink Goldman and her hus- 
band, Charles, of New York City, have 
announced the birth of their second child 
and second son, Jeffrey David, on Oct. 10. 

Angus M. Green was married to Gret- 
chen E. Beck of Ithaca, N.Y., on Oct. 28. 
He is an associate in the New York office 
of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith. 

Lee M. Marshall, Jr., is an account 
executive with Batten, Barton, Durstine & 



Osborn, Inc., in New York City. 

Dr. David J. Nashel has been released 
from the U S. Marine Corps and is an in- 
structor in medicine in the division of 
rheumatic disease at Georgetown Univer- 
sity Hospital in Washington, D.C. 

/Z'1 Warren Babcock, Jr., who has 
17^ done graduate work at Ohio 
State University, is an electrical controls 
engineer with Stone & Webster Engineer- 
ing Corporation in Boston. 

Wendell B. Barnes, Jr., has moved from 
Honolulu, Hawaii, to Portland, Ore., where 
he is a salesman for Schultz/Wack/Weir, 
Inc., a printing firm. 

Dr. Donald D. Hook (GS), associate 
professor of modern languages at Trinity 
College, Hartford, Conn., is co-author of 



'aryl-Ann Feldman: A very resourceful librarian 



■ By a stretch of the imagination, Caryl- 
in Miller Feldman '59 is a reference li- 
I rian. Her "library," so unorthodox that 
nique cataloging system had to be de- 
ed for it, includes recycled scrap ma- 
als, a vertical file full of "clippings 
ich you want to clip at home but don't 
nv where to put them," educational loan 
i, an assortment of classroom teaching 
terials, gerbils, and some books. 
: Her title is resource librarian in The 
i ton Children's Museum's Resource Cen- 
! and she sees her main business as 
^ king with adults for the benefit of 
■dren. With chief responsibility for 
iwing what resources the museum and 
I Boston area can offer, she is the per- 
i who tries to answer people's questions 
^;^ at least to lead them closer to answers, 
iort of meet the public and filter ques- 
hs to the right place," she says. The 
' ource Center staff has had to become 
:ert fielders of bizarre questions. "Much 
he reference work we do goes way be- 
■d the scope of what the museum itself 
Ts," Caryl-Ann explains. "Our empha- 
iis shifting in the direction of using 
pie rather than materials as resources." 
'. ently she informed a caller where he 
lid find someone to perform an authentic 
f'anese tea ceremony. Another time, for 
'■ producers of an educational television 
.gram, she did some checking into the 
i;ins of the Chinese jumprope. 

Although not a formally trained refer- 
l; librarian, Caryl-Ann was far from 
ng unfamiliar with the field of educa- 
i and with area resources when she 
i e to The Children's Museum. One of 
< credentials is the master of education 
<:ee in educational measurement she 
tied from Boston University. Her first in- 
cement with the museum came when, 
s art of her degree fulfillment, Caryl- 
u served as observer and statistical in- 
ireter of the effects of a "validated ex- 
' t" project about teeth. The exhibit was 



on display for several years in the muse- 
um's Visitor Center. When her project was 
over, Caryl-Ann recalls, "I'd enjoyed it so 
much I wanted to stay." 

The mother of children aged 8 and 13, 
Caryl-Ann also has to her credit a long 
history of education-oriented volunteer 
work which helps her in her current 
job. Long active in the PTA's of her chil- 
dren's schools in Newton, Mass., she has 
contributed her time and expertise to an 
assortment of school projects and com- 
mittees. She mentions her work for the 
Creative Arts Committee of Newton's Me- 
morial Elementary School as a source of 
useful information for her museum job. 
Other volunteer work which has proven in- 
valuable was operating the elementary 
school library almost single-handedly — a 
professional librarian helped out one day 
a week. 

Caryl-Ann Feldman at 
the Children's Museum. 




Off the volunteer circuit for the most 
part now, Mrs. Feldman says, "I'm cashing 
in on all that information. I've learned a 
lot about Boston's facilities. There's so 
much in Boston for children, and as long as 
you know where to ask, you'll find it. I 
think Boston's a very aware community, 
with lots of helping people." 

With unhidden enthusiasm for edu- 
cation on all levels, Caryl-Ann has been 
involved in each level of schooling. As 
a child, she was thoroughly steeped 
in Brown University loyalties by her 
mother {Beatrice Wattmann Miller '35) 
and various other relatives. Then she 
herself went to Brown — "I mean, there 
were no other places!" Next came the grad- 
uate study, begun at Columbia and fin- 
ished at Boston University. 

Since then, she has sampled elemen- 
tary and junior high school through her 
children, as well as in her roles as a li- 
brarian and actively involved parent. At 
the museum she is yet further immersed in 
these educational levels, and in that of 
the pre-school-aged child. Contact with 
high schools and students of that age comes 
with her recruiting activities for Brown. At 
the Children's Museum, many of Mrs. 
Feldman's colleagues are students from col- 
leges across the country. And she gets to 
know some of her husband's (Martin Feld- 
man '58, a professor at BU Medical School) 
graduate students when they stop in for a 
visit or a home-cooked meal. Caryl-Ann 
has also been active in alumni work. She 
was the last president of the Boston Pem- 
broke Club before it merged with the 
Brown Club, has twice been a member of 
the board of the Alumnae Association, and 
is a class secretary. 

With all these ties with education, 
Caryl-Ann finds herself in a unique posi- 
tion to see just what's going on in that 
field. And her prognosis is good: "When 
you get to see the whole thing at once, it's 
very encouraging, very exciting." C.B. 



39 



two new German textbooks which will ap- 
pear shortly. One is published by Scrib- 
ner's and the other by Van Nostrand 
Reinhold Company. Dr. Hook is co-author 
of four other texts currently on the market. 

Lewis L. Gould is associate professor 
of history at the University of Texas at 
Austin. 

Robert C. Heap, Jr., is senior super- 
vising underwriter for Europe and the 
United Kingdom for the American Inter- 
national Group, based in New York City. 

Stephen L. Isaacs, an attorney, is a 
program officer with International Planned 
Parenthood Federation in New York City. 

David F. Remington is an investment 
banker with Goldman, Sachs & Company 
in Boston. 

Dr. Jack Resnik is a fellow in hema- 
tology at Brooklyn (N.Y.) Jewish Hospital. 

Ronald M. Schnitzler is a research as- 
sociate in the department of physiology 
and biophysics in The College of Medicine 
at the University of Vermont. During 1970- 
71 his wife, Ute, and he spent a year doing 
biological ultrasonics research in Aachen, 
West Germany. Their first child, a daugh- 
ter, Micaela, was born on Sept. 27. 

J. Philip Schuyler, who received a mas- 
ter's degree in history and is working to- 
ward a Ph.D. degree at the University of 
Rochester, is a history teacher at Roger 
Williams College in Bristol, R.I. 

Dr. Steiwn H. Sewall has been released 
from the U.S. Navy and is practicing or- 
thopedic surgery in Sudbury, Mass. 

Dr. Willintri G. Shade has taken a 
year's leave of absence from Lehigh Uni- 
versity to be visiting professor of history 
at the University of Virginia in Charlottes- 
ville. 

/' ^ Barbara Bromer van Achterberg's 
f^ Jml husband, Johan, a maintenance 
foreman, rebuilds old farm machinery in 
his spare time and is currently building a 
house. Barbara grows nearly all of their 
vegetables organically. They have two chil- 
dren. Jay, 3, and Meg, 1, and live in Fair- 
field, Conn. 

Aaron T. Billowitz has been released 
from the U.S. Navy and is a staff psychia- 
trist at Cleveland (Ohio) Metropolitan 
General Hospital. 

Arnold L. Blasbalg has been elected 
president of the town council in Coventry, 
R.I. 

Dr. John C. Dugall, released from the 
U.S. Air Force, is a cardiology fellow at 
the University of Colorado Medical Cen- 
ter in Denver. 

Pefer S. Fishell is a ski instructor for 
Mount Mansfield Corporation in Stowe, Vt. 

Kenneth E. Hogherg, vice-president at 
Citizens Savings Bank in Providence, is 
one of six Rhode Island businessmen elected 
a director of the New England Council for 
Economic Development. 

Albert T. Hoke has received a Ph.D. 
degree from Columbia University and is an 
applied mathematician and statistician at 
Armstrong Cork Company in Lancaster, Pa. 



Dr. Edward C. Ochsner has been re- 
leased from the U.S. Army and is a res- 
ident in radiology at Indianapolis Meth- 
odist Hospital. 

George W. Oviatt was married to 
Louise J. Schuler of Cambridge, Mass., 
on Nov. 4. 

Dr. Stephen J. Richman interned at 
Philadelphia General Hospital and had one 
year of residency in general surgery at 
Pennsylvania Hospital before being called 
to active duty as senior medical officer 
aboard the USS Hunley. He then was staff 
surgeon at Quonset Point Naval Air Sta- 
tion Hospital. Following his military serv- 
ice, he became a resident at Yale Uni- 
versity Medical Center, where he is senior 
resident in ophthalmology. He and his 
wife, Maxine, and their two children, 
Wendy and Bruce, recently returned from 
spending four months at Hospital Albert 
Schweitzer in a remote interior valley in 
Haiti. 

Charles A. Spacagna is a social studies 
teacher and coach at Cranston (R.I.) West 
High School. 

Frank D. Stauts is a systems officer in 
data processing (computer systems anal- 
ysis and planning) with Philadelphia (Pa.) 
National Bank. 

y^ ^y Richard S. Allen (GS) is director 
vO of creative writing and associate 
professor of English at the University of 
Bridgeport. Considered one of America's 
leading younger poets, he is the recipient 
of the Robert Frost Fellowship in Poetry 
announced in August by the Bread Loaf 
Writers conference. Dick's most recent 
book is the "pop epic," Anon and Various 
Time Machine Poems, published by Dela- 
corte and Delta Books in 1971. 

Robert L. Brown has been transferred 
from the Washington, D.C., office to the 
European office of the Communications 
Satellite Corporation in Geneva, Switzer- 
land. With this new assignment he expects 
to be traveling extensively in Africa and 
most of Western Europe. 

Charles ]. Caperoriis, Jr., former prod- 
uct manager with Lever Brothers in New 
York City, is market and product manager 
in the retail division of Berol Products 
Corporation in Danbury, Conn. 

LCdr. Stephen S. Dashef, USN, is a 
staff psychiatrist at the National Naval 
Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. 

R. David Drucker is in Mexico on an 
archaeological "dig" as part of his Ph.D. 
program at the University of Rochester. 

Evans G. Cost, released from the Naval 
Reserve, is a pilot with Western Airlines, 
based at San Francisco's International Air- 
port. 

Richard H. Paul is teaching business 
law, economics, and history at St. Peter's 
High School in Worcester, Mass. He and 
his wife, Nancy, who teaches fifth grade in 
Worcester, are both working toward their 
master's degrees in psychology and coun- 
seling at Assumption College. They also 
announce the birth of a daughter, Jennifer 
Susan, on Aug. 28. 

David W. Richter is a copy editor with 
The Providence Journal. 



Douglass Taber, Jr., is a Ph.D. can- 
didate in medieval history at Stanford Ui 
versify. 

James Wallace, Jr. (GS) has five chil- 
dren, Patrick, Kathleen, Megan, Anne, ar 
Michael. At the present time he is a re- 
search scientist at the Avco Research anc 
Development Laboratory in Everett, Mas: 

/2 /| EUzabeth Abbott has written a 
VTC pl^y as part of her work towarc 
a master's degree in drama at New York 
University. She works as a caseworker fa 
the Bedford-Stuyvesant Bureau of Child 
Welfare in New York City, 

William M. Braucher was married to 
Susan G. Rothwell of South Dartmouth, 
Mass., on Nov. 11. Dudley L. Post and 
Allen J. Drescher '63 were ushers. A grad 
uate of Boston University School of Law, 
Bill is practicing law with the Boston Mo 
Cities Program and the Model Neighbor- 
hood Board. 

Conrad M. Cutcliffe and his wife, 
Deborah Paine Cutcliffe '65, are parents c 
second child and second son, Mylinn Wir 
throp, born Oct. 10. Conrad is a member 
the law firm of Swan, Keeney, Jenckes & 
Asquith of Providence, and Deborah is oi 
maternity leave of absence from her job : 
an elementary teacher in Attleboro, Mass 

Dr. Robert L. Dickman, director of t! 
paramedic and medical education prograr 
for the Matthew Thornton Health Plan ii 
Nashua, N.H., has accepted the directorsl 
of ambulatory services at Buffalo (N.Y.) i 
General Hospital. He received his M.D. 
degree from the SUNY at Buffalo School 
of Medicine and served his internship at 
Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital 

Richard P. Fried and his wife, Jane, 
have announced the birth of their first 
child, a daughter, Joanna Lauren, on Auj 

James E. Gerry has been appointed i 
rector of marketing of the Philadelphia- 
based Medinique International, Inc., a 
medical development and marketing firn 
Before joining Medinique International, 
he was manager of orthopedic products : 
Smith, Kline & French Laboratories and 
held complete U.S. responsibility for the 
company's line of surgical instruments a 
implants. 

Michael R. Green is an attorney wit 
the New York law firm of LeBoeuf, Lami 
Leiby & MacRae. 

The Rev. Wesley C. Green, Jr., is co 
pleting work on his Ph.D. thesis in Chri- 
tian theology at the University of Chicai 
Divinity School. 

This past summer, Lucy Jeffreys Gre 
blatt, who lives in Paoli, Pa., went on a 
USO entertainment tour as guitarist and 
singer with "The Main Line Merry-Go- / 
Round," a musical revue show. There wi: 
ten dancers and two singers. They spent 
three weeks in Germany touring Army i 
Air Force bases and five days in Monaco 
where they did a command performance 
for the Royal Family. They are the first 
such group from the Philadelphia area t 
go on a USO overseas tour. 

Dennis S. Kennedy is compensation; 
and benefits supervisor for Burger Kingf 
with executive offices in Miami, Fla. 



40 



he Livingstons: People expect something from them 



Philip and Morna McGoIdrick Living- 
i '63 are artists and designers who have 
m to specializing in the special. They 
engaged in designing and making arti- 
vvhich are symbolic and significant in 
r clients' lives, but which must also be 
1 and lived with. This trend in their 
tive output and the beginning of their 
t career as professional designers came 
ut two years ago when the Heska 
jna Synagogue in Knoxville, Tenn., 
?d them to design and make a menorah 
the temple. 

Philip, the sculptor of the husband-wife 
n, accepted the commission. But in the 
■ that he was working on the candela- 
n, it became clear that the synagogue 
led a variety of other articles. Before 
hing the menorah, Philip and Morna 
■ther made an ark (a cabinet to hold 
scrolls of the Torah), two sets of ark 
ains, an eternal light, two wedding 
)pies, a lectern, and various other ar- 
s for the temple and its congregation. 
The series of commissions have con- 
ed the couple that there is particular 
ifaction in making things for special 
sions. Philip says of the synagogue 
ishings: "These things have specific 
.Tionial functions instead of being 
yday and casual. The people expect 
ething from them." Similar commis- 
s have followed, including the design- 
of a menorah for a home and various 
ishings for Knoxville's Church of the 
or. 

Morna, who designed the textiles and 
:he silkscreening for the synagogue 
fcts, mentions the wedding canopy for 
•ynagogue as one of their collabora- 
'.. It had to be in some way special for 
n the wedding ceremony; it had to 
orm to Jewish strictures against im- 
y in ceremonial articles; it had to sat- 
the many concerned relatives who sug- 
•d colors and designs to be used in the 
py; and it had to hold long-range ap- 
for the married couple, for they 
ned to use it after the wedding as a 
langing over their bed. To meet this 
enge, Philip designed and made ma- 
ny posts to support the canopy, and 
la chose a delicate blue wool to silk- 
en with wild strawberries, fruit trees, 
a double rainbow. The canopy does 
in the couple's home now. 
One aspect of the design job which 
'ed into a much greater chore than an- 
ited was the researching of Jewish art 
ry. Months of perusing old Jewish 
ments and related art history books 
'-d guide, and in some cases inspire, 
ivingstons' designing, and incidentally 
it them a lot more than they really 



needed to know for their projects. "The 
pomegranate began to haunt us," Philip 
says of the fertility symbol which turned 
up repeatedly in their Jewish research and 
then again when they were studying Flor- 
entine art while vacationing in Italy. 

Morna maintains a professional mod- 
esty in spite of such extensive preparation 
for designing jobs, her M.F.A. degree from 
the University of Wisconsin, and her obvi- 
ously successful creations. "I never had a 
proper art education," she says, pointing 
out that she never had a drawing course. 
She claims instead that a naivete resulting 
from her lack of studio instruction has 
"contributed optimism and energy" to her 
style. Self-reliance and an appreciation of 
art history are the most important factors 
in her drawings, paintings, and prints. Her 
passion for cooking and interest in botany 
have influenced her choice of subject matter. 

Philip's work, primarily sculpture, is 
very much the complement of Morna's airy 
and jewel-like creations. Much of his rec- 
ent work has been in mahogany, a fact he 
attributes to the existence of a nearby ve- 
neer factory. "The factory imports huge 
mahogany logs from Africa, so the mahog- 
any is a very available sculpting material 
for me." A friend and former student of 
Brown art professor Hugh Townley, who 
works in the same medium, Philip resists 
the comparison of their work. Their ideas 
about form and space differ greatly, he 
says. "The last thing I wanted to do was 
be a disciple." Long before arriving at his 
current style of sculpting, he had done very 

Alorna and Philip Livingston: 
Pomegranates began to haunt them. 




different wood sculpture using plywood and 
bright paints. 

Livingston Design, their newly estab- 
lished design business, is only one of many 
concerns occupying the two Livingstons' 
time. Philip is on the art faculty of the Uni- 
versity of Tennessee, teaching courses in 
design, sculpture, and film. He is also ac- 
tive on a committee which is finding ways 
to implement the university's new curricu- 
lar reforms. 

Morna, who also taught at the univer- 
sity for a year when they first moved to 
Knoxville in 1965, is now busy at home 
caring for the two Livingston children. Not 
one to abandon all other activities in the 
interest of motherhood, Morna recalls that 
when her boys were infants, she was too 
busy and too tired to paint. So she began 
silkscreening instead. "It was less exhaust- 
ing. I could go up to my attic studio and 
work on it more easily." Initially, she 
printed fabrics for their own clothing; now 
the silkscreening is an integral part of the 
Livingston Design work. And she is once 
again finding time and energy for painting. 
"I have a small, well-lit room where I paint, 
draw, and grow plants under lights. It's a 
well-used room!" 

Both Livingstons have big-city back- 
grounds — Morna is a Brooklynite, Philip 
comes from Chicago — and they are cur- 
rently looking into the possibility of shift- 
ing to a larger urban environment. They 
find their distance from a major cultural 
center and from the energizing influence of 
other artists dismaying. In December, they 
traveled to New York to show their work, 
check into some potential design commis- 
sions, and investigate gallery possibilities. 

The latter was done with serious reser- 
vations. "Our gallery experience had been 
negative," they admit, adding that "galler- 
ies are by and large demeaning to artists — 
and it's hard to break into the gallery 
world." In Knoxville, they are at least "free 
to say no" to gallery owners. Overtures 
made during the December trip were quite 
productive, though, leaving the Livingstons 
optimistic about the future. Philip explains 
simply, "We have more energy than Ten- 
nessee can absorb." C.B. 



41 



Bernard R. King is assistant manager 
of direct mail in the book clubs division 
of Doubleday & Company, Inc., in Garden 
City, N.Y. 

Michael B. Kirschner is a partner in 
the Wall, N.J., law firm of Mirne, Novvels, 
Tumen, Magee & Kirschner. 

Parker C. Marden (G5) is associate pro- 
fessor and chairman of the sociology de- 
partment at Lawrence University in Apple- 
ton, Wis. 

James R. McAslan has joined Aetna 
Life and Casualty Company in Hartford as 
a data processing analyst. 

Dr. Donald A. Rothbaum is a fellow 
in cardiology at Indiana University Med- 
ical Center in Indianapolis. 

Wallace E. Savory was married to 
Charlotte Macy of Weston, Mass., on Nov. 
11. Christopher West and Richard Tatlock 
were ushers. 

Kenneth W. Sharaga is a deputy prose- 
cuting attorney in the fraud division of the 
King County Prosecutor's office in Seattle, 
Wash. The fraud division, created to in- 
vestigate and prosecute white collar crimes, 
is the only unit of its kind in a local 
prosecutor's office in the country. Before 
joining the office in February, IPyi, Ken 
worked as law clerk to Justice Ralph M. 
Holman of the Oregon Supreme Court for 
one year and then was an associate of 
Culp, Dwyer, Guterson & Arader, a Seattle 
firm. He received his law degree from New 
York University in 1967. 

Richard N. Shaw, Jr., systems program- 
mer, is a technical analyst with United 
Fruit Company in Boston. 

Martin R. Thomas has been released 
from the U.S. Air Force and has begun a 
two-year surgical residency at the Univer- 
sity of Rochester's Strong Memorial Hospi- 
tal. 

Albert H. VanNieuioenhuize was mar- 
ried to Pamela L. Williams of Union, Mo., 
on Oct. 22. They will live in Boston, where 
he is completing his residency at Boston 
City Hospital. 

Allen M. Ward, Jr., has been promoted 
to associate professor of history at the 
University of Connecticut. 

Last March, Douglas W. Wehbink re- 
signed as an assistant professor of econom- 
ics at the University of North Carolina to 
become an economist in the Federal Trade 
Commission, Bureau of Economics, in Wash- 
ington, D.C. 

Dr. Sydney M. Wedmore has been re- 
leased from the Navy and is a resident in 
internal medicine at University of Minne- 
sota Hospitals in Minneapolis. 

Alan Young was married to Caroline 
Parker of New York City on Oct. 8. Robert 
Young '70 was best man, and Michael Cin- 
giser '62, Walter Becker '65, and Robert 
Pass '66 were ushers. 

z' I" Stephen W. Armstrong and his 
V J wife of Philadelphia have an- 
nounced the birth of a daughter, Jane Eliz- 
abeth, on Oct. 19. Paternal grandfather is 
Gerald M. Armstrong (GS'47). 

John D. Brennan is a financial analyst 



in corporate planning and analysis for 
Smith, Barney & Company, a brokerage 
firm in New York City. 

Deborah Paine Cutcliffe and her hus- 
band, Conrad '64, have announced the 
birth of their second child and second son, 
Mylinn Winthrop, on Oct. 10. Deborah is 
on a maternity leave of absence from her 
job as an elementary teacher in Attleboro, 
Mass., and Conrad is a member of the law 
firm of Swan, Keeney, Jenckes & Asquith 
of Providence. 

Carol Schwartz Creenivald, head of 
the national business conditions section of 
the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, spoke 
at the 14th annual meeting of the National 
Association of Business Economists recently 
on women in the labor force. She told the 
group that by creating more part-time jobs 
it could recruit women of exceptional abil- 
ity, reduce absenteeism, cut overtime costs, 
and increase efficiency. Carol said that with 
more and more women, including mothers, 
willing to work, employers should be ex- 
panding part-time work opportunities so 
that they can avail themselves of a pool 
of talented, valuable workers. A resident of 
Cambridge, Carol received her master's 
degree at Boston University and her doc- 
torate in economics from Columbia Univer- 
sity. 

Paul K. Hoch (GS) is assistant profes- 
sor of physical education at Oberlin Col- 
lege. Paul earned his B.S. degree in mathe- 
matics from City College of New York in 
1961 and has done advanced work in phi- 
losophy in London. His fields of special in- 
terest include sports philosophy and so- 
ciology and the philosophy of science and 
social science. 

Dennis A. Holt is a corporate bond 
salesman with F. S. Smithers & Company, 
Inc., in New York City. 

Peter C. Kreitler is rector of St. An- 
drew's Episcopal Church in Kansas City, 
Mo. He has worked extensively in drug re- 
habilitation, moderated TV shows, and de- 
veloped counseling programs in schools. 
He and his wife, Edon, and their two sons. 
Brad, 5, and Jennifer, 3, come east every 
summer to Cape Cod. 

Eric Lane was married to Karen S. 
Burstein in Lawrence, L. I., N.Y., on Nov. 
19. He is with the Mineola (N.Y.) law firm 
of Koeppel, Hyman, Somner, Lesnick & 
Ross. 

John R. Marquis represented Brown at 
the inauguration of Gordon J. Van Wylen 
as the ninth president of Hope College in 
Holland, Mich., on Oct. 13. 

Dr. Charles C. Sammis has joined the 
faculty of The Pennsylvania State Univer- 
sity as assistant professor of geophysics. 
He received both the master of science 
and doctor of philosophy degrees in geo- 
physics from the California Institute of 
Technology and, following his graduation 
in 1971, was awarded a NATO postdoc- 
toral fellowship to continue his research in 
solid-state geophysics at the University of 
Bristol in England. In addition to teaching 
undergraduate and graduate courses in geo- 
physics, he will conduct research in the 
areas of physical properties of earth ma- 
terials and of theoretical seismology. 



/f /^ David W. Alfano has joined thEi 
Ol? faculty at St. Mary-of-the-Wooi| 
College in Indiana as chairman of the 
department of psychology. 

William S. Brewer, Jr., has been dis- 
charged from the U.S. Navy and is a grac 
uate student at Cornell University. 

George H. Connell, Jr., is an associat 
with the law firm of Long, Weinberg, An> 
ley and Wheeler in Atlanta, Ga. 

Richard L. Halajian and his wife hav 
announced the birth of their first son, 
Christopher Richard, on July 7. 

Robert f. Hall has joined Industrial 
National Bank of Rhode Island as senior 
investment officer in charge of the pensio 
and profit sharing investment departmenl 
in the trust division. He formerly was an 
investment officer in the pension division 
at Rhode Island Hospital Trust National 
Bank in Providence. 

John M. Head (GS) is assistant dean 
for academic affairs and director of the 
master of liberal arts in history program 
Boston University. 

Capt. Samuel O. Lane, Jr., a career o 
ficer in the U.S. Air Force, is an air traffic 
control officer at Travis AFB, Calif. 

John R. Low-Beer is a lecturer in ^id- 
ministrative science and sociology at ^al( 

Stanley H. Palmer, a graduate studer 
in history at Harvard, expects to receive 
his Ph.D. degree in June. 

Ann Sherman Rahn, operations man 
ager for Elizabeth Arden, Inc., of New 
York City, has been named to the depart- 
ment of secretarial science committee wo 
ing with the advisory board for the busi- 
ness division of the Borough of Manh.itt. 
Community College. Ann's responsibilitit 
at Elizabeth Arden include budget and fi- 
nancial analysis, long-range planning, sy 
terns development and implementation, 
coordination of salon operations, and spe 
cial projects. 

Arthur L. Schimel is a computer sale 
man for Xerox Data Services in Hacken- 
sack, N.J. 

/^ py S. Hayden Anderson, Jr., is a st 
Vy accountant with Arthur Anders 
& Company in Boston. 

Edwin B. Blackwell is senior associat 
programmer for IBM Corporation in its 
Thousand Oaks (Calif.) office. 

Gerald D. Brody was married to Pan 
ela J. Haring recently in New York City. 

David W. Chase is doing research fr 
the Rhode Island Historical Society. 

Philip A. Coates is a senior compute 
programmer with the Bulova Watch Con 
pany in Queens, N.Y. 

Lynn K. Davis has received his M.D 
degree from the University of Connecti- 
cut's Medical School and is a medical in- 
tern at Roosevelt Hospital in New York 
City. 

Richard S. Davis has received a Ph. I 
degree in physics from the University of 
Maryland and is a postdoctoral associate 
with the National Bureau of Standards i 
Washington, D.C. 

Stewart A. Farber, an engineer, is 
working for Yankee Atomic Electric Con 
pany in Westboro, Mass., coordinating r. 



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icigical environmental monitoring pro- 
ms around nuclear power plants. 

Dr. Harris ]. Fitiberg has completed his 
>t nship at the Jewish Hospital of St. 
OS and is a first-year resident in diag- 
o,c radiology at Peter Bent Brigham 
icntal in Boston. 

Roland L. Ciiyotte, HI, is a William 
a'lolph Hearst fellow in the history de- 
a nent at Northwestern University in 
v'-ston, 111. 

\John R. Hall, Jr., has received his Ph.D. 
I iierations research from the University 
f jnnsylvania and is currently a research 
Tv'st at the Resource Management Cor- 
tion of Bethesda, Md. While at Penn 
B ?rved as a member of the graduate 
rtp in operations research and as a 
leber of the board of directors of the 
nersity's management and behavioral 
:iice center. In connection with a re- 
>£:h project on national solutions to the 
ae management problem, John provided 
ismony to the Philadelphia City Coun- 
l.he Pennsylvania House of Representa- 
V, and the U.S. Senate. 

Nancy Cold Heyman and her husband, 

have resettled with their four-year-old 
)i Jay, in Albuquerque, N.M., where Bob 

practicing attorney. 

Earl K. Holt, III, has been ordained and 
it.Ued as assistant minister of the North 
li e Unitarian Church in Plandome, N.Y. 
received his master of divinity degree 
c. Starr King School for the Ministry in 
e eley, Calif., and has previously worked 
i Unitarian groups in Fresno, Calif., and 
e Delhi, India. Earl and his wife, Joan 
:■■ Holt, are the parents of their first 

1 , a daughter, Alicia Shallcross, born 

Frederick L. Huntington, following his 
If it release from the Marine Corps, is 
f iduate student in psychology at As- 
rition College in Worcester, Mass. 

Fraser A. Lang is associate director of 
comment Information Services in Wash- 
ipn, D.C. 

Mark B. Lefkowitz received an A.M. 
! ee from the University of Florida in 
• . served an internship in clinical psy- 
I'-igy at Ohio State University, and is 
)' working toward a Ph.D. degree in 
rhology at the University of Florida. 

Anne McCuire was married to Wil- 
i Burke in Shrewsbury, Mass., on Aug. 

idesmaids were Shelley Ativood and 
c'li Schnitt Scardera '66. Anne is a guid- 
1 counselor for the Oxford (Mass.) Pub- 
: :hool5 and her husband is a warehouse 
I rvisor for Jordan Marsh in Quincy, 
I- 

vAlan B. Scarritt is an artist, painter, 
"instructor at California College of Arts 

I Crafts in San Francisco. 

Dr. Stephen F. Sullivan is a resident 
'hthalmology at the Massachusetts Eye 
>Ear Infirmary in Boston. Steve and his 
i Marcia, have announced the birth of 

II Mrst child, a son, David Michael, on 
1 1 -j , 

''■-odrow A. Sullivan is an English 
. ler at Greenwich (Conn.) High School. 
]o<eph C. Tanski is an associate in the 



Boston law firm of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, 
Glousky and Popeo. 

Dr. Sanford Ullman, after serving a 
surgical internship at Boston City Hospital, 
is a resident in ophthalmology at Wills Eye 
Hospital in Philadelphia. 

Dr. A. James Watt, Jr., is a U.S. Public 
Health Service medical officer with the 
U.S. Coast Guard Reserve Training Center 
in Yorktown, Va. 

Joel J. Widelitz received his M.D. de- 
gree from the University of Rochester Med- 
ical School in 1971 and is a first-year res- 
ident in pediatrics at University Hospitals 
in Madison, Wis. 

/I O John R. Alexander is an associate 
V O in the law firm of Sayles, Evans, 
Brayton, Palmer & Tifft in Elmira, N.Y. 

Frederick W. Arnold, IV, is an officer's 
assistant in the personal banking depart- 
ment of the Chemical Bank of New York 
City. 

Dr. Sung H. Choh (GS) is an associate 
professor in the physics department at 
Korea University in Seoul. 

Franklin M. Cohen is a student at 
Villanova University Law School. 

Stanley F. Davis and his wife, Jane 
Rustay Davis '69, are living in Greene, 
Maine, where he is working with children 
and families in the neighborhood mental 
health center. Jane is working in the art 
department of a local printery. 

David C. Ennis, Jr., is a communica- 
tions consultant with the New York Tele- 
phone Company in Albany. 

Rodney H. Ficker received a J.D. de- 
gree in June from Georgetown University 
and is associated with the law firm of 
Cable, McDaniel, Bowie & Bond in Balti- 
more. 

Joseph M. Fitzgerald (GS) has been re- 
leased from the Marine Corps and is work- 
ing at Connecticut General Insurance Com- 
pany in Bloomfield, Conn. 

Dr. John F. Coodrich and his wife, 
Cornelia, of Yarmouth, Maine, announce 
the birth of a daughter, Katherine, on Nov. 
10. 

Paul C. Hans has received an M.B.A. 
degree from the University of Pennsylva- 
nia's Wharton School of Finance and is an 
assistant to the director of finance of the 
space and electronics division of Fairchild 
Industries in Germantown, Md. Paul is 
working on the development of a domestic 
communications satellite network. 

Stephen A. Houze has received a J.D. 
degree from Vanderbilt Law School and is 
working as an assistant public defender 
with the Metropolitan Public Defender's 
office in Portland, Ore. 

U. Michael Johnson, Jr., has left Mar- 
shall, Texas, to work for the next few 
years with Alcoa Aluminum Company of 
America on a mining project in West 
Africa. 

Jeffrey A. Jones has been released from 
the U.S. Air Force and is enrolled in the 
University of Texas Graduate School of 
Business at Austin. 

Louis P. Lantner is employed as a na- 
tional membership field director for the 
B'nai B'rith office in Chicago. His wife, 
Karen Williams Lantner '69, is employed 



as a computer systems analyst at the Uni- 
versity of Illinois Medical Center. 

Paul A. Linton has been released from 
the U.S. Navy and is a temporary seasonal 
photographer with John Wanamaker De- 
partment Store in Jenkintown, Pa. He plans 
to apply to a law or business school in the 
fall. 

Robert W. Mulholland has received an 
M.A.T. degree from Duke University and 
is teaching English in the Tenafly (N.J.) 
Public Schools. 

Frederic R. Pamp, a second-year stu- 
dent at New York University Law School, 
has been selected to work on NYU's Jour- 
nal of International Law and Politics. 

David B. Permar, II, is a first-year 
student at Notre Dame University Law 
School. 

/I A P^ter F. Allgeier has received an 
O • A.M. degree in international rela- 
tions from Johns Hopkins University and is 
currently studying economics at the Univer- 
sity of North Carolina. His wife, Marsha 
Vehara Allgeier '70, is in the master's pro- 
gram in city and regional planning at the 
same university. 

Michael N. D'Ambra is a medical stu- 
dent at the University of Colorado Medical 
Center. 

Jane Rustay Davis and her husband, 
Stanley '68, are living in Greene, Maine, 
where Stan is working with children and 
families in the neighborhood mental health 
center. Jane is working in the art depart- 
ment of the local printery. 

1/Lt. Jay E. Dejongh has returned 
from a year in Thailand and is stationed in 
Los Angeles with the Air Force's space and 
missile systems organization. 

Paul H. Ellenbogen, who expects to 
receive his M.D. degree in June from the 
Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, 
N.Y., was married to Maxine A. Piatt of 
Port Chester, N.Y., last June 24. 

Edivin 5. Fryer has received his J.D. 
degree (with highest honors) from Wash- 
ington University School of Law and is 
with the law firm of Armstrong, Teasdale, 
Kramer & Vaughan in St. Louis, Mo. 

Frederick A. Ceorge has resigned as 
vice-president of G. & T. Cone Company 
and is attending Duquesne University Law 
School. 

Harlan A. Hurwitz has received an 
A.M. degree from Columbia University and 
is a graduate assistant in the physics de- 
partment at Wesleyan University. 

Karen Williams Lantner is employed 
as a computer systems analyst at the Uni- 
versity of Illinois Medical Center. Her hus- 
band, loKis '68, is employed as a national 
membership field director for the B'nai 
B'rith office in Chicago. 

Thomas K. Lindsey has been trans- 
ferred to a new position as supply logisti- 
cian intern located at the Navy aviation 
supply office. Now a civilian, his employer 
is the Fleet Material Supply Office in Me- 
chanicsburg. Pa. 

Charles A. Lotzg is a graduate student 
in the School of Public Policy at the Uni- 
versity of California at Berkeley. 



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William S. Poole is a second-year stu- 
dent at Boston College Law School. 

Robert ]. Potrzeba is a second-year 
dental student at State University of New 
York at Buffalo. His son, Jacob, was born 
June 9. 

Donna Regis was married to Robert J. 
McGee in Jamaica Plain, Mass., on Sept. 9. 
Bob is a law partner with Palmer & Dodge 
in Boston. 

Jay M. Shapiro expects to receive his 
J.D. degree this May from the Washington 
University School of Law. 

Gregory L. Williams was married to 
Susan M. Stansburg of Charlotte, N.C., on 
Oct. 28. Richard C. H. Stewart was best 
man. Gregory received a J.D. degree from 
the University of Denver Law School and 
is currently chief clerk to Chief Judge 
Harry S. Silverstein, Jr., of the Colorado 
Court of Appeals. At home: 1300 Clayton, 
Denver. 

Larry Winne, who earned an M.S. de- 
gree in aerospace science at the University 
of Michigan in 1970, is attending Rutgers 
University Law School. Larry was married 
to Judith Weisberg of Brooklyn, N.Y., on 
Aug. 26. 

^f\ Marsha Vehara Allgeier is in the 
y \J master's program in city and re- 
gional planning at the University of North 
Carolina. Her husband, Peter '69, has re- 
ceived his A.M. degree from Johns Hopkins 
University and is studying economics at the 
same university. 

Curt Bennett has been traded to the 
Atlanta Flames of the National Hockey 
League after starting the season with the 
New York Rangers. Coach Boom Boom 
Geoffrion of Atlanta predicts that the for- 
mer Bruin All-American will be a "super- 
star." In his first 11 games for Atlanta, 
Bennett scored 14 points from his position 
as center on the team's first line. Two of his 
goals came in Atlanta's 5-2 victory over the 
New York Rangers at Madison Square 
Garden, where Bennett received a warm 
welcome from the fans. He had become 
popular in New York by serving as "police- 
man" for the Rangers in a couple of brawls 
earlier in the season. 

Ian C. Crawford is teaching at Regis 
High School in Denver, Colo., and working 
toward a master's degree at the University 
of Denver. 

Marion ]. Dancy, who lives in Salem, 
N.H., is a computer systems consultant for 
Moll Associates in Watertown, Mass., and 
is working on a project for foreign ex- 
change at Dresdner Bank in New York. 

Carolyn Ives Dingman's husband, Jo- 
seph, has been awarded a Ph.D. degree at 
the University of Massachusetts. They are 
now living in Hampstead, Md., where he 
is senior analytical chemist at Noxell Cor- 
poration, and Carolyn plans to go to grad- 
uate school. 

W. David Elliott is a computer systems 
analyst with the Naval Research Labora- 
tory in Washington, D.C. 



C. Peter Gottert and his wife, Leslie 
Larsen Cottert '72, are working in Cotonou, 
Dahomey, Africa, for two years. Peter is 
teaching the Baha'i Faith in Dahomey. Les- 
lie is an employee of Union Oil Company 
there. 

Richard M. Grose was married to Ju- 
dith L. Ebenstein of Peekskill, N.Y., on 
Nov. 26. 

David C. Harmon is a third-year stu- 
dent at Harvard Medical School. 

Eric A. Johnson earned his A.M. de- 
gree at the University of Pennsylvania last 
May and is a graduate student for a doc- 
torate in international relations there. 

Carol Jones has received her A.M. de- 
gree in library science from the University 
of Chicago and is presently employed at the 
Framingham (Mass.) Public Library. 

Richard B. Landers has joined the staff 
of The Register in Torrington, Conn., as a 
general assignment reporter. Prior to join- 
ing The Register, he was a reporter for a 
weekly newspaper in Albany, N.Y. 

Michael B. Leach is a trainee in psy- 
chology at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Los An- 
geles and has started work on his disserta- 
tion for the Ph.D. degree in clinical psy- 
chology from Case Western Reserve Uni- 
versity. 

Beverly Hodgson Leventhal is director 
of public relations at Dana Hall School in 
Wellesley, Mass. Her duties include editing 
the alumnae magazine and newsletters and 
directing two campus programs in the 
Boston area. Last year, Bev taught journal- 
ism and English at South Boston High 
School. 

John H. Wilson is an engineer and a 
member of the technical staff of Bell Lab- 
oratories in Holmdel, N.J. 

pV'f Ens. James M. Baker was married 
y J. to Rebecca Wathen-Dunn in Lex- 
ington, Mass., on April 22. Nicholas Cer- 
janec was best man. Jim is an assistant 
resident officer in charge of construction at 
the Navy base in Key West, Fla. 

Stephen M. Batty and his wife, Sara, 
are program officers of Environmental Ac- 
tion Coalition, a citizens action group in 
New York City. 

Merry Bullock is working toward a 
Ph.D. degree in developmental psychology 
at the University of Washington in Seattle. 

David C. Cox is a Peace Corps volun- 
teer teaching science to 7th and 8th grade 
students in Addis Alem, Ethiopia. 

Howard L. Feldman is a graduate stu- 
dent at Suffolk University Law School. 

Richard J. Forde, a pre-medical student 
in Columbia University's School of Gen- 
eral Studies, expects to enter medical school 
in the fall of 1973. 

Last August, Ardath Ann Goldstein at- 
tended an in-service course in remedial art 
therapy and the healing value of creative 
expression in Windsor, England. She is 
presently employed at the North Carolina 
Museum of Art in Raleigh as a member of 
the Black Mountain College project. 

Andrew N. Harrington is a graduate 
student in mathematics at Stanford Univer- 
sity and a member of the U.S. Army Re- 
serves. 



Jeffrey S. Kennedy is a graduate stu-i 
dent in industrial design at Rhode Islandil 
School of Design. 

Nicholas P. Lampshire is a credit 
analyst with Chase Manhattan Bank in il 
Tokyo, Japan, office. 

Richard J. Marshall was married to 
Charrel Hughes of Memphis, Tenn., on 
June 24. 

Kenneth W. McGrath is a graduate 
student at the University of Pennsylvani; 
Wharton School of Finance. 

Cathleen McGuigan is working at tli 
Rhode Island Historical Society in Prov- 
idence. 

Harry A. Schoening, III, is a researcl 
writer and assistant with the Massachusi 
Department of Education's division of oc 
cupational education in Boston. 

David A. Tillson is a pension admin 
trator with Prudential Insurance Compar 
in Newark, N.J. 

Timothy A. Weaver is a second-yeai 
student at the University of Illinois Colle 
of Law. 

Sherry Yee was married to Paul T. 
Mulloy in Berkeley, Calif., in July. She a 
her husband are teaching at Winchester 
(Mass.) High School. 

py /% Bijan B. Aghevli (GS) is an eco 
y JU omist with International Mone- 
tary Fund in Washington, D.C. 

John L. Arnold is attending the Norl; 
western University School of Business in 
Evanston, 111. 

Lou Ann Lange Arseneau (GS) has 
joined the staff of Dana Hall School in 
Wellesley, Mass., as a history teacher. 

Jonathan L. Bigelow is assistant prO'i 
duction manager with Miller &. Fink, a 
publishing corporation located in Darieai 
Conn. 

Maroann S. Der Mateosian was mar 
ried to Jeffrey N. Selby in Vail, Colo., on 
Sept. 30. She will work part-time with h« 
husband in his real estate firm, Gore Ran 
Properties, in Vail. 

Penny C. Dixon was married to Fral 
H. Seltzer in Washington, D.C, on Nov. 
25. He is a TV/radio reporter for WKB^ 
in Youngstown, Ohio. 

Scott A. Garver was married to Clai 
A. Brunnock of Waterbury, Conn., on Ju 
29. Ralph Kinnaird was an usher. Scott i 
a first-year student at Georgetown Univi<| 
sity Law Center. 

Leslie Larsen Gottert and her husba 
Peter '70, are working in Cotonou, Da- 
homey, Africa, for two years. Leslie is at 
employee of Union Oil Company there i 
Peter is teaching the Baha'i Faith. 

Robert E. Kimura is a student at Ca 
Western Reserve School of Medicine in i 
Cleveland. 

William L. Kolkmeyer is a marketin 
representative with Atlantic Richfield Ct 
pany in Revere, Mass. 

Dr. John F. McNamara (GS) is assisT 
ant professor of civil engineering at the 
University of Illinois in Urbana. 

Mary "Mollie" Moran is pursuing e 
master's degree in architecture at the Ui 
versity of Virginia. 

Jeffrey T. Paine is a graduate stude- 



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Villie Marsden: Tense moments as a sky marshal 



Not long ago, Willard E. Marsden, Jr. 
'i was averaging half again as much flying 
He as a typical commercial airline pilot 
-md being in the Rhode Island Air Force 
f tional Guard had nothing to do with it. 
I vas his regular job with the U.S. Cus- 
t i-i Service that kept Willie Marsden 
: eking about 120 hours in the air per 
c nth, criss-crossing the world, stopping 
[)?r briefly in Bangkok or Paris, Athens or 
\idrid, making triple-crossings over the 
f antic with not so much in-flight relief as 
3 rief nap or one airline cocktail. The job 
t-s that of customs security guard, which 
t.Tislates into lay language as sky marshal. 

The job is peculiar and often exhaust- 
ii , says Marsden. Peculiar, in that it com- 
b es a necessary paranoia and constant 
k-riness along with the burden of keeping 
lover, of maintaining the appearance of a 
raxed and normal businessman. Exhaust- 
\r„ because in addition to the obvious ten- 
sn inherent in the job, there is the usual 
Figue involved in lots of traveling and the 
tnvoidable wear and tear resulting from 
sange and sometimes unpredictable flight 
siedules — which, Marsden adds, are "a 
conic problem for anyone working with 
a airline." 

In spite of the potential for real drama 
ii serious danger while acting as armed 
fitector of the jet set, Marsden happily re- 
f-ts that his career as a sky marshal fly- 
i , out of Kennedy International Airport 
h been relatively uneventful. No one has 
filed a gun on him, no one has hijacked a 
p ne out from under his nose, and he has 
r/er had occasion to place anyone under 
a est. Even so, Marsden finds it hard to 
t entirely casual or relaxed about his posi- 
tn as a security officer. "Two of our guys 
^re shot today" was his opening comment 
iithis interview. The reference was to two 
fclow customs security officers shot at a 
Uding gate at Kennedy in December. 

Marsden has weathered some tense 
Dments — all of which were resolved as 
fiin false alarms or sometimes simply em- 
Irrassing situations. 

On one of Marsden's flights, a man 
yio fit, in appearance at least, the proto- 
be profile of a potential politically moti- 
\ted skyjacker asked a stewardess if he 
rght pass out some toys to all the kids 
t the plane. Clearly, this was an unusual 
fjuest, and since any unusual behavior is 
I definition suspicious behavior when the 
! ety of a crew and passengers is at ques- 
t n, the stewardess consulted Marsden. His 
<ly recourse was to break his cover (thus 
liking things easier for any as-yet-uniden- 
t ed skyjackers on the flight) and demand 
.■ explanation from the man. As it hap- 
ned, he just had a lot of balloons with 




Willie Marsden: at Logan Airport . . . 

him, and thought they'd make good enter- 
tainment for the kids on board. "There is 
a perfectly logical explanation usually, but 
we're faced with a very partial view of the 
situation and limited information," Mars- 
den explains. 

An often-told anecdote among sky 
guards concerns a flight carrying a passen- 
ger who anxiously held his arm across his 
chest tightly, while acting very defensive 
about it. After a stewardess reported the 
man, ground personnel came aboard the 
plane and removed the suspicious character 
from the flight. It turned out that the man 
simply had an injured arm from which a 
cast had recently been removed. And to 
make matters worse, he happened to be a 
vice-president of the advertising agency 
handling that airline's account. 

While Marsden has never had to ar- 
rest anyone, he himself has been held for 
questioning by the local police of Athens. 
He was caught passing a counterfeit Ameri- 
can $20 bill which he'd picked up at a 
money exchange desk in Bangkok two days 
earlier. A policeman, unable to reconcile 
Marsden's diplomatic passport with the 
bogus money, finally got a superior on the 
phone who understood English. Marsden 
explained the dilemma and was released. 
Passing a counterfeit bill, he says, "is par- 
ticularly embarrassing when you work for 
the U.S. Treasury." 

It appears now that the days of flying 
as active sky marshals are over for Mars- 
den and the approximately 1,500 similarly 
employed men and women. John Volpe, 
then U.S. Secretary of Transportation, an- 



and at a Brown basketball game. 

nounced in December that beginning Janu- 
ary 5, 1973, the customs agents were to be- 
gin acting only as a back-up force for pri- 
vately hired guards who would be taking 
over the ground checks at loading gates. 
(Prior to this, the customs security agents 
worked in uniform at the gates as well as 
flying undercover on all American flag car- 
riers.) After February 5, 1973, there will be 
no federal anti-skyjack policing other than 
in Washington, D.C., barring action by 
Congress or reversals of the new policy. In- 
stead, airport officials will be responsible 
for hiring security personnel, and emphasis 
will be exclusively on ground checks. 

Marsden, while not anticipating any 
imminent decline in skyjack attempts, does 
see hope in the possibility of bilateral treat- 
ies and the elimination of landing spots. "If 
there's no place to land a hijacked plane, 
it might eliminate the need for elaborate 
security precautions at airports." Marsden 
also suggests that greater publicity of hi- 
jacking failures and criminal prosecution 
might help to curb what has become al- 
most a fad. 

If federal anti-skyjack policing has in- 
deed come to an end, Marsden is ready 
with ideas for a surprisingly different fu- 
ture — in college counseling. Enrolled last 
semester in two Boston University counsel- 
ing courses, he is contemplating a full-time 
return to graduate study in the fall. C.B. 



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in radio and television/film at the Univer- 
sity of Texas in Austin. He is also a teach- 
ing assistant in the production labs for a 
course in basic principles of audio/visual 
production. 

Edmund ]. Perret, II (GS), a Ph.D. can- 
didate in medieval history, is also a teach- 
ing assistant in the history department at 
Catholic University of America in Wash- 
ington, D.C. 

Brian C. Plunkett has received his B.S. 
degree from the University of Minnesota 
and is a pulmonary lab technician at Meth- 
odist Hospital in Houston. 

Susan C. Rogers is a graduate student 
in anthropology at Northwestern Univer- 
sity. 

John S. Rouse is an M.F.A. candidate 
in the School of Communications and 
Theatre at Temple University. 

Henry H. Tolbert (GS) is assistant pro- 
fessor of linguistics and humanities in the 
classics and linguistics department at Lin- 
coln University in Pennsylvania. 

Christopher D. Ulicky is a service 
representative with Service Bureau Corpo- 
ration in Lakewood, Ohio, a subsidiary of 
IBM. 



Deaths 

THOMAS JOSEPH WYNNE '04 
in Pawtucket, R.I., Nov. 15. He was a for- 
mer reporter for the Associated Press, The 
Providence Jourtml-BuUetin, and the Fall 
River Herald News. He retired from the 
Herald News staff about 25 years ago. 
Mr. Wynne is survived by three nieces. 

EDWIN SYKES GOODWIN '05 
in Buffalo, N.Y., Nov. 24. He was a former 
architect in private practice in Providence. 
Following a year of architectural study at 
MIT, he began his architecture practice in 
1910, and for almost 40 years, until he re- 
tired in 1949, he planned many structures 
in and around Providence. He was assistant 
secretary of his class. His daughter is Es- 
ther G. Davis, and his son is Prof. Ernest 
B. Goodwin, Altin Road, Kingston, R.I. 

HAROLD ANTHONY SWEETLAND '09 
in Boston, Mass., Dec. 6. Following gradua- 
tion he worked for four different companies 
until he joined Lockwood, Greene Engineers, 
Inc., of Boston in 1937, continuing with 
them until his retirement. Mr. Sweetland 
was a member of the American Society of 
Civil Engineers and the American Forestry 
Association. He was an active member of 
the Appalachian Mountain Club and was 
treasurer of his class. Delta Phi. There are 
no known survivors. 

MALCOLM GRAHAM FILLMORE '11 
in Northampton, Mass., Nov. 18. From 
1937 until retiring in 1957, he was building 
commissioner for the city of Melrose, Mass. 



For several years Mr. Fillmore was asso- 
ciated with W. Fillmore Company, a family 
enterprise of home building. Phi Delta 
Theta. His widow is Phyllis C. Fillmore, 
126 Rolling Green Apts., Belchertown Road, 
Amherst, Mass. 

THE REV. WILLIAM LESTER PHILLIPS 
'12 

in Tucson, Ariz., Nov. 23. A retired Episco- 
palian minister, he received his B.D. de- 
gree from the General Theological Semi- 
nary in New York City in 1919. During the 
mid-1920's Mr. Phillips was assistant rec- 
tor of The Little Church Around the Cor- 
ner in New York City, a church widely 
known for the number of actors and ac- 
tresses married there. It was there that the 
Episcopal Actors Guild to help needy ac- 
tors was formed and Mr. Phillips served 
as its chaplain. During his time at the 
Little Church, also known as the Church 
of Transfiguration, Mr. Phillips married 
3,400 couples in 45 months. At one wed- 
ding, the four Marx brothers served as 
ushers. After leaving the Little Church, he 
was rector of St. Stephen's Church in 
Plainfield, N.J., until his retirement in 1943. 
He spent the remainder of his life writing 
and was the author of a book. Seeking 
After Perfection. There are no known sur- 
vivors. 

WARREN WESTCOTT '12 
in St. Petersburg, Fla., Oct. 10. A heating 
engineer with The Chapman Valve Manu- 
facturing Company in Indian Orchard, 
Mass., he retired in 1955 after 34 years of 
service, the last ten years in charge of the 
parts and repairs division. Prior to joining 
Chapman Valve, Mr. Westcott was em- 
ployed as a heating engineer with Fred T. 
Lay & Company and McClintock & Craig, 
both concerns in Springfield, Mass. His son 
is Clinton Westcott, 4228 32nd Ave., North, 
St. Petersburg. 

EDWARD RAYMOND CAMPBELL '15 
in Melrose, Mass., May 6. He retired in 
1956 as sales manager of Reo Auto Sales 
in Lawrence, Mass. During World War I, 
he was with the chemical warfare service 
in Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Campbell also was 
employed by Pierce Arrow Auto Sales in 
Philadelphia and Baltimore and was sales 
manager of the Lawrence (Mass.) branch 
of Autocar Sales and Service Company. 
Phi Gamma Delta. His widow is Marion 
Campbell, 100 Park Terrace Drive, Melrose. 

ALLEN HAY CHATTERTON '16 
in Pawtucket, R.I., Dec. 17. Until his re- 
tirement, he was president and treasurer of 
the Newell Insurance Agency in Pawtucket. 
Active in Republican politics throughout 
his life, Mr. Chatterton mixed golf with 
business and politics. A dominant figure in 
local golf circles, he was a founder and 
for nine years president of the John P. 
Burke Memorial Fund, a memorial fund to 
help local caddies through college. He 
served four terms as president of the Rhode 
Island Golf Association and two years as 
president of the New England Golf Asso- 
ciation. He was also vice-president and 
trustee of the Pawtucket Institution for 






Savings. Mr. Chatterton was active in thi 
United Fund and its predecessor, the Cor 
munity Chest. He served in the Navy in 
World War I. His sons are John C. Chat- 
terton '50 and Allen H. Chatterton, Jr. '5 
his daughters are Joan Chatterton Brittoi 
'46 and Ruth Chatterton Corcoran '50, at 
his widow is Mary D. Chatterton, 15 Lye 
St., Pawtucket. 

ISAAC GALLUP SMITH '18 
in Westerly, R.I., Nov. 29. A former de- 
sign engineer and consultant for many 
firms, he was long active in historical 
groups and projects. His last professional 
assignment was on the design of altera- 
tions to the new turbo-trains for United 
Aircraft at Providence. He also had speni 
time at the Portsmouth (N.H.) Naval Shi 
yard writing tests and operating instruc- 
tions for atomic-powered submarines. 
While a student at Brown, Mr. Smith wa 
an instructor in the engineering depart- 
ment. After graduation he entered the fa 
ily business and served as vice-president 
and treasurer of the Smith Granite Quar 
ries. During World War II, Mr. Smith w; 
employed as a designer for Pratt & Whit 
ney in Hartford, and later with Avco Coi 
poration and General Electric in its Pitts- 
field (Mass.) office. President of the Wes- 
terly Historical Association, Mr. Smith 
played an active role when Westerly ob- 
served its 300th anniversary in 1969. Del 
Phi. His brothers are Franklin C. Smitli ' 
and Edward W. Smith '20, and his widou 
is Helen D. Smith, 69 East Ave., Westerh 



ARTHUR JOSEPH LEVY '19 
in Providence, Nov. 17. He was a partner 
in the Providence law firm of Levy, Good 
man, Semonoff & Gorin. Mr. Levy recciv 
his LL.B. degree from Boston University 
Law School in 1920 and later became a 
member of the Providence law firms of / 
wood. Remington, Thomas & Levy and 
Levy &c Jacobs. After the death of his pai 
ner, Daniel Jacobs '31, he formed a part- 
nership with the law firm of Goodman, 
Semonoff & Gorin under the firm name c 
Levy, Goodman, Semonoff & Gorin. Mr. 
Levy was the founder of the Jewish Fami 
and Children's Service and former pres- 
ident of the Rhode Island Bar Associatioi 
He also was editor-in-chief of the Rhode 
Island Bar Journal from 1952 to 1954. He 
had served as chairman of the Providenc 
Council of Social Agencies. In 1944, he v 
presented the Sixth "Roger Award" pre- 
sented by The Providence Journal-Bulleti 
for good citizenship. He was a past pres- 
ident of the Temple Beth-El Brotherhood 
and was secretary of his class. His widov 
is Harriet D. Levy, 300 Grotto Ave., Pro\ 
idence. 

GEORGE ELLSWORTH GALE, JR. '22 
in East Greenwich, R.I., Nov. 23. He was 
co-owner of The Rhode Island Pendulum 
a 110-year-old weekly newspaper serving 
the East Greenwich area. After receiving 
M.B.A. degree from Harvard Business 
School in 1925, he went to England, whe: 
he worked as general manager of the Co 
Gold Leaf Company for six years. Mr. G. 



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it; was a research manager of Bostitch 
icin East Greenwich and for Rau Fast- 
ii Company in Warren, R.I., and a sales 
ic-ager of the Bronze division of the Gor- 
a, Company. He was a senator in the 
He Island Legislature from 1957 
u-igli 1964. He later joined the Planta- 

P.ink of Rhode Island as a special 

>l -.riitative of the institution. Mr. Gale 
, a toimer governor of the Rhode Island 
:> tN of Founders and Patriots. Alpha 
c 1 I'hi. His widow is Margaret A. Gale, 
- "ii\ ision St., East Greenwich. 

C IS BLISS GOFF '24 

1 ew Canaan, Conn., Nov. 18. Until his 
■tement in 1966 he was owner of Mack's 
It a Providence haberdashery located 

e the University. Mr. Goff began his 
11 r as a salesman with Elsbree-Valleau 
c pany, Inc., in Providence. He was 
n \ n tor his window displays of Brown 
3 icrs at Mack's during the football 
!. in Delta Phi. His brother is Rob- 
■il Coff '24, his son-in-law is Christo- 
h \\i(rphy '56, and his widow is Flor- 
1 Williams Coif '26, 66 Elm Place, New 
ainn, 

il EDWARD JOSEPH WEST '24 
I evidence, Dec. 3. He was superintend- 
1 if the Charles V. Chapin Hospital in 
r.idence for more than two decades un- 
1 5 operation passed from the city to the 
:i- si\ years ago. Dr. West received his 
I degree from Harvard Medical School 
I '2'i. During his term as Chapin super- 
ilident he saw the hospital undergo an 
riiual transition. Primarily a hospital for 
3 agious cases, it was changed by the 
i-ntion of the Salk vaccine and a sharp 
r ' in polio cases. In his last years as 
J rintendent, the hospital turned toward 
s hiatric care, often in the field of alco- 
o-m. Dr. West authored many articles 
) he lournnl of the American Medi- 
i Association. Lambda Chi Alpha. His 
rher is Dr. Byron L. West '15, his sons 
r'zdward ]. West '56 and Dr. Thomas 
•. \'t'5f '60, and his widow is Dorothy 
'.. v'est, 668 Academy Ave., Providence. 

: N SMITH FOLEY '25 
I elray Beach, Fla., Nov. 7. He was the 
; ed regional manager in Michigan and 
the General Abrasive Company of 
Falls, N.Y., manufacturers of elec- 
:rnace abrasives. Mr. Foley was ac- 
■ .;. behalf of Brown, the Class of 1925, 
n the Michigan Brown Club in Detroit, 
[i.vas a past president and director of 
1 Michigan Brown Club and the orig- 
lor of its subfreshman program, which 
a steady stream of undergraduates to 
University during the past quarter cen- 
. Mr. Foley also served as a director and 
'r a regional vice-president of the Asso- 
;d Alumni. In 1957 he received the 
wn Bear Award, being ushered to the 
il table at the Alumni Dinner that night 



by his sons, John R. Foley '56 and Walter 
A. Foley '60. Phi Delta Theta. He is sur- 
vived by his sons and his widow, Naomi A. 
Foley, 917 Bucida Road, Delray Beach. 

DR. ELLIS PARMENTER '27 A.M., '29 
Ph.D. 

in Hamilton, Ohio, May 21. He was a sta- 
tistical consultant for Procter & Gamble in 
Cincinnati and had previously been a re- 
search statistician with Champion Paper 
and Fibre Company in Hamilton. Dr. Par- 
menter received his Sc.B. degree from Colby 
College in 1926. His widow is Olive S. 
Parmenter, 439 Marcia Ave., Hamilton. 

DR. JOSEPH HERMANN DOLL '28 
in Pawtucket, R.I., Oct. 31. He was the 
former chief of pediatrics at Memorial Hos- 
pital in Pawtucket and Notre Dame Hospi- 
tal in Central Falls, R.I., and the doctor to 
a generation of Blackstone Valley babies. 
Dr. Doll received his M.D. degree from 
Tufts Medical School in 1932. He practiced 
in Pawtucket from 1934 until December, 
1971. During World War II, he was exam- 
ining physician of the Pawtucket Selective 
Service Board. Dr. Doll was assistant res- 
ident physician at Charles V. Chapin Hos- 
pital in Providence and resident physician 
at Boston City Hospital, had served on the 
staff at Providence Lying-in Hospital, and 
was on the consulting staff at Miriam 
Hospital, Providence. Dr. Doll was a char- 
ter member of the Rolling Rhody Antique 
Cars Club, past president of the Pawtucket 
Medical Society, and former dean of the 
Fortnightly Club of Lincoln, R.I. His widow 
is Mildred W. Doll, 70 Cobble Hill Road, 
Lincoln. 

MARIE SCHACK GREEN '28 
in Danbury, Conn., Aug. 1. She had been 
head librarian since 1962 at Danbury 
(Conn.) State Teachers College. Mrs. Green 
received a bachelor of library science de- 
gree and a master's degree from Colum- 
bia University in 1938 and 1945 respec- 
tively. She also had been a librarian and 
instructor at New Haven Normal School. 
There are no known survivors. 

BENJAMIN POULTEN '29 
in Providence, Oct. 12. He had been as- 
sistant director of the Rhode Island Legis- 
lative Press Bureau since 1968 and was for 
a generation the statehouse reporter for 
the state's smaller daily papers and many 
of its weeklies. Early in his career, he 
worked on newspapers in New York and 
Massachusetts, returning to Rhode Island 
to the Pawtucket Times in 1931. After 
covering City Hall, he was first assigned 
to the state senate in 1932, served briefly as 
city, state and news editor of the Paw- 
tucket Times while also acting as special 
correspondent in that area for the Boston 
Herald-Traveler and the Urjited Press. For 
more than 30 years he covered the state- 
house, particularly legislative activities, on 
a full-time basis for the Pawtucket Times 
and also as correspondent for the Woon- 
socket Call, Newport News, Pawtuxet Val- 



ley Times, and Westerly Sun. Mr. Poulten 
won the New England Associated Press 
Managing Editors Association first prize in 
1962 for the best big-city newspaper story. 
He was a charter member and former pres- 
ident of the Newspaper Guild of Paw- 
tucket, the first in Rhode Island, and a vice- 
president of the New England Council of 
the union. His son is Stephen Poulten '62, 
and his widow is Pauline C. Poulten, 249 
Warrington St., Providence. 

FREDERICK SHULMAN '30 
in Pleasant Valley, N.Y., June 22. His 
widow is Augusta H. Shulman, Stream 
Lane, Pleasant Valley. 

LEO VINCENT CHABOT '50 
in Newport, R.I., Oct. 25. He was a me- 
chanical engineer at Raytheon Corporation 
in Portsmouth, R.I. During World War II, 
Mr. Chabot served with the U.S. Army, 
and in 1951 he received an Sc.B. degree 
from the Rhode Island School of Design. 
He formerly was a production engineer in 
instrumentation with Honeywell's aero di- 
vision in St. Petersburg, Fla. His widow is 
Elaine B. Chabot, 71 Terre Mar Drive, 
North Kingstown, R.L 

DR. MARIO PHILIP NERI '50 
in San Jose, Calif., Oct. 19, following an 
automobile accident. A surgeon. Dr. Neri 
received his M.D. degree in 1957 from Har- 
vard Medical School. He was a surgical res- 
ident at Massachusetts Memorial Hospital 
and the Providence VA Hospital, and served 
in the surgical-medical program at Syra- 
cuse University and the New York Up- 
state Medical Center. His military career 
included service in the U.S. Coast Guard 
and the U.S. Marine Corps. He formerly 
practiced medicine and surgery in Westerly, 
R.I. Dr. Neri was a member of the Ameri- 
can College of Surgeons and the American 
Board of Surgery. Phi Beta Kappa. His 
widow is Anne R. Neri, 3487 Grossmont 
Drive, San Jose. 

DR. ROBERT HELMER MacARTHUR 'S3 
A.M. 

in Princeton, N.J., Nov. 1. He was the Henry 
Fairfield Osborn Professor of Biology at 
Princeton University and a specialist in the 
field of population biology. Dr. MacArthur 
received his A.B. degree from Marlboro 
College in Vermont and his Ph.D. degree 
from Yale. He joined the Princeton faculty 
in 1965 after a seven-year professorship at 
the University of Pennsylvania, where he 
taught zoology. By studying the interaction 
of various plant and animal life forms. Dr. 
MacArthur formulated mathematical the- 
ories to predict the limits of making alter- 
ations in the environment. He figured in 
three major works on population biology: 
The Theory of Island Biogeography, Geo- 
graphical Ecology: Patterns in the Distri- 
bution of Species, and The Biology of Pop- 
ulations. In 1969, Dr. MacArthur was 
elected to the National Academy of Science. 
He also was a member of the American 
Academy of Arts & Sciences. His widow is 
Elizabeth W. MacArthur, 106 Broadmead 
Road, Princeton. 



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On Stage: 



A.B., C.B., J.B., and H.G. 



Gladys Chernack Kapstein '39 is a loyal and active 
alumna who is vice-chairman of the Board of Editors of this 
magazine and a former member of the editorial board of the 
Pembroke Alumna before it merged with the BAM. Gladys is 
also a kind and charming woman — and very persistent. In 1971, 
Gladys and three other women from the Alumna board joined 
four men from the BAM board to form the present Board of 
Editors. Gladys almost immediately suggested to me (R.M.R.) 
that it would be a good idea to do a story about the BAM 
staff. Her reasoning was that for the 9,000 alumnae receiving 
the BAM for the first time, the initials A.B., J.B., et ni, at the 
end of a story would mean very little. The alumnae, she said, 
would like to know something about the people behind those 
initials. 

Because I have always been opposed to using the maga- 
zine for personal publicity about the staff, it has taken a year 
and a half to follow up on Mrs^ Kapstein's suggestion. But, 
Gladys, your persistence has paid off. What follows are some 
comments about our staff. 

A.B. is Ann Banks, one of the two associate editors, who 
is, as she once told an American Alumni Council audience, a 
"card-carrying feminist" and is the magazine's resident au- 
thority on such matters. She is also responsible for much of 
the fine writing which has appeared in the BAM in recent 
years. Among her subjects: George Bass and the Rites and 
Reason black theatre group (March 1972), H. P. Lovecraft 
(February 1972), the tenure crisis (January 1972), Blacks at 
Brown (December 1972), and grass (January 1973). Ann is a 
1966 graduate of the University of Florida and for two years 
was editor of Inquiry, the University of Miami alumni maga- 
zine. She resigned to try her luck at free-lancing on the West 
Coast, but came back East in 1969 to become assistant editor 
of the BAM. She became associate editor in 1971. Her other 
regular contributions to the magazine include stories for the 
Under the Elms section, articles for this page, and profiles for 
the classes section. 

J.B. is Jay Barry '50, one of the two Brown alumni on the 
staff. He is also the senior member of the staff, having be- 
come assistant editor in 1954 after several years as an under- 
writer with Automobile Mutual Insurance Company in Provi- 
dence. His principal assignments for many years were sports, 
the class notes, and the clubs page. In 1968, he was promoted 
to associate editor, which meant turning over most of the 
class-note writing to another staff member in favor of fre- 
quent feature stories and articles for Under the Elms. Jay 
Barry is also well known for other activities at Brown. He is 
one of those who bring you the Pops Concert every year; he 
wrote and co-produced the new football movie. The Last White 
Line; he has been secretary of the Brown Club of Rhode Island 
for 11 years; and he has been secretary of the Faculty Club 



for almost that long. Jay is also a sports enthusiast (somethi 
of an understatement), with the result that he and the editoi 
spend far too many hours rehashing Brown football and ba 
ketball, the fortunes of the Red Sox, etc., etc., etc. 

H.G. is Hazel Goff — except that no one calls her Hazel.; 
She is Pete Goff to all. Pete is assistant editor and has been ' 
member of the staff since 1959. She writes about 75 percent] 
of what is probably the best-read section of the BAM — the ! 
class notes. She is also responsible for the obituaries. In add 
tion, Pete takes care of the non-editorial side of publishing, 
her office you can find all our records on mailing lists, montf 
budget statements, post-office problems, and all such matter, 
that make editors shudder. Pete Goff hasn't always been in 
editorial work. During World War II, she served overseas ' 
with the American Red Cross and at one point parachuted ' 
onto the Anzio beachhead in Italy. After the war, she was 
home service secretary for the Blackstone Valley Red Cross 
before becoming executive secretary of the Rhode Island 
School of Design Alumni Association. The latter position in 
eluded the editorship of the Rhode Island School of Design 
Alumni Bulletin, which was named one of the Top Ten alur 
magazines by the American Alumni Council at that time. SI 
came to the BAM after leaving RISD (her Alma Mater). | 

C.B. — initials you have been seeing more frequently — i 
Christine Bowman '72, the newest member of the staff. Offi 
cially, Christy Bowman is the magazine's secretary, but her 
talents have led to more diversified activities than just typini 
letters. In this issue, she wrote three of the four alumni pro- 
files and one Elms story. She has also contributed an On 5t,' 
article and is now working on a feature article about womer 
athletics for the March issue. Her editorial assignments do 
not keep her from answering the phone and doing those vai 
ous other things secretaries are supposed to do. Christy can 
to Brown from Houston, Texas, where she was editor of hei 
high school yearbook. She was an English major at the Uni- 
versity and is one of those recent alumni and alumnae who 
decided to remain in Providence for a while. 

These four talented and quite different individuals whc 
complement each other very well are the ones responsible f. 
the quality of the Brown Alumni Monthly. And they make 
being the magazine's editor a joy. 

For those of you who may be curious about the editor 
(R.M.R.), I refer you to the January 1971 BAM, and an arti' 
about my appointment written by my predecessor. Bob Reir 
ley. If you don't have that issue and desire one, just send yi.' 
name and address, along with one Count Basie record, to tli 
Brown Alumni Monthly, Box 1854, Brown University, Pro\ 
dence, R.I. 02912. R.M 



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By Jove, these Commencement 
Forums are just like being 
back in the classrooms at Brown! 

They are the classrooms at Brown. 

Commencement Forums are a series of special 
lectures, issue-oriented panels and discussions 
designed to renew your tie with the intellectual 
life of Brown. 




Commencement Forums are a program in 
Brown University's Continuing College. 



Alumnae and alumni, husbands and wives, stu- 
dents and parents on campus for Commence- 
ment/Reunion Weekend during the last three 
years have come together to: 

• Consider with distinguished alumni and guests 
the challenge to freedom of the press, problems 
of our public school systems, or the outlook for 

a lasting peace in Southeast Asia. 

• Hear Brown faculty members read from their 
poetry and novels, lead a seminar in urban 
studies, or discuss the new systems for health 
care delivery. 

• Watch student-produced films, alumni- 
produced plays, or modern dance demonstra- 
tions. 

More information will follow in your re- 
union mailings and in the University Com- 
mencement Weekend mailing. Or write Box 
1920, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912. 

Join us in the classrooms 

of Brown on Saturday, June 2. 



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